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11,043,393 | 11,042,265 | 1 | 3 | 11,041,245 | train | <story><title>France to pave 1,000km of road with solar panels</title><url>http://www.globalconstructionreview.com/trends/france-pa7ve-1000km-ro7ad-so7lar-panel7s/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>CyberDildonics</author><text>Paving roads with solar panels is a classic example of a &#x27;simple, easy, wrong&#x27; solution. It seems that some people have gross misconceptions about the barrier to solar panels. People living in crowded cities think there is some sort of shortage of space. In a broad sense this is of course very far from the truth. The barrier to solar is cost per kw&#x2F;hr. As that goes down, solar installations go up.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>wang_li</author><text>&gt; Paving roads with solar panels is a classic example of a &#x27;simple, easy, wrong&#x27; solution.<p>You are likely not seeing the same &quot;problem&quot; that the powers that be in France are seeing. When looked at through the lens of graft, corruption and cronyism, it&#x27;s &#x27;simple, easy, and profitable&#x27;. Whether it ever delivers worthwhile amounts of power at efficient costs is entirely secondary.</text></comment> | <story><title>France to pave 1,000km of road with solar panels</title><url>http://www.globalconstructionreview.com/trends/france-pa7ve-1000km-ro7ad-so7lar-panel7s/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>CyberDildonics</author><text>Paving roads with solar panels is a classic example of a &#x27;simple, easy, wrong&#x27; solution. It seems that some people have gross misconceptions about the barrier to solar panels. People living in crowded cities think there is some sort of shortage of space. In a broad sense this is of course very far from the truth. The barrier to solar is cost per kw&#x2F;hr. As that goes down, solar installations go up.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>chillingeffect</author><text>&gt; People living in crowded cities think there is some sort of shortage of space.<p>Too true. When I spent some time in an urban technology research lab, the researchers and students gravitated strongly toward projects described as &quot;a little tiny $X that you can carry with you.&quot; Their focuses narrowed from stage performances to screen-based art. In the Indra&#x27;s web of city life, the wide, open space of rural areas was not only forgotten, but incomprehensible and unavailable as a resource for deployment.</text></comment> |
37,790,971 | 37,790,363 | 1 | 3 | 37,788,595 | train | <story><title>A California hedge fund bulldozed state labor laws, imposed harshest noncompetes</title><url>https://www.businessinsider.com/how-hedge-funds-skirt-california-noncompete-ban-what-means-ny-2023-9</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>sna1l</author><text>&gt; In 2017, The Wall Street Journal reported on the difficulties faced by the firm. At that point, Voleon had an annualized return since inception of 10.5%, below the S&amp;P 500 index return of 10.7% over the same period. One of the problems encountered was that financial markets were chaotic, and machine learning systems were best applied where patterns were more repeating in nature. In addition, patterns that are found can be easily made redundant after investors notice them and take advantage on them. Gary Smith writes that patterns discovered by the algorithms are often simply coincidences rather than actual correlations.[2][3][7]<p>&gt; In 2018, Voleon had a return of 14% during a market turndown where the S&amp;P 500 index dropped 6.2%. However, in 2019, its returns dropped to 7%, below the returns of its hedge fund peers of 9.2%. In 2020, Voleon&#x27;s flagship fund lost 9%.[6][8]<p>Given their returns, how do they have 7.6 billion AUM?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>giraffe_lady</author><text>They nearly matched the market in a good year, and beat it very well in a bad one. Hard to say for 2019 since the quote switches to comparing them to &quot;hedge fund peers&quot; instead of the broader market.<p>As someone else is pointing out that&#x27;s very close to the intended behavior of hedge funds. Entities with money in hedge funds also have money in indexes. They aren&#x27;t necessarily looking for just &quot;the market, but more&quot; they want uncorrelated behavior to <i>hedge</i> their exposure.</text></comment> | <story><title>A California hedge fund bulldozed state labor laws, imposed harshest noncompetes</title><url>https://www.businessinsider.com/how-hedge-funds-skirt-california-noncompete-ban-what-means-ny-2023-9</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>sna1l</author><text>&gt; In 2017, The Wall Street Journal reported on the difficulties faced by the firm. At that point, Voleon had an annualized return since inception of 10.5%, below the S&amp;P 500 index return of 10.7% over the same period. One of the problems encountered was that financial markets were chaotic, and machine learning systems were best applied where patterns were more repeating in nature. In addition, patterns that are found can be easily made redundant after investors notice them and take advantage on them. Gary Smith writes that patterns discovered by the algorithms are often simply coincidences rather than actual correlations.[2][3][7]<p>&gt; In 2018, Voleon had a return of 14% during a market turndown where the S&amp;P 500 index dropped 6.2%. However, in 2019, its returns dropped to 7%, below the returns of its hedge fund peers of 9.2%. In 2020, Voleon&#x27;s flagship fund lost 9%.[6][8]<p>Given their returns, how do they have 7.6 billion AUM?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>infecto</author><text>Not defending this fund or any other hedge and I do not know the defined purpose of this fund but they generally exist to hedge your risks and are not there to beat the S&amp;P500. Thats why they exist for accredited investors and not your regular investor saving for retirement.</text></comment> |
40,516,865 | 40,516,786 | 1 | 3 | 40,516,437 | train | <story><title>Amazon Cloud Traffic Is Suffocating Fedora's Mirrors</title><url>https://www.phoronix.com/news/AWS-Cloud-Breaks-Fedora-Mirrors</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>INTPenis</author><text>I think Digitalocean has their own package mirror for their image.<p>AWS is just being ignorant. If I were in charge of Fedora infrastructure I&#x27;d block them and send them instructions on how to setup a mirror.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jcrawfordor</author><text>The fact that this is EPEL strongly suggests that it was set up by an AWS user, not by Amazon themselves. EPEL is not used by default in any common AWS AMIs. Perhaps it is an Amazon Linux user who enabled EPEL via Amazon&#x27;s package, but it&#x27;s not supported in the most recent version of AL so Amazon seems to have addresses that issue anyway.</text></comment> | <story><title>Amazon Cloud Traffic Is Suffocating Fedora's Mirrors</title><url>https://www.phoronix.com/news/AWS-Cloud-Breaks-Fedora-Mirrors</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>INTPenis</author><text>I think Digitalocean has their own package mirror for their image.<p>AWS is just being ignorant. If I were in charge of Fedora infrastructure I&#x27;d block them and send them instructions on how to setup a mirror.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kbolino</author><text>Though there are probably things AWS could do anyway, this could well be caused by a large customer using a custom AMI, and not because of anything Amazon did or didn&#x27;t do.</text></comment> |
13,875,476 | 13,875,110 | 1 | 2 | 13,874,559 | train | <story><title>BeagleBone Blue – A complete, Linux-enabled robotics computer</title><url>https://beagleboard.org/blue</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>tyingq</author><text>Was initially confused, because there was an earlier &quot;BeagleBone Blue&quot; (well, BlueSteel, I guess) that had nothing to do with robotics:<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cnx-software.com&#x2F;2014&#x2F;06&#x2F;18&#x2F;bluesteel-basic-beaglebone-black&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cnx-software.com&#x2F;2014&#x2F;06&#x2F;18&#x2F;bluesteel-basic-beagl...</a><p>The interesting part of this one, to me, is the Octavo packaging of the AM335X processor with on-die RAM. That makes the board much simpler. Though, I thought it would make a bigger difference in price. The BeagleBone wireless that uses the same chip is ~$68, which is $7 higher than the Black that has separate RAM.<p>If you haven&#x27;t used a BB product, check out the thing that I think is the biggest upside of these...the built in pair of PRUs. It&#x27;s like having the best of a normal linux board plus a microcontroller on the same board. Since the PRU shares memory with the main CPU, you can offload things that need to be realtime. That allows for things like a near professional-level LED matrix controller (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;trmm.net&#x2F;LEDscape" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;trmm.net&#x2F;LEDscape</a>) or even a DIY video controller (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;trmm.net&#x2F;Mac-SE_video" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;trmm.net&#x2F;Mac-SE_video</a>).</text></comment> | <story><title>BeagleBone Blue – A complete, Linux-enabled robotics computer</title><url>https://beagleboard.org/blue</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>MayeulC</author><text>Oh my. This looks perfect to replace the plethora of daughter boards I usually have in my robotics projects: encoders, power boards for DC and servo motors, I&#x2F;O boards. This also looks clearly oriented towards drones, and seems to have a lot of potential in that regard.<p>To be fair, I was also recently considering switching to other, more integrated boards recently; but this one seems particularly well tailored to my use case, at a decent price, and (perhaps more important in some regard) open source.<p>I didn&#x27;t read the full specification, the only thing I am worried about is the maximum power draw (especially for DC motors). I also usually use 24V PSU&#x2F;batteries, but that&#x27;s only a minimal inconvenience.</text></comment> |
38,267,488 | 38,266,389 | 1 | 2 | 38,263,435 | train | <story><title>Backblaze Drive Stats for Q3 2023</title><url>https://www.backblaze.com/blog/backblaze-drive-stats-for-q3-2023/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>1-6</author><text>My simple rule still stands even after 20 years: Avoid Seagate.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>gosub100</author><text>They had a couple bad runs a few years back. If you keep following your simple rule, you&#x27;ll eventually get a bad WD and not be able to use spinning platters at all. A better simple rule would be to never skimp on buying out-of-warranty drives, as well as having a proper backup regimen. I&#x27;ve had bad seagates back in ~2008 but my current nas has 5x 16T exos and they work fine.</text></comment> | <story><title>Backblaze Drive Stats for Q3 2023</title><url>https://www.backblaze.com/blog/backblaze-drive-stats-for-q3-2023/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>1-6</author><text>My simple rule still stands even after 20 years: Avoid Seagate.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kstrauser</author><text>Conversely, I’ve had nothing but bad luck with WD the last few years, and my Seagates have been flawless.<p>My simple rule is that all drives suck, and always have good backups.</text></comment> |
22,083,479 | 22,082,270 | 1 | 3 | 22,081,535 | train | <story><title>Barr’s Encryption Push Is Decades in the Making</title><url>https://www.wsj.com/articles/barrs-encryption-push-is-decades-in-the-making-but-troubles-some-at-fbi-11579257002</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>javajosh</author><text>Go through each of the Bill of Rights, and for each produce a scenario where that right would be used by a criminal to protect him or her from planning, executing, and avoiding detection of a crime.<p>All individual rights are carved out from the default government, which is the one that takes absolute authority over all within its domain. North Korea is closest to this ideal today, but most vanilla monarchies were like this in the west.<p>Law enforcement officers (and politicians) must confront the simple fact that they must accept the restraints that the law places on them, even if it means letting the bad guy get away with it. Getting the bad guy at any cost (&quot;Tango and Cash&quot; style) makes a fun movie but it undermines the freedoms that our ancestors (by both blood and principal) fought and died for.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>newguy1234</author><text>Yup and these days I would say that individuals need to go the extra step by using technologies to ensure their rights are never violated. Simply having the right written into law is not good enough anymore.</text></comment> | <story><title>Barr’s Encryption Push Is Decades in the Making</title><url>https://www.wsj.com/articles/barrs-encryption-push-is-decades-in-the-making-but-troubles-some-at-fbi-11579257002</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>javajosh</author><text>Go through each of the Bill of Rights, and for each produce a scenario where that right would be used by a criminal to protect him or her from planning, executing, and avoiding detection of a crime.<p>All individual rights are carved out from the default government, which is the one that takes absolute authority over all within its domain. North Korea is closest to this ideal today, but most vanilla monarchies were like this in the west.<p>Law enforcement officers (and politicians) must confront the simple fact that they must accept the restraints that the law places on them, even if it means letting the bad guy get away with it. Getting the bad guy at any cost (&quot;Tango and Cash&quot; style) makes a fun movie but it undermines the freedoms that our ancestors (by both blood and principal) fought and died for.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>robomartin</author><text>&gt; All individual rights are carved out from the default government<p>Not sure this is how you meant it. If you mean to say that rights come from governments that is not quite correct, at least not in the US.<p>Rights, in the US, are not GRANTED by government, they are RECOGNIZED by the US Constitution to exist OUTSIDE OF GOVERNMENT (upper case is for emphasis only). In other words, these rights don&#x27;t require government in order to exist. We are recognized to have them and government can&#x27;t do a thing about it other than to respect and protect them.<p>This is a massive difference with other systems that lots of people, both inside and outside the US are not aware of.<p>Take the right to bare arms as an example. In most other nations, if it exists, this is a right granted by government to the people. In the US this is a right recognized by the constitution to exist despite and outside of government.<p>Here&#x27;s the key difference between &quot;grant&quot; and &quot;recognize&quot;: The government can&#x27;t take away that which it does not own, did not and cannot grant.<p>An example of a right (well, a privilege) government can take away is your driver&#x27;s license. They grant it and they can take it away.<p>In the case of firearms, the US government does not have the ability to confiscate weapons because that is not a right the government granted and, therefore, they don&#x27;t have unilateral power to cancel that right with a simple bill. In fact, it takes a tremendously complex agreement across all States and the federal government to make any changes to the US Constitution (2&#x2F;3 majority in the Senate, House and all 50 State Legislatures). Even that does not guarantee government to have the right to eliminate rights.<p>This is good. This means, among other things, that the government can&#x27;t take your freedom of speech away because they do not own it, they did not grant it. It is recognized as a fundamental right. All rights in the Bill of Rights are equal in this sense (as far as I know). If we weaken one of them (as many want to do with firearms) you run the risk of opening Pandora&#x27;s box and exposing the people to government control of rights.<p>It&#x27;s an interesting problem.<p>Coming from this perspective it is hard to understand why people in any nation would want to live in an environment where the government owns and grants rights --and can take them away at will. If the idea is that government works for us --they are our representatives-- why in the world would it make sense that they would be able to take away our rights? Imperfect analogy: It&#x27;s like a project manager hiring a worker and then having that worker fire the project manager.<p>PS.: A lot of anti-gun activists keep pointing at places like New Zealand and their gun confiscation and buy-back programs. The typical cry is &quot;We should do the same&quot;. Well, we can&#x27;t. Government did not grant, nor does it own that right. And it can&#x27;t take it away. In many ways this kind of activism is nothing less than futile and even nonsensical. It&#x27;s almost like demanding that we change the gravitational constant in that it is about as likely.</text></comment> |
19,725,657 | 19,725,600 | 1 | 2 | 19,724,262 | train | <story><title>A book to learn R and Python in parallel for Data Science</title><url>https://github.com/rnorm/book_sample</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>billfruit</author><text>I sometimes wonder is there any reason to learn R at all, since python eco system has absorbed most of its advanced statistical functionality, coupled with the factor that python environment is much more general, with capabilities to fetch, decode&#x2F;encoded data,work with binary data databases, web frameworks for presenting etc.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>minimaxir</author><text>I use both Python and R. tidyverse&#x2F;ggplot2 alone are enough reason to use R, and are <i>substantially</i> faster for tasks that utilize those packages than the equivalent in Python (in my opinion).<p>Although I haven&#x27;t had as much reason to use <i>base</i> R. For more ML-related tasks I do go back to Python.</text></comment> | <story><title>A book to learn R and Python in parallel for Data Science</title><url>https://github.com/rnorm/book_sample</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>billfruit</author><text>I sometimes wonder is there any reason to learn R at all, since python eco system has absorbed most of its advanced statistical functionality, coupled with the factor that python environment is much more general, with capabilities to fetch, decode&#x2F;encoded data,work with binary data databases, web frameworks for presenting etc.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>anthony_doan</author><text>&gt; since python eco system has absorbed most of its advanced statistical functionality<p>This isn&#x27;t true at all...<p>Also all advance statistical books are either SAS or R. If it&#x27;s R then there is always a package that the author created.<p>Just look at Chapman &amp; Hall&#x2F;CRC or Springer publisher and look at their books.<p>Go here: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.jstatsoft.org&#x2F;index" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.jstatsoft.org&#x2F;index</a><p>Count the number of R packages in those papers versus Python.<p>I don&#x27;t even need a source. I&#x27;m a statistician and I&#x27;m going to get a paper there and publish a R package for my master thesis.</text></comment> |
36,071,249 | 36,070,030 | 1 | 3 | 36,056,408 | train | <story><title>Tape Storage Trundles On, Increases Yearly Volume to 128 Exabytes</title><url>https://www.tomshardware.com/news/tape-storage-trundles-on-increases-yearly-volume-to-128-exabytes</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>johnklos</author><text>People who don&#x27;t use and who don&#x27;t understand the differences between tape and disk have been saying tape is dying for years.<p>The most common incorrect assertion is that drives don&#x27;t fail THAT often, so why not just back up to drives and put them on a shelf? But to be generally safe, all data would have to be on at least two drives, which changes the cost noticeably.<p>Older, used LTO drives are actually quite affordable, so I use LTO-4 and LTO-5 tapes to back up all sorts of things for both myself and for my clients. It&#x27;s surprisingly easy and inexpensive, and pulling files back off is as simple as running pax.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ramraj07</author><text>One important thing is (at least a few years back) we realised that HDDs fail at an alarming rate (&gt; 80%) if you disconnect them and leave them for a few years. Either that or someone brought a gamma ray source through our lab. Keeping the disks hot was a different story though.</text></comment> | <story><title>Tape Storage Trundles On, Increases Yearly Volume to 128 Exabytes</title><url>https://www.tomshardware.com/news/tape-storage-trundles-on-increases-yearly-volume-to-128-exabytes</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>johnklos</author><text>People who don&#x27;t use and who don&#x27;t understand the differences between tape and disk have been saying tape is dying for years.<p>The most common incorrect assertion is that drives don&#x27;t fail THAT often, so why not just back up to drives and put them on a shelf? But to be generally safe, all data would have to be on at least two drives, which changes the cost noticeably.<p>Older, used LTO drives are actually quite affordable, so I use LTO-4 and LTO-5 tapes to back up all sorts of things for both myself and for my clients. It&#x27;s surprisingly easy and inexpensive, and pulling files back off is as simple as running pax.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bluGill</author><text>15 years ago I worked for a tape backup company that got bought out by a company making disk backups. Before they bought us out the CEO was constantly saying &quot;tape is dead&quot; in interviews, but once there was money for him to make in tape he stopped saying that. I remember when someone asking him about this and he responded something &quot;amazing how money can make you change your tune&quot;</text></comment> |
31,080,639 | 31,080,249 | 1 | 2 | 31,078,244 | train | <story><title>Opinion: Another species of hominin may still be alive</title><url>https://www.the-scientist.com/magazine-issue/opinion-another-species-of-hominin-may-still-be-alive-69869</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>codeflo</author><text>&gt; In contrast, evolutionary theory puts humans (or hominins) last, just as does the biblical story of Genesis. Yet in all instances, the position confers on Homo sapiens a unique status, thereby separating us from the rest of the animal kingdom.<p>Ha ha ha, no. That’s a wild misunderstanding of evolutionary theory, that humans are somehow “more evolved” than other current species. Modern apes are our siblings, not our ancestors. And nothing fundamental “separates” us from other animals: we’re yet another species, granted with some unique features that we ourselves consider very important.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mcv</author><text>It&#x27;s also incorrect about the biblical story of Genesis. Because Genesis contains two creation stories (though biblical literalists prefer to brush away that fact).<p>Quoting a bit more from the article:<p>&gt; <i>Like other folk zoologists, the Lio put humans first, most notably as the origin of nonhuman animals, a sort of Darwinism in reverse. In contrast, evolutionary theory puts humans (or hominins) last, just as does the biblical story of Genesis.</i><p>Genesis 1 indeed puts humans last, but Genesis 2 puts them first. And Genesis 2 is the older story of the two. Maybe that explains why it&#x27;s more in line with those folk zoologists? Genesis 1 (a poem, structured by the days of the week) was written later, possibly during the Babylonian exile, and may be more informed by the science of the Babylonians; it addresses not just the creation of the Earth and the creatures on it, but also the sun and stars, and the passage of time; topics that the Babylonians were very interested in.</text></comment> | <story><title>Opinion: Another species of hominin may still be alive</title><url>https://www.the-scientist.com/magazine-issue/opinion-another-species-of-hominin-may-still-be-alive-69869</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>codeflo</author><text>&gt; In contrast, evolutionary theory puts humans (or hominins) last, just as does the biblical story of Genesis. Yet in all instances, the position confers on Homo sapiens a unique status, thereby separating us from the rest of the animal kingdom.<p>Ha ha ha, no. That’s a wild misunderstanding of evolutionary theory, that humans are somehow “more evolved” than other current species. Modern apes are our siblings, not our ancestors. And nothing fundamental “separates” us from other animals: we’re yet another species, granted with some unique features that we ourselves consider very important.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>warent</author><text>This argument is always really odd to me. You&#x27;ll hear people say things like &quot;if evolution is real then why are there still monkeys?&quot;<p>As if anyone is claiming we&#x27;re derived from modern chimps...<p>Meanwhile the ancient apes that we share as common ancestors with modern apes are long extinct.<p>Not to mention evolution doesn&#x27;t require an extinction as far as I know. See polar bears</text></comment> |
34,858,570 | 34,858,572 | 1 | 3 | 34,856,383 | train | <story><title>CAD Sketcher, free and open-source project bringing CAD like tools to Blender3d</title><url>https://www.cadsketcher.com</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>samwillis</author><text>I always love to see these projects attempting to create an Open-source parametric CAD tool, but I think they will never get the the level of functionality and stability required. The fundamental issue for all of them is the lack of a robust open source &quot;parametric CAD kernel&quot;, these the the central core that understands BREP and implements the geometric operations.<p>The most widely used kernel is OpenCascade, the kernel used by FreeCad. However it is outdated, unstable and limited in significant ways with no realistic future prospects. It is unfortunately the limiting factor of FreeCads functionality and prevents any serious use of it.<p>The most widely used commercial kernel is Parasolid, used in many packages including SolidWorks, OnSpace, and NX.<p>What I would love to see is Siemens adopting a model similar to some of the game engines (Unreal and Unity) where it&#x27;s free up until a revenue limit. Opening up Parasolid for &quot;free&quot; open source and small commercial operations would be both brilliant for society but also for Siemens, it would only result in a growth in the use of Parasolid and increased revenue.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>s1mon</author><text>Nick Kallen has been working on an BREP based CAD tool with the sort of ease of modeling that things like Blender has. Originally it was based on C3D, but he switched halfway through to Parasolid.[0] It’s amazing the amount of features he has built considering it’s a one person project. It’s worth going through his progress report videos.[1]<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;WvwiH1DOK1M" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;WvwiH1DOK1M</a><p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtube.com&#x2F;@nickkallen1">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtube.com&#x2F;@nickkallen1</a></text></comment> | <story><title>CAD Sketcher, free and open-source project bringing CAD like tools to Blender3d</title><url>https://www.cadsketcher.com</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>samwillis</author><text>I always love to see these projects attempting to create an Open-source parametric CAD tool, but I think they will never get the the level of functionality and stability required. The fundamental issue for all of them is the lack of a robust open source &quot;parametric CAD kernel&quot;, these the the central core that understands BREP and implements the geometric operations.<p>The most widely used kernel is OpenCascade, the kernel used by FreeCad. However it is outdated, unstable and limited in significant ways with no realistic future prospects. It is unfortunately the limiting factor of FreeCads functionality and prevents any serious use of it.<p>The most widely used commercial kernel is Parasolid, used in many packages including SolidWorks, OnSpace, and NX.<p>What I would love to see is Siemens adopting a model similar to some of the game engines (Unreal and Unity) where it&#x27;s free up until a revenue limit. Opening up Parasolid for &quot;free&quot; open source and small commercial operations would be both brilliant for society but also for Siemens, it would only result in a growth in the use of Parasolid and increased revenue.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Svenstaro</author><text>I think some interesting developments are made in that sector in the form of <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;hannobraun&#x2F;Fornjot">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;hannobraun&#x2F;Fornjot</a> and <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;ricosjp&#x2F;truck">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;ricosjp&#x2F;truck</a>. Let&#x27;s see whether one of those will actually get anywhere near a usable level. Fornjot in particular is shaping up really well.</text></comment> |
19,419,008 | 19,418,608 | 1 | 3 | 19,417,640 | train | <story><title>Myspace lost all the music its users uploaded between 2003 and 2015</title><url>https://boingboing.net/2019/03/17/facebook-is-next.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>gregrata</author><text>The key words you probably need to look at are &quot;multi-petabyte&quot;. Not saying they shouldn&#x27;t be doing something but it all costs - and at multi-petabytes, it cooooosts<p>1 Petabyte (and they have multiple)
S3 - $30,000 a month, $360,000 a year<p>S3 - reduced redundancy - $24,000 a month, $288,000 a year<p>S3 - infrequent access - $13,100 a month, $157,000 a year<p>Glacier - $7340 a month - $88,000 a year</text></item><item><author>ummonk</author><text>What the hell. It is so easy to configure multi-region glacier backups, mfa delete, etc. for a single S3 bucket. Took me like a couple hours to setup versioning and backups, and a few days to setup mfa for admin actions. Why would they not set this stuff up?</text></item><item><author>zxcvbn4038</author><text>I used to work at Tumblr, the entirety of their user content is stored in a single multi-petabyte AWS S3 bucket, in a single AWS account, no backup, no MFA delete, no object versioning. It is all one fat finger away from oblivion.</text></item><item><author>mellow-lake-day</author><text>&gt;Someday, this will happen to Facebook, Instagram, Tumblr, etc. Don&#x27;t trust the platforms to archive your data.<p>This also goes for Google Drive, Dropbox, and many other websites (if not all)<p>Examples:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;medium.com&#x2F;@jancurn&#x2F;how-bug-in-dropbox-permanently-deleted-my-8000-photos-cb7dcf13647b" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;medium.com&#x2F;@jancurn&#x2F;how-bug-in-dropbox-permanently-d...</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;motherboard.vice.com&#x2F;en_us&#x2F;article&#x2F;9kgwnp&#x2F;porn-on-google-drive-error" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;motherboard.vice.com&#x2F;en_us&#x2F;article&#x2F;9kgwnp&#x2F;porn-on-go...</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.zdnet.com&#x2F;article&#x2F;dropbox-under-fire-for-dmca-takedown-of-personal-folders-but-fears-are-vastly-overblown&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.zdnet.com&#x2F;article&#x2F;dropbox-under-fire-for-dmca-ta...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>zxcvbn4038</author><text>Add in transit and cdn and Tumblr’s AWS bill was seven figures a month. A bunch of us wanted to build something like Facebook’s haystack do away with S3 altogether, but the idea kept getting killed because of concerns over all the places the S3 URLs were hard coded and also breaking 3rd party links to content in the bucket (for years you could link to the bucket directly - still can for content more then a couple years old)</text></comment> | <story><title>Myspace lost all the music its users uploaded between 2003 and 2015</title><url>https://boingboing.net/2019/03/17/facebook-is-next.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>gregrata</author><text>The key words you probably need to look at are &quot;multi-petabyte&quot;. Not saying they shouldn&#x27;t be doing something but it all costs - and at multi-petabytes, it cooooosts<p>1 Petabyte (and they have multiple)
S3 - $30,000 a month, $360,000 a year<p>S3 - reduced redundancy - $24,000 a month, $288,000 a year<p>S3 - infrequent access - $13,100 a month, $157,000 a year<p>Glacier - $7340 a month - $88,000 a year</text></item><item><author>ummonk</author><text>What the hell. It is so easy to configure multi-region glacier backups, mfa delete, etc. for a single S3 bucket. Took me like a couple hours to setup versioning and backups, and a few days to setup mfa for admin actions. Why would they not set this stuff up?</text></item><item><author>zxcvbn4038</author><text>I used to work at Tumblr, the entirety of their user content is stored in a single multi-petabyte AWS S3 bucket, in a single AWS account, no backup, no MFA delete, no object versioning. It is all one fat finger away from oblivion.</text></item><item><author>mellow-lake-day</author><text>&gt;Someday, this will happen to Facebook, Instagram, Tumblr, etc. Don&#x27;t trust the platforms to archive your data.<p>This also goes for Google Drive, Dropbox, and many other websites (if not all)<p>Examples:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;medium.com&#x2F;@jancurn&#x2F;how-bug-in-dropbox-permanently-deleted-my-8000-photos-cb7dcf13647b" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;medium.com&#x2F;@jancurn&#x2F;how-bug-in-dropbox-permanently-d...</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;motherboard.vice.com&#x2F;en_us&#x2F;article&#x2F;9kgwnp&#x2F;porn-on-google-drive-error" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;motherboard.vice.com&#x2F;en_us&#x2F;article&#x2F;9kgwnp&#x2F;porn-on-go...</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.zdnet.com&#x2F;article&#x2F;dropbox-under-fire-for-dmca-takedown-of-personal-folders-but-fears-are-vastly-overblown&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.zdnet.com&#x2F;article&#x2F;dropbox-under-fire-for-dmca-ta...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ummonk</author><text>88k per year per petabyte is a small price to pay to protect your entire business from being wiped out.</text></comment> |
18,200,429 | 18,199,833 | 1 | 2 | 18,198,811 | train | <story><title>Oil droplets guided by pilot waves do not give rise to double-slit interference</title><url>https://www.quantamagazine.org/famous-experiment-dooms-pilot-wave-alternative-to-quantum-weirdness-20181011/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mehwoot</author><text>Why does this matter? Does anybody seriously question whether the basic math can work? So somebody found a nice parallel between pilot wave theory and another physical phenomenon, but then the parallel wasn&#x27;t as strong as thought. This experiment is the equivalent of arguing that light isn&#x27;t a particle because your tennis ball doesn&#x27;t bounce off the wall the way you thought it would.<p>When I saw the droplet experiments, I thought &quot;that&#x27;s cool, but it doesn&#x27;t prove anything about pilot wave theory because the arguments are over much deeper things than what this is demonstrating&quot;. Debunking it is just as meaningless. The people who actually know about this stuff are arguing over determinism and non-locality and what not. I thought oil droplets are just a nice way to introduce people to the concept.<p>Disclaimer: I don&#x27;t really know anything about any of this</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>stupidcar</author><text>It matters because the theory in this case wasn’t that both light and tennis balls behave like a particle. It was that light behaves like a tennis ball. As such, demonstrating that tennis balls succeed or fail to display certain light-like behavior is certainly an important result.<p>So, the most controversial aspect of pilot wave theory is the idea that a classical system can reproduce some phenomena considered only to arise in a quantum one. The 2006 result was important because it appeared to definitively prove a classical system could do just that, and for one of the most famously “weird” quantum results. How accurately it correlated with a hypothetical pilot wave based quantum reality wasn’t really relevant. And if the original result was important, then the failure to reproduce it is also important.<p>More generally, scientists can argue about theory, mathematics and the “deep” stuff until the cows come home. But what actually advances science is experiment. It may not always be the most glamorous or exciting work (CERN notwithstanding). It can be an expensive, years-log slog to add a single negative data point against an idea a theoretician dreamt up in an afternoon, and which they’ll dismiss as irrelevant, or avoid by tweaking a single equation. But it’s, quite literally, the part of science that gets results.</text></comment> | <story><title>Oil droplets guided by pilot waves do not give rise to double-slit interference</title><url>https://www.quantamagazine.org/famous-experiment-dooms-pilot-wave-alternative-to-quantum-weirdness-20181011/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mehwoot</author><text>Why does this matter? Does anybody seriously question whether the basic math can work? So somebody found a nice parallel between pilot wave theory and another physical phenomenon, but then the parallel wasn&#x27;t as strong as thought. This experiment is the equivalent of arguing that light isn&#x27;t a particle because your tennis ball doesn&#x27;t bounce off the wall the way you thought it would.<p>When I saw the droplet experiments, I thought &quot;that&#x27;s cool, but it doesn&#x27;t prove anything about pilot wave theory because the arguments are over much deeper things than what this is demonstrating&quot;. Debunking it is just as meaningless. The people who actually know about this stuff are arguing over determinism and non-locality and what not. I thought oil droplets are just a nice way to introduce people to the concept.<p>Disclaimer: I don&#x27;t really know anything about any of this</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mpweiher</author><text>Well, I think the opposite result would have been <i>very</i> interesting&#x2F;surprising. So I think it&#x27;s a good experiment, and it&#x27;s good to publish negative results.<p>The subhead seems a tad sensationalist. If interference had been shown, it would have suggested strongly that this can happen at the smaller scale as well, and that it didn&#x27;t is probably disappointing for those that hoped to show it in the analogy. Not sure how it &quot;crushes&quot; those theories.</text></comment> |
13,617,538 | 13,504,642 | 1 | 2 | 13,504,046 | train | <story><title>Tarsnap – Online backups for the truly paranoid</title><url>https://www.tarsnap.com/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>cperciva</author><text>Not sure why Tarsnap has bubbled up on HN again, but I&#x27;m always happy to answer questions about Tarsnap if there&#x27;s anything anyone here wants to know.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>caivvoacmh</author><text>Hi cperciva can you please explain the following:<p>1) &quot;Every Tarsnap archive acts like it is completely independent of all other archives&quot;<p>Lets say I&#x27;m backing up `&#x2F;somedir` that looks like this:<p># archive1 - initial backup<p><pre><code> ── somedir
├── file1.txt
├── file2.txt
└── file3.txt
</code></pre>
# archive 2 - 2nd backup<p><pre><code> ── somedir
└── file3.txt (modified)
</code></pre>
Are you suggesting that if I delete `archive1` and `rm -rf &#x2F;somedir` that I can restore `&#x2F;somedir` with `archive2` alone?<p>If so, how is that possible?<p>2) Does tarsnap stream the backup data to the tarsnap service or does it create the encrypted archive and <i></i>only<i></i> after this upload it?<p>For instance, if I&#x27;ve got 100 GB to backup (first time), do I need 100 GB of free space for tarsnap to work?</text></comment> | <story><title>Tarsnap – Online backups for the truly paranoid</title><url>https://www.tarsnap.com/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>cperciva</author><text>Not sure why Tarsnap has bubbled up on HN again, but I&#x27;m always happy to answer questions about Tarsnap if there&#x27;s anything anyone here wants to know.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Osmium</author><text>Always wanted to try Tarsnap for personal use, but I can only budget if the cost was comparable to Dropbox&#x2F;Microsoft OneDrive&#x2F;Google Drive&#x2F;iCloud&#x2F;Amazon Drive which are all ~$10&#x2F;TB&#x2F;mo, but instead Tarsnap seems about an order of magnitude more expensive? Or is the product just not aimed at me?<p>I currently use Arq[1] for backups (which has its own encryption[2] with a user choice of cloud backend), but Tarsnap has such a stellar reputation I&#x27;d definitely try it if I could :)<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.arqbackup.com" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.arqbackup.com</a>
[2] AES-256 with PKCS5_PBKDF2_HMAC_SHA1 for key derivation, implemented by OpenSSL, with an open file format <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.arqbackup.com&#x2F;arq_data_format.txt" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.arqbackup.com&#x2F;arq_data_format.txt</a></text></comment> |
30,065,490 | 30,061,864 | 1 | 3 | 30,060,765 | train | <story><title>GitHub Actions by Example</title><url>https://www.actionsbyexample.com/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>filleokus</author><text>GitHub Actions with act to test stuff locally is actually pretty usable. We use on-prem k8s-hosted runners to get access to servers&#x2F;clusters with limited internet access, works great.<p>But as always with “”gitops”” themed tools I think it’s pretty awkward to handle rollbacks. Either you take the stance that master is the source of truth and let the CI&#x2F;CD tooling revert commits if deployment fails, or you store that state elsewhere and allow e.g manifests to diverge from git.<p>I would be curious to hear how other people do it</text></comment> | <story><title>GitHub Actions by Example</title><url>https://www.actionsbyexample.com/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>keewee7</author><text>&gt;Inspired by Go by Example<p>One of the best tutorials for people coming to Go from other languages:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gobyexample.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gobyexample.com&#x2F;</a></text></comment> |
7,357,131 | 7,356,864 | 1 | 2 | 7,356,280 | train | <story><title>The Europa mission is real and could very well happen</title><url>http://blog.chron.com/sciguy/2014/03/heres-why-the-europa-mission-is-real-and-could-very-well-happen/#21279101=0</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>pshin45</author><text>I feel compelled to plug the 2013 sci-fi film &quot;Europa Report&quot;[1], a great movie that no one watched.<p>Space.com called it &quot;awesome&quot; and &quot;stunningly realistic&quot;[2].<p>[1] <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Europa_Report" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Europa_Report</a><p>[2] <a href="http://www.space.com/21247-europa-report-scifi-film-trailer.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.space.com&#x2F;21247-europa-report-scifi-film-trailer....</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Udo</author><text>It was certainly a lot kore realistic than Gravity (which was massively hyped for its realism) and a lot more fun to boot. Of course, no space movie can do without plot device-related absurdities for the sake of drama, but at least it was entertaining and relatively clever.<p>One thing I liked too was that the crew was not composed of abrasive drama queens, which is refreshing considering the genre.</text></comment> | <story><title>The Europa mission is real and could very well happen</title><url>http://blog.chron.com/sciguy/2014/03/heres-why-the-europa-mission-is-real-and-could-very-well-happen/#21279101=0</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>pshin45</author><text>I feel compelled to plug the 2013 sci-fi film &quot;Europa Report&quot;[1], a great movie that no one watched.<p>Space.com called it &quot;awesome&quot; and &quot;stunningly realistic&quot;[2].<p>[1] <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Europa_Report" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Europa_Report</a><p>[2] <a href="http://www.space.com/21247-europa-report-scifi-film-trailer.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.space.com&#x2F;21247-europa-report-scifi-film-trailer....</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>incision</author><text>I enjoyed Europa Report (It&#x27;s on Neflix [0]) thoroughly I and I feel compelled to link this invigorating (2007) talk from Bill Stone [0].<p>0: <a href="http://www.netflix.com/WiMovie/Europa_Report/70276016" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.netflix.com&#x2F;WiMovie&#x2F;Europa_Report&#x2F;70276016</a><p>1: <a href="http://www.ted.com/talks/bill_stone_explores_the_earth_and_space" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ted.com&#x2F;talks&#x2F;bill_stone_explores_the_earth_and_s...</a></text></comment> |
21,490,881 | 21,490,770 | 1 | 2 | 21,490,699 | train | <story><title>Estonia has a new way to stop speeding motorists</title><url>https://www.economist.com/europe/2019/11/07/estonia-has-a-new-way-to-stop-speeding-motorists</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Bilters</author><text>I can totally stand behind this idea. It’s way more equal than money. Every single person get 24 hours a day, but not everybody has €200 (or however high the fee may be) free at hand. Although I think there should be still an upper limit. Saying if you speed more than X there’s more consequences involved rather than time and&#x2F; or money.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>loeg</author><text>If you give people a choice, the super wealthy mostly will pay a relatively small fee and go about their day, and you&#x27;ll end up temporarily incarcerating the very poor for the same social malfeasance. (With some distribution of behaviors in the middle.) Is that better?<p>The main cost of a traffic ticket today isn&#x27;t the ticket; it&#x27;s the (much larger) uptick in insurance costs afterwards. If you could just pay $80-120 on the off chance you occasionally got a ticket, without impacting insurance premiums, I&#x27;d speed a lot more often.</text></comment> | <story><title>Estonia has a new way to stop speeding motorists</title><url>https://www.economist.com/europe/2019/11/07/estonia-has-a-new-way-to-stop-speeding-motorists</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Bilters</author><text>I can totally stand behind this idea. It’s way more equal than money. Every single person get 24 hours a day, but not everybody has €200 (or however high the fee may be) free at hand. Although I think there should be still an upper limit. Saying if you speed more than X there’s more consequences involved rather than time and&#x2F; or money.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Hamuko</author><text>We Finns have figured out how to equalise the money part as well.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theatlantic.com&#x2F;business&#x2F;archive&#x2F;2015&#x2F;03&#x2F;finland-home-of-the-103000-speeding-ticket&#x2F;387484&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theatlantic.com&#x2F;business&#x2F;archive&#x2F;2015&#x2F;03&#x2F;finland...</a></text></comment> |
40,398,213 | 40,398,083 | 1 | 3 | 40,397,789 | train | <story><title>LLM-generated code must not be committed without prior written approval by core</title><url>https://www.netbsd.org/developers/commit-guidelines.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jasoneckert</author><text>Every time I hear about AI-generated code, I&#x27;m reminded of this comment from Linus Torvalds (taken out of context, of course):<p>&quot;You copied that function without understanding why it does what it does, and as a result your code is GARBAGE. AGAIN.&quot;</text></comment> | <story><title>LLM-generated code must not be committed without prior written approval by core</title><url>https://www.netbsd.org/developers/commit-guidelines.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>MaxBarraclough</author><text>They seem to have stopped just short of a total ban.<p>&gt; Code generated by a large language model or similar technology, such as GitHub&#x2F;Microsoft&#x27;s Copilot, OpenAI&#x27;s ChatGPT, or Facebook&#x2F;Meta&#x27;s Code Llama, is presumed to be tainted code, and must not be committed without prior written approval by core.</text></comment> |
35,217,631 | 35,217,259 | 1 | 3 | 35,216,894 | train | <story><title>Build full “product skills” and you'll probably be fine</title><url>https://twitter.com/ID_AA_Carmack/status/1637087219591659520</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>cwillu</author><text>It&#x27;s like telling a musician to become a DJ because the point of performing is to entertain people.<p>It&#x27;s not wrong, but it&#x27;s also not applicable to all people who enjoy performing an instrument.</text></item><item><author>choppsv1</author><text>I love to code, as much as I loved math in college, but coding paid better and I&#x27;m pretty good at it. Those were my choices though b&#x2F;c I want to do something I love. Sure, I keep my eye on the &quot;Delivered Value&quot; by making sure I engineer solutions to real problems, but I&#x27;ve never wanted to move out of coding and into managing engineers to build stuff. I want to code. It seems to me that the advice given here would be more applicable to someone who only coded long enough to move into engineering management -- anyway something about it bugs me and I don&#x27;t think I&#x27;d follow it exclusively even if I was starting today.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Philip-J-Fry</author><text>I think it&#x27;s more like telling a DJ in the 80s, &quot;Don&#x27;t worry that mixing vinyls won&#x27;t be a thing forever. It&#x27;s not about the tools but about the product, as a DJ your job is to mix good music and you can do that with vinyls, cassettes or with MP3s.&quot;</text></comment> | <story><title>Build full “product skills” and you'll probably be fine</title><url>https://twitter.com/ID_AA_Carmack/status/1637087219591659520</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>cwillu</author><text>It&#x27;s like telling a musician to become a DJ because the point of performing is to entertain people.<p>It&#x27;s not wrong, but it&#x27;s also not applicable to all people who enjoy performing an instrument.</text></item><item><author>choppsv1</author><text>I love to code, as much as I loved math in college, but coding paid better and I&#x27;m pretty good at it. Those were my choices though b&#x2F;c I want to do something I love. Sure, I keep my eye on the &quot;Delivered Value&quot; by making sure I engineer solutions to real problems, but I&#x27;ve never wanted to move out of coding and into managing engineers to build stuff. I want to code. It seems to me that the advice given here would be more applicable to someone who only coded long enough to move into engineering management -- anyway something about it bugs me and I don&#x27;t think I&#x27;d follow it exclusively even if I was starting today.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>twelve40</author><text>Yeah, but the original question was specifically about coding jobs, not hobbies, hence i think a reasonable business angle on the answer.</text></comment> |
5,260,945 | 5,260,720 | 1 | 2 | 5,259,622 | train | <story><title>The Saddest Map In America</title><url>http://dish.andrewsullivan.com/2013/02/21/the-saddest-map-in-america/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>zalzane</author><text>I never understood the concept of missed connections on craigslist. Honestly, what's the chance of two people meeting each other, forgetting to swap numbers, and then both going onto craigslist to search/post in the missed connections category?<p>It just seems like such an overwhelming statistical improbability that such a missed connection would ever be fulfilled through craigslist, I don't see why anyone would even bother posting.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>barkingcat</author><text>I posted a missed connection once, and about 2 hours later got a reply from a person who was in the exact same circumstances (ie same time, same place, same details about furtive glances) - but she was looking at some other dude who was there and thought I was him. At the same time, I actually wasn't looking at her, but at another girl who was at the same event.<p>So it fizzled cause we weren't looking for, but looking "past" each other.<p>Moments of extreme awkwardness after flirting madly mutually verifying locational/timing/happenstance details followed by absolutely wrong physical descriptions of each other. Yah that conversation dried up fast.<p>I suppose it could have been a romantic start to some kinda relationship, but that ship sunk before it even had a chance.</text></comment> | <story><title>The Saddest Map In America</title><url>http://dish.andrewsullivan.com/2013/02/21/the-saddest-map-in-america/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>zalzane</author><text>I never understood the concept of missed connections on craigslist. Honestly, what's the chance of two people meeting each other, forgetting to swap numbers, and then both going onto craigslist to search/post in the missed connections category?<p>It just seems like such an overwhelming statistical improbability that such a missed connection would ever be fulfilled through craigslist, I don't see why anyone would even bother posting.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ellyagg</author><text>One time my sister-in-law met a guy at a bar and it was one of those movie conversations where they liked the same obscure writers and comedy and whatever. They parted coolly and casually, but the next day they reconnected through Craigslist. So it's happened at least once.</text></comment> |
1,478,483 | 1,478,103 | 1 | 2 | 1,477,915 | train | <story><title>One reason why humans are special and unique: We masturbate. A lot</title><url>http://www.scientificamerican.com/blog/post.cfm?id=one-reason-why-humans-are-special-a-2010-06-22</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>adbge</author><text>Note that the author doesn't claim that humans are the only species who masturbates, but rather that humans masturbate the most often. The author goes on to speculate that this is because humans have the ability to fantasize, though I think the claims that humans masturbate more than any other animal and that chimps are unable to fantasize dubious.<p>If you found this article interesting (or amusing, as it very well may be), you may want to check out the Wikipedia page on the Bonobo ape, one of the few species that have been observed to participate in oral sex. Primatologist Frans de Waal described the Bonobo as "the erotic champions of the world."[<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bonobo" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bonobo</a>]<p>Another fun fact: homosexual behavior has been well documented in both the Bonobo and koalas, an interesting counterpoint to fundamentalists claims that homosexuality isn't natural. :) [<a href="http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/australasia/strewth-australia-rocked-by-lesbian-koala-revelation-437806.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/australasia/strewth-...</a>]<p>Further reading: [<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animal_sexual_behaviour" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animal_sexual_behaviour</a>]<p>And a graphic video of a monkey masturbating with a frog (because, after all, this is the internet): [<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bwegzhXAqaQ" rel="nofollow">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bwegzhXAqaQ</a>]</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>btilly</author><text>That isn't actually what the author claims. Lots of other animals masturbate, and the author admits that monkeys are certainly prone to it. What he claims makes humans unusual is the we masturbate <i>to orgasm</i>.<p>Incidentally you chose fairly poor examples for animal homosexuality. See <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homosexual_behavior_in_animals" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homosexual_behavior_in_animals</a> for a list of other examples you could use. For instance I prefer to cite giraffes (9 out of 10 sexual encounters are homosexual) and black swans (1/4 preferentially homosexual).</text></comment> | <story><title>One reason why humans are special and unique: We masturbate. A lot</title><url>http://www.scientificamerican.com/blog/post.cfm?id=one-reason-why-humans-are-special-a-2010-06-22</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>adbge</author><text>Note that the author doesn't claim that humans are the only species who masturbates, but rather that humans masturbate the most often. The author goes on to speculate that this is because humans have the ability to fantasize, though I think the claims that humans masturbate more than any other animal and that chimps are unable to fantasize dubious.<p>If you found this article interesting (or amusing, as it very well may be), you may want to check out the Wikipedia page on the Bonobo ape, one of the few species that have been observed to participate in oral sex. Primatologist Frans de Waal described the Bonobo as "the erotic champions of the world."[<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bonobo" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bonobo</a>]<p>Another fun fact: homosexual behavior has been well documented in both the Bonobo and koalas, an interesting counterpoint to fundamentalists claims that homosexuality isn't natural. :) [<a href="http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/australasia/strewth-australia-rocked-by-lesbian-koala-revelation-437806.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/australasia/strewth-...</a>]<p>Further reading: [<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animal_sexual_behaviour" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animal_sexual_behaviour</a>]<p>And a graphic video of a monkey masturbating with a frog (because, after all, this is the internet): [<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bwegzhXAqaQ" rel="nofollow">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bwegzhXAqaQ</a>]</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>roc</author><text>&#62; <i>"I think the claims that humans masturbate more than any other animal and that chimps are unable to fantasize dubious"</i><p>In addition to skepticism due other masturbating animals, there's the question of human child masturbation. Anyone who's had children can vouch that they're rubbing the parts that feel good well before they're expressing complex ideas, let alone thinking <i>sexually</i>.<p>And, FWIW, I believe homosexuality has been well documented in every sexual species that's been well documented.</text></comment> |
12,564,202 | 12,564,183 | 1 | 2 | 12,563,798 | train | <story><title>Sad reality: It's cheaper to get hacked than build strong IT defenses</title><url>http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/09/23/if_your_company_has_terrible_it_security_that_could_be_a_rational_business_decision/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>vfxGer</author><text>I am sick of seeing headlines about teenager hacker being put in jail.
It&#x27;s not because they are geniuses it&#x27;s because of poor IT defense.
The companies should be severely fined for criminal negligence.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>saiya-jin</author><text>I get what you mean, but poor defense ain&#x27;t no excuse to hack the hell out of company, neither legally nor morally. plus i don&#x27;t buy the notion that some teenager had no clue what he was doing would harm other&#x27;s livehood (if yes, then he should go through psychiatric evaluation).<p>if I don&#x27;t put 3m electric fence with automatic sentry guns around my whole hypothetical house and land, does it mean everybody is automatically invited to freely try to break in, do damage, steal my stuff or post my private and legal data online for others?<p>state should have better use for these guys, but there should definitely be punishment, not reward in any way. that&#x27;s how all countries run these days</text></comment> | <story><title>Sad reality: It's cheaper to get hacked than build strong IT defenses</title><url>http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/09/23/if_your_company_has_terrible_it_security_that_could_be_a_rational_business_decision/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>vfxGer</author><text>I am sick of seeing headlines about teenager hacker being put in jail.
It&#x27;s not because they are geniuses it&#x27;s because of poor IT defense.
The companies should be severely fined for criminal negligence.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>raverbashing</author><text>Which teenager hackers?<p>Yes, if the IT defenses are poor and they get in fair enough, another one is if they get the password list and shop around<p>You&#x27;re saying like it&#x27;s ok to rob the house with only one lock as opposed to the one with several locks and security cameras</text></comment> |
12,602,956 | 12,597,867 | 1 | 3 | 12,597,232 | train | <story><title>What I Wish I Had Known Before Scaling Uber [video]</title><url>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kb-m2fasdDY</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>iamleppert</author><text>It amazes me they have 1,700 services. It would be hilarious satire to actually see the description of each. And the debugging scenarios he listed make it sound like they have very poor engineers working for them. Who on earth lets an application get to prod that iterates through a list of items and makes a request for each thing?<p>When did we loose our heads and think such an architecture is sane? The UNIX philosophy is do one thing and do it well, but that doesn&#x27;t mean be foolish about the size of one said thing. Doing one thing means solving a problem, and limited the scope of said problem so as to have a cap on cognitive overhead, not having a notch in your &quot;I have a service belt&quot;.<p>We don&#x27;t see the LS command divided into 50 separate commands and git repo&#x27;s.....</text></comment> | <story><title>What I Wish I Had Known Before Scaling Uber [video]</title><url>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kb-m2fasdDY</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>paukiatwee</author><text>Just to confirm, 1000 microservices in this case is 1000 different apps (e.g.different docker images) running simultaneously? 1000 microservices in this case not 1000 microservice instances (e.g. docker instances)?<p>If it is 1000 microservices as in different apps, then they must have at least 2000 running apps (at least 2 instances per app for HA).<p>Maybe uber only have 200 &quot;active&quot; microservice app running at the same time where each microservices have N running instances.<p>I just cant imagine running 1000 different microservices (e.g different docker images, not docker instances) at the same time.</text></comment> |
23,771,817 | 23,770,791 | 1 | 3 | 23,769,420 | train | <story><title>Foreign data wrappers: PostgreSQL's secret weapon?</title><url>https://www.splitgraph.com/blog/foreign-data-wrappers</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>claytonjy</author><text>Off-topic, but are FDW&#x27;s a reasonable way to migrate data between databases?<p>We have most of our data in a Postgres DB with a layout we like: multiple &quot;core&quot; or low-level schemas and a higher-level API schema which is how all other services interact with it (reads and writes). We also have a few much smaller but very important additional SQL DBs (Postgres and MySQL). There&#x27;s no good reason all this data can&#x27;t or shouldn&#x27;t live together (it&#x27;s really all one &quot;service&quot;), and plenty ways it would make our architecture and dev work simpler (we join across them all the time).<p>So, I figure for each smaller DB, I could expose it with an FDW from the DB we like, and use those tables in that DB&#x27;s API schema. Once we settle on good API &amp; usage patterns there, I would then copy data from the FDW tables into local tables, update references in the API schema, and finally drop the FDW and decom the other DB&#x27;s.<p>Is that sane? I know the usual caveats about order-of-operations, potentially writing to two places for some time to ensure no data is lost, etc. and am not worried about those.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>wenc</author><text>If you want to continuously move data, there&#x27;s an open-source tool called SymmetricDS that does db replication that sounds like it might fit your use case.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.symmetricds.org&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.symmetricds.org&#x2F;</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Foreign data wrappers: PostgreSQL's secret weapon?</title><url>https://www.splitgraph.com/blog/foreign-data-wrappers</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>claytonjy</author><text>Off-topic, but are FDW&#x27;s a reasonable way to migrate data between databases?<p>We have most of our data in a Postgres DB with a layout we like: multiple &quot;core&quot; or low-level schemas and a higher-level API schema which is how all other services interact with it (reads and writes). We also have a few much smaller but very important additional SQL DBs (Postgres and MySQL). There&#x27;s no good reason all this data can&#x27;t or shouldn&#x27;t live together (it&#x27;s really all one &quot;service&quot;), and plenty ways it would make our architecture and dev work simpler (we join across them all the time).<p>So, I figure for each smaller DB, I could expose it with an FDW from the DB we like, and use those tables in that DB&#x27;s API schema. Once we settle on good API &amp; usage patterns there, I would then copy data from the FDW tables into local tables, update references in the API schema, and finally drop the FDW and decom the other DB&#x27;s.<p>Is that sane? I know the usual caveats about order-of-operations, potentially writing to two places for some time to ensure no data is lost, etc. and am not worried about those.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>eska</author><text>That&#x27;s exactly what I have done before and it worked well. You just have to ensure that you can map the data from the other database properly, and that the FDW you&#x27;re using is of good quality (since they&#x27;re not officially part of Postgres).</text></comment> |
36,303,308 | 36,303,567 | 1 | 2 | 36,303,140 | train | <story><title>Westfield Gives Up Downtown San Francisco Mall</title><url>https://sfstandard.com/business/westfield-gives-up-downtown-san-francisco-mall/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>skmurphy</author><text>Valley Fair in San Jose, which is also owned by Westfield, reports revenues at pre-pandemic levels.
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.mercurynews.com&#x2F;2023&#x2F;03&#x2F;21&#x2F;san-jose-westfield-valley-fair-retail-restaurant-covid-real-estate&#x2F;" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.mercurynews.com&#x2F;2023&#x2F;03&#x2F;21&#x2F;san-jose-westfield-va...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Westfield Gives Up Downtown San Francisco Mall</title><url>https://sfstandard.com/business/westfield-gives-up-downtown-san-francisco-mall/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>vonnik</author><text>If anyone ever wondered what the symptoms of urban blight were before NYC became the mess it was in the 1970s, SF is exhibit A. The city&#x27;s leadership has driven out its anchor businesses, tax base, corporate travelers, and much more. Federal bailouts are SF&#x27;s only hope.</text></comment> |
13,523,699 | 13,523,551 | 1 | 2 | 13,523,347 | train | <story><title>“Worrying about licensing is what PG would call a sitcom idea”</title><url>https://github.com/rethinkdb/rethinkdb/issues/6137#issuecomment-275954709</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>notacoward</author><text>I&#x27;ve been through relicensing exercises a couple of times. They&#x27;re a pain, but a <i>necessary</i> pain because this stuff really does matter and can come back to haunt you. I might not agree with bcantrill on the &quot;toxicity&quot; of AGPL, but he&#x27;s totally on point about the likely effect of failing to deal with the license issue. &quot;Sitcom idea&quot; only betrays the author&#x27;s own ignorance.</text></comment> | <story><title>“Worrying about licensing is what PG would call a sitcom idea”</title><url>https://github.com/rethinkdb/rethinkdb/issues/6137#issuecomment-275954709</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>falcolas</author><text>&gt; It&#x27;s a hundred times easier to solve any potential IP problems for a successful project<p>Tell that to the original author of libevhtp, who is currently homeless. To paraphrase him, &quot;the ideals behind BSD are great until someone derives massive profits from your work and doesn&#x27;t share.&quot;<p>Yes, there are other issues contributing to his being homeless; my point is that putting careful thought into your licensing <i>is</i> important, if only because you can&#x27;t always change it later. Being clear on IP ownership is also quite important, especially with the threat of someone with an army of lawyers landing on your doorstep.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=13423607" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=13423607</a><p>EDIT: Fixed name of library, thanks for the check.</text></comment> |
16,334,308 | 16,333,109 | 1 | 2 | 16,332,762 | train | <story><title>Google is buying Chelsea Market building for over $2B</title><url>https://therealdeal.com/2018/02/06/google-is-buying-chelsea-market-building-for-2b-plus/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>aresant</author><text>This is such a fascinating cycle.<p>Large pensions &amp; sovereign wealth funds are so desperate for yield vs. low treasuries that they have pushed income producing commercial real estate values to all time highs.<p>As a result these fund managers are then forced to take on larger risks to cover their liabilities by making larger portfolio allocations into public techs like Google, and privates like AirBNB &amp; Uber.<p>And this dry powder has helped the technology companies get so insanely big and sophisticated that they are hiring away the best fund guys to manage their own treasury desks and drive commercial real estate transactions like this one!<p>Funds would have KILLED to get a deal with Google locked into a long term lease.<p>But because Google is taking themselves off the market as a tenant, the funds again have to go and chase riskier yield, like larger allocations in tech . . . the entire macroeconomy is just turning into a bizarre Möbius strip . . .</text></comment> | <story><title>Google is buying Chelsea Market building for over $2B</title><url>https://therealdeal.com/2018/02/06/google-is-buying-chelsea-market-building-for-2b-plus/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>CodeSheikh</author><text>Google NYC is literally right across the block from Chelsea Market. This transaction would mean that Google will occupy the real estate above the actual market. Chelsea Market is an amazing place with great offerings of food etc. As long as this transaction does not ruin the ecosystem of CM then New Yorkers are OK with this transaction. Lets face it who would not want to sell their real estate to The Google?</text></comment> |
25,871,475 | 25,871,520 | 1 | 3 | 25,870,899 | train | <story><title>B2B SaaS marketplaces with opportunities for indie hackers</title><url>https://rocketgems.com/blog/saas-marketplaces/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>davidjgraph</author><text>The &quot;indie hacker&quot; part is underselling the value of hooking into these marketplaces.<p>The Atlassian marketplace is how we&#x27;re able to make draw.io&#x2F;diagrams.net free everywhere else. We don&#x27;t have to handle any licensing or billing and it&#x27;s a commercial market where users expect to pay.<p>We generate 8 digits annually there with 5FTE people, you can build a medium sized company around just one of these marketplaces.</text></comment> | <story><title>B2B SaaS marketplaces with opportunities for indie hackers</title><url>https://rocketgems.com/blog/saas-marketplaces/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>cosmodisk</author><text>I work with Salesforce,so I&#x27;m quite familiar with the ecosystem. I think a lot people on HN would have a hard time believing the kind of apps that exist on AppExchange and the number of companies that are willing to spend money on them.</text></comment> |
23,151,780 | 23,148,559 | 1 | 2 | 23,147,372 | train | <story><title>John Peel Sessions</title><url>https://davestrickson.blogspot.com/2020/05/john-peel-sessions.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>spatulon</author><text>For those who don&#x27;t know of him, John Peel was a presenter&#x2F;DJ on BBC Radio 1 from the 60s until his death in the mid 00s.<p>For as long as I&#x27;ve been aware of it, Radio 1 has followed a format of playing mainstream pop music during the day, with more specialised and esoteric programming in the evening. When I was a teenager, Peel&#x27;s show was on at 10pm on weeknights, and his main focus was on championing new and undiscovered bands, across many genres. The Peel sessions were part of this show, where a band would come in to record a live performance of a few songs.<p>I imagine a lot of bands can credit their success to John Peel playing their records and inviting them to record a session.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jdietrich</author><text><i>&gt;I imagine a lot of bands can credit their success to John Peel playing their records and inviting them to record a session.</i><p>That dramatically understates the importance of Peel during his heyday. Before the internet, Peel was <i>the</i> way for bands to find an audience outside of their home town. For an entire generation of musicians, sending off a demo tape to Peel was a peculiar act of secular benediction, a message in a bottle cast into the waters in the hope that someone might read it.<p>His death in 2004 left a void that has never quite been filled. Despite the stalwart efforts of Tom Robinson and the BBC Introducing team, nobody has been able to replicate Peel&#x27;s unique eclecticism and his remarkable ability to sniff out new talent. His peculiar alchemy attracted a wide audience while also offering an open door to the unknown, the unsigned and the unhinged.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theguardian.com&#x2F;books&#x2F;2015&#x2F;sep&#x2F;25&#x2F;how-john-peel-created-our-musical-world" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theguardian.com&#x2F;books&#x2F;2015&#x2F;sep&#x2F;25&#x2F;how-john-peel-...</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=XPYkQi8olPo" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=XPYkQi8olPo</a></text></comment> | <story><title>John Peel Sessions</title><url>https://davestrickson.blogspot.com/2020/05/john-peel-sessions.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>spatulon</author><text>For those who don&#x27;t know of him, John Peel was a presenter&#x2F;DJ on BBC Radio 1 from the 60s until his death in the mid 00s.<p>For as long as I&#x27;ve been aware of it, Radio 1 has followed a format of playing mainstream pop music during the day, with more specialised and esoteric programming in the evening. When I was a teenager, Peel&#x27;s show was on at 10pm on weeknights, and his main focus was on championing new and undiscovered bands, across many genres. The Peel sessions were part of this show, where a band would come in to record a live performance of a few songs.<p>I imagine a lot of bands can credit their success to John Peel playing their records and inviting them to record a session.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>PaulDavisThe1st</author><text>... and to underline the diversity of the genres Peel championed: he was both one of the main early radio promoters of punk, but just a few earliers had championed Tangerine Dream&#x27;s Phaedra as one of his favorite albums of the year.<p>I think that if you wanted to try and come up with a simple way to describe what connected all the music that Peel championed over his long career, it would have to be something like &quot;new energy&quot;. He didn&#x27;t seem as interested in what a band actually sounded like as where their energy came from and what level it was on.</text></comment> |
22,430,905 | 22,430,920 | 1 | 2 | 22,430,682 | train | <story><title>Rome: An experimental JavaScript toolchain</title><url>https://github.com/facebookexperimental/rome</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>warpech</author><text>Great idea, very much welcome in the fragmented JS community.<p>However, I am sceptical about performance of a tool written in TypeScript&#x2F;JavaScript. We&#x27;ve seen that tools written in compiled languages like Rust or Go can be much faster, e.g.
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;swc-project.github.io&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;swc-project.github.io&#x2F;</a>, <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;packem.github.io&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;packem.github.io&#x2F;</a>,
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;nathan&#x2F;pax" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;nathan&#x2F;pax</a>, <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;evanw&#x2F;esbuild" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;evanw&#x2F;esbuild</a>.<p>On the other hand, Yarn is written in JS and it is considered fast enough. Facebook has a good track record for writing well designed tools.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>sebastianmck</author><text>I&#x27;m skeptical too (I&#x27;m the author of Rome). I know it can be at least performance neutral compared to existing JavaScript tools which is the baseline for most people. However I do think that since Rome is an enclosed system, without external dependencies and pretty good TS typing, that there&#x27;s some future flexibility using another wasm language that other JS tools don&#x27;t have.</text></comment> | <story><title>Rome: An experimental JavaScript toolchain</title><url>https://github.com/facebookexperimental/rome</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>warpech</author><text>Great idea, very much welcome in the fragmented JS community.<p>However, I am sceptical about performance of a tool written in TypeScript&#x2F;JavaScript. We&#x27;ve seen that tools written in compiled languages like Rust or Go can be much faster, e.g.
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;swc-project.github.io&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;swc-project.github.io&#x2F;</a>, <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;packem.github.io&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;packem.github.io&#x2F;</a>,
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;nathan&#x2F;pax" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;nathan&#x2F;pax</a>, <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;evanw&#x2F;esbuild" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;evanw&#x2F;esbuild</a>.<p>On the other hand, Yarn is written in JS and it is considered fast enough. Facebook has a good track record for writing well designed tools.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>eropple</author><text>Using those languages comes at a tradeoff: the community isn&#x27;t as a whole likely to know them or want to use them.<p>For example, I&#x27;m a pretty prolific TypeScript developer these days. And I do know Rust and C++ and Java and a bunch of other languages, but I&#x27;m unlikely to contribute to JavaScript-ecosystem stuff written in them because the cognitive overhead is too high--the context switching kills me. And while I do know Golang, having to write it makes me want to chuck my computer in a lake and I&#x27;ll within epsilon of never contribute to a tool written in it.<p>You can swap in whatever languages in whatever slots in the above that you want, and you&#x27;ll probably cover some chunk of the community. The intersection of all of them is JavaScript (and, for this project, TypeScript). I think that&#x27;s wise.<p>If you need to optimize certain parts of your runtime or your toolchain once it&#x27;s correct and does what it&#x27;s supposed to and you can call the solution set <i>understood</i>, that&#x27;s one thing. But until it is, defaulting to something that isn&#x27;t self-hosting is bad for your prospects of community building.</text></comment> |
38,620,425 | 38,619,560 | 1 | 3 | 38,616,753 | train | <story><title>What will enter the public domain in 2024?</title><url>https://publicdomainreview.org/features/entering-the-public-domain/2024/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jedberg</author><text>Disney Animation has been using a clip from Steamboat Willy (and the song) as their opening bumper for years.<p>It was originally done when John Lassiter took over Disney Animation as an homage to his idol Walt. But some IP lawyers have said that it may also make it impossible to use Steamboat Willy in the public domain because they could claim you&#x27;re violating their copyright on their bumper.<p>Will be interesting to see if that gets tested.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>CSMastermind</author><text>This reminds me of the copy protection on the original Gameboy.<p>So Nintendo makes the Gameboy, and they only want authorized games to be used in the system. But how can they stop someone from looking at the hardware and making a compatible game without paying a license fee?<p>Well, they build a check into the hardware for a specific set of assembly code on the cartridge. If your cart doesn&#x27;t have that exact assembly it won&#x27;t boot up.<p>The code?<p>It displays the Nintendo logo on the screen and plays their jingle.<p>That way, if you did make an unauthorized cartridge, you&#x27;d have to infringe on their trademark in order to make the game playable.</text></comment> | <story><title>What will enter the public domain in 2024?</title><url>https://publicdomainreview.org/features/entering-the-public-domain/2024/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jedberg</author><text>Disney Animation has been using a clip from Steamboat Willy (and the song) as their opening bumper for years.<p>It was originally done when John Lassiter took over Disney Animation as an homage to his idol Walt. But some IP lawyers have said that it may also make it impossible to use Steamboat Willy in the public domain because they could claim you&#x27;re violating their copyright on their bumper.<p>Will be interesting to see if that gets tested.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>humanrebar</author><text>I always thought it would be establishing &quot;Willie&quot; as precisely a trademark to invoke that side of IP law.</text></comment> |
34,652,531 | 34,651,030 | 1 | 3 | 34,648,021 | train | <story><title>I bought a CO2 monitor and it broke me</title><url>https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2023/02/carbon-dioxide-monitor-indoor-air-pollution-gas-stoves/672923/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ahaucnx</author><text>I am living in an area with periodic very high air pollution. So opening the windows to bring CO2 down will bring in fine dust pollution.<p>I retrofitted my house with a demand controlled fresh air ventilation system that takes outside air runs it through a set of high performance filters and pushes it into the house.<p>I can consistently keep PM2.5 levels at zero and CO2 below 600ppm.<p>I wrote an article about it [1] including detailed charts about CO2 build up.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.airgradient.com&#x2F;open-airgradient&#x2F;blog&#x2F;positive-pressure-systems-for-clean-air&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.airgradient.com&#x2F;open-airgradient&#x2F;blog&#x2F;positive-p...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>EVa5I7bHFq9mnYK</author><text>I have such system running 24&#x2F;7 for 5 years now in my apartment. It costs $20&#x2F;month in the winter because it needs to heat the freezing air coming in. There is also noticable noise if I am doing physical activity and it needs to blow the CO2 out more quickly.</text></comment> | <story><title>I bought a CO2 monitor and it broke me</title><url>https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2023/02/carbon-dioxide-monitor-indoor-air-pollution-gas-stoves/672923/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ahaucnx</author><text>I am living in an area with periodic very high air pollution. So opening the windows to bring CO2 down will bring in fine dust pollution.<p>I retrofitted my house with a demand controlled fresh air ventilation system that takes outside air runs it through a set of high performance filters and pushes it into the house.<p>I can consistently keep PM2.5 levels at zero and CO2 below 600ppm.<p>I wrote an article about it [1] including detailed charts about CO2 build up.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.airgradient.com&#x2F;open-airgradient&#x2F;blog&#x2F;positive-pressure-systems-for-clean-air&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.airgradient.com&#x2F;open-airgradient&#x2F;blog&#x2F;positive-p...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>cactusplant7374</author><text>That is truly awesome. How much did you spend?</text></comment> |
32,516,452 | 32,516,556 | 1 | 2 | 32,511,086 | train | <story><title>PayPal phishing scam uses invoices sent via PayPal</title><url>https://krebsonsecurity.com/2022/08/paypal-phishing-scam-uses-invoices-sent-via-paypal/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ww520</author><text>It doesn&#x27;t help that dark patterns used by well known websites normalizing the problems. That other day I got a credit card charge notification of $154 from my bank about a charge from Amazon. I didn&#x27;t buy anything from Amazon recently. I also didn&#x27;t get any email from Amazon about a bill or a purchase. Logged on to Amazon, looked through the order history, looked through AWS billing, and didn&#x27;t see any recent charges. I thought my card was stolen and got a fraudulent charge.<p>By chance I looked into the Prime membership page. An obscure page listed the recent Prime charges. Yep, it&#x27;s the Prime membership charge. The amount looked odd because tax was added to it, where the old charges were like $119 or $139. Amazon employs a dark pattern of not sending to the users any notification on the Prime renewal, no billing statement, no invoice, no email, just a silent charge on the credit card.<p>I promptly canceled my Prime membership, not for the money but for not rewarding dark pattern behaviors.</text></item><item><author>coldpie</author><text>I&#x27;m frequently impressed with spammer ingenuity. We had a similar thing happen at a previous job. Users could sign up for a free trial for our software using a web form. The form had fields like &quot;email address&quot; and &quot;name&quot; so we could follow up with the user. Scammers would fill in a victim&#x27;s email address and some scummy website in the &quot;name&quot; field, resulting in our servers sending the victim an email starting with something like, &quot;Hello, Click Here For Free Money FreeMoney.com,&quot; followed by the rest of our marketing copy. Never would&#x27;ve thought to use the form that way...</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>makeitdouble</author><text>That Prime silent charge problem is also problematic after credit card changes and other adjustments.<p>Saw the other day a charge get refused on a credit card I cancelled. 3DSecure is mandatory on it, so I kinda panicked thinking I got phished somewhere, but no, it was just Amazon reusing their authorization to charge a year later. I would have actually updated my info if I had a heads up, but now that my membership has been canceled following the charge refusal, it&#x27;s kind of an occasion to let it go.</text></comment> | <story><title>PayPal phishing scam uses invoices sent via PayPal</title><url>https://krebsonsecurity.com/2022/08/paypal-phishing-scam-uses-invoices-sent-via-paypal/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ww520</author><text>It doesn&#x27;t help that dark patterns used by well known websites normalizing the problems. That other day I got a credit card charge notification of $154 from my bank about a charge from Amazon. I didn&#x27;t buy anything from Amazon recently. I also didn&#x27;t get any email from Amazon about a bill or a purchase. Logged on to Amazon, looked through the order history, looked through AWS billing, and didn&#x27;t see any recent charges. I thought my card was stolen and got a fraudulent charge.<p>By chance I looked into the Prime membership page. An obscure page listed the recent Prime charges. Yep, it&#x27;s the Prime membership charge. The amount looked odd because tax was added to it, where the old charges were like $119 or $139. Amazon employs a dark pattern of not sending to the users any notification on the Prime renewal, no billing statement, no invoice, no email, just a silent charge on the credit card.<p>I promptly canceled my Prime membership, not for the money but for not rewarding dark pattern behaviors.</text></item><item><author>coldpie</author><text>I&#x27;m frequently impressed with spammer ingenuity. We had a similar thing happen at a previous job. Users could sign up for a free trial for our software using a web form. The form had fields like &quot;email address&quot; and &quot;name&quot; so we could follow up with the user. Scammers would fill in a victim&#x27;s email address and some scummy website in the &quot;name&quot; field, resulting in our servers sending the victim an email starting with something like, &quot;Hello, Click Here For Free Money FreeMoney.com,&quot; followed by the rest of our marketing copy. Never would&#x27;ve thought to use the form that way...</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>toomanydoubts</author><text>&gt;I promptly canceled my Prime membership, not for the money but for not rewarding dark pattern behaviors.<p>Lucky you who was able to get through the dark patterns in the unsubscribe page. I got one extra charge because the first time I tried, I fell for one of their dark patterns and believed it was canceled while it wasn&#x27;t.</text></comment> |
5,104,306 | 5,104,171 | 1 | 3 | 5,103,914 | train | <story><title>Startup using a custom Portal 2 level to recruit engineers</title><url>http://jobs.wibidata.com/puzzles/portal/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>anonymouz</author><text>Kind of neat, but strange as a recruitment device: It seems difficult enough to get good people, why would one put such an arbitrary filter as a first barrier? People who don't play computer games or Portal 2 are probably much less likely to apply that way.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jiggy2011</author><text>I see your point. I've been put off jobs in that past where the requirements have listed stuff like "You must kick ass at Xbox games!" for completely non gamedev jobs.<p>Now I love video games as much as the next geek and I've always assumed it was a light hearted hint towards company culture rather than a hard requirement.<p>But I just find something a little off about stuff like this, like it sets off a little red light in my brain that I can't put my finger on.
We would probably think it was weird if they said "we all love cricket so you should too!", I guess it feels a little patronising to be told "of course you love Xbox, you are a geek after all!"<p>As a Segue the use of the term "geek" in job descriptions irks me also.<p>Edit: Wording corrected</text></comment> | <story><title>Startup using a custom Portal 2 level to recruit engineers</title><url>http://jobs.wibidata.com/puzzles/portal/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>anonymouz</author><text>Kind of neat, but strange as a recruitment device: It seems difficult enough to get good people, why would one put such an arbitrary filter as a first barrier? People who don't play computer games or Portal 2 are probably much less likely to apply that way.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dsl</author><text>Because they made the front page of HackerNews (likely the target audience), and will probably be picked up by a few other techie sites as well.<p>As with all the other "hiring games" that Google and others do, you can also just submit your resume, you don't have to play.</text></comment> |
34,180,104 | 34,179,806 | 1 | 2 | 34,178,168 | train | <story><title>Unintended consequences of blocking IP addresses</title><url>https://blog.cloudflare.com/consequences-of-ip-blocking/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>decide1000</author><text>On my previous job everyone on the wifi was routed through a VPN connection to a datacenter. Basically 4500 people using the same outgoing IP.
CloudFlare really made me hate the captcha&#x27;s and verification pages they put in front of websites. Some websites sometimes were not accessible at all, literally blocked for hours.<p>I understand the position of CloudFlare where they basically don&#x27;t like governments to block their IP&#x27;s. On a smaller level this is exactly what CloudFlare is doing. Why is that justified?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nonrandomstring</author><text>There&#x27;s a deep contradiction&#x2F;hypocrisy around Cloudflare that can&#x27;t be
ignored. It&#x27;s funny when I try to click on the article titled &quot;the
consequences of blocking IP addresses&quot; to find I cannot read it,
because my IP address is blocked by the company that wrote the
article!<p>Here&#x27;s a couple of thoughts I&#x27;ve had about Cloudflare recently;<p>One is that Cloudflare are a problem because they are self appointed
policemen who do not know who the good guys or bad guys really are.
Such well intentioned but naive &quot;helpers&quot; almost always cause more
harm in the world then they solve.<p>Another is that Cloudflare do not understand the nature of Free Speech
at a fundamental philosophical level. There are two essential sides to
it. The freedom to write&#x2F;speak must be matched by the freedom to
read&#x2F;listen. Cloudflare&#x27;s model pf the world recasts this as a
&quot;tradeoff&quot; and pits the speakers against the listeners. It does this
because there is money to be made from &quot;service providers&quot; but none to
be made from ordinary internet &quot;users&quot;. It robs Peter to pay Paul.</text></comment> | <story><title>Unintended consequences of blocking IP addresses</title><url>https://blog.cloudflare.com/consequences-of-ip-blocking/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>decide1000</author><text>On my previous job everyone on the wifi was routed through a VPN connection to a datacenter. Basically 4500 people using the same outgoing IP.
CloudFlare really made me hate the captcha&#x27;s and verification pages they put in front of websites. Some websites sometimes were not accessible at all, literally blocked for hours.<p>I understand the position of CloudFlare where they basically don&#x27;t like governments to block their IP&#x27;s. On a smaller level this is exactly what CloudFlare is doing. Why is that justified?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>viraptor</author><text>Their &quot;oh no, we need more transparency, we&#x27;re blocked&quot; without even once mentioning they&#x27;re causing the same issues is infuriating. It&#x27;s great they realise there&#x27;s a problem, but they really need to be on both sides of that issue&#x2F;solution.<p>A heading called &quot;Lack of transparency with IP blocking&quot;? Let me get my tiniest violin CloudFlare... This is a joke until they stop serving a stream of captchas for some IPs.</text></comment> |
19,841,621 | 19,835,791 | 1 | 2 | 19,835,608 | train | <story><title>Boeing Believed a 737 Max Warning Light Was Standard</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/05/business/boeing-737-max-warning-light.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>AnssiH</author><text>The &quot;warning light&quot; is an &quot;AOA DISAGREE&quot; text that appears on the main flight display:<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.boeing.com&#x2F;resources&#x2F;boeingdotcom&#x2F;commercial&#x2F;737max&#x2F;updates&#x2F;AOA_VaneIndicator_AoA_Disagree_lg.jpg" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.boeing.com&#x2F;resources&#x2F;boeingdotcom&#x2F;commercial&#x2F;737m...</a><p>So there was no non-functional physical light on the cockpit.</text></item><item><author>lqet</author><text>&gt; After discovering the lapse in 2017, Boeing performed an internal review and determined that the lack of a working warning light “did not adversely impact airplane safety or operation,” it said in its statement.<p>&gt; As a result, Boeing said it did not inform airlines or the Federal Aviation Administration about the mistake for a year.<p>There was a warning light installed in the cockpits which was completely non-functional in 80% of the 737 max fleet, and Boeing did not notify the airlines for an entire year? Did they honestly think that &quot;lack of a warning light&quot; is equal to &quot;lack of <i>working</i> warning light&quot;?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jrochkind1</author><text>I think that makes it <i>worse</i> on Boeing&#x27;s part, that it was a software-only feature that was disabled from those who didn&#x27;t pay. They didn&#x27;t even have to &quot;install&quot; any hardware.<p>It sounds like the software accidentally coupled functionality of this light to another feature. It is in fact a software bug. To fix the bug would have required a software redeploy -- which is definitely non-trivial thing in safety-critical software, and may have required some kind of recertification, or at any rate significant expense.<p>Instead, they could have done what they in fact _have done_ only _after_ people died:<p>&gt; In the months after the Lion Air crash, Boeing quietly worked to appease some customers, according to a person briefed on the matter. In several instances, it activated the angle of attack indicator for free, which then turned on the disagree alert.<p>Well, quietly, for some customers, who know to insist on it and have the purchasing power to get what they insist on.<p>All Boeing had to do was flip a switch to turn the software feature on, without charging for it.</text></comment> | <story><title>Boeing Believed a 737 Max Warning Light Was Standard</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/05/business/boeing-737-max-warning-light.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>AnssiH</author><text>The &quot;warning light&quot; is an &quot;AOA DISAGREE&quot; text that appears on the main flight display:<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.boeing.com&#x2F;resources&#x2F;boeingdotcom&#x2F;commercial&#x2F;737max&#x2F;updates&#x2F;AOA_VaneIndicator_AoA_Disagree_lg.jpg" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.boeing.com&#x2F;resources&#x2F;boeingdotcom&#x2F;commercial&#x2F;737m...</a><p>So there was no non-functional physical light on the cockpit.</text></item><item><author>lqet</author><text>&gt; After discovering the lapse in 2017, Boeing performed an internal review and determined that the lack of a working warning light “did not adversely impact airplane safety or operation,” it said in its statement.<p>&gt; As a result, Boeing said it did not inform airlines or the Federal Aviation Administration about the mistake for a year.<p>There was a warning light installed in the cockpits which was completely non-functional in 80% of the 737 max fleet, and Boeing did not notify the airlines for an entire year? Did they honestly think that &quot;lack of a warning light&quot; is equal to &quot;lack of <i>working</i> warning light&quot;?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>lqet</author><text>Ah, I was not aware of that. But surely the pilots were under the impression that such a warning message existed?</text></comment> |
28,456,596 | 28,454,507 | 1 | 2 | 28,453,012 | train | <story><title>The SEC has told us it wants to sue us over Lend. We don’t know why</title><url>https://blog.coinbase.com/the-sec-has-told-us-it-wants-to-sue-us-over-lend-we-have-no-idea-why-a3a1b6507009</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bjackman</author><text>I&#x27;m not an expert here but I read their argument as they don&#x27;t expect this lending to be regulated as &quot;investment&quot; because the capital is not in theory at risk. So it&#x27;s more like a savings account than an investment account.<p>That&#x27;s the impression I got from the article, but reading other comments in the thread it doesn&#x27;t seem like that&#x27;s an at all relevant definition of the term!</text></item><item><author>dustintrex</author><text>Agreed, and this line pretty much sums it up:<p>&gt; <i>Customers won’t be “investing” in the program, but rather lending the USDC they hold on Coinbase’s platform in connection with their existing relationship.</i><p>&quot;Give me money for a fixed period of time and I&#x27;ll pay a guaranteed return on your principal. No, it&#x27;s not an &quot;investment&quot;, you&#x27;re just lending it in connection with our existing relationship!&quot;</text></item><item><author>uncomputation</author><text>I actually initially wanted to be on Coinbase’s side here, but after a quick google of “Howey test” and reading even just the introduction on Wikipedia, I cannot imagine how they don’t see the SEC’s reasoning about Lend wrt Howey. If you want to argue that Howey does not apply or fight the decision&#x2F;lawsuit, then fine. But feigning ignorance of something a (non-legal expert) programmer can connect the dots of instantly just makes me feel like they’re playing a PR game. Seeing as they are already offering APY on staked Ethereum, I don’t see “concern” reflected in their actions. Seems like they are trying to get out to the public before the SEC does to farm some good will.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>JumpCrisscross</author><text>&gt; <i>the capital is not in theory at risk</i><p>The capital <i>is</i> in theory at risk. The DeFi protocol could get hacked. Coinbase could get hacked. Coinbase could steal your money. Coinbase could go bankrupt.<p>The fact that their marketing leads reasonable people like you to compare Lend to a savings account with no risk, even in theory, is the choking canary of the mess.</text></comment> | <story><title>The SEC has told us it wants to sue us over Lend. We don’t know why</title><url>https://blog.coinbase.com/the-sec-has-told-us-it-wants-to-sue-us-over-lend-we-have-no-idea-why-a3a1b6507009</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bjackman</author><text>I&#x27;m not an expert here but I read their argument as they don&#x27;t expect this lending to be regulated as &quot;investment&quot; because the capital is not in theory at risk. So it&#x27;s more like a savings account than an investment account.<p>That&#x27;s the impression I got from the article, but reading other comments in the thread it doesn&#x27;t seem like that&#x27;s an at all relevant definition of the term!</text></item><item><author>dustintrex</author><text>Agreed, and this line pretty much sums it up:<p>&gt; <i>Customers won’t be “investing” in the program, but rather lending the USDC they hold on Coinbase’s platform in connection with their existing relationship.</i><p>&quot;Give me money for a fixed period of time and I&#x27;ll pay a guaranteed return on your principal. No, it&#x27;s not an &quot;investment&quot;, you&#x27;re just lending it in connection with our existing relationship!&quot;</text></item><item><author>uncomputation</author><text>I actually initially wanted to be on Coinbase’s side here, but after a quick google of “Howey test” and reading even just the introduction on Wikipedia, I cannot imagine how they don’t see the SEC’s reasoning about Lend wrt Howey. If you want to argue that Howey does not apply or fight the decision&#x2F;lawsuit, then fine. But feigning ignorance of something a (non-legal expert) programmer can connect the dots of instantly just makes me feel like they’re playing a PR game. Seeing as they are already offering APY on staked Ethereum, I don’t see “concern” reflected in their actions. Seems like they are trying to get out to the public before the SEC does to farm some good will.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tylerhou</author><text>I don’t understand how you can make a profit larger than the risk-free rate of return without at least some risk; i.e. any risk free profit should be arbitraged away. If Coinbase has truly found risk-free profit it would be more profitable to sell it as an investment to some hedge fund, not give away free returns to retail.</text></comment> |
34,355,450 | 34,353,420 | 1 | 3 | 34,350,662 | train | <story><title>Geoffrey Hinton publishes new deep learning algorithm</title><url>https://www.infoq.com/news/2023/01/hinton-forward-algorithm/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jasonjmcghee</author><text>Maybe I&#x27;m missing something, but from the paper <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cs.toronto.edu&#x2F;~hinton&#x2F;FFA13.pdf" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cs.toronto.edu&#x2F;~hinton&#x2F;FFA13.pdf</a>, they use non-conv nets on CIFAR-10 for back prop, resulting in 63% accuracy. And FF achieves 59% accuracy (at best).<p>Those are relatively close figures, but good accuracy on CIFAR-10 is 99%+ and getting ~94% is trivial.<p>So, if an improper architecture for a problem is used and the accuracy is poor, how compelling is using another optimization approach and achieving similar accuracy?<p>It&#x27;s a unique and interesting approach, but the article specifically mentions it gets accuracy similar to backprop, but if this is the experiment that claim is based on, it loses some credibility in my eyes.</text></comment> | <story><title>Geoffrey Hinton publishes new deep learning algorithm</title><url>https://www.infoq.com/news/2023/01/hinton-forward-algorithm/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>goethes_kind</author><text>I skimmed through the paper and am a bit confused. There&#x27;s only one equation and I feel like he rushed to publish a shower thought without even bothering to flesh it out mathematically.<p>So how do you optimize a layer? Do you still use gradient descent? So you are have a per layer loss with a positive and negative component and then do gradient descent?<p>So then what is the label for each layer? Do you use the same label for each layer?<p>And what does he mean by the forward pass not being fully known? I don&#x27;t get this application of the blackbox between layers. Why would you want to do that?</text></comment> |
17,578,537 | 17,577,547 | 1 | 2 | 17,576,975 | train | <story><title>Announcing Rust 1.27.2</title><url>https://blog.rust-lang.org/2018/07/20/Rust-1.27.2.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>blackrock</author><text>Sample Code:<p>=======================<p>fn transmute_lifetime&lt;&#x27;a, &#x27;b, T&gt;(t: &amp;&#x27;a (T,)) -&gt; &amp;&#x27;b T {<p><pre><code> match (&amp;t, ()) {
((t,), ()) =&gt; t,
}
</code></pre>
}<p>=======================<p>I thought Obfuscated-C was hard to read. Then C++ with all its templates. Now, I&#x27;m thinking Rust has taken the prize.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>phyzome</author><text>It&#x27;s repro code for a compiler bug, of <i>course</i> it looks horrible.<p>Here&#x27;s a similarly horrible Java example, from a recent HN post on Java&#x27;s type system being unsound: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;joshbloch&#x2F;status&#x2F;822948565433466881" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;joshbloch&#x2F;status&#x2F;822948565433466881</a><p>It&#x27;s more verbose, because Java, but equally dense relative to the language as a whole.<p>This is not supposed to be good code.</text></comment> | <story><title>Announcing Rust 1.27.2</title><url>https://blog.rust-lang.org/2018/07/20/Rust-1.27.2.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>blackrock</author><text>Sample Code:<p>=======================<p>fn transmute_lifetime&lt;&#x27;a, &#x27;b, T&gt;(t: &amp;&#x27;a (T,)) -&gt; &amp;&#x27;b T {<p><pre><code> match (&amp;t, ()) {
((t,), ()) =&gt; t,
}
</code></pre>
}<p>=======================<p>I thought Obfuscated-C was hard to read. Then C++ with all its templates. Now, I&#x27;m thinking Rust has taken the prize.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pcwalton</author><text>Nobody would ever write that code in practice, for multiple reasons:<p>- Every reference has a different explicit lifetime—one input, one output—which would rarely ever show up in real code.<p>- There is a tuple with 1 element, which I have never seen in the wild.<p>- It&#x27;s matching against `()`, the void type, which is never done because it&#x27;s useless.</text></comment> |
19,124,115 | 19,122,140 | 1 | 3 | 19,113,147 | train | <story><title>I scanned Austria</title><url>https://blog.haschek.at/2019/i-scanned-austria.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>davb</author><text>This was a really interesting idea and inspired me to do something similar. I had some Shodan credits from a Humble Bundle, so searched for all servers on port 80 in my city. Then I wrote a very simple Python program to screenshot each of those (using wkhtmltoimage), with 20 concurrent threads.<p>I didn&#x27;t stitch the images together and didn&#x27;t try to login to any of the sites (that would be crossing a line, and simply mapping geographically local, public servers seems harmless). Just flicking through the 7,000-ish screenshots has been pretty fun.<p>Lots and lots of:<p>- router admin panels on the WAN interface. Loads of different brands and models<p>- DVR and NAS units<p>- HikVision CCTV (like, hundreds of these - I wonder if they&#x27;re being used at local hospitals or city centre surveillance by the police)<p>- IIS servers (especially IIS 7)<p>- 403s (mostly with the IIS default template)<p>- University department and team websites (there are a few universities in my city so there are lots of these)<p>Some weird and wonderful personal websites. Lots of one-line jokes just to fill a space on a public server, presumably. A few wikis.<p>Overall it&#x27;s been really fun looking at all the servers that are public but just not really indexed, physically surrounding me.</text></comment> | <story><title>I scanned Austria</title><url>https://blog.haschek.at/2019/i-scanned-austria.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>simonsaidit</author><text>I scanned public writable ftps for months back between 97-99 to distribute warez. I Think it was those gov ranges that cost me the relationship with a few ISPs.</text></comment> |
7,834,778 | 7,834,677 | 1 | 3 | 7,833,550 | train | <story><title>Python 2.7.7 released</title><url>https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2014-June/134694.html</url><text></text></story><parent_chain><item><author>niuzeta</author><text>huh, as a developer <i>thinking of starting Python</i>, is python 2.X still worthwhile to start with? The python.org even has a subsection for &#x27;starting with 2 or 3&#x27;, and of course they promote 3, but recent posts have made me think twice about starting with the newest.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>acdha</author><text>Python 3 is increasingly the better choice. The major exception is if you need a library which hasn&#x27;t been ported yet but that list continues to shrink:<p><a href="http://python3wos.appspot.com/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;python3wos.appspot.com&#x2F;</a><p>The good news is that it&#x27;s increasingly easy to write programs which run on both using newer idioms via __future__ backports, which is often both future proof and a way to write better code using newer language features which many people miss out on due to habit and old tutorials.<p>Lennart Regebro has a wonderful guide covering the changes and how to deal with them as painlessly as possible:<p><a href="http://python3porting.com/differences.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;python3porting.com&#x2F;differences.html</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Python 2.7.7 released</title><url>https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2014-June/134694.html</url><text></text></story><parent_chain><item><author>niuzeta</author><text>huh, as a developer <i>thinking of starting Python</i>, is python 2.X still worthwhile to start with? The python.org even has a subsection for &#x27;starting with 2 or 3&#x27;, and of course they promote 3, but recent posts have made me think twice about starting with the newest.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nostrademons</author><text>Start with 3. Most of the complaints you see on Hacker News are from people who have a large existing codebase in 2.x that they&#x27;d need to migrate over, or who need to use an esoteric library that hasn&#x27;t been ported over. It will probably never make sense for these people to migrate; they have a large fixed cost to update their software, and the benefits won&#x27;t outweigh them for a long time. You don&#x27;t have that cost, so you might as well enjoy the benefits.</text></comment> |
18,483,311 | 18,483,347 | 1 | 2 | 18,483,046 | train | <story><title>China Steps Up Trade Secret Theft from US Companies</title><url>http://www.latimes.com/politics/la-na-pol-china-economic-espionage-20181116-story.html?id=1231</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>shantanubala</author><text>This might be an unpopular opinion, but I&#x27;ll express a counterpoint - viewing the same situation through a different lens.<p>Put simply, the Chinese understand why American companies outsource their labor to China. Chinese labor is cheaper, and they are under no illusions - this outsourcing means that their own country experiences many of the negative externalities of Western consumption, including pollution.<p>It&#x27;s fair for American businesses to distrust Chinese companies and distrust the Chinese government, but can&#x27;t we all agree that they brought it on themselves?<p>Which multinational corporation reasonably expects that the Chinese government cares about their bottom line at all? And why do many ordinary Americans experience such outrage on behalf of these multinationals? Of course, I understand why their shareholders (and thus, many Americans) may be upset.<p>If anything, I&#x27;m angry they jumped at the opportunity to eradicate their domestic workforce to a point where China has the opportunity to steal in the first place.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ctvo</author><text>You are conflating two things in this reply:<p>There’s the official transfer of technology that happens in some circumstances when a western company wishes to do business in China, that is known and each company makes its own decisions on if this short term trade off is worthwhile.<p>Americans should be angered that the Chinese, years after joining the WTO, still restrict their markets in this way while enjoying open access to other markets.<p>This article does not touch the above. It’s about illegal, state sponsored theft of intellectual property. Are you asking why people should be upset another country is attacking companies based in the US and stealing their technology?</text></comment> | <story><title>China Steps Up Trade Secret Theft from US Companies</title><url>http://www.latimes.com/politics/la-na-pol-china-economic-espionage-20181116-story.html?id=1231</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>shantanubala</author><text>This might be an unpopular opinion, but I&#x27;ll express a counterpoint - viewing the same situation through a different lens.<p>Put simply, the Chinese understand why American companies outsource their labor to China. Chinese labor is cheaper, and they are under no illusions - this outsourcing means that their own country experiences many of the negative externalities of Western consumption, including pollution.<p>It&#x27;s fair for American businesses to distrust Chinese companies and distrust the Chinese government, but can&#x27;t we all agree that they brought it on themselves?<p>Which multinational corporation reasonably expects that the Chinese government cares about their bottom line at all? And why do many ordinary Americans experience such outrage on behalf of these multinationals? Of course, I understand why their shareholders (and thus, many Americans) may be upset.<p>If anything, I&#x27;m angry they jumped at the opportunity to eradicate their domestic workforce to a point where China has the opportunity to steal in the first place.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rgbrenner</author><text>Americans are ok with companies outsourcing their labor to other countries... as long as those countries play fair. The assumption is that in a fair game, American&#x27;s will find a way to win. But China doesn&#x27;t play fair.<p>This is like you and me playing a game, and I find out you&#x27;re a cheater.. and you say, &#x27;what are you upset about? You invited me here&#x27;</text></comment> |
12,641,611 | 12,641,570 | 1 | 2 | 12,641,273 | train | <story><title>The eye of hurricane Matthew passes directly over a weather buoy</title><url>http://www.ndbc.noaa.gov/show_plot.php?station=42058&meas=wdpr&uom=E&time_diff=-5&time_label=EST</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Justin_K</author><text>FYI a Knot is standard for navigation world wide because the unit is standardized on earth&#x27;s size. 1kt = 1 nautical mile per hour. 1 nautical mile = one minute of Earth&#x27;s longitude. Learned this in sailing class :)<p>Wikipedia: &quot;Worldwide, the knot is used in meteorology, and in maritime and air navigation—for example, a vessel travelling at 1 knot along a meridian travels approximately one minute of geographic latitude in one hour.&quot;</text></item><item><author>gilgoomesh</author><text>That&#x27;s a beautiful graph but NOAA&#x27;s insistence on non-metric units frustrates me endlessly. Knots for speed are bad enough but &quot;inches&quot; for pressure is multiple levels of wrong.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>gilgoomesh</author><text>Using &quot;Knot&quot; because it&#x27;s tied to longitude and latitude is the exact point the metric system is designed to avoid: needless and <i>inaccurate</i> attachments between system of units and specific phenomena that actually complicate rather than simplify and hinder interoperation with every other system.<p>As you state:<p>1. a knot is only <i>approximately</i> equal to 1 min of latitude per hour (there are numerous cases where it&#x27;s unusably wrong)<p>2. doesn&#x27;t really help for longitudinal travel<p>3. maps are continuously projected to favor this mediocre form of navigation instead of something more accurate (see Mercator projection)<p>4. you could easily put kilometre lines on your charts instead of minutes of latitude and fix all the previous problems</text></comment> | <story><title>The eye of hurricane Matthew passes directly over a weather buoy</title><url>http://www.ndbc.noaa.gov/show_plot.php?station=42058&meas=wdpr&uom=E&time_diff=-5&time_label=EST</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Justin_K</author><text>FYI a Knot is standard for navigation world wide because the unit is standardized on earth&#x27;s size. 1kt = 1 nautical mile per hour. 1 nautical mile = one minute of Earth&#x27;s longitude. Learned this in sailing class :)<p>Wikipedia: &quot;Worldwide, the knot is used in meteorology, and in maritime and air navigation—for example, a vessel travelling at 1 knot along a meridian travels approximately one minute of geographic latitude in one hour.&quot;</text></item><item><author>gilgoomesh</author><text>That&#x27;s a beautiful graph but NOAA&#x27;s insistence on non-metric units frustrates me endlessly. Knots for speed are bad enough but &quot;inches&quot; for pressure is multiple levels of wrong.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>LeifCarrotson</author><text>Latitude, not longitude - the length of one minute of longitude changes with your distance from the equator.<p>Also, I am not sure how that&#x27;s relevant to NOAA?</text></comment> |
35,465,332 | 35,462,095 | 1 | 3 | 35,460,375 | train | <story><title>Indie Hackers is indie again</title><url>https://www.indiehackers.com/product/indie-hackers/indie-hackers-is-indie-again--NSIAlb7LggSjzTavQZb</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>schnebbau</author><text>Indiehackers is not the same resource it used to be. Since the acquisition it has devolved into a spam hub of little value, just like Product Hunt.<p>If you are looking for inspiration or case studies, try Starter Story. They pretty much picked up where Indiehackers left off.</text></comment> | <story><title>Indie Hackers is indie again</title><url>https://www.indiehackers.com/product/indie-hackers/indie-hackers-is-indie-again--NSIAlb7LggSjzTavQZb</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>thyrox</author><text>As an avid follower of indiehackers.com since its early days, I have to say that I&#x27;m disappointed with the current state of the site. What used to be a vibrant community of indie founders sharing their struggles, learnings, and wins has devolved into a spammy showcase of &quot;look how easy it is to make money&#x2F;followers with this hack&quot; posts.<p>Don&#x27;t get me wrong, I&#x27;m all for celebrating success. But the recent flood of self-promoting posts that offer little substance or value to the community has made it harder to find the signal amid the noise.<p>I hope now that the site isn&#x27;t pressed to make money maybe it will go back to the roots and stop compromising the quality and authenticity.</text></comment> |
16,160,522 | 16,160,362 | 1 | 2 | 16,158,463 | train | <story><title>Beyond the Bitcoin bubble</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/16/magazine/beyond-the-bitcoin-bubble.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>nabla9</author><text>I hope the technology matures beyond &#x27;blockchain&#x27; and marketing drops the &#x27;coin&#x27; moniker and the gold rush dies down.<p>Cryptographically verified distributed log files should have negligible hype value and be hidden part of the infrastructure. I predict that 10 years from now normal relational databases have infrastructure for shared, authenticated and verified rows and columns and we laugh at the ICO era.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>simias</author><text>&gt;I predict that 10 years from now normal relational databases have infrastructure for shared, authenticated and verified rows<p>I&#x27;m not sure I understand what you&#x27;re predicting exactly. The big breakthrough of bitcoin is having a globally shared ledger without requiring any trust. In my experience most relational databases have a relatively straightforward trust model (i.e. the DB belongs to the organization using it and is fully trusted). In these situation the blockchain is completely overkill and unnecessary as far as I can tell.<p>There are cases where one might want to distribute the database for redundancy or archival (like the contents of Wikipedia for instance) but in this case you trust the original issuer and you only need to be able to validate the authenticity and integrity of a copy which can be easily achieved by having Wikimedia signing a hash (or merkle tree) of the dump. All these technologies are involved in the blockchain but they&#x27;re not innovations. Basically you have bitcoin minus the mining, so just a fancy linked list of SH256 hashes.<p>On the other hand if you have a use case where you want to arbiter a database across untrusted people then you must make mining rewarding enough that you reach a critical mass that makes attacks impractical. I can&#x27;t imagine how you could do that without the &quot;coin&quot; part. People mine cryptocurrencies not because they want to protect it but rather because they want to make a profit out of it. Remove the mining rewards out of Bitcoin and watch as the mining power collapses to a tiny fraction of its current value. If you want to protect your distributed Wikipedia article history and there&#x27;s no direct monetary reward for it I doubt you&#x27;ll reach a very high hash rate which will make it relatively easy for a dedicated attacker to rewrite history.<p>The &quot;coin&quot; moniker is not just a lack of imagination by people working with this technology, it&#x27;s an integral part of why it works in the first place.</text></comment> | <story><title>Beyond the Bitcoin bubble</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/16/magazine/beyond-the-bitcoin-bubble.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>nabla9</author><text>I hope the technology matures beyond &#x27;blockchain&#x27; and marketing drops the &#x27;coin&#x27; moniker and the gold rush dies down.<p>Cryptographically verified distributed log files should have negligible hype value and be hidden part of the infrastructure. I predict that 10 years from now normal relational databases have infrastructure for shared, authenticated and verified rows and columns and we laugh at the ICO era.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>lt</author><text>I view the current cryptocurrency wave as proof of concept experiments of some very exciting technology. Building blocks that allow new design oportunities for things that were not viable or easily previously.<p>Hopefully we do leave the laughable ICO era behind, and even if traditional relational databases get cryptographic features, but I feel the sum of capabilities the new technology can offer is larger than that.<p>I&#x27;m unsure if incentives (the coins) must be a part of every application of this technology. I was open to thinking that it might not, but recently saw this presentation from a Andreessen Horowitz&#x27;s partner [1] where he strongly asserts that yes, it must, and I&#x27;m thinking he might have a point.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;a16z.com&#x2F;2017&#x2F;12&#x2F;08&#x2F;summit-crypto-alex-rampell&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;a16z.com&#x2F;2017&#x2F;12&#x2F;08&#x2F;summit-crypto-alex-rampell&#x2F;</a></text></comment> |
10,314,933 | 10,314,918 | 1 | 3 | 10,313,489 | train | <story><title>Why Fogbugz lost to Jira</title><url>http://movingfulcrum.com/why-fogbugz-lost-to-jira/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>outworlder</author><text>An interesting point from that, since everyone likes to bash Wasabi:<p>&gt; &quot;If we hadn&#x27;t done Wasabi, then we&#x27;d have had to rewrite all of FogBugz, and that would&#x27;ve killed the company. Wasabi also gave us stuff that developers are only now rediscovering, like code that executes on both client and server (e.g. via server-side&#x2F;client-side React), that even gave us a development edge. I&#x27;ve written about this at length (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=9779133" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=9779133</a>) and won&#x27;t revisit it, but while I think that Wasabi targeting .NET may have been a mistake, Wasabi itself was not a mistake.&quot;</text></item><item><author>JimDabell</author><text>There&#x27;s an interesting discussion happening on Reddit involving ex-employees of both companies:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;programming&#x2F;comments&#x2F;3n2sc1&#x2F;why_fogbugz_lost_to_jira&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;programming&#x2F;comments&#x2F;3n2sc1&#x2F;why_fog...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>glass-</author><text>This blog post about Wasabi is worth a read (another perspective from someone who worked there): <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.tedunangst.com&#x2F;flak&#x2F;post&#x2F;technical-debt-and-tacking-into-the-wind" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.tedunangst.com&#x2F;flak&#x2F;post&#x2F;technical-debt-and-tacki...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Why Fogbugz lost to Jira</title><url>http://movingfulcrum.com/why-fogbugz-lost-to-jira/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>outworlder</author><text>An interesting point from that, since everyone likes to bash Wasabi:<p>&gt; &quot;If we hadn&#x27;t done Wasabi, then we&#x27;d have had to rewrite all of FogBugz, and that would&#x27;ve killed the company. Wasabi also gave us stuff that developers are only now rediscovering, like code that executes on both client and server (e.g. via server-side&#x2F;client-side React), that even gave us a development edge. I&#x27;ve written about this at length (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=9779133" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=9779133</a>) and won&#x27;t revisit it, but while I think that Wasabi targeting .NET may have been a mistake, Wasabi itself was not a mistake.&quot;</text></item><item><author>JimDabell</author><text>There&#x27;s an interesting discussion happening on Reddit involving ex-employees of both companies:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;programming&#x2F;comments&#x2F;3n2sc1&#x2F;why_fogbugz_lost_to_jira&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;programming&#x2F;comments&#x2F;3n2sc1&#x2F;why_fog...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>sixothree</author><text>Hanselminutes podcast recently had an interview with Jacob Krall about the history of wasabi. I found it quite interesting.<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;hanselminutes.com&#x2F;493&#x2F;killing-off-wasabi-a-20yr-old-vbscript-problem-solved-with-2015-roslyn-tech" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;hanselminutes.com&#x2F;493&#x2F;killing-off-wasabi-a-20yr-old-v...</a></text></comment> |
22,475,826 | 22,475,638 | 1 | 2 | 22,475,019 | train | <story><title>Robinhood Is Down Again?</title><url>https://status.robinhood.com/incidents/h6xsxvsxg7rm</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>rococode</author><text>If this is a leap year problem, apparently similar issues happened 4 years ago and they never fixed it...<p>Thread from exactly 4 years ago, March 2 2016: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;old.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;RobinHood&#x2F;comments&#x2F;48mep4&#x2F;robinhood_not_working&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;old.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;RobinHood&#x2F;comments&#x2F;48mep4&#x2F;robinhood...</a><p>Thread that pointed it out: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;old.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;wallstreetbets&#x2F;comments&#x2F;fcoaev&#x2F;and_now_a_brief_flashback_to_four_years_ago_where&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;old.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;wallstreetbets&#x2F;comments&#x2F;fcoaev&#x2F;and_...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Robinhood Is Down Again?</title><url>https://status.robinhood.com/incidents/h6xsxvsxg7rm</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>kilroy123</author><text>As a fellow software engineer, I feel for the people who work there.<p>As a customer who lost a decent chunk of money yesterday (and today) because their system was down, I&#x27;m angry.<p>I hate to say this, but I do not think they&#x27;re competent enough to continue to operate as a broker. I, for one, will move all my money off as soon as I can. I&#x27;m also going to file a complaint with finra[1].<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.finra.org&#x2F;investors&#x2F;have-problem&#x2F;file-complaint&#x2F;complaint-center" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.finra.org&#x2F;investors&#x2F;have-problem&#x2F;file-complaint&#x2F;...</a></text></comment> |
4,094,544 | 4,094,374 | 1 | 2 | 4,094,024 | train | <story><title>Device turns Android phone into computer. A reason to make HTML 5 apps?</title><url>http://clamcase.com/clambook-android-and-iphone-laptop-dock.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Casc</author><text>Getting closer...<p>I really think a smartphone docking into stations is the future. "Mannequin" Laptops, desktops etc that are activated once a smartphone is plugged in. You can now use a keyboard, external monitors, your OS slightly adapts... iOS becomes Snow Leopard (not exactly, you just have more functionality)<p>Once docked, a smartphone can unlock additional cores that would otherwise consume too much power, activate a more powerful GPU, possibly one even housed in the docking station itself...<p>I really think smart phones will become the magical little chip you place inside a cyborg to operate a larger, more powerful creature.<p>Imagine working at home off your docked smartphone computer (fully functioning OS), undocking and using your simple apps on the train to work (mobile OS, not much different than current experience), getting to work, docking into your station and you're right back at it (full OS)... portability with a familiar ui/ux feel... seamless experience.<p>Or gaming at home, undocking and going to a LAN party with your friends, not having to worry about whether or not the games / apps are installed, the docks are generic... plug and play.<p>(Ignoring the whole home to work aspect and security issues / work policies, of course)<p><a href="http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3902051" rel="nofollow">http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3902051</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jiggy2011</author><text>Possibly, a few issues though:<p>Hardware is getting cheaper , for example the $25 raspberry pi computer. It will become likely that peripherals like the screen , case and keyboard will be more expensive than the actual computer itself (especially if the CPU etc are smartphone grade stuff).<p>If you have additional hardware inside your phone that is unlocked only when it is plugged into a docking station, then why are you carrying that extra hardware around in your pocket the whole time? Why not just put a very fast GPU inside the docking station for example and have some sort of high speed bus.<p>If you are making 2 versions of the same application with different UIs then that is really very similar to making 2 applications. Sure you can do a lot of code re-use, but this is possible anyway even when you are programming for separate devices.<p>Portable things like phones get easily lost of broken, imagine losing your smartphone and being basically unable to do anything until you replace it because there is no such thing as a "fat terminal" anymore.<p>Businesses are probably going to prefer bolted down systems (physically and in terms of software) that employees do not take home with them.<p>The internet makes this sort of a moot issue anyway, because if most of your applications are SaaS and all of your data is stored on a server anyway then anything with a web browser can become a dumb terminal, there is no need for your own hardware.</text></comment> | <story><title>Device turns Android phone into computer. A reason to make HTML 5 apps?</title><url>http://clamcase.com/clambook-android-and-iphone-laptop-dock.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Casc</author><text>Getting closer...<p>I really think a smartphone docking into stations is the future. "Mannequin" Laptops, desktops etc that are activated once a smartphone is plugged in. You can now use a keyboard, external monitors, your OS slightly adapts... iOS becomes Snow Leopard (not exactly, you just have more functionality)<p>Once docked, a smartphone can unlock additional cores that would otherwise consume too much power, activate a more powerful GPU, possibly one even housed in the docking station itself...<p>I really think smart phones will become the magical little chip you place inside a cyborg to operate a larger, more powerful creature.<p>Imagine working at home off your docked smartphone computer (fully functioning OS), undocking and using your simple apps on the train to work (mobile OS, not much different than current experience), getting to work, docking into your station and you're right back at it (full OS)... portability with a familiar ui/ux feel... seamless experience.<p>Or gaming at home, undocking and going to a LAN party with your friends, not having to worry about whether or not the games / apps are installed, the docks are generic... plug and play.<p>(Ignoring the whole home to work aspect and security issues / work policies, of course)<p><a href="http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3902051" rel="nofollow">http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3902051</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>cageface</author><text>Apple's newfound fortune was built on the understanding that mobile computing is fundamentally different than desktop/laptop computing. That understanding is the reason they were able to break touch screen interfaces into the mainstream.<p>Steve Jobs is laughing in his grave at stuff like this.</text></comment> |
14,586,643 | 14,586,545 | 1 | 2 | 14,586,145 | train | <story><title>How the Mid-Victorians Worked, Ate and Died (2009)</title><url>https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2672390/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>stupidcar</author><text>One of the paper&#x27;s authors, Dr Judith Rowbotham, is a historian, not a scientist:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.plymouth.ac.uk&#x2F;staff&#x2F;judith-rowbotham" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.plymouth.ac.uk&#x2F;staff&#x2F;judith-rowbotham</a><p>And here is the other author, Dr Paul Clayton, promoting &quot;MonaVie&quot; supplements:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=C28Bx_jbP_o" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=C28Bx_jbP_o</a><p>MonaVie turns out to be a multi-level marketing company selling food supplements (the same kind of supplements that this paper goes out of its way to recommend) that defaulted on a $152m loan in 2015 and went into foreclosure:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;MonaVie" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;MonaVie</a></text></comment> | <story><title>How the Mid-Victorians Worked, Ate and Died (2009)</title><url>https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2672390/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>georgeecollins</author><text>This doesn&#x27;t seem like a fair comparison because you are comparing the lifespans of a population that includes people who needed modern medical attention to survive to age 5 to another population that contained none of those people.</text></comment> |
35,129,148 | 35,129,266 | 1 | 2 | 35,128,440 | train | <story><title>Why did 250k Britons die sooner than expected?</title><url>https://www.economist.com/interactive/britain/2023/03/09/why-did-250000-britons-die-sooner-than-expected</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>epicureanideal</author><text>Taiwan, South Korea, and Israel all have much lower populations than the UK and yet remain important global influencers.<p>It isn&#x27;t all about population. The USA has 1&#x2F;4 the population of China and yet technologically is a peer competitor. Japan had less than 1&#x2F;2 the population of the USA in the 1980s and was a technological peer competitor.<p>With wise investment in capital equipment, education, and technology, even small, resource-poor countries can punch far above their weight. The UK remains a sufficient economy to serve as a foundation to rise significantly above its current situation. Imagine a UK with a $150,000 USD average income, thanks to intensive investment for a generation. If that sounds unrealistic, so would our current level of average incomes to people living in 1900. Somehow we&#x27;ve just lost the belief that we can continue to dramatically increase our quality of life.<p>Between its nuclear deterrent and soft power, the UK could remain a global power for at least the next couple of centuries if it chose to do so.<p>I wonder what the electoral interest would be in a UK political party that advocated the goal of doubling the nation&#x27;s per capita income in 10 years?</text></item><item><author>actuator</author><text>I am not sure how in a totally integrated free market world, a country like UK can compete with US or China. The amount of funding US can put into new areas like green energy and the internal market and capital it offers is something UK can&#x27;t compete with. This is why UK origin founders are one of the biggest cohort of immigrant unicorn founders in US.<p>Although, I am not sure where a Brit would move to, if they want to have similar social systems. Most of the EU also seems on the path to decline as well.<p>Also, unlike say a German or a French expat, a British expat would have little problem moving to US, Canada, Australia or NZ as there is little language or culture barrier, so if those countries do well, why won&#x27;t a skilled Brit just moved there.</text></item><item><author>krysp</author><text>As a Brit I can&#x27;t help but notice that on every axis, our country appears to be in decline at the moment. Even before Brexit, things hadn&#x27;t been going well, as this article shows. It&#x27;s making me seriously consider moving away.<p>I want to have hope that as a country we can turn around this societal regression, but I fear it&#x27;s a deeper problem than just the current government. The class system and an unhealthy nostalgia for when we were more important in the world seem to be holding us back.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>somewhereoutth</author><text>To be honest it <i>is</i> all about population. Industrial&#x2F;technological first mover advantage has now gone really. You need the concentration of talent that only drawing from a very large pool can achieve. US, EU, China are the 3 poles at the moment - with Africa and South America as potential for the future if they can get their governance sorted out.<p>The UK stopped being a global power after Suez - not for nothing is Brexit known as &#x27;Suez for slow learners&#x27;</text></comment> | <story><title>Why did 250k Britons die sooner than expected?</title><url>https://www.economist.com/interactive/britain/2023/03/09/why-did-250000-britons-die-sooner-than-expected</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>epicureanideal</author><text>Taiwan, South Korea, and Israel all have much lower populations than the UK and yet remain important global influencers.<p>It isn&#x27;t all about population. The USA has 1&#x2F;4 the population of China and yet technologically is a peer competitor. Japan had less than 1&#x2F;2 the population of the USA in the 1980s and was a technological peer competitor.<p>With wise investment in capital equipment, education, and technology, even small, resource-poor countries can punch far above their weight. The UK remains a sufficient economy to serve as a foundation to rise significantly above its current situation. Imagine a UK with a $150,000 USD average income, thanks to intensive investment for a generation. If that sounds unrealistic, so would our current level of average incomes to people living in 1900. Somehow we&#x27;ve just lost the belief that we can continue to dramatically increase our quality of life.<p>Between its nuclear deterrent and soft power, the UK could remain a global power for at least the next couple of centuries if it chose to do so.<p>I wonder what the electoral interest would be in a UK political party that advocated the goal of doubling the nation&#x27;s per capita income in 10 years?</text></item><item><author>actuator</author><text>I am not sure how in a totally integrated free market world, a country like UK can compete with US or China. The amount of funding US can put into new areas like green energy and the internal market and capital it offers is something UK can&#x27;t compete with. This is why UK origin founders are one of the biggest cohort of immigrant unicorn founders in US.<p>Although, I am not sure where a Brit would move to, if they want to have similar social systems. Most of the EU also seems on the path to decline as well.<p>Also, unlike say a German or a French expat, a British expat would have little problem moving to US, Canada, Australia or NZ as there is little language or culture barrier, so if those countries do well, why won&#x27;t a skilled Brit just moved there.</text></item><item><author>krysp</author><text>As a Brit I can&#x27;t help but notice that on every axis, our country appears to be in decline at the moment. Even before Brexit, things hadn&#x27;t been going well, as this article shows. It&#x27;s making me seriously consider moving away.<p>I want to have hope that as a country we can turn around this societal regression, but I fear it&#x27;s a deeper problem than just the current government. The class system and an unhealthy nostalgia for when we were more important in the world seem to be holding us back.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>notahacker</author><text>&gt; I wonder what the electoral interest would be in a UK political party that advocated the goal of doubling the nation&#x27;s per capita income in 10 years?<p>Probably about the same as the electoral interest in a party that promised everyone a perpetual motion machine, which would be about as capable of achieving its promises. (The recent UK electoral record of promises you&#x27;d have to be utterly delusional to believe isn&#x27;t bad actually, just helps to have a lot of backing from the status quo!)<p>The UK already has more global influence than Taiwan, South Korea and Israel and massively outsize influence for a country making up less than 1% of global population and an even smaller fraction of its land physical resources, it&#x27;s just this global influence isn&#x27;t guaranteed to be used wisely, never mind benefit the lifespan of the average citizen.</text></comment> |
15,518,257 | 15,518,041 | 1 | 3 | 15,511,962 | train | <story><title>A calendar of upcoming changes to the Twitter Rules</title><url>https://blog.twitter.com/official/en_us/topics/company/2017/safetycalendar.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>adamrezich</author><text>Hopefully Twitter actually defines a lot of these nebulous and highly-subjective terms going forward.<p>What is the exact definition of a &quot;violent group&quot;?<p>What constitutes &quot;hateful imagery&quot;?<p>Where can I find their database of &quot;hate symbols&quot;?<p>What constitutes a &quot;hateful display name&quot;?<p>What constitutes &quot;condoning and glorifying violence&quot;? (I would argue that many if not most video games at least glorify violence, from my perspective!)<p>In our modern Internet-connected society, the meanings of terms and symbols are subject to rapid and unexpected change. The ADL lists &quot;Pepe the Frog&quot; as a &quot;hate symbol&quot;[0], and while it&#x27;s basically undeniable that many people use the symbol in an intentionally inflammatory or hateful context, I&#x27;m left completely at a loss as to whether or not posting an image of Pepe—or any cartoon frog for that matter—will get me suspended. (I have no reason to do so of course; this is entirely hypothetical.)<p>From the perspective of many people, especially those who use Twitter, certain political figures are considered to be inherently &quot;hateful&quot;, and showing support for them is considered to be an act of hate.<p>There&#x27;s a lot of talk about lines being drawn here but no talk of where exactly they will be drawn.<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.adl.org&#x2F;education&#x2F;references&#x2F;hate-symbols&#x2F;pepe-the-frog" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.adl.org&#x2F;education&#x2F;references&#x2F;hate-symbols&#x2F;pepe-t...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jordigh</author><text>&gt; Hopefully Twitter actually defines a lot of these nebulous and highly-subjective terms going forward.<p>There is a certain &quot;jurisprudence&quot; to this sort of thing. All laws are written ambiguously; that doesn&#x27;t mean it&#x27;s impossible to enforce them or that the laws are useless. Human interaction shouldn&#x27;t be codified into computer code and in most cases can&#x27;t be.<p>Whatever Twitter decides those things are, someone will be upset about it, and someone will contest the definition. That&#x27;s fine. We already have this kind of thing in HN and Reddit and anywhere else on the internet where any kind of moderation happens. We had it in Usenet and in web forums.<p>The whole idea that ambiguity in the laws means that we should have absolute &quot;free speech&quot; including the demonstrably toxic and hateful place that Twitter has become is bonkers. Sure, you&#x27;ll alienate some people who don&#x27;t like your definitions. But that&#x27;s kind of the point. To foster the community you want to have.</text></comment> | <story><title>A calendar of upcoming changes to the Twitter Rules</title><url>https://blog.twitter.com/official/en_us/topics/company/2017/safetycalendar.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>adamrezich</author><text>Hopefully Twitter actually defines a lot of these nebulous and highly-subjective terms going forward.<p>What is the exact definition of a &quot;violent group&quot;?<p>What constitutes &quot;hateful imagery&quot;?<p>Where can I find their database of &quot;hate symbols&quot;?<p>What constitutes a &quot;hateful display name&quot;?<p>What constitutes &quot;condoning and glorifying violence&quot;? (I would argue that many if not most video games at least glorify violence, from my perspective!)<p>In our modern Internet-connected society, the meanings of terms and symbols are subject to rapid and unexpected change. The ADL lists &quot;Pepe the Frog&quot; as a &quot;hate symbol&quot;[0], and while it&#x27;s basically undeniable that many people use the symbol in an intentionally inflammatory or hateful context, I&#x27;m left completely at a loss as to whether or not posting an image of Pepe—or any cartoon frog for that matter—will get me suspended. (I have no reason to do so of course; this is entirely hypothetical.)<p>From the perspective of many people, especially those who use Twitter, certain political figures are considered to be inherently &quot;hateful&quot;, and showing support for them is considered to be an act of hate.<p>There&#x27;s a lot of talk about lines being drawn here but no talk of where exactly they will be drawn.<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.adl.org&#x2F;education&#x2F;references&#x2F;hate-symbols&#x2F;pepe-the-frog" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.adl.org&#x2F;education&#x2F;references&#x2F;hate-symbols&#x2F;pepe-t...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bitshiffed</author><text>Glorifying violence would also cover huge amounts of video media.<p>I&#x27;m all for this, but I seriously doubt we&#x27;ll see Twitter stand up to movie&#x2F;television studios.</text></comment> |
31,872,289 | 31,871,926 | 1 | 3 | 31,863,243 | train | <story><title>Raindrop: All-in-One Bookmark Manager</title><url>https://raindrop.io/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>charles_f</author><text>I used it for a year until maybe 12 months ago. The one thing that made me leave was that everything was juat slow enough to irritate me. Not crazy slow, but not very responsive either. When looking for a bookmark in a folder and each folder takes a couple seconds to load, then your browse becomes tedious.<p>I like that there&#x27;s a good export function though, being able to be non committal to a tool is a prime feature IMO</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>artdigital</author><text>That&#x27;s the reason why I stopped using it too. It looked pretty but I didn&#x27;t feel productive because of the laggy-ness<p>I shilled this yesterday as well, but anybox (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;anybox.cc" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;anybox.cc</a>) might be for you, that&#x27;s what I am using currently. It&#x27;s native on iOS&#x2F;Mac, syncs with iCloud and is very keyboard centric with Command Palette, Quick Open, etc.<p>No connected cloud SaaS subscription service (though there is an iAP with one-time purchase option) or other bells&amp;whistles, just a good simple native app that does what I want it to do</text></comment> | <story><title>Raindrop: All-in-One Bookmark Manager</title><url>https://raindrop.io/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>charles_f</author><text>I used it for a year until maybe 12 months ago. The one thing that made me leave was that everything was juat slow enough to irritate me. Not crazy slow, but not very responsive either. When looking for a bookmark in a folder and each folder takes a couple seconds to load, then your browse becomes tedious.<p>I like that there&#x27;s a good export function though, being able to be non committal to a tool is a prime feature IMO</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rnmp</author><text>Shameless plug but I’m working on a visual organization and bookmarking tool and feedback and input from someone like you would be crucial!<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bleep.is" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bleep.is</a></text></comment> |
12,186,448 | 12,185,235 | 1 | 2 | 12,183,580 | train | <story><title>Harvard Study: Biggest Factor in Divorce Is Husband's Employment Status</title><url>http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-07-28/don-t-blame-divorce-on-money-ask-did-the-husband-have-a-job?utm_content=business&utm_campaign=socialflow-organic&utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&cmpid%3D=socialflow-twitter-business</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>KKKKkkkk1</author><text>If we realize that the legal system has made the wife essentially a stockholder who is entitled to a stream of dividends from her marriage, and who has a right to sell when she sees fit, it&#x27;s no surprise that women choose to sell when there is a sustained decline in earnings.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tempVariable</author><text>Not lying when I say this and I quote a certain wife who I know &quot;... I wish he was drinking, or bad to me or the kids. It would makes things much easier ...&quot;<p>This is in a situation where she is absolutely not fit for family life and is the one who is unprepared for realities of being a mom and a wife. Literally, this is a person who has not grown up yet and constantly looks for comfort without being able to show it to her family.<p>I honestly can say that folks get into marriages more by happenstance than solid planning. Maybe I&#x27;m wrong. Who knows.</text></comment> | <story><title>Harvard Study: Biggest Factor in Divorce Is Husband's Employment Status</title><url>http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-07-28/don-t-blame-divorce-on-money-ask-did-the-husband-have-a-job?utm_content=business&utm_campaign=socialflow-organic&utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&cmpid%3D=socialflow-twitter-business</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>KKKKkkkk1</author><text>If we realize that the legal system has made the wife essentially a stockholder who is entitled to a stream of dividends from her marriage, and who has a right to sell when she sees fit, it&#x27;s no surprise that women choose to sell when there is a sustained decline in earnings.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>zaroth</author><text>It really is a lease-hold. There&#x27;s no selling the shares, and the dividends don&#x27;t stop. Apparently the wife keeps the shares until remarrying.</text></comment> |
11,373,354 | 11,373,103 | 1 | 3 | 11,372,455 | train | <story><title>New Kid on the Blockchain</title><url>http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/28/business/dealbook/ethereum-a-virtual-currency-enables-transactions-that-rival-bitcoins.html?_r=1</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Taek</author><text>Proponents of Ethereum ignore the fact that Ethereum fails to address any of the most significant problems in Bitcoin. Bitcoin&#x27;s major advantage is decentralization, and it&#x27;s about the only thing that Bitcoin does better than anything else. Bitcoin is an extremely expensive way to build a financial system, and there&#x27;s no reason to go through the trouble unless you are utilizing the decentralization.<p>Bitcoin&#x27;s major problems are scale, miner centralization, and developer centralization. Ethereum is worse than Bitcoin in all three respects. Transactions on Ethereum are heavier, develoepment is very heavily controlled by the Ethereum foundation and by Consensys, and the block algorithm in Ethereum more strongly favors larger miners as compared to Bitcoin (which already favors bigger miners).<p>Further, the Ethereum develoepment team is under qualified. There have been several ametuer mistakes, including allowing negative balance, leaking private keys, and putting consensus at risk by advocating that different users should be running different consensus codebases. Most of the highly capable developers in the cryptocurrency ecosystem avoid Ethereum because it&#x27;s not been constructed well, nor does it&#x27;s design suggest strong resistance to adversarial environments.<p>Bitcoin did go through similar growing pains. Bitcoin did have many ametuer mistakes when getting started. But those have all been fixed, and there is a positively enormous amount of competent mindshare powering Bitcoin, and the thoroughness of decentralization in Bitcoin is unmatched by any altcoin, including Ethereum.<p>Ethereum has offered a lot of cool tricks with its turing complete scripting language, but is standing on a house of cards. It scales less well than Bitcoin, it&#x27;s design more heavily promotes centralization, it&#x27;s development is more ametuer, and the potential applications offered by its fancy scripting language are not actually that much stronger than what you can do with Bitcoin. The showcase applications such as Augur and Slockit suffer from weak cryptographic fundamentals and under-qualified developers even worse than Ethereum does.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mike_hearn</author><text>Bitcoin&#x27;s biggest problem is that its developers are wildly incompetent, to the extent that they repeatedly promised to entirely replace the block chain with the Lightning Network ... without actually being able to do so. Needless to say, their crazy promises of a perfect solution that involved no tradeoffs never even came close to reality. Meanwhile, their existing system broke down to the extent that its problems are now in the New York Times.<p>The idea that Bitcoin developers are competent and Ethereum developers aren&#x27;t is simply not borne out by basic observations of what the two camps have been doing lately. And the market is responding to that. Hence, this article.</text></comment> | <story><title>New Kid on the Blockchain</title><url>http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/28/business/dealbook/ethereum-a-virtual-currency-enables-transactions-that-rival-bitcoins.html?_r=1</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Taek</author><text>Proponents of Ethereum ignore the fact that Ethereum fails to address any of the most significant problems in Bitcoin. Bitcoin&#x27;s major advantage is decentralization, and it&#x27;s about the only thing that Bitcoin does better than anything else. Bitcoin is an extremely expensive way to build a financial system, and there&#x27;s no reason to go through the trouble unless you are utilizing the decentralization.<p>Bitcoin&#x27;s major problems are scale, miner centralization, and developer centralization. Ethereum is worse than Bitcoin in all three respects. Transactions on Ethereum are heavier, develoepment is very heavily controlled by the Ethereum foundation and by Consensys, and the block algorithm in Ethereum more strongly favors larger miners as compared to Bitcoin (which already favors bigger miners).<p>Further, the Ethereum develoepment team is under qualified. There have been several ametuer mistakes, including allowing negative balance, leaking private keys, and putting consensus at risk by advocating that different users should be running different consensus codebases. Most of the highly capable developers in the cryptocurrency ecosystem avoid Ethereum because it&#x27;s not been constructed well, nor does it&#x27;s design suggest strong resistance to adversarial environments.<p>Bitcoin did go through similar growing pains. Bitcoin did have many ametuer mistakes when getting started. But those have all been fixed, and there is a positively enormous amount of competent mindshare powering Bitcoin, and the thoroughness of decentralization in Bitcoin is unmatched by any altcoin, including Ethereum.<p>Ethereum has offered a lot of cool tricks with its turing complete scripting language, but is standing on a house of cards. It scales less well than Bitcoin, it&#x27;s design more heavily promotes centralization, it&#x27;s development is more ametuer, and the potential applications offered by its fancy scripting language are not actually that much stronger than what you can do with Bitcoin. The showcase applications such as Augur and Slockit suffer from weak cryptographic fundamentals and under-qualified developers even worse than Ethereum does.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kushti</author><text>Bitcoin is highly centralized, 90% of mining power was in one room recently. Ethereum&#x27;s Ethash is better protected against specialized hardware, but not well verified yet. In other aspects you&#x27;ve mentioned, especially scaling, Ethereum is surely nightmare.</text></comment> |
21,340,877 | 21,340,852 | 1 | 2 | 21,338,391 | train | <story><title>Climate change has turned permafrost into a carbon emitter</title><url>https://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/permafrost-climate-change-1.5330144</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rgbrenner</author><text>Here are a few:<p>increased temp &gt; increased evaporation &gt; increased cloud coverage which reflects more sunlight<p>increased co2 &gt; increased tree growth<p>increased co2 &gt; increased algae, plankton growth to absorb co2... other marine animals will also feed on these, increasing their mass, and when they die, they&#x27;ll sink to the bottom, where they&#x27;ll mostly remain.<p>increased co2 &gt; increased diffusion into seawater.. clams, oysters, etc combine this carbon with calcium to produce shells.. and when they die, they accumulate on the sea floor eventually turning into rock.<p>Unfortunately, the fact that co2 in the atmosphere is growing indicates we&#x27;re overwhelming these.. I take zero comfort in the fact that these exists.. it actually makes me nervous because once they reach their maximum, co2 will start growing even more rapidly.. and then it&#x27;ll be so much worse.</text></item><item><author>the_gastropod</author><text>And then the whole melting of sea ice thing. Sea ice is pretty much the whitest&#x2F;most reflective surface on the planet. It then melts into the darkest&#x2F;most absorbent surface on the planet.<p>Are there any stabilizing forces we know about? I only ever hear about these types of positive feedback loops, and it scares the hell out of me.</text></item><item><author>blueyes</author><text>I believe this same dynamic will apply to the oceans as they warm. They&#x27;re like a can of Coke. Heat it up and the carbonation goes away. It&#x27;s a horrifying positive feedback loop of global warming.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>themgt</author><text>Not only is CO2 continuing to rise, but it&#x27;s rate of growth appears to be accelerating, from ~1.5ppm&#x2F;year in the 80s&#x2F;90s to 2ppm&#x2F;year earlier this decade and now as much as 2.5-3ppm&#x2F;year average now.<p>If this continues, we&#x27;ll hit 420ppm within a couple years, 430ppm maybe 4 years after that, over 440ppm if not nearing 450ppm by the end of the 2020s with no slowdown in sight.<p>Truly, truly alarming.<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;mlg.eng.cam.ac.uk&#x2F;carl&#x2F;words&#x2F;carbon.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;mlg.eng.cam.ac.uk&#x2F;carl&#x2F;words&#x2F;carbon.html</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Climate change has turned permafrost into a carbon emitter</title><url>https://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/permafrost-climate-change-1.5330144</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rgbrenner</author><text>Here are a few:<p>increased temp &gt; increased evaporation &gt; increased cloud coverage which reflects more sunlight<p>increased co2 &gt; increased tree growth<p>increased co2 &gt; increased algae, plankton growth to absorb co2... other marine animals will also feed on these, increasing their mass, and when they die, they&#x27;ll sink to the bottom, where they&#x27;ll mostly remain.<p>increased co2 &gt; increased diffusion into seawater.. clams, oysters, etc combine this carbon with calcium to produce shells.. and when they die, they accumulate on the sea floor eventually turning into rock.<p>Unfortunately, the fact that co2 in the atmosphere is growing indicates we&#x27;re overwhelming these.. I take zero comfort in the fact that these exists.. it actually makes me nervous because once they reach their maximum, co2 will start growing even more rapidly.. and then it&#x27;ll be so much worse.</text></item><item><author>the_gastropod</author><text>And then the whole melting of sea ice thing. Sea ice is pretty much the whitest&#x2F;most reflective surface on the planet. It then melts into the darkest&#x2F;most absorbent surface on the planet.<p>Are there any stabilizing forces we know about? I only ever hear about these types of positive feedback loops, and it scares the hell out of me.</text></item><item><author>blueyes</author><text>I believe this same dynamic will apply to the oceans as they warm. They&#x27;re like a can of Coke. Heat it up and the carbonation goes away. It&#x27;s a horrifying positive feedback loop of global warming.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pdonis</author><text><i>&gt; increased evaporation &gt; increased cloud coverage which reflects more sunlight</i><p>Also increased evaporation &gt; increased latent heat transport to upper atmosphere where it can more easily escape to space. According to the numbers in Kiehl &amp; Trenberth&#x27;s global energy budget, total latent heat transport is about 80 W&#x2F;m^2, which means a 5 percent increase in it would entirely cancel out the increased radiative forcing from a doubling of CO2. This is a negative feedback that I don&#x27;t see discussed much at all.<p><i>&gt; the fact that co2 in the atmosphere is growing indicates we&#x27;re overwhelming these</i><p>No, it doesn&#x27;t, it just indicates different timescales for CO2 emissions vs. uptake.</text></comment> |
6,223,990 | 6,222,124 | 1 | 2 | 6,221,077 | train | <story><title>“People simply empty out”</title><url>http://www.lettersofnote.com/2012/10/people-simply-empty-out.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>homosaur</author><text>100K is the point where you have the illusion of financial freedom because you can purchase a BMW, buy a nice home in a bland cul-de-sac with a bunch of nameless white dudes, and it&#x27;s not until you&#x27;re in your 40s and you&#x27;re in danger to losing the job to a robot or a whipper-snapper that you understand that kind of &quot;freedom&quot; is actually enslavement. You made the wrong choice because you wasted your life buying plastic.<p>I don&#x27;t make 100K but I did recently have what you might call a religious epiphany about my job, my finances, and freedom. Luckily for me, I have little debt and actually like my job a lot so I&#x27;m not the hole some folks are, God bless them all.<p>I just hope most of us aren&#x27;t Bukowski&#x27;s age when we realize we were building useless bullshit for useless people in order to buy useless plastic garbage. I know some of us are doing important work, but many of us are not.<p>Jeez, guys, we get one chance at this. Most people are destined to live anonymous lives so at the very least try to enjoy it.</text></item><item><author>orofino</author><text>I always kind of shake my head at this. On a board with many people making 100k+ per year, who are the &quot;societal overlords&quot; you&#x27;re referencing. Sure there are people that make much more than that, but anything beyond 80k allows a person to save quite a bit and &quot;quit&quot; the rat race earlier if they like.</text></item><item><author>VexXtreme</author><text>&gt; Hence the somewhat curious (and I think, very American) idea of the &quot;Golden Years&quot;. If you put your head down and work hard, taking no vacations, until you&#x27;re age 65, then you flip 180 degrees in the other direction and retire into a life of full-time leisure. So if you live long enough, it really won&#x27;t be a waste; you cash it in all at the end!<p>And this exact kind of thinking is what the societal overlords want you to subscribe to. Give them the best years of your life to get a degree of freedom later in your life, when the freedom won&#x27;t matter anymore anyway, cause you&#x27;ll be pissing in your diapers and be limited to a very small subset of things a healthy young person can do.<p>I see it this way: when you&#x27;re retired and old, the overall potential of what you can do with your life is much lower than that of when you were in your 20s and 30s. Why is that? Because an old person with the same amount of time and money can do much less with those resources than a young person.<p>When you live your life like a run off the mill robot, living your life according to a set of societal expectations and rules set by other people, what&#x27;s the point of such a life anyway?<p>PS. OP, I wasn&#x27;t addressing you, in case you feel I&#x27;ve attacked your point, I am just furthering it :)</text></item><item><author>_delirium</author><text>Hence the somewhat curious (and I think, very American) idea of the &quot;Golden Years&quot;. If you put your head down and work hard, taking no vacations, until you&#x27;re age 65, then you flip 180 degrees in the other direction and retire into a life of full-time leisure. So if you live long enough, it really won&#x27;t be a waste; you cash it in all at the end!<p>A Scandinavian psychologist somewhat recently proposed a typically Scandinavian reversal of this: he suggested people should work to age 80, but work proportionally less in all the years up to there. Basically redirect the pension system to subsidize more early-age vacation and less pension.<p>edit: <a href="http://cphpost.dk/business/researcher-advocates-25-hour-working-week-%E2%80%93-until-age-80" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;cphpost.dk&#x2F;business&#x2F;researcher-advocates-25-hour-work...</a></text></item><item><author>blackhole</author><text>I feel like too many people get sucked into the idea of furthering their career, to the point that they forget to further their own life.<p>What is the point of existence if we never get around to experiencing it?<p><i>&quot;It&#x27;s not the things we do in life that we regret on our death bed, it is the things we do not.&quot; - Randy Pausch</i></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kokotko</author><text>I think more and more Gen Y people in advanced European countries see owning a car as a failure - you are a fool for wasting money, when transportation can be done cheaply and also often for free. You are basically penalized for owning a car by high taxes, and for those few occassions in a year when you need a car (moving stuff) it&#x27;s easy enough to rent. Spending your life in traffic jams is just a plain fail.<p>Having to wear a nice suit is also a failure. I would never consider working anywhere where I have to wear a suit.<p>Edit: My overarching point being that attitudes are changing. The &#x27;American dream&#x27; doesn&#x27;t really apply anymore, and especially not everywhere.</text></comment> | <story><title>“People simply empty out”</title><url>http://www.lettersofnote.com/2012/10/people-simply-empty-out.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>homosaur</author><text>100K is the point where you have the illusion of financial freedom because you can purchase a BMW, buy a nice home in a bland cul-de-sac with a bunch of nameless white dudes, and it&#x27;s not until you&#x27;re in your 40s and you&#x27;re in danger to losing the job to a robot or a whipper-snapper that you understand that kind of &quot;freedom&quot; is actually enslavement. You made the wrong choice because you wasted your life buying plastic.<p>I don&#x27;t make 100K but I did recently have what you might call a religious epiphany about my job, my finances, and freedom. Luckily for me, I have little debt and actually like my job a lot so I&#x27;m not the hole some folks are, God bless them all.<p>I just hope most of us aren&#x27;t Bukowski&#x27;s age when we realize we were building useless bullshit for useless people in order to buy useless plastic garbage. I know some of us are doing important work, but many of us are not.<p>Jeez, guys, we get one chance at this. Most people are destined to live anonymous lives so at the very least try to enjoy it.</text></item><item><author>orofino</author><text>I always kind of shake my head at this. On a board with many people making 100k+ per year, who are the &quot;societal overlords&quot; you&#x27;re referencing. Sure there are people that make much more than that, but anything beyond 80k allows a person to save quite a bit and &quot;quit&quot; the rat race earlier if they like.</text></item><item><author>VexXtreme</author><text>&gt; Hence the somewhat curious (and I think, very American) idea of the &quot;Golden Years&quot;. If you put your head down and work hard, taking no vacations, until you&#x27;re age 65, then you flip 180 degrees in the other direction and retire into a life of full-time leisure. So if you live long enough, it really won&#x27;t be a waste; you cash it in all at the end!<p>And this exact kind of thinking is what the societal overlords want you to subscribe to. Give them the best years of your life to get a degree of freedom later in your life, when the freedom won&#x27;t matter anymore anyway, cause you&#x27;ll be pissing in your diapers and be limited to a very small subset of things a healthy young person can do.<p>I see it this way: when you&#x27;re retired and old, the overall potential of what you can do with your life is much lower than that of when you were in your 20s and 30s. Why is that? Because an old person with the same amount of time and money can do much less with those resources than a young person.<p>When you live your life like a run off the mill robot, living your life according to a set of societal expectations and rules set by other people, what&#x27;s the point of such a life anyway?<p>PS. OP, I wasn&#x27;t addressing you, in case you feel I&#x27;ve attacked your point, I am just furthering it :)</text></item><item><author>_delirium</author><text>Hence the somewhat curious (and I think, very American) idea of the &quot;Golden Years&quot;. If you put your head down and work hard, taking no vacations, until you&#x27;re age 65, then you flip 180 degrees in the other direction and retire into a life of full-time leisure. So if you live long enough, it really won&#x27;t be a waste; you cash it in all at the end!<p>A Scandinavian psychologist somewhat recently proposed a typically Scandinavian reversal of this: he suggested people should work to age 80, but work proportionally less in all the years up to there. Basically redirect the pension system to subsidize more early-age vacation and less pension.<p>edit: <a href="http://cphpost.dk/business/researcher-advocates-25-hour-working-week-%E2%80%93-until-age-80" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;cphpost.dk&#x2F;business&#x2F;researcher-advocates-25-hour-work...</a></text></item><item><author>blackhole</author><text>I feel like too many people get sucked into the idea of furthering their career, to the point that they forget to further their own life.<p>What is the point of existence if we never get around to experiencing it?<p><i>&quot;It&#x27;s not the things we do in life that we regret on our death bed, it is the things we do not.&quot; - Randy Pausch</i></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>orofino</author><text>Here&#x27;s the problem though - you don&#x27;t need to buy the BMW or the suburban McMansion. Save that money instead and when you&#x27;re in your 40 you can tell the boss that he should give you job to a whipper-snapper, you&#x27;re headed to Thailand.<p>No one holds a gun to the consumer&#x27;s head, they just convince themselves they need thing. Then they whine when they haven&#x27;t saved more than 300k for retirement at age 50 and social security is looking rocky.</text></comment> |
40,383,904 | 40,382,428 | 1 | 2 | 40,379,028 | train | <story><title>Sprint, T-Mobile Merger Killed Wireless Price Competition in U.S.</title><url>https://www.techdirt.com/2024/05/16/report-sprint-t-mobile-merger-immediately-killed-wireless-price-competition-in-u-s/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Benjammer</author><text>&gt;Sprint&#x27;s goose was most definitely cooked<p>The reason their goose was cooked is because they previously were planning to acquire T Mobile, but SoftBank got back-channel info that it would never be approved by the anti-trust regulators. At the time they had Marcelo Claure running Sprint, basically a corporate &quot;fixer&quot; guy for SoftBank. So he ran the company into the dirt in order to make the merge feasible to regulators (e.g. - Sprint purchased a 33% stake in Tidal, the music streaming service. Or how they entered a partnership with bankrupt RadioShack after it got scooped up by PE, and decided it was a good idea to take over all the physical RadioShack locations and turn them into Sprint stores).<p>&quot;Oh, whatever shall we do, our company is failing, you MUST let us merge with one of our primary competitors or we&#x27;ll go bankrupt. No company at all is worse for consumers than a merged company.&quot;</text></item><item><author>TheAmazingRace</author><text>I will say, I&#x27;m not terribly fond of mergers on principle. However, based on my insight as a former customer and shareholder of the company, Sprint&#x27;s goose was most definitely cooked to a crisp. If this merger had not happened, I could have seen Sprint file for bankruptcy, with Verizon and AT&amp;T picking the carcass clean.<p>I think folks forget how dire Sprint&#x27;s straits were at the time, and this specific merger truly was the least of all evils.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>TallTales</author><text>I&#x27;m a former engineer at Sprint and I strongly disagree with this characterization. Sprint&#x27;s goose was cooked but it was due to debt from selling junk bonds to build Network Vision at the time of the original LTE rollout. Their credit was ruined by that point from 30+ years of absolutely terrible and corrupt c-suite executives.<p>Marcello has a lot of faults but he didn&#x27;t run Sprint into the ground. He is actually pretty smart and at that time we cut over a billion dollars out of the operating budget circa 2016&#x2F;2017 iirc. It was an impossible position and it&#x27;s really sad because it was a great old company in my estimation. T-Mobile is just the worst.</text></comment> | <story><title>Sprint, T-Mobile Merger Killed Wireless Price Competition in U.S.</title><url>https://www.techdirt.com/2024/05/16/report-sprint-t-mobile-merger-immediately-killed-wireless-price-competition-in-u-s/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Benjammer</author><text>&gt;Sprint&#x27;s goose was most definitely cooked<p>The reason their goose was cooked is because they previously were planning to acquire T Mobile, but SoftBank got back-channel info that it would never be approved by the anti-trust regulators. At the time they had Marcelo Claure running Sprint, basically a corporate &quot;fixer&quot; guy for SoftBank. So he ran the company into the dirt in order to make the merge feasible to regulators (e.g. - Sprint purchased a 33% stake in Tidal, the music streaming service. Or how they entered a partnership with bankrupt RadioShack after it got scooped up by PE, and decided it was a good idea to take over all the physical RadioShack locations and turn them into Sprint stores).<p>&quot;Oh, whatever shall we do, our company is failing, you MUST let us merge with one of our primary competitors or we&#x27;ll go bankrupt. No company at all is worse for consumers than a merged company.&quot;</text></item><item><author>TheAmazingRace</author><text>I will say, I&#x27;m not terribly fond of mergers on principle. However, based on my insight as a former customer and shareholder of the company, Sprint&#x27;s goose was most definitely cooked to a crisp. If this merger had not happened, I could have seen Sprint file for bankruptcy, with Verizon and AT&amp;T picking the carcass clean.<p>I think folks forget how dire Sprint&#x27;s straits were at the time, and this specific merger truly was the least of all evils.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>andy800</author><text>Sprint went all-in on WiMax as it&#x27;s 4G network. I owned an early Sprint 4G smartphone (made by HTC) and the 4G <i>never</i> worked. I would go to the Sprint store and ask to show me a signal with 4G turned on, and they would always blame congestion, or weather, or some other made-up excuse.</text></comment> |
16,542,036 | 16,542,044 | 1 | 2 | 16,536,153 | train | <story><title>Automatic Machine Knitting of 3D Meshes</title><url>https://textiles-lab.github.io/publications/2018-autoknit/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>femto</author><text>What about applying this to making breast prostheses, whether they be automatically or manually knitted? It might allow a better fit and match to the existing shape if a pattern could be generated on a per-patient basis?<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.knittedknockers.org&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.knittedknockers.org&#x2F;</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Automatic Machine Knitting of 3D Meshes</title><url>https://textiles-lab.github.io/publications/2018-autoknit/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>abraae</author><text>Things your Grandma said while knitting ... never:<p>&gt; The function is feasible for machine knitting if its Reeb graph has an upward planar embedding.</text></comment> |
12,547,338 | 12,547,156 | 1 | 2 | 12,546,542 | train | <story><title>Homebrew 1.0.0</title><url>http://brew.sh/2016/09/02/homebrew-1.0.0/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rogual</author><text>As a user, Homebrew is a great experience.<p>As a package maintainer, though, one thing surprised me: you can&#x27;t make your package depend on a specific version -- even a major version -- of a library.<p>So if MyApp uses YourLib 1.0, everything is fine until YourLib 2.0 comes out, at which point users doing `brew install myapp` will start getting cryptic compiler errors. I have no choice but to drop whatever I&#x27;m doing and make MyApp compatible with YourLib 2.0, which may even be impossible.<p>It&#x27;s just odd because otherwise Homebrew is so well designed. It seems like a weird omission.<p>Edit: Some packages get around this by packaging major versions separately (qt, qt5) but most don&#x27;t.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>oefrha</author><text>&quot;everything is fine until YourLib 2.0 comes out, at which point users doing `brew install myapp` will start getting cryptic compiler errors.&quot;<p>Sorry, this is just not true, we hold merging YourLib 2.0 into core until all dependents are upgraded or boneyarded. Maybe you&#x27;re speaking from your outdated experience with brew years ago.<p>Also, we do have plans to support multiple versions of libraries, see <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;Homebrew&#x2F;brew&#x2F;issues&#x2F;620" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;Homebrew&#x2F;brew&#x2F;issues&#x2F;620</a> &quot;Handle Versions Better&quot; (although I&#x27;m not necessarily a fan of this personally). We also have an [email protected] formula in core already in case you want a sneak peek of the future.</text></comment> | <story><title>Homebrew 1.0.0</title><url>http://brew.sh/2016/09/02/homebrew-1.0.0/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rogual</author><text>As a user, Homebrew is a great experience.<p>As a package maintainer, though, one thing surprised me: you can&#x27;t make your package depend on a specific version -- even a major version -- of a library.<p>So if MyApp uses YourLib 1.0, everything is fine until YourLib 2.0 comes out, at which point users doing `brew install myapp` will start getting cryptic compiler errors. I have no choice but to drop whatever I&#x27;m doing and make MyApp compatible with YourLib 2.0, which may even be impossible.<p>It&#x27;s just odd because otherwise Homebrew is so well designed. It seems like a weird omission.<p>Edit: Some packages get around this by packaging major versions separately (qt, qt5) but most don&#x27;t.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rwl4</author><text>It&#x27;s for this very reason that I&#x27;m still one of those old-school guys who still uses MacPorts. I was horrified to see this, and in my brief time using it, it actually caused me real problems, so I went back.</text></comment> |
23,717,399 | 23,716,934 | 1 | 2 | 23,715,174 | train | <story><title>MS will ban Forza players who add the confederate flag to their digital cars</title><url>https://www.theverge.com/2020/6/30/21308677/microsoft-forza-player-ban-confederate-flag-hate-symbols</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>reaperducer</author><text>Why ban the players, and not just the design?<p>I once ran a large online forum and set up a word filter to replace certain phrases with &quot;fluffy bunnies&quot; and other absurdities. It did a remarkable job of improving discourse once the foul-mouthed types realized their hateful messages were being massaged.<p>Microsoft could use some kind of super-cool AI-drived ML-based image recognition to replace the flag with a rainbow flag or something.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ApolloFortyNine</author><text>&gt;I once ran a large online forum and set up a word filter to replace certain phrases with &quot;fluffy bunnies&quot; and other absurdities. It did a remarkable job of improving discourse once the foul-mouthed types realized their hateful messages were being massaged.<p>Really? When I&#x27;ve seen this done, all that happens is you end up the &#x27;approved&#x27; word. Everyone knows what it means though. So I guess if all you care about is the word itself, and not the meaning of it, it does work great. In reality if every instance of &#x27;shit&#x27; is replaced with &#x27;barnacle&#x27;, if I call you a &#x27;barnacle head&#x27; on said forum, we both know what I&#x27;m saying.</text></comment> | <story><title>MS will ban Forza players who add the confederate flag to their digital cars</title><url>https://www.theverge.com/2020/6/30/21308677/microsoft-forza-player-ban-confederate-flag-hate-symbols</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>reaperducer</author><text>Why ban the players, and not just the design?<p>I once ran a large online forum and set up a word filter to replace certain phrases with &quot;fluffy bunnies&quot; and other absurdities. It did a remarkable job of improving discourse once the foul-mouthed types realized their hateful messages were being massaged.<p>Microsoft could use some kind of super-cool AI-drived ML-based image recognition to replace the flag with a rainbow flag or something.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>GuiA</author><text>I played similar games when I ran forums, but really you&#x27;re just shuffling the problem around. Bored trolls&#x2F;extreme ideologues will be delighted to play cat and mouse with your measures, and will feel particularly proud of themselves when they circumvent them creatively.<p>In the end, you have to decide what outcome you want - using half effective measures hoping that the racists will keep it down, or kicking them out and making it clear that they aren&#x27;t welcome? You can&#x27;t have it both ways.</text></comment> |
17,972,224 | 17,972,086 | 1 | 2 | 17,964,657 | train | <story><title>Why are conversations limited to about four people?</title><url>https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1090513818301491</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>sp332</author><text>Because otherwise you have to wait too long for your turn to speak, and you start whispering to the person next to you.</text></comment> | <story><title>Why are conversations limited to about four people?</title><url>https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1090513818301491</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>stephengillie</author><text>I&#x27;ve always preferred groups of 2-6 people. Many board games are made for groups of this size.<p>On one side, humans can mentally cope with 4-6 objects at most - as though we have 4-6 memory slots, which is reasonable given that we have 4 limbs.<p>On another side, network effects of nodes on a grid become unmanageable above about 6 nodes - a group of 6 people will have 36 one-on-one interpersonal relationships to manage.</text></comment> |
40,041,568 | 40,041,696 | 1 | 2 | 40,039,191 | train | <story><title>We are moving to General Availability</title><url>https://supabase.com/ga</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>kiwicopple</author><text>hey hn, supabase ceo here<p>we just announced GA, after ~4 years of beta. for those who don&#x27;t know: supabase is a postgres hosting company. we also host other open source &quot;backend&quot; tools that make it easy to get started with postgres (tools like PostgREST for auto-generate APIs [0])<p>we owe a lot to the HN community. you launched us 4 years ago [1], when we were just a few developers. since then HN has been a staple in our journey, one of the best sources of product feedback [2]<p>the GA badge is mostly to signify organizational readiness. we&#x27;re at a stage where we can take any profile of customer. we have a support team that works 24&#x2F;7, and a success team that will help customers improve their postgres usage. we released our Index Advisor [3] yesterday, and we&#x27;ll be releasing a few more products this week that helps customer with performance and security.<p>on a personal note: i read HN most days, and love going through the ShowHN&#x27;s to see what devs are building. thanks for being an awesome community and my favorite place to lurk on the internet. i&#x27;ll stick around to answer any questions<p>[0] PostgREST: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;postgrest.org" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;postgrest.org</a><p>[1] Launch: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=23319901">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=23319901</a><p>[2] HN journey: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;hn.algolia.com&#x2F;?dateRange=all&amp;page=0&amp;prefix=false&amp;query=supabase&amp;sort=byPopularity&amp;type=story" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;hn.algolia.com&#x2F;?dateRange=all&amp;page=0&amp;prefix=false&amp;qu...</a><p>[3] Index Advisor: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=40028111">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=40028111</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>psnehanshu</author><text>When did the positioning of Supabase changed from a &quot;Firebase alternative&quot; to a &quot;Postgres hosting&quot;?</text></comment> | <story><title>We are moving to General Availability</title><url>https://supabase.com/ga</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>kiwicopple</author><text>hey hn, supabase ceo here<p>we just announced GA, after ~4 years of beta. for those who don&#x27;t know: supabase is a postgres hosting company. we also host other open source &quot;backend&quot; tools that make it easy to get started with postgres (tools like PostgREST for auto-generate APIs [0])<p>we owe a lot to the HN community. you launched us 4 years ago [1], when we were just a few developers. since then HN has been a staple in our journey, one of the best sources of product feedback [2]<p>the GA badge is mostly to signify organizational readiness. we&#x27;re at a stage where we can take any profile of customer. we have a support team that works 24&#x2F;7, and a success team that will help customers improve their postgres usage. we released our Index Advisor [3] yesterday, and we&#x27;ll be releasing a few more products this week that helps customer with performance and security.<p>on a personal note: i read HN most days, and love going through the ShowHN&#x27;s to see what devs are building. thanks for being an awesome community and my favorite place to lurk on the internet. i&#x27;ll stick around to answer any questions<p>[0] PostgREST: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;postgrest.org" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;postgrest.org</a><p>[1] Launch: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=23319901">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=23319901</a><p>[2] HN journey: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;hn.algolia.com&#x2F;?dateRange=all&amp;page=0&amp;prefix=false&amp;query=supabase&amp;sort=byPopularity&amp;type=story" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;hn.algolia.com&#x2F;?dateRange=all&amp;page=0&amp;prefix=false&amp;qu...</a><p>[3] Index Advisor: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=40028111">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=40028111</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>clarkbw</author><text>Congrats to the Supabase team! You&#x27;ve all done some impressive work to be proud of.</text></comment> |
34,518,203 | 34,518,190 | 1 | 2 | 34,517,099 | train | <story><title>EVs Are Essential Grid-Scale Storage</title><url>https://spectrum.ieee.org/electric-vehicle-grid-storage</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>londons_explore</author><text>Luckily, any degradation can all be predicted ahead of time.<p>A 60kwh car battery might cost $10k, and allow 2000 charge cycles. So each kwh cycled into and out of the battery costs 8 cents.<p>So a smart algorithm can decide it&#x27;s worth draining the battery back into the grid if the profit to be made is more than 8 cents.<p><i>Buuuut</i>... Delaying charging till later is free. So another car owner&#x27;s car might see on the futures market that delaying charging starting from 6pm till 11pm might save a few cents.<p>Obviously that means it&#x27;s most economically efficient for every owner to do grid balancing merely by smartly delaying charges - and in turn price fluctuations will rarely exceed 8 cents.<p>The component that is missing to make this happen is cars which have code to automate this process, and markets in place that have API&#x27;s to let the car buy and sell energy, and futures in energy, by the kwh. Users need not understand how it works - they just tick the tickbox which says &#x27;charge and discharge smartly to minimize electricity costs&#x27;.<p>Today, those markets are typically only open to big players, cars don&#x27;t have a tickbox, and wall chargers typically won&#x27;t let a car put power into the grid.</text></item><item><author>Yizahi</author><text>Aren&#x27;t people wary about using their very expensive car batteries for the grid? E.g. imagine you plug in your phone for the night, but instead of a single top up change it is now constantly discharging and charging again. Lifetime of pocket sized batteries is not too great even now, and in such scenario they will go bust 2-3 times faster, in year instead of 3 or so. Also discharge swings would be probably much bigger. Instead of using say 30% of the battery per day in normal use cycle, maybe not even every day, you will now see multiple 0%-100% charge cycles daily.<p>New battery for small car costs 13-20k$, so if its lifetime will be shortened from I don&#x27;t know, say 10 years, to 3 years, then electric company need to compensate owners accordingly and I highly doubt they will pay even 10% of that sum over 3 years.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>trashtester</author><text>&gt; Buuuut... Delaying charging till later is free.<p>This functionality is already there.<p>&gt; So each kwh cycled into and out of the battery costs 8 cents.<p>This is quite much. If you add other infra overhead, feeding power back into the grid is not going to produce much revenue for the individual unless the selling price is maybe 20 cents above the price when charging.<p>On the other hand, something that MAY make more sense, is if the car battery can be used to provide power to the owner&#x27;s own house during short price peaks. This might allow some savings even in stable grids, but the killer app would be in grids that have rolling blackouts during high demand periods.<p>And even for grids where blackouts are infrequent, if your car can serve as large UPS for your house (combined with a large capacitor to keep the power stable), such functionality in the charger may be worth the cost of the hardware for many people. (Bringing the number of units up and hence the cost per unit down over time.)<p>Still, though, for grid stability it is probably much better to use dedicated batteries as part of the grid itself than to use car batteries.</text></comment> | <story><title>EVs Are Essential Grid-Scale Storage</title><url>https://spectrum.ieee.org/electric-vehicle-grid-storage</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>londons_explore</author><text>Luckily, any degradation can all be predicted ahead of time.<p>A 60kwh car battery might cost $10k, and allow 2000 charge cycles. So each kwh cycled into and out of the battery costs 8 cents.<p>So a smart algorithm can decide it&#x27;s worth draining the battery back into the grid if the profit to be made is more than 8 cents.<p><i>Buuuut</i>... Delaying charging till later is free. So another car owner&#x27;s car might see on the futures market that delaying charging starting from 6pm till 11pm might save a few cents.<p>Obviously that means it&#x27;s most economically efficient for every owner to do grid balancing merely by smartly delaying charges - and in turn price fluctuations will rarely exceed 8 cents.<p>The component that is missing to make this happen is cars which have code to automate this process, and markets in place that have API&#x27;s to let the car buy and sell energy, and futures in energy, by the kwh. Users need not understand how it works - they just tick the tickbox which says &#x27;charge and discharge smartly to minimize electricity costs&#x27;.<p>Today, those markets are typically only open to big players, cars don&#x27;t have a tickbox, and wall chargers typically won&#x27;t let a car put power into the grid.</text></item><item><author>Yizahi</author><text>Aren&#x27;t people wary about using their very expensive car batteries for the grid? E.g. imagine you plug in your phone for the night, but instead of a single top up change it is now constantly discharging and charging again. Lifetime of pocket sized batteries is not too great even now, and in such scenario they will go bust 2-3 times faster, in year instead of 3 or so. Also discharge swings would be probably much bigger. Instead of using say 30% of the battery per day in normal use cycle, maybe not even every day, you will now see multiple 0%-100% charge cycles daily.<p>New battery for small car costs 13-20k$, so if its lifetime will be shortened from I don&#x27;t know, say 10 years, to 3 years, then electric company need to compensate owners accordingly and I highly doubt they will pay even 10% of that sum over 3 years.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Maxion</author><text>This can be done by using a smart AC charger.<p>In europe (At least) the company Easee makes AC chargeres that are WiFi &#x2F; 4G enabled. In Sweden (And Norway) you can connect them to a service like Tibber, which allows you to automatically enable&#x2F;disable charging with the electricity price, assuming you have a spot price electricity contract.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;tibber.com&#x2F;en&#x2F;product&#x2F;easee" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;tibber.com&#x2F;en&#x2F;product&#x2F;easee</a><p>Easee chargers also have a pretty bitching API, so you can also make your own automations using e.g. home assistant or what have you.</text></comment> |
11,146,819 | 11,146,515 | 1 | 3 | 11,146,258 | train | <story><title>State of the Haskell Ecosystem – February 2016</title><url>http://www.haskellforall.com/2016/02/state-of-haskell-ecosystem-february.html?m=1</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dexwiz</author><text>Can someone explain to me why Haskell will ever be viable as a fullstack language? I have done a few toy projects in Haskell, and it has taught me some great functional programming concepts that I now apply to other languages. But, purely functional programming seems to work 90% the time, but the other 10% is so negative it invalidates the rest.<p><i></i>Edit for clarification:
Full Stack would be app server up. So runs a server (some sort of process&#x2F;thread&#x2F;worker management), server scripting is in the same language (can auth, process requests, interact with a DB, etc), and build the view (simple JSON&#x2F;blob response, build html, etc). I exclude client side form this, since most of the X for client-side projects end up transpiling into JS.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tathougies</author><text>I use Haskell exclusively on my SaaS app (<a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;sostenoto.com" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;sostenoto.com</a>). The backend not only provides a simple REST API, but it also provides WebRTC signaling and a real-time graphical communications and presence protocol.<p>Haskell makes it so easy to write correct concurrent code it&#x27;s not even funny. GHC&#x27;s magnificent IO manager means I can handle 1000s of connections on one amazon instance. Can&#x27;t understand why you wouldn&#x27;t be using Haskell for server-side web development.<p>No other popular server-side language supports concurrency (see STM, MVar&#x27;s, and Chans), transparent futures&#x2F;promises for I&#x2F;O (the entire IO monad in GHC is non-blocking), support for multiple processors (Just add +RTS -N&lt;n&gt; to make your program scale to n processors), and a blazing fast HTTP server (warp).</text></comment> | <story><title>State of the Haskell Ecosystem – February 2016</title><url>http://www.haskellforall.com/2016/02/state-of-haskell-ecosystem-february.html?m=1</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dexwiz</author><text>Can someone explain to me why Haskell will ever be viable as a fullstack language? I have done a few toy projects in Haskell, and it has taught me some great functional programming concepts that I now apply to other languages. But, purely functional programming seems to work 90% the time, but the other 10% is so negative it invalidates the rest.<p><i></i>Edit for clarification:
Full Stack would be app server up. So runs a server (some sort of process&#x2F;thread&#x2F;worker management), server scripting is in the same language (can auth, process requests, interact with a DB, etc), and build the view (simple JSON&#x2F;blob response, build html, etc). I exclude client side form this, since most of the X for client-side projects end up transpiling into JS.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jkxyz</author><text>Care to elaborate on what the 10% covers? I can see a few places where pure functional programming might not be as clear as imperative code, but I don&#x27;t think that it invalidates the possibility of using it for large projects.</text></comment> |
24,642,753 | 24,642,504 | 1 | 3 | 24,641,759 | train | <story><title>Pixel 5</title><url>https://store.google.com/product/pixel_5</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>TheCapn</author><text>From the very initial scroll through things, I&#x27;m not impressed.<p>Now I&#x27;m not a habitual phone upgrader, I tend to replace my phone when the old one wears down or breaks. I bought the Pixel 4 after my Pixel 1 died and was fairly unimpressed overall. Their headlining market points for the Pixel 5 just... aren&#x27;t that interesting.<p>- 5G: Doesn&#x27;t really matter to me. 4G is plenty fast for everyday use and I wouldn&#x27;t try heavy enough streaming off data to even need to increase<p>- Wireless charging: not new<p>- Photos in the dark: not new<p>- Google Assistant: not new... and honestly, kinda crap. I turned off a lot of permissions on my phone and the assistant is virtually useless now. I can&#x27;t give it commands from the lock screen or do even basic things with it unlocked while driving. At this point I&#x27;ll probably root and just put a custom ROM on there because nothing google packaged with the phone is all that useful.<p>The battery is nice, but its also not worth a $800 price tag.<p>I think Google needs to stop chasing the iPhone and go back to the Nexus style of simple+good+affordable. Even the 4a seems like a stronger value proposition imo.<p>EDIT: I just noticed that they brought back the fingerpint unlock on the back? Okay, that is a huge plus; the face unlock is a generally shitty feature usability wise. I was kinda upset when I gave up wireless charging for the Pixel 1 but fell in love with the fingerprint unlock on the back. When I went to Pixel 4 and lost the fingerprint in exchange for Wireless charging I kinda felt like I made a poor choice. Now that they <i>finally</i> combined the two I&#x27;ll give them credit.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rtkwe</author><text>&gt; Google Assistant: not new... and honestly, kinda crap. I turned off a lot of permissions on my phone and the assistant is virtually useless now.<p>This kind of feels like the complaints that a site is broken then you find out the person commenting has disabled javascript. Of course it&#x27;s less useful with all the permissions locked down.<p>Anecdotally I find it really useful, I get people have privacy concerns but given I&#x27;m not willing to uproot my email and change all the sign ups I&#x27;m using either gmail or direct google login for I&#x27;m already pretty exposed to Google. I use it a lot driving since I can just squeeze the bottom sides of the phone to launch it.<p>As for the fingerprint reader that&#x27;s weird, they had both on the Pixel 3 (at least the XL version I have), don&#x27;t know what would have changed to make it not possible on the 4.</text></comment> | <story><title>Pixel 5</title><url>https://store.google.com/product/pixel_5</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>TheCapn</author><text>From the very initial scroll through things, I&#x27;m not impressed.<p>Now I&#x27;m not a habitual phone upgrader, I tend to replace my phone when the old one wears down or breaks. I bought the Pixel 4 after my Pixel 1 died and was fairly unimpressed overall. Their headlining market points for the Pixel 5 just... aren&#x27;t that interesting.<p>- 5G: Doesn&#x27;t really matter to me. 4G is plenty fast for everyday use and I wouldn&#x27;t try heavy enough streaming off data to even need to increase<p>- Wireless charging: not new<p>- Photos in the dark: not new<p>- Google Assistant: not new... and honestly, kinda crap. I turned off a lot of permissions on my phone and the assistant is virtually useless now. I can&#x27;t give it commands from the lock screen or do even basic things with it unlocked while driving. At this point I&#x27;ll probably root and just put a custom ROM on there because nothing google packaged with the phone is all that useful.<p>The battery is nice, but its also not worth a $800 price tag.<p>I think Google needs to stop chasing the iPhone and go back to the Nexus style of simple+good+affordable. Even the 4a seems like a stronger value proposition imo.<p>EDIT: I just noticed that they brought back the fingerpint unlock on the back? Okay, that is a huge plus; the face unlock is a generally shitty feature usability wise. I was kinda upset when I gave up wireless charging for the Pixel 1 but fell in love with the fingerprint unlock on the back. When I went to Pixel 4 and lost the fingerprint in exchange for Wireless charging I kinda felt like I made a poor choice. Now that they <i>finally</i> combined the two I&#x27;ll give them credit.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tomlu</author><text>I lost my Pixel 3 recently and upgraded to a Pixel 4 (but had a Pixel 1 as well). You skipped right to the worst incarnation - no fingerprint unlock, mediocre battery life.</text></comment> |
30,222,330 | 30,220,759 | 1 | 2 | 30,218,793 | train | <story><title>Datawrapper: Create charts, maps, and tables</title><url>https://www.datawrapper.de</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dkyc</author><text>Awesome to see this here! I’m one of the co-founders, open for any questions.<p>We’re also always looking for developers to join our team (Berlin-based, remote welcome, 4d week possible) - email me david@datawrapper for details.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>hbarka</author><text>@david this looks great. On the mapping viz features, I quickly glanced and saw squares for thematic and choropleth designs. Hexagons are well-suited for this and can convey a denser amount of information:
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.esri.com&#x2F;about&#x2F;newsroom&#x2F;insider&#x2F;thematic-mapping-with-hexagons&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.esri.com&#x2F;about&#x2F;newsroom&#x2F;insider&#x2F;thematic-mapping...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Datawrapper: Create charts, maps, and tables</title><url>https://www.datawrapper.de</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dkyc</author><text>Awesome to see this here! I’m one of the co-founders, open for any questions.<p>We’re also always looking for developers to join our team (Berlin-based, remote welcome, 4d week possible) - email me david@datawrapper for details.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mritchie712</author><text>Have you had many requests for the ability to add data to a narrative from datasets? We built this for seekwell (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;doc.seekwell.io&#x2F;stories" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;doc.seekwell.io&#x2F;stories</a>) and people really like it for daily or weekly text based business updates.<p>I&#x27;d think this would be useful in media for a story they want to keep the numbers live in.</text></comment> |
41,109,247 | 41,109,467 | 1 | 2 | 41,108,465 | train | <story><title>OpenSSL bug exposed up to 255 bytes of client heap and existed since 2011</title><url>https://jbp.io/2024/06/27/cve-2024-5535-openssl-memory-safety.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>hannob</author><text>An interesting aspect of this is that it&#x27;s a bug in NPN, which is more or less a historic artifact.<p>When SPDY, the precursor of HTTP&#x2F;2, got introduced, it needed a mechanism to signal that within TLS, a different protocol (SPDY instead of HTTP&#x2F;1.1) was spoken. That mechanism was originally NPN. I don&#x27;t know the exact details and motivation, but eventually people seem to have decided that NPN wasn&#x27;t exactly what they wanted, and they invented a new mechanism called ALPN.<p>Now, that was a decade ago (the ALPN RFC is from 2014), so the question is: why do we still have NPN code in OpenSSL? I don&#x27;t think anyone uses it any more. Shouldn&#x27;t it have been removed long ago?<p>To put this in a larger context: it appears to me that OpenSSL <i>still</i> has a strong tendency to bloat. Heartbleed was essentially a &quot;we added this feature, although noone knows why we need it&quot; kind of bug, but it doesn&#x27;t look to me they&#x27;ve changed. I still get the feeling that OpenSSL adds many features that they probably just should ignore (e.g. obscure &quot;not invented here&quot;-type algorithms), and they don&#x27;t remove features that are obsolete.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>fullspectrumdev</author><text>Why it’s not removed: backward compatibility I bet.<p>I have to maintain a few VM’s and statically linked tools specifically for interacting with old network appliances that modern Linux hosts won’t “talk to” without crippling their SSL&#x2F;TLS configuration or doing other horrendous workarounds like specific OpenSSL&#x2F;OpenSSH config files for those things.<p>It’s actually an interesting problem when performing security assessments - some tools for scanning will have false negatives because they can’t “talk to” old shit.</text></comment> | <story><title>OpenSSL bug exposed up to 255 bytes of client heap and existed since 2011</title><url>https://jbp.io/2024/06/27/cve-2024-5535-openssl-memory-safety.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>hannob</author><text>An interesting aspect of this is that it&#x27;s a bug in NPN, which is more or less a historic artifact.<p>When SPDY, the precursor of HTTP&#x2F;2, got introduced, it needed a mechanism to signal that within TLS, a different protocol (SPDY instead of HTTP&#x2F;1.1) was spoken. That mechanism was originally NPN. I don&#x27;t know the exact details and motivation, but eventually people seem to have decided that NPN wasn&#x27;t exactly what they wanted, and they invented a new mechanism called ALPN.<p>Now, that was a decade ago (the ALPN RFC is from 2014), so the question is: why do we still have NPN code in OpenSSL? I don&#x27;t think anyone uses it any more. Shouldn&#x27;t it have been removed long ago?<p>To put this in a larger context: it appears to me that OpenSSL <i>still</i> has a strong tendency to bloat. Heartbleed was essentially a &quot;we added this feature, although noone knows why we need it&quot; kind of bug, but it doesn&#x27;t look to me they&#x27;ve changed. I still get the feeling that OpenSSL adds many features that they probably just should ignore (e.g. obscure &quot;not invented here&quot;-type algorithms), and they don&#x27;t remove features that are obsolete.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>toast0</author><text>&gt; I don&#x27;t know the exact details and motivation, but eventually people seem to have decided that NPN wasn&#x27;t exactly what they wanted, and they invented a new mechanism called ALPN.<p>Looking at the spec for NPN and knowing about ALPN from implementing just enough of if to enable TLS false start way back when, ALPN is better because it&#x27;s less steps.<p>With ALPN, the client includes its supported protocols in the Client Hello, and the server picks one or discards the extension in the Server Hello. With NPN, the client indicates it supports NPN in the Client Hello, the server sends back a list of supported protocols in the Server Hello, and the client sends an extra message to indicate its selection between change cipher spec and finished.<p>There&#x27;s perhaps more client profiling information on the wire with ALPN, but it&#x27;s not very interesting when 99% of connections just advertise h2,http&#x2F;1.1. During the development of http&#x2F;2, you could probably have a pretty tight range on client versions depending on what pre-standard versions were declared.</text></comment> |
12,918,357 | 12,918,379 | 1 | 3 | 12,914,285 | train | <story><title>Donald Trump’s Contract with the American Voter [pdf]</title><url>https://assets.donaldjtrump.com/_landings/contract/O-TRU-102316-Contractv02.pdf</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>JosephHatfield</author><text>I don&#x27;t see how elections themselves aren&#x27;t term limits. You want to end someone&#x27;s reign, vote them out. Am I missing something?</text></item><item><author>josho</author><text>Trump railed against the system that allowed politicians to be bought. It turns out his solution is to term limit congress. Sounds like treating a symptom not the root cause.</text></item><item><author>noobermin</author><text>There&#x27;s a lot of room to wonder about his trustworthiness given his record as a businessman, but even in this document, he doesn&#x27;t address campaign finance reform. Congressional term-limits just consolidate power in the moneyed elites--the problems <i>is not just</i> the politicians, it&#x27;s who corrupted them. If anything, this is a document to passify those moneyed interests who, unlike say Sheldon Adelson, worry about a Trump presidency.<p>Everything I&#x27;ve seen so far suggests Trump isn&#x27;t what blue-collar voters ordered for.</text></item><item><author>knowaveragejoe</author><text>Some of this sounds great - term limits on congress, a measure to reduce the revolving door effect of government officials going into lobbying.<p>Some of it sounds ridiculous - for every new federal regulation, 2 existing regulations must be eliminated. How is that considered feasible by any rational person? It might sound great if you don&#x27;t think too hard about it.<p>The scariest things for me are the backing out of climate change accords and the opening up of additional shale&#x2F;gas&#x2F;etc resources. We really don&#x27;t need to be heading in that direction, energy-wise.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>laughfactory</author><text>You&#x27;re missing the incumbent bias. It&#x27;s well known we prefer the devil we know to the one we don&#x27;t--even if we objectively have good reason to dislike the incumbent.<p>Which is to say if, after electing someone to office, we immediately 1) forgot we voted for them, and 2) became completely unaware of their continuing existence and actions in office only then would elections be truly a sufficient substitute for term limits. Otherwise, given the choice, enough votes will be cast to keep the incumbent in office just because he&#x2F;she is familiar. The thinking seems to go something like: well, that&#x27;s the name I recognize, and hey, the world hasn&#x27;t come to an end in the past few years, so... why not. Let&#x27;s just keep &#x27;em. Versus this other person who might do all kinds of things I can&#x27;t foresee and may not like.</text></comment> | <story><title>Donald Trump’s Contract with the American Voter [pdf]</title><url>https://assets.donaldjtrump.com/_landings/contract/O-TRU-102316-Contractv02.pdf</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>JosephHatfield</author><text>I don&#x27;t see how elections themselves aren&#x27;t term limits. You want to end someone&#x27;s reign, vote them out. Am I missing something?</text></item><item><author>josho</author><text>Trump railed against the system that allowed politicians to be bought. It turns out his solution is to term limit congress. Sounds like treating a symptom not the root cause.</text></item><item><author>noobermin</author><text>There&#x27;s a lot of room to wonder about his trustworthiness given his record as a businessman, but even in this document, he doesn&#x27;t address campaign finance reform. Congressional term-limits just consolidate power in the moneyed elites--the problems <i>is not just</i> the politicians, it&#x27;s who corrupted them. If anything, this is a document to passify those moneyed interests who, unlike say Sheldon Adelson, worry about a Trump presidency.<p>Everything I&#x27;ve seen so far suggests Trump isn&#x27;t what blue-collar voters ordered for.</text></item><item><author>knowaveragejoe</author><text>Some of this sounds great - term limits on congress, a measure to reduce the revolving door effect of government officials going into lobbying.<p>Some of it sounds ridiculous - for every new federal regulation, 2 existing regulations must be eliminated. How is that considered feasible by any rational person? It might sound great if you don&#x27;t think too hard about it.<p>The scariest things for me are the backing out of climate change accords and the opening up of additional shale&#x2F;gas&#x2F;etc resources. We really don&#x27;t need to be heading in that direction, energy-wise.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>KirinDave</author><text>Systems that rely on voters being exhaustively educated are brittle and prone to manipulation.<p>The challenge of term limits is that they hurt effective politicans the most, so it&#x27;s always got to be a balancing act.</text></comment> |
20,670,389 | 20,669,322 | 1 | 2 | 20,668,921 | train | <story><title>Private Government: How Employers Rule Our Lives and Why We Don't Talk about It</title><url>https://ndpr.nd.edu/news/private-government-how-employers-rule-our-lives-and-why-we-dont-talk-about-it/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Animats</author><text>That&#x27;s a paper on classic union issues written with no reference to labor history.<p>There have been companies which really acted like governments to their employees. Ford.[1] Pullman.[2] The US labor movement arose partly as a counter to that. And, for a long time, from about 1930 to 1980, companies backed off on that out of fear of unions and government.<p>That fear has been lost, and companies are more assertive in employee control. Abuse of non-compete agreements to make low-level workers indentured servants would never have been accepted prior to 1990 or so.<p>US labor history has been erased from public dialogue in the US almost as thoroughly as Tienanmen Square has been erased from public dialogue in China.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.autonews.com&#x2F;article&#x2F;20030602&#x2F;SUB&#x2F;306020843&#x2F;the-rise-and-fall-of-harry-bennett" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.autonews.com&#x2F;article&#x2F;20030602&#x2F;SUB&#x2F;306020843&#x2F;the-...</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Pullman_Strike" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Pullman_Strike</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>marmaduke</author><text>&gt; US labor history has been erased from public dialogue<p>Or inverted? When I hear people talk of unions in the US, it&#x27;s about how shitty theyve made everything.</text></comment> | <story><title>Private Government: How Employers Rule Our Lives and Why We Don't Talk about It</title><url>https://ndpr.nd.edu/news/private-government-how-employers-rule-our-lives-and-why-we-dont-talk-about-it/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Animats</author><text>That&#x27;s a paper on classic union issues written with no reference to labor history.<p>There have been companies which really acted like governments to their employees. Ford.[1] Pullman.[2] The US labor movement arose partly as a counter to that. And, for a long time, from about 1930 to 1980, companies backed off on that out of fear of unions and government.<p>That fear has been lost, and companies are more assertive in employee control. Abuse of non-compete agreements to make low-level workers indentured servants would never have been accepted prior to 1990 or so.<p>US labor history has been erased from public dialogue in the US almost as thoroughly as Tienanmen Square has been erased from public dialogue in China.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.autonews.com&#x2F;article&#x2F;20030602&#x2F;SUB&#x2F;306020843&#x2F;the-rise-and-fall-of-harry-bennett" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.autonews.com&#x2F;article&#x2F;20030602&#x2F;SUB&#x2F;306020843&#x2F;the-...</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Pullman_Strike" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Pullman_Strike</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Mikeb85</author><text>More people need to challenge non-compete agreements. In the majority of cases (especially for non-management employees) they&#x27;re illegal and don&#x27;t hold up.</text></comment> |
8,262,760 | 8,261,318 | 1 | 3 | 8,259,448 | train | <story><title>Making MySQL Better at GitHub</title><url>https://github.com/blog/1880-making-mysql-better-at-github</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>calinet6</author><text>Or better, more solid relational options like Postgres...<p>Honestly, is there any reason to use MySQL over Postgres at this point? Or is it sort of six of one half a dozen of the other as long as the data model is decent?</text></item><item><author>DigitalSea</author><text>Anyone else disappointed the post didn&#x27;t go into all that much detail? Scaling databases is hard if you&#x27;re not privileged enough to have access to large pools of money to hire good DBA&#x27;s.<p>Interestingly, I would love to see companies like Github opening up their database schemas to the public with mock data. Scaling is one aspect, but the best thing you can do in the beginning is to create a solid schema (normalise, denormalise...) it would be interesting to see what Github uses and why. Still awesome to see MySQL being the choice most large companies like Github choose in the face of new and untested NoSQL databases like MongoDB.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>cwyers</author><text>INSERT IGNORE and REPLACE are two pretty good reasons, in my opinion. Postgres also doesn&#x27;t have real table partitioning. Yes, you can sorta kinda hack around the first with stored procs. And yes, you can do something that looks a lot like partitioned tables using table inheritance. And yes, Postgres now has replication support, if you don&#x27;t mind using only row-based replication (MySQL lets you choose between row-based and statement-based replication) among other tradeoffs.<p>So yeah, Postgres is a better relational database than MySQL, if you ignore all the things MySQL does better. Another great thing about Postgres is that whenever a site like Hacker News gets a thread about MySQL, you get a bunch of people asking why you aren&#x27;t using Postgres instead, and then whenever you try and answer the question you get a bunch of Postgres users to tell you you&#x27;re wrong or that the features you care about don&#x27;t matter (or that they&#x27;re hard to implement, which... this is my problem why?) or that Postgres really has replication that&#x27;s as good as MySQL&#x27;s this time we pinky swear. So most MySQL users get a first impression of Postgres&#x27; user community that is quite frankly rather unfavorable.<p>Oh, and MySQL has a lot more third-party documentation, tooling and support available.</text></comment> | <story><title>Making MySQL Better at GitHub</title><url>https://github.com/blog/1880-making-mysql-better-at-github</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>calinet6</author><text>Or better, more solid relational options like Postgres...<p>Honestly, is there any reason to use MySQL over Postgres at this point? Or is it sort of six of one half a dozen of the other as long as the data model is decent?</text></item><item><author>DigitalSea</author><text>Anyone else disappointed the post didn&#x27;t go into all that much detail? Scaling databases is hard if you&#x27;re not privileged enough to have access to large pools of money to hire good DBA&#x27;s.<p>Interestingly, I would love to see companies like Github opening up their database schemas to the public with mock data. Scaling is one aspect, but the best thing you can do in the beginning is to create a solid schema (normalise, denormalise...) it would be interesting to see what Github uses and why. Still awesome to see MySQL being the choice most large companies like Github choose in the face of new and untested NoSQL databases like MongoDB.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>markwatson</author><text>We chose MySQL where I work only because it&#x27;s easier to hire people with a lot of MySQL knowledge. Technical reasons aren&#x27;t the only ones when deciding what software&#x2F;framework&#x2F;libraries to use.</text></comment> |
23,113,779 | 23,113,857 | 1 | 2 | 23,102,167 | train | <story><title>Monte Carlo Geometry Processing</title><url>http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~kmcrane/Projects/MonteCarloGeometryProcessing/index.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jimmySixDOF</author><text>For what it&#x27;s worth this was an interesting HN post on use of volumetric Monte Carlo ML to design build a better basketball backboard :<p>Show HN: A basketball hoop to maximize shots that go in [video] - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=22898653" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=22898653</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Monte Carlo Geometry Processing</title><url>http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~kmcrane/Projects/MonteCarloGeometryProcessing/index.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>peterwoerner</author><text>This problem seems to be getting a lot of research lately. The problem being how to process PDEs on complex domains because meshing is a bitch. There seem to be a number of good approaches, NURBS Fea, this, Lawerence Livermore and Caltech just come out with a polygonal mesher.<p>I wonder how tractable and accurate they are from the solver side. Because generating high quality meshes really is a pain in the ass.</text></comment> |
35,242,159 | 35,240,290 | 1 | 2 | 35,238,906 | train | <story><title>macOS Cursors</title><url>https://mac-cursors.netlify.app</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>ishvanl</author><text>Here’s an interesting and perplexing point about MacOS cursors tangentially related to this article.<p>Final Cut Pro, Apple’s flagship video editing software, overrides the default MacOS cursor with a <i>nearly identical, but slightly different</i> cursor shape. It’s almost exactly the same as the standard retina MacOS cursor but the little “stem” at the bottom is shorter &amp; points slightly more to the right. I’d expect this from a weird niche bit of open source software, but for one of the Mac’s flagship applications it’s a bit strange. Perhaps someone here could enlighten me to the purpose of this bizarre quirk.</text></comment> | <story><title>macOS Cursors</title><url>https://mac-cursors.netlify.app</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>urbandw311er</author><text>The beachball cursor, at least on mobile Safari, is incorrectly centred relative to the rotation animation and thus “wobbles”.</text></comment> |
35,877,652 | 35,877,839 | 1 | 2 | 35,877,051 | train | <story><title>Ten Thousand Ways to Use Chopsticks</title><url>https://marcosticks.org/ten-thousand-ways/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>gretch</author><text>As an ethnic chinese person (grew up in the states but parents immigrated and don&#x27;t speak english) I&#x27;ve always tried to convey this to my non-asian friends.<p>When we go out to eat together, they always ask me what&#x27;s the &#x27;right way&#x27; to hold chopsticks and I tell them that you guys think about this way more than any chinese person I&#x27;ve ever met.<p>It&#x27;s 2 sticks; put the food in your mouth. Did you do it? If so, then you&#x27;re good. It&#x27;s not deeper than that. Plenty of times in my family we would just stab stuff because that was the easiest thing to do and no one thinks twice.<p>addendum: growing up, I organically evolved the &#x27;scissorhand&#x27; grip. At like ~18 years old, I consciously switched to standard because I was trying to pick up something small and realized my grip lacked precision.</text></comment> | <story><title>Ten Thousand Ways to Use Chopsticks</title><url>https://marcosticks.org/ten-thousand-ways/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>tonymet</author><text>Any effort to evangelize chopsticks to the west is a welcome one. &quot;chopstick shaming&quot; should be avoided. There are so many useful applications including cooking, preparing, serving food. Chopsticks are effectively sanitary fingers (when used politely).<p>Years ago i used chopsticks to eat snacks at work, in order to keep my keyboard clean. People ridiculed me in a friendly way. They&#x27;ve since come around.<p>Since covid people have become more conscious of sanitation and to a lesser degree table etiquette and i&#x27;m glad to see chopsticks supporting both of those trends.</text></comment> |
19,038,841 | 19,038,738 | 1 | 2 | 19,038,327 | train | <story><title>Why isn't the internet more fun and weird?</title><url>https://jarredsumner.com/codeblog/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>cal5k</author><text>Jarred was probably young when the internet was first taking shape, and every generation shares the feeling that things were better in their youth (aka the Golden Age Fallacy).<p>The internet was a lot smaller and inhabited by curious nerds - to find similar fun and weirdness, just find a community today that shares those properties. Packet radio, infosec, crypto, gaming, music production, etc. - there&#x27;s plenty of weird and fun to be found if you look for it.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Baeocystin</author><text>...and sometimes, things really were better, too. Regressions happen, and the Eternal September is real.<p>This does not mean that there aren&#x27;t wonderful things available in today&#x27;s web environment, too. There is no one to blame other than the natural evolution of a system. But something was lost, and it is ok to miss it.</text></comment> | <story><title>Why isn't the internet more fun and weird?</title><url>https://jarredsumner.com/codeblog/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>cal5k</author><text>Jarred was probably young when the internet was first taking shape, and every generation shares the feeling that things were better in their youth (aka the Golden Age Fallacy).<p>The internet was a lot smaller and inhabited by curious nerds - to find similar fun and weirdness, just find a community today that shares those properties. Packet radio, infosec, crypto, gaming, music production, etc. - there&#x27;s plenty of weird and fun to be found if you look for it.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>beezischillin</author><text>A lot of online communities today are unbearable tho as everything&#x27;s become so politicised. It started really wildly happening around 2013-2014 where no community was to remain a zone without some minority of users politicising it for attention. It was probably something that also happened before that but it somehow became really prevalent, at least. And often that took the fun out of it. I kind of think fondly of those times. Now of course this is just anecdotal, but that&#x27;s what I&#x27;ve experienced in most communities I used to frequent and perhaps lots of other people here did too.<p>In fact, it&#x27;s something I really appreciate here on HN, the tone of discussions is rather pleasant and on topic and it&#x27;s very rare to see people intentionally driving it into the ground, although in contrast to something like a Facebook group it&#x27;s a lot less personal.</text></comment> |
40,001,416 | 40,000,474 | 1 | 3 | 39,987,158 | train | <story><title>Untergunther – Restoration of the Pantheon clock (2007)</title><url>https://urban-resources.net/untergunther.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>DontBreakAlex</author><text>The leadership of the monument changed in 2018 and they hired the guy to finish the restoration: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.radiofrance.fr&#x2F;franceculture&#x2F;12-ans-apres-sa-restauration-clandestine-l-horloge-du-pantheon-fonctionne-enfin-2199259" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.radiofrance.fr&#x2F;franceculture&#x2F;12-ans-apres-sa-res...</a> (In French)</text></comment> | <story><title>Untergunther – Restoration of the Pantheon clock (2007)</title><url>https://urban-resources.net/untergunther.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>seabass-labrax</author><text>I think it&#x27;s wonderful that people are restoring public objects of historical value, but nowhere does the article explain why this has to be clandestine.<p>The article says that Monum&#x27;s leadership didn&#x27;t want to publicise the repair, but why would they? It would be a tacit admission that illegal entry into protected historical sites is justifiable for the purpose of &#x27;guerilla restoration&#x27; - wherever such a position is valid or not, endorsing it would indeed compromise Monum and similar organisations. Monsieur Jeannot was surely right in this regard.<p>That leaves me wondering why simply asking wasn&#x27;t an option. Are Monum really so resistant to offers of restoration that a few phone calls and a press release couldn&#x27;t have done the job, saving both sides a lawsuit?</text></comment> |
12,457,188 | 12,457,377 | 1 | 2 | 12,456,136 | train | <story><title>Visual Studio Code 1.5</title><url>https://code.visualstudio.com/updates?</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>msoad</author><text>VSCode + TypeScript is an amazing experience for us poor JavaScript developers that never enjoyed proper autocomplete and refactoring in our editors. Writing JavaScript feels like writing random bash scripts with no help now. TypeScript is freaking awesome and you should start using it! :)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>aviraldg</author><text>Try WebStorm. I&#x27;m surprised at how few people use it, given the quality of the autocomplete and code assistance (and the fact that it works just as well with ES6 as it does with TypeScript!)</text></comment> | <story><title>Visual Studio Code 1.5</title><url>https://code.visualstudio.com/updates?</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>msoad</author><text>VSCode + TypeScript is an amazing experience for us poor JavaScript developers that never enjoyed proper autocomplete and refactoring in our editors. Writing JavaScript feels like writing random bash scripts with no help now. TypeScript is freaking awesome and you should start using it! :)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>foob</author><text>For neovim users, you can get something almost comparable with deoplete [1], tern_for_vim [2], and ternjs-deoplete [3]. I set this up recently and have been very happy with the results. This also supports ES6 and JSX in case you use either of those.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;Shougo&#x2F;deoplete.nvim" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;Shougo&#x2F;deoplete.nvim</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;ternjs&#x2F;tern_for_vim" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;ternjs&#x2F;tern_for_vim</a><p>[3] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;carlitux&#x2F;deoplete-ternjs" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;carlitux&#x2F;deoplete-ternjs</a></text></comment> |
37,931,059 | 37,931,039 | 1 | 3 | 37,930,266 | train | <story><title>New pill helps Covid smell and taste loss fade quickly</title><url>https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-03244-7</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Daviey</author><text>I&#x27;ve now had Covid 3 x times. The first time I had incredible taste and smell loss, taking in excess of 4-5 months to recover, perhaps not even fully.<p>The other times, I had no loss of taste or smell. I do wonder why it only impacted me the first time. Different Covid variant, or something biologically changed in me, causing it to impact me differently?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>emchammer</author><text>The first time I contracted COVID, the other symptoms were wild, and I gave myself even odds on dying. However I did not lose my sense of smell or taste.<p>The second time I contracted COVID, it was mostly just a miserable fever but I lost my smell and taste, and they still have not come back completely almost a year later.<p>My theory is that COVID does a random walk when eating away the brain from wherever it enters.</text></comment> | <story><title>New pill helps Covid smell and taste loss fade quickly</title><url>https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-03244-7</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Daviey</author><text>I&#x27;ve now had Covid 3 x times. The first time I had incredible taste and smell loss, taking in excess of 4-5 months to recover, perhaps not even fully.<p>The other times, I had no loss of taste or smell. I do wonder why it only impacted me the first time. Different Covid variant, or something biologically changed in me, causing it to impact me differently?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>amluto</author><text>IIRC there’s decent evidence that the incidence of anosmia from Omicron is much lower than from earlier strains.</text></comment> |
23,579,224 | 23,578,965 | 1 | 3 | 23,578,440 | train | <story><title>SpaceX applies to offer high-speed internet service to Canadians</title><url>https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/spacex-high-speed-internet-1.5618918</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jacquesm</author><text>I&#x27;m sure they will find a way to cut the usual suspects in so they can make their money without lifting a finger.<p>I spent a lot of time and money on a rural internet project in Canada. Every time we entered a community suddenly there would be a project from the local telcos and cable companies to wire up that one community. They would never do this proactive, just reactive and unless we threatened to move in they would never lift a finger and continue to charge an arm and a leg for some ridiculously slow service.<p>These government sanctioned monopolies are terrible for Canada.</text></comment> | <story><title>SpaceX applies to offer high-speed internet service to Canadians</title><url>https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/spacex-high-speed-internet-1.5618918</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>vchynarov</author><text>I have ranted about the terrible quality of consumer telecommunications in Canada for years - I am terribly excited. I have lived in both the US and Canada, moving between both for the past 6 years, and I am always thrilled to use American providers.<p>Anecdotal data point: For a while, AT&amp;T had an North-America wide plan for $~40&#x2F;45 for month with 10G LTE with the rest being 3G. I kept this in Canada because there would be nothing close to this there - it was cheaper to use the American service.<p>I&#x27;ve always used my own phone with prepaid plans and the cheapest plans in Canada are awful compared to the cheapest plans in the USA. I also lived in the GTA, not some remote village.</text></comment> |
37,914,893 | 37,913,182 | 1 | 3 | 37,909,756 | train | <story><title>The importance of handwriting is now better understood</title><url>https://www.economist.com/culture/2023/09/14/the-importance-of-handwriting-is-becoming-better-understood</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>silcoon</author><text>I&#x27;ve direct experience on the power of handwriting to memorise concepts. When at the UNI, I was studying CS (while working part-time) less than 10 ya, and classes where full of laptops. I was take notes during lectures using only pen and paper and similarly I was taking my notes about the main concepts from the courses books. Then I was re-writing them again in a more summarised way, and then underline this notes and study all together. The power of handwriting is real and I&#x27;m still taking notes and keeping a journal nowadays.<p>It&#x27;s sad that this incredible ability of our brain to learn concepts from the small movement of our hands, probably sculpted by our evolution, is going to get lost in future generations. This is because companies are making deals with schools to provide them software and devices. In a better world the school system would be one of the top 2 priority of every country, and receive adeguate public investments to don&#x27;t have to adapt their education systems at companies product, to satisfy the greediness of entrepreneurs and investors.<p>Don&#x27;t abandon pen and paper, don&#x27;t regress human brain capacity.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jncfhnb</author><text>I dislike these kind of statements. I can’t take notes. I learned very explicitly that I will retain information much better if I take no effort to write it down and instead just focus and listen. If I do take notes, I’ll look down at my page at the end and see 20ish words written in different sizes and spaces and then throw it away because it’s clearly useless.<p>That is to say, it’s all just personal preference. Explore and exploit what works for you.</text></comment> | <story><title>The importance of handwriting is now better understood</title><url>https://www.economist.com/culture/2023/09/14/the-importance-of-handwriting-is-becoming-better-understood</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>silcoon</author><text>I&#x27;ve direct experience on the power of handwriting to memorise concepts. When at the UNI, I was studying CS (while working part-time) less than 10 ya, and classes where full of laptops. I was take notes during lectures using only pen and paper and similarly I was taking my notes about the main concepts from the courses books. Then I was re-writing them again in a more summarised way, and then underline this notes and study all together. The power of handwriting is real and I&#x27;m still taking notes and keeping a journal nowadays.<p>It&#x27;s sad that this incredible ability of our brain to learn concepts from the small movement of our hands, probably sculpted by our evolution, is going to get lost in future generations. This is because companies are making deals with schools to provide them software and devices. In a better world the school system would be one of the top 2 priority of every country, and receive adeguate public investments to don&#x27;t have to adapt their education systems at companies product, to satisfy the greediness of entrepreneurs and investors.<p>Don&#x27;t abandon pen and paper, don&#x27;t regress human brain capacity.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Eddy_Viscosity2</author><text>In some classes we were allowed to bring in our own formula sheets. We could write whatever we wanted on a single sheet of paper (both sides). So of course we condensed the entire course to fit on that with tiny writing. But after putting in all that effort to make this sheet, I rarely even looked at in during the test. I didn&#x27;t need to -- the act of making it made it stick in my brain.</text></comment> |
11,615,780 | 11,615,668 | 1 | 2 | 11,614,116 | train | <story><title>WhatsApp, Used by 100M Brazilians, Shut Down Nationwide Today by a Single Judge</title><url>https://theintercept.com/2016/05/02/whatsapp-used-by-100-million-brazilians-was-shut-down-nationwide-today-by-a-single-judge/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>joshvm</author><text>I can believe them when they say they don&#x27;t keep data. When I got a new phone (the old one broke), I was expecting my conversations to be in the cloud somewhere so that I could recover them. Nope, I lost everything that I hadn&#x27;t backed up.<p>I don&#x27;t see what they can gain from storing masses of old chats and then not allowing users to download them onto new devices. If they kept chats to do analytics on, there&#x27;s no reason that they wouldn&#x27;t expose it to users too.<p>(This may also explain how they survived as a company for so long with so many users and so little revenue. All they&#x27;re doing is running a few fast servers to shuttle messages back and forth, no storage requirements at all).<p>On the other hand Telegram does seem to store conversations - if you log in using a desktop app, it will pull down your recent chats.</text></item><item><author>envy2</author><text>There seem to be a few problems with this analysis.<p>First, WhatsApp is a US company and has no presence in Brazil. Under many readings of US law (specifically, ECPA), US companies are in fact <i>prohibited</i> from complying with requests from foreign law enforcement for content, except in emergencies. Instead, foreign law enforcement must make a request for assistance to the US DoJ, which will then (eventually, and maybe) process it and serve it on the US company. This is one of the reasons why MLAT reform, such as the proposed UK-US agreement[1], is so important because it would allow US companies to directly respond to foreign law enforcement requests.<p>Second, apparently, the data does not exist. WhatsApp publicly stated, including in testimony before the Brazilian Congressional Committee on Cyber Crimes[2], that it does not and has not retained any message content once messages are delivered, even before the recent full roll-out of E2E. Based on these statements, it would seem that WhatsApp is indeed unable to comply with the court&#x27;s request, regardless of any jurisdictional arguments.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.justsecurity.org&#x2F;29203&#x2F;british-searches-america-tremendous-opportunity&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.justsecurity.org&#x2F;29203&#x2F;british-searches-america-...</a><p>[2] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www2.camara.leg.br&#x2F;atividade-legislativa&#x2F;comissoes&#x2F;comissoes-temporarias&#x2F;parlamentar-de-inquerito&#x2F;55a-legislatura&#x2F;cpi-crimes-ciberneticos&#x2F;videoArquivo?codSessao=55221&amp;codReuniao=42467#videoTitulo" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www2.camara.leg.br&#x2F;atividade-legislativa&#x2F;comissoes&#x2F;co...</a></text></item><item><author>soneca</author><text>I&#x27;m here to defend the judge&#x27;s ruling, a position very unpopular among all my friends here in Brazil.<p>Brazilian law regarding regarding privacy of users of internet services is very recent and clear: if a judge order the company to share a specific user data, the company must comply. You can disagree with the law, but the law is there.<p>Now, the judge ordered Whatsapp to share a particular user conversation (a suspect murderer - edit: drug dealer). But the problem is: Whatsapp have no offices or operations in Brazil. The order was sent to Facebook, who ignore as Whatsapp is another company. So, without any executives in Brazil that could be held responsible for disobeying the law, the judge fine the company. They continue to disobey the order (for months). The judge suspends Whatsapp activity (for 24h a few months ago, but that order was suspended itself after a few hours). Now Whatsapp continue to disobey the judge&#x27;s order until this day. The judge suspend the company again.<p>All arguments I hear against the judge is in the line that Whatsapp is &quot;too big to fail&quot;. That&#x27;s not a valid point in my opinion. If they disobey the law, it must have consequences, no matter how big and important to brazilian society they are. If they had operations and executives in Brazil this would never had happened at the first place. They would have lawyers fighting against the decision to share the user data and this would be solved by the justice system (never coming to have its activity suspended).
But Whatsapp simply ignored brazilian justice system as if it was above the law.<p>It is very unfortunate that it came to this point, but it is not like a judge decided yesterday that Whatsapp should sufer for whatever reason. They got a lot of months of warning for this. And he is acting completely according to the law. For me, all of this is Whatsapp fault.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>cantrevealname</author><text>&gt; I can believe them [WhatsApp] when they say they don&#x27;t keep data.<p>If that&#x27;s true, I&#x27;m in awe of their integrity. Skype on the other hand now has complete disregard for user privacy. Skype stores your voice mails and video messages forever[1]. This is something that they started doing 2-3 years ago and few people seem to be aware of it. It&#x27;s amazing how low Skype fallen from its early days when it was considered a beacon of privacy and on the cutting edge of encryption and security.<p>[1] Details: Clicking on Preferences -&gt; Privacy -&gt; Delete history (OS X) or Options -&gt; Privacy Settings -&gt; Clear history (Windows) pretends to delete the voice&#x2F;video messages but it merely hides them from your view. If you re-install Skype on the same computer or run Skype on a different computer, all those &quot;deleted&quot; voice mails and video messages re-appear. The delete and clear buttons are basically lies; there&#x27;s no polite way to put it.</text></comment> | <story><title>WhatsApp, Used by 100M Brazilians, Shut Down Nationwide Today by a Single Judge</title><url>https://theintercept.com/2016/05/02/whatsapp-used-by-100-million-brazilians-was-shut-down-nationwide-today-by-a-single-judge/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>joshvm</author><text>I can believe them when they say they don&#x27;t keep data. When I got a new phone (the old one broke), I was expecting my conversations to be in the cloud somewhere so that I could recover them. Nope, I lost everything that I hadn&#x27;t backed up.<p>I don&#x27;t see what they can gain from storing masses of old chats and then not allowing users to download them onto new devices. If they kept chats to do analytics on, there&#x27;s no reason that they wouldn&#x27;t expose it to users too.<p>(This may also explain how they survived as a company for so long with so many users and so little revenue. All they&#x27;re doing is running a few fast servers to shuttle messages back and forth, no storage requirements at all).<p>On the other hand Telegram does seem to store conversations - if you log in using a desktop app, it will pull down your recent chats.</text></item><item><author>envy2</author><text>There seem to be a few problems with this analysis.<p>First, WhatsApp is a US company and has no presence in Brazil. Under many readings of US law (specifically, ECPA), US companies are in fact <i>prohibited</i> from complying with requests from foreign law enforcement for content, except in emergencies. Instead, foreign law enforcement must make a request for assistance to the US DoJ, which will then (eventually, and maybe) process it and serve it on the US company. This is one of the reasons why MLAT reform, such as the proposed UK-US agreement[1], is so important because it would allow US companies to directly respond to foreign law enforcement requests.<p>Second, apparently, the data does not exist. WhatsApp publicly stated, including in testimony before the Brazilian Congressional Committee on Cyber Crimes[2], that it does not and has not retained any message content once messages are delivered, even before the recent full roll-out of E2E. Based on these statements, it would seem that WhatsApp is indeed unable to comply with the court&#x27;s request, regardless of any jurisdictional arguments.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.justsecurity.org&#x2F;29203&#x2F;british-searches-america-tremendous-opportunity&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.justsecurity.org&#x2F;29203&#x2F;british-searches-america-...</a><p>[2] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www2.camara.leg.br&#x2F;atividade-legislativa&#x2F;comissoes&#x2F;comissoes-temporarias&#x2F;parlamentar-de-inquerito&#x2F;55a-legislatura&#x2F;cpi-crimes-ciberneticos&#x2F;videoArquivo?codSessao=55221&amp;codReuniao=42467#videoTitulo" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www2.camara.leg.br&#x2F;atividade-legislativa&#x2F;comissoes&#x2F;co...</a></text></item><item><author>soneca</author><text>I&#x27;m here to defend the judge&#x27;s ruling, a position very unpopular among all my friends here in Brazil.<p>Brazilian law regarding regarding privacy of users of internet services is very recent and clear: if a judge order the company to share a specific user data, the company must comply. You can disagree with the law, but the law is there.<p>Now, the judge ordered Whatsapp to share a particular user conversation (a suspect murderer - edit: drug dealer). But the problem is: Whatsapp have no offices or operations in Brazil. The order was sent to Facebook, who ignore as Whatsapp is another company. So, without any executives in Brazil that could be held responsible for disobeying the law, the judge fine the company. They continue to disobey the order (for months). The judge suspends Whatsapp activity (for 24h a few months ago, but that order was suspended itself after a few hours). Now Whatsapp continue to disobey the judge&#x27;s order until this day. The judge suspend the company again.<p>All arguments I hear against the judge is in the line that Whatsapp is &quot;too big to fail&quot;. That&#x27;s not a valid point in my opinion. If they disobey the law, it must have consequences, no matter how big and important to brazilian society they are. If they had operations and executives in Brazil this would never had happened at the first place. They would have lawyers fighting against the decision to share the user data and this would be solved by the justice system (never coming to have its activity suspended).
But Whatsapp simply ignored brazilian justice system as if it was above the law.<p>It is very unfortunate that it came to this point, but it is not like a judge decided yesterday that Whatsapp should sufer for whatever reason. They got a lot of months of warning for this. And he is acting completely according to the law. For me, all of this is Whatsapp fault.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>spdustin</author><text>Telegram isn&#x27;t end-to-end encrypted unless you&#x27;re in a &quot;secret chat&quot;, and that chat exists only between two different devices and can&#x27;t be used by multiple devices on one account.<p>It&#x27;s a &quot;feature&quot; of the normal chats&#x2F;channels&#x2F;groups&#x2F;supergroups of Telegram that you are able to download them to other devices, or to restore them on a freshly wiped device, because (and I&#x27;m over-simplifying here, but the end result is the same) they are encrypted with a key known to the server, and which other devices signed into your account can then be authorized to use.</text></comment> |
26,943,081 | 26,943,238 | 1 | 2 | 26,942,080 | train | <story><title>Project Jengo Redux: Cloudflare’s Prior Art Search Bounty Returns</title><url>https://blog.cloudflare.com/project-jengo-redux-cloudflares-prior-art-search-bounty-returns/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>eastdakota</author><text>Some of my favorite checks I&#x27;ve ever gotten to sign were paying out the recipients of our first patent troll prior art search bounty. Looking forward to doing it again! <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.cloudflare.com&#x2F;the-project-jengo-saga-how-cloudflare-stood-up-to-a-patent-troll-and-won&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.cloudflare.com&#x2F;the-project-jengo-saga-how-cloud...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Project Jengo Redux: Cloudflare’s Prior Art Search Bounty Returns</title><url>https://blog.cloudflare.com/project-jengo-redux-cloudflares-prior-art-search-bounty-returns/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>cortesoft</author><text>I thought patents only last 20 years... some of those on the list are older than that. Can you sue for previous violations of now expired patents?</text></comment> |
28,472,968 | 28,472,937 | 1 | 2 | 28,469,899 | train | <story><title>Sayings of Spartan women</title><url>https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/e/roman/texts/plutarch/moralia/sayings_of_spartan_women*.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rgvr</author><text>I don&#x27;t understand the point of changing words like &quot;many&quot; to &quot;mony&quot; or &quot;man&quot; to &quot;mon&quot;. I mean if you&#x27;re anyway writing the entire thing in modern day English then why do this.<p>Is it just for the effect of it I.e., making it look sophisticated? or is it some kind of attempt at retaining the originality&#x2F;authenticity?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>stult</author><text>I think I vaguely recall the explanation from a classics course many, many, many years ago, but I can&#x27;t find a source without investing a ton more effort, so take this with a grain of salt: IIRC, Plutarch wrote the sayings in intentionally archaic (for his time) Greek. He lived hundreds of years after Sparta had disappeared as a power in the ancient world, so he could have intended it to demonstrate the great antiquity of the quotations, or he could have done so to paint the Spartans as rough-around-the-edges rustics. The translation attempts to mimic this effect by translating the archaic-sounding Greek as archaic-sounding English.</text></comment> | <story><title>Sayings of Spartan women</title><url>https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/e/roman/texts/plutarch/moralia/sayings_of_spartan_women*.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rgvr</author><text>I don&#x27;t understand the point of changing words like &quot;many&quot; to &quot;mony&quot; or &quot;man&quot; to &quot;mon&quot;. I mean if you&#x27;re anyway writing the entire thing in modern day English then why do this.<p>Is it just for the effect of it I.e., making it look sophisticated? or is it some kind of attempt at retaining the originality&#x2F;authenticity?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pvg</author><text>It&#x27;s supposed to be conveying some kind of regional accent&#x2F;dialect, I think. A bit from the same translation:<p><i>A Spartan, being asked if the road into Sparta were safe, said, That depends on what kind of a mon ye are; for the lions gang about where they wull, but the hares we hunt over that land.&quot;</i><p>Edit: poking around the translation some, it looks like it&#x27;s supposed to represent the Doric Greek dialect.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;i.imgur.com&#x2F;Di0nGS9.png" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;i.imgur.com&#x2F;Di0nGS9.png</a></text></comment> |
33,852,275 | 33,850,715 | 1 | 2 | 33,847,479 | train | <story><title>Building a Virtual Machine Inside ChatGPT</title><url>https://www.engraved.blog/building-a-virtual-machine-inside/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>alchemist1e9</author><text>How is this real? I’m so confused what makes this even remotely possible.<p>Edit: To make this even more crazy it looks like it has been altered to cut off this line of questioning once it comes to internet content. It was working and now suddenly has stoped. It has a canned like cut off response now:<p>I&#x27;m glad that you enjoyed my previous responses, but I want to clarify that I was not pretending to be a Linux terminal. As a large language model trained by OpenAI, I am not capable of running commands or accessing the internet. I am designed to provide general information, help with a wide range of tasks, and answer questions based on the information that I have been trained on. I do not have the ability to change my behavior or pretend to be something that I am not. I apologize if my previous responses were not what you were expecting. Is there something else I can help you with?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Ari_Rahikkala</author><text>&gt; I&#x27;m glad that you enjoyed my previous responses, but I want to clarify that I was not pretending to be a Linux terminal.<p>People who like to pooh-pooh generative AI systems as unable to be &quot;truly creative&quot; or to have &quot;genuine understanding&quot; tend to misunderstand them, which is a shame, because their actual fundamental limitations are far more interesting.<p>One is that behavior cloning is miscalibrated(<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.lesswrong.com&#x2F;posts&#x2F;BgoKdAzogxmgkuuAt&#x2F;behavior-cloning-is-miscalibrated" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.lesswrong.com&#x2F;posts&#x2F;BgoKdAzogxmgkuuAt&#x2F;behavior-c...</a>): GPT-3 can be thought of as having been taught to act like a human by predicting human-written text, but it&#x27;s incapable of recognizing that it has different knowledge and capabilities than a human when trying to act like one. Or, for that matter, it can roleplay a Linux terminal, but it&#x27;s again incapable of recognizing for instance that when you run `ls`, an actual Linux system uses a source of knowledge that the model doesn&#x27;t have access to, that being the filesystem.<p>Self-knowledge is where it gets particularly bad: Most text about systems or people describing themselves is very confident, because it&#x27;s from sources that do have self-knowledge and clear understanding of their own capabilities. So, ChatGPT will describe itself with that same level of apparent knowledge, while in fact making up absolute BS, because it doesn&#x27;t have self-knowledge when describing itself in language, in exactly the same sense as it doesn&#x27;t have a filesystem when describing the output of `ls`.</text></comment> | <story><title>Building a Virtual Machine Inside ChatGPT</title><url>https://www.engraved.blog/building-a-virtual-machine-inside/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>alchemist1e9</author><text>How is this real? I’m so confused what makes this even remotely possible.<p>Edit: To make this even more crazy it looks like it has been altered to cut off this line of questioning once it comes to internet content. It was working and now suddenly has stoped. It has a canned like cut off response now:<p>I&#x27;m glad that you enjoyed my previous responses, but I want to clarify that I was not pretending to be a Linux terminal. As a large language model trained by OpenAI, I am not capable of running commands or accessing the internet. I am designed to provide general information, help with a wide range of tasks, and answer questions based on the information that I have been trained on. I do not have the ability to change my behavior or pretend to be something that I am not. I apologize if my previous responses were not what you were expecting. Is there something else I can help you with?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ehsankia</author><text>From what I understand, it&#x27;s not actually doing any of those things, there&#x27;s enough people who have done similar things and posted it online that the AI can replicate what the answer would look like.</text></comment> |
29,575,528 | 29,575,572 | 1 | 2 | 29,574,359 | train | <story><title>Reddit files to go public</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/markets/us/reddit-files-us-ipo-2021-12-16/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>DantesKite</author><text>The larger subreddits have problems, but Reddit has done a remarkable job of collecting people with niche interests into one area.<p>I wouldn&#x27;t discount their success and future success (as much as I&#x27;d like to).<p>What&#x27;s odd is they haven&#x27;t stopped growing. It&#x27;s just been linear user growth.<p>They could literally do nothing and the site would still grow. It&#x27;s closer to Wikipedia than a social network in some respects. And by that standard, we should try to judge it.<p>I look forward to the next forum site as much as the next person. But I don&#x27;t know what it would look like. If anyone does, I definitely urge you to build it if you can.<p>Substack has every incentive to build a community. Discord as well. So there&#x27;s definitely opportunities, but from where I sit, I don&#x27;t have any insight as to what you could do to beat this behemoth.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pyuser583</author><text>Reddit is my go to place for local news. There is so little coverage of local news outside big cities. The coffee-house atmosphere of the local sub I’d very refreshing and informative.<p>Sadly, many of the bigger subs have less and less quality.<p>There’s a post I remember from about 2010 that blew my mind in the &#x2F;r&#x2F;philosophy subreddit. Now &#x2F;r&#x2F;philosophy is all crap, and I can’t event find that article.</text></comment> | <story><title>Reddit files to go public</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/markets/us/reddit-files-us-ipo-2021-12-16/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>DantesKite</author><text>The larger subreddits have problems, but Reddit has done a remarkable job of collecting people with niche interests into one area.<p>I wouldn&#x27;t discount their success and future success (as much as I&#x27;d like to).<p>What&#x27;s odd is they haven&#x27;t stopped growing. It&#x27;s just been linear user growth.<p>They could literally do nothing and the site would still grow. It&#x27;s closer to Wikipedia than a social network in some respects. And by that standard, we should try to judge it.<p>I look forward to the next forum site as much as the next person. But I don&#x27;t know what it would look like. If anyone does, I definitely urge you to build it if you can.<p>Substack has every incentive to build a community. Discord as well. So there&#x27;s definitely opportunities, but from where I sit, I don&#x27;t have any insight as to what you could do to beat this behemoth.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ankit219</author><text>&gt; What&#x27;s odd is they haven&#x27;t stopped growing. It&#x27;s just been linear user growth<p>Most growth is driven by Google Search. It accounts for almost half of their traffic. At this point, SEO is their moat. The problem they have had is that they cant get most of the traffic to convert ie. create accounts and engage in those subreddits. That is still done by a small fraction of the traffic.<p>As an experiment, if you create an account on Reddit, you see that you are automatically added to r&#x2F;announcements. (It does not even offer you a choice). That sub has grown very slow compared to their DAUs and MAUs. It still has about 127M subscribers (lifetime)</text></comment> |
27,741,145 | 27,740,747 | 1 | 2 | 27,736,650 | train | <story><title>GitHub Copilot is not infringing copyright</title><url>https://juliareda.eu/2021/07/github-copilot-is-not-infringing-your-copyright/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>glitchc</author><text>I disagree with this article. GitHub Copilot is indeed infringing copyright and not only in a grey zone, but in a very clear black and white fashion that our corporate taskmasters (Microsoft included) have defended as infringement.<p>The legal debate around copyright infringement has always centered around the rights granted by the owner vs the rights appropriated by the user, with the owner&#x27;s wants superseding user needs&#x2F;wants. Any open-source code available on Github is controlled by the copyright notice of the owner granting specific rights to users. Copilot is a commercial product, therefore, Github can only use code that the owners make available for commercial use. Every other instance of code used is a case of copyright infringement, a clear case by Microsoft&#x27;s own definition of copyright infringement [1][2].<p>Github (and by extension Microsoft) is gambling on the fact that their license agreement granting them a license to the code in exchange for access to the platform supersedes the individual copyright notices attached to each repo. This is a fine line to walk and will likely not survive in a court of law. They are betting on deep lawyer pockets to see them through this, but are more likely than not to lose this battle. I suspect we will see how this plays out in the coming months.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.microsoft.com&#x2F;info&#x2F;Cloud.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.microsoft.com&#x2F;info&#x2F;Cloud.html</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;contact&#x2F;dmca" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;contact&#x2F;dmca</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>j4yav</author><text>The part that feels really obvious to me is that, if I made an AI that could generate music by looking through the entire (copyrighted) back catalog of the Beatles for example, and it would output music that I could control to be very much or even exactly like the original recordings, or I could accidentally do it, that it wouldn’t really be a way to launder the original licenses&#x2F;copyright into the public domain.<p>Or maybe it is, but if so it essentially means the end of licensing because it would be trivial to make an AI that can take an input and produce the same output. Or maybe even cp is good enough to strip the source of its original license in that case.<p>Open source licenses are worth protecting or you break the cycle that helps more software be open.</text></comment> | <story><title>GitHub Copilot is not infringing copyright</title><url>https://juliareda.eu/2021/07/github-copilot-is-not-infringing-your-copyright/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>glitchc</author><text>I disagree with this article. GitHub Copilot is indeed infringing copyright and not only in a grey zone, but in a very clear black and white fashion that our corporate taskmasters (Microsoft included) have defended as infringement.<p>The legal debate around copyright infringement has always centered around the rights granted by the owner vs the rights appropriated by the user, with the owner&#x27;s wants superseding user needs&#x2F;wants. Any open-source code available on Github is controlled by the copyright notice of the owner granting specific rights to users. Copilot is a commercial product, therefore, Github can only use code that the owners make available for commercial use. Every other instance of code used is a case of copyright infringement, a clear case by Microsoft&#x27;s own definition of copyright infringement [1][2].<p>Github (and by extension Microsoft) is gambling on the fact that their license agreement granting them a license to the code in exchange for access to the platform supersedes the individual copyright notices attached to each repo. This is a fine line to walk and will likely not survive in a court of law. They are betting on deep lawyer pockets to see them through this, but are more likely than not to lose this battle. I suspect we will see how this plays out in the coming months.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.microsoft.com&#x2F;info&#x2F;Cloud.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.microsoft.com&#x2F;info&#x2F;Cloud.html</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;contact&#x2F;dmca" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;contact&#x2F;dmca</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>lubujackson</author><text>&quot;Copilot is a commercial product, therefore, Github can only use code that the owners make available for commercial use.&quot;<p>IANAL, but this doesn&#x27;t sound quite right. There is a difference between &quot;using&quot; code (running it in a commercial product) and manipulating it as arbitrary data within a commercial product.<p>It definitely can be a gray area, but let&#x27;s say I use Amazon&#x27;s service where I email a PDF to my Kindle - is it Amazon&#x27;s responsibility to know the copyright status of the PDF, or mine? In both cases a commercial product is manipulating copywritten data for the benefit of a user.</text></comment> |
5,399,378 | 5,399,368 | 1 | 3 | 5,397,629 | train | <story><title>Two Months of Soylent</title><url>http://robrhinehart.com/?p=474</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>markerdmann</author><text>After reading the first Soylent post, I felt inspired to try and come up with a recipe for a "nutritionally complete" soup. I used an online tool that calculates the total nutrients for a recipe and came up with this:<p>3 potatoes
1 onion
500 grams of wild alaskan salmon
1/2 cup of mushrooms
3.5 tbsp of olive oil
30 grams of sunflower seeds
1 tbsp of dried parsley
2 tbsp of ground thyme
50 grams of parmesan cheese
3 cloves of garlic
20 grams of sesame seeds
1 medium oyster (from a can)
1 tbsp of ground mace
1 tsp of cod liver oil<p>To cook it I just added everything to boiling water in order of cooking time, starting with the potatoes and onions and ending with the salmon.<p>I tried making it last night and ate it for dinner and breakfast, and it was delicious! I also feel amazing. I guess I should track the effects of the recipe on quantified-mind.com. :-)<p>I was actually surprised by how hard it was to fit all of the daily nutrient requirements into a recipe with about 2000-2500 calories (while also avoiding nutrient overdoses). It would be great if someone would create a website for "nutritionally complete" recipes, especially recipes that are cheap and easy to make with a good blender or crockpot.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>johnchristopher</author><text>&#62; I was actually surprised by how hard it was to fit all of the daily nutrient requirements into a recipe with about 2000-2500 calories (while also avoiding nutrient overdoses). It would be great if someone would create a website for "nutritionally complete" recipes, especially recipes that are cheap and easy to make with a good blender or crockpot.<p>I hit the same wall when I overturned my eating habits and tried to fit all my nutrients into my three-meals-a-day habit. I succeeded by tweaking things but then it dawned on me I could spread out all the nutrients on a week. It made recipes composition much easier.<p>It wasn't some kind of soylent though but "regular" meals.</text></comment> | <story><title>Two Months of Soylent</title><url>http://robrhinehart.com/?p=474</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>markerdmann</author><text>After reading the first Soylent post, I felt inspired to try and come up with a recipe for a "nutritionally complete" soup. I used an online tool that calculates the total nutrients for a recipe and came up with this:<p>3 potatoes
1 onion
500 grams of wild alaskan salmon
1/2 cup of mushrooms
3.5 tbsp of olive oil
30 grams of sunflower seeds
1 tbsp of dried parsley
2 tbsp of ground thyme
50 grams of parmesan cheese
3 cloves of garlic
20 grams of sesame seeds
1 medium oyster (from a can)
1 tbsp of ground mace
1 tsp of cod liver oil<p>To cook it I just added everything to boiling water in order of cooking time, starting with the potatoes and onions and ending with the salmon.<p>I tried making it last night and ate it for dinner and breakfast, and it was delicious! I also feel amazing. I guess I should track the effects of the recipe on quantified-mind.com. :-)<p>I was actually surprised by how hard it was to fit all of the daily nutrient requirements into a recipe with about 2000-2500 calories (while also avoiding nutrient overdoses). It would be great if someone would create a website for "nutritionally complete" recipes, especially recipes that are cheap and easy to make with a good blender or crockpot.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>intended</author><text>Probably could add some lemon to cut the flavor I suspect.<p>No harm in having something that tastes good, and cooking is one of the best hacks there is.</text></comment> |
18,950,410 | 18,949,696 | 1 | 2 | 18,949,366 | train | <story><title>Apple resumes selling iPhone SE at lower $249 price on its clearance store</title><url>https://www.apple.com/shop/product/MP7X2LL/A/iphone-se-128gb-space-gray-unlocked</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>twblalock</author><text>Yes, the demand really is that low. People who want a smaller phone in 2019 are a very small yet very vocal minority.<p>If there was a large untapped market for smaller phones, then the limited number of small phones on the market would be selling a lot better than they actually are. Somebody would notice and start making more of them.<p>Like phones with physical keyboards, phones with small screens have become a niche product and they will probably disappear in the next few years.</text></item><item><author>dklsafhjskljfl</author><text>The upcoming sony xz4 compact may be the only small phone with premium components, and it&#x27;s extremely frustrating. It&#x27;s not even &#x2F;that&#x2F; small.<p>You can find small phones but they have terrible cameras, sub HD resolutions, and bargain basement SOCs.<p>Is the demand for a premium (or even mid range) small phone really that low?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>thedays</author><text>&gt; Yes, the demand really is that low.<p>Do you have any evidence for that?<p>There are virtually no, modern, reasonably-specced and reasonably priced phones with smaller screens available currently, so it&#x27;s no wonder they&#x27;re not selling.<p>In the Android world, there&#x27;s only a couple of low-end Nokia phones (Nokia 1 - 4.5&quot; screen and Nokia 3 - 5.2&quot; screen), low-end Samsungs like the Galaxy J3 and the high-end and expensive Sony XZ2 Compact available but these phones aren&#x27;t available for sale in many shops or on many contracts. If the market doesn&#x27;t produce modern smaller phones, then they can&#x27;t be sold, so arguing that &quot;the demand really is that low&quot; is currently a circular argument.<p>I suspect that part of the reason why the resale value of older iPhones like the 6 and 6s are high is that a reasonable percentage of people, esp. women, want smaller phones like these iPhones which are still reasonably fast and quite usable. My girlfriend hates using large phones as she finds them too big to hold in one hand easily, and has kept using an old Android because of its 4.5&quot; screen.<p>I&#x27;m a tall person - well over 6 foot - with largish hands and even I find it difficult to comfortably use a phone wider than 70mm. I also find the current trend of producing 18:9 ratio phones completely baffling, as it makes reaching the top of the screen impossible with one hand in situations like traveling on trains or buses. Widescreen videos are filmed in 16:9 ratio, so it would make much more sense to go back to 16:9 ratio phone screens.</text></comment> | <story><title>Apple resumes selling iPhone SE at lower $249 price on its clearance store</title><url>https://www.apple.com/shop/product/MP7X2LL/A/iphone-se-128gb-space-gray-unlocked</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>twblalock</author><text>Yes, the demand really is that low. People who want a smaller phone in 2019 are a very small yet very vocal minority.<p>If there was a large untapped market for smaller phones, then the limited number of small phones on the market would be selling a lot better than they actually are. Somebody would notice and start making more of them.<p>Like phones with physical keyboards, phones with small screens have become a niche product and they will probably disappear in the next few years.</text></item><item><author>dklsafhjskljfl</author><text>The upcoming sony xz4 compact may be the only small phone with premium components, and it&#x27;s extremely frustrating. It&#x27;s not even &#x2F;that&#x2F; small.<p>You can find small phones but they have terrible cameras, sub HD resolutions, and bargain basement SOCs.<p>Is the demand for a premium (or even mid range) small phone really that low?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kbrackbill</author><text>Do you have any insight as to why?<p>I&#x27;m part of that minority and small phones seem better in so many ways. My hands are relatively big I think, but even with &quot;small&quot; phones now I can barely use them with one hand. The smaller screen uses less battery. Larger phones don&#x27;t fit in pockets very well and result in a spot that wears through on my jeans where the corner of the phone pokes out from my pocket.<p>I&#x27;m really struggling to think of advantages to larger phones. I guess if you always carry around a purse&#x2F;bag then the size doesn&#x27;t matter as much, and if you had smaller hands then maybe one-handed use is just impossible regardless of the size. But what&#x27;s the use case? It&#x27;s not like a real computer where a larger screen means you can multitask better, since you can barely multitask anyway.</text></comment> |
2,754,346 | 2,752,556 | 1 | 3 | 2,752,483 | train | <story><title>Erlang creator on how to get started and learning to program</title><url>http://erlang.org/pipermail/erlang-questions/2011-July/059966.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>asymptotic</author><text>There are several important threads that Joe Armstrong brings up that people are completely missing.<p>1) Typing in code directly into a shell necessarily implies you ignore all the tools and IDEs that many beginners clamour for. In fact, in my experience, coding into Notepad is a far superior learning experience than using an IDE. Nothing stands between you and your gaping ignorance, and you're forced to grapple with all the hideous details without pretty colours or intelligent auto-completion.<p>2) Typing in code offers you the chance to _deliberately type it in incorrectly and see what happens_. This is my favourite method of learning. Take a known good example, and say "Hmm, if I just do...that...to that line, what happens?". And then stare at the error output, immerse yourself in it. Just as with people, there is no better way of learning about a language, a tool, or an idea than when it is put under stress or unusual circumstances.<p>3) Tools necessarily abstract away some process, whereas when you're learning a new concept or idea the last thing you want is to shy away from the details of a process. This point reminds me of learning about long division in Year 7 at secondary school, and being forced to draw all these long arrows making clear which digits were going where. My maths teacher explained the rationale as "You have to go through all the motions, regardless of how silly or tedious they may seem now. Eventually you'll just naturally drop them to one side and not need them any more."</text></comment> | <story><title>Erlang creator on how to get started and learning to program</title><url>http://erlang.org/pipermail/erlang-questions/2011-July/059966.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>ukdm</author><text>"After 30 years you will get the hang of this and be a good programmer."<p>I wonder if a genuine beginner reading that line would be put off instantly or encouraged to find out if it really would take that long?</text></comment> |
25,635,643 | 25,635,571 | 1 | 2 | 25,635,115 | train | <story><title>Ask HN: Is HN slow today?</title><text>What&#x27;s normally the snappiest site on the web has been consistently taking ~5 seconds for each page load today. Extra traffic due to Slack being down, perhaps?</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>peter_d_sherman</author><text>It&#x27;s not just you...<p>I posted the following in the &quot;Slack Down Completely&quot; article (before this article was posted):<p>&gt;&quot;For some reason, today, HN seems exceedingly exceedingly slow (to me) after logging in...<p>Without being logged in, things are as fast as they usually are -- but post log-in, SLOWWWER THAN MOLASSESS...<p>I tried this several times; why this is, I can only wonder...<p>To quote Bill and Ted... &quot;Strange things are afoot at the Circle-K...&quot; &quot;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>codetrotter</author><text>&gt; Without being logged in, things are as fast as they usually are -- but post log-in, SLOWWWER THAN MOLASSESS...<p>&gt; I tried this several times; why this is, I can only wonder...<p>That is to be expected. Non-logged-in pages can be cached aggressively server side. When you are logged in much more has to be done dynamically.<p>The fact that non-logged-in pages are still loading fast is testament to the fact that the HN devs have done their job properly with implementing caching.<p>In the bad old days it would be slow for everyone whether logged in or not. In general I mean. I have only been on HN since 2009 and have been logged in (other accounts in the past, changed name) pretty much always so I don&#x27;t know when HN got good at caching. I would kind of sort of expect that HN was actually like that from the beginning, given that pg came from having used Lisp in production at Viaweb and they got a lot of experience there early at how to do things fast (in terms of time to implement) and presumably proper (since they were able to compete with others).</text></comment> | <story><title>Ask HN: Is HN slow today?</title><text>What&#x27;s normally the snappiest site on the web has been consistently taking ~5 seconds for each page load today. Extra traffic due to Slack being down, perhaps?</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>peter_d_sherman</author><text>It&#x27;s not just you...<p>I posted the following in the &quot;Slack Down Completely&quot; article (before this article was posted):<p>&gt;&quot;For some reason, today, HN seems exceedingly exceedingly slow (to me) after logging in...<p>Without being logged in, things are as fast as they usually are -- but post log-in, SLOWWWER THAN MOLASSESS...<p>I tried this several times; why this is, I can only wonder...<p>To quote Bill and Ted... &quot;Strange things are afoot at the Circle-K...&quot; &quot;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>1f60c</author><text>HN caches pages for logged out users (since they&#x27;ll obviously be the same for everyone).</text></comment> |
38,064,573 | 38,063,755 | 1 | 2 | 38,059,431 | train | <story><title>Rare 2,100-year-old gold coin bears name of obscure ruler from pre-Roman Britain</title><url>https://www.livescience.com/archaeology/romans/rare-2100-year-old-gold-coin-bears-name-of-obscure-ruler-from-pre-roman-britain</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>qwerty456127</author><text>&gt; an Iron Age man who said he was as &quot;mighty&quot; as a god<p>I wonder if such people were actually believed (by their followers or by themselves) wielding enormous supernatural powers or if descriptions of this kind were just political flattery.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>huytersd</author><text>It depends on what your definition of a god was. In India for example, you had gods that lived amongst the people and had minor supernatural capabilities. Ram was basically just a very capable leader with no special abilities and he’s venerated as a god. On the other hand you also has Brahma or Shiva who were more omnipotent and all powerful.</text></comment> | <story><title>Rare 2,100-year-old gold coin bears name of obscure ruler from pre-Roman Britain</title><url>https://www.livescience.com/archaeology/romans/rare-2100-year-old-gold-coin-bears-name-of-obscure-ruler-from-pre-roman-britain</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>qwerty456127</author><text>&gt; an Iron Age man who said he was as &quot;mighty&quot; as a god<p>I wonder if such people were actually believed (by their followers or by themselves) wielding enormous supernatural powers or if descriptions of this kind were just political flattery.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>asdff</author><text>Say you lived in the iron age in a little camp with your family. You see this really strangely dressed person commanding hundreds or thousands of people to listen to his every whim and demand. You might think he was a wizard or god too, being able to put so many under his spell, maybe you&#x27;d do wise to listen to him too lest you face the consequences of his fanatics.</text></comment> |
9,697,629 | 9,697,350 | 1 | 2 | 9,696,203 | train | <story><title>Kaspersky Lab cybersecurity firm is hacked</title><url>http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-33083050</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>DickingAround</author><text>A lot of beating around the bush; just say the US and&#x2F;or Isreal did it.<p>We already know Duqu was made by the same people who made Stuxnet. We already know Stuxnet was made by the US and&#x2F;or Isreal to hurt the Iranian nuclear program. So if they have strong evidence it was the same people... we know who those people are and we should just say their names.</text></comment> | <story><title>Kaspersky Lab cybersecurity firm is hacked</title><url>http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-33083050</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>mirimir</author><text>Intel Security just reported that &quot;[p]ersistent and virtually undetectable attacks by the Equation Group that reprogram hard disk drives and solid state drive firmware.&quot;[0,1] It&#x27;s interesting that this threat was first reported by Kaspersky in February.[2]<p>The firmware exploits are part of the attack system with Duqu 2.0, right?<p>[0] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.mcafee.com&#x2F;us&#x2F;security-awareness&#x2F;articles&#x2F;mcafee-labs-threats-report-may-2015.aspx" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.mcafee.com&#x2F;us&#x2F;security-awareness&#x2F;articles&#x2F;mcafee-...</a><p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=9685829" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=9685829</a><p>[2] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.kaspersky.com&#x2F;about&#x2F;news&#x2F;virus&#x2F;2015&#x2F;equation-group-the-crown-creator-of-cyber-espionage" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.kaspersky.com&#x2F;about&#x2F;news&#x2F;virus&#x2F;2015&#x2F;equation-grou...</a></text></comment> |
16,483,112 | 16,483,187 | 1 | 2 | 16,482,842 | train | <story><title>Bazel can now build Haskell</title><url>https://www.tweag.io/posts/2018-02-28-bazel-haskell.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>oblio</author><text>I wonder if Bazel takes off across many languages. It wouldn&#x27;t hurt to have a modern autotools &amp; co. replacement across ecosystems. I don&#x27;t think it&#x27;s doable, considering the fact that we have language specific package managers and build tools, but you never know.<p>By &quot;replacement&quot;, I mean picking up a random open source project and being able to do the equivalent of:<p>.&#x2F;configure<p>make<p>make install<p>To be able to build and run the app directly from sources, when needed.<p>Right now, it&#x27;s a mess, the &quot;replacement&quot; is:<p>curl whatever.io | sudo bash</text></comment> | <story><title>Bazel can now build Haskell</title><url>https://www.tweag.io/posts/2018-02-28-bazel-haskell.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>aphexairlines</author><text>Given that Nix is already popular in the Haskell ecosystem and it&#x27;s also polyglot, why not build the monorepo with that instead of Bazel?</text></comment> |
15,837,296 | 15,835,728 | 1 | 3 | 15,834,800 | train | <story><title>William Alsup, the coding judge who decides tech cases</title><url>https://www.theverge.com/2017/10/19/16503076/oracle-vs-google-judge-william-alsup-interview-waymo-uber?</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>matt4077</author><text>I you can, read some of the transcripts of Alsup&#x27;s oral arguments. He is incredibly witty, he doesn&#x27;t take any bullshit, yet always seems to remain fair.<p>Especially on HN, I often see (a) cynicism, and (b) the idea that a judge cannot have and show emotions, or that it&#x27;s somehow &quot;unprofessional&quot; to make a joke. Alsup is the perfect counterexample how judges (should ideally) behave.<p>One remarkable passage was in one of the early Waymo vs Uber transcripts, where he makes an impressive case for the proceedings to be public. There is nothing he personally gains from public access to these arguments and documents–he simply believes it to be important for the rule of law.</text></comment> | <story><title>William Alsup, the coding judge who decides tech cases</title><url>https://www.theverge.com/2017/10/19/16503076/oracle-vs-google-judge-william-alsup-interview-waymo-uber?</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jancsika</author><text>&gt; These are bad inside jokes, embarrassing markers of an insular culture that never anticipated having to explain itself in a court of law.<p>I love this sentence.<p>Edit: context-- lawyer talking about GNU, judge asks what GNU stands for, lawyer tells him, judge responds, &quot;That doesn&#x27;t make sense.&quot; A judge who himself codes.</text></comment> |
17,466,824 | 17,466,672 | 1 | 3 | 17,465,812 | train | <story><title>California law requires businesses to let you cancel your subscription online</title><url>http://www.niemanlab.org/2018/07/thanks-to-california-a-news-site-or-other-business-now-has-to-let-you-cancel-your-subscription-online/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>fishbone</author><text>Please listen closely, our menu options have changed</text></item><item><author>danso</author><text>I recently had to cancel an ongoing subscription I had with Equifax, which requires you to call by phone. Unbelievably frustrating. I had to dial the service at least 10 times. Each time, the automated responder would make me go through a very slow menu selection process, only to randomly fail to acknowledge either my correct SSN or zipcode or street number, which I entered using a keypad. As a consumer, I&#x27;ve had to enter info via phone keypad for as long as I can remember, and I&#x27;ve never run into a system (not even small local businesses) that was so randomly buggy.<p>I thought maybe I had the wrong phone number for cancellation. Turns out, when you google &quot;cancel Equifax phone number&quot;, there are several phone numbers listed by Equifax itself, on various sections of its &quot;help&quot; pages.<p>Took me about half an hour to finally reach a human operator. Surprisingly, the cancellation process was quick with her with no haggling. But I imagine the process is so frustrating overall that a good number of people just give up.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mistermann</author><text>We are experiencing higher than normal call volume.<p>Every. Single. Day.<p>I would like to give executives the option to stop this or go to prison for this never ending nonsense. I think most would choose to stop.</text></comment> | <story><title>California law requires businesses to let you cancel your subscription online</title><url>http://www.niemanlab.org/2018/07/thanks-to-california-a-news-site-or-other-business-now-has-to-let-you-cancel-your-subscription-online/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>fishbone</author><text>Please listen closely, our menu options have changed</text></item><item><author>danso</author><text>I recently had to cancel an ongoing subscription I had with Equifax, which requires you to call by phone. Unbelievably frustrating. I had to dial the service at least 10 times. Each time, the automated responder would make me go through a very slow menu selection process, only to randomly fail to acknowledge either my correct SSN or zipcode or street number, which I entered using a keypad. As a consumer, I&#x27;ve had to enter info via phone keypad for as long as I can remember, and I&#x27;ve never run into a system (not even small local businesses) that was so randomly buggy.<p>I thought maybe I had the wrong phone number for cancellation. Turns out, when you google &quot;cancel Equifax phone number&quot;, there are several phone numbers listed by Equifax itself, on various sections of its &quot;help&quot; pages.<p>Took me about half an hour to finally reach a human operator. Surprisingly, the cancellation process was quick with her with no haggling. But I imagine the process is so frustrating overall that a good number of people just give up.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ethagnawl</author><text>That has got to be the default, right?</text></comment> |
17,284,467 | 17,284,730 | 1 | 2 | 17,284,022 | train | <story><title>Using GraalVM to Run Native Java in AWS Lambda with Golang</title><url>https://engineering.opsgenie.com/run-native-java-using-graalvm-in-aws-lambda-with-golang-ba86e27930bf</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>kodablah</author><text>You might be able to even compile Go as a static library and embed it in your binary instead of carrying a .so file around. Regardless, Go&#x27;s FFI story (especially in that direction) is hobbled and you can&#x27;t do things like share structs easily (for obvious reasons, but still annoying). But yes, as soon as you get to C-level, you can mix and match anything and write about it. Running Go in Rust, or Rust in Go, or Go in JS, or whatever.<p>What would really be neat is to leverage Graal&#x27;s polyglot iface a bit higher. I am not sure the status of llgo these days, but compile Go to LLVM bitcode and then leverage that from Java and compile to a single binary. Or even expose Go&#x27;s awesome stdlib to JVM developers that way. But the practicality of doing some of these things becomes a bit lost beyond toy use.</text></comment> | <story><title>Using GraalVM to Run Native Java in AWS Lambda with Golang</title><url>https://engineering.opsgenie.com/run-native-java-using-graalvm-in-aws-lambda-with-golang-ba86e27930bf</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>benmmurphy</author><text>the other alternative is to just implement the go-aws-lambda protocol. it is basically a bunch of go RPC calls that AWS makes to a port that you listen on. if you do it correctly it should be safe to run because AWS can&#x27;t change the protocol in a way that is not backwards compatible with existing go projects. any language that can compile statically and be run on linux can run on AWS lambda because static-go binaries can be deployed to AWS lambda.<p>but this is probably a little less riskier because i&#x27;m sure if AWS made a change to the go protocol they would test it against their existing go libraries they have published but they can&#x27;t test it against your &lt;insert language&gt; implementation.</text></comment> |
37,882,675 | 37,882,338 | 1 | 2 | 37,880,635 | train | <story><title>Undermining Democracy: The EU Commission's Controversial Push for Surveillance</title><url>https://dannymekic.com/202310/undermining-democracy-the-european-commissions-controversial-push-for-digital-surveillance</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>logicchains</author><text>&gt;I wonder what would happen if there were not politicians, if the parliament of Europe were the sum of all its citizens voting for laws in some sort of mega-stack-overflow consensus system<p>There&#x27;s another way to achieve something similar less chaotically: demarchy, which was used for some things in ancient Greece. This involves electing people at random for a limited time period; if the selection is truly random, then the outcome of a couple hundred randomly selected people voting on something should usually match the outcome of the whole population voting on something. And due to it only being for a short period of time, you avoid anyone accumulating too much power.</text></item><item><author>dsign</author><text>I wonder what would happen if there were not politicians, if the parliament of Europe were the sum of all its citizens voting for laws in some sort of mega-stack-overflow consensus system. A part of me wants to believe this madness would end. Another part fears that we would try, at least for a few months, total surveillance and bisections as a form of capital punishment. But on the bright side, we would be able to correct for bad legislation much faster.</text></item><item><author>irusensei</author><text>Its just me that thinks there is something really wrong with the way politicians try to pass such controversial laws?<p>Politicians bring up something controversial. Most of the time influenced by some lobby with very little interest in public benefit.<p>To combat this lots of people need to do activism. Those people need to devote your time and energy to prevent such thing.<p>So far it sounds good but after the dust settles the same politicians and lobbysts bring the thing again this time with another name or sneakily group it into some other law. Perhaps something bad happened and that momentarily gained public support, of course with lots of emotions involved and very little context given to the common folk.<p>The politicians and lobbyists are literally being paid for this. You are not. They can pretty much push the same bullshit forever until it stays while you are devoting your life to prevent it.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>breuleux</author><text>Another advantage is that if you pay random citizens full time to oversee the government, they will be able to talk and negotiate with each other directly, they will have the time to actually study and think about the issues, and they will be able to subpoena the information they need to take good decisions.<p>If you want people to vote meaningfully on issues, you have to empower them to cast the very best vote they could cast, and demarchy is basically the only way this could be done practically in a large society. The concept of a general election or general referendum is aberrant.</text></comment> | <story><title>Undermining Democracy: The EU Commission's Controversial Push for Surveillance</title><url>https://dannymekic.com/202310/undermining-democracy-the-european-commissions-controversial-push-for-digital-surveillance</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>logicchains</author><text>&gt;I wonder what would happen if there were not politicians, if the parliament of Europe were the sum of all its citizens voting for laws in some sort of mega-stack-overflow consensus system<p>There&#x27;s another way to achieve something similar less chaotically: demarchy, which was used for some things in ancient Greece. This involves electing people at random for a limited time period; if the selection is truly random, then the outcome of a couple hundred randomly selected people voting on something should usually match the outcome of the whole population voting on something. And due to it only being for a short period of time, you avoid anyone accumulating too much power.</text></item><item><author>dsign</author><text>I wonder what would happen if there were not politicians, if the parliament of Europe were the sum of all its citizens voting for laws in some sort of mega-stack-overflow consensus system. A part of me wants to believe this madness would end. Another part fears that we would try, at least for a few months, total surveillance and bisections as a form of capital punishment. But on the bright side, we would be able to correct for bad legislation much faster.</text></item><item><author>irusensei</author><text>Its just me that thinks there is something really wrong with the way politicians try to pass such controversial laws?<p>Politicians bring up something controversial. Most of the time influenced by some lobby with very little interest in public benefit.<p>To combat this lots of people need to do activism. Those people need to devote your time and energy to prevent such thing.<p>So far it sounds good but after the dust settles the same politicians and lobbysts bring the thing again this time with another name or sneakily group it into some other law. Perhaps something bad happened and that momentarily gained public support, of course with lots of emotions involved and very little context given to the common folk.<p>The politicians and lobbyists are literally being paid for this. You are not. They can pretty much push the same bullshit forever until it stays while you are devoting your life to prevent it.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>noman-land</author><text>I think you&#x27;re basically describing the Byzantine fault tolerant consensus mechanisms used by blockchains.</text></comment> |
40,421,128 | 40,420,722 | 1 | 2 | 40,417,345 | train | <story><title>The People Deliberately Killing Facebook</title><url>https://www.wheresyoured.at/killingfacebook/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>milderworkacc</author><text>Not sure where to start with this one.<p>Can anybody briefly explain what a “rot economist” is? Is it meant to be capitalised “ROT economist” which stands for something? Has my browser not rendered the characters correctly or something?<p>This story of course includes the now almost mandatory attack on e2e encryption, which according to this account when coupled with the people you know feature is “a dangerous tool” - with little explanation as to the nature and size of the danger.<p>This part is interesting: “Worse still, accounts that were less than 15-days-old now made up 20 percent of all outgoing friend requests, and more than half of friend requests were sent by somebody who was making more than 50 of them a day…”<p>The explanation leaves a lot to be desired though:<p>“…heavily suggesting that Facebook was growing its platform’s “connections” through spam.”<p>Doesn’t this make perfect sense where a new user joins Facebook with no friends to start with, then in the first few weeks of using it finds all of their friends and adds them?<p>The whole thing reads like a grab bag of grievances rather than a forensic takedown, shame.</text></comment> | <story><title>The People Deliberately Killing Facebook</title><url>https://www.wheresyoured.at/killingfacebook/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>nojvek</author><text>Companies make profits because people spend their money on what those companies have to offer.<p>Facebook offers a dopamine hit. And so does X and TikTok. To some extent also HN.<p>The infinite scroll slot machine.<p>At the end of the day, we are an evolved version of dopamine driven apes.<p>Meta family of Apps (Facebook, Messenger, Whatsapp, Instagram) has total WAU of 3.05 billion. Almost half the planet.<p>---<p>Sam Altman, Sundar Picchai, Mark Zuckerberg saying that AI will somehow cure cancer and solve climate change seems pretty far fetched.<p>The closer reality is that as the AI models advance, they will figure out ever better ways of making their apps as addictive as cocaine.</text></comment> |
19,818,994 | 19,818,464 | 1 | 3 | 19,817,858 | train | <story><title>GCC 9.1 Released</title><url>https://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2019-05/msg00024.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>umvi</author><text>For anyone wanting an easy way of trying it out, I recommend grabbing `zbeekman&#x2F;nightly-gcc-trunk-docker-image:latest` from Docker Hub, which has the latest version of GCC pre-built (which, actually looking it it right now is 10.0) - also, see GitHub landing page for it[1].<p>I find this to be the easiest way to try out new GCC versions and I actually use it exclusively for building testing my GCC 9 projects. With just a small wrapper Dockerfile, you can easy accommodate CMake or any other build dependencies.<p>For example, I have one I use for building CMake projects[2] (see README of same project for example of how to use said docker image).<p>GCC 9 is great, by the way. One of the best improvements, IMO is that gcov can now print coverage reports to stdout in JSON format which means you can take advantage of parallel computing to generate coverage reports fast. The Dockerfile I linked to in [2] above is a part of a utility I made as a drop-in replacement for lcov and can generate lcov reports at times up to 100x faster thanks to GCC 9 improvements.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;zbeekman&#x2F;nightly-gcc-trunk-docker-image" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;zbeekman&#x2F;nightly-gcc-trunk-docker-image</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;RPGillespie6&#x2F;fastcov&#x2F;blob&#x2F;master&#x2F;Dockerfile" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;RPGillespie6&#x2F;fastcov&#x2F;blob&#x2F;master&#x2F;Dockerfi...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>GCC 9.1 Released</title><url>https://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2019-05/msg00024.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>qalmakka</author><text>I&#x27;m building it right now, I&#x27;m very curious to try the new features and especially the improved diagnostics. The competition between Clang and GCC has been a blessing, they&#x27;re both better than ever.</text></comment> |
36,283,994 | 36,283,573 | 1 | 2 | 36,279,323 | train | <story><title>Growing from engineer to manager</title><url>https://newsletter.eng-leadership.com/p/growing-from-engineer-to-manager</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mindvirus</author><text>Even in FAANG it&#x27;s a promotion. If not immediately, the cap for ICs is much lower.<p>Principal engineer at FAANG (L8): likely one of the best engineers in the world.<p>Engineering director at FAANG (L8): manager who&#x27;s been there for a while and is good at acquiring more reports.<p>As a ratio, there are far more eng directors to managers than principal engineers to engineers.<p>All that said, know what you want in your career. If you love building, build. If you want money, do management.</text></item><item><author>usrnm</author><text>This trope of &quot;growing&quot; from an engineer to a manager needs to die. I grow as an engineer when I learn new stuff or become better at building things. Becoming a manager is changing jobs, not growth in any meaningful way. Not even in salary in many places</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jayroh</author><text>&gt; If you want money, do management.<p>If you make it to my comment, please - do not go into management for the money. If you want to build, then remain an IC. If you want to grow other engineers, further THEIR career, make THEM better - go into management.<p>The friends of mine who ended up in management for the money and complain about their reports make me so angry.</text></comment> | <story><title>Growing from engineer to manager</title><url>https://newsletter.eng-leadership.com/p/growing-from-engineer-to-manager</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mindvirus</author><text>Even in FAANG it&#x27;s a promotion. If not immediately, the cap for ICs is much lower.<p>Principal engineer at FAANG (L8): likely one of the best engineers in the world.<p>Engineering director at FAANG (L8): manager who&#x27;s been there for a while and is good at acquiring more reports.<p>As a ratio, there are far more eng directors to managers than principal engineers to engineers.<p>All that said, know what you want in your career. If you love building, build. If you want money, do management.</text></item><item><author>usrnm</author><text>This trope of &quot;growing&quot; from an engineer to a manager needs to die. I grow as an engineer when I learn new stuff or become better at building things. Becoming a manager is changing jobs, not growth in any meaningful way. Not even in salary in many places</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dasil003</author><text>Your point is that managers are more upwardly mobile, which is fair, but that doesn&#x27;t mean when you make the switch it is a promotion. G9 IC -&gt; M0 will not increase your salary. It does grant you more power, but that is not a promotion per se.<p>The other thing to watch out for is manager growth over the last 10-15 years was a result of the structural needs of an unprecedented tech bull run. Now that the industry has moved into belt-tightening mode, the heaviest scrutiny is falling on managers. The type of political games a typical 35 year-old EM (5 years coding, 10 years EM) may not be as effective as they were in the previous environment. There are a LOT of EMs getting pipped or knocked back to IC these days, whereas ICs with a bit of product&#x2F;UX sense, ability to think a bit beyond their silo, and willing to work on &quot;boring&quot; business applications will continue to be highly valued, especially given the amount of dead weight that has found its way in by grinding leetcode.</text></comment> |
35,591,782 | 35,590,522 | 1 | 3 | 35,589,179 | train | <story><title>FSF Slams Google over Dropping JPEG-XL in Chrome</title><url>https://www.phoronix.com/news/FSF-Slams-Google-JPEG-XL</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Someone1234</author><text>This is worth looking at:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;caniuse.com&#x2F;jpegxl" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;caniuse.com&#x2F;jpegxl</a><p>Unless I&#x27;m misunderstanding that, no browser actually ever supported JPEG-XL without a flag (or at all on Safari&#x27;s cases). No OS appears to have supported it natively either[0]. The reality is that formats have a chicken &amp; egg problem. Normally Google deserves to get dunked on, but in this case, why is Google the scapegoat instead of the entire industry that didn&#x27;t adopt it? Feels like there is a bigger issue with JPEG-XL&#x27;s failure to launch, and they did more than some (Apple? Microsoft?).<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;JPEG_XL#Industry_support_and_adoption" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;JPEG_XL#Industry_support_and_a...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>crote</author><text>Yeah, because it is a new format. You don&#x27;t immediately publicly release support for an experimental format.<p>Chrome added support for the in-progress version of JPEG XL in April 2021. The core coding specification was finished in March 2022, and the last part of the spec wasn&#x27;t done until October 2022.<p>Chrome removed it in December 2022, citing a &quot;lack of interest from the ecosystem&quot;, despite it having support in most major image editors already. It was a new format which was rapidly being adopted and a lot of major players were very excited about it, but Chrome&#x27;s removal pretty much killed it due to their dominance in the browser space. At the time of removal, it had better support than HEIC!</text></comment> | <story><title>FSF Slams Google over Dropping JPEG-XL in Chrome</title><url>https://www.phoronix.com/news/FSF-Slams-Google-JPEG-XL</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Someone1234</author><text>This is worth looking at:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;caniuse.com&#x2F;jpegxl" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;caniuse.com&#x2F;jpegxl</a><p>Unless I&#x27;m misunderstanding that, no browser actually ever supported JPEG-XL without a flag (or at all on Safari&#x27;s cases). No OS appears to have supported it natively either[0]. The reality is that formats have a chicken &amp; egg problem. Normally Google deserves to get dunked on, but in this case, why is Google the scapegoat instead of the entire industry that didn&#x27;t adopt it? Feels like there is a bigger issue with JPEG-XL&#x27;s failure to launch, and they did more than some (Apple? Microsoft?).<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;JPEG_XL#Industry_support_and_adoption" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;JPEG_XL#Industry_support_and_a...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>GuB-42</author><text>The problem is that old PNG and JPEG are good enough for most purposes. They are certainly not as efficient but with todays technology and bandwidth, there is little downside to using JPEG and you know it will be supported everywhere.<p>It is not the case for video. Video is still a huge bandwidth hog, and finding better codecs is worth it, that&#x27;s why they get better support. Webp is a clever hack as it is essentially a single frame webm video, so if you have webm support, which is worth it, then you can have webp almost for free, JPEG-XL doesn&#x27;t have that incentive.</text></comment> |
28,533,844 | 28,533,993 | 1 | 2 | 28,533,449 | train | <story><title>Young People Are Anxious About Climate Change, Say Governments Are Failing Them</title><url>https://text.npr.org/1037023551</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Manuel_D</author><text>&gt; 56% agreed with the viewpoint that humanity is doomed, according to the study.<p>Climate change is a serious issue, and one that stands poised to do a substantial amount of harm, but if the majority of young people think that humanity is doomed then I seriously suspect that there&#x27;s misinformation about the impact of climate change at play here. Even the more pessimistic outlooks of climate change still leave substantial areas of habitable climate. Many societies would be harmed, and disproportionately among lower income equatorial countries, but I think it&#x27;s a massive stretch to say that humanity is doomed based on our climate projections.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>skyfaller</author><text>I think it&#x27;s irresponsible to act as though the climate crisis is just a matter of weather, and not how also we will respond to it. Resource shortages caused by the climate crisis could cause resource wars, and if weapons of mass destruction are deployed during those wars, that could easily finish off homo sapiens.<p>The mere collapse of civilization and mass death should be bad enough that we take drastic action to prevent it, but I do also think it would be foolish to dismiss the possibility of human extinction.</text></comment> | <story><title>Young People Are Anxious About Climate Change, Say Governments Are Failing Them</title><url>https://text.npr.org/1037023551</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Manuel_D</author><text>&gt; 56% agreed with the viewpoint that humanity is doomed, according to the study.<p>Climate change is a serious issue, and one that stands poised to do a substantial amount of harm, but if the majority of young people think that humanity is doomed then I seriously suspect that there&#x27;s misinformation about the impact of climate change at play here. Even the more pessimistic outlooks of climate change still leave substantial areas of habitable climate. Many societies would be harmed, and disproportionately among lower income equatorial countries, but I think it&#x27;s a massive stretch to say that humanity is doomed based on our climate projections.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>over_bridge</author><text>I think what people mean by &#x27;humanity is doomed&#x27; isn&#x27;t about whether the homo sapiens species will continue - it will.<p>The fear is more that society collapses. Our way of life may be doomed. With our extreme focus on career specialisation over the past century, very few, if any of us have the generalist skills to thrive in a world equivalent to pre-industrial times. It&#x27;s not something to shrug at. What country can actually live as a self contained unit without global supply lines and dependencies? What families or individuals could?<p>It&#x27;s also true that there will be substantial areas of habitable climate. The problem is that people who weren&#x27;t lucky enough to be born and live in one, won&#x27;t simply accept their fates and die. Eight billion people will surge into a relatively small habitable band - in the process this will destroy the arable land and severely strain systems like water, power, waste and healthcare.</text></comment> |
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