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32,411,507 | 32,409,676 | 1 | 2 | 32,408,393 | train | <story><title>Essential Climbing Knots</title><url>https://www.climbing.com/skills/essential-climbing-knots-complete-guide/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>kyledrake</author><text>Random comment: Securing the trace eight with a second knot is really not necessary, as it is a self tightening knot. Most climbers don&#x27;t do it, my climbing safety book doesn&#x27;t show it and all gyms I&#x27;ve been too, sans one in Vancouver WA for some reason, don&#x27;t require it. Rough rule is two fists length for the tail and you&#x27;re good.<p>Another comment mentioned this too, it&#x27;s much easier to untie if tied in a specific way and if you do lead climbing they usually show you the technique. You can also do it with a Yosemite finish for a similar improvement.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>idealmedtech</author><text>If you clean a figure 8 really well, it&#x27;s just as easy to untie after a whip as a bowline (okay, maybe not just as easy, but very close), and much much more universal for your partner to inspect.<p>The process I follow to ensure a clean knot every time:<p>1. Tie your figure 8, with the tail the same size every time (use your body as a ruler, testing a few lengths to get the perfect size)<p>2. Pass the tail up through your hard points so the knot is only a few inches from the bottom hard point.<p>3. Orient your knot so the tail is coming out of the bottom right side<p>4. This is the most important step! Instead of passing the tail through the inside of the knot when starting the followthrough, pass it <i>in between</i> the tail strand and the bottom right of the knot.<p>5. Follow through as normal. It should come out almost clean (eg no need to flip strands over each other)<p>6. For all 4 combos of top and bottom strand, yank them to make the knot very tight. The tighter and cleaner it is, the easier to untie after a whip.<p>7. If you do this all, the load strand will be on top, so no difficult flipped strands after a whip!<p>This is just my process, what&#x27;s most important is doing something that works for you and that you can get right every time.</text></comment> | <story><title>Essential Climbing Knots</title><url>https://www.climbing.com/skills/essential-climbing-knots-complete-guide/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>kyledrake</author><text>Random comment: Securing the trace eight with a second knot is really not necessary, as it is a self tightening knot. Most climbers don&#x27;t do it, my climbing safety book doesn&#x27;t show it and all gyms I&#x27;ve been too, sans one in Vancouver WA for some reason, don&#x27;t require it. Rough rule is two fists length for the tail and you&#x27;re good.<p>Another comment mentioned this too, it&#x27;s much easier to untie if tied in a specific way and if you do lead climbing they usually show you the technique. You can also do it with a Yosemite finish for a similar improvement.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jfindley</author><text>This is really regional. In some countries most people use the second knot, in others most don&#x27;t. E.g. I&#x27;ve rarely seen it used in the US, but it&#x27;s standard practice in much of europe.<p>Whichever you do, if you do it different to the majority view for the region you can often end up with some heavily-opinionated person coming up and telling you that you&#x27;re doing it wrong so I mostly switch depending on where I am. It&#x27;s easier than trying to explain that [whichever way] is fine and common practice elsewhere.</text></comment> |
20,817,700 | 20,817,611 | 1 | 2 | 20,816,457 | train | <story><title>China’s CCTV network took just 7 minutes to capture BBC reporter (2017)</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2017/12/13/china-cctv-bbc-reporter/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mrich</author><text>The interesting part is not the story itself, but that they chose to demo it to the BBC. Marketing at its best, they want everyone to be fully aware of their capabilities. Wouldn&#x27;t be surprised if they were overstated, so as to keep citizens in check. The BBC willingly plays along and does not even question the capabilities either way.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>xster</author><text>There&#x27;s such a funny mismatch of culture and display of poor international PR sense too.<p>Based on some cursory search, it looks like it&#x27;s another one of those local-government-pioneered pilot&#x2F;experiments [1] like the credit score (except there are dozens of cities in that pilot).<p>The second tier city local government, trying to tout their achievements at the national level, then goes on a PR spree [2] (probably to earn points for the local party secretary). They even proudly market it as &quot;Guiyang has &#x27;Skynet&#x27; everywhere. No matter where you go, there are eyes on you,&quot;. I can totally visualize the locals thinking, who wouldn&#x27;t think this is cool and an indication of Guiyang finally being ready to join the ranks of the civilized world.<p>Meanwhile, nobody at the local level thinks (or has enough international context to know) that this is a huge negative rather than an achievement from the western perspective. They probably can&#x27;t even wrap their heads around why wouldn&#x27;t everyone want this. Smelling the big story, in goes the BBC also, presenting this story as this state of the iron curtain, straight as constructed from Xi&#x27;s directives.<p>The 2 sides of the story are just living in very different worlds.<p>[1] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.globaltimes.cn&#x2F;content&#x2F;1093864.shtml" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.globaltimes.cn&#x2F;content&#x2F;1093864.shtml</a>
[2] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;webcache.googleusercontent.com&#x2F;search?q=cache:eoO1dqEQhHYJ:www.eguiyang.com.cn&#x2F;2019-05&#x2F;30&#x2F;content_37475598.htm" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;webcache.googleusercontent.com&#x2F;search?q=cache:eoO1dqE...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>China’s CCTV network took just 7 minutes to capture BBC reporter (2017)</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2017/12/13/china-cctv-bbc-reporter/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mrich</author><text>The interesting part is not the story itself, but that they chose to demo it to the BBC. Marketing at its best, they want everyone to be fully aware of their capabilities. Wouldn&#x27;t be surprised if they were overstated, so as to keep citizens in check. The BBC willingly plays along and does not even question the capabilities either way.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>megaremote</author><text>&gt; The BBC willingly plays along and does not even question the capabilities either way.<p>What should they do? Not run the story? It is of interest, it is scary to a lot of people. It does also warn people wanting to hide from it.<p>Should no one talk about this technology, or China&#x27;s current capabilities? Do you think that would be better?</text></comment> |
14,396,180 | 14,395,723 | 1 | 3 | 14,392,931 | train | <story><title>Laptop Ban a Reaction to X-Ray Equipment Stolen by ISIS</title><url>https://professional-troublemaker.com/2017/05/22/exclusive-laptop-ban-reaction-to-x-ray-equipment-stolen-by-isis/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Animats</author><text>The secrecy issue has gotten out of hand.<p>The classic military view of secrecy is time-limited. &quot;Where the ship was last week is unclassified. Where the ship was yesterday is confidential. Where the ship is now is secret. Where the ship will be tomorrow is top secret.&quot; The opposition will eventually find out what you&#x27;re planning on doing. The goal is for them to find out the hard way, when incoming fire starts hitting them.<p>The intelligence community has a longer-term view. &quot;We know, and they know. We think they don&#x27;t know that we know they know. We hope they don&#x27;t know how we found out that they know.&quot; This protection of sources mindset leads to things being kept secret long after all involved parties know.<p>The anti-terrrorism community has adopted the intelligence community mindset. This is a problem.</text></comment> | <story><title>Laptop Ban a Reaction to X-Ray Equipment Stolen by ISIS</title><url>https://professional-troublemaker.com/2017/05/22/exclusive-laptop-ban-reaction-to-x-ray-equipment-stolen-by-isis/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>tsaoutourpants</author><text>Hi All, author of the article here. Happy to answer any questions you may have about the laptop ban, aviation security, TSA assholery, Trump&#x27;s travel-related civil rights abuses (incl. the &quot;Muslim ban&quot;), or other such topics of interest.<p>And, thanks for the support... HN is always one of the first communities to upvote my work and help me share it with the world. As a computer scientist turned almost-lawyer, I definitely appreciate!</text></comment> |
11,983,725 | 11,983,547 | 1 | 2 | 11,981,496 | train | <story><title>Reasons not to use (i.e., be used by) Facebook</title><url>https://stallman.org/facebook.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>umanwizard</author><text>Nobody needs GNU software; they can use FreeBSD which is just as good. They can also use clang and lldb instead of gcc and gdb.<p>You can debate about whether those would have existed in their present form without the leadership of the FSF, but then you&#x27;d be making a different argument.<p>By the way, I&#x27;m not sure if you are trying to imply that Stallman brought us the Internet but I can&#x27;t see how that could possibly be true.</text></item><item><author>chflags</author><text>I&#x27;ll bet Zuckerberg and countless Facebook employees have used software written by Stallman.<p>At the risk of being wrong, I&#x27;d even go so far as to say they <i>need</i> this software.<p>But does Stallman ever need to use software written by Zuckerberg or Facebook employees?<p>Personalities and errors in judgment aside, give respect and credit where it is due.<p>I have never needed Facebook&#x27;s software. And I doubt I ever will.<p>From a purely utilitarian viewpoint, my gratitude goes to Stallman and the people who brought us the internet. I&#x27;m not sure what I could thank Facebook for.<p>If Zuckerberg had failed to be in the right place at the right time, there would always be a substitute.<p>But if there was no Stallman back in the 70&#x27;s and 80&#x27;s, would we still have gcc, gdb and so much free, open source software?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>chflags</author><text>&quot;...I&#x27;m not sure if you are trying to imply that Stallman brought us the Internet...&quot;<p>No. The opposite. I&#x27;m trying to draw attention to the fact that besides free open source software, improvements in the network allow companies like Facebook to grow as big as they are.<p>Before clang, FreeBSD used gcc. I&#x27;m actually not a GNU&#x2F;Linux user; I wish BSD did not have to use gcc, but for as long as I&#x27;ve been a user, release engineering has always used gcc. I would personally prefer to use something like pcc as opposed to clang.<p>Today, lots of companies use GNU software, when they could just as easily use BSD. And many BSD users still need gcc to compile their OS. Not how I expected things to turn out but attacking Stallman makes little sense at this point.<p>Instead, maybe we should be thanking him.<p>Companies like Facebook offer very little while taking all our personal information for their commercial use, while open source projects like BSD and GNU continue to offer a great deal, without requiring so much as an account or password, much less tracking our every move.</text></comment> | <story><title>Reasons not to use (i.e., be used by) Facebook</title><url>https://stallman.org/facebook.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>umanwizard</author><text>Nobody needs GNU software; they can use FreeBSD which is just as good. They can also use clang and lldb instead of gcc and gdb.<p>You can debate about whether those would have existed in their present form without the leadership of the FSF, but then you&#x27;d be making a different argument.<p>By the way, I&#x27;m not sure if you are trying to imply that Stallman brought us the Internet but I can&#x27;t see how that could possibly be true.</text></item><item><author>chflags</author><text>I&#x27;ll bet Zuckerberg and countless Facebook employees have used software written by Stallman.<p>At the risk of being wrong, I&#x27;d even go so far as to say they <i>need</i> this software.<p>But does Stallman ever need to use software written by Zuckerberg or Facebook employees?<p>Personalities and errors in judgment aside, give respect and credit where it is due.<p>I have never needed Facebook&#x27;s software. And I doubt I ever will.<p>From a purely utilitarian viewpoint, my gratitude goes to Stallman and the people who brought us the internet. I&#x27;m not sure what I could thank Facebook for.<p>If Zuckerberg had failed to be in the right place at the right time, there would always be a substitute.<p>But if there was no Stallman back in the 70&#x27;s and 80&#x27;s, would we still have gcc, gdb and so much free, open source software?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>webkike</author><text>Needed. LLVM hasn&#x27;t been around as long as Facebook, and for a long time initially you couldn&#x27;t (or wanted to) build the Linux kernel with it.</text></comment> |
35,753,414 | 35,752,309 | 1 | 3 | 35,751,887 | train | <story><title>Why is it so hard to pull off a lunar landing?</title><url>https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-01454-7</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>machina_ex_deus</author><text>The Apollo moon landings were such an insane achievement. They did it in a time where digital processing was in it&#x27;s infancy and barely existed, minimization technology was undeveloped, many modern materials which are much stronger and lighter weren&#x27;t invented yet.<p>And they managed to live broadcast from the moon! Storage was in it&#x27;s infancy, so even storing a video from the moon was impossible (they would need many reels of film that just wouldn&#x27;t fit.<p>Digital cameras weren&#x27;t invented, you only had analogue cameras. Most of them required film - and can&#x27;t be developed on the spot, it requires special equipment. So to get video from the moon, the used cathode ray tube cameras - and even the cathode ray tubes of TV news were huge at the time, you can look at pictures, these things used to take a whole truck to carry. But they managed to get a very small cathode ray tube camera there, and to film long videos of hours of missions on the moon.<p>And get managed to broadcast it all with analogue RF all the way from the moon to earth. With no digital signal processing, because that wasn&#x27;t fast enough back then for any real time use. And with surprisingly low noise for an analogue transmission. They made a whole network of receivers on earth to be able to do it.<p>Today all of that would be cheap, but back then it must&#x27;ve been quite the achievement.<p>They also had pretty minimal computational power available compared to newer attempts. But maybe putting a human in control is enough.<p>Google&#x27;s moon challenge is pretty cool. They actually wanted to give a bonus for taking pictures of the original moon landing site. That could&#x27;ve been really nice.<p>But sadly, NASA was afraid that the site would be disturbed and declared no fight zone over it.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pulvinar</author><text>Folks, NASA&#x27;s Surveyor program (1966-68) is a better comparison here, not Apollo. It made the first moon landing by the US (after the Russian&#x27;s Luna 9, 4 months before), and the first landing of the series was successful, though some of the others failed. It was a fully automatic landing, unlike Neil Armstrong&#x27;s.<p>It built on lessons learned from the many failures of the Ranger program before it. And the Russians lost 12 landers before their first success.</text></comment> | <story><title>Why is it so hard to pull off a lunar landing?</title><url>https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-01454-7</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>machina_ex_deus</author><text>The Apollo moon landings were such an insane achievement. They did it in a time where digital processing was in it&#x27;s infancy and barely existed, minimization technology was undeveloped, many modern materials which are much stronger and lighter weren&#x27;t invented yet.<p>And they managed to live broadcast from the moon! Storage was in it&#x27;s infancy, so even storing a video from the moon was impossible (they would need many reels of film that just wouldn&#x27;t fit.<p>Digital cameras weren&#x27;t invented, you only had analogue cameras. Most of them required film - and can&#x27;t be developed on the spot, it requires special equipment. So to get video from the moon, the used cathode ray tube cameras - and even the cathode ray tubes of TV news were huge at the time, you can look at pictures, these things used to take a whole truck to carry. But they managed to get a very small cathode ray tube camera there, and to film long videos of hours of missions on the moon.<p>And get managed to broadcast it all with analogue RF all the way from the moon to earth. With no digital signal processing, because that wasn&#x27;t fast enough back then for any real time use. And with surprisingly low noise for an analogue transmission. They made a whole network of receivers on earth to be able to do it.<p>Today all of that would be cheap, but back then it must&#x27;ve been quite the achievement.<p>They also had pretty minimal computational power available compared to newer attempts. But maybe putting a human in control is enough.<p>Google&#x27;s moon challenge is pretty cool. They actually wanted to give a bonus for taking pictures of the original moon landing site. That could&#x27;ve been really nice.<p>But sadly, NASA was afraid that the site would be disturbed and declared no fight zone over it.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bouncycastle</author><text>back on those days, the best brains of their generation were not occupied with thinking about how to make people click ads...</text></comment> |
22,910,241 | 22,910,321 | 1 | 3 | 22,907,306 | train | <story><title>Looking Glass: Run a Windows VM on Linux in a Window with Native Performance</title><url>https://looking-glass.hostfission.com/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jchw</author><text>This works well for the most part. However, there are some things worth considering.<p>For one, the frame relay program will need to start in your guest before Looking Glass can connect. Last I checked the best you can do is have it start at login, so you need autologin to have a somewhat seamless setup.<p>Secondly, the cursor is sent through using the SPICE protocol, which is convenient. Unfortunately Looking Glass has no support for also handling audio, and no intent to merge such functionality in the future. So if you want audio, you’ll have to set up Qemu to forward audio directly to the host.<p>Finally, GPU passthrough setups is the thing that sold me on NixOS. If you’re a fairly experienced Linux user, setting up this complicated and multifaceted setup in a mostly reproducible way using a single file of configuration is pretty pleasing. Most of my configuration was this:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gist.github.com&#x2F;jchv&#x2F;b0e4b39679e450536a17cc6a5d69169a" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gist.github.com&#x2F;jchv&#x2F;b0e4b39679e450536a17cc6a5d69169...</a><p>Really, all you need is to substitute the right IDs and it should practically work anywhere, all you have to do is setup a VM with the requirements met (UEFI, PCI-e device passthrough, Looking Glass device attached, and KVM FR server running) and run Looking Glass.<p>Ultimately, I dropped Looking Glass and GPU passthrough. It was a little cumbersome and performance wasn’t perfect. I ran GPU passthrough on a physical monitor for a little while, and then dropped it entirely after finding out that Steam Proton and Wine actually covered all of my bases anyways.</text></comment> | <story><title>Looking Glass: Run a Windows VM on Linux in a Window with Native Performance</title><url>https://looking-glass.hostfission.com/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>DoofusOfDeath</author><text>Slightly off-topic:<p>I&#x27;m getting ready to build a new Linux gaming PC. I&#x27;m considering installing Windows 10 in a guest VM so I can run a few modern games that do poorly under Steam &#x2F; Proton.<p>Anyone suggestions for good sources of info regarding which software stacks (e.g., Ubuntu 19.10 + VMWare) are likely to provide a good experience? Graphics performance matters.<p>I&#x27;m unwilling to run Windows 10 as the <i>host</i> OS because of personal feelings about telemetry.</text></comment> |
21,380,642 | 21,380,846 | 1 | 2 | 21,380,227 | train | <story><title>Dissent at Facebook over hands-off stance on political ads</title><url>http://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/28/technology/facebook-mark-zuckerberg-political-ads.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>AnimalMuppet</author><text>If Facebook decides which political ads are truthful, then either they reject <i>all</i> political ads (because when was the last time someone ran a political ad that was wholly truthful?), or else they have do decide where to draw the line. Wherever they draw the line, they&#x27;re going to reject someone&#x27;s ad, and be exposed to screams of how they&#x27;re biased for the other side. That&#x27;s not going to end well for them.<p>I mean, just running them all is <i>also</i> getting Zuckerberg raked over the coals[1], but I think picking and choosing which ads are &quot;truthful enough&quot; is going to be worse.<p>And that&#x27;s if Facebook is actually completely unbiased. If this becomes a vehicle for the biases of those at FB charged with judging the ads, that&#x27;s even worse.<p>[1] Zuck was getting raked over the coals in the name of truth, but I suspect it was at least partly because those who did so thought they would benefit politically if FB censored their opponents&#x27; ads.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>j-c-hewitt</author><text>It&#x27;s really a question of whether or not Facebook should submit to FEC regulation or not. Other media outlets that run political ads need to submit to FEC regulation. Why does Facebook get an exemption? Newspapers literally have to run political ads by their editorial board and TV has to do something similar. It&#x27;s one of the reasons why political ads are so bland and content-free: they don&#x27;t want to make any claims that could be evaluated as true or false.</text></comment> | <story><title>Dissent at Facebook over hands-off stance on political ads</title><url>http://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/28/technology/facebook-mark-zuckerberg-political-ads.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>AnimalMuppet</author><text>If Facebook decides which political ads are truthful, then either they reject <i>all</i> political ads (because when was the last time someone ran a political ad that was wholly truthful?), or else they have do decide where to draw the line. Wherever they draw the line, they&#x27;re going to reject someone&#x27;s ad, and be exposed to screams of how they&#x27;re biased for the other side. That&#x27;s not going to end well for them.<p>I mean, just running them all is <i>also</i> getting Zuckerberg raked over the coals[1], but I think picking and choosing which ads are &quot;truthful enough&quot; is going to be worse.<p>And that&#x27;s if Facebook is actually completely unbiased. If this becomes a vehicle for the biases of those at FB charged with judging the ads, that&#x27;s even worse.<p>[1] Zuck was getting raked over the coals in the name of truth, but I suspect it was at least partly because those who did so thought they would benefit politically if FB censored their opponents&#x27; ads.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jonbronson</author><text>It&#x27;s a fallacy to believe that the ability to determine the truthfulness of the content of an ad is binary. 100% or 0%. It&#x27;s a spectrum. There are obvious truths, shades of gray, blatant misinformation, and everything in between. At the very least, they should clearly disallow verifiably false information. An advertisement aimed at Black voters with the wrong day for voting? That&#x27;s <i>clearly</i> voter disinformation aimed at voter suppression. How close Facebook gets to the gray areas is by no means an easy problem, but it&#x27;s patently false to pretend they can do nothing.</text></comment> |
22,759,998 | 22,759,960 | 1 | 3 | 22,758,227 | train | <story><title>Additional 6.6M File for Initial Unemployment Benefits [pdf]</title><url>https://www.dol.gov/ui/data.pdf</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>lotsofpulp</author><text>The money saving move is to pay for the insurance via COBRA only after you need healthcare, since it’s retroactive.</text></item><item><author>epc</author><text>Just experienced this with my spouse leaving Google in February. COBRA window was 60 days from last date of employment. We weren&#x27;t going to go with COBRA until the pandemic expanded to the US, then we paid for two months.</text></item><item><author>PragmaticPulp</author><text>&gt; What will the employees, in the US at least, do for health insurance? A pandemic is when you need it. These employees will be strained to pay for COBRA.<p>Strongly agree that health care coverage is a major concern. We have a long way to go toward an ideal situation.<p>Sadly, many of the people who are first to be laid off are least likely to have employer-sponsored insurance benefits in the first place (hourly jobs). If they already had ACA-subsidized healthcare plans, nothing really changes for them.<p>For everyone else, there are some mitigating factors:<p>COBRA coverage has a grace period following termination. If you opt in to COBRA coverage during this grace period, the coverage is retroactive up to your date of termination. Please check with your insurance, but I believe the minimum grace period is 30 days, although I&#x27;ve personally seen higher numbers listed in my plans.<p>Many insurers have indicated that they will waive costs for COVID19 testing, and some have even waived copays for COVID19 treatment. I expect we&#x27;ll see more pressure on this as time goes on.<p>This is a good time to remind everyone that a job less event triggers a special enrollment period for the ACA. Visit healthcare.gov to evaluate your insurance options. COBRA isn&#x27;t the only option.</text></item><item><author>aluminussoma</author><text>What will the employees, in the US at least, do for health insurance? A pandemic is when you need it. These employees will be strained to pay for COBRA.<p>I fear that we will see revolutions in countries where this is not contained, from either a health or economic perspective. An old saying is that you should buy stocks when there is blood in the streets. I hope that doesn&#x27;t become literal.</text></item><item><author>PragmaticPulp</author><text>Unemployment benefits have been significantly expanded under the Coronavirus aid bill. The benefit amounts will sound small if you&#x27;re living in an expensive city like SF or Seattle, but $600&#x2F;week from the federal government and a similar amount from state unemployment insurance means that unemployment benefits can pay up to an equivalent of $50-60K&#x2F;year right now. That goes a long way in most parts of the country, especially when you&#x27;re stuck at home. Of course companies are going to opt to shift people to unemployment benefits while they&#x27;re forced into downtime.<p>In some situations, people can actually earn <i>more</i> from unemployment benefits by being laid off due to some hasty oversights in the aid package (Reference: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cnbc.com&#x2F;2020&#x2F;03&#x2F;27&#x2F;how-unemployed-workers-could-get-more-than-100percent-of-their-paycheck.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cnbc.com&#x2F;2020&#x2F;03&#x2F;27&#x2F;how-unemployed-workers-could...</a> ). This doesn&#x27;t account for lost benefits or the risk involved in losing a job, but it could disincentivize people returning to work if it means their income will go down.<p>Of the many people I know who have been “laid off”, all of them have been told they’ll be first in line to be re-hired the moment quarantine ends.<p>If a business can’t make money, it makes more sense for them to let employees collect unemployment during the downtime than to overextend the business’s balance sheet. During normal times, this is a common tactic for seasonal businesses. I have friends in seasonal tourism industries who received training on applying for unemployment benefits during their annual off-season layoffs each year. They even have an explicit system for tracking seniority in the re-hires.<p>Of course, the longer this quarantine lasts, the more likely their businesses are to disappear before they can re-open. Unfortunately we won’t know this number for many months. For now, the initial unemployment claims number can&#x27;t discriminate between jobs that have been temporarily paused and jobs that have been eliminated.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jrs235</author><text>Yes, you can &quot;float&quot; for 60 days without signing up for and paying for COBRA and wait until you are in need of healthcare. After the need you can sign up but you will have to &quot;back&quot;pay the coverage too. So waiting to the last day will mean you owe the two previous months of premiums.</text></comment> | <story><title>Additional 6.6M File for Initial Unemployment Benefits [pdf]</title><url>https://www.dol.gov/ui/data.pdf</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>lotsofpulp</author><text>The money saving move is to pay for the insurance via COBRA only after you need healthcare, since it’s retroactive.</text></item><item><author>epc</author><text>Just experienced this with my spouse leaving Google in February. COBRA window was 60 days from last date of employment. We weren&#x27;t going to go with COBRA until the pandemic expanded to the US, then we paid for two months.</text></item><item><author>PragmaticPulp</author><text>&gt; What will the employees, in the US at least, do for health insurance? A pandemic is when you need it. These employees will be strained to pay for COBRA.<p>Strongly agree that health care coverage is a major concern. We have a long way to go toward an ideal situation.<p>Sadly, many of the people who are first to be laid off are least likely to have employer-sponsored insurance benefits in the first place (hourly jobs). If they already had ACA-subsidized healthcare plans, nothing really changes for them.<p>For everyone else, there are some mitigating factors:<p>COBRA coverage has a grace period following termination. If you opt in to COBRA coverage during this grace period, the coverage is retroactive up to your date of termination. Please check with your insurance, but I believe the minimum grace period is 30 days, although I&#x27;ve personally seen higher numbers listed in my plans.<p>Many insurers have indicated that they will waive costs for COVID19 testing, and some have even waived copays for COVID19 treatment. I expect we&#x27;ll see more pressure on this as time goes on.<p>This is a good time to remind everyone that a job less event triggers a special enrollment period for the ACA. Visit healthcare.gov to evaluate your insurance options. COBRA isn&#x27;t the only option.</text></item><item><author>aluminussoma</author><text>What will the employees, in the US at least, do for health insurance? A pandemic is when you need it. These employees will be strained to pay for COBRA.<p>I fear that we will see revolutions in countries where this is not contained, from either a health or economic perspective. An old saying is that you should buy stocks when there is blood in the streets. I hope that doesn&#x27;t become literal.</text></item><item><author>PragmaticPulp</author><text>Unemployment benefits have been significantly expanded under the Coronavirus aid bill. The benefit amounts will sound small if you&#x27;re living in an expensive city like SF or Seattle, but $600&#x2F;week from the federal government and a similar amount from state unemployment insurance means that unemployment benefits can pay up to an equivalent of $50-60K&#x2F;year right now. That goes a long way in most parts of the country, especially when you&#x27;re stuck at home. Of course companies are going to opt to shift people to unemployment benefits while they&#x27;re forced into downtime.<p>In some situations, people can actually earn <i>more</i> from unemployment benefits by being laid off due to some hasty oversights in the aid package (Reference: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cnbc.com&#x2F;2020&#x2F;03&#x2F;27&#x2F;how-unemployed-workers-could-get-more-than-100percent-of-their-paycheck.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cnbc.com&#x2F;2020&#x2F;03&#x2F;27&#x2F;how-unemployed-workers-could...</a> ). This doesn&#x27;t account for lost benefits or the risk involved in losing a job, but it could disincentivize people returning to work if it means their income will go down.<p>Of the many people I know who have been “laid off”, all of them have been told they’ll be first in line to be re-hired the moment quarantine ends.<p>If a business can’t make money, it makes more sense for them to let employees collect unemployment during the downtime than to overextend the business’s balance sheet. During normal times, this is a common tactic for seasonal businesses. I have friends in seasonal tourism industries who received training on applying for unemployment benefits during their annual off-season layoffs each year. They even have an explicit system for tracking seniority in the re-hires.<p>Of course, the longer this quarantine lasts, the more likely their businesses are to disappear before they can re-open. Unfortunately we won’t know this number for many months. For now, the initial unemployment claims number can&#x27;t discriminate between jobs that have been temporarily paused and jobs that have been eliminated.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jrs235</author><text>Its sounds like that&#x27;s what they were holding out to do, but their 60 day window was closing so even though they didn&#x27;t need healthcare they figured with what&#x27;s happening they needed to execute the option and keep their insurance before losing it.</text></comment> |
14,528,788 | 14,528,384 | 1 | 2 | 14,528,070 | train | <story><title>Show HN: Neural Japanese Transliteration</title><url>https://github.com/Kyubyong/neural_japanese_transliterator</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>alphonsegaston</author><text>Interesting project! Does anyone know what iOS is using for it Japanese transliteration predictions? Mine worked well for a long time, but in the past 3 months it&#x27;s gone haywire for common kanji suggestions. The other day it had &quot;機能&quot; as the first&#x2F;only suggestion for &quot;きのう,&quot; and I had to dig down into the menu to arrive at the intended, &quot;昨日.&quot; Had a lot of similar experiences recently.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>yborg</author><text>I&#x27;ve had a similar experience on OS X, it seems to lose its mind and actually refuse to display as a choice the most common version of a jukugo. Very weird.<p>These is also a reset for &quot;Conversion Learning&quot; under the Keyboard &gt; Input Sources &gt; Japanese that I&#x27;ve just found thanks to the hints from the thread on this feature in iOS.</text></comment> | <story><title>Show HN: Neural Japanese Transliteration</title><url>https://github.com/Kyubyong/neural_japanese_transliterator</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>alphonsegaston</author><text>Interesting project! Does anyone know what iOS is using for it Japanese transliteration predictions? Mine worked well for a long time, but in the past 3 months it&#x27;s gone haywire for common kanji suggestions. The other day it had &quot;機能&quot; as the first&#x2F;only suggestion for &quot;きのう,&quot; and I had to dig down into the menu to arrive at the intended, &quot;昨日.&quot; Had a lot of similar experiences recently.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>colejohnson66</author><text>Try resetting your keyboard under Settings&gt;General&gt;Reset</text></comment> |
34,758,717 | 34,758,844 | 1 | 2 | 34,758,525 | train | <story><title>Health concerns mounting as animals become sick after train derailment</title><url>https://www.wkbn.com/news/local-news/east-palestine-train-derailment/health-concerns-mounting-as-animals-become-sick-after-train-derailment/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jprd</author><text>It is _super_ weird how little attention this derailment seems to be attracting.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>sbelskie</author><text>I’ve seen a handful of national media outlets cover it without paying any particular attention. What level of attention should this story be getting?</text></comment> | <story><title>Health concerns mounting as animals become sick after train derailment</title><url>https://www.wkbn.com/news/local-news/east-palestine-train-derailment/health-concerns-mounting-as-animals-become-sick-after-train-derailment/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jprd</author><text>It is _super_ weird how little attention this derailment seems to be attracting.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>paulmd</author><text>Which group of the wealthy&#x2F;powerful would attention to this issue benefit?<p>Like to be clear not only is it not an issue that&#x27;s going to be addressed, the Biden administration is actually looking at loosening safety regulations further. Republicans are not going to go against industry. It&#x27;s an industrial state that flagrantly does not care about pollution issues (like building a shopping mall on top of a toxic waste dump level flagrancy) and nobody involved wants to rock the boat right now.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;RebeccaJBurns_&#x2F;status&#x2F;1624137139981062151" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;RebeccaJBurns_&#x2F;status&#x2F;162413713998106215...</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;apnews.com&#x2F;article&#x2F;law-enforcement-pennsylvania-mike-dewine-ohio-aca9f89f4b6afe701aabf9ffd2b53d0f" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;apnews.com&#x2F;article&#x2F;law-enforcement-pennsylvania-mike...</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;architecturalafterlife.com&#x2F;2020&#x2F;07&#x2F;city-view-center&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;architecturalafterlife.com&#x2F;2020&#x2F;07&#x2F;city-view-center&#x2F;</a><p>The fundamental underlying issue is there&#x27;s not enough people to run the trains. The train lines don&#x27;t want to pay a high enough salary that the supply would meet demand, and DOT weed testing regulations are reducing the pool of eligible applicants as well, pushing that curve downwards further. They&#x27;ve been running fewer and fewer people per train and longer and longer trains, and it&#x27;s getting unsafe.<p>(it&#x27;s the same reason freight trains no longer yield to passenger in america despite being statutorily required to - the freight trains are too long for the sidings, oops, guess we can&#x27;t pull over, <i>you&#x27;ll</i> have to! Trains have just gotten longer and less staffed and much closer to the safety capacity of the equipment as they get longer and heavier, and this is just one of many exciting ways this is playing out!)<p>There is no way out of this without getting more people into train crews and reducing the size of the trains. The brakes on these trains can&#x27;t safely stop a train of this length, and the derailleur equipment currently installed can&#x27;t even safely derail trains of these lengths if they break loose, so when they go they go into a big pile of other cars and you get a massive industrial accident. It is. not. safe. to. run. trains. this. long. You need more crews and larger crews running smaller trains again. This is an issue that has crept up in the last 20 years and become a critical issue in the last 5 years.<p>But pushing back on industry is a big no in America these days, Republicans aren&#x27;t going to do back a union let alone go against industry (name a single ohio republican that would not have leapt on the framing of &quot;Biden picks unions over rail jobs and <i>christmas</i>&quot;) and this isn&#x27;t the fight the Biden administration wants to pick right now, they want this to go away. They already slapped down the union, which <i>really pissed off</i> quite a few of the base... but what are they gonna do, vote republican? The biden admin wants the trains to run on time so people get their amazon shit.<p>And the local elected officials are on the &#x27;locking up journalists who try to report it&#x27; level here, not actually doing anything that would inconvenience industry. And Biden just wants the trains to run on time, he&#x27;s already made that very clear.<p>So again: which set of powerful people are going to be making a big ruckus in the media? Everyone is OK with this. Ohio is an industrial state, they keep voting in Republicans (even in statewide offices) and fighting against unions. This is what Ohioans collectively signed up for and continue to sign up for every election. Open for business, right?<p>Remember this when Intel wants you to move to Ohio for those new fabs. You&#x27;re moving to an industrial hellscape and nobody&#x27;s gonna care if your wife&#x27;s shopping mall is built on a superfund site or an unsafe train running on a skeleton crew crashes and explodes and dumps a cloud of poison gas into the air. It&#x27;s Ohio. Let alone any sort of fun genotoxic effect or pregnancy problems in the middle of abortion-war central. And it&#x27;s not just this one place either, Ohio is a mess of all kinds of industrial shit. Ohio DGAF, is <i>Intel</i> worth your family getting cancer over?<p>Economists have this idea called &quot;revealed preference&quot;. The revealed preference here is that winning the War On Egghead Intellectuals, this year&#x27;s installment of the War On LGBTQ, and the War On Climate Science is more important than not having dead kids. This has been <i>repeatedly</i> been made clear for <i>3 decades now</i>. And Biden is just past the point where he cares about forcing angry toddlers to do the right thing, he&#x27;s not gonna deathmatch SCOTUS over this of all things for people who don&#x27;t even want him to and will frame him as just doing it for the union. People want their fucking amazon packages, they want Dow-Corning and 3M and Duke Coal jobs, if you wanna kill your kids or give them turbocancer so that parcel delivery line-costs go down 5% then nobody&#x27;s gonna stop you, Amazon thanks you for your service to America&#x27;s profit margins. Uncle Joe has always been a lot better at politics than people give him credit for, why make drama where none exists?<p>Everyone just metaphorically wants to go have dinner, can we please just not fight about this <i>for once</i>? <i>That&#x27;s</i> why nobody is talking about it.<p>(Michigan also had that same plating company dump a bunch more hexavalent chromium into the Huron River again, so to be fair Ohio is not alone in midwest toxic spill stories flying under the radar! But it seems likely Whitmer&#x2F;Nessel will put the hammer down, I am guessing the remediation is going to get a lot quicker and a lot less &quot;voluntary&quot;&#x2F;&quot;self-reported&quot;.)</text></comment> |
1,896,339 | 1,896,329 | 1 | 2 | 1,895,057 | train | <story><title>Son, as soon as someone puts their hands on you...</title><url>http://www.sebastianmarshall.com/?p=283</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>maxawaytoolong</author><text>It's sort of embarrassing this is the number one story on hacker news. Especially since it's 6 weeks old and was already posted before, and mostly seems fabricated. It reads like some fat kid ender's game revenge fantasy. I guess maybe this is what happens in white suburban schools? Cuz fights in the schools where I used to teach math would end up with kids in the hospital or dead. Or, I guess I don't really know, because both parties would both never come back to school.<p>I guess if Bobby Bully is putting beans in your pants you can try your karate kid routine on him. Maybe Eye of The Tiger will start playing and after you make him cry by ballet kicking him in the nose you and Elisabeth Shue can go share a milkshake at Pop's and then make out at the drive in. But in real life Jesus and Jose and their 20 cousins and homies just show up after school and steal all your clothes, your bike, your money and throw you into the dumpster.<p>I guess I don't ever really believe these stories, because whenever i've seen someone fight back it just turned into a drawn out war, not some fairytale DeGrassi afterschool special outcome where the bully "learned his place"</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>sangaya</author><text>There's a wide variety of schools in the US and it sounds like you're at one of the worst.<p>I went to school at a suburb of Chicago where two friends died by being shot by gang members (Latin Kings), a kid that sat in front of me in Spanish murdered his girlfriend and went to prison, and drug deals were common in the hallways. But standing up to bullies was still better than backing down.<p>That said, the gang members were rarely if ever the bullies; not unless they suspected you were in a rival gang. The bullies were the kids that wanted a power trip, mainly the Seniors and mainly the sports guys.<p>If you give in you're doomed to be giving up your money or whatever again and again and again. You fight back, and that's usually going to be the end of it. People that fight back aren't fun; the weak ones that cry and give you stuff, that's where the fun is. The bullies want a reward with little effort. The gangs usually have a personal vendetta against you, your family, your different gang, your race, or something else. That's a whole different issue and one that's not dealt with in the same simple way.<p>Don't confuse gangs and bullies, they're two very different beasts.</text></comment> | <story><title>Son, as soon as someone puts their hands on you...</title><url>http://www.sebastianmarshall.com/?p=283</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>maxawaytoolong</author><text>It's sort of embarrassing this is the number one story on hacker news. Especially since it's 6 weeks old and was already posted before, and mostly seems fabricated. It reads like some fat kid ender's game revenge fantasy. I guess maybe this is what happens in white suburban schools? Cuz fights in the schools where I used to teach math would end up with kids in the hospital or dead. Or, I guess I don't really know, because both parties would both never come back to school.<p>I guess if Bobby Bully is putting beans in your pants you can try your karate kid routine on him. Maybe Eye of The Tiger will start playing and after you make him cry by ballet kicking him in the nose you and Elisabeth Shue can go share a milkshake at Pop's and then make out at the drive in. But in real life Jesus and Jose and their 20 cousins and homies just show up after school and steal all your clothes, your bike, your money and throw you into the dumpster.<p>I guess I don't ever really believe these stories, because whenever i've seen someone fight back it just turned into a drawn out war, not some fairytale DeGrassi afterschool special outcome where the bully "learned his place"</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>_pius</author><text>"<i>I guess maybe this is what happens in white suburban schools?</i>"<p>"<i>[I]n real life Jesus and Jose and their 20 cousins and homies just show up ...</i>"<p>Jesus and Jose? Homies? Just. Stop.<p>Was it really necessary to inject some sort of pathetic, dogwhistle racial component into this? Why are you trying to cast a universal problem like bullying into a phenomenon where the scary minorities are picking on white kids?</text></comment> |
10,890,397 | 10,890,193 | 1 | 2 | 10,889,855 | train | <story><title>Planetary Defense</title><url>http://www.nasa.gov/planetarydefense</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>sirtastic</author><text>I&#x27;m kinda jealous of job titles that would come out of this department... &quot;Director of Planetary Defense&quot;, &quot;Strategic Interstellar Command Coordinator&quot;, &quot;Chief Planetary Defense Officer&quot;.</text></comment> | <story><title>Planetary Defense</title><url>http://www.nasa.gov/planetarydefense</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>startupfounder</author><text>Here is a list of NEO Earth Close Approaches:<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;neo.jpl.nasa.gov&#x2F;ca&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;neo.jpl.nasa.gov&#x2F;ca&#x2F;</a><p>1. Not a bad ROI to save a global economy with a GDP of $77.609 trillion and population of 7.095 billion.[1]<p>2. The side benefit is understanding how to mine NEOs worth billions.[2]<p>3. I would like to buy an insurance policy against an impact. I bet it would be super cheap as there is very low risk, but would get me to Mars or ISS.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;World_economy" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;World_economy</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Asteroid_mining" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Asteroid_mining</a></text></comment> |
26,075,751 | 26,074,641 | 1 | 2 | 26,073,813 | train | <story><title>HyperRogue: A puzzle roguelike in a non-Euclidean world</title><url>http://roguetemple.com/z/hyper/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>chairmanwow1</author><text>There’s another game being developed in a semi-3D hyperbolic geometry called Hyperbolica. The dev makes some fantastic videos [1].<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;yY9GAyJtuJ0" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;yY9GAyJtuJ0</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>enriquto</author><text>Ha! the title of that video &quot;Spherical Geometry Is Stranger Than Hyperbolic&quot; is very insightful. Due to the convergence of the light rays on positive curvature, objects appear larger the further they are! Hyperbolic geometry is like euclidean with a spacious horizon. But spherical geometry is a wickedly different thing. All your &quot;sky&quot; is covered by the single point at your antipodes (when it&#x27;s not occluded by a tiny object very far away from you).</text></comment> | <story><title>HyperRogue: A puzzle roguelike in a non-Euclidean world</title><url>http://roguetemple.com/z/hyper/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>chairmanwow1</author><text>There’s another game being developed in a semi-3D hyperbolic geometry called Hyperbolica. The dev makes some fantastic videos [1].<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;yY9GAyJtuJ0" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;yY9GAyJtuJ0</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jlos</author><text>I&#x27;m at a standing desk on a balance board and I had to get off. I got disorientated and nauseous just watching that. I can&#x27;t even imagine spherical geometry with VR.</text></comment> |
16,353,481 | 16,353,557 | 1 | 3 | 16,352,654 | train | <story><title>Chrome extension to play Netflix in 1080p</title><url>https://github.com/truedread/netflix-1080p</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Freak_NL</author><text>The fact that gaining access to the 1080p stream is so trivial makes it hard not to suspect Netflix (or the content studios supplying them with content) from deliberately providing a poorer experience for users of open platforms — Netflix refuses to serve anything over 720p to users of Chrome and Firefox (or derivatives) — in order to goad you into using their proprietary clients. User&#x2F;software freedom apparently is a threat to their business model.<p>It sucks being labelled an untrustworthy customer despite paying for 1080p content.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mdasen</author><text>In Safari in macOS, Netflix uses about 10% CPU showing 1080p. With Chrome, it uses 40% playing 720p. With Firefox, it uses about 75% CPU and my fan turns on. I&#x27;m guessing it&#x27;s higher on 1080p.<p>I don&#x27;t think Netflix has any interest in you using a proprietary client. They don&#x27;t gain money if you watch one way or another. They gain money if you keep paying them your monthly fee.<p>EDIT: Installing this extension took Chrome CPU usage to 75% for me.<p>Also, I&#x27;m not saying that users shouldn&#x27;t be given the choice to use their CPU resources to run Netflix. Maybe it would be better if Netflix were just more transparent about it. &quot;By default, we only display video with 720p in Chrome due to high processor usage. Click here to change that preference or watch with Safari whose direct rendering means 1080p video using less processor resources.&quot; That way, users understand the problem and can decide they don&#x27;t mind other programs becoming sluggish or the fan running or whatnot. Of course, companies generally don&#x27;t like giving users details.</text></comment> | <story><title>Chrome extension to play Netflix in 1080p</title><url>https://github.com/truedread/netflix-1080p</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Freak_NL</author><text>The fact that gaining access to the 1080p stream is so trivial makes it hard not to suspect Netflix (or the content studios supplying them with content) from deliberately providing a poorer experience for users of open platforms — Netflix refuses to serve anything over 720p to users of Chrome and Firefox (or derivatives) — in order to goad you into using their proprietary clients. User&#x2F;software freedom apparently is a threat to their business model.<p>It sucks being labelled an untrustworthy customer despite paying for 1080p content.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Sharlin</author><text>This is the first time I&#x27;ve heard that Netflix has standalone desktop client o_O Apparently only available for Windows 10. Also the first time I&#x27;ve heard that Netflix HD is not 1080p except on some clients&#x2F;browsers. I feel... cheated. Of course the difference between 720p and 1080p is not huge, especially at streaming bitrates, as evidenced by the fact that I haven&#x27;t suspected anything. But still. Will have to remember to use Safari from now on.</text></comment> |
18,564,834 | 18,564,419 | 1 | 3 | 18,559,282 | train | <story><title>GraphQL: A Retrospective</title><url>https://verve.co/engineering/graphql-a-retrospective/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ergothus</author><text>I haven&#x27;t yet had much luck in finding a GraphQL review that addresses my general concerns (I&#x27;m frontend).<p>1) GraphQL almost always means everything is POST, removing CDN and browser caching of GET-like requests is gone (and ServiceWorker caching just got much more complicated, nigh-impossible if CORS is involved). Everyone says &quot;oh, clients can do better caching&quot;, as if that&#x27;s not true without GraphQL. Still, the caching I mention might be trivial and mostly worthless. I&#x27;d just like to see some actual inspection of the issue.<p>2) The models I&#x27;ve seen work well if your frontend is largely a thin skin over the services with minimal business logic of their own. (this isn&#x27;t GraphQL directly, but the client libs that use it, but those exist because talking GraphQL without them is more effort).
Which is, of course, what we really want. Business logic in the front end is always a painful idea. But it also definitely happens, for real business reasons - are we making those cases harder? How much so? With REST we have a lot more flexibility, it seems, even if we choose to avoid using most of it.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>013a</author><text>The caching story in GraphQL sucks. Its pretty good with frontend frameworks like Apollo, but that&#x27;s not a solution to the whole problem. Sure it works for your website&#x2F;app (if you&#x27;ve got one), but it does nothing to offer caching for a generic API.<p>Its easy to argue that the main advantage of GraphQL is to reduce overfetching fields on the data you need for your views. That&#x27;s a great advantage. But how much of the performance advantage gained from this is offset by the substantially reduced backend cacheability of these requests? I would guess a ton, especially with highly complex views that require lots of database pulls.<p>That isn&#x27;t to say simple caching strategies aren&#x27;t still possible (you can encode GraphQL requests into GETs and just cache that url at the CDN layer, this is part of the spec AFAIK). But when you have an open API serving many users, where you can&#x27;t predict what fields they&#x27;re going to ask for (or even the ORDERING of those fields in their request, which would change the request body despite the response being the same!), this has to be a problem that crops up pretty quick.<p>There&#x27;s no HTTP-level solution to this. I doubt there&#x27;s any solution that would work well enough to be worth implementing. Which leads me to believe that its an intrinsic problem in GraphQL; the more freedom you give clients to request whatever they want, the harder it becomes to guarantee performance for the requests they&#x27;re making. And GraphQL gives clients all the freedom in the world.<p>Oh, and don&#x27;t even get me started about the fact that because GraphQL stitches together essentially depth-unlimited data from your data graph in one request, there&#x27;s no way to express different TTLs on each item returned, on the backend <i>or</i> the frontend. If you&#x27;ve got data that could TTL for 24 hours, but another piece of data that TTLs for 60 seconds, you essentially have to specify the cache-control to account for the smallest TTL.<p>Overall, I think GraphQL is fine. But I also believe what we&#x27;ll slowly discover is that &quot;Company X&quot; simply fucked up their REST API, then will look to GraphQL to solve all their problems. And it might solve some of them, but then they&#x27;ll have an even more complex system in place with even harder problems. Facebook can solve those problems; us small shops can&#x27;t. Better hope Facebook shares their solutions with the world.</text></comment> | <story><title>GraphQL: A Retrospective</title><url>https://verve.co/engineering/graphql-a-retrospective/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ergothus</author><text>I haven&#x27;t yet had much luck in finding a GraphQL review that addresses my general concerns (I&#x27;m frontend).<p>1) GraphQL almost always means everything is POST, removing CDN and browser caching of GET-like requests is gone (and ServiceWorker caching just got much more complicated, nigh-impossible if CORS is involved). Everyone says &quot;oh, clients can do better caching&quot;, as if that&#x27;s not true without GraphQL. Still, the caching I mention might be trivial and mostly worthless. I&#x27;d just like to see some actual inspection of the issue.<p>2) The models I&#x27;ve seen work well if your frontend is largely a thin skin over the services with minimal business logic of their own. (this isn&#x27;t GraphQL directly, but the client libs that use it, but those exist because talking GraphQL without them is more effort).
Which is, of course, what we really want. Business logic in the front end is always a painful idea. But it also definitely happens, for real business reasons - are we making those cases harder? How much so? With REST we have a lot more flexibility, it seems, even if we choose to avoid using most of it.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>xiaomai</author><text>Point 1 wasn&#x27;t a problem for adopting GraphQL for us because our end-points are very dynamic so we set no-cache headers on everything anyway. That said, clients like Apollo will let you issue GET requests instead of POSTs for queries if you prefer.<p>In regards to point 2: GraphQL definitely doesn&#x27;t make it harder to implement front-end logic. I&#x27;m not sure how to back up this claim because it&#x27;s not apparent to me why one would think that GraphQL complicates this.</text></comment> |
5,150,305 | 5,150,320 | 1 | 2 | 5,150,237 | train | <story><title>Iceland Kicked Out FBI Agents Who Flew in Unannounced to Investigate WikiLeaks</title><url>http://clevelandleader.com/node/20013</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>andrewcooke</author><text>is this because it's illegal to work without a permit [edit: no, not needed for 90 days for americans]? or is it just detectives that cannot work there? or is it that they claimed to be local policemen?<p>if i were a market analyst who flew to iceland (private plane or not - what has that got to do with it?) to study local opinions on some new product, say, would that get a similar reaction? would it be ok as long as i didn't ask to speak to govt officials?<p>is there some kind of international convention / agreement that says that policemen don't work abroad? is it that the request for cooperation was at too low a level? [edit: ok, i added this just as it was suggested in a reply; thanks]<p>i'm having a hard time understanding what the problem was here from the article, which seems to assume that something was obviously wrong.<p>[oh noes - someone asking questions! better downvote! sigh...]</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Xylakant</author><text>In general it's a problem in pretty much every country when official investigators fly in and start investigating without prior notice. The US administration would do the same if the german police sent an investigation team over to collect evidence in a german case. The official procedure is to request help or permission from the local government and only send investigators if granted. Such requests get denied in some cases, for example if the alleged crime is not a crime in the country that you're trying to investigate in.</text></comment> | <story><title>Iceland Kicked Out FBI Agents Who Flew in Unannounced to Investigate WikiLeaks</title><url>http://clevelandleader.com/node/20013</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>andrewcooke</author><text>is this because it's illegal to work without a permit [edit: no, not needed for 90 days for americans]? or is it just detectives that cannot work there? or is it that they claimed to be local policemen?<p>if i were a market analyst who flew to iceland (private plane or not - what has that got to do with it?) to study local opinions on some new product, say, would that get a similar reaction? would it be ok as long as i didn't ask to speak to govt officials?<p>is there some kind of international convention / agreement that says that policemen don't work abroad? is it that the request for cooperation was at too low a level? [edit: ok, i added this just as it was suggested in a reply; thanks]<p>i'm having a hard time understanding what the problem was here from the article, which seems to assume that something was obviously wrong.<p>[oh noes - someone asking questions! better downvote! sigh...]</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Nursie</author><text>The problem is that the FBI sent law enforcement officers into another, sovereign country without prior permission.<p>This could have turned into a major diplomatic incident, it is not something you do no matter how upset you are about people leaking your stuff over the internet. Basic common courtesy - you ask first.</text></comment> |
24,965,564 | 24,965,200 | 1 | 2 | 24,964,646 | train | <story><title>The Life of Einstein's First Wife</title><url>https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/guest-blog/the-forgotten-life-of-einsteins-first-wife/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>DoreenMichele</author><text>I strongly disagree with the conclusion:<p><i>Why did Mileva remain silent? Being reserved and self-effaced, she did not seek honors or public attention.</i><p>She was failed and denied a degree in spite of having better grades than Albert, probably solely because she was a woman. Albert was probably blocked from employment positions he wanted by the same professor that failed her, possibly because he was treating a woman like his equal.<p>This reads to me like they coped as best they could with a world that absolutely wouldn&#x27;t accept a woman as a serious scientist and even with trying to be self effacing, etc, they both paid a high price -- such a high price, it likely destroyed their marriage.</text></comment> | <story><title>The Life of Einstein's First Wife</title><url>https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/guest-blog/the-forgotten-life-of-einsteins-first-wife/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>dharma1</author><text>She is portrayed quite well in the recent National Geographic series about Einstein&#x27;s life, &quot;Genius&quot;.<p>Well worth watching. Mileva was a talented physicist and mathematician, contributed significantly to Einstein&#x27;s early success, gave him three children and Albert dumped her for his cousin.</text></comment> |
37,478,739 | 37,478,068 | 1 | 3 | 37,474,601 | train | <story><title>OpenSSL 1.1.1 End of Life</title><url>https://www.openssl.org/blog/blog/2023/09/11/eol-111/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>bazzargh</author><text>OpenSSL 3 seems to be largely compatible (it&#x27;s a much easier upgrade than previous big ones) but the part of this that breaks clients is odd.<p>If your peer closes the connection without sending close_notify, you get an unexpected EOF; 1.1.1 ignored this, 3 passes the error to the client, which needs to set SSL_OP_IGNORE_UNEXPECTED_EOF to recover the old behaviour - but this is only safe as long as the client checks for truncation attacks. This peer behaviour seems to be pretty common for <i>google</i> servers, so if you use google logins or APIs it&#x27;ll trip you up (from doing these upgrades at work, almost all of the errors I saw were talking to google)<p>What&#x27;s odd to me is most of the patches I saw for this were just setting that flag, and not doing anything about truncation attacks? I&#x27;m sure this will bite us all somewhere down the line.<p>Anyway, some notes for admins of old systems who got to this too late:<p>It was noticeable that this patch got backported into ppa&#x27;s that maintain old&#x2F;deprecated versions of some software. eg the ondrej php ppa has this backported to EOL&#x27;d versions of php. But, this is not the case for the python deadsnakes ppa - I didn&#x27;t look at python 3.8, but 3.9 was fixed at source, and it hasn&#x27;t been backported to the (EOL&#x27;d) 3.7 anywhere. You should be off 3.7 anyway, but if you&#x27;re not, it&#x27;s now urgent.<p>Another notable backport is openresty. If you&#x27;re using nginx with lua and oauth, it&#x27;s a popular choice; but lags the latest nginx by a long way. The latest version is 1.21.4.2 which means it&#x27;s based on nginx 1.21; but nginx is on 1.25 and nginx only released with openssl 3 support in 1.22. If you proxy to https servers, this is a concern. However, digging I found the openssl3 support was backported to openresty a few months ago, so the _current_ version does work without falling over.</text></comment> | <story><title>OpenSSL 1.1.1 End of Life</title><url>https://www.openssl.org/blog/blog/2023/09/11/eol-111/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>_V_</author><text>This unfortunately already completely broke Gentoo for the moment :-(<p>Maintainers masked openssl-1.1.1 but there is currently a <i>ton</i> of packages with (sometimes needlessly) hardcoded requirement for old openssl. Including things like Rust etc. This will be painful.</text></comment> |
30,220,417 | 30,219,822 | 1 | 3 | 30,219,442 | train | <story><title>Killed by Google</title><url>https://killedbygoogle.com</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>KronisLV</author><text>For comparison&#x27;s sake...<p>Killed by Mozilla: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;killedbymozilla.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;killedbymozilla.com&#x2F;</a><p>Killed by Microsoft: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;killedbymicrosoft.info&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;killedbymicrosoft.info&#x2F;</a> (curiously DuckDuckGo which apparently takes search results from Bing didn&#x27;t show me this)<p>Killed by Apple: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;killedbyapple.nl&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;killedbyapple.nl&#x2F;</a><p>There&#x27;s also one for Facebook, but it doesn&#x27;t seem to be filled out: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;killedbyfacebook.nl&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;killedbyfacebook.nl&#x2F;</a><p>Actually, why don&#x27;t we have something like <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;awesomeopensource.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;awesomeopensource.com&#x2F;</a> but for projects that have been retired, to remember them more easily or view which company has created what? Maybe even just a GitHub repo, like <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;awesome-selfhosted&#x2F;awesome-selfhosted" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;awesome-selfhosted&#x2F;awesome-selfhosted</a> ? Anyone know of other good links like that, perhaps?</text></comment> | <story><title>Killed by Google</title><url>https://killedbygoogle.com</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>pjmlp</author><text>Apparently Stadia is shortly going to be the new member on the list, as most of us expected.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=30211457" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=30211457</a></text></comment> |
3,383,445 | 3,383,302 | 1 | 2 | 3,383,209 | train | <story><title>Paul Graham: SOPA Supporting Companies No Longer Allowed At YC Demo Day</title><url>http://techcrunch.com/2011/12/22/paul-graham-sopa-supporting-companies-no-longer-allowed-at-yc-demo-day/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>burgerbrain</author><text>"<i>"If these companies are so clueless about technology that they think SOPA is a good idea, how could they be good investors?"</i>"<p>That is a brilliant point.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>philh</author><text>I've seen the argument: if someone is so clueless about rationality as to be religious, how could they make a good scientist? And the "answer" is: nevertheless, there exist religious people who do good science.<p>So I'm not convinced by the argument here. It makes too many unstated assumptions.<p>I support this boycott, and this argument might make good rhetoric, but I wouldn't use it directly to evaluate investors.</text></comment> | <story><title>Paul Graham: SOPA Supporting Companies No Longer Allowed At YC Demo Day</title><url>http://techcrunch.com/2011/12/22/paul-graham-sopa-supporting-companies-no-longer-allowed-at-yc-demo-day/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>burgerbrain</author><text>"<i>"If these companies are so clueless about technology that they think SOPA is a good idea, how could they be good investors?"</i>"<p>That is a brilliant point.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>staunch</author><text>Unless they're different people in the organization, which is likely the usual case. Not that I disagree with the sentiment.</text></comment> |
10,848,200 | 10,848,330 | 1 | 2 | 10,847,536 | train | <story><title>You Know Less Than You Think About Guns</title><url>https://reason.com/archives/2016/01/05/you-know-less-than-you-think-a</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Gustomaximus</author><text>I support strict gun control, however I feel it&#x27;s wrong for the politicians to be meddling in gun control how they are. The US constitution is fairly clear (I accept people will always argue specific) that citizens to have access to firearms.<p>From this I find it dangerous that any politician would seek to override or &#x27;reinterpret&#x27; the constitution without the peoples mandate to do so. This seems ot be happening at an increasingly accelerated rate e.g. government eavesdropping and civil forfeiture.<p>Firearm ownership should be taken to the vote. If the nations decides to leave firearm availability as a citizen right that&#x27;s democracy and the inevitable shooting are the price. Potentially more dangerous is a government that feels they can bend a nations constitution away from its spirit to their personal agenda.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>koenigdavidmj</author><text>Should freedom of unpopular speech and the right to be free of unreasonable searches be decided by popular vote? Or is it understood that constitutional rights all have the risk of making us less safe and making the government&#x27;s job harder, and that removing them is hard for a reason?</text></comment> | <story><title>You Know Less Than You Think About Guns</title><url>https://reason.com/archives/2016/01/05/you-know-less-than-you-think-a</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Gustomaximus</author><text>I support strict gun control, however I feel it&#x27;s wrong for the politicians to be meddling in gun control how they are. The US constitution is fairly clear (I accept people will always argue specific) that citizens to have access to firearms.<p>From this I find it dangerous that any politician would seek to override or &#x27;reinterpret&#x27; the constitution without the peoples mandate to do so. This seems ot be happening at an increasingly accelerated rate e.g. government eavesdropping and civil forfeiture.<p>Firearm ownership should be taken to the vote. If the nations decides to leave firearm availability as a citizen right that&#x27;s democracy and the inevitable shooting are the price. Potentially more dangerous is a government that feels they can bend a nations constitution away from its spirit to their personal agenda.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Mendenhall</author><text>Just wanted to say the United States of America is not a democracy, it is a republic. In fact many framers of the constitution warned of democracy and spoke strongly against it.<p>Not trying to be petty but I do think details like that are important. There is a massive difference between the two forms of government.</text></comment> |
18,046,298 | 18,045,993 | 1 | 3 | 18,045,294 | train | <story><title>Brain Drain Within the EU?</title><url>https://www.statista.com/chart/15528/eu-scientists-by-location/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>ciguy</author><text>I&#x27;m living in Italy at the moment, and I can watch the brain drain happening in real time. Every single university student I know here is looking to go to the UK or Germany when they graduate, almost without exception.<p>I can&#x27;t blame them at all, taxes are excessive and bureaucracy is excruciating here. Finding even a temporary job usually requires family connections, so the dumbest people with connections end up as managers while the smartest get put into lower positions. It&#x27;s a great place to live if you have money, but a horrible place to be for smart young people without lots of social&#x2F;family clout.</text></comment> | <story><title>Brain Drain Within the EU?</title><url>https://www.statista.com/chart/15528/eu-scientists-by-location/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jsnell</author><text>I don&#x27;t understand how these graphs show brain drain, there a bunch of other explanations. For example maybe a bigger proportion of Germans get an appropriate university degree than Italians. Or maybe the people getting an engineering degree in Italy can&#x27;t get a job in that field, and end up working on something else but not emigrating. Or the difference comes from non-EU scientists&#x2F;engineers preferentially moving to UK or Germany when immigrating to the EU.<p>To show brain drain you really need to look at the migration flows, not a static snapshot of the current populations.</text></comment> |
12,684,252 | 12,682,090 | 1 | 3 | 12,681,668 | train | <story><title>Going Serverless: Migrating an Express App to AWS API Gateway and AWS Lambda</title><url>https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/compute/going-serverless-migrating-an-express-application-to-amazon-api-gateway-and-aws-lambda/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>falcolas</author><text>Serverless via Lambda has been, frankly, a disappointment so far. The benefit is that I&#x27;m supposed to not have to manage servers anymore, yet I find myself, well, managing servers.<p>I have to build and assign IAM roles, subnets, set up application configuration files in fixed external services (since you can&#x27;t do things like set environment variables), configure the endpoints in nginx^h^h^h^h^h API Gateway, suffer through cold starts, fight against arcane packaging issues with site directories and .pth files (though this is probably just be a Python thing), fight concurrency throttling, external timeouts, manage out-of-band database connections, logging which requires even more IAM permissions...<p>This doesn&#x27;t even consider how many times I&#x27;ve had to tear down and re-create an API Gateway setup because it got &quot;stuck&quot; and would stop working.<p>Finally, WTF is up with not being able to test API Gateway -&gt; S3 integrations if the S3 bucket is in the same region as the gateway instance? It&#x27;s a two plus year old bug by now, and a real pain (especially when coupled with other AWS services which require the bucket to be in the same region as the rest of a service - such as CodePipeline).<p>Perhaps it&#x27;s just because I&#x27;m familiar with setting up and provisioning servers, but for basic web services and periodic tasks, Lambda is much harder to work with most of the time. Its biggest benefit so far has been the low cost.</text></comment> | <story><title>Going Serverless: Migrating an Express App to AWS API Gateway and AWS Lambda</title><url>https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/compute/going-serverless-migrating-an-express-application-to-amazon-api-gateway-and-aws-lambda/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Everhusk</author><text>I&#x27;m always surprised at the lack of discussion around database connection reuse with AWS Lambda.<p>It&#x27;s a pretty big deal that every single API call requires a new database connection. The only solutions I&#x27;ve seen so far are to run a separate app to interface with the database, or moving the connection outside of the handler (which still has issues).<p>Am I missing something or is everyone just really happy to use DynamoDB?</text></comment> |
30,387,812 | 30,387,906 | 1 | 2 | 30,377,931 | train | <story><title>Lessons Learned after $5B of M&A</title><url>https://tomtunguz.com/what-ive-learned-ma/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>fairity</author><text>Any advice on finding the right advisor firm for a sale in the high $xx million range? We&#x27;re a team of builders and have no experience in M&amp;A, and little experience in finance&#x2F;negotiation.<p>I’m worried that a broker will be incentivized to close a deal at an undervalued price, similar to brokers in real estate.</text></item><item><author>tmcz26</author><text>We sold our 8-year-old startup last year, and boy do a lot of these bullet points ring true. We were very lucky that one of the founders was skilled at the M&amp;A game, or we would have underpriced it dramatically.<p>If you’re thinking about selling, I’d recommend hiring an advisor firm. They charge a 2-8% fee, but they are worth it. You get better valuations and help with the tricky clauses.<p>The one about losing leverage after term sheet, it depends. Our acquirer was a public company, so they had to announce the signing to the market. It would look really bad if the acquisition didn’t go through (stock jumped when TS was announced), so I’d say we had even more leverage then.<p>Edit: typo</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>endymi0n</author><text>In all honesty, my concrete advice would be reaching out to other local founders privately and asked what worked for them and what didn&#x27;t. Note there usually is a lot to these stories that aren&#x27;t told in public for many reasons.<p>On top, one thing I regret is not having joined a network of founders and entrepreneurs earlier. These days, I would just ask them and get 2-3 spot-on recommendations with warm intros in a day. We hackers and builders usually scoff at these kind of &quot;elite&quot; networks until we realize building and selling a company is fundamentally a people business, where connections and trust are paramount. Reach out to me on LinkedIn for an intro to the organization I&#x27;m in (it&#x27;s global).<p>As for the original advice: +100 from my side. Especially if the whole founder round is not experienced, you really want to have a cold blooded veteran on your side. Someone who commands respect by founders, is hired by you guys and is incentivized by getting home a part of the deal. Not only do these brokers have the know-how, they usually have a vast network of interested parties to bring to the table at any time to get a bidding war started and are experienced in navigating the delicate timing of the funnel that is crucial for a success. The differences in outcome I&#x27;ve personally witnessed with and without brokers are night and day, even though I have my own cultural issues with them.</text></comment> | <story><title>Lessons Learned after $5B of M&A</title><url>https://tomtunguz.com/what-ive-learned-ma/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>fairity</author><text>Any advice on finding the right advisor firm for a sale in the high $xx million range? We&#x27;re a team of builders and have no experience in M&amp;A, and little experience in finance&#x2F;negotiation.<p>I’m worried that a broker will be incentivized to close a deal at an undervalued price, similar to brokers in real estate.</text></item><item><author>tmcz26</author><text>We sold our 8-year-old startup last year, and boy do a lot of these bullet points ring true. We were very lucky that one of the founders was skilled at the M&amp;A game, or we would have underpriced it dramatically.<p>If you’re thinking about selling, I’d recommend hiring an advisor firm. They charge a 2-8% fee, but they are worth it. You get better valuations and help with the tricky clauses.<p>The one about losing leverage after term sheet, it depends. Our acquirer was a public company, so they had to announce the signing to the market. It would look really bad if the acquisition didn’t go through (stock jumped when TS was announced), so I’d say we had even more leverage then.<p>Edit: typo</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>cascom</author><text>Interview several firms that have done deals in your space&#x2F;vertical, and where this will be a meaningful transaction to the firm&#x2F;md - and ask them for valuation guidance (e.g. what they think they think they can sell your company for) you’ll generally find they’ll be in a similar range (e.g. 4-5x ARR) that should set expectations for the sale process.<p>Deal structure can be worth ~20%+ of purchase price so don’t be myopic on focusing on price only. Trying to get the last dollar usually leads to broken deals and unhappy people on both sides, but you want to make sure that you’re getting a good market read on value for your business.<p>Make sure you trust the team&#x2F;have chemistry, you’ll go through quite a bit together. Also make sure you have M&amp;A counsel - don’t let your commercial counsel handle this (you wouldn’t let your internist perform open heart surgery on you…)</text></comment> |
15,077,475 | 15,076,967 | 1 | 2 | 15,076,441 | train | <story><title>A glut has used-car depreciation accelerating</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-08-21/your-car-is-now-worth-less-than-you-think</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>wbracken</author><text>Tangentially in the business. Two recent stories told to me:<p>1) Saw at Manheim Auto Auction (one of the largest) 300 Nissan Leafs run through the auction line in one afternoon ahead of some of our cars. Drop in &quot;value&quot; of leafs went down 10%+ in one day. All were recently off lease.
2) For similar reason, Santander is holding 4000+ cars on auction lots &quot;waiting for pricing to stabilize&quot;. Reality is, when they run those cars through the auction, they will have to book the full losses. Say they anticipated 20% repossession rate and that they would get 80% on the dollar when auctioned on those losses. When they run them through now and get 50% on the dollar, their securitization pools will be creamed.</text></comment> | <story><title>A glut has used-car depreciation accelerating</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-08-21/your-car-is-now-worth-less-than-you-think</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>beejiu</author><text>In the UK, many cars sold in the past few years are under a so-called Personal Contract Plan (PCP). These are basically sub-prime loans for cars where you lease the car for the difference between its purchase price and its projected depreciated value at the end of the term.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theguardian.com&#x2F;business&#x2F;2017&#x2F;jun&#x2F;10&#x2F;car-loans-personal-contract-plans-vehicle-financial-crisis-pcp" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theguardian.com&#x2F;business&#x2F;2017&#x2F;jun&#x2F;10&#x2F;car-loans-p...</a><p>One of the UK regulators recently warned about the exposure to these loans. &quot;An initial fall in prices
could lead to a surplus of used cars coming to the market, which could further weaken prices and
cause material losses to lenders through their GFV risk.&quot; (<a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bankofengland.co.uk&#x2F;pra&#x2F;Documents&#x2F;publications&#x2F;reports&#x2F;prastatement0717.pdf" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bankofengland.co.uk&#x2F;pra&#x2F;Documents&#x2F;publications&#x2F;re...</a>)</text></comment> |
29,371,769 | 29,371,754 | 1 | 3 | 29,368,171 | train | <story><title>Importance of muscle mass, strength and cardiorespiratory fitness for longevity</title><url>https://peterattiamd.com/ama27/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>redisman</author><text>Isn’t all cardio bad for knees? I definitely feel less pain after a 40 minute row than a run</text></item><item><author>CodeGlitch</author><text>(former rower) Just be aware that rowing can ruin your knees. It&#x27;s quite &quot;explosive&quot;, so it might be worth investigating physio to ensure minimal damage.<p>Of course genetics play a huge role here.</text></item><item><author>dolni</author><text>I have only ever heard good things about rowing. Because exercise is a chore for me, I want to minimize the amount of time I have spend doing it.<p>I got a rowing machine recently. It hits a ton of muscles all at once, and is not bad for cardio. It won&#x27;t challenge your heart as much as running will, but it gets the blood pumping.<p>I am no fitness expert, but it feels like a really good solution for me. I hope to work up to 20-30 minutes of rowing at least every other day.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>generalenvelope</author><text>Please see: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;forum.barbellmedicine.com&#x2F;forums&#x2F;training-q-a-with-dr-jordan-feigenbaum-and-dr-austin-baraki&#x2F;64670-jogging-running-and-effects-on-knee-joint" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;forum.barbellmedicine.com&#x2F;forums&#x2F;training-q-a-with-d...</a><p>This idea is not founded in science. However, as Dr. Baraki outlines - dosage is very relevant regarding pain and injury</text></comment> | <story><title>Importance of muscle mass, strength and cardiorespiratory fitness for longevity</title><url>https://peterattiamd.com/ama27/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>redisman</author><text>Isn’t all cardio bad for knees? I definitely feel less pain after a 40 minute row than a run</text></item><item><author>CodeGlitch</author><text>(former rower) Just be aware that rowing can ruin your knees. It&#x27;s quite &quot;explosive&quot;, so it might be worth investigating physio to ensure minimal damage.<p>Of course genetics play a huge role here.</text></item><item><author>dolni</author><text>I have only ever heard good things about rowing. Because exercise is a chore for me, I want to minimize the amount of time I have spend doing it.<p>I got a rowing machine recently. It hits a ton of muscles all at once, and is not bad for cardio. It won&#x27;t challenge your heart as much as running will, but it gets the blood pumping.<p>I am no fitness expert, but it feels like a really good solution for me. I hope to work up to 20-30 minutes of rowing at least every other day.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kungito</author><text>How about swimming?</text></comment> |
17,758,877 | 17,758,721 | 1 | 3 | 17,757,144 | train | <story><title>Banks and Retailers Are Tracking How You Type, Swipe and Tap</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/13/business/behavioral-biometrics-banks-security.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>lostimpo</author><text>Does anyone else feel a sense of overwhelming futility with respect to internet privacy? I&#x27;m at the point where I feel like I might as well just use all the fancy features and devices, privacy be damned.<p>It feels like it&#x27;s a giant waste of time, even if you go out of your way to use &quot;privacy protecting&quot; expensive devices and software. Use an iPhone or LineageOS! Use Firefox! Don&#x27;t use Google services! Don&#x27;t use iCloud, back up everything to a local NAS! Pay for your email services!<p>It all feels mostly pointless. There&#x27;s always another thing right around the corner. You&#x27;re always defeated and tracked -- this time with &quot;behavioral biometrics.&quot; For the average person, why not just give up? Throw an Amazon Echo in the corner and at least you can control your lights and play Jeopardy.<p>It&#x27;s totally exhausting.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>LeftTurnSignal</author><text>Almost all of my friends are this way now. They just gave up on any sense of privacy and accepted it. I can&#x27;t say I blame them. They have different needs &#x2F; wants than I do, but I will admit it&#x27;s pretty disheartening too.<p>I haven&#x27;t given up yet, but it&#x27;s such a pain in the ass if you don&#x27;t keep up on it. I ended up just ditching any service that doesn&#x27;t respect my privacy or at the very least, stick with ones that say they respect it.<p>If there&#x27;s anything real important I have a few friends who usually let me know. I still do miss some events but I figure if no one remembered to ask me, it&#x27;s not important, or I&#x27;m not that important. Either way, it&#x27;s not my issue.</text></comment> | <story><title>Banks and Retailers Are Tracking How You Type, Swipe and Tap</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/13/business/behavioral-biometrics-banks-security.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>lostimpo</author><text>Does anyone else feel a sense of overwhelming futility with respect to internet privacy? I&#x27;m at the point where I feel like I might as well just use all the fancy features and devices, privacy be damned.<p>It feels like it&#x27;s a giant waste of time, even if you go out of your way to use &quot;privacy protecting&quot; expensive devices and software. Use an iPhone or LineageOS! Use Firefox! Don&#x27;t use Google services! Don&#x27;t use iCloud, back up everything to a local NAS! Pay for your email services!<p>It all feels mostly pointless. There&#x27;s always another thing right around the corner. You&#x27;re always defeated and tracked -- this time with &quot;behavioral biometrics.&quot; For the average person, why not just give up? Throw an Amazon Echo in the corner and at least you can control your lights and play Jeopardy.<p>It&#x27;s totally exhausting.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>beat</author><text>I deal with it mostly by asking myself what &quot;privacy&quot; I&#x27;m really concerned about. Let&#x27;s see... I don&#x27;t want anyone actually stealing my money. I don&#x27;t want sensitive security information that can be used to steal my money (ie passwords) falling into unauthorized hands.<p>But my personal history? My photos? Words I&#x27;ve written? Oh well. If someone wants that stuff, they can probably get it. And the gaping maw of robotic commerce doesn&#x27;t actually care about me personally, it only cares what it can sell me.<p>I&#x27;m not worried about the police or some authoritarian tyranny on a <i>personal</i> level, on the level where what I say on the internet matters. I worry about it in an <i>impersonal</i> way. When the robot overlords are rounding up the granola-munching people of south Minneapolis for extermination, they won&#x27;t be checking our internet history first.</text></comment> |
36,163,595 | 36,163,377 | 1 | 2 | 36,145,185 | train | <story><title>Falcon 40B LLM (which beats Llama) now Apache 2.0</title><url>https://twitter.com/Thom_Wolf/status/1663986216771936263</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>valine</author><text>GPT-4 wasn’t nerfed. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=36155267" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=36155267</a></text></item><item><author>kossTKR</author><text>Very cool but how does this compare to GPT-4 (before it was nerfed)?<p>I feel like the best benchmark atm is the orig gpt-4 version.</text></item><item><author>yewenjie</author><text>For people who directly want to check the benchmark - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;huggingface.co&#x2F;spaces&#x2F;HuggingFaceH4&#x2F;open_llm_leaderboard" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;huggingface.co&#x2F;spaces&#x2F;HuggingFaceH4&#x2F;open_llm_leaderb...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Taek</author><text>*the api wasn&#x27;t nerfed. ChatGPT4 was most certainly changed</text></comment> | <story><title>Falcon 40B LLM (which beats Llama) now Apache 2.0</title><url>https://twitter.com/Thom_Wolf/status/1663986216771936263</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>valine</author><text>GPT-4 wasn’t nerfed. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=36155267" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=36155267</a></text></item><item><author>kossTKR</author><text>Very cool but how does this compare to GPT-4 (before it was nerfed)?<p>I feel like the best benchmark atm is the orig gpt-4 version.</text></item><item><author>yewenjie</author><text>For people who directly want to check the benchmark - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;huggingface.co&#x2F;spaces&#x2F;HuggingFaceH4&#x2F;open_llm_leaderboard" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;huggingface.co&#x2F;spaces&#x2F;HuggingFaceH4&#x2F;open_llm_leaderb...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>fbrncci</author><text>Very very hard to believe.</text></comment> |
22,268,390 | 22,268,732 | 1 | 2 | 22,267,547 | train | <story><title>Chrome 80 Is 30% Slower Than Chrome 75</title><url>https://github.com/krausest/js-framework-benchmark/issues/683#issuecomment-583113382</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Ajedi32</author><text>Chrome used to rely on fixed synthetic benchmarks like this for guiding their performance optimizations, but quickly realized they aren&#x27;t a great indicator of real world performance and ditched them in favor of instead evaluating Chrome&#x27;s performance against a collection of popular, real-world websites. See <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;v8.dev&#x2F;blog&#x2F;real-world-performance" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;v8.dev&#x2F;blog&#x2F;real-world-performance</a> for a discussion of their bench marking methodology.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>oefrha</author><text>I wish there will be some Chromium&#x2F;Blink&#x2F;v8 experts shedding some light on what might be going on in this thread. Otherwise it’s just gonna dissolve into another switch-to-Firefox call-to-action megathread that happens twice a day now.</text></comment> | <story><title>Chrome 80 Is 30% Slower Than Chrome 75</title><url>https://github.com/krausest/js-framework-benchmark/issues/683#issuecomment-583113382</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Ajedi32</author><text>Chrome used to rely on fixed synthetic benchmarks like this for guiding their performance optimizations, but quickly realized they aren&#x27;t a great indicator of real world performance and ditched them in favor of instead evaluating Chrome&#x27;s performance against a collection of popular, real-world websites. See <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;v8.dev&#x2F;blog&#x2F;real-world-performance" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;v8.dev&#x2F;blog&#x2F;real-world-performance</a> for a discussion of their bench marking methodology.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>the_duke</author><text>Related: current Firefox is worse in almost every benchmark, but feels snappier or at least on par with Chrome on most sites.</text></comment> |
23,693,689 | 23,693,956 | 1 | 3 | 23,693,023 | train | <story><title>Thousands of U.S. judges who broke laws, oaths remained on the bench</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-judges-misconduct-specialreport/special-report-thousands-of-us-judges-who-broke-laws-oaths-remained-on-the-bench-idUSKBN2411WG</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>meddlepal</author><text>This is the kind of stupidity you get with elected judges.</text></item><item><author>chidog12</author><text>&gt; Judge Les Hayes once sentenced a single mother to 496 days behind bars for failing to pay traffic tickets. The sentence was so stiff it exceeded the jail time Alabama allows for negligent homicide.<p>&gt; Johnson’s three children were cast into foster care while she was incarcerated. One daughter was molested, state records show. Another was physically abused.<p>Speechless... Makes my blood boil</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pmoriarty</author><text>The problem isn&#x27;t that judges are elected, but that it&#x27;s nearly impossible for voters to make an informed decision.<p>In the last election, I tried to find out about the local judges on my ballot and could find virtually nothing.<p>The media has been neutered in to an infotainment machine, so there&#x27;s very little investigative journalism left even on issues of national or international importance, much less on small issues like who your local judges are and how they rule.</text></comment> | <story><title>Thousands of U.S. judges who broke laws, oaths remained on the bench</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-judges-misconduct-specialreport/special-report-thousands-of-us-judges-who-broke-laws-oaths-remained-on-the-bench-idUSKBN2411WG</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>meddlepal</author><text>This is the kind of stupidity you get with elected judges.</text></item><item><author>chidog12</author><text>&gt; Judge Les Hayes once sentenced a single mother to 496 days behind bars for failing to pay traffic tickets. The sentence was so stiff it exceeded the jail time Alabama allows for negligent homicide.<p>&gt; Johnson’s three children were cast into foster care while she was incarcerated. One daughter was molested, state records show. Another was physically abused.<p>Speechless... Makes my blood boil</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mcv</author><text>Is it true that all US judges are either elected or politically appointed? Both seem like a terrible idea.<p>I admit I don&#x27;t know how judges in other countries are appointed, but I think it usually involves a pretty thorough screening process involving several different requirements and organisations.</text></comment> |
33,927,712 | 33,927,049 | 1 | 3 | 33,926,564 | train | <story><title>The Tesla Semi cab from the practical POV of someone who drives trucks</title><url>https://twitter.com/torynski/status/1600968583055826944</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>elijaht</author><text>I don&#x27;t see how that is relevant. Nearly all of the criticisms posed (maybe not the snow one?) would still be relevant to a driver in the situation you describe. This has nothing to do with range or even the fact that it&#x27;s electric</text></item><item><author>themagician</author><text>Tesla knows all this.<p>This truck is for a very specific niche: owned fleets near two warehouses or within a 500 mile round trip from a major port. Basically: all the warehouses in the Inland Empire near LAX and Long Beach and the warehouses in the Newark area that service the NYC metro area. It has the potential to dramatically reduce costs for some routes&#x2F;corridors.<p>It will be a big hit in these areas. It will have a large impact on a very specific niche. There&#x27;s nothing wrong with that. These aren&#x27;t going to be used by independent truckers. It&#x27;s not for them. It&#x27;s for drivers making the same 80-100 mile or so trip from port to warehouse every day.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>braingenious</author><text>These sorts of posts always show up <i>anywhere</i> that somebody posts anything remotely critical of a Tesla product. They could make a combination trash compactor-bassinet that randomly switches modes and somebody would come out of the woodwork and post “People don’t realize the value in maximizing functionality in small spaces”</text></comment> | <story><title>The Tesla Semi cab from the practical POV of someone who drives trucks</title><url>https://twitter.com/torynski/status/1600968583055826944</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>elijaht</author><text>I don&#x27;t see how that is relevant. Nearly all of the criticisms posed (maybe not the snow one?) would still be relevant to a driver in the situation you describe. This has nothing to do with range or even the fact that it&#x27;s electric</text></item><item><author>themagician</author><text>Tesla knows all this.<p>This truck is for a very specific niche: owned fleets near two warehouses or within a 500 mile round trip from a major port. Basically: all the warehouses in the Inland Empire near LAX and Long Beach and the warehouses in the Newark area that service the NYC metro area. It has the potential to dramatically reduce costs for some routes&#x2F;corridors.<p>It will be a big hit in these areas. It will have a large impact on a very specific niche. There&#x27;s nothing wrong with that. These aren&#x27;t going to be used by independent truckers. It&#x27;s not for them. It&#x27;s for drivers making the same 80-100 mile or so trip from port to warehouse every day.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>hn_throwaway_99</author><text>While I largely agree with you, there are at least a subset of the complaints in the Twitter thread that are pretty inconsequential if the truck is only intended for &lt; 500 mile routes (for example, the &quot;no space for a bed&quot; complaint).</text></comment> |
19,620,176 | 19,619,574 | 1 | 2 | 19,616,691 | train | <story><title>Marissa Mayer on career growth and how a revenue guarantee almost killed Google</title><url>https://triplebyte.com/blog/marissa-mayer-interview</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rajeshp1986</author><text>&quot;I realized that, while I had a very deep understanding of artificial intelligence, I did not yet have some of the basics down. I knew how a database worked. I knew how an operating system worked. I knew how a compiler worked. But I hadn&#x27;t taken classes on those topics, so I went back for my master&#x27;s and took the rest of the AI offerings as well as a lot of programming basics. That way, I could actually go and market myself as a software engineer and say, “I&#x27;ve written a compiler. I&#x27;ve written an operating system. I&#x27;ve written a database. I know how they work&quot;<p>I am confused. Is she talking about foundation CS courses like OS &amp; database systems OR AI courses?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>antt</author><text>Keep in mind that she is a queen of self promotion. When she was talking about 140 hour work weeks she conveniently left out the fact she was paying someone else to do her domestic work [0]. Or that most of her days involved meetings, lunches and dinners.<p>I am reminded of the story of Henry IV who stood barefoot in the snow for three days. And through the grace of God not getting frost bite. We have come so far when we no longer believe you need God for acts like this.<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.businessinsider.com.au&#x2F;marissa-mayer-who-just-banned-working-from-home-paid-to-have-a-nursery-built-at-her-office-2013-2?r=US&amp;IR=T" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.businessinsider.com.au&#x2F;marissa-mayer-who-just-ba...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Marissa Mayer on career growth and how a revenue guarantee almost killed Google</title><url>https://triplebyte.com/blog/marissa-mayer-interview</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rajeshp1986</author><text>&quot;I realized that, while I had a very deep understanding of artificial intelligence, I did not yet have some of the basics down. I knew how a database worked. I knew how an operating system worked. I knew how a compiler worked. But I hadn&#x27;t taken classes on those topics, so I went back for my master&#x27;s and took the rest of the AI offerings as well as a lot of programming basics. That way, I could actually go and market myself as a software engineer and say, “I&#x27;ve written a compiler. I&#x27;ve written an operating system. I&#x27;ve written a database. I know how they work&quot;<p>I am confused. Is she talking about foundation CS courses like OS &amp; database systems OR AI courses?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rrdharan</author><text>She majored in Symbolic Systems as an undergrad:
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Symbolic_Systems" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Symbolic_Systems</a><p>As I understand it, foundational CS classes are not a requirement for that degree. Although I do know people who majored in Symbolic Systems and completed such courses in undergrad, I assume they were electives rather than requirements.</text></comment> |
29,008,647 | 29,008,402 | 1 | 3 | 29,005,573 | train | <story><title>Notes from the Meeting on Python GIL Removal Between Python Core and Sam Gross</title><url>https://lukasz.langa.pl/5d044f91-49c1-4170-aed1-62b6763e6ad0/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mvanveen</author><text>Just came in here briefly to opine that there is a very real risk of fork if the Python core community does not at least offer a viable alternative expediently.<p>The economic pressures surrounding the benefits of gross’s changes will likely influence this more than any tears shed over subtle backwards incompatibility.<p>I believe it was Dropbox that famously released their own private internal Python build a while back and included some concurrency patches.<p>Many teams might go the route of working from Sam Gross’ work and if we see subtle changes in underlying runtime concurrency semantics or something else backwards incompatible that’s it- either that adoption will roll downhill to a new standard or Python core will have to answer with a suitable GIL-less alternative.<p>I for one do not want to think about “ANSI Python” runtimes or give the MSFTs etc of the world an opening to divide the user base.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>yjftsjthsd-h</author><text>I mean, PyPy is over a decade old now, and micropython is a mere 7 years old. What&#x27;s another fork? If anything, I strongly prefer languages that have more than one implementation.</text></comment> | <story><title>Notes from the Meeting on Python GIL Removal Between Python Core and Sam Gross</title><url>https://lukasz.langa.pl/5d044f91-49c1-4170-aed1-62b6763e6ad0/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mvanveen</author><text>Just came in here briefly to opine that there is a very real risk of fork if the Python core community does not at least offer a viable alternative expediently.<p>The economic pressures surrounding the benefits of gross’s changes will likely influence this more than any tears shed over subtle backwards incompatibility.<p>I believe it was Dropbox that famously released their own private internal Python build a while back and included some concurrency patches.<p>Many teams might go the route of working from Sam Gross’ work and if we see subtle changes in underlying runtime concurrency semantics or something else backwards incompatible that’s it- either that adoption will roll downhill to a new standard or Python core will have to answer with a suitable GIL-less alternative.<p>I for one do not want to think about “ANSI Python” runtimes or give the MSFTs etc of the world an opening to divide the user base.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>qwerty456127</author><text>Isn&#x27;t there enough Python forks&#x2F;implementations already? Is it reasonable to expect a new one to become more popular than those we already have?</text></comment> |
3,758,272 | 3,756,839 | 1 | 2 | 3,756,317 | train | <story><title>German Pirate Party Scores Second State Victory</title><url>http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/german-pirate-party-election-304058</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jellicle</author><text>For the political hackers: note that these victories are made possible by Germany's proportional representation system, which guarantees seats in parliaments to any party which gets more than 5% of the popular vote across the state/city/whatever. Thus parties with broad but shallow support do get represented in government.<p>The electoral systems in the UK-derived nations (geographic districts only, first past the post) expressly prohibit such broad-but-shallow movements from ever being represented in government. If the Pirate Party in a U.S. state got the same percent of the vote, they would end up with precisely zero seats in the legislature. Even if they got double that percent of the vote, they would end up with precisely zero seats in the legislature. Triple? Still zero. The U.S. electoral system is an extremely conservative one, which prevents new political movements from ever being heard in government. There are better ones, such as Germany's.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>cabalamat</author><text>&#62; The electoral systems in the UK-derived nations (geographic districts only, first past the post) expressly prohibit such broad-but-shallow movements from ever being represented in government.<p>This is true for the Westminster parliament. It is not true for other elected bodies in the UK, which use the following electoral systems, and with the approximate share of the vote you need to get elected:<p><pre><code> London Assembly, MMP (as Germany), 5%
Scottish Parliament, MMP, c. 6%
Welsh Assembly, MMP, c. 8%
Northern Ireland assembly, 6 member STV, c. 10%
NI local government, 6 member STV, c. 10%
Scottish local government, 3-4 member STV, c. 13%
European parliament,
1 STV constituency and 11 closed lists,
varies between c. 8% and 17%
</code></pre>
Incidentally, I am a Pirate Party UK candidate standing in Edinburgh this May -- <a href="http://edinburgh.pirateparty.org.uk/" rel="nofollow">http://edinburgh.pirateparty.org.uk/</a></text></comment> | <story><title>German Pirate Party Scores Second State Victory</title><url>http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/german-pirate-party-election-304058</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jellicle</author><text>For the political hackers: note that these victories are made possible by Germany's proportional representation system, which guarantees seats in parliaments to any party which gets more than 5% of the popular vote across the state/city/whatever. Thus parties with broad but shallow support do get represented in government.<p>The electoral systems in the UK-derived nations (geographic districts only, first past the post) expressly prohibit such broad-but-shallow movements from ever being represented in government. If the Pirate Party in a U.S. state got the same percent of the vote, they would end up with precisely zero seats in the legislature. Even if they got double that percent of the vote, they would end up with precisely zero seats in the legislature. Triple? Still zero. The U.S. electoral system is an extremely conservative one, which prevents new political movements from ever being heard in government. There are better ones, such as Germany's.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>twelvechairs</author><text>&#62; The electoral systems in the UK-derived nations (geographic districts only, first past the post)<p>Not sure 'UK-derived nations' is a very accurate description. New Zealand for one, has a mixed-member proportional system similar to Germany. Australia has preferential voting (not first past the post) and an upper house with proportional representation. I'm sure other commonwealth states must have diversity in voting systems also, despite being otherwise 'UK-derived'.</text></comment> |
27,504,037 | 27,503,929 | 1 | 2 | 27,501,805 | train | <story><title>Irish police to be given powers over passwords</title><url>https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-57468750</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>choeger</author><text>Interestingly, such a law does nothing against proper criminals. People that know they have incriminating evidence will either not carry it on their phones or uses some form of steganography to hide it perfectly. In the worst case, they will have some form of wipe-me passphrase that cleans the device before unlocking.<p>Normal people, on the other hand, do not have these kind of (mental, time) resources. They will be forced to unlock their phones and <i>something</i> incriminating (for instance regarding &quot;hate speech&quot; or &quot;intellectual property rights&quot; or just &quot;traffic violations&quot;) will be found. I consider this approach one step more in the direction of keeping every citizen an on-demand criminal. There are so many, sometimes incomprehensible, laws nowadays that pretty much everyone is not compliant.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>everdrive</author><text>&gt;such a law does nothing against proper criminals. People that know they have incriminating evidence will either not carry it on their phones or uses some form of steganography to hide it perfectly.<p>I oppose such a law, as it appears to be very poorly written, but it&#x27;s pure fantasy that criminals won&#x27;t do crime via their phones, or will use some sort of advanced steg. Maybe some very talented criminals will do such things, but most criminals are just people: they either don&#x27;t understand technology well, or else simply engage in risky behaviors.</text></comment> | <story><title>Irish police to be given powers over passwords</title><url>https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-57468750</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>choeger</author><text>Interestingly, such a law does nothing against proper criminals. People that know they have incriminating evidence will either not carry it on their phones or uses some form of steganography to hide it perfectly. In the worst case, they will have some form of wipe-me passphrase that cleans the device before unlocking.<p>Normal people, on the other hand, do not have these kind of (mental, time) resources. They will be forced to unlock their phones and <i>something</i> incriminating (for instance regarding &quot;hate speech&quot; or &quot;intellectual property rights&quot; or just &quot;traffic violations&quot;) will be found. I consider this approach one step more in the direction of keeping every citizen an on-demand criminal. There are so many, sometimes incomprehensible, laws nowadays that pretty much everyone is not compliant.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>lbriner</author><text>&quot;Proper criminals&quot;? What does that even mean?<p>There are hundreds of criminals who are not tech savvy (or not tech savvy enough) who will not have any of the mechanisms you postulate, who are frequently caught by the police and are very much &quot;proper criminals&quot;.<p>I don&#x27;t agree with this law but to say it doesn&#x27;t do anything against proper criminals is patently false.</text></comment> |
26,433,661 | 26,433,226 | 1 | 3 | 26,432,072 | train | <story><title>I Shipped, Therefore I Am</title><url>https://hardcoresoftware.learningbyshipping.com/p/012-i-shipped-therefore-i-am</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>hazz99</author><text>Semi-related.<p>Whenever I&#x27;m building something, I get <i>really</i> strong tunnel vision. Part of what makes me a good engineer – submerging myself extremely deep and specific context, &quot;the zone&quot; – seems to work against me becoming a good product person. There&#x27;s always product stuff I seem to forget, or don&#x27;t pay attention to, or I end up focusing on the wrong things.<p>After &quot;shipping&quot;, however, the tunnel vision goes away. I can view my work with a level of clarity. Some features I built might be valuable, and some won&#x27;t.<p>By splitting my work into build&#x2F;evaluate phases, rather than continual building, I&#x27;ve become much better at focusing on the <i>impact</i> of what I&#x27;m building, and not the engineering in-and-of-itself.<p>I have a terrible habit of spending too much time building, and not enough time thinking&#x2F;marketing&#x2F;etc. This is how I try to manage that.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>teekert</author><text>This level of knowing oneself is gold. The older you get, the better you get at managing your self and your (sub-optimal, emotional, human) tendencies.<p>When you are young you may think that you can just adapt to anything (I did). But you often can&#x27;t. You will be lazy, procrastinate, feel like you deserved a relaxing day, get cranky for (un)known reasons, etc. You will have emotions, and they are not rudimentary things you can ignore because the annoy you from time to time. They are you and they need to be listened to and understood.<p>This is what experience is to me: Getting to know yourself and riding your own waves of enthusiasm and productivity and knowing when to stop and reflect or seek help or when to accept your shortcomings and move on without shedding tears. To know when you are fooling yourself and know that you will get disappointed in yourself and will develop negative emotions and learn how to avoid that by being more realistic about your abilities (and time management skills).<p>More an more I accept deep down that I won&#x27;t be the next president or the next Steve Jobs even though my parents told you I could do anything I set my mind to! And I know that that is ok.</text></comment> | <story><title>I Shipped, Therefore I Am</title><url>https://hardcoresoftware.learningbyshipping.com/p/012-i-shipped-therefore-i-am</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>hazz99</author><text>Semi-related.<p>Whenever I&#x27;m building something, I get <i>really</i> strong tunnel vision. Part of what makes me a good engineer – submerging myself extremely deep and specific context, &quot;the zone&quot; – seems to work against me becoming a good product person. There&#x27;s always product stuff I seem to forget, or don&#x27;t pay attention to, or I end up focusing on the wrong things.<p>After &quot;shipping&quot;, however, the tunnel vision goes away. I can view my work with a level of clarity. Some features I built might be valuable, and some won&#x27;t.<p>By splitting my work into build&#x2F;evaluate phases, rather than continual building, I&#x27;ve become much better at focusing on the <i>impact</i> of what I&#x27;m building, and not the engineering in-and-of-itself.<p>I have a terrible habit of spending too much time building, and not enough time thinking&#x2F;marketing&#x2F;etc. This is how I try to manage that.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mejutoco</author><text>I have realized something similar recently.<p>When building a website I would use bootstrap or similar to design the website as I implemented it.<p>Recently I have been designing the website in figma some days, and implementing said design other days, and my productivity had skyrocketed.<p>For me, it simulates a boss giving me requirements. I can focus on the task at hand without context switching all the time (or that is my rationalisation)<p>Edit: typos</text></comment> |
31,698,181 | 31,697,770 | 1 | 3 | 31,695,881 | train | <story><title>New CRISPR-based map ties every human gene to its function</title><url>https://news.mit.edu/2022/crispr-based-map-ties-every-human-gene-to-its-function-0609</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>achenet</author><text>There&#x27;s an interview with Ken Thompson from about 2008 where he says that most of the work in CS has already been done, and he&#x27;s advising his son to go into biology.<p>I feel like CRISPR is the transistor of the 21st century.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dekhn</author><text>CRISPR is more like a machine to make large-node-size integrated circuits.
Somebody else has to design the circuit, make it manufacturable, and integrate the circuit with a whole bunch of other hardware.<p>I work in biotech at a company that is one of the few golden geese that lays 2-3 successful drugs with no competitors every few years. I have 30+ years of experience (deep experience) in machine learning, biology, and computer science.<p>We are so far behind where we could be, in terms of turning biology into technology, that&#x27;s almost shameful. Every day I see another system that says it can generate 10 times the data of the previous machine, but the actual amount of knowledge we are extracting for all that data collection is growing logarithmically. This is because for a long time biology has greatly underfunded computing and data.<p>The one great shining light is AlphaFold. AF2 finally demonstrated to a wide range of scientists across many domains that a really great team using techniques that are barely known outside of FAAMG can work with some long-term experts to move a metric (quality of predicted protein structures compared to golden data) substantially further and faster than even the most wildly optimistic predicted. Not only that, some of the techniques they used didn&#x27;t even exist several years ago (transformers, jax, various graph learning systems), and the work was replicated externally once the leading academic team had a hint of the direction to go in.<p>To me, nothing about what I said is surprising to me; I predicted these outcomes a long time ago. Most of the reasons that it comes slower than it could are combinations of culture, incentive, morals&#x2F;ethics, politics, innovator&#x27;s dilemmas and a hundred different bottlenecks. Recently, the challenge has been that most of the really smart computational biologists disappear into FAAMG and don&#x27;t contribute back the things they learn there to research.<p>We&#x27;re all waiting for that next moment when the cross product of Genentech and Isomorphic Labs announces that they have a computational model that can do end to end prediction of drug, from initial disease target to FDA approval post-phase III trial. That&#x27;s been the dream for some time but we&#x27;re nowhere near it still, and it remains to be seen whether some group can conjure all the necessary bits to solve the remaining underlying problems associated with that &quot;far beyond NP-hard problem&quot;</text></comment> | <story><title>New CRISPR-based map ties every human gene to its function</title><url>https://news.mit.edu/2022/crispr-based-map-ties-every-human-gene-to-its-function-0609</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>achenet</author><text>There&#x27;s an interview with Ken Thompson from about 2008 where he says that most of the work in CS has already been done, and he&#x27;s advising his son to go into biology.<p>I feel like CRISPR is the transistor of the 21st century.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>foobiekr</author><text>The problem with this is that biology will likely end up dominated by China due to a willingness to conduct experiments that are otherwise non-viable in most countries.</text></comment> |
16,893,555 | 16,893,216 | 1 | 3 | 16,892,307 | train | <story><title>A brief list of what Scrum gets wrong</title><url>https://medium.com/@ard_adam/why-scrum-is-the-wrong-way-to-build-software-99d8994409e5</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>wilkosez</author><text>I agree 100%.<p>Thankfully I dont do agile any more, but I&#x27;m close to several teams that do. My fondest memories are:<p>No over-arching design (Implement feature after feature however the hell anyone likes)
Once said features are implemented, taking the time to &quot;refactor&quot; (read: completely rewrite because the code was so bad) becomes a really hard sell.<p>Thus, new features get progressively harder to implement, as you touch a deeper cross-section of the code to try and fix stuff semi-covertly, without a formal refactor.<p>&quot;Tech Debt&quot; was done in sprint scheduled after phase of dev sprints. After, say, a year of development, lets fix all the problems in 3 weeks... When you&#x27;re dealing with procedural php masquerading as OO, MVC with business logic everywhere it shouldnt be, and abuse of inheritance such that you cant throw an error in a command line because you&#x27;re not a logged in browser user, who&#x27;s had their language queried from a database, and doesnt fall back to default when the db isnt there... 3 weeks isnt gonna cut it!<p>Introducing peer review was supposed to sort that, but bad or inexperienced devs didnt know they were doing shoddy work (it met the criteria after all..), and good devs became impediments because so many stories needed redoing. Demoralising.<p>We were probably &quot;doing agile wrong&quot;. But it&#x27;s like a religion: open to interpretation. In my experience it&#x27;s a tool used to extract maximum customer benefit at the expense of the developer&#x27;s soul, under the pretence of &quot;self managing team&quot; - ie. &quot;You brought it on yourself&quot;.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Huggernaut</author><text>&gt; No over-arching design (Implement feature after feature however the hell anyone likes) Once said features are implemented, taking the time to &quot;refactor&quot; (read: completely rewrite because the code was so bad) becomes a really hard sell.<p>Can I ask why do you deliver stories before refactoring, if that&#x27;s what you&#x27;re saying? We&#x27;d tend to do necessary refactors as part of features or bugs when we touch related code and rarely have pure refactor chores.<p>Also, why do you have to _sell_ code quality? At least where I work there is a pretty strong divide between what to build and how to build it. There is two-way trust between the product manager and engineers that they know their domain and when they say &quot;this is important right now&quot;, it&#x27;s probably the right thing. After that it&#x27;s just a matter of communication and prioritisation between the the two sides.<p>I could easily see how this might fall apart if either side was not trusted or not doing a great job, but I guess it would probably fall apart no matter what development process you followed if that were true.</text></comment> | <story><title>A brief list of what Scrum gets wrong</title><url>https://medium.com/@ard_adam/why-scrum-is-the-wrong-way-to-build-software-99d8994409e5</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>wilkosez</author><text>I agree 100%.<p>Thankfully I dont do agile any more, but I&#x27;m close to several teams that do. My fondest memories are:<p>No over-arching design (Implement feature after feature however the hell anyone likes)
Once said features are implemented, taking the time to &quot;refactor&quot; (read: completely rewrite because the code was so bad) becomes a really hard sell.<p>Thus, new features get progressively harder to implement, as you touch a deeper cross-section of the code to try and fix stuff semi-covertly, without a formal refactor.<p>&quot;Tech Debt&quot; was done in sprint scheduled after phase of dev sprints. After, say, a year of development, lets fix all the problems in 3 weeks... When you&#x27;re dealing with procedural php masquerading as OO, MVC with business logic everywhere it shouldnt be, and abuse of inheritance such that you cant throw an error in a command line because you&#x27;re not a logged in browser user, who&#x27;s had their language queried from a database, and doesnt fall back to default when the db isnt there... 3 weeks isnt gonna cut it!<p>Introducing peer review was supposed to sort that, but bad or inexperienced devs didnt know they were doing shoddy work (it met the criteria after all..), and good devs became impediments because so many stories needed redoing. Demoralising.<p>We were probably &quot;doing agile wrong&quot;. But it&#x27;s like a religion: open to interpretation. In my experience it&#x27;s a tool used to extract maximum customer benefit at the expense of the developer&#x27;s soul, under the pretence of &quot;self managing team&quot; - ie. &quot;You brought it on yourself&quot;.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>spookthesunset</author><text>&gt; Once said features are implemented, taking the time to &quot;refactor&quot; (read: completely rewrite because the code was so bad) becomes a really hard sell.<p>This should be a hard sell. The code in production works. Why does it in need a rewrite? The fact it needed a rewrite in the first place doesn&#x27;t really reflect on scrum but on poor engineering and management practices.</text></comment> |
39,914,821 | 39,914,261 | 1 | 2 | 39,913,505 | train | <story><title>The Rise and Fall of 3M's Floppy Disk (2023)</title><url>https://spectrum.ieee.org/3m-floppy</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>0x0000000</author><text>&gt; If you ask the average person what the company 3M does, odds are if they have a few gray hairs hanging out on their scalp, they might say that the company makes floppy disks.<p>That&#x27;s crazy, I wouldn&#x27;t think anyone would first and foremost associate 3M with floppies instead of adhesives, even those with a few grays like myself.<p>They make <i>post-its</i> for chrissake, and we&#x27;re gonna pretend they&#x27;re most known for floppies?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jll29</author><text>&gt; They make post-its for chrissake<p>Wikipedia to the rescue:<p>&quot;3M Company (originally the Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Company) is an American multinational conglomerate operating in the fields of industry, worker safety, healthcare, and consumer goods. The company produces over 60,000 products under several brands, including adhesives, abrasives, laminates, passive fire protection, personal protective equipment, window films, paint protection films, dental and orthodontic products, electrical and electronic connecting and insulating materials, medical products, car-care products electronic circuits, healthcare software, and optical films. It is based in Maplewood, a suburb of Saint Paul, Minnesota.&quot;<p>Although recently not doing so well due to one lawsuit, they have a wonderful
rule that nudges management to add new products to its portfolio sooner and more aggresively than other companies, so I associate them with innovation.<p>The now-famous &quot;Post-It notes&quot; were such a disruptive new innovation, made from scrap paper that was left over when cutting larger pages: literally rubbish&#x2F;garbage turned into a new revenue stream.</text></comment> | <story><title>The Rise and Fall of 3M's Floppy Disk (2023)</title><url>https://spectrum.ieee.org/3m-floppy</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>0x0000000</author><text>&gt; If you ask the average person what the company 3M does, odds are if they have a few gray hairs hanging out on their scalp, they might say that the company makes floppy disks.<p>That&#x27;s crazy, I wouldn&#x27;t think anyone would first and foremost associate 3M with floppies instead of adhesives, even those with a few grays like myself.<p>They make <i>post-its</i> for chrissake, and we&#x27;re gonna pretend they&#x27;re most known for floppies?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>esafak</author><text>I have no idea why they shoehorned 3M into the article. Floppies rose and fell independently of 3M.</text></comment> |
24,623,749 | 24,618,301 | 1 | 2 | 24,616,898 | train | <story><title>China's social credit system is both unique and part of a global trend</title><url>https://tutanota.com/blog/posts/social-credit-system-china/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>11thEarlOfMar</author><text>Ultimately, what would such a system be optimized for? The goals will be modulated by the persons or groups in power. From what I&#x27;ve seen, the powerful in China seek a stable, well behaved, productive workforce such that the profit from their labor can accrue to the benefit of the ruling class. A data collection system as pervasive as the social credit system that feeds into a self-optimizing control center that can influence the behavior of the ruled, is economically potent.<p>Make the goals to get the most profit from the least investment into the work force, coerce their productivity with increasing restrictions and penalties, and you&#x27;re moving towards virtual enslavement.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bleepblorp</author><text>Nitpick: I don&#x27;t think it&#x27;s completely accurate to imply that Chinese elites are exclusively interested in economic self-enrichment.<p>Societies where the elites are only interested in stealing everything they can take look like Nigeria (or Mississippi): a tiny sliver of people living in luxury while the rest of the population lives in permanent, abject, squalor.<p>In contrast, median living standards in China have improved dramatically in living memory. In many cases, the transformation has literally been from mud huts to skyscrapers. The kind of wealth distribution that supported this transformation would not have been possible if China&#x27;s elites were only interested in self enrichment; if they were, they would have taken the wealth for themselves.<p>Obviously, China&#x27;s human rights policies have no redeeming qualities, but its economic policies have benefited the average Chinese citizen. Credit where it&#x27;s due.</text></comment> | <story><title>China's social credit system is both unique and part of a global trend</title><url>https://tutanota.com/blog/posts/social-credit-system-china/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>11thEarlOfMar</author><text>Ultimately, what would such a system be optimized for? The goals will be modulated by the persons or groups in power. From what I&#x27;ve seen, the powerful in China seek a stable, well behaved, productive workforce such that the profit from their labor can accrue to the benefit of the ruling class. A data collection system as pervasive as the social credit system that feeds into a self-optimizing control center that can influence the behavior of the ruled, is economically potent.<p>Make the goals to get the most profit from the least investment into the work force, coerce their productivity with increasing restrictions and penalties, and you&#x27;re moving towards virtual enslavement.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>AlexTWithBeard</author><text>At least on paper it&#x27;s optimized for all good things. From the article above:<p>Negative factors:
dishonest and fraudulent financial behavior,
playing loud music,
violating traffic rules,
making reservations at restaurants and not showing up,
failing to correctly sort your waste,
fraudulently using other people&#x27;s public transportation ID cards<p>Positive factors, on the other hand, include:<p>donating blood,
donating to charity,
volunteering to community services<p>But the lack of transparency means that what&#x27;s promised may be different from what&#x27;s actually done.</text></comment> |
8,004,429 | 8,004,535 | 1 | 2 | 8,004,090 | train | <story><title>The Original Lucasfilm Games Team Talk About Life at Skywalker Ranch</title><url>http://www.usgamer.net/articles/i-actually-was-hunting-ewoks-lucasfilm-games-the-early-years</url><text></text></story><parent_chain><item><author>ericcholis</author><text>Adventure games have seen a bit of a renaissance with the rise in indie publishers. Take a look at Telltale Games&#x27; and Double Fine Productions&#x27; offerings. Of course, these two publishers have former LucasArts developers....</text></item><item><author>tenfingers</author><text>The &quot;Adventure&quot; genre is basically gone. Are there any new titles in the likes of the old LucasFilm games being produced today?<p>I have very fond memories of playing most of the cited games, including many other titles from Sierra as well. They hit a sweet spot of difficulty and overall very nice graphics&#x2F;story that&#x27;s difficult to match.<p>It&#x27;s also impressive how well these games have aged. You can pick up any of these titles on ScummVM and still be entertained for days&#x2F;weeks.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Osmium</author><text>Double Fine Productions is definitely worth checking out. They&#x27;ve recently released Broken Age, a successfully-kickstarted effort. Act I is out now and is absolutely wonderful (in my personal opinion), with Act II still in development.<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broken_Age" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Broken_Age</a><p>For those not in the know, Double Fine Productions was founded by Tim Schafer, who is ex-LucasArts and was lead on Grim Fandango and heavily involved in the Monkey Island series too.</text></comment> | <story><title>The Original Lucasfilm Games Team Talk About Life at Skywalker Ranch</title><url>http://www.usgamer.net/articles/i-actually-was-hunting-ewoks-lucasfilm-games-the-early-years</url><text></text></story><parent_chain><item><author>ericcholis</author><text>Adventure games have seen a bit of a renaissance with the rise in indie publishers. Take a look at Telltale Games&#x27; and Double Fine Productions&#x27; offerings. Of course, these two publishers have former LucasArts developers....</text></item><item><author>tenfingers</author><text>The &quot;Adventure&quot; genre is basically gone. Are there any new titles in the likes of the old LucasFilm games being produced today?<p>I have very fond memories of playing most of the cited games, including many other titles from Sierra as well. They hit a sweet spot of difficulty and overall very nice graphics&#x2F;story that&#x27;s difficult to match.<p>It&#x27;s also impressive how well these games have aged. You can pick up any of these titles on ScummVM and still be entertained for days&#x2F;weeks.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ijk</author><text>Looking beyond Double Fine and Telltale, there are dozens of indie titles[1] and a thriving amateur scene. Of particular note are the Blackwell series, To The Moon, and
Kentucky Route Zero.<p>[1] <a href="http://www.gog.com/games/adventure##release=a05" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.gog.com&#x2F;games&#x2F;adventure##release=a05</a></text></comment> |
7,381,575 | 7,381,632 | 1 | 2 | 7,380,912 | train | <story><title>What I learned about online-to-offline</title><url>http://justinkan.com/exec-errands-post-mortem</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>_sentient</author><text>Great points. As someone who has founded a couple tech-meets-meatspace businesses (including a cleaning company) these observations certainly ring true.<p>Another thing I would add, is that people often don&#x27;t correctly estimate how much of a pain it can be to deal with customer&#x2F;worker issues day in and day out. Most tech companies have limited support access, which greatly reduces their exposure to angry clients.<p>But when you&#x27;re in a services business you are pretty much forced to spend hours each day talking with angry customers, unreliable providers, and helping resolve seemingly endless conflicts. You can mitigate some of this with better systems and tech, but ultimately this burden only increases as you scale. At the end of the day there will always be a subset of your customers who are belligerent, unreasonable, or trying to con you outright. And that&#x27;s to say nothing of unreliable&#x2F;dishonest workers.<p>It can be a great business to be in, but you will need a thick skin, velvet tongue, and something of an indomitable spirit.</text></comment> | <story><title>What I learned about online-to-offline</title><url>http://justinkan.com/exec-errands-post-mortem</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>alaskamiller</author><text>1. Good help is hard to find. If you&#x27;re smart and capable, you&#x27;re above that $20&#x2F;hr line, and if you&#x27;re not... well you&#x27;re just not.<p>2. Service business is hard. Customer support can eat up your time, money, and energy day in, day out. Maybe if one had worked in retail in their youth they would understand it.<p>3. One of the more homegrown trends the past few years has been maid service. There&#x27;s a vibrant community on Reddit and blogospheres revolving around setting up maid services in various localities. They all build off the same model. Good to see that it&#x27;s validated by Exec switching to focusing on that.<p>In the end, these businesses revolving around re-organizing labor structures and managing people result in the inevitable grand truth: people are complex creatures, sometimes a person is good, sometimes a person is bad, then sometimes a person is cheap, and sometimes a person is expensive.<p>But we keep insisting on using an iPhone app to sort human beings into quantifiable skillsets then driving down the costs to utilize them. Everyone serves as little cogs in our lives commanded by our remote control. So future.</text></comment> |
15,127,693 | 15,126,784 | 1 | 3 | 15,126,577 | train | <story><title>No One Fails Anymore – Everybody ‘Pivots’</title><url>https://mobile.nytimes.com/2017/08/29/magazine/in-our-cynical-age-no-one-fails-anymore-everybody-pivots.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jondubois</author><text>The problem is that investors are too easy when it comes to giving second, third, fourth, fifth, sixth chances... And they absolutely suck at giving first chances to the right people.<p>Investors just sit there and assume that the right people will find them, but they don&#x27;t. The right people are too busy working to be chasing down investors 24&#x2F;7.<p>The first-timers who end up getting funded over and over again are usually the ones who network 24&#x2F;7 and their only real talent is seducing investors who confuse their well-rehearsed talk for passion and intelligence.</text></comment> | <story><title>No One Fails Anymore – Everybody ‘Pivots’</title><url>https://mobile.nytimes.com/2017/08/29/magazine/in-our-cynical-age-no-one-fails-anymore-everybody-pivots.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>phoenixstrike</author><text>...including this article, which pivots from Cernovich to Silicon Valley to politics and Trump.<p>A far more interesting discussion would have been about the rampant neurosis of above-average (nationally speaking) educated young people in tech that rate themselves as being better than they actually are, leading to a deathly fear of failure and accountability (leading to &quot;pivoting&quot;), perhaps (IMO) coming from the psychological reluctance to take a good hard look in the mirror and admit that they are not as good&#x2F;better than others as they think they are.</text></comment> |
2,358,066 | 2,357,837 | 1 | 2 | 2,357,195 | train | <story><title>How We Got Owned by a Few Teenagers (and Why It Will Never Happen Again)</title><url>http://blog.phpfog.com/2011/03/22/how-we-got-owned-by-a-few-teenagers-and-why-it-will-never-happen-again/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>parfe</author><text><i>Maybe then they'll stop with the half-assed apologies and recognize that there's a right way and a wrong way to do things.</i><p>PHPFog built a castle out of sand and you're upset that a wave came and demolished it. I'm always surprised at how thin-skinned a lot of HN commentary is. "Oh, Zed shouldn't be so rude" "These kids' lives should be destroyed for playing games with an wholly insecure website." "I stopped reading that article because it used the word blowjob."<p>I don't get angry at my dog when he shits in the house. Being angry at something that can't understand only satisfies the urge to shift blame.<p>My dog shits in the house and it's my fault for not walking him sooner. If some children compromise every level of your company then getting mad at them is only trying to deflect the blame. PHPFog is the only responsible party in this mess. I feel for the customers who still trust them.</text></item><item><author>dolinsky</author><text>What I find most disturbing about this whole situation is the way in which these teenagers are handling themselves, especially after the fact. The continued denial of responsibility and half-hearted mea culpa, coupled with the monetary damage to those businesses who had been running on PHPFog, leads me to sincerely desire that these teenagers face a penalty of some magnitude, not just a slap on the wrist.<p>Maybe then they'll stop with the half-assed apologies and recognize that there's a right way and a wrong way to do things.</text></item><item><author>sriramk</author><text>I feel really bad for the phpfog guys. But given the situation, I think they handled it admirably well - kudos to them. No software is secure and this could have happened to anyone. Especially startups who have to take shortcuts at the very beginning.<p>I know the attackers were just kids but I have to admit pursuing legal action sounds very tempting - even to just act as a deterrent to others. If they had just put up phpfogsucks.com, it <i>might</i> have been ok. But tweeting trash from their twitter account, redirecting their root domain to phpfogsucks, etc - are all not cool at all and should have <i>some</i> consequences.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>lambda</author><text>This isn't a wave knocking over a sandcastle or a dog shitting in the house. These are 16 year old kids, old enough to know right from wrong, and with the knowledge and skills to exploit the system. And once the exploit worked, they didn't then responsibly disclose the problem to PHPFog; they started vandalizing, changing passwords, and the works.<p>This is like someone finding an unlocked door to the apartment building's maintenance office, taking the master keys from there, rifling through a bunch of people's personal belongings, sticking signs in the windows saying "this building's landlords suck," and changing the locks on some of the doors to make it hard to clean up the whole mess.<p>They absolutely are the responsible party; you should never blame the victim of a crime just because the victim didn't take adequate steps to defend themselves. If I accidentally leave my door unlocked one day, that does not make it suddenly OK to come in and take my stuff and it's my fault for not having locked my door, instead of yours for taking my stuff.<p>Now, in this case PHPFog does bear some responsibility, because they have a duty to protect their customers as well as possible, and from reading about how this happened, it sounds like they were amazingly sloppy and irresponsible about it (passwords stored in the clear on the server, passwords shared between various accounts, leaving unsecured shared systems running after beta launch, etc). But that doesn't reduce the culpability of the attackers; they acted maliciously, with full knowledge of what they were doing, vandalized systems, changed passwords, and bragged about it.</text></comment> | <story><title>How We Got Owned by a Few Teenagers (and Why It Will Never Happen Again)</title><url>http://blog.phpfog.com/2011/03/22/how-we-got-owned-by-a-few-teenagers-and-why-it-will-never-happen-again/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>parfe</author><text><i>Maybe then they'll stop with the half-assed apologies and recognize that there's a right way and a wrong way to do things.</i><p>PHPFog built a castle out of sand and you're upset that a wave came and demolished it. I'm always surprised at how thin-skinned a lot of HN commentary is. "Oh, Zed shouldn't be so rude" "These kids' lives should be destroyed for playing games with an wholly insecure website." "I stopped reading that article because it used the word blowjob."<p>I don't get angry at my dog when he shits in the house. Being angry at something that can't understand only satisfies the urge to shift blame.<p>My dog shits in the house and it's my fault for not walking him sooner. If some children compromise every level of your company then getting mad at them is only trying to deflect the blame. PHPFog is the only responsible party in this mess. I feel for the customers who still trust them.</text></item><item><author>dolinsky</author><text>What I find most disturbing about this whole situation is the way in which these teenagers are handling themselves, especially after the fact. The continued denial of responsibility and half-hearted mea culpa, coupled with the monetary damage to those businesses who had been running on PHPFog, leads me to sincerely desire that these teenagers face a penalty of some magnitude, not just a slap on the wrist.<p>Maybe then they'll stop with the half-assed apologies and recognize that there's a right way and a wrong way to do things.</text></item><item><author>sriramk</author><text>I feel really bad for the phpfog guys. But given the situation, I think they handled it admirably well - kudos to them. No software is secure and this could have happened to anyone. Especially startups who have to take shortcuts at the very beginning.<p>I know the attackers were just kids but I have to admit pursuing legal action sounds very tempting - even to just act as a deterrent to others. If they had just put up phpfogsucks.com, it <i>might</i> have been ok. But tweeting trash from their twitter account, redirecting their root domain to phpfogsucks, etc - are all not cool at all and should have <i>some</i> consequences.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nbpoole</author><text>"<i>PHPFog built a castle out of sand and you're upset that a wave came and demolished it.</i>"<p>Your analogy is slightly off. A wave is an act of nature: this is more along the lines of a jealous kid who knocks down someone else's sandcastle because he can't build his own.<p>"<i>I don't get angry at my dog when he shits in the house. Being angry at something that can't understand only satisfies the urge to shift blame.</i>"<p>While some HN posters might feel the the 16 year olds involved in this incident have the same mental capacity as your dog, I'd like to give them slightly more credit. ;)<p>I can only speak for myself here, but I do think the people involved in compromising PHP Fog should be punished. No, I don't think they should get life in prison (&#60;/hyperbole&#62;): I hope they can learn from their mistakes. However, they did commit a crime, as they've admitted both here and elsewhere online. They should be capable of understanding that their actions have consequences, so I think some consequences are in order. What those consequences should be is up to PHP Fog.</text></comment> |
22,912,670 | 22,912,730 | 1 | 2 | 22,903,436 | train | <story><title>Watch Zoox’s autonomous car drive around San Francisco for an hour</title><url>https://venturebeat.com/2020/04/17/watch-zooxs-autonomous-car-drive-around-san-francisco-for-an-hour/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>carapace</author><text>It really <i>really</i> bothers me that these folks are using a live city with real, non-volunteer test subjects of all ages (little kids and old folks use public streets) as a test bed for their massive car-shaped robots.<p>It&#x27;s bad enough that people are driving cars all over the place, car collisions have killed more Americans than all the wars we&#x27;ve fought put together.<p>I&#x27;m one of those people who say, &quot;Self-driving cars can&#x27;t happen soon enough.&quot; But I don&#x27;t think that justifies e.g. killing Elaine Herzberg.<p>Ask yourself this, why start with <i>cars?</i> Why not make a self-driving golf cart? Make it out of nerf (soft foam) and program it to never go so fast that it can&#x27;t brake in time to prevent collision.<p>Testing these heavy, fast, buggy robots in crowds of people is extremely irresponsible.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>torpfactory</author><text>There is a different perspective that you could use (and I’m not necessarily advocating for it; hear me out):<p>Human driven cars are dangerous to the tune of ~36,000 deaths per year. Every year without the implementation of full self driving we pay some large percentage of that number in lives. Self driving cars won’t make it out of the lab without real driving on real roads in real scenarios. Taking appropriate precautions (a human safety driver, maybe two) and testing in the real world might save more lives overall than keeping the vehicles in a more lab-like setting for longer, and missing some of the complexity of the real thing.</text></comment> | <story><title>Watch Zoox’s autonomous car drive around San Francisco for an hour</title><url>https://venturebeat.com/2020/04/17/watch-zooxs-autonomous-car-drive-around-san-francisco-for-an-hour/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>carapace</author><text>It really <i>really</i> bothers me that these folks are using a live city with real, non-volunteer test subjects of all ages (little kids and old folks use public streets) as a test bed for their massive car-shaped robots.<p>It&#x27;s bad enough that people are driving cars all over the place, car collisions have killed more Americans than all the wars we&#x27;ve fought put together.<p>I&#x27;m one of those people who say, &quot;Self-driving cars can&#x27;t happen soon enough.&quot; But I don&#x27;t think that justifies e.g. killing Elaine Herzberg.<p>Ask yourself this, why start with <i>cars?</i> Why not make a self-driving golf cart? Make it out of nerf (soft foam) and program it to never go so fast that it can&#x27;t brake in time to prevent collision.<p>Testing these heavy, fast, buggy robots in crowds of people is extremely irresponsible.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>anigbrowl</author><text><i>In the video, which was recorded with a safety driver behind the wheel</i><p>I can live with it. Human drivers annoy me so much that throwing the dice on autonomous cars is not a big stressor to me.</text></comment> |
37,574,122 | 37,574,057 | 1 | 3 | 37,573,332 | train | <story><title>We are retroactively dropping the iPhone’s repairability score</title><url>https://www.ifixit.com/News/82493/we-are-retroactively-dropping-the-iphones-repairability-score-en</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tumult</author><text>What? How is someone who snatched your phone out of your hand and ran away going to know your password and authentication information needed to authorize a parts replacement?</text></item><item><author>falsenapkin</author><text>Such an ignore button would allow theft to continue and would allow users to make poor security decisions. I agree that something needs to happen to enable easier or maybe more privacy focused 3rd party repairs but I also appreciate my device being less of a target.</text></item><item><author>toxik</author><text>While anti-consumerist practices such as this authentication mechanism sometimes accidentally protect the consumer, it is not the reason why companies do it. If it were, they would also allow you to say “yes this replacement is desired.” Similarly, if it was about security and preventing backdoored parts, they could allow you to authorize the replacement.<p>But no, it is of course about money grabbing, and then the consumer is the opponent.</text></item><item><author>mschuster91</author><text>There is also another issue why Apple is restricting &quot;part harvesting&quot;: theft. iCloud locks or Samsung&#x27;s KNOX lock entered the field because the manufacturers were pretty pissed that customers using their devices in public became a target for &quot;enterprising&quot; robbers who&#x27;d factory-wipe the devices and flip them to a pawn shop or second-hand store in a matter of half an hour. When people are afraid to use your products because it paints a phone-sized target on them, they won&#x27;t buy your product.<p>That cut down on a lot of the robbery bullshit, but then criminals simply found new buyer classes - they&#x27;d simply part stolen devices out and resell everything but the iCloud&#x2F;Knox&#x2F;whatever locked mainboard. Displays, cameras, speakers, batteries, flex cables, cases, everything.<p>So now, at least Apple is tagging the most &quot;valuable&quot; parts in new phones, simply to make stealing them unattractive for thieves, which frankly sucks but is necessary because it&#x27;s a public safety issue.<p>(If anyone at Apple is reading this: ffs, allow the legitimate owner of a device to &quot;unpair&quot; all components in their phone in iCloud so that legitimate second-hand shops can strip a broken device at least for its parts)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>sneeze-slayer</author><text>I think the point is that an unsuspecting buyer of, e.g. a screen replacement, could end up going to a shady repair shop that uses stolen parts, sees the message once, clicks &quot;OK&quot;, and moves on. The reasoning being that this scenario would cause some demand for black market parts.<p>The suggestion from OP whereby the seller of a used phone logs in and &quot;unpairs&quot; the parts could avoid this, unless a robber forces you to do it under duress.</text></comment> | <story><title>We are retroactively dropping the iPhone’s repairability score</title><url>https://www.ifixit.com/News/82493/we-are-retroactively-dropping-the-iphones-repairability-score-en</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tumult</author><text>What? How is someone who snatched your phone out of your hand and ran away going to know your password and authentication information needed to authorize a parts replacement?</text></item><item><author>falsenapkin</author><text>Such an ignore button would allow theft to continue and would allow users to make poor security decisions. I agree that something needs to happen to enable easier or maybe more privacy focused 3rd party repairs but I also appreciate my device being less of a target.</text></item><item><author>toxik</author><text>While anti-consumerist practices such as this authentication mechanism sometimes accidentally protect the consumer, it is not the reason why companies do it. If it were, they would also allow you to say “yes this replacement is desired.” Similarly, if it was about security and preventing backdoored parts, they could allow you to authorize the replacement.<p>But no, it is of course about money grabbing, and then the consumer is the opponent.</text></item><item><author>mschuster91</author><text>There is also another issue why Apple is restricting &quot;part harvesting&quot;: theft. iCloud locks or Samsung&#x27;s KNOX lock entered the field because the manufacturers were pretty pissed that customers using their devices in public became a target for &quot;enterprising&quot; robbers who&#x27;d factory-wipe the devices and flip them to a pawn shop or second-hand store in a matter of half an hour. When people are afraid to use your products because it paints a phone-sized target on them, they won&#x27;t buy your product.<p>That cut down on a lot of the robbery bullshit, but then criminals simply found new buyer classes - they&#x27;d simply part stolen devices out and resell everything but the iCloud&#x2F;Knox&#x2F;whatever locked mainboard. Displays, cameras, speakers, batteries, flex cables, cases, everything.<p>So now, at least Apple is tagging the most &quot;valuable&quot; parts in new phones, simply to make stealing them unattractive for thieves, which frankly sucks but is necessary because it&#x27;s a public safety issue.<p>(If anyone at Apple is reading this: ffs, allow the legitimate owner of a device to &quot;unpair&quot; all components in their phone in iCloud so that legitimate second-hand shops can strip a broken device at least for its parts)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>thinkling</author><text>They&#x27;re going to snatch your phone, break it up into parts, and install those into <i>other</i> people&#x27;s phones, and those people will happily approve the new part.</text></comment> |
8,651,856 | 8,651,845 | 1 | 2 | 8,651,599 | train | <story><title>My boys love 1986 computing</title><url>http://changelog.complete.org/archives/9269-my-boys-love-1986-computing</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>willvarfar</author><text>I initially gave my two girls an old desktop computer with a linux on it. They started to use it before I showed them how and they started figuring stuff out without me and soon I was sitting riveted in the background watching them discover things and trying to learn about computer UIs and work out how they thought.<p>Here&#x27;s an old blog post about it: <a href="http://williamedwardscoder.tumblr.com/post/19500788060/my-tech-savvy-generation" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;williamedwardscoder.tumblr.com&#x2F;post&#x2F;19500788060&#x2F;my-te...</a> - I think its a fun read.<p>Fast forward to now; that blog post is hopelessly out of date!<p>I gave them old-but-decent laptops and, eventually, internet access.<p>As soon as they had internet access they stopped tinkering and exploring and started only using the laptop to watch repeat episodes of childrens TV.<p>And now they often want to use their mum&#x27;s iPad - to play music and watch TV - but they are completely utterly uninterested in tinkering with any PCs.<p>Its sad but its true and I wish I knew what to do about it.</text></comment> | <story><title>My boys love 1986 computing</title><url>http://changelog.complete.org/archives/9269-my-boys-love-1986-computing</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>scarygliders</author><text>There is something about 1980&#x27;s-era computers which make them so much more accessable to kids than today&#x27;s systems.<p>It&#x27;s probably to do with how much simpler they are - if I can put my finger on it, I&#x27;d say it&#x27;s because they don&#x27;t have lots of Things which can tempt you to distraction; for example - if they had a web browser of some kind back then, you&#x27;d be tempted away from learning to program in BASIC, or learning how to load that simple-but-fun game.<p>They generally were single task machines that allowed you to focus on one Thing.<p>I&#x27;m looking at my Linux desktop right now on this machine. I have a web browser I&#x27;m using to type this reply. It also has 8 other tabs open - more tabs will be added later as I continue on my search for knowledge. I have a Konsole terminal open with IRC sessions to multiple servers and channels open. I have PyCharm loaded. I have a VM running, and more to run later. All vying for my time and energy. A child using this machine would be overwhelmed.<p>Even a Raspberry Pi can distract the user of it in the same manner as my desktop.<p>Perhaps it&#x27;s time to reintroduce kids today to the CoCo2&#x27;s, the VIC-20&#x27;s, the C64&#x27;s, the Spectrums, the ZX81&#x27;s and so on. Perhaps getting kids to use single-task-at-a-time systems to learn instead of the distraction-inducing tech. of today, would be a very good idea.<p>When my son was 2.5 years old, I put in front of him an ancient old Compaq laptop running Debian. It had Tuxpaint running on it, and I just put it in front of him and let him go on it. Within a short space of time he was using Tuxpaint like a &quot;pro&quot;, and then he learned how to power the machine up, and type in his login name and password. Sure, you can do this with today&#x27;s systems, but they do make it so easy to provide tons of distractions.</text></comment> |
36,899,536 | 36,899,569 | 1 | 3 | 36,897,958 | train | <story><title>Some alloys don't change size when heated – recent work on why</title><url>https://www.caltech.edu/about/news/some-alloys-dont-change-size-when-heated-we-now-know-why</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>w10-1</author><text>A summary to motivate reading the paper:<p>Invar, a nickle-iron alloy, was commercially highly relevant for accuracy of mechanical watch balance springs in the 19th century. Investigations of that presumably lead to the 1920 Nobel in physics.<p>The article claims to produce the first equation to model this effect accurately, together with an experimental technique to validate the main components. This would support in-silico material exploration, esp. predictions for high temperatures that induce expansion.<p>But because this demonstrates phase shifts in how electrons interact, the significance could be broader that just the use of constant-size invar (iron&#x2F;nickel alloy).<p>Paper excerpts:<p>----<p>Here we use a thermodynamic Maxwell relation to explicitly separate the contributions to thermal expansion from phonons and spins. [...] These two contributions were measured by nuclear resonant X-ray scattering on Invar under pressure. We find that a competition with phonons is necessary to complete the explanation of the near-zero thermal expansion of Invar.<p>An advantage to [our] equation is that the two main components of thermal expansion—phonon and magnetic—can be experimentally obtained by nuclear resonant X-ray scattering<p>Excellent agreement between experiment and theory is found. There is a remarkable spin–lattice coupling, and a precise cancellation of the phonon and spin contributions that causes the anomalously low thermal expansion in Invar near ambient conditions of T and P. Furthermore, the transition to a more typical thermal expansion at higher pressures is shown to arise from the magnetic transition to the paramagnetic state that quenches the negative contribution from the spin system. Finally, the electronic contribution is found to have only a small effect on thermal expansion.</text></comment> | <story><title>Some alloys don't change size when heated – recent work on why</title><url>https://www.caltech.edu/about/news/some-alloys-dont-change-size-when-heated-we-now-know-why</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>MichaelZuo</author><text>It&#x27;s a very interesting effect, magnetism &#x27;perfectly cancelling&#x27; out thermal expansion.<p>Are there any other cases where magnetism is responsible for something this subtle?</text></comment> |
38,712,810 | 38,705,012 | 1 | 2 | 38,704,982 | train | <story><title>LLM in a Flash: Efficient LLM Inference with Limited Memory</title><url>https://huggingface.co/papers/2312.11514</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>PoignardAzur</author><text>It took me a while to understand that paper, because it builds on the techniques of the <i>Deja Vu</i> paper for leveraging sparsity which are already pretty complex:<p>- First, the <i>Deja Vu</i> paper observes that models with low weight sparsity have what they call high &quot;contextual sparsity&quot;. Basically, the matrix multiplications will produce vectors with lots of zeros in them, but where the zeros are depends on the input.<p>- The paper notes that you can use that sparsity to skip loading some rows of your matrices.<p>- However, to get good performance benefits, you can to <i>predict</i> in advance which rows you&#x27;re going to skip. You can do that with a low-rank matrix.<p>The Apple paper then suggests these findings can not just improve your performance loading from RAM, but even allow you to load from flash memory without sacrificing bandwidth:<p>- The paper notes that attention matrices are rather light; the FFNs are the ones you want to load sparsely.<p>- The paper notes that you can get much better sparsity by predicting the output of the ReLU layer rather than the input of the FFN. Basically saying &quot;if you can predict that after matmul this slot of the vector will have a negative value before ReLU, you can skip loading the matrix column and output zero&quot;.<p>- The paper suggests that you don&#x27;t need to load most rows of the FFN <i>at all</i>; you can just keep a cache of recently used FFN rows for each FFN, and update it from flash memory on-demand.<p>There&#x27;s a bunch more about chunk loading and the correlation between projection layers, but the above is where I think the main insights are.<p>(FFN = Feed Forward Network; in the context of transformers they&#x27;re the biggest blocks.)</text></comment> | <story><title>LLM in a Flash: Efficient LLM Inference with Limited Memory</title><url>https://huggingface.co/papers/2312.11514</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>MBCook</author><text>I wonder how much of the model you can avoid loading before you start to see a real performance difference.<p>Let’s say you want to maintain 90% of everything-in-RAM performance.<p>Can you get away with only using half the memory? Do you need 90% of the memory? Maybe 95%?<p>Basically how fast do you lose performance compared to the maximum by cutting RAM. The charts are comparing their algorithm vs a basic one for the less RAM case, which is a different (but good!) question.<p>If you can get good performance by NOT loading an entire eight gig model into memory of a cell phone that’s obviously a very useful thing.</text></comment> |
10,552,185 | 10,550,507 | 1 | 2 | 10,545,495 | train | <story><title>UN privacy head slams 'worse than scary' UK surveillance bill</title><url>http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/11/10/un_privacy_head_slams_uk_surveillance_bill/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>benevol</author><text><i>Cannataci read Cerf&#x27;s full quote: &quot;Privacy may actually be an anomaly. [...]&quot;</i><p><i>&quot;I cannot understand how a person of the intelligence of Vint Cerf could say anything so dumb. It&#x27;s just dumb.&quot;</i><p>What&#x27;s happening here is not Cerf being dumb, because obviously he&#x27;s not. He&#x27;s been bought by Google a long time ago and Google has <i>destruction of privacy</i> as their business model (just like Facebook, and the rest of them).<p>Good money has allowed Vint to brainwash himself into actually thinking that destroying privacy is acceptable. He&#x27;s basically just attempting to find a way out of the inner conflict he must have, working for Google. (So yes, he&#x27;d actually benefit from seeing a shrink.)</text></comment> | <story><title>UN privacy head slams 'worse than scary' UK surveillance bill</title><url>http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/11/10/un_privacy_head_slams_uk_surveillance_bill/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>PebblesHD</author><text>Absolutely spot on! I find it shocking the lack of public reaction to the behaviour of various world governments, be it in the UK, Australia, France, the U.S., everywhere the government is making a grab for more and wider surveillance powers, the majority of the population seem totally oblivious. There needs to be much wider awareness of this for any serious changes to happen on a wide scale. Problem is, how do you accomplish that?</text></comment> |
41,608,371 | 41,607,452 | 1 | 2 | 41,606,493 | train | <story><title>CISA boss: Makers of insecure software are the real cyber villains</title><url>https://www.theregister.com/2024/09/20/cisa_sloppy_vendors_cybercrime_villains/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>hn_throwaway_99</author><text>At this point, I have to wonder what is even the point of missives like this. There are only two things that will solve the software quality problem:<p>1. Economic incentives. It&#x27;s all just mindless blather unless you&#x27;re actually talking about ways that software vendors will be held liable for bugs in their products. If you&#x27;re not talking about that, what you&#x27;re saying is basically &quot;ok pretty please&quot; useless.<p>2. Reducing the complexity of making products secure in the first place. Making truly secure software products is <i>incredibly hard</i> in this day and age, which is one reason why demanding software product liability is so scary. Professional structural engineers, for example, are used to taking liability for their designs and buildings. But with software security the complexity is nearly infinitely higher, and making it secure is much harder to guarantee.<p>The other thing that people often ignore, or at least don&#x27;t want to admit, is that the &quot;move fast and break things&quot; ethos has been phenomenally successful from a business perspective. The US software industry grew exponentially faster than anyplace else in the world, even places like India that doubled down on things like the &quot;Software Capability Maturity Model&quot; in the early 00s, and honestly have little to show for it.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>gwd</author><text>&gt; At this point, I have to wonder what is even the point of missives like this. ...It&#x27;s all just mindless blather unless you&#x27;re actually talking about ways that software vendors will be held liable for bugs in their products.<p>I think that liability for bugs is exactly where she&#x27;s going with this. I&#x27;m not an expert, but it sounds from a few things I&#x27;ve heard on some Lawfare podcasts (e.g,. [1][2]) like the idea of software liability has been discussed for quite a while now in government policy circles. This sort of public statement may be laying the groundwork for building the political will to make it happen.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=9UneL5-Q98E&amp;pp=ygUQbGF3ZmFyZSBzb2Z0d2FyZQ%3D%3D" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=9UneL5-Q98E&amp;pp=ygUQbGF3ZmFyZ...</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=zyNft-IZm_A&amp;pp=ygUQbGF3ZmFyZSBzb2Z0d2FyZQ%3D%3D" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=zyNft-IZm_A&amp;pp=ygUQbGF3ZmFyZ...</a><p>EDIT:<p>&gt; Making truly secure software products is incredibly hard in this day and age, which is one reason why demanding software product liability is so scary.<p>Loads of companies already are liable for bugs software that runs on their products: this includes cars, airplanes, and I would presume medical devices, and so on. The response has been what&#x27;s called &quot;safety certification&quot;: as an industry, you define a process which, if followed, you can in court say &quot;we were reasonably careful&quot;, and then you hire an evaluator to confirm that you have followed that process.<p>These processes don&#x27;t prevent all bugs, naturally, but they certainly go a long way towards reducing them. Liability for companies who <i>don&#x27;t</i> follow appropriate standard processes would essentially prevent cloud companies cutting security to get an edge in time-to-market or cost.</text></comment> | <story><title>CISA boss: Makers of insecure software are the real cyber villains</title><url>https://www.theregister.com/2024/09/20/cisa_sloppy_vendors_cybercrime_villains/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>hn_throwaway_99</author><text>At this point, I have to wonder what is even the point of missives like this. There are only two things that will solve the software quality problem:<p>1. Economic incentives. It&#x27;s all just mindless blather unless you&#x27;re actually talking about ways that software vendors will be held liable for bugs in their products. If you&#x27;re not talking about that, what you&#x27;re saying is basically &quot;ok pretty please&quot; useless.<p>2. Reducing the complexity of making products secure in the first place. Making truly secure software products is <i>incredibly hard</i> in this day and age, which is one reason why demanding software product liability is so scary. Professional structural engineers, for example, are used to taking liability for their designs and buildings. But with software security the complexity is nearly infinitely higher, and making it secure is much harder to guarantee.<p>The other thing that people often ignore, or at least don&#x27;t want to admit, is that the &quot;move fast and break things&quot; ethos has been phenomenally successful from a business perspective. The US software industry grew exponentially faster than anyplace else in the world, even places like India that doubled down on things like the &quot;Software Capability Maturity Model&quot; in the early 00s, and honestly have little to show for it.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Buttons840</author><text>A third option is to empower security researchers and hope the good guys find the security holes before the bad guys.<p>Currently, we threaten the good guys, security researchers, with jail way to quickly. If someone presses F12 and finds a bunch of SSNs in the raw HTML of the State&#x27;s web page the Governor personally threatens to send them to jail[0]. The good security researchers tip-tow around, timidly asking permission to run pentests while the bad guys do whatever they want.<p>Protect security researchers, change the laws to empower them and give them the benefit of the doubt.<p>I think a big reason we don&#x27;t do this is it would be a burden and an embarrassment to wealthy companies. It&#x27;s literally a matter of national security and we current sacrifice national security for the convenience of companies.<p>As you say, security is hard, and putting liability for security issues on anyone is probably unreasonable. The problem is companies can have their cake and eat it too. The companies get full control over their software, and they get to pick and choose who tests the security of their systems, while at the same time having no liability. The companies are basically saying &quot;trust me to take care of the security, also, I accept no liability&quot;; that doesn&#x27;t inspire confidence. If the liability is too much to bear, then the companies should give up control over who can test the security of their systems.<p>[0]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;techcrunch.com&#x2F;2021&#x2F;10&#x2F;15&#x2F;f12-isnt-hacking-missouri-governor-threatens-to-prosecute-local-journalist-for-finding-exposed-state-data&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;techcrunch.com&#x2F;2021&#x2F;10&#x2F;15&#x2F;f12-isnt-hacking-missouri-...</a></text></comment> |
3,690,870 | 3,690,226 | 1 | 2 | 3,690,090 | train | <story><title>12-year-old sues school district over Facebook profile search</title><url>http://news.cnet.com/8301-17852_3-57394877-71/12-year-old-sues-school-district-over-facebook-profile-search/</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>joshmlewis</author><text>So this sort of happened to me last year while in my senior year of high school.<p>A friend and I started a Facebook group called "Sleeping students of GHS" and we had people send in pictures to an email address I created and we'd upload them to the group page. Which was quite interesting because we couldn't be held responsible for actually taking the pictures.<p>Well the group went viral in a matter of a few days, first a hundred, then a few hundred, then 2-3k. And in a relatively small southern town, around 13k people, that's a pretty big deal.<p>It was crazy. I felt like Julian Assange for a couple weeks. Nervously posting things and worried about the school big dogs hunting me down. (of course this wasn't anything like WL, but the same idea.) Parents were starting to be like, "Wait, why are these students sleeping? What are the teachers doing about this?" and this in turn caused a big uproar in the school. Schools hate bad publicity. The next day I get called into the office and a couple assistant principals and a police officer were like, "Do you have permission from all these students parents to upload these pictures?" and I said, "No. I didn't think you needed it." They in turn told me that the school was liable for a law suit, yada yada, and that I need to delete it.<p>They had me login to my account in front of them and delete it. THIS WAS MY BIGGEST MISTAKE. Damn it. I was furious with myself afterwards. Lesson learned I suppose. It didn't take long for an outsider to the school to approach me and make another joint account. That way if it's outside the school they can't do anything.<p>At this point local news agencies were calling me and emailing me asking to interview. It was on the front page of newspapers. I learned that it is indeed not illegal to take pictures of minors in a public place and the school was just BS'ing me to get me to delete it. I was a little scared in that office. I was in contact with the ACLU and a digital rights lawyer in San Francisco, just in case they issued any kind of punishment toward me.<p>It went on for a couple more weeks, we even had tshirts made, and then bam, Facebook shuts it down. No notice, no warning, just bam. We get an email saying "Your page was against our ToS, sorry" and that was that. It all ended in a haze. To this day I wonder why Facebook shut it down. I tried contacting them but to no avail.</text></comment> | <story><title>12-year-old sues school district over Facebook profile search</title><url>http://news.cnet.com/8301-17852_3-57394877-71/12-year-old-sues-school-district-over-facebook-profile-search/</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>dsr_</author><text>It's important to remember that rights are meaningless if they are not exercised and defended, and that often means uncomfortable placement of walls. Not every case will be as media-friendly as a 12 year old girl posting to Facebook that someone was mean to her. The Miranda decision that established the right to be told your rights when under arrest -- the right to remain silent and so forth -- well, Ernesto Miranda was found guilty of kidnapping and rape in the second trial. Not a great person.</text></comment> |
10,743,241 | 10,741,497 | 1 | 2 | 10,739,730 | train | <story><title>Angular 2 Beta released</title><url>http://angularjs.blogspot.com/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>DigitalSea</author><text>Congratulations to the Angular 2 team on shipping before Christmas. The estimate was originally somewhere around early 2016, so this is a huge deal for them to get this out before the year was up. Unfortunately, Angular 2 launched into beta too late. In the amount of time that Angular 2 has taken to get to beta, ReactJS has slaughtered the front-end market share (in a good way) and completely taken developers by storm with its simplistic component based approach.<p>Unlike React, Google does not really treat Angular as a first-class citizen because they have such split focus and conflicting React like library for web components called Polymer. They provide some resources, but nowhere near the amount of resources that Facebook throws behind React and React Native.<p>Now lets talk about the fact that the Angular 2 project got off to a shaky start and I know they actually rewrote various parts from scratch more than once (hence why it took so long to reach beta, approximately 2 years). That horrible templating syntax needs to be mentioned, the decision to use square and rounded brackets for binding events&#x2F;data and using things like asterisks in my opinion makes Angular 2 fall into the same trap that Angular 1 did in regards to developer accessibility.<p>I am really loving TypeScript these days and I think the decision to support it as a first-class citizen out-of-the-box was a good one (the partnership with Microsoft definitely paid off). But with that said, I think Rob Eisenberg (of Durandal fame) beat the Angular 2 team to the punch in the small space of a year in releasing his framework Aurelia (<a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;aurelia.io" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;aurelia.io</a>). It is what Angular 2 should have been in my opinion. Nice syntax, convention over configuration and a breeze to use.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>awjr</author><text>I usually evaluate frameworks based on the job market. In the UK there are currently 298 jobs for Angular and 109 for React (www.cwjobs.co.uk). React is up on around 40 jobs at the beginning of the year.<p>The reality is that you should know Angular <i>AND</i> you should know React. These are not mutually exclusive.</text></comment> | <story><title>Angular 2 Beta released</title><url>http://angularjs.blogspot.com/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>DigitalSea</author><text>Congratulations to the Angular 2 team on shipping before Christmas. The estimate was originally somewhere around early 2016, so this is a huge deal for them to get this out before the year was up. Unfortunately, Angular 2 launched into beta too late. In the amount of time that Angular 2 has taken to get to beta, ReactJS has slaughtered the front-end market share (in a good way) and completely taken developers by storm with its simplistic component based approach.<p>Unlike React, Google does not really treat Angular as a first-class citizen because they have such split focus and conflicting React like library for web components called Polymer. They provide some resources, but nowhere near the amount of resources that Facebook throws behind React and React Native.<p>Now lets talk about the fact that the Angular 2 project got off to a shaky start and I know they actually rewrote various parts from scratch more than once (hence why it took so long to reach beta, approximately 2 years). That horrible templating syntax needs to be mentioned, the decision to use square and rounded brackets for binding events&#x2F;data and using things like asterisks in my opinion makes Angular 2 fall into the same trap that Angular 1 did in regards to developer accessibility.<p>I am really loving TypeScript these days and I think the decision to support it as a first-class citizen out-of-the-box was a good one (the partnership with Microsoft definitely paid off). But with that said, I think Rob Eisenberg (of Durandal fame) beat the Angular 2 team to the punch in the small space of a year in releasing his framework Aurelia (<a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;aurelia.io" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;aurelia.io</a>). It is what Angular 2 should have been in my opinion. Nice syntax, convention over configuration and a breeze to use.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>debaserab2</author><text>&gt; ReactJS has slaughtered the front-end market share (in a good way) and completely taken develo<p>Do you have a citation for that? I still see tons of user land projects using angular 1.</text></comment> |
36,669,546 | 36,669,055 | 1 | 2 | 36,668,472 | train | <story><title>New study reveals most classic video games are unavailable</title><url>https://gamehistory.org/87percent/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>sandworm101</author><text>Corollary question: How many films and TV-shows are now not legally available?<p>Streaming and on-demand content delivery, rather than purchased physical copies, does the same damage to other content as to games. Per internet traditions, the porn industry is leading the way. No doubt the copyrights to millions of porn films belong to long-defunct studios, leaving no legal access. Today is it porn, tomorrow it will be the older Futurama episodes.<p>But industries want this state of affairs. Any time spent with old content is time not purchasing the new content. To keep the content creation industry going consumers need to forget past material. Want to watch old Simpsons episodes? Want to play the original Civilization? No. Those are dead. Here are some new versions.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>criddell</author><text>&gt; How many films and TV-sows are now not legally available?<p>Or if they are, they&#x27;ve been changed to remove material that can&#x27;t be distributed. WKRP in Cincinnati is an example of this.<p>From the Wikipedia page for the show:<p>&gt; WKRP was videotaped rather than filmed because at the time, music-licensing fees were lower for videotaped programs, a loophole that was intended to accommodate variety shows. Music licensing deals that were cut at the time of production covered only a limited number of years, but when the show entered syndication shortly after its 1982 cancellation, most of the original music remained intact because the licensing deals were still active. After the licenses had expired, later syndicated versions of the show did not feature the music as first broadcast, with stock production music inserted in place of the original songs to avoid paying additional royalties.</text></comment> | <story><title>New study reveals most classic video games are unavailable</title><url>https://gamehistory.org/87percent/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>sandworm101</author><text>Corollary question: How many films and TV-shows are now not legally available?<p>Streaming and on-demand content delivery, rather than purchased physical copies, does the same damage to other content as to games. Per internet traditions, the porn industry is leading the way. No doubt the copyrights to millions of porn films belong to long-defunct studios, leaving no legal access. Today is it porn, tomorrow it will be the older Futurama episodes.<p>But industries want this state of affairs. Any time spent with old content is time not purchasing the new content. To keep the content creation industry going consumers need to forget past material. Want to watch old Simpsons episodes? Want to play the original Civilization? No. Those are dead. Here are some new versions.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tibbon</author><text>Books too. The vast majority of books (or paper media overall) ever printed are no longer available new. There _might_ be some electronic version, but realistically not. Library systems help fill this in, but there are so many titles are are simply difficult to obtain.</text></comment> |
19,659,272 | 19,658,932 | 1 | 2 | 19,658,503 | train | <story><title>Single-dose propranolol tied to ‘selective erasure’ of anxiety disorders</title><url>https://www.mdedge.com/psychiatry/article/191908/anxiety-disorders/single-dose-propranolol-tied-selective-erasure-anxiety</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ransom1538</author><text>If you are out there and suffer daily &#x27;stage fright&#x27; or serious social anxiety - propranolol is the drug for you. That weird fear that sweeps over you before a conversation - just doesn&#x27;t happen. Need to talk in front of 50 people in 25 minutes? No problem. If you are crippled by social anxiety - this pill will turn you into Bradley Cooper in Limitless.</text></item><item><author>petercooper</author><text>As someone who has used propranolol on and off over the past few years, the thing that intrigues me here is that propranolol works well in this instance <i>due to crossing the blood&#x2F;brain barrier</i> as opposed to other beta blockers that do not.<p>The use of beta blockers in anxiety is commonly associated with reducing the effects of stress on heart rate and blood pressure, not necessarily on affecting the brain directly which appears to be happening here. That is, beta blockers are usually a <i>band aid</i> rather than a fix, so this discovery is exciting.<p>(As an aside, if you suffer from unusual levels of physical response to certain stimuli while intellectually remaining calm or indifferent, propranolol may be worth investigating for you as it has helped me a lot. At your own risk, of course.)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>erentz</author><text>&gt; this pill will turn you into Bradley Cooper in Limitless<p>That’s quite a sales pitch! Propranolol worked for me for occasional use for stage fright scenarios. It was an amazing feeling the first couple of times to be able to go into those situations without the anxiety. But far from the Limitless example, for me a couple of hours after taking it I would slow down mentally and a few hours after taking it I would be exhausted and absolutely done for the day.</text></comment> | <story><title>Single-dose propranolol tied to ‘selective erasure’ of anxiety disorders</title><url>https://www.mdedge.com/psychiatry/article/191908/anxiety-disorders/single-dose-propranolol-tied-selective-erasure-anxiety</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ransom1538</author><text>If you are out there and suffer daily &#x27;stage fright&#x27; or serious social anxiety - propranolol is the drug for you. That weird fear that sweeps over you before a conversation - just doesn&#x27;t happen. Need to talk in front of 50 people in 25 minutes? No problem. If you are crippled by social anxiety - this pill will turn you into Bradley Cooper in Limitless.</text></item><item><author>petercooper</author><text>As someone who has used propranolol on and off over the past few years, the thing that intrigues me here is that propranolol works well in this instance <i>due to crossing the blood&#x2F;brain barrier</i> as opposed to other beta blockers that do not.<p>The use of beta blockers in anxiety is commonly associated with reducing the effects of stress on heart rate and blood pressure, not necessarily on affecting the brain directly which appears to be happening here. That is, beta blockers are usually a <i>band aid</i> rather than a fix, so this discovery is exciting.<p>(As an aside, if you suffer from unusual levels of physical response to certain stimuli while intellectually remaining calm or indifferent, propranolol may be worth investigating for you as it has helped me a lot. At your own risk, of course.)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>IAmGraydon</author><text>Maybe I’m an outlier, but it had absolutely no effect on me for public speaking or social situations. I was prescribed a lot of it, tried for years and even still have some sitting around. I envy those who get the effects you describe.</text></comment> |
4,889,251 | 4,889,045 | 1 | 2 | 4,888,851 | train | <story><title>Richard Stallman calls Ubuntu “spyware” because it tracks searches</title><url>http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2012/12/richard-stallman-calls-ubuntu-spyware-because-it-tracks-searches/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>droithomme</author><text>Reading what he is talking about, Stallman's description is absolutely correct. If I am doing a desktop search for local files, it is not be expectation that that search will be transmitted to servers without my consent, and that it does so makes it spyware even if we don't also take into consideration that it is being done to track my interests for monetary gain in the form of referral links. Good on him for calling attention to this functionality.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>smsm42</author><text>This is also a strange plug - if I'm looking for something in my computer, how much chance any of Amazon shopping would be relevant? If I'm looking for a notes from last week's budget planning meetings, what would they show me, shopping results for "budget notebooks"? And they expect me to be happy with it? I understand Canonical needs to make money, and with free product it requires some creative thinking, but this one makes little sense to me.</text></comment> | <story><title>Richard Stallman calls Ubuntu “spyware” because it tracks searches</title><url>http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2012/12/richard-stallman-calls-ubuntu-spyware-because-it-tracks-searches/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>droithomme</author><text>Reading what he is talking about, Stallman's description is absolutely correct. If I am doing a desktop search for local files, it is not be expectation that that search will be transmitted to servers without my consent, and that it does so makes it spyware even if we don't also take into consideration that it is being done to track my interests for monetary gain in the form of referral links. Good on him for calling attention to this functionality.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Irregardless</author><text>&#62; Use Super-A. You can tell Unity exactly what you want to search. And in future you’ll be able to do that from the home lens, too, more easily than the current Lens Bar at the bottom of the Dash.<p>From <a href="http://www.markshuttleworth.com/archives/1182" rel="nofollow">http://www.markshuttleworth.com/archives/1182</a><p>It sounds like they're working to expand the search functionality with users' best interests in mind, not adding advertisements as everyone seems to think.<p>&#62; it is being done to track my interests for monetary gain in the form of referral links<p>They're just search results, not ads. Read the blog post from Shuttleworth.</text></comment> |
41,091,315 | 41,091,100 | 1 | 3 | 41,089,558 | train | <story><title>Apple has reached its first-ever union contract with store employees in Maryland</title><url>https://apnews.com/article/apple-union-contract-maryland-store-f9884d978bf3129c37726dd7978392a5</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>freeone3000</author><text>Few unions survived union-busting in the 80s, and pretty much no new unions formed. Between this and the hollowing out of the unionized trades in the US, we’re down to autoworkers, machinists, boilermakers, teamsters, and a few others as large unions able to help new shops unionize.</text></item><item><author>lolinder</author><text>&gt; The International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers’ Coalition of Organized Retail Employees, which represents the employees ...<p>I&#x27;ve never understood how employees choose unions when they form new arrangements like this. Does someone more familiar with the process have any insight into why the names of the unions that get selected in these votes never seem to bear any relationship to the work being unionized?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Sn0wCoder</author><text>Douglas J. McCarron head of the Carpenters Union Las Vegas, they own the most expensive piece of property in the USA (or thought to be) right across from the White House. The carpenters also do welders, carpet layers, ceiling tile, and a few others. Mostly in the upper US, as the south is known for being right to work. Some government contracts will pay prevailing wages even to non-union workers to make the bids fair.</text></comment> | <story><title>Apple has reached its first-ever union contract with store employees in Maryland</title><url>https://apnews.com/article/apple-union-contract-maryland-store-f9884d978bf3129c37726dd7978392a5</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>freeone3000</author><text>Few unions survived union-busting in the 80s, and pretty much no new unions formed. Between this and the hollowing out of the unionized trades in the US, we’re down to autoworkers, machinists, boilermakers, teamsters, and a few others as large unions able to help new shops unionize.</text></item><item><author>lolinder</author><text>&gt; The International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers’ Coalition of Organized Retail Employees, which represents the employees ...<p>I&#x27;ve never understood how employees choose unions when they form new arrangements like this. Does someone more familiar with the process have any insight into why the names of the unions that get selected in these votes never seem to bear any relationship to the work being unionized?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>knowaveragejoe</author><text>NABTU is a large umbrella organization encompassing a lot of these.</text></comment> |
34,394,639 | 34,392,174 | 1 | 2 | 34,391,742 | train | <story><title>Enabling Bluetooth connections on Stadia Controllers</title><url>https://community.stadia.com/t5/Stadia-General/A-Gift-from-the-Stadia-Team-amp-Bluetooth-Controller/m-p/85936#M34875</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>franczesko</author><text>Dupe<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=34375251" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=34375251</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Enabling Bluetooth connections on Stadia Controllers</title><url>https://community.stadia.com/t5/Stadia-General/A-Gift-from-the-Stadia-Team-amp-Bluetooth-Controller/m-p/85936#M34875</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>admax88qqq</author><text>Interesting, I gave Stadia it&#x27;s first try as a result of this post. Tried the Worm Game. It confirms exactly my concerns about cloud gaming in general. The input lag.<p>The classic &quot;worm&quot; game is timing sensitive, gotta turn before you hit a wall or yourself, but also gotta turn as late as possible to ensure you don&#x27;t leave empty space.<p>The input lag was noticeably bad, doing precise turns requires correctly guessing the input lag and clicking the turn command early.<p>I guess I see why it&#x27;s being shut down.</text></comment> |
12,015,395 | 12,015,407 | 1 | 3 | 12,014,830 | train | <story><title>Women candidates for tech jobs did worse when their voices were masked as men's</title><url>http://fusion.net/story/320747/gender-masked-for-tech-job-interviews/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>anotheryou</author><text>Bullshit title.<p>from the original blog post:<p>&gt; masking gender had no effect on interview performance<p>&gt; it appeared that men who were modulated to sound like women did a bit better than unmodulated men and that women who were modulated to sound like men did a bit worse than unmodulated women. Though these trends weren’t statistically significant</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kabouseng</author><text>Not statistically significant already says you cant say much about the observation.<p>But here is a thought, what if woman already get preferential treatment (contrary to what many feminist would have you believe), and when their voices are masked as a mans, that preferential treatment falls away. And vica versa for when mens voices are masked as a womans.<p>And this whole rickmarol is about achieving equal outcomes (even distribution of women to men in tech), and not about equal opportunities or the removal of bias &#x2F; prejudice.</text></comment> | <story><title>Women candidates for tech jobs did worse when their voices were masked as men's</title><url>http://fusion.net/story/320747/gender-masked-for-tech-job-interviews/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>anotheryou</author><text>Bullshit title.<p>from the original blog post:<p>&gt; masking gender had no effect on interview performance<p>&gt; it appeared that men who were modulated to sound like women did a bit better than unmodulated men and that women who were modulated to sound like men did a bit worse than unmodulated women. Though these trends weren’t statistically significant</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Timshel</author><text>Especially since later on :<p>&gt; “Once you factor out interview data from both men and women who quit after one or two bad interviews,” she writes, “the disparity goes away entirely.”</text></comment> |
39,288,136 | 39,285,910 | 1 | 3 | 39,283,058 | train | <story><title>The Problem with Civil Asset Forfeiture (2016)</title><url>https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2959039</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>data_monkey</author><text>The expression &quot;this is why we can&#x27;t have nice things&quot; comes to mind. Like their FISA powers, spying on communications of journalists with surveillance powers, political abuses within the IRS, etc the government has massively abused asset forfeiture as well and we should return to a liberty centric mindset. No forfeiture without conviction by a jury.<p>&quot;If men were angels, no government would be necessary. If angels were to govern men, neither external nor internal controls on government would be necessary. In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men, the great difficulty lies in this: you must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place oblige it to control itself.&quot;<p>The government has proven they aren&#x27;t angels we can trust.</text></comment> | <story><title>The Problem with Civil Asset Forfeiture (2016)</title><url>https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2959039</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>actionfromafar</author><text>Wouldn&#x27;t much of the perverse incentive be fixed if the assets were transferred to some other organization, such as the central state or federal budget.</text></comment> |
37,934,653 | 37,934,429 | 1 | 3 | 37,930,634 | train | <story><title>The fake browser update scam gets a makeover</title><url>https://krebsonsecurity.com/2023/10/the-fake-browser-update-scam-gets-a-makeover/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>7moritz7</author><text>I really think Monero in particular deserves way more criticism for their practice. Bitcoin is one thing, Monero is created for and marketed towards cybercriminals, you don&#x27;t need to be a communications expert to get that premise. I haven&#x27;t seen it used once for any legitimate purpose. Atleast with Bitcoin and Ethereum you can get buy some legitimate things like VPNs or NFTs<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;arstechnica.com&#x2F;information-technology&#x2F;2021&#x2F;06&#x2F;monero-emerges-as-crypto-of-choice-for-cybercriminals" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;arstechnica.com&#x2F;information-technology&#x2F;2021&#x2F;06&#x2F;moner...</a></text></item><item><author>d11z</author><text>It’s been great for gambling, cybercrime, and enabling the drug trade practically since its inception.</text></item><item><author>andybak</author><text>I&#x27;m just happy to finally see a practical use case for Blockchain technology.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>xcdzvyn</author><text>You could say exactly the same thing about any form of encryption.<p>I haven&#x27;t bought much with Monero, but I always offer it because I adore the premise. I personally think its great, one of the few truly valuable cryptocurrencies.</text></comment> | <story><title>The fake browser update scam gets a makeover</title><url>https://krebsonsecurity.com/2023/10/the-fake-browser-update-scam-gets-a-makeover/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>7moritz7</author><text>I really think Monero in particular deserves way more criticism for their practice. Bitcoin is one thing, Monero is created for and marketed towards cybercriminals, you don&#x27;t need to be a communications expert to get that premise. I haven&#x27;t seen it used once for any legitimate purpose. Atleast with Bitcoin and Ethereum you can get buy some legitimate things like VPNs or NFTs<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;arstechnica.com&#x2F;information-technology&#x2F;2021&#x2F;06&#x2F;monero-emerges-as-crypto-of-choice-for-cybercriminals" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;arstechnica.com&#x2F;information-technology&#x2F;2021&#x2F;06&#x2F;moner...</a></text></item><item><author>d11z</author><text>It’s been great for gambling, cybercrime, and enabling the drug trade practically since its inception.</text></item><item><author>andybak</author><text>I&#x27;m just happy to finally see a practical use case for Blockchain technology.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>LtWorf</author><text>I thought the goal of NFT was money laundering with something of fake value?</text></comment> |
32,598,939 | 32,598,553 | 1 | 2 | 32,594,533 | train | <story><title>Removal of Heroku free product plans</title><url>https://help.heroku.com/RSBRUH58/removal-of-heroku-free-product-plans-faq</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>vagabund</author><text>It&#x27;s worth mentioning there&#x27;s a <i>very</i> vibrant piracy community that abuses heroku&#x27;s free tier for torrent to direct-download bots and myriad other purposes. Thousands and thousands of fake accounts using the resources to their limits 24&#x2F;7. It&#x27;s likely also the reason Google&#x27;s moved away from unlimited storage for educational institutions. I can understand why Salesforce has felt the need to restrict access.</text></item><item><author>craigkerstiens</author><text>This is a sad day. Pricing changes are always hard, and having been through some of the earlier pricing changes at Heroku you can&#x27;t make everyone happy. But, so many developers deployed their first app on Heroku and was a staple for so many bootcamps. Without it I&#x27;m confident we&#x27;d have less developers in the world.<p>It is still one of the gold standards for developer experience. Years after its heyday companies and tools talk about and try to emulate that experience. I recall polling on twitter a few months back which the key feature was:<p>- git push heroku master<p>- Heroku add-ons<p>- Heroku Postgres<p>- Review apps<p>And the reality is any one of those could standard on their own. But put together, Heroku simply lets you forget about ops and focus on shipping, and shipping is king.<p>I fully get it&#x27;s a business, but can&#x27;t help but feel this is the writing on the wall for the future.<p>Gonna pour one out tonight for Heroku.<p>Edit: And may be trying to figure out how to offer free Postgres databases, cause shutting down databases with 3 months notice feels pretty short. Not sure if that means deleting the data itself or what, but ouch.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rjh29</author><text>&gt; It&#x27;s likely also the reason Google&#x27;s moved away from unlimited storage for educational institutions.<p>Absolutely, piracy forums have guides to fake being a student to get an unlimited account, then mirror huge (1TB+) gdrives full of pirated content to your own. This was (is?) happening on a huge scale.</text></comment> | <story><title>Removal of Heroku free product plans</title><url>https://help.heroku.com/RSBRUH58/removal-of-heroku-free-product-plans-faq</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>vagabund</author><text>It&#x27;s worth mentioning there&#x27;s a <i>very</i> vibrant piracy community that abuses heroku&#x27;s free tier for torrent to direct-download bots and myriad other purposes. Thousands and thousands of fake accounts using the resources to their limits 24&#x2F;7. It&#x27;s likely also the reason Google&#x27;s moved away from unlimited storage for educational institutions. I can understand why Salesforce has felt the need to restrict access.</text></item><item><author>craigkerstiens</author><text>This is a sad day. Pricing changes are always hard, and having been through some of the earlier pricing changes at Heroku you can&#x27;t make everyone happy. But, so many developers deployed their first app on Heroku and was a staple for so many bootcamps. Without it I&#x27;m confident we&#x27;d have less developers in the world.<p>It is still one of the gold standards for developer experience. Years after its heyday companies and tools talk about and try to emulate that experience. I recall polling on twitter a few months back which the key feature was:<p>- git push heroku master<p>- Heroku add-ons<p>- Heroku Postgres<p>- Review apps<p>And the reality is any one of those could standard on their own. But put together, Heroku simply lets you forget about ops and focus on shipping, and shipping is king.<p>I fully get it&#x27;s a business, but can&#x27;t help but feel this is the writing on the wall for the future.<p>Gonna pour one out tonight for Heroku.<p>Edit: And may be trying to figure out how to offer free Postgres databases, cause shutting down databases with 3 months notice feels pretty short. Not sure if that means deleting the data itself or what, but ouch.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>base</author><text>I think that&#x27;s one of the reasons, but the main one is economical.<p>For a long time they dealt with the free accounts, so in a way they have already a lot of protections in place, and if they wanted they could keep the existing free accounts and just not accept further signups for this account type.</text></comment> |
40,671,390 | 40,668,072 | 1 | 2 | 40,662,176 | train | <story><title>Japan enacts law to promote competition in smartphone app stores</title><url>https://english.kyodonews.net/news/2024/06/bc2d7f45d456-japan-enacts-law-to-curb-apple-googles-app-dominance.html#google_vignette</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>gwbas1c</author><text>Careful: Before web apps were common, 3rd party applications on Windows would break all kinds of things.<p><i>The hardware manufacturer needs to ensure that software doesn&#x27;t break the device.</i><p>Apple and Google are going well beyond any reasonable grey area, though. Demanding a cut if I buy a book through the Kindle app is absurd and has nothing to do with ensuring that Kindle doesn&#x27;t break my smartphone.</text></item><item><author>alwayslikethis</author><text>Realistically, no hardware manufacturer of a significant size (let&#x27;s say 100k total devices) should be allowed to dictate what software can be distributed to users. It opens up all kinds of unfair business practices.</text></item><item><author>arrosenberg</author><text>The answer is obvious, because you can’t fairly resolve a conflict of interest like that - alignment between publishers and distributors in the same vertical should be banned.</text></item><item><author>BadHumans</author><text>I read this as Apple can&#x27;t ban Spotify because they have Apple Music. The question is what happens when an app is competing with Apple but also is breaking Apple&#x27;s TOS?</text></item><item><author>Johnny555</author><text><i>The law will prohibit the providers of Apple&#x27;s iOS and Google&#x27;s Android smartphone operating systems, app stores and payment platforms from preventing the sale of apps and services that directly compete with the native platforms&#x27; own.</i><p>I&#x27;m not sure what this means -- does this just mean that Apple can&#x27;t prevent a third party from selling an app that does something an Apple app does, or does it mean they have to allow third party app stores? Or is it more about opening the payment platform so an app can take direct payments instead of having to go through Apple?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>csense</author><text>&gt; The hardware manufacturer needs to ensure that software doesn&#x27;t break the device.<p>Preventing software from breaking a device is a solved problem. All you need is a CPU that supports memory protection, and an appropriately designed OS.<p>If you want to only run software that&#x27;s been OK&#x27;ed by a third party, that&#x27;s certainly a choice you can make for yourself or your organization.<p>I don&#x27;t like that this choice is imposed on almost-all cellphone users by monopoly.</text></comment> | <story><title>Japan enacts law to promote competition in smartphone app stores</title><url>https://english.kyodonews.net/news/2024/06/bc2d7f45d456-japan-enacts-law-to-curb-apple-googles-app-dominance.html#google_vignette</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>gwbas1c</author><text>Careful: Before web apps were common, 3rd party applications on Windows would break all kinds of things.<p><i>The hardware manufacturer needs to ensure that software doesn&#x27;t break the device.</i><p>Apple and Google are going well beyond any reasonable grey area, though. Demanding a cut if I buy a book through the Kindle app is absurd and has nothing to do with ensuring that Kindle doesn&#x27;t break my smartphone.</text></item><item><author>alwayslikethis</author><text>Realistically, no hardware manufacturer of a significant size (let&#x27;s say 100k total devices) should be allowed to dictate what software can be distributed to users. It opens up all kinds of unfair business practices.</text></item><item><author>arrosenberg</author><text>The answer is obvious, because you can’t fairly resolve a conflict of interest like that - alignment between publishers and distributors in the same vertical should be banned.</text></item><item><author>BadHumans</author><text>I read this as Apple can&#x27;t ban Spotify because they have Apple Music. The question is what happens when an app is competing with Apple but also is breaking Apple&#x27;s TOS?</text></item><item><author>Johnny555</author><text><i>The law will prohibit the providers of Apple&#x27;s iOS and Google&#x27;s Android smartphone operating systems, app stores and payment platforms from preventing the sale of apps and services that directly compete with the native platforms&#x27; own.</i><p>I&#x27;m not sure what this means -- does this just mean that Apple can&#x27;t prevent a third party from selling an app that does something an Apple app does, or does it mean they have to allow third party app stores? Or is it more about opening the payment platform so an app can take direct payments instead of having to go through Apple?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Zak</author><text>Windows 9x and classic Mac OS are extremely fragile compared to Windows NT, Darwin, or Linux. Doing anything non-trivial without breaking those systems required some skill.</text></comment> |
40,398,213 | 40,398,271 | 1 | 2 | 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>hurril</author><text>While I understand the concepts of derivatives and tainted code, this AI&#x2F;human-dichotomy is not as good as that reasoning requires it to be. Every statement of code I commit is in fact a derivative of work that potentially had an incompatible license.</text></comment> |
23,748,561 | 23,748,082 | 1 | 2 | 23,746,899 | train | <story><title>Around 293 intermediate CAs in violation of CA/Browser guidelines</title><url>https://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg13493.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>zenexer</author><text>The link is very technical, resulting in some confusion as to why this is such a big problem. The comments on HN reflect that. Here’s my understanding:<p>This isn’t a problem because a sub-CA can revoke any certificate from any other sub-CA of the same CA. That would be bad, but, at worst, it’s denial-of-service.<p>Rather, this is a problem because any sub-CA can effectively <i>reverse</i> the revocation of any other sub-CA, or the CA itself. That’s immensely problematic. Suddenly, the CA has no reliable way fully revoke certificates. Revocation is already somewhat broken as it is, but this gives a lot of entities the ability to deliberately interfere with revocation in ways that they shouldn’t be able to.<p>The author goes on to explain that revocation of the affected certificates is insufficient, because they could be used to effectively reverse their own revocation at any point in the future. Instead, it must be proven that all copies of the keys have been destroyed. That’s quite an undertaking.<p>What the author fails to mention is that revocation is already pretty broken. Most major browsers have their own built-in CRL replacements that contain the most important revocations they need to know about. Some browsers, like Firefox, may make additional efforts to ensure that any given certificate hasn’t been revoked; others, like Chrome, don’t. If you’ve ever visited a site that gives you a certificate error in Firefox but not Chrome, that’s likely why.<p>In the case of browsers, it should be possible for each browser to forcefully revoke affected certificates, but revoking a sub-CA certificate is quite disruptive, so I’d be surprised if that happens within 7 days. The catch is that this technique is really only effective in modern, up-to-date browsers.<p>In any case, the title is misleading. I don’t see where the author guarantees that this will happen within 7 days. The author claims it <i>should</i> happen within 7 days, but considering that the damage is already done and cannot be fully reversed by revocation, I find it hard to believe enforcing that deadline makes sense here.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>terom</author><text>There&#x27;s a reply from Ben Wilson (Mozilla) further down in the thread &#x2F; the next day stating that Firefox as a client is not affected by the security issue (OCSP responses signed by these intermediate CAs would be rejected), and that Mozilla is not planning on enforcing the 7 day deadline for revocation of these intermediate certificates. The CAs will still need to replace these intermediate CAs, but with a more gradual timeline.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.mail-archive.com&#x2F;[email protected]&#x2F;msg13537.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.mail-archive.com&#x2F;[email protected]...</a><p>&gt; We are concerned that revoking these impacted intermediate certificates within 7 days could cause more damage to the ecosystem than is warranted for this particular problem. Therefore, Mozilla does not plan to hold CAs to the BR requirement to revoke these certificates within 7 days. However, an additional Incident Report for delayed revocation will still be required, as per our documented process[2]. We want to work with CAs to identify a path forward, which includes determining a reasonable timeline and approach to replacing the certificates that incorrectly have the id-kp-OCSPSigning EKU (and performing key destruction for them).</text></comment> | <story><title>Around 293 intermediate CAs in violation of CA/Browser guidelines</title><url>https://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg13493.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>zenexer</author><text>The link is very technical, resulting in some confusion as to why this is such a big problem. The comments on HN reflect that. Here’s my understanding:<p>This isn’t a problem because a sub-CA can revoke any certificate from any other sub-CA of the same CA. That would be bad, but, at worst, it’s denial-of-service.<p>Rather, this is a problem because any sub-CA can effectively <i>reverse</i> the revocation of any other sub-CA, or the CA itself. That’s immensely problematic. Suddenly, the CA has no reliable way fully revoke certificates. Revocation is already somewhat broken as it is, but this gives a lot of entities the ability to deliberately interfere with revocation in ways that they shouldn’t be able to.<p>The author goes on to explain that revocation of the affected certificates is insufficient, because they could be used to effectively reverse their own revocation at any point in the future. Instead, it must be proven that all copies of the keys have been destroyed. That’s quite an undertaking.<p>What the author fails to mention is that revocation is already pretty broken. Most major browsers have their own built-in CRL replacements that contain the most important revocations they need to know about. Some browsers, like Firefox, may make additional efforts to ensure that any given certificate hasn’t been revoked; others, like Chrome, don’t. If you’ve ever visited a site that gives you a certificate error in Firefox but not Chrome, that’s likely why.<p>In the case of browsers, it should be possible for each browser to forcefully revoke affected certificates, but revoking a sub-CA certificate is quite disruptive, so I’d be surprised if that happens within 7 days. The catch is that this technique is really only effective in modern, up-to-date browsers.<p>In any case, the title is misleading. I don’t see where the author guarantees that this will happen within 7 days. The author claims it <i>should</i> happen within 7 days, but considering that the damage is already done and cannot be fully reversed by revocation, I find it hard to believe enforcing that deadline makes sense here.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>gruez</author><text>&gt;The author goes on to explain that revocation of the affected certificates is insufficient, because they could be used to effectively reverse their own revocation at any point in the future. Instead, it must be proven that all copies of the keys have been destroyed. That’s quite an undertaking.<p>How would this be verified? Presumably the keys are stored on HSMs, but you can I&#x27;m not sure how you can prove that you didn&#x27;t make a backup of the key.</text></comment> |
2,150,931 | 2,150,876 | 1 | 2 | 2,150,069 | train | <story><title>Egypt has shut off the Internet (update: not everywhere)</title><url>http://www.arabist.net/blog/2011/1/28/urgent-egypt-has-shut-off-the-internet.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jerf</author><text>I am at a loss as to what this additional infrastructure really permits that having lots of armored men with guns does not. Armored men with guns are a flexible bunch, they can do lots of things. The marginal distinction to the person in power between pressing a button and ordering other people to go shut the net down is pretty minimal; it's not like without this switch, the President is going to actually have go out and point guns at the network admins himself, Independence Day-style.<p>My real worry, and the real reason this shouldn't be done, is that it shouldn't be made so easy that some clever hackers can do it, or gets accidentally triggered for some reason. But ye olde "shoot the place up" can take down the internet pretty effectively. "Stray backhoes" have done a decent job a couple of times within my experience as it is; the hard part is keeping the net running, not shutting it down.</text></item><item><author>Zak</author><text>Passing a law like that means they'll put in the infrastructure to actually do it. If things deteriorate significantly in the US, it is likely that attempting to gain the ability to shut down the internet would directly trigger some sort of civil unrest while now it only triggers angry blog posts.</text></item><item><author>jerf</author><text>Well, good news, it doesn't matter. If the situation has deteriorated to that point, the government will just do it anyhow.<p>I don't support the bill anyhow, because I'm not really a "let's just give one central authority all the power because why not?" kind of guy, but honestly, there's not much point worrying about that particular kind of misuse of that particular power. Standard martial law concepts would probably be enough to take the necessary actions to shut down whatever networks you like; pointing guns at network admins can be pretty effective. You're actually not being <i>cynical enough</i>.</text></item><item><author>Zak</author><text>I read this, and become more concerned about bills to give the US President an Internet kill-switch. They say it's to protect against cyber-warfare, but something makes me think it's just as likely to be applied to civil unrest, and civil unrest doesn't usually happen unless there's something pretty wrong with the government.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>awakeasleep</author><text>I see this argument get a lot of play.<p>These sorts of things are important because ease dictates more of what happens in life than posibility. Make it easier to turn off the net, there is more chance of it happening, and it'll take less resources from the controlling party to do it.<p>Like you said, 'they' could already turn off the internet. So why bother with the effort to make a killswitch? Because the resources it'd take to kill the internet manually matter.<p>~~~~~~~<p>An similar argument might be, "If someone can always find a flaw in crypto implementations, why bother with cryptography?" or "You can walk anywhere a car can go, what's the point of having a car?"</text></comment> | <story><title>Egypt has shut off the Internet (update: not everywhere)</title><url>http://www.arabist.net/blog/2011/1/28/urgent-egypt-has-shut-off-the-internet.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jerf</author><text>I am at a loss as to what this additional infrastructure really permits that having lots of armored men with guns does not. Armored men with guns are a flexible bunch, they can do lots of things. The marginal distinction to the person in power between pressing a button and ordering other people to go shut the net down is pretty minimal; it's not like without this switch, the President is going to actually have go out and point guns at the network admins himself, Independence Day-style.<p>My real worry, and the real reason this shouldn't be done, is that it shouldn't be made so easy that some clever hackers can do it, or gets accidentally triggered for some reason. But ye olde "shoot the place up" can take down the internet pretty effectively. "Stray backhoes" have done a decent job a couple of times within my experience as it is; the hard part is keeping the net running, not shutting it down.</text></item><item><author>Zak</author><text>Passing a law like that means they'll put in the infrastructure to actually do it. If things deteriorate significantly in the US, it is likely that attempting to gain the ability to shut down the internet would directly trigger some sort of civil unrest while now it only triggers angry blog posts.</text></item><item><author>jerf</author><text>Well, good news, it doesn't matter. If the situation has deteriorated to that point, the government will just do it anyhow.<p>I don't support the bill anyhow, because I'm not really a "let's just give one central authority all the power because why not?" kind of guy, but honestly, there's not much point worrying about that particular kind of misuse of that particular power. Standard martial law concepts would probably be enough to take the necessary actions to shut down whatever networks you like; pointing guns at network admins can be pretty effective. You're actually not being <i>cynical enough</i>.</text></item><item><author>Zak</author><text>I read this, and become more concerned about bills to give the US President an Internet kill-switch. They say it's to protect against cyber-warfare, but something makes me think it's just as likely to be applied to civil unrest, and civil unrest doesn't usually happen unless there's something pretty wrong with the government.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>sunir</author><text>The question is how many armed men with guns will it take. Armed men with guns are not an infinite supply, and during a massive unrest, presumably in high demand. Why make it easy?</text></comment> |
36,770,524 | 36,769,278 | 1 | 2 | 36,767,837 | train | <story><title>Generative AI space and the mental imagery of alien minds</title><url>https://writings.stephenwolfram.com/2023/07/generative-ai-space-and-the-mental-imagery-of-alien-minds/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tomohelix</author><text>The first time I saw an AI creating images in like 2018 or so, I remembered the scientists called it &quot;dreams&quot; and I thought it was so appropriate. The constantly morphing landscape and how things blend together to form new things and how almost everything is wrong when look at closely. It was an interesting description, and I didn&#x27;t care much more than that.<p>Then the AI got better, and still the dreamlike things never go away. The constant problem with the hands, words never properly formed, clocks always look wrong, etc. But now it is more cohesive, more &quot;solid&quot; but still malleable. Like a lucid dream. Still straddling the border between consciousness and unconsciousness but there is a hint of control and direction now.<p>As someone who lucid dream, I think the AI images and the LLMs are just like a person dreaming right now. They sort of have control, but actually not really. Kinda hard to explain but even when I lucid dream, I know it is a dream and I can bend it to my will but at the same time, it isn&#x27;t possible to control my thoughts. Trying too hard to assert control and I wake up. So it is still a state of unconsciousness for me and not at all comparable to the &quot;me&quot; when I am fully awake.<p>Of course, the AIs can&#x27;t wake up if we use that analogy. They are not capable of anything more than this state right now. But to me, lucid dreaming is already a step above the total unconsciousness of just dreaming, or just nothing at all. And wakefulness always follows shortly after I lucid dream.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jvanderbot</author><text>A more conservative, but less entertaining and less poetic model is:<p>You lucid dream when your &quot;explainers&quot; and &quot;predictors&quot; are operating on the random feedback and subtle noise that&#x27;s present while your mind is defragging and moving data from short term to long term memory.<p>Random noise, with low signal, fed into something that is trained to fill in details kinda explains how Gen AI works, up to a decent approximation.<p>Your mind has a <i>lot</i> of these predictors and detail fillers. All those are trained on your experience. I think dreaming is either tweaking those predictors and you get to watch, or it&#x27;s in fact a junk signal you&#x27;re not supposed to be able to see, but you happen to be kinda awake enough to form memories from it.<p>Using words like &quot;wake up&quot; imply deeper and darker depths to these networks that I doubt exist.</text></comment> | <story><title>Generative AI space and the mental imagery of alien minds</title><url>https://writings.stephenwolfram.com/2023/07/generative-ai-space-and-the-mental-imagery-of-alien-minds/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tomohelix</author><text>The first time I saw an AI creating images in like 2018 or so, I remembered the scientists called it &quot;dreams&quot; and I thought it was so appropriate. The constantly morphing landscape and how things blend together to form new things and how almost everything is wrong when look at closely. It was an interesting description, and I didn&#x27;t care much more than that.<p>Then the AI got better, and still the dreamlike things never go away. The constant problem with the hands, words never properly formed, clocks always look wrong, etc. But now it is more cohesive, more &quot;solid&quot; but still malleable. Like a lucid dream. Still straddling the border between consciousness and unconsciousness but there is a hint of control and direction now.<p>As someone who lucid dream, I think the AI images and the LLMs are just like a person dreaming right now. They sort of have control, but actually not really. Kinda hard to explain but even when I lucid dream, I know it is a dream and I can bend it to my will but at the same time, it isn&#x27;t possible to control my thoughts. Trying too hard to assert control and I wake up. So it is still a state of unconsciousness for me and not at all comparable to the &quot;me&quot; when I am fully awake.<p>Of course, the AIs can&#x27;t wake up if we use that analogy. They are not capable of anything more than this state right now. But to me, lucid dreaming is already a step above the total unconsciousness of just dreaming, or just nothing at all. And wakefulness always follows shortly after I lucid dream.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>arketyp</author><text>I feel like lucid dreaming is in a way the baseline and that when we&#x27;re awake, reality constantly knocks us back into groundedness. In a lucid dream there is no error correcting signal to keep our fabulations in check. Things tend to drift away like the silhouettes of an infinity mirror. Reality is like the flash of solid pixels when switching away from the hysteresis stream in a shared window Zoom call.</text></comment> |
7,763,061 | 7,762,992 | 1 | 2 | 7,762,679 | train | <story><title>Arecibo Observatory Detects Mysterious, Energetic Radio Burst</title><url>http://phenomena.nationalgeographic.com/2014/04/20/mysterious-energetic-radio-burst/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Houshalter</author><text>Would aliens have any interest in prime numbers, like Earth mathematicians do?</text></item><item><author>steeve</author><text>Call me (and Dr Arroway of course) when it starts generating prime numbers.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>electromagnetic</author><text>That&#x27;s an interesting question, which simply answered is a plain yes or no.<p>If they use technology as we understand it, then presumably yes. Prime numbers are just a unique artifact of basic arithmetic. Our knowledge of prime numbers appears to date back to at least Ancient Egyptian times, so it&#x27;s quite safe to assume an alien race capable of something as technologically adept as transmitting a signal with the purposeful intent of contacting another race would know what prime numbers are.<p>The issue is we&#x27;re limited to our view point, we&#x27;re exceptionally naive of anything different as we&#x27;ve never experienced it. So, is our technology the only way?<p>We&#x27;re designing nanotechnology that could fabricate anything we could dream of, but what if an alien race ended up evolving a unique cell that could do it too. We have white blood cells, they have nanofab cells. Would they even comprehend math if they&#x27;re just growing jet engines and rocket nozzles?<p>It&#x27;s this latter, our unknowable unknowns that will broadside us. How do we relate to something that&#x27;s unfathomably alien to us.<p>The good news is you and I likely won&#x27;t be around to care when we find out what aliens are really like.</text></comment> | <story><title>Arecibo Observatory Detects Mysterious, Energetic Radio Burst</title><url>http://phenomena.nationalgeographic.com/2014/04/20/mysterious-energetic-radio-burst/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Houshalter</author><text>Would aliens have any interest in prime numbers, like Earth mathematicians do?</text></item><item><author>steeve</author><text>Call me (and Dr Arroway of course) when it starts generating prime numbers.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>josai</author><text>Interesting question. Reducing it further, is the concept of mathematics, as we understand it, <i>required</i> to develop high technology?<p>I would have thought the answer to be yes.</text></comment> |
603,944 | 603,545 | 1 | 2 | 603,364 | train | <story><title>Don’t! The secret of self-control</title><url>http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2009/05/18/090518fa_fact_lehrer?currentPage=all#</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>biohacker42</author><text>Does anyone here, like me, really appreciate Feynman's just the fact's style of writing?<p>Most people describe it as eerily cold, but I love it. Articles like the this one on the other hand, while excellent, bury their valuable information under a lot of fluff. And most people like that kind of writing, but I just find it annoying.<p>Good article, I just wish it was more direct.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>sachmanb</author><text>The author of this article writes more for us, people who want just the substance, on his blog: <a href="http://scienceblogs.com/cortex/" rel="nofollow">http://scienceblogs.com/cortex/</a><p>He still wraps the information, but not to the extent he does for other publications and he frequently separates the substance into its own paragraphs. It's a great blog and I recommend it.<p>Two other cognitive biology blogs that I recommend are <a href="http://scienceblogs.com/neurophilosophy/" rel="nofollow">http://scienceblogs.com/neurophilosophy/</a> and <a href="http://merzenich.positscience.com/" rel="nofollow">http://merzenich.positscience.com/</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Don’t! The secret of self-control</title><url>http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2009/05/18/090518fa_fact_lehrer?currentPage=all#</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>biohacker42</author><text>Does anyone here, like me, really appreciate Feynman's just the fact's style of writing?<p>Most people describe it as eerily cold, but I love it. Articles like the this one on the other hand, while excellent, bury their valuable information under a lot of fluff. And most people like that kind of writing, but I just find it annoying.<p>Good article, I just wish it was more direct.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>silentbicycle</author><text>Consider the source, though. People who place a high priority on dense, "just the facts" writing are probably going to read the research directly. This is intended to introduce the research to an audience that would find it interesting, but are unlikely to already comb through academic journals of psychological research.<p>I find Oliver Sacks, Douglas Hofstadter, Stephen Pinker, etc. fascinating, but when I want the direct data (rather than commentary), I still go to primary sources. That's what they're for.</text></comment> |
29,313,226 | 29,312,285 | 1 | 2 | 29,311,222 | train | <story><title>Djinn Split Keyboard</title><url>https://github.com/tzarc/djinn</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>farnsworth</author><text>I have the Moonlander split keyboard, and absolutely love it. But the problem I constantly have with split keyboards is keeping them aligned the right way. Each half is constantly being pushed and shifted or rotated slightly on my desk so it feels like the alignment is a little off every time I sit down to use it. The infinite adjustability is definitely a perk but I feel like I should be taping them down once I get them set up</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>achikin</author><text>It is not because of the split design - it’s because of the ortholinear layout. Classical staggered layout is much more tolerant to the posture and angle.</text></comment> | <story><title>Djinn Split Keyboard</title><url>https://github.com/tzarc/djinn</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>farnsworth</author><text>I have the Moonlander split keyboard, and absolutely love it. But the problem I constantly have with split keyboards is keeping them aligned the right way. Each half is constantly being pushed and shifted or rotated slightly on my desk so it feels like the alignment is a little off every time I sit down to use it. The infinite adjustability is definitely a perk but I feel like I should be taping them down once I get them set up</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dpapavas</author><text>I know what you mean. I solved the issue with a specially designed adjustable linkage on the Lagrange (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;dpapavas&#x2F;lagrange-keyboard" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;dpapavas&#x2F;lagrange-keyboard</a>). It took a while to finetune the relative position anf attitude (which, turned out to be what one&#x27;d expect: 0° toe, separation at about shoulder width), but now it&#x27;s finally consistently aligned every time. (The palm keys also help by doubling as guides to keep your hands in the right place.)</text></comment> |
19,619,536 | 19,619,473 | 1 | 2 | 19,616,691 | train | <story><title>Marissa Mayer on career growth and how a revenue guarantee almost killed Google</title><url>https://triplebyte.com/blog/marissa-mayer-interview</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Harj</author><text>Marissa described possibly the most thorough and analytical job search process I&#x27;ve heard from anyone, when she was talking about how she joined Google. I really liked her reflection on this in hindsight on how being overly analytical is dangerous and it&#x27;s something I try to remind myself of when I&#x27;m in danger of overthinking a decision:<p>&quot;I think this is a common thing that very analytical people trip themselves up with. They look at things as if there’s a right answer and a wrong answer when, the truth is, there’s often just good choices, and maybe a great choice in there.&quot;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>lkrubner</author><text>Too much focus on utility functions, not enough focus on novelty functions, even though it&#x27;s been proven that utility functions decline in usefulness as a search space expands. Given an infinite search space, a utility function can only find local optima, there is no global optima. In such situations, a novelty function that finds a path from one happy local optima to another happy local optima is a better bet than using a utility function.<p>The above paragraph is rational, and yet people who consider themselves hyper rational often ignore the truth of this. And the irony is that some of them do this for an emotional reason: they want the security that comes from believing that there is an absolute right answer. They are irrationally rational.</text></comment> | <story><title>Marissa Mayer on career growth and how a revenue guarantee almost killed Google</title><url>https://triplebyte.com/blog/marissa-mayer-interview</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Harj</author><text>Marissa described possibly the most thorough and analytical job search process I&#x27;ve heard from anyone, when she was talking about how she joined Google. I really liked her reflection on this in hindsight on how being overly analytical is dangerous and it&#x27;s something I try to remind myself of when I&#x27;m in danger of overthinking a decision:<p>&quot;I think this is a common thing that very analytical people trip themselves up with. They look at things as if there’s a right answer and a wrong answer when, the truth is, there’s often just good choices, and maybe a great choice in there.&quot;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>duxup</author><text>As someone who feels they&#x27;re from the outside looking in (left college to work, still ended up in the technology but without a traditional college education) one of the most frustrating things is watch folks who I perceive as traditionally trained CS and similar folks ... is their desire to go hyper analytical ... and then REALLY commit to the result as the best choice above all others because of whatever analysis they made.<p>Now granted there are time to hunker down and commit but sometimes all that data doesn&#x27;t really tell you anything and you&#x27;re still facing an unknown no matter how much work you do, and it might be worth thinking about it after taking a few steps down that road &#x2F; experience. It&#x27;s not uncommon to come across a variable(s) that plays a far stronger role than any other, only AFTER you tried doing something.<p>For hyper analytical folks the data on hand is the hammer for every nail it seems sometimes.</text></comment> |
31,388,469 | 31,388,298 | 1 | 2 | 31,387,962 | train | <story><title>Who owns the copyright to my medical images? (2018)</title><url>https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2018/11/who-owns-the-copyright-to-my-medical-images/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>andix</author><text>In my country in Europe the solution is quite easy: I have the right to get all papers and images from my doctors within 10 years of creation.<p>But I have to pay the doctor the expenses, if there is some work involved (like burning a CD or buying a flash drive - bc of security reasons they don’t let you connect yours, you need to buy a new one).<p>If you have some kind of 3d images (also dentists create them nowadays), there is usually some kind of licensed viewer software on the disk, where you can view just your own images. And as far as I know, the doctors don’t have to pay a license fee for it. It’s included with their software. And it is a feature they need, to comply with the law, that they have to give images to the patients upon request.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>LosWochosWeek</author><text>&gt; In my country in Europe the solution is quite easy: I have the right to get all papers and images from my doctors within 10 years of creation.<p>This doesn&#x27;t answer the question in the article tho. The question isn&#x27;t &quot;Who has the rights to a copy of my medical images&quot;. It&#x27;s &quot;Who owns the copyright to my medical images&quot;.<p>To answer that question, you&#x27;d first have to find out if your medical images are even protected by copyright in the first place. The answer to this question depends wholly on the picture itself.<p>Let&#x27;s say a medical image of yours is indeed protected by copyright, then -- even in your country in Europe (regardless of which country it actually is) -- the copyright holder is the person who took the image. Not you. It may very well be that in your country this copyright is restricted by other laws (i.e. Persönlichkeitsrecht in Germany).</text></comment> | <story><title>Who owns the copyright to my medical images? (2018)</title><url>https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2018/11/who-owns-the-copyright-to-my-medical-images/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>andix</author><text>In my country in Europe the solution is quite easy: I have the right to get all papers and images from my doctors within 10 years of creation.<p>But I have to pay the doctor the expenses, if there is some work involved (like burning a CD or buying a flash drive - bc of security reasons they don’t let you connect yours, you need to buy a new one).<p>If you have some kind of 3d images (also dentists create them nowadays), there is usually some kind of licensed viewer software on the disk, where you can view just your own images. And as far as I know, the doctors don’t have to pay a license fee for it. It’s included with their software. And it is a feature they need, to comply with the law, that they have to give images to the patients upon request.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>prepend</author><text>This seems pretty dumb and an excuse for doctors to have expensive systems to retrieve and disburse records.<p>It should be near zero to deliver these records. Or at least marginally zero.<p>I’d rather records be free electronically and let healthcare providers plan for this.<p>Having costs discourages information sharing, I think.</text></comment> |
30,937,488 | 30,937,162 | 1 | 2 | 30,933,831 | train | <story><title>A whole website in a single JavaScript file</title><url>https://deno.com/blog/a-whole-website-in-a-single-js-file</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>lhorie</author><text>I mean, this is a &quot;single file website&quot; in the sense that `&lt;iframe src=&quot;<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;google.com&quot;&gt;&lt;&#x2F;iframe&gt;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;google.com&quot;&gt;&lt;&#x2F;iframe&gt;</a>` is a &quot;search engine implementation in one line of code&quot;.<p>The only semi-interesting thing here is that this demo pulls dependencies from 3rd party registries via HTTP without an explicit install step. It&#x27;s really not that different than doing regular Node.js development with a committed node_modules (hi, Google), except that if node.land or crux.land go down, you&#x27;ve lost your reproducibility.<p>The thing about &quot;familiar&#x2F;modern techonologies&quot; seem like superficial vanity. A vanilla Node.js equivalent might look something like this<p><pre><code> import {createServer} from &#x27;http&#x27;
import {parse} from &#x27;url&#x27;
const route = path =&gt; {
switch (path) {
case &#x27;&#x2F;&#x27;: return home()
case &#x27;&#x2F;about&#x27;: return about()
default: return error()
}
}
const home = () =&gt; `Hello world`
&#x2F;&#x2F; etc...
createServer((req, res) =&gt; {
res.write(route(parse(req.url)))
res.end()
}).listen(80)
</code></pre>
Which is really not anything to write home about, nor an intimidating monstrosity by any measure. Serving cacheable HTML is really not rocket science, it simply does not require &quot;the latest and greatest&quot; anything.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>crowlKats</author><text>I wouldnt say an iframe and this are in any way shape or form comparable. this is a &quot;full-fledged&quot; website.<p>&gt; except that if node.land or crux.land go down, you&#x27;ve lost your reproducibility.<p>Dependencies are cached. This is no different from if npm would go down.<p>&gt; The only semi-interesting thing here is that this demo pulls dependencies from 3rd party registries via HTTP without an explicit install step<p>Given that this seems interesting to you, it seems you haven&#x27;t heard of Deno (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;deno.land" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;deno.land</a>). It is not related to node in terms of environment, its a new completely separate runtime.<p>In regards to your node example, this is fairly different:
the dependency pulled in from deno.land is a wrapper around the built-in http server, which does various error handling for you and simplifies the usage.
The router isnt a simple switch statement either; its a URLPattern (the web&#x27;s version of path-to-regexp) based minimal router. Campring these to the node built-ins isnt exactly a fair comparison I would say.<p>Also on top of this, with node you need a configuration to get typescript working, then you need a package.json, etc etc.</text></comment> | <story><title>A whole website in a single JavaScript file</title><url>https://deno.com/blog/a-whole-website-in-a-single-js-file</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>lhorie</author><text>I mean, this is a &quot;single file website&quot; in the sense that `&lt;iframe src=&quot;<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;google.com&quot;&gt;&lt;&#x2F;iframe&gt;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;google.com&quot;&gt;&lt;&#x2F;iframe&gt;</a>` is a &quot;search engine implementation in one line of code&quot;.<p>The only semi-interesting thing here is that this demo pulls dependencies from 3rd party registries via HTTP without an explicit install step. It&#x27;s really not that different than doing regular Node.js development with a committed node_modules (hi, Google), except that if node.land or crux.land go down, you&#x27;ve lost your reproducibility.<p>The thing about &quot;familiar&#x2F;modern techonologies&quot; seem like superficial vanity. A vanilla Node.js equivalent might look something like this<p><pre><code> import {createServer} from &#x27;http&#x27;
import {parse} from &#x27;url&#x27;
const route = path =&gt; {
switch (path) {
case &#x27;&#x2F;&#x27;: return home()
case &#x27;&#x2F;about&#x27;: return about()
default: return error()
}
}
const home = () =&gt; `Hello world`
&#x2F;&#x2F; etc...
createServer((req, res) =&gt; {
res.write(route(parse(req.url)))
res.end()
}).listen(80)
</code></pre>
Which is really not anything to write home about, nor an intimidating monstrosity by any measure. Serving cacheable HTML is really not rocket science, it simply does not require &quot;the latest and greatest&quot; anything.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>CreepGin</author><text>Now, add jsx and ssr to your example, deploy it, then compare with the deno version in terms of performance, code length, and dev time.</text></comment> |
15,744,187 | 15,744,163 | 1 | 3 | 15,743,785 | train | <story><title>Samsung DeX</title><url>http://www.samsung.com/global/galaxy/apps/samsung-dex/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>FreakyT</author><text>It&#x27;s definitely neat, but I feel like this has been done before without success -- examples like the Motorola Atrix, Windows Continuum, and even the cancelled Ubuntu Phone come to mind. (And, going further back in time, let&#x27;s not forget the Palm Foleo!)<p>It seems like a neat idea on the surface though, so I wonder why as a concept the phone-connected-to-desktop-peripherals thing hasn&#x27;t gained more traction. My suspicion is that there isn&#x27;t really a target user that this makes more sense for. Who happens to keep desktop peripherals on their desk but only does lightweight productivity tasks? CEOs who only answer email? Certainly not software developers or even accounting people.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>joenathanone</author><text>I have a Samsung Dex, I only use it now to charge my phone. It&#x27;s useful but not useful enough. It&#x27;s the sort of experience that works in a pinch but a laptop or desktop delivers a much better desktop experience, and there is no proper RDP app. The MS RDP app doesn&#x27;t go full screen.<p>For this to catch on, in my mind, it needs to provided an experience that can replace a desktop, otherwise having to have a dock, monitor, keyboard &amp; mouse, might as well just add an Intel compute stick and have a 10 times better experience.</text></comment> | <story><title>Samsung DeX</title><url>http://www.samsung.com/global/galaxy/apps/samsung-dex/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>FreakyT</author><text>It&#x27;s definitely neat, but I feel like this has been done before without success -- examples like the Motorola Atrix, Windows Continuum, and even the cancelled Ubuntu Phone come to mind. (And, going further back in time, let&#x27;s not forget the Palm Foleo!)<p>It seems like a neat idea on the surface though, so I wonder why as a concept the phone-connected-to-desktop-peripherals thing hasn&#x27;t gained more traction. My suspicion is that there isn&#x27;t really a target user that this makes more sense for. Who happens to keep desktop peripherals on their desk but only does lightweight productivity tasks? CEOs who only answer email? Certainly not software developers or even accounting people.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>BjoernKW</author><text>As an IT consultant who travels a lot and works for different customers I&#x27;d love a smartphone that could double as a powerful development machine when plugged into a larger screen. No need to carry around and worry about a laptop anymore.<p>For such a setup to work and really make sense though it&#x27;d have to be available as near-ubiquitous infrastructure one could expect in every hotel and every office.<p>I suppose, however, the travelling tradesman &#x2F; digital nomad target audience just isn&#x27;t large and profitable enough (as of now at least) to warrant such a large-scale infrastructure undertaking.</text></comment> |
20,088,040 | 20,088,065 | 1 | 3 | 20,087,315 | train | <story><title>New Mac Pro</title><url>https://www.apple.com/mac-pro/design/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Eric_WVGG</author><text>The 1987 Mac II released at $5,498, $12,125 adjusted for inflation.<p>Granted, that included a monitor.<p>IMO these things are designed for companies like Pixar, Disney, and aerospace, the &quot;if you have to ask, you can&#x27;t afford it&quot; world.</text></item><item><author>bluedino</author><text>The thing the Mac Pro does is magically make the price of every other computer look that much better.<p>$6000 for a computer? Johnson, that&#x27;s insane.<p>What about $4999 for an iMac Pro? It comes with a display.<p>Great, order it!<p>What about $2499 for a Mac Mini with 32GB and 1TB SSD?<p>Great, order it!<p>What about $2499 for a Macbook Pro?<p>Great, order it!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>glup</author><text>“If you think the computer is expensive, you’re going to completely lose it when you find out the salary of the boffin who will put it to good use. Or, more mind-numbing yet, the cost of having neither.”</text></comment> | <story><title>New Mac Pro</title><url>https://www.apple.com/mac-pro/design/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Eric_WVGG</author><text>The 1987 Mac II released at $5,498, $12,125 adjusted for inflation.<p>Granted, that included a monitor.<p>IMO these things are designed for companies like Pixar, Disney, and aerospace, the &quot;if you have to ask, you can&#x27;t afford it&quot; world.</text></item><item><author>bluedino</author><text>The thing the Mac Pro does is magically make the price of every other computer look that much better.<p>$6000 for a computer? Johnson, that&#x27;s insane.<p>What about $4999 for an iMac Pro? It comes with a display.<p>Great, order it!<p>What about $2499 for a Mac Mini with 32GB and 1TB SSD?<p>Great, order it!<p>What about $2499 for a Macbook Pro?<p>Great, order it!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Junk_Collector</author><text>Aerospace has been going heavily towards gpu accelerated simulation via CUDA, so the lack of NVIDIA support kind of kills the market potential there.</text></comment> |
16,567,391 | 16,566,143 | 1 | 3 | 16,564,935 | train | <story><title>TLS 1.3 and Proxies</title><url>https://www.imperialviolet.org/2018/03/10/tls13.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>koliber</author><text>I just read the discussion and I see that people are conflating a few things and having an emotional response. There is a difference between different types of network operators, and whether they have any business snooping on your traffic.<p>There is a difference between an unauthorized party intercepting TLS communication, and a party you have authorized to do so.<p>Let&#x27;s say I am a private person and am trying to access my bank account through a TLS connection. I am connected via WiFi to my cafe. I have not authorized the cafe, its uplink provider, nor any of the other network operators between me and the bank to intercept my traffic. It should be impossible to do so.<p>Let&#x27;s say I am employee of a financial institution. This company, in order to adhere with record-keeping laws, needs to log all network connections. One of the conditions of my employment is that I authorize the company to intercept my network communications. The proxies within my company should be able to intercept my communications. However, no network operator outside of the company for which I work for and to which I have given consent to intercept my traffic, should be able to intercept the communications.<p>The real world presents situations that are more nuanced than &quot;encrypt everything and don&#x27;t let anyone between me and the destination to see what is going on.&quot; There are many places where the above is the desired and sensible requirement. There are also many use cases where crypto is warranted, but select parties should have the ability to break it.<p>How this should happen is to be seen. In the examples I have given above, &quot;consent&quot; will have to come both in the idea of consent, as well as some crypto key that will allow the privileged proxies to intercept my traffic.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rocqua</author><text>Note that nothing about TLS 1.3 prevents a Proxy whose CA certificate is installed by the user from MitMing a TLS 1.3 session.
This is also why certificate pins are ignored when a cert is signed by a manually installed certificate.<p>What TLS 1.3 does appear to do is make it harder to optimize this proxying, and make it impossible to be selective about what you proxy.
However, both such optimizations and selective proxying are apparently hard to implement securely.
Now, selective proxying is nice to have.
It is better if enterprises don&#x27;t intercept traffic to banks or social networks. However, it seems to me like facebook would be a nice side-channel for exfiltrating data.<p>It seems to me that selective proxying could still be solved at the DNS level. Make any domain except for the whitelisted ones resolve to a proxy, and the have the proxy in between all traffic.
This means you also proxy all unencrypted traffic to the outside world, but if you are proxying TLS, you probably want to block or proxy plaintext outbound connections as well.</text></comment> | <story><title>TLS 1.3 and Proxies</title><url>https://www.imperialviolet.org/2018/03/10/tls13.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>koliber</author><text>I just read the discussion and I see that people are conflating a few things and having an emotional response. There is a difference between different types of network operators, and whether they have any business snooping on your traffic.<p>There is a difference between an unauthorized party intercepting TLS communication, and a party you have authorized to do so.<p>Let&#x27;s say I am a private person and am trying to access my bank account through a TLS connection. I am connected via WiFi to my cafe. I have not authorized the cafe, its uplink provider, nor any of the other network operators between me and the bank to intercept my traffic. It should be impossible to do so.<p>Let&#x27;s say I am employee of a financial institution. This company, in order to adhere with record-keeping laws, needs to log all network connections. One of the conditions of my employment is that I authorize the company to intercept my network communications. The proxies within my company should be able to intercept my communications. However, no network operator outside of the company for which I work for and to which I have given consent to intercept my traffic, should be able to intercept the communications.<p>The real world presents situations that are more nuanced than &quot;encrypt everything and don&#x27;t let anyone between me and the destination to see what is going on.&quot; There are many places where the above is the desired and sensible requirement. There are also many use cases where crypto is warranted, but select parties should have the ability to break it.<p>How this should happen is to be seen. In the examples I have given above, &quot;consent&quot; will have to come both in the idea of consent, as well as some crypto key that will allow the privileged proxies to intercept my traffic.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pavs</author><text>In some countries, there are &quot;secret laws&quot; (not the USA), where government body that controls ISP license and legalese issues can force ISPs to keep logs, not just metadata, of individual user browsing and share it with law enforcement official - whenever asked without any form of a court order and legal paper. We already have to share the &#x27;User Form&#x27; the users sign up when getting internet connections, which has all kinds of personal information including pictures, address, phone number and national ID number.<p>Failure to do so will get you heavily fined and get your license revoked to do business. Also, you can&#x27;t talk about it to the public.<p>I have friends and family in at least three countries who are involved in this industry and have confirmed me that this is a routine process, log sharing, port-mirroring, putting black-boxes in the middle of your core network is just routine work and has been the case for many years.</text></comment> |
16,548,219 | 16,548,100 | 1 | 2 | 16,547,325 | train | <story><title>Permanent Daylight Saving Time? Florida Says Yes, but It’s Not So Simple</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/08/us/daylight-saving-time-florida.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Ajedi32</author><text>So you want to abolish time zones: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;qntm.org&#x2F;abolish" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;qntm.org&#x2F;abolish</a></text></item><item><author>fold</author><text>I wouldn&#x27;t mind everyone moving to UTC. Sure, only people in Greenwich would be able to eat lunch at 12 noon. But at least it would simplify my life as a programmer.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>zanny</author><text>Except if we did abolish time zones rather than asking Google &quot;what time is it in Melbourne&quot; you ask it &quot;is it the waking hours in Melbourne&quot;.<p>In either case you <i>don&#x27;t</i> know what time to call Melbourne. You either need to know a complicated and inconsistent system of time zones, or you just ask the same question in terms of when the sun rises and sets. You don&#x27;t get out of asking a question, you don&#x27;t lose any information (there is a 1 to 1 equivalence between what time it is somewhere and when its noon there, you could ask either question and have the exact same thought process comparing a time to &quot;safe&quot; hours to call someone).<p>That article argues that the current system is some miraculous saver of sanity by solving all the problems associated with telling if someone is &quot;awake&quot; or not in a certain time zone. Except I have two cousins, both living in the same time zone, one of which wakes up at 6am and the other wakes up at 4pm.<p>Also, from personal experience calling people both without and with substantial time zone difference, you <i>never</i> know when its a good time to call someone else. They might have had a long day and took a nap. They might not be home when you think they would be. They might be engaged in an activity they don&#x27;t want to be distracted from. For practical uses of synchronous communication you need to have agreements on when to call in the first place.<p>If I&#x27;m calling someone I know, its because I <i>know</i> from <i>experience</i> when they are available, relative to my time. It does not matter if they are in Munich or Tokyo or down the street, I need to know in advance their availability for that call regardless of silly contrivances like the culturally normative sleep cycles of the region I&#x27;m calling into.<p>Because at the end of the day, there are still tens of thousands of people in Melbourne working the night shift.</text></comment> | <story><title>Permanent Daylight Saving Time? Florida Says Yes, but It’s Not So Simple</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/08/us/daylight-saving-time-florida.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Ajedi32</author><text>So you want to abolish time zones: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;qntm.org&#x2F;abolish" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;qntm.org&#x2F;abolish</a></text></item><item><author>fold</author><text>I wouldn&#x27;t mind everyone moving to UTC. Sure, only people in Greenwich would be able to eat lunch at 12 noon. But at least it would simplify my life as a programmer.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>drb91</author><text>Seems like a long winded way of saying &quot;We use time to figure out where the sun is&quot;.<p>Obviously, there are many other non-sun-oriented uses of time, most of which are immensely complicated by timezones.</text></comment> |
16,139,302 | 16,138,679 | 1 | 3 | 16,134,336 | train | <story><title>Create mixed reality models in PowerShell</title><url>http://www.cosmosdarwin.com/2018/01/12/create-mixed-reality-models-in-powershell.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>oelmekki</author><text>Cool tech. If anything, it shows that windows MR tools are mature enough to be used in most languages... on Windows.<p>I know one can work on projects that target Hololens using only Unity3D, but it doesn&#x27;t help much since the SDK needed to build them are only available on Windows.<p>Given the &quot;recent&quot; interest for Linux at Microsoft and their mea culpa regarding Internet Explorer, I would have hoped they made their Hololens SDK crossplatform. Platform lock-in worked well for iOS, but then again, I wonder if Android would have had so much success if it hadn&#x27;t the only crossplatform mobile SDK (I wonder if I&#x27;m not mistaken, here: did Blackberry have a crossplatform SDK?).<p>Anyway, it&#x27;s cool to see them going forward. Best of luck.</text></comment> | <story><title>Create mixed reality models in PowerShell</title><url>http://www.cosmosdarwin.com/2018/01/12/create-mixed-reality-models-in-powershell.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>dingo_bat</author><text>I never knew mixed reality viewer was so awesome!</text></comment> |
38,401,097 | 38,397,659 | 1 | 2 | 38,394,816 | train | <story><title>About That OpenAI "Breakthrough"</title><url>https://garymarcus.substack.com/p/about-that-openai-breakthrough</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>throw310822</author><text>I am surprised by how dismissive the whole post sounds. For example:<p>&gt; OpenAI could in fact have a breakthrough that fundamentally changes the world<p>Well, it appears to me that OpenAI <i>already</i> has such a breakthrough- it had it roughly 4 years ago with GPT2, and it&#x27;s still scaling it.<p>Considering that <i>it&#x27;s not yet a year since the introduction of the first ChatGPT</i>, and given the pace at which it&#x27;s evolving, I would say that the current product is already showing great promise to fundamentally change the world. I would not be surprised if just incremental changes were enough to fulfill that prediction. The impact at this point seems more limited by the ability of society to absorb and process the technology rather than intrinsic limits of the technology itself.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>gexla</author><text>One thing OpenAI has now that it didn&#x27;t have 4 years ago is a lot more compute power at its disposal. Sam Altman has already said &quot;I think we&#x27;re at the end of the era where it&#x27;s going to be these, like, giant, giant models.&quot; If that&#x27;s actually true, then the GPTX tech has largely hit a wall in which throwing more compute at it won&#x27;t get the same increase in capability. Bill Gates predicted that GTP5 won&#x27;t be much better than GPT4. So, any &quot;breakthrough&quot; really could be incremental rather than game changing.</text></comment> | <story><title>About That OpenAI "Breakthrough"</title><url>https://garymarcus.substack.com/p/about-that-openai-breakthrough</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>throw310822</author><text>I am surprised by how dismissive the whole post sounds. For example:<p>&gt; OpenAI could in fact have a breakthrough that fundamentally changes the world<p>Well, it appears to me that OpenAI <i>already</i> has such a breakthrough- it had it roughly 4 years ago with GPT2, and it&#x27;s still scaling it.<p>Considering that <i>it&#x27;s not yet a year since the introduction of the first ChatGPT</i>, and given the pace at which it&#x27;s evolving, I would say that the current product is already showing great promise to fundamentally change the world. I would not be surprised if just incremental changes were enough to fulfill that prediction. The impact at this point seems more limited by the ability of society to absorb and process the technology rather than intrinsic limits of the technology itself.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>naasking</author><text>The article is from Gary Marcus, a well known AI skeptic. Not surprising if he&#x27;s being dismissive.</text></comment> |
35,810,102 | 35,809,618 | 1 | 2 | 35,809,302 | train | <story><title>Hacker News Highlights</title><url>https://news.ycombinator.com/highlights</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>lolinder</author><text>dang explained the list here[0]. It looks like it&#x27;s a curated list of comments, rather than algorithmic like the other pages.<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=34668249" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=34668249</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Hacker News Highlights</title><url>https://news.ycombinator.com/highlights</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>remram</author><text>What are the other pages that don&#x27;t show on the top navbar unless you&#x27;re already there?<p>&#x2F;upvoted &#x2F;submitted &#x2F;favorites &#x2F;hidden are on your profile page, but clearly there&#x27;s a few more.</text></comment> |
33,012,081 | 33,011,409 | 1 | 2 | 33,010,105 | train | <story><title>Newsom just signed California pay transparency bill</title><url>https://www.protocol.com/bulletins/newsom-pay-transparency</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>hayst4ck</author><text>Companies likely already have access to your salary history because Equifax sells it.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=29834753" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=29834753</a><p>So if you think your salary information is private, it&#x27;s not private from the entity most able to abuse your salary history to suppress your wages, a new employer.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>petilon</author><text>This law isn&#x27;t about helping companies by making your salary history available to them. It is about helping job seekers by making the salary range of the job public, so you know how much to expect and ask for.</text></comment> | <story><title>Newsom just signed California pay transparency bill</title><url>https://www.protocol.com/bulletins/newsom-pay-transparency</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>hayst4ck</author><text>Companies likely already have access to your salary history because Equifax sells it.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=29834753" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=29834753</a><p>So if you think your salary information is private, it&#x27;s not private from the entity most able to abuse your salary history to suppress your wages, a new employer.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Invictus0</author><text>How to freeze your work number (copied from reddit):<p>Create an account using one of your employers (old or new, it doesn&#x27;t matter). If you have problems with this step, then skip to step 2 and ask the CSR for help with this.<p>Call the customer service at 866-222-5880 (FYI, it helps to call early in the morning when most people are asleep)
Choose option 2 for &quot;Report a problem...&quot;<p>Tell the customer service rep (CSR) that you want to freeze your SSN on TWN. Verbally verify that this will keep 3rd parties from accessing the info. At this point, the CSR may try to direct you to the online form, but you need to be firm and say that you want to complete the process over the phone. If they still try to direct you to the online form, say that you will not be satisfied until the process is completed over the phone. I know this can be uncomfortable for some folks to challenge someone like this, but it&#x27;s the easiest way.<p>At this point, the CSR will ask for personal information including your account name (created in step 1) SSN, DOB, address, email<p>The rep will send you a one-time code using the method of your choice (phone, text, email, mail). I chose text message. Tell them the code verbally over the phone
Congrats. Your SSN is now frozen on TWN, preventing 3rd parties from access without your authority. You will receive a confirmation email
Optional<p>8) If your CSR was friendly and helpful, ask to speak with their manager and give them a little praise. Pull a reverse-Karen<p>I prefer this method because it prevents you from having to mail or email any documents and you get instant confirmation and a case number to review your status. The whole process took like 10 minutes over the phone.</text></comment> |
25,840,433 | 25,838,681 | 1 | 2 | 25,836,264 | train | <story><title>Make Your Own Internet Archive with Archive Box</title><url>https://nixintel.info/osint-tools/make-your-own-internet-archive-with-archive-box/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>lazyjeff</author><text>I feel like a simple automatic capture of timestamp + url + screenshot would already be very useful. This gives you a visual memory of the things you&#x27;ve seen on the web. I&#x27;ve wanted to develop this for a while, as a browser plugin.<p>Being able to skim the past month or two click around the thumbnails would already be amazing. I&#x27;ve wanted to do that many times before to check if my memory was correct, or if a page changed since I last saw it, or figure out when I last saw something online.<p>You don&#x27;t need a special viewer for it, as your operating system&#x27;s file explorer can view the screenshots already, and you don&#x27;t need to set up a crawl. Screenshots also compress well, as webp or png after crunching it.</text></comment> | <story><title>Make Your Own Internet Archive with Archive Box</title><url>https://nixintel.info/osint-tools/make-your-own-internet-archive-with-archive-box/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>remirk</author><text>This article is blogspam.<p>The repository has enough information on its own: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;ArchiveBox&#x2F;ArchiveBox" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;ArchiveBox&#x2F;ArchiveBox</a></text></comment> |
23,348,684 | 23,347,530 | 1 | 2 | 23,346,567 | train | <story><title>Linux Sucks 2020</title><url>https://lbry.tv/@Lunduke:e/LinuxSucks2020:b</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>azangru</author><text>Guys, looking through the comments, I am afraid you are being way too serious. Bryan Lunduke has been giving Linux Sucks talks at LinuxFest NorthWest for many years; they are intended as humorous and good fun.</text></comment> | <story><title>Linux Sucks 2020</title><url>https://lbry.tv/@Lunduke:e/LinuxSucks2020:b</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>square_usual</author><text>For others like me who were wondering what the site hosting this video is, it&#x27;s apparently a peer-to-peer file host with some blockchain thrown in to make it a marketplace. You can read their &quot;About&quot; page here: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;lbry.com&#x2F;what" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;lbry.com&#x2F;what</a><p>(The about page was frustratingly hard to get to, I had to navigate through four pages before I got there.)</text></comment> |
32,810,523 | 32,809,799 | 1 | 3 | 32,809,042 | train | <story><title>Intel says one of its 13th Gen CPUs will hit 6GHz out of the box</title><url>https://www.theverge.com/2022/9/12/23348620/intel-13th-gen-cpus-raptor-lake-6ghz-stock-8ghz-overclocked</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>SketchySeaBeast</author><text>Between this and the ridiculous TDP expectations for this generations latest graphic cards people are going to have to start thinking about using dedicated circuits per gaming computer.</text></item><item><author>stardude900</author><text>Wow, Raptor Lake&#x27;s max TDP looks to be 253W. That&#x27;s crazy high
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.tomshardware.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;intel-13th-gen-raptor-lake-release-date-specifications-pricing-benchmarks-all-we-know-specs" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.tomshardware.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;intel-13th-gen-raptor-lake...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pentae</author><text>It certainly makes building Mini ITX a lot more interesting when you&#x27;re trying to get the sweet spot for performance to thermals&#x2F;noise ratio.<p>I did a nCase M1 build recently and my objective for the build was small as possible, quiet as possible, and as powerful as possible in that order. I still ended up with a pretty powerful machine by going with an i3-12100 instead of an i5&#x2F;i7 which uses much less power and puts out less heat. The RTX 3080 reference card was the biggest card that could fit into the case which I undervolted.<p>A lot of people are undervolting their RTX GPU&#x27;s because for an only about a ~3% performance loss you get about 10C less temp which translates to far less fan noise. I don&#x27;t know why Nvidia doesn&#x27;t just have a one click button for people.<p>nCase unfortunately have discontinued this case based on &#x27;market factors&#x27; which I suspect means that they don&#x27;t anticipate things to be getting smaller and cooler any time soon.</text></comment> | <story><title>Intel says one of its 13th Gen CPUs will hit 6GHz out of the box</title><url>https://www.theverge.com/2022/9/12/23348620/intel-13th-gen-cpus-raptor-lake-6ghz-stock-8ghz-overclocked</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>SketchySeaBeast</author><text>Between this and the ridiculous TDP expectations for this generations latest graphic cards people are going to have to start thinking about using dedicated circuits per gaming computer.</text></item><item><author>stardude900</author><text>Wow, Raptor Lake&#x27;s max TDP looks to be 253W. That&#x27;s crazy high
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.tomshardware.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;intel-13th-gen-raptor-lake-release-date-specifications-pricing-benchmarks-all-we-know-specs" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.tomshardware.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;intel-13th-gen-raptor-lake...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>PragmaticPulp</author><text>Not really even close. Even with a 235W CPU and a theoretical 600W GPU you wouldn’t actually exceed even half the capacity of a single 15A circuit in synthetic benchmarks that stress the system beyond real-world loads.</text></comment> |
18,105,137 | 18,104,185 | 1 | 2 | 18,098,992 | train | <story><title>Ask HN: What things have richly rewarded the time invested in mastering them?</title><text>What things (books, activities, courses - anything really) have richly rewarded the time you invested in mastering them?</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>kodablah</author><text>While I have no doubt this paid dividends for you, I&#x27;m not convinced that the cost&#x2F;benefit is greater on the whole than alternatively spending those 4 years doing real-world development. Subjective, sure, but from my perspective there are too many amazing self-taught developers and too many subpar ones with degrees to automatically justify the 4 year time and money cost for the average person (concerning skill, career prospects have their own reasoning w&#x2F; degrees of course).<p>One of the biggest things one learns is the ability to self-teach. Unfortunately college charges a lot of time and money to learn via their chosen methodology which doesn&#x27;t fit many people. At worst it can build a dependence on teacher-pupil classroom settings to learn new approaches, hence so many training sessions and stagnation in their absence.
As a tautology, it&#x27;s not that one approach is necessarily better than another, but we must remember that one approach is not necessarily better than another.</text></item><item><author>mattlondon</author><text>Computer Science degree.<p>Sure, lots of us &quot;learnt&quot; programming in our bedrooms or whatever by doing our own thing and messing about in whatever language. I went into my compsci degree arrogantly thinking that I pretty much knew how to code already so please just give me the bit of paper saying I have the degree and I&#x27;ll be on my way thanks very much.<p>I was very wrong.<p>Although I was pretty good at the coding (or at least I like to think so), I learnt so much more of the theory that is as relevant today as it was then, and as it was decades before that too. It stretched me in ways I did not even know I could be stretched - I dont think I would never have learnt the &quot;hard&quot; theory that transcends specific programming languages if I was just tinkering around on my own or reading a &quot;How to program Python&#x2F;Visual Basic 6&#x2F;PHP&#x2F;C#&quot; books etc (aged myself there with VB6!).<p>More or less every day I still use those skills&#x2F;knowledge I learnt on my degree, but not only that I came out beaming with confidence and the knowledge that I <i>knew my stuff</i>.<p>As a direct result of my degree I enjoy a pretty cushy, well-paid, well-perked, and secure job at a company that many people dream of working at, and have done for years. Sure it was 4 years and a few thousand GBP (at the time in the UK - more expensive now) but totally 100% worth it - I genuinely dont think I&#x27;d be where I am now if I had not done the degree.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>niklasd</author><text>I agree that self-teaching is a very important skill, but it is a skill that I learned in my university time. It itself is a self taught skill, of course. At least in Germany, lectures are not compulsory, and if I find I don&#x27;t learn enough, I go home and try to understand it on my own.<p>Second, I dispute that spending those 4 years doing real-world development would have yielded greater benefit. The thing is, he&#x27;ll be doing his whole life real-world development, so the longer he is in the profession, the smaller the benefit of the additional amount of experience will be. On the other hand, in the four years of college, he has the chance to learn some other stuff deep in a way that he won&#x27;t have the chance while he&#x27;s working.</text></comment> | <story><title>Ask HN: What things have richly rewarded the time invested in mastering them?</title><text>What things (books, activities, courses - anything really) have richly rewarded the time you invested in mastering them?</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>kodablah</author><text>While I have no doubt this paid dividends for you, I&#x27;m not convinced that the cost&#x2F;benefit is greater on the whole than alternatively spending those 4 years doing real-world development. Subjective, sure, but from my perspective there are too many amazing self-taught developers and too many subpar ones with degrees to automatically justify the 4 year time and money cost for the average person (concerning skill, career prospects have their own reasoning w&#x2F; degrees of course).<p>One of the biggest things one learns is the ability to self-teach. Unfortunately college charges a lot of time and money to learn via their chosen methodology which doesn&#x27;t fit many people. At worst it can build a dependence on teacher-pupil classroom settings to learn new approaches, hence so many training sessions and stagnation in their absence.
As a tautology, it&#x27;s not that one approach is necessarily better than another, but we must remember that one approach is not necessarily better than another.</text></item><item><author>mattlondon</author><text>Computer Science degree.<p>Sure, lots of us &quot;learnt&quot; programming in our bedrooms or whatever by doing our own thing and messing about in whatever language. I went into my compsci degree arrogantly thinking that I pretty much knew how to code already so please just give me the bit of paper saying I have the degree and I&#x27;ll be on my way thanks very much.<p>I was very wrong.<p>Although I was pretty good at the coding (or at least I like to think so), I learnt so much more of the theory that is as relevant today as it was then, and as it was decades before that too. It stretched me in ways I did not even know I could be stretched - I dont think I would never have learnt the &quot;hard&quot; theory that transcends specific programming languages if I was just tinkering around on my own or reading a &quot;How to program Python&#x2F;Visual Basic 6&#x2F;PHP&#x2F;C#&quot; books etc (aged myself there with VB6!).<p>More or less every day I still use those skills&#x2F;knowledge I learnt on my degree, but not only that I came out beaming with confidence and the knowledge that I <i>knew my stuff</i>.<p>As a direct result of my degree I enjoy a pretty cushy, well-paid, well-perked, and secure job at a company that many people dream of working at, and have done for years. Sure it was 4 years and a few thousand GBP (at the time in the UK - more expensive now) but totally 100% worth it - I genuinely dont think I&#x27;d be where I am now if I had not done the degree.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>sam0x17</author><text>It also depends on whether your indicator for success is writing CRUD endpoints in the latest web framework vs inventing new data structures, algorithms, and AI systems.</text></comment> |
37,041,349 | 37,040,095 | 1 | 2 | 37,038,425 | train | <story><title>The combined power of F# and C#</title><url>https://steven-giesel.com/blogPost/2f70d926-ec92-4dfe-b278-18f78078253d</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>michaelteter</author><text>Functional core, imperative shell. This seems to be a good approach, especially when you push pretty hard to stuff as much as possible into the functional core.<p>Writing tests is much easier and requires much less code, and bugs are much easier to track down (since you have less surface area of &quot;what might have modified this object I now hold?&quot;).<p>Since a functional approach also goes well with single-responsibility-principle and composability, you can end up with multiple times more actual functions. They&#x27;re all (ideally) very conceptually simple, but the larger number of more specialized functions means you have to work a lot harder on choosing meaningful names. And to write meaningful names of specific functions, you can end up with some quite long names. This is actually quite ok as it makes things much more readable, but some people have some strong negative reactions to seeing 4-6 word function names. But at least in this case (Java being the most famous counter scenario) each function probably has more real value as it&#x27;s not just OO layer artefacts.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>gugagore</author><text>One thing that I have seen in the Julia ecosystem, where multiple dispatch is pervasive, is that function names can get away with only being verbs. Without dispatch, you often see an approximation by baking in (Hungarian notation) the name of a type into the function.<p>This is most clearly seen with conversation functions between types defined in different libraries. A collection class might have a method like &quot;from_Array&quot;.</text></comment> | <story><title>The combined power of F# and C#</title><url>https://steven-giesel.com/blogPost/2f70d926-ec92-4dfe-b278-18f78078253d</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>michaelteter</author><text>Functional core, imperative shell. This seems to be a good approach, especially when you push pretty hard to stuff as much as possible into the functional core.<p>Writing tests is much easier and requires much less code, and bugs are much easier to track down (since you have less surface area of &quot;what might have modified this object I now hold?&quot;).<p>Since a functional approach also goes well with single-responsibility-principle and composability, you can end up with multiple times more actual functions. They&#x27;re all (ideally) very conceptually simple, but the larger number of more specialized functions means you have to work a lot harder on choosing meaningful names. And to write meaningful names of specific functions, you can end up with some quite long names. This is actually quite ok as it makes things much more readable, but some people have some strong negative reactions to seeing 4-6 word function names. But at least in this case (Java being the most famous counter scenario) each function probably has more real value as it&#x27;s not just OO layer artefacts.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bob1029</author><text>&gt; Functional core, imperative shell.<p>You can find this pattern in a lot of places if you are a little bit flexible with your definition of &quot;functional&quot;.<p>For example, why would we not consider some combination like SQL and PHP to be hinting at this exact same kind of archetype? You&#x27;ve got a crusty outer shell of yucky hackarounds (PHP) that talks to this (ideally) well-normalized &amp; clean data store (SQL). Assuming you &quot;stuff as much as possible&quot; into core part of the solution, you could swap the outer shell for anything you desire without much headache.</text></comment> |
10,042,151 | 10,042,098 | 1 | 3 | 10,038,999 | train | <story><title>Firefox 42 will not allow unsigned extensions</title><url>https://wiki.mozilla.org/Addons/Extension_Signing</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>grincho</author><text>Hi, Mozilla developer here, speaking for only myself. I&#x27;m not sure why we don&#x27;t make this clearer on the wiki page, but I think the reason there&#x27;s no override is that any malware installation routine would simply activate it and continue on its merry way. (Disclaimer: I didn&#x27;t work on this feature and am going by recollection and my own logic.)<p>We see many copies of Firefox infested with rogue add-ons the user didn&#x27;t ask for or isn&#x27;t even aware of. Sometimes these add-ons even ship with big-name software, with no opt out or with the opt out squirreled away in some dark corner. Typically, they do one or more of the following: (1) spy on the user, (2) add affiliate codes for money, (3) cause performance problems and crashes.<p>The network is a pretty hostile place these days. It&#x27;s no longer 14-year-olds playing around for fun; there are moneyed interests in the game. And the sorts of people who don&#x27;t frequent HN are pretty much helpless and clueless in the perpetual tug of war between various companies and mafias. As a &quot;user agent&quot;, we have the opportunity defend users who lack the sophistication to root around and remove invasive software they didn&#x27;t ask for.<p>Of course, if you&#x27;re reading this, you&#x27;re in a different category. You have a better idea which software to trust, and you know how to scour your machine if something gets past you. That&#x27;s why nightlies and the Developer Edition let you do whatever you want: you aren&#x27;t the ones who need hard-coded protections to shield you from pref-twiddling installers.<p>I hope that provides some needed context. Safe surfing, all!</text></item><item><author>nathanb</author><text>It&#x27;s the &quot;no override&quot; part that concerns me.<p>I created and maintain an extension that is used by visually-impaired people around the world (it has been translated by volunteers into Dutch and Chinese, for example).<p>Occasionally a Firefox update breaks this extension. OK, fine, that&#x27;s the cost of doing business. Of course, the automated compatibility report that Firefox creates is utterly useless; it almost never catches the breakage. But that&#x27;s a side rant....<p>There can be a decent turnaround lag (sometimes on the order of a few days) to get a new version of an extension reviewed by addons.mozilla.org. In the meantime, I have made a habit of building a new version of the extension and giving it to anyone who asks. Some people rely on it to use the web and can&#x27;t wait for Mozilla to do their thing (another side rant: I once stupidly forgot to check in a key resource. I&#x27;ve since changed my development process to keep this from happening again. But the non-functional extension that I pushed passed Mozilla&#x27;s review just fine. Makes me wonder how much value the review process is really adding.)<p>If I want to be able to continue this process, I will need to sign the extension myself (and who knows what histrionics Firefox will throw if a user tries to replace an extension with one that has the same UUID but a different signature!)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Arcsech</author><text>&gt; We see many copies of Firefox infested with rogue add-ons the user didn&#x27;t ask for or isn&#x27;t even aware of.<p>Like Pocket or Hello?</text></comment> | <story><title>Firefox 42 will not allow unsigned extensions</title><url>https://wiki.mozilla.org/Addons/Extension_Signing</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>grincho</author><text>Hi, Mozilla developer here, speaking for only myself. I&#x27;m not sure why we don&#x27;t make this clearer on the wiki page, but I think the reason there&#x27;s no override is that any malware installation routine would simply activate it and continue on its merry way. (Disclaimer: I didn&#x27;t work on this feature and am going by recollection and my own logic.)<p>We see many copies of Firefox infested with rogue add-ons the user didn&#x27;t ask for or isn&#x27;t even aware of. Sometimes these add-ons even ship with big-name software, with no opt out or with the opt out squirreled away in some dark corner. Typically, they do one or more of the following: (1) spy on the user, (2) add affiliate codes for money, (3) cause performance problems and crashes.<p>The network is a pretty hostile place these days. It&#x27;s no longer 14-year-olds playing around for fun; there are moneyed interests in the game. And the sorts of people who don&#x27;t frequent HN are pretty much helpless and clueless in the perpetual tug of war between various companies and mafias. As a &quot;user agent&quot;, we have the opportunity defend users who lack the sophistication to root around and remove invasive software they didn&#x27;t ask for.<p>Of course, if you&#x27;re reading this, you&#x27;re in a different category. You have a better idea which software to trust, and you know how to scour your machine if something gets past you. That&#x27;s why nightlies and the Developer Edition let you do whatever you want: you aren&#x27;t the ones who need hard-coded protections to shield you from pref-twiddling installers.<p>I hope that provides some needed context. Safe surfing, all!</text></item><item><author>nathanb</author><text>It&#x27;s the &quot;no override&quot; part that concerns me.<p>I created and maintain an extension that is used by visually-impaired people around the world (it has been translated by volunteers into Dutch and Chinese, for example).<p>Occasionally a Firefox update breaks this extension. OK, fine, that&#x27;s the cost of doing business. Of course, the automated compatibility report that Firefox creates is utterly useless; it almost never catches the breakage. But that&#x27;s a side rant....<p>There can be a decent turnaround lag (sometimes on the order of a few days) to get a new version of an extension reviewed by addons.mozilla.org. In the meantime, I have made a habit of building a new version of the extension and giving it to anyone who asks. Some people rely on it to use the web and can&#x27;t wait for Mozilla to do their thing (another side rant: I once stupidly forgot to check in a key resource. I&#x27;ve since changed my development process to keep this from happening again. But the non-functional extension that I pushed passed Mozilla&#x27;s review just fine. Makes me wonder how much value the review process is really adding.)<p>If I want to be able to continue this process, I will need to sign the extension myself (and who knows what histrionics Firefox will throw if a user tries to replace an extension with one that has the same UUID but a different signature!)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>_lce0</author><text>&gt; We see many copies of Firefox infested with rogue add-ons the user didn&#x27;t ask for or isn&#x27;t even aware of.<p>GoogleUpdate?<p>why Firefox could not remove these extension itself? I needed to remove some files from the harddisk --I doubt john.doe will be able to remove such evils<p>Please excuse the rant tone, these things make me feel my intimacy raped</text></comment> |
41,369,156 | 41,368,406 | 1 | 2 | 41,347,388 | train | <story><title>Deliberate Practice and Acquisition of Expert Performance: A General Overview</title><url>https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/j.1553-2712.2008.00227.x</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jgeada</author><text>Yes but no.<p>The problem is that many very important things in life are winner takes all. If you are 99.99% as good as the next candidate, you get no job. If your bid is 99.99% as good as the other one, you likely don&#x27;t get the deal. If you&#x27;re 99.99% as good as the other guy, you don&#x27;t get the medal, the fame or the recognition.<p>Little differences can have hugely significant consequences. And sometimes the difference is just luck, but still the same huge consequences.</text></item><item><author>FuckButtons</author><text>In basically any other field of endeavor, this is fine though, most things people do aren’t judged as though there can only be one best person in the world at it.</text></item><item><author>Xcelerate</author><text>&gt; The next biggest factor is genetics<p>I think it depends where you’re at in the progression curve. I’ve always thought that most people can reach the top 1% of just about anything with hard work. Beyond that, it comes down to other factors: genetics, environment, luck, etc.<p>I ran track in college and reached roughly the top percentile of my age and gender (i.e., the level of a typical D1 athlete), but there is absolutely no way I would ever have come remotely close to a 12:37 5k. You could have started the training from birth under a team of experts, and it simply just would not have happened.</text></item><item><author>yamrzou</author><text>There was a HN discussion some time ago about choosing a textbook that is optimal for oneself (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=41016650">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=41016650</a>), and this passage from the answer about deliberate practice stuck out to me:<p><i>In the field of talent development, there is absolutely no debate about the most superior form of training. It&#x27;s deliberate practice: mindful repetition on performance tasks just beyond the edge of one&#x27;s capabilities.<p>Deliberate practice is about making performance-improving adjustments on every single repetition. Any individual adjustment is small and yields a small improvement in performance – but when you compound these small changes over a massive number of action-feedback-adjustment cycles, you end up with massive changes and massive gains in performance.<p>Deliberate practice is superior to all other forms of training. That is a &quot;solved problem&quot; in the academic field of talent development. It might as well be a law of physics. There is a mountain of research supporting the conclusion that the volume of accumulated deliberate practice is the single biggest factor responsible for individual differences in performance among elite performers across a wide variety of talent domains. (The next biggest factor is genetics, and the relative contributions of deliberate practice vs genetics can vary significantly across talent domains.)</i></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kspacewalk2</author><text>&gt;If you are 99.99% as good as the next candidate, you get no job.<p>For the vast, vast majority of jobs, this is simply false. You will get an equivalent job elsewhere. But yes, if you&#x27;re applying to be Prime Minister, this is definitely the case.<p>&gt;If your bid is 99.99% as good as the other one, you likely don&#x27;t get the deal.<p>This is very often false as well, when you look at the metric of whether you&#x27;ll get work&#x2F;income, rather than this specific unit of work. There are some industries where you&#x27;re competing for a few massive winner-takes-all bids, but there are many where this isn&#x27;t the case. And oftentimes in the former industries, bids are made by consortia and there will be plenty of sub-contracting.<p>&gt;If you&#x27;re 99.99% as good as the other guy, you don&#x27;t get the medal, the fame or the recognition.<p>This is definitely true in sports, music and some other fields.<p>I would say, unless you&#x27;re a founder and are seeking to have massive disruptive impact in some field, this does not apply to anyone who visits HN. Good and great programmers, engineers, researchers and managers will always be well off and have a reasonable amount of recognition&#x2F;impact, and the exceptional ones will not take such a disproportionately large chunk of the pie to leave the rest in the dust.</text></comment> | <story><title>Deliberate Practice and Acquisition of Expert Performance: A General Overview</title><url>https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/j.1553-2712.2008.00227.x</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jgeada</author><text>Yes but no.<p>The problem is that many very important things in life are winner takes all. If you are 99.99% as good as the next candidate, you get no job. If your bid is 99.99% as good as the other one, you likely don&#x27;t get the deal. If you&#x27;re 99.99% as good as the other guy, you don&#x27;t get the medal, the fame or the recognition.<p>Little differences can have hugely significant consequences. And sometimes the difference is just luck, but still the same huge consequences.</text></item><item><author>FuckButtons</author><text>In basically any other field of endeavor, this is fine though, most things people do aren’t judged as though there can only be one best person in the world at it.</text></item><item><author>Xcelerate</author><text>&gt; The next biggest factor is genetics<p>I think it depends where you’re at in the progression curve. I’ve always thought that most people can reach the top 1% of just about anything with hard work. Beyond that, it comes down to other factors: genetics, environment, luck, etc.<p>I ran track in college and reached roughly the top percentile of my age and gender (i.e., the level of a typical D1 athlete), but there is absolutely no way I would ever have come remotely close to a 12:37 5k. You could have started the training from birth under a team of experts, and it simply just would not have happened.</text></item><item><author>yamrzou</author><text>There was a HN discussion some time ago about choosing a textbook that is optimal for oneself (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=41016650">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=41016650</a>), and this passage from the answer about deliberate practice stuck out to me:<p><i>In the field of talent development, there is absolutely no debate about the most superior form of training. It&#x27;s deliberate practice: mindful repetition on performance tasks just beyond the edge of one&#x27;s capabilities.<p>Deliberate practice is about making performance-improving adjustments on every single repetition. Any individual adjustment is small and yields a small improvement in performance – but when you compound these small changes over a massive number of action-feedback-adjustment cycles, you end up with massive changes and massive gains in performance.<p>Deliberate practice is superior to all other forms of training. That is a &quot;solved problem&quot; in the academic field of talent development. It might as well be a law of physics. There is a mountain of research supporting the conclusion that the volume of accumulated deliberate practice is the single biggest factor responsible for individual differences in performance among elite performers across a wide variety of talent domains. (The next biggest factor is genetics, and the relative contributions of deliberate practice vs genetics can vary significantly across talent domains.)</i></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>InitialBP</author><text>Your example isn&#x27;t a very good one. If you are 99.99% as good as the next candidate you get no job? How about you get a different job because you&#x27;re still a top performer. Most (all?) jobs don&#x27;t have only a single role to be filled across the entire world.<p>Sure you might not get THE singular highest paid&#x2F;best position to do what you do really well, but you can certainly still get the 2nd or 3rd or be among the top 100&#x2F;1000 well paid people who do X.<p>I stand by the previous commenter, in the vast majority of cases you&#x27;re still going to have some significant benefit from being near the top even if you aren&#x27;t &quot;the best&quot;.</text></comment> |
12,221,442 | 12,221,219 | 1 | 2 | 12,220,627 | train | <story><title>Singapore Is the Perfect Place to Test Self-Driving Cars</title><url>http://www.citylab.com/commute/2016/08/why-singapore-leads-in-self-driving-cars/494222/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TheAtlanticCities+%28CityLab%29</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>uberstuber</author><text>&gt;Perhaps they’ll also help with the Singaporean phenomenon of the seeming complete disappearance of taxis when it rains<p>Are self-driving cars able to handle rainy conditions? I&#x27;m not in the industry but thought this was still an issue.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>1_2__3</author><text>The very fact that these manufacturers are being extraordinarily cagey about the circumstances under which their automation works and where it doesn&#x27;t should tell everyone everything they need to know about how &#x27;around the corner&#x27; this tech is.<p>Think of it this way: non-optimal driving conditions is nowhere near the last hurdle for full autonomy. We&#x27;re a long ways off.</text></comment> | <story><title>Singapore Is the Perfect Place to Test Self-Driving Cars</title><url>http://www.citylab.com/commute/2016/08/why-singapore-leads-in-self-driving-cars/494222/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TheAtlanticCities+%28CityLab%29</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>uberstuber</author><text>&gt;Perhaps they’ll also help with the Singaporean phenomenon of the seeming complete disappearance of taxis when it rains<p>Are self-driving cars able to handle rainy conditions? I&#x27;m not in the industry but thought this was still an issue.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>deelowe</author><text>Weather is still an issue AFAIK. Perhaps a 3d visioning system can fix this at some point, but I don&#x27;t think we&#x27;re there yet as those solutions are too slow for RTC.</text></comment> |
24,583,742 | 24,583,827 | 1 | 2 | 24,581,810 | train | <story><title>Work on What Matters</title><url>https://staffeng.com/guides/work-on-what-matters</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jennyyang</author><text>At my previous company, I worked on high impact, very low visibility work. I was working directly with operations teams around the world in order to enable features that needed to be tweaked globally. It was vital for teams in their specific geography to work properly, but no one beyond those teams and my direct manager understood what I was doing. I enjoyed it because it was literally enabling functionality across countries around the world which was great for our customers and our company.<p>During that time, the team around me dissolved due to severe attrition, leaving a skeleton crew of developers and I was the last remaining developer working on this specific project. During performance review time, I was told I wasn&#x27;t performing at an adequate level because the number of code reviews I performed was very low. When I pointed out that I was the only person on my team, so no one came to me for code reviews their response was that I should have sought out code to review on my own.<p>I quit soon after.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>divbzero</author><text>I sympathize with situations like this.<p>If anyone reading is in a similar boat, asking for positive written feedback from the teams you work with and including that in your performance review is one way to get recognized for high impact low visibility work. It sucks that you have to go out of your way to gain recognition and it won’t always work but that can be how it is in large companies.</text></comment> | <story><title>Work on What Matters</title><url>https://staffeng.com/guides/work-on-what-matters</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jennyyang</author><text>At my previous company, I worked on high impact, very low visibility work. I was working directly with operations teams around the world in order to enable features that needed to be tweaked globally. It was vital for teams in their specific geography to work properly, but no one beyond those teams and my direct manager understood what I was doing. I enjoyed it because it was literally enabling functionality across countries around the world which was great for our customers and our company.<p>During that time, the team around me dissolved due to severe attrition, leaving a skeleton crew of developers and I was the last remaining developer working on this specific project. During performance review time, I was told I wasn&#x27;t performing at an adequate level because the number of code reviews I performed was very low. When I pointed out that I was the only person on my team, so no one came to me for code reviews their response was that I should have sought out code to review on my own.<p>I quit soon after.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Aperocky</author><text>That&#x27;s why there should not be a hard metric set by people who don&#x27;t even know how to code. Performance review should be conducted by people who have a direct understanding of what is being done, and if that&#x27;s impossible, at least people with a capacity to understand what is being done.</text></comment> |
34,795,977 | 34,795,927 | 1 | 2 | 34,795,500 | train | <story><title>50% rejection rate for iPhone casings produced in India shows Apple’s challenge</title><url>https://9to5mac.com/2023/02/14/iphone-casings-produced-in-india/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jpgvm</author><text>Thing is this is also still the really basic stuff. It&#x27;s only going to get worse as they attempt to shift more complicated things.<p>People tend to drastically underestimate the both the scale and sophistication of manufacturing in China.<p>For certain products the only reasonable alternatives to China are going to be South Korea and Japan in the medium term as they are the only other hubs with the required sophistication in electronics, batteries, etc.<p>However you will need to pay a significant premium over China and probably still face lower yields and end up sending said parts somewhere else for final assembly etc.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>qqtt</author><text>Do you think Apple is drastically underestimating the scale and sophistication required to move their manufacturing? Do you think Tim Cook made a strategic error here, owing partially to his lack of understanding of the involvement of these processes?<p>There will be growing pains moving and scaling manufacturing anywhere. The fact that there are early obstacles and hurdles does not mean we should simply throw up our hands and say &quot;whelp, looks like China is the only option, we have no choice but to stick there!&quot;.<p>Apple is developing manufacturing infrastructure to derisk their supply chain. Because they have 50% rejection rates for iPhone casings at one particular manufacturing facility in India does not really imply anything other than teething issues with scaling up.<p>The original Financial Times original this blog post is based on fleshes out the issues and obstacles in greater depth IMO and is worth a read:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ft.com&#x2F;content&#x2F;0d70a823-0fba-49ae-a453-2518afcb01f9" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ft.com&#x2F;content&#x2F;0d70a823-0fba-49ae-a453-2518afcb0...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>50% rejection rate for iPhone casings produced in India shows Apple’s challenge</title><url>https://9to5mac.com/2023/02/14/iphone-casings-produced-in-india/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jpgvm</author><text>Thing is this is also still the really basic stuff. It&#x27;s only going to get worse as they attempt to shift more complicated things.<p>People tend to drastically underestimate the both the scale and sophistication of manufacturing in China.<p>For certain products the only reasonable alternatives to China are going to be South Korea and Japan in the medium term as they are the only other hubs with the required sophistication in electronics, batteries, etc.<p>However you will need to pay a significant premium over China and probably still face lower yields and end up sending said parts somewhere else for final assembly etc.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>theshrike79</author><text>There is a (in)famous interview with Steve Jobs about why Apple is manufacturing in China.<p>Paraphrased it went something like &quot;we could fit all experts in $hardware_field in this conference room, but in China we can&#x27;t fit them in a stadium&quot;.<p>The scale at which China has built up an educated work force is at a staggering scale.</text></comment> |
27,291,462 | 27,291,465 | 1 | 2 | 27,287,554 | train | <story><title>The end of the pandemic is near</title><url>https://donaldgmcneiljr1954.medium.com/the-end-is-near-no-seriously-142683fb085e</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tluyben2</author><text>I don&#x27;t know anymore what the latest is (it changes from yourself, others, both, none in the newspapers here), but doesn&#x27;t the person wearing the mask protect others, not themselves by wearing it?</text></item><item><author>deegles</author><text>I plan to keep wearing my mask on public transit and crowded places forever. I like the anonymity and I&#x27;ll be protected from influenza and the common cold. It&#x27;s a small price to pay.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>graeme</author><text>No that was a scientifically incorrect meme spread by health authorities (which historically have been anti mask pre pandemic) and people motivated by altruism.<p>Studies are clear though. This one found non-N95 masks filter 20-80% of particles. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;jamanetwork.com&#x2F;journals&#x2F;jamainternalmedicine&#x2F;fullarticle&#x2F;2774265" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;jamanetwork.com&#x2F;journals&#x2F;jamainternalmedicine&#x2F;fullar...</a><p>It defies common sense to say that won’t help the wearer! We haven’t done challenge trials, but the burden of proof is on those saying that a material covering the face and which filters out 20-80% of virus sized particles somehow won’t stop viral infections.</text></comment> | <story><title>The end of the pandemic is near</title><url>https://donaldgmcneiljr1954.medium.com/the-end-is-near-no-seriously-142683fb085e</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tluyben2</author><text>I don&#x27;t know anymore what the latest is (it changes from yourself, others, both, none in the newspapers here), but doesn&#x27;t the person wearing the mask protect others, not themselves by wearing it?</text></item><item><author>deegles</author><text>I plan to keep wearing my mask on public transit and crowded places forever. I like the anonymity and I&#x27;ll be protected from influenza and the common cold. It&#x27;s a small price to pay.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>reincarnate0x14</author><text>Surgical masks are mostly about protecting the everyone else from the weaer, yes, but do provide a small benefit to the wearer as well as least with virions for influenza and coronaviruses. Depending on what study, rates of transmission reduction were 10-20% for the wearer, which doesn&#x27;t sound huge but greatly reduces transmission at scale.<p>The filter masks like N95s (which are usable for all kinds of non-medical purposes like working around airborne particles of fiberglass or metal debris or whatever) offer a high degree of protection to the wearer as well.</text></comment> |
38,916,167 | 38,916,185 | 1 | 3 | 38,912,497 | train | <story><title>Jeff Lawson steps down as CEO of Twilio</title><url>https://www.cnbc.com/2024/01/08/twilio-ceo-lawson-steps-down-after-bruising-activist-battles.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>fnordpiglet</author><text>In my 32 years in the industry the best performing companies always did these things regardless of the macroeconomic climate. It’s when you ceded leadership to the accountants and shifted gears to maintenance mode that companies stopped growing. You never did these things for fun, you did these things because they had some knock on effect that made it potentially worth it, and in a portfolio of many small bets some would blow up into your next big product. Even the ones that seem far left field they created an environment where people felt allowed to dream at all, and their knock on effect was in creation of a risk taking culture.<p>Blaming low interest rates on taking risk and doing highly speculative things, and investing in a culture that values that by funding off the wall stuff puts too much emphasis on the capital markets. If the company was a steel producer, fine. If it’s a company that essentially captures the stuff of dreams and produces a service that executes thought stuff in machines, you have to decouple your R&amp;D from capital management to the extent your free cash flow can accept it.<p>Note of course low interest rates and other capital market looseness will create <i>more</i> opportunity for this behavior, and not every company doing these things is doing some is a well managed way. But they don’t have to - that’s the magic of capitalism. Through a Darwinian process only those who strike magic win and survive and the others recycle and try again. This feels like a feature not a flaw of zero interest rates - it creates enormous value by virtue of incentivizing taking risk at a time of high innovation. There are times in history where innovation rates were very low, and zero interest rates would just incentivize broken behavior. But at a time when almost all growth is coming from innovation, maybe loose credit is smart. ml</text></item><item><author>acchow</author><text>&gt; Wanna build a video game that teaches developers how to code and use Twilio? Let&#x27;s try it! Wanna build an AI application with Tony Hawk and have Tony Hawk debug the code live on stage? Sure!<p>These are the strange effects of ZIRP and infinite QE. Many companies never had to care at all about profit and could just do things &quot;for fun&quot;, and still see valuations skyrocket as long as they hired more people. What a time.</text></item><item><author>shakes</author><text>I worked at Twilio for nearly 10 years and it&#x27;s hard to overstate what a gift it was to work there and see Jeff operate as CEO up-close.<p>He created an environment where (at our best) we could have fun doing work that had a real impact, and we could it with people we enjoyed doing the work with. He pushed us to be creative to authentically empower and inspire developers. Wanna build a video game that teaches developers how to code and use Twilio? Let&#x27;s try it! Wanna build an AI application with Tony Hawk and have Tony Hawk debug the code live on stage? Sure!<p>And Jeff would always be spending time with developer tools and Twilio&#x27;s products himself, to the point that he could live code at the drop of a hat to show off what we&#x27;d been working on. This meant his own understanding of developers and their problems never ceased to amaze me.<p>But more than all of that, he was a rare CEO that led with empathy, humility and care.<p>Thank you, jeffiel. We can&#x27;t wait to see what you build next.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ctvo</author><text>&gt; In my 32 years in the industry the best performing companies always did these things regardless of the macroeconomic climate.<p>Agreed. Creative, high performing people don&#x27;t do well in a work environment that&#x27;s structured like a regional bank.<p>Valve Software -- incredibly profitable, high performing and private company, did fun things like hire economists (and then later Greek prime minister) to study and simulate virtual, in-game economies [0].<p>Blizzard Entertainment had giant statues of orcs made and fan conventions before their downfall, ya know, in the ZIRP macro economic environment.<p>Google allowed their engineers 20% time. Before ZIRP.<p>0 - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Yanis_Varoufakis#Academic_career#Academic_career" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Yanis_Varoufakis#Academic_care...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Jeff Lawson steps down as CEO of Twilio</title><url>https://www.cnbc.com/2024/01/08/twilio-ceo-lawson-steps-down-after-bruising-activist-battles.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>fnordpiglet</author><text>In my 32 years in the industry the best performing companies always did these things regardless of the macroeconomic climate. It’s when you ceded leadership to the accountants and shifted gears to maintenance mode that companies stopped growing. You never did these things for fun, you did these things because they had some knock on effect that made it potentially worth it, and in a portfolio of many small bets some would blow up into your next big product. Even the ones that seem far left field they created an environment where people felt allowed to dream at all, and their knock on effect was in creation of a risk taking culture.<p>Blaming low interest rates on taking risk and doing highly speculative things, and investing in a culture that values that by funding off the wall stuff puts too much emphasis on the capital markets. If the company was a steel producer, fine. If it’s a company that essentially captures the stuff of dreams and produces a service that executes thought stuff in machines, you have to decouple your R&amp;D from capital management to the extent your free cash flow can accept it.<p>Note of course low interest rates and other capital market looseness will create <i>more</i> opportunity for this behavior, and not every company doing these things is doing some is a well managed way. But they don’t have to - that’s the magic of capitalism. Through a Darwinian process only those who strike magic win and survive and the others recycle and try again. This feels like a feature not a flaw of zero interest rates - it creates enormous value by virtue of incentivizing taking risk at a time of high innovation. There are times in history where innovation rates were very low, and zero interest rates would just incentivize broken behavior. But at a time when almost all growth is coming from innovation, maybe loose credit is smart. ml</text></item><item><author>acchow</author><text>&gt; Wanna build a video game that teaches developers how to code and use Twilio? Let&#x27;s try it! Wanna build an AI application with Tony Hawk and have Tony Hawk debug the code live on stage? Sure!<p>These are the strange effects of ZIRP and infinite QE. Many companies never had to care at all about profit and could just do things &quot;for fun&quot;, and still see valuations skyrocket as long as they hired more people. What a time.</text></item><item><author>shakes</author><text>I worked at Twilio for nearly 10 years and it&#x27;s hard to overstate what a gift it was to work there and see Jeff operate as CEO up-close.<p>He created an environment where (at our best) we could have fun doing work that had a real impact, and we could it with people we enjoyed doing the work with. He pushed us to be creative to authentically empower and inspire developers. Wanna build a video game that teaches developers how to code and use Twilio? Let&#x27;s try it! Wanna build an AI application with Tony Hawk and have Tony Hawk debug the code live on stage? Sure!<p>And Jeff would always be spending time with developer tools and Twilio&#x27;s products himself, to the point that he could live code at the drop of a hat to show off what we&#x27;d been working on. This meant his own understanding of developers and their problems never ceased to amaze me.<p>But more than all of that, he was a rare CEO that led with empathy, humility and care.<p>Thank you, jeffiel. We can&#x27;t wait to see what you build next.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Aurornis</author><text>&gt; In my 32 years in the industry the best performing companies always did these things regardless of the macroeconomic climate.<p>My anecdote, FWIW, is that some of the worst performing startups do these tricks too.<p>There&#x27;s something about flashy events and boondoggles that sound good on LinkedIn that draws bad founders into spending waaay too much on parties and fun activities.<p>Stripe obviously isn&#x27;t in that category, but never assume that because a company spends a lot on parties and events that they&#x27;re doing well.</text></comment> |
16,684,199 | 16,684,189 | 1 | 2 | 16,683,341 | train | <story><title>Microsoft surges 8% after Morgan Stanley says it will reach $1T market cap</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2018/03/26/microsoft-surges-8-after-morgan-stanley-says-it-will-reach-1-trillion-market-cap/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>endorphone</author><text><i>Until Windows is threatened, this will be the status quo.</i><p>Windows is under enormous threat, and much of our computing now takes place on alternate devices. The example of O365 is the perfect example, that platform being equally usable across many platforms (because it had to to have any market influence).<p>And if Microsoft is just discounting everything to get your business, that doesn&#x27;t support the theory of Microsoft dominance. It is yesteryear trying to desperately hang on to have relevance. That is not an example of why Microsoft is a 1T company, but is an example of why the future doesn&#x27;t look so hot.</text></item><item><author>tammer</author><text>My day job is at a massive institution. We recently went all-in on O365. The odds of us <i>ever</i> leaving this platform are slim-to-none. Microsoft has really hit a powerful long-term business model.<p>The key is tying these services to discounts on Windows licensing. We&#x27;re buying them anyway so no matter what Google offers us they can&#x27;t beat the cost savings Microsoft can provide. Same with AWS vs Azure — we can use our volume licensing in the cloud with Azure where with other providers we&#x27;d have to pay through the nose.<p>Until Windows is threatened, this will be the status quo. And I think that disruption will take quite a while.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bri3d</author><text>Is there real competition in the front-office &#x2F; back-office &quot;alternate devices&quot; space? There are certainly niche players but at least at the $bigcos I&#x27;ve worked at, most &quot;real&quot; tasks aren&#x27;t easily accomplished on a tablet, phone, or Chromebook. Web spreadsheets tend to be feature-incomplete, presentation and document creation is a mess, and that&#x27;s not even starting in on the hundreds of proprietary front-office tools for appointment scheduling and client management and back-office tools for analytics and finance, which are strongly Windows-based. I&#x27;ve only seen a few people use tablets day-to-day and they&#x27;re all mid-to-upper level execs whose jobs are far more delegation-and-communication oriented and who have the liberty of sending someone an email when they need &quot;the numbers&quot; pulled or a slide presentation whipped together.<p>Even the BigCos I&#x27;ve worked at who use GSuite have had an additional subscription to Office365 for employees who need Excel, Word, and PowerPoint. I&#x27;ve seen very few larger companies who can subsist on Google Sheets alone.<p>This could be something that changes in the next 5-10 years, certainly, but it&#x27;s been a prophecy that&#x27;s underdelivered for years. Kind of feels like the &quot;year of Linux on the desktop&quot; all over again.</text></comment> | <story><title>Microsoft surges 8% after Morgan Stanley says it will reach $1T market cap</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2018/03/26/microsoft-surges-8-after-morgan-stanley-says-it-will-reach-1-trillion-market-cap/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>endorphone</author><text><i>Until Windows is threatened, this will be the status quo.</i><p>Windows is under enormous threat, and much of our computing now takes place on alternate devices. The example of O365 is the perfect example, that platform being equally usable across many platforms (because it had to to have any market influence).<p>And if Microsoft is just discounting everything to get your business, that doesn&#x27;t support the theory of Microsoft dominance. It is yesteryear trying to desperately hang on to have relevance. That is not an example of why Microsoft is a 1T company, but is an example of why the future doesn&#x27;t look so hot.</text></item><item><author>tammer</author><text>My day job is at a massive institution. We recently went all-in on O365. The odds of us <i>ever</i> leaving this platform are slim-to-none. Microsoft has really hit a powerful long-term business model.<p>The key is tying these services to discounts on Windows licensing. We&#x27;re buying them anyway so no matter what Google offers us they can&#x27;t beat the cost savings Microsoft can provide. Same with AWS vs Azure — we can use our volume licensing in the cloud with Azure where with other providers we&#x27;d have to pay through the nose.<p>Until Windows is threatened, this will be the status quo. And I think that disruption will take quite a while.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>thaumaturgy</author><text>They discount it to sweeten the deal for your company&#x27;s accounting department, who are almost always 100% suits who want what&#x27;s familiar and have enough influence over the accounts to be able to get their way.<p>But the reality is that for a 100% single-vendor, integrated system that works well with everything that&#x27;s already installed in an SMB or larger, there are no competitors for O365.<p>Back when I was doing SMB consulting gigs, I tried to steer a few folks away from it, because I think it&#x27;s a bad long-term move to rely on too many services from a single vendor, and especially when those are all off-premises services that depend on a lot of working technology between you and the vendor. But, it became clear before long that I was giving bad advice. The clients that ignored me and went with O365 were happier, and when something went wrong, they just shrugged and said, &quot;oh well, Microsoft will fix it soon.&quot;<p>Whereas if something went wrong with any other system, it was my fault because I recommended it, even if I couldn&#x27;t do anything about whatever particular piece was broken.<p>Anyway, point is, every customer that signs up for O365 at any price is going to be a Microsoft customer for a very long time, and I don&#x27;t see anybody on the horizon that is going to be changing anyone&#x27;s mind about it.</text></comment> |
11,041,030 | 11,041,031 | 1 | 3 | 11,040,489 | train | <story><title>Sublime Text Build 3101</title><url>https://forum.sublimetext.com/t/dev-build-3101/17027</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bigtunacan</author><text>A huge portion of value with any of these text editors come from plugins and ubiquity. Over the years I have seen text editors come and go as the new &quot;one true editor&quot;, but only Vim and Emacs have had true staying power.<p>Back when it was hot (some of you are probably too young to remember this) I used jEdit. It is still around and gets some maintenance updates from time to time (<a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.jedit.org&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.jedit.org&#x2F;</a>), but the plugin ecosystem has languished so you better be ready to roll your own.<p>With Vim and Emacs (Vim for me) I can trust it to go anywhere I want to be. If I&#x27;m ssh-ing into a Redhat 5 production server needing to do an emergency fix at 3 in the am Vim is there for me.<p>And when I need syntax support or any plugin under the sun, that is available as well. Vim is also blazingly fast compared to Atom (the latest fad) which is sluggish by comparison. Sublime seems to be falling into that sunsetting stage the same as jEdit<p>Just my 2 cents.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ryannevius</author><text>I&#x27;m not sure I understand what your comment has to do with Sublime...but in any case, Sublime does have a very active plugin ecosystem: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;packagecontrol.io&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;packagecontrol.io&#x2F;</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Sublime Text Build 3101</title><url>https://forum.sublimetext.com/t/dev-build-3101/17027</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bigtunacan</author><text>A huge portion of value with any of these text editors come from plugins and ubiquity. Over the years I have seen text editors come and go as the new &quot;one true editor&quot;, but only Vim and Emacs have had true staying power.<p>Back when it was hot (some of you are probably too young to remember this) I used jEdit. It is still around and gets some maintenance updates from time to time (<a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.jedit.org&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.jedit.org&#x2F;</a>), but the plugin ecosystem has languished so you better be ready to roll your own.<p>With Vim and Emacs (Vim for me) I can trust it to go anywhere I want to be. If I&#x27;m ssh-ing into a Redhat 5 production server needing to do an emergency fix at 3 in the am Vim is there for me.<p>And when I need syntax support or any plugin under the sun, that is available as well. Vim is also blazingly fast compared to Atom (the latest fad) which is sluggish by comparison. Sublime seems to be falling into that sunsetting stage the same as jEdit<p>Just my 2 cents.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ebbv</author><text>Yes Vim is great. This post has nothing to do with Vim, why did you make a comment about how much you love Vim? Is your point that you think Sublime has no staying power so everyone should just use Vim or Emacs?<p>There&#x27;s reasons other than staying power to use an application. If I only used applications that I expect to be around forever I&#x27;d be paralyzed and unable to make a decision a lot of the time.</text></comment> |
19,609,161 | 19,609,003 | 1 | 2 | 19,606,846 | train | <story><title>Open Source Is Winning, and Now It's Time for People to Win Too</title><url>https://www.linuxjournal.com/content/open-source-winning-and-now-its-time-people-win-too</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>partiallypro</author><text>Unpopular opinion...but imo open source has, completely by accident, caused the centralization of the internet. Because software licensing is less profitable, we&#x27;ve since gotten all the big software makers into the server game, and their infrastructure becomes what you are licensing instead. Their infrastructure could be based on something OpenSource, but you might still be vendor locked into AWS, Azure, GCS, etc.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mythz</author><text>Turned out to be a very popular opinion [1] that OSS having commoditized the cost to develop Software to near zero that the primary benefactors are the major cloud hosting providers who are able to extract rent from hosting OSS software. Which are using their consolidation of wealth to build out their billion dollar infrastructure moats ensuring barriers of entry that no-one else will be able to participate in.<p>The richer and more powerful the Cloud Hosting Oligopolies get, the worse off it will be for Indie OSS developers who will be unable to compete with their network lock-in, paid resources, marketeers + advocates, advertising, etc.<p>What&#x27;s worse is if you release OSS software the Cloud Vendor network monopolies naturally stand to make more revenue then any attempts in trying to host it yourself, making it impossible to compete against given the more effort you put into development, the more revenue you will create for them which they in-turn can use to fund their competing efforts.<p>Personally I&#x27;m all for companies like Redis Labs, Elastic, Confluent and MongoDB who realize the threat and start distributing their future investments under &quot;OSS free that&#x27;s free for everyone else except major cloud vendors&quot; to force the cloud oligopolies to revenue share back some of the money they&#x27;ve made from hosting their software. Hopefully we&#x27;ll see more of OSS follow which will force them to implement a system for revenue sharing back to OSS software they&#x27;re getting paid to host.<p>Even when they&#x27;re unable to license it they still have the luxury to sit back and wait to see what software becomes popular and proves itself in the market before instructing their army of paid devs to clone it as they&#x27;ve done with their MongoDB clones that implement the MongoDB protocol (also requires a lot more effort to create something with constant customer feedback + iteration, then it is to clone it). Thanks to the integration with their ecosystem ensures their investments will have better ROI and popularity then the original authors could ever have.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=19431444" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=19431444</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Open Source Is Winning, and Now It's Time for People to Win Too</title><url>https://www.linuxjournal.com/content/open-source-winning-and-now-its-time-people-win-too</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>partiallypro</author><text>Unpopular opinion...but imo open source has, completely by accident, caused the centralization of the internet. Because software licensing is less profitable, we&#x27;ve since gotten all the big software makers into the server game, and their infrastructure becomes what you are licensing instead. Their infrastructure could be based on something OpenSource, but you might still be vendor locked into AWS, Azure, GCS, etc.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mlinksva</author><text>Imagine universe in which open source does not exist. Would the internet be less centralized? What&#x27;s the mechanism?</text></comment> |
21,219,673 | 21,218,980 | 1 | 2 | 21,218,707 | train | <story><title>BPF at Facebook and beyond</title><url>https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/801871/c81eb8656543805f/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>bdd</author><text>Excuse me while I shill for my employer but we&#x27;re indeed big fans of BPF at Facebook.<p>Our L4 load balancer is implemented entirely in BPF byte code emitting C++ and relies on XDP for &quot;blazing fast&quot; (comms approved totally scientific replacement for gbps and pps figures...) packet forwarding. It&#x27;s open source and was discussed here at HN before <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=17199921" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=17199921</a>.<p>We discussed how we use eBPF for traffic shaping in our internal networks at Linux Plumber&#x27;s Conference <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;vger.kernel.org&#x2F;lpc-bpf2018.html#session-9" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;vger.kernel.org&#x2F;lpc-bpf2018.html#session-9</a><p>We presented how we enforce network traffic encryption, catch and terminate cleartext communication, again, you guessed, with BPF at Networking@Scale <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;atscaleconference.com&#x2F;events&#x2F;networking-scale-3&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;atscaleconference.com&#x2F;events&#x2F;networking-scale-3&#x2F;</a> (video coming soon, I think.)<p>Firewalls with BPF? Sure we have &#x27;em. <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;vger.kernel.org&#x2F;lpc_net2018_talks&#x2F;ebpf-firewall-LPC.pdf" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;vger.kernel.org&#x2F;lpc_net2018_talks&#x2F;ebpf-firewall-LPC.p...</a><p>In addition to all these nice applications we heavily rely on fleet wide tooling constructed with eBPF to monitor:<p><pre><code> - performance (why is it slow? why does it allocate this much?)
- correctness (collect evidence it&#x27;s doing its job like counters and logs. this should never happen, catch if it does!)
</code></pre>
...in our systems.</text></comment> | <story><title>BPF at Facebook and beyond</title><url>https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/801871/c81eb8656543805f/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>saagarjha</author><text>&gt; Facebook, he began, has an upstream-first philosophy, taken to an extreme; the company tries not to carry any out-of-tree patches at all. All work done at Facebook is meant to go upstream as soon as it practically can. The company also runs recent kernels, upgrading whenever possible.<p>I was chatting to a Facebook engineer on their use of BPF this summer and heard the same thing, which was surprising to me. There seem to be a number of companies that take advantage of Linux being licensed under GPL and keep their own forks&#x2F;patches of the kernel that they use internally (anecdotally, I’ve heard Google does this), and the they stay on some old version, which apparently Facebook doesn’t do.</text></comment> |
13,485,409 | 13,485,324 | 1 | 2 | 13,484,042 | train | <story><title>In Its Third Month, India’s Cash Shortage Begins to Bite</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/24/world/asia/in-its-third-month-indias-cash-shortage-begins-to-bite.html?em_pos=small&emc=edit_dk_20170125&nl=dealbook&nl_art=15&nlid=65508833&ref=headline&te=1</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>exergy</author><text>Also, I will point out that the NYT never, and I do mean never, has a story on India that is anything but negative. I didn&#x27;t realise this at first, but now I can&#x27;t help but notice that every article they have on my country is just how we&#x27;re all going to hell in a handbasket.</text></item><item><author>leereeves</author><text>It certainly opens by pulling on the heartstrings. &quot;This man lost his job and his marriage because of the cash shortage.&quot;</text></item><item><author>dvcc</author><text>I think you read a bit too much into that title, it&#x27;s just saying that the cash shortage is having an impact. It quite often mentions that it&#x27;s nothing crazy within it, but uses the anecdotes to humanize a story; otherwise, it pretty clearly mentions that &#x27;the pain is hidden for the most part&#x27; and underlines that the projected growth only dropped around ~1%.</text></item><item><author>aub3bhat</author><text>This is an unbelievably biased story. Reading the title you might assume as if there were widespread protests e.g. the term &quot;begins to bite&quot;. In fact on the contrary banks have noticed a decline in use of digital payments due to remonetized currency notes. It appears that NYTimes really wanted a story about large scale panic&#x2F;riots but not having found any it is now left with bunch of anecdotes while keeping a ridiculously click bait headline.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.google.com&#x2F;amp&#x2F;www.livemint.com&#x2F;Politics&#x2F;uJnq2fpl9UpMVNCbcfVxcK&#x2F;Digital-transactions-decline-in-January-as-cash-crunch-eases.html%3Ffacet%3Damp%26utm_source%3Dgoogleamp%26utm_medium%3Dreferral%26utm_campaign%3Dgoogleamp?client=ms-android-att-us" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.google.com&#x2F;amp&#x2F;www.livemint.com&#x2F;Politics&#x2F;uJnq2fp...</a><p>Edit: Also the image used clearly shows Indian Congress party supporters (identified by numerous flags with the hand symbol) yet they are termed as generic &quot;activists&quot; rather than supporters of a specific political party.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>seanmcdirmid</author><text>Most stories in a good news source are negative, otherwise they aren&#x27;t really news. &quot;Nothing happened today&quot; can only work once.</text></comment> | <story><title>In Its Third Month, India’s Cash Shortage Begins to Bite</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/24/world/asia/in-its-third-month-indias-cash-shortage-begins-to-bite.html?em_pos=small&emc=edit_dk_20170125&nl=dealbook&nl_art=15&nlid=65508833&ref=headline&te=1</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>exergy</author><text>Also, I will point out that the NYT never, and I do mean never, has a story on India that is anything but negative. I didn&#x27;t realise this at first, but now I can&#x27;t help but notice that every article they have on my country is just how we&#x27;re all going to hell in a handbasket.</text></item><item><author>leereeves</author><text>It certainly opens by pulling on the heartstrings. &quot;This man lost his job and his marriage because of the cash shortage.&quot;</text></item><item><author>dvcc</author><text>I think you read a bit too much into that title, it&#x27;s just saying that the cash shortage is having an impact. It quite often mentions that it&#x27;s nothing crazy within it, but uses the anecdotes to humanize a story; otherwise, it pretty clearly mentions that &#x27;the pain is hidden for the most part&#x27; and underlines that the projected growth only dropped around ~1%.</text></item><item><author>aub3bhat</author><text>This is an unbelievably biased story. Reading the title you might assume as if there were widespread protests e.g. the term &quot;begins to bite&quot;. In fact on the contrary banks have noticed a decline in use of digital payments due to remonetized currency notes. It appears that NYTimes really wanted a story about large scale panic&#x2F;riots but not having found any it is now left with bunch of anecdotes while keeping a ridiculously click bait headline.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.google.com&#x2F;amp&#x2F;www.livemint.com&#x2F;Politics&#x2F;uJnq2fpl9UpMVNCbcfVxcK&#x2F;Digital-transactions-decline-in-January-as-cash-crunch-eases.html%3Ffacet%3Damp%26utm_source%3Dgoogleamp%26utm_medium%3Dreferral%26utm_campaign%3Dgoogleamp?client=ms-android-att-us" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.google.com&#x2F;amp&#x2F;www.livemint.com&#x2F;Politics&#x2F;uJnq2fp...</a><p>Edit: Also the image used clearly shows Indian Congress party supporters (identified by numerous flags with the hand symbol) yet they are termed as generic &quot;activists&quot; rather than supporters of a specific political party.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dman</author><text>If you think the NYT is bad, read the BBC coverage on India :)</text></comment> |
11,042,323 | 11,041,974 | 1 | 2 | 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>StapleHorse</author><text>Why would you complicate something so &quot;easy&quot; like putting solar panels on the side of the roadway? It&#x27;s going to be so much less efficient for so many reasons ( orientation, dirt, cars shade, scratches) and maybe dangerous for the cars.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mc32</author><text>Absolutely. Why not put them on the sides or overhead. Granted overhead adds cost, but at least there is no abrasion, and virtually permanent shade. Are they piezo active somehow, why make them part of the roadbed for any reason?<p>Also wouldn&#x27;t the surface be less safe for driving in inclement weather, what&#x27;s tire grip look like under bad weather conditions with this surface?<p>Sounds like a boondoggle to me.</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>StapleHorse</author><text>Why would you complicate something so &quot;easy&quot; like putting solar panels on the side of the roadway? It&#x27;s going to be so much less efficient for so many reasons ( orientation, dirt, cars shade, scratches) and maybe dangerous for the cars.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>thecopy</author><text>Because this is not a rational market decision, this is politics.</text></comment> |
35,595,068 | 35,593,361 | 1 | 2 | 35,592,847 | train | <story><title>I used Stable Diffusion and Dreambooth to create an art portrait of my dog</title><url>https://www.shruggingface.com/blog/how-i-used-stable-diffusion-and-dreambooth-to-create-a-painted-portrait-of-my-dog</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>simonw</author><text>I love how much work went into this.<p>There&#x27;s a great deal of pushback against AI art from the wider online art community at the moment, a lot of which is motivated by a sense of unfairness: if you&#x27;re not going to put in the time and effort, why do you deserve to create such high equality imagery?<p>(I do not share this opinion myself, but it&#x27;s something I&#x27;ve seen a lot)<p>This is another great counter-example showing how much work it takes to get the best, deliberate results out of these tools.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>madeofpalk</author><text>&gt; a lot of which is motivated by a sense of unfairness<p>This is not something I&#x27;ve seen once in any sort of criticism of &quot;AI art&quot;, and elsewhere in the internet I&#x27;m largely in a anti-ai-art bubble.<p>Most legitimate pushback I&#x27;ve seen has been more on the non-consensual training of models. Many artists don&#x27;t want their work to be sucked up into the &quot;AI Borg Model&quot; and then regurgitated by someone else, removing the artists consent, credit, and compensation.</text></comment> | <story><title>I used Stable Diffusion and Dreambooth to create an art portrait of my dog</title><url>https://www.shruggingface.com/blog/how-i-used-stable-diffusion-and-dreambooth-to-create-a-painted-portrait-of-my-dog</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>simonw</author><text>I love how much work went into this.<p>There&#x27;s a great deal of pushback against AI art from the wider online art community at the moment, a lot of which is motivated by a sense of unfairness: if you&#x27;re not going to put in the time and effort, why do you deserve to create such high equality imagery?<p>(I do not share this opinion myself, but it&#x27;s something I&#x27;ve seen a lot)<p>This is another great counter-example showing how much work it takes to get the best, deliberate results out of these tools.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>minimaxir</author><text>Unfortunately it&#x27;s become a meme among AI art haters that AI art is &quot;just inputing text into a text box&quot; despite the fact that is far from the truth, particularly if you want to get specific results as this blog post demonstrates.<p>Some modern AI art workflows often require <i>more</i> effort than actually illustrating using conventional media. And this blog post doesn&#x27;t even get into ControlNet.</text></comment> |
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