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34,949,046 | 34,948,391 | 1 | 3 | 34,946,811 | train | <story><title>Beej's Guide to C Programming</title><url>https://beej.us/guide/bgc/html/split/index.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>beej71</author><text>Hi gang! I know there are some incorrectitudes in there around the inline part of the guide... but if you find others, I&#x27;d really appreciate emails or GitHub issues or PRs.<p>The goal is to have a comprehensive, free, zero ads or tracking, up-to-date guide to C that fits between cppreference and other higher-level books. Target audience is college students who suddenly have to learn C for their OS or Networking course. :)<p>I also haven&#x27;t put any C23 stuff in there yet, but that&#x27;s on deck. I have until December, right? ;)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>fisf</author><text>Just wanted to throw out a thank you.<p>Your guide was one of the first &#x27;serious&#x27; programming material I was exposed to, close to 20 years ago.<p>Let&#x27;s just say it was immensely helpful, and I might not be where I am now, without it.</text></comment> | <story><title>Beej's Guide to C Programming</title><url>https://beej.us/guide/bgc/html/split/index.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>beej71</author><text>Hi gang! I know there are some incorrectitudes in there around the inline part of the guide... but if you find others, I&#x27;d really appreciate emails or GitHub issues or PRs.<p>The goal is to have a comprehensive, free, zero ads or tracking, up-to-date guide to C that fits between cppreference and other higher-level books. Target audience is college students who suddenly have to learn C for their OS or Networking course. :)<p>I also haven&#x27;t put any C23 stuff in there yet, but that&#x27;s on deck. I have until December, right? ;)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>BruceEel</author><text>while you&#x27;re here, I&#x27;m seizing this opportunity to thank you for that wchar_t section, it really is good work.<p>As for C23, quality takes time :)</text></comment> |
18,872,921 | 18,873,001 | 1 | 3 | 18,872,420 | train | <story><title>Personal Finance Lessons for Technology Professionals</title><url>https://www.troyhunt.com/10-personal-finance-lessons-for-technology-professionals/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>aedron</author><text>Quite a disagreeable post, in my opinion.<p>&gt; Which leads me to the &quot;but money can&#x27;t buy happiness&quot; position so many people have repeated over the years. Bull. Shit. Anyone who has ever said that simply doesn&#x27;t know where to shop.<p>If happiness for you is about things you buy in shops, then you are a shallow person, and you are missing out. A lot. In fact you are poor, but in a spiritual sense. The next statement: &quot;money spent on physical items can bring people a huge amount of pleasure&quot; reinforces the impression that you have some concepts confused.<p>It&#x27;s great to have cool stuff, and thanks for the probably sound advice on how to achieve that. You don&#x27;t have to try to convince (yourself?) that this equates happiness.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>loeg</author><text>Eh, to each their own. If Troy enjoys expensive cars, what the hell. It&#x27;s his money. I&#x27;m not into expensive toys either but I don&#x27;t judge other people for &quot;materialism&quot; and feel superior about my woo-woo individuality &#x2F; spirituality.<p>I would agree with Troy&#x27;s conclusion that &quot;money buys happiness,&quot; but take a different tack. Money buys financial security, and financial security buys avoiding many kinds of hardship and grief.<p>You can have money and be unhappy, and you can be evicted because you can&#x27;t meet rent and be happy, but it&#x27;s probably easier to be happy when you aren&#x27;t worried about paying the bills.</text></comment> | <story><title>Personal Finance Lessons for Technology Professionals</title><url>https://www.troyhunt.com/10-personal-finance-lessons-for-technology-professionals/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>aedron</author><text>Quite a disagreeable post, in my opinion.<p>&gt; Which leads me to the &quot;but money can&#x27;t buy happiness&quot; position so many people have repeated over the years. Bull. Shit. Anyone who has ever said that simply doesn&#x27;t know where to shop.<p>If happiness for you is about things you buy in shops, then you are a shallow person, and you are missing out. A lot. In fact you are poor, but in a spiritual sense. The next statement: &quot;money spent on physical items can bring people a huge amount of pleasure&quot; reinforces the impression that you have some concepts confused.<p>It&#x27;s great to have cool stuff, and thanks for the probably sound advice on how to achieve that. You don&#x27;t have to try to convince (yourself?) that this equates happiness.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>PurpleRamen</author><text>He is not saying all hapiness can be bought with money, but it&#x27;s quite obvious that many things that make one unhappy can be solved with money, as also many things that make people happy are bought with money.<p>And I&#x27;m not even talking about objects. For most people having something good to eat and a warm cozy place to live is already happiness. A happiness most people in the world can&#x27;t afford BTW.</text></comment> |
9,005,247 | 9,004,979 | 1 | 2 | 9,002,747 | train | <story><title>You gotta be rich to own a cheap car</title><url>http://www.thetruthaboutcars.com/2015/02/no-fixed-abode-gotta-rich-cheap-car/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>geebee</author><text>I&#x27;m twice bitten, once shy on used cars.<p>I know plenty of people who are reasonably frugal who still go for the new car, though I think they view it as more of a slightly risk-averse heuristic than an optimal decision. I think most of them recognize that with planning, effort, and a bit (but not a ton) of luck, they probably would do better used.<p>The risk averse heuristic goes like this: identify a car with a reputation for value, purchase under a buyer&#x27;s plan, take very good care of itfor the useful life of the car. These aren&#x27;t the people who show up in a shiny new car every few years - they often keep the car for 15 years or more.<p>Like I said, it&#x27;s a bit risk and effort averse, since with a lot of research, careful evaluation (including a mechanic inspection), and a bit of luck (more the absence of bad luck), you can definitely beat the above strategy by going used. It&#x27;s a lot of effort, though. Personally, I did all the things you&#x27;re supposed to do, and still ended up with lots of $$ repair bills, so I&#x27;m no longer interested in used cars. I understand that I got unlucky, but I&#x27;m just done.<p>I suppose I&#x27;m also particularly convinced by the argument that people generally don&#x27;t sell good used cars, since I&#x27;m one of those people who hangs onto a car until it costs me more to own it than replace it.</text></comment> | <story><title>You gotta be rich to own a cheap car</title><url>http://www.thetruthaboutcars.com/2015/02/no-fixed-abode-gotta-rich-cheap-car/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>andkon</author><text>There&#x27;s a reason that I have always loved reading TTAC and will always continue to read it. These guys are thoughtful and interesting to a degree that is only rivalled by how insular and myopic most car people are. They taught teenaged me a lot of lessons about critical thinking by laying it on top of one of my favourite topics - cars.<p>Enough of a love letter - I agree with the point. There&#x27;s a similar thing that happens with house owners: owning a whole bunch of tools and being able to fix your own stuff is a privilege that middle class people enjoy, but poor people do not. You have to pay for the ability to plan for contingencies, and if you can barely afford to pay for your living expenses, you definitely can&#x27;t afford to pay for the $50 battery charger, or the $30 socket set, or the time and energy required to learn all this stuff in the first place and put it into action when you need it done.</text></comment> |
22,634,395 | 22,634,522 | 1 | 3 | 22,633,798 | train | <story><title>California governor issues statewide 'stay at home' order</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-california-stay-at/california-governor-issues-statewide-stay-at-home-order-idUSKBN21707B</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>twblalock</author><text>At some point we do have to consider that shutting down the majority of the economy will ruin more lives than letting the virus infect everyone.<p>Keeping in mind that most young people who get the virus will survive, this is a massive generational sacrifice by the same people who left college around the time of the 2008 crash to protect older people. Anyone who thinks this is only going to last 3 weeks is just not being realistic.<p>Of course nobody wants to callously stand by while older Americans die of the virus. My own parents are at risk. I myself have asthma and I don&#x27;t really know what my chances would be. However, the worst-case scenario in 20 years is that the older people we saved by sheltering in place will be gone, but the consequences of shutting down the economy will still haunt everyone living.<p>There are long-term trade-offs to consider here, particularly ruining the lives of the young in order to save the old, and I don&#x27;t think they are being considered properly.<p>In an ideal world we would not need to make choices like this, but the choice is real and we can&#x27;t fumble it.<p>I feel like a bit of a dick for posting this, but after reflection I do think it&#x27;s a valid point and we cannot escape the trade-offs I described.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pcwalton</author><text>&quot;Letting the virus infect everyone&quot; at a 1% death rate means 3 million deaths in the US, right up there with the worst catastrophes of the 20th century. You can change the death rate and projections of number infected needed to get herd immunity and move that number around, of course, but not enough to change the overall moral calculus.</text></comment> | <story><title>California governor issues statewide 'stay at home' order</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-california-stay-at/california-governor-issues-statewide-stay-at-home-order-idUSKBN21707B</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>twblalock</author><text>At some point we do have to consider that shutting down the majority of the economy will ruin more lives than letting the virus infect everyone.<p>Keeping in mind that most young people who get the virus will survive, this is a massive generational sacrifice by the same people who left college around the time of the 2008 crash to protect older people. Anyone who thinks this is only going to last 3 weeks is just not being realistic.<p>Of course nobody wants to callously stand by while older Americans die of the virus. My own parents are at risk. I myself have asthma and I don&#x27;t really know what my chances would be. However, the worst-case scenario in 20 years is that the older people we saved by sheltering in place will be gone, but the consequences of shutting down the economy will still haunt everyone living.<p>There are long-term trade-offs to consider here, particularly ruining the lives of the young in order to save the old, and I don&#x27;t think they are being considered properly.<p>In an ideal world we would not need to make choices like this, but the choice is real and we can&#x27;t fumble it.<p>I feel like a bit of a dick for posting this, but after reflection I do think it&#x27;s a valid point and we cannot escape the trade-offs I described.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Zenst</author><text>&gt;2008 crash to protect older people<p>I had no idea they had audited the age of the bankers who caused that mess. Only one I&#x27;m aware of was <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Nick_Leeson" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Nick_Leeson</a> who brought down an entire bank at the age of 25.<p>As for your darwinistic-eugenics as an old person, sure I&#x27;m happy with that, but the question is - would you be happy with that when your older and somebody else&#x27;s kids suggests the same thing. Not that easy to answer.<p>But whatever age people are, the penchant to begrudge the age groups above them to varying degrees and reasons tends to be strong, at least until they reach their 40&#x27;s. At least that is what I have observed from many years of experience of many age ranges.<p>&gt; In an ideal world we would not need to make choices like this, but the choice is real and we can&#x27;t fumble it.<p>I suspect the film Logan&#x27;s Run would be worth a watch if you have not seen it. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.imdb.com&#x2F;title&#x2F;tt0074812&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.imdb.com&#x2F;title&#x2F;tt0074812&#x2F;</a><p>Oh I&#x27;d also add, we have not seen results of sterility post infection - that data might change your perspective if we end up finding out that the chances of becoming sterile due to infection of this are high. Which is still an unknown and not to be ruled out.</text></comment> |
10,437,543 | 10,437,176 | 1 | 2 | 10,436,908 | train | <story><title>'Zeno effect' verified: Atoms won't move while you watch</title><url>http://www.news.cornell.edu/stories/2015/10/zeno-effect-verified-atoms-wont-move-while-you-watch</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>fauigerzigerk</author><text>Sometimes I feel that people writing about physics are having great fun with deliberately confusing people by making stuff sound magical and illogical.<p>This particular effect has nothing to do with whether or not anyone is looking at an object. It&#x27;s the methods of making it visible that cause the effect.</text></comment> | <story><title>'Zeno effect' verified: Atoms won't move while you watch</title><url>http://www.news.cornell.edu/stories/2015/10/zeno-effect-verified-atoms-wont-move-while-you-watch</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Strilanc</author><text>If I understand correctly, what&#x27;s going on is... Suppose you have a system rotating between state |0&gt; and state |1&gt;, like f(t) = cos(t) |0&gt; + sin(t) |1&gt;. If you measure at time t, you get |0&gt; with probability cos(t)^2. After measuring, the system starts rotating again, but reset to |0&gt; (assuming you measured that). If you measure n times per rotation period, the chance of measuring the state |0&gt; every time (i.e. of effectively keeping the system in the |0&gt; state) is (cos(τ&#x2F;n)^2)^n per period. That converges to 100% as n gets large.<p>So, by measuring more and more frequently, you can effectively stop a system like that from transitioning between states.<p>It&#x27;s an interesting example of measurement unavoidably affecting quantum systems, where the problem clearly isn&#x27;t due to kicking or perturbing the state.</text></comment> |
26,947,035 | 26,946,970 | 1 | 2 | 26,945,680 | train | <story><title>macOS gatekeeper and file quarantine bypass</title><url>https://objective-see.com/blog/blog_0x64.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>setr</author><text>Windows gives you a big warning when you change the extension, which seems to me both sufficient and better than hiding the extension altogether (which, like URL hiding, is a fairly dangerous and largely unnecessary convenience)</text></item><item><author>Closi</author><text>It&#x27;s also unchecked in Windows by default - I suspect that in reality the concept of extensions probably confuses some users, who end up changing the extension and then struggle to work out how to open their saved files.<p>( I always prefer to see the extensions too though :) )</text></item><item><author>pehtis</author><text>I will never understand why &quot;Show all filename extensions&quot; is unchecked by default in Finder.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>djxfade</author><text>It works exactly the same way in macOS Finder as in Windows Explorer. Extensions are hidden by default. You can enable to show extensions (either by individual file, or globally). If a file has it&#x27;s extension shown, you will get a confirmation prompt warning you of the consequences by changing the file extension.</text></comment> | <story><title>macOS gatekeeper and file quarantine bypass</title><url>https://objective-see.com/blog/blog_0x64.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>setr</author><text>Windows gives you a big warning when you change the extension, which seems to me both sufficient and better than hiding the extension altogether (which, like URL hiding, is a fairly dangerous and largely unnecessary convenience)</text></item><item><author>Closi</author><text>It&#x27;s also unchecked in Windows by default - I suspect that in reality the concept of extensions probably confuses some users, who end up changing the extension and then struggle to work out how to open their saved files.<p>( I always prefer to see the extensions too though :) )</text></item><item><author>pehtis</author><text>I will never understand why &quot;Show all filename extensions&quot; is unchecked by default in Finder.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>judge2020</author><text>I&#x27;ve learned to never underestimate users&#x27; ability to shoot themselves in the foot. People will click through any popup dialogue which might suggest that their decision to perform an action was wrong.</text></comment> |
39,325,809 | 39,325,929 | 1 | 2 | 39,325,265 | train | <story><title>Germany's days as an industrial superpower are coming to an end</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2024-02-10/why-germany-s-days-as-an-industrial-superpower-are-coming-to-an-end</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jackcosgrove</author><text>Germany&#x27;s strategy has been to offer higher quality products at a huge markup. Just using the auto industry as an example, in the past twenty years the difference in quality between a mass market vehicle and a luxury vehicle has compressed. Competing on quality seems to be getting harder.<p>The Anglophone economies, whose shift to services away from manufacturing has been ballyhooed and decried in many quarters, embraced competing on novelty. By being the first mover in many industries.<p>The Anglophone strategy led to greater internal inequality but seems to be better from an aggregate standpoint. I&#x27;d like to see Germany&#x27;s manufacturing strategy work since it preserves mid-skill jobs, but this is casting doubt.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>JKCalhoun</author><text>I agree that we need to keep what you call here mid-skill jobs.<p>Too often I see people say to the disappearance of manual labor jobs: good, retrain people to use computers. I have slowly come to the belief that there are some people for whom working with their hands is the only kind of sane work they can do.<p>You can call them blue-collar, or working class (these are the people incidentally that raised me, the people in my neighborhood growing up).<p>Why would anyone not want to work in a clean office with only a compiler as your boss and a big paycheck waiting for you every two weeks? When I was younger I assumed that anyone not in the tech field were people not smart enough to pass Algebra in high school. It had not occurred to me then that it might go beyond aptitude and instead be due to something more fundamental about a person&#x27;s nature or character.<p>I know I&#x27;m getting hand-wavy with <i>nature</i>, <i>character</i> but I&#x27;m not sure what other words to use. I came to believe that though many people who are like me find some satisfaction from having solved a difficult problem, or having created a functional framework that can now do work to solve problems there are many others where satisfaction primarily comes from having changed something with their hands.<p>I don&#x27;t know if all of that makes sense or resonates with anyone. I&#x27;ll add this though, the older I get, the more I recognize even in myself the satisfaction that comes from doing something physical (even mowing the lawn as an example). I seem to take some pleasure from taking something unordered or in a raw state, and ending up with a thing in an ordered or &quot;finished&quot; state. It&#x27;s no doubt why I have pursued woodworking as a hobby, print making, creating PCBs. (And that fresh mown lawn looks so much nicer than the ragged lawn that was there before.)<p>In any event, following that line of reasoning has made me realize we should keep a large number of manufacturing, construction, repair and other manual labor jobs so that we can serve the whole of society. Just expecting everyone to learn to code is misguided and will fail so many people.<p>It is sad to me that Germany appears to have tried this model, tried to keep manufacturing in their country, and yet it is purportedly failing. I&#x27;m not too optimistic about our future when we apparently measure progress by &quot;cost of living standards&quot;.</text></comment> | <story><title>Germany's days as an industrial superpower are coming to an end</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2024-02-10/why-germany-s-days-as-an-industrial-superpower-are-coming-to-an-end</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jackcosgrove</author><text>Germany&#x27;s strategy has been to offer higher quality products at a huge markup. Just using the auto industry as an example, in the past twenty years the difference in quality between a mass market vehicle and a luxury vehicle has compressed. Competing on quality seems to be getting harder.<p>The Anglophone economies, whose shift to services away from manufacturing has been ballyhooed and decried in many quarters, embraced competing on novelty. By being the first mover in many industries.<p>The Anglophone strategy led to greater internal inequality but seems to be better from an aggregate standpoint. I&#x27;d like to see Germany&#x27;s manufacturing strategy work since it preserves mid-skill jobs, but this is casting doubt.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jijijijij</author><text>Disclaimer: I don&#x27;t know shit, about anything.<p>&gt; The Anglophone strategy led to greater internal inequality but seems to be better from an aggregate standpoint.<p>Let&#x27;s see. I feel like whatever is brewing economically and socially may hurt the &quot;service industry backed societies&quot; harder, when the time has come.<p>&gt; <i>Germany still has an enviable roster of small, agile manufacturers, and the Bundesbank and others reject the notion that full-blown deindustrialization is anywhere close.</i><p>It&#x27;s not all cars. It&#x27;s <i>a lot</i> of things you haven&#x27;t heard about, because they are highly specialized, niche industrial parts. I think, the German economy rests on the shoulders of <i>Maschinenbau</i> and, presumably, there is a whole lot less naked growth enabled &quot;bullshit&quot; products in that space.<p>Don&#x27;t lie, don&#x27;t you <i>feel</i> something is freaky with the economy? I don&#x27;t just mean numbers and stock value... something more fundamental. Don&#x27;t you feel overwhelmed by commerce, at times? Like, there is <i>a lot</i> of non-products produced. Almost violently pushed onto people, <i>sickening</i> amounts of &quot;stuff&quot; saturating all channels. How many mouths does marketing feed? There is so, so much marketing. Can this really be sustainable???<p>I don&#x27;t know. I feel something is getting <i>horribly</i> out of balance and the service industry is a symptom. Rabid inequality is a symptom. Like core rot, it looks fine, until a little gust lays the tree onto your house.</text></comment> |
32,154,889 | 32,154,941 | 1 | 2 | 32,152,600 | train | <story><title>Show HN: I built a self hosted recommendation feed to escape Google's algorithm</title><url>https://github.com/jawerty/myAlgorithm</url><text>I created this chrome extension for myself where I track my own behavior locally and recommend myself content from platforms I want content from (youtube&#x2F;twitter&#x2F;quora&#x2F;etc) in a feed. I made it public just in case anyone else was interested.<p>I would rather have control over my own algorithm and own the data. Also, it gives me flexibility. Turns out I do like these feeds just not when I don&#x27;t own it haha. Let me know what you think of my implementation?</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>O__________O</author><text>While I completely get being in control of your feeds, from rolling your own to understanding how &amp; why the feeds you subscribe to work — also feel like it’s just as important to be aware of significant topics and beliefs that are not in your feeds.<p>Case in point, as another commenter pointed out — it appears the OP feels GAB, commonly viewed as a far-right social media platform, should be listed as one of a handful of default sources.<p>World needs more systems that actually reflect how the user fits into the world, allows people to understand differences and find shared beliefs — not systems that create information bubbles, enable isolation, and increase the likelihood of extremists.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>oceanplexian</author><text>GAB is a type of bubble, and definitely a (US politic) right-leaning discussion forum, but my ears perked up when you used the term &quot;Far Right&quot;.<p>Is there such thing as a moderate-right social media platform? Does far-right mean &quot;not supported by a majority of right-leaning people&quot;, or does it mean &quot;extreme from the perspective of an average left-leaning person&quot;? I&#x27;m not going to either defend Gab or put it down, but even if you deconstruct your statement, it&#x27;s the product of an information bubble. And it can have different meanings depending on what type of information bubble you live in.</text></comment> | <story><title>Show HN: I built a self hosted recommendation feed to escape Google's algorithm</title><url>https://github.com/jawerty/myAlgorithm</url><text>I created this chrome extension for myself where I track my own behavior locally and recommend myself content from platforms I want content from (youtube&#x2F;twitter&#x2F;quora&#x2F;etc) in a feed. I made it public just in case anyone else was interested.<p>I would rather have control over my own algorithm and own the data. Also, it gives me flexibility. Turns out I do like these feeds just not when I don&#x27;t own it haha. Let me know what you think of my implementation?</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>O__________O</author><text>While I completely get being in control of your feeds, from rolling your own to understanding how &amp; why the feeds you subscribe to work — also feel like it’s just as important to be aware of significant topics and beliefs that are not in your feeds.<p>Case in point, as another commenter pointed out — it appears the OP feels GAB, commonly viewed as a far-right social media platform, should be listed as one of a handful of default sources.<p>World needs more systems that actually reflect how the user fits into the world, allows people to understand differences and find shared beliefs — not systems that create information bubbles, enable isolation, and increase the likelihood of extremists.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jawerty</author><text>I personally wouldn&#x27;t consider Gab far right but I certainly respect your opinion there. What are some sources you&#x27;d want in a tool like this? Next iteration i want to add Hacker News but also make it extensible so you can add sites you like manually.</text></comment> |
19,242,027 | 19,241,634 | 1 | 2 | 19,238,365 | train | <story><title>Paul Graham on the Transition to Meat Substitutes</title><url>https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1099648817601921024</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>spqr0a1</author><text>In general I’m bullish on biotech but best case for tissue culture meat still leaves me sceptical. Most of the hype focuses around beef substitutes, beef cattle is about as inefficient as animal agriculture gets at ~3% efficient on an energy basis of edible parts.<p>Dairy jerseys and laying hens are both ~12%, with meat chickens ~15%. The best replicating eukaryotic cell culture I know are certain yeast at 50%. So a best case scenario is factor of 3 improvement, I&#x27;d welcome results from multicellular organisms that got anywhere close to that but I haven&#x27;t seen it.<p>Supposing there are no improvements to be had on the cell metabolism side; dressing percentage for broiler chickens is 70% so getting rid of brain, digestive tract, immune system, etc. doesn’t improve things that much. Keep in mind that tissue cultures are a lot more picky about feedstock than whole animals. Good luck shovelling hay into that bioreactor. All of the processing that the feedstock takes will claw back your productivity gains and then some.<p>Margins are slim at the bottom. As capital intensive as modern farming is, biotech puts it to shame. Once you factor in amortizing all that equipment this is a non-starter.<p>The only appeal is from an animal welfare angle. Even there an argument could be made that humane husbandry is positive-utility rather than the neutral of lab-grown, while also coming out ahead environmentally.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>belorn</author><text>Energy efficiency is interesting, but it is important to see the whole picture. Maybe we should be using a land efficiency rating instead?<p>Take reindeer meat as an extreme case. Their energy efficiency from converting lichens to meat is not going to be 100%, but the alternative use for artic land are quite few.<p>Applying the same line of thought, we can find examples also for beef. There are cattle farms here in Sweden that use highland cattle to graze forest areas, including protected forests. They keep down bushes and other plants which results in an increased bio diversity. A win win situation for everyone involved.</text></comment> | <story><title>Paul Graham on the Transition to Meat Substitutes</title><url>https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1099648817601921024</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>spqr0a1</author><text>In general I’m bullish on biotech but best case for tissue culture meat still leaves me sceptical. Most of the hype focuses around beef substitutes, beef cattle is about as inefficient as animal agriculture gets at ~3% efficient on an energy basis of edible parts.<p>Dairy jerseys and laying hens are both ~12%, with meat chickens ~15%. The best replicating eukaryotic cell culture I know are certain yeast at 50%. So a best case scenario is factor of 3 improvement, I&#x27;d welcome results from multicellular organisms that got anywhere close to that but I haven&#x27;t seen it.<p>Supposing there are no improvements to be had on the cell metabolism side; dressing percentage for broiler chickens is 70% so getting rid of brain, digestive tract, immune system, etc. doesn’t improve things that much. Keep in mind that tissue cultures are a lot more picky about feedstock than whole animals. Good luck shovelling hay into that bioreactor. All of the processing that the feedstock takes will claw back your productivity gains and then some.<p>Margins are slim at the bottom. As capital intensive as modern farming is, biotech puts it to shame. Once you factor in amortizing all that equipment this is a non-starter.<p>The only appeal is from an animal welfare angle. Even there an argument could be made that humane husbandry is positive-utility rather than the neutral of lab-grown, while also coming out ahead environmentally.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>CharlesW</author><text>&gt; <i>Even there an argument could be made that humane husbandry is positive-utility rather than the neutral of lab-grown, while also coming out ahead environmentally.</i><p>Can that be true? Animals from U.S. factory farms generate &gt;1 million tons of manure per day (open-air lagoons of animal waste are a special treat) and are responsible for an impressive percentage of methane emissions.</text></comment> |
28,525,597 | 28,525,612 | 1 | 3 | 28,523,878 | train | <story><title>AI Recognises Race in Medical Images</title><url>https://explainthispaper.com/ai-recognises-race-in-medical-images/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>phkahler</author><text>&gt;&gt; People are not &#x27;race x&#x27; or &#x27;race y&#x27; biologically, as if race is some discrete set of features common to a whole population.<p>Clearly people <i>are</i> biologically different based on race and the AI here is picking up on that. My kids orthodontist even told me they align teeth in part based on race. The Asian arch is flatter across the front for example. I asked about this because an engineer I worked with had a father in dentistry and told me my kid had &quot;German teeth in an Irish mouth&quot; which matched her ancestry, which he didn&#x27;t know - just said that in response to my description of the crowding.<p>So YES, races have biological differences. If not, we wouldn&#x27;t be able to tell where people are from. I get that it&#x27;s not cool to discriminate based on race, but it&#x27;s not OK or even practical to deny that it exists (see dentistry example above).</text></item><item><author>sillyquiet</author><text>IMO it&#x27;s because it&#x27;s very dubious the AI is doing what the paper is maintaining it&#x27;s doing.<p>People are not &#x27;race x&#x27; or &#x27;race y&#x27; biologically, as if race is some discrete set of features common to a whole population. Every individual has a set of biological features inherited from their ancestors which, theoretically, could include any or all so-called &#x27;races&#x27;. Human beings have a continuum of features that is heavily interlaced amongst all the &#x27;races&#x27;.<p>Putting it another way, if we were alien visitors, and had in front of us a representative sample of dead bodies from the entire world, we would be hard pressed to sort those bodies into &#x27;races&#x27; based on biological features.<p>For example, we currently use melanin levels as a key indicator of &#x27;race&#x27; today, but an alien, lacking the social context of the significance of say, high levels of melanin, may well consider it a secondary feature since its shared with otherwise unrelated people</text></item><item><author>throwaway894345</author><text>Please forgive me for asking a controversial question (particularly so early in the morning), but if there are all of these biological correlations with race, what does it mean that “race is a social construct”? Is the idea that black people have greater bone mineral density (per TFA) due to social or environmental causes (e.g., diet)? For what it’s worth, I’m a staunch egalitarian and I don’t see that changing either way.<p>EDIT: Really pleased with the largely constructive conversation in this thread. Was worried that this was going to be coopted as an ideological flame thread. Thanks for the insightful answers and good faith engagement. Keep up the good work!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>packetlost</author><text>I think you&#x27;re missing the point. &quot;Race&quot; is an attempt to put people with different biological traits into &#x27;buckets&#x27; but in reality there&#x27;s variation, overlap, and blurry lines that make any sort of classification a social approximation at best.<p>No one is going to argue that you get your traits from your ancestors and that regional groups have similar traits due to shared ancestry, it&#x27;s the <i>classification</i> itself that doesn&#x27;t match up well with reality.</text></comment> | <story><title>AI Recognises Race in Medical Images</title><url>https://explainthispaper.com/ai-recognises-race-in-medical-images/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>phkahler</author><text>&gt;&gt; People are not &#x27;race x&#x27; or &#x27;race y&#x27; biologically, as if race is some discrete set of features common to a whole population.<p>Clearly people <i>are</i> biologically different based on race and the AI here is picking up on that. My kids orthodontist even told me they align teeth in part based on race. The Asian arch is flatter across the front for example. I asked about this because an engineer I worked with had a father in dentistry and told me my kid had &quot;German teeth in an Irish mouth&quot; which matched her ancestry, which he didn&#x27;t know - just said that in response to my description of the crowding.<p>So YES, races have biological differences. If not, we wouldn&#x27;t be able to tell where people are from. I get that it&#x27;s not cool to discriminate based on race, but it&#x27;s not OK or even practical to deny that it exists (see dentistry example above).</text></item><item><author>sillyquiet</author><text>IMO it&#x27;s because it&#x27;s very dubious the AI is doing what the paper is maintaining it&#x27;s doing.<p>People are not &#x27;race x&#x27; or &#x27;race y&#x27; biologically, as if race is some discrete set of features common to a whole population. Every individual has a set of biological features inherited from their ancestors which, theoretically, could include any or all so-called &#x27;races&#x27;. Human beings have a continuum of features that is heavily interlaced amongst all the &#x27;races&#x27;.<p>Putting it another way, if we were alien visitors, and had in front of us a representative sample of dead bodies from the entire world, we would be hard pressed to sort those bodies into &#x27;races&#x27; based on biological features.<p>For example, we currently use melanin levels as a key indicator of &#x27;race&#x27; today, but an alien, lacking the social context of the significance of say, high levels of melanin, may well consider it a secondary feature since its shared with otherwise unrelated people</text></item><item><author>throwaway894345</author><text>Please forgive me for asking a controversial question (particularly so early in the morning), but if there are all of these biological correlations with race, what does it mean that “race is a social construct”? Is the idea that black people have greater bone mineral density (per TFA) due to social or environmental causes (e.g., diet)? For what it’s worth, I’m a staunch egalitarian and I don’t see that changing either way.<p>EDIT: Really pleased with the largely constructive conversation in this thread. Was worried that this was going to be coopted as an ideological flame thread. Thanks for the insightful answers and good faith engagement. Keep up the good work!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>throwaway894345</author><text>&gt; Clearly people are biologically different based on race and the AI here is picking up on that<p>I think the parent is saying that it&#x27;s possible (likely even) that the AI <i>isn&#x27;t</i> picking up on biological features, but some other artifact. For example, perhaps the quality of x-ray machines or technicians correlate with race (race and &quot;access to higher quality radiology&quot; both correlate with wealth) and the AI is really picking up on the quality of the imaging. The fact that the AI still worked when the imaging quality was reduced across the board (pixelated into 8x8 squares) suggests that this particular hypothesis is unlikely, but this is the kind of error we&#x27;re discussing.</text></comment> |
28,588,679 | 28,588,365 | 1 | 3 | 28,582,290 | train | <story><title>An appeal for an objective, open, transparent debate re: the origin of Covid-19</title><url>https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(21)02019-5/fulltext</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>advael</author><text>It&#x27;s a mantra at this point that polarization has gotten out of control, but one of the biggest effects it seems to have is this reverse-psychology effect<p>I&#x27;m in a big American city, and I remember that until the online kids and snarky liberals started moralizing about mask protocol, there wasn&#x27;t as much resistance to wearing masks among right-wing crazies.<p>I remember when there was that controversy about 5G networks interfering with bird migration patterns and meteorology, but as the fringe conspiracy crowd started spinning up crazy theories about how 5G was going to brainwash or sterilize or force-feminize people over the airwaves or whatever it was, most people I knew stopped talking about it, seemed to forget that they had ever thought it concerning. It reminded me of the time people were worried about pollutants causing hormonal changes in indicator species, and then Alex Jones started talking about how &quot;they&#x27;re turning the frogs gay&quot; and the meaningful version of that discourse vanished too.<p>I view the same kind of thing as happening here, as well as a lot of other places. It&#x27;s made me wary of the sport of finding what crazy things my political enemies believe to make fun of them, because it seems like the net effect of this is creating &quot;opposite&quot; erroneous beliefs with no evidence</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>titzer</author><text>As an American who has lived abroad for a significant number of years and returned recently, it becomes abundantly clear, that if we only measure by the amount of time spent bitching, moaning, and fighting, Americans hate each other more than anything else on this planet. Disease, war, famine, injustice, genocide, plague? None will garner as much sincere unflagging burning rage as what those other fuckers did or said, or would do or say, because hate, hate, hate, hate. It&#x27;s worse than football teams or some rivalry with the neighboring state. At this point, people are literally killing themselves and others to own the other side. And maybe both sides are enjoying this thrill a little too much.</text></comment> | <story><title>An appeal for an objective, open, transparent debate re: the origin of Covid-19</title><url>https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(21)02019-5/fulltext</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>advael</author><text>It&#x27;s a mantra at this point that polarization has gotten out of control, but one of the biggest effects it seems to have is this reverse-psychology effect<p>I&#x27;m in a big American city, and I remember that until the online kids and snarky liberals started moralizing about mask protocol, there wasn&#x27;t as much resistance to wearing masks among right-wing crazies.<p>I remember when there was that controversy about 5G networks interfering with bird migration patterns and meteorology, but as the fringe conspiracy crowd started spinning up crazy theories about how 5G was going to brainwash or sterilize or force-feminize people over the airwaves or whatever it was, most people I knew stopped talking about it, seemed to forget that they had ever thought it concerning. It reminded me of the time people were worried about pollutants causing hormonal changes in indicator species, and then Alex Jones started talking about how &quot;they&#x27;re turning the frogs gay&quot; and the meaningful version of that discourse vanished too.<p>I view the same kind of thing as happening here, as well as a lot of other places. It&#x27;s made me wary of the sport of finding what crazy things my political enemies believe to make fun of them, because it seems like the net effect of this is creating &quot;opposite&quot; erroneous beliefs with no evidence</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Thorentis</author><text>The scary part is that it&#x27;s impossible to verify where most of the online content on both sides come from. The enemies of the West must be having a field day with how easy it is to insert radically opposite and polarising views into each side and then watching big issues become quashed, and little issues become magnified beyond proportion.</text></comment> |
36,958,511 | 36,958,403 | 1 | 3 | 36,954,159 | train | <story><title>IronOS: Open-source soldering iron firmware</title><url>https://github.com/Ralim/IronOS</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Etheryte</author><text>I don&#x27;t think this is a good idea at all. This is like saying you should buy lifting shoes, a belt, a pair of gloves and bands before you go to the gym for the first time. Literally any setup that does the job is fine when you&#x27;re just getting into it — you don&#x27;t know what you don&#x27;t know and having a cheap entry point is a good way to figure out if you like it at all, what kind of a workflow works for you, etc.</text></item><item><author>kayson</author><text>If you want to get into soldering, do yourself a favor and invest in a good station, iron, and tips. If you want to de-solder, good quality soldering wick is also really important (I use chemtronics).<p>I was lucky enough to snag an old Metcal from work for free, and it&#x27;s fantastic. The way they work is really cool too: it sends a high power RF signal (i.e. AC voltage) to the coil in the tip. Because of the skin effect and curie point, it will heat up until the point where the coil loses it&#x27;s magnetism, resulting in a self-regulating tip temperature that doesn&#x27;t need a thermo couple! [1] It responds very quickly to thermal loads, too. It&#x27;s an expensive system to be sure, but totally worth it especially if you can find it used. They&#x27;re also great about support even for older units, and you can get the entire schematics online if you need to make any repairs.<p>1. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.metcal.com&#x2F;hand-soldering&#x2F;how-smartheat-technology-works-a-tutorial-2&#x2F;" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.metcal.com&#x2F;hand-soldering&#x2F;how-smartheat-technolo...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rex_lupi</author><text>Absolutely. I can personally attest to the fact that $5 soldering iron is good enough for most common (non-smd) jobs. I&#x27;ve seen people do smd soldering with a big chisel tip, even a soldering gun, but it takes training. But I get OP&#x27;s point. It&#x27;s extremely frustrating if not impossible to do the job if the iron is super bad, if the flux or soldrr is bad etc.<p>For a beginner, a soldering station or a high-tech iron is absolutely not necessary. You just need a non-garbage iron, some decent quality lead-rosin solder and a decent amount of flux (cheap rosin would do). Nevertheless, having high-end tools will make things much, much easier and simpler. But at the same time, I believe you&#x27;ll get a great training if you learn things the hard way.</text></comment> | <story><title>IronOS: Open-source soldering iron firmware</title><url>https://github.com/Ralim/IronOS</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Etheryte</author><text>I don&#x27;t think this is a good idea at all. This is like saying you should buy lifting shoes, a belt, a pair of gloves and bands before you go to the gym for the first time. Literally any setup that does the job is fine when you&#x27;re just getting into it — you don&#x27;t know what you don&#x27;t know and having a cheap entry point is a good way to figure out if you like it at all, what kind of a workflow works for you, etc.</text></item><item><author>kayson</author><text>If you want to get into soldering, do yourself a favor and invest in a good station, iron, and tips. If you want to de-solder, good quality soldering wick is also really important (I use chemtronics).<p>I was lucky enough to snag an old Metcal from work for free, and it&#x27;s fantastic. The way they work is really cool too: it sends a high power RF signal (i.e. AC voltage) to the coil in the tip. Because of the skin effect and curie point, it will heat up until the point where the coil loses it&#x27;s magnetism, resulting in a self-regulating tip temperature that doesn&#x27;t need a thermo couple! [1] It responds very quickly to thermal loads, too. It&#x27;s an expensive system to be sure, but totally worth it especially if you can find it used. They&#x27;re also great about support even for older units, and you can get the entire schematics online if you need to make any repairs.<p>1. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.metcal.com&#x2F;hand-soldering&#x2F;how-smartheat-technology-works-a-tutorial-2&#x2F;" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.metcal.com&#x2F;hand-soldering&#x2F;how-smartheat-technolo...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ilyt</author><text>Except you can get remarkably good ones for cheap now. It&#x27;s no longer that you have to spend $60+ to get something good<p>&gt; This is like saying you should buy lifting shoes, a belt, a pair of gloves and bands before you go to the gym for the first time.<p>No, that&#x27;s like saying &quot;buy the gear that doesn&#x27;t crush your genitals for cycling first&quot;.<p>I don&#x27;t think you understand just how shitty experience is with the cheapest soldering irons</text></comment> |
14,902,035 | 14,899,501 | 1 | 2 | 14,899,155 | train | <story><title>Krita Foundation in Trouble</title><url>https://krita.org/en/item/krita-foundation-in-trouble/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dbrgn</author><text>Just a quick reminder, if everyone here donates just 3-5$, the expenses will be paid in no time :)<p>Krita is a great software, and even though I&#x27;m not an artist it&#x27;s worth supporting.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>antjanus</author><text>Thanks for pointing that out. I usually don&#x27;t donate but did so this time.<p>Is there a list of open source software that is going through similar hardships that need donations?</text></comment> | <story><title>Krita Foundation in Trouble</title><url>https://krita.org/en/item/krita-foundation-in-trouble/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dbrgn</author><text>Just a quick reminder, if everyone here donates just 3-5$, the expenses will be paid in no time :)<p>Krita is a great software, and even though I&#x27;m not an artist it&#x27;s worth supporting.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>buster</author><text>You&#x27;re right. Although i don&#x27;t use it, i just spent a few euros :)</text></comment> |
36,818,029 | 36,817,709 | 1 | 3 | 36,817,267 | train | <story><title>TSMC warns over deepening slump in chipmaking sector</title><url>https://www.ft.com/content/f433971d-fd8e-4ed3-91e9-e25a96284ea0</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>cs702</author><text>TSMC just warned the world of a 10% decline in chip revenues. Given that chips today are critical component of every phone, TV, laptop, desktop PC, server, vehicle, dishwasher, and <i>pretty much everything else</i>, TSMC&#x27;s warning suggests we&#x27;re going to experience a significant global economic contraction soon.<p>Hopefully I&#x27;m wrong.</text></comment> | <story><title>TSMC warns over deepening slump in chipmaking sector</title><url>https://www.ft.com/content/f433971d-fd8e-4ed3-91e9-e25a96284ea0</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>dforrestwilson</author><text><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;archive.li&#x2F;43GrJ" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;archive.li&#x2F;43GrJ</a></text></comment> |
34,972,663 | 34,970,465 | 1 | 3 | 34,969,760 | train | <story><title>Rosenpass – formally verified post-quantum WireGuard</title><url>https://github.com/rosenpass/rosenpass</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>chaxor</author><text>How does this compare to the work done by the Netherlands group (Hulsing&#x2F;Zimmermann, etc al) [1] and the Kudeldki group from Switzerland (Raynal&#x2F;Genet&#x2F;Romailler) [2]?
It&#x27;s nice to see someone making this more available. I had thought about trying to push the pq-wg implementation from Kudelski group to wg or trying it out, but I never had the time. Rust implementation seems to be an improvement of implementation, but I don&#x27;t know about the underlying proofs.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;eprint.iacr.org&#x2F;2020&#x2F;379.pdf" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;eprint.iacr.org&#x2F;2020&#x2F;379.pdf</a>
[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;csrc.nist.gov&#x2F;CSRC&#x2F;media&#x2F;Presentations&#x2F;pq-wireguard-we-did-it-again&#x2F;images-media&#x2F;session-5-raynal-pq-wireguard.pdf" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;csrc.nist.gov&#x2F;CSRC&#x2F;media&#x2F;Presentations&#x2F;pq-wireguard-...</a>
[3] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;kudelskisecurity&#x2F;pq-wireguard">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;kudelskisecurity&#x2F;pq-wireguard</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Rosenpass – formally verified post-quantum WireGuard</title><url>https://github.com/rosenpass/rosenpass</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Tepix</author><text>Does formal verification protect against buffer overflows? (it&#x27;s a serious question)</text></comment> |
11,313,386 | 11,312,899 | 1 | 3 | 11,310,683 | train | <story><title>Apple starts rejecting apps that use UIWebBrowserView</title><url>https://forum.ionicframework.com/t/ios-application-rejected-with-reason-non-public-apis/46717</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>soperj</author><text>That sounds really screwed up. You can access private methods?</text></item><item><author>masklinn</author><text>Yeah the view in question is a private[0] sub-sub view of UIWebView (UIWebView &gt; UIScrollView &gt; UIWebBrowserView) which does the actual rendering<p>[0] there is no direct access to it, though because of Cocoa&#x27;s architecture you can access it by iterating the scrollview&#x27;s subviews and look for one with the expected class name</text></item><item><author>Sephiroth87</author><text>Just to be clear, UIWebBrowserView is a private class, not the public UIWebView people should use, so it&#x27;s not like Apple started rejecting random apps for no good reasons...</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>masklinn</author><text>You can do so in most languages as long as they&#x27;re dynamically typed or have a reflection API, and Objective-C is dynamically typed.<p>But in this case private methods aren&#x27;t exactly involved, the code traverses the views (widgets) hierarchy (which is necessarily public) until it finds an object of a specific class (which comes from a private framework), then it replaces one of the methods to get the behaviour it wants (it actually replaces the class of the object with a subclass overriding that specific method, something many if not most dynamically typed languages allow for, which is way overkill, usually you&#x27;d just swap the method — that&#x27;s called &quot;swizzling&quot; in the objective-c world)</text></comment> | <story><title>Apple starts rejecting apps that use UIWebBrowserView</title><url>https://forum.ionicframework.com/t/ios-application-rejected-with-reason-non-public-apis/46717</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>soperj</author><text>That sounds really screwed up. You can access private methods?</text></item><item><author>masklinn</author><text>Yeah the view in question is a private[0] sub-sub view of UIWebView (UIWebView &gt; UIScrollView &gt; UIWebBrowserView) which does the actual rendering<p>[0] there is no direct access to it, though because of Cocoa&#x27;s architecture you can access it by iterating the scrollview&#x27;s subviews and look for one with the expected class name</text></item><item><author>Sephiroth87</author><text>Just to be clear, UIWebBrowserView is a private class, not the public UIWebView people should use, so it&#x27;s not like Apple started rejecting random apps for no good reasons...</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>gurkendoktor</author><text>Yes, which is useful because it lets us work around bugs in Apple&#x27;s own frameworks. (There is a trend with Swift to make everything more safe and enterprisey, as in JVM languages, though.)<p>But this isn&#x27;t about calling private methods, it&#x27;s about navigating the view hierarchy, which is possible in every GUI framework I&#x27;ve used so far.</text></comment> |
18,008,904 | 18,005,265 | 1 | 3 | 18,004,870 | train | <story><title>Funding Choices – Google’s new tool for GDPR compliance and content monetization</title><url>https://fundingchoices.google.com/start/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ThePhysicist</author><text>I&#x27;m still surprised no one has yet figured out a way to store sensitive data about personal interests and preferences on the client-side and let the client itself pull appropriate ads for the user to see. The quality of such a system should be comparable or better to server-side technologies with the right amount of tuning, and much less privacy-invading than existing approaches.<p>Personally I&#x27;d love to support more websites through ads if two conditions could be met:<p>- A way to ensure that ads don&#x27;t try to harm me by e.g. leading me to websites serving malware or abusing my computer&#x27;s resources (e.g. miners)<p>- A way to keep my privacy and control what data is collected about me (and who has access to that data)<p>Currently I simply can&#x27;t turn off the ad-blocker even if I wanted as most sites become completely unusable and outright obnoxious by showing large, blinking or content-hiding ads, videos, popups or fake overlays. That&#x27;s why most people use ad-blockers (IMHO). If ads are decent, relevant and non-obtrusive I personally would be happy to see them.<p>Also, go to any large website these days (without ad-blocker enabled) and check how many third-party trackers they load. There are many sites that send my data to more than 50 (!) different ad networks and partners, which is just insane.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>BrendanEich</author><text>Brave, with the Basic Attention Token (BAT), is building exactly the client-side anonymous contribution + ad-matching system you describe. We will take BAT to other apps after proving the model in Brave.<p>BAT in Brave is opt-in -- each user consents before anything local happens with data or zero-knowledge&#x2F;blind-token attestations -- and users can get _gratis_ BAT grants right now using the stable desktop browser (this is coming to mobile in about a month). The anonymous contribution system is the basis for the also-opt-in Brave Ads system, which uses local data only, local machine learning agent, and no cookies or user tracking by any server (even ours). Ads match against a catalog fixed daily or less frequently for a large set of users in a region who speak the same language. Attribution and confirmation use Chaumian blind tokens.<p>Users get 70% of revenue for opt-in, user-private (in tab), high quality ads at user-configurable frequency. We are working with publishers to provide user-opt-in ads for sites too, 70% revenue to the publisher, 15% to the user. User ad trial is under way right now, ping me if you want to be included. System should be available in Brave 1.0 in a couple of months.</text></comment> | <story><title>Funding Choices – Google’s new tool for GDPR compliance and content monetization</title><url>https://fundingchoices.google.com/start/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ThePhysicist</author><text>I&#x27;m still surprised no one has yet figured out a way to store sensitive data about personal interests and preferences on the client-side and let the client itself pull appropriate ads for the user to see. The quality of such a system should be comparable or better to server-side technologies with the right amount of tuning, and much less privacy-invading than existing approaches.<p>Personally I&#x27;d love to support more websites through ads if two conditions could be met:<p>- A way to ensure that ads don&#x27;t try to harm me by e.g. leading me to websites serving malware or abusing my computer&#x27;s resources (e.g. miners)<p>- A way to keep my privacy and control what data is collected about me (and who has access to that data)<p>Currently I simply can&#x27;t turn off the ad-blocker even if I wanted as most sites become completely unusable and outright obnoxious by showing large, blinking or content-hiding ads, videos, popups or fake overlays. That&#x27;s why most people use ad-blockers (IMHO). If ads are decent, relevant and non-obtrusive I personally would be happy to see them.<p>Also, go to any large website these days (without ad-blocker enabled) and check how many third-party trackers they load. There are many sites that send my data to more than 50 (!) different ad networks and partners, which is just insane.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>apinstein</author><text>This is the big idea I always pitched at hackathons (like startup weekend). I think it’s a great idea. 100% opt-in ads. My tagline was “a sufficiently relevant ad is indistinguishable from content.” It’s meant to be aspirational. The idea is that if you are looking to buy something, awareness of choices or information about that choice should be so valuable that it’s considered to be a benefit by the user. It’s basicallt an inversion of control approach to ads. The cpc’s and cpm’s would be amazing. :)</text></comment> |
35,050,440 | 35,050,364 | 1 | 3 | 35,049,978 | train | <story><title>Cabel Sasser: Untitled Goose Game rejected from the Mac App Store twice</title><url>https://social.panic.com/@cabel/109977366338856750</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>capitainenemo</author><text>Familiar. Hedgewars was for about half a year on the top page of free apps before Apple demanded that the GUI be rewritten in something other than Qt, something no one had the time to do, so it was pulled.</text></comment> | <story><title>Cabel Sasser: Untitled Goose Game rejected from the Mac App Store twice</title><url>https://social.panic.com/@cabel/109977366338856750</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>interpol_p</author><text>It is wild that even a company like Panic, as well-loved, and with one of the richest histories on Mac, gets the same treatment as anyone else from App Store Review.<p>In a way it&#x27;s kind of good to know that there is no special treatment, but this is poor behaviour towards the developers who made your platform.</text></comment> |
28,905,150 | 28,904,931 | 1 | 2 | 28,904,559 | train | <story><title>Colin Powell has died</title><url>https://www.cnn.com/2021/10/18/politics/colin-powell-dies/index.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>CapricornNoble</author><text>Colin Powell is a textbook case of &quot;A thousand &#x27;Atta-boys!&#x27; and one fuck-up!&quot;.<p>He joined the Army in the 1950s, served through 2 tours in Vietnam, and made it all the way to Chairman of the Joint Chiefs by the end of the 1980s, leading the military through Operation Desert Storm and the post-Soviet era. That&#x27;s a rare career for ANY American, let alone a black one.<p>But all that went &quot;poof!&quot; after his shameful performance at the UN in 2003. Agreed that he should have resigned in protest instead. What an ignoble reputational end to an otherwise amazing role model. RIP Sir.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>NoGravitas</author><text>This is your reminder that being assigned to cover up the My Lai massacre was the thing that really jumpstarted Powell&#x27;s career. His 2003 UN speech was part and parcel of what his career was built on.<p>Reference: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.consortiumnews.com&#x2F;archive&#x2F;colin3.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.consortiumnews.com&#x2F;archive&#x2F;colin3.html</a><p>Edited to add: he also appears to have lied under oath about his knowledge of the Iran-Contra affair.<p>Ref: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;consortiumnews.com&#x2F;2000&#x2F;121900b.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;consortiumnews.com&#x2F;2000&#x2F;121900b.html</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Colin Powell has died</title><url>https://www.cnn.com/2021/10/18/politics/colin-powell-dies/index.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>CapricornNoble</author><text>Colin Powell is a textbook case of &quot;A thousand &#x27;Atta-boys!&#x27; and one fuck-up!&quot;.<p>He joined the Army in the 1950s, served through 2 tours in Vietnam, and made it all the way to Chairman of the Joint Chiefs by the end of the 1980s, leading the military through Operation Desert Storm and the post-Soviet era. That&#x27;s a rare career for ANY American, let alone a black one.<p>But all that went &quot;poof!&quot; after his shameful performance at the UN in 2003. Agreed that he should have resigned in protest instead. What an ignoble reputational end to an otherwise amazing role model. RIP Sir.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>_3ddw</author><text>I was 17 when we invaded Afghanistan and 19 when we invaded Iraq. Through the lead-up to both of those conflicts I remember watching scores of demonstrators marching outside the White House, chanting slogans against the wars. What did they know that Colin Powell did not?</text></comment> |
3,482,961 | 3,482,443 | 1 | 3 | 3,482,102 | train | <story><title>Damn Cool Algorithms: Quadtrees and Hilbert Curves</title><url>http://blog.notdot.net/2009/11/Damn-Cool-Algorithms-Spatial-indexing-with-Quadtrees-and-Hilbert-Curves</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jrockway</author><text>This might be obvious to many, but spatial indexes are good for more than just "show me the restaurants within five miles of me". It's a good technique to know for efficiently searching <i>any</i> two columns simultaneously. If you have, for example, a database of people, their hometown, and their favorite color, and you want to know all people from Chicago that like green, a spacial index over color and hometown will be vastly more efficient than a "regular" single-column index over any one of those columns. (The reason is that an index on one column doesn't efficiently produce a small resultset. If we index on color and there are five colors, an index over color only reduces the dataset by 1/5th. Similarly, indexing over hometown might reduce the size of the dataset by 1/1000th. But if we index over both columns at the same time, then the only results that the index will ever produce are results that are the exact answer to our question. No unnecessary scanning!)<p>Anyway, lat/long might be the easiest "pair" of columns to imagine when discussing anything "spatial", but most other two-column pairs work the exact same way.</text></comment> | <story><title>Damn Cool Algorithms: Quadtrees and Hilbert Curves</title><url>http://blog.notdot.net/2009/11/Damn-Cool-Algorithms-Spatial-indexing-with-Quadtrees-and-Hilbert-Curves</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>robrenaud</author><text>This technique is simultaneously cool and depressing. Remember all that cool stuff you learned in computational geometry? Throw it out.<p>Just associate geometry with a set of well chosen ids, and you can stuff it into really simple, conventional data structures and do all of the spatial operations you wanted to quickly and simply in practice.</text></comment> |
31,987,187 | 31,985,772 | 1 | 3 | 31,985,142 | train | <story><title>Apple ][ "Lemmings" Proof of Concept</title><url>http://www.deater.net/weave/vmwprod/lemm/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>lioeters</author><text>My goodness, the whole site is a gem, an old-school &quot;hacker&quot; in the best sense of the word.<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.deater.net&#x2F;weave&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.deater.net&#x2F;weave&#x2F;</a><p>Pages go back to 1996!<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.deater.net&#x2F;weave&#x2F;whatsnew1996.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.deater.net&#x2F;weave&#x2F;whatsnew1996.html</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Apple ][ "Lemmings" Proof of Concept</title><url>http://www.deater.net/weave/vmwprod/lemm/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>vardump</author><text>C64 Lemmings playthrough, all 100 levels: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;lTKmyqqugG0" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;lTKmyqqugG0</a><p>Features scrolling (!), although with a narrower playground. C64 truly gets pushed hard here.<p>Impressively, even Shadow of the Beast level is there: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;lTKmyqqugG0?t=2443" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;lTKmyqqugG0?t=2443</a><p>The biggest advantage for C64 is of course sprites. C64 version used them for the background, that&#x27;s why it&#x27;s narrower.<p>More details about making of C64 Lemmings: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;codetapper.com&#x2F;c64&#x2F;diary-of-a-game&#x2F;lemmings&#x2F;the-making-of-lemmings-part-1&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;codetapper.com&#x2F;c64&#x2F;diary-of-a-game&#x2F;lemmings&#x2F;the-maki...</a></text></comment> |
37,740,753 | 37,739,498 | 1 | 3 | 37,737,519 | train | <story><title>Python 3.12</title><url>https://www.python.org/downloads/release/python-3120/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rollcat</author><text>It feels like we&#x27;re going in cycles. C was somewhat lax with type checking, thus C++ and Java were both made more strict. Looking to escape the tyranny of static typing, the rise of Python, Ruby, or JavaScript instead left us with a desire that Rust, Go, and TypeScript now fulfill. I wonder what&#x27;s the next step? LLMs are extremely broad in what they accept, but don&#x27;t exactly fill the same niches.</text></item><item><author>appplication</author><text>&gt; Maybe now I&#x27;ll be able to actually figure out what data to send libraries without actually reading their source code.<p>One could hope, but any library abusing kwargs in all their methods is showing they’re willing to go through the absolute minimum to make their code usable, let alone readable and self-documenting.</text></item><item><author>dandiep</author><text>Ooh, seems there is a new syntax for declaring the types of kwargs [1]:<p><pre><code> from typing import TypedDict, Unpack
class Movie(TypedDict):
name: str
year: int
def foo(*kwargs: Unpack[Movie]): ...
</code></pre>
Maybe now I&#x27;ll be able to actually figure out what data to send libraries without actually reading their source code.<p>1. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;docs.python.org&#x2F;3.12&#x2F;whatsnew&#x2F;3.12.html#pep-692-using-typeddict-for-more-precise-kwargs-typing" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;docs.python.org&#x2F;3.12&#x2F;whatsnew&#x2F;3.12.html#pep-692-usin...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>f1shy</author><text>I always saw C++ and Java addressing other issues, like low level memory management, and higher level abstractions like objects. Not so much type policy.
Anyways I see a strong tendency in lots of programmers dismissing anything that is not type static-strict-safe, and others advocating for a more relaxed system.</text></comment> | <story><title>Python 3.12</title><url>https://www.python.org/downloads/release/python-3120/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rollcat</author><text>It feels like we&#x27;re going in cycles. C was somewhat lax with type checking, thus C++ and Java were both made more strict. Looking to escape the tyranny of static typing, the rise of Python, Ruby, or JavaScript instead left us with a desire that Rust, Go, and TypeScript now fulfill. I wonder what&#x27;s the next step? LLMs are extremely broad in what they accept, but don&#x27;t exactly fill the same niches.</text></item><item><author>appplication</author><text>&gt; Maybe now I&#x27;ll be able to actually figure out what data to send libraries without actually reading their source code.<p>One could hope, but any library abusing kwargs in all their methods is showing they’re willing to go through the absolute minimum to make their code usable, let alone readable and self-documenting.</text></item><item><author>dandiep</author><text>Ooh, seems there is a new syntax for declaring the types of kwargs [1]:<p><pre><code> from typing import TypedDict, Unpack
class Movie(TypedDict):
name: str
year: int
def foo(*kwargs: Unpack[Movie]): ...
</code></pre>
Maybe now I&#x27;ll be able to actually figure out what data to send libraries without actually reading their source code.<p>1. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;docs.python.org&#x2F;3.12&#x2F;whatsnew&#x2F;3.12.html#pep-692-using-typeddict-for-more-precise-kwargs-typing" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;docs.python.org&#x2F;3.12&#x2F;whatsnew&#x2F;3.12.html#pep-692-usin...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tomrod</author><text>I&#x27;m holding out hope for a Fortran resurgence.<p>It&#x27;s a tiny hope. But a hope nonetheless. Fortran is fun.</text></comment> |
27,667,906 | 27,667,490 | 1 | 3 | 27,666,767 | train | <story><title>Apple making some employees wear body cams in response to leaks?</title><url>https://www.frontpagetech.com/2021/06/28/exclusive-apple-making-employees-wear-police-grade-body-cams-in-response-to-leaks/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>spoonjim</author><text>What&#x27;s really funny is that this escalating response from Apple in response to leaks comes directly as the relevance of Apple leaks has gone down. Nobody gives a fuck what the next iPhone is going to look like. Apple events are no longer these mystical ripples in spacetime because 1) Steve Jobs is dead and 2) Apple is not cool anymore 3) everyone knows the next iPhone will be a rounded rectangle with a screen on one side.
Apple thinks that they will reclaim their cool by controlling leaks but nobody is going to get excited about Tim Cook pulling the next iPhone out of his pocket. Apple&#x27;s engineering is still great, but they are no longer an entertainment event.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>CydeWeys</author><text>I don&#x27;t think it&#x27;s the iPhone they&#x27;re primarily worrying about, it&#x27;s their first foray into a new field. So that could be the first Apple automobile or the first Apple AR&#x2F;VR device. <i>That</i> might matter a lot if it gets leaked way ahead of time.</text></comment> | <story><title>Apple making some employees wear body cams in response to leaks?</title><url>https://www.frontpagetech.com/2021/06/28/exclusive-apple-making-employees-wear-police-grade-body-cams-in-response-to-leaks/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>spoonjim</author><text>What&#x27;s really funny is that this escalating response from Apple in response to leaks comes directly as the relevance of Apple leaks has gone down. Nobody gives a fuck what the next iPhone is going to look like. Apple events are no longer these mystical ripples in spacetime because 1) Steve Jobs is dead and 2) Apple is not cool anymore 3) everyone knows the next iPhone will be a rounded rectangle with a screen on one side.
Apple thinks that they will reclaim their cool by controlling leaks but nobody is going to get excited about Tim Cook pulling the next iPhone out of his pocket. Apple&#x27;s engineering is still great, but they are no longer an entertainment event.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>snowwrestler</author><text>People publish Apple leaks for one reason: they attract an audience. As an example, I give this post which is currently sitting at #1 on HN.</text></comment> |
2,880,257 | 2,879,668 | 1 | 3 | 2,879,546 | train | <story><title>San Francisco Subway Muzzles Cell Service During Protest</title><url>http://news.cnet.com/8301-27080_3-20091822-245/s.f-subway-muzzles-cell-service-during-protest/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>nettdata</author><text>Am I the only one who doesn't see a problem with this?<p>They provided a cel phone repeater as an amenity/courtesy to their passengers. It's not part of their charter to provide cel service.<p>Their goal is to keep their passengers moving efficiently. By no longer providing that cel service, they disrupted the wannabe disrupters.<p>Their freedom of assembly wasn't interfered with, they just didn't help it.<p>If the protesters relied on cel phone coverage to perform their demonstration, then their strategy failed, and they'll have to come up with another way.<p>They increased the presence of police in the area, so the "how will I call for an ambulance" concern is a bit melodramatic; there were emergency personal already on scene, with non-cel communication capabilities.<p>Personally, I feel the right to assemble/demonstrate has been extended too far into the area of "I demand the right to fuck up everyone else's day", and applaud BART for doing something about it.</text></comment> | <story><title>San Francisco Subway Muzzles Cell Service During Protest</title><url>http://news.cnet.com/8301-27080_3-20091822-245/s.f-subway-muzzles-cell-service-during-protest/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>tshtf</author><text>Are they really concerned about public safety?<p>What if, while the cell sites were powered down, a crazed lunatic with a knife started stabbing people on a BART platform or train? How could anyone call for help?<p>This is lunacy.</text></comment> |
28,119,402 | 28,116,496 | 1 | 3 | 28,111,606 | train | <story><title>'I've Got Nothing to Hide' and Other Misunderstandings of Privacy (2007)</title><url>https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=998565</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>TheRealDunkirk</author><text>I got upset about Echelon, almost 30 years ago, and then got further upset with the Patriot Act. The internet kill switch. Etc. Et. al. In speaking with my pastor about these things, he gave me the line, &quot;I&#x27;ve got nothing to hide.&quot; Sure, he, personally, is above reproach, and would lay his life bare, but he considers conversations with people he counsels to be sacrosanct. Would he like his text messages and emails published? Of course not. Even he absolutely DOES have things to hide!<p>My pastor is a superhumanly wise person. Almost everything he has said has turned out to be true. Of the Patriot Act, he agreed that the government probably overreached, but he said these things are like a pendulum, and eventually it would swing back. On this subject, he has been completely wrong. The pendulum just keeps going. The problem is that both sides of US politics are in on it, so I don&#x27;t know what will ever correct this course. It seems that, eventually, we&#x27;ll have Chinese-style, socially-scored citizenship, just run by corporations instead of the government.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>aksss</author><text>It&#x27;s not a pendulum. To imagine such a thing is a very indulgent way of thinking. The liberties experienced in the United States are quite exceptional as human societies go. In the history of human civilization, the tendency is towards the feudalistic, the imperial, the totalitarian. So the natural course is for liberties to erode. It took bloodshed and great will to carve out freedoms enjoyed by the United States.<p>It&#x27;s less the dynamic of a pendulum and more the dynamic of oxidation.<p>We luxuriate in thinking that these &quot;Western-style democracies&quot; are a norm, when in fact on the planet today the best of them are very few and I think the case could be made that all of them are showing signs of withering principles in the face of threats and greed. So you find people arguing whether this or that style of loss is <i>rational</i> today because of some set of de jure reasons, but in the long scope of history it&#x27;s simply a question of maintaining liberty or lessening of liberty - is the fruit rotting? Are we falling back towards the illiberal norm and how fast? The reasons of the day are irrelevant. The bargain is known - de-risk at the cost of liberty. The dynamic is known - the powerful seek to consolidate more power. The rest is filler.</text></comment> | <story><title>'I've Got Nothing to Hide' and Other Misunderstandings of Privacy (2007)</title><url>https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=998565</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>TheRealDunkirk</author><text>I got upset about Echelon, almost 30 years ago, and then got further upset with the Patriot Act. The internet kill switch. Etc. Et. al. In speaking with my pastor about these things, he gave me the line, &quot;I&#x27;ve got nothing to hide.&quot; Sure, he, personally, is above reproach, and would lay his life bare, but he considers conversations with people he counsels to be sacrosanct. Would he like his text messages and emails published? Of course not. Even he absolutely DOES have things to hide!<p>My pastor is a superhumanly wise person. Almost everything he has said has turned out to be true. Of the Patriot Act, he agreed that the government probably overreached, but he said these things are like a pendulum, and eventually it would swing back. On this subject, he has been completely wrong. The pendulum just keeps going. The problem is that both sides of US politics are in on it, so I don&#x27;t know what will ever correct this course. It seems that, eventually, we&#x27;ll have Chinese-style, socially-scored citizenship, just run by corporations instead of the government.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>gambiting</author><text>&gt;&gt;On this subject, he has been completely wrong. The pendulum just keeps going.<p>Well, the hope is that it will eventually swing back with super strength. Maybe it will take a full collapse of the western society first and it might happen long after we&#x27;re all dead, but I&#x27;m hoping that society <i>will</i> go back on this.</text></comment> |
37,013,367 | 37,013,384 | 1 | 2 | 37,012,347 | train | <story><title>The Dome: A simple violation of determinism in Newtonian mechanics (2005)</title><url>https://sites.pitt.edu/~jdnorton/Goodies/Dome/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>kergonath</author><text>It’s frustrating as the text does not go anywhere near demonstrating any “simple violation of determinism in Newtonian mechanics”. The core issue of the discussion linked in the story is that there are mathematical solutions to Newton’s second law that are inconsistent with other bits of classical physics (in this case that a particle at rest in a given Galilean frame of reference cannot just start moving without something else applying some force to it). That is entirely true, interesting, and there is nothing wrong with this.<p>What this does not tell us is how it somehow violates any kind of determinism.<p>&gt; Then there are many solutions of Newton’s law F = ma. In one the ball remains at rest on top of the dome. But in others, it starts to roll down the dome in some arbitrary direction! Moreover it can start rolling at any time.<p>That is just not going to happen in (classical) reality, though. Because once you properly set the initial state of the ball (force=velocity=0, or any other values), then the solution becomes unique and that’s it, there is one possible trajectory. The ball starting to move without anything acting on it would violate other principles of classical mechanics. It’s not going to happen regardless of whether that trajectory is consistent with Newton’s second law.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>SlySherZ</author><text>The article is hard to follow for me, but if I understood it correctly, this is not true:<p>&gt; That is just not going to happen in (classical) reality, though. Because once you properly set the initial state of the ball (force=velocity=0, or any other values), then the solution becomes unique<p>If you set velocity = velocity = 0, then the ball staying at the top is a valid solution, AND the ball rolling down the hill (in any direction) is also a valid solution.<p>If this sounds confusing (it did for me), look at the example at the end, it&#x27;s possible to do the reverse - send the ball rolling up the hill with perfect velocity, such that it stops at the very top after time T. And if <i>that</i> is possible, the opposite is also possible because NM is time reversible.</text></comment> | <story><title>The Dome: A simple violation of determinism in Newtonian mechanics (2005)</title><url>https://sites.pitt.edu/~jdnorton/Goodies/Dome/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>kergonath</author><text>It’s frustrating as the text does not go anywhere near demonstrating any “simple violation of determinism in Newtonian mechanics”. The core issue of the discussion linked in the story is that there are mathematical solutions to Newton’s second law that are inconsistent with other bits of classical physics (in this case that a particle at rest in a given Galilean frame of reference cannot just start moving without something else applying some force to it). That is entirely true, interesting, and there is nothing wrong with this.<p>What this does not tell us is how it somehow violates any kind of determinism.<p>&gt; Then there are many solutions of Newton’s law F = ma. In one the ball remains at rest on top of the dome. But in others, it starts to roll down the dome in some arbitrary direction! Moreover it can start rolling at any time.<p>That is just not going to happen in (classical) reality, though. Because once you properly set the initial state of the ball (force=velocity=0, or any other values), then the solution becomes unique and that’s it, there is one possible trajectory. The ball starting to move without anything acting on it would violate other principles of classical mechanics. It’s not going to happen regardless of whether that trajectory is consistent with Newton’s second law.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>lisper</author><text>&gt; once you properly set the initial state of the ball (force=velocity=0, or any other values), then the solution becomes unique and that’s it<p>No, you&#x27;ve missed the point entirely. There are circumstances under which the solution is <i>not</i> unique, and the article describes such a circumstance.</text></comment> |
35,113,805 | 35,113,516 | 1 | 2 | 35,112,827 | train | <story><title>Silicon Valley Bank paid out bonuses hours before seizure</title><url>https://www.axios.com/2023/03/11/silicon-valley-bank-paid-bonuses-fdic</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ryukoposting</author><text>To people who don&#x27;t work in finance, maybe it seems reasonable to take away bonuses from employees at a failing bank. It sounds crazy to me. My finance friends are in PE, not banking, but they do soul-crushing work for grueling hours specifically because of that end-of-year bonus.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>YPCrumble</author><text>This is literally showing how parasitic these organizations are. Bankers think that banks exist to make themselves a lot of money, not to serve customers.<p>This is why organizations like SVB need to fail without any kind of bailout and executives need to go to prison for paying out bonuses if they paid them out knowing they couldn’t meet their fiduciary responsibility to customers.</text></comment> | <story><title>Silicon Valley Bank paid out bonuses hours before seizure</title><url>https://www.axios.com/2023/03/11/silicon-valley-bank-paid-bonuses-fdic</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ryukoposting</author><text>To people who don&#x27;t work in finance, maybe it seems reasonable to take away bonuses from employees at a failing bank. It sounds crazy to me. My finance friends are in PE, not banking, but they do soul-crushing work for grueling hours specifically because of that end-of-year bonus.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>coldtea</author><text>Yeah, unlike those people working on third party companies depending on the bank for their salaries...<p>I mean, who works harder and needs the money more, a finance executive waiting for their bonus, or a single mother of two working two jobs, one of which happened to be in a company depending on this bank for its salary payments?<p>Obvioysly the former!</text></comment> |
41,452,097 | 41,450,458 | 1 | 3 | 41,447,758 | train | <story><title>The Internet Archive has lost its appeal in Hachette vs. Internet Archive</title><url>https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.ca2.60988/gov.uscourts.ca2.60988.306.1.pdf</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>teruakohatu</author><text>&gt; In his many interviews with U.S. media, he portrays the court cases and legal judgements as a crusade against the Internet Archive and all librarians. It&#x27;s not. It&#x27;s the logical outcome of one man&#x27;s seemingly fanatical conviction against the law and the people who work very hard to bring new books into being.<p>If IA had won, IA would be hailed as a cultural hero. They hit and they missed. Claiming Brewster Kahle is against &quot;the people who work very hard to bring new books into being&quot; is unfair. The copyright goalposts have moved so far past where they were originally, the people who work very hard can be dead for decades and their works still in copyright, and by the time they are dead for 70 years, the copyright will probably be extended again.</text></item><item><author>ilamont</author><text>This has been playing out for many years. And it&#x27;s all because Brewster Kahle decided that an overly broad interpretation of the Internet Archive&#x27;s mission trumped the rights of authors and publishers, and the laws of the United States.<p>When IA was asked to stop CDL - many times - he continued. The National Writers Union tried to open a dialogue as early as 2010 but was ignored:<p><i>The Internet Archive says it would rather talk with writers individually than talk to the NWU or other writers’ organizations. But requests by NWU members to talk to or meet with the Internet Archive have been ignored or rebuffed.</i><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;nwu.org&#x2F;nwu-denounces-cdl&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;nwu.org&#x2F;nwu-denounces-cdl&#x2F;</a><p>When the requests to abandon CDL turned into demands, Kahle dug in his heels. When the inevitable lawsuits followed, and IA lost, he insisted that he was still in the right and plowed ahead with appeals.<p>He also opened a new front in the court of public opinion. In his blog posts and interviews with U.S. media, Kahle portrays the court cases and legal judgements as a crusade against the Internet Archive and all librarians (see <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.archive.org&#x2F;2023&#x2F;12&#x2F;15&#x2F;brewster-kahle-appeal-statement&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.archive.org&#x2F;2023&#x2F;12&#x2F;15&#x2F;brewster-kahle-appeal-st...</a>). It&#x27;s not. It&#x27;s the logical outcome of one man&#x27;s seemingly fanatical conviction against the law and the people who work very hard to bring new books into being.<p>In addition, there has been real collateral damage to the many noble aspects of the Internet Archive. Legal fees and judgements have diverted resources away from the Wayback Machine, the library of public domain works, and other IA programs that provide real value to society. I truly hope the organization can survive.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>lolinder</author><text>I agree with you about copyright, but the fact is that the IA never had a chance and we <i>knew</i> it years ago.<p>The top comment on HN a week after their launch of the EL is critical [0], right at the moment when HN would be most expected to rally to their defense. By the time the lawsuit was actually starting to take shape most commenters had become very concerned for the fate of the IA [1]. This is on a forum that reliably champions freedom of information, but most of us knew even at the time that what they&#x27;d done was <i>extremely</i> unlikely to pass muster.<p>The IA was never going to be hailed as a cultural hero because <i>they stood no chance</i>, and they are too valuable for other, unrelated reasons to make themselves a martyr. This never should have happened under the same legal entity as the web archive.<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=22731472">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=22731472</a><p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=23485182">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=23485182</a></text></comment> | <story><title>The Internet Archive has lost its appeal in Hachette vs. Internet Archive</title><url>https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.ca2.60988/gov.uscourts.ca2.60988.306.1.pdf</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>teruakohatu</author><text>&gt; In his many interviews with U.S. media, he portrays the court cases and legal judgements as a crusade against the Internet Archive and all librarians. It&#x27;s not. It&#x27;s the logical outcome of one man&#x27;s seemingly fanatical conviction against the law and the people who work very hard to bring new books into being.<p>If IA had won, IA would be hailed as a cultural hero. They hit and they missed. Claiming Brewster Kahle is against &quot;the people who work very hard to bring new books into being&quot; is unfair. The copyright goalposts have moved so far past where they were originally, the people who work very hard can be dead for decades and their works still in copyright, and by the time they are dead for 70 years, the copyright will probably be extended again.</text></item><item><author>ilamont</author><text>This has been playing out for many years. And it&#x27;s all because Brewster Kahle decided that an overly broad interpretation of the Internet Archive&#x27;s mission trumped the rights of authors and publishers, and the laws of the United States.<p>When IA was asked to stop CDL - many times - he continued. The National Writers Union tried to open a dialogue as early as 2010 but was ignored:<p><i>The Internet Archive says it would rather talk with writers individually than talk to the NWU or other writers’ organizations. But requests by NWU members to talk to or meet with the Internet Archive have been ignored or rebuffed.</i><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;nwu.org&#x2F;nwu-denounces-cdl&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;nwu.org&#x2F;nwu-denounces-cdl&#x2F;</a><p>When the requests to abandon CDL turned into demands, Kahle dug in his heels. When the inevitable lawsuits followed, and IA lost, he insisted that he was still in the right and plowed ahead with appeals.<p>He also opened a new front in the court of public opinion. In his blog posts and interviews with U.S. media, Kahle portrays the court cases and legal judgements as a crusade against the Internet Archive and all librarians (see <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.archive.org&#x2F;2023&#x2F;12&#x2F;15&#x2F;brewster-kahle-appeal-statement&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.archive.org&#x2F;2023&#x2F;12&#x2F;15&#x2F;brewster-kahle-appeal-st...</a>). It&#x27;s not. It&#x27;s the logical outcome of one man&#x27;s seemingly fanatical conviction against the law and the people who work very hard to bring new books into being.<p>In addition, there has been real collateral damage to the many noble aspects of the Internet Archive. Legal fees and judgements have diverted resources away from the Wayback Machine, the library of public domain works, and other IA programs that provide real value to society. I truly hope the organization can survive.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>doublescoop</author><text>This wasn&#x27;t a case of the estates of dead authors trying to hold onto rights. Working authors were actively being harmed by the activities of the IA through the CDL. Working authors were met with refusals to meet to discuss this issue.<p>I don&#x27;t think that characterization of Kahle is unfair at all. His position was unreasonable, determined to be illegal, and damaging to people who depend on copyright to license their work.</text></comment> |
29,467,172 | 29,465,710 | 1 | 3 | 29,460,074 | train | <story><title>Popular Family Safety App Life360 Selling Precise Location Data on Its Users</title><url>https://themarkup.org/privacy/2021/12/06/the-popular-family-safety-app-life360-is-selling-precise-location-data-on-its-tens-of-millions-of-user</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>missedthecue</author><text>Think about this for just half a second though -- What would be the value in buying location data on someone&#x27;s Tile? Phone location data is valuable because it tells you where a human being with a wallet is.<p>If someone attaches a Tile to something (say their backpack), what&#x27;s the use in buying that location data? Are you going to try to show location based ads to someone&#x27;s backpack that they accidentally left in the library?</text></item><item><author>mahrain</author><text>&quot;On Nov. 22, Life360 also announced plans to buy Tile, a tracking device company that helps find lost items. Hulls said the company doesn’t have plans to sell data from Tile devices.&quot;<p>I thought this sounded familiar. Combined with the acquisition of Fitbit by Google, for IoT devices you should therefore not only consider the current owner and its policies, but also future ownership?<p>This will make it even harder for me to buy anything from an IoT startup.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>djrogers</author><text>You’ve missed the point - the Tile app <i>agressively</i> pushes users to enable always-on location, which is not the norm for iOS apps, so Tile knows where your phone is all the time.<p>It’s not about the bluetooth tags themselves.</text></comment> | <story><title>Popular Family Safety App Life360 Selling Precise Location Data on Its Users</title><url>https://themarkup.org/privacy/2021/12/06/the-popular-family-safety-app-life360-is-selling-precise-location-data-on-its-tens-of-millions-of-user</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>missedthecue</author><text>Think about this for just half a second though -- What would be the value in buying location data on someone&#x27;s Tile? Phone location data is valuable because it tells you where a human being with a wallet is.<p>If someone attaches a Tile to something (say their backpack), what&#x27;s the use in buying that location data? Are you going to try to show location based ads to someone&#x27;s backpack that they accidentally left in the library?</text></item><item><author>mahrain</author><text>&quot;On Nov. 22, Life360 also announced plans to buy Tile, a tracking device company that helps find lost items. Hulls said the company doesn’t have plans to sell data from Tile devices.&quot;<p>I thought this sounded familiar. Combined with the acquisition of Fitbit by Google, for IoT devices you should therefore not only consider the current owner and its policies, but also future ownership?<p>This will make it even harder for me to buy anything from an IoT startup.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>wlesieutre</author><text>99% of the time it tells you where the tile&#x27;s owner is.<p>&quot;But couldn&#x27;t you just get that data from their phone already?&quot;<p>No, because the Tile is the reason those people have the phone app installed and give it location data permissions. I wouldn&#x27;t expect that they&#x27;re selling locations of individual Tile trackers (thought they very well might), the more resellable data that Life360 gets here is access to the locations of all Tile owners.</text></comment> |
25,094,994 | 25,093,863 | 1 | 2 | 25,093,308 | train | <story><title>Save like a pessimist, invest like an optimist</title><url>https://www.collaborativefund.com/blog/save-like-a-pessimist-invest-like-an-optimist/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>yojo</author><text>I’m skeptical of the closing claim that exponential growth keeps happening forever. Yes, you can grow GDP 2% for 200 years, that results in an economy 50x the start size. Expand it to 1000 years and you’re talking about an economy 400 million times as large. After 2100 years you’re up to an economy a QUINTILLION times as large.<p>At some point the exponential curve has to go S-shaped. Maybe we’re still in the happy exponential looking part of the curve. There are also signs we might be transitioning. Population growth has slowed, productivity growth has slowed, and the marginal return on capital seems to be somewhere around zero given modern interest rates.</text></comment> | <story><title>Save like a pessimist, invest like an optimist</title><url>https://www.collaborativefund.com/blog/save-like-a-pessimist-invest-like-an-optimist/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jameslk</author><text>The article is kind of fluffy. Not everyone should save and invest the same way. Someone who&#x27;s closer to retirement shouldn&#x27;t necessarily be investing like an &quot;optimist&quot; (i.e. more risky long-term portfolio), and they&#x27;ll probably want more liquid assets than someone who&#x27;s in their 20s with very limited obligations.<p>Having an emergency fund can benefit everyone but beyond that your portfolio should ideally be driven by your goals and their timeline. If you have no goals and you&#x27;re just trying to make as much money as possible in the stock market like a lot of new retail investors, this definitely should be given some thought.<p>I think most could be better served by learning and applying goal-based investing and modern portfolio theory to achieve what this article is clumsily trying to suggest.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Goal-based_investing" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Goal-based_investing</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Modern_portfolio_theory" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Modern_portfolio_theory</a></text></comment> |
17,518,232 | 17,517,639 | 1 | 3 | 17,513,828 | train | <story><title>MacBook Pro with faster performance and new features for pros</title><url>https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2018/07/apple-updates-macbook-pro-with-faster-performance-and-new-features-for-pros/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>reificator</author><text>Biggest new feature they could add would be to not have an additional screen taking up battery life and shining in my face, unable to be dimmed with f.lux.<p>Maybe instead we could have a row of keys that provide some sort of function, and maybe a key that allows the user to escape. That would be a pretty useful feature that I can guarantee I would use dozens or hundreds of times a day.<p>I&#x27;m considering replacing my MacBook Pro soon, and I might have to drop macOS from my 3 OS lineup. I can&#x27;t justify an expensive but locked down desktop machine, so if the laptops aren&#x27;t meeting my needs either then goodbye Apple.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>fcbrooklyn</author><text>I had to replace my 2015 MBP last week, because the kb started failing (it wasn&#x27;t one of the ones eligible for a free repair, sadly, and I can&#x27;t live without a machine for however long it takes them to fix it anyway). I was really torn, because although I could reluctantly live without the function keys, the escape key is a complete dealbreaker.<p>After much debate I decided to take a chance on a surface book. I figured I&#x27;d try it, try and get my dev environment in a decent place, and see how I felt about windows after 30 days, with the idea that I might have to return it if things didn&#x27;t work out. I&#x27;m 6 days in, and I can pretty safely say there&#x27;s no way I&#x27;m going back to apple. Windows has managed not to suck at all, my dev environment is arguably better than what I had before, and I&#x27;m absolutely loving the machine itself. Most joyful new laptop experience in many years.</text></comment> | <story><title>MacBook Pro with faster performance and new features for pros</title><url>https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2018/07/apple-updates-macbook-pro-with-faster-performance-and-new-features-for-pros/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>reificator</author><text>Biggest new feature they could add would be to not have an additional screen taking up battery life and shining in my face, unable to be dimmed with f.lux.<p>Maybe instead we could have a row of keys that provide some sort of function, and maybe a key that allows the user to escape. That would be a pretty useful feature that I can guarantee I would use dozens or hundreds of times a day.<p>I&#x27;m considering replacing my MacBook Pro soon, and I might have to drop macOS from my 3 OS lineup. I can&#x27;t justify an expensive but locked down desktop machine, so if the laptops aren&#x27;t meeting my needs either then goodbye Apple.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>aequitas</author><text>My biggest problem with the touchbar is that I would only be able to use it half of the time.
Because when I dock my laptop it is either closed and tucked in the corner of my desk, or perched on a laptop stand. Either way the touchbar is to far away to be of any benefit. So unless Apple comes with a (bluetooth) keyboard with touchbar, I cannot integrate it into my daily workflow.</text></comment> |
19,578,819 | 19,578,802 | 1 | 3 | 19,577,602 | train | <story><title>Boeing CEO Dennis Muilenburg Addresses the Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302 Report</title><url>https://boeing.mediaroom.com/2019-04-04-Boeing-CEO-Dennis-Muilenburg-Addresses-the-Ethiopian-Airlines-Flight-302-Preliminary-Report</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>781</author><text>Well, then I&#x27;m irrational too, because I won&#x27;t set foot in a 737 MAX after this shitfest. The FAA also lost a lot of trust, for rubber-stamping this.<p>The first accident was maybe understandable. We all know that shit happens. But Boeing has zero excuses for not immediately grounding the whole fleet after, and for putting out that useless recovery procedure which didn&#x27;t work in this case. They let a deadly plane fly for 5 months after they were aware of it, and after the second crash they were phoning Trump to keep it in the air.</text></item><item><author>xiphias2</author><text>,,We remain confident in the fundamental safety of the 737 MAX.&#x27;&#x27;<p>Am I irrational for not wanting to be on the first 1-2 years of flights on 737 MAX after it gets its software update?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>cyberferret</author><text>&gt; The FAA also lost a lot of trust, for rubber-stamping this.<p>From documents I&#x27;ve seen (which I cannot find the links to now), it appears that the FAA let Boeing themselves do some of the certification work and sign offs.<p>Putting the foxes in charge of the hen house, so to speak.</text></comment> | <story><title>Boeing CEO Dennis Muilenburg Addresses the Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302 Report</title><url>https://boeing.mediaroom.com/2019-04-04-Boeing-CEO-Dennis-Muilenburg-Addresses-the-Ethiopian-Airlines-Flight-302-Preliminary-Report</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>781</author><text>Well, then I&#x27;m irrational too, because I won&#x27;t set foot in a 737 MAX after this shitfest. The FAA also lost a lot of trust, for rubber-stamping this.<p>The first accident was maybe understandable. We all know that shit happens. But Boeing has zero excuses for not immediately grounding the whole fleet after, and for putting out that useless recovery procedure which didn&#x27;t work in this case. They let a deadly plane fly for 5 months after they were aware of it, and after the second crash they were phoning Trump to keep it in the air.</text></item><item><author>xiphias2</author><text>,,We remain confident in the fundamental safety of the 737 MAX.&#x27;&#x27;<p>Am I irrational for not wanting to be on the first 1-2 years of flights on 737 MAX after it gets its software update?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pcurve</author><text>I think lack or major crashes in recent years made them complacent and emboldened them to roll the dice. Then hit snake eyes. Then also may have looked down on the foreign pilots are the airline. Had this been a Southwest plane they may have grounded the plane.</text></comment> |
22,403,421 | 22,403,006 | 1 | 3 | 22,399,516 | train | <story><title>Developer Experience: Fundamentally harder than normal UX</title><url>https://www.gabrielpickard.com/posts/developer-experience-fundamentally-harder-than-normal-ux/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Glench</author><text>To make some of the ideas in this article a little more concrete, here are some research demos I’ve made:<p>* Legible Mathematics, an essay about the UI design of understandable arithmetic:
<a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;glench.com&#x2F;LegibleMathematics&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;glench.com&#x2F;LegibleMathematics&#x2F;</a><p>* FuzzySet: interactive documentation of a JS library, which has helped fix real bugs:
<a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;glench.github.io&#x2F;fuzzyset.js&#x2F;ui&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;glench.github.io&#x2F;fuzzyset.js&#x2F;ui&#x2F;</a><p>* Flowsheets V2: a prototype programming environment where you see real data as you program instead of imagining it in your head:
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=y1Ca5czOY7Q" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=y1Ca5czOY7Q</a><p>* REPLugger: a live REPL + debugger designed for getting immediate feedback when working in large programs:
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=F8p5bj01UWk" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=F8p5bj01UWk</a><p>* Marilyn Maloney: an interactive explanation of a program designed so that even children could easily understand how it works:
<a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;glench.com&#x2F;MarilynMaloney&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;glench.com&#x2F;MarilynMaloney&#x2F;</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Developer Experience: Fundamentally harder than normal UX</title><url>https://www.gabrielpickard.com/posts/developer-experience-fundamentally-harder-than-normal-ux/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>alxlaz</author><text>Far from me to defend every UI of every development tool out there but I think statements like these, and their illustration, could benefit from some explanation for those of us who are not designers:<p>&gt; We coders still put up with horrid UX&#x2F;UI when programming.<p>which is illustrated with a screenshot from Visual Studio... .NET 2002, I think, judging by the application icon?<p>Setting aside the relevance of a 20-year old screenshot, what exactly is wrong with that interface and what makes it horrid? I mean it definitely had its quirks but:<p>- It&#x27;s spectacularly compact, certainly way better than anything I&#x27;ve seen in the last five years. We could display an UI builder and the associated code on single 1024x768 screen and work on it semi-comfortably. &quot;Beautiful&quot; UI&#x2F;UX, as understood today, is so cluttered by whitespace (oh, the irony...) that it&#x27;s barely usable on a 1920x1080 screen. A similarly compact interface on today&#x27;s huge screens would be a dramatic productivity improvement that, twenty years ago, we could only dream of.<p>- You could easily access any function through textual menus -- no hamburger menus, no obscure, monochrome icons. Granted, the toolbar icons were a pain, but the way I remember it, most of us either disabled it straight away, or just populated with a couple of items that were of real value and which we knew well.<p>- The colors have great contrast, the whole thing is readable even on a very poor-quality screenshot that seems to have been actually downsized.<p>- UI items have enough relief and&#x2F;or distinction that it&#x27;s clear what you can interact with and what you can&#x27;t (maybe the item palette from the diagram editor is an exception, or at least the screenshot makes it look like one, but virtually every program in that era made it look like that so it wasn&#x27;t so hard to use).<p>So what&#x27;s wrong with that thing?</text></comment> |
7,316,280 | 7,315,595 | 1 | 2 | 7,314,422 | train | <story><title>Bringing Peer-to-Peer Streaming to the World.</title><url>http://swirl-project.org/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>DanBlake</author><text>True P2P streaming is more trouble than its worth. Take it from a guy who streams petabytes a month and has looked into it more times than most.<p>P2P has 2 main advantages, both of which are voided by this implementation:<p>1: Better latency. If Joe talks directly to Sue, that is the fastest connection possible, as opposed to Joe -&gt; Server -&gt; Sue<p>2: The host saves on bandwidth costs<p>Now, point #1 is moot because this needs servers to work for live broadcasts with lots of viewers. Also, even if server were not on the mix, you are still going to need your data relayed several times depending on how far from the source you are. You cannot hype away the fact that if a person is streaming a 1080p video at 1mb&#x2F;s and the average peer has less than 5mb&#x2F;s outbound, that the delay in getting that video to the thousandth viewer is going to be exponential unless you add in servers anyways.<p>Point #2 is mostly moot for 2 reasons. The first reason is the cost of bandwidth is almost dirt cheap now. You can get a unmetered 1gb&#x2F;s line for under $200&#x2F;month.
The second reason is that when you go full P2P, you lose out on a lot of value adds that people like. Things like transcoding for different sizes &#x2F; mobile as well as DVR style seeking&#x2F;recording.<p>Another reason which I am sure will be hotly contested by the developers is that the quality will be more unreliable than a direct server. Last mile Peers are the worst for sending data. You want to typically be in a hub for direct peering to the various end points (comcast&#x2F;tw&#x2F;etc.)<p>In most cases, Its unfortunately the case that P2P causes exponentially more headaches than it solves.<p>Now, that is not to say that multicast does not have its place in the world. Just that its more of a feature to compliment traditional relay streaming vs being a product on its own.</text></comment> | <story><title>Bringing Peer-to-Peer Streaming to the World.</title><url>http://swirl-project.org/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jsonified</author><text>Hey, I&#x27;m the lead developer of swirl project. I&#x27;d like to add that I wouldn&#x27;t be working on this today without the support of NLNet who has provided a grant that allows me to work on swirl full time atm: <a href="http://nlnet.nl/project/swirl/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;nlnet.nl&#x2F;project&#x2F;swirl&#x2F;</a>
Huge props.</text></comment> |
30,752,906 | 30,751,747 | 1 | 3 | 30,750,710 | train | <story><title>Tell HN: Gnome on Wayland Is Amazing</title><text>I&#x27;ve been using MATE+Compiz on Archlinux since 2015 because I was used to it and it had a lot of GUI features that I didn&#x27;t find elsewhere. At around the same time, I did give Gnome 3 a spin and found a lot of clunky behavior and bugs. Fast forward to yesterday when I was considering buying a new laptop to replace my ThinkPad x250 which is starting to show its age, I thought I give Gnome on Wayland another try.<p>OMG! It is nothing like I remember it. To put it succinctly, it&#x27;s MacOS interface for linux. It&#x27;s smooth, performant, beautiful and functional. I can do everything I used to have on Compiz, here on Gnome and it&#x27;s built-in. I haven&#x27;t actually needed any Gnome Extensions so far.<p>Well done Wayland, Gnome, GTK and every other project involved in making what&#x27;s essentially the best Linux Desktop experience I&#x27;ve ever had.<p>As for getting a new laptop, that idea went out the window fast. My machine feels like new and I can attest to a significant performance boost of GUI apps as the result of switching to Gnome.</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>semi-extrinsic</author><text>After 10 years I still don&#x27;t understand why I should switch away from X11. It is mature and is still being developed (latest xorg-server release is from January 2022). It does what I need.<p>From my perspective, Wayland is like btrfs - it doesn&#x27;t seem to offer me anything major worth switching for, and there are still gotcha&#x27;s lurking.</text></item><item><author>roenxi</author><text>It is unfortunate that so many of the early comments are negative. Either Wayland is the future, or something that learns from Wayland&#x27;s mistakes and leverages its ideas is. There is a really fertile field right now for experimentation in the world of compositors but I think people have been scared away by the long dark era of X Windows + binary graphics drivers. Maybe we&#x27;re going to see a lot more of it on HN in the next decade?<p>What kept me off Wayland was the screenshots thing, but the argument in favour of the idea is strong. The downside is Wayland&#x27;s conception of permissions and interactions is too basic and crippled adoption for a few years but the fundamentals (blocking cross-application snooping) is going to be necessary. Operating systems have to be less trusting.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mijoharas</author><text>For me, the feature was adaptive dpi scaling done correctly. I have a 4k laptop monitor and some 1080p screens that it connects to, and my solution on X was just to have everything at 1.5 scaling so it was just slightly off on both monitors.<p>After switching that, and then seeing beautiful crisp fonts everywhere has meant that I haven&#x27;t even considered going back to X, although I had to uninstall the zoom desktop app in order to screenshare (which works through the web version on chrome).<p>I jumped pretty early, and almost every problem I had has been sorted out now, so it&#x27;s just a better experience for me now. (also, screenshots work fine, it&#x27;s just screensharing on certain old apps that&#x27;s a problem).</text></comment> | <story><title>Tell HN: Gnome on Wayland Is Amazing</title><text>I&#x27;ve been using MATE+Compiz on Archlinux since 2015 because I was used to it and it had a lot of GUI features that I didn&#x27;t find elsewhere. At around the same time, I did give Gnome 3 a spin and found a lot of clunky behavior and bugs. Fast forward to yesterday when I was considering buying a new laptop to replace my ThinkPad x250 which is starting to show its age, I thought I give Gnome on Wayland another try.<p>OMG! It is nothing like I remember it. To put it succinctly, it&#x27;s MacOS interface for linux. It&#x27;s smooth, performant, beautiful and functional. I can do everything I used to have on Compiz, here on Gnome and it&#x27;s built-in. I haven&#x27;t actually needed any Gnome Extensions so far.<p>Well done Wayland, Gnome, GTK and every other project involved in making what&#x27;s essentially the best Linux Desktop experience I&#x27;ve ever had.<p>As for getting a new laptop, that idea went out the window fast. My machine feels like new and I can attest to a significant performance boost of GUI apps as the result of switching to Gnome.</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>semi-extrinsic</author><text>After 10 years I still don&#x27;t understand why I should switch away from X11. It is mature and is still being developed (latest xorg-server release is from January 2022). It does what I need.<p>From my perspective, Wayland is like btrfs - it doesn&#x27;t seem to offer me anything major worth switching for, and there are still gotcha&#x27;s lurking.</text></item><item><author>roenxi</author><text>It is unfortunate that so many of the early comments are negative. Either Wayland is the future, or something that learns from Wayland&#x27;s mistakes and leverages its ideas is. There is a really fertile field right now for experimentation in the world of compositors but I think people have been scared away by the long dark era of X Windows + binary graphics drivers. Maybe we&#x27;re going to see a lot more of it on HN in the next decade?<p>What kept me off Wayland was the screenshots thing, but the argument in favour of the idea is strong. The downside is Wayland&#x27;s conception of permissions and interactions is too basic and crippled adoption for a few years but the fundamentals (blocking cross-application snooping) is going to be necessary. Operating systems have to be less trusting.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>3np</author><text>The two major points from my perspective would be security (like restricting read-access to the clipboard and input devices) and multi-DPI (like multihead with a 1080p laptop and a 4K monitor - seems practically impossible to get right under X).<p>EDIT: But as always, if you&#x27;re happy with what you&#x27;ve got, indeed why should you switch? I really don&#x27;t get this idea of there being &quot;the one-size-fits-all&quot; and the urge to tell others what to do. A major point of Linux is your freedom to do things your way. OP is just telling others (who may have older now no longer relevant experiences) how much things have changed. No need to get defensive.</text></comment> |
16,190,213 | 16,190,197 | 1 | 2 | 16,190,093 | train | <story><title>Union Is Formed at Los Angeles Times and Publisher Put on Leave</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/19/business/media/los-angeles-times-union.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>chollida1</author><text>I thought this was interesting because if knowledge workers like journalists can do so, why not programmers, or what ever term you&#x27;d prefer to be called?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ng12</author><text>Why do we need a union in a seller&#x27;s market? If I&#x27;m unhappy with my job I can quit and get a new one in a week.<p>It&#x27;s not about being a knowledge worker. Screenwriters are unionized because there are many more people who want to write than there are gigs, therefore there&#x27;s a high potential for abuse.</text></comment> | <story><title>Union Is Formed at Los Angeles Times and Publisher Put on Leave</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/19/business/media/los-angeles-times-union.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>chollida1</author><text>I thought this was interesting because if knowledge workers like journalists can do so, why not programmers, or what ever term you&#x27;d prefer to be called?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>untog</author><text>It is interesting that programmers (as a whole) seem resistant to it. It&#x27;s often described as being unnecessary, but when you go one or two posts down HN you find people decrying long hours, open plan offices, weekend callouts, etc. etc.<p>I suspect it&#x27;s just that when the going is good, people don&#x27;t really think they need a union. If the prophecies come true and AI starts writing code for us, you can bet people will suddenly be interested in unionisation.</text></comment> |
30,620,191 | 30,620,190 | 1 | 2 | 30,619,871 | train | <story><title>AWS's us-east-1 region is experiencing issues</title><url>https://health.aws.amazon.com/phd/status</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>halestock</author><text>I can&#x27;t help but wonder, with the increases in attrition across the industry, are we hitting some kind of tipping point where the institutional knowledge in these massive tech corporations is disappearing?<p>Mistakes happen all the time but when all the people who intimately know how these systems work leave for other opportunities, disasters are bound to happen more and more.</text></comment> | <story><title>AWS's us-east-1 region is experiencing issues</title><url>https://health.aws.amazon.com/phd/status</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>saltypal</author><text>Based on our telemetry, this started as NXDOMAINs for sqs.us-east-1.amazonaws.com beginning in modest volumes at 20:43 UTC and becoming a total outage at 20:48 UTC. Naturally, it was completely resolved by 20:57, 5 minutes before anything was posted in the &quot;Personal Health Dashboard&quot; in the AWS console.<p>It takes a while to find a Vice President, I guess.</text></comment> |
27,647,298 | 27,646,894 | 1 | 3 | 27,645,282 | train | <story><title>The blackout Palestinians are facing on social media</title><url>https://restofworld.org/2021/palestine-social-media-silence/2</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Ozzie_osman</author><text>The sad part is that you can get called an anti-Semite (or self-hating Jew) for expressing any sort of solidarity with Palestinians. The <i>sadder</i> part is that actual anti-Semites then jump in and use that situation to further their agenda.</text></item><item><author>werber</author><text>As an American Jew who grew up with a distorted and racist world view in regard to Palestine this just feels like history repeating itself. The troubles that face Israelis have always been amplified over those of Palestinians in my experience. That control of the narrative led me to be actively racist for most of my life while thinking I was not and also morally superior. This kind of censorship has a body count, and it lets war crimes happen in clear view while the on lookers think they are doing the right thing.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>throwaway894345</author><text>I’ve not run into this very much. I’ve had very good luck advocating against antisemitism while also advocating against Israeli settlement policies. I think by advocating against antisemitism I demonstrate that I’m actually committed to justice. It seems when people are accused of antisemitism they are often not only criticizing settlement policies but also advocating for the destruction of Israel and are generally silent on Jewish persecution.</text></comment> | <story><title>The blackout Palestinians are facing on social media</title><url>https://restofworld.org/2021/palestine-social-media-silence/2</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Ozzie_osman</author><text>The sad part is that you can get called an anti-Semite (or self-hating Jew) for expressing any sort of solidarity with Palestinians. The <i>sadder</i> part is that actual anti-Semites then jump in and use that situation to further their agenda.</text></item><item><author>werber</author><text>As an American Jew who grew up with a distorted and racist world view in regard to Palestine this just feels like history repeating itself. The troubles that face Israelis have always been amplified over those of Palestinians in my experience. That control of the narrative led me to be actively racist for most of my life while thinking I was not and also morally superior. This kind of censorship has a body count, and it lets war crimes happen in clear view while the on lookers think they are doing the right thing.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>werber</author><text>I’ve been ostracized by my family, which I think is much worse.</text></comment> |
6,692,057 | 6,692,221 | 1 | 3 | 6,690,043 | train | <story><title>TWTR</title><url>http://www.google.com/finance?q=NYSE%3ATWTR&ei=7a97UujgDO-UwQP89AE</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>YZF</author><text>The underwriters who will make hundreds of millions here... (EDIT, well, many millions at least) What sort of risk are they taking that justifies their rewards and how does it help the economy? And the individual bankers who will take millions of dollars in bonuses home because they get paid for the 12th time and don&#x27;t get penalized for the 11 others, what sort of innovation did they contribute to the world?<p>I think we all understand the deal with investors who get in early and invest money in something that has a chance to fail will make money if it succeeds.<p>The IPO is a suckers game. It says me as an insider value the company less then you as an information limited outsider. If Twitter is worth $50 bucks a share why were its investors willing to part with their stock for $26 a share only yesterday? Sometimes you can profit even in the presence of this information disparity because the company will outperform its expectations, but now you&#x27;re 1 out of 144...<p>&lt;rant over&gt; :-)<p>EDIT: I think a solution to that is perhaps a combination forcing companies to go public sooner (limit IPO valuations or spread the share sale over longer periods), combine with more limits on insiders, more and earlier disclosure and perhaps combine that with a more KickStarter like model - eliminate the middle man.</text></item><item><author>ChuckMcM</author><text>I think you fundamentally misunderstand the process but that is ok, its not all that straight forward.<p>The transaction here is between risk takers (venture capitalists and investment banks) and risk pricers (people who buy stock). Nobody is getting &quot;ripped off&quot; as long as everyone is following the rules set down by the SEC.<p>Investors put money at risk. You know that because you&#x27;ve been here on HN a couple of years and no doubt read the &lt;foo&gt; is shutting down. stories. For each of those there is usually one or more investors who have put in thousands if not millions of dollars who get anywhere from $0 to some fraction of their investment back. Sometimes, their investment &#x27;bet&#x27; pays off and they get back multiple times their investment. The trick is you blend all of those $0 and multi-X returns and you get their &quot;effective&quot; return.<p>&quot;Joe Public&quot; and by that I assume you mean an unsophisticated retail investor (they aren&#x27;t investing anyone&#x27;s money but their own). Can achieve a similar result by buying &quot;shares&quot; in a fund managed by a banker. When folks ask me where I would put some extra savings I tell them I&#x27;ve been very pleased with the Vanguard funds. You make more than then .8% return that a Bank savings account pays, and your risk is relatively moderate (but if it is not zero like it is with the savings account). But this unsophisticated person should <i>never</i> be investing in an IPO stock.<p>The professional managers who invest in an IPO stock may have hundreds of millions of dollars under management. They spread some of those over a number of IPOs as a way to provide &#x27;long kicks&#x27; (which is that the stock is held for a long time and the success provides a large return many years later). Clearly they aren&#x27;t putting their kids college fund in there. And most of the <i>other</i> dollars in their fund are on much &#x27;safer&#x27; sorts of things, like Coca Cola or Alcoa.<p>So this is the &#x27;cycle of life&#x27; for many new tech companies, and if these investors in Twitter do well their Venture Funds will have a reasonable rate of return, and more rich people will give them some of their &#x27;excess&#x27; funds to invest in other tech companies, and you and I can go get some of that by pitching them a great team and a great idea.<p>So for the 11 times smart people came to them and they gave them millions and got nothing back, this 12th time they got a lot back. Nobody gets hurt as long as the people who don&#x27;t know what they are doing stay out of the game. That didn&#x27;t happen in the late 90&#x27;s lets hope it doesn&#x27;t happen again.</text></item><item><author>corford</author><text>Can someone with more clue please tell me that the following cynical thought I keep having is wrong and laughably misinformed (and then explain why)?<p>Twitter&#x27;s investors (who have plowed hundreds of millions in to a loss making company) decide to sell some of their stock at $26&#x2F;share (after consulting with banks to arrive at this price). This will make right the losses they&#x27;ve experienced so far and pass the problem down the line. The banks buy at $26 and then immidiately flip for north of $40. This lines their pockets and passes the problem down the line once more to joe public.<p>End result: investors in loss making company cover their investment and make some profit, banks make some juicy profit for facilitating the game, joe public swallows the hype and makes the whole dance possible by eventually footing the bill.<p>Edit 1: thanks everyone for the thoughtful replies. I guess I can only continue to feel cynical if I believe that the original investors did all of this knowing full well that twitter never has a chance of living up to its valuation i.e. they just wanted to cover their losses, make a nice profit on top and punt the problem down river. The alternative is that the investors do honestly believe in the future profitability of the company and have decided now is the time to take some well earned profit as a reward for taking the financial risks in getting the company to where it is today.<p>It&#x27;s going to take me some time to make my mind up as to which of those two scenarios I believe.<p>Edit 2: still difficult to understand why the banks have managed to come away with doubling their money though.<p>Edit 3 (final one!): See <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6691157" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=6691157</a> for a nice reply that seems (to my clearly very untrained eye) to make the investors motives a little less cynical.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jmackinn</author><text>The undrewriters don&#x27;t always come out doing so well. Take a look at the Facebbok IPO as an example. They didn&#x27;t end up selling all of the stock that was issued in the IPO and had to buy up stock back from the market at elevated prices in order to keep the stock from plummeting on the first day. They still made money but not what they expected.<p>As for the insider vs outsider. In order to issue an IPO, a number of stocks are agreed to be issued. These stock either come from the company issuing more shares and diluting the value to current stock holders and the company receives the money from the new share purchase, or the stock holders offer up some of their stock to be sold in which case they receive the money. I believe is usually mix of the two. The current stock holders don&#x27;t offer all of their shares up. Just enough (I believe this is set by the SEC) to enter the market.<p>The underwriter assumes a large risk and for the portion of the stock that goes through them to market, they are paid the $20 difference ($26 to $46). As well they facilitate the actual sale of the shares. This is not an easy task (again see the technical issues with the Facebook IPO).<p>So in the end the 11 rounds of investors get $26 for some of their shares, in order for the rest of them to be worth $46 or now $50. They are also now allowed to sell those remaining shares on the open market. Something they were not able to do before the IPO.<p>No one is getting screwed here. There is a very big pie, and everyone, from the first investor to the undrewriter, gets a piece.</text></comment> | <story><title>TWTR</title><url>http://www.google.com/finance?q=NYSE%3ATWTR&ei=7a97UujgDO-UwQP89AE</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>YZF</author><text>The underwriters who will make hundreds of millions here... (EDIT, well, many millions at least) What sort of risk are they taking that justifies their rewards and how does it help the economy? And the individual bankers who will take millions of dollars in bonuses home because they get paid for the 12th time and don&#x27;t get penalized for the 11 others, what sort of innovation did they contribute to the world?<p>I think we all understand the deal with investors who get in early and invest money in something that has a chance to fail will make money if it succeeds.<p>The IPO is a suckers game. It says me as an insider value the company less then you as an information limited outsider. If Twitter is worth $50 bucks a share why were its investors willing to part with their stock for $26 a share only yesterday? Sometimes you can profit even in the presence of this information disparity because the company will outperform its expectations, but now you&#x27;re 1 out of 144...<p>&lt;rant over&gt; :-)<p>EDIT: I think a solution to that is perhaps a combination forcing companies to go public sooner (limit IPO valuations or spread the share sale over longer periods), combine with more limits on insiders, more and earlier disclosure and perhaps combine that with a more KickStarter like model - eliminate the middle man.</text></item><item><author>ChuckMcM</author><text>I think you fundamentally misunderstand the process but that is ok, its not all that straight forward.<p>The transaction here is between risk takers (venture capitalists and investment banks) and risk pricers (people who buy stock). Nobody is getting &quot;ripped off&quot; as long as everyone is following the rules set down by the SEC.<p>Investors put money at risk. You know that because you&#x27;ve been here on HN a couple of years and no doubt read the &lt;foo&gt; is shutting down. stories. For each of those there is usually one or more investors who have put in thousands if not millions of dollars who get anywhere from $0 to some fraction of their investment back. Sometimes, their investment &#x27;bet&#x27; pays off and they get back multiple times their investment. The trick is you blend all of those $0 and multi-X returns and you get their &quot;effective&quot; return.<p>&quot;Joe Public&quot; and by that I assume you mean an unsophisticated retail investor (they aren&#x27;t investing anyone&#x27;s money but their own). Can achieve a similar result by buying &quot;shares&quot; in a fund managed by a banker. When folks ask me where I would put some extra savings I tell them I&#x27;ve been very pleased with the Vanguard funds. You make more than then .8% return that a Bank savings account pays, and your risk is relatively moderate (but if it is not zero like it is with the savings account). But this unsophisticated person should <i>never</i> be investing in an IPO stock.<p>The professional managers who invest in an IPO stock may have hundreds of millions of dollars under management. They spread some of those over a number of IPOs as a way to provide &#x27;long kicks&#x27; (which is that the stock is held for a long time and the success provides a large return many years later). Clearly they aren&#x27;t putting their kids college fund in there. And most of the <i>other</i> dollars in their fund are on much &#x27;safer&#x27; sorts of things, like Coca Cola or Alcoa.<p>So this is the &#x27;cycle of life&#x27; for many new tech companies, and if these investors in Twitter do well their Venture Funds will have a reasonable rate of return, and more rich people will give them some of their &#x27;excess&#x27; funds to invest in other tech companies, and you and I can go get some of that by pitching them a great team and a great idea.<p>So for the 11 times smart people came to them and they gave them millions and got nothing back, this 12th time they got a lot back. Nobody gets hurt as long as the people who don&#x27;t know what they are doing stay out of the game. That didn&#x27;t happen in the late 90&#x27;s lets hope it doesn&#x27;t happen again.</text></item><item><author>corford</author><text>Can someone with more clue please tell me that the following cynical thought I keep having is wrong and laughably misinformed (and then explain why)?<p>Twitter&#x27;s investors (who have plowed hundreds of millions in to a loss making company) decide to sell some of their stock at $26&#x2F;share (after consulting with banks to arrive at this price). This will make right the losses they&#x27;ve experienced so far and pass the problem down the line. The banks buy at $26 and then immidiately flip for north of $40. This lines their pockets and passes the problem down the line once more to joe public.<p>End result: investors in loss making company cover their investment and make some profit, banks make some juicy profit for facilitating the game, joe public swallows the hype and makes the whole dance possible by eventually footing the bill.<p>Edit 1: thanks everyone for the thoughtful replies. I guess I can only continue to feel cynical if I believe that the original investors did all of this knowing full well that twitter never has a chance of living up to its valuation i.e. they just wanted to cover their losses, make a nice profit on top and punt the problem down river. The alternative is that the investors do honestly believe in the future profitability of the company and have decided now is the time to take some well earned profit as a reward for taking the financial risks in getting the company to where it is today.<p>It&#x27;s going to take me some time to make my mind up as to which of those two scenarios I believe.<p>Edit 2: still difficult to understand why the banks have managed to come away with doubling their money though.<p>Edit 3 (final one!): See <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6691157" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=6691157</a> for a nice reply that seems (to my clearly very untrained eye) to make the investors motives a little less cynical.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>encoderer</author><text>&quot;If Twitter is worth $50 bucks a share why were its investors willing to part with their stock for $26 a share only yesterday?&quot;<p><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_value_of_money" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Time_value_of_money</a>
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expected_value" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Expected_value</a></text></comment> |
10,746,346 | 10,746,260 | 1 | 2 | 10,740,305 | train | <story><title>To predict the future 1/3 of you need to be crazy</title><url>http://steveblank.com/2015/12/15/blanks-rule-to-predict-the-future-13-of-you-need-to-be-crazy/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>tsunamifury</author><text>I think one of the main reasons I&#x27;ve failed to innovate inside a large company, while succeeding at building new things at startups, is because I find it so hard to maintain a positive attitude inside a corporate environment. However, at a startup, when I&#x27;m starving, I find optimism in everything and build nonstop.<p>So far this is a bit of a horrifying conundrum where I am a technical startup failure, but in good spirits or a corporate success and in bad mood all the time.<p>I&#x27;ve found when I&#x27;m at a startup there is enormous willingness to believe that my crazy ideas might create an opportunity -- likely because C-suite has nothing to lose and everything to gain. While I&#x27;m in a corp environment at the top of the market, VP&#x27;s have everything to lose and very little they can imagine that can get better (other than competitive catchup scenarios).<p>This leads to a really deadly cycle, where large companies shun real innovation because of the perceived risk being 100,000,000x higher than at a startup since one has 0 to lose, and the other has billions.<p>The net-net result here is that big corps never end up being first movers, since they need to see opportunity illustrated by a competitor before they move on it. This sets up the corp team for failure though, as they are assigned to catch up to a competitor already established and building a product on a good foundation and likely years ahead in thinking.</text></comment> | <story><title>To predict the future 1/3 of you need to be crazy</title><url>http://steveblank.com/2015/12/15/blanks-rule-to-predict-the-future-13-of-you-need-to-be-crazy/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>numlocked</author><text>Great post. This reminds me of a New Yorker article, Groupthink, from a couple of years ago[0]. Essentially, disagreement fosters creativity, not brainstorming platitudes like &#x27;there are no wrong ideas&#x27;.<p>An excerpt:<p><pre><code> ...dissent stimulates new ideas because it encourages
us to engage more fully with the work of others and to
reassess our viewpoints. “There’s this Pollyannaish
notion that the most important thing to do when working
together is stay positive and get along, to not hurt
anyone’s feelings,” she says. “Well, that’s just wrong.
Maybe debate is going to be less pleasant, but it will
always be more productive. True creativity requires
some trade-offs.”
</code></pre>
The article is terrific and I&#x27;m mentally made note of 3 techniques that I&#x27;ve used over the past few years:<p>1. Thinking on your own can lead to more solutions than thinking in a group.<p>2. Dissent and constraints stimulate creativity.<p>3. Insane, off-the-wall, unproductive ideas can stimulate creativity in everyone else.<p>[0] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.newyorker.com&#x2F;magazine&#x2F;2012&#x2F;01&#x2F;30&#x2F;groupthink" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.newyorker.com&#x2F;magazine&#x2F;2012&#x2F;01&#x2F;30&#x2F;groupthink</a></text></comment> |
40,834,700 | 40,818,574 | 1 | 3 | 40,818,573 | train | <story><title>That Editor</title><url>https://github.com/bisqwit/that_editor</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>flykespice</author><text>By the way, the reason his channel has been pretty inactive for a couple of years is because he has been enrolled in college (Yes, he is already in his 40s but didn&#x27;t have a degree), to which he just recently graduated and got a master.</text></comment> | <story><title>That Editor</title><url>https://github.com/bisqwit/that_editor</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>phplovesong</author><text>It is a programming editor for DOS environments. More specifically, it is something that looks like a programming editor for DOS environments, modelled after the editor called Joe.<p>For the why, see:
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=ZMBQmhO8KqI" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=ZMBQmhO8KqI</a></text></comment> |
14,347,356 | 14,347,318 | 1 | 2 | 14,346,536 | train | <story><title>SpaceX Launches Super-Heavy Communications Satellite</title><url>http://www.space.com/36852-spacex-launches-inmarsat-5-f4-satellite.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jjcm</author><text>I wonder if this is a good thing. On one hand, the common availability of cubesats would be so much fun from a hacker point of view, but on the other I worry that such a low cost per satellite will start to pollute space. If every bay area hobbiest has one floating in the sky, we&#x27;re inevitably going to have ones that go unmanaged, rogue, etc with no plans for cleanup&#x2F;repair if things go wrong.</text></item><item><author>tibbe</author><text>Aside: does that mean that Falcon 9 could carry ~20,000 CubeSats at the cost of 62M&#x2F;20k = USD 3,100 per satelite? That would be awesome. Now if I could just find another 19,999 people who want to ride-share with me.</text></item><item><author>valuearb</author><text>According to wikipedia the Falcon 9 has increased GTO payloads from 4,500 kg to 8,000 kg from the 1.0 version to the Full Thrust version. And payload to LEO from 10,450 kg to 22,800 kg.<p>These improvements have been passed on to the Falcon Heavy, and it&#x27;s expect to put 64,000 kg into LEO, just shy of the SLS&#x27;s 70,000 kg.</text></item><item><author>kirrent</author><text>Interestingly, this launch wasn&#x27;t within the original capabilities of the falcon 9 and was originally scheduled for a falcon heavy launch. The lengthening of the rocket, using densified propellants, and more changes meant that they could instead use a falcon 9 even though they couldn&#x27;t recover it. It&#x27;s a cool reminder of just how much the falcon 9 has changed.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>saulrh</author><text>Many of the cheapest, hackeriest cubesats are deployed into low orbits that decay within weeks or months. Space isn&#x27;t <i>completely</i> empty, only <i>mostly</i> empty, and even minute air resistance is enough that things like the ISS need to thrust regularly to stay in orbit [1]. I believe it&#x27;s a common mission profile for cubesats that&#x27;re built as aerospace engineering senior projects, for example.<p>[1]: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.heavens-above.com&#x2F;IssHeight.aspx" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.heavens-above.com&#x2F;IssHeight.aspx</a></text></comment> | <story><title>SpaceX Launches Super-Heavy Communications Satellite</title><url>http://www.space.com/36852-spacex-launches-inmarsat-5-f4-satellite.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jjcm</author><text>I wonder if this is a good thing. On one hand, the common availability of cubesats would be so much fun from a hacker point of view, but on the other I worry that such a low cost per satellite will start to pollute space. If every bay area hobbiest has one floating in the sky, we&#x27;re inevitably going to have ones that go unmanaged, rogue, etc with no plans for cleanup&#x2F;repair if things go wrong.</text></item><item><author>tibbe</author><text>Aside: does that mean that Falcon 9 could carry ~20,000 CubeSats at the cost of 62M&#x2F;20k = USD 3,100 per satelite? That would be awesome. Now if I could just find another 19,999 people who want to ride-share with me.</text></item><item><author>valuearb</author><text>According to wikipedia the Falcon 9 has increased GTO payloads from 4,500 kg to 8,000 kg from the 1.0 version to the Full Thrust version. And payload to LEO from 10,450 kg to 22,800 kg.<p>These improvements have been passed on to the Falcon Heavy, and it&#x27;s expect to put 64,000 kg into LEO, just shy of the SLS&#x27;s 70,000 kg.</text></item><item><author>kirrent</author><text>Interestingly, this launch wasn&#x27;t within the original capabilities of the falcon 9 and was originally scheduled for a falcon heavy launch. The lengthening of the rocket, using densified propellants, and more changes meant that they could instead use a falcon 9 even though they couldn&#x27;t recover it. It&#x27;s a cool reminder of just how much the falcon 9 has changed.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>maxander</author><text>If a cloud of 20000 cubesats were released by a single rocket, at least they would all be in approximately the same orbit, which is better than having 20000 cubesats spread out over 20000 orbits. Not to mention, they don&#x27;t stay up indefinitely- launched into a low orbit, drag eventually pulls them back down.<p>I&#x27;d definitely buy a cubesat launch slot for 3k. Perhaps someone should set up a kickstarter or something.</text></comment> |
24,217,794 | 24,217,458 | 1 | 2 | 24,217,116 | train | <story><title>Can't you just right click?</title><url>https://lapcatsoftware.com/articles/unsigned.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>white-flame</author><text>The fact that the standard model of computing is that applications are opaque machine code blobs that can access everything in your user permission space is the core problem in privacy and malware. Applications should see nothing but their executable jail, and whatever was intentionally allowed to them by the user (eg, Open file dialog giving the application an opaque file handle, etc, not carte blanche access to the entire filesystem). Ideally, the notion of machine code blobs should be done away with as well.<p>Mobile OSes got to rethink everything in an era of constant adversarial connectivity and started off on a better foot in this regard.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>badsectoracula</author><text>This works for some type of software, but not all type of software. For example a file server or a file manager wont work. A VCS client wont work. A game engine that needs to keep track of imported resources (especially when you want automatic imports when the file is saved via a 3rd party tool - e.g. saving a model on Blender or a texture on Krita causes an automatic reimport&#x2F;convert to the engine&#x27;s format). Basically any sort of content management software that doesn&#x27;t provide everything itself but relies on 3rd party tools already installed on the user&#x27;s machine wont work.<p>Software like clipboard managers also wont work. Screen sharing and remote desktop software similarly wont work. Screencast software wont work. Hotkeys software wont work. Most desktop automation software wont work.<p>I could go on and start looking at what i have installed to extend this list (i&#x27;m sure most of the software i have on my PC wont work), but i guess you get the idea. Almost everything that doesn&#x27;t fit in the media consumption model that you&#x27;ll often find on a phone or a tablet wont work (and amusingly enough, at least on my Android, stuff like a file server does work, though i&#x27;ve heard Google wants to remove that functionality).</text></comment> | <story><title>Can't you just right click?</title><url>https://lapcatsoftware.com/articles/unsigned.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>white-flame</author><text>The fact that the standard model of computing is that applications are opaque machine code blobs that can access everything in your user permission space is the core problem in privacy and malware. Applications should see nothing but their executable jail, and whatever was intentionally allowed to them by the user (eg, Open file dialog giving the application an opaque file handle, etc, not carte blanche access to the entire filesystem). Ideally, the notion of machine code blobs should be done away with as well.<p>Mobile OSes got to rethink everything in an era of constant adversarial connectivity and started off on a better foot in this regard.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>saagarjha</author><text>macOS ships with a quite strong and granular capability-based security model with its sandboxing mechanism (at least, when it works and is applied correctly). The feature is there, advanced applications already make use of it, but it is difficult to get arbitrary applications to adopt it (its inner workings are declared SPI after all) and it is not really exposed to the user at all except via App Sandbox, which is fairly limiting.</text></comment> |
15,566,613 | 15,566,733 | 1 | 2 | 15,565,875 | train | <story><title>Write tests. Not too many. Mostly integration</title><url>https://blog.kentcdodds.com/write-tests-not-too-many-mostly-integration-5e8c7fff591c</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>TeMPOraL</author><text>&gt; <i>The biggest problem I see with people trying to write unit tests is that they don’t want to change how they write code. They just want tests for it. It’s like watching an OO person try their hardest to write OO code in a functional language.</i><p>The biggest problem I see with people advocating for tests and employing TDD is that they <i>do</i> change how they write code to accommodate tests. This leads to inclusion of lots of unnecessary abstraction and boilerplate patterns that make code less readable and more bug-prone. OO world has spawned numerous non-solutions to turn your code inside-out so that it&#x27;s easier to mock things, at the expense of code quality itself.<p>That said, if you go for functional style in OOP, i.e. shoving as much as you can into static helper functions and most of the rest into dumb private stateless functions, you suddenly gain both a clean architecture <i>and</i> lots of test points to use in unit tests. So you can have testable code, but you have to chill out with the OOP thing a bit.</text></item><item><author>hinkley</author><text>Good lord. Why integration tests?<p><pre><code> I think the biggest thing you can do to write more integration tests is to just stop mocking so much stuff.
</code></pre>
Okay. The biggest problem I see with people trying to write unit tests is that they don’t want to change how they write code. They just want tests for it. It’s like watching an OO person try their hardest to write OO code in a functional language.<p>So they try to write E2E tests which work for about 5 or 6 quarters and then fall apart like a cheap bookcase. If you can find a new job before then, you never have to learn to write good tests!<p>I agree with the author that the trick is to stop using mocks all the time, but you don’t have to write integration tests to get rid of mocks. You have to write better code.<p>Usually if I have a unit test with more than one mock it’s bcause I’m too invested in the current shape of the code and I need to cleave the function in two, or change the structure of he question asked (eg, remake two methods into two other methods).<p>Almost always when I accept that the code is wrong, I end up with clearer code and easier tests.<p>Unit tests run faster, are written faster, and not only can they be fixed faster, they can be deleted and rewritten if the requirements change. The most painful thing to watch by far is someone spending hours trying to recycle an old test because they spent 3 hours on it last time and they’ll be damned if they’re going to just delete it now.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>positivecomment</author><text>&gt; as much as you can into static helper functions and most of the rest into dumb private stateless functions<p>In our work we use C# and it is very hard, even next to impossible to make a static class pass a code review - given it&#x27;s not for extension methods (which I hate... why not be explicit about the first parameter and stop acting as a part of the class &lt;&#x2F;rant&gt;). They just tell us to use IoC and move to the next point. I honestly don&#x27;t know why. Our IoC library can treat a dependency as static or singleton, but those are also discouraged. Once I had a static class named GraphRequestHelpers* and the reviewer got really negative, FSM knows why. She told me that we need IoC to make everything testable and &quot;Helper&quot; in the name is a code-smell. Sounds cargo-culting to me but I have only 6 years of experience so who I am to know.<p>* Now we have RequestExtensions and everything is apparently perfect.</text></comment> | <story><title>Write tests. Not too many. Mostly integration</title><url>https://blog.kentcdodds.com/write-tests-not-too-many-mostly-integration-5e8c7fff591c</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>TeMPOraL</author><text>&gt; <i>The biggest problem I see with people trying to write unit tests is that they don’t want to change how they write code. They just want tests for it. It’s like watching an OO person try their hardest to write OO code in a functional language.</i><p>The biggest problem I see with people advocating for tests and employing TDD is that they <i>do</i> change how they write code to accommodate tests. This leads to inclusion of lots of unnecessary abstraction and boilerplate patterns that make code less readable and more bug-prone. OO world has spawned numerous non-solutions to turn your code inside-out so that it&#x27;s easier to mock things, at the expense of code quality itself.<p>That said, if you go for functional style in OOP, i.e. shoving as much as you can into static helper functions and most of the rest into dumb private stateless functions, you suddenly gain both a clean architecture <i>and</i> lots of test points to use in unit tests. So you can have testable code, but you have to chill out with the OOP thing a bit.</text></item><item><author>hinkley</author><text>Good lord. Why integration tests?<p><pre><code> I think the biggest thing you can do to write more integration tests is to just stop mocking so much stuff.
</code></pre>
Okay. The biggest problem I see with people trying to write unit tests is that they don’t want to change how they write code. They just want tests for it. It’s like watching an OO person try their hardest to write OO code in a functional language.<p>So they try to write E2E tests which work for about 5 or 6 quarters and then fall apart like a cheap bookcase. If you can find a new job before then, you never have to learn to write good tests!<p>I agree with the author that the trick is to stop using mocks all the time, but you don’t have to write integration tests to get rid of mocks. You have to write better code.<p>Usually if I have a unit test with more than one mock it’s bcause I’m too invested in the current shape of the code and I need to cleave the function in two, or change the structure of he question asked (eg, remake two methods into two other methods).<p>Almost always when I accept that the code is wrong, I end up with clearer code and easier tests.<p>Unit tests run faster, are written faster, and not only can they be fixed faster, they can be deleted and rewritten if the requirements change. The most painful thing to watch by far is someone spending hours trying to recycle an old test because they spent 3 hours on it last time and they’ll be damned if they’re going to just delete it now.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>hacker_9</author><text>The abstraction is consistent though, and familiarity is a good thing when navigating a codebase which has N amount of other devs pushing to it every day.<p>I practise TDD for peace of mind - if I add new functionality to existing code I can be 99.9% sure I haven&#x27;t made any regressions. When a client&#x27;s system goes down on a friday, I can 99.9% guarantee it wasn&#x27;t my code that is at fault. If I have to work at the weekend to update a production server, I&#x27;m 99.9% sure it&#x27;ll go smoothly as my tests say it will.</text></comment> |
10,637,967 | 10,638,044 | 1 | 2 | 10,637,766 | train | <story><title>How the Atari ST Almost Had Real Unix (2011)</title><url>http://www.dadhacker.com/blog/?p=1383</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>luckydude</author><text>It is possible to make VM work with the 68000, Masscomp did it but it was pretty brute force, they ran two 68000&#x27;s in
lock step with one just behind the other so when the first one faulted it stopped the other one and the other handled the fault. Something like that. Clem Cole would know the exact details.<p>They made for a pretty beefy machine, I ran ~20 users on one. That was when we had a pile students on a Vax 11&#x2F;780, I had accounts on both and much preferred the Masscomp.</text></comment> | <story><title>How the Atari ST Almost Had Real Unix (2011)</title><url>http://www.dadhacker.com/blog/?p=1383</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>afreak</author><text>It should be noted that certain 680x0 Macintoshes could run a real UNIX, created by Apple no less.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;A&#x2F;UX" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;A&#x2F;UX</a><p>What was unique about it was that it could run System 7 applications alongside your common System V&#x2F;BSD tools.<p>I&#x27;ve still got a Quadra 800 at home running it.</text></comment> |
31,384,084 | 31,384,050 | 1 | 2 | 31,379,386 | train | <story><title>Bad government policy is fueling the infant formula shortage</title><url>https://reason.com/volokh/2022/05/13/how-bad-government-policy-is-fueling-the-infant-formula-shortage/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>frankbreetz</author><text>I don&#x27;t think that&#x27;s true. Look at banks, to are highly regulated and there are almost 5000 of them[0]
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Banking_in_the_United_States" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Banking_in_the_United_States</a></text></item><item><author>MichaelZuo</author><text>Was just about to say as well. The more regulated an industry is the more consolidated it will become and the higher the costs will have to be, which either get passed on to consumers and&#x2F;or in cutting capacity.</text></item><item><author>bko</author><text>&gt; infant formula is strictly regulated for very good reasons<p>&gt; Also, of course, we shouldn&#x27;t have let such a critical product mostly be made by 3 companies, but that&#x27;s another rant.<p>Do you think these two are related?</text></item><item><author>jonahhorowitz</author><text>The issue here is that the FDA and Abbot didn&#x27;t treat it as an emergency when the Abbot facility was forced to close in the first place. Had they acted as if it was an emergency, they would have mobilized all available resources to clean and disinfect the facility, replace the faulty milk drying equipment, and get the facility back up and running. Here we are, months later and it&#x27;s now an emergency. Sure, importing from other countries will help, but like toilet paper, it&#x27;s a product that has a pretty consistent demand and there isn&#x27;t a lot of surge capacity out there, even in other countries, so we really need to get the facility back online.<p>The issue isn&#x27;t bad government policy - infant formula is strictly regulated for very good reasons, it&#x27;s a lack of urgency from the government and private sector to make sure a medically critical product is available.<p>Also, of course, we shouldn&#x27;t have let such a critical product mostly be made by 3 companies, but that&#x27;s another rant.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>missedthecue</author><text>Banks are probably the worst example you could have given.<p>There were ~12,500 banks in the US as recently as 1990 (when the population was much smaller than it is today!)<p>Since the regulations that were passed following the great financial crisis, almost zero new banks have been founded.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;ilsr.org&#x2F;number-of-new-banks-created-by-year-1993-to-2013&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;ilsr.org&#x2F;number-of-new-banks-created-by-year-1993-to...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Bad government policy is fueling the infant formula shortage</title><url>https://reason.com/volokh/2022/05/13/how-bad-government-policy-is-fueling-the-infant-formula-shortage/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>frankbreetz</author><text>I don&#x27;t think that&#x27;s true. Look at banks, to are highly regulated and there are almost 5000 of them[0]
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Banking_in_the_United_States" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Banking_in_the_United_States</a></text></item><item><author>MichaelZuo</author><text>Was just about to say as well. The more regulated an industry is the more consolidated it will become and the higher the costs will have to be, which either get passed on to consumers and&#x2F;or in cutting capacity.</text></item><item><author>bko</author><text>&gt; infant formula is strictly regulated for very good reasons<p>&gt; Also, of course, we shouldn&#x27;t have let such a critical product mostly be made by 3 companies, but that&#x27;s another rant.<p>Do you think these two are related?</text></item><item><author>jonahhorowitz</author><text>The issue here is that the FDA and Abbot didn&#x27;t treat it as an emergency when the Abbot facility was forced to close in the first place. Had they acted as if it was an emergency, they would have mobilized all available resources to clean and disinfect the facility, replace the faulty milk drying equipment, and get the facility back up and running. Here we are, months later and it&#x27;s now an emergency. Sure, importing from other countries will help, but like toilet paper, it&#x27;s a product that has a pretty consistent demand and there isn&#x27;t a lot of surge capacity out there, even in other countries, so we really need to get the facility back online.<p>The issue isn&#x27;t bad government policy - infant formula is strictly regulated for very good reasons, it&#x27;s a lack of urgency from the government and private sector to make sure a medically critical product is available.<p>Also, of course, we shouldn&#x27;t have let such a critical product mostly be made by 3 companies, but that&#x27;s another rant.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>caylus</author><text>There may be thousands of banks, but all but a few manage their funds at one of the big few, essentially acting as resellers of the big banks&#x27; services. For example, I my bank is &quot;Ally Bank&quot;, but if I ask them for instructions on how to receive a wire transfer, they instruct me to direct it to &quot;JP Morgan Chase Bank, N.A.&quot;, the largest bank in the U.S. I previously used the brand &quot;Simple Bank&quot;, which provided accounts via &quot;The Bancorp Bank&quot;, the 5th largest.<p>It&#x27;s a similar case to cell phone providers: although there are hundreds in the U.S., all but four do not operate their own network, but rather resell the network of one of the big four.<p>It&#x27;s an interesting question, though, how much this consolidation is due to regulation versus being a result of a natural monopoly, i.e. high barrier to entry for the type of business.</text></comment> |
5,267,774 | 5,267,401 | 1 | 2 | 5,267,060 | train | <story><title>The Next SourceForge</title><url>http://sourceforge.net/create/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>andrewguenther</author><text>I feel like this is too little too late for Sourcefourge. I can often assume one of two things when I see a link to a Sourceforge project:<p>1. I am going to be redirected to Github or Google Code<p>2. The project is dead<p>At this point, they are just playing catch up.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>slurgfest</author><text>To be honest, a link to Google Code is not much different from a SourceForge link by now.</text></comment> | <story><title>The Next SourceForge</title><url>http://sourceforge.net/create/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>andrewguenther</author><text>I feel like this is too little too late for Sourcefourge. I can often assume one of two things when I see a link to a Sourceforge project:<p>1. I am going to be redirected to Github or Google Code<p>2. The project is dead<p>At this point, they are just playing catch up.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>zhynn</author><text>The fact that the platform is open source is relevant.</text></comment> |
28,151,755 | 28,151,028 | 1 | 2 | 28,144,867 | train | <story><title>Senators introduce bipartisan antitrust bill to promote app store competition</title><url>https://www.blumenthal.senate.gov/newsroom/press/release/blumenthal-blackburn-and-klobuchar-introduce-bipartisan-antitrust-legislation-to-promote-app-store-competition</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jmull</author><text>This is mostly good, but it forces Apple&#x2F;Google to hand over your email address (or other means of communication) to anyone you download an app from so they can spam you.<p>The bill says they don’t have to allow spam, but specially allows “legitimate business offers, such as pricing terms and product or service offerings”… which <i>is</i> spam unless one explicitly opts-in to it.<p>I don’t appreciate the double-talk. This part of the bill is user hostile and should be deleted.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>_Nat_</author><text>&gt; it forces Apple&#x2F;Google to hand over your email address (or other means of communication) to anyone you download an app from so they can spam you<p>Which part of the text says this? I did see:<p>&gt; (b) INTERFERENCE WITH LEGITIMATE BUSINESS COMMUNICATIONS.—A Covered Company shall not impose restrictions on communications of developers with the users of the App through an App or direct outreach to a user concerning legitimate business offers, such as pricing terms and product or service offerings.<p>But that part doesn&#x27;t seem to be <i>requiring</i> app-stores to hand over emails, but rather merely prohibits app-stores from controlling communications.<p>Which would seem to be related to, e.g., [&quot;<i>Apple charged over &#x27;anti-competitive&#x27; app policies</i>&quot;](<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bbc.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;technology-56941173" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bbc.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;technology-56941173</a>), 2021-04-30:<p>&gt; &quot;At the core of this case is Spotify&#x27;s demand they should be able to advertise alternative deals on their iOS app, a practice that no store in the world allows,&quot; it said in a statement.</text></comment> | <story><title>Senators introduce bipartisan antitrust bill to promote app store competition</title><url>https://www.blumenthal.senate.gov/newsroom/press/release/blumenthal-blackburn-and-klobuchar-introduce-bipartisan-antitrust-legislation-to-promote-app-store-competition</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jmull</author><text>This is mostly good, but it forces Apple&#x2F;Google to hand over your email address (or other means of communication) to anyone you download an app from so they can spam you.<p>The bill says they don’t have to allow spam, but specially allows “legitimate business offers, such as pricing terms and product or service offerings”… which <i>is</i> spam unless one explicitly opts-in to it.<p>I don’t appreciate the double-talk. This part of the bill is user hostile and should be deleted.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>PragmaticPulp</author><text>Good catch. I definitely do not want this. I don&#x27;t even understand why it would be necessary.<p>I really don&#x27;t want to be forced to maintain separate e-mail accounts for app stores just to quarantine the inevitable flow of spam.</text></comment> |
31,812,777 | 31,812,758 | 1 | 2 | 31,809,445 | train | <story><title>3M’s PFAS Crisis Has Come to Europe</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2022-3m-pfas-toxic-forever-chemicals-europe</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>PuppyTailWags</author><text>I&#x27;m pretty sure daily walks (no heart rate elevation, not HIIT, no muscle being built, etc.) didn&#x27;t contribute significantly to your mother&#x27;s weight loss. Moving around is not a significant contributor to weight loss[1]. Diet is the most significant contributing factor to gaining or losing weight. Moving in with someone new, new environment, new dietary changes, etc. might&#x27;ve done significantly more.<p>1. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov&#x2F;pmc&#x2F;articles&#x2F;PMC3925973&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov&#x2F;pmc&#x2F;articles&#x2F;PMC3925973&#x2F;</a>, from the abstract, &quot;Based on the present literature, unless the overall volume of aerobic ET is very high, clinically significant weight loss is unlikely to occur. &quot;</text></item><item><author>mensetmanusman</author><text>When my mother moved in and we went on daily walks, she lost a pound a week for a year. Her entirely sedentary lifestyle (and that of most Americans I know) is a major factor for her obesity. Standing is now considered exercise it has gotten so bad.<p>But people will blame anything instead of taking action, so…</text></item><item><author>elil17</author><text>After reading the series &quot;A Chemical Hunger&quot; by the blog Slime Mold Time Mold, I&#x27;m pretty convinced that chemical contamination is a global-warming level threat to humanity. The authors talk about the evidence that chemicals released into the environment by human activity (such as PFAS) are causing obesity, and they present compelling evidence that this is plausible. They are also working on research to confirm this hypothesis.<p>But regardless of whether obesity is caused primarily by environmental contamination, chemical contamination is a huge risk for a few reasons:<p>-Once in the environment, chemical contaminants can react in unforeseen ways, creating new chemicals that we will have no idea how to monitor for.<p>-Health data prior to industrialization is not good and is confounded by poor medical practices, so we may think we&#x27;ve &quot;solved&quot; chemical contamination when in fact we haven&#x27;t (e.g. maybe heart disease would go away if it weren&#x27;t for some chemical that we started using in 1910 but we can&#x27;t tell because everyone was dying of dysentery).<p>-The solution, in some most cases, may mean giving up significant technological advances, especially polymers and heavy metals extracted from the ground.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;slimemoldtimemold.com&#x2F;2021&#x2F;07&#x2F;07&#x2F;a-chemical-hunger-part-i-mysteries&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;slimemoldtimemold.com&#x2F;2021&#x2F;07&#x2F;07&#x2F;a-chemical-hunger-p...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bretpiatt</author><text>Depending on fitness level (cardio, muscle strength, physical weight) walking can very much be strenuous exercise.<p>Direct caloric burn, long term metabolism changes, etc. for a given activity vary based on the input fitness level of the person.<p>Calories in is the easiest levee to pull for rapid change as exercising enough for major direct calorie burn is challenging at the beginning. The biggest short term exercise impact is from activities that increase muscle mass as muscle takes calories to maintain thus boosting metabolism.</text></comment> | <story><title>3M’s PFAS Crisis Has Come to Europe</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2022-3m-pfas-toxic-forever-chemicals-europe</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>PuppyTailWags</author><text>I&#x27;m pretty sure daily walks (no heart rate elevation, not HIIT, no muscle being built, etc.) didn&#x27;t contribute significantly to your mother&#x27;s weight loss. Moving around is not a significant contributor to weight loss[1]. Diet is the most significant contributing factor to gaining or losing weight. Moving in with someone new, new environment, new dietary changes, etc. might&#x27;ve done significantly more.<p>1. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov&#x2F;pmc&#x2F;articles&#x2F;PMC3925973&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov&#x2F;pmc&#x2F;articles&#x2F;PMC3925973&#x2F;</a>, from the abstract, &quot;Based on the present literature, unless the overall volume of aerobic ET is very high, clinically significant weight loss is unlikely to occur. &quot;</text></item><item><author>mensetmanusman</author><text>When my mother moved in and we went on daily walks, she lost a pound a week for a year. Her entirely sedentary lifestyle (and that of most Americans I know) is a major factor for her obesity. Standing is now considered exercise it has gotten so bad.<p>But people will blame anything instead of taking action, so…</text></item><item><author>elil17</author><text>After reading the series &quot;A Chemical Hunger&quot; by the blog Slime Mold Time Mold, I&#x27;m pretty convinced that chemical contamination is a global-warming level threat to humanity. The authors talk about the evidence that chemicals released into the environment by human activity (such as PFAS) are causing obesity, and they present compelling evidence that this is plausible. They are also working on research to confirm this hypothesis.<p>But regardless of whether obesity is caused primarily by environmental contamination, chemical contamination is a huge risk for a few reasons:<p>-Once in the environment, chemical contaminants can react in unforeseen ways, creating new chemicals that we will have no idea how to monitor for.<p>-Health data prior to industrialization is not good and is confounded by poor medical practices, so we may think we&#x27;ve &quot;solved&quot; chemical contamination when in fact we haven&#x27;t (e.g. maybe heart disease would go away if it weren&#x27;t for some chemical that we started using in 1910 but we can&#x27;t tell because everyone was dying of dysentery).<p>-The solution, in some most cases, may mean giving up significant technological advances, especially polymers and heavy metals extracted from the ground.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;slimemoldtimemold.com&#x2F;2021&#x2F;07&#x2F;07&#x2F;a-chemical-hunger-part-i-mysteries&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;slimemoldtimemold.com&#x2F;2021&#x2F;07&#x2F;07&#x2F;a-chemical-hunger-p...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mensetmanusman</author><text>Well, since I was there, I can say that her diet was mostly unchanged.<p>I will add that the walks were around an hour to two to get 10k steps and over 4 miles.<p>I challenge anyone to walk an extra ~25 miles a week with no diet change to see if they gain weight.</text></comment> |
25,148,587 | 25,148,522 | 1 | 2 | 25,147,990 | train | <story><title>My Beef with RuboCop</title><url>https://www.rubypigeon.com/posts/my-beef-with-rubocop/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>wlll</author><text>The issues raised here completely align with my problems with Rubocop.<p>It seems that a lot of people think that one of the main goals for code linting is consistency, when that shouldn&#x27;t be a goal at all. Consistency is merely a tool, the goal should be readability&#x2F;maintainability. Consistency is just one tool that is available to us in persuit of that goal.<p>I&#x27;ve hit similar issues to those mentioned in the article and it absolutely infuriates me when I have to jump through hoops (or worse, reduce the readability of my code) to push well thought out code that communicates intent, only to fall foul of a robot that doesn&#x27;t understand nuance.<p>Don&#x27;t get me wrong, I think Rubocop is a great tool, it&#x27;s just over-used, and that&#x27;s in part because everything is on by default, and this seems to be encouraged by the general community. It seems that once programmers have found a solution to something they love to apply that solution to all places that it will work, regardless of the efficacy.<p>My preference, and I suppose suggestion, is to let Rubocop handle things it knows about with a high degree of accuracy, such as tabs&#x2F;spaces for lead indentation, security issues etc. and leave anything that requires nuance or subtlety to the programmer who wrote it, and the educational opportunity of the code review.<p>After all, &quot;Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative&quot; :)</text></comment> | <story><title>My Beef with RuboCop</title><url>https://www.rubypigeon.com/posts/my-beef-with-rubocop/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>robotmay</author><text>We use rubocop heavily at GitLab. I&#x27;m generally happy with it, and we have a largely sane set of linters. I think when your codebase gets to a certain size and you have a lot of engineers working on it, having some sane defaults is very beneficial and helps standardise the codebase a bit.<p>Where I think rubocop really shines is in picking up _problem_ code, like potential bugs, performance issues, or errors, in advance. We also use it heavily when deprecating older modules&#x2F;classes, like replacing JSON calls with our own wrapper.<p>It does, however, sometimes suggest something totally bonkers: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gitlab.com&#x2F;gitlab-org&#x2F;gitlab&#x2F;-&#x2F;issues&#x2F;271570" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gitlab.com&#x2F;gitlab-org&#x2F;gitlab&#x2F;-&#x2F;issues&#x2F;271570</a>, but it&#x27;s fairly trivial to skip it. After all, humans should be allowed to say that the linter is wrong and either ignore it or suggest an improvement, and that&#x27;s a process issue rather than a rubocop issue :)<p>Not everyone is going to agree with every cop you enable, but the goal is standardisation rather than appeasing everybody. If something is particularly contentious then I would suggest removing&#x2F;disabling that cop.<p>Every few years at GitLab we do seem to get a singlequotes vs doublequotes cop argument crop up, which is why we (thankfully) still don&#x27;t have any requirement around those. Team doublequotes represent!<p>Edit: Oh and unrelated to the content of the article, but I really like the design and colour palette of the blog.</text></comment> |
4,198,368 | 4,197,838 | 1 | 2 | 4,197,025 | train | <story><title>Charles Carreon Drops Bogus Lawsuit Against The Oatmeal Creator</title><url>https://www.eff.org/press/releases/charles-carreon-drops-bogus-lawsuit-against-oatmeal-creator</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>acabal</author><text>How is Carreon going to be punished?<p>It's great that Inman won, but he won not in small part because he's a famous personality that helped gather internet rage--and then the EFF--to his side. But what if he was a nobody? EFF would have very likely told him they were too busy, Carreon would have pressed on, and lots and lots of hard-earned money would have gone down the drain. It makes me so mad that the legal system is so one-sided. Surely Carreon at least must be paying Inman's attorneys' fees!</text></comment> | <story><title>Charles Carreon Drops Bogus Lawsuit Against The Oatmeal Creator</title><url>https://www.eff.org/press/releases/charles-carreon-drops-bogus-lawsuit-against-oatmeal-creator</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Xylakant</author><text>While this end is certainly favorable for Inman, I'd have preferred if this was decided in court. This way Carreon can pretend that he had to abandon his just campaign under pressure of the savage hordes of the Internet and try again with a softer target than Inman. If he had been thrown out of court with a clear statement, things would look different.</text></comment> |
18,955,438 | 18,953,314 | 1 | 2 | 18,952,864 | train | <story><title>MySQL client allows MySQL server to request any local file</title><url>https://gwillem.gitlab.io/2019/01/20/sites-hacked-via-mysql-protocal-flaw/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>sehrope</author><text>The intended usage is that the client tells the server, &quot;<i>I want to load data from a file &#x2F;path&#x2F;to&#x2F;data.txt on my local filesystem</i>&quot; in a SQL command. As part of the protocol for executing the query the server sends a message to the client to request the contents of &#x2F;path&#x2F;to&#x2F;data.txt. Unfortunately client&#x27;s don&#x27;t validate the file request and will send <i>any</i> file (ex: &#x2F;path&#x2F;to&#x2F;secrets.txt) even if there was no legit data request in their command.<p>This has been an issue with MySQL client drivers for years. I found and fixed the same issue in MariaDB Connector&#x2F;J (JDBC driver (wire compatible with MySQL databases) in 2015. It rejects LOCAL DATA requests from the server unless the client app preregistered an InputStream (Java interface for generic stream of bytes) as data for the command being executing.<p>This is one of the many <i>many</i> reasons I love open source database drivers. I was able to find and fix this issue only because I could see the source code. Similar &quot;features&quot; in proprietary databases could go unnoticed for years and even when discovered may not have feature flags to disable them.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>xnyhps</author><text>Similarly, MySQL Connector&#x2F;J also used to attempt to deserialize binary data that <i>looked</i> like a serialized Java object (CVE-2017-3523). Doing this with untrusted data can often be used to obtain arbitrary code execution. Connecting to an untrusted server does not appear to be a use-case that received enough attention.</text></comment> | <story><title>MySQL client allows MySQL server to request any local file</title><url>https://gwillem.gitlab.io/2019/01/20/sites-hacked-via-mysql-protocal-flaw/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>sehrope</author><text>The intended usage is that the client tells the server, &quot;<i>I want to load data from a file &#x2F;path&#x2F;to&#x2F;data.txt on my local filesystem</i>&quot; in a SQL command. As part of the protocol for executing the query the server sends a message to the client to request the contents of &#x2F;path&#x2F;to&#x2F;data.txt. Unfortunately client&#x27;s don&#x27;t validate the file request and will send <i>any</i> file (ex: &#x2F;path&#x2F;to&#x2F;secrets.txt) even if there was no legit data request in their command.<p>This has been an issue with MySQL client drivers for years. I found and fixed the same issue in MariaDB Connector&#x2F;J (JDBC driver (wire compatible with MySQL databases) in 2015. It rejects LOCAL DATA requests from the server unless the client app preregistered an InputStream (Java interface for generic stream of bytes) as data for the command being executing.<p>This is one of the many <i>many</i> reasons I love open source database drivers. I was able to find and fix this issue only because I could see the source code. Similar &quot;features&quot; in proprietary databases could go unnoticed for years and even when discovered may not have feature flags to disable them.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Illniyar</author><text>This seems like a weird design choice. Why would you need to load a file from the file system as part of a select?<p>Unless I&#x27;m missing some kind of use case this seems like a bad protocol design.</text></comment> |
38,228,292 | 38,228,366 | 1 | 2 | 38,227,463 | train | <story><title>Starship’s second flight test</title><url>https://www.spacex.com/launches/mission/?missionId=starship-flight-2</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bboygravity</author><text>Can you give an example of 1 thing Elon said that hasn&#x27;t become a reality and cannot become a reality in the next 10 years?<p>1 engineering or physics related thing. Deadlines don&#x27;t count.<p>I&#x27;m waiting...</text></item><item><author>davely</author><text>&gt; Elon said in 2020…<p>To be fair, Elon has said _a lot_ of things about his various projects and not all of them are based in reality.</text></item><item><author>maxlin</author><text>Starship is designed with way faster turnaround time. Falcon 9 had optional reuse, while Starship aims to be the 747 of space access.<p>Elon said in 2020:
&gt; Starship is being designed to be relaunched an hour after landing, with zero nominal work<p>Now while that might take some time to reach, before that the pad itself is likely going to be capable of many launches every day given there&#x27;s more ships. Starships seems to be made to be way more economical to manufacture per-ship than the shuttles or Saturns so I don&#x27;t see a bottleneck in that.</text></item><item><author>Animats</author><text><i>&quot;Flying to orbit and back multiple times in a day like an airliner.&quot;</i><p>Probably not. It takes 85 days, on average, to turn a Falcon 9 around.</text></item><item><author>modeless</author><text>If Starship meets its reusability goals it&#x27;s going to be absolutely nuts. Flying to orbit and back multiple times in a day like an airliner or something, carrying more than the entire habitable volume of ISS every time. It&#x27;s impossible to overstate how much that would change access to space, and how much of an advantage it would give SpaceX over its competitors (even other nations).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>TheLoafOfBread</author><text>Everything Hyperloop related is not happening.</text></comment> | <story><title>Starship’s second flight test</title><url>https://www.spacex.com/launches/mission/?missionId=starship-flight-2</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bboygravity</author><text>Can you give an example of 1 thing Elon said that hasn&#x27;t become a reality and cannot become a reality in the next 10 years?<p>1 engineering or physics related thing. Deadlines don&#x27;t count.<p>I&#x27;m waiting...</text></item><item><author>davely</author><text>&gt; Elon said in 2020…<p>To be fair, Elon has said _a lot_ of things about his various projects and not all of them are based in reality.</text></item><item><author>maxlin</author><text>Starship is designed with way faster turnaround time. Falcon 9 had optional reuse, while Starship aims to be the 747 of space access.<p>Elon said in 2020:
&gt; Starship is being designed to be relaunched an hour after landing, with zero nominal work<p>Now while that might take some time to reach, before that the pad itself is likely going to be capable of many launches every day given there&#x27;s more ships. Starships seems to be made to be way more economical to manufacture per-ship than the shuttles or Saturns so I don&#x27;t see a bottleneck in that.</text></item><item><author>Animats</author><text><i>&quot;Flying to orbit and back multiple times in a day like an airliner.&quot;</i><p>Probably not. It takes 85 days, on average, to turn a Falcon 9 around.</text></item><item><author>modeless</author><text>If Starship meets its reusability goals it&#x27;s going to be absolutely nuts. Flying to orbit and back multiple times in a day like an airliner or something, carrying more than the entire habitable volume of ISS every time. It&#x27;s impossible to overstate how much that would change access to space, and how much of an advantage it would give SpaceX over its competitors (even other nations).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>martin8412</author><text>Coast to coast self-driving by late 2017.</text></comment> |
39,618,812 | 39,618,984 | 1 | 3 | 39,617,325 | train | <story><title>Medellín's Green Corridors</title><url>https://reasonstobecheerful.world/green-corridors-medellin-colombia-urban-heat/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>passive</author><text>An initial cost of 16 million, and yearly maintenance of 600,000, for a city of 2.5 million? Per person, $5 initially and $0.25 per year.<p>That seems incredibly cheap for the benefits. Colombia looks to have a GDP per capita about 1&#x2F;10th of the US, so if we scale it up 10X...<p>I live in a relatively cold climate, and I would still be delighted to pay $2.50 a year for this kind of infrastructure development. Heck, even scaling it up 100X seems like it would be worth considering.<p>Maybe there&#x27;s a cost I&#x27;m missing here, but for a hot city, the AC savings alone seem like they would be worth it, not to mention the 40% reduction in respiratory infections through increased air quality.</text></comment> | <story><title>Medellín's Green Corridors</title><url>https://reasonstobecheerful.world/green-corridors-medellin-colombia-urban-heat/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jonah</author><text>We were there in January. There are some amazing, modern, clean and green parts of the city. The botanic gardens (Jardín Botánico de Medellín) are beautiful and considerably cooler than the surrounding parts of town. The metro - with cable cars linking off to the hillside neighborhoods - is very clean, modern, and efficient.<p>We saw the city hall vertical garden - pretty neat.<p>An immense amount of effort has gone into revitalizing the city in recent years.<p>One thing that struck me though, is that the rising tide hasn&#x27;t quite lifted all boats - or people to be more precise. I saw a lot more beggars, people living on the streets, and homeless encampments than in Bogotá, or Cali or other cities. It feels like a disconnection from community and family that is still present in other places - especially smaller cities and towns. I hope they can figure out ways to help the bottom 1%. (Realizing that is a common refrain worldwide.)</text></comment> |
35,413,104 | 35,413,002 | 1 | 2 | 35,408,874 | train | <story><title>Thinking hard makes the brain tired</title><url>https://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/2022/08/11/how-thinking-hard-makes-the-brain-tired</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>aftergibson</author><text>What&#x27;s the 3rd way?</text></item><item><author>findthewords</author><text>There are three ways to flush acute glutamate buildup from the brain:<p>1. Exercise. The brain can direct glutamate to be used as an energy source to dispose of excess amounts. Glutamate naturally flows by diffusion from areas of high concentration (in blood vessel wall cells) through the blood vessel wall into the circulating bloodstream, where the concentration is lower.<p>2. Eat a tuna sandwich or drink an energy drink. Vitamin B6 is a a coenzyme in the synthesis of the inhibitory neurotransmitter GABA from glutamate. Thinking jobs is also coincident with rising popularity of energy drinks from 2000s onwards.<p>The Economist is most likely regurgitating Nature:<p>11 August 2022
Why thinking hard makes us feel tired
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nature.com&#x2F;articles&#x2F;d41586-022-02161-5" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nature.com&#x2F;articles&#x2F;d41586-022-02161-5</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>layer8</author><text>Cache invalidation, probably.</text></comment> | <story><title>Thinking hard makes the brain tired</title><url>https://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/2022/08/11/how-thinking-hard-makes-the-brain-tired</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>aftergibson</author><text>What&#x27;s the 3rd way?</text></item><item><author>findthewords</author><text>There are three ways to flush acute glutamate buildup from the brain:<p>1. Exercise. The brain can direct glutamate to be used as an energy source to dispose of excess amounts. Glutamate naturally flows by diffusion from areas of high concentration (in blood vessel wall cells) through the blood vessel wall into the circulating bloodstream, where the concentration is lower.<p>2. Eat a tuna sandwich or drink an energy drink. Vitamin B6 is a a coenzyme in the synthesis of the inhibitory neurotransmitter GABA from glutamate. Thinking jobs is also coincident with rising popularity of energy drinks from 2000s onwards.<p>The Economist is most likely regurgitating Nature:<p>11 August 2022
Why thinking hard makes us feel tired
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nature.com&#x2F;articles&#x2F;d41586-022-02161-5" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nature.com&#x2F;articles&#x2F;d41586-022-02161-5</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>latortuga</author><text>It&#x27;s gotta be sleep, right?</text></comment> |
8,197,411 | 8,197,403 | 1 | 3 | 8,196,960 | train | <story><title>Elon Musk’s SpaceX Is Raising Money at a Valuation Approaching $10B</title><url>http://techcrunch.com/2014/08/19/spacex/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Igglyboo</author><text>Does anyone think it&#x27;s crazy that a glorified messaging app is valued at $16B and that SpaceX, a company that puts things into orbit and literally does rocket science, is only $10B?<p>I&#x27;m sure WhatsApp is an outlier because I see it brought up all the time when the topic of valuation arises but it still seems like SpaceX should be worth a lot more to me.</text></comment> | <story><title>Elon Musk’s SpaceX Is Raising Money at a Valuation Approaching $10B</title><url>http://techcrunch.com/2014/08/19/spacex/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>habosa</author><text>We live in a strange time when a company that has successfully flown useful cargo into space on their own hardware has a valuation around 50% of the most popular messaging app.</text></comment> |
34,443,890 | 34,442,926 | 1 | 2 | 34,439,588 | train | <story><title>Plastic to Oil – Produces 80% Oil</title><url>https://blest.co.jp/eng/service/be-h/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>generalizations</author><text>I remember nearly two decades ago a PopSci article about some guy who figured out how to use microwaves to convert plastic (any hydrocarbon) into oil and natural gas. More than enough to break even. He was converting tires and waste plastic.<p>Nothing ever came of it - IIRC, ownership disputes with the partner, and eventually the patent got purchased by some random company and blackholed.<p>Edit: found a source. Better than popsci. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.newscientist.com&#x2F;article&#x2F;dn12141-giant-microwave-turns-plastic-back-to-oil&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.newscientist.com&#x2F;article&#x2F;dn12141-giant-microwave...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>numlocked</author><text>If it sounds too good to be true, it probably is: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;investorshub.advfn.com&#x2F;boards&#x2F;read_msg.aspx?message_id=93867748" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;investorshub.advfn.com&#x2F;boards&#x2F;read_msg.aspx?message_...</a><p>Edit: more context: the “inventor” is Frank Pringle who <i>appears</i> to have invented a number of too-good-to-be-true gizmos, including one for weight loss.<p>Edit 2: also he claimed to cure cancer with microwaves (the same year as the oil producing microwaves): <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.biospace.com&#x2F;article&#x2F;releases&#x2F;-b-global-resource-corp-b-files-patents-to-treat-cancerous-tumors-with-its-microwave-technology-expanding-the-scope-of-its-revolutionary-microwave&#x2F;?s=61" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.biospace.com&#x2F;article&#x2F;releases&#x2F;-b-global-resource...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Plastic to Oil – Produces 80% Oil</title><url>https://blest.co.jp/eng/service/be-h/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>generalizations</author><text>I remember nearly two decades ago a PopSci article about some guy who figured out how to use microwaves to convert plastic (any hydrocarbon) into oil and natural gas. More than enough to break even. He was converting tires and waste plastic.<p>Nothing ever came of it - IIRC, ownership disputes with the partner, and eventually the patent got purchased by some random company and blackholed.<p>Edit: found a source. Better than popsci. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.newscientist.com&#x2F;article&#x2F;dn12141-giant-microwave-turns-plastic-back-to-oil&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.newscientist.com&#x2F;article&#x2F;dn12141-giant-microwave...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>csours</author><text>Just like the &quot;water carburetor&quot; and other miracles that never materialized, the problem is that the alternative is cheaper and simpler (which means cheaper).<p>It doesn&#x27;t sound expensive to add water injection to an internal combustion engine, until you have to make it work in production, with end users.<p>YOU can make it work, because you are motivated, but what about the guy who buys it because it&#x27;s cool and then forgets to fill the system. Sure it&#x27;s easy to add programming to work around this condition, but is it easy to integrate and test?<p>Anyway, crude oil is very, very cheap, and very easy to integrate into a production process. Waste plastic in the recycling stream is dirty and heterogeneous in composition and size, which makes it hard to integrate into a production process. Not impossible, but more expensive, which means that no one will do it without outside compulsion (and maybe not even then).</text></comment> |
27,726,080 | 27,726,222 | 1 | 3 | 27,724,699 | train | <story><title>70% of San Francisco residents say quality of life has declined: poll</title><url>https://www.kron4.com/news/bay-area/8-out-of-10-san-franciscans-say-crime-has-gotten-worse-poll/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>burlesona</author><text>I feel like this experience is so common it’s almost cliche, but I ended up moving with my family out of the city in mid 2020 mostly due to the major influx of homeless into our neighborhood, which had very little before. I didn’t like my kids facing that every time we walked to the park or the grocery store. There was also a rise in petty crime that made the neighborhood feel a lot less safe.<p>It’s a tough situation. At the end of the day, mental health shouldn’t fall to any one city to be responsible for, but we have to start somewhere. I hope for the best and that SF can come up with an effective way to help people off the streets.</text></comment> | <story><title>70% of San Francisco residents say quality of life has declined: poll</title><url>https://www.kron4.com/news/bay-area/8-out-of-10-san-franciscans-say-crime-has-gotten-worse-poll/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>dougmwne</author><text>I am currently in Warsaw. I have lived in SF. The quality of life is astoundingly different. There nearly zero visible homelessness people. There are low levels of crime and none visible. There are hardly any murders or gun crime. Not much property crime. There are quite a lot of police, but no brutality that I have heard of. I feel safe walking around at night. People have health care, higher education, and employees have strong legal protections with sane working hours. Taxes are reasonable. There&#x27;s a good tech job market.<p>As I was leaving SF, I watched a homeless man with no teeth pick a morsel of food out of the gutter and eat it.<p>I am not sure if it&#x27;s a case of boiling the frog, but trust me when I say that SF has an absolutely shameful inability to solve it&#x27;s problems and that a city that was no more than a crater 70 years ago absolutely shines in comparison. I would not believe it if I hadn&#x27;t seen it with my own eyes.</text></comment> |
22,096,975 | 22,096,869 | 1 | 3 | 22,096,359 | train | <story><title>Analysis of compensation, level, and experience details of 19k tech workers</title><url>https://huyenchip.com/2020/01/18/tech-workers-19k-compensation-details.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>compiler-guy</author><text>This is terrific work, but the early claim that, “As far as I know, this is the largest data on compensation and level details of tech workers.“ makes me wonder if he isn’t aware of the other data sets, or wrote imprecisely.<p>There are extremely detailed and very large sets of this sort of data available if you are willing to spend large amounts of money and sign big nondisclosure agreements. All the biggest companies share into these sets and know what everyone is paying everyone else.<p>So the companies don’t have an advantage just because they negotiate with many people themselves. They know because they get industry reports about what everyone else is doing.<p>This doesn’t change anything about his points. If anything, it makes them stronger. But better data absolutely is out there.</text></comment> | <story><title>Analysis of compensation, level, and experience details of 19k tech workers</title><url>https://huyenchip.com/2020/01/18/tech-workers-19k-compensation-details.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>baron816</author><text>&gt; Indeed surveyed 1,000 women in the field and found that the main reasons women leave tech are: advancement opportunities, wage disparity, and work-life balance.<p>I wonder if they leave because of a <i>perceived</i> wage disparity&#x2F;lack of advancement opportunity. Actually, everyone should be wondering that and we should try to get hard evidence. This report suggest that there isn’t much of a disparity, and it’s generally very hard for anyone to get to very high levels. If we had good statistical evidence that women aren’t discriminated against when it comes to promotions and compensation, then more would likely stay. If we had evidence that they were, well, then we could do more.<p>I do have less sympathy for women who have an opportunity to work in tech than for women working as waitresses, or as social workers, or maid.s Women leaving tech are doing so probably because they can afford to. But most women out there aren’t that lucky. What I’d like to see is the government doing more to make it possible for all working women with families to better balance their lives. Probably the best thing they can do is extend the school day and school year and provide stipends for child care. Mandating that more women get board seats isn’t going to help the single mother working at the grocery store cashier very much.</text></comment> |
7,679,414 | 7,679,289 | 1 | 2 | 7,679,116 | train | <story><title>Comparing Ember and Angular</title><url>http://www.benlesh.com/2014/04/embular-part-1-comparing-ember-and.html?spref=tw</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>lhorie</author><text>People claiming that framework size doesn&#x27;t matter is a bit of a pet peeve for me: download size may not matter once the files are cached, but the uncompressed size still translates directly to how much code the browser needs to parse and execute on every page load, and may also negatively affect the weight of execution payloads across operations in your app.<p>These costs are not as small as you might expect. The performance tests I put on the Mithril ( <a href="http://lhorie.github.io/mithril" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;lhorie.github.io&#x2F;mithril</a> ) site illustrate this problem. I don&#x27;t have Ember there, but if anyone more familiar with it would like to contribute (the rendering test is really simple), that would be most welcome.<p>There&#x27;s another independent test here ( <a href="http://jsperf.com/angular-vs-knockout-vs-ember/292" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;jsperf.com&#x2F;angular-vs-knockout-vs-ember&#x2F;292</a> ), which actually surprised me.</text></comment> | <story><title>Comparing Ember and Angular</title><url>http://www.benlesh.com/2014/04/embular-part-1-comparing-ember-and.html?spref=tw</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>minznerjosh</author><text>As somebody who has built actual applications with both Ember and Angular, I think this article totally hits the nail right on the head.<p>Though, in regards to the &quot;Angular is backed by Google&quot; comment, while they don&#x27;t actually &quot;back Ember&quot; in the same way Google &quot;backs Angular&quot;, it seems that a ton of large companies are also invested in Ember (<a href="http://emberjs.com/ember-users/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;emberjs.com&#x2F;ember-users&#x2F;</a>)!<p>And, I know the Ember folks are really proud of the community they&#x27;ve built as well. I theorize that Ember&#x27;s lack of a single corporate backer is what has enabled its incredible community to flourish.</text></comment> |
9,049,170 | 9,047,919 | 1 | 2 | 9,047,786 | train | <story><title>Batch Normalization: Accelerating Deep Network Training [pdf]</title><url>http://arxiv.org/pdf/1502.03167v1.pdf</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>lars</author><text>Since this paper along with [1] both beat human level performance on ImageNet, using seemingly unrelated techniques, it seems like there&#x27;s a clear path to achieve the next state of the art result: Implement and train a network that uses both Batch Normalization and PReLU&#x27;s at the same time. Right?<p>1: <a href="http://arxiv.org/pdf/1502.01852v1.pdf" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;arxiv.org&#x2F;pdf&#x2F;1502.01852v1.pdf</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Batch Normalization: Accelerating Deep Network Training [pdf]</title><url>http://arxiv.org/pdf/1502.03167v1.pdf</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>hyperbovine</author><text>The phrase &quot;exceeding the accuracy of human raters&quot; is a bit puzzling--if a human misclassifies something whose true class was determined by another human, who is in error?</text></comment> |
22,327,720 | 22,327,133 | 1 | 2 | 22,323,080 | train | <story><title>Japan has 33k businesses at least a century old</title><url>https://www.bbc.com/worklife/article/20200211-why-are-so-many-old-companies-in-japan</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>JoeAltmaier</author><text>Pretty negative? Water and sewage infrastructure can last 100 years in the USA. The company that makes commercial pumps for cities is still around, and called upon to recreate 80-year-old pumps to replace ones still in use under New York streets.<p>Our electrical grid is unparalleled in the world. Our phone&#x2F;internet.<p>These things are not so wonderful in other countries (when they even have them at all).<p>What infrastructure, exactly, in the US is not functioning well?</text></item><item><author>ehnto</author><text>Oh boy did I have a comment brewing for you, before I realized you were being sarcastic!<p>There is something refreshing about the feeling of permanence I got when I was in Japan. There is so much old infrastructure that&#x27;s still working, because it&#x27;s maintained. In the west, we assume we&#x27;ll be replacing pretty much everything within 5-10 years so why bother with upkeep, and who cares if it doesn&#x27;t even function that well when you built it.</text></item><item><author>johnklos</author><text>(Slightly, but not completely sarcastic)<p>They&#x27;ve learned plenty from the United States, but they haven&#x27;t learned that in order to succeed, others must fail. They should be trying harder to make these businesses succeed hard or fail. After all, life isn&#x27;t about living - it&#x27;s about how much we can accumulate at the cost of others.<p>They should also learn the Unites Statesian way of &quot;going out of business&quot; for the purpose of selling the old company&#x27;s assets to a newly create company for pennies on the dollar while defaulting on debt and loans. Heck - many Hollywood companies do this from one film to the next!<p>Gah! These Japanese people are amateurs!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Raidion</author><text>I mean, I&#x27;m a big fan and resident of the US, but it&#x27;s accurate to say we&#x27;re not doing the best job with our infrastructure.<p>We have a lot of trouble with aging bridges: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.artba.org&#x2F;2018&#x2F;01&#x2F;29&#x2F;54000-american-bridges-structurally-deficient-analysis-new-federal-data-shows&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.artba.org&#x2F;2018&#x2F;01&#x2F;29&#x2F;54000-american-bridges-stru...</a><p>We have a lot of trouble with aging water systems: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.npr.org&#x2F;sections&#x2F;thetwo-way&#x2F;2016&#x2F;04&#x2F;20&#x2F;465545378&#x2F;lead-laced-water-in-flint-a-step-by-step-look-at-the-makings-of-a-crisis" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.npr.org&#x2F;sections&#x2F;thetwo-way&#x2F;2016&#x2F;04&#x2F;20&#x2F;465545378...</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;bipartisanpolicy.org&#x2F;wp-content&#x2F;uploads&#x2F;2019&#x2F;03&#x2F;BPC-Aging-Water-Infrastructure.pdf" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;bipartisanpolicy.org&#x2F;wp-content&#x2F;uploads&#x2F;2019&#x2F;03&#x2F;BPC-...</a><p>A lot of the infrastructure that were built around the population boom post WWII are reaching the end of their lifespans and we don&#x27;t have a plan and budget (despite &#x27;infrastructure week&#x27;) to get these upgraded.</text></comment> | <story><title>Japan has 33k businesses at least a century old</title><url>https://www.bbc.com/worklife/article/20200211-why-are-so-many-old-companies-in-japan</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>JoeAltmaier</author><text>Pretty negative? Water and sewage infrastructure can last 100 years in the USA. The company that makes commercial pumps for cities is still around, and called upon to recreate 80-year-old pumps to replace ones still in use under New York streets.<p>Our electrical grid is unparalleled in the world. Our phone&#x2F;internet.<p>These things are not so wonderful in other countries (when they even have them at all).<p>What infrastructure, exactly, in the US is not functioning well?</text></item><item><author>ehnto</author><text>Oh boy did I have a comment brewing for you, before I realized you were being sarcastic!<p>There is something refreshing about the feeling of permanence I got when I was in Japan. There is so much old infrastructure that&#x27;s still working, because it&#x27;s maintained. In the west, we assume we&#x27;ll be replacing pretty much everything within 5-10 years so why bother with upkeep, and who cares if it doesn&#x27;t even function that well when you built it.</text></item><item><author>johnklos</author><text>(Slightly, but not completely sarcastic)<p>They&#x27;ve learned plenty from the United States, but they haven&#x27;t learned that in order to succeed, others must fail. They should be trying harder to make these businesses succeed hard or fail. After all, life isn&#x27;t about living - it&#x27;s about how much we can accumulate at the cost of others.<p>They should also learn the Unites Statesian way of &quot;going out of business&quot; for the purpose of selling the old company&#x27;s assets to a newly create company for pennies on the dollar while defaulting on debt and loans. Heck - many Hollywood companies do this from one film to the next!<p>Gah! These Japanese people are amateurs!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ilikeathechacha</author><text><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.fhwa.dot.gov&#x2F;bridge&#x2F;nbi&#x2F;no10&#x2F;condition18.cfm" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.fhwa.dot.gov&#x2F;bridge&#x2F;nbi&#x2F;no10&#x2F;condition18.cfm</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;I-35W_Mississippi_River_bridge" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;I-35W_Mississippi_River_bridge</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.google.com&#x2F;amp&#x2F;s&#x2F;www.businessinsider.com&#x2F;asce-gives-us-infrastructure-a-d-2017-3%3famp" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.google.com&#x2F;amp&#x2F;s&#x2F;www.businessinsider.com&#x2F;asce-gi...</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Flint_water_crisis" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Flint_water_crisis</a><p>Politicians like cutting ribbons in their district. They do not like investing in maintenance, and operators are left to scrape together budgets to make things work. They often make bad calls because they’re forced to.<p>This has been known for several decades.<p>The electrical grid in San Jose failed dramatically because someone, yet to be identified, hit a substation off 101 with a rifle. Power engineers constantly warn about incoming failures if we don’t invest in security and maintenance, and power grid security has recently become a Homeland Security concern. The power grid in California has evolved into literally killing people, and they have to turn it off when it’s windy. Yeah. Unparalleled. Your mildly xenophobic subtext of knocking power grids in non-American contexts is noted, but throwing stones and all.<p>I struggle to imagine a scenario where all of this is news to you.</text></comment> |
35,116,265 | 35,116,511 | 1 | 2 | 35,116,003 | train | <story><title>FDIC – SVB FAQ</title><url>https://www.fdic.gov/resources/resolutions/bank-failures/failed-bank-list/silicon-valley.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>brunooo</author><text>NPR had an excellent story of how a bank takeover and wind-down works back in 2009:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.npr.org&#x2F;2009&#x2F;03&#x2F;26&#x2F;102384657&#x2F;anatomy-of-a-bank-takeover" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.npr.org&#x2F;2009&#x2F;03&#x2F;26&#x2F;102384657&#x2F;anatomy-of-a-bank-t...</a><p><i>“On a mid-January night, some 80 agents of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. pull into Vancouver, Wash. Their rental cars are generic, their arrival times staggered. One by one, agents check into a hotel, each quietly offering a pseudonym to the guy at the desk.<p>…<p>He agrees it almost feels like a spy movie. &quot;They&#x27;ve done this before — quite a production,&quot; he says.“</i><p>And in general, for people who are understandably worried: besides the $250k available on Monday morning, my bet is on at least 50% of uninsured deposits by end of the week, and 90-100% if not next week (via acquisition) then within a pretty short time.<p>If Oaktree and others are offering folks 70%+ face value for their uninsured deposits, that should be a pretty strong indication of where this is heading (ie a high confidence level at those shops to make a quick 20-30% off panicky sentiment).<p>Edit, PS:<p>This whole story is so bewildering, probably the only bank I can think of that was killed by its own customers (flaky VC herd) despite being generally healthy and having picked the least worst option last year (maturity risk). VCs now banding together is laudable, but why there wasn’t a Buffett type preferred stock rescue earlier this week to save their literal community bank is kinda beyond me.</text></comment> | <story><title>FDIC – SVB FAQ</title><url>https://www.fdic.gov/resources/resolutions/bank-failures/failed-bank-list/silicon-valley.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>toomuchtodo</author><text>Please take a moment to appreciate and respect that FDIC, as a government agency and regulator, stepped in mid day yesterday and banking operations will resume Monday morning for an orderly wind down.<p>&gt; The main office and all branches of Silicon Valley Bank will reopen on Monday, March 13, 2023. The DINB will maintain Silicon Valley Bank’s normal business hours. Banking activities will resume no later than Monday, March 13, including on-line banking and other services. Silicon Valley Bank’s official checks will continue to clear.</text></comment> |
22,316,888 | 22,316,332 | 1 | 3 | 22,307,270 | train | <story><title>OpenChakra is an open-source visual editor for React</title><url>https://openchakra.app</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>statictype</author><text>Is there any toolkit available that lets you build a UI editor like this?<p>We would like to ship a UI editor with our product that lets you define simple UIs that serialize to json&#x2F;xml but are hesitant because of the effort required and resources at hand.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mmonihan</author><text><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;ResponseVault.com" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;ResponseVault.com</a> is built for that. Drag and drop React form components that can embed in any app. All responses and the form definition are saved in json-schema and can be exported to be used with any package that interprets json-schema.<p>Bring your own components too.</text></comment> | <story><title>OpenChakra is an open-source visual editor for React</title><url>https://openchakra.app</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>statictype</author><text>Is there any toolkit available that lets you build a UI editor like this?<p>We would like to ship a UI editor with our product that lets you define simple UIs that serialize to json&#x2F;xml but are hesitant because of the effort required and resources at hand.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ggurgone</author><text><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blocks-ui.com" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blocks-ui.com</a> is WIP</text></comment> |
9,167,298 | 9,166,941 | 1 | 3 | 9,166,501 | train | <story><title>On Secretly Terrible Engineers</title><url>http://techcrunch.com/2015/03/08/on-secretly-terrible-engineers/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>patio11</author><text>It is, regrettably, not the case that all people who work as software engineers can e.g. code a for loop which counts the numbers of lower-case As in a string. This is true even if you spot them the syntax for a for loop and finding the Nth character in a string. It is equally true if you allow them to complete the task in isolation, at their own computer, given an arbitrary amount of time to complete it.<p>I am, naturally, constrained from saying &quot;Here&#x27;s a list of three of them.&quot; It would not be difficult.<p>It is also, regretfully, not the case that all applications one receives to an advertised position of Senior Ruby on Rails Programmer would be from people who had ever opened a command line.<p>Both of these are very difficult things to accept. They may be even more difficult to accept if one is extraordinarily smart&#x2F;diligent and one studies&#x2F;works solely in organizations which apply brutal IQ&#x2F;diligence filters before one is granted even a scintilla of the admission committee&#x27;s time.<p>I remember, rather vividly, the first time I figured out that an engineer couldn&#x27;t program. I was attempting to tell him where a value was being assigned in a program. After failing to do so over email, I went over to his desk and asked him to navigate to the file at issue. He was unable to do so. I told him I would do it, assuming that he was unfamiliar with the directory structure in that part of the program, and opened the file. I then said &quot;So you see, the assignment is made in the fooBar subroutine.&quot; He couldn&#x27;t find the fooBar subroutine. I said &quot;It is the third method on your screen.&quot; He couldn&#x27;t find it. I said &quot;It is this one, here, which I am pointing to with my finger.&quot; He said &quot;OK, that one. Where is the assignment?&quot;<p>The fooBar subroutine was one statement long.<p>A coworker, having overheard the conversation, stopped at my desk later, and explained to me that, if I had pressing engineering issues, coworkers X and Y would be excellent senior systems engineers to address them to, but that Z should be allowed to &quot;continue to devote his full attention to work which he is well-suited for.&quot;<p>The industry has many destructively untrue beliefs about hiring practices. That there exist at least some people who are not presently capable of doing productive engineering work is not one of these beliefs.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>vonmoltke</author><text>&gt; I am, naturally, constrained from saying &quot;Here&#x27;s a list of three of them.&quot; It would not be difficult.<p>I can&#x27;t. Over my career I have worked with hundreds of engineers and scientists who wrote code. I know zero who are in positions where they have to write code at all, let alone as software engineers, who cannot do that.<p>&gt; Both of these are very difficult things to accept. They may be even more difficult to accept if one is extraordinarily smart&#x2F;diligent and one studies&#x2F;works solely in organizations which apply brutal IQ&#x2F;diligence filters before one is granted even a scintilla of the admission committee&#x27;s time.<p>I spent my first 9.5 years at Raytheon, a company that is very light on the detailed technical aspects of interviewing and very heavy on the behavioral aspects. There are not committees, just the hiring managers and the interviewers. You know, the system that is supposed to have companies awash in these people who supposedly can&#x27;t construct a basic for loop but can bullshit a good game. Never met one. Not at Raytheon, or Northrop, or Lockheed, or Boeing, or any of the other companies I worked with during that period.<p>Sure, most of them were what this community would disparagingly label as &quot;9-5 engineers&quot;, but they all produced code that basically worked and provided some value to the program they were on. Normally if there was a problem it was a political or attitude problem, not one to technical ability.</text></comment> | <story><title>On Secretly Terrible Engineers</title><url>http://techcrunch.com/2015/03/08/on-secretly-terrible-engineers/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>patio11</author><text>It is, regrettably, not the case that all people who work as software engineers can e.g. code a for loop which counts the numbers of lower-case As in a string. This is true even if you spot them the syntax for a for loop and finding the Nth character in a string. It is equally true if you allow them to complete the task in isolation, at their own computer, given an arbitrary amount of time to complete it.<p>I am, naturally, constrained from saying &quot;Here&#x27;s a list of three of them.&quot; It would not be difficult.<p>It is also, regretfully, not the case that all applications one receives to an advertised position of Senior Ruby on Rails Programmer would be from people who had ever opened a command line.<p>Both of these are very difficult things to accept. They may be even more difficult to accept if one is extraordinarily smart&#x2F;diligent and one studies&#x2F;works solely in organizations which apply brutal IQ&#x2F;diligence filters before one is granted even a scintilla of the admission committee&#x27;s time.<p>I remember, rather vividly, the first time I figured out that an engineer couldn&#x27;t program. I was attempting to tell him where a value was being assigned in a program. After failing to do so over email, I went over to his desk and asked him to navigate to the file at issue. He was unable to do so. I told him I would do it, assuming that he was unfamiliar with the directory structure in that part of the program, and opened the file. I then said &quot;So you see, the assignment is made in the fooBar subroutine.&quot; He couldn&#x27;t find the fooBar subroutine. I said &quot;It is the third method on your screen.&quot; He couldn&#x27;t find it. I said &quot;It is this one, here, which I am pointing to with my finger.&quot; He said &quot;OK, that one. Where is the assignment?&quot;<p>The fooBar subroutine was one statement long.<p>A coworker, having overheard the conversation, stopped at my desk later, and explained to me that, if I had pressing engineering issues, coworkers X and Y would be excellent senior systems engineers to address them to, but that Z should be allowed to &quot;continue to devote his full attention to work which he is well-suited for.&quot;<p>The industry has many destructively untrue beliefs about hiring practices. That there exist at least some people who are not presently capable of doing productive engineering work is not one of these beliefs.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pkaye</author><text>An anecdotal case of the worst candidate I interviewed. He was friends of our VP. He had an engineering degree from UC Berkeley. Over 20+ years, he was a consultant for firmware development at 28 positions. The non technical portion of the interview went great and I said I wanted to ask a few coding questions. He was really resistant and used all kinds of excuses. I told him to humor me and code something simple like draw how a linked list works and how the to write the insert function in C. At the point I was totally caught off guard. He knew not a single like of C syntax and just made things up. He didn&#x27;t understand the concept of pointers at all. Later when I talked with my co-workers they had the same feedback. He didn&#x27;t know how to program at all. We wondered how he consulted at 28 companies for the last two decades!</text></comment> |
8,037,470 | 8,037,498 | 1 | 3 | 8,037,108 | train | <story><title>Google Shopping Express</title><url>https://www.google.com/shopping/express/</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>r00fus</author><text>I&#x27;ve been spending thousands a year on Amazon. Last year that changed dramatically. I probably spent half what I used to on Amazon, and the majority of that redirected spending is now spent at GSX.<p>Initially the prices favored Amazon, but as of late, I&#x27;ve been finding things (search: &quot;training pants 3t&quot;) where Amazon is 50%+ more expensive than the local stores through GSX. The same day experience is mind-blowing; I don&#x27;t stop off at the local hardware store, I search for my garage door opener battery model and it&#x27;s on my back porch by the time I get home.<p>Everyone&#x27;s had a guffaw about Amazon&#x27;s automated pricing agent and the $23M book [1], but Google is in a position to really trip them up, unless Amazon gets a reign in on it&#x27;s pricing. And then there&#x27;s the fact that &quot;2 day shipping&quot; pales in comparison to Google&#x27;s same-day experience.<p>I was lucky enough to be in an an area that Google serviced, and would probably have also tried Amazon Fresh, but honestly, the free beta was too good to pass up (and I would have thought twice about the $299&#x2F;y Fresh subscription though I&#x27;m sure it&#x27;s worth it).<p>My only concern is that the deliveries are made from stores nowhere near me really and I&#x27;d be much less guilty if the same brand stores were more local (they&#x27;re losing my business as well right now).<p>[1] <a href="http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2384102,00.asp" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.pcmag.com&#x2F;article2&#x2F;0,2817,2384102,00.asp</a><p>(edit clarity)</text></comment> | <story><title>Google Shopping Express</title><url>https://www.google.com/shopping/express/</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>apendleton</author><text>As far as I can tell, there&#x27;s no way to determine what this is if you&#x27;re not in a zipcode that they serve. I&#x27;m not, so I remain in the dark... not the best user experience.</text></comment> |
38,232,427 | 38,231,951 | 1 | 3 | 38,228,481 | train | <story><title>Archived YouTube Video Finder</title><url>https://findyoutubevideo.thetechrobo.ca/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>IAmNotACellist</author><text>Cultural rot caused by YouTube taking down old videos is a serious problem.<p>There was a YouTube channel I was following for about 15 years, of an older woman who had pet foxes. Her health started declining and she always had on her channel something like, &quot;I&#x27;ll leave these videos up forever.&quot; She passed away and YouTube deleted all her content.<p>The problem is 100x worse for any political content. My YouTube bookmarks from just the past few years is a graveyard of information that&#x27;s not convenient to have around. It&#x27;s even true for politics-related jokes, songs, and memes. They seem to be selected for deletion more often than not, within a few years.</text></comment> | <story><title>Archived YouTube Video Finder</title><url>https://findyoutubevideo.thetechrobo.ca/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>sandyarmstrong</author><text>How timely! Just the other day I was looking for an old conference talk I was involved in, that for some reason had been taken down from YouTube. It was a decent amount of work even finding a link to convince myself it had ever existed.<p>Fortunately, the Wayback Machine had a copy at decent resolution.<p>Thanks for sharing. &lt;3</text></comment> |
37,825,402 | 37,823,692 | 1 | 2 | 37,822,082 | train | <story><title>789 KB Linux Without MMU on RISC-V</title><url>https://popovicu.com/posts/789-kb-linux-without-mmu-riscv/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Medox</author><text>Very interesting! Reminds me of uClinux for the PSP [1]<p>Offtopic regarding the PSP version mentioned above: while doing some quick research right now (remembering that my PSP still works, as tested a couple of weeks ago), I sh*t you not, google gave me my own post from 2010. Right in the nostalgia.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;psplinux.info&#x2F;tag&#x2F;uclinux&#x2F;" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;psplinux.info&#x2F;tag&#x2F;uclinux&#x2F;</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.vogons.org&#x2F;viewtopic.php?t=25416" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.vogons.org&#x2F;viewtopic.php?t=25416</a></text></comment> | <story><title>789 KB Linux Without MMU on RISC-V</title><url>https://popovicu.com/posts/789-kb-linux-without-mmu-riscv/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>wiredfool</author><text>I remember Linux on a floppy in the 2.4 era. You generally needed to do some interesting formatting to the disks to get much of a user land, but you could have a router running from floppy&#x2F;ram in 1.4-&gt;1.7 mb of disk.</text></comment> |
36,748,568 | 36,748,821 | 1 | 2 | 36,744,395 | train | <story><title>Self hosted YouTube media server</title><url>https://www.tubearchivist.com/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>DCKing</author><text>Tube Archivist is quite heavyweight as it&#x27;s meant to do heavy full archiving of YouTube channels and search through positively huge libraries. I&#x27;m getting the sense that it&#x27;s a data hoarding tool, not a casual web video watching tool. I found that I just want to add a few channels to my media library, for which I use Jellyfin already.<p>For people looking for a more lightweight option of that kind, I run the following script hourly [1]. This script uses yt-dlp to go through a text file full of YouTube RSS urls (either a channel RSS or a playlist RSS works for channels where you&#x27;re only interested in a subset of videos) [2] and downloads the latest 5 videos organized in folders based on channel name. I watch these files by adding the output folder in a Jellyfin &quot;Movies&quot; type library sorted by most recent. The script contains a bunch of flags to make sure Jellyfin can display video metadata and thumbnails without any further plugins, and repackages videos in a format that is 1080p yet plays efficiently even in web browsers on devices released in at least the last 10 years.<p>It uses yt-dlp&#x27;s &quot;archive&quot; functionality to keep track of videos it&#x27;s already downloaded such that it only downloads a video once, and I use a separate script to clean out files older than two weeks once in a while. Running the script depends on ffmpeg (just used for repackaging videos, not transcoding!), xq (usually comes packaged with jq or yq) and yt-dlp being installed. You sometimes will need to update yt-dlp if a YouTube side change breaks it.<p>For my personal usage it&#x27;s been honed for a little while and now runs reliably for my purposes at least. Hope it&#x27;s useful to more people.<p>[1]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;pastebin.com&#x2F;s6kSzXrL" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;pastebin.com&#x2F;s6kSzXrL</a><p>[2]: E.g. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;danielmiessler.com&#x2F;p&#x2F;rss-feed-youtube-channel&#x2F;" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;danielmiessler.com&#x2F;p&#x2F;rss-feed-youtube-channel&#x2F;</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Self hosted YouTube media server</title><url>https://www.tubearchivist.com/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>simonw</author><text>I saw this was a Django app so I dug around to look at their models. As far as I can tell this is all they have: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;tubearchivist&#x2F;tubearchivist&#x2F;blob&#x2F;master&#x2F;tubearchivist&#x2F;home&#x2F;models.py">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;tubearchivist&#x2F;tubearchivist&#x2F;blob&#x2F;master&#x2F;t...</a> - just a `Account` model.<p>It looks like Django + SQLite is used for user accounts, but all other data storage happens in Elasticsearch.<p>It&#x27;s an interesting design decision. I would have gone all-in on the database, and used SQLite FTS in place of Elasticsearch for simplicity, but that&#x27;s my own personal favourite stack. Not saying their design is bad, just different.</text></comment> |
30,931,481 | 30,930,469 | 1 | 3 | 30,929,024 | train | <story><title>Debian still having trouble with merged /usr</title><url>https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/890219/79e54e3aab20bd87/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>nickcw</author><text>Just in case anyone is wondering why we had (or used to have) &#x2F;bin and &#x2F;sbin directories as well as &#x2F;usr&#x2F;bin &#x2F;usr&#x2F;sbin here is my understanding of it.<p>It is because on old Unix systems there frequently wasn&#x27;t enough space to store &#x2F;usr on the root disk. Therefore &#x2F;usr was a separate disk which might not be available during boot. This meant that you needed to put all the binaries you needed for boot in &#x2F;bin and &#x2F;sbin because &#x2F;usr&#x2F;bin and &#x2F;usr&#x2F;sbin might not be mounted yet.<p>This no longer makes sense in the days of large disks which fit &#x2F;usr just fine and initrds which can mount all the disks before kicking off the things which might need those binaries. In fact I think the initrd has taken the place of &#x2F;bin and &#x2F;sbin on a modern system containing copies of all the binaries needed to mount the disks (like mount and fsck).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Beltalowda</author><text>&gt; It is because on old Unix systems there frequently wasn&#x27;t enough space to store &#x2F;usr on the root disk.<p>It was really a single system in 1971 that kicked off this trend. Originally &#x2F;usr was for user files, like &#x2F;home is today (do you&#x27;d have &#x2F;usr&#x2F;dmr, &#x2F;usr&#x2F;ken, etc.) &#x2F; and &#x2F;usr were two physical disks, and at some point the &#x2F; disk (a 1 or 2MB disk IIRC) was full to they put some things from &#x2F;bin in &#x2F;usr&#x2F;bin as a hack. And it&#x27;s &quot;stuck&quot; since then. This is why &#x2F;usr has such a weird name, because it was intended for user files (&#x2F;system, &#x2F;software, &#x2F;additional or something would make more sense, abbreviated to &#x2F;sys, &#x2F;sw, or &#x2F;add of course). Initially Unix was a quickly developing system for internal use, but it <i>was</i> actually used and there was often some tension between &quot;do the right thing&quot; vs. &quot;don&#x27;t break too much&quot;. Some of the weird things in C are due to that as well (e.g. &amp;&#x27;s precedence being a good example).<p>I guess some other systems that ran Unix ran in to similar problems, but by the time unix started to gain some adoption in the mid to late 70s disks were larger too, so I don&#x27;t know if it was ever really needed beyond that initial research unix system used only internally at Bell Labs. I believe they updated the disks on the original Unix system not too long after this making this hack superfluous, but they kept it for compatibility (and because it might be useful again in the future).</text></comment> | <story><title>Debian still having trouble with merged /usr</title><url>https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/890219/79e54e3aab20bd87/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>nickcw</author><text>Just in case anyone is wondering why we had (or used to have) &#x2F;bin and &#x2F;sbin directories as well as &#x2F;usr&#x2F;bin &#x2F;usr&#x2F;sbin here is my understanding of it.<p>It is because on old Unix systems there frequently wasn&#x27;t enough space to store &#x2F;usr on the root disk. Therefore &#x2F;usr was a separate disk which might not be available during boot. This meant that you needed to put all the binaries you needed for boot in &#x2F;bin and &#x2F;sbin because &#x2F;usr&#x2F;bin and &#x2F;usr&#x2F;sbin might not be mounted yet.<p>This no longer makes sense in the days of large disks which fit &#x2F;usr just fine and initrds which can mount all the disks before kicking off the things which might need those binaries. In fact I think the initrd has taken the place of &#x2F;bin and &#x2F;sbin on a modern system containing copies of all the binaries needed to mount the disks (like mount and fsck).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ntauthority</author><text>Adding to this historical reasoning, it is to be noted that in traditional Unix, &#x2F;usr was pretty much the equivalent of &#x2F;home in Linux systems: the parent directory for user home directories, i.e. &#x27;usr&#x27;.<p>The existence of &#x2F;usr&#x2F;bin can probably be explained by the reasoning that, just like nowadays Linux systems often have a really big &#x2F;home partition, early Unix systems eventually ran out of space for whatever volume would hold &#x2F;bin, and with &#x27;reinstalling&#x27; not remotely as easy an option as it would be these days, storing an extra &#x27;bin&#x27; etc. directory in the &#x27;larger partition for user directories&#x27; became commonplace.</text></comment> |
27,347,554 | 27,347,198 | 1 | 3 | 27,343,914 | train | <story><title>The Dubrovnik Interviews: Marc Andreessen</title><url>https://niccolo.substack.com/p/the-dubrovnik-interviews-marc-andreessen</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>keiferski</author><text>WEIRD is an acronym for Western, Educated, Industrialized, Rich, and Democratic:<p><i>I find this thesis enormously compelling and largely optimistic. I predict that we -- the West -- are going to WEIRDify the entire world, within the next 50 years, the next two generations. We will do this not by converting non-WEIRD people to WEIRD, but by getting their kids. Their kids, and their kids&#x27; kids, are going to grow up on the Internet at least as much as they grow up in the real world, and the pull of WEIRD culture will overwhelm all existing non-WEIRD cultures. I realize this is a very strong claim, but this process is already underway; at this point I think it&#x27;s inevitable.</i><p>I think he is about 5 years behind on this. While WEIRD culture has definitely been influential worldwide since ~the collapse of the USSR, I think it has reached its local peak. American culture is increasingly seen as something entertaining or strange, not as an aspirational role model. Democracy is losing its prestige and other nation states are starting to construct their own Great Firewalls to keep WEIRD out.<p>Instead, I think we will see something more akin to the Middle Ages. Distributed authorities and sources of power, each with its own internally developing cultures. There will be connections between them, but not the universalizing homogenization he claims.<p>Just my opinion as an American that has been living abroad for the last ~6 years.</text></comment> | <story><title>The Dubrovnik Interviews: Marc Andreessen</title><url>https://niccolo.substack.com/p/the-dubrovnik-interviews-marc-andreessen</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>sithadmin</author><text>For those who aren&#x27;t aware, the interviewer is a founder of Salo Forum, which is an...interesting community. A sort of highbrow version of 4chan &#x2F;pol&#x2F; with a posting style that feels very SomethingAwful.</text></comment> |
40,016,775 | 40,016,593 | 1 | 2 | 40,015,851 | train | <story><title>"Strong focus on aesthetics" contributed to collapse of Norway timber bridge</title><url>https://www.dezeen.com/2024/04/11/tretten-bridge-collapse-norway-timber/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>rdtsc</author><text><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Tretten_Bridge" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Tretten_Bridge</a><p>The ironic part is &quot;The bridge replaced a steel truss bridge built in 1895 at the same location&quot;. Engineers in 1895 knew how to use steel trusses and built a bridge that lasted 100+ years, and in 2012 they decided to use glued wooden beams and it fell apart in 10 years.<p>Well perhaps Plan Arkitekter and Norconsult can take a trip to the archives and see what the engineers in 1895 knew before building any more structures.</text></comment> | <story><title>"Strong focus on aesthetics" contributed to collapse of Norway timber bridge</title><url>https://www.dezeen.com/2024/04/11/tretten-bridge-collapse-norway-timber/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>mperham</author><text>The key line IMO:<p><pre><code> Tretten Bridge was designed while building regulations in Norway were in transition from a national system to European codes.
Provisions for this transitional period enabled the project to follow the older national standards, which unlike the Eurocodes did not account for block shear failure.</code></pre></text></comment> |
35,137,365 | 35,137,774 | 1 | 2 | 35,134,484 | train | <story><title>Influencer parents and the kids who had their childhood made into content</title><url>https://www.teenvogue.com/story/influencer-parents-children-social-media-impact</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>snapplebobapple</author><text>While I find parents doing this extremely concerning I am personally really hesitant to change anything because I can&#x27;t think of any way to change it that doesn&#x27;t seriously hinder normal and not creepy parental uses of images&#x2F;videos of their children. We are already running into overreach problems trying to curtail the stuff we clearly need to curtail (i.e. that guy having to deal with the police for sending his kid&#x27;s pediatrician a picture of some problem) I can&#x27;t imagine what that would end up like if it happened on a large portion of videos shared with your kids in it.</text></item><item><author>PuppyTailWags</author><text>This article unfortunately doesn&#x27;t cover a much darker part of the TikTok children: exploitation of the children for the titillation of online creepers. The Some Place Under Neith podcast goes into this extensively [their &quot;Parasocial Pits Of Hell&quot; series]. It&#x27;s completely legal to vlog your children in swimming outfits or a similar level of skin exposure, have the children sing or perform for their &quot;fans&quot;, and encourage their children to form participate in parasocial relationships with the audience. It nets mad money.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.stitcher.com&#x2F;show&#x2F;some-place-under-neith" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.stitcher.com&#x2F;show&#x2F;some-place-under-neith</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ryandrake</author><text>I like the (for some reason downvoted) reasonable suggestion by someone else to simply not monetize videos containing children. Doesn&#x27;t YouTube already have some kind of classifier that finds children in videos, which lets them turn off commenting on those videos? Just extend that to also de-monetize them.<p>Sure, it doesn&#x27;t solve the problem of child videos using other monetization channels like product placement, sponsorships and so on but don&#x27;t let perfect be the enemy of good.</text></comment> | <story><title>Influencer parents and the kids who had their childhood made into content</title><url>https://www.teenvogue.com/story/influencer-parents-children-social-media-impact</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>snapplebobapple</author><text>While I find parents doing this extremely concerning I am personally really hesitant to change anything because I can&#x27;t think of any way to change it that doesn&#x27;t seriously hinder normal and not creepy parental uses of images&#x2F;videos of their children. We are already running into overreach problems trying to curtail the stuff we clearly need to curtail (i.e. that guy having to deal with the police for sending his kid&#x27;s pediatrician a picture of some problem) I can&#x27;t imagine what that would end up like if it happened on a large portion of videos shared with your kids in it.</text></item><item><author>PuppyTailWags</author><text>This article unfortunately doesn&#x27;t cover a much darker part of the TikTok children: exploitation of the children for the titillation of online creepers. The Some Place Under Neith podcast goes into this extensively [their &quot;Parasocial Pits Of Hell&quot; series]. It&#x27;s completely legal to vlog your children in swimming outfits or a similar level of skin exposure, have the children sing or perform for their &quot;fans&quot;, and encourage their children to form participate in parasocial relationships with the audience. It nets mad money.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.stitcher.com&#x2F;show&#x2F;some-place-under-neith" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.stitcher.com&#x2F;show&#x2F;some-place-under-neith</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>stametseater</author><text>&gt; <i>While I find parents doing this extremely concerning I am personally really hesitant to change anything because I can&#x27;t think of any way to change it that doesn&#x27;t seriously hinder normal and not creepy parental uses of images&#x2F;videos of their children</i><p>Ban the commercialization of videos and images containing kids. No more child actors, singers, models, etc. Remove the child labor law exceptions which have been given to these industries.</text></comment> |
7,225,085 | 7,224,926 | 1 | 3 | 7,223,969 | train | <story><title>Hemingway makes your writing bold and clear</title><url>http://www.hemingwayapp.com/</url><text>Great for testing your copy</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>acqq</author><text>Forcing somebody to write short sentences wouldn&#x27;t improve his writing.</text></item><item><author>onion2k</author><text>You might not be able to force people to write well, but you can help them not write badly. That&#x27;s the point of apps like this one - mediocre is better than bad. Once someone has improved their writing to the point where this app is no longer useful they can easily switch to something else.<p>Writing is a skill that few people have really learnt to do well. For them, following some &quot;random rules&quot; <i>will</i> improve what they write.<p>Regarding writing 500 line functions in code: very occasionally you need that, but there&#x27;s nothing wrong with an IDE that points it out and asks if it&#x27;s <i>really</i> a good idea, and for new developers who would do that sort of thing all the damn time it&#x27;d be very useful in improving what they come up with.<p>Learn the rules first, then learn when they don&#x27;t apply.</text></item><item><author>acqq</author><text>I believe the logic behind HemingwayApp is misguided:<p>Hemingway the writer actually wrote long sentences and they were actually important in his writing.<p>Passive is also important in good writing.<p>You can&#x27;t use machine metrics to force &quot;good writing&quot; you can only enforce mediocrity and the following some random rules &quot;because the rules have to be followed.&quot;<p>Likewise, I as a writer of the software would absolutely hate to run some program to tell me &quot;this function has more than 10 lines&quot; or whatever. If I wrote 500 lines function it doesn&#x27;t mean it shouldn&#x27;t be that long: there are examples where exactly such functions are still necessary and good. Such automatic evaluations are for managers who probably don&#x27;t understand what they enforce. Pointy-haired bosses, if you will.<p>So I see HemingwayApp as the pointy-haired-editor app.<p>(Edit: Improving the text based on the human input, thanks Agathos!)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>normloman</author><text>Yeah it does. Long sentences are harder to read. Bad writers write too many long sentences, and it makes their writing difficult to parse. So just forcing them to write shorter sentences will improve their writing a great deal.<p>That said, a good writer will know when using a long sentence is the right choice for emphasis. And there&#x27;s no way this program could ever develop that level of good judgement. This program isn&#x27;t good for writers. It&#x27;s good for non writers who want to quickly improve their shitty writing without effort.</text></comment> | <story><title>Hemingway makes your writing bold and clear</title><url>http://www.hemingwayapp.com/</url><text>Great for testing your copy</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>acqq</author><text>Forcing somebody to write short sentences wouldn&#x27;t improve his writing.</text></item><item><author>onion2k</author><text>You might not be able to force people to write well, but you can help them not write badly. That&#x27;s the point of apps like this one - mediocre is better than bad. Once someone has improved their writing to the point where this app is no longer useful they can easily switch to something else.<p>Writing is a skill that few people have really learnt to do well. For them, following some &quot;random rules&quot; <i>will</i> improve what they write.<p>Regarding writing 500 line functions in code: very occasionally you need that, but there&#x27;s nothing wrong with an IDE that points it out and asks if it&#x27;s <i>really</i> a good idea, and for new developers who would do that sort of thing all the damn time it&#x27;d be very useful in improving what they come up with.<p>Learn the rules first, then learn when they don&#x27;t apply.</text></item><item><author>acqq</author><text>I believe the logic behind HemingwayApp is misguided:<p>Hemingway the writer actually wrote long sentences and they were actually important in his writing.<p>Passive is also important in good writing.<p>You can&#x27;t use machine metrics to force &quot;good writing&quot; you can only enforce mediocrity and the following some random rules &quot;because the rules have to be followed.&quot;<p>Likewise, I as a writer of the software would absolutely hate to run some program to tell me &quot;this function has more than 10 lines&quot; or whatever. If I wrote 500 lines function it doesn&#x27;t mean it shouldn&#x27;t be that long: there are examples where exactly such functions are still necessary and good. Such automatic evaluations are for managers who probably don&#x27;t understand what they enforce. Pointy-haired bosses, if you will.<p>So I see HemingwayApp as the pointy-haired-editor app.<p>(Edit: Improving the text based on the human input, thanks Agathos!)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jiggy2011</author><text>I find on average that it does, especially with less skilled writers.</text></comment> |
40,435,683 | 40,435,380 | 1 | 2 | 40,434,800 | train | <story><title>Sam Altman is showing us who he really is</title><url>https://slate.com/technology/2024/05/scarlett-johansson-ai-voice-sam-altman-openai.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>frankacter</author><text>While not defending OpenAI or Altman, the caveat here is that this was a voice actor using their natural voice, not an actor impersonating scarlett johansson.<p>Setting a precedent that if your natural voice sounds similar to a more famous actor precludes you from work would be a terrible precedent to set.</text></item><item><author>LeonB</author><text>In back to the future II, Crispin Glover didn’t sign up to be George McFly so they used facial prosthetics and impersonation to continue the George McFly character.<p>He sued Universal, and reportedly settled for $760,000.<p>Example article on the topic - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.hollywoodreporter.com&#x2F;business&#x2F;business-news&#x2F;back-future-ii-a-legal-833705&#x2F;amp&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.hollywoodreporter.com&#x2F;business&#x2F;business-news&#x2F;bac...</a></text></item><item><author>miohtama</author><text>There are hundreds of people with similar voices. If any voice actor can pull the same accent than Ms. Johansson, it should be fair game, as long it was the original training material? Voices cannot be copyrighted or be exclusive, although I am sure Hollywood will try to copyright them in some point.</text></item><item><author>panarky</author><text>Altman would have us believe it&#x27;s all just an innocent misunderstanding but without actually saying so:<p><i>&quot;We cast the voice actor behind Sky’s voice before any outreach to Ms. Johansson.&quot;</i><p>Is he trying to suggest the company did not try to make the voice sound like her without her permission?<p>The statement sounds like it&#x27;s written by a lawyer to be technically true while implying something that is actually false.<p>These are weasel words.<p>He sounds sneaky, evasive and intentionally deceptive.<p>We should not give a sneaky, deceptive and manipulative person this much power over our future.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dragonwriter</author><text>&gt; Setting a precedent that if your natural voice sounds similar to a more famous actor precludes you from work would be a terrible precedent to set.<p>Yes, but literally no one anywhere is suggesting that the voice actress used would be banned from work because of any similarity between her voice and Johansson&#x27;s; that’s an irrelevant strawman.<p>Some people <i>are</i> arguing that there is considerable reason to believe that the totality of the circumstances of OpenAI’s particular use of her voice would make OpenAI liable under existing right of personality precedent, which, again, does not create liability for mere similarity of voice.</text></comment> | <story><title>Sam Altman is showing us who he really is</title><url>https://slate.com/technology/2024/05/scarlett-johansson-ai-voice-sam-altman-openai.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>frankacter</author><text>While not defending OpenAI or Altman, the caveat here is that this was a voice actor using their natural voice, not an actor impersonating scarlett johansson.<p>Setting a precedent that if your natural voice sounds similar to a more famous actor precludes you from work would be a terrible precedent to set.</text></item><item><author>LeonB</author><text>In back to the future II, Crispin Glover didn’t sign up to be George McFly so they used facial prosthetics and impersonation to continue the George McFly character.<p>He sued Universal, and reportedly settled for $760,000.<p>Example article on the topic - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.hollywoodreporter.com&#x2F;business&#x2F;business-news&#x2F;back-future-ii-a-legal-833705&#x2F;amp&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.hollywoodreporter.com&#x2F;business&#x2F;business-news&#x2F;bac...</a></text></item><item><author>miohtama</author><text>There are hundreds of people with similar voices. If any voice actor can pull the same accent than Ms. Johansson, it should be fair game, as long it was the original training material? Voices cannot be copyrighted or be exclusive, although I am sure Hollywood will try to copyright them in some point.</text></item><item><author>panarky</author><text>Altman would have us believe it&#x27;s all just an innocent misunderstanding but without actually saying so:<p><i>&quot;We cast the voice actor behind Sky’s voice before any outreach to Ms. Johansson.&quot;</i><p>Is he trying to suggest the company did not try to make the voice sound like her without her permission?<p>The statement sounds like it&#x27;s written by a lawyer to be technically true while implying something that is actually false.<p>These are weasel words.<p>He sounds sneaky, evasive and intentionally deceptive.<p>We should not give a sneaky, deceptive and manipulative person this much power over our future.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>hluska</author><text>If we assume that Scarlett Johansson is telling the truth, why would they try to resume negotiations with her two days before they launched the model? If they found a good actor whose voice sounds like Scarlett Johansson, that’s a great argument. But if they found a good actor whose voice sounds like Scarlett Johansson because the real Scarlett Johansson said no, that gets more questionable.<p>When they did all that and still promoted the launch by directly referring to a Scarlett Johansson role, it got even more questionable.<p>I’m not pulling out my pitchforks but this is reckless.</text></comment> |
9,344,287 | 9,343,877 | 1 | 2 | 9,342,994 | train | <story><title>I Quit: What really goes on at Apple</title><url>http://roadlesstravelled.me/2015/04/06/why-steve-jobs-motivated-me-to-quit-apple/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>throwaway6497</author><text>With this negative image among developers in the Valley, how is Apple able to attract top quality engineers? They probably are not. Anecdotally, I still haven&#x27;t met one single engineer who would love to work for Apple though they love using Apple products.<p>Apple is not even on the list of all top graduating kids who wants a job in top valley firms (Google, FB, Dropbox, Twitter, AirBnB, Uber, Pinterest, LinkedIn, Quora, other promising startups). Any software engineer who is in the valley for a while (and heard the inside horror stories of working for Apple) wouldn&#x27;t want to work there. There is no way in hell, senior engineers from the new age tech companies (listed above) will go to Apple. Apple will have a hard-time poaching them. Based on this, I have to conclude that most good engineers@Apple are candidates who have a tenure of more than 15 years and are aging. All, relatively new Apple employees are either left-overs in the talent-pool who couldn&#x27;t make the cut to the above top firms&#x2F;startups or really B-grade senior engineers. What is Apple&#x27;s strategy of thriving in a knowledge economy, when the only asset you need are &quot;great people&quot; to succeed in the long term. They probably have great hardware engineers. It is a travesty that though they are the richest company in the world, they still couldn&#x27;t build a compelling cloud services suite which is better and cheaper than what Dropbox, Google, Box, Microsoft can provide. This comment, will probably ruffle a few feathers. [updated for typos&#x2F;grammar]</text></item><item><author>nostrademons</author><text>One of my friends used to work at Apple. After one particular grueling stint of 14+ hour days, management decided to give them a thank-you. In the form of vouchers. For frozen dinners. Meanwhile, all of his friends worked for Google, we got gourmet food every meal of the week as a standard perk, and we were usually home by 8 or 9 PM rather than midnight. It&#x27;s sorta like &quot;Your &#x27;thank you&#x27; is really more like a giant &#x27;fuck you&#x27;&quot;.<p>He works for Google now.<p>My cousin also works for Apple, and after complaining about crunch time and how he had to check the bug queue when I was visiting him on a Saturday, I asked him &quot;So, how long has crunch time lasted?&quot; He replied, &quot;Oh, about 18 months. Makes it really hard to date when I don&#x27;t get any weekends.&quot; (He&#x27;s in his 40s now, still no girlfriend.)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>golergka</author><text>From the outside, it definitely looks like the closer it gets to hardware, the better engineers at Apple get. Metal is awesome, Metal shading language and recent clang progress not bad too, Swift a little bit wonky but interesting — but the quality of their customer-facing software, especially ui stuff (not design, but I engineering) is getting worse and worse. It just doesn&#x27;t &quot;just work&quot; anymore.</text></comment> | <story><title>I Quit: What really goes on at Apple</title><url>http://roadlesstravelled.me/2015/04/06/why-steve-jobs-motivated-me-to-quit-apple/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>throwaway6497</author><text>With this negative image among developers in the Valley, how is Apple able to attract top quality engineers? They probably are not. Anecdotally, I still haven&#x27;t met one single engineer who would love to work for Apple though they love using Apple products.<p>Apple is not even on the list of all top graduating kids who wants a job in top valley firms (Google, FB, Dropbox, Twitter, AirBnB, Uber, Pinterest, LinkedIn, Quora, other promising startups). Any software engineer who is in the valley for a while (and heard the inside horror stories of working for Apple) wouldn&#x27;t want to work there. There is no way in hell, senior engineers from the new age tech companies (listed above) will go to Apple. Apple will have a hard-time poaching them. Based on this, I have to conclude that most good engineers@Apple are candidates who have a tenure of more than 15 years and are aging. All, relatively new Apple employees are either left-overs in the talent-pool who couldn&#x27;t make the cut to the above top firms&#x2F;startups or really B-grade senior engineers. What is Apple&#x27;s strategy of thriving in a knowledge economy, when the only asset you need are &quot;great people&quot; to succeed in the long term. They probably have great hardware engineers. It is a travesty that though they are the richest company in the world, they still couldn&#x27;t build a compelling cloud services suite which is better and cheaper than what Dropbox, Google, Box, Microsoft can provide. This comment, will probably ruffle a few feathers. [updated for typos&#x2F;grammar]</text></item><item><author>nostrademons</author><text>One of my friends used to work at Apple. After one particular grueling stint of 14+ hour days, management decided to give them a thank-you. In the form of vouchers. For frozen dinners. Meanwhile, all of his friends worked for Google, we got gourmet food every meal of the week as a standard perk, and we were usually home by 8 or 9 PM rather than midnight. It&#x27;s sorta like &quot;Your &#x27;thank you&#x27; is really more like a giant &#x27;fuck you&#x27;&quot;.<p>He works for Google now.<p>My cousin also works for Apple, and after complaining about crunch time and how he had to check the bug queue when I was visiting him on a Saturday, I asked him &quot;So, how long has crunch time lasted?&quot; He replied, &quot;Oh, about 18 months. Makes it really hard to date when I don&#x27;t get any weekends.&quot; (He&#x27;s in his 40s now, still no girlfriend.)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>eastbayjake</author><text>Acqui-hires, amigo... swallow a company, fire the bottom 10%, give the rest offers, see who sticks around after 1-2 years. They&#x27;re gobbling up companies so fast that they&#x27;re running out of office space to house them all.</text></comment> |
34,948,599 | 34,948,696 | 1 | 3 | 34,946,844 | train | <story><title>“Yes, if”: Iterating on our RFC Process</title><url>https://engineering.squarespace.com/blog/2019/the-power-of-yes-if</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>JohnBooty</author><text>I wonder if anybody&#x27;s had similar experiences...<p>I&#x27;ve worked at two companies with RFC processes. At both companies, the processes were -- and I hate to use such a strong word -- a total <i>sham.</i><p>I suppose the processes were crafted to look like some egalitarian meritocracy. In reality, it was just a test of who had the most political pull. If you had management on your side, your &quot;RFC&quot; was effectively law and dissenting voices were effectively career suicide.<p>Which, you know... fine. I understand that choices are made based on cliques and political capital rather than anything else. Cool. That&#x27;s okay! Sucks sometimes, but that&#x27;s how the world works. Hopefully your org structure itself is at least <i>something</i> of a meritocracy, so that edicts from on high are of a generally high-enough quality. If they get it right-ish often enough, your org will be okay... probably.<p>But what really rankled me was the fact that the RFC processes amounted to some kind of elaborate cosplay so that, I guess, folks could pretend that there was some sort of healthy collaborative process. If you&#x27;re going to let a few &quot;popular and management-blessed&quot; engineers make all the decisions, <i>fine</i>, but don&#x27;t add insult to injury by pretending otherwise.<p>I&#x27;ve heard similar things from others, elsewhere. I hope there are at least a few companies dedicated to being something better.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>miketery</author><text>I think the most important part of these processes is to document what’s being proposed and have a period for comments &#x2F; inputs. I also think it’s ok for a monarchy as opposed to democracy ruling what gets approved, assuming merit based is not an option.<p>In general merits (rationality?) can bubble up if it’s framed in correct way for upper levels (eg. risk, profit, time horizon), and can then sway the position.<p>But yes on average what’s decide at upper levels is gospel. But that’s how corporations function, and that’s ok.</text></comment> | <story><title>“Yes, if”: Iterating on our RFC Process</title><url>https://engineering.squarespace.com/blog/2019/the-power-of-yes-if</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>JohnBooty</author><text>I wonder if anybody&#x27;s had similar experiences...<p>I&#x27;ve worked at two companies with RFC processes. At both companies, the processes were -- and I hate to use such a strong word -- a total <i>sham.</i><p>I suppose the processes were crafted to look like some egalitarian meritocracy. In reality, it was just a test of who had the most political pull. If you had management on your side, your &quot;RFC&quot; was effectively law and dissenting voices were effectively career suicide.<p>Which, you know... fine. I understand that choices are made based on cliques and political capital rather than anything else. Cool. That&#x27;s okay! Sucks sometimes, but that&#x27;s how the world works. Hopefully your org structure itself is at least <i>something</i> of a meritocracy, so that edicts from on high are of a generally high-enough quality. If they get it right-ish often enough, your org will be okay... probably.<p>But what really rankled me was the fact that the RFC processes amounted to some kind of elaborate cosplay so that, I guess, folks could pretend that there was some sort of healthy collaborative process. If you&#x27;re going to let a few &quot;popular and management-blessed&quot; engineers make all the decisions, <i>fine</i>, but don&#x27;t add insult to injury by pretending otherwise.<p>I&#x27;ve heard similar things from others, elsewhere. I hope there are at least a few companies dedicated to being something better.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Scubabear68</author><text>Yep. Things like architectural review boards, RFC processes, corporate-wide approvals, etc are more about politics than anything else.<p>Often - not always, but often - the people seeking to sit on these committees are the least likely to be able to actually build software. It is a function of these kinds of boards that will invariably draw those who aren’t so great at coding or architecture.<p>A bit like being a film critic or book reviewer.</text></comment> |
31,673,492 | 31,673,714 | 1 | 3 | 31,673,068 | train | <story><title>The human toll of Fallout 76’s launch</title><url>https://kotaku.com/bethesda-zenimax-fallout-76-crunch-development-1849033233</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>uejfiweun</author><text>It seems pretty clear to me that in the video games industry (and pretty much any &#x27;art&#x27; industry for that matter) great results are driven by singular, great people. Todd Howard was the mind behind TES and Fallout 3&#x2F;4. Hidetaka Miyazaki was the mind behind Souls &#x2F; Elden Ring. Shigeru Miyamoto was the mind behind Mario. And it&#x27;s because these people really care about the product they are making. They have PASSION.<p>When it comes to a game like 76, which was clearly mandated by some greedy executives who don&#x27;t play games, the lack of passion permeates the whole game. From what the article describes it seems like nobody wanted to work on this thing - not the QA, not the devs, not the managers. The end result is no surprise. Nobody cared.<p>If I was a games exec, I would do everything to empower the great minds that produce great games to pursue the projects they are passionate about. Unfortunately there are a lot of very successful companies out there that do the exact opposite of that, but the tide seems to be turning.<p>EDIT: I want to clarify that part and parcel with being a talented passionate game director is the ability to build a great team and keep the team motivated. Obviously passion isn&#x27;t the only ingredient to make a great game. As with any other massive undertaking, teams of humans are what get the job done. I simply observe that these singular figures have the two-part gift of understanding what makes a great game, and also being able to attract others who can help execute that vision.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>meheleventyone</author><text>&gt; It seems pretty clear to me that in the video games industry (and pretty much any &#x27;art&#x27; industry for that matter) great results are driven by singular, great people.<p>I can assure you from working inside said industry that this is not often the case, if ever.<p>Edit to add: great results are driven by great teams.</text></comment> | <story><title>The human toll of Fallout 76’s launch</title><url>https://kotaku.com/bethesda-zenimax-fallout-76-crunch-development-1849033233</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>uejfiweun</author><text>It seems pretty clear to me that in the video games industry (and pretty much any &#x27;art&#x27; industry for that matter) great results are driven by singular, great people. Todd Howard was the mind behind TES and Fallout 3&#x2F;4. Hidetaka Miyazaki was the mind behind Souls &#x2F; Elden Ring. Shigeru Miyamoto was the mind behind Mario. And it&#x27;s because these people really care about the product they are making. They have PASSION.<p>When it comes to a game like 76, which was clearly mandated by some greedy executives who don&#x27;t play games, the lack of passion permeates the whole game. From what the article describes it seems like nobody wanted to work on this thing - not the QA, not the devs, not the managers. The end result is no surprise. Nobody cared.<p>If I was a games exec, I would do everything to empower the great minds that produce great games to pursue the projects they are passionate about. Unfortunately there are a lot of very successful companies out there that do the exact opposite of that, but the tide seems to be turning.<p>EDIT: I want to clarify that part and parcel with being a talented passionate game director is the ability to build a great team and keep the team motivated. Obviously passion isn&#x27;t the only ingredient to make a great game. As with any other massive undertaking, teams of humans are what get the job done. I simply observe that these singular figures have the two-part gift of understanding what makes a great game, and also being able to attract others who can help execute that vision.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>synu</author><text>I worked in the video game industry for a long time. This is a story you’re being sold - it’s the teams who build great games, not some singular great passionate mind. It’s a way for marketing teams to build a brand, not much more than that.</text></comment> |
8,565,693 | 8,565,559 | 1 | 2 | 8,565,011 | train | <story><title>If you use a Mac or Android, e-commerce sites may be charging you more</title><url>http://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2014/11/03/if-you-use-a-mac-or-an-android-e-commerce-sites-may-be-charging-you-more/?tid=rssfeed</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>bdkoepke</author><text>I use <a href="http://camelcamelcamel.com" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;camelcamelcamel.com</a> for amazon price tracking. Does anyone know of any other websites like this with price tracking?<p>For instance, Artificial intelligence a modern approach is $135 right now, but using this site I can see that it was &lt;$90 in January of this year and it hit $100 in September: <a href="http://camelcamelcamel.com/Artificial-Intelligence-Modern-Approach-Edition/product/0136042597?context=browse" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;camelcamelcamel.com&#x2F;Artificial-Intelligence-Modern-Ap...</a><p>Same story with Introduction to Algorithms, except it is now $80 and the lowest it hit was $44 in October: <a href="http://camelcamelcamel.com/Introduction-Algorithms-Edition-Thomas-Cormen/product/0262033844?context=browse" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;camelcamelcamel.com&#x2F;Introduction-Algorithms-Edition-T...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>If you use a Mac or Android, e-commerce sites may be charging you more</title><url>http://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2014/11/03/if-you-use-a-mac-or-an-android-e-commerce-sites-may-be-charging-you-more/?tid=rssfeed</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>justcommenting</author><text>these practices are converging on something like a 21st century version of redlining, and i hope consumer advocates will work to expose and address these modern forms of <i>opaque</i> price discrimination.<p>some may claim that these practices can benefit consumers, but unless it&#x27;s done transparently in ways that consumers know and understand, it primarily serves to increase information asymmetry.</text></comment> |
22,461,234 | 22,461,093 | 1 | 2 | 22,460,630 | train | <story><title>Modeling the effectiveness of respiratory masks in reducing influenza (2018)</title><url>https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30229968</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Leary</author><text>The US has 12 million N95 in stockpile, another 5 million N95 that expired.<p>The US has 30 million surgical masks in stockpile.<p>The US needs 300 million N95 masks for medical professionals. [1]<p>[1]
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cnbc.com&#x2F;2020&#x2F;02&#x2F;28&#x2F;us-mulls-using-sweeping-powers-to-ramp-up-production-of-coronavirus-protective-gear.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cnbc.com&#x2F;2020&#x2F;02&#x2F;28&#x2F;us-mulls-using-sweeping-powe...</a><p>Therefore it is rational for public health policy to reserve high quality masks for medical professionals, regardless of their effectiveness for the general public.<p>I wonder how many masks they can manufacture a week in this emergency.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jvanderbot</author><text>This. &quot;Don&#x27;t bother with masks&quot; is actually &quot;There is insufficient evidence to show that wearing masks is effective at preventing spread of disease&quot;, coupled with &quot;Please don&#x27;t take away our supply of masks that are for health care workers&quot;.<p>If masks didn&#x27;t stop the spread of disease, nobody, even doctors, would bother. The problem is that mask usage writ large does not have a cost&#x2F;benefit point that warrants recommendation by CDC.</text></comment> | <story><title>Modeling the effectiveness of respiratory masks in reducing influenza (2018)</title><url>https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30229968</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Leary</author><text>The US has 12 million N95 in stockpile, another 5 million N95 that expired.<p>The US has 30 million surgical masks in stockpile.<p>The US needs 300 million N95 masks for medical professionals. [1]<p>[1]
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cnbc.com&#x2F;2020&#x2F;02&#x2F;28&#x2F;us-mulls-using-sweeping-powers-to-ramp-up-production-of-coronavirus-protective-gear.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cnbc.com&#x2F;2020&#x2F;02&#x2F;28&#x2F;us-mulls-using-sweeping-powe...</a><p>Therefore it is rational for public health policy to reserve high quality masks for medical professionals, regardless of their effectiveness for the general public.<p>I wonder how many masks they can manufacture a week in this emergency.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Terretta</author><text>If 80% of people who get this are fine, 20% aren’t fine. Some stats suggest 14% severe, 6% ICU. Someone’s going to have to be taking care of all these categories of severity.<p>One scenario is home care, with only the severest cases transferred to a medical facility. In that scenario, the “general public” may need to be healthcare providers.</text></comment> |
31,416,726 | 31,412,711 | 1 | 2 | 31,411,067 | train | <story><title>Super-Structured Data: Rethinking the Schema</title><url>https://www.brimdata.io/blog/super-structured-data/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>simonw</author><text>&gt; The idea here is that instead of manually creating schemas, what if the schemas were automatically created for you? When something doesn’t fit in a table, how about automatically adding columns for the missing fields?<p>I&#x27;ve been experimenting with this approach against SQLite for a few years now, and I really like it.<p>My sqlite-utils package does exactly this. Try running this on the command line:<p><pre><code> brew install sqlite-utils
echo &#x27;[
{&quot;id&quot;: 1, &quot;name&quot;: &quot;Cleo&quot;},
{&quot;id&quot;: 2, &quot;name&quot;: &quot;Azy&quot;, &quot;age&quot;: 1.5}
]&#x27; | sqlite-utils insert &#x2F;tmp&#x2F;demo.db creatures - --pk id
sqlite-utils schema &#x2F;tmp&#x2F;demo.db
</code></pre>
It outputs the generated schema:<p><pre><code> CREATE TABLE [creatures] (
[id] INTEGER PRIMARY KEY,
[name] TEXT,
[age] FLOAT
);
</code></pre>
When you insert more data you can use the --alter flag to have it automatically create any missing columns.<p>Full documentation here: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;sqlite-utils.datasette.io&#x2F;en&#x2F;stable&#x2F;cli.html#inserting-json-data" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;sqlite-utils.datasette.io&#x2F;en&#x2F;stable&#x2F;cli.html#inserti...</a><p>It&#x27;s also available as a Python library: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;sqlite-utils.datasette.io&#x2F;en&#x2F;stable&#x2F;python-api.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;sqlite-utils.datasette.io&#x2F;en&#x2F;stable&#x2F;python-api.html</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Super-Structured Data: Rethinking the Schema</title><url>https://www.brimdata.io/blog/super-structured-data/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>mamcx</author><text>Note: The relational model (even SQL) is THIS.<p>Despite the claims, SQL is NOT &quot;schema-fixed&quot;.<p>You can 100% create new schemas, alter them and modify them.<p>What actual happens is that if you have a CENTRAL repository of data (aka &quot;source of truth&quot;), then you bet you wanna &quot;freeze&quot; your schemas (because is like a API, where you need to fulfill contracts).<p>--<p>SQL have limitations in lack of composability, the biggest reason &quot;NoSQL&quot; work is this: A JSON is composable. A &quot;stringy&quot; SQL is not. If SQL were really around &quot;relations, tupes&quot; like (stealing from my project, TablaM):<p><pre><code> [Customer id:i32, name:Str; 1, &quot;Jhon&quot;]
</code></pre>
then developers will have less reason to go elsewhere.</text></comment> |
28,518,248 | 28,516,891 | 1 | 2 | 28,516,219 | train | <story><title>Intuit to Acquire Mailchimp for $12B</title><url>https://www.investors.intuit.com/news/news-details/2021/Intuit-to-Acquire-Mailchimp/default.aspx</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>williamsmj</author><text>Not so for the employees <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;ekp&#x2F;status&#x2F;1437516618553192449" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;ekp&#x2F;status&#x2F;1437516618553192449</a></text></item><item><author>gigatexal</author><text>wow -- the founders are going to make out like bandits. No outside funding means no dilution.</text></item><item><author>switz</author><text>Here are some numbers I dug up:<p>Mailchimp has ~13MM users and 800k paying customers. In 2019 they had revenues of $700MM. In 2020 they had EBITDA of ~$300MM.<p>They are fully bootstrapped and have taken on zero outside funding.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>shruubi</author><text>If the company can afford to offer competitive and attractive salaries to its employees, why would they offer equity? If I am a business owner and can afford to pay my staff well, why would I give up a portion of my company to the employees when I don&#x27;t have to?<p>This is not some great injustice or a company acting in any kind of morally questionable way. In fact, it would be more accurate to say that in the grand scheme of things (not just the tech bubble), offering equity to employees is the exception, not the norm.</text></comment> | <story><title>Intuit to Acquire Mailchimp for $12B</title><url>https://www.investors.intuit.com/news/news-details/2021/Intuit-to-Acquire-Mailchimp/default.aspx</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>williamsmj</author><text>Not so for the employees <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;ekp&#x2F;status&#x2F;1437516618553192449" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;ekp&#x2F;status&#x2F;1437516618553192449</a></text></item><item><author>gigatexal</author><text>wow -- the founders are going to make out like bandits. No outside funding means no dilution.</text></item><item><author>switz</author><text>Here are some numbers I dug up:<p>Mailchimp has ~13MM users and 800k paying customers. In 2019 they had revenues of $700MM. In 2020 they had EBITDA of ~$300MM.<p>They are fully bootstrapped and have taken on zero outside funding.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>graeme</author><text>Giving employees equity is a form of funding. If a company is bootstrapped and profitable, they can just pay employees money instead. In theory this should mean Mailchimp employees were paid more money than employees doing similar work where they were given stock options.</text></comment> |
20,168,495 | 20,165,522 | 1 | 2 | 20,163,243 | train | <story><title>Seattle has stopped charging people for personal drug possession</title><url>https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/public-safety/no-charges-for-personal-drug-possession-seattles-bold-gamble-to-bring-peace-after-the-war-on-drugs/2019/06/11/69a7bb46-7285-11e9-9f06-5fc2ee80027a_story.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>docbrown</author><text>If homelessness is a problem, why should the alternative be to put them in jail or prison? For something as simple as car camping, it seems like an unjustifiable punishment for a simple offense. Without getting into much of a semantics argument, this post itself puts off a sense of “pull yourself up by the bootstraps” attitude when it comes to homelessness. In a city that has a GDP of $231 billion in 2010[1], it seems ineffective to punish the homeless instead of trying to rid the city of the problem in a more productive manner than hauling offenders away. While public consumption of drugs should still be a citational offense, the simple possession of a drug should not be a jail sentence. There are many users that have deeper issues that need to be worked out to rid them of their addiction and putting them into confinement is not always the most effective way. Seattle needs to invest in safe injection sites, public health programs, and they need to build more shelters for their homeless. In today’s society, homeless are looked at as the bottom of the feeder chain, but when we do that, we begin to strip people of their humanity and instead we look at them as simply statistics or an nuance.<p>1: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.greyhilladvisors.com&#x2F;gross-metropolitan-product&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.greyhilladvisors.com&#x2F;gross-metropolitan-product&#x2F;</a></text></item><item><author>dogmatic_di</author><text>As someone living there right now the article really doesn&#x27;t properly cover the discontent in the city.<p>There is an overwhelming sense that Seattle has done too much to encourage homelessness (particularly with the expansion of policies like this one). &quot;Tent City&quot; has spread so far that it&#x27;s getting into the suburbs and from a residents perspective it&#x27;s getting far worse not better. I have routinely seen people shooting up and smoking glass pipes (not marijuana) in broad daylight in the Downtown and Pioneer Square areas. There&#x27;s shouting, theft, property crime at all hours of the night near my apartment (Though strangely compared to SF I know very few people who have had their cars broken into).<p>Regardless of the tone of this article, Seattle is not a model to follow, it&#x27;s a cautionary tale.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>natalyarostova</author><text>A tremendous amount of these homeless don&#x27;t <i>want</i> to quit heroin. They don&#x27;t <i>want</i> to live in shelters. They <i>want</i> to live in a tent and shoot heroin.<p>There is a heroin addict that lives on one street I use to walk to work. He can&#x27;t have more than a few years to live, he&#x27;s as broken as humans get. The street he lives on is littered with literally hundreds of his used needles across bus stops, gardens, yards, paths. He defecates on the street and in bags that he leaves around.<p>Letting people do this legally, which Seattle now de facto does, is not appropriate.</text></comment> | <story><title>Seattle has stopped charging people for personal drug possession</title><url>https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/public-safety/no-charges-for-personal-drug-possession-seattles-bold-gamble-to-bring-peace-after-the-war-on-drugs/2019/06/11/69a7bb46-7285-11e9-9f06-5fc2ee80027a_story.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>docbrown</author><text>If homelessness is a problem, why should the alternative be to put them in jail or prison? For something as simple as car camping, it seems like an unjustifiable punishment for a simple offense. Without getting into much of a semantics argument, this post itself puts off a sense of “pull yourself up by the bootstraps” attitude when it comes to homelessness. In a city that has a GDP of $231 billion in 2010[1], it seems ineffective to punish the homeless instead of trying to rid the city of the problem in a more productive manner than hauling offenders away. While public consumption of drugs should still be a citational offense, the simple possession of a drug should not be a jail sentence. There are many users that have deeper issues that need to be worked out to rid them of their addiction and putting them into confinement is not always the most effective way. Seattle needs to invest in safe injection sites, public health programs, and they need to build more shelters for their homeless. In today’s society, homeless are looked at as the bottom of the feeder chain, but when we do that, we begin to strip people of their humanity and instead we look at them as simply statistics or an nuance.<p>1: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.greyhilladvisors.com&#x2F;gross-metropolitan-product&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.greyhilladvisors.com&#x2F;gross-metropolitan-product&#x2F;</a></text></item><item><author>dogmatic_di</author><text>As someone living there right now the article really doesn&#x27;t properly cover the discontent in the city.<p>There is an overwhelming sense that Seattle has done too much to encourage homelessness (particularly with the expansion of policies like this one). &quot;Tent City&quot; has spread so far that it&#x27;s getting into the suburbs and from a residents perspective it&#x27;s getting far worse not better. I have routinely seen people shooting up and smoking glass pipes (not marijuana) in broad daylight in the Downtown and Pioneer Square areas. There&#x27;s shouting, theft, property crime at all hours of the night near my apartment (Though strangely compared to SF I know very few people who have had their cars broken into).<p>Regardless of the tone of this article, Seattle is not a model to follow, it&#x27;s a cautionary tale.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>briffle</author><text>I agree with you in principal, but at the same time:<p>&gt; we begin to strip people of their humanity and instead we look at them as simply statistics or an nuance.<p>Where I live, the groups of car campers (or often times falling apart RV&#x27;s) seem to attract crime, drug use, theft, vandalism, etc. I stopped going to one park in the middle of a city with a large group of car campers, when I found a used syringe in the fenced in dog play area, and saw two different heroin deals go down while playing with my dog. (one of them involved prostitution right in the back seat of the car in the middle of a city park)</text></comment> |
8,074,537 | 8,074,285 | 1 | 2 | 8,073,732 | train | <story><title>List of Web Business Models</title><url>https://gist.github.com/ndarville/4295324</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jabelk</author><text>I was hoping for more fleshed-out examples of why the business models were good, but the list was interesting nonetheless.<p>My two personal-favorite business models are (in no particular order): Tesla and Miley Cyrus.<p>Tesla: evident if you&#x27;re familiar with it (<a href="http://www.teslamotors.com/blog/secret-tesla-motors-master-plan-just-between-you-and-me" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.teslamotors.com&#x2F;blog&#x2F;secret-tesla-motors-master-p...</a>)<p>My interest in the Miley Cyrus model might need a little more explanation. Back a few months ago, when she was releasing over-the-top videos (wrecking ball?), <i>everyone</i> was saying some variant of &quot;wow why is Miley famous she obviously has no talent and this is just lewd.&quot; But this is the crux of her brilliance.[0] She has tricked a very large number of people into advertising for her, regardless of whether she does anything requiring talent. But then there&#x27;s the obvious tradeoff: she has to deliver all of these ridiculous things, likely to the detriment of her ability to contribute anything actually meaningful to the industry. Maybe other people have made that deal but none seem to have been as successful, at least based on the data from my facebook feed. And this is a rare case in which facebook feed data <i>is</i> a useful measure of the success of the business, because it fuels the clicks and the conversations and the weird interest.<p>Anyway. Every time I see something about her, even overwhelmingly negative, I shake my head and think &quot;another person tricked into feeding her success&quot;. Her willingness to decouple her success from anything &quot;worthwhile&quot;[1] about her (talent&#x2F;skill&#x2F;beauty&#x2F;benefit to fans), at the cost of irrecoverably changing her career in what most would view as a very negative way, is sort of fascinating.<p>[0] I say &quot;her brilliance&quot; but in reality I am sure she is just the face for a manager type orchestrating the money-and-fame-for-girl&#x27;s-reputation-and-soul deal.<p>[1] &quot;Worthwhile&quot; in quotes because is anything in the pop music industry really worthwhile?</text></comment> | <story><title>List of Web Business Models</title><url>https://gist.github.com/ndarville/4295324</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>babarock</author><text>One thing worth mentioning for games is what Valve is doing with Dota 2.<p>The game is truly free to play, and giving them all the money in the world will not give the player any in-game advantage. On the surface, the game sells various hero skins and other cosmetic items that are little more than vanity items. Looking closer, it seems that Valve is making (or at least trying to make) money by developing a scene of professional gamers around this game. Just last weekend they held an international competition (conveniently named [The International](<a href="http://www.dota2.com/international/overview/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.dota2.com&#x2F;international&#x2F;overview&#x2F;</a>) ) where the prize pool exceeded 10 million USD. This pool was partly funded by the community of viewers paying to watch the pros play their games. I paid my ticket 7.5€ (10$) a third of which went directly to the prize pool.<p>I don&#x27;t know if this model is viable or profitable. Maybe someone has more info. But it&#x27;s worth looking at. I&#x27;ve always been interested by products that are free to use by the public and make money from the pros using it.</text></comment> |
29,925,707 | 29,923,301 | 1 | 2 | 29,922,002 | train | <story><title>Engine cooling – why rocket engines don’t melt</title><url>https://everydayastronaut.com/engine-cooling-methodes/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>ortusdux</author><text>One of my favorite bits from Tim&#x27;s videos was during a tour of Firefly Aerospace&#x27;s facility when they talk about engine cooling. They discuss EDM machining small holes into the coolant channels just before the throat, which lets a small amount of cryogenic coolant out to cool the interior. The funny part is that you can purposefully undersize the holes and they will melt larger until they are big enough to adequately cool the engine. You basically pre-season the engine with a test-fire and let it choose how much internal cooling it needs.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;ac-V8mO0lWo?t=2203" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;ac-V8mO0lWo?t=2203</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Engine cooling – why rocket engines don’t melt</title><url>https://everydayastronaut.com/engine-cooling-methodes/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>opwieurposiu</author><text>This thing I can not comprehend about rocket engines is how the turbopump manages to hold together.<p>A turbine blade in the SSME about the size of your thumb makes 600 horsepower.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.enginehistory.org&#x2F;Rockets&#x2F;SSME&#x2F;SSME6.pdf" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.enginehistory.org&#x2F;Rockets&#x2F;SSME&#x2F;SSME6.pdf</a></text></comment> |
4,688,269 | 4,687,413 | 1 | 3 | 4,687,184 | train | <story><title>If I was your cloud provider, I'd never let you down</title><url>http://joyent.com/blog/if-i-was-your-cloud-provider-i-d-never-let-you-down</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>UnoriginalGuy</author><text>"lifetime" "unlimited" "forever" etc products should always been looked at sceptically for that reason. Anything that is either finite or requires up-keep cannot be offered on these terms, it is just impossible.<p>I actually avoid unlimited products on purpose because I think a lie is a bad way to start doing business together. Be it web-hosting, broadband, or anything else. I would prefer they just be up front and then we both know where we stand (no ambiguity).</text></item><item><author>anonymouz</author><text>With the lifetime account fiasco still ongoing [1], they should probably shut up.<p>[1] Joyent/Textdrive sold lifetime shared hosting accounts for a one time payment in the beginning. Those accounts would exist "as long as we exists". A couple of months back they sent an email that they are "discontinuing" lifetime accounts. After uproar from the community they offered refunds. Many people (including me) agreed to the refund, but then they decided to make another 180 degree turn, not paying out the refund. Instead they are now spinning off a new "Textdrive" that is supposed to "take over" the lifetime customers. No details about funding/general outlook/etc. of this new company has been provided so far. Questions to this end are shrugged off as "everything is perfect, just trust us, ..."<p>Incidentally, the new Textdrive Forum (discuss.textdrive.com) seems to be down at the moment...</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>typicalrunt</author><text>What Joyent forgot about was that by getting rid of the lifetime account holders (I was one) they were effectively silencing their greatest word of mouth sales. I would always recommend their services to others, and I would purchase many of their other products/services as they came out.<p>But by pulling out the rug under me[1], it left me distrustful of them. So let's assume that I got my money's worth, but what Joyent has now lost is the word of mouth. Even worse, instead of <i>not</i> telling people about Joyent, I actively turn them away from Joyent.<p>While Amazon goes down from time to time, at least I have less unknowns with them. With Joyent, I don't know how they are going to fuck me at the last minute when they decide to pivot for the umpteenth time.<p>[1] Not once, but thrice. First, they cancel the lifetime accounts, forcing me to quickly move to another provider (thank you GAFB and Heroku). Then they say I can get a refund for the service, which when I asked for it they first denied that they gave it out and then told me that the offer was rescinded because the Textdrive service was coming out. Third, they keep calling me telling me that I need to move, even though if they spent 2 seconds checking for account activity they would see that no domain routes to them anymore, nor is any data stored with them.</text></comment> | <story><title>If I was your cloud provider, I'd never let you down</title><url>http://joyent.com/blog/if-i-was-your-cloud-provider-i-d-never-let-you-down</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>UnoriginalGuy</author><text>"lifetime" "unlimited" "forever" etc products should always been looked at sceptically for that reason. Anything that is either finite or requires up-keep cannot be offered on these terms, it is just impossible.<p>I actually avoid unlimited products on purpose because I think a lie is a bad way to start doing business together. Be it web-hosting, broadband, or anything else. I would prefer they just be up front and then we both know where we stand (no ambiguity).</text></item><item><author>anonymouz</author><text>With the lifetime account fiasco still ongoing [1], they should probably shut up.<p>[1] Joyent/Textdrive sold lifetime shared hosting accounts for a one time payment in the beginning. Those accounts would exist "as long as we exists". A couple of months back they sent an email that they are "discontinuing" lifetime accounts. After uproar from the community they offered refunds. Many people (including me) agreed to the refund, but then they decided to make another 180 degree turn, not paying out the refund. Instead they are now spinning off a new "Textdrive" that is supposed to "take over" the lifetime customers. No details about funding/general outlook/etc. of this new company has been provided so far. Questions to this end are shrugged off as "everything is perfect, just trust us, ..."<p>Incidentally, the new Textdrive Forum (discuss.textdrive.com) seems to be down at the moment...</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>JoachimSchipper</author><text>If the upkeep is smaller than the cost of capital to the company, such an arrangement probably remains mutually beneficial. Given that the cost of computing resources was falling enormously and continues doing so, I can see why TextDrive expected this arrangement to be profitable for them. Note that pensions and annuities, arrangements with terms best described as "pay $X/month for as long as I live", exist.<p>(Of course, they pivoted out of the hosting business and found that supporting a one-off machine is an expensive headache. But it's not <i>impossible</i> for such an arrangement to work.)</text></comment> |
17,895,477 | 17,894,495 | 1 | 2 | 17,892,918 | train | <story><title>Notes on the Go2 Generics Draft</title><url>http://jmoiron.net/blog/notes-on-the-go2-generics-draft/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>nemo1618</author><text>I&#x27;m glad I&#x27;m not the only one sad to see generics invading a perfectly good language.<p>Programmers love generics because they enable higher-order abstractions, and programmers love abstractions -- code that isn&#x27;t DRY is like an itch we need to scratch. Programmers also hate special cases, because they feel restrictive and inconsistent: I recall quite a few people protesting that Go&#x27;s &#x27;range&#x27; keyword shouldn&#x27;t be restricted to a handful of built-in types, but rather should support any type implementing an Iterator interface.<p>But Go was not designed to be perfectly consistent or to enable high-order abstractions. It just aims to be productive at scale, and that often means restricting the programmer. Go tries to be <i>non-magical</i>, and sadly that can take much of the whimsy out of programming. You can&#x27;t chain together operators in point-free style, or add a property to every &#x27;Object&#x27;, or directly increment a string, or anything like that. In other words, it&#x27;s a terrible language for code golfing. But that sort of code has no place in a production environment anyway. It&#x27;s &quot;clever&quot; code that gives the programmer a little dopamine hit when he writes it, and his co-workers a headache three months later. Those are misaligned incentives.<p>So I worry about generics because they let you abstract with wild abandon. They let you inject a little magic. And I fear that programmers will be seduced by their love of magic, and I&#x27;ll be the one who ends up paying the price.</text></comment> | <story><title>Notes on the Go2 Generics Draft</title><url>http://jmoiron.net/blog/notes-on-the-go2-generics-draft/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>hugofirth</author><text>The author makes some interesting arguments, but they are all predicated on the idea that generics are somehow hard to grok or use?<p>Having helped teach Java to many people with less than a year&#x27;s programming experience at university, I refute this.<p>Bear in mind we&#x27;re hardly talking about higher kinded types here. Generics are a simple abstraction over a lack of type information which allows you to write and maintain a lot less code; something which has been repeatedly demonstrated to reduce the incidence of bugs.<p>Personally, I am encouraged that the Go team is flexible enough to change their position. That gives me more confidence in the future of the language, not less.</text></comment> |
3,435,747 | 3,435,041 | 1 | 3 | 3,434,665 | train | <story><title>Uncloaking a Slumlord Conspiracy with Social Network Analysis</title><url>http://www.orgnet.com/slumlords.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>dhotson</author><text>We do this kind of analysis where I work for detecting fraud. I can't go into too many details, but I can probably show you a simple example: <a href="http://i.imgur.com/feJLd.png" rel="nofollow">http://i.imgur.com/feJLd.png</a><p>This is showing some of the relationships between users in the system. You take a user that you know is dodgy, and then start looking at what they have in common with other users.<p>Also, slightly offtopic—I open sourced the graph visualisation part: <a href="http://github.com/dhotson/springy" rel="nofollow">http://github.com/dhotson/springy</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Uncloaking a Slumlord Conspiracy with Social Network Analysis</title><url>http://www.orgnet.com/slumlords.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>johnohara</author><text>The diagrams remind me of the hand-drawn ones FBI agent John O'Neill created after the USS Cole incident and continually updated prior to the attacks of 9/11.<p><a href="http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/knew/etc/connect.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/knew/etc/conne...</a></text></comment> |
14,499,187 | 14,495,857 | 1 | 2 | 14,495,241 | train | <story><title>Cheap Recurring Payments with Stripe and AWS Lambda</title><url>http://normal-extensions.com/2017/05/05/simple-recurring/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>stevekemp</author><text>Remember that if you use stripe subscriptions you absolutely <i></i>must<i></i> setup a webhook, or otherwise examine your logs every month.<p>Why? If a customer is subscribed to a &quot;plan&quot;, and their payment fails it is retried three days later, then five days later, then eight days later, and if all three payments fail they&#x27;re quietly unsubscribed without any notification being sent to you!<p>I have a toy project which has paying customers and last month realized I&#x27;d had people using my SaaS for over a year without having paid me. A few failures in a row meant they were unsubscribed, and since I didn&#x27;t read the reports every month I didn&#x27;t notice.<p>I reworked my payment system now, to subscribe to webhooks and ensure I find out promptly in the future.<p>Not a huge deal at my volume, but a surprise I could have lived without.</text></comment> | <story><title>Cheap Recurring Payments with Stripe and AWS Lambda</title><url>http://normal-extensions.com/2017/05/05/simple-recurring/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>oliwarner</author><text>~3%, dirt cheap?!<p>Why are so many of you so happy to throw so much cash away to process money? I <i>know</i> Stripe is lovely to integrate but as a business you have to shop around.<p>In the UK (and EU) card processing is much cheaper. Stripe is closer to 2% but if you shop around, you&#x27;ll find somebody who&#x27;ll offer you 0.8-0.9%, give you free terminals and no monthly contract fees.<p>Edit for those asking: Worldpay and Handepay are the best rates I&#x27;ve seen recently. Both for online and off. But again, don&#x27;t just cluster around one company, harass a few yourself. They&#x27;re willing to compete.</text></comment> |
24,000,285 | 24,000,403 | 1 | 2 | 23,999,212 | train | <story><title>Grub2 security update renders system unbootable</title><url>https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1861977</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>peteri</author><text>I assume this is related to this from yesterday
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=23990075" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=23990075</a>
Which is about revoking secure boot keys</text></comment> | <story><title>Grub2 security update renders system unbootable</title><url>https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1861977</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Wowfunhappy</author><text>There was a story on HN last night from Debian where they laid out this issue, and basically stated &quot;Yes, this security update is going to render some systems unbootable, here is why we&#x27;re doing it anyway.&quot;<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.debian.org&#x2F;security&#x2F;2020-GRUB-UEFI-SecureBoot&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.debian.org&#x2F;security&#x2F;2020-GRUB-UEFI-SecureBoot&#x2F;</a><p>Stability is important, especially when it comes to unbootable machines—but I don&#x27;t quite know what anyone was supposed to do here. If a user has secure boot enabled, the OS has to assume that the user wants&#x2F;needs security at that level of the chain—and it is therefor responsible for ensuring the chain&#x27;s integrity. In this case, there was no way to do that without some machines (temporarily) failing to boot.<p>What would have been a better way to handle this?</text></comment> |
28,236,928 | 28,236,977 | 1 | 3 | 28,236,005 | train | <story><title>Wanted: Disgruntled Employees to Deploy Ransomware</title><url>https://krebsonsecurity.com/2021/08/wanted-disgruntled-employees-to-deploy-ransomware/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>CommieBobDole</author><text>While emailing a bunch of employees is probably not going to be too successful, this could actually be a pretty effective strategy if the criminals would follow through on it; basically have an open offer to employees of large companies (or any companies, really) to deploy ransomware internally. Have an installer with a unique ID, a detailed set of instructions for installing the ransomware, communicating anonymously and obtaining the money as anonymously as possible, etc.<p>Nobody needs to know who anybody else is - just &quot;here&#x27;s our ransomware, any ransom paid that mentions your unique ID, we&#x27;ll split with you. Have fun&quot;<p>Crowdsourced criminality.</text></comment> | <story><title>Wanted: Disgruntled Employees to Deploy Ransomware</title><url>https://krebsonsecurity.com/2021/08/wanted-disgruntled-employees-to-deploy-ransomware/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>quickthrower2</author><text>I almost hate to say it but more sophisticated versions of this will come about. Like everyone knows you can order various nefarious things on the dark web, it might become common knowledge that if you are a disgruntled employee you can go find these scammers and collude. A smart contract linked to the ransomware you install could pay you out a guaranteed cut.<p>Clearly it’s a dumb thing to do because you are in the same country as the victim, would be on a list of interesting people to talk to and you’ll probably leave a trace of some sort. Unlike the scammer who is anywhere and anyone.</text></comment> |
35,885,427 | 35,885,216 | 1 | 2 | 35,884,176 | train | <story><title>Julia 1.9</title><url>https://julialang.org/blog/2023/04/julia-1.9-highlights/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>geokon</author><text>I don&#x27;t know if you genuinely want feedback... But I&#x27;ll share my very short experience. I tried Julia one time a few years back. I&#x27;ll be honest, I didn&#x27;t put in a lot of effort into (but nor will most potential Matlab converts - bc people are busy and have stuff to do)<p>It&#x27;s got a frustrating &quot;not fun&quot; on-boarding. ie. the number of minutes from downloading &quot;Julia&quot; to getting cool satisfying results<p>1. It not a calculator on steroids like Matlab. It doesn&#x27;t have one main open source IDE like Octave&#x2F;Rstudio that you can drop in and play around in (see plots docs repl workspace)<p>2. The default language is more like a &quot;proper programming language&quot;. To even make a basic plot you need to import one of a dozen plotting libraries (which requires learning how libraries and importing works - boring ..) and how is someone just getting started to decide which one..? I don&#x27;t need that analysis paralysis when I&#x27;m just getting started<p>3. Documentation .. Well it&#x27;s very hard to compete with Matlab here - but the website is not as confidence inducing. The landing page is a wall of text: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;docs.julialang.org&#x2F;en&#x2F;v1&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;docs.julialang.org&#x2F;en&#x2F;v1&#x2F;</a> Tbh, from the subsequent manual listing it&#x27;s not even clear it&#x27;s a math-focused programming language . It&#x27;s talking about constructors, data types, ffi, stack traces, networking etc etc.</text></item><item><author>aborsy</author><text>Matlab users should switch to Julia. It’s a real programming language, and better in many ways.<p>I provide the option of Julia in my tutorials. Students are lazy, and don’t want to explore something new. Most of them stick with matlab.<p>What prevents matlab users from switching? The syntax is similar.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>markkitti</author><text>A lot has changed in a few years. This release is a big one.<p>1. I run Julia on my smartphone and often use it as calculator.<p>2. You typically only need Plots.jl for most needs. See
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;docs.juliaplots.org&#x2F;stable&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;docs.juliaplots.org&#x2F;stable&#x2F;</a><p>3. See <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;juliaacademy.com" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;juliaacademy.com</a><p>Another alternative environment are Pluto notebooks. It&#x27;s reactive like a spreadsheet, but easy to use in your browser.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;featured.plutojl.org&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;featured.plutojl.org&#x2F;</a><p>I have several users without much coding experience using Pluto notebooks just to generate plots from CSV files. They are finding the combination of a web based interface, reactive UI, and fast execution easier to use than a MATLAB Live script.</text></comment> | <story><title>Julia 1.9</title><url>https://julialang.org/blog/2023/04/julia-1.9-highlights/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>geokon</author><text>I don&#x27;t know if you genuinely want feedback... But I&#x27;ll share my very short experience. I tried Julia one time a few years back. I&#x27;ll be honest, I didn&#x27;t put in a lot of effort into (but nor will most potential Matlab converts - bc people are busy and have stuff to do)<p>It&#x27;s got a frustrating &quot;not fun&quot; on-boarding. ie. the number of minutes from downloading &quot;Julia&quot; to getting cool satisfying results<p>1. It not a calculator on steroids like Matlab. It doesn&#x27;t have one main open source IDE like Octave&#x2F;Rstudio that you can drop in and play around in (see plots docs repl workspace)<p>2. The default language is more like a &quot;proper programming language&quot;. To even make a basic plot you need to import one of a dozen plotting libraries (which requires learning how libraries and importing works - boring ..) and how is someone just getting started to decide which one..? I don&#x27;t need that analysis paralysis when I&#x27;m just getting started<p>3. Documentation .. Well it&#x27;s very hard to compete with Matlab here - but the website is not as confidence inducing. The landing page is a wall of text: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;docs.julialang.org&#x2F;en&#x2F;v1&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;docs.julialang.org&#x2F;en&#x2F;v1&#x2F;</a> Tbh, from the subsequent manual listing it&#x27;s not even clear it&#x27;s a math-focused programming language . It&#x27;s talking about constructors, data types, ffi, stack traces, networking etc etc.</text></item><item><author>aborsy</author><text>Matlab users should switch to Julia. It’s a real programming language, and better in many ways.<p>I provide the option of Julia in my tutorials. Students are lazy, and don’t want to explore something new. Most of them stick with matlab.<p>What prevents matlab users from switching? The syntax is similar.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>sundarurfriend</author><text>&gt; 1. It doesn&#x27;t have one main open source IDE like Octave&#x2F;Rstudio that you can drop in and play around in. (you can see plots docs repl workspace)<p>It&#x27;s looking like VS Code (julia-vscode.org) will be the equivalent, and it&#x27;s gotten a good chunk of the way towards that - &quot;plots docs repl&quot; are all existing features and pretty easy to use. The docs [1] show a &quot;Workspace&quot; feature too. There&#x27;s also some integration with tools like JET.jl [2] so that there&#x27;s in-editor code analysis and diagnostics.<p>(And the extension works in VS Codium as well, so you can go completely FOSS if that&#x27;s your wish.)<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.julia-vscode.org&#x2F;docs&#x2F;stable&#x2F;userguide&#x2F;grid&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.julia-vscode.org&#x2F;docs&#x2F;stable&#x2F;userguide&#x2F;grid&#x2F;</a>
[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;aviatesk.github.io&#x2F;JET.jl&#x2F;stable&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;aviatesk.github.io&#x2F;JET.jl&#x2F;stable&#x2F;</a></text></comment> |
11,219,481 | 11,219,367 | 1 | 2 | 11,219,161 | train | <story><title>Announcing Rust 1.7</title><url>http://blog.rust-lang.org/2016/03/02/Rust-1.7.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>dikaiosune</author><text>Not mentioned in the release, but in the extended release notes:<p>&quot;Soundness fixes to the interactions between associated types and lifetimes, specified in RFC 1214, now generate errors for code that violates the new rules. This is a significant change that is known to break existing code, so it has emitted warnings for the new error cases since 1.4 to give crate authors time to adapt.&quot;<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;rust-lang&#x2F;rust&#x2F;blob&#x2F;stable&#x2F;RELEASES.md#compatibility-notes" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;rust-lang&#x2F;rust&#x2F;blob&#x2F;stable&#x2F;RELEASES.md#co...</a><p>I think this is a fantastic example of the even-handed approach in the compiler stability promises&#x2F;plans, and it&#x27;s great to see one of the first real tests of those promises go so well.</text></comment> | <story><title>Announcing Rust 1.7</title><url>http://blog.rust-lang.org/2016/03/02/Rust-1.7.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>kibwen</author><text>As mentioned in the OP, Rust really hasn&#x27;t added any language-level features since 1.0, but looking forward there were two major features whose RFCs were accepted this cycle: impl specialization (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;rust-lang&#x2F;rfcs&#x2F;pull&#x2F;1210#issuecomment-187777838" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;rust-lang&#x2F;rfcs&#x2F;pull&#x2F;1210#issuecomment-187...</a>) and the `?` operator (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;rust-lang&#x2F;rfcs&#x2F;pull&#x2F;243#issuecomment-180504407" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;rust-lang&#x2F;rfcs&#x2F;pull&#x2F;243#issuecomment-1805...</a>). The former will keep code from having to pay a de facto performance penalty for being generic (preliminary implementation at <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;rust-lang&#x2F;rust&#x2F;pull&#x2F;30652" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;rust-lang&#x2F;rust&#x2F;pull&#x2F;30652</a>), and the latter is purely an ergonomic change to make our `Result`-based error handling more lightweight (preliminary implementation at <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;rust-lang&#x2F;rust&#x2F;pull&#x2F;31954" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;rust-lang&#x2F;rust&#x2F;pull&#x2F;31954</a>).<p>I&#x27;m personally hoping the latter one manages to get into the beta release for the next cycle, so that I can use `?` rather than `try!()` for my Rust tutorial at OSCON this year. :)</text></comment> |
13,382,996 | 13,383,048 | 1 | 3 | 13,381,986 | train | <story><title>Google AMP Cache, AMP Lite, and the Need for Speed</title><url>https://developers.googleblog.com/2017/01/google-amp-cache-amp-lite-and-need-for.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>saycheese</author><text>There is zero reason for AMP to be hijacking URLs or embedding any additional elements into a page that are detectable by the average user.<p>Beyond that, universal opt-out should be possible and stats on the percentage of users opting out should be published real-time.<p>As such, until this is addressed, I am against AMP.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ParadoxOryx</author><text>Sounds like Cloudflare is working on it [1].<p>&quot;In the spirit of open source, we&#x27;re working to help develop updates to the project to address some of publishers&#x27; and end users&#x27; concerns. Specifically, here are some features we&#x27;re developing to address concerns that have been expressed about AMP: ... A way for end users who would prefer not to be redirected to the AMP version of content to opt out&quot;<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.cloudflare.com&#x2F;accelerated-mobile&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.cloudflare.com&#x2F;accelerated-mobile&#x2F;</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Google AMP Cache, AMP Lite, and the Need for Speed</title><url>https://developers.googleblog.com/2017/01/google-amp-cache-amp-lite-and-need-for.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>saycheese</author><text>There is zero reason for AMP to be hijacking URLs or embedding any additional elements into a page that are detectable by the average user.<p>Beyond that, universal opt-out should be possible and stats on the percentage of users opting out should be published real-time.<p>As such, until this is addressed, I am against AMP.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ec109685</author><text>Google can&#x27;t offer the full amp experience where pages load instantly without controlling the domain. Otheriwse, none of the optimization they outline in the blog post would be possible since it is the proxy that performs them.</text></comment> |
35,236,590 | 35,235,767 | 1 | 3 | 35,229,331 | train | <story><title>Cesium-137 missing and found in junk yard in Thailand</title><url>https://www.nationthailand.com/thailand/general/40025846</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>kalimanzaro</author><text>If you felt that the featured article was weaseling, here is one with less ambiguous wording. They isolated 24 tonnes of contaminated dust, 70 personnel took blood tests.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;thethaiger.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;national&#x2F;missing-radioactive-cylinder-in-thailand-found-at-smelting-factory" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;thethaiger.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;national&#x2F;missing-radioactive-cyl...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Cesium-137 missing and found in junk yard in Thailand</title><url>https://www.nationthailand.com/thailand/general/40025846</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Fatnino</author><text>You&#x27;d think the radiation symbol would be universally understood by even the least educated metal thieves.<p>Apparently you&#x27;d be wrong.</text></comment> |
1,339,154 | 1,338,695 | 1 | 2 | 1,338,344 | train | <story><title>Better performance in App Engine with new Lisp language Clojure</title><url>http://googlecode.blogspot.com/2010/05/better-performance-in-app-engine-with.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>wynand</author><text>Posts like this really make me want to move to Clojure.<p>Python is now my go-to language, especially because of Scipy, NetworkX and bridges like RPy.<p>I would definitely put in the time if someone with mathematical modelling experience can support the idea that I'll be more productive in Clojure. Anyone?<p>I really would love to see a list of testimonials and anti-testimonials of people from various fields that switched to Clojure and either got much more done or got burned.<p>Sorry, I realise that this is a wee bit off the main topic.</text></comment> | <story><title>Better performance in App Engine with new Lisp language Clojure</title><url>http://googlecode.blogspot.com/2010/05/better-performance-in-app-engine-with.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>zach</author><text>So I was in an App Engine workshop at PyCon and asked an engineer about running Clojure on App Engine, which resulted in a confusing exchange. Then I realized they thought I was talking about Google's Closure Library. Argh! I guess this wasn't on the radar.<p>This shows a lot of promise, and it would be great if App Engine could become (in a way) Clojure's Heroku.</text></comment> |
2,658,782 | 2,658,298 | 1 | 2 | 2,657,934 | train | <story><title>How to win friends and influence people with an iPad in a coffee shop</title><url>http://raganwald.posterous.com/how-to-win-friends-and-influence-people-with</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>neilc</author><text><i>If I was writing a book, I'd do a terrible job, because my nose for what people want is broken. When I write essays, I don't care, I write everything and I let Hacker News and Twitter sort out the wheat from my chaff.</i><p>Personally I think this is a bad idea, because what is popular on HN rarely correlates with what I consider to be quality writing. If your goal is just to get an article on HN, that can be done pretty easily: give it a provocative title, discuss one of a handful of topics (e.g., node.js, Clojure, Scala, Rails, Apple/iOS, etc.), and make it easily skimmable within 30-45 seconds.<p>If HN popularity was a reliable metric for quality, TechCrunch would deserve a Pulitzer. If you want to write short pieces that attract the interest of a programmer while their code compiles, HN is a decent metric. If you want to write something with lasting meaning or value, it is not.<p>(Obviously, that isn't to say that <i>nothing</i> on HN has lasting meaning or value -- just that the correlation between lasting quality and HN popularity is weak, at best.)</text></comment> | <story><title>How to win friends and influence people with an iPad in a coffee shop</title><url>http://raganwald.posterous.com/how-to-win-friends-and-influence-people-with</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>gojomo</author><text>Love this pair of observations about how books get judged by their worst parts, but collections of online posts for their best:<p><i>Another problem with a book is that it's One Big Thing. Very few book reviews say "Chapter two is a gem, buy the book for this and ignore chapter six, the author is confused." Most just say "He's an idiot, chapter six is proof of that."</i><p>...versus...<p><i>Thanks to Twitter and Hacker News and whatever else, if you write a good thing, it gets judged on its own. You can write 99 failures but you are judged by your best work, not your worst. </i><p>Microcontent (and even decontextualization) for the win.</text></comment> |
22,565,080 | 22,562,310 | 1 | 2 | 22,561,638 | train | <story><title>How a 'growth mindset' can lead to success</title><url>https://www.bbc.com/worklife/article/20200306-the-surprising-truth-about-finding-your-passion-at-work</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>manmal</author><text>I’ve met a lot of people (and got to know them intensely) who seem to not allow themselves to learn new things in specific areas (or maybe a lot of areas), while being proactive in others. Looking at myself, I had a hard time learning and maintaining interest about building physical things, or doing home improvement (all things where I need a hardware shop from).<p>My theory is that active discouragement during childhood is a driving factor here. My father often yelled at me if I broke something physical, or asked „stupid“ questions while building an RC car together. He also wanted to do all the home improvement stuff alone, and never actively explained anything to me there. So for me, home improvement equals discouragement, resulting in a feeling of I-can‘t-do-that.
(This kind of thing seems to be passed on - my father‘s father also shouted at him when doing something wrong).<p>On the flipside, my father at some point bought a PC and let me play with it, and seemed to not have any concerns whatsoever about that. He got some floppy disk games for me, installed the office suite, and let me have at it, sometimes grunting encouragement.<p>Now guess what my favorite activity is, and what I built my career around - home improvement, or computers?</text></comment> | <story><title>How a 'growth mindset' can lead to success</title><url>https://www.bbc.com/worklife/article/20200306-the-surprising-truth-about-finding-your-passion-at-work</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>trimble_tromble</author><text>It&#x27;s important to note that mindset theory has recently come under question:
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;journals.sagepub.com&#x2F;doi&#x2F;abs&#x2F;10.1177&#x2F;0956797619897588?journalCode=pssa" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;journals.sagepub.com&#x2F;doi&#x2F;abs&#x2F;10.1177&#x2F;095679761989758...</a><p>For a twitter summary of the above paper, see here:
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;BrookeMacnamara&#x2F;status&#x2F;1224716904574545920" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;BrookeMacnamara&#x2F;status&#x2F;12247169045745459...</a></text></comment> |
6,439,450 | 6,439,290 | 1 | 3 | 6,438,761 | train | <story><title>Stop using Digital Ocean Now For the greater good</title><url>http://serdardogruyol.com/?p=122</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>sdogruyol</author><text>Hey thanks for the comment.
To let you know the account has 2 droplets which serves 2 mobile apps and does crawling 20-30 sites hourly. That&#x27;s it actually and also the Dropbox script that i mention.</text></item><item><author>j_baker</author><text>Notice that the author doesn&#x27;t address the issue of whether they actually were violating the TOS and&#x2F;or AUP, or what the alleged violations actually were. My interpretation is that the author likely was legitimately violating the TOS, because otherwise he would have mentioned how dumb the allegations are.<p>If the author was breaking the AUP, I don&#x27;t feel very sorry for him. If someone&#x27;s doing something that legitimately violates acceptable use, they probably should be shut down without prior notification.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>conesus</author><text>I run 100 droplets on DO and fetch 7MM feeds a day and have never had an issue with DO, either limiting me or turning off my machines. In fact, I&#x27;ve had the opposite experience: fast support, fast spin-up times, and an overall great service.<p>I realize you sound angry because you were asked to verify your account, but this reads vindictive and makes me think that the same behavior that caused their abuse department to flag your account is what&#x27;s responsible for this attack blog post.</text></comment> | <story><title>Stop using Digital Ocean Now For the greater good</title><url>http://serdardogruyol.com/?p=122</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>sdogruyol</author><text>Hey thanks for the comment.
To let you know the account has 2 droplets which serves 2 mobile apps and does crawling 20-30 sites hourly. That&#x27;s it actually and also the Dropbox script that i mention.</text></item><item><author>j_baker</author><text>Notice that the author doesn&#x27;t address the issue of whether they actually were violating the TOS and&#x2F;or AUP, or what the alleged violations actually were. My interpretation is that the author likely was legitimately violating the TOS, because otherwise he would have mentioned how dumb the allegations are.<p>If the author was breaking the AUP, I don&#x27;t feel very sorry for him. If someone&#x27;s doing something that legitimately violates acceptable use, they probably should be shut down without prior notification.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dmak</author><text>Surely, you would have figured out which part of the TOS were you violating (if you were). It would be nice if you could relay that in the post or in the comments.</text></comment> |
9,120,369 | 9,118,817 | 1 | 3 | 9,118,320 | train | <story><title>Building Microservices the Lean Way, part 2</title><url>http://blog.hubblehq.com/building-microservices-the-lean-way-2/</url><text></text></story><parent_chain><item><author>AndrewHampton</author><text>So here&#x27;s a question we&#x27;ve been talking about at my office. When developing a micro-service on your development machine, do you need to run the whole stack or just the service you&#x27;re working on?<p>For example, let&#x27;s I am working on service A, which depends on services B and C. Do I need to run all 3 apps and their data stores locally?<p>We currently will typically point A to the staging B and C. However, we have some long running jobs that A will initiate on B and B needs to post back to A when it&#x27;s finished. This doesn&#x27;t work when pointing to staging B.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rgarcia</author><text>You should check out a tool we built to solve this problem at Clever: <a href="https://github.com/clever/aviator" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;clever&#x2F;aviator</a><p>It lets us spin up a service + all dependent services locally with a single command.</text></comment> | <story><title>Building Microservices the Lean Way, part 2</title><url>http://blog.hubblehq.com/building-microservices-the-lean-way-2/</url><text></text></story><parent_chain><item><author>AndrewHampton</author><text>So here&#x27;s a question we&#x27;ve been talking about at my office. When developing a micro-service on your development machine, do you need to run the whole stack or just the service you&#x27;re working on?<p>For example, let&#x27;s I am working on service A, which depends on services B and C. Do I need to run all 3 apps and their data stores locally?<p>We currently will typically point A to the staging B and C. However, we have some long running jobs that A will initiate on B and B needs to post back to A when it&#x27;s finished. This doesn&#x27;t work when pointing to staging B.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jasonwocky</author><text>Depends on the use case. For automated testing, if I&#x27;m developing service A, then locally I&#x27;d usually I&#x27;d want to stub B &amp; C with something like Mountebank (<a href="http://www.mbtest.org/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.mbtest.org&#x2F;</a>) (though I&#x27;ve never used it to do a post-back as you describe...not sure if it supports that out of the box).<p>If I just wanted to poke around a running system to see how things interact manually, yeah I&#x27;d run everything locally. Probably using Docker images for each dependency service and Vagrant to manage the suite of those images, to preserve my sanity.</text></comment> |
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