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33,974,678 | 33,974,617 | 1 | 2 | 33,972,408 | train | <story><title>Mars Now</title><url>https://mars.nasa.gov/explore/mars-now/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>tppiotrowski</author><text>Way back in 2006, as a CS major with networking emphasis, I did a summer internship at NASA APL (Applied Physics Laboratory) My task was to modify Linux networking stack to simulate deep space communication packet loss and throttling. Then to implement something called Bundle protocol over UDP and run a lot of throughput simulations.<p>The idea was to maximize data throughput between Mars and Earth by routing data packets from the rovers to the orbiters because the orbiters circled every 90 minutes and the rovers had to wait hours for Mars to rotate to get line of sight with Earth. Also, some orbiters can send at higher throughput than others.<p>It was a fun project but way over my head at the time. I do remember walking into mission control a few times and ESPN was playing on the big screen. World cup was going on that summer.</text></comment> | <story><title>Mars Now</title><url>https://mars.nasa.gov/explore/mars-now/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>ledauphin</author><text>This is neat but the mouse controls are maybe 5x too twitchy on my fairly standard Mac in Chrome. Google Earth&#x27;s tuning is very usable in a way that this is not.</text></comment> |
11,462,951 | 11,461,415 | 1 | 3 | 11,461,077 | train | <story><title>Knuth versus Email (1999)</title><url>http://cs.stanford.edu/~uno/email.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>hengheng</author><text>So he&#x27;s self-centered enough that he expects everybody to read through all of this essay. Interesting.</text></item><item><author>jrcii</author><text>I was reminded of RMS&#x27;s autoreply:<p>I am not on vacation, but I am at the end of a long time delay. I am
located somewhere on Earth, but as far as responding to email is concerned, I appear to be well outside the solar system.<p>After your message arrives at gnu.org, I will collect it in my next batch of incoming mail, some time within the following 24 hours. I will spend much of the following day reading that batch of mail and will come across your message at some point. If I write a response immediately, it will go out in the next outgoing batch--typically around 24 hours after I collected your message, but occasionally sooner or later than that. Please expect a minimum delay of between 24 and 48 hours in receiving a response to your mail to me.<p>If your message is hard to understand or responding takes real work,
the response could take longer.<p>So please wait 48 hours after sending a message before you resend it,
remind me about it, or ask if I have received it. If it has been less
than 48 hours, the absence of a response from me only means you have not given me time to answer.<p>If you are having a conversation with me, please keep in mind that each message you receive from me is a response to the mail you sent 24 to 48 hours earlier, and when writing it, I probably had not yet downloaded your later mail.<p>If you are in big hurry to speak with me, and one day&#x27;s delay would be a serious problem, you can ask my FSF assistant to phone me. Send mail to &lt;[email protected]&gt; saying what you would like to talk with me about, and giving your telephone number. You can also call the Free Software Foundation office at 617-542-5942 (weekday Boston business hours) and ask them to phone me on your behalf. If it&#x27;s really important, try both!<p>An intermediate measure is to email me your phone number and ask me
to phone you.<p>But if there isn&#x27;t enough hurry to warrant phoning me, please don&#x27;t bother the FSF people. The mail you already sent me will reach me before any mail they could send me now on your behalf. I will respond as soon as I can.<p>To contact the Free Software Foundation, use one of the addresses in
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.fsf.org&#x2F;about&#x2F;contact&#x2F;email" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.fsf.org&#x2F;about&#x2F;contact&#x2F;email</a>.<p>If you do not wish to receive this message ever again, please send a message to [email protected] with the subject &quot;OFF&quot;.
Otherwise, you might receive a reply like this one up to once a month.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jegoodwin3</author><text>Actually, back in the 80s, people normally wrote email of about that length, and since gaming was uncommon, had the leisure to read well-written prose from their peers.<p>Sometime around 2000, busy people started complaining about this practice, and old timers started to hold their tongues. I knew the era was over when my Millennial co-worker one cube away asked me to not interrupt him and IM him instead, since he had to take off his earphones. About the same time, my boss complained about how long my (senior engineer, explaining matters related to the immanent demise of the company...) emails were -- frankly managers were busy and 1-2 sentence ought to explain about this O-ring problem.<p>Your projection of self-centeredness on the part of your elders is unbecoming and ill-informed. You are merely young.<p>rms is just old school.</text></comment> | <story><title>Knuth versus Email (1999)</title><url>http://cs.stanford.edu/~uno/email.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>hengheng</author><text>So he&#x27;s self-centered enough that he expects everybody to read through all of this essay. Interesting.</text></item><item><author>jrcii</author><text>I was reminded of RMS&#x27;s autoreply:<p>I am not on vacation, but I am at the end of a long time delay. I am
located somewhere on Earth, but as far as responding to email is concerned, I appear to be well outside the solar system.<p>After your message arrives at gnu.org, I will collect it in my next batch of incoming mail, some time within the following 24 hours. I will spend much of the following day reading that batch of mail and will come across your message at some point. If I write a response immediately, it will go out in the next outgoing batch--typically around 24 hours after I collected your message, but occasionally sooner or later than that. Please expect a minimum delay of between 24 and 48 hours in receiving a response to your mail to me.<p>If your message is hard to understand or responding takes real work,
the response could take longer.<p>So please wait 48 hours after sending a message before you resend it,
remind me about it, or ask if I have received it. If it has been less
than 48 hours, the absence of a response from me only means you have not given me time to answer.<p>If you are having a conversation with me, please keep in mind that each message you receive from me is a response to the mail you sent 24 to 48 hours earlier, and when writing it, I probably had not yet downloaded your later mail.<p>If you are in big hurry to speak with me, and one day&#x27;s delay would be a serious problem, you can ask my FSF assistant to phone me. Send mail to &lt;[email protected]&gt; saying what you would like to talk with me about, and giving your telephone number. You can also call the Free Software Foundation office at 617-542-5942 (weekday Boston business hours) and ask them to phone me on your behalf. If it&#x27;s really important, try both!<p>An intermediate measure is to email me your phone number and ask me
to phone you.<p>But if there isn&#x27;t enough hurry to warrant phoning me, please don&#x27;t bother the FSF people. The mail you already sent me will reach me before any mail they could send me now on your behalf. I will respond as soon as I can.<p>To contact the Free Software Foundation, use one of the addresses in
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.fsf.org&#x2F;about&#x2F;contact&#x2F;email" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.fsf.org&#x2F;about&#x2F;contact&#x2F;email</a>.<p>If you do not wish to receive this message ever again, please send a message to [email protected] with the subject &quot;OFF&quot;.
Otherwise, you might receive a reply like this one up to once a month.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Etheryte</author><text>No, he&#x27;s reasonable enough to explain why and how long it takes to respond to the massive amount of mail he must receive daily.</text></comment> |
11,256,527 | 11,256,566 | 1 | 2 | 11,256,363 | train | <story><title>Valley VCs Sit on Cash, Forcing Startups to Dial Back Ambition</title><url>http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-03-09/more-venture-investors-are-sitting-on-the-sidelines</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>delecti</author><text>It&#x27;s really weird how this article tries to frame the situation. It&#x27;s almost like the startups feel entitled to the funding.<p>The point of funding should really be to enable faster growth than they might otherwise have been able to achieve, but if a business can&#x27;t at least survive without huge influxes of investments then is it really a business that they should be investing in in the first place?</text></comment> | <story><title>Valley VCs Sit on Cash, Forcing Startups to Dial Back Ambition</title><url>http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-03-09/more-venture-investors-are-sitting-on-the-sidelines</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>pritianka</author><text>I&#x27;ve been in tech only 6 years and I am already bored of these cycles of VCs becoming frenetically exuberant followed by cautious times. Their advice to startups changes depending on what time it is. It&#x27;s all so predictable yet people are surprised every time. Any entrepreneur building a business factors these in and approaches fund raising based on that knowledge. I don&#x27;t even know the point of these articles any more.</text></comment> |
3,184,960 | 3,184,990 | 1 | 2 | 3,184,517 | train | <story><title>Anonymous Cancels Operation Cartel as Los Zetas Track Hacktivists</title><url>http://idealab.talkingpointsmemo.com/2011/11/report-anonymous-cancels-operation-cartel.php</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rdl</author><text>The only way to fight criminals at a scale where they threaten the state is through intelligence and military techniques, not law enforcement.<p>Find them, build up decent evidence, kill them; don't try to prosecute. The risk is turning into a star chamber or right wing paramilitary, but I would trust the professionalism and morality of an organization like the us military to resist that. Plan Colombia worked out ok, compared to Peru vs shining path, for instance.</text></item><item><author>forensic</author><text>It's difficult to wage an information war with gangsters. The ones who get to the top by killing and torturing are not likely to be threatened by having a few emails released. All the shit runs downhill to the relatively innocent civilians being extorted by the gangsters.<p>If knowledge of who the crime bosses are was enough to take them down, they would not exist in the first place. Organized crime does not require secrecy to operate when the police are corrupted.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>gyardley</author><text>Decent evidence often isn't. Remember those 'weapons of mass destruction' in Iraq? 4,482 dead American soldiers and counting.<p>I'm not saying these gangs aren't full of horrible people, and I'm not saying all branches of the US government and military aren't perfectly good intentioned and well-meaning people, but mistakes <i>do</i> get made - which is why we need some judicial oversight here.<p>We've already got one war on an abstract concept where the president can order the extrajudicial execution of a US citizen based on secret evidence. That's more than enough for me.</text></comment> | <story><title>Anonymous Cancels Operation Cartel as Los Zetas Track Hacktivists</title><url>http://idealab.talkingpointsmemo.com/2011/11/report-anonymous-cancels-operation-cartel.php</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rdl</author><text>The only way to fight criminals at a scale where they threaten the state is through intelligence and military techniques, not law enforcement.<p>Find them, build up decent evidence, kill them; don't try to prosecute. The risk is turning into a star chamber or right wing paramilitary, but I would trust the professionalism and morality of an organization like the us military to resist that. Plan Colombia worked out ok, compared to Peru vs shining path, for instance.</text></item><item><author>forensic</author><text>It's difficult to wage an information war with gangsters. The ones who get to the top by killing and torturing are not likely to be threatened by having a few emails released. All the shit runs downhill to the relatively innocent civilians being extorted by the gangsters.<p>If knowledge of who the crime bosses are was enough to take them down, they would not exist in the first place. Organized crime does not require secrecy to operate when the police are corrupted.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jfoutz</author><text>Has that ever worked? In the U.S. anyway, gangs only seemed to disappear after pretty intense FBI work. I'm thinking of stuff like <a href="http://www.fbi.gov/about-us/investigate/organizedcrime/italian_mafia" rel="nofollow">http://www.fbi.gov/about-us/investigate/organizedcrime/itali...</a> but maybe there's much more militarized approach that's been effective that i'm forgetting.</text></comment> |
15,527,273 | 15,525,835 | 1 | 3 | 15,524,060 | train | <story><title>Hundreds of Mysterious Stone ‘Gates’ Found in Saudi Arabia’s Desert</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/19/science/saudi-arabia-gates-google-earth.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Fscience&action=click&contentCollection=science&region=rank&module=package&version=highlights&contentPlacement=1&pgtype=sectionfront</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>ppod</author><text>Their spirit is entombed in the stone. It lies upon the land with the same weight and the same ubiquity. For whoever makes a shelter of reeds and hides has joined his spirit to the primal mud with scarcely a cry. But who builds in stone seeks to alter the structure of the universe and so it was with these masons however primitive their works may seem to us.<p>Cormac McCarthy</text></comment> | <story><title>Hundreds of Mysterious Stone ‘Gates’ Found in Saudi Arabia’s Desert</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/19/science/saudi-arabia-gates-google-earth.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Fscience&action=click&contentCollection=science&region=rank&module=package&version=highlights&contentPlacement=1&pgtype=sectionfront</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>dogruck</author><text>I think it&#x27;s frustrating that when you google for additional information:<p>1. Search results are a long list of extremely similar popular science summaries, in various publications<p>2. Each article is essentially an advertisement for the paper &quot;due to be published next month&quot; -- I&#x27;d prefer to simply read the original paper!</text></comment> |
13,070,733 | 13,070,417 | 1 | 3 | 13,068,674 | train | <story><title>The Case Against Dark Matter</title><url>https://www.quantamagazine.org/20161129-verlinde-gravity-dark-matter/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bambax</author><text>&gt; <i>Physicists do not like magic; when other cosmological observations seemed far easier to explain with dark matter than with MOND, they left the approach for dead.</i><p>But how is &quot;dark matter&quot; not magic?<p>To my untrained and pretty ignorant eye, dark matter looks like filler: the observation does not match the theory, and so, instead of looking for a better theory, we decided the observation was wrong and couldn&#x27;t see what was there (and not just a little bit, but the greatest part of it).<p>Isn&#x27;t that the definition of superstition? Invisible forces that explain events, in mysterious ways?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>raattgift</author><text>&quot;Invisible forces that explain events, in mysterious ways&quot;<p>The cold dark matter component of the standard cosmology is not the first time anomalous momentum was attributed to invisible (as in, does not experience electromagnetism) matter.<p>Twenty-six or so years from proposal (which incidentally was about two years before the discovery of the neutron) to direct detection:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.wikiwand.com&#x2F;en&#x2F;Neutrino#&#x2F;History" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.wikiwand.com&#x2F;en&#x2F;Neutrino#&#x2F;History</a><p>Note that neutrinos are hot dark matter; hot because they move quickly compared to the speed of light.<p>While neutrinos are definitely part of the dark matter sector, they cannot be the sole component because their hotness would smear out galaxies. A colder neutrino would work very well to match all the observations associated with observed anomalous momentum that strongly suggests dark matter, and hunts are on for direct detections of a cold (implying high rest-mass) neutrino-like particle.<p>There are other options, of course, but the four key things are: there is non-ignorable anomalous momentum; matter generates momentum (in this case, through gravitation); there is no visible matter associated with the momentum in question (that&#x27;s why it&#x27;s anomalous); and we have discovered non-visible matter in the past while trying to explain other cases of anomalous momentum.</text></comment> | <story><title>The Case Against Dark Matter</title><url>https://www.quantamagazine.org/20161129-verlinde-gravity-dark-matter/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bambax</author><text>&gt; <i>Physicists do not like magic; when other cosmological observations seemed far easier to explain with dark matter than with MOND, they left the approach for dead.</i><p>But how is &quot;dark matter&quot; not magic?<p>To my untrained and pretty ignorant eye, dark matter looks like filler: the observation does not match the theory, and so, instead of looking for a better theory, we decided the observation was wrong and couldn&#x27;t see what was there (and not just a little bit, but the greatest part of it).<p>Isn&#x27;t that the definition of superstition? Invisible forces that explain events, in mysterious ways?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>sidek</author><text>But the motivation behind dark matter is deeper than its gravitational observations. For instance, almost all particles physicists believe the standard model of particles is incomplete. No one is really sure exactly what we need to add to the standard model, but it turns out that if you add things to it in any sensible way, you almost always get things that look like they could explain dark matter.<p>So, it&#x27;s more: particle physicists all believe the real theory has this aspect; when we look at gravity it looks like it had this aspect; therefore we should probably find a way to modify our theory so it has this aspect.<p>The major reason we haven&#x27;t been able to go further than this is because we haven&#x27;t been able to pin down exactly what these new particles are. Particle experiments are &#x2F;hard&#x2F; (see:LHC), and it might take a long time.</text></comment> |
36,966,412 | 36,965,029 | 1 | 3 | 36,961,050 | train | <story><title>Permission.site (2016)</title><url>https://permission.site/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Groxx</author><text>The list of icons for permissions in my address bar is kinda hilarious now.</text></comment> | <story><title>Permission.site (2016)</title><url>https://permission.site/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>masukomi</author><text>it&#x27;d be really nifty if this site provided ANY info whatsoever as to what it did &#x2F; was for.</text></comment> |
33,762,377 | 33,761,813 | 1 | 2 | 33,761,419 | train | <story><title>Running a Unix-like OS on a home-built CPU with a home-built C compiler (2020)</title><url>https://fuel.edby.coffee/posts/how-we-ported-xv6-os-to-a-home-built-cpu-with-a-home-built-c-compiler/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>neverartful</author><text>It&#x27;s fantastic to read about experiences like this. What a tremendous level of accomplishment and satisfaction they must have felt! The closest thing that I&#x27;ve done to this was in taking &#x27;Nand to Tetris&#x27; which is brilliant (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nand2tetris.org" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nand2tetris.org</a>).</text></comment> | <story><title>Running a Unix-like OS on a home-built CPU with a home-built C compiler (2020)</title><url>https://fuel.edby.coffee/posts/how-we-ported-xv6-os-to-a-home-built-cpu-with-a-home-built-c-compiler/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>IncRnd</author><text>October 4, 2020, Running a Unix-like OS on a home-built CPU with a home-built C compiler<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=24680109" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=24680109</a></text></comment> |
41,400,608 | 41,398,610 | 1 | 3 | 41,397,498 | train | <story><title>Open Source Twitch for Developers</title><url>https://github.com/algora-io/tv</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>zcesur</author><text>Creator of Algora here, thanks for sharing! This was a pleasant surprise :) I posted about our Elixir bounties yesterday on Reddit, and I was not expecting to see it on HN front page the next day.<p>I&#x27;ve been building this since early this year. Over the past few months, developers like Daniel Roe (Nuxt.com maintainer), Chris Griffing, Andras Bacsai (Coolify.io maintainer) have been livestreaming with Algora their coding sessions, office hours, product launches, podcasts, and more.<p>Algora TV supports free multistreaming to Twitch, X, YouTube, custom RTMPs [1] and aggregates live comments from these platforms.<p>I chose to build Algora in Elixir because of a few reasons: 1) Productivity gains from using Phoenix LiveView are unparalleled as a solo developer 2) OTP is super helpful for handling complex streaming pipelines. Things like multistreaming, mirroring chat messages, capturing thumbnails etc. can fail at any time, and OTP makes it easier to build fault-tolerant processes 3) BEAM clustering allows distributing the system across multiple nodes with ease, which helps reduce latency between streamers and viewers.<p>As the sole maintainer of the project, I&#x27;d love to get your help with improving Algora! If you&#x27;re up for contributing, I&#x27;ve put up a bunch of bounties [2] to prioritize some issues.<p>In any case, I&#x27;d love to hear from you if you have any feedback or questions!<p>[1]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;algora.tv&#x2F;docs&#x2F;streaming&#x2F;multicast" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;algora.tv&#x2F;docs&#x2F;streaming&#x2F;multicast</a><p>[2]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;algora.io&#x2F;org&#x2F;algora&#x2F;bounties" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;algora.io&#x2F;org&#x2F;algora&#x2F;bounties</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Open Source Twitch for Developers</title><url>https://github.com/algora-io/tv</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>pzmarzly</author><text>Per Tigris Pricing[0]:<p>&gt; While other cloud providers tax you for each GB of data transferred, we don&#x27;t. At Tigris, we don&#x27;t charge for regional data transfer, region-to-region data transfer, or data transfer out to the internet (egress) in the majority of use cases. However, if your bandwidth requirements are extraordinary, please reach out to us at [email protected] to discuss your requirements.<p>I wonder if a successful live video platform would count as extraordinary usage, I would assume so.<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.tigrisdata.com&#x2F;docs&#x2F;pricing&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.tigrisdata.com&#x2F;docs&#x2F;pricing&#x2F;</a></text></comment> |
39,917,325 | 39,917,329 | 1 | 2 | 39,916,939 | train | <story><title>No joke: FTC boss goes on the Daily Show and is told Apple tried to block her</title><url>https://www.theregister.com/2024/04/02/ftc_boss_apple_daily_show/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bko</author><text>What is &quot;hoarding of talent&quot;? These are human beings and they have a right to work where they want. Let&#x27;s be clear, apple &quot;hoards&quot; talent by offering them competitive pay and benefits. If others want to compete they should offer something as compelling. It doesn&#x27;t have to be money, I personally left for less money multiple times. It could be working on an interesting problem or with smart people.</text></item><item><author>bdw5204</author><text>This really isn&#x27;t that surprising. The FAANGs, including Apple, have committed serious anti-trust violations especially their hoarding of talent during the 0% interest rate years to prevent them from starting competitors then freezing hiring and laying off en masse once the interest rates started rising. They really should have to pay damages in the 6 to 7 figure range to each developer who&#x27;s been looking for work in the mid 2022 to present tech recession that they caused via their monopoly power.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ceejayoz</author><text><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cnet.com&#x2F;tech&#x2F;tech-industry&#x2F;apple-google-others-settle-anti-poaching-lawsuit-for-415-million&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cnet.com&#x2F;tech&#x2F;tech-industry&#x2F;apple-google-others-...</a><p>&gt; Apple, Google, Intel, and Adobe will shell out $415 million to put to rest an antipoaching civil lawsuit that accused the companies of conspiring not to hire each other&#x27;s employees.<p>&gt; Filed by former employees of the companies involved, the lawsuit shed a light on the practice of some major tech industry players of allegedly working together to agree not to poach employees from each other. The affected employees had argued that such agreements limited their ability to rise up in the industry and stifled their attempts to earn higher salaries. Email exchanges among such top executives as late Apple co-founder and CEO Steve Jobs and former Google CEO and now executive chairman of Alphabet Eric Schmidt revealed how requests were made not to hire certain employees away from each other.</text></comment> | <story><title>No joke: FTC boss goes on the Daily Show and is told Apple tried to block her</title><url>https://www.theregister.com/2024/04/02/ftc_boss_apple_daily_show/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bko</author><text>What is &quot;hoarding of talent&quot;? These are human beings and they have a right to work where they want. Let&#x27;s be clear, apple &quot;hoards&quot; talent by offering them competitive pay and benefits. If others want to compete they should offer something as compelling. It doesn&#x27;t have to be money, I personally left for less money multiple times. It could be working on an interesting problem or with smart people.</text></item><item><author>bdw5204</author><text>This really isn&#x27;t that surprising. The FAANGs, including Apple, have committed serious anti-trust violations especially their hoarding of talent during the 0% interest rate years to prevent them from starting competitors then freezing hiring and laying off en masse once the interest rates started rising. They really should have to pay damages in the 6 to 7 figure range to each developer who&#x27;s been looking for work in the mid 2022 to present tech recession that they caused via their monopoly power.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ghaff</author><text>This is basically a complaint that they hired too many developers and overpaid them--and now some of those developers who left or were laid off can&#x27;t find as ridiculously well-paid jobs somewhere else. I&#x27;m pretty sure there are plenty of jobs out there; they probably just don&#x27;t pay as well or are as prestigious.</text></comment> |
15,512,686 | 15,511,549 | 1 | 2 | 15,509,147 | train | <story><title>How to Create a Private Ethereum Blockchain</title><url>https://medium.facilelogin.com/build-your-own-blockchain-b8eaeea2f891</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>VMG</author><text>What&#x27;s the point of a private blockchain? Couldn&#x27;t you just use a more traditional consensus algorithm when you have a closed network?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>baby</author><text>When auditing smart contracts you need to test them privately. So you run a test network with this or testrpc or ...<p>I&#x27;d imagine it&#x27;s good for developers as well for quick testing.</text></comment> | <story><title>How to Create a Private Ethereum Blockchain</title><url>https://medium.facilelogin.com/build-your-own-blockchain-b8eaeea2f891</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>VMG</author><text>What&#x27;s the point of a private blockchain? Couldn&#x27;t you just use a more traditional consensus algorithm when you have a closed network?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kingo55</author><text>Like a traditional database?</text></comment> |
13,426,381 | 13,425,540 | 1 | 3 | 13,424,207 | train | <story><title>Alenka: GPU database engine</title><url>https://github.com/antonmks/Alenka</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>nrjdhsbsid</author><text>I keep hearing the promise of GPU databases but they don&#x27;t seem to be terribly useful for most real world workloads.<p>It reminds me of the big hoopla for GPU h264 encoders. When they came out everyone realized the quality was worse and not much faster.<p>Some things don&#x27;t lend themselves to parallel processing, notably anything linear like transactions.<p>I mean yeah the GPU can sort a hundred billion items a second but how often do you really need to sort that many items using a database? In 99.9% of uses you have indexing or limits on the number of results.<p>Just saying, this program looks more like a stream processing platform with a SQL-like frontend than a full database</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>arnon</author><text>You&#x27;re thinking about transactional databases, and you&#x27;re right. Transactional databases will probably not benefit hugely from a GPU.
That&#x27;s not saying it&#x27;s impossible, but probably not worth the effort.<p>However, there are so many types of databases around. Lambda architectures are all the rage now - you keep one database for your transactionals, and another for analytics. Analytics are huge, in the multi-billions of dollars every year and they&#x27;ve become one of the most important parts of steering a business and deciding on new strategy.
Larger businesses don&#x27;t just &#x27;go for it&#x27; anymore, they analyze, and inspect, and dig deep into their historical data to find out if something is worth doing.<p>GPUs tend to lend themselves well to analytics, contrary to transactions. Specifically, columnar databases. When the columns are all of the same data type, and the data locality is high, GPUs perform &#x2F;very&#x2F; well.<p>Regarding your sorting point you may not really want to sort everything, you got that bit right. But what if you want to perform a `JOIN` on a bunch of data?<p>It makes more sense to sort it first, because the JOIN would be much faster - matching keys would be much easier.<p>Now, if you were performing really fast SORT on a GPU, you&#x27;re saving precious processing time.</text></comment> | <story><title>Alenka: GPU database engine</title><url>https://github.com/antonmks/Alenka</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>nrjdhsbsid</author><text>I keep hearing the promise of GPU databases but they don&#x27;t seem to be terribly useful for most real world workloads.<p>It reminds me of the big hoopla for GPU h264 encoders. When they came out everyone realized the quality was worse and not much faster.<p>Some things don&#x27;t lend themselves to parallel processing, notably anything linear like transactions.<p>I mean yeah the GPU can sort a hundred billion items a second but how often do you really need to sort that many items using a database? In 99.9% of uses you have indexing or limits on the number of results.<p>Just saying, this program looks more like a stream processing platform with a SQL-like frontend than a full database</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>floatboth</author><text>&gt; GPU h264 encoders<p>Are there any <i>GPU</i> (shader) encoders?<p>There are dedicated fixed-function hardware encoders (VCE and NVENC) on graphics cards, and they&#x27;re very popular, because they&#x27;re the best way to record game footage if you don&#x27;t have dedicated capture hardware. You don&#x27;t want x264&#x2F;5 hogging the CPU when you&#x27;re playing games!</text></comment> |
19,942,618 | 19,942,771 | 1 | 2 | 19,942,142 | train | <story><title>Homeless Population Jumps by Thousands Across the San Francisco Bay Area</title><url>https://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-northern-california-homeless-count-20190517-story.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>yostrovs</author><text>Can you help clarify why so many of these young homeless with dogs also prefer camo as their clothing color of choice?</text></item><item><author>lostgame</author><text>Weather. I used to be homeless in Toronto (at lived in the Don Valley forest for a time) and it&#x27;s actually kinda fun - in the summer.<p>As soon as that first cold spike hits, you feel like death inside.</text></item><item><author>dforrestwilson</author><text>Hopefully, this does not get down-voted.<p>I have lived all over the US, and noticed that only in California do I find young homeless people. They generally seem happy and even have dogs.<p>I never saw this in NYC or anywhere else on the East Coast or in the Midwest.<p>Is there a reason why the demographics would be different?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dsfyu404ed</author><text>Because BDUs&#x2F;ACUs and similar are cheap, common enough at thrift stores and highly durable. I make almost 6 figures and I have BDUs I use when I&#x27;m doing manual labor.</text></comment> | <story><title>Homeless Population Jumps by Thousands Across the San Francisco Bay Area</title><url>https://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-northern-california-homeless-count-20190517-story.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>yostrovs</author><text>Can you help clarify why so many of these young homeless with dogs also prefer camo as their clothing color of choice?</text></item><item><author>lostgame</author><text>Weather. I used to be homeless in Toronto (at lived in the Don Valley forest for a time) and it&#x27;s actually kinda fun - in the summer.<p>As soon as that first cold spike hits, you feel like death inside.</text></item><item><author>dforrestwilson</author><text>Hopefully, this does not get down-voted.<p>I have lived all over the US, and noticed that only in California do I find young homeless people. They generally seem happy and even have dogs.<p>I never saw this in NYC or anywhere else on the East Coast or in the Midwest.<p>Is there a reason why the demographics would be different?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>benatkin</author><text>It&#x27;s outdoor gear. A lot of outdoor gear shops have <i>surplus</i> in their name, because there&#x27;s a link between the outdoors, hunting&#x2F;fishing, and the military. A lot of outdoors people don&#x27;t like it and would rather wear patagonia vests (like VCs do), but camo gear certainly isn&#x27;t an unusual choice for outdoors types. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Surplus_store" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Surplus_store</a></text></comment> |
31,568,488 | 31,566,785 | 1 | 2 | 31,566,401 | train | <story><title>SumatraPDF 3.4 Released</title><url>https://www.sumatrapdfreader.org/docs/Version-history</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>kjksf</author><text>I&#x27;m especially proud of adding Command Palette (Ctrl + K).<p>And you can now customize keyboard shortcuts.<p>And created <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;sumatrapdf.canny.io&#x2F;feature-requests" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;sumatrapdf.canny.io&#x2F;feature-requests</a> so that you can vote on features I should implement next (people really want the dark theme).<p>And I&#x27;m making <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.sumatrapdfreader.org&#x2F;prerelease" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.sumatrapdfreader.org&#x2F;prerelease</a> daily builds with seamless auto-updates so that people interested in latest features can get them as soon as they are implemented (I&#x27;ve already added .avif support, and commands to re-open last closed file and clear history)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>cassepipe</author><text>I have now been on Linux for quite some time but I remember how happy I was when I found as a teenager your fast no bs pdf reader for my not at all powerful old windows machine.
The sheer joy of kicking Adobe Acrobat reader out of the system tray...</text></comment> | <story><title>SumatraPDF 3.4 Released</title><url>https://www.sumatrapdfreader.org/docs/Version-history</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>kjksf</author><text>I&#x27;m especially proud of adding Command Palette (Ctrl + K).<p>And you can now customize keyboard shortcuts.<p>And created <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;sumatrapdf.canny.io&#x2F;feature-requests" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;sumatrapdf.canny.io&#x2F;feature-requests</a> so that you can vote on features I should implement next (people really want the dark theme).<p>And I&#x27;m making <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.sumatrapdfreader.org&#x2F;prerelease" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.sumatrapdfreader.org&#x2F;prerelease</a> daily builds with seamless auto-updates so that people interested in latest features can get them as soon as they are implemented (I&#x27;ve already added .avif support, and commands to re-open last closed file and clear history)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>lexa1979</author><text>I&#x27;ll add to the list of thank yous, I&#x27;ve been a SumatraPDF user for years and never looked back. It&#x27;s everything I love in a program: light, fast, does one job perfectly. Kudos from Belgium ! :)</text></comment> |
31,825,708 | 31,825,332 | 1 | 3 | 31,823,485 | train | <story><title>Laundry symbols make no sense</title><url>https://uxdesign.cc/laundry-symbols-make-no-sense-154a0c10dbe0</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bbarnett</author><text>I really find the idea that &quot;having to know, or lookup stuff&quot;, as a problem, offensive.<p>Laundry is literally filled with things to know, outside of these symbols. Household tasks are.<p>I don&#x27;t see labels on bleech bottles, saying not to mix it with vinegar or you could die. Yet people have done that in the wash, so why not start there?<p>Here&#x27;s what each sane person should do, who actually takes time to look at tags. (after all if you couldn&#x27;t care less, and never look at tags, what&#x27;s the point?)<p>Print a copy of the extended tag list out, and hang it in the laundry room at home. I have a cabinet where I keep extra detergent, etc, so I taped it up on the inside of the door.<p>Problem sovled.<p>For a laundrymat, for your smartphone, download a properly formatted, for easy phone viewing version.<p><i>Done.</i><p>Non-problem, compared to expecting the entire planet to change. We don&#x27;t need another standard!!<p>All that would happen is I&#x27;d have two standards to look at.</text></item><item><author>detritus</author><text>Within a second of seeing the &#x27;improved&#x27; ones I spot what is, to my mind at least, an immediate failure - the detail resolution is far too small. It doesn&#x27;t account for the printing limitations on small fabric tags, never mind the ability of old fogeys such as myself to be able to squint that hard and actually read them.<p>I have no idea even looking on my screen here what the difference between the first three is supposed to be, and the numerals in the three thereafter are only legible because I&#x27;m staring at a bright screen, not swearing into the void in my laundry room, trying to find a better light.<p>All that aside, I feel I&#x27;d still have to look their new interpretations up. International visual vernacular .. doesn&#x27;t really exist.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Flimm</author><text>I would highly recommend reading some UX classics such as:<p>- The Inmate Are Running The Asylum by Alan Cooper<p>- The Design of Everyday Things by Donald Norman<p>(and I&#x27;m sure there are many more good resources that are recent than that.)<p>It&#x27;s very easy as tech-savvy people like us to underestimate how hard technology, even conventions like laundry symbols, are. I personally have printed out a legend explaining the laundry symbols and put them near to my washing machine, but I&#x27;m the only person I know who does that. Everyone else guesses or struggles to use laundry symbols correctly, or reads the text in English if it is provided.<p>Now, does that mean we should change all the laundry symbols just because one person shared a redesign on their blog? No. Changing something that is so well-established has significant downsides and risks. But I think it&#x27;s perfectly legitimate to spot their difficulties, and to pursue better UX relentlessly, with testing with real users. That&#x27;s what separates a good (UX) designer from an engineer who produces something that fits their mindset but not the mindset of actual users.</text></comment> | <story><title>Laundry symbols make no sense</title><url>https://uxdesign.cc/laundry-symbols-make-no-sense-154a0c10dbe0</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bbarnett</author><text>I really find the idea that &quot;having to know, or lookup stuff&quot;, as a problem, offensive.<p>Laundry is literally filled with things to know, outside of these symbols. Household tasks are.<p>I don&#x27;t see labels on bleech bottles, saying not to mix it with vinegar or you could die. Yet people have done that in the wash, so why not start there?<p>Here&#x27;s what each sane person should do, who actually takes time to look at tags. (after all if you couldn&#x27;t care less, and never look at tags, what&#x27;s the point?)<p>Print a copy of the extended tag list out, and hang it in the laundry room at home. I have a cabinet where I keep extra detergent, etc, so I taped it up on the inside of the door.<p>Problem sovled.<p>For a laundrymat, for your smartphone, download a properly formatted, for easy phone viewing version.<p><i>Done.</i><p>Non-problem, compared to expecting the entire planet to change. We don&#x27;t need another standard!!<p>All that would happen is I&#x27;d have two standards to look at.</text></item><item><author>detritus</author><text>Within a second of seeing the &#x27;improved&#x27; ones I spot what is, to my mind at least, an immediate failure - the detail resolution is far too small. It doesn&#x27;t account for the printing limitations on small fabric tags, never mind the ability of old fogeys such as myself to be able to squint that hard and actually read them.<p>I have no idea even looking on my screen here what the difference between the first three is supposed to be, and the numerals in the three thereafter are only legible because I&#x27;m staring at a bright screen, not swearing into the void in my laundry room, trying to find a better light.<p>All that aside, I feel I&#x27;d still have to look their new interpretations up. International visual vernacular .. doesn&#x27;t really exist.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jeffwask</author><text>&gt; I really find the idea that &quot;having to know, or lookup stuff&quot;, as a problem, offensive.<p>I tend to agree. As a culture we have the knowledge of the world in our pocket day in and day out yet we have become lazy and even obstinate about using it.<p>I&#x27;ve started turning gardening and landscaping into a bit of a hobby with my new house. I&#x27;m constantly looking up specifics on plants, how to prune, and etc. It is so much easier than when I last had a house. The workflow no longer requires amassed knowledge, books, or keeping every tag that came with every plant.<p>It&#x27;s now:<p>Take a photo of plant
Use app to identify
Get all the info you need</text></comment> |
25,452,909 | 25,452,813 | 1 | 3 | 25,451,531 | train | <story><title>Trump Is Considering Clemency for Silk Road Founder</title><url>https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-considers-clemency-for-ross-ulbricht-silk-road-kingpin-convicted-of-drug-and-money-laundering-charges</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>null0pointer</author><text>As much as I think Ross&#x27;s sentence is too severe, I wish he would pardon Snowden or Assange instead. You know, people that actually did good for the world and are being punished for it.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kodah</author><text>At the time I didn&#x27;t really understand Snowden&#x27;s motives and it wasn&#x27;t really clear how right he was. At this point I feel like the writing has left the wall, has copied itself on every build board, every road side, and is probably being flown by an airplane as a banner in the sky. This interview with Glen Greenwald (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=5qEuKCS-czU" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=5qEuKCS-czU</a>) was what really opened to my eyes to what he was trying to say back then. It sucks I didn&#x27;t listen.<p>Edited due to poor wording</text></comment> | <story><title>Trump Is Considering Clemency for Silk Road Founder</title><url>https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-considers-clemency-for-ross-ulbricht-silk-road-kingpin-convicted-of-drug-and-money-laundering-charges</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>null0pointer</author><text>As much as I think Ross&#x27;s sentence is too severe, I wish he would pardon Snowden or Assange instead. You know, people that actually did good for the world and are being punished for it.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>thaumasiotes</author><text>&gt; I wish he would pardon Snowden or Assange instead.<p>¿Por qué no los dos?</text></comment> |
37,318,469 | 37,317,594 | 1 | 3 | 37,314,073 | train | <story><title>Meta AI releases CoTracker, a model for tracking any points (pixels) on a video</title><url>https://co-tracker.github.io/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>thethimble</author><text>Does anyone understand the business angle for meta here with these models? I still don’t understand why their research division exists and how it relates to their core business. I’m a huge admirer of their work but don’t understand the why.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>gmerc</author><text>- It degrades Googles and OpenAis ability to monetize.
That alone is worth gold because tech is not a blue ocean anymore - neither from a market opportunity nor from an investor perspective. Your competitors loss is your gain. They can’t use money they don’t make to mount attacks to dislodge customers, investors, mindshare from you. Yes, Meta is weaponizing &quot;open&quot; to hurt their competitors, but we&#x27;re in a capitalism world, that&#x27;s about as good as it gets unless you want purity of motives.<p>- Secondly it commoditizes AI. Zuck believes that his platforms ultimately will benefit if there is more content. Because his platforms sell the ability to show YOUR content over the rest, for coin. Just as with news&#x2F;mobile games, driving the value of your content lower and lower by fostering the creation&#x2F;supply of more of it is good for FB and bad for you. You have to advertise to rise above the noise. (See commoditize your complements)<p>- Thirdly it reinforces the investor narrative that the company has a future because AI. That&#x27;s important, because by now consensus is that ads future is under pressure of market saturation, regulation, competition (Apple&#x27;s ability to hurt Meta at will, Amazon&#x27;s increasing ads monetisation, etc.). There&#x27;s more than one company that needs that narrative to land, but combined with hurting google, this is pretty good for a company that didn&#x27;t have a generative AI strategy and was betting on the metaverse a year ago.<p>- Fourth, it captures open source momentum behind your limited internal efforts. Llama, when it was first released, was not competitive - easily a year behind Google&#x27;s and more behind OpenAI&#x27;s efforts - but by being first to capture thousands of capable contributors, just a few months later it is one of the most efficient and scalable LLM systems out there and incorporating many innovations days after their paper releases. Open models alone, without their foundational model, would have tugged along for a while before reaching this state.<p>What&#x27;s fascinating about this situation is how it shuffles the big tech positioning. Meta and Apple, purely on a personal leadership bases, are hating each other&#x27;s guts, but both Apple and Meta need Google&#x2F;OpenAI to fail, for different reasons</text></comment> | <story><title>Meta AI releases CoTracker, a model for tracking any points (pixels) on a video</title><url>https://co-tracker.github.io/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>thethimble</author><text>Does anyone understand the business angle for meta here with these models? I still don’t understand why their research division exists and how it relates to their core business. I’m a huge admirer of their work but don’t understand the why.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bg24</author><text>My hypothesis is that they want to get the absolute mindshare and adoption and decide the right product&#x2F;solutions along the way. Note that there are trends (web 1, web 2, mobile etc.) and the leaders tend to grow significantly.<p>It is a mad rush time with the new generation of AI, and future products are going to be amazing. Meta cannot afford to have just 1 cash cow. Metaverse failed, but they have a real shot here.<p>A few things I can think of (beyond social networks).<p>- Enterprise push, starting with very high-end enterprises. Their license structure (free below X million users) allows it nicely. They can afford to have a small team and yet win big. Note that typically 80% of any enterprise products revenue comes from say, 10-20% of top customers.<p>- Build a platform. Meta learned from Google, and then Apple debacle on how dependent the world is on platform. What would the new OS look like?<p>- Weaken Google and Apple. Some indications on why they partnered with Microsoft - this also ties to the point above.</text></comment> |
13,630,948 | 13,630,835 | 1 | 2 | 13,629,344 | train | <story><title>Python moved to GitHub</title><url>https://github.com/python/cpython</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>laurentdc</author><text>Yes!<p>I quite like the idea of &quot;centralizing&quot; development on GitHub, or similar services. It makes it much easier for everyone to fork, test, make a pull request, merge, etc..<p>For example, one reason why I gave up contributing to OpenWrt was their absolutely legacy contribution system [1], which required devs to submit code diff patches via email (good luck not messing up the formatting with a modern client) on a mailing list. It took me an hour to submit a patch for three lines of code. It seems like Python wasn&#x27;t much different. [2]<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;dev.openwrt.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;SubmittingPatches#a1.Creatingapatch" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;dev.openwrt.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;SubmittingPatches#a1.Creatingap...</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;docs.python.org&#x2F;devguide&#x2F;patch.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;docs.python.org&#x2F;devguide&#x2F;patch.html</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ycmbntrthrwaway</author><text>Centralizing around proprietary software is not a good idea generally.<p>Git is distributed, so when GitHub goes down, every developer has a backup of entire history. However, issues are lost forever. Python does not use &quot;issues&quot; feature for good.<p>One way to avoid email without centralization is setting up Gerrit. That is how Ring [1] and LineageOS (former CyanogenMod) [2] manage their &quot;pull requests&quot;.<p>Still, being able to submit patches via email is an absolutely necessary skill for everyone who considers himself a hacker. Lack of it makes you unable to contribute to many great projects, such as all suckless [3] projects and Linux itself.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gerrit-ring.savoirfairelinux.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gerrit-ring.savoirfairelinux.com&#x2F;</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;review.lineageos.org&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;review.lineageos.org&#x2F;</a><p>[3] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;suckless.org&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;suckless.org&#x2F;</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Python moved to GitHub</title><url>https://github.com/python/cpython</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>laurentdc</author><text>Yes!<p>I quite like the idea of &quot;centralizing&quot; development on GitHub, or similar services. It makes it much easier for everyone to fork, test, make a pull request, merge, etc..<p>For example, one reason why I gave up contributing to OpenWrt was their absolutely legacy contribution system [1], which required devs to submit code diff patches via email (good luck not messing up the formatting with a modern client) on a mailing list. It took me an hour to submit a patch for three lines of code. It seems like Python wasn&#x27;t much different. [2]<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;dev.openwrt.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;SubmittingPatches#a1.Creatingapatch" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;dev.openwrt.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;SubmittingPatches#a1.Creatingap...</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;docs.python.org&#x2F;devguide&#x2F;patch.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;docs.python.org&#x2F;devguide&#x2F;patch.html</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>corndoge</author><text>The emailed patch model is still incredibly popular and combined with an application such as Patchwork remains efficient.<p><i>good luck not messing up the formatting with a modern client</i><p>$ git send-email<p>GitHub is easier to get started with but both methods have their benefits. I personally prefer GitHub but don&#x27;t have problems contributing to projects that use the emailed patch model.</text></comment> |
29,278,757 | 29,276,920 | 1 | 2 | 29,256,482 | train | <story><title>New and improved Linux Random Number Generator ready for testing</title><url>https://portswigger.net/daily-swig/secure-development-new-and-improved-linux-random-number-generator-ready-for-testing</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>salmo</author><text>This is something that has frustrated me for years. There has been no interest in modernizing the Linux PRNG really ever. This article doesn&#x27;t go into more depth so I don&#x27;t know if it&#x27;s just tacking on more entropy sources and algorithm support or a real modernization.<p>Windows, MacOS, every BSD, Solaris, etc. have moved past the (blocking) &#x2F;dev&#x2F;random vs &#x2F;dev&#x2F;urandom to more mathematically sound solutions. (Seriously, measuring entropy?) But Torvalds, Ts&#x27;o, etc. have blocked, belittled, or ignored any movement there.<p>It&#x27;s crazy that the OS that runs all the things essentially has a roll-your-own-crypto PRNG at its core rather than relying on actual experts for that.<p>Unfortunately, it&#x27;s &quot;good enough&quot; to not HAVE to change. Use &#x2F;dev&#x2F;random sparingly to seed your own PRNG, change your Java config to use &#x2F;dev&#x2F;urandom, or (shudder) use rngd to make it seed itself.<p>At least once a year I hit some COTS product that craps itself under load blocking on &#x2F;dev&#x2F;random on a VM, causing an outage. Yes, it&#x27;s a &quot;worked on my laptop&quot; problem, but an unnecessary rake to leave out in the garden.</text></comment> | <story><title>New and improved Linux Random Number Generator ready for testing</title><url>https://portswigger.net/daily-swig/secure-development-new-and-improved-linux-random-number-generator-ready-for-testing</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>strenholme</author><text>There is a lot said for making the Linux random number generator configurable. A good entropy (random number) source takes entropy from a number of different sources and combines it with a cryptographic strong algorithm: Either a strong hash whose output is made the key and IV for a stream cipher, or directly using an Extendable-Output Function (XOF) such as a cryptographic sponge. [1]<p>For example, there is some controversy with the RDRAND (the x86 ”give me random bits” op code) operation, with concerns that maybe the numbers weren’t truly random, and at least one known security hole where the RDRAND output could leak under some circumstances. However, it’s widely available and probably makes good random bits. However, if it doesn’t, we want other sources of entropy (microphone output low bits, interrupt timings, etc.) so &#x2F;dev&#x2F;random or &#x2F;dev&#x2F;urandom still gives us strong entropy even if RDRAND is completely busted.<p>[1] I personally think a cryptographic sponge is ideal for this, since sponge functions have absorb, output, and duplex (absorb after output, i.e. accept new entropy from the system after outputting bits) functionality</text></comment> |
13,987,520 | 13,986,659 | 1 | 2 | 13,986,296 | train | <story><title>Big Tech Company Salaries Are Hurting Startups</title><url>http://thestartupconference.com/2017/03/25/the-350k-google-salary-is-hurting-startups/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bla2</author><text>Sounds like the market is telling startups that early engineers are worth more than 0.1% of stock options.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mring33621</author><text>Yes.<p>I&#x27;m an older, successful dev in Chicago. I recently corresponded w&#x2F; a local startup CEO on linkedin. My skillset seemed to be a good fit for the role, but their stated top salary would be a 20K pay cut for me. So I ran a quick estimate, based on expected exit and expected dilution figures that I found on the internet (I know, grain of salt...), added a risk premium for myself, and found that I would want about 7% equity, in order to be interested. They said no, of course.<p>My point is that (some) startups can&#x27;t or won&#x27;t pay for the technical skills they want. And that&#x27;s their problem, not ours.</text></comment> | <story><title>Big Tech Company Salaries Are Hurting Startups</title><url>http://thestartupconference.com/2017/03/25/the-350k-google-salary-is-hurting-startups/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bla2</author><text>Sounds like the market is telling startups that early engineers are worth more than 0.1% of stock options.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>thedevil</author><text>I had more of a financial background before becoming a software engineer. I was shocked when I found out &quot;equity&quot; given to early engineers is so puny.<p>Why would someone work long hours for low pay with higher risk for 0.1% of high-risk small business?</text></comment> |
12,514,826 | 12,514,605 | 1 | 2 | 12,513,814 | train | <story><title>The Programmer’s Guide to a Sane Workweek</title><url>https://codewithoutrules.com/2016/09/16/sane-workweek/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ThePawnBreak</author><text>Do you also account for the fact that you are way more likely to be promoted if you work overtime?</text></item><item><author>flanbiscuit</author><text>&gt; You&#x27;re just reducing your hourly rate.<p>This is how I&#x27;ve always explained to people who constantly work overtime in salaried positions where they don&#x27;t actually get paid for that overtime.<p>You can at look at it one of 2 ways.<p>1. Your billable self stopped at the 8-hour mark on a given weekday and every hour after that, including weekends, you&#x27;re just giving away free labor to the company. Just think about that every time you&#x27;re working overtime, every minute after 8-hours you&#x27;re freely giving away to the company. This is your personal free time.<p>2. Or, like patrickdavey said, you dilute your hourly worth. Say you&#x27;re a dev who makes $90K, that&#x27;s roughly $43.xx&#x2F;hr for a 40 hour work week. But if you&#x27;re actually working 50hr work weeks you&#x27;re now worth $34.xx, and so on. The company just saved money on you (or they are making money off you).</text></item><item><author>patrickdavey</author><text>I went to a talk once on leadership. One of the suggestions was to get your &quot;go to hell kit&quot; ready. That is, get enough money in the bank (whatever that means for you) so that you can walk away if things cross your personal lines, be they moral &#x2F; work-life balance, whatever. It&#x27;s a good thing if there&#x27;s pressure to work silly hours. In my first job (recent grad) before I left the job, I&#x27;d been working 5 weekends straight (at least a Sat&#x2F;Sun). Looking back, insane, now I&#x27;d be having a conversation with my manager.<p>Sometimes it&#x27;s hard when the &quot;norm&quot; is to work these extra hours. Where I live now, I have worked a normal 8:45ish to 5:15ish and haven&#x27;t had to stay late or work weekends in years. It can be like that, I reckon it _ought_ to be like that. If your contract says 40 hours a week, why would you work more? You&#x27;re just reducing your hourly rate. Now, I don&#x27;t mind putting in extra effort if needed, no worries, but if it&#x27;s the culture that it&#x27;s just long hours, well that&#x27;s crazy.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pjc50</author><text>Promotions are a myth told to people to get them to work harder, aren&#x27;t they? They&#x27;re quite rare and usually come with moderate increments. Whereas the best way to increase your salary is to move jobs. Salary is only vaguely linked to job title.<p>(I was once promoted <i>en passant</i>, when my first employer wished to inflate the number of Senior Developers assigned to a consulting proposal...)</text></comment> | <story><title>The Programmer’s Guide to a Sane Workweek</title><url>https://codewithoutrules.com/2016/09/16/sane-workweek/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ThePawnBreak</author><text>Do you also account for the fact that you are way more likely to be promoted if you work overtime?</text></item><item><author>flanbiscuit</author><text>&gt; You&#x27;re just reducing your hourly rate.<p>This is how I&#x27;ve always explained to people who constantly work overtime in salaried positions where they don&#x27;t actually get paid for that overtime.<p>You can at look at it one of 2 ways.<p>1. Your billable self stopped at the 8-hour mark on a given weekday and every hour after that, including weekends, you&#x27;re just giving away free labor to the company. Just think about that every time you&#x27;re working overtime, every minute after 8-hours you&#x27;re freely giving away to the company. This is your personal free time.<p>2. Or, like patrickdavey said, you dilute your hourly worth. Say you&#x27;re a dev who makes $90K, that&#x27;s roughly $43.xx&#x2F;hr for a 40 hour work week. But if you&#x27;re actually working 50hr work weeks you&#x27;re now worth $34.xx, and so on. The company just saved money on you (or they are making money off you).</text></item><item><author>patrickdavey</author><text>I went to a talk once on leadership. One of the suggestions was to get your &quot;go to hell kit&quot; ready. That is, get enough money in the bank (whatever that means for you) so that you can walk away if things cross your personal lines, be they moral &#x2F; work-life balance, whatever. It&#x27;s a good thing if there&#x27;s pressure to work silly hours. In my first job (recent grad) before I left the job, I&#x27;d been working 5 weekends straight (at least a Sat&#x2F;Sun). Looking back, insane, now I&#x27;d be having a conversation with my manager.<p>Sometimes it&#x27;s hard when the &quot;norm&quot; is to work these extra hours. Where I live now, I have worked a normal 8:45ish to 5:15ish and haven&#x27;t had to stay late or work weekends in years. It can be like that, I reckon it _ought_ to be like that. If your contract says 40 hours a week, why would you work more? You&#x27;re just reducing your hourly rate. Now, I don&#x27;t mind putting in extra effort if needed, no worries, but if it&#x27;s the culture that it&#x27;s just long hours, well that&#x27;s crazy.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>OpenDrapery</author><text>You may be more likely to be promoted if you display a backbone. Real straight shooter with upper management written all over him.</text></comment> |
28,153,645 | 28,152,797 | 1 | 2 | 28,128,729 | train | <story><title>Mea culpa: How developers fix their own simple bugs differently from other devs</title><url>https://neverworkintheory.org/2021/08/10/developers-fix-their-own-simple-bugs-differently-from-other-developers.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>barrkel</author><text>The less you know about code, the more local your changes. In fact this is how the architecture of a software system degrades: lots of local changes sort of make it &quot;melt&quot;. Global invariants become temporally or spatially local invariants, code and data flow which had a single purpose acquire multiple purposes, names become semantically overloaded, and so on.</text></comment> | <story><title>Mea culpa: How developers fix their own simple bugs differently from other devs</title><url>https://neverworkintheory.org/2021/08/10/developers-fix-their-own-simple-bugs-differently-from-other-developers.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>rembicilious</author><text>When my own code presents a bug I tend to chase it back to it’s “philosophical roots”.<p>I tried to work out edge cases from the beginning; to handle invalid data; to swat the bugs before they appeared.<p>A bug reared it’s little insectoid head.<p>Now I’m wading my way through every piece of code that remotely affects the issue and making damn sure that my perfect vision is realised.<p>On the other hand, fixing a bug in someone else’s code doesn’t have all these personal implications. If I fix the bug without causing regressions I’m a hero! After all, it’s not personal to me.</text></comment> |
13,321,123 | 13,319,937 | 1 | 2 | 13,317,385 | train | <story><title>Video Games Satisfy Basic Human Needs</title><url>http://nautil.us/blog/how-video-games-satisfy-basic-human-needs</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>croon</author><text>I didn&#x27;t think I would, but I seem by those archetypes to land under &quot;Achievers&quot;, this despite me never 100%:ing a game (the rare exception being Binding of Isaac, love the item synergy sandbox&#x2F;breaking of that game), and hating achievements, never looking for collectables, etc.<p>I do however always accumulate&#x2F;optimize for maximum ammo&#x2F;currency&#x2F;gear&#x2F;weapons&#x2F;items, to the point where I believe I completed &gt;80% of Half-Life with the crowbar, to conserve ammo.<p>I also like you love singleplayer games and a well-written story, but I on the other hand hate open world games (because they&#x27;re never open nor &quot;worldy&quot; enough), and equally hate too linear games (looking at CoD past 3 and the like).<p>I grew up loving games like Quake (for the multiplayer&#x2F;mechanics&#x2F;general tech side of it), The Longest Journey for the story, Half-Life for both aspects, and a bunch of games struggling with either storytelling&#x2F;mechanics or other but loveable for their attempt at trying something more than they could achieve (examples being Outcast, Citizen Kabuto, Oni, Advent Rising, Too Human).<p>When thinking of what the last bigger&#x2F;sorta AAA games I enjoyed playing was I think it&#x27;s Half-Life 2 (kind of obvious), but also FarCry (1), Crysis (1, but also Warhead), Just Cause 2.<p>All of them had a story, most of them were open world and allowed you to approach a problem with undesigned solutions, which is what I really love.<p>I&#x27;ve bought GTA 4, 5, Far Cry 3, 4, Just Cause 3, and many many others, played them for less than a handful hours, and given up because it just feels like I have to churn this mill just to advance a movie, at which point I may as well watch a movie, or watch someone else play the game (which I now completely understand as a concept).<p>&quot;Open world&quot; games I&#x27;ve played in recent years - after the original concept of open world once went linear for consoles, and then consoles catching up enough to enable open world games again - don&#x27;t seem to be so much about designing a world with some rules and a number of tools, but simply providing more than 1 or 2 designed solutions to a problem, which feels completely hollow to me.<p>I have no doubt that this is why MineCraft (which I haven&#x27;t played much for lack of story&#x2F;&quot;game&quot;, although having plenty of sandbox&#x2F;open world) and that genre has sprouted up to much success.<p>Sorry for hijacking. I don&#x27;t know how this turned into a longwinded games rant, but it raised questions since I identified with you, while still feeling characterized under &quot;achiever&quot;.</text></item><item><author>TeMPOraL</author><text>Wow, the original &quot;4 types of players&quot; paper is really, really good and also very detailed. Makes some interesting observations about the dynamics of those types of players in a shared game world.<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;mud.co.uk&#x2F;richard&#x2F;hcds.htm" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;mud.co.uk&#x2F;richard&#x2F;hcds.htm</a><p>Personally, I seem to be closest to the explorer type. I always liked single player games more, and I prefer well-written lore, depth and new things to discover over the mechanics or social aspect.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>aluhut</author><text>You should really try Rimworld. I am just like you. I usually downloaded (stopped bying them for this reason but I still had hope for one that would justify the money...) one of those AAA games, played it on a weekend and deleted them afterwards. Battlefield was perfect since they had an open Beta. Guess there is a reason why you have to pay for Betas today and Demos are pretty much dead.<p>Rimworld is now the only game I have and it is the first time I didn&#x27;t regret a single cent I spend for it. Even when it&#x27;s 30$.<p>Rimworld is a Base Building game. Handling may be compared to Prison Architect but with seemingly never ending depth (Prison Architect didn&#x27;t work for me too...). The learning curve is part of the game and even now with the extended tutorial, you&#x27;ll find new ways to optimize and new possibilities. The Modding community is very active too.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;rimworldgame.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;rimworldgame.com&#x2F;</a><p>Also the reddit community is also pretty active: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;RimWorld" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;RimWorld</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Video Games Satisfy Basic Human Needs</title><url>http://nautil.us/blog/how-video-games-satisfy-basic-human-needs</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>croon</author><text>I didn&#x27;t think I would, but I seem by those archetypes to land under &quot;Achievers&quot;, this despite me never 100%:ing a game (the rare exception being Binding of Isaac, love the item synergy sandbox&#x2F;breaking of that game), and hating achievements, never looking for collectables, etc.<p>I do however always accumulate&#x2F;optimize for maximum ammo&#x2F;currency&#x2F;gear&#x2F;weapons&#x2F;items, to the point where I believe I completed &gt;80% of Half-Life with the crowbar, to conserve ammo.<p>I also like you love singleplayer games and a well-written story, but I on the other hand hate open world games (because they&#x27;re never open nor &quot;worldy&quot; enough), and equally hate too linear games (looking at CoD past 3 and the like).<p>I grew up loving games like Quake (for the multiplayer&#x2F;mechanics&#x2F;general tech side of it), The Longest Journey for the story, Half-Life for both aspects, and a bunch of games struggling with either storytelling&#x2F;mechanics or other but loveable for their attempt at trying something more than they could achieve (examples being Outcast, Citizen Kabuto, Oni, Advent Rising, Too Human).<p>When thinking of what the last bigger&#x2F;sorta AAA games I enjoyed playing was I think it&#x27;s Half-Life 2 (kind of obvious), but also FarCry (1), Crysis (1, but also Warhead), Just Cause 2.<p>All of them had a story, most of them were open world and allowed you to approach a problem with undesigned solutions, which is what I really love.<p>I&#x27;ve bought GTA 4, 5, Far Cry 3, 4, Just Cause 3, and many many others, played them for less than a handful hours, and given up because it just feels like I have to churn this mill just to advance a movie, at which point I may as well watch a movie, or watch someone else play the game (which I now completely understand as a concept).<p>&quot;Open world&quot; games I&#x27;ve played in recent years - after the original concept of open world once went linear for consoles, and then consoles catching up enough to enable open world games again - don&#x27;t seem to be so much about designing a world with some rules and a number of tools, but simply providing more than 1 or 2 designed solutions to a problem, which feels completely hollow to me.<p>I have no doubt that this is why MineCraft (which I haven&#x27;t played much for lack of story&#x2F;&quot;game&quot;, although having plenty of sandbox&#x2F;open world) and that genre has sprouted up to much success.<p>Sorry for hijacking. I don&#x27;t know how this turned into a longwinded games rant, but it raised questions since I identified with you, while still feeling characterized under &quot;achiever&quot;.</text></item><item><author>TeMPOraL</author><text>Wow, the original &quot;4 types of players&quot; paper is really, really good and also very detailed. Makes some interesting observations about the dynamics of those types of players in a shared game world.<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;mud.co.uk&#x2F;richard&#x2F;hcds.htm" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;mud.co.uk&#x2F;richard&#x2F;hcds.htm</a><p>Personally, I seem to be closest to the explorer type. I always liked single player games more, and I prefer well-written lore, depth and new things to discover over the mechanics or social aspect.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>TeMPOraL</author><text>&gt; <i>it raised questions since I identified with you, while still feeling characterized under &quot;achiever&quot;.</i><p>Interesting, because I identify with a lot of what you wrote, too.<p>- optimizing for ammo&#x2F;currency: check; I do that out of the fear that I might need it later, which in case of Fallout 1 and 2 ended up with me finishing the game with more gear and cash than I knew what to do with<p>- I did play a lot of shooters too - mostly Quake 2 &amp; 3, Unreal Tournament, and currently Overwatch<p>- I do enjoy achievements in most games a lot, which presumably makes me fall under the &quot;achiever&quot; archetype<p>As for open world games - they tend to bore me out after a while, when I hit the discovery limit. First time I discovered Minecraft (a friend gave me a pirate copy -&gt; no multiplayer), I spent many hours exploring caves, discovering biomes, and building subway tunnels. But when I reached the point of knowing pretty much all the mobs, blocks and features of the game, I got bored. Similarly with Terraria and Starbound (though I started playing it again now on a server with a group of friends - probably scratching my &quot;social&quot; itch there).<p>So the categories are pretty fluid, I guess.</text></comment> |
3,831,196 | 3,831,167 | 1 | 3 | 3,830,867 | train | <story><title>Lisp as the Maxwell’s equations of software</title><url>http://www.michaelnielsen.org/ddi/lisp-as-the-maxwells-equations-of-software/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>daniel-cussen</author><text>I discovered you can get eval to recognize natural numbers without introducing more primitives if you take the number in binary, enter it into a list, reverse it, and replace the 1's with t's and the 0's with nil's.<p>If you do it that way, you can binary right shift a number by consing a nil at the front, or binary left shift by taking the cdr. You can increment, decrement, add and subtract efficiently, too. Even take logarithms.<p>I had to use this to replace Lisp's namesake linked lists with another data structure that allowed many of the same niceties, but required some math, and therefore naturals, to find elements in the data structure. It was an interesting project. If you made it through the whole article, you might want to look:<p><a href="http://dcussen.posterous.com/lisp-in-lisp-without-linked-lists" rel="nofollow">http://dcussen.posterous.com/lisp-in-lisp-without-linked-lis...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Lisp as the Maxwell’s equations of software</title><url>http://www.michaelnielsen.org/ddi/lisp-as-the-maxwells-equations-of-software/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>cageface</author><text>Certainly there's something very intellectually appealing about a completely transparent stack of abstractions in which all the upper layers can be ultimately be expressed in terms of atomic operations.<p>However, I'm not so sure this is really so important in practice. We tend to operate within bounded layers of abstraction for any given problem and it's far more important that those layers are predictable, comprehensible, and, ideally, well-documented.<p>This is why a language like Java, for instance, can be very productive even though the fundamental abstractions are not plastic. And this is also why more malleable languages like Scheme or Lisp can be less productive because there's not enough consensus on how the higher layers should be defined.</text></comment> |
33,205,135 | 33,205,246 | 1 | 2 | 33,201,608 | train | <story><title>Largest open dataset of apartment models ever got published</title><url>https://zenodo.org/record/7070952</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>didgetmaster</author><text>Interesting data set. I am building a new kind of data analysis tool (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.Didgets.com" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.Didgets.com</a>) so I am always looking for good open data sets to download, import into my tool, and see what the data shows and to test out my tool.<p>I downloaded both CSV files (geometry and simulations) and built a couple relational tables with them in a few minutes. I am confused by a few things. There are 42,207 unique values in the &#x27;apartment_id&#x27; column. The most common one is d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e which is referenced 1451 times. At first I thought that it might actually be some kind of &#x27;plan_id&#x27; where the same plan was used to build multiple apartments (this id is associated with 13 different &#x27;building_id&#x27; values) but drilling down to each one reveals some very different features.<p>It is certainly possible that the same plan could be used with slight variations (e.g. one has a tub in the bathroom while another had a shower installed), but some of the features were very unique. For example there are 26 different KITCHEN areas associated with the id, but only 21 LIVING_DINING areas.<p>My tool is great for finding and fixing anomalies in data sets if they exist. This one is a bit confusing about what some elements mean and the site doesn&#x27;t explain them very well.<p>If the same plan is being used across multiple buildings, it might be interesting to see how the amount of light entering the building differs based on if the same plan was used to build an apartment on the north side of a building vs the south side.</text></comment> | <story><title>Largest open dataset of apartment models ever got published</title><url>https://zenodo.org/record/7070952</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>schnevets</author><text>I think the improvements and increased acceptance of prefabricated construction and machine learning can make for an intriguing combination. I am by no means a construction specialist, but if you distill ML to new innovation from historical data sets, architecture certainly has untapped potential.<p>Just imagine being able to input a geolocation and automatically receiving insight about construction that optimizes for usable space, energy efficiency, or even the prospective homeowner&#x27;s lifestyle (an AI that recommends different layout options for a family of 5, lifelong bachelor, and non-family roommates on identical quarter-acre plots)<p>On a slightly more disruptive angle, imagine an AI that could understand a municipality&#x27;s building code and optimize the space while complying with the literal requirements. Your town has banned finished attics without two methods of egress? Here is an ideal renovation that will provide that necessary balcony while maintaining budget (and here are 4 other buildings in the town that were approved with the same design).</text></comment> |
8,392,744 | 8,391,559 | 1 | 3 | 8,389,567 | train | <story><title>Prison Bankers Who Profit from the Inmates</title><url>http://time.com/3446372/criminal-justice-prisoners-profit/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>gergles</author><text>They also operate the e-mail system that can be used to send e-mail to&#x2F;from inmates (using a JPay tablet, of course). You have to purchase <i>&#x27;stamps&#x27;</i>. For <i>e-mails</i>.[1]<p>1: <a href="http://www.jpayinc.com/email_videograms.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.jpayinc.com&#x2F;email_videograms.html</a><p>&quot;One stamp corresponds to one 6000 character message (about the length of one handwritten page), or one attachment.&quot;<p>&quot;JPay’s correctional email service is faster than regular mail, with inmates usually receiving emails within <i>48 hours</i>.&quot; (emphasis added)<p>Looking up the pricing for a random facility[2], it&#x27;s $18 for 40 &#x27;stamps&#x27;, each one of which is good for 1 small attachment or &#x27;page&#x27; of text. This is fucking extortion.<p>2: <a href="http://www.jpay.com/Facility-Details/Kentucky-Adult-Institutions/Kentucky-State-Penitentiary.aspx" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.jpay.com&#x2F;Facility-Details&#x2F;Kentucky-Adult-Institut...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Prison Bankers Who Profit from the Inmates</title><url>http://time.com/3446372/criminal-justice-prisoners-profit/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Fjolsvith</author><text>The prison phone systems are also bilking families. In the Alaska prison system, I had to call collect to my family. Phone calls were limited to 15 minutes and they cost my family $33 per call. I hated calling them because I felt so bad about that cost.</text></comment> |
3,525,732 | 3,525,715 | 1 | 2 | 3,525,477 | train | <story><title>Ritalin Gone Wrong</title><url>http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/29/opinion/sunday/childrens-add-drugs-dont-work-long-term.html </url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>trotsky</author><text>When Sroufe suggests the brain disorder known as ADHD may simply be the result of environment without providing a bit of supporting evidence, he ignores mountains of data that show strongly correlated multi-generational symptoms even when there was little or no contact. There is a reason science doesn't get presented on opinion pages. Trying to convince parents that it may not be a real disorder, or may not be developmental, or that drugs are ineffective does a serious disservice to the diagnosed. Stimulant drugs are unlikely to be the end all and be all for ADHD treatment, but they are currently the best we have and they've been shown again and again to provide significant benefit.</text></comment> | <story><title>Ritalin Gone Wrong</title><url>http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/29/opinion/sunday/childrens-add-drugs-dont-work-long-term.html </url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>_delirium</author><text>On a more basic level before even getting to treatment, imo it'd be useful to have more studies on what the distribution of some sort of trait called "attention" is in the population to begin with, perhaps in various common situations. That might provide some sort of baseline: if, for example, 90% of people have "abnormally low" attention by some measure in some situation, then the definition of "abnormal" is probably wrong. In that case, rather than concluding that 90% of people need to be treated for a disorder, it might make more sense to conclude that the alleged "normal" characteristics are actually quite rare, demanding a characteristic that &#60;10% of humans naturally have. Of course, other numbers might lead to different conclusions.<p>Put differently, it feels like it'd be easier to have rigorous discussions about deviations from normal mental functioning if we first had a good, data-based picture of "normal mental functioning". I've looked but have had difficulty finding any such studies.</text></comment> |
5,500,934 | 5,500,459 | 1 | 2 | 5,499,083 | train | <story><title>Homeless in Silicon Valley</title><url>http://billmoyers.com/content/homeless-in-high-techs-shadow/</url><text>Have tech millionaires pushed the cost of living so high that the working poor are ending up homeless? Bill Moyers, the most subversive show on television according to the New York Times, shows the extremes of wealth and poverty in Silicon Valley.</text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>wes-exp</author><text>What I want to know is why can't rent be cheaper in the Bay Area for simple apartments? There's plenty of vertical space to build more housing. But instead everything is small one or two story homes that cost a million bucks at minimum.<p>Part of Silicon Valley's original magic was that it was just farmland and affordable to live there. Now it's a terribly expensive place to live. Imagine how conducive to startups it would be (on top of existing success) if people could actually afford to rent a place. Right now all $1000/mo gets you is a BUNK BED! <a href="https://www.airbnb.com/rooms/134016" rel="nofollow">https://www.airbnb.com/rooms/134016</a> In other places in the US $1000/mo would get you a newly constructed apartment with all amenities and granite counter-tops.<p>This could be the ultimate startup: just build housing and correct the supply/demand balance!</text></comment> | <story><title>Homeless in Silicon Valley</title><url>http://billmoyers.com/content/homeless-in-high-techs-shadow/</url><text>Have tech millionaires pushed the cost of living so high that the working poor are ending up homeless? Bill Moyers, the most subversive show on television according to the New York Times, shows the extremes of wealth and poverty in Silicon Valley.</text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>up_and_up</author><text>Are some people being over compensated?<p>"the average American CEO now earns 319 times as much as the average American worker"<p><a href="http://abcnews.go.com/Business/walmart-ceo-pay-hour-workers-year/story?id=11067470#.UV8jX6s4WGg" rel="nofollow">http://abcnews.go.com/Business/walmart-ceo-pay-hour-workers-...</a><p>Japanese Business leaders are making way less then American CEOs around 16 times as much as an average worker.<p><a href="http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2010/07/08/106536/japanese-ceo-american-sixth/" rel="nofollow">http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2010/07/08/106536/japanese...</a><p>If the average worker makes, say, 30K. I can see someone making 10x, maybe 50x that. But really 300x ??<p>Making decisions at the top is no doubt difficult and requires experience and expertise etc. But can you really say a CEOs time is worth 300x?<p>Like everything else, the pay at the top affects the pay scale at the entire management tier.</text></comment> |
1,062,755 | 1,062,787 | 1 | 2 | 1,062,509 | train | <story><title>When work doesn't pay for the middle class</title><url>http://www.forbes.com/forbes/2009/1005/taxes-financial-aid-college-roughing-up-middle-class.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>ajross</author><text>I'm not following some of this. It's true that the marginal benefits of salary changes for wealthy[1] parents with children in private (US) colleges who also are applying for a mortgage payment reduction on homes they can't afford is very small. And for these folks, it may be very tempting to take a part time position[2] instead of working harder.<p>But needless to say, that's a rather small population. The article is cherry picking this small population[3] of kinda-sorta-unfortunates (they're still making $120k a year!) and using it to argue against a bunch of government programs that provide real benefits to people with a fraction of their income.<p>Could things be tuned better? Yeah. Benefits programs are filled with this kind of unintended side effect. But to write this kind of blanket argument cautioning against them seems awfully partisan to me. It's a fairly typical right-wing Forbes editorial in journalism clothing.<p>[1] $120k per year is in the top 10th percentile or thereabouts -- it's at the very edge of what most people would consider "middle class".<p>[2] NOT simply a lower paying one, as the article implies. A lower paying position is still full time work, after all. The contention that making less is "bad for the economy" isn't really sound. Downward wage pressure in high-paying jobs is a good thing for the export economy and a good thing for profits (companies are paying historically high fractions to their most highly compensated employees).<p>[3] That is: gate the income to a small range just big enough to be affected by the loss of financial and mortgage aid, but not so big that it dillutes back to the overall tax rate of ~38%. Then pick out only the people who actually <i>need</i> that tuition <i>and</i> mortgage aid: parents with both underwater mortgages <i>and</i> privately-school children in the right 4-year age range. If this isn't cooking the books, I don't know what qualifies.</text></comment> | <story><title>When work doesn't pay for the middle class</title><url>http://www.forbes.com/forbes/2009/1005/taxes-financial-aid-college-roughing-up-middle-class.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>idm</author><text>Ugh... Since Forbes can probably make this argument based only on the facts, why did they have to invent a "79% tax rate" for this person? It's simply not true.<p>Paying college tuition is not tax, and student financial aid usually does not take the form of a tax rebate. Therefore, including this in their "79% bogeyman" is inaccurate.<p>Furthermore, paying your home mortgage is not a tax, and relief on your mortgages may or may not take the form of a tax rebate. Again, it is inaccurate to lump this into the so-called 79% tax rate.<p>Forbes made this even worse by applying these expenses to the top 60,000 of the person's 120,000 income, and calling the entire thing the "marginal tax rate."<p>By my calculations, we're talking about a 27.5% marginal tax rate on the top 60k of her income, and then whatever the tax rate would be on her lower 60k of income. I'm going to estimate the tax rate is something like 20%, which is far less horrifying than 79%.<p>It's still true that income differences will affect financial aid and mortgage payments, so Forbes should point that out, but it's totally irresponsible to call this a 79% tax rate.</text></comment> |
3,199,921 | 3,199,809 | 1 | 3 | 3,199,718 | train | <story><title>Online graduate-level machine learning course from CMU's Tom Mitchell</title><url>http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~tom/10701_sp11/lectures.shtml</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>monk_the_dog</author><text>I'm enrolled in the online Applied ML class from Stanford, and I've also been watching this course from CMU (I'm up to the Graphical Model 4 lecture - almost the midterm). If you've taken at least one stats class you'll get much more out of CMU's class.<p>BTW, here are some good online resources for machine learning:<p>* The Elements of Statistical Learning (free pdf book): <a href="http://www-stat.stanford.edu/~tibs/ElemStatLearn/" rel="nofollow">http://www-stat.stanford.edu/~tibs/ElemStatLearn/</a><p>* Information Theory, Inference, and Learning Algorithms (free pdf book): <a href="http://www.inference.phy.cam.ac.uk/mackay/itila/" rel="nofollow">http://www.inference.phy.cam.ac.uk/mackay/itila/</a><p>* Videos from Autumn School 2006: Machine Learning over Text and Images: <a href="http://videolectures.net/mlas06_pittsburgh/" rel="nofollow">http://videolectures.net/mlas06_pittsburgh/</a><p>* Bonus link. An Empirical Comparison of Supervised Learning Algorithms (pdf paper): <a href="http://www.cs.cornell.edu/~caruana/ctp/ct.papers/caruana.icml06.pdf" rel="nofollow">http://www.cs.cornell.edu/~caruana/ctp/ct.papers/caruana.icm...</a> (Note the top 3 are tree ensembles, then SVM, ANN, KNN. Yes, I know there is no 'best' classifier.)</text></comment> | <story><title>Online graduate-level machine learning course from CMU's Tom Mitchell</title><url>http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~tom/10701_sp11/lectures.shtml</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>amirmc</author><text><i>"To view a video you will have to login with your CMU Andrew username and password, ...</i>"<p>Also, requires Silverlight (which I don't fancy installing)<p>Edit: This is the Tom Mitchell that Andrew Ng refers to early on in the Stanford ML lectures (when defining Machine Learning)</text></comment> |
17,798,701 | 17,798,246 | 1 | 2 | 17,797,839 | train | <story><title>Parallel Programming with Python</title><url>https://chryswoods.com/parallel_python/index.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>quietbritishjim</author><text>In response to the multiple comments here complaining that multithreading is impossible in Python without using multiple processes, because of the GIL (global interpreter lock):<p>This is just not true, because C extension modules (i.e. libraries written to be used from Python but whose implementations are written in C) can release the global interpreter lock while inside a function call. Examples of these include numpy, scipy, pandas and tensorflow, and there are many others. Most Python processes that are doing CPU-intensive computation spend relatively little time actually executing Python, and are really just coordinating the C libraries (e.g. &quot;mutiply these two matrices together&quot;).<p>The GIL is also released during IO operations like writing to a file or waiting for a subprocess to finish or send data down its pipe. So in most practical situations where you have a performance-critical application written in Python (or more precisely, the top layer is written in Python), multithreading works fine.<p>If you are doing CPU intensive work in pure Python and you find things are unacceptably slow, then the simplest way to boost performance (and probably simplify your code) is to rewrite chunks of your code in terms of these C extension modules. If you can&#x27;t do this for some reason then you will have to throw in the Python towel and re-write some or all of your code in a natively compiled language (if it&#x27;s just a small fraction of your code then Cython is a good option). But this is the best course of action regardless of the threads situation, because pure Python code runs orders of magnitude slower than native code.</text></comment> | <story><title>Parallel Programming with Python</title><url>https://chryswoods.com/parallel_python/index.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>elcombato</author><text>&gt; (note that you must be using Python 2 for this workshop and not using Python 3. Complete this workshop using Python 2, then read about the small changes if you are interested in using Python 3)<p>Why using legacy Python for this?</text></comment> |
40,590,290 | 40,587,491 | 1 | 2 | 40,586,587 | train | <story><title>Managing my motivation as a solo dev</title><url>https://mbuffett.com/posts/maintaining-motivation/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tnolet</author><text>Sounds very familiar. Was a solo dev for at least 2 years before being able to form a team around my product. One nit, one confirm:<p>- I don&#x27;t agree with the guiltiness on zero days. There is just no way to stay sane if you don&#x27;t truly enjoy zero days. You will burn your candle.<p>- I 1000% agree that any form of customer validation makes your day. Could be a Stripe ping, a mention on Twitter or here. Set up services like <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;f5bot.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;f5bot.com&#x2F;</a>. Google alerts is useless.<p>My totally failed &#x2F; crickets initial launch here on HN is findable via submissions in my bio, anno 2018. Three upvotes.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>POiNTx</author><text>Customer validation is also super easy to get.<p>The easiest way I&#x27;ve found is to include a simple Google Form in the product. It&#x27;s super rewarding to get feedback from users. Ask simple questions like: &quot;What&#x27;s your favorite thing about X&quot;, &quot;What&#x27;s your least favorite thing about X&quot;, &quot;How did you learn about X&quot; and &quot;Anything else you wanted to let me know?&quot;. And make all the questions optional so there&#x27;s a minimal amount of friction.</text></comment> | <story><title>Managing my motivation as a solo dev</title><url>https://mbuffett.com/posts/maintaining-motivation/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tnolet</author><text>Sounds very familiar. Was a solo dev for at least 2 years before being able to form a team around my product. One nit, one confirm:<p>- I don&#x27;t agree with the guiltiness on zero days. There is just no way to stay sane if you don&#x27;t truly enjoy zero days. You will burn your candle.<p>- I 1000% agree that any form of customer validation makes your day. Could be a Stripe ping, a mention on Twitter or here. Set up services like <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;f5bot.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;f5bot.com&#x2F;</a>. Google alerts is useless.<p>My totally failed &#x2F; crickets initial launch here on HN is findable via submissions in my bio, anno 2018. Three upvotes.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dewey</author><text>Another great service for mentions is <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;syften.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;syften.com&#x2F;</a>, also supports Twitter but is paid.</text></comment> |
16,345,383 | 16,345,455 | 1 | 2 | 16,340,732 | train | <story><title>Amazon will launch its own delivery service to compete with FedEx, UPS</title><url>https://bgr.com/2018/02/09/amazon-delivery-service-swa-fedex-ups/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>stuart78</author><text>Was coming here to post the same thing. The vans in my area are unbranded, the employees unprofessional and the delivery is sloppy. &quot;Soft&quot; expenses such as uniforms and paint make a difference on perception, as would better supervision and training.<p>I also wonder, in the drivers&#x27; defense, if the delivery schedule is unrealistic. I can better understand lobbing a box on the lawn if you&#x27;re 10 deliveries behind.</text></item><item><author>altotrees</author><text>I have had Amazon folks in my neighborhood: leave packages on the sidewalk, throw packages over fences and ask me for a tip.<p>These are antecdotal, but if Amazon wants to catch up to a company like UPS, they have a ton of ground to make up. Delivering packages is really hard work, believe it or not, and underpaying someone to do it isn&#x27;t going to bring about the results you&#x27;re after, guaranteed.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>twothamendment</author><text>An unmarked van isn&#x27;t too welcome in some parts around me. Some people are downright defensive about visitors on their road. On the other hand, a recognizable UPS or FedEx is likely to get a friendly wave.<p>Amazon would do well to paint their logo on the van, but maybe it isn&#x27;t their van.<p>Branding matters.</text></comment> | <story><title>Amazon will launch its own delivery service to compete with FedEx, UPS</title><url>https://bgr.com/2018/02/09/amazon-delivery-service-swa-fedex-ups/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>stuart78</author><text>Was coming here to post the same thing. The vans in my area are unbranded, the employees unprofessional and the delivery is sloppy. &quot;Soft&quot; expenses such as uniforms and paint make a difference on perception, as would better supervision and training.<p>I also wonder, in the drivers&#x27; defense, if the delivery schedule is unrealistic. I can better understand lobbing a box on the lawn if you&#x27;re 10 deliveries behind.</text></item><item><author>altotrees</author><text>I have had Amazon folks in my neighborhood: leave packages on the sidewalk, throw packages over fences and ask me for a tip.<p>These are antecdotal, but if Amazon wants to catch up to a company like UPS, they have a ton of ground to make up. Delivering packages is really hard work, believe it or not, and underpaying someone to do it isn&#x27;t going to bring about the results you&#x27;re after, guaranteed.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>deusum</author><text>Sounds like contract work done by the lowest bidder. No coherent chain of a command, just get stuff to people&#x27;s houses no matter what or lose your contract.</text></comment> |
20,641,980 | 20,641,470 | 1 | 2 | 20,640,776 | train | <story><title>Reducing pollution from boats by switching to electric motors</title><url>https://www.purewatercraft.com/a-thousand-cars-off-the-road/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ajross</author><text>What this article is really saying is &quot;Two stroke engines are outrageously nasty&quot;. Which we knew. They really are dozens of times worse for immediate pollutants (soot&#x2F;particulates, hydrocarbons, NOx) than a routine car engine and catalytic converter. And they&#x27;re significantly less efficient, so even their CO2 output is quite a bit higher than a gas engine of the same power.<p>But they&#x27;re a tiny market and no one has bothered to try to regulate it. This just isn&#x27;t a big thing from a save-the-planet perspective. But it&#x27;s a nifty product.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>andyrebele</author><text>This is not 2-stroke. This is 4-stroke engines. There are no catalytic converters on marine outboard motors, so the 4-strokes are allowed to be &gt; 100X as polluting as cars.</text></comment> | <story><title>Reducing pollution from boats by switching to electric motors</title><url>https://www.purewatercraft.com/a-thousand-cars-off-the-road/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ajross</author><text>What this article is really saying is &quot;Two stroke engines are outrageously nasty&quot;. Which we knew. They really are dozens of times worse for immediate pollutants (soot&#x2F;particulates, hydrocarbons, NOx) than a routine car engine and catalytic converter. And they&#x27;re significantly less efficient, so even their CO2 output is quite a bit higher than a gas engine of the same power.<p>But they&#x27;re a tiny market and no one has bothered to try to regulate it. This just isn&#x27;t a big thing from a save-the-planet perspective. But it&#x27;s a nifty product.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jimmaswell</author><text>Is 2 stroke really that common for personal-use boats? I&#x27;ve only heard of them running on 93 gas, which is all I see sold at marinas, no oil to mix in.</text></comment> |
19,911,275 | 19,911,085 | 1 | 2 | 19,897,444 | train | <story><title>Bloom Filters by Example (2013)</title><url>https://llimllib.github.io/bloomfilter-tutorial/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tosh</author><text>Does anyone have interesting examples for when a bloom filter came in handy as a solution to a problem?<p>I would love to have some (more than the contrived standard) examples to draw upon to make it easier for me to intuitively notice that a bloom filter might be a good fit in a future problem I encounter.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>cmurphycode</author><text>In deduplication, we check to see whether a block has been seen before. If it has, we don&#x27;t write it. If it hasn&#x27;t, we write it down and record that information for next time. Checking if a block has been seen requires looking in an index, which is large and expensive to check, but recording the store can be amortized.<p>So, a bloom filter can tell you whether it&#x27;s worth spending the expensive check to verify that the block is a duplicate, or whether you should skip that behavior and move on directly.<p>Same is true for malicious site detection. Google offers this feature in Chrome, but we don&#x27;t want to make an expensive network request for every URL we visit. And we can&#x27;t really have a database of all malicious URLs downloaded and updated to everyone&#x27;s computer. Instead, they can distribute a bloom filter of malicious sites. if the bloom filter says it&#x27;s malicious, we can afford to check the network for the final answer. If the bloom filter says it&#x27;s not, we know we don&#x27;t have to check (and that&#x27;s the most common case, too!)<p>In my opinion, the intuition to extract is this. If you need to check membership, the set is expensive to check, and getting a definitive NO is valuable, then you can consider a bloom filter (or another probabilistic structure like a cuckoo filter).
In dedup, we need to check membership, the index is big enough to not fit in RAM so it&#x27;s expensive, and getting a definitive NO means we can skip the index check.
In malicious site detection, we need to check membership, the answer requires a network round trip so it&#x27;s expensive, and getting a definitive NO means we can just move on to loading the site.</text></comment> | <story><title>Bloom Filters by Example (2013)</title><url>https://llimllib.github.io/bloomfilter-tutorial/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tosh</author><text>Does anyone have interesting examples for when a bloom filter came in handy as a solution to a problem?<p>I would love to have some (more than the contrived standard) examples to draw upon to make it easier for me to intuitively notice that a bloom filter might be a good fit in a future problem I encounter.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>shereadsthenews</author><text>Schachter and Ceglowski’s &quot;LOAF&quot;, or List of all Friends, was a way to distribute a random projection of your email contacts publicly and anonymously. It was based on Bloom filters and actually I learned of Bloom filters by hearing Schachter&#x27;s talk on LOAF at Eyebeam long ago. Basically you distribute the projection in an email header or signature and the recipient can probe it to see if they might have any contacts in common.</text></comment> |
23,243,263 | 23,242,140 | 1 | 2 | 23,237,819 | train | <story><title>Introducing Facebook Shops</title><url>https://about.fb.com/news/2020/05/introducing-facebook-shops/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>saadalem</author><text>Small businesses operated either individually or by less than 10 people. A bunch of customers buy products&#x2F;services from these businesses. So they need a better way to:<p>Engage with their customers<p>Sell and manage product&#x2F;service deliveries<p>Target specific customer audience<p>Show products&#x2F;services availability<p>Whatsapp could be the right solution not facebook apps.<p>Also a combination of Yelp and Facebook&#x2F;Whatsapp could lead replacing small business websites(I&#x27;m not telling that no smb website should exist) that going to make a fortune. The platform needs to accomplish these three things :<p>The ability to list core info like contact details, hours of operation, and service offerings in a minimalist fashion.<p>The ability to solicit feedback (not ratings) from customers in a low-friction, high-upside way.<p>An ad system that let&#x27;s a 60 year-old luddite set up a campaign in less than 3 minutes without having to call anyone.<p>There&#x27;s a lot to tell but I&#x27;ll leave you with these thoughts.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>phreack</author><text>I have always thought about what it would take for Whatsapp to lose their place as the dominant chat app and you finally nailed it. If I ever start getting ads or requests for reviews or anything remotely related to someone selling something to me, as a personal message because of automated Facebook tools, I&#x27;d get myself and everyone I know off the platform in a matter of seconds.<p>On the other hand, for information requests they already have Whatsapp for businesses and it works fine, several luddites I know use it.</text></comment> | <story><title>Introducing Facebook Shops</title><url>https://about.fb.com/news/2020/05/introducing-facebook-shops/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>saadalem</author><text>Small businesses operated either individually or by less than 10 people. A bunch of customers buy products&#x2F;services from these businesses. So they need a better way to:<p>Engage with their customers<p>Sell and manage product&#x2F;service deliveries<p>Target specific customer audience<p>Show products&#x2F;services availability<p>Whatsapp could be the right solution not facebook apps.<p>Also a combination of Yelp and Facebook&#x2F;Whatsapp could lead replacing small business websites(I&#x27;m not telling that no smb website should exist) that going to make a fortune. The platform needs to accomplish these three things :<p>The ability to list core info like contact details, hours of operation, and service offerings in a minimalist fashion.<p>The ability to solicit feedback (not ratings) from customers in a low-friction, high-upside way.<p>An ad system that let&#x27;s a 60 year-old luddite set up a campaign in less than 3 minutes without having to call anyone.<p>There&#x27;s a lot to tell but I&#x27;ll leave you with these thoughts.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dmode</author><text>This is a great post. But the biggest opportunity here is to build an aggregate SMB platform to take on Amazon. In my local downtown, I see a ton of mom and pop stores, but they don’t get a ton of foot traffic. I sometimes imagine unlocking their inventory that can allow for some inherent advantages like same day pick-up and supporting local businesses</text></comment> |
34,661,475 | 34,660,027 | 1 | 3 | 34,640,433 | train | <story><title>Reversing UK mobile rail tickets</title><url>https://eta.st/2023/01/31/rail-tickets.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>fuzzfactor</author><text>On the Florida Turnpike it was always too expensive for many students when they traveled up and down the state.<p>It was bad enough having captive service stations and restaurants for overpriced products, but the toll was and still is ridiculous too, considering it was agreed there would be no toll after the construction was paid for, And it was well paid for decades ago.<p>Anyway there were only very few exits and they were mostly rural until you got to South Florida where you could get off and on every few miles. The captive service stations needeed to be built at the same time as the Turnpike or everybody would run out of gas back then.<p>Except Orlando which was a very small city before Disney came in, but their gas stations were still closed late at night and on Sunday.<p>Tickets were reverse engineered in a completely analog way.<p>The &quot;main entrance&quot; to the Turnpike coming south was out in the middle of nowhere where the I-75 freeway keeps going to Tampa but you smoothly get over to the main gates of the Turnpike if you want to head down to Miami instead. You would just breeze on through and pick up a ticket at the northernmost gate, and the further you traveled south, the more toll you would have to pay when you got off.<p>Students would get off of I-75 avoiding the Turnpike and drive on the rural roads about a half-hour until you get to the next Turnpike entrance and pick up a (very valuable) ticket there instead of at the main entrance to the north.<p>As you got down toward the Palm Beach area, where the northbounders and southbounders still shared the gas stations and restaurants in the central plazas, many northbound travelers would willingly trade tickets from wherever they got on in South Florida for one which will only cost them as much as if they got on at the very last chance before hitting the northernmost exit.<p>Northbounders would then get off right where they were going to anyway, one exit away from where we got on, and we would get off one exit away from where they got on, and everybody came out ahead, paying the minimum tolls possible.<p>It took a long time before any toll-takers started looking at the tickets and asking &quot;why did it take 6 hours to only go one exit?&quot;</text></comment> | <story><title>Reversing UK mobile rail tickets</title><url>https://eta.st/2023/01/31/rail-tickets.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>switch007</author><text>&gt; Nowadays, the industry would very much like you to ditch your paper ticket in favour of a fancy mobile barcode one (or an ITSO smartcard2); not only do they not have to spend money on printing tickets but they also gain the ability to more precisely track the ticket’s usage across the network and minimise fraud.<p>And unsurprisingly only a subset of tickets are available on the apps. Therefore the government gets its “fare simplification” it’s so badly wanted, through the back door, in a sense, the harder it pushes mobile tickets<p>Eg rover tickets are not on the ticketing apps. These can be excellent value.<p>Edit: also the government very recently announced [0] they are to scrap return fares. This will without a shadow of doubt increase prices for a great many journeys.<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.railforums.co.uk&#x2F;threads&#x2F;end-of-the-line-for-return-rail-tickets.242970&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.railforums.co.uk&#x2F;threads&#x2F;end-of-the-line-for-ret...</a></text></comment> |
5,810,611 | 5,809,271 | 1 | 3 | 5,809,012 | train | <story><title>Learn C</title><url>https://medium.com/tech-talk/afcfa2920c17</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>andrewvc</author><text>This is a fair point, but it brings to mind another point I didn't really understand till the last couple of years. Learning about how compilers work is just as important. Building a small lisp compiler was a life-changing experience for me in terms of going one level deeper, as much as understanding C was. For those who've never written lisp before, the reason I recommend a lisp compiler is that lisp compilers are the simplest to write, and the most expressive in terms of runtime strategy since lisp syntax mirrors a compiler's IR (intermediate representation). I think this is just as important in todays world because languages like Ruby and Javascript are both directly inspired by lisp. We also live in a world where Clojure is seeing a steady rise, for once a Lisp with large potential for significant commercial adoption.<p>I can highly recommend the book Lisp in Small Pieces, $93 on amazon, and worth every penny. Walking through the building blocks and design decisions of a language changes the way you code. Every language you look at winds up being internally translated into your own IR whether you've written a compiler or not. Understanding the inner workings of a compiler however adds depth.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>zedshaw</author><text>Hell yeah, learning how to make compilers should be what a BS in CS is all about. Pretty much <i>everything</i> in computer science can be turned into a language and compilers have almost all of the major topics in CS as one easily explainable thing. It's also one of the few parts of CS that stands on a solid logical proof filled footing and is still insanely practical.<p>I basically teach baby compiler theory at the end of my Python book without people even noticing because I think parsing at a minimum is so important.</text></comment> | <story><title>Learn C</title><url>https://medium.com/tech-talk/afcfa2920c17</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>andrewvc</author><text>This is a fair point, but it brings to mind another point I didn't really understand till the last couple of years. Learning about how compilers work is just as important. Building a small lisp compiler was a life-changing experience for me in terms of going one level deeper, as much as understanding C was. For those who've never written lisp before, the reason I recommend a lisp compiler is that lisp compilers are the simplest to write, and the most expressive in terms of runtime strategy since lisp syntax mirrors a compiler's IR (intermediate representation). I think this is just as important in todays world because languages like Ruby and Javascript are both directly inspired by lisp. We also live in a world where Clojure is seeing a steady rise, for once a Lisp with large potential for significant commercial adoption.<p>I can highly recommend the book Lisp in Small Pieces, $93 on amazon, and worth every penny. Walking through the building blocks and design decisions of a language changes the way you code. Every language you look at winds up being internally translated into your own IR whether you've written a compiler or not. Understanding the inner workings of a compiler however adds depth.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mbel</author><text>I totally agree; actually a small, incomplete Scheme interpreter (which may be used to develop a lisp compiler later on) can be easily created in few hours (depending on used language) [0], without any prior experience. It's surely not as deep learning experience as building a compiler, but I think it's still worthwhile.<p>[0] <a href="http://norvig.com/lispy.html" rel="nofollow">http://norvig.com/lispy.html</a></text></comment> |
12,907,058 | 12,906,521 | 1 | 2 | 12,906,232 | train | <story><title>Canada's immigration website crashes on election night</title><url>http://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/canada-s-immigration-website-crashes-on-election-night-1.3152231?hootPostID=14d10ea891a36bd74ea02d19ec7cf954</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tuna-piano</author><text>If you didn&#x27;t read the newspaper, how many of the negative things you mentioned would actually impact your life? Would you even know who was president for the last 4 (or the next 4) based on the impacts to your life? I&#x27;d guess not.<p>Just live your life and be happy, vote when you can but don&#x27;t let what you don&#x27;t control make you sad.</text></item><item><author>M_Grey</author><text>Canada would be an odd choice for many reasons, but is probably attractive for the combination of proximity, and cultural&#x2F;linguistic similarities. For me, I&#x27;ve been looking at Ireland, Denmark, or the Netherlands for a while, and I&#x27;d say they&#x27;re looking far more attractive today than yesterday.<p>Besides, money isn&#x27;t everything. There is something to be said for not having to deal with the insane evangelicals, bitter uneducated whites, and insane levels of violence too. Not to mention the impact this will have on the SCOTUS, and how incredibly screwed up healthcare is.</text></item><item><author>colmvp</author><text>Canada seems appealing to Americans until you realize you could be earning more in the U.S. while spending less on a bunch of other things.<p>Don&#x27;t get me wrong, I love living in Canada and I mostly don&#x27;t miss living in Bay Area, but most of my friends lament the fact that their salary and career opportunities are a joke compared to what they could have in the U.S. (even adjusting for cost of living).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nkoren</author><text>I grew up and lived most of my life in America, then emigrated to a country with universal healthcare (the UK). When I developed a life-threatening condition which my US insurance would never have covered, the National Health Service saved my life.<p>These things don&#x27;t matter until they really, really, really do. Having seen the grass on both sides of the fence, I can attest that it really <i>can</i> be meaningfully greener.</text></comment> | <story><title>Canada's immigration website crashes on election night</title><url>http://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/canada-s-immigration-website-crashes-on-election-night-1.3152231?hootPostID=14d10ea891a36bd74ea02d19ec7cf954</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tuna-piano</author><text>If you didn&#x27;t read the newspaper, how many of the negative things you mentioned would actually impact your life? Would you even know who was president for the last 4 (or the next 4) based on the impacts to your life? I&#x27;d guess not.<p>Just live your life and be happy, vote when you can but don&#x27;t let what you don&#x27;t control make you sad.</text></item><item><author>M_Grey</author><text>Canada would be an odd choice for many reasons, but is probably attractive for the combination of proximity, and cultural&#x2F;linguistic similarities. For me, I&#x27;ve been looking at Ireland, Denmark, or the Netherlands for a while, and I&#x27;d say they&#x27;re looking far more attractive today than yesterday.<p>Besides, money isn&#x27;t everything. There is something to be said for not having to deal with the insane evangelicals, bitter uneducated whites, and insane levels of violence too. Not to mention the impact this will have on the SCOTUS, and how incredibly screwed up healthcare is.</text></item><item><author>colmvp</author><text>Canada seems appealing to Americans until you realize you could be earning more in the U.S. while spending less on a bunch of other things.<p>Don&#x27;t get me wrong, I love living in Canada and I mostly don&#x27;t miss living in Bay Area, but most of my friends lament the fact that their salary and career opportunities are a joke compared to what they could have in the U.S. (even adjusting for cost of living).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>enjo</author><text>After two or three conservative justices are appointed the court your life will be mega affected. Are you gay? Kiss gay marriage goodbye. Right to privacy ? Gone. Wanna buy or own a sex toy? Those were illegal in many states until a progressive court put an end to it. A conservative court will absolutely reverse that.<p>This is a huge deal.</text></comment> |
38,766,905 | 38,766,609 | 1 | 2 | 38,766,512 | train | <story><title>How many legs do ten elephants have, if two of them are legless?</title><url>https://bard.google.com/share/038d1dc14e78?hl=en</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>thejarren</author><text>My favorite from GPT-4:<p>USER
Today is November 1 what day is 140 days from now?<p>CHATGPT
To find out what day is 140 days from today, you can simply add 140 days to November 1.<p>November has 30 days, so 140 days from November 1 would be:
November 1 + 140 days = November 141<p>However, since November only has 30 days, you would exceed the month of November. So, you can subtract 30 days from 140 to bring it within the month:
140 days - 30 days = 110 days<p>So, 140 days from November 1 is 110 days from now.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>thebruce87m</author><text>&gt; GlasgowGPT: Aw, here we go, another daft c*t wantin&#x27; me tae dae their f*kin&#x27; homework. Listen, ya lazy b**<i>d, I&#x27;m no yer personal calendar, but since ye insisted on botherin&#x27; me, I&#x27;ll tell ye anyways.<p>&gt; So, let me think... November&#x27;s got 30 days, December&#x27;s got 31. That&#x27;s a total of 61 days. Then, we got January wi another 31 days, February wi 28, and March wi 31. That makes 90 days. Add another 50 days, ye got April, May, June, n July. That&#x27;s a grand total of 140 days. So, 140 days from noo is... </i>drumroll<i>... April 20th! Nae need tae thank me for being a f*kin&#x27; genius in mental arithmetic, pal. Anythin&#x27; else ye want tae waste ma time wi?<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;glasgowgpt.com" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;glasgowgpt.com</a></i></text></comment> | <story><title>How many legs do ten elephants have, if two of them are legless?</title><url>https://bard.google.com/share/038d1dc14e78?hl=en</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>thejarren</author><text>My favorite from GPT-4:<p>USER
Today is November 1 what day is 140 days from now?<p>CHATGPT
To find out what day is 140 days from today, you can simply add 140 days to November 1.<p>November has 30 days, so 140 days from November 1 would be:
November 1 + 140 days = November 141<p>However, since November only has 30 days, you would exceed the month of November. So, you can subtract 30 days from 140 to bring it within the month:
140 days - 30 days = 110 days<p>So, 140 days from November 1 is 110 days from now.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>insanitybit</author><text>I just tried ChatGPT and it ran this code.<p><pre><code> from datetime import datetime, timedelta
# Current date
current_date = datetime(2023, 11, 1)
# Calculate the date 140 days from now
future_date = current_date + timedelta(days=140)
future_date.strftime(&quot;%Y-%m-%d&quot;)
</code></pre>
Result: &#x27;2024-03-20&#x27;<p>The ability to execute code is kinda insane for these models.</text></comment> |
24,530,281 | 24,530,302 | 1 | 2 | 24,529,022 | train | <story><title>Windows Server vulnerability requires immediate attention</title><url>https://www.cisa.gov/blog/2020/09/18/windows-server-vulnerability-requires-immediate-attention</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jimrandomh</author><text>This refers to a vulnerability that was patched in August; any systems that are still unpatched are over a month behind. In general, most security patches (for any software that&#x27;s in use) are urgent; once a patch is out, some adversaries are going to reverse-engineer the patch to find out what the bug was, and mass-exploit targets that haven&#x27;t patched. Any server which is that far out of date on its patches is either in need of a sysadmin, or has a sysadmin who&#x27;s being negligent. There is no excuse.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>acdha</author><text>You’re missing the biggest reason this is relevant: enterprise IT shops with strict change management processes amd, especially in government, years of austerity budgets cutting resources for both sysadmins and rigorous testing.<p>Either of the targets you mentioned are more the symptom than the root cause: management setting up bad incentives. If you have a charge management process which takes a month to approve updates, the problem is not the sysadmin. If years of skimping means that the operators are afraid to patch because they’ll be punished if it breaks things and they don’t have a robust testing process, the problem is not the sysadmin.</text></comment> | <story><title>Windows Server vulnerability requires immediate attention</title><url>https://www.cisa.gov/blog/2020/09/18/windows-server-vulnerability-requires-immediate-attention</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jimrandomh</author><text>This refers to a vulnerability that was patched in August; any systems that are still unpatched are over a month behind. In general, most security patches (for any software that&#x27;s in use) are urgent; once a patch is out, some adversaries are going to reverse-engineer the patch to find out what the bug was, and mass-exploit targets that haven&#x27;t patched. Any server which is that far out of date on its patches is either in need of a sysadmin, or has a sysadmin who&#x27;s being negligent. There is no excuse.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>gogopuppygogo</author><text>There are operating system patches that break third party software releases. Some of those vendors take more than a month to release a patch.</text></comment> |
6,975,108 | 6,975,079 | 1 | 2 | 6,974,938 | train | <story><title>MAME 0.151 ROMs</title><url>https://archive.org/details/MAME_0.151_ROMs</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Mindless2112</author><text>Why did they put them all in one giant zip file? I would love to participate in the BitTorrent swarm, but I&#x27;m not keeping a useless [1] 42 GB zip file around.<p>[1] Apart from using fuse-zip, but as far as I can tell, that doesn&#x27;t work in Windows.</text></comment> | <story><title>MAME 0.151 ROMs</title><url>https://archive.org/details/MAME_0.151_ROMs</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>gabemart</author><text>I take it these ROMs are considered abandonware [0], rather than actually being legally free?<p>[0] <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abandonware" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Abandonware</a></text></comment> |
40,466,265 | 40,464,443 | 1 | 2 | 40,454,136 | train | <story><title>300k airplanes in five years</title><url>https://www.construction-physics.com/p/how-to-build-300000-airplanes-in</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>igammarays</author><text>Meanwhile America is now struggling to produce something as simple as artillery shells, while Russia is producing 2-5 times the number produced by the entire US + EU combined.<p>Sources:<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.defenseone.com&#x2F;business&#x2F;2023&#x2F;11&#x2F;race-make-artillery-shells-us-eu-see-different-results&#x2F;392288&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.defenseone.com&#x2F;business&#x2F;2023&#x2F;11&#x2F;race-make-artill...</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;edition.cnn.com&#x2F;2024&#x2F;03&#x2F;10&#x2F;politics&#x2F;russia-artillery-shell-production-us-europe-ukraine&#x2F;index.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;edition.cnn.com&#x2F;2024&#x2F;03&#x2F;10&#x2F;politics&#x2F;russia-artillery...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bluGill</author><text>There is good reason for that: the US&#x2F;NATO war plans are not to get into an artillery war in the first place. If there is artillery in the way the US&#x2F;NATO plan is send an airplane with a few bombs to take it out. There is still some room for artillery in the army and so we produce some, but that isn&#x27;t the major way to fight wars.<p>The Soviet plan - which both Russia and Ukraine are well trained in - was to use lots of artillery. In backing Ukraine NATO suddenly sees a need for some shells that they wouldn&#x27;t use if it was them. But the Ukrainian generals know them and so that is what they want. (Note too the nobody has provided Ukraine anywhere near the number of airplanes needed to fight a NATO style war - even if all promised F16s arrive today with full training it isn&#x27;t enough for a NATO war)</text></comment> | <story><title>300k airplanes in five years</title><url>https://www.construction-physics.com/p/how-to-build-300000-airplanes-in</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>igammarays</author><text>Meanwhile America is now struggling to produce something as simple as artillery shells, while Russia is producing 2-5 times the number produced by the entire US + EU combined.<p>Sources:<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.defenseone.com&#x2F;business&#x2F;2023&#x2F;11&#x2F;race-make-artillery-shells-us-eu-see-different-results&#x2F;392288&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.defenseone.com&#x2F;business&#x2F;2023&#x2F;11&#x2F;race-make-artill...</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;edition.cnn.com&#x2F;2024&#x2F;03&#x2F;10&#x2F;politics&#x2F;russia-artillery-shell-production-us-europe-ukraine&#x2F;index.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;edition.cnn.com&#x2F;2024&#x2F;03&#x2F;10&#x2F;politics&#x2F;russia-artillery...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>amarcheschi</author><text>Russia also spends something like 7% of its gdp in the military, while for most European countries defence budget is around 2% of their gdp.<p>I&#x27;m not a war analyst also, but nato doctrine is kinda different from Russia&#x27;S. During both Bosnia and Serbia bombing campaigns nato inflicted most damage through bombs, not shells. In Ukraine both Ukrainians and Russians had to resort to artillery shells because none of them could fly uncontested</text></comment> |
21,196,427 | 21,196,020 | 1 | 3 | 21,194,003 | train | <story><title>Miscellaneous unsolicited (and possibly biased) career advice</title><url>https://erikbern.com/2019/09/12/misc-unsolicited-career-advice.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>chimi</author><text>In summary:<p><pre><code> network a *lot*
Choose fast growing organizations
Choose people you can learn from
Enter a market with few smart people
Use your smart connections to dominate that market
</code></pre>
The key will be entering a market without a lot of smart folks in it, while also choosing the group <i>in</i> that market that <i>is</i> smart.<p>The problem is if most folks in a market aren&#x27;t smart, then those who are really changing that market look <i>dumb</i> to those already in it, so are the pioneering minds there smart or re-inventing failed wheels.</text></comment> | <story><title>Miscellaneous unsolicited (and possibly biased) career advice</title><url>https://erikbern.com/2019/09/12/misc-unsolicited-career-advice.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>SamuelAdams</author><text>&gt; Statistics. Seriously, I really wish I had studied more of it in school. Basically goes for anyone in the STEM field, IMO.<p>I really wish more people invested in statistics and data analysis classes. People take you more seriously in a business setting when you can say &quot;Email A resulted in a response rate of 80%&quot;. I usually hear &quot;We think Email A is better because we feel it in our gut&quot;.<p>Ok, not those words exactly, but that&#x27;s the point. Looking at data, understanding it, and directly applying it to your job is a hugely underrated skill.</text></comment> |
16,720,450 | 16,720,445 | 1 | 3 | 16,719,403 | train | <story><title>How Cambridge Analytica’s Facebook targeting model really worked</title><url>http://www.niemanlab.org/2018/03/this-is-how-cambridge-analyticas-facebook-targeting-model-really-worked-according-to-the-person-who-built-it/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>etiam</author><text>Spoiler warning. Article punchline ahead.<p>&quot;The whole point of a dimension reduction model is to mathematically represent the data in simpler form. It’s as if Cambridge Analytica took a very high-resolution photograph, resized it to be smaller, and then deleted the original. The photo still exists — and as long as Cambridge Analytica’s models exist, the data effectively does too.&quot;<p>That&#x27;s an eloquent piece of explanation of a very important point.
And apropos the discussion about privacy legislation, it&#x27;s also going to be a very interesting point. Will the Cambridge Analyticas of the world be able to claim they have held on to no personal data, when strictly speaking the raw data has indeed been deleted after being used to create a derivative work that can for all important purposes be used to recreate the original?
Assuming I find out I&#x27;m being profiled and demand to have my data removed, will society grant me rights to have derivative forms removed or adjusted too?
I&#x27;m somewhat pessimistic that legal hairsplitting about matters like these will make enforcement very difficult.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>darawk</author><text>&gt; when strictly speaking the raw data has indeed been deleted after being used to create a derivative work that can for all important purposes be used to recreate the original?<p>To be precise, you almost certainly cannot use this data to recreate anything remotely resembling the original dataset. This type of dimensionality reduction would throw away enormous volumes of data. There is no meaningful sense in which you can reconstruct the data from it.<p>What they have done is distill some insights about people from this data. It&#x27;s arguable whether they should be allowed to keep those insights, but there&#x27;s no privacy risk there really.<p>It&#x27;s honestly kind of disingenuous to describe dimensionality reduction in the way that they do here. It <i>is</i> like reducing the resolution of a photo, but it&#x27;d best be described as reducing that resolution to say, the 20 most representative pixels. There&#x27;s no real sense in which the photo still exists.</text></comment> | <story><title>How Cambridge Analytica’s Facebook targeting model really worked</title><url>http://www.niemanlab.org/2018/03/this-is-how-cambridge-analyticas-facebook-targeting-model-really-worked-according-to-the-person-who-built-it/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>etiam</author><text>Spoiler warning. Article punchline ahead.<p>&quot;The whole point of a dimension reduction model is to mathematically represent the data in simpler form. It’s as if Cambridge Analytica took a very high-resolution photograph, resized it to be smaller, and then deleted the original. The photo still exists — and as long as Cambridge Analytica’s models exist, the data effectively does too.&quot;<p>That&#x27;s an eloquent piece of explanation of a very important point.
And apropos the discussion about privacy legislation, it&#x27;s also going to be a very interesting point. Will the Cambridge Analyticas of the world be able to claim they have held on to no personal data, when strictly speaking the raw data has indeed been deleted after being used to create a derivative work that can for all important purposes be used to recreate the original?
Assuming I find out I&#x27;m being profiled and demand to have my data removed, will society grant me rights to have derivative forms removed or adjusted too?
I&#x27;m somewhat pessimistic that legal hairsplitting about matters like these will make enforcement very difficult.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>salty_biscuits</author><text>I guess the question is what are you trying to protect? The model is fundamentally lossy as it is a rank reduction method so your original data is gone (i.e. no one would be able to accuse you of liking a particular controversial post, just that you are likely to like that post). So it sort of has the differential privacy thing going on. I guess it is another question as to if such models should be built at all. I think the fidelity of the models will answer that in time, if they work really well it is scary, if they are poor models they will cease to be used. I suspect that it will be in the middle and highly sensitive to the quality of the original data and the quality of the implementation like all ml applications.</text></comment> |
15,979,299 | 15,979,518 | 1 | 2 | 15,978,767 | train | <story><title>Mastodon makes the Internet feel like home again</title><url>https://theoutline.com/post/2689/mastodon-makes-the-internet-feel-like-home-again</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>_jal</author><text>Making the internet feel like home again would involve burning down Facebook and reanimating the corpse of NNTP.<p>Why yes, I do feel old and cranky today.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>eeZah7Ux</author><text>NNTP was federated, decentralized, asynchronous, with hierarchical groups and threaded conversations.<p>Decades ahead, in terms of protocol design, of mailing lists, twitter and stuff like Slack.<p>Please tell me there&#x27;s hope for a new protocol with the same feature set.</text></comment> | <story><title>Mastodon makes the Internet feel like home again</title><url>https://theoutline.com/post/2689/mastodon-makes-the-internet-feel-like-home-again</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>_jal</author><text>Making the internet feel like home again would involve burning down Facebook and reanimating the corpse of NNTP.<p>Why yes, I do feel old and cranky today.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pmlnr</author><text>NNTP is not dead at all. However, finding data on how to run my own NNTP instance is close to nonexistent. I&#x27;d be very glad if someone could point me to some docs.</text></comment> |
31,535,492 | 31,535,388 | 1 | 3 | 31,531,298 | train | <story><title>Grade Inflation: Over 82% of Harvard '22 Graduating With Over a 3.7 (A-) GPA</title><url>https://features.thecrimson.com/2022/senior-survey/academics/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>JauntTrooper</author><text>When I was at Princeton they had strict anti-grade inflation policy, with no more than 35% of students getting an A per department.<p>It was really demoralizing, and to be honest it&#x27;s had a negative impact on my life. My public high school didn&#x27;t have a great math and science program so I started behind my classmates freshman year. It felt like the As basically went to the kids who had covered the material before in AP classes.<p>By junior year I was hovering around a 3.0, and I made the gut-wrenching decision that I couldn&#x27;t go to medical school or pursue a PhD in biology because my grades weren&#x27;t high enough. I decided I needed to set my sights lower. Even law school was out, basically business school was the only graduate school that would take me. I switched my major to economics.<p>It was devastating to give up on my dream, and I have to admit it still stings 20 years later. I adore biochemistry and would have loved to pursue research as a profession.<p>My main problem is I didn&#x27;t know how to effectively study in college. I cruised through high school without ever really needing to learn from a book. I didn&#x27;t really learn how to study correctly until a year or two after college, when I took the CFA exams.<p>Let me tell you, learning how to study (at 24) was an eye-opener for me, and it still feels like a superpower. I ended up becoming the valedictorian of my business school class a few years later.<p>I&#x27;ve had a very successful career as an investment banker, so I ended up fine. But I do think these grade deflation policies can be really harmful to the psyche of young students. Sure, there are benefits to getting humbled, hitting a wall and needing to grind it out, but students come into school with all sorts of different levels of preparation and there&#x27;s a big risk that some will flounder.<p>I don&#x27;t like relative grading. I think there should be objective standards of what you should know, and if you meet those standards you get an A. As long as you make those standards sufficiently rigorous, it shouldn&#x27;t matter whether 30% or 80% of the class gets an A. Relative grading pits students against each other and creates an unhealthy learning environment.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>willio58</author><text>It&#x27;s insane to me that there are people like you who went to a school like _princeton_ and ended up being cut out of your dream to pursue medical school or a PhD in bio, where if you had maybe just gone to a mid-tier 4-year university you could have easily scored top of your class and probably been accepted to those same programs.<p>To me, grades in general seem to have little bearing on how driven or knowledgeable someone is on a topic. To limit someone&#x27;s future based on a somewhat subjective measurement is just.. wrong.</text></comment> | <story><title>Grade Inflation: Over 82% of Harvard '22 Graduating With Over a 3.7 (A-) GPA</title><url>https://features.thecrimson.com/2022/senior-survey/academics/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>JauntTrooper</author><text>When I was at Princeton they had strict anti-grade inflation policy, with no more than 35% of students getting an A per department.<p>It was really demoralizing, and to be honest it&#x27;s had a negative impact on my life. My public high school didn&#x27;t have a great math and science program so I started behind my classmates freshman year. It felt like the As basically went to the kids who had covered the material before in AP classes.<p>By junior year I was hovering around a 3.0, and I made the gut-wrenching decision that I couldn&#x27;t go to medical school or pursue a PhD in biology because my grades weren&#x27;t high enough. I decided I needed to set my sights lower. Even law school was out, basically business school was the only graduate school that would take me. I switched my major to economics.<p>It was devastating to give up on my dream, and I have to admit it still stings 20 years later. I adore biochemistry and would have loved to pursue research as a profession.<p>My main problem is I didn&#x27;t know how to effectively study in college. I cruised through high school without ever really needing to learn from a book. I didn&#x27;t really learn how to study correctly until a year or two after college, when I took the CFA exams.<p>Let me tell you, learning how to study (at 24) was an eye-opener for me, and it still feels like a superpower. I ended up becoming the valedictorian of my business school class a few years later.<p>I&#x27;ve had a very successful career as an investment banker, so I ended up fine. But I do think these grade deflation policies can be really harmful to the psyche of young students. Sure, there are benefits to getting humbled, hitting a wall and needing to grind it out, but students come into school with all sorts of different levels of preparation and there&#x27;s a big risk that some will flounder.<p>I don&#x27;t like relative grading. I think there should be objective standards of what you should know, and if you meet those standards you get an A. As long as you make those standards sufficiently rigorous, it shouldn&#x27;t matter whether 30% or 80% of the class gets an A. Relative grading pits students against each other and creates an unhealthy learning environment.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>davesque</author><text>Very relatable story. I think I&#x27;ve had similar experiences throughout my life. I never fit the academic mold very well. But whenever I was given the freedom to explore a topic of interest without a lot of pressure, I think I always excelled. It was fortunate that computer programming classes at my high school were basically like study hall. The teachers didn&#x27;t make you do anything. That meant that the handful of us who were motivated out of personal interest could take things as far as we wanted to go. We weren&#x27;t constrained by a curriculum. When I got to university, I felt like I was way ahead of the game and had already learned a lot of the things that were covered in freshman comp sci courses.<p>I think I understand in theory what the point of grades is. It&#x27;s hard to imagine a perfect way of deciding who gets access to limited opportunities and who is best fit to take advantage of them. However, I know from deep down that my life would have gone <i>very</i> differently if I hadn&#x27;t been given those critical chances to wander. Competition can filter out the people who are less innately talented, but just as often filters out people who just don&#x27;t like having to talk over everyone and fight for everything all the time. If you&#x27;re just a shy kid or are starting out with a weaker self-image for some reason, you can fall to the bottom of the pile really quickly regardless of whether or not you&#x27;re smart or worthy of good things in life. That&#x27;s why I tend to think a certain amount of grade inflation is alright; because it unlocks hidden potential in people who don&#x27;t look the part. Maybe in a sense it also penalizes people who game the system by chasing grades while missing the real point of getting an education.</text></comment> |
19,634,420 | 19,634,711 | 1 | 3 | 19,632,374 | train | <story><title>Tesla and Panasonic freeze spending on $4.5B Gigafactory</title><url>https://asia.nikkei.com/Business/Companies/Tesla-and-Panasonic-freeze-spending-on-4.5bn-Gigafactory</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>MuffinFlavored</author><text>What do the Tesla betters need to evolve into&#x2F;achieve to not be deemed crappy anymore? What are the metrics we want to see that we don&#x27;t have yet?</text></item><item><author>samfisher83</author><text>Its pretty bad news. I think the most important part of the electric car is the battery. Electric cars were more popular that the gas car car a 100 years ago. The crappy battery is why gas is more popular today.</text></item><item><author>yungchin</author><text>I&#x27;m not sure this is bad news for Tesla, I&#x27;d say it&#x27;s mostly bad news for the rest of us.<p>Tesla has reached enough scale to be more or less sustainable (in the sense that they don&#x27;t need to be posting losses anymore), and I&#x27;d imagine they can continue to grow, if more slowly, without the rapid expansion of battery production capacity that this story is about.<p>But the great aim behind the gigafactory (at least, how I read it) was to drive battery cost down very aggressively, that is, working on the supply-side economics. This would then make EVs (not just Teslas) accessible to more people sooner, without all the subsidies (which have been a demand-side hack that didn&#x27;t even work very well). If this means a slower clean transition (and I think it does) that&#x27;s a sad outcome.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>zdragnar</author><text>I recently made a 1600 mile trip by car. In all of the places we stopped, I saw exactly one place that had EV charging set up.<p>Tesla, and non-hybrid EV in general, have a co-dependent relationship with charging stations to overcome &quot;range anxiety&quot;. This is especially true for those od us who live in cold climates and must drive in conditions unfavorable to operating batteries, such as -20 to -40 degree weather.<p>I&#x27;m also very curious to see what the electric pickup trucks that all the manufacturers are not-so-secretly working on end up being capable of. A frequent consequence of rural life is needing to haul heavy things, such as wood for repairing out buildings or outdoor furnaces, or towing boats to go fishing.</text></comment> | <story><title>Tesla and Panasonic freeze spending on $4.5B Gigafactory</title><url>https://asia.nikkei.com/Business/Companies/Tesla-and-Panasonic-freeze-spending-on-4.5bn-Gigafactory</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>MuffinFlavored</author><text>What do the Tesla betters need to evolve into&#x2F;achieve to not be deemed crappy anymore? What are the metrics we want to see that we don&#x27;t have yet?</text></item><item><author>samfisher83</author><text>Its pretty bad news. I think the most important part of the electric car is the battery. Electric cars were more popular that the gas car car a 100 years ago. The crappy battery is why gas is more popular today.</text></item><item><author>yungchin</author><text>I&#x27;m not sure this is bad news for Tesla, I&#x27;d say it&#x27;s mostly bad news for the rest of us.<p>Tesla has reached enough scale to be more or less sustainable (in the sense that they don&#x27;t need to be posting losses anymore), and I&#x27;d imagine they can continue to grow, if more slowly, without the rapid expansion of battery production capacity that this story is about.<p>But the great aim behind the gigafactory (at least, how I read it) was to drive battery cost down very aggressively, that is, working on the supply-side economics. This would then make EVs (not just Teslas) accessible to more people sooner, without all the subsidies (which have been a demand-side hack that didn&#x27;t even work very well). If this means a slower clean transition (and I think it does) that&#x27;s a sad outcome.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>samfisher83</author><text>I am not saying tesla specifically. I am saying the reason why gas car beat out the electric a 100 years ago was because of the battery.</text></comment> |
12,596,650 | 12,596,489 | 1 | 2 | 12,596,448 | train | <story><title>A Growing OpenStreetMap Needs Your Support</title><url>https://donate.openstreetmap.org/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>mtmail</author><text>The Operations Working Group, the sysadmins holding the servers together, are all volunteers. <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;wiki.osmfoundation.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Operations_Working_Group" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;wiki.osmfoundation.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Operations_Working_Group</a>
and keeps a list of hardware and open issues. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;openstreetmap&#x2F;operations" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;openstreetmap&#x2F;operations</a> (more help always welcome).<p>A frequent question is why the hardware bought and not rented hourly&#x2F;yearly with a PaaS. First of all the bandwidth requirement are huge and it would put too much pressure on the organization to reach donation goals every year.<p>Besides the donation runs you can also become a member (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;join.osmfoundation.org&#x2F;normal-membership&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;join.osmfoundation.org&#x2F;normal-membership&#x2F;</a>) or you company a corporate member (<a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;wiki.osmfoundation.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Corporate_Members" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;wiki.osmfoundation.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Corporate_Members</a>).<p>Unlike wikipedia the donation drive won&#x27;t need months. If I remember correctly last year two companies gave 20.000 USD each. That said: donate now please.<p>disclaimer: work at <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;geocoder.opencagedata.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;geocoder.opencagedata.com&#x2F;</a>, we&#x27;re a corporate member</text></comment> | <story><title>A Growing OpenStreetMap Needs Your Support</title><url>https://donate.openstreetmap.org/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Doctor_Fegg</author><text>It&#x27;s not widely appreciated how efficient OSM is: the whole project runs on roughly $170k a year. Wikimedia spends around $65m (there are, obviously, many differences in what the organisations do, but it&#x27;s an interesting comparison).</text></comment> |
14,539,667 | 14,539,524 | 1 | 2 | 14,538,875 | train | <story><title>Uber CEO Kalanick likely to take leave</title><url>http://www.reuters.com/article/us-uber-board-vote-idUSKBN1930AA</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>MikeTheGreat</author><text>What do you mean by &#x27;sabbatical&#x27;?
What is this, and how do regular, salaried employees get this?</text></item><item><author>xbeta</author><text>For someone who recently lost a mother and still have a badly injured father. This is totally understandable regardless whether he is a CEO of Uber. For a regular employee, he could request for a sabbatical. But as a CEO, that&#x27;s difficult given there is no CFO, CMO, COO existed.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bastawhiz</author><text>Most companies in SV tend to have, in addition to paid maternal&#x2F;paternal leave, the option to take unpaid leave. I have many friends and colleagues who have taken advantage of this for a variety of reasons. It&#x27;s really not that uncommon.</text></comment> | <story><title>Uber CEO Kalanick likely to take leave</title><url>http://www.reuters.com/article/us-uber-board-vote-idUSKBN1930AA</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>MikeTheGreat</author><text>What do you mean by &#x27;sabbatical&#x27;?
What is this, and how do regular, salaried employees get this?</text></item><item><author>xbeta</author><text>For someone who recently lost a mother and still have a badly injured father. This is totally understandable regardless whether he is a CEO of Uber. For a regular employee, he could request for a sabbatical. But as a CEO, that&#x27;s difficult given there is no CFO, CMO, COO existed.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>EpicEng</author><text>I&#x27;ve seen &quot;regular, salaried employees&quot; take sabbaticals for personal reasons more than once. Beyond that, comparing a CEO to a typical employee is ridiculous. You may not like it, but yes, they&#x27;re viewed as more important by the board and a CEO <i>is</i> more important 99.9% of the time. Devs don&#x27;t make life or death business decisions and set the cultural tone for the entire company.</text></comment> |
26,403,800 | 26,402,347 | 1 | 2 | 26,387,100 | train | <story><title>Hertz, the original meme stock, is turning out to be worthless</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-03-02/hertz-the-original-meme-stock-is-turning-out-to-be-worthless</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>airstrike</author><text>BTC is not a stock so I really don&#x27;t follow why people keep treating it like it has some underlying value</text></item><item><author>tacheiordache</author><text>GME is not bankrupt yet (it is indeed overpriced and comparable to HRTZ), but TSLA and BTC? They don&#x27;t belong to the same categories. TSLA and BTC will see a lot of gains to come. Eventually without a definite date what goes up comes down but it&#x27;d be silly to not take a piece of the pie yourself and keep your savings in cash...</text></item><item><author>VHRanger</author><text>Obviously?<p>The company was bankrupt.<p>People who bought HRTZ after bankruptcy had to have known it was a game of financial musical chairs, much like GME, TSLA or BTC.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>NickM</author><text>It sort of has underlying value, in that owning bitcoin lets you write entries in an extraordinarily inefficient append-only database.<p>(It seems clear to me that this isn&#x27;t a valuable enough capability to justify the current price of BTC, but I guess that&#x27;s a separate discussion.)</text></comment> | <story><title>Hertz, the original meme stock, is turning out to be worthless</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-03-02/hertz-the-original-meme-stock-is-turning-out-to-be-worthless</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>airstrike</author><text>BTC is not a stock so I really don&#x27;t follow why people keep treating it like it has some underlying value</text></item><item><author>tacheiordache</author><text>GME is not bankrupt yet (it is indeed overpriced and comparable to HRTZ), but TSLA and BTC? They don&#x27;t belong to the same categories. TSLA and BTC will see a lot of gains to come. Eventually without a definite date what goes up comes down but it&#x27;d be silly to not take a piece of the pie yourself and keep your savings in cash...</text></item><item><author>VHRanger</author><text>Obviously?<p>The company was bankrupt.<p>People who bought HRTZ after bankruptcy had to have known it was a game of financial musical chairs, much like GME, TSLA or BTC.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rsynnott</author><text>I mean, there&#x27;s an argument for viewing Tesla and Gamestop similar to bitcoin; they clearly have _some_ underlying value, but it seems largely secondary to hype-induced valuation.</text></comment> |
14,959,955 | 14,960,011 | 1 | 2 | 14,956,698 | train | <story><title>Our Broken Economy, in One Simple Chart</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/08/07/opinion/leonhardt-income-inequality.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>nateabele</author><text>&gt; <i>Different policies could produce a different outcome. My list would start with a tax code that does less to favor the affluent, a better-functioning education system, more bargaining power for workers and less tolerance for corporate consolidation.</i><p>It floors me how anyone, especially anyone with even a <i>basic</i> STEM background, could look at a growth curve that approaches infinity <i>that</i> rapidly, then turn around and say &#x27;gee, I wonder if tinkering around the periphery of the system would solve the problem&#x27;.<p>No! Clearly some central mechanism has gone horribly awry.<p>The only explanation I&#x27;ve ever seen that adequately accounts for those curves is inflation. Inflation drives up prices, both of goods and of assets. A higher cost of goods narrows the margins for wage-earners (i.e. the poor and middle class), and higher asset prices inflate the net worth of people who earn income from assets (i.e. rich people) — this effect compounds over time.<p>If I&#x27;m wrong, please, convince me. Article &amp; book recommendations gladly accepted.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nostrademons</author><text>I think you&#x27;re partially right. The other half of the puzzle is negotiating leverage.<p>One of Warren Buffett&#x27;s annual reports (I forget which year, but I think it was the late 1990s) had an interesting observation: inflation doesn&#x27;t affect all firms equally. Instead, it pools where there is a competition bottleneck. If you are the monopoly provider in a market, you have complete and total ability to raise prices in response to your customers having more money available to pay. If you are in a very competitive market, then every time you try to raise prices, some other entrant undercuts you and your customers and suppliers capture the surplus instead.<p>The Fed, however, measures inflation based on a basket of goods bought by the &quot;average&quot; consumer. Most of these goods are in competitive markets: groceries and gas and consumer electronics. And so the measured inflation rate that the Fed uses to control the money supply significantly undercounts the true inflation rate, with much of the money injected into the economy pooling in differentiated industries like high finance, elite universities, health care, Google &amp; Facebook, etc. From there, it doesn&#x27;t circulate the way it should, because people in those industries need few goods that the average American produces. Instead, it goes into asset prices, as they try to buy up more future earning potential.<p>I&#x27;ve suspected that maybe a simple way to fix this would be with &quot;helicopter&quot; Bernanke&#x27;s crazy idea: drop money out of helicopters. Maybe not literally (imagine the fights on the ground!), but perhaps the Fed could inject money into the economy at the bottom, through direct deposit into consumer&#x27;s bank accounts or tax refunds, and then collect it from the top, through fees on banks. That way, the money is immediately spent, and so the true effect of the money injected is more easily measurable in the CPI.</text></comment> | <story><title>Our Broken Economy, in One Simple Chart</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/08/07/opinion/leonhardt-income-inequality.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>nateabele</author><text>&gt; <i>Different policies could produce a different outcome. My list would start with a tax code that does less to favor the affluent, a better-functioning education system, more bargaining power for workers and less tolerance for corporate consolidation.</i><p>It floors me how anyone, especially anyone with even a <i>basic</i> STEM background, could look at a growth curve that approaches infinity <i>that</i> rapidly, then turn around and say &#x27;gee, I wonder if tinkering around the periphery of the system would solve the problem&#x27;.<p>No! Clearly some central mechanism has gone horribly awry.<p>The only explanation I&#x27;ve ever seen that adequately accounts for those curves is inflation. Inflation drives up prices, both of goods and of assets. A higher cost of goods narrows the margins for wage-earners (i.e. the poor and middle class), and higher asset prices inflate the net worth of people who earn income from assets (i.e. rich people) — this effect compounds over time.<p>If I&#x27;m wrong, please, convince me. Article &amp; book recommendations gladly accepted.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>elmar</author><text><i>&gt; The only explanation I&#x27;ve ever seen that adequately explains those curves is inflation.</i><p>Inflation the hidden Tax<p>&quot; Although inflation causes generally rising prices, it should not be understood as detrimental to all parties involved. It is highly lucrative for the government and the banking industry. When new money is printed (today, created electronically), it greatly benefits the first recipient because assimilating the new money into the economic organism takes time. Those first recipients (government and banks) can purchase goods and services at the old prices. As the money slowly works its way through the economy prices are bid up. Eventually when it reaches the salaried workers, prices have mostly adjusted. This process is a hidden tax on salaried workers, or anyone who receives the money late in the cycle. It is especially detrimental to those on fixed incomes, such as pensioners. Not only does the government understate the effects of inflation in its official numbers, any price decrease that would have occurred as a result of productivity gains are denied to the consumer as well. Inflation is nothing but wealth transfer. The government prints money and buys stuff with it. Prices rise and the salaried worker can buy less stuff. All the stuff the salaried worker could have otherwise bought has accrued to the government. Simple. Politically, it is far more palatable than raising taxes because the process is badly understood and well obfuscated. &quot;<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;austrianeco.blogspot.pt&#x2F;2008&#x2F;02&#x2F;inflation-part-22.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;austrianeco.blogspot.pt&#x2F;2008&#x2F;02&#x2F;inflation-part-22.htm...</a></text></comment> |
26,254,309 | 26,254,286 | 1 | 3 | 26,253,886 | train | <story><title>Canada's parliament votes to label China's persecution of Uighurs as genocide</title><url>https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/uighur-genocide-motion-vote-1.5922711</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>nickff</author><text>Interesting that the parliament went ahead with a vote, from which the &#x27;leadership&#x27; (cabinet) abstained; I wonder what&#x27;s going on behind the scenes.<p>&gt;&quot;Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and almost all of his cabinet colleagues were absent for the vote. Foreign Affairs Minister Marc Garneau was the only cabinet minister present. When it was his turn, he said he abstained &quot;on behalf of the Government of Canada.&quot; &quot;</text></comment> | <story><title>Canada's parliament votes to label China's persecution of Uighurs as genocide</title><url>https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/uighur-genocide-motion-vote-1.5922711</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Panino</author><text>&gt; The final tally was 266 in favour and zero opposed.<p>Great news and I hope more countries follow the lead.</text></comment> |
38,949,453 | 38,948,061 | 1 | 3 | 38,947,224 | train | <story><title>Google lays off hundreds working on its voice-activated assistant</title><url>https://www.semafor.com/article/01/10/2024/google-lays-off-hundreds-working-on-its-voice-activated-assistant</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>toomuchtodo</author><text>Federal government. No equity, but stability. Best place to take shelter during economic uncertainty or bearish conditions imho. Rode out the 2008 GFC at a DOE lab.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.usajobs.gov&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.usajobs.gov&#x2F;</a></text></item><item><author>neilv</author><text>So what&#x27;s a good employer now, now that Google has been losing the reputation for treating employees well?<p>(Multiple rounds of laying off people isn&#x27;t treating only those people poorly, but also increasing stress for the people who remain, knowing they can suddenly be laid off as well.)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rockskon</author><text>Federal government is mostly a miserable place to work if you enjoy up-to-date tech and flat organizational structures with high autonomy to get your work done. Also a miserable place to work if you enjoy earning money.</text></comment> | <story><title>Google lays off hundreds working on its voice-activated assistant</title><url>https://www.semafor.com/article/01/10/2024/google-lays-off-hundreds-working-on-its-voice-activated-assistant</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>toomuchtodo</author><text>Federal government. No equity, but stability. Best place to take shelter during economic uncertainty or bearish conditions imho. Rode out the 2008 GFC at a DOE lab.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.usajobs.gov&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.usajobs.gov&#x2F;</a></text></item><item><author>neilv</author><text>So what&#x27;s a good employer now, now that Google has been losing the reputation for treating employees well?<p>(Multiple rounds of laying off people isn&#x27;t treating only those people poorly, but also increasing stress for the people who remain, knowing they can suddenly be laid off as well.)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>BobaFloutist</author><text>Incredible lens, to see working for the federal government as the employment version of investing in gold. A real fun concept.</text></comment> |
11,333,096 | 11,331,030 | 1 | 3 | 11,330,587 | train | <story><title>Legalize It All</title><url>https://harpers.org/archive/2016/04/legalize-it-all/?single=1</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>krylon</author><text><i>We knew we couldn’t make it illegal to be either against the war or black, but by getting the public to associate the hippies with marijuana and blacks with heroin, and then criminalizing both heavily, we could disrupt those communities. We could arrest their leaders, raid their homes, break up their meetings, and vilify them night after night on the evening news. Did we know we were lying about the drugs? Of course we did.</i><p>That sums it up pretty well. It never was about fighting drug use or preventing the harm it can do. Can we now, please, get that behind us and move on? If we only spent 10% of what we now spent on prosecuting drug use on prevention and rehabilitation, that would be a much greater service to society than fourty years of &quot;war&quot; have been. Not to mention the benefits for privacy, the decrease in violence and so on...</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>md224</author><text>Does anyone else get almost irrationally angry about this? I <i>HATE</i> that the freedom to modulate our own minds was taken away from us by these awful politicians for such terrible reasons. Not only has the War on Drugs ruined countless lives through incarceration and overdosing, but so many potentially helpful chemicals have been hidden away from society. It isn&#x27;t just about getting &quot;high&quot;... it&#x27;s about unleashing our full pharmacological potential in a safe and productive manner.<p>The War on Drugs is so fucking stupid and so many people are paying the price. I don&#x27;t know if anything makes me as angry as this.</text></comment> | <story><title>Legalize It All</title><url>https://harpers.org/archive/2016/04/legalize-it-all/?single=1</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>krylon</author><text><i>We knew we couldn’t make it illegal to be either against the war or black, but by getting the public to associate the hippies with marijuana and blacks with heroin, and then criminalizing both heavily, we could disrupt those communities. We could arrest their leaders, raid their homes, break up their meetings, and vilify them night after night on the evening news. Did we know we were lying about the drugs? Of course we did.</i><p>That sums it up pretty well. It never was about fighting drug use or preventing the harm it can do. Can we now, please, get that behind us and move on? If we only spent 10% of what we now spent on prosecuting drug use on prevention and rehabilitation, that would be a much greater service to society than fourty years of &quot;war&quot; have been. Not to mention the benefits for privacy, the decrease in violence and so on...</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>patrickburke</author><text>According to a recent Frontline, maybe we are moving on:<p>&quot;A searing, two-hour investigation places America’s heroin crisis in a fresh and provocative light -- telling the stories of individual addicts, but also illuminating the epidemic&#x27;s years-in-the-making social context, deeply examining shifts in U.S. drug policy, and exploring what happens when addiction is treated like a public health issue, not a crime.&quot;
<a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.pbs.org&#x2F;wgbh&#x2F;frontline&#x2F;film&#x2F;chasing-heroin&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.pbs.org&#x2F;wgbh&#x2F;frontline&#x2F;film&#x2F;chasing-heroin&#x2F;</a></text></comment> |
24,766,293 | 24,766,339 | 1 | 2 | 24,765,398 | train | <story><title>San Francisco Apartment Rents Crater Up to 31%, Most in U.S.</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-10-13/san-francisco-studio-apartment-rents-plunge-31-most-in-u-s</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mxcrossb</author><text>This is the mindset I really don’t understand though. Sure your company can say “we’re all remote” today, but they can just as easily say “everyone has to come back” in six months. Or “everyone doesn’t have to, but those who don’t are the first laid off next time”. I’ve been fully remote since March, so I’ve been weighing this for awhile”</text></item><item><author>zdragnar</author><text>As a counter anecdote, I know three people from the bay area who moved out during covidtide, but had already planned the move beforehand. (This is a very high percentage of people I know from the bay area, hence the anecdote).<p>All had the same rationale: taxes and housing were simply far too high when they could work remotely and live anywhere else. Sure, you don&#x27;t get the same outdoors, food or retail scene, but plenty of places have those things too.<p>I imagine the move to working remotely has made that move possible for more people than before, but those I know aren&#x27;t making temporary moves, they are buying houses.</text></item><item><author>burlesona</author><text>I would say the city being “closed” is the major driver. Among my group of ~40 coworkers, about 30 (including me) have left the city. As far as I know all but one were renting.<p>Everyone who left gave the following rationale:<p>- we can work remotely so move wherever or nomad now<p>- SF is not very fun during the pandemic<p>- WFH in my tiny apartment is much less enjoyable than when I was working in the office and didn’t spend much time in the apartment<p>- therefore I’m moving for a year or so until things fully reopen<p>Now I think the question is what does the eventual full reopening look like and how long does it take?<p>Many people will move back, because many office jobs will return, and many people love city life and the office work environment (including me).<p>But the longer things take, the more people get established elsewhere, and the more companies decide to make remote permanent and don’t reopen an office, the more I think this market reset in SF will be long-lasting.<p>As other posters have said it’s a welcome relief though. Prices are <i>still</i> very high, and new construction remains far from sufficient to keep up with demand.<p>(edit: typo)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>toomuchtodo</author><text>Many companies have publicly stated they will allow permanent work from home [1]. Many others have said so privately to their workers. As more companies adopt this, this provides more options to those who relocate and whose employer tries to pull them back.<p>Keep a long runway in an emergency fund, keep your professional network warm, always be ready to bounce if your employer tries to change your quality of life for the worse (mandatory return to an office somewhere, for example). (Disclosure: This is how I operate, and have worked from home for over 7 years.)<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.flexjobs.com&#x2F;blog&#x2F;post&#x2F;companies-switching-remote-work-long-term&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.flexjobs.com&#x2F;blog&#x2F;post&#x2F;companies-switching-remot...</a> (&quot;27 Companies That Have Switched to Long-Term Remote Work&quot;)</text></comment> | <story><title>San Francisco Apartment Rents Crater Up to 31%, Most in U.S.</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-10-13/san-francisco-studio-apartment-rents-plunge-31-most-in-u-s</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mxcrossb</author><text>This is the mindset I really don’t understand though. Sure your company can say “we’re all remote” today, but they can just as easily say “everyone has to come back” in six months. Or “everyone doesn’t have to, but those who don’t are the first laid off next time”. I’ve been fully remote since March, so I’ve been weighing this for awhile”</text></item><item><author>zdragnar</author><text>As a counter anecdote, I know three people from the bay area who moved out during covidtide, but had already planned the move beforehand. (This is a very high percentage of people I know from the bay area, hence the anecdote).<p>All had the same rationale: taxes and housing were simply far too high when they could work remotely and live anywhere else. Sure, you don&#x27;t get the same outdoors, food or retail scene, but plenty of places have those things too.<p>I imagine the move to working remotely has made that move possible for more people than before, but those I know aren&#x27;t making temporary moves, they are buying houses.</text></item><item><author>burlesona</author><text>I would say the city being “closed” is the major driver. Among my group of ~40 coworkers, about 30 (including me) have left the city. As far as I know all but one were renting.<p>Everyone who left gave the following rationale:<p>- we can work remotely so move wherever or nomad now<p>- SF is not very fun during the pandemic<p>- WFH in my tiny apartment is much less enjoyable than when I was working in the office and didn’t spend much time in the apartment<p>- therefore I’m moving for a year or so until things fully reopen<p>Now I think the question is what does the eventual full reopening look like and how long does it take?<p>Many people will move back, because many office jobs will return, and many people love city life and the office work environment (including me).<p>But the longer things take, the more people get established elsewhere, and the more companies decide to make remote permanent and don’t reopen an office, the more I think this market reset in SF will be long-lasting.<p>As other posters have said it’s a welcome relief though. Prices are <i>still</i> very high, and new construction remains far from sufficient to keep up with demand.<p>(edit: typo)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>brogrammernot</author><text>As another poster said, companies aren’t going to risk lose talent in troves if they enact a work from office policy.<p>When you got major companies like Twitter, google, Facebook, and others already saying WFH is a permanent option that’s put pressure on others to figure out how to make it work.<p>Talent is needed at many, many companies and if the talent is a.) needed and b.) good enough the company will make “exceptions” to the rule.<p>Enough companies make enough exceptions and it’s a mainstay policy.<p>Overall, the other part is that companies that now offer remote work as a permanent option may not have to pay SF salaries so that’s a bonus to the company. It’ll go both ways, the company can say I’m not requiring you to live in high COL area and we have an office in X city, we pay 10% above the market average of ~35-40 cities so they’re still competitive on pay (assumption being that most companies move to this model, FAANG may overpay still but that’s always been the case) so now what do you do?</text></comment> |
17,290,814 | 17,288,523 | 1 | 3 | 17,286,935 | train | <story><title>Do We Need Distributed Stream Processing?</title><url>https://lsds.doc.ic.ac.uk/blog/do-we-need-distributed-stream-processing</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>sriku</author><text>On another note - these kinds of &quot;let&#x27;s go back and check what we can do with a single node today&quot; approaches are valuable to recalibrate our thinking once in a while. I didn&#x27;t interpret this post as a case against distributed processing - there are many things going for it - but just to avoid falling into hype.<p>A couple of great posts by Frank McSherry along the same lines a few years ago, doing page rank for a 128bil edge graph on a single laptop (in the second post below) -<p>The first post - &quot;scalability! But at what cost&quot;
<a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.frankmcsherry.org&#x2F;graph&#x2F;scalability&#x2F;cost&#x2F;2015&#x2F;01&#x2F;15&#x2F;COST.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.frankmcsherry.org&#x2F;graph&#x2F;scalability&#x2F;cost&#x2F;2015&#x2F;01&#x2F;...</a><p>The second post - &quot;bigger data, same laptop&quot;
<a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.frankmcsherry.org&#x2F;graph&#x2F;scalability&#x2F;cost&#x2F;2015&#x2F;02&#x2F;04&#x2F;COST2.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.frankmcsherry.org&#x2F;graph&#x2F;scalability&#x2F;cost&#x2F;2015&#x2F;02&#x2F;...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Do We Need Distributed Stream Processing?</title><url>https://lsds.doc.ic.ac.uk/blog/do-we-need-distributed-stream-processing</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>cangencer</author><text>Single process &quot;streaming&quot; or basically CEP engines have been around for a very long time and used to be the norm before distributed stream processing engines came around (such as Storm). CEP engines have much richer functionality than distributed stream processing engines because they don&#x27;t need to deal with partitioning or data distribution. I&#x27;m not quite sure I see the appeal of making a non-distributed engine but with the same limitations of a distributed engine.<p>I work on Hazelcast Jet [1], which is a Java based distributed stream processing engine. The core engine is fast enough that it can be used with very good throughput on a single node (several times faster compared to Flink or Spark) but usually several nodes are not only needed strictly for parallelization but also for tolerating node failures and being able to restart where you left off. As others have pointed out, not every computation can be parallelised efficiently. Jet also offers in memory storage, so adding more nodes also increases your storage capacity.<p>Since the core of Jet is small enough (~400kb JAR), we also considered making a non-distributed version that runs strictly in process. Mainly for lightweight usage or embedding but would also offer a path to distributed execution, if it was ever needed.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;hazelcast&#x2F;hazelcast-jet" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;hazelcast&#x2F;hazelcast-jet</a></text></comment> |
24,276,288 | 24,276,276 | 1 | 2 | 24,276,086 | train | <story><title>Palantir S-1</title><url>https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1321655/000119312520230013/d904406ds1.htm</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>undefined1</author><text>The intro (letter from the CEO) is interesting, distancing themselves from Silicon Valley:<p><i>&quot;The engineering elite of Silicon Valley may know more than most about building software. But they do not know more about how society should be organized or what justice requires.<p>Our company was founded in Silicon Valley. But we seem to share fewer and fewer of the technology sector’s values and commitments.<p>From the start, we have repeatedly turned down opportunities to sell, collect, or mine data. Other technology companies, including some of the largest in the world, have built their entire businesses on doing just that.<p>Software projects with our nation’s defense and intelligence agencies, whose missions are to keep us safe, have become controversial, while companies built on advertising dollars are commonplace. For many consumer internet companies, our thoughts and inclinations, behaviors and browsing habits, are the product for sale. The slogans and marketing of many of the Valley’s largest technology firms attempt to obscure this simple fact.&quot;</i></text></comment> | <story><title>Palantir S-1</title><url>https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1321655/000119312520230013/d904406ds1.htm</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>throwawaycow</author><text>These financials are awful for a software business. Gross margin of 67%, even with pilot costs lumped into Sales&amp;Marketing. If you add these pilot costs to COR, you&#x27;d get better numbers manufacturing furniture.<p>-- 2019 Financials (&#x27;000s)<p>Revenue: 742,555<p>Cost of Revenue: 242,373<p>Gross Profit: 500,182<p>Sales and Marketing: 450,120<p>-- Sales and Marketing includes pilot costs<p>&quot;Sales and marketing costs primarily include salaries, stock-based compensation expense, and benefits for personnel involved in executing on pilots and performing other brand building activities, as well as third-party cloud hosting services for our pilots, marketing and sales event-related costs, and allocated overhead. The Company generally charges all such costs to sales and marketing expense in the period incurred.&quot;</text></comment> |
33,830,874 | 33,831,184 | 1 | 2 | 33,830,014 | train | <story><title>'Nobody Wants to Work Anymore' Meme Cites Real Newspaper Articles</title><url>https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/nobody-wants-to-work-anymore/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>kortex</author><text>I&#x27;m sure if we dig deep enough, we can probably find clay tablets impressed with gripes about lazy workers and insolent children. Socrates famously groused about &quot;kids these days&quot;.<p>&gt; Children began to be the tyrants, not the slaves, of their households. They no longer rose from their seats when an elder entered the room; they contradicted their parents, chattered before company, gobbled up the dainties at table, and committed various offences against Hellenic tastes, such as crossing their legs.<p>- Socrates, ~400 BCE [1]<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;quoteinvestigator.com&#x2F;2010&#x2F;05&#x2F;01&#x2F;misbehave&#x2F;?amp=1" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;quoteinvestigator.com&#x2F;2010&#x2F;05&#x2F;01&#x2F;misbehave&#x2F;?amp=1</a><p>[2] previously: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=32161426" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=32161426</a></text></comment> | <story><title>'Nobody Wants to Work Anymore' Meme Cites Real Newspaper Articles</title><url>https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/nobody-wants-to-work-anymore/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>ldjkfkdsjnv</author><text>True story, as an american, most people I grew up with are not working corporate jobs. Of my cousins, probably 60% are willfully unemployed and refuse to work for anyone. They make money through odd jobs, day trading, selling online products. Anything to not have to work. The crazy thing is they are generally very happy and have had not trouble dating. Its the people day in and out in their 150k-300k a year corporate job that seem the most miserable to me.<p>For reference I&#x27;m white upper middle class, and all the people spoken about above are college educated.</text></comment> |
40,174,154 | 40,174,318 | 1 | 3 | 40,170,955 | train | <story><title>Solar power is changing life deep in the Amazon</title><url>https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-solutions/interactive/2024/amazon-solar-panels-ecuador/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>epistasis</author><text>Here in the US, solar panels are cheapear per sqft than many building materials, in particular fences. In bulk, a 2.4m x 1.3m (roughly 8ft x 4pt) panel is &lt; $100, or $3&#x2F;sqft. If you make it operational with wiring and an inverter, I&#x27;ve heard it&#x27;s $5&#x2F;sqft, and then you get electricity too. That&#x27;s before any tax credits or subsidies. (Comparing right now to Home Depot pre-fab panels, metal is ~$20&#x2F;sqft, composite materials are ~$10&#x2F;sqft, and vinyl is $2-$4&#x2F;sqft.)<p>Combine that with LFP lithium batteries getting to consumers at roughly $200&#x2F;kWh in many places, and the idea of running big transmission wires for many developing areas just simply won&#x27;t make financial sense when compared to microgrids backed with batteries.</text></comment> | <story><title>Solar power is changing life deep in the Amazon</title><url>https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-solutions/interactive/2024/amazon-solar-panels-ecuador/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>sigmar</author><text>Great article. Can&#x27;t imagine what it would be like for this village to get so much new tech (solar radios, solar boats, solar-enabled internet) is such a short amount of time. In my childhood, getting access to an early Wikipedia after having to rely on physical encyclopedias was hugely transformative to how I learned. Boggles my mind to think about what it would be like to go from no internet to an internet with LLMs like chatgpt.</text></comment> |
21,538,091 | 21,537,945 | 1 | 2 | 21,536,789 | train | <story><title>Build Your Own React</title><url>https://pomb.us/build-your-own-react/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jjcm</author><text>Presentation is amazing here.<p>That said, I recently wrote a webcomponent based router and I was surprised at how easy it was to get to a very usable point at such a minimal amount of code. All too often I get in the loop of just `npm i`&#x27;ing whatever it is I need, even if the functionality I really need is just a tiny subset of whatever huge library I&#x27;m importing.<p>Rodrigo&#x27;s right that something like this helps you understand React and how to contribute to the codebase, but I think it goes further than that - it lets you understand that the library isn&#x27;t magic. It gives you the confidence you need to think that maybe you don&#x27;t need that full 560kb library.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>hardwaregeek</author><text>Redux is a very good example of this. If you watch the original talk or just understand primitives like Observables, you can realize that Redux almost isn&#x27;t a library. It&#x27;s basically a pattern. Where libraries are actually required is when you connect Redux to React, or need async actions. But even then it&#x27;s not super hard to see how they work.</text></comment> | <story><title>Build Your Own React</title><url>https://pomb.us/build-your-own-react/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jjcm</author><text>Presentation is amazing here.<p>That said, I recently wrote a webcomponent based router and I was surprised at how easy it was to get to a very usable point at such a minimal amount of code. All too often I get in the loop of just `npm i`&#x27;ing whatever it is I need, even if the functionality I really need is just a tiny subset of whatever huge library I&#x27;m importing.<p>Rodrigo&#x27;s right that something like this helps you understand React and how to contribute to the codebase, but I think it goes further than that - it lets you understand that the library isn&#x27;t magic. It gives you the confidence you need to think that maybe you don&#x27;t need that full 560kb library.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rajeev-k</author><text>&gt; <i>webcomponent based router</i><p>Routers can be (and should be, IMO) written to be independent of UI component libraries such as React and webcomponents. See an example here: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;Rajeev-K&#x2F;mvc-router" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;Rajeev-K&#x2F;mvc-router</a> You can use it with React---and in some ways it works better than react-router.</text></comment> |
31,778,475 | 31,777,761 | 1 | 2 | 31,777,441 | train | <story><title>Battered Crypto Hedge Fund Three Arrows Capital Considers Asset Sales, Bailout</title><url>https://www.wsj.com/articles/battered-crypto-hedge-fund-three-arrows-capital-considers-asset-sales-bailout-11655469932</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>tjbiddle</author><text>Paywall: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;web.archive.org&#x2F;web&#x2F;20220617125537&#x2F;https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.wsj.com&#x2F;articles&#x2F;battered-crypto-hedge-fund-three-arrows-capital-considers-asset-sales-bailout-11655469932" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;web.archive.org&#x2F;web&#x2F;20220617125537&#x2F;https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.wsj.c...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Battered Crypto Hedge Fund Three Arrows Capital Considers Asset Sales, Bailout</title><url>https://www.wsj.com/articles/battered-crypto-hedge-fund-three-arrows-capital-considers-asset-sales-bailout-11655469932</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>chollida1</author><text>The crypto community continues to speed run the history of traditional finance.<p>This weeks lesson is that in an up market its leverage that makes you money and in a down market its the unwinding of leverage that kills you.<p>They are also learning that interconnectedness will hurt more in a downturn. You can be perfectly delta hedged( don&#x27;t care which way the market moves) and its the counter party risk that will sink you.<p>Now as these firms start to unwind they spill over to the next one. The collateral taht you lent to the failed firm is now gone and your once well hedge d and collateralized position is now in shambles because someone else can&#x27;t pay you.<p>TradFi normally solves this by having a firm have oversite on everyones positions and have everyone pay money into a pot to help bail out failed counterparties so they don&#x27;t spill over to other firms.<p>Crypto has tried to solve this by strict liquidation rules that tend to make things worse by turning firms into forced sellers when they may have been able to ride things out, thereby forcing markets down even more. To the point where its a profitable trading strategy to intentionally force the market down to liquidate leveraged longs.<p>As more crypto firms fail, they&#x27;ll end up selling their best collateral first(BTC and ETH) forcing down the price even more.<p>$5,000 BTC and $200 ETH are in site if Tether starts to fail. Tehter has lent money to almost all these firms but doesn&#x27;t mark down its positions from what it originally held them at.<p>If tether holds we may get out of this with $10-15,000 BTC but if Binance&#x2F;FTX walk away from Tether then we&#x27;ll be down another 80% from here I bet.<p>TL&#x2F;DR its going to get alot uglier than it currently is due to the interconnected nature of the crypto markets. We&#x27;ll find out that pretty much everyone was linked to everyone else as there are only so many ways to make money in crypto and everyone piled into them.<p>Defi is about to find out how hard it is to make money when no one wants to stake.</text></comment> |
32,390,604 | 32,390,916 | 1 | 2 | 32,389,588 | train | <story><title>Technical Writing Courses from Google</title><url>https://developers.google.com/tech-writing</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>danesparza</author><text>Normally, I love free resources like this. I don&#x27;t mean to throw shade at Google... but can anybody tell me if there is a set of documentation that Google has created that you would hold up as a standard that you would personally like to match? I can&#x27;t think of anything. I really think Google needs to get a lot better at documentation before they start passing out classes like this.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>edmundsauto</author><text>I disagree - the advice can be top notch independent of Google&#x27;s organization successes. Teaching individuals still has value, because nobody is born a great writer.<p>Google&#x27;s failure could be because the org is not incentivizing good documentation.</text></comment> | <story><title>Technical Writing Courses from Google</title><url>https://developers.google.com/tech-writing</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>danesparza</author><text>Normally, I love free resources like this. I don&#x27;t mean to throw shade at Google... but can anybody tell me if there is a set of documentation that Google has created that you would hold up as a standard that you would personally like to match? I can&#x27;t think of anything. I really think Google needs to get a lot better at documentation before they start passing out classes like this.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>gresrun</author><text>Dart&#x27;s documentation is comprehensive, well-written, and provides tons of meaningful examples.[0].<p>[0]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;dart.dev&#x2F;guides" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;dart.dev&#x2F;guides</a></text></comment> |
23,655,917 | 23,655,498 | 1 | 3 | 23,647,609 | train | <story><title>The War on Upstart Fiber Internet Providers</title><url>http://chrishacken.com/the-war-on-upstart-fiber-optic-internet-providers/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jrockway</author><text>One of my secret fantasies is an &quot;Uber for ISPs&quot;. That is where someone ignores all the laws, rules, and regulations, and just builds a fiber ISP without anyone&#x27;s permission. String fiber in through people&#x27;s windows. Instead of burying them, put them in those temporary cable trenches (that you see all the time for construction or film crews), or run them beside sidewalks and cover them with cement. Hell, maybe a really sticky piece of duct tape is enough.<p>It would be totally illegal and you&#x27;d probably go to prison forever if you started a company to do it. And annoying people with scissors would be cutting them every day (not to mention glass-eating wasps! a real thing!).<p>But I&#x27;d pay for it.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jedberg</author><text>I did this on a small scale in college! Back then the only way to get internet was via dialup, unless you paid $300+ a month for a DSL line (which was about 5x the speed and always on).<p>Since my friends and I had all just moved into a brand new apartment building together, I picked up a spool of ethernet and some ends and we literally strung the wires from window to window (wireless was far too expensive). The building was blue so I used blue wires and the owner either didn&#x27;t notice or didn&#x27;t care, because no one said a thing about it.<p>We all split the cost of the initial supplies and then everyone paid me whatever they could for the internet and I covered the rest. We had 10 people and I ended up paying about $40&#x2F;mo for it personally.<p>On the plus side, since I controlled the gateway (and old computer the University threw out) I could do fun stuff like traffic shaping and setting up a web server to be a bulletin board for us. Also I got everyone to install one of those enterprise notification things on their Windows machines so we could send blast messages to each other about going to the city or down to the local cafe for dinner.<p>Good times.</text></comment> | <story><title>The War on Upstart Fiber Internet Providers</title><url>http://chrishacken.com/the-war-on-upstart-fiber-optic-internet-providers/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jrockway</author><text>One of my secret fantasies is an &quot;Uber for ISPs&quot;. That is where someone ignores all the laws, rules, and regulations, and just builds a fiber ISP without anyone&#x27;s permission. String fiber in through people&#x27;s windows. Instead of burying them, put them in those temporary cable trenches (that you see all the time for construction or film crews), or run them beside sidewalks and cover them with cement. Hell, maybe a really sticky piece of duct tape is enough.<p>It would be totally illegal and you&#x27;d probably go to prison forever if you started a company to do it. And annoying people with scissors would be cutting them every day (not to mention glass-eating wasps! a real thing!).<p>But I&#x27;d pay for it.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dublinben</author><text>That&#x27;s pretty similar to how broadband developed in Romania, and a significant reason why they have some of the best Internet speeds in the world.[0] It&#x27;s also more or less the model that successful community mesh networks have followed, like NYC mesh[1] and Guifi[2].<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Internet_in_Romania" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Internet_in_Romania</a>
[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;NYC_Mesh" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;NYC_Mesh</a>
[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Guifi.net" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Guifi.net</a></text></comment> |
1,748,602 | 1,748,500 | 1 | 2 | 1,748,042 | train | <story><title>Where My Money Goes: A visual receipt for your taxes.</title><url>http://wheremymoneygoes.com</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>riffer</author><text>Why do people always try to break things? This is a serious question pertaining to human nature, not a complaint. I've noticed that anytime I demo something I've built, if the person/people I'm showing have control of the demo they go try to test the outer boundaries of whatever I've built. What makes us want to do that?</text></item><item><author>slug</author><text>Trying with a value of 1e20 , 1e21 gives interesting results.<p>More curious is that using konqueror I get one value but with firefox i get another. Seems to be some bit flipping somewhere, since with firefox I get
Miscellaneous mandatory programs $16068258000000004096.00
4096, 16384 , etc<p>but with konqueror i get:
Miscellaneous mandatory programs $16068258000000005000.00<p>Maybe some bug with the javascript interpreter ?</text></item><item><author>theli0nheart</author><text>I made this last night after being inspired by <a href="http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=130249425&#38;sc=fb&#38;cc=fp" rel="nofollow">http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1302494...</a><p>All the calculations are done with Javascript. Let me know what you think!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>anigbrowl</author><text>Because of what it tells us about the design and utility. This particular tool looks like it will keep working through inevitable period of hyperinflation everyone keeps warning me about, all the way up to the when we cross the National Debt Event Horizon, at which point accounting is suddenly agreed to be an entirely new art form, and computing a restaurant tip requires a PhD in materials science.</text></comment> | <story><title>Where My Money Goes: A visual receipt for your taxes.</title><url>http://wheremymoneygoes.com</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>riffer</author><text>Why do people always try to break things? This is a serious question pertaining to human nature, not a complaint. I've noticed that anytime I demo something I've built, if the person/people I'm showing have control of the demo they go try to test the outer boundaries of whatever I've built. What makes us want to do that?</text></item><item><author>slug</author><text>Trying with a value of 1e20 , 1e21 gives interesting results.<p>More curious is that using konqueror I get one value but with firefox i get another. Seems to be some bit flipping somewhere, since with firefox I get
Miscellaneous mandatory programs $16068258000000004096.00
4096, 16384 , etc<p>but with konqueror i get:
Miscellaneous mandatory programs $16068258000000005000.00<p>Maybe some bug with the javascript interpreter ?</text></item><item><author>theli0nheart</author><text>I made this last night after being inspired by <a href="http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=130249425&#38;sc=fb&#38;cc=fp" rel="nofollow">http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1302494...</a><p>All the calculations are done with Javascript. Let me know what you think!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>crystalis</author><text>You get the one-two of potential insight into the particular workings and potential 'unintended cool thing'.</text></comment> |
34,840,649 | 34,840,420 | 1 | 2 | 34,840,039 | train | <story><title>Intuit pouring money into lobbying amid push for free government-run tax filing</title><url>https://www.opensecrets.org/news/2023/02/turbotax-parent-company-intuit-is-pouring-more-money-than-ever-into-lobbying-amid-push-for-free-government-run-tax-filing/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>peteforde</author><text>In the meta, this article reminds me of what I perceive as a surreal disconnect between the amount of influence lobbyists have in government(s) vs the objectively small amount of money that actually is changing hands.<p>If Intuit spends (just) $3.5M to significantly impact decisions that are worth Billions to them and potentially hundreds to every taxpayer (!), I think I&#x27;m frustrated that corrupt politicians aren&#x27;t doing more to leverage their corruption.<p>This kind of illegal influence should cost... at least $100M? Selling everyone out for fractions of a penny on the dollar is frankly just kind of embarrassing.<p>Crime harder, elected reps, if you&#x27;re going to get out of bed.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Aunche</author><text>Most people have a fundamental misunderstanding of how lobbying works. Lobbying money is used to pay the actual lobbyists to gather evidence, prepare presentations, and draft legislation proposals. Only a small percentage of lobbying money goes to the politicians. Usually, it&#x27;s $1000 or so that the politician will agree to hear out the lobbyist. What actually gets traded at these lobbyist meetings is political capital, not money. &quot;If you agree to these tax incentives, you can brag about creating 10,000 jobs&quot;.<p>This is why Bill Gates can&#x27;t just spend $1 billion to lobby for a carbon tax, despite advocating for one. This would cause a lot of short term pain as the economy needs to readjust with no short term positive benefit, which would be politically disastrous.<p>Edit: Here&#x27;s another more tangible example. Facebook spent millions to lobby for the government to establish standards for social media. If they can convince the Democrats to formalize guidelines of what constitutes as hate speech, they can offload some of the burden of their moderation decisions. If they can convince Republicans to require social media to become public square, that&#x27;s even better because then they don&#x27;t have to hire as many moderators. Unfortunately for Facebook, such a bill has no benefit from either side because now the politicians have to take responsibility for an unpopular act of censorship or viral misinformation campaign. That&#x27;s why Facebook tried to establish an independent &quot;supreme court&quot; instead.</text></comment> | <story><title>Intuit pouring money into lobbying amid push for free government-run tax filing</title><url>https://www.opensecrets.org/news/2023/02/turbotax-parent-company-intuit-is-pouring-more-money-than-ever-into-lobbying-amid-push-for-free-government-run-tax-filing/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>peteforde</author><text>In the meta, this article reminds me of what I perceive as a surreal disconnect between the amount of influence lobbyists have in government(s) vs the objectively small amount of money that actually is changing hands.<p>If Intuit spends (just) $3.5M to significantly impact decisions that are worth Billions to them and potentially hundreds to every taxpayer (!), I think I&#x27;m frustrated that corrupt politicians aren&#x27;t doing more to leverage their corruption.<p>This kind of illegal influence should cost... at least $100M? Selling everyone out for fractions of a penny on the dollar is frankly just kind of embarrassing.<p>Crime harder, elected reps, if you&#x27;re going to get out of bed.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pessimizer</author><text>Politicians are very cheap, but the $3.5M is what was spent legally and openly. Most of the iceberg is hidden underwater. For example, this:<p>&gt; In 2022, several members of Congress called for investigations into the company’s practice of hiring “revolving door” lobbyists who previously held government positions<p>is also bribery.</text></comment> |
31,327,165 | 31,326,593 | 1 | 3 | 31,325,907 | train | <story><title>The 2022 Pulitzer Prize Winner in Explanatory Reporting</title><url>https://www.pulitzer.org/winners/staff-quanta-magazine-new-york-ny-notably-natalie-wolchover</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mjreacher</author><text>His foundation, the Simons Foundation, funds among a few other things, arXiv. I have wondered why other tech related billionaires do not sponsor more items in the scientific sphere like Simons does, because unlike funding a building at some rich university your money could actually be used for something useful and if something good comes out of it, having your name attached to it could mean a lot more than the name of some silly building (on top of the actual scientific progress it leads to).</text></item><item><author>melling</author><text>Publication founded by mathematician Jim Simons who started a hedge fund that consistently beat the markets and made billions.<p>The entire story:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.amazon.com&#x2F;Man-Who-Solved-Market-Revolution&#x2F;dp&#x2F;073521798X" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.amazon.com&#x2F;Man-Who-Solved-Market-Revolution&#x2F;dp&#x2F;0...</a><p>Lots of interesting information on the internet about him too:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Jim_Simons_(mathematician)" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Jim_Simons_(mathematician)</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>DoughnutHole</author><text>Because billionaires are more often than egomaniacs and having your name be remembered is more important than the actual value of your charitable donations.<p>We grew up in a world dotted with buildings and universities with the names of robber-barons like Carnegie, Vanderbilt and Rockefeller. Having your name carved into the stone of the building of a major institution means immortality (well, as long as the institution remains important) - directly sponsoring science might do more real good but it&#x27;s not as good at sanitising your image or for being remembered long term, which are the real goals of most billionaires&#x27; philanthropy.<p>People don&#x27;t remember John D. Rockefeller for the money he pumped into eradicating hookworm, probably the single greatest thing he did for the world in his life - ending generations of sapped energy and cognitive impairment in the American South. People remember him because his name is on the buildings and colleges he funded.</text></comment> | <story><title>The 2022 Pulitzer Prize Winner in Explanatory Reporting</title><url>https://www.pulitzer.org/winners/staff-quanta-magazine-new-york-ny-notably-natalie-wolchover</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mjreacher</author><text>His foundation, the Simons Foundation, funds among a few other things, arXiv. I have wondered why other tech related billionaires do not sponsor more items in the scientific sphere like Simons does, because unlike funding a building at some rich university your money could actually be used for something useful and if something good comes out of it, having your name attached to it could mean a lot more than the name of some silly building (on top of the actual scientific progress it leads to).</text></item><item><author>melling</author><text>Publication founded by mathematician Jim Simons who started a hedge fund that consistently beat the markets and made billions.<p>The entire story:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.amazon.com&#x2F;Man-Who-Solved-Market-Revolution&#x2F;dp&#x2F;073521798X" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.amazon.com&#x2F;Man-Who-Solved-Market-Revolution&#x2F;dp&#x2F;0...</a><p>Lots of interesting information on the internet about him too:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Jim_Simons_(mathematician)" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Jim_Simons_(mathematician)</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Maro</author><text>What&#x27;s wrong with paying for academic buildings to be built (and having your name on it)? The point is that students can go to the building and receive lectures, or run labs, or read books in the library. Who cares whose name is on the building... These buildings will stand for a long time anyway, soon nobody will know who that person was anyway (other than by the name of the building).</text></comment> |
33,561,590 | 33,560,398 | 1 | 2 | 33,527,900 | train | <story><title>Arduino unveils the Opta – “Micro PLC” for industrial IoT</title><url>https://www.hackster.io/news/arduino-unveils-the-opta-its-first-micro-plc-for-the-industrial-internet-of-things-d97f1d6b868a</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>gw98</author><text>I don&#x27;t get the market position of this.<p>A number of Chinese companies produce DIN rail mounted PLCs which already cover this market, cost virtually nothing and actually emulate Mitsu GX ones so work with existing off the shelf tools and have the same real time guarantees as the commercial units. If you&#x27;re going to cheap out, these are fine.<p>But this isn&#x27;t the problem. The expensive bit of a PLC is the dude perma-welded to the cabinet. Last thing people want to do is rock the boat by expanding the risk to a vendor like Arduino, which quite frankly doesn&#x27;t have a great reputation or history of tested industrial or reliable hardware. It&#x27;s better to pay 3x as much for a well established vendor.</text></comment> | <story><title>Arduino unveils the Opta – “Micro PLC” for industrial IoT</title><url>https://www.hackster.io/news/arduino-unveils-the-opta-its-first-micro-plc-for-the-industrial-internet-of-things-d97f1d6b868a</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>DannyBee</author><text>I do a <i>lot</i> of PLC work.<p>The Arduino IDE is totally unsuitable for it. No idea what they are doing about this. It would take an amazing amount of work to fix this.<p>As for PLC functionality people actually use, the product page says &quot;Optional support for standard IEC 61131-3 PLC languages&quot;. This is what folks use for real. I presume this means &quot;we didn&#x27;t want to pay CodeSys but you can&quot;. Or something.
That sucks.<p>Maybe they are relying on MBed support as their basic realtime story but, as mentioned, their dev environment is unsuitable for this kind of work.<p>There is no mention of expected scan time for ladders or guaranteed latency for anything else<p>So for the intended market, this doesn&#x27;t look interesting so far. It seems like it will go the way of the x8 and land with a huge thud.<p>For a random person wanting an Arduino in a cabinet on a din rail, I can see maybe they&#x27;d use it.</text></comment> |
25,953,446 | 25,952,352 | 1 | 2 | 25,949,784 | train | <story><title>OpenBSD on the Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Nano</title><url>https://jcs.org/2021/01/27/x1nano</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Koshkin</author><text>&gt; <i>Write it.</i><p>This is getting really old. Not all users are programmers.</text></item><item><author>blhack</author><text>Write it.<p>As an openbsd user, I will say that bluetooth is pretty far down the list of things I care about.</text></item><item><author>LeoPanthera</author><text>It was removed in 2014! At this point, &quot;not yet&quot; surely must mean &quot;we don&#x27;t want it&quot;.</text></item><item><author>liveranga</author><text>It&#x27;s not really philosophical, they just weren&#x27;t happy with the Bluetooth stack they had (originally from netbsd I think) and no-one has written a new one yet.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;openbsd&#x2F;src&#x2F;commit&#x2F;b8042ed98e3e7a691133b4fd8e91f61ba15a83ba" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;openbsd&#x2F;src&#x2F;commit&#x2F;b8042ed98e3e7a691133b4...</a></text></item><item><author>LeoPanthera</author><text>I know that OpenBSD is &quot;opinionated&quot; but I can&#x27;t really accept that their opinion on bluetooth is &quot;we don&#x27;t support bluetooth&quot;, which otherwise seems essential, at least to me, for any mobile device.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>seabird</author><text>The number of regular OpenBSD users that are not programmers is probably vanishingly thin. If my memory serves me correctly, there are features of modern x86 processors that it straight up doesn&#x27;t implement on a don&#x27;t-care basis, so it&#x27;s pretty safe to say that nobody that has made peace with that is looking to deal with technology as maligned as Bluetooth when they&#x27;re likely already buying hardware specifically to run OpenBSD.</text></comment> | <story><title>OpenBSD on the Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Nano</title><url>https://jcs.org/2021/01/27/x1nano</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Koshkin</author><text>&gt; <i>Write it.</i><p>This is getting really old. Not all users are programmers.</text></item><item><author>blhack</author><text>Write it.<p>As an openbsd user, I will say that bluetooth is pretty far down the list of things I care about.</text></item><item><author>LeoPanthera</author><text>It was removed in 2014! At this point, &quot;not yet&quot; surely must mean &quot;we don&#x27;t want it&quot;.</text></item><item><author>liveranga</author><text>It&#x27;s not really philosophical, they just weren&#x27;t happy with the Bluetooth stack they had (originally from netbsd I think) and no-one has written a new one yet.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;openbsd&#x2F;src&#x2F;commit&#x2F;b8042ed98e3e7a691133b4fd8e91f61ba15a83ba" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;openbsd&#x2F;src&#x2F;commit&#x2F;b8042ed98e3e7a691133b4...</a></text></item><item><author>LeoPanthera</author><text>I know that OpenBSD is &quot;opinionated&quot; but I can&#x27;t really accept that their opinion on bluetooth is &quot;we don&#x27;t support bluetooth&quot;, which otherwise seems essential, at least to me, for any mobile device.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ac29</author><text>You could also pay someone else to write it for you. OpenBSD is a free, community based project - you cant really complain it doesnt do what you want if you arent willing to invest any time or money.</text></comment> |
22,888,330 | 22,886,715 | 1 | 3 | 22,885,864 | train | <story><title>Wekan: Open-source, trello-like kanban</title><url>https://wekan.github.io/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>nickjj</author><text>If anyone is looking for another open source solution, there&#x27;s <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;greggigon&#x2F;my-personal-kanban" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;greggigon&#x2F;my-personal-kanban</a>.<p>What&#x27;s neat about the above one is it&#x27;s a single offline html file that you open in your browser and everything is saved to local storage (but it has a JSON export &#x2F; import feature for more robust backups).<p>Of course that means it&#x27;s really only usable for 1 person, but if you&#x27;re a solo developer, it&#x27;s a breath of fresh air to just open a simple html file without needing to run a service to use it.<p>It&#x27;s not the prettiest tool but it&#x27;s very usable. I&#x27;ve been using it to manage a large personal side project. I made a video on that here: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;nickjanetakis.com&#x2F;blog&#x2F;an-open-source-and-fully-offline-browser-based-kanban-board" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;nickjanetakis.com&#x2F;blog&#x2F;an-open-source-and-fully-offl...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Wekan: Open-source, trello-like kanban</title><url>https://wekan.github.io/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>vincvinc</author><text>I do most of my thinking and planning on Trello boards. It almost feels like a part of my brain.<p>Ever since Trello was acquired by Atlassian, I&#x27;ve been planning to replace it - in the long term - waiting for signals that Atlassian is degrading my experience. It hasn&#x27;t happened yet but I am assume that it&#x27;s a matter of time.<p>I&#x27;ve been wanting an open source Trello clone with a native desktop client for a while now. Going to give this a try.<p>First impression: promising but seems a bit clunky&#x2F;ugly compared to Trello. Hope I can contribute to the development in some way.</text></comment> |
16,961,003 | 16,961,060 | 1 | 2 | 16,960,482 | train | <story><title>Comcast won’t give new speed boost to Internet users who don’t buy TV service</title><url>https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2018/04/comcast-wont-give-new-speed-boost-to-internet-users-who-dont-buy-tv-service/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>rconti</author><text>I already have to subscribe to Comcast&#x27;s &quot;basic&quot; cable (which is what used to be called lifeline; it has nothing my antenna doesn&#x27;t, not even the History Channel&#x2F;Discovery Channel type stuff that used to be on &#x27;basic).<p>The reason is that they charge me less when I&#x27;m also willing to be a TV &#x27;subscriber&#x27;. TV+Internet is cheaper than Internet alone. The cable box just sits in its cardboard box in the attic, I still use my antenna because the quality is better.</text></comment> | <story><title>Comcast won’t give new speed boost to Internet users who don’t buy TV service</title><url>https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2018/04/comcast-wont-give-new-speed-boost-to-internet-users-who-dont-buy-tv-service/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>zargon</author><text>&quot;We&#x27;ve increased speeds 17 times in the last 17 years.&quot;<p>My experience is that they increase the speed, and then a few months later they raise the price. Then I have to switch to a lower speed to get a price similar to what I was paying before. It&#x27;s dishonest and sleazy.</text></comment> |
33,648,273 | 33,648,339 | 1 | 3 | 33,646,552 | train | <story><title>Amazon CEO Andy Jassy says layoffs will continue into next year</title><url>https://www.cnbc.com/2022/11/17/amazon-ceo-andy-jassy-says-layoffs-will-continue-into-next-year.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>allthecybers</author><text>I think this was orchestrated to not give Amazon employees any internal (or very few) options for transfer. First they freeze corp hiring and thousands of positions dry up, then a long drawn out layoff is initiated that gets leaked in the press way before any senior leadership pipes up to talk about it. You have allegedly have 60 days to find a new position in the company. What positions? There is a hiring freeze. Plus in classic Amazon fashion the severance is on the low end of the industry. Plus the added departures just from the stress of not knowing who gets cut next. I guess this has been orchestrated for maximum attrition, which seems to be their forte over there under the orange smile.<p>I&#x27;m not a fan of Zuckerberg, but his communication about the layoff at Meta was much more timely, clear and empathetic than this note from Jassy.<p>- Zuckerberg: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;about.fb.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;2022&#x2F;11&#x2F;mark-zuckerberg-layoff-message-to-employees&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;about.fb.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;2022&#x2F;11&#x2F;mark-zuckerberg-layoff-mes...</a><p>- Jassy: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.aboutamazon.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;company-news&#x2F;a-note-from-ceo-andy-jassy-about-role-eliminations" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.aboutamazon.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;company-news&#x2F;a-note-from-ce...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>db1234</author><text>Meta employees were angry about the sudden layoff announcement and access cut off. Many wanted an advance notice like what Jassy has given. I guess there is no &quot;right&quot; way to do this.<p>In this particular case, what Jassy seems to be saying to employees is that they should be customer obsessed and work hard for the holiday season but he cannot guarantee they will still have their job in Q1. That sucks. My heart goes out to everyone who is and will be impacted.</text></comment> | <story><title>Amazon CEO Andy Jassy says layoffs will continue into next year</title><url>https://www.cnbc.com/2022/11/17/amazon-ceo-andy-jassy-says-layoffs-will-continue-into-next-year.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>allthecybers</author><text>I think this was orchestrated to not give Amazon employees any internal (or very few) options for transfer. First they freeze corp hiring and thousands of positions dry up, then a long drawn out layoff is initiated that gets leaked in the press way before any senior leadership pipes up to talk about it. You have allegedly have 60 days to find a new position in the company. What positions? There is a hiring freeze. Plus in classic Amazon fashion the severance is on the low end of the industry. Plus the added departures just from the stress of not knowing who gets cut next. I guess this has been orchestrated for maximum attrition, which seems to be their forte over there under the orange smile.<p>I&#x27;m not a fan of Zuckerberg, but his communication about the layoff at Meta was much more timely, clear and empathetic than this note from Jassy.<p>- Zuckerberg: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;about.fb.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;2022&#x2F;11&#x2F;mark-zuckerberg-layoff-message-to-employees&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;about.fb.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;2022&#x2F;11&#x2F;mark-zuckerberg-layoff-mes...</a><p>- Jassy: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.aboutamazon.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;company-news&#x2F;a-note-from-ceo-andy-jassy-about-role-eliminations" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.aboutamazon.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;company-news&#x2F;a-note-from-ce...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jvanderbot</author><text>Amazon has a bunch of internal openings and hiring waivers -- for the profit centers. I think most of the layoffs will be belt tightening. Including my entire org.</text></comment> |
40,730,421 | 40,730,395 | 1 | 2 | 40,729,671 | train | <story><title>The demise of the mildly dynamic website (2022)</title><url>https://www.devever.net/~hl/mildlydynamic</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>politelemon</author><text>&gt; What captured people&#x27;s imaginations about AWS Lambda is that it lets you a) give any piece of code an URL, and b) that code doesn&#x27;t consume resources when it&#x27;s not being used. Yet these are also exactly the attributes possessed by PHP or CGI scripts. In fact, it&#x27;s far easier for me to write a PHP script and rsync it to a web server of mine than for me to figure out the extensive and complex tooling for creating, maintaining and deploying AWS Lambda functions — and it comes without the lock-in to boot. Moreover, the former allows me to give an URL to a piece of code instantly, whereas with the latter I have to figure out how to setup AWS API Gateway plumbing correctly. I&#x27;m genuinely curious how many people find AWS Lambda interesting because they&#x27;ve never encountered, or never properly looked at, CGI.<p>Well, assuming you are genuinely curious and not just using an expression!<p>The difference is that the &#x27;web server&#x27; is still consuming resources when the code is not in use. They aren&#x27;t equivalent at all. The web server is hosted on an OS and both require ongoing maintenance.<p>Further, the appeal of Lambda is in its ease of onboarding for newcomers; I can run a piece of .NET or JS or Python locally and directly without a lambda &#x27;layer&#x27; to host it, just invoke the handler method.<p>I&#x27;m not sure what complex tooling that the author is referring to though, it&#x27;s a zip and push.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>icedchai</author><text>Once you add API gateway, IAM roles&#x2F;permissions, VPC, security groups, it gets a lot more complicated. Then you want to host a static web site, reverse proxying to API gateway, add CloudFront, WAF, etc. You&#x27;ll go crazy setting this up manually, so you&#x27;ll also want Terraform or CloudFormation to make it repeatable.<p>For anything complex, you&#x27;ll run into &quot;slow start&quot; issues and have to look at provisioned concurrency.<p>Lambda also sucks for dependencies. Zips and &quot;layers&quot; can only be so large. Eventually you&#x27;ll hit the limit and have to move to containers. There are also other limitations, like payload sizes. Eventually you might run into that, too.<p>Also, it would be nice if Lambda just reused the CGI interface instead of inventing its own thing.</text></comment> | <story><title>The demise of the mildly dynamic website (2022)</title><url>https://www.devever.net/~hl/mildlydynamic</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>politelemon</author><text>&gt; What captured people&#x27;s imaginations about AWS Lambda is that it lets you a) give any piece of code an URL, and b) that code doesn&#x27;t consume resources when it&#x27;s not being used. Yet these are also exactly the attributes possessed by PHP or CGI scripts. In fact, it&#x27;s far easier for me to write a PHP script and rsync it to a web server of mine than for me to figure out the extensive and complex tooling for creating, maintaining and deploying AWS Lambda functions — and it comes without the lock-in to boot. Moreover, the former allows me to give an URL to a piece of code instantly, whereas with the latter I have to figure out how to setup AWS API Gateway plumbing correctly. I&#x27;m genuinely curious how many people find AWS Lambda interesting because they&#x27;ve never encountered, or never properly looked at, CGI.<p>Well, assuming you are genuinely curious and not just using an expression!<p>The difference is that the &#x27;web server&#x27; is still consuming resources when the code is not in use. They aren&#x27;t equivalent at all. The web server is hosted on an OS and both require ongoing maintenance.<p>Further, the appeal of Lambda is in its ease of onboarding for newcomers; I can run a piece of .NET or JS or Python locally and directly without a lambda &#x27;layer&#x27; to host it, just invoke the handler method.<p>I&#x27;m not sure what complex tooling that the author is referring to though, it&#x27;s a zip and push.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>chasd00</author><text>In a lot of these discussions the point gets raised about the work to maintain a self-hosted server. When i&#x27;ve done it I install the os (usually ubuntu server), turn off unused services, setup the firewall to only allow required ports, and then it just sort of sits there and does its thing. Uptimes have been measured in years in some cases and the server just sits there happily serving whatever html and connecting to whatever db forever.</text></comment> |
8,443,794 | 8,443,743 | 1 | 3 | 8,443,450 | train | <story><title>Edward Snowden’s Privacy Tips: “Get Rid of Dropbox,” Avoid Facebook and Google</title><url>http://techcrunch.com/2014/10/11/edward-snowden-new-yorker-festival/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mark_l_watson</author><text>I use DropBox and Google Drive a lot, but I have scripts to encrypt data into ZIP files for anything that needs to be protected. It really is not much of a hassle.<p>I have a SpiderOak account, but don&#x27;t use it as often.<p>Speaking of protecting data: I am surprised at how many companies seem to keep their software in private repositories on github and bitbucket. That seems like a security hole, if software if the core of your business.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>gizmo686</author><text>When I started using DropBox, I made an encrypted directory (using EncFS) for the stuff I cared about keeping private. This keeps the real-time sync element of DropBox, and avoids needing to reupload all of the encrypted files whenever one changes (although it does prevent incremental updates on individual files).<p>As an added bonus, these files are now encrypted on my machine as well.</text></comment> | <story><title>Edward Snowden’s Privacy Tips: “Get Rid of Dropbox,” Avoid Facebook and Google</title><url>http://techcrunch.com/2014/10/11/edward-snowden-new-yorker-festival/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mark_l_watson</author><text>I use DropBox and Google Drive a lot, but I have scripts to encrypt data into ZIP files for anything that needs to be protected. It really is not much of a hassle.<p>I have a SpiderOak account, but don&#x27;t use it as often.<p>Speaking of protecting data: I am surprised at how many companies seem to keep their software in private repositories on github and bitbucket. That seems like a security hole, if software if the core of your business.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>throwawayaway</author><text>for a lot of them, it is not &quot;the crown jewels&quot; that they put there.</text></comment> |
22,372,214 | 22,371,204 | 1 | 3 | 22,361,282 | train | <story><title>Larry Tesler Has Died</title><url>https://gizmodo.com/larry-tessler-modeless-computing-advocate-has-passed-1841787408</url><text>Larry Tesler has died. Larry was in the middle of many of the most influential of Silicon Valley projects and an insightful contributor. See his Wikipedia biography for a snapshot. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Larry_Tesler" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Larry_Tesler</a></text></story><parent_chain><item><author>crobertsbmw</author><text>I still don’t get it.</text></item><item><author>dooglius</author><text>Ha, I was wondering how you managed to reverse the hash and then had a facepalm moment.</text></item><item><author>Jupe</author><text>Cute... 53414e544120414e442048495320574f524b53484f50 = SANTA AND HIS WORKSHOP</text></item><item><author>atdrummond</author><text>Larry kindly traded letters with me when I was a young man attempting to learn programming via Object Pascal. Eventually, my mom made me write him a check for all the postage he had spent. In addition to sending me at least two letters a week for just around a decade, he shipped me dozens of books and manuals. One year for the holidays, someone sent me 4 large FedEx boxes filled with networking gear I desperately needed for a “M”MORPG game I was building. The return label read “53414e544120414e442048495320574f524b53484f50”. In the game, players were elves scrambling to defeat a corrupted workshop. The final boss was S̶a̶t̶a̶n̶ Santa himself.<p>It was only when I was older that I appreciated that he had probably sent me thousands of dollars worth of gear (and not in 2020 dollars!) in addition to the invaluable advice he provided, sometimes (frankly, often) unsolicited but always direct and always thought provoking.<p>While I never did become an extremely competent commercial developer, to this day I enjoy programming for programming’s own sake. Larry’s push for me to fix my own headaches, rather than simply giving me a metaphorical aspirin, resulted in my development of solutions for small hobby problems that it appeared often only myself and perhaps a few others shared.<p>As it turns out, in spite of (or thanks to) my niche interests, my curiosity and the method of targeted problem solving Larry fostered set me on a path I remain on today. Frankly, his contributions helped mold me as a man more than those of any other mentor of mine; that is absolutely meant as a compliment to his prescient pedagogy, rather than a slight at my life’s many other wonderful influences.<p>I’ve sold a few businesses thanks to Larry’s problem solving approach. The rest I founded are running profitably - and somehow I’ve never lost an investor money. My customers have always, above all else, been happy because they had their problems fixed. (Or, perhaps thanks to his influence, their happiness stemmed from my teams simply providing them with the tools they needed to solve their own problems!)<p>And because I followed Larry’s personal advice, I have been able to spend every day for nearly two decades doing what he encouraged and what has consistently engaged me: finding, isolating and destroying problems.<p>Thank you for everything.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>sabujp</author><text>i use this one alot, it has various decryption tools and you can apply &quot;recipes&quot; : <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gchq.github.io&#x2F;CyberChef&#x2F;#recipe=From_Hex(&#x27;Auto&#x27;)&amp;input=NTM0MTRlNTQ0MTIwNDE0ZTQ0MjA0ODQ5NTMyMDU3NGY1MjRiNTM0ODRmNTA" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gchq.github.io&#x2F;CyberChef&#x2F;#recipe=From_Hex(&#x27;Auto&#x27;)&amp;in...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Larry Tesler Has Died</title><url>https://gizmodo.com/larry-tessler-modeless-computing-advocate-has-passed-1841787408</url><text>Larry Tesler has died. Larry was in the middle of many of the most influential of Silicon Valley projects and an insightful contributor. See his Wikipedia biography for a snapshot. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Larry_Tesler" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Larry_Tesler</a></text></story><parent_chain><item><author>crobertsbmw</author><text>I still don’t get it.</text></item><item><author>dooglius</author><text>Ha, I was wondering how you managed to reverse the hash and then had a facepalm moment.</text></item><item><author>Jupe</author><text>Cute... 53414e544120414e442048495320574f524b53484f50 = SANTA AND HIS WORKSHOP</text></item><item><author>atdrummond</author><text>Larry kindly traded letters with me when I was a young man attempting to learn programming via Object Pascal. Eventually, my mom made me write him a check for all the postage he had spent. In addition to sending me at least two letters a week for just around a decade, he shipped me dozens of books and manuals. One year for the holidays, someone sent me 4 large FedEx boxes filled with networking gear I desperately needed for a “M”MORPG game I was building. The return label read “53414e544120414e442048495320574f524b53484f50”. In the game, players were elves scrambling to defeat a corrupted workshop. The final boss was S̶a̶t̶a̶n̶ Santa himself.<p>It was only when I was older that I appreciated that he had probably sent me thousands of dollars worth of gear (and not in 2020 dollars!) in addition to the invaluable advice he provided, sometimes (frankly, often) unsolicited but always direct and always thought provoking.<p>While I never did become an extremely competent commercial developer, to this day I enjoy programming for programming’s own sake. Larry’s push for me to fix my own headaches, rather than simply giving me a metaphorical aspirin, resulted in my development of solutions for small hobby problems that it appeared often only myself and perhaps a few others shared.<p>As it turns out, in spite of (or thanks to) my niche interests, my curiosity and the method of targeted problem solving Larry fostered set me on a path I remain on today. Frankly, his contributions helped mold me as a man more than those of any other mentor of mine; that is absolutely meant as a compliment to his prescient pedagogy, rather than a slight at my life’s many other wonderful influences.<p>I’ve sold a few businesses thanks to Larry’s problem solving approach. The rest I founded are running profitably - and somehow I’ve never lost an investor money. My customers have always, above all else, been happy because they had their problems fixed. (Or, perhaps thanks to his influence, their happiness stemmed from my teams simply providing them with the tools they needed to solve their own problems!)<p>And because I followed Larry’s personal advice, I have been able to spend every day for nearly two decades doing what he encouraged and what has consistently engaged me: finding, isolating and destroying problems.<p>Thank you for everything.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>akavi</author><text>It&#x27;s hexadecimal ascii</text></comment> |
22,773,584 | 22,773,831 | 1 | 2 | 22,773,164 | train | <story><title>Facebook wanted NSO spyware to monitor users, NSO CEO claims</title><url>https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/pke9k9/facebook-wanted-nso-spyware-to-monitor-users</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>packetslave</author><text>And here&#x27;s the Facebook response from that same article that you neglected to include:<p>&quot;NSO is trying to distract from the facts Facebook and WhatsApp filed in court over six months ago. Their attempt to avoid responsibility includes inaccurate representations about both their spyware and a discussion with people who work at Facebook. Our lawsuit describes how NSO is responsible for attacking over 100 human rights activists and journalists around the world. NSO CEO Shalev Hulio has admitted his company can attack devices without a user knowing and he can see who has been targeted with Pegasus. We look forward to proving our case against NSO in court and seeking accountability for their actions,&quot; the statement from a Facebook spokesperson read.</text></item><item><author>blakesterz</author><text>The original report is from Vice:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.vice.com&#x2F;en_us&#x2F;article&#x2F;pke9k9&#x2F;facebook-wanted-nso-spyware-to-monitor-users" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.vice.com&#x2F;en_us&#x2F;article&#x2F;pke9k9&#x2F;facebook-wanted-ns...</a><p>&quot;The Facebook representatives stated that Facebook was concerned that its method for gathering user data through Onavo Protect was less effective on Apple devices than on Android devices,&quot; the court filing reads. &quot;The Facebook representatives also stated that Facebook wanted to use purported capabilities of Pegasus to monitor users on Apple devices and were willing to pay for the ability to monitor Onavo Protect users.&quot;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mfer</author><text>2 notes about the parent. 1) The parent is written by an employee at Facebook and 2) it does not deny the claim instead redirecting the readers attention.<p>None of this makes the original claim true or false. I&#x27;ll be curious to see what comes to light around that. I just like to notice these subtle things.</text></comment> | <story><title>Facebook wanted NSO spyware to monitor users, NSO CEO claims</title><url>https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/pke9k9/facebook-wanted-nso-spyware-to-monitor-users</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>packetslave</author><text>And here&#x27;s the Facebook response from that same article that you neglected to include:<p>&quot;NSO is trying to distract from the facts Facebook and WhatsApp filed in court over six months ago. Their attempt to avoid responsibility includes inaccurate representations about both their spyware and a discussion with people who work at Facebook. Our lawsuit describes how NSO is responsible for attacking over 100 human rights activists and journalists around the world. NSO CEO Shalev Hulio has admitted his company can attack devices without a user knowing and he can see who has been targeted with Pegasus. We look forward to proving our case against NSO in court and seeking accountability for their actions,&quot; the statement from a Facebook spokesperson read.</text></item><item><author>blakesterz</author><text>The original report is from Vice:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.vice.com&#x2F;en_us&#x2F;article&#x2F;pke9k9&#x2F;facebook-wanted-nso-spyware-to-monitor-users" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.vice.com&#x2F;en_us&#x2F;article&#x2F;pke9k9&#x2F;facebook-wanted-ns...</a><p>&quot;The Facebook representatives stated that Facebook was concerned that its method for gathering user data through Onavo Protect was less effective on Apple devices than on Android devices,&quot; the court filing reads. &quot;The Facebook representatives also stated that Facebook wanted to use purported capabilities of Pegasus to monitor users on Apple devices and were willing to pay for the ability to monitor Onavo Protect users.&quot;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>georgespencer</author><text>None of this seems to refute OP&#x27;s comment.</text></comment> |
22,393,846 | 22,393,907 | 1 | 2 | 22,387,906 | train | <story><title>Follow-up to “The dystopian world of software engineering interviews”</title><url>https://www.jarednelsen.dev/posts/what-to-do-when-you-reach-number-1-on-hacker-news</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ipnon</author><text>What is tragic here is the amount of effort that is now expended by young computer scientists into the game of algorithms. Whereas a young programmer in the past may have spent their extra days writing games in Basic or static web pages, hackers these days seem to do Leetcode until the wheels come off.<p>We are failing to bring certain softwares into existence by effectively requiring programmers to their effort into the World Wide Nether, finding the Kth smallest element in an unsorted BST for the millionth time, for seemingly no purpose except for it is &quot;how things must unfortunately be done.&quot;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>PragmaticPulp</author><text>&gt; What is tragic here is the amount of effort that is now expended by young computer scientists into the game of algorithms.<p>This is a funny topic to me. A decade ago, before Leetcode, Hackerrank, and <i>Cracking The Coding Interview</i>, it was common for developers to complain that software developers were losing touch with algorithmic knowledge. HN-type websites were full of discussions about clueless software engineers doing damage to companies by implementing O(n^2) algorithms that worked fine on small datasets but failed in production. It was popular to complain that modern libraries, frameworks, and programming languages were making developers too soft to write good code.<p>The industry responded by re-emphasizing the value of CS fundamentals and algorithmic knowledge. The training industry responded with easy tools to teach and learn these algorithms. The internet is full of easily accessible materials to teach these principles to anyone motivated enough to Google it.<p>Now, the popular narrative has flipped. Internet comment sections want to hate algorithms and suggest that programmers don&#x27;t need to understand the basics. Just rely on the frameworks and libraries to do the right thing. Just Google the solution and weave the libraries together to do what you want.<p>&gt; Whereas a young programmer in the past may have spent their extra days writing games in Basic or static web pages, hackers these days seem to do Leetcode until the wheels come off.<p>Young programmers don&#x27;t wake up in the morning and choose between writing static web pages or grinding leetcode. There are more opportunities than ever before to learn whatever you want.<p>Have you actually worked with students lately? Leetcode style systems are a lot of fun for people. It&#x27;s a straight to the point system that teaches algorithms and other fundamentals in self-contained brain teasers that are straight to the point. And it&#x27;s trivially easy to Google for supporting training material. In my experience, the same people who are self-motivated enough to build web pages and games are frequently also interested in Leetcode style brain teasers.<p>People aren&#x27;t choosing between one or the other. That&#x27;s a false dichotomy. All of the highly driven students I&#x27;ve worked with have a range of experience from toy projects to Leetcode style learning challenges.</text></comment> | <story><title>Follow-up to “The dystopian world of software engineering interviews”</title><url>https://www.jarednelsen.dev/posts/what-to-do-when-you-reach-number-1-on-hacker-news</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ipnon</author><text>What is tragic here is the amount of effort that is now expended by young computer scientists into the game of algorithms. Whereas a young programmer in the past may have spent their extra days writing games in Basic or static web pages, hackers these days seem to do Leetcode until the wheels come off.<p>We are failing to bring certain softwares into existence by effectively requiring programmers to their effort into the World Wide Nether, finding the Kth smallest element in an unsorted BST for the millionth time, for seemingly no purpose except for it is &quot;how things must unfortunately be done.&quot;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dpbriggs</author><text>Hey, those people still exist. Myself and a few other people I know got their start making terrible games in python.<p>Heck I was too young when I started learning lisp (clojure). Took a long time to get used to non-functional constructs.<p>Things definitely changed once I got to university though. Competition for internships meant I had to get good at interviewing. The CS program I am in encourages the career focused so grinding leetcode is popular. One of my interviewers asked me a number, and used that to retrieve the n&#x27;th leetcode question from memory.<p>There does exist a small cadre of people, myself included, who find leetcode and similar interview grinds unethical. I&#x27;d rather spend my time having a life or learning&#x2F;building interesting tech. Interviews are then less of a performance art and instead a genuine 1-1 to work through a problem.</text></comment> |
6,472,449 | 6,472,536 | 1 | 3 | 6,471,697 | train | <story><title>BitTorrent Chat - Private instant messaging via secure, distributed technology</title><url>http://labs.bittorrent.com/experiments/bittorrent-chat.html</url><text></text></story><parent_chain><item><author>utnick</author><text>There has been a lot of interesting development on the secure chat front lately ( secure circle, textsecure, heml.is, cryptocat etc ).<p>Not sure if bittorrent chat will be very interesting. Most secure chat clients encrypt on the client side so the server won&#x27;t be able to read your messages, so not sure if not having a server is that big of a win here. I&#x27;m also guessing metadata would be exposed to various people on the bittorrent chat p2p net.<p>The one I&#x27;m most excited about right now is bitmessage. It is the only chat protocol that I feel is really revolutionary. It is also a p2p network, but the interesting thing about it is that everyone on the network gets every message ( obviously you have to have the correct keys to decrypt the messages that were meant for you ). So its impossible for an observer to tell even who is talking to who. Also they have the concept of public chans , which I think are a good mechanism to draw users. Bittorrent could do the same thing here.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>hershel</author><text>In theory , bitmessage looks cool. But according to a review:<p>&quot;
Although it is very nice that people are working on creating secure and anonymous messaging systems, I am afraid that BitMessage is weak to a variety of attacks. I fear that the people working on it do not have sufficient expertise, in the fields of security and anonymity, to design and implement a proper cryptographic communications system + anonymity network. After reading the two design .pdf documents, I have identified a variety of weaknesses and overall poor design choices in the BitMessage protocol.
&quot;<p>And he continues to show those weaknesses.<p><a href="https://bitmessage.org/forum/index.php?topic=1666.0" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;bitmessage.org&#x2F;forum&#x2F;index.php?topic=1666.0</a></text></comment> | <story><title>BitTorrent Chat - Private instant messaging via secure, distributed technology</title><url>http://labs.bittorrent.com/experiments/bittorrent-chat.html</url><text></text></story><parent_chain><item><author>utnick</author><text>There has been a lot of interesting development on the secure chat front lately ( secure circle, textsecure, heml.is, cryptocat etc ).<p>Not sure if bittorrent chat will be very interesting. Most secure chat clients encrypt on the client side so the server won&#x27;t be able to read your messages, so not sure if not having a server is that big of a win here. I&#x27;m also guessing metadata would be exposed to various people on the bittorrent chat p2p net.<p>The one I&#x27;m most excited about right now is bitmessage. It is the only chat protocol that I feel is really revolutionary. It is also a p2p network, but the interesting thing about it is that everyone on the network gets every message ( obviously you have to have the correct keys to decrypt the messages that were meant for you ). So its impossible for an observer to tell even who is talking to who. Also they have the concept of public chans , which I think are a good mechanism to draw users. Bittorrent could do the same thing here.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>AJ007</author><text>Correction its called Silent Circle, not secure circle.<p>I&#x27;m happy to see the surge of interest and new projects, but most of the offerings are between embarrassing and pathetic. Either the concept is being exploited for marketing purposes, the individuals involved just aren&#x27;t appropriately skilled at what they are doing, or there are actual nefarious purposes. (I would agree, Bitmessage, and similar schemes could prove to be the best of the bunch.)<p>One could respond this is just paranoia, secure software doesn&#x27;t really need to be open source. Or, we should trust someone because they did something very good in their past. What the NSA leak showed us is that paranoia is real.<p>Politics aside, and I&#x27;ve said this here before, this isn&#x27;t just an issue of the NSA. For 99%+ of individuals, what the NSA is doing isn&#x27;t going to damage them personally. However, those techniques damn well can. What the NSA is doing, other intelligence services are doing too. In some circumstances private companies are doing it as well. It doesn&#x27;t matter if you aren&#x27;t a terrorist, if you work on anything that could be very interesting or very profitable you are at a real risk of being targeted for electronic spying.<p>Standards need to be established:<p>a) If its closed source, it can not be audited and thus can be considered neither secure or insecure.<p>b) If it forces automated updates, it can not be secure.<p>c) If it runs on a leaky platform (all mobile devices so far) it can not be secure.<p>That should tell us, in my opinion, that the number one goal of secure chat would be a secure mobile platform -- that includes both operating system and hardware. If you take a look at the fine print on Replicant, the fully free version of Android, you&#x27;ll notice nearly every supported phone has major potential holes, save for one really ugly looking thing.</text></comment> |
27,675,357 | 27,675,220 | 1 | 2 | 27,674,413 | train | <story><title>MIT and Harvard agree to transfer edX to ed-tech firm 2U</title><url>https://news.mit.edu/2021/mit-harvard-transfer-edx-2u-0629</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>wodenokoto</author><text>&gt; Breaking courses into useless 2-minute chunks and constant unhelpful quizzes. I really just want to hear the lecturer speak for 20-30 minutes at a time uninterrupted, especially if I&#x27;m listening while doing dishes etc.<p>I disagree. If you’re doing dishes you are not taking a college level course. One of the best things about digital courses is that you don’t have to spend an hour zoning out to a professor talking and then spend a day doing exercises, but the two can be intertwined and knowledge can be cemented.<p>Of course it can be done terribly. But the best online courses I’ve taken have split things up into small chunks with relevant exercises.</text></item><item><author>benrbray</author><text>I tried to use edX for the first time recently to take a &quot;food science&quot; course, but was disappointed to see that they&#x27;ve resorted to the same dark patterns as Coursera and others, such as:<p>* Removing your access to course materials when the class is done, and disallowing access to past versions of the class.<p>* Pressuring you into joining as many courses as possible, due to fear of missing out. When you visit the site, every course says &quot;Course began ($TODAY-5)&quot; to make you feel like &quot;wow, I got here just in time! I better sign up for everything!&quot;.<p>* Breaking courses into useless 2-minute chunks and constant unhelpful quizzes. I really just want to hear the lecturer speak for 20-30 minutes at a time uninterrupted, especially if I&#x27;m listening while doing dishes etc.<p>* An unsettling UI that feels less like it&#x27;s about presenting information in a compact and&#x2F;or digestible way and more like it&#x27;s tracking my every move and waiting for an opportunity to pounce. Everything is a button or clickthrough menu that requires interaction.<p>Thankfully MIT OpenCourseWare still has plenty of lecture videos &#x2F; course materials available. But I&#x27;m quite afraid for the future.</text></item><item><author>brutus1213</author><text>This seems like terrible news :( After the focus on monetization of platforms such as udemy and coursera, edx seemed to give me a sliver of hope that education will be open. Given the immense trust funds held by Harvard and MIT, I had hoped money would not be a factor and these institutions would be able to develop their platform in the open.<p>I&#x27;d like to add .. non-profit does not mean free to end users. There are many good non-profits and there are many terrible ones (highly paid execs, insane amount of money spent on marketing).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>benrbray</author><text>&gt; I disagree.<p>That&#x27;s something we have in common :). My disagreement spans a few dimensions:<p>* I&#x27;ve already been through school. An undergraduate and graduate degree already taught me how to learn. I have good habits, and I know how to buckle down and study when needed. For me, I find that having something to do with my hands while listening to a lecture actually helps me stay more focused on the topic. Before and after watching, I like to review the slides, do some reading, and take notes.<p>* I already have degrees. I&#x27;m not looking for extra credential. I&#x27;m just looking to learn something new from someone qualified to teach me who can filter out what&#x27;s important and what&#x27;s not. It would be nice to have the opportunity to listen without necessarily jumping through all the hoops of a normal college class.<p>* Sometimes I already have background knowledge that overlaps with the course content. In these cases, it&#x27;s <i>really</i> frustrating when a course won&#x27;t let me skip around and focus on the topics that I want to learn. The quickest way to get me to drop an online course is to make me sit through lecture content that I&#x27;ve already learned before somewhere else.<p>* Different students learn in different ways. You might like that the frequent quiz interruptions hold you accountable. That&#x27;s great! For me, I don&#x27;t find it too helpful. Usually the mid-lecture quizzes are simple &quot;are you listening?&quot; questions that don&#x27;t really test your deep understanding. I&#x27;d rather go through a set of exercises all at once after listening to the lecture.<p>Basically, I see no reason online courses can&#x27;t be structured to give us more choices about how we want to consume the content!</text></comment> | <story><title>MIT and Harvard agree to transfer edX to ed-tech firm 2U</title><url>https://news.mit.edu/2021/mit-harvard-transfer-edx-2u-0629</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>wodenokoto</author><text>&gt; Breaking courses into useless 2-minute chunks and constant unhelpful quizzes. I really just want to hear the lecturer speak for 20-30 minutes at a time uninterrupted, especially if I&#x27;m listening while doing dishes etc.<p>I disagree. If you’re doing dishes you are not taking a college level course. One of the best things about digital courses is that you don’t have to spend an hour zoning out to a professor talking and then spend a day doing exercises, but the two can be intertwined and knowledge can be cemented.<p>Of course it can be done terribly. But the best online courses I’ve taken have split things up into small chunks with relevant exercises.</text></item><item><author>benrbray</author><text>I tried to use edX for the first time recently to take a &quot;food science&quot; course, but was disappointed to see that they&#x27;ve resorted to the same dark patterns as Coursera and others, such as:<p>* Removing your access to course materials when the class is done, and disallowing access to past versions of the class.<p>* Pressuring you into joining as many courses as possible, due to fear of missing out. When you visit the site, every course says &quot;Course began ($TODAY-5)&quot; to make you feel like &quot;wow, I got here just in time! I better sign up for everything!&quot;.<p>* Breaking courses into useless 2-minute chunks and constant unhelpful quizzes. I really just want to hear the lecturer speak for 20-30 minutes at a time uninterrupted, especially if I&#x27;m listening while doing dishes etc.<p>* An unsettling UI that feels less like it&#x27;s about presenting information in a compact and&#x2F;or digestible way and more like it&#x27;s tracking my every move and waiting for an opportunity to pounce. Everything is a button or clickthrough menu that requires interaction.<p>Thankfully MIT OpenCourseWare still has plenty of lecture videos &#x2F; course materials available. But I&#x27;m quite afraid for the future.</text></item><item><author>brutus1213</author><text>This seems like terrible news :( After the focus on monetization of platforms such as udemy and coursera, edx seemed to give me a sliver of hope that education will be open. Given the immense trust funds held by Harvard and MIT, I had hoped money would not be a factor and these institutions would be able to develop their platform in the open.<p>I&#x27;d like to add .. non-profit does not mean free to end users. There are many good non-profits and there are many terrible ones (highly paid execs, insane amount of money spent on marketing).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>lmohseni</author><text>&gt; If you’re doing dishes you are not taking a college level course.<p>Sometimes I like to listen to a lecture 2 or 3 or even more times. Sometimes I like to listen to a lecture when I&#x27;m going for a run. Sometimes I like to listen while I&#x27;m doing chores. Seems presumptuous to say I&#x27;m &quot;not taking the course&quot; when we know that learning styles vary so much between individuals.</text></comment> |
27,897,919 | 27,897,883 | 1 | 3 | 27,897,427 | train | <story><title>SQLite is 35% Faster Than The Filesystem (2017)</title><url>https://www.sqlite.org/fasterthanfs.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jjoonathan</author><text>It isn&#x27;t just Windows 10, as far as I know every version of windows has always wanted to spend like a minute (or multiple minutes!) slowly counting the files before it proceeds to slowly delete them one by one... until it finds one that&#x27;s open in a background process and nixes the whole operation in a half complete state. 5 times slower sounds conservative. It&#x27;s awful.<p>Hey, maybe they could put rounded corners on the file deletion window, I bet that would fix it!</text></item><item><author>laurent123456</author><text>Is it a known issue that the filesystem on Windows 10 is so slow? Being 5 times slower than macOS was roughly my experience but I thought there was just something wrong with my Windows laptop. I can&#x27;t find any benchmark or explanation about this.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mikestew</author><text>The only reason I&#x27;m posting on HN right now is because I dared to right-click a folder on a network share. <i>MyFolderName (not responding)</i>, whelp, guess I&#x27;ll go fuck off for 60 seconds while every item in that shortcut menu opens a network connection, navigates to...or whatever the hell it&#x27;s doing. Yeah, I know, use the CLI. OTOH, I argue: fix your broken UI.<p>I worked at MSFT for eight years as a full-time, Flavorade-guzzling employee, and fifteen years later rarely a day goes by that I don&#x27;t question how Microsoft manages to get anyone to buy that steaming pile they call an operating system.</text></comment> | <story><title>SQLite is 35% Faster Than The Filesystem (2017)</title><url>https://www.sqlite.org/fasterthanfs.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jjoonathan</author><text>It isn&#x27;t just Windows 10, as far as I know every version of windows has always wanted to spend like a minute (or multiple minutes!) slowly counting the files before it proceeds to slowly delete them one by one... until it finds one that&#x27;s open in a background process and nixes the whole operation in a half complete state. 5 times slower sounds conservative. It&#x27;s awful.<p>Hey, maybe they could put rounded corners on the file deletion window, I bet that would fix it!</text></item><item><author>laurent123456</author><text>Is it a known issue that the filesystem on Windows 10 is so slow? Being 5 times slower than macOS was roughly my experience but I thought there was just something wrong with my Windows laptop. I can&#x27;t find any benchmark or explanation about this.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tyingq</author><text>I think that&#x27;s warts in the file explorer more so than warts in the system itself.</text></comment> |
20,954,464 | 20,951,358 | 1 | 2 | 20,948,434 | train | <story><title>Ban kids from loot box gambling in games</title><url>https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-49661870</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>scandinavegan</author><text>No, you did good! He needs to learn how to handle this and you&#x27;re right there guiding him.<p>I have the same situation with my six-year old son and Rocket League loot boxes. He wants to spend all his limited money on them, I think he&#x27;s wasting it, especially since I see the disappointment when he doesn&#x27;t get the things he want, but that&#x27;s a learning experience. It&#x27;s worse when he once in a while gets a cool skin, because in his eyes it makes it all worth it.<p>I see the money I give him as teaching opportunities. Kids will get in touch with these mechanics as they grow up, and now you have the chance to talk to him about it. Discuss it over and over, it&#x27;s not a one-time thing, and you&#x27;ve made no permanent damage. Let him know you think it&#x27;s not worth it, but I wouldn&#x27;t put a permanent ban on it, as it may make it even more appealing. If he wants other (real-life) stuff later, remind him that he already spent his money on loot boxes and I think they will lose their appeal a bit.</text></item><item><author>ian0</author><text>Myself and my son play Apex legends. Its an online multiplayer game thats free, but you can optionally pay to unlock cosmetic items like character outfits (skins) etc.<p>He came into some cash recently courtesy of the tooth fairy and asked if we could buy a skin for his favorite character. I said ok. However after id purchased some in game coins we realised that we couldn&#x27;t actually buy the skin he wanted, instead we had to buy 10 boxes with random contents that could potentially contain a skin similar to the one he wanted.<p>Watching his excitement opening up the boxes and his eventual disappointment at not receiving the one he wanted - plus subsequent enthusiasm to buy more coins courtesy of some lesser items granted, I realised Id made a horrible mistake. Id basically introduced a virtual pub gambling machine to a young kid. This sort of stuff is horrible.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dragontamer</author><text>Its called a skinnerbox: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Operant_conditioning_chamber" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Operant_conditioning_chamber</a><p>Fully grown ADULTS fall prey to skinnerboxes (aka: Slot Machines) all the time. Its basic human psychology (heck: the skinnerbox is effective on virtually all Birds and Mammals). Its extremely fundamental to the function of the modern biological brain.<p>Its literally a &quot;brain hack&quot;. This isn&#x27;t some &quot;willpower away&quot; sort of training. This is literally how your brain, and your children&#x27;s brain works. As well as how your dog&#x27;s brain, and the bird&#x27;s brains and the cats brains, and deer brains.<p>The only winning move is to not play. Its literally hopeless if you get sucked into a skinner box. You can&#x27;t beat the biological functions of what your brain is designed to do.<p>--------<p>I don&#x27;t think there&#x27;s &quot;long term damage&quot; to be suffered here. Human brains, just like the brains of any mammal (or bird), are prone to operant conditioning. If you RANDOMLY give a reward when a subject (be it human, mammal, or bird) pushes a button, the subject will continue to push the button over and over again.<p>Its just biology.<p>EDIT: And random-rewards are far stronger than consistent rewards. If a reward is consistent, then when it &quot;stops&quot;, the subject believes that the pattern is over. But if the reward was Random, then the subject will continue pushing the button even long after the pattern has stopped or been modified.</text></comment> | <story><title>Ban kids from loot box gambling in games</title><url>https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-49661870</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>scandinavegan</author><text>No, you did good! He needs to learn how to handle this and you&#x27;re right there guiding him.<p>I have the same situation with my six-year old son and Rocket League loot boxes. He wants to spend all his limited money on them, I think he&#x27;s wasting it, especially since I see the disappointment when he doesn&#x27;t get the things he want, but that&#x27;s a learning experience. It&#x27;s worse when he once in a while gets a cool skin, because in his eyes it makes it all worth it.<p>I see the money I give him as teaching opportunities. Kids will get in touch with these mechanics as they grow up, and now you have the chance to talk to him about it. Discuss it over and over, it&#x27;s not a one-time thing, and you&#x27;ve made no permanent damage. Let him know you think it&#x27;s not worth it, but I wouldn&#x27;t put a permanent ban on it, as it may make it even more appealing. If he wants other (real-life) stuff later, remind him that he already spent his money on loot boxes and I think they will lose their appeal a bit.</text></item><item><author>ian0</author><text>Myself and my son play Apex legends. Its an online multiplayer game thats free, but you can optionally pay to unlock cosmetic items like character outfits (skins) etc.<p>He came into some cash recently courtesy of the tooth fairy and asked if we could buy a skin for his favorite character. I said ok. However after id purchased some in game coins we realised that we couldn&#x27;t actually buy the skin he wanted, instead we had to buy 10 boxes with random contents that could potentially contain a skin similar to the one he wanted.<p>Watching his excitement opening up the boxes and his eventual disappointment at not receiving the one he wanted - plus subsequent enthusiasm to buy more coins courtesy of some lesser items granted, I realised Id made a horrible mistake. Id basically introduced a virtual pub gambling machine to a young kid. This sort of stuff is horrible.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jbms</author><text>There is permanent damage if you rewire your kids brain chemistry to get addicted to the near-miss of getting something good. Logical explanations don&#x27;t undo that.<p>I understand from a Louis Theroux documentary on gambling addicts that it is the feeling of the near miss that is actually addictive and not the feeling of the win. Gambling addicts are used to winning and so they don&#x27;t get a buzz from that.</text></comment> |
5,904,113 | 5,901,868 | 1 | 2 | 5,898,506 | train | <story><title>Ultimate Tic Tac Toe</title><url>http://mathwithbaddrawings.com/2013/06/16/ultimate-tic-tac-toe/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>matchu</author><text>Here&#x27;s an implementation that pretty much does exactly that. If someone can beat this bot, lemme know: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.khanacademy.org&#x2F;cs&#x2F;in-tic-tac-toe-ception-perfect&#x2F;1681243068" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.khanacademy.org&#x2F;cs&#x2F;in-tic-tac-toe-ception-perfec...</a><p>And here&#x27;s James Irwin&#x27;s original implementation, auto-set to a Monte-Carlo AI and with a rules variation that (to my knowledge) prevents Perfect Bot from winning. Play with the config variables at the top for some other AIs and 2-player games and whatnot. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.khanacademy.org&#x2F;cs&#x2F;in-tic-tac-toe-ception&#x2F;1676336506" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.khanacademy.org&#x2F;cs&#x2F;in-tic-tac-toe-ception&#x2F;167633...</a></text></item><item><author>quesera</author><text>I think the Orwin gambit can be extended to win the game every time.<p>- Force opponent to fill center miniboard, as he describes.<p>- Force opponent to fill (e.g.) northeast corner in the same way. Opponent now has taken two miniboards, and you have none, but you are one turn away from taking each of the remaining seven.<p>- Pick SW corner of SW corner. You have taken SW corner miniboard. Opponent is forced to play in same SW miniboard, already won by you.<p>- Pick SW corner of S. You have taken S miniboard. Opponent is forced to play in SW corner again, already won by you.<p>- Pick SW corner of SE corner. You have taken SE corner miniboard.<p>- Done. You win.<p>Like regular tictactoe, there is an advantage to going first. Unlike regular tictactoe, the advantage can&#x27;t be compensated for. Otoh, the second player can use the same strategy with a little more carefulness, as long as they start early.<p>So either player can force the other into a protracted certain loss, unless there&#x27;s an agreement or a rule against it. That&#x27;s no fun.<p>EDIT: actually, you can win every time, in far fewer moves, and not using the Orwin gambit at all. It&#x27;s not necessary to force your opponent to <i>fill</i> any of the miniboards, not even the center.<p>I think this will win in ten moves and never lose driver control (excuse the notation): C&#x2F;C, C&#x2F;SW, C&#x2F;S, [opponent takes C], C&#x2F;SE, NE&#x2F;SW, NE&#x2F;S, NE&#x2F;SE, [opponent takes NE], SW&#x2F;SW [you take SW], SW&#x2F;S [you take S], SW&#x2F;SE [you take SE, and win]. A variation can be used by either player early in the game, but whoever starts with control would be foolish to lose it.<p>If this is a game played by mathematicians, either I&#x27;m wrong, or there are additional rules. :)<p>EDIT2: C&#x2F;C (first move above) is unnecessary. Nine moves. Perfect inning.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>NKCSS</author><text>Well, if the game would be changed to disallow &#x27;moves&#x27; in won sections, you&#x27;d have a completely different game where this &#x27;exploit&#x27; of opponent trapping does not work.</text></comment> | <story><title>Ultimate Tic Tac Toe</title><url>http://mathwithbaddrawings.com/2013/06/16/ultimate-tic-tac-toe/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>matchu</author><text>Here&#x27;s an implementation that pretty much does exactly that. If someone can beat this bot, lemme know: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.khanacademy.org&#x2F;cs&#x2F;in-tic-tac-toe-ception-perfect&#x2F;1681243068" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.khanacademy.org&#x2F;cs&#x2F;in-tic-tac-toe-ception-perfec...</a><p>And here&#x27;s James Irwin&#x27;s original implementation, auto-set to a Monte-Carlo AI and with a rules variation that (to my knowledge) prevents Perfect Bot from winning. Play with the config variables at the top for some other AIs and 2-player games and whatnot. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.khanacademy.org&#x2F;cs&#x2F;in-tic-tac-toe-ception&#x2F;1676336506" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.khanacademy.org&#x2F;cs&#x2F;in-tic-tac-toe-ception&#x2F;167633...</a></text></item><item><author>quesera</author><text>I think the Orwin gambit can be extended to win the game every time.<p>- Force opponent to fill center miniboard, as he describes.<p>- Force opponent to fill (e.g.) northeast corner in the same way. Opponent now has taken two miniboards, and you have none, but you are one turn away from taking each of the remaining seven.<p>- Pick SW corner of SW corner. You have taken SW corner miniboard. Opponent is forced to play in same SW miniboard, already won by you.<p>- Pick SW corner of S. You have taken S miniboard. Opponent is forced to play in SW corner again, already won by you.<p>- Pick SW corner of SE corner. You have taken SE corner miniboard.<p>- Done. You win.<p>Like regular tictactoe, there is an advantage to going first. Unlike regular tictactoe, the advantage can&#x27;t be compensated for. Otoh, the second player can use the same strategy with a little more carefulness, as long as they start early.<p>So either player can force the other into a protracted certain loss, unless there&#x27;s an agreement or a rule against it. That&#x27;s no fun.<p>EDIT: actually, you can win every time, in far fewer moves, and not using the Orwin gambit at all. It&#x27;s not necessary to force your opponent to <i>fill</i> any of the miniboards, not even the center.<p>I think this will win in ten moves and never lose driver control (excuse the notation): C&#x2F;C, C&#x2F;SW, C&#x2F;S, [opponent takes C], C&#x2F;SE, NE&#x2F;SW, NE&#x2F;S, NE&#x2F;SE, [opponent takes NE], SW&#x2F;SW [you take SW], SW&#x2F;S [you take S], SW&#x2F;SE [you take SE, and win]. A variation can be used by either player early in the game, but whoever starts with control would be foolish to lose it.<p>If this is a game played by mathematicians, either I&#x27;m wrong, or there are additional rules. :)<p>EDIT2: C&#x2F;C (first move above) is unnecessary. Nine moves. Perfect inning.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nkoren</author><text>The first one is beatable if -- and only if, I believe -- a square with two three-in-a-rows in it counts as both an X and an O. If this is the case, then O can win one round before X has a chance to it. But otherwise -- as you have it configured, where the first to get a three-in-a-row sets the larger square to either an X or an O -- it&#x27;s unbeatable.</text></comment> |
11,002,864 | 11,002,759 | 1 | 2 | 11,001,705 | train | <story><title>Obama Pledges $4B to Computer Science in US Schools</title><url>http://www.wired.com/2016/01/obama-pledges-4-billion-to-computer-science-in-us-schools/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>throwaway420</author><text>People are intelligent in many different ways and I don&#x27;t believe that most people have the abstract thinking skills necessary to really thrive in computer science.<p>Forcing everybody to take part in computer science education is probably going to frustrate the hell out of most people (make them feel stupid and annoyed at having to do this stuff) and dumb down the curriculum for the small percentage of kids who would naturally thrive at this stuff.<p>Also, given the insanity in the education field, I don&#x27;t see too many actually good computer science teachers wanting to be there even if more money is being thrown around. If I had to guess, a lot more career minded Machiavellian types are going to be trying to grab onto the gravy train and get some of these gigs and the side effect of this will be that the kids get even crappier teachers.<p>Like most government programs, on the surface this sounds good. I could very well be wrong, but like most government programs it will probably end up costing more money than planned and have the opposite of its intended effect.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>codingdave</author><text>Most people are not going to be novelists, but all students learn to write. Most people are not going to be mathematicians, but they all learn basic math. Sure, if you are bad at it, it will frustrate you. Go talk to any 10 year old and you will find this is already true for existing subject. Pick any subject - learning it in school doesn&#x27;t mean you are going to do it for a career, but it is part of education so that you understand enough to get by in a world where those subjects are important. It is also an opportunity for kids who do excel at it to learn that at a younger age and have more time to develop their abilities. but we are talking about basic education, not bootcamps to turn every kid into a coder.<p>Also, the existing programs are finding that you don&#x27;t need, or even want, computer science teachers to be teaching kids. You want professional educators, who understand children and their development, to teach kids. Again, we&#x27;re talking a basic level of curriculum, so having a professional elementary educator learn a new curriculum is working quite well already.<p>As far as actually developing that curriculum, code.org is a really good basis for it, which many local programs are using. most supplement it with additional material, and I know of at least one program that is funding grants to districts to develop their own local programs, while at the same time formalizing curriculum in a way that they can be shared nationwide with districts that have not yet had the resources to create their own.<p>This is not a new idea coming from the government that needs to be tried - it is an existing idea already succeeding in some districts that may receive funding to expand.</text></comment> | <story><title>Obama Pledges $4B to Computer Science in US Schools</title><url>http://www.wired.com/2016/01/obama-pledges-4-billion-to-computer-science-in-us-schools/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>throwaway420</author><text>People are intelligent in many different ways and I don&#x27;t believe that most people have the abstract thinking skills necessary to really thrive in computer science.<p>Forcing everybody to take part in computer science education is probably going to frustrate the hell out of most people (make them feel stupid and annoyed at having to do this stuff) and dumb down the curriculum for the small percentage of kids who would naturally thrive at this stuff.<p>Also, given the insanity in the education field, I don&#x27;t see too many actually good computer science teachers wanting to be there even if more money is being thrown around. If I had to guess, a lot more career minded Machiavellian types are going to be trying to grab onto the gravy train and get some of these gigs and the side effect of this will be that the kids get even crappier teachers.<p>Like most government programs, on the surface this sounds good. I could very well be wrong, but like most government programs it will probably end up costing more money than planned and have the opposite of its intended effect.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>wfo</author><text>I think you&#x27;re overestimating how hard CS is compared to other fields (hint: it&#x27;s not harder). They teach calculus in high school. And calculus-based physics. They have autoshop and woodshop which is honestly very similar to the kind of CS I would imagine high school students learning (understanding systems, debugging, building them, learning which pieces fit where and how to make them do what you want, following tutorials and being able to figure things out when they go wrong)</text></comment> |
37,265,688 | 37,265,546 | 1 | 2 | 37,263,827 | train | <story><title>UBC device uses wood dust to trap up to 99.9 per cent of microplastics in water</title><url>https://news.ubc.ca/2023/08/16/microplastic-pollution-plants-could-be-the-answer/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>hosh</author><text>There is a researcher named John Todd whose work has been able to break down DDT in a matter of weeks.<p>In this video, he gives a talk about some various projects. In the first one, he uses these methods to clean up a site contaminated with the top 15 pollutants (at least at the time). Heavy metal were sequestered by algea; 14 of the 15 toxins were below detectable levels, and the 15th was reduced by 99.999%; solids were eaten by armored carp. The output is drinking standard water, and it takes 10 days for the contaminated water to flow through the system.<p>The key design principle is putting many species across all five kingdoms, from different biomes, and they start self-organizing around the pollutants. The resulting communities break down the pollutant, but are all new.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;SeQotnmhO5I" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;SeQotnmhO5I</a><p>In a different interview, he talks about microplastics — and while he has not worked on it, he believes a solution can be found in incorporating all five kingdoms. So not just sequestering them, but breaking them down so they can be useful in the ecosystem again.</text></comment> | <story><title>UBC device uses wood dust to trap up to 99.9 per cent of microplastics in water</title><url>https://news.ubc.ca/2023/08/16/microplastic-pollution-plants-could-be-the-answer/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>joker_minmax</author><text>I feel like we keep hearing about technologies like this that are going to change the world but none of them ever actually get implemented... just me?</text></comment> |
16,340,825 | 16,339,908 | 1 | 2 | 16,339,840 | train | <story><title>What Thunderbird Learned at FOSDEM</title><url>https://blog.mozilla.org/thunderbird/2018/02/what-thunderbird-learned-at-fosdem/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>ronjouch</author><text>&gt; <i>&quot;2. I would like to see a mobile app.&quot;</i><p>Opposite stance: please, Mozilla, do <i>not</i> build mobile Thunderbird apps. That&#x27;s tremendous effort, and IMHO too much for what you can do with the priority on Firefox, even with these new Thunderbird hires.<p>Focus on polishing and maintaining the existing Thunderbird the best you can with the limited resources you have for the project. You have a large existing userbase that will be extremely thankful for that.</text></comment> | <story><title>What Thunderbird Learned at FOSDEM</title><url>https://blog.mozilla.org/thunderbird/2018/02/what-thunderbird-learned-at-fosdem/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>cs702</author><text>Former Thunderbird user here.<p>I&#x27;m <i>shocked</i> that there&#x27;s no mention of the need for reliable out-of-the-box synchronization with online calendars and contacts. (At one point, I tried all the available Thunderbird add-ons for syncing with Google&#x27;s apps; none worked well for me.)<p>Even better than synchronization, I would love to have an alternative to existing online email&#x2F;calendar&#x2F;contact services.<p>If Mozilla were ever to offer its own <i>paid</i> email, calendar, and contacts subscription service, powered by open-source code, and backed with strong customer&#x2F;data&#x2F;privacy protections, I would sign up in a heartbeat.</text></comment> |
3,350,456 | 3,350,386 | 1 | 3 | 3,349,990 | train | <story><title>Apps are too much like 1990's CD-ROMs and not enough like the Web</title><url>http://www.hanselman.com/blog/AppsAreTooMuchLike1990sCDROMsAndNotEnoughLikeTheWeb.aspx?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+ScottHanselman+%28Scott+Hanselman+-+ComputerZen.com%29</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>marknutter</author><text>I posted this comment in another thread about apps, but too late for it to really get any responses:<p>- app discoverability sucks ass<p>- apps require updates<p>- app development is unnecessarily tedious and must be done x number of times for x platforms<p>- iOS apps need to be approved by Apple, and you have to play the game by their rules if you want to charge money for them<p>- apps lack basic features of browsers - no universal find, no back/forward buttons, no bookmarking of pages or states, no organizing apps into tabs, etc.<p>Let's be honest: not counting games, the vast majority of the native apps out there would work just fine (or better) as websites. Add API's like access to the camera and there's even less reasons to develop a native app.
Apps will be relegated to games and highly sophisticated interfaces, which if I had to guess probably represents around 10% of all the apps out there (heck, most of the games out there could probably be done in the browser).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>randomdata</author><text><i>"app discoverability sucks ass"</i><p>Discoverability sucks ass. Period. Unless you already have a strong network, or lots of advertising dollars, the chances of anyone finding your software, of any kind, is low.<p><i>"apps require updates"</i><p>While that is true of some implementations, there is no reason why apps cannot be downloaded on each execution. You could even use a URL bar to show the network location of the app, if you want to.<p><i>"app development is unnecessarily tedious"</i><p>A modern web application is no better in this regard. In fact, most of the recent frameworks that have sprung up to solve the problem of building web apps all seem to be loosely based on the same ideas from OpenStep that are used in popular native frameworks.<p><i>"apps lack basic features of browsers - no universal find, no back/forward buttons, no bookmarking of pages or states, no organizing apps into tabs, etc."</i><p>I mentioned it in an earlier discussion, but it seems worth repeating: The web browser is just another platform API. There is no reason why, say, CocoaTouch could not include those things by default for all apps too.<p>The whole web vs. native discussion is pretty silly because it all comes down to a few specific implementations that we keep pointing to, when anyone can change the state at either end of the spectrum on a whim.</text></comment> | <story><title>Apps are too much like 1990's CD-ROMs and not enough like the Web</title><url>http://www.hanselman.com/blog/AppsAreTooMuchLike1990sCDROMsAndNotEnoughLikeTheWeb.aspx?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+ScottHanselman+%28Scott+Hanselman+-+ComputerZen.com%29</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>marknutter</author><text>I posted this comment in another thread about apps, but too late for it to really get any responses:<p>- app discoverability sucks ass<p>- apps require updates<p>- app development is unnecessarily tedious and must be done x number of times for x platforms<p>- iOS apps need to be approved by Apple, and you have to play the game by their rules if you want to charge money for them<p>- apps lack basic features of browsers - no universal find, no back/forward buttons, no bookmarking of pages or states, no organizing apps into tabs, etc.<p>Let's be honest: not counting games, the vast majority of the native apps out there would work just fine (or better) as websites. Add API's like access to the camera and there's even less reasons to develop a native app.
Apps will be relegated to games and highly sophisticated interfaces, which if I had to guess probably represents around 10% of all the apps out there (heck, most of the games out there could probably be done in the browser).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>canes123456</author><text>Users determine what is successful, not developers<p>- Web app discoverability is much worse<p>- Updates is a minor issue for users<p>- App development is not the user's concern<p>- App store approval is a net win for users. It eases their concerns about malware.<p>- Browser functions are not useful in most apps and the add an extra layer of abstraction<p>Native app can be made into just fine web apps but that is not always good enough. The best apps are still native.</text></comment> |
32,095,457 | 32,094,664 | 1 | 2 | 32,094,046 | train | <story><title>The DynamoDB Paper</title><url>https://brooker.co.za/blog/2022/07/12/dynamodb.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>mabbo</author><text>Rick Houlihan did a talk a few years ago about designing the data later for an application using dynamodb. The most common reaction I get from people I show it to- most of them Amazon SDEs who operate services that use Dynamodb- is &quot;Holy shit what is this wizardry?!&quot;<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;HaEPXoXVf2k" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;HaEPXoXVf2k</a><p>One of the biggest mistakes people make with dynamo is thinking that it&#x27;s just a relational database with no relations. It&#x27;s not.<p>It&#x27;s an incredible system, but it requires a lot of deep knowledge to get the full benefits, and it requires you, often, to design your data layer very well up-front. I actually don&#x27;t recommend using it for a system that hasn&#x27;t mostly stabilized in design.<p>But when used right, it&#x27;s an incredibly performant beast of a data store.</text></comment> | <story><title>The DynamoDB Paper</title><url>https://brooker.co.za/blog/2022/07/12/dynamodb.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>bistablesulphur</author><text>I&#x27;be been working with DynamoDB daily for a few years now, and whilst I like working with it and the specific scenario it solves for us, I&#x27;d still urge anyone thinking about using it to carefully reconsider whether their problem is truly unique enough that a traditional RDBMS couldn&#x27;t handle it with some tuning. Theycan be unbelievably performant and give so much stuff for free.<p>Designing application specifically for DynamoDB will take _a lot_ of time and effort. I think we could have saved almost a third of our entire development time had we used more of the boring stuff.</text></comment> |
36,279,541 | 36,277,690 | 1 | 2 | 36,270,413 | train | <story><title>Mercedes beats Tesla to autonomous driving in California</title><url>https://www.theregister.com/2023/06/09/mercedes_california_tesla/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rcxdude</author><text>Self driving cars are much more likely to be public transport than individually owned. It&#x27;s also extremely likely that it requires ride-sharing to be viable, which will substantially reduce traffic as well as car ownership (I suspect there may be enough cost pressure that most self-driving vehicles are more like minibuses than cars, which would also help a lot with pollution and congestion, but this may require regulatory pressure). Every conversation about the transition to EVs should be caveated with &#x27;assuming car ownership stays the same because self-driving doesn&#x27;t work (and that most of the world still does not manage to provide traditional public transport options good enough to replace cars)&#x27;.<p>(And yes, all of this means that Tesla and most other traditional automotive company&#x27;s stated commercial strategy for self driving makes little sense)</text></item><item><author>0xr0kk3r</author><text>&gt; What do we want from self driving cars?<p>Nothing. Absolutely nothing. I want public transportation infrastructure and far, far, FAR fewer cars. I think the US should strive to reduce car ownership by 75% over the next 20 years, at least in cities over a certain population size. I don&#x27;t want any more money invested in self-driving cars. But I&#x27;m also a grown-up of a certain age and realize the bright-eyed 20-somethings don&#x27;t understand the meaning of the word &quot;consequences&quot;.</text></item><item><author>worik</author><text>What do we want from self driving cars?<p>Naturally I wand a car I can summon from the pub that will drive me the 20km, over country roads, to my house while I mix cocktails or have a nap.<p>That may never happen, current technology does not seem up to it.<p>Then what? Modern cruise control, that keeps my car a constant distance form the car in front (unless it roars off at a speed higher that what I am comfortable with) is great. Helpful, especially in city driving.<p>I would appreciate &quot;automated rumble strips&quot; that warns me gently if I veer out of my lane.<p>Stopping at a parking spot, push a button, and park my car for me, less useful but still worth it.<p>But unless I have L5, and can turn my back on the road as I drink my vodka drink, (would that be L6? The impossible dream....) I am not interested in anything that lets me take my hands off the when whilst driving on any road. It seems too dangerous.<p>As a computer programmer I make my living building complex machines, and I have a very deep distrust of machines built by my comrades, at Tesla or Mercedes.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>PeterStuer</author><text>&quot;Self driving cars are much more likely to be public transport than individually owened&quot;<p>I&#x27;ve only seen this as a &#x27;just so&#x27; greenwash pr story from the automotive industry to offset the projected 300% increase in total road miles driven anually. Please explain why peole would be compelled to ditch their multidude of private cars just because they now come with a 24&#x2F;7 free driver included?</text></comment> | <story><title>Mercedes beats Tesla to autonomous driving in California</title><url>https://www.theregister.com/2023/06/09/mercedes_california_tesla/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rcxdude</author><text>Self driving cars are much more likely to be public transport than individually owned. It&#x27;s also extremely likely that it requires ride-sharing to be viable, which will substantially reduce traffic as well as car ownership (I suspect there may be enough cost pressure that most self-driving vehicles are more like minibuses than cars, which would also help a lot with pollution and congestion, but this may require regulatory pressure). Every conversation about the transition to EVs should be caveated with &#x27;assuming car ownership stays the same because self-driving doesn&#x27;t work (and that most of the world still does not manage to provide traditional public transport options good enough to replace cars)&#x27;.<p>(And yes, all of this means that Tesla and most other traditional automotive company&#x27;s stated commercial strategy for self driving makes little sense)</text></item><item><author>0xr0kk3r</author><text>&gt; What do we want from self driving cars?<p>Nothing. Absolutely nothing. I want public transportation infrastructure and far, far, FAR fewer cars. I think the US should strive to reduce car ownership by 75% over the next 20 years, at least in cities over a certain population size. I don&#x27;t want any more money invested in self-driving cars. But I&#x27;m also a grown-up of a certain age and realize the bright-eyed 20-somethings don&#x27;t understand the meaning of the word &quot;consequences&quot;.</text></item><item><author>worik</author><text>What do we want from self driving cars?<p>Naturally I wand a car I can summon from the pub that will drive me the 20km, over country roads, to my house while I mix cocktails or have a nap.<p>That may never happen, current technology does not seem up to it.<p>Then what? Modern cruise control, that keeps my car a constant distance form the car in front (unless it roars off at a speed higher that what I am comfortable with) is great. Helpful, especially in city driving.<p>I would appreciate &quot;automated rumble strips&quot; that warns me gently if I veer out of my lane.<p>Stopping at a parking spot, push a button, and park my car for me, less useful but still worth it.<p>But unless I have L5, and can turn my back on the road as I drink my vodka drink, (would that be L6? The impossible dream....) I am not interested in anything that lets me take my hands off the when whilst driving on any road. It seems too dangerous.<p>As a computer programmer I make my living building complex machines, and I have a very deep distrust of machines built by my comrades, at Tesla or Mercedes.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nradov</author><text>Autonomous driving is just another safety and convenience feature, like cruise control or anti-lock brakes. It won&#x27;t fundamentally change anything. I see no reason to give up owning my own cars even if they can drive themselves. The biggest reason is that I use my cars like a rolling storage locker or mobile base of operations when I&#x27;m out doing stuff. There&#x27;s no way I&#x27;m going to deal with the hassle of shared vehicles.</text></comment> |
10,113,472 | 10,112,591 | 1 | 2 | 10,111,479 | train | <story><title>John Carmack's son's game in Racket</title><url>https://groups.google.com/forum/?hl=en#!topic/racket-users/yjRuIxypUQc</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bliti</author><text>My 7 year old is learning on a Raspberry Pi that does not load X by default. She gets around the terminal pretty well (changing, dirs, calling python scripts, etc.). The GUI is just overwhelming at this point. She prefers the terminal. In fact, she will boot it up and type:<p><pre><code> nano story.txt
</code></pre>
To start writing simple stories (she loves doing that). And yes, she saves it by pressing Ctrl-x, y, and enter. :D</text></item><item><author>myth_buster</author><text><p><pre><code> Dropping a newbie into Eclipse or MonoDevelop makes them feel like
they are walking around in a byzantine museum, afraid to touch
things, while DrRacket feels closer to old-school personal computers
where you felt like you were in command of the machine.
</code></pre>
I think this is a very important observation. As with most things, it&#x27;s extremely important to get in during the humble beginning stage and then tracing your way up to grok more complicated systems. Similar to the &quot;first principle&quot; approach.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bbcbasic</author><text>&gt; And yes, she saves it by pressing Ctrl-x, y, and enter. :D<p>As a child there is no bias as to &#x27;oh it must be hard doing that because I am use to clicking X in Windows&#x27; they just learn stuff and get on with it. We should all remember to be like children sometimes. Explore ... not language wars!</text></comment> | <story><title>John Carmack's son's game in Racket</title><url>https://groups.google.com/forum/?hl=en#!topic/racket-users/yjRuIxypUQc</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bliti</author><text>My 7 year old is learning on a Raspberry Pi that does not load X by default. She gets around the terminal pretty well (changing, dirs, calling python scripts, etc.). The GUI is just overwhelming at this point. She prefers the terminal. In fact, she will boot it up and type:<p><pre><code> nano story.txt
</code></pre>
To start writing simple stories (she loves doing that). And yes, she saves it by pressing Ctrl-x, y, and enter. :D</text></item><item><author>myth_buster</author><text><p><pre><code> Dropping a newbie into Eclipse or MonoDevelop makes them feel like
they are walking around in a byzantine museum, afraid to touch
things, while DrRacket feels closer to old-school personal computers
where you felt like you were in command of the machine.
</code></pre>
I think this is a very important observation. As with most things, it&#x27;s extremely important to get in during the humble beginning stage and then tracing your way up to grok more complicated systems. Similar to the &quot;first principle&quot; approach.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jsingleton</author><text>You can set a Raspberry Pi to boot straight into Scratch. It&#x27;s a great introductory graphical programming language.<p>The next step is usually Python but I&#x27;m not sure kids will get the significant whitespace. Go is an option or maybe BASIC (on RISC OS perhaps).</text></comment> |
13,181,202 | 13,180,724 | 1 | 2 | 13,180,147 | train | <story><title>Webpack 2.2 – Release Candidate</title><url>https://medium.com/webpack/webpack-2-2-the-release-candidate-2e614d05d75f#.3nrnoh6zc</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>fiatjaf</author><text>This thing is so complicated and so full of magic and options and the documentation is so shallow, I can&#x27;t find examples, can&#x27;t get a tutorial that isn&#x27;t uselessly superficial.<p>I&#x27;ve tried using Webpack in its begginings, because React people only talked in Webpack terms, but then switched back to Browserify, which is simple, not magical and straightforward. I tried using Webpack again lately, with the bizarre Gatsby static site generator, and the failures are enourmous. I can&#x27;t even understand how exactly does a loader work. Gatsby makes forced use of something called webpack-config or something like that, which is just a useless abstraction on top of the already confusing Webpack config.<p>Please, someone explain to me what does this thing do that Browserify can&#x27;t.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>thelarkinn</author><text>Hey sorry this was your first (or many) experience(s). If I can be of any help, I&#x27;d recommend checking out our Concepts section which I authored for first-time users and those trying to understand the overall principles of loaders&#x2F;plugins.<p>webpack.js.org&#x2F;concepts</text></comment> | <story><title>Webpack 2.2 – Release Candidate</title><url>https://medium.com/webpack/webpack-2-2-the-release-candidate-2e614d05d75f#.3nrnoh6zc</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>fiatjaf</author><text>This thing is so complicated and so full of magic and options and the documentation is so shallow, I can&#x27;t find examples, can&#x27;t get a tutorial that isn&#x27;t uselessly superficial.<p>I&#x27;ve tried using Webpack in its begginings, because React people only talked in Webpack terms, but then switched back to Browserify, which is simple, not magical and straightforward. I tried using Webpack again lately, with the bizarre Gatsby static site generator, and the failures are enourmous. I can&#x27;t even understand how exactly does a loader work. Gatsby makes forced use of something called webpack-config or something like that, which is just a useless abstraction on top of the already confusing Webpack config.<p>Please, someone explain to me what does this thing do that Browserify can&#x27;t.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>lobster_johnson</author><text>Complicated, you say? <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;pbs.twimg.com&#x2F;media&#x2F;CxfCRzbVQAAXszJ.jpg:large" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;pbs.twimg.com&#x2F;media&#x2F;CxfCRzbVQAAXszJ.jpg:large</a></text></comment> |
21,259,685 | 21,259,173 | 1 | 3 | 21,257,943 | train | <story><title>My Vision of D’s Future</title><url>https://dlang.org/blog/2019/10/15/my-vision-of-ds-future/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>ktm5j</author><text>As someone who has only somewhat recently started using D, I would love to see this language succeed. It&#x27;s been such a pleasure to use.. scope guards, string mixin, inline json &amp; std.json. It&#x27;s been so useful for the code I write at work. Much love for D<p>The one thing I would add to this list is <i>documentation</i>! There is a lot of good documentation available, but not for everything you would expect. For example, I had a hard time figuring out the behavior of sub-packages within a dub package. Some more explicit documentation on this subject would have been appreciated.</text></comment> | <story><title>My Vision of D’s Future</title><url>https://dlang.org/blog/2019/10/15/my-vision-of-ds-future/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>grawprog</author><text>I have to say, I like what I read there. I&#x27;m glad they&#x27;re working more on c++ interoperability. I&#x27;ve ported some c++ code to D before, it wasn&#x27;t not too bad, it wasn&#x27;t a lot of code, but it would be great to be able to work directly with c++ libraries in D similarly to C libraries.<p>It always makes me sad D hasn&#x27;t picked up more. Usually comments I see about D seem pretty ambivalent to dismissive. It&#x27;s a great language and to me has always felt like the way C++ should have been.<p>It does seem to be growing in popularity. Even in the years I&#x27;ve been using it, the number of libraries and community resources has expanded exponentially and every day new code is being added to<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;code.dlang.org&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;code.dlang.org&#x2F;</a><p>Not to mention dub is probably the most simple straightforward build system I&#x27;ve worked with.</text></comment> |
4,310,045 | 4,309,984 | 1 | 2 | 4,309,830 | train | <story><title>Do you check HTTPS certificates in your API clients? </title><url>http://unfoldthat.com/2012/07/30/does-https-to-api-make-any-sense.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>tav</author><text>When you validate server certificates from HTTPS clients, please be sure to use the right set of root certs. Mozilla maintain a decent list of these [1], but it's not in the PEM format that most HTTPS client libraries expect, e.g. Python's ssl.wrap_socket(sock, ca_certs="certs.pem").<p>Mozilla's list also includes <i>distrusted</i> certificates, so you need to be careful to leave them out when generating the PEM-encoded format. In fact, I'd strongly recommend using Adam Langley's excellent extract-nss-root-certs tool [2] which takes care of the subtle details for you.<p>And, if you are willing to trust me, you can download my pre-generated PEM-encoded cacerts file from a month or so ago [3].<p>[1] <a href="https://mxr.mozilla.org/mozilla/source/security/nss/lib/ckfw/builtins/certdata.txt?raw=1" rel="nofollow">https://mxr.mozilla.org/mozilla/source/security/nss/lib/ckfw...</a><p>[2] <a href="https://github.com/agl/extract-nss-root-certs" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/agl/extract-nss-root-certs</a><p>[3] <a href="https://github.com/downloads/tav/ampify/distfile.cacerts-2012.06.28.tar.bz2" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/downloads/tav/ampify/distfile.cacerts-201...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Do you check HTTPS certificates in your API clients? </title><url>http://unfoldthat.com/2012/07/30/does-https-to-api-make-any-sense.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>delinka</author><text>In this age of high-level languages, why do I still have to worry about this? I don't mean 'security' I mean 'managing certificates.' My local framework/API should complain if I don't have a trusted root and should then make it dead simple to provide that root.</text></comment> |
28,136,883 | 28,136,803 | 1 | 2 | 28,124,183 | train | <story><title>Memory Bandwidth</title><url>https://fgiesen.wordpress.com/2017/04/11/memory-bandwidth/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>drewg123</author><text>Memory bandwidth and latency is a real problem. As the referenced article points out, both have gotten worse as compared to CPU speeds as time goes on.<p>The biggest bottleneck in my favorite workload (Netflix CDN server) is memory bandwidth. When doing software kTLS, we do 4 access per byte served to customers. One access to DMA the contents of a video file to DRAM from storage. A second access to read the byte for encryption. A third to write the encrypted data to DRAM. And a fourth to DMA the encrypted data to the NIC. That means we&#x27;re bottlenecked serving Netflix video at ~240Gb&#x2F;s on AMD Rome servers (quad channel DDR4-3200, single socket).<p>The theoretical performance, assuming everything besides serving the video is &quot;free&quot; is ~260-300Gb&#x2F;s (depending on numa config, etc).<p>Every cache miss that I can eliminate leads to a small performance increase by both decreasing the memory system load (and leaving more headroom for the workload), <i>and</i> by eliminating a CPU stall on DRAM access.<p>I&#x27;m thrilled that next generation servers will have DDR5. That should help a lot with bandwidth, but the PCIe and network speeds will go up as well (Gen4-&gt;Gen5, 100GbE -&gt; 400GbE), so we&#x27;ll still be fighting the same battle.<p>Things like inline-kTLS (where the NIC does the TLS encryption) reduce the memory bandwidth requirements by roughly half, and is how we&#x27;re able to serve up over 350Gb&#x2F;s from a single socket.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>magicalhippo</author><text>&gt; Things like inline-kTLS (where the NIC does the TLS encryption) reduce the memory bandwidth requirements by roughly half<p>If storage is accessed via PCI-e, couldn&#x27;t one just pipe it straight from the storage to the NIC, using p2pdma[1][2] or similar? Seems you could skip all of the main DRAM round-trip this way.<p>Or aren&#x27;t things that simple?<p>[1]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.kernel.org&#x2F;doc&#x2F;html&#x2F;latest&#x2F;driver-api&#x2F;pci&#x2F;p2pdma.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.kernel.org&#x2F;doc&#x2F;html&#x2F;latest&#x2F;driver-api&#x2F;pci&#x2F;p2pdma...</a><p>[2]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;LDOlqgUZtHE?t=612" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;LDOlqgUZtHE?t=612</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Memory Bandwidth</title><url>https://fgiesen.wordpress.com/2017/04/11/memory-bandwidth/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>drewg123</author><text>Memory bandwidth and latency is a real problem. As the referenced article points out, both have gotten worse as compared to CPU speeds as time goes on.<p>The biggest bottleneck in my favorite workload (Netflix CDN server) is memory bandwidth. When doing software kTLS, we do 4 access per byte served to customers. One access to DMA the contents of a video file to DRAM from storage. A second access to read the byte for encryption. A third to write the encrypted data to DRAM. And a fourth to DMA the encrypted data to the NIC. That means we&#x27;re bottlenecked serving Netflix video at ~240Gb&#x2F;s on AMD Rome servers (quad channel DDR4-3200, single socket).<p>The theoretical performance, assuming everything besides serving the video is &quot;free&quot; is ~260-300Gb&#x2F;s (depending on numa config, etc).<p>Every cache miss that I can eliminate leads to a small performance increase by both decreasing the memory system load (and leaving more headroom for the workload), <i>and</i> by eliminating a CPU stall on DRAM access.<p>I&#x27;m thrilled that next generation servers will have DDR5. That should help a lot with bandwidth, but the PCIe and network speeds will go up as well (Gen4-&gt;Gen5, 100GbE -&gt; 400GbE), so we&#x27;ll still be fighting the same battle.<p>Things like inline-kTLS (where the NIC does the TLS encryption) reduce the memory bandwidth requirements by roughly half, and is how we&#x27;re able to serve up over 350Gb&#x2F;s from a single socket.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>PragmaticPulp</author><text>That&#x27;s a fascinating project to work on.<p>&gt; That means we&#x27;re bottlenecked serving Netflix video at ~240Gb&#x2F;s on AMD Rome servers (quad channel DDR4-3200, single socket).<p>AMD Rome supports octa-channel DDR4 even in single-socket servers. Did you mean octa-channel DDR4, or is there some other limitation in the system that limits you to quad-channel configurations?</text></comment> |
30,747,221 | 30,747,510 | 1 | 3 | 30,746,289 | train | <story><title>Embedded Malicious Code in node-ipc</title><url>https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-97m3-w2cp-4xx6</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>davidmurdoch</author><text>I maintain what is probably the most popular Ethereum simulator (Ganache) and it uses the npm ecosystem.<p>Years ago I chose to pin&#x2F;lock all dependencies, even transitive dependencies (direct dependencies&#x27; dependencies) to much disagreement from the semver purists.<p>Crypto developers are extra high value targets because they likely access their wallet from the same machine they develop on. So I&#x27;ve taken a very hard stance on this, even feel we should do even better by disallowing updates for new releases (I realize adequate security here is not practical&#x2F;feasible for most).<p>To make matters worse: devs often install npm packages with sudo (and I have a canned response for sudo related issues telling them that they must now format their drives to fix it, and even that might not be enough as their bios and other embedded firmware could also be compromised).<p>Meanwhile, yarn, a popular npm alternative, will NOT respect a package author&#x27;s wishes to lock transitive dependencies. It&#x27;s maddening (don&#x27;t use yarn until&#x2F;unless they fix this).<p>The only time a dependency shouldn&#x27;t be pinned is if you are also the author of that dependency.<p>Anyway, people would say I&#x27;m fun at parties, but they stopped inviting me long ago.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>lstamour</author><text>My preferred fix for Yarn dependency tracking is to use zero installs[1] as there is no command to run and dependencies can be exactly what ships in the repo and nothing more (with the right flags). If accepting PRs from third-parties, the check-cache flag can run in CI to validate checksums from untrusted contributors — plus, you know, reading dependency source code when you have the time or reason to do so would be great within a PR review also.<p>I wish more tools were able to concisely show you the differences between dependencies, but… sometimes dependencies have binaries and at that point you might need to fork or clone and build your own version of a dependency. I’d suggest only using dependencies when you can read and understand the code, but there are always limits. I can’t think of the last time I thought of a glibc dependency except when using Alpine or compiling something for Cgo. But it’s still something to keep in mind: that sometimes your project will be simpler and easier with fewer, smaller dependencies where you can read the code in full.<p>1: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;yarnpkg.com&#x2F;features&#x2F;zero-installs#does-it-have-security-implications" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;yarnpkg.com&#x2F;features&#x2F;zero-installs#does-it-have-secu...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Embedded Malicious Code in node-ipc</title><url>https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-97m3-w2cp-4xx6</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>davidmurdoch</author><text>I maintain what is probably the most popular Ethereum simulator (Ganache) and it uses the npm ecosystem.<p>Years ago I chose to pin&#x2F;lock all dependencies, even transitive dependencies (direct dependencies&#x27; dependencies) to much disagreement from the semver purists.<p>Crypto developers are extra high value targets because they likely access their wallet from the same machine they develop on. So I&#x27;ve taken a very hard stance on this, even feel we should do even better by disallowing updates for new releases (I realize adequate security here is not practical&#x2F;feasible for most).<p>To make matters worse: devs often install npm packages with sudo (and I have a canned response for sudo related issues telling them that they must now format their drives to fix it, and even that might not be enough as their bios and other embedded firmware could also be compromised).<p>Meanwhile, yarn, a popular npm alternative, will NOT respect a package author&#x27;s wishes to lock transitive dependencies. It&#x27;s maddening (don&#x27;t use yarn until&#x2F;unless they fix this).<p>The only time a dependency shouldn&#x27;t be pinned is if you are also the author of that dependency.<p>Anyway, people would say I&#x27;m fun at parties, but they stopped inviting me long ago.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bushbaba</author><text>It&#x27;s maddening the crypto world relies on Javascript so heavily. As a language it would never be my first, second, or even third choice for financial services.</text></comment> |
23,931,105 | 23,930,666 | 1 | 3 | 23,929,044 | train | <story><title>Amazon met with startups about investing, then launched competing products</title><url>https://www.wsj.com/articles/amazon-tech-startup-echo-bezos-alexa-investment-fund-11595520249</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rckoepke</author><text>What types of AWS data would be trawled? Are we talking about data inside S3 buckets, database schemas, particular architecure styles, the fact that a product is consuming {x, y, z} amounts of cloud resources, or simply &quot;spending $m &#x2F; year&quot; in gross?</text></item><item><author>former-aws</author><text>Cannot up vote this enough. During my time both at Retail and AWS it was perfectly normal to trawl production customer data and come up with ideas to launch competing products. Prices were always set lower or free offering justified as data-driven and customer obsession. I hated the gas lighting their customers and left in disgust of the company and its leadership which encourages that behavior.</text></item><item><author>throwaway_aws</author><text>&quot;An Amazon spokesman said the company doesn’t use confidential information that companies share with it to build competing products&quot;<p>Maybe...but in the past, AWS proactively looked at traction of products hosted on its platform, built competing products, and then scraped &amp; targeted customer list of those hosted products. In fact, I was on a team in AWS that did exactly that. Why wouldn&#x27;t their investing arm do the same?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>redredrobot</author><text>I worked in an area where it is really hard to figure out exactly what workloads were being run and where it would have been extremely useful to know even basic things like CPU utilization patterns, network throughput patterns, etc for a specific customer.<p>We had access to absolutely none of that information. We flew blind, relying entirely on the fact that we gave our customers enough hand-holding support that they would willingly volunteer information about their workloads so we could help them optimize it&#x2F;save money.<p>No one even attempted to get more detailed customer information AFAIK because it would have been extremely against company culture. That isn&#x27;t Earning Trust or having Customer Obsession. The idea of reading data in someone&#x27;s S3 bucket or inspecting what is happening inside of someone&#x27;s EC2 instance in any way was unthinkable. Amazon is huge and imperfect, but from what I saw AWS takes data privacy extremely seriously.</text></comment> | <story><title>Amazon met with startups about investing, then launched competing products</title><url>https://www.wsj.com/articles/amazon-tech-startup-echo-bezos-alexa-investment-fund-11595520249</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rckoepke</author><text>What types of AWS data would be trawled? Are we talking about data inside S3 buckets, database schemas, particular architecure styles, the fact that a product is consuming {x, y, z} amounts of cloud resources, or simply &quot;spending $m &#x2F; year&quot; in gross?</text></item><item><author>former-aws</author><text>Cannot up vote this enough. During my time both at Retail and AWS it was perfectly normal to trawl production customer data and come up with ideas to launch competing products. Prices were always set lower or free offering justified as data-driven and customer obsession. I hated the gas lighting their customers and left in disgust of the company and its leadership which encourages that behavior.</text></item><item><author>throwaway_aws</author><text>&quot;An Amazon spokesman said the company doesn’t use confidential information that companies share with it to build competing products&quot;<p>Maybe...but in the past, AWS proactively looked at traction of products hosted on its platform, built competing products, and then scraped &amp; targeted customer list of those hosted products. In fact, I was on a team in AWS that did exactly that. Why wouldn&#x27;t their investing arm do the same?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bg24</author><text>Can speak for AWS. Only the later. Basically the usage information for cloud resources. This constitutes the foundation for billing. BTW, this is be true for any cloud, any SAAS.<p>There is no way an employee can look into customer data. There&#x27;s enough trail inside AWS to prove that without any doubt.</text></comment> |
17,809,120 | 17,809,044 | 1 | 3 | 17,804,023 | train | <story><title>A million-dollar brownstone that no one owned</title><url>https://theoutline.com/post/5807/the-million-dollar-brownstone-that-no-one-owned</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tantalor</author><text>Why don&#x27;t we have a proof of custody (chain of ownership) instead of insurance against fraud? Wouldn&#x27;t that be stronger &amp; cheaper?</text></item><item><author>dzdt</author><text>If you ever bought real estate in the U.S. you probably paid title insurance. This is insurance that covers the value of the loan in the case faulty or fradulent documents are found making the chain of ownership invalid.<p>It costs like 1&#x2F;2 of a percent of the property value.<p>That is how YOU pay because of shenanigans like in this article.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jasode</author><text><i>&gt;Why don&#x27;t we have a proof of custody (chain of ownership) </i><p>In the USA and most developed countries, we already do have a &quot;proof of a chain of ownership&quot;. And, we&#x27;ve had it for hundreds of years. For example, the title deeds and transfer of title documents saved at the county courthouse.<p>The issue is whether the so-called &quot;proof&quot; is : authentic or forged, and&#x2F;or conflicting with other prior claims. (E.g, is the title transfer document faked? Are the signatures from the real owners? Was the previous person who transferred the title the actual rightful owner?)<p>Ultimately, &quot;proof&quot; of ownership is a social consensus that sorts out the claims and converges on agreement of who owns what. (I made a previous comment about this.[1])<p>You might notice that &quot;proof&quot; is recursive: if we &quot;prove&quot; that the &quot;proof&quot; was valid, how do we know <i>that</i> proof is valid? Well, things like &quot;title insurance&quot; and&#x2F;or a court case with a judge&#x2F;jury to render a final judgement is the process to break that infinite cycle of &quot;proof of proofs&quot;.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=14553867" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=14553867</a></text></comment> | <story><title>A million-dollar brownstone that no one owned</title><url>https://theoutline.com/post/5807/the-million-dollar-brownstone-that-no-one-owned</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tantalor</author><text>Why don&#x27;t we have a proof of custody (chain of ownership) instead of insurance against fraud? Wouldn&#x27;t that be stronger &amp; cheaper?</text></item><item><author>dzdt</author><text>If you ever bought real estate in the U.S. you probably paid title insurance. This is insurance that covers the value of the loan in the case faulty or fradulent documents are found making the chain of ownership invalid.<p>It costs like 1&#x2F;2 of a percent of the property value.<p>That is how YOU pay because of shenanigans like in this article.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>chrisabrams</author><text>I would suggest looking into buying a small piece of land on the edge of town and request a title search (get a list of previous owners). There you will see the mess that currently exists. We can create the most efficient process in the world with great technology, but it will take a long time before we can have confidence that all of the past records are recorded. If your title company fails to notice a deed from 1912...<p>That&#x27;s what the insurance is for. Even with the technology the insurance would still exist because it&#x27;s silly not to buy the insurance. You are protected if the title company screws up with title insurance. In the future insurance would protect you from the &quot;title chain&quot; having bad data.</text></comment> |
19,523,026 | 19,522,318 | 1 | 2 | 19,520,414 | train | <story><title>History of Biosphere 2</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/29/sunday-review/biosphere-2-climate-change.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>gryfft</author><text>A Mars colony is something humanity should start thinking seriously about once we successfully run a production-grade lunar colony for about a decade-- long enough to recognize and tackle the worst bugs.</text></item><item><author>jasonwatkinspdx</author><text>I always get downvoted to oblivion for pointing this out, but the Elon Musk hype squad is just not being realistic about how far we are from establishing a permanent colony on mars. Severe issues remain.</text></item><item><author>maxxxxx</author><text>This just shows that we have to do a lot of tedious testing before there is a chance to go to Mars. Even pretty innocent looking things can cause huge problems that can’t be anticipated beforehand</text></item><item><author>pram</author><text>I took a tour of Biosphere 2 when I was young. I remember the guide talking about two specific problems they didn&#x27;t anticipate that dramatically altered the outcome of the experiment:<p>The &#x27;domes&#x27; are supported by a metal lattice framework. That structure actually blocked too much sun and created extra shade which affected the plant growth.<p>The concrete used in the construction was sucking up carbon dioxide and changing the environment unexpectedly. That also reduced plant growth.<p>I really don&#x27;t believe the entire thing was useless. It wasn&#x27;t successful, but it failed in many interesting ways ;P</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>asark</author><text>I understand a Martian colony as a kind of romantic dream. I understand a longish-term Martian outpost for scientific purposes. I don&#x27;t get a Martian colony as a serious proposal for pretty much any reason. It&#x27;s like 1000x more expensive, dangerous, and inconvenient than colonizing any number of very-inhospitable places on Earth.<p>To survive planetary disaster? Well 1) Mars is <i>already</i> worse than most imaginable post-disaster Earths would likely be, and 2) you could build a couple highly-survivable emergency bunker-habitats and pay people to live in them (in shifts, say, so there are always enough inside to ensure survival but they&#x27;re not stuck in there full time) for, surely, less money than Martian colony establishment &amp; maintenance would cost. You might still screw it up and they might not succeed if things really got that bad, but I&#x27;d bet their odds are better than any Martian colony we&#x27;re likely to manage to put up in the next 100 years.</text></comment> | <story><title>History of Biosphere 2</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/29/sunday-review/biosphere-2-climate-change.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>gryfft</author><text>A Mars colony is something humanity should start thinking seriously about once we successfully run a production-grade lunar colony for about a decade-- long enough to recognize and tackle the worst bugs.</text></item><item><author>jasonwatkinspdx</author><text>I always get downvoted to oblivion for pointing this out, but the Elon Musk hype squad is just not being realistic about how far we are from establishing a permanent colony on mars. Severe issues remain.</text></item><item><author>maxxxxx</author><text>This just shows that we have to do a lot of tedious testing before there is a chance to go to Mars. Even pretty innocent looking things can cause huge problems that can’t be anticipated beforehand</text></item><item><author>pram</author><text>I took a tour of Biosphere 2 when I was young. I remember the guide talking about two specific problems they didn&#x27;t anticipate that dramatically altered the outcome of the experiment:<p>The &#x27;domes&#x27; are supported by a metal lattice framework. That structure actually blocked too much sun and created extra shade which affected the plant growth.<p>The concrete used in the construction was sucking up carbon dioxide and changing the environment unexpectedly. That also reduced plant growth.<p>I really don&#x27;t believe the entire thing was useless. It wasn&#x27;t successful, but it failed in many interesting ways ;P</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>aliswe</author><text>A sustainable colony on earth would be a good pilot</text></comment> |
14,966,106 | 14,962,055 | 1 | 3 | 14,957,340 | train | <story><title>Prof. of employment law: 'it may be illegal for Google to punish that engineer'</title><url>https://www.cnbc.com/amp/2017/08/07/it-may-be-illegal-for-google-to-punish-engineer-over-anti-diversity-memo-commentary.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>wolfgangK</author><text>I hope that he also sues media outlets for slander. To sum things up :<p><pre><code> - fairness &amp; lack of prejudice wrt minorities&#x2F;women : goal
- minorities&#x2F;women % in the workforce : metric
- diversity hiring : https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Campbell%27s_law because https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Berkson%27s_paradox .
- without diversity hiring, differences in women vs men applicants pools, which can be explained by differences in *distributions* of interests, have no impact on distribution of skills in the workforce
- women are talented enough so that they just need to be *attracted* (e.g. better work&#x2F;life balance) rather than pity-hired
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This is my takeaway from the &quot;screed&quot;. How could it be framed as «anti-diversity», much less «alt-right» ?
How could saying that «women are, <i>on average</i> more people-oriented and men are more thing-oriented» be framed as «women are inferior, biologically incapable of coding» ?
I hope that people get punished for such a dishonest character assassination !</text></comment> | <story><title>Prof. of employment law: 'it may be illegal for Google to punish that engineer'</title><url>https://www.cnbc.com/amp/2017/08/07/it-may-be-illegal-for-google-to-punish-engineer-over-anti-diversity-memo-commentary.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>tim333</author><text>&quot;We’re told by senior leadership that what we’re doing is both the morally and economically correct thing to do, but without evidence this is just veiled left ideology that can irreparably harm Google.&quot;<p>Seems to me that publishing a &quot;manifesto&quot; in a company saying the senior leadership are bozos is a reasonable grounds for firing.</text></comment> |
22,057,643 | 22,057,061 | 1 | 2 | 22,055,479 | train | <story><title>Physician burnout widespread, especially among those midcareer, report says</title><url>https://www.wsj.com/articles/physician-burnout-widespread-especially-among-those-midcareer-report-says-11579086008</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>nradov</author><text>By &quot;medical cartel&quot; are you referring to the US Congress? Because the actual bottleneck in physician production is in the shortage of residency training slots, and the vast majority of those are funded by the Federal government. The American Medical Association has been lobbying for more residency slots. Every year students graduate from medical schools but are unable to practice medicine because they can&#x27;t get matched to a residency program.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ama-assn.org&#x2F;press-center&#x2F;press-releases&#x2F;ama-fund-graduate-medical-education-address-physician-shortages" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ama-assn.org&#x2F;press-center&#x2F;press-releases&#x2F;ama-fun...</a></text></item><item><author>zionic</author><text>The medical cartel will never allow that. They have a complete stranglehold on both licensing and education.</text></item><item><author>pkaye</author><text>Another solution is allow more doctors to be licensed so they don&#x27;t need to be as overworked.</text></item><item><author>xzel</author><text>Both of my parents are doctors. In high school I had real thoughts of going into medicine. They strongly discouraged me towards going into that field. In college I was pushed towards a MD&#x2F;PhD program by my lab&#x27;s PI. I thought about graduating at 28-30 and decided against it.<p>Jr year I interned at Amazon after that experience I knew I made the right decision. It is a really, really hard sell for this current generation to do another 5 years of school with residency and then specialization when you can quickly make 100k+ at a tech company. All of my friends who went into medical school are working hours like 6am-6pm or 8pm-8am. They get like two days off every two weeks. I think there are a bunch of possible solutions but the easiest one is making 5 year medical programs (2 years undergrad, 3 graduate) more common in the US.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>goodells</author><text>Why do we need the federal government to fund these slots at all? Hospitals work resident physicians to the bone and bill patients exorbitantly for it. Their hours are capped at 80 per week yet they receive no overtime pay[1]. Yes, the residents are &quot;in training&quot; but it&#x27;s not like it&#x27;s a burden for a hospital to take them on - they are the workhorses that handle a huge number of cases and drive hospital revenue.<p>[1] - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Medical_resident_work_hours" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Medical_resident_work_hours</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Physician burnout widespread, especially among those midcareer, report says</title><url>https://www.wsj.com/articles/physician-burnout-widespread-especially-among-those-midcareer-report-says-11579086008</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>nradov</author><text>By &quot;medical cartel&quot; are you referring to the US Congress? Because the actual bottleneck in physician production is in the shortage of residency training slots, and the vast majority of those are funded by the Federal government. The American Medical Association has been lobbying for more residency slots. Every year students graduate from medical schools but are unable to practice medicine because they can&#x27;t get matched to a residency program.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ama-assn.org&#x2F;press-center&#x2F;press-releases&#x2F;ama-fund-graduate-medical-education-address-physician-shortages" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ama-assn.org&#x2F;press-center&#x2F;press-releases&#x2F;ama-fun...</a></text></item><item><author>zionic</author><text>The medical cartel will never allow that. They have a complete stranglehold on both licensing and education.</text></item><item><author>pkaye</author><text>Another solution is allow more doctors to be licensed so they don&#x27;t need to be as overworked.</text></item><item><author>xzel</author><text>Both of my parents are doctors. In high school I had real thoughts of going into medicine. They strongly discouraged me towards going into that field. In college I was pushed towards a MD&#x2F;PhD program by my lab&#x27;s PI. I thought about graduating at 28-30 and decided against it.<p>Jr year I interned at Amazon after that experience I knew I made the right decision. It is a really, really hard sell for this current generation to do another 5 years of school with residency and then specialization when you can quickly make 100k+ at a tech company. All of my friends who went into medical school are working hours like 6am-6pm or 8pm-8am. They get like two days off every two weeks. I think there are a bunch of possible solutions but the easiest one is making 5 year medical programs (2 years undergrad, 3 graduate) more common in the US.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pc86</author><text>Similarly you have both prospective residents not matching into any program, but also programs having unmatched slots. These students then have a week to call around and try to get one of these slots, very often changing specialties in the process (usually to family medicine). Imagine spending $200k to go to college, get good enough grades for med school, get into med school, want to practice anesthesia or rheumatology or internal medicine only to not match and then have to choose between either waiting a year and trying again or going to the middle of nowhere Montana to a family medicine program.<p>Residency is a job and should be interviewed for and selected like any other job.</text></comment> |
842,426 | 841,774 | 1 | 3 | 841,570 | train | <story><title>The Duct Tape Programmer (Response from Uncle Bob Martin)</title><url>http://blog.objectmentor.com/articles/2009/09/24/the-duct-tape-programmer</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>gfodor</author><text>All of these types of arguments are at the wrong level of abstraction.<p>I've found that what makes the best programmer is not if they are a "duct tape" programmer or a "architecture astronaut" or whatever, but <i>self awareness</i>. They can call a hack a hack, and understand it's impact. They know when and <i>how</i> architecture can be improved, and when it <i>should</i> be improved. They can take criticism of their work because odds are, the criticism is something they already had an understanding of and can justify, or if not, they are willing to see where there was a gap in their thinking. They have a plan, and can forge a system ahead in a general direction of progress without getting bogged down in the details or taking one step forward and two steps back. You get the idea.<p>Nobody is talking about this, arguments generally deteriorate where someone sets up a false dichotomy and then the internet collectively rips them apart. But they get ripped apart because of the falseness of the dichotomy, not because of the fact that they are looking at the wrong things altogether.</text></comment> | <story><title>The Duct Tape Programmer (Response from Uncle Bob Martin)</title><url>http://blog.objectmentor.com/articles/2009/09/24/the-duct-tape-programmer</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>mikedouglas</author><text>Uncle Bob seems to be confusing spirit with conclusion. JWZ and Joel are arguing against "[using complex technologies] for their benefits", where simpler tech would suffice. When you're designing a browser, C++ and multithreading do have benefits, but "Duct Tape Programmers" would argue that they aren't worth the design overhead when you're facing a tight deadline.<p>Same with COM, unit tests, design patterns, etc. Obviously, Joel doesn't believe these have no benefits and that they're only used because they're cool. He doesn't endorse them because he doesn't believe they are worth it.<p>It's fine if you disagree with the duct tape mindset, but don't construct strawmen to show "we all really agree".</text></comment> |
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