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40,127,352 | 40,127,274 | 1 | 2 | 40,119,417 | train | <story><title>Ask HN: What rabbit hole(s) did you dive into recently?</title><text>You get nerd-sniped. Assigned a bug to squash. Some new tech or gadget arrived, to familiarize yourself with.<p>While researching &#x2F; reading up &#x2F; debugging, you stumble upon something interesting. Upon looking into that, yet another subject catches your attention.<p>You know how this goes. So... (see title). Bonus questions: what intermediate steps did you pass along the way? What stuck in your mind the most?</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>mmh0000</author><text>Hard disagree.<p>The real world only has pain and suffering. Endless trials and never a payout.<p>Games on the other hand and very detailed and have a well defined path to success.</text></item><item><author>pictureofabear</author><text>It was a big moment for me too when I realized that the real world has infinitely many interesting things to do and explore. The real world is incredibly detailed.</text></item><item><author>jl6</author><text>So, I decided to install Linux on my formerly-Windows-only laptop, and thought it was cool enough to go full time and ditch Windows completely. The downside was the lack of access to top tier games. No problem though, my plan was to take a break from gaming, figuring that by the time Linux had caught up with compatibility, computers would also be much more powerful and I&#x27;d be able to resume gaming at some point in the future on better kit, and not have to worry about janky framerates on struggling hardware.<p>Linux proved interesting enough that I kept finding all sorts of cool new rabbit holes to go down - shell scripting, filesystems, Python, databases. It was side-quests within side-quests! Plus, having kicked my gaming habit, I had plenty of time to explore these.<p>Anyway, to cut a long story short, that was 23 years ago. I ended up getting a career in tech, relocated, got married, had kids, lived the American Dream... The &quot;life&quot; rabbit hole kind of got in the way of my plans, so I can&#x27;t wait to finally get back on track and play GTA III on a decent box.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>hirvi74</author><text>This oddly enough has been quite a big issue in my life as of lately.<p>I need to get off my ass and start working towards better things in real life in order to (potentially) better my situation e.g. new job, better hobbies, etc..<p>However, I have always had issues with gaming on and off throughout my life (perhaps a lot more on than off). I seriously think that a lot of my issues with gaming is that games are preferential to life in many regards. In a game, I know if I work hard and follow the steps&#x2F;guides&#x2F;quests, then I will be rewarded. Goals are obtainable in that if I fail to achieve them it is my fault -- because I did something incorrectly.<p>Sadly, when I take breaks from gaming, I am not a productivity machine. I just find something else to waste the time with.<p>In the back of my mind, I want to believe that if I work hard and better my situation, then will <i>finally</i> be rewarded. But I have worked hard to get where I am, and I am still awaiting the reward, so to speak.<p>So, I think a part of my brain has taken the shortcut to destroy my motivation because I know that Sisyphus isn&#x27;t the only one rolling the boulder up the hill thinking, &quot;maybe this time will be different?&quot;</text></comment> | <story><title>Ask HN: What rabbit hole(s) did you dive into recently?</title><text>You get nerd-sniped. Assigned a bug to squash. Some new tech or gadget arrived, to familiarize yourself with.<p>While researching &#x2F; reading up &#x2F; debugging, you stumble upon something interesting. Upon looking into that, yet another subject catches your attention.<p>You know how this goes. So... (see title). Bonus questions: what intermediate steps did you pass along the way? What stuck in your mind the most?</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>mmh0000</author><text>Hard disagree.<p>The real world only has pain and suffering. Endless trials and never a payout.<p>Games on the other hand and very detailed and have a well defined path to success.</text></item><item><author>pictureofabear</author><text>It was a big moment for me too when I realized that the real world has infinitely many interesting things to do and explore. The real world is incredibly detailed.</text></item><item><author>jl6</author><text>So, I decided to install Linux on my formerly-Windows-only laptop, and thought it was cool enough to go full time and ditch Windows completely. The downside was the lack of access to top tier games. No problem though, my plan was to take a break from gaming, figuring that by the time Linux had caught up with compatibility, computers would also be much more powerful and I&#x27;d be able to resume gaming at some point in the future on better kit, and not have to worry about janky framerates on struggling hardware.<p>Linux proved interesting enough that I kept finding all sorts of cool new rabbit holes to go down - shell scripting, filesystems, Python, databases. It was side-quests within side-quests! Plus, having kicked my gaming habit, I had plenty of time to explore these.<p>Anyway, to cut a long story short, that was 23 years ago. I ended up getting a career in tech, relocated, got married, had kids, lived the American Dream... The &quot;life&quot; rabbit hole kind of got in the way of my plans, so I can&#x27;t wait to finally get back on track and play GTA III on a decent box.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>wdh505</author><text>The hardest part of life is to reward the process over the outcomes. Videogames don&#x27;t have that constraint.</text></comment> |
11,763,706 | 11,763,349 | 1 | 2 | 11,762,835 | train | <story><title>Facebook admits rogue employees may have shown bias against conservatives</title><url>http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2016/may/23/facebook-admits-rogue-employees-may-have-shown-bia/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>nostromo</author><text>It&#x27;s interesting how media outlets are spinning this news. People that read conservative media are left thinking that Facebook has admitted bias. People that read liberal media are left thinking the opposite.<p>Washington Times: &quot;Facebook admits rogue employees may have shown bias against conservatives&quot;<p>LA Times: &quot;Facebook investigation reveals no evidence of bias against conservative topics, company says&quot;<p>NY Times: &quot;Facebook Says an Investigation Found No Evidence of Bias in a News App&quot;<p>WSJ: &quot;Facebook to Revamp &#x27;Trending Topics&#x27; Feature to Reduce Bias Risk&quot;<p>NY Post print edition (my favorite): &quot;You won&#x27;t read this on Facebook; Site censors the news&quot;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ChrisArgyle</author><text>Honestly this is more likely due to the actual outcome being too complex for a headline.<p>&quot;Facebook denies systematic bias but admits their current process allows bad actors to apply bias and takes remediating steps&quot;<p>Doesn&#x27;t work. Although WSJ came kinda close.</text></comment> | <story><title>Facebook admits rogue employees may have shown bias against conservatives</title><url>http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2016/may/23/facebook-admits-rogue-employees-may-have-shown-bia/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>nostromo</author><text>It&#x27;s interesting how media outlets are spinning this news. People that read conservative media are left thinking that Facebook has admitted bias. People that read liberal media are left thinking the opposite.<p>Washington Times: &quot;Facebook admits rogue employees may have shown bias against conservatives&quot;<p>LA Times: &quot;Facebook investigation reveals no evidence of bias against conservative topics, company says&quot;<p>NY Times: &quot;Facebook Says an Investigation Found No Evidence of Bias in a News App&quot;<p>WSJ: &quot;Facebook to Revamp &#x27;Trending Topics&#x27; Feature to Reduce Bias Risk&quot;<p>NY Post print edition (my favorite): &quot;You won&#x27;t read this on Facebook; Site censors the news&quot;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kailuowang</author><text>I am curious how many of these medias actually admit that they are biased themselves?</text></comment> |
25,009,787 | 25,009,768 | 1 | 2 | 25,007,697 | train | <story><title>Ask HN: As a person, what can I do to improve a city?</title><text>I live in a &quot;Top 10 most dangerous cities in the U.S.&quot; What can I do to help? It seems like the most common solution for people who are educated and well off is to move. To get out of the situation, which is understandable. However, this causes a brain drain and leave the city in a worse place.<p>I don&#x27;t want to do that, I want to uplift if I can. What is the micro thing I can do today, that can have a chance of a macro change tomorrow?</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>mikesabat</author><text>Also in a very objective way, I don&#x27;t understand this reasoning. I&#x27;ve never brought up the question before and hoping that HN can explain it in a logical way that I might understand.<p>Let&#x27;s say that a neighborhood is rated 3 out of 10 - not very good. There is a mix of people that live in this neighborhood. Some people own property and some do not.<p>Then the community makes the neighborhood better and it rises to a 7 out of 10 ranking. The people in the community that own houses costs are fixed and they now recognize the improvement.<p>The part of the community that don&#x27;t own eventually see their costs rise. At some point they can&#x27;t afford to a community that ranks 7, might only be able to afford a community that ranks 3 and would need to move to a community with that ranking.<p>It seems like part of the original set that owns experiences a large and lasting benefit. Another part of the original set experiences a short term benefit, then a transaction cost (moving) and reverts back to the mean.<p>Can someone explain what this description misses and where the harm comes from?</text></item><item><author>Retric</author><text>I mean this in the most objective way possible.<p>The risk with urban improvement is making the area more desirable eventually prices people out of the community. So, the real question is do you help the land or current residents? When you own property it’s seriously worth considering local improvements for several reasons, but it’s also easy to confuse the two. Further, if most people in the community own property then there is a lot of overlap.<p>To be clear both are worthwhile, just be cognizant of what your goals are. Anyway, if you want to help people I suggest either the young as changing the trajectory of someone’s life is easier early on, or the elderly because social inclusion scales well with individual effort.</text></item><item><author>burlesona</author><text>The single best thing you can do is pick a neighborhood - not the whole city - and invest deeply.<p>Get to know everyone in the neighborhood and understand what they want and need, then try to find ways to bring that.<p>When you have a strong network of neighbors and a little bit of cash, you can ramp up investment by cleaning up dirty corners and getting the basic services that a neighborhood is missing.<p>Here’s an example of how folks in Memphis, TN did this Over time: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.strongtowns.org&#x2F;journal&#x2F;2020&#x2F;5&#x2F;21&#x2F;this-is-what-we-can-do-together-md2020" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.strongtowns.org&#x2F;journal&#x2F;2020&#x2F;5&#x2F;21&#x2F;this-is-what-w...</a><p>If you’re interested in connecting with people who already have this mindset, there are a lot of them in Strong Towns, and there may even be a group in your area.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>burlesona</author><text>This is a fair point except that neighborhoods are not fungible and are in short supply.<p>You’re assuming that there is another 3&#x2F;10 neighborhood available for the people who are displaced to move to, and therefore they gain a short term benefit and eventually end up back where they were.<p>In practice it’s typical that older areas which have become run down have ample city services, such as transit, parks, and libraries, which may not be the best quality, but at least exist.<p>Since neighborhoods are no longer built with these amenities, the best available substitute for someone who is displaced from an old neighborhood may be far less desirable than what they had before - a 1&#x2F;10 trailer park, or worse, homelessness.<p>However, if we would continue to build traditional neighborhoods that were walkable, had city services, had transit etc. and built enough of those to keep up with the demand, then it would be much more likely that your scenario would play out. In that case the harm of economic change in neighborhoods would be greatly reduced, perhaps even to the point that it wouldn’t be a problem anymore<p>But that’s quite far from the reality on the ground today.</text></comment> | <story><title>Ask HN: As a person, what can I do to improve a city?</title><text>I live in a &quot;Top 10 most dangerous cities in the U.S.&quot; What can I do to help? It seems like the most common solution for people who are educated and well off is to move. To get out of the situation, which is understandable. However, this causes a brain drain and leave the city in a worse place.<p>I don&#x27;t want to do that, I want to uplift if I can. What is the micro thing I can do today, that can have a chance of a macro change tomorrow?</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>mikesabat</author><text>Also in a very objective way, I don&#x27;t understand this reasoning. I&#x27;ve never brought up the question before and hoping that HN can explain it in a logical way that I might understand.<p>Let&#x27;s say that a neighborhood is rated 3 out of 10 - not very good. There is a mix of people that live in this neighborhood. Some people own property and some do not.<p>Then the community makes the neighborhood better and it rises to a 7 out of 10 ranking. The people in the community that own houses costs are fixed and they now recognize the improvement.<p>The part of the community that don&#x27;t own eventually see their costs rise. At some point they can&#x27;t afford to a community that ranks 7, might only be able to afford a community that ranks 3 and would need to move to a community with that ranking.<p>It seems like part of the original set that owns experiences a large and lasting benefit. Another part of the original set experiences a short term benefit, then a transaction cost (moving) and reverts back to the mean.<p>Can someone explain what this description misses and where the harm comes from?</text></item><item><author>Retric</author><text>I mean this in the most objective way possible.<p>The risk with urban improvement is making the area more desirable eventually prices people out of the community. So, the real question is do you help the land or current residents? When you own property it’s seriously worth considering local improvements for several reasons, but it’s also easy to confuse the two. Further, if most people in the community own property then there is a lot of overlap.<p>To be clear both are worthwhile, just be cognizant of what your goals are. Anyway, if you want to help people I suggest either the young as changing the trajectory of someone’s life is easier early on, or the elderly because social inclusion scales well with individual effort.</text></item><item><author>burlesona</author><text>The single best thing you can do is pick a neighborhood - not the whole city - and invest deeply.<p>Get to know everyone in the neighborhood and understand what they want and need, then try to find ways to bring that.<p>When you have a strong network of neighbors and a little bit of cash, you can ramp up investment by cleaning up dirty corners and getting the basic services that a neighborhood is missing.<p>Here’s an example of how folks in Memphis, TN did this Over time: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.strongtowns.org&#x2F;journal&#x2F;2020&#x2F;5&#x2F;21&#x2F;this-is-what-we-can-do-together-md2020" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.strongtowns.org&#x2F;journal&#x2F;2020&#x2F;5&#x2F;21&#x2F;this-is-what-w...</a><p>If you’re interested in connecting with people who already have this mindset, there are a lot of them in Strong Towns, and there may even be a group in your area.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dontbeevil1992</author><text>moving is not just a reversion to the mean. A neighborhood is more than atomized individuals who live there. There can be a community of people which form a network and a support system that is many years old. Pricing certain people out can rip apart these communities, so it&#x27;s not just a matter of relocating then continuing as you were.<p>Then there are the individual-level logistical problems. What does moving do to your commute? Is it easy to find a new job? Will your kids have to go to a different school district?</text></comment> |
36,974,287 | 36,974,673 | 1 | 2 | 36,971,826 | train | <story><title>Many people in finance, sales and management feel their jobs are pointless</title><url>https://www.news.uzh.ch/en/articles/media/2023/Jobs.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>spacephysics</author><text>Population rate is declining, and in the next couple of decades many first world countries are expected to have a population collapse.<p>I understand what he’s saying the problem is, I think it’s just part of how complex processes such as companies and governments expand.<p>However, part of me leans in the efficient market side of, yes there are inefficiencies but once capital is justly expensive, then the wheat is separated from the chaff. If a company could do something more cheaply with equal quality, they will probably try that.<p>Though the larger a company gets, the easier it is to “hide” these busy-work jobs.<p>Further, we don’t know the outcome of UBI. We saw a glimpse of it during covid.<p>A very rough trial, but many people were getting more money via unemployment than by a minimum wage job.<p>Most these individuals sat around hedonically watching TV, smoking weed, or drinking. Surely part of the pandemic in general, but I think there’s a human-nature aspect of path-of-least-resistance.<p>I’m not convinced our society has the proper values to take UBI healthily, I think it will exacerbate the existing meaning crisis we’ve been in since religion has started to decline. We have young kids going to nihilism and mainstream outlets justifying this as a good thing. I think the last thing we need is to give people more time to ruminate on these ideas with a slosh fund.<p>In a perfect world we could have UBI, have a subset of the population be the productive earners that can make more money over the UBI, and those on UBI would use the time and money for creative enhancement of themselves and society.<p>But I think that’s too optimistic an outlook. We have foundational problems with many aspects of western civilization that need to be addressed before we add fuel to the fire.</text></item><item><author>ryandrake</author><text>The &quot;Bullshit Jobs&quot; phenomenon was identified decades ago by Buckminster Fuller:<p>&quot;We must do away with the absolutely specious notion that everybody has to earn a living. It is a fact today that one in ten thousand of us can make a technological breakthrough capable of supporting all the rest. The youth of today are absolutely right in recognizing this nonsense of earning a living. We keep inventing jobs because of this false idea that everybody has to be employed at some kind of drudgery because, according to Malthusian-Darwinian theory, he must justify his right to exist. So we have inspectors of inspectors and people making instruments for inspectors to inspect inspectors. The true business of people should be to go back to school and think about whatever it was they were thinking about before somebody came along and told them they had to earn a living.&quot;<p>As more and more work becomes automated or done by robots, we have less and less to actually do, but with a growing population. So we make up all this work and have 1&#x2F;2 the population digging holes so the other 1&#x2F;2 can fill them in. I fully expect that by the time my [eventual] grandchildren enter the workforce, more than 50% (maybe more than 75%) of jobs will be make-work that just serves to employ people so that society doesn&#x27;t fall apart.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bovermyer</author><text>If I didn&#x27;t have to work, I would spend a lot of time building things (whether code things or physical things).<p>I know people who, if they didn&#x27;t have to work, would just sit around binging TV all day.<p>I also know people who, if they didn&#x27;t have to work, would probably somehow discover faster-than-light travel or solve world hunger or something.<p>It might not be culture. It might be personality that determines what we do in &quot;idleness.&quot; More likely, it&#x27;s a mix of both.</text></comment> | <story><title>Many people in finance, sales and management feel their jobs are pointless</title><url>https://www.news.uzh.ch/en/articles/media/2023/Jobs.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>spacephysics</author><text>Population rate is declining, and in the next couple of decades many first world countries are expected to have a population collapse.<p>I understand what he’s saying the problem is, I think it’s just part of how complex processes such as companies and governments expand.<p>However, part of me leans in the efficient market side of, yes there are inefficiencies but once capital is justly expensive, then the wheat is separated from the chaff. If a company could do something more cheaply with equal quality, they will probably try that.<p>Though the larger a company gets, the easier it is to “hide” these busy-work jobs.<p>Further, we don’t know the outcome of UBI. We saw a glimpse of it during covid.<p>A very rough trial, but many people were getting more money via unemployment than by a minimum wage job.<p>Most these individuals sat around hedonically watching TV, smoking weed, or drinking. Surely part of the pandemic in general, but I think there’s a human-nature aspect of path-of-least-resistance.<p>I’m not convinced our society has the proper values to take UBI healthily, I think it will exacerbate the existing meaning crisis we’ve been in since religion has started to decline. We have young kids going to nihilism and mainstream outlets justifying this as a good thing. I think the last thing we need is to give people more time to ruminate on these ideas with a slosh fund.<p>In a perfect world we could have UBI, have a subset of the population be the productive earners that can make more money over the UBI, and those on UBI would use the time and money for creative enhancement of themselves and society.<p>But I think that’s too optimistic an outlook. We have foundational problems with many aspects of western civilization that need to be addressed before we add fuel to the fire.</text></item><item><author>ryandrake</author><text>The &quot;Bullshit Jobs&quot; phenomenon was identified decades ago by Buckminster Fuller:<p>&quot;We must do away with the absolutely specious notion that everybody has to earn a living. It is a fact today that one in ten thousand of us can make a technological breakthrough capable of supporting all the rest. The youth of today are absolutely right in recognizing this nonsense of earning a living. We keep inventing jobs because of this false idea that everybody has to be employed at some kind of drudgery because, according to Malthusian-Darwinian theory, he must justify his right to exist. So we have inspectors of inspectors and people making instruments for inspectors to inspect inspectors. The true business of people should be to go back to school and think about whatever it was they were thinking about before somebody came along and told them they had to earn a living.&quot;<p>As more and more work becomes automated or done by robots, we have less and less to actually do, but with a growing population. So we make up all this work and have 1&#x2F;2 the population digging holes so the other 1&#x2F;2 can fill them in. I fully expect that by the time my [eventual] grandchildren enter the workforce, more than 50% (maybe more than 75%) of jobs will be make-work that just serves to employ people so that society doesn&#x27;t fall apart.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>vharuck</author><text>&gt;A very rough trial, but many people were getting more money via unemployment than by a minimum wage job.<p>&gt;Most these individuals sat around hedonically watching TV, smoking weed, or drinking. Surely part of the pandemic in general, but I think there’s a human-nature aspect of path-of-least-resistance.<p>Reminds me of an Onion article that&#x27;s stuck in my mind: &quot;Man Not Sure Why He Thought Most Psychologically Taxing Situation Of His Life Would Be The Thing To Make Him Productive&quot;<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theonion.com&#x2F;man-not-sure-why-he-thought-most-psychologically-taxing-1843004933" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theonion.com&#x2F;man-not-sure-why-he-thought-most-ps...</a><p>It&#x27;s very hard if not impossible to extract lessons from the pandemic that aren&#x27;t about pandemics or basic proofs of possibility. E.g., we learned that the economy doesn&#x27;t collapse during &quot;shut downs&quot; of certain activities, but we can&#x27;t get any good numbers of monetary damage for a future shutdown choice. We might estimate the COVID shut-downs caused $X of damage, but good luck removing the influence of COVID&#x27;s medical specifics and surrounding culture war.<p>For your example, COVID-related unemployment assistance tells us nothing because (1) a pandemic restricts activity; (2) a pandemic is stressful and people look to mindless activities to cope; and (3) everyone knew the checks would end one day, but some didn&#x27;t know if they&#x27;d find a job by then. It wasn&#x27;t a good analogue to UBI.</text></comment> |
10,569,553 | 10,569,498 | 1 | 3 | 10,564,678 | train | <story><title>Canada's Muzzled Scientists Can Speak Freely Again</title><url>http://motherboard.vice.com/read/canadas-muzzled-scientists-can-speak-freely-again-so-i-called-a-few-up</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>shaftoe</author><text>Does Canada have no protections for freedom of speech?<p>As an American, the idea of muzzling a scientist is strange. I had thought Canada was more free than this.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pessimizer</author><text>There is no absolute freedom of speech law in Canada; the closest they get to it is &quot;Freedom of Expression&quot;, and that&#x27;s been abridged in dozens of ways through court decision.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Freedom_of_speech_in_Canada" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Freedom_of_speech_in_Canada</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Censorship_in_Canada#Criticism_of_Canadian_censorship" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Censorship_in_Canada#Criticism...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Canada's Muzzled Scientists Can Speak Freely Again</title><url>http://motherboard.vice.com/read/canadas-muzzled-scientists-can-speak-freely-again-so-i-called-a-few-up</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>shaftoe</author><text>Does Canada have no protections for freedom of speech?<p>As an American, the idea of muzzling a scientist is strange. I had thought Canada was more free than this.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>forgetsusername</author><text>&gt;<i>As an American, the idea of muzzling a scientist is strange. I had thought Canada was more free than this.</i><p>It isn&#x27;t about law, it&#x27;s (bad) policy and politics. And to think that similar circumstances aren&#x27;t occurring in America is naive.</text></comment> |
40,646,903 | 40,646,597 | 1 | 2 | 40,645,976 | train | <story><title>Australian Border Force searched phones of 10k travellers in past two years</title><url>https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/article/2024/jun/11/australian-border-force-abf-searching-phones-travellers-data</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>zensavona</author><text>I&#x27;ll just add a couple of details here since I have had this happen to me multiple times...<p>I&#x27;m an Australian citizen and this applies just as much to me as a foreigner (for whom although I disagree about, I could make a reasonable argument for this being valid). Police require a warrant and&#x2F;or reasonable suspicion of having committed a specific crime to search any part of you or your belongings. Border Force do not require this.<p>When they ask for the code, they will either:<p>- just open your device and rifle through your photos and messages in front of you, asking questions like &quot;got a lot of photos of x, what&#x27;s that about?&quot; or &quot;who is y?&quot;, ask you questions like &quot;what are you doing in Australia? Who are you seeing? What&#x27;s your relationship to them?&quot; et cetera (even to me, a citizen who spends majority of my time abroad).<p>- Take it into another room for 20mins or so and presumably take a dump of the whole thing for further analysis. I once asked &quot;what is done with this data and how long is it stored&quot; and they refused to answer the question.<p>One time after refusing to hand over the code (politely) I was treated pretty aggressively, had my whole body searched (not strip searched, groped well all over), all my luggage taken apart etc. I received a letter in the mail that I could go and collect my phone at the airport after around 3 weeks. It seems unlikely they have some tech which allows exfiltration of data from a locked iPhone(?) so I&#x27;m not sure what that&#x27;s about. They claimed to me that they do indeed have this capability.<p>Since refusing to open the phone and letting them keep it I seem to be on some kind of list and have had a Border Force officer meet me at the baggage carousel a couple of times with the &quot;please come with me sir&quot; to my own private search area where a few of them are ready to search my luggage inside out. This seems to happen less recently since I have just given them the code. They have successfully made it inconvenient enough for me to comply.<p>One time years ago they did the same thing with my laptop. Since that incident they have only asked about my phone.</text></comment> | <story><title>Australian Border Force searched phones of 10k travellers in past two years</title><url>https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/article/2024/jun/11/australian-border-force-abf-searching-phones-travellers-data</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>cletus</author><text>Story time: when I worked at Google we had a specific policy for traveling to and from China. IIRC it went something like this:<p>1. You absolutely aren&#x27;t allowed to take your regular phone and laptop;<p>2. You will be given loaner devices to take into China;<p>3. If you&#x27;re asked to open such devices on entry, comply and then, when you can, inform IT;<p>4. Once you got back, I&#x27;m not sure what happened to those devices. I believe they were in the very least wiped. They may even have been destroyed in certain circumstances (eg if a border official examined the open device). But that&#x27;s speculation.<p>I never travelled to China so never used this. A colleague who regularly traveled to China told me some stories about this.<p>But yes it does seem prudent to wipe your device and restore when you land. Then again, border officials can also deny you entry with very little justification so who knows?</text></comment> |
35,356,694 | 35,356,927 | 1 | 2 | 35,356,149 | train | <story><title>Spyware vendors use 0-days and n-days against Android, iOS and Chrome</title><url>https://blog.google/threat-analysis-group/spyware-vendors-use-0-days-and-n-days-against-popular-platforms/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>sbuccini</author><text>Can we change the link to the official blog post, which has more details? <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.google&#x2F;threat-analysis-group&#x2F;spyware-vendors-use-0-days-and-n-days-against-popular-platforms&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.google&#x2F;threat-analysis-group&#x2F;spyware-vendors-us...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Spyware vendors use 0-days and n-days against Android, iOS and Chrome</title><url>https://blog.google/threat-analysis-group/spyware-vendors-use-0-days-and-n-days-against-popular-platforms/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>nixcraft</author><text>From the <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.google&#x2F;threat-analysis-group&#x2F;spyware-vendors-use-0-days-and-n-days-against-popular-platforms&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.google&#x2F;threat-analysis-group&#x2F;spyware-vendors-us...</a><p>&gt; In November 2022, TAG discovered exploit chains with 0-days affecting Android and iOS that were delivered via bit.ly links sent over SMS to users located in Italy, Malaysia and Kazakhstan. When clicked, the links redirected visitors to pages hosting exploits for either Android or iOS then redirected them to legitimate websites such as the page to track shipments for Italian-based shipment and logistics company BRT or a popular Malaysian news website.<p>You can harden your iPhone&#x2F;iOS from a cyberattack with Lockdown Mode[0]. It blocks those clickable links and removes many other attack vectors <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;support.apple.com&#x2F;en-gb&#x2F;guide&#x2F;iphone&#x2F;iph049680987&#x2F;ios" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;support.apple.com&#x2F;en-gb&#x2F;guide&#x2F;iphone&#x2F;iph049680987&#x2F;io...</a> However, I&#x27;m unsure if an attacker could bypass Lockdown Mode with additional bugs on iOS.<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;support.apple.com&#x2F;en-sg&#x2F;HT212650" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;support.apple.com&#x2F;en-sg&#x2F;HT212650</a></text></comment> |
13,032,883 | 13,032,868 | 1 | 2 | 13,032,199 | train | <story><title>Edward Snowden Demonstrates How Easy It Is to Hack a Voting Machine</title><url>http://ijr.com/wildfire/2016/11/731642-edward-snowden-demonstrates-how-easy-it-is-to-hack-a-voting-machine-all-for-just-30/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Zombieball</author><text>A former co-worker of mine wrote software for voting machines in Brazil. He described to me a few reasons why electronic voting machines are important. To be honest I forget the majority, but one story that stuck with me:<p>One common scheme electronic voting machines help prevent is forced votes. A bad guy gets their hand on a single empty ballot and writes the name of the candidate he wants to win on it. He then comes to you and threatens you and your family. Says hand in this pre-filled ballot and bring me back your empty ballot, or else... You comply, he fills out the empty ballot again, and repeats.<p>The electronic voting machines protect your identity. They allow you to vote anonymously. They provide data integrity that is harder to spoof than paper voting methods. I explicitly asked why they don&#x27;t just vote on paper ballots like they do in Canada (or the UK as you describe). His response was that we take for granted the inherit trust our societies have to <i>allow</i> us to vote in such a fashion without it being tampered.</text></item><item><author>hacker_9</author><text>Why do Americans use voting machines exactly? I mean, it just prints out their choice at the end right? What benefit do they actually gain from having pressed buttons instead of using a pen? It just seems to fuel the hacking conspiracy every time a president is elected.<p>In the UK we turn up, go into the booth with the paper slip, and tick our choice with a pen. Then we fold it and post it into a container which later gets shipped off to the counting room. I just can&#x27;t understand why you guys have to physically turn up if you are just going to select your answer on a computer anyway.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>extra88</author><text>Voter coercion is something to be concerned about but the scenario you describe won&#x27;t keep me up at night. The number one problem is it&#x27;s hard to scale up to a level that would actually sway an election. It only takes one hero to call the police while they&#x27;re at the polling station or after their family is released and the sequence is broken. There&#x27;s no need for the victim to actually submit the pre-filled ballot, they can throw it out or do something to it to make it invalid then come back with the blank one. The ballots where I vote are on a heavier stock paper that are not trivial to conceal bringing in and taking out; most could do it but one victim slips up and the scheme could fail.<p>Where I vote, my paper ballot in no way identifies me. I identify myself upon entering the polling station, they find my name on the list of registered voters and mark it. When I&#x27;m turning in my completed ballot, I again identify myself and my name is marked on a separate list. So there&#x27;s a record that I voted but not for whom I voted. How would an electronic voting machine improve upon this?<p>BTW, where I vote, the paper ballots are the bubble scan kind and the voter feeds it to the machine themselves. This provides very fast tabulations with a paper record for security and recounts.</text></comment> | <story><title>Edward Snowden Demonstrates How Easy It Is to Hack a Voting Machine</title><url>http://ijr.com/wildfire/2016/11/731642-edward-snowden-demonstrates-how-easy-it-is-to-hack-a-voting-machine-all-for-just-30/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Zombieball</author><text>A former co-worker of mine wrote software for voting machines in Brazil. He described to me a few reasons why electronic voting machines are important. To be honest I forget the majority, but one story that stuck with me:<p>One common scheme electronic voting machines help prevent is forced votes. A bad guy gets their hand on a single empty ballot and writes the name of the candidate he wants to win on it. He then comes to you and threatens you and your family. Says hand in this pre-filled ballot and bring me back your empty ballot, or else... You comply, he fills out the empty ballot again, and repeats.<p>The electronic voting machines protect your identity. They allow you to vote anonymously. They provide data integrity that is harder to spoof than paper voting methods. I explicitly asked why they don&#x27;t just vote on paper ballots like they do in Canada (or the UK as you describe). His response was that we take for granted the inherit trust our societies have to <i>allow</i> us to vote in such a fashion without it being tampered.</text></item><item><author>hacker_9</author><text>Why do Americans use voting machines exactly? I mean, it just prints out their choice at the end right? What benefit do they actually gain from having pressed buttons instead of using a pen? It just seems to fuel the hacking conspiracy every time a president is elected.<p>In the UK we turn up, go into the booth with the paper slip, and tick our choice with a pen. Then we fold it and post it into a container which later gets shipped off to the counting room. I just can&#x27;t understand why you guys have to physically turn up if you are just going to select your answer on a computer anyway.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>samastur</author><text>Color me unsurprised that a person who wrote software for voting machines also finds them useful.<p>The problem I have with this particular scenario is that it imagines a reality in which someone can afford to collect votes one by one with impunity but can&#x27;t force these same bunch of people (and one or two simply aren&#x27;t enough to matter) at the voting station itself.</text></comment> |
21,595,420 | 21,595,622 | 1 | 3 | 21,593,815 | train | <story><title>The world’s climate goals are not sufficient. They are also unlikely to be met</title><url>https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2019/11/20/the-worlds-climate-goals-are-not-sufficient-they-are-also-unlikely-to-be-met</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>NeedMoreTea</author><text>What many seem to forget is 2C or 4C of warming is not an end equilibrium state, it&#x27;s merely an arbitrary date of measurement (end of 21st century) for the track we may irreparably lock in for centuries and millennia. One a tipping point tips it&#x27;s damn near impossible to tip it back.<p>That seems more than a little cavalier given the limited range of regions we find our planet&#x27;s landmass in. The future looks more and more terrifying, and despite public opinion supporting action in much the world, <i>still</i> the political class have little to no answer anywhere...</text></item><item><author>CalRobert</author><text>We seem to be tracking for 4C of warming.<p>4C of warming would probably cause a collapse in the ability to feed the populace, and render large chunks of the world uninhabitable without active cooling, or because they&#x27;ll be underwater.<p>It&#x27;s hard to imagine how civilization survives this, without those regions that do continue to have arable land putting up walls and turrets and mowing down the streams of starving migrants.<p>At what point do you look at preppers and think &quot;honestly they might be on to something?&quot;<p>(edit: additions below)
Sources abound but <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theguardian.com&#x2F;environment&#x2F;2019&#x2F;may&#x2F;18&#x2F;climate-crisis-heat-is-on-global-heating-four-degrees-2100-change-way-we-live" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theguardian.com&#x2F;environment&#x2F;2019&#x2F;may&#x2F;18&#x2F;climate-...</a><p>&quot;Indeed, the consequences of a 4C warmer world are so terrifying that most scientists would rather not contemplate them, let alone work out a survival strategy.<p>Rockström doesn’t like our chances. “It’s difficult to see how we could accommodate a billion people or even half of that,” he says. “There will be a rich minority of people who survive with modern lifestyles, no doubt, but it will be a turbulent, conflict-ridden world.” &quot;<p>&quot;Since 2005, total global greenhouse-gas emissions have most closely tracked the RCP 8.5 scenario, &quot;<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theatlantic.com&#x2F;science&#x2F;archive&#x2F;2019&#x2F;01&#x2F;rcp-85-the-climate-change-disaster-scenario&#x2F;579700&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theatlantic.com&#x2F;science&#x2F;archive&#x2F;2019&#x2F;01&#x2F;rcp-85-t...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>archi42</author><text>Well, the answers won&#x27;t get you (re-)elected:<p>* Subsidize public transportation (maybe even 100%), and make it a feasible mode of transportation for as many people as possible (at least for daily commutes; bonus: many people are concentrated in cities, so start there).<p>* Regarding daily driving: If public transportation is a feasible alternative, punish those who still use their car for commuting.<p>* Massively increase taxes on all kinds of fossil fuels; no matter if used for driving or for electricity (initially ease this in regions with difficult&#x2F;bad public transportation).<p>* Make it easier to build regenerative energies (e.g. solar and wind) plus storage systems (e.g. pumped water or battery).<p>* I&#x27;m personally undecided on nuclear fission, but compared to coal it could be the lesser of two evils?<p>* On the packaging of any product (from bottled water over electronics to toothpaste) print the amount of energy used in production and for transportation.<p>* Punish producers of goods that break early (e.g. define minimum durability requirements for various product groups).<p>Would you elect someone with this agenda? I would have a hard time, though I think these points could all be appropriate responses to the climate crisis.<p>Even better: Try to get elected with that ;-)</text></comment> | <story><title>The world’s climate goals are not sufficient. They are also unlikely to be met</title><url>https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2019/11/20/the-worlds-climate-goals-are-not-sufficient-they-are-also-unlikely-to-be-met</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>NeedMoreTea</author><text>What many seem to forget is 2C or 4C of warming is not an end equilibrium state, it&#x27;s merely an arbitrary date of measurement (end of 21st century) for the track we may irreparably lock in for centuries and millennia. One a tipping point tips it&#x27;s damn near impossible to tip it back.<p>That seems more than a little cavalier given the limited range of regions we find our planet&#x27;s landmass in. The future looks more and more terrifying, and despite public opinion supporting action in much the world, <i>still</i> the political class have little to no answer anywhere...</text></item><item><author>CalRobert</author><text>We seem to be tracking for 4C of warming.<p>4C of warming would probably cause a collapse in the ability to feed the populace, and render large chunks of the world uninhabitable without active cooling, or because they&#x27;ll be underwater.<p>It&#x27;s hard to imagine how civilization survives this, without those regions that do continue to have arable land putting up walls and turrets and mowing down the streams of starving migrants.<p>At what point do you look at preppers and think &quot;honestly they might be on to something?&quot;<p>(edit: additions below)
Sources abound but <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theguardian.com&#x2F;environment&#x2F;2019&#x2F;may&#x2F;18&#x2F;climate-crisis-heat-is-on-global-heating-four-degrees-2100-change-way-we-live" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theguardian.com&#x2F;environment&#x2F;2019&#x2F;may&#x2F;18&#x2F;climate-...</a><p>&quot;Indeed, the consequences of a 4C warmer world are so terrifying that most scientists would rather not contemplate them, let alone work out a survival strategy.<p>Rockström doesn’t like our chances. “It’s difficult to see how we could accommodate a billion people or even half of that,” he says. “There will be a rich minority of people who survive with modern lifestyles, no doubt, but it will be a turbulent, conflict-ridden world.” &quot;<p>&quot;Since 2005, total global greenhouse-gas emissions have most closely tracked the RCP 8.5 scenario, &quot;<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theatlantic.com&#x2F;science&#x2F;archive&#x2F;2019&#x2F;01&#x2F;rcp-85-the-climate-change-disaster-scenario&#x2F;579700&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theatlantic.com&#x2F;science&#x2F;archive&#x2F;2019&#x2F;01&#x2F;rcp-85-t...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rayiner</author><text>That we face serious “tipping points” are not a mainstream scientific view and the IPCC has not said anything along those lines: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.science20.com&#x2F;robert_walker&#x2F;no_scientific_cliff_edge_of_12_years_to_save_planet_or_18_months_can_ipcc_challenge_deadlines_make_headlines" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.science20.com&#x2F;robert_walker&#x2F;no_scientific_cliff_...</a></text></comment> |
6,674,702 | 6,674,446 | 1 | 3 | 6,673,834 | train | <story><title>Show HN: No YC interview, but here's my application</title><url>https://www.penflip.com/loren/yc-application</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>guynamedloren</author><text>I have a solid history of failing remarkably. Good lessons learned, though.<p>To be honest I had no idea what I was getting myself into. I was completely unprepared and under qualified, and it was my first job interview <i>ever</i>. I bombed it.</text></item><item><author>selmnoo</author><text><p><pre><code> &gt; [ http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.lorenburton.com&#x2F; ]
&gt; [...] I posted the site to HN and dropped a &quot;share on twitter&quot; button on
&gt; the bottom of the page, racking up tens of thousands of hits and hundreds
&gt; of tweets. I was in touch with Joe Gebbia (thanks pg!!) within hours, who
&gt; expedited the interview process, and I flew to SF the next morning. Though
&gt; I didn&#x27;t get the job [...]
</code></pre>
Wait, <i>what</i>?! You made <a href="http://www.lorenburton.com" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.lorenburton.com</a> ... and then didn&#x27;t get a job at AirBNB? Goodness gracious. The job was for some frontend stuff, right? You seem pretty good at making frontend stuff, I can&#x27;t imagine why you didn&#x27;t get it.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>cmbaus</author><text>That&#x27;s crazy that you didn&#x27;t get the job. Considering AirBNB&#x27;s growth rate, it seems they could have taken a risk that someone like yourself would grow into the position.</text></comment> | <story><title>Show HN: No YC interview, but here's my application</title><url>https://www.penflip.com/loren/yc-application</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>guynamedloren</author><text>I have a solid history of failing remarkably. Good lessons learned, though.<p>To be honest I had no idea what I was getting myself into. I was completely unprepared and under qualified, and it was my first job interview <i>ever</i>. I bombed it.</text></item><item><author>selmnoo</author><text><p><pre><code> &gt; [ http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.lorenburton.com&#x2F; ]
&gt; [...] I posted the site to HN and dropped a &quot;share on twitter&quot; button on
&gt; the bottom of the page, racking up tens of thousands of hits and hundreds
&gt; of tweets. I was in touch with Joe Gebbia (thanks pg!!) within hours, who
&gt; expedited the interview process, and I flew to SF the next morning. Though
&gt; I didn&#x27;t get the job [...]
</code></pre>
Wait, <i>what</i>?! You made <a href="http://www.lorenburton.com" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.lorenburton.com</a> ... and then didn&#x27;t get a job at AirBNB? Goodness gracious. The job was for some frontend stuff, right? You seem pretty good at making frontend stuff, I can&#x27;t imagine why you didn&#x27;t get it.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>xsace</author><text>I would be fascinated to read more about that experience.</text></comment> |
21,207,565 | 21,207,526 | 1 | 3 | 21,207,057 | train | <story><title>Blizzard Employees Staged a Walkout to Protest Banned Pro-Hong Kong Gamer</title><url>https://www.thedailybeast.com/blizzard-employees-staged-a-walkout-to-protest-banned-pro-hong-kong-gamer</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jrockway</author><text>The Internet&#x27;s reaction to this has warmed my heart a little. Overwatch and Hearthstone are among my favorite computer games. I&#x27;ve certainly played more Overwatch than any other game. I have made real-world and online friends in Overwatch. I met my girlfriend in Overwatch.<p>It made me sad to have to throw all that away yesterday.<p>But the conversations we&#x27;re having as a result of this is great. The mainstream media is talking about it. Congress is talking about it. We&#x27;re going to have to ask ourselves: can we really let China have this much influence? Is it really worth it? (Remember: this is what Europe is asking about Silicon Valley with things like GDPR, and it&#x27;s working out quite well for them.)<p>Banning someone from Hearthstone GM doesn&#x27;t matter. But we are heading down a path where we decide what our values are, and they&#x27;re looking pretty good.</text></comment> | <story><title>Blizzard Employees Staged a Walkout to Protest Banned Pro-Hong Kong Gamer</title><url>https://www.thedailybeast.com/blizzard-employees-staged-a-walkout-to-protest-banned-pro-hong-kong-gamer</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>undefined3840</author><text>By far the most egregious example of western firms working with China are management consulting companies like McKinsey that work directly with governments on expensive contracts, including of course China.<p>I mean, in those cases they are often writing the playbook for the government when it comes to implementing certain policies. Crazy that is even legal for a western firm.</text></comment> |
7,553,675 | 7,552,062 | 1 | 2 | 7,551,968 | train | <story><title>Amazon ELBs are vulnerable to Heartbleed</title><url>https://forums.aws.amazon.com/thread.jspa?threadID=149734&tstart=0</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>pjjw</author><text>amazon&#x27;s response on this has been absolutely disgusting. we pay for their enterprise support, and that team is completely unaware. last night they advised that if i wanted this fixed in a day i should consider terminating my own ssl. i set that up, and as soon as i was about to cut over, i noticed that our elbs were fixed.<p>as of now, support is unaware there is a fix being rolled out.<p>i would have been better served not speaking to them, let alone paying for aws support.</text></comment> | <story><title>Amazon ELBs are vulnerable to Heartbleed</title><url>https://forums.aws.amazon.com/thread.jspa?threadID=149734&tstart=0</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>lox</author><text>It looks like they are actually fixed, as of 1 hour ago:<p><a href="https://twitter.com/lox/status/453443517017100288" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;lox&#x2F;status&#x2F;453443517017100288</a>
<a href="http://filippo.io/Heartbleed/#99designs.com" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;filippo.io&#x2F;Heartbleed&#x2F;#99designs.com</a></text></comment> |
17,135,145 | 17,135,138 | 1 | 3 | 17,134,531 | train | <story><title>US Employee in China Suffers Brain Injury in Case Recalling Cuba Sound 'Attack'</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-05-23/u-s-says-china-employee-hit-with-sound-sensations-brain-injury</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>huhtenberg</author><text>Logically speaking, it&#x27;s either of:<p>1. These are unrelated<p>2. The cause is specific to the setup&#x2F;operation of the US consulates themselves<p>3. Both Cubans (or Russians) and Chinese are using 3rd party spy tech that causes that<p>Anything else?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dragonwriter</author><text>Another possibility: It is one party (state or non-state actor) that has conducted attacks on the US <i>in</i> Cuba and China, which may not necessarily be either Cuba or China or acting with their knowledge. (Even when it was just Cuba, third-party attack was a possibility discussed.)</text></comment> | <story><title>US Employee in China Suffers Brain Injury in Case Recalling Cuba Sound 'Attack'</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-05-23/u-s-says-china-employee-hit-with-sound-sensations-brain-injury</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>huhtenberg</author><text>Logically speaking, it&#x27;s either of:<p>1. These are unrelated<p>2. The cause is specific to the setup&#x2F;operation of the US consulates themselves<p>3. Both Cubans (or Russians) and Chinese are using 3rd party spy tech that causes that<p>Anything else?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Symmetry</author><text>People dropping over in embassies in your country is a major embarrassment and I&#x27;d tend to assume it was a third party in both cases whose actions caused the illnesses in both embassies. There are lots of governments which would be interested in US internal diplomatic discussions and might be using high powered microwave transceivers or whatever this is to get it. So if anything I&#x27;d tend to see this as evidence point to someone other than the Chinese being behind this.</text></comment> |
11,489,686 | 11,488,681 | 1 | 3 | 11,487,943 | train | <story><title>Facebook Rights Manager</title><url>https://rightsmanager.fb.com/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tomclancy</author><text>Ripped content - It&#x27;s what made YouTube grow and what made FB Video grow. FB is taking steps to crack down on copyright theft now that the video platform is large enough (just like what YouTube did).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>superuser2</author><text>There&#x27;s a significant difference between hosting old-media content in a discoverable way on the internet for the first time (i.e. TV and movie clips off your DVD collection) and re-hosting internet-native content under your own account.<p>The former actually provides a service: I like to be able to show people and revisit funny scenes from i.e. West Wing episodes, and often that prompts me to go re-watch the episode from a legitimate source. The latter has no net gain for the user over just linking, but screws over the OP.</text></comment> | <story><title>Facebook Rights Manager</title><url>https://rightsmanager.fb.com/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tomclancy</author><text>Ripped content - It&#x27;s what made YouTube grow and what made FB Video grow. FB is taking steps to crack down on copyright theft now that the video platform is large enough (just like what YouTube did).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>darkclarity</author><text>Pretty standard modus operandi for technology start-ups, &#x27;disrupt&#x27; the scene (AKA enable illegal&#x2F;unlawful&#x2F;unethical things). Then years later, officially notice you&#x27;ve been turning a blind eye and provide tools to discourage it.</text></comment> |
27,860,593 | 27,860,527 | 1 | 2 | 27,859,413 | train | <story><title>Voice clone of Anthony Bourdain prompts synthetic media ethics questions</title><url>https://techpolicy.press/voice-clone-of-anthony-bourdain-prompts-synthetic-media-ethics-questions/?mc_cid=f76836fe27&mc_eid=4336df8131</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>pankajdoharey</author><text>It would be interesting to see if recreating songs is possible, if so i would like to hear the voice of Jim morrison and Curt Cobain.</text></item><item><author>yohannparis</author><text>As a viewer of the documentary, I will love that effect instead of a bland voice-over.
But a note should be added on the screen that the voice is AI-generated. Like when they say a war video is a reenactment.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>genewitch</author><text>I have a machine with two GPUs and a frozen OS with a tensorflow python app that clones voices, and I&#x27;d say the quality passes if you run it through a phone bandpass filter.<p>I&#x27;ve had an idea to use propellerhead recycle to chop the output cloned voice into syllables, and then &quot;play&quot; the chopped parts in rhythm, through autotune.<p>The issue is you get Eifel 65 sounding autotune if your base vocals are monotonic or way off key. The only way I can think of fixing this is to use something like audacity&#x27;s pitch changer that doesn&#x27;t affect the speed of the sample - rough the lyrical tones in with audacity&#x2F;recycle, then autotune it where it needs to go.<p>I&#x27;d like to say I&#x27;m too busy to get this workflow going, but mostly I&#x27;m lazy and someone else will do it first - and better - I can&#x27;t improve the AI cloning software.</text></comment> | <story><title>Voice clone of Anthony Bourdain prompts synthetic media ethics questions</title><url>https://techpolicy.press/voice-clone-of-anthony-bourdain-prompts-synthetic-media-ethics-questions/?mc_cid=f76836fe27&mc_eid=4336df8131</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>pankajdoharey</author><text>It would be interesting to see if recreating songs is possible, if so i would like to hear the voice of Jim morrison and Curt Cobain.</text></item><item><author>yohannparis</author><text>As a viewer of the documentary, I will love that effect instead of a bland voice-over.
But a note should be added on the screen that the voice is AI-generated. Like when they say a war video is a reenactment.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>caseyohara</author><text>AI-generated Nirvana song: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=GogY7RQFFus" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=GogY7RQFFus</a></text></comment> |
3,062,071 | 3,061,761 | 1 | 3 | 3,061,654 | train | <story><title>Google now has its own Beer</title><url>http://www.pcworld.com/article/240952/google_tries_its_hand_at_beer.html</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Steko</author><text>I think it would be hot to see the big tech companies all team up with a designer brewery and each do a signature beer. Microsoft's beer would have to be called Windows Beer 8. FaceBeer would have a QR code on it, when you and another person scan it you're added as friends. Apple's would have 5 patents just on the bottle design. Samsung's bottle would look just like Apple's. AOL would just be Budweiser poured into an AOL bottle.</text></comment> | <story><title>Google now has its own Beer</title><url>http://www.pcworld.com/article/240952/google_tries_its_hand_at_beer.html</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>latch</author><text>The video really stretches the roll Google and it's products seem to have played in the process. Seemed like a TV crew following the making of a new beer with an occasional Google ad now and again.</text></comment> |
6,575,080 | 6,574,762 | 1 | 3 | 6,574,624 | train | <story><title>Node v0.10.21 Stable has critical security fix</title><url>http://blog.nodejs.org/2013/10/18/node-v0-10-21-stable/</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>meritt</author><text>HTTP Pipelining is designed so a client can send multiple requests without waiting on a response and then the server sends all the responses in order. This is helpful on high latency links since it can combine numerous HTTP requests into fewer packets. The exploit is the client never stops to read and just writes requests nonstop. Meanwhile node&#x27;s http.Server continually populates a response buffer which is never consumed.<p>Node uses Stream[1] objects for reading&#x2F;writing streams of data. The Stream object has a &#x27;needsDrain&#x27; boolean which is set once its internal buffer surpasses the highWaterMark (defaults to 16kb). Subsequent writes will return false[2] and code should wait until the &#x27;drain&#x27; event is emitted, signaling it&#x27;s safe to write again[3]. The documentation even warns about this scenario:<p>&gt; <i>However, writes will be buffered in memory, so it is best not to do this excessively. Instead, wait for the drain event before writing more data.</i><p>http.Server[4] uses a writeable stream to send responses to a client. Until this patch[5] it was ignoring the needsDrain&#x2F;highWaterMark status and just writing to the stream. It fills up the buffer of the writeable stream, far beyond the high water mark and eventually runs out of memory.<p>The patch resolves this by checking when needsDrain is set, then it stops writing and stops reading&#x2F;parsing incoming data. It then waits until the &#x27;drain&#x27; event is fired and then proceeds as normal.<p>[1] <a href="http://nodejs.org/api/stream.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;nodejs.org&#x2F;api&#x2F;stream.html</a><p>[2] <a href="http://nodejs.org/api/stream.html#stream_writable_write_chunk_encoding_callback" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;nodejs.org&#x2F;api&#x2F;stream.html#stream_writable_write_chun...</a><p>[3] <a href="http://nodejs.org/api/stream.html#stream_event_drain" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;nodejs.org&#x2F;api&#x2F;stream.html#stream_event_drain</a><p>[4] <a href="http://nodejs.org/api/http.html#http_class_http_server" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;nodejs.org&#x2F;api&#x2F;http.html#http_class_http_server</a><p>[5] <a href="https://github.com/joyent/node/commit/085dd30e93da67362f044ad1b3b6b2d997064692" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;joyent&#x2F;node&#x2F;commit&#x2F;085dd30e93da67362f044a...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Node v0.10.21 Stable has critical security fix</title><url>http://blog.nodejs.org/2013/10/18/node-v0-10-21-stable/</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jared314</author><text>Apparently, a trivial DoS vulnerability for any Node serving HTTP:<p><a href="https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/nodejs/NEbweYB0ei0/gWvyzCunYjsJ" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;groups.google.com&#x2F;forum&#x2F;#!msg&#x2F;nodejs&#x2F;NEbweYB0ei0&#x2F;gWv...</a><p>The odd thing about non-disclosure in an open source project is: I can diff the code bases before and after the fix.<p><a href="https://github.com/joyent/node/issues/6214" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;joyent&#x2F;node&#x2F;issues&#x2F;6214</a><p><a href="https://github.com/joyent/node/commit/085dd30e93da67362f044ad1b3b6b2d997064692" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;joyent&#x2F;node&#x2F;commit&#x2F;085dd30e93da67362f044a...</a><p>And, they have a test script:<p><a href="https://github.com/joyent/node/blob/085dd30e93da67362f044ad1b3b6b2d997064692/test/simple/test-http-pipeline-flood.js" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;joyent&#x2F;node&#x2F;blob&#x2F;085dd30e93da67362f044ad1...</a></text></comment> |
29,998,930 | 29,996,673 | 1 | 3 | 29,993,961 | train | <story><title>1Password Has Raised $620M</title><url>https://blog.1password.com/future-of-1password/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>samgranieri</author><text>I really wish they weren&#x27;t doing away with 1password classic and the native mac app. I like the fact I bought a license, that I can store the data on dropbox or icloud, and it works just fine.<p>Yes, this is old news and sour grapes on my part. I just don&#x27;t yet feel like migrating to bitwarden.<p>I&#x27;ve been using 1password for 12 years since I saw it on a tutorial on peepcode.com. I actually taught my mother how to use it, she&#x27;s been using it for 9 years, and last weekend she was upgrading all her passwords to use 2fa with the QR code capturing facility.<p>We had to go find the 1password classic browser extension (something stopped working, needed to reinstall it) and that took a bit of doing. 1password is not making it easy to find anymore, and when she contacted customer support (before talking to me), their response was to upgrade to a paid account and store your passwords on a server.<p>Ugh.<p>Honestly, now that they&#x27;ve raised this much cash, would it really be that big of an inconvenience or lift for them to give mac users a native app instead of the electron one and keep allowing legacy users like me to use 1password with our existing licenses and dropbox?<p>I think they&#x27;d be able to hire some additional developers and product&#x2F;project people to make it happen. Not continuing to work on the classic project just feels like a kick in the shins.<p>Now, I&#x27;m building out my kubernetes cluster at home, and bitwarden is something I&#x27;m going to experiment with as a backup, but 1password 7 works fine and I just don&#x27;t want to migrate to a paid account.<p>C&#x27;mon 1password, make your legacy customers happy!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jeffrallen</author><text>They should take 20 million, endow a foundation, and have the foundation hire a couple of their original devs to make a clean room, open-source equivalent to 1Password 6. Then those of us who actually just want a self hosted password manager, not a massive whacky cloud secret factory, can use that.<p>Sigh, what a stupid world we live in, where greed destroys everything good.</text></comment> | <story><title>1Password Has Raised $620M</title><url>https://blog.1password.com/future-of-1password/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>samgranieri</author><text>I really wish they weren&#x27;t doing away with 1password classic and the native mac app. I like the fact I bought a license, that I can store the data on dropbox or icloud, and it works just fine.<p>Yes, this is old news and sour grapes on my part. I just don&#x27;t yet feel like migrating to bitwarden.<p>I&#x27;ve been using 1password for 12 years since I saw it on a tutorial on peepcode.com. I actually taught my mother how to use it, she&#x27;s been using it for 9 years, and last weekend she was upgrading all her passwords to use 2fa with the QR code capturing facility.<p>We had to go find the 1password classic browser extension (something stopped working, needed to reinstall it) and that took a bit of doing. 1password is not making it easy to find anymore, and when she contacted customer support (before talking to me), their response was to upgrade to a paid account and store your passwords on a server.<p>Ugh.<p>Honestly, now that they&#x27;ve raised this much cash, would it really be that big of an inconvenience or lift for them to give mac users a native app instead of the electron one and keep allowing legacy users like me to use 1password with our existing licenses and dropbox?<p>I think they&#x27;d be able to hire some additional developers and product&#x2F;project people to make it happen. Not continuing to work on the classic project just feels like a kick in the shins.<p>Now, I&#x27;m building out my kubernetes cluster at home, and bitwarden is something I&#x27;m going to experiment with as a backup, but 1password 7 works fine and I just don&#x27;t want to migrate to a paid account.<p>C&#x27;mon 1password, make your legacy customers happy!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rekoil</author><text>I don&#x27;t even mind the subscription fee and cloud hosting personally, just make a kickass native app like they always had and I&#x27;ll stay. If they force me to &quot;upgrade&quot; to 8 and it&#x27;s not a native app then I&#x27;ll just use something else like bitwarden.</text></comment> |
32,690,686 | 32,690,746 | 1 | 3 | 32,690,053 | train | <story><title>Flicking the kill switch: governments embrace internet shutdowns</title><url>https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/aug/29/flicking-the-kill-switch-governments-embrace-internet-shutdowns-as-a-form-of-control</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ryandrake</author><text>Protests happened before the Internet. Before telephones, even. Neither are a requirement for people to communicate and organize.</text></item><item><author>sojournerc</author><text>How would you organize protest with the government controlling communication? You have far more trust in the good will of those in power than I do.</text></item><item><author>3pt14159</author><text>In my opinion, this is a good thing. It&#x27;s akin to disconnecting gas mains during a bombing run or similar. War is war and we need real defensive measures for broad cyberattack.<p>If it gets misused then we&#x27;ll protest, etc.<p>Edit: You can downvote if you like, but this comment of mine isn&#x27;t made in bad faith. It&#x27;s fair to worry about a global cyberwar and fair to point out that in-person protests are still a viable response to abuse.</text></item><item><author>perihelions</author><text>The US has this capability too. It&#x27;s an expansive power and largely unchecked.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;techcrunch.com&#x2F;2020&#x2F;10&#x2F;22&#x2F;representatives-propose-bill-limiting-presidential-internet-kill-switch&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;techcrunch.com&#x2F;2020&#x2F;10&#x2F;22&#x2F;representatives-propose-bi...</a> (<i>&quot;
Representatives propose bill limiting presidential internet ‘kill switch’&quot;</i>)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jasonjayr</author><text>But times change and so has technology.<p>Adversaries have access to this technology too, and it&#x27;s a power multiplier. If they can shut down access to those they are oppressing, then they become far too powerful.<p>Yes, protesters can still protest, but without access to the same tech that those they are protesting can use, they can be out-organized, their voice muted, and their effectiveness minimized.</text></comment> | <story><title>Flicking the kill switch: governments embrace internet shutdowns</title><url>https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/aug/29/flicking-the-kill-switch-governments-embrace-internet-shutdowns-as-a-form-of-control</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ryandrake</author><text>Protests happened before the Internet. Before telephones, even. Neither are a requirement for people to communicate and organize.</text></item><item><author>sojournerc</author><text>How would you organize protest with the government controlling communication? You have far more trust in the good will of those in power than I do.</text></item><item><author>3pt14159</author><text>In my opinion, this is a good thing. It&#x27;s akin to disconnecting gas mains during a bombing run or similar. War is war and we need real defensive measures for broad cyberattack.<p>If it gets misused then we&#x27;ll protest, etc.<p>Edit: You can downvote if you like, but this comment of mine isn&#x27;t made in bad faith. It&#x27;s fair to worry about a global cyberwar and fair to point out that in-person protests are still a viable response to abuse.</text></item><item><author>perihelions</author><text>The US has this capability too. It&#x27;s an expansive power and largely unchecked.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;techcrunch.com&#x2F;2020&#x2F;10&#x2F;22&#x2F;representatives-propose-bill-limiting-presidential-internet-kill-switch&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;techcrunch.com&#x2F;2020&#x2F;10&#x2F;22&#x2F;representatives-propose-bi...</a> (<i>&quot;
Representatives propose bill limiting presidential internet ‘kill switch’&quot;</i>)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>salawat</author><text>You&#x27;re being disingenuous. Think about this. The authorities wouldn&#x27;t blanket shut down the Internet, they&#x27;d do it for the protesting populace, but leave their own access untouched. Protests largely suceeded in prior times because the capabilities of the populace vs. the government were largely symmetrical.<p>That would not be the case in this instance. You (the protestors) would be back to runners, unencrypted radio&#x2F;code. They&#x27;d still have the modern comm suite.<p>It doesn&#x27;t make things impossible for protestors, but it greatly shifts things in the government&#x27;s favor for containment and ability to sustain itself against a now unconsenting populace. Always remember asymmetry will be employed as early and often as possible.</text></comment> |
17,964,233 | 17,964,202 | 1 | 2 | 17,962,248 | train | <story><title>Why Is College in America So Expensive?</title><url>https://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2018/09/why-is-college-so-expensive-in-america/569884/?single_page=true</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>clay_the_ripper</author><text>Could you explain to me how the government control of those things had lead to price increases? Specifically? I hear this a lot but have never heard an explaination and I am genuinely curious of the reasoning</text></item><item><author>leekyle333</author><text>It is interesting to me that the three areas main areas in America that have become exponentially more expensive are healthcare, construction, and education. It&#x27;s curious that they have the most government control.</text></item><item><author>fzeroracer</author><text>The free market does not work in all situations. There&#x27;s a reason why our healthcare is an absolute disaster compared to any other first world country, why our college is far more expensive, why our drugs cost more etc<p>And it ain&#x27;t because of cost control. Every time we loosen the reins a bit and let the &#x27;free market&#x27; take the wheels, we see things get a lot worse for Americans as a whole. Especially when you have giant companies controlling the market entirely, like with ISPs.</text></item><item><author>frebord</author><text>&gt; Ultimately, college is expensive in the U.S. for the same reason MRIs are expensive: There is no central mechanism to control price increases. “Universities extract money from students because they can,” says Schleicher at the OECD. “It’s the inevitable outcome of an unregulated fee structure.”<p>Why do people always reach for central control, when we have the ultimate mechanism of price control as a core part of our society (competition).<p>What happens when the government tries to provide for us:
they gaurantee home loans: Financial crisis,
they gaurantee drug costs: Skyrocketing drug costs,
they gaurantee your student loan: Skyrocketing cost of school<p>By it&#x27;s nature, anything the government subsidizes is going to be taken advantage of. You either have to take full central control (lets not go there) or let the free market actually work. You can&#x27;t layer the two.</text></item><item><author>Domenic_S</author><text>I didn&#x27;t see this discussed in the article, but IMO the main driver is the availability of student loans. When the government guarantees loans, you can lend whatever you want!<p>The price of a TRIPLE occupancy dorm + 7 day meal access is $14,813.29&#x2F;YEAR at UC Davis. The &quot;meals&quot;, if they haven&#x27;t changed in the last decade, are Sodexo garbage. And don&#x27;t forget a &quot;year&quot; doesn&#x27;t count the summer, or winter break.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>roenxi</author><text>&quot;The Economy&quot; is a (surprisingly effective!) system for allocating resources. It short-circuits a human instinct that social status and fairness should be the guide, and replaces that with &quot;a persons economic contribution&quot; instead.<p>Now, it turns out that the difference in productivity between people is so great (think the old 10x-100x programmer) that allocating resources according to contribution creates so much surplus stuff that everybody wins, even the unproductive. And, as a side benefit, everyone has an incentive to be productive.<p>The flip side is that Government is made up of ordinary people who often ask &quot;what about fairness and status?&quot;, and likes to interfere to reallocate from productive people to unproductive people. In mild cases you get a healthy level of support for the disadvantaged, in extreme cases you get Venezuela. But in all cases, since the productive people are given less, they create less and there is less available to distribute. In theory this triggers the laws of supply-and-demand, reduces supply and prices increase.<p>The flip side is if the productive people consume their wealth instead of producing with it then we probably could tax them without any ill effects, but I think that is rarer than most people think.</text></comment> | <story><title>Why Is College in America So Expensive?</title><url>https://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2018/09/why-is-college-so-expensive-in-america/569884/?single_page=true</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>clay_the_ripper</author><text>Could you explain to me how the government control of those things had lead to price increases? Specifically? I hear this a lot but have never heard an explaination and I am genuinely curious of the reasoning</text></item><item><author>leekyle333</author><text>It is interesting to me that the three areas main areas in America that have become exponentially more expensive are healthcare, construction, and education. It&#x27;s curious that they have the most government control.</text></item><item><author>fzeroracer</author><text>The free market does not work in all situations. There&#x27;s a reason why our healthcare is an absolute disaster compared to any other first world country, why our college is far more expensive, why our drugs cost more etc<p>And it ain&#x27;t because of cost control. Every time we loosen the reins a bit and let the &#x27;free market&#x27; take the wheels, we see things get a lot worse for Americans as a whole. Especially when you have giant companies controlling the market entirely, like with ISPs.</text></item><item><author>frebord</author><text>&gt; Ultimately, college is expensive in the U.S. for the same reason MRIs are expensive: There is no central mechanism to control price increases. “Universities extract money from students because they can,” says Schleicher at the OECD. “It’s the inevitable outcome of an unregulated fee structure.”<p>Why do people always reach for central control, when we have the ultimate mechanism of price control as a core part of our society (competition).<p>What happens when the government tries to provide for us:
they gaurantee home loans: Financial crisis,
they gaurantee drug costs: Skyrocketing drug costs,
they gaurantee your student loan: Skyrocketing cost of school<p>By it&#x27;s nature, anything the government subsidizes is going to be taken advantage of. You either have to take full central control (lets not go there) or let the free market actually work. You can&#x27;t layer the two.</text></item><item><author>Domenic_S</author><text>I didn&#x27;t see this discussed in the article, but IMO the main driver is the availability of student loans. When the government guarantees loans, you can lend whatever you want!<p>The price of a TRIPLE occupancy dorm + 7 day meal access is $14,813.29&#x2F;YEAR at UC Davis. The &quot;meals&quot;, if they haven&#x27;t changed in the last decade, are Sodexo garbage. And don&#x27;t forget a &quot;year&quot; doesn&#x27;t count the summer, or winter break.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nostrademons</author><text>Some examples other than what people have already mentioned:<p>Prescription drugs. The FDA has a &quot;no existing alternative first&quot; policy - they work on approving drugs for conditions where no current treatment works before they even start considering competitors to existing drugs. This sounds quite logical, but the effect of it is that every new drug is granted a monopoly for a long period of time before any competitor can even legally sell their alternative, so the drug company can literally charge whatever they want.<p>Building codes. In my grandparents&#x27; day, it was still possible to construct your own house: you bought a plot of land, hired a concrete mixer to come pour the foundation, bought a lot of 2x4s, and spent a bunch of time hammering &amp; sawing. Now, you have to conform to all of the local building codes (which in the Bay Area, I&#x27;ve heard, is an 800-page tome), and you need to get approval for every feature of the design from the city building inspector, who has the power to completely block your construction if you get on his shit list. As a result, the only people who can build housing are ones who have good relationships with the city and the know-how to adhere closely to all the building codes.<p>Zoning. Even if you have that know-how and relationships, there are some things you just can&#x27;t do with housing. Own a 1&#x2F;4 acre with a single family home and want to convert it to a 4-plex? Too bad, it&#x27;s not zoned for that.<p>And you can see the economic impact of all of these by looking at situations where they&#x27;re absent. Consider generic drugs: once a generic has been approved, the price of a drug can fall by 90% or more. Or compare housing in the Houston metro area, where you can get a 3BR2BA for under $200K, to the Bay Area, where the same house will set you back $2M.</text></comment> |
27,152,464 | 27,152,407 | 1 | 3 | 27,141,804 | train | <story><title>Ferrofluid display cell Bluetooth speaker</title><url>https://hackaday.io/project/179136-ferrofluid-display-cell-bluetooth-speaker</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>tsimionescu</author><text>For anyone as fascinated with this substance as I am, here [0] is a YouTube video of someone making it &#x27;from scratch&#x27;. It&#x27;s a very detailed explanation, and includes some comparisons of the outcome VS commercial ferro fluids.<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;m.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=6L8yUY-doNc" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;m.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=6L8yUY-doNc</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Ferrofluid display cell Bluetooth speaker</title><url>https://hackaday.io/project/179136-ferrofluid-display-cell-bluetooth-speaker</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>bitdivision</author><text>I experimented with making a clock using ferrofluid previously. I was inspired by this clock [0] but put off by the price tag.<p>Generally the main issues I found were that it degraded over time and I had real trouble with ferrofluid smearing on the container.<p>Will have to try again now!<p>[0]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.thisiswhyimbroke.com&#x2F;ferrofluid-clock&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.thisiswhyimbroke.com&#x2F;ferrofluid-clock&#x2F;</a></text></comment> |
20,051,600 | 20,051,573 | 1 | 2 | 20,050,666 | train | <story><title>Terry Pratchett warns Bill Gates about fake news (1995)</title><url>https://twitter.com/20thcenturymarc/status/1133395241837506561</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>gregmac</author><text>Building on that analogy, the trouble with one clock is you only know what time it is <i>if it&#x27;s correct</i>. If you take the time to verify and&#x2F;or set it against an accurate time source, then this is no problem.<p>However, it seems more and more people are skipping that verification step, and just assuming the clock is right. When presented with two conflicting clocks, instead of questioning what&#x27;s going on and trying to find another clock to verify current time, they pick a side, rejecting one of the clocks as &quot;fake&quot; and continue using the one that most aligns with what they <i>think</i> the time should be.</text></item><item><author>hirundo</author><text>&gt; Captioning his find, Burrows said that the fantasy writer had “accurately predicted how the internet would propagate and legitimise fake news”<p>It&#x27;s like when you have one clock, you know what time it is. When you have two clocks they&#x27;re always somewhat different, and so you&#x27;re no longer certain of the time, and have less faith in clocks.<p>Fake news has always been with us and the internet just propagates it along with everything else. Contrary to the claim that the internet legitimized it, it made us more aware of how common it is, delegitimizing all news sources in the way that multiple clocks delegitimize clocks.<p>But clocks at least can be made quite accurate. I&#x27;m not at all sure that&#x27;s true of news sources.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pjc50</author><text>And a stopped clock is right twice a day. So all the stopped clock merchant has to do is wait for the clock to line up, then shout from the rooftops that they have the right time.<p>It&#x27;s not enough to be correct by coincidence, process matters. We see this often enough in scientific papers where the statistics come into question. News process is different, especially given how sources work. Not everyone is willing to be recorded, and recordings are increasingly untrustworthy anyway, so at some point you have to start believing that the reporter heard person X say Y.<p>The worst part of the whole fake news fiasco has been people using the (very real) problems of the established media as an excuse to switch to consuming <i>total nonsense</i> from fabricated sources.<p>Interestingly, time itself is a social construct. Not just in the sense of relativistic time, but in the sense of how we came to move from individual local clocks (&quot;decentralised time&quot;) to using time from the communication network which had to coordinate internally (&quot;railway time&quot;).</text></comment> | <story><title>Terry Pratchett warns Bill Gates about fake news (1995)</title><url>https://twitter.com/20thcenturymarc/status/1133395241837506561</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>gregmac</author><text>Building on that analogy, the trouble with one clock is you only know what time it is <i>if it&#x27;s correct</i>. If you take the time to verify and&#x2F;or set it against an accurate time source, then this is no problem.<p>However, it seems more and more people are skipping that verification step, and just assuming the clock is right. When presented with two conflicting clocks, instead of questioning what&#x27;s going on and trying to find another clock to verify current time, they pick a side, rejecting one of the clocks as &quot;fake&quot; and continue using the one that most aligns with what they <i>think</i> the time should be.</text></item><item><author>hirundo</author><text>&gt; Captioning his find, Burrows said that the fantasy writer had “accurately predicted how the internet would propagate and legitimise fake news”<p>It&#x27;s like when you have one clock, you know what time it is. When you have two clocks they&#x27;re always somewhat different, and so you&#x27;re no longer certain of the time, and have less faith in clocks.<p>Fake news has always been with us and the internet just propagates it along with everything else. Contrary to the claim that the internet legitimized it, it made us more aware of how common it is, delegitimizing all news sources in the way that multiple clocks delegitimize clocks.<p>But clocks at least can be made quite accurate. I&#x27;m not at all sure that&#x27;s true of news sources.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>NeedMoreTea</author><text>In attempting to dismiss the point Bill Gates gets it partly right. &#x27;you&#x27;ll only receive a piece of text through levels of direction, like a friend who says &quot;Hey go read this&quot;...&#x27;, and says so as though it is some arbiter of quality as they would have verified first.<p>Not that people generally verified that much anyway, but if it comes from <i>people</i> we trust and like we probably don&#x27;t engage natural scepticism. Not like you might if you doubted the source, or heard a wild claim on the news. The friend has become the source, and reinforced the veracity. The sharing model did that. It probably also explains the amplification effects of social.<p>So I suppose the meta question is did they pick a side, or was it picked by the random connections within the peer group?</text></comment> |
35,056,789 | 35,056,660 | 1 | 3 | 35,056,098 | train | <story><title>Haraldur Þorleifsson sweeps person of the year awards</title><url>https://www.icelandreview.com/news/haraldur-thorleifsson-sweeps-person-of-the-year-awards/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>doomleika</author><text>Copying my post from other thread:<p>Feels more like to gut Musk. Dude had a firm aquired to Twitter in &#x27;21. and is one of largest tax entity in Iceland. He got Musk saying he&#x27;s terminated due to disability[1].<p>He deliberately asked HR repeatly that his JD is correct and his manager if he’s doing the task he was assigned while he was employed[2]. No one will ever do this unless he’s preparing for lawsuits.<p>He’s likely to be in the period of his acquisitions and termination like this gonna be very expensive<p>Dude is out for blood and Musk falls for it. It&#x27;s going to be a very expensive tweet for Musk.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;stevanzetti&#x2F;status&#x2F;1633096176219160584" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;stevanzetti&#x2F;status&#x2F;1633096176219160584</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;iamharaldur&#x2F;status&#x2F;1633082731172069379" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;iamharaldur&#x2F;status&#x2F;1633082731172069379</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>300bps</author><text>Musk did not say he was terminated due to disability. The link you provided as evidence states:<p><i>The reality is that this guy (who is independently wealthy) did no actual work</i><p>Musk claims Þorleifsson did no actual work using his disability as a reason for why no actual work was being done.<p>Laws vary country to country and even state to state in the U.S. Generally speaking in the U.S., the ADA requires employers to make reasonable accommodations for disabled employees. The ADA is a great thing that allows people of varying abilities to contribute tremendously to society.<p>This isn&#x27;t complete protection for employees though. A blind person is not likely to be hired as an air traffic controller, for example. And they&#x27;re not likely to be retained if they were an air traffic controller and developed blindness.</text></comment> | <story><title>Haraldur Þorleifsson sweeps person of the year awards</title><url>https://www.icelandreview.com/news/haraldur-thorleifsson-sweeps-person-of-the-year-awards/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>doomleika</author><text>Copying my post from other thread:<p>Feels more like to gut Musk. Dude had a firm aquired to Twitter in &#x27;21. and is one of largest tax entity in Iceland. He got Musk saying he&#x27;s terminated due to disability[1].<p>He deliberately asked HR repeatly that his JD is correct and his manager if he’s doing the task he was assigned while he was employed[2]. No one will ever do this unless he’s preparing for lawsuits.<p>He’s likely to be in the period of his acquisitions and termination like this gonna be very expensive<p>Dude is out for blood and Musk falls for it. It&#x27;s going to be a very expensive tweet for Musk.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;stevanzetti&#x2F;status&#x2F;1633096176219160584" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;stevanzetti&#x2F;status&#x2F;1633096176219160584</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;iamharaldur&#x2F;status&#x2F;1633082731172069379" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;iamharaldur&#x2F;status&#x2F;1633082731172069379</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>polygamous_bat</author><text>&gt; Dude is out for blood and Musk falls for it.<p>Unfortunately, that is not necessarily the case. I&#x27;ve known the experience of a few people experiencing disability over my time, and discrimination is so shockingly common that you learn to keep a record of everything just to survive in your job.</text></comment> |
27,729,858 | 27,730,078 | 1 | 2 | 27,729,209 | train | <story><title>Is GitHub a derivative work of GPL'd software?</title><url>https://drewdevault.com/2021/07/04/Is-GitHub-a-derivative-work.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>pmlnr</author><text>It&#x27;s not &quot;fair-use classification of ML models&quot;. If the ML black box:<p>- produces an output<p>- that output is the exact same thing - text, code, image, et c - that went in<p>- that thing is licensed<p>- fails to fulfill the requirements of the license<p>than it&#x27;s breaking the license. I don&#x27;t see how it can be wiggled around.<p>The black boxes that produce entirely different outputs, or the ones that slurped billions of photos without even blinking at license but never vomits actual images are, at least, not reproducing the source material.</text></item><item><author>chrismorgan</author><text>There’s a curious tendency in these discussions to focus on the GPL as though it were special. If the original licenses apply, then you’ll be embedding code under all kinds of different licenses—some of which are sure to be mutually incompatible.<p>To be sure, the infectious nature of the GPL <i>is</i> likely to be a bigger deal, but permissive licenses will be violated by missing acknowledgement just as much as the GPL will be violated by not licensing your code GPL.<p>If this license-washing doesn’t work, then you can’t just say “we’ll exclude GPL sources”, because you’ll still be breaking the rules on <i>any</i> copyrighted work that doesn’t have very specific public-domain-like do-whatever-you-like-and-don’t-acknowledge-me licensing.<p>The whole thing truly does depend on the fair-use classification of ML models. If that falls apart, the entire thing’s done (and a <i>lot</i> of other ML stuff will be, too). And that’s where regurgitation becomes so problematic, because it directly undermines that fair-use exemption.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>gravypod</author><text>I think another important analogy is that you couldn&#x27;t do this same operation with a human. In my eyes a human and an ML algorithm are both &quot;agents&quot;. An ML algorithm is a computerized actor on a system but they are still able to do something novel based on previous inputs. If we take these two scenarios:<p>1. A hypothetical employer asks an employee to find a really fast algorithm to find an inverse square root. The employee has a perfect memory and can regurgitate fast inverse square root from Quake 2.<p>2. A hypothetical employer asks an employee to find a really fast algorithm to find an inverse square root. The employee uses this ML algorithm to generate the code which essentially regurgitates the only previously seen inverse square root function it was trained on.<p>At some point in time in the future id Software sees this is happening at our hypothetical company and sues. In neither situation is the &quot;actor&quot; held accountable since the &quot;actor&quot; was employed by the company which allowed for practices that enabled this infringement to take place.<p>I think an important legal question is: Do we consider a ML algorithm being trained on data the same as a human reading prior art for an innovation?</text></comment> | <story><title>Is GitHub a derivative work of GPL'd software?</title><url>https://drewdevault.com/2021/07/04/Is-GitHub-a-derivative-work.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>pmlnr</author><text>It&#x27;s not &quot;fair-use classification of ML models&quot;. If the ML black box:<p>- produces an output<p>- that output is the exact same thing - text, code, image, et c - that went in<p>- that thing is licensed<p>- fails to fulfill the requirements of the license<p>than it&#x27;s breaking the license. I don&#x27;t see how it can be wiggled around.<p>The black boxes that produce entirely different outputs, or the ones that slurped billions of photos without even blinking at license but never vomits actual images are, at least, not reproducing the source material.</text></item><item><author>chrismorgan</author><text>There’s a curious tendency in these discussions to focus on the GPL as though it were special. If the original licenses apply, then you’ll be embedding code under all kinds of different licenses—some of which are sure to be mutually incompatible.<p>To be sure, the infectious nature of the GPL <i>is</i> likely to be a bigger deal, but permissive licenses will be violated by missing acknowledgement just as much as the GPL will be violated by not licensing your code GPL.<p>If this license-washing doesn’t work, then you can’t just say “we’ll exclude GPL sources”, because you’ll still be breaking the rules on <i>any</i> copyrighted work that doesn’t have very specific public-domain-like do-whatever-you-like-and-don’t-acknowledge-me licensing.<p>The whole thing truly does depend on the fair-use classification of ML models. If that falls apart, the entire thing’s done (and a <i>lot</i> of other ML stuff will be, too). And that’s where regurgitation becomes so problematic, because it directly undermines that fair-use exemption.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>murgindrag</author><text>It can be wiggled around. For example, if I ship a robot which can paint a famous painting, but not the painting itself, I would argue the copyright violation happens by the user of the robot when it paints the painting, not by the maker of the robot.<p>If that&#x27;s something I&#x27;d planned on and intended, and you own the copyright to the painting, you have all sorts of legal tools to go after me -- contributory infringement, collusion, and so on. Still, contributing to a legal violation is not the same as engaging in one.<p>I suspect an argument can be made that github now incorporates AGPL code generated by co-pilot, and so is AGPL. A fair use argument might be made as well; we&#x27;ve all copied one-liners from blog posts and tutorials, and that&#x27;s okay. I&#x27;m having a harder time seeing a reasonable argument that an ML model is directly infringing just because it can produce a copyrighted work, though.<p>So I don&#x27;t think it&#x27;s a cut-and-dry legal question.<p>I will give a caveat: Coders tend to read laws much too literally, like computer code. When I was was an obnoxious teenager, I thought I&#x27;d found all sorts of contract &#x2F; license &#x2F; etc. loopholes in all sorts of legal documents, and I considered myself profoundly clever, thinking I&#x27;d outsmarted the lawyers.<p>Nope.<p>In college I took law classes, got into the real world, did a few startups, and saw a few legal cases. Court systems have technical rules you need to be aware of, of course (e.g. if you miss a deadline....), but interpreting the law is really grounded in common sense. Common sense is culturally situated, and ours is situated in hundreds of years of case law.</text></comment> |
23,216,911 | 23,216,930 | 1 | 2 | 23,211,495 | train | <story><title>The Death of Couchsurfing?</title><url>https://medium.com/@jameshopest/the-death-of-couchsurfing-a87d9537edf2</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>peterburkimsher</author><text>I don&#x27;t know how Hacker News manages to stay so pure, given that it&#x27;s run by venture capitalists, yet still remains free of ads and open to newcomers. Monetising CS is like demanding a signup fee to join HN: it will drastically change the community.</text></item><item><author>MattGaiser</author><text>&gt;If community powered websites like Reddit can survive<p>Reddit is backed by venture capital and shifted heavily to be more advertiser friendly.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>MattGaiser</author><text>Hacker News is smaller than most major subreddits in terms of usage. 400 upvotes is considered a lot here. The site is extremely simple and something that could be replicated in a couple of days at most by most engineers. It doesn&#x27;t process money or really require a lot of content moderation either.</text></comment> | <story><title>The Death of Couchsurfing?</title><url>https://medium.com/@jameshopest/the-death-of-couchsurfing-a87d9537edf2</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>peterburkimsher</author><text>I don&#x27;t know how Hacker News manages to stay so pure, given that it&#x27;s run by venture capitalists, yet still remains free of ads and open to newcomers. Monetising CS is like demanding a signup fee to join HN: it will drastically change the community.</text></item><item><author>MattGaiser</author><text>&gt;If community powered websites like Reddit can survive<p>Reddit is backed by venture capital and shifted heavily to be more advertiser friendly.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mschuster91</author><text>HN is run as a side gig, modded by iirc 2 or 3 staffers. Simple tech stack with next to zero new features, so not too capital intensive.<p>Plus: there are a shitload of people from all over the world here, ranging from broke devs in &quot;third world countries&quot; over German journalists to US VC CEOs. HN is essentially a gateway to a lot of influential people... a &quot;soft power&quot; in politics terms. And one with real monetary value as HN is an excellent place for new YC companies to get users, staff, or a network. An advantage that <i>other</i> VC funds do not have.</text></comment> |
5,374,597 | 5,373,405 | 1 | 2 | 5,372,956 | train | <story><title>A successful Bitcoin double spend – USD 10000</title><url>https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=152348</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>nostromo</author><text>I've actually thought about putting some play money in Bitcoin, but these stories prevent me from doing so.<p>This guy is (apparently?) unhappy, and he's knowledgable enough about bitcoin to know to inspect forks and vins and OKPAY transactions -- and then to make two double (?) spend transactions.<p>If this guy is getting screwed, I'd surely manage to lose twice my investment somehow.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ramanujan</author><text>It looks like this possibility was known and broadcasted to merchants during the maintenance window two days ago. It's kind of like the Rails mass assignment or security bug: merchants are just going to have to stay on top of Bitcoin issues.<p><a href="http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/1a51xx/now_that_its_over_the_blockchain_fork_explained" rel="nofollow">http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/1a51xx/now_that_its...</a><p><pre><code> [Submitted March 12]
It's DanielTaylor again and I wanted to create a simple yet
intuitive post to explain the folks out there what happened
a couple of hours ago. This might also be useful for
bloggers or journalists who might be going to write about
it in the following hours.
TL;DR
The programs that read the blockchain, the bitcoin ledger,
disagree.
Due to a bug in 0.7, it says that HIS is the correct
version of this ledger and 0.8 says that HIS is the correct
version.
Miners (the people who add pages to the blockchain) are
told to switch to the 0.7 program so that this version
gains more support and the other one is discarded.
(orphaned).
Regular users are not affected. Their transactions are
included in both ledgers and don't need to change any
programs.
During that time, though, there is a slight chance of a
double-spend ocurring. That is why people recommended
merchants and exchanges to wait until there is one single
blockchain again before processing purchases and
merchandise.
...
What's a double-spend?
This is the reason why some merchants and exchanges stopped
processing incoming bitcoins for a couple of hours.
The bitcoin network prevents people from spending the same
coins by mantaining this unique ledger, the blockchain. But
now that there were two of them, it was theoretically
possible to broadcast two different transactions with the
same coins and still get some confirmations.
With some luck, someone could sneakily sneakily* buy a
television to a merchant who was reading the 0.8 ledger and
have the transaction confirmed. At the same time he could
have sent the same coins back to himself and, with some
luck, have the transaction confirmed on the 0.7 ledger.
What happens is that, in the end when 0.7 wins, the thief
will have the television and his bitcoins. Remember that
there were two different versions of the same coins!
This is not something easy to do and requires a lot of luck
because the blocks mined (the pages added to the ledger)
must be mined precisely in the correct order. But still, in
this situation it was easier to pull off and so it was
recommended for merchants and exchanges to temporarily stop
processing incoming transactions.
Now the situation has resolved and the blockchain keeps
growing happily, page by page, block y block.</code></pre></text></comment> | <story><title>A successful Bitcoin double spend – USD 10000</title><url>https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=152348</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>nostromo</author><text>I've actually thought about putting some play money in Bitcoin, but these stories prevent me from doing so.<p>This guy is (apparently?) unhappy, and he's knowledgable enough about bitcoin to know to inspect forks and vins and OKPAY transactions -- and then to make two double (?) spend transactions.<p>If this guy is getting screwed, I'd surely manage to lose twice my investment somehow.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jimrandomh</author><text>This guy wasn't the one screwed, OKPay (a payment processor) was; he took advantage of a several-hour window during the blockchain fork that happened a few days ago, to send them coins, wait until they gave him money for those coins, then take the coins back. This sort of thing is a risk for those operating exchanges and payment processors, not for end users. He returned the coins later - he had to, since he used an account linked to his real name - but a more-anonymous version of the same scenario is theoretically possible.<p>(On the other hand, there have been a few high-profile instances of end-users getting their coins stolen - usually by keeping them in an unencrypted wallet on a computer that gets a virus, but also in more exotic ways, like depositing them in an "online wallet service" run anonymously and registered to the Cayman islands.)</text></comment> |
33,064,469 | 33,063,969 | 1 | 2 | 33,049,922 | train | <story><title>Build your fanbase using the K-pop method</title><url>https://lulu.substack.com/p/fandom</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>thaumasiotes</author><text>&gt; A song can have its lyrics translated&#x2F;altered into an entirely different language and still carry the same weight.<p>This is not true. Try listening to &quot;the same&quot; song in two different languages that you can speak, one of which being the language the song was written in.<p>One of two things will be true:<p>(a) It is obvious which songs was originally written in that language and which is a translation.<p>(b) It is not obvious that the two songs are the same.<p>&gt; I believe the correct term would be lyrics, not songs.<p>Nope. The lyrics are the song. Music with nothing but lyrics sung to a melody is still a song. Music without lyrics is not a song.</text></item><item><author>consumer451</author><text>&gt; Korean songs<p>I believe the correct term would be lyrics, not songs.<p>A song can have its lyrics translated&#x2F;altered into an entirely different language and still carry the same weight. Many pop songwriters would argue that the lyrics are one of the least important components.<p>Non-anglophone countries are full of such songs based on English language originals. Though this musical localization seems have be have been more popular in the past, for multiple reasons.</text></item><item><author>thaumasiotes</author><text>But they aren&#x27;t. The headline of that very article (ok, the subhed) notes that they aren&#x27;t capable of writing Korean songs and don&#x27;t try. This is repeated in the text:<p>&gt; Carlebecker writes in English, and then Korean songwriters add new lyrics to her melodies</text></item><item><author>carabiner</author><text>Nope, they&#x27;re doing just fine writing for BTS etc.: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nytimes.com&#x2F;2022&#x2F;01&#x2F;26&#x2F;arts&#x2F;music&#x2F;sweden-kpop-bts-red-velvet.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nytimes.com&#x2F;2022&#x2F;01&#x2F;26&#x2F;arts&#x2F;music&#x2F;sweden-kpop-bt...</a></text></item><item><author>thaumasiotes</author><text>You know, the best Swedish pop songwriters in the world could probably do a really good job on the musical accompaniment to a K-pop song, but they&#x27;re likely to be among the worst possible people to <i>write the song</i>. Any three-year-old Korean kid would be a better choice.</text></item><item><author>carabiner</author><text>Real reason for K-pop success: hire the best Swedish pop songwriters in the world and give them carte blanche to create any crazy songs they want. Same with Korean car companies and hiring the best German and Italian designers. Start with money, import talent, then cut them loose.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>NSMutableSet</author><text>&gt;Nope. The lyrics are the song. Music with nothing but lyrics sung to a melody is still a song. Music without lyrics is not a song.<p>You&#x27;re pedantically correct according to the original definition of the word &quot;song&quot;.<p>But in modern usage, the word is used interchangeably with &quot;instrumental&quot; and &quot;track&quot;.<p>It&#x27;s used to refer to everything as a whole, whether or not there are lyrics.<p>Lyricless music is not as popular today as it was during the peak of EDM, but instrumental tracks were&#x2F;are still referred to as &quot;songs&quot;, even though they technically did not contain a song, since there were no lyrics.</text></comment> | <story><title>Build your fanbase using the K-pop method</title><url>https://lulu.substack.com/p/fandom</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>thaumasiotes</author><text>&gt; A song can have its lyrics translated&#x2F;altered into an entirely different language and still carry the same weight.<p>This is not true. Try listening to &quot;the same&quot; song in two different languages that you can speak, one of which being the language the song was written in.<p>One of two things will be true:<p>(a) It is obvious which songs was originally written in that language and which is a translation.<p>(b) It is not obvious that the two songs are the same.<p>&gt; I believe the correct term would be lyrics, not songs.<p>Nope. The lyrics are the song. Music with nothing but lyrics sung to a melody is still a song. Music without lyrics is not a song.</text></item><item><author>consumer451</author><text>&gt; Korean songs<p>I believe the correct term would be lyrics, not songs.<p>A song can have its lyrics translated&#x2F;altered into an entirely different language and still carry the same weight. Many pop songwriters would argue that the lyrics are one of the least important components.<p>Non-anglophone countries are full of such songs based on English language originals. Though this musical localization seems have be have been more popular in the past, for multiple reasons.</text></item><item><author>thaumasiotes</author><text>But they aren&#x27;t. The headline of that very article (ok, the subhed) notes that they aren&#x27;t capable of writing Korean songs and don&#x27;t try. This is repeated in the text:<p>&gt; Carlebecker writes in English, and then Korean songwriters add new lyrics to her melodies</text></item><item><author>carabiner</author><text>Nope, they&#x27;re doing just fine writing for BTS etc.: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nytimes.com&#x2F;2022&#x2F;01&#x2F;26&#x2F;arts&#x2F;music&#x2F;sweden-kpop-bts-red-velvet.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nytimes.com&#x2F;2022&#x2F;01&#x2F;26&#x2F;arts&#x2F;music&#x2F;sweden-kpop-bt...</a></text></item><item><author>thaumasiotes</author><text>You know, the best Swedish pop songwriters in the world could probably do a really good job on the musical accompaniment to a K-pop song, but they&#x27;re likely to be among the worst possible people to <i>write the song</i>. Any three-year-old Korean kid would be a better choice.</text></item><item><author>carabiner</author><text>Real reason for K-pop success: hire the best Swedish pop songwriters in the world and give them carte blanche to create any crazy songs they want. Same with Korean car companies and hiring the best German and Italian designers. Start with money, import talent, then cut them loose.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pronlover723</author><text>Plenty of anime, jpop, and kpop songs translated and sung by fans in English. They do a great job of making the lyrics fit, rhyme, and feel like an English song.<p>I&#x27;ve actually been kind of shocked how good they are given how poor many professional subtitle translation are. Like recently watching Cyberpunk 2077 and the English subtitles are not remotely close to the Japanese dialog</text></comment> |
34,487,077 | 34,487,128 | 1 | 3 | 34,484,394 | train | <story><title>Study reveals average age at conception for men vs. women over past 250k years</title><url>https://phys.org/news/2023-01-reveals-average-age-conception-men.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>pronlover723</author><text>I watch a lot of old movies (30s-40s-50s). A ton of them have a 40s-50s man marrying a 20s woman.<p>No idea if that was societal norm, mens fantasy, or whatever. I have to kind of believe movie execs would want the largest audience and so if 40s-50s men dating 20s women was not appealing to women of the time they&#x27;d been losing 1&#x2F;2 the market. But, maybe these particular movies were the male equivalent of romance novels which seem to be written 99% for a female audience<p>Some examples:<p>The Girl Can&#x27;t Help It (1956)<p>South Pacific (1958)<p>My Fair Lady (1964)<p>The Far Country (1954)<p>Casablanca (1942)<p>To Have and Have Not (1944)<p>Charade (1963)<p>There are literally 100s of them and I&#x27;m not recommending any of the movies above per-say, but it does stick out to me just how common that theme is of man, at least 15yrs older than woman which I believe is less common today</text></item><item><author>sdwr</author><text>A lot to unpack (read - wildly speculate about) here.<p>10,000 generations ago. Like the next one but less of a &quot;solved game&quot;.<p>1000 generations ago - Old men coupling with young women reads as small-scale tribal society to me. Polygamy, pride-of-lions. Groups are small enough that village elders control the, uh, means of production. The bottleneck on food is natural stocks.<p>200-300 generations ago lines up with the dawn of civilization and large-scale farming (5-7000 years ago). The bottleneck on food is human labour. Young people are encouraged to start (reasonably) self-sufficient farming families, and the surplus is traded for, taxed, or stolen.<p>0-50 generations ago (1000AD+)
??? Cultural escape velocity is reached. Women are having children later than ever before, pointing to less risky lives, greater food security, and increased autonomy, but also a heavier load of cultural baggage. Becoming elves isn&#x27;t all it&#x27;s cracked up to be.<p>Also, before someone else says it, blah blah blah average vs median.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>llampx</author><text>I wonder how many of the male protagonists in these movies are extraordinarily
or above-average rich, successful, handsome or charming.<p>I daresay you won&#x27;t find a George from Seinfeld in there, rather a set of George Clooneys.<p>I don&#x27;t doubt that there was an age difference, but we have&#x2F;had plenty of living couples from that era and can look in the census records - were Spring&#x2F;Fall marriages that common?</text></comment> | <story><title>Study reveals average age at conception for men vs. women over past 250k years</title><url>https://phys.org/news/2023-01-reveals-average-age-conception-men.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>pronlover723</author><text>I watch a lot of old movies (30s-40s-50s). A ton of them have a 40s-50s man marrying a 20s woman.<p>No idea if that was societal norm, mens fantasy, or whatever. I have to kind of believe movie execs would want the largest audience and so if 40s-50s men dating 20s women was not appealing to women of the time they&#x27;d been losing 1&#x2F;2 the market. But, maybe these particular movies were the male equivalent of romance novels which seem to be written 99% for a female audience<p>Some examples:<p>The Girl Can&#x27;t Help It (1956)<p>South Pacific (1958)<p>My Fair Lady (1964)<p>The Far Country (1954)<p>Casablanca (1942)<p>To Have and Have Not (1944)<p>Charade (1963)<p>There are literally 100s of them and I&#x27;m not recommending any of the movies above per-say, but it does stick out to me just how common that theme is of man, at least 15yrs older than woman which I believe is less common today</text></item><item><author>sdwr</author><text>A lot to unpack (read - wildly speculate about) here.<p>10,000 generations ago. Like the next one but less of a &quot;solved game&quot;.<p>1000 generations ago - Old men coupling with young women reads as small-scale tribal society to me. Polygamy, pride-of-lions. Groups are small enough that village elders control the, uh, means of production. The bottleneck on food is natural stocks.<p>200-300 generations ago lines up with the dawn of civilization and large-scale farming (5-7000 years ago). The bottleneck on food is human labour. Young people are encouraged to start (reasonably) self-sufficient farming families, and the surplus is traded for, taxed, or stolen.<p>0-50 generations ago (1000AD+)
??? Cultural escape velocity is reached. Women are having children later than ever before, pointing to less risky lives, greater food security, and increased autonomy, but also a heavier load of cultural baggage. Becoming elves isn&#x27;t all it&#x27;s cracked up to be.<p>Also, before someone else says it, blah blah blah average vs median.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>vintermann</author><text>There have been men in their 20s marrying women in their 50s too (especially when inheritances have been involved) but since they wouldn&#x27;t get children in that case, they would be totally invisible in these kinds of genetic statistics.<p>Even if average age in a relationship was symmetric, men being fertile for longer would cause age at (child&#x27;s) conception to be higher for men. That effect needs to be untangled before we can know just how much men preferred younger women in the past&#x2F;vice versa.</text></comment> |
13,530,179 | 13,530,154 | 1 | 2 | 13,529,213 | train | <story><title>LibreTaxi – A free and open source alternative to Uber and Lyft</title><url>http://libretaxi.org/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rovek</author><text>I&#x27;ve literally never heard anyone outside Spotify ads 3 years ago even mention blablacar, let alone in the same breath as Uber.</text></item><item><author>joeyspn</author><text>BlaBlaCar [0] operates&#x2F;ed only with community reviews (for drivers and passengers) and is doing just fine in EU... It is in fact so successful, that govs and press always talk about &quot;services like blablacar and uber&quot; (they&#x27;re classified as basically the same kind of service)<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.blablacar.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.blablacar.com&#x2F;</a></text></item><item><author>reubensutton</author><text>My concern with this is the problem of ensuring the safety of the person driving the cab and the real identity of the rider.<p>Lots of drivers will be reluctant because they can be stiffed on the bill. Lots of passengers will be reluctant to use it due to the inherent risk of riding with what is essentially a stranger.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>joeyspn</author><text>Then you live disconnected from the european news... googled in 3 seconds:<p>[FRANCE] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.capital.fr&#x2F;bourse&#x2F;actualites&#x2F;blablacar-uber-sont-ils-aussi-menaces-par-le-proces-heetch-1192120" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.capital.fr&#x2F;bourse&#x2F;actualites&#x2F;blablacar-uber-sont-...</a><p>[SPAIN] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.elmundo.es&#x2F;comunidad-valenciana&#x2F;2016&#x2F;04&#x2F;14&#x2F;570f66f146163f045f8b45bc.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.elmundo.es&#x2F;comunidad-valenciana&#x2F;2016&#x2F;04&#x2F;14&#x2F;570f66...</a><p>[UK] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.express.co.uk&#x2F;life-style&#x2F;science-technology&#x2F;605860&#x2F;Blablacar-Hitching-Hiking-Car-Share-App-Billion" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.express.co.uk&#x2F;life-style&#x2F;science-technology&#x2F;60586...</a><p>[NETHERLANDS] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nu.nl&#x2F;internet&#x2F;4268012&#x2F;autodeeldienst-blablacar-wil-niet-vergeleken-worden-met-uber.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nu.nl&#x2F;internet&#x2F;4268012&#x2F;autodeeldienst-blablacar-w...</a><p>etc...</text></comment> | <story><title>LibreTaxi – A free and open source alternative to Uber and Lyft</title><url>http://libretaxi.org/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rovek</author><text>I&#x27;ve literally never heard anyone outside Spotify ads 3 years ago even mention blablacar, let alone in the same breath as Uber.</text></item><item><author>joeyspn</author><text>BlaBlaCar [0] operates&#x2F;ed only with community reviews (for drivers and passengers) and is doing just fine in EU... It is in fact so successful, that govs and press always talk about &quot;services like blablacar and uber&quot; (they&#x27;re classified as basically the same kind of service)<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.blablacar.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.blablacar.com&#x2F;</a></text></item><item><author>reubensutton</author><text>My concern with this is the problem of ensuring the safety of the person driving the cab and the real identity of the rider.<p>Lots of drivers will be reluctant because they can be stiffed on the bill. Lots of passengers will be reluctant to use it due to the inherent risk of riding with what is essentially a stranger.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rplnt</author><text>It&#x27;s used for longer distances, city to city, country to country. I wouldn&#x27;t see it as the same market as Uber is in. Plus it&#x27;s ride sharing, not &quot;taxi&quot; (as in driver rides only because you told him to).</text></comment> |
21,235,578 | 21,235,556 | 1 | 3 | 21,235,236 | train | <story><title>Apple's list of 235 apps that are incompatible with macOS Catalina</title><url>https://thetapedrive.com/235-apps-incompatible-with-catalina</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>chimi</author><text>This is why Microsoft is the better long-term play: Backwards compatibility -- their commitment to the investment of labor. If you build your software on Apple, there almost certainly will come a point in the future where your code will cease to work.<p>Microsoft has made a commitment to backward compatibility. It&#x27;s such a huge benefit. I have code that has continued to run, untouched, for <i>decades</i>. I don&#x27;t have to upgrade my development environment. I don&#x27;t have to buy a new laptop to run the latest xcode. I never have to worry that my years of investment into my own software platform will be worthless three years from now or require unknown amounts of recoding to work.<p>This is not true of Apple, Ruby, or almost any open source project.<p>I want to continue moving forward all the time. I loathe the requirement to go back and redo what I&#x27;d already done and works. It wastes my time, my money, and my confidence in my vendor.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>scarface74</author><text>And how much has it cost Microsoft? Apple was able to successfully take the base of MacOS and port it’s operating system to a much lower spec phone back in 2007 and came to dominate the smart phone market (in profit they only thing that matters), the tablet market where MS failed repeatedly, not to mention it was able to port the base OS to everything from Watches and TV set top boxes - all things that Microsoft tried and failed at.<p>MS being so concerned with backwards compatibility has slowed down its ability to move fast into new markets even compared to Google.<p>If you are “building your software” for desktop PCs (or Macs) , you’re building on top of market that is becoming less important every year. There is no energy or investments going into desktop computers besides games and even that market is small. The only companies making real money in computer software are Microsoft and Adobe and even they are pivoting more toward browser based software and mobile.<p>Do you think that Apple should still bundle a PPC emulator with modern Macs? A 68K emulator?<p>Not being willing to drop legacy code comes with its own costs in maintenance and increases the vulnerability surface. Just the fact that there are over a half dozen ways to represent a string in Windows has led to security vulnerabilities, not to mention all of the other legacy cruft.</text></comment> | <story><title>Apple's list of 235 apps that are incompatible with macOS Catalina</title><url>https://thetapedrive.com/235-apps-incompatible-with-catalina</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>chimi</author><text>This is why Microsoft is the better long-term play: Backwards compatibility -- their commitment to the investment of labor. If you build your software on Apple, there almost certainly will come a point in the future where your code will cease to work.<p>Microsoft has made a commitment to backward compatibility. It&#x27;s such a huge benefit. I have code that has continued to run, untouched, for <i>decades</i>. I don&#x27;t have to upgrade my development environment. I don&#x27;t have to buy a new laptop to run the latest xcode. I never have to worry that my years of investment into my own software platform will be worthless three years from now or require unknown amounts of recoding to work.<p>This is not true of Apple, Ruby, or almost any open source project.<p>I want to continue moving forward all the time. I loathe the requirement to go back and redo what I&#x27;d already done and works. It wastes my time, my money, and my confidence in my vendor.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>vortico</author><text>I feel the same. I started a project just <i>four</i> years ago, and now I feel that I&#x27;ll need to rewrite a huge portion of the graphics code to work with future Mac versions.<p>I also have a lesser fear that in order for my application to work on some future version of Windows, I&#x27;ll need to deal with code signing and directory access rights nonsense in order for customers to think that the software &quot;works properly&quot;. But that&#x27;s just speculative. Apple&#x27;s already doing it.</text></comment> |
5,227,467 | 5,227,380 | 1 | 2 | 5,227,086 | train | <story><title>What Thomas Edison expected job candidates to know</title><url>http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=F40F10FB355B1B7A93C3A8178ED85F458285F9</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>loboman</author><text><a href="http://www.pangeaprogress.com/1/post/2010/09/einstein-edison-education.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.pangeaprogress.com/1/post/2010/09/einstein-edison...</a> 'While in Boston, Einstein was subjected to a pop quiz known as the Edison test. (...) A reporter asked him a question from the test. "What is the speed of sound?" If anyone understood the propogation of sound waves, it was Einstein. But he admitted that he did not "carry such information in my mind since it is readily available in books." Then he made a larger point designed to disparage Edison's view of education. "The value of a college education is not the learning of many facts but the training of the mind to think," he said.'</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Surio</author><text>While context also has some part to play, in general I am with you in what you are trying to say.<p>BTW, are fictional characters counted as references? ;-)<p><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sherlock_Holmes#Knowledge_and_skills" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sherlock_Holmes#Knowledge_and_s...</a><p>From that article, <i>In A Study in Scarlet, Holmes claims he does not know that the Earth revolves around the Sun, as such information is irrelevant to his work. Directly after having heard that fact from Watson, he says he will immediately try to forget it. He says he believes that the mind has a finite capacity for information storage, and so learning useless things would merely reduce his ability to learn useful things.</i><p>EDIT: Somewhat relevant (and OT) comic... <a href="http://theoatmeal.com/comics/tesla" rel="nofollow">http://theoatmeal.com/comics/tesla</a></text></comment> | <story><title>What Thomas Edison expected job candidates to know</title><url>http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=F40F10FB355B1B7A93C3A8178ED85F458285F9</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>loboman</author><text><a href="http://www.pangeaprogress.com/1/post/2010/09/einstein-edison-education.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.pangeaprogress.com/1/post/2010/09/einstein-edison...</a> 'While in Boston, Einstein was subjected to a pop quiz known as the Edison test. (...) A reporter asked him a question from the test. "What is the speed of sound?" If anyone understood the propogation of sound waves, it was Einstein. But he admitted that he did not "carry such information in my mind since it is readily available in books." Then he made a larger point designed to disparage Edison's view of education. "The value of a college education is not the learning of many facts but the training of the mind to think," he said.'</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>run4yourlives</author><text>Thomas Edison invented the cylindrical Phonograph, and movies were beginning to just show up in 1921. I'd imagine knowing the speed of sound - especially how it relates to syncing with video - was of major importance to him, much more than it was to Einstein.<p>Context is everything.</text></comment> |
27,782,216 | 27,782,103 | 1 | 3 | 27,781,545 | train | <story><title>New ‘mirror’ fabric can cool wearers by nearly 5°C</title><url>https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2021/07/new-mirror-fabric-can-cool-wearers-nearly-5-c</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>teruakohatu</author><text>They appear to just circulate air around the body, which makes sweat evaporate cooling the body. If they were actual air conditioners they would be indeed moving heat from the body into the surrounding air.<p>Edit: to be clear I am not suggesting heat&#x2F;energy disappears. In this case they are cooling the air and the body using evaporation. The system appears to suck in hot air on one side and ejects cooler humid air on the other. More or less human swamp coolers.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Evaporative_cooler#Physical_principles" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Evaporative_cooler#Physical_...</a></text></item><item><author>SapporoChris</author><text>I have seen these and pondered if it is rude to wear them. While it is actively cooling your body, you are aggressively blowing your heat to those around you. In a crowded subway train I would not want to be next to someone wearing this. However, perhaps I overestimate their effects.</text></item><item><author>rwmj</author><text>In Japan they have these portable AC jackets. I believe they are mainly used by people working on building sites where it gets very hot in summer. While these are actively cooled rather than passively (as in the article), they seem like a better idea than air conditioning whole rooms.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;wonderfulengineering.com&#x2F;japanese-invent-a-jacket-with-air-conditioner&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;wonderfulengineering.com&#x2F;japanese-invent-a-jacket-wi...</a>
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.dailymail.co.uk&#x2F;sciencetech&#x2F;article-2016513&#x2F;Japanese-company-creates-air-conditioned-jacket-Kuchofukus-cool-look.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.dailymail.co.uk&#x2F;sciencetech&#x2F;article-2016513&#x2F;Japa...</a><p>(Sorry can&#x27;t find any good links - the jackets aren&#x27;t a fad and seem to be popular with builders)<p>Edit: The company website (Japanese) <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;kuchoufuku.com" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;kuchoufuku.com</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>noctune</author><text>It&#x27;s the same dilemma though. Now you are raising the humidity around you, making other peoples&#x27; sweat less effective at cooling them.<p>Although lowering humidity can be more easily done with just ventilation.</text></comment> | <story><title>New ‘mirror’ fabric can cool wearers by nearly 5°C</title><url>https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2021/07/new-mirror-fabric-can-cool-wearers-nearly-5-c</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>teruakohatu</author><text>They appear to just circulate air around the body, which makes sweat evaporate cooling the body. If they were actual air conditioners they would be indeed moving heat from the body into the surrounding air.<p>Edit: to be clear I am not suggesting heat&#x2F;energy disappears. In this case they are cooling the air and the body using evaporation. The system appears to suck in hot air on one side and ejects cooler humid air on the other. More or less human swamp coolers.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Evaporative_cooler#Physical_principles" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Evaporative_cooler#Physical_...</a></text></item><item><author>SapporoChris</author><text>I have seen these and pondered if it is rude to wear them. While it is actively cooling your body, you are aggressively blowing your heat to those around you. In a crowded subway train I would not want to be next to someone wearing this. However, perhaps I overestimate their effects.</text></item><item><author>rwmj</author><text>In Japan they have these portable AC jackets. I believe they are mainly used by people working on building sites where it gets very hot in summer. While these are actively cooled rather than passively (as in the article), they seem like a better idea than air conditioning whole rooms.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;wonderfulengineering.com&#x2F;japanese-invent-a-jacket-with-air-conditioner&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;wonderfulengineering.com&#x2F;japanese-invent-a-jacket-wi...</a>
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.dailymail.co.uk&#x2F;sciencetech&#x2F;article-2016513&#x2F;Japanese-company-creates-air-conditioned-jacket-Kuchofukus-cool-look.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.dailymail.co.uk&#x2F;sciencetech&#x2F;article-2016513&#x2F;Japa...</a><p>(Sorry can&#x27;t find any good links - the jackets aren&#x27;t a fad and seem to be popular with builders)<p>Edit: The company website (Japanese) <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;kuchoufuku.com" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;kuchoufuku.com</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rwmj</author><text>Isn&#x27;t that just the same thing, but using a natural process (sweating) rather than phase change in a refrigerant?</text></comment> |
6,847,118 | 6,847,128 | 1 | 3 | 6,846,639 | train | <story><title>I will not hack on your codebase for free in an interview</title><url>http://hownottohireadeveloper.blogspot.co.uk/2013/11/no-i-will-not-hack-on-your-codebase-for-free.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>RyanZAG</author><text>Surely the disagreement should be obvious? If they interview 50 candidates and get each candidate to do a free day of work, they&#x27;re exploiting the candidates and the market.<p>As others have said, there is no reason not to let the candidate work on related OSS projects or on already solved tasks. Adding new features to a code base for free is not on. This is like hiring labor for your bridge building company, getting 50 people and having them drag rocks around all day and then not paying them. Feels close to illegal.</text></item><item><author>tokenadult</author><text>Too aggressive in tone for what the gripe is here. I wouldn&#x27;t hire this guy. Several of you long-time participants on Hacker News have noticed various iterations of my FAQ post on company hiring procedures,[1] and if you haven&#x27;t read that, I invite you to follow the link and read it. Genuine work-sample tests are a GOOD idea in hiring, as most of the comments already here have said. Perhaps a full-day work sample feels too long to most job applicants, compared to a one-hour work sample (but how much would paying each applicant help with that?). There are also intellectual property issues here (but doesn&#x27;t freedom of contract in most countries allow a way to resolve that issue?). But he doth protest too much, methinks.<p>In any job application situation, the company&#x27;s concern is &quot;can this applicant really do the job and do it well?&quot; The applicant&#x27;s concern is &quot;will I really find a good fit in this company and advance my career here?&quot; In general, a work-sample test is a very good idea for answering both kinds of questions, and anyway research shows that a work-sample test is a far more valid hiring procedure than most other hiring procedures that have been tried. Check my FAQ link for research citations on that topic.<p>[1] <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5227923" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=5227923</a><p>P.S. Yes, I intend to touch up my FAQ draft some more and then post it to my personal website. I just bookmarked the blog post kindly submitted here as another resource to refer to as I update my FAQ.<p>AFTER EDIT: I&#x27;d be happy to discuss with readers who disagree with this comment what the nature of your disagreement is. That helps me learn to make the FAQ better for its next posting on my website.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>columbo</author><text>&gt; Surely the disagreement should be obvious? If they interview 50 candidates and get each candidate to do a free day of work, they&#x27;re exploiting the candidates and the market.<p>If the application is so simple that you can get actual productivity in someone in the first couple hours then stop trying to hire candidates and outsource the entire thing to India for a fraction of the cost.<p>Otherwise it&#x27;s a pair-programming test with massive hand-holding from another developer which is ridiculously more expensive for the company.<p>I&#x27;d choose to spend a few hours on the employer&#x27;s actual application over any other form interview.<p>Obviously there are extreme cases (hey we&#x27;d like you to spend a few weeks working on this API, you know, for the interview), but I don&#x27;t get that vibe from this article.</text></comment> | <story><title>I will not hack on your codebase for free in an interview</title><url>http://hownottohireadeveloper.blogspot.co.uk/2013/11/no-i-will-not-hack-on-your-codebase-for-free.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>RyanZAG</author><text>Surely the disagreement should be obvious? If they interview 50 candidates and get each candidate to do a free day of work, they&#x27;re exploiting the candidates and the market.<p>As others have said, there is no reason not to let the candidate work on related OSS projects or on already solved tasks. Adding new features to a code base for free is not on. This is like hiring labor for your bridge building company, getting 50 people and having them drag rocks around all day and then not paying them. Feels close to illegal.</text></item><item><author>tokenadult</author><text>Too aggressive in tone for what the gripe is here. I wouldn&#x27;t hire this guy. Several of you long-time participants on Hacker News have noticed various iterations of my FAQ post on company hiring procedures,[1] and if you haven&#x27;t read that, I invite you to follow the link and read it. Genuine work-sample tests are a GOOD idea in hiring, as most of the comments already here have said. Perhaps a full-day work sample feels too long to most job applicants, compared to a one-hour work sample (but how much would paying each applicant help with that?). There are also intellectual property issues here (but doesn&#x27;t freedom of contract in most countries allow a way to resolve that issue?). But he doth protest too much, methinks.<p>In any job application situation, the company&#x27;s concern is &quot;can this applicant really do the job and do it well?&quot; The applicant&#x27;s concern is &quot;will I really find a good fit in this company and advance my career here?&quot; In general, a work-sample test is a very good idea for answering both kinds of questions, and anyway research shows that a work-sample test is a far more valid hiring procedure than most other hiring procedures that have been tried. Check my FAQ link for research citations on that topic.<p>[1] <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5227923" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=5227923</a><p>P.S. Yes, I intend to touch up my FAQ draft some more and then post it to my personal website. I just bookmarked the blog post kindly submitted here as another resource to refer to as I update my FAQ.<p>AFTER EDIT: I&#x27;d be happy to discuss with readers who disagree with this comment what the nature of your disagreement is. That helps me learn to make the FAQ better for its next posting on my website.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ijk</author><text>An actual example (from another domain): <a href="http://www.polycount.com/forum/showthread.php?t=127990" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.polycount.com&#x2F;forum&#x2F;showthread.php?t=127990</a><p>A company solicited &quot;art tests&quot; as part of a hiring process that basically amounted to having the candidates create free content for them.</text></comment> |
31,177,725 | 31,176,949 | 1 | 3 | 31,154,607 | train | <story><title>Now I’m calculating with constructive reals</title><url>https://aperiodical.com/2022/03/now-im-calculating-with-constructive-reals/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>giomasce</author><text>It&#x27;s unfortunate there is no an equality decision procedure. If two numbers are equal you will see that the difference is zero no matter how much precision you request, but of you always see zero difference you will never know if the numbers are equal or you just have to keep searching.<p>I know that such a decision procedure exists for algebraic number (i.e., you can allow roots of any orders and general polynomial root extraction), but I don&#x27;t know about transcendental functions like exponential and logarithm. And frankly it smells a lot of undecidability. Computational things tend to become undecidable just a little bit after they become interesting, and sometimes even before.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>fdej</author><text>There is an algorithm by Richardson to prove equality of real and complex numbers composed from exponentials and logarithms. (It doesn&#x27;t have a complete proof of correctness, but it never returns a wrong result: it will loop forever iff it encounters a counterexample to Schanuel&#x27;s conjecture.)<p>It can also be extended to higher transcendental functions, but it gets harder to guarantee termination.<p>I have a library for exact reals&#x2F;complexes with an incomplete implementation of Richardson&#x27;s algorithm: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;fredrikj.net&#x2F;calcium&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;fredrikj.net&#x2F;calcium&#x2F;</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Now I’m calculating with constructive reals</title><url>https://aperiodical.com/2022/03/now-im-calculating-with-constructive-reals/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>giomasce</author><text>It&#x27;s unfortunate there is no an equality decision procedure. If two numbers are equal you will see that the difference is zero no matter how much precision you request, but of you always see zero difference you will never know if the numbers are equal or you just have to keep searching.<p>I know that such a decision procedure exists for algebraic number (i.e., you can allow roots of any orders and general polynomial root extraction), but I don&#x27;t know about transcendental functions like exponential and logarithm. And frankly it smells a lot of undecidability. Computational things tend to become undecidable just a little bit after they become interesting, and sometimes even before.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>chriswarbo</author><text>This technique can&#x27;t be applied to equality, since equality &quot;collapses&quot; the entire decimal expansion down to a single bit: we can&#x27;t make closer and closer approximations, since that first bit requires an infinite amount of work.<p>In fact, talking about &quot;Nth decimals&quot; <i>also</i> requires an infinite amount of work. For example, what&#x27;s the first digit of &#x27;0.99999... + 0.00000...&#x27;? Note that this is <i>not</i> the same as &#x27;rounded to one significant digit&#x27;. Let&#x27;s call the numbers x and y; there are a few possibilities:<p>- If y = 0, then the sum is equal to x:<p>- If x eventually has a non-9 digit, then the first digit is 0; e.g. if the third digit is a 3, then the result is 0.993...<p>- If x repeats 9 forever, the first digit can be either 1 or 0, depending on taste<p>- If y &gt; 0, then the result depends on the relative magnitudes of y and (1 - x). The first digit could be 0 (if y &lt; 1 - x), or 1 (if y &gt; 1 - x). If these differences only occur after billions of decimal places, we must go that far through the calculation to determine whether the first digit is 0 or 1!<p>Most computable real representations will actually calculate to within some epsilon, e.g. a power of 10 if we&#x27;re rounding the final decimal when displaying the result. That ensures all of these problems disappear, but of course it introduces uncertainty.<p>We can likewise ask whether two numbers are equal <i>to some precision</i>; but not necessarily in general.<p>(There might be tricks&#x2F;identities for the particular functions being used in this calculator; but the above applies to &quot;computable reals&quot; in the strictest sense; i.e. where each function is a Universal Turing Machine)</text></comment> |
22,191,104 | 22,190,078 | 1 | 2 | 22,189,938 | train | <story><title>Dropbox ignore file or folder in beta</title><url>https://help.dropbox.com/files-folders/restore-delete/ignored-files</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>NikolaeVarius</author><text>I can imagine a world where a arbitrary directory is filled with gitignore, dropboxignore, googledriveignore, backblazeignore, s3ignore, rsynciginore, dotignore, ipfsignore . . .<p>Goddamn, stop the world I want to get off</text></item><item><author>spectaclepiece</author><text>The most requested feature, to allow a file or folder to be ignored by Dropbox sync without using selective sync is finally in beta.<p>The community requested a .dropboxignore file but they chose another solution which I’m sure is reasonable for making the feature more user friendly to non-devs.<p>This will be immensely helpful for node_modules or build target directories.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jrockway</author><text>I think the problem here is poor tooling that contaminates your working directory.<p>If you look at something like Bazel, all the build artifacts end up in ~&#x2F;.cache (or similar). Thus there are no artifacts to gitignore. OCI container builds (&quot;docker images&quot;) are done by simply adding artifacts controlled by a build rule into the image (rather than starting a vm&#x2F;container, copying a working directory into the container, and running random shell commands).<p>To summarize, I think the problem is that node puts packages in your working directory instead of some other location, causing you to have to ignore them. It is reasonable to check in your dependencies, in which case node&#x27;s strategy is fine. But you can compare this to something like go, which puts all modules in $GOPATH&#x2F;pkg&#x2F;mod and if you want to check in your modules, you run &quot;go mod vendor&quot; and it creates a vendor&#x2F; directory in your working directory to check in. All of these ignore files exist to work around other packages; it&#x27;s not git or docker or dropbox&#x27;s fault that some tool you use contaminates your working directory. Plenty of designs exist for those types of tools that don&#x27;t.</text></comment> | <story><title>Dropbox ignore file or folder in beta</title><url>https://help.dropbox.com/files-folders/restore-delete/ignored-files</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>NikolaeVarius</author><text>I can imagine a world where a arbitrary directory is filled with gitignore, dropboxignore, googledriveignore, backblazeignore, s3ignore, rsynciginore, dotignore, ipfsignore . . .<p>Goddamn, stop the world I want to get off</text></item><item><author>spectaclepiece</author><text>The most requested feature, to allow a file or folder to be ignored by Dropbox sync without using selective sync is finally in beta.<p>The community requested a .dropboxignore file but they chose another solution which I’m sure is reasonable for making the feature more user friendly to non-devs.<p>This will be immensely helpful for node_modules or build target directories.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bsaul</author><text>That&#x27;s probably a clue something needs to be done at the OS level regarding FS integration with cloud syncing systems and permissions.</text></comment> |
3,096,814 | 3,096,838 | 1 | 2 | 3,096,621 | train | <story><title>Billing with Stripe</title><url>http://railscasts.com/episodes/288-billing-with-stripe</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>aculver</author><text>My bare minimum recurring expense with Braintree is $130/mo. That's our largest recurring expense. What's wonderful about Stripe is that there is no "minimum" service charge. If you don't do a lot of transactions, you don't pay a lot of fees. That makes it very low risk to spin up a service and give it a little time to see if it works. When I've talked to people with day jobs about their SaaS side-projects, it's common to hear people aiming for "an extra $500 a month." That's a respectable goal for a side-project, considering that sort of money could trim most people's mortgages by a decade or more, but it makes Braintree (developer friendly as they are) a huge expense. Thankfully for me Braintree was one of the first payment gateways to promote the idea of data portability, so getting my subscribers into Stripe from Braintree should not be a huge hassle.</text></comment> | <story><title>Billing with Stripe</title><url>http://railscasts.com/episodes/288-billing-with-stripe</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>marcamillion</author><text>Testament to how easy and well-done Stripe's API is, that Ryan can make a 16 minute Railscast about it's integration.</text></comment> |
36,532,434 | 36,531,510 | 1 | 2 | 36,530,472 | train | <story><title>The man who broke bowling</title><url>https://www.gq.com/story/jason-belmonte-bowling-profile</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>rkachowski</author><text>It&#x27;s really interesting to contrast this with this old article on software developers, &quot;expert beginners&quot; and skill plateaus ( <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;daedtech.com&#x2F;how-developers-stop-learning-rise-of-the-expert-beginner&#x2F;" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;daedtech.com&#x2F;how-developers-stop-learning-rise-of-th...</a> )<p>Bowling technique is used as an example of something you can abuse in order to get quick wins and easy improvement on bowling ability, yet quickly hit a skill ceiling and you must relearn correct technique from the beginning (actively get worse at bowling) if you wish to reach an advanced level.<p>From TFA there also seems to be a third path of &quot;this isn&#x27;t wrong, it&#x27;s actually a better technique&quot;, and the article does outline the whole journey of self-coaching, being called a cheater and ultimately being validated via a string of victories and imitators.</text></comment> | <story><title>The man who broke bowling</title><url>https://www.gq.com/story/jason-belmonte-bowling-profile</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>perlgeek</author><text>Why in the world would an online article not include a short gif or an embedded video <i>showing</i> the bowling technique? Is gq.com primarily a print medium?</text></comment> |
35,006,915 | 35,003,458 | 1 | 2 | 35,001,046 | train | <story><title>Nutlope/roomGPT: open-source clone of Interior.AI</title><url>https://github.com/Nutlope/roomGPT</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>puma4</author><text>Does this have anything at all to do with GPT? Would be sad to see this kind of naming scheme become a trend...</text></comment> | <story><title>Nutlope/roomGPT: open-source clone of Interior.AI</title><url>https://github.com/Nutlope/roomGPT</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>nanidin</author><text><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;ww01.interior.ai&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;ww01.interior.ai&#x2F;</a> is a spam domain parking page. Perhaps the submission title should be changed to InteriorAI[0]?<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;interiorai.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;interiorai.com&#x2F;</a></text></comment> |
18,356,251 | 18,354,871 | 1 | 2 | 18,344,033 | train | <story><title>Indirection Is Not Abstraction</title><url>https://www.silasreinagel.com/blog/2018/10/30/indirection-is-not-abstraction/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>gregmac</author><text>&gt; The users of this software would be very disappointed if any of these indirections involved adding any number besides 3.<p>What? No, it works great to add numbers beside 3:<p><pre><code> class Sample {
public Sample(IThreeProvider threeProvider) {
_threeProvider = threeProvider;
}
private readonly IThreeProvider _threeProvider;
public int AddThree(int val)
{
return val + _threeProvider.Get().AsInt();
}
}
public class MyCustomThreeProvider() {
public int Get() { return 4; }
}
</code></pre>
Now you can just do:<p><pre><code> var sample = new Sample(new MyCustomThreeProvider());
sample.AddThree(2);
</code></pre>
And get 6, as you&#x27;d expect. ..So long as you read and fully understood the <i>entire</i> codebase first, anyway.<p>I think this actually highlights one of the bigger problems in adding unnecessary indirections: that it practically begs for strange work-around and hacks and strange layers added on top. It becomes too difficult to change the underlying classes -- eg, changing the AddThree method to handle an arbitrary number means also changing the entire concept of ThreeProviders and everywhere that calls or tests any of the related code -- and as a result it&#x27;s faster to workaround.</text></comment> | <story><title>Indirection Is Not Abstraction</title><url>https://www.silasreinagel.com/blog/2018/10/30/indirection-is-not-abstraction/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>bjpbakker</author><text>Of course the original post about Indirection vs Abstract was by Zed A. Shaw [0].<p>I strongly like to urge authors to give credit where credit is due. IMO this post should have at least mentioned the original article.<p>[0] - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;zedshaw.com&#x2F;archive&#x2F;indirection-is-not-abstraction&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;zedshaw.com&#x2F;archive&#x2F;indirection-is-not-abstraction&#x2F;</a></text></comment> |
41,616,965 | 41,617,055 | 1 | 2 | 41,615,102 | train | <story><title>Nextcloud: Open-Source Cloud Apps</title><url>https://nextcloud.com/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>TheChaplain</author><text>I&#x27;ve run Nextcloud for almost 3 years now via docker on a vps , it hosts my contacts, calendars and files. There is a apache reverse proxy in front of it, and a postgresql-database in the back.<p>Not once had I any serious issues updating when pulling new updated images.<p>Occasionally it whines about missing indices, but that is easily fixed using the occ command line tool. The clients real IP is forwarded by the proxy.<p>What I want to say is just that Nextcloud works fine.</text></item><item><author>BrandoElFollito</author><text>Nextcloud is a nightmare.<p>First if all, it wants to do everything and does none well (or better than specialized apps)<p>Its internals are a shitshow - a question about getting the real IP of the calling client raised a 10 pages discussion where people said &quot;it works&quot; and other days &quot;it does not&quot;. The &quot;solution&quot; required you to change a volatile setting within the docker container (and do it again when the container changes)<p>Finally the upgrade is insane. I once tried to upgrade my installation, was told that n+2 upgrades are not possible (fair enough) and ... the installer destroyed the database. What a piece of crap. Thanks god for backups.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>doubled112</author><text>I have also found that if you stick to the core functionality it works fine.<p>As soon as I started to add apps from the store it starts to be a pain. An upgrade comes out and you’re stuck on that version until they all update, OR you update not realizing and lose the functionality for some time.<p>Since I self-host a bunch of apps, it made more sense to use different apps dedicated to those features, like Miniflux or Navidrome. Not for everybody though.</text></comment> | <story><title>Nextcloud: Open-Source Cloud Apps</title><url>https://nextcloud.com/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>TheChaplain</author><text>I&#x27;ve run Nextcloud for almost 3 years now via docker on a vps , it hosts my contacts, calendars and files. There is a apache reverse proxy in front of it, and a postgresql-database in the back.<p>Not once had I any serious issues updating when pulling new updated images.<p>Occasionally it whines about missing indices, but that is easily fixed using the occ command line tool. The clients real IP is forwarded by the proxy.<p>What I want to say is just that Nextcloud works fine.</text></item><item><author>BrandoElFollito</author><text>Nextcloud is a nightmare.<p>First if all, it wants to do everything and does none well (or better than specialized apps)<p>Its internals are a shitshow - a question about getting the real IP of the calling client raised a 10 pages discussion where people said &quot;it works&quot; and other days &quot;it does not&quot;. The &quot;solution&quot; required you to change a volatile setting within the docker container (and do it again when the container changes)<p>Finally the upgrade is insane. I once tried to upgrade my installation, was told that n+2 upgrades are not possible (fair enough) and ... the installer destroyed the database. What a piece of crap. Thanks god for backups.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>BrandoElFollito</author><text>&gt; Not once had I any serious issues updating when pulling new updated images<p>I&#x27;ve run it for about a year until the upgrade tipped me over. I am sure that correct upgrades (n to n+1) are fine - I tried n to n+2 and instead of explaining to me that this is not possible, Nextcloud explained to me that this is not possible and fucked up big my install. I had to recover from a backup.</text></comment> |
40,762,371 | 40,762,235 | 1 | 2 | 40,731,667 | train | <story><title>Can men live without war? (1956)</title><url>https://www.theatlantic.com/past/docs/issues/56feb/5602bush.htm</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rhelz</author><text>Fascinating article...written not that long after it looked like men or anybody else could never live <i>with</i> war again.<p>But, those fretting about the necessity of war need not have worried, as subsequent events proved. War between nuclear powers doesn&#x27;t happen any more, but instead we&#x27;ve had endless proxy wars. Korea, Viet Nam, Iraq, Afghanistan, Ukraine....</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>openasocket</author><text>We’ve had at least one war between nuclear powers off the top of my head. The Kargil war of 1999 between India and Pakistan, I believe both sides had nuclear weapons deployed at the time.<p>EDIT: also the Sino-soviet war of 1969</text></comment> | <story><title>Can men live without war? (1956)</title><url>https://www.theatlantic.com/past/docs/issues/56feb/5602bush.htm</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rhelz</author><text>Fascinating article...written not that long after it looked like men or anybody else could never live <i>with</i> war again.<p>But, those fretting about the necessity of war need not have worried, as subsequent events proved. War between nuclear powers doesn&#x27;t happen any more, but instead we&#x27;ve had endless proxy wars. Korea, Viet Nam, Iraq, Afghanistan, Ukraine....</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>hkpack</author><text>&gt; War between nuclear powers doesn&#x27;t happen any more<p>It didn&#x27;t happen yet, but there are no is reasons for nuclear war to be avoided indefinitely.</text></comment> |
21,106,448 | 21,106,457 | 1 | 2 | 21,105,895 | train | <story><title>JSON for Modern C++</title><url>https://github.com/nlohmann/json</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>vips7L</author><text>Does anyone write C++ and not care about performance?</text></item><item><author>Kh4L</author><text>On the other hand, nlohmann&#x2F;json has a cleaner and more Python-like API, so if you don&#x27;t care about performance that much, I&#x27;d say it&#x27;s the way to go</text></item><item><author>einpoklum</author><text>How does this compare with RapidJSON, JSONCpp and JSON Spirit - other popular C++ JSON parser libraries?<p>Links:<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;rapidjson.org&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;rapidjson.org&#x2F;</a>
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;Tencent&#x2F;rapidjson" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;Tencent&#x2F;rapidjson</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;open-source-parsers&#x2F;jsoncpp" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;open-source-parsers&#x2F;jsoncpp</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.codeproject.com&#x2F;Articles&#x2F;20027&#x2F;JSON-Spirit-A-C-JSON-Parser-Generator-Implemented" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.codeproject.com&#x2F;Articles&#x2F;20027&#x2F;JSON-Spirit-A-C-J...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>polymonster</author><text>We use C++ and care about real time performance, but also use this JSON library, the thing is that we use JSON for loading and configuring data which happens during load time which is infrequent and don’t need JSON during the critical update path.<p>Previously we used rapid json which is faster but the syntax of the nlohmann json is nicer and it is much quicker to develop with.. we also use python a lot so the familiarity between the 2 is also useful, some of the other C++ json libs can have quite convoluted api’s for dealing with values, objects and arrays.</text></comment> | <story><title>JSON for Modern C++</title><url>https://github.com/nlohmann/json</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>vips7L</author><text>Does anyone write C++ and not care about performance?</text></item><item><author>Kh4L</author><text>On the other hand, nlohmann&#x2F;json has a cleaner and more Python-like API, so if you don&#x27;t care about performance that much, I&#x27;d say it&#x27;s the way to go</text></item><item><author>einpoklum</author><text>How does this compare with RapidJSON, JSONCpp and JSON Spirit - other popular C++ JSON parser libraries?<p>Links:<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;rapidjson.org&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;rapidjson.org&#x2F;</a>
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;Tencent&#x2F;rapidjson" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;Tencent&#x2F;rapidjson</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;open-source-parsers&#x2F;jsoncpp" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;open-source-parsers&#x2F;jsoncpp</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.codeproject.com&#x2F;Articles&#x2F;20027&#x2F;JSON-Spirit-A-C-JSON-Parser-Generator-Implemented" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.codeproject.com&#x2F;Articles&#x2F;20027&#x2F;JSON-Spirit-A-C-J...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dguest</author><text>On the other hand: I&#x27;m a bit surprised at how many people are writing JSON and care about the performance.<p>The overwhelming majority of our IO is reading &#x2F; writing data files, but those are stored in an optimized binary format. The configuration &#x2F; metadata accounts for a much smaller fraction of IO. For this tiny fraction we care about flexibility and readability, a slow JSON parser is fine.</text></comment> |
41,466,797 | 41,465,322 | 1 | 3 | 41,464,334 | train | <story><title>Intent to unship: HTTP/2 Push</title><url>https://groups.google.com/a/mozilla.org/g/dev-platform/c/vU9hJg343U8/m/4cZsHz7TAQAJ</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>saurik</author><text>It is extremely annoying that all of this sudden discovery that http2 push didn&#x27;t work hasn&#x27;t come with some kind of apology to everyone out here who had tried to explain before why this wouldn&#x27;t work and why it would be a dangerous waste of time just to be shouted down for years by the people insisting it was going to be epic as the much-smarter people at Google knew what they were doing and really needed this so we should just let them ram it into the spec. We should be extremely conservative about what we put in the spec and stop just throwing in speculative stretch goals because some people at Google thought it&#x27;s a good idea.</text></comment> | <story><title>Intent to unship: HTTP/2 Push</title><url>https://groups.google.com/a/mozilla.org/g/dev-platform/c/vU9hJg343U8/m/4cZsHz7TAQAJ</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>pornel</author><text>You can get some of this speed back with HTTP&#x2F;3 0-RTT start, and use 103 Early Hints to make browsers preload assets early. This combo has an advantage of being semantically backwards-compatible with HTTP&#x2F;1 (reverse proxies, load balancers).</text></comment> |
23,511,166 | 23,511,093 | 1 | 3 | 23,510,515 | train | <story><title>Select Code_execution from * Using SQLite; (2019)</title><url>https://media.ccc.de/v/36c3-10701-select_code_execution_from_using_sqlite</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>ysleepy</author><text>Combined with the correctness fuzzing results by SQLancer [1] where SQLite had 179 issues revealed (vs. 11 in PostgreSQL), I think the 100% coverage is a lot less meaningful than I had thought.<p>Robustness is not necessarily correctness and if the unit tests are just mirror images of the code, their results may help against regressions but little for correctness.<p>[1]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.manuelrigger.at&#x2F;dbms-bugs&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.manuelrigger.at&#x2F;dbms-bugs&#x2F;</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Select Code_execution from * Using SQLite; (2019)</title><url>https://media.ccc.de/v/36c3-10701-select_code_execution_from_using_sqlite</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jiofih</author><text>This is surprising. SQLite is known for having 100% code coverage, fuzzy testing, and a 644:1 tests to code ratio. If even that cannot stop this kind of attack then we really need to rethink computers from the ground up...<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;sqlite.org&#x2F;testing.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;sqlite.org&#x2F;testing.html</a></text></comment> |
26,585,009 | 26,584,725 | 1 | 2 | 26,579,440 | train | <story><title>Steve Jobs Interview in 1981 [video]</title><url>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DbfejwP1d3c</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tpmx</author><text>That moment 4m15s in when he realizes his answer is way too complicated, stops talking in the middle of a sentence (thereby making that recorded video unusable) and asks if he could have another shot at answering the question. The next iteration is dramatically simplified.<p>This is communication masterclass level, already back then. How the heck did he get to there, so early?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>adventured</author><text>The skills we use at ~26 are being actively developed throughout childhood and our teen years, just typically not consciously. Most likely the device he&#x27;s employing he had utilized frequently when he was growing up, perhaps as a means to convince other kids to do what he wanted or otherwise to get his way (whether with his peers, parents or other authority figures). It&#x27;s Tom Sawyer&#x27;s whitewashed fence. Jobs is trying to manipulate your mind and I don&#x27;t mean that in a sinister way.<p>Also keep in mind, Dale Carnegie&#x27;s book How to Win Friends and Influence People was published in 1936 and was a very well-known book throughout Steve&#x27;s life. There is a pretty good chance he ran across a few books like that which would have aided his advancement in manipulating impression, narrative or outcomes. He didn&#x27;t have to entirely invent the wheel in that sense.</text></comment> | <story><title>Steve Jobs Interview in 1981 [video]</title><url>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DbfejwP1d3c</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tpmx</author><text>That moment 4m15s in when he realizes his answer is way too complicated, stops talking in the middle of a sentence (thereby making that recorded video unusable) and asks if he could have another shot at answering the question. The next iteration is dramatically simplified.<p>This is communication masterclass level, already back then. How the heck did he get to there, so early?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>duxup</author><text>It&#x27;s a funny contrast considering his comment about lowest common denominator at the start ;)<p>He knows he has to play that game too.</text></comment> |
17,497,796 | 17,497,513 | 1 | 2 | 17,496,095 | train | <story><title>How to start a lab when funds are tight</title><url>https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-05655-3</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>kayhi</author><text>A major problem is that it is time consuming for researchers to comparison shop and contact sales reps. We built Lab Spend (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;labspend.com" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;labspend.com</a>) which has a pricing search engine for supplies and chemicals to give people an idea if their quote is fair.<p>&quot;On Amazon, a $100 roll of paraffin film sells for around $25.&quot; Seems reasonable<p>Price Distribution: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;imgur.com&#x2F;a&#x2F;YobZnm2" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;imgur.com&#x2F;a&#x2F;YobZnm2</a><p>List Price: $71.27 USD<p>&quot;Can$20,000 ultra-low-temperature freezer&quot; depends on model, but likely overpaid<p>Price Distribution: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;imgur.com&#x2F;a&#x2F;jZer27n" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;imgur.com&#x2F;a&#x2F;jZer27n</a><p>List Price: $20,663.90 USD</text></comment> | <story><title>How to start a lab when funds are tight</title><url>https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-05655-3</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>cryoshon</author><text>i&#x27;m glad there was an article written about this sociological phenomenon in the sciences.<p>begging, sharing, bidding, _stealing_, fixing, and making do were the standard in every &quot;poorly funded&quot; (read: extremely well funded in comparison to many others) academic lab and every &quot;poorly funded&quot; (read: fairly well funded) private biotech company that i have worked with. i can only imagine what it is like to work in a place that isn&#x27;t very well funded, given the level of stuff that was happening where i have been.<p>you can tell when grants are approved and when new rounds of funding are raised because there&#x27;s a new round of fresh equipment that shows up in the lab -- then, later, the hand-me-downs and salvaged gear shows up between funding rounds.<p>it isn&#x27;t uncommon to see equipment in action that is 20 years old. one place even had an analysis instrument from 1968, but i would say that is an outlier. there are also a few places who pride themselves on over-spending on all-new top of the line equipment, but in my experience these are the massive pharma companies where money is not as much of a concern as equipment uniformity and supply chain.<p>the result of all the old&#x2F;salvaged equipment, of course, is that all of these old things need maintenance and break down, typically at the worst possible moment. tensions over resources are also the norm within organizations, in my experience. there isn&#x27;t always enough to go around, yet people are obligated to share with their neighbors when they&#x27;re in a pinch... and, on aggregate, scientists have a habit of always being in a pinch.<p>interestingly, there was also a group that i worked with local to boston (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.boslab.org&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.boslab.org&#x2F;</a>) which made a small educational lab exclusively with auctioned&#x2F;salvaged&#x2F;fixed gear, and did so extremely cheaply. they had sufficient means to do basic molecular bio experiments, which was really cool. the trouble is that consumables are going to be extremely expensive no matter what, so savings on capital are not as significant as they may seem.<p>honestly, at this point the culture of austerity and recycling in the sciences seems ingrained in a lot of people, particularly PIs from the US. giving them more money isn&#x27;t going to make the problem go away because they are accustomed to hoarding their cash as much as possible. they don&#x27;t know if or when the next grant will be approved, or if it is going to be for as much money as they really need. this habit works very well in certain biotech companies, too -- often, VCs don&#x27;t understand that the cost savings might have consequences.<p>as someone who has been involved with founding several, starting a lab is time consuming, but not particularly difficult. there&#x27;s probably a business opportunity somewhere in there. maybe something like assembling sets of second-hand &#x2F; repaired equipment and selling them as a package to new labs.</text></comment> |
30,206,431 | 30,205,941 | 1 | 2 | 30,203,581 | train | <story><title>Amazon Pip Horror Story</title><url>https://www.linkedin.com/posts/hire-jiawei-wang_hi-linkedin-connections-i-am-ready-for-my-activity-6894943241523875840-tZ7C</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Jolter</author><text>Where do you live that 700€ a DAY is low pay? It’s, that’s MORE than 700$ a day, not less.<p>Consider that most parts of the world have lower cost of living than the Bay Area.</text></item><item><author>urthor</author><text>700 a day???<p>Why did you undercharge by so much.<p>I know the EU dev market isn&#x27;t great but those are rookie numbers for &quot;danger money.&quot;<p>Three of the &quot;retired, then handed enough money to unretire&quot; COBAL guys at my old place were doing 2500 a day.</text></item><item><author>octagonal</author><text>I was lucky enough to experience a 2 year long project in which everything that went wrong was blamed on the developers. Project managers breathing down your neck, feeling so pressured you barely dare take a bathroom break, the whole shebang.<p>Quit working for them and now I&#x27;m a freelance dev.<p>They asked me to get back on the project and I said fine, that&#x27;ll be €700&#x2F;day. After some grumbling they realized they had no other option so they agreed.<p>The project is still failing due to bad management but I no longer care. I believe to now feel the same sense of calm around chaos and failure like you do.<p>A lot of developers have real mental scars from bad projects like this, because they get duped into thinking it&#x27;s a matter of personal pride to see it trough.<p>It&#x27;s not. Your primary concern should always be personal health.</text></item><item><author>hughrr</author><text>A side effect of working for asshole companies like that for years is I’ve slowly developed a zero fucks attitude and an immunity to threats and carrots dangled in front of me.<p>I can sit there as a project is falling over the edge of a cliff with total inner peace.<p>My interest stops at the pay cheque and by the clock.</text></item><item><author>greatpostman</author><text>I’ve worked at Amazon. I made it a few years, but was almost pipped in the first few months. Management dropped a huge project on me, a brand new tier 1 service, with full dns resolution, api, database, distributed system, along with micro services. The deadline was three months. Brand new tech stack. When I was struggling to meet the deadline, we started having “performance conversations”.<p>I ended up switching teams and had a decent time at the company, but the nightmare situations are very real. You are replaceable and there’s no mercy</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>alistairSH</author><text>That’s roughly equivalent to 120,000 Euro&#x2F;year once normalized for taxes (~50% for self-employed, ~30% for employees).<p>I have no idea what typical salaries are in the EU, but that’s on the low end of mid-career for much of the US.</text></comment> | <story><title>Amazon Pip Horror Story</title><url>https://www.linkedin.com/posts/hire-jiawei-wang_hi-linkedin-connections-i-am-ready-for-my-activity-6894943241523875840-tZ7C</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Jolter</author><text>Where do you live that 700€ a DAY is low pay? It’s, that’s MORE than 700$ a day, not less.<p>Consider that most parts of the world have lower cost of living than the Bay Area.</text></item><item><author>urthor</author><text>700 a day???<p>Why did you undercharge by so much.<p>I know the EU dev market isn&#x27;t great but those are rookie numbers for &quot;danger money.&quot;<p>Three of the &quot;retired, then handed enough money to unretire&quot; COBAL guys at my old place were doing 2500 a day.</text></item><item><author>octagonal</author><text>I was lucky enough to experience a 2 year long project in which everything that went wrong was blamed on the developers. Project managers breathing down your neck, feeling so pressured you barely dare take a bathroom break, the whole shebang.<p>Quit working for them and now I&#x27;m a freelance dev.<p>They asked me to get back on the project and I said fine, that&#x27;ll be €700&#x2F;day. After some grumbling they realized they had no other option so they agreed.<p>The project is still failing due to bad management but I no longer care. I believe to now feel the same sense of calm around chaos and failure like you do.<p>A lot of developers have real mental scars from bad projects like this, because they get duped into thinking it&#x27;s a matter of personal pride to see it trough.<p>It&#x27;s not. Your primary concern should always be personal health.</text></item><item><author>hughrr</author><text>A side effect of working for asshole companies like that for years is I’ve slowly developed a zero fucks attitude and an immunity to threats and carrots dangled in front of me.<p>I can sit there as a project is falling over the edge of a cliff with total inner peace.<p>My interest stops at the pay cheque and by the clock.</text></item><item><author>greatpostman</author><text>I’ve worked at Amazon. I made it a few years, but was almost pipped in the first few months. Management dropped a huge project on me, a brand new tier 1 service, with full dns resolution, api, database, distributed system, along with micro services. The deadline was three months. Brand new tech stack. When I was struggling to meet the deadline, we started having “performance conversations”.<p>I ended up switching teams and had a decent time at the company, but the nightmare situations are very real. You are replaceable and there’s no mercy</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Fiahil</author><text>600EUR is a base rate for a freelancer in France. Remember, half of it goes to taxes.</text></comment> |
26,982,170 | 26,981,560 | 1 | 3 | 26,980,870 | train | <story><title>Nano 5.7</title><url>https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/info-gnu/2021-04/msg00013.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>293984j29384</author><text>I never understood the hate Nano gets from vi users. Nano does many things quicker and easier than vi. For example, search &amp; replace. Would I code in Nano? No. Do I use Nano to edit configuration files and make other small edits? Absolutely.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bidirectional</author><text>The problem is that every time vim is mentioned, there are dozens of comments about how nano is a better alternative, which is completely missing the point. Most vim users are using it all day as their main editor for various purposes, and most nano users are using it as a quick tool for small edits. They&#x27;re largely incomparable.</text></comment> | <story><title>Nano 5.7</title><url>https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/info-gnu/2021-04/msg00013.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>293984j29384</author><text>I never understood the hate Nano gets from vi users. Nano does many things quicker and easier than vi. For example, search &amp; replace. Would I code in Nano? No. Do I use Nano to edit configuration files and make other small edits? Absolutely.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rubyist5eva</author><text>Linus Torvalds recently did an interview and I was suprised to read that he was considering switching from his micro-emacs setup to Nano. If it&#x27;s Linus approved, how can I say something is bad? ;)</text></comment> |
15,662,906 | 15,662,848 | 1 | 2 | 15,662,447 | train | <story><title>The Bitcoin bubble – Greater fool theory</title><url>https://www.economist.com/blogs/buttonwood/2017/11/greater-fool-theory-0</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>autokad</author><text>I was having a conversation about bitcoin, and I was saying the fact that the price goes up so fast means people cant&#x2F;wont actually use it as a currency. I think someone bought a pizza with 10k bitcoin? thats now 70 million $. Even in the last year it has moved up so fast, and if people think it will continue to grow &#x27;because of adoption&#x27;, people cant actually &#x27;adopt&#x27; it and use it as a currency, because todays bitcoin is worth a lot less than tomorrows.<p>then i realized, i was describing deflation.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mbrock</author><text>It definitely means people won&#x27;t use it as a unit of account (for debts, budgets, etc), which is one primary use for a currency...<p>But I don&#x27;t think it means people won&#x27;t spend it or trade it for some other currency or asset. If you held a bunch of bitcoin while the price in USD doubled, and you happened to want a new smartphone, you&#x27;re sure you wouldn&#x27;t buy one?<p>If you were absolutely confident the price would quickly rise even more, maybe you would prefer holding, but if you really want the phone and you think BTC&#x2F;USD has some risk?</text></comment> | <story><title>The Bitcoin bubble – Greater fool theory</title><url>https://www.economist.com/blogs/buttonwood/2017/11/greater-fool-theory-0</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>autokad</author><text>I was having a conversation about bitcoin, and I was saying the fact that the price goes up so fast means people cant&#x2F;wont actually use it as a currency. I think someone bought a pizza with 10k bitcoin? thats now 70 million $. Even in the last year it has moved up so fast, and if people think it will continue to grow &#x27;because of adoption&#x27;, people cant actually &#x27;adopt&#x27; it and use it as a currency, because todays bitcoin is worth a lot less than tomorrows.<p>then i realized, i was describing deflation.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>lokerfoi</author><text>Other motivations exist when using deflationary currency other than hoarding. I don&#x27;t believe btc deflation is bad.<p>Fiat currency can also rise and fall 10% in a single day. Problem is that moving the market that much in every day is impossible due to a huge market cap, which BTC does not have.<p>All cryptocurrencies are not user friendly. Cold, hot wallets, privacy issues, what is the best way to store them, how not to accidentally lose everything etc.<p>Mass adoption depends a lot on user friendliness which a bunch of cryptographers aren&#x27;t concentrated on solving.<p>So, it won&#x27;t be used as a currency not because of its deflationary nature but because it&#x27;s just not as convenient as fiat currency.<p>Scaling issues are also a big blocker. Currently, BTC transaction fees are higher than those imposed by banks. It&#x27;s no longer a cash, just a store of value.<p>Core devs are behind a private company, trying to milk the blockchain even more, which will also lead to bitcoin not being used as cash, but they&#x27;ll sell their own sidechain and offchain solutions, probably just to enterprise.<p>Blockchain tech is great tech. Cryptocurrencies like Monero are absolutely brilliant. But I&#x27;m doubtful of mass adoption, mostly because torrents, free software, as amazing as they are, and convenient for superusers, don&#x27;t have mass adoption too.</text></comment> |
12,741,361 | 12,741,316 | 1 | 2 | 12,741,229 | train | <story><title>An empirical study on the impact of C++ lambdas and programmer experience</title><url>http://dl.acm.org/authorize?N03390</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>porges</author><text>&gt; After instructions, participants were given printouts of sample code they could refer to while solving tasks. Group Lambda got code of a C++ program using lambda expressions and group Iterator received code of the same program written using iterators. They then had time to study the samples before starting the tasks and could refer to these samples later.<p>These samples do not appear in the paper, so we don&#x27;t know what they saw.<p>The “iterators” discussed are Java-&#x2F;C#-style iterators, not C++ ones (as I expected reading the abstract).<p>In a C++ context I would have expected lambdas vs iterators to be something like:<p><pre><code> &#x2F;&#x2F; lambda
float retVal = 0;
std::for_each(mb.cbegin(), mb.cend(), [&amp;](item x) { retVal += item.price; });
return retVal;
&#x2F;&#x2F; pure iterator
float retVal = 0;
for (auto it = mb.cbegin(); it != mb.cend(); ++it)
{
retVal += it-&gt;price;
}
return retVal;
</code></pre>
... and the first would be better off as:<p><pre><code> return std::accumulate(mb.cbegin(), mb.cend(), 0f,
[](float acc, item x) { return acc + x.price; });
</code></pre>
I think the need to use ref-capture (since you only get a side-effecting `std::function` to play with in their sample) would be the thing most likely to throw people off – as it’s something that should be avoided in most code, anyway ;)</text></comment> | <story><title>An empirical study on the impact of C++ lambdas and programmer experience</title><url>http://dl.acm.org/authorize?N03390</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>byuu</author><text>Context always matters. I use lambdas sparingly in my applications, except for one <i>major</i> area: user interfaces.<p>I can&#x27;t begin to stress what a huge timesaver it is being able to bind a button&#x27;s callback to a quick lambda instead of having to bind a callback to an std::function, add the function to the class header, and then put the actual button-click code somewhere else in the project in a separate function ... and then repeat that process for a large UI with hundreds of widgets.<p>It&#x27;s not even the initial extra typing, it&#x27;s having all the code right where it&#x27;s most relevant instead of scattered around everywhere and having to name all of these callback functions.</text></comment> |
12,720,638 | 12,720,432 | 1 | 3 | 12,719,273 | train | <story><title>The Birkana hexadecimal number symbols</title><url>http://yawar.blogspot.com/2016/10/the-birkana-hexadecimal-number-symbols.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>david-given</author><text>Fun fact: you can count to hexadecimal on the fingers of one hand.<p>The way it works is that each of your four fingers has four well-defined places on them: the three joints, plus the tip. You use your thumb to point at one of these. The first finger represents 1-4, the second 5-8, the third 9-12, the fourth 13-16. You count up and down by moving your thumb.<p>Also, because you use the thumb of the same hand for pointing, you can count two different hexadecimal numbers if you use both hands --- which means you can count to 256.<p>(I don&#x27;t know anybody limber enough to do this with their toes.)<p>As a special bonus: if you point to the fleshy pads of the fingers instead of the joints, you can use the same system for base 12.</text></comment> | <story><title>The Birkana hexadecimal number symbols</title><url>http://yawar.blogspot.com/2016/10/the-birkana-hexadecimal-number-symbols.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>FoeNyx</author><text>It could also interestingly be mixed with reflected binary code [1] with only one segment changing between two successive values.<p>&gt; Theoretically, the Unicode Consortium could decide to add the Birkana symbols to the Unicode specification and some enterprising font designer could come up with a set for general use.<p>There are already some runes encoded in unicode, but most of the symbols of the birkana system does not match any existing historical runes though.<p>Yet, there is something in unicode that is somehow visually close [2]: braille patterns (2 columns of 4 rows of dots).
But sadly the braille dots are not ordered in the same way because it was extended from 6 bits (from top to bottom : left column 123, right column 456) to 8 bits (from top to bottom : left column 1237, right column 4568).<p>--<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Gray_code" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Gray_code</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Braille_Patterns" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Braille_Patterns</a></text></comment> |
9,144,206 | 9,144,208 | 1 | 3 | 9,143,167 | train | <story><title>The Overprotected Kid (2014)</title><url>http://www.theatlantic.com/features/archive/2014/03/hey-parents-leave-those-kids-alone/358631/?single_page=true</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>__xtrimsky</author><text>Yea I&#x27;m worried about that too. I was raised in France but live in the US, as an 8 year old I used to explore lot&#x27;s of things.
But I&#x27;m not actually sure I want to let my kids do the same, I remember doing a lot of stupid things too and I&#x27;m not sure any of this freedom taught me anything:<p>- touching dog poop to enter a &quot;ninja&quot; club<p>- entering many private properties<p>- climbing dangerously high trees<p>- crossing quadruple railroad tracks with TGVs passing on them.<p>- putting my head next to a passing TGV (about 2 feet away), just to see how it feels and be scared<p>- jumping off high ledges to see how far I can fall without hurting myself.<p>- walking near ledges with a 2 story drop.<p>- playing with explosive fireworks, big enough to blow up a couple of fingers. I could just buy these as a kid in France.<p>This is just a small list, and I was honestly a very quiet, calm kid. I just had an active friend.
And as I said, I don&#x27;t remember this teaching me anything.<p>Whereas I remember spending time programming (visual programming) at 8 years old, and that was awesome and taught me a lot.</text></item><item><author>chrisBob</author><text>As the proud parent of a 3 month old, my concern is that exposing my daughter to small risks as she grows up could end in me going to jail. My wife and I joke that our kid isn&#x27;t allowed to walk to the park alone until she can outrun the cops. Short of moving to Europe I am not sure how to make sure it is safe to let my child roam alone when she is an 8 year old. I am not concerned about her safety exactly, but some asshole calling the police is a very real and serious threat to our family.<p><a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/decision-in-free-range-case-does-not-end-debate-about-parenting-and-safety/2015/03/02/5a919454-c04d-11e4-ad5c-3b8ce89f1b89_story.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.washingtonpost.com&#x2F;local&#x2F;education&#x2F;decision-in-fr...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mrgriscom</author><text>It&#x27;s easy to say in retrospect &quot;those didn&#x27;t teach me anything&quot; but hard to imagine what you&#x27;d actually be like without those experiences.<p>Ever seen this episode? <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tapestry_(Star_Trek:_The_Next_Generation)" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Tapestry_(Star_Trek:_The_Next_G...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>The Overprotected Kid (2014)</title><url>http://www.theatlantic.com/features/archive/2014/03/hey-parents-leave-those-kids-alone/358631/?single_page=true</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>__xtrimsky</author><text>Yea I&#x27;m worried about that too. I was raised in France but live in the US, as an 8 year old I used to explore lot&#x27;s of things.
But I&#x27;m not actually sure I want to let my kids do the same, I remember doing a lot of stupid things too and I&#x27;m not sure any of this freedom taught me anything:<p>- touching dog poop to enter a &quot;ninja&quot; club<p>- entering many private properties<p>- climbing dangerously high trees<p>- crossing quadruple railroad tracks with TGVs passing on them.<p>- putting my head next to a passing TGV (about 2 feet away), just to see how it feels and be scared<p>- jumping off high ledges to see how far I can fall without hurting myself.<p>- walking near ledges with a 2 story drop.<p>- playing with explosive fireworks, big enough to blow up a couple of fingers. I could just buy these as a kid in France.<p>This is just a small list, and I was honestly a very quiet, calm kid. I just had an active friend.
And as I said, I don&#x27;t remember this teaching me anything.<p>Whereas I remember spending time programming (visual programming) at 8 years old, and that was awesome and taught me a lot.</text></item><item><author>chrisBob</author><text>As the proud parent of a 3 month old, my concern is that exposing my daughter to small risks as she grows up could end in me going to jail. My wife and I joke that our kid isn&#x27;t allowed to walk to the park alone until she can outrun the cops. Short of moving to Europe I am not sure how to make sure it is safe to let my child roam alone when she is an 8 year old. I am not concerned about her safety exactly, but some asshole calling the police is a very real and serious threat to our family.<p><a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/decision-in-free-range-case-does-not-end-debate-about-parenting-and-safety/2015/03/02/5a919454-c04d-11e4-ad5c-3b8ce89f1b89_story.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.washingtonpost.com&#x2F;local&#x2F;education&#x2F;decision-in-fr...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>TeMPOraL</author><text>Sounds like infulential experiences, actually. I&#x27;m guessing you&#x27;re not the kind of person that is afraid of everything.<p>I probably wouldn&#x27;t want my kid to do the railroad stunts, but I think I&#x27;ll be totally fine with the rest. Especially fireworks is something I <i>want</i> my kid to play with. Rockets are cool.</text></comment> |
31,827,644 | 31,827,536 | 1 | 3 | 31,826,651 | train | <story><title>Wikimedia Enterprise announces Google and Internet Archive as first customers</title><url>https://wikimediafoundation.org/news/2022/06/21/wikimedia-enterprise-announces-google-and-internet-archive-first-customers/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>endisneigh</author><text>Why would an organization limit the amount of money they have?</text></item><item><author>dmarchand90</author><text>I really don&#x27;t like this. The foundation already has many multiples more money than it needs to cover its core goal: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.dailydot.com&#x2F;debug&#x2F;wikipedia-endownemnt-fundraising&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.dailydot.com&#x2F;debug&#x2F;wikipedia-endownemnt-fundrais...</a>
This can, at best, be useless, at worst, corrupt its mission to serve corporations.<p>There used to be an expression &quot;don&#x27;t fix what ain&#x27;t broke.&quot; I feel like this old maxim is now completely ignored.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>greyface-</author><text>In this case, it strongly incentivizes them to provide poor service to non-paying, non-enterprise API users. Wikimedia Enterprise apparently generates daily snapshots for paying customers[1]. The general public only gets them twice a month[2]. Wikimedia&#x27;s goal should be to serve the public.<p>[1]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;enterprise.wikimedia.com&#x2F;docs&#x2F;snapshot&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;enterprise.wikimedia.com&#x2F;docs&#x2F;snapshot&#x2F;</a>
[2]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;dumps.wikimedia.org&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;dumps.wikimedia.org&#x2F;</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Wikimedia Enterprise announces Google and Internet Archive as first customers</title><url>https://wikimediafoundation.org/news/2022/06/21/wikimedia-enterprise-announces-google-and-internet-archive-first-customers/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>endisneigh</author><text>Why would an organization limit the amount of money they have?</text></item><item><author>dmarchand90</author><text>I really don&#x27;t like this. The foundation already has many multiples more money than it needs to cover its core goal: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.dailydot.com&#x2F;debug&#x2F;wikipedia-endownemnt-fundraising&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.dailydot.com&#x2F;debug&#x2F;wikipedia-endownemnt-fundrais...</a>
This can, at best, be useless, at worst, corrupt its mission to serve corporations.<p>There used to be an expression &quot;don&#x27;t fix what ain&#x27;t broke.&quot; I feel like this old maxim is now completely ignored.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>aunty_helen</author><text>Because it’s unnecessary and brings outside influences that could corrupt it’s stated goals</text></comment> |
30,810,166 | 30,809,901 | 1 | 2 | 30,807,138 | train | <story><title>Stronger hands lengthen your life</title><url>https://www.axios.com/hand-grip-strength-falling-deaths-8dfd77a1-0561-41be-8359-12532af948ce.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mmcdermott</author><text>This article has a bad &quot;pop science&quot; feel to it. The correlation between grip and survival is probably solid enough, but it&#x27;s hard to avoid the nagging feeling that people who have a strong grip are probably stronger and healthier overall as well.<p>The article goes on to recommend grip strengthener and I strongly suspect that better skeletal-muscular health in general should be the goal.<p>&quot;Strong people are harder to kill than weak people and more useful in general.&quot; --Mark Rippetoe.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kleene_op</author><text>Yes. The correct take from this article is to change your lifestyle until you have strong hands if you want to live longer, but don&#x27;t focus on getting strong hands specifically.</text></comment> | <story><title>Stronger hands lengthen your life</title><url>https://www.axios.com/hand-grip-strength-falling-deaths-8dfd77a1-0561-41be-8359-12532af948ce.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mmcdermott</author><text>This article has a bad &quot;pop science&quot; feel to it. The correlation between grip and survival is probably solid enough, but it&#x27;s hard to avoid the nagging feeling that people who have a strong grip are probably stronger and healthier overall as well.<p>The article goes on to recommend grip strengthener and I strongly suspect that better skeletal-muscular health in general should be the goal.<p>&quot;Strong people are harder to kill than weak people and more useful in general.&quot; --Mark Rippetoe.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dillondoyle</author><text>I generally love Axios, but this does feel more life hacking newsletter than hard news.<p>But the article does talk about risk of falling too which. seems like a fair logical causation jump that stronger hands = less risk of falling injury. They don&#x27;t cite that though....<p>I think they should have used the line from the harvard link they put &quot;these findings highlight the importance of doing regular exercise to maintain strong muscles as you age. &quot;</text></comment> |
14,667,659 | 14,666,664 | 1 | 3 | 14,664,148 | train | <story><title>Once a Model City, Hong Kong Is in Trouble</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/29/world/asia/hong-kong-china-handover.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>caretoomuch</author><text>As someone lived in Hong Kong for quite a while (during the tail of its heydays) but now in the US, Hong Kong is indeed in big trouble. But not for the reasons mentioned&#x2F;implied in this article.<p>It&#x27;s very easy to buy into narratives such as authoritarianism vs democracy, communism vs capitalism, China vs Britain&#x2F;West, tight control vs freedom as the reasons for Hong Kong&#x27;s decline, but that&#x27;s just short-circuited thinking for the lazy.<p>The real reason for Hong Kong&#x27;s decline, is the failure&#x2F;irresponsibility of Hong Kong&#x27;s elite ruling class. Maybe to many people&#x27;s surprise, since its handover to China, Hong Kong has effectively been ruled by the local elites, NOT by Beijing. Sure, Beijing appoints the governor, but the governors are locals, and there was never any direct &quot;order&quot; from Beijing, well, sorta until recently, when Beijing began to see the failure of the local Hong Kong government.<p>Those elites are composed of mega real estate&#x2F;business tycoons. Being the elites in the most capitalist city-state in the world gives them tremendous wealth and power, but to the disappointment of Spider-man, with that great power there&#x27;s no great responsibilities. The ruling class mega riches don&#x27;t see income inequality as a problem, but a badge of honor for themselves, to show how &quot;they&#x27;ve made it&quot;, while all the poors are just not smart&#x2F;hardworking enough. Any efforts to &quot;appease the poor&quot; are hindered by the ruling business-politician symbiotics, because those efforts get in their way of accumulating more wealth.<p>The frustration of the youth and the poor stems from the sense of inequality, unfairness and despair as they see no chances of upward mobility. Yet, even the poorest in Hong Kong is a capitalist at heart, so they are poor not because of the rich, and they certainly do work hard, then who&#x27;s to blame? China, Beijing, the mainlanders, because they are evil, communist, denying tian&#x27;anmen square, yada yada...<p>On the contrary, when the ruling rich saw the rebellion of lower class, without knowing&#x2F;admitting themselves are to be blamed, they seek help from Beijing. What does Beijing know about governing a country? More control! That&#x27;s the only thing Beijing knows, and it&#x27;s been working (kinda) with them. So that&#x27;s how we get where we are now.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>FabHK</author><text>It goes both ways, though - the tacit deal is basically that the HK tycoons do not challenge the Chinese Communist Party&#x27;s monopoly on power, and the CCP doesn&#x27;t challenge the HK tycoons&#x27; economic monopolies.<p>But, all in all, I agree. As I&#x27;ve written in another thread:
The grievances of HK&#x27;s population are real: a political and business establishment dominated by property tycoons (and increasingly mainland Chinese political factions) keen on maintaining their privileged position; huge economic inequality; a slow erosion of political liberties (&quot;salami tactic&quot;).<p>That all, of course, gave rise to the Umbrella Movement in 2014.<p>However, given that the Chinese Communist Party is not inclined to weaken its grip on power, and extremely protective of the (perceived) territorial integrity of China, I don&#x27;t really see how this will end well. :-&#x2F; Here&#x27;s hoping.<p>For perspective, BTW: In 1997, HK&#x27;s GDP was about one sixth of China&#x27;s (even though China has 200x the people), and HK was an important conduit between China and the world: HK&#x27;s port had more volume than Shanghai and Shenzhen together.<p>Today, HK&#x27;s GDP is barely 3% of China&#x27;s, and the ports of Shanghai and Shenzhen together have 3x the throughput of HK. (Just have a look at these pictures: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.dailymail.co.uk&#x2F;news&#x2F;article-2478975&#x2F;Shanghai-por.." rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.dailymail.co.uk&#x2F;news&#x2F;article-2478975&#x2F;Shanghai-por...</a>. )<p>HK used to be hugely important for China. Now, it isn&#x27;t, and with rising Chinese nationalism, HK is being seen more and more like an unruly and spoiled child.</text></comment> | <story><title>Once a Model City, Hong Kong Is in Trouble</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/29/world/asia/hong-kong-china-handover.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>caretoomuch</author><text>As someone lived in Hong Kong for quite a while (during the tail of its heydays) but now in the US, Hong Kong is indeed in big trouble. But not for the reasons mentioned&#x2F;implied in this article.<p>It&#x27;s very easy to buy into narratives such as authoritarianism vs democracy, communism vs capitalism, China vs Britain&#x2F;West, tight control vs freedom as the reasons for Hong Kong&#x27;s decline, but that&#x27;s just short-circuited thinking for the lazy.<p>The real reason for Hong Kong&#x27;s decline, is the failure&#x2F;irresponsibility of Hong Kong&#x27;s elite ruling class. Maybe to many people&#x27;s surprise, since its handover to China, Hong Kong has effectively been ruled by the local elites, NOT by Beijing. Sure, Beijing appoints the governor, but the governors are locals, and there was never any direct &quot;order&quot; from Beijing, well, sorta until recently, when Beijing began to see the failure of the local Hong Kong government.<p>Those elites are composed of mega real estate&#x2F;business tycoons. Being the elites in the most capitalist city-state in the world gives them tremendous wealth and power, but to the disappointment of Spider-man, with that great power there&#x27;s no great responsibilities. The ruling class mega riches don&#x27;t see income inequality as a problem, but a badge of honor for themselves, to show how &quot;they&#x27;ve made it&quot;, while all the poors are just not smart&#x2F;hardworking enough. Any efforts to &quot;appease the poor&quot; are hindered by the ruling business-politician symbiotics, because those efforts get in their way of accumulating more wealth.<p>The frustration of the youth and the poor stems from the sense of inequality, unfairness and despair as they see no chances of upward mobility. Yet, even the poorest in Hong Kong is a capitalist at heart, so they are poor not because of the rich, and they certainly do work hard, then who&#x27;s to blame? China, Beijing, the mainlanders, because they are evil, communist, denying tian&#x27;anmen square, yada yada...<p>On the contrary, when the ruling rich saw the rebellion of lower class, without knowing&#x2F;admitting themselves are to be blamed, they seek help from Beijing. What does Beijing know about governing a country? More control! That&#x27;s the only thing Beijing knows, and it&#x27;s been working (kinda) with them. So that&#x27;s how we get where we are now.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>cilea</author><text>The same is happening to Taiwan (stuttered growth; in-fighting, etc.). The issue is deeply rooted in local power-wielding elites conspiring or opposing the ruling government. It has nothing to do democracy. The riches have already allocated some of their wealth elsewhere (see Canada and Australia), so they don&#x27;t really care. It&#x27;s always easy to blame it on Beijing, isn&#x27;t it?</text></comment> |
11,062,442 | 11,062,509 | 1 | 2 | 11,062,084 | train | <story><title>Causal Inference in Statistics: A Primer</title><url>http://bayes.cs.ucla.edu/PRIMER/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ced</author><text>I was looking for a review, and found Gelman&#x27;s recommendation of<p><i>Causal Inference for Statistics, Social, and Biomedical Sciences</i><p>and mention of this book: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.hsph.harvard.edu&#x2F;miguel-hernan&#x2F;causal-inference-book&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.hsph.harvard.edu&#x2F;miguel-hernan&#x2F;causal-inference-b...</a><p>Does anyone have a comment on those? I&#x27;ve read Pearl&#x27;s two earlier books, and found the one on causality quite hard to navigate. The basic ideas are cool, but it&#x27;s hard to connect the more advanced theorems with anything I could actually implement.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>xtacy</author><text>I too found Pearl&#x27;s book hard to navigate on first attempt. Do not let that stop you! After a hiatus, I stumbled upon this blog post [1], which explained the core ideas in Pearl&#x27;s framework beautifully in a simple language. My advice is to persist, fill any holes in fundamentals (mostly basic probability), and persist. After working out the examples in the blog post on paper and contrasting it to other ideas out there (potential outcome framework), it became quite clear what Pearl was trying to articulate.<p>Pearl is also an enthusiastic speaker. You can search for his talks online at various venues (Stanford, Microsoft Research, etc.) to learn more.<p>[1] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.michaelnielsen.org&#x2F;ddi&#x2F;if-correlation-doesnt-imply-causation-then-what-does&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.michaelnielsen.org&#x2F;ddi&#x2F;if-correlation-doesnt-impl...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Causal Inference in Statistics: A Primer</title><url>http://bayes.cs.ucla.edu/PRIMER/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ced</author><text>I was looking for a review, and found Gelman&#x27;s recommendation of<p><i>Causal Inference for Statistics, Social, and Biomedical Sciences</i><p>and mention of this book: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.hsph.harvard.edu&#x2F;miguel-hernan&#x2F;causal-inference-book&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.hsph.harvard.edu&#x2F;miguel-hernan&#x2F;causal-inference-b...</a><p>Does anyone have a comment on those? I&#x27;ve read Pearl&#x27;s two earlier books, and found the one on causality quite hard to navigate. The basic ideas are cool, but it&#x27;s hard to connect the more advanced theorems with anything I could actually implement.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>hudibras</author><text>Gelman&#x27;s own book (with Jennifer Hill) also has some good, practical techniques on causal inference. [0]<p>Morgan and Winship&#x27;s <i>Counterfactuals and Causal Inference: Methods and Principles for Social Research</i> [1] is also really good. Be sure to get the second edition; it&#x27;s much better than the first.<p>[0] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.amazon.com&#x2F;Analysis-Regression-Multilevel-Hierarchical-Models&#x2F;dp&#x2F;052168689X" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.amazon.com&#x2F;Analysis-Regression-Multilevel-Hierarc...</a><p>[1] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.amazon.com&#x2F;Counterfactuals-Causal-Inference-Principles-Analytical&#x2F;dp&#x2F;1107694167&#x2F;ref=dp_ob_title_bk" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.amazon.com&#x2F;Counterfactuals-Causal-Inference-Princ...</a></text></comment> |
27,225,962 | 27,225,908 | 1 | 2 | 27,225,442 | train | <story><title>Wormhole Tunnels in Spacetime May Be Possible, New Research Suggests</title><url>https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/wormhole-tunnels-in-spacetime-may-be-possible-new-research-suggests/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>wearywanderer</author><text>A few thoughts:<p>1. The possibility of wormholes isn&#x27;t new.<p>2. You still need to be thinner than spaghetti to go through what they&#x27;re talking about.<p>3. They&#x27;re stretching the words &#x27;relatively easy&#x27; to ludicrous limits: <i>And because entanglement is a standard feature of quantum physics, it is relatively easy to create. “It’s really a beautiful theoretical idea,”</i></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>m3kw9</author><text>Every thing is easy relatively to impossible</text></comment> | <story><title>Wormhole Tunnels in Spacetime May Be Possible, New Research Suggests</title><url>https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/wormhole-tunnels-in-spacetime-may-be-possible-new-research-suggests/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>wearywanderer</author><text>A few thoughts:<p>1. The possibility of wormholes isn&#x27;t new.<p>2. You still need to be thinner than spaghetti to go through what they&#x27;re talking about.<p>3. They&#x27;re stretching the words &#x27;relatively easy&#x27; to ludicrous limits: <i>And because entanglement is a standard feature of quantum physics, it is relatively easy to create. “It’s really a beautiful theoretical idea,”</i></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>fnord77</author><text>communication through them should be possible, though, no?</text></comment> |
26,859,111 | 26,859,092 | 1 | 2 | 26,858,811 | train | <story><title>Police in Minnesota round up journalists and take pictures of their faces</title><url>https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2021/04/17/brooklyn-center-protests-police-round-up-journalists/7268057002/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>deathanatos</author><text>&gt; <i>Journalists covering a protest in a Minneapolis suburb Friday night were forced on their stomachs by law enforcement, rounded up and were only released after having their face and press credentials photographed.</i><p>&gt; <i>The incident occurred hours after a judge issued a temporary order barring the Minnesota State Patrol from using physical force or chemical agents against journalists, according to court documents.</i><p>Sounds like the police don&#x27;t care about the judge&#x27;s order, nor the rights of journalists.</text></comment> | <story><title>Police in Minnesota round up journalists and take pictures of their faces</title><url>https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2021/04/17/brooklyn-center-protests-police-round-up-journalists/7268057002/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>BLKNSLVR</author><text>&quot;After about 30 minutes, law enforcement told protesters to the leave the area in a loudspeaker announcement calling the demonstration an unlawful assembly.&quot;<p>Unlawful assembly.<p>&quot;In England, the offence was abolished in 1986, but it exists in other countries.&quot;[0]<p>&quot;while freedom of association is used in the context of labor rights and in the Constitution of the United States is interpreted to mean both the freedom to assemble and the freedom to join an association&quot;[1]<p>I wouldn&#x27;t be too excited about police in my area invoking &quot;unlawful assembly&quot; willy-nilly, especially when followed up by the &quot;identification of press&quot; actions as described in the article.<p>I don&#x27;t want to go too far off the deep end in commentary, but it&#x27;s more anecdata pointing in an uncomfortable direction.<p>[0]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Unlawful_assembly" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Unlawful_assembly</a><p>[1]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Freedom_of_assembly" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Freedom_of_assembly</a></text></comment> |
9,352,276 | 9,351,866 | 1 | 2 | 9,349,034 | train | <story><title>Artificial Sweeteners May Change Our Gut Bacteria in Dangerous Ways</title><url>http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/artificial-sweeteners-may-change-our-gut-bacteria-in-dangerous-ways/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>beat</author><text>I&#x27;m currently trying to kick a Diet Coke habit (my equivalent of smoking), which I think is contributing to several health problems, not the least of which is carrying about 40 pounds more than I should around.<p>Part of it, which isn&#x27;t covered by these studies, is how a reliance on diet soda affects your diet overall. It serves as a lubricant, for lack of a better word, for dense starchy carbs and salt. I can wolf down french fries with diet soda, but it&#x27;s a lot harder with just water, which doesn&#x27;t cut the salt or grease.<p>My real warning to cut back came from my mouth. I have an autoimmune problem that causes sores similar to cold sores. My salty, sour, spicy diet aggravates it, and the diet soda enables that diet (and is itself acidic). I&#x27;m tired of pain, so I&#x27;m cutting back.<p>Lost five pounds in an instant.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jheriko</author><text>Well done for cutting something out and losing weight to try and improve your health, this is an admirable goal.<p>However, from your tone I would hazard a guess that the problem is not your diet coke so much as your desire to consume so much that you are choosing diet coke as an optimal lubricant to enable that.<p>You can&#x27;t compare a habit like this to smoking imo, which is chemically addictive with a reasonably well understood chemical pathway and requires considerable willpower to stop due to physiological withdrawal symptoms as well as the psychological aspects of addiction.<p>Maybe you have some underlying problem which is causing your behaviour, because most people do not require very much willpower to not eat when it is uncomfortable to do so without &#x27;lubricating it&#x27; optimally with some specific drink. Or maybe I am just misunderstanding and overreacting based on how shocking I find your comment...</text></comment> | <story><title>Artificial Sweeteners May Change Our Gut Bacteria in Dangerous Ways</title><url>http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/artificial-sweeteners-may-change-our-gut-bacteria-in-dangerous-ways/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>beat</author><text>I&#x27;m currently trying to kick a Diet Coke habit (my equivalent of smoking), which I think is contributing to several health problems, not the least of which is carrying about 40 pounds more than I should around.<p>Part of it, which isn&#x27;t covered by these studies, is how a reliance on diet soda affects your diet overall. It serves as a lubricant, for lack of a better word, for dense starchy carbs and salt. I can wolf down french fries with diet soda, but it&#x27;s a lot harder with just water, which doesn&#x27;t cut the salt or grease.<p>My real warning to cut back came from my mouth. I have an autoimmune problem that causes sores similar to cold sores. My salty, sour, spicy diet aggravates it, and the diet soda enables that diet (and is itself acidic). I&#x27;m tired of pain, so I&#x27;m cutting back.<p>Lost five pounds in an instant.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>snarfy</author><text>I believe it&#x27;s the carbonated water that cuts the salt and grease. I used to drink a lot of soda and switched to carbonated water so I understand what you mean by lubricant.<p>My wife has a similar autoimmune problem. She also drinks 4-5 diet cokes a day. I wonder if there is a connection. There are flora in your mouth too.</text></comment> |
40,981,935 | 40,981,591 | 1 | 2 | 40,977,389 | train | <story><title>Making Elizabethan plays understandable and fun to read</title><url>http://elizabethandrama.org/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jfengel</author><text>Shakespeare <i>is</i> modern English. Linguists describe it as &quot;Early Modern English&quot;. It&#x27;s contemporaneous with the King James Bible, which is still widely read, without translation.<p>The difficulty with Shakespeare isn&#x27;t that it&#x27;s in Elizabethan English, but that it&#x27;s in poetry. The Russians and French have strong poetic cultures. They enjoy reading poetry, and the challenge of writing it, including translation. That just doesn&#x27;t exist in Anglophone cultures.<p>But Shakespeare wasn&#x27;t meant to be read. It was meant to be performed, and a native speaker watching a good performance has no need of translation. The emotions and flow of the story are clear. They may not understand each and every word, but that&#x27;s often true of even the latest movies. (The dialogue is often mixed in a way that makes it hard to understand -- by the director&#x27;s choice.)<p>I regularly perform Shakespeare for audiences who have never seen it before, and I never translate a word of it. I generally edit it to make it move more briskly than Elizabethan audiences wanted, but the only time I&#x27;ll change a word is to make the pronouns match the actors I cast (and not even always then).<p>Shakespeare&#x27;s stories are rarely worth preserving for their own sake. The stories themselves are dated -- not the words, but the culture. There&#x27;s no &quot;translation&quot; that will make Claudio not an asshole for the way he treats Hero, or make Hero not look pitiful for taking him back.<p>Shakespeare&#x27;s plays in modern words are always flat, dull, and penitential. If you&#x27;re going to modernize the language, modernize the whole thing -- go see the delightful &quot;Ten Things I Hate About You&quot; or the magical &quot;West Side Story&quot;.</text></item><item><author>kens</author><text>The well-known linguist John McWhorter argues that Shakespeare&#x27;s plays should be translated into modern English since they are written in a language that we effectively no longer speak.<p>&quot;Indeed, the irony today is that the Russians, the French and other people in foreign countries possess Shakespeare to a much greater extent than we do, for the simple reason that unlike us, they get to enjoy Shakespeare in the language they speak.&quot;<p>&quot;&#x27;But translated Shakespeare wouldn’t be Shakespeare!&#x27; one might object. To which the answer is, to an extent, yes. However, we would never complain a translation of Beowulf &#x27;isn’t Beowulf&#x27;—of course it isn’t, in the strict sense, but we know that without translation, we would not have access to Beowulf at all.&quot;<p>His full discussion is here, and is worth reading: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.americantheatre.org&#x2F;2010&#x2F;01&#x2F;01&#x2F;its-time-to-translate-shakespeare-into-contemporary-english&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.americantheatre.org&#x2F;2010&#x2F;01&#x2F;01&#x2F;its-time-to-trans...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>materielle</author><text>1) Shakespeare didn’t use literary language. His works were written in the common parlance of the day.<p>2) It’s actually easier to read than to watch live. We’ve heard all the arguments by now. “Go see it live”, “You need to see it with better actors”, “It makes more sense when the accents are British”. All made up, none of it is true.<p>3) “Early Modern English” is “Modern” only relative to “Middle” and “Old” English. It isn’t modern in any normative sense. It’s just a linguistic classification, not to be taken literally in casual parlance.<p>Look, I have a degree in English literature. I’ve read the canon. I’ve read all the major works of Shakespeare. I’ve seen many of the plays live.<p>It’s difficult to read. Because he’s writing in a language that we don’t speak.<p>If I see a play live, I have to read it beforehand in order to refresh my memory. If I haven’t read it recently, I have no clue what the actors are saying.<p>John Mcwhorter, a linguist Phd and a lover of Shakespeare agrees with me.<p>The truth is that understanding Shakespeare is <i>hard</i> because he doesn’t write in anything that would be considered English.<p>Perhaps English literature majors should still be forced to learn the original plays.<p>But for high school students in Ohio, can we <i>please</i> just translate the plays into something they understand? Can we give up the bit and stop pretending like these 16 year olds have the slightest clue what on earth is happening in those plays?</text></comment> | <story><title>Making Elizabethan plays understandable and fun to read</title><url>http://elizabethandrama.org/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jfengel</author><text>Shakespeare <i>is</i> modern English. Linguists describe it as &quot;Early Modern English&quot;. It&#x27;s contemporaneous with the King James Bible, which is still widely read, without translation.<p>The difficulty with Shakespeare isn&#x27;t that it&#x27;s in Elizabethan English, but that it&#x27;s in poetry. The Russians and French have strong poetic cultures. They enjoy reading poetry, and the challenge of writing it, including translation. That just doesn&#x27;t exist in Anglophone cultures.<p>But Shakespeare wasn&#x27;t meant to be read. It was meant to be performed, and a native speaker watching a good performance has no need of translation. The emotions and flow of the story are clear. They may not understand each and every word, but that&#x27;s often true of even the latest movies. (The dialogue is often mixed in a way that makes it hard to understand -- by the director&#x27;s choice.)<p>I regularly perform Shakespeare for audiences who have never seen it before, and I never translate a word of it. I generally edit it to make it move more briskly than Elizabethan audiences wanted, but the only time I&#x27;ll change a word is to make the pronouns match the actors I cast (and not even always then).<p>Shakespeare&#x27;s stories are rarely worth preserving for their own sake. The stories themselves are dated -- not the words, but the culture. There&#x27;s no &quot;translation&quot; that will make Claudio not an asshole for the way he treats Hero, or make Hero not look pitiful for taking him back.<p>Shakespeare&#x27;s plays in modern words are always flat, dull, and penitential. If you&#x27;re going to modernize the language, modernize the whole thing -- go see the delightful &quot;Ten Things I Hate About You&quot; or the magical &quot;West Side Story&quot;.</text></item><item><author>kens</author><text>The well-known linguist John McWhorter argues that Shakespeare&#x27;s plays should be translated into modern English since they are written in a language that we effectively no longer speak.<p>&quot;Indeed, the irony today is that the Russians, the French and other people in foreign countries possess Shakespeare to a much greater extent than we do, for the simple reason that unlike us, they get to enjoy Shakespeare in the language they speak.&quot;<p>&quot;&#x27;But translated Shakespeare wouldn’t be Shakespeare!&#x27; one might object. To which the answer is, to an extent, yes. However, we would never complain a translation of Beowulf &#x27;isn’t Beowulf&#x27;—of course it isn’t, in the strict sense, but we know that without translation, we would not have access to Beowulf at all.&quot;<p>His full discussion is here, and is worth reading: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.americantheatre.org&#x2F;2010&#x2F;01&#x2F;01&#x2F;its-time-to-translate-shakespeare-into-contemporary-english&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.americantheatre.org&#x2F;2010&#x2F;01&#x2F;01&#x2F;its-time-to-trans...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>MrVandemar</author><text>You know, I know it&#x27;s poor form to post &quot;I agree&quot;, adding nothing but a little noise to the conversation.<p>But here I am, in the stadium, leaping to my feet, cheering as if you just scored the winning goal. Great comment, insightful and shows the passion and knowledge you have for the topic. This kind of commentary is why I&#x27;m here, and I&#x27;m calling it out as such. Love your work.</text></comment> |
21,408,849 | 21,409,155 | 1 | 2 | 21,407,531 | train | <story><title>Zuckerberg doubles down on Facebook political ads policy after Twitter ban</title><url>https://thehill.com/policy/technology/468216-zuckerberg-doubles-down-on-facebook-political-ads-policy-after-twitter-ban</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Traster</author><text>&gt;Ads can be an important part of voice - especially for candidates and advocacy groups the media might not otherwise cover so they can get their message into debates<p>It&#x27;s interesting how hard Zuck is working to try and conflate the idea of &#x27;free speech&#x27; with paid advertisements. To put it another way, if advertising on Facebook is part of my free speech, surely Zuck must run my adverts despite the fact I have no money to pay him for them.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Lazare</author><text>I notice you don&#x27;t address his actual point though.<p>If, let&#x27;s say, a group advocating for the abolishment of asset forfeiture wants to communicate their message, and the media is not covering it, it would be natural for them to try paying for ads, and the obvious place to <i>put</i> ads are on social media, since that&#x27;s where the eyeballs are (cf, the collapse of the news media). If social media bans those ads then while the group clearly still has free speech, they will have little way to meaningfully exercise it.<p>You might say - and I&#x27;d certainly agree - that the real problem is a world where everyone is on Twitter and Facebook to the exclusion of all else, and thus a world where 3-4 CEOs can unilaterally decide that nobody needs to hear anything about asset forfeiture (or whatever). And yet, that&#x27;s the world we&#x27;re in.<p>(You also don&#x27;t seem to understand what &quot;free speech&quot; is. By your logic, a law banning the purchase television ads for Democratic candidates - but allowing the purchase of television ads for Republicans - would be okay, because after all, those ads cost money, so it&#x27;s not restricting the Democratic candidates right to free speech. That&#x27;s absurd, no?)</text></comment> | <story><title>Zuckerberg doubles down on Facebook political ads policy after Twitter ban</title><url>https://thehill.com/policy/technology/468216-zuckerberg-doubles-down-on-facebook-political-ads-policy-after-twitter-ban</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Traster</author><text>&gt;Ads can be an important part of voice - especially for candidates and advocacy groups the media might not otherwise cover so they can get their message into debates<p>It&#x27;s interesting how hard Zuck is working to try and conflate the idea of &#x27;free speech&#x27; with paid advertisements. To put it another way, if advertising on Facebook is part of my free speech, surely Zuck must run my adverts despite the fact I have no money to pay him for them.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bhupy</author><text>How is paid speech not free speech? The paid aspect is just a means to an end. Money itself should not be seen as speech, but speech that costs money is still speech. On a basic level, any self publishing on any form of media has a nonzero cost and you buy some service from some third party eventually. If free speech applied to you but not the person who supplied you a platform, then that freedom only exists in theory and is effectively useless as you can be gagged by way of action against who supplied you your megaphone.<p>The freedom of advocacy is inseparable from the freedom of speech. It costs money to print pamphlets, buy air time, pay people to stand on the corner, conduct opinion polls, etc.<p>Say that you or I have a novel political idea that we want to advocate for. How do you propose that we do so? We&#x27;d probably form a non-profit, spend money contacting potential allies, convince them on the merits of our case and to donate to us, then spend that money on pamphlets, TV, radio ads, etc. That&#x27;s freedom at work.<p>If paid advertisements are not free speech, then the concept of free speech would cease to exist beyond street corner rants.</text></comment> |
34,291,518 | 34,291,339 | 1 | 2 | 34,289,092 | train | <story><title>Universal flu vaccine against all known subtypes takes promising first steps</title><url>https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.abm0271</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jokowueu</author><text>This is a bit offtopic . Is it possible to wipe that memory? Sounds like it would resolve all Autoimmune disease</text></item><item><author>russdill</author><text>The number of things your immune system knows about is absolutely enormous and grows everyday. Vaccinations are a tiny drop in the bucket</text></item><item><author>p1mrx</author><text>It seems that mRNA vaccines are becoming like antivirus software updates: inject the whole &quot;database&quot; and your body scans for currently-known threats. Does the immune system have a capacity limit?<p>I wonder if the technology will reach a point where we can print mRNA on demand. Could we build a database of bacteriophage viruses that target various strains of bacteria, and use custom-printed mRNA to produce the correct virus when someone has a bacterial infection?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pfdietz</author><text>I believe one of the effects of measles infection is that sort of wiping of immune memory. It&#x27;s one of the things that makes childhood measles so nasty.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nature.com&#x2F;articles&#x2F;d41586-019-03324-7" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nature.com&#x2F;articles&#x2F;d41586-019-03324-7</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Universal flu vaccine against all known subtypes takes promising first steps</title><url>https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.abm0271</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jokowueu</author><text>This is a bit offtopic . Is it possible to wipe that memory? Sounds like it would resolve all Autoimmune disease</text></item><item><author>russdill</author><text>The number of things your immune system knows about is absolutely enormous and grows everyday. Vaccinations are a tiny drop in the bucket</text></item><item><author>p1mrx</author><text>It seems that mRNA vaccines are becoming like antivirus software updates: inject the whole &quot;database&quot; and your body scans for currently-known threats. Does the immune system have a capacity limit?<p>I wonder if the technology will reach a point where we can print mRNA on demand. Could we build a database of bacteriophage viruses that target various strains of bacteria, and use custom-printed mRNA to produce the correct virus when someone has a bacterial infection?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>alphazard</author><text>Many autoimmune diseases don&#x27;t appear to be caused by immune memory, at least alone. There is evidence for cyclic inflammation by the innate immune system and also latent inflammation from gut bacteria and their outputs.<p>What you are describing (bone marrow radiation) has been used to treat Multiple Sclerosis. But diets (which radically change gut bacteria) have also been used to treat MS. So it&#x27;s complicated, and it&#x27;s possible for what is currently considered a single disease to be a common symptomatology for different root causes.</text></comment> |
17,473,681 | 17,473,399 | 1 | 3 | 17,472,296 | train | <story><title>Firefox Pioneer</title><url>https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/about-firefox-pioneer</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>some_account</author><text>I have all kinds of anti tracking installed in Firefox but I&#x27;m going to sign up for this.<p>Why? Because I want Firefox to be the best browser. Mozilla is not Google and not Microsoft. They have a very different view on privacy and how they would like the internet to evolve.</text></comment> | <story><title>Firefox Pioneer</title><url>https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/about-firefox-pioneer</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>joombaga</author><text>&gt; The data you submit is encrypted in Firefox and not decrypted until it is on a server that is not connected to the wider internet.<p>Okay, stupid question: How does it get there? Sneakernet?</text></comment> |
4,287,735 | 4,286,410 | 1 | 2 | 4,285,171 | train | <story><title>Just pay me.</title><url>http://blog.samuellevy.com/index.php?p=post&id=21</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rwhitman</author><text>Late fees are critical. In some businesses the accounting department will manage debt by paying off vendors in the order of who charges the most interest. If you don't have a late fee, you get shuffled to the bottom of the pile and stay there. Accountants are generally hardwired to avoid penalties, so if they see there are penalties they'll pay before the penalty period (provided they have the money).<p>However I have found that if your late fee is high, they will simply pay the invoice and "forget" the late fee. And then you're left squabbling over the late fee, which is quite annoying.<p>Also note that I disagree with OP's interest scheme - in my case its a flat 1-2%. For a freelancer you don't want to tip the scales into lawyer-worthy disputes...</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>larrys</author><text>"Late fees are critical."<p>In theory you can assess late fees and you might actually collect some.<p>But the truth is if someone is jerking you around on payment and they offer to pay <i>sans</i> the late fees most vendors will accept that and move on. In fact I've had people who claim to be filing bankruptcy (claim) and offer x cents on the dollar for any amount owed. In the end you make a decision do you want to take the money or go for door number two.<p>Legally entitled really means very little. What counts is the cost of enforcing the contract and the time it takes and any leverage that you have (like a kill switch as OP had mentioned)</text></comment> | <story><title>Just pay me.</title><url>http://blog.samuellevy.com/index.php?p=post&id=21</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rwhitman</author><text>Late fees are critical. In some businesses the accounting department will manage debt by paying off vendors in the order of who charges the most interest. If you don't have a late fee, you get shuffled to the bottom of the pile and stay there. Accountants are generally hardwired to avoid penalties, so if they see there are penalties they'll pay before the penalty period (provided they have the money).<p>However I have found that if your late fee is high, they will simply pay the invoice and "forget" the late fee. And then you're left squabbling over the late fee, which is quite annoying.<p>Also note that I disagree with OP's interest scheme - in my case its a flat 1-2%. For a freelancer you don't want to tip the scales into lawyer-worthy disputes...</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>craigmccaskill</author><text>A late fee is a tool to encourage payment, if they ignore it and pay even just the invoice amount earlier than they otherwise would have you could say it has done its job.<p>As long as they pay the invoice, most people at that point will waive the late fee (providing it's not a very large sum of money as would be the case with the suggested 10% per week). I know I've done this in the past when a client has called me up after weeks of nagging and apologised for the late payment and the lack of a fee.</text></comment> |
4,729,587 | 4,729,595 | 1 | 2 | 4,728,962 | train | <story><title>Why you should take your 20's seriously</title><url>http://jasonevanish.com/2012/11/01/why-you-should-take-your-20s-seriously/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>crazygringo</author><text>I "agree", but draw the exact opposite conclusions.<p>You should take your 20's seriously... because it's the only time in your life that you <i>aren't</i> encumbered by building a career, having kids, etc.<p>So you should take your 20's to do the things that you won't be able to do later. Work as a bartender, play in a band, travel the world on the cheap, teach English abroad, date the kind of people you wouldn't marry. You don't have serious responsibilities, so take advantage of that while you can.<p>Don't waste your 20's "building a career". You've got your 30's and 40's and 50's to do that. Don't be in a rush to have kids too soon.<p>Obviously, don't throw your 20's away. But spend them doing life-experience-focused things, not career- or family-focused.<p>And this gets at the author's third point: "Your brain finishes forming in your 20′s". If that's even true (although I doubt it), then you'd better get in all those varied life experiences sooner rather than later. Learn a second language, learn to cook, learn to play music.<p>Don't waste your 20's on grinding away at traditionally career-oriented stuff. That part of your brain is probably already fine. Your 20's is the time to look for diversity in your life, not to focus narrowly on any particular part. You've got all the decades afterward to work on narrow refinement and career progression...</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>flyosity</author><text>I'm a 29-year old male who spent his 20s building a career I love and now has a 6-month old daughter, so this quote:<p>&#62; Don't waste your 20's "building a career". You've got your 30's and 40's and 50's to do that. Don't be in a rush to have kids too soon.<p>Doesn't really make sense to me. If you don't build a career and finances in your 20s, you either can't afford to have a kid in your early 30s or you have one and can't provide the life and opportunities they should have. And it seems you skipped over the part about women having extreme difficulties having children later than their mid-30s, or the children they have are at a higher risk of birth defects and miscarriages. Typically, a guy by himself cannot create a child without a woman, so if you're going to party in your 20s and not think about finances and a career until your 30s, and kids later than that, you should know going in that your partner will be need to be much younger than you to accomplish this.<p>I don't mean to ask personal questions here, but it seems apropos considering your guidance: how old are you? do you have a spouse? a son or daughter? Does your guidance match up with how you've lived your life, and are you now successfully balancing a budding career and family in your older years after living your 20s in various countries like China, France, Brazil and others?</text></comment> | <story><title>Why you should take your 20's seriously</title><url>http://jasonevanish.com/2012/11/01/why-you-should-take-your-20s-seriously/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>crazygringo</author><text>I "agree", but draw the exact opposite conclusions.<p>You should take your 20's seriously... because it's the only time in your life that you <i>aren't</i> encumbered by building a career, having kids, etc.<p>So you should take your 20's to do the things that you won't be able to do later. Work as a bartender, play in a band, travel the world on the cheap, teach English abroad, date the kind of people you wouldn't marry. You don't have serious responsibilities, so take advantage of that while you can.<p>Don't waste your 20's "building a career". You've got your 30's and 40's and 50's to do that. Don't be in a rush to have kids too soon.<p>Obviously, don't throw your 20's away. But spend them doing life-experience-focused things, not career- or family-focused.<p>And this gets at the author's third point: "Your brain finishes forming in your 20′s". If that's even true (although I doubt it), then you'd better get in all those varied life experiences sooner rather than later. Learn a second language, learn to cook, learn to play music.<p>Don't waste your 20's on grinding away at traditionally career-oriented stuff. That part of your brain is probably already fine. Your 20's is the time to look for diversity in your life, not to focus narrowly on any particular part. You've got all the decades afterward to work on narrow refinement and career progression...</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>engtech</author><text>"Don't waste your 20's "building a career". You've got your 30's and 40's and 50's to do that."<p>It's hard to try to pivot in your 30s if you don't have a resume with at least some points to match your future career.<p>If you haven't used anything from your post-secondary degree 8 years after getting it... employers are going to notice that and assume that your degree is worthless.<p>I say this having seen far too many friends get stuck in the waitress/bartending life only to find out that you plateau in your 30s unless you go into the high end fine dining, sommelier, running your own place, etc.<p>Same thing has happened to friends in retail after they reached manager or assistant manager at a store that was supposed to be their part time job.</text></comment> |
34,341,034 | 34,340,816 | 1 | 2 | 34,339,698 | train | <story><title>Why are there so many tech layoffs, and why should we be worried?</title><url>https://news.stanford.edu/2022/12/05/explains-recent-tech-layoffs-worried/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>roncesvalles</author><text>Really? I thought it was fairly obvious from the beginning that this is hysteric copycat behavior. To me the smoking gun was how suddenly in a brief period of time, every tech company CEO was making <i>absolutely certain</i> predictions about economic headwinds in 2023, up to 6 months before the end of 2022. Nothing qualifies them (or anybody for that matter) to assert that. It doesn&#x27;t even make sense to do layoffs today when you expect trouble 6-12 months later.<p>That and the panic from tech stock prices being decimated after 10+ years of growth. The layoffs felt like Boards and CEOs were smashing the controls until the numbers went back up again.</text></item><item><author>avgDev</author><text>This is coming from a &quot;Stanford scholar&quot;, yikes.<p><i>What explains why so many companies are laying large numbers of their workforce off? The answer is simple: copycat behavior, according to Jeffrey Pfeffer, a professor at the Stanford Graduate School of Business</i><p>Since the answer is so simple I stopped reading the article. Obviously companies should not care about the their stock dropping massively in the last year, rates going up and consumer spending reducing. The layoffs is just copycat behavior.
&#x2F;s<p>Man, this guy must have predicted 50 of the last 2 recessions.<p>Edit: This is such a bad take I would expect to read it on r&#x2F;investing in a most downvoted comment. A &quot;scholar&quot; should know rarely things are black and white. There isn&#x27;t a simple to answer to literally anything in macroeconomics, or just in life in general really.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>lowercased</author><text>&gt; To me the smoking gun was how suddenly in a brief period of time, every tech company CEO was making absolutely certain predictions about economic headwinds in 2023, up to 6 months before the end of 2022.<p>This has to have had a somewhat self-fulfilling prophecy effect. When you start predicting &#x27;downturn&#x27; and your solution is &quot;lay people off&quot;, then yes... economic activity will slow (from your former staff) and... that spreads around. It can&#x27;t <i>not</i> be having some impact, and as more and more places do it, it compounds.</text></comment> | <story><title>Why are there so many tech layoffs, and why should we be worried?</title><url>https://news.stanford.edu/2022/12/05/explains-recent-tech-layoffs-worried/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>roncesvalles</author><text>Really? I thought it was fairly obvious from the beginning that this is hysteric copycat behavior. To me the smoking gun was how suddenly in a brief period of time, every tech company CEO was making <i>absolutely certain</i> predictions about economic headwinds in 2023, up to 6 months before the end of 2022. Nothing qualifies them (or anybody for that matter) to assert that. It doesn&#x27;t even make sense to do layoffs today when you expect trouble 6-12 months later.<p>That and the panic from tech stock prices being decimated after 10+ years of growth. The layoffs felt like Boards and CEOs were smashing the controls until the numbers went back up again.</text></item><item><author>avgDev</author><text>This is coming from a &quot;Stanford scholar&quot;, yikes.<p><i>What explains why so many companies are laying large numbers of their workforce off? The answer is simple: copycat behavior, according to Jeffrey Pfeffer, a professor at the Stanford Graduate School of Business</i><p>Since the answer is so simple I stopped reading the article. Obviously companies should not care about the their stock dropping massively in the last year, rates going up and consumer spending reducing. The layoffs is just copycat behavior.
&#x2F;s<p>Man, this guy must have predicted 50 of the last 2 recessions.<p>Edit: This is such a bad take I would expect to read it on r&#x2F;investing in a most downvoted comment. A &quot;scholar&quot; should know rarely things are black and white. There isn&#x27;t a simple to answer to literally anything in macroeconomics, or just in life in general really.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>avgDev</author><text>When you expect trouble in 6 months, you prepare TODAY, not in 6 months.<p>The FED has spoken. The market has spoken. The inflation is high. It is a risky environment, layoffs are extremely reasonable after the hiring frenzy we experienced.</text></comment> |
17,591,458 | 17,590,118 | 1 | 3 | 17,588,141 | train | <story><title>How Zildjian, a 390-year-old family business, avoids layoffs (2013)</title><url>https://www.cnbc.com/id/100538450</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>vortico</author><text>The article doesn&#x27;t spend 1 second explaining the answer promised in the title but keeps reinforcing how <i>good</i> and flowery it is that Zildjian doesn&#x27;t lay off anyone.<p>I&#x27;m in the audio hardware industry, and the answer is clear. Yes, being a no-growth company is a big reason, and yes, they&#x27;re incredibly selective of their new employees. And they&#x27;re a stable company, which helps. Go to NAMM, ship products to retailers, design next year&#x27;s product, repeat. Incredibly stable.<p>But they have ups and downs just like every other company, which <i>at best</i> follows the trend of the industry&#x27;s economy. There are two options a company will do to cope with this situation.<p>1) Lay off X% of their workforce, shielding their existing employees from the financial &quot;downs&quot;.<p>2) Lay off 0%, increase the workload of everyone to account for the financial losses, and see who quits.<p>This is incredibly common in the &quot;tech arts&quot; industries like pro audio hardware because their employees can easily find better paying (2x) jobs elsewhere but choose the audio industry because they&#x27;re following their personal dreams.
They&#x27;re much more willing to make large sacrifices at their job, so they are less adverse to leaving if their boss says they need to hammer out 120 cymbals a day instead of 80.
And of course some people quit and often decide their dream isn&#x27;t worth it anymore.
It&#x27;s a bit easier for the company because there&#x27;s less paperwork when someone quits, and they&#x27;re guaranteed to keep their most passionate employees (by the algorithm&#x27;s design).<p>To hire more employees during the financial &quot;ups&quot;, they just continue their campaigns that working them is the <i>best job ever</i> despite the low pay, because well, to some wanna-be-cymbal-builders, that&#x27;s the truth. Imagine loving your Zildjian cymbals since you were 7 years old, finally with the opportunity to work for them when you&#x27;re 20! (fine print: 46 hard hours at $28k&#x2F;yr)<p>Nothing&#x27;s really bad about this. It&#x27;s just high supply and low demand of workers, so I&#x27;m not saying one method is better than the other. I&#x27;m just trying to offer my view on the topic of the article, since the actual article fails to address their own question at all. (The only near-answer I in the article is that the employees aren&#x27;t fully replaced by automation but instead moved to other jobs, but come on, how is Zildjian different from the other tens of millions of jobs in America that can&#x27;t be replaced by automation? This is hardly the real reason in Zildjian&#x27;s case.)</text></comment> | <story><title>How Zildjian, a 390-year-old family business, avoids layoffs (2013)</title><url>https://www.cnbc.com/id/100538450</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>nerdponx</author><text>They do happen to have the advantage of being somewhat of a niche product with inelastic demand and (to my knowledge) no good automated substitute. I&#x27;m sure that if somebody figured out a way to make cymbals as good as these on an automated line, they&#x27;d do so.<p>That aside, this was an interesting quote:<p><i>The Greek immigrant has been retrained seven times in 40 years</i></text></comment> |
22,822,091 | 22,821,905 | 1 | 3 | 22,818,150 | train | <story><title>I can't keep up with idiomatic Rust</title><url>https://timidger.github.io/posts/i-cant-keep-up-with-idiomatic-rust/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>sgift</author><text>&gt; What i find annoying about Rust&#x27;s changes is that some of them are so trivial - they change the language for such small improvements. async&#x2F;await is not in that category, for sure. But Ok-wrapping actually is. The need to Ok-wrap results is a minor annoyance at most. Ditto a bunch of the problems solved by match ergonomics changes.<p>So what? Then don&#x27;t use them. The whole point of full backward compatibility is that you don&#x27;t have to use new features. This perceived need to always use the newest feature is only in the head of some developers.<p>Neither in the blog post nor here do I see any reason to not make the experience better for people who want it. Even if it&#x27;s just a &quot;minor&quot; (very subjective, I love the match ergonomics enhancements) annoyance that&#x27;s fixed by it.</text></item><item><author>twic</author><text>&gt; it&#x27;s now slowly backfilling the missing features bit by bit<p>This isn&#x27;t slow.<p>Java went three years, from December 1998 to February 2002, without any language changes. And to be honest, even that wasn&#x27;t that slow!<p>&gt; Every addition to the language is bikeshedded to death<p>Not to death, because many of them don&#x27;t die!<p>What i find annoying about Rust&#x27;s changes is that some of them are so trivial - they change the language for such small improvements. async&#x2F;await is not in that category, for sure. But Ok-wrapping actually is. The need to Ok-wrap results is a minor annoyance at most. Ditto a bunch of the problems solved by match ergonomics changes.<p>I think the root of the problem is that the changes are driven by a small core of Rust programmers - many working on Rust itself or some of its flagship projects - who are actively involved in the discussions around Rust. They tend to view change as natural, and the cost of change as low. I believe there is a larger group of Rust programmers who are not actively involved in these discussions, and are maybe not spending 100% of their time on Rust, for who the cost is higher. But we don&#x27;t hear as much from them.</text></item><item><author>pornel</author><text>Rust seems to change constantly, because <i>it&#x27;s changing so slowly</i>. The 1.0 release has held back a lot of stuff to avoid stabilizing wrong things, and it&#x27;s now slowly backfilling the missing features bit by bit.<p>Instead of starting with a fat standard library, it started with minimal one and now each release adds 2-3 functions that could have been there in 2015. But none of it is idiom-changing revolution. These are mostly convenience functions, and you don&#x27;t have to use them all just because they&#x27;re there.<p>Every addition to the language is bikeshedded to death, goes through betas, revisions, refinements, before being stabilized <i>years later</i>. The first experimental release of async was <i>4 years ago</i> and it has landed last November. So you may hear about new features a lot and they churn in nightlies, but actual big changes reach stable rarely.<p>Apart from async&#x2F;await, since 2015 Rust made only 2 changes to how idiomatic code looks like (? for errors, and 2018 modules), and both of them can be applied to code automatically. I maintain over 60 Rust crates, some of them as old as Rust itself. All work fine as they are, and running `cargo fix` once was enough to keep them looking idiomatic.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>karatestomp</author><text>You still have to understand all the new stuff to read other people’s code. And the old way, so you can read older code. And if there are other ways to do something that are or have recently been in common use, those too. You end up memorizing a bunch of crap for one actual operation.</text></comment> | <story><title>I can't keep up with idiomatic Rust</title><url>https://timidger.github.io/posts/i-cant-keep-up-with-idiomatic-rust/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>sgift</author><text>&gt; What i find annoying about Rust&#x27;s changes is that some of them are so trivial - they change the language for such small improvements. async&#x2F;await is not in that category, for sure. But Ok-wrapping actually is. The need to Ok-wrap results is a minor annoyance at most. Ditto a bunch of the problems solved by match ergonomics changes.<p>So what? Then don&#x27;t use them. The whole point of full backward compatibility is that you don&#x27;t have to use new features. This perceived need to always use the newest feature is only in the head of some developers.<p>Neither in the blog post nor here do I see any reason to not make the experience better for people who want it. Even if it&#x27;s just a &quot;minor&quot; (very subjective, I love the match ergonomics enhancements) annoyance that&#x27;s fixed by it.</text></item><item><author>twic</author><text>&gt; it&#x27;s now slowly backfilling the missing features bit by bit<p>This isn&#x27;t slow.<p>Java went three years, from December 1998 to February 2002, without any language changes. And to be honest, even that wasn&#x27;t that slow!<p>&gt; Every addition to the language is bikeshedded to death<p>Not to death, because many of them don&#x27;t die!<p>What i find annoying about Rust&#x27;s changes is that some of them are so trivial - they change the language for such small improvements. async&#x2F;await is not in that category, for sure. But Ok-wrapping actually is. The need to Ok-wrap results is a minor annoyance at most. Ditto a bunch of the problems solved by match ergonomics changes.<p>I think the root of the problem is that the changes are driven by a small core of Rust programmers - many working on Rust itself or some of its flagship projects - who are actively involved in the discussions around Rust. They tend to view change as natural, and the cost of change as low. I believe there is a larger group of Rust programmers who are not actively involved in these discussions, and are maybe not spending 100% of their time on Rust, for who the cost is higher. But we don&#x27;t hear as much from them.</text></item><item><author>pornel</author><text>Rust seems to change constantly, because <i>it&#x27;s changing so slowly</i>. The 1.0 release has held back a lot of stuff to avoid stabilizing wrong things, and it&#x27;s now slowly backfilling the missing features bit by bit.<p>Instead of starting with a fat standard library, it started with minimal one and now each release adds 2-3 functions that could have been there in 2015. But none of it is idiom-changing revolution. These are mostly convenience functions, and you don&#x27;t have to use them all just because they&#x27;re there.<p>Every addition to the language is bikeshedded to death, goes through betas, revisions, refinements, before being stabilized <i>years later</i>. The first experimental release of async was <i>4 years ago</i> and it has landed last November. So you may hear about new features a lot and they churn in nightlies, but actual big changes reach stable rarely.<p>Apart from async&#x2F;await, since 2015 Rust made only 2 changes to how idiomatic code looks like (? for errors, and 2018 modules), and both of them can be applied to code automatically. I maintain over 60 Rust crates, some of them as old as Rust itself. All work fine as they are, and running `cargo fix` once was enough to keep them looking idiomatic.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>umanwizard</author><text>I can’t force other people not to use changes, which means I will always need the latest version of rustc installed if I want to be able to build a relatively complete selection of the corpus of Rust code, which in turn makes it very difficult if not impossible for rust software to be distributed in typical OS package managers.<p>I.e., imagine how Debian or Ubuntu could package things if the definition of C++ changed every six weeks, given that the compiler version should change as little as possible during a major OS version cycle? This is a major blocker holding Rust back from mainstream adoption, IMO.</text></comment> |
30,034,609 | 30,033,872 | 1 | 3 | 30,022,254 | train | <story><title>Divorce in the rich world is getting less nasty</title><url>https://www.economist.com/international/2022/01/22/divorce-in-the-rich-world-is-getting-less-nasty</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>neonate</author><text><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;archive.is&#x2F;Tmqxz" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;archive.is&#x2F;Tmqxz</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Divorce in the rich world is getting less nasty</title><url>https://www.economist.com/international/2022/01/22/divorce-in-the-rich-world-is-getting-less-nasty</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>01100011</author><text>A note to any single folks out there with the potential to earn more than their future spouse: understand family law in your jurisdiction and understand what you are signing up for when you get legally married.<p>Divorce can leave you liable for more support payments than you can even afford. The other party can walk away with half of your property, including unvested RSUs(!!!), and it doesn&#x27;t matter if they cheated or failed to contribute to the marriage. If you think you&#x27;re being nice by trying to make the marriage work and tolerating it, you may be just setting yourself up for even more pain down the road.</text></comment> |
15,819,322 | 15,818,993 | 1 | 3 | 15,816,729 | train | <story><title>Is Filecoin a $257 million Ponzi scheme? [pdf]</title><url>https://github.com/backender/filecoin-survey/releases/download/0.5/filecoin_survey.2.pdf</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>cocktailpeanuts</author><text>I think the top comment for this should be about Filecoin, instead of just another uninformed comments about Bitcoin that we see here every day.<p>That said, one thing most people don&#x27;t talk about is: I think most people think IPFS is disruptive, but I think IPFS itself is susceptible to disruption.<p>The main reason why IPFS is useful is because there&#x27;s not an easy way to do NAT traversal therefore it&#x27;s super hard for people to run their own server on their laptop or mobile devices.<p>IPFS introduces all kinds of technologies to get around this, but in my opinion the ability to freely set up your own server on your device is the core problem.<p>You don&#x27;t really need a globally addressable immutable file storage, because unless you&#x27;re dealing with static images, a lot of files DO change all the time, and people want to store and share files privately.<p>Which means, if there&#x27;s a new type of technology that lets people do just that--set up their own server anywhere and make it accessible via HTTP--then I don&#x27;t see why we really need IPFS. This could be done by startups or other protocols, but even by some innovative ISPs, which decide to change their business model to compete against edge nodes that capture most of the value (such as Google, Facebook, etc.)<p>In my opinion, the reason IPFS is so hot nowadays is because it&#x27;s riding the DApps wave where people want to build Ethereum apps with IPFS as a file storage. But after playing around with it a bit I think it&#x27;s much better at this point to just use Github to host your file and use Ethereum as database because the whole point of immutable apps is in the data and transactions, not in the static files.<p>But I would love to be corrected. If anyone actually think IPFS is essential to DApps, feel free to correct me and educate me.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kodablah</author><text>&gt; Which means, if there&#x27;s a new type of technology that lets people do just that--set up their own server anywhere and make it accessible via HTTP--then I don&#x27;t see why we really need IPFS<p>I have a ton to say here, but I&#x27;ll keep it to a few point. Tor onion services solve the setup-your-own-server issues, it&#x27;s just not super easy yet. IPFS is needed regardless, because there is a need to distribute things when your machine isn&#x27;t up and to solve discovery. What IPFS doesn&#x27;t have natively is anonymity (tho there are onion transports conforming to libp2p transport iface) and distributed compute, but neither is that important.</text></comment> | <story><title>Is Filecoin a $257 million Ponzi scheme? [pdf]</title><url>https://github.com/backender/filecoin-survey/releases/download/0.5/filecoin_survey.2.pdf</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>cocktailpeanuts</author><text>I think the top comment for this should be about Filecoin, instead of just another uninformed comments about Bitcoin that we see here every day.<p>That said, one thing most people don&#x27;t talk about is: I think most people think IPFS is disruptive, but I think IPFS itself is susceptible to disruption.<p>The main reason why IPFS is useful is because there&#x27;s not an easy way to do NAT traversal therefore it&#x27;s super hard for people to run their own server on their laptop or mobile devices.<p>IPFS introduces all kinds of technologies to get around this, but in my opinion the ability to freely set up your own server on your device is the core problem.<p>You don&#x27;t really need a globally addressable immutable file storage, because unless you&#x27;re dealing with static images, a lot of files DO change all the time, and people want to store and share files privately.<p>Which means, if there&#x27;s a new type of technology that lets people do just that--set up their own server anywhere and make it accessible via HTTP--then I don&#x27;t see why we really need IPFS. This could be done by startups or other protocols, but even by some innovative ISPs, which decide to change their business model to compete against edge nodes that capture most of the value (such as Google, Facebook, etc.)<p>In my opinion, the reason IPFS is so hot nowadays is because it&#x27;s riding the DApps wave where people want to build Ethereum apps with IPFS as a file storage. But after playing around with it a bit I think it&#x27;s much better at this point to just use Github to host your file and use Ethereum as database because the whole point of immutable apps is in the data and transactions, not in the static files.<p>But I would love to be corrected. If anyone actually think IPFS is essential to DApps, feel free to correct me and educate me.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Dylan16807</author><text>Blog-ish websites are unreliable even when they have real hosting. If you put it on someone&#x27;s laptop it gets so much worse. To me, the reliability boost is the killer feature of IPFS.<p>&gt; You don&#x27;t really need a globally addressable immutable file storage, because unless you&#x27;re dealing with static images, a lot of files DO change all the time, and people want to store and share files privately.<p>While it boosts reliability, IPFS is not globally immutable. If you share a file with a limited scope, it won&#x27;t stick around forever.<p>Though from a quick search you can&#x27;t easily keep a file private, that&#x27;s not great.</text></comment> |
25,164,499 | 25,162,049 | 1 | 2 | 25,161,494 | train | <story><title>Sega VR Revived: Emulating an Unreleased Genesis Accessory</title><url>https://gamehistory.org/segavr/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>crazygringo</author><text>This is insane, I had <i>no idea</i> Sega almost launched a VR headset in <i>1993</i>... and for $200?!<p>I&#x27;m not surprised it didn&#x27;t work out, but I never imagined we had the tech even for low-resolution tiny color LCD screens back then, or the &quot;intertial measurement unit&quot;.<p>I mean, I lived through those years and now I kind of have to retroactively alter what I thought was possible...</text></comment> | <story><title>Sega VR Revived: Emulating an Unreleased Genesis Accessory</title><url>https://gamehistory.org/segavr/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>101008</author><text>One of the most interesting articles I&#x27;ve read on Hacker News lately. I think it is well written because someone like me with zero experience developing videogames or even VR software was able to follow most of it (or at least I think I followed it :-) )<p>It is incredible the amount of stuff he had to solve to be able to work at the end. I think that if it were me, I would have finished the project happily after I surpassed the first obstacle, calling it a day. Kudos to everyone involved on this, really nice write up!</text></comment> |
6,986,323 | 6,985,970 | 1 | 3 | 6,985,717 | train | <story><title>ATF uses rogue tactics in storefront stings across nation</title><url>http://www.jsonline.com/watchdog/watchdogreports/atf-uses-rogue-tactics-in-storefront-stings-across-the-nation-b99146765z1-234916641.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>DanielBMarkham</author><text>I don&#x27;t own a gun, but let&#x27;s assume I become a gun enthusiast and decide to go buy &quot;something cool&quot;<p>I go to my local gun store, which is actually a front for the ATF. In my mind, looks like a bunch of seedy characters, but i assume they&#x27;re trustworthy because, natch, they have a license from the ATF.<p>I strike up a conversation with the bearded, scraggly guy behind the counter. What would I like? I don&#x27;t know. How about a shotgun? As we talk, he talks more and more about &quot;cool&quot; guns. Perhaps sawed-off barrels, or big loads. At some point, we cross the line between talking about legal guns and illegal guns.<p>Now here&#x27;s the thing: beats the shit out of me where we crossed that line. I&#x27;m trusting the guy behind the counter to be a reliable guide to what can be bought or sold. From the ATF standpoint, however, I am fully aware of the intricacies of firearm law and am now soliciting them to commit a crime.<p>A few months go by. Then the ATF comes knocking at my door with a warrant, a hi-res video, and I go to jail. Perhaps for many years.<p>Now we can argue whether they would actually prosecute or not, or what any sane prosecutor would ask for solicitation, but the fact of the matter is, in the ATF&#x27;s view, I&#x27;m a hardened gun criminal. It&#x27;ll go on my record, and this will become part of the intelligence files at ATF.<p>If you can&#x27;t see what&#x27;s wrong with this picture, you&#x27;ve lost your moral compass.</text></comment> | <story><title>ATF uses rogue tactics in storefront stings across nation</title><url>http://www.jsonline.com/watchdog/watchdogreports/atf-uses-rogue-tactics-in-storefront-stings-across-the-nation-b99146765z1-234916641.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>logfromblammo</author><text>Cue the libertarian versus non-libertarian mudwrestling.<p>It has become increasingly clear to me that the ills of the U.S. pogroms against some recreational drugs are due in no small part to the conversion of the criminal justice system to a for-profit industry. As long as the jobs and budgets are tied to the number of criminals processed rather than the peace and order produced, cop cadres will titrate the frequency and severity of their enforcement actions with the aim to ensure for themselves steady jobs and pensions.<p>There is a positive feedback loop in there somewhere that must be broken before it destroys the concept of justice completely.</text></comment> |
34,018,429 | 34,012,987 | 1 | 2 | 34,011,972 | train | <story><title>Worst Opening Sentences of 2022</title><url>https://www.bulwer-lytton.com/2022</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>GrayShade</author><text>The link currently points to the 2019 winners, the correct one is:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bulwer-lytton.com&#x2F;2022" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bulwer-lytton.com&#x2F;2022</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dang</author><text>Fixed now. Thanks! Our software uses canonical URLs when it finds them and in this case the canonical URL was <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bulwer-lytton.com&#x2F;2019" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bulwer-lytton.com&#x2F;2019</a>. I imagine someone making the new page by copy-pasting the old one for... perhaps about 3 years now.</text></comment> | <story><title>Worst Opening Sentences of 2022</title><url>https://www.bulwer-lytton.com/2022</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>GrayShade</author><text>The link currently points to the 2019 winners, the correct one is:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bulwer-lytton.com&#x2F;2022" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bulwer-lytton.com&#x2F;2022</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>senectus1</author><text>lol<p>Honestly i think the 2019 grand winner is the best still<p>&gt;2019 Grand Prize<p>&gt;Space Fleet Commander Brad Brad sat in silence, surrounded by a slowly dissipating cloud of smoke, maintaining the same forlorn frown that had been fixed upon his face since he’d accidentally destroyed the phenomenon known as time, thirteen inches ago.</text></comment> |
3,012,050 | 3,012,011 | 1 | 2 | 3,011,947 | train | <story><title>SSH Tricks</title><url>http://tychoish.com/rhizome/9-awesome-ssh-tricks/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>beagle3</author><text>The most magical command he didn't mention is 'ssh-copy-id'. If you can log-in to a host with password, you just 'ssh-copy-id myuser@thishost', supply the password once, and from that moment you can ssh with public key authentication. Extreme magic.<p>Also, sshfs works great, but has some issues with memory mapped files that silently lose writes. Luckily (?) most programs don't use mmap to write files, so it's not very noticeable.<p>All in all, ssh is one of the greatest tools.</text></comment> | <story><title>SSH Tricks</title><url>http://tychoish.com/rhizome/9-awesome-ssh-tricks/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>ary</author><text>&#62; /dev/null .known_hosts<p>This is <i>not</i> a good idea (and far from "awesome"). I get why he's doing it, but suggesting that weakening the security of a tool that is meant to <i>enhance</i> it is bad advice.</text></comment> |
39,495,523 | 39,495,369 | 1 | 2 | 39,492,680 | train | <story><title>V Language Review (2023)</title><url>https://n-skvortsov-1997.github.io/reviews/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ianthehenry</author><text>Can someone explain the backstory of what V is and why someone took the time to write this? To the uninitiated this sounds like someone criticizing some kid’s side project.<p>I’m picking up some context clues that V is widely used &#x2F; famous &#x2F; notable &#x2F; significant somehow, but the only time I have ever heard of it before this is Xe Iaso’s similarly negative posts. Did V receive some huge funding grant that made it the target of ire? Is the author otherwise well-known? What am I missing?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>smcl</author><text>When the V project started out the creator of V made some big claims that raised a few eyeballs, they&#x27;ve gained a reasonable following over the years, have a pretty serious looking website (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;vlang.io" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;vlang.io</a>), a beer-money level Patreon following and some corporate partnerships&#x2F;sponsors. However they have experienced some pretty brutal takedowns over the years, with some of the bolder claims about the language&#x2F;compiler often being exposed as untrue and some functionality being broken.<p>A word I keep seeing in relation to V is &quot;aspirational&quot; - the project aspires to be a serious language and it aspires to have some serious features, so I think it&#x27;s fair to approach it with a more critical eye than one would a kid&#x27;s side-project. I think HN would have been pretty understanding if they were open about the state of the various features and were a little less defensive when they encounter articles that review it like a Real Language.<p>If the authors don&#x27;t want this kind of feedback they can just say front-and-centre (or on their FAQ @ <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;vlang&#x2F;v&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;FAQ">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;vlang&#x2F;v&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;FAQ</a>) &quot;this is a toy&quot; or &quot;this is pre-alpha&quot; or &quot;this is for research purposes&quot;. There are plenty of projects like this which are open about their intent and which don&#x27;t have posts like this written about them. But I don&#x27;t think that&#x27;ll happen, so as it stands the pattern will continue - someone revisits the language every year or so, finds some things that doesn&#x27;t meet expectations, writes about it and we discuss it on HN again.</text></comment> | <story><title>V Language Review (2023)</title><url>https://n-skvortsov-1997.github.io/reviews/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ianthehenry</author><text>Can someone explain the backstory of what V is and why someone took the time to write this? To the uninitiated this sounds like someone criticizing some kid’s side project.<p>I’m picking up some context clues that V is widely used &#x2F; famous &#x2F; notable &#x2F; significant somehow, but the only time I have ever heard of it before this is Xe Iaso’s similarly negative posts. Did V receive some huge funding grant that made it the target of ire? Is the author otherwise well-known? What am I missing?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>AndyKelley</author><text>There is a summary at the top of this post from 2019:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;andrewkelley.me&#x2F;post&#x2F;why-donating-to-musl-libc-project.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;andrewkelley.me&#x2F;post&#x2F;why-donating-to-musl-libc-proje...</a></text></comment> |
35,233,424 | 35,233,045 | 1 | 2 | 35,232,150 | train | <story><title>Amazon to lay off 9,000 more workers after earlier cuts</title><url>https://www.cnbc.com/2023/03/20/amazon-layoffs-company-to-cut-off-9000-more-workers.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>toomuchtodo</author><text>If you’re good, you’re already looking. If you’re not good or you don’t think you’re good, you’re waiting. Severance, unemployment, etc. Broadly speaking of course, exceptions as always.</text></item><item><author>Xeoncross</author><text>Those affected will be notified Mid-April.<p>So the question on a lot of employees minds is: Do we try to relocate in time for the May 1st RTO and risk getting fired - or do we wait to see if we&#x27;re part of the layoffs and then try to relocate with the remaining 2 weeks we have left.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>whatever1</author><text>If you are good and single.<p>If you have a family to look after, you cannot casually have your partner quit their job, your kids to switch schools in the middle of the year, break your lease&#x2F; mortgage and move states overnight.<p>There are real transaction costs for employees that do not allow for proper free market function</text></comment> | <story><title>Amazon to lay off 9,000 more workers after earlier cuts</title><url>https://www.cnbc.com/2023/03/20/amazon-layoffs-company-to-cut-off-9000-more-workers.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>toomuchtodo</author><text>If you’re good, you’re already looking. If you’re not good or you don’t think you’re good, you’re waiting. Severance, unemployment, etc. Broadly speaking of course, exceptions as always.</text></item><item><author>Xeoncross</author><text>Those affected will be notified Mid-April.<p>So the question on a lot of employees minds is: Do we try to relocate in time for the May 1st RTO and risk getting fired - or do we wait to see if we&#x27;re part of the layoffs and then try to relocate with the remaining 2 weeks we have left.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>miav</author><text>&quot;The problem doesn&#x27;t exist for the very best&quot; is really not much of an answer. Besides, even the best may not have much luck right now. Tons of employees from what are considered the top companies are looking for a new job. I have a very solid CV and I&#x27;m getting ghosted when applying for jobs I could have taken for granted a year ago.</text></comment> |
16,437,966 | 16,437,037 | 1 | 2 | 16,434,948 | train | <story><title>Why I Collapsed on the Job</title><url>https://www.chronicle.com/article/Why-I-Collapsed-on-the-Job/242537</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Lxr</author><text>I agree you need to catch it early. I often wonder what the most time-efficient form of mitigation is.</text></item><item><author>cyberferret</author><text>Burnout doesn&#x27;t differentiate between gender, race, sexual orientation, social status or the size of your bank account.<p>Much like when I was in flying training and we were subjected to the altitude simulation pressure chamber so that we could each identify how we individually experienced the onset of hypoxia, I think it is important that everyone notates down the onset of burnout at home or at work.<p>For me, Stage 1 is when I start feeling myself getting irritable and snapping at those close to me for no reason at all. S2 is when I start having trouble sleeping, and get a really stiff neck leading to headaches. I&#x27;ve got to catch it at that point otherwise if it moves to S3 - crippling headaches, inability to focus on simple tasks or S4 - inability to even get out of a chair due to the feeling of extreme fatigue, then the recovery process is SO much longer and harder.<p>Keep a working journal, or better still, ask someone close to you that you can trust to note any out of character behavioural changes and advise you of them so that you can start to detect patterns and take action to mitigate.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Angostura</author><text>Back in December; my stress levels were pretty high. I&#x27;m a can-do kind of employee; I really enjoy the adrenaline of sorting out an interesting unexpected problem on a short timescale.<p>But I was faced with multiple deadlines and some unexpected work came up and I was called up for jury service ( a not very nice case). I took my laptop home and tried to finish the projects after a day in court.<p>One day, at lunch in the court, I was thinking about a project and found myself silently weeping. So I got straight on the phone to my boss and explained that I;d just found myself crying, thought that this was probably a bad sign and thought I should stop on that project.<p>I&#x27;m lucky in that I have an employer that values me, trusts me and takes their duty of care seriously. It probably helps that I&#x27;m a man in my 50s. They told me to knock off the project completely and commanded me to stop thinking about it until after Christmas.<p>So, IF<p>* You have a good employer.
* You have the courage to admit weakness<p>The most effective thing to do is to tell your boss asap and ask for reasonable accommodation until you feel better.<p>I&#x27;m back to doing stupid amounts of work, but my boss trusts that if it feels like it is causing me problems I will tell them, and I trust that they will deal with me reasonably.</text></comment> | <story><title>Why I Collapsed on the Job</title><url>https://www.chronicle.com/article/Why-I-Collapsed-on-the-Job/242537</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Lxr</author><text>I agree you need to catch it early. I often wonder what the most time-efficient form of mitigation is.</text></item><item><author>cyberferret</author><text>Burnout doesn&#x27;t differentiate between gender, race, sexual orientation, social status or the size of your bank account.<p>Much like when I was in flying training and we were subjected to the altitude simulation pressure chamber so that we could each identify how we individually experienced the onset of hypoxia, I think it is important that everyone notates down the onset of burnout at home or at work.<p>For me, Stage 1 is when I start feeling myself getting irritable and snapping at those close to me for no reason at all. S2 is when I start having trouble sleeping, and get a really stiff neck leading to headaches. I&#x27;ve got to catch it at that point otherwise if it moves to S3 - crippling headaches, inability to focus on simple tasks or S4 - inability to even get out of a chair due to the feeling of extreme fatigue, then the recovery process is SO much longer and harder.<p>Keep a working journal, or better still, ask someone close to you that you can trust to note any out of character behavioural changes and advise you of them so that you can start to detect patterns and take action to mitigate.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Cthulhu_</author><text>The most time-efficient already implies you see burnout as something you just have to push through and get back to work. This is wrong; the most time-efficient way is to avoid getting it altogether. Stick to regular working hours, don&#x27;t take your work home, stick to 5 working days a week if possible. And if you&#x27;re in a managerial position, your job is to delegate work, not do things yourself anyway in addition to trying to delegate things.</text></comment> |
8,521,130 | 8,520,914 | 1 | 2 | 8,520,743 | train | <story><title>Why Your Cat Thinks You’re a Huge, Unpredictable Ape</title><url>http://www.wired.com/2014/10/cat-thinks-youre-huge-unpredictable-ape/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>edw519</author><text>How to Treat Your Cat (or Manager)<p>1. Any cat &gt; any thing, no matter how expensive. I wish my carpets and furniture weren&#x27;t all scratched up, but I really don&#x27;t care that much.<p>Corollary: Any manager &gt; any project. The project may fail, but the manager may do another.<p>2. Let the cat initiate all action. They will let you know when they want to eat&#x2F;sleep&#x2F;play&#x2F;cuddle&#x2F;hang out. Respond predictably to their action.<p>Corollary: Keep coding until interrupted by your manager. Smile, listen, pretend to care, agree. Then continue coding.<p>3. Every time you return (even from the mailbox), greet the cat as if you hadn&#x27;t seen each other for years. I don&#x27;t know how cats perceive the passage time, but what difference does that really make?<p>Corollary: Document everything discussed with your manager and share the notes during your next meeting to remind them of what they probably won&#x27;t remember.<p>4. Listen to the cat. They <i>do</i> have words, just not in the same language. Tonality and body language leave very important clues.<p>Corollary: Learn the definition of terms like: bandwidth, key results, deep dive, follow-up, subject matter expert, and ROI so you know what the hell your manager is talking about.<p>5. Include the cat in your plans when applicable. They may surprise you by enjoying watching football on TV, relaxing in the yard, or even eating together.<p>Corollary: Give your manager a status report so they know what&#x27;s going on. Otherwise, they&#x27;ll just interrupt you when you&#x27;re right in the middle of coding a difficult algorithm.<p>6. If the cat gets scared, growls, scratches, or bites, you probably did something wrong. Identify and correct the problem.<p>Corollary: If the project fails, it&#x27;s your fault because it can&#x27;t be your manager&#x27;s fault.<p>7. Even though it&#x27;s not human, the cat is a member of your family and should be treated accordingly.<p>Corollary: Even though they can&#x27;t code and have never built anything, your manager deserves as much respect as anyone else.</text></comment> | <story><title>Why Your Cat Thinks You’re a Huge, Unpredictable Ape</title><url>http://www.wired.com/2014/10/cat-thinks-youre-huge-unpredictable-ape/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>saool</author><text>&quot;You won&#x27;t believe what happens after Wired turns into Buzzfeed&quot;.</text></comment> |
38,230,046 | 38,227,367 | 1 | 2 | 38,226,743 | train | <story><title>Debugging tricks in the browser</title><url>https://alan.norbauer.com/articles/browser-debugging-tricks</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>lewisjoe</author><text>The debugging tools built within the browsers have come a long way in the last couple of decades. I&#x27;m a JS veteran and I&#x27;m deeply grateful to all the people putting in such efforts to make debugging code in the browser so intuitive.<p>Whenever I go to a different zone of development, like backend or a different language, I miss this ecosystem of debugging tools that modern browsers have by default.</text></comment> | <story><title>Debugging tricks in the browser</title><url>https://alan.norbauer.com/articles/browser-debugging-tricks</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Jerrrry</author><text>&gt;&gt;setTimeout(function() { debugger; }, 5000);<p>This is clever; after all, the only way to beat the recursive turtle stack of chrome debuggers debugging themselves is with the debugger statement.<p>sam.pl, of the infamous myspace Sammy worm, used debugging gotcha&#x27;s to prevent visitors from de-mystifying his obfuscated html homepage.</text></comment> |
25,364,727 | 25,362,103 | 1 | 3 | 25,359,144 | train | <story><title>Elon Musk moves to Texas</title><url>https://www.ktvu.com/news/tesla-ceo-elon-musk-critical-of-california-leaves-the-state-and-moves-to-texas</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>techsupporter</author><text>My birth certificate says &quot;Texas&quot; across the top and people have been &quot;fleeing California&quot; to Texas for as long as I&#x27;ve been alive. There&#x27;s nothing special about Musk; he just happens to be high-profile about it and managed to extract more from California before decamping to a &quot;cheap&quot; state than several of those who came before him.<p>I disagree with your assessment that Texas has wide acceptance for opposing viewpoints, at least out in the suburbs where I grew up. If you were not religious and conservative (I have my own anecdotes), you did not fit in. Only when I went to college in a college town did people largely seem to want to live and let live. Sure, inside the larger cities it is more cosmopolitan, for lack of a better word, but lots of people live in the &#x27;burbs and around the smaller areas and do not get the benefit of this peaceful coexistence. For example, to this day I do not recommend being openly gay and living near Tyler.<p>If someone moved to Texas, they made a choice to accept it and I will not knock people for their individual choices. But my experience is not that the prevailing view is open acceptance of people of all stripes like found in other parts of the country.</text></item><item><author>S_A_P</author><text>Pretty interesting to see this move makes people so salty. There does seem to be a trend of people fleeing California, I dont know enough about the situation out there to comment on whether or not its valid. I suspect <i>something</i> must be going on for several high profile folks moving out. And before you bash Texas, its not perfect. But its pretty diverse, and it seems that folks with opposing viewpoints can still coexist here. I like that...</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>woah</author><text>It&#x27;s been a massive windfall to people who have been homeowners for 40 years in California. High rents due to the fact that you&#x27;re not allowed to build new housing, high property taxes paid by new residents, while old residents pay nothing, high income and sales taxes to paper over the gap in the budget left by the lack of property tax paid by longtime residents.<p>The whole system has been optimized to milk as much money as possible from newcomers. The people in power in California even scapegoated the newcomers for a long time, and pretended that they were unwanted. Now that the system has finally become unsustainable, we get these ridiculous takes about how somebody &quot;extracted wealth&quot; from California.</text></comment> | <story><title>Elon Musk moves to Texas</title><url>https://www.ktvu.com/news/tesla-ceo-elon-musk-critical-of-california-leaves-the-state-and-moves-to-texas</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>techsupporter</author><text>My birth certificate says &quot;Texas&quot; across the top and people have been &quot;fleeing California&quot; to Texas for as long as I&#x27;ve been alive. There&#x27;s nothing special about Musk; he just happens to be high-profile about it and managed to extract more from California before decamping to a &quot;cheap&quot; state than several of those who came before him.<p>I disagree with your assessment that Texas has wide acceptance for opposing viewpoints, at least out in the suburbs where I grew up. If you were not religious and conservative (I have my own anecdotes), you did not fit in. Only when I went to college in a college town did people largely seem to want to live and let live. Sure, inside the larger cities it is more cosmopolitan, for lack of a better word, but lots of people live in the &#x27;burbs and around the smaller areas and do not get the benefit of this peaceful coexistence. For example, to this day I do not recommend being openly gay and living near Tyler.<p>If someone moved to Texas, they made a choice to accept it and I will not knock people for their individual choices. But my experience is not that the prevailing view is open acceptance of people of all stripes like found in other parts of the country.</text></item><item><author>S_A_P</author><text>Pretty interesting to see this move makes people so salty. There does seem to be a trend of people fleeing California, I dont know enough about the situation out there to comment on whether or not its valid. I suspect <i>something</i> must be going on for several high profile folks moving out. And before you bash Texas, its not perfect. But its pretty diverse, and it seems that folks with opposing viewpoints can still coexist here. I like that...</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>WillPostForFood</author><text>How long have you been out of Texas? I think we know people aren&#x27;t coming to Texas to live in Tyler; They are moving to the cities, Dallas, Houston, Austin, San Antonio, which are all diverse, and have large gay communities.<p>Even Tyler has changed. (old article, but still)<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.advocate.com&#x2F;society&#x2F;activism&#x2F;2009&#x2F;09&#x2F;29&#x2F;gays-take-east-texas-highway-storm" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.advocate.com&#x2F;society&#x2F;activism&#x2F;2009&#x2F;09&#x2F;29&#x2F;gays-ta...</a></text></comment> |
22,225,418 | 22,224,963 | 1 | 2 | 22,223,874 | train | <story><title>Taking back Mondays and Tuesdays (2019)</title><url>https://about.wtf.studio/mondays/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ravenstine</author><text>Focus is woefully undervalued, I think. I haven&#x27;t had a single job as a software engineer that didn&#x27;t have a constant background of distractions and interruption that prevented work from getting done. My current job is great, but its biggest issue is the sheer amount of interruption and poor organization of information that makes it difficult to get work done in a timely way. When I have to switch contexts frequently, for lack of a less cliche term, it takes even more time for me to get back up to speed with where I&#x27;d left off. Some people are clearly better at this than others, but I&#x27;d bet that those who can handle context switching well would still do even better under a system that valued focus. I don&#x27;t think this really has much to do with introversion(which everyone has a different definition of and, in my experience, everyone claims they are, making the term worthless IMO).<p>This last weekend I did something that I normally refuse to do, which was to catch up on work. I still dedicated most of my time towards non-work, yet being able to work without interruption was not only a breath of fresh air but seemed to allow me to get more done in the same amount of time.<p>My guess as to why organizations don&#x27;t care about focus is that they value the perception of &quot;getting things done&quot;; when engineers that need focus are frequently interrupted by the process, they&#x27;ll shift to getting smaller tasks done first so that management will know that they&#x27;re working on something. Organizations will tend to tolerate a more complex task taking longer than estimated, but in my experience are less tolerant of engineers not pushing lines of code for days because they&#x27;re taking time to implement said complex task in a good way. In essence, it&#x27;s a spin on &quot;butts in seats&quot;, except it creates the illusion of productivity when in reality it could mean counter-productivity.<p>I&#x27;m not exactly sure that having the process wall people off from interrupting each other is necessarily a good thing. What would be better is a good planning process that limits unnecessary change combined with a working culture that values focus.<p>EDIT: I&#x27;m <i>not</i> talking about legitimate interruptions like when someone needs help or wants to pair program. I&#x27;m talking about interruptions that are either environment related or are a result of process failure(e.g. new tasks and course corrections frequently added to the pile because of poor planning). Although I can imagine some would want to limit &quot;good interruptions&quot; to a window, if possible.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>throwaway55554</author><text>My experience based on a not short career in several industries is that the worst focus killer is a manager who only knows how to put numbers in a spreadsheet. Those numbers have to come from somewhere and that is almost always from bugging their direct reports. These managers feel the need (and some of that is also pressure from <i>their</i> managers doing the same thing) to <i>have a finger on the pulse of what&#x27;s going on</i> as they claim, but what is really happening is they feel that they have to show how hard they&#x27;re working. So, they&#x27;re constantly asking (basically), &quot;is it done yet?&quot;.<p>They best managers I have had are stealthy. They&#x27;ll monitor from afar mostly (while getting <i>their</i> work done). They get updates during appropriate times. They respect their direct reports and understand that one can&#x27;t get anything done with constant interruptions. They shield their direct reports from outside interruptions as well. They <i>do</i>, however, interrupt when they get a sense of something slowing down or blocking. They&#x27;ll work with the individual or team to quickly get things moving again.<p>Sadly, the former outnumbers the latter by like 9:1.</text></comment> | <story><title>Taking back Mondays and Tuesdays (2019)</title><url>https://about.wtf.studio/mondays/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ravenstine</author><text>Focus is woefully undervalued, I think. I haven&#x27;t had a single job as a software engineer that didn&#x27;t have a constant background of distractions and interruption that prevented work from getting done. My current job is great, but its biggest issue is the sheer amount of interruption and poor organization of information that makes it difficult to get work done in a timely way. When I have to switch contexts frequently, for lack of a less cliche term, it takes even more time for me to get back up to speed with where I&#x27;d left off. Some people are clearly better at this than others, but I&#x27;d bet that those who can handle context switching well would still do even better under a system that valued focus. I don&#x27;t think this really has much to do with introversion(which everyone has a different definition of and, in my experience, everyone claims they are, making the term worthless IMO).<p>This last weekend I did something that I normally refuse to do, which was to catch up on work. I still dedicated most of my time towards non-work, yet being able to work without interruption was not only a breath of fresh air but seemed to allow me to get more done in the same amount of time.<p>My guess as to why organizations don&#x27;t care about focus is that they value the perception of &quot;getting things done&quot;; when engineers that need focus are frequently interrupted by the process, they&#x27;ll shift to getting smaller tasks done first so that management will know that they&#x27;re working on something. Organizations will tend to tolerate a more complex task taking longer than estimated, but in my experience are less tolerant of engineers not pushing lines of code for days because they&#x27;re taking time to implement said complex task in a good way. In essence, it&#x27;s a spin on &quot;butts in seats&quot;, except it creates the illusion of productivity when in reality it could mean counter-productivity.<p>I&#x27;m not exactly sure that having the process wall people off from interrupting each other is necessarily a good thing. What would be better is a good planning process that limits unnecessary change combined with a working culture that values focus.<p>EDIT: I&#x27;m <i>not</i> talking about legitimate interruptions like when someone needs help or wants to pair program. I&#x27;m talking about interruptions that are either environment related or are a result of process failure(e.g. new tasks and course corrections frequently added to the pile because of poor planning). Although I can imagine some would want to limit &quot;good interruptions&quot; to a window, if possible.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>chrisbennet</author><text>I think that open offices are great - for my competition. :-)<p>One advantages of being the &quot;little independent consultant&quot; is that I can control my environment. I think you can reduce a geniuses output by a fair percentage just by adding distractions (like all sitting at the same table as your colleagues).</text></comment> |
21,394,210 | 21,393,482 | 1 | 3 | 21,387,254 | train | <story><title>'Zen curtain' saves birds from hitting glass windows</title><url>https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-10-28/the-curtain-saving-birds-from-hitting-glass-windows/11638774</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>HeyLaughingBoy</author><text>They should make one for people.<p>A Midwest bank was remodeling their in-supermarket branches with glass walls. It looked really spiffy and let in a lot more light. Then a few weeks later they had decals up on some of the glass panels and they were frosting others and I asked a teller why they changed.<p>It turns out that many people were slamming into the glass walls, usually when turning a corner quickly, (my guess: while staring at their phones!) and hurting themselves, so the bank decided it was better to get ahead of the inevitable lawsuit and make the clear glass more visible.<p>How we&#x27;ve managed to survive this long as a species is beyond me.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>lainga</author><text>The African savanna is very coal- and coke-poor -- for most of our species&#x27; early history, our natural predators, like lions and cheetahs, were unable to produce sheet glass in large quantities. When humans started moving north into Eurasia, where coal deposits are more common, they were saved by the fact that the ursine glass industry was depressed by terrible protectionist laws up until the Bearton-Woofs Agreement in 1944.</text></comment> | <story><title>'Zen curtain' saves birds from hitting glass windows</title><url>https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-10-28/the-curtain-saving-birds-from-hitting-glass-windows/11638774</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>HeyLaughingBoy</author><text>They should make one for people.<p>A Midwest bank was remodeling their in-supermarket branches with glass walls. It looked really spiffy and let in a lot more light. Then a few weeks later they had decals up on some of the glass panels and they were frosting others and I asked a teller why they changed.<p>It turns out that many people were slamming into the glass walls, usually when turning a corner quickly, (my guess: while staring at their phones!) and hurting themselves, so the bank decided it was better to get ahead of the inevitable lawsuit and make the clear glass more visible.<p>How we&#x27;ve managed to survive this long as a species is beyond me.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ljm</author><text>Come to many parts of Europe and you might struggle to find a single full glass door or wall without a big red blob stuck on it, at around adult eye-level. If not that, a red dotted line.<p>It started way before smartphones. You’ll see it in villas and holiday homes presumably because the tourists get drunk and forget they closed the door to the terrace.</text></comment> |
17,783,683 | 17,782,948 | 1 | 3 | 17,775,906 | train | <story><title>NYU Makes Tuition Free for All Medical Students</title><url>https://www.wsj.com/articles/nyu-offers-full-tuition-scholarships-for-all-medical-students-1534433082</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>talltimtom</author><text>That is like saying you only want to pay taxes towards the roads you drive on yourself.<p>Would you be better off if all publicly funded roads where instead private and required you to pay tolls per usage? You would defiantly get an bill more matching your usage, and people who don’t drive would pay less. But it at least feels like we are better off with public roads because they all add value to society as a whole.<p>The same goes for education. You don’t care about Akkadian studies, but perhaps someone does who thanks to his education can focus on that and earn enough money to buy a car from you auto mechanic keeping him in business making life better for you.</text></item><item><author>avip</author><text>Always replace &quot;free&quot; with &quot;I&#x27;m paying for you&quot;. I don&#x27;t know what&#x27;s &quot;obvious&quot; about me paying your tuition fees. For once, I may be happy to fund your auto-mechanic studies as I know I&#x27;ll need you to fix my car. But if you&#x27;re studying ancient Akkadian I&#x27;m less inclined to pay your bills.</text></item><item><author>geff82</author><text>What a surreal discussion about something obvious: University and college should be free for everyone. First, this is a great equalizer in the positive way: it does not depend on how wealthy your parents are, so you get an equal opportunity. Second: the society as a whole benefits from well educated people. Accounts need well trained doctors, doctors need well trained accountants, both need an engineer to craft them a reliable car, etc etc...<p>Countries like Germany show that university&#x2F;med school can both be free and high quality. Od course also in Germany some private elite universities exists where you have to pay (it is ok, I like diversity). But to get a perfect career, a state run university is all you need.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>neap24</author><text>Indeed, many do advocate that paying for the roads you drive on through tolls would be a much better system. I don&#x27;t think it&#x27;s unreasonable to not want to subsidize certain fields of study with public money.<p>In the past, when a smaller percentage of people were &quot;educated&quot; the marginal value of educating an extra member of society was very high. It seems much lower to me now that information is cheap and freely available.</text></comment> | <story><title>NYU Makes Tuition Free for All Medical Students</title><url>https://www.wsj.com/articles/nyu-offers-full-tuition-scholarships-for-all-medical-students-1534433082</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>talltimtom</author><text>That is like saying you only want to pay taxes towards the roads you drive on yourself.<p>Would you be better off if all publicly funded roads where instead private and required you to pay tolls per usage? You would defiantly get an bill more matching your usage, and people who don’t drive would pay less. But it at least feels like we are better off with public roads because they all add value to society as a whole.<p>The same goes for education. You don’t care about Akkadian studies, but perhaps someone does who thanks to his education can focus on that and earn enough money to buy a car from you auto mechanic keeping him in business making life better for you.</text></item><item><author>avip</author><text>Always replace &quot;free&quot; with &quot;I&#x27;m paying for you&quot;. I don&#x27;t know what&#x27;s &quot;obvious&quot; about me paying your tuition fees. For once, I may be happy to fund your auto-mechanic studies as I know I&#x27;ll need you to fix my car. But if you&#x27;re studying ancient Akkadian I&#x27;m less inclined to pay your bills.</text></item><item><author>geff82</author><text>What a surreal discussion about something obvious: University and college should be free for everyone. First, this is a great equalizer in the positive way: it does not depend on how wealthy your parents are, so you get an equal opportunity. Second: the society as a whole benefits from well educated people. Accounts need well trained doctors, doctors need well trained accountants, both need an engineer to craft them a reliable car, etc etc...<p>Countries like Germany show that university&#x2F;med school can both be free and high quality. Od course also in Germany some private elite universities exists where you have to pay (it is ok, I like diversity). But to get a perfect career, a state run university is all you need.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mdorazio</author><text>You&#x27;ve basically just described Dallas (although it&#x27;s mostly just the freeways that have tolls), which a lot of Americans seem to be fine with.</text></comment> |
35,824,360 | 35,823,643 | 1 | 3 | 35,800,157 | train | <story><title>A Little Calculus</title><url>https://papl.cs.brown.edu/2018/func-as-data.html#%28part._.A_.Little_.Calculus%29</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>dcre</author><text>This links to the 2018 edition of this book. Each edition points to a newer one until the book splits into two books. This section doesn’t seem to have changed much throughout the editions, but I figured people might like to see the most recent version of the content overall.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;papl.cs.brown.edu&#x2F;2018&#x2F;index.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;papl.cs.brown.edu&#x2F;2018&#x2F;index.html</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;papl.cs.brown.edu&#x2F;2019&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;papl.cs.brown.edu&#x2F;2019&#x2F;</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;papl.cs.brown.edu&#x2F;2020&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;papl.cs.brown.edu&#x2F;2020&#x2F;</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;papl.cs.brown.edu&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;papl.cs.brown.edu&#x2F;</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;dcic-world.org&#x2F;2023-02-21&#x2F;func-as-data.html#%28part._fd-calculus%29" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;dcic-world.org&#x2F;2023-02-21&#x2F;func-as-data.html#%28part....</a></text></comment> | <story><title>A Little Calculus</title><url>https://papl.cs.brown.edu/2018/func-as-data.html#%28part._.A_.Little_.Calculus%29</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>haskellandchill</author><text>Someone made a great comment about the matrix approach to teaching the derivative and deleted it, maybe because it wasn&#x27;t rigorous. Seems like &quot;Differentiation Matrices&quot; is the technical term: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;tobydriscoll.net&#x2F;fnc-julia&#x2F;bvp&#x2F;diffmats.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;tobydriscoll.net&#x2F;fnc-julia&#x2F;bvp&#x2F;diffmats.html</a></text></comment> |
37,026,798 | 37,025,724 | 1 | 3 | 37,023,117 | train | <story><title>The antitrust trial against Google is starting in September</title><url>https://www.thebignewsletter.com/p/the-first-big-antitrust-trial-of</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>huitzitziltzin</author><text>I appreciate the passion Matt Stoller brings to antitrust issues but his analyses are not good on the economics, to say the very least.<p>I agree that some of google’s conduct is very questionable. It’s not obvious to me that paying to be the default search product is pro-competitive.<p>On the other hand, the case that Google is going to make (and which I think is going to be <i>really hard</i> for the government to overcome) is this: we (google) give our product away <i>for free</i> and so do our competitors. What’s more, the cost of switching search engines is literally zero: just type Bing instead of Google.<p>If customers are choosing our search product among two free options, then our product is better. It’s going to be very difficult to establish that there’s an abuse of dominant position in that case. (There is other behavior by google which is more questionable, but in search they are on firm ground.)<p>Having a large market share is not an antitrust violation, nor should it be.</text></comment> | <story><title>The antitrust trial against Google is starting in September</title><url>https://www.thebignewsletter.com/p/the-first-big-antitrust-trial-of</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>prakhar897</author><text>The Indian govt imposed restrictions that a payment provider in India can fulfill max 30% of the total volume of transactions in an year [1]. After that, they have to restrict themselves. This completely avoids monopoly and concentration risks.<p>This can be done for search as well which makes sure at least 4 players stay in the market at all times. Why isn&#x27;t US govt doing this?<p>1. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.indiatimes.com&#x2F;worth&#x2F;news&#x2F;upi-apps-may-soon-have-transaction-volume-limit-585440.html" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.indiatimes.com&#x2F;worth&#x2F;news&#x2F;upi-apps-may-soon-have...</a></text></comment> |
34,575,408 | 34,572,607 | 1 | 3 | 34,565,106 | train | <story><title>Sauce that survived Italy’s war on pasta</title><url>https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/italian-futurist-pasta</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>borroka</author><text>There is an obvious mistake in the article that could be misleading for readers not well versed in 20th century Italian culture and politics.<p>In the article, it is written :&quot;The essay [Manifesto della cucina futurista] was one of many fascist-leaning Futurist manifestos published in the early 20th century that called for the destruction of the old in favor of the new in fields such as poetry, painting, and cinema&quot;.<p>It is important to keep in mind that Futurism as an artistic, much more than political, movement--but some might say that all art is political anyway--&quot;officially&quot; started in 1909 with the publication of the &quot;Manifesto del Futurismo&quot; in the Figaro, the French newspaper. Fascism, on the other hand, as an organized political movement, started in 1919, after the end of the First World War. The Manifesto della cucina Futurista was written in 1931, but it was, overall, forgettable: much more relevant for art and politics were the pre-WWI manifestos.<p>Futurism, as a movement of some influence on the Italian cultural life, was already in decline in 1919, in part because some of the best known and liveliest futurist representatives were killed during WWI (Boccioni, Sant&#x27;Elia, Erba).<p>Despite all the problems associated with some of their message--unfortunately those were the most visible and the signature of their political and artistic position--, Futurismo was an avant-garde that saw most of their prediction, or desires, come true. Not many artistic or political movements could say the same.</text></comment> | <story><title>Sauce that survived Italy’s war on pasta</title><url>https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/italian-futurist-pasta</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>gabythenerd</author><text>&gt; ...He wanted to wean Italy off of foreign wheat imports, which were becoming increasingly difficult to acquire amidst international sanctions and a suffering domestic economy. Rice grew well in Northern Italy, so Mussolini sent free rice samples throughout the country and bombarded Italians with pro-rice propaganda.<p>How did pasta get so popular if they had to import the wheat? Seems they cannot produce enough for the whole population without imports even now, I would think that would make it expensive over staples thay they can grow themselves.</text></comment> |
37,428,804 | 37,428,581 | 1 | 3 | 37,420,628 | train | <story><title>LLMs, RAG, and the missing storage layer for AI</title><url>https://blog.lancedb.com/llms-rag-the-missing-storage-layer-for-ai-28ded35fa984</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>panarky</author><text>The first unstated assumption is that similar vectors are relevant documents, and for many use cases that&#x27;s just not true. Cosine similarity != relevance. So if your pipeline pulls 2 or 4 or 12 document chunks into the LLM&#x27;s context, and half or more of them aren&#x27;t relevant, does this make the LLM&#x27;s response more or less relevant?<p>The second unstated assumption is that the vector index can accurately identify the top K vectors by cosine similarity, and that&#x27;s not true either. If you retrieve the top K vectors according to the vector index (instead of computing all the pairwise similarities in advance), that set of 10 vectors will be missing documents that have a higher cosine similarity than that of the K&#x27;th vector retrieved.<p>All of this means you&#x27;ll need to retrieve a multiple of K vectors, figure out some way to re-rank them to exclude the irrelevant ones, and have your own ground truth to measure the index&#x27;s precision and recall.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>brigadier132</author><text>The vectors are literally constructed so that cosine similarity <i>is</i> semantic similarity.<p>&gt; second unstated assumption is that the vector index can accurately identify the top K vectors by cosine similarity, and that&#x27;s not true either<p>Its not unstated, its called ANN for a reason</text></comment> | <story><title>LLMs, RAG, and the missing storage layer for AI</title><url>https://blog.lancedb.com/llms-rag-the-missing-storage-layer-for-ai-28ded35fa984</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>panarky</author><text>The first unstated assumption is that similar vectors are relevant documents, and for many use cases that&#x27;s just not true. Cosine similarity != relevance. So if your pipeline pulls 2 or 4 or 12 document chunks into the LLM&#x27;s context, and half or more of them aren&#x27;t relevant, does this make the LLM&#x27;s response more or less relevant?<p>The second unstated assumption is that the vector index can accurately identify the top K vectors by cosine similarity, and that&#x27;s not true either. If you retrieve the top K vectors according to the vector index (instead of computing all the pairwise similarities in advance), that set of 10 vectors will be missing documents that have a higher cosine similarity than that of the K&#x27;th vector retrieved.<p>All of this means you&#x27;ll need to retrieve a multiple of K vectors, figure out some way to re-rank them to exclude the irrelevant ones, and have your own ground truth to measure the index&#x27;s precision and recall.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>NhanH</author><text>Could you please explain a bit on your 2nd paragraph. I couldn’t quite understand either the problem statement nor the reasoning itself.</text></comment> |
15,334,051 | 15,333,439 | 1 | 2 | 15,332,138 | train | <story><title>Man convicted after preventing counter-terrorism police search</title><url>http://news.met.police.uk/news/man-convicted-after-preventing-counter-terrorism-police-search-262829</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mfoy_</author><text>&gt;possessing encrypted data (while being unwilling or unable to decrypt<p>How does this work with things like DRM? What if you have media on your phone from something like Spotify or Netflix that&#x27;s presumably encrypted or protected in some way, that you cannot decrypt if your subscription expires...</text></item><item><author>confounded</author><text>The Guardian have more context: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theguardian.com&#x2F;uk-news&#x2F;2017&#x2F;sep&#x2F;25&#x2F;campaign-group-director-in-court-for-refusing-to-divulge-passwords" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theguardian.com&#x2F;uk-news&#x2F;2017&#x2F;sep&#x2F;25&#x2F;campaign-gro...</a><p>This was very clearly politically motivated to hamper the efforts of CAGE; a UK based group which lobbies of behalf of young Muslim men who have been detained without charge it gitmo, harassed by the security services etc.<p>Regardless of whether readers like CAGE&#x27;s politics (which are considered inflammatory by the government), this raises a worrying precedent.<p>It&#x27;s also worth noting that given the UK&#x27;s recent authoritarian laws, he got off lightly --- this could easily have been spun to possessing encrypted data (while being unwilling or unable to decrypt upon command), which carries a two year sentence, IIRC five if the magic word &quot;terrorism&quot; is conjured.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>BearGoesChirp</author><text>The idea is to create crimes that they can apply to anyone. Technically they apply to everyone, but they can then use selective enforcement based on criteria that the general public would never have openly tolerated as a law.</text></comment> | <story><title>Man convicted after preventing counter-terrorism police search</title><url>http://news.met.police.uk/news/man-convicted-after-preventing-counter-terrorism-police-search-262829</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mfoy_</author><text>&gt;possessing encrypted data (while being unwilling or unable to decrypt<p>How does this work with things like DRM? What if you have media on your phone from something like Spotify or Netflix that&#x27;s presumably encrypted or protected in some way, that you cannot decrypt if your subscription expires...</text></item><item><author>confounded</author><text>The Guardian have more context: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theguardian.com&#x2F;uk-news&#x2F;2017&#x2F;sep&#x2F;25&#x2F;campaign-group-director-in-court-for-refusing-to-divulge-passwords" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theguardian.com&#x2F;uk-news&#x2F;2017&#x2F;sep&#x2F;25&#x2F;campaign-gro...</a><p>This was very clearly politically motivated to hamper the efforts of CAGE; a UK based group which lobbies of behalf of young Muslim men who have been detained without charge it gitmo, harassed by the security services etc.<p>Regardless of whether readers like CAGE&#x27;s politics (which are considered inflammatory by the government), this raises a worrying precedent.<p>It&#x27;s also worth noting that given the UK&#x27;s recent authoritarian laws, he got off lightly --- this could easily have been spun to possessing encrypted data (while being unwilling or unable to decrypt upon command), which carries a two year sentence, IIRC five if the magic word &quot;terrorism&quot; is conjured.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dingaling</author><text>Back when the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Bill was being circulated, to much outcry from technical folk, someone encrypted a file with a provocative name and sent it to the Home Secretary for exactly that reason, as a form of demonstation-cum-protest.<p>Suddenly the Minister[0] possessed a file which he couldn&#x27;t decrypt on demand. Would he consider amending the Bill to remove penalties for such eventualities? Of course not, nothing was changed.<p>If you possess the bytes you&#x27;ll do the time. Delete everything that is unnecessary as soon as its usefulness has expired - big corps learned that lesson, for other reasons, in the early 2000s.<p>[0] well one of his staff</text></comment> |
39,954,034 | 39,953,639 | 1 | 2 | 39,951,990 | train | <story><title>Deep Aphantasia: a visual brain with minimal influence from priors?</title><url>https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/psychology/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2024.1374349/full</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>xpl</author><text>There is a sort of confusion when people read about aphantasia, they tend to imagine (pun intended) that most people have vivid pictures when they close their eyes, coming to conclusion that they must have aphantasia, because it isn&#x27;t what happens with them.<p>But normally, you won&#x27;t <i>actually see</i> anything with your eyes closed, otherwise it would be a &quot;closed-eye visual&quot; (CEV) which is you only experience when you do hallucinogenic drugs (shrooms, LSD)!<p>Nonetheless, most people can &quot;visualize&quot; when they imagine objects, people&#x27;s faces, places from memory — but it is totally not like AR (i.e. actually overlaying images on top of light perception). Nope, it feels more like you see it with some mysterious &quot;mind&#x27;s eye&quot;, disconnected from real eyes. It is very faint and tacit, like you&#x27;re perceiving a very abstract high-level representation of an object, instead of seeing actual &quot;pixels&quot;. And it doesn&#x27;t require having eyes closed, people often can do it as easily with their eyes open, as it doesn&#x27;t interfere with the normal vision at all.</text></comment> | <story><title>Deep Aphantasia: a visual brain with minimal influence from priors?</title><url>https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/psychology/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2024.1374349/full</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>asveikau</author><text>I slowly realized I have aphantasia by reading an HN comment about it last December. That day I started asking my daughter questions about visualizing things and daydreams and she ended up giving me a perfect description of aphantasia with minimal prompting. It&#x27;s very interesting to have gone through life not realizing I have this difference. A few people I asked the same questions of who do not seem to have aphantasia thought the topic was a little crazy, as if it&#x27;s weird to perceive this way.<p>I tend to process a lot of things through sound, and go around the world recognizing people by voice or unwillingly trying to place people&#x27;s accents when they talk. I think it might be related somehow.</text></comment> |
7,245,412 | 7,245,551 | 1 | 3 | 7,245,349 | train | <story><title>Important Kickstarter Security Notice</title><url>https://www.kickstarter.com/blog/important-kickstarter-security-notice</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>zavi</author><text>If they describe how passwords were hashed, it would make it easier for hackers to crack them.</text></item><item><author>carbocation</author><text>From here forward, I will consider any disclosure involving stolen passwords that does not include a description of the password hashing&#x2F;encryption&#x2F;etc mechanism to mean &quot;plaintext-equivalent passwords were taken&quot;.<p><i>Edit</i>: Changed &quot;plaintext passwords were taken&quot; to &quot;plaintext-equivalent passwords were taken&quot;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>carbocation</author><text>&gt; If they describe how passwords were hashed, it would make it easier for hackers to crack them.<p>I don&#x27;t really agree with you.<p>If you store bcrypted stuff, you see $2a${integer exponent}$hash.<p>If you store SHA1&#x27;ed stuff, you see characteristic hashes and can trivially test against known hashes. So on for MD5, etc.<p>I don&#x27;t need you to tell me &quot;we store SHA1&#x27;ed stuff iterated 35 times with the following salt&quot;, but keeping that information secret wouldn&#x27;t usually help you anyway. A determined attacker will test and iterate until they&#x27;ve figured out your scheme (or, if you&#x27;re unlucky, they won&#x27;t need to).<p>Telling the attacker &quot;we bcrypted everything&quot; doesn&#x27;t tell them anything they couldn&#x27;t plainly see on their own.</text></comment> | <story><title>Important Kickstarter Security Notice</title><url>https://www.kickstarter.com/blog/important-kickstarter-security-notice</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>zavi</author><text>If they describe how passwords were hashed, it would make it easier for hackers to crack them.</text></item><item><author>carbocation</author><text>From here forward, I will consider any disclosure involving stolen passwords that does not include a description of the password hashing&#x2F;encryption&#x2F;etc mechanism to mean &quot;plaintext-equivalent passwords were taken&quot;.<p><i>Edit</i>: Changed &quot;plaintext passwords were taken&quot; to &quot;plaintext-equivalent passwords were taken&quot;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tptacek</author><text>No it doesn&#x27;t. Attackers can obviously be presumed to have some number of password,digest pairs; for instance, for their own accounts. From that information it should be trivial to figure out the scheme used.<p>This of course leaves aside the fact that, having compromised any significant portion of the app, they are probably ε from source code anyways.</text></comment> |
12,470,797 | 12,470,509 | 1 | 2 | 12,469,823 | train | <story><title>How to Write Articles and Essays Quickly and Expertly (2006)</title><url>http://www.downes.ca/post/38526</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tunesmith</author><text>I think about presenting arguments a lot. Arguments are best represented in DAG form; mostly a tree structure, although some premises might support multiple conclusions so it&#x27;s inherently graph-based (graphical data structure). Because some conclusions are often lemmas supporting further conclusions, arguments can go several levels deep.<p>I like envisioning them with the conclusion on the top and the premises on the bottom, although people often visualize them flipped in another direction.<p>But the trick comes in presenting the argument to someone else, verbally, in a presentation, or through writing. What is the best way to do it?<p>Because your goal isn&#x27;t just to impart information; it&#x27;s also to be convincing and to hope that your counterparts get invested in the conclusion.<p>I find that if the conclusion is counterintuitive, then starting with the conclusion can create resistance. People love to interrupt and argue against something they disagree with even if they haven&#x27;t thought it through.<p>On the other hand, starting with a bunch of premises devoid of context can just feel unrooted.<p>I guess I generally try to analyze the argument to find the highest (closest to conclusion) points that are not controversial, start with those, and then try to talk about the surprising conclusion that they imply. It can be a real workout, though, trying to anticipate responses, being open to feedback while still working towards your conclusion.<p>I wonder if this sort of thing is related to any algorithmic concepts, like most efficient ways to walk a DAG.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>hyperpallium</author><text>Sustaining interest is also important. If you look at stories and stand up sets, there&#x27;s an alternation between tension and release. In an argument, a challenging statement creates tension; resolving it is release. Meanwhile, with each such scene or joke, background is implicitly built up for a larger payoff later on.<p>Another aspect of this is explicitly addressing counter-arguments that arise in the reader&#x27;s mind. If left dangling too long, the doubt is annoying for the reader. One problem is you don&#x27;t know which specific counter-argument each specific reader is thinking of. So you corral them. You implicitly provoke this counter-argument, so when you address it, it&#x27;s satisfying for the reader. By deliberately leaving open this specific counter-argument, and subtly suggesting it, you only have to deal with that specific one, at that point, for all readers. You lead them to objections, then resolve them.<p>Finally, if you finish a &quot;scene&quot; with another question, it propels the reader into the next stage of the argument.<p>BTW if you&#x27;re not writing, but talking to one person, a crucial part of leading them to your conclusion is to <i>find out where they are</i>. Like giving directions to someone who&#x27;s lost, they won&#x27;t make sense if you don&#x27;t know where they are. For an argument, it&#x27;s their current view, what issues concern them, what perspective they have, and perhaps what misunderstandings they have. To convince, you should listen more than talk.<p>NB. All this is a lot of work, and mostly I can&#x27;t be bothered.</text></comment> | <story><title>How to Write Articles and Essays Quickly and Expertly (2006)</title><url>http://www.downes.ca/post/38526</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tunesmith</author><text>I think about presenting arguments a lot. Arguments are best represented in DAG form; mostly a tree structure, although some premises might support multiple conclusions so it&#x27;s inherently graph-based (graphical data structure). Because some conclusions are often lemmas supporting further conclusions, arguments can go several levels deep.<p>I like envisioning them with the conclusion on the top and the premises on the bottom, although people often visualize them flipped in another direction.<p>But the trick comes in presenting the argument to someone else, verbally, in a presentation, or through writing. What is the best way to do it?<p>Because your goal isn&#x27;t just to impart information; it&#x27;s also to be convincing and to hope that your counterparts get invested in the conclusion.<p>I find that if the conclusion is counterintuitive, then starting with the conclusion can create resistance. People love to interrupt and argue against something they disagree with even if they haven&#x27;t thought it through.<p>On the other hand, starting with a bunch of premises devoid of context can just feel unrooted.<p>I guess I generally try to analyze the argument to find the highest (closest to conclusion) points that are not controversial, start with those, and then try to talk about the surprising conclusion that they imply. It can be a real workout, though, trying to anticipate responses, being open to feedback while still working towards your conclusion.<p>I wonder if this sort of thing is related to any algorithmic concepts, like most efficient ways to walk a DAG.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jarmitage</author><text>I conceptualise arguments in the same way. I think the requirement of serialising arguments and evidence is bogus for the age we live in and would much rather just give the whole graph to an audience to play with, and then elaborate and discuss as needed. Or heaven forbid the reader could have write access!</text></comment> |
35,846,104 | 35,843,317 | 1 | 3 | 35,840,097 | train | <story><title>How much can you earn creating content on Youtube?</title><url>https://blog.bassemdy.com/2023/05/06/content-creation/youtube/experience/growth/monetization/income/revenue/how-much-you-really-make-creating-content.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mwidell</author><text>I run a channel with 85k subscribers and around 10k views per day. My monthly income breakdown is roughly this:
- Youtube ads $900
- Affiliate links $2500
- Brand deals $3000 (equates to one sponsored video per month)
- Patreon $350<p>Took me around 5 years of posting a video a week to get here. Now I finally make a living. Started working full time about a year ago. Before that 15-20h per week for years. I talked to some other youtubers, and I think my &quot;path&quot; to making a living from youtube, and my income breakdown, is pretty standard.<p>Key takeaway here is that youtube is a looong game. You will be unlikely to succeed unless you love making the videos so much, that you are happy to do it almost for free, consistently, for years. And the money is not in adsense, but in brand deals and affiliate links (which are often part of brand deals).<p>Here&#x27;s my channel if anyone is curious: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtube.com&#x2F;MicaelWidell">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtube.com&#x2F;MicaelWidell</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dmuso</author><text>How do you deal with “talking to the void” at the beginning? I speak publicly fairly regular and I get a lot of energy from people in the crowd. I’ve done some YouTube and converted that to podcast format. I can’t seem to get motivated to do it as I can’t see&#x2F;interact with people. People I know in my niche community will tell me they watched my video or listened to the podcast, I think “oh that’s nice I guess” and I go back home to stare at a camera and I can’t seem to connect making a video with audience interaction. Is this a thing? How do you think I could deal with it?</text></comment> | <story><title>How much can you earn creating content on Youtube?</title><url>https://blog.bassemdy.com/2023/05/06/content-creation/youtube/experience/growth/monetization/income/revenue/how-much-you-really-make-creating-content.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mwidell</author><text>I run a channel with 85k subscribers and around 10k views per day. My monthly income breakdown is roughly this:
- Youtube ads $900
- Affiliate links $2500
- Brand deals $3000 (equates to one sponsored video per month)
- Patreon $350<p>Took me around 5 years of posting a video a week to get here. Now I finally make a living. Started working full time about a year ago. Before that 15-20h per week for years. I talked to some other youtubers, and I think my &quot;path&quot; to making a living from youtube, and my income breakdown, is pretty standard.<p>Key takeaway here is that youtube is a looong game. You will be unlikely to succeed unless you love making the videos so much, that you are happy to do it almost for free, consistently, for years. And the money is not in adsense, but in brand deals and affiliate links (which are often part of brand deals).<p>Here&#x27;s my channel if anyone is curious: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtube.com&#x2F;MicaelWidell">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtube.com&#x2F;MicaelWidell</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>naavis</author><text>I went to check out your channel just to realize I was already subscribed. Well played!</text></comment> |
32,957,226 | 32,956,800 | 1 | 2 | 32,954,926 | train | <story><title>San Francisco police can now watch private surveillance cameras in real time</title><url>https://www.theverge.com/2022/9/23/23368603/san-francisco-police-private-surveillance-cameras-vote</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>slg</author><text>&gt;When you arrest the same person over and over again and they are just let out by the DA, you may just not arrest that person again.<p>Great, so everyone agrees the current approach doesn&#x27;t work. Now we need to come up with a better solution.<p>Option 1 is to throw these repeat offenders in jail and consider the situation fixed.<p>Option 2 is to take the money that we are paying the cop that now refuses to arrest anyone and instead pay someone who is willing to work with this repeat offender and help get them a home, job, treatment, or whatever else they need to stop living life like this.</text></item><item><author>hunterb123</author><text>Neat analogy, but you didn&#x27;t finish it. It would be like if the garbage men took the trash out and at the end of the month and the person in charge of the dump released it all back out on the streets. Certainly you would have a garbage strike, which is what happened, and the dump manager (DA) was recalled.<p>When you arrest the same person over and over again and they are just let out by the DA, you may just not arrest that person again.<p>You aren&#x27;t refusing to do your job, you&#x27;re listening to an elected official that has more power than you do.<p>Do you have any criticisms to direct at the DA, or do you agree with their actions?</text></item><item><author>AlexandrB</author><text>Garbage men pick up the trash every week. Yet, every week there&#x27;s more trash. I fix bugs even though more bugs will inevitably be found.<p>If what you say is true, what police officers are refusing to do is their job. And it&#x27;s not that different than many other jobs out there. They&#x27;re not elected officials, it&#x27;s <i>not</i> their job to legislate or choose who to prosecute.</text></item><item><author>tomschlick</author><text>&gt; Now the police can watch in real time from afar, so they aren&#x27;t at risk of spilling their donuts and coffee in the car while watching close by as residents packages are stolen, car windows broken, and petty theft runs rampant through no enforcement of the law.<p>This is a direct result of the politicians that the residents elected. When you have a DA that doesn&#x27;t prosecute offenders and releases them after police go through the work of arresting, gathering evidence, writing reports, booking, etc over and over again you&#x27;ll start to get police that wont do those things because its simply a waste of their time.</text></item><item><author>tristor</author><text>This is fantastic news for the residents of San Francisco. Now the police can watch in real time from afar, so they aren&#x27;t at risk of spilling their donuts and coffee in the car while watching close by as residents packages are stolen, car windows broken, and petty theft runs rampant through no enforcement of the law.<p>We should all be proud of what technology has achieved for society, further reducing the risk of being a police officer. What great benefit to the residents of San Francisco. Many more officers will make it to retirement age to make use of their oversized pensions since they won&#x27;t even need to worry about possibly being cajoled into action and having to foot chase a thief when they can simply watch crime occur unabated from the comfort of their offices and homes.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tgsovlerkhgsel</author><text>The problem is that lack of enforcement leads to criminals that act not out of desperation, but because they analyzed the rules of the game and realized that the reward for a criminal career is better than the reward for a legitimate career, with few downsides.<p>Why work 20 days a month and make a modest living when you can steal and rob 3 days a month, fence on the 4th, and live in relative luxury?<p>Throwing people in jail doesn&#x27;t help with crimes of despair, but it does help with such calculated crime, because it suddenly is no longer worth it.</text></comment> | <story><title>San Francisco police can now watch private surveillance cameras in real time</title><url>https://www.theverge.com/2022/9/23/23368603/san-francisco-police-private-surveillance-cameras-vote</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>slg</author><text>&gt;When you arrest the same person over and over again and they are just let out by the DA, you may just not arrest that person again.<p>Great, so everyone agrees the current approach doesn&#x27;t work. Now we need to come up with a better solution.<p>Option 1 is to throw these repeat offenders in jail and consider the situation fixed.<p>Option 2 is to take the money that we are paying the cop that now refuses to arrest anyone and instead pay someone who is willing to work with this repeat offender and help get them a home, job, treatment, or whatever else they need to stop living life like this.</text></item><item><author>hunterb123</author><text>Neat analogy, but you didn&#x27;t finish it. It would be like if the garbage men took the trash out and at the end of the month and the person in charge of the dump released it all back out on the streets. Certainly you would have a garbage strike, which is what happened, and the dump manager (DA) was recalled.<p>When you arrest the same person over and over again and they are just let out by the DA, you may just not arrest that person again.<p>You aren&#x27;t refusing to do your job, you&#x27;re listening to an elected official that has more power than you do.<p>Do you have any criticisms to direct at the DA, or do you agree with their actions?</text></item><item><author>AlexandrB</author><text>Garbage men pick up the trash every week. Yet, every week there&#x27;s more trash. I fix bugs even though more bugs will inevitably be found.<p>If what you say is true, what police officers are refusing to do is their job. And it&#x27;s not that different than many other jobs out there. They&#x27;re not elected officials, it&#x27;s <i>not</i> their job to legislate or choose who to prosecute.</text></item><item><author>tomschlick</author><text>&gt; Now the police can watch in real time from afar, so they aren&#x27;t at risk of spilling their donuts and coffee in the car while watching close by as residents packages are stolen, car windows broken, and petty theft runs rampant through no enforcement of the law.<p>This is a direct result of the politicians that the residents elected. When you have a DA that doesn&#x27;t prosecute offenders and releases them after police go through the work of arresting, gathering evidence, writing reports, booking, etc over and over again you&#x27;ll start to get police that wont do those things because its simply a waste of their time.</text></item><item><author>tristor</author><text>This is fantastic news for the residents of San Francisco. Now the police can watch in real time from afar, so they aren&#x27;t at risk of spilling their donuts and coffee in the car while watching close by as residents packages are stolen, car windows broken, and petty theft runs rampant through no enforcement of the law.<p>We should all be proud of what technology has achieved for society, further reducing the risk of being a police officer. What great benefit to the residents of San Francisco. Many more officers will make it to retirement age to make use of their oversized pensions since they won&#x27;t even need to worry about possibly being cajoled into action and having to foot chase a thief when they can simply watch crime occur unabated from the comfort of their offices and homes.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bakugo</author><text>Ah yes, the classic &quot;all criminals are just misunderstood and will stop committing crime if you give them money&quot; argument.</text></comment> |
34,263,774 | 34,263,912 | 1 | 2 | 34,263,100 | train | <story><title>Having friends in HR is fine, but HR is not your friend</title><url>https://cdoyle.me/2023/01/05/having-friends-in-hr-is-fine-but-hr-is-not-your-friend/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>frellus</author><text>I get the whole &quot;HR can be evil&quot; point, but this article could have also been, &quot;Having friends in management is fine, but management is not your friend&quot;.<p>Personally, I&#x27;m so sick of the cynicism in general. Can we make points and articles about protecting yourself, as an employee, without resorting to such things?<p>As a manager in a company, I&#x27;ve both had friends in HR and also had HR been my friend. Need to fire that horrible employee who is demoralizing the team and not being productive? HR is your friend. Need to hire the next best engineer? HR is my friend.<p>Have I seen horrible, Catbert-like HR managers and people? Of course. In all levels of an organization, people can be horrible. Why round everything up to the cynical points just to get clicks?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>OnlineGladiator</author><text>&gt; Personally, I&#x27;m so sick of the cynicism in general.<p>Personally, I&#x27;m so sick of there not being nearly enough cynicism in general.<p>I&#x27;ve met cops that aren&#x27;t total pieces of shit (who all ended up quitting in less than 5 years), but that doesn&#x27;t mean cops aren&#x27;t total pieces of shit. If the nature of the job is unethical, you should rightly call it out as such. HR&#x27;s job is to pretend to be your friend while doing whatever the CEO and the lawyers tell them to do. They&#x27;re the kind of people who are your friends until suddenly they aren&#x27;t, and then you realize it was all bullshit to begin with.<p>You&#x27;re welcome to disagree. But from my perspective you&#x27;re naive, and from your perspective I&#x27;m cynical.</text></comment> | <story><title>Having friends in HR is fine, but HR is not your friend</title><url>https://cdoyle.me/2023/01/05/having-friends-in-hr-is-fine-but-hr-is-not-your-friend/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>frellus</author><text>I get the whole &quot;HR can be evil&quot; point, but this article could have also been, &quot;Having friends in management is fine, but management is not your friend&quot;.<p>Personally, I&#x27;m so sick of the cynicism in general. Can we make points and articles about protecting yourself, as an employee, without resorting to such things?<p>As a manager in a company, I&#x27;ve both had friends in HR and also had HR been my friend. Need to fire that horrible employee who is demoralizing the team and not being productive? HR is your friend. Need to hire the next best engineer? HR is my friend.<p>Have I seen horrible, Catbert-like HR managers and people? Of course. In all levels of an organization, people can be horrible. Why round everything up to the cynical points just to get clicks?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>crmd</author><text>I get what you’re saying but don’t think the Catbert analogy is apropos here.<p>What I have seen as a senior tech executive and old person is that young people entering the workforce after around 2015-6 often rely on HR to be a neutral arbiter in workplace conflicts, analogous to parental chaperones or university administrators.<p>What I believe the author is trying to convey is that this misunderstanding can have disastrous consequences on a young person’s career. HR is not a neutral arbiter between you and the business. They are the business.</text></comment> |
16,932,047 | 16,929,970 | 1 | 2 | 16,926,524 | train | <story><title>The War on Waze</title><url>http://reason.com/blog/2018/04/25/the-war-on-waze</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>9erdelta</author><text>In LA all you need is a train from Sherman Oaks into one of the stations in Santa Monica or Culver City. That would cut way down on the 405 congestion. It gets tedious reading articles that come up with &quot;stop funding public transit&quot; as a conclusion. In math class that would be the &quot;trivial&quot; therefore useless answer. Seeing as how cities have more roadway now than ever, yet congestion is arguably getting worse...Clearly, building more roads doesn&#x27;t work. Because WE HAVE built more roads. The Sepulveda pass in LA is not that old, yet it is so congested as to be useless every single day of the week, at almost every hour of the day (ok maybe this is an exaggeration).<p>One thing I have noticed is Google Maps will suggest going off a main street for a few blocks then merge back into the said main route. This cuts off everyone who&#x27;s been waiting in line, and potentially puts me in a situation of having to make a left across perhaps 4 lanes of congested traffic, with no light or turn signal. This _IS_ kind of assinine, and it certainly wouldn&#x27;t hurt for Google&#x2F;Waze et. al. to feel some pressure to cut these suggestions out.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bagacrap</author><text>They&#x27;ve recently connected DTLA and Santa Monica via trains and I don&#x27;t think the 10 has improved at all. The problem is that most everyone prefers to drive and the only thing limiting their willingness to drive is traffic itself. Thus, traffic will never get better than whatever the masses deem acceptably bad (and their tolerance seems ludicrously high in LA).</text></comment> | <story><title>The War on Waze</title><url>http://reason.com/blog/2018/04/25/the-war-on-waze</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>9erdelta</author><text>In LA all you need is a train from Sherman Oaks into one of the stations in Santa Monica or Culver City. That would cut way down on the 405 congestion. It gets tedious reading articles that come up with &quot;stop funding public transit&quot; as a conclusion. In math class that would be the &quot;trivial&quot; therefore useless answer. Seeing as how cities have more roadway now than ever, yet congestion is arguably getting worse...Clearly, building more roads doesn&#x27;t work. Because WE HAVE built more roads. The Sepulveda pass in LA is not that old, yet it is so congested as to be useless every single day of the week, at almost every hour of the day (ok maybe this is an exaggeration).<p>One thing I have noticed is Google Maps will suggest going off a main street for a few blocks then merge back into the said main route. This cuts off everyone who&#x27;s been waiting in line, and potentially puts me in a situation of having to make a left across perhaps 4 lanes of congested traffic, with no light or turn signal. This _IS_ kind of assinine, and it certainly wouldn&#x27;t hurt for Google&#x2F;Waze et. al. to feel some pressure to cut these suggestions out.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>cleansy</author><text>&gt; Clearly, building more roads doesn&#x27;t work<p>There is a great video[1] by Wendover Productions about how to fix traffic, explaining exactly this effect. tl;dr: The more road capacity you supply, the more traffic will come since potential demand will &quot;always&quot; outstrip supply.<p>[1]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=N4PW66_g6XA" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=N4PW66_g6XA</a></text></comment> |
31,770,650 | 31,768,876 | 1 | 2 | 31,767,890 | train | <story><title>The silent majority of experts (2012)</title><url>https://prog21.dadgum.com/143.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>maxk42</author><text>I think about this constantly while reading Hacker News. So many articles and comments by people whose level of enthusiasm doesn&#x27;t match their experience. Try to voice a comment that goes against the flow of that enthusiasm and you&#x27;ll be downvoted to oblivion, even if you speak with more experience and context than the masses. I&#x27;m horrified by some of the stuff I see here and feel like it&#x27;s often useless to speak out.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>fleddr</author><text>Horrified is a bit strong, but you have a point. There&#x27;s a few themes that are strongly popular or unpopular by some type of community consensus. In those cases, it doesn&#x27;t seem to matter what you have to say as minds are already made up.<p>Another interesting effect I experienced is regarding expert credibility.<p>When I found this place, I was impressed. I figured the world&#x27;s top engineers are posting. I see them writing about very advanced topics I know little about. Comments are well written, and combined this creates trust.<p>But there&#x27;s been incidents. I&#x27;m the type of person that has an extremely deep level of knowledge in about 2 or 3 very niche topics that frankly normally nobody cares about. I know that sounds pretentious, but for the sake of argument, let&#x27;s accept it for now.<p>By chance, very infrequently, an article and discussion may be about those extremely niche topics. And now things are falling apart. As before, seemingly insightful professional-level comments are written. The problem is, 70% of them are wrong. I&#x27;m not talking &quot;different opinion&quot;, I mean factually wrong, that&#x27;s not how this works, and you seem to have no idea what you&#x27;re talking about.<p>I imagine to the outsider not in the niche reading along: interesting expert discussion. Just as I was reading about all those topics I know little about.<p>This raises the obvious question: when I read impressive comments regarding topics I know little about, how many are actually trustworthy and accurate expertise versus how many are just well written made up nonsense?<p>This question hits me hard because it kind of forces you to become skeptical and cynical by default, which I don&#x27;t want to be.</text></comment> | <story><title>The silent majority of experts (2012)</title><url>https://prog21.dadgum.com/143.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>maxk42</author><text>I think about this constantly while reading Hacker News. So many articles and comments by people whose level of enthusiasm doesn&#x27;t match their experience. Try to voice a comment that goes against the flow of that enthusiasm and you&#x27;ll be downvoted to oblivion, even if you speak with more experience and context than the masses. I&#x27;m horrified by some of the stuff I see here and feel like it&#x27;s often useless to speak out.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>d23</author><text>I&#x27;ve become a lot more willing to burn my karma on here as of late. Not because I want to, per se, but what&#x27;s the point of getting it if you can&#x27;t spend it occasionally when you really have something you need to say?</text></comment> |
26,173,207 | 26,172,701 | 1 | 2 | 26,171,904 | train | <story><title>What World War I Can Teach Us about Misjudging Tech and Social Change (2020)</title><url>https://www.carnegie.org/topics/topic-articles/emerging-global-order/1920-2020-what-the-history-of-world-war-1-can-teach-us-about-misjudging-tech-social-change/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>carbonguy</author><text>From my understanding of the period, one might describe WWI as &quot;anticipated, but not comprehended;&quot; one of the catalysts for the war was a general understanding on the European continent that France and Germany were going to re-litigate the Franco-Prussian war at some point, as well as an understanding in Germany that time was not on their side due to the demographic changes in France - higher relative population growth - and economic changes in the Russian Empire allowing for more rapid and effective military deployment.<p>However, the types of wars in which the Great Powers of the time were involved - and from which their military planners derived their assumptions about war with modern weaponry - were mainly colonial conflicts against relatively under-armed opponents, eg. the Boer war, which the Great Powers typically &quot;won.&quot; The outcome of the Russo-Japanese war (1904-05) was shocking enough to change the calculus for planning the European war, as Russia was now seen as a less able ally for France... and on and on such analysis could go!<p>With respect to this article, I would take the lesson of the early 20th century and WWI and ask:<p>Is there any major geopolitical development that is generally assumed to be inevitable, and how might modern technology upset the assumptions of the powers-that-be in their planned response to that event?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>cpleppert</author><text>&gt;&gt; demographic changes in France - higher relative population growth<p>I think you have it exactly backwards. France had a significantly slower population growth. To give one example of how this impacted the military caculus: Germany was able to easily expand its army in 1911 and 1913 and still have a large reserve pool of manpower but France had to increase the term of service from 2 to 3 years and expand its conscription to almost the entire adult male population of fighting age; which led to riots and political chaos. At the time of the outbreak the French army had been expanded so rapidly that training had to be cut significantly.<p>&gt;&gt; However, the types of wars in which the Great Powers of the time were involved - and from which their military planners derived their assumptions about war with modern weaponry - were mainly colonial conflicts against relatively under-armed opponents, eg. the Boer war, which the Great Powers typically &quot;won.&quot; The outcome of the Russo-Japanese war (1904-05) was shocking enough to change the calculus for planning the European war, as Russia was now seen as a less able ally for France... and on and on such analysis could go!<p>I would strongly disagree. Russia lost the Russo-Japanese war mostly due to inept military execution and the difficulty of troop transportation through an incomplete Trans-Siberian railway; hardly relevant to a european total war. You could argue( and some less astute observers at the time did) that Japan&#x27;s victory through aggressive assaults on static russian positions &#x27;proved&#x27; that offensive power would carry the day to a decisive conclusion.</text></comment> | <story><title>What World War I Can Teach Us about Misjudging Tech and Social Change (2020)</title><url>https://www.carnegie.org/topics/topic-articles/emerging-global-order/1920-2020-what-the-history-of-world-war-1-can-teach-us-about-misjudging-tech-social-change/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>carbonguy</author><text>From my understanding of the period, one might describe WWI as &quot;anticipated, but not comprehended;&quot; one of the catalysts for the war was a general understanding on the European continent that France and Germany were going to re-litigate the Franco-Prussian war at some point, as well as an understanding in Germany that time was not on their side due to the demographic changes in France - higher relative population growth - and economic changes in the Russian Empire allowing for more rapid and effective military deployment.<p>However, the types of wars in which the Great Powers of the time were involved - and from which their military planners derived their assumptions about war with modern weaponry - were mainly colonial conflicts against relatively under-armed opponents, eg. the Boer war, which the Great Powers typically &quot;won.&quot; The outcome of the Russo-Japanese war (1904-05) was shocking enough to change the calculus for planning the European war, as Russia was now seen as a less able ally for France... and on and on such analysis could go!<p>With respect to this article, I would take the lesson of the early 20th century and WWI and ask:<p>Is there any major geopolitical development that is generally assumed to be inevitable, and how might modern technology upset the assumptions of the powers-that-be in their planned response to that event?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>solresol</author><text>Both China and the USA think that any invasion into their territories will inevitably fail because of the strength of their armies and because of the long supply chains that their enemy would need to maintain to hold a position.<p>Both sides also believe that the other side will inevitably fail because the other side&#x27;s political system and ideology is so broken.<p>But because of the first point they both feel confident that the collapse of the other is going to be containable and controllable.<p>The technological developments (even if morally wrong) are autonomous fighting vehicles that rain mayhem and destruction; and engineered viruses. A failed state can still cause the other side to lose a war, leaving no winners.</text></comment> |
37,221,342 | 37,221,016 | 1 | 2 | 37,218,841 | train | <story><title>I walked across Luxembourg</title><url>https://blog.ioces.com/matt/posts/i-walked-across-luxembourg/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>famahar</author><text>I walked across Tokyo last weekend. Took me 20 hours. I suck at writing so all I&#x27;ll say is that everyone should walk across a city. It&#x27;s a magical experience. Turn off your your phone, bring a disposable camera and a compass and just walk. You&#x27;ll discover so many personal insights.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>gullywhumper</author><text>For my 30th birthday a group of friends and I walked the perimeter of Manhattan island. Except for a section along the Harlem river, there are paths along the water the entire way so it required almost no navigation. We picked up and dropped off friends along way that only wanted to do parts of the walk. And we stopped at several bars too, meeting other friends that just wanted to have a drink. We started at 8am and finished just after 4am. I would definitely do it again, even without the friends or bars - but they definitely made it a memorable adventure.</text></comment> | <story><title>I walked across Luxembourg</title><url>https://blog.ioces.com/matt/posts/i-walked-across-luxembourg/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>famahar</author><text>I walked across Tokyo last weekend. Took me 20 hours. I suck at writing so all I&#x27;ll say is that everyone should walk across a city. It&#x27;s a magical experience. Turn off your your phone, bring a disposable camera and a compass and just walk. You&#x27;ll discover so many personal insights.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>sph</author><text>If one cannot afford to travel, videos such as these are a good alternative:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=qgfd-uWTVwg">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=qgfd-uWTVwg</a> (Kyoto under the rain)<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=UgYPErtoljI">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=UgYPErtoljI</a> (A stroll in a small town near Tokyo)</text></comment> |
12,203,275 | 12,202,730 | 1 | 3 | 12,201,417 | train | <story><title>Olympic executives cash in on a ‘Movement’ that keeps athletes poor</title><url>https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/olympics/olympic-executives-cash-in-on-a-movement-that-keeps-athletes-poor/2016/07/30/ed18c206-5346-11e6-88eb-7dda4e2f2aec_story.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>LanceH</author><text>The IOC gets the money because they bring the value to the table. All these same athletes are competing all year, every year. Which event does everyone watch?<p>A javelin thrower isn&#x27;t making much money? I&#x27;m sorry, but I have all the javelin throwers in my life that I need. Not that I would have seen him on tv anyway since it isn&#x27;t gymnastics, swimming, men&#x27;s basketball or a track final with an American contending for gold.<p>Sure this level of performance is amazing, it&#x27;s just not valuable.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Bartweiss</author><text>This is more than a bit unconvincing.<p>I have all the basketball forwards I need, but Channing Frye isn&#x27;t living on food stamps. He&#x27;s not the one people come to see, but he helps keep a competitive organization running so that there&#x27;s a platform for LeBron (who people <i>do</i> come to see). Your personal interest in a mid-range competitor doesn&#x27;t determine their value, because they&#x27;re helping to enable the higher-profit performers.<p>If the Olympic competition isn&#x27;t a value generator, then the coaches and functionaries enabling the athletes are even less valuable than the athletes themselves. God knows the spectacle and ceremony part of the Olympics isn&#x27;t a money-maker, that&#x27;s why cities aggressively resist having it come to town.<p>The assumption that any of this is a function of market forces is funny to me. Sponsorships are probably the only free-market aspect of the whole program (or they would be if they weren&#x27;t exclusive and determined above the athlete level) - the IOC operates as a &#x27;charity&#x27; drawing money from national governments. As a result they&#x27;re completely un-accountable to market forces, and athletes can&#x27;t make any effort to collect their value. The highest-profile competition in the world is funded by donations, and they can&#x27;t escape it.<p>Jack Warner and his ilk at FIFA weren&#x27;t making a fortune because they were so efficient and talented, they were making money because principal-agent problems and regulatory capture are real. If the people raising player funding are also deciding how to spend it, they&#x27;re likely to declare themselves invaluable and keep it all at the top.</text></comment> | <story><title>Olympic executives cash in on a ‘Movement’ that keeps athletes poor</title><url>https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/olympics/olympic-executives-cash-in-on-a-movement-that-keeps-athletes-poor/2016/07/30/ed18c206-5346-11e6-88eb-7dda4e2f2aec_story.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>LanceH</author><text>The IOC gets the money because they bring the value to the table. All these same athletes are competing all year, every year. Which event does everyone watch?<p>A javelin thrower isn&#x27;t making much money? I&#x27;m sorry, but I have all the javelin throwers in my life that I need. Not that I would have seen him on tv anyway since it isn&#x27;t gymnastics, swimming, men&#x27;s basketball or a track final with an American contending for gold.<p>Sure this level of performance is amazing, it&#x27;s just not valuable.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ProAm</author><text>That&#x27;s fine, but the IOC should allow the athlete&#x27;s wear their own sponsorship&#x27;s at the games then.. Let the athlete&#x27;s earn their own money.</text></comment> |
32,646,998 | 32,646,881 | 1 | 2 | 32,646,690 | train | <story><title>Packed structs in Zig make bit/flag sets trivial</title><url>https://devlog.hexops.com/2022/packed-structs-in-zig/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>arjvik</author><text>if (mask &amp; (WGPUColorWriteMask_Alpha|WGPUColorWriteMask_Blue)) {
&#x2F;&#x2F; alpha and blue are set..
}<p>Doesn&#x27;t this give you if alpha OR blue is set?<p>Errors like this are another reason syntactical sugar for readability is important.</text></comment> | <story><title>Packed structs in Zig make bit/flag sets trivial</title><url>https://devlog.hexops.com/2022/packed-structs-in-zig/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>MobiusHorizons</author><text>This is a nice syntax, but the functionality seems essentially the same as bit fields in C. Does this provide anything additional?</text></comment> |
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