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25,605,664 | 25,605,714 | 1 | 3 | 25,605,211 | train | <story><title>My Experience at Apple</title><url>https://ex-apple-engineer.medium.com/my-experience-apple-5d8b6205cb56</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>reactordev</author><text>Sadly, you can fill in the blank with any FAANG company with this story. I’ve heard it a thousand times. Toxic management. Sorry you went through that, sorry that was your first taste of engineering out of college. Glad you stuck with it.<p>It’s a tough spot to be. Do you roll over and do the job your being yelled at to do even though you know any concessions are BS? Or like the senior folks, do you walk? It’s a really hard choice.<p>Does Apple not have manager feedback mechanisms?</text></item><item><author>exApple-anon</author><text>Posting anonymously for obvious reasons.<p>Unlike others, I actually find this story fairly believable.<p>When I first joined Apple, straight out of college - a good program, top three in the country - I was abused similarly. I joined a team that was on a project behind schedule.<p>Our manager was a brusque, no-nonsense sort of dude. But he clearly had anger problems. On the team were 2 senior engineers, me, and a junior engineer that had just completed his internship and was on a work Visa.<p>As the project got closer to the deadline, and the scope increased, the manager got agitated. In our team meetings, he would start yelling at us. People down the hallways would stare at us with those &quot;looks.&quot; In our 1:1s he told us we might not have a job if our product doesn&#x27;t ship on time (we were competing with another internal team to beat them to the punch.)<p>The two senior engineers decided they&#x27;d had enough and quit the team. The manager told us to work overtime (no overtime pay, but we had to for fear of our job). He promised us that if we did it that we would get a month of vacation on him, and that he could secure it for us.<p>The product released. After countless nights of overtime we did it. Our manager left, our guarantee of a month of vacation evaporated, and for the next three months, us two junior engineers were left on 24&#x2F;7 primary&#x2F;secondary on-call for a critical service. It was a nightmare. Calls at 3 AM, 6 AM, on weekends.<p>Our manager got a promotion and is fairly high up at Apple now.<p>Horrible experience. I left for a new company that pays me nearly double.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>meekrohprocess</author><text>I don&#x27;t think so. I&#x27;ve worked at other FAANG companies which had these sorts of posts written about them, and I&#x27;ve witnessed plenty of situations that I would call &quot;abusive&quot;.<p>But what I read in this article was beyond the pale. I never felt like anybody adjacent to any of my roles might have cause to fear for their physical safety. Reviews were used as political tools and occasional sources of psychological abuse, sure, but people still got marched out quickly if they stopped acting like empathetic human beings towards their peers.</text></comment> | <story><title>My Experience at Apple</title><url>https://ex-apple-engineer.medium.com/my-experience-apple-5d8b6205cb56</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>reactordev</author><text>Sadly, you can fill in the blank with any FAANG company with this story. I’ve heard it a thousand times. Toxic management. Sorry you went through that, sorry that was your first taste of engineering out of college. Glad you stuck with it.<p>It’s a tough spot to be. Do you roll over and do the job your being yelled at to do even though you know any concessions are BS? Or like the senior folks, do you walk? It’s a really hard choice.<p>Does Apple not have manager feedback mechanisms?</text></item><item><author>exApple-anon</author><text>Posting anonymously for obvious reasons.<p>Unlike others, I actually find this story fairly believable.<p>When I first joined Apple, straight out of college - a good program, top three in the country - I was abused similarly. I joined a team that was on a project behind schedule.<p>Our manager was a brusque, no-nonsense sort of dude. But he clearly had anger problems. On the team were 2 senior engineers, me, and a junior engineer that had just completed his internship and was on a work Visa.<p>As the project got closer to the deadline, and the scope increased, the manager got agitated. In our team meetings, he would start yelling at us. People down the hallways would stare at us with those &quot;looks.&quot; In our 1:1s he told us we might not have a job if our product doesn&#x27;t ship on time (we were competing with another internal team to beat them to the punch.)<p>The two senior engineers decided they&#x27;d had enough and quit the team. The manager told us to work overtime (no overtime pay, but we had to for fear of our job). He promised us that if we did it that we would get a month of vacation on him, and that he could secure it for us.<p>The product released. After countless nights of overtime we did it. Our manager left, our guarantee of a month of vacation evaporated, and for the next three months, us two junior engineers were left on 24&#x2F;7 primary&#x2F;secondary on-call for a critical service. It was a nightmare. Calls at 3 AM, 6 AM, on weekends.<p>Our manager got a promotion and is fairly high up at Apple now.<p>Horrible experience. I left for a new company that pays me nearly double.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ineedasername</author><text>You can put just about any company in the &quot;Apple&quot; role here. A bad manager anywhere can cause a workgroup to turn toxic. I&#x27;ve seen it happen literally everywhere I&#x27;ve ever worked, though luckily only 1st hand at one location. (Actually there was one exception: working at a Barnes &amp; Noble during college. I&#x27;d heard horror stories about other locations while I was there, but the store I worked at was run by an extremely good manager who cared for her employees and fostered that attitude in her assistant managers as well. It was also the most profitable store in the region, probably not a coincidence)</text></comment> |
19,848,132 | 19,848,173 | 1 | 2 | 19,846,210 | train | <story><title>U.S. Air Force has shot down multiple air-launched missiles in a test</title><url>https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/27795/the-air-force-just-shot-down-multiple-missiles-with-a-laser-destined-for-fighter-aircraft</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>thaumaturgy</author><text>No, it doesn&#x27;t work like that. The military is of course tight-lipped about exactly how powerful SHiELD is, but at least one site claims that the goal is 50kw [1]. That&#x27;s a lot of power. A few years ago, a 30kw laser test made the rounds in news outlets for destroying a few targets during testing. [2]<p>Mirrors don&#x27;t perfectly reflect light in all frequencies. Mirrors are designed to reflect mostly visible light, lasers at this power level are infrared. Any imperfections in the reflective surface would immediately heat up, damaging the reflective surface, which would then heat up even more. And even if it were perfect, and were designed to reflect whatever frequency of radiation the laser&#x27;s putting out, it&#x27;s still not going to reflect 100% of the laser&#x27;s output, and you&#x27;ve probably got yourself a material that&#x27;s pretty impractical for a rocket.<p>[1]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;phys.org&#x2F;news&#x2F;2018-03-air-fighter-mounted-laser-summer.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;phys.org&#x2F;news&#x2F;2018-03-air-fighter-mounted-laser-summ...</a><p>[2]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;newatlas.com&#x2F;lockheed-martin-laser-truck&#x2F;36377&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;newatlas.com&#x2F;lockheed-martin-laser-truck&#x2F;36377&#x2F;</a></text></item><item><author>gingabriska</author><text>Don&#x27;t we simply need a missile covered with mirrors to defy these lasers?<p>It&#x27;s just a light bean albeit concentrated one, how hard can it be to deflect it?<p>Edit: don&#x27;t understand the downvoting, please enlighten. Your wisdom is not obvious to me. Thanks</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>wnkrshm</author><text>Since atmopsheric transmission windows dictate which kind of wavelengths you&#x27;d use for a laser weapon and which kinds of wavelengths can efficiently be created, multilayer coatings could conceivably reflect a lot of incoming power. In the 90s, the US DoD asked for &#x27;laser armor&#x27; and got photonic crystal structures (1-d multilayer) that omnidirectionally reflect [1]. Further details about this are also available in the book &quot;Photonic Crystals&quot; (preprint for free here [2]).<p>What is probably way easier though (and actually survives launch and particles hitting it and is already proven in practice) is to use ablative heat shields on missiles. The materials available are already optimized for mass vs. effectiveness due to the engineering constraints in space flight. Missile optics would probably need to be coated though or distributed.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.osapublishing.org&#x2F;ol&#x2F;abstract.cfm?uri=ol-23-20-1573" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.osapublishing.org&#x2F;ol&#x2F;abstract.cfm?uri=ol-23-20-1...</a>
[2] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;ab-initio.mit.edu&#x2F;book&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;ab-initio.mit.edu&#x2F;book&#x2F;</a></text></comment> | <story><title>U.S. Air Force has shot down multiple air-launched missiles in a test</title><url>https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/27795/the-air-force-just-shot-down-multiple-missiles-with-a-laser-destined-for-fighter-aircraft</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>thaumaturgy</author><text>No, it doesn&#x27;t work like that. The military is of course tight-lipped about exactly how powerful SHiELD is, but at least one site claims that the goal is 50kw [1]. That&#x27;s a lot of power. A few years ago, a 30kw laser test made the rounds in news outlets for destroying a few targets during testing. [2]<p>Mirrors don&#x27;t perfectly reflect light in all frequencies. Mirrors are designed to reflect mostly visible light, lasers at this power level are infrared. Any imperfections in the reflective surface would immediately heat up, damaging the reflective surface, which would then heat up even more. And even if it were perfect, and were designed to reflect whatever frequency of radiation the laser&#x27;s putting out, it&#x27;s still not going to reflect 100% of the laser&#x27;s output, and you&#x27;ve probably got yourself a material that&#x27;s pretty impractical for a rocket.<p>[1]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;phys.org&#x2F;news&#x2F;2018-03-air-fighter-mounted-laser-summer.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;phys.org&#x2F;news&#x2F;2018-03-air-fighter-mounted-laser-summ...</a><p>[2]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;newatlas.com&#x2F;lockheed-martin-laser-truck&#x2F;36377&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;newatlas.com&#x2F;lockheed-martin-laser-truck&#x2F;36377&#x2F;</a></text></item><item><author>gingabriska</author><text>Don&#x27;t we simply need a missile covered with mirrors to defy these lasers?<p>It&#x27;s just a light bean albeit concentrated one, how hard can it be to deflect it?<p>Edit: don&#x27;t understand the downvoting, please enlighten. Your wisdom is not obvious to me. Thanks</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Retric</author><text>50kw is actually not that powerful in terms of lasers. Petawatt systems are being built. The real question is how how much power you can deliver to a target.<p>In that context rotating reflective missiles make this much harder as does slightly thicker casings. Anything you deploy optimized for today’s missiles is easy to design around, so you need to design for countermeasures.</text></comment> |
29,437,640 | 29,437,494 | 1 | 2 | 29,435,091 | train | <story><title>Your eBay account has been suspended</title><text>Got an email from eBay this morning:<p>&quot;
Hello brokeninfinity,
We wanted to let you know that your eBay account has been permanently suspended because of activity that we believe was putting the eBay community at risk. We understand that this must be frustrating, but this decision was not made lightly and it’s important that we keep our marketplace safe for everyone. Learn more about how and why accounts can be suspended...
&quot;<p>I&#x27;m a long time, infrequent eBay user, mostly buy stuff, 331 stars, 100% feedback rating. Haven&#x27;t used eBay recently, no idea what just happened. Maybe someone was trying to hack my account? The suspension email has no reply address. I tried contact eBay through their web chat, and they say &#x27;Sorry Scott, live support&#x27;s currently unavailable.&#x27;<p>I guess I&#x27;ll stop using eBay now. The summary execution with no explanation and no escalation path and no appeal is not endearing. Count me added to the chorus of folks calling for regulations that will eliminate this sort of abusive behavior against consumers. We need some sort of &#x27;due process&#x27; required of companies that operate above a certain scale. I mean, I shudder to think of the position I would be in right now if I depended on eBay for anything important. Thank goodness for me that I do not, but not everyone can say the same.<p>What do you think?</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>tluyben2</author><text>Because my accounts are so old and I have so many of them, I get a message regularly saying that my account for service xyz has been suspended. When I contact them there a) never is a good reason for why it was done (hint; it is usually because they started using or recently updated some AI fraud detection service) b) small companies easily restore your account; with big ones it is usually game over. Ebay (and Paypal) are rather notorious for this: PayPal has actually gotten more robust but now I actually <i>cannot</i> close my account. They don&#x27;t know why but computer says no; it is an ancient account, so, as a software engineer, I can take a few guesses. The most annoying is the level of support: even if the support is polite and responsive and <i>human</i> to begin with, which is not often at big companies (note I do not live in the US so I get routed to my country support for that bigcorp; I do not know if support is better over there), they often have no clue what they are talking about and only have canned responses. You used to be able to escalate to another level but that seems to have been removed (too expensive of course).<p>So when I can I stick with small companies; when they get funded or taken over, I find an alternative. I manage small SaaS products myself and I definitely will never leave anyone hanging, not even for a few hours; many small companies have the same feeling.<p>Of course, often you cannot do anything else but take the large ones. Luckily with banking this changed over the past years, but plenty things are still utterly broken support (and because you need support, also software wise probably) wise.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nwatson</author><text>Never leave your brokerage account unattended, make sure to be active.<p>The NPR Planet Money episode &quot;Escheat Show&quot; follows the story of a man who bought some Amazon stock long ago, and purposely never logged in to his online account, letting the stock multiply into a presumed small fortune. Years later he found that due to his inactivity the account had been deemed by his state (Connecticut?) as lost property years prior, liquidated, and entered into the state&#x27;s escheat program, where one can claim lost property. The stock had been liquidated at a much lower price than its present worth. He wanted to sue since his intention was to leave the stock untouched for years but found there were some complications. He&#x27;s currently waiting for the stock to hit a valuation where a great lawyer will be tempted to take it on contingency while still leaving himself a fortune.<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.npr.org&#x2F;2020&#x2F;01&#x2F;24&#x2F;799345159&#x2F;episode-967-escheat-show" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.npr.org&#x2F;2020&#x2F;01&#x2F;24&#x2F;799345159&#x2F;episode-967-escheat...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Your eBay account has been suspended</title><text>Got an email from eBay this morning:<p>&quot;
Hello brokeninfinity,
We wanted to let you know that your eBay account has been permanently suspended because of activity that we believe was putting the eBay community at risk. We understand that this must be frustrating, but this decision was not made lightly and it’s important that we keep our marketplace safe for everyone. Learn more about how and why accounts can be suspended...
&quot;<p>I&#x27;m a long time, infrequent eBay user, mostly buy stuff, 331 stars, 100% feedback rating. Haven&#x27;t used eBay recently, no idea what just happened. Maybe someone was trying to hack my account? The suspension email has no reply address. I tried contact eBay through their web chat, and they say &#x27;Sorry Scott, live support&#x27;s currently unavailable.&#x27;<p>I guess I&#x27;ll stop using eBay now. The summary execution with no explanation and no escalation path and no appeal is not endearing. Count me added to the chorus of folks calling for regulations that will eliminate this sort of abusive behavior against consumers. We need some sort of &#x27;due process&#x27; required of companies that operate above a certain scale. I mean, I shudder to think of the position I would be in right now if I depended on eBay for anything important. Thank goodness for me that I do not, but not everyone can say the same.<p>What do you think?</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>tluyben2</author><text>Because my accounts are so old and I have so many of them, I get a message regularly saying that my account for service xyz has been suspended. When I contact them there a) never is a good reason for why it was done (hint; it is usually because they started using or recently updated some AI fraud detection service) b) small companies easily restore your account; with big ones it is usually game over. Ebay (and Paypal) are rather notorious for this: PayPal has actually gotten more robust but now I actually <i>cannot</i> close my account. They don&#x27;t know why but computer says no; it is an ancient account, so, as a software engineer, I can take a few guesses. The most annoying is the level of support: even if the support is polite and responsive and <i>human</i> to begin with, which is not often at big companies (note I do not live in the US so I get routed to my country support for that bigcorp; I do not know if support is better over there), they often have no clue what they are talking about and only have canned responses. You used to be able to escalate to another level but that seems to have been removed (too expensive of course).<p>So when I can I stick with small companies; when they get funded or taken over, I find an alternative. I manage small SaaS products myself and I definitely will never leave anyone hanging, not even for a few hours; many small companies have the same feeling.<p>Of course, often you cannot do anything else but take the large ones. Luckily with banking this changed over the past years, but plenty things are still utterly broken support (and because you need support, also software wise probably) wise.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dangle1</author><text>That&#x27;s interesting, I wonder if I have an &#x27;uncloseable&#x27; PayPal account, since it started as an x.com account in &#x27;99 when they were giving people $20 to open one.</text></comment> |
25,679,055 | 25,679,017 | 1 | 2 | 25,677,144 | train | <story><title>Nuclear lighthouses built by the Soviets in the Arctic [video]</title><url>https://www.bbc.com/reel/video/p0931jtk/the-nuclear-lighthouses-built-by-the-soviets-in-the-arctic</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>purerandomness</author><text>&quot;properly sequestered&quot; is the key word. There is no such thing.<p>Here in Germany, we still have not found where to put nuclear waste long-term, and there is no solution in sight.<p>Even if one day we find one, how do we communicate the potential dangers of nuclear waste to a civilization that is supposed to understand what we&#x27;re communicating in 30000, 50000 years? With a fancy unicode symbol, like U+2622?<p>We have no idea what people 3000 years ago were trying to tell us with their fancy symbols.<p>Nuclear energy is the analogy of tech debt that can never be paid back, ever.</text></item><item><author>OnACoffeeBreak</author><text>Could you explain how properly sequestered nuclear waste is not less harmful to the planet as carbon in the atmosphere?<p>I&#x27;m my current view, nuclear waste can be sequestered and stored effecting only a tiny fraction of the planet while greenhouse gases effect the whole planet.</text></item><item><author>forgotmysn</author><text>i agree that nuclear can help reduce carbon emissions, but that doesn&#x27;t mean that nuclear waste is less harmful to the planet than carbon emissions are. nuclear isn&#x27;t any more sustainable than coal or fossil fuels.</text></item><item><author>anonu</author><text>Great video. I am glad that we are still making serious strides in nuclear energy research. Nuclear is the way to reduce carbon emissions in a substantially significant to turn back adverse climate change.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>glogla</author><text>&gt; Nuclear energy is the analogy of tech debt that can never be paid back, ever.<p>The reason why the &quot;waste&quot; is dangerous is that there&#x27;s a lot of energy in it - energy that can still be extracted at a later date. It might very easily be very valuable in the future.<p>Germany is really sad case, where they stopped using nuclear and replaced it with &quot;clean coal&quot;. Terrible thing for the planet.<p>The Greens talk about nuclear waste and Fukushima, and meanwhile German green-washed coal plants and cheating diesel engines put crazy things in the air.</text></comment> | <story><title>Nuclear lighthouses built by the Soviets in the Arctic [video]</title><url>https://www.bbc.com/reel/video/p0931jtk/the-nuclear-lighthouses-built-by-the-soviets-in-the-arctic</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>purerandomness</author><text>&quot;properly sequestered&quot; is the key word. There is no such thing.<p>Here in Germany, we still have not found where to put nuclear waste long-term, and there is no solution in sight.<p>Even if one day we find one, how do we communicate the potential dangers of nuclear waste to a civilization that is supposed to understand what we&#x27;re communicating in 30000, 50000 years? With a fancy unicode symbol, like U+2622?<p>We have no idea what people 3000 years ago were trying to tell us with their fancy symbols.<p>Nuclear energy is the analogy of tech debt that can never be paid back, ever.</text></item><item><author>OnACoffeeBreak</author><text>Could you explain how properly sequestered nuclear waste is not less harmful to the planet as carbon in the atmosphere?<p>I&#x27;m my current view, nuclear waste can be sequestered and stored effecting only a tiny fraction of the planet while greenhouse gases effect the whole planet.</text></item><item><author>forgotmysn</author><text>i agree that nuclear can help reduce carbon emissions, but that doesn&#x27;t mean that nuclear waste is less harmful to the planet than carbon emissions are. nuclear isn&#x27;t any more sustainable than coal or fossil fuels.</text></item><item><author>anonu</author><text>Great video. I am glad that we are still making serious strides in nuclear energy research. Nuclear is the way to reduce carbon emissions in a substantially significant to turn back adverse climate change.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>p_l</author><text>With advanced reprocessing as well as waste-burning containers, the question is about communicating it for ~200 years, not 50000 years. And it would also increase our efficiency in using the fuel to boot.</text></comment> |
21,398,783 | 21,398,599 | 1 | 2 | 21,397,041 | train | <story><title>Simple Does Not Mean Ugly</title><url>https://uglyduck.ca/simple-does-not-mean-ugly/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jonathanstrange</author><text>To be honest, I have never encountered a website so far that even remotely had the same level of usability of a really good desktop application around the year 2000 or so.<p>How many websites have user-definable menu shortcuts, unlimited undo, instant user-feedback for every operation, tooltips that can be switched on or off, full internal drag &amp; drop and OS-level drag and drop of files, standard user interface elements that work how the user expects them to work, a context-sensitive online help system, reconfigurable toolbars with user-definable icon sets, multiple open documents at once, movable and reconfigurable tool windows, manye internationalizations, and so on?<p>The web is still the future, I know, but web application UX designers are still re-inventing the wheel and without some enforced UI guidelines like Apple had in the 90s websites will never fully catch up with desktop apps in terms of usability.<p>To be fair, a comparison with modern desktop apps is much more favorable, because most of them have regressed in terms of usability.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>chipotle_coyote</author><text>While I don&#x27;t entirely disagree, how many web sites <i>need</i> the kind of features you&#x27;re talking about? Have you ever looked at Hacker News and thought &quot;if only this had user-definable menu shortcuts,&quot; or been shopping on Amazon and thought &quot;this would be so much better if it had toolbars with custom icons&quot;? Probably not.<p>One of the most frustrating things about modern web development, at least to cranky old people like me, is the conflation of web sites with <i>web applications.</i> If the use case you&#x27;re talking about is truly trying to replace what would otherwise be a desktop application, like Gmail or (heaven help us) a code editor or word processor, then many of the features you&#x27;re talking about start becoming useful. But for so, so many <i>web sites,</i> the focus on feature-rich client side toolkits has become, well, kind of a distraction. Is there any real advantage <i>to the user</i> if the New York Times web site is a state-of-the-art React application? Is it improving my reading experience? I not only don&#x27;t need them to be using a toolkit that gives them desktop-class drag and drop capability, I don&#x27;t <i>want</i> it, because I&#x27;m just there to <i>read a damn article.</i><p>So when you write &quot;web application UX designers are still re-inventing the wheel and without some enforced UI guidelines like Apple had in the 90s websites will never fully catch up with desktop apps in terms of usability,&quot; my reaction can&#x27;t help but be: you literally just used &quot;web application&quot; and &quot;website&quot; as if they were interchangeable, and they are not. There&#x27;s a worthwhile discussion to be had over how much &quot;desktop-class UX&quot; we actually need for our web applications, but I&#x27;d like to see our web <i>sites</i> stop being built like they were web <i>applications</i> when they don&#x27;t need to be.</text></comment> | <story><title>Simple Does Not Mean Ugly</title><url>https://uglyduck.ca/simple-does-not-mean-ugly/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jonathanstrange</author><text>To be honest, I have never encountered a website so far that even remotely had the same level of usability of a really good desktop application around the year 2000 or so.<p>How many websites have user-definable menu shortcuts, unlimited undo, instant user-feedback for every operation, tooltips that can be switched on or off, full internal drag &amp; drop and OS-level drag and drop of files, standard user interface elements that work how the user expects them to work, a context-sensitive online help system, reconfigurable toolbars with user-definable icon sets, multiple open documents at once, movable and reconfigurable tool windows, manye internationalizations, and so on?<p>The web is still the future, I know, but web application UX designers are still re-inventing the wheel and without some enforced UI guidelines like Apple had in the 90s websites will never fully catch up with desktop apps in terms of usability.<p>To be fair, a comparison with modern desktop apps is much more favorable, because most of them have regressed in terms of usability.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>smt88</author><text>&gt; <i>How many websites have...</i><p>Honestly I&#x27;d settle for buttons that are obviously buttons and menus that aren&#x27;t hidden by default.<p>A lot of web design has gone backwards in usability, especially since Google popularized Material design.</text></comment> |
28,077,393 | 28,077,265 | 1 | 2 | 28,047,580 | train | <story><title>Macaques at Japan reserve get first alpha female in 70-year history</title><url>https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/aug/03/macaques-at-japan-reserve-get-first-alpha-female-in-70-year-history</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>lkrubner</author><text>We should expect to see this throughout the world, as the climate crisis intensifies. We should expect to see this especially in intelligent or social species. Game theory predicts that, from the point of view of parents, when the population is expanding it is better to have sons and when the population is shrinking it is better to have daughters. A son might have a lot of children when times are good and zero children when times are bad. A daughter is likely to always have some children, and therefore is a safer bet when things are bad. This shifts the incentives for parents. When population is falling, parents have an incentive to care less about their sons, and to invest more resources in their daughters.<p>That much is known.<p>We can also speculate that if daughters are now receiving more investment as children, they are better positioned to go higher in society as they become adults. A general shift in political power, throughout social species, should be expected, as the climate crisis threatens more and more species with extinction.<p>This might extent to even those species in zoos, as their population usually is not allowed to expand.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Blikkentrekker</author><text>This like most evolutionary psychology seems like one of those “anything goes” explanations that simply seems like a plausible explanation, but can just as easily be offered to explain falsehoods.<p>The problem with it is that one can invent a scenario that never happened and asked for an explanation and similar such plausible explanations can be proffered for it, but there&#x27;s really no way to actually verify and test them.<p>It can just as easily be explained with “<i>It is a simple fluke that will repeat itself in another 70 years.</i>”.</text></comment> | <story><title>Macaques at Japan reserve get first alpha female in 70-year history</title><url>https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/aug/03/macaques-at-japan-reserve-get-first-alpha-female-in-70-year-history</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>lkrubner</author><text>We should expect to see this throughout the world, as the climate crisis intensifies. We should expect to see this especially in intelligent or social species. Game theory predicts that, from the point of view of parents, when the population is expanding it is better to have sons and when the population is shrinking it is better to have daughters. A son might have a lot of children when times are good and zero children when times are bad. A daughter is likely to always have some children, and therefore is a safer bet when things are bad. This shifts the incentives for parents. When population is falling, parents have an incentive to care less about their sons, and to invest more resources in their daughters.<p>That much is known.<p>We can also speculate that if daughters are now receiving more investment as children, they are better positioned to go higher in society as they become adults. A general shift in political power, throughout social species, should be expected, as the climate crisis threatens more and more species with extinction.<p>This might extent to even those species in zoos, as their population usually is not allowed to expand.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>whatshisface</author><text>That makes no sense to me because for every child a daughter has, someone&#x27;s son had a child. It has to balance out unless someone invents monkey mitosis.</text></comment> |
40,323,142 | 40,322,008 | 1 | 2 | 40,313,733 | train | <story><title>Apple apologizes for iPad 'Crush' ad that 'missed the mark'</title><url>https://www.theverge.com/2024/5/9/24153113/apple-ipad-ad-crushing-apology</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Tiktaalik</author><text>The arcade one particularly distressing given that arcades and their unique arcade hardware are rapidly vanishing across the world without replacement.</text></item><item><author>some_random</author><text>I think the big thing here is that if you don&#x27;t have an attachment to any of the items being crushed you probably don&#x27;t feel as strongly. If you&#x27;re a trumpet player, seeing a trumpet being crushed is going to be a bit distressing. If you&#x27;re a photographer, you&#x27;re putting a monetary value on those lenses being destroyed. If you&#x27;re into old arcade machines, you&#x27;re thinking about how many of those cabinets are left in that good of a condition.</text></item><item><author>maxrobeyns</author><text>My initial reaction to the ad, upon watching it in the launch event was &quot;huh, that&#x27;s a fun reference to the Hydraulic Press Channel&quot;. The slapstick elements (trumpet noise, squishy balls) made it come across as light-hearted, rather than an ominous display of force by a large company crushing artists&#x27; tools.<p>This idea of &#x27;squashing all these tools down to a thin slab of glass&#x27; made sense given their somewhat unusual focus on the thinness of the device. It was a bit of a throwback to the early 2010s smartphone innovation, where the size of the devices was the yardstick by which manufacturers would outdo each other. I would charitably interpret it as an uninspired marketing team trying to spin some version of Jobs&#x27; classic &quot;the iPhone is simultaneously an iPod, phone and internet device&quot; - however the party trick is old, and nobody&#x27;s impressed anymore.<p>Perhaps the blowback is a sign of a wider weariness that people have accumulated towards big tech companies over the past few years, mixed with a nebulous malaise about &#x27;AI&#x27; and what it means for the status quo and people&#x27;s livelihoods.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Brian_K_White</author><text>Not to mention a bit rich considering their stance on emulators and game stores.</text></comment> | <story><title>Apple apologizes for iPad 'Crush' ad that 'missed the mark'</title><url>https://www.theverge.com/2024/5/9/24153113/apple-ipad-ad-crushing-apology</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Tiktaalik</author><text>The arcade one particularly distressing given that arcades and their unique arcade hardware are rapidly vanishing across the world without replacement.</text></item><item><author>some_random</author><text>I think the big thing here is that if you don&#x27;t have an attachment to any of the items being crushed you probably don&#x27;t feel as strongly. If you&#x27;re a trumpet player, seeing a trumpet being crushed is going to be a bit distressing. If you&#x27;re a photographer, you&#x27;re putting a monetary value on those lenses being destroyed. If you&#x27;re into old arcade machines, you&#x27;re thinking about how many of those cabinets are left in that good of a condition.</text></item><item><author>maxrobeyns</author><text>My initial reaction to the ad, upon watching it in the launch event was &quot;huh, that&#x27;s a fun reference to the Hydraulic Press Channel&quot;. The slapstick elements (trumpet noise, squishy balls) made it come across as light-hearted, rather than an ominous display of force by a large company crushing artists&#x27; tools.<p>This idea of &#x27;squashing all these tools down to a thin slab of glass&#x27; made sense given their somewhat unusual focus on the thinness of the device. It was a bit of a throwback to the early 2010s smartphone innovation, where the size of the devices was the yardstick by which manufacturers would outdo each other. I would charitably interpret it as an uninspired marketing team trying to spin some version of Jobs&#x27; classic &quot;the iPhone is simultaneously an iPod, phone and internet device&quot; - however the party trick is old, and nobody&#x27;s impressed anymore.<p>Perhaps the blowback is a sign of a wider weariness that people have accumulated towards big tech companies over the past few years, mixed with a nebulous malaise about &#x27;AI&#x27; and what it means for the status quo and people&#x27;s livelihoods.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Sohcahtoa82</author><text>And the arcades that DO exist are often 90% shitty ticket games that cost $1, have about 15 seconds of gameplay, and then maybe after blowing through $50 you&#x27;ll have enough tickets to buy $2 worth of Tootsie Rolls and maybe a balsa wood glider. If you got really lucky, maybe a plushie.<p>Though there are some &quot;barcades&quot; popping up these days that focus on classic arcade games to appeal to older the older crowd.</text></comment> |
28,751,065 | 28,751,093 | 1 | 3 | 28,748,203 | train | <story><title>Facebook-owned sites were down</title><url>https://www.facebook.com/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>okwubodu</author><text>I don’t know how true it is but a few reports claim employees can’t get into the building with their badges.</text></item><item><author>kiernanmcgowan</author><text>My suspicion is that since a lot of internal comms runs through the FB domain and since everyone is still WFH, then its probably a massive issue just to get people talking to each other to solve the problem.</text></item><item><author>Animats</author><text>There&#x27;s still no connectivity to Facebook&#x27;s DNS servers:<p><pre><code> &gt; traceroute a.ns.facebook.com
traceroute to a.ns.facebook.com (129.134.30.12), 30 hops max, 60 byte packets
1 dsldevice.attlocal.net (192.168.1.254) 0.484 ms 0.474 ms 0.422 ms
2 107-131-124-1.lightspeed.sntcca.sbcglobal.net (107.131.124.1) 1.592 ms 1.657 ms 1.607 ms
3 71.148.149.196 (71.148.149.196) 1.676 ms 1.697 ms 1.705 ms
4 12.242.105.110 (12.242.105.110) 11.446 ms 11.482 ms 11.328 ms
5 12.122.163.34 (12.122.163.34) 7.641 ms 7.668 ms 11.438 ms
6 cr83.sj2ca.ip.att.net (12.122.158.9) 4.025 ms 3.368 ms 3.394 ms
7 * * *
...
</code></pre>
So they&#x27;re hours into this outage and still haven&#x27;t re-established connectivity to their own DNS servers.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>cududa</author><text>I remember my first time having a meeting at Facebook and observing none of the doors had keyholes and thinking &quot;hope their badge system never goes down&quot;</text></comment> | <story><title>Facebook-owned sites were down</title><url>https://www.facebook.com/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>okwubodu</author><text>I don’t know how true it is but a few reports claim employees can’t get into the building with their badges.</text></item><item><author>kiernanmcgowan</author><text>My suspicion is that since a lot of internal comms runs through the FB domain and since everyone is still WFH, then its probably a massive issue just to get people talking to each other to solve the problem.</text></item><item><author>Animats</author><text>There&#x27;s still no connectivity to Facebook&#x27;s DNS servers:<p><pre><code> &gt; traceroute a.ns.facebook.com
traceroute to a.ns.facebook.com (129.134.30.12), 30 hops max, 60 byte packets
1 dsldevice.attlocal.net (192.168.1.254) 0.484 ms 0.474 ms 0.422 ms
2 107-131-124-1.lightspeed.sntcca.sbcglobal.net (107.131.124.1) 1.592 ms 1.657 ms 1.607 ms
3 71.148.149.196 (71.148.149.196) 1.676 ms 1.697 ms 1.705 ms
4 12.242.105.110 (12.242.105.110) 11.446 ms 11.482 ms 11.328 ms
5 12.122.163.34 (12.122.163.34) 7.641 ms 7.668 ms 11.438 ms
6 cr83.sj2ca.ip.att.net (12.122.158.9) 4.025 ms 3.368 ms 3.394 ms
7 * * *
...
</code></pre>
So they&#x27;re hours into this outage and still haven&#x27;t re-established connectivity to their own DNS servers.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jonny_eh</author><text><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;sheeraf&#x2F;status&#x2F;1445099150316503057" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;sheeraf&#x2F;status&#x2F;1445099150316503057</a></text></comment> |
28,648,999 | 28,648,323 | 1 | 2 | 28,646,203 | train | <story><title>200k-year-old hand art found near a Tibetan hot spring</title><url>https://gizmodo.com/200-000-year-old-hand-art-found-near-a-tibetan-hot-spri-1847682046</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>cletus</author><text>What was the evolutionary advantage that being able to live at high altitudes 200,000 years ago gave you? There really weren&#x27;t that many people around so finding land with available food and water doesn&#x27;t seem like it would be that much of an issue.<p>One possible argument is that such people would transit high altitudes going between hunting grounds (for example) but is this really enough pressure to produce a genetic advantage like this?<p>Now nature does tend to want to find niches because having food only you can eat tends to be of more value than having abundant food other people can also eat (eg pandas and bamboo).<p>But it&#x27;s not easy for humans to live at 14,000 feet elevation. Animals are scarce. Vegetation is limited (eg trees likely to be conifers).<p>This is different to just, say, living in Arctic regions as those do have much more available food options (eg fish, migrating game, plants that can grow in the summer) than high altitudes.<p>Has anyone put much thought into this?</text></item><item><author>themgt</author><text>Found at 14,000ft on the Tibetan Plateau. Very likely altitude adapted denisovans, whose genetic adaptations to living in such low oxygen are still present in modern day Tibetans. Really incredible.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>AlotOfReading</author><text>The &#x27;why&#x27; is pretty much unknowable. Evolution doesn&#x27;t push organisms to do new things, it simply responds to existing selective constraints. What we observe is that Humans (even archaic ones) seem to have expanded into virtually every region they could find, regardless of how hospitable it was. This particular set of changes happens to reduce physiological stress at high altitude, so it was preserved in populations experiencing that constraint.</text></comment> | <story><title>200k-year-old hand art found near a Tibetan hot spring</title><url>https://gizmodo.com/200-000-year-old-hand-art-found-near-a-tibetan-hot-spri-1847682046</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>cletus</author><text>What was the evolutionary advantage that being able to live at high altitudes 200,000 years ago gave you? There really weren&#x27;t that many people around so finding land with available food and water doesn&#x27;t seem like it would be that much of an issue.<p>One possible argument is that such people would transit high altitudes going between hunting grounds (for example) but is this really enough pressure to produce a genetic advantage like this?<p>Now nature does tend to want to find niches because having food only you can eat tends to be of more value than having abundant food other people can also eat (eg pandas and bamboo).<p>But it&#x27;s not easy for humans to live at 14,000 feet elevation. Animals are scarce. Vegetation is limited (eg trees likely to be conifers).<p>This is different to just, say, living in Arctic regions as those do have much more available food options (eg fish, migrating game, plants that can grow in the summer) than high altitudes.<p>Has anyone put much thought into this?</text></item><item><author>themgt</author><text>Found at 14,000ft on the Tibetan Plateau. Very likely altitude adapted denisovans, whose genetic adaptations to living in such low oxygen are still present in modern day Tibetans. Really incredible.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>prescriptivist</author><text>Just spitballing but maybe at that altitude humans tipped some sort of scale where they were more efficient predators of whatever was up there but below that altitude the larger pleistocene megafauna of the time represented a higher predation risk to humans themselves or there was less post kill (scavenger) competition.</text></comment> |
16,983,784 | 16,983,847 | 1 | 2 | 16,982,986 | train | <story><title>GitHub's online schema migration for MySQL</title><url>https://github.com/github/gh-ost</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>perlgeek</author><text>We evaluated gh-ost, but the killer for us is that it doesn&#x27;t support any kind of foreign keys.<p>I understand that at GitHub&#x27;s scale, foreign keys might be more of a hassle than what they are worth, but for a smallish company that values data integrity over scale and uptime, this is not an acceptable choice.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>shlomi-noach</author><text>Author of gh-ost here. Actually, it should be possible to support child-side foreign keys. They would have to be named differently (the foreign key constraint has a unique name in a schema) -- but it should work. See discussion in <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;github&#x2F;gh-ost&#x2F;issues&#x2F;507" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;github&#x2F;gh-ost&#x2F;issues&#x2F;507</a><p>It is true that it is not on our roadmap to implement FK support for gh-ost (see <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;github&#x2F;gh-ost&#x2F;issues&#x2F;331" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;github&#x2F;gh-ost&#x2F;issues&#x2F;331</a>), but if anyone wishes to contribute support for FK we&#x27;re grateful. We&#x27;ve had more complex contributions coming from the community and we&#x27;re grateful for those.</text></comment> | <story><title>GitHub's online schema migration for MySQL</title><url>https://github.com/github/gh-ost</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>perlgeek</author><text>We evaluated gh-ost, but the killer for us is that it doesn&#x27;t support any kind of foreign keys.<p>I understand that at GitHub&#x27;s scale, foreign keys might be more of a hassle than what they are worth, but for a smallish company that values data integrity over scale and uptime, this is not an acceptable choice.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>cup-of-tea</author><text>I&#x27;m interested to know what companies are doing &quot;at scale&quot; to not need to use foreign keys. Do they just write user ids or whatnot into other tables?</text></comment> |
40,489,504 | 40,488,429 | 1 | 2 | 40,487,419 | train | <story><title>Is regulated BGP security coming?</title><url>https://blog.apnic.net/2024/05/23/is-regulated-bgp-security-coming/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ozr</author><text>BGP operators _have_ self-organized sufficient security measures. Compared to just about any other attack vector on the internet, BGP hijacking is among the least likely to impact most people.</text></item><item><author>zokier</author><text>Internet community has had plenty of time and opportunity to self-organize sufficient security measures. The need for security has been long recognized, and it&#x27;s understandable that powers that be are getting impatient. While obviously it would be preferable that industry would voluntarily do stuff, if they don&#x27;t then I guess it is justifiable that they get regulated.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rabite</author><text>Given that accidents involving BGP within the past several years have led to worldwide outages in the world&#x27;s most used websites this is just not true. Also thousands of known bad announcements occur every year, which are usually used in a very small window to send large volumes of abusive advertisements.<p>There&#x27;s no reason not to force the industry to hold people accountable for false announcements. The privilege of announcement should be acquired by posting a significant amount of capital as a bond, from which damages can be removed when a system makes a false announcement. The vast majority of damages are a result of network operators on the subcontinent -- it is high time we figure out how to make them take the issue seriously, and pay out the nose until they do.</text></comment> | <story><title>Is regulated BGP security coming?</title><url>https://blog.apnic.net/2024/05/23/is-regulated-bgp-security-coming/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ozr</author><text>BGP operators _have_ self-organized sufficient security measures. Compared to just about any other attack vector on the internet, BGP hijacking is among the least likely to impact most people.</text></item><item><author>zokier</author><text>Internet community has had plenty of time and opportunity to self-organize sufficient security measures. The need for security has been long recognized, and it&#x27;s understandable that powers that be are getting impatient. While obviously it would be preferable that industry would voluntarily do stuff, if they don&#x27;t then I guess it is justifiable that they get regulated.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>awaythrow999</author><text>Threat models matter. If you&#x27;re defending against nation state actors in a military&#x2F;cyber context it is an essential part of the overall defense strategy. Ignoring BGP on the grounds that &quot;it was always insecure&quot; is then just weird, if not reckless.<p>The SCION project (Iirc from ZTH) solved all of this and also has been extensively tried in the field.</text></comment> |
11,675,503 | 11,675,675 | 1 | 3 | 11,674,267 | train | <story><title>Qt Creator 4.0.0 released</title><url>https://blog.qt.io/blog/2016/05/11/qt-creator-4-0-0-released/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>steaminghacker</author><text>I&#x27;m using Qt quick (LGPL version) for development. After a bit of a learning curve, i really like it.<p>Its important to recognise that QtQuick and QtWidgets are _different_ systems. Quick is all on the GPU. It awesome for building touch based apps. I&#x27;m currently targeting desktop development. I haven&#x27;t found much else that will use the GPU pipeline in an easy way.</text></comment> | <story><title>Qt Creator 4.0.0 released</title><url>https://blog.qt.io/blog/2016/05/11/qt-creator-4-0-0-released/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>IshKebab</author><text>This is awesome. Qt Creator is one of the best C++ IDEs there is (I&#x27;d say second only to Visual Studio, and that&#x27;s debatable).</text></comment> |
13,490,899 | 13,490,927 | 1 | 2 | 13,490,545 | train | <story><title>Venezuela arrests 4 bitcoin miners as trading highs continue</title><url>http://bitcoinist.com/venezuela-arrests-bitcoin-miners/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>koolba</author><text>Of all the places to mine Bitcoin, why Venezuela? Is the electricity subsidized enough to justify all the other headaches associates with running an operation out of there?<p>With the instability of their currency I can understand why someone would want to use or buy bitcoin, but why mine there?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>climber_mac</author><text>I&#x27;m from Venezuela, and happen to know a few people that are mining bitcoin down there. Electricity is incredibly cheap! You practically don&#x27;t have to factor electricity costs in your operation. Yes, the grid is very unstable, but you can always by generators that run on gasoline (which is also incredibly cheap! a full tank of gas for your car will cost less than 0.1 USD.)<p>Now, this is obviously horrible for the environment. But what can you expect when your own currency is being rapidly destroyed by the power-hungry idiots that have taken hold of the country. Let&#x27;s hope for a brighter future.</text></comment> | <story><title>Venezuela arrests 4 bitcoin miners as trading highs continue</title><url>http://bitcoinist.com/venezuela-arrests-bitcoin-miners/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>koolba</author><text>Of all the places to mine Bitcoin, why Venezuela? Is the electricity subsidized enough to justify all the other headaches associates with running an operation out of there?<p>With the instability of their currency I can understand why someone would want to use or buy bitcoin, but why mine there?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>csomar</author><text>I suspect electricity is pegged to the official rate. This makes it heavily subsidized even if it isn&#x27;t. (The spread between the official and black market rate is huge)<p>So basically they are buying electricity at official rate and then selling the proceeds in the black market. Rinse and repeat. I suspect, also, their biggest challenge is to get the miners inside the country (since they are usually huge in size)</text></comment> |
26,036,628 | 26,036,266 | 1 | 2 | 26,034,665 | train | <story><title>Factorio Future Plans</title><url>https://www.factorio.com/blog/post/fff-365</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>hirundo</author><text>I love this team and their game and have ~1k hours in it. But I hope they soon choose to do a whole new game. Incremental improvements to their masterpiece is a suboptimal use of their talents. Just a few more bulbs in an already brilliant room. A fresh start would be a bigger risk but for a possibly bigger payoff for us.<p>I&#x27;d love to see their take on something like Universal Paperclips or Dyson Sphere. So many homages have been built to Factorio; they could return the favor.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Cthulhu_</author><text>Given the sheer amount of work that went into Factorio, it feels like a waste to just park it and move onto something else; it has a solid base to work off of. Its performance and the amount of Stuff it simulates is amazing.<p>I&#x27;m thinking they may get inspired by some of the mods out there; there&#x27;s a mod to go into space (build a factory inside of a spaceship) and land on other planets, for example. They could reach out to those and buy it, iirc that&#x27;s what happened with some of the KSP features and addons as well.<p>I wouldn&#x27;t mind if they&#x27;d do something big with the enemies &#x2F; monsters. Maybe introduce a new antagonist entirely.<p>Or a whole new class of sea and&#x2F;or undersea base buildings, with unique resources that have to be launched up to the surface for your main base to process.<p>Or satellite bases too far away for even trains and the like, where you need long-term transports (container ships, ICBM&#x27;s) to get stuff.</text></comment> | <story><title>Factorio Future Plans</title><url>https://www.factorio.com/blog/post/fff-365</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>hirundo</author><text>I love this team and their game and have ~1k hours in it. But I hope they soon choose to do a whole new game. Incremental improvements to their masterpiece is a suboptimal use of their talents. Just a few more bulbs in an already brilliant room. A fresh start would be a bigger risk but for a possibly bigger payoff for us.<p>I&#x27;d love to see their take on something like Universal Paperclips or Dyson Sphere. So many homages have been built to Factorio; they could return the favor.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>sandworm101</author><text>Yes, but one-hit wonders are more common than repeat hits. I&#x27;m reminded of Notch&#x27;s post-minecraft dreams, that space game that never got off the ground. Or KSP. Monkey Squad boiled out into nothing (KSP2 is a different team). I think they should milk the cow they have by launching massive content expansions (Take my money!).<p>Imho Factorio&#x27;s next step should be into 3d. I don&#x27;t mean a 3d game render, I mean factories biuld on different planes, or even a spherical planet. There is a game out there (I shall not name) that is claiming to be a multi-planet 3d version of factorio. People do want more.</text></comment> |
39,090,903 | 39,090,012 | 1 | 3 | 39,088,991 | train | <story><title>What happens when an astronaut in orbit says he's not coming back?</title><url>https://arstechnica.com/space/2024/01/solving-a-nasa-mystery-why-did-space-shuttle-commanders-lock-the-hatch/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>GeoAtreides</author><text>&gt; If you hate the format of these kinds of article<p>You mean long-form articles? <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Long-form_journalism" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Long-form_journalism</a><p>I don&#x27;t think the problem is with the format, but with your expectations. Somehow you were expecting a straight answer to the question in the title; instead, it&#x27;s a detailed look into the incident and the context around it.</text></item><item><author>wantsanagent</author><text>If you hate the format of these kinds of article let me summarize:<p>Guy builds an experiment, flies it, it doesn&#x27;t work, requests more time to get it working, is denied, threatens &#x27;not to come back&#x27;, goes into a depression, worries crew that he&#x27;ll open the door to space, eventually granted more time to work on the experiment, gets it working.<p>There are consequences for letting this kind of person fly and dealing with mental health while on a mission, but that&#x27;s the basic plot.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mattjaynes</author><text>No, this is not simply &quot;long-form&quot;, this is &quot;in medias res&quot; where the story starts at a heightened moment of tension, then abruptly stops and rewinds to go back to fill in details of how they got to this exciting moment.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;In_medias_res" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;In_medias_res</a><p>Sometimes it&#x27;s done to great effect, like in Fight Club (film starts with him at the climax with a gun in his mouth, then rewinds and tells the story).<p>However, it is often used as a clumsy device by novice writers. They use it to get the audience to stick around for their mostly boring story.<p>I see this a lot on Youtube. The Youtuber will start with a compelling question and story, like &quot;There he was... tied to the wall as he watched the firing squad load their weapons with gun powder.... But before we continue our story, what is gun powder? Well, it&#x27;s composed of potassium nitrate, blah, blah, blah....&quot;<p>You can tell if &quot;in medias res&quot; is done well or poorly by how you react to it. If you are excited for the detour, then it&#x27;s done well. If instead it feels like a long annoying interruption you want to skip, then it&#x27;s done poorly.<p>For me, it&#x27;s done poorly in this article. I read the first compelling section, then the writer slows everything down to a snail&#x27;s pace to go into some very dry history of NASA without ever really giving a good payoff to the story he opened with.</text></comment> | <story><title>What happens when an astronaut in orbit says he's not coming back?</title><url>https://arstechnica.com/space/2024/01/solving-a-nasa-mystery-why-did-space-shuttle-commanders-lock-the-hatch/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>GeoAtreides</author><text>&gt; If you hate the format of these kinds of article<p>You mean long-form articles? <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Long-form_journalism" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Long-form_journalism</a><p>I don&#x27;t think the problem is with the format, but with your expectations. Somehow you were expecting a straight answer to the question in the title; instead, it&#x27;s a detailed look into the incident and the context around it.</text></item><item><author>wantsanagent</author><text>If you hate the format of these kinds of article let me summarize:<p>Guy builds an experiment, flies it, it doesn&#x27;t work, requests more time to get it working, is denied, threatens &#x27;not to come back&#x27;, goes into a depression, worries crew that he&#x27;ll open the door to space, eventually granted more time to work on the experiment, gets it working.<p>There are consequences for letting this kind of person fly and dealing with mental health while on a mission, but that&#x27;s the basic plot.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>QuantumGood</author><text>Nowadays there is so much fluff added (as an &quot;SEO hack&quot; to increase reading time) to what could be otherwise short posts, that long-form was bound to suffer by association. Of course, some never liked long form. I prefer it, but not it&#x27;s SEO&#x27;d brethren</text></comment> |
23,270,190 | 23,267,175 | 1 | 2 | 23,265,518 | train | <story><title>Firefox extensions to make remote work and school a little better</title><url>https://blog.mozilla.org/firefox/firefox-extensions-work-from-home/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ShamelessC</author><text>I love tree style tabs but it takes up <i>a lot</i> of horizontal screen real estate. It&#x27;s great when my browser is in fullscreen but most of the time I have a terminal on the right half with my browser on the left. This winds up smooshing the actual website to switch to a mobile layout (if I&#x27;m lucky). Otherwise the website is rendered useless.<p>Is it possible to make the sidebar float atop the webpage instead of pushing the content in? Then perhaps it could quickly autohide as you move your cursor near it.</text></item><item><author>nine_k</author><text>I can&#x27;t describe in short how Tree Style Tab improves tab management.<p>* You can logically organize tabs, very valuable when you researching something, or when you work on multiple related web pages. Say, issue tracker, a PR or two github for this issue, a couple of doc pages related to the code, etc. The beauty of it is that the tabs mostly self-organize based on the opening order.<p>* You can expand and contract whole subtrees to keep current things in focus, and other things, readily available.<p>* You can have 30 or 50 tabs and still actually read the captions of the tabs!<p>* You can bookmark the whole subtree, or move it to a separate window, or close all of its tabs, or refresh all of its tabs, etc.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>barrkel</author><text>On wide screen monitors, a maximized browser is almost pointless these days - either lines are uncomfortably long, or on better designed sites, margins are enormous.<p>I generally size my Firefox so that the viewing portal is approximately square - the area with content is as wide as my monitor is high - leaving plenty of space for tab tree on the left, and then another 1&#x2F;4 of a screen for things like terminals to be cascaded.<p>Cascaded windows are more efficient than tiled or docked windows. The bottom left corner of cascaded windows act a bit like tabs for selecting a window.<p>This is on two 30&quot; monitors. If you&#x27;re on a laptop then things may be different. On my Macbook, I fullscreen most apps and swipe between them, but I don&#x27;t do any serious work on laptop screens, they&#x27;re too small.</text></comment> | <story><title>Firefox extensions to make remote work and school a little better</title><url>https://blog.mozilla.org/firefox/firefox-extensions-work-from-home/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ShamelessC</author><text>I love tree style tabs but it takes up <i>a lot</i> of horizontal screen real estate. It&#x27;s great when my browser is in fullscreen but most of the time I have a terminal on the right half with my browser on the left. This winds up smooshing the actual website to switch to a mobile layout (if I&#x27;m lucky). Otherwise the website is rendered useless.<p>Is it possible to make the sidebar float atop the webpage instead of pushing the content in? Then perhaps it could quickly autohide as you move your cursor near it.</text></item><item><author>nine_k</author><text>I can&#x27;t describe in short how Tree Style Tab improves tab management.<p>* You can logically organize tabs, very valuable when you researching something, or when you work on multiple related web pages. Say, issue tracker, a PR or two github for this issue, a couple of doc pages related to the code, etc. The beauty of it is that the tabs mostly self-organize based on the opening order.<p>* You can expand and contract whole subtrees to keep current things in focus, and other things, readily available.<p>* You can have 30 or 50 tabs and still actually read the captions of the tabs!<p>* You can bookmark the whole subtree, or move it to a separate window, or close all of its tabs, or refresh all of its tabs, etc.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>sp332</author><text>You can turn it on and off quickly with the F1 key. And I&#x27;m pretty sure the hotkey is configurable.</text></comment> |
30,418,811 | 30,418,111 | 1 | 2 | 30,417,629 | train | <story><title>Medieval Photoshop</title><url>https://leidenmedievalistsblog.nl/articles/medieval-photoshop</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>michaelbuckbee</author><text>The last time I was at a museum I learned that some medieval painters would create &quot;templates&quot; of a sort where the majority of the painting would be complete except the face. They&#x27;d travel around and if you bought the painting they&#x27;d fill it in with your face. It makes a lot of sense, but was a level of automation and customization I hadn&#x27;t considered.</text></comment> | <story><title>Medieval Photoshop</title><url>https://leidenmedievalistsblog.nl/articles/medieval-photoshop</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>subjectsigma</author><text>The YouTube channel Shadiversity has a series called &#x27;Medieval Misconceptions&#x27; which I really enjoy: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtube.com&#x2F;playlist?list=PLWklwxMTl4sx73IrJ4PPUJmulfsHxBJ7M" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtube.com&#x2F;playlist?list=PLWklwxMTl4sx73IrJ4PPUJmul...</a><p>The overarching theme of this series is that <i>medieval people were not dumb, they just had different cultures and less technology</i>. The more I learn about it the more I come to appreciate this idea.<p>Of <i>course</i> if drawing images was expensive and difficult, someone would find a way to make copies and edits of existing images! It&#x27;s what any of us would do.</text></comment> |
20,740,257 | 20,739,434 | 1 | 3 | 20,736,586 | train | <story><title>Wireless Carrier Throttling of Online Video Is Pervasive: Study</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-08-19/wireless-carrier-throttling-of-online-video-is-pervasive-study</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jerkstate</author><text>In those days it was typical for the costs of peering to be borne by the sender, relative to the traffic ratio. This changed when Netflix and Youtube decided to use their PR and lobbying strength to bring the negotiation to the court of public opinion - and normal people started referring to typical peering cost-sharing agreements using emotionally loaded words like &quot;ransom&quot;</text></item><item><author>jedberg</author><text>Yup, and in Comcast&#x27;s case, when Netflix finally paid Comcast&#x27;s ransom, the problem was suddenly fixed a few minutes later, because Comcast literally just had to reconfigure the router and plug in a second cable.</text></item><item><author>briffle</author><text>Not to mention, they can now go and ask that provider to pay them for the right to &#x27;upgrade&#x27; their connection, to enable their customers to get what they are paying the ISP for.</text></item><item><author>jedberg</author><text>This is your ISP being sneaky, but probably not in the way you think. This is what Netflix has been complaining about for years.<p>Your ISP is purposely providing a too-small link to your video provider. So when a lot of people are using that provider, it gets slow. When you switch to another provider, or a VPN, you get to use a fast connection to that other VPN that isn&#x27;t overloaded, and then a fast connection back to your video provider.<p>This way your ISP can claim they are not throttling traffic because they aren&#x27;t inspecting the packets for traffic shaping, they are just using physically poor connectivity to certain providers for traffic shaping.</text></item><item><author>ben7799</author><text>I keep thinking I see this on my wired (Comcast) connection too.<p>Stuff just behaves too strangely for it to be anything else.<p>One video provider will get slow. Switch to the mobile connection and it&#x27;s fine. Switch to another site on the wired connection, that&#x27;s fine too.<p>They&#x27;ve made it perfectly clear they&#x27;re unhappy I won&#x27;t pay them an extra $100+&#x2F;month for 900 channels of crap over and over.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>FireBeyond</author><text>Okay, let&#x27;s go the other route then. BackBlaze, CrashPlan. These are companies where Comcast&#x2F;other ISP customers are sending THEM huge amounts of data and getting nearly nothing in return.<p>So these ISPs should be bearing the costs of peering to backup providers, correct, by your logic? Or would that be the backup providers holding ISPs to &quot;ransom&quot;?<p>Apropos of anything else, ISPs (generally) provide massively asymmetric pipes. You can&#x27;t provide an asymmetric pipe and then complain that data use on that pipe is, well, asymmetric.</text></comment> | <story><title>Wireless Carrier Throttling of Online Video Is Pervasive: Study</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-08-19/wireless-carrier-throttling-of-online-video-is-pervasive-study</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jerkstate</author><text>In those days it was typical for the costs of peering to be borne by the sender, relative to the traffic ratio. This changed when Netflix and Youtube decided to use their PR and lobbying strength to bring the negotiation to the court of public opinion - and normal people started referring to typical peering cost-sharing agreements using emotionally loaded words like &quot;ransom&quot;</text></item><item><author>jedberg</author><text>Yup, and in Comcast&#x27;s case, when Netflix finally paid Comcast&#x27;s ransom, the problem was suddenly fixed a few minutes later, because Comcast literally just had to reconfigure the router and plug in a second cable.</text></item><item><author>briffle</author><text>Not to mention, they can now go and ask that provider to pay them for the right to &#x27;upgrade&#x27; their connection, to enable their customers to get what they are paying the ISP for.</text></item><item><author>jedberg</author><text>This is your ISP being sneaky, but probably not in the way you think. This is what Netflix has been complaining about for years.<p>Your ISP is purposely providing a too-small link to your video provider. So when a lot of people are using that provider, it gets slow. When you switch to another provider, or a VPN, you get to use a fast connection to that other VPN that isn&#x27;t overloaded, and then a fast connection back to your video provider.<p>This way your ISP can claim they are not throttling traffic because they aren&#x27;t inspecting the packets for traffic shaping, they are just using physically poor connectivity to certain providers for traffic shaping.</text></item><item><author>ben7799</author><text>I keep thinking I see this on my wired (Comcast) connection too.<p>Stuff just behaves too strangely for it to be anything else.<p>One video provider will get slow. Switch to the mobile connection and it&#x27;s fine. Switch to another site on the wired connection, that&#x27;s fine too.<p>They&#x27;ve made it perfectly clear they&#x27;re unhappy I won&#x27;t pay them an extra $100+&#x2F;month for 900 channels of crap over and over.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ummonk</author><text>Netflix provides boxes it can plugin to local exchange points so all the ISP has to do is carry the last mile. How is that not sender pays?</text></comment> |
34,454,320 | 34,453,170 | 1 | 2 | 34,452,845 | train | <story><title>Amazon job cuts: Read the memos</title><url>https://www.cnbc.com/2023/01/18/amazon-job-cuts-read-the-memos.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>eganist</author><text>Super interesting seeing companies grow like wildfire and overspend as returns for investors skyrocket, and then as the market swings downward, they buoy their stock prices a bit by just as quickly cutting heads.<p>The inverted accountability scheme for leaders doing this is another perverse enabling factor; I&#x27;ve complained about this before, but that tends to lead to flames about why founders etc. can&#x27;t have ownership of headcount and the fate of their companies etc.<p>I&#x27;m not seeing a clear solution for this culture of toying with thousands of peoples&#x27; lives for a quick buck... well, aside from the (sadly) politically loaded move to unionize more white collar work and thus provide actual accountability. Why unions are a political matter is beyond me; IATSE uses their strength to ensure excellent benefits for their members in media&#x2F;entertainment.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jaqalopes</author><text>Unionization is the correct response here. The incentives of company leaders simply don&#x27;t account for workers&#x27; desire to not lose their jobs. The only way to change this is for workers to change said incentives--by organizing. Of course, easy for me to say as a freelancer. I&#x27;m definitely not trying to say unionizing tech would be easy. But it certainly is simple, at least conceptually.</text></comment> | <story><title>Amazon job cuts: Read the memos</title><url>https://www.cnbc.com/2023/01/18/amazon-job-cuts-read-the-memos.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>eganist</author><text>Super interesting seeing companies grow like wildfire and overspend as returns for investors skyrocket, and then as the market swings downward, they buoy their stock prices a bit by just as quickly cutting heads.<p>The inverted accountability scheme for leaders doing this is another perverse enabling factor; I&#x27;ve complained about this before, but that tends to lead to flames about why founders etc. can&#x27;t have ownership of headcount and the fate of their companies etc.<p>I&#x27;m not seeing a clear solution for this culture of toying with thousands of peoples&#x27; lives for a quick buck... well, aside from the (sadly) politically loaded move to unionize more white collar work and thus provide actual accountability. Why unions are a political matter is beyond me; IATSE uses their strength to ensure excellent benefits for their members in media&#x2F;entertainment.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>brookst</author><text>Do you think these people would have been better off if tech had carried net fewer heads the past couple of years? Having an extra 100k employed for two years is <i>worse</i> than those jobs just never existing?</text></comment> |
28,999,787 | 28,999,789 | 1 | 2 | 28,997,501 | train | <story><title>Privacy Is a Human Right</title><url>https://blog.torproject.org/privacy-is-a-human-right</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>freddyym</author><text>The best agrument is that privacy is power.[0] It is the power to influence you, show you adverts and predict your behaviour. Our personal data is being used as knowledge against us - as power against us. It is used to make us do things we otherwise would not do: to buy a certain product or to vote a certain way.<p>As companies share more information with governments, they are able to learn more and more about their citizens. Take Facebook, a company that Laura Poitras described as &#x27;a gift to intelligence agencies&#x27;[1]. Facebook allows governments to arrest people planning to participate in protests before they have even begun. This is just the tip of the iceberg.<p>Our privacy is eroding. As a society, we are beginning to accept this lack of privacy as normal: and this is extremely dangerous. Privacy provides a place for us to be ourselves, to express ourselves in new ways without fear of being watched by preying eyes. If we lose privacy then we lose this ability to experiment, and, more importantly, we lose our power.<p>[0]<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;aeon.co&#x2F;essays&#x2F;privacy-matters-because-it-empowers-us-all" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;aeon.co&#x2F;essays&#x2F;privacy-matters-because-it-empowers-u...</a><p>[1]<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.washingtonpost.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;the-switch&#x2F;wp&#x2F;2014&#x2F;10&#x2F;23&#x2F;snowden-filmmaker-laura-poitras-facebook-is-a-gift-to-intelligence-agencies&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.washingtonpost.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;the-switch&#x2F;wp&#x2F;2014&#x2F;10&#x2F;23...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>drdeadringer</author><text>&gt; The best agrument is that privacy is power.<p>I am reminded of the TV series &quot;The Prisoner&quot; out of BBC, especially the final episode &quot;Fall Out Pt2&quot;.<p>Expounds about &quot;the individual&#x27;s right to be individual&quot;, community, the status quo, and so forth.<p>And over that &quot;no&quot; is a complete sentence that needs no more explanation.</text></comment> | <story><title>Privacy Is a Human Right</title><url>https://blog.torproject.org/privacy-is-a-human-right</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>freddyym</author><text>The best agrument is that privacy is power.[0] It is the power to influence you, show you adverts and predict your behaviour. Our personal data is being used as knowledge against us - as power against us. It is used to make us do things we otherwise would not do: to buy a certain product or to vote a certain way.<p>As companies share more information with governments, they are able to learn more and more about their citizens. Take Facebook, a company that Laura Poitras described as &#x27;a gift to intelligence agencies&#x27;[1]. Facebook allows governments to arrest people planning to participate in protests before they have even begun. This is just the tip of the iceberg.<p>Our privacy is eroding. As a society, we are beginning to accept this lack of privacy as normal: and this is extremely dangerous. Privacy provides a place for us to be ourselves, to express ourselves in new ways without fear of being watched by preying eyes. If we lose privacy then we lose this ability to experiment, and, more importantly, we lose our power.<p>[0]<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;aeon.co&#x2F;essays&#x2F;privacy-matters-because-it-empowers-us-all" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;aeon.co&#x2F;essays&#x2F;privacy-matters-because-it-empowers-u...</a><p>[1]<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.washingtonpost.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;the-switch&#x2F;wp&#x2F;2014&#x2F;10&#x2F;23&#x2F;snowden-filmmaker-laura-poitras-facebook-is-a-gift-to-intelligence-agencies&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.washingtonpost.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;the-switch&#x2F;wp&#x2F;2014&#x2F;10&#x2F;23...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>austincheney</author><text>Adverts and telemetry suggest a third party. The more parties you introduce to any transaction the less private it becomes.<p>Actual real privacy would be between two parties that trust each other and encrypt their communications in both directions. That means no Facebook servers to intercept your commentary, send you advertisements, and send friend suggestions.</text></comment> |
27,046,394 | 27,046,154 | 1 | 3 | 27,045,741 | train | <story><title>Talk cancelled due to slides critical of Google and Facebook</title><url>https://twitter.com/randfish/status/1389279726305353730</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>fallingknife</author><text>The title is misleading. The whole presentation is critical of Google and FB. The conference was fine with the slides that criticized them for the way they do business with their partners. They asked for the removal of the slides that go into wider politics, like trying to blame FB&#x2F;Google for political extremism and income inequality. Totally reasonable decision IMO.</text></comment> | <story><title>Talk cancelled due to slides critical of Google and Facebook</title><url>https://twitter.com/randfish/status/1389279726305353730</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>pembrook</author><text>...and the Streisand effect strikes again.<p>Everything Rand was going to present is true. If you&#x27;re building your marketing efforts around the benevolent algorithmic dictators of Google and Facebook...you&#x27;re not really building a business. You&#x27;re sharecropping and building a house of cards. One algorithm change from the overlords and your business dries up overnight.<p>The fact that organizers are self-censoring their talks to avoid offending Google and Facebook is evidence alone that these companies have way too much power.<p>My favorite part is where he points out the massive mistake of everybody who drove their customers to a Facebook page and told them to &quot;like&quot; it. Facebook then disinter-mediated these customer relationships and cut business page reach to near zero (0.09% as he shows in one of the slides). These businesses ended up growing Facebook&#x27;s business more than their own.</text></comment> |
40,712,242 | 40,710,621 | 1 | 3 | 40,710,201 | train | <story><title>Sei pays out $2M bug bounty</title><url>https://usmannkhan.com/bug%20reports/2024/06/17/sei-bug-report.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>usmannk</author><text>Hey OP here, thanks for posting. Happy to answer any questions.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dustfinger</author><text>1. Roughly how many hours did you spend on the two bug reports (from recon to publication) that you have posted on your blog?<p>2. How extensive is your background in networking, blockchain programming and pen testing?<p>3. How many other bounties did you commit recon time to before the two successful disclosures?</text></comment> | <story><title>Sei pays out $2M bug bounty</title><url>https://usmannkhan.com/bug%20reports/2024/06/17/sei-bug-report.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>usmannk</author><text>Hey OP here, thanks for posting. Happy to answer any questions.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ayewo</author><text>1. For the 2nd issue you found, was the amount you redeemed after being paid really up to $2m USD?<p>2. From your other comments elsewhere in this thread, it sounds like you are a full-time bounty hunter, correct?</text></comment> |
26,603,661 | 26,603,533 | 1 | 2 | 26,602,033 | train | <story><title>Open Source Security Foundation</title><url>https://openssf.org/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>kimsterv</author><text>Honk! I represent Google on the OpenSSF, and help lead our Google Open Source Security Team. We&#x27;ve kicked off several projects inside the OpenSSF, and contribute to several other related efforts.<p>Here&#x27;s a non-exhaustive list:
Security Scorecards (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;ossf&#x2F;scorecard" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;ossf&#x2F;scorecard</a>): auto-generated security checks for OSS, Criticality Score (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;ossf&#x2F;criticality_score" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;ossf&#x2F;criticality_score</a>): auto-generated criticality score for OSS, Package Feeds (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;ossf&#x2F;package-feeds" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;ossf&#x2F;package-feeds</a>): watches package registries for updates, malware analysis tools, SLSA (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;slsa-framework&#x2F;slsa" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;slsa-framework&#x2F;slsa</a>): proposal for a supply chain integrity framework, Sigstore&#x2F;Cosign (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;sigstore.dev&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;sigstore.dev&#x2F;</a>): code signing made easy!<p>We are also investing and exploring different efforts for improving security of critical OSS projects, and making it sustainable! If any of these projects sound interesting, come join us in the OpenSSF Working Groups!<p>*edited formatting</text></comment> | <story><title>Open Source Security Foundation</title><url>https://openssf.org/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>scovetta</author><text>I work at Microsoft and lead one of the OpenSSF working groups (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;ossf&#x2F;wg-identifying-security-threats" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;ossf&#x2F;wg-identifying-security-threats</a>). We&#x27;re always looking for folks to join the conversation and contribute to any working groups. There is a public calendar for those meetings, and there is a recording of our last town hall at <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;openssf.org" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;openssf.org</a> under the Community menu at the top.<p>I&#x27;m also looking to hire a software&#x2F;security engineer to join our team at Microsoft, to improve security tooling and analysis around open source. This work will align&#x2F;contribute to OpenSSF projects. If you like having one foot in software development and the other in security, please take a look: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;careers.microsoft.com&#x2F;us&#x2F;en&#x2F;job&#x2F;1009857" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;careers.microsoft.com&#x2F;us&#x2F;en&#x2F;job&#x2F;1009857</a></text></comment> |
23,984,626 | 23,984,409 | 1 | 3 | 23,984,102 | train | <story><title>AMD Reports Q2 2020 Earnings</title><url>https://www.anandtech.com/show/15935/amd-reports-q2-2020-earnings-notebook-and-server-sales-drive-a-record-quarter</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>mythz</author><text>Interesting to compare Q2 2020 results between Intel &amp; AMD:<p>Intel
Revenue: 19.7B, Net Income: 5.1B, Market Cap: 209.42B, P&#x2F;E: 9.06<p>AMD
Revenue: 1.93B, Net Income: 157M, Market Cap: 79.2B, P&#x2F;E: 133.82<p>But by the sentiment of all media reports INTC is in sharp decline &amp; AMD is killing it, yet even in their most recent results Intel revenue&#x2F;earnings still dwarfs AMD&#x27;s.</text></comment> | <story><title>AMD Reports Q2 2020 Earnings</title><url>https://www.anandtech.com/show/15935/amd-reports-q2-2020-earnings-notebook-and-server-sales-drive-a-record-quarter</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>chvid</author><text>The real threat to intel comes from arm not amd. Amd is also threatened by arm.<p>If you compare with intels numbers. Then amd is a dwarf. And the growth figures are loosely following intels:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.intc.com&#x2F;investor-relations&#x2F;investor-education-and-news&#x2F;investor-news&#x2F;press-release-details&#x2F;2020&#x2F;Intel-Reports-Second-Quarter-2020-Financial-Results&#x2F;default.aspx" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.intc.com&#x2F;investor-relations&#x2F;investor-education-a...</a></text></comment> |
33,060,928 | 33,060,649 | 1 | 2 | 33,049,922 | train | <story><title>Build your fanbase using the K-pop method</title><url>https://lulu.substack.com/p/fandom</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>ziml77</author><text>Is any of this much different from pop boy bands of the 00&#x27;s? You make generic, catchy songs that are hard to resist. Then have a group of four or five attractive teens perform the song. And then Highlight each individual so people form a parasocial relationship with the band members. The fanaticism follows quite easily from there.</text></comment> | <story><title>Build your fanbase using the K-pop method</title><url>https://lulu.substack.com/p/fandom</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>carabiner</author><text>Real reason for K-pop success: hire the best Swedish pop songwriters in the world and give them carte blanche to create any crazy songs they want. Same with Korean car companies and hiring the best German and Italian designers. Start with money, import talent, then cut them loose.</text></comment> |
24,462,673 | 24,462,385 | 1 | 3 | 24,461,779 | train | <story><title>How to blur your house on Google Street View</title><url>https://mashable.com/article/how-to-blur-your-house-on-google-street-view/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>aflag</author><text>Interesting, I don&#x27;t think I&#x27;d mind not having the street view feature. The only reason I use it is to see how foreign countries look like. What are people using it for?</text></item><item><author>jasonvorhe</author><text>Wow, this resurfaces memories when conservative boulevard publications and parties in Germany turned people to fight Google Streetview in 2009 for &quot;privacy reasons&quot; and everyone fell for it and blurred their house. Today, everyone I know who blurred their house hates on Streetview pictures being close to useless because they haven&#x27;t been updated since 2009.<p>Google just didn&#x27;t update them after the mess they had to handle in Germany. And why would they.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>laurent92</author><text>Used Google Street View and 3D when looking to buy a house. It’s 10x more telling than the actual ad. You can see the slope, street size, the freespace on the sides, neighborhood debsity, the actual land size, the roof constitution. Ad photos tell you how it was renovated inside, which tells you nothing that you need to know.<p>It did fee like invading people in their garden, especially the satellite&#x2F;3D view. But so do the photos: if you are politically exposed or a Youtuber, it’s annoying to know people can use the ad photos to disqualify you on poverty topics.</text></comment> | <story><title>How to blur your house on Google Street View</title><url>https://mashable.com/article/how-to-blur-your-house-on-google-street-view/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>aflag</author><text>Interesting, I don&#x27;t think I&#x27;d mind not having the street view feature. The only reason I use it is to see how foreign countries look like. What are people using it for?</text></item><item><author>jasonvorhe</author><text>Wow, this resurfaces memories when conservative boulevard publications and parties in Germany turned people to fight Google Streetview in 2009 for &quot;privacy reasons&quot; and everyone fell for it and blurred their house. Today, everyone I know who blurred their house hates on Streetview pictures being close to useless because they haven&#x27;t been updated since 2009.<p>Google just didn&#x27;t update them after the mess they had to handle in Germany. And why would they.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>chiph</author><text>When I was buying my house, I used it to check out a neighborhood as a first-cut filter, prior to spending the time &amp; gas to go drive around in person.<p>If I&#x27;m driving somewhere new, I&#x27;ll use it to identify landmarks for turns. While I&#x27;ll often have the spoken map directions going on my phone, if the intersection is complex, streetview can help me get into the correct turn lane.<p>I wanted to use it for Germany prior to a trip a couple of years ago, but it looks like very little of the country has coverage, which is annoying. But it&#x27;s their country and if they don&#x27;t want camera cars photographing everything I can understand that.[0]<p>[0] I had a neighbor get divorced because of streetview. Back when it was new, the first thing everyone did was look up their home. Well, my neighbor saw a custom motorcycle parked out front that was not his.</text></comment> |
20,394,203 | 20,394,213 | 1 | 2 | 20,392,310 | train | <story><title>France to tax flights from its airports, airline shares fall</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/article/us-france-airlines-tax-idUSKCN1U412B</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>gns24</author><text>The UK already taxes flights in a similar way.
Whilst this does feel like progress, it would be much better to tax the fuel instead of the passengers. Virtually all other fuel is taxed, so it&#x27;s strange that jet fuel is exempt.
The problem with taxing passengers instead of fuel include:<p>- it doesn&#x27;t encourage improving the efficiency of planes<p>- airlines can&#x27;t fill their planes with really cheap seats, and empty seats seem like a ridiculous waste<p>- freight isn&#x27;t taxed<p>If you tax fuel too much there&#x27;s a risk that planes will fly in with enough fuel to fly out again, but that could be fixed by legislation or (better) by a standardised fuel tax across a large area.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rlpb</author><text>&gt; Virtually all other fuel is taxed, so it&#x27;s strange that jet fuel is exempt.<p>&quot;Without any international agreement on taxing fuel, it is highly likely that moves to impose
duty on international flights, either at a domestic or European level, would encourage
‘tankering’: carriers filling their aircraft as full as possible whenever they landed outside the
EU to avoid paying tax. Clearly this would be entirely counterproductive. Aircraft would be
travelling further than necessary to fill up in low-tax jurisdictions; in addition they would be
burning up more fuel when carrying the extra weight of a full fuel tank.&quot;<p>This document explains it pretty well: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.parliament.uk&#x2F;briefing-papers&#x2F;SN00523.pdf" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.parliament.uk&#x2F;briefing-papers&#x2F;SN00523.pdf</a></text></comment> | <story><title>France to tax flights from its airports, airline shares fall</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/article/us-france-airlines-tax-idUSKCN1U412B</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>gns24</author><text>The UK already taxes flights in a similar way.
Whilst this does feel like progress, it would be much better to tax the fuel instead of the passengers. Virtually all other fuel is taxed, so it&#x27;s strange that jet fuel is exempt.
The problem with taxing passengers instead of fuel include:<p>- it doesn&#x27;t encourage improving the efficiency of planes<p>- airlines can&#x27;t fill their planes with really cheap seats, and empty seats seem like a ridiculous waste<p>- freight isn&#x27;t taxed<p>If you tax fuel too much there&#x27;s a risk that planes will fly in with enough fuel to fly out again, but that could be fixed by legislation or (better) by a standardised fuel tax across a large area.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>selectodude</author><text>It&#x27;s illegal to tax fuel for international flights. Domestic fuel is already taxed but the Chicago Convention in 1944 set the ground rules for the ICAO and international air travel.</text></comment> |
40,603,025 | 40,602,974 | 1 | 2 | 40,602,455 | train | <story><title>Stallman Was Right</title><url>https://twitter.com/snowden/status/1798728673698443638</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>gavinhoward</author><text>And this is why the industry needs to professionalize, with a code of ethics and regulations so that we can tell our bosses no when they tell us to do this stuff.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gavinhoward.com&#x2F;2023&#x2F;11&#x2F;how-to-fund-foss-save-it-from-the-cra-and-improve-cybersecurity&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gavinhoward.com&#x2F;2023&#x2F;11&#x2F;how-to-fund-foss-save-it-fro...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Stallman Was Right</title><url>https://twitter.com/snowden/status/1798728673698443638</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>nehal3m</author><text>I pulled out of all clouds when it comes to my personal stuff recently (including streaming stuff, I just store music, movies and shows locally like I did 15 years ago). I didn&#x27;t realize I missed the simplicity so much. Just back up your stuff every now and again and you&#x27;re fine, no fees, no syncing, no requirement for a connection. Offline first. Storage is cheap as chips now so there&#x27;s not much of a barrier for I imagine most people.</text></comment> |
10,462,391 | 10,462,325 | 1 | 2 | 10,458,750 | train | <story><title>More parents, students saying 'no' to homework</title><url>http://www.philly.com/philly/education/20151026_More_parents__students_saying__no__to_homework.html#c5m34J1fBGIPuuwg.99</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>guimarin</author><text>I disagree with your comment about better teachers. Teachers are simply a conduit for learning. They don&#x27;t scale, which is why there is still a power-law distribution in educational outcomes despite tons or research and data and training and testing that should combat that. Basically rich people get richer because all rich people who are generationally consistently rich have one thing in common. They are autodidacts. If you can learn on your own, and have the capacity to recognize when the assumptions underpinning the status-quo are no longer correct, you can consistently remain wealthy relative to everyone else. True rich families understand this and teach it implicitly&#x2F;explicitly to their children. Who end up being the fertile ground on which &#x27;good teachers&#x27; have a multiplicative effect. This does not work for the poor as they lack the necessary base skills and knowledge to benefit from good teaching. Poor people still break through because circumstance often teaches people, like everyone who came from nothing on this message board, how to learn on their own without help or assistance from others. Advocating more assistance from others is not the solution. And for the same reason that sending $1T in aid to Africa has had mixed results.<p>Knowledge cannot be taught it must be learned.</text></item><item><author>unquietcode</author><text>Let&#x27;s not forget that the inhabitants of this website are almost certainly the kind of people who saw through the noise and got their education on their own terms. As we raise our kids we help them tip-toe around all this garbage, but most parents have no tools at their disposal to review and revise and push back against bad practices in their child&#x27;s education. The issue of education in this country needs to be addressed, but the system has to serve all types, including children who&#x27;s parents are unable to provide alternative structures and insights and &#x27;hacks&#x27; to get by.<p>That didn&#x27;t add much (I wasn&#x27;t trying), but these threads always seem to turn into an echo chamber of &quot;I got by without doing any homework!&quot; because, let&#x27;s face it, here we are. What is the 98% solution, I wonder, versus the 2% version? Of all that I&#x27;ve seen, it starts with better, smarter, well-paid, un-stressed, empathetic teachers. Students too afraid to think? Too pinned down to discover how best to learn for themselves? I just want to give all these poor kids a hug and tell them how smart they really are--it makes me so sad.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>justinhj</author><text>Your comments about rich families ignore completely the effect of status in life. Knowledge alone does not generate wealth. That needs work directed in the right direction which is also a lot easier if you have the society connections and the capital to pull off your ideas. The rich get richer because they can invest and buy successful businesses. Sending your kids to Eton to rub shoulders with royalty has far more to do with status than education.</text></comment> | <story><title>More parents, students saying 'no' to homework</title><url>http://www.philly.com/philly/education/20151026_More_parents__students_saying__no__to_homework.html#c5m34J1fBGIPuuwg.99</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>guimarin</author><text>I disagree with your comment about better teachers. Teachers are simply a conduit for learning. They don&#x27;t scale, which is why there is still a power-law distribution in educational outcomes despite tons or research and data and training and testing that should combat that. Basically rich people get richer because all rich people who are generationally consistently rich have one thing in common. They are autodidacts. If you can learn on your own, and have the capacity to recognize when the assumptions underpinning the status-quo are no longer correct, you can consistently remain wealthy relative to everyone else. True rich families understand this and teach it implicitly&#x2F;explicitly to their children. Who end up being the fertile ground on which &#x27;good teachers&#x27; have a multiplicative effect. This does not work for the poor as they lack the necessary base skills and knowledge to benefit from good teaching. Poor people still break through because circumstance often teaches people, like everyone who came from nothing on this message board, how to learn on their own without help or assistance from others. Advocating more assistance from others is not the solution. And for the same reason that sending $1T in aid to Africa has had mixed results.<p>Knowledge cannot be taught it must be learned.</text></item><item><author>unquietcode</author><text>Let&#x27;s not forget that the inhabitants of this website are almost certainly the kind of people who saw through the noise and got their education on their own terms. As we raise our kids we help them tip-toe around all this garbage, but most parents have no tools at their disposal to review and revise and push back against bad practices in their child&#x27;s education. The issue of education in this country needs to be addressed, but the system has to serve all types, including children who&#x27;s parents are unable to provide alternative structures and insights and &#x27;hacks&#x27; to get by.<p>That didn&#x27;t add much (I wasn&#x27;t trying), but these threads always seem to turn into an echo chamber of &quot;I got by without doing any homework!&quot; because, let&#x27;s face it, here we are. What is the 98% solution, I wonder, versus the 2% version? Of all that I&#x27;ve seen, it starts with better, smarter, well-paid, un-stressed, empathetic teachers. Students too afraid to think? Too pinned down to discover how best to learn for themselves? I just want to give all these poor kids a hug and tell them how smart they really are--it makes me so sad.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>JDiculous</author><text>That&#x27;s what I hate about school. It doesn&#x27;t teach or encourage autodidactism. Instead, it rewards those who do what they&#x27;re told and follow the status quo. You see it a lot in straight A students where they&#x27;re basically just really good at jumping through hoops given to them and have no creativity. Being able to answer problem sets from a textbook is great, but independent and original thought often requires you to step outside the box and question things.</text></comment> |
41,060,849 | 41,060,510 | 1 | 2 | 41,058,791 | train | <story><title>Intel confirms oxidation and excessive voltage in 13th and 14th Gen CPUs [video]</title><url>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OVdmK1UGzGs</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>proee</author><text>The fact any modern computer chip works reliability is a pure miracle. The process variations are extreme, and you often end up with a lot of B-level engineers&#x2F;technicians keeping things going. Having some experience in the semiconductor industry, it oftentimes felt like a lot of bubble gum and bailing wire was used to get the product out the door. Hats off to all the people keeping these systems alive and functioning.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>throwup238</author><text>I&#x27;ve worked on the construction of a large dam and I think that&#x27;s the case for most modern technology. Obviously once a dam is up and running it&#x27;s really stable compared to what goes on in a fab, but getting it built? That&#x27;s a whole other story.<p>The math and engineering behind dam construction are well understood but actually getting them built in practice is a years long story of yak shaving, cat herding, and trying to overcome every little piece of BS nature has to throw at the project. Unique and predictable geological conditions, unknown underground water sources, unexpected soil composition changes, surprise fault lines. Then there&#x27;s the logistical nightmare of actually moving all the equipment in and earth out, the weather and environmental factors that impede every action, humans ignoring safety altogether, and so on and on. All of this implemented by workers on the ground who just barely know what&#x27;s going on (for no fault of their own).<p>I&#x27;m continually surprised that anything complicated ever gets built at all.</text></comment> | <story><title>Intel confirms oxidation and excessive voltage in 13th and 14th Gen CPUs [video]</title><url>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OVdmK1UGzGs</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>proee</author><text>The fact any modern computer chip works reliability is a pure miracle. The process variations are extreme, and you often end up with a lot of B-level engineers&#x2F;technicians keeping things going. Having some experience in the semiconductor industry, it oftentimes felt like a lot of bubble gum and bailing wire was used to get the product out the door. Hats off to all the people keeping these systems alive and functioning.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jcynix</author><text>Similar to software, so the whole IT industry seems like a miracle sometimes. And the car industry gets more and more software installed ...</text></comment> |
7,410,034 | 7,410,165 | 1 | 2 | 7,409,555 | train | <story><title>Are Malls Over?</title><url>http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/currency/2014/03/are-malls-over.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tsunamifury</author><text>Forcing shopping activity and gathering into indoor brutalist buildings is dying, shopping centers are not. Look at union sq, 4th st, walnut creek, and many others in the sf bay. All are stronger than ever by offering very high end retail mixed with high quality independent offerings and unique chef-driven eateries.<p>What people have abandoned is indoor, stale, sunlight less, copycat malls with the same awful pizza and Chinese chains and the same terrible jewelry stores.<p>People want shopping centers to reflect regional and local character, be in town centers, and offer high quality unique options with a few staples. Get rid of the huge parking lots and add a grocer.<p>However tacitly this article is pointing to a possible larger problem in the Midwest where cold weather, and permanently depressed economy and a talent drain is leaving them without the tools to build interesting gathering places. This is a far larger and sadder issue.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>flexie</author><text>In Europe, malls are still constructed in many places and they have the advantage of being built a few decades after many of the US malls.<p>Where I live summers are a bit too warm and winters a bit too cold to make outdoor shopping joyful. Also, streets are noisy and full of aggressive drivers and the sidewalks are full of holes and broken tiles. So in the last few years this 1.5M population city has seen the construction of 10 shopping malls, most of which are actually really nice &quot;gathering places&quot; as you put it and most of which seem to thrive.<p>One advantage from most of the US malls that I have been to is that cars are parked under the malls, not around them, that most of the malls are built near subway or tram stops and that they somehow fit nicely into the surrounding architecture.<p>Often the malls are built in the city center and usually in a very nice quality. Usually the malls have one major supermarket chain in the basement that acts as an anchor store and usually they have a cinema and a food court in the top floor that offers not just the usual fast food but often also some decent food.<p>I really enjoy shopping in a mall and until someone fixes the problem of waiting and paying for delivery I don&#x27;t see online shopping making malls obsolete.</text></comment> | <story><title>Are Malls Over?</title><url>http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/currency/2014/03/are-malls-over.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tsunamifury</author><text>Forcing shopping activity and gathering into indoor brutalist buildings is dying, shopping centers are not. Look at union sq, 4th st, walnut creek, and many others in the sf bay. All are stronger than ever by offering very high end retail mixed with high quality independent offerings and unique chef-driven eateries.<p>What people have abandoned is indoor, stale, sunlight less, copycat malls with the same awful pizza and Chinese chains and the same terrible jewelry stores.<p>People want shopping centers to reflect regional and local character, be in town centers, and offer high quality unique options with a few staples. Get rid of the huge parking lots and add a grocer.<p>However tacitly this article is pointing to a possible larger problem in the Midwest where cold weather, and permanently depressed economy and a talent drain is leaving them without the tools to build interesting gathering places. This is a far larger and sadder issue.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jimmaswell</author><text>Brutalist? Don&#x27;t you think that&#x27;s a little hyperbolic? Every mall I&#x27;ve witnessed has had interior and exterior design far from brutalist. Pretty nice-looking, really.<p>A popular one around here actually has a large skylight spanning most of the middle of the roof.<p>There are a lot of good reasons to prefer an indoor place. The weather&#x27;s often not comfortable outside. It&#x27;s only really perfectly comfortable for a time throughout the year that sums to maybe a few months over here. Maybe you&#x27;re used to some place where it&#x27;s the perfect weather all year?<p>&quot;People want shopping centers to reflect regional and local character, be in town centers, and offer high quality unique options with a few staples. Get rid of the huge parking lots and add a grocer.&quot;<p>Do they really want all that, or do they just want some place with a bunch of stores and maybe a movie theater and food court, in a nice indoor climate-controlled environment and some light music in the background?<p>You just admitted in your last paragraph that the weather in that place makes an outdoor gathering less desirable.</text></comment> |
33,452,610 | 33,451,924 | 1 | 2 | 33,450,102 | train | <story><title>I am a quite good bad programmer</title><text>I find somethings actually strange. Per se, checking my quality as a developer with job interview questions I will receive a not so high grade. I would say between 5 to 7 out of 10. Not brilliant. But as a developer I think I am actually really good.<p>I never &quot;studied&quot; computer science in a regular way, but I am in the industry more than 20 years. I started as a hacker, reverse engineering, assembly code, moved to C and C++ and now web development in Node.JS, Go (golang) and Rust and Vanilla JS. Touched of course Python and Arduino and Raspberry PI.<p>I find it that my code and overall look as much better (if I can be a bit non modest for a second) than other developers even seniors.<p>- My code is highly readable with good comments and other can take over my code responsibility quite easily<p>- My code runs (and also complies) faster than other - I understands the usage of Hash &#x2F; Map instead of searching arrays and many other small things that actually enhance the code performance<p>- I know how to KISS (Keep it stupid and simple) and so I am able to write complicated software because the basic is simple and separated so my feasible to comprehend<p>- I understands Object Oriented correctly and knows where to use it and how and when to avoid it<p>- I know not to search always the latest new shiny thing (library or framework) and use legacy software that actually do the job when needed without complications<p>- I understand how the computer works, from BIOS, BUS to OS (Linux and Windows internals)<p>- I have (again if I may say) good product skills and some UX guts which helps me manage things on my own<p>All of this together allowed me to build and sell already two startups. Develop and maintain easily many web sites and SaaS which creates me nice passive income (such as https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gematrix.org).<p>So am I a good or bad programmer? - Still I will score quite low in job interview questions ...</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>andy_ppp</author><text>For a recent interview I was asked to build an IOC dependency injection library in 2h and the task was made “deliberately” unclear according to the interviewer. So I spent 2 days researching IOC libraries, building some nice examples of how it should work to get a feel for the API, writing tests up front, writing the library and adding docs. Then I got an interview! Fantastic I thought, I passed the technical with my 100% tested IOC container that had a nice interface for injecting dependencies and even options for injecting singletons or new class instances with configurations passed into the constructor.<p>Now I went through with them some extra things in the interview and fixed some things about the code and handled some things a bit better. After this investment of time I was told I didn’t handle errors well enough in this 100% coverage tested example code of a library. This in my opinion was not true or even discussed in the interview, error handling was certainly not specifically mentioned in the assignment.<p>Anyway to address your point, I don’t think you should necessarily believe what other people say about you in job interviews; there are various types of interviewer but mostly the feedback is post rationalisation of “that’s not how I would have done it” even if your solution solves the problem perfectly. For this reason I’ve decided unless I can’t afford to feed myself I will avoid doing at home coding exercises that are deliberately vague in the future.<p>If you want to get better at in person&#x2F;under pressure coding exercises I highly recommend taking on Advent of Code [1] one year, these are the opposite of the vague problem specified above as there is an exact and clear right answer to collect each star.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;adventofcode.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;adventofcode.com&#x2F;</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>AtlasBarfed</author><text>&quot;Build a custom IoC for an interview&quot;<p>Are you kidding me? The IoC research was probably good experience if you&#x27;ve never seen them before, but yeah you ran into the &quot;easier to criticize than do&quot;.<p>I almost guarantee none of the people involved went through the same interview process where they had to code something for two days. This is how the hazing cycle begins, because everyone thinks &quot;man I had it hard, and my hard experiences forged me, so I&#x27;ll be really hard on the next round of people&quot;.<p>Dumb idea. That is a conscious thought bubbling up from subconscious &quot;trauma&quot; and humans for whatever reason replay &#x2F; reinflict their repressed emotional damage on others. I believe this is because trauma makes you feel alone, and it makes a person feel less alone.<p>But anyway, so the organization hazes people, who then haze the next round even worse, who then haze the next round even more really bad worse.<p>This basically is what IT interviewing is after 20 years of collective downward spiral hazing.<p>The military generally has this figured out with basic training. Basic training is basically hazing to toughen up and desensitive normal humans into becoming soldiers. But the military seems to have a policy &#x2F; training feedback loop that prevents the hazing from getting worse, and staying at the level of psychological impact that they get the desired result from.<p>Interview gauntlets have a desired result: filter out the chaff, get good candidates. As google itself shows, one of the progenitors (along with MIcrosoft) of the great interview hazing feedback loop, that it doesn&#x27;t work. The end goal of &quot;good employee&#x2F;developer&quot; isn&#x27;t enhanced by the gauntlet&#x2F;hazing. And yet everyone does worse and worse variants (look at Amazon: people hate working there, and the reputation of a horrible workplace IN IT, not just on the warehouse floor, is now ubiquitous in the industry).<p>Anyway, fuck our industry interviewing hazing. What a stupid bunch of apes we all are, interviewing in ostensibly a purely mathematical&#x2F;technical domain has been reduced to a bunch of Lord of the Flies level dystopian human psychology.</text></comment> | <story><title>I am a quite good bad programmer</title><text>I find somethings actually strange. Per se, checking my quality as a developer with job interview questions I will receive a not so high grade. I would say between 5 to 7 out of 10. Not brilliant. But as a developer I think I am actually really good.<p>I never &quot;studied&quot; computer science in a regular way, but I am in the industry more than 20 years. I started as a hacker, reverse engineering, assembly code, moved to C and C++ and now web development in Node.JS, Go (golang) and Rust and Vanilla JS. Touched of course Python and Arduino and Raspberry PI.<p>I find it that my code and overall look as much better (if I can be a bit non modest for a second) than other developers even seniors.<p>- My code is highly readable with good comments and other can take over my code responsibility quite easily<p>- My code runs (and also complies) faster than other - I understands the usage of Hash &#x2F; Map instead of searching arrays and many other small things that actually enhance the code performance<p>- I know how to KISS (Keep it stupid and simple) and so I am able to write complicated software because the basic is simple and separated so my feasible to comprehend<p>- I understands Object Oriented correctly and knows where to use it and how and when to avoid it<p>- I know not to search always the latest new shiny thing (library or framework) and use legacy software that actually do the job when needed without complications<p>- I understand how the computer works, from BIOS, BUS to OS (Linux and Windows internals)<p>- I have (again if I may say) good product skills and some UX guts which helps me manage things on my own<p>All of this together allowed me to build and sell already two startups. Develop and maintain easily many web sites and SaaS which creates me nice passive income (such as https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gematrix.org).<p>So am I a good or bad programmer? - Still I will score quite low in job interview questions ...</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>andy_ppp</author><text>For a recent interview I was asked to build an IOC dependency injection library in 2h and the task was made “deliberately” unclear according to the interviewer. So I spent 2 days researching IOC libraries, building some nice examples of how it should work to get a feel for the API, writing tests up front, writing the library and adding docs. Then I got an interview! Fantastic I thought, I passed the technical with my 100% tested IOC container that had a nice interface for injecting dependencies and even options for injecting singletons or new class instances with configurations passed into the constructor.<p>Now I went through with them some extra things in the interview and fixed some things about the code and handled some things a bit better. After this investment of time I was told I didn’t handle errors well enough in this 100% coverage tested example code of a library. This in my opinion was not true or even discussed in the interview, error handling was certainly not specifically mentioned in the assignment.<p>Anyway to address your point, I don’t think you should necessarily believe what other people say about you in job interviews; there are various types of interviewer but mostly the feedback is post rationalisation of “that’s not how I would have done it” even if your solution solves the problem perfectly. For this reason I’ve decided unless I can’t afford to feed myself I will avoid doing at home coding exercises that are deliberately vague in the future.<p>If you want to get better at in person&#x2F;under pressure coding exercises I highly recommend taking on Advent of Code [1] one year, these are the opposite of the vague problem specified above as there is an exact and clear right answer to collect each star.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;adventofcode.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;adventofcode.com&#x2F;</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>code_runner</author><text>I start a new gig Monday… my best interviews were with two big tech companies… one hired me and the other said I lacked “code fluency”, which I had never heard of in those words.<p>Some of these places expect your first draft of a weird abstract problem to be perfectly readable in a live coding environment. Without any pressure my first draft is feeling out the problem and then trimming everything up.<p>In any case I landed at my preferred company, which is very exciting.</text></comment> |
17,956,736 | 17,956,668 | 1 | 3 | 17,956,180 | train | <story><title>Google Photos API</title><url>https://developers.google.com/photos</url><text>Use the Google Photos API to build smarter photo and video features for your product.<p>Developer site: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;developers.google.com&#x2F;photos" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;developers.google.com&#x2F;photos</a><p>With the API you can help users transfer, share and bring their content into your app more easily (including features like auto-organized categories and creating link-shareable albums).<p>API is now launched to General Availability, with official client libraries and sample apps for Java &amp; PHP (and more in the works!).<p>Large app integrations are also encouraged to join the Google Photos Partner Program. Check the developer site for more info.</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>ariwilson</author><text>This is a tired meme given that the number of Google services closed has been mostly going down since 2013. See also <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;List_of_Google_products#Discontinued_products_and_services" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;List_of_Google_products#Discon...</a><p><pre><code> 2006 3
2007 4
2008 5
2009 7
2010 4
2011 16
2012 19
2013 11
2014 7
2015 6
2016 11 (actually 8 if you don&#x27;t count things that got merged into other things)
2017 4
2018 2</code></pre></text></item><item><author>highace</author><text><i>Use the Google Photos API to build smarter photo and video features for your product</i>... until we deprecate the API in a couple years time and leave you up shit creek.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>RobertRoberts</author><text>I don&#x27;t care anymore. I am now in the process of removing Google Maps from every system we run because of their screwing over their users and their devs. I have thousands of dollars of time to spend ahead of me because of the changes to Google Maps this past month alone.<p>I get it, it&#x27;s expensive to run maps, it&#x27;s not free. But this is multiple-times burned by these guys. So the threshold of toleration is lower with Google than other businesses&#x2F;services.<p>Nothing free from Google is ever going on anymore of my sites or software unless it is setup with an alternative already in place so when they do _anything_ ridiculous, they can be dropped instantly. But as of right now, the plan is a complete purge of Google.</text></comment> | <story><title>Google Photos API</title><url>https://developers.google.com/photos</url><text>Use the Google Photos API to build smarter photo and video features for your product.<p>Developer site: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;developers.google.com&#x2F;photos" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;developers.google.com&#x2F;photos</a><p>With the API you can help users transfer, share and bring their content into your app more easily (including features like auto-organized categories and creating link-shareable albums).<p>API is now launched to General Availability, with official client libraries and sample apps for Java &amp; PHP (and more in the works!).<p>Large app integrations are also encouraged to join the Google Photos Partner Program. Check the developer site for more info.</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>ariwilson</author><text>This is a tired meme given that the number of Google services closed has been mostly going down since 2013. See also <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;List_of_Google_products#Discontinued_products_and_services" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;List_of_Google_products#Discon...</a><p><pre><code> 2006 3
2007 4
2008 5
2009 7
2010 4
2011 16
2012 19
2013 11
2014 7
2015 6
2016 11 (actually 8 if you don&#x27;t count things that got merged into other things)
2017 4
2018 2</code></pre></text></item><item><author>highace</author><text><i>Use the Google Photos API to build smarter photo and video features for your product</i>... until we deprecate the API in a couple years time and leave you up shit creek.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>hellcow</author><text>According to your own citation, Google deprecated <i>multiple</i> APIs every year. So the odds of Google cutting off access to an API you use may be decreasing... But it&#x27;s still nowhere near zero, and it&#x27;s still a valid concern.</text></comment> |
37,502,762 | 37,501,161 | 1 | 2 | 37,499,375 | train | <story><title>Show HN: Lantern – a PostgreSQL vector database for building AI applications</title><url>https://docs.lantern.dev/blog/2023/09/13/hello-world</url><text>We are excited to share Lantern! Lantern is a PostgreSQL vector database extension for building AI applications.
Install and use our extension here: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;lanterndata&#x2F;lantern">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;lanterndata&#x2F;lantern</a><p>We have the most complete feature set of all the PostgreSQL vector database extensions. Our database is built on top of usearch — a state of the art implementation of HNSW, the most scalable and performant algorithm for handling vector search.<p>There’s three key metrics we track. CREATE INDEX time, SELECT throughput, and SELECT latency. We match or outperform pgvector and pg_embedding (Neon) on all of these metrics.<p>** Here’s what we support today **<p>- Creating an AI application end to end without leaving your database (example: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;ezra-varady&#x2F;lanterndb-semantic-image-search">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;ezra-varady&#x2F;lanterndb-semantic-image-sear...</a>)<p>- Embedding generation for popular use cases (CLIP model, Hugging Face models, custom model)<p>- Interoperability with pgvector&#x27;s data type, so anyone using pgvector can switch to Lantern<p>- Parallel index creation capabilities -- Support for creating the index outside of the database and inside another instance allows you to create an index without interrupting database workflows.<p>** Here’s what’s coming soon **<p>- Cloud-hosted version of Lantern<p>- Templates and guides for building applications for different industries<p>- Tools for generating embeddings (support for third party model API&#x27;s, more local models)<p>- Support for version control and A&#x2F;B test embeddings<p>- Autotuned index type that will choose appropriate index creation parameters<p>- 1 byte and 2 byte vector elements, and up to 8000 dimensional vectors support<p>** Why we started Lantern today **<p>There&#x27;s dozens of vector databases on the market, but no enterprise option built on top of PostgreSQL. We think it&#x27;s super important to build on top of PostgreSQL<p>- Developers know how to use PostgreSQL.<p>- Companies already store their data on PostgreSQL.<p>- Standalone vector databases have to rebuild all of what PostgreSQL has built for the past 30-years, including all of the optimizations on how to best store and access data.<p>We are open source and excited to have community contributors!
Looking forward to hearing your feedback!</text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>bryan0</author><text>&gt; Switch from pgvector, get FREE AirPods Pro.<p>&gt; Book some time here, and we will help switch you over for FREE and get you a pair of FREE AirPods Pro<p>This just comes off as sketchy to me. If the tech is good it will stand on its own.</text></comment> | <story><title>Show HN: Lantern – a PostgreSQL vector database for building AI applications</title><url>https://docs.lantern.dev/blog/2023/09/13/hello-world</url><text>We are excited to share Lantern! Lantern is a PostgreSQL vector database extension for building AI applications.
Install and use our extension here: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;lanterndata&#x2F;lantern">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;lanterndata&#x2F;lantern</a><p>We have the most complete feature set of all the PostgreSQL vector database extensions. Our database is built on top of usearch — a state of the art implementation of HNSW, the most scalable and performant algorithm for handling vector search.<p>There’s three key metrics we track. CREATE INDEX time, SELECT throughput, and SELECT latency. We match or outperform pgvector and pg_embedding (Neon) on all of these metrics.<p>** Here’s what we support today **<p>- Creating an AI application end to end without leaving your database (example: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;ezra-varady&#x2F;lanterndb-semantic-image-search">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;ezra-varady&#x2F;lanterndb-semantic-image-sear...</a>)<p>- Embedding generation for popular use cases (CLIP model, Hugging Face models, custom model)<p>- Interoperability with pgvector&#x27;s data type, so anyone using pgvector can switch to Lantern<p>- Parallel index creation capabilities -- Support for creating the index outside of the database and inside another instance allows you to create an index without interrupting database workflows.<p>** Here’s what’s coming soon **<p>- Cloud-hosted version of Lantern<p>- Templates and guides for building applications for different industries<p>- Tools for generating embeddings (support for third party model API&#x27;s, more local models)<p>- Support for version control and A&#x2F;B test embeddings<p>- Autotuned index type that will choose appropriate index creation parameters<p>- 1 byte and 2 byte vector elements, and up to 8000 dimensional vectors support<p>** Why we started Lantern today **<p>There&#x27;s dozens of vector databases on the market, but no enterprise option built on top of PostgreSQL. We think it&#x27;s super important to build on top of PostgreSQL<p>- Developers know how to use PostgreSQL.<p>- Companies already store their data on PostgreSQL.<p>- Standalone vector databases have to rebuild all of what PostgreSQL has built for the past 30-years, including all of the optimizations on how to best store and access data.<p>We are open source and excited to have community contributors!
Looking forward to hearing your feedback!</text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>carlossouza</author><text>I&#x27;m using pgvector in production, mainly in a table with 500k-1M rows.<p>My main use case is to return search results <i>with pagination</i>: page 1 from 1-50, page 2 from 51-100, page 3 from 101-150, etc. (Think LIMIT and OFFSET).<p>After a lot of experimentation and help from pgvector&#x27;s team, we discovered that, for this specific use case, IVFFLAT index is much faster than HNSW.<p>I looked at your documentation and only saw HNSW, no IVFFLAT.<p>What would be Lantern&#x27;s performance for this specific use case?<p>Thx!</text></comment> |
16,602,996 | 16,602,885 | 1 | 2 | 16,601,883 | train | <story><title>China to bar people with bad 'social credit' from planes, trains</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-credit/china-to-bar-people-with-bad-social-credit-from-planes-trains-idUSKCN1GS10S</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>DamnYuppie</author><text>Stealing a coat or possessing 1&#x2F;2 and ounce of marijuana are generally not felonies. Stealing would be larceny and there are cost thresholds associated with that.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Felony" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Felony</a></text></item><item><author>jdietrich</author><text>Consider the restrictions that US law places on convicted felons. Millions of Americans have been stripped of constitutional rights, often for infractions as minor as stealing a coat or possessing half an ounce of marijuana. Felons often face considerable difficulties in finding employment and housing. &quot;Once untrustworthy, always restricted&quot; is a practical reality in the US.</text></item><item><author>awakeasleep</author><text>To me the principle of “once untrustworthy, always restricted” sounds like the beginning of a new caste system.<p>Everyone&#x27;s children are going to make mistakes. The wealthy are going to be able to cover up their children&#x27;s mistakes, the poor are going to be put on &#x27;the list&#x27; and become &#x27;restricted.&#x27;<p>The restrictions will grow, and eventually you&#x27;ll have a new group of &#x27;untouchables&#x27;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jdietrich</author><text>Virginia and New Jersey have felony larceny thresholds of $200; Massachusetts draws the line at $250. Arizona, Oklahoma and Tennessee all class possession of half an ounce of marijuana as a felony. Several states make possession of any amount within proximity of a school, church or park a felony. There are countless examples of misdemeanour possession being trumped-up to felony possession with intent based on very flimsy grounds.<p>This is all nitpicky and arbitrary, which is largely my point. The line between misdemeanour and felony is thin, but the consequences of crossing it are severe. In one state, you might get a $50 fine; in the next, you might be barred from voting or lose your green card.</text></comment> | <story><title>China to bar people with bad 'social credit' from planes, trains</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-credit/china-to-bar-people-with-bad-social-credit-from-planes-trains-idUSKCN1GS10S</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>DamnYuppie</author><text>Stealing a coat or possessing 1&#x2F;2 and ounce of marijuana are generally not felonies. Stealing would be larceny and there are cost thresholds associated with that.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Felony" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Felony</a></text></item><item><author>jdietrich</author><text>Consider the restrictions that US law places on convicted felons. Millions of Americans have been stripped of constitutional rights, often for infractions as minor as stealing a coat or possessing half an ounce of marijuana. Felons often face considerable difficulties in finding employment and housing. &quot;Once untrustworthy, always restricted&quot; is a practical reality in the US.</text></item><item><author>awakeasleep</author><text>To me the principle of “once untrustworthy, always restricted” sounds like the beginning of a new caste system.<p>Everyone&#x27;s children are going to make mistakes. The wealthy are going to be able to cover up their children&#x27;s mistakes, the poor are going to be put on &#x27;the list&#x27; and become &#x27;restricted.&#x27;<p>The restrictions will grow, and eventually you&#x27;ll have a new group of &#x27;untouchables&#x27;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mikeash</author><text>In Virginia, felony larceny starts at $200, easily within coat range. I once had jury duty and was faced with the prospect of sentencing the defendant to up to 20 years in prison for the crime of receiving stolen goods valued at least $200. I got rejected from the jury, probably because I said I couldn’t possibly consider 20 years in prison for that.</text></comment> |
7,328,052 | 7,328,070 | 1 | 3 | 7,327,728 | train | <story><title>Hum</title><url>https://letshum.com</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mjackson</author><text>You make some excellent points about using email in a support organization. To be fair though, Hum isn&#x27;t designed to be used by employees in a call center.<p>Instead, Hum addresses a much more fundamental shift in communication patterns that is already in full swing. Conversations are getting shorter and shorter, and more to the point. Most teens I know never check their email. Many of them don&#x27;t even have email addresses.<p>Hum combines some of the core organization elements of email, like threads and subject lines, with features that many people have come to expect from their more modern IM&#x2F;text&#x2F;Twitter client like instant updates, presence, typing indicators, @mentions, etc. It strikes a balance between the two that helps bridge the gap from email to a much faster and more productive medium.</text></item><item><author>peteforde</author><text>Putting aside my own aversion to yet another opportunity to ramp up my continuous partial attention deficit, this strikes me as a solution looking for a problem.<p>One of my smartest friends noticed that when his support team answered emails quickly, the customer would treat this as an implicit invitation to shift the support thread into a support chat, via email.<p>They added a 3-hour delay before support sees any email, specifically to prevent threads from becoming chats. Note that phone support is also available; people with time-critical issues are encouraged to call in for immediate help.<p>The delay has been a huge success because people correctly assign priority to their concerns by selecting the medium. The back-and-forth is more focused and does not get off-track.<p>An unexpected bonus is that before the delay was introduced, people would often remember how one particular support rep helped them in the past and would hit reply on an old thread to pose a new question, unrelated to the original request. This was confusing (support people leave) and would mess up their issue tracking and happiness metrics.<p>After the delay, this behaviour went away almost completely and they didn&#x27;t experience a statistically significant drop in incident satisfaction.<p>In conclusion, use email for email and use chat for chat. Email starts to feel like chat if you reply too quickly, and that&#x27;s not a good thing.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>peteforde</author><text>About a year ago I started making a point of sampling all of the teens I found myself in conversation with — family dinners, speaking at high schools, friends&#x27; siblings — and asking about their email usage patterns.<p>While it&#x27;s true that they don&#x27;t use email as a primary communication medium (yet) it seems likely that this is because they also don&#x27;t have <i>jobs</i> (yet) and that it&#x27;s currently easier to talk to their friends via Instagram, WhatsApp and Tumblr.<p>And yet they all have email addresses, because otherwise there&#x27;s no way to access most of the stuff on the web. You have to sign up, and unless you&#x27;re talking about a phone-centric app like WhatsApp, there&#x27;s no practical way to avoid email.<p>Even if you can login with Facebook Connect, you still need email to use Facebook.<p>So, can we dispel the myth that &quot;teens don&#x27;t have email&quot; please?<p>----<p>As for my referencing a support operation delaying email, I used it as an example because I wanted to demonstrate that it wasn&#x27;t a half-baked notion based on anecdotal evidence from one guy.<p>Meanwhile, conversations are most certainly NOT getting shorter. Each message in an exchange might itself be quite short, but the conversation itself really never ends.<p>Ask yourself what is more distracting: a long email or a series of 80 individual &quot;short, to the point&quot; texts, where each one vibrates your pocket and you have no idea when the next one is coming. You already know the answer. Often times you give up trying to do anything else and just stare at the messaging interface, waiting for the next message&#x2F;fix to arrive.<p>Don&#x27;t get me wrong; I use iMessage constantly and vastly prefer texting to calling people for most trivial things. But I also gave up IRC and ICQ (dating myself) cold turkey because eventually I was forced to acknowledge that it was holding me back in life. It was not more productive; it was incredibly counter-productive.</text></comment> | <story><title>Hum</title><url>https://letshum.com</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mjackson</author><text>You make some excellent points about using email in a support organization. To be fair though, Hum isn&#x27;t designed to be used by employees in a call center.<p>Instead, Hum addresses a much more fundamental shift in communication patterns that is already in full swing. Conversations are getting shorter and shorter, and more to the point. Most teens I know never check their email. Many of them don&#x27;t even have email addresses.<p>Hum combines some of the core organization elements of email, like threads and subject lines, with features that many people have come to expect from their more modern IM&#x2F;text&#x2F;Twitter client like instant updates, presence, typing indicators, @mentions, etc. It strikes a balance between the two that helps bridge the gap from email to a much faster and more productive medium.</text></item><item><author>peteforde</author><text>Putting aside my own aversion to yet another opportunity to ramp up my continuous partial attention deficit, this strikes me as a solution looking for a problem.<p>One of my smartest friends noticed that when his support team answered emails quickly, the customer would treat this as an implicit invitation to shift the support thread into a support chat, via email.<p>They added a 3-hour delay before support sees any email, specifically to prevent threads from becoming chats. Note that phone support is also available; people with time-critical issues are encouraged to call in for immediate help.<p>The delay has been a huge success because people correctly assign priority to their concerns by selecting the medium. The back-and-forth is more focused and does not get off-track.<p>An unexpected bonus is that before the delay was introduced, people would often remember how one particular support rep helped them in the past and would hit reply on an old thread to pose a new question, unrelated to the original request. This was confusing (support people leave) and would mess up their issue tracking and happiness metrics.<p>After the delay, this behaviour went away almost completely and they didn&#x27;t experience a statistically significant drop in incident satisfaction.<p>In conclusion, use email for email and use chat for chat. Email starts to feel like chat if you reply too quickly, and that&#x27;s not a good thing.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>fournm</author><text>It&#x27;s rather hard to believe that any number of them wouldn&#x27;t have an email address, considering everything they would use in place of it requires an email address to sign up for.<p>Are they mostly talking to friends via email? Probably not--I don&#x27;t think that&#x27;s ever been the case with teens--but I can&#x27;t imagine that they just flat out do not have an account anywhere.</text></comment> |
26,136,075 | 26,135,549 | 1 | 2 | 26,135,007 | train | <story><title>These 15 Billionaires Own America's News Media Companies (2016)</title><url>https://www.forbes.com/sites/katevinton/2016/06/01/these-15-billionaires-own-americas-news-media-companies/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>fatsdomino001</author><text>That America and other countries have allowed the consolidation of media companies to such a degree is a large part of the reason why we&#x27;re having so many problems today.</text></comment> | <story><title>These 15 Billionaires Own America's News Media Companies (2016)</title><url>https://www.forbes.com/sites/katevinton/2016/06/01/these-15-billionaires-own-americas-news-media-companies/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>naebother</author><text>While social media is owned by what 5-6 billionaires?</text></comment> |
19,114,719 | 19,114,703 | 1 | 2 | 19,111,594 | train | <story><title>Jupyter switches to C++ kernel and widgets</title><url>https://blog.jupyter.org/a-new-python-kernel-for-jupyter-fcdf211e30a8</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>betatim</author><text>The title is misleading and wrong. The article is about a new library that lets you write kernels in C++.<p>There is however a kernel for C++ that you can try here: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;mybinder.org&#x2F;v2&#x2F;gh&#x2F;QuantStack&#x2F;xeus-cling&#x2F;stable?filepath=notebooks&#x2F;xcpp.ipynb" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;mybinder.org&#x2F;v2&#x2F;gh&#x2F;QuantStack&#x2F;xeus-cling&#x2F;stable?file...</a> if interpreted C++ is your thing :)</text></comment> | <story><title>Jupyter switches to C++ kernel and widgets</title><url>https://blog.jupyter.org/a-new-python-kernel-for-jupyter-fcdf211e30a8</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>drmeister</author><text>Nice - I think we will make the switch to this.
We wrote a Common Lisp kernel for Clasp (Common Lisp system that interoperates with C++ and uses LLVM as the backend -<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;clasp-developers&#x2F;clasp" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;clasp-developers&#x2F;clasp</a>)
We implemented ipykernel and ipywidgets in Common Lisp by translating the Python code. I think we could switch to Xeus and lower the maintenance burden and contribute to Xeus.</text></comment> |
12,876,563 | 12,876,447 | 1 | 2 | 12,875,559 | train | <story><title>2016 Rust Commercial User Survey Results</title><url>https://internals.rust-lang.org/t/2016-rust-commercial-user-survey-results/4317</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Animats</author><text>From the article: <i>&quot;...fourteen companies responded to our outreach&quot;</i><p>That&#x27;s not a survey, that&#x27;s a focus group.<p>I&#x27;m impressed with Rust. The borrow checker is the biggest advance in memory safety since garbage collection.<p>But there&#x27;s a lot about Rust that&#x27;s unnecessarily weird.<p>- The type system is unusual, and complex. It&#x27;s hard to do anything without templates.<p>- The template libraries are heavily biased towards closure-oriented functional programming. This is cool, but hard to read. Parts of expressions are nameless and have no visible type. This is terse but hard to maintain.<p>- The hacks needed to avoid the need for exceptions are uglier than exceptions.<p>This creates major obstacles to adoption. Unlike the borrow checker, none of these things are clearly improvements. They&#x27;re just different.<p>I would have gone for Python-type exceptions rather than error enums and macros, single-inheritance OOP rather than traits, and Python-type with clauses rather than RAII.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pcwalton</author><text>&gt; - The type system is unusual, and complex. It&#x27;s hard to do anything without templates.<p>You need generics to have the borrow checker that you praise above. Otherwise references would be basically crippled.<p>&gt; The template libraries are heavily biased towards closure-oriented functional programming.<p>No, they aren&#x27;t. I use for loops all the time in Rust, and it&#x27;s totally natural to do so. My general guideline in my own code (which is followed in projects like WebRender and Servo layout) is that if it&#x27;s one line, I use the functional idiom; if it&#x27;s more than one line, I use a for loop.<p>&gt; Parts of expressions are nameless and have no visible type. This is terse but hard to maintain.<p>Are you thinking of unboxed closures here? If so, they&#x27;re necessary to avoid unnecessary heap allocations in normal code. If we didn&#x27;t have that, then we couldn&#x27;t compete with C++11 closures.<p>&gt; - The hacks needed to avoid the need for exceptions are uglier than exceptions.<p>Unwinding is the single most divisive issue in Rust. We would alienate most of our community (I&#x27;m not kidding) if libraries required it. For a time, there was a language fork over the issue until it was resolved.<p>&gt; Unlike the borrow checker, none of these things are clearly improvements. They&#x27;re just different.<p>No, they&#x27;re needed for the borrow checker and most of the other features to work.<p>&gt; I would have gone for Python-type exceptions rather than error enums and macros<p>Then, as above, you instantly alienate all embedded developers.<p>&gt; single-inheritance OOP rather than traits<p>This doesn&#x27;t work in practice unless you introduce interfaces: it&#x27;s way too inexpressive. This is why Java and C# have interfaces. Traits are just interfaces.<p>&gt; Python-type with clauses rather than RAII.<p>You want to force an extra layer of indentation for every Box or Vec you create, and leak memory if you forget to write &quot;with&quot;? No thank you!</text></comment> | <story><title>2016 Rust Commercial User Survey Results</title><url>https://internals.rust-lang.org/t/2016-rust-commercial-user-survey-results/4317</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Animats</author><text>From the article: <i>&quot;...fourteen companies responded to our outreach&quot;</i><p>That&#x27;s not a survey, that&#x27;s a focus group.<p>I&#x27;m impressed with Rust. The borrow checker is the biggest advance in memory safety since garbage collection.<p>But there&#x27;s a lot about Rust that&#x27;s unnecessarily weird.<p>- The type system is unusual, and complex. It&#x27;s hard to do anything without templates.<p>- The template libraries are heavily biased towards closure-oriented functional programming. This is cool, but hard to read. Parts of expressions are nameless and have no visible type. This is terse but hard to maintain.<p>- The hacks needed to avoid the need for exceptions are uglier than exceptions.<p>This creates major obstacles to adoption. Unlike the borrow checker, none of these things are clearly improvements. They&#x27;re just different.<p>I would have gone for Python-type exceptions rather than error enums and macros, single-inheritance OOP rather than traits, and Python-type with clauses rather than RAII.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>vvanders</author><text>&gt; The type system is unusual, and complex. It&#x27;s hard to do anything without templates.<p>You mean generics not templates?<p>Nothing forces you to use generics, you can pass traits by pointer and avoid the code generation. It&#x27;s actually a really nice property that lets you determine static vs dynamic dispatch independent of implementation<p>WRT Exceptions, this has been widely debated. I personally prefer error codes. I hate unchecked exceptions, ruins the whole idea.<p>Also I&#x27;m not a huge fan of OOP hierarchies. They tend lean more towards Is-A vs Has-A when the latter is more common across the domains I&#x27;ve worked in.</text></comment> |
4,168,383 | 4,168,414 | 1 | 2 | 4,168,107 | train | <story><title>Nexus 7, Made for Google Play</title><url>https://play.google.com/store/devices/details?id=nexus_7_8gb&feature=single-wide-banner</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>btipling</author><text>Tablets are expensive. I cannot afford to buy a tablet every year. So I want a tablet that is future proof. The 10 inch tablets that others will release this year will have an outdated operating system on them and will still cost many hundreds of dollars. I do not want to spend hundreds of dollars on an outdated operating system. I love Android, but this terrible to the extreme.</text></item><item><author>UnFleshedOne</author><text>You mean they should stop working on the OS to save you some "not the latest" anxiety?</text></item><item><author>btipling</author><text>It ships with Jellybean... I've been waiting for the Samsung 10 inch tablet with the stylus, but it's already out of date and hasn't even shipped yet. I don't want a 7inch tablet and it is going to be years by the time a Jelly Bean 10 inch tablet comes out and by that time there will already be a new version of the OS! I already have a Fire and I can't read magazines on it, it's too small. I'm just going to give up and get an iPad.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jamesaguilar</author><text>I love that people accuse Apple of planned obsolescence in the phone market when Google releases operating systems that don't even work on devices that came out in the current year.</text></comment> | <story><title>Nexus 7, Made for Google Play</title><url>https://play.google.com/store/devices/details?id=nexus_7_8gb&feature=single-wide-banner</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>btipling</author><text>Tablets are expensive. I cannot afford to buy a tablet every year. So I want a tablet that is future proof. The 10 inch tablets that others will release this year will have an outdated operating system on them and will still cost many hundreds of dollars. I do not want to spend hundreds of dollars on an outdated operating system. I love Android, but this terrible to the extreme.</text></item><item><author>UnFleshedOne</author><text>You mean they should stop working on the OS to save you some "not the latest" anxiety?</text></item><item><author>btipling</author><text>It ships with Jellybean... I've been waiting for the Samsung 10 inch tablet with the stylus, but it's already out of date and hasn't even shipped yet. I don't want a 7inch tablet and it is going to be years by the time a Jelly Bean 10 inch tablet comes out and by that time there will already be a new version of the OS! I already have a Fire and I can't read magazines on it, it's too small. I'm just going to give up and get an iPad.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>corin_</author><text>You're never going to have a tablet that is future proof if you don't want to upgrade every year... because there will always be newer, better ones coming out, and newer versions of Android.<p>Your complaint isn't that buying now would force you to use an outdated operating system, it's that you would use an outdated operating system for a little longer than you normally would.</text></comment> |
21,435,146 | 21,434,676 | 1 | 2 | 21,433,305 | train | <story><title>Ask HN: How prevalent is non-cookie-based web tracking today?</title><text>I just started reading about things like Header Enhancement and SuperCookies and find them to be quite egregious. Does anyone know how much of this activity is being used by big known companies?<p>For example, I just found out that my account settings at Verizon Wireless were allowing them to use Header Enhancement (UIDH) adding a unique identifier on every http request I sent. So, if I log in to a site, they can associate the UIDH with my account so next time I’m in browser incognito mode, they already know who I am (or have a good guess).</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>pavel_lishin</author><text>&gt; <i>good enough data to predict what kind of stuff you buy.</i><p>Then why are the ads that _do_ sneak through my adblockers or onto Instagram, etc., such hot, moist garbage? Is it just a lack of people wanting to advertise at my demographic?</text></item><item><author>dharmab</author><text>I don&#x27;t want to go into much detail, but I work for a major company in this space and nost companies in the industry can track you with reasonable success even if you are logged out over multiple devices. Your (approximate) location, browsing habits and patterns are good enough data to predict what kind of stuff you buy.<p>If you want to not be tracked, turn off JavaScript for a start.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>checkyoursudo</author><text>I have been suspicious for a while that all of these companies that claim to know everything about us, or people who are afraid that these companies know everything about us, are wrong.<p>I don&#x27;t feel like I am unusual in any way, as in I can&#x27;t see how I have any natural, dumb-luck defense against any of this tracking. If companies like Google, Amazon, FB, etc, are in any way really trying to use what they think they know about me to get me to buy stuff or influence my thoughts or behaviour, then they seem to be doing a really, really bad job of it.<p>As far as privacy goes, my concern is far more focused on apps&#x2F;programs stealing my photos of my kids, or tracking me around town, or knowing who I meet and talk to.<p>As far as predicting my future behaviour, I have not been impressed so far.</text></comment> | <story><title>Ask HN: How prevalent is non-cookie-based web tracking today?</title><text>I just started reading about things like Header Enhancement and SuperCookies and find them to be quite egregious. Does anyone know how much of this activity is being used by big known companies?<p>For example, I just found out that my account settings at Verizon Wireless were allowing them to use Header Enhancement (UIDH) adding a unique identifier on every http request I sent. So, if I log in to a site, they can associate the UIDH with my account so next time I’m in browser incognito mode, they already know who I am (or have a good guess).</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>pavel_lishin</author><text>&gt; <i>good enough data to predict what kind of stuff you buy.</i><p>Then why are the ads that _do_ sneak through my adblockers or onto Instagram, etc., such hot, moist garbage? Is it just a lack of people wanting to advertise at my demographic?</text></item><item><author>dharmab</author><text>I don&#x27;t want to go into much detail, but I work for a major company in this space and nost companies in the industry can track you with reasonable success even if you are logged out over multiple devices. Your (approximate) location, browsing habits and patterns are good enough data to predict what kind of stuff you buy.<p>If you want to not be tracked, turn off JavaScript for a start.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Joe8Bit</author><text>Several reasons:<p>Many large, higher quality ad buyers (agencies and direct sold) can get enough return from non-greyarea inventory like this. There&#x27;s no point in them taking (even a small) perceived risk of buying this grey market inventory.<p>However, they likely <i>do</i> use this tracking data second or third hand via their third party data providers brokering and including it in larger data sets they use for cross site targeting via DMPs.<p>Finally, there&#x27;s simple economics: people who go through enough effort to block trackers and other things are (perceived) to be less likely to engage with ads (e.g. they see it as you do, when one &#x27;slips through&#x27;). So there&#x27;s no point in paying $$$ for those eyeballs.<p>All of this in combination means you get low quality, barrel bottoms ads.</text></comment> |
25,081,742 | 25,081,600 | 1 | 2 | 25,081,350 | train | <story><title>Google Photos hooked users with free unlimited storage. Now that's changing</title><url>https://keyt.com/news/money-and-business/2020/11/12/google-photos-hooked-users-with-free-unlimited-storage-now-thats-changing/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>part1of2</author><text>&gt; Anil Sabharwal, Google Photos’ then-head, said in a blog post when the service launched in 2015. “And when we say a lifetime of memories, we really mean it.”<p>Most of Google’s product strategy has been bait &amp; switch, and I saythat with all due to respect to the engineers. It’s the leaders who make these decisions</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>save_ferris</author><text>You could argue that all hyper growth “build it and they will come” types of companies do this bait and switch. It’s inherent to the startup culture that emphasizes capturing users above earning profit in the early stages of a company.<p>Think about how many VC-backed companies offer services at discounted rates today in hopes of being able charge higher rates for that service in the future. This is endemic to tech generally, not just Google.</text></comment> | <story><title>Google Photos hooked users with free unlimited storage. Now that's changing</title><url>https://keyt.com/news/money-and-business/2020/11/12/google-photos-hooked-users-with-free-unlimited-storage-now-thats-changing/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>part1of2</author><text>&gt; Anil Sabharwal, Google Photos’ then-head, said in a blog post when the service launched in 2015. “And when we say a lifetime of memories, we really mean it.”<p>Most of Google’s product strategy has been bait &amp; switch, and I saythat with all due to respect to the engineers. It’s the leaders who make these decisions</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nicoburns</author><text>To be fair, Google&#x27;s pricing on storage is more than reasonable. I pay £2.50&#x2F;month for 200gb of storage which more than covers my lifetimes worth of photos so far (in full res with a fair few RAW photos in there too).<p>And they&#x27;re not deleting any photos that users already uploaded. I think Google deserve all the criticism they get for shutting down services. But this one seems to have been handled quite well.</text></comment> |
25,038,273 | 25,038,051 | 1 | 2 | 25,037,147 | train | <story><title>Why Rust Is the Future of Game Development</title><url>https://thefuntastic.com/blog/why-rust-is-the-future-game-dev?</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dimes</author><text>Having tried writing a game engine in Rust, I can&#x27;t imagine that Rust would become the future of game development. Lack of safety is a feature in game development, because the optimizations required are typically unorthodox and a super strict language slows development down. Additionally, object ownership can be unclear in a game development setting, which typically makes use of global variables for state. The benefits of using Rust over C++ for game development are unclear in these regards.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jrsj</author><text>Isn&#x27;t this basically saying that you can&#x27;t have the compiler guaranteeing you aren&#x27;t including bugs in those optimizations &#x2F; global variable usage because it&#x27;s more efficient to just write and then ultimately ship some bugs?<p>To me it seems like this would require a significant adjustment in how certain problems are approached, but the outcome would likely be more effective development as you could eliminate a lot of cost that&#x27;s spent dealing with bugs in the future.</text></comment> | <story><title>Why Rust Is the Future of Game Development</title><url>https://thefuntastic.com/blog/why-rust-is-the-future-game-dev?</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dimes</author><text>Having tried writing a game engine in Rust, I can&#x27;t imagine that Rust would become the future of game development. Lack of safety is a feature in game development, because the optimizations required are typically unorthodox and a super strict language slows development down. Additionally, object ownership can be unclear in a game development setting, which typically makes use of global variables for state. The benefits of using Rust over C++ for game development are unclear in these regards.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>zyxzevn</author><text>Agreed.
The extremely slow compile time and extremely limited data flexibility is blocking rapid development.<p>As an alternative to C++, JAI is more promising in my opinion.</text></comment> |
37,611,126 | 37,611,033 | 1 | 2 | 37,608,186 | train | <story><title>Is ClickHouse Moving Away from Open Source?</title><url>https://altinity.com/blog/is-clickhouse-moving-away-from-open-source</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bitshiftin</author><text>The blog author founded altinity. Altinity&#x27;s main product offering is a hosted clickhouse service. The top 10 committers to clickhouse all seem to be clickhouse employees. Looking at altinity on github, they contribute much less open source. If clickhouse the company are spending 40%+ of their money to build the product, then others including altinity spend 5% dev and 80% marketing, they will get more customers. That isn&#x27;t sustainable. How do you solve that? Other than fencing off exclusive enterprise features.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rjzzleep</author><text>Altinity maintains the ClickHouse operator which got a lot of people to use ClickHouse to begin with. ClickHouse has had a lot of corner cases that were reported from those kinds of people, myself included.<p>If you look at some of the discussions, while a lot of the fixes come from the clickHouse team it would be unjust to say that the corner case discussions don&#x27;t contribute to the fixes.<p>I think part of the reason is that ClickHouse, being sort of a unique offering brings with its users sometimes a quite competent bunch that go beyond the &quot;I want this feature, please implement&quot;.</text></comment> | <story><title>Is ClickHouse Moving Away from Open Source?</title><url>https://altinity.com/blog/is-clickhouse-moving-away-from-open-source</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bitshiftin</author><text>The blog author founded altinity. Altinity&#x27;s main product offering is a hosted clickhouse service. The top 10 committers to clickhouse all seem to be clickhouse employees. Looking at altinity on github, they contribute much less open source. If clickhouse the company are spending 40%+ of their money to build the product, then others including altinity spend 5% dev and 80% marketing, they will get more customers. That isn&#x27;t sustainable. How do you solve that? Other than fencing off exclusive enterprise features.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>hodgesrm</author><text>CEO of Altinity here, also editor of the blog article. It would be more interesting to address the points that it raises. If you are an open source user of ClickHouse, do you really want basic features like object storage for tables or ability to delete data efficiently withheld?<p>This question is important regardless of who raises it. Projects like Kafka, Spark, PostgreSQL, and Kubernetes (among others) have solved it while allowing good returns to those who contribute.<p>p.s., We spent 7% of budget on marketing last month. A sizable fraction of our budget is devoted to open source contributions ClickHouse and ecosystem projects.</text></comment> |
31,368,750 | 31,367,720 | 1 | 2 | 31,366,715 | train | <story><title>Chainless electric drive system “Free Drive” for bicycles (2021)</title><url>https://www.schaeffler.de/en/news_media/press_releases/press_releases_detail.jsp?id=87716736</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Dave_Rosenthal</author><text>I wonder how good they can make the feel without a direct connection to the road?<p>For example, as you stand on a bike stopped at an intersection you have your foot resting on the petal, ready to take off. As you launch, you put a lot of force on that petal and rely on the feeling of connection to the ground to get going.<p>This motor is going to have to hold that force statically and have a control system with sufficient power and bandwidth to emulate the familiar feeling of the ground. Not impossible I guess, but I wonder how well it works.<p>Regarding efficiency, I think this is a smaller issue than it seems. Let&#x27;s say a chain is 95% efficient and their system is 85% efficient (they claim 5% less efficient than a chain, apparently, but I&#x27;m sure that&#x27;s a stretch). Most energy cycling, if not grinding up a steep hill, is dumped into air resistance. But speed only goes up with the cube root of power with regard to air resistance. This means (given the hypothetical numbers above) that you&#x27;d go 3.8% faster with a physical chain (or 1.7% if you believe their loss numbers). That difference is not perceptible on a bike and not an issue for &#x27;getting around&#x27; use cases.</text></comment> | <story><title>Chainless electric drive system “Free Drive” for bicycles (2021)</title><url>https://www.schaeffler.de/en/news_media/press_releases/press_releases_detail.jsp?id=87716736</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>sandgiant</author><text>&gt; The Free Drive system works by converting the rider’s pedaling power into electrical energy via a small generator housed between the pedals. It then delivers this energy to the rear wheel (or wheels) via cables strung inside or outside the frame of the bike, rather than sending it mechanically through a chain or belt. Excess energy created by pedaling is fed back into the battery. The end result is a power system with fewer moving parts to complicate construction.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theverge.com&#x2F;2021&#x2F;9&#x2F;2&#x2F;22653697&#x2F;schaeffler-free-drive-e-bike-system-chainless" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theverge.com&#x2F;2021&#x2F;9&#x2F;2&#x2F;22653697&#x2F;schaeffler-free-d...</a></text></comment> |
29,601,434 | 29,600,137 | 1 | 3 | 29,591,095 | train | <story><title>The Hyperbolic Geometry of DMT Experiences (2016)</title><url>https://qualiacomputing.com/2016/12/12/the-hyperbolic-geometry-of-dmt-experiences/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>aviancrane</author><text>It seems to me two things are happening. [1] The brain is really good at filling in gaps in its perception of the world and [2] there seems to be some kind of strange loopy recursion in the way the brain analyzes and observes things including itself.<p>I think on DMT and similar, you are actually seeing less of the world, and the recursive&#x2F;fractal aspect is coming from the brain filling in gaps with observations including its own analyzing patterns.<p>The world at our scale has a lot of data and is really complex. These &quot;hypbolic geometries&quot; seem like simplifications. One strand of a flower that happens to follow something roughly like the golden ration becomes a fibonacci spiral repeated at every degree; the sense of self gets muddled with the modeling of this pattern, allowing the pattern to permeate the entire observation, and now you too are the spiral. You notice the observation and how muddled it is with the pattern and the self, creating a loop which also gets modeled, and down the recursive rabbit hole you go.</text></comment> | <story><title>The Hyperbolic Geometry of DMT Experiences (2016)</title><url>https://qualiacomputing.com/2016/12/12/the-hyperbolic-geometry-of-dmt-experiences/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>fasteddie31003</author><text>I don&#x27;t think it&#x27;s just DMT that gives you this experience. One of the most &quot;geometric&quot; trips was from taking Salvia in a dorm room in college. Everything felt like I was in the original Tron movie. Flat surfaces seemed to go on in a plane to the horizon. Honestly, made me feel pretty nauseous.</text></comment> |
16,171,251 | 16,170,149 | 1 | 3 | 16,168,410 | train | <story><title>No One Wants Used Clothes Anymore</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2018-01-15/no-one-wants-your-used-clothes-anymore</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>basseq</author><text>&gt; They are not a dumping ground...<p>They kind of are, and it&#x27;s a role they seem to have embraced. In other words, a good % (50%+?) of the intake volume of clothes is not fit for secondary garment sale, and is instead sold &quot;downstream&quot; (in bulk) to tertiary markets (&quot;poor countries&quot;, to use Bloomberg&#x27;s parlance) and recycles to use as raw material. This is a source of revenue, too.<p>In other words, most thrift stores play an important role in the recycling chain. Otherwise, clothes would go into the garbage. After all, I can&#x27;t put them in the green recycling bin with my cans, jars, and plastic.</text></item><item><author>frgtpsswrdlame</author><text>Local thrift stores still desire these clothes. Having volunteered at a thrift store though, they are not a dumping ground for all of your dead relatives clothes and they are not a trashcan for all the clothes you&#x27;ve put holes in. If you have clothing which you could still wear but don&#x27;t want&#x2F;don&#x27;t fit in anymore then consider donating. Especially consider it if you are a non-standard (American) size ie. not big and tall. Petite&#x2F;short can be good for kids and adults, slim-fitting clothes are always in want, manual labor has a tendency to eat up shoes so decent shoes are always good and anything which was in fashion just a year or two ago is especially nice.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>weej</author><text>Agree. See NPR&#x27;s story from 2013 &quot;The Afterlife of American Clothes&quot;
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.npr.org&#x2F;sections&#x2F;money&#x2F;2013&#x2F;12&#x2F;10&#x2F;247362140&#x2F;the-afterlife-of-american-clothes" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.npr.org&#x2F;sections&#x2F;money&#x2F;2013&#x2F;12&#x2F;10&#x2F;247362140&#x2F;the-...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>No One Wants Used Clothes Anymore</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2018-01-15/no-one-wants-your-used-clothes-anymore</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>basseq</author><text>&gt; They are not a dumping ground...<p>They kind of are, and it&#x27;s a role they seem to have embraced. In other words, a good % (50%+?) of the intake volume of clothes is not fit for secondary garment sale, and is instead sold &quot;downstream&quot; (in bulk) to tertiary markets (&quot;poor countries&quot;, to use Bloomberg&#x27;s parlance) and recycles to use as raw material. This is a source of revenue, too.<p>In other words, most thrift stores play an important role in the recycling chain. Otherwise, clothes would go into the garbage. After all, I can&#x27;t put them in the green recycling bin with my cans, jars, and plastic.</text></item><item><author>frgtpsswrdlame</author><text>Local thrift stores still desire these clothes. Having volunteered at a thrift store though, they are not a dumping ground for all of your dead relatives clothes and they are not a trashcan for all the clothes you&#x27;ve put holes in. If you have clothing which you could still wear but don&#x27;t want&#x2F;don&#x27;t fit in anymore then consider donating. Especially consider it if you are a non-standard (American) size ie. not big and tall. Petite&#x2F;short can be good for kids and adults, slim-fitting clothes are always in want, manual labor has a tendency to eat up shoes so decent shoes are always good and anything which was in fashion just a year or two ago is especially nice.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>frgtpsswrdlame</author><text>Maybe the place I volunteered at is weird but we <i>did</i> just throw those clothes into the garbage.</text></comment> |
39,579,128 | 39,578,719 | 1 | 2 | 39,578,248 | train | <story><title>US prescription market hamstrung for 9 days (so far) by ransomware attack</title><url>https://arstechnica.com/security/2024/03/us-prescription-market-hamstrung-for-9-days-so-far-by-ransomware-attack/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>londons_explore</author><text>Sometimes this kind of event is the trigger to design a more human-efficient process.<p>For example, if it goes on longer, the FDA might allow the majority of drugs to be sold directly on online marketplaces like Amazon without a prescription. That would remove a huge amount of paperwork and doctors appointments for a massive number of people.<p>Let&#x27;s be honest, the majority of prescription drugs don&#x27;t have an abuse risk.</text></item><item><author>IG_Semmelweiss</author><text>Its not just presciptions. Its eligibility , claim submission, prescriptions, etc.<p>This is really affecting doctors and patients. Patients are not getting the drugs they need or the authorization for a critical procedure. Doctors&#x27; cash flow is interrupted.<p>A lot of admin workers are backed up, and that itself is leading to problems too.<p>Why the backup? Its not just electronic data exchange being offline. Its that everything is now &quot;going to paper&quot; (submitted hard copy) which requires humans. Those humans used to take care of the actual work. Now they are stuck shlepping paper from A to B instead.<p>I submitted two links explaining this in more detail yesterday<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=39561697">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=39561697</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>crotchfire</author><text>This is what Mexico does, and it works fine.<p>There are no prescriptions in Mexico.<p>Medications which are scheduled controlled substances (amphetamines, codiene, morphine, etc) are sold directly by hospitals. There really aren&#x27;t many of these, and hospitals already have to stock most of them for surgical use.<p>Everything else is cash over the counter.<p>And pseudoephedrine is illegal because of pressure from the US.</text></comment> | <story><title>US prescription market hamstrung for 9 days (so far) by ransomware attack</title><url>https://arstechnica.com/security/2024/03/us-prescription-market-hamstrung-for-9-days-so-far-by-ransomware-attack/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>londons_explore</author><text>Sometimes this kind of event is the trigger to design a more human-efficient process.<p>For example, if it goes on longer, the FDA might allow the majority of drugs to be sold directly on online marketplaces like Amazon without a prescription. That would remove a huge amount of paperwork and doctors appointments for a massive number of people.<p>Let&#x27;s be honest, the majority of prescription drugs don&#x27;t have an abuse risk.</text></item><item><author>IG_Semmelweiss</author><text>Its not just presciptions. Its eligibility , claim submission, prescriptions, etc.<p>This is really affecting doctors and patients. Patients are not getting the drugs they need or the authorization for a critical procedure. Doctors&#x27; cash flow is interrupted.<p>A lot of admin workers are backed up, and that itself is leading to problems too.<p>Why the backup? Its not just electronic data exchange being offline. Its that everything is now &quot;going to paper&quot; (submitted hard copy) which requires humans. Those humans used to take care of the actual work. Now they are stuck shlepping paper from A to B instead.<p>I submitted two links explaining this in more detail yesterday<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=39561697">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=39561697</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>AnarchismIsCool</author><text>There might be some risk with idiots taking z packs for colds and creating more super bugs but there&#x27;s definitely less stupid ways of doing this.<p>People who take critical stuff regularly usually have to ration drugs so they have a store in case of emergencies. If you travel somewhere and you forget your life saving drugs you then have to spend a good chunk of your trip grovelling to the pharmacist and doctor (depending on the drug) to get an emergency refill if the drug is even available in that location. The whole system is bonkers.</text></comment> |
38,730,559 | 38,729,321 | 1 | 2 | 38,721,604 | train | <story><title>PHOLED Will Transform Displays</title><url>https://spectrum.ieee.org/blue-pholed</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>askonomm</author><text>And yet even decent HiDPI displays (I&#x27;m talking 300ppi+) are barely a thing outside of the Apple ecosystem, or affordable. Seems like everyone is okay with 20 year-old display resolutions and keep pushing instead for higher refresh rates. I for one just don&#x27;t want pixelated&#x2F;blurry fonts and care little for refresh rates.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mastercheif</author><text>This is driving me insane. There are literally 5 desktop monitor models in the market today that provide a natively scaled experience for macOS users. All over $1000. The only monitors that would provide the equivalent screen real estate of my 2005 30&quot; Apple Cinema Display @ 2560x1600 are the $2800 Dell 6k and the $5000 XDR.<p>Apple released &quot;retina&quot; scaling in 2012. It&#x27;s been more than 10 years.</text></comment> | <story><title>PHOLED Will Transform Displays</title><url>https://spectrum.ieee.org/blue-pholed</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>askonomm</author><text>And yet even decent HiDPI displays (I&#x27;m talking 300ppi+) are barely a thing outside of the Apple ecosystem, or affordable. Seems like everyone is okay with 20 year-old display resolutions and keep pushing instead for higher refresh rates. I for one just don&#x27;t want pixelated&#x2F;blurry fonts and care little for refresh rates.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ysleepy</author><text>I&#x27;m not quite sure what you say is true.<p>Apple Notebooks have 224-254ppi, the external displays 218ppi.
The only higher ppi displays from Apple are on the iphone, and they are not special, most decent (android) phones from 5 years ago have 400ppi+. Funnily Apple was dragging their feet in this space back then.<p>Apple is more consistent, but it really isn&#x27;t hard to get 4k laptop displays now.</text></comment> |
3,157,577 | 3,157,546 | 1 | 2 | 3,156,524 | train | <story><title>The $36 soda: Overdrafting in America</title><url>http://banksimple.com/blog/Banking/the-36-dollar-soda-overdrafting-in-america/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Confusion</author><text><p><pre><code> It's the exact type of behavior I would expect
from a bank.
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From <i>an American</i> bank. There is no German, Dutch or French bank that does that and I doubt Spanish, Italian or Swiss banks do it. Sure, if I overdraft, I pay (serious) interest over the amount overdrawn for as long as I am overdrawn, but you aren't hit with any fine at all.<p>In fact, I have arranged that I actually can't overdraft. Automatic bills just bounce when I'm underfunded. That's between me and the companies whose bills bounced.</text></item><item><author>steve8918</author><text>In the book "The Big Short", Michael Lewis mentions how one CEO admitted to an audience that free checking accounts were simply a way of screwing over poor people for all these additional fees, like overdraft, etc. It's really because people with less money need to spend more time managing their money because they are closer to drawing down the account, and the banks are betting on this. It's basically predatory banking, and I guess based on the numbers, extremely profitable.<p>It's the exact type of behavior I would expect from a bank. But let's not swallow everything that the article said. It's not like banks of yesteryear were so magnanimous. Back in the Great Depression, it was the banks that screwed over so many farmers and home-owners that many states, including California, made mortgages non-recourse meaning that banks could only take back the house in the case of foreclosure, something that many people took advantage of during the latest housing boom.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>furyg3</author><text>As an American who moved to the Netherlands, I can vouch for this. My fellow countrymen don't know what they're missing:<p>* There are no ATM fees levied by another bank's ATMs.<p>* There are no ATM fees levied by <i>your bank</i> for using another bank's ATMs.<p>* There are no fees or minimum transactions for using your debit card at a business.<p>* You are allowed to overdraft, you just pay an interest rate to the bank for the money you owe (mine is 10%, up to €2,500).<p>* There are no bounced check fees, because:<p>* There are no checks. Non-debit card transactions are done via online banking, are free, and usually instantaneous.<p>* All banks use 2-step authentication (phishing is nearly impossible).<p>I was confronted by the joke of US banking again recently when I had to mail someone in the US a check, which they lost, found 6 months later and cashed... generating an overdraft fee in my US account.<p>Totally unnecessary.</text></comment> | <story><title>The $36 soda: Overdrafting in America</title><url>http://banksimple.com/blog/Banking/the-36-dollar-soda-overdrafting-in-america/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Confusion</author><text><p><pre><code> It's the exact type of behavior I would expect
from a bank.
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From <i>an American</i> bank. There is no German, Dutch or French bank that does that and I doubt Spanish, Italian or Swiss banks do it. Sure, if I overdraft, I pay (serious) interest over the amount overdrawn for as long as I am overdrawn, but you aren't hit with any fine at all.<p>In fact, I have arranged that I actually can't overdraft. Automatic bills just bounce when I'm underfunded. That's between me and the companies whose bills bounced.</text></item><item><author>steve8918</author><text>In the book "The Big Short", Michael Lewis mentions how one CEO admitted to an audience that free checking accounts were simply a way of screwing over poor people for all these additional fees, like overdraft, etc. It's really because people with less money need to spend more time managing their money because they are closer to drawing down the account, and the banks are betting on this. It's basically predatory banking, and I guess based on the numbers, extremely profitable.<p>It's the exact type of behavior I would expect from a bank. But let's not swallow everything that the article said. It's not like banks of yesteryear were so magnanimous. Back in the Great Depression, it was the banks that screwed over so many farmers and home-owners that many states, including California, made mortgages non-recourse meaning that banks could only take back the house in the case of foreclosure, something that many people took advantage of during the latest housing boom.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>joelhaasnoot</author><text>As a European I still marvel at the craziness of American banks. I just graduated college this summer, working at a startup now, so cash is tight, have some student loans, yet I never overdraft cause I can't. If I could, I know the temptation would be too big. (Do have a credit card though, which essentially is an overdraft as the bill comes the 26th of each month, but is automatically paid in full).</text></comment> |
27,993,029 | 27,993,155 | 1 | 2 | 27,992,500 | train | <story><title>Duolingo reaches $6.5B valuation on day of IPO</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/technology/duolingo-valued-65-bln-shares-soar-debut-2021-07-28/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>vncecartersknee</author><text>Honestly from using duolingo pretty heavily for a couple of years, attending language classes and doing my own individual study I&#x27;ve found duolingo pretty useless. It&#x27;s &quot;fun&quot; and gives one the sense of progress without really accomplishing much.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ngokevin</author><text>I&#x27;m trying a language learning startup and surveyed a lot of people. The response is universal that everyone&#x27;s tried Duolingo, and it didn&#x27;t work for them in actually learning, despite monster streaks.<p>I think it&#x27;s masterful as a dopamine machine and employing habit building tactics. Perhaps it&#x27;s a good icebreaker for people in language learning, as long as people are resourceful enough to look beyond Duolingo.</text></comment> | <story><title>Duolingo reaches $6.5B valuation on day of IPO</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/technology/duolingo-valued-65-bln-shares-soar-debut-2021-07-28/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>vncecartersknee</author><text>Honestly from using duolingo pretty heavily for a couple of years, attending language classes and doing my own individual study I&#x27;ve found duolingo pretty useless. It&#x27;s &quot;fun&quot; and gives one the sense of progress without really accomplishing much.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Areading314</author><text>I can&#x27;t agree more. I made some progress on Japanese only to find that when I spoke it was completely incomprehensible to a native speaker. I think speech&#x2F;pronunciation correction is still an unsolved problem.</text></comment> |
2,668,755 | 2,667,868 | 1 | 2 | 2,667,830 | train | <story><title>High school grad builds 8-bit computer from scratch</title><url>http://www.digitaltrends.com/computing/wow-high-school-grad-builds-8-bit-computer-from-scratch-complete-with-custom-os-and-pong/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>zeteo</author><text>By some definition of "scratch", we've also built 8-bit computers from scratch in my Electronics class. My respect for this student's accomplishment is proportional to how much of the processor he has designed and built himself; opcode design and management is a highly nontrivial task. On the other hand, if he has built the processor from pre-existing schematics, the accomplishment simply shows a steady soldering hand and good mental endurance.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>JonnieCache</author><text>I think you guys should look a little closer before writing him off.<p>He pumped the OS in one bit at a time using DIP switches, wrote his own hex editor, and then wrote his own assembler and <i>emulator</i>, in javascript/canvas: <a href="http://web.mac.com/teisenmann/iWeb/adeptpage/adept_compiler.html" rel="nofollow">http://web.mac.com/teisenmann/iWeb/adeptpage/adept_compiler....</a><p>The OS code is here: <a href="http://web.mac.com/teisenmann/iWeb/adeptpage/DUO_OS.txt" rel="nofollow">http://web.mac.com/teisenmann/iWeb/adeptpage/DUO_OS.txt</a><p>Run it through the emulator, it works.<p>Definitely not just a bit of light soldering...</text></comment> | <story><title>High school grad builds 8-bit computer from scratch</title><url>http://www.digitaltrends.com/computing/wow-high-school-grad-builds-8-bit-computer-from-scratch-complete-with-custom-os-and-pong/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>zeteo</author><text>By some definition of "scratch", we've also built 8-bit computers from scratch in my Electronics class. My respect for this student's accomplishment is proportional to how much of the processor he has designed and built himself; opcode design and management is a highly nontrivial task. On the other hand, if he has built the processor from pre-existing schematics, the accomplishment simply shows a steady soldering hand and good mental endurance.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>stan_rogers</author><text>No, the processor appears to be constructed from 74LSxxx TTL logic chips. The memory is 2x32KB off-the-shelf SRAM units, but there comes a point where building things out of quad J-K flip-flops just becomes an exercise in patience and unnecessary spending. The registers are FFs, why make all of the memory that way? Just to say you did it? It doesn't add to the learning experience, just the drudgery.</text></comment> |
11,734,239 | 11,734,001 | 1 | 2 | 11,732,258 | train | <story><title>New Bloomberg Terminal Keyboard</title><url>http://www.bloomberg.com/professional/hardware/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>davegauer</author><text>I&#x27;ve often found it very peculiar that while many industries have specialized input hardware, it is still the norm for developers to type awkward key combinations* for common programming symbols such as (,),{,},[,],=,&lt;,&gt; etc. which are be used in mass quantities all day, every day.<p>I understand how we got where we are, but it&#x27;s nevertheless surprising that something like a modernized space-cadet keyboard isn&#x27;t standard for developers. Or at least a programmable keyboard with a thumb-activated modifier key plus a home row key for the most commonly used symbols.<p>* SHIFT+&lt;anything other than letters&gt; is awkward if you have to do it enough. Especially laptops, which enjoy deviating from ANSI or ISO layouts. I&#x27;ve also heard it told that some international layouts make &quot;[&quot; and &quot;]&quot; especially unhandy.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>consto</author><text>Honestly, symbols such as (, {, [, =, &lt;, etc... are no harder to type than CaPiTaL LeTtErS. However, I have bound countless mathematical symbols, arrows, diacritics and the entire Greek alphabet to AltGr combinations. Heck, I have even made a AutoHotKey script to let me input Unicode codes when I hold down the fn button. I&#x27;m probably not the best person to judge difficult key combinations, and I don&#x27;t even use vi!<p>The best part of using the mentioned symbols is that they are found on virtually every keyboard, you don&#x27;t need a specialised input device.<p>You mention laptops being awkward to type on and yes the travel is bad, and the layout is often cramped, but it really depends on the laptop in question. I&#x27;m not a 3d modeller, accountant, or anyone who actually uses a num pad, so I am glad to not have one. With that said, my current laptop (Lenovo U430p) has my favourite keyboard layout yet - I miss it on my desktop.<p>It&#x27;s not flawless. However, if I was to make changes I would basically change the fn modifier layout, and the labels. Reason why is that AutoHotKey is awkard compared to a custom keyboard layout. Maybe I should make a custom mechanical keyboard for my desktop.</text></comment> | <story><title>New Bloomberg Terminal Keyboard</title><url>http://www.bloomberg.com/professional/hardware/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>davegauer</author><text>I&#x27;ve often found it very peculiar that while many industries have specialized input hardware, it is still the norm for developers to type awkward key combinations* for common programming symbols such as (,),{,},[,],=,&lt;,&gt; etc. which are be used in mass quantities all day, every day.<p>I understand how we got where we are, but it&#x27;s nevertheless surprising that something like a modernized space-cadet keyboard isn&#x27;t standard for developers. Or at least a programmable keyboard with a thumb-activated modifier key plus a home row key for the most commonly used symbols.<p>* SHIFT+&lt;anything other than letters&gt; is awkward if you have to do it enough. Especially laptops, which enjoy deviating from ANSI or ISO layouts. I&#x27;ve also heard it told that some international layouts make &quot;[&quot; and &quot;]&quot; especially unhandy.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>snuxoll</author><text>There has been some effort to make a keyboard layout better for programming, namely Programmer Dvorak. It&#x27;s certainly not amazing by any means, as the reordering of the numerical keys really stinks, which is why I stick with the traditional dvorak layout (which actually has some disadvantages in curly-brace languages since the {} keys are right next to backspace and require moving my entire right hand off the home row to reach comfortably, whereas the traditional QWERTY locations can easily be hit by my little finger).<p>As much as neat devices like the data hand and other input devices make waves on HN every now and then, I feel most programmers are just like the rest of the world, they just use QWERTY because that&#x27;s what they learned and never saw anything wrong with it.</text></comment> |
16,862,596 | 16,860,754 | 1 | 3 | 16,860,247 | train | <story><title>A step-by-step guide to the “World Models” AI paper</title><url>https://applied-data.science/blog/hallucinogenic-deep-reinforcement-learning-using-python-and-keras</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>hardmaru</author><text>Hi, I&#x27;m one of the authors of this paper (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;arxiv.org&#x2F;abs&#x2F;1803.10122" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;arxiv.org&#x2F;abs&#x2F;1803.10122</a>, <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;worldmodels.github.io" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;worldmodels.github.io</a>).<p>Happy to answer any questions you may have.</text></comment> | <story><title>A step-by-step guide to the “World Models” AI paper</title><url>https://applied-data.science/blog/hallucinogenic-deep-reinforcement-learning-using-python-and-keras</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>bassman9000</author><text><i>Our agent consists of three components that work closely
together: Vision (V), Memory (M), and Controller (C)</i><p>Next web frameworks are going to be smart!</text></comment> |
28,654,182 | 28,654,016 | 1 | 2 | 28,653,547 | train | <story><title>Firefox Addons Unable to Update, Undisclosed AMO Issues</title><url>https://discourse.mozilla.org/t/can-anyone-release-extensions-right-now-to-me-it-looks-like-addons-mozilla-org-is-critically-broken/84830</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>dannysu</author><text>I have an add-on that I submitted an update for on June 21, 2021. It’s still “Awaiting Review”.<p>It’s an add-on that only I use. It’s not published broadly. I basically only needed Mozilla to sign it so I can install it.<p>Very frustrating. After waiting for a long while, I gave up and switched to the Developer Edition so I can use my own add-on.</text></comment> | <story><title>Firefox Addons Unable to Update, Undisclosed AMO Issues</title><url>https://discourse.mozilla.org/t/can-anyone-release-extensions-right-now-to-me-it-looks-like-addons-mozilla-org-is-critically-broken/84830</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>cute_boi</author><text>Adding to this issue I would like to give some of my opinion on webext.<p>To be honest Firefox add-ons process is so grotesque. For instance I can&#x27;t load my extension without signing in Firefox stable version. And their tool especially web-ext has lot of issues like takes lot of time, gives pesky error if your system time is incorrect (my isp has blocked ntp servers and idk why and switching to vpn just to update is painful tbh). And developing addon is also hard for firefox compared to chrome as the dev tools frequently give message unrelated to extension etc.<p>Sometime I get so angry but I have been using firefox nearly for decades. Its so hard for me :(</text></comment> |
33,797,615 | 33,793,393 | 1 | 2 | 33,792,322 | train | <story><title>WasmEdge</title><url>https://wasmedge.org/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jetzzz</author><text>If you are running untrusted WASM files with wasmedge be aware that it doesn&#x27;t sandbox by default. WASM can contain native code that will be executed without sandboxing. From the docs [0][1]:<p>&gt; The wasmedge CLI tool will execute the WebAssembly in ahead-of-time(AOT) mode if available in the input WASM file.<p>&gt; The wasmedgec can compile WebAssembly into native machine code (i.e., the AOT compiler). For the pure WebAssembly, the wasmedge tool will execute the WASM in interpreter mode. After compiling with the wasmedgec AOT compiler, the wasmedge tool can execute the WASM in AOT mode which is much faster.<p>They added an option (--force-interpreter) to disable running untrusted native code [2]:<p>&gt; Thanks for reporting this. I think we can have a flag to disable the automatically loaded AOT sections from an unknown given universal wasm format. One possible situation is that users want to execute a wasm file with interpreter mode, however, they use a universal wasm format received from a malicious developer, and then the bad thing happens.<p>[0]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;wasmedge.org&#x2F;book&#x2F;en&#x2F;cli&#x2F;wasmedge.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;wasmedge.org&#x2F;book&#x2F;en&#x2F;cli&#x2F;wasmedge.html</a><p>[1]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;wasmedge.org&#x2F;book&#x2F;en&#x2F;cli&#x2F;wasmedgec.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;wasmedge.org&#x2F;book&#x2F;en&#x2F;cli&#x2F;wasmedgec.html</a><p>[2]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;WasmEdge&#x2F;WasmEdge&#x2F;issues&#x2F;1631" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;WasmEdge&#x2F;WasmEdge&#x2F;issues&#x2F;1631</a></text></comment> | <story><title>WasmEdge</title><url>https://wasmedge.org/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>politelemon</author><text>I got a bit bewildered by the quick start documentation. It starts by showing how to install and uninstall, followed by running it in different execution environments, it seems to be expecting that you already know what wasmedge is. That&#x27;s unexpected, as usually a quickstart shows how to write and run a simple application.</text></comment> |
18,066,398 | 18,066,229 | 1 | 2 | 18,064,537 | train | <story><title>Chrome 69 will keep Google Cookies when you tell it to delete all cookies</title><url>https://twitter.com/ctavan/status/1044282084020441088</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Carpetsmoker</author><text>What&#x27;s the alternative to Android though? Apple has its own well-documented issues, as well as a rather large price-tag. I just use my phone for maps and some chat services, don&#x27;t need a very fancy phone. Even the iPhone 7 is listed at £449, which is already £150 more than I paid for my Sony Xperia.<p>I wish stuff like HP WebOS or Meego was still alive, but as far as I know, Apple and Google are the only serious players in town at the moment :-(</text></item><item><author>ux-app</author><text>Dropping chrome is not enough. Switch to bing (Just as good as G), or ddg if you really want. Then ditch android which is the spy in your pocket. If you&#x27;re installing G analytics for clients then choose an alternative (I&#x27;m open to suggestions here).<p>It&#x27;s really time to disentangle ourselves from google. They&#x27;ve quietly and effectively insinuated themselves across the web. Enough is enough.</text></item><item><author>mangecoeur</author><text>Seriously don&#x27;t know why anyone is surprised that a browser built by an ad-tech company pushes the user tracking tech of that company.<p>Just use Firefox and have done with it - there&#x27;s been a series of these kinds of posts over the last couple of days with people suggesting insane workaround hacks instead of just changing their browser.<p>P.S. if you keep chrome because some websites only work properly there, maybe y&#x27;all should follow standards at work instead of targeting a proprietary browser like its 2001&#x2F;IE6 again.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>turtle4</author><text>There are no perfect alternatives, just imperfect ones.<p>Apple has their own issues, but they&#x27;ve claimed that their business is selling you a device and software and media to run on it, and making their money from that as opposed to reselling your data. Everything they&#x27;ve been doing lately supports that stance, and they&#x27;ve already recognized it as a differentiation, hence the way they have been up-playing the privacy features of their devices lately. Since they aren&#x27;t selling you as much after the fact, they are going to charge you more up-front, and since they make their money selling software, they&#x27;re obsessed with controlling the marketplace.<p>Google gives away software and media, and sells your personal data and advertising. They&#x27;re showing increasingly that they don&#x27;t care about your privacy if it affects their bottom line.<p>You have to decide which of those business models you support, and then support it. There&#x27;s no third model where a business gives everything away <i>and</i> cares about your privacy. That&#x27;s inconsistent with a bottom line of making money, and at the end of the day that is what the business is trying to do.<p>For a while Google gave the <i>impression</i> that they cared, until they established a large enough market, and now you&#x27;re seeing them make the natural transition. They&#x27;ve grew their cash cow by giving away stuff, now they are milking it.<p>Any rational company with their business model is going to do the same thing though, so if you jump ship to another ecosystem now selling you a business model that is too good to be true, don&#x27;t be surprised down the line when that proves to be the case.</text></comment> | <story><title>Chrome 69 will keep Google Cookies when you tell it to delete all cookies</title><url>https://twitter.com/ctavan/status/1044282084020441088</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Carpetsmoker</author><text>What&#x27;s the alternative to Android though? Apple has its own well-documented issues, as well as a rather large price-tag. I just use my phone for maps and some chat services, don&#x27;t need a very fancy phone. Even the iPhone 7 is listed at £449, which is already £150 more than I paid for my Sony Xperia.<p>I wish stuff like HP WebOS or Meego was still alive, but as far as I know, Apple and Google are the only serious players in town at the moment :-(</text></item><item><author>ux-app</author><text>Dropping chrome is not enough. Switch to bing (Just as good as G), or ddg if you really want. Then ditch android which is the spy in your pocket. If you&#x27;re installing G analytics for clients then choose an alternative (I&#x27;m open to suggestions here).<p>It&#x27;s really time to disentangle ourselves from google. They&#x27;ve quietly and effectively insinuated themselves across the web. Enough is enough.</text></item><item><author>mangecoeur</author><text>Seriously don&#x27;t know why anyone is surprised that a browser built by an ad-tech company pushes the user tracking tech of that company.<p>Just use Firefox and have done with it - there&#x27;s been a series of these kinds of posts over the last couple of days with people suggesting insane workaround hacks instead of just changing their browser.<p>P.S. if you keep chrome because some websites only work properly there, maybe y&#x27;all should follow standards at work instead of targeting a proprietary browser like its 2001&#x2F;IE6 again.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>JulienSchmidt</author><text>Android (the Android Open Source Project) itself is not the Problem. It&#x27;s the lock-in ecosystem that Google tries to establish with the Google Services Framework, Play Store and the like. What is missing, is an open and privacy-friendly alternative to GSF. Without GSF we don&#x27;t have efficient push notifications (Firebase Cloud Messaging), a geolocation provider, a maps API etc.<p>Personally, I have been using microG (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;microg.org&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;microg.org&#x2F;</a>) instead of GSF on my phone for many years now. However, that is still just a partial solution. While it does its best to be privacy-friendly and does not have any integrated tracking &#x2F; analytics like GSF, it still has to use Google&#x27;s servers for push notifications, thus tracking is still possible to some degree.</text></comment> |
32,169,684 | 32,167,911 | 1 | 2 | 32,166,175 | train | <story><title>General Motors Streetcar Conspiracy</title><url>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Motors_streetcar_conspiracy</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>m0llusk</author><text>This is false, revisionist history. During the war maintenance was deferred and many operators either went bankrupt or dramatically reduced operations. By the time the war ended the tracks and rolling stock were all in need of replacement.<p>The public did not love streetcars for many reasons. The ride was rough, they were boiling in the summer and freezing in the winter. They forced all manner of people into close quarters with one another. Insufficient capacity meant it was not unusual for riders to cling to the sides of cars where that was possible.<p>When freeways and buses were presented as an alternative the public embraced building new infrastructure over rebuilding the old. Part of that is because the downsides had not yet become clear.<p>Blaming some corporate bogeyman is always tempting but does not change the facts. The streetcars were replaced because they fell out of favor with the public who wanted to try the new and shiny thing.</text></comment> | <story><title>General Motors Streetcar Conspiracy</title><url>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Motors_streetcar_conspiracy</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>heliophobicdude</author><text>How can we undo these consequences and promote better public transportation options?<p>I have some ideas about zoning…</text></comment> |
23,556,595 | 23,551,630 | 1 | 2 | 23,550,215 | train | <story><title>Justice Department to propose limiting internet firms’ Section 230 protections</title><url>https://www.wsj.com/articles/justice-department-to-propose-limiting-internet-firms-protections-11592391602</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>throwawaygh</author><text>I&#x27;m generally sympathetic to the idea that Section 230 protections should come with some sort of obligation to allow free speech.<p>However, the actual policy proposals for replacing Section 230 are all outright dystopian. Josh Hawley, in particular, is <i>NOT</i> a free speech advocate. His problem with Facebook&#x2F;Tiwtter is perceived liberal bias, and the alternatives to Section 230 that he suggests are 100% about wrestling editorial oversight away from one class (tech CEOs) and then giving it to another (a politically-appointed board).<p>Does anyone have a good proposal for how to go about reforming Section 230 in a way that&#x27;s workable and values free speech?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jasode</author><text><i>&gt;Section 230 protections should come with some sort of obligation to allow free speech. [...] Does anyone have a good proposal [...] and values free speech?</i><p>Nobody has a good proposal because every discussion about the idealism of <i>&quot;values free speech&quot;</i> is always hiding the true difficulty: nobody wants to be forced to <i>pay</i> for others&#x27; undesirable speech.<p>E.g. Youtube can&#x27;t be a &quot;free speech&quot; platform because advertisers have free will and can choose to not pay for it. (Previous comment about Adpocalypse: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=23259087" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=23259087</a>)<p>Always mentally translate &quot;create a website that allows free speech&quot; into <i>&quot;create a website that forces others to always pay for undesirable speech they don&#x27;t agree with&quot;</i> -- and you will see that&#x27;s a virtually impossible dream to accomplish. There is no broadcasting medium (including websites) in any country that doesn&#x27;t have interference and pressure to remove&#x2F;ban content via consumer boycotts, advertisers, subscribers, business judgement, or government officials.<p>Websites have the hard reality of requiring cpu&#x2F;disk&#x2F;bandwidth and they all cost <i>money</i> and that&#x27;s the lever used by others that keeps &quot;absolute free speech&quot; from getting realistically implemented.</text></comment> | <story><title>Justice Department to propose limiting internet firms’ Section 230 protections</title><url>https://www.wsj.com/articles/justice-department-to-propose-limiting-internet-firms-protections-11592391602</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>throwawaygh</author><text>I&#x27;m generally sympathetic to the idea that Section 230 protections should come with some sort of obligation to allow free speech.<p>However, the actual policy proposals for replacing Section 230 are all outright dystopian. Josh Hawley, in particular, is <i>NOT</i> a free speech advocate. His problem with Facebook&#x2F;Tiwtter is perceived liberal bias, and the alternatives to Section 230 that he suggests are 100% about wrestling editorial oversight away from one class (tech CEOs) and then giving it to another (a politically-appointed board).<p>Does anyone have a good proposal for how to go about reforming Section 230 in a way that&#x27;s workable and values free speech?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>thoughtstheseus</author><text>Make it all dumb pipes and make users responsible for regulating what they see&#x2F;hear. Make a market for filtering content, one great filter across a platform is not flexible.<p>Require platforms over a certain size to provide real-time data accessibility across platforms. Facebook and Twitter are monopolies by virtue of market position, anyone can build a platform that is functionally the same. Create competition here.</text></comment> |
10,916,512 | 10,916,508 | 1 | 2 | 10,916,273 | train | <story><title>Comets can't explain weird 'alien megastructure' star after all</title><url>https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn28786-comets-cant-explain-weird-alien-megastructure-star-after-all</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>sandworm101</author><text>&gt;&gt;&gt; “The alien-megastructure idea runs wrong with my new observations,” he says, as he thinks even advanced aliens wouldn’t be able to build something capable of covering a fifth of a star in just a century. What’s more, such an object should radiate light absorbed from the star as heat, but the infrared signal from Tabby’s star appears normal, he says.<p>That seems a rather unambitious approach to possible alien tech. We today clearly could not build, or think of how to build, such structures. That isn&#x27;t to say that the technology isn&#x27;t possible, just that we do not understand it. If aliens were able to create and fly structures of such size I think it safe to say they would also be in possession of tech we cannot contemplate.</text></comment> | <story><title>Comets can't explain weird 'alien megastructure' star after all</title><url>https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn28786-comets-cant-explain-weird-alien-megastructure-star-after-all</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>kordless</author><text>&gt; “The alien-megastructure idea runs wrong with my new observations,” he says, as he thinks even advanced aliens wouldn’t be able to build something capable of covering a fifth of a star in just a century.<p>Oh, really? So we are speaking for alien&#x27;s abilities now because we don&#x27;t believe in them or their abilities to build things? That sounds like a cognitive bias. Here&#x27;s another bias in the same vein:<p>&gt; “No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris …[because] no known motor can run at the requisite speed for four days without stopping.” - Orville Wright<p>What Orville should have said was, &quot;No flying machine will fly from New York to Paris until we develop a motor that can run at the required speed without stopping until it gets there.&quot;</text></comment> |
31,993,141 | 31,993,161 | 1 | 2 | 31,991,311 | train | <story><title>PulseAudio and Systemd Creator, Lennart Poettering, Reportedly Leaves Red Hat</title><url>https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Lennart-Poettering-Out-Red-Hat</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tpush</author><text>My god the comments in this thread are terrible. How can grown ass adults be so pathetically mean to a single person because he wrote (free &amp; gratis!) software they don&#x27;t like. Seriously, it&#x27;s mystifying.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>traverseda</author><text>When his employer uses politics to try to coerce others into using that &quot;free &amp; gratis&quot; software it can leave a bit of a bitter taste in your mouth.<p>It&#x27;s not that something like pulseaudio is bad so we can just ignore it, it&#x27;s that pulseaudio is bad because because redhat funds a lot of gnome stuff gnome won&#x27;t really work unless you use pulseaudio, and since you use gnome you now <i>have to</i> use systemd. If pulseaudio just existed in a vacuum I don&#x27;t think anyone would have an issue with it. If it wasn&#x27;t bundled into a giant ecosystem it wouldn&#x27;t be so bad, and if the redhat contributors involved cared more about non-redhat stakeholders I don&#x27;t think people would have nearly as much ire.<p>But honestly writing &quot;free &amp; gratis&quot; software that kind of sucks, and that forces you to use other sucky software, well I&#x27;m honestly not sure it&#x27;s better than nothing. If it didn&#x27;t exist I think some other solution would eventually come into being, and it might very well be a better solution. Sure it might not happen as quickly, but personally I&#x27;m alright with that.<p>It&#x27;s not charity, it&#x27;s not nobility, it&#x27;s just redhat building a moat around their core business.</text></comment> | <story><title>PulseAudio and Systemd Creator, Lennart Poettering, Reportedly Leaves Red Hat</title><url>https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Lennart-Poettering-Out-Red-Hat</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tpush</author><text>My god the comments in this thread are terrible. How can grown ass adults be so pathetically mean to a single person because he wrote (free &amp; gratis!) software they don&#x27;t like. Seriously, it&#x27;s mystifying.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>_ofdw</author><text>&gt;How can grown ass adults be so pathetically mean to a single person because he wrote (free &amp; gratis!) software they don&#x27;t like. Seriously, it&#x27;s mystifying.<p>Because he and his orbiters were extraordinarily arrogant and condescending about their software. And let&#x27;s not forget that while it&#x27;s pretty good now, in the early days systemd was not very good at all. Because things like GNOME 3 decided to make systemd a hard dependency, pretty soon it became nearly impossible to avoid using the entire systemd stack even though it was nominally modular.<p>It&#x27;s not just that he wrote $thing that someone didn&#x27;t like. It&#x27;s that $thing got shoved down everyone&#x27;s throats at a time when $thing didn&#x27;t work very well, and then when people rightfully objected, they were belittled by Poettering and his fan base.</text></comment> |
32,349,051 | 32,347,063 | 1 | 3 | 32,345,404 | train | <story><title>Old jokes</title><url>https://dynomight.net/old-jokes/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>PaulDavisThe1st</author><text>These remind me of a category of &quot;joke&quot; that some of my middle-school peers and I engaged in: the non-joke. The only one I can remember went something like: <i>a man walks into a bakery and asks for two baguettes. The baker looks at him, thinks for a moment and says &quot;It&#x27;s OK, you can leave your bike outside&quot;</i>.<p>Looking back, I think this idea was somehow rooted in the idea that jokes have <i>delivery</i> and that if you use that delivery (rythmn, emphasis, body language) maybe you could say anything and be funny. There was also the peer effect - if you had an audience &quot;plant&quot; in the school yard that would start the laughter, sometimes it would catch even for these non-jokes.<p>Decades later, the idea I described above seems both obviously false, but also true, in the sense that a lot of modern stand up is based on &quot;say anything the right way and people laugh&quot;. However, &quot;the right way&quot; for standup is very different than the &quot;telling a joke&quot; structure.<p>On the other hand, it does feel to me at this point that this is the crux of the contemporary poetry slam: read an arbitrary text in the right way, and while it may not win any prizes, it will feel like poetry, because <i>that&#x27;s what make it poetry</i>.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>salmo</author><text>We used to really enjoy a long elaborate joke setup with a let down as the punchline in college.<p>My favorite was &quot;A patron sees a whale sitting in a booth at the bar&quot;. You go on and on about him coming back day after day seeing the wale, describing the beverage, etc. Just improv it. The key is going as long as you can while keeping the audience, but still getting that frustration and tension from them.<p>At the end the patron gets up the courage to talk to the whale explains to the whale that he had seen him for days, was amazed, etc. Then the whale looked at him and responded [insert best whale noise impression].<p>Since he passed I&#x27;ve seen a bunch of Norm Macdonald videos of this. He really was the best. The moth joke and others that go on for ~30 mins each on Conan are amazing.<p>He plays them dumb but is basing them off like Russian literature tropes that go way over the audience&#x27;s head. The repeated build up, let down, and then finally just a silly punch line that could have landed in 3 sentences is incredible. And his ability to play off Conan&#x27;s occasional shots...</text></comment> | <story><title>Old jokes</title><url>https://dynomight.net/old-jokes/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>PaulDavisThe1st</author><text>These remind me of a category of &quot;joke&quot; that some of my middle-school peers and I engaged in: the non-joke. The only one I can remember went something like: <i>a man walks into a bakery and asks for two baguettes. The baker looks at him, thinks for a moment and says &quot;It&#x27;s OK, you can leave your bike outside&quot;</i>.<p>Looking back, I think this idea was somehow rooted in the idea that jokes have <i>delivery</i> and that if you use that delivery (rythmn, emphasis, body language) maybe you could say anything and be funny. There was also the peer effect - if you had an audience &quot;plant&quot; in the school yard that would start the laughter, sometimes it would catch even for these non-jokes.<p>Decades later, the idea I described above seems both obviously false, but also true, in the sense that a lot of modern stand up is based on &quot;say anything the right way and people laugh&quot;. However, &quot;the right way&quot; for standup is very different than the &quot;telling a joke&quot; structure.<p>On the other hand, it does feel to me at this point that this is the crux of the contemporary poetry slam: read an arbitrary text in the right way, and while it may not win any prizes, it will feel like poetry, because <i>that&#x27;s what make it poetry</i>.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>stryan</author><text>&gt; Looking back, I think this idea was somehow rooted in the idea that jokes have delivery and that if you use that delivery (rhythm, emphasis, body language) maybe you could say anything and be funny.<p>Reminds me of the Code Geass abridged series Code MENT (most famously known for the Soup Store[0] meme) which relies on this type of humor heavily. Most of the jokes in it aren&#x27;t really funny on their own and are essentially just nonsensical statements delivered in strange and distinctive ways rapid fire while VERY loosely related to the plot of Code Geass. But with the right delivery the lines become hilarious and easily quotable: just look at how many Soup Store parodies there are.<p>[0]<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=FAUnDDTz30k" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=FAUnDDTz30k</a></text></comment> |
2,434,555 | 2,434,551 | 1 | 3 | 2,434,333 | train | <story><title>Notice: Experimenting with HN</title><text>Over the next few weeks I'm going to be experimenting with some of the ideas discussed here<p>http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2403696<p>so don't freak out of the site changes in some way. It will probably change back.</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>DarkShikari</author><text>The problem with this is it makes every submission into a karma game. If submitting costs karma, it will cause more people to think "will this earn enough points?" before submitting links.<p>... but that's not what you want people to think. You want them to think "is this interesting and on-topic for HN?" They're not the same question, as much as the former tries to approximate the latter.<p>If people focus too much on points, you're likely to get more groupthink and more industry buzz (since that stuff always gets a gazillion upvotes) instead of interesting articles.<p>Certainly, people think about link karma already, but I think this would make it worse. Creating a cost will cause even people who <i>don't</i> think about karma to think about it, even for just a moment -- which is probably not what you want.</text></item><item><author>silentbicycle</author><text>Have you considered adding a slight cost for submitting articles? (perhaps 2-5 points of karma?) There's a reward for submitting anything first that other people are likely to submit, but no cost, so the new page is often clogged with industry buzz that drowns out more substantial submissions. Many excellent article fall off within an hour, and then they can't get reposted.<p>Having more articles on the front page that aren't based on a scramble for duplicate-submission karma would probably improve the overall discussion threads, too; those posts tend to draw a lot of shallow comments.<p>It would also help with spam. Win win win.<p>I also wonder what percentage of upvotes for submissions comes just from duplicate submissions - maybe those should be counted differently (or not at all)? If the front page is already full of threads about some news about Apple (or whatever), being first to submit a redundant (but distinct) post is disproportionately rewarded, yet reduces the signal/noise ratio <i>even further</i>.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>keyist</author><text><i>You want them to think "is this interesting and on-topic for HN?"</i><p>My earlier proposal (<a href="http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2242453" rel="nofollow">http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2242453</a> ): deduct karma from submitter and _anyone who upvoted_ on submissions that were successfully flagged. That should get people to think the way you mention not only when submitting, but when upvoting as well.<p>Improve the submissions and comments will naturally improve -- submissions that are one-sided/gossipy/demagogic tend to attract similar comments. Whereas submissions full of technical content are often rich with links to further reading, contrasting viewpoints with cited evidence, etc. (Disclaimer: observations in this paragraph may be subject to fundamental attribution error).</text></comment> | <story><title>Notice: Experimenting with HN</title><text>Over the next few weeks I'm going to be experimenting with some of the ideas discussed here<p>http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2403696<p>so don't freak out of the site changes in some way. It will probably change back.</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>DarkShikari</author><text>The problem with this is it makes every submission into a karma game. If submitting costs karma, it will cause more people to think "will this earn enough points?" before submitting links.<p>... but that's not what you want people to think. You want them to think "is this interesting and on-topic for HN?" They're not the same question, as much as the former tries to approximate the latter.<p>If people focus too much on points, you're likely to get more groupthink and more industry buzz (since that stuff always gets a gazillion upvotes) instead of interesting articles.<p>Certainly, people think about link karma already, but I think this would make it worse. Creating a cost will cause even people who <i>don't</i> think about karma to think about it, even for just a moment -- which is probably not what you want.</text></item><item><author>silentbicycle</author><text>Have you considered adding a slight cost for submitting articles? (perhaps 2-5 points of karma?) There's a reward for submitting anything first that other people are likely to submit, but no cost, so the new page is often clogged with industry buzz that drowns out more substantial submissions. Many excellent article fall off within an hour, and then they can't get reposted.<p>Having more articles on the front page that aren't based on a scramble for duplicate-submission karma would probably improve the overall discussion threads, too; those posts tend to draw a lot of shallow comments.<p>It would also help with spam. Win win win.<p>I also wonder what percentage of upvotes for submissions comes just from duplicate submissions - maybe those should be counted differently (or not at all)? If the front page is already full of threads about some news about Apple (or whatever), being first to submit a redundant (but distinct) post is disproportionately rewarded, yet reduces the signal/noise ratio <i>even further</i>.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>eli</author><text>If you don't think a story will get 2-5 up votes, then you probably shouldn't submit it.<p>And I assure you that people who don't think about karma (I couldn't care less) will continue to not think about it.</text></comment> |
21,258,668 | 21,258,766 | 1 | 3 | 21,258,024 | train | <story><title>Flash Memory Wear Killing Older Teslas Due to Excessive Data Logging: Report</title><url>https://www.tomshardware.com/news/flash-memory-wear-killing-older-teslas-due-to-excessive-data-logging-report</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>JohnJamesRambo</author><text>My family’s ownership outcomes strongly suggest getting a Toyota. I’m driving my Dad’s old 2001 Tundra pickup with 350k miles on the same engine. I was amazed when I bought it from him how every switch still worked, the original AC still blew cold. This is not my normal experience buying used cars from other manufacturers. Usually at about 150k miles they turn into a clown car of various systems failing. Someone put thought into each component on the truck and how it would age.</text></item><item><author>Merrill</author><text>Which auto maker&#x27;s electronics are likely to be reliable for the 25-year nominal life of the vehicle (US fleet average age is 11.8 years and rising)?<p>And which will have spare parts available for that long?<p>I&#x27;m thinking about buying a new car, but I&#x27;m worried.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kipchak</author><text>Generally speaking Toyota is conservative in terms of rolling out new technologies and sticks with what&#x27;s proven. For example the base Camry has a 2.5L engine and 8 speed auto transmission and the base Accord a 1.5 turbo and 10 speed auto. Toyota also goes more in depth terms of QA and testing on individual parts than others.<p>From an article on the Toyota - BMW Supra&#x2F;M4 collaboration,<p>&quot;...BMW couldn’t believe how extensive some of our quality and efficiency studies were as parts came into shape one by one. We would take every bit down to a fastener or rivet, and put it through our stringent quality control and a dozen other testing, we’d ship thousands of parts back to Japan for analysis. That is normal to us.&quot;<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;club4ag.com&#x2F;chief-engineer-tetsuya-tada-reveals-the-a90-supra-through-a-viewpoint-of-joint-development-with-bmw&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;club4ag.com&#x2F;chief-engineer-tetsuya-tada-reveals-the-a...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Flash Memory Wear Killing Older Teslas Due to Excessive Data Logging: Report</title><url>https://www.tomshardware.com/news/flash-memory-wear-killing-older-teslas-due-to-excessive-data-logging-report</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>JohnJamesRambo</author><text>My family’s ownership outcomes strongly suggest getting a Toyota. I’m driving my Dad’s old 2001 Tundra pickup with 350k miles on the same engine. I was amazed when I bought it from him how every switch still worked, the original AC still blew cold. This is not my normal experience buying used cars from other manufacturers. Usually at about 150k miles they turn into a clown car of various systems failing. Someone put thought into each component on the truck and how it would age.</text></item><item><author>Merrill</author><text>Which auto maker&#x27;s electronics are likely to be reliable for the 25-year nominal life of the vehicle (US fleet average age is 11.8 years and rising)?<p>And which will have spare parts available for that long?<p>I&#x27;m thinking about buying a new car, but I&#x27;m worried.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>celticmusic</author><text>When I was in HS I had a friend whose family had this old beat up orange smallbed truck from the 70&#x27;s (this was mid 90&#x27;s). That thing was beat all to hell, ugly as sin. It was used as a truck.<p>But you know what? That damned thing ran like a beauty. It literally ran until their son started driving it and wrecked it.<p>I was impressed enough with it, that when it was time for me to purchase a vehicle, I went with Toyota. 15 years later and that thing has <i>never</i> left me on the side of the road, not even once (I do keep up maintenance on it). I&#x27;m considering purchasing another vehicle because it&#x27;s time to get something larger, and when I do it will most likely be Toyota.<p>I&#x27;ve seen so many people say that at 200k miles Toyota is just getting warmed up, and there&#x27;s some truth to it. You obviously have to keep up with maintenance on the vehicle, but if you do I can guarantee it will treat you right. And I&#x27;m not saying other manufacturers are any worse, but I am saying Toyota is a great vehicle to buy.</text></comment> |
27,885,781 | 27,886,090 | 1 | 2 | 27,882,895 | train | <story><title>How to Learn Stuff Quickly</title><url>https://www.joshwcomeau.com/blog/how-to-learn-stuff-quickly/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>nickjj</author><text>I&#x27;ve never found anything that worked as well as:<p>1. Become aware that something I&#x27;m interested in learning exists<p>2. Watch and skim a bunch of videos at 2x speed around the idea of the thing (usually keynotes or videos created by the author) to get hyped up<p>3. Go through the documentation&#x27;s getting started guide while following along<p>4. Immediately start building something with the new thing<p>Treat everything beyond this as question driven development[0] or basically JIT (just in time) learning.<p><i>For context the first 3 steps are usually no more than a weekend or a few days.</i><p>I do this loop all the time and it hasn&#x27;t really failed yet for learning all sorts of things (5+ programming languages, a bunch of stuff about Linux, Ansible, Docker, Vim, Terraform, Kubernetes, video production, and the list goes on). These are learning things very quickly at a level where you can comfortably bill out freelance work or get employed.<p>[0]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;nickjanetakis.com&#x2F;blog&#x2F;learning-a-new-web-framework-with-question-driven-development" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;nickjanetakis.com&#x2F;blog&#x2F;learning-a-new-web-framework-...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>How to Learn Stuff Quickly</title><url>https://www.joshwcomeau.com/blog/how-to-learn-stuff-quickly/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>6gvONxR4sf7o</author><text>&gt; If you only follow guided resources, you&#x27;ll wind up in tutorial hell.<p>I disagree very strongly here. You can wind up in tutorial hell if you only read surface level small to medium sized posts.<p>My &quot;career superpower&quot; is that I&#x27;m always working my way through one textbook or another. You get serious depth this way and avoid getting stuck with a surface level understanding. Plus, with depth you can end up with really strong fundamentals, which make learning the next thing that much easier.<p>I know a lot of people who read tons of blog posts on topics but never crack open a textbook, or people who watch youtubers explain academic papers yet never open up the actual paper.<p>Maybe my &quot;learn stuff quickly&quot; trick is... don&#x27;t. Spend a decade accumulating deep knowledge slowly, and it&#x27;ll add up. The road to &quot;tutorial hell&quot; is paved with blogposts and missing fundamentals.<p>(I like the rest of the post)</text></comment> |
21,311,378 | 21,311,526 | 1 | 3 | 21,310,867 | train | <story><title>“We have no reason to believe 5G is safe”</title><url>https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/we-have-no-reason-to-believe-5g-is-safe/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>userbinator</author><text><i>At the same time, everybody seems to accept that the chance of getting cancer in your lifetime has risen to about one in three for men and one in five for women. And nobody knows why.</i><p>Because life expectancy has also risen; people who used to be dying of other things are now living long enough that cancer is more common.</text></item><item><author>BurnGpuBurn</author><text>I&#x27;m amazed at how many people here actually decline to click on the links in the article, which would guide one to a large list of scientific publications, with links to the original publications themselves.<p>Yet they are very ready to call &quot;more than 240 scientists who have published peer-reviewed research on the biologic and health effects of nonionizing electromagnetic fields&quot; &quot;wackos&quot; or &quot;cranks with a PhD&quot;, call their research &quot;bullshit&quot; or &quot;impossible&quot;, call the people &quot;thruthers&quot; or claiming &quot;Russian troll farms&quot; are behind this story.<p>I don&#x27;t think I&#x27;ve ever seen so much non-scientific HN comments on a science article.<p>At the same time, everybody seems to accept that the chance of getting cancer in your lifetime has risen to about one in three for men and one in five for women. And nobody knows why. However everybody who points to a possible answer is shot down without much investigation. Sad, really.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>andrepd</author><text>Unfortunately the hunch you have just spendt 30 seconds thinking about is sadly incorrect. The increase in life expectancy doesn&#x27;t account for the increased incidence of cancers. There are other factors at play, which need to be investigated (some that we know: obesity, pollution, cigarettes).</text></comment> | <story><title>“We have no reason to believe 5G is safe”</title><url>https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/we-have-no-reason-to-believe-5g-is-safe/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>userbinator</author><text><i>At the same time, everybody seems to accept that the chance of getting cancer in your lifetime has risen to about one in three for men and one in five for women. And nobody knows why.</i><p>Because life expectancy has also risen; people who used to be dying of other things are now living long enough that cancer is more common.</text></item><item><author>BurnGpuBurn</author><text>I&#x27;m amazed at how many people here actually decline to click on the links in the article, which would guide one to a large list of scientific publications, with links to the original publications themselves.<p>Yet they are very ready to call &quot;more than 240 scientists who have published peer-reviewed research on the biologic and health effects of nonionizing electromagnetic fields&quot; &quot;wackos&quot; or &quot;cranks with a PhD&quot;, call their research &quot;bullshit&quot; or &quot;impossible&quot;, call the people &quot;thruthers&quot; or claiming &quot;Russian troll farms&quot; are behind this story.<p>I don&#x27;t think I&#x27;ve ever seen so much non-scientific HN comments on a science article.<p>At the same time, everybody seems to accept that the chance of getting cancer in your lifetime has risen to about one in three for men and one in five for women. And nobody knows why. However everybody who points to a possible answer is shot down without much investigation. Sad, really.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kristjankalm</author><text>from where does this increase in cancer probability statistic come from? anyone have a link to a paper? tried googling but found nothing reliable sadly</text></comment> |
30,766,708 | 30,766,721 | 1 | 2 | 30,765,294 | train | <story><title>The takeover of America's legal system</title><url>https://bariweiss.substack.com/p/the-takeover-of-americas-legal-system</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>matthewmcg</author><text>I have practiced law for more than ten years, attended some of the institutions mentioned, and have worked in and with firms that would be considered &quot;elite.&quot; I don&#x27;t recognize any of the phenomena described in this article. Frankly the writer is either very far from the reality of modern legal practice (chasing noise in the system, without any real data) or she&#x27;s viewing things selectively to serve some ideological purpose.<p>Most legal bills are paid by large corporations. The U.S. is the leader in this respect--on average U.S. companies spend about 0.4% of their revenue on legal services, almost triple the rate in a civil law country like Germany. Effectively most lawyers (including me) work directly or indirectly for businesses. This means that the legal education system, and to a lesser extent, the court system, are shaped by and largely serve the needs of businesses.<p>And what are all of these businesses doing with their legal spending? Largely litigation defense, transactions (M&amp;A, issuing securities, or buying&#x2F;selling assets like real estate), and interacting with government and regulators.<p>Lawyers that don&#x27;t work for large business organizations spend their time representing individuals or classes of plaintiffs in tort litigation or in matters like criminal defense, immigration assistance, family law, or estate planning. Things that may not involve the huge dollar amounts of business transactions but that matter a lot to the people affected.<p>For every law school class on critical race theory or other topics the writer criticizes, a law student will take dozens on administrative procedure, taxation, federal courts, etc. etc. etc.<p>There are many valid criticisms of the American legal system. For example, you might feel that it&#x27;s too easy to file a frivolous lawsuit that will settle for nuisance value. Or you might observe that corporations have been able to cripple or stall regulation that the public demands. Or that mass incarceration is bad social policy. This kind of introspection, including CRT, has long been a part of the academy and the profession, and I think a useful one.<p>The situation depicted in this article, that everyone&#x27;s suddenly gone out of control &quot;woke,&quot; is just ridiculous and doesn&#x27;t at all fit my own experience.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rayiner</author><text>CRT dates back to the 1970s. I assure you that the liberal NYU and Northwestern professors quoted in the article didn’t just wake up in 2022 and decide to complain about people saying that “mass incarceration is bad social policy.”<p>These trends are hitting academia and the non-profit sector first. At my law school, one of the top ones in the country, the Dean got up and declared himself a “white supremacist” at a town hall meeting: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.washingtonexaminer.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;northwestern-universitys-interim-dean-admits-to-being-a-racist-during-digital-town-hall" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.washingtonexaminer.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;northwestern-univers...</a><p>My friend who works at a public interest organization—herself very liberal—has been surprised by attorneys refusing to work in cases because of the political beliefs of clients and donors (which have nothing to do with the organization’s purpose).<p>The changes at the ACLU are well documented: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nytimes.com&#x2F;2021&#x2F;06&#x2F;06&#x2F;us&#x2F;aclu-free-speech.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nytimes.com&#x2F;2021&#x2F;06&#x2F;06&#x2F;us&#x2F;aclu-free-speech.html</a><p>Efforts by the ABA to impose commitments on lawyers that could interfere with the duty of zealous advocacy are well documented: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;judicature.duke.edu&#x2F;articles&#x2F;a-speech-code-for-lawyers&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;judicature.duke.edu&#x2F;articles&#x2F;a-speech-code-for-lawye...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>The takeover of America's legal system</title><url>https://bariweiss.substack.com/p/the-takeover-of-americas-legal-system</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>matthewmcg</author><text>I have practiced law for more than ten years, attended some of the institutions mentioned, and have worked in and with firms that would be considered &quot;elite.&quot; I don&#x27;t recognize any of the phenomena described in this article. Frankly the writer is either very far from the reality of modern legal practice (chasing noise in the system, without any real data) or she&#x27;s viewing things selectively to serve some ideological purpose.<p>Most legal bills are paid by large corporations. The U.S. is the leader in this respect--on average U.S. companies spend about 0.4% of their revenue on legal services, almost triple the rate in a civil law country like Germany. Effectively most lawyers (including me) work directly or indirectly for businesses. This means that the legal education system, and to a lesser extent, the court system, are shaped by and largely serve the needs of businesses.<p>And what are all of these businesses doing with their legal spending? Largely litigation defense, transactions (M&amp;A, issuing securities, or buying&#x2F;selling assets like real estate), and interacting with government and regulators.<p>Lawyers that don&#x27;t work for large business organizations spend their time representing individuals or classes of plaintiffs in tort litigation or in matters like criminal defense, immigration assistance, family law, or estate planning. Things that may not involve the huge dollar amounts of business transactions but that matter a lot to the people affected.<p>For every law school class on critical race theory or other topics the writer criticizes, a law student will take dozens on administrative procedure, taxation, federal courts, etc. etc. etc.<p>There are many valid criticisms of the American legal system. For example, you might feel that it&#x27;s too easy to file a frivolous lawsuit that will settle for nuisance value. Or you might observe that corporations have been able to cripple or stall regulation that the public demands. Or that mass incarceration is bad social policy. This kind of introspection, including CRT, has long been a part of the academy and the profession, and I think a useful one.<p>The situation depicted in this article, that everyone&#x27;s suddenly gone out of control &quot;woke,&quot; is just ridiculous and doesn&#x27;t at all fit my own experience.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>marlowe221</author><text>I&#x27;m a former attorney. I left the profession after 13 years of practice and became a software developer.<p>I spent most of my career doing things like criminal defense and representing people with disabilities. In those areas of practice, things like CRT are badly needed. There can be no realistic dispute that the heavy hand of the law comes down more heavily on criminal defendants of color than it does those who are white - examination of the roots and causes of institutional racism are the best ways to combat this issue, and perhaps some discussion of these topics even in law school is warranted.<p>That said, I agree that most legal education is more practical and traditional than what is depicted in this article.</text></comment> |
18,305,463 | 18,303,988 | 1 | 3 | 18,301,361 | train | <story><title>Ban organophosphate pesticides to protect children's health, experts say</title><url>https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/oct/24/entire-pesticide-class-should-be-banned-for-effect-on-childrens-health</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>chicob</author><text>And what about safety to farmers?<p>I&#x27;ve used phosmet, an organophosphate insecticide, and I don&#x27;t like to use it. You can know it&#x27;s around in the warehouse, still in the original sealed packages, just by smelling it. A feeling of dry mouth and eyes usually follows.<p>And it&#x27;s not because it&#x27;s a dangerous substance - most pesticides with very few exceptions are dangerous - but because it is very hard to handle.<p>Phosmet is usually sold as a fine powder, and as it is the case of most soluble powders, it disperses in air easily. I always ask for liquid insecticides, but these are not always available.<p>Masks are not particularly useful: cotton masks are of little to no use, filters are compromised by facial hair[1] and air supply masks are crazy expensive.<p>If farmers respect the required safety intervals, harm to consumers is considerably minimized.
The main hazard comes to people that come in contact with larger concentrations of pesticides: manufacturers, sellers and farmers.<p>Now I just open the package carefully underwater, if the sprayer is full enough and the package is to be completely emptied. This minimizes dispersion considerably.<p>[1] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;multimedia.3m.com&#x2F;mws&#x2F;media&#x2F;463742O&#x2F;facial-hair-and-respirators.pdf" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;multimedia.3m.com&#x2F;mws&#x2F;media&#x2F;463742O&#x2F;facial-hair-and-r...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Ban organophosphate pesticides to protect children's health, experts say</title><url>https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/oct/24/entire-pesticide-class-should-be-banned-for-effect-on-childrens-health</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>torpfactory</author><text>People spend a lot of time talking about what happens to humans when exposed to organophosphates. Humans aren’t even meant to be the target of these chemicals. What about the long term consequences to the environment that is actually the intended target? How much are we losing by applying these chemicals year after year after year.</text></comment> |
6,961,158 | 6,961,038 | 1 | 3 | 6,960,539 | train | <story><title>Unicorn Jobs</title><url>http://www.pgbovine.net/unicorn-jobs.htm</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>was_hellbanned</author><text>The rather unethical alternative is to find a job in a fairly incompetent group at a company that&#x27;s not extremely tech focused, then spend most of your time working on whatever you want to. I&#x27;ve had jobs (and spoken to many people with similar jobs) where I could accomplish all my tasks within a couple hours of actual, focused effort, leaving the rest of the work week for personal projects, side business, etc.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dangero</author><text>The problem that I&#x27;ve found with those environments is that the 60% of downtime you have is usually when people are socializing instead of working. That means it&#x27;s not actually that easy to focus on your own project. Also the office laziness rubs off and you tend to be less disciplined to work on that personal project than you think you will be. Perhaps somebody out there can consistently pull it off, but I&#x27;ve never seen it.</text></comment> | <story><title>Unicorn Jobs</title><url>http://www.pgbovine.net/unicorn-jobs.htm</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>was_hellbanned</author><text>The rather unethical alternative is to find a job in a fairly incompetent group at a company that&#x27;s not extremely tech focused, then spend most of your time working on whatever you want to. I&#x27;ve had jobs (and spoken to many people with similar jobs) where I could accomplish all my tasks within a couple hours of actual, focused effort, leaving the rest of the work week for personal projects, side business, etc.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>PaulHoule</author><text>The weirdest thing is that I&#x27;ve worked at places where I couldn&#x27;t get other people to move fast enough to stay busy.<p>That is, if I tried to work at 80% utilization I&#x27;d always be arguing with people to get them to pick up the pace.<p>Once I decided to work at 40% utilization I found I got along better with people. My boss bitched me out once for &quot;not being fully committed&quot; but he quit the next month, so things went on for another year when my new (absentee) boss told me that we ought to let the guy who has temper tantrums all the time get his way because I&#x27;m more flexible than him... A recruiter called me the next business day and I was outa there..</text></comment> |
37,863,407 | 37,862,851 | 1 | 3 | 37,861,467 | train | <story><title>Has Play Protect removed KDE Connect from your phone? Let us know</title><url>https://old.reddit.com/r/kde/comments/175upzi/has_play_protect_removed_kde_connect_from_your/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>nologic01</author><text>This is an interesting exhibit as KDE Connect is an example of a <i>powerful</i> app. Powerful apps that do non-trivial things are needed to extract the potential of these wonderful devices. But they sail too close to the wind for the gatekeepers that rather keep them dumb devices locked and &quot;safe&quot;.<p>Over time this is going to stiffle innovation big time.</text></comment> | <story><title>Has Play Protect removed KDE Connect from your phone? Let us know</title><url>https://old.reddit.com/r/kde/comments/175upzi/has_play_protect_removed_kde_connect_from_your/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Zetobal</author><text>Must be a bug there are other people on reddit reporting other apps get deleted as well. Even ones from Samsung.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;LinusTechTips&#x2F;comments&#x2F;176bk9b&#x2F;google_saying_samsung_wallet_is_dangerous&#x2F;" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;LinusTechTips&#x2F;comments&#x2F;176bk9b&#x2F;goog...</a></text></comment> |
33,708,755 | 33,708,231 | 1 | 3 | 33,707,889 | train | <story><title>Ask HN: How do you start a startup in your 30s when you have wife/kids/mortgage?</title><text>I want to start my own company, but Im not sure how to pay my bills while looking for product-market-fit.<p>I have a well paying job now, and I am pretty sure I would throw my marriage into chaos if I told my wife I was leaving my job to pursue a start up. Shes not stupid, she knows start ups have like a 90% failure rate.<p>So the question is: how do I continue my current standard of living for my family while working on a startup?<p>Are all startups at my age generally side hustles that become profitable enough to quit my day job?<p>Does anyone here have experience with this?</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>earino</author><text>My very concrete feelings on this is that you probably don&#x27;t.<p>Asking folks how to do this is a bit like asking billionaires how to get rich. It&#x27;s a fun story but it&#x27;s overfitting. The individual narrative that made a billionaire is unlikely to be available for you. If you ask some millionaires they may be more likely to give you some useful advice around sound investment strategies, living within your means, and identifying great opportunities.<p>You signed up for a bunch of responsibilities. You are always going to be your kids parent. You are only going to have this one opportunity to get this marriage and this family right. If you have a solid job that allows you to be there for them, take it and be amazing in this potentially incredibly rewarding role.<p>Then do an awesome startup when your kids are out of the house, you have a solid nest egg, and you can take risks again in your 50s.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>julianlam</author><text>Agreed 100%. When people ask me what the best time is to work on a startup, it&#x27;s always when you have no dependents, living with parents, and perhaps no significant other. It&#x27;s quite amazing just how much you can skim down your expenses at that point in life.<p>Minimizing expenses, maximizing runway. The rest is luck. Just blind luck.</text></comment> | <story><title>Ask HN: How do you start a startup in your 30s when you have wife/kids/mortgage?</title><text>I want to start my own company, but Im not sure how to pay my bills while looking for product-market-fit.<p>I have a well paying job now, and I am pretty sure I would throw my marriage into chaos if I told my wife I was leaving my job to pursue a start up. Shes not stupid, she knows start ups have like a 90% failure rate.<p>So the question is: how do I continue my current standard of living for my family while working on a startup?<p>Are all startups at my age generally side hustles that become profitable enough to quit my day job?<p>Does anyone here have experience with this?</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>earino</author><text>My very concrete feelings on this is that you probably don&#x27;t.<p>Asking folks how to do this is a bit like asking billionaires how to get rich. It&#x27;s a fun story but it&#x27;s overfitting. The individual narrative that made a billionaire is unlikely to be available for you. If you ask some millionaires they may be more likely to give you some useful advice around sound investment strategies, living within your means, and identifying great opportunities.<p>You signed up for a bunch of responsibilities. You are always going to be your kids parent. You are only going to have this one opportunity to get this marriage and this family right. If you have a solid job that allows you to be there for them, take it and be amazing in this potentially incredibly rewarding role.<p>Then do an awesome startup when your kids are out of the house, you have a solid nest egg, and you can take risks again in your 50s.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Ancalagon</author><text>I agree with the premise of this, but want to point out a normal job doesn’t necessarily lead to fulfilling those responsibilities adequately even though maybe they should. People still get stressed, overwork, have ambition, dislike home life, etc.<p>I think OP should talk with his wife and make a decision based on milestones</text></comment> |
17,622,685 | 17,620,721 | 1 | 3 | 17,619,352 | train | <story><title>Stripe Issuing – An API for creating physical and virtual cards</title><url>https://stripe.com/issuing</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ryandrake</author><text>As a credit card customer it would be nice to be able to generate one or more temporary cards (physical or not), which are authorized for one transaction only, but are otherwise identical to my main card. That way I can use it with a merchant I simply don’t trust to have their act together, then safely toss it in the trash.</text></item><item><author>lachyg</author><text>(I work on Stripe Issuing.)<p>We&#x27;ve been primarily focused to date on companies where issuing cards is core to providing their business to customers, for example a startup that provides expensing customers, or a platform that needs to purchase goods in the real world. We&#x27;re less focused on a business just using it for their own expensing (as we don&#x27;t have receipt upload functionality, etc).<p>To your two other questions though:<p>(1) Could users approve things in real time? Sort of. We provide the ability (as you noticed) through API, but it needs to be responded to in &lt; 2s, which means it&#x27;s not possible for a human to be in the flow.<p>(2) Could this be linked to an external bank account? Again, sort of. To get in the weeds: as soon as we approve an authorization, we&#x27;re on the hook for those funds. A debit to an external balance (or bank account) may fail and Stripe would be on the line. This is why we typically require funds to be in a Stripe account prior to purchases taking place.</text></item><item><author>TheTaytay</author><text>This is really impressive, like the rest of the Stripe API! Although many people here are asking about creating virtual banks and issuing cards to customers, it appears that the intended audience of this API is a business that has a Stripe account, that wants to be able to issue cards to employees&#x2F;trusted officials that charge against that single Stripe account. There is no mention of issuing cards to external customers that link against their own, external accounts, right?<p>I ask because the webhook that Stripe fires at purchase time is fantastic, and you could build some great things if their API gave you access to authorized real-time purchase data for customers. This doesn&#x27;t appear to facilitate that though.<p>Does anyone know of an API that would allow a Credit Card user the ability to grant real-time webhooks to a 3rd party as they swipe their card? The closest I&#x27;ve ever found would be setting up spending email spending alerts (that certain banks allow), and then forwarding the emails to said 3rd party. It&#x27;s clunky, and would only work with a few banks. Something like this issuing API would work if Stripe allowed you to issue a card that was linked to a customer&#x27;s existing card&#x2F;account. They&#x27;d basically be saying, &quot;If I swipe _this_ card that you sent me, I&#x27;m agreeing to let you get notified.&quot; The other way I&#x27;ve considered would involve creating your own bank and issuing your own cards, but that&#x27;s real work on both the developer and the customer&#x27;s part :)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>subsubsub</author><text>As a previous commenter mentioned Revolut do this.<p>However I would suggest a temporary card that only lasts for 2 transactions.<p>- the authorization charge (e.g. $1 on amazon.com) [1]<p>- the actual amount of the purchase<p>Too many times I have been caught out by the authorization charge, only to have the actual purchase fail.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;aws.amazon.com&#x2F;premiumsupport&#x2F;knowledge-center&#x2F;aws-authorization-charges&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;aws.amazon.com&#x2F;premiumsupport&#x2F;knowledge-center&#x2F;aws-a...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Stripe Issuing – An API for creating physical and virtual cards</title><url>https://stripe.com/issuing</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ryandrake</author><text>As a credit card customer it would be nice to be able to generate one or more temporary cards (physical or not), which are authorized for one transaction only, but are otherwise identical to my main card. That way I can use it with a merchant I simply don’t trust to have their act together, then safely toss it in the trash.</text></item><item><author>lachyg</author><text>(I work on Stripe Issuing.)<p>We&#x27;ve been primarily focused to date on companies where issuing cards is core to providing their business to customers, for example a startup that provides expensing customers, or a platform that needs to purchase goods in the real world. We&#x27;re less focused on a business just using it for their own expensing (as we don&#x27;t have receipt upload functionality, etc).<p>To your two other questions though:<p>(1) Could users approve things in real time? Sort of. We provide the ability (as you noticed) through API, but it needs to be responded to in &lt; 2s, which means it&#x27;s not possible for a human to be in the flow.<p>(2) Could this be linked to an external bank account? Again, sort of. To get in the weeds: as soon as we approve an authorization, we&#x27;re on the hook for those funds. A debit to an external balance (or bank account) may fail and Stripe would be on the line. This is why we typically require funds to be in a Stripe account prior to purchases taking place.</text></item><item><author>TheTaytay</author><text>This is really impressive, like the rest of the Stripe API! Although many people here are asking about creating virtual banks and issuing cards to customers, it appears that the intended audience of this API is a business that has a Stripe account, that wants to be able to issue cards to employees&#x2F;trusted officials that charge against that single Stripe account. There is no mention of issuing cards to external customers that link against their own, external accounts, right?<p>I ask because the webhook that Stripe fires at purchase time is fantastic, and you could build some great things if their API gave you access to authorized real-time purchase data for customers. This doesn&#x27;t appear to facilitate that though.<p>Does anyone know of an API that would allow a Credit Card user the ability to grant real-time webhooks to a 3rd party as they swipe their card? The closest I&#x27;ve ever found would be setting up spending email spending alerts (that certain banks allow), and then forwarding the emails to said 3rd party. It&#x27;s clunky, and would only work with a few banks. Something like this issuing API would work if Stripe allowed you to issue a card that was linked to a customer&#x27;s existing card&#x2F;account. They&#x27;d basically be saying, &quot;If I swipe _this_ card that you sent me, I&#x27;m agreeing to let you get notified.&quot; The other way I&#x27;ve considered would involve creating your own bank and issuing your own cards, but that&#x27;s real work on both the developer and the customer&#x27;s part :)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>akeating</author><text>I&#x27;ve been watching Revolut who introduced something like this a while back <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.revolut.com&#x2F;introducing-disposable-virtual-cards&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.revolut.com&#x2F;introducing-disposable-virtual-card...</a></text></comment> |
24,510,677 | 24,508,119 | 1 | 3 | 24,502,782 | train | <story><title>Mozilla Is Crowdsourcing Research into YouTube Recommendations</title><url>https://foundation.mozilla.org/en/blog/mozilla-crowdsourcing-research-youtube-recommendations/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>klmadfejno</author><text>I use YouTube infrequently. Usually for binging random content like comedy sketches or speedrunning. No matter what I&#x27;m on, there&#x27;s always a few videos in my recommendations that make no sense and look like trash. Not generically, but specific videos that ALWAYS appear. One of them is &quot;I PAID FIVE BASSISTS ON FIVR TO PLAY AN IMPOSSIBLE BASSLINE&quot;<p>...<p>Why is this so bad? What are your hundreds of data scientists doing?</text></item><item><author>FiReaNG3L</author><text>What&#x27;s impressive to me is that YouTube Recommendation are so ... stale. All it recommends to me is content from the same 3 categories, and the same videos over and over and over (you would think if I didn&#x27;t click on the suggestion in the past 6 months it would adjust).<p>Now the topics it recommends to me are non-political, but I can very well see that if you fall down one of more extremist rabbit holes thats all you will be fed on your recommendation page for months.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>GuB-42</author><text>I think these are exploitation&#x2F;exploration trade-offs.<p>YouTube only knows your interests by the videos you watch. It knows you like speedruns, so it will show you speedruns, easy. But you certainly have other unrelated interests: cooking, woodworking, old cars, whatever. So, from time to time, Google takes a chance and shows you a random topic just to gauge your interest.<p>It works on a global scale too. They want some variety, they don&#x27;t want to depend only on a few topics and previously successful YouTubers. So sometimes, they may pick a random video and so it to everyone, and if it succeeds, they have something new.<p>It is actually rather clear when you look at your recommendations to determine which are which. Typically you are going to find a mix of videos related to the video you just watched, videos relative to your global interests, trending videos, and random stuff.<p>If some generally effective machine learning algorithm acts really stupid from time to time, chances are that it is exploring, that is: it is asking you a question instead of giving you an answer.<p>Edit: someone mentionned the multi-armed bandit, yes, this is such an algorithm</text></comment> | <story><title>Mozilla Is Crowdsourcing Research into YouTube Recommendations</title><url>https://foundation.mozilla.org/en/blog/mozilla-crowdsourcing-research-youtube-recommendations/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>klmadfejno</author><text>I use YouTube infrequently. Usually for binging random content like comedy sketches or speedrunning. No matter what I&#x27;m on, there&#x27;s always a few videos in my recommendations that make no sense and look like trash. Not generically, but specific videos that ALWAYS appear. One of them is &quot;I PAID FIVE BASSISTS ON FIVR TO PLAY AN IMPOSSIBLE BASSLINE&quot;<p>...<p>Why is this so bad? What are your hundreds of data scientists doing?</text></item><item><author>FiReaNG3L</author><text>What&#x27;s impressive to me is that YouTube Recommendation are so ... stale. All it recommends to me is content from the same 3 categories, and the same videos over and over and over (you would think if I didn&#x27;t click on the suggestion in the past 6 months it would adjust).<p>Now the topics it recommends to me are non-political, but I can very well see that if you fall down one of more extremist rabbit holes thats all you will be fed on your recommendation page for months.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bleepblorp</author><text>The function of an adtech recommendation system is not to find content that you want to see but rather to show you content that&#x27;s the most profitable for the adtech firm that&#x27;s serving it.<p>The videos that YT recommends over and over again are probably videos that have a high ratio of advertising revenue (meaning good demographics) to playback cost (meaning low overall byte size) and a high likelihood of going viral by being shared off-platform (meaning broad appeal, non-controversial, short, safe for religious conservatives, safe for work, and easy to summarize within 280 characters).<p>The videos you want to watch don&#x27;t meet these criteria, so Youtube won&#x27;t find them for you.</text></comment> |
28,201,825 | 28,201,943 | 1 | 2 | 28,201,197 | train | <story><title>Slackware 15.0 release candidate one</title><url>http://www.slackware.com/changelog/current.php?cpu=x86_64</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>syncsynchalt</author><text>Slackware 3.0 was my first distro, in probably 1995.<p>I&#x27;m very curious what modern Slackware is like in practice, given their philosophy and guidance listed in <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.slackware.com&#x2F;info&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.slackware.com&#x2F;info&#x2F;</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Slackware 15.0 release candidate one</title><url>http://www.slackware.com/changelog/current.php?cpu=x86_64</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>ujeezy</author><text>I love that the website is the same design as when I first discovered Slackware in 1999 <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;web.archive.org&#x2F;web&#x2F;19991117022152&#x2F;http:&#x2F;&#x2F;slackware.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;web.archive.org&#x2F;web&#x2F;19991117022152&#x2F;http:&#x2F;&#x2F;slackware....</a></text></comment> |
24,803,159 | 24,802,924 | 1 | 3 | 24,799,660 | train | <story><title>AWS forked my project and launched it as its own service</title><url>https://twitter.com/tim_nolet/status/1317061818574082050</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>masukomi</author><text>I really wish, that when COs like Amazon decided to productize a thing they either offered the core developer(s) enough $ to work on it full time (if they wanted) or a job to do that with a guarantee that as long as it was a product, and they wanted to work on it, they&#x27;d be allowed to continue. Problem with offering job is the likelyhood of getting redirected to some other unrelated work.<p>instead of forking they could work with core devs to see if they wanted to support the desired features (potentially with an NDA until release).<p>this big co strategy of &quot;mine. I profit now. everyone who built up this useful thing can suck eggs&quot; really sucks and sucks for the humans and sucks for Open Source.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>SquishyPanda23</author><text>&gt; this big co strategy of &quot;mine. I profit now. everyone who built up this useful thing can suck eggs&quot; really sucks and sucks for the humans and sucks for Open Source.<p>I think the software community is having an &quot;I never thought the leopards would eat my face&quot; moment.<p>The community pushed for a long time for licenses that donated labor to corporations because the licenses sounded more &quot;free&quot;, and that flattered their politics.<p>When the corporations actually pick up the value everyone left on the table, the community gets outraged.</text></comment> | <story><title>AWS forked my project and launched it as its own service</title><url>https://twitter.com/tim_nolet/status/1317061818574082050</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>masukomi</author><text>I really wish, that when COs like Amazon decided to productize a thing they either offered the core developer(s) enough $ to work on it full time (if they wanted) or a job to do that with a guarantee that as long as it was a product, and they wanted to work on it, they&#x27;d be allowed to continue. Problem with offering job is the likelyhood of getting redirected to some other unrelated work.<p>instead of forking they could work with core devs to see if they wanted to support the desired features (potentially with an NDA until release).<p>this big co strategy of &quot;mine. I profit now. everyone who built up this useful thing can suck eggs&quot; really sucks and sucks for the humans and sucks for Open Source.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dheera</author><text>Not only that, but there is no mention of the original author on their press release. All they say is &quot;Amazon launches CloudWatch Synthetics Recorder&quot;.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;aws.amazon.com&#x2F;about-aws&#x2F;whats-new&#x2F;2020&#x2F;10&#x2F;amazon-cloudwatch-synthetics-launches-recorder-to-generate-user-flow-scripts-for-canaries&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;aws.amazon.com&#x2F;about-aws&#x2F;whats-new&#x2F;2020&#x2F;10&#x2F;amazon-cl...</a><p>I wonder if FOSS licenses can be modified such that if you are claiming in press that you are &quot;launching&quot; something and it is substantially based on something open source you must state the original authors prominently in body of the press release.</text></comment> |
32,654,529 | 32,653,934 | 1 | 2 | 32,651,556 | train | <story><title>4.2 Gigabytes, Or: How to Draw Anything</title><url>https://andys.page/posts/how-to-draw/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jedberg</author><text>It&#x27;s interesting that you basically just made Andrew Yang&#x27;s argument for Universal Basic Income -- that we need to redistribute the wealth of automation to all of society.<p>This is the perfect example -- with a UBI the apprentice no longer needs to get paid to learn. They can live off of the UBI while learning, until they are good enough to charge for their services.</text></item><item><author>VoodooJuJu</author><text>I think that&#x27;s a good way to put it, but there&#x27;s still a problem.<p>The path of a digital artist is long and arduous. For a time on this path, the artist may be considered mediocre, or to put it better, they are an <i>apprentice</i>.<p>Just as in other physical trades, an apprentice who is mediocre at their craft can still practice aspects of that craft well enough to be useful and earn some money. It is also through practice that the apprentice improves their skills. In this way, the apprentice is financially supported and even incentivized to improve at their trade, until one day they become truly good at it.<p>So what things like DALL-E and Github Co-Pilot and your clip art package do is displace the apprentice. With no path of mediocrity for the apprentice to walk, to earn a stipend for training, how then can they receive the financial support necessary to train until they&#x27;re a master? They would need to already be independently wealthy or receive financial assistance.<p>In order to train more master artists and programmers, we would need to provide them with financial support while they train without us receiving anything useful in return.</text></item><item><author>jedberg</author><text>Back in the 90s I bought a book that came with some floppy disks. The book was about 500 pages of clip art, and the disks were the actual images. At the time, people said such things would put graphic artists out of business.<p>What actually happened is that it put mediocre graphic artists out of business and highlighted the difference between one that was mediocre and one that was good.<p>I feel like this will happen again here with digital artists. The mediocre ones will be indistinguishable from AI, but the good ones will still stand out.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>spywaregorilla</author><text>UBI is impossible to work for two reasons:<p>1) We need people to do low level jobs. So if UBI exists, wages will need to rise until people are willing to do them. This will happen along with price raises until an equilibrium is found where poor people need to work in order to survive. No need for narratives about landlords raising rent, though it is possible. The poor people aren&#x27;t in an overall worse position here though, because although they&#x27;re still earning just enough to live, a portion of that minimum is now guaranteed. However:<p>2) By raising your domestic (or local) wages&#x2F;prices, you&#x27;ve just given yourself an absolute disadvantage against every other economic entity in the world. Anything that is outsourceable is now more appealing to outsource than before. This removes jobs and puts downwards pressure on wages.<p>If everyone just &quot;lives off UBI while learning&quot; society won&#x27;t function because the jobs they do are important.</text></comment> | <story><title>4.2 Gigabytes, Or: How to Draw Anything</title><url>https://andys.page/posts/how-to-draw/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jedberg</author><text>It&#x27;s interesting that you basically just made Andrew Yang&#x27;s argument for Universal Basic Income -- that we need to redistribute the wealth of automation to all of society.<p>This is the perfect example -- with a UBI the apprentice no longer needs to get paid to learn. They can live off of the UBI while learning, until they are good enough to charge for their services.</text></item><item><author>VoodooJuJu</author><text>I think that&#x27;s a good way to put it, but there&#x27;s still a problem.<p>The path of a digital artist is long and arduous. For a time on this path, the artist may be considered mediocre, or to put it better, they are an <i>apprentice</i>.<p>Just as in other physical trades, an apprentice who is mediocre at their craft can still practice aspects of that craft well enough to be useful and earn some money. It is also through practice that the apprentice improves their skills. In this way, the apprentice is financially supported and even incentivized to improve at their trade, until one day they become truly good at it.<p>So what things like DALL-E and Github Co-Pilot and your clip art package do is displace the apprentice. With no path of mediocrity for the apprentice to walk, to earn a stipend for training, how then can they receive the financial support necessary to train until they&#x27;re a master? They would need to already be independently wealthy or receive financial assistance.<p>In order to train more master artists and programmers, we would need to provide them with financial support while they train without us receiving anything useful in return.</text></item><item><author>jedberg</author><text>Back in the 90s I bought a book that came with some floppy disks. The book was about 500 pages of clip art, and the disks were the actual images. At the time, people said such things would put graphic artists out of business.<p>What actually happened is that it put mediocre graphic artists out of business and highlighted the difference between one that was mediocre and one that was good.<p>I feel like this will happen again here with digital artists. The mediocre ones will be indistinguishable from AI, but the good ones will still stand out.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Dalewyn</author><text>I&#x27;m going to be level with you: I don&#x27;t want to pay for someone&#x27;s food and board so they can draw lines on paper (which won&#x27;t sell) all day. Likewise, I don&#x27;t expect anyone to pay for my food and board so I can do fuck all either.<p>If you want a living, earn it. If you want wealth, earn it. Might not happen with your favorite school of craft, but the vast majority of people don&#x27;t&#x2F;can&#x27;t make money doing something they are passionate about.</text></comment> |
31,447,692 | 31,448,167 | 1 | 3 | 31,444,573 | train | <story><title>PBS SpaceTime</title><url>https://www.pbsspacetime.com</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>wing-_-nuts</author><text>&gt;making it consumable for the population that&#x27;s interested in science and physics, but doesn&#x27;t pursue it on a daily basis.<p>While I love the channel, it seems like they&#x27;re more targeted to someone with a <i>lot</i> of physics education, more so than lay people. This is the only channel I&#x27;ve ever watched and genuinely felt dumb on a regular basis.</text></item><item><author>shrikrishna</author><text>A channel worth subscribing. Matt (and team?) manages successfully to walk the fine line between managing the complexity of the topics they discuss (which are sometimes extremely dense), making it consumable for the population that&#x27;s interested in science and physics, but doesn&#x27;t pursue it on a daily basis. At the same time, they don&#x27;t fall for the trap of dumbing it down to the point where the audience develops misconceptions and starts believing in pseudo scientific claims.<p>There are some series they sometimes do, which are entertaining to follow. I also enjoy things like Journal club, where they pick a paper and deep dive into it. The audience also participates, in a way, where they pick the questions&#x2F;comments from the previous video and answer them.<p>However, it&#x27;s not all academic either. There are some running jokes etc, which keep the content entertaining, while being informative, a format that I see common in some of the best Youtube channels.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ravi-delia</author><text>I think that&#x27;s the key. Without a <i>somewhat</i> rigorous treatment, most interesting physics just doesn&#x27;t work. The magic is that a well made resource is still consumable without quite understanding the complicated stuff. Then, if you come across something else later, maybe the commonalities make something click.</text></comment> | <story><title>PBS SpaceTime</title><url>https://www.pbsspacetime.com</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>wing-_-nuts</author><text>&gt;making it consumable for the population that&#x27;s interested in science and physics, but doesn&#x27;t pursue it on a daily basis.<p>While I love the channel, it seems like they&#x27;re more targeted to someone with a <i>lot</i> of physics education, more so than lay people. This is the only channel I&#x27;ve ever watched and genuinely felt dumb on a regular basis.</text></item><item><author>shrikrishna</author><text>A channel worth subscribing. Matt (and team?) manages successfully to walk the fine line between managing the complexity of the topics they discuss (which are sometimes extremely dense), making it consumable for the population that&#x27;s interested in science and physics, but doesn&#x27;t pursue it on a daily basis. At the same time, they don&#x27;t fall for the trap of dumbing it down to the point where the audience develops misconceptions and starts believing in pseudo scientific claims.<p>There are some series they sometimes do, which are entertaining to follow. I also enjoy things like Journal club, where they pick a paper and deep dive into it. The audience also participates, in a way, where they pick the questions&#x2F;comments from the previous video and answer them.<p>However, it&#x27;s not all academic either. There are some running jokes etc, which keep the content entertaining, while being informative, a format that I see common in some of the best Youtube channels.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>snapetom</author><text>Hah. I agree, but I&#x27;ll add that his style is more like it&#x27;s easy to follow for a while, then suddenly the car drives off a cliff and you need upper division college physics to understand.<p>I really love Anton. He has a way to ELI5 that&#x27;s really effective and really genuine.</text></comment> |
22,958,662 | 22,958,534 | 1 | 3 | 22,957,573 | train | <story><title>If a MacBook Pro runs hot or shows high kernel CPU, try charging it on the right</title><url>https://apple.stackexchange.com/a/363933/182292</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>julianlam</author><text>&gt; Note that high temperature on the right side appears to be ignored by the OS. Plugging everything into the two right ports instead of the left raised the Right temperatures to over 100 degrees, without the fans coming on. No kernel_task either, but the machine becomes unusable from something throttling.<p>I feel like the top answer is missing the forest for the trees. If the temperature of the chassis rises past 100 degrees because a <i>peripheral was plugged in</i>, and degrades performance if all of the peripheral ports are in use... that&#x27;s not a usable computer.<p>Edit: Ah, 100F is 37C, so that&#x27;s not so bad.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>IntelMiner</author><text>A long time ago (roughly 2012?) I owned a Macbook Pro for a brief time<p>I was running Windows 7 in Bootcamp and I wanted to set up Gentoo Linux in a virtual machine for some Linux work I needed to do<p>I left the machine on my desk to compile a kernel. Basic wooden desk, nothing underneath or around it. No problems there<p>Roughly 5 minutes later, the system had reached what Speccy reported to be a scorching 117 degrees celsius! (242.6F)<p>I immediately shut it down and left it to cool off, then asked around on an IRC full of various flavours of IT people (programmers etc)<p>The horrifying answers I got were that this was INTENTIONAL and that &quot;the system acts as a giant heat sink&quot; which is why it didn&#x27;t power off after crossing a threshold<p>As far as I understand it, running it under Bootcamp also disabled any kind of thermal throttling and forced the more power hungry &quot;Radeon&quot; graphics chip to be used, further adding to the problem</text></comment> | <story><title>If a MacBook Pro runs hot or shows high kernel CPU, try charging it on the right</title><url>https://apple.stackexchange.com/a/363933/182292</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>julianlam</author><text>&gt; Note that high temperature on the right side appears to be ignored by the OS. Plugging everything into the two right ports instead of the left raised the Right temperatures to over 100 degrees, without the fans coming on. No kernel_task either, but the machine becomes unusable from something throttling.<p>I feel like the top answer is missing the forest for the trees. If the temperature of the chassis rises past 100 degrees because a <i>peripheral was plugged in</i>, and degrades performance if all of the peripheral ports are in use... that&#x27;s not a usable computer.<p>Edit: Ah, 100F is 37C, so that&#x27;s not so bad.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>atonse</author><text>No it&#x27;s got to be C. 100F is at most, luke warm.</text></comment> |
17,077,917 | 17,078,016 | 1 | 2 | 17,077,358 | train | <story><title>Rust at CloudFlare</title><url>https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1ERVTXZbYBMZf-9Zk3YsWw2oV14C5j0i1PsVgGywSsAI/mobilepresent?slide=id.g244c4c34_09</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>steven_pack</author><text>Here are the videos and slides... (from the May 2018 Bay Area Rust Meetup, which was hosted at Cloudflare)<p>Rust at Cloudflare
Video: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;watch.cloudflarestream.com&#x2F;4d5d6da3c6217c24f4e44564e041f772" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;watch.cloudflarestream.com&#x2F;4d5d6da3c6217c24f4e44564e...</a>
Slides: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;docs.google.com&#x2F;presentation&#x2F;d&#x2F;1ERVTXZbYBMZf-9Zk3YsWw2oV14C5j0i1PsVgGywSsAI&#x2F;edit?usp=sharing" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;docs.google.com&#x2F;presentation&#x2F;d&#x2F;1ERVTXZbYBMZf-9Zk3YsW...</a><p>TrustDNS
Video: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;watch.cloudflarestream.com&#x2F;e14e0d2335ffb94ae505289f55552142" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;watch.cloudflarestream.com&#x2F;e14e0d2335ffb94ae505289f5...</a>
Slides: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;drive.google.com&#x2F;drive&#x2F;folders&#x2F;1gQn9Uuj34TxS4cfUoW1Ng4o8axI9r8kq?usp=sharing" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;drive.google.com&#x2F;drive&#x2F;folders&#x2F;1gQn9Uuj34TxS4cfUoW1N...</a><p>Rust Perf with lolbench
Video: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;watch.cloudflarestream.com&#x2F;5774ee39218ed516521adb74c3acddb5" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;watch.cloudflarestream.com&#x2F;5774ee39218ed516521adb74c...</a>
Slides: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;docs.google.com&#x2F;presentation&#x2F;d&#x2F;1BEI7zXhEiCwEd93-UUpWv-Yv5azRmBa5caPH0rCAh_Q&#x2F;edit?usp=sharing" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;docs.google.com&#x2F;presentation&#x2F;d&#x2F;1BEI7zXhEiCwEd93-UUpW...</a><p>edit: context about the event
edit2: formatting</text></comment> | <story><title>Rust at CloudFlare</title><url>https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1ERVTXZbYBMZf-9Zk3YsWw2oV14C5j0i1PsVgGywSsAI/mobilepresent?slide=id.g244c4c34_09</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>kornish</author><text>I like the quote from Slide 10:<p>&gt; Why Rust (for CloudFlare)<p>&gt; ...<p>&gt; - Safe (we had a bug once...)<p>&gt; ...<p>Funny because according to Algolia, the bug in question is the 7th-most-upvoted HN post of all time, clocking in at about 1k comments.<p>Great to see Rust gaining industry adoption.<p>edit: to clarify, I like that Cloudflare can look back at a bug in their C code, chuckle about it, and then start to move on to something safer. This is the bug in question: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=13718752" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=13718752</a></text></comment> |
7,714,475 | 7,709,169 | 1 | 2 | 7,708,142 | train | <story><title>Jekyll 2.0.0 is released</title><url>http://jekyllrb.com/news/2014/05/06/jekyll-turns-2-0-0/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>PStamatiou</author><text>This is amazing news. I currently have to run 2 Jekyll installs to do what I want with custom post types (before this I had a fork to add a different type and that was getting hard to keep updated): I have one main Jekyll install for my blog, and inside of that inside &#x2F;photos I have another Jekyll for my photo blog so I can do things like this:<p><a href="http://paulstamatiou.com/photos/japan/two-weeks-in-japan/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;paulstamatiou.com&#x2F;photos&#x2F;japan&#x2F;two-weeks-in-japan&#x2F;</a><p>&lt;3 open source! All hosted on S3&#x2F;CF with <a href="https://github.com/laurilehmijoki/s3_website" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;laurilehmijoki&#x2F;s3_website</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>lovamova</author><text>Spammy in action again!<p>Exactly the same message on DN: <a href="https://news.layervault.com/comments/62311" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.layervault.com&#x2F;comments&#x2F;62311</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Jekyll 2.0.0 is released</title><url>http://jekyllrb.com/news/2014/05/06/jekyll-turns-2-0-0/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>PStamatiou</author><text>This is amazing news. I currently have to run 2 Jekyll installs to do what I want with custom post types (before this I had a fork to add a different type and that was getting hard to keep updated): I have one main Jekyll install for my blog, and inside of that inside &#x2F;photos I have another Jekyll for my photo blog so I can do things like this:<p><a href="http://paulstamatiou.com/photos/japan/two-weeks-in-japan/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;paulstamatiou.com&#x2F;photos&#x2F;japan&#x2F;two-weeks-in-japan&#x2F;</a><p>&lt;3 open source! All hosted on S3&#x2F;CF with <a href="https://github.com/laurilehmijoki/s3_website" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;laurilehmijoki&#x2F;s3_website</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>vibragiel</author><text>Would you consider open sourcing your photo blog site? I like it. A lot.</text></comment> |
40,257,120 | 40,256,264 | 1 | 2 | 40,248,619 | train | <story><title>AI copilots are changing how coding is taught</title><url>https://spectrum.ieee.org/ai-coding</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>surfingdino</author><text>I am skeptical.<p>Well before AI co-pilots something happened to the good old admins--they started to disappear only to be replaced by &quot;AWS devops&quot; (their job titles) who have never wired a network using routers, switches, and cables. I noticed that they started lacking basic networking knowledge and couldn&#x27;t set up networking inside AWS. They just didn&#x27;t know what a gateway, NAT, or subnet is.<p>Similar things are happening with AI co-pilots. We have an increasing number of people who &quot;write code&quot;, but the number of people who can understand and review code is not increasing. There is also a problem of injecting ethics and politics into those tools, which can produce silly results. I asked Bard to write me a Python function to turn the US Constitution into a palindrome. Bard refused and gave ma a lecture on how the US Constitution is too important to be played with in such trivial fashion. I then asked it to produce code that turns the US national anthem into a palindrome, it refused again. So I asked it do the same but with the Russian national anthem and it spat out code without telling me off. I then asked it to generate code for simple tasks and it did an OK job, except the formatting and the fonts used were different every time, because it just lifted code from different webpages and recombined it like a massively hungover student waking up to realise he&#x27;s supposed to hand in the assignment in one hour.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>joshstrange</author><text>&gt; Well before AI co-pilots something happened to the good old admins--they started to disappear only to be replaced by &quot;AWS devops&quot; (their job titles) who have never wired a network using routers, switches, and cables. I noticed that they started lacking basic networking knowledge and couldn&#x27;t set up networking inside AWS. They just didn&#x27;t know what a gateway, NAT, or subnet is.<p>I see the same arguments about higher level languages. All of the tech industry is about standing on the shoulders of giants. I do believe that lower level knowledge can help a great deal but using this argument I can say something like:<p>Kids these days don’t know basic assembly, they have no idea what an or&#x2F;and&#x2F;nor&#x2F;xor gate is, they’ve never built a computer from components (no, not cpu&#x2F;mb&#x2F;ram&#x2F;etc, I’m talking transistors and soldering).<p>Maybe LLMs are different but I don’t think they are, they are yet another tool that some people will abuse and some will use wisely. No different from an IDE or a higher-level language in my book.<p>I have next to zero idea how many things I use daily work (like my car for example), it doesn’t stop me from being able to drive where I need to go. I have configured lower level networking equipment in the past and I couldn’t be happier that I don’t have to do that drudgery anymore.<p>All I’m saying is this is a dangerous argument to make because someone can always one-up (one-down?) you. “Oh you had NAT? Luxury! In my day we didn’t even have a network, we had to….” (See also: Four Yorkshiremen [0])<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;ue7wM0QC5LE?si=Mm-FY1oooq2XkCQz" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;ue7wM0QC5LE?si=Mm-FY1oooq2XkCQz</a></text></comment> | <story><title>AI copilots are changing how coding is taught</title><url>https://spectrum.ieee.org/ai-coding</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>surfingdino</author><text>I am skeptical.<p>Well before AI co-pilots something happened to the good old admins--they started to disappear only to be replaced by &quot;AWS devops&quot; (their job titles) who have never wired a network using routers, switches, and cables. I noticed that they started lacking basic networking knowledge and couldn&#x27;t set up networking inside AWS. They just didn&#x27;t know what a gateway, NAT, or subnet is.<p>Similar things are happening with AI co-pilots. We have an increasing number of people who &quot;write code&quot;, but the number of people who can understand and review code is not increasing. There is also a problem of injecting ethics and politics into those tools, which can produce silly results. I asked Bard to write me a Python function to turn the US Constitution into a palindrome. Bard refused and gave ma a lecture on how the US Constitution is too important to be played with in such trivial fashion. I then asked it to produce code that turns the US national anthem into a palindrome, it refused again. So I asked it do the same but with the Russian national anthem and it spat out code without telling me off. I then asked it to generate code for simple tasks and it did an OK job, except the formatting and the fonts used were different every time, because it just lifted code from different webpages and recombined it like a massively hungover student waking up to realise he&#x27;s supposed to hand in the assignment in one hour.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ben_w</author><text>Sounds about right.<p>I&#x27;m very impressed with the best models — but, because I remember how awful NLP used to be, &quot;very impressed&quot; still means I rate <i>the best</i> as being around the level of an intern&#x2F;work placement student most of the time, and even at their best still only a junior.<p>It&#x27;s great, if you&#x27;re OK with that. I&#x27;ve used GPT-3.5 to make my own personal pay-as-you-go web interface for any LLM that&#x27;s API-compatible with OpenAI despite not being a professional Web Developer.<p>It&#x27;s fairly fragile because it&#x27;s doing stupid things to get the &quot;good enough&quot; result.<p>Bu that&#x27;s OK, because it&#x27;s for me, I&#x27;m not selling it.<p>(As for the lesser models… I asked one for a single page web app version of Tetris; it started off lazy, <i>then suddenly switched from writing a game in JavaScript into writing a machine learning script in python!</i>)</text></comment> |
21,687,883 | 21,686,860 | 1 | 3 | 21,675,158 | train | <story><title>Doctors are turning to YouTube to fill in gaps in their training</title><url>https://www.cnbc.com/2019/11/24/doctors-are-watching-surgical-procedures-on-youtube.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>viraptor</author><text>It&#x27;s not just medical residents. Doctors do refresh their knowledge from videos online. And they totally google for information. But I don&#x27;t think it&#x27;s what many people imagine when reading it.<p>&gt; How can doctors tell which videos are valid and which contain bogus information?<p>They&#x27;re doctors. They had years of training and know the basics of what they&#x27;re booking up. It&#x27;s closer to experienced developers looking up specific usage for some tool which they&#x27;re familiar with otherwise, rather than learning from scratch.<p>Sure, there&#x27;s going to be some extreme bad cases, but those are bad doctors in general, the source of info is not relevant.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>wlesieutre</author><text>Alternately:<p><i>&gt; Developers are turning to Stack Overflow to fill in gaps in their training</i><p>There&#x27;s a lot of garbage channels on YouTube, but there&#x27;s no shortage of knowledgeable people too.<p>Nobody knows everything, and it turns out there are people on the internet who know things we don&#x27;t.</text></comment> | <story><title>Doctors are turning to YouTube to fill in gaps in their training</title><url>https://www.cnbc.com/2019/11/24/doctors-are-watching-surgical-procedures-on-youtube.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>viraptor</author><text>It&#x27;s not just medical residents. Doctors do refresh their knowledge from videos online. And they totally google for information. But I don&#x27;t think it&#x27;s what many people imagine when reading it.<p>&gt; How can doctors tell which videos are valid and which contain bogus information?<p>They&#x27;re doctors. They had years of training and know the basics of what they&#x27;re booking up. It&#x27;s closer to experienced developers looking up specific usage for some tool which they&#x27;re familiar with otherwise, rather than learning from scratch.<p>Sure, there&#x27;s going to be some extreme bad cases, but those are bad doctors in general, the source of info is not relevant.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>msla</author><text>When reading articles like this, here&#x27;s a quick check: Replace &quot;YouTube&quot; with &quot;bookstores&quot; and see if you&#x27;re still outraged. Anyone can write a book, and the bar to getting a book published has absolutely nothing to do with the book&#x27;s accuracy. If &quot;Chariots Of The Gods?&quot; can get published, you <i>know</i> publishers aren&#x27;t doing sanity testing or any other kind of checks for the reliability of the content. And yet doctors buy books from bookstores, and use them to learn things. How do doctors know they&#x27;re not getting nonsense? Because they know what real information looks like.<p>This is the biggest reason for teaching the basics of a broad variety of subjects: If you know what real information looks like, and how the real field basically fits together, you&#x27;re less likely to be taken in by absolute nonsense. OTOH, if you get bad information to start, you&#x27;re going to evaluate all subsequent information on that standard, and reject good information because it doesn&#x27;t jibe with the bad stuff you&#x27;ve already internalized.</text></comment> |
13,916,284 | 13,916,476 | 1 | 2 | 13,915,865 | train | <story><title>I've decided to move on to Distill</title><url>http://colah.github.io/posts/2017-03-Distill/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tedmiston</author><text>&gt; As colah.github.io has grown in prominence… Well, it’s been very rewarding, but it’s also been a bit uncomfortable.<p>&gt; For one thing, it’s created very high standards for my writing. Most of my articles took 50-200 hours to write. I feel like I needed to live up to that quality with every post, but that means I can’t put out thoughts without investing a huge amount of energy.<p>I&#x27;ve done a bit of blogging and this echoes my experience as well. One successful posts precedes another, then you start to feel like you can&#x27;t put out off-the-cuff type posts. It&#x27;s tough to follow up a rockstar post with an intermezzo. So you invest more and more energy into each topic and post to ensure it&#x27;ll be successful in whatever metric, and that mostly works, but then you publish few posts in very specific niches.<p>If anyone has advice for effectively blowing one&#x27;s standards out of the water and publishing more smaller general pieces, I&#x27;d love to hear that. From this perspective, I admire how Fred Wilson blogs.<p>Edit: fixed typo</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kalid</author><text>I had this issue too, and realized you can frame it by setting expectations in the title.<p>Some posts have needed the 100-200 hours of thinking&#x2F;visualization, labeled with things like &quot;Interactive Guide to the Fourier Transform&quot; (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;betterexplained.com&#x2F;articles&#x2F;an-interactive-guide-to-the-fourier-transform&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;betterexplained.com&#x2F;articles&#x2F;an-interactive-guide-to...</a>)<p>Others are smaller insights, written in a day (&quot;Quick Insight: Easier Arithmetic With Calculus&quot; -<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;betterexplained.com&#x2F;articles&#x2F;calculus-arithmetic&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;betterexplained.com&#x2F;articles&#x2F;calculus-arithmetic&#x2F;</a>).<p>Others are more essays&#x2F;thought pieces, learning strategies, etc.<p>Setting the expectation up front that not every post is a big thesis-style conclusion can take away the pressure to only create those. (You can have appetizers, entrees, and desserts on the menu!)<p>Often your big articles are built after working through ideas in smaller ones. (The Fourier Transform emerged after getting insights on e, imaginary numbers, Euler&#x27;s Formula, degrees vs. radians, etc.).</text></comment> | <story><title>I've decided to move on to Distill</title><url>http://colah.github.io/posts/2017-03-Distill/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tedmiston</author><text>&gt; As colah.github.io has grown in prominence… Well, it’s been very rewarding, but it’s also been a bit uncomfortable.<p>&gt; For one thing, it’s created very high standards for my writing. Most of my articles took 50-200 hours to write. I feel like I needed to live up to that quality with every post, but that means I can’t put out thoughts without investing a huge amount of energy.<p>I&#x27;ve done a bit of blogging and this echoes my experience as well. One successful posts precedes another, then you start to feel like you can&#x27;t put out off-the-cuff type posts. It&#x27;s tough to follow up a rockstar post with an intermezzo. So you invest more and more energy into each topic and post to ensure it&#x27;ll be successful in whatever metric, and that mostly works, but then you publish few posts in very specific niches.<p>If anyone has advice for effectively blowing one&#x27;s standards out of the water and publishing more smaller general pieces, I&#x27;d love to hear that. From this perspective, I admire how Fred Wilson blogs.<p>Edit: fixed typo</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Swizec</author><text>I struggle with this a lot and here is a truth: nobody cares.<p>Your blog is not a destination, each post is its own page. Those that are good are going to float and give you recognition and get a lot of traffic and build your brand and your audience.<p>The others nobody will see and they affect nothing.<p>The more you publish the more hits you&#x27;ll have the better you&#x27;ll get. Here is a fable:<p>The ceramics teacher announced on opening day that he was dividing the class into two groups. All those on the left side of the studio, he said, would be graded solely on the quantity of work they produced, all those on the right solely on its quality. His procedure was simple: on the final day of class he would bring in his bathroom scales and weigh the work of the &quot;quantity&quot; group: fifty pound of pots rated an &quot;A&quot;, forty pounds a &quot;B&quot;, and so on. Those being graded on &quot;quality&quot;, however, needed to produce only one pot - albeit a perfect one - to get an &quot;A&quot;.
Well, came grading time and a curious fact emerged: the works of highest quality were all produced by the group being graded for quantity. It seems that while the &quot;quantity&quot; group was busily churning out piles of work - and learning from their mistakes - the &quot;quality&quot; group had sat theorizing about perfection, and in the end had little more to show for their efforts than grandiose theories and a pile of dead clay.</text></comment> |
32,352,890 | 32,352,393 | 1 | 3 | 32,350,657 | train | <story><title>Marc Andreessen says he’s for new housing, but records tell a different story</title><url>https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/08/marc-andreessens-opposition-housing-project-nimby/671061/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>m_ke</author><text>As a New Yorker driving around middle america is super depressing. I can&#x27;t imagine growing up trapped in my own home on a street with no sidewalks, only being able to go where my parents take me and finally growing into driving age so that I can go from parking lot to parking lot.</text></item><item><author>pj_mukh</author><text>Honestly, having had lived in mixed-income neighborhoods, the wealthy are missing out. Dense mixed-income neighborhoods, pockets of which are holding on for dear life in parts of New York for example, are an absolute delight.<p>We need to find a way to rebrand the American dream to be this.</text></item><item><author>Tiktaalik</author><text>I&#x27;m not terribly surprised. In my experience the calls for more housing from the wealthy and business class are disingenuous; more often really a call for more apartments to be built exclusively in neighbourhoods dominated by the poor and working class and a continued ban of apartments in the low density single family home areas that the wealthy business owning class live in.<p>Often this is called the &quot;Grand Bargain,&quot; that new housing can be allowed, but only if it is constrained to a tiny area (which becomes increasingly dense), while the bulk of single family homes are left untouched.<p>The challenge for voters is to discern between those that are calling for more housing that are genuine YIMBYs, that want to build more housing for everyone more equitably, everywhere in all neighbourhoods, and those like Andreessen, which merely want to continue on with Grand Bargain thinking, and want to continue the status quo by which the poors live as far as possible away from him.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>smt88</author><text>I&#x27;ve lived in rural, suburban (McMansion-dominated), and urban parts of the US, including NYC. I grew up in a semi-rural place.<p>NYC was by far the most depressing and soul-crushing for me. It&#x27;s lonely despite being crowded, it&#x27;s filthy, it&#x27;s unreasonably expensive, it&#x27;s hard to get anywhere, and it&#x27;s unfortunately full of people with a similarly condescending viewpoint about people&#x2F;places outside the city.<p>I now live in a large southern city with lots of sidewalks and love it, and returning to New York makes me incredibly sad for the people who still think it&#x27;s the only city to live in.<p>My point is not that I&#x27;m correct. It&#x27;s just how I feel. Rather, I suggest you examine how you talk about your viewpoint to avoid sounding so confident about things you have no actual experience in.</text></comment> | <story><title>Marc Andreessen says he’s for new housing, but records tell a different story</title><url>https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/08/marc-andreessens-opposition-housing-project-nimby/671061/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>m_ke</author><text>As a New Yorker driving around middle america is super depressing. I can&#x27;t imagine growing up trapped in my own home on a street with no sidewalks, only being able to go where my parents take me and finally growing into driving age so that I can go from parking lot to parking lot.</text></item><item><author>pj_mukh</author><text>Honestly, having had lived in mixed-income neighborhoods, the wealthy are missing out. Dense mixed-income neighborhoods, pockets of which are holding on for dear life in parts of New York for example, are an absolute delight.<p>We need to find a way to rebrand the American dream to be this.</text></item><item><author>Tiktaalik</author><text>I&#x27;m not terribly surprised. In my experience the calls for more housing from the wealthy and business class are disingenuous; more often really a call for more apartments to be built exclusively in neighbourhoods dominated by the poor and working class and a continued ban of apartments in the low density single family home areas that the wealthy business owning class live in.<p>Often this is called the &quot;Grand Bargain,&quot; that new housing can be allowed, but only if it is constrained to a tiny area (which becomes increasingly dense), while the bulk of single family homes are left untouched.<p>The challenge for voters is to discern between those that are calling for more housing that are genuine YIMBYs, that want to build more housing for everyone more equitably, everywhere in all neighbourhoods, and those like Andreessen, which merely want to continue on with Grand Bargain thinking, and want to continue the status quo by which the poors live as far as possible away from him.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>qwerpy</author><text>As a current Seattleite who grew up in middle America biking around as a kid anywhere I wanted, I have the opposite feeling. I thought it was great! Maybe it’s more about the person than it is the location.</text></comment> |
13,448,710 | 13,448,179 | 1 | 2 | 13,447,741 | train | <story><title>ZeroVM: Virtualization based on Chrome's NaCl</title><url>http://www.zerovm.org/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>blorgle</author><text>I have been following ZeroVM since it&#x27;s inception and often go to the website and stare longingly at my screen thinking of amazing things it could do (when coupled with OpenStack Swift to make &quot;ZeroCloud&quot;). If you look at my HN comment history you can see multiple articles about &quot;serverless&quot; where I tried to tell people about ZeroVM.<p>But they got bought by Rackspace (who originally open sourced Swift) in late 2013, and then their github account activity dropped to 0 by early 2015. Rackspace has probably one of the worlds largest Swift deployments, so maybe one day they will do some cool things with ZeroVM ala ZeroCloud but for now the forward movement of the project seems dead or at least proprietary :(<p>Other interesting implementations of the same concept include Joyents Manta, which is also open source and actually probably more flexible than ZeroCloud (you can SSH into your container).</text></comment> | <story><title>ZeroVM: Virtualization based on Chrome's NaCl</title><url>http://www.zerovm.org/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>thepumpkin1979</author><text>&quot;What does ZeroVM virtualize?&quot; Also &quot;Docker vs ZeroVM&quot; at <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;serverfault.com&#x2F;questions&#x2F;574504&#x2F;what-does-zerovm-virtualize" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;serverfault.com&#x2F;questions&#x2F;574504&#x2F;what-does-zerovm-vir...</a></text></comment> |
22,418,011 | 22,417,249 | 1 | 2 | 22,416,420 | train | <story><title>Federal safety official slams Tesla, regulators for misuse of its Autopilot tech</title><url>https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2020-02-25/tesla-autopilot-crash-hearing</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>nullc</author><text>I recently commented to a new Tesla buyer that their car seemed nice but I couldn&#x27;t see myself ever spending so much money on a car. They responded by gushing that self-driving would be available within a couple years and then the car would be making money and would pay for itself in no time so the car was actually better than free.<p>I asked why wouldn&#x27;t they just wait until it was actually available and the claimed that at that point tesla would raise the prices to hundreds of thousands per car because of all the income they earn.<p>It took me a little effort to not respond by backing away slowly.<p>Are these beliefs widespread and is tesla promoting them? Or was I just talking to an isolated weirdo?</text></item><item><author>dmitrygr</author><text>I remain amazed that Tesla can keep marketing &quot;autopilot&quot; and &quot;full self driving&quot; as such, despite the obviousness of the fact that it has and will continue to keep killing people silly enough to believe the hype.<p>Hopefully the NTSB recommendations on this include better and clearer explanations that full self-driving is anything but, and that those recommendations get implemented into serious laws with serious penalties.<p>I get that it is easy to outsell your rivals when you can market fairy tales. I just don&#x27;t think it&#x27;s okay when people start getting killed because of it.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Ajedi32</author><text>That view is consistent with Elon Musk&#x27;s statements on the matter:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;elonmusk&#x2F;status&#x2F;1151163201569972225" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;elonmusk&#x2F;status&#x2F;1151163201569972225</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;elonmusk&#x2F;status&#x2F;1117116982778679297" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;elonmusk&#x2F;status&#x2F;1117116982778679297</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;FredericLambert&#x2F;status&#x2F;1117118068654784512" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;FredericLambert&#x2F;status&#x2F;11171180686547845...</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;elonmusk&#x2F;status&#x2F;1182826581070245888" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;elonmusk&#x2F;status&#x2F;1182826581070245888</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;elonmusk&#x2F;status&#x2F;1151180650033995776" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;elonmusk&#x2F;status&#x2F;1151180650033995776</a><p>Whether he&#x27;s right depends almost entirely on how effective Tesla&#x27;s heavily AI-focused approach to self driving turns out to be. If they can indeed reach the point where Tesla vehicles can operate fully autonomously with no one in the driver&#x27;s seat, he may very well be right. It would be a long time before Tesla would be able to make enough cars to meet demand and a robotaxi service would be highly profitable in the mean time, so market rates may very well reach upwards of $200k per car.<p>That&#x27;s all conditional on Tesla being able to develop and deploy a L4 driving system before everyone else though. So far, early results on that front have not been encouraging. I suspect Elon has underestimated the difficulty of training modern AI systems to reach the level of consistency and reliability necessary for safety critical real-world applications.</text></comment> | <story><title>Federal safety official slams Tesla, regulators for misuse of its Autopilot tech</title><url>https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2020-02-25/tesla-autopilot-crash-hearing</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>nullc</author><text>I recently commented to a new Tesla buyer that their car seemed nice but I couldn&#x27;t see myself ever spending so much money on a car. They responded by gushing that self-driving would be available within a couple years and then the car would be making money and would pay for itself in no time so the car was actually better than free.<p>I asked why wouldn&#x27;t they just wait until it was actually available and the claimed that at that point tesla would raise the prices to hundreds of thousands per car because of all the income they earn.<p>It took me a little effort to not respond by backing away slowly.<p>Are these beliefs widespread and is tesla promoting them? Or was I just talking to an isolated weirdo?</text></item><item><author>dmitrygr</author><text>I remain amazed that Tesla can keep marketing &quot;autopilot&quot; and &quot;full self driving&quot; as such, despite the obviousness of the fact that it has and will continue to keep killing people silly enough to believe the hype.<p>Hopefully the NTSB recommendations on this include better and clearer explanations that full self-driving is anything but, and that those recommendations get implemented into serious laws with serious penalties.<p>I get that it is easy to outsell your rivals when you can market fairy tales. I just don&#x27;t think it&#x27;s okay when people start getting killed because of it.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tenacious_tuna</author><text>anecdotal evidence with n=1, but I&#x27;m a Tesla owner who refuses to pay for the &quot;Full Self Driving&quot; tech, expressly because I think it&#x27;s way further off and overhyped compared to what I&#x27;d actually want for the cost.<p>I especially think the &quot;your car becomes a taxi and pays for itself&quot; gimmick is beyond fantasy. I chalk it up to Musk being an actually mildly insane CEO, which has benefits to go with its downsides.<p>As for the cost of the car, I wanted an EV with more range than other manufacturers provided. (I also make use of the longer range on a regular basis--probably about 2 times a month?) (edit:) I also wanted a car that Went Fast. Not practical in any real sense, but a lot of fun.<p>There are around a dozen Tesla owners at my company. As far as I know, none of them are banking on their cars being a taxi and earning tons of dough. At least one has the FSD upgrade, and uses it primarily to back his car out of the garage on its own so his kids don&#x27;t bang up the doors when they get in.</text></comment> |
33,542,363 | 33,542,344 | 1 | 2 | 33,541,790 | train | <story><title>Ftx.com Has Probably Collapsed</title><url>https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/tdLRvYHpfYjimwhyL/ftx-com-has-probably-collapsed</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>sillysaurusx</author><text>Does anyone know how Coinbase avoided this fate? I really thought it would be them to fall, but they proved everyone wrong.<p>There’s some key difference between Coinbase and an exchange like FTX. Is it because FTX had a token, and then leveraged themselves using their own token?<p>Binance has a token too. Are they in similar danger? It would be an interesting contrast to know why one exchange is safe vs another.<p>Here’s SBF testifying in front of congress in Dec 2021 that FTX is completely transparent and therefore safe: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.tiktok.com&#x2F;t&#x2F;ZTRxC7XrT&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.tiktok.com&#x2F;t&#x2F;ZTRxC7XrT&#x2F;</a><p>Consumers need to be able to research claims like these. Is there a way to make a “Warning: this exchange is over leveraged” indicator? Or is it just impossible to know?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>hailwren</author><text>Coinbase avoided this fate by being a us regulated company. FTX.us is still above water. It’s the Bahamas based company that was able to cook the books and is now defunct.<p>As for Binance, they have the SAFU (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;academy.binance.com&#x2F;en&#x2F;glossary&#x2F;secure-asset-fund-for-users" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;academy.binance.com&#x2F;en&#x2F;glossary&#x2F;secure-asset-fund-fo...</a>) which they just topped up to $1B at current market prices (today). You can verify the balances on chain, but there aren’t any statements about outstanding obligations, and there are no guarantees that those funds haven’t been earmarked for other things.</text></comment> | <story><title>Ftx.com Has Probably Collapsed</title><url>https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/tdLRvYHpfYjimwhyL/ftx-com-has-probably-collapsed</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>sillysaurusx</author><text>Does anyone know how Coinbase avoided this fate? I really thought it would be them to fall, but they proved everyone wrong.<p>There’s some key difference between Coinbase and an exchange like FTX. Is it because FTX had a token, and then leveraged themselves using their own token?<p>Binance has a token too. Are they in similar danger? It would be an interesting contrast to know why one exchange is safe vs another.<p>Here’s SBF testifying in front of congress in Dec 2021 that FTX is completely transparent and therefore safe: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.tiktok.com&#x2F;t&#x2F;ZTRxC7XrT&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.tiktok.com&#x2F;t&#x2F;ZTRxC7XrT&#x2F;</a><p>Consumers need to be able to research claims like these. Is there a way to make a “Warning: this exchange is over leveraged” indicator? Or is it just impossible to know?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>RC_ITR</author><text>Coinbase makes money on fees and doesn’t lend out deposits.<p>Seriously look at their balance sheet!<p>They have zero risk of this kind of insolvency, their only risk is people stop using them to trade.<p>Say what you will about that being a weird&#x2F;dumb model but here we are.</text></comment> |
14,572,214 | 14,571,992 | 1 | 3 | 14,571,641 | train | <story><title>Microsoft Surface Laptop Teardown</title><url>https://www.ifixit.com/Teardown/Microsoft+Surface+Laptop+Teardown/92915</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Animats</author><text>That&#x27;s the price of &quot;thin&quot;. We should expect mobile electronics to be sealed watertight at the factory.<p>There&#x27;s a tradeoff between repairable and bulky. Here&#x27;s a repair job of mine.[1] This is restoring a Teletype Model 15 from the 1930s. These are completely reparable - every part can be removed without damage. IFixit would give it a score of 10. It&#x27;s big, heavy, loud, and drips oil, but completely repairable.<p>[1] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;brassgoggles.co.uk&#x2F;forum&#x2F;index.php&#x2F;topic,43672.0.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;brassgoggles.co.uk&#x2F;forum&#x2F;index.php&#x2F;topic,43672.0.html</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Microsoft Surface Laptop Teardown</title><url>https://www.ifixit.com/Teardown/Microsoft+Surface+Laptop+Teardown/92915</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>sputknick</author><text>This sounds to me like a specific instance of the &quot;most users don&#x27;t want it, so we won&#x27;t provide it&quot; problem in computing. Similar to the lack of MacBook for power users. People who want to open their laptop are a tiny minority of users, and thus, not a population worth addressing.</text></comment> |
14,307,191 | 14,305,764 | 1 | 2 | 14,298,909 | train | <story><title>Impulsive Rich Kid, Impulsive Poor Kid (2015)</title><url>https://priceonomics.com/impulsive-rich-kid-impulsive-poor-kid/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Fiachaire</author><text>Just a reminder: This article is an ad for a web crawler&#x2F;content marketing service. The purpose of the article is to be viral. Data is selected and presented to that end. See especially &quot;The Tragic Data Behind Selfie Fatalities&quot; which charts data from a particularly poor Wikipedia list and what appears to be a google search.</text></comment> | <story><title>Impulsive Rich Kid, Impulsive Poor Kid (2015)</title><url>https://priceonomics.com/impulsive-rich-kid-impulsive-poor-kid/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>itissid</author><text>CBT aka mindfulness these is just good tool to have overall.
I have had my share of bad experiences at my job from automaticity and adaptive, impulsive response. Here is what I learnt from being mindful:<p>1. When faced with making a choice, you <i>remember</i> more vividly how the bad choice hurt you last time.
2. Put it another way, that promise I made to myself after that big mistake is harder to break. Pertinently, the reasons that justified the promise and the benefit of keeping it are also <i>more lucent</i>.
3. I tend to separate&#x2F;check my emotional responses connected to a thought connected to bad memories.<p>I could preach shorter sermons, but once I start I am too lazy to stop...</text></comment> |
33,702,140 | 33,701,926 | 1 | 2 | 33,700,792 | train | <story><title>Amazon Alexa is on pace to lose $10B this year</title><url>https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2022/11/amazon-alexa-is-a-colossal-failure-on-pace-to-lose-10-billion-this-year/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>SkyPuncher</author><text>This has been my compliant with all of this voice control stuff.<p>The dev teams are so damn focused on being able to answer some esoteric query that you&#x27;re asking as joke, they forget that you only want to do like 5 basic things:<p>* Set an alarm&#x2F;reminder<p>* Read then send a text message (while driving). It doesn&#x27;t even have to be good. Just something that I can send while driving.<p>* Maybe.....maybe ask for the weather.<p>* Turn a named household device on&#x2F;off.<p>* Play a song<p>It&#x27;s like these services all completely overlook the actions that you&#x27;d be taking on your phone anyways.</text></item><item><author>thepasswordis</author><text>I use my Alexa all the time, but 99% of it is:<p>Alexa, time!
Alexa, set an alarm for 5 minutes!
Alexa how many minutes left?
Alexa, turn off&#x2F;on all the lights!<p>That’s basically it. I wrote some apps for it a long time ago to do custom stuff like read me some Reddit pages, but the SDK changed or something and eventually they just died and it wasn’t obvious to me how to recreate it&#x2F;not worth the effort. I really wish there was an easy way to just put python scripts onto the device or something. The process of going through Amazon is pretty unnecessarily complex and annoying.<p>I know there are ways of doing this stuff with raspberry pi, but also: not really worth the effort. If I cared that much I’d just make a PWA for my house and give that to my wife and kids.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>saghm</author><text>&gt; Maybe.....maybe ask for the weather<p>I remember one time I asked my Google Home the weather to see if it was cold enough to put on a jacket, and after hearing a temperature that I was ambivalent about, I took a risk and tried asking it what the wind speed was. It started reading out the Wikipedia page for &quot;wind speed&quot; until I told it to stop.</text></comment> | <story><title>Amazon Alexa is on pace to lose $10B this year</title><url>https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2022/11/amazon-alexa-is-a-colossal-failure-on-pace-to-lose-10-billion-this-year/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>SkyPuncher</author><text>This has been my compliant with all of this voice control stuff.<p>The dev teams are so damn focused on being able to answer some esoteric query that you&#x27;re asking as joke, they forget that you only want to do like 5 basic things:<p>* Set an alarm&#x2F;reminder<p>* Read then send a text message (while driving). It doesn&#x27;t even have to be good. Just something that I can send while driving.<p>* Maybe.....maybe ask for the weather.<p>* Turn a named household device on&#x2F;off.<p>* Play a song<p>It&#x27;s like these services all completely overlook the actions that you&#x27;d be taking on your phone anyways.</text></item><item><author>thepasswordis</author><text>I use my Alexa all the time, but 99% of it is:<p>Alexa, time!
Alexa, set an alarm for 5 minutes!
Alexa how many minutes left?
Alexa, turn off&#x2F;on all the lights!<p>That’s basically it. I wrote some apps for it a long time ago to do custom stuff like read me some Reddit pages, but the SDK changed or something and eventually they just died and it wasn’t obvious to me how to recreate it&#x2F;not worth the effort. I really wish there was an easy way to just put python scripts onto the device or something. The process of going through Amazon is pretty unnecessarily complex and annoying.<p>I know there are ways of doing this stuff with raspberry pi, but also: not really worth the effort. If I cared that much I’d just make a PWA for my house and give that to my wife and kids.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Chico75</author><text>&gt; * Play a song
Thanks to their newest Amazon Music update, they managed to break this one by only allowing shuffling unless you pay extra for Amazon Music.</text></comment> |
4,669,351 | 4,669,331 | 1 | 3 | 4,669,107 | train | <story><title>Someone is jamming BBC broadcasts in the Middle East</title><url>http://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/statements/transmission-interference.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jgrahamc</author><text>This isn't that hard to do. You just need a dish, a suitable power source and point it at the satellite. Because of the, in general, wide area that a satellite is looking down on the transmitter can be anywhere in quite a wide area (even when you are talking about the relatively narrow uplink antenna).<p>Given that these satellites are geostationary they can be seen from a very wide area on the ground. Back in 2003 Telstar-12 was jammed from a station in Cuba apparently run by Iran (<a href="http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/EH22Ak03.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/EH22Ak03.html</a>) to block transmissions to the Americas and Europe.</text></comment> | <story><title>Someone is jamming BBC broadcasts in the Middle East</title><url>http://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/statements/transmission-interference.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>thepumpkin1979</author><text>Since I'm not a native English speaker, I had to google what "Jamming" was about and found this article in Wikipedia where actually explains the difference between Jamming and Interference.<p><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio_jamming" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio_jamming</a></text></comment> |
5,573,460 | 5,573,313 | 1 | 3 | 5,573,207 | train | <story><title>FBI Updates on Boston explosions</title><url>http://www.fbi.gov/news/updates-on-investigation-into-multiple-explosions-in-boston/updates-on-investigation-into-multiple-explosions-in-boston</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>MichaelApproved</author><text>For me, the HN part of the story is that the FBI servers are having trouble keeping up with the traffic to their site.<p>Edit: Here's one of the responses I got while trying to load the FBI website<p><i>ERROR
The requested URL could not be retrieved<p>While trying to retrieve the requested URL the following error was encountered:<p><pre><code> Zero Sized Reply
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Generated Thu, 18 Apr 2013 21:42:44 GMT by 8.12.217.126 (Footprint 4.8/FPMCP)</i></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>blhack</author><text>If anybody is looking for a mirror...<p><a href="http://imgur.com/a/wRl0g" rel="nofollow">http://imgur.com/a/wRl0g</a></text></comment> | <story><title>FBI Updates on Boston explosions</title><url>http://www.fbi.gov/news/updates-on-investigation-into-multiple-explosions-in-boston/updates-on-investigation-into-multiple-explosions-in-boston</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>MichaelApproved</author><text>For me, the HN part of the story is that the FBI servers are having trouble keeping up with the traffic to their site.<p>Edit: Here's one of the responses I got while trying to load the FBI website<p><i>ERROR
The requested URL could not be retrieved<p>While trying to retrieve the requested URL the following error was encountered:<p><pre><code> Zero Sized Reply
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Generated Thu, 18 Apr 2013 21:42:44 GMT by 8.12.217.126 (Footprint 4.8/FPMCP)</i></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>danso</author><text>Yeah, I hate to say it, but my first thought was: "Is there no one at the FBI who has ever heard of a CDN or S3 or even Imgur to upload static assets to?" The issue at hand isn't a national emergency (because the attacks happened a few days ago with the suspects apparently quiet) but one of these days, they'll need a more robust way to disseminate info.</text></comment> |
34,497,783 | 34,497,161 | 1 | 3 | 34,495,334 | train | <story><title>Has Earth’s inner core stopped its strange spin?</title><url>https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-00167-1</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Alupis</author><text>&quot;Scientists say eating one or more eggs per day causes X, Y and Z&quot;<p>sometime later...<p>&quot;Scientists say eating one or more eggs per day cures X, Y and Z&quot;<p>sometime later...<p>&quot;Scientists say people who eat one or more eggs per day are more likely to exhibit A, B or C&quot;<p>What frequently occurs is one person or a group of people say or publish something, and then all the media broadcasts it like everyone is in complete agreement.<p>In real science, there is very little complete agreement. Even things most of us assume are 100% true, do not always have unanimous consensus within the scientific community.<p>Laymen might think that&#x27;s a bad thing. But it&#x27;s not... it&#x27;s exactly how science is supposed to work. The problem is, people need to be told an absolute, but science can&#x27;t do that for the most part.<p>What even is a scientist? Is it anyone that works for a lab? What about people who graduated with &quot;Science&quot; in their degree title? Does that mean Computer Scientists are the fabled &quot;Scientists&quot;? How do we know?<p>The word &quot;Science&quot; has become a sort of pseudo-religion these days. Nobody can disagree with &quot;The Science&quot;. Which is quite an oxymoron in itself.</text></item><item><author>munchler</author><text>&gt; less of the &quot;science tells us&quot; stuff<p>Such as? Seems to me that good science does tell us stuff, and also admits when it doesn&#x27;t know.</text></item><item><author>version_five</author><text><p><pre><code> “I keep thinking we’re on the verge of figuring this out,” says John Vidale, a seismologist at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles. “But I’m not sure.”
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I wish we saw a lot more of this and less of the &quot;science tells us&quot; stuff that seems to dominate reporting now</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>hasmanean</author><text>Yes.<p>“Science says” is a statement of belief in a knowledge mafia.<p>“Scientists asked this question and here’s what they discovered and here is what they think” is how science news should be reported. More like entertainment tonight and less like a Sunday school sermon.</text></comment> | <story><title>Has Earth’s inner core stopped its strange spin?</title><url>https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-00167-1</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Alupis</author><text>&quot;Scientists say eating one or more eggs per day causes X, Y and Z&quot;<p>sometime later...<p>&quot;Scientists say eating one or more eggs per day cures X, Y and Z&quot;<p>sometime later...<p>&quot;Scientists say people who eat one or more eggs per day are more likely to exhibit A, B or C&quot;<p>What frequently occurs is one person or a group of people say or publish something, and then all the media broadcasts it like everyone is in complete agreement.<p>In real science, there is very little complete agreement. Even things most of us assume are 100% true, do not always have unanimous consensus within the scientific community.<p>Laymen might think that&#x27;s a bad thing. But it&#x27;s not... it&#x27;s exactly how science is supposed to work. The problem is, people need to be told an absolute, but science can&#x27;t do that for the most part.<p>What even is a scientist? Is it anyone that works for a lab? What about people who graduated with &quot;Science&quot; in their degree title? Does that mean Computer Scientists are the fabled &quot;Scientists&quot;? How do we know?<p>The word &quot;Science&quot; has become a sort of pseudo-religion these days. Nobody can disagree with &quot;The Science&quot;. Which is quite an oxymoron in itself.</text></item><item><author>munchler</author><text>&gt; less of the &quot;science tells us&quot; stuff<p>Such as? Seems to me that good science does tell us stuff, and also admits when it doesn&#x27;t know.</text></item><item><author>version_five</author><text><p><pre><code> “I keep thinking we’re on the verge of figuring this out,” says John Vidale, a seismologist at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles. “But I’m not sure.”
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I wish we saw a lot more of this and less of the &quot;science tells us&quot; stuff that seems to dominate reporting now</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>crtified</author><text>It seems that the common thread in your complaints is Commercial Journalism.</text></comment> |
26,817,201 | 26,817,297 | 1 | 2 | 26,816,444 | train | <story><title>Psilocybin 'promising' for depression</title><url>https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-56745139</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>simion314</author><text>I have zero experience with drugs, so I am wondering if there is a sugar&#x2F;cigarette industry that put a lot of money into promoting it&#x27;s products, then what will be different when drugs get legalized?<p>Won&#x27;t we repeat the history where companies make billions from this products, put them into ads to spread the use and addict people, suppress research into bad side effects etc,.<p>Personally I think there are some good applications for mushrooms or marijuana but my instinct is that the greedy people would do what they do best, sucker people and make big money.</text></item><item><author>simonswords82</author><text>I have a friend who has experienced magic mushrooms recreationally about half a dozen times in her 20s. After each trip she reported feeling clear headed and more mindful - she described it as though her mind&#x27;s harddrive had been defragmented.<p>Fast forward 10 years and that same friend felt low during lockdown over the past 12 months. After reading up online she decided to try microdosing mushrooms rather than the mainstream route her doctor would prescribe - anti depressants.<p>She has been taking a tiny dose every other day and feels immeasurably better. More optimistic about the future. More energy. More focus. Less sad.<p>To say it&#x27;s frustrating to read these official press releases about the positive impact of mushrooms nearly 20 years after she discovered them for the first time is the understatement of a lifetime.<p>I&#x27;m convinced we&#x27;ll look back at this era as a form of prohibition on drugs that governments threw down as a wide blanket and ultimately society was worse off for.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>arcticbull</author><text>Sure, for weed maybe.<p>But psychedelics are very different. They&#x27;re really, genuinely not addictive -- probably because they&#x27;re not &quot;fun.&quot; In fact, they&#x27;re exhausting. You may feel a lot better after, the experience may be fascinating, but you&#x27;re in absolutely no hurry to do it again. The whole thing lasts a few hours, but literally feels like months, with numerous epochs along the way.<p>It&#x27;s not like the kind of hollow calories of a bag of Cheetos, it&#x27;s more like a long, difficult workout. That&#x27;s hard to productize in that way.</text></comment> | <story><title>Psilocybin 'promising' for depression</title><url>https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-56745139</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>simion314</author><text>I have zero experience with drugs, so I am wondering if there is a sugar&#x2F;cigarette industry that put a lot of money into promoting it&#x27;s products, then what will be different when drugs get legalized?<p>Won&#x27;t we repeat the history where companies make billions from this products, put them into ads to spread the use and addict people, suppress research into bad side effects etc,.<p>Personally I think there are some good applications for mushrooms or marijuana but my instinct is that the greedy people would do what they do best, sucker people and make big money.</text></item><item><author>simonswords82</author><text>I have a friend who has experienced magic mushrooms recreationally about half a dozen times in her 20s. After each trip she reported feeling clear headed and more mindful - she described it as though her mind&#x27;s harddrive had been defragmented.<p>Fast forward 10 years and that same friend felt low during lockdown over the past 12 months. After reading up online she decided to try microdosing mushrooms rather than the mainstream route her doctor would prescribe - anti depressants.<p>She has been taking a tiny dose every other day and feels immeasurably better. More optimistic about the future. More energy. More focus. Less sad.<p>To say it&#x27;s frustrating to read these official press releases about the positive impact of mushrooms nearly 20 years after she discovered them for the first time is the understatement of a lifetime.<p>I&#x27;m convinced we&#x27;ll look back at this era as a form of prohibition on drugs that governments threw down as a wide blanket and ultimately society was worse off for.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>anonporridge</author><text>The nature of psychedelics makes it difficult to overuse them.<p>Your body will actually build a tolerance to them and they&#x27;ll stop working if you use too regularly.<p>You also don&#x27;t establish a physiological addiction like you do with drugs like nicotine and sugar.<p>Finally, the dosage required is absurdly small and would be extremely cheap to mass produce. You can grow mushrooms relatively easy in your damn closet. It&#x27;s not like it&#x27;s a patented designer drug.<p>Will people created patented designer psychedelics? Certainly. But it seems to me like it would be a similar kind of problem to people buying Fiji water when nearly the same stuff is flowing out the tap for damn near free.</text></comment> |
2,689,676 | 2,689,693 | 1 | 2 | 2,689,512 | train | <story><title>Google switches GTalk's VOIP protocol to Jingle</title><url>http://xmpp.org/2011/06/the-future-is-jingle/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>pthatcherg</author><text>My original email had more details:<p>We are pleased to announce that we have launched support for Jingle
XEP-166 and XEP-167 for Google Talk calls to and from Gmail, iGoogle,
and Orkut. We have also added the same level of support to libjingle
(<a href="http://code.google.com/p/libjingle" rel="nofollow">http://code.google.com/p/libjingle</a>), which is used by many native
clients. From this point on, it will be our primary signalling
protocol, and the old protocol will only remain for backwards
compatibility. We also plan to soon update Google Talk on Android to
speak Jingle, but we do not plan on updating the Google Talk Windows
application.<p>We suggest all clients that interop with Google Talk to switch to
using Jingle rather than the old protocol. We will remain backwards
compatible with legacy clients by continuing to speak the old protocol
as well. If you wish to continue working with legacy clients, such as
the Google Talk application for Windows, you may also wish to continue
speaking the old protocol. But the future is Jingle, and the old
protocol will eventually go away.<p>Finally, we are still working on implementing XEP-176 (ICE-UDP). In
the meantime, you'll need to use our draft-06 version of ICE, which is
implemented both in libjingle and in libnice, two open source
libraries.<p>I hope that this will be a support to the Jingle community and futher
our efforts to have open standards for voice and video communication.</text></comment> | <story><title>Google switches GTalk's VOIP protocol to Jingle</title><url>http://xmpp.org/2011/06/the-future-is-jingle/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>senko</author><text>The annoucement email itself: <a href="http://mail.jabber.org/pipermail/jingle/2011-June/001640.html" rel="nofollow">http://mail.jabber.org/pipermail/jingle/2011-June/001640.htm...</a><p>This is great news. Google has been one of the driving forces behind Jingle, but as they were implementing it far in advance of being standardised, the drafts/standards have since changed. Other implementations have to maintain support for several close but not quite the same dialects. Google updating their software will make interop much easier.<p>I've been somewhat critical of Google's attempts in this direction (<a href="http://senko.net/en/gmail-videochat-the-good-the-bad-and-the-ugly/" rel="nofollow">http://senko.net/en/gmail-videochat-the-good-the-bad-and-the...</a>), and I'm very glad to see I was wrong :)</text></comment> |
7,335,926 | 7,335,448 | 1 | 2 | 7,334,778 | train | <story><title>Keurig Will Use DRM In New Coffee Maker</title><url>http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20140227/06521826371/keurig-will-use-drm-new-coffee-maker-to-lock-out-refill-market.shtml</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>ignostic</author><text>This case doesn&#x27;t have anything to do with DRM as the title suggest. It&#x27;s more clear in the article: &quot;the java-bean equivalent of DRM&quot;. As far as I can tell it&#x27;s actually just allegations of patent abuse and anti-competitive vertical integration.<p>Keurig had a patent on the technology for both machine and pod. That patent expired in 2012, allowing third-party vendors to start making pods. Treehouse Foods argues (among other things) that Keurig is changing the design of their machine and the pods. The allegation is that the new design doesn&#x27;t have any practical purpose other than to maintain the patent on pods for several years.<p>If true, this is going to be an interesting case. Keurig can change the design of their machine whenever they want in theory, but can they do so for no other reason than to maintain their own market share? They&#x27;d be effectively forcing everyone to pay them to compete at all so long as people buy new machines.<p>Drug companies often employ similar patent tricks in order to maintain their dominance of a market via extended patents, patents on new uses for the same chemical, and slightly-altered and somewhat improved chemicals. Consumer groups have complained about this for years, but nothing serious has changed yet.</text></comment> | <story><title>Keurig Will Use DRM In New Coffee Maker</title><url>http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20140227/06521826371/keurig-will-use-drm-new-coffee-maker-to-lock-out-refill-market.shtml</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>mikegioia</author><text>I actively try to dissuade people from buying Keurig machines, or any &quot;coffee pod&quot; machine and this is just another reason why. Aside from the fact that the coffee is watery, the pods just add such an unnecessary amount of garbage to something that doesn&#x27;t need to generate any waste.<p>I think the concept is cool but re-usable pods are the way to go. This is stupid of Keurig.</text></comment> |
7,870,775 | 7,869,652 | 1 | 3 | 7,868,968 | train | <story><title>Non Compete Clauses Reduce Innovation</title><url>http://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2014/06/non-compete-clauses.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>lukifer</author><text>I completely agree, and yet I feel thinking this way misses the point: non-competes are blatantly disrespectful of human rights, and so on some level, the effects on innovation shouldn&#x27;t matter.<p>If you take voluntary contracts to the extreme, it would include the ability to sell one&#x27;s self into servitude, which is something that used to happen, in addition to the more violent and coercive forms of slavery that are more often remembered. Today we would consider the notion of owning someone, even with their permission, to be morally repugnant, and so we have defined limits on how much of yourself you can sell, both in the present and the future.<p>I understand that it is a problem to invest in people and have them leave. But them&#x27;s the breaks: you don&#x27;t get to have your cake and eat it too when you want to harvest the ruthless efficiency of a capitalist market. Maybe those employees <i>should</i> have that much negotiating leverage, or maybe the greater economy is better off if they poach a few coworkers and start a new company. If you can&#x27;t stand the heat, get out of the kitchen; someone else will be happy to take your place, and give your workers a good enough deal such that they have no interest in leaving.</text></comment> | <story><title>Non Compete Clauses Reduce Innovation</title><url>http://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2014/06/non-compete-clauses.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>tptacek</author><text>This blog post makes a pretty good public policy case against engineers and product designers being subjected to noncompetes, but I don&#x27;t think the logic ports over very well to salespeople --- who, correct me if I&#x27;m mistaken, are the most important targets of noncompete enforcement.</text></comment> |
24,380,078 | 24,379,734 | 1 | 2 | 24,375,351 | train | <story><title>SoftBank unmasked as ‘Nasdaq whale’ that stoked tech rally</title><url>https://www.ft.com/content/75587aa6-1f1f-4e9d-b334-3ff866753fa2</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>woeirua</author><text>The efficient market hypothesis is the biggest lie in modern history. Bubbles don&#x27;t happen in efficient markets.</text></item><item><author>tarsinge</author><text>As an outside observer, I used to believe the stock market was solid and mostly rational, and that obviously it could not be influenced by a single actor or a subreddit community, contrary to a &quot;playground&quot; like the Bitcoin market. I get the feeling everyone says they see the emperor&#x27;s clothes in the stock market reliability, anticipating everything, but in reality it&#x27;s just short term gambling and post rationalization.<p>Edit: punctuation</text></item><item><author>synaesthesisx</author><text>This is hands down the most entertaining thing I’ve read today. SoftBank is responsible for the spike in gamma across the board, dumping massive amounts of money into OTM calls. Retail (WSB) speculators see unusual options flow, end up piling in on calls and amplify the effect. Market makers are forced to buy the underlying in order to delta hedge, and the price goes up even higher. Rinse and repeat...the positive feedback loop continues and stocks actually only go up.<p>The financial system is far more broken than people realize.<p>I’m guilty of taking advantage of this myself, but it’s basically been free money for the last several months. Up until yesterday at least...</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Fordec</author><text>Research paper: Markets are efficient if and only if P=NP <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;arxiv.org&#x2F;abs&#x2F;1002.2284" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;arxiv.org&#x2F;abs&#x2F;1002.2284</a></text></comment> | <story><title>SoftBank unmasked as ‘Nasdaq whale’ that stoked tech rally</title><url>https://www.ft.com/content/75587aa6-1f1f-4e9d-b334-3ff866753fa2</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>woeirua</author><text>The efficient market hypothesis is the biggest lie in modern history. Bubbles don&#x27;t happen in efficient markets.</text></item><item><author>tarsinge</author><text>As an outside observer, I used to believe the stock market was solid and mostly rational, and that obviously it could not be influenced by a single actor or a subreddit community, contrary to a &quot;playground&quot; like the Bitcoin market. I get the feeling everyone says they see the emperor&#x27;s clothes in the stock market reliability, anticipating everything, but in reality it&#x27;s just short term gambling and post rationalization.<p>Edit: punctuation</text></item><item><author>synaesthesisx</author><text>This is hands down the most entertaining thing I’ve read today. SoftBank is responsible for the spike in gamma across the board, dumping massive amounts of money into OTM calls. Retail (WSB) speculators see unusual options flow, end up piling in on calls and amplify the effect. Market makers are forced to buy the underlying in order to delta hedge, and the price goes up even higher. Rinse and repeat...the positive feedback loop continues and stocks actually only go up.<p>The financial system is far more broken than people realize.<p>I’m guilty of taking advantage of this myself, but it’s basically been free money for the last several months. Up until yesterday at least...</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bumby</author><text>I’m reminded of some research I tried to get published a while back. One editor comment came back with a suggestion to reject simply with “this appears to contradict the EMH.” No further explanation.<p>Well, no shit. It said so right in the introduction. I think this is what’s called “theory induced blindness”</text></comment> |
4,683,856 | 4,683,401 | 1 | 3 | 4,682,614 | train | <story><title>Early pictures from the days when PayPal was a startup</title><url>http://www.levchin.com/paypal-slideshow/1.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>aresant</author><text>Hard to believe that as recently as 1999 the lack of ubiquitous camera-phones meant that images like this are rare / remarkable.<p>You can see in the photo properties several are taken with a Sony Cybershot - eg somebody had to have the forethought to drag out an actual, gasp, camera to document these events.<p>In the context of this photo essay that means that many of the photos are either posed or around "events" where a camera would likely be welcome - IPO celebration, work parties, etc.<p>So what's mostly missing here - and everybody's photo albums of that era - are much of the unexpected, the spontaneous, etc.</text></comment> | <story><title>Early pictures from the days when PayPal was a startup</title><url>http://www.levchin.com/paypal-slideshow/1.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>pilgrim689</author><text>How come I don't see Elon Musk in any of these pictures? I don't know much of PayPal history, but didn't he co-found it?</text></comment> |
29,065,489 | 29,065,044 | 1 | 2 | 29,064,585 | train | <story><title>Data trading for ad revenue must be regulated</title><url>https://www.theregister.com/2021/11/01/google_opinion_column/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>samizdis</author><text>In hindsight, I find it hard not to feel complicit, having invited friends and family to Gmail back in the day when invites were a thing. I had actually <i>believed</i> Google&#x27;s &quot;don&#x27;t be evil&quot; line, when it launched what was a brilliant stripped-down search product. (And yes, I defected from AltaVista with the crowd. Oh, how I miss case-sensitive queries; how I miss all those relevant results.)<p>I was far too gullible.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>marginalia_nu</author><text>If you go back and read the stuff from Brin and Page at the time, they do actually go to quite some lengths explaining how crucially important it is for search results to be relevant, and the original PageRank paper even outlines methods for reducing manipulation from commercial interests.<p>It&#x27;s a jarring contrast to what Google is today.<p>&quot;[...] we believe the issue of advertising causes enough mixed incentives that it is crucial to have a competitive search engine that is transparent and in the academic realm. &quot;<p>[1] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;infolab.stanford.edu&#x2F;~backrub&#x2F;google.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;infolab.stanford.edu&#x2F;~backrub&#x2F;google.html</a>
[2] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;ilpubs.stanford.edu:8090&#x2F;422&#x2F;1&#x2F;1999-66.pdf" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;ilpubs.stanford.edu:8090&#x2F;422&#x2F;1&#x2F;1999-66.pdf</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Data trading for ad revenue must be regulated</title><url>https://www.theregister.com/2021/11/01/google_opinion_column/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>samizdis</author><text>In hindsight, I find it hard not to feel complicit, having invited friends and family to Gmail back in the day when invites were a thing. I had actually <i>believed</i> Google&#x27;s &quot;don&#x27;t be evil&quot; line, when it launched what was a brilliant stripped-down search product. (And yes, I defected from AltaVista with the crowd. Oh, how I miss case-sensitive queries; how I miss all those relevant results.)<p>I was far too gullible.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dtech</author><text>I&#x27;m not sure what we should&#x27;ve done. Google for a long time won users by making almost objectively better products. It&#x27;s only in the past decade or so that they started to abuse their monopoly.<p>Putting the blame at government failing to enforce existing and create new anti-trust legislation seems much more sensible than blaming users picking the best products.</text></comment> |
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