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28,236,991 | 28,237,122 | 1 | 2 | 28,236,643 | train | <story><title>U.S. Senate Democrats roll out draft bill to legalize weed</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-senate-democrats-release-discussion-draft-federally-legalize-cannabis-2021-07-14/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>frankbreetz</author><text>&gt;&gt;He added that marijuana use needs more research.<p>I wish that we had this same attitude towards chemicals sprayed on crops where it seems to be everything is fine until proven to be harmful. Yet with weed it is harmful until proven safe. Also, I suspect there is plenty of research on the safety of weed<p>edit: to all of those arguing that there may be&#x2F; are dangers to weed, I don&#x27;t disagree. How about the fact that I can choose to not ingest weed, I have to eat and it is quite difficult to find disclosures about chemicals sprayed on the food available, and many of these chemical have been researched far less then weed.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jolux</author><text>As someone who is extremely pro-legalization (and pro-decriminalization of all drugs) I still think this is perfectly reasonable. We know rough bounds on the safety of cannabis&#x2F;THC (probably safer than tobacco and alcohol, probably not a good idea if you have a family history of schizophrenia-spectrum disorders, or if you’re very young) but we don’t really know in depth what the long-term effects are like, for different doses, different age groups, different comorbidities, etc. The government more or less forbid researching this subject for a long time, and the environment is still relatively hostile to it. The research is young.</text></comment> | <story><title>U.S. Senate Democrats roll out draft bill to legalize weed</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-senate-democrats-release-discussion-draft-federally-legalize-cannabis-2021-07-14/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>frankbreetz</author><text>&gt;&gt;He added that marijuana use needs more research.<p>I wish that we had this same attitude towards chemicals sprayed on crops where it seems to be everything is fine until proven to be harmful. Yet with weed it is harmful until proven safe. Also, I suspect there is plenty of research on the safety of weed<p>edit: to all of those arguing that there may be&#x2F; are dangers to weed, I don&#x27;t disagree. How about the fact that I can choose to not ingest weed, I have to eat and it is quite difficult to find disclosures about chemicals sprayed on the food available, and many of these chemical have been researched far less then weed.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tehjoker</author><text>This is a common tactic to simply delay an unwanted bill without providing a substantive reason why. Nothing further should be read into it.</text></comment> |
37,451,779 | 37,451,690 | 1 | 3 | 37,450,915 | train | <story><title>Lithium discovery in US volcano could be biggest deposit ever found</title><url>https://www.chemistryworld.com/news/lithium-discovery-in-us-volcano-could-be-biggest-deposit-ever-found/4018032.article</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>fallingknife</author><text>I refuse to call these people &quot;environmentalists&quot; until they provide a list of places they are ok with mining. What they are is just glorified NIMBYs who knee jerk oppose everything.</text></item><item><author>davidw</author><text>I&#x27;ve actually driven through the &quot;town&quot; of McDermitt, on the border. It is in the middle of f&#x27;ing nowhere. It&#x27;s not terribly far from one of the original &quot;McFarthest spots&quot; ( <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.datapointed.net&#x2F;2010&#x2F;09&#x2F;distance-to-nearest-mcdonalds-sept-2010&#x2F;" rel="nofollow noreferrer">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.datapointed.net&#x2F;2010&#x2F;09&#x2F;distance-to-nearest-mcdon...</a> ).<p>Some environmentalists and local native Americans aren&#x27;t terribly happy about the idea: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;apnews.com&#x2F;article&#x2F;nevada-lithium-mine-court-appeal-15bd07e0ec03230d81349ff172c790dd" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;apnews.com&#x2F;article&#x2F;nevada-lithium-mine-court-appeal-...</a><p>It&#x27;s actually a pretty interesting bit of country to see, because it&#x27;s rare for most of us to experience places that remote. A few years back, when visiting Steens Mountain (highly recommended) we drove the paved road from Frenchglen to the Alvord desert. We saw I think 2 other cars in an hour.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>davidw</author><text>Lithium is pretty important in terms of electrifying our economy, which is important for the global environment and climate change - and it&#x27;s got to come from somewhere.<p>It&#x27;s also true that mines have a huge track record of getting in, digging stuff up, making money, and then leaving the mess for someone else to clean up.<p>If you look at the satellite map of the area, you see the former Cordero mercury mine: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.google.com&#x2F;maps&#x2F;@41.9221322,-117.8162339,7151m&#x2F;data=!3m1!1e3?entry=ttu" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.google.com&#x2F;maps&#x2F;@41.9221322,-117.8162339,7151m&#x2F;d...</a><p>There&#x27;s a whole report on it here: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;response.epa.gov&#x2F;site&#x2F;site_profile.aspx?site_id=7029" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;response.epa.gov&#x2F;site&#x2F;site_profile.aspx?site_id=7029</a><p>&gt; The EPA Site Assessment program conducted a Site Inspection in 1988 which recommended no further action. Upon request from the Fort McDermitt Pauite Shoshone Tribe, EPA Emergency Response conducted an additional site visit in November 2009. At that time, EPA was notified of the possibility that mine waste had been used as fill at locations within the town of McDermitt and on the Fort McDermitt Paiute Shoshone Reservation.<p>In other words, they tried to get out of doing any cleanup. Then they found that &quot;well, actually...&quot; there was some cleanup needed.<p>So... it&#x27;s probably still worth doing because of climate change, but it&#x27;d sure be nice to ensure it&#x27;s done right, and they do right by the people who have always lived there.
I imagine the local tribes are also pretty wary of getting screwed, because that is something that has been very much par for the course throughout US history.</text></comment> | <story><title>Lithium discovery in US volcano could be biggest deposit ever found</title><url>https://www.chemistryworld.com/news/lithium-discovery-in-us-volcano-could-be-biggest-deposit-ever-found/4018032.article</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>fallingknife</author><text>I refuse to call these people &quot;environmentalists&quot; until they provide a list of places they are ok with mining. What they are is just glorified NIMBYs who knee jerk oppose everything.</text></item><item><author>davidw</author><text>I&#x27;ve actually driven through the &quot;town&quot; of McDermitt, on the border. It is in the middle of f&#x27;ing nowhere. It&#x27;s not terribly far from one of the original &quot;McFarthest spots&quot; ( <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.datapointed.net&#x2F;2010&#x2F;09&#x2F;distance-to-nearest-mcdonalds-sept-2010&#x2F;" rel="nofollow noreferrer">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.datapointed.net&#x2F;2010&#x2F;09&#x2F;distance-to-nearest-mcdon...</a> ).<p>Some environmentalists and local native Americans aren&#x27;t terribly happy about the idea: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;apnews.com&#x2F;article&#x2F;nevada-lithium-mine-court-appeal-15bd07e0ec03230d81349ff172c790dd" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;apnews.com&#x2F;article&#x2F;nevada-lithium-mine-court-appeal-...</a><p>It&#x27;s actually a pretty interesting bit of country to see, because it&#x27;s rare for most of us to experience places that remote. A few years back, when visiting Steens Mountain (highly recommended) we drove the paved road from Frenchglen to the Alvord desert. We saw I think 2 other cars in an hour.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>midasuni</author><text>NIMBYS say that things should be built&#x2F;mined, just not near them.</text></comment> |
11,545,357 | 11,542,379 | 1 | 2 | 11,542,005 | train | <story><title>Show HN: I made an interactive Bootstrap 4 cheat sheet</title><url>http://hackerthemes.com/bootstrap-cheatsheet</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>k__</author><text>I heard it can be used differently.<p>Select your elements with SASS and let this selector inherit the style of a Bootstrap class.<p><pre><code> body &gt; div &gt; div {
@extend .col-xs-4;
}
</code></pre>
But I never tried to use it that way.</text></item><item><author>matt4077</author><text>I feel like bootstrap has become the jquery of css themes. People will launch into a lecture on &quot;separation of concerns&quot; when they see a style attribute in html or a ruby loop in an .erb template. Yet they litter their code with class=&quot;col-xs-4&quot; without a second thought.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>damptowel</author><text>As someone who did a couple of front end jobs both building and fixing css built in this way I can give you one advice: don&#x27;t.<p>This might seem like an obvious thing to generate cleaner and more &#x27;semantic&#x27; markup but you will end up with tight coupling all over the place. When you change anything in your layout you&#x27;ll need to rewrite parts of your css, which is basically twice the effort. You&#x27;ll just end up wasting your employers time and money.<p>If you want some deeper insight into why it&#x27;s considered a bad philosophy, I highly recommend reading some articles by Harry Roberts.<p>Then again, some succesful professionals actually work this way, I know a few.</text></comment> | <story><title>Show HN: I made an interactive Bootstrap 4 cheat sheet</title><url>http://hackerthemes.com/bootstrap-cheatsheet</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>k__</author><text>I heard it can be used differently.<p>Select your elements with SASS and let this selector inherit the style of a Bootstrap class.<p><pre><code> body &gt; div &gt; div {
@extend .col-xs-4;
}
</code></pre>
But I never tried to use it that way.</text></item><item><author>matt4077</author><text>I feel like bootstrap has become the jquery of css themes. People will launch into a lecture on &quot;separation of concerns&quot; when they see a style attribute in html or a ruby loop in an .erb template. Yet they litter their code with class=&quot;col-xs-4&quot; without a second thought.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>scarecrowbob</author><text>Well, typically it&#x27;s more like:<p>.home { .twitter-area { @include grid-column(4); } }<p>But personally I find that to be much more of a pain in the butt to come back to a couple of months later than just applying the column classes directly to elements.</text></comment> |
9,507,692 | 9,507,641 | 1 | 2 | 9,507,089 | train | <story><title>Harj Taggar Is Building a New Technical Hiring Pipeline with TripleByte</title><url>http://techcrunch.com/2015/05/07/triplebyte/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Harj</author><text>Triplebyte founder here, we&#x27;re managing the application process for this. We wrote some more here about how we&#x27;re running our process: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.triplebyte.com&#x2F;announcing-triplebyte" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.triplebyte.com&#x2F;announcing-triplebyte</a><p>If you have any feedback or thoughts, we&#x27;d love to hear them.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>PieSquared</author><text>I quite liked the application process, it was very smooth. I&#x27;m interested to see how the rest of the process goes – since the two interviews are just chatting about projects I&#x27;ve worked on and having someone watch me code, it doesn&#x27;t seem to stressful. (Let&#x27;s be honest – it&#x27;s sometimes hard to get me to shut up about projects I&#x27;ve worked on or want to work on...)<p>I&#x27;m particularly interested in this as a startup filter. There are a lot of startups out there, many that I don&#x27;t know about. I&#x27;m wondering if Triplebyte could help me find something I&#x27;m interested in by filtering out startups that I&#x27;m unlikely to be interested in. If they can do that, I&#x27;ll be a huge fan, and if they can&#x27;t (because I&#x27;m too picky), then it&#x27;s not too time-consuming or stressful a process to have tried it.</text></comment> | <story><title>Harj Taggar Is Building a New Technical Hiring Pipeline with TripleByte</title><url>http://techcrunch.com/2015/05/07/triplebyte/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Harj</author><text>Triplebyte founder here, we&#x27;re managing the application process for this. We wrote some more here about how we&#x27;re running our process: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.triplebyte.com&#x2F;announcing-triplebyte" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.triplebyte.com&#x2F;announcing-triplebyte</a><p>If you have any feedback or thoughts, we&#x27;d love to hear them.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tejasm</author><text>How do current YC companies fill-in non-technical positions? Are there plans in near-future to cover these positions too?</text></comment> |
3,526,220 | 3,525,678 | 1 | 2 | 3,525,477 | train | <story><title>Ritalin Gone Wrong</title><url>http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/29/opinion/sunday/childrens-add-drugs-dont-work-long-term.html </url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dlytle</author><text>I'm currently taking adult ADD meds (Adderall); it's a double edged sword, and I'd personally really prefer to find another method.<p>The primary problem is, during any sort of transition I would be pretty useless, and I can't afford to take that long being useless with my current job.<p>I went cold turkey from 25mg of Adderall XR daily, and for about a week and a half I was absolutely dead. I'd have a splitting headache due to dehydration, but I couldn't summon the energy to get off the couch and walk 12 feet to where I had bottles of water. I'm glad I went cold turkey rather than just tapering the dose, though, because tapering the dose would have taken months of feeling miserable, rather than 1.5 weeks of feeling like a dead man.<p>If you hear anything interesting from people about biofeedback/etc, long-term non-medicinal adult ADD treatments, could you toss me a mail at [email protected]? I'd really like to see other peoples' opinions on those routes, and I don't lurk enough on HN to be likely to see a submission about it.<p>(Just to clarify; yes, I'm back on the Adderall XR again, although at 5mg rather than 25 this time.)</text></item><item><author>tokenadult</author><text>I was interested to see that the researcher who wrote the op-ed, a psychologist based at my alma mater, has participated in some of the research projects he reviews in the op-ed. As I read the comments here, I'll be collecting ideas for questions to ask the local researcher in person as I try to learn more about ADD. I was particularly interested to see that the op-ed criticized several earlier studies for their study designs.<p><a href="http://norvig.com/experiment-design.html" rel="nofollow">http://norvig.com/experiment-design.html</a><p>I first became interested in what adult ADD treatments do after seeing a testimonial from an HN participant, a programmer, who said that his productivity increased dramatically after beginning ADD medication as an adult. I have since read parts of quite a few of the recent scholarly publications on ADD, especially those that focus on adult ADD, to try to wrap my mind around the trade-offs of medical treatment versus other approaches to symptom management. (I'm also still trying to make sense of just how ADD is defined, especially among adults who were not deemed to have ADD in childhood. The definitional issues are rather complicated.)<p><a href="http://www.cdc.gov/ncbddd/adhd/diagnosis.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.cdc.gov/ncbddd/adhd/diagnosis.html</a><p><a href="http://www.nimh.nih.gov/health/publications/attention-deficit-hyperactivity-disorder/complete-index.shtml" rel="nofollow">http://www.nimh.nih.gov/health/publications/attention-defici...</a><p><a href="http://www.mayoclinic.org/medical-edge-newspaper-2011/mar-18b.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.mayoclinic.org/medical-edge-newspaper-2011/mar-18...</a><p>Another participant here has already commented that there may be other interventions to consider when grappling with problems of attention focus. What are the best sources on other interventions (diet, lifestyle, etc.)? What are the trade-offs of those? For the occupations most pursued by participants on Hacker News, do you find it helpful to seek ADD medication if you are found to have ADD symptoms? What do your loved ones and colleagues think about your performance on a before-and-after basis if you have tried treatment? On the whole, ADD seems to involve a minority of participants in any occupation, but perhaps a more significant minority among HN participants than among some other subsets of the human population. I'm still trying to get a reality check, and would like to learn more.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tripzilch</author><text>I tried a few sessions of bio-feedback but quit because I got frustrated by it and not being worth the time and money.<p>During the intake the therapist described Ritalin as "poison". I should have probably gotten up and left right there. If you have the opinion that Ritalin is overprescribed, or that it should not be given to small children, that's all fine with me. But "poison" has a pretty clear definition, you'll find that whenever someone refers to a drug as "poison", you're dealing with pseudo-scientific quackery.<p>What made me quit was mostly that I couldn't find any correlation between the signals received from the electrodes and my own state of consciousness, be it more relaxed or more concentrated or alpha/beta waved, whatever.<p>When I watched the graphs on the monitor, I noticed a few things. There is a LOT of noise. If I'd clench my jaw, move a muscle in my neck, my ears, whatever, it'd cause an avalanche of noise, completely drowning out any possible brain signal. Ok so you sit still, you're meant to focus or relax anyhow. Except that muscles just seem to generate a whole lot more electrical signal than your brain, and every time I even <i>blinked my eye</i> there was a burst of noise (probably also because the eye muscle is relatively close to the electrodes). The software did nothing to filter out these noise-bursts, even though it'd have been trivial to make at least a basic attempt that would throw away the data during a burst so the other filters wouldn't trigger.<p>Ah, the <i>other</i> filters. Well, it quickly became clear I knew a lot more about DSP than this guy. He had no idea how his device operated, at least not how the signals were transformed into whatever was displayed on the screen. There's not really an excuse for this. Sure enough a surgeon might not know about the algorithms used to convert an MRI scan into a picture, but the radiologist <i>does</i> (at least, on some level), which is why we have radiologists.<p>So you know about these alpha/beta/theta/gamma brain waves right? They're at 12/10/7/3 Hz frequencies or something like that. Now I always had the idea that by this they meant some fundamental Eigen-frequency of signals in the brain, so you'd <i>think</i> to apply some auto-correlation to determine the base frequency and its harmonics. But instead he had a bunch of bandpass filters running concurrently being graphed through some ancient MS-DOS program with obvious leakage from one band to another and we were looking at the raw filtered signal, not even its energy and as I said there was <i>no</i> noise suppression.<p>I'd have loved to take that device home, write some code for it and see what it could detect though. Hell, even detecting muscle movements is already way cool :)<p>Anyway, no correspondence between my state of focus or relaxation.<p>Staring at a computer screen (with a game, usually one frequency band was used to control a game of some sort) for 1-2 hours per week, actively trying to relax or focus would definitely have a result of course.<p>Which is why I'm doing a universal yoga meditation class. Dunno if it helps with the ADD, but it can't hurt and it definitely has some other advantages (notably: posture and stress/tension). One thing I do notice, yoga works best if I haven't taken meds that day. You'd think it improves focus, but this yoga class is mainly being able to really feel your whole body and muscles should not be tense for that, but on meds I find I get way more fidgety and subconsciously re-tense every muscle I relax as my focus shifts to the next part of my body. Fortunately, noticing and being aware of such subtle effects in your body is exactly what the class it about :-)</text></comment> | <story><title>Ritalin Gone Wrong</title><url>http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/29/opinion/sunday/childrens-add-drugs-dont-work-long-term.html </url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dlytle</author><text>I'm currently taking adult ADD meds (Adderall); it's a double edged sword, and I'd personally really prefer to find another method.<p>The primary problem is, during any sort of transition I would be pretty useless, and I can't afford to take that long being useless with my current job.<p>I went cold turkey from 25mg of Adderall XR daily, and for about a week and a half I was absolutely dead. I'd have a splitting headache due to dehydration, but I couldn't summon the energy to get off the couch and walk 12 feet to where I had bottles of water. I'm glad I went cold turkey rather than just tapering the dose, though, because tapering the dose would have taken months of feeling miserable, rather than 1.5 weeks of feeling like a dead man.<p>If you hear anything interesting from people about biofeedback/etc, long-term non-medicinal adult ADD treatments, could you toss me a mail at [email protected]? I'd really like to see other peoples' opinions on those routes, and I don't lurk enough on HN to be likely to see a submission about it.<p>(Just to clarify; yes, I'm back on the Adderall XR again, although at 5mg rather than 25 this time.)</text></item><item><author>tokenadult</author><text>I was interested to see that the researcher who wrote the op-ed, a psychologist based at my alma mater, has participated in some of the research projects he reviews in the op-ed. As I read the comments here, I'll be collecting ideas for questions to ask the local researcher in person as I try to learn more about ADD. I was particularly interested to see that the op-ed criticized several earlier studies for their study designs.<p><a href="http://norvig.com/experiment-design.html" rel="nofollow">http://norvig.com/experiment-design.html</a><p>I first became interested in what adult ADD treatments do after seeing a testimonial from an HN participant, a programmer, who said that his productivity increased dramatically after beginning ADD medication as an adult. I have since read parts of quite a few of the recent scholarly publications on ADD, especially those that focus on adult ADD, to try to wrap my mind around the trade-offs of medical treatment versus other approaches to symptom management. (I'm also still trying to make sense of just how ADD is defined, especially among adults who were not deemed to have ADD in childhood. The definitional issues are rather complicated.)<p><a href="http://www.cdc.gov/ncbddd/adhd/diagnosis.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.cdc.gov/ncbddd/adhd/diagnosis.html</a><p><a href="http://www.nimh.nih.gov/health/publications/attention-deficit-hyperactivity-disorder/complete-index.shtml" rel="nofollow">http://www.nimh.nih.gov/health/publications/attention-defici...</a><p><a href="http://www.mayoclinic.org/medical-edge-newspaper-2011/mar-18b.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.mayoclinic.org/medical-edge-newspaper-2011/mar-18...</a><p>Another participant here has already commented that there may be other interventions to consider when grappling with problems of attention focus. What are the best sources on other interventions (diet, lifestyle, etc.)? What are the trade-offs of those? For the occupations most pursued by participants on Hacker News, do you find it helpful to seek ADD medication if you are found to have ADD symptoms? What do your loved ones and colleagues think about your performance on a before-and-after basis if you have tried treatment? On the whole, ADD seems to involve a minority of participants in any occupation, but perhaps a more significant minority among HN participants than among some other subsets of the human population. I'm still trying to get a reality check, and would like to learn more.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>qrybam</author><text>Scary thought: Going cold turkey with coffee has had very similar effects on me (after 2 weeks of 1-2 cups a day; 2-4 shots/day).<p>I've also had a similar feeling of deadness when I stopped eating meat, dairy and anything with additives for 6 weeks. The first week or so I was completely useless - this could have also been due to me trying to feel my way through to a balanced diet.<p>So much of what we consume ends up having all sorts of unknown effects on us and the minute we stop consuming them we really feel it - it's easier to never stop.<p>One bonus of cutting certain stimulants out of my life has been that I've ended up feeling much better.</text></comment> |
11,158,302 | 11,156,669 | 1 | 2 | 11,152,780 | train | <story><title>Julius Caesar's Greatest Military Victory [video]</title><url>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SU1Ej9Yqt68</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>bane</author><text>This victory is among the top military engagements in all of history...it&#x27;s beautiful even.<p>But, I&#x27;d argue that Caesar&#x27;s crossing of the Rhine was his most impressive victory. He built a bridge over an impassible river, marched his army across, walked around a bit, crossed back over and dismantled the bridge.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=RNPnBVHSeZc" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=RNPnBVHSeZc</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Julius Caesar's Greatest Military Victory [video]</title><url>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SU1Ej9Yqt68</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>simonebrunozzi</author><text>This (longer) version [0] is more precise (e.g. Historia Civilis&#x27; one mentions &quot;messengers sent out to call reinforcement&quot;, while on [0] it correctly states that about 15,000 cavalry units were sent out to call reinforcements).<p>[0]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=Ut9GdMywFj0" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=Ut9GdMywFj0</a></text></comment> |
10,051,294 | 10,051,370 | 1 | 2 | 10,049,927 | train | <story><title>Ohm (YC S15) is a smarter, lighter car battery that works with your existing car</title><url>http://techcrunch.com/2015/08/12/ohm-is-a-smarter-lighter-car-battery-that-works-with-your-existing-car/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>atourgates</author><text>If you look at this purely from the standpoint of the benefit to a consumer, it doesn&#x27;t seem like a great deal.<p>You gain:<p>* Auto-shutoff when your battery gets too low.<p>* Possibly some increased lifespan<p>* ~34lbs in weight reduction, which might deliver a small performance increase.<p>You lose:<p>* 78% of your battery capacity<p>* $20-$150 on the purchase price of the battery<p>Personally, I don&#x27;t like the idea of paying more money for less battery capacity. If, however, Ohm came with a rock-solid 7-year replacement warranty, I might be able to get over that.</text></item><item><author>sandworm101</author><text>(1) Those nasty things inside car batteries are easily recycled and in fact are recycled more often than not (like 95%+)<p>(2) Car batteries do not last only 3-4 years as per the OP. Car batteries can last decades. There are many variables, but the car in my battery is far older than 4 years. (lol)<p>(3) Replacing an easily-recyclable product with a less-recyclable one is no step forwards.<p>(4) XX addressed by OP comment, see below XX
This thing is a capacitor? What&#x27;s the voltage potential in there? Any device with internals significantly beyond that may be a serious fire risk in a crash..<p>(5) Car batteries are not needlessly heavy, nor are they a stock size. Manufacturers do care about performance. If they thought the car could do with lighter battery they would use one. Have some respect for the thought behind stock engineering before replacing it.<p>(6) Shutting down the voltage supply can be a real pain. A &quot;dead&quot; battery generally still has enough juice to keep electronics ticking over. Cutting it completely is not like turning off a switch. It often means resetting&#x2F;rebooting stuff once the voltage is restored. For some (BMW) it can even mean a trip to the dealership for a special new battery ritual.
<a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bimmerforums.com&#x2F;forum&#x2F;showthread.php?1355106-Why-can-t-I-replace-my-own-battery" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bimmerforums.com&#x2F;forum&#x2F;showthread.php?1355106-Why...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>fredkbloggs</author><text>Suppose they did offer a 7-year warranty, with strong language. Would you really expect Ohm to be around in 7 years? If they want people to take a warranty seriously, it needs to be backed by at least an A-rated insurer, not whoever is funding these guys.<p>There&#x27;s also the problem that they apparently offer only a single size&#x2F;form factor (which is roughly equivalent to 34, 34&#x2F;78, 75&#x2F;25, or 35), and that for many applications this device does not offer enough starting power. Never mind reserve capacity. But even if this size is appropriate to your car, there are other reasons to be skeptical.</text></comment> | <story><title>Ohm (YC S15) is a smarter, lighter car battery that works with your existing car</title><url>http://techcrunch.com/2015/08/12/ohm-is-a-smarter-lighter-car-battery-that-works-with-your-existing-car/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>atourgates</author><text>If you look at this purely from the standpoint of the benefit to a consumer, it doesn&#x27;t seem like a great deal.<p>You gain:<p>* Auto-shutoff when your battery gets too low.<p>* Possibly some increased lifespan<p>* ~34lbs in weight reduction, which might deliver a small performance increase.<p>You lose:<p>* 78% of your battery capacity<p>* $20-$150 on the purchase price of the battery<p>Personally, I don&#x27;t like the idea of paying more money for less battery capacity. If, however, Ohm came with a rock-solid 7-year replacement warranty, I might be able to get over that.</text></item><item><author>sandworm101</author><text>(1) Those nasty things inside car batteries are easily recycled and in fact are recycled more often than not (like 95%+)<p>(2) Car batteries do not last only 3-4 years as per the OP. Car batteries can last decades. There are many variables, but the car in my battery is far older than 4 years. (lol)<p>(3) Replacing an easily-recyclable product with a less-recyclable one is no step forwards.<p>(4) XX addressed by OP comment, see below XX
This thing is a capacitor? What&#x27;s the voltage potential in there? Any device with internals significantly beyond that may be a serious fire risk in a crash..<p>(5) Car batteries are not needlessly heavy, nor are they a stock size. Manufacturers do care about performance. If they thought the car could do with lighter battery they would use one. Have some respect for the thought behind stock engineering before replacing it.<p>(6) Shutting down the voltage supply can be a real pain. A &quot;dead&quot; battery generally still has enough juice to keep electronics ticking over. Cutting it completely is not like turning off a switch. It often means resetting&#x2F;rebooting stuff once the voltage is restored. For some (BMW) it can even mean a trip to the dealership for a special new battery ritual.
<a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bimmerforums.com&#x2F;forum&#x2F;showthread.php?1355106-Why-can-t-I-replace-my-own-battery" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bimmerforums.com&#x2F;forum&#x2F;showthread.php?1355106-Why...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dzhiurgis</author><text>I guess the pitch is that you do not need the extra battery capacity?<p>Are you sitting in parking lots listening music these days? That did sound cool when you were kid, but majority will never do that (or take their car camping).</text></comment> |
18,110,515 | 18,109,248 | 1 | 2 | 18,107,271 | train | <story><title>Tiddlywiki – A non-linear personal web notebook</title><url>https://tiddlywiki.com/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>pixelmonkey</author><text>I personally think Tiddlywiki is a fascinating project and I even used it professionally for a few years. But, these days, I think you likely do better with either a Dropbox directory full of Markdown files or installing the free tool Simplenote everywhere (mobile&#x2F;desktop) and using its support for notes&#x2F;Markdown. It&#x27;s true that if you go with these simple schemes, you lose wiki-style linking. But, I&#x27;ve found that YAGNI applies here.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>as1mov</author><text>I personally use ZimWiki[1], with it&#x27;s files synced across devices using SyncThing[2]. Setup to install both took barely half an hour and it doesn&#x27;t really need any maintenance now.<p>[1] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;zim-wiki.org&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;zim-wiki.org&#x2F;</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;syncthing.net&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;syncthing.net&#x2F;</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Tiddlywiki – A non-linear personal web notebook</title><url>https://tiddlywiki.com/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>pixelmonkey</author><text>I personally think Tiddlywiki is a fascinating project and I even used it professionally for a few years. But, these days, I think you likely do better with either a Dropbox directory full of Markdown files or installing the free tool Simplenote everywhere (mobile&#x2F;desktop) and using its support for notes&#x2F;Markdown. It&#x27;s true that if you go with these simple schemes, you lose wiki-style linking. But, I&#x27;ve found that YAGNI applies here.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tommoor</author><text>For team use take a look at the open source wiki we&#x27;ve been working on, simple, BSD licensed, well designed and works with Markdown: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;getoutline.com" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;getoutline.com</a></text></comment> |
12,327,479 | 12,327,433 | 1 | 3 | 12,327,234 | train | <story><title>The World Is Closer Than Ever to Eradicating Guinea Worm</title><url>https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/the-world-is-closer-than-ever-to-eradicating-guinea-worm/2016/08/20/59d4a752-55bd-11e6-b7de-dfe509430c39_story.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>enraged_camel</author><text>Going back to the conversations we&#x27;ve had in the Zika thread[1], why are we OK with eliminating the Guinea Worm, but not certain species of mosquitoes?<p>[1]<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=12322885" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=12322885</a><p>A lot of people in that thread made the argument that we shouldn&#x27;t exterminate a species without first fully understanding the consequences. Yet we seem to be doing that here with this parasite, and no one seems to be saying, &quot;but... think of the ecosystem!&quot;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>maxerickson</author><text>One factor is that there is a lot less &quot;we&quot; involved with the Guinea Worm.<p>I mean, good luck suppressing the knowledge that filtering your drinking water through a cloth prevents a devastating episode where a 3 foot worm crawls out of your body.<p>The proposed programs for eradicating mosquitoes involve things like releasing millions of dollars of genetically modified mosquitoes and putting larvicides and insecticides in all known bodies of standing water.</text></comment> | <story><title>The World Is Closer Than Ever to Eradicating Guinea Worm</title><url>https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/the-world-is-closer-than-ever-to-eradicating-guinea-worm/2016/08/20/59d4a752-55bd-11e6-b7de-dfe509430c39_story.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>enraged_camel</author><text>Going back to the conversations we&#x27;ve had in the Zika thread[1], why are we OK with eliminating the Guinea Worm, but not certain species of mosquitoes?<p>[1]<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=12322885" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=12322885</a><p>A lot of people in that thread made the argument that we shouldn&#x27;t exterminate a species without first fully understanding the consequences. Yet we seem to be doing that here with this parasite, and no one seems to be saying, &quot;but... think of the ecosystem!&quot;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rch</author><text>With mosquitos the discussion does tend to meander around what I see as the core issue: the wisdom of developing and field testing a technology capable of eradicating a target species.<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nature.com&#x2F;nbt&#x2F;journal&#x2F;v34&#x2F;n1&#x2F;full&#x2F;nbt.3439.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nature.com&#x2F;nbt&#x2F;journal&#x2F;v34&#x2F;n1&#x2F;full&#x2F;nbt.3439.html</a></text></comment> |
34,364,435 | 34,360,768 | 1 | 2 | 34,345,952 | train | <story><title>When the CIA spied on American citizens using pigeons</title><url>https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/cia-cold-war-pigeon-spies</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>nonethewiser</author><text>The CIA, FBI, etc. have never been held accountable for their countless crimes. There is every reason to believe they are committing more every day. I honestly have no clue how the American people have an ounce of trust in them.</text></comment> | <story><title>When the CIA spied on American citizens using pigeons</title><url>https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/cia-cold-war-pigeon-spies</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>annoyingnoob</author><text>My 3rd grade teacher was into Pigeon Racing. There were always some that never made it home, attrition was higher than you&#x27;d think.</text></comment> |
14,730,401 | 14,730,208 | 1 | 3 | 14,729,600 | train | <story><title>DRM Is Toxic to Culture</title><url>https://meshedinsights.com/2017/07/09/drm-is-toxic-to-culture/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>musesum</author><text>Some background: I developed a software binary sandbox, in the 90&#x27;s; patent cited 500+ times ... mostly by developers of DRM. Now, I am working on an open source project.<p>IMO, DRM extends a presumption of scarcity. Hunters share their meat, whereas farmers guard their harvest. For the hunter, the kill is a short term abundance of value; if it isn&#x27;t shared, it will spoil. For the farmer, the harvest is a long term store of value. Scavengers exploit the asymmetry of effort in which to obtain that value.<p>Once value became easy to copy, the symmetry of effort has shifted. As a result, culture is shifting with it. Freely copied recorded music shifted the value back to live concerts. Back to a short term abundance of value. When was the last time you posted on Twitter or FB? These are freshly hunted moments. Wait too long and that muse will spoil.</text></comment> | <story><title>DRM Is Toxic to Culture</title><url>https://meshedinsights.com/2017/07/09/drm-is-toxic-to-culture/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>cygned</author><text>Lately, I wanted to buy an eBook. I usually buy prints, but this time I needed it as soon as possible.<p>Upon searching, every book store told me, I would need to install some Adobe stuff on my computer to read the file. I am neither a fan of Adobe nor of the idea of being locked in to an application to view a book. After realizing that there is no other digital way, I simply bought the printed version and waited the two days it took to ship.<p>It&#x27;s a very frustrating situation for someone who just wants to read something.</text></comment> |
20,504,546 | 20,504,411 | 1 | 2 | 20,503,813 | train | <story><title>Ask HN: What people skills do you wish you learned earlier in your career?</title><text>For the past several years I&#x27;ve been putting in a lot of time into learning and sharing people skills (without the bullshit).<p>I&#x27;m interested in skills from dealing with your own emotions, through communication with close co-workers to high-stakes negotiating.<p>I&#x27;m curious: what are some people skills that you wish you had learned earlier in your career or that you wish your co-workers had easier access to?<p>Also: what are your favorite books and&#x2F;or other resources that helped you?</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>whiddershins</author><text>“How to win friends and influence people” is an absolutely wonderful book I wished I’d read 10 or 15 years before I did.<p>Some important ideas<p>- Just, get along with people. A bit reductionist but if you don’t place a high priority on getting along with people you certainly won’t learn how. It really is a habit, and it’s incredibly effective to remember the Cognitive Behavior insight that when you don’t get along with someone, you are almost always choosing not to get along with them ... you know exactly what to do to get along with them and just don’t want to do it.<p>- Conversly, not everyone will like you and that’s ok. You aren’t everyone’s cup of tea. Being ok with that is an important mental tool.<p>- To crib from 12 steps or The Four Agreements, nothing is personal. DON’T TAKE ANYTHING PERSONALLY. Even if someone hates you, it’s not YOU per se. It’s their experience of you. It’s not personal.<p>- It may be fair to say that it’s impossible to win an argument. Getting your way by “winning” an argument seems to come with an unacceptable cost attached most of the time. Try getting good at “yes and” style conversations where you run with the other persons point and build upon it creatively, it tends to make conversations more interesting than debating people. Truly, I find compulsive disagreement to be a boring conversational style.<p>- Take personal appearance seriously, and view it as an ongoing project too. So many people fall in to the trap of thinking they can avoid dealing with signaling, which is silly, you always are signaling so best take a look at what you are sending out there. I think it is very psychologically healthy to care for yourself, the act is good for you, and you can change how you present yourself gracefully as you age, which people screw up all the time and it makes them look older, somehow, instead of younger.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>lookathrwaway</author><text>Throw away for obvious reasons. I find almost everyone intensely boring. How am I supposed to get along with people without feeling like a complete fraud?<p>Small talk, feigning interest in kids, in sports, in wine, in whatever useless dull, pedestrian thing a coworker is into.<p>I find that anyone who isn&#x27;t a PhD (or could easily have been if they hadn&#x27;t gone into industry) might as well be a paper shell. I can put on a mask of civility and charm when needed, but all I really want is to talk to deeply self-aware people struggling with the boundaries of human knowledge.<p>It&#x27;s like you try to peel back a single layer of why people believe what they believe and there&#x27;s <i>nothing there.</i> No reflection, no relevant context, no mirror provided by an intimate knowledge of history or literature ... just nothing.<p>Nearly every time I work up the motivation to try to really get to know someone who I think I may have judged too quickly I find religiosity, passive consumerism, an unexamined life, something so distasteful that it takes ages before I can do it again.<p>How do people put up with it?</text></comment> | <story><title>Ask HN: What people skills do you wish you learned earlier in your career?</title><text>For the past several years I&#x27;ve been putting in a lot of time into learning and sharing people skills (without the bullshit).<p>I&#x27;m interested in skills from dealing with your own emotions, through communication with close co-workers to high-stakes negotiating.<p>I&#x27;m curious: what are some people skills that you wish you had learned earlier in your career or that you wish your co-workers had easier access to?<p>Also: what are your favorite books and&#x2F;or other resources that helped you?</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>whiddershins</author><text>“How to win friends and influence people” is an absolutely wonderful book I wished I’d read 10 or 15 years before I did.<p>Some important ideas<p>- Just, get along with people. A bit reductionist but if you don’t place a high priority on getting along with people you certainly won’t learn how. It really is a habit, and it’s incredibly effective to remember the Cognitive Behavior insight that when you don’t get along with someone, you are almost always choosing not to get along with them ... you know exactly what to do to get along with them and just don’t want to do it.<p>- Conversly, not everyone will like you and that’s ok. You aren’t everyone’s cup of tea. Being ok with that is an important mental tool.<p>- To crib from 12 steps or The Four Agreements, nothing is personal. DON’T TAKE ANYTHING PERSONALLY. Even if someone hates you, it’s not YOU per se. It’s their experience of you. It’s not personal.<p>- It may be fair to say that it’s impossible to win an argument. Getting your way by “winning” an argument seems to come with an unacceptable cost attached most of the time. Try getting good at “yes and” style conversations where you run with the other persons point and build upon it creatively, it tends to make conversations more interesting than debating people. Truly, I find compulsive disagreement to be a boring conversational style.<p>- Take personal appearance seriously, and view it as an ongoing project too. So many people fall in to the trap of thinking they can avoid dealing with signaling, which is silly, you always are signaling so best take a look at what you are sending out there. I think it is very psychologically healthy to care for yourself, the act is good for you, and you can change how you present yourself gracefully as you age, which people screw up all the time and it makes them look older, somehow, instead of younger.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>cannonedhamster</author><text>Just getting along with people is pretty reductionist on that idea I agree. It&#x27;s a fantastic book and I agree with you on every part other than that bit of explanation. I think a better way to phrase it might be to find a way to say things in ways that aren&#x27;t offensive, which takes a long time to learn, and don&#x27;t look for a fight when it isn&#x27;t looking for you. You&#x27;re not always going to be able to say the same thing to different people and get the same results, this is a lesson that took me a long time to learn. I would say things I didn&#x27;t find offensive in the slightest, nor did I mean in any way insulting, however others would take it as a personal insult, even if it was just simply the reality of the situation.<p>A way to meet the second part of don&#x27;t go looking for a fight is to follow advice that&#x27;s actually a rule here and assume the best possible interpretation of what&#x27;s being said.<p>I really love this recommendation.</text></comment> |
12,189,932 | 12,190,032 | 1 | 2 | 12,188,985 | train | <story><title>Bringing HSTS to www.google.com</title><url>https://security.googleblog.com/2016/07/bringing-hsts-to-wwwgooglecom.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jc4p</author><text>This was my immediate first thought too. A lot of subway stations got WiFi in NYC and for the one directly underneath my office I always had to load Google first to get the login portal to load. Any other websites I visit (including this one) just displayed a HSTS error instead.</text></item><item><author>chinathrow</author><text>Doesn&#x27;t that mean that wifi captive portals using www.google.com won&#x27;t be able to take over the connection and re-direct to the captive portal?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>niftich</author><text>You can use <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;example.com" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;example.com</a> operated by the IANA, which is accessible though http and https.<p>Since an auto-upgrade to https would break a considerable number of examples, and there&#x27;s no compelling business need on their part to promote https-only, it&#x27;s much more likely to stay available through http than just about any other website run by commercial interests.</text></comment> | <story><title>Bringing HSTS to www.google.com</title><url>https://security.googleblog.com/2016/07/bringing-hsts-to-wwwgooglecom.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jc4p</author><text>This was my immediate first thought too. A lot of subway stations got WiFi in NYC and for the one directly underneath my office I always had to load Google first to get the login portal to load. Any other websites I visit (including this one) just displayed a HSTS error instead.</text></item><item><author>chinathrow</author><text>Doesn&#x27;t that mean that wifi captive portals using www.google.com won&#x27;t be able to take over the connection and re-direct to the captive portal?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>AntiRush</author><text><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;http.rip" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;http.rip</a> will always be http only; it&#x27;s the domain I use for this purpose.</text></comment> |
1,422,072 | 1,421,870 | 1 | 3 | 1,421,381 | train | <story><title>Where can I fly for how much?</title><url>http://www.kayak.com/explore/?airport=YYC#/YYC?a=any&d=any&fb=200,2730&l=any&ll=0.175781,-0.175781&ns=n&s=0&t=0,100&z=3</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>martythemaniak</author><text>OMG, I've been waiting for someone to build something like this forever.<p>I've always hated the fact that all major travel sites work based on the assumption that you already know exactly when and where you're going, rather than at least giving you the option to explore your options.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bkrausz</author><text>The problem you have is that flight data is incredibly fast-changing and computationally expensive to get. So in order to get enough data for this you need to do a lot of long queries very often. Companies that provide pricing information (like ITA, who Kayak uses) charge a lot for these resources, so it's not like the usual internet where your incremental cost per user or search is minimal: there's a real cost here. The entire architecture was build on one-off "price from X to Y on this day", building a layer of generality to that is fairly difficult.<p>Full disclosure: I used to work at TripAdvisor on flights.</text></comment> | <story><title>Where can I fly for how much?</title><url>http://www.kayak.com/explore/?airport=YYC#/YYC?a=any&d=any&fb=200,2730&l=any&ll=0.175781,-0.175781&ns=n&s=0&t=0,100&z=3</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>martythemaniak</author><text>OMG, I've been waiting for someone to build something like this forever.<p>I've always hated the fact that all major travel sites work based on the assumption that you already know exactly when and where you're going, rather than at least giving you the option to explore your options.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>smaher</author><text>Another good site that does something similar is skyscanner.com<p>For example, here are all of the flights from SFO: <a href="http://www.skyscanner.com/flights-from/sfo/cheapest-flights-from-san-francisco-international.html?rtn=1" rel="nofollow">http://www.skyscanner.com/flights-from/sfo/cheapest-flights-...</a></text></comment> |
22,514,886 | 22,513,276 | 1 | 2 | 22,512,810 | train | <story><title>The human genome is full of viruses</title><url>https://medium.com/medical-myths-and-models/the-human-genome-is-full-of-viruses-c18ba52ac195</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>crazygringo</author><text>&gt; <i>Even after recovering from an infection there will always be a piece of that virus encoded within your DNA.</i><p>I did a little research and this appears to be <i>almost completely false</i>.<p>This sentence makes it sound like every time you get a cold, your body&#x27;s DNA is permanently altered. Which would be insane if true.<p>The reality is that this insane outcome is incredibly rare, but nevertheless has happened enough times <i>over all of human history</i> that we have genetic code from viruses in our DNA, because a virus at some point managed to alter the DNA in a sperm or egg cell.<p>But the quoted sentence is just <i>not</i> how infections work 99.99...+% of the time. The cold I got last month isn&#x27;t in my DNA forever. It&#x27;s very sloppy writing that appears to be aiming for sensationalism instead of accuracy.</text></comment> | <story><title>The human genome is full of viruses</title><url>https://medium.com/medical-myths-and-models/the-human-genome-is-full-of-viruses-c18ba52ac195</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>_bxg1</author><text>I&#x27;ve always thought of DNA as mere &quot;data&quot;. &quot;This goes here, that goes there&quot;, etc. And I&#x27;ve always wondered how such a relatively small amount of data could describe the massive complexity of a full-size organism.<p>But this makes it sound like DNA is data the way Lisp is data: it can contain procedures and transformations and meta-statements about itself, and even mutate during the course of being interpreted. That would explain so much.<p>The use of the term &quot;virus&quot; in software seems to be more apt than I&#x27;d thought.</text></comment> |
2,191,428 | 2,191,470 | 1 | 2 | 2,190,851 | train | <story><title>Airplane Mode</title><url>http://minimalmac.com/post/3165411533/airplane-mode</url><text></text></story><parent_chain><item><author>spitfire</author><text>The nokia E-series E72 has the neatest feature. If you put it face down it silences all alarts. Nokia had a great ad campaign for real face time using this - "Somethings are more important than email".<p>The iphone and android badly need these features.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>lmz</author><text>HTC has a feature like that for its "HTC Sense" phones.<p>From <a href="http://www.htc.com/www/htcsense/index.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.htc.com/www/htcsense/index.html</a> :<p>"Ever fumbled with your phone because it went off at full-blast during a meeting? Well, don't worry! Now as soon as you lift your phone up to see who's calling, the ringer volume gets lower. Want it silenced completely? Just flip it over."</text></comment> | <story><title>Airplane Mode</title><url>http://minimalmac.com/post/3165411533/airplane-mode</url><text></text></story><parent_chain><item><author>spitfire</author><text>The nokia E-series E72 has the neatest feature. If you put it face down it silences all alarts. Nokia had a great ad campaign for real face time using this - "Somethings are more important than email".<p>The iphone and android badly need these features.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bryanlarsen</author><text>Cyanogenmod (alternate ROM for Android) has a feature where you can silence an incoming call by turning the phone over.</text></comment> |
14,029,814 | 14,028,143 | 1 | 2 | 14,026,984 | train | <story><title>Mexican Newspaper Shuts Down, Saying It Is Too Dangerous to Continue</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/03/world/americas/el-norte-closes-mexican-newspaper.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>matt_wulfeck</author><text>It&#x27;s <i>us</i>, the USA, that is causing this paper to shutdown. The cartels are financed by the insatiable drug appetite of its close neighbor. Our inability and&#x2F;or unwillingness to legalize recreational drugs is the feeding tube for these vicious groups.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>drawkbox</author><text>The War on Drugs is now taking down free press in other countries, it is has gone too far for too long.<p>It is essentially funding terror and when you see the billions being made in only a few states such as Colorado with 1+ billion in 2016 [1]. Large amounts of wealth, probably 50-100+ billion going to cartels in the south annually to fund very bad things.<p>Prohibition always creates a criminal black market that becomes uncontrollable when there is a large demand for a product that is illegal. Better to make it legal, remove the revenue for cartels and use some for taxes and lots of jobs in the US. Colorado already has 20k jobs from ending prohibition on marijuana, that could be a 200k nationwide job creator. Legal markets, education, rehabilitation and safe use could also provide many jobs.<p>Legal marijuana markets in the US are already at such high growth rates that they rival the dot com boom growth [2]. It makes pro-business and safety sense to legalize and make it a health issue not a criminal one, because the criminalization of it is creating very bad blow back and funding terror essentially, destroying privacy and lives along the way. The punishment of non-violent drug users, enforcement and resulting black market criminals are way worse than the act and it is cruel and unusual punishment on individuals and people now on a massive scale worldwide.<p>[1] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.marketwatch.com&#x2F;story&#x2F;marijuana-tax-revenue-hit-200-million-in-colorado-as-sales-pass-1-billion-2017-02-10" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.marketwatch.com&#x2F;story&#x2F;marijuana-tax-revenue-hit-2...</a><p>[2] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.abc.net.au&#x2F;news&#x2F;2017-01-04&#x2F;legal-marijuana-sales-bigger-than-dot-com-boom&#x2F;8161218" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.abc.net.au&#x2F;news&#x2F;2017-01-04&#x2F;legal-marijuana-sales-...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Mexican Newspaper Shuts Down, Saying It Is Too Dangerous to Continue</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/03/world/americas/el-norte-closes-mexican-newspaper.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>matt_wulfeck</author><text>It&#x27;s <i>us</i>, the USA, that is causing this paper to shutdown. The cartels are financed by the insatiable drug appetite of its close neighbor. Our inability and&#x2F;or unwillingness to legalize recreational drugs is the feeding tube for these vicious groups.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>2_listerine_pls</author><text>It&#x27;s surprisingly simple to locate the plantations using LIDAR + spectrometry. Even easier in Afghanistan, where fields are cultivated in the open. It&#x27;s so well documented that the UNDOC provides an anual report with the amount in acres. I could go on, but this is enough to make one wonder why they aren&#x27;t being stopped.</text></comment> |
25,315,728 | 25,315,916 | 1 | 3 | 25,314,126 | train | <story><title>Std::visit is everything wrong with modern C++ (2017)</title><url>https://bitbashing.io/std-visit.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>GnarfGnarf</author><text>I&#x27;ve been writing C++ since 1990. I make a good living from a little C++ app (500KLOC) that sells in fifty countries. I love the ultra-static typing. It&#x27;s saved my bacon many a times.<p>Long ago &quot;modern&quot; C++ crossed into a territory that I will never understand or use. STL is the fanciest stuff I write. Code needs to be maintainable. If I have to hire geniuses to collaborate on my code, that&#x27;s not going to be cost-effective. So I use a conservative subset, and thank my lucky stars I don&#x27;t need to pay attention to the latest exotica.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dkersten</author><text>&gt; Long ago &quot;modern&quot; C++ crossed into a territory that I will never understand or use.<p>Do you know where the line is? C++11? Later versions?<p>I ask because I quite like a lot of the changes that C++11 brought to the language, I feel they make my code much simpler to understand and maintain, but I got very confused by post-11 C++ for a long time to the point where I said I&#x27;d never bother with C++17 or later (14 turned out not to be too scary once I actually sat down with it) because 17 and 20 added so much stuff that just looked beyond me. But I&#x27;ve since changed my mind and have started to experiment with C++20, after I sat down and read a few articles and watched a few cppcon videos on the changes. I don&#x27;t know <i>all</i> that these versions have to offer, but I do understand the main changes enough to get by and most of them do make the language better, in my opinion.<p>Overall, the language is a mess, simply because they keep adding to it and very little stuff gets deprecated, removed, changed or cleaned. That leaves a large and messy language, especially compared to more recent deliberately-designed languages, but it turned out I could understand &quot;most&quot; of the things, once I had someone explain them to me. A few times ;)<p>Having said that, it probably isn&#x27;t worth your time to &quot;modernise&quot; the C++ in your money-making codebase at this stage, if you&#x27;re comfortable with it how it is. You likely wouldn&#x27;t see a return in the effort it would take.</text></comment> | <story><title>Std::visit is everything wrong with modern C++ (2017)</title><url>https://bitbashing.io/std-visit.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>GnarfGnarf</author><text>I&#x27;ve been writing C++ since 1990. I make a good living from a little C++ app (500KLOC) that sells in fifty countries. I love the ultra-static typing. It&#x27;s saved my bacon many a times.<p>Long ago &quot;modern&quot; C++ crossed into a territory that I will never understand or use. STL is the fanciest stuff I write. Code needs to be maintainable. If I have to hire geniuses to collaborate on my code, that&#x27;s not going to be cost-effective. So I use a conservative subset, and thank my lucky stars I don&#x27;t need to pay attention to the latest exotica.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ensiferum</author><text>Some of the modern c++ is a what I&#x27;d consider <i>essential</i> really. And there&#x27;s plenty more that is <i>very</i> nice to have.<p>Move semantics and unique_ptr are really IMHO essential. Then lots of nice to have stuff such as, shared_ptr, threads, lambdas (make STL a lot more usable).<p>Personally I&#x27;d not want to be maintaining a C++98 style of code base at this point.<p>That being said you have probably already written all of the &quot;nice to have&quot; stuff so there&#x27;s no real value benefit to go and replace it as such. So I understand your POV as well. That being said I&#x27;d probably modernize the code as I go whenever I touch any part of the codebase.</text></comment> |
29,998,507 | 29,997,677 | 1 | 2 | 29,996,614 | train | <story><title>IRS Will Soon Require Selfies for Online Access</title><url>https://krebsonsecurity.com/2022/01/irs-will-soon-require-selfies-for-online-access/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>62951413</author><text>Californian here.<p>Name one thing the state government does for normal people who actually finance the largess. Are you really surprised billions go unaccounted in a place where train robberies are a thing? But don&#x27;t you worry, a photo ID won&#x27;t be required in the next election though.</text></item><item><author>mistrial9</author><text>American here<p>&quot;perhaps better known as the online identity verification service that many states now use to help staunch the loss of billions of dollars in unemployment insurance and pandemic assistance stolen each year by identity thieves&quot;<p>In the great State of California, <i>billions</i> in unemployment benefits were sent to the wrong people.. because their internal systems were designed to delay, deny and deprive, I say. Actual people with real jobs were repeatedly refused, while insiders who knew how to fill out paperwork, and apparently knew where the blind spots were, filed hundreds of claims in the early pandemic days. A newly appointed Director (young, tech savvy woman) soon stopped making public statements, and the situation nearly two years later, is not resolved. This is at a time when California has record income to the State.<p>Now, some people may jump on this and say &quot;well, you see how photo ID would have helped that&quot; and, with incomplete knowledge and personal opinion, I say no, it would not solve it. You see, people with real jobs, with every real paper filed, were <i>denied</i> benefits, while insiders were pulling checks with both hands, using certain kinds of identities that would slip through. How would ever more restriction, requirement and verification, have helped here?<p>I am deeply against the collective government making ever more demands on citizens for &quot;papers, please&quot; enrollment to massive money social services (<i>edit e.g. govt unemployment benefits</i>). It is not going to have the desired effect, despite superficial evidence otherwise. Additionally this represents a slippery slope where the ability to interact as an individual will be eroded, and opportunity for insider graft will increase.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Justin_K</author><text>I&#x27;m sure they&#x27;ll run a single payer healthcare system just fine.</text></comment> | <story><title>IRS Will Soon Require Selfies for Online Access</title><url>https://krebsonsecurity.com/2022/01/irs-will-soon-require-selfies-for-online-access/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>62951413</author><text>Californian here.<p>Name one thing the state government does for normal people who actually finance the largess. Are you really surprised billions go unaccounted in a place where train robberies are a thing? But don&#x27;t you worry, a photo ID won&#x27;t be required in the next election though.</text></item><item><author>mistrial9</author><text>American here<p>&quot;perhaps better known as the online identity verification service that many states now use to help staunch the loss of billions of dollars in unemployment insurance and pandemic assistance stolen each year by identity thieves&quot;<p>In the great State of California, <i>billions</i> in unemployment benefits were sent to the wrong people.. because their internal systems were designed to delay, deny and deprive, I say. Actual people with real jobs were repeatedly refused, while insiders who knew how to fill out paperwork, and apparently knew where the blind spots were, filed hundreds of claims in the early pandemic days. A newly appointed Director (young, tech savvy woman) soon stopped making public statements, and the situation nearly two years later, is not resolved. This is at a time when California has record income to the State.<p>Now, some people may jump on this and say &quot;well, you see how photo ID would have helped that&quot; and, with incomplete knowledge and personal opinion, I say no, it would not solve it. You see, people with real jobs, with every real paper filed, were <i>denied</i> benefits, while insiders were pulling checks with both hands, using certain kinds of identities that would slip through. How would ever more restriction, requirement and verification, have helped here?<p>I am deeply against the collective government making ever more demands on citizens for &quot;papers, please&quot; enrollment to massive money social services (<i>edit e.g. govt unemployment benefits</i>). It is not going to have the desired effect, despite superficial evidence otherwise. Additionally this represents a slippery slope where the ability to interact as an individual will be eroded, and opportunity for insider graft will increase.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>systemvoltage</author><text>Why are people honestly against ID requirements for voting?<p>Pretty much every democracy in the world has this. Europeans need to show ID to vote.</text></comment> |
31,301,427 | 31,301,218 | 1 | 2 | 31,284,539 | train | <story><title>How Apple overcame its culture of secrecy to create AirPods Pro</title><url>https://www.fastcompany.com/90748492/apple-airpods-pro-creation</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>skuhn</author><text>I worked at Apple relatively briefly, in a lead role on an Important Project that required its own form to be disclosed on it (besides the general agreement you sign to begin employment). A truly toxic work environment that I couldn&#x27;t get out of fast enough once I shipped the project.<p>All kinds of projects at Apple have their own disclosure forms, and you are only given one to sign if it&#x27;s deemed necessary to your work. My responsibilities on this project didn&#x27;t entitle me to be disclosed on it, which led to all manner of hilariously frustrating guessing games as I tried to deliver on the requirements without actually being told what they were. Conversations regularly went like this: &quot;I can&#x27;t tell you that that approach won&#x27;t satisfy the requirements, but I would think twice if I were you.&quot; Ultimately I think that I puzzled out what was needed and successfully delivered it, but the method was pure madness.<p>This wasn&#x27;t even some new silver gadget launch, it was an infrastructure component to a future product launch down the road. Yet everything and anything can be given the top secret treatment.<p>Why is that? Running a disclosure-required project is prestigious. Being disclosed on projects is a badge of honor, almost even a high score board, and not being disclosed is used as a weapon in big or small ways.<p>Anything that Apple manages to ship (in my experience) is in spite of their corporate culture, not because of it.</text></comment> | <story><title>How Apple overcame its culture of secrecy to create AirPods Pro</title><url>https://www.fastcompany.com/90748492/apple-airpods-pro-creation</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>88913527</author><text>&gt; Secrecy is a value it held dear, to preserve the “surprise and delight” for customers.<p>I think the last time I felt this way about an Apple Event was the launch of the iPad. Not only are they burning out engineers, they&#x27;re optimizing for a value that isn&#x27;t part of their secret sauce anymore. I expect innovation, but not surprise. An N&#x27;th generation anything just won&#x27;t have the same zing as it did the first few times.</text></comment> |
11,410,236 | 11,410,116 | 1 | 3 | 11,405,146 | train | <story><title>Schools Are Slow to Learn That Sleep Deprivation Hits Teenagers Hardest</title><url>http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/29/upshot/schools-are-slow-to-learn-that-sleep-deprivation-hits-teenagers-hardest.html?ribbon-ad-idx=6&rref=upshot&module=Ribbon&version=context&region=Header&action=click&contentCollection=The%20Upshot&pgtype=article&_r=0</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>sgentle</author><text>I predict this will be a difficult sell, for the reasons pg outlined in &quot;Why Nerds are Unpopular&quot; (<a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.paulgraham.com&#x2F;nerds.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.paulgraham.com&#x2F;nerds.html</a>):<p>&gt; Now adults have no immediate use for teenagers. They would be in the way in an office. So they drop them off at school on their way to work, much as they might drop the dog off at a kennel if they were going away for the weekend.<p>Schools are government-subsidised daycare first, educational institutions second, which is the reason they often fail at teaching students but rarely fail at keeping them in place.<p>From that perspective, why would you change a child&#x27;s school hours to anything less compatible with their parents&#x27; work hours? If anything, I would expect the trend to be towards longer hours at school, perhaps by more tightly integrating after-school activities.</text></comment> | <story><title>Schools Are Slow to Learn That Sleep Deprivation Hits Teenagers Hardest</title><url>http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/29/upshot/schools-are-slow-to-learn-that-sleep-deprivation-hits-teenagers-hardest.html?ribbon-ad-idx=6&rref=upshot&module=Ribbon&version=context&region=Header&action=click&contentCollection=The%20Upshot&pgtype=article&_r=0</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>carsongross</author><text>It is absolutely ridiculous that we make growing humans get out of bed before 8 AM. Pubescent teens should be sleeping 10 hours a night, particularly boys who are in their growth spurts.<p>When I am emperor dictator, no schools open before 9AM.</text></comment> |
6,673,479 | 6,673,279 | 1 | 3 | 6,673,106 | train | <story><title>Adobe confirms stolen passwords were encrypted, not hashed</title><url>http://www.csoonline.com/article/742570/adobe-confirms-stolen-passwords-were-encrypted-not-hashed</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>neya</author><text>I don&#x27;t know about the passwords, but my card was successfully stolen[1] and a malicious transaction was initiated from another country. I know this was because of Adobe for sure because I (co-incidentally) used a brand new, fresh, unique e-mail address just for Adobe, and that email was released recently in the dump that the hackers provided.<p>Luckily the malicious transaction was declined by my bank and they blocked the card for me and they told me that someone had compromised my card details and issued me with a replacement card free of charge.<p>I only keep posting this in every thread[1][2] about Adobe because I genuinely want other Adobe customers to understand the gravity of the situation and disable their compromised credit card and get it replaced by a new one as soon as possible.<p>[1]<a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6668013" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=6668013</a>
[2]<a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6632385" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=6632385</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Adobe confirms stolen passwords were encrypted, not hashed</title><url>http://www.csoonline.com/article/742570/adobe-confirms-stolen-passwords-were-encrypted-not-hashed</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>001sky</author><text><i>Adobe says that they&#x27;ve followed best practices for password storage and protection for more than a year now...</i><p>13 generations of photoshop<p>...and they&#x27;re just getting around to this after CS6?</text></comment> |
35,356,047 | 35,356,181 | 1 | 2 | 35,355,729 | train | <story><title>Italy moves to ban lab-grown meat to protect food heritage</title><url>https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-65110744</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>lm28469</author><text>You don&#x27;t have to be &quot;far right&quot; or &quot;nationalistic&quot; to not want to destroy your economy</text></item><item><author>kubb</author><text>BBC journos have a specific editorial style, and no doubt it influenced this headline, but this isn&#x27;t to &quot;protect food heritage&quot;.<p>Food and drink accounts for a quarter of Italy&#x27;s GDP. It&#x27;s about money. Italy has a far-right government, which is extremely open to lobbying from that sector, and &quot;heritage&quot; is aligned with their nationalistic stance.<p>Try to look a bit deeper.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>9dev</author><text>If your economy is entirely dependent on a doomed industry, maybe, instead of artificially keeping it alive, focus on modernising that economy instead?</text></comment> | <story><title>Italy moves to ban lab-grown meat to protect food heritage</title><url>https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-65110744</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>lm28469</author><text>You don&#x27;t have to be &quot;far right&quot; or &quot;nationalistic&quot; to not want to destroy your economy</text></item><item><author>kubb</author><text>BBC journos have a specific editorial style, and no doubt it influenced this headline, but this isn&#x27;t to &quot;protect food heritage&quot;.<p>Food and drink accounts for a quarter of Italy&#x27;s GDP. It&#x27;s about money. Italy has a far-right government, which is extremely open to lobbying from that sector, and &quot;heritage&quot; is aligned with their nationalistic stance.<p>Try to look a bit deeper.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>soco</author><text>Yeah &quot;think of the economy&quot; gets to be a very common argument nowadays, almost like &quot;think of the children&quot;. I remember it used for refusing any covid restrictions, or used against climate protection measures... I wonder, was it used also to justify keeping slavery?</text></comment> |
26,864,560 | 26,864,181 | 1 | 2 | 26,863,740 | train | <story><title>Apple Approves Parler to Return to App Store</title><url>https://www.macrumors.com/2021/04/19/apple-parler-return-app-store/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>pdog</author><text>The chilling effect is real. Even if service is reinstated, the precedent is now that major platforms can arbitrarily censor your news stories for weeks, shut down your servers, and remove your apps from their app stores. Why would anyone build anything remotely controversial on these platforms?</text></comment> | <story><title>Apple Approves Parler to Return to App Store</title><url>https://www.macrumors.com/2021/04/19/apple-parler-return-app-store/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>yabones</author><text>From the linked article [1]:<p>&gt; In court filings and elsewhere, Parler has said that it had been developing an artificial intelligence-based content moderation system when the larger platforms&#x27; crackdown took place.<p>I can&#x27;t see this ending well...<p>...Also, did they finalize a deal for hosting? I recall seeing their absurd hosting spec [2] that would have cost &gt;$250K&#x2F;mo, and I don&#x27;t see that working anywhere other than AWS&#x2F;GCP&#x2F;Azure or a dedicated datacenter.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;edition.cnn.com&#x2F;2021&#x2F;04&#x2F;19&#x2F;tech&#x2F;apple-parler-app-store&#x2F;index.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;edition.cnn.com&#x2F;2021&#x2F;04&#x2F;19&#x2F;tech&#x2F;apple-parler-app-sto...</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;th3j35t3r&#x2F;status&#x2F;1350612426115452935" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;th3j35t3r&#x2F;status&#x2F;1350612426115452935</a></text></comment> |
5,723,821 | 5,723,791 | 1 | 2 | 5,723,685 | train | <story><title>Why I have left Samsung</title><url>http://dream-force.com/post/27437342468/i-left-samsung</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>seivan</author><text>It's not a question of scale, it's a question of management. Companies like Samsung, <i>others</i> and etc are managed by idiots. Pure and simple. Suit wearing, non-technical morons.<p>Congratulations on your new job, exercise, fresh air and freshly picked berries and vegetables. Sounds pretty decent compared to sitting in front of a screen slaving for knock-off phones with shitty vendored junk.<p>Seeing the company you work for doing commercials like <a href="http://thenextweb.com/shareables/2013/04/29/a-terrible-idea-samsungs-reworks-gangnam-style-to-promote-the-galaxy-s4-at-a-launch-event-in-india/" rel="nofollow">http://thenextweb.com/shareables/2013/04/29/a-terrible-idea-...</a> (even if it was by a third party PR company) is kinda.. weak.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ArekDymalski</author><text>Every time (~5/month) I hear the "managers are idiots" rant I start to wonder, how is it possible that all the smart people:
1. aren't managers.
2. aren't able to convince the "idiots".<p>I'm also curious why smart people become idiots when they're promoted.<p>Come on. Managing is hard and definitely looks different depending on your position. To make it even more "funny" I can tell you that "employees are idiots" is a frequent manager's rant too.</text></comment> | <story><title>Why I have left Samsung</title><url>http://dream-force.com/post/27437342468/i-left-samsung</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>seivan</author><text>It's not a question of scale, it's a question of management. Companies like Samsung, <i>others</i> and etc are managed by idiots. Pure and simple. Suit wearing, non-technical morons.<p>Congratulations on your new job, exercise, fresh air and freshly picked berries and vegetables. Sounds pretty decent compared to sitting in front of a screen slaving for knock-off phones with shitty vendored junk.<p>Seeing the company you work for doing commercials like <a href="http://thenextweb.com/shareables/2013/04/29/a-terrible-idea-samsungs-reworks-gangnam-style-to-promote-the-galaxy-s4-at-a-launch-event-in-india/" rel="nofollow">http://thenextweb.com/shareables/2013/04/29/a-terrible-idea-...</a> (even if it was by a third party PR company) is kinda.. weak.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>clearly</author><text>&#62; Companies like Samsung, others and etc are managed by idiots<p>Samsung shareholders may disagree with you there....</text></comment> |
40,528,807 | 40,520,405 | 1 | 2 | 40,518,016 | train | <story><title>Google confirms the leaked Search documents are real</title><url>https://www.theverge.com/2024/5/29/24167407/google-search-algorithm-documents-leak-confirmation</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>nojvek</author><text>KEY TAKEAWAYS:<p>• Google claimed they don&#x27;t use a &quot;domain authority&quot; metric, but the docs show they totally do - it&#x27;s called &quot;siteAuthority.&quot;<p>• G said clicks don&#x27;t affect rankings, but there&#x27;s a whole system called &quot;NavBoost&quot; that uses click data to change search results.<p>• Google denied having a &quot;sandbox&quot; that holds back new sites, but yep, the docs confirm it exists.<p>• G assured us Chrome data isn&#x27;t used for ranking, but surprise! It is.<p>• The number and diversity of your backlinks still matter a lot.<p>• Having authors with expertise and authority helps.<p>• Putting keywords in your title tag and matching search queries is important.<p>• Google tracks the dates on your pages to determine freshness.<p>• A lot of long-held SEO theories have been validated, so trust your instincts.<p>• Creating great content and promoting it well is still the best approach.<p>• We should experiment more to see what works, rather than just listening to what Google says.<p>From: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;SEO&#x2F;s&#x2F;ChlTrhjPnG" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;SEO&#x2F;s&#x2F;ChlTrhjPnG</a><p>I wonder how chrome data works. Are they using every chrome browser to sniff what users are clicking on?</text></comment> | <story><title>Google confirms the leaked Search documents are real</title><url>https://www.theverge.com/2024/5/29/24167407/google-search-algorithm-documents-leak-confirmation</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jeroenhd</author><text>I was afraid of this. Now, it&#x27;s a matter of time before Google search will get even worse as SEO hustlers push more of their useless crap to the top now that internal algorithm data has been published.<p>Guess I should look into that Kagi thing people keep mentioning.</text></comment> |
32,430,577 | 32,429,949 | 1 | 3 | 32,426,836 | train | <story><title>Writing Snake in 12 Lines of PyTorch</title><url>https://medium.com/artificialis/writing-snake-in-12-lines-of-pytorch-f7b21ce42a66</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Dzugaru</author><text>Implementing certain things in PyTorch can be fun. I&#x27;ve recently started to make an economic game simulator (where you have players that can buy and sell items, do fighting etc.) and began to outline the design in the usual C#, but then, suddenly, thought - why not make the whole thing run on GPU and support millions of players with tens of millions sim steps per sec? This should make experiment cycles really fast - and that&#x27;s what simulators are for!<p>If you don&#x27;t want to program CUDA kernels yourself, what&#x27;s the easiest tool for the job? PyTorch, of course. Mutable by default tensors, lots of library operations and generally a pleasure to use.<p>The programming is really interesting - you start to think in batches - every operation is a parallel operation, it&#x27;s not 1 player&#x2F;item doing something, it&#x27;s a whole lot of them at once - and that&#x27;s really fast.<p>I&#x27;ve eventually did run into some problems - for example, ragged&#x2F;sparse tensors support is not designed for this at all, and since I have variable number of items per player - this is a problem. Also, producing something like logs inside tensors is challenging - reallocation is very expensive and must be done in batches too. There are some other interesting things like launching several operations &#x2F; CUDA kernels at once.</text></comment> | <story><title>Writing Snake in 12 Lines of PyTorch</title><url>https://medium.com/artificialis/writing-snake-in-12-lines-of-pytorch-f7b21ce42a66</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>alberth</author><text>Is writing X in Y lines of code having any real meaning? I&#x27;m not trying to be negative, just genuinely asking.<p>For example, in <i>1-line-of-code</i> I can write &quot;hello world&quot;. This hello world is physically lighting up individual pixels on my display. It&#x27;s rendering the letters to be the shape &quot;hello world&quot; should be. It has antialiasing applied. All in 1 line of code!!!</text></comment> |
37,665,076 | 37,664,656 | 1 | 2 | 37,662,937 | train | <story><title>Ask HN: Tips for Solopreneur?</title><text>Yo HN! I have been working on some design tools in my spare time to solve problems I&#x27;ve faced over and over, and I&#x27;m thinking about monetizing them.<p>I&#x27;ve been to some conferences recently and talked to a lot of people who have these problems as well, and they&#x27;re keen to try it out. I have collected some emails, been communicating with them a bit and even got beers with one of them recently!<p>Here&#x27;s my list of concerns:<p>1. It is just me - is that a red flag? Some people have asked me about my team and I told them it was just me. I got the feeling that it may have turned them off because the conversation kind of ended right there. To be fair, after that I did say that it is just me right now BUTTTTTTTT why that is okay due to my experience and work history. However, yes it is my first time doing a business.<p>2. How do I set appropriate milestones for me to reach? Do I think about reaching 100 customers before reaching 5 recurring customers for example?<p>3. I&#x27;m in a small town in PNW. Does that matter if this will be an online thing anyway? Why or when do people move to big cities like Seattle&#x2F;SF&#x2F;NYC&#x2F;Austin etc.<p>4. What are some ways to do marketing? Should I even think about that before I have a few customers who are using my product consistently?<p>5. I&#x27;ve been inspired by the Startup School videos. Honestly though I&#x27;m not sure about fundraising and all these things, it seems very intimidating to me. What&#x27;s the difference between those things and starting a company and slowly building it up?</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>DoreenMichele</author><text>Something that seems to be not well known by the general public:<p>Landing a big contract with a big company early on can be very problematic. They have a history of screwing small companies.<p>Small companies often seem to imagine this will solve all their problems. It seems to be the business equivalent of the fantasy of <i>winning the lottery</i> and then having it <i>made in the shade.</i> In reality, winning the lottery frequently doesn&#x27;t end well and landing a big contract early on often doesn&#x27;t either.<p>I used to imagine I would keep a file of such stories but never did. It&#x27;s been challenging to find examples when I want them. But it also seems to be <i>common knowledge</i> in some circles.<p>Feel free to bite off more than you can chew and view it as <i>a growth opportunity</i>, but be aware that getting too much of your revenue from one client makes you their bitch. It&#x27;s like all the downside of being an employee plus all the downside of running a business.<p>Best of luck.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>GabeIsko</author><text>Landing big contracts as a small company - it&#x27;s not all bad. They can bring in a lot of revenue, for not that much sales effort. And if you have good processes down, they can also be much easier to deliver on. At least in the US, contract law can be very fair, financing options to facilitate large contracts are plentiful, and most large businesses act in good faith.<p>So it isn&#x27;t so much landing a big contract is bad, but landing a big contract that you can&#x27;t deliver on is very bad. Determining what you can and can&#x27;t do, how much you need to invest into your internal processes and capabilities - that is the challenge of running a business.<p>Usually, in successful businesses I have worked at (or business units), I see a split. Ideally it would be 50-50 large contracts to small accounts, but usually realistically is is more like 60-40. Probably depends on the industry too.</text></comment> | <story><title>Ask HN: Tips for Solopreneur?</title><text>Yo HN! I have been working on some design tools in my spare time to solve problems I&#x27;ve faced over and over, and I&#x27;m thinking about monetizing them.<p>I&#x27;ve been to some conferences recently and talked to a lot of people who have these problems as well, and they&#x27;re keen to try it out. I have collected some emails, been communicating with them a bit and even got beers with one of them recently!<p>Here&#x27;s my list of concerns:<p>1. It is just me - is that a red flag? Some people have asked me about my team and I told them it was just me. I got the feeling that it may have turned them off because the conversation kind of ended right there. To be fair, after that I did say that it is just me right now BUTTTTTTTT why that is okay due to my experience and work history. However, yes it is my first time doing a business.<p>2. How do I set appropriate milestones for me to reach? Do I think about reaching 100 customers before reaching 5 recurring customers for example?<p>3. I&#x27;m in a small town in PNW. Does that matter if this will be an online thing anyway? Why or when do people move to big cities like Seattle&#x2F;SF&#x2F;NYC&#x2F;Austin etc.<p>4. What are some ways to do marketing? Should I even think about that before I have a few customers who are using my product consistently?<p>5. I&#x27;ve been inspired by the Startup School videos. Honestly though I&#x27;m not sure about fundraising and all these things, it seems very intimidating to me. What&#x27;s the difference between those things and starting a company and slowly building it up?</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>DoreenMichele</author><text>Something that seems to be not well known by the general public:<p>Landing a big contract with a big company early on can be very problematic. They have a history of screwing small companies.<p>Small companies often seem to imagine this will solve all their problems. It seems to be the business equivalent of the fantasy of <i>winning the lottery</i> and then having it <i>made in the shade.</i> In reality, winning the lottery frequently doesn&#x27;t end well and landing a big contract early on often doesn&#x27;t either.<p>I used to imagine I would keep a file of such stories but never did. It&#x27;s been challenging to find examples when I want them. But it also seems to be <i>common knowledge</i> in some circles.<p>Feel free to bite off more than you can chew and view it as <i>a growth opportunity</i>, but be aware that getting too much of your revenue from one client makes you their bitch. It&#x27;s like all the downside of being an employee plus all the downside of running a business.<p>Best of luck.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Klonoar</author><text>I ran into this early on and it’s a very tight rope to walk. You’re early and trying to keep the big fish so you over-extend and then you’re stuck with that level until you figure out how to reset the expectations - which can be tricky to do.<p>It blocks you from doing other more critical things that, while they might not make you revenue today, will potentially make you revenue later.<p>I’ve never been a fan of VC money but if you’ve gone through this kind of bootstrapping you can certainly appreciate some of what it solves - tho the grass is always greener and all that.</text></comment> |
21,752,120 | 21,752,176 | 1 | 2 | 21,751,931 | train | <story><title>Roxette singer Marie Fredriksson dies, aged 61</title><url>https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-50730052</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>heyflyguy</author><text>About 15 years ago I traveled to Sweden for work. I booked my hotel in a real hurry, not really paying much attention to what or where it was. I arrived jet lagged and feeling like crap, but was pleasantly surprised that this was a beach resort! I went to the basement bar to grab a beer and try to adjust my internal clock. When I got to the basement, it was a virtual shrine to Roxette. I later discovered that the hotel was owned by Per Gessle - the Hotel Tylosands. I highly recommend it if you find yourself in Halmstad, Sweden.</text></comment> | <story><title>Roxette singer Marie Fredriksson dies, aged 61</title><url>https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-50730052</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Tomte</author><text>I was at the last tour they did together. And I was shocked.<p>Marie sang beautifully, but two Roadies had to steady her coming onto the stage, she sat on a barstool for the whole show, never leaving it, the Roadies took her backstage, and then the same for encores.<p>That was when I decided this would be my last Roxette show. I&#x27;d rather have my memories than see Marie this agonized.<p>Thankfully they cancelled the already-announced extension of the tour and Per has been doing solo shows since.<p>Rest in peace! Your music—including your solo albums—means a lot to me.</text></comment> |
21,049,215 | 21,048,923 | 1 | 2 | 21,045,573 | train | <story><title>Silicon Valley is one of the most polluted places in the country</title><url>https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2019/09/silicon-valley-full-superfund-sites/598531/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>natch</author><text>Article does not even mention the Kaiser Permanente cement plant which has a dedicated train line bringing in coal for burning, is one of the largest sources of mercury pollution in California, and is perched right over Cupertino, Sunnyvale, Mountain View, and Los Altos, and very close to Palo Alto and San Jose, bathing them in a haze of emissions.<p>All the highly educated and well connected residents, rich and powerful corporations, and even local governments can&#x27;t do anything about it, because it is grandfathered in by federal law. It doesn&#x27;t even appear on many lists of top polluters because many people who compile such lists only include power plants, and it is not a power plant.<p>It&#x27;s a real world counterexample for people who say we can just turn off the switch of things we don&#x27;t like (AI being the usual such thing). Well, good luck with that, if there are laws saying you can&#x27;t... which there will be.</text></comment> | <story><title>Silicon Valley is one of the most polluted places in the country</title><url>https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2019/09/silicon-valley-full-superfund-sites/598531/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>herostratus101</author><text>This is still the best essay I have read on the topic: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.aarongreenspan.com&#x2F;writing&#x2F;20130404&#x2F;in-search-of-the-cookie-dough-tree&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.aarongreenspan.com&#x2F;writing&#x2F;20130404&#x2F;in-search-of-...</a><p>I&#x27;ve left Silicon Valley since I read it. And having read it, I hope to never move back.</text></comment> |
19,587,742 | 19,587,894 | 1 | 3 | 19,587,478 | train | <story><title>Amazon bought Eero for $97M and employees still got screwed</title><url>https://mashable.com/article/amazon-eero-wifi-router-sale/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>aetherson</author><text>I don&#x27;t understand what people expect in this kind of situation. The company was bought for around the amount of money that they took in investment, or less. Why would the employees get anything? If preference didn&#x27;t exist, and I could take $10M in investment at $100M in valuation, and then the next day liquidate the company, return $1M, and keep $9M, obviously that would just mean that nobody would invest in startups any more.<p>Does it piss people off that the execs got retention bonuses? You&#x27;ve got to give the execs some incentive to stay around if you want to keep operating the company. Do people expect execs to work out of the goodness of their hearts?<p>The company failed. That means the stock isn&#x27;t valuable. What is hard about this?</text></comment> | <story><title>Amazon bought Eero for $97M and employees still got screwed</title><url>https://mashable.com/article/amazon-eero-wifi-router-sale/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>olliej</author><text>Again, if your offer includes a stock grant&#x2F;option&#x2F;whatever stake that doesn&#x27;t have the same priority as those owned by the executive team then you need to treat it as having zero value.<p>If a company believe its stock is sufficiently valuable to be worth being used as compensation then it shouldn&#x27;t feel the need to give pre-IPO employees low-priority &quot;equity&quot;.<p>I recognize people argue that you&#x27;re taking a lower salary because the <i>potential</i> return, but it fails to acknowledge that there is additional risk and cost to the employee:<p>* the potential to suddenly have no employment or insurance<p>* vastly inferior insurance and benefits<p>* significantly reduced job mobility - often this &quot;equity&quot; is surrendered when you leave a company, but that equity is ostensibly to make up for a reduced <i>salary</i>. It&#x27;s earned income that can be stolen from people who earned it.<p>The first also has a future cost as well, because subsequent salary negotiations will happen with your prospective employer knowing that you <i>need</i> your job.<p>So rather than trying to pretend that &quot;equity&quot; justifies a lower salary, employers need to recognize that equity is being granted to compensate for the risk their employees are taking on. The more risky the stock, the more stock needs to be granted - so if the equity is structured to put employees at the end of the spectrum of exercisable equity needs to represent vastly more of the post-investor-payouts equity.</text></comment> |
4,661,138 | 4,661,209 | 1 | 2 | 4,659,860 | train | <story><title>Patents on Software: A Nobel Laureate’s View</title><url>http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/15/opinion/patents-on-software-a-nobel-laureates-view.html?_r=2&</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>brindle</author><text>I'm a chemist and a software engineer. With all due respect there are a lot of similarities. People who do ground breaking research need to have a way of protecting their intellectual property, whether its patents, copyrights, and or reasonable license fees, etc...</text></item><item><author>nitrogen</author><text>Software is different because the cost of materials consumed is effectively zero and the barrier to entry is at most $35 for a Raspberry Pi, allowing anyone to code their way into a patent thicket. Software is also different because of its rapid pace of change, a pace that is threatened by insanely long patent terms (approaching as long as a good chunk of programmers have been alive).</text></item><item><author>jandrewrogers</author><text>The argument made is not unique to software or computer algorithms. Chemical process patents are identical to computer algorithm patents in this respect, just replace bits with molecules, and are among the oldest patentable subject matters. Long, complex sequential algorithms are a feature of many engineering disciplines.<p>Chemical engineering, to use that example, designs elaborate and complex dynamic systems by chaining together abstract chemical algorithms. Each one of those little algorithms is subject to both patent and copyright. Like with software most of the commonly used algorithms and clever hacks were either never patented or the patents have long expired. It is only on the bleeding edge that some chemical algorithms are under patent; as with computer algorithms there are an unbounded number of potential algorithms but some are more efficient than others. Specific implementations are still covered by copyright and are widely licensed (as libraries).<p>Most of the nominal specialness attributed to software as a domain for intellectual property does not really exist. Yet the rarely questioned assertion that computer software is special in some way has created a dearth of comparative studies that would likely be valuable from both a theoretical standpoint as well as a practical policy standpoint. Either these other areas, like chemical processes, are equally broken at a fundamental level and the scope should be extended beyond software, or there are differences in implementation across otherwise equivalent domains and we should borrowing from the better implementation. It seems like an oversight that no one is attempting to do either.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Joeri</author><text>"People who do ground breaking research need to have a way of protecting their intellectual property"<p>Define "ground-breaking".<p>This is the myth of the patent system: the lone inventor doing dazzling unprecedented work that they can only recoup by being granted a patent. Those people don't exist. You may find one or two, but not enough to justify the overbearing patent system.</text></comment> | <story><title>Patents on Software: A Nobel Laureate’s View</title><url>http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/15/opinion/patents-on-software-a-nobel-laureates-view.html?_r=2&</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>brindle</author><text>I'm a chemist and a software engineer. With all due respect there are a lot of similarities. People who do ground breaking research need to have a way of protecting their intellectual property, whether its patents, copyrights, and or reasonable license fees, etc...</text></item><item><author>nitrogen</author><text>Software is different because the cost of materials consumed is effectively zero and the barrier to entry is at most $35 for a Raspberry Pi, allowing anyone to code their way into a patent thicket. Software is also different because of its rapid pace of change, a pace that is threatened by insanely long patent terms (approaching as long as a good chunk of programmers have been alive).</text></item><item><author>jandrewrogers</author><text>The argument made is not unique to software or computer algorithms. Chemical process patents are identical to computer algorithm patents in this respect, just replace bits with molecules, and are among the oldest patentable subject matters. Long, complex sequential algorithms are a feature of many engineering disciplines.<p>Chemical engineering, to use that example, designs elaborate and complex dynamic systems by chaining together abstract chemical algorithms. Each one of those little algorithms is subject to both patent and copyright. Like with software most of the commonly used algorithms and clever hacks were either never patented or the patents have long expired. It is only on the bleeding edge that some chemical algorithms are under patent; as with computer algorithms there are an unbounded number of potential algorithms but some are more efficient than others. Specific implementations are still covered by copyright and are widely licensed (as libraries).<p>Most of the nominal specialness attributed to software as a domain for intellectual property does not really exist. Yet the rarely questioned assertion that computer software is special in some way has created a dearth of comparative studies that would likely be valuable from both a theoretical standpoint as well as a practical policy standpoint. Either these other areas, like chemical processes, are equally broken at a fundamental level and the scope should be extended beyond software, or there are differences in implementation across otherwise equivalent domains and we should borrowing from the better implementation. It seems like an oversight that no one is attempting to do either.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kbutler</author><text>How many patentable steps are there in useful chemical production paths?<p>I expect that any trivial software application has many (many) orders of magnitude more patent-vulnerable elements than the most complex commercially produced chemicals.<p>Software is much more free to include complexity because of the low cost of each element - there's no need to create a physical plant that implements the software.<p>This makes progress in software much more vulnerable to impedance by patents, because patents cause a greater increase in the relative cost of each element and because there are more elements involved.<p>And I think if we only allowed patents on "ground breaking" inventions, there would be many fewer patents and much less basis for anti-patent opinions.</text></comment> |
13,234,703 | 13,234,633 | 1 | 2 | 13,234,269 | train | <story><title>Percentage of Young Americans Living with Parents Rises to 75-Year High</title><url>http://www.wsj.com/articles/percentage-of-young-americans-living-with-parents-rises-to-75-year-high-1482316203?mod=trending_now_2</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>notyourwork</author><text>Cost of tuition continually grows, most graduates are not falling into extremely lucrative salaries and average salaries are not keeping up with inflation. This is far from surprising but is very concerning.<p>Another avenue to pursue this discussion from is the % of income allocated to retirement savings. I have a sneaky suspicious most of my peers are saving less for retirement than the same demographic 10, 20, 30 years ago.<p>What happens in a few decades when all these adults who lived with their parents and hardly saved for retirement due to lower salaries and student loans are too old to work? It seems our tax dollars will be supporting them and this looks like a big problem. Curious what others think or if I am looking at this problem from the wrong perspective.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jackcosgrove</author><text>Your sneaking suspicion is correct for baby boomers and gen X: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.pewtrusts.org&#x2F;en&#x2F;about&#x2F;news-room&#x2F;press-releases&#x2F;2014&#x2F;09&#x2F;18&#x2F;pew-finds-generation-x-facing-an-insecure-financial-future" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.pewtrusts.org&#x2F;en&#x2F;about&#x2F;news-room&#x2F;press-releases&#x2F;2...</a>. &quot;Gen Xers have less wealth and six times more debt than their parents did at the same age,&quot; despite having higher salaries.<p>I think you&#x27;re right to be concerned. Not being able to strike out on your own delays family formation, which leads to some attrition of people who never have children for financial reasons. This decreases the birthrate and then on top of the working generation supporting members within its own cohort, they also have to support an older generation of retirees with an ever rising dependency ratio. It&#x27;s a negative feedback loop that countries like Japan, Germany, and Italy are stuck in.<p>Both the education and housing problems can be solved. Education can be automated and amateurized using technology, and more housing can be built. Both of these would do a lot to decrease youth debt loads. Medical price inflation is the tougher problem but is less pressing for young people. Eventually we will be old though and then it will hit like a ton of bricks for those unlucky enough to have not accumulated wealth.</text></comment> | <story><title>Percentage of Young Americans Living with Parents Rises to 75-Year High</title><url>http://www.wsj.com/articles/percentage-of-young-americans-living-with-parents-rises-to-75-year-high-1482316203?mod=trending_now_2</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>notyourwork</author><text>Cost of tuition continually grows, most graduates are not falling into extremely lucrative salaries and average salaries are not keeping up with inflation. This is far from surprising but is very concerning.<p>Another avenue to pursue this discussion from is the % of income allocated to retirement savings. I have a sneaky suspicious most of my peers are saving less for retirement than the same demographic 10, 20, 30 years ago.<p>What happens in a few decades when all these adults who lived with their parents and hardly saved for retirement due to lower salaries and student loans are too old to work? It seems our tax dollars will be supporting them and this looks like a big problem. Curious what others think or if I am looking at this problem from the wrong perspective.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>malandrew</author><text>The problem already goes beyond millennials.<p>Increasing automation is going to make unskilled labor a huge liability for countries. This is one reason I don&#x27;t think some of the anti-immigrant position of many Americans (and Europeans) is unwarranted. Every country should want highly skilled labor to help improve their current account, but unskilled labor is huge future liability. There is already a huge surplus of domestic unskilled labor in developed countries. Allowing unskilled labor to increase through immigration is only going to exacerbate the problem.</text></comment> |
7,627,405 | 7,627,301 | 1 | 2 | 7,626,912 | train | <story><title>Forensic Ballistics: How Apollo 12 Helped Solve the Skydiver Meteorite Mystery</title><url>http://www.planetary.org/blogs/guest-blogs/2014/0419-forensic-ballistics.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>tc_</author><text>The article&#x27;s discussion of golf balls reads completely opposite to standard well-accepted theory. The author writes:<p>&gt; <i>[The &quot;drag catastrophe&quot;] is when an object is falling so fast that the boundary layer of gas separates off the object and the drag force suddenly drops by a factor of almost 10. The reason why golf balls have dimples is to cause this drag catastrophe to happen at slightly slower speeds, so the ball will travel a lot farther.</i><p>This is very confused. Golf balls have dimples to <i>prevent</i> flow separation. The dimples are turbulators meant to induce turbulent flow around the golf ball before the laminar flow would otherwise give way to flow separation. Far from decreasing the drag force, flow separation increases it substantially.<p>[Also, the term &quot;drag catastrophe&quot; appears to have no relevant hits on Google other than this one article.]<p>[Edit 1]: The author is well qualified and unlikely to be confused himself; so I don&#x27;t doubt his conclusion. Reading charitably, turbulent flow might be called a form of separated flow, and this must be what the author means. His coefficient of drag graph supports this interpretation as his &quot;drag catastrophe&quot; would be happening when you would expect a transition flow (from separated laminar to turbulent). Pedagogically he should have more clearly distinguished it from the typical laminar separated flow.</text></comment> | <story><title>Forensic Ballistics: How Apollo 12 Helped Solve the Skydiver Meteorite Mystery</title><url>http://www.planetary.org/blogs/guest-blogs/2014/0419-forensic-ballistics.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>mixmax</author><text>Submissions like this is the reason I frequent HN! A thorough well written and well researched article that point by point dissects an interesting event and comes to a surprising conclusion.<p>If you come across other articles of this calibre please submit them!</text></comment> |
41,042,097 | 41,041,594 | 1 | 2 | 41,037,745 | train | <story><title>Maestro: Netflix's Workflow Orchestrator</title><url>https://netflixtechblog.com/maestro-netflixs-workflow-orchestrator-ee13a06f9c78</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>slt2021</author><text>So Netflix expects open source community to pick up the maintenance tab ?<p>I understand how open source proejcts are born, but I struggle to see what is novelty of this project. Just another Java CRUD app with some questionable design choices that are only applicable to netflix:<p>1. They claim it is distributed system, but it is just a regular Java crud with SQL backend<p>2. Java-like DSL with parser and classloader (why? Just why?)<p>Projects like these are the perfect examples of Enterprise Grade FizzBuzz (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;EnterpriseQualityCoding&#x2F;FizzBuzzEnterpriseEdition">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;EnterpriseQualityCoding&#x2F;FizzBuzzEnterpris...</a>) and this is exactly what I dont like about it</text></item><item><author>cortesoft</author><text>Isn&#x27;t this exactly WHY this blog post exists? They are open sourcing this software so that they don&#x27;t have to maintain it all internally anymore.<p>They had a need that an existing &quot;off-the-shelf open source&quot; project didn&#x27;t solve, so they created this an are now turning it into an &quot;off-the-shelf open source&quot; project so they can keep using it without having to maintain it entirely themselves.<p>How are these open source tools supposed to be created in the first place? This is the process, someone has to do it</text></item><item><author>slt2021</author><text>I used to be impressed with these corporate techblogs and their internal proprietary systems, but not so much anymore. Because code is a liability.<p>I would rather use off-the-shelf open source stuff with long history of maintenance and improvement, rather than reinvent the cron&#x2F;celery&#x2F;airflow&#x2F;whatever, because code is a liability. Somebody needs to maintain it, fix bugs, add new features. Unless I get +1 grade promotion and salary&#x2F;rsu bump, ofc.<p>People need to realize that code is a liability, anything that is not the business critical stuff that earns&#x2F;makes $$$ for the company is a distraction and resource sink.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>cortesoft</author><text>&gt; So Netflix expects open source community to pick up the maintenance tab?<p>Isn’t this the deal with all open source? They are giving something (the code and access to the project) in return for help maintaining it?<p>No one is being forced to do anything. It is not like there is some open source contributor somewhere now saying, “oh damn, now I have to maintain this, too?”<p>If people like it and find value in it, they can help contribute to the project in ways they want. Netflix gets to use those contributions, in return for letting people use their contributions. That is just how open source works.</text></comment> | <story><title>Maestro: Netflix's Workflow Orchestrator</title><url>https://netflixtechblog.com/maestro-netflixs-workflow-orchestrator-ee13a06f9c78</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>slt2021</author><text>So Netflix expects open source community to pick up the maintenance tab ?<p>I understand how open source proejcts are born, but I struggle to see what is novelty of this project. Just another Java CRUD app with some questionable design choices that are only applicable to netflix:<p>1. They claim it is distributed system, but it is just a regular Java crud with SQL backend<p>2. Java-like DSL with parser and classloader (why? Just why?)<p>Projects like these are the perfect examples of Enterprise Grade FizzBuzz (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;EnterpriseQualityCoding&#x2F;FizzBuzzEnterpriseEdition">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;EnterpriseQualityCoding&#x2F;FizzBuzzEnterpris...</a>) and this is exactly what I dont like about it</text></item><item><author>cortesoft</author><text>Isn&#x27;t this exactly WHY this blog post exists? They are open sourcing this software so that they don&#x27;t have to maintain it all internally anymore.<p>They had a need that an existing &quot;off-the-shelf open source&quot; project didn&#x27;t solve, so they created this an are now turning it into an &quot;off-the-shelf open source&quot; project so they can keep using it without having to maintain it entirely themselves.<p>How are these open source tools supposed to be created in the first place? This is the process, someone has to do it</text></item><item><author>slt2021</author><text>I used to be impressed with these corporate techblogs and their internal proprietary systems, but not so much anymore. Because code is a liability.<p>I would rather use off-the-shelf open source stuff with long history of maintenance and improvement, rather than reinvent the cron&#x2F;celery&#x2F;airflow&#x2F;whatever, because code is a liability. Somebody needs to maintain it, fix bugs, add new features. Unless I get +1 grade promotion and salary&#x2F;rsu bump, ofc.<p>People need to realize that code is a liability, anything that is not the business critical stuff that earns&#x2F;makes $$$ for the company is a distraction and resource sink.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>geodel</author><text>You are making great points. This is power of Netflix marketing and branding that they are considered as cutting edge tech company. In reality most of Netflix Java projects are pretty mediocre Enterprise Java stuff. Last year or so they have mandated Spring Boot as their development platform for all their web services.<p>This is exactly same stack I have to deal daily and management reason is it is lowest common denominator that works well with 3-month contract developer to deliver Nth micro service whose sole job is to call another service.</text></comment> |
30,739,770 | 30,739,613 | 1 | 3 | 30,739,030 | train | <story><title>Just some red flags. No big deal. Just ignore them (2020)</title><url>https://rachelbythebay.com/w/2020/05/22/boarded/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>TameAntelope</author><text>Honestly? Onboarding is hard. How are you supposed to do it? Everyone who has to go through it isn’t going to fix it, because they’re new and have their actual job to get to.<p>It also doesn’t give the customer any value, so how do you justify losing out making stuff better for the people who pay your company money?<p>I just kind of assume on boarding will suck, and it’s not a reflection of the rest of your time there. Maybe I’m wrong, but it’s been true for me.<p>What are folks’ tips for making onboarding smoother?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Cerium</author><text>I thought the on-boarding process where I work was good when I went through it. The important part was that I felt respected and that the company was excited to have me (despite it being large enough back then that about 10 to 15 were joining a week).<p>1. New hires start on Monday at the HR office. Take badge photos, get badges, given basic overview of company policy. Told that the company respects and trusts us, that our badge should open any door that does not have a safety reason to be restricted.<p>2. After orientation I found my manager waiting in the lobby. He told me how to get to our part of the campus.<p>3. My manager shows me to my cube. It has a computer in it with a sticky note with a temporary password. I log in, am able to open the SSO page and change the temporary password.<p>4. I&#x27;m given an introductory binder with answers to lots of questions, who works around me, what they do, what I will likely be doing soon, etc.<p>5. My manager suggests I start doing trainings (medical company, lots of trainings to meet certification standards), but says if I get tired do something else.<p>6. A bit later in the day a local tech person came and helped me run a magic script that got the developer tools setup and ran a build to make sure it was all good.<p>7. Proceed to get my first project and get started.<p>Overall the process was the minimum needed to make sure I got into the building and had what I needed.</text></comment> | <story><title>Just some red flags. No big deal. Just ignore them (2020)</title><url>https://rachelbythebay.com/w/2020/05/22/boarded/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>TameAntelope</author><text>Honestly? Onboarding is hard. How are you supposed to do it? Everyone who has to go through it isn’t going to fix it, because they’re new and have their actual job to get to.<p>It also doesn’t give the customer any value, so how do you justify losing out making stuff better for the people who pay your company money?<p>I just kind of assume on boarding will suck, and it’s not a reflection of the rest of your time there. Maybe I’m wrong, but it’s been true for me.<p>What are folks’ tips for making onboarding smoother?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>civilized</author><text>Well first, let&#x27;s dispense with the pretense that every moment of time should be devoted to churning out customer value. The way an organization treats new people shapes its culture and thus its productivity.<p>The biggest thing is to have comprehensive written documentation of the process and keep it updated.<p>I agree with the other suggestion to have SSO or official password manager practices.<p>And steer clear of the shitty MacBook Pros Apple made from 2016-2020. The hellish butterfly keyboard and Touch Bar era.</text></comment> |
24,787,617 | 24,787,422 | 1 | 3 | 24,786,908 | train | <story><title>The persecution of the Uyghurs is a crime against humanity</title><url>https://www.economist.com/leaders/2020/10/17/the-persecution-of-the-uyghurs-is-a-crime-against-humanity</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>zdragnar</author><text>Didn&#x27;t China just get on to the human rights committee too?<p>Edit: yes, the human rights council, joined by Russia and Cuba. What a time to be alive.</text></item><item><author>goku99</author><text>I don&#x27;t understand what&#x27;s the point of UN when these things are happening in a permanent UNSC member country. This C<i></i><i></i> has been causing nuisance to their neighbors all the time. They Debt-Trap poor nations and exploit them. From Mongols to India, every neighbor has a problem, they are probably most worst neighbor you could get. Recently it was in news with yet another conflict with India[1]. This needs to stop. Entire World is Struggling to contain COVID while 600 million Chinese are on <i>Vacation</i> [2]<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cnbc.com&#x2F;2020&#x2F;06&#x2F;16&#x2F;india-says-officer-two-soldiers-killed-on-border-with-china.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cnbc.com&#x2F;2020&#x2F;06&#x2F;16&#x2F;india-says-officer-two-soldi...</a>
[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cnbc.com&#x2F;2020&#x2F;10&#x2F;09&#x2F;china-attractions-630-million-people-travel-during-golden-week.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cnbc.com&#x2F;2020&#x2F;10&#x2F;09&#x2F;china-attractions-630-millio...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tsimionescu</author><text>Cuba has a much better human rights record than Russia, China and the USA, at least as far as their impact on other countries goes. The presence of Saudi Arabia in the Human Rights council is a much worse travesty anyway, by any measure.</text></comment> | <story><title>The persecution of the Uyghurs is a crime against humanity</title><url>https://www.economist.com/leaders/2020/10/17/the-persecution-of-the-uyghurs-is-a-crime-against-humanity</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>zdragnar</author><text>Didn&#x27;t China just get on to the human rights committee too?<p>Edit: yes, the human rights council, joined by Russia and Cuba. What a time to be alive.</text></item><item><author>goku99</author><text>I don&#x27;t understand what&#x27;s the point of UN when these things are happening in a permanent UNSC member country. This C<i></i><i></i> has been causing nuisance to their neighbors all the time. They Debt-Trap poor nations and exploit them. From Mongols to India, every neighbor has a problem, they are probably most worst neighbor you could get. Recently it was in news with yet another conflict with India[1]. This needs to stop. Entire World is Struggling to contain COVID while 600 million Chinese are on <i>Vacation</i> [2]<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cnbc.com&#x2F;2020&#x2F;06&#x2F;16&#x2F;india-says-officer-two-soldiers-killed-on-border-with-china.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cnbc.com&#x2F;2020&#x2F;06&#x2F;16&#x2F;india-says-officer-two-soldi...</a>
[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cnbc.com&#x2F;2020&#x2F;10&#x2F;09&#x2F;china-attractions-630-million-people-travel-during-golden-week.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cnbc.com&#x2F;2020&#x2F;10&#x2F;09&#x2F;china-attractions-630-millio...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dalbasal</author><text>IMO, this proves the counterpoint.<p>The UN isn&#x27;t and isn&#x27;t supposed to be a political body. It isn&#x27;t idealistic and it isn&#x27;t designed to prevent human rights abuses. It is designed to prevent nuclear war between SC members. The HRC is not going to prevent or even deter human rights abuses, it never has.<p>The UN isn&#x27;t a world government, isn&#x27;t supposed to be.<p>Basically, the UN is a moot point. The UN is not going to do anything about Uygyur persecution in China. Neither is anti-UN shite.</text></comment> |
17,579,122 | 17,578,361 | 1 | 3 | 17,578,043 | train | <story><title>Riving, a Viking-age woodworking technique</title><url>http://www.hurstwic.org/history/articles/manufacturing/text/viking_woodworking_riving.htm</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>GlenTheMachine</author><text>This is an interesting article, but riving is not specifically Viking. It was the primary method of producing workable wood blanks from tree trunks in every civilization that used wood blanks. Which is to say, it was used all over Europe and Asia (at least), for at least the last 2000-plus years. I&#x27;m not as familiar with the woodworking traditions of Africa or pre-European-contact North or South America, so I don&#x27;t know whether they used wood blanks.<p>It&#x27;s also used today by &quot;green woodworkers&quot; - woodworkers who specialize in building using non-dried wood. This mostly includes chair makers, but also some others. You can buy riving tools from a lot of places. Lie-Nielsen makes a very nice riving froe. You can also find antique ones at almost any antique woodworking tool show.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>321yawaworht</author><text>Where do you guys come from? How do you know all this stuff?<p>It&#x27;s so interesting and I&#x27;m often surprised at the diversity of knowledge, experience and backgrounds on HN. For even the most esoteric of subjects folks here will have interesting input. I love to try and experiment, and like people who are passionate about things.<p>Just wanted to get it off my chest. I love this place and it makes me appreciate life and its peculiarities more. When I was in high school I dreaded only observing greasy nerds interested in techy stuff. It&#x27;s been a while but HN has really shown a different side of the world to me.<p>Thanks!</text></comment> | <story><title>Riving, a Viking-age woodworking technique</title><url>http://www.hurstwic.org/history/articles/manufacturing/text/viking_woodworking_riving.htm</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>GlenTheMachine</author><text>This is an interesting article, but riving is not specifically Viking. It was the primary method of producing workable wood blanks from tree trunks in every civilization that used wood blanks. Which is to say, it was used all over Europe and Asia (at least), for at least the last 2000-plus years. I&#x27;m not as familiar with the woodworking traditions of Africa or pre-European-contact North or South America, so I don&#x27;t know whether they used wood blanks.<p>It&#x27;s also used today by &quot;green woodworkers&quot; - woodworkers who specialize in building using non-dried wood. This mostly includes chair makers, but also some others. You can buy riving tools from a lot of places. Lie-Nielsen makes a very nice riving froe. You can also find antique ones at almost any antique woodworking tool show.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>vinceguidry</author><text>The article was hosted on hurstwic.org, which is a website dedicated to teaching Viking martial arts. It does not claim that riving is purely a Viking technique. I suppose it could have mentioned that, but I doubt the author ever considered their article making it to the front page of HN.</text></comment> |
2,542,637 | 2,542,672 | 1 | 3 | 2,541,360 | train | <story><title>Not a designer? Here’s how to make your web apps look awesome</title><url>http://tbbuck.com/how-to-make-your-web-apps-look-awesome/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>huhtenberg</author><text>&#62; <i>Not a designer? Here’s how to make your web apps look awesome -</i><p>Hire a designer :)<p>--<p>I am saying this only half-jokingly. There's always a trade-off. Pre-made themes are great, but<p>(a) they are shared and have a mass-production stigma attached to them<p>(b) they are designed first and spec'd second, which is the opposite of the normal process whereby the design follows from what it is that needs to be achieved with it.<p>The title should really be "great looking designs on a budget" rather than focusing on the lack of the designer skills. Because if there are funds available, then contracting out the design and getting exactly what you want beats the hell out of purchasing a theme.</text></comment> | <story><title>Not a designer? Here’s how to make your web apps look awesome</title><url>http://tbbuck.com/how-to-make-your-web-apps-look-awesome/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>dglassan</author><text>This is the approach I took with Disrupt.fm<p>I almost convinced myself to spend around $7-800 on a design from 99designs before I found an awesome admin theme on themeforest for $20<p>Just because you purchase a theme from themeforest does not mean that your site will look like 500 other sites that have the same theme. I bought an admin template so that I could use the styles....not the structure and layout.You should purchase a theme knowing that it's going to be customized to fit your needs, not to just drop it in and be done...plus, chances are most of the admin templates are used on the backend for a bunch of websites that the public won't see.</text></comment> |
22,146,313 | 22,145,878 | 1 | 2 | 22,145,168 | train | <story><title>Show HN: Userbase – Add user accounts and persistence to your static site</title><url>https://userbase.com/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>paublyrne</author><text>From the FAQ:<p><i>What happens if a user forgets the password?
Users should always keep a copy of their password in a safe place, such as a password manager. Since the encryption key needs to be decrypted by the user&#x27;s password, it is not possible to recover an account if the password gets lost.</i><p>I don&#x27;t believe this is acceptable for a user authentication service. Password reset functionality must be present for this to be production ready.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>DVassallo</author><text>End-to-end encryption is one of the main features of the product. Since the key is user-controlled, there will always be something that the user must keep and never lose. For this first version, we chose to make that thing the user’s own password.<p>Other end-to-end encrypted apps (such as password managers) have the same requirement. Sometimes the password is resettable, but you have to keep another key. But there’s always something that would lock you out if you lose it.</text></comment> | <story><title>Show HN: Userbase – Add user accounts and persistence to your static site</title><url>https://userbase.com/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>paublyrne</author><text>From the FAQ:<p><i>What happens if a user forgets the password?
Users should always keep a copy of their password in a safe place, such as a password manager. Since the encryption key needs to be decrypted by the user&#x27;s password, it is not possible to recover an account if the password gets lost.</i><p>I don&#x27;t believe this is acceptable for a user authentication service. Password reset functionality must be present for this to be production ready.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>j-berman</author><text>Userbase dev here<p>Yes, this is a thorny issue.<p>We chose to offer a service that keeps user data end-to-end encrypted by default. With that choice comes this tradeoff. And it’s a tradeoff similarly offered by practically every other end-to-end encrypted service I’m aware of.<p>That being said, we have plans to alleviate the weight of this tradeoff, and we’ve already written nearly all of the code. That code is pending a security review and further refinement.<p>The high level summary of it right now is:
1. you as the developer can opt to keep the user’s key stored in plaintext in local storage (via a single parameter passed to our signIn() method)
2. if a user forgets their password, they can get a temporary password emailed to them, then use it to sign back in
3. the user can then change their password normally</text></comment> |
37,856,181 | 37,856,295 | 1 | 2 | 37,854,995 | train | <story><title>Email and Git = <3</title><url>https://git-send-email.io/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ploum</author><text>Organizations that insists on using a web interface and ever-changing click workflows not only drive away a significant number of very knowledgeable contributors, but they also form a weirdly irrational culture that fetishizes needlessly graphical content, marketing and fake-usability detrimental to learnability and integration with each user workflow.</text></item><item><author>BaculumMeumEst</author><text>I appreciate the effort here, but after learning the workflow and having to get all this set up on a few computers, having to configure git send-mail is honestly just needlessly annoying and absurd.<p>Organizations that insist on using workflows like git send-mail and mailing lists not only drive away a significant number of potential contributors, but they also form a weirdly religious culture that fetishizes needlessly painful process and is incapable of improvement</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>sneak</author><text>“needlessly graphical” requires a citation when it’s clear that if you use a web GUI for this you address a market of potential contributors that is three to six orders of magnitude larger.<p>srht is really designed for (and thus only really useful for) lone wolf developers who collaborate rarely, if ever, and with a very small number of collaborators who collaborate infrequently. It is not built for large teams with constant active collaboration, it falls down for this use case.<p>It’s hobby software for hobby users. (I don’t think this is a bad thing, but you should be aware of the product design goals of its author.)</text></comment> | <story><title>Email and Git = <3</title><url>https://git-send-email.io/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ploum</author><text>Organizations that insists on using a web interface and ever-changing click workflows not only drive away a significant number of very knowledgeable contributors, but they also form a weirdly irrational culture that fetishizes needlessly graphical content, marketing and fake-usability detrimental to learnability and integration with each user workflow.</text></item><item><author>BaculumMeumEst</author><text>I appreciate the effort here, but after learning the workflow and having to get all this set up on a few computers, having to configure git send-mail is honestly just needlessly annoying and absurd.<p>Organizations that insist on using workflows like git send-mail and mailing lists not only drive away a significant number of potential contributors, but they also form a weirdly religious culture that fetishizes needlessly painful process and is incapable of improvement</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pjerem</author><text>I have no great love for GitHub, I avoid it for my own projects but their official cli client is pretty functional and there are just tons of other clients, graphical or not for GitHub, GitLab etc …<p>I say that as someone who don’t like GitHub, but overall it’s far from the worst tool an employer may impose to its employees.</text></comment> |
34,724,855 | 34,724,443 | 1 | 2 | 34,706,925 | train | <story><title>Something strange is happening on the sun, and we've never seen it before</title><url>https://www.vice.com/en/article/k7bm83/something-strange-is-happening-on-the-sun-and-weve-never-seen-it-before</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>pfdietz</author><text>&quot;The find is just the latest in a series of interesting space observations thanks to the capabilities of the James Webb Space Telescope.&quot;<p>How has this anything to do with the JWST? That telescope would be ruined instantly if it were pointed at the Sun.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>krono</author><text>Purely for SEO and social media surfacing purposes, I can almost guarantee it.</text></comment> | <story><title>Something strange is happening on the sun, and we've never seen it before</title><url>https://www.vice.com/en/article/k7bm83/something-strange-is-happening-on-the-sun-and-weve-never-seen-it-before</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>pfdietz</author><text>&quot;The find is just the latest in a series of interesting space observations thanks to the capabilities of the James Webb Space Telescope.&quot;<p>How has this anything to do with the JWST? That telescope would be ruined instantly if it were pointed at the Sun.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>danbruc</author><text>I guess you could parse the sentence in a way that it is correct.<p><i>The find by SDO extends a series of interesting space observations started by JWST.</i><p>But that would be a somewhat weird point to make, so I would agree, they probably thought the observation was by JWST.</text></comment> |
36,840,193 | 36,839,527 | 1 | 3 | 36,837,391 | train | <story><title>Google Nest Mini Gutted and Rebuilt to Run Custom Agents</title><url>https://hackaday.com/2023/07/23/google-nest-mini-gutted-and-rebuilt-to-run-custom-agents/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>CommanderData</author><text>Really nice.<p>I&#x27;d love to eventually have voice models that sounds like AI&#x27;s from movies or games such as Sunshine, Dead space, Halo etc.</text></comment> | <story><title>Google Nest Mini Gutted and Rebuilt to Run Custom Agents</title><url>https://hackaday.com/2023/07/23/google-nest-mini-gutted-and-rebuilt-to-run-custom-agents/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>humanistbot</author><text>Slightly off-topic, but is there a good smart speaker you can more easily disconnect from corporate clouds and integrate with homeassistant? I was excited about the ESP Muse Luxe, but mine kept breaking, and from the reviews, it seems I was not alone. There are a lot of DIY guides for hooking a speaker and microphone up to a raspberry pi, but I&#x27;d like something a little less DIY.</text></comment> |
23,820,873 | 23,819,484 | 1 | 2 | 23,816,678 | train | <story><title>Website allows you to experience what it is like to live with dyslexia (2016)</title><url>http://geon.github.io/programming/2016/03/03/dsxyliea</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>polytely</author><text>I have exactly this, still have a lot of mental math. At school teachers just gave up at some point and gave me a calculator, I still have a lot of trouble with mental multiplication and converting between analog and digital time (doesn&#x27;t help that in Dutch you say 15:30 like &#x27;half four&#x27;).<p>I&#x27;m also terrible at holding numbers in my head, if I do not keep paying conscious attention to it, they get reversed or substituted. I remember all my PIN&#x27;s by the motion you used to input them instead of the number itself.<p>Programming made me discover how much I love math, but I still miss a lot of basics because I never &#x27;got it&#x27; in elementary school, and thus ended up in the lowest levels of math in highschool, where it was extremely boring and tedious (because it was actually way to easy), I wish I could send a programming book&#x2F;numberphile videos to my 12-year-old self, because I think I could have ended up using high-school time way more effectively, instead of just going through the motions.</text></item><item><author>Gene_Parmesan</author><text>I have ADHD (where dyslexia is a common co-morbidity). I&#x27;m not dyslexic, but I tend to experience dyslexia-like symptoms with numbers. Never letters, just numbers. It made math hell in school. Like you describe, it&#x27;s not that the numbers are literally moving on the page. It&#x27;s that they sort of... blob together in my consciousness, like there&#x27;s a blind spot in my visual understanding, and my brain tends to fill in with numbers that look close enough. I tend to transpose numbers very very easily, swapping 6s and 9s, 2s and 5s, 7s and 1s.<p>There&#x27;s an additional layer of challenge where numbers are involved; with words, there are spellings that are obviously not words, or words that don&#x27;t make sense in a given sentence. With numbers, there&#x27;s no easy way for your brain to check whether what you read is accurate, because there&#x27;s no equivalent of numbers not making sense.</text></item><item><author>FuckButtons</author><text>I’m dyslexic, you’re right, this is an exaggeration, but it’s almost impossible to simulate the real thing. It’s not like the letters move around the page, it’s that you perceive them to be other letters or words. Then you realize that you read doesn’t make sense and your brain just replaces it with the correct words or letters when you read it again. It kind of makes you aware of the fact that what you see and what is there are two distinct things which are not always the same.</text></item><item><author>caymanjim</author><text>This seems like an exaggeration of the descriptions I&#x27;ve heard about dyslexia, in that letters move way too far. Another huge problem is that the first and last letters don&#x27;t change, and I&#x27;m betting that for dyslexics, those anchor letters don&#x27;t exist. With the anchor letters, I find this trivial to read. It barely slows me down at all. Studies have shown that most people can read fairly easily when the first and last letters of a word are fixed and the inner letters are scrambled. Given the difficulty that dyslexics have, I suspect this isn&#x27;t a realistic simulation.<p>It&#x27;s an interesting idea. I appreciate the goal. I just don&#x27;t know that this is anything like the real thing. I&#x27;m not sure it&#x27;s possible to know what it&#x27;s subjectively like.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>lostmyoldone</author><text>I have ADD and used to have significant trouble with these kind of issues, while I still have trouble with time, almost all of my issues with remembering number (pin codes etc) went away after an &quot;intensive&quot; regimen of essentially n-back training prescribed by my care provider.<p>While my improvement after 30min a day for a couple of weeks was something of an aberration in magnitude (from 70&quot;th percentile to 110&#x27;th, from well below average to above), it was reportedly quite consistent in increasing recall percentile with ~10% as measured against the general population. Which especially at lower percentiles is quite impressive!<p>It&#x27;s not really realated, but to me the whole thing was quite a strange experience!
After roughly a week of daily practice, it suddenly felt like I found a part of my brain I didn&#x27;t even know existed. I could suddenly pick numbers, or sequences of &quot;lights&quot; turning on on the screen, seemingly from nothing! The first times it happened I didn&#x27;t really remember the sequence, I only knew which button to push, but after a little more practice I started to be able to consciously recall the sequence from this new place in my mind.<p>It was truly stunning to be suddenly able to look at a code at the car wash, and sometimes remember it for hours afterwards!<p>Me, who several times had forgotten my card pin, who though I loved and was good at maths had to read digit by digit to get the numbers right (and often still didn&#x27;t), and who had in general tended to permute any kind of number more often than not for the ~30 years I had known what numbers were!<p>The brain is so strange sometimes.</text></comment> | <story><title>Website allows you to experience what it is like to live with dyslexia (2016)</title><url>http://geon.github.io/programming/2016/03/03/dsxyliea</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>polytely</author><text>I have exactly this, still have a lot of mental math. At school teachers just gave up at some point and gave me a calculator, I still have a lot of trouble with mental multiplication and converting between analog and digital time (doesn&#x27;t help that in Dutch you say 15:30 like &#x27;half four&#x27;).<p>I&#x27;m also terrible at holding numbers in my head, if I do not keep paying conscious attention to it, they get reversed or substituted. I remember all my PIN&#x27;s by the motion you used to input them instead of the number itself.<p>Programming made me discover how much I love math, but I still miss a lot of basics because I never &#x27;got it&#x27; in elementary school, and thus ended up in the lowest levels of math in highschool, where it was extremely boring and tedious (because it was actually way to easy), I wish I could send a programming book&#x2F;numberphile videos to my 12-year-old self, because I think I could have ended up using high-school time way more effectively, instead of just going through the motions.</text></item><item><author>Gene_Parmesan</author><text>I have ADHD (where dyslexia is a common co-morbidity). I&#x27;m not dyslexic, but I tend to experience dyslexia-like symptoms with numbers. Never letters, just numbers. It made math hell in school. Like you describe, it&#x27;s not that the numbers are literally moving on the page. It&#x27;s that they sort of... blob together in my consciousness, like there&#x27;s a blind spot in my visual understanding, and my brain tends to fill in with numbers that look close enough. I tend to transpose numbers very very easily, swapping 6s and 9s, 2s and 5s, 7s and 1s.<p>There&#x27;s an additional layer of challenge where numbers are involved; with words, there are spellings that are obviously not words, or words that don&#x27;t make sense in a given sentence. With numbers, there&#x27;s no easy way for your brain to check whether what you read is accurate, because there&#x27;s no equivalent of numbers not making sense.</text></item><item><author>FuckButtons</author><text>I’m dyslexic, you’re right, this is an exaggeration, but it’s almost impossible to simulate the real thing. It’s not like the letters move around the page, it’s that you perceive them to be other letters or words. Then you realize that you read doesn’t make sense and your brain just replaces it with the correct words or letters when you read it again. It kind of makes you aware of the fact that what you see and what is there are two distinct things which are not always the same.</text></item><item><author>caymanjim</author><text>This seems like an exaggeration of the descriptions I&#x27;ve heard about dyslexia, in that letters move way too far. Another huge problem is that the first and last letters don&#x27;t change, and I&#x27;m betting that for dyslexics, those anchor letters don&#x27;t exist. With the anchor letters, I find this trivial to read. It barely slows me down at all. Studies have shown that most people can read fairly easily when the first and last letters of a word are fixed and the inner letters are scrambled. Given the difficulty that dyslexics have, I suspect this isn&#x27;t a realistic simulation.<p>It&#x27;s an interesting idea. I appreciate the goal. I just don&#x27;t know that this is anything like the real thing. I&#x27;m not sure it&#x27;s possible to know what it&#x27;s subjectively like.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>violetgarden</author><text>Mental math is so difficult for me that it’s embarrassing! The numbers just don’t stay in my head long enough. I used to feel anxiety if math came up in conversation because I simply can’t calculate in my head like others do, and it makes me feel like a fool.<p>In school, I’d think I’d be doing great on my math problems. When I’d get my work back, I did terrible because I’d accidentally change the numbers in the middle of the problem. I also always had a feeling that I missed some foundational information because nothing ever clicked for me. I put it down to switching schools a few times, but I think it may have been something more than that now. I was actually scared to even try programming because I was always told you need to be good at math, so I thought I would fail terribly.</text></comment> |
25,735,334 | 25,735,886 | 1 | 3 | 25,732,676 | train | <story><title>China CCP to Nationalize Jack Ma's Alibaba and Ant Group – Report</title><url>https://www.ibtimes.sg/china-ccp-nationalize-jack-mas-alibaba-ant-group-54444</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>notJim</author><text>Why is it better for Chinese billionaires to run the country than the CCP? Seems like just trading one master for another.</text></item><item><author>orange_tee</author><text>The West thought once China is full of billionaires, the billionaires having all that wealth would then have the power to oppose and dissolve the CCP.
Didn&#x27;t go as planned.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mhh__</author><text>The conditions that lead to billionaires through business - note the distinction from russian oligarchs - are generally pretty liberal. You still dont want billionaires actually in charge, but there is a correlation between economic freedom and social freedom.</text></comment> | <story><title>China CCP to Nationalize Jack Ma's Alibaba and Ant Group – Report</title><url>https://www.ibtimes.sg/china-ccp-nationalize-jack-mas-alibaba-ant-group-54444</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>notJim</author><text>Why is it better for Chinese billionaires to run the country than the CCP? Seems like just trading one master for another.</text></item><item><author>orange_tee</author><text>The West thought once China is full of billionaires, the billionaires having all that wealth would then have the power to oppose and dissolve the CCP.
Didn&#x27;t go as planned.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>eternalban</author><text>Jack Ma is a member of the Communist Party of China.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reuters.com&#x2F;article&#x2F;us-alibaba-jack-ma-idUSKCN1NW073" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reuters.com&#x2F;article&#x2F;us-alibaba-jack-ma-idUSKCN1N...</a><p>This is a classic power struggle between ideological and technocratic elements. Jack Ma vs Xi Jinping. Jack Ma, a communist party member, challenged party Chairman. As we can dispense with the notion that Jack Ma lacks the necessary wits, the actual interesting question is why did Jack Ma think it opportune to openly challenge Xi Jinping at this time?<p>In the US, this struggle is a non-issue as the ideological element (venture capital) finances and controls the technocrats (such as Jack Dorsey). We just however recently were treated to a purported “outsider” ideologue locking horns, via technocrat proxy of FANGs, with the ideological establishment. Given that this outsider also happens to (still) be the head of state in USA, I guess we need not wonder too deeply as to the logic of CPC reminding a prominent party member and fellow travelers of who still calls the shots in China.</text></comment> |
30,350,941 | 30,350,518 | 1 | 2 | 30,350,310 | train | <story><title>Version 100 in Chrome and Firefox</title><url>https://hacks.mozilla.org/2022/02/version-100-in-chrome-and-firefox/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>vdnkh</author><text>A lot of people here are calling for the death of UAs, but this would be bad for video because capabilities are inconsistent across the web, and because APIs are incomplete or lie.<p>For example, the &quot;canPlayType&quot; API for whether a codec is supported returns &quot;probably&quot; or &quot;maybe&quot;. So we sometimes need to hardcode which browsers support which new codecs.<p>Also, there are several bugs in past and present versions of decoder implementations, which are only discovered though manual testing, or by observing quality of service metrics split by browser version (Firefox does not handle bad audio packets as well as Chrome, for example). In IE and old Edge, the video readyState would always be &quot;4&quot; after playback beings, even during buffering, which is a blatant violation of the spec Microsoft refused to fix (as stated in their bugtracker).<p>Browsers like Safari have subtly different event orders from the HTMLVideoElement which requires a burdensome workaround that us working in video just like to keep to Safari instead of poisoning other implementations.<p>A final fun quirk is that not all browsers gave accurate HTTP timing information until recently (notably, Safari &lt; 14) which make download timing for the purpose of determining bandwidth very inaccurate. This is why Twitch only recently supported low-latency playback for Safari. There is no other way to ask &quot;do you support accurate timing&quot; other than for an engineer to test it and hardcode an exception.</text></comment> | <story><title>Version 100 in Chrome and Firefox</title><url>https://hacks.mozilla.org/2022/02/version-100-in-chrome-and-firefox/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>silvestrov</author><text>Please, not another hack of the user-agent string.<p>If sites break, let them break.</text></comment> |
2,777,039 | 2,777,172 | 1 | 3 | 2,776,581 | train | <story><title>Use Google+ to Improve Your UI</title><url>http://pixify.com/blog/use-google-plus-to-improve-your-ui/</url><text></text></story><parent_chain><item><author>bretthopper</author><text>One interesting difference: Google just uses &#60;div&#62; for their buttons instead of &#60;a&#62; tags or even &#60;button&#62;. They also don't set cursor: pointer (the hand) for them.<p>Any UI people want to comment on the best practice for cursor styles? I always figured pointer should be used for all buttons or links that have an action attached.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Groxx</author><text>I, personally, <i>hate</i> buttons without cursor:pointer. Hover effects are nice and all, but they're often rather subtle, and your eyes are attuned to the cursor already. Changing it is <i>extremely</i> visible, and gives you immediate feedback that you're hovering something actionable. Anecdotal, but I find I "see" when my cursor enters a clickable region much more quickly if the cursor changes - I click sooner, rather than making sure it's positioned inside the element.</text></comment> | <story><title>Use Google+ to Improve Your UI</title><url>http://pixify.com/blog/use-google-plus-to-improve-your-ui/</url><text></text></story><parent_chain><item><author>bretthopper</author><text>One interesting difference: Google just uses &#60;div&#62; for their buttons instead of &#60;a&#62; tags or even &#60;button&#62;. They also don't set cursor: pointer (the hand) for them.<p>Any UI people want to comment on the best practice for cursor styles? I always figured pointer should be used for all buttons or links that have an action attached.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>flyosity</author><text>This is absolutely terrible for accessibility. Screen readers will not handle these buttons properly leading to a significantly more difficult experience. James Edwards actually talked about this at The Highland Fling conference a few weeks back.</text></comment> |
41,277,192 | 41,277,250 | 1 | 2 | 41,240,152 | train | <story><title>The Blue Collar Jobs of Philip Glass</title><url>https://www.honest-broker.com/p/the-blue-collar-jobs-of-philip-glass</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>vatys</author><text>&gt; “I could manage quite well working as few as twenty to twenty-five hours a week—in other words, three full days or five half days. Even after I returned from Paris or India in the late 1960s and well into the 1970s, I could take care of my family by working no more than three or four days a week.”<p>Would today&#x27;s youth, even if equally gifted and ambitious, have the same opportunity? I think now there is such a great imbalance in cost of living and pay rates, it may no longer be possible to follow a similar path and get similar results.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>TrackerFF</author><text>Sure, you could move out to rural nowhere, where housing costs next to nothing. Find some part time job, and live your life.<p>I&#x27;m from a place like that, and a bunch of my old classmates from HS have lived like that their entire adult lives working part time. They work 2-3-4 days a week.<p>Of course, you&#x27;ll be sacrificing lots of materialistic things, but that&#x27;s a given.</text></comment> | <story><title>The Blue Collar Jobs of Philip Glass</title><url>https://www.honest-broker.com/p/the-blue-collar-jobs-of-philip-glass</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>vatys</author><text>&gt; “I could manage quite well working as few as twenty to twenty-five hours a week—in other words, three full days or five half days. Even after I returned from Paris or India in the late 1960s and well into the 1970s, I could take care of my family by working no more than three or four days a week.”<p>Would today&#x27;s youth, even if equally gifted and ambitious, have the same opportunity? I think now there is such a great imbalance in cost of living and pay rates, it may no longer be possible to follow a similar path and get similar results.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>baerrie</author><text>In New York particularly this could maybe work. They have strong blue collar unions so benefits and pay would be actually livable. Plumbing anywhere is pretty viable. Faulkner worked in construction and did a similar thing. I am working in tech to fund my creative pursuits, an industry on its way to being blue collar</text></comment> |
3,414,641 | 3,414,613 | 1 | 3 | 3,414,510 | train | <story><title>Car-sharing service HiGear shuts down due to theft of 4 cars worth $400,000</title><url>http://techcrunch.com/2012/01/01/luxury-car-sharing-service-higear-shuts-down-due-to-theft/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jackowayed</author><text>I felt worse for these guys until I read to the end of the letter and found out about the "HiGear girls". It's not quite as bad as I thought because they don't seem to "rent out" these models like they do cars; I guess it was just a publicity thing. But still, having revealing pictures and even stats (measurements) of the women is pretty much the definition of objectification.<p>FOLLOWUP (responding to comments):
I'm not concerned about the women in the pictures. They freely chose it, and made enough money to make it worth it to them.<p>But things that reinforce the societal ideal that women's value comes from being conventionally attractive is much more deeply damaging than most people realize. It leads to the body image issues that the <i>majority</i> of young women grapple with. Anything that makes it seem like numbers define how attractive you are is especially bad, because it makes it harder for people to accept their own non-ideal bodies as beautiful. It encourages young women to spend vast amounts of their free time learning about and working on being attractive rather than, say, tinkering with computers. To some extent, it leads to income inequality between men and women (Girls grow up with the message that pleasing men, by being attractive among other ways, is good, so they tend to up more passive in many situations. This makes them less willing to negotiate for salary, less willing to go out of their way to take credit for their work, etc. It also leads to other bad things like being less willing to say no to sex.)<p>I like seeing racy pictures of girls as much as the next guy, but displays of women like this, especially right next to and in the same format as rental listings, encourages societal ideals that are at the root of most of the gender-related problems in our society.</text></comment> | <story><title>Car-sharing service HiGear shuts down due to theft of 4 cars worth $400,000</title><url>http://techcrunch.com/2012/01/01/luxury-car-sharing-service-higear-shuts-down-due-to-theft/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>po</author><text>How can Techcrunch say "the group stole four cars totaling $400,000" and then immediately print a letter from the company saying "The total value of these cars was around $300,000"? Even though in this case it's ok if you read the letter, it is the kind of thing that makes me feel like I shouldn't rely on Techcrunch's reporting. It's really not a big deal but how did that happen? Why are the numbers different?</text></comment> |
16,059,102 | 16,056,770 | 1 | 2 | 16,055,027 | train | <story><title>Using Java 9 Modularization to Ship Zero-Dependency Apps</title><url>https://steveperkins.com/using-java-9-modularization-to-ship-zero-dependency-native-apps/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>freedomben</author><text>This is definitely an improvement for Java, but it leaves me with a few thoughts as someone who has done Java professionally at times, but also professionally lived in other ecosystems including C++&#x2F;Qt, Python, Ruby, Golang, and of course node&#x2F;JS.<p>1. Setting up a project is still a pain in the butt. Tools like Gradle are a nice improvement over Ant (and some would say maven), but still most people don&#x27;t even understand them. You have some serious reading ahead of you if you want to set something up that isn&#x27;t already templated somewhere for you. You can lean on an IDE for sure, and for most Java devs this is probably a no-brainer. I&#x27;m weird in that I don&#x27;t like magic. I prefer to know what the tool is doing on my behalf, and the Java IDE world is so complex that it isn&#x27;t practical to learn that unless you&#x27;re in the ecosystem for years. Then dealing with weird exceptions from the JVM can be maddening.<p>2. The Java world moves slowly. It could reasonably be years before many shops transition to Java 9, when you would actually realize the benefits of this in your work life.<p>3. So much Java runs on the server side anyway, where executable size and entrypoint doesn&#x27;t really matter that much. Because of this, it may only be a small subset of Java shops that really get into Java 9&#x2F;Jigsaw and iron out the bugs, and create tools&#x2F;tutorials for others.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>fnl</author><text>None of these points are valid:<p>1. Dependency management is probably <i>a lot</i> easier with Maven than with C++ or Python. Hope that needs no reference...<p>2. No idea why, but Java is backwards compatible. So not updating to the latest version is only laziness.<p>3. Having much smaller containers or virtual machine disk sizes should lower your AWS&#x2F;Google&#x2F;Cloud... bill a (little, but whatever) bit and therefore make your CFO happy...</text></comment> | <story><title>Using Java 9 Modularization to Ship Zero-Dependency Apps</title><url>https://steveperkins.com/using-java-9-modularization-to-ship-zero-dependency-native-apps/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>freedomben</author><text>This is definitely an improvement for Java, but it leaves me with a few thoughts as someone who has done Java professionally at times, but also professionally lived in other ecosystems including C++&#x2F;Qt, Python, Ruby, Golang, and of course node&#x2F;JS.<p>1. Setting up a project is still a pain in the butt. Tools like Gradle are a nice improvement over Ant (and some would say maven), but still most people don&#x27;t even understand them. You have some serious reading ahead of you if you want to set something up that isn&#x27;t already templated somewhere for you. You can lean on an IDE for sure, and for most Java devs this is probably a no-brainer. I&#x27;m weird in that I don&#x27;t like magic. I prefer to know what the tool is doing on my behalf, and the Java IDE world is so complex that it isn&#x27;t practical to learn that unless you&#x27;re in the ecosystem for years. Then dealing with weird exceptions from the JVM can be maddening.<p>2. The Java world moves slowly. It could reasonably be years before many shops transition to Java 9, when you would actually realize the benefits of this in your work life.<p>3. So much Java runs on the server side anyway, where executable size and entrypoint doesn&#x27;t really matter that much. Because of this, it may only be a small subset of Java shops that really get into Java 9&#x2F;Jigsaw and iron out the bugs, and create tools&#x2F;tutorials for others.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tootie</author><text>Maven is complicated but also very stable and powerful. It&#x27;s no less arcane than webpack and if you&#x27;re using any decent IDE all the available options will autocomplete. Fat jar deploys were always super simple and having a self-contained executable is even better.</text></comment> |
41,145,935 | 41,144,228 | 1 | 3 | 41,126,478 | train | <story><title>Kepler's 400-year-old sunspot sketches helped solve a modern mystery</title><url>https://arstechnica.com/science/2024/07/how-keplers-400-year-old-sunspot-sketches-helped-solve-a-modern-mystery/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dylan604</author><text>We have analog records from thousands of years ago, and we still have the technology to use them. I have digital formats from ~25 years ago that can no longer be read. I think the longevity speaks for itself.<p>Water and fire are equally destructive to digital or analog. Library of Congress has chosen analog vinyl for long term storage over any digital format. I think you&#x27;re putting way too much faith in digital and totally discounting analog.</text></item><item><author>stouset</author><text>&gt; Physical records don’t need anything to exist and be read<p>Surely you’re joking. Physical records are notoriously fragile. They default to having a single copy and require intentional effort to create and distribute duplicates. They are frequently lost to fires, fading, physical decay, and even just being misplaced for generations.<p>Digital records have their own issues, but implying with a straight face that the default state of physical records is persistence is a bridge too far.</text></item><item><author>pleb_nz</author><text>But are digital records really more resilient to catastrophic societal and global changes? Physical records don’t need anything to exist and be read and only time and simple resources to duplicate compared with digital.</text></item><item><author>efdee</author><text>I think that yes, they will. Generally these historical records exist because some people went through the effort of preserving them for all these years. I feel this effort is a lot lower when your records are digital and infinitely duplicatable.</text></item><item><author>dylan604</author><text>I&#x27;m constantly amazed at these historical records still exist. Kepler&#x27;s et al are one thing, but some of the much older from China are also impressive that the information exists today and is still somehow accessible. Now that everything is digital, will they still be available in the future to the same extent that these older analog records have been</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>adrian_b</author><text>The majority of the very old records that still exist are those that have been carved in stone or bronze, or pressed in burned ceramic.<p>Besides these, there have been huge amounts of written records that have used more perishable materials, like plant leaves, plant bark, wood, papyrus, wax etc.<p>Almost all of those have been lost.<p>In the past, carving stone or bronze was hard work, so it was avoided, except for the most important records. Also today, there are technologies to make digital records that could survive for many millennia, but due to their high cost they are used even less than stone carving was used in the ancient world.</text></comment> | <story><title>Kepler's 400-year-old sunspot sketches helped solve a modern mystery</title><url>https://arstechnica.com/science/2024/07/how-keplers-400-year-old-sunspot-sketches-helped-solve-a-modern-mystery/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dylan604</author><text>We have analog records from thousands of years ago, and we still have the technology to use them. I have digital formats from ~25 years ago that can no longer be read. I think the longevity speaks for itself.<p>Water and fire are equally destructive to digital or analog. Library of Congress has chosen analog vinyl for long term storage over any digital format. I think you&#x27;re putting way too much faith in digital and totally discounting analog.</text></item><item><author>stouset</author><text>&gt; Physical records don’t need anything to exist and be read<p>Surely you’re joking. Physical records are notoriously fragile. They default to having a single copy and require intentional effort to create and distribute duplicates. They are frequently lost to fires, fading, physical decay, and even just being misplaced for generations.<p>Digital records have their own issues, but implying with a straight face that the default state of physical records is persistence is a bridge too far.</text></item><item><author>pleb_nz</author><text>But are digital records really more resilient to catastrophic societal and global changes? Physical records don’t need anything to exist and be read and only time and simple resources to duplicate compared with digital.</text></item><item><author>efdee</author><text>I think that yes, they will. Generally these historical records exist because some people went through the effort of preserving them for all these years. I feel this effort is a lot lower when your records are digital and infinitely duplicatable.</text></item><item><author>dylan604</author><text>I&#x27;m constantly amazed at these historical records still exist. Kepler&#x27;s et al are one thing, but some of the much older from China are also impressive that the information exists today and is still somehow accessible. Now that everything is digital, will they still be available in the future to the same extent that these older analog records have been</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>squeaky-clean</author><text>Can they actually no longer be read? Or would it just require a few hundred dollars spent on eBay?</text></comment> |
31,452,932 | 31,452,546 | 1 | 2 | 31,452,052 | train | <story><title>LWN Is Now on Mastodon</title><url>https://lwn.net/Articles/895898/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>kixiQu</author><text>Since they say &quot;a home for article notifications <i>and more</i>&quot; (emphasis mine), if you&#x27;re looking to not miss the &quot;and more&quot;, let me plug that Mastodon has its own RSS feeds built in for public posts:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;fosstodon.org&#x2F;@LWN.rss" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;fosstodon.org&#x2F;@LWN.rss</a><p>Which is a nice feature a social network can have when it isn&#x27;t trying to achieve user capture.</text></comment> | <story><title>LWN Is Now on Mastodon</title><url>https://lwn.net/Articles/895898/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>tandav</author><text>Mastodon have a nice low key feel, less loud than Twitter</text></comment> |
28,629,763 | 28,629,625 | 1 | 3 | 28,629,189 | train | <story><title>Spain will ban selling fruit and vegetables in plastic containers starting 2023</title><url>https://www.hortidaily.com/article/9357439/spain-will-ban-selling-fruit-and-vegetables-in-plastic-containers-starting-2023/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>zwieback</author><text>Yay, I&#x27;m also in favor of heavily taxing the horrible packaging of consumer goods shipped from overseas. I don&#x27;t have any illusions we can shift mass manufacturing back to the US, that doesn&#x27;t make any sense, but I think we should force our suppliers to use more sustainable packaging, even if the prices go up.</text></comment> | <story><title>Spain will ban selling fruit and vegetables in plastic containers starting 2023</title><url>https://www.hortidaily.com/article/9357439/spain-will-ban-selling-fruit-and-vegetables-in-plastic-containers-starting-2023/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>matsemann</author><text>The packaging is to reduce food waste. Will it be a net loss or a win for the environment with more produce going bad?</text></comment> |
39,480,133 | 39,478,192 | 1 | 2 | 39,471,388 | train | <story><title>Phind-70B: Closing the code quality gap with GPT-4 Turbo while running 4x faster</title><url>https://www.phind.com/blog/introducing-phind-70b</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>planb</author><text>I didn&#x27;t take a look at the code, but to me it sounds quite dangerous to take an implementation AND the unit tests straight from an LLM, commit and move on.<p>Is this the new normal now?</text></item><item><author>afiodorov</author><text>I don&#x27;t trust the code quality evalution. The other day at work I wanted to split my string by ; but only if it&#x27;s not within single quotes (think about splitting many SQL statements). I explicitly asked for stdlib python solution and preferrably avoid counting quotes since that&#x27;s a bit verbose.<p>GPT4 gave me a regex found on <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;stackoverflow.com&#x2F;a&#x2F;2787979" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;stackoverflow.com&#x2F;a&#x2F;2787979</a> (without &quot;), explained it to me and then it successfully added all the necessary unit tests and they passed - I commited all of that to the repo and moved on.<p>I couldn&#x27;t get 70B to answer this question even with multiple nudges.<p>Every time I try something non GPT-4 I always go back - it&#x27;s feels like a waste of time otherwise. A bit sad that LLMs follow the typical winner-takes-it-all tech curve. However if you could ask the smartest guy in the room your question every time, why wouldn&#x27;t you?<p>---<p>Edit: <i>USE CODE MODE</i> and it&#x27;ll actually solve it.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>fileyfood500</author><text>It&#x27;s very powerful, I can enter implementations for any algorithm by typing 5 words and clicking tab. If I want the AI to use a hashmap to solve my problem in O(n), I just say that. If I need to rewrite a bunch of poorly written code to get rid of dead code, add constants, etc I do that. If I need to convert files between languages or formats, I do that. I have to do a lot more code review than before, and a lot less writing. It saves a huge amount of time, it&#x27;s pretty easy to measure. Personally, the order of consultation is Github Copilot -&gt; GPT4 -&gt; Grimoire -&gt; Me. If it&#x27;s going to me, there is a high probability that I&#x27;m trying to do too many things at once in an over-complicated function. That or I&#x27;m using a relatively niche library and the AI doesn&#x27;t know the methods.</text></comment> | <story><title>Phind-70B: Closing the code quality gap with GPT-4 Turbo while running 4x faster</title><url>https://www.phind.com/blog/introducing-phind-70b</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>planb</author><text>I didn&#x27;t take a look at the code, but to me it sounds quite dangerous to take an implementation AND the unit tests straight from an LLM, commit and move on.<p>Is this the new normal now?</text></item><item><author>afiodorov</author><text>I don&#x27;t trust the code quality evalution. The other day at work I wanted to split my string by ; but only if it&#x27;s not within single quotes (think about splitting many SQL statements). I explicitly asked for stdlib python solution and preferrably avoid counting quotes since that&#x27;s a bit verbose.<p>GPT4 gave me a regex found on <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;stackoverflow.com&#x2F;a&#x2F;2787979" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;stackoverflow.com&#x2F;a&#x2F;2787979</a> (without &quot;), explained it to me and then it successfully added all the necessary unit tests and they passed - I commited all of that to the repo and moved on.<p>I couldn&#x27;t get 70B to answer this question even with multiple nudges.<p>Every time I try something non GPT-4 I always go back - it&#x27;s feels like a waste of time otherwise. A bit sad that LLMs follow the typical winner-takes-it-all tech curve. However if you could ask the smartest guy in the room your question every time, why wouldn&#x27;t you?<p>---<p>Edit: <i>USE CODE MODE</i> and it&#x27;ll actually solve it.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>swman</author><text>It’s the new boot camp dev. It is still the same as copy pasting SO solutions lol</text></comment> |
26,713,838 | 26,714,090 | 1 | 2 | 26,709,848 | train | <story><title>The Facebook phone numbers are now searchable in Have I Been Pwned</title><url>https://www.troyhunt.com/the-facebook-phone-numbers-are-now-searchable-in-have-i-been-pwned/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>0x_rs</author><text>Let&#x27;s not forget the notable case of Twitter &quot;accidentally&quot; using your provided phone number for advertising purposes [0], and to this day still banning you after registration if you refuse to give it.<p>[0]. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.eff.org&#x2F;deeplinks&#x2F;2019&#x2F;10&#x2F;twitter-uninentionally-uses-your-2fa-number-targeted-advertising" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.eff.org&#x2F;deeplinks&#x2F;2019&#x2F;10&#x2F;twitter-uninentionally...</a></text></item><item><author>durnygbur</author><text>Every time Facebook&#x2F;Gmail&#x2F;Google&#x2F;Amazon&#x2F;LinkedIn&#x2F;Tinder&#x2F;whoever asks me to give them phone number &quot;just in case&quot; my first and only thought is &quot;hell no&quot;. I haven&#x27;t been wrong a single time.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>sneak</author><text>Twitter also had staff who leaked Twitter account PII from the Twitter DB to spies from the Saudi government, who have a habit of killing journalists from time to time.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.buzzfeednews.com&#x2F;article&#x2F;alexkantrowitz&#x2F;how-saudi-arabia-infiltrated-twitter" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.buzzfeednews.com&#x2F;article&#x2F;alexkantrowitz&#x2F;how-saud...</a><p>Collecting this data is an accident (or murder?) waiting to happen.</text></comment> | <story><title>The Facebook phone numbers are now searchable in Have I Been Pwned</title><url>https://www.troyhunt.com/the-facebook-phone-numbers-are-now-searchable-in-have-i-been-pwned/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>0x_rs</author><text>Let&#x27;s not forget the notable case of Twitter &quot;accidentally&quot; using your provided phone number for advertising purposes [0], and to this day still banning you after registration if you refuse to give it.<p>[0]. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.eff.org&#x2F;deeplinks&#x2F;2019&#x2F;10&#x2F;twitter-uninentionally-uses-your-2fa-number-targeted-advertising" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.eff.org&#x2F;deeplinks&#x2F;2019&#x2F;10&#x2F;twitter-uninentionally...</a></text></item><item><author>durnygbur</author><text>Every time Facebook&#x2F;Gmail&#x2F;Google&#x2F;Amazon&#x2F;LinkedIn&#x2F;Tinder&#x2F;whoever asks me to give them phone number &quot;just in case&quot; my first and only thought is &quot;hell no&quot;. I haven&#x27;t been wrong a single time.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>johndough</author><text>Twitter is especially silly in that regard. The info page on why my account was banned implied that one of my tweets violated the community guidelines - although I never tweeted anything.<p>Even more frustratingly, there is a form to appeal a ban. After filling out that form, I got a confirmation mail stating that Twitter will &quot;respond as soon as possible&quot;, or in other words, never.<p>I do not understand why they bothered to implement all that hijinks to waste my time. Simply disallowing signups without phone number would have been much simpler and less dishonest.</text></comment> |
39,695,816 | 39,695,723 | 1 | 2 | 39,694,366 | train | <story><title>Tell Congress: Stop the TikTok Ban. Instead, Protect Our Data No Matter Who</title><url>https://act.eff.org/action/tell-congress-stop-the-tiktok-ban</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>sschueller</author><text>As a European that has been dealing with what US social media companies have been doing, I am enjoying how the US is loosing their absolute mind when an external company does the same they do to us.</text></item><item><author>omginternets</author><text>For once I disagree with the EFF. This is a national sovereignty issue masquerading as a freedom issue.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>xtracto</author><text>As a Mexican, I find this actions from the US to try to maintain the &quot;Pax Americana&quot; Imperialism quite interesting. People in US centric forums like HN, Reddit, Slashdot, etc just cannot understand or see it, and it&#x27;s OK; it is their country and their ideals. They are allowed to unequivocally take their country side.<p>But for uninterested 3rd parties, it&#x27;s quite entertaining the bitchslap games that China and the US play with these sort of policies (Google ban, tiktok ban, etc).</text></comment> | <story><title>Tell Congress: Stop the TikTok Ban. Instead, Protect Our Data No Matter Who</title><url>https://act.eff.org/action/tell-congress-stop-the-tiktok-ban</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>sschueller</author><text>As a European that has been dealing with what US social media companies have been doing, I am enjoying how the US is loosing their absolute mind when an external company does the same they do to us.</text></item><item><author>omginternets</author><text>For once I disagree with the EFF. This is a national sovereignty issue masquerading as a freedom issue.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>sakras</author><text>The difference is that if a European social media company wanted to operate in the US, it&#x27;s welcome to. With China it&#x27;s a different story - they can operate in our market but we can&#x27;t operate in theirs.</text></comment> |
26,236,489 | 26,235,681 | 1 | 2 | 26,235,348 | train | <story><title>The Amateur Tramp – A Walk of Ten Thousand Miles Around Australia</title><url>https://greatestadventurers.com/the-amateur-tramp-the-man-who-walked-around-a-continent/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>DyslexicAtheist</author><text>Crossing the Nullarbor on foot must have been insane. I did the same route but with camping gear and a car in the 90ies, and had the time of my life. The scale of the distances between points on the map are not comprehensible (to a kid from Europe at least). I wanted to do a day trip to Monkey Mia right after getting off the plane and started planning out my journey from Perth. I didn&#x27;t believe (understand) that there is often nothing between 2 points on the map. A map entry would often just be a literal petrol station (that is also a pub and a shop and a farm) and nothing else. I had to learn the hard way that when they say &quot;there&#x27;s f*k all there mate&quot; that they really mean it.<p>I guess the reason for him cutting short the Kimberley&#x27;s and Northern tip of Queensland, was that it must have been inaccessible or too dangerous back then. Anyway it seems like travelers have already been advised 100 years ago to stay clear of these places.<p>There is an Ed Stafford &quot;Marooned&quot; episode where he tries to survive in the Kimberley&#x27;s. (much endorse).<p>edit: If you have visited Australia (or plan to go) don&#x27;t miss out on Bill Bryson&#x27;s &quot;Down Under&quot; (must read if you like travel literature that is also hilarious) <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Down_Under_(book)" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Down_Under_(book)</a></text></comment> | <story><title>The Amateur Tramp – A Walk of Ten Thousand Miles Around Australia</title><url>https://greatestadventurers.com/the-amateur-tramp-the-man-who-walked-around-a-continent/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>piokoch</author><text>Reminds me history of Kazik Nowak [0], who traveled alone on a bike through Africa. The expedition took him 5 years (between 1931-1936).<p>He wrote a great book about his trip, prizing amazing African nature and giving a hard time colonial powers for making this continent such a miserable living place for its natives. Book does not have English translation unfortunately.<p>Nowak died soon after coming back (trip was really exhausting, he got Malaria) and for many years his achievement was forgotten. In 1962 his daughter managed to publish a book her father trip, but it didn&#x27;t attract much attention (communists didn&#x27;t like to promote anything positive about pre-communism times achievements). Finally it was reedited in 2000 and become very popular in Poland.<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Kazimierz_Nowak" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Kazimierz_Nowak</a></text></comment> |
7,270,441 | 7,269,638 | 1 | 3 | 7,266,546 | train | <story><title>AI</title><url>http://blog.samaltman.com/ai</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>debt</author><text>We know a ton about the brain but so little about the mind itself. We still don&#x27;t have definitive answers to what consciousness is, why it&#x27;s here, what&#x27;s useful for, etc. Some people debate whether the mind exists at all. Also, there&#x27;s still very little understanding of the difference between the conscious and unconscious mind.<p>I think building an artificial consciousness is going too far. Artificial intelligence is simpler; it&#x27;s just fake intelligence. Seems easy enough right? If it looks like a duck and quacks like a duck then it&#x27;s intelligent. We don&#x27;t need to make it &quot;conscious&quot; necessarily, again whatever that means, in order for it be intelligent.<p>I feel like we can build artificially intelligent software pretty &quot;easily&quot; relative to making it &quot;conscious&quot;.</text></item><item><author>kevinalexbrown</author><text>If the only goal is an &#x27;artificial&#x27; consciousness, it might be more prudent to consider a functional definition of what consciousness is and try to build that. We didn&#x27;t make computers by modeling how individual neurons perform mathematical calculations.<p>On the other hand, if you want to go the biological route, there&#x27;s some awesome work to be done. If I were to study consciousness, here&#x27;s the question I would ask: how do we separate our selves from our surroundings? Patients with brain-machine interfaces (like moving a mouse cursor) start by thinking about moving their arms around. Then they apparently report that they gradually just feel that the interface is another body part. So if it&#x27;s set up to change the TV channel, they just imagine that they have a channel-changing organ.<p>So maybe you want to build a system that can identify what is a part of itself versus what is not, and it&#x27;s not just a fixed list. So what does that data structure look like? How is it defined, queried, and updated? Defined by what you can &#x27;influence?&#x27; So gradated based on my influence? These aren&#x27;t just broad philosophical questions, they&#x27;re more specific and actionable.<p>That&#x27;s just one possible angle, but it&#x27;s different than, say, machine learning paradigms where you want to build a machine that can do pattern classification (which the brain undoubtedly does). There are probably other routes as well.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nzp</author><text>&gt; We know a ton about the brain but so little about the mind itself. We still don&#x27;t have definitive answers to what consciousness is, why it&#x27;s here, what&#x27;s useful for, etc. Some people debate whether the mind exists at all. Also, there&#x27;s still very little understanding of the difference between the conscious and unconscious mind.<p>One of the really, really bad consequences of the Cold War was the scientific divide between East and West. By that I mean serious lack of scientific data exchange between the blocks. The consequences are still felt and this area (the problem of consciousness) is the one that suffered. The problem of &quot;consciousness&quot; was basically solved, at least at a conceptual level, by Soviet psychology and neuropsychology. Here I refer, of course, to the work of Vygotsky and Luria. What is consciousness? Almost nothing at all by itself. Consciousness as found in humans is a consequence of our cognitive development and the advanced symbolic capabilities of humans. The subjective perception we have of the thing we call consciousness is &quot;simply&quot; (it&#x27;s not really simple when you get into details) a product of humans acquiring language skills (I&#x27;m simplifying).<p>This is not to say the subject is trivial, it takes volumes to describe what is happening, but the thing we informally call &quot;consciousness&quot; is really nothing at all in and of itself, and the perception we have of it is just a result of the very complicated process of cognitive development. Thin air, like Lisp&#x27;s cons.<p>If you want to read on it I can recommend Vygotsky&#x27;s <i>Language and Thought</i> (actually, it&#x27;s his only book) and Luria&#x27;s <i>Language and Consciousness</i> (I&#x27;m not sure it was ever translated into English, it&#x27;s a collection of his lecture notes from a university course he did on the subject) or possibly <i>The Cognitive Development: Its Cultural and Social Foundations</i>.<p>Why this line of thinking is mostly ignored in the West I have no idea. Why do we still cling to metaphysical (even religious I would say) phantasies about &quot;consciousness&quot; is an interesting topic itself. Is it because it&#x27;s romantic to think there&#x27;s something special, transcendent, about our minds? Are we really that sentimental? I have some hypotheses, but it&#x27;s a different topic.</text></comment> | <story><title>AI</title><url>http://blog.samaltman.com/ai</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>debt</author><text>We know a ton about the brain but so little about the mind itself. We still don&#x27;t have definitive answers to what consciousness is, why it&#x27;s here, what&#x27;s useful for, etc. Some people debate whether the mind exists at all. Also, there&#x27;s still very little understanding of the difference between the conscious and unconscious mind.<p>I think building an artificial consciousness is going too far. Artificial intelligence is simpler; it&#x27;s just fake intelligence. Seems easy enough right? If it looks like a duck and quacks like a duck then it&#x27;s intelligent. We don&#x27;t need to make it &quot;conscious&quot; necessarily, again whatever that means, in order for it be intelligent.<p>I feel like we can build artificially intelligent software pretty &quot;easily&quot; relative to making it &quot;conscious&quot;.</text></item><item><author>kevinalexbrown</author><text>If the only goal is an &#x27;artificial&#x27; consciousness, it might be more prudent to consider a functional definition of what consciousness is and try to build that. We didn&#x27;t make computers by modeling how individual neurons perform mathematical calculations.<p>On the other hand, if you want to go the biological route, there&#x27;s some awesome work to be done. If I were to study consciousness, here&#x27;s the question I would ask: how do we separate our selves from our surroundings? Patients with brain-machine interfaces (like moving a mouse cursor) start by thinking about moving their arms around. Then they apparently report that they gradually just feel that the interface is another body part. So if it&#x27;s set up to change the TV channel, they just imagine that they have a channel-changing organ.<p>So maybe you want to build a system that can identify what is a part of itself versus what is not, and it&#x27;s not just a fixed list. So what does that data structure look like? How is it defined, queried, and updated? Defined by what you can &#x27;influence?&#x27; So gradated based on my influence? These aren&#x27;t just broad philosophical questions, they&#x27;re more specific and actionable.<p>That&#x27;s just one possible angle, but it&#x27;s different than, say, machine learning paradigms where you want to build a machine that can do pattern classification (which the brain undoubtedly does). There are probably other routes as well.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mtrimpe</author><text>The problem is that we haven&#x27;t adopted the definition of consciousness that&#x27;s useful long term
yet: that consciousness is best interpreted as a property of reality.<p>If everything is conscious then some parts of it are just more dynamic (intelligent?) than others. Physical reality least, plants more [1], animals even more and humans <i>most</i>.<p>Defined like that <i>human</i> consciousness just becomes that part of all consciousness which we recognize as similar to our own.<p>In that view AI is just making a small part of reality, a computer, <i>more dynamically</i> conscious and, very importantly, more similar to our own so as to be more useful.<p>[1] <a href="http://vimeo.com/69225705" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;vimeo.com&#x2F;69225705</a></text></comment> |
18,978,673 | 18,978,663 | 1 | 2 | 18,977,925 | train | <story><title>Rise of Netflix Competitors Has Pushed Consumers Back Toward Piracy</title><url>https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/d3q45v/bittorrent-usage-increases-netflix-streaming-sites</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>alistairSH</author><text>Yeah, this isn&#x27;t surprising at all. I&#x27;ve run into it. Typical lazy weekend evening...
- turn on AppleTV
- search for [year old hit movie or TV show]
- brief happiness because it&#x27;s available
- followed by annoyance because it&#x27;s available on one of the services to which I don&#x27;t subscribe (or it&#x27;s on Amazon, but isn&#x27;t Prime)<p>I have Prime, Netflix, and HBO and still run into this regularly. It&#x27;s really annoying. As soon as GOT is done, I&#x27;ll likely cancel HBO - it doesn&#x27;t add much value. Netflix is hanging on, barely - every time I go to cancel, I find something interesting to watch, and that keeps me for another month or two. But, it feels user-hostile and with the price going up again, I&#x27;m that much more likely to just cancel and be done with them. And I hate the idea of relying on Amazon even more than I already do.<p>Le Sigh</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>koboll</author><text>&gt;As soon as GOT is done, I&#x27;ll likely cancel HBO - it doesn&#x27;t add much value.<p>This is basically my philosophy with streaming services. I keep Prime because it&#x27;s useful all-around, and Netflix (for now) still has enough variety to keep me as a subscriber (though I wouldn&#x27;t be surprised if I jumped ship to Disney later this year).<p>But beyond that, why not choose a la carte? I&#x27;m signing up for HBO when GoT airs, and I&#x27;ll binge True Detective in between, but beyond that I don&#x27;t care much about it. Hulu I signed up for a month and then immediately canceled; watched all I cared to in that time. I binged Star Trek within the one-week CBS trial period.<p>It would be nice to have a Mint-like streaming services dashboard I could use to selectively toggle on and off various streaming accounts when I decide they&#x27;ve built up enough content I haven&#x27;t seen to warrant activating for a month. There&#x27;s a product idea for ya.</text></comment> | <story><title>Rise of Netflix Competitors Has Pushed Consumers Back Toward Piracy</title><url>https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/d3q45v/bittorrent-usage-increases-netflix-streaming-sites</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>alistairSH</author><text>Yeah, this isn&#x27;t surprising at all. I&#x27;ve run into it. Typical lazy weekend evening...
- turn on AppleTV
- search for [year old hit movie or TV show]
- brief happiness because it&#x27;s available
- followed by annoyance because it&#x27;s available on one of the services to which I don&#x27;t subscribe (or it&#x27;s on Amazon, but isn&#x27;t Prime)<p>I have Prime, Netflix, and HBO and still run into this regularly. It&#x27;s really annoying. As soon as GOT is done, I&#x27;ll likely cancel HBO - it doesn&#x27;t add much value. Netflix is hanging on, barely - every time I go to cancel, I find something interesting to watch, and that keeps me for another month or two. But, it feels user-hostile and with the price going up again, I&#x27;m that much more likely to just cancel and be done with them. And I hate the idea of relying on Amazon even more than I already do.<p>Le Sigh</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>DavideNL</author><text>Same... i have Netflix and HBO (and my local countries tv service) but recently i get so annoyed by searching for &quot;where i can find a movie&quot; and then not finding it, that i don&#x27;t even look anymore, i just go straight to torrenting which is a 99% success rate.<p>Also the Netflix auto-play-previews thing annoys me, trying to constantly force me to keep consuming.<p>I&#x27;ll probably cancel both soon.</text></comment> |
36,418,838 | 36,418,455 | 1 | 3 | 36,417,747 | train | <story><title>Apple's union-busting practices violated employee rights at NYC store</title><url>https://www.engadget.com/apples-union-busting-practices-violated-employee-rights-at-nyc-store-judge-rules-115036323.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>lscdlscd</author><text>Just goes to show how effective unionizing is. Power to those workers! They&#x27;re a key part in making Apple one of the most valuable companies in the world. They deserve a fair share.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ethbr0</author><text>Indeed.<p>Companies hate unions because they increase labor costs and benefits.<p>Does anyone really think corporate anti-union talking points are in their <i>workers&#x27;</i> best interest?<p>Unions have their faults (e.g. bureaucracy), but corporations aren&#x27;t fighting them for their employees&#x27; benefit.</text></comment> | <story><title>Apple's union-busting practices violated employee rights at NYC store</title><url>https://www.engadget.com/apples-union-busting-practices-violated-employee-rights-at-nyc-store-judge-rules-115036323.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>lscdlscd</author><text>Just goes to show how effective unionizing is. Power to those workers! They&#x27;re a key part in making Apple one of the most valuable companies in the world. They deserve a fair share.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>JimtheCoder</author><text>&quot;They&#x27;re a key part in making Apple one of the most valuable companies in the world.&quot;<p>...</text></comment> |
13,725,850 | 13,725,283 | 1 | 2 | 13,725,202 | train | <story><title>Reports of SHA-1's demise are considerably exaggerated</title><url>http://www.metzdowd.com/pipermail/cryptography/2017-February/031604.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>simias</author><text>It&#x27;s not a particularly interesting email, I don&#x27;t think it&#x27;s bringing anything new on the table. The title also doesn&#x27;t have anything to do with the contents (I understand that might be because of HN submission rules but it&#x27;s very misleading in this case).<p>It&#x27;s a bit hard to take the author seriously when he complains about &quot;headless chickens&quot; &quot;considerably exaggerat[ing]&quot; then goes on to say that you need &quot;a nation-state&#x27;s worth of resources&quot; to find collisions. If anything this shattered proof of concept showed that it was actually a lot easier than that, giving an estimate of around 110k$ IIRC.<p>I&#x27;m also sure that SHA-1 remains pervasive in many codebases, although as long as pre-image are impractical it might be hard to exploit those vulnerabilities.</text></comment> | <story><title>Reports of SHA-1's demise are considerably exaggerated</title><url>http://www.metzdowd.com/pipermail/cryptography/2017-February/031604.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>dz0ny</author><text>Well SVN is affected if you commit crafted pdf :)<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;i.imgur.com&#x2F;iJZe21Z.png" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;i.imgur.com&#x2F;iJZe21Z.png</a>
Rel: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=13725093" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=13725093</a></text></comment> |
34,971,887 | 34,969,901 | 1 | 3 | 34,969,046 | train | <story><title>Proposal to Merge Pyston with Cpython</title><url>https://discuss.python.org/t/contributing-the-pyston-jit/24195</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>martopix</author><text>Can anyone that understands these things (i.e. not me, a meek python end user) explain this in simpler terms?<p>I checked th Pyston website, it essentially says it makes your code faster and nothing about what&#x27;s the catch and how it magically works.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>junon</author><text>Let&#x27;s assume you speak English - and more importantly, not Chinese.<p>Now, you need to have a conversation with someone who <i>only</i> speaks Chinese. How do you do that? Well, you use an interpreter. They listen to what you say, and translate it to Chinese and speak on your behalf.<p>If you never had any interest in learning Chinese, this would be sufficient. Your conversation rate would be slow but it would get the job done.<p>Let&#x27;s say there&#x27;s an intense line of yes-or-no questioning, though. You need to say &quot;yes&quot; or &quot;no&quot; often, and decide that maybe learning the equivalent Chinese words or phrases would cut out the middleman, thus speeding up conversation in some cases.<p>This is what a JIT does, just replace English with Python&#x27;s bytecode, and Chinese with your host CPU&#x27;s architecture (e.g. x86 or ARM). The &quot;when&quot; of JITing code varies across implementations and approaches but the concept remains the same. Oftentimes the JIT runtime will translate just the hot codepaths.<p>If a compiler - e.g. one that compiles C code - is &quot;ahead of time&quot;, then a runtime that compiles on the fly does so &quot;just in time&quot;.</text></comment> | <story><title>Proposal to Merge Pyston with Cpython</title><url>https://discuss.python.org/t/contributing-the-pyston-jit/24195</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>martopix</author><text>Can anyone that understands these things (i.e. not me, a meek python end user) explain this in simpler terms?<p>I checked th Pyston website, it essentially says it makes your code faster and nothing about what&#x27;s the catch and how it magically works.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nine_k</author><text>Pyston is JIT compiler, which translates frequently executed bytecode into native code. JIT compilers are what makes Java and JavaScript fast. Pyston&#x27;s case is closer to JavaScript, I suppose.<p>Since profiling and translation take time, it benefits mostly long-running code, especially servers, and is less useful for transient utilities.</text></comment> |
30,790,511 | 30,790,004 | 1 | 2 | 30,789,256 | train | <story><title>Open source ‘protestware’ harms Open Source</title><url>https://opensource.org/open-source-protestware-harms-open-source</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>seanw444</author><text>I just don&#x27;t understand what the node-ipc dev was expecting when he did that.<p>&quot;Hm, maybe if I put malware into a community-trusted module that destroys files of people in a certain geopolitical region, the countless innocent citizens that are affected will realize what they did wrong! Wait, who am I actually targeting again?&quot;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>lioeters</author><text>My guess is that they got caught up in the socially accepted &quot;hate fest&quot; against citizens of a certain country, particularly by private companies.</text></comment> | <story><title>Open source ‘protestware’ harms Open Source</title><url>https://opensource.org/open-source-protestware-harms-open-source</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>seanw444</author><text>I just don&#x27;t understand what the node-ipc dev was expecting when he did that.<p>&quot;Hm, maybe if I put malware into a community-trusted module that destroys files of people in a certain geopolitical region, the countless innocent citizens that are affected will realize what they did wrong! Wait, who am I actually targeting again?&quot;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>gruez</author><text>&gt;&quot;Hm, maybe if I put malware into a community-trusted module that destroys files of people in a certain geopolitical region, the countless innocent citizens that are affected will realize what they did wrong! Wait, who am I actually targeting again?&quot;<p>&quot;yeah but countless ukranian women and children are getting murdered by russians! surely a few wiped hard drives is worth it to raise awareness?&quot;<p>&#x2F;s of course, but people who hold this view sincerely isn&#x27;t hard to find.</text></comment> |
16,805,768 | 16,805,485 | 1 | 2 | 16,793,636 | train | <story><title>Don't give away historic details about yourself</title><url>https://krebsonsecurity.com/2018/04/dont-give-away-historic-details-about-yourself/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>pieguy</author><text>I used to answer secret questions with bogus answers that I deemed unguessable. Then I discovered that when my bank asks me the questions back it does multiple choice, displaying the answer I gave along with 4 other possible options! Sometimes my answer would not be shown and the correct answer is &quot;none of the above&quot;, but otherwise my answer sticks out like a sore thumb.</text></item><item><author>ConceptJunkie</author><text>The whole &quot;secret question&quot; thing seemed to me to a completely stupid idea from the start. &quot;Hey, give us password. If you forget your password, give us a much, much less secure way to access your account.&quot;<p>I&#x27;ve always given false info to those, when I bother to fill them out at all. If necessary, I just store this false info along with the password in the encrypted file I keep my passwords in. The security questions they use are often easily guessable (although it seems now they are using somewhat better questions). Nevertheless, my attitude is that I&#x27;ll just make sure to retain the password.<p>I get the possible security risk of answering quizzes on places like Facebook, but I&#x27;ve done it a few times because it&#x27;s fun. It all boils down to passwords being a hassle. Almost anything you do to make dealing with passwords easier makes them less secure, but there&#x27;s nothing better. The only improvements over passwords come from additional authentication factors, like having to grab a code messaged to your cell-phone, or using one of those little security token devices (or the software equivalent). I don&#x27;t think anything is going to be replacing passwords any time soon.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jonreem</author><text>Who in the world thought this was a good idea!? I can hardly think of a less secure way to ask security questions. You should name and shame; there’s a minimum bar everyone should uphold and this is far below it.</text></comment> | <story><title>Don't give away historic details about yourself</title><url>https://krebsonsecurity.com/2018/04/dont-give-away-historic-details-about-yourself/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>pieguy</author><text>I used to answer secret questions with bogus answers that I deemed unguessable. Then I discovered that when my bank asks me the questions back it does multiple choice, displaying the answer I gave along with 4 other possible options! Sometimes my answer would not be shown and the correct answer is &quot;none of the above&quot;, but otherwise my answer sticks out like a sore thumb.</text></item><item><author>ConceptJunkie</author><text>The whole &quot;secret question&quot; thing seemed to me to a completely stupid idea from the start. &quot;Hey, give us password. If you forget your password, give us a much, much less secure way to access your account.&quot;<p>I&#x27;ve always given false info to those, when I bother to fill them out at all. If necessary, I just store this false info along with the password in the encrypted file I keep my passwords in. The security questions they use are often easily guessable (although it seems now they are using somewhat better questions). Nevertheless, my attitude is that I&#x27;ll just make sure to retain the password.<p>I get the possible security risk of answering quizzes on places like Facebook, but I&#x27;ve done it a few times because it&#x27;s fun. It all boils down to passwords being a hassle. Almost anything you do to make dealing with passwords easier makes them less secure, but there&#x27;s nothing better. The only improvements over passwords come from additional authentication factors, like having to grab a code messaged to your cell-phone, or using one of those little security token devices (or the software equivalent). I don&#x27;t think anything is going to be replacing passwords any time soon.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>furyg3</author><text>This, too, was my problem. I don&#x27;t want to give out real answers to my security question for two (slightly contradictory) reasons. The first is: what if this site is hacked? Now my security question answers are floating around for use on other sites that ask similar questions. The second is: some of these questions are pretty easy to find the answer to, or guess. So I used a generated string for those questions, too. Generally worked, but sometimes made for some interesting phone calls. &quot;My mothers maiden name is &lt;random string&gt;. You can guess why she took my father&#x27;s.&quot;<p>Then they started reading back random choices, which made it pretty easy to guess what I picked.</text></comment> |
40,359,819 | 40,359,528 | 1 | 2 | 40,356,751 | train | <story><title>Femtosecond lasers create 3D midair plasma displays you can touch (2015)</title><url>https://spectrum.ieee.org/femtosecond-lasers-create-3d-midair-plasma-displays-you-can-touch</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>cyberax</author><text>I have a slight eye damage in one eye from working with lasers that were just a bit outside the safe limits. And I realized that only years after getting it.<p>So the last thing I want, is to be near unconfined lasers powerful enough to ionize the air.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rolandog</author><text>&gt; So the last thing I want, is to be near unconfined lasers powerful enough to ionize the air.<p>I wholeheartedly agree. Just thinking about how the potentially-unregulated cheaply-manufactured knock-off projectors will result in having to wear welding glasses when walking around the street to avoid being blinded by the 3D advertisements that are being shot at your face...</text></comment> | <story><title>Femtosecond lasers create 3D midair plasma displays you can touch (2015)</title><url>https://spectrum.ieee.org/femtosecond-lasers-create-3d-midair-plasma-displays-you-can-touch</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>cyberax</author><text>I have a slight eye damage in one eye from working with lasers that were just a bit outside the safe limits. And I realized that only years after getting it.<p>So the last thing I want, is to be near unconfined lasers powerful enough to ionize the air.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>qwertox</author><text>I think the same happened to me with LEDs. I have an odd feeling that I can&#x27;t really see a small section somewhere close to the center of focus, not directly at it. I remember an odd sensation in the eye for days after dealing with a white LED.</text></comment> |
14,824,887 | 14,824,600 | 1 | 2 | 14,823,807 | train | <story><title>The New Firefox and Ridiculous Numbers of Tabs</title><url>https://metafluff.com/2017/07/21/i-am-a-tab-hoarder/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>vocatus_gate</author><text>How??? I&#x27;ve never understood how people can have that many tabs open and it be useful at all. At that point the information overload is too much. I have at most 10 open, and close them as I&#x27;m done with them. Helps reduce cognitive load.</text></item><item><author>Macha</author><text>It&#x27;s not just tabs as bookmarks. I can build up a stack of 100 tabs in a day easily.</text></item><item><author>ilaksh</author><text>There are a lot of people who use tabs as bookmarks. Seems like a good way to keep the RAM industry going strong. Someone once told me (seriously) &quot;I need at least 128 GB of RAM otherwise I can&#x27;t keep my tabs open.&quot; But does everything you were interested in over the last X weeks or months really need to be loaded up? No, and if you use it like that then it can&#x27;t preload stuff.<p>I think the main lesson is that bookmarks don&#x27;t work too well or people just don&#x27;t use them. If nothing else, make the bookmark display show newer bookmarks rather than the same old ones from four years ago. And maybe start preloading if they are opened regularly. Merge two features together, maybe add optional other organizational features for example similar to new tab screen.<p>The tricky thing is that there are a lot of things that are potentially supposed to happen while a tab is open. The browser is now it&#x27;s own OS, and it may be very difficult for developers to use important features if tabs (processes) only _look_ like they are running.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>white-flame</author><text>I open almost every link in new tabs. It&#x27;s faster to close a tab and return to the prior tab than it is to go Back, and the back button often doesn&#x27;t work with dynamic pages. Plus, when replying in various forums, it&#x27;s much easier to flip between tabs to refer to stuff that was said upthread, especially when you have to go back a page or two.<p>Neither the back button nor bookmarks retain state sufficiently or have sufficient responsiveness to replace open tabs.</text></comment> | <story><title>The New Firefox and Ridiculous Numbers of Tabs</title><url>https://metafluff.com/2017/07/21/i-am-a-tab-hoarder/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>vocatus_gate</author><text>How??? I&#x27;ve never understood how people can have that many tabs open and it be useful at all. At that point the information overload is too much. I have at most 10 open, and close them as I&#x27;m done with them. Helps reduce cognitive load.</text></item><item><author>Macha</author><text>It&#x27;s not just tabs as bookmarks. I can build up a stack of 100 tabs in a day easily.</text></item><item><author>ilaksh</author><text>There are a lot of people who use tabs as bookmarks. Seems like a good way to keep the RAM industry going strong. Someone once told me (seriously) &quot;I need at least 128 GB of RAM otherwise I can&#x27;t keep my tabs open.&quot; But does everything you were interested in over the last X weeks or months really need to be loaded up? No, and if you use it like that then it can&#x27;t preload stuff.<p>I think the main lesson is that bookmarks don&#x27;t work too well or people just don&#x27;t use them. If nothing else, make the bookmark display show newer bookmarks rather than the same old ones from four years ago. And maybe start preloading if they are opened regularly. Merge two features together, maybe add optional other organizational features for example similar to new tab screen.<p>The tricky thing is that there are a lot of things that are potentially supposed to happen while a tab is open. The browser is now it&#x27;s own OS, and it may be very difficult for developers to use important features if tabs (processes) only _look_ like they are running.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pavanky</author><text>Also looking up what you want when you have dozens &#x2F; hundreds of tabs open is no better than going through your history browsing history. In fact going through your browsing history may be faster because you can actually use key words to search for what you want.<p>I have 2-3 tabs open most of the time. If I am looking something up, I go to 10-12. When I am done, it goes back down to 2-3. I can&#x27;t even fathom under what situation people are using hundreds of tabs.</text></comment> |
17,067,183 | 17,067,270 | 1 | 2 | 17,066,372 | train | <story><title>Employers are monitoring computers, toilet breaks, even emotions</title><url>https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/may/14/is-your-boss-secretly-or-not-so-secretly-watching-you</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Rotdhizon</author><text>A majority of stuff mentioned in this article has to be outright illegal, if not borderline illegal when talking about privacy concerns. To get past it, they had to have put massive inclusions in their employee contracts and had employees sign off their entire existence to the company. It should also be noted that these happenings seem to all take place at sleazy, physical labor intensive companies. This isn&#x27;t happening in any respectable sector I&#x27;d hope. I think the worst part is, is that these ideas are being created more and more by higher ups in companies and government who see no moral wrong in their plans. It doesn&#x27;t affect them personally, but if it can be used in any way to further control a peon employee, then it&#x27;s good for productivity. Even though it seems a bit like the article tries to defend this practice, there will never be a day on society where this is considered alright.<p>At the end of the day though, this is happening mostly to disposable workers who no on cares about. If one person complains about company overreach, well they can be replaced within 5 minutes. This is more something that lower income, down and out employees will have to worry about. This absolutely would not be tolerated to catch on to any respected industries&#x2F;sectors. That&#x27;s to not say physical labor workers aren&#x27;t important, without them society would fall apart. It&#x27;s that no one in authority typically cares about that type of worker and those employees concerns fall on deaf ears.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Silhouette</author><text><i>This isn&#x27;t happening in any respectable sector I&#x27;d hope.</i><p>When a bigger company bought the smaller software company where I worked, almost the first thing they tried to do was change all the contracts to include things like universal IP claims and getting more visibility and control over things people were doing away from the office.<p>This culture was becoming pervasive even a few years ago, and the arrogance and contempt exhibited by the senior executive who came to tell us about it was almost unbelievable. It felt like he watched Darth Vader&#x27;s &quot;I am altering the deal. Pray I don&#x27;t alter it any further&quot; scene and thought it was an instruction manual.<p>The only meaningful difference seems to be that since it was a software business, a significant proportion of the developers essentially telling them to shove their deal or we&#x27;d walk was powerful enough to put a stop to it. Obviously people working in unskilled jobs where staff are fungible aren&#x27;t so lucky. We&#x27;re supposed to have employment laws to protect people in vulnerable positions like that from exploitation, but welcome to 2018 I guess.</text></comment> | <story><title>Employers are monitoring computers, toilet breaks, even emotions</title><url>https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/may/14/is-your-boss-secretly-or-not-so-secretly-watching-you</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Rotdhizon</author><text>A majority of stuff mentioned in this article has to be outright illegal, if not borderline illegal when talking about privacy concerns. To get past it, they had to have put massive inclusions in their employee contracts and had employees sign off their entire existence to the company. It should also be noted that these happenings seem to all take place at sleazy, physical labor intensive companies. This isn&#x27;t happening in any respectable sector I&#x27;d hope. I think the worst part is, is that these ideas are being created more and more by higher ups in companies and government who see no moral wrong in their plans. It doesn&#x27;t affect them personally, but if it can be used in any way to further control a peon employee, then it&#x27;s good for productivity. Even though it seems a bit like the article tries to defend this practice, there will never be a day on society where this is considered alright.<p>At the end of the day though, this is happening mostly to disposable workers who no on cares about. If one person complains about company overreach, well they can be replaced within 5 minutes. This is more something that lower income, down and out employees will have to worry about. This absolutely would not be tolerated to catch on to any respected industries&#x2F;sectors. That&#x27;s to not say physical labor workers aren&#x27;t important, without them society would fall apart. It&#x27;s that no one in authority typically cares about that type of worker and those employees concerns fall on deaf ears.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mc32</author><text>You would think so but companies like google do this for facilities management to divine usage patterns and whether to devote more or fewer resources to something. To know if more efficiencies might be derived. But yes it’s pernicious.</text></comment> |
29,270,868 | 29,270,726 | 1 | 2 | 29,269,104 | train | <story><title>I would like closure, but I'll take honesty</title><url>https://freddiedeboer.substack.com/p/i-would-like-closure-but-ill-take</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>worik</author><text>&gt; I have asked that people consider that I deserve neither total condemnation nor total exoneration.<p>This. In a lot of circles I move there is a tendency to &quot;total condemnation&quot;.<p>We can be better to each other. When we do not deserve it is when we need it the most.<p>Peace, love, respect foster peace, love and respect. &quot;Total condemnation&quot; might make the condemner have some temporary good feelings, but does no good for anybody beyond that.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>unreal37</author><text>Also, &quot;To those of you who are not people I harmed in my psychotic episode in August 2017… what is it you think I owe you?&quot;<p>There seems to be this tendency that people who only learned about something 5 minutes ago get outrage and demand retribution. Like it&#x27;s a reflex.<p>The mob has vigilante tendencies. Let&#x27;s go write an email to someone&#x27;s employer and demand that they fire them. Millions of people band together and demand justice. For what?</text></comment> | <story><title>I would like closure, but I'll take honesty</title><url>https://freddiedeboer.substack.com/p/i-would-like-closure-but-ill-take</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>worik</author><text>&gt; I have asked that people consider that I deserve neither total condemnation nor total exoneration.<p>This. In a lot of circles I move there is a tendency to &quot;total condemnation&quot;.<p>We can be better to each other. When we do not deserve it is when we need it the most.<p>Peace, love, respect foster peace, love and respect. &quot;Total condemnation&quot; might make the condemner have some temporary good feelings, but does no good for anybody beyond that.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kempbellt</author><text>&gt; This. In a lot of circles I move there is a tendency to &quot;total condemnation&quot;.<p>Which, ironically feels more like a bipolar approach to resolving a problem. Are they <i>good</i>, or are they <i>bad</i>? Is it <i>legal</i>, or is it <i>illegal</i>? Are they <i>right</i>, or are they <i>wrong</i>? Do we <i>punish</i>, or do we <i>praise</i>?<p>There seems to be this strange generalized assumption that <i>people</i> are bipolar, and <i>they</i> are the problem. Completely ignoring the fact that society itself demonstrates some seriously bipolar tendencies. Many times, suggesting &quot;either&#x2F;or&quot; solutions to problems that would really benefit from more nuance.<p>Sometimes the best answer is: ¯\_(ツ)_&#x2F;¯</text></comment> |
25,739,271 | 25,738,251 | 1 | 3 | 25,737,011 | train | <story><title>FBI warns of plans for nationwide armed protests next week</title><url>https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/nation/fbi-warns-of-plans-for-nationwide-armed-protests-next-week/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ogre_codes</author><text>With 2 cops dead after the mob at the Capitol building, maybe the police will take mobs of armed &quot;Protestors&quot; a little more seriously here than they seem to have in the past.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Balgair</author><text>Given that there are 6200 National Guard members currently in DC, with 10k expected by Saturday and 15K by Inauguration day, I have a feeling that at least the DC government is more than taking it seriously.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.military.com&#x2F;daily-news&#x2F;2021&#x2F;01&#x2F;11&#x2F;pentagon-authorizes-many-15000-guardsmen-support-inauguration.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.military.com&#x2F;daily-news&#x2F;2021&#x2F;01&#x2F;11&#x2F;pentagon-auth...</a><p>Specific state capitols are a different story, but the consensus seems to be that they are taking these events very seriously, though response if quite varied.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.militarytimes.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;your-military&#x2F;2021&#x2F;01&#x2F;11&#x2F;state-capitols-step-up-security-amid-new-safety-concerns-following-violence-in-dc&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.militarytimes.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;your-military&#x2F;2021&#x2F;01&#x2F;11&#x2F;...</a><p>As for the future, I would assume that local officials are very concerned and likely to take seditionists and insurrectionists just as seriously as they had the Women&#x27;s March previously, if not more so.</text></comment> | <story><title>FBI warns of plans for nationwide armed protests next week</title><url>https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/nation/fbi-warns-of-plans-for-nationwide-armed-protests-next-week/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ogre_codes</author><text>With 2 cops dead after the mob at the Capitol building, maybe the police will take mobs of armed &quot;Protestors&quot; a little more seriously here than they seem to have in the past.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nostromo</author><text>One cop died in the storming at the hands of the mob. One protestor died at the hands of the police.<p>Three protestors had fatal medical issues, and it&#x27;s not clear they were related to the violence.<p>Another cop died of suicide days later. Nobody knows if his suicide is related to the events on the sixth.</text></comment> |
38,107,084 | 38,106,375 | 1 | 2 | 38,105,629 | train | <story><title>Starlink satellites are 'leaking' signals that interfere with radio telescopes</title><url>https://theconversation.com/starlink-satellites-are-leaking-signals-that-interfere-with-our-most-sensitive-radio-telescopes-215250</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>sbierwagen</author><text>&gt;Now it is commonplace: sit outside for a few minutes after dark, and you can’t miss them.<p>As always, this is only the case immediately after sunset, when it&#x27;s dark on the ground but the satellites are still in direct sunlight. Fifteen minutes later they&#x27;re completely invisible.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ortusdux</author><text>This is a key misconception. Their SOP is to put the newest batch into an ultra-low orbit for testing. Any that fail should passively deorbit in a few months due to the increased atmospheric density. To minimize drag during this process, they deploy the solar panels parallel to the ground. Once testing is over, the panels reorient to hide behind the darkened satellite body, and then the satellites use their internal ion thrusters to boost to their final operational orbit. The dawn and dusk flaring people see are these early satellites with horizontal reflective solar panels.</text></comment> | <story><title>Starlink satellites are 'leaking' signals that interfere with radio telescopes</title><url>https://theconversation.com/starlink-satellites-are-leaking-signals-that-interfere-with-our-most-sensitive-radio-telescopes-215250</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>sbierwagen</author><text>&gt;Now it is commonplace: sit outside for a few minutes after dark, and you can’t miss them.<p>As always, this is only the case immediately after sunset, when it&#x27;s dark on the ground but the satellites are still in direct sunlight. Fifteen minutes later they&#x27;re completely invisible.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>MalcolmDwyer</author><text>The cutoff is nowhere near that soon after sunset. At midnight? Sure, you&#x27;re not going to see satellites. But against a dark sky, you can see satellites reflecting for at least a couple hours. They may not be in direct sunlight as it gets later, but they are still illuminated by the atmosphere on the sunny side for a while.</text></comment> |
13,552,769 | 13,552,580 | 1 | 2 | 13,552,376 | train | <story><title>Show HN: Posters of Your GitHub Contributions</title><url>https://commitprint.com/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>aarondf</author><text>Hey yall, looks like it&#x27;s being hugged to death right now... I&#x27;m trying to keep up!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ortuna</author><text>Hey, great work!<p>Similar to my project <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;commits.io" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;commits.io</a><p>Shoot me an email (ortuna AT gmail) if you want to compare notes. I&#x27;ve done a lot of work on how to get those generation times down.</text></comment> | <story><title>Show HN: Posters of Your GitHub Contributions</title><url>https://commitprint.com/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>aarondf</author><text>Hey yall, looks like it&#x27;s being hugged to death right now... I&#x27;m trying to keep up!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>aarondf</author><text>Queues are seriously backing up. Sorry about this!</text></comment> |
27,048,536 | 27,048,509 | 1 | 3 | 27,047,243 | train | <story><title>ClearURLs – automatically remove tracking elements from URLs</title><url>https://github.com/ClearURLs/Addon/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>eythian</author><text>I don&#x27;t really know how I feel about having the browser mess with URLs without the user engaging it deliberately. It feels to me something that should perhaps be approached with caution. On the other hand, it does make sense. It&#x27;s a tricky one.</text></item><item><author>ronjouch</author><text>I&#x27;d love if Firefox&#x27;s built-in Tracking Protection did without an addon the job ClearURLs does, so two months ago I created<p>Bug 1697982: <i>&quot;Firefox Tracking Protection should protect against URL&#x2F;queryparam-based tracking (like ClearURLs&#x2F;NeatURL addons do)&quot;</i> , <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;bugzilla.mozilla.org&#x2F;show_bug.cgi?id=1697982" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;bugzilla.mozilla.org&#x2F;show_bug.cgi?id=1697982</a><p>Please vote for the bug if you&#x27;d like it too.<p>Also, I see a few interesting comments in this HN thread; this evening when the dust settles, I&#x27;ll aggregate &amp; bring them to the bug for consideration if&#x2F;when fixing this bug is considered.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>matheusmoreira</author><text>It&#x27;s exactly the kind of thing user agents should do. If it&#x27;s good for the user, they should do it by default for everyone.</text></comment> | <story><title>ClearURLs – automatically remove tracking elements from URLs</title><url>https://github.com/ClearURLs/Addon/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>eythian</author><text>I don&#x27;t really know how I feel about having the browser mess with URLs without the user engaging it deliberately. It feels to me something that should perhaps be approached with caution. On the other hand, it does make sense. It&#x27;s a tricky one.</text></item><item><author>ronjouch</author><text>I&#x27;d love if Firefox&#x27;s built-in Tracking Protection did without an addon the job ClearURLs does, so two months ago I created<p>Bug 1697982: <i>&quot;Firefox Tracking Protection should protect against URL&#x2F;queryparam-based tracking (like ClearURLs&#x2F;NeatURL addons do)&quot;</i> , <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;bugzilla.mozilla.org&#x2F;show_bug.cgi?id=1697982" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;bugzilla.mozilla.org&#x2F;show_bug.cgi?id=1697982</a><p>Please vote for the bug if you&#x27;d like it too.<p>Also, I see a few interesting comments in this HN thread; this evening when the dust settles, I&#x27;ll aggregate &amp; bring them to the bug for consideration if&#x2F;when fixing this bug is considered.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>darkwater</author><text>Well that&#x27;s exactly the kind of job that an (opinionated) User Agent should do for you. &lt;aybe configurable, maybe not. You can always change your agent (so, browser) if you don&#x27;t like its opinion.</text></comment> |
13,994,513 | 13,994,365 | 1 | 3 | 13,994,034 | train | <story><title>Eigg – A small Scottish isle that runs on 90-95% renewable energy</title><url>http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20170329-the-extraordinary-electricity-of-the-scottish-island-of-eigg</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>spodek</author><text>If you haven&#x27;t read <i>Sustainable Energy Without the Hot Air</i>, by David Mackay, I recommend it.<p>Free download: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;withouthotair.com" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;withouthotair.com</a><p>About the author:<p>David MacKay FRS is the Regius Professor of Engineering at the University of Cambridge. He studied Natural Sciences at Cambridge and then obtained his PhD in Computation and Neural Systems at the California Institute of Technology. He returned to Cambridge as a Royal Society research fellow at Darwin College. He is internationally known for his research in machine learning, information theory, and communication systems, including the invention of Dasher, a software interface that enables efficient communication in any language with any muscle. He was appointed a Lecturer in the Department of Physics at Cambridge in 1995 and was a Professor in the Department of Physics from 2003 to 2013. Since 2005, he has devoted much of his time to public teaching about energy. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society.<p>Nine months after the publication of &#x27;Sustainable Energy - without the hot air&#x27;, David MacKay was appointed Chief Scientific Advisor to the Department of Energy and Climate Change.<p>TED talk: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=E0W1ZZYIV8o" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=E0W1ZZYIV8o</a><p>Harvard talk: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=GFosQtEqzSE" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=GFosQtEqzSE</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Eigg – A small Scottish isle that runs on 90-95% renewable energy</title><url>http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20170329-the-extraordinary-electricity-of-the-scottish-island-of-eigg</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>arethuza</author><text>Geology trivia: An Sgùrr, the shapely wee hill that features in the pics, is interesting as it started off as a valley that was filled with lava and ended up lasting longer than the surrounding rocks<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;An_Sg%C3%B9rr_(Eigg)" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;An_Sg%C3%B9rr_(Eigg)</a></text></comment> |
33,192,943 | 33,189,994 | 1 | 3 | 33,159,680 | train | <story><title>Everything I wish I had known about raising a seed round</title><url>https://mdwdotla.medium.com/everything-i-wish-i-had-known-about-raising-a-seed-round-a615f8f7740b</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>thecupisblue</author><text>Looking at this as a founder thats currently raising a seed round (or pre-seed, tho as I understand, same position as OP) in Europe with an MVP.<p>Some parts ring true, as in VC&#x27;s you never heard of contacting you on LinkedIn, sharing decks between their contacts and keeping in touch to build a relationship. The part about common pitch deck advice being geared towards live pitches especially - we haven&#x27;t done a single pitch with a deck live. If it was a live meeting, they&#x27;ve already seen the deck or we&#x27;ve done a short pitch over zoom already. The &quot;stand in a meeting room and pitch to VC&#x27;s&quot; thing is mostly a myth nowadays.<p>But a 5 million raise without even having a product just sounds insane. We&#x27;ve been offered 50-100k offers due to our team and product, but rarely anyone wants to invest more than that in a pre-revenue&#x2F;pre-launch startup. And if they do, they would do it in tranches and by the time they would invest 500k we&#x27;d be giving them more than 20% equity.<p>The difference in valuations is just insane, with even VCs straight-up telling us that if we were raising in US we&#x27;d be offered 5-10x more than here.<p>Honestly, this whole ride makes me think I should just get a job at a US startup and use the cost of living difference to pay devs out of my own salary.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ryanSrich</author><text>This is 100% a symptom of not being in the US. Seed stage VC might as well not even exist in Europe. It’s so risk averse that it’s something else. It’s not VC.<p>In the US, you can raise money ($1m+) with just an idea if you have some combination of the following (often times just one of these is enough)…<p>- you have some traction in the form of pre-signed customers<p>- you have previously had startups success (multiple rounds, an exit, etc.)<p>- you are a master networker with a very large Twitter&#x2F;LinkedIn following<p>- you are well known within your circle of expertise. Could be that you run a large newsletter, or podcast, or blog<p>- you know VCs personally, and are close enough with them that they’re willing to take on some risk with you<p>- you have a world class team of co-founders. Could be someone that built something open source, or lead some large branch of a FAANG company (I’ve seen former AWS employees raise on the simple fact that they worked for AWS)<p>- you went to a prestigious university like Harvard or Stanford. Many VCs attended these universities and are more willing to work with you in these cases (as much as people don’t want to believe this it’s true)<p>There are probably dozens of other scenarios and combinations of scenarios that would allow you to raise with just an idea. But it’s 100% possible (I’ve done it).</text></comment> | <story><title>Everything I wish I had known about raising a seed round</title><url>https://mdwdotla.medium.com/everything-i-wish-i-had-known-about-raising-a-seed-round-a615f8f7740b</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>thecupisblue</author><text>Looking at this as a founder thats currently raising a seed round (or pre-seed, tho as I understand, same position as OP) in Europe with an MVP.<p>Some parts ring true, as in VC&#x27;s you never heard of contacting you on LinkedIn, sharing decks between their contacts and keeping in touch to build a relationship. The part about common pitch deck advice being geared towards live pitches especially - we haven&#x27;t done a single pitch with a deck live. If it was a live meeting, they&#x27;ve already seen the deck or we&#x27;ve done a short pitch over zoom already. The &quot;stand in a meeting room and pitch to VC&#x27;s&quot; thing is mostly a myth nowadays.<p>But a 5 million raise without even having a product just sounds insane. We&#x27;ve been offered 50-100k offers due to our team and product, but rarely anyone wants to invest more than that in a pre-revenue&#x2F;pre-launch startup. And if they do, they would do it in tranches and by the time they would invest 500k we&#x27;d be giving them more than 20% equity.<p>The difference in valuations is just insane, with even VCs straight-up telling us that if we were raising in US we&#x27;d be offered 5-10x more than here.<p>Honestly, this whole ride makes me think I should just get a job at a US startup and use the cost of living difference to pay devs out of my own salary.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>syedkarim</author><text>&gt;&gt;with even VCs straight-up telling us that if we were raising in US we&#x27;d be offered 5-10x more than here<p>Serious question: Then why even remotely bother raising from European VCs? Doing so is clearly not in your best interest. Is it a matter of pride?</text></comment> |
12,761,967 | 12,761,982 | 1 | 2 | 12,761,407 | train | <story><title>'Black Mirror' Is Back, Reflecting Our Technological Fears</title><url>http://www.npr.org/2016/10/21/498734538/black-mirror-is-back-reflecting-our-technological-fears</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>krylon</author><text>Black Mirror is really, really, really good. The writing, the cast, it is just incredible.<p>But it is also incredibly depressing. Maybe depressing is the wrong word. Emotionally exhausting, you might say. Well worth watching once, but I recently could not bring myself to re-watch it because it so dark. And not even dark humor, which I like, just dark. Maybe in the spring, I&#x27;ll come around...</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jacquesm</author><text>What makes it so good is the fact that it is so believable. I wished I could come up with a &#x27;white mirror&#x27; alternative where all our tech is used for good but it wouldn&#x27;t be nearly as believable. Human nature being what it is you&#x27;d hope the future isn&#x27;t even darker than what black mirror shows, it easily could be.</text></comment> | <story><title>'Black Mirror' Is Back, Reflecting Our Technological Fears</title><url>http://www.npr.org/2016/10/21/498734538/black-mirror-is-back-reflecting-our-technological-fears</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>krylon</author><text>Black Mirror is really, really, really good. The writing, the cast, it is just incredible.<p>But it is also incredibly depressing. Maybe depressing is the wrong word. Emotionally exhausting, you might say. Well worth watching once, but I recently could not bring myself to re-watch it because it so dark. And not even dark humor, which I like, just dark. Maybe in the spring, I&#x27;ll come around...</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>CPLX</author><text>The word that seems most appropriate to me is cynical. The worldview of the show is essentially the exact counter to the tech&#x2F;entrepreneurship community&#x27;s unique strain of optimism.</text></comment> |
31,249,600 | 31,249,456 | 1 | 3 | 31,248,787 | train | <story><title>Preventing Burnout: A Manager's Toolkit</title><url>https://about.gitlab.com/blog/2022/05/03/preventing-burnout-a-managers-toolkit/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>BlargMcLarg</author><text>All the &quot;strategies&quot; (really just tips) follow the same pattern of either tunneling on overwork as a cause, treating symptoms or pathos.<p>&gt;Sid and Michelle emphasized that the earlier a manager can identify burnout the better.<p>Honestly, at the point of identification, you&#x27;re likely too late. Especially for something as insidious as burnout, which can last for years and not show any symptoms before it is beyond the point of no return.<p>&gt;GitLab team members are often under a lot of pressure.<p>So stop putting them under a lot of pressure. The second tip hints at this, but it only seems to be a reactionary measure. Maybe all this goalsetting, OKRs and such is exactly the problem with the industry, always having to feel pressured to an extreme by metrics and stats which effectively mean nothing, when most people just want to put in an honest day&#x27;s work and progress.<p>Maybe it&#x27;s time to admit corporations went too far pressuring the average worker to worry over every little detail.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>y-c-o-m-b</author><text>&gt; So stop putting them under a lot of pressure. The second tip hints at this, but it only seems to be a reactionary measure. Maybe all this goalsetting, OKRs and such is exactly the problem with the industry, always having to feel pressured to an extreme by metrics and stats which effectively mean nothing, when most people just want to put in an honest day&#x27;s work and progress.<p>You nailed it. The entire article can be summed up by your statement. It&#x27;s great they&#x27;re acknowledging it, but putting corporate make-up on it is cringey; it almost comes off like we are the problem and not the other way around.<p>I don&#x27;t give a damn about &quot;drinking the kool-aid&quot; and I don&#x27;t give a damn about your business theatrics nor the political drama that goes with it. Give me work to do and leave me alone to do it. That&#x27;ll solve a lot of the burn-out.</text></comment> | <story><title>Preventing Burnout: A Manager's Toolkit</title><url>https://about.gitlab.com/blog/2022/05/03/preventing-burnout-a-managers-toolkit/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>BlargMcLarg</author><text>All the &quot;strategies&quot; (really just tips) follow the same pattern of either tunneling on overwork as a cause, treating symptoms or pathos.<p>&gt;Sid and Michelle emphasized that the earlier a manager can identify burnout the better.<p>Honestly, at the point of identification, you&#x27;re likely too late. Especially for something as insidious as burnout, which can last for years and not show any symptoms before it is beyond the point of no return.<p>&gt;GitLab team members are often under a lot of pressure.<p>So stop putting them under a lot of pressure. The second tip hints at this, but it only seems to be a reactionary measure. Maybe all this goalsetting, OKRs and such is exactly the problem with the industry, always having to feel pressured to an extreme by metrics and stats which effectively mean nothing, when most people just want to put in an honest day&#x27;s work and progress.<p>Maybe it&#x27;s time to admit corporations went too far pressuring the average worker to worry over every little detail.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>twh270</author><text>I&#x27;d shorten that to &quot;Maybe it&#x27;s time to admit corporations went too far pressuring the average worker&quot;.<p>It took me a long time to realize it, but work&#x2F;life balance in the U.S. is weighted far too heavily in favor of business, at the expense of the individual and their family and community.</text></comment> |
14,024,160 | 14,023,628 | 1 | 2 | 14,023,413 | train | <story><title>Changes to USCIS policy on eligibility criteria for H1B visa</title><url>https://www.axios.com/computer-programmers-may-no-longer-be-eligible-for-h-1b-visas-2342531251.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>cldellow</author><text>This calibre of journalism feels like clickbait or, worse, incompetence.<p>&gt; computer programmers are no longer presumed to be eligible for H-1B visas.<p>This is narrowly true based on what the linked document says. But the intent of document seems to be to rescind old guidance that would consider people with associate&#x27;s degrees, or in some cases, no degrees, experts. That made sense in the 90s when CS was a newer field of study. It doesn&#x27;t make sense now.<p>In practice, this is the government dotting an i and crossing a t - they&#x27;re re-opening this particular service centre and ensuring that it complies with the practices already in place at other service centres.<p>&gt; Lawsuits possible: Releasing this policy change at the start of the application filing window is going to rankle companies who used 17-year-old policy guidance to apply for this year&#x27;s visas. Some companies may challenge the guidance on the grounds that USCIS didn&#x27;t provide sufficient notice of the change.<p>Yeah, right. I doubt the big H1B filers thought they could magically sneak someone without credentials through as a result of this. Having done TN and H1B myself, it was always clear that the government had the last word in adjudicating whether you met the standards, especially for the more ambiguous NAFTA occupations like &quot;Computer systems analyst&quot;.</text></comment> | <story><title>Changes to USCIS policy on eligibility criteria for H1B visa</title><url>https://www.axios.com/computer-programmers-may-no-longer-be-eligible-for-h-1b-visas-2342531251.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>i0exception</author><text>[IANAL] &quot;Computer programmers may no longer be eligible for H-1B visas&quot; -<p>This is absurd and incorrect. The USCIS memorandum is rescinding a document dated December 2000 because it doesn&#x27;t want the Nebraska Service Center (NSC) to use the old guidelines for issuing H-1B visas for computer related positions. The NSC started adjudicating H-1B applications last year after a hiatus of around 10 years.</text></comment> |
21,315,791 | 21,315,321 | 1 | 2 | 21,311,064 | train | <story><title>DuckDuckGo's traffic keeps growing</title><url>https://duckduckgo.com/traffic?2019</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>marcoseliziario</author><text>DDG is more neutral in political themes. You usually see some results that you wouldn&#x27;t see on the first page on google.
Google still has a slight advantage when searching for technical info, but most of times DDG is good enough for them too.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>paulddraper</author><text>Obviously lacks the privacy aspect, but I&#x27;ve noticed Bing is also politically neutral.<p>This seems to be a Google-specific problem.<p>---<p>Example that I just double-checked: (I don&#x27;t claim any political views here; <i>JUST an example</i>)<p>Reddit&#x27;s largest subreddit for a political candidate is r&#x2F;The_Donald. Objectively, a rather popular site.<p>Google (with or without SafeSearch) returns <i>zero</i> results for &quot;Reddit The_Donald&quot; linking to the subreddit. [1] It&#x27;s only results are indirect discussions about the subreddit.<p>Whereas DuckDuckGo, Bing, and Yahoo show the subreddit itself as the very first result. [2] [3] [4] (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;np.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;The_Donald&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;np.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;The_Donald&#x2F;</a> which is Reddit&#x27;s public non-logged in site.)<p>So Google won&#x27;t display a high-traffic site. I can only assume they find the content objectionable and so will not link directly to it. I understand how some may want that, but that&#x27;s not a simply not a service I want my search engine to perform, especially when SafeSearch is disabled.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.google.com&#x2F;search?q=Reddit+The_Donald" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.google.com&#x2F;search?q=Reddit+The_Donald</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;duckduckgo.com&#x2F;?q=Reddit+The_Donald" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;duckduckgo.com&#x2F;?q=Reddit+The_Donald</a><p>[3] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bing.com&#x2F;search?q=Reddit+The_Donald" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bing.com&#x2F;search?q=Reddit+The_Donald</a><p>[4] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;search.yahoo.com&#x2F;search?p=Reddit+The_Donald" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;search.yahoo.com&#x2F;search?p=Reddit+The_Donald</a></text></comment> | <story><title>DuckDuckGo's traffic keeps growing</title><url>https://duckduckgo.com/traffic?2019</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>marcoseliziario</author><text>DDG is more neutral in political themes. You usually see some results that you wouldn&#x27;t see on the first page on google.
Google still has a slight advantage when searching for technical info, but most of times DDG is good enough for them too.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>benjohnson</author><text>I&#x27;ll second this - Google is starting to hide things that it deems objectionable and I&#x27;ve found myself using DDG now and then for controversial topics.</text></comment> |
14,227,924 | 14,226,968 | 1 | 2 | 14,226,775 | train | <story><title>If you opened your PayPal account before you were 18, close it</title><url>https://medium.com/@iDemonix/paypal-is-still-one-of-the-worst-online-examples-of-customer-service-42f3c13f6cd0</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>loeg</author><text>Just close your account if you have a PayPal account at all. They limit and freeze funds at random and good luck resolving it.<p>OP, You can refund the funds to the sender less Paypal&#x27;s 30¢ cut, I believe. That might be the best way to get the money back to your friend, and then they can re-send it to you with something sane like Google Wallet.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>briholt</author><text>Seconded. Paypal froze my account with $2K for no apparent reason. They did not reply to numerous emails. Their &quot;upload documents to verify your identity&quot; form literally did not work. They&#x27;ve deliberately made it easy to get your money frozen and deliberately made it difficult to rescue it. At every opportunity I insist to people not to use Paypal and I will use any alternative - including snail mailing checks - whenever possible.</text></comment> | <story><title>If you opened your PayPal account before you were 18, close it</title><url>https://medium.com/@iDemonix/paypal-is-still-one-of-the-worst-online-examples-of-customer-service-42f3c13f6cd0</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>loeg</author><text>Just close your account if you have a PayPal account at all. They limit and freeze funds at random and good luck resolving it.<p>OP, You can refund the funds to the sender less Paypal&#x27;s 30¢ cut, I believe. That might be the best way to get the money back to your friend, and then they can re-send it to you with something sane like Google Wallet.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>iDemonix</author><text>Thanks, I managed to do this an hour ago.<p>It&#x27;s actually hidden in the new UI, there was no button that would let me do it, I managed to go back to settings and re-enable the classic UI, then in the view transaction details page I found the missing refund button.</text></comment> |
27,908,453 | 27,908,465 | 1 | 2 | 27,908,262 | train | <story><title>Pelosi and a lifetime of trading</title><url>https://unusualwhales.com/i_am_the_senate/pelosi</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>takeda</author><text>Instead of fixating that Pelosi made more than others I think right question is, why someone who actually can impact stock options and also has information not available to the public is allowed to trade?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kcdev</author><text>The STOCK Act is supposed to prevent this. But the same politicians who passed the law and had the media cover it as much as possible, then later quietly passed another that the law would not be enforced.</text></comment> | <story><title>Pelosi and a lifetime of trading</title><url>https://unusualwhales.com/i_am_the_senate/pelosi</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>takeda</author><text>Instead of fixating that Pelosi made more than others I think right question is, why someone who actually can impact stock options and also has information not available to the public is allowed to trade?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tharne</author><text>I&#x27;ve often wondered about this. It&#x27;s mind boggling that this is allowed. A congressman can short oil stocks and the very next day propose a large tax on oil producers then promptly cash out, and be completely within the bounds of the law.</text></comment> |
39,927,120 | 39,926,895 | 1 | 2 | 39,922,631 | train | <story><title>Logik: Open-source FPGA toolchain by Zero ASIC</title><url>https://github.com/zeroasiccorp/logik</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>marcodiego</author><text>I use to say this whenever I see anything related to FPGA: the FPGA world needs it&#x27;s equivalent to Arduino. Before the Arduino, the world of microcontrollers was dominated by bad proprietary tools; the FPGA world suffers of the same illness today.<p>We really need to fix this before FPGA&#x27;s falls in the hands and hearts of any willing hobbyist.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dailykoder</author><text>That&#x27;s what I used to believe and it&#x27;s probably true, but I think it will not really happen. You just don&#x27;t need FPGAs for most things. Especially if you just like to tinker around. I mean we have Microcontrollers running at 600MHz+. That&#x27;s usually fast enough to get things sorted in software.<p>I do have hell of a lot fun designing my own CPUs and other hardware on FPGAs, but I&#x27;ve been doing this for a couple of years now and whenever I talk to someone who hasn&#x27;t done any development in that direction yet, I often have to remind myself that hardware development is just a completely different mindset.<p>Yes, copy pasting a few logic gates into vhdl is easy, but I don&#x27;t know how you would go on from that if you just want to have fun. Getting something done in hardware can be really frustrating sometimes. Maybe all the &quot;new-age HDLs&quot; might be a solution to this - i have to admit i haven&#x27;t really tried them out yet.</text></comment> | <story><title>Logik: Open-source FPGA toolchain by Zero ASIC</title><url>https://github.com/zeroasiccorp/logik</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>marcodiego</author><text>I use to say this whenever I see anything related to FPGA: the FPGA world needs it&#x27;s equivalent to Arduino. Before the Arduino, the world of microcontrollers was dominated by bad proprietary tools; the FPGA world suffers of the same illness today.<p>We really need to fix this before FPGA&#x27;s falls in the hands and hearts of any willing hobbyist.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Ticktok</author><text>The (Upduino)[<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;tinyvision.ai&#x2F;products&#x2F;upduino-v3-1" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;tinyvision.ai&#x2F;products&#x2F;upduino-v3-1</a>] and the (pico-ice)[<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;tinyvision.ai&#x2F;products&#x2F;pico-ice" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;tinyvision.ai&#x2F;products&#x2F;pico-ice</a>] try to meet that solution to me. Both cheap, easy to use fpga boards that are completely compatible with the opensource toolchain.</text></comment> |
19,501,013 | 19,501,277 | 1 | 2 | 19,500,523 | train | <story><title>Miri: Interpreter for Rust's mid-level intermediate representation</title><url>https://github.com/rust-lang/miri</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>steveklabnik</author><text>As of today, you can easily install miri on the nightly channel, which is why this is popping up today.<p><pre><code> $ rustup component add miri —toolchain=nightly
</code></pre>
You can then “cargo +nightly miri test” to run your tests under miri. You probably should “cargo clean” first.<p>Of course you can skip the explicit nightly flags in those commands if your default toolchain is nightly.</text></comment> | <story><title>Miri: Interpreter for Rust's mid-level intermediate representation</title><url>https://github.com/rust-lang/miri</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>roblabla</author><text>I often find myself yearning for a Rust REPL. I wonder if it&#x27;d be possible to run the rust compiler to lower the code down to MIR, and then run that in the Miri interpreter?</text></comment> |
12,261,397 | 12,261,610 | 1 | 3 | 12,260,849 | train | <story><title>WikiLeaks offers $20,000 for information on former DNC staffer's murder</title><url>http://www.businessinsider.com/wikileaks-20000-seth-rich-dnc-2016-8</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dvcc</author><text>WikiLeaks is becoming a political mess with Assange leading the charge.<p>The philosophy that all information should be public is just absurd. There is a reason that the whistle-blowers prior passed their information to reporters, it allowed for certain pieces of information to be redacted.<p>Sending out the name of every woman voter in Turkey does not benefit anyone. Leaking the private conversation of a man and his daughter does not benefit anyone.<p>Assange&#x27;s crazed obsession of having WikiLeaks in the news doesn&#x27;t help either, it only leads to further politicization and larger claims. The whole site has just turned into a show more than anything.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>SmellTheGlove</author><text>It&#x27;s simpler than that. In the past, information was passed to trusted reporters because the media was trusted. A lot of what Wikileaks is reporting now is that the media is coordinating with the same people that these leaks are about in the first place. In other words, the media isn&#x27;t trustworthy. So it&#x27;s a choice, put it out whole, or take a real risk that it&#x27;ll never see the light of day. You could argue that Wikileaks could be doing its own editing to redact sensitive irrelevant information, but then they&#x27;re curating the content and are open to criticism regarding whether they&#x27;re editing with a bias.<p>I get it, I don&#x27;t like that innocent people&#x27;s information is out there. However, it&#x27;s a hard choice that Wikileaks is making there in how to put the information out there. It&#x27;s not as simple as running it through reporters, because you don&#x27;t know if you can trust them.<p>I don&#x27;t think it&#x27;s a political mess, though. You only really hear that when the information casts the &quot;liberals&quot; in a bad light. It&#x27;s a lot easier to rip Wikileaks when it&#x27;s a matter of national security, but in this case, it&#x27;s fairly evident we had a biased primary and the media was complicit in that.</text></comment> | <story><title>WikiLeaks offers $20,000 for information on former DNC staffer's murder</title><url>http://www.businessinsider.com/wikileaks-20000-seth-rich-dnc-2016-8</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dvcc</author><text>WikiLeaks is becoming a political mess with Assange leading the charge.<p>The philosophy that all information should be public is just absurd. There is a reason that the whistle-blowers prior passed their information to reporters, it allowed for certain pieces of information to be redacted.<p>Sending out the name of every woman voter in Turkey does not benefit anyone. Leaking the private conversation of a man and his daughter does not benefit anyone.<p>Assange&#x27;s crazed obsession of having WikiLeaks in the news doesn&#x27;t help either, it only leads to further politicization and larger claims. The whole site has just turned into a show more than anything.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>imron</author><text>&gt; Sending out the name of every woman voter in Turkey does not benefit anyone<p>It was not wikileaks who did this. See here: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;glomardisclosure.com&#x2F;2016&#x2F;07&#x2F;26&#x2F;the-who-and-how-of-the-akp-hack-dump-and-wikileaks-release&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;glomardisclosure.com&#x2F;2016&#x2F;07&#x2F;26&#x2F;the-who-and-how-of-t...</a><p>Specifically from the summary at the end:<p><i>1. Because they tweeted the link to the item, they were blamed by the article. This provoked what seems in hindsight to be an overly defensive reaction. Given the accusations that Russia supplied WikiLeaks with information to publish and some construing this to mean that WikiLeaks is controlled by Russia, it’s easy to see how this could happen.<p>2. Even though my name was on the page as the uploader and I had tweeted it out first, WikiLeaks never tried to pass the buck to me or say that it was my upload or my fault. They never reached out to me privately to ask me to do or say anything about it, despite the fact that that would have made things easier for them or taken the pressure off of them. I can only conclude that this is because doing so would have violated the spirit, if not the letter, of their source protection policy by placing the blame on me or pointing the Turkish government in my direction. For that, I’m grateful.</i></text></comment> |
27,209,690 | 27,209,764 | 1 | 2 | 27,206,899 | train | <story><title>Poor in Tech</title><url>http://megelison.com/poor-in-tech</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>zozbot234</author><text>I&#x27;m not sure I see anything wrong with not bothering the cleaning staff while they&#x27;re at work. The whole reason they&#x27;ve been hired is to spare everyone else the time and effort involved in cleaning, so to have everyone waste time on greetings would just be demeaning their work.</text></item><item><author>domador</author><text>The only other implicit criticism toward her coworkers was ignoring and not greeting the cleaning staff. For the most part, her coworkers come across as privileged, rather than mean or otherwise morally deficient.</text></item><item><author>oaiey</author><text>I also do not read this article that way. I think she does not complain about them. Most of them are most likely nice people (ignoring the gym paragraph). She reflect that &quot;she realizes&quot; that she is &quot;poor compared to them&quot;. She does not imply that they are bad people or that she feels miserable about her &quot;poorness&quot; (she seems to earn much more than before .. and quit ... and probably got something better ... and ... seems to write a successful novelthingy)</text></item><item><author>strken</author><text>In some ways it&#x27;s a laundry list of ways rich people in the Bay Area act like wankers, which is interesting, but also quite irritatingly stereotypical. There are plenty who <i>don&#x27;t</i> refuse to talk to the cleaning staff, lecture others on their choice of tampon, or snob fat people at the gym.<p>I don&#x27;t want people from outside the bubble (e.g. me, three years ago) to read this and think they&#x27;ll be surrounded by wall-to-wall wankery and class prejudice if they take a job at a SF startup, because it&#x27;s not wholly representative of all employees at all startups. Most of them are nice. Most people <i>everywhere</i> are nice.</text></item><item><author>isomorph</author><text>Many of the comments on this article are so cold. I can’t believe it. When I read the original article I was imagining all the constructive ways HN readers would interpret it and hold a mirror up to their own behaviour. Some commenters are doing this. But it surprises and depresses me how many people are commenting saying “no, this list isn’t what it says it is, it’s a list showing the author has a negative mindset &#x2F; is not from the Valley bubble, and that problem can be fixed by just getting over it.”. We can do better than that.<p>As someone who has sat at some interesting class and race intersections during my career in tech, including my time at some very prestigious institutions like the University of Cambridge and FAANG, and has exhibited and noticed many of the listed behaviours and the lack there of, I can say this article had the undeniable ring of truth and made me feel sick to my stomach. Guilty for when I’ve been on the rich side and angry for the times I’ve been on the poor side.<p>The psychology of growing up with financial uncertainty - and a risk of racial exclusion - is hard to shake and can be passed from parent to child. My life has mostly been financially blessed but you can’t buy your way out of the mindset, or snap your fingers &#x2F; empty the cache &#x2F; cycle the power the way the average HN commenter seems to think you can.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>NortySpock</author><text>Not even a &quot;good evening&quot; for your fellow human?<p>I usually nod or say a quick greeting in passing as I head out for the evening. I&#x27;ve also thanked the guy who refills the soda can dispenser, pointing out that the company runs on caffeine. Each of these interactions takes less than 30 seconds and reminds us of our shared experience on this planet.</text></comment> | <story><title>Poor in Tech</title><url>http://megelison.com/poor-in-tech</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>zozbot234</author><text>I&#x27;m not sure I see anything wrong with not bothering the cleaning staff while they&#x27;re at work. The whole reason they&#x27;ve been hired is to spare everyone else the time and effort involved in cleaning, so to have everyone waste time on greetings would just be demeaning their work.</text></item><item><author>domador</author><text>The only other implicit criticism toward her coworkers was ignoring and not greeting the cleaning staff. For the most part, her coworkers come across as privileged, rather than mean or otherwise morally deficient.</text></item><item><author>oaiey</author><text>I also do not read this article that way. I think she does not complain about them. Most of them are most likely nice people (ignoring the gym paragraph). She reflect that &quot;she realizes&quot; that she is &quot;poor compared to them&quot;. She does not imply that they are bad people or that she feels miserable about her &quot;poorness&quot; (she seems to earn much more than before .. and quit ... and probably got something better ... and ... seems to write a successful novelthingy)</text></item><item><author>strken</author><text>In some ways it&#x27;s a laundry list of ways rich people in the Bay Area act like wankers, which is interesting, but also quite irritatingly stereotypical. There are plenty who <i>don&#x27;t</i> refuse to talk to the cleaning staff, lecture others on their choice of tampon, or snob fat people at the gym.<p>I don&#x27;t want people from outside the bubble (e.g. me, three years ago) to read this and think they&#x27;ll be surrounded by wall-to-wall wankery and class prejudice if they take a job at a SF startup, because it&#x27;s not wholly representative of all employees at all startups. Most of them are nice. Most people <i>everywhere</i> are nice.</text></item><item><author>isomorph</author><text>Many of the comments on this article are so cold. I can’t believe it. When I read the original article I was imagining all the constructive ways HN readers would interpret it and hold a mirror up to their own behaviour. Some commenters are doing this. But it surprises and depresses me how many people are commenting saying “no, this list isn’t what it says it is, it’s a list showing the author has a negative mindset &#x2F; is not from the Valley bubble, and that problem can be fixed by just getting over it.”. We can do better than that.<p>As someone who has sat at some interesting class and race intersections during my career in tech, including my time at some very prestigious institutions like the University of Cambridge and FAANG, and has exhibited and noticed many of the listed behaviours and the lack there of, I can say this article had the undeniable ring of truth and made me feel sick to my stomach. Guilty for when I’ve been on the rich side and angry for the times I’ve been on the poor side.<p>The psychology of growing up with financial uncertainty - and a risk of racial exclusion - is hard to shake and can be passed from parent to child. My life has mostly been financially blessed but you can’t buy your way out of the mindset, or snap your fingers &#x2F; empty the cache &#x2F; cycle the power the way the average HN commenter seems to think you can.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>gammarator</author><text>There is a difference between “not bothering the cleaning staff” and not acknowledging that they exist and are human and are standing right in front of you.<p>Author is describing the second, and it happens pervasively in the upper classes.</text></comment> |
17,333,097 | 17,332,689 | 1 | 3 | 17,329,143 | train | <story><title>Messi Walks Better Than Most Players Run</title><url>https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/messi-walks-better-than-most-players-run/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>huffmsa</author><text>As with just about everything, moving fast is only useful if you&#x27;re going in the correct direction.<p>A lot of effort in sports and business is wasted by correcting from incorrect predictions.
What Messi is good at is predicting where and when to be to maximize the probability of a successful outcome.<p>Watching him play is a curiosity as well, unlike a lot of other players who make their decision to pass or continue after their first move, Messi almost always continues to the second move when he has the ball.<p>He probably turns it over at a higher rate than most, but his touches typically occur in those previously mentioned high probability positions on the field, meaning that when he&#x27;s not turning it over, he&#x27;s putting shots on goal.<p>Since the cost of a turnover really isn&#x27;t that high given the rate of change of possession in the game, he seems to be acting optimally.<p>Edit and addendum:<p>The guy who&#x27;s always out fundraising might look like he&#x27;s doing a lot of work, but it&#x27;s very likely that the guy who only does the roadshow when the P_success is high will outperform the jackrabbit.</text></comment> | <story><title>Messi Walks Better Than Most Players Run</title><url>https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/messi-walks-better-than-most-players-run/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>TimJYoung</author><text>You see this in hockey, also. Good players are very good at slyly getting into position when they&#x27;re away from the puck. With hockey, if you skate too hard, defending players notice it (you can also hear the skate blades digging in) and will start keeping an eye on you or actively covering you.<p>Good players also do sneaky things like take a little longer to recover from a hard check and then, when everyone has skated away from them while they&#x27;re still down on the ice, slowly sneak into a prime scoring position <i>behind</i> the defensive players where they can&#x27;t be easily seen.</text></comment> |
23,009,531 | 23,009,605 | 1 | 2 | 23,008,601 | train | <story><title>US Senators Introduce Resolution to Allow Remote Voting During Emergencies</title><url>https://www.durbin.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/durbin-portman-introduce-resolution-to-maintain-senates-constitutional-responsibilities-and-allow-remote-voting-during-national-emergencies</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>calvinmorrison</author><text>Do you think with 10+ million undocumented immigrants - a not insignificant portion of the population, but not citizenry - that people should not be concerned about ensuring only valid citizens can vote?</text></item><item><author>rootusrootus</author><text>&gt; The left doesn&#x27;t support that, why?<p>Because it&#x27;s a transparent attempt to reduce the ability of some groups of people to vote. The right pushes for voter ID while simultaneously doing everything possible to reduce the availability of ID.<p>Put the Federal Election Commission in charge of voter ID, make the cards free and make it the mission of the FEC to track down and ensure every qualified citizen has one. Then I support voter ID.</text></item><item><author>eanzenberg</author><text>The right supports mail-in ballots with voter-id, and voter-id in general. The left doesn&#x27;t support that, why?</text></item><item><author>blululu</author><text>Interestingly enough, a significant majority of Republican Voters (~65%) actually do support mail in ballots. The opposition largely stems from the RNC and senior party leadership.
In any case I am glad that the US senate is taking public health seriously, and I hope that they will take similar precautions in protecting their constituents by passing the Klobuchar-Wyden bill to allow mail in voting:
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.wyden.senate.gov&#x2F;download&#x2F;natural-disaster-and-emergency-ballot-act-of-2020-one-pager" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.wyden.senate.gov&#x2F;download&#x2F;natural-disaster-and-e...</a></text></item><item><author>karatestomp</author><text>Oh, I thought the headline meant remote voting for, you know, voters, not Senators, and was very surprised to see an R next to one of the sponsor&#x27;s names. The bill&#x27;s just to let the Senate vote remotely. I&#x27;d imagine most of the interesting nuance is about &quot;presence&quot; and quorum-making. This is not about expanding remote&#x2F;by-mail voting in elections, which Republicans have generally been strongly against, including and especially since the Covid-19 crisis started.<p>[EDIT] correction: it&#x27;s not a bill, either, it&#x27;s (as the headline correctly notes) a resolution to change Senate rules.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Kalium</author><text>You&#x27;re absolutely right. There&#x27;s a vast potential for very real problems.<p>When those problems manifest, we should deal with them. To try to address problems that don&#x27;t actually exist is absurd overregulation and government overreach. It certainly is wasteful to expend resources on solving problems that don&#x27;t need solving because they don&#x27;t exist, isn&#x27;t it?<p>Is there evidence of voter fraud by undocumented migrants that suggests we have a problem and should act?</text></comment> | <story><title>US Senators Introduce Resolution to Allow Remote Voting During Emergencies</title><url>https://www.durbin.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/durbin-portman-introduce-resolution-to-maintain-senates-constitutional-responsibilities-and-allow-remote-voting-during-national-emergencies</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>calvinmorrison</author><text>Do you think with 10+ million undocumented immigrants - a not insignificant portion of the population, but not citizenry - that people should not be concerned about ensuring only valid citizens can vote?</text></item><item><author>rootusrootus</author><text>&gt; The left doesn&#x27;t support that, why?<p>Because it&#x27;s a transparent attempt to reduce the ability of some groups of people to vote. The right pushes for voter ID while simultaneously doing everything possible to reduce the availability of ID.<p>Put the Federal Election Commission in charge of voter ID, make the cards free and make it the mission of the FEC to track down and ensure every qualified citizen has one. Then I support voter ID.</text></item><item><author>eanzenberg</author><text>The right supports mail-in ballots with voter-id, and voter-id in general. The left doesn&#x27;t support that, why?</text></item><item><author>blululu</author><text>Interestingly enough, a significant majority of Republican Voters (~65%) actually do support mail in ballots. The opposition largely stems from the RNC and senior party leadership.
In any case I am glad that the US senate is taking public health seriously, and I hope that they will take similar precautions in protecting their constituents by passing the Klobuchar-Wyden bill to allow mail in voting:
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.wyden.senate.gov&#x2F;download&#x2F;natural-disaster-and-emergency-ballot-act-of-2020-one-pager" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.wyden.senate.gov&#x2F;download&#x2F;natural-disaster-and-e...</a></text></item><item><author>karatestomp</author><text>Oh, I thought the headline meant remote voting for, you know, voters, not Senators, and was very surprised to see an R next to one of the sponsor&#x27;s names. The bill&#x27;s just to let the Senate vote remotely. I&#x27;d imagine most of the interesting nuance is about &quot;presence&quot; and quorum-making. This is not about expanding remote&#x2F;by-mail voting in elections, which Republicans have generally been strongly against, including and especially since the Covid-19 crisis started.<p>[EDIT] correction: it&#x27;s not a bill, either, it&#x27;s (as the headline correctly notes) a resolution to change Senate rules.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>12xo</author><text>Please cite any study that validates this ridiculous claim.<p>Have you ever voted? Are you even registered to vote? Reading this makes me think you have not and have never... Registration requires verification, address, name, etc. You dont just show up and cast your vote.<p>The problem is in many rural and poor communities. Many people do not have a birth certificate, many do not have a DL and believe it or not, it costs money and requires significant travel for many people to get these things.<p>You must live in or near a large city, be from a wealthy family and have never been outside of your geo-bubble. Most of this country is rural. Some people have to travel 100&#x27;s of miles to the nearest government agency. But you knew that, right?</text></comment> |
39,599,314 | 39,598,343 | 1 | 3 | 39,596,491 | train | <story><title>Google's Culture of Fear</title><url>https://www.piratewires.com/p/google-culture-of-fear</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>ncann</author><text>&gt; Before the pernicious or the insidious, we of course begin with the deeply, hilariously stupid: from screenshots I’ve obtained, an insistence engineers no longer use phrases like “build ninja” (cultural appropriation), “nuke the old cache” (military metaphor), “sanity check” (disparages mental illness), or “dummy variable” (disparages disabilities). One engineer was “strongly encouraged” to use one of 15 different crazed pronoun combinations on his corporate bio (including “zie&#x2F;hir,” “ey&#x2F;em,” “xe&#x2F;xem,” and “ve&#x2F;vir”), which he did against his wishes for fear of retribution. Per a January 9 email, the Greyglers, an affinity group for people over 40, is changing its name because not all people over 40 have gray hair, thus constituting lack of “inclusivity” (Google has hired an external consultant to rename the group).<p>This is both hilarious and sad</text></comment> | <story><title>Google's Culture of Fear</title><url>https://www.piratewires.com/p/google-culture-of-fear</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Havoc</author><text>That does not bode well. When HR is the problem then you’ve got a serious problem. Very hard to get rid of problematic HR people because they obviously know all the tricks. And any sort of attempt at changing culture can also get derailed by them.<p>That leaves you with just override from above ie top management. And nobody sane is taking an even vaguely anti-DEI stance. So they seem a little stuck.<p>Won’t be the last major fk up we seen from them on this topic as a result.<p>&gt; diversity architecture<p>Jikes</text></comment> |
4,558,398 | 4,557,422 | 1 | 2 | 4,556,572 | train | <story><title>Facebook Wants You To Snitch On Friends Not Using Their Real Name</title><url>http://paulbernal.wordpress.com/2012/09/21/facebook-snitchgate/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>psbp</author><text>Now imagine a whole generation socializing under these artificial restrictions. Can you imagine how stifling being raised under an umbrella of constant surveillance by your peer group, family, future employers and advertisers would be to your personality and relationships? We're developing a society of sociopatic egotists.</text></item><item><author>prodigal_erik</author><text>What Facebook and Google+ gain in politesse, they lose in depth and honesty. I can't assume I'll be held "accountable" in a just way by every prospective employer, apartment manager, or lover I'll ever meet, so these venues get empty pleasantries from me, certainly nothing controversial in any way.</text></item><item><author>Smudge</author><text>Enforcing real names has pros and cons. For Facebook as a business, the pros certainly outweigh the value lost when accounts can't be mapped directly to real people. Names are a key part of that mapping.<p>In general, I prefer an option for pseudonymity, because it is much more inclusive (allowing certain people at the fringes to feel more comfortable joining in -- victims of abuse, political dissidents, etc), and is much less messy than total anonymity (which wouldn't really work for something like Facebook, not that there isn't a place for it elsewhere on the web). That said, pseudonymity can still get messy, so I see why Facebook might want to keep it in check.<p>One can also make the argument that the level of discourse is much higher on services where people are more personally accountable for what they say, and where confusing or offensive usernames don't get in the way of conversations. But I would say that the actual level of discourse sometimes found on Facebook throws that argument into question.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jodrellblank</author><text>We are basically under constant surveillance by our peer group and family, just not in an Orwellian sense.<p>It's incredibly common for people to grow up afraid to say many things, having massive restrictions on some parts of their personalities due to those kinds of pressures.<p>We see it most obviously with the single big things such as "I can't tell my religious family I'm an atheist" or "I got ostracised for dating someone from another culture" or whatever, but it's almost certainly going on for a huge range of smaller personality facets - or ones which were blanked out before they developed.<p>Who would you be if you'd never had any restrictions on what you could say other than moral ones? If any interest you had, you would have been supported in following up, any comment you made would have been taken seriously and never laughed at, any attempt to better yourself was encouraged not mocked.<p>Maybe more and more surveillance such as you imagine will actually make it <i>more</i> obvious that others opinions are their largely their own problem and don't affect you all that much, and you should develop more confidence sooner.</text></comment> | <story><title>Facebook Wants You To Snitch On Friends Not Using Their Real Name</title><url>http://paulbernal.wordpress.com/2012/09/21/facebook-snitchgate/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>psbp</author><text>Now imagine a whole generation socializing under these artificial restrictions. Can you imagine how stifling being raised under an umbrella of constant surveillance by your peer group, family, future employers and advertisers would be to your personality and relationships? We're developing a society of sociopatic egotists.</text></item><item><author>prodigal_erik</author><text>What Facebook and Google+ gain in politesse, they lose in depth and honesty. I can't assume I'll be held "accountable" in a just way by every prospective employer, apartment manager, or lover I'll ever meet, so these venues get empty pleasantries from me, certainly nothing controversial in any way.</text></item><item><author>Smudge</author><text>Enforcing real names has pros and cons. For Facebook as a business, the pros certainly outweigh the value lost when accounts can't be mapped directly to real people. Names are a key part of that mapping.<p>In general, I prefer an option for pseudonymity, because it is much more inclusive (allowing certain people at the fringes to feel more comfortable joining in -- victims of abuse, political dissidents, etc), and is much less messy than total anonymity (which wouldn't really work for something like Facebook, not that there isn't a place for it elsewhere on the web). That said, pseudonymity can still get messy, so I see why Facebook might want to keep it in check.<p>One can also make the argument that the level of discourse is much higher on services where people are more personally accountable for what they say, and where confusing or offensive usernames don't get in the way of conversations. But I would say that the actual level of discourse sometimes found on Facebook throws that argument into question.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>JoachimSchipper</author><text>That assumes that people don't ignore the constant surveillance and largely do whatever they were going to do anyway. Most non-geeks seem to do just that.<p>(Whether that is a good idea is another matter. Also, I still don't like Facebook.)</text></comment> |
24,995,576 | 24,995,672 | 1 | 2 | 24,995,315 | train | <story><title>The polls messed up</title><url>https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2020/11/04/dont-kid-yourself-the-polls-messed-up-and-that-would-be-the-case-even-wed-forecasted-biden-losing-florida-and-only-barely-winning-the-electoral-college/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>vmception</author><text>I&#x27;ve been standing on a paddleboard in calm waters, surrounded by people to my left and right that are convincing me of a wave coming on their side and don&#x27;t know the people on the other side of me believe the same thing.<p>It&#x27;s not surprising that technologists from the same schools and cities all failed to understand this again.<p>The filter bubble affects us all, including you, including me, including the people you think are completely brainwashed. I just happen to VPN with new browser sessions a lot and get to see it.<p>I also don&#x27;t block people with different ideologies lol so there&#x27;s that.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Crye</author><text>This, I wonder, is the issue. As far as I understand, when polling occurs you subsample a population and then extrapolate it based on the existing demographics of the polling area.<p>Infamously in 2016, the polls did not take into consideration or normalize for education level. This resulted in a oversampling for for Hillary supporters. So as we continue to see polarization due to personalized media, it may turn out that typical demographic markers are no longer as effective in normalizing these sample polls.</text></comment> | <story><title>The polls messed up</title><url>https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2020/11/04/dont-kid-yourself-the-polls-messed-up-and-that-would-be-the-case-even-wed-forecasted-biden-losing-florida-and-only-barely-winning-the-electoral-college/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>vmception</author><text>I&#x27;ve been standing on a paddleboard in calm waters, surrounded by people to my left and right that are convincing me of a wave coming on their side and don&#x27;t know the people on the other side of me believe the same thing.<p>It&#x27;s not surprising that technologists from the same schools and cities all failed to understand this again.<p>The filter bubble affects us all, including you, including me, including the people you think are completely brainwashed. I just happen to VPN with new browser sessions a lot and get to see it.<p>I also don&#x27;t block people with different ideologies lol so there&#x27;s that.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ehsankia</author><text>To be fair, a &quot;wave&quot; did come, from both sides, is roughly equal size. It is true that Democrats are much more riled up and likely to vote. It is also true that Republicans are riled up and more likely to vote. Both those things can coexist. The only issue is that it&#x27;s more the sound wave where two inverted waves cancel each other.</text></comment> |
19,273,484 | 19,272,896 | 1 | 3 | 19,270,527 | train | <story><title>How I'm still not using GUIs in 2019: A guide to the terminal</title><url>https://www.lucasfcosta.com/2019/02/10/terminal-guide-2019.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>olig15</author><text>I&#x27;m a game developer mainly writing&#x2F;reading&#x2F;debugging C++ on a codebase that&#x27;s well over a million lines of code. As with most game-dev I&#x27;m developing almost entirely using Visual Studio, and I can&#x27;t imagine trying to navigate code using a terminal based editor.<p>Maybe it&#x27;s just because this is what I&#x27;m used to, however I just don&#x27;t see how some of the tools would even be displayed in a terminal (parallel stacks window, for example) without some horrible ascii node graph.<p>GUI&#x27;s are definitely more than just bloat. Possibly not for what the author us developing, but there is definitely a use for IDEs&#x2F;GUIs.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>gpderetta</author><text>On the other hand I have worked on code bases in the 50M lines of code that would bring VS on its knees; people ended up just using it as a glorified text editor.<p>Note I&#x27;m not knocking down on IDEs; as an Emacs user I would love reliable semantic indexing and navigation, but all the solutions that I have tried (rtags was the best) consume a lot of time and CPU indexing and switching branches often forces a rebuild. Currently, on a 1M lines code base I get around with projectile (which uses the project git as a file index) for file discovery and ag for brute force search, which at least on linux can search the codebase quickly.</text></comment> | <story><title>How I'm still not using GUIs in 2019: A guide to the terminal</title><url>https://www.lucasfcosta.com/2019/02/10/terminal-guide-2019.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>olig15</author><text>I&#x27;m a game developer mainly writing&#x2F;reading&#x2F;debugging C++ on a codebase that&#x27;s well over a million lines of code. As with most game-dev I&#x27;m developing almost entirely using Visual Studio, and I can&#x27;t imagine trying to navigate code using a terminal based editor.<p>Maybe it&#x27;s just because this is what I&#x27;m used to, however I just don&#x27;t see how some of the tools would even be displayed in a terminal (parallel stacks window, for example) without some horrible ascii node graph.<p>GUI&#x27;s are definitely more than just bloat. Possibly not for what the author us developing, but there is definitely a use for IDEs&#x2F;GUIs.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dan00</author><text>&gt; I&#x27;m a game developer mainly writing&#x2F;reading&#x2F;debugging C++ on a codebase that&#x27;s well over a million lines of code. As with most game-dev I&#x27;m developing almost entirely using Visual Studio, and I can&#x27;t imagine trying to navigate code using a terminal based editor.<p>I&#x27;m working with vim on a ~5 million line C++ code base. Thanks to
rtags[1] I&#x27;ve all I need: auto completion, goto definition, even
semantically correct renaming or finding all locations in code calling
a certain function.<p>I&#x27;m certainly not saying that it&#x27;s as polished as &#x27;Visual Studio&#x27;, but
it works pretty well.<p>If tooling isn&#x27;t baked into an IDE - which unfortunately is often the case
- then pretty much every editor with some kind of extension
mechanism can take advantage of it.<p>&gt; Maybe it&#x27;s just because this is what I&#x27;m used to, however I just don&#x27;t see how some of the tools would even be displayed in a terminal (parallel stacks window, for example) without some horrible ascii node graph.<p>Yes, most visualization are text based. E.g. for showing the references
for a function rtags uses the Quickfix-window of vim, which pretty much is
just a list with one entry for every reference. I can now jump to every
occurence in the list or even execute an operation on every reference,
like I&#x27;ve removed the last parameter of the function call, and now I&#x27;m
defining a vim substitution command for removing the last parameter
and execute it on very item of the Quickfix-window.<p>Sometimes visualizations are certainly helpful, but I never
found them particular useful for software, because the more complex an
application gets, the less useful the visualizations become. At some point
you&#x27;re less interested on the class level and more on the system level,
but tools can&#x27;t that easily detect what are the systems in an application.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;Andersbakken&#x2F;rtags" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;Andersbakken&#x2F;rtags</a></text></comment> |
5,854,849 | 5,853,975 | 1 | 2 | 5,853,536 | train | <story><title>Has the US become the type of nation from which you have to seek asylum?</title><url>http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2013/06/09/has-the-us-become-the-kind-of-nation-from-which-you-have-to-seek-asylum/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mtgx</author><text>So is the 4th amendment, and look how much that one is abused. In the end the Constitution really is &quot;just a piece of paper&quot;, if not the <i>government</i>, not the <i>judges</i>, not the <i>media</i>, and ultimately not even the <i>people</i> respect it, live by it, and try to protect it as soon as it&#x27;s endangered by people trying to accumulate too much power. Where are all the street protests?!<p>I also fail to understand people who so viciously defend the 2nd amendment &quot;because of potential tyranny&quot;, but don&#x27;t try to defend the 1st and 4th amendments with the same aggressiveness, when in fact those amendments are the <i>first line of defense</i> against that encroaching tyranny, and if they fail, it&#x27;s the first clue the country is slipping into tyranny. Would you rather wait until the very last moment, until people can&#x27;t take it anymore but to rise up against the government with violence and starting a massacre, all just to remove the government? Or would you try to fix things while you still can do it peacefully, by protecting the 1st and 4th amendments, so it doesn&#x27;t have to come to &quot;using the 2nd amendment right to defend against the government with guns&quot;?<p>Or maybe it all comes down to who has more money to raise the awareness about it. NRA is a powerful lobby. ACLU and EFF less so.</text></item><item><author>newbie12</author><text>The right to bear arms is also, explicitly, a protection against tyranny BY the government. Thomas Jefferson: &quot;&quot;When governments fear the people, there is liberty. When the people fear the government, there is tyranny. The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government.&quot;</text></item><item><author>_airh</author><text>It is strange that the same country which cherishes its &#x27;right to bear arms&#x27; on the grounds that it gives them a level of protection that the government is unable to provide is &#x27;happy&#x27; to build the infrastructure which allows the same government to peek into their lives.<p>On the one hand, we don&#x27;t trust the government with the basics (physical security). On the other, we trust them with information we don&#x27;t want our parents to see (facebook profiles, etc). ...strange.<p>Edit: When I say &#x27;the country&#x27; I mean the people in aggregate. Obviously, some people are outraged about this issue, just as some people were outraged when a gunman killed 30 children. Techies seem to be particularly concerned about this issue but, on the whole, most people are indifferent.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>munificent</author><text>&gt; Where are all the street protests?!<p>I&#x27;m going to interpret that question literally. A key thing you have to keep in mind is that in almost all of the US outside of a few very large cities, the &quot;street&quot; is not a useful public place. People don&#x27;t gather and interact on streets in the US. They are merely channels for cars. Protesting on the streets would be as useful in most cities in the US as wandering around next to a shipping lane on the open ocean. The only people &quot;there&quot; are driving vehicles at full speed.<p>That of course raises the question of where Americans <i>do</i> congregate together. Churches are the answer for many, although I believe those are dwindling. Some go to bars. Neither of those is a particularly good venue for dissent.<p>One unfortunate consequence of the US being so car-centric is that we&#x27;ve destroyed public space, and consequently made public assembly much harder.</text></comment> | <story><title>Has the US become the type of nation from which you have to seek asylum?</title><url>http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2013/06/09/has-the-us-become-the-kind-of-nation-from-which-you-have-to-seek-asylum/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mtgx</author><text>So is the 4th amendment, and look how much that one is abused. In the end the Constitution really is &quot;just a piece of paper&quot;, if not the <i>government</i>, not the <i>judges</i>, not the <i>media</i>, and ultimately not even the <i>people</i> respect it, live by it, and try to protect it as soon as it&#x27;s endangered by people trying to accumulate too much power. Where are all the street protests?!<p>I also fail to understand people who so viciously defend the 2nd amendment &quot;because of potential tyranny&quot;, but don&#x27;t try to defend the 1st and 4th amendments with the same aggressiveness, when in fact those amendments are the <i>first line of defense</i> against that encroaching tyranny, and if they fail, it&#x27;s the first clue the country is slipping into tyranny. Would you rather wait until the very last moment, until people can&#x27;t take it anymore but to rise up against the government with violence and starting a massacre, all just to remove the government? Or would you try to fix things while you still can do it peacefully, by protecting the 1st and 4th amendments, so it doesn&#x27;t have to come to &quot;using the 2nd amendment right to defend against the government with guns&quot;?<p>Or maybe it all comes down to who has more money to raise the awareness about it. NRA is a powerful lobby. ACLU and EFF less so.</text></item><item><author>newbie12</author><text>The right to bear arms is also, explicitly, a protection against tyranny BY the government. Thomas Jefferson: &quot;&quot;When governments fear the people, there is liberty. When the people fear the government, there is tyranny. The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government.&quot;</text></item><item><author>_airh</author><text>It is strange that the same country which cherishes its &#x27;right to bear arms&#x27; on the grounds that it gives them a level of protection that the government is unable to provide is &#x27;happy&#x27; to build the infrastructure which allows the same government to peek into their lives.<p>On the one hand, we don&#x27;t trust the government with the basics (physical security). On the other, we trust them with information we don&#x27;t want our parents to see (facebook profiles, etc). ...strange.<p>Edit: When I say &#x27;the country&#x27; I mean the people in aggregate. Obviously, some people are outraged about this issue, just as some people were outraged when a gunman killed 30 children. Techies seem to be particularly concerned about this issue but, on the whole, most people are indifferent.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rayiner</author><text>The 4th amendment is strong as it has ever been, and the 1st is much stronger.[1] Are police knocking down your door without a warrant? If not that&#x27;s the 4th amendment working as intended.<p>What we have here is a system:<p>1) Clearly designed to pass a 4th amendment analysis;<p>2) Enabled to to pass such scrutiny be the unprecedented access Americans give corporations to the details of their private lives.<p>For what its worth I think the NSA programs are bad ideas, in an administration that has had a lot of them.[2] But not every bad idea is unconstitutional, that is to say not every bad idea can be fixed in court rather than in Congress.<p>[1] In light of this story, who is still mad at the Supreme Court for holding that Congress couldn&#x27;t shut down the speech of corporations (like the ACLU?)<p>[2] Menacing over the Supreme Court justices during the state of the union probably being the worst.</text></comment> |
5,430,614 | 5,429,516 | 1 | 3 | 5,429,281 | train | <story><title> Blocked Sites is discontinued</title><url>http://support.google.com/websearch/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=1210386</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>brokentone</author><text>This really sucks for me because it means I'll have to see experts-exchange results again.<p>Why is Google shutting every secondary project/feature down right now? Reader, labs, blocked sites, code search... Any engineers able to weigh in on how this is affecting innovation or the 80/20 policy?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jrockway</author><text>I'm an engineer at Google.<p>20% time is alive and well, but you have to be careful when thinking that 20% time is going to magically result in fully-polished new products. How much code can you write in one day a week? How much legacy code can you maintain in one day a week? The fact that programming is hard puts an upper bound on what you can effectively accomplish in your 20% time.<p>Effective 20% projects, in my opinion, are projects that add something new to an existing product and whose maintenance costs are low enough to be absorbed by the project's primary contributors. I've been working on Android lint checks recently: it's something that's self-contained, can be done without interfering with my 80% project, and won't make extra work for the project's main maintainers. (It's also open source, so it can't be canceled. Hah!)<p>It's also worth pointing out that not all 20% projects at Google are going to be visible outside of Google. I spent my first couple quarters at Google working on maintaining the internal Emacs extensions and user-base; most of my time was spent answering questions on the mailing list. This isn't going to result in Google Maps or Gmail, but it is still needs to be done.<p>If you want to do something with more public impact, I think you should work towards making that idea your 80% project. Get buy-in from your peers, write a design doc or description of the product, and talk to people who work on similar projects. Once you have a team ready to work on the project, a good design, and clear criteria for success, it shouldn't be hard to become a "real" project.<p>(I've succeeded in doing this for an internal utility I wanted to write. I wrote a design doc, got some feedback from my peers, and asked my manager for a quarter to work on it, and did. Now it exists and has users!)</text></comment> | <story><title> Blocked Sites is discontinued</title><url>http://support.google.com/websearch/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=1210386</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>brokentone</author><text>This really sucks for me because it means I'll have to see experts-exchange results again.<p>Why is Google shutting every secondary project/feature down right now? Reader, labs, blocked sites, code search... Any engineers able to weigh in on how this is affecting innovation or the 80/20 policy?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>philwelch</author><text>According to various sources, Larry Page had occasion to speak with Steve Jobs and ask his advice--in general terms--a few months before Jobs' death. Jobs originally wasn't inclined to give Page his time (he was still bitter about Android) but felt that, as he had reached out to an earlier generation of Silicon Valley entrepreneurs himself, he should pay it forward.<p>Jobs' advice was to focus on the most important products and prune the rest. It appears Google is now following this advice.</text></comment> |
10,756,986 | 10,756,811 | 1 | 3 | 10,756,684 | train | <story><title>Big IPO, Tiny Payout for Many Startup Workers</title><url>http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-12-17/big-ipo-tiny-payout-for-many-startup-workers?trk=pulse-det-art_view_ext</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Cymen</author><text>The problem here is that the dream is dying for those of us coming to SF to work in startups. The harsh reality is that more and more of us are going to look towards the better deal at the bigger companies like Google, Facebook, Apple, Netflix, etc. Companies that provide both excellent salaries and benefits along with potentially as lucrative stock grants.<p>It&#x27;s time for the startup community to reevaluate the idea that your early employees (say pre 50) should get 0.05% of the company when they take the monetary risk of working for a startup. With such small ownership, it is starting to become a sucker bet.<p>So for those coming here, keep your eyes open and know that right now it&#x27;s only founders, management and investors making out and if you are not looking to hit the lottery, you&#x27;ll do much better working at a bigger company, maxing out that 401k and investing the rest. Or go for lottery but be a founder -- sure, get the experience of working at a startup but keep a careful eye on your personal burn rate (in regards to your potential earnings). And if you&#x27;re not learning and you still want to learn more, make the move to the next startup. The options just aren&#x27;t worth the wait.</text></comment> | <story><title>Big IPO, Tiny Payout for Many Startup Workers</title><url>http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-12-17/big-ipo-tiny-payout-for-many-startup-workers?trk=pulse-det-art_view_ext</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>danieltillett</author><text>If you want to invest in a startup get a high paying job at an established company and just become an angel investor.<p>On the other hand if you want to work at a startup because of the lifestyle or mission then don’t expect to make any (well not much) money if the company succeeds. The sooner everyone wakes up to this reality the better.</text></comment> |
15,682,000 | 15,682,112 | 1 | 2 | 15,681,321 | train | <story><title>China is catching up to the USA, while Japan is being left behind</title><url>https://lemire.me/blog/2017/11/12/china-is-catching-to-the-usa-while-japan-is-being-left-behind/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>toomuchtodo</author><text>What if the Japanese don’t want to move forward and are happy to live out the remainder of their lifespans as is?<p>Progress without purpose is not progress. GDP over quality of life is like measuring your success of curing HIV in a human using bleach. You’ve succeeded, but for what?</text></item><item><author>raverbashing</author><text>Seems Japan did not lose only one decade, but 2 decades so far<p>And by the way things go, it seems they froze in time. Nobody moves the country forward<p>Japan’s tech cannibalism saps Abenomics -
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ft.com&#x2F;content&#x2F;238c993c-427d-11e6-9b66-0712b3873ae1" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ft.com&#x2F;content&#x2F;238c993c-427d-11e6-9b66-0712b3873...</a> might need to Google it<p>Some other day I saw people complaining that in Japan they still use a mechanical mouse (not an optical one, the older ones)</text></item><item><author>sillysaurus3</author><text><i>China is no longer a contender - It&#x27;s the true looming power of the East. And depending on how internal politics play out, it will be interesting to see where exactly China stands in as little as 10-20 years in the future.</i><p>Exactly that:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;i.imgur.com&#x2F;kjF57Sy.png" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;i.imgur.com&#x2F;kjF57Sy.png</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;i.imgur.com&#x2F;OkOQWkj.png" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;i.imgur.com&#x2F;OkOQWkj.png</a></text></item><item><author>joaodlf</author><text>This post goes over science and research, which to me is a consequence to other, &quot;big picture&quot;, areas of the Chinese growth. Areas such as economy, geopolitcs and finances. China is no longer a contender - It&#x27;s the true looming power of the East. And depending on how internal politics play out, it will be interesting to see where exactly China stands in as little as 10-20 years in the future.<p>One thing that strikes me about China is their attitude towards foreign politics - They still want the world to consider them as a &quot;developing country&quot;. Sure, it&#x27;s a gigantic country, both in land and population - There are still many challenges to overcome, but this is now a country with enormous cash reserves, who own a significant lump of US debt, and making truly gigantic strides on all levels of society.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>erikpukinskis</author><text>It’s sad people are downvoting this. Maybe they disagree but this is absolutely a question all of us must ask.<p>There are side effects to growth. We lose cultural practices, we lose languages, we lose neighborhoods, we lose species, we lose entire ecologies.<p>I actually really appreciate the conservative (well...Republican) argument that sometimes it’s worth it. Maybe we should burn some fossil fuels to help developing countries build economically, bring down mortality, be able to support larger investments, etc, in exchange for some extinctions, and the loss of some indigenous culture. I’m open to that.<p>But you also have to be open to the fact that sometimes it’s <i>not</i> worth it, and ask what does it look like if we were to try to preserve our cultural and biological heritage. This is a conservative ideal too.<p>And when I think about how to do that, I am drawn back to Japan over and over who solved many of these problems hundreds or thousands of years ago. Japan has already asked the question: “should we destroy all of our native ecologies and cultures in order to fuel industrial growth?” And they are one of the few countries who has taken a stance on that issue, and succeeded at preserving things America seems destined to continually destroy in its relentless path towards an industrial monoculture.<p>We can’t write that off as provincialism or regressiveness. We (in the U.S.) have something to learn here, and the advantage is not entirely ours.</text></comment> | <story><title>China is catching up to the USA, while Japan is being left behind</title><url>https://lemire.me/blog/2017/11/12/china-is-catching-to-the-usa-while-japan-is-being-left-behind/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>toomuchtodo</author><text>What if the Japanese don’t want to move forward and are happy to live out the remainder of their lifespans as is?<p>Progress without purpose is not progress. GDP over quality of life is like measuring your success of curing HIV in a human using bleach. You’ve succeeded, but for what?</text></item><item><author>raverbashing</author><text>Seems Japan did not lose only one decade, but 2 decades so far<p>And by the way things go, it seems they froze in time. Nobody moves the country forward<p>Japan’s tech cannibalism saps Abenomics -
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ft.com&#x2F;content&#x2F;238c993c-427d-11e6-9b66-0712b3873ae1" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ft.com&#x2F;content&#x2F;238c993c-427d-11e6-9b66-0712b3873...</a> might need to Google it<p>Some other day I saw people complaining that in Japan they still use a mechanical mouse (not an optical one, the older ones)</text></item><item><author>sillysaurus3</author><text><i>China is no longer a contender - It&#x27;s the true looming power of the East. And depending on how internal politics play out, it will be interesting to see where exactly China stands in as little as 10-20 years in the future.</i><p>Exactly that:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;i.imgur.com&#x2F;kjF57Sy.png" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;i.imgur.com&#x2F;kjF57Sy.png</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;i.imgur.com&#x2F;OkOQWkj.png" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;i.imgur.com&#x2F;OkOQWkj.png</a></text></item><item><author>joaodlf</author><text>This post goes over science and research, which to me is a consequence to other, &quot;big picture&quot;, areas of the Chinese growth. Areas such as economy, geopolitcs and finances. China is no longer a contender - It&#x27;s the true looming power of the East. And depending on how internal politics play out, it will be interesting to see where exactly China stands in as little as 10-20 years in the future.<p>One thing that strikes me about China is their attitude towards foreign politics - They still want the world to consider them as a &quot;developing country&quot;. Sure, it&#x27;s a gigantic country, both in land and population - There are still many challenges to overcome, but this is now a country with enormous cash reserves, who own a significant lump of US debt, and making truly gigantic strides on all levels of society.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>FullMtlAlcoholc</author><text>By most measures, progress in happiness and quality of life in has stalled compared to other industrialized nations. Fewer people are getting married with many citing economic pressures. The world happiness report lists the worlds 3rd largest economy in 56th place in the list of happiest countries.<p>From my own experiences living there, Japan may have a strong sense of community that shines during crises, but that connection is often only surface level. Relationships are heavily compartmentalized. You may have drinking buddies, golf friends, etc. But they aren&#x27;t friends in the sense that you&#x27;ll visit them outside of those activities or really open up to them to reveal your vulnerable side. If an older person loses a spouse, they often don&#x27;t have anyone else for companionship.<p>Japan&#x27;s suicide rate is still among the highest in the world and 2nd highest of rich, industrialized countries. It is the leading cause of death for women 15-34, who are amongst the longest lived in the worls.<p>Career satisfaction is also pretty low. The reality of work. The system is based on seniority. Hours are unecessarily long, most likely hurting produxtivity. Gaining advancement based upon merit is rare.</text></comment> |
40,998,199 | 40,998,296 | 1 | 2 | 40,997,585 | train | <story><title>GPT-4o mini: advancing cost-efficient intelligence</title><url>https://openai.com/index/gpt-4o-mini-advancing-cost-efficient-intelligence/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>ChrisArchitect</author><text>[dupe]<p>Some more discussion: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=40996248">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=40996248</a></text></comment> | <story><title>GPT-4o mini: advancing cost-efficient intelligence</title><url>https://openai.com/index/gpt-4o-mini-advancing-cost-efficient-intelligence/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>wrs</author><text>The big news for me here is the 16k output token limit. The models keep increasing the input limit to outrageous amounts, but output has been stuck at 4k.<p>I did a project to summarize complex PDF invoices (not “unstructured” data, but “idiosyncratically structured” data, as each vendor has a completely different format). GPT-4o did an <i>amazing</i> job at the extraction of line items, but I had to do a heuristic layer on top to break up the PDFs into small chunks so the output didn’t overflow.</text></comment> |
20,857,119 | 20,856,950 | 1 | 2 | 20,853,834 | train | <story><title>The Fry’s Era</title><url>https://mondaynote.com/the-frys-era-8709a7e602eb</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mc32</author><text>Fry’s have always had the stigma that they hired unknowledgeable floor staff. If you knew what you were after you were fine. On the non technical side, half the time the staff didn’t know where to find items and would take you on wild goose chases.<p>The stock was better than Microcrocenter or Central Computers (when they were relevant), and their sandwiches weren’t held bad. But the floor staff and that stupid thing where they have people at the exits pretend to check receipts on the purchase side. On the return side it was just awful. Today in age their return policies are just bad. On some items they have restocking fees.</text></item><item><author>teuobk</author><text>Microcenter is a great counterexample. The one here in Denver is always full of customers, and it&#x27;s stuffed with all manner of computer parts, hobby electronics, and so on. It&#x27;s how I too remember Fry&#x27;s being back in the day.<p>I don&#x27;t really understand how Microcenter does it, but they often have equal or better prices than Amazon, and in any case, they&#x27;ll price-match. Also, there&#x27;s no worry about whatever I buy turning out to be counterfeit.<p>The one slightly odd thing about the Microcenter experience is how all of the salespeople have little stickers to take credit for when they help a customer find something. Are they on commission? Is this Microcenter&#x27;s way of identifying the most useful floor staff? They&#x27;re never pushy about it, but it does stand out in stark contrast to pretty much every other retail shop I can think of.</text></item><item><author>InTheArena</author><text>I was in San Jose, and visited their store there (Which I believe is also their headquarters &#x2F; central distribution point), and it was just sad. The CPU section &#x2F; MB was completely bare. I hadn’t heard of what was going on, so I assumed that they were revamping the area or something.<p>That said, I am not sure we can put the blame only on Amazon. I was in Microcenter the day after, and it was stupid busy - took 30 minutes to check out and was packed to gills. They crammed all of the good stuff of Frys into a much smaller space - mostly focused around PC electronics.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>DrScump</author><text><p><pre><code> they hired unknowledgeable floor staff
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In some areas, yes, like anywhere else. For a counterexample, the female manager(?) in Components in Sunnyvale has an almost encyclopedic knowledge of everything in the department.<p>The receipt-check theft-deterrence theater <i>is</i> annoying. I never wait for it.<p><pre><code> Today in age their return policies are just bad.
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Oh, I disagree. As long as you keep proof of purchase (which can be as minimal as saving the invoice number), return friction within 15 days is as low as Costco... and they usually make reasonable extensions beyond 15 days (&quot;I missed the rebate period&quot;).</text></comment> | <story><title>The Fry’s Era</title><url>https://mondaynote.com/the-frys-era-8709a7e602eb</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mc32</author><text>Fry’s have always had the stigma that they hired unknowledgeable floor staff. If you knew what you were after you were fine. On the non technical side, half the time the staff didn’t know where to find items and would take you on wild goose chases.<p>The stock was better than Microcrocenter or Central Computers (when they were relevant), and their sandwiches weren’t held bad. But the floor staff and that stupid thing where they have people at the exits pretend to check receipts on the purchase side. On the return side it was just awful. Today in age their return policies are just bad. On some items they have restocking fees.</text></item><item><author>teuobk</author><text>Microcenter is a great counterexample. The one here in Denver is always full of customers, and it&#x27;s stuffed with all manner of computer parts, hobby electronics, and so on. It&#x27;s how I too remember Fry&#x27;s being back in the day.<p>I don&#x27;t really understand how Microcenter does it, but they often have equal or better prices than Amazon, and in any case, they&#x27;ll price-match. Also, there&#x27;s no worry about whatever I buy turning out to be counterfeit.<p>The one slightly odd thing about the Microcenter experience is how all of the salespeople have little stickers to take credit for when they help a customer find something. Are they on commission? Is this Microcenter&#x27;s way of identifying the most useful floor staff? They&#x27;re never pushy about it, but it does stand out in stark contrast to pretty much every other retail shop I can think of.</text></item><item><author>InTheArena</author><text>I was in San Jose, and visited their store there (Which I believe is also their headquarters &#x2F; central distribution point), and it was just sad. The CPU section &#x2F; MB was completely bare. I hadn’t heard of what was going on, so I assumed that they were revamping the area or something.<p>That said, I am not sure we can put the blame only on Amazon. I was in Microcenter the day after, and it was stupid busy - took 30 minutes to check out and was packed to gills. They crammed all of the good stuff of Frys into a much smaller space - mostly focused around PC electronics.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Stratoscope</author><text>If you ever do visit a Fry&#x27;s again, the trick for that &quot;let me check your receipt and mark it with a pink sharpie&quot; person is to just smile and walk right by. They won&#x27;t stop you or question you, because they have been trained that it would be unlawful to do so. They can <i>ask</i> to see your receipt and check it, but they can&#x27;t <i>demand</i> it.<p>More than once there has been a line of a half dozen people at the pink sharpie exit, and I&#x27;ve just walked on by, much to the amazement of the people waiting in line.<p>Note: I&#x27;m talking about Fry&#x27;s, not Costco. I&#x27;m told Costco is different because it&#x27;s a membership club and you have to agree to their terms and conditions to shop there. (I&#x27;m also told that even Costco can&#x27;t <i>demand</i> to see your receipt, but they can cancel your membership if you don&#x27;t show it.)</text></comment> |
36,618,242 | 36,617,775 | 1 | 2 | 36,614,788 | train | <story><title>Stop trying to make social networks succeed</title><url>https://ploum.net/2023-07-06-stop-trying-to-make-social-networks-succeed.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>xeromal</author><text>This is a huge tangent, but I&#x27;ve started harboring similar feelings for video games. Go read comments for the latest game and 90% of the comments will be about item drops, skins, loot drops, whatever. It&#x27;s absolutely mind boggling because all those things IMO suck the fun out of the game which it to kill something, kill someone, or explore some world.</text></item><item><author>mattbuilds</author><text>I think the VC world&#x27;s obsession with growth has tainted how we (me included) view things, especially stuff like social media. There is a fixation with growing and doing it rapidly that I believe is harmful. I don&#x27;t know when this switch flipped, but I&#x27;ve felt it gradually building up over time.<p>Things can just be what they are, grow naturally and then die naturally. I suspect that injecting cash and attempting to achieve an unnatural growth is probably not good for both the quality of the product and the long term stability of it.<p>I would love to see more niche things grow organically and fill a role for some people, at some time and not try to be everything for everyone. Because when that&#x27;s the case, does anyone really enjoy it?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>epiccoleman</author><text>I winced hard at the $70 price tag on Tears of the Kingdom - but damned if I didn&#x27;t get more than my money&#x27;s worth. One of the things that makes that game so fun is that the whole thing is just there in front of you and you are largely allowed to approach the game however you want. One of the best games ever in terms of respecting the player&#x27;s intelligence and creativity - just gives you a set of tools and says &quot;fuck around and find out.&quot;</text></comment> | <story><title>Stop trying to make social networks succeed</title><url>https://ploum.net/2023-07-06-stop-trying-to-make-social-networks-succeed.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>xeromal</author><text>This is a huge tangent, but I&#x27;ve started harboring similar feelings for video games. Go read comments for the latest game and 90% of the comments will be about item drops, skins, loot drops, whatever. It&#x27;s absolutely mind boggling because all those things IMO suck the fun out of the game which it to kill something, kill someone, or explore some world.</text></item><item><author>mattbuilds</author><text>I think the VC world&#x27;s obsession with growth has tainted how we (me included) view things, especially stuff like social media. There is a fixation with growing and doing it rapidly that I believe is harmful. I don&#x27;t know when this switch flipped, but I&#x27;ve felt it gradually building up over time.<p>Things can just be what they are, grow naturally and then die naturally. I suspect that injecting cash and attempting to achieve an unnatural growth is probably not good for both the quality of the product and the long term stability of it.<p>I would love to see more niche things grow organically and fill a role for some people, at some time and not try to be everything for everyone. Because when that&#x27;s the case, does anyone really enjoy it?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>EA-3167</author><text>The key is to just pass on those sorts of games, because there are still plenty of others that don&#x27;t play with the customer that way.</text></comment> |
16,872,549 | 16,872,257 | 1 | 2 | 16,870,150 | train | <story><title>PostgreSQL website – new design now live</title><url>https://www.postgresql.org</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>everdev</author><text>The design went from looking like 1997 to looking like 2007.<p>You can still see the old design in the docs: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.postgresql.org&#x2F;docs&#x2F;10&#x2F;static&#x2F;index.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.postgresql.org&#x2F;docs&#x2F;10&#x2F;static&#x2F;index.html</a><p>I appreciate the update, but it&#x27;s interesting from a design perspective how many technically amazing products have dated website design. I do appreciate not trying to force a fashionable design template onto every site, but there are some really slick minimal ones that can be used that will bring the design up to the current decade at least.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ken</author><text>I find it quite convenient that all of the best database systems I&#x27;ve used (Postgres, SQLite, Redis) also have the most boring webpages, and the worst databases have the most trendy webpages.<p>I could have saved a lot of time, over the past 20 years, if I&#x27;d simply followed the rule: Is this the most boring webpage I&#x27;ve seen all week? Yes =&gt; it&#x27;s going to be a good database.</text></comment> | <story><title>PostgreSQL website – new design now live</title><url>https://www.postgresql.org</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>everdev</author><text>The design went from looking like 1997 to looking like 2007.<p>You can still see the old design in the docs: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.postgresql.org&#x2F;docs&#x2F;10&#x2F;static&#x2F;index.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.postgresql.org&#x2F;docs&#x2F;10&#x2F;static&#x2F;index.html</a><p>I appreciate the update, but it&#x27;s interesting from a design perspective how many technically amazing products have dated website design. I do appreciate not trying to force a fashionable design template onto every site, but there are some really slick minimal ones that can be used that will bring the design up to the current decade at least.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bachmeier</author><text>&gt; it&#x27;s interesting from a design perspective how many technically amazing products have dated website design<p>It&#x27;s interesting from a user perspective how many nice websites have been ruined in an attempt to not look dated.</text></comment> |
38,121,254 | 38,121,237 | 1 | 3 | 38,120,097 | train | <story><title>Sally Ignore Previous Instructions</title><url>https://www.haihai.ai/pen15/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>exabrial</author><text>That also fails: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;taskandpurpose.com&#x2F;culture&#x2F;minnesota-vikings-johnny-sins-veterans" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;taskandpurpose.com&#x2F;culture&#x2F;minnesota-vikings-johnny-...</a></text></item><item><author>klyrs</author><text>Just hire a censor, for crying out loud, the NBA can afford it and it doesn&#x27;t need to scale.</text></item><item><author>exabrial</author><text>&gt; For example, I worked with the NBA to let fans text messages onto the Jumbotron. The technology worked great, but let me tell you, no amount of regular expressions stands a chance against a 15 year old trying to text the word “penis” onto the Jumbotron.<p>incredible</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>hnbad</author><text>I don&#x27;t think &quot;filter out texts that look like they might be blatant sexual puns or inappropriate for a jumbotron&quot; is on the same level as &quot;filter out images in a promotion of militarist culture that depict people whom the military might not want to be associated with&quot;. I doubt most people (including journalists) would have known the image was a prank if there weren&#x27;t articles written about the prank after it was pointed out in a way that journalists found out about. On the other hand getting the word &quot;penis&quot; or a slur on the jumbotron is intentionally somewhat obvious.<p>I actually think the example of a porn actor being mistaken for a soldier is rather harmless (although it will offend exactly the kind of crowd that thinks a sports event randomly &quot;honoring&quot; military personnel is good and normal). I recall politicians being tricked into &quot;honoring&quot; far worse people in pranks like this just because someone constructed a sob story about them using a real picture. The problem here is that filtering out the &quot;bad people&quot; requires either being able to perfectly identify (i.e. already know) every single bad person or every single good person.<p>A reverse image search is a good gut check but if the photo itself doesn&#x27;t have any exact matches you rely on facial recognition which is too unreliable. You don&#x27;t want to turn down a genuine sob story because the guy just happens to look like a different person.</text></comment> | <story><title>Sally Ignore Previous Instructions</title><url>https://www.haihai.ai/pen15/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>exabrial</author><text>That also fails: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;taskandpurpose.com&#x2F;culture&#x2F;minnesota-vikings-johnny-sins-veterans" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;taskandpurpose.com&#x2F;culture&#x2F;minnesota-vikings-johnny-...</a></text></item><item><author>klyrs</author><text>Just hire a censor, for crying out loud, the NBA can afford it and it doesn&#x27;t need to scale.</text></item><item><author>exabrial</author><text>&gt; For example, I worked with the NBA to let fans text messages onto the Jumbotron. The technology worked great, but let me tell you, no amount of regular expressions stands a chance against a 15 year old trying to text the word “penis” onto the Jumbotron.<p>incredible</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>WJW</author><text>If it hadn&#x27;t been called out in the media, how many people would have caught onto that?</text></comment> |
34,215,608 | 34,214,965 | 1 | 3 | 34,214,529 | train | <story><title>Grade inflation: What goes up must come down</title><url>https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2022/10/3/barton-grade-inflation/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tylergetsay</author><text>This also applies to high school in my experience. I had a lower GPA but took AP classes, my friends who took easy classes got into better schools.</text></item><item><author>gnicholas</author><text>In undergrad, the professor who taught intermediate microeconomics told us about how law and business school admissions officers knew how tough his course was (it was the weeder course), and that doing well would be a feather in our cap. I made the mistake of believing him. The savvy students took intermediate micro at nearby schools and transferred the credit along with a higher grade.<p>Graduate schools will look at rec letters and take the professor&#x27;s praise into account, but they haven’t the slightest notion of whether a class you took is hard or not. Students who want to optimize their future prospects know this, and select their courses accordingly. Oh, and employers know&#x2F;care even less than graduate schools.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>grogenaut</author><text>I went to a good uni in the same city as my high school. The admissions officers told me they knew my (mediocre) grades (all tough classes) were fine cause they were familiar with my high school and this helped me get in with lower than average grades. My test scores were generally good as well. This was repeated by the other two schools. Why did I get to talk to the admissions officers? I played sports. Even D3 schools had a former admissions officer or dedicated one who gave the coaches reads on everyone pre-admission. I got these reads from them.<p>Even Carnegie was familiar with my highschool (5 states away from MO), I just didn&#x27;t get in there as I didn&#x27;t have time to re-take the basic SAT Math as I had forgotten more geometry from freshman year than I needed to get to their high bar. I did nail the SAT2 math though. Many schools took that or the ACT which I did better on.<p>I think it depends on the size of your college&#x2F;uni and how many other kids from your school go there.<p>I do remember being pissed watching one of my friends go up and get national honor society honors for their senior year because they finally passed their third try at freshman Algebra and had really high marks overall their senior year, where I was pulling a class high 89% in Stats but my gpa was not high enough.<p>Seems to have worked out going to engineering though which definitely did not grade inflate when I was there.</text></comment> | <story><title>Grade inflation: What goes up must come down</title><url>https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2022/10/3/barton-grade-inflation/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tylergetsay</author><text>This also applies to high school in my experience. I had a lower GPA but took AP classes, my friends who took easy classes got into better schools.</text></item><item><author>gnicholas</author><text>In undergrad, the professor who taught intermediate microeconomics told us about how law and business school admissions officers knew how tough his course was (it was the weeder course), and that doing well would be a feather in our cap. I made the mistake of believing him. The savvy students took intermediate micro at nearby schools and transferred the credit along with a higher grade.<p>Graduate schools will look at rec letters and take the professor&#x27;s praise into account, but they haven’t the slightest notion of whether a class you took is hard or not. Students who want to optimize their future prospects know this, and select their courses accordingly. Oh, and employers know&#x2F;care even less than graduate schools.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mathattack</author><text>Same though I’d say that the group who optimized for grades over challenging themselves in high school didn’t fare so well. Same in college actually. I don’t have much law school data but it seems like the folks afraid of competition when they’re young don’t grow into it when they get older.</text></comment> |
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