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32,804,743 | 32,804,582 | 1 | 2 | 32,804,189 | train | <story><title>.ai</title><url>http://www.ai?</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Retr0id</author><text>The submission link is unnecessarily long, <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;ai" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;ai</a> ought to work</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mindcrime</author><text>Interesting. Using my default DNS settings, this doesn&#x27;t work for me. I have systemd-resolved running, and the upstream DNS server is my OpenWRT router (which until I changed it a few minutes ago, was configured to use the default DNS servers provided by my ISP as its upstream).<p>In that configuration, trying to ping ai. yields:<p><pre><code> $ ping ai.
ping: ai.: Temporary failure in name resolution
</code></pre>
But if I edit &#x2F;etc&#x2F;resolv.conf and change the nameserver to 8.8.8.8 like this:<p><pre><code> # nameserver 127.0.0.53
nameserver 8.8.8.8
</code></pre>
it works fine.<p><pre><code> $ ping ai.
PING ai (209.59.119.34) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from offshore.ai (209.59.119.34): icmp_seq=1 ttl=49 time=71.3 ms
</code></pre>
Hmm... I wonder if that&#x27;s a systemd-resolved issue, or an OpenWRT issue, or &quot;other&quot;?</text></comment> | <story><title>.ai</title><url>http://www.ai?</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Retr0id</author><text>The submission link is unnecessarily long, <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;ai" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;ai</a> ought to work</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>geowwy</author><text><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;ai&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;ai&#x2F;</a> doesn&#x27;t work for me, but <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;ai.&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;ai.&#x2F;</a> does</text></comment> |
24,387,239 | 24,387,130 | 1 | 2 | 24,386,584 | train | <story><title>Traffic Prediction with Advanced Graph Neural Networks</title><url>https://deepmind.com/blog/article/traffic-prediction-with-advanced-graph-neural-networks</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>2bitencryption</author><text>Google Map&#x27;s traffic prediction has always led me to a very curious question:<p>Clearly Google Maps has the ability to turn into a feedback loop. Traffic exists -&gt; people use Google Maps to find better routes -&gt; traffic is modified due to people taking alternate routes -&gt; new traffic emerges.<p>So my question is: what is Google Maps traffic optimizing for? The best traffic experience for User 3982274, or the best traffic experience for the conglomerate of all cars on the road?<p>Should Google Maps route several cars through a suboptimal route, if it results in traffic as a whole becoming better?<p>If Google Maps is &quot;greedy&quot; for every driver, can that make a traffic problem worse?<p>In reality, I guess this problem is more hypothetical than real, at least today. But imagine this: in 30 years, if all cars are self-driving and self-navigating via systems like Google Maps, what is the system optimizing for?<p>edit: there&#x27;s also Braess&#x27;s paradox. I&#x27;m not sure if it applies here, but perhaps it does -- could &quot;sending some users down a new route during heavy traffic&quot; be identical to &quot;adding a road to a network&quot;, which can therefore result in the paradox (worse network conditions for everyone)?<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Braess%27s_paradox" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Braess%27s_paradox</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>adanto6840</author><text>It&#x27;s a good question, even if it&#x27;s likely not applicable practically yet. In a game my company created, we implemented cooperative realtime pathfinding using WHCA* -- an algorithm that David Silver published [0] (he&#x27;s now working at DeepMind last I looked).<p>WHCA* turned out to be a bit too suboptimal for our use-case, people generally expected &quot;perfectly optimal&quot; routes to be used for aircraft, and they weren&#x27;t even overly happy with most-optimal &quot;for-all&quot; paths either. We eventually implemented a relatively simple &quot;AStar-3D&quot;, essentially just A* against a space-time graph, and it&#x27;s greedy&#x2F;FIFO -- meaning it&#x27;s optimal for each aircraft at the time the aircraft runs it&#x27;s path. That made people happy -- aircraft no longer did seemingly stupid things like &quot;oscillate&quot;, or get &quot;temp. stuck&quot; for overly long periods, etc.<p>I had no idea cooperative path-planning was so damn difficult -- I remember estimating it as a 1-week mini-project initially. Wow, such naivety, and that&#x27;s when you even have perfect information! Such a cool domain, tons of respect for the work that&#x27;s being done here, even if there are some tricky&#x2F;ethical aspects that are going to come into play eventually, inevitably. :)<p>0 - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.aaai.org&#x2F;Papers&#x2F;AIIDE&#x2F;2005&#x2F;AIIDE05-020.pdf" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.aaai.org&#x2F;Papers&#x2F;AIIDE&#x2F;2005&#x2F;AIIDE05-020.pdf</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Traffic Prediction with Advanced Graph Neural Networks</title><url>https://deepmind.com/blog/article/traffic-prediction-with-advanced-graph-neural-networks</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>2bitencryption</author><text>Google Map&#x27;s traffic prediction has always led me to a very curious question:<p>Clearly Google Maps has the ability to turn into a feedback loop. Traffic exists -&gt; people use Google Maps to find better routes -&gt; traffic is modified due to people taking alternate routes -&gt; new traffic emerges.<p>So my question is: what is Google Maps traffic optimizing for? The best traffic experience for User 3982274, or the best traffic experience for the conglomerate of all cars on the road?<p>Should Google Maps route several cars through a suboptimal route, if it results in traffic as a whole becoming better?<p>If Google Maps is &quot;greedy&quot; for every driver, can that make a traffic problem worse?<p>In reality, I guess this problem is more hypothetical than real, at least today. But imagine this: in 30 years, if all cars are self-driving and self-navigating via systems like Google Maps, what is the system optimizing for?<p>edit: there&#x27;s also Braess&#x27;s paradox. I&#x27;m not sure if it applies here, but perhaps it does -- could &quot;sending some users down a new route during heavy traffic&quot; be identical to &quot;adding a road to a network&quot;, which can therefore result in the paradox (worse network conditions for everyone)?<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Braess%27s_paradox" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Braess%27s_paradox</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>paxys</author><text>When User 3982274 is on a busy road using the app, Google optimizes for that user&#x27;s experience. If every user on that road is using the app at the same time, these algorithms should theoretically result in the optimal condition you described above.<p>For example, if there are two roads leading up to the destination, one at 100% capacity and the other at 0%. The app will start routing people from road 1 to road 2. When the two balance out and the app will stop the suggestion. Even though it helped only some individual users, the end result is a 50&#x2F;50 split, so good for everyone.</text></comment> |
19,772,986 | 19,772,963 | 1 | 2 | 19,770,994 | train | <story><title>Over 13% of the homes in Japan are abandoned</title><url>http://flip.it/XKsblo</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>puranjay</author><text>Where <i>are</i> affordable homes anymore in any big city in the world now? A good apartment in Delhi, India, is 4-6 times the annual income of a high income DINK couple with salaries in excess of $40-50k each (a big amount in India)<p>I can&#x27;t think of a single major economic center that has affordable housing now.</text></item><item><author>TulliusCicero</author><text>Which is bad. It&#x27;s possible it may end up benefiting me since my parents own a home in the bay area, but I still think it&#x27;s bad.<p>The entire prop 13 + zoning + property value situation is terrible, it&#x27;s a total pyramid scheme: older generations get wealthy through wealth transfers from the younger generation from inflating property values. But it can only work once or twice before the property values are so comically high that even high income DINK couples can&#x27;t afford to buy in.</text></item><item><author>Kalium</author><text>&gt; Move the story to California. A three bedroom home in the San Francisco Bay Area, covered by Proposition 13, purchased by ordinary working people with good financial habits, around the 1970 time frame, and a working late-thirties, early forties person with some savings and good financial habits, cannot afford to take the home under almost any circumstances due to property taxes (cost of ownership) and competition for financing (loans not available in practice due to terms).<p>California actually has ways to inherit not only the home of your parents and grandparents, but also their tax rate.</text></item><item><author>mistrial9</author><text>A modern Japanese man, working in tech in California, in his late thirties or early forties spoke with his parents back home in Tokyo five years ago about two houses the family owns, which are in desirable areas, well-maintained and currently occupied. The taxes and financing are such that there is no current scenario where the man could own one or both of these homes. It is simply too expensive. None of the people in this vignette are poor, they are all moderately wealthy people, who have fairly substantial income, and some savings.<p>Move the story to California. A three bedroom home in the San Francisco Bay Area, covered by Proposition 13, purchased by ordinary working people with good financial habits, around the 1970 time frame, and a working late-thirties, early forties person with some savings and good financial habits, cannot afford to take the home under almost any circumstances due to property taxes (cost of ownership) and competition for financing (loans not available in practice due to terms).<p>There is a lot of emotion on both sides of the Pacific in each of these cases. Individuals are quick to point fingers at the other individuals. It has been decades in the making, and the situation is not new. Many on both sides of the Pacific are renting at high prices (no accumulated capital) and deferring (or avoiding) having children.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>TulliusCicero</author><text>Tokyo has decently affordable rent relative to its size&#x2F;level of prosperity. Compare it to NYC or the SF bay area and it&#x27;s no contest.<p>Vienna <i>can</i> be cheap to live in because a large percentage of the housing is the social&#x2F;public kind.</text></comment> | <story><title>Over 13% of the homes in Japan are abandoned</title><url>http://flip.it/XKsblo</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>puranjay</author><text>Where <i>are</i> affordable homes anymore in any big city in the world now? A good apartment in Delhi, India, is 4-6 times the annual income of a high income DINK couple with salaries in excess of $40-50k each (a big amount in India)<p>I can&#x27;t think of a single major economic center that has affordable housing now.</text></item><item><author>TulliusCicero</author><text>Which is bad. It&#x27;s possible it may end up benefiting me since my parents own a home in the bay area, but I still think it&#x27;s bad.<p>The entire prop 13 + zoning + property value situation is terrible, it&#x27;s a total pyramid scheme: older generations get wealthy through wealth transfers from the younger generation from inflating property values. But it can only work once or twice before the property values are so comically high that even high income DINK couples can&#x27;t afford to buy in.</text></item><item><author>Kalium</author><text>&gt; Move the story to California. A three bedroom home in the San Francisco Bay Area, covered by Proposition 13, purchased by ordinary working people with good financial habits, around the 1970 time frame, and a working late-thirties, early forties person with some savings and good financial habits, cannot afford to take the home under almost any circumstances due to property taxes (cost of ownership) and competition for financing (loans not available in practice due to terms).<p>California actually has ways to inherit not only the home of your parents and grandparents, but also their tax rate.</text></item><item><author>mistrial9</author><text>A modern Japanese man, working in tech in California, in his late thirties or early forties spoke with his parents back home in Tokyo five years ago about two houses the family owns, which are in desirable areas, well-maintained and currently occupied. The taxes and financing are such that there is no current scenario where the man could own one or both of these homes. It is simply too expensive. None of the people in this vignette are poor, they are all moderately wealthy people, who have fairly substantial income, and some savings.<p>Move the story to California. A three bedroom home in the San Francisco Bay Area, covered by Proposition 13, purchased by ordinary working people with good financial habits, around the 1970 time frame, and a working late-thirties, early forties person with some savings and good financial habits, cannot afford to take the home under almost any circumstances due to property taxes (cost of ownership) and competition for financing (loans not available in practice due to terms).<p>There is a lot of emotion on both sides of the Pacific in each of these cases. Individuals are quick to point fingers at the other individuals. It has been decades in the making, and the situation is not new. Many on both sides of the Pacific are renting at high prices (no accumulated capital) and deferring (or avoiding) having children.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>sandworm101</author><text>&gt;&gt;I can&#x27;t think of a single major economic center that has affordable housing now.<p>That&#x27;s what makes them major economic centers: real estate prices. The building, renovation, redevelopment, renting and investing of real estate ... that a massive part of the the modern economy. Think Vancouver makes its money on tourism or lumber? Fishing? It is all down to industry that is perpetually-increasing land values.</text></comment> |
9,286,632 | 9,285,970 | 1 | 2 | 9,284,226 | train | <story><title>GitHub under ongoing DDoS attack</title><url>https://status.github.com/messages?latest</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Qantourisc</author><text>We should never take up arms for a thread that has no human casualties, especially when there are alternatives.
If your neighbour enter your home uninvited, because the door is not locked, the first thing you do is ask nicely not to do that. The next thing you do is lock the door. You don&#x27;t start shooting at them first ...</text></item><item><author>mckoss</author><text>&quot;Bully&quot; is rather too weak a label for the perpetrator. This attack is criminal. If carried out by a sovereign nation, perhaps an act of war. We don&#x27;t allow foreign raiding parties to enter our country to loot private businesses. Neither should we treat this attack as a simple act of &quot;bullying&quot;.<p>GitHub should get the full support of federal law enforcement, if not the military.</text></item><item><author>gog</author><text>As a paying customer of Github I want them to know they have my undivided support in staying strong against &quot;the bullies&quot;.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>briandear</author><text>So if a government shut down US airports for 72 hours but resulting in no loss of life, should we just sit back and do nothing? A risk to human life isn&#x27;t the only threshold that determines retaliation. A risk to economic activity is just as provocative as physical violence. How about if they attacked the power grid? A huge number of companies&#x27;s businesses depend on services like github. Do we just hold hands and choose to pray for a solution or do we hit the perpetrators in the gut? If the Chinese are behind it, we should immediately start seizing their US assets until such time as they put an end to the nonsense. If the Chinese can thwart Google, they sure as hell have the means to stop a cyber attack from their soil: even if they are directly the ones doing it. Alternatively, their cables could be cut (there are only about 7 that connect China with the outside Internet.) if someone is spraying you with a firehouse, cutting off their water supply is a just and reasonable response.</text></comment> | <story><title>GitHub under ongoing DDoS attack</title><url>https://status.github.com/messages?latest</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Qantourisc</author><text>We should never take up arms for a thread that has no human casualties, especially when there are alternatives.
If your neighbour enter your home uninvited, because the door is not locked, the first thing you do is ask nicely not to do that. The next thing you do is lock the door. You don&#x27;t start shooting at them first ...</text></item><item><author>mckoss</author><text>&quot;Bully&quot; is rather too weak a label for the perpetrator. This attack is criminal. If carried out by a sovereign nation, perhaps an act of war. We don&#x27;t allow foreign raiding parties to enter our country to loot private businesses. Neither should we treat this attack as a simple act of &quot;bullying&quot;.<p>GitHub should get the full support of federal law enforcement, if not the military.</text></item><item><author>gog</author><text>As a paying customer of Github I want them to know they have my undivided support in staying strong against &quot;the bullies&quot;.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>trekky1700</author><text>They didn&#x27;t just enter an unlocked door. They&#x27;re smashing GitHub&#x27;s windows, kicking GitHub&#x27;s dog and flipping over furniture.</text></comment> |
40,730,519 | 40,730,308 | 1 | 3 | 40,730,228 | train | <story><title>F (2006)</title><url>http://www.nsl.com/k/f/f.htm</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>declan_roberts</author><text>&gt; All primitives are denoted by single symbols<p>Take an axe to the troubleshoot-ability of your language with this one weird trick that makes it impossible to google.</text></comment> | <story><title>F (2006)</title><url>http://www.nsl.com/k/f/f.htm</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>dang</author><text>Related. Others?<p><i>F (2006)</i> - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=24238846">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=24238846</a> - Aug 2020 (56 comments)<p><i>F – a pure functional concatenative language (2006)</i> - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=10776314">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=10776314</a> - Dec 2015 (7 comments)</text></comment> |
27,657,647 | 27,655,963 | 1 | 2 | 27,654,807 | train | <story><title>Typed Programs Don't Leak Data</title><url>https://dodisturb.me/posts/2021-06-27-Typed-Programs-Dont-Leak-Data.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>titzer</author><text>That&#x27;s great, but microarchitectural sidechannels in all modern hardware allow a program to read every byte in its entire address space.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>gwbas1c</author><text>You&#x27;re confusing two different concepts.<p>I once encountered a situation where a junior programmer just wrote the password to the log file.<p>The point of using a separate type for secure data is to allow the compiler to try to trap situations where sensitive data is used incorrectly. (Yes, a dedicated moron could probably work around this kind of trap, but there is no such thing as a 100% perfect safety net.)<p>Trying to prevent data leaks at the hardware level is a completely different problem with a completely different solution.</text></comment> | <story><title>Typed Programs Don't Leak Data</title><url>https://dodisturb.me/posts/2021-06-27-Typed-Programs-Dont-Leak-Data.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>titzer</author><text>That&#x27;s great, but microarchitectural sidechannels in all modern hardware allow a program to read every byte in its entire address space.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>wyldfire</author><text>That&#x27;s a risk that should be independently assessed. This could mitigate accidental design decisions that would emit data that&#x27;s not intended to be revealed. It would force designers to explicitly cast data as having been transformed to be safely emitted.</text></comment> |
13,904,016 | 13,904,070 | 1 | 2 | 13,901,873 | train | <story><title>To www or not www</title><url>https://www.netlify.com/blog/2017/02/28/to-www-or-not-www/?utm_content=buffer67bee&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>karlshea</author><text>At least we&#x27;ve mostly gotten away from &quot;h-t-t-p-colon-slash-slash...&quot;</text></item><item><author>edmccard</author><text>&gt;having seen a lot of non-savvy users use Internet, I am firmly with WWW<p>As an anecdotal counterpoint, at our family Christmas, I mentioned a few different urls, spelling out &quot;www&quot; each time; one of my nieces said &quot;why do you keep saying &#x27;www&#x27;&quot;, and one of the other kids said &quot;that&#x27;s how old people find websites.&quot; After some discussion, it turned out that nearly everyone over 30 habitually wrote urls with &quot;www&quot; at the front, and everyone under 18 always omitted it.</text></item><item><author>arihant</author><text>I understand the article walks through the technical aspects. However, having seen a lot of non-savvy users use Internet, I am firmly with WWW. Probably because of association and all major &quot;established&quot; companies using www, people associate it with strength. I have learned it to be important in similar ways that a .com extension is.<p>If the site did not have www, most people assumed it is probably made by kids, who do not have www yet. See, most people do not understand that www is not a domain like .com which you have to buy. So for average joe consumer, it signals strength. For an enterprise customer, it probably does too. So unless your product is for savvy users or zen-like designers, I&#x27;d stick with www.<p>A lot of people think that naked domain is cleaner. It is actually not, since the average mind is conditioned to read www.x.com, and you have <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;x.com" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;x.com</a>. It&#x27;s cleaner in the sense that a face is cleaner without a nose.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tomatsu</author><text>I always thought it was odd when they go with the whole &quot;<a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.&quot;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.&quot;</a> voodoo ritual, but then they skip the final slash after the domain.</text></comment> | <story><title>To www or not www</title><url>https://www.netlify.com/blog/2017/02/28/to-www-or-not-www/?utm_content=buffer67bee&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>karlshea</author><text>At least we&#x27;ve mostly gotten away from &quot;h-t-t-p-colon-slash-slash...&quot;</text></item><item><author>edmccard</author><text>&gt;having seen a lot of non-savvy users use Internet, I am firmly with WWW<p>As an anecdotal counterpoint, at our family Christmas, I mentioned a few different urls, spelling out &quot;www&quot; each time; one of my nieces said &quot;why do you keep saying &#x27;www&#x27;&quot;, and one of the other kids said &quot;that&#x27;s how old people find websites.&quot; After some discussion, it turned out that nearly everyone over 30 habitually wrote urls with &quot;www&quot; at the front, and everyone under 18 always omitted it.</text></item><item><author>arihant</author><text>I understand the article walks through the technical aspects. However, having seen a lot of non-savvy users use Internet, I am firmly with WWW. Probably because of association and all major &quot;established&quot; companies using www, people associate it with strength. I have learned it to be important in similar ways that a .com extension is.<p>If the site did not have www, most people assumed it is probably made by kids, who do not have www yet. See, most people do not understand that www is not a domain like .com which you have to buy. So for average joe consumer, it signals strength. For an enterprise customer, it probably does too. So unless your product is for savvy users or zen-like designers, I&#x27;d stick with www.<p>A lot of people think that naked domain is cleaner. It is actually not, since the average mind is conditioned to read www.x.com, and you have <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;x.com" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;x.com</a>. It&#x27;s cleaner in the sense that a face is cleaner without a nose.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>edmccard</author><text>Or even worse, &quot;h-t-t-p-colon-backslash-backslash...&quot; from people who were used to saying &quot;c-colon-backslash&quot;</text></comment> |
23,652,012 | 23,652,044 | 1 | 2 | 23,648,864 | train | <story><title>Turn recipe websites into plain text</title><url>https://plainoldrecipe.com/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>benawad</author><text>It looks like you&#x27;re using the recipe-scrapers library to scrape recipes which only supports a set number of websites.<p>If you want to expand that, I recommend parsing JSON+LD and Microformats. Given your parsers folder [2], it looks like you&#x27;ve tried it, but only for specific websites. I would make that generic and check whether the metadata is available on any website. I wrote a blog post on this if you&#x27;re interested [3].<p>source: I&#x27;ve built a very similar tool for my cooking app: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.mysaffronapp.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.mysaffronapp.com&#x2F;</a><p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;hhursev&#x2F;recipe-scrapers" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;hhursev&#x2F;recipe-scrapers</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;poundifdef&#x2F;plainoldrecipe&#x2F;blob&#x2F;master&#x2F;parsers&#x2F;bowlofdelicious.py" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;poundifdef&#x2F;plainoldrecipe&#x2F;blob&#x2F;master&#x2F;par...</a><p>[3] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.benawad.com&#x2F;scraping-recipe-websites&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.benawad.com&#x2F;scraping-recipe-websites&#x2F;</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>xtracto</author><text>Howdy crap... I just created an account on your website and added one random recipe (cashew nut yoghurt) that did not work on the original post site, and it worked like a charm!<p>You&#x27;ve got a new paying customer :)<p>I&#x27;d been looking for something like your app for a long time.<p>Ough, your PayPal flow is not working :( fix that and you&#x27;ll have a paying customer haha</text></comment> | <story><title>Turn recipe websites into plain text</title><url>https://plainoldrecipe.com/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>benawad</author><text>It looks like you&#x27;re using the recipe-scrapers library to scrape recipes which only supports a set number of websites.<p>If you want to expand that, I recommend parsing JSON+LD and Microformats. Given your parsers folder [2], it looks like you&#x27;ve tried it, but only for specific websites. I would make that generic and check whether the metadata is available on any website. I wrote a blog post on this if you&#x27;re interested [3].<p>source: I&#x27;ve built a very similar tool for my cooking app: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.mysaffronapp.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.mysaffronapp.com&#x2F;</a><p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;hhursev&#x2F;recipe-scrapers" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;hhursev&#x2F;recipe-scrapers</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;poundifdef&#x2F;plainoldrecipe&#x2F;blob&#x2F;master&#x2F;parsers&#x2F;bowlofdelicious.py" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;poundifdef&#x2F;plainoldrecipe&#x2F;blob&#x2F;master&#x2F;par...</a><p>[3] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.benawad.com&#x2F;scraping-recipe-websites&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.benawad.com&#x2F;scraping-recipe-websites&#x2F;</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>memset</author><text>Thanks for sharing! I also want to make the JSON+LD stuff generic, but I have found that there are sometimes different renditions of that format. Though, now that I&#x27;ve looked at it, I only have 1 example of something non-standard, which doesn&#x27;t include the @graph directive.<p>So that just requires some more research and testing. Perhaps someone enterprising will read this and make a pull request...<p>Saffron looks great, I had encountered it before building this for myself. Your blog post is quite illuminating - perhaps the first practical application of LCA that I&#x27;ve seen outside of an interview setting :)</text></comment> |
35,271,599 | 35,271,719 | 1 | 2 | 35,266,054 | train | <story><title>Companies to publish salary ranges in job adverts under new EU rules</title><url>https://www.businesspost.ie/politics/companies-will-have-to-publish-salary-ranges-in-job-adverts-under-new-eu-transparency-rules/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>oblio</author><text>It&#x27;s incredible how many people here are against transparency and a better labor market providing more information to the supplier side.<p>Lord knows companies have probably 80% of the leverage in the job market.<p>Tech people are doomed not by AIs, but by lack of solidarity, raw greed and lack of long term vision.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>piva00</author><text>The lack of worker solidarity in tech is really astounding.<p>I&#x27;ve been in this industry for almost 20 years and have been trying to instill some sense of it in every workplace I worked. Some decades ago it really seemed that tech workers felt like they were just tech moguls that hadn&#x27;t made it yet, any kind of labour protection was looked at as &quot;stifling innovation&quot;.<p>Only lately I&#x27;ve seen people listen to me when I bring up that if you depend on a salary you&#x27;re on the same side as 99% of other people, no matter you have a run away of 6 months saved, if you lose your job for 6-12 months and will be fucked by it you should have solidarity with others in the same spot or worse.<p>Trying to bring up class struggles used to be mocked in the tech scene, I feel that people are slowly waking up though, the latest layoffs definitely got me surprised about some folks I know finally understanding what that means.</text></comment> | <story><title>Companies to publish salary ranges in job adverts under new EU rules</title><url>https://www.businesspost.ie/politics/companies-will-have-to-publish-salary-ranges-in-job-adverts-under-new-eu-transparency-rules/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>oblio</author><text>It&#x27;s incredible how many people here are against transparency and a better labor market providing more information to the supplier side.<p>Lord knows companies have probably 80% of the leverage in the job market.<p>Tech people are doomed not by AIs, but by lack of solidarity, raw greed and lack of long term vision.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>blitzar</author><text>&gt; but by lack of solidarity, raw greed<p>Their salary is because <i>they</i> are exceptional, other people are not as exceptional and are unworthy of such things.<p>It isn&#x27;t a lack of solidarity or greed, its a lack of humility.</text></comment> |
3,813,027 | 3,813,028 | 1 | 3 | 3,812,415 | train | <story><title>Surf Air: Unlimited Flights for $1k/mo</title><url>http://www.surfair.com</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>abalashov</author><text>Whatever the commercial viability of this particular idea, I hope that pressure from such ventures, whether delusional or otherwise, can inspire greater democratisation and fare transparency in air travel. For instance, I would be willing to pay an airline some amount of monthly recurring fees (though perhaps not $1k) to option certain seats on a large selection of flights at low prices. The monthly recurring revenue could, in theory, offset the impact of my unpredictability as a passenger on booking calculations.<p>Edit: On the other hand, I'd much rather the money go into some sort of vaguely 21st century high-speed rail infrastructure, particularly for short to medium inter-city trips. The absence of such makes us the laughingstock of Europe and Asia.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>robomartin</author><text>&#62; I'd much rather the money go into some sort of vaguely 21st century high-speed rail infrastructure, particularly for short to medium inter-city trips.<p>Yikes! No! This is a complete waste of money. Our cities are just not built to make use of something like this. The various stake holders (environmental groups, politicians, industry, unions, etc.) all but make sure that these projects will cost ten times more than they should and end-up in exactly the wrong places. And, because of this, not enough people will use them.<p>Take the proposal that was floating around a while ago (maybe still is) to build a high-speed rail connection between Los Angeles and Las Vegas. Maybe it is a good idea, I don't know. Here's the problem. The start point in LA is Central Station. That's Downtown Los Angeles. In other words, an hour to two hours away from this great mass of people living in the area. That is, if you even want to consider going Downtown (it ain't like Downtown San Francisco). I know I have absolutely zero interest in driving 50 miles to get on a train. Heck, I avoid LAX like the plague.<p>Don't get me wrong. I'd love to see mass transportation akin to what they have in Europe. On my most recent trip I took the train from Amsterdam to Munich. I was great. I think that Europe evolved into this infrastructure while we evolved into something else.<p>Take a city like Amsterdam and look at the light rail going everywhere. And take a look at the tens of thousands of bikes running around. That bike parking lot in Dam Square across from Central Station is simply amazing. Their culture and way of life have evolved around these ideas. Try to bring something like that into a megalopolis like Los Angeles and you'll fail. The place simply was not built with this kind of thinking in the first place. Heck, I drive 60 miles a day just picking up my kids from school!<p>I would like to see a transition to something more sensible than what we are doing today. I really would. I just don't think that high-speed rail is the way to do it and, therefore, think that investing in it would be a complete waste of money and resources.<p>If you want to feed money into something that has the potential to make great changes given our way of life and culture, send your monthly check to companies like Tesla. We desperately need to move away from these horrible, polluting and inefficient gasoline engines into something that provides greater options in terms of where energy might come from and could just be better for the environment.<p>When in Europe do as the Europeans. Here in the US. Well.</text></comment> | <story><title>Surf Air: Unlimited Flights for $1k/mo</title><url>http://www.surfair.com</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>abalashov</author><text>Whatever the commercial viability of this particular idea, I hope that pressure from such ventures, whether delusional or otherwise, can inspire greater democratisation and fare transparency in air travel. For instance, I would be willing to pay an airline some amount of monthly recurring fees (though perhaps not $1k) to option certain seats on a large selection of flights at low prices. The monthly recurring revenue could, in theory, offset the impact of my unpredictability as a passenger on booking calculations.<p>Edit: On the other hand, I'd much rather the money go into some sort of vaguely 21st century high-speed rail infrastructure, particularly for short to medium inter-city trips. The absence of such makes us the laughingstock of Europe and Asia.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tomsaffell</author><text>Funny that you should mention recurring fees in return for lower prices _and_ inter-city rail infrastructure - that's exactly what the Swiss have: <a href="http://www.sbb.ch/en/travelcards-and-tickets/railpasses/half-fare-travelcard.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.sbb.ch/en/travelcards-and-tickets/railpasses/half...</a></text></comment> |
17,374,061 | 17,374,008 | 1 | 2 | 17,371,257 | train | <story><title>Google Engineers Refused to Build Security Tool to Win Military Contracts</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-06-21/google-engineers-refused-to-build-security-tool-to-win-military-contracts</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rayiner</author><text>It&#x27;s ironic on so many levels. The first level is, of course, the irony of refusing to do military work at a company that only exists because of defense contractors working on a military project (ARPANET).<p>More generally, the irony is that the U.S. military has made a far greater positive contribution to the world than Google. Under the <i>Pax Americana</i>, we have seen the greatest number of people rise out of abject poverty in human history. The stable, liberal world order that has been beneficial to so many people has been bankrolled by the U.S. and backed by the U.S. military.<p>This world where people in India and Pakistan are using Gchat Facebook to talk to each other instead of waging nuclear war against each other is not the result of Google or Facebook. It&#x27;s not the result of humans evolving beyond their tendencies towards warfare. It&#x27;s because the U.S. military has made entire classes of armed conflicts untenable.</text></item><item><author>6ue7nNMEEbHcM</author><text>I&#x27;ve seen that kind of thinking in the past and it&#x27;s pretty popular view. I&#x27;m just not so sure about this moral aspect.<p>Why do you think it&#x27;s more moral&#x2F;ethical to abstain of supporting military? Maybe you won&#x27;t do this but be sure that in some other country some similarly talented people will.<p>If you (and many others) abstain from it on similar basis you and closest people you know may be in danger of being affected by more advanced military equipment other (possibly hostile) armies can get.<p>Maybe it&#x27;s just not in people heads that world and homeland safety is not given for free and granted forever.</text></item><item><author>robin_reala</author><text>Every company I apply to is told during the interview process that I will not work on military projects, and that I would probably leave the company if they chose to take on a military contract. If you have personal moral limits and you’re upfront about them then no-one is the worse off; I’ve yet to be turned down for a job over it and, somewhat the opposite, companies seem to appreciate frankness.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>woodruffw</author><text>This country only exists because of Puritan persecution in England, but you don&#x27;t see me thanking the Anglican church for America. Bad means result in good ends all the time; that doesn&#x27;t mean we should celebrate bad means.<p>I agree that the US military has made positive contributions to the world, but I don&#x27;t think it&#x27;s the main source of the <i>Pax Americana</i> -- strong international bodies (NATO, UN, &amp;c), the tendency for democratic nations (the dominant sort in the 20th century) to avoid wars with each other, and advancements in crop science are all individually more responsible for the relative global stability of the last 30 years.<p>I don&#x27;t deny that the military had a role (usually financial) in any or all of the above, but I wouldn&#x27;t call it a causal role: virtually all academic research funding hits the defense world eventually (&quot;food security&quot;, &quot;ecological security&quot;, &amp;c), especially during the Cold War. That&#x27;s the result of political contrivances, not any sort of deep connection between the U.S. military and scientific progress.<p>Finally, I wonder about drawing comparisons between the past U.S. military and current ventures. The Google engineers in question probably wouldn&#x27;t be designing waterproof radios for fastboats; they&#x27;d be training models that &quot;recognize&quot; &quot;terrorists&quot; from afar and systems that pass that information to drones for remote killing. Put another way: the shift away from conventional warfare changes the moral dimensions of working for the military.</text></comment> | <story><title>Google Engineers Refused to Build Security Tool to Win Military Contracts</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-06-21/google-engineers-refused-to-build-security-tool-to-win-military-contracts</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rayiner</author><text>It&#x27;s ironic on so many levels. The first level is, of course, the irony of refusing to do military work at a company that only exists because of defense contractors working on a military project (ARPANET).<p>More generally, the irony is that the U.S. military has made a far greater positive contribution to the world than Google. Under the <i>Pax Americana</i>, we have seen the greatest number of people rise out of abject poverty in human history. The stable, liberal world order that has been beneficial to so many people has been bankrolled by the U.S. and backed by the U.S. military.<p>This world where people in India and Pakistan are using Gchat Facebook to talk to each other instead of waging nuclear war against each other is not the result of Google or Facebook. It&#x27;s not the result of humans evolving beyond their tendencies towards warfare. It&#x27;s because the U.S. military has made entire classes of armed conflicts untenable.</text></item><item><author>6ue7nNMEEbHcM</author><text>I&#x27;ve seen that kind of thinking in the past and it&#x27;s pretty popular view. I&#x27;m just not so sure about this moral aspect.<p>Why do you think it&#x27;s more moral&#x2F;ethical to abstain of supporting military? Maybe you won&#x27;t do this but be sure that in some other country some similarly talented people will.<p>If you (and many others) abstain from it on similar basis you and closest people you know may be in danger of being affected by more advanced military equipment other (possibly hostile) armies can get.<p>Maybe it&#x27;s just not in people heads that world and homeland safety is not given for free and granted forever.</text></item><item><author>robin_reala</author><text>Every company I apply to is told during the interview process that I will not work on military projects, and that I would probably leave the company if they chose to take on a military contract. If you have personal moral limits and you’re upfront about them then no-one is the worse off; I’ve yet to be turned down for a job over it and, somewhat the opposite, companies seem to appreciate frankness.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kodablah</author><text>&gt; has made [...] have seen [...] has been [...]<p>It&#x27;s unfair to pretend these institutions, their purposes, and their effects stay the same across generations. It is similarly unfair to pretend people&#x27;s perception shouldn&#x27;t change across those same generations while the other factors do change.<p>It&#x27;s like telling someone writing something critical of the Mexican government that it&#x27;s ironic because of Mayan contributions to writing. Sure the timescales of the analogy may appear off, but so do the ones of technological advancement lately.</text></comment> |
2,847,795 | 2,847,254 | 1 | 2 | 2,847,177 | train | <story><title>AsciiFlow - diagram & wireframe tool</title><url>http://asciiflow.com</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jhickner</author><text>If you want something like this without leaving VIM, I recommend DrawIt. I use it all the time:
<a href="http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=40" rel="nofollow">http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=40</a><p>It comes in handy when you need to diagram something in your code comments.</text></comment> | <story><title>AsciiFlow - diagram & wireframe tool</title><url>http://asciiflow.com</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>apgwoz</author><text>See also the discussion 51 days ago: <a href="http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2651745" rel="nofollow">http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2651745</a></text></comment> |
24,241,894 | 24,241,804 | 1 | 2 | 24,241,508 | train | <story><title>Turning the Raspberry Pi 4 into a Mini Server</title><url>https://n-o-d-e.net/node_mini_server3.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>colordrops</author><text>A lot of skepticism in this thread. I&#x27;ve got a pi4 4GB running Ubuntu server, acting as a SMB file server, Plex media server, Mopidy music server, Spotify Connect endpoint, video recorder for my two outdoor IP cameras, and a Minecraft server for my kids, all running simultaneously. And it&#x27;s not breaking a sweat, not even getting close to full memory or CPU utilization.<p>I do use a USB nvme SSD enclosure for storage to be fair, and it&#x27;s only stable when using a powered USB hub.</text></comment> | <story><title>Turning the Raspberry Pi 4 into a Mini Server</title><url>https://n-o-d-e.net/node_mini_server3.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Legogris</author><text>Unless you specifically need the 8GB RAM (where Rpi 4 is the only contender in this range as of right now AFAIK), IMO for server use-cases it&#x27;d be better to consider either Odroid C4 or Rock Pi 4 - both offer better storage interfaces than USB&#x2F;microSD natively. Also easier to run vanilla Debian&#x2F;Ubuntu (or Armbian, which is very close to vanilla but can be easily built custom for either board preconfigured with necessary kernel modules&#x2F;dtbs&#x2F;boot loader&#x2F;drivers&#x2F;firmware for each board).</text></comment> |
21,574,784 | 21,574,464 | 1 | 2 | 21,572,827 | train | <story><title>We ‘may’ have discovered a potential remedy for tinnitus</title><url>https://www.linkedin.com/content-guest/article/we-may-have-discovered-potential-remedy-tinnitus-spencer</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mitch-snipline</author><text>I would urge anyone that suffers from tinnitus to get their hearing checked if they haven&#x27;t already.<p>Getting hearing aids has given me significant relief from tinnitus and if my hearing aid battery dies the tinnitus comes back fairly quickly. It&#x27;s as if my ear is trying to compensate for the lack of sound.<p>Of course, there are multiple reasons for tinnitus to occur so your mileage may very, but it&#x27;s absolutely worth checking out.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>SkyPuncher</author><text>&gt; It&#x27;s as if my ear is trying to compensate for the lack of sound.<p>Holy crap. You just blew my mind. &quot;Silence is deafening&quot; makes more than just figurative sense.<p>From a young age, I&#x27;ve always noticed a light ringing while in extremely quiet places. Not enough to bother me, but enough to notice my ears straining to hear sound.</text></comment> | <story><title>We ‘may’ have discovered a potential remedy for tinnitus</title><url>https://www.linkedin.com/content-guest/article/we-may-have-discovered-potential-remedy-tinnitus-spencer</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mitch-snipline</author><text>I would urge anyone that suffers from tinnitus to get their hearing checked if they haven&#x27;t already.<p>Getting hearing aids has given me significant relief from tinnitus and if my hearing aid battery dies the tinnitus comes back fairly quickly. It&#x27;s as if my ear is trying to compensate for the lack of sound.<p>Of course, there are multiple reasons for tinnitus to occur so your mileage may very, but it&#x27;s absolutely worth checking out.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>flamtap</author><text>&gt;It&#x27;s as if my ear is trying to compensate for the lack of sound.<p>As I understand it, this is exactly what tinnitus is. Your ear becomes insensitive to a certain frequency, so your brain &quot;equalizes&quot; it, if you will, and over compensates to the point that you&#x27;re hearing something that&#x27;s not there.</text></comment> |
33,624,364 | 33,623,996 | 1 | 3 | 33,620,344 | train | <story><title>KDE beats macOS</title><url>https://old.reddit.com/r/kde/comments/yvxz2l/kde_beats_macos_hands_down/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tgv</author><text>How does this particular list of very minor gripes get so many upvotes? And it&#x27;s not just minor gripes, half of them are wrong. Some of them have been addressed by others, but:<p>* Taking screenshots requires to click the preview in order to copy to clipboard, which also causes to save it to Desktop.<p>No, it doesn&#x27;t.<p>* Surprising lack of apps in the store<p>Says someone defending KDE? But hey, strangely enough I&#x27;m typing this in Firefox. I&#x27;ve got Teams running, and Zoom. There really is more than one way to install an app.<p>* The stupid amount of app icons in the &quot;tray&quot; bar. Not collapsible, not hideable.<p>What does that mean? There&#x27;s no tray bar. Is it the menu? Is it the Dock? In both cases, it&#x27;s untrue, or the writer means something else.<p>* No easy way to open a path in Finder<p>Cmd-shift-G or Go &gt; Go to folder isn&#x27;t easy enough? What&#x27;s KDE&#x27;s super brilliant solution?<p>* Finder: no side by side view for easily moving stuff between unrelated folders&#x2F;paths<p>Can&#x27;t open two windows?<p>And even if all were true, it misses so many other points, it&#x27;s embarrassing. What OP means is: I&#x27;ve got a fixed workflow, and now I have to learn a few new shortcuts.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>trymas</author><text>Agreed one hundred percent. Why extremely biased rant from specific DE subreddit (also biased) gets so many upvotes? Who cares?<p>My additions:<p>* Poor to non-existing window tiling (at least Rectangle has very good defaults and works well)<p>There are apps for that, like writer mentioned - so what&#x27;s the problem? I&#x27;d argue that using Expose, Mission Control, Multiple desktops and controlling them with touchpad swipes is faster, more convenient, more intuitive and flexible than tilling window management, but it&#x27;s personal biased opinion, just like the writer&#x27;s.<p>* Missing native Alt+Tab and individual window switching (only does app switching)<p>I either don&#x27;t understand the problem or what&#x27;s wrong with `cmd-tab` for app switching and `cmd-~` for app window switching.<p>* Finder keyboard shortcuts not shown in context menu (makes them far less discoverable)<p>Most, if not all, apps have their keyboard shortcuts shown in the menu bar next to menu bar items.<p>* Lack of native clipboard<p>To be fair - I am intrigued what does writer mean with `native clipboard`? Some sort of built-in app for clipboard management?<p>* Finder&#x27;s weird shortcuts for rename vs open file (no way to open a file with keyboard?)<p>`cmd-o` to open, `enter&#x2F;return` to rename, `space` to quick look. Just because OP is not used to different shortcuts - does not mean it&#x27;s weird. Also many shortcuts are very consistent throughout whole system and throughout different apps.<p>After writing all this - I feel like I fell for the troll [0], but will leave my opinions as it may help for other Macos beginners. IMHO it&#x27;s just a thing of muscle memory and learned workflows.<p>[0] I think it&#x27;s trolling, because clearly he&#x2F;she haven&#x27;t read anything about Macos, because there are plenty of sources (even official ones) for first time Macos users. Something like hiding menu bar and&#x2F;or dock are the most easiest things that you can do while skimming through `System preferences` on your own. Original writer seemingly opened Macbook for a first time, it didn&#x27;t work same as KDE so he&#x2F;she decided to rant about it on reddit. ¯\_(ツ)_&#x2F;¯</text></comment> | <story><title>KDE beats macOS</title><url>https://old.reddit.com/r/kde/comments/yvxz2l/kde_beats_macos_hands_down/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tgv</author><text>How does this particular list of very minor gripes get so many upvotes? And it&#x27;s not just minor gripes, half of them are wrong. Some of them have been addressed by others, but:<p>* Taking screenshots requires to click the preview in order to copy to clipboard, which also causes to save it to Desktop.<p>No, it doesn&#x27;t.<p>* Surprising lack of apps in the store<p>Says someone defending KDE? But hey, strangely enough I&#x27;m typing this in Firefox. I&#x27;ve got Teams running, and Zoom. There really is more than one way to install an app.<p>* The stupid amount of app icons in the &quot;tray&quot; bar. Not collapsible, not hideable.<p>What does that mean? There&#x27;s no tray bar. Is it the menu? Is it the Dock? In both cases, it&#x27;s untrue, or the writer means something else.<p>* No easy way to open a path in Finder<p>Cmd-shift-G or Go &gt; Go to folder isn&#x27;t easy enough? What&#x27;s KDE&#x27;s super brilliant solution?<p>* Finder: no side by side view for easily moving stuff between unrelated folders&#x2F;paths<p>Can&#x27;t open two windows?<p>And even if all were true, it misses so many other points, it&#x27;s embarrassing. What OP means is: I&#x27;ve got a fixed workflow, and now I have to learn a few new shortcuts.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>russelg</author><text>&gt; What does that mean? There&#x27;s no tray bar. Is it the menu? Is it the Dock? In both cases, it&#x27;s untrue, or the writer means something else.<p>They&#x27;re clearly talking about the area on the right of the menu bar. You know, the one you can&#x27;t (temporarily) hide entries for without a third-party app, which is functionality that exists in both Windows and KDE.</text></comment> |
34,367,324 | 34,367,308 | 1 | 3 | 34,367,036 | train | <story><title>I deleted all my social media 3 yrs ago and I hardcore regret it everyday</title><url>https://old.reddit.com/r/nosurf/comments/107osuu/i_deleted_all_my_social_media_about_3_years_ago/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>satysin</author><text>This person is just making things far more complicated than they need to be.<p>&gt; cant make a new Facebook in 2023 and add all these old friends. Literally psychotic behavior.<p>There is nothing &quot;psychotic&quot; about signing up again and adding some old friends again. Many people leave social media and return when they feel more comfortable. They are the only thing blocking themselves from the social interaction they are missing.<p>&gt; I live alone by choice with my cat and separate from my parents and all my siblings and yeah we all text but it’s still nice seeing social media posts from everyone. Maybe I’d feel less isolated. I also feel left out when they talk about some stuff they see.<p>Again they isolate themselves by choice then complain about isolation. There is nothing stopping them from socialising. Nobody has &#x27;ghosted&#x27; them or excluded them from anything.<p>Seems to me like this is somebody that took things too far with a total cut of all social contact rather than just removing some of the more toxic elements of social media from their lives.<p>I don&#x27;t use Facebook, Instagram, Twitter or TikTok because I didn&#x27;t enjoy the never ending stream of content but I still use reddit, Hacker News (obviously), Discord and Slack for keeping in touch with &quot;online friends&quot;. You don&#x27;t have to go to absolute zero for social media to cut out the majority of the toxic stuff but still get some of the benefits from it.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>satysin</author><text>Having now read through some of this persons comments on the thread it seems a huge area of regret for them is that they didn&#x27;t export the content before they closed their accounts.<p>That I can understand is upsetting much like not having backups of family photos and the drive dying. Why they did not export their content I do not know. Facebook, etc. have all had &quot;check out&quot; functionality for many years now, all before the pandemic hit.<p>Seems they rushed into closing their accounts rather than exporting and backing all those memories up and without any kind of plan on what to do to fill the social void it would great. As a commenter wrote in reply to them &quot;I gave up eating McDonald&#x27;s everyday but now I have no food.&quot;</text></comment> | <story><title>I deleted all my social media 3 yrs ago and I hardcore regret it everyday</title><url>https://old.reddit.com/r/nosurf/comments/107osuu/i_deleted_all_my_social_media_about_3_years_ago/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>satysin</author><text>This person is just making things far more complicated than they need to be.<p>&gt; cant make a new Facebook in 2023 and add all these old friends. Literally psychotic behavior.<p>There is nothing &quot;psychotic&quot; about signing up again and adding some old friends again. Many people leave social media and return when they feel more comfortable. They are the only thing blocking themselves from the social interaction they are missing.<p>&gt; I live alone by choice with my cat and separate from my parents and all my siblings and yeah we all text but it’s still nice seeing social media posts from everyone. Maybe I’d feel less isolated. I also feel left out when they talk about some stuff they see.<p>Again they isolate themselves by choice then complain about isolation. There is nothing stopping them from socialising. Nobody has &#x27;ghosted&#x27; them or excluded them from anything.<p>Seems to me like this is somebody that took things too far with a total cut of all social contact rather than just removing some of the more toxic elements of social media from their lives.<p>I don&#x27;t use Facebook, Instagram, Twitter or TikTok because I didn&#x27;t enjoy the never ending stream of content but I still use reddit, Hacker News (obviously), Discord and Slack for keeping in touch with &quot;online friends&quot;. You don&#x27;t have to go to absolute zero for social media to cut out the majority of the toxic stuff but still get some of the benefits from it.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>shusaku</author><text>&gt; There is nothing &quot;psychotic&quot; about signing up again and adding some old friends again<p>Maybe not so extreme but if an old friend added me on Facebook I would immediately assume they want something…<p>But I have to say, I still have Facebook on my phone, and open it from time to time, and it’s pretty barren. I think the consensus among my peers is that sharing something on Facebook is signaling that you’re socially undesirable… so if he signs up again, I think he will find it doesn’t help at all.<p>(Though I still like Facebook as a contact list of last resort)</text></comment> |
12,845,761 | 12,845,755 | 1 | 3 | 12,843,221 | train | <story><title>Show HN: Physics-based CAD</title><url>http://www.prandtl.design/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>diegoandrade</author><text>This is not Physics-based at all, you need to introduce other variables like wind speed around the drone, the direction of the wind, angle of attack, viscosity, etc.
This example is parametric modeling at best or a configurator, not saying that is bad, just has a misleading title. I do not see any real geometry manipulation or groundbreaking CAD being attempted. Here is a viewer that Autodesk released this year using javascript.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;developer.autodesk.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;developer.autodesk.com&#x2F;</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Show HN: Physics-based CAD</title><url>http://www.prandtl.design/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>kylestlb</author><text>Nice project. What are you hoping to add in the future?<p>Our team works on goal directed design as well, but at the moment it&#x27;s less of an interactive optimization tool and more of an involved job running process a la Optistruct. One of our fun projects was a drone body as well :)<p>link for the interested: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;autodeskresearch.com&#x2F;projects&#x2F;dreamcatcher" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;autodeskresearch.com&#x2F;projects&#x2F;dreamcatcher</a></text></comment> |
11,635,966 | 11,636,052 | 1 | 2 | 11,635,371 | train | <story><title>I’m Sorry</title><url>http://www.drcraigwright.net/homepage.jpg</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ryao</author><text>I had not cared that much about this, but his actions are exactly what I would have expected from bitcoin&#x27;s creator. There are some guys who simply do not want to be found. The guy who created Bitcoin is one of them. Making things develop like this simultaneously repairs much of the damage to his anonymity while minimizing the damage to the two guys who put their reputations on the line for him. By acting the way that you are acting, you are acting exactly like he intended for you to act. There is simply insufficient public evidence to say whether he is or is not. He is in that pesky excluded middle that gives rise to pseudo-Boolean logic.<p>That being said, people should realize that the creator of Bitcoin does not want to be found and honor that.</text></item><item><author>dzdt</author><text>He had promised to do the impossible -- cryptographically prove he had access to early coins which he did not in fact have. He had carefully developed two scam-proofs of this.<p>One scam proof was deployed on his blog where he claimed to sign a Sartre text with a key from bitcoin block 9. He carefully did not give the exact input text, only a supposed hash of the text. The hope was anyone trying to replicate would assume their problem was an incorrect source text. And there was proof that the given hash value was signed by the key. But that did not survive internet scrutiny; it was noticed that the signature came from an old bitcoin transaction. Instead of signing the hashed Sartre text as claimed, it signed the old transaction.<p>The other scam proof was presented in private to reporters and bitcoin developers Jon Matonis and Gavin Andresen. Here Wright supposedly demonstrated the ability to sign arbitrary messages using keys from bitcoin blocks 1 and 9. This scam succeeded: both Andresen and Matonis were convinced. But they were not allowed to keep copies of the evidence, to prevent the trick from being exposed. One speculation is that Wright was able to substitute a doctored version of the Electrum software used for the verification. But without evidence to examine outside of Wright&#x27;s control, the exact details of the scam are still hidden.<p>But now Wright is out of ideas. His public-consumption scam failed, and his private controlled-scenario scam can&#x27;t be more widely replicated.<p>So this message is his way of backing out, trying as much as possible to save face and keep open the possibility of claiming the Satoshi Nakamoto identity again later.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dzdt</author><text>So you expected the real Satoshi to keep his anonymity by announcing his identity to the world and then backing up the announcement with &quot;proof&quot; that is clearly false?</text></comment> | <story><title>I’m Sorry</title><url>http://www.drcraigwright.net/homepage.jpg</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ryao</author><text>I had not cared that much about this, but his actions are exactly what I would have expected from bitcoin&#x27;s creator. There are some guys who simply do not want to be found. The guy who created Bitcoin is one of them. Making things develop like this simultaneously repairs much of the damage to his anonymity while minimizing the damage to the two guys who put their reputations on the line for him. By acting the way that you are acting, you are acting exactly like he intended for you to act. There is simply insufficient public evidence to say whether he is or is not. He is in that pesky excluded middle that gives rise to pseudo-Boolean logic.<p>That being said, people should realize that the creator of Bitcoin does not want to be found and honor that.</text></item><item><author>dzdt</author><text>He had promised to do the impossible -- cryptographically prove he had access to early coins which he did not in fact have. He had carefully developed two scam-proofs of this.<p>One scam proof was deployed on his blog where he claimed to sign a Sartre text with a key from bitcoin block 9. He carefully did not give the exact input text, only a supposed hash of the text. The hope was anyone trying to replicate would assume their problem was an incorrect source text. And there was proof that the given hash value was signed by the key. But that did not survive internet scrutiny; it was noticed that the signature came from an old bitcoin transaction. Instead of signing the hashed Sartre text as claimed, it signed the old transaction.<p>The other scam proof was presented in private to reporters and bitcoin developers Jon Matonis and Gavin Andresen. Here Wright supposedly demonstrated the ability to sign arbitrary messages using keys from bitcoin blocks 1 and 9. This scam succeeded: both Andresen and Matonis were convinced. But they were not allowed to keep copies of the evidence, to prevent the trick from being exposed. One speculation is that Wright was able to substitute a doctored version of the Electrum software used for the verification. But without evidence to examine outside of Wright&#x27;s control, the exact details of the scam are still hidden.<p>But now Wright is out of ideas. His public-consumption scam failed, and his private controlled-scenario scam can&#x27;t be more widely replicated.<p>So this message is his way of backing out, trying as much as possible to save face and keep open the possibility of claiming the Satoshi Nakamoto identity again later.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>stupidcar</author><text>Wat?<p>People who &quot;simply do not want to be found&quot; don&#x27;t make any sorts of claims whatsoever. People who make fraudulent claims are scammers, plain and simple.<p>The fraudulent evidence that Wright has presented doesn&#x27;t make it <i>more</i> likely that he&#x27;s Satoshi, they make it much, much <i>less</i> likely. At this point, it&#x27;s more reasonable to assume Donald Trump invented BitCoin than Wright.</text></comment> |
17,585,347 | 17,585,305 | 1 | 2 | 17,585,137 | train | <story><title>p-Hacking and False Discovery in A/B Testing</title><url>https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3204791</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>boron1006</author><text>I would be shocked if it were as low as 57%. As an intern, I found that the analysts in charge of A&#x2F;B tests often didn&#x27;t have a background in science or running experiments, and didn&#x27;t really care. There were a couple of data analytics teams in the company, and I think a lot of the developers didn&#x27;t like my team because we were seen as &quot;fussier&quot; than the other one. We required people to preregister hypotheses, and run experiments for predetermined amounts of time.<p>I don&#x27;t think the tech environment is very conducive to running experiments. Everything moves too fast, by the time you figure out the results someone gives you are bs, they&#x27;ve already got promoted 3 times and work as a director at a different company.<p>I work in science now, and although people still p-hack like hell, there&#x27;s at least some sort of shame about it. There&#x27;s a long term cost too, I&#x27;ve met a couple researchers who have spent years trying to replicate some finding they got early in their career through suspicious means.</text></comment> | <story><title>p-Hacking and False Discovery in A/B Testing</title><url>https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3204791</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>aisscott</author><text>Hi, I am one of the authors. We found that people p-hack with traditional t-tests. Most A&#x2F;B tests were run this way in the past and some still are. The paper is using Optimizely data (from 2014) before Optimizely introduced new testing in 2015 designed to solve the issues we found in the paper.<p>If you want to know how Optimizely prevents p-hacking check out the math behind Optimizely’s current testing here: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.optimizely.com&#x2F;resources&#x2F;stats-engine-whitepaper&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.optimizely.com&#x2F;resources&#x2F;stats-engine-whitepaper...</a></text></comment> |
12,960,840 | 12,961,134 | 1 | 2 | 12,957,768 | train | <story><title>“Radioactive Boy Scout” who tried to build a homemade nuclear reactor dead at 39</title><url>http://arstechnica.com/science/2016/11/this-fall-the-radioactive-boy-scout-died-at-age-39/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Exuma</author><text>Can you touch on ANY details of how this is possible with &#x27;every day items&#x27;? When I think of a reactor, I think of something that looks super complicated and engineered, like CERN. It&#x27;s hard for me to imagine how a reactor can be built by a boy in a shed... what materials did he need? What powers it? What (if any) safety measures are taken... even rudimentary ones?</text></item><item><author>FiatLuxDave</author><text>So, I have complicated feelings about this.<p>I&#x27;m only a few years older than David Hahn. In the early mid nineties, I was also building a nuclear reactor on the down-low. I got my first neutrons a few days before I turned 21. My name is even David as well. So, my friends would always compare me with him as soon as they heard his story.<p>I&#x27;ve always felt a bit of kinship with him, particularly his desire to learn-by-doing about nuclear physics. I&#x27;ve also felt a bit of jealousy at the press he got, pity for the mess he got himself into, and I&#x27;m not sure what to name the feeling (sadness? derision?) for some of the mistakes that he made. I&#x27;m not sure that I would have done better at his age, trying to do what he was doing.<p>There were things I did that were different from him, that I guess led me to a different fate. I made sure not to break any laws (deuteron colliders are under a different set of rules than radioisotopes). I went to college, which was probably easier for me than for him. I involved other people in my project, including getting VC funding. I sure never made a mess like he did.<p>I also made some similar mistakes. I wasn&#x27;t even aware that high voltage power supplies would make x-rays. I was shocked and scared when Spence, our &#x27;adult supervision&#x27; engineer, brought in a Geiger counter and showed us that we were making a fair amount of x-rays. I learned a lot of radiation safety on-the-job, quickly. Without Spence, who knows how badly I would have irradiated myself before learning on my own?<p>We always avoided publicity. Part of that was because we didn&#x27;t want people freaking out that we were doing &quot;nuclear stuff&quot; in a rented office by the railroad tracks in Tallahassee. Our landlord knew, and was cool with it, but we were nervous about how the general public would react. So we kept things private.<p>I used to feel that maybe it was a mistake to keep my fusion project so secret. It certainly didn&#x27;t help my career to be a failed founder with no published papers, without even a press release to point to for my years of work. But when I look at how the mistakes that David Hahn made followed him his whole life, and which weren&#x27;t all that different from mistakes I made in my youth, I think maybe my decision wasn&#x27;t so bad. &quot;Radiation Safety Officer&quot; happens to be one of my job titles these days.<p>Rest in Peace, David.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>paulcole</author><text>You can read the book about The Radioactive Boy Scout:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.amazon.com&#x2F;Radioactive-Boyscout-Story-Nuclear-Reactor&#x2F;dp&#x2F;1841152293" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.amazon.com&#x2F;Radioactive-Boyscout-Story-Nuclear-Re...</a><p>But IIRC the everyday items were smoke detectors with Americium and uranium from old painted clock dials. I think he found a full vial of dried uranium paint hidden inside some random old clock at an antique store.</text></comment> | <story><title>“Radioactive Boy Scout” who tried to build a homemade nuclear reactor dead at 39</title><url>http://arstechnica.com/science/2016/11/this-fall-the-radioactive-boy-scout-died-at-age-39/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Exuma</author><text>Can you touch on ANY details of how this is possible with &#x27;every day items&#x27;? When I think of a reactor, I think of something that looks super complicated and engineered, like CERN. It&#x27;s hard for me to imagine how a reactor can be built by a boy in a shed... what materials did he need? What powers it? What (if any) safety measures are taken... even rudimentary ones?</text></item><item><author>FiatLuxDave</author><text>So, I have complicated feelings about this.<p>I&#x27;m only a few years older than David Hahn. In the early mid nineties, I was also building a nuclear reactor on the down-low. I got my first neutrons a few days before I turned 21. My name is even David as well. So, my friends would always compare me with him as soon as they heard his story.<p>I&#x27;ve always felt a bit of kinship with him, particularly his desire to learn-by-doing about nuclear physics. I&#x27;ve also felt a bit of jealousy at the press he got, pity for the mess he got himself into, and I&#x27;m not sure what to name the feeling (sadness? derision?) for some of the mistakes that he made. I&#x27;m not sure that I would have done better at his age, trying to do what he was doing.<p>There were things I did that were different from him, that I guess led me to a different fate. I made sure not to break any laws (deuteron colliders are under a different set of rules than radioisotopes). I went to college, which was probably easier for me than for him. I involved other people in my project, including getting VC funding. I sure never made a mess like he did.<p>I also made some similar mistakes. I wasn&#x27;t even aware that high voltage power supplies would make x-rays. I was shocked and scared when Spence, our &#x27;adult supervision&#x27; engineer, brought in a Geiger counter and showed us that we were making a fair amount of x-rays. I learned a lot of radiation safety on-the-job, quickly. Without Spence, who knows how badly I would have irradiated myself before learning on my own?<p>We always avoided publicity. Part of that was because we didn&#x27;t want people freaking out that we were doing &quot;nuclear stuff&quot; in a rented office by the railroad tracks in Tallahassee. Our landlord knew, and was cool with it, but we were nervous about how the general public would react. So we kept things private.<p>I used to feel that maybe it was a mistake to keep my fusion project so secret. It certainly didn&#x27;t help my career to be a failed founder with no published papers, without even a press release to point to for my years of work. But when I look at how the mistakes that David Hahn made followed him his whole life, and which weren&#x27;t all that different from mistakes I made in my youth, I think maybe my decision wasn&#x27;t so bad. &quot;Radiation Safety Officer&quot; happens to be one of my job titles these days.<p>Rest in Peace, David.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>keenerd</author><text>Based on the details like deuterium fusion with high voltage, my guess would be that FiatLuxDave built a variant of a Fusor. It is a challenging project but not out of the reach of a dedicated high school student.<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;makezine.com&#x2F;projects&#x2F;make-36-boards&#x2F;nuclear-fusor&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;makezine.com&#x2F;projects&#x2F;make-36-boards&#x2F;nuclear-fusor&#x2F;</a></text></comment> |
33,749,150 | 33,749,253 | 1 | 2 | 33,748,949 | train | <story><title>The Impossible Port: MacOS</title><url>https://blog.ryujinx.org/the-impossible-port-macos/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>neilv</author><text>For emulating vintage gaming hardware that&#x27;s no longer available, one argument would be preservation of the media.<p>But what&#x27;s the rationale (not rationalization) on running an emulation of the Nintendo Switch, when it&#x27;s still commercially available?<p>In practice, is it usually because people want to play the games without paying for the hardware and software?</text></comment> | <story><title>The Impossible Port: MacOS</title><url>https://blog.ryujinx.org/the-impossible-port-macos/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>notpushkin</author><text>Very nice!<p>I wonder how hard it&#x27;d be to get the Asahi Linux supported too :-)<p>EDIT: I see other ARM platforms are being discussed, too, like Nvidia Jetson here: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;Ryujinx&#x2F;Ryujinx&#x2F;issues&#x2F;1884" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;Ryujinx&#x2F;Ryujinx&#x2F;issues&#x2F;1884</a></text></comment> |
15,697,164 | 15,696,874 | 1 | 3 | 15,696,109 | train | <story><title>Germany Is Burning Too Much Coal</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2017-11-14/germany-is-burning-too-much-coal</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>graeme</author><text>I have never understood why people fear nuclear <i>and</i> don’t seem to fear carbon as giscerally or more.<p>I can understand that nuclear has risks. But people seem to evaluate nuclear in a vacuum, rather than against the carbon sources which currently replace it.<p>“What do we do with the waste” is a better question when applied to coal.</text></item><item><author>pm90</author><text>The emergency move away from nuclear has been incredibly short sighted. I understand not wanting to build new reactors, but shutting down running reactors, with all the capital investment involved, just doesn&#x27;t make any sense. Especially when there is little risk of natural disasters in Germany.<p>If people are serious about maintaining the same quality of lifestyle that we have today without burning as much coal, the current solution is Nuclear Energy. Yes it does pose many risks but so does burning coal, and the latter seems to be destroying our environment.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pizzapill</author><text>The fear of nuclear power in Germany comes from the Tschernobyl disaster 1986. A life changing event for many Germans. Not beeing able to leave the house. Cutting a lot of foods from your diet because they are contaminated for decades (mushrooms, game meat, berries etc.).<p>East block countries trying to sell their contaminated food for consumption and it ending up in GDR school kitchens.<p>Additionally having two superpowers stationing a huge arsenal of nuclear bombs in your country. While at the same time beeing sure that you&#x27;d die first in a new world war that would almost surely start in your country and would probably devastate your whole continent beyond beeing suited for human surival.<p>Then the whole argument that its cleaner and cheaper energy. While you pay for transport, storage and security with your tax money and the company keeps the profits. By storage i mean temporar storage, because no one worldwide has figured out how to safely store the waste for hundreds of thousands of years (Pyramids are 4500 years old and we don&#x27;t even know how they are build). Thats why most of this waste from the 80s and 90s lies a few km off our coasts in the sea where the UK, Russia and Italian mafia dumped it.</text></comment> | <story><title>Germany Is Burning Too Much Coal</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2017-11-14/germany-is-burning-too-much-coal</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>graeme</author><text>I have never understood why people fear nuclear <i>and</i> don’t seem to fear carbon as giscerally or more.<p>I can understand that nuclear has risks. But people seem to evaluate nuclear in a vacuum, rather than against the carbon sources which currently replace it.<p>“What do we do with the waste” is a better question when applied to coal.</text></item><item><author>pm90</author><text>The emergency move away from nuclear has been incredibly short sighted. I understand not wanting to build new reactors, but shutting down running reactors, with all the capital investment involved, just doesn&#x27;t make any sense. Especially when there is little risk of natural disasters in Germany.<p>If people are serious about maintaining the same quality of lifestyle that we have today without burning as much coal, the current solution is Nuclear Energy. Yes it does pose many risks but so does burning coal, and the latter seems to be destroying our environment.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>saas_co_de</author><text>&quot;Fine particles from coal power plants kill an estimated 13,200 people each year in the US alone&quot;<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.newscientist.com&#x2F;article&#x2F;mg20928053.600-fossil-fuels-are-far-deadlier-than-nuclear-power&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.newscientist.com&#x2F;article&#x2F;mg20928053.600-fossil-f...</a><p>The death toll from coal is staggering compared to nuclear. It is not even close.</text></comment> |
7,763,542 | 7,763,621 | 1 | 2 | 7,762,904 | train | <story><title>Control-R, my favorite Unix shell command</title><url>http://blog.lerner.co.il/control-r-favorite-unix-shell-command/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>loevborg</author><text>^R is useful. But for me, there&#x27;s something even more useful than searching for a string in your history using ^R: completing the line you&#x27;re currently typing from your history using Alt-p. This comes in handy when you realize, after typing a few words, that you don&#x27;t remember the arguments you need.<p>Say you start typing &quot;ssh ex&quot;. If you hit Alt-p, you get &quot;ssh example.com&quot;; hit the key another time, and you get &quot;ssh example2.com&quot; (or whatever you&#x27;ve `ssh`ed into in the past). A matching line has to <i>begin with</i> what you&#x27;ve typed so far, so it will match &quot;ssh ex.com&quot; but not &quot;echo ssh ex.com&quot;.<p>To get this behavior in zsh, you can use the following:<p><pre><code> bindkey &#x27;^[p&#x27; history-beginning-search-backward
bindkey &#x27;^[n&#x27; history-beginning-search-forward
</code></pre>
By the way, if using the alt key is cumbersome (as it is on OSX), just press once Esc (and release) and then press p, which in the terminal is always equivalent to simultaneously pressing Alt-p. It&#x27;s also easier for my fingers to reach, given the different positions of the Alt key, so I tend to use Esc instead of Alt.</text></comment> | <story><title>Control-R, my favorite Unix shell command</title><url>http://blog.lerner.co.il/control-r-favorite-unix-shell-command/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Spittie</author><text>^R is probably my second favorite command, I prefer FiSH style (and use <a href="https://github.com/zsh-users/zsh-history-substring-search" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;zsh-users&#x2F;zsh-history-substring-search</a> with ZSH), but since this isn&#x27;t on every server I have access, it&#x27;s a nice trick to remember.<p>My favorite one (I digress) is that you can use ^[something]^[something else] to replace [something] with [something else] in the last command. Great for typos, or for repeated commands with few different arguments.<p><pre><code> ~ ping google.com
~ ^google^news.ycombinator
~ ping news.ycombinator.com</code></pre></text></comment> |
22,339,576 | 22,336,721 | 1 | 3 | 22,335,478 | train | <story><title>Ask HN: Schedule of a solo founder?</title><text>If you are a solo founder would you share what your week looks like e.g. spend an afternoon on x?<p>I have productive days and days when I feel like I am scratching around for scraps of leads and SEO. I am currently doing 1k ARR so money is tight and I want to make the best use of my time.</text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>323454</author><text>The most important thing I&#x27;ve learned is that you need to find a balance between discipline and spontaneity.<p>For example, it&#x27;s good to maintain a few &quot;anchor points&quot; each day to break up your time and help you break out of negative cycles or unproductive moods. Things like going to the gym, maintaining a fixed wake up time or lunch time. This is the discipline side, which helps you to train yourself to stay focused on your goals.<p>But it&#x27;s also important to listen to your own body and mind, and do things that make sense to you in the moment. E.g. if you&#x27;re feeling too tired to work, accept it, go home and try again tomorrow. Avoid burnout. If you scheduled a certain task for 11am but when the time comes you&#x27;re in the zone on something else, stay in the zone! This is the spontaneity part.<p>Discipline allows you to be spontaneous without guilt, because you know you&#x27;ll eventually return to the basic system of moving towards your goal that you&#x27;ve established. Spontaneity allows you to adapt as you go to avoid unforeseen problems or take advantage of unexpected benefits.<p>That said, on a work day (M-F) my schedule looks roughly like this:<p>6.30am - wake up
7.30-8.30am - gym
9-9.30am - write down what i did yesterday, what i want to do today
9.30-11.45am - on task
11.45am-12.15pm - lunch
12.15-3pm - on task
3.30-4pm - take a break, make a snack, or go for a walk
4-5.30pm - on task. but if i&#x27;m tired go home early.
6-7pm - dinner
7-9pm - relax, read, play music, hang out with my spouse
9pm - wind down, start getting ready for bed</text></comment> | <story><title>Ask HN: Schedule of a solo founder?</title><text>If you are a solo founder would you share what your week looks like e.g. spend an afternoon on x?<p>I have productive days and days when I feel like I am scratching around for scraps of leads and SEO. I am currently doing 1k ARR so money is tight and I want to make the best use of my time.</text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>hermitcrab</author><text>Solo since 2005. I don&#x27;t really have much of a schedule. That is one of the attractions.<p>Usually I work 8:30ish to 5:30ish Monday to Friday, taking time off for errands and exercize. I also do customer support at the weekends. Sometime I do a couple of hours work late in the evening. Sometimes I take the day off. Depends on how motivated I am feeling.<p>You have to keep a balance between the many little tasks that need doing (e.g. renew the office insurance, check adwords is running ok) and the fewer big tasks that make the difference log term (e.g. program a major new feature). I have a visual to do list that tracks tasks in my own software ( <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.hyperplan.com" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.hyperplan.com</a> ) so I don&#x27;t forget anything.<p>That feeling of not knowing what is the most important thing t0 work on next (new feature, improve website, create an explainer video, improve the documentation, tweak your PPC)? Get used to it. It isn&#x27;t going to go away.</text></comment> |
10,764,105 | 10,764,032 | 1 | 2 | 10,763,436 | train | <story><title>Obama Signs CISA Bill into Law</title><url>http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2015/12/18/460281572/congress-sends-1-8-trillion-tax-and-spending-bill-to-president-obama</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>herbig</author><text>I&#x27;m a very liberal persion, but I really like Rand Paul. I just wish he didn&#x27;t think gays were going to burn in hell for all eternity, or at least would stick to libertarian principles on the issue and let people live how they want to live.<p>The same with abortion laws. I&#x27;d be way more into supporting him if he would concede he doesn&#x27;t agree personally, but that people shouldn&#x27;t be forced by the government to live according to his religious beliefs.</text></item><item><author>randomname2</author><text>The 14 votes against, FWIW:<p><pre><code> Baldwin (D-WI)
Booker (D-NJ)
Brown (D-OH)
Coons (D-DE)
Franken (D-MN)
Leahy (D-VT)
Markey (D-MA)
Menendez (D-NJ)
Merkley (D-OR)
Paul (R-KY)
Sanders (I-VT)
Udall (D-NM)
Warren (D-MA)
Wyden (D-OR)
</code></pre>
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.techdirt.com&#x2F;articles&#x2F;20151022&#x2F;10133932597&#x2F;cisa-moves-forward-these-83-senators-just-voted-to-expand-surveillance.shtml" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.techdirt.com&#x2F;articles&#x2F;20151022&#x2F;10133932597&#x2F;cisa-...</a></text></item><item><author>tptacek</author><text>CISA passed the Senate with almost 3:1 bipartisan support in October.<p>PCNA, the House&#x27;s (worse) version of CISA, passed with similar margins in April.<p>Obama has publicly supported the bill all year.<p>As much as HN and Twitter wants to believe CISA was enacted in some shady backroom deal, the process that actually occurred, including publicly available amendments and months-long review, is pretty close to &quot;Schoolhouse Rocks&quot;.<p>The debate on CISA was over. Thankfully. The only debate left was how close CISA would come to PCNA, with its broader law enforcement ties and vaguer language (EFF claims PCNA would have in some cases authorized large private companies to &quot;hack back&quot; computers they believed had been trying to hack them). Instead, Senate&#x27;s CISA is the law of land almost verbatim to what they passed --- in a drawn out, public process --- in October.<p><i>Later:</i><p>Someone downthread asked for a summary of the bill. I did my best to strip the legalese out of it:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=10763827" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=10763827</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ekianjo</author><text>&gt; at least would stick to libertarian principles on the issue and let people live how they want to live.<p>Paul is a libertarian and believes that Government should not be involved in the private space, including marriage. I think that&#x27;s a very reasonable position to have - and I don&#x27;t think I have seen him saying anything against gays, but please provide a source if you have any.</text></comment> | <story><title>Obama Signs CISA Bill into Law</title><url>http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2015/12/18/460281572/congress-sends-1-8-trillion-tax-and-spending-bill-to-president-obama</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>herbig</author><text>I&#x27;m a very liberal persion, but I really like Rand Paul. I just wish he didn&#x27;t think gays were going to burn in hell for all eternity, or at least would stick to libertarian principles on the issue and let people live how they want to live.<p>The same with abortion laws. I&#x27;d be way more into supporting him if he would concede he doesn&#x27;t agree personally, but that people shouldn&#x27;t be forced by the government to live according to his religious beliefs.</text></item><item><author>randomname2</author><text>The 14 votes against, FWIW:<p><pre><code> Baldwin (D-WI)
Booker (D-NJ)
Brown (D-OH)
Coons (D-DE)
Franken (D-MN)
Leahy (D-VT)
Markey (D-MA)
Menendez (D-NJ)
Merkley (D-OR)
Paul (R-KY)
Sanders (I-VT)
Udall (D-NM)
Warren (D-MA)
Wyden (D-OR)
</code></pre>
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.techdirt.com&#x2F;articles&#x2F;20151022&#x2F;10133932597&#x2F;cisa-moves-forward-these-83-senators-just-voted-to-expand-surveillance.shtml" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.techdirt.com&#x2F;articles&#x2F;20151022&#x2F;10133932597&#x2F;cisa-...</a></text></item><item><author>tptacek</author><text>CISA passed the Senate with almost 3:1 bipartisan support in October.<p>PCNA, the House&#x27;s (worse) version of CISA, passed with similar margins in April.<p>Obama has publicly supported the bill all year.<p>As much as HN and Twitter wants to believe CISA was enacted in some shady backroom deal, the process that actually occurred, including publicly available amendments and months-long review, is pretty close to &quot;Schoolhouse Rocks&quot;.<p>The debate on CISA was over. Thankfully. The only debate left was how close CISA would come to PCNA, with its broader law enforcement ties and vaguer language (EFF claims PCNA would have in some cases authorized large private companies to &quot;hack back&quot; computers they believed had been trying to hack them). Instead, Senate&#x27;s CISA is the law of land almost verbatim to what they passed --- in a drawn out, public process --- in October.<p><i>Later:</i><p>Someone downthread asked for a summary of the bill. I did my best to strip the legalese out of it:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=10763827" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=10763827</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>spo81rty</author><text>I&#x27;ve always felt that was how Paul believed. He thinks marriage is between a man and a woman but doesn&#x27;t think the government should be involved in defining it.</text></comment> |
4,923,585 | 4,923,561 | 1 | 3 | 4,923,299 | train | <story><title>Moravec's paradox</title><url>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moravec%27s_paradox</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>tgflynn</author><text>It's an interesting observation and certainly something one needs to be aware of in thinking about intelligent systems but I'm not convinced that the notion that perception is intrinsically harder than logic is quite true. I think the difficulty of a problem is highly dependent on the representations and models used. Computers were developed based on logical and mathematical principles so it makes sense that they are, in some sense, "good" at these kinds of problems. On the other hand traditional logic is incredibly inefficient at dealing with probabilistic and perceptual problems.<p>It's also not clear that there's really a valid comparison here. In order for computers to recognize objects we need to program them to learn recognition on their own (because programming them explicitly to do it would be far too hard). When we program a computer to solve a logic problem the computer isn't learning to solve that problem, it's the programmer, not the program that "knows" how to solve it.<p>Trying to teach a neural network to play chess is probably much harder than teaching it to recognize images (at least my very limited experiments suggest this to be true).</text></comment> | <story><title>Moravec's paradox</title><url>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moravec%27s_paradox</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>saulrh</author><text>Roboticist here. This is actually a huge problem in robotics and causes all sorts of problems for real robots. For example, my current project is to teach robots how levers work.</text></comment> |
3,738,220 | 3,738,221 | 1 | 2 | 3,738,171 | train | <story><title>Paul Graham, it’s time to put your money where your mouth is</title><url>http://blog.helioid.com/2012/03/paul-grahams-frighteningly-ambitious-ideas/</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>akkartik</author><text>He's missing a subtlety in the essay. Even if the eventual vision is ambitious, don't tackle it head-on. Start with something that looks like a toy.<p><i>"Don't try to construct the future like a building, because your current blueprint is almost certainly mistaken."</i></text></comment> | <story><title>Paul Graham, it’s time to put your money where your mouth is</title><url>http://blog.helioid.com/2012/03/paul-grahams-frighteningly-ambitious-ideas/</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>cperciva</author><text>I think there's some selection bias going on here. Companies which aim to do frighteningly ambitious things are less likely to launch, and most of us only ever hear about the YC companies which launch.<p>Just based on counting noses it's clear that there's a bunch of YC companies every year which vanish without a trace; I'm sure many of them were failed runs at frighteningly ambitious ideas.</text></comment> |
13,637,722 | 13,637,741 | 1 | 2 | 13,636,884 | train | <story><title>The Google Analytics Setup I Use on Every Site I Build</title><url>https://philipwalton.com/articles/the-google-analytics-setup-i-use-on-every-site-i-build/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jameslk</author><text>It&#x27;s pretty annoying that I have to create spam filters for Google Analytics to be useful. Every site I&#x27;ve installed GA on has required me to filter out spam. I don&#x27;t understand why something isn&#x27;t done about it at an engineering level. If site owners can set up filters against spammers, is it really that hard for Google to do it? Especially since they can see it across their accounts. Seems like it&#x27;s the same type of issue that plagues email, yet Google seems to have that under control.</text></comment> | <story><title>The Google Analytics Setup I Use on Every Site I Build</title><url>https://philipwalton.com/articles/the-google-analytics-setup-i-use-on-every-site-i-build/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>kristianc</author><text>Echoing what others are saying, I much prefer Google Tag Manager. Many clients use a CMS which make injecting dynamic variables into a page a bit of a pain if it&#x27;s not done via rules at runtime.<p>The Next Web has open-sourced its Google Tag Manager setup (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;thenextweb&#x2F;gtm" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;thenextweb&#x2F;gtm</a>), which has things like Scroll Tracking, Engagement Tracking (riveted.js), Outbound Link Tracking and lots of other things that are not in the default GA setup. They have recently added support for AMP.<p>In my experience it allows clients to get up and running with a useful GA setup in a couple of hours and means that you as a developer don&#x27;t get bothered to make trivial changes.</text></comment> |
25,428,125 | 25,427,513 | 1 | 2 | 25,426,566 | train | <story><title>TP-Link Archer VR1600V V2 Super User Password Cracked</title><url>https://www.marcelvarallo.com/so-we-cracked-the-archer-vr1600v-v2-super-user-password/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>reaperducer</author><text><i>I think this is a good argument for developers spending at least some time working on customer service</i><p>My company does this. (Or at least, did before the pandemic.)<p>My job is to build web sites. My company is in healthcare. that means this web dev has been literally hands-on with actual customers. Actual patients. And their children.<p>It really changes your view once you&#x27;re back in the office in front of a keyboard. You start to think about what you design and build in a different way. You start to remember that the people using your web site aren&#x27;t on the latest whiz-bank iPhone 16. They&#x27;re on a craptastic pre-paid piece of garbage that they bought at 7-Eleven and share with other members of their family. A phone you and I would use as a weekend burner is all the internet access some people will ever have.</text></item><item><author>bArray</author><text>&gt; After requesting the SU password, they were told flat out<p>&gt; it doesn’t exist and referred to the manual by the vendor.<p>This kind of flat out lying happens a lot. I suspect some of it is that the customer service teams have zero to no interaction with the developers, so if it&#x27;s not written down it doesn&#x27;t exist.<p>I think this is a good argument for developers spending at least some time working on customer service per week (even just a few hours). You could escalate queries such as this one to a developer, where clearly somebody is asking a more technical question.<p>Before anybody says &quot;that&#x27;s unrealistic, they don&#x27;t have time&quot; - first consider the amount of ridiculous meetings a developer will normally find themselves in, or how long they spend answering emails every day.<p>Of course, it doesn&#x27;t mean that such a password would be given away, but at the very least it could start an internal discussion about it&#x27;s existence. Having a single shared super-password is a problem waiting to happen.<p>Regarding the point with small firmware-based devices and security (i.e. IoT), I believe the practice is changing where each device will have entirely unique credentials (something that&#x27;s relatively easy to do these days).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>alxlaz</author><text>&gt; You start to think about what you design and build in a different way. You start to remember that the people using your web site aren&#x27;t on the latest whiz-bank iPhone 16. They&#x27;re on a craptastic pre-paid piece of garbage that they bought at 7-Eleven and share with other members of their family.<p>Your realization is spot-on, but what&#x27;s disturbing is that this is done by having developers work front desk-ish and hoping they learn the lessons, instead of being imposed, top-down, from a higher level.<p>&quot;We should write software for the kind of devices our users are using&quot; isn&#x27;t a story from the trenches, it&#x27;s product and software development management 101. &quot;We should target devices with these baseline specs&quot; isn&#x27;t something you get by having developers eyeball what phones their users are on, you get them by having Marketing put those fancy analytics tools that cost an arm and a leg every month to good use, and then by having those smart-ass program managers come up with a product definition that includes them, instead of the same generic &quot;engaging, easy-to-use software that enables our customers to yadda yadda yadda&quot; that gets cranked out each year.<p>This way everyone&#x27;s writing against the same specs. Otherwise the two developers who ended up in the VIP clinic and have seen nothing but iPhones all day will keep cranking out the code that turns the phones everyone uses into egg frying machines, while the other guys will write lean, mean software that the UX lead and the CTO will laugh at and then they&#x27;ll go berserk about how premature optimization is the root of all evil because they&#x27;re on iPhones, too, and the whole thing work just fine.</text></comment> | <story><title>TP-Link Archer VR1600V V2 Super User Password Cracked</title><url>https://www.marcelvarallo.com/so-we-cracked-the-archer-vr1600v-v2-super-user-password/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>reaperducer</author><text><i>I think this is a good argument for developers spending at least some time working on customer service</i><p>My company does this. (Or at least, did before the pandemic.)<p>My job is to build web sites. My company is in healthcare. that means this web dev has been literally hands-on with actual customers. Actual patients. And their children.<p>It really changes your view once you&#x27;re back in the office in front of a keyboard. You start to think about what you design and build in a different way. You start to remember that the people using your web site aren&#x27;t on the latest whiz-bank iPhone 16. They&#x27;re on a craptastic pre-paid piece of garbage that they bought at 7-Eleven and share with other members of their family. A phone you and I would use as a weekend burner is all the internet access some people will ever have.</text></item><item><author>bArray</author><text>&gt; After requesting the SU password, they were told flat out<p>&gt; it doesn’t exist and referred to the manual by the vendor.<p>This kind of flat out lying happens a lot. I suspect some of it is that the customer service teams have zero to no interaction with the developers, so if it&#x27;s not written down it doesn&#x27;t exist.<p>I think this is a good argument for developers spending at least some time working on customer service per week (even just a few hours). You could escalate queries such as this one to a developer, where clearly somebody is asking a more technical question.<p>Before anybody says &quot;that&#x27;s unrealistic, they don&#x27;t have time&quot; - first consider the amount of ridiculous meetings a developer will normally find themselves in, or how long they spend answering emails every day.<p>Of course, it doesn&#x27;t mean that such a password would be given away, but at the very least it could start an internal discussion about it&#x27;s existence. Having a single shared super-password is a problem waiting to happen.<p>Regarding the point with small firmware-based devices and security (i.e. IoT), I believe the practice is changing where each device will have entirely unique credentials (something that&#x27;s relatively easy to do these days).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>foepys</author><text>It&#x27;s very important not step outside the ivory tower regularly or else one loses touch with non-IT people. The way something is design and how it&#x27;s used can differ extremely.<p>My company is selling software for industry automation and the people using it often enough don&#x27;t even have a PC at home. They learned using a PC at work and anything happening that isn&#x27;t part of their trained workflow (sometimes even a simple additional optional input field) overwhelms them. Getting to know customers is very, very important for developers.</text></comment> |
40,991,643 | 40,991,513 | 1 | 3 | 40,991,182 | train | <story><title>A RP2040 based DECstation 3000 emulator that can run DECWindows</title><url>https://github.com/rscott2049/DECstation2040</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>yjftsjthsd-h</author><text>There&#x27;s something beautiful (and slightly jarring) about a computer where the ethernet and VGA ports are each bigger than the entire CPU and RAM. For all that it may have slowed more recently, Moore&#x27;s law really did hit it out of the park in the long run:)</text></comment> | <story><title>A RP2040 based DECstation 3000 emulator that can run DECWindows</title><url>https://github.com/rscott2049/DECstation2040</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>lizknope</author><text>When I started college in the fall of 1993 we had hundreds of DECstations. A mix of 2100 black and white machines, 3100, and a few 5000 machines. That&#x27;s where I learned C&#x2F;C++, ran Spice and various logic simulators. DEC had already announced the Alpha but the college decided to move to Sun and HP-UX which was probably a good decision because there was more software available for those platforms.</text></comment> |
37,097,982 | 37,097,873 | 1 | 2 | 37,097,353 | train | <story><title>Beginner's Guide to Llama Models</title><url>https://agi-sphere.com/llama-guide/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>thatguymike</author><text>I find the whole site being covered in images of skinny waifu girls... offputting. The guide itself seems fine, if high-level. [This](<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;chat.lmsys.org&#x2F;?leaderboard" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;chat.lmsys.org&#x2F;?leaderboard</a>) is a really nice link I hadn&#x27;t seen before.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>raincole</author><text>I don&#x27;t mind waifu girls, but I really don&#x27;t know how these images are related to Llama. It&#x27;s not an article about Stable Diffusion right...?<p>Huge content farm vibe.<p>Edit: I read the article carefully. Yeah, not just content farm vibe. It&#x27;s a content farm.<p>&gt; What can you do with Llama models?<p>&gt; You can use Llama models the same ways you use ChatGPT.<p>&gt; Chat. Just ask questions about things you want to know.<p>&gt; Coding. Ask for a short program to do something in a specific computer language.<p>&gt; Outlines. Giving an outline of certain technical topics.<p>&gt; Creative writing. Let the model write a story for you.<p>&gt; Information extraction. Summarize an essay. Ask specific questions about an essay.<p>&gt; Rewrite. Write your paragraph in a different tone and style.<p>Obvious padding content for SEO. Flagged.</text></comment> | <story><title>Beginner's Guide to Llama Models</title><url>https://agi-sphere.com/llama-guide/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>thatguymike</author><text>I find the whole site being covered in images of skinny waifu girls... offputting. The guide itself seems fine, if high-level. [This](<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;chat.lmsys.org&#x2F;?leaderboard" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;chat.lmsys.org&#x2F;?leaderboard</a>) is a really nice link I hadn&#x27;t seen before.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mufti_menk</author><text>I found them beautiful</text></comment> |
22,238,756 | 22,238,449 | 1 | 2 | 22,235,188 | train | <story><title>Asana files to go public via direct listing</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2020/02/03/asana-files-to-go-public-says-it-will-do-so-via-a-trendy-direct-listing/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>ummonk</author><text>I previously worked at Asana (and own shares), and am glad they’re going the direct listing route. It’s good to normalize the practice of cutting out middlemen in the IPO.</text></comment> | <story><title>Asana files to go public via direct listing</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2020/02/03/asana-files-to-go-public-says-it-will-do-so-via-a-trendy-direct-listing/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>xenospn</author><text>I&#x27;ve tried using Asana for several months, and I don&#x27;t really understand how it&#x27;s better than any other competing product out there? The web UI is slow and it&#x27;s definitely not cheap. Is there anything about it that&#x27;s &quot;10x&quot;?</text></comment> |
1,149,637 | 1,148,952 | 1 | 3 | 1,148,655 | train | <story><title>Bloom Unveils Its Game Changing Energy Box</title><url>http://mashable.com/2010/02/24/bloom-box-launch/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>hop</author><text>Fuel required @ rated power: 0.661 MMBtu/hr of natural gas. Rated power output (AC): 100 kW<p>Figure fuel costs of $10 per MMBtu. So it pumps out 100kW/hr electricity for $6.60.<p>~$0.09/kWh for electricity in Oregon (its double that for NYC). So we pay about $9 for 100kW/hr.<p>Thats a 30% savings in Oregon and about 70% for the East Coast. But it still releases a lot of CO2 - 773 lbs/MW-hr.<p><a href="http://www.bloomenergy.com/products/data-sheet/" rel="nofollow">http://www.bloomenergy.com/products/data-sheet/</a><p>So if you ran one straight for a year and you used all its output, it would save $20k-$40k depending on electricity prices. So if they can get the price sub $100k and natural gas supply and price stays even, they could sell a lot of them.</text></comment> | <story><title>Bloom Unveils Its Game Changing Energy Box</title><url>http://mashable.com/2010/02/24/bloom-box-launch/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>tonystubblebine</author><text>Could somebody help with some background on the science?<p>What strikes me as odd is that you put fuel in the fuel cell. One of the examples they give is using these to charge your hyrbid car. So, by the transitive property, aren't you putting fuel into your car?<p>I guess I'm trained to think of alternative energy sources like sun and wind, so I'm thrown off here. What's the innovation?<p>I can see that you're generating electricity locally, which I guess means we could get energy to places without running power lines. But reading the article, that doesn't seem like the point of these.<p>The article does claim that the energy is more efficient than what you get on the grid. But if that's the case, why don't we just put a ton of these onto the grid and push down the cost of electricity for everyone?</text></comment> |
36,907,973 | 36,908,123 | 1 | 3 | 36,907,248 | train | <story><title>Worldcoin isn’t as bad as it sounds: It’s worse</title><url>https://blockworks.co/news/worldcoin-privacy-concerns</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>arcticbull</author><text>Like any other non-coin crypto tech, Worldcoin doesn&#x27;t do what it set out to do because it doesn&#x27;t solve the oracle problem. If you trust their orb, it generates a wallet for you - but anyone, human or otherwise - can use that wallet. There&#x27;s a black market in China for these identities <i>already</i> [1] and of course the response from Worldcoin was there&#x27;s nothing they can do - because there&#x27;s nothing they can do.<p>So this is just any other coin with extra steps, and the extra layer of trusting Sam Altman with your eyeballs to generate secret keys?<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.coindesk.com&#x2F;policy&#x2F;2023&#x2F;05&#x2F;24&#x2F;black-market-for-worldcoin-credentials-pops-up-in-china&#x2F;" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.coindesk.com&#x2F;policy&#x2F;2023&#x2F;05&#x2F;24&#x2F;black-market-for-...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>arketyp</author><text>It&#x27;s funny how, in the end, the ultimate and perhaps only proof of personhood is being a person, engaged in the world. Sort of how the ultimate decentralized currency is encompassed in the global market of rising and falling economic powers. The oracle problem is a problem because there are no oracles. There is only the test of time. Or something along that line.</text></comment> | <story><title>Worldcoin isn’t as bad as it sounds: It’s worse</title><url>https://blockworks.co/news/worldcoin-privacy-concerns</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>arcticbull</author><text>Like any other non-coin crypto tech, Worldcoin doesn&#x27;t do what it set out to do because it doesn&#x27;t solve the oracle problem. If you trust their orb, it generates a wallet for you - but anyone, human or otherwise - can use that wallet. There&#x27;s a black market in China for these identities <i>already</i> [1] and of course the response from Worldcoin was there&#x27;s nothing they can do - because there&#x27;s nothing they can do.<p>So this is just any other coin with extra steps, and the extra layer of trusting Sam Altman with your eyeballs to generate secret keys?<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.coindesk.com&#x2F;policy&#x2F;2023&#x2F;05&#x2F;24&#x2F;black-market-for-worldcoin-credentials-pops-up-in-china&#x2F;" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.coindesk.com&#x2F;policy&#x2F;2023&#x2F;05&#x2F;24&#x2F;black-market-for-...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>PurpleRamen</author><text>Wait, the biometric information are only used for the creation of the wallet, not the later usage? Then isn&#x27;t this scam? What is the actual value of using biometric for this?</text></comment> |
21,371,657 | 21,370,650 | 1 | 2 | 21,369,555 | train | <story><title>Duck Curve</title><url>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duck_curve</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>OliverJones</author><text>Once smart-grid tech starts to emerge, many possibilities to muffle the quacking of the duck curve present themselves.<p>The most obvious, and applicable in any climate and weather, is domestic hot water heating. Temporarily suspending power to electric hot water heaters at times of high demand can save tons of short-term load. And, it&#x27;s potentially responsive enough to support frequency control ancillary services (the very expensive task of keeping the power grid running at exactly 60Hz or 50Hz when power demand is changing fast).<p>Another is electric vehicle charging time-shifting, either mandatory or voluntary.<p>A third, more complex, opportunity is HVAC. If heating &#x2F; airconditioning systems can get ahead of their needs during late afternoons, then temporary power suspension in early evenings is feasible. This kind of application may be easiest to deploy in commercial locations like big-box stores, office buildings, and data centers.<p>A mindset change required is this: demand time-shifting IS energy storage.<p>A bigger mindset change: grid operators are in the information business, whether they know it or not. All this proposed timeshifting is based on information.</text></comment> | <story><title>Duck Curve</title><url>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duck_curve</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>boulos</author><text>I’m surprised the mitigation discussion didn’t include “more wind generation”. Especially at the coast [1], you have plenty of wind at and around sunset from the large temperature differential. The chart is load minus solar&#x2F;wind, but the example graph was a low wind day apparently (and IIRC, we are predominantly solar in California).<p>But even then, this curve doesn’t seem to apply in California in the summer when load demand is highest (look at CAISO demand for say July 24). The amount of built up generation should be looked at in terms of annual peaks and overall efficiency. July has demand up to 45GW range where renewables are only currently able to shave off 10 GW of that (but basically all day long). The forecasted demand for today has a peak of 25 GW.<p>Is it “just” about how quickly net demand spikes? The grid seems to handle 10+ MW or scheduled maintenance (look at October 1).<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.windfinder.com&#x2F;forecast&#x2F;pacifica_dumps_san_francisco" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.windfinder.com&#x2F;forecast&#x2F;pacifica_dumps_san_franc...</a> (ignore the current high winds, go a few days forward).</text></comment> |
20,094,517 | 20,094,447 | 1 | 2 | 20,091,703 | train | <story><title>An update on Sunday’s service disruption</title><url>https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/inside-google-cloud/an-update-on-sundays-service-disruption</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jrockway</author><text>This answered all the questions I had. I was really racking my brain on what one system at Google could go down to cause this much damage, but it makes perfect sense that bandwidth becoming unavailable and everything in the &quot;default&quot; or &quot;bulk&quot; traffic class being dropped would do it.<p>The real question is whether the fix will be to not reduce bandwidth accidentally, or to upgrade customer traffic to a higher QoS class. It makes sense that internal blob storage is in the lowest &quot;bulk&quot; class. Engineers building apps that depend on that know the limitations. It makes less sense to put customer traffic in that class, though, when you have an SLA to meet for cloud storage. People outside of Google have no idea that different tasks get different network priorities, and don&#x27;t design their apps with that in mind. (I run all my stuff on AWS and I have no idea what the failure mode when bandwidth is limited for things like EBS or S3. It&#x27;s probably the same as Google, but I can&#x27;t design around it because I don&#x27;t actually know what it looks like.) But, of course, if everything is high priority, nothing is high priority. I imagine that things in the highest traffic class kept working on Sunday, which is a good outcome. If everything were in the highest class, then nothing would work.<p>(When I worked at Google, I spent a fair amount of time advocating for a higher traffic class for my application&#x27;s traffic. If my application still exists, I wonder if it was affected, or if the time I spent on that actually paid off.)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dsfyu404ed</author><text>&gt;Engineers building apps that depend on that know the limitations.<p>As someone who works at a slightly smaller tech company with of similar age with similar infrastructure I assure you this is not the case. Engineers are building things that rely on other things that rely on other things. There&#x27;s a point where people don&#x27;t know what their dependencies are.<p>I wouldn&#x27;t be surprised if nobody actually knew there was customer traffic in this class until this happened.</text></comment> | <story><title>An update on Sunday’s service disruption</title><url>https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/inside-google-cloud/an-update-on-sundays-service-disruption</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jrockway</author><text>This answered all the questions I had. I was really racking my brain on what one system at Google could go down to cause this much damage, but it makes perfect sense that bandwidth becoming unavailable and everything in the &quot;default&quot; or &quot;bulk&quot; traffic class being dropped would do it.<p>The real question is whether the fix will be to not reduce bandwidth accidentally, or to upgrade customer traffic to a higher QoS class. It makes sense that internal blob storage is in the lowest &quot;bulk&quot; class. Engineers building apps that depend on that know the limitations. It makes less sense to put customer traffic in that class, though, when you have an SLA to meet for cloud storage. People outside of Google have no idea that different tasks get different network priorities, and don&#x27;t design their apps with that in mind. (I run all my stuff on AWS and I have no idea what the failure mode when bandwidth is limited for things like EBS or S3. It&#x27;s probably the same as Google, but I can&#x27;t design around it because I don&#x27;t actually know what it looks like.) But, of course, if everything is high priority, nothing is high priority. I imagine that things in the highest traffic class kept working on Sunday, which is a good outcome. If everything were in the highest class, then nothing would work.<p>(When I worked at Google, I spent a fair amount of time advocating for a higher traffic class for my application&#x27;s traffic. If my application still exists, I wonder if it was affected, or if the time I spent on that actually paid off.)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>the-rc</author><text>I speculated it was something to do with the SDN, among others:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=20078433" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=20078433</a><p>It was unlikely to be fiber or a router failing, because there&#x27;s enough redundancy at all sorts of levels (usually N+2 or better). Unless, that is, some nation state had been cutting multiple fibers at once.<p>This had the hallmark of some system blowing up, as you said. When it comes to QoS, it gets tricky. Gmail&#x27;s frontend traffic should be at the highest priority, of course. But what about the replication traffic between your mailbox homes? What if a top level layer stalls or chokes when replication lags too much behind?<p>It&#x27;s easier for stateless or less stateful systems like web search.</text></comment> |
40,555,072 | 40,555,089 | 1 | 3 | 40,554,396 | train | <story><title>SPI Flash</title><url>https://trmm.net/SPI_flash/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>amelius</author><text>Side question. Does anyone have a good method of attaching 4 wires (say for a programmer) to the middle of a board, preferably without soldering any connector on the board? (Edge connectors are too bulky and inconvenient).<p>I&#x27;m thinking of something that locks through a hole in the board and then pushes 4 pins onto 4 pads on the board.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>asguy</author><text>Something like a Tag Connect would work well, if you can spare the footprint space: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.tag-connect.com&#x2F;product&#x2F;tc2030-fp-footprint" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.tag-connect.com&#x2F;product&#x2F;tc2030-fp-footprint</a></text></comment> | <story><title>SPI Flash</title><url>https://trmm.net/SPI_flash/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>amelius</author><text>Side question. Does anyone have a good method of attaching 4 wires (say for a programmer) to the middle of a board, preferably without soldering any connector on the board? (Edge connectors are too bulky and inconvenient).<p>I&#x27;m thinking of something that locks through a hole in the board and then pushes 4 pins onto 4 pads on the board.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>elsjaako</author><text>There&#x27;s the SKEDD from WE, no experience yet, but it&#x27;s on my to do list.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.we-online.com&#x2F;en&#x2F;components&#x2F;products&#x2F;REDFIT_IDC_SKEDD" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.we-online.com&#x2F;en&#x2F;components&#x2F;products&#x2F;REDFIT_IDC_...</a></text></comment> |
7,477,258 | 7,474,405 | 1 | 3 | 7,474,057 | train | <story><title>RoomScan: Get a Floor Plan in Minutes Just By Walking Around the Room</title><url>http://architizer.com/blog/roomscan-app/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>roel_v</author><text>Quite disappointed - was hoping this was done through computer vision. Aren&#x27;t there are apps that do this? By the time I&#x27;ve &#x27;scanned&#x27; a room the way it&#x27;s shown in the article, and if that method doesn&#x27;t even give me heights, doors, windows and outlets, <i>and</i> is only accurate to within half a foot - by that time I&#x27;ve measured it with my laser tape measure 3 times over.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jaynos</author><text>I was a residential contractor until a few years ago. This would be great for estimating. Nice way to replace a pad of paper with less than stellar drawings on it. When estimating I&#x27;d still take pictures of the rooms to help me recall what it looked like.<p>For most projects a measurement to within half a foot is fine for estimating. If the total width of a room is close to 12 or 15&#x27; (standard carpet roll widths), get an exact number to know if your carpet sub needs to seam two pieces of carpet together.<p>Door heights are standard on most houses. Electrical heights are usually standard. Windows are usually dropped the height of a header.<p>For estimating many projects (painting, flooring, non-custom trim jobs), this app would be more than adequate.<p>When you get the job and go back to do the work, I&#x27;d suggest a Bosch LASER tape measure. Accurate to within 1&#x2F;16&quot; or better. It&#x27;s great for trim work.</text></comment> | <story><title>RoomScan: Get a Floor Plan in Minutes Just By Walking Around the Room</title><url>http://architizer.com/blog/roomscan-app/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>roel_v</author><text>Quite disappointed - was hoping this was done through computer vision. Aren&#x27;t there are apps that do this? By the time I&#x27;ve &#x27;scanned&#x27; a room the way it&#x27;s shown in the article, and if that method doesn&#x27;t even give me heights, doors, windows and outlets, <i>and</i> is only accurate to within half a foot - by that time I&#x27;ve measured it with my laser tape measure 3 times over.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>acgourley</author><text>I don&#x27;t think we&#x27;re quite at the point where a mobile CPU would be able to pull this off, however filming and uploading a well shot video to a server for further processing should be a workable way to make a full model. I think a big challenge there is a several-minute feedback loop to learn if it worked and if you need to try it again.</text></comment> |
13,206,870 | 13,205,475 | 1 | 2 | 13,204,464 | train | <story><title>Programming Is Forgetting: Toward a New Hacker Ethic</title><url>http://opentranscripts.org/transcript/programming-forgetting-new-hacker-ethic/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>drewcrawford</author><text>The audio &quot;loss&quot; example sounds plausible in passing (and the diagram looks plausible) but is actually incorrect. The frequency and timing dimensions of analog audio below the Nyquist frequency is preserved <i>perfectly</i> by digital quantization, which in practice for CD&#x2F;DVD usecase are the full spectrum of the human ear. This counterintuitive result is explored in some detail in [1].<p>It is true that the amplitude dimension (only) is quantized to (typically, 16 or 24) bits, which you could detect with a very good oscilloscope. However 24 bits is way smaller than any human ear can discern. Visually, it is like looking at two stacks of dollar bills that are 6,000 feet high and trying to discern which one has one extra bill.<p>I suppose that is technically &quot;lossy&quot;, but the only thing we are &quot;forgetting&quot; is something no human could perceive, or remember.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;people.xiph.org&#x2F;~xiphmont&#x2F;demo&#x2F;neil-young.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;people.xiph.org&#x2F;~xiphmont&#x2F;demo&#x2F;neil-young.html</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Espressosaurus</author><text>It&#x27;s still lossy! Maybe it isn&#x27;t lossy to the human ear, but what is the data going to be used for? There are assumptions you&#x27;re building in here. What if I&#x27;m now interested in using the data for a bat ear model? All of a sudden, that information is now of limited use.<p>She&#x27;s saying &quot;be aware of your assumptions.&quot; Her entire screed is a call to take a step back, and recognize that programming is reifying assumptions and systems of control. Be aware of what those happen to be. Make those choices conscious, rather than unconscious.<p>When I&#x27;m creating a UI, am I assuming the viewer has 20&#x2F;20 corrected vision on a 1920x1080 monitor with the full set of rods and cones? Am I considering folks that are colorblind, might need to have different zoom levels, or might use screen readers?<p>When I&#x27;m creating a tool for data analysis, am I making it for other programmers? Or can I maybe widen its usage to the business analysis side, thereby making the tool more useful to more people. When I change a tool, is it breaking someone else&#x27;s workflow?</text></comment> | <story><title>Programming Is Forgetting: Toward a New Hacker Ethic</title><url>http://opentranscripts.org/transcript/programming-forgetting-new-hacker-ethic/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>drewcrawford</author><text>The audio &quot;loss&quot; example sounds plausible in passing (and the diagram looks plausible) but is actually incorrect. The frequency and timing dimensions of analog audio below the Nyquist frequency is preserved <i>perfectly</i> by digital quantization, which in practice for CD&#x2F;DVD usecase are the full spectrum of the human ear. This counterintuitive result is explored in some detail in [1].<p>It is true that the amplitude dimension (only) is quantized to (typically, 16 or 24) bits, which you could detect with a very good oscilloscope. However 24 bits is way smaller than any human ear can discern. Visually, it is like looking at two stacks of dollar bills that are 6,000 feet high and trying to discern which one has one extra bill.<p>I suppose that is technically &quot;lossy&quot;, but the only thing we are &quot;forgetting&quot; is something no human could perceive, or remember.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;people.xiph.org&#x2F;~xiphmont&#x2F;demo&#x2F;neil-young.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;people.xiph.org&#x2F;~xiphmont&#x2F;demo&#x2F;neil-young.html</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dom0</author><text>&gt; and the diagram looks plausible<p>I&#x27;ve seen this and similar diagrams used over and over again by a lot of people who should now better. This kind of diagram can be interpreted two ways<p>(a) the diagram maker has no idea how sampling works
(b) the diagram maker made it to illustrate a pathological case to make quantization noise obvious, that is, the diagram shows fs=infty with a four level &#x2F; two bit ADC with no dithering<p>In any case, it has nothing to do with how digitizing audio works.<p>&gt; It is true that the amplitude dimension (only) is quantized to (typically, 16 or 24) bits, which you could detect with a very good oscilloscope.<p>Nope, normal scopes work with 8 bits ADCs and manage 10 to 12 bits in ERES and similar modes (... they don&#x27;t really get to 10 or 12 bit SFDR though ...). Some special scopes have 16 bit ADCs, but you&#x27;d still be hard pressed to detect the difference.<p>Also, while again a &quot;counterintuitive result&quot; in a certain sense, the dynamic range of a 16 bit audio signal is greater than 96 dB, that is you can encode and actually discern noises below -96 dbFS. This is because the 96 dB figure assumes a white dithering signal, which is not used.<p>Of course, all that doesn&#x27;t really matter with pop music. Who needs &gt;100 dB SNR and DNR if the piece you are encoding only has 10 dB DNR anyway?!</text></comment> |
20,533,236 | 20,531,625 | 1 | 2 | 20,531,334 | train | <story><title>Unity, now valued at $6B, raising up to $525M</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2019/07/25/unity-now-valued-at-6b-raising-up-to-525m/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>appstorelottery</author><text>I&#x27;ve been developing in Unity since V1.0. Back then you could ring David Helgason and complain about the water shader not working when you run it for 12 hours straight - and get it fixed.<p>It blows my mind how much they&#x27;ve grown - but not just that - the tool itself is capable of AAA these days. The only real competition at that level is probably Unreal - and that&#x27;s so very different to get into if you&#x27;re an old-school unity developer. When you compare the Asset store (where you can practically buy any solution to your common problem) and compare it with Unreal&#x27;s store - it doesn&#x27;t really compete.<p>These two points make me think Unity has such a moat built around developers mindspaces that it&#x27;s probably super-hard to dethrone at this point.<p>I&#x27;m interested if anyone else has an alternative point of view on unities sustainable competitive advantage.</text></comment> | <story><title>Unity, now valued at $6B, raising up to $525M</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2019/07/25/unity-now-valued-at-6b-raising-up-to-525m/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>lyttlerock</author><text>The key word here seems to be &quot;up to&quot;. It&#x27;ll be interesting to see how many employees (common shareholders) are actually willing to sell their shares to the investors.<p>If they&#x27;re holding on and the full $525M isn&#x27;t raised, then almost paradoxically, I&#x27;d wager that Unity is doing really really well. If they&#x27;re selling, I don&#x27;t think it necessarily can be construed as good or bad without proper context.</text></comment> |
28,922,581 | 28,921,937 | 1 | 3 | 28,921,700 | train | <story><title>Benjamin Button Reviews The New MacBook Pro (2016)</title><url>https://blog.pinboard.in/2016/10/benjamin_button_reviews_the_new_macbook_pro/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>matthewowen</author><text>The title here is misleading (there&#x27;s no 2022 in the linked page).<p>The joke is that this was released in 2016 when the new MBP with the touch bar came out, and was reviewing the _previous_ version as an improvement over the new one.<p>I feel like people are missing the joke here for lots of reasons, but the addition of 2022 to the title here contributes.</text></comment> | <story><title>Benjamin Button Reviews The New MacBook Pro (2016)</title><url>https://blog.pinboard.in/2016/10/benjamin_button_reviews_the_new_macbook_pro/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>gnicholas</author><text>Spot on, except for:<p>&gt; <i>Despite the many improvements, Apple is actually dropping the price on its flagship 15&quot; MacBook Pro by $400</i><p>I would have been happy if the price had stayed the same or even gone up a bit. But the jump to $2k (which is $2,500 including AppleCare and tax) is a bridge too far.<p>I&#x27;ll keep suffering with my butterfly keyboard until amazing futuristic features like HDMI and SD trickle down into the more affordable machines. &#x2F;s</text></comment> |
16,586,234 | 16,585,853 | 1 | 2 | 16,585,473 | train | <story><title>Pilot.com raises $15M to bring bookkeeping into the modern era</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2018/03/14/pilot-raises-15m-to-bring-bookkeeping-into-the-modern-era/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>curun1r</author><text>Having worked at Intuit, I&#x27;m always amazed at the number of people that look at how crap Quickbooks is and think that beating them is a matter of just making better software. There&#x27;s some really important psychology that most competitors completely miss.<p>First, Quickbooks is frequently not chosen directly. Many, many small businesses choose their bookkeeper first and use whatever they use. One trick Intuit uses both in Quickbooks (bookkeepers) and TurboTax (CPAs) is to put a lot of effort&#x2F;money into focusing on those relationships knowing that they have a huge indirect impact on acquiring and keeping customers.<p>Second, the fact that Quickbooks is so awkward and inconsistent to use isn&#x27;t a UI problem, it&#x27;s a feature. This is an important lesson in designing software that people use for their jobs. When you make elegant, intuitive software that almost anyone can use in short order, it stops being an impressive item to put on a resume. And it stops being a barrier to entry for competing professionals. Software like Quickbooks that&#x27;s hard to use correctly becomes a selling point for bookkeepers and almost accomplishes the same purpose (though to a lesser degree) than professional licensing organizations...it limits the competition and keeps the rates they can charge high.<p>So many Quickbooks competitors have failed to knock them off their perch by not realizing that their customers aren&#x27;t really their target audience and what should be their target audience doesn&#x27;t want easy.</text></comment> | <story><title>Pilot.com raises $15M to bring bookkeeping into the modern era</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2018/03/14/pilot-raises-15m-to-bring-bookkeeping-into-the-modern-era/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>adam_gyroscope</author><text>Pilot customer here; they are amazing. It&#x27;s pretty different from a regular bookkeeper largely in that Pilot is super accurate and timely. My time spent doing bookkeeping for my small startup went from an hour or two a week to zero hours a week - those are pretty important hours. Highly recommended.</text></comment> |
40,427,642 | 40,427,401 | 1 | 2 | 40,426,711 | train | <story><title>Google announces Firebase Genkit with Ollama support</title><url>https://ollama.com/blog/firebase-genkit</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>BadHumans</author><text>The preference for Ollama over llama.cpp is almost certainly due to having a better user experience. Hacker News is in an endless cycle of not understanding how important user experience is, even often more important than the underlying technology itself. Setting up and using Ollama is much easier than setting up something like llama.cpp even for the more technically oriented.</text></comment> | <story><title>Google announces Firebase Genkit with Ollama support</title><url>https://ollama.com/blog/firebase-genkit</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>v3ss0n</author><text>Why ollama, why not llamacpp? The real effort is done by llamacpp, ollama is unnecessary layer on top of it and cashing in investor money.<p>This behavior is totally unacceptable and I am boycotting ollama and every ollama based stuff. I am not going to use ollama in my client projects anymore too.</text></comment> |
34,394,209 | 34,393,081 | 1 | 3 | 34,392,193 | train | <story><title>Gimp 2.10.32 on Apple Silicon (2022)</title><url>https://www.gimp.org/news/2022/12/02/gimp-2.10.32-apple-silicon/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>MaintenanceMode</author><text>I hadn’t touched Gimp in five years or more but last month I had to slice up some large images for easier printing and Gimp rescued the project. I found it easy to use, mostly intuitive, the install was easy, the UI was snappy, and all of the features I needed were available. I have to give a big thanks to their dev team for providing this software and saving me from the Adobe nightmare.</text></comment> | <story><title>Gimp 2.10.32 on Apple Silicon (2022)</title><url>https://www.gimp.org/news/2022/12/02/gimp-2.10.32-apple-silicon/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>mort96</author><text>I&#x27;m still waiting for GIMP 3. At this rate I&#x27;m not convinced it&#x27;ll ever come out. GIMP kinda looks like a discontinued project these days.<p>FWIW, the Intel version has always worked okay (well, as okay as GIMP can feel) on Apple Silicon. It&#x27;s blurry and low res and old-feeling, but compiling for ARM can&#x27;t fix that.</text></comment> |
10,293,000 | 10,292,701 | 1 | 2 | 10,291,751 | train | <story><title>Math Mistakes</title><url>http://mathmistakes.org/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>ggambetta</author><text>This concept of &quot;teaching with keywords&quot; absolutely terrifies me.<p>I distinctly remember encountering Metric Geometry* in high school. It didn&#x27;t teach me geometry, it taught me how to think, and I&#x27;m forever grateful. Teaching math with keywords is the opposite of this.<p>[*] Probably not the correct name in English. It was geometry without algebra; proving theorems and finding loci based on some axioms about angles, parallel lines and so on. What is this called? Euclidean Geometry?</text></comment> | <story><title>Math Mistakes</title><url>http://mathmistakes.org/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jamessb</author><text>People interestd by this may also be interested in &#x27;The Most Common Errors in Undergraduate Mathematics&#x27;: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.math.vanderbilt.edu&#x2F;~schectex&#x2F;commerrs&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.math.vanderbilt.edu&#x2F;~schectex&#x2F;commerrs&#x2F;</a></text></comment> |
11,482,814 | 11,482,996 | 1 | 2 | 11,480,708 | train | <story><title>Leaving Beta, New Sponsors</title><url>https://letsencrypt.org//2016/04/12/leaving-beta-new-sponsors.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jaytaylor</author><text>The only hiccup I&#x27;ve run into is that if you run too many tests during automation setup then they start denying further requests from you for weeks or longer under &quot;too many certificates issued for that domain&quot;.</text></item><item><author>K0nserv</author><text>Let&#x27;s Encrypt might be one of the most important initiatives for a secure web. I applaud all their great work.<p>The fact that they have chosen to reduce certificate lifetime in order to encourage automation is a really big win for the security of the web as a whole.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pagwon</author><text>From <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;letsencrypt.org&#x2F;getting-started&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;letsencrypt.org&#x2F;getting-started&#x2F;</a><p>If you are trying out the client for the first time, you may want to use the --test-cert flag, and a domain name that does not receive live traffic. This will get certificates from our staging server. They won’t be valid in browsers, but otherwise the process will be the same, so you can test a variety of configuration options without hitting the rate limit.</text></comment> | <story><title>Leaving Beta, New Sponsors</title><url>https://letsencrypt.org//2016/04/12/leaving-beta-new-sponsors.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jaytaylor</author><text>The only hiccup I&#x27;ve run into is that if you run too many tests during automation setup then they start denying further requests from you for weeks or longer under &quot;too many certificates issued for that domain&quot;.</text></item><item><author>K0nserv</author><text>Let&#x27;s Encrypt might be one of the most important initiatives for a secure web. I applaud all their great work.<p>The fact that they have chosen to reduce certificate lifetime in order to encourage automation is a really big win for the security of the web as a whole.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>_0w8t</author><text>For testing just use a local install of boulder server, <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;letsencrypt&#x2F;boulder" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;letsencrypt&#x2F;boulder</a> . It is very straightforward to run one especially when using their Docker scripts. That is how I check my setup against letsencrypt during development&#x2F;testing on my laptop.</text></comment> |
30,658,004 | 30,658,010 | 1 | 3 | 30,654,693 | train | <story><title>The case for induction cooking</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/11/dining/induction-cooking.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>kevin_thibedeau</author><text>Pretty easily mitigated with a vent hood which all these tests don&#x27;t have running.</text></item><item><author>amluto</author><text>Citation needed please for the health effects being bogus. NOx emissions from gas stoves seem to be consistently reported as quite high indeed. For example:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;jacksonlab.stanford.edu&#x2F;publication&#x2F;methane-and-nox-emissions-natural-gas-stoves-cooktops-and-ovens-residential-homes" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;jacksonlab.stanford.edu&#x2F;publication&#x2F;methane-and-nox-...</a></text></item><item><author>js2</author><text>Top reader comment seems apt w&#x2F;r&#x2F;t the pollution aspect anyway:<p>As a scientist (an immunologist) who leads a research lab on lung inflammation including asthma, the cavalier attitude Times columnists have toward scientific references in their articles is appalling.<p>RMI is a thinktank with an agenda. Not a research institution. And Brady Seals is not a scientist. Note the lack of PhD. She has an MBA and has never worked in science. Nor did she &#x27;author a study&#x27;. She authored a REPORT. Which is not peer-reviewed and not published in a reputable journal.<p>As an immunologist I assure you that scientific evidence does not indicate that &#x27;increase of asthma is on par with living in a home with a smoker&#x27;.<p>And frankly- just walking outdoors in NYC you&#x27;re exposed to far higher levels of lung-irritating pollutants than you are cooking stir fry on your stove. But that doesn&#x27;t fit the agenda the Times is pushing with multiple induction stove articles lately all focused on bogus health effects and the (more legitimate) climate concerns.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;nyti.ms&#x2F;3i1tj3B#permid=117337268" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;nyti.ms&#x2F;3i1tj3B#permid=117337268</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>modeless</author><text>All the vents in places I&#x27;ve rented have seemed hilariously ineffective even on the highest and super loud setting. Maybe good ones make a difference but how many people actually have good ones? And how many people actually use them every time the stove is on?</text></comment> | <story><title>The case for induction cooking</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/11/dining/induction-cooking.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>kevin_thibedeau</author><text>Pretty easily mitigated with a vent hood which all these tests don&#x27;t have running.</text></item><item><author>amluto</author><text>Citation needed please for the health effects being bogus. NOx emissions from gas stoves seem to be consistently reported as quite high indeed. For example:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;jacksonlab.stanford.edu&#x2F;publication&#x2F;methane-and-nox-emissions-natural-gas-stoves-cooktops-and-ovens-residential-homes" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;jacksonlab.stanford.edu&#x2F;publication&#x2F;methane-and-nox-...</a></text></item><item><author>js2</author><text>Top reader comment seems apt w&#x2F;r&#x2F;t the pollution aspect anyway:<p>As a scientist (an immunologist) who leads a research lab on lung inflammation including asthma, the cavalier attitude Times columnists have toward scientific references in their articles is appalling.<p>RMI is a thinktank with an agenda. Not a research institution. And Brady Seals is not a scientist. Note the lack of PhD. She has an MBA and has never worked in science. Nor did she &#x27;author a study&#x27;. She authored a REPORT. Which is not peer-reviewed and not published in a reputable journal.<p>As an immunologist I assure you that scientific evidence does not indicate that &#x27;increase of asthma is on par with living in a home with a smoker&#x27;.<p>And frankly- just walking outdoors in NYC you&#x27;re exposed to far higher levels of lung-irritating pollutants than you are cooking stir fry on your stove. But that doesn&#x27;t fit the agenda the Times is pushing with multiple induction stove articles lately all focused on bogus health effects and the (more legitimate) climate concerns.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;nyti.ms&#x2F;3i1tj3B#permid=117337268" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;nyti.ms&#x2F;3i1tj3B#permid=117337268</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>chimeracoder</author><text>&gt; Pretty easily mitigated with a vent hood which all these tests don&#x27;t have running.<p>Almost nobody in New York City (where the NYT is based and focuses its coverage) has a vent hood that vents outside the apartment.<p>Older buildings don&#x27;t have a hood at all, and new buildings have hoods which circulate air within the apartment, which doesn&#x27;t really address concerns about accumulation of environmental pollutants.</text></comment> |
14,288,036 | 14,288,146 | 1 | 3 | 14,287,679 | train | <story><title>Unmanned U.S. Air Force space plane lands after secret, two-year mission</title><url>http://www.reuters.com/article/us-space-military-spaceplane-idUSKBN1830PF</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Animats</author><text>This is the X-37B. There&#x27;s a contract for an X-37C, 1.8x as big and possibly capable of carrying humans.[1] That would be a nice little spacecraft. It&#x27;s time to get past capsules, without building something as big and fragile as the Space Shuttle. The USAF and Boeing aren&#x27;t saying much about it, though.<p>[1] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.spacesafetymagazine.com&#x2F;aerospace-engineering&#x2F;spacecraft-design&#x2F;boeing-x-37c&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.spacesafetymagazine.com&#x2F;aerospace-engineering&#x2F;spa...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Unmanned U.S. Air Force space plane lands after secret, two-year mission</title><url>http://www.reuters.com/article/us-space-military-spaceplane-idUSKBN1830PF</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>tammer</author><text>Surprised nobody&#x27;s mentioned this possibility as it usually comes up re: the X-37B. Terrifying but I think not out of the question given the strategic potential of such a weapon.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Kinetic_bombardment" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Kinetic_bombardment</a></text></comment> |
29,136,447 | 29,136,381 | 1 | 3 | 29,135,713 | train | <story><title>The fast-food workers’ season of rebellion</title><url>https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/interactive/2021/rebellion-mcdonalds-bradford-pa/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>silisili</author><text>It&#x27;ll be interesting to watch this play out. As someone who eats way more fast food than he should(once a week on avg), I&#x27;ve noticed this big time.<p>I was in Savannah this summer and had to go to 3 different places to find one even serving. So many places had one employee taking orders and cooking, both. Even Chik Fil A only had 2 people working, and a 45 minute wait.<p>The BK near me, open til 12, has totally random hours, and is often closed by 7. The Arby&#x27;s is staffed by people who give food first and act weird when you stare because you need to pay still. Corporate? They don&#x27;t care. I&#x27;ve tried to contact BK twice about a gross overbilling - they just don&#x27;t care and don&#x27;t respond. The credit card company said they never even replied to their inquiries.<p>It&#x27;s all cheap food, and I don&#x27;t blame the workers at all. Fast food work is awful. I&#x27;m just curious how all of this is going to end. People aren&#x27;t going to pay 8 dollars for a big mac, and people aren&#x27;t going to work at McD for minimum wage.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>n8cpdx</author><text>&gt; People aren&#x27;t going to pay 8 dollars for a big mac<p>I think people used to say this about Starbucks, where you might pay close to $8 for just the drink.<p>Fast food can probably save itself by going premium (as Starbucks did, although I don’t know if they are still considered premium) and raising prices and quality. McDonald’s has made that play in the past with the pivot to McCafé and the nicer restaurant design that is now predominant.<p>What may have to go away is the idea of fast food as something that is attainable for just about everyone. I remember when I was much younger and McDonald’s was a treat - we didn’t have much spare money but my parents could make McDonald’s happen occasionally.<p>Nowadays I’m totally price insensitive and happy to pay for DoorDash to deliver McDonald’s and tip handsomely. The people who don’t have software jobs or a similar tier probably can’t. Big business will be fine regardless, and if they can’t make it work, the leadership is not worthy of their overpriced MBAs.<p>I worry about the lower classes though. An under appreciated (for the wealthy HN reader) aspect of the relative success of American development is the broad accessibility of luxuries to the masses. Even the poor masses. If you (dear reader) don’t recognize a fast food meal as a luxury, you are blind to the real consequences of what is unfolding. I understand the desire to cater to labor, but ultimately there are far more consumers than laborers (by definition - all human laborers are also consumers). The grand economic experiment of yanking away the _one_ aspect of the American project (abundance) that has until now been continuing to succeed will have consequences. Not for me, but for the people you think of when you think of labor.</text></comment> | <story><title>The fast-food workers’ season of rebellion</title><url>https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/interactive/2021/rebellion-mcdonalds-bradford-pa/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>silisili</author><text>It&#x27;ll be interesting to watch this play out. As someone who eats way more fast food than he should(once a week on avg), I&#x27;ve noticed this big time.<p>I was in Savannah this summer and had to go to 3 different places to find one even serving. So many places had one employee taking orders and cooking, both. Even Chik Fil A only had 2 people working, and a 45 minute wait.<p>The BK near me, open til 12, has totally random hours, and is often closed by 7. The Arby&#x27;s is staffed by people who give food first and act weird when you stare because you need to pay still. Corporate? They don&#x27;t care. I&#x27;ve tried to contact BK twice about a gross overbilling - they just don&#x27;t care and don&#x27;t respond. The credit card company said they never even replied to their inquiries.<p>It&#x27;s all cheap food, and I don&#x27;t blame the workers at all. Fast food work is awful. I&#x27;m just curious how all of this is going to end. People aren&#x27;t going to pay 8 dollars for a big mac, and people aren&#x27;t going to work at McD for minimum wage.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ghaff</author><text>A lot of services used by middle class and even upper middle class people essentially depend on wage differentials.<p>Compare the level of home personal services that people in the US have compared to Southeast Asia for example. American do use gig services and tradespeople, but even lawn services, housecleaners, etc. aren&#x27;t all <i>that</i> common. I use the latter two as lightly as possible and I view them as something of a luxury&#x2F;indulgence. And certainly people mostly don&#x27;t have personal chefs and that sort of thing.<p>It&#x27;s not that hard to imagine even fast food becoming more of a luxury good--although something like my local pizza place that I maybe go to every few weeks seems to be mostly high schoolers so maybe there&#x27;s still a lower wage demographic that seems reasonable to be lower.<p>But, yeah, I mostly get takeout there because I&#x27;m lazy and if prices doubled, I&#x27;d just make more at home.</text></comment> |
22,377,429 | 22,377,640 | 1 | 3 | 22,375,331 | train | <story><title>The Law of Conservation of Complexity</title><url>http://nomodes.com/Larry_Tesler_Consulting/Complexity_Law.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jerf</author><text>Complexity is not conserved. It is a bound. A solution can not be <i>simpler</i> than the problem, when both are viewed holistically and complexity is properly understood. (Yeah, I&#x27;m handwaving, but at least I acknowledge it. I don&#x27;t want to write twelve paragraphs defining &quot;complexity&quot; right now, because my <i>real</i> point is....)<p>But the solution sure can be <i>more complicated</i> than the problem.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jfengel</author><text>That is more or less what TFA says: &quot;Every application has an inherent amount of irreducible complexity.&quot; &quot;Irreducible&quot; means a bound, but it does not mean a constant.<p>The name is misleading to a scientist, who has a specific understanding of what &quot;conservation&quot; means. And in particular, a very specific notion of what a &quot;conservation law&quot; is. Which this does not follow.<p>Getting past the name, it&#x27;s a useful adage. But the name adds unneeded complexity, placing a burden on people who are forced to learn a different intention for a well-understood term.</text></comment> | <story><title>The Law of Conservation of Complexity</title><url>http://nomodes.com/Larry_Tesler_Consulting/Complexity_Law.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jerf</author><text>Complexity is not conserved. It is a bound. A solution can not be <i>simpler</i> than the problem, when both are viewed holistically and complexity is properly understood. (Yeah, I&#x27;m handwaving, but at least I acknowledge it. I don&#x27;t want to write twelve paragraphs defining &quot;complexity&quot; right now, because my <i>real</i> point is....)<p>But the solution sure can be <i>more complicated</i> than the problem.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>crimsonalucard</author><text>&gt;A solution can not be simpler than the problem.<p>Problem: (4 primitives)<p><pre><code> 1 + 1 + 1 + 1
</code></pre>
Solution (one primitive):<p><pre><code> 4
</code></pre>
If amount of primitives defines complexity you are wrong.<p>What&#x27;s going on here is that you are using a different definition of complexity to construct your statement above. Most humans intuitively recognize your statement along with mine.<p>The issue here is that before we can even talk about complexity we have to come up with a formal definition that fits all forms of our intuition about what complexity actually is. Otherwise all arguments can become circular and pointless as everyone is talking about different things.<p>What is the formal definition of complexity? What is the thing that is being preserved here?</text></comment> |
19,106,214 | 19,105,960 | 1 | 3 | 19,104,167 | train | <story><title>The Big DNS Privacy Debate at FOSDEM</title><url>https://blog.powerdns.com/2019/02/07/the-big-dns-privacy-debate-at-fosdem/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>rnhmjoj</author><text>DNSCrypt has been around for a decade and works really well.
Did everyone forget about it?<p>It&#x27;s objectively better than running DNS queries over HTTPS: still UDP based, no need to trust a CA but only the DNS server public key, can be cached locally or network-wise, perfect forward secrecy.<p>There are clients[1] for Windows, Android, BSD, Linux, macOS and lots of providers[2].
It&#x27;s really a shame it hasn&#x27;t been made into a standard.<p>[1]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;jedisct1&#x2F;dnscrypt-proxy" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;jedisct1&#x2F;dnscrypt-proxy</a><p>[2]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;dnscrypt.info&#x2F;public-servers" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;dnscrypt.info&#x2F;public-servers</a></text></comment> | <story><title>The Big DNS Privacy Debate at FOSDEM</title><url>https://blog.powerdns.com/2019/02/07/the-big-dns-privacy-debate-at-fosdem/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>wtmt</author><text>In India, several websites get blocked by different ISPs based on some highly unsubstantiated petitions to some court that doesn’t understand what the right move is and just sends the list of domains to be blocked to some ISPs, who gladly comply without any checks or questions. Users see a message saying that the site has been blocked because of some order from the Department of Telecommunications.<p>There is no grievance management process, no way for legitimate sites to get a quick reprieve when they get blocked either due to operator error or issues with the petitions not being vetted and investigated for malicious intent (a competitor could easily knock you off in some states or regions and you wouldn’t even know).<p>While there are activists working on policies and campaigning for better laws, we really need stronger technological solutions against these (usually ridiculous) blocks that insult “due process” and harm people.<p>India is also very quick to rap on large multinational companies whenever they seem to provide something that those in power (or their supporters) frown upon. So centralized providers like Google DNS or Cloudflare DNS would have some tough times with the governments, since both have physical presence in the country with their servers&#x2F;data centers.<p><i>A decentralized and yet secure&#x2F;private DNS may be more resilient than these DoC (DNS over Cloud) providers if we have to deal with government censorship effectively.</i></text></comment> |
23,007,253 | 23,005,697 | 1 | 3 | 23,003,138 | train | <story><title>WireGuard on K8s: road-warrior-style VPN server</title><url>https://blog.levine.sh/14058/wireguard-on-k8s-road-warrior-style-vpn-server</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tombh</author><text>I think we all understand the usefulness of a road-warrior-style VPN. But it doesn&#x27;t seem so clear what k8s is adding here?<p>Anyway, on the topic of scalable UDP services, does anyone have any experience of load balancing a UDP service? Because UDP is connectionless there&#x27;s no obvious way to make UDP packets &quot;sticky&quot;. Are there any established practices that could help scale this k8s Wireguard service to 2 or more containers?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>sclevine</author><text>I&#x27;m just using K8s (specifically: K3s) for configuration management in this case. This post hits the nail on the head: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=23006114" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=23006114</a><p>That said, NGINX can do UDP load balancing and WireGuard is stateless, so it should be possible to use this with a Service + NGINX ingress controller at scale:
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;kubernetes.github.io&#x2F;ingress-nginx&#x2F;user-guide&#x2F;exposing-tcp-udp-services&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;kubernetes.github.io&#x2F;ingress-nginx&#x2F;user-guide&#x2F;exposi...</a><p>I have not tried it though.</text></comment> | <story><title>WireGuard on K8s: road-warrior-style VPN server</title><url>https://blog.levine.sh/14058/wireguard-on-k8s-road-warrior-style-vpn-server</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tombh</author><text>I think we all understand the usefulness of a road-warrior-style VPN. But it doesn&#x27;t seem so clear what k8s is adding here?<p>Anyway, on the topic of scalable UDP services, does anyone have any experience of load balancing a UDP service? Because UDP is connectionless there&#x27;s no obvious way to make UDP packets &quot;sticky&quot;. Are there any established practices that could help scale this k8s Wireguard service to 2 or more containers?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>KenanSulayman</author><text>Well if you make it a DaemonSet you could technically use the container as the network interface of other containers throughout the whole cluster. That said, I&#x27;m very happy that his example k8s deployment uses secrets.<p>I didn&#x27;t know Ubuntu 20.04 back ported WG into its 5.4 kernel. I spent a few hours yesterday fixing a node after breaking ZFS because I upgraded to 5.6 for WG support. I feel rather silly now..<p>edit: rektide mentioned &#x27;kilo&#x27; which actually does exactly what I said (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;squat&#x2F;kilo" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;squat&#x2F;kilo</a>).</text></comment> |
24,529,879 | 24,528,447 | 1 | 2 | 24,519,008 | train | <story><title>The benefits of note-taking by hand</title><url>https://www.bbc.com/worklife/article/20200910-the-benefits-of-note-taking-by-hand</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>amadeuspagel</author><text>&gt; Researchers have found that note-taking associated with keyboarding involves taking notes verbatim in a way that does not involve processing information, and so have called this “non-generative” note-taking.<p>From the linked paper:<p>&gt; Taking notes on laptops rather than in longhand is increasingly common. Many researchers have suggested that laptop note taking is less effective than longhand note taking for learning. Prior studies have primarily focused on students’ capacity for multitasking and distraction when using laptops. The present research suggests that even when laptops are used solely to take notes, they may still be impairing learning because their use results in shallower processing. In three studies, we found that students who took notes on laptops performed worse on conceptual questions than students who took notes longhand. We show that whereas taking more notes can be beneficial, laptop note takers’ tendency to transcribe lectures verbatim rather than processing information and reframing it in their own words is detrimental to learning.<p>The mechanism here is probably that people are able to type faster, so typing lets them write down every word, whereas handwriting forces them to choose what to write down. The superior way of note taking by this logic is clearly typing on your phone.<p>But this has irrelevant for note taking as people on HN are likely to understand it: Writing down your ideas.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>hrktb</author><text>As for a lot of studies, what sticks to me is they were all done on students.<p>In a sense, they take notes all day long so they are an interesting subject. On the other hand they are taking notes related to an external source, and not of stuff they are thinking by themselves or content anchored in a process other than passing a test.<p>I took notes by hand at school and take only digital notes now that I am working. While I respect the research done, I can’t help but feel that there’s something missing.<p>Intuitively, I can’t imagine that content that comes from my own brain that I am formatting into notes has a completely different retention rate depending on wether I type it or write it. Especially as I have no time pressure to think about what I’ll write.<p>Basically, would I remember this comment better if I wrote it on a post’it ? Id really like a study on this, and not students at school.</text></comment> | <story><title>The benefits of note-taking by hand</title><url>https://www.bbc.com/worklife/article/20200910-the-benefits-of-note-taking-by-hand</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>amadeuspagel</author><text>&gt; Researchers have found that note-taking associated with keyboarding involves taking notes verbatim in a way that does not involve processing information, and so have called this “non-generative” note-taking.<p>From the linked paper:<p>&gt; Taking notes on laptops rather than in longhand is increasingly common. Many researchers have suggested that laptop note taking is less effective than longhand note taking for learning. Prior studies have primarily focused on students’ capacity for multitasking and distraction when using laptops. The present research suggests that even when laptops are used solely to take notes, they may still be impairing learning because their use results in shallower processing. In three studies, we found that students who took notes on laptops performed worse on conceptual questions than students who took notes longhand. We show that whereas taking more notes can be beneficial, laptop note takers’ tendency to transcribe lectures verbatim rather than processing information and reframing it in their own words is detrimental to learning.<p>The mechanism here is probably that people are able to type faster, so typing lets them write down every word, whereas handwriting forces them to choose what to write down. The superior way of note taking by this logic is clearly typing on your phone.<p>But this has irrelevant for note taking as people on HN are likely to understand it: Writing down your ideas.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Meandering</author><text>There a couple aspects of other than time-taken that I think has a major impact on the ROI ratio. Note taking on a laptop is inherently restrictive in the sense that you are limited by the capability of your tools. So, there&#x27;s less thought on what to note and how to note it. For example, I will reorganize sections of notes in a way that is more conducive to my though process. That, in and of itself, has added value to understanding and comprehension. I&#x27;ve created an abstracted experience which includes doubling down on the concepts I&#x27;m learning and creates more intimacy with the actual notes I&#x27;m taking. In addition, memories are stored in extremely complex ways that are dependent on our senses. The tactile experience on the formation of memory shouldn&#x27;t be ignored. Personally, I take notes by and transfer to latex. This allows me to double down on considering the information and &#x27;revising&#x27; my resources.</text></comment> |
24,364,463 | 24,364,389 | 1 | 2 | 24,363,871 | train | <story><title>Pasco, Florida’s predictive policing system monitors and harasses residents</title><url>https://www.tampabay.com/projects/2020/investigations/police-pasco-sheriff-targeted/intelligence-led-policing/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>HarryHirsch</author><text><i>These floridian police are basically grooming kids to become criminals</i><p>What if that was the point? The system is making work to justify its continued existence. The police aren&#x27;t working for you, they are working for the sheriff, and these interest do not match.</text></item><item><author>jacobush</author><text>Except this surveillance machine is even more stupid. The USSR was at least ostensibly protecting its power structure from internal opposition.<p>These floridian police are basically grooming kids to become criminals by giving them records and harassing their families until they fall unto hardship.</text></item><item><author>Shengbo</author><text>Halfway into the article it started reminding me of the informant networks of the USSR. Officers peeping through windows, feeding data into the system about the target&#x27;s friends and family while also fining them for any unrelated arbitrary misdemeanor. This is not what crime prevention looks like in a democracy.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>save_ferris</author><text>Could be. The current fight around felons receiving their voting rights in Florida adds another incentive here: the justice system was&#x2F;is being used to suppress votes by aggressively penalizing kids to take away their voting rights. You&#x27;re basically picking who gets to vote at that point.</text></comment> | <story><title>Pasco, Florida’s predictive policing system monitors and harasses residents</title><url>https://www.tampabay.com/projects/2020/investigations/police-pasco-sheriff-targeted/intelligence-led-policing/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>HarryHirsch</author><text><i>These floridian police are basically grooming kids to become criminals</i><p>What if that was the point? The system is making work to justify its continued existence. The police aren&#x27;t working for you, they are working for the sheriff, and these interest do not match.</text></item><item><author>jacobush</author><text>Except this surveillance machine is even more stupid. The USSR was at least ostensibly protecting its power structure from internal opposition.<p>These floridian police are basically grooming kids to become criminals by giving them records and harassing their families until they fall unto hardship.</text></item><item><author>Shengbo</author><text>Halfway into the article it started reminding me of the informant networks of the USSR. Officers peeping through windows, feeding data into the system about the target&#x27;s friends and family while also fining them for any unrelated arbitrary misdemeanor. This is not what crime prevention looks like in a democracy.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>non-entity</author><text>This is a sherrif too, so they&#x27;re elected, not neccesarily by any sort of experience or merit.<p>Nobody likes to hear it, but I&#x27;m willing to bet this person has been in office for a while. Tough on crime is popular among &quot;model citizen&quot; voters even if it utilizes dystopic tactics.</text></comment> |
24,538,931 | 24,537,432 | 1 | 3 | 24,535,408 | train | <story><title>We need physical audio kill switches</title><url>https://rubenerd.com/we-need-physical-audio-kill-switches/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>m463</author><text>I have always wanted a flashlight with a brightness knob, that clicks to off.<p>It is incredibly hard to find this. I have one somewhere, but the knob was a little silly:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;amzn.com&#x2F;B07BDQS3XX" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;amzn.com&#x2F;B07BDQS3XX</a><p>I think a better design would be a ring around the circumference that you twist.<p>But I agree - when it came to putting a good stereo in my car (when you used to be able to do such a thing) I always kept looking until I found one with an actual volume knob. In a moving car - grabbing a knob and finding the right volume level is immediate and doable.<p>By the way, schiit hel: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.schiit.com&#x2F;products&#x2F;hel" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.schiit.com&#x2F;products&#x2F;hel</a></text></item><item><author>skohan</author><text>I&#x27;ve been thinking the same about power switches lately. If I turn a flashlight, or an old radio on or off, I flip a switch and get the result I want. With my 65 EUR gamepad, or 300 EUR headphones, I hold a button and wait several seconds for the result.<p>Why has UX regressed so much in these areas?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Zak</author><text>&gt; I have always wanted a flashlight with a brightness knob, that clicks to off... a ring around the circumference<p>There is one: the Jetbeam RRT-01, at least certain iterations of it. Most designs use a separate power switch.<p>This isn&#x27;t more common because there&#x27;s a patent covering using a Hall effect sensor in a ring around a flashlight body for this purpose, and the patent holder, Surefire has sued several manufacturers and vendors over it. A well-funded challenge would probably succeed on obviousness grounds, but patent challenges are expensive and I don&#x27;t think the flashlight industry is profitable enough to justify it. The patent expires in three years, so this will probably become more common then.</text></comment> | <story><title>We need physical audio kill switches</title><url>https://rubenerd.com/we-need-physical-audio-kill-switches/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>m463</author><text>I have always wanted a flashlight with a brightness knob, that clicks to off.<p>It is incredibly hard to find this. I have one somewhere, but the knob was a little silly:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;amzn.com&#x2F;B07BDQS3XX" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;amzn.com&#x2F;B07BDQS3XX</a><p>I think a better design would be a ring around the circumference that you twist.<p>But I agree - when it came to putting a good stereo in my car (when you used to be able to do such a thing) I always kept looking until I found one with an actual volume knob. In a moving car - grabbing a knob and finding the right volume level is immediate and doable.<p>By the way, schiit hel: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.schiit.com&#x2F;products&#x2F;hel" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.schiit.com&#x2F;products&#x2F;hel</a></text></item><item><author>skohan</author><text>I&#x27;ve been thinking the same about power switches lately. If I turn a flashlight, or an old radio on or off, I flip a switch and get the result I want. With my 65 EUR gamepad, or 300 EUR headphones, I hold a button and wait several seconds for the result.<p>Why has UX regressed so much in these areas?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ranger207</author><text>You want one of these:
<a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;flashlights.parametrek.com&#x2F;index.html?type=flashlight&amp;switch=ring" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;flashlights.parametrek.com&#x2F;index.html?type=flashlight...</a></text></comment> |
35,768,041 | 35,763,232 | 1 | 2 | 35,762,284 | train | <story><title>FIDE world chess championship decided in rapid tiebreaks</title><url>https://chess24.com/en/watch/live-tournaments/nepo-ding-world-chess-championship-2023/2/1/4</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>WastingMyTime89</author><text>Hard to take the WCC seriously when everyone know Carlsen would have won and just find the whole thing too boring to take part.</text></item><item><author>agubelu</author><text>It was a very exciting WCC, but I feel like something should be done about the post-match press conferences. Many of the questions asked in the most prestigious chess tournament are not even remotely related to the games that were played, and sometimes plainly disrespectful towards the players.<p>The first question right after a new World Champion has been crowned was about the weather.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>fasterik</author><text>I don&#x27;t see why that implies we shouldn&#x27;t take it seriously. The world #1 didn&#x27;t want to play, so we got a great match between the world #2 and #3 with some very interesting and complex games. Do you also think that Karpov shouldn&#x27;t have been taken seriously as world champion?</text></comment> | <story><title>FIDE world chess championship decided in rapid tiebreaks</title><url>https://chess24.com/en/watch/live-tournaments/nepo-ding-world-chess-championship-2023/2/1/4</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>WastingMyTime89</author><text>Hard to take the WCC seriously when everyone know Carlsen would have won and just find the whole thing too boring to take part.</text></item><item><author>agubelu</author><text>It was a very exciting WCC, but I feel like something should be done about the post-match press conferences. Many of the questions asked in the most prestigious chess tournament are not even remotely related to the games that were played, and sometimes plainly disrespectful towards the players.<p>The first question right after a new World Champion has been crowned was about the weather.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dkqmduems</author><text>I suspect Magnus would disagree.</text></comment> |
15,970,580 | 15,970,732 | 1 | 3 | 15,969,511 | train | <story><title>Magic Leap One</title><url>https://www.magicleap.com/?utm_source=reveal&utm_medium=TW&utm_campaign=WTDO</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>kilroy123</author><text>My guess is, they are wanting more money. It&#x27;s not really ready and won&#x27;t ship next year. I agree something is fishy.</text></item><item><author>lvoudour</author><text>Since the 1st iteration of the design is apparently ready, why can&#x27;t they just show a small demo?<p>It&#x27;s supposed to be <i>shipping</i> in 2018. They could easily have hired a team of top notch creators to showcase some of the capabilities of the device live -even if the device is still not 100% ready- instead of this silly Manhattan project secrecy. I hope they deliver as promised, but something smells fishy.<p>It&#x27;s a pity, because unlike VR I think AR has huge potential both for consumer and industrial applications.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>downandout</author><text>This is what I was thinking. That conversation probably went something like this:<p><i>“We need more money.”<p>“We gave you $2 billion. You’re going to have to ship something before we give you more.”<p>“Hmmm...we aren’t ready to ship and may not be for some time...what if instead of shipping, we can show you that 50K people are interested in buying it? Will you give us some more money then?”<p>“Sure, you show us that 50k people want to buy it and we will write you another check”.</i><p>So they created an email opt-in page, photoshopped some 3D renders of a product that doesn’t exist yet onto a person’s head, and did a press release calling this page an “unveiling”. That’s really all this is - a “coming soon” page for something that may or
may not be vaporware. Investors are getting antsy and want some sense of what the actual market is for this thing.</text></comment> | <story><title>Magic Leap One</title><url>https://www.magicleap.com/?utm_source=reveal&utm_medium=TW&utm_campaign=WTDO</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>kilroy123</author><text>My guess is, they are wanting more money. It&#x27;s not really ready and won&#x27;t ship next year. I agree something is fishy.</text></item><item><author>lvoudour</author><text>Since the 1st iteration of the design is apparently ready, why can&#x27;t they just show a small demo?<p>It&#x27;s supposed to be <i>shipping</i> in 2018. They could easily have hired a team of top notch creators to showcase some of the capabilities of the device live -even if the device is still not 100% ready- instead of this silly Manhattan project secrecy. I hope they deliver as promised, but something smells fishy.<p>It&#x27;s a pity, because unlike VR I think AR has huge potential both for consumer and industrial applications.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ChuckMcM</author><text>Maybe they are waiting to ship on the same day that Ready Player One comes out :-)</text></comment> |
30,229,005 | 30,228,574 | 1 | 2 | 30,228,095 | train | <story><title>Imminent merger of a supermassive black hole binary</title><url>https://arxiv.org/abs/2201.11633</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>josephagoss</author><text>This is insane!<p>Between 100 days and 3 years we will record what will be the single largest energy release we have ever recorded.<p>To give an idea of our records so far: our detection of black hole mergers around the 100-150 solar masses scale are just behind a couple gamma ray bursts as the single largest energy release ever.<p>How big are the black hole mergers around 150 solar masses and the two largest gamma ray bursts?<p>The energy release converted the mass of between 1-6 solar masses into energy.<p>With black hole mergers this energy release&#x2F;conversion is in the form of gravitational waves that we then detect!<p>So imagine the sun, times 6, every atom, converted into that energy. That’s what we have already recorded.<p>This predicted one is not even in the same ballpark. Those 1-6 sun matter into energy conversions are ants compared to what’s coming.<p>These supermassive black holes are thousands to tens of thousands of times the mass of our sun. (Not sure if the ones in this paper are in the billion solar masses class. Yes they do exist)<p>This event will convert the mass of perhaps a hundred or a thousand suns worth of matter into energy in an instant. (Not sure if the paper gives any accurate predictions I’m lazy!)</text></comment> | <story><title>Imminent merger of a supermassive black hole binary</title><url>https://arxiv.org/abs/2201.11633</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>dylan604</author><text>Any time &quot;imminent&quot; is used in astronomy, you have to remember 1 million years is imminient when speaking about the universe. So for them to say &quot;within 3 years&quot; that&#x27;s like go get the popcorn, you don&#x27;t want to miss it level warning!</text></comment> |
12,427,699 | 12,427,456 | 1 | 2 | 12,427,073 | train | <story><title>You’re How Old? We’ll Be in Touch</title><url>http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/04/opinion/sunday/youre-how-old-well-be-in-touch.html?_r=0</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>hirundo</author><text>I&#x27;m a grey beard who applied to a company specifically advertising for young developers. Got the job without mentioning my vintage. That was six years ago and they still haven&#x27;t seen my face. I waited a while to gently break the news to them. If you&#x27;re a technological senior citizen remote work is your friend.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>markbnj</author><text>Heh, I applied for and landed a position on the SRE team of a youngish startup that is almost entirely remote. I&#x27;m 55 and there is one other guy in his 40&#x27;s I think who works out of Northern Cal. Other than him I&#x27;m 20 years older than everyone else and it&#x27;s been a blast. We recently did a week-long retreat and I had a truly good time, which surprised me. Really the only thing I can say after 20 years in the business is you just never know. I got lucky this time around and fell in with a group of people who are perfect for me.</text></comment> | <story><title>You’re How Old? We’ll Be in Touch</title><url>http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/04/opinion/sunday/youre-how-old-well-be-in-touch.html?_r=0</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>hirundo</author><text>I&#x27;m a grey beard who applied to a company specifically advertising for young developers. Got the job without mentioning my vintage. That was six years ago and they still haven&#x27;t seen my face. I waited a while to gently break the news to them. If you&#x27;re a technological senior citizen remote work is your friend.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ourmandave</author><text>Ah, &quot;Grey beard&quot;. The term Microsoft used to separate the old from the young at a conference when they first introduced the .NET framework. Classic &quot;old bad, good new&quot; sales.<p>As in, &quot;you Grey Breads remember using C++ and MFC, etc.&quot;<p>Yes I remember. Because it was yesterday just before I came to your conference!<p>I still went home and started learning what the hell XML was though. =(</text></comment> |
36,365,719 | 36,358,735 | 1 | 2 | 36,358,408 | train | <story><title>Reddit App – Suspicious high number of recent 5 star, one word reviews</title><url>https://old.reddit.com/r/Save3rdPartyApps/comments/14at885/the_reddit_app_has_a_suspiciously_high_number_of/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>RainbowFriends</author><text>The behavior of Reddit&#x27;s management has inspired me to login through the series of accounts I have created over the years and delete all content I had contributed to. Doesn&#x27;t management realize they are dependent on people like us to create content to generate value for the website?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Defenestresque</author><text>He does not care about users like you.<p>&gt;&gt;I know I’m focusing a lot on that, but that’s where a lot of the protests in the community are focused. People appear to really love these apps. And, apparently, they think Reddit itself is not offering the experience they’re looking for. People talk about leaving the platform because they can’t use these apps. So if Reddit is going to shut down these apps, you’re going to lose people who loved Reddit, and that still doesn’t quite make sense. So I guess I’m wondering why hasn’t there been...<p>&gt;90-plus percent of Reddit users are on our platform, contributing, and are monetized either through ads or Reddit Premium. Why would we subsidize this small group? Why would we effectively pay them to use Reddit but not everybody else who also contributes to Reddit? Does that make sense?<p>&gt;These people who are mad, they’re mad because they used to get something for free, and now it’s going to be not free. And that free comes at the expense of our other users and our business. That’s what this is about. It can’t be free.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theverge.com&#x2F;2023&#x2F;6&#x2F;15&#x2F;23762868&#x2F;reddit-ceo-steve-huffman-interview" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theverge.com&#x2F;2023&#x2F;6&#x2F;15&#x2F;23762868&#x2F;reddit-ceo-steve...</a><p>The entire article is just so bizarre and needlessly hostile that I&#x27;m amazed they&#x27;re allowing him to do interviews.</text></comment> | <story><title>Reddit App – Suspicious high number of recent 5 star, one word reviews</title><url>https://old.reddit.com/r/Save3rdPartyApps/comments/14at885/the_reddit_app_has_a_suspiciously_high_number_of/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>RainbowFriends</author><text>The behavior of Reddit&#x27;s management has inspired me to login through the series of accounts I have created over the years and delete all content I had contributed to. Doesn&#x27;t management realize they are dependent on people like us to create content to generate value for the website?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>MiguelX413</author><text><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=36357164">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=36357164</a></text></comment> |
7,123,423 | 7,123,249 | 1 | 2 | 7,121,268 | train | <story><title>Bro pages: like man pages, but with examples only</title><url>http://bropages.org/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rds2000</author><text>What creates a hostile environment for woman is where a sector, made of predominately men is scrutinized with a hysterical &quot;boy who cried wolf&quot; mentality.<p>It&#x27;s a vicious cycle.<p>1. First there is a tiny group of feminists, mostly consisting of marketers, call themselves coders, but if you were look them up, they&#x27;re twittering and having fun more than building. They seem very happy to stir indignation.<p>2. Then, people in positions of power bend toward the illegitimate trolls who cried wolf. I&#x27;m talking, the word &quot;meritocracy&quot; being offensive by github CEO [1], python board members referring to geekfeminism.org as a charter [2] for pycon conferences.<p>Pack up and go home, these are the leaders, the chiefs, the alphas of engineers - and they are cowing down to politically correct trolls on twitter, who aren&#x27;t even participants to the causes.<p>Twitter and blogs allow anyone to claim to be anything. You used to need a degree to Marketer! Now any girl with an iPhone can be one! Twitter lets anyone call themselves a programmer.<p>However, Github holds people accountable for actually having to program - funny how meritocracy came up as a bad word to these people!<p>What is really creating a hostile work environment for woman? I can tell you, men who stay silent watching this bogus stuff happen, woman with legitimate skill and talent may be cast off as a liability.<p>Consider this: if you are a woman, and you would let a bad joke ruin someone&#x27;s life, or abuse politically correct sympathy as a female to get benefits - is that going to help your cause? If you are a leader or boss, and you let these trolls shape you - You lack backbone. I feel this is a lack of integrity, and they&#x27;re not fit to lead.<p>I hope leaders set an example and not feed these attention trolls and call their crap out. These are woman creating a hostile environment for woman who would otherwise feel grateful to earn their way and belong.<p>[1]: <a href="https://twitter.com/defunkt/statuses/426104782894284800" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;defunkt&#x2F;statuses&#x2F;426104782894284800</a>
[2]: <a href="http://jessenoller.com/blog/2012/12/7/the-code-of-conduct" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;jessenoller.com&#x2F;blog&#x2F;2012&#x2F;12&#x2F;7&#x2F;the-code-of-conduct</a></text></item><item><author>glesica</author><text>It is offensive because it has high potential to create a hostile environment for women. This isn&#x27;t just me and a few people making shit up, read my comment, it&#x27;s obvious that the authors <i>knew</i> they were on shaky ground. They tried to defuse the situation with a cute little comment, but it would have been better to just change the name.<p>Read this comment for a better explanation if you&#x27;re actually confused: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7121717" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=7121717</a></text></item><item><author>overgard</author><text>In what way is this sexist? There is not a single word of disparagement on that site. Nobody in their right mind would say that the word &quot;bro&quot; is sexist unless they&#x27;re explicitly looking to be offended. (IE: picking a fight)</text></item><item><author>glesica</author><text>Another offended man checking in. Why is it so hard to accept that sexist language and actions are offensive to men?<p>I suspect that most people would agree that white people can be offended by the use of terms like &quot;nigger&quot;, or jokes about slavery. So then why can&#x27;t men be offended by misogynistic language or jokes that are likely to create a hostile environment for women?<p>I clicked, I saw the name and was a little turned off but thought maybe it was just a clever shortening of a reasonable word I hadn&#x27;t thought of (the way &quot;man&quot; is short for &quot;manual&quot;).<p>Then I saw the &quot;girls are bros too&quot; thing and I realized that nope, the authors are just insensitive at best, jackasses at worst. They saw the complaints coming, but they thought it was more important to make some sort of off-color joke than to have their product taken seriously as the useful tool it could be.</text></item><item><author>overgard</author><text>Absolutely, lets throw away our sense of humor and wordplay because there are theoretically people that might be offended (maybe, kindof. You know. In theory.).<p>(N.B. the people that seem to be offended so far are offended on other peoples behalf..)<p>Isn&#x27;t it way more offensive to assume that women are such dainty delicate creatures that like, they won&#x27;t get the joke?</text></item><item><author>blahedo</author><text>Great idea; shame about the name.<p>Here&#x27;s the problem with using words like &quot;bro&quot; (however jokingly): the problem is not with what <i>you</i>[0] are thinking when you read the word &quot;bro&quot;, but with what <i>other people</i>, especially newcomers, are thinking. The locker-room atmosphere that stuff like this creates is a huge barrier to entry for a lot of people, women especially, who infer that on top of all the technically difficult stuff that <i>everyone</i> has to learn to be CS types, they&#x27;ll also have to deal with a constant barrage of &quot;you&#x27;re not our kind&quot; flung at them by the in-group. <i>You personally</i> may not be intending that as your message, but I assure you that your personal intent does not matter when you are using language that has been associated with exclusion and discrimination.[1]<p>The problem here, if this program is actually intended to be used, is that just typing in the command would be a <i>constant reminder</i> of an entire subculture that is widely seen as[2] putting up walls and doors that say &quot;NO GIЯLS ALOUD&quot; around the programming profession, an attempt to preserve privilege. Those of you suggesting an alias are either being disingenuous or missing the point entirely.<p>[0] Meaning individuals, of whatever gender&#x2F;race&#x2F;class&#x2F;whatever, that are likely to be reading HN.<p>[1] If you don&#x27;t believe me, ponder for a moment sentences like, &quot;But I like Negroes just fine!&quot; Language matters.<p>[2] Again, <i>you</i> might not mean to reference that when you use words like &quot;brogrammer&quot;. But it&#x27;s how an awful lot of us read it.<p>EDIT: Rereading other posts on this page, I should add that I almost certainly got the phrase &quot;shame about the name&quot; stuck in my head from reading dewitt&#x27;s post. Four words, such a concise summary of my attitude! :)<p>EDIT 2: &quot;they&#x27;ll have&quot; -&gt; &quot;that <i>everyone</i> has&quot; to clarify argument. Thx vezzy-fnord.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>KuraFire</author><text>Hey dude, here&#x27;s a hint: perhaps these women are arguing on social media because guys like you fail to give them the basic modicum of respect as a human being, and they have to spend time fighting to be respected, which takes away from their time to build stuff. Whereas, unlike your privileged life wherein people don&#x27;t fundamentally deny you basic human respect, you have plenty of time to spend on doing things you enjoy, rather than getting people to treat you like an equal human being.<p>Beyond that, the entire rest of your comment reeks of sexist views (prejudiced biases against women), so I’m probably already wasting my time trying to get you to open your mind slightly to the possibility that perhaps nobody here is &quot;cowing&quot; to anyone, that being &quot;politically correct&quot; is actually the admirable and proper way of being a decent human being (aka &quot;not being an asshole&quot;), that people favor those leaders who listen to complaints from within their communities rather than those who behave like dicks and tell huge numbers of people to go away, like you&#x27;re suggesting. But if you entertain these ideas for some time and express a genuine desire to learn, rather than find support for your skewed and misinformed perspectives on how the industry (and society) works in the dark recesses of a community that was once full of people sharing your harmful worldview, then I&#x27;m happy to answer any questions you might have.</text></comment> | <story><title>Bro pages: like man pages, but with examples only</title><url>http://bropages.org/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rds2000</author><text>What creates a hostile environment for woman is where a sector, made of predominately men is scrutinized with a hysterical &quot;boy who cried wolf&quot; mentality.<p>It&#x27;s a vicious cycle.<p>1. First there is a tiny group of feminists, mostly consisting of marketers, call themselves coders, but if you were look them up, they&#x27;re twittering and having fun more than building. They seem very happy to stir indignation.<p>2. Then, people in positions of power bend toward the illegitimate trolls who cried wolf. I&#x27;m talking, the word &quot;meritocracy&quot; being offensive by github CEO [1], python board members referring to geekfeminism.org as a charter [2] for pycon conferences.<p>Pack up and go home, these are the leaders, the chiefs, the alphas of engineers - and they are cowing down to politically correct trolls on twitter, who aren&#x27;t even participants to the causes.<p>Twitter and blogs allow anyone to claim to be anything. You used to need a degree to Marketer! Now any girl with an iPhone can be one! Twitter lets anyone call themselves a programmer.<p>However, Github holds people accountable for actually having to program - funny how meritocracy came up as a bad word to these people!<p>What is really creating a hostile work environment for woman? I can tell you, men who stay silent watching this bogus stuff happen, woman with legitimate skill and talent may be cast off as a liability.<p>Consider this: if you are a woman, and you would let a bad joke ruin someone&#x27;s life, or abuse politically correct sympathy as a female to get benefits - is that going to help your cause? If you are a leader or boss, and you let these trolls shape you - You lack backbone. I feel this is a lack of integrity, and they&#x27;re not fit to lead.<p>I hope leaders set an example and not feed these attention trolls and call their crap out. These are woman creating a hostile environment for woman who would otherwise feel grateful to earn their way and belong.<p>[1]: <a href="https://twitter.com/defunkt/statuses/426104782894284800" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;defunkt&#x2F;statuses&#x2F;426104782894284800</a>
[2]: <a href="http://jessenoller.com/blog/2012/12/7/the-code-of-conduct" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;jessenoller.com&#x2F;blog&#x2F;2012&#x2F;12&#x2F;7&#x2F;the-code-of-conduct</a></text></item><item><author>glesica</author><text>It is offensive because it has high potential to create a hostile environment for women. This isn&#x27;t just me and a few people making shit up, read my comment, it&#x27;s obvious that the authors <i>knew</i> they were on shaky ground. They tried to defuse the situation with a cute little comment, but it would have been better to just change the name.<p>Read this comment for a better explanation if you&#x27;re actually confused: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7121717" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=7121717</a></text></item><item><author>overgard</author><text>In what way is this sexist? There is not a single word of disparagement on that site. Nobody in their right mind would say that the word &quot;bro&quot; is sexist unless they&#x27;re explicitly looking to be offended. (IE: picking a fight)</text></item><item><author>glesica</author><text>Another offended man checking in. Why is it so hard to accept that sexist language and actions are offensive to men?<p>I suspect that most people would agree that white people can be offended by the use of terms like &quot;nigger&quot;, or jokes about slavery. So then why can&#x27;t men be offended by misogynistic language or jokes that are likely to create a hostile environment for women?<p>I clicked, I saw the name and was a little turned off but thought maybe it was just a clever shortening of a reasonable word I hadn&#x27;t thought of (the way &quot;man&quot; is short for &quot;manual&quot;).<p>Then I saw the &quot;girls are bros too&quot; thing and I realized that nope, the authors are just insensitive at best, jackasses at worst. They saw the complaints coming, but they thought it was more important to make some sort of off-color joke than to have their product taken seriously as the useful tool it could be.</text></item><item><author>overgard</author><text>Absolutely, lets throw away our sense of humor and wordplay because there are theoretically people that might be offended (maybe, kindof. You know. In theory.).<p>(N.B. the people that seem to be offended so far are offended on other peoples behalf..)<p>Isn&#x27;t it way more offensive to assume that women are such dainty delicate creatures that like, they won&#x27;t get the joke?</text></item><item><author>blahedo</author><text>Great idea; shame about the name.<p>Here&#x27;s the problem with using words like &quot;bro&quot; (however jokingly): the problem is not with what <i>you</i>[0] are thinking when you read the word &quot;bro&quot;, but with what <i>other people</i>, especially newcomers, are thinking. The locker-room atmosphere that stuff like this creates is a huge barrier to entry for a lot of people, women especially, who infer that on top of all the technically difficult stuff that <i>everyone</i> has to learn to be CS types, they&#x27;ll also have to deal with a constant barrage of &quot;you&#x27;re not our kind&quot; flung at them by the in-group. <i>You personally</i> may not be intending that as your message, but I assure you that your personal intent does not matter when you are using language that has been associated with exclusion and discrimination.[1]<p>The problem here, if this program is actually intended to be used, is that just typing in the command would be a <i>constant reminder</i> of an entire subculture that is widely seen as[2] putting up walls and doors that say &quot;NO GIЯLS ALOUD&quot; around the programming profession, an attempt to preserve privilege. Those of you suggesting an alias are either being disingenuous or missing the point entirely.<p>[0] Meaning individuals, of whatever gender&#x2F;race&#x2F;class&#x2F;whatever, that are likely to be reading HN.<p>[1] If you don&#x27;t believe me, ponder for a moment sentences like, &quot;But I like Negroes just fine!&quot; Language matters.<p>[2] Again, <i>you</i> might not mean to reference that when you use words like &quot;brogrammer&quot;. But it&#x27;s how an awful lot of us read it.<p>EDIT: Rereading other posts on this page, I should add that I almost certainly got the phrase &quot;shame about the name&quot; stuck in my head from reading dewitt&#x27;s post. Four words, such a concise summary of my attitude! :)<p>EDIT 2: &quot;they&#x27;ll have&quot; -&gt; &quot;that <i>everyone</i> has&quot; to clarify argument. Thx vezzy-fnord.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ceol</author><text><i>&gt; but if you were look them up, they&#x27;re twittering and having fun more than building.</i><p>The irony of this comment being in a long-winded post on Hacker News is lost, perhaps? You do realize the vast majority of &quot;programmers&quot; aren&#x27;t building 100% of the time.<p>Judging by that and the fact you throw out &quot;feminist&quot; like it&#x27;s an insult, I&#x27;m going to say you&#x27;ve got some pretty heavy bias.</text></comment> |
35,298,281 | 35,298,326 | 1 | 2 | 35,294,802 | train | <story><title>Reasons the banking crisis isn’t a repeat of 2008</title><url>https://www.chase.com/personal/investments/learning-and-insights/article/tmt-march-twenty-four-twenty-three</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>fyzix</author><text>History never repeats itself, but it does often rhyme.<p>We cannot have a decade of 0% interest rates and expect no consequences. Peter Schiff predicted this from the moment the fed bailouted the banks in 2008.<p>There&#x27;s nothing the fed can do to escape this one, it&#x27;s either massive inflation or massive recession. The fed has avoided the latter by bailing out the banks again so expect double digit inflation for the next decade.<p>PS: My personal CPI (rent + food) is 23% so I&#x27;m already experiencing this. I would advise everyone to calculate their personal CPI because that&#x27;s what affects your standard of living...The government numbers are rigged and everyone&#x27;s reality differs...</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>quags</author><text>If we go by another Peter, Peter Lynch in this case he would say no one can predict inflation or interest rates long term. Secondly his words is there is always something to worry about when investing - like when oil went to 40 and there would be a depression or when Japan was going to take over the world leading to Americas downfall - or when Japan was crashing and going to cause a depression. Or when oil went from 40 to 10 and would cause a depression. Or when in 82 the prime rate went to 20 and there was stagflation that no one predicted in 80 or 81. Now Schiff may be right and we are heading for this finally after years of slow growth from 2010-2018 when inflation was lower than the feds target of 2% something no one would have predicted in 2008. Schiff may be right after predicting multiple large depressions to finally get one right.</text></comment> | <story><title>Reasons the banking crisis isn’t a repeat of 2008</title><url>https://www.chase.com/personal/investments/learning-and-insights/article/tmt-march-twenty-four-twenty-three</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>fyzix</author><text>History never repeats itself, but it does often rhyme.<p>We cannot have a decade of 0% interest rates and expect no consequences. Peter Schiff predicted this from the moment the fed bailouted the banks in 2008.<p>There&#x27;s nothing the fed can do to escape this one, it&#x27;s either massive inflation or massive recession. The fed has avoided the latter by bailing out the banks again so expect double digit inflation for the next decade.<p>PS: My personal CPI (rent + food) is 23% so I&#x27;m already experiencing this. I would advise everyone to calculate their personal CPI because that&#x27;s what affects your standard of living...The government numbers are rigged and everyone&#x27;s reality differs...</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>paulpauper</author><text><i>Peter Schiff predicted this from the moment the fed bailouted the banks in 2008.</i><p>He predicted dollar collapse, hyperinflation for 11 years, and a bunch of other stuff the didn&#x27;t come true. Major broken clock syndrome on his part. Inflation finally spiked, but after being wrong since 2008. Gold still has not done much in a decade. The inflation was from the post-covid recovery, which was so strong that supply chain could not keep up, not as a consequence of 2008.<p>It&#x27;s very easy to predict something will eventually happen. Anyone can do that. Way harder to predict when,</text></comment> |
8,956,595 | 8,956,274 | 1 | 3 | 8,955,426 | train | <story><title>YouTube now defaults to HTML5 video</title><url>http://youtube-eng.blogspot.com/2015/01/youtube-now-defaults-to-html5_27.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>shutupalready</author><text>What joy it is to finally uninstall Flash. The last time I was this happy to uninstall crappy software was when I realized that I no longer needed RealPlayer.<p>For those that don&#x27;t know it, RealPlayer was a very popular proprietary media player (with its own proprietary formats) circa 2000. The company&#x27;s stock was worth $380 a share in 2000; it&#x27;s now worth $6.<p>The only explanation for RealPlayer&#x27;s popularity was its DRM I think; lots of commercial users wanted the DRM.<p>But it got more bloated with every release, and I had to go through its countless option settings every time I updated it to disable all the sneaky ways they came up with to violate user privacy. I&#x27;m relieved that we no longer need either Flash or RealPlayer.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>schoen</author><text>Unfortunately (though it&#x27;s considerably more compartmentalized and constrained than prior iterations), Google is trying to replace Flash with a DRM mechanism that also requires proprietary software. So while you might think that the advent of HTML5 video means you no longer need proprietary software to interoperate with the services that use it, Google and its partners are working to ensure that that&#x27;s not true.</text></comment> | <story><title>YouTube now defaults to HTML5 video</title><url>http://youtube-eng.blogspot.com/2015/01/youtube-now-defaults-to-html5_27.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>shutupalready</author><text>What joy it is to finally uninstall Flash. The last time I was this happy to uninstall crappy software was when I realized that I no longer needed RealPlayer.<p>For those that don&#x27;t know it, RealPlayer was a very popular proprietary media player (with its own proprietary formats) circa 2000. The company&#x27;s stock was worth $380 a share in 2000; it&#x27;s now worth $6.<p>The only explanation for RealPlayer&#x27;s popularity was its DRM I think; lots of commercial users wanted the DRM.<p>But it got more bloated with every release, and I had to go through its countless option settings every time I updated it to disable all the sneaky ways they came up with to violate user privacy. I&#x27;m relieved that we no longer need either Flash or RealPlayer.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>koyote</author><text>Oh my god I completely forgot about RealPlayer.<p>Luckily there was an alternative, Real Alternative, that enabled you to play the content without having to install that ghastly RealPlayer. It seems like the community always finds a way around crappy software.</text></comment> |
29,058,388 | 29,058,456 | 1 | 3 | 29,056,343 | train | <story><title>Sustainable Energy without the Hot Air (Revised, Community Edition)</title><url>https://climate.lifeitself.us/without-hot-air/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>credit_guy</author><text>&gt; Utility scale solar PV [...] is now the cheapest form of new energy to deploy.<p>I&#x27;ve been hearing this claim for a few years now, and I took it at face value, until a few days ago. I was having a discussion with a friend and told him that PV&#x27;s share of electricity generation must by quite high, and then I checked the EIA website [1], and it turns out only 2.3% of the electricity comes from PV, while about 40% come from gas and 20% from coal.<p>Something does not add up. If PV is so cheap, why don&#x27;t we see more electricity being produced by PV?<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.eia.gov&#x2F;tools&#x2F;faqs&#x2F;faq.php?id=427&amp;t=3" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.eia.gov&#x2F;tools&#x2F;faqs&#x2F;faq.php?id=427&amp;t=3</a></text></item><item><author>mcot2</author><text>It sounds like this should have a date attached to it as the numbers are quite outdated for todays world. This did have some good data for back when it was written of course.<p>* An efficient EV will do less than 12kWh&#x2F;100km these days.<p>* Utility scale solar pv cost declines have been dramatic. It is now the cheapest form of new energy to deploy.<p>* Developments in deep water off-shore wind have led to much larger turbines which are capturing more wind energy for longer periods of time.<p>* Large scale batteries are now viable as a storage mechanism for renewables and are going to rapidly replace things like peaker plants.<p>* Lots of new research is happening with Nuclear like thorium&#x2F;molten-salt reactors which will still be important for baseload generation.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ghouse</author><text>Only recently did PV becomes the least-cost source of new electric generation.[0] And new utility-scale projects take 2-7 years to develop. For example, TX is anticipated to add 10 GW of new solar generation in 2022.[1] As I write this (while the sun is up, noon in TX), the current demand in TX is 38 GW.[2]<p>Source: Have been developing solar power plants since 2008.<p>[0] The tipping point for solar is different in different regions based on many factors, but primarily the amount of annual sunlight and the cost of fuel on the margin, and regulatory policy.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reuters.com&#x2F;business&#x2F;environment&#x2F;texas-track-add-record-solar-power-capacity-by-end-2022-2021-04-21&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reuters.com&#x2F;business&#x2F;environment&#x2F;texas-track-add...</a><p>[2] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ercot.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ercot.com&#x2F;</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Sustainable Energy without the Hot Air (Revised, Community Edition)</title><url>https://climate.lifeitself.us/without-hot-air/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>credit_guy</author><text>&gt; Utility scale solar PV [...] is now the cheapest form of new energy to deploy.<p>I&#x27;ve been hearing this claim for a few years now, and I took it at face value, until a few days ago. I was having a discussion with a friend and told him that PV&#x27;s share of electricity generation must by quite high, and then I checked the EIA website [1], and it turns out only 2.3% of the electricity comes from PV, while about 40% come from gas and 20% from coal.<p>Something does not add up. If PV is so cheap, why don&#x27;t we see more electricity being produced by PV?<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.eia.gov&#x2F;tools&#x2F;faqs&#x2F;faq.php?id=427&amp;t=3" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.eia.gov&#x2F;tools&#x2F;faqs&#x2F;faq.php?id=427&amp;t=3</a></text></item><item><author>mcot2</author><text>It sounds like this should have a date attached to it as the numbers are quite outdated for todays world. This did have some good data for back when it was written of course.<p>* An efficient EV will do less than 12kWh&#x2F;100km these days.<p>* Utility scale solar pv cost declines have been dramatic. It is now the cheapest form of new energy to deploy.<p>* Developments in deep water off-shore wind have led to much larger turbines which are capturing more wind energy for longer periods of time.<p>* Large scale batteries are now viable as a storage mechanism for renewables and are going to rapidly replace things like peaker plants.<p>* Lots of new research is happening with Nuclear like thorium&#x2F;molten-salt reactors which will still be important for baseload generation.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>wcoenen</author><text>Wind was cheaper. The levellized cost of electricity from solar has only recently dropped below that of wind. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Cost_of_electricity_by_source" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Cost_of_electricity_by_source</a></text></comment> |
6,417,988 | 6,417,605 | 1 | 3 | 6,417,319 | train | <story><title>Less is exponentially more (2012)</title><url>http://commandcenter.blogspot.de/2012/06/less-is-exponentially-more.html</url><text>I was asked a few weeks ago, &quot;What was the biggest surprise you encountered rolling out Go?&quot; I knew the answer instantly: Although we expected C++ programmers to see Go as an alternative, instead most Go programmers come from languages like Python and Ruby. Very few come from C++.</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>krosaen</author><text>&quot;C++ programmers don&#x27;t come to Go because they have fought hard to gain exquisite control of their programming domain, and don&#x27;t want to surrender any of it. To them, software isn&#x27;t just about getting the job done, it&#x27;s about doing it a certain way.<p>The issue, then, is that Go&#x27;s success would contradict their world view.&quot;<p>This, &quot;they can&#x27;t handle how awesome it is&quot; is kind of a fun rationale and strikes me as plausible, but it would be more interesting to me to hear from some of the stellar c++ programmers at google as to why they aren&#x27;t interested in switching.<p>C++ was the first language I really invested in mastering during and after college - it was like, &quot;all I need to do is read these 5 books about how to avoid the pitfalls and use all the powerful tools, and it&#x27;s amazing!&quot; What really changed my mind was trying other languages (first python) and seeing how immediately productive I could be without so much as skimming through the &quot;dive into python&quot; website. So specifically, I&#x27;d be interested in hearing something from an expert C++ programmer who has really given go a try and decided it&#x27;s not their cup of tea.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>scottlamb</author><text>I program in C++ at Google. I won&#x27;t make claims about &quot;stellar&quot;. Here are a few Google-specific reasons Go hasn&#x27;t replaced C++ for me:<p>* The long C++ build times he was complaining about are mostly gone due to distributed builds. <a href="http://google-engtools.blogspot.com/2011/09/build-in-cloud-distributing-build-steps.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;google-engtools.blogspot.com&#x2F;2011&#x2F;09&#x2F;build-in-cloud-d...</a> Throwing resources at the problem isn&#x27;t ideal, but it does work.<p>* Google has a lot of C++ library code, including client libraries for things like Bigtable. Go&#x27;s Google-specific libraries are a work in progress.<p>* For serving systems, I care more about machine efficiency and latency for than about development time. I&#x27;m still skeptical of those properties in Go. Obviously the compiler (and my comfort with it) will improve over time. So will the garbage collector, to a point. It will always operate on one large heap like Java&#x27;s. People say Java&#x27;s GC works fine, but they spend a lot of time tuning it and then quote pause times that don&#x27;t thrill me. I&#x27;ve seen a lot of problems caused by bad tuning parameters, like (for example) Java heap sizes that exceed the size of the container it&#x27;s running in. And relatively hard-to-diagnose and slow-to-recover GC death spirals because the defaults suck: Java just bogs down in situations where a C++ binary would dump a heap sample, crash, and get restarted. So I&#x27;d be more comfortable with a system like Rust&#x27;s: many smaller heaps, language enforcement of ownership rules when transferring between its equivalent of goroutines.<p>Now for internal tools, where speed of development is more important, I wish I could magically switch everything over to Go instantly. Some of that stuff is in Python. Python&#x27;s fragile in an always-refactored large codebase without 100% unit test coverage. The library situation is worse than Go&#x27;s (few Python-specific libraries, and I hate SWIG). And while performance is less important for internal tools, Python&#x27;s horrible single-threaded performance and GIL are a real pain. And finally, using Go for internal tools might eventually give me the comfort I need to start using it for more serving systems.</text></comment> | <story><title>Less is exponentially more (2012)</title><url>http://commandcenter.blogspot.de/2012/06/less-is-exponentially-more.html</url><text>I was asked a few weeks ago, &quot;What was the biggest surprise you encountered rolling out Go?&quot; I knew the answer instantly: Although we expected C++ programmers to see Go as an alternative, instead most Go programmers come from languages like Python and Ruby. Very few come from C++.</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>krosaen</author><text>&quot;C++ programmers don&#x27;t come to Go because they have fought hard to gain exquisite control of their programming domain, and don&#x27;t want to surrender any of it. To them, software isn&#x27;t just about getting the job done, it&#x27;s about doing it a certain way.<p>The issue, then, is that Go&#x27;s success would contradict their world view.&quot;<p>This, &quot;they can&#x27;t handle how awesome it is&quot; is kind of a fun rationale and strikes me as plausible, but it would be more interesting to me to hear from some of the stellar c++ programmers at google as to why they aren&#x27;t interested in switching.<p>C++ was the first language I really invested in mastering during and after college - it was like, &quot;all I need to do is read these 5 books about how to avoid the pitfalls and use all the powerful tools, and it&#x27;s amazing!&quot; What really changed my mind was trying other languages (first python) and seeing how immediately productive I could be without so much as skimming through the &quot;dive into python&quot; website. So specifically, I&#x27;d be interested in hearing something from an expert C++ programmer who has really given go a try and decided it&#x27;s not their cup of tea.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>H3g3m0n</author><text>I&#x27;m not an expert but in the gamedev domain, control over memory is fairly vital. It seems like it would be for lots of the other stuff C++ is used with too. In C++ I can allocate all my memory upfront in a pool since I know the exact size of my level, the number of objects and so on. Then use custom allocators&#x2F;static for just about everything. When I make an object at runtime I can just snag preallocated space from the pool. With the ability to cast the pool&#x27;s primitive data types to pointers I can even save on any need to index the blocks since I can use the unused memory to point to the next block of unused memory (although it&#x27;s probably a minor optimization).<p>Go drops that control totally in favour of it&#x27;s inbuilt garbage collector which the Go devs think they can just get right. That seems unlikely (the current implementation is apparently quite bad stop-the-world implementation).<p>Another issue that strikes me is library building. Afaik Go doesn&#x27;t produce object that can be linked against by non-go stuff. C does this, it has a ABI.<p>This means I can write one library in C&#x2F;C++ (and apparently Rust) and then have wrappers for just about every other programming language in existence. (Although C++ can make this painful with things like exceptions <a href="http://250bpm.com/blog:4" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;250bpm.com&#x2F;blog:4</a> ).<p>It might be that Go&#x27;s interfaces make it really useful for making Go libraries in, but some libraries need to be language agnostic as much as possible.<p>Many of the things Go initially solved over C++ are being chipped away too. I love reflection, it would be very useful for games, serialization and so on. C++ doesn&#x27;t have it but there is a standards working group looking at it now, so we could see it in either C++14 in a year, or C++17 (probably with implementations before then). C++11 got threads and so on and there is a working group doing transactional memory, more threading stuff, networking and so on. So we could see something like Gorutines and Channels but still have access to low level things like raw memory barriers. C++ tooling is set to explode with what the clang people are up to.<p>Go seems great, but it does seem focused in the &#x27;business&#x27; kind of domain. Maybe future versions could address some of the issues like the GC (either fixing it so it does meet the performance requirements, or allowing custom memory options, C# has the unsafe keyword for example).<p>EDIT: I note that Go might provide a package &quot;unsafe&quot; that could allow for some things like a custom GC but apparently would be hard to implement.</text></comment> |
26,216,851 | 26,216,604 | 1 | 3 | 26,213,693 | train | <story><title>When Bitcoin miners take over a town (2018)</title><url>https://www.politico.eu/article/this-is-what-happens-when-bitcoin-miners-take-over-your-town/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>TheBlight</author><text>&gt;The thing is... Bitcoin solves a problem for almost nobody. It&#x27;s almost entirely a speculative bubble. Citizens of stable countries are almost entirely better off with traditional currencies.<p>Tell that to citizens of countries who have experienced hyperinflation and whose currencies became worthless almost overnight.<p>There is a reason every asset is going up right now. Real estate, stocks, commodities, and crypto. More money is being printed this year than ever before. The financial media and the fed can claim minimal inflation but the markets are exposing that claim as dubious.</text></item><item><author>cletus</author><text>I am beginning to wonder if energy is what will eventually doom Bitcoin. Currently, Bitcoin consumes more energy than Argentina [1].<p>Another article suggests the carbon footprint of Bitcoin is equivalent to New Zealand [2].<p>It&#x27;s not just the cost of mining new coins (which will ultimately end) but the cost of maintaining the network. The more valuable the collective Bitcoins are, the more energy you need to spend defending it against 51% attacks.<p>To the apologists claiming there&#x27;s no other good use for that energy, it&#x27;s not simple. Using too much electricity can raise the price that everybody pays [3].<p>Miners will keep chasing cheap power but I expect, much like ArbBnB, municipalities, states and even countries will increasingly clamp down on it.<p>The thing is... Bitcoin solves a problem for almost nobody. It&#x27;s almost entirely a speculative bubble. Citizens of stable countries are almost entirely better off with traditional currencies. Try and see ordinary people deal with a Bitcoin wallet and discover there&#x27;s no recourse if a vulnerability in their computer means the contents are irreversibly stolen.<p>I realize there are corner cases (eg sending money to and from Venezuela). There&#x27;s also a lot of illegal use cases.<p>Thing is, blockchains aren&#x27;t really as immutable as pundits suggest. Bitcoin and Ethereum have had forks.<p>[1]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bbc.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;technology-56012952#:~:text=Cambridge%20researchers%20say%20it%20consumes,Bitcoin%20undermines%20its%20environmental%20image" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bbc.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;technology-56012952#:~:text=Cambrid...</a>.<p>[2]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cnbc.com&#x2F;2021&#x2F;02&#x2F;05&#x2F;bitcoin-btc-surge-renews-worries-about-its-massive-carbon-footprint.html#:~:text=Bitcoin%20has%20a%20carbon%20footprint,Netherlands%2C%20Cambridge%20University%20researchers%20say" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cnbc.com&#x2F;2021&#x2F;02&#x2F;05&#x2F;bitcoin-btc-surge-renews-wor...</a>.<p>[3]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.pbs.org&#x2F;newshour&#x2F;show&#x2F;cheap-power-drew-bitcoin-miners-to-this-small-city-then-came-the-backlash" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.pbs.org&#x2F;newshour&#x2F;show&#x2F;cheap-power-drew-bitcoin-m...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mtalantikite</author><text>&gt; Tell that to citizens of countries who have experienced hyperinflation and whose currencies became worthless almost overnight.<p>I don’t think any of my family in Algeria are using Bitcoin, and same for my wife’s family in Bangladesh. In Algeria at least, generally you’ll go to a hawala money changer who gives you better rates than the banks and exchange your local currency into Euros. If you need to send money abroad you use the same old Islamic hawala system to send it to France or wherever else.<p>There will probably be some useful things built on top of blockchains, and I don’t think crypto has zero value, but I don’t think it’s going to reasonably fix a situation of a failing state.</text></comment> | <story><title>When Bitcoin miners take over a town (2018)</title><url>https://www.politico.eu/article/this-is-what-happens-when-bitcoin-miners-take-over-your-town/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>TheBlight</author><text>&gt;The thing is... Bitcoin solves a problem for almost nobody. It&#x27;s almost entirely a speculative bubble. Citizens of stable countries are almost entirely better off with traditional currencies.<p>Tell that to citizens of countries who have experienced hyperinflation and whose currencies became worthless almost overnight.<p>There is a reason every asset is going up right now. Real estate, stocks, commodities, and crypto. More money is being printed this year than ever before. The financial media and the fed can claim minimal inflation but the markets are exposing that claim as dubious.</text></item><item><author>cletus</author><text>I am beginning to wonder if energy is what will eventually doom Bitcoin. Currently, Bitcoin consumes more energy than Argentina [1].<p>Another article suggests the carbon footprint of Bitcoin is equivalent to New Zealand [2].<p>It&#x27;s not just the cost of mining new coins (which will ultimately end) but the cost of maintaining the network. The more valuable the collective Bitcoins are, the more energy you need to spend defending it against 51% attacks.<p>To the apologists claiming there&#x27;s no other good use for that energy, it&#x27;s not simple. Using too much electricity can raise the price that everybody pays [3].<p>Miners will keep chasing cheap power but I expect, much like ArbBnB, municipalities, states and even countries will increasingly clamp down on it.<p>The thing is... Bitcoin solves a problem for almost nobody. It&#x27;s almost entirely a speculative bubble. Citizens of stable countries are almost entirely better off with traditional currencies. Try and see ordinary people deal with a Bitcoin wallet and discover there&#x27;s no recourse if a vulnerability in their computer means the contents are irreversibly stolen.<p>I realize there are corner cases (eg sending money to and from Venezuela). There&#x27;s also a lot of illegal use cases.<p>Thing is, blockchains aren&#x27;t really as immutable as pundits suggest. Bitcoin and Ethereum have had forks.<p>[1]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bbc.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;technology-56012952#:~:text=Cambridge%20researchers%20say%20it%20consumes,Bitcoin%20undermines%20its%20environmental%20image" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bbc.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;technology-56012952#:~:text=Cambrid...</a>.<p>[2]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cnbc.com&#x2F;2021&#x2F;02&#x2F;05&#x2F;bitcoin-btc-surge-renews-worries-about-its-massive-carbon-footprint.html#:~:text=Bitcoin%20has%20a%20carbon%20footprint,Netherlands%2C%20Cambridge%20University%20researchers%20say" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cnbc.com&#x2F;2021&#x2F;02&#x2F;05&#x2F;bitcoin-btc-surge-renews-wor...</a>.<p>[3]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.pbs.org&#x2F;newshour&#x2F;show&#x2F;cheap-power-drew-bitcoin-miners-to-this-small-city-then-came-the-backlash" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.pbs.org&#x2F;newshour&#x2F;show&#x2F;cheap-power-drew-bitcoin-m...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>JumpCrisscross</author><text>&gt; <i>Tell that to citizens of countries who have experienced hyperinflation and whose currencies became worthless almost overnight</i><p>At best, this argument turns Bitcoin into a massive subsidy by stable countries of unstable ones. A subsidy paid for in the form of higher energy prices, environmental damage and opportunity cost.</text></comment> |
38,837,177 | 38,837,022 | 1 | 3 | 38,836,550 | train | <story><title>E621, Pornhub, and others block North Carolina residents</title><url>https://www.foxcarolina.com/2023/12/29/major-pornographic-blocks-users-nc-response-new-law/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>mjevans</author><text>What if you had to show Government ID whenever you entered a grocery store, a library, a movie theater? What if you were tracked each time you consumed a video, a still image, an audio clip, or even a text message?<p>What if the government kept a record of any or all of those checks? What if they arranged for third parties to commercialize that data so they could &#x27;legally&#x27; end-run any restriction on domestic spying with a small ad targeting data service fee?<p>This is the sort of dystopia that librarians and others focused on liberty have been fighting for what seems like forever.</text></comment> | <story><title>E621, Pornhub, and others block North Carolina residents</title><url>https://www.foxcarolina.com/2023/12/29/major-pornographic-blocks-users-nc-response-new-law/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>coldnose</author><text>E621 isn’t even mentioned in the article, but of course it comes before pornhub in the title on HN X3</text></comment> |
31,824,566 | 31,823,162 | 1 | 3 | 31,822,549 | train | <story><title>Sex is going out of fashion?</title><url>https://www.welltechnically.news/p/sex-is-going-out-of-fashion</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bko</author><text>Entertainment has entered a tyranny of choice. I see it personally. I can watch nearly every show and movie that was ever created but I still flip through Netflix and RT endlessly, often times choosing not to watch anything. When I was younger I would just watch Seinfeld re-runs, with commercials and all. Am I more &quot;entertained&quot; today than I was when I was growing up? I&#x27;m not convinced.<p>The weirdest thing is I don&#x27;t remember what I used to talk to my friends about when I was in high school. We didn&#x27;t have much shared media to talk about (e.g. periodic TV shows people obsess about today). None of us so much picked up a newspaper at the time so current events were out. None of us had that many specific interests and the interests we had weren&#x27;t shared. But somehow we spent hours talking about something. I wish I could be a fly on the wall of my prom table to just take in what was discussed.</text></item><item><author>ChuckNorris89</author><text>I don&#x27;t think tech or porn is the main culprit. It&#x27;s that people now have way more entertainment options other than sex. Of course, a lot for those entertainment options are being driven by tech.<p>Back in my dad&#x27;s days, they were poor so the only entertainment options in their free time was drinking cheap home made alcohol, dancing and sex, while now we have gaming, Netflix, tic-tok, porn, traveling to the infinite Instagramable places around the world, plus the grind of keeping up with spiraling living and real estate costs, which IMHO, is the real bummer here.<p>Also, adult dating and meeting people for the post-college working professionals, has largely moved from clubs&#x2F;bars&#x2F;the office to online dating apps, or lonely depression in your apartment, eating or drinking your feelings away, for those without success in the WFH, remote-everything, online dating world. Especially with the lockdowns.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>skohan</author><text>Not only entertainment suffers from a tyranny of choice, but also sex and relationships.<p>I heard in an interview that 50 years ago, people used to basically used to fall in love with heir neighbours and coworkers. Modern dating means browsing hundreds of other people in your city like they&#x27;re products on a store shelf, always with the feeling there might be someone better just a couple swipes away.</text></comment> | <story><title>Sex is going out of fashion?</title><url>https://www.welltechnically.news/p/sex-is-going-out-of-fashion</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bko</author><text>Entertainment has entered a tyranny of choice. I see it personally. I can watch nearly every show and movie that was ever created but I still flip through Netflix and RT endlessly, often times choosing not to watch anything. When I was younger I would just watch Seinfeld re-runs, with commercials and all. Am I more &quot;entertained&quot; today than I was when I was growing up? I&#x27;m not convinced.<p>The weirdest thing is I don&#x27;t remember what I used to talk to my friends about when I was in high school. We didn&#x27;t have much shared media to talk about (e.g. periodic TV shows people obsess about today). None of us so much picked up a newspaper at the time so current events were out. None of us had that many specific interests and the interests we had weren&#x27;t shared. But somehow we spent hours talking about something. I wish I could be a fly on the wall of my prom table to just take in what was discussed.</text></item><item><author>ChuckNorris89</author><text>I don&#x27;t think tech or porn is the main culprit. It&#x27;s that people now have way more entertainment options other than sex. Of course, a lot for those entertainment options are being driven by tech.<p>Back in my dad&#x27;s days, they were poor so the only entertainment options in their free time was drinking cheap home made alcohol, dancing and sex, while now we have gaming, Netflix, tic-tok, porn, traveling to the infinite Instagramable places around the world, plus the grind of keeping up with spiraling living and real estate costs, which IMHO, is the real bummer here.<p>Also, adult dating and meeting people for the post-college working professionals, has largely moved from clubs&#x2F;bars&#x2F;the office to online dating apps, or lonely depression in your apartment, eating or drinking your feelings away, for those without success in the WFH, remote-everything, online dating world. Especially with the lockdowns.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>justinpowers</author><text>If you became that fly, you’d soon wish to be squashed rather than listen to adolescent chitchat.</text></comment> |
33,290,805 | 33,290,820 | 1 | 2 | 33,287,618 | train | <story><title>Teach Yourself Programming in Ten Years (1998)</title><url>https://norvig.com/21-days.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>dang</author><text>Related:<p><i>Teach Yourself Programming in Ten Years (1998)</i> - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=27411276" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=27411276</a> - June 2021 (115 comments)<p><i>Teach Yourself Programming in Ten Years (1998)</i> - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=20543495" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=20543495</a> - July 2019 (87 comments)<p><i>Teach Yourself Programming in Ten Years (1998)</i> - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=16574248" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=16574248</a> - March 2018 (51 comments)<p><i>Teach Yourself Programming in Ten Years (1998)</i> - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=9395284" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=9395284</a> - April 2015 (61 comments)<p><i>Teach Yourself Programming in Ten Years (1998)</i> - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=5519158" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=5519158</a> - April 2013 (86 comments)<p><i>Teach Yourself Programming in Ten Years by Peter Norvig (2001)</i> - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=3439772" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=3439772</a> - Jan 2012 (29 comments)<p><i>Teach Yourself Programming in Ten Years</i> - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=191235" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=191235</a> - May 2008 (19 comments)<p><i>Norvig: Teach Yourself Programming in Ten Years</i> - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=43243" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=43243</a> - Aug 2007 (7 comments)</text></comment> | <story><title>Teach Yourself Programming in Ten Years (1998)</title><url>https://norvig.com/21-days.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>avg_dev</author><text>god, how i love this article. i understand the criticisms; i see forbiddenvoid discussing that people want to get paid and be able to live comfortably. -[i recall luu writing an essay about how to get better at things quickly (im probably quite poorly and incorrectly paraphrasing him here).]- (edit: shit, after a quick search of danluu.com, i believe i may have fabricated that entirely) i believe they are approaching the discussion at cross-purposes.<p>this is not about being comfortable paying your bills. this is not saying not to learn quickly or that you should avoid shortcuts. it&#x27;s about mastery... it&#x27;s about understanding the craft, weighing the tradeoffs that come with each decision, and repeating that process week-in and week-out for years... decades... a lifetime.<p>i <i>did</i> learn to program from one of those &quot;for dummies&quot; books. that was (checks calendar) 25 years ago. it didn&#x27;t teach me everything. i still don&#x27;t fucking know everything!!! and that&#x27;s fine. i wake up eager to learn. i enjoy code reviews, and learning from my peers. as norvig mentions: i enjoy being the best programmer on the team, i enjoy being the worst programmer on the team; hell, i enjoy being in-between.<p>if this post is about anything, it is about the joy of learning, and how deep and long that arc can be. it never ends. maybe when i go senile.</text></comment> |
35,908,151 | 35,907,501 | 1 | 3 | 35,906,135 | train | <story><title>SoftBank Vision funds post record $39B annual loss</title><url>https://www.ft.com/content/1dd470c2-be80-4887-83cc-87be93100a12</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>williamDafoe</author><text>Their massive early investment in Uber distorted their reality and they expected ride sharing to be incredibly successful in other markets when it&#x27;s not even successful in the USA - it&#x27;s a fraud that pays below minimum wage off the backs of people who cannot do math. It has never made money anywhere ...<p>ARM has had a laziness problem ever since the Apple A1 chip - there&#x27;s a reason why nobody uses their 6-yr old layouts. ARM almost killed Qualcomm when they adopted A57 for the snapdragon 808 using the 64-bit arm design - that chip melted quite a few phones and this gave Exymos it&#x27;s start!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>TylerE</author><text>Ironically the one good thing the rideshades did was to get taxis to install credit card readers. Taxis are often half the price of an Uber these days.</text></comment> | <story><title>SoftBank Vision funds post record $39B annual loss</title><url>https://www.ft.com/content/1dd470c2-be80-4887-83cc-87be93100a12</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>williamDafoe</author><text>Their massive early investment in Uber distorted their reality and they expected ride sharing to be incredibly successful in other markets when it&#x27;s not even successful in the USA - it&#x27;s a fraud that pays below minimum wage off the backs of people who cannot do math. It has never made money anywhere ...<p>ARM has had a laziness problem ever since the Apple A1 chip - there&#x27;s a reason why nobody uses their 6-yr old layouts. ARM almost killed Qualcomm when they adopted A57 for the snapdragon 808 using the 64-bit arm design - that chip melted quite a few phones and this gave Exymos it&#x27;s start!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jjeaff</author><text>It&#x27;s basically an inefficient, but effective way to siphon money from the poor and middle class and deposit it into the bank accounts of the wealthy by utilizing the equity the poor and middle class have in their vehicles.</text></comment> |
38,737,916 | 38,737,097 | 1 | 3 | 38,736,798 | train | <story><title>Polymers capable of killing bacteria without inducing antibiotic resistance</title><url>https://today.tamu.edu/2023/12/21/texas-am-team-develops-polymers-that-can-kill-bacteria/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>onetimeuse92304</author><text>The problem with killing bacteria isn&#x27;t that we are lacking ways to do so. Steeping them in a strong acid should make sure they are killed and they should not find a way to develop resistance to a strong acid.<p>The problem is we want to kill them, while in human body, without causing too much detriment to the host.<p>To do this, we essentially need to develop something that will cause serious harm to the bacteria and yet not harm human cells. This means exploiting various differences between bacteria and humans.<p>A polymer that kills cell walls indiscriminately is hardly an acceptable solution for a human. Yes, bacteria may not be able to gain resistance to it but also it can&#x27;t ever be used on a real human because mass cell death will cause too much damage to the human.<p>And &quot;solving the problem of selectivity&quot; will cause bacteria to be able to find their resistance eventually. Because if it is possible to escape your cell wall getting disrupted because you have specific DNA -- a bacteria can gain resistance.<p>I am firmly of the opinion it is not possible to develop an antibiotic guaranteeing the bacteria will not be able to gain resistance to it.<p>Simply -- the resistance can be had as evidenced by human cells. And the genetic material is abundantly available to the bacteria -- they are pretty much surrounded by it while in our bodies. There is always going to be non-zero chance for resistance to be acquired by a cell and then spread to the offspring.</text></comment> | <story><title>Polymers capable of killing bacteria without inducing antibiotic resistance</title><url>https://today.tamu.edu/2023/12/21/texas-am-team-develops-polymers-that-can-kill-bacteria/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>gentleman11</author><text>&gt; without inducing antibiotic resistance<p>Isn&#x27;t that a way of saying &quot;no bacteria can ever adapt to this method of killing them&quot;? Won&#x27;t at least 0.1% of them find a way to survive, and gradually adapt to this as well?</text></comment> |
25,473,413 | 25,473,271 | 1 | 2 | 25,472,970 | train | <story><title>Surgery, the Ultimate Placebo</title><url>https://www.skepdoc.info/ian-harris-on-surgery-the-ultimate-placebo/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>owenversteeg</author><text>Does anyone have any examples of surgeries that are done today in modern medicine that are basically placebo? I&#x27;m surprised the article didn&#x27;t give a single example.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rsync</author><text>&quot;Does anyone have any examples of surgeries that are done today in modern medicine that are basically placebo?&quot;<p>Spinal fusions for injuries not sustained in car accidents or horse throws or ... other <i>literally back-breaking</i> trauma.<p>People with plain old uninteresting everyone-gets-it back pain get spinal fusions - a major, invasive surgery. There is a complicated nexus of obesity, refusal to do PT exercises, and huge economic incentives for surgeons that lead to these procedures.<p>This critical review even mentions a Cochrane review[1]:<p>&quot;... and often does not even result in the spine being fused. That last one is not a big deal, because the results of the surgery are not well correlated with whether or not the spine fuses.&quot;[2]<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cochranelibrary.com&#x2F;cdsr&#x2F;doi&#x2F;10.1002&#x2F;14651858.CD001352.pub3&#x2F;abstract" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cochranelibrary.com&#x2F;cdsr&#x2F;doi&#x2F;10.1002&#x2F;14651858.CD...</a><p>[1] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;doctorskeptic.blogspot.com&#x2F;2012&#x2F;08&#x2F;is-lumbar-spine-fusion-just-placebo.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;doctorskeptic.blogspot.com&#x2F;2012&#x2F;08&#x2F;is-lumbar-spine-fu...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Surgery, the Ultimate Placebo</title><url>https://www.skepdoc.info/ian-harris-on-surgery-the-ultimate-placebo/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>owenversteeg</author><text>Does anyone have any examples of surgeries that are done today in modern medicine that are basically placebo? I&#x27;m surprised the article didn&#x27;t give a single example.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jpmattia</author><text>The first thing that occurred to me when I read the title: Tonsillectomies used to be very common when I was growing up, and eventually that stopped. See eg:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov&#x2F;pmc&#x2F;articles&#x2F;PMC5883156&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov&#x2F;pmc&#x2F;articles&#x2F;PMC5883156&#x2F;</a></text></comment> |
11,526,880 | 11,527,083 | 1 | 3 | 11,526,666 | train | <story><title>MacBook gets a Skylake speed boost, 8GB of memory, longer battery life</title><url>http://techcrunch.com/2016/04/19/skylake-when-it-crumbles-we-will-stand-tall-face-it-all-together-at-skylake/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>cmiller1</author><text>I found this statement interesting.<p>&gt;The new guts are getting you better performance but also better battery life with what Apple says is 10 hours of web browsing or 11 hours of iTunes movie playback.<p>Movie playback used to be considered the de facto test of the most rigorous power use a computer would go through. Spinning DVDs and hard drives have been replaced with SSD, hardware accelerated decoding of video has replaced maxing out your CPU.<p>On the other hand, web browsing used to be considered a light use of power. Pull some network content into memory, parse some basic html, etc. Now with javascript EVERYWHERE and the rising complexity of web pages, web browsing has become one of the most taxing things you can do as far as power use is concerned. In fact, on my MacBook Pro now that OS X tells you which processes are using the most power, web browsers like Safari and Chrome are the only thing I ever see show up in &quot;Apps using significant energy&quot;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>massysett</author><text>Indeed, I use Safari because it seems neither Firefox nor Chrome are optimized at all for battery usage. Chrome is a huge power hog.<p>I wonder if it&#x27;s the same on the Windows side; has Microsoft optimized IE (or the new browser, whatever it&#x27;s called) for power usage?</text></comment> | <story><title>MacBook gets a Skylake speed boost, 8GB of memory, longer battery life</title><url>http://techcrunch.com/2016/04/19/skylake-when-it-crumbles-we-will-stand-tall-face-it-all-together-at-skylake/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>cmiller1</author><text>I found this statement interesting.<p>&gt;The new guts are getting you better performance but also better battery life with what Apple says is 10 hours of web browsing or 11 hours of iTunes movie playback.<p>Movie playback used to be considered the de facto test of the most rigorous power use a computer would go through. Spinning DVDs and hard drives have been replaced with SSD, hardware accelerated decoding of video has replaced maxing out your CPU.<p>On the other hand, web browsing used to be considered a light use of power. Pull some network content into memory, parse some basic html, etc. Now with javascript EVERYWHERE and the rising complexity of web pages, web browsing has become one of the most taxing things you can do as far as power use is concerned. In fact, on my MacBook Pro now that OS X tells you which processes are using the most power, web browsers like Safari and Chrome are the only thing I ever see show up in &quot;Apps using significant energy&quot;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>blumentopf</author><text>I assume the videos available on iTunes are encoded in an H.264 profile that can be decoded entirely on the GPU, so the CPU would indeed be mostly idling during playback.</text></comment> |
11,633,043 | 11,633,088 | 1 | 3 | 11,631,418 | train | <story><title>Our Brain Uses Statistics to Calculate Confidence, Make Decisions</title><url>http://www.neuroscientistnews.com/research-news/our-brain-uses-statistics-calculate-confidence-make-decisions</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>haberman</author><text>&gt; What shocked me was how many of these kids created internal narratives that they somehow caused the storm, or the storm was manifested as a personal lesson for them.<p>Exactly. I would argue that internal narratives like this are inherently anti-statistical. They attempt to give greater meaning to something than the direct observations support.<p>What experiment would convince you that statistics is not &quot;the ultimate language of the brain?&quot;</text></item><item><author>steego</author><text>&gt; For example, the time that the prophecy of a teenage girl convinced a tribe of people in present-day South Africa to kill 300,000 - 400,000 of their own cattle, leading to the starvation and death of 20,000 - 40,000 people. How does a brain built on statistics decide that this is the most rational course of action?<p>That&#x27;s actually a really good example of statistics deciding a course of action.<p>Ask yourself this? Why did they believe it? It&#x27;s most likely that group of people were repeatedly told stories that belongs to a larger framework of belief. What you might not understand is good literature has a tendency to fire parts of the brain related to sight, sound and touch in an fMRI. For so many people, a good story creates a parallel quasi-reality, and I wouldn&#x27;t be surprised their brain is basically chalking up those stories as real experiences.<p>I was just listening to a story on This American Life about some kids whose prom was interrupted by a tornado. What shocked me was how many of these kids created internal narratives that they somehow caused the storm, or the storm was manifested as a personal lesson for them. If you think about the garbage plot lines and religious upbringing people absorb, this sort of narcissistic outlook makes a tremendous amount of sense.<p>I&#x27;ll add this one point. Modern public relations and politics feeds on the principle that you can manufacture reality by constantly bombarding people with the same shallow message. It doesn&#x27;t matter what you say as much as how loud and frequent you&#x27;re saying it.</text></item><item><author>haberman</author><text>&gt; It is Kepecs&#x27; thesis that statistics - generated by the objective processing of sensory and other data - is the ultimate language of the brain.<p>Every time I read stuff like this, I lose more confidence that the scientific method as currently applied, funded, and published is capable of truly conquering complex systems like the brain or nutrition.<p>I read article after article like this one, where a prominent researcher conducts some experiment that shows some result. But listening to that person talk about their work, it becomes clear that this has become their pet theory that they want to be capable of explaining <i>everything</i>. As if everything we know about some system will someday be shown to be reducible to one clean, beautiful idea.<p>Here are a few quick reasons why I find this idea to be highly implausible:<p>- There are a dizzying number of documented cognitive biases in humans. If statistics is the ultimate language of the brain, our software is pretty thoroughly buggy: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;List_of_cognitive_biases" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;List_of_cognitive_biases</a><p>- Belief motivates people to do things that have absolutely no statistical justification. For example, the time that the prophecy of a teenage girl convinced a tribe of people in present-day South Africa to kill 300,000 - 400,000 of their own cattle, leading to the starvation and death of 20,000 - 40,000 people. How does a brain built on statistics decide that this is the most rational course of action? <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;persistentfrontiers.com&#x2F;xhosacattlekilling&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;persistentfrontiers.com&#x2F;xhosacattlekilling&#x2F;</a><p>EDIT: Several people are replying with some form of: &quot;your examples can still show that the mind is inherently built on statistics if you think about it in way X.&quot; Let&#x27;s do a quick experiment to see if this theory is actually falsifiable. What experiment&#x2F;result would convince you that statistics is <i>not</i> &quot;the ultimate language of the brain?&quot;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>notahacker</author><text>I&#x27;m not sure I&#x27;m convinced that statistics is the language of the brain, but I am convinced that statistical inference is one of the main reasons why individuals (and later, populations) come to believe in some highly irrational superstitions - the ones where there&#x27;s no reason to assume causality at all save for correlation of rare events (particularly if we&#x27;re assuming <i>imperfect</i> use of statistics influenced by our cognitive biases rather than &quot;the scientific method is the language of the brain)<p>&quot;This cattle-killing sounds crazy but since she was right about some other low probability events the probability of her being an actual prophet is pretty high, given the existence of prophets is not inherently improbable&quot; and &quot;my odds of survival are better if I follow this stupid recommendation than if I&#x27;m lynched by my fellow countrymen for ignoring it&quot; are both statistically valid conclusions in favour of following some ridiculous food-source-decimating millenialist prophecy in certain circumstances.</text></comment> | <story><title>Our Brain Uses Statistics to Calculate Confidence, Make Decisions</title><url>http://www.neuroscientistnews.com/research-news/our-brain-uses-statistics-calculate-confidence-make-decisions</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>haberman</author><text>&gt; What shocked me was how many of these kids created internal narratives that they somehow caused the storm, or the storm was manifested as a personal lesson for them.<p>Exactly. I would argue that internal narratives like this are inherently anti-statistical. They attempt to give greater meaning to something than the direct observations support.<p>What experiment would convince you that statistics is not &quot;the ultimate language of the brain?&quot;</text></item><item><author>steego</author><text>&gt; For example, the time that the prophecy of a teenage girl convinced a tribe of people in present-day South Africa to kill 300,000 - 400,000 of their own cattle, leading to the starvation and death of 20,000 - 40,000 people. How does a brain built on statistics decide that this is the most rational course of action?<p>That&#x27;s actually a really good example of statistics deciding a course of action.<p>Ask yourself this? Why did they believe it? It&#x27;s most likely that group of people were repeatedly told stories that belongs to a larger framework of belief. What you might not understand is good literature has a tendency to fire parts of the brain related to sight, sound and touch in an fMRI. For so many people, a good story creates a parallel quasi-reality, and I wouldn&#x27;t be surprised their brain is basically chalking up those stories as real experiences.<p>I was just listening to a story on This American Life about some kids whose prom was interrupted by a tornado. What shocked me was how many of these kids created internal narratives that they somehow caused the storm, or the storm was manifested as a personal lesson for them. If you think about the garbage plot lines and religious upbringing people absorb, this sort of narcissistic outlook makes a tremendous amount of sense.<p>I&#x27;ll add this one point. Modern public relations and politics feeds on the principle that you can manufacture reality by constantly bombarding people with the same shallow message. It doesn&#x27;t matter what you say as much as how loud and frequent you&#x27;re saying it.</text></item><item><author>haberman</author><text>&gt; It is Kepecs&#x27; thesis that statistics - generated by the objective processing of sensory and other data - is the ultimate language of the brain.<p>Every time I read stuff like this, I lose more confidence that the scientific method as currently applied, funded, and published is capable of truly conquering complex systems like the brain or nutrition.<p>I read article after article like this one, where a prominent researcher conducts some experiment that shows some result. But listening to that person talk about their work, it becomes clear that this has become their pet theory that they want to be capable of explaining <i>everything</i>. As if everything we know about some system will someday be shown to be reducible to one clean, beautiful idea.<p>Here are a few quick reasons why I find this idea to be highly implausible:<p>- There are a dizzying number of documented cognitive biases in humans. If statistics is the ultimate language of the brain, our software is pretty thoroughly buggy: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;List_of_cognitive_biases" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;List_of_cognitive_biases</a><p>- Belief motivates people to do things that have absolutely no statistical justification. For example, the time that the prophecy of a teenage girl convinced a tribe of people in present-day South Africa to kill 300,000 - 400,000 of their own cattle, leading to the starvation and death of 20,000 - 40,000 people. How does a brain built on statistics decide that this is the most rational course of action? <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;persistentfrontiers.com&#x2F;xhosacattlekilling&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;persistentfrontiers.com&#x2F;xhosacattlekilling&#x2F;</a><p>EDIT: Several people are replying with some form of: &quot;your examples can still show that the mind is inherently built on statistics if you think about it in way X.&quot; Let&#x27;s do a quick experiment to see if this theory is actually falsifiable. What experiment&#x2F;result would convince you that statistics is <i>not</i> &quot;the ultimate language of the brain?&quot;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Retric</author><text>If you set your internal P value at say .01 that seems great. Except your conducting lot&#x27;s of experiments constantly. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;xkcd.com&#x2F;882&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;xkcd.com&#x2F;882&#x2F;</a> And when you do that you regularly show correlation when none exists.<p>Considering how many things used to be deadly, I can see people living with fairly low P values because false positives only need to be less deadly than false negatives for things to work out.<p>IMO, this also explains why people are risk averse. Generally, survival is more about avoid a few low probability bad events than having a long string of extra special awesome days.</text></comment> |
17,425,007 | 17,425,080 | 1 | 3 | 17,421,140 | train | <story><title>Marketing Firm Exactis Leaked a Personal Info Database with 340M Records</title><url>https://www.wired.com/story/exactis-database-leak-340-million-records/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mysterypie</author><text>Oh, man, another missed opportunity to make the average Joe Six-Pack become aware of data aggregation and privacy violations. If the researcher had downloaded the 2TB of data and published it as a torrent, then laymen might care. When someone can query the list and see his own personal information being broadcast, they will understand. When they realize that anyone can look up the address, phone, and all sorts of other info about their wife, husband, girlfriend, boyfriend, boss, children, or neighbor, they might get an inkling that privacy isn&#x27;t such a stupid thing to worry about.<p>I realize that we <i>all</i> suffer if it gets made into a torrent, but sometimes pain is necessary to get action.<p>Within a week, this whole thing will be forgotten and nothing will have changed because privacy is too abstract for most people -- they need to <i>see</i> the personal information that&#x27;s being collected. The researcher acted properly, but going full Snowden would have had much greater impact on getting better privacy-preserving laws and technology.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>RyanZAG</author><text>&quot;Missed opportunity&quot; ?<p>People can be stabbed in the back if they go into dark alleys without watching behind them. Let&#x27;s stab a few people who go into these alleys so that everyone will be afraid to do so and we have an opportunity to prevent people being stabbed in future by making them aware.<p>Why would you possibly think this is a good idea? The idea is to prevent pain, not cause more pain in some bizarre attempt at making people afraid. There&#x27;s enough privacy violations - we don&#x27;t need to be making more of them ourselves.</text></comment> | <story><title>Marketing Firm Exactis Leaked a Personal Info Database with 340M Records</title><url>https://www.wired.com/story/exactis-database-leak-340-million-records/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mysterypie</author><text>Oh, man, another missed opportunity to make the average Joe Six-Pack become aware of data aggregation and privacy violations. If the researcher had downloaded the 2TB of data and published it as a torrent, then laymen might care. When someone can query the list and see his own personal information being broadcast, they will understand. When they realize that anyone can look up the address, phone, and all sorts of other info about their wife, husband, girlfriend, boyfriend, boss, children, or neighbor, they might get an inkling that privacy isn&#x27;t such a stupid thing to worry about.<p>I realize that we <i>all</i> suffer if it gets made into a torrent, but sometimes pain is necessary to get action.<p>Within a week, this whole thing will be forgotten and nothing will have changed because privacy is too abstract for most people -- they need to <i>see</i> the personal information that&#x27;s being collected. The researcher acted properly, but going full Snowden would have had much greater impact on getting better privacy-preserving laws and technology.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>throwawaymath</author><text>You can already make the sort of nuanced queries you&#x27;re talking about for any of the hundreds of millions of Americans whose records have been leaked in one of the state voter or B2C lead-gen databases. The dumps are all freely available on databases.today and various forums. Phone numbers, addresses, names, email addresses, relationships, members of household...it&#x27;s all in there, even if paid searches like Intelius don&#x27;t have it.<p>Unfortunately, anyone who tries to normalize the data and release a public frontend for querying it will probably be dropped by their hosting provider and ostracized by the security community. People don&#x27;t tend to like the idea of what you&#x27;re talking about and will blame the person hosting the information as much as the people who leak it; much like how Troy Hunt will never release the HIBP corpus of normalized password dumps, he&#x27;ll only allow you to seen if you&#x27;re in it.<p>The impact of searching your personal data with that kind of granularity would probably be more dramatic than seeing your compromised passwords online, but I bet it would be even more villified.</text></comment> |
9,242,978 | 9,242,905 | 1 | 2 | 9,242,819 | train | <story><title>Machines shipping with Windows 10 may see OEMs enforcing Secure Boot</title><url>http://www.linuxveda.com/2015/03/21/no-love-lost-microsoft-tries-block-linux-windows-machines/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mark_l_watson</author><text>Ubuntu, Redhat, and other distros are compatible with secure boot.<p>I understand the concern, but the flip side is that if secure boot makes my future Ubuntu laptops more secure that could be a good thing.<p>Linux is here to stay. Relax.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jeff_marshall</author><text>This is true today, but it ignores the realities of many secure boot implementations. Specifically, many UEFI firmware vendors don&#x27;t include the ability for the hardware owner to update the public key used to verify a bootloader signature. This means that someone wanting to use a new bootloader on one of these platforms has to beg for permission from whoever owns the existing keys (Microsoft seems to be popular right now...) to get their software to boot. Right now, MS is willing to sign bootloaders for OSS, but this could change at any time. Do you really want MS to control the ability to boot your operating system of choice?</text></comment> | <story><title>Machines shipping with Windows 10 may see OEMs enforcing Secure Boot</title><url>http://www.linuxveda.com/2015/03/21/no-love-lost-microsoft-tries-block-linux-windows-machines/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mark_l_watson</author><text>Ubuntu, Redhat, and other distros are compatible with secure boot.<p>I understand the concern, but the flip side is that if secure boot makes my future Ubuntu laptops more secure that could be a good thing.<p>Linux is here to stay. Relax.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>DougHaber</author><text>What if I prefer Debian over Ubuntu? Can I be upset then? I&#x27;m sure this will be possible to hack around, but we shouldn&#x27;t have to hack our own computers to use them. A simple option to disable secure boot would solve all the problems. The vendors know this, so I&#x27;m curious why they would chose to not provide the option. Is there some belief that by even having the option, the system would be inherently more insecure?<p>I&#x27;m sure that some vendors will provide an option, so this will just likely be an extra thing to research before buying a new system.</text></comment> |
4,378,772 | 4,378,639 | 1 | 3 | 4,377,730 | train | <story><title>Show HN: Ymacs - Emacs in the browser with Dropbox, GDrive, etc</title><url>http://tageorgiou.github.com/ymacs/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>danielweber</author><text>C-k (the most useful command ever) is captured by my browser. Google Chrome.</text></item><item><author>ajross</author><text>It's not emacs (I guess it's "an emacs"). It's an editor that does syntax coloring, handles the core emacs keystrokes, and implements the subset of GNU emacs functionality that the author uses in a routine manner.<p>Right off the bat, I hit the following speedbumps:<p><pre><code> + No replace-regexp
+ No set-fill-prefix (or it's unbound)
+ Default fill prefix detection doesn't work like GNU emacs (e.g. no
way to fill a long paragraph with a prefix of "&#62; " for quoting
email)
+ No ispell-word (or any spell checker) on C-$
+ C-x b tab doesn't give me the list of buffers I expect
+ No keyboard navigability in file selection dialog! I hit C-x C-f
and end up in this weird web 2.0 world where I'm (no joke) prompted to
"Drag files here".
</code></pre>
So.. it's cute. But other than the author (or someone else willing to reimplement the bits of emacs they need) I don't see to whom it's going to appeal. Serious emacs users aren't the target demographic.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>antimatter15</author><text>I'm inclined to think that that's more a bug on their part since Ctrl+K isn't one of those unstoppable key combinations (Ctrl+W, Ctrl+Tab, Ctrl+T, Ctrl+N, Shift+Esc as far as I'm aware are the only ones). Perhaps they just aren't calling e.preventDefault() on their event handlers.<p>And even for the combinations which can't be captured, the new Chrome platform app API lets you stop those.</text></comment> | <story><title>Show HN: Ymacs - Emacs in the browser with Dropbox, GDrive, etc</title><url>http://tageorgiou.github.com/ymacs/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>danielweber</author><text>C-k (the most useful command ever) is captured by my browser. Google Chrome.</text></item><item><author>ajross</author><text>It's not emacs (I guess it's "an emacs"). It's an editor that does syntax coloring, handles the core emacs keystrokes, and implements the subset of GNU emacs functionality that the author uses in a routine manner.<p>Right off the bat, I hit the following speedbumps:<p><pre><code> + No replace-regexp
+ No set-fill-prefix (or it's unbound)
+ Default fill prefix detection doesn't work like GNU emacs (e.g. no
way to fill a long paragraph with a prefix of "&#62; " for quoting
email)
+ No ispell-word (or any spell checker) on C-$
+ C-x b tab doesn't give me the list of buffers I expect
+ No keyboard navigability in file selection dialog! I hit C-x C-f
and end up in this weird web 2.0 world where I'm (no joke) prompted to
"Drag files here".
</code></pre>
So.. it's cute. But other than the author (or someone else willing to reimplement the bits of emacs they need) I don't see to whom it's going to appeal. Serious emacs users aren't the target demographic.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>radarsat1</author><text>That's actually a pretty big problem with the whole "browser app" thing, isn't it... there are certain key bindings that you just <i>can't have</i>. I wonder if there'll ever be a solution for that. Anything I can think of sounds like it would be a security issue, or annoying. (Having to answer pages asking for permission for certain keybindings... ugh.)</text></comment> |
12,096,658 | 12,096,830 | 1 | 2 | 12,095,510 | train | <story><title>Shedding light on the dark web</title><url>http://www.economist.com/news/international/21702176-drug-trade-moving-street-online-cryptomarkets-forced-compete</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>skylark</author><text>I find it hard to believe that there&#x27;s some sort of conspiracy to keep police, lawyers, and prisons funded via laws against selling drugs.<p>Have you considered that these laws are still in place simply because it&#x27;s the status quo?<p>Politicians voting on laws and drafting new ones must ultimately answer to their constituents. While the vast majority of things fly under the radar, &quot;pro-drug&quot; support is enough of a charged issue that supporting drug legalization is guaranteed to be used against you the next time you&#x27;re running for office.<p>Like it or not, logic be damned, drugs will continue to be illegal because the majority of Americans do not support drug legalization. The tides are starting to turn in some states on weed, but the average American outside of the most liberal states doesn&#x27;t even support that. Good luck convincing them to legalize cocaine, ecstasy, LSD, or any &quot;harder&quot; drug.</text></item><item><author>mistermann</author><text>&gt; It&#x27;s really a shitty experience for everyone involved.<p>However, it creates <i>many</i> thousands of very well paid jobs for police, lawyers, prison employees, etc. - you know, the people that create the laws.<p>Long ago I might have considered that there might be some justification for these laws (or anywhere there&#x27;s rules really), but nowadays when you wonder why &quot;the way something is&quot; is, it&#x27;s easier to just assume someone (or usually a group of people in collusion) is running a little rent seeking scam, and you&#x27;ll probably be right most of the time.</text></item><item><author>dopamean</author><text>Any time I read anything about the illegal drug trade I am struck by how much the industry would change if all drugs were legalized everywhere. So much effort is expended to keep things hidden from law enforcement and other criminals that it adds an incredible amount of friction to the purchasing process for the purchaser and the seller.<p>From the buyer&#x27;s perspective you now have to go into business with some often unsavory people just to get high. From the seller&#x27;s perspective you have to make sure that the buyer isn&#x27;t law enforcement and also not someone who is going to rob you because you have zero legal recourse. It&#x27;s really a shitty experience for everyone involved. Considering how shitty that experience is it says a lot about people and their desire to take drugs that the market continues to exist and basically never stops serving the customer.<p>It really seems like when confronted with something inevitable, like drug use and sales, the effort to prevent it may be more costly and damaging than just allowing it to happen in a more controlled environment.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>delazeur</author><text>It&#x27;s not a smoky room conspiracy. A quick google search turned up many articles about private prison companies funding lobbying[1], and I expect you will find similar results if you search for police union donations.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.washingtonpost.com&#x2F;posteverything&#x2F;wp&#x2F;2015&#x2F;04&#x2F;28&#x2F;how-for-profit-prisons-have-become-the-biggest-lobby-no-one-is-talking-about&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.washingtonpost.com&#x2F;posteverything&#x2F;wp&#x2F;2015&#x2F;04&#x2F;28&#x2F;...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Shedding light on the dark web</title><url>http://www.economist.com/news/international/21702176-drug-trade-moving-street-online-cryptomarkets-forced-compete</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>skylark</author><text>I find it hard to believe that there&#x27;s some sort of conspiracy to keep police, lawyers, and prisons funded via laws against selling drugs.<p>Have you considered that these laws are still in place simply because it&#x27;s the status quo?<p>Politicians voting on laws and drafting new ones must ultimately answer to their constituents. While the vast majority of things fly under the radar, &quot;pro-drug&quot; support is enough of a charged issue that supporting drug legalization is guaranteed to be used against you the next time you&#x27;re running for office.<p>Like it or not, logic be damned, drugs will continue to be illegal because the majority of Americans do not support drug legalization. The tides are starting to turn in some states on weed, but the average American outside of the most liberal states doesn&#x27;t even support that. Good luck convincing them to legalize cocaine, ecstasy, LSD, or any &quot;harder&quot; drug.</text></item><item><author>mistermann</author><text>&gt; It&#x27;s really a shitty experience for everyone involved.<p>However, it creates <i>many</i> thousands of very well paid jobs for police, lawyers, prison employees, etc. - you know, the people that create the laws.<p>Long ago I might have considered that there might be some justification for these laws (or anywhere there&#x27;s rules really), but nowadays when you wonder why &quot;the way something is&quot; is, it&#x27;s easier to just assume someone (or usually a group of people in collusion) is running a little rent seeking scam, and you&#x27;ll probably be right most of the time.</text></item><item><author>dopamean</author><text>Any time I read anything about the illegal drug trade I am struck by how much the industry would change if all drugs were legalized everywhere. So much effort is expended to keep things hidden from law enforcement and other criminals that it adds an incredible amount of friction to the purchasing process for the purchaser and the seller.<p>From the buyer&#x27;s perspective you now have to go into business with some often unsavory people just to get high. From the seller&#x27;s perspective you have to make sure that the buyer isn&#x27;t law enforcement and also not someone who is going to rob you because you have zero legal recourse. It&#x27;s really a shitty experience for everyone involved. Considering how shitty that experience is it says a lot about people and their desire to take drugs that the market continues to exist and basically never stops serving the customer.<p>It really seems like when confronted with something inevitable, like drug use and sales, the effort to prevent it may be more costly and damaging than just allowing it to happen in a more controlled environment.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kelvin0</author><text>Never underestimate greed. In plain sight:<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.washingtonpost.com&#x2F;sf&#x2F;investigative&#x2F;2014&#x2F;10&#x2F;11&#x2F;asset-seizures-fuel-police-spending&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.washingtonpost.com&#x2F;sf&#x2F;investigative&#x2F;2014&#x2F;10&#x2F;11&#x2F;as...</a><p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.washingtonpost.com&#x2F;sf&#x2F;investigative&#x2F;2014&#x2F;09&#x2F;06&#x2F;stop-and-seize&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.washingtonpost.com&#x2F;sf&#x2F;investigative&#x2F;2014&#x2F;09&#x2F;06&#x2F;st...</a><p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.forbes.com&#x2F;sites&#x2F;instituteforjustice&#x2F;2014&#x2F;03&#x2F;12&#x2F;cops-use-traffic-stops-to-seize-millions-from-drivers-never-charged-with-a-crime&#x2F;#6dbe213046ae" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.forbes.com&#x2F;sites&#x2F;instituteforjustice&#x2F;2014&#x2F;03&#x2F;12&#x2F;c...</a><p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.newyorker.com&#x2F;magazine&#x2F;2013&#x2F;08&#x2F;12&#x2F;taken" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.newyorker.com&#x2F;magazine&#x2F;2013&#x2F;08&#x2F;12&#x2F;taken</a></text></comment> |
28,759,859 | 28,759,317 | 1 | 2 | 28,757,882 | train | <story><title>MIT Abandons Its Mission. and Me</title><url>https://bariweiss.substack.com/p/mit-abandons-its-mission-and-me</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>57844743385</author><text>What people haven’t grasped yet is you can’t fight the mob.<p>There’s no recourse, no appeal, no tribunal, no council of wise learned people you can go to when the mob sets out to destroy you.<p>You’re just simply fucked and have to accept you’ve been cancelled, your reputation is ruined and you’re “out”.<p>That’s all there is to it and no-one has come up with a solution.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dfxm12</author><text>There&#x27;s no recourse against the mob because the mob doesn&#x27;t have real power. A mob can&#x27;t cancel your speaking engagement at MIT. Only MIT can do that.<p>Also, it&#x27;s hard to assert that you&#x27;re ruined. I get that this is an emotional response, just like an angry mob&#x27;s, but rest assured that time has shown that&#x27;s it&#x27;s not really the case. Getting fired from one speaking engagement does not ruin a person. It&#x27;s more like temporary embarrassment, which happens to everyone. Kevin Spacey, Jeffrey Toobin, Bill O&#x27;Rielly, etc. have all been &quot;cancelled&quot;, but are back working today.<p>One solution, at least in America, would be a better social safety net, so that most of your benefits aren&#x27;t tied to having a job. Losing your job shouldn&#x27;t be so scary, no matter what the reason (although that wouldn&#x27;t matter in this specific case, since this person didn&#x27;t lose their job).</text></comment> | <story><title>MIT Abandons Its Mission. and Me</title><url>https://bariweiss.substack.com/p/mit-abandons-its-mission-and-me</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>57844743385</author><text>What people haven’t grasped yet is you can’t fight the mob.<p>There’s no recourse, no appeal, no tribunal, no council of wise learned people you can go to when the mob sets out to destroy you.<p>You’re just simply fucked and have to accept you’ve been cancelled, your reputation is ruined and you’re “out”.<p>That’s all there is to it and no-one has come up with a solution.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>joshuaheard</author><text>I think the first step is recognizing that there is a mob and mob behavior. Then, act to disband the mob by not engaging in mob behavior, and convincing others not to engage in mob behavior.</text></comment> |
11,519,194 | 11,518,946 | 1 | 2 | 11,518,680 | train | <story><title>The Black Death: The Greatest Catastrophe (2005)</title><url>http://www.historytoday.com/ole-j-benedictow/black-death-greatest-catastrophe-ever</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>nxzero</author><text>Related topic is the &quot;Great Dying&quot; which killed the majority of Native Americans:<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.pbs.org&#x2F;gunsgermssteel&#x2F;variables&#x2F;smallpox.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.pbs.org&#x2F;gunsgermssteel&#x2F;variables&#x2F;smallpox.html</a><p>Of note is how smallpox was used as a weapon:<p>&gt;&gt; &quot;You will do well to try to inoculate the Indians, by means of blankets, as well as to try every other method that can serve to extirpate this execrable race.&quot; — Jeffery Amherst<p>Sources:<p>Disease as a weapon against Native Americans
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Native_American_disease_and_epidemics" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Native_American_disease_and_...</a><p>Smallpox Blankets
<a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;cherokeeregistry.com&#x2F;index.php?option=com_content&amp;view=article&amp;id=407&amp;Itemid=617" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;cherokeeregistry.com&#x2F;index.php?option=com_content&amp;vie...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>The Black Death: The Greatest Catastrophe (2005)</title><url>http://www.historytoday.com/ole-j-benedictow/black-death-greatest-catastrophe-ever</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>BorisVSchmid</author><text>&quot;Published in History TodayVolume 55 Issue 3 March 2005&quot;<p>The article is a bit old, and misses out on the large amount of genetic evidence since then sequenced and analyzed. Cui et al found that the closest living relatives to the Black Death stem from north-west China. That is about the only evidence we have on where the Black Death came from, and it does point to an origin in or near China.<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.pnas.org&#x2F;content&#x2F;110&#x2F;2&#x2F;577.figures-only" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.pnas.org&#x2F;content&#x2F;110&#x2F;2&#x2F;577.figures-only</a></text></comment> |
19,911,983 | 19,911,834 | 1 | 2 | 19,911,365 | train | <story><title>Netflix Saves Kids from Up to 400 Hours of Commercials a Year</title><url>https://localbabysitter.com/netflix-saves-our-kids-from-up-to-400-hours-of-commercials-a-year/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bargl</author><text>Worth. Every. Penny.<p>I went to my parents house with my son. He was 4. They turned on cartoons. Then he said, &quot;Dad why&#x27;d you change the show? I don&#x27;t want to watch this.&quot; It was a commercial. I had to explain commercials to my son. It was at that moment I realized how much of my tv watching as a kid was commercials.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>anoncow</author><text>After subscribing to YouTube Premium, I had a similar revelation. Now if only we could have a google ad-free subscription which would turn off all google search and display network ads, our lives would be so much better! What if we could have cities outlaw advertising on billboards and instead collect a small tax to make up for the lost revenue, how much would our quality of life increase? That makes me wonder, if we could ever get to such an utopia, what avenues would advertisers have left to sell products to us?</text></comment> | <story><title>Netflix Saves Kids from Up to 400 Hours of Commercials a Year</title><url>https://localbabysitter.com/netflix-saves-our-kids-from-up-to-400-hours-of-commercials-a-year/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bargl</author><text>Worth. Every. Penny.<p>I went to my parents house with my son. He was 4. They turned on cartoons. Then he said, &quot;Dad why&#x27;d you change the show? I don&#x27;t want to watch this.&quot; It was a commercial. I had to explain commercials to my son. It was at that moment I realized how much of my tv watching as a kid was commercials.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>lmkg</author><text>To be fair, my favorite show growing up was Transformers. So technically even the show itself was a commercial.</text></comment> |
33,093,882 | 33,092,673 | 1 | 2 | 33,087,525 | train | <story><title>How criminals are using jammers, deauthers to disrupt WiFi security cameras</title><url>https://www.wxyz.com/news/how-criminals-are-using-jammers-deauthers-to-disrupt-wifi-security-cameras</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>gmiller123456</author><text>I went with the wired network route. I&#x27;m sure to most people it seems like the more secure route, but it&#x27;s important to realize that for outside cameras, you now have ethernet connections accessible from outside. Jamming WiFi is a denies you the ability to record, but external ethernet gives them access to your network. I went with building an isolated network, but I think that&#x27;s outside the relm of what most consumers can do. A WiFi camera, while not perfect, really does give you the best bang for the buck.<p>I&#x27;m sure we all know that most residential locks can be picked with relative ease, but criminals rarely go through the trouble. The one time a person did &quot;break in&quot; to my house, they just opened an unlocked door. Usually I keep that door locked, a large piece of plywood in front of it, and a table saw braced up against that. Just so happened I worked on a project that day and just forgot to lock the door. Lucky break for her, but trying enough doorknobs she was bound for find some. She had gotten into two other houses that night. She was also tripped out on meth and couldn&#x27;t have operated a WiFi jammer if she wanted to.<p>So, yea, a WiFi camera isn&#x27;t great, but it&#x27;s still going to get 99% of criminals out there. Next we just need WiFi jammer alarms.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>donkeyd</author><text>&gt; So, yea, a WiFi camera isn&#x27;t great, but it&#x27;s still going to get 99% of criminals out there. Next we just need WiFi jammer alarms.<p>All we need is onboard storage to record a couple hours of video locally which can then be synced when the connection is back again. Right? That doesn&#x27;t fix real-time information transmission, but video is most often important for finding suspects after the fact.</text></comment> | <story><title>How criminals are using jammers, deauthers to disrupt WiFi security cameras</title><url>https://www.wxyz.com/news/how-criminals-are-using-jammers-deauthers-to-disrupt-wifi-security-cameras</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>gmiller123456</author><text>I went with the wired network route. I&#x27;m sure to most people it seems like the more secure route, but it&#x27;s important to realize that for outside cameras, you now have ethernet connections accessible from outside. Jamming WiFi is a denies you the ability to record, but external ethernet gives them access to your network. I went with building an isolated network, but I think that&#x27;s outside the relm of what most consumers can do. A WiFi camera, while not perfect, really does give you the best bang for the buck.<p>I&#x27;m sure we all know that most residential locks can be picked with relative ease, but criminals rarely go through the trouble. The one time a person did &quot;break in&quot; to my house, they just opened an unlocked door. Usually I keep that door locked, a large piece of plywood in front of it, and a table saw braced up against that. Just so happened I worked on a project that day and just forgot to lock the door. Lucky break for her, but trying enough doorknobs she was bound for find some. She had gotten into two other houses that night. She was also tripped out on meth and couldn&#x27;t have operated a WiFi jammer if she wanted to.<p>So, yea, a WiFi camera isn&#x27;t great, but it&#x27;s still going to get 99% of criminals out there. Next we just need WiFi jammer alarms.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>varispeed</author><text>I had WiFi cameras until my friend showed me how his cameras were jammed when his neighbour had a broad daylight burglary. A van pulled up and a second later the video was completely jammed. Then five minutes later it comes back to normal, but neighbour doors were smashed in.<p>So I got a wired network now, on a separate LAN and have two cameras on each perimeter, so if someone tries to cut the cable (unfortunately I was unable to run the cables inside the wall, so they run in PVC pipes attached to the wall), I very least should have that recorded. Also all my cameras are 4k. The cameras also record to built in SD card. There are also two servers hidden each is pulling the videos from DVR to back up and then one copy is uploaded to external server.</text></comment> |
22,166,813 | 22,166,009 | 1 | 2 | 22,164,314 | train | <story><title>U.S. Gov Privacy Watchdog Under Pressure to Recommend Facial Recognition Ban</title><url>https://thehill.com/policy/technology/480152-government-privacy-watchdog-under-pressure-to-recommend-facial-recognition</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>stevehawk</author><text>If you&#x27;re out in public then what privacy are you expecting?</text></item><item><author>tictok4</author><text>Good but don&#x27;t exempt the government.<p>Many local cities are building out vast networks. Including my very own Miami Beach Police Department.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>anonsivalley652</author><text>&quot;Nothing to hide&quot; is indicative of condoning inverted&#x2F;actual totalitarianism, until the Chinese-inspired tracking system follows you around every moment of your life and gives you a social credit score that tells you that you can&#x27;t fly on a plane or take a train. Or looks extra hard for any technicality felonies you commit unwittingly in your professional career as reprisal if you speak out against their abuses. So maybe you might want some privacy now?<p>Also, I guess you won&#x27;t mind publishing all of your passwords, physical location at all times, never wearing clothes, living in a transparent house and being video and audio recorded 24x7 either. (Yes, it&#x27;s unreasonably absurd ad infinitum.) Still not wanting any privacy? How about other people can have as much privacy as they want, and stay the heck off my lawn? ;-P</text></comment> | <story><title>U.S. Gov Privacy Watchdog Under Pressure to Recommend Facial Recognition Ban</title><url>https://thehill.com/policy/technology/480152-government-privacy-watchdog-under-pressure-to-recommend-facial-recognition</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>stevehawk</author><text>If you&#x27;re out in public then what privacy are you expecting?</text></item><item><author>tictok4</author><text>Good but don&#x27;t exempt the government.<p>Many local cities are building out vast networks. Including my very own Miami Beach Police Department.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>caconym_</author><text>1. What one expects != what one thinks is right.<p>2. I suppose you would be ok, then, with a police officer tailing you <i>everywhere</i> you go, recording everything you do, everywhere you go, everything you say, and to whom, peering in the windows of your home if you forget to keep your blinds drawn? Just in case that information happens to be useful to <i>a</i> government at some point in the future?</text></comment> |
15,336,011 | 15,335,657 | 1 | 2 | 15,334,678 | train | <story><title>The tale of aux.c</title><url>http://heirloom.sourceforge.net/mailx_aux_c.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>badsectoracula</author><text>So, all that text to tell people he is refusing to rename a single file? :-P<p>I encountered that issue a few times in the past, most recently when a couple of years ago i was writing the console support for my 3d game engine and made two files called `con.c` and `con.h`, checked them in to version control and then at some point (much) later synced it on the Windows side. Fossil (the VCS i use) simply skipped that file (maybe it complained? i don&#x27;t remember, but the files weren&#x27;t created) and when i tried to build the engine it didn&#x27;t work - i thought that i forgot to add the files, rebooted to Linux, forced a re-add, back to Windows and nothing again.<p>Eventually it clicked that &quot;con&quot; is a bad word in Windows filesystems, so i simply renamed the files to `csl.c` and `csl.h` :-P. I found this a bit irritating because my naming convention follows a mostly rigid pattern where `xxx_` prefixed functions will always recide on `xxx.c&#x2F;h` (or `xxx_yyy.c&#x2F;h` where yyy is a subsystem or specialization) and i really prefer the `con_` prefix to the `csl_` one. So far i&#x27;ve kept the `con_` prefix and made a special note for that in the readme file where i explain the naming conventions, but every time i have to use or work with that part of the engine i feel the irritation :-P.</text></comment> | <story><title>The tale of aux.c</title><url>http://heirloom.sourceforge.net/mailx_aux_c.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>drfuchs</author><text>So, you smug Linux guys think it can&#x27;t happen to you? Well, before you get off my lawn, let me tell you a story...<p>Early versions of FrameMaker kept all resource files (internationalized strings, dialog box layouts, etc.) in the two subdirectories ...&#x2F;FrameMaker&#x2F;Resources&#x2F;{Unix,Core} (the first one for the Unix platform-specific resources, and the second for the cross-platform ones also used by the Mac and Windows ports). We had hundreds of happy customers, and had been shipping for 4 years or more.<p>But one new customer was calling in a panic. They&#x27;d installed the product, and it would work fine, but the next morning, it wouldn&#x27;t even start up, and they had to re-install it. And then it would break again over night. After much pulling of hair and gnashing of teeth, it turns out that due to some other flakey product they were running, they had previously instituted a nightly cron job that ran around removing any core files it could find (since they were large and wasteful of precious disk space back in the day). And the knucklehead who wrote the script had it do a case-insensitive match on &quot;core&quot; <i>and</i> had it essentially do a &quot;rm -rf&quot; even though no true core file could be a directory. So, every night, our Core resource directory was blown away.<p>We actually had to change the product, as this was a big, important customer, and they outright refused to fix their cron script. Never had this problem on the Windows and Mac ports.</text></comment> |
19,735,134 | 19,734,926 | 1 | 2 | 19,734,565 | train | <story><title>Changes to Models S and X allow them to travel longer without larger batteries</title><url>https://www.tesla.com/blog/longest-range-electric-vehicle-now-goes-even-farther</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jac_no_k</author><text>This &quot;continuous deployment&quot; for cars must be a logistical nightmare. To do repairs for a given vehicle, keeping track of what parts are backward compatible would be challenging. What if it&#x27;s a compatibility breaking change? Then keeping inventory for older cars would become problematic.<p>Unless they do design with maximum compatibility. Then it gets interesting as upgrades are possible.<p>While B.EV cars maintenance is low, my car 7 months into ownership revealed bad battery cells that needed replacing. If the car was say five years old, would this replacement have been possible?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>cperciva</author><text>Is it any worse than what other manufacturers deal with? The 2019 Honda Accord shares some parts with the 2018 Honda Accord which shares some parts with the 2017 model... when something breaks in my Honda the first question is &quot;do they still make&#x2F;use this part or did they change it in newer models?&quot;</text></comment> | <story><title>Changes to Models S and X allow them to travel longer without larger batteries</title><url>https://www.tesla.com/blog/longest-range-electric-vehicle-now-goes-even-farther</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jac_no_k</author><text>This &quot;continuous deployment&quot; for cars must be a logistical nightmare. To do repairs for a given vehicle, keeping track of what parts are backward compatible would be challenging. What if it&#x27;s a compatibility breaking change? Then keeping inventory for older cars would become problematic.<p>Unless they do design with maximum compatibility. Then it gets interesting as upgrades are possible.<p>While B.EV cars maintenance is low, my car 7 months into ownership revealed bad battery cells that needed replacing. If the car was say five years old, would this replacement have been possible?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mecameron</author><text>I bought a 2013 Model S recently that had its wheels swapped with a 2016 Model S by a third party before sale (I didn&#x27;t care for the 21&quot; wheels that were on the 2013, and the buyer of the 2016 wanted them). Shortly after driving away from the dealer, the tire pressure sensor system reported faults. After bringing it in to Tesla they said the newer tires and older car were not compatible, but they could easily downgrade the electronics in the wheels or upgrade the electronics on the car. They were both about the same cost, so I just had them update the wheels.</text></comment> |
38,456,731 | 38,454,558 | 1 | 3 | 38,452,712 | train | <story><title>Apple pulls plug on Goldman credit-card partnership</title><url>https://www.wsj.com/finance/banking/apple-pulls-plug-on-goldman-credit-card-partnership-ca1dfb45</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>xyst</author><text>That would be cool. Amex support way better than GS that’s for sure.<p>Would suck for retailers though. Amex fees among the highest when compared to other networks and issuing banks.<p>On the consumer side, I tend to see Amex as not widely accepted. Especially drops when traveling.</text></item><item><author>giobox</author><text>Seemingly both sides have wanted out of this deal, earlier in the year there was another WSJ report with Goldman wanting to end it as well:<p>&gt; <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.wsj.com&#x2F;articles&#x2F;goldman-is-looking-for-a-way-out-of-its-partnership-with-apple-79849a91" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.wsj.com&#x2F;articles&#x2F;goldman-is-looking-for-a-way-ou...</a><p>The earlier story from June suggested Amex might take it over.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jwr</author><text>&gt; On the consumer side, I tend to see Amex as not widely accepted. Especially drops when traveling.<p>As a B2B SaaS owner, I don&#x27;t accept Amex, because they make me jump through extra hoops. I process all cards through Braintree, but Amex requires an extra agreement directly with them, and they make the process of signing those agreements really difficult and obnoxious. I have better things to do with my time.<p>I did a quick search, here&#x27;s a partial list of what was required:<p>· Please provide a scanned copy of Passports for authorized signers and Beneficial Owners.<p>· Please provide a scanned copy of Certificate of incorporation<p>· Please Provide a Completed Multi Currency form, Attached<p>· Please provide a completed and Signed Side Letter, Attached<p>· Please provide a completed and Signed W8 BEN form, Attached<p>(BTW, I am not based in the US, so &quot;W8 BEN&quot; reads like Klingon to me).</text></comment> | <story><title>Apple pulls plug on Goldman credit-card partnership</title><url>https://www.wsj.com/finance/banking/apple-pulls-plug-on-goldman-credit-card-partnership-ca1dfb45</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>xyst</author><text>That would be cool. Amex support way better than GS that’s for sure.<p>Would suck for retailers though. Amex fees among the highest when compared to other networks and issuing banks.<p>On the consumer side, I tend to see Amex as not widely accepted. Especially drops when traveling.</text></item><item><author>giobox</author><text>Seemingly both sides have wanted out of this deal, earlier in the year there was another WSJ report with Goldman wanting to end it as well:<p>&gt; <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.wsj.com&#x2F;articles&#x2F;goldman-is-looking-for-a-way-out-of-its-partnership-with-apple-79849a91" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.wsj.com&#x2F;articles&#x2F;goldman-is-looking-for-a-way-ou...</a><p>The earlier story from June suggested Amex might take it over.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>wsc981</author><text>I got an Amex card and I think it kinda sucks. Many businesses in Thailand don&#x27;t accept Amex, I think due to the high fees. At some point I want to change my card (once I can get a credit card from a bank in Thailand, cause my Amex card is from The Netherlands).<p>Would be much better if Apple would get with MasterCard. Based on my experience, no issues anywhere.</text></comment> |
15,093,866 | 15,093,962 | 1 | 2 | 15,092,521 | train | <story><title>Weird Python Integers</title><url>https://kate.io/blog/2017/08/22/weird-python-integers/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>std_throwaway</author><text>Summary: Integers in python are full blown objects. Small numbers are stored in a central preallocated table where each entry represents one number. Setting a variable to a small integer makes it point to an entry in that table. Multiple variables may point to the same small integer objects in that table. Fooling around with the table leads to funny results.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>concede_pluto</author><text>It&#x27;s just like Fortran, where everything <i>including a constant</i> is passed by reference, so if you assign to your arguments you might corrupt your program&#x27;s only copy of 7 unless the linker put it in a read-only page.</text></comment> | <story><title>Weird Python Integers</title><url>https://kate.io/blog/2017/08/22/weird-python-integers/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>std_throwaway</author><text>Summary: Integers in python are full blown objects. Small numbers are stored in a central preallocated table where each entry represents one number. Setting a variable to a small integer makes it point to an entry in that table. Multiple variables may point to the same small integer objects in that table. Fooling around with the table leads to funny results.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>leipert</author><text>The same is true for Java apparently:
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;stackoverflow.com&#x2F;a&#x2F;2001861" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;stackoverflow.com&#x2F;a&#x2F;2001861</a></text></comment> |
33,819,588 | 33,815,945 | 1 | 2 | 33,815,085 | train | <story><title>NixOS 22.11 “Raccoon”</title><url>https://nixos.org/blog/announcements</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>nh2</author><text>Something that isn&#x27;t stated in this thread yet is how easy NixOS makes version upgrades.<p>I maintain multiple pet servers. When I used Ubuntu, doing release upgrades cost me ~6 hours per server per upgrade every 2 years. Most of that time went into merging updated upstream configuration files with my changed configuration files, often for silly stuff like upstream changing tabs to spaces in the config file syntax. With the Debian-style upgrader, you also have to wait 5 minutes until you&#x27;re prompted for the next config file to merge, while other packages are &quot;configuring&quot; with `dpkg`. So you cannot do them all in a batch, but have to stare at the screen throughout the procedure, attending every 5 minutes.<p>So with multiple servers that was multiple days of upgrades per year.<p>With NixOS, these days are is reduced to minutes.<p>For example, on one of my servers I upgraded just now:<p><pre><code> 18:07 -- starting NixOS 21.05 -&gt; 21.11 upgrade command
18:10 -- download finished
18:10:15 -- rebooted into new running system
</code></pre>
This server currently runs:<p><pre><code> * webserver
* mailserver (with web UI, spamfilter, etc)
* nameserver (with dynamic DNS updates)
* VPN server
* mumble voicechat server
* XMPP server
* Matrix server with signal bridge
* vaultwarden server
* some custom web services
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This is possible because with NixOS, you do not mutate text files in `&#x2F;etc` for configuration. Instead, you write a structured config similar to a JSON object (but in the Nix language, so you can use stuff like `map` and `filter` to solve repeated tasks over e.g. all the domains in your web server). This config only contains the differences from the default config. So concepts like &quot;does the upstream Apache config file indent with tabs or spaces&quot; no longer play any role.<p>For the server above, the config file is 800 lines long, of which 200 are comments.<p>So NixOS is saving me multiple days per year in sysadmin tasks, which is pretty good!</text></comment> | <story><title>NixOS 22.11 “Raccoon”</title><url>https://nixos.org/blog/announcements</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Asdrubalini</author><text>My router (a VM with passed through network card) is currently running on NixOS, I’m really happy so far, it makes kernel patching (which in my case is required for the nic to work properly at 2500BASE-T) much easier than manually patching and building the kernel every time. It also gives me the guarantee that I will be able to rebuild the exact same host almost bit by bit in the future, in case of necessity, which is important for something like a router (I also take vm snapshots but upgrades are crucial for something potentially facing the internet and handling firewall). Looking forward to move away from proxmox to a fully NixOS virtualisation host too.</text></comment> |
34,025,132 | 34,024,812 | 1 | 3 | 34,013,643 | train | <story><title>Ask HN: I have diagnosed ADHD and cannot work with Slack anymore – advice?</title><text>10 months ago, I started to work at a company that uses Slack heavily. They have 1000+ channels and my team is tagged in a lot of stuff so I get a lot of notifications.<p>I can&#x27;t concentrate at all. It&#x27;s not like it&#x27;s annoying, I simply cannot work.<p>I have been spending 10x more energy since I started to just keep above the water but now, after 10 months, I&#x27;m simply drowning and my tickets are all piling up.<p>I don&#x27;t want to be that person that&#x27;s not reachable but more and more, I&#x27;m thinking about closing Slack and opening it 2-3x a day.<p>Any advice?</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>zztop44</author><text>I don’t have ADHD but I get very distracted by Slack. Here’s what worked for me.<p>1. Slack app uninstalled on my phone. If I need it for something, I install it, use it, then delete again.<p>2. Slack app on my laptop fully closed by default.<p>3. Set times (about 5 a day) to check in and respond to notifications and scan channels. When I was a senior manager with lots of actually important messages these blocks were about half an hour each (for a total of about 2.5 hours a day). These days I can get away with less than 10 minutes.<p>4. Block these times in your calendar. At the start of the day, block out the rest of the time without meetings etc as Deep Work. People will understand you’re not easily contactable.<p>6. Tell your close team mates&#x2F;manager that if they ever need you urgently they can contact via Signal&#x2F;WhatsApp. If anyone needs you and really can’t wait a few hours then they’ll ask your manager and be able to get in touch. If you’re really worried about being uncontactable then put your phone number in your Slack bio.<p>Using that, I went from being totally addicted to Slack to being able to be a productive worker again. Of course your mileage may vary.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>danShumway</author><text>This is all great advice (especially &quot;uninstall it from your phone&quot;).<p>I&#x27;ll add to this that if anyone involved with Slack is around here, Slack is in desperate need of more powerful&#x2F;flexible muting controls -- ie, not just muting notifications from specific channels&#x2F;DMs, but actually doing things like suppressing visual indicators in the sidebar, muting during certain time periods, etc... You want to go wild, it would be great to be able to fully turn off channels client-side during certain periods of the day so that new messages literally won&#x27;t show up until it&#x27;s turned back on.<p>When I used Slack, if it was open and there was an indicator for a channel, I checked that channel. It didn&#x27;t matter if I got a notification or not, the indicator itself was enough to distract me.<p>I suspect there are a lot of people who have become less productive because of issues like this. A lot of the advice in this thread mirrors the above comment where people feel like they need to completely close the app and get it out of their face entirely in order to concentrate. In my opinion that&#x27;s a weakness of the muting&#x2F;UI options, that the only way to really truly tame notifications for deep work in many instances is to completely block the entire app.<p><i>Edit: I consider both of these problems faced by OP (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=34018044" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=34018044</a>, <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=34014517" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=34014517</a>) to be primarily UX problems that Slack could fix. Definitely the notification indicators -- putting a bright red dot on someone&#x27;s screen is a distraction regardless of whether or not you also play a sound.</i></text></comment> | <story><title>Ask HN: I have diagnosed ADHD and cannot work with Slack anymore – advice?</title><text>10 months ago, I started to work at a company that uses Slack heavily. They have 1000+ channels and my team is tagged in a lot of stuff so I get a lot of notifications.<p>I can&#x27;t concentrate at all. It&#x27;s not like it&#x27;s annoying, I simply cannot work.<p>I have been spending 10x more energy since I started to just keep above the water but now, after 10 months, I&#x27;m simply drowning and my tickets are all piling up.<p>I don&#x27;t want to be that person that&#x27;s not reachable but more and more, I&#x27;m thinking about closing Slack and opening it 2-3x a day.<p>Any advice?</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>zztop44</author><text>I don’t have ADHD but I get very distracted by Slack. Here’s what worked for me.<p>1. Slack app uninstalled on my phone. If I need it for something, I install it, use it, then delete again.<p>2. Slack app on my laptop fully closed by default.<p>3. Set times (about 5 a day) to check in and respond to notifications and scan channels. When I was a senior manager with lots of actually important messages these blocks were about half an hour each (for a total of about 2.5 hours a day). These days I can get away with less than 10 minutes.<p>4. Block these times in your calendar. At the start of the day, block out the rest of the time without meetings etc as Deep Work. People will understand you’re not easily contactable.<p>6. Tell your close team mates&#x2F;manager that if they ever need you urgently they can contact via Signal&#x2F;WhatsApp. If anyone needs you and really can’t wait a few hours then they’ll ask your manager and be able to get in touch. If you’re really worried about being uncontactable then put your phone number in your Slack bio.<p>Using that, I went from being totally addicted to Slack to being able to be a productive worker again. Of course your mileage may vary.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dangus</author><text>This is pretty good advice. I&#x27;ll add onto this:<p>- Your company is idiotic in how they use Slack. With what I assume is a large company (1000+ channels) teams shouldn&#x27;t have to respond to mentions with the possible exception of people directly on your team. Suggest&#x2F;insist that the team implement a formal request intake system and actively discourage mentions. On my SRE team, we directly told other teams that Slack was not a method to request that work be done, and that all requests via Slack would be ignored. Our public channel was for asynchronous informational questions only (and please read the docs first). If your team has an on-call obligation, it shouldn&#x27;t be implemented through Slack mentions, it should be through a defined incident management process with the appropriate policies and tools designed for that job.<p>- Remember that you have a diagnosed condition that can be considered a disability and that your employer must by law make reasonable accommodations for it if you live in the USA. You should insist on being provided a method of work that accommodates you (and you&#x27;re not even asking for anything that costs money). If you get pushback on this Slack situation, insist in writing that this is a disability issue and you are formally requesting a disability accommodation and include HR on your request. (It&#x27;s true that HR is there to protect the company and not you, and in this situation that&#x27;s exactly what they&#x27;ll do: protect the company from an ADA lawsuit by accommodating your disability)<p>To be quite honest I&#x27;m not even sure your ADHD is actually the problem here. Your company sounds like a nightmare.</text></comment> |
13,895,803 | 13,894,685 | 1 | 3 | 13,893,870 | train | <story><title> Lack of Oxford Comma Could Cost Maine Company Millions in Overtime Dispute</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/16/us/oxford-comma-lawsuit.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>UweSchmidt</author><text>Not a native speaker, but if Ayn Rand is your mother I&#x27;d blame the first comma for the ambiguity.<p>&quot;To my mother Ayn Rand, and God.&quot;</text></item><item><author>jakelazaroff</author><text>It can create ambiguity as well as remove it, depending on which terms can be appositives to other terms. Classic example:<p>&quot;To my parents, Ayn Rand and God.&quot; (ambiguous without the comma)<p>&quot;To my mother, Ayn Rand, and God.&quot; (ambiguous with the comma)</text></item><item><author>mercer</author><text>Is there <i>any</i> good argument for eschewing the extra comma when it clearly disambiguates the meaning of the sentence?<p>I can&#x27;t think of one, but I also find it (slightly) difficult to believe that anyone smart enough to write an article would insist on ambiguity for no good reason...<p>EDIT: to disambiguate my own comment: with &#x27;when&#x27; I meant &#x27;in cases where leaving out the comma causes ambiguity&#x27;. Personally I try to prioritize clarity so sometimes I will use an extra comma, and sometimes I won&#x27;t.</text></item><item><author>leephillips</author><text>&quot;omitting the serial comma is fairly archaic at this point&quot;<p>Wish that were true! But many news organization style guides condemn the Oxford comma, with sometimes disastrous results:<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.chronicle.com&#x2F;blogs&#x2F;linguafranca&#x2F;2016&#x2F;12&#x2F;06&#x2F;for-want-of-an-oxford-comma&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.chronicle.com&#x2F;blogs&#x2F;linguafranca&#x2F;2016&#x2F;12&#x2F;06&#x2F;for-w...</a></text></item><item><author>weeksie</author><text>I don&#x27;t think I&#x27;ve ever heard an impassioned argument against the Oxford Comma. I mean, I have no problem with it, but there seems to be a belief that this is a less filling&#x2F;tastes great holy war, but really, omitting the serial comma is fairly archaic at this point. At least in my experience. Sometimes lists need one, sometimes they don&#x27;t. At this point in the evolution of our written language that should be a fairly unambiguous proposition.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>SamBam</author><text>But that&#x27;s just grammatically wrong, in English.<p>Appositive clauses require a comma. Forgetting God, you can just look at the sentence &quot;To my mother, Ayn Rand.&quot; We put a comma there because the object of the sentence is &quot;mother,&quot; and then we&#x27;re clarifying who &quot;mother&quot; is. We&#x27;d only omit the comma if &quot;Mother Ayn Rand&quot; were a noun phrase all by itself, like &quot;Father John.&quot;<p>Similarly: &quot;This is to my arch-nemesis, Ayn Rand, who always doubted me.&quot; The commas are necessary there for the same reason.<p>(How did Ayn Rand enter this discussion..?)</text></comment> | <story><title> Lack of Oxford Comma Could Cost Maine Company Millions in Overtime Dispute</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/16/us/oxford-comma-lawsuit.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>UweSchmidt</author><text>Not a native speaker, but if Ayn Rand is your mother I&#x27;d blame the first comma for the ambiguity.<p>&quot;To my mother Ayn Rand, and God.&quot;</text></item><item><author>jakelazaroff</author><text>It can create ambiguity as well as remove it, depending on which terms can be appositives to other terms. Classic example:<p>&quot;To my parents, Ayn Rand and God.&quot; (ambiguous without the comma)<p>&quot;To my mother, Ayn Rand, and God.&quot; (ambiguous with the comma)</text></item><item><author>mercer</author><text>Is there <i>any</i> good argument for eschewing the extra comma when it clearly disambiguates the meaning of the sentence?<p>I can&#x27;t think of one, but I also find it (slightly) difficult to believe that anyone smart enough to write an article would insist on ambiguity for no good reason...<p>EDIT: to disambiguate my own comment: with &#x27;when&#x27; I meant &#x27;in cases where leaving out the comma causes ambiguity&#x27;. Personally I try to prioritize clarity so sometimes I will use an extra comma, and sometimes I won&#x27;t.</text></item><item><author>leephillips</author><text>&quot;omitting the serial comma is fairly archaic at this point&quot;<p>Wish that were true! But many news organization style guides condemn the Oxford comma, with sometimes disastrous results:<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.chronicle.com&#x2F;blogs&#x2F;linguafranca&#x2F;2016&#x2F;12&#x2F;06&#x2F;for-want-of-an-oxford-comma&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.chronicle.com&#x2F;blogs&#x2F;linguafranca&#x2F;2016&#x2F;12&#x2F;06&#x2F;for-w...</a></text></item><item><author>weeksie</author><text>I don&#x27;t think I&#x27;ve ever heard an impassioned argument against the Oxford Comma. I mean, I have no problem with it, but there seems to be a belief that this is a less filling&#x2F;tastes great holy war, but really, omitting the serial comma is fairly archaic at this point. At least in my experience. Sometimes lists need one, sometimes they don&#x27;t. At this point in the evolution of our written language that should be a fairly unambiguous proposition.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>savanaly</author><text>The problem isn&#x27;t that there doesn&#x27;t exist a sentence that maps onto only the meaning that Ayn Rand is your mother, it&#x27;s that there exists a sentence which one could reasonably arrive at that maps on to both the meaning where Ayn Rand is your mother and the meaning where she&#x27;s not.</text></comment> |
15,660,883 | 15,660,554 | 1 | 2 | 15,652,053 | train | <story><title>Google promoted Texas gunman fake tweets</title><url>http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-41915065</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>beaner</author><text>I feel like there&#x27;s a big push to blame &quot;fake news&quot; and related phenomena on tech companies right now.<p>Fake news is created and shared by people. Tech is just one of the vehicles through which we share it.<p>The problem isn&#x27;t tech, it&#x27;s people. Fix the root cause with education and the tech will reflect it.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>PostOnce</author><text>The problem is that tech companies aren&#x27;t just showing you everything everyone says... they&#x27;re picking and choosing what to show you.<p>The 10,000ft overview is that they show you whatever keeps you coming back or staying on-site longer. This gives them more ad impressions and makes them more money.<p>Therefore, if their algorithms determine that showing you fake news, lies, and other socially-destructive and false propaganda is more profitable... they can and will do that.<p>So the question is, how do we regulate what the tech-utilities get to filter from your view? Should we regulate? It&#x27;s not the regulation of speech, but rather the regulation of the willful filtration of speech for profit.<p>i.e., &quot;dont show this guy dissenting views to his position or he&#x27;ll stop coming back&quot;, where does that fit into our needs as a society and how should our laws tackle it, if at all?</text></comment> | <story><title>Google promoted Texas gunman fake tweets</title><url>http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-41915065</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>beaner</author><text>I feel like there&#x27;s a big push to blame &quot;fake news&quot; and related phenomena on tech companies right now.<p>Fake news is created and shared by people. Tech is just one of the vehicles through which we share it.<p>The problem isn&#x27;t tech, it&#x27;s people. Fix the root cause with education and the tech will reflect it.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>runesoerensen</author><text><i>&quot;The problem isn&#x27;t tech, it&#x27;s people&quot;</i><p>This sounds remarkably like an argument I&#x27;ve heard before, but there will always be destructive people and people seeking to profit from events like this.<p>In this case certain features created by tech companies perpetuate and amplify the destructiveness of those people, and that&#x27;s a problem tech needs to solve quickly. Education could definitely help people filter information better, and in turn tech companies can leverage that curation to deliver better products.<p>The short term fix? Perhaps Google should just disable their tweet carousel (at least during certain events) until it works reliably and doesn&#x27;t contribute to misinformation on this scale.</text></comment> |
11,804,571 | 11,803,750 | 1 | 3 | 11,802,917 | train | <story><title>Andl, a relational language that is not SQL, is coming to Postgres</title><url>http://www.andl.org/2016/04/postgres-meet-andl/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>yomly</author><text>Interesting coincidence for me that this hits the front page of HN today as I recently read this article [0].<p>The author thinks we should move away using the database purely to persist the data, while handling all logic&#x2F;validation in the server language (e.g. By using an ORM to map your server language to the database) was less robust over time.<p>Instead, he suggests pushing knowledge of your data into your database as this has proven to be more time resilient and takes advantage of the power of these databases.<p>I liked the argument (which is better expressed that my paraphrasing) but my largest reservation was that expressiveness is a big consideration for choosing some language, and in this case the alternative to using Ruby&#x2F;JS&#x2F;Python + ORM in your MVC framework is to use SQL functions, which are syntactically clunky&#x2F;dated at the very least.<p>It seems like Andl is looking to bridge this to some extent.<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;sivers.org&#x2F;pg" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;sivers.org&#x2F;pg</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mistermann</author><text>The problem with this theory is programming in some databases (MS SQL Server) is extremely unpleasant.<p>For example, you can finally, in the year 2016, split strings natively in TSQL:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.brentozar.com&#x2F;archive&#x2F;2016&#x2F;03&#x2F;splitting-strings-sql-server-2016-rescue&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.brentozar.com&#x2F;archive&#x2F;2016&#x2F;03&#x2F;splitting-strings-...</a><p>Compare that to this SO question:<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;stackoverflow.com&#x2F;questions&#x2F;2647&#x2F;how-do-i-split-a-string-so-i-can-access-item-x" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;stackoverflow.com&#x2F;questions&#x2F;2647&#x2F;how-do-i-split-a-str...</a><p>Note there are 32 answers on that question, many of which fail under various edge cases. Also notice that no one finds this situation absurd in the slightest (Stockholm Syndrome is alive and well in the MSSQL community apparently). This is just one example of the nonsense you have to put up with on SQL Server, there are many others.<p>And while PG is getting yet another new language capability, it appears Microsoft is pulling SQLCLR support (in Azure, so far):<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.brentozar.com&#x2F;archive&#x2F;2016&#x2F;04&#x2F;breaking-news-literally-sql-clr-support-removed-azure-sql-db&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.brentozar.com&#x2F;archive&#x2F;2016&#x2F;04&#x2F;breaking-news-lite...</a><p>...which probably doesn&#x27;t matter at the end of the day because almost no DBA would ever let you use it in production.<p>While it would cause harm to my personal career, nothing would make me happier than to see Postgres crush MSSQL, Microsoft has earned nothing less with their absolute disdain for their users.</text></comment> | <story><title>Andl, a relational language that is not SQL, is coming to Postgres</title><url>http://www.andl.org/2016/04/postgres-meet-andl/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>yomly</author><text>Interesting coincidence for me that this hits the front page of HN today as I recently read this article [0].<p>The author thinks we should move away using the database purely to persist the data, while handling all logic&#x2F;validation in the server language (e.g. By using an ORM to map your server language to the database) was less robust over time.<p>Instead, he suggests pushing knowledge of your data into your database as this has proven to be more time resilient and takes advantage of the power of these databases.<p>I liked the argument (which is better expressed that my paraphrasing) but my largest reservation was that expressiveness is a big consideration for choosing some language, and in this case the alternative to using Ruby&#x2F;JS&#x2F;Python + ORM in your MVC framework is to use SQL functions, which are syntactically clunky&#x2F;dated at the very least.<p>It seems like Andl is looking to bridge this to some extent.<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;sivers.org&#x2F;pg" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;sivers.org&#x2F;pg</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>icebraining</author><text>In Postgres you were never really restricted to SQL, there&#x27;s built-in support for Tcl, Perl and Python, and third-party support for others.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.postgresql.org&#x2F;docs&#x2F;9.5&#x2F;static&#x2F;xplang.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.postgresql.org&#x2F;docs&#x2F;9.5&#x2F;static&#x2F;xplang.html</a></text></comment> |
18,892,715 | 18,892,482 | 1 | 2 | 18,891,772 | train | <story><title>Tracking Blood Sugar</title><url>https://eric.jain.name/2018/11/25/tracking-blood-sugar/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>lucas_membrane</author><text>I&#x27;ve been using one of these for about 6 weeks, and I find it is not very accurate, but the convenience that allows checking the readings very often nearly makes up for the huge error bars. The libre freestyle 14-day is usually within 15 mg&#x2F;dl when the reading is between 80 and 100, but above that range, it is usually off by 20 to 30 percent of the correct value (not 20-30 mg&#x2F;dl) and mine has never read much higher than the finger-stick test, only lower. The lower numbers make me inclined to believe it, but they are simply not true, the meter gives only about one significant digit of accuracy throughout its range, and it is pretty far off or refuses to produce a reading when my blood sugar goes below 60 mg&#x2F;dl.
Still, being able to see at a glance whether one is 100 or 200 is quite useful. Medicare pays about $500&#x2F;month for the attachable sensors, which are extremely convenient and non-problematic so far.<p>There is a far better wearable system ready to go but not in production, a combined sensor and automated insulin dispenser, that has passed human trials, but no one wants to go into production with it because of liability issues. Given that people are riding in self-driving cars and landing in aircraft on autopilot, each of which are also potentially fatal and involve a larger set of variables, I wonder if and how long it will take to progress in this regard.</text></comment> | <story><title>Tracking Blood Sugar</title><url>https://eric.jain.name/2018/11/25/tracking-blood-sugar/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>troydavis</author><text>Here&#x27;s a second non-diabetic who tracks their glucose with the same non-invasive device and started analyzing it.<p>Blog post: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;richardsprague.com&#x2F;notes&#x2F;cgm&#x2F;cgm_analysis&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;richardsprague.com&#x2F;notes&#x2F;cgm&#x2F;cgm_analysis&#x2F;</a><p>Slides from presentation last week: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.slideshare.net&#x2F;richardsprague&#x2F;quantified-self-seattle-january-2019-continuous-glucose-monitoring" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.slideshare.net&#x2F;richardsprague&#x2F;quantified-self-se...</a><p>He also tweets about it: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;sprague" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;sprague</a></text></comment> |
28,364,068 | 28,364,177 | 1 | 3 | 28,362,930 | train | <story><title>Forest Service officials close all California national forests</title><url>https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2021-08-30/officials-to-close-all-california-national-forests-a</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>gorwell</author><text>Can anyone explain this?<p>&quot;So early on, Newsom identified some key wildfire prevention projects, and that includes things like forest thinning and prescribed burns, and they were meant to protect some of the most vulnerable communities in California. And he claimed 90,000 acres were treated, but we found that&#x27;s not true. The state&#x27;s own data shows that, in reality, it was less than 12,000 acres, so just a fraction of what Newsom claimed. And looking at the bigger picture, not just those specific projects, we also found that the state&#x27;s fire prevention work overall dropped by half last year, which was the worst wildfire season on record for California. And during that time, Newsom also slashed about $150 million from the state&#x27;s wildfire prevention budget.&quot;<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.npr.org&#x2F;2021&#x2F;06&#x2F;25&#x2F;1010382535&#x2F;gavin-newsom-misled-public-about-wildfire-prevention-work-report-says" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.npr.org&#x2F;2021&#x2F;06&#x2F;25&#x2F;1010382535&#x2F;gavin-newsom-misle...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dbcurtis</author><text>I have one piece of anectdata. I own some property in the Sierra foothills, and a couple of years ago spent considerable time talking to the California Department Forestry (CDF) fire chief for the area about clearing a fire break through it. It was part of a huge project. We agreed on the path, had the legal paperwork signed... and then...<p>COVID, and then,<p>100% of local crews were dispatched to fight last year&#x27;s fires, and then,<p>still COVID, and now,<p>even yet more worse fires...<p>The fire prevention projects are what they work on when they are not fighting actual fires. And they aren&#x27;t exactly over-staffed to begin with.<p>There simply hasn&#x27;t been any staff to work on the big fire prevention projects. If there is anybody out there that thinks Newsom and the CDF are behind plan and need to move faster, I have several shovels I can loan out so that you can help. Heck, you can borrow my chain saw.</text></comment> | <story><title>Forest Service officials close all California national forests</title><url>https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2021-08-30/officials-to-close-all-california-national-forests-a</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>gorwell</author><text>Can anyone explain this?<p>&quot;So early on, Newsom identified some key wildfire prevention projects, and that includes things like forest thinning and prescribed burns, and they were meant to protect some of the most vulnerable communities in California. And he claimed 90,000 acres were treated, but we found that&#x27;s not true. The state&#x27;s own data shows that, in reality, it was less than 12,000 acres, so just a fraction of what Newsom claimed. And looking at the bigger picture, not just those specific projects, we also found that the state&#x27;s fire prevention work overall dropped by half last year, which was the worst wildfire season on record for California. And during that time, Newsom also slashed about $150 million from the state&#x27;s wildfire prevention budget.&quot;<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.npr.org&#x2F;2021&#x2F;06&#x2F;25&#x2F;1010382535&#x2F;gavin-newsom-misled-public-about-wildfire-prevention-work-report-says" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.npr.org&#x2F;2021&#x2F;06&#x2F;25&#x2F;1010382535&#x2F;gavin-newsom-misle...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>anigbrowl</author><text>Explain what part of it? In that article, the California fire chief took responsibility for communicating the wrong information to the governor&#x27;s office. I&#x27;m gonna guess the pandemic had something to do with last year&#x27;s shortfall, but this really needs more indepth research that can dig through a few years&#x27; worth of records.</text></comment> |
11,703,063 | 11,702,372 | 1 | 2 | 11,701,542 | train | <story><title>Standard Oil Company Must Dissolve in 6 Months (1911)</title><url>http://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1911/05/16/104825255.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>rckclmbr</author><text>Standard Oil consisted of 5% of the US GDP at the time, and controlled the entire refining process. Google is still pretty far away from that.<p>One thing I find interesting though is that Rockefeller feared Teddy Roosevelt being elected, just like Google fears Bernie Sanders. Bernie and Roosevelt hate big business for the same reasons. Interestingly, the top tech companies think monopoly is good for the same reasons that Rockefeller did -- that they can hyperoptimize the entire process, and the winners are the consumers because of cheaper prices and higher quality.<p>That assumes the business operates in the consumers best interests, however...</text></comment> | <story><title>Standard Oil Company Must Dissolve in 6 Months (1911)</title><url>http://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1911/05/16/104825255.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>DavidSJ</author><text>Interestingly, they included the full text of the Supreme Court decision in the article. I guess they could just link to the PDF these days, but would the New York Times have included the full text in the early 90&#x27;s?<p>Edit: Also of note is the notice of the first &quot;aero-taxi&quot; beginning service in Paris.<p>Edit 2: And reading the article, we see that concern over &quot;activist judges legislating from the bench&quot; is nothing new.</text></comment> |
19,838,259 | 19,838,244 | 1 | 3 | 19,837,981 | train | <story><title>Clear is better than clever [pdf]</title><url>https://dave.cheney.net/paste/clear-is-better-than-clever.pdf</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>saagarjha</author><text>Working on personal projects, not having to conform to other people’s requirements, trying a bunch of cool hacks and getting to see how things <i>really</i> work…that’s the most fun part of programming!</text></item><item><author>designcode</author><text>I’d say it’s in fact where the real fun happens</text></item><item><author>auggierose</author><text>&gt; To be clear, I don’t mean to dismiss the work of a lone programmer toiling on programs without anyone to pair with or learn from. I’ve been that person many times in my career as a programmer, it’s not fun.<p>I&#x27;d say it&#x27;s a lot of fun.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nly</author><text>The difference is the &#x27;personal project&#x27; bit. If you <i>have to</i> do something, because it&#x27;s for work and there&#x27;s a deadline, then the fun hacks produce a general feeling of unease, uncertainty, and of not doing ones job properly.<p>At work myself i work mostly in isolation on codebases that have been in maintenance mode for years, where the original authors have typically either left the company or moved to another dept, and where there is almost no documentation. Everything is hacks and exploratory work, but it sure ain&#x27;t fun. Adding relatively uninteresting small changes can take days or weeks.<p>Working on a broad and deep project as half of a pair is my preferred working mode so far in my career.</text></comment> | <story><title>Clear is better than clever [pdf]</title><url>https://dave.cheney.net/paste/clear-is-better-than-clever.pdf</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>saagarjha</author><text>Working on personal projects, not having to conform to other people’s requirements, trying a bunch of cool hacks and getting to see how things <i>really</i> work…that’s the most fun part of programming!</text></item><item><author>designcode</author><text>I’d say it’s in fact where the real fun happens</text></item><item><author>auggierose</author><text>&gt; To be clear, I don’t mean to dismiss the work of a lone programmer toiling on programs without anyone to pair with or learn from. I’ve been that person many times in my career as a programmer, it’s not fun.<p>I&#x27;d say it&#x27;s a lot of fun.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>boyter</author><text>Oddly enough I find the collaboration more interesting now. Not sure if that’s a getting older thing but I like managing the PR’s, ensuring code is of a high quality and serving the needs of the users.</text></comment> |
30,980,171 | 30,975,808 | 1 | 3 | 30,975,532 | train | <story><title>W3M Rocks</title><url>http://w3m.rocks/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Rediscover</author><text>Emacs-w3m is tied with lynx as my favorite browser (with telnet and wget both in second place).<p>Using emacspeak with it allows me to keep my eyes on the lab table (in case something goes exothermic too quickly) while still having the ability to pull up references. Same about reading [hearing] HN while in sketchy areas.<p>The other post about invoking w3m from lynx is worth investigating if You are not familiar with such. Look for &quot;EXTERNAL&quot; in your .lynxrc. I especially like having it &quot;git clone&quot; the page or link I&#x27;m on. Reality is that I heavily abuse the EXTERNAL stuff.<p>I&#x27;ve been noodling about the implementation of adding functionality to w3m and lynx so there is a separate fetch-page func but report a different User-Agent header (eg, &quot;Mozilla&quot;). I&#x27;ve encountered many pages that don&#x27;t allow access until I change the &quot;lynx-*&quot; header (bastards).<p>Semi-OT: I&#x27;m addicted to lynx&#x27;s multi-bookmarks feature (26 different bookmark files for easing the organization of your links), and about 15 years ago I wrote some elisp so emacs-w3m has the same functionality (and same bookmarks files).</text></comment> | <story><title>W3M Rocks</title><url>http://w3m.rocks/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>rkta</author><text>I don&#x27;t know if using your own keymap in a howto is a great idea... I&#x27;d stick with the defaults or just name the commands.<p>And yes, w3m rocks.</text></comment> |
16,245,022 | 16,244,972 | 1 | 2 | 16,244,298 | train | <story><title>USAF Is Jamming GPS in Western U.S. For Largest Ever Red Flag Air War Exercise</title><url>http://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/17987/usaf-is-jamming-gps-in-the-western-u-s-for-largest-ever-red-flag-air-war-exercise</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>verelo</author><text>As a private pilot, this is the kind of thing that makes me scared to fly without being well versed on radio nav aids. I feel like i know them well, but honestly i use them so rarely in practice it would likely be an uncomfortable situation.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>danaliv</author><text>Use them on trips when you don’t need them so you’re prepared. I flew home over New Years via VORs and pilotage just to keep it sharp.</text></comment> | <story><title>USAF Is Jamming GPS in Western U.S. For Largest Ever Red Flag Air War Exercise</title><url>http://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/17987/usaf-is-jamming-gps-in-the-western-u-s-for-largest-ever-red-flag-air-war-exercise</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>verelo</author><text>As a private pilot, this is the kind of thing that makes me scared to fly without being well versed on radio nav aids. I feel like i know them well, but honestly i use them so rarely in practice it would likely be an uncomfortable situation.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>edraferi</author><text>Which is exactly why the military is knocking out GPS Afro the exercise. Gotta train for the worst.</text></comment> |
7,315,287 | 7,314,915 | 1 | 3 | 7,312,545 | train | <story><title>Privacy Protects Bothersome People (2013)</title><url>http://martinfowler.com/articles/bothersome-privacy.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>return0</author><text>Fact: the worlds biggest and most spectacular privacy-breaching operation is being run by veritably democratic states, the &quot;west&quot;. It&#x27;s not some evil dictator who dictates this, it&#x27;s the majority of citizens who demands spying on the rest. Another fact is that there are no <i>major</i> (think, ukraine-size) protests about this anywhere.<p>My conclusion is that even democracy demands some privacy breach. Privacy may be protecting individual rights but it&#x27;s not a prerequisite for democracy.</text></item><item><author>PythonicAlpha</author><text>To make it short: Privacy is about protecting Democracy!<p>As the newest information, we see that we are not only spied on, but there are also stealth techniques to mute bothersome people. It can go thus far, that you will become jailed for something you did not do.<p>This way, anybody that becomes bothersome to mighty people (and I don&#x27;t speak about any president here) can become a target. People that are against atomic plants or against chemical fertilizers, or against ... you name it.<p>This thing can become worse to the democratic nations than killing random people by drones.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>wpietri</author><text>Given that many of these democracies arose in conditions of substantial individual privacy, your conclusion is unproven.<p>It could be equally true that democracies die from insufficient privacy, but it just takes more than a decade or so of massive invasive snooping. In particular, the surveillance apparatus may not yet have been sufficiently corrupted to be used as a source of political power.<p>I should note that the US had a previous wave of improper snooping [1] which was seen as a threat to democracy and fought off. It provided a lot of the legal restrictions that prevented massive surveillance up until 9&#x2F;11 got Washington&#x27;s undies in a bunch.<p>[1] <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COINTELPRO" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;COINTELPRO</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Privacy Protects Bothersome People (2013)</title><url>http://martinfowler.com/articles/bothersome-privacy.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>return0</author><text>Fact: the worlds biggest and most spectacular privacy-breaching operation is being run by veritably democratic states, the &quot;west&quot;. It&#x27;s not some evil dictator who dictates this, it&#x27;s the majority of citizens who demands spying on the rest. Another fact is that there are no <i>major</i> (think, ukraine-size) protests about this anywhere.<p>My conclusion is that even democracy demands some privacy breach. Privacy may be protecting individual rights but it&#x27;s not a prerequisite for democracy.</text></item><item><author>PythonicAlpha</author><text>To make it short: Privacy is about protecting Democracy!<p>As the newest information, we see that we are not only spied on, but there are also stealth techniques to mute bothersome people. It can go thus far, that you will become jailed for something you did not do.<p>This way, anybody that becomes bothersome to mighty people (and I don&#x27;t speak about any president here) can become a target. People that are against atomic plants or against chemical fertilizers, or against ... you name it.<p>This thing can become worse to the democratic nations than killing random people by drones.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dobbsbob</author><text>Watch the talk ex NSA executive Thomas Drake gave on why spying is kryptonite to any democracy <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xgg8K26dcXs" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=xgg8K26dcXs</a></text></comment> |
24,857,801 | 24,857,570 | 1 | 2 | 24,856,568 | train | <story><title>An Exam Surveillance Company Is Trying to Silence Critics with Lawsuits</title><url>https://www.vice.com/en/article/7k9zjy/an-exam-surveillance-company-is-trying-to-silence-critics-with-lawsuits</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>xphilter</author><text>If there are any lawyers here, I&#x27;d love thoughts on whether these tools (used in employment&#x2F;interview settings) violate 29 CFR § 801.4 - Prohibitions on lie detector use. (I know this article is about schools and in Canada). I&#x27;ve been thinking these tools do violate, but never filed a case alleging it (yet). Specifically, these anti-cheat &quot;algorithms&quot; seem to be &quot;a polygraph, deceptograph, voice stress analyzer, psychological stress evaluator, or any other similar device (whether mechanical or electrical) that is used, or the results of which are used, for the purpose of rendering a diagnostic opinion regarding the honesty or dishonesty of an individual.&quot; I mean, the entire purpose is to determine if the prospective employee is honest. Any thoughts?</text></comment> | <story><title>An Exam Surveillance Company Is Trying to Silence Critics with Lawsuits</title><url>https://www.vice.com/en/article/7k9zjy/an-exam-surveillance-company-is-trying-to-silence-critics-with-lawsuits</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Pick-A-Hill2019</author><text>Uhmm yeah this is just so wrong. Proctorio CEO Mike Olsen accused Linkletter of ...<p>&quot; potentially showing students ways to circumvent the software, thus risking the safety and security of the millions of students who use our platform.”<p>Say what? In what way(s?) did his actions impact on the students&#x27; safety or security? The videos have been pulled but note that the CEO is talking about how showing people how to &#x27;possibly&#x27; (his words not mine) circumvert the proctoring in any way shape or form affects the students&#x27; safety or security?<p>[Edit for the pedantic, CEO said &#x27;potentially&#x27; rather than &#x27;possibly&#x27;.]</text></comment> |
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