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18,369,809 | 18,369,787 | 1 | 2 | 18,361,020 | train | <story><title>Facebook Is Full of Emotional-Support Groups</title><url>https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2018/10/facebook-emotional-support-groups/572941/?single_page=true</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>bad_user</author><text>I joined a group for T2 diabetes at some point because I have a stubborn friend that doesn’t want to receive proper treatment and I basically wanted to ask about available options.<p>Next thing I know is that Facebook started giving me ads for diabetics.<p>Having such an influential company know about your illnesses and sell that to advertisers or healthcare insurance agencies or credit agencies or god knows what else is frankly terrifying.</text></comment> | <story><title>Facebook Is Full of Emotional-Support Groups</title><url>https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2018/10/facebook-emotional-support-groups/572941/?single_page=true</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>antonkm</author><text>I support online groups, however I&#x27;d prefer staying anonymous which simply isn&#x27;t possible without faking your account on FB.<p>Reddit provides similar functionality and let&#x27;s you stay anon. There&#x27;s subreddits for pretty much any situation: alcohol abuse, drug abuse, kids growing up with narcissistic parents, spouses living in sexless relationships, etc etc. I did some research into the topic after reading this:
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.washingtonpost.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;the-intersect&#x2F;wp&#x2F;2016&#x2F;01&#x2F;05&#x2F;the-surprising-internet-forum-some-alcoholics-are-choosing-over-aa&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.washingtonpost.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;the-intersect&#x2F;wp&#x2F;2016&#x2F;01...</a><p>Just Google your specific situation and Reddit will probably have a support sub.</text></comment> |
41,517,993 | 41,517,991 | 1 | 3 | 41,515,527 | train | <story><title>Vulnerabilities in the Feeld dating app</title><url>https://fortbridge.co.uk/research/feeld-dating-app-nudes-data-publicly-available/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dfedbeef</author><text>You shouldn&#x27;t be touching the server-side code if you find this hard to keep straight.</text></item><item><author>Cu3PO42</author><text>It seems like they implemented permission checks purely in the frontend, and not just on one endpoint, but almost everywhere.<p>While it is conceptually easy to avoid this, I have seen similar mistakes much more frequently than I would like to admit.<p>Edit: the solution &quot;check all permissions on the backend&quot; reminds me of the solution to buffer overflows: &quot;just add bounds checks everywhere&quot;. It&#x27;s clear to the community at large what needs to be done, but getting everyone to apply this consistently is... not so easy.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>benoau</author><text>Junior developer probably opened a Jira ticket, saw a UI of a permission dialog, and did exactly that task with nobody senior enough to know better. That&#x27;s how you reproduce the bugs that were in-fashion 15 - 20 years ago in my experience!</text></comment> | <story><title>Vulnerabilities in the Feeld dating app</title><url>https://fortbridge.co.uk/research/feeld-dating-app-nudes-data-publicly-available/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dfedbeef</author><text>You shouldn&#x27;t be touching the server-side code if you find this hard to keep straight.</text></item><item><author>Cu3PO42</author><text>It seems like they implemented permission checks purely in the frontend, and not just on one endpoint, but almost everywhere.<p>While it is conceptually easy to avoid this, I have seen similar mistakes much more frequently than I would like to admit.<p>Edit: the solution &quot;check all permissions on the backend&quot; reminds me of the solution to buffer overflows: &quot;just add bounds checks everywhere&quot;. It&#x27;s clear to the community at large what needs to be done, but getting everyone to apply this consistently is... not so easy.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jfoutz</author><text>Eternal September. Everyone starts somewhere, it’s just all the time now. In ten years, the dev will explain to a junior how bad they messed up, and why they have to validate this way. Well, I don’t know, but that’s what I hope.</text></comment> |
6,475,505 | 6,475,533 | 1 | 2 | 6,475,285 | train | <story><title>Lego Calendar syncs with Google Calendar</title><url>http://www.creativeapplications.net/objects/lego-calendar-by-vitamins-design-syncs-with-google-calendar/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>xerophtye</author><text>Now this is really cool stuff. Though i have to ask, what exactly are the benefits* of making it physical rather than digital (like a shared board).<p>*apart from the coolness factor</text></comment> | <story><title>Lego Calendar syncs with Google Calendar</title><url>http://www.creativeapplications.net/objects/lego-calendar-by-vitamins-design-syncs-with-google-calendar/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jdkanani</author><text>Great idea! One question though, what about other way around - Google calendar to Lego calendar? or It will just merge with existing events in Google calender?</text></comment> |
26,139,270 | 26,139,131 | 1 | 2 | 26,138,931 | train | <story><title>SolarWinds hack was 'largest and most sophisticated attack' ever: MSFT president</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/article/us-cyber-solarwinds-microsoft-idUSKBN2AF03R</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jjcm</author><text>Largest impact, sure. But architecturally it was a relatively simple formula - compromise a widely used package and sleep on it until it was pervasive enough to be a valuable hack. I disagree with this being the most sophisticated though. Unless I&#x27;m missing something about this hack, the Stuxnet[1] architecture, complexity, and long term planning feel far more sophisticated than the SolarWinds hack.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Stuxnet" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Stuxnet</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nimbius</author><text>Absolutely agree. Solarwinds focuses a disproportionate amount of effort in ensuring it shows up favorably in Gartner magazine reviews and trade publications. As a monitoring platform its a monolithic, expensive, slow and rather dated monitoring solution. Agile does not come to mind, and you certainly wouldnt use it for anything approaching &quot;observability.&quot;<p>But the concerted marketing effort pays dividends. Solarwinds is almost the only choice for government. For potential attackers its a big red arrow. Exploit a rent-seeking company that writes mediocre software and exists mostly to cash in on &quot;best practice&quot; lock-in with government contracts.<p>as far as i know nobodys really addressed the elephant in the room. Solarwinds is <i>still</i> a preferred government purchase for monitoring. every company that was affected by it still uses it (or at least hasnt publically refuted it) and no government official has come forward to admit they will discontinue it. Solarwinds hasnt offered any remediation or major changes in their development, leadership or code. just patch, rinse, and repeat and try not to pay too much attention to the issue.</text></comment> | <story><title>SolarWinds hack was 'largest and most sophisticated attack' ever: MSFT president</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/article/us-cyber-solarwinds-microsoft-idUSKBN2AF03R</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jjcm</author><text>Largest impact, sure. But architecturally it was a relatively simple formula - compromise a widely used package and sleep on it until it was pervasive enough to be a valuable hack. I disagree with this being the most sophisticated though. Unless I&#x27;m missing something about this hack, the Stuxnet[1] architecture, complexity, and long term planning feel far more sophisticated than the SolarWinds hack.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Stuxnet" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Stuxnet</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>stevemk14ebr</author><text>The attack is unique in its usage of the supply chain. The malware is not &#x27;sophisticated&#x27; in the same way stuxnet is because it has different goals. This actors goals align with stealth above all else, which is evident in both the design of the malware and the choice of the supply chain delivery vehicle. Also realize that the network comminication scheme used attempts to blend in with the legitimate SolarWinds software. If you design a stuxnet like malware and deploy it to 18k+ companies it will be found, because exploiting zero days left and right is super noisey. This malware was minimal. It&#x27;s cool in a different way</text></comment> |
35,506,150 | 35,503,050 | 1 | 2 | 35,503,044 | train | <story><title>When do you need chain-of-thought prompting for ChatGPT?</title><url>https://arxiv.org/abs/2304.03262</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>leobg</author><text>I think the ideas is that the LLM cannot think internally. It’s output <i>is</i> its thinking process. Especially with an auto regressive architecture like GPT, where each output token becomes part of the input.<p>I imagine it like handing the LLM a piece of scratch paper.</text></comment> | <story><title>When do you need chain-of-thought prompting for ChatGPT?</title><url>https://arxiv.org/abs/2304.03262</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>belter</author><text>&quot;...Chain-of-Thought (CoT) prompting can effectively elicit complex multi-step reasoning from Large Language Models~(LLMs). For example, by simply adding CoT instruction ``Let&#x27;s think step-by-step&#x27;&#x27; to each input query of MultiArith dataset, GPT-3&#x27;s accuracy can be improved from 17.7\% to 78.7\%. However, it is not clear whether CoT is still effective on more recent instruction finetuned (IFT) LLMs such as ChatGPT. Surprisingly, on ChatGPT, CoT is no longer effective for certain tasks such as arithmetic reasoning while still keeping effective on other reasoning tasks. Moreover, on the former tasks, ChatGPT usually achieves the best performance and can generate CoT even without being instructed to do so...<p>...Hence, it is plausible that ChatGPT has already been trained on these tasks with CoT and thus memorized the instruction so it implicitly follows such an instruction when applied to the same queries, even without CoT. Our analysis reflects a potential risk of overfitting&#x2F;bias toward instructions introduced in IFT, which becomes more common in training LLMs...&quot;</text></comment> |
24,599,828 | 24,599,842 | 1 | 2 | 24,598,821 | train | <story><title>Update on YouTube copyright dispute over guitar tutorials [video]</title><url>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6F63x345mCA</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jasode</author><text>Ok, I watched the video and his rationale for why his guitar tabs were &quot;fair use&quot;:<p>1) he wrote out the tabs himself instead of copying them from a copyrighted book and<p>2) he wasn&#x27;t making any <i>direct</i> money by selling the tabs themselves; however he also acknowledges was getting <i>indirect</i> money via Youtube monetization of the videos that displayed the tabs on screen<p>Unfortunately, he was naive and probably wasn&#x27;t aware of history. Back in the USENET days, the famous OLGA On-line Guitar Archive[1] was previously shutdown even though the guitar tabs contributions were <i>made by volunteers for no money</i>.<p>He was playing with copyright fire and didn&#x27;t know it.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;On-line_Guitar_Archive" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;On-line_Guitar_Archive</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rwnspace</author><text>I cannot convey how much I miss OLGA. My first taste of irritating copyright laws over art was they came for Napster, but I was still pretty young so I didn&#x27;t feel it much. When they came for OLGA, I was skipping school to play guitar 12+ hours a day. It was around my 15th birthday. I&#x27;m pretty sure I cried. I still have a precious folder of printouts from &lt;2006 - I don&#x27;t play guitar much now, but it only just occurred to me that OLGA is probably <i>somewhere</i> online... :D</text></comment> | <story><title>Update on YouTube copyright dispute over guitar tutorials [video]</title><url>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6F63x345mCA</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jasode</author><text>Ok, I watched the video and his rationale for why his guitar tabs were &quot;fair use&quot;:<p>1) he wrote out the tabs himself instead of copying them from a copyrighted book and<p>2) he wasn&#x27;t making any <i>direct</i> money by selling the tabs themselves; however he also acknowledges was getting <i>indirect</i> money via Youtube monetization of the videos that displayed the tabs on screen<p>Unfortunately, he was naive and probably wasn&#x27;t aware of history. Back in the USENET days, the famous OLGA On-line Guitar Archive[1] was previously shutdown even though the guitar tabs contributions were <i>made by volunteers for no money</i>.<p>He was playing with copyright fire and didn&#x27;t know it.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;On-line_Guitar_Archive" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;On-line_Guitar_Archive</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>wool_gather</author><text>&gt; the famous OLGA On-line Guitar Archive[1] was previously shutdown even though the guitar tabs contributions were made by volunteers for no money.<p>And then, to further the travesty, those freely contributed tabs were hoovered up by commercial sites and became only available there.</text></comment> |
21,568,056 | 21,564,858 | 1 | 2 | 21,563,868 | train | <story><title>Google search results have more human help than you think, report finds</title><url>https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2019/11/google-search-results-have-more-human-help-than-you-think-report-finds/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>dang</author><text><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=21544537" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=21544537</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Google search results have more human help than you think, report finds</title><url>https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2019/11/google-search-results-have-more-human-help-than-you-think-report-finds/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>danielfoster</author><text>I’ve been pretty frustrated with Google lately. Maybe it’s me, but they seem to keep skewing their algorithm to ignore precise queries and always show broad matches.<p>For example I recently searched “US ambassador Germany” on Google News and the top results were all stories about Ukraine and the impeachment hearings. Google completely ignored “Germany.”<p>Similar things happen to me all the time on Google Search. Perhaps I just search too many long tail queries?</text></comment> |
41,441,391 | 41,441,195 | 1 | 2 | 41,440,662 | train | <story><title>In a first, Phoenix hits 100 straight days of 100-degree heat</title><url>https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2024/09/03/phoenix-100-degree-temperatures-record/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>qiqitori</author><text>Hrm, everyone is different but I wouldn&#x27;t consider living in a place like that.<p>PSA: 100 F is 37.7778C. Here is a relatively simple way to convert Fahrenheit to Celsius in your head. You just need to remember three simple facts:<p>1. 32 F is exactly 0 C. 32 F is a nice round number that most people here probably come across a lot.<p>2. 50 F is exactly 10 C. Again, a nice and round number.<p>3. It&#x27;s a linear relationship.<p>So every 18 F the temperature goes up by 10 C.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Izkata</author><text>The equation is &quot;F = C * 9 &#x2F; 5 + 32&quot;, and reversed, &quot;C = (F - 32) * 5 &#x2F; 9&quot;<p>If you&#x27;re just quickly doing it in your head, &quot;F = C * 2 + 30&quot; and &quot;C = (F - 30) &#x2F; 2&quot; are pretty close.</text></comment> | <story><title>In a first, Phoenix hits 100 straight days of 100-degree heat</title><url>https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2024/09/03/phoenix-100-degree-temperatures-record/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>qiqitori</author><text>Hrm, everyone is different but I wouldn&#x27;t consider living in a place like that.<p>PSA: 100 F is 37.7778C. Here is a relatively simple way to convert Fahrenheit to Celsius in your head. You just need to remember three simple facts:<p>1. 32 F is exactly 0 C. 32 F is a nice round number that most people here probably come across a lot.<p>2. 50 F is exactly 10 C. Again, a nice and round number.<p>3. It&#x27;s a linear relationship.<p>So every 18 F the temperature goes up by 10 C.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mjklin</author><text>82 F = 28 C is where I usually start</text></comment> |
31,643,888 | 31,643,870 | 1 | 3 | 31,642,085 | train | <story><title>Elon Musk asserts his “right to terminate” Twitter deal</title><url>https://www.axios.com/2022/06/06/elon-musk-twitter</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>AmazingTed</author><text>&gt; and has nothing to do with Musk’s bid.<p>The bid gave Musk access to inside information.<p>&gt; the time for due diligence is before, not after, one signs the merger agreement.<p>I bought a house. The due diligence period to inspect the house, get a survey, etc. was <i>after</i> we entered into the contract and <i>before</i> closing.</text></item><item><author>snowwrestler</author><text>Everything about the bots is a side show to the merger. Twitter’s assertions about bots are in SEC filings and they are a publicly traded company. If there is a cause of action, it already exists and has nothing to do with Musk’s bid.<p>As for that bid, the time for due diligence is before, not after, one signs the merger agreement.<p>FWIW I have shares in Twitter and would prefer them to remain a publicly traded company.</text></item><item><author>shrubble</author><text>The part that seems dangerous to Twitter is not the go&#x2F;no-go part of Elon Musk&#x27;s offer , but the possible shareholder and advertising related lawsuits that may arise.<p>Representing bot activity as less than 5% but using a sample size of 100, when you are claiming millions of active accounts, can&#x27;t easily be seen as honest. Since statistics which Twitter is expected to know as a matter of their duty to shareholders , makes it plain that the sample size is too small.<p>Too many bots = shareholders were misled as to true number of active accounts.<p>Too many bots = advertisers were misled as to potential reach.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Johnny555</author><text><i>I bought a house. The due diligence period to inspect the house, get a survey, etc. was after we entered into the contract and before closing.</i><p>And many people, just like Musk, waive their right to terminate the contract due to inspections, loan approval, etc. For the same reason that he did - it gives the seller less reason to reject your offer.</text></comment> | <story><title>Elon Musk asserts his “right to terminate” Twitter deal</title><url>https://www.axios.com/2022/06/06/elon-musk-twitter</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>AmazingTed</author><text>&gt; and has nothing to do with Musk’s bid.<p>The bid gave Musk access to inside information.<p>&gt; the time for due diligence is before, not after, one signs the merger agreement.<p>I bought a house. The due diligence period to inspect the house, get a survey, etc. was <i>after</i> we entered into the contract and <i>before</i> closing.</text></item><item><author>snowwrestler</author><text>Everything about the bots is a side show to the merger. Twitter’s assertions about bots are in SEC filings and they are a publicly traded company. If there is a cause of action, it already exists and has nothing to do with Musk’s bid.<p>As for that bid, the time for due diligence is before, not after, one signs the merger agreement.<p>FWIW I have shares in Twitter and would prefer them to remain a publicly traded company.</text></item><item><author>shrubble</author><text>The part that seems dangerous to Twitter is not the go&#x2F;no-go part of Elon Musk&#x27;s offer , but the possible shareholder and advertising related lawsuits that may arise.<p>Representing bot activity as less than 5% but using a sample size of 100, when you are claiming millions of active accounts, can&#x27;t easily be seen as honest. Since statistics which Twitter is expected to know as a matter of their duty to shareholders , makes it plain that the sample size is too small.<p>Too many bots = shareholders were misled as to true number of active accounts.<p>Too many bots = advertisers were misled as to potential reach.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>JamesSwift</author><text>&gt; The due diligence period to inspect the house, get a survey, etc. was after we entered into the contract and before closing.<p>Right, because thats what you included in your offer contract. Now, imagine that you didn&#x27;t have anything in your offer about contingent on inspection. Do you think you would have standing to back out of the deal?</text></comment> |
16,223,389 | 16,223,081 | 1 | 2 | 16,222,478 | train | <story><title>ActivityPub: decentralized social networking protocol</title><url>https://www.w3.org/TR/2018/REC-activitypub-20180123/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jeswin</author><text>From my quick read of the spec, server-to-server federation assumes that servers can be trusted. That need not be the case; unless a message is signed it should not be assumed to have come from a specific user. I don&#x27;t know if there&#x27;s an easy way to share keys in a decentralized way, but that&#x27;d be an interesting problem to solve (some blockchain maybe).<p>The other question is whether we want server-to-server federation at all instead of a P2P network like bittorrent. With the decreasing cost of compute, I am also optimistic of everyone being able to run a little sandbox on the cloud to exchange data with others, instead of routing it via FB&#x2F;Twitter.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rakoo</author><text>&gt; I don&#x27;t know if there&#x27;s an easy way to share keys in a decentralized way, but that&#x27;d be an interesting problem to solve (some blockchain maybe).<p>This is exactly what namecoin tried to solve. Buy an identifier, put whatever you want in it. Example: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;nameid.org&#x2F;?name=rakoo" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;nameid.org&#x2F;?name=rakoo</a><p>&gt; The other question is whether we want server-to-server federation at all instead of a P2P network like bittorrent.<p>We want something in between. The best model I know is the one of scuttlebutt (<a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;scuttlebot.io&#x2F;more&#x2F;protocols&#x2F;secure-scuttlebutt.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;scuttlebot.io&#x2F;more&#x2F;protocols&#x2F;secure-scuttlebutt.html</a>): Each peer is identified by an asymetric keypair, and writes posts&#x2F;comments&#x2F;photos to a local ledger. Everything is signed and potentially encrypted if the message is to be read only by select people. Diffusion follows the peers&#x27; connections: stuff is sent from peer to peer as they connect together, friends can be used as a third leg (ie a common friend can carry stuff even if it&#x27;s not for them), and you also have pubs where more people can connect and get more stuff faster. This system is different from bittorrent in that everything depends on the human connections: information spreads along human acquaintances, names aren&#x27;t globally unique, they depend on how your friends agree to name you, etc...<p>It&#x27;s better than naive server-to-server federation because pubs can be simple, stupid message forwarders yet still have all the advantages of being always-up servers.</text></comment> | <story><title>ActivityPub: decentralized social networking protocol</title><url>https://www.w3.org/TR/2018/REC-activitypub-20180123/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jeswin</author><text>From my quick read of the spec, server-to-server federation assumes that servers can be trusted. That need not be the case; unless a message is signed it should not be assumed to have come from a specific user. I don&#x27;t know if there&#x27;s an easy way to share keys in a decentralized way, but that&#x27;d be an interesting problem to solve (some blockchain maybe).<p>The other question is whether we want server-to-server federation at all instead of a P2P network like bittorrent. With the decreasing cost of compute, I am also optimistic of everyone being able to run a little sandbox on the cloud to exchange data with others, instead of routing it via FB&#x2F;Twitter.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ocdtrekkie</author><text>I think there&#x27;s a few major reasons servers is still the way to go, albeit numerous much smaller servers.<p>- Mobile users content should remain available when they are disconnected.<p>- Participating in a federated environment still contains plenty of technical challenges, if we want non-tech-savvy users to participate, we need admins.<p>I personally would like to see servers for web applications, be they Sandstorm.io-type app platforms or Mastodon-type social networks, in a family-and-friends scale operation. I&#x27;d happily host resources for family and friends, for instance. While most people may not be able to run their own server, almost everyone is either family or friends with someone who can, and corporate offerings will fill in the gaps.</text></comment> |
34,901,191 | 34,901,210 | 1 | 2 | 34,900,916 | train | <story><title>Last undersea Internet cable connecting Vietnam with the world breaks down</title><url>https://en.vietnamplus.vn/last-undersea-internet-cable-connecting-vietnam-with-the-world-breaks-down/248731.vnp</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>ilamont</author><text>Not many details in this article, but further north there is another threat to undersea cables carrying Internet traffic:<p><i>On Feb. 2, a Chinese fishing vessel sailing close to the Matsu Islands severed one of the two cables, which connect the islands with Taiwan proper. Then, six days later, a Chinese freighter cut the second cable.</i><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;foreignpolicy.com&#x2F;2023&#x2F;02&#x2F;21&#x2F;matsu-islands-internet-cables-china-taiwan&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;foreignpolicy.com&#x2F;2023&#x2F;02&#x2F;21&#x2F;matsu-islands-internet-...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Last undersea Internet cable connecting Vietnam with the world breaks down</title><url>https://en.vietnamplus.vn/last-undersea-internet-cable-connecting-vietnam-with-the-world-breaks-down/248731.vnp</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>v8xi</author><text>Article gives scant information but found this from 01&#x2F;30&#x2F;23: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;e.vnexpress.net&#x2F;news&#x2F;news&#x2F;internet-slows-to-a-crawl-as-four-undersea-cables-encounter-simultaneous-issues-4564855.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;e.vnexpress.net&#x2F;news&#x2F;news&#x2F;internet-slows-to-a-crawl-...</a><p>From that article:<p>Vietnam is currently connected with seven undersea cables: SMW3, AAG, IA, APG, AAE-1, SJC2 and ADC. Besides the recent breakage of the IA, problems with the AAE, AAG and APG cables that have been present since 2022 and early 2023 have yet to be fully resolved.<p>The SJC2 and the ADC are yet to be officially operational, while the SMW3 cable is outdated and about to be decommissioned.<p>The fact that Vietnam currently only has one fully functional undersea cable has caused internet speeds between Vietnam and the rest of the world to slow to a crawl.</text></comment> |
30,889,240 | 30,889,400 | 1 | 2 | 30,889,019 | train | <story><title>Ask HN: When did 7 interviews become “normal”?</title><text>edit: I love this community! Thank you so much for all the insight. For those who complained, I&#x27;m sorry if this post comes across as complainy or redundant, I respect the HN hive-mind and was genuinely curious about everyone&#x27;s thoughts on the matter.<p>Hello fellow travelers, I&#x27;ll do my best to keep this brief(ish).<p>I&#x27;ve been in IT professionally since Y2K, data entry-&gt;QA-&gt;SysAdmin-&gt;PM-&gt;consultant-&gt;founder-&gt;sold and with the money took some years off, bought some property and a fixer upper and went to school and got a BSBA degree (never graduated from high school but wanted to show my kids the importance of a degree). I missed working and creating things with people so decided to reenter the job market in the PM space. So now that my hat is in the ring I have been told by recruiters what I need to &quot;expect&quot; in this &quot;new market.&quot;<p>I was told &quot;5 to 7 interviews is normal&quot;. What? I genuinely feel like I&#x27;m having a &#x27;Blast from the Past&#x27; moment in this whole thing (good 90s romcom kids, look it up).<p>When did a hiring manager lose their authority and the trust of the organization to do their job? Am I just out of touch? How is a process like this in any way shape or form efficient or productive? Am i missing something? HN, please help!</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>kstenerud</author><text>Tech is very cargo cultish, which comes from having a young average age, and a strong survivorship bias in the media. Remember the Google brainteasers? Fizzbuzz? &quot;Culture fit&quot;?<p>Tech companies have the lowest infrastructure costs of any industry, and so they have no place to hang their risk aversive paranoia except on personnel (the safer you are, the more trivial the things you fear).<p>There&#x27;s nothing logical about it, but since they have to fear something, it&#x27;ll be whatever some douchebag with a following puts in their next &quot;XYZ considered harmful&quot; blog post.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>grapeskin</author><text>All we need is a “3+ interviews considered harmful” post to hit HN a few months in a row and we can finally solve this problem.<p>That, or we’ll have some representative from the big 5 saying “Hey guys, Jayden from (x soulless Silicon Valley company) here. Not speaking on behalf of my employer but actually at X Corp(tm) we’ve found that anything less than 37 interviews (+tip) isn’t enough to let the real stars shine through. We’re all about finding the true team players who are a good culture fit” within 2 minutes of the post going up.</text></comment> | <story><title>Ask HN: When did 7 interviews become “normal”?</title><text>edit: I love this community! Thank you so much for all the insight. For those who complained, I&#x27;m sorry if this post comes across as complainy or redundant, I respect the HN hive-mind and was genuinely curious about everyone&#x27;s thoughts on the matter.<p>Hello fellow travelers, I&#x27;ll do my best to keep this brief(ish).<p>I&#x27;ve been in IT professionally since Y2K, data entry-&gt;QA-&gt;SysAdmin-&gt;PM-&gt;consultant-&gt;founder-&gt;sold and with the money took some years off, bought some property and a fixer upper and went to school and got a BSBA degree (never graduated from high school but wanted to show my kids the importance of a degree). I missed working and creating things with people so decided to reenter the job market in the PM space. So now that my hat is in the ring I have been told by recruiters what I need to &quot;expect&quot; in this &quot;new market.&quot;<p>I was told &quot;5 to 7 interviews is normal&quot;. What? I genuinely feel like I&#x27;m having a &#x27;Blast from the Past&#x27; moment in this whole thing (good 90s romcom kids, look it up).<p>When did a hiring manager lose their authority and the trust of the organization to do their job? Am I just out of touch? How is a process like this in any way shape or form efficient or productive? Am i missing something? HN, please help!</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>kstenerud</author><text>Tech is very cargo cultish, which comes from having a young average age, and a strong survivorship bias in the media. Remember the Google brainteasers? Fizzbuzz? &quot;Culture fit&quot;?<p>Tech companies have the lowest infrastructure costs of any industry, and so they have no place to hang their risk aversive paranoia except on personnel (the safer you are, the more trivial the things you fear).<p>There&#x27;s nothing logical about it, but since they have to fear something, it&#x27;ll be whatever some douchebag with a following puts in their next &quot;XYZ considered harmful&quot; blog post.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>greggman3</author><text>Is FizzBuzz cargo cult? I had my own company in 1995. We tried to hire programmers. The candidate would come in and we&#x27;d spend an hour interviewing. 9 out of 10 could not program at all and effectively wasted our time.<p>So, we switched to &quot;here&#x27;s a short test, go in this room and do the test&quot;. Then we&#x27;d look at their answers. If the answers were wrong&#x2F;poor we&#x27;d thank them for their time and excuse them. This way, less of our time was wasted. That test included an extremely small task like FizzBuzz. If you can&#x27;t answer it you can&#x27;t program, period! It filtered out the 9 out of 10 applicants who should never have applied in the first place and saved us a bunch of time.<p>At a big company the phone screen is supposed to do that but phone screens still take a hour or more of some engineer&#x27;s time.</text></comment> |
34,334,226 | 34,334,095 | 1 | 2 | 34,333,210 | train | <story><title>Crypto.com will delist Tether in Canada to comply with Ontario regulator</title><url>https://decrypt.co/118812/crypto-com-delist-tether-canada</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>polygamous_bat</author><text>I think people are underestimating the problems that a blanket Tether ban from North American markets would cause. You think a Tether ban would cause people to switch to USDC? Ok, but that means some Tether needs to vanish and some USDC needs to be created. How does that happen? Ideally, it goes from Tether -&gt; USD -&gt; USDC... and there lies the problem. We don&#x27;t know if there is enough USD in Tether&#x27;s coffer to redeem all the withdrawals. And if there is not, or even if there is a doubt about it, then it becomes a game where the last person to withdraw loses. How would that look for crypto in general? How would people react to USDC if they or someone they know just got burned by another stablecoin last week?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>partiallypro</author><text>&gt; We don&#x27;t know if there is enough USD in Tether&#x27;s coffer to redeem all the withdrawals.<p>Isn&#x27;t that a good reason to get away from it? Since, it seems to just be a massively fraudulent vehicle that has been a direct cause of both booms and busts in Bitcoin?<p>This is from 2017: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.wsj.com&#x2F;articles&#x2F;large-bitcoin-player-manipulated-price-sharply-higher-study-says-11572863400" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.wsj.com&#x2F;articles&#x2F;large-bitcoin-player-manipulate...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Crypto.com will delist Tether in Canada to comply with Ontario regulator</title><url>https://decrypt.co/118812/crypto-com-delist-tether-canada</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>polygamous_bat</author><text>I think people are underestimating the problems that a blanket Tether ban from North American markets would cause. You think a Tether ban would cause people to switch to USDC? Ok, but that means some Tether needs to vanish and some USDC needs to be created. How does that happen? Ideally, it goes from Tether -&gt; USD -&gt; USDC... and there lies the problem. We don&#x27;t know if there is enough USD in Tether&#x27;s coffer to redeem all the withdrawals. And if there is not, or even if there is a doubt about it, then it becomes a game where the last person to withdraw loses. How would that look for crypto in general? How would people react to USDC if they or someone they know just got burned by another stablecoin last week?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jasonlingx</author><text>If Tether is insolvent then better to ban it earlier than later, before it becomes even “too bigger” to fail.</text></comment> |
25,693,737 | 25,691,468 | 1 | 3 | 25,690,298 | train | <story><title>Intel Talks with TSMC, Samsung to Outsource Some Chip Production</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-01-08/intel-talks-with-tsmc-samsung-to-outsource-some-chip-production</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ogre_codes</author><text>Giving up manufacturing would be terrible. It really feels like Intel is ceding any hope of leadership to focus on milking their IP for cash. That would be incredibly frustrating and sad.<p>I hope it&#x27;s not true or just very limited scope.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dlevine</author><text>Intel has whiffed their 10nm process node to the point where it may never launch in any scale. Their 7nm node is significantly behind schedule. Their only solution in the near-term is to keep increasing the TDP of their chips, which won&#x27;t work for long.<p>This might be their only good option. Sure outsourcing manufacturing is a risk, but it&#x27;s probably one they need to take. They will catch back up if they can get their 7nm node back on track, which isn&#x27;t a given.</text></comment> | <story><title>Intel Talks with TSMC, Samsung to Outsource Some Chip Production</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-01-08/intel-talks-with-tsmc-samsung-to-outsource-some-chip-production</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ogre_codes</author><text>Giving up manufacturing would be terrible. It really feels like Intel is ceding any hope of leadership to focus on milking their IP for cash. That would be incredibly frustrating and sad.<p>I hope it&#x27;s not true or just very limited scope.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Alupis</author><text>It&#x27;s worked out extremely well for AMD... and recall everyone was saying it would be the end of AMD when they spun off their FAB into Global Foundries.<p>Fabricating, and design are very different businesses.</text></comment> |
15,834,062 | 15,833,845 | 1 | 2 | 15,833,139 | train | <story><title>The destruction of graduate education in the United States</title><url>https://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=3542</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>theptip</author><text>I found this article to be quite hysterical (and I follow and enjoy Aaronson&#x27;s blog). It fails to present (or even consider) that there is a reasonable justification for these tax code changes, and instead leaps to &quot;Trump and the Republicans must be evil and are out to crush all liberal edifices&quot;.<p>An article recently posted here on HN gives a more nuanced explanation for what&#x27;s going on: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=15807842" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=15807842</a><p>TL;DR, the tuition fee deferral scheme that universities currently use is a grant-money laundering scheme. It&#x27;s used to take federal grant money that comes with strings attached (e.g. can only be spent on certain things like paying salaries for grad students, or research costs) and launder it into money that can be spent on whatever the university wants (e.g. building new campuses or paying for nice desks for administrators). It&#x27;s probably not unreasonable for the federal government to try to close this loophole.<p>The issue is that students are caught in the crossfire here, and I&#x27;m not sure that the incentives are there for universities to protect them fully.<p>But to be clear, the universities could just stop billing the government false grad student salaries, and then grad students&#x27; take home pay and tax exposure would remain unchanged, and there would be no crisis. The problem is that then universities would have to find a new money laundering scheme, or would have to make structural changes to their budgets that they would prefer not to make.</text></comment> | <story><title>The destruction of graduate education in the United States</title><url>https://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=3542</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jknoepfler</author><text>The systematic erosion of public education in the United States doesn&#x27;t serve anyone in the United States&#x27; long term interests, except maybe the religious right (who don&#x27;t matter that much in the federal government). It just doesn&#x27;t serve monied interests. It doesn&#x27;t help big oil, it doesn&#x27;t help big pharma, it doesn&#x27;t help the legal or medical professions, it doesn&#x27;t help finance, or insurance, or banking. So I&#x27;m a little puzzled. Who does it benefit?<p>I share the author&#x27;s bewilderment in the face of the realization that this is, in fact, terrible for universities, and (seemingly, given what we know) not just weird news spin-doctoring or scare mongering:<p><i>&quot;Given the existential risk to American higher education, why didn’t I blog about this earlier? ... It’s simply that I didn’t believe it—even given all the other stuff that could “never happen in the US,” until it happened this past year... Surely even the House Republicans would realize they’d screwed up this time, and would take out this crazy provision before the full bill was voted on? Or surely there’s some workaround that makes the whole thing less awful than it sounds? There has to be … right?&quot;</i><p>I&#x27;m also confused. I decided that I didn&#x27;t have the right kind of information to understand what was happening in the Federal government a long time ago, and I still think that, but I find this whole situation very puzzling, because it doesn&#x27;t make much sense given how I think the world works (which is, of course, a deeply flawed and nearly useless model of the real world).</text></comment> |
33,184,747 | 33,183,684 | 1 | 2 | 33,182,911 | train | <story><title>87% of American teens own an iPhone; 88% expect an iPhone to be their next phone</title><url>https://www.pipersandler.com/1col.aspx?id=6216</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>2OEH8eoCRo0</author><text>I see this a lot around here. HN user hates company with a passion but buys their products rather than deal with some minor annoyance.<p>I guess you don&#x27;t hate Apple with a passion then.</text></item><item><author>eatsyourtacos</author><text>I hate apple with a passion for not opening up iMessage, but here we are.<p>That being said, I am getting my first iPhone in just a few days because I am sick of the 100000 choices between android phones that all suck in one way or another. I don&#x27;t believe they will last more than a few years if my last samsung is any indication. And I don&#x27;t give a crap about what android can do- I just want a phone that works.<p>So I guess you win Apple.. but it&#x27;s criminal that a <i>vast</i> reason they have so much market share is because of imessage and the fact that it&#x27;s &quot;broken&quot; with SMS to some degree.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>matheusmoreira</author><text>Minor annoyance? Android is becoming just as much of a locked down walled garden as iOS. Hardware remote attestation is already here and it threatens to deny access to apps to all rooted phones.<p>If I must be in one of these little walled gardens, I&#x27;m choosing the better kept one. It sure as hell isn&#x27;t Google&#x27;s.</text></comment> | <story><title>87% of American teens own an iPhone; 88% expect an iPhone to be their next phone</title><url>https://www.pipersandler.com/1col.aspx?id=6216</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>2OEH8eoCRo0</author><text>I see this a lot around here. HN user hates company with a passion but buys their products rather than deal with some minor annoyance.<p>I guess you don&#x27;t hate Apple with a passion then.</text></item><item><author>eatsyourtacos</author><text>I hate apple with a passion for not opening up iMessage, but here we are.<p>That being said, I am getting my first iPhone in just a few days because I am sick of the 100000 choices between android phones that all suck in one way or another. I don&#x27;t believe they will last more than a few years if my last samsung is any indication. And I don&#x27;t give a crap about what android can do- I just want a phone that works.<p>So I guess you win Apple.. but it&#x27;s criminal that a <i>vast</i> reason they have so much market share is because of imessage and the fact that it&#x27;s &quot;broken&quot; with SMS to some degree.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>to-too-two</author><text>You can hate the King with a passion but still pay your taxes. Sometimes people feel like they barely have a choice and can hate them in-part for that too.<p>I hate Verizon and Comcast with a passion but if it’s between them or no internet access, well I hardly call that a choice.</text></comment> |
33,726,792 | 33,726,812 | 1 | 3 | 33,726,496 | train | <story><title>Draft policy proposal would authorize SF Police to use deadly force with robots</title><url>https://missionlocal.org/2022/11/killer-robots-to-be-permitted-under-sfpd-draft-policy/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>vorpalhex</author><text>I agree police should get more training.<p>You will have to fund them more if you want that.</text></item><item><author>woodruffw</author><text>That qualification hasn&#x27;t meant much, going by the rate at which police hurt themselves (and innocent members of the public) with their own service weapons.</text></item><item><author>vorpalhex</author><text>There is a reason firearms come with sights and we make cops qualify with their service weapons.</text></item><item><author>titzer</author><text>&gt; Bystanders.<p>Also vulnerable to bullets, as it turns out.</text></item><item><author>vorpalhex</author><text>Bystanders.<p>You can&#x27;t bet someone elses life based on how well a taser may or may not work.<p>LTL is a real dice throw.</text></item><item><author>Imnimo</author><text>Maybe I lack imagination, but it seems like if you have enough control over a situation that you can deploy a police robot instead of charging in, then you have enough control to make non-lethal force a viable option.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>woodruffw</author><text>At least where I live, giving the police more funding hasn&#x27;t meaningfully improved their ability to comport themselves. If anything, it&#x27;s markedly declined over the last 30 years (while their funding hasn&#x27;t).<p>I think an easier way to make the police more careful with their guns is to limit which cops can carry guns, and to require cops to live in the neighborhoods they police. People tend to be a little more careful with firearms when the stray bullet might hit their friends or family.</text></comment> | <story><title>Draft policy proposal would authorize SF Police to use deadly force with robots</title><url>https://missionlocal.org/2022/11/killer-robots-to-be-permitted-under-sfpd-draft-policy/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>vorpalhex</author><text>I agree police should get more training.<p>You will have to fund them more if you want that.</text></item><item><author>woodruffw</author><text>That qualification hasn&#x27;t meant much, going by the rate at which police hurt themselves (and innocent members of the public) with their own service weapons.</text></item><item><author>vorpalhex</author><text>There is a reason firearms come with sights and we make cops qualify with their service weapons.</text></item><item><author>titzer</author><text>&gt; Bystanders.<p>Also vulnerable to bullets, as it turns out.</text></item><item><author>vorpalhex</author><text>Bystanders.<p>You can&#x27;t bet someone elses life based on how well a taser may or may not work.<p>LTL is a real dice throw.</text></item><item><author>Imnimo</author><text>Maybe I lack imagination, but it seems like if you have enough control over a situation that you can deploy a police robot instead of charging in, then you have enough control to make non-lethal force a viable option.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bombcar</author><text>Look up the rates at which a coo draws his duty weapon let alone fires it.<p>And many places offer free range time and many cops don’t even bother.</text></comment> |
10,136,053 | 10,134,844 | 1 | 3 | 10,134,104 | train | <story><title>Ubuntu continues to rule the cloud</title><url>http://www.zdnet.com/article/ubuntu-linux-continues-to-rule-the-cloud/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>codewithcheese</author><text>A big reason why it dominates the cloud is tons of web developers use Ubuntu as their desktop Linux of choice. It&#x27;s really very convenient to develop and deploy on the same OS. I don&#x27;t think its accurate to say &quot;The desktop is a nice add-on, but it&#x27;s not Canonical&#x27;s focus nor should it be.&quot;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mindcrime</author><text><i>A big reason why it dominates the cloud is tons of web developers use Ubuntu as their desktop Linux of choice.</i><p>This is exactly why people were screaming at Red Hat back when they decided to kill their (then) consumer offering, and later when they started actively eschewing talk about desktop Linux. Everybody knew that developers drive adoption of server OS&#x27;s and that once developers started moving away from Red Hat derived distros on the desktop that they would eventually start moving away server-side as well. But I guess the higher-ups at RH either didn&#x27;t believe, or didn&#x27;t care.<p>Personally I still use Fedora as my personal desktop OS and mostly run CentOS, Fedora or Amazon Linux on servers. I never saw the appeal in Ubuntu. From what I recall, their main claim to fame had always been &quot;we pre-ship all the proprietary audio&#x2F;video codecs that RH won&#x27;t ship&quot; and the supposed superiority of apt over yum.<p>I use Ubuntu on the desktop on my work provided laptop and it works well enough, but I don&#x27;t see any particular advantage over Fedora. And I prefer yum (now dnf) to apt, so I doubt I&#x27;ll switch anytime soon. Still, if RH cares about this sort of thing, they really should start embracing &quot;Linux on the desktop&quot; again.</text></comment> | <story><title>Ubuntu continues to rule the cloud</title><url>http://www.zdnet.com/article/ubuntu-linux-continues-to-rule-the-cloud/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>codewithcheese</author><text>A big reason why it dominates the cloud is tons of web developers use Ubuntu as their desktop Linux of choice. It&#x27;s really very convenient to develop and deploy on the same OS. I don&#x27;t think its accurate to say &quot;The desktop is a nice add-on, but it&#x27;s not Canonical&#x27;s focus nor should it be.&quot;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mreiland</author><text>I run Ubuntu locally because it tends to work better as a vmware guest. You can get other distro&#x27;s to work with the quality of ubuntu, but not without a lot more hassle.<p>If I get to choose I&#x27;ll run arch linux, but inside vmware it&#x27;s ubuntu hands down.</text></comment> |
9,621,779 | 9,621,404 | 1 | 2 | 9,619,920 | train | <story><title>Android M Developer Preview and Tools</title><url>http://android-developers.blogspot.com/2015/05/android-m-developer-preview-tools.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>27182818284</author><text>Google is showing off Android M dev previews while devices sold new last fall in major US retailers are still running KitKat with no updates from Google or their providers. They continue to actively create the &quot;fractured&quot; world of Android.<p>In other words, that&#x27;s cool about Android M, but most people aren&#x27;t even using L. (40% on K, 9% on L whose preview was the 2014 IO)<p>Can Google not poach one or two of Apple&#x27;s negotiators to go to the right meetings at Motorola, Verizon, etc to talk about updates?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>krschultz</author><text>Damn lies and statistics. The Android dashboard numbers are always super pessimistic on upgrade rate.<p>I am the lead for an app with &gt;250,000 installs. Over 45% of our usage is coming from Lollipop. The rest is JB &amp; KK. We see &lt;6% ICS for the last 30 days.<p>I know other major apps that have even better numbers.<p>Looking at my data, L usage was basically nil in January 2015. There was slow growth from there until April, when we saw an inflection point in the number of Lollipop users. This aligned with the release of several Samsung updates that pushed Lollipop to some of the most popular devices out there.<p>If you want publicly available numbers, I would rely on Mixpanel[1] not the Android dashboard. And even this understates it, as of writing this comment Mixpanel is not including 5.1 in the Lollipop numbers which is cutting 2-3% off that. [2]<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;mixpanel.com&#x2F;trends&#x2F;#report&#x2F;android_os_adoption" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;mixpanel.com&#x2F;trends&#x2F;#report&#x2F;android_os_adoption</a>
[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;mixpanel&#x2F;status&#x2F;604025242529308672" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;mixpanel&#x2F;status&#x2F;604025242529308672</a><p>The narrative about Android fragmentation is really out of touch with what I experience on a daily basis.</text></comment> | <story><title>Android M Developer Preview and Tools</title><url>http://android-developers.blogspot.com/2015/05/android-m-developer-preview-tools.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>27182818284</author><text>Google is showing off Android M dev previews while devices sold new last fall in major US retailers are still running KitKat with no updates from Google or their providers. They continue to actively create the &quot;fractured&quot; world of Android.<p>In other words, that&#x27;s cool about Android M, but most people aren&#x27;t even using L. (40% on K, 9% on L whose preview was the 2014 IO)<p>Can Google not poach one or two of Apple&#x27;s negotiators to go to the right meetings at Motorola, Verizon, etc to talk about updates?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kllrnohj</author><text>Your post was word for word identical to posts made 2 years about KitKat when it was released. Only instead being compared against Gingerbread. And several years before THAT when Gingerbread was released people were saying it about Donut &amp; Eclair.<p>So yes you&#x27;ll have to wait ~2 years for the majority to be on M or higher. Oh well. Does that suck? Yeah. Is it a major, show stopping, &quot;omg google why haven&#x27;t you devoted 100% resources to fixing this?&quot; issue? No, that&#x27;s absurd.<p>And why do you think Apple has negotiators for this? Apple doesn&#x27;t license iOS to anyone. They&#x27;ve never attempted to solve this problem. Ever. For anything.</text></comment> |
28,443,492 | 28,443,378 | 1 | 2 | 28,440,718 | train | <story><title>Low Cost Banana Pi BPI-R2 Pro 5-Port Gigabit Ethernet Router Board</title><url>https://www.cnx-software.com/2021/08/30/banana-pi-bpi-r2-pro-5-port-gigabit-ethernet-router-board-rockchip-rk3568/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>szszrk</author><text>Are additional RAM gigabytes anything important for a switch? Especially one that delivers on the parameters?<p>Does BPI-R2 actually supports those distributions, or rather those distributions &quot;can run&quot; on that hardware? That&#x27;s a difference. OpenWRT can be run on Mikrotik, yet Mikrotik doesn&#x27;t support that. OpenBSD runs on Edgerouter, yet I doubt they support that. Will anyone that I will buy BPI-R2 from, fix my &quot;normal distribution&quot; if it fails to detect some hardware, or with a failed upgrade?<p>It&#x27;s an awesome device but I think we are confusing a few important things here. Like the word &quot;support&quot; for a start.</text></item><item><author>teleforce</author><text>Both specs for MicroTik and Ubiquiti EdgerouterX are much inferior to BPI-R2 Pro, for example EdgerouterX (currently out of stock) only supports 256MB RAM while the latter can support up to 4GB RAM.<p>Another is that I believe RPI-R2 can support the mainline Linux kernel with normal distributions (e.g. Ubuntu), do MikroTik and EdgerouterX support that as well in addition to OpenWRT?</text></item><item><author>oarsinsync</author><text>Isn’t that already true of various MikroTik 5 port boards, as well as the Ubiquiti EdgerouterX?<p>Both of which are a similar price point, and include a case by default.</text></item><item><author>yjftsjthsd-h</author><text>&gt; 5x Gigabit Ethernet RJ45 ports (1x WAN, 4x LAN) using Realtek RTL8367RB-VB-CG switch<p>So that should allow full speed switching (if not routing) without touching CPU, right? That&#x27;d be a welcome touch in a network box</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>squarefoot</author><text>Broadly speaking, I would not rely too much on support from manufacturers but rather by the communities when the projects are stable enough. Manufacturers have the tendency to slow or halt support in a few years because it costs them money, or to push newer products, while communities support usually lasts much longer.<p>For example, the NanoPi NEO Core official images all still use a 4.14 kernel (2017-2018), while the ones at Armbian use the current mainline 5.10.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;wiki.friendlyarm.com&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;index.php&#x2F;NanoPi_NEO_Core#Install_OS" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;wiki.friendlyarm.com&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;index.php&#x2F;NanoPi_NEO_Core#...</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.armbian.com&#x2F;nanopi-neo&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.armbian.com&#x2F;nanopi-neo&#x2F;</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Low Cost Banana Pi BPI-R2 Pro 5-Port Gigabit Ethernet Router Board</title><url>https://www.cnx-software.com/2021/08/30/banana-pi-bpi-r2-pro-5-port-gigabit-ethernet-router-board-rockchip-rk3568/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>szszrk</author><text>Are additional RAM gigabytes anything important for a switch? Especially one that delivers on the parameters?<p>Does BPI-R2 actually supports those distributions, or rather those distributions &quot;can run&quot; on that hardware? That&#x27;s a difference. OpenWRT can be run on Mikrotik, yet Mikrotik doesn&#x27;t support that. OpenBSD runs on Edgerouter, yet I doubt they support that. Will anyone that I will buy BPI-R2 from, fix my &quot;normal distribution&quot; if it fails to detect some hardware, or with a failed upgrade?<p>It&#x27;s an awesome device but I think we are confusing a few important things here. Like the word &quot;support&quot; for a start.</text></item><item><author>teleforce</author><text>Both specs for MicroTik and Ubiquiti EdgerouterX are much inferior to BPI-R2 Pro, for example EdgerouterX (currently out of stock) only supports 256MB RAM while the latter can support up to 4GB RAM.<p>Another is that I believe RPI-R2 can support the mainline Linux kernel with normal distributions (e.g. Ubuntu), do MikroTik and EdgerouterX support that as well in addition to OpenWRT?</text></item><item><author>oarsinsync</author><text>Isn’t that already true of various MikroTik 5 port boards, as well as the Ubiquiti EdgerouterX?<p>Both of which are a similar price point, and include a case by default.</text></item><item><author>yjftsjthsd-h</author><text>&gt; 5x Gigabit Ethernet RJ45 ports (1x WAN, 4x LAN) using Realtek RTL8367RB-VB-CG switch<p>So that should allow full speed switching (if not routing) without touching CPU, right? That&#x27;d be a welcome touch in a network box</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>vladvasiliu</author><text>&gt; Are additional RAM gigabytes anything important for a switch? Especially one that delivers on the parameters?<p>For a <i>switch</i>, probably not. But it does open up a bunch of possibilities for some constrained environments.<p>I would use such a thing combined with a few other services aside from pure network switching. Off the top of my head, I&#x27;m thinking running pi-hole and Home Assistant.<p>Why? Because I live in a studio apartment, and it would be a single, small and quiet box. I&#x27;m currently doing this on a mini-ITX J3455, and while the setup is broadly OK, I&#x27;d love to be able to remove the switch I have lying around. Also, the integrated Realtek controllers suck, and I can&#x27;t replace them with anything better (there&#x27;s no PCIe port).<p>Of course, your other points absolutely matter, and are the reason why I&#x27;m still looking around for quiet x86 machines that I could expand.</text></comment> |
34,623,278 | 34,623,009 | 1 | 2 | 34,621,956 | train | <story><title>Some insects I found inside dried Turkish figs from Trader Joe’s</title><url>https://colinpurrington.com/2023/01/some-insects-i-found-inside-dried-turkish-figs-from-trader-joes/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>devindotcom</author><text>This is nasty but these wasps and the fig trees that are their home are the subject of one of the best nature documentaries I&#x27;ve ever seen, The Queen of Trees:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=xy86ak2fQJM">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=xy86ak2fQJM</a><p>If you can locate a good HD copy it&#x27;s worth waiting and watching that. Ian Holm narrates the stories of a bunch of different animals, from fig wasps to other bugs and larger creatures like bats, monkeys and even humans that rely on the tree. It has some of the most horrifying but also incredible imagery I&#x27;ve seen in a nature show and some real groaner lines from Holm to boot. My friends and I watch it every year or two and it never fails to amaze me.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kkoncevicius</author><text>Thanks for the recommendation. I&#x27;ve found a free HD version here:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.dailymotion.com&#x2F;video&#x2F;x68r4b5" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.dailymotion.com&#x2F;video&#x2F;x68r4b5</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Some insects I found inside dried Turkish figs from Trader Joe’s</title><url>https://colinpurrington.com/2023/01/some-insects-i-found-inside-dried-turkish-figs-from-trader-joes/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>devindotcom</author><text>This is nasty but these wasps and the fig trees that are their home are the subject of one of the best nature documentaries I&#x27;ve ever seen, The Queen of Trees:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=xy86ak2fQJM">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=xy86ak2fQJM</a><p>If you can locate a good HD copy it&#x27;s worth waiting and watching that. Ian Holm narrates the stories of a bunch of different animals, from fig wasps to other bugs and larger creatures like bats, monkeys and even humans that rely on the tree. It has some of the most horrifying but also incredible imagery I&#x27;ve seen in a nature show and some real groaner lines from Holm to boot. My friends and I watch it every year or two and it never fails to amaze me.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tpowell</author><text>Looks like Apple has it for $12.99:
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;tv.apple.com&#x2F;us&#x2F;movie&#x2F;the-queen-of-trees&#x2F;umc.cmc.2i73snzddt6po4b2d26hw4xht" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;tv.apple.com&#x2F;us&#x2F;movie&#x2F;the-queen-of-trees&#x2F;umc.cmc.2i7...</a></text></comment> |
38,546,602 | 38,544,287 | 1 | 2 | 38,543,322 | train | <story><title>Jailbroken AI Chatbots Can Jailbreak Other Chatbots</title><url>https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/jailbroken-ai-chatbots-can-jailbreak-other-chatbots/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>norir</author><text>The problem of preventing leaks of forbidden knowledge seems impossible without excluding the forbidden knowledge from the training data. I fail to see how that would be possible without crippling the desirable use cases. Companies need to be honest about this and stop pretending that it is a solvable problem with technical safeguards. Your child safety locks may work for a while, but eventually the child grows up and figures out how to bypass them. Also, sure, you can punish any users who ask about forbidden topics but is that really the kind of society we want to live in?</text></comment> | <story><title>Jailbroken AI Chatbots Can Jailbreak Other Chatbots</title><url>https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/jailbroken-ai-chatbots-can-jailbreak-other-chatbots/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>gmerc</author><text>Simplified: System Prompts and Finetuning are ineffective at suppressing training data, security theatre at 11.</text></comment> |
7,743,284 | 7,743,273 | 1 | 2 | 7,743,064 | train | <story><title>AdBlock Plus’s effect on Firefox’s memory usage</title><url>https://blog.mozilla.org/nnethercote/2014/05/14/adblock-pluss-effect-on-firefoxs-memory-usage/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>neals</author><text>The first thing people complain about with browsers is probably memory usage. I doubt that many people actually understand what a browser actually does with that memory. I sure don&#x27;t.<p>100mb sounds like a lot of memory for a webpage. Where does all this memory go to?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nnethercote</author><text>Many people think of a browser as a tool for displaying text and pictures, with maybe a bit of JS code and some CSS effects on the side. That was true in the late 90s, but these days a browser is actually a fully-fledged programming environment that also happens to have some incredibly sophisticated multimedia capabilities: text, images, video, audio, animations, 3d graphics, etc.<p>The most popular websites run quite amazing amounts of code, and JavaScript execution is usually the dominant consumer of memory.<p>If you want a deeper understanding, visit about:memory in Firefox you&#x27;ll get a detailed breakdown of how memory is used.</text></comment> | <story><title>AdBlock Plus’s effect on Firefox’s memory usage</title><url>https://blog.mozilla.org/nnethercote/2014/05/14/adblock-pluss-effect-on-firefoxs-memory-usage/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>neals</author><text>The first thing people complain about with browsers is probably memory usage. I doubt that many people actually understand what a browser actually does with that memory. I sure don&#x27;t.<p>100mb sounds like a lot of memory for a webpage. Where does all this memory go to?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>VLM</author><text>&quot;The first thing people complain about with browsers is ...&quot;<p>They changed the browser UI, either the browser devs or the site devs via stupid javascript tricks (messing with scrolling, etc). I got driveby download powned and my CC info stolen and five spam toolbars in the UI I can&#x27;t get rid of. There are too many spammy ads. They make is as hard as humanly possible to use bookmarks to encourage the use of a search engine every single time you go to a site thus monetizing ad views. Typosquatters. &quot;Journalism&quot; sites with one line of the article per page of spam. Spam &quot;answer&quot; websites.<p>Memory is way, way down the list.</text></comment> |
11,457,384 | 11,455,062 | 1 | 2 | 11,454,672 | train | <story><title>Yahoo Sale ‘Book’ Reveals Financial Meltdown and Big Bet on Mobile Voice Search</title><url>http://recode.net/2016/04/06/yahoo-sale-book-financial-meltdown/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jhulla</author><text>IMHO, Yahoo Finance is a wildly undervalued asset. It has the deepest and highest quality data integration of any publicly available site. I use it every day.<p>It has also been largely ignored for better part of a decade. Three areas where Yahoo just fumbled the ball: 1) Portfolio tracking, 2) Message boards and 3) Monetization. None of these have been upgraded in years.<p>Portfolio tracking is an exercise in good UI &amp; UX. Yahoo could and should have bought any number of good teams over the years that have built portfolio trackers.<p>Yahoo finance message boards have very low signal to noise ratio. They should have either gone the reddit model of comments or even better, Yahoo should have bought Seeking Alpha a long time ago. Alternatively, when Seeking Alpha began to grow, Yahoo should have built a competitive product. Instead Yahoo let their message boards turn into a low value destination.<p>Monetization - this is just comically inept. Visitors to finance sites have and care about their money. They also tend to be older. Some of the highest paid ads target these people: Credit cards, mortgages, health, travel, banking, personal loans, autos, etc.<p>Yahoo finance should have been the center of a massive business unit at Yahoo generating a substantial percentage of their revenue.<p>What went wrong?</text></comment> | <story><title>Yahoo Sale ‘Book’ Reveals Financial Meltdown and Big Bet on Mobile Voice Search</title><url>http://recode.net/2016/04/06/yahoo-sale-book-financial-meltdown/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>dharmon</author><text>The most relevant portion is buried at the very end:<p>&gt; While some are scared by the numbers, everyone I spoke to plans to make a bid of some sort, largely because even as financially precarious as it has become, Yahoo remains one of the biggest properties on the Web and it is hard to be able to buy that kind scale easily.<p>&gt; “It’s like a dilapidated house in Silicon Valley — you walk in and are overwhelmed by the work that needs to be done and how bad it has gotten,” said one potential buyer. “But then it’s in a good neighborhood, the market is nuts and there’s not many like it anymore, so you have to hope you can fix it.”</text></comment> |
14,913,473 | 14,913,492 | 1 | 2 | 14,907,679 | train | <story><title>Practical Guide to SQL Transaction Isolation</title><url>https://begriffs.com/posts/2017-08-01-practical-guide-sql-isolation.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>IgorPartola</author><text>One tool to add to your toolbox as a developer is named locks. Say you have a table for orders and a table for order items and a table for payments. Collectively they represent an order, but that is a higher level concept that isn&#x27;t something an RDBMS understands. When the user on your site simultaneously sends two updates, such as &quot;remove item from the cart&quot; and &quot;pay and finish&quot;, you will have a slew of simultaneous updates to the rows across the three tables. Unless you use the highest isolation level, you will get inconsistencies. If you do use serializable isolation level you might get a deadlock, depending on how conscientious you are about updating everything in the same order. You could do an initial read from the orders table with FOR UPDATE which will provide you an implicit lock on that order, but you still have issues with new rows being inserted into your order items table that will not be range locked.<p>So use names&#x2F;advisory locks: create a named lock called &quot;order-1234&quot; where 1234 is tbe ID of the order. Acquire it before doing any manipulations to the order across all its tables. Then release it. Semantics of names locks differ across RDBMS&#x27;s. Unsurprisingly Postgres has saner and more flexible semantics than MySQL, but both are perfectly suitable for the purpose. This technique can save you a ton of headaches.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>stickfigure</author><text><i>If you do use serializable isolation level you might get a deadlock, depending on how conscientious you are about updating everything in the same order.</i><p>It sounds like you misunderstand optimistic concurrency. If your transaction touches a piece of data, and that data changes (by another transaction) while your transaction is in progress, then your transaction will rollback on commit. With a tiny bit of library code, your transaction will retry until success. In the case of severe contention you may see repeated retries and timeouts, but you will never see deadlocks - at least one transaction will successfully commit each &quot;round&quot;.<p>I disagree - database locks should not be used by the average developer. Understand optimistic concurrency and use serializable isolation. If (and only <i>if</i>!) you have a known performance problem with highly contended data, consider a locking strategy. 99 out of 100 developers will never need it, and most of that 1% will botch locks on the first try anyways.<p>If your database doesn&#x27;t support optimistic concurrency, get a better database.</text></comment> | <story><title>Practical Guide to SQL Transaction Isolation</title><url>https://begriffs.com/posts/2017-08-01-practical-guide-sql-isolation.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>IgorPartola</author><text>One tool to add to your toolbox as a developer is named locks. Say you have a table for orders and a table for order items and a table for payments. Collectively they represent an order, but that is a higher level concept that isn&#x27;t something an RDBMS understands. When the user on your site simultaneously sends two updates, such as &quot;remove item from the cart&quot; and &quot;pay and finish&quot;, you will have a slew of simultaneous updates to the rows across the three tables. Unless you use the highest isolation level, you will get inconsistencies. If you do use serializable isolation level you might get a deadlock, depending on how conscientious you are about updating everything in the same order. You could do an initial read from the orders table with FOR UPDATE which will provide you an implicit lock on that order, but you still have issues with new rows being inserted into your order items table that will not be range locked.<p>So use names&#x2F;advisory locks: create a named lock called &quot;order-1234&quot; where 1234 is tbe ID of the order. Acquire it before doing any manipulations to the order across all its tables. Then release it. Semantics of names locks differ across RDBMS&#x27;s. Unsurprisingly Postgres has saner and more flexible semantics than MySQL, but both are perfectly suitable for the purpose. This technique can save you a ton of headaches.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>lomnakkus</author><text>&gt; So use names&#x2F;advisory locks: create a named lock called &quot;order-1234&quot; where 1234 is tbe ID of the order.<p>If all your locking is single-transaction, then I think a better technique might actually to have a separate <i>table</i> where you have the individual lock IDs and use SELECT FOR UPDATE on the appropriate row there[1] -- only to obtain the lock. (Of course, most of the caveats you&#x27;ve spelled out in this thread still apply wrt. ordering, etc.)<p>Reasoning: Most named lock&#x2F;advisory lock implementations don&#x27;t participate in the current transaction, so you can end with &quot;stuck&quot; locks where the lock was acquired, but never released because the transaction before the &quot;release&quot; action failed. It goes without saying that this is not a problem that can be solved client-side, so you end up having to have &quot;lock cleanup&quot; (and how can you be sure that cleaning up a lock is actually the right thing, etc.).<p>[1] You might also have to UPSERT rows depending on how &quot;dynamic&quot; your lock IDs are, etc.</text></comment> |
40,296,788 | 40,293,961 | 1 | 2 | 40,286,029 | train | <story><title>Apple introduces M4 chip</title><url>https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2024/05/apple-introduces-m4-chip/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>coffeebeqn</author><text>Engineers use MacBook pros because it’s the best built laptop, the best screen, arguably the best OS and most importantly - they’re not the ones paying for them.</text></item><item><author>klabb3</author><text>&gt; but it is about selling luxury hardware.<p>Somewhat true but things are changing. While there are plenty of “luxury” Apple devices like Vision Pro or fully decked out MacBooks for web browsing we no longer live in a world where tech are just lifestyle gadgets. People spend hours a day on their phones, and often run their life and businesses through it. Even with the $1000+&#x2F;2-3y price tag, it’s simply not that much given how central role it serves in your life. This is especially true for younger generations who often don&#x27;t have laptops or desktops at home, and also increasingly in poorer-but-not-poor countries (say eg Eastern Europe). So the iPhone (their best selling product) is far, far, far more a commodity utility than typical luxury consumption like watches, purses, sports cars etc.<p>Even in the higher end products like the MacBooks you see a lot of professionals (engineers included) who choose it because of its price-performance-value, and who don’t give a shit about luxury. Especially since the M1 launched, where performance and battery life took a giant leap.</text></item><item><author>andsoitis</author><text>&gt; In case it is not abundantly clear by now: Apple&#x27;s AI strategy is to put inference (and longer term even learning) on edge devices. This is completely coherent with their privacy-first strategy (which would be at odds with sending data up to the cloud for processing).<p>Their primary business goal is to sell hardware. Yes, they’ve diversified into services and being a shopping mall for all, but it is about selling luxury hardware.<p>The promise of privacy is one way in which they position themselves, but I would not bet the bank on that being true forever.</text></item><item><author>rsp1984</author><text><i>Together with next-generation ML accelerators in the CPU, the high-performance GPU, and higher-bandwidth unified memory, the Neural Engine makes M4 an outrageously powerful chip for AI.</i><p>In case it is not abundantly clear by now: Apple&#x27;s AI strategy is to put inference (and longer term even learning) on edge devices. This is completely coherent with their privacy-first strategy (which would be at odds with sending data up to the cloud for processing).<p>Processing data at the edge also makes for the best possible user experience because of the complete independence of network connectivity and hence minimal latency.<p>If (and that&#x27;s a big if) they keep their APIs open to run any kind of AI workload on their chips it&#x27;s a strategy that I personally really really welcome as I don&#x27;t want the AI future to be centralised in the hands of a few powerful cloud providers.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jwr</author><text>&gt; Engineers use MacBook pros because it’s the best built laptop, the best screen, arguably the best OS and most importantly - they’re not the ones paying for them.<p>I am the one paying for my MacBook Pro, because my company is a self-funded business. I run my entire business on this machine and I love it. I always buy the fastest CPU possible, although I don&#x27;t max out the RAM and SSD.<p>Amusingly enough, I talked to someone recently about compilation speeds and that person asked my why I don&#x27;t compile my software (Clojure and ClojureScript) on &quot;powerful cloud servers&quot;. Well, according to Geekbench, which always correlates very well with my compilation speeds, there are very few CPUs out there that can beat my M3 Max, and those aren&#x27;t easily rentable as bare-metal cloud servers. Any virtual server will be slower.<p>So please, don&#x27;t repeat the &quot;MacBooks are for spoiled people who don&#x27;t have to pay for them&quot; trope. There are people for whom this is simply the best machine for the job at hand.<p>Incidentally, I checked my financials: a 16&quot; MBP with M3 and 64GB RAM, amortized over 18 months (very short!) comes out to around $150&#x2F;month. That is not expensive at all for your main development machine that you run your business on!</text></comment> | <story><title>Apple introduces M4 chip</title><url>https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2024/05/apple-introduces-m4-chip/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>coffeebeqn</author><text>Engineers use MacBook pros because it’s the best built laptop, the best screen, arguably the best OS and most importantly - they’re not the ones paying for them.</text></item><item><author>klabb3</author><text>&gt; but it is about selling luxury hardware.<p>Somewhat true but things are changing. While there are plenty of “luxury” Apple devices like Vision Pro or fully decked out MacBooks for web browsing we no longer live in a world where tech are just lifestyle gadgets. People spend hours a day on their phones, and often run their life and businesses through it. Even with the $1000+&#x2F;2-3y price tag, it’s simply not that much given how central role it serves in your life. This is especially true for younger generations who often don&#x27;t have laptops or desktops at home, and also increasingly in poorer-but-not-poor countries (say eg Eastern Europe). So the iPhone (their best selling product) is far, far, far more a commodity utility than typical luxury consumption like watches, purses, sports cars etc.<p>Even in the higher end products like the MacBooks you see a lot of professionals (engineers included) who choose it because of its price-performance-value, and who don’t give a shit about luxury. Especially since the M1 launched, where performance and battery life took a giant leap.</text></item><item><author>andsoitis</author><text>&gt; In case it is not abundantly clear by now: Apple&#x27;s AI strategy is to put inference (and longer term even learning) on edge devices. This is completely coherent with their privacy-first strategy (which would be at odds with sending data up to the cloud for processing).<p>Their primary business goal is to sell hardware. Yes, they’ve diversified into services and being a shopping mall for all, but it is about selling luxury hardware.<p>The promise of privacy is one way in which they position themselves, but I would not bet the bank on that being true forever.</text></item><item><author>rsp1984</author><text><i>Together with next-generation ML accelerators in the CPU, the high-performance GPU, and higher-bandwidth unified memory, the Neural Engine makes M4 an outrageously powerful chip for AI.</i><p>In case it is not abundantly clear by now: Apple&#x27;s AI strategy is to put inference (and longer term even learning) on edge devices. This is completely coherent with their privacy-first strategy (which would be at odds with sending data up to the cloud for processing).<p>Processing data at the edge also makes for the best possible user experience because of the complete independence of network connectivity and hence minimal latency.<p>If (and that&#x27;s a big if) they keep their APIs open to run any kind of AI workload on their chips it&#x27;s a strategy that I personally really really welcome as I don&#x27;t want the AI future to be centralised in the hands of a few powerful cloud providers.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pompino</author><text>&quot;Engineers&quot; - ironically the term used in the software industry for people who never standardize anything, solve the same problem solved by other &quot;engineers&quot; over and over again (how many libraries do you need for arrays and vectors and guis and buttons and text boxes and binary trees and sorting, yada yada?) while making the same mistakes and learning the hard way each time, also vehemently argue about software being &quot;art&quot; might like OSX, but even that is debatable. Meanwhile actual Engineers (the ones with the license) the people who need CAD and design tools for building bridges and running manufacturing plants stay far away from OSX.</text></comment> |
14,643,299 | 14,643,026 | 1 | 3 | 14,642,395 | train | <story><title>Functional programming in JavaScript is an antipattern</title><url>https://hackernoon.com/functional-programming-in-javascript-is-an-antipattern-58526819f21e</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>coldtea</author><text>Funny, but HN oldsters probably remember when functional programming wasn&#x27;t at all tied to immutable data structures, and when Lisp and derivatives where considered enough functional programming, without every discussion of the topic requiring strictly requiring purity and immutability -- just first class functions, map, fold, and the like.</text></comment> | <story><title>Functional programming in JavaScript is an antipattern</title><url>https://hackernoon.com/functional-programming-in-javascript-is-an-antipattern-58526819f21e</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>lewisl9029</author><text>I wouldn&#x27;t go as far as to call it an anti-pattern, but the lack of native persistent data structures does make functional programming a decidedly second-class citizen in the JS world.<p>We can either choose to use a library like ImmutableJS instead of regular JS objects and suffer the impedance mismatch and exponential increase in verbosity, or use regular JS objects and make full copies every time we want to change any piece of data.<p>It&#x27;s a very unfortunate blemish on an otherwise surprisingly pleasant experience (functional programming in JS), especially when paired with a nice utility library like Ramda [1].<p>I tried to look into if native persistent data structures was on the roadmap for a later version of ECMAScript, but this random proposal on GitHub [2] was the only thing I could find, and I&#x27;m not familiar enough with the standardization process to be able to gauge how much traction that proposal is getting.<p>If anyone else is aware of similar efforts, I&#x27;d love to hear about them.<p>Until something like this makes it into JS proper, I&#x27;ll be putting my weight behind ClojureScript.<p>[1] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;ramdajs.com&#x2F;docs&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;ramdajs.com&#x2F;docs&#x2F;</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;sebmarkbage&#x2F;ecmascript-immutable-data-structures" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;sebmarkbage&#x2F;ecmascript-immutable-data-str...</a></text></comment> |
28,265,199 | 28,265,385 | 1 | 3 | 28,264,686 | train | <story><title>A man spent a year in jail on murder charge that hinged on disputed AI evidence</title><url>https://www.theregister.com/2021/08/22/in_brief_ai/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>PragmaticPulp</author><text>The article says that employees of the AI company (ShotSpotter) manually reviewed and classified the sounds as gunshots:<p>&gt; records showed that ShotSpotter actually initially picked up what sounded like a firework a mile away, and this was later reclassified by ShotSpotter staff to be a gunshot at the intersection where and when Williams was seen on camera.<p>So the AI didn’t even make the call. The staff did, manually. I assume that means the actual audio is available and entered into evidence?<p>If humans are making the call then blaming AI seems like a stretch. That’s almost like blaming the motion detection algorithms for triggering video recordings that were later reviewed by humans. It’s still humans reviewing the recordings and making decisions.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>stefan_</author><text>That&#x27;s the point? These systems invariably turn out to not be any sort of AI at all, but sales people ready to make a call any way their customer (police) wants it made.<p>Later it&#x27;s presented as AI to a jury. It&#x27;s basically the same scam as lots of forensics, junk science to get a desired result.</text></comment> | <story><title>A man spent a year in jail on murder charge that hinged on disputed AI evidence</title><url>https://www.theregister.com/2021/08/22/in_brief_ai/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>PragmaticPulp</author><text>The article says that employees of the AI company (ShotSpotter) manually reviewed and classified the sounds as gunshots:<p>&gt; records showed that ShotSpotter actually initially picked up what sounded like a firework a mile away, and this was later reclassified by ShotSpotter staff to be a gunshot at the intersection where and when Williams was seen on camera.<p>So the AI didn’t even make the call. The staff did, manually. I assume that means the actual audio is available and entered into evidence?<p>If humans are making the call then blaming AI seems like a stretch. That’s almost like blaming the motion detection algorithms for triggering video recordings that were later reviewed by humans. It’s still humans reviewing the recordings and making decisions.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nerdponx</author><text>&gt; Crucially, Williams&#x27; lawyers – public defenders Lisa Boughton and Brendan Max – said records showed that ShotSpotter actually initially picked up what sounded like a firework a mile away, and this was later reclassified by ShotSpotter staff to be a gunshot at the intersection where and when Williams was seen on camera. ShotSpotter strongly insisted it had not improperly altered any data to favor the police&#x27;s case, and said that regardless of the initial real-time alert, its evidence of the gunshot was the result of follow-up forensic analysis, which was submitted to the courts.<p>&quot;Strongly insisted&quot; links to: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theregister.com&#x2F;2021&#x2F;08&#x2F;02&#x2F;nvidia_cuda_openai&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theregister.com&#x2F;2021&#x2F;08&#x2F;02&#x2F;nvidia_cuda_openai&#x2F;</a><p>&gt; One of the pieces of evidence against Williams claims ShotSpotter&#x27;s sensors in Chicago identified gunfire where surveillance cameras had seen Williams stop his car by a south-side Chicago block, right when and where the cops said Herring was shot.<p>&gt; However, Williams’ lawyer submitted paperwork [PDF] claiming ShotSpotter actually detected a firework a mile away from that location, and that ShotSpotter later reclassified the bang as a gunshot and the location as being where Williams was seen on camera, Vice first reported.<p>&gt; Williams&#x27; lawyer demanded the court hold an inquiry into the ShotSpotter evidence, and the prosecutors simply withdrew it.<p>&gt; ShotSpotter responded by denying at length it improperly altered any data or evidence, and hit back at any suggestion it had done so to help the police make a case. It said its software generates real-time alerts automatically, and staff later analyze the microphone readings to submit forensic reports for the courts, and these final reports can therefore differ from the initial alerts.<p>&gt; &quot;The idea that ShotSpotter &#x27;alters&#x27; or &#x27;fabricates&#x27; evidence in any way is an outrageous lie and would be a criminal offense,&quot; it said in a statement. &quot;We follow the facts and data for our forensic analysis. Period.&quot;<p>&gt; Update: The case against Williams was dismissed by the judge at the request of the prosecution, which admitted it now had insufficient evidence. Williams had spent the best part of a year in jail awaiting trial.</text></comment> |
18,539,651 | 18,539,759 | 1 | 2 | 18,539,539 | train | <story><title>Firecracker – Lightweight Virtualization for Serverless Computing</title><url>https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/firecracker-lightweight-virtualization-for-serverless-computing/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>sudhirj</author><text>What this is allows, and I&#x27;m hoping a full fledged service will be announced on Thursday or Friday, is running containers as Lambdas. i.e. if you application starts fast enough, you can just set a container to start and run as a request comes in. It can also shut down when it&#x27;s done running.<p>This allows things like per second billing for container runs, serverless containers (there&#x27;s no container running 24&#x2F;7, only when there&#x27;s traffic), etc.</text></comment> | <story><title>Firecracker – Lightweight Virtualization for Serverless Computing</title><url>https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/firecracker-lightweight-virtualization-for-serverless-computing/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>blasdel</author><text>There&#x27;s a Github Pages FAQ describing why it was made and how it fits with other solutions: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;firecracker-microvm.github.io&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;firecracker-microvm.github.io&#x2F;</a><p>and a high-level design document about how it works <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;firecracker-microvm&#x2F;firecracker&#x2F;blob&#x2F;master&#x2F;docs&#x2F;design.md" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;firecracker-microvm&#x2F;firecracker&#x2F;blob&#x2F;mast...</a></text></comment> |
17,205,542 | 17,203,397 | 1 | 2 | 17,201,830 | train | <story><title>1.1.1.1 outage explanation</title><url>https://blog.cloudflare.com/today-we-mitigated-1-1-1-1/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>gcommer</author><text>This is a great write up. It&#x27;s also why the DNS root servers have a policy of surviving DDoS through massively over-provisioned, multi-org, anycasted redundancy rather this sort of smart DDoS mitigation that drops traffic: DNS is so critical that any risk of dropping real traffic is unacceptable. (obviously, such a scale is impractical for 99% of services)<p>A good takeaway from this outage for the average user would be to make sure that your fallback DNS resolvers are operated by totally separate providers. (eg, configure 1.1.1.1 with 8.8.8.8 as a fallback, rather than 1.1.1.1 and 1.0.0.1) (Edit: fixed cloudflare&#x27;s secondary address)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>crtasm</author><text>I read on the Pi-Hole forums that &#x27;fallback&#x27; is a misleading term because clients don&#x27;t work that way - they will happily spread requests between two functioning DNS servers. Can anyone confirm this or provide further insight?</text></comment> | <story><title>1.1.1.1 outage explanation</title><url>https://blog.cloudflare.com/today-we-mitigated-1-1-1-1/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>gcommer</author><text>This is a great write up. It&#x27;s also why the DNS root servers have a policy of surviving DDoS through massively over-provisioned, multi-org, anycasted redundancy rather this sort of smart DDoS mitigation that drops traffic: DNS is so critical that any risk of dropping real traffic is unacceptable. (obviously, such a scale is impractical for 99% of services)<p>A good takeaway from this outage for the average user would be to make sure that your fallback DNS resolvers are operated by totally separate providers. (eg, configure 1.1.1.1 with 8.8.8.8 as a fallback, rather than 1.1.1.1 and 1.0.0.1) (Edit: fixed cloudflare&#x27;s secondary address)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>berti</author><text>Or 9.9.9.9 if you&#x27;re not as comfortable with Google services.</text></comment> |
25,281,492 | 25,279,499 | 1 | 2 | 25,278,625 | train | <story><title>South Africa's lottery probed as 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 and 10 drawn</title><url>https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-55154525</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>FemmeAndroid</author><text>So there are a few people mentioning that the chances of this happening are equal to the chance of any other set of 6 numbers coming up, but something I like to think about is how to estimate the size of the set of winning combinations that would trigger this kind of reaction, and what the chances of one member of that set being the winning numbers would be.<p>So let say, a set of:<p>- sequential numbers.<p>- sequential primes.<p>- sequential even or odd.<p>- a commonly memorized multiplication table 3,6,9,12...<p>- squares 2,4,8,16,32...<p>- other famous sequences - eg fibonacci<p>- famous numbers - eg 4,8,15,16,23,42<p>- the same numbers being picked multiple days in a row<p>As a bonus, I like to think of the number of lotteries important enough to warrant making the news. Then you can calculate how frequently you can expect to see a &#x27;crazy lottery winning combination&#x27; story.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>wolfgang42</author><text>If you take OEIS as a database of “interesting sequences” (some of them are only interesting to mathematicians), and pull out all of the running groups of 6 (in the sequence as provided, which of course doesn’t include the full version of very long or infinite sequences) that could be a powerball number, you get 1,097,698; or about a 2.6% chance; just the first 6 digits of each sequence gives a mere 32,110; or about 0.076%. Of course most of these aren’t actually very interesting, after all; but it does provide a rough approximation.<p>(Code here: &lt;<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gist.github.com&#x2F;wolfgang42&#x2F;2df001b05065488620700f0fdfa58a08" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gist.github.com&#x2F;wolfgang42&#x2F;2df001b05065488620700f0fd...</a>&gt;)</text></comment> | <story><title>South Africa's lottery probed as 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 and 10 drawn</title><url>https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-55154525</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>FemmeAndroid</author><text>So there are a few people mentioning that the chances of this happening are equal to the chance of any other set of 6 numbers coming up, but something I like to think about is how to estimate the size of the set of winning combinations that would trigger this kind of reaction, and what the chances of one member of that set being the winning numbers would be.<p>So let say, a set of:<p>- sequential numbers.<p>- sequential primes.<p>- sequential even or odd.<p>- a commonly memorized multiplication table 3,6,9,12...<p>- squares 2,4,8,16,32...<p>- other famous sequences - eg fibonacci<p>- famous numbers - eg 4,8,15,16,23,42<p>- the same numbers being picked multiple days in a row<p>As a bonus, I like to think of the number of lotteries important enough to warrant making the news. Then you can calculate how frequently you can expect to see a &#x27;crazy lottery winning combination&#x27; story.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>idolaspecus</author><text>I think this is an important point. I think someone asked &quot;what&#x27;s the probability this number is chosen?&quot; and many people respond with 1 in 42 million or something like that. But in fact this is only true <i>under the assumption the lottery is implemented perfectly</i>. But this assumption is what is under scrutiny here. Because the lottery is not some ideal process in the mathematical universe, it&#x27;s a process in the physical universe implemented by humans. Because it&#x27;s a real process implemented by humans, there&#x27;s all sorts of ways we can imagine the results could be skewed by the implementation details, and we can imagine all sorts of outputs that might be more likely given the most likely flaws in the implementation.</text></comment> |
39,045,792 | 39,045,848 | 1 | 2 | 39,044,932 | train | <story><title>Haier hits Home Assistant plugin dev with takedown notice</title><url>https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/haier-hits-home-assistant-plugin-dev-with-takedown-notice/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Tomte</author><text>Philips Hue did run locally, and now they are rolling out updates where a cloud account is required.</text></item><item><author>MostlyStable</author><text>Per the one tweet in the article that says they only bought one of these appliances because of the HA plugin: the lesson is don&#x27;t buy smart devices that have cloud control. Whether or not they have local automation plugins (like HA), or just that have apps&#x2F;cloud services, expecting those capabilities to remain for the life of the device is a fool&#x27;s errand. We have a <i>host</i> of examples of cloud services being killed and open integrations getting taken down, and none of the examples where this hasn&#x27;t happened have existed long enough for us to say anything besides &quot;so far&quot;.<p>If you want smart functionality, it had better run <i>entirely</i> locally, or else you should not care about or depend on that functionality.<p>-edit- I also had to learn this lesson (somewhat) painfully. I chose the EVSE that I did for 2 reasons: it was on the list of devices my power company would help pay for and it had an HA integration. less than 6 months after I bought it, the company killed the API that the HA integration relied on.<p>Luckily for me, the HA integration wasn&#x27;t that big of a deal, more of &quot;nice to have&quot;, but I learned my lesson to never use non-local cloud functionality as a selling point.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>MostlyStable</author><text>Yeah the second rule is: for anything that runs locally and for which your use doesn&#x27;t require an internet connection: put it on a separate network without WAN access.<p>I also had to learn <i>that</i> lesson painfully when my network connected Brother printer got a (unasked for and unapproved) firmware update that disabled the 3rd party toner cartridge it was using. It&#x27;s now blocked from the internet in my router, but it&#x27;s unfortunately a case of shutting the barn door after the cows are gone.</text></comment> | <story><title>Haier hits Home Assistant plugin dev with takedown notice</title><url>https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/haier-hits-home-assistant-plugin-dev-with-takedown-notice/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Tomte</author><text>Philips Hue did run locally, and now they are rolling out updates where a cloud account is required.</text></item><item><author>MostlyStable</author><text>Per the one tweet in the article that says they only bought one of these appliances because of the HA plugin: the lesson is don&#x27;t buy smart devices that have cloud control. Whether or not they have local automation plugins (like HA), or just that have apps&#x2F;cloud services, expecting those capabilities to remain for the life of the device is a fool&#x27;s errand. We have a <i>host</i> of examples of cloud services being killed and open integrations getting taken down, and none of the examples where this hasn&#x27;t happened have existed long enough for us to say anything besides &quot;so far&quot;.<p>If you want smart functionality, it had better run <i>entirely</i> locally, or else you should not care about or depend on that functionality.<p>-edit- I also had to learn this lesson (somewhat) painfully. I chose the EVSE that I did for 2 reasons: it was on the list of devices my power company would help pay for and it had an HA integration. less than 6 months after I bought it, the company killed the API that the HA integration relied on.<p>Luckily for me, the HA integration wasn&#x27;t that big of a deal, more of &quot;nice to have&quot;, but I learned my lesson to never use non-local cloud functionality as a selling point.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>joshvm</author><text>Hue bulbs and strips run fine on HA. For a couple of reasons, I have a completely offline system running in a Docker container with a ZigBee dongle (mainly I have no control over my LAN). I don&#x27;t use the bridge any more. You don&#x27;t get some of the scenes and other functionality that the bridge offers, but 90% of the functionality is there.<p>The bridge already has some weird requirements like refusing to work unless you connect an ethernet cable. As far as I know the update is to force you to use an account with the app, but the devices should still be compliant with other controllers.</text></comment> |
22,467,400 | 22,467,401 | 1 | 3 | 22,466,733 | train | <story><title>Cambridge Analytica were the tip of the iceberg</title><url>https://graphcommons.com/stories/3f057b42-09fb-49af-aab4-f5243e48734d</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>rhizome</author><text>This is kind of a thin post linking to someone&#x27;s larger project&#x2F;company, but it does almost touch on something of substance, that there&#x27;s (what I call) a &quot;Blackwater Problem&quot; with statistical-targeting companies. This is when one company out of many (manymany) emerges as the whipping boy for a problematic (if not inherently criminal) industry or profession. We see the same kinds of company name shuffling, same maintenance of primary leadership, who is essentially that industry&#x27;s lobbyist over the long term.</text></comment> | <story><title>Cambridge Analytica were the tip of the iceberg</title><url>https://graphcommons.com/stories/3f057b42-09fb-49af-aab4-f5243e48734d</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>harikb</author><text>Nice way to show the content. Really brings home the fact that nothing much has changed for 2020, only getting worse.<p>&gt; When CA was closed down many employees simply moved to new companies doing the exact same thing. One of the more well known of these is Emerdata, not just sharing some of the same workers from CA but also funded by the same family.<p>&gt; Not everyone is aware, but CA was just a small part of a parent organisation called SCL. Pretty much all of the companies shown (in blue) on the left are&#x2F;were part of this group.</text></comment> |
1,188,139 | 1,188,171 | 1 | 2 | 1,188,012 | train | <story><title>Rackspace passwords are visible to customer service</title><url>http://rondam.blogspot.com/2010/03/danger-will-robinson-rackspace-cloud.html</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>LiveTheDream</author><text>I asked a Rackspace rep about this. Here is the real deal:<p>- passwords are NOT stored in cleartext<p>- however, passwords <i>are</i> visible to customer service via a "secure, non-public tool"<p>- the reason for this is because "people generally prefer to give out a password to authenticate themselves [over the phone] than portions of the billing information"<p>- so if a user account database is stolen somehow, the malicious thief would not have access to convenient info like email/username/cleartext password. (However if a customer service rep is the bad guy, you're still in trouble since they have access to the tool.)<p>- at some point, Rackspace intends to "removing CSR access for SAS-70 purposes and moving to something like a challenge/response like the Managed division uses." AFAIK SAS-70 is some kind of audit regulation, but the wikipedia article put me to sleep after reading the first sentence.</text></comment> | <story><title>Rackspace passwords are visible to customer service</title><url>http://rondam.blogspot.com/2010/03/danger-will-robinson-rackspace-cloud.html</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Terretta</author><text>Anyone that's ever logged into their control panel knows the control panel can show you your password with a button click.<p>If you're a Rackspace customer, you trust them run your network fabric and your hardware. They don't need your password to see what you're doing, but you may as well trust them with that too.<p>Speaking of trust -- if your machine password gives a Rackspace CSR access to your app's private data, you're just as guilty as you're accusing them of being. You're not storing your private data in the clear, are you?<p>(As for why they might do this: Most users aren't sophisticated enough to use a password generator and manager, making "What's my password again?" a common support question. Providing the "Show me my password" function in the web control panel means a CSR doesn't have a job reason to look at it. And even if they do, cloud customers already trust Rackspace support with the reboot switch, and for that matter, with the "delete this whole image and all its backups" button.)</text></comment> |
32,521,771 | 32,521,898 | 1 | 2 | 32,521,395 | train | <story><title>Show HN: SineRider - A game about love, math, and graphing built by teenagers</title><url>https://sinerider.com/</url><text>Hello everyone! It was so fun working on this project for the past few months with some of my fellow high school students :) I am so excited to share our first prototype and hopefully we&#x27;ll be done with it all soon! &lt;3<p>(ofc, it&#x27;s open source, contribute here: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;hackclub&#x2F;sinerider" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;hackclub&#x2F;sinerider</a>)<p>The goal of the game is to slowly teach function composition that get progressively more complex while you also help the ghosts ski on the slopes and explore the entire map!</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>ziddoap</author><text>Excruciating 3 minute load time just to press one button and then be shown a YouTube video.<p>It would be amazing to share the link to the YouTube trailer <i>before</i> the 3 minutes of loading.<p>Otherwise, it looks sort of interesting. I&#x27;m definitely a fan of the art&#x2F;color-palette. The demo doesn&#x27;t really give any clue to what the gameplay will actually be like though, which is unfortunate. Even after watching the trailer, I&#x27;m not positive what the core gameplay features and loop is supposed to be?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>andai</author><text>Have you ever played LineRider? [0] In LineRider there is no destination, only the joy of sledding.<p>Re: &quot;just to press one button and then be shown a YouTube video&quot;: Instead of pressing &quot;Next&quot; at the end, press &quot;Stop&quot; and you can go back and edit the formula.<p>[0] - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.linerider.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.linerider.com&#x2F;</a><p>( Press the &quot;Play&quot; link on the right, it runs right in the browser, just like in the old days :)</text></comment> | <story><title>Show HN: SineRider - A game about love, math, and graphing built by teenagers</title><url>https://sinerider.com/</url><text>Hello everyone! It was so fun working on this project for the past few months with some of my fellow high school students :) I am so excited to share our first prototype and hopefully we&#x27;ll be done with it all soon! &lt;3<p>(ofc, it&#x27;s open source, contribute here: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;hackclub&#x2F;sinerider" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;hackclub&#x2F;sinerider</a>)<p>The goal of the game is to slowly teach function composition that get progressively more complex while you also help the ghosts ski on the slopes and explore the entire map!</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>ziddoap</author><text>Excruciating 3 minute load time just to press one button and then be shown a YouTube video.<p>It would be amazing to share the link to the YouTube trailer <i>before</i> the 3 minutes of loading.<p>Otherwise, it looks sort of interesting. I&#x27;m definitely a fan of the art&#x2F;color-palette. The demo doesn&#x27;t really give any clue to what the gameplay will actually be like though, which is unfortunate. Even after watching the trailer, I&#x27;m not positive what the core gameplay features and loop is supposed to be?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ClaireBookworm</author><text>Ooof I think the reason was an issue with compression between our teaser branch and the main branch, so everything was loading with full size png&#x2F;mp3&#x2F;wav files—it should be fixed soon!</text></comment> |
27,890,469 | 27,890,015 | 1 | 2 | 27,882,355 | train | <story><title>Show HN: Should I Get a House? a better rent vs. buy calculator</title><url>https://shouldigetahouse.com/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>JMTQp8lwXL</author><text>If you had a significant other with a similar upper middle class wage, e.g., $220k * 2 = $440k you could probably swing it with more breathing room. You are wise to avoid the burden, in the chance you technically qualify for the mortgage but barely so in the Bay Area (e.g., leaving you house poor). The fact that home affordability requires a HH income in the top 2-3% is, to put it mildly, highly concerning.<p>It makes the trend of many millennials not trying (a bit of nihilism) seem reasonable. Why aspire for great career success and an above median income, when you can&#x27;t get much for it? A better life, at that point, is likely to optimize for cheap hobbies and leave the high-pay work stress behind. Honestly, it sounds like a fairly rational decision.</text></item><item><author>hnhousingthrow</author><text>These calculators don&#x27;t reflect the reality&#x2F;absurdity of the current economy. Anecdotal, but I bought a house in eastern California last year for $600k, now Zillow says it&#x27;s worth $835k. Also, I&#x27;ll unlikely ever be able to afford a house in the Bay Area, even though I make $220k&#x2F;year at a company there. Still don&#x27;t know what I&#x27;ll do if my employer makes us return to the SF office in a few months. Relatedly, a ~70 year old woman bagged my groceries today and I doubt she&#x27;s doing it for fun. Seems the accelerating wealth inequality is destroying our society&#x2F;communities if it hasn&#x27;t already.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>fragmede</author><text>The nihilism doesn&#x27;t make sense from someone making $200k&#x2F;yr though. If you&#x27;re in a career with little advancement and making minimum wage then yeah sure, but if you write software at a FAANG, then lets back of the envelope for a second.<p>$200k is like 130k take home pay after taxes, (which is just shy of $11k&#x2F;month). 20% down on a million dollar house is 200k. If you&#x27;re able to put $4k&#x2F;month towards a future down payment, that&#x27;s 50 months, or just over 4 years. If you were making that when you are 30 years old, if nothing changes from then (which it won&#x27;t), you can buy a million dollar house before you&#x27;re 35.<p>If you put it into stocks instead of holding it liquid for those 4 years, then before long term cap gains tax (California and Federal), then you&#x27;ll need closer to $300k. Which still seems like it should be doable before you&#x27;re 40. (If you bought AAPL at the height of the 2008 bubble, you&#x27;d be doing quite well today.)<p>Does it seem reasonable to me that housing is <i>this</i> expensive in the Bay area? No! Does it seem feasible for someone who&#x27;s software development career is going well, to be able to afford a house, eventually, if they make that a priority? Quite.<p>There are many directions someone making $200k&#x2F;yr at 30 can choose to go with their money, and I don&#x27;t begrudge anyone the agency to make their own decisions. But let&#x27;s not say that someone making those kinds of wages <i>can&#x27;t</i> afford a house. They may prefer to use DoorDash for every meal and extravagant vacations instead of buying a home, but people who make less money are forced to make much tougher, more existential choices on how to spend their money.</text></comment> | <story><title>Show HN: Should I Get a House? a better rent vs. buy calculator</title><url>https://shouldigetahouse.com/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>JMTQp8lwXL</author><text>If you had a significant other with a similar upper middle class wage, e.g., $220k * 2 = $440k you could probably swing it with more breathing room. You are wise to avoid the burden, in the chance you technically qualify for the mortgage but barely so in the Bay Area (e.g., leaving you house poor). The fact that home affordability requires a HH income in the top 2-3% is, to put it mildly, highly concerning.<p>It makes the trend of many millennials not trying (a bit of nihilism) seem reasonable. Why aspire for great career success and an above median income, when you can&#x27;t get much for it? A better life, at that point, is likely to optimize for cheap hobbies and leave the high-pay work stress behind. Honestly, it sounds like a fairly rational decision.</text></item><item><author>hnhousingthrow</author><text>These calculators don&#x27;t reflect the reality&#x2F;absurdity of the current economy. Anecdotal, but I bought a house in eastern California last year for $600k, now Zillow says it&#x27;s worth $835k. Also, I&#x27;ll unlikely ever be able to afford a house in the Bay Area, even though I make $220k&#x2F;year at a company there. Still don&#x27;t know what I&#x27;ll do if my employer makes us return to the SF office in a few months. Relatedly, a ~70 year old woman bagged my groceries today and I doubt she&#x27;s doing it for fun. Seems the accelerating wealth inequality is destroying our society&#x2F;communities if it hasn&#x27;t already.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>refurb</author><text>Nothing says you have to buy a house and settle long term in the Bay Area.<p>I’ve know people who get a rent controlled place, work 10 years, sock away $1M+ in savings, then go somewhere cheaper with good schools to have a family.<p>Being able to put away $1M+ in savings by the time your in your early 30’s is huge.</text></comment> |
23,355,490 | 23,352,823 | 1 | 2 | 23,351,643 | train | <story><title>Mosquitoes kill more than 700k people every year (2017)</title><url>https://www.isglobal.org/en_GB/-/mosquito-el-animal-mas-letal-del-mundo</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Koshkin</author><text> To put this in a perspective,<p><pre><code> 1 Mosquito 1,000,000
2 Human 475,000
3 Snake 50,000
4 Dog 25,000
5 Tsetse Fly 10,000
6 Assassin Bug 10,000
7 Freshwater Snail 10,000
8 Ascaris Roundworm 2,500
9 Tapeworm 2,000
10 Crocodile 1,000
11 Hippopotamus 500
12 Elephant 100
13 Lion 100
14 Wolf 10
15 Shark 10
</code></pre>
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.worldatlas.com&#x2F;articles&#x2F;the-animals-that-kill-most-humans.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.worldatlas.com&#x2F;articles&#x2F;the-animals-that-kill-mo...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>morsch</author><text><p><pre><code> 0 Traffic 1,350,000
</code></pre>
Sort of weird to limit the Human category to, apparently, conflict, war, murders, and acts of terrorism. Also, it&#x27;s horrible that conflict, war, murders, and acts of terrorism are in the same ballpark as traffic deaths.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;List_of_countries_by_traffic-related_death_rate" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;List_of_countries_by_traffic-r...</a> (2016)</text></comment> | <story><title>Mosquitoes kill more than 700k people every year (2017)</title><url>https://www.isglobal.org/en_GB/-/mosquito-el-animal-mas-letal-del-mundo</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Koshkin</author><text> To put this in a perspective,<p><pre><code> 1 Mosquito 1,000,000
2 Human 475,000
3 Snake 50,000
4 Dog 25,000
5 Tsetse Fly 10,000
6 Assassin Bug 10,000
7 Freshwater Snail 10,000
8 Ascaris Roundworm 2,500
9 Tapeworm 2,000
10 Crocodile 1,000
11 Hippopotamus 500
12 Elephant 100
13 Lion 100
14 Wolf 10
15 Shark 10
</code></pre>
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.worldatlas.com&#x2F;articles&#x2F;the-animals-that-kill-most-humans.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.worldatlas.com&#x2F;articles&#x2F;the-animals-that-kill-mo...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>cameronfraser</author><text>Poor sharks, they get one of the worst raps for how little damage they do to humans. I&#x27;m surprised to see dogs so high up on that list.</text></comment> |
26,498,168 | 26,494,155 | 1 | 2 | 26,493,588 | train | <story><title>Writing Small CLI Programs in Common Lisp</title><url>https://stevelosh.com/blog/2021/03/small-common-lisp-cli-programs/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>vindarel</author><text>Common Lisp is awesome: image-based development, compile-time type checking, self-contained executables, stability…<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;CodyReichert&#x2F;awesome-cl&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;CodyReichert&#x2F;awesome-cl&#x2F;</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;lispcookbook.github.io&#x2F;cl-cookbook&#x2F;editor-support.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;lispcookbook.github.io&#x2F;cl-cookbook&#x2F;editor-support.ht...</a> (Atom, Sublime, VSCode, Jupyter…)<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;lisp-lang.org&#x2F;success&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;lisp-lang.org&#x2F;success&#x2F;</a> (and <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;azzamsa&#x2F;awesome-lisp-companies" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;azzamsa&#x2F;awesome-lisp-companies</a>)</text></comment> | <story><title>Writing Small CLI Programs in Common Lisp</title><url>https://stevelosh.com/blog/2021/03/small-common-lisp-cli-programs/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>lambdaba</author><text>For those unfamiliar with Common Lisp there is also Babashka which allows for Clojure shell scripting without the JVM startup time.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;babashka&#x2F;babashka" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;babashka&#x2F;babashka</a></text></comment> |
6,752,672 | 6,752,617 | 1 | 2 | 6,751,710 | train | <story><title>Third Party Sellers Need To Rethink The Amazon FBA Program</title><url>http://www.startupnation.com/start-your-business/plan-your-business/third-party-sellers-need-to-rethink-theamazon-fba-program/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Lazare</author><text>Here&#x27;s an interesting hypothetical.<p>Step 1: User A purchases a shrinkwrapped DVD with excellent packaging from a counterfeiter in China.<p>Step 2: User A sells the DVD to an FBA merchant, who forwards it on to Amazon.<p>Step 3: User B buys the DVD from Amazon; due to commingling they get the counterfeit DVD. Before they can open it they get hit by a bus.<p>Step 4: User B&#x27;s executors sell the DVD back to an FBA merchant, who forwards it on to Amazon without a second thought (since it&#x27;s a shrinkwrapped DVD straight out of Amazon&#x27;s warehouses.<p>Step 5: User C purchases the DVD from the FBA merchant, opens it, and finds its counterfeit.<p>In short, the FBA&#x2F;commingling stuff means that merchandise you buy directly from Amazon can be untrusted. In turn that means that, as an FBA merchant, even merchandise that came directly from Amazon can be untrusted. Any shrinkwrapped DVD that has passed through an Amazon fulfillment warehouse is actually of entirely unknown provenance; it could have been purchased at a stall in Shanghai for all you know. And if your business relies on never selling a counterfeit DVD, then that means nothing you buy <i>or</i> sell can ever touch an Amazon warehouse.<p>I doubt this is a real concern (this is the first I&#x27;ve heard of any issues with counterfeiting and FBA), but it&#x27;s still an interesting structural flaw. Given Amazon&#x27;s volume, they&#x27;re probably shipping out multiple counterfeit DVDs right now, under their own shipping label as well as that of various FBA merchants.<p>Fascinating.</text></comment> | <story><title>Third Party Sellers Need To Rethink The Amazon FBA Program</title><url>http://www.startupnation.com/start-your-business/plan-your-business/third-party-sellers-need-to-rethink-theamazon-fba-program/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>droopyEyelids</author><text>Mysterious.<p>&quot;80 companies were sued in the past 12 months&quot;.<p>Where did the new counterfeit items come from? Is someone making them and feeding them into these guy&#x27;s pipeline? How does that happen?<p>How were there enough counterfeits to sue 10 companies a month? What did the purchase history look like for his last buyer of a new &quot;the mentalist&quot;?<p>Did the author mean to imply that Amazon might have shipped a forged copy that Amazon procured?<p>Why is the tone of the article so glib? Why was it posted on a site like that, and where is the follow up, now that it&#x27;s a year later? And whats with his next article about selling xbox games in June<p>I&#x27;m a cynic and conspiracy theorist, but I can&#x27;t help but wonder if this tribe of amazon merchants found a source for &quot;new&quot; DVDs that was too good to be true, and looked the other way while passing them to amazon. A more outlandish theory would be that the rights holders set these guys up to destroy huge volumes of used merchandise.</text></comment> |
8,600,285 | 8,600,203 | 1 | 2 | 8,599,589 | train | <story><title>Android 5.0 Lollipop reviewed</title><url>http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2014/11/android-5-0-lollipop-thoroughly-reviewed/?</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>buro9</author><text>Received the calendar app this morning, it is a major step-backwards.<p>What was once a killer app, a core productivity tool, has given way to an almost unusable interface.<p>It is now really hard to perform some tasks.<p>For example, I am a heavy calendar user and I have something in the calendar almost every day. It is now extremely difficult to answer the question: When is a three hour window free in the next month or two?<p>That used to be a single glance at the month view which communicated to me full day events, part-of-day events, and for the latter which part of the day and how long the event took. A single glance at month view could answer it and I could move forward backwards to glance at the next&#x2F;prev month.<p>Old: <a href="https://www.dropbox.com/s/kiic7fdrmu65172/2014-11-13%2006.56.24.png?dl=0" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.dropbox.com&#x2F;s&#x2F;kiic7fdrmu65172&#x2F;2014-11-13%2006.56...</a> (October 2014 in the old v4.4 Calendar app)<p>To achieve it now, I&#x27;d need to use the 5 day view, and for each 5 day segment to scroll up and down as even on my Moto X (2014) I cannot view more than half of the working day.<p>New: <a href="https://www.dropbox.com/s/pgqbhnc1ifp02a9/2014-11-13%2006.56.51.png?dl=0" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.dropbox.com&#x2F;s&#x2F;pgqbhnc1ifp02a9&#x2F;2014-11-13%2006.56...</a> (October 2014 in the new v5 Calendar app)<p>Gone is the ability to use Calendar on the phone as the core way to organise your life, it is essentially now unusable on the phone for anything other than a near-term agenda&#x2F;itinerary.<p>All of the new Gmail&#x2F;Inbox to Calendar features? Dead to me, all of my accounts are Google Hosted accounts and none of the Google Now, Gmail, or Inbox integrations with Calendar work on Google Hosted accounts.</text></comment> | <story><title>Android 5.0 Lollipop reviewed</title><url>http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2014/11/android-5-0-lollipop-thoroughly-reviewed/?</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>bane</author><text>Pure conjecture, but at some point, Android is basically just going to be the Kernel and a distribution medium. Everything else will come from the Play store, the GUI, device drivers, the fonts, the apps, the clock, core APIs, the runtime, <i>everything</i> and the OS will simply move to rolling partial updates. Version x simply won&#x27;t be meaningful anymore and the kernel can stay static for years and years.<p>This is a great future that honestly wouldn&#x27;t have happened if it weren&#x27;t for the fragmentation and slow update issue that carriers and device manufacturers created. It&#x27;s like trying to grab toothpaste once it&#x27;s out of the tube. The harder you squeeze, it simply finds another crack in your hand to go out of.<p>Material is also fantastic, almost joyful to use. It almost nails the flat-with-a-dash-of-skeu that Microsoft and Apple have both missed. There&#x27;s still a few too flat bits here and there, but it&#x27;s a great place to be.</text></comment> |
9,556,258 | 9,555,725 | 1 | 3 | 9,555,483 | train | <story><title>How I learned to stop worrying and love React</title><url>http://firstdoit.com/react-1/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>logicchains</author><text>I encourage anyone who likes React and doesn&#x27;t mind lisp to check out Reagent, an awesome Clojurescript library built atop React that manages to completely hide its complexity. It&#x27;s by far the most fun I&#x27;ve ever had with web development; the way I feel now is like how I imagine people who&#x27;ve had religious epiphanies must feel when trying to show potential converts the proverbial light of god.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;reagent-project.github.io&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;reagent-project.github.io&#x2F;</a></text></comment> | <story><title>How I learned to stop worrying and love React</title><url>http://firstdoit.com/react-1/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>ryannevius</author><text>I went through something similar...and then I found Mithril (<a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;lhorie.github.io&#x2F;mithril&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;lhorie.github.io&#x2F;mithril&#x2F;</a>).<p>I may be alone on this, but I&#x27;ve enjoyed working with Mithril much more than I ever did React. If you haven&#x27;t given it a shot, I highly recommend you do.</text></comment> |
24,322,994 | 24,322,592 | 1 | 3 | 24,315,057 | train | <story><title>Literate DevOps</title><url>http://www.howardism.org/Technical/Emacs/literate-devops.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>vr46</author><text>Not sure how old this post is, 2014 by the looks of it, but modern declarative automation makes this redundant. Ansible, as an example, would abstract away the CLI commands and be very readable in very few lines.<p>The setup described in this post looks fragile, regardless of whether it&#x27;s literate. I mean, we used to do these things, but we&#x27;ve moved on.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>trabant00</author><text>That&#x27;s what ansible PR material would have you believe. In reality only very simple things can be translated into ansible&#x2F;salt and even then you may hit one of their many bugs. If you try to do complex things even bash would be a better choice (although obviously the best).<p>There&#x27;s one thing ansible&#x2F;salt are good at: make it easy for cheap replaceable devops to write tons of repetitive boilerplate yaml. Harder for them to shoot themselves in the foot than with a real programming language. But once you descend into jinja hell that&#x27;s not very true either.<p>Also: newer isn&#x27;t always better and all that.</text></comment> | <story><title>Literate DevOps</title><url>http://www.howardism.org/Technical/Emacs/literate-devops.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>vr46</author><text>Not sure how old this post is, 2014 by the looks of it, but modern declarative automation makes this redundant. Ansible, as an example, would abstract away the CLI commands and be very readable in very few lines.<p>The setup described in this post looks fragile, regardless of whether it&#x27;s literate. I mean, we used to do these things, but we&#x27;ve moved on.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rgoulter</author><text>I don&#x27;t think &quot;interspersing commands and their output with prose&quot; is meant to provide a robust solution that should replace &quot;automation tool like Puppet or Chef&quot;.<p>This looks to be a step-up from just manually tinkering with commands in some shell to figure out or explore what it is you need to declare.</text></comment> |
6,057,863 | 6,057,816 | 1 | 2 | 6,057,221 | train | <story><title>Why JavaScript web applications should embrace traditional URLs</title><url>http://9elements.com/io/index.php/hybrid-javascript-apps/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jashkenas</author><text>The fundamental problem with attempting to transparently support querystrings on the client-side -- touched on a bit in this article, but not explained completely, is this:<p>Querystrings are a server-side convention for URLs containing parameters -- the browser doesn&#x27;t traditionally parse them. If you ask for document.location.search, you&#x27;ll get back an opaque string containing the query part that you&#x27;ll have to parse yourself.<p>The point of Backbone&#x27;s router is to be able to transparently support both pushState-based routing, with real URLs, as well as onhashchange-based routing, for older browsers that can&#x27;t do real URLs via JavaScript. So, if you add querystring generation and parsing support to Backbone&#x27;s router (as some plugins do), and use pushState, everything starts off looking peachy. But as soon as you run into an older browser, and try to fall back to the hash-based URL equivalent, you run into trouble:<p><pre><code> &#x2F;app?query=string#home?query=other
</code></pre>
... now you have the possibility to have to merge two different sources of query string, and still keep transparent redirects working back and forth between the two schemes.<p>I&#x27;d be more than happy to merge an implementation that supports them -- but that implementation needs to solve this particular problem, and have a relatively bulletproof way of supporting the querystring logic parsed out of real URLs and transferred to the fragment, and vice-versa ... and also has to have a strategy for dealing with URLs of the above breed. The devil, as always, is in the details.</text></comment> | <story><title>Why JavaScript web applications should embrace traditional URLs</title><url>http://9elements.com/io/index.php/hybrid-javascript-apps/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>VeejayRampay</author><text>This article about &quot;Javascript web applications&quot; quickly turns into an article about how Backbone&#x27;s URL handling is bad. The content is really interesting but it feels kind of passive-aggressive.</text></comment> |
8,181,574 | 8,181,522 | 1 | 2 | 8,181,339 | train | <story><title>The 30-year-old health sector billionaire</title><url>http://www.bbc.com/news/business-28756059</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>nimish</author><text>As far as I can tell, the stars aligned here.<p>You have a brilliant founder who has a background in the tech (Chem Engineering) and the upbringing and connections to take research trips out to Singapore.<p>Second, you have the tech: microfluidic assays, and the idea of collecting them all in the same place.<p>Third, an existing industry that&#x27;s been content to sit around and charge high prices due to low competition: LabCorp &amp; company.<p>Finally, a generous funding environment.<p>Unfortunately, their secrecy is kind of a turn off. How can I know to trust their numbers?</text></comment> | <story><title>The 30-year-old health sector billionaire</title><url>http://www.bbc.com/news/business-28756059</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jgrahamc</author><text>The important thing about this article is not her age, her gender or her net worth: it&#x27;s the enormous change her company is saying is possible in blood testing.<p>Ignore the comparisons with Steve Jobs and other crap and think about what her company is doing and what it means.</text></comment> |
3,663,786 | 3,663,463 | 1 | 3 | 3,663,262 | train | <story><title>"Egor, stop hacking Github"</title><url>http://homakov.blogspot.com/2012/03/egor-stop-hacking-gh.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>JangoSteve</author><text>Given the recent story on HN about how former YouSendIt founder had taken their servers down to prove their vulnerability [1] [2], I'm surprised how little reverence these "lol-hackers" (that's going to be my term for them) give to showcasing these vulnerabilities by exploiting them in the real-world and messing with people's real things.<p>I know as hackers, we feel a duty to show people how serious these things are and that we get impatient and annoyed when ignored. And I also know that it's hard for us to reconcile the idea that when we <i>show</i> the owners rather than <i>tell</i>, it's suddenly considered a crime. But it is.<p>Let's try an analogy. Door locks on houses are ineffective. Think about it. Your house is covered with windows, which are made of glass. Glass is really easy to break. I mean really easy. If you found out your neighbor didn't have a house alarm, you might talk to them and tell them they should get one. If they didn't get one, would you then break into their house one night and walk into their bedroom to show them how dangerous it is?<p>OK, who knows, maybe you have a weird relationship with your neighbor. Furthermore, this is an imperfect analogy, because here, Rails and Github are both responsible for other people's property.<p>But now imagine it's a business across town and that you don't actually know the business owner. If you broke into their business to show them their building's security vulnerabilities, you bet your ass they would press charges and I don't think anyone would blame them. Even if you're doing it with the best intentions, it's still vandalism at best.<p>All of that being said, this is a very effective way of making your point and getting people to fix the problem. That doesn't make it right. But if you're willing to put yourself in harm's way and essentially become a martyr to get these security vulnerabilities fixed, more power to you.<p>[1] <a href="http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3643102" rel="nofollow">http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3643102</a><p>[2] <a href="http://www.inc.com/magazine/201203/burt-helm/a-silicon-valley-tale-of-humiliation-and-revenge.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.inc.com/magazine/201203/burt-helm/a-silicon-valle...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>"Egor, stop hacking Github"</title><url>http://homakov.blogspot.com/2012/03/egor-stop-hacking-gh.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>wycats</author><text>For what it's worth, we'd like it if security vulnerabilities in Rails were disclosed to <a href="http://rubyonrails.org/security" rel="nofollow">http://rubyonrails.org/security</a>.<p>Obviously this situation is a bit more complicated, as a ticket was opened up, and a lot of community discussion occurred. In general, emails to the security list are taken extremely seriously.</text></comment> |
3,635,248 | 3,634,267 | 1 | 3 | 3,633,389 | train | <story><title>What Happens to the Coke in Coca-Cola?</title><url>http://www.good.is/post/regulators-mount-up-what-happens-to-the-coke-in-coca-cola/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>potatolicious</author><text>&#62; <i>"Coke tasted far superior to Pepsi, how could there even be a competition?"</i><p>Actually, double-blind taste tests was reputedly in favor of Pepsi. Pepsi, for a long time, used this in their marketing, and Coke confirmed the results for themselves, which was the main driving force behind the creation of the disastrously failed New Coke.<p>It would seem that the tasted of Coke is affected as much by its branding as by its recipe!</text></item><item><author>vacri</author><text>I love my coke here in Australia, and a few years ago Coke Zero came out promising 'Tastes just like regular coke!'. Tasted nothing at all like it.<p>Similarly, the cola wars never made sense here - Coke tasted far superior to Pepsi, how could there even be a competition?<p>Then I visited the US and only had access to the corn-syrup coke, which I'd never had before, as we have our own sugar industry. Tasted much more like Coke Zero - it seems we'd just imported the US advertising slogan there. And the cola wars made much more sense... well... not in themselves, just that they could have happened.</text></item><item><author>philwelch</author><text>Which brings to mind an interesting tangent.<p>There's a recent trend for importing glass bottles of Coca-Cola from Mexico. The reason is that unlike American Coke, Mexican Coke has sugar rather than high fructose corn syrup. The reason American Coke has high fructose corn syrup is because of the US sugar tariff. So Mexican bottlers import American Coca-Cola concentrate, mix in carbonated water and some cane sugar of either Mexican or presumably Caribbean origin, and export the finished bottles of Coca-Cola back to the United States, <i>simply to route around the damage of the US sugar tariff</i>.</text></item><item><author>simonw</author><text>I was going to say that I found it hard to believe that Coca-Cola was only manufactured in the USA, and ask how the export of coca leaves to other countries worked. Then I looked up Coca-Cola on Wikipedia and saw that "The company produces concentrate, which is then sold to licensed Coca-Cola bottlers throughout the world". So I guess it is only manufactured in the USA.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mwilliamson</author><text>&#62; It would seem that the tasted of Coke is affected as much by its branding as by its recipe!<p>There was an interesting experiment where some researchers put subjects inside an MRI machine, and then fed them two samples of cola. Sometimes both drinks were anonymous, and sometimes the drink was labelled as Pepsi or Coca-Cola, while the other was anonymous but actually the same drink. When the drinks were anonymous, people seemed to like both equally, but when told what the drinks were, people tended to prefer Coca-Cola over the anonymous drunk. Even more interestingly, when people were told they were drinking Coca-Cola, extra bits of their brain lit up, specifically memory and cognitive control, which suggests that when you think you're drinking Coca-Cola, it's not just the immediate sensation of drinking the coke that affects how much you enjoy it, but also the effect of all of that marketing that makes your brain think "Mmmm, Coca-Cola is delicious!"<p><a href="http://health.usnews.com/usnews/health/briefs/mentalhealth/hb041025b.htm" rel="nofollow">http://health.usnews.com/usnews/health/briefs/mentalhealth/h...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>What Happens to the Coke in Coca-Cola?</title><url>http://www.good.is/post/regulators-mount-up-what-happens-to-the-coke-in-coca-cola/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>potatolicious</author><text>&#62; <i>"Coke tasted far superior to Pepsi, how could there even be a competition?"</i><p>Actually, double-blind taste tests was reputedly in favor of Pepsi. Pepsi, for a long time, used this in their marketing, and Coke confirmed the results for themselves, which was the main driving force behind the creation of the disastrously failed New Coke.<p>It would seem that the tasted of Coke is affected as much by its branding as by its recipe!</text></item><item><author>vacri</author><text>I love my coke here in Australia, and a few years ago Coke Zero came out promising 'Tastes just like regular coke!'. Tasted nothing at all like it.<p>Similarly, the cola wars never made sense here - Coke tasted far superior to Pepsi, how could there even be a competition?<p>Then I visited the US and only had access to the corn-syrup coke, which I'd never had before, as we have our own sugar industry. Tasted much more like Coke Zero - it seems we'd just imported the US advertising slogan there. And the cola wars made much more sense... well... not in themselves, just that they could have happened.</text></item><item><author>philwelch</author><text>Which brings to mind an interesting tangent.<p>There's a recent trend for importing glass bottles of Coca-Cola from Mexico. The reason is that unlike American Coke, Mexican Coke has sugar rather than high fructose corn syrup. The reason American Coke has high fructose corn syrup is because of the US sugar tariff. So Mexican bottlers import American Coca-Cola concentrate, mix in carbonated water and some cane sugar of either Mexican or presumably Caribbean origin, and export the finished bottles of Coca-Cola back to the United States, <i>simply to route around the damage of the US sugar tariff</i>.</text></item><item><author>simonw</author><text>I was going to say that I found it hard to believe that Coca-Cola was only manufactured in the USA, and ask how the export of coca leaves to other countries worked. Then I looked up Coca-Cola on Wikipedia and saw that "The company produces concentrate, which is then sold to licensed Coca-Cola bottlers throughout the world". So I guess it is only manufactured in the USA.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>vacri</author><text>Coke in Australia is made with sugar, not with corn syrup. It's noticeable different to pepsi.</text></comment> |
17,097,340 | 17,096,637 | 1 | 3 | 17,093,732 | train | <story><title>Tiny Trains: Neat Narrow-Gauge Rail Connects German Island to Mainland</title><url>https://weburbanist.com/2018/05/08/tiny-trains-neat-narrow-gauge-rail-connects-german-island-to-mainland/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>twic</author><text>I think it&#x27;s nerds and trains, rather than guys and trains. I know at least one woman who is pretty excited about trains too, and she is a colossal dork.<p>EDIT: and what it is about nerds and trains is that trains are <i>wicked sweet</i>.</text></item><item><author>tomcam</author><text> What is it about guys and trains? I reflexively upvoted before even reading the article, and after reading the article, I realize it is a pretty standard narrow gauge railroad. Don’t care! Would vote again if I could!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tathougies</author><text>Yeah, I was going to say. I know two women who are really into trains. One is my wife, who was devastated at the news that her father, who is an engineer, was not &#x27;that&#x27; kind of engineer. The other is the office manager at my former workplace, whose garage was like a magical model train emporium, much to her husband&#x27;s chagrin. Her husband was a salesperson, she was a total geek.</text></comment> | <story><title>Tiny Trains: Neat Narrow-Gauge Rail Connects German Island to Mainland</title><url>https://weburbanist.com/2018/05/08/tiny-trains-neat-narrow-gauge-rail-connects-german-island-to-mainland/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>twic</author><text>I think it&#x27;s nerds and trains, rather than guys and trains. I know at least one woman who is pretty excited about trains too, and she is a colossal dork.<p>EDIT: and what it is about nerds and trains is that trains are <i>wicked sweet</i>.</text></item><item><author>tomcam</author><text> What is it about guys and trains? I reflexively upvoted before even reading the article, and after reading the article, I realize it is a pretty standard narrow gauge railroad. Don’t care! Would vote again if I could!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dalore</author><text>Trains are like an information network you can see in action.</text></comment> |
6,715,761 | 6,715,815 | 1 | 3 | 6,715,702 | train | <story><title>$4.1m goes missing as Chinese bitcoin trading platform GBL vanishes</title><url>http://www.coindesk.com/4-1m-goes-missing-chinese-bitcoin-trading-platform-gbl-vanishes/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>nwh</author><text>Amusingly enough, this isn&#x27;t even an uncommon occurrence in the Bitcoin world. Either compromises or shady actors seem to take down a large portion of their services, usually taking large sums of money with them.<p>It does look like a similar case to inputs.io and a few other sites too, people &quot;invest&quot; or store large amounts of money with a person despite the community making every attempt to warn people that it is a terrible, awful, terrible idea to do so.</text></comment> | <story><title>$4.1m goes missing as Chinese bitcoin trading platform GBL vanishes</title><url>http://www.coindesk.com/4-1m-goes-missing-chinese-bitcoin-trading-platform-gbl-vanishes/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>malandrew</author><text>Seems to me like bitcoin is the perfect business opportunity for people with the security skills and know-how to do really really well. The bitcoin world needs solid reputable security professionals to operate the exchanges and wallets. I&#x27;d love to hear cperciva&#x27;s or tptacek&#x27;s take on bitcoin as a startup opportunity since they are prime examples of people who could startup a bitcoin business and instantly attract people since people would trust them to do what is right.</text></comment> |
24,647,380 | 24,647,185 | 1 | 2 | 24,646,620 | train | <story><title>Irish Court Says Subway Bread Is Too Sugary to Be Called 'Bread'</title><url>https://www.foodandwine.com/news/subway-bread-sugar-content-ireland-court-ruling</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>samatman</author><text>Alright, time to be contrarian: so what.<p>Ok, it&#x27;s interesting that the law in Ireland requires a 2% or less baker&#x27;s weight of sugar. And I do enjoy a good sourdough, which isn&#x27;t made with any sugar, or just a pinch.<p>But my favourite sandwich bread is Japanese milk bread, it&#x27;s soft, lovely crumb, and it browns beautifully in the pan.<p>It&#x27;s got a lot of sugar in it, that&#x27;s the secret. A random recipe I found says 18% baker&#x27;s weight, which seems accurate.<p>Are we pretending that polysaccharides are the staff of life, but when you get down to disaccharides they become the Devil? The glycemic index of white flour is dire, I doubt adding sugar is going to move the needle.<p>Sugar in dough makes it soft, with a giving crumb, and a crust which can be brown without becoming hard.<p>Exactly what you want in a sandwich filled with toppings, so that they don&#x27;t shoot out the back when you bite into it.<p>Clutch your pearls all you want about &#x27;Subway misrepresenting healthy food&#x27;! They publish the macros of their sandwiches. It&#x27;s not nearly so healthy as eggs scrambled in butter, there&#x27;s a ton of carbs and not nearly enough fat.<p>Unless you think it&#x27;s the other way around that&#x27;s healthy. It&#x27;s your stomach, you get to pick.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>usrusr</author><text>&gt; Are we pretending that polysaccharides are the staff of life, but when you get down to disaccharides they become the Devil?<p>Devil or not devil is off topic: it&#x27;s not about not-devil or devil, it&#x27;s about the difference between bread and cake. Which isn&#x27;t a value judgement at all. But that is a line that will unsurprisingly be drawn differently in different cultures.<p>The legal issue isn&#x27;t putting too much sugar in a product, it&#x27;s putting much sugar in there and then labeling that product in a way that is deceptive in the local language (and in this case a tax angle, but it could be a court issue even without that).</text></comment> | <story><title>Irish Court Says Subway Bread Is Too Sugary to Be Called 'Bread'</title><url>https://www.foodandwine.com/news/subway-bread-sugar-content-ireland-court-ruling</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>samatman</author><text>Alright, time to be contrarian: so what.<p>Ok, it&#x27;s interesting that the law in Ireland requires a 2% or less baker&#x27;s weight of sugar. And I do enjoy a good sourdough, which isn&#x27;t made with any sugar, or just a pinch.<p>But my favourite sandwich bread is Japanese milk bread, it&#x27;s soft, lovely crumb, and it browns beautifully in the pan.<p>It&#x27;s got a lot of sugar in it, that&#x27;s the secret. A random recipe I found says 18% baker&#x27;s weight, which seems accurate.<p>Are we pretending that polysaccharides are the staff of life, but when you get down to disaccharides they become the Devil? The glycemic index of white flour is dire, I doubt adding sugar is going to move the needle.<p>Sugar in dough makes it soft, with a giving crumb, and a crust which can be brown without becoming hard.<p>Exactly what you want in a sandwich filled with toppings, so that they don&#x27;t shoot out the back when you bite into it.<p>Clutch your pearls all you want about &#x27;Subway misrepresenting healthy food&#x27;! They publish the macros of their sandwiches. It&#x27;s not nearly so healthy as eggs scrambled in butter, there&#x27;s a ton of carbs and not nearly enough fat.<p>Unless you think it&#x27;s the other way around that&#x27;s healthy. It&#x27;s your stomach, you get to pick.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>connectsnk</author><text>Very well constructed argument. Please see here that the court is preventing subway from claiming tax breaks by classifying their product as staple food (bread). They are not preventing people from eating it.</text></comment> |
22,317,000 | 22,316,641 | 1 | 2 | 22,315,346 | train | <story><title>64 Core Threadripper 3990X CPU Review</title><url>https://www.anandtech.com/show/15483/amd-threadripper-3990x-review/3</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rwmj</author><text>I&#x27;ve played with the AMD Daytona Rome Server (two EPYC sockets, 2*64 = 128 cores, 256 threads), with RHEL, and it rocks. However it&#x27;s quite hard to find workloads that keep all 256 threads busy at once. Most builds aren&#x27;t nearly parallel enough, most programs can&#x27;t find work for 256 threads. So as a personal machine 128 or 256 threads aren&#x27;t really worth it unless money is no object. Likely the best current use for these is as servers for running large numbers of virtual machines or containers.</text></item><item><author>tbenst</author><text>Wish they’d review on Linux. Windows does not seem like the target audience given all the limitations.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Mirioron</author><text>&gt;<i>However it&#x27;s quite hard to find workloads that keep all 256 threads busy at once.</i><p>Run Crysis only on the CPU.[0]<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=1LaKH5etJoE&amp;t=10m37s" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=1LaKH5etJoE&amp;t=10m37s</a></text></comment> | <story><title>64 Core Threadripper 3990X CPU Review</title><url>https://www.anandtech.com/show/15483/amd-threadripper-3990x-review/3</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rwmj</author><text>I&#x27;ve played with the AMD Daytona Rome Server (two EPYC sockets, 2*64 = 128 cores, 256 threads), with RHEL, and it rocks. However it&#x27;s quite hard to find workloads that keep all 256 threads busy at once. Most builds aren&#x27;t nearly parallel enough, most programs can&#x27;t find work for 256 threads. So as a personal machine 128 or 256 threads aren&#x27;t really worth it unless money is no object. Likely the best current use for these is as servers for running large numbers of virtual machines or containers.</text></item><item><author>tbenst</author><text>Wish they’d review on Linux. Windows does not seem like the target audience given all the limitations.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>glangdale</author><text>I am craving one of these for my superoptimizer. The level of task parallelism I have is north of 100M independent jobs; my last run took a single-core machine 20 days. It&#x27;s pretty rare to have a workload like this but as more machines ship with &gt;16 cores, I think more developers will look at the order-of-magnitude improvements of parallelizing their tasks where possible.</text></comment> |
38,142,548 | 38,142,599 | 1 | 2 | 38,141,366 | train | <story><title>Othello Is Solved?</title><url>https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.19387</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>charcircuit</author><text>&gt;That means it&#x27;s still possible to win a game by intentionally deviating from the perfect sequence<p>Someone with perfect strategy would have an answer for any deviation. Playing imperfectly would likely get you into a losing position. There is no way to go from a game being drawn if played perfectly to being winning if the then loser were to be using perfect strategy.</text></item><item><author>cvoss</author><text>This paper &quot;weakly solves&quot; Othello. That means that we know for the initial board state both 1) the final win&#x2F;lose&#x2F;draw outcome (it&#x27;s a draw), and 2) the sequence of moves that should be taken by perfect players to get there (Figure 1, right).<p>In particular, the paper does not &quot;strongly solve&quot; Othello. If you have an arbitrary board state, 1) and 2) are are not necessarily known for it. That means it&#x27;s still possible to win a game by intentionally deviating from the perfect sequence and betting on the fact that your opponent doesn&#x27;t know how to recover.</text></item><item><author>bediger4000</author><text>Does this paper render the championship moot? Is any software based on the paper entered?<p>Is Othello like checkers, where there were mostly draws in high level games?</text></item><item><author>Tepix</author><text>For those interested in the game (it&#x27;s popular among computer science and AI scholars), the Othello world championship is currently underway in Rome, Italy with games live streamed on liveothello.com and Youtube @WorldOthello</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>lcuff</author><text>I agree. As a nuance, (and I&#x27;m not an Othello player, but a chess player) in many positions in chess, there are many moves that, while not the best, are just slightly worse. Finding the &#x27;refutation&#x27; for a weaker move is the measure of the strength of a player, and playing a few slightly weaker moves in a row will almost certainly take even high level players out of &#x27;book&#x27; (the memorized sequence of best moves). At that point, the strength of the players becomes important, as opposed to how much they have memorized. The strategy, then, is to have a _slightly_ worse position from which one can recover and go on to win. Obviously, if the opponent plays perfectly, it is either a win for him or a draw. Typically the &#x27;slightly weaker&#x27; move still keeps the game a draw. The advantage is not a game-winning sized advantage. I wonder if in Othello there are positions where there are multiple possible moves which &#x27;preserve&#x27; the draw.</text></comment> | <story><title>Othello Is Solved?</title><url>https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.19387</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>charcircuit</author><text>&gt;That means it&#x27;s still possible to win a game by intentionally deviating from the perfect sequence<p>Someone with perfect strategy would have an answer for any deviation. Playing imperfectly would likely get you into a losing position. There is no way to go from a game being drawn if played perfectly to being winning if the then loser were to be using perfect strategy.</text></item><item><author>cvoss</author><text>This paper &quot;weakly solves&quot; Othello. That means that we know for the initial board state both 1) the final win&#x2F;lose&#x2F;draw outcome (it&#x27;s a draw), and 2) the sequence of moves that should be taken by perfect players to get there (Figure 1, right).<p>In particular, the paper does not &quot;strongly solve&quot; Othello. If you have an arbitrary board state, 1) and 2) are are not necessarily known for it. That means it&#x27;s still possible to win a game by intentionally deviating from the perfect sequence and betting on the fact that your opponent doesn&#x27;t know how to recover.</text></item><item><author>bediger4000</author><text>Does this paper render the championship moot? Is any software based on the paper entered?<p>Is Othello like checkers, where there were mostly draws in high level games?</text></item><item><author>Tepix</author><text>For those interested in the game (it&#x27;s popular among computer science and AI scholars), the Othello world championship is currently underway in Rome, Italy with games live streamed on liveothello.com and Youtube @WorldOthello</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>SonOfLilit</author><text>No, the paper only &quot;weakly solves&quot;, so it doesn&#x27;t give a perfect strategy of the type you talk about.<p>Imagine finding a pamphlet written by God that contains a listing of a perfect game of chess. Armed with it, you will still lose easily to Magnus Carlsen. He will deviate fro| the sequence and you won&#x27;t know the perfect responses to his moves.</text></comment> |
40,189,884 | 40,190,071 | 1 | 3 | 40,189,346 | train | <story><title>The unstallable plane that stalled</title><url>https://fearoflanding.com/accidents/accident-reports/the-unstallable-plane-that-stalled/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jcalvinowens</author><text>It is not necessary to empirically determine a specific airplane&#x27;s stall speed in order to operate it safely. It&#x27;s not required in the US, we just use the number the manufacturer publishes.<p>It&#x27;s normal for airplanes of the same model to fly differently: I fly a little fleet of six Citabrias, and their stall characteristics are radically different. You&#x27;d expect more uniformity from a modern aluminum airplane, but still: nobody should be flying an airplane like this so close to the edge the exact stall speed needs to be known numerically within one knot.<p>The 40lbs of gas I burn flying for an hour decreases the stall speed by more than 1mph on those Citabrias I fly.<p>EDIT: I was mistaken, this isn&#x27;t a requirement in Europe either.</text></comment> | <story><title>The unstallable plane that stalled</title><url>https://fearoflanding.com/accidents/accident-reports/the-unstallable-plane-that-stalled/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>talkingtab</author><text>Non sequitur from non-pilot: I was once in Duluth, MN in the bitter cold and watched a Cessna with skis (for landing on the frozen lakes of the Boundary Waters) land at the airport. It was the utterly bewildering to see how slowly it was going in the air. And how little distance it took to stop. Short Landing Kit I assume. I&#x27;ve seen ducks and geese come into land on lakes at higher speeds!</text></comment> |
13,765,767 | 13,765,004 | 1 | 3 | 13,764,529 | train | <story><title>The rise of the useless class</title><url>http://ideas.ted.com/the-rise-of-the-useless-class/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>charles-salvia</author><text>I can&#x27;t help but be skeptical of things like this... historically speaking, humans tend to underestimate just how many things we do that require full &quot;general intelligence&quot; to make &quot;common-sense&quot; decisions. Despite recent advances in machine-learning (i.e. adding more layers to neural networks, i.e. adding more columns to a matrix), we don&#x27;t really have anything that even approaches an artificial general intelligence. What we <i>do</i> have is a suite of sophisticated statistical algorithms that basically perform regression using huge data sets. This often approximates <i>some</i> subset of what a general artifical intelligence could do for <i>some</i> use cases that mostly apply to recognizing fuzzy patterns. But it&#x27;s not even close to approaching human-level intelligence.<p>In general, modern machine learning has focused mostly on the &quot;pattern recognition&quot; aspect of intelligence derived from statistical algorithms, while making little significant progress with other key aspects associated with higher cognitive processes such as general reasoning, planning and creativity (apart from simplistic rule-based approaches like decision trees, or highly domain-specific problems like using massive data sets to teach a computer to play Go.)<p>I don&#x27;t doubt that something close to general AI will eventually seriously threaten human usefulness&#x2F;dignity, but I question the timeline of &quot;decades away&quot;.</text></comment> | <story><title>The rise of the useless class</title><url>http://ideas.ted.com/the-rise-of-the-useless-class/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>shas3</author><text>I&#x27;m sure there is a good critique of that Frey and Osborne paper. Epistemologically, it sounds weird to assign &#x27;probabilities of automation.&#x27; I don&#x27;t have the time to read the paper in detail, but here are a few things:<p>1. Automation doesn&#x27;t imply that jobs go away. Classic example, deposits and withdrawals were automated by ATMs. Yet, the number of cashiers increased.<p>2. Automation by itself is not sufficient. Will we reach a point where it is cheaper to automate a job than hire a person? Think of non-forklift lifting&#x2F;moving of heavy stuff, we don&#x27;t really need people doing this manually, robots should be able to do it. But we see with the Boston Dynamics robots that we are many years or decades away from commoditizing lifting robots.<p>3. &#x27;useless&#x27; class already exists. Employment and usefulness aren&#x27;t necessarily the same. There are many millions of people in jobs that are &#x27;useless&#x27; by some metrics (gas station attendant, supermarket cashiers, etc).</text></comment> |
23,819,513 | 23,819,310 | 1 | 2 | 23,818,859 | train | <story><title>Writing a software book and making over $100k</title><url>https://twitter.com/vlad_mihalcea/status/1282199525562753025</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>vladmihalcea</author><text>I&#x27;m the book author, so if you have any questions, let me know.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>hohenheim</author><text>You mentioned publishers leave you with 10% of the sales. I can&#x27;t wrap my head around that, how is that possible and acceptable by authors?</text></comment> | <story><title>Writing a software book and making over $100k</title><url>https://twitter.com/vlad_mihalcea/status/1282199525562753025</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>vladmihalcea</author><text>I&#x27;m the book author, so if you have any questions, let me know.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mac01021</author><text>Thanks!<p>Under what circumstances would you expect someone to discover your book (they can&#x27;t buy it if they don&#x27;t know about it).<p>If I want to learn a particular software tool (Kafka, Kubernetes, git). I might go to Amazon or Google and search the name of tool, possibly with &quot;book&quot; appended.<p>If I want to learn how to do functional programming, I&#x27;ll search for &quot;functional programming book&quot; or something like that.<p>What&#x27;s a search term that I&#x27;d be likely to use that would lead me to your book? Or is there one?</text></comment> |
23,790,404 | 23,789,714 | 1 | 2 | 23,789,309 | train | <story><title>France to introduce controversial age verification system for adult websites</title><url>https://www.politico.eu/article/france-to-introduce-controversial-age-verification-system-for-adult-pornography-websites/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>yomly</author><text>I agree - for many of people(including teens) circumventing restrictions is part of the thrill.<p>That said I do think there has been an escalation of porn over the years. It&#x27;s really apparent when you look at things from the 70s. Though apparently banning porn from cinemas shifted content to more &quot;trashy&quot; VHS&#x2F;DVD&#x2F;Online videos<p>I feel data-driven analytics has probably accelerated this, like a race to the bottom (pun unintended). Extremity probably drives engagement so the porn kids are exposed to today is much more extreme than what we may have been as up and coming internet users.</text></item><item><author>raxxorrax</author><text>A mistake many people do. Maybe there are people now wary of children being subjected to certain content on the net. They are forgetting at least three things:<p>They also were exposed and survived just fine<p>Their kids are probably going to be better with tech at some point.<p>The vast majority of pornographic content is available without being on the market which makes regulation nearly impossible. Yes, you can maybe attack the platforms hosting it, but I don&#x27;t see this going anywhere. You would punish commercial distribution on push other content underground. Many in porn are already directly financed by their viewers.<p>Wasn&#x27;t the Australia block circumvented within 24h by a ~14-year old kid?<p>Some people suggested to make brushing teeth illegal so that kids do it in secret in a dark corner.</text></item><item><author>Waterfall</author><text>As a kid, I was able to figure out limewire, Emule, torrents and I&#x27;m sure kids today will be able to download a free vpn or use similar tools I used as a preteen to figure out how to circumvent these pointless blocks. I started with free video samples and only moved onto methods by high school to get access to premium websites. As a human, our strength is not only the ability to do these things but to also teach others to do it. I was able to help my friends to get access as well. If one ape discovered fire it would die with them, but our ability to spread information, like a virus is what gives humanity intelligence. One kid like me at school is all it takes to make this stupid law useless.<p>Adult websites want brownie points and also don&#x27;t like nonpayers, but mess with their revenue and you&#x27;ll get a push back.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>belorn</author><text>There has been an escalation of porn compared to the 70s, but so has also every from of consumption and consumerism. What is not clear is if peoples ability to adapt and filter out the extreme aspects has also increased.<p>Violence in movies are also more extreme. As is violence in music, violence in news flows, and violence in the messages of peoples social communities.<p>I am also always aware that here in Sweden there was a significant difference in cultural values around both violence and sex compared to the US during the 70s-90s. Casual nudity and minor sexual references were seen as something funny and embarrassing rather than taboo, while violence was seen as twisting the mind of children. In the US it was the opposite, with violence being perfectly fine but anything hinting towards sex was something that would corrupt children. At the later part of the 90s the culture in Sweden copied that of the US, with English became in practice a second language, so I am always a bit weary of claims that images of sex and nudity will corrupt people, teens and even children, while illustrations and reference to violence are given a wide acceptances as innocent to anyone until studies has proven it guilty.</text></comment> | <story><title>France to introduce controversial age verification system for adult websites</title><url>https://www.politico.eu/article/france-to-introduce-controversial-age-verification-system-for-adult-pornography-websites/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>yomly</author><text>I agree - for many of people(including teens) circumventing restrictions is part of the thrill.<p>That said I do think there has been an escalation of porn over the years. It&#x27;s really apparent when you look at things from the 70s. Though apparently banning porn from cinemas shifted content to more &quot;trashy&quot; VHS&#x2F;DVD&#x2F;Online videos<p>I feel data-driven analytics has probably accelerated this, like a race to the bottom (pun unintended). Extremity probably drives engagement so the porn kids are exposed to today is much more extreme than what we may have been as up and coming internet users.</text></item><item><author>raxxorrax</author><text>A mistake many people do. Maybe there are people now wary of children being subjected to certain content on the net. They are forgetting at least three things:<p>They also were exposed and survived just fine<p>Their kids are probably going to be better with tech at some point.<p>The vast majority of pornographic content is available without being on the market which makes regulation nearly impossible. Yes, you can maybe attack the platforms hosting it, but I don&#x27;t see this going anywhere. You would punish commercial distribution on push other content underground. Many in porn are already directly financed by their viewers.<p>Wasn&#x27;t the Australia block circumvented within 24h by a ~14-year old kid?<p>Some people suggested to make brushing teeth illegal so that kids do it in secret in a dark corner.</text></item><item><author>Waterfall</author><text>As a kid, I was able to figure out limewire, Emule, torrents and I&#x27;m sure kids today will be able to download a free vpn or use similar tools I used as a preteen to figure out how to circumvent these pointless blocks. I started with free video samples and only moved onto methods by high school to get access to premium websites. As a human, our strength is not only the ability to do these things but to also teach others to do it. I was able to help my friends to get access as well. If one ape discovered fire it would die with them, but our ability to spread information, like a virus is what gives humanity intelligence. One kid like me at school is all it takes to make this stupid law useless.<p>Adult websites want brownie points and also don&#x27;t like nonpayers, but mess with their revenue and you&#x27;ll get a push back.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Tainnor</author><text>Like with certain drugs, I think it&#x27;s perfectly possible to acknowledge the potential issues with excessive porn consumption (or with certain kinds of porn) while still thinking that it&#x27;s not uniformly bad if consumed in moderation.</text></comment> |
20,703,677 | 20,702,136 | 1 | 2 | 20,700,810 | train | <story><title>Google Forcing Nest Cameras’ Visual Indicator Light To Be On</title><url>https://www.mattcrampton.com/blog/Google_forcing_nest_cameras_visual_indicator_light_to_be_on/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jm1234567890</author><text>This is not practical, if I use it as a baby cam I want the light to be off.</text></item><item><author>WalterBright</author><text>The LED needs to be connected to the power lead on the camera. Then it cannot be hacked via the software.<p>Also, microphones and cameras need physical switches to enable them, not software switches. Preferably with an LED indicator too.<p>This is what I did with the electric fuel pump on my car. A dash light connected to the power lead, and a physical switch. There&#x27;s also a low oil pressure switch that&#x27;ll interrupt the power to the fuel pump.</text></item><item><author>drusepth</author><text>This seems equivalent to security theater in response to misplaced fear and mistrust over cameras in general. I understand why they felt pressured to make this change (and the &quot;good&quot; PR it results in), but I can&#x27;t help but shake the fact that, well, it doesn&#x27;t actually <i>do</i> anything.<p>Bad actors will just disable the light in a myriad of ways. People will still mistrust cameras because the light can be disabled. Drawing over the light with permanent marker (or doing something temporary like putting tape over it) doesn&#x27;t even create a small barrier of entry for people secretly recording. If they want to secretly record, it&#x27;s not significantly harder now than it was yesterday.<p>The only thing this is supposed to accomplish is appeasing people that don&#x27;t understand technology yet make a ruckus over Google disrespecting privacy. Now Google can say &quot;no look, we do!&quot; and those people will complain about something else.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kokey</author><text>We have been using it to watch our non-verbal young autistic son in bed. I know a tiny light in a pitch black room keeps him awake for many hours of the night and he doesn’t do being awake quietly so it also keeps us awake. We also can’t just remove the camera, it’s not like he is able to tell us that he has wet his bed. Having been given zero days notice of this change means I’m going to have to take time off work today to go home to find an effective way to put some tape over the light.<p>I have been holding back on deciding which home automation ecosystem I want to buy into. I was leaning towards Google and Nest was our first step into that direction. However I’m now increasingly of the opinion that I should just continue to build it out with devices where I have control over the firmware.</text></comment> | <story><title>Google Forcing Nest Cameras’ Visual Indicator Light To Be On</title><url>https://www.mattcrampton.com/blog/Google_forcing_nest_cameras_visual_indicator_light_to_be_on/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jm1234567890</author><text>This is not practical, if I use it as a baby cam I want the light to be off.</text></item><item><author>WalterBright</author><text>The LED needs to be connected to the power lead on the camera. Then it cannot be hacked via the software.<p>Also, microphones and cameras need physical switches to enable them, not software switches. Preferably with an LED indicator too.<p>This is what I did with the electric fuel pump on my car. A dash light connected to the power lead, and a physical switch. There&#x27;s also a low oil pressure switch that&#x27;ll interrupt the power to the fuel pump.</text></item><item><author>drusepth</author><text>This seems equivalent to security theater in response to misplaced fear and mistrust over cameras in general. I understand why they felt pressured to make this change (and the &quot;good&quot; PR it results in), but I can&#x27;t help but shake the fact that, well, it doesn&#x27;t actually <i>do</i> anything.<p>Bad actors will just disable the light in a myriad of ways. People will still mistrust cameras because the light can be disabled. Drawing over the light with permanent marker (or doing something temporary like putting tape over it) doesn&#x27;t even create a small barrier of entry for people secretly recording. If they want to secretly record, it&#x27;s not significantly harder now than it was yesterday.<p>The only thing this is supposed to accomplish is appeasing people that don&#x27;t understand technology yet make a ruckus over Google disrespecting privacy. Now Google can say &quot;no look, we do!&quot; and those people will complain about something else.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Godel_unicode</author><text>1. Pretty much every audio baby monitor in existence has an LED on it, those cause no problems.<p>2. Duct tape&#x2F;sharpie</text></comment> |
15,506,670 | 15,505,901 | 1 | 2 | 15,505,751 | train | <story><title>Why Ruby App Servers Break on MacOS High Sierra</title><url>https://blog.phusion.nl/2017/10/13/why-ruby-app-servers-break-on-macos-high-sierra-and-what-can-be-done-about-it/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>saagarjha</author><text>Greg Parker, who works on the Objective-C runtime, has a blog post that goes into more detail: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.sealiesoftware.com&#x2F;blog&#x2F;archive&#x2F;2017&#x2F;6&#x2F;5&#x2F;Objective-C_and_fork_in_macOS_1013.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.sealiesoftware.com&#x2F;blog&#x2F;archive&#x2F;2017&#x2F;6&#x2F;5&#x2F;Objectiv...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Why Ruby App Servers Break on MacOS High Sierra</title><url>https://blog.phusion.nl/2017/10/13/why-ruby-app-servers-break-on-macos-high-sierra-and-what-can-be-done-about-it/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>joshmn</author><text>This issue has been addressed on ruby-head<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;ruby&#x2F;ruby&#x2F;commit&#x2F;8b182a7f7d798ab6539518fbfcb51c78549f9733" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;ruby&#x2F;ruby&#x2F;commit&#x2F;8b182a7f7d798ab6539518fb...</a></text></comment> |
40,537,902 | 40,537,767 | 1 | 3 | 40,535,876 | train | <story><title>Why does searching Google for random hex lead to car dealers? [video]</title><url>https://tmp.tonybox.net/hexgoog.mp4</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>CommieBobDole</author><text>Looking at this very briefly, the results seem to always be inventory pages for the dealerships, which use long strings of hex or just random numbers as identifiers for the vehicles they have for sale.<p>For example, a search for &quot;ca7112b7167c15e621412c0fbc0a6c97&quot; brings up the URL
&quot;<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.premierclearancecenterofstbernard.com&#x2F;inventory&#x2F;certified-used-2021-toyota-sequoia-limited-4wd-4d-sport-utility-5tdfy5b14ms183153&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.premierclearancecenterofstbernard.com&#x2F;inventory&#x2F;...</a>&quot;, which has a gallery of vehicles at the bottom whose image names are of the format &quot;9b362510c100095f02cf3cad9e365ea6.jpg&quot;.<p>I assume something inside the Google black box is saying &quot;well, there&#x27;s no exact match but this site has a bunch of strings with most of the same characters, so here you go&quot;.<p>Edit: And to add to this, I&#x27;d surmise that the reason you see a lot of car dealerships in these results is that they sell a lot of one-offs - instead of having a list of SKUs in inventory, they sell a unique vehicle just once, so the inventory systems need to account for that by using long strings as item IDs and the like. Also there&#x27;s probably a limited number of inventory systems out there, so a bunch of random dealerships are probably all using the same one.</text></comment> | <story><title>Why does searching Google for random hex lead to car dealers? [video]</title><url>https://tmp.tonybox.net/hexgoog.mp4</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>dtagames</author><text>Most likely some part of the string matches the VIN number. Dealers are legally required to post the VIN of an actual vehicle in any advertisements that have a price, as a way of preventing bait-and-switch.</text></comment> |
25,841,956 | 25,841,669 | 1 | 2 | 25,833,639 | train | <story><title>Ask HN: Anyone else burnt out due to extended lockdown and work-from-home?</title><text>I&#x27;m no more productive at work. I produce in a week the same amount of code I used to produce in a day before the pandemic.<p>Am I alone to feel work-from-home made things worse?</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>jameshush</author><text>I had to leave California (been there 6 years). I was lucky because I had four other room mates to keep me company but even with that it was tough. I also wasn&#x27;t really enjoying what I was working on at my previous company (adtech) and needed a change.<p>I ended up moving to Taiwan a few weeks ago. Zero COVID here, and was surprisingly easy to immigrate (coming from someone who was dealing with the US immigration system as a Canadian). Working at a fun startup back on the consumer product side instead. Went to a bar for the first time in a year last week and was able to just sit in a coffee shop with 10 other people this morning. I&#x27;m still teaching myself to read&#x2F;speak Chinese but it&#x27;s totally worth it.<p>Anyone with experience with TypeScript&#x2F;React interested in tagging along to Taiwan, send me an email (my email is in my hacker news profile). I&#x27;m actively hiring engineers now. We&#x27;re a distributed team across many different countries but a few of us hang out in Taipei together at a coworking space. It&#x27;s the best of both worlds, I&#x27;m able to WFH when I feel like it but still go to a public space to be around people</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>vmception</author><text>I&#x27;m considering Taiwan too, any idea how Africans are treated, in Taipei?<p>I get the impression there are more black Africans than black Americans there. I recall some issues on mainland China with people violently scapegoating disease on them and anyone with dark skin. In most countries I&#x27;ve lived in nationality carried more weight than simply color.<p>I just want to go to music festivals lol, Ultra Fest are you kidding me!?</text></comment> | <story><title>Ask HN: Anyone else burnt out due to extended lockdown and work-from-home?</title><text>I&#x27;m no more productive at work. I produce in a week the same amount of code I used to produce in a day before the pandemic.<p>Am I alone to feel work-from-home made things worse?</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>jameshush</author><text>I had to leave California (been there 6 years). I was lucky because I had four other room mates to keep me company but even with that it was tough. I also wasn&#x27;t really enjoying what I was working on at my previous company (adtech) and needed a change.<p>I ended up moving to Taiwan a few weeks ago. Zero COVID here, and was surprisingly easy to immigrate (coming from someone who was dealing with the US immigration system as a Canadian). Working at a fun startup back on the consumer product side instead. Went to a bar for the first time in a year last week and was able to just sit in a coffee shop with 10 other people this morning. I&#x27;m still teaching myself to read&#x2F;speak Chinese but it&#x27;s totally worth it.<p>Anyone with experience with TypeScript&#x2F;React interested in tagging along to Taiwan, send me an email (my email is in my hacker news profile). I&#x27;m actively hiring engineers now. We&#x27;re a distributed team across many different countries but a few of us hang out in Taipei together at a coworking space. It&#x27;s the best of both worlds, I&#x27;m able to WFH when I feel like it but still go to a public space to be around people</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jedberg</author><text>That&#x27;s really great! I had a friend who did the same thing. We had a FaceTime while they walked around the city with no masks. It was surreal.<p>FYI for anyone interested, if you make $67,000USD a year, you can go to work in Taiwan too: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;taiwangoldcard.com" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;taiwangoldcard.com</a></text></comment> |
29,781,755 | 29,781,113 | 1 | 3 | 29,779,944 | train | <story><title>Ask HN: How do I manage the profit of a successful website?</title><text>Some time ago, I started a subscription-based website that has slowly gained momentum and revenue. Currently, my monthly recurring revenue from this site is about $45k USD per month. I’m taking ~$14k&#x2F;mo salary (which is far more than enough for my needs) and I’m paying one other dev part time about ~$6k&#x2F;mo. My other expenses to keep it up and running are only ~$2k&#x2F;mo. That leaves quite a bit leftover and I don’t know what I’m supposed to do with it. I have no desire to expand the operation for many reasons. I’m perfectly happy working on it full time myself and don’t want to change anything. My question is what am I supposed to do with that profit? Claim it all myself as income? Let it accumulate in the business account? The company is formed as an LLC and I am based in the US, for reference.</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>Serenacula</author><text>I don&#x27;t think the spirit of the question was &quot;how do I avoid paying taxes&quot;, but more along the lines of &quot;what the hell do I do with all this money I don&#x27;t need?&quot;.<p>I would suggest giving it to charity, OP. My mother always said even poor folks should be giving at least 15% of their income to charity, but if you have more than you need, no reason not to increase that number.</text></item><item><author>meetingthrower</author><text>If you have it as an LLC, any profits will pass through to you through your schedule C, and you will be taxed at regular income tax rates. Your accountant will help. But tax optimization can REALLY matter, and as a small business you have massive opportunities to very legally and ethically optimize your business and tax.<p>Top of mind, what you should really consider is:
a) setting up a 401K under the business to shelter some of the income tax free (you can also contribute a significant portion of profit tax free.) Vanguard and Fidelity have no cost single member LLC 401ks that are super simple to set up.<p>b) thinking of your strategy to invest in this business, or grow another one. Because any expenses are deductible, this is like having ~30% off any business investments courtesy of the federal government.<p>c) relative to a) above, is if you have a spouse, employ him &#x2F; her in the business to the extent that you maximize their 401k contribution. (I did this for my spouse and even at $18K a year compounding the 401k has $300K bucks in it!) Again, a small business accountant will be super familiar with how this works.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pkrotich</author><text>It was obvious OP didn&#x27;t know simple facts about taxes and income... based on his&#x2F;her post. Getting that right is more important for the longterm and I think the parent was on point.</text></comment> | <story><title>Ask HN: How do I manage the profit of a successful website?</title><text>Some time ago, I started a subscription-based website that has slowly gained momentum and revenue. Currently, my monthly recurring revenue from this site is about $45k USD per month. I’m taking ~$14k&#x2F;mo salary (which is far more than enough for my needs) and I’m paying one other dev part time about ~$6k&#x2F;mo. My other expenses to keep it up and running are only ~$2k&#x2F;mo. That leaves quite a bit leftover and I don’t know what I’m supposed to do with it. I have no desire to expand the operation for many reasons. I’m perfectly happy working on it full time myself and don’t want to change anything. My question is what am I supposed to do with that profit? Claim it all myself as income? Let it accumulate in the business account? The company is formed as an LLC and I am based in the US, for reference.</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>Serenacula</author><text>I don&#x27;t think the spirit of the question was &quot;how do I avoid paying taxes&quot;, but more along the lines of &quot;what the hell do I do with all this money I don&#x27;t need?&quot;.<p>I would suggest giving it to charity, OP. My mother always said even poor folks should be giving at least 15% of their income to charity, but if you have more than you need, no reason not to increase that number.</text></item><item><author>meetingthrower</author><text>If you have it as an LLC, any profits will pass through to you through your schedule C, and you will be taxed at regular income tax rates. Your accountant will help. But tax optimization can REALLY matter, and as a small business you have massive opportunities to very legally and ethically optimize your business and tax.<p>Top of mind, what you should really consider is:
a) setting up a 401K under the business to shelter some of the income tax free (you can also contribute a significant portion of profit tax free.) Vanguard and Fidelity have no cost single member LLC 401ks that are super simple to set up.<p>b) thinking of your strategy to invest in this business, or grow another one. Because any expenses are deductible, this is like having ~30% off any business investments courtesy of the federal government.<p>c) relative to a) above, is if you have a spouse, employ him &#x2F; her in the business to the extent that you maximize their 401k contribution. (I did this for my spouse and even at $18K a year compounding the 401k has $300K bucks in it!) Again, a small business accountant will be super familiar with how this works.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Rastonbury</author><text>Because money is fungible, you can pay more tax or you can give more to charity. The answer is very pertinent because of this</text></comment> |
30,179,085 | 30,178,092 | 1 | 3 | 30,177,033 | train | <story><title>A year on, GameStop champion Roaring Kitty is quiet, yet much richer</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/technology/year-gamestop-champion-roaring-kitty-is-quiet-yet-much-richer-2022-02-02/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jimmydorry</author><text>It really lifts the veil on how little research goes into some of these articles when you see the reporting on a topic you have closely followed.<p>&gt;The stock, which peaked at $482.95 a share when hedge funds that had shorted GameStop were forced to buy at any price, has come back to earth. But it is still at about $112 a share, compared to less than $20 on Jan. 1, 2021.<p>This is a pretty basic error to make when the SEC investigated and even put out a report showing that the majority of that price movement was from non-short sellers (e.g. retail) and that as a proportion of volume, barely any of it was due to short sellers closing their positions.<p>The article also completely glossed over the fact that DFV was made fun of and derrided for taking such a large risk in GME. Especially when it was down (for a majority of the time since he started posting that position, if I recall corrected). It instead portrays him as making &quot;consistent returns&quot; and starting a movement to influence the price.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.sec.gov&#x2F;files&#x2F;staff-report-equity-options-market-struction-conditions-early-2021.pdf" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.sec.gov&#x2F;files&#x2F;staff-report-equity-options-market...</a> Page 28 if you want a nice graph to take a glance at.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>shawabawa3</author><text>&gt; the SEC investigated and even put out a report showing that the majority of that price movement was from non-short sellers (e.g. retail) and that as a proportion of volume, barely any of it was due to short sellers closing their positions.<p>That&#x27;s talking about the longer lasting effects (i.e. the reason GME stayed at $100+)<p>but from p26:<p>&gt; particularly during the earlier rise from January 22 to 27 the price of GME rose as the short interest decreased. Staff also observed discrete periods of sharp price increases during which accounts held by firms known to the staff to be covering short interest in GME were actively buying large volumes of GME shares, in some cases accounting for very significant portions of the net buying pressure during a period<p>The run up to $500 was almost certainly a short squeeze</text></comment> | <story><title>A year on, GameStop champion Roaring Kitty is quiet, yet much richer</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/technology/year-gamestop-champion-roaring-kitty-is-quiet-yet-much-richer-2022-02-02/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jimmydorry</author><text>It really lifts the veil on how little research goes into some of these articles when you see the reporting on a topic you have closely followed.<p>&gt;The stock, which peaked at $482.95 a share when hedge funds that had shorted GameStop were forced to buy at any price, has come back to earth. But it is still at about $112 a share, compared to less than $20 on Jan. 1, 2021.<p>This is a pretty basic error to make when the SEC investigated and even put out a report showing that the majority of that price movement was from non-short sellers (e.g. retail) and that as a proportion of volume, barely any of it was due to short sellers closing their positions.<p>The article also completely glossed over the fact that DFV was made fun of and derrided for taking such a large risk in GME. Especially when it was down (for a majority of the time since he started posting that position, if I recall corrected). It instead portrays him as making &quot;consistent returns&quot; and starting a movement to influence the price.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.sec.gov&#x2F;files&#x2F;staff-report-equity-options-market-struction-conditions-early-2021.pdf" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.sec.gov&#x2F;files&#x2F;staff-report-equity-options-market...</a> Page 28 if you want a nice graph to take a glance at.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bigram</author><text>It&#x27;s not clear to me what you think the error is. That the majority of the price action was caused by retail and not short sellers covering their position doesn&#x27;t negate the fact that shorts were forced to cover their positions and did so. The language and charts in the SEC report show as much.</text></comment> |
24,066,064 | 24,065,054 | 1 | 3 | 24,061,268 | train | <story><title>Latest Firefox rolls out Enhanced Tracking Protection 2.0</title><url>https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2020/08/04/latest-firefox-rolls-out-enhanced-tracking-protection-2-0-blocking-redirect-trackers-by-default/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>stiray</author><text>Protip #2, for what cant be traced using conventional methods, they will use fingerprinting and those add-ons take care about most common methods of fingerprinting - canvas, webgl, fonts and audio:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;addons.mozilla.org&#x2F;en-US&#x2F;firefox&#x2F;addon&#x2F;canvas-fingerprint-defender" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;addons.mozilla.org&#x2F;en-US&#x2F;firefox&#x2F;addon&#x2F;canvas-finger...</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;addons.mozilla.org&#x2F;en-US&#x2F;firefox&#x2F;addon&#x2F;webgl-fingerprint-defender" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;addons.mozilla.org&#x2F;en-US&#x2F;firefox&#x2F;addon&#x2F;webgl-fingerp...</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;addons.mozilla.org&#x2F;en-US&#x2F;firefox&#x2F;addon&#x2F;font-fingerprint-defender" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;addons.mozilla.org&#x2F;en-US&#x2F;firefox&#x2F;addon&#x2F;font-fingerpr...</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;addons.mozilla.org&#x2F;en-US&#x2F;firefox&#x2F;addon&#x2F;audioctx-fingerprint-defender" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;addons.mozilla.org&#x2F;en-US&#x2F;firefox&#x2F;addon&#x2F;audioctx-fing...</a><p>I would really love to have more addins like this, doing one thing and doing it good. They will kill fingerprinting and as a proof, I was downvoted the next moment i posted the links in another post but I want you to know there is a way out.</text></item><item><author>typon</author><text>My friend who works in an adtech company:<p>&quot;Protip: Use Firefox instead of Chrome. We get very little data from Firefox users&quot;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>surround</author><text>While these addons may help against help prevent <i>some</i> fingerprinting attempts, they do not adequately reduce the fingerprint to be non-unique. They certainly won’t hurt, though (many websites just take a hash of the canvas).<p>It’s very difficult to have a non-unique fingerprint. Your browser would have to be the exactly the same as a bunch of other people. At the moment (AFAIK), this is only possible with Tor (all Tor users have the same browser fingerprint.)<p>You don’t have to worry about this too much, though. Firefox and uBlock Origin blacklist many fingerprinting scripts.</text></comment> | <story><title>Latest Firefox rolls out Enhanced Tracking Protection 2.0</title><url>https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2020/08/04/latest-firefox-rolls-out-enhanced-tracking-protection-2-0-blocking-redirect-trackers-by-default/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>stiray</author><text>Protip #2, for what cant be traced using conventional methods, they will use fingerprinting and those add-ons take care about most common methods of fingerprinting - canvas, webgl, fonts and audio:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;addons.mozilla.org&#x2F;en-US&#x2F;firefox&#x2F;addon&#x2F;canvas-fingerprint-defender" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;addons.mozilla.org&#x2F;en-US&#x2F;firefox&#x2F;addon&#x2F;canvas-finger...</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;addons.mozilla.org&#x2F;en-US&#x2F;firefox&#x2F;addon&#x2F;webgl-fingerprint-defender" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;addons.mozilla.org&#x2F;en-US&#x2F;firefox&#x2F;addon&#x2F;webgl-fingerp...</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;addons.mozilla.org&#x2F;en-US&#x2F;firefox&#x2F;addon&#x2F;font-fingerprint-defender" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;addons.mozilla.org&#x2F;en-US&#x2F;firefox&#x2F;addon&#x2F;font-fingerpr...</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;addons.mozilla.org&#x2F;en-US&#x2F;firefox&#x2F;addon&#x2F;audioctx-fingerprint-defender" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;addons.mozilla.org&#x2F;en-US&#x2F;firefox&#x2F;addon&#x2F;audioctx-fing...</a><p>I would really love to have more addins like this, doing one thing and doing it good. They will kill fingerprinting and as a proof, I was downvoted the next moment i posted the links in another post but I want you to know there is a way out.</text></item><item><author>typon</author><text>My friend who works in an adtech company:<p>&quot;Protip: Use Firefox instead of Chrome. We get very little data from Firefox users&quot;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>xvector</author><text>Firefox already includes many of these, some of those plugins are redundant or unnecessary.</text></comment> |
9,654,979 | 9,654,611 | 1 | 3 | 9,654,091 | train | <story><title>Show HN: Differential Equations Explained</title><url>http://lewis500.github.io/diffeq/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>andrepd</author><text>The intention is good, but without meaning to be overly negative, this is not very well written at all. There is imprecise and needlessly confusing and unclear phrasing (&quot;To visualize derivatives, we can draw a right triangle whose hypoteneuse [sic] is tangent to a function. If the triangle&#x27;s width is , then its height is the derivative.&quot; is the most confusing and unintuitive way to visualize derivatives I can think of), a poor sequence of examples for someone who is not familiar with ODEs, plenty of things left unexplained (why do I solve \dot{y} = \cos(t) by integrating?) not to mention technical problems with hovering the graphs (at least in FF). It&#x27;s also way, <i>way</i> too short. You simply cannot go from &quot;an ODE is like an equation with functions and derivatives&quot; to &quot;let&#x27;s solve one&quot; in 5 sentences.<p>Honestly, reading the Wikipedia page would be more beneficial for someone who wants to learn ODEs. Like I said the intention is good but I would suggest throwing everything but the pictures away and starting from scratch, preferably with a good textbook by your side to help you not only with facts, but more importantly with the pedagogic aspect.</text></comment> | <story><title>Show HN: Differential Equations Explained</title><url>http://lewis500.github.io/diffeq/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>stickperson</author><text>Cool idea, and the site looks nice. That being said, I was lost by the end of the first section.</text></comment> |
26,818,310 | 26,817,074 | 1 | 2 | 26,816,444 | train | <story><title>Psilocybin 'promising' for depression</title><url>https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-56745139</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>internetslave</author><text>I know a lot of people whose minds were ruined by psychedelics. It’s something you will see when you spend time in those communities. It doesn’t happen to everyone, but it’s common.</text></item><item><author>simonswords82</author><text>I have a friend who has experienced magic mushrooms recreationally about half a dozen times in her 20s. After each trip she reported feeling clear headed and more mindful - she described it as though her mind&#x27;s harddrive had been defragmented.<p>Fast forward 10 years and that same friend felt low during lockdown over the past 12 months. After reading up online she decided to try microdosing mushrooms rather than the mainstream route her doctor would prescribe - anti depressants.<p>She has been taking a tiny dose every other day and feels immeasurably better. More optimistic about the future. More energy. More focus. Less sad.<p>To say it&#x27;s frustrating to read these official press releases about the positive impact of mushrooms nearly 20 years after she discovered them for the first time is the understatement of a lifetime.<p>I&#x27;m convinced we&#x27;ll look back at this era as a form of prohibition on drugs that governments threw down as a wide blanket and ultimately society was worse off for.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pbadenski</author><text>This type of empty fear mongering comment is unhelpful at best. It&#x27;s a McDonalds of a comment. What&#x27;s a lot of people? Why are psychedelics so special compared to anything else (sugar, Facebook, gambling). &quot;It doesn&#x27;t happen to everyone, but it&#x27;s common&quot; - what does this even mean? &quot;Common&quot; based on what criterion? How should our behaviour as a society change based on your comment?</text></comment> | <story><title>Psilocybin 'promising' for depression</title><url>https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-56745139</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>internetslave</author><text>I know a lot of people whose minds were ruined by psychedelics. It’s something you will see when you spend time in those communities. It doesn’t happen to everyone, but it’s common.</text></item><item><author>simonswords82</author><text>I have a friend who has experienced magic mushrooms recreationally about half a dozen times in her 20s. After each trip she reported feeling clear headed and more mindful - she described it as though her mind&#x27;s harddrive had been defragmented.<p>Fast forward 10 years and that same friend felt low during lockdown over the past 12 months. After reading up online she decided to try microdosing mushrooms rather than the mainstream route her doctor would prescribe - anti depressants.<p>She has been taking a tiny dose every other day and feels immeasurably better. More optimistic about the future. More energy. More focus. Less sad.<p>To say it&#x27;s frustrating to read these official press releases about the positive impact of mushrooms nearly 20 years after she discovered them for the first time is the understatement of a lifetime.<p>I&#x27;m convinced we&#x27;ll look back at this era as a form of prohibition on drugs that governments threw down as a wide blanket and ultimately society was worse off for.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>hervature</author><text>This is why research is needed. My gut feeling is that the root cause is overdosing. Just search &quot;How often can I do shrooms&quot; on Quora and you get the gamut from &quot;1 or 2 times per year&quot;, to &quot;microdosing everyday, macrodose every weekend, and hero dose every month&quot;.</text></comment> |
35,484,470 | 35,480,946 | 1 | 3 | 35,478,240 | train | <story><title>NZ’s biggest data breach shows retention is the sleeping giant of data security</title><url>https://www.privacy.org.nz/publications/statements-media-releases/new-zealands-biggest-data-breach-shows-retention-is-the-sleeping-giant-of-data-security/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>xp84</author><text>Interesting to see how this plays out in a different jurisdiction to mine. Here in the US, it seems like as long as penalties remain very light, PII retention and security is not taken very seriously.<p>Equifax&#x27;s breach in 2017 was essentially every valuable piece of PII they had, on more than half the households in America, and they settled for $300 million in a civil suit. Their net income (after all expenses) every year is in the $500-700 million range.<p>They should have been fined directly, an amount intentionally set to force complete liquidation, shareholders should have been completely wiped out, and all proceeds from the liquidation after court costs should have been distributed to every victim of the breach.<p>If that was the case, 100% of US companies would now treat PII with the respect it deserves. As it stands, nah, it&#x27;s nbd here.</text></comment> | <story><title>NZ’s biggest data breach shows retention is the sleeping giant of data security</title><url>https://www.privacy.org.nz/publications/statements-media-releases/new-zealands-biggest-data-breach-shows-retention-is-the-sleeping-giant-of-data-security/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>boredumb</author><text>It&#x27;s almost amusing to watch how companies and consultants approach personally identifiable information in 2023 compared to just a few years earlier. I&#x27;ve been paid a lot of money to be able to get peoples data to essentially be able to self destruct and make sure before it does that it&#x27;s transported and stored securely.<p>If I was to walk into an ad tech space in 2016 and tell people about my new found talent of scheduling data scrambling jobs against PII and rambling on about migrating all user data to be encrypted at rest they would have called the police.</text></comment> |
8,558,421 | 8,557,957 | 1 | 2 | 8,555,398 | train | <story><title>2015 Tesla Model S P85D First Test</title><url>http://www.motortrend.com/roadtests/alternative/1411_2015_tesla_model_s_p85d_first_test/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>slipangel</author><text>As an auto enthusiast, I generally feel &quot;yucky&quot; after surveying the comments and feedback following a Tesla press release. C&amp;D and MotorTrend generally bias hard for anything American made, which is fine and par for the course. My discomfort comes from the feeling that journalists are making the Model S out to be a competitive alternative to a high performance automobile, which it is not.<p>A Model S can&#x27;t make a single lap in anger around Mazda Raceway without the software putting it in limp mode to prevent heat build up from causing permanent damage. A half-day jaunt through twisty mountain roads is absolutely out of the question. It is a car that can drag race from a stop, hit a freeway on-ramp with some gusto, and give you carbon-free credentials the rest of the time.<p>No one shopping for an M3, 911, or AMG product who actually intends to use them for their performance is cross-shopping a Model S as a like-for-like option, but the press consistently paints the picture that Tesla is a gas-free alternative or even superior to current offerings. I don&#x27;t intend to degrade what it is, because it is a marvel of modern business, politics, and a little engineering that this car exists. I simply feel gross when I see how much hype puts it up for the Model S being something it isn&#x27;t.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>icandownvote</author><text>Drive one. Rent&#x2F;borrow one for a day: it&#x27;s possible and doable. Take it to a mountain road, take corners faster than you should, then report back.<p>I owned and tracked E46 M and E37 M Roadster. Sold the last one when I got my Model S. Now I will never go back to an Internal Combustion Engine. Yes, the Model S is not an M3 and won&#x27;t last through a lap on any decent raceway. But it&#x27;s not the goal. It&#x27;s beyond adequate for everyday driving AND for fun through the mountain curves. It&#x27;s got impeccably precise throttle response, unbelievable lateral grip and no body roll due to incredibly low center of gravity. The fact that it&#x27;s fully charged every morning for nearly free, that the juice is free in the superchargers and that it&#x27;s cargo volume and crash safety are out of its class, is just icing on top. The point is: for ALL uses (but tracking) this $70-120K car is better than anything in the $100-300K category.<p>My friends own 997 4S, E93 M, Viper, E39 M, F10 M, S6 and whatever the GTR Nizmo is (all US spec). Some of them are tracked, some are not. Half of them have deposits down for a Model S.<p>Another point: Juan Pablo Montoya owns one and uses it as his daily driver.</text></comment> | <story><title>2015 Tesla Model S P85D First Test</title><url>http://www.motortrend.com/roadtests/alternative/1411_2015_tesla_model_s_p85d_first_test/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>slipangel</author><text>As an auto enthusiast, I generally feel &quot;yucky&quot; after surveying the comments and feedback following a Tesla press release. C&amp;D and MotorTrend generally bias hard for anything American made, which is fine and par for the course. My discomfort comes from the feeling that journalists are making the Model S out to be a competitive alternative to a high performance automobile, which it is not.<p>A Model S can&#x27;t make a single lap in anger around Mazda Raceway without the software putting it in limp mode to prevent heat build up from causing permanent damage. A half-day jaunt through twisty mountain roads is absolutely out of the question. It is a car that can drag race from a stop, hit a freeway on-ramp with some gusto, and give you carbon-free credentials the rest of the time.<p>No one shopping for an M3, 911, or AMG product who actually intends to use them for their performance is cross-shopping a Model S as a like-for-like option, but the press consistently paints the picture that Tesla is a gas-free alternative or even superior to current offerings. I don&#x27;t intend to degrade what it is, because it is a marvel of modern business, politics, and a little engineering that this car exists. I simply feel gross when I see how much hype puts it up for the Model S being something it isn&#x27;t.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mikestew</author><text>&gt; No one shopping for an M3, 911, or AMG product who actually intends to use them for their performance<p>Yeah, but how many of those folks exist? I can&#x27;t count the number of times I&#x27;m stuck behind an M3, 911, or AMG on the uphill chicane entrance ramp I frequent in my <i>Nissan Leaf</i> wishing Mr. SlowPoke in his $80K car would give it some stick. Oh, they&#x27;re trying as evidenced by them gunning it up the straight part, but as soon as that ramp goes anywhere but straight they&#x27;re testing the throttle-lift oversteer. (The ramp goes to the Microsoft campus, so I get to test this theory frequently.)<p>People more often than not buy a car because of the badge on the back end, not because they&#x27;re doing track days. They&#x27;ll punch it in a straight line from a stoplight and that&#x27;s about the extent of their performance testing. For that use case, the Tesla does just fine.</text></comment> |
6,010,694 | 6,010,395 | 1 | 3 | 6,007,881 | train | <story><title>What Python developers need to know before migrating to Go</title><url>http://blog.repustate.com/migrating-code-from-python-to-golang-what-you-need-to-know/2013/04/23/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>n1ghtm4n</author><text>Some thoughts after spending ~100 hours with Go.<p>- Function overloading is a major convenience that you will miss. There are differently named versions of every function and you will call the wrong version with the wrong arguments <i>all the time</i>. The number of functions in the standard library could be reduced by at least 1&#x2F;4 if they&#x27;d got this right. The official FAQ (<a href="http://golang.org/doc/faq#overloading" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;golang.org&#x2F;doc&#x2F;faq#overloading</a>) explains that leaving out overloading is &quot;simpler&quot;, meaning <i>simpler for them</i>.<p>- Default parameters are a major convenience that you will miss. Using strings.Replace() to remove some chars from a string? Don&#x27;t forget to pass the -1 at the end, asshole! The -1 says don&#x27;t put a limit on the number of replacements. In Python there would be a max=None default parameter and this would never bite anyone.<p>- No named arguments, because fuck readability.<p>- Forcing me to handle errors is great. Having 20 different ways to do it is not great. Examples: fmt.Errorf(), fmt.Fprintf(os.Stderr), errors.New(), log.Fatal(), log.Fatalf(), log.Fatalln(), panic&#x2F;recover...<p>- Using &amp;&amp; and || for logical operators in this day and age is just ridiculous. Why do people keep inventing programming languages as if Python doesn&#x27;t exist?<p>- Don&#x27;t think that just because the Unicode guys invented Go that Unicode is going to be easy. Their solution is not to create an airtight abstraction layer between chars (or &quot;runes&quot; WTF?) and integers. Their solution is to provide almost no abstraction and force you to deal with the inherent integer-ness of all characters. Example:<p>In Python:<p><pre><code> len(&quot;нєℓℓσ&quot;) # 5, because there are 5 chars</code></pre>
In Go:<p><pre><code> len(&quot;нєℓℓσ&quot;) &#x2F;&#x2F; 12, because there are 12 bytes
utf8.RuneCountInString(&quot;нєℓℓσ&quot;) &#x2F;&#x2F; 5, plz kill me i am an abomination
</code></pre>
tl;dr If you&#x27;re inventing a programming language for human beings (not UNIX gods), try it out on a group of smart high school students first. It will be a humbling experience.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>derefr</author><text>&gt; between chars (or &quot;runes&quot; WTF?) and integers.<p>&quot;Runes&quot; were the original name, as implemented in Plan 9 by the same folks, for what the standards committee later decided to call the relatively blaze term &quot;Unicode codepoints&quot;--and which are not quite the same thing as characters.<p>(In fact, I would say that the notion of a Unicode &quot;character&quot; is ambiguous to the point of uselessness--there are <i>glyphs</i> composed from several codepoints (base glyph + combining accents), which should be treated as one &quot;character&quot;; there are <i>ligatures</i> that hold single codepoints, but which semantically are <i>multiple</i> &quot;characters&quot;; there are stacking languages where one &quot;character&quot;, representing a whole word, will be composed together from several codepoint &quot;radicals&quot;; while in other ideographic languages, each pre-composed idea-part is its own &quot;character&quot; and has its own codepoint; and so forth.)</text></comment> | <story><title>What Python developers need to know before migrating to Go</title><url>http://blog.repustate.com/migrating-code-from-python-to-golang-what-you-need-to-know/2013/04/23/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>n1ghtm4n</author><text>Some thoughts after spending ~100 hours with Go.<p>- Function overloading is a major convenience that you will miss. There are differently named versions of every function and you will call the wrong version with the wrong arguments <i>all the time</i>. The number of functions in the standard library could be reduced by at least 1&#x2F;4 if they&#x27;d got this right. The official FAQ (<a href="http://golang.org/doc/faq#overloading" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;golang.org&#x2F;doc&#x2F;faq#overloading</a>) explains that leaving out overloading is &quot;simpler&quot;, meaning <i>simpler for them</i>.<p>- Default parameters are a major convenience that you will miss. Using strings.Replace() to remove some chars from a string? Don&#x27;t forget to pass the -1 at the end, asshole! The -1 says don&#x27;t put a limit on the number of replacements. In Python there would be a max=None default parameter and this would never bite anyone.<p>- No named arguments, because fuck readability.<p>- Forcing me to handle errors is great. Having 20 different ways to do it is not great. Examples: fmt.Errorf(), fmt.Fprintf(os.Stderr), errors.New(), log.Fatal(), log.Fatalf(), log.Fatalln(), panic&#x2F;recover...<p>- Using &amp;&amp; and || for logical operators in this day and age is just ridiculous. Why do people keep inventing programming languages as if Python doesn&#x27;t exist?<p>- Don&#x27;t think that just because the Unicode guys invented Go that Unicode is going to be easy. Their solution is not to create an airtight abstraction layer between chars (or &quot;runes&quot; WTF?) and integers. Their solution is to provide almost no abstraction and force you to deal with the inherent integer-ness of all characters. Example:<p>In Python:<p><pre><code> len(&quot;нєℓℓσ&quot;) # 5, because there are 5 chars</code></pre>
In Go:<p><pre><code> len(&quot;нєℓℓσ&quot;) &#x2F;&#x2F; 12, because there are 12 bytes
utf8.RuneCountInString(&quot;нєℓℓσ&quot;) &#x2F;&#x2F; 5, plz kill me i am an abomination
</code></pre>
tl;dr If you&#x27;re inventing a programming language for human beings (not UNIX gods), try it out on a group of smart high school students first. It will be a humbling experience.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>callenish</author><text>&gt; In Go:<p><pre><code> len(&quot;нєℓℓσ&quot;) &#x2F;&#x2F; 12, because there are 12 bytes
utf8.RuneCountInString(&quot;нєℓℓσ&quot;) &#x2F;&#x2F; 5, plz kill me i am an abomination
</code></pre>
I&#x27;m not sure I understand your objection. Bytes and UTF8 characters are different things, and you can&#x27;t abstract away the difference. There are also times, perhaps the majority of times, when you will need the byte count of a UTF8 string. That means you need at least two different length functions for strings and they need different names.<p>Shouldn&#x27;t UTF8-specific things live in the utf8 namespace? Some programs won&#x27;t need any string handling, after all, and it would be a waste to include code they never used.<p>Assuming you can allow the utf8 namespace as sensible, would you feel better if there was a RuneLen() function aliased to RuneCountInString()?<p>If you are that upset about it, then my suggestion is to explain your rationale and submit a patch[1] to provide the alias. It&#x27;s not like it would be hard to code. Perhaps you might convince people and get it in the next release.<p>[1] <a href="http://golang.org/doc/contribute.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;golang.org&#x2F;doc&#x2F;contribute.html</a></text></comment> |
6,265,216 | 6,264,407 | 1 | 3 | 6,263,846 | train | <story><title>NSA paid millions to cover Prism compliance costs for tech companies</title><url>http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/aug/23/nsa-prism-costs-tech-companies-paid</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>sage_joch</author><text>In related news, DuckDuckGo has seen a huge spike in traffic (<a href="https://duckduckgo.com/traffic.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;duckduckgo.com&#x2F;traffic.html</a>). Even if the NSA has probably circumvented DDG&#x27;s privacy features, it&#x27;s still worth using them for <i>trying</i> to preserve user privacy. And in my experience, DDG&#x27;s search results have improved drastically, to the point that I very rarely have to resort to Google.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mike-cardwell</author><text>I wonder what Gabriel Weinberg would do if the NSA told him to hand over his SSL keys so they could view all his traffic. Would he shut down like Lavabit did? Would be interesting to get a statement out of him about this.</text></comment> | <story><title>NSA paid millions to cover Prism compliance costs for tech companies</title><url>http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/aug/23/nsa-prism-costs-tech-companies-paid</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>sage_joch</author><text>In related news, DuckDuckGo has seen a huge spike in traffic (<a href="https://duckduckgo.com/traffic.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;duckduckgo.com&#x2F;traffic.html</a>). Even if the NSA has probably circumvented DDG&#x27;s privacy features, it&#x27;s still worth using them for <i>trying</i> to preserve user privacy. And in my experience, DDG&#x27;s search results have improved drastically, to the point that I very rarely have to resort to Google.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>lucian1900</author><text>Much of DDG&#x27;s privacy stems from not having any user data to store in the first place. While that can be circumvented to some extent, it&#x27;s hard to do so without outwardly visible consequences.</text></comment> |
5,344,468 | 5,344,373 | 1 | 2 | 5,343,402 | train | <story><title>Flat UI, mirrored</title><url>https://github.com/iurevych/Flat-UI</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ameen</author><text>This whole episode has underlined a few major differences among developers and (current) designers. Developers are more open, contribute code and discuss about bettering each other.<p>While Designers seem secretive, ego-filled and seeking pointless exclusivity.<p>Eg: Developers: HackerNews / Github, etc
Designers: DesignerNews / Dribble, Forrst, etc.<p>Any designer that has been open about his work and process has become a legend - Dieter Rams, Johnathan Ive, etc.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bpatrianakos</author><text>I think that's too broad of a generalization. I happen to walk the line between designer and developer and I know a lot of my fellow designers are very open about their process and work. Designers often share their tools and techniques openly. See the multitude of CSS frameworks, free fonts, PSDs, etc. I think the notion that they're more secretive less open comes from these cases where a designer <i>does</i> make a stink about "theft", "copying", or whatever the terms they use may be. The thing about that is, well, first design is a very personal thing. Yes, there are rules and best practices, tools, and techniques that apply universally but at the same time good design also carries with it a piece of the designer. We take our designs personally. It's very hard to release an open source piece of design work because you need to make it in such a way that it can be effectively customized or used in such a way that the larger context makes it a unique work unless of course it's a rare case of the designer not caring if everyone in the world uses the design verbatim (see: Wordpress themes).<p>I know for me, personally, I've put many design projects on GitHub - from the mockups to assets to the code to put a site together - knowing there's a chance someone will use it verbatim but hoping it gets used as a jumping off point or customized to make it someone else's.<p>With design, you can see when someone has ripped you off very obviously most of the time. You can't own design elements of course but its a very subjective thing that you just know when you see it. Developers and designers also think very differently in some areas. With developers everything is logical and black and white. With designers, much of their work is vague, fluid, and incredibly subjective. Emotion plays a role in the success of design often times whereas a developer's code will be just as useful and functional no matter how anyone <i>feels</i> about it. As a developer, when I open source something, I know that I can't own the concept of a loop or a database query or whatever. What makes my code unique is the way in which I solve my problem and how it solves a problem that other code has not solved. I'd be happy if someone forked my code, made it better, and started a new project from it that became popular. However I'd be upset if someone took my design, added on to it, and passed it off as their own. The difference? On the surface there shouldn't be one. But beyond the surface it's all about the piece of yourself you put into design work.<p>Hopefully this makes sense and doesn't just sound like rambling. I'm sure I may need to clarify a few things I said so please ask if I said something vague.</text></comment> | <story><title>Flat UI, mirrored</title><url>https://github.com/iurevych/Flat-UI</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ameen</author><text>This whole episode has underlined a few major differences among developers and (current) designers. Developers are more open, contribute code and discuss about bettering each other.<p>While Designers seem secretive, ego-filled and seeking pointless exclusivity.<p>Eg: Developers: HackerNews / Github, etc
Designers: DesignerNews / Dribble, Forrst, etc.<p>Any designer that has been open about his work and process has become a legend - Dieter Rams, Johnathan Ive, etc.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mnicole</author><text>I think that this is part of a bigger problem; a lot of people find design to be "easy" in that it's subjective - Client A doesn't like your work but Client B does. Can't even get a job in the field? No worries, people flock to 99Designs and Fiverr for cheap, tacky work that validates the crummy designer. Working for someone with no morals? They'll show you some styles they like and tell you they want it "exactly" like that, and if you want a paycheck, you'll do it and <i>maybe</i> you'll learn something about the technique that you can translate into more original works. Some people just honestly don't think they'll ever be caught or that they have a right to be "heavily-inspired" because "you don't <i>own</i> that".<p><a href="http://youthoughtwewouldntnotice.com/blog3/" rel="nofollow">http://youthoughtwewouldntnotice.com/blog3/</a> has been around for awhile, but now with Pinterest, Dribbble and other resources, it's becoming a lot more common to find the people who are making it difficult for designers to feel like they can truly stand out.<p>Outside of flat copying/pasting code, it takes a little more to get it to be functional. By nature, lots of developers are working in teams where collaboration/pair programming is promoted to begin with. You work on projects where it is essential to team up to figure out what's going on and what could make it better. In order to ensure the project continues to move forward and work, there needs to be a method to the madness that everyone understands. At the agencies I've worked at, while everyone was a designer, we all had our specialties and we didn't really work together much outside of talking about general branding guidelines/techniques, etc.<p>In design, all it takes is having the same software to mimic something. So when someone that is actually doing honest-to-goodness original, clever stuff gets jacked by the hacks-at-large, it is easy to get defensive and want to lock it down, particularly when you make your livelihood getting clients that like your style and it is suddenly watered down by clones and you're not getting paid to do what you made popular anymore. On Dribbble, I've seen it go so far down the hole that people have both claimed the original artist was the hack or said "Really reminds me of [hack]'s work.." on someone's copy of a copy.</text></comment> |
24,397,323 | 24,395,145 | 1 | 3 | 24,394,259 | train | <story><title>Noita – roguelite where every pixel is simulated</title><url>https://noitagame.com/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>omnibrain</author><text>Reminds me of the game Clonk, a german Indie game before there even was the term &quot;Indie game&quot;. It also had a pixel based engine, explosions, liquid etc. You could dig tunnels, mine for ressources and have you (or your enemies) tunnels flodded by rain or oil (which in turn could be ignited).<p>Sadly the developers never had a real breaktrhrough and stopped working on new versions some time before the whole indie game craze (Minecraft, Terraria, Steam Greenlight, etc.) started.<p>If you want to have a look: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;clonk.de&#x2F;?lng=en" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;clonk.de&#x2F;?lng=en</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Noita – roguelite where every pixel is simulated</title><url>https://noitagame.com/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>bexsella</author><text>When the trailers to this came out, I was impressed, but remembered that I&#x27;d played a small game, maybe even a prototype, of similar tech about a decade beforehand called Bloody Zombies[1] by Petri Purho. Turns out, Nolla Games has Petri on the team, and they must&#x27;ve been as impressed by Bloody Zombies as I was at the time.<p>[1]<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.kloonigames.com&#x2F;blog&#x2F;games&#x2F;bloody" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.kloonigames.com&#x2F;blog&#x2F;games&#x2F;bloody</a></text></comment> |
24,011,207 | 24,011,227 | 1 | 3 | 24,007,278 | train | <story><title>A College Degree Is No Guarantee of a Good Life</title><url>https://www.theatlantic.com/family/archive/2020/07/will-going-college-make-you-happier/613729/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bhupy</author><text>Making education debts dischargeable in bankruptcy sounds good in theory, but against what collateral do you take out a college loan? Most bankruptcy includes collateral liquidation. What&#x27;s to stop someone from obtaining a useless degree that doesn&#x27;t contribute to the nation&#x27;s economy, and then discharges the debt in bankruptcy?<p>I think a big part of the problem is that debt is so readily issued for degrees that overwhelmingly leave the recipient incapable of providing for society in gainful ways.</text></item><item><author>csharptwdec19</author><text>I think you covered part of the problem in the second half of your statement.<p>In the US, part of the problem is that by making education debts non-dischargable in bankruptcy, and by the aforementioned proliferation of degrees that may qualify as &#x27;nice to have&#x27; rather than &#x27;increase earning potential&#x27;.<p>The end result is a lot of people who got a college degree that doesn&#x27;t really pay for itself, and instead leads to 20+ years of debt, or 10 years of indentured servitude to a non-profit.</text></item><item><author>JumpCrisscross</author><text>&gt; <i>Far from fixing inequality</i><p>Was this the purpose? I thought it was to raise living standards by improving productivity. By and large, broader education has been successful at that. (It went off the deep end, in recent years, with the proliferation of bullshit degrees.)</text></item><item><author>omginternets</author><text>I barely skimmed the article, but I don&#x27;t find this surprising for a few reasons (some of which have been mentioned elsewhere in the comments):<p>- &quot;University degree&quot; is a heterogeneous thing. While there is such thing as non-economic value, the strictly <i>economic</i> value of a college education tends to cluster around a small subset of degrees.<p>- Many countries have enacted policies to increase proportion of people who get degrees. Far from fixing inequality, this has instead diluted the value of university degrees.<p>- All universities are not created equal. While it is possible (and even common) for employers to pay too much attention to the reputation of the school, it is also quite common for students to over-estimate the value of a no-name institution. I&#x27;ve found this to be moreso the case in the two European countries I&#x27;ve lived in for an extended period of time (France &amp; England).<p>- The exorbitant debt incurred by university tuition in some countries (which need not be named, I think) means the ROI on the university degree has to also be exorbitant.<p>Have I missed anything?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>simplify</author><text>&gt; What&#x27;s to stop someone from obtaining a useless degree that doesn&#x27;t contribute to the nation&#x27;s economy, and then discharges the debt in bankruptcy?<p>Nothing, and that&#x27;s exactly why education debts need to be dischargeable like anything else.<p>Dischargeable loans makes loan companies have actual responsibility and consequences in deciding who to give loans to. Otherwise, they blindly give out loans (why not, there&#x27;s no risk!), putting all that much money in the system, which college institutions are happy to absorb in higher tuition.</text></comment> | <story><title>A College Degree Is No Guarantee of a Good Life</title><url>https://www.theatlantic.com/family/archive/2020/07/will-going-college-make-you-happier/613729/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bhupy</author><text>Making education debts dischargeable in bankruptcy sounds good in theory, but against what collateral do you take out a college loan? Most bankruptcy includes collateral liquidation. What&#x27;s to stop someone from obtaining a useless degree that doesn&#x27;t contribute to the nation&#x27;s economy, and then discharges the debt in bankruptcy?<p>I think a big part of the problem is that debt is so readily issued for degrees that overwhelmingly leave the recipient incapable of providing for society in gainful ways.</text></item><item><author>csharptwdec19</author><text>I think you covered part of the problem in the second half of your statement.<p>In the US, part of the problem is that by making education debts non-dischargable in bankruptcy, and by the aforementioned proliferation of degrees that may qualify as &#x27;nice to have&#x27; rather than &#x27;increase earning potential&#x27;.<p>The end result is a lot of people who got a college degree that doesn&#x27;t really pay for itself, and instead leads to 20+ years of debt, or 10 years of indentured servitude to a non-profit.</text></item><item><author>JumpCrisscross</author><text>&gt; <i>Far from fixing inequality</i><p>Was this the purpose? I thought it was to raise living standards by improving productivity. By and large, broader education has been successful at that. (It went off the deep end, in recent years, with the proliferation of bullshit degrees.)</text></item><item><author>omginternets</author><text>I barely skimmed the article, but I don&#x27;t find this surprising for a few reasons (some of which have been mentioned elsewhere in the comments):<p>- &quot;University degree&quot; is a heterogeneous thing. While there is such thing as non-economic value, the strictly <i>economic</i> value of a college education tends to cluster around a small subset of degrees.<p>- Many countries have enacted policies to increase proportion of people who get degrees. Far from fixing inequality, this has instead diluted the value of university degrees.<p>- All universities are not created equal. While it is possible (and even common) for employers to pay too much attention to the reputation of the school, it is also quite common for students to over-estimate the value of a no-name institution. I&#x27;ve found this to be moreso the case in the two European countries I&#x27;ve lived in for an extended period of time (France &amp; England).<p>- The exorbitant debt incurred by university tuition in some countries (which need not be named, I think) means the ROI on the university degree has to also be exorbitant.<p>Have I missed anything?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>throwaway894345</author><text>It seems like we should make the debt conditional on the degree pursued. How much you’re allowed to take out in federal loans ought to be a function of the pay associated with that degree. I’m sure it’s not a perfect system, but it seems a lot better than the status quo or solutions that involve burdening society with the economic liability of a glut of (economically) low-value degrees.</text></comment> |
6,709,227 | 6,708,759 | 1 | 3 | 6,708,758 | train | <story><title>Moscow subway sells free tickets for 30 sit-ups</title><url>http://english.pravda.ru/news/russia/08-11-2013/126095-moscow_subway-0/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>anonymfus</author><text>As Russian I want to share my first association:<p><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5C-jcCWu31s" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=5C-jcCWu31s</a><p>Westerners could try to understand it by watching entire movie:<p><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kin-dza-dza" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Kin-dza-dza</a><p><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I47CNxwlt9U" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=I47CNxwlt9U</a><p><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eti9Qn4bZDg" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=eti9Qn4bZDg</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Moscow subway sells free tickets for 30 sit-ups</title><url>http://english.pravda.ru/news/russia/08-11-2013/126095-moscow_subway-0/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>vladgur</author><text>Unfortunately the article links to the wrong video.<p>Link to actual youtube video:<p><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ojo9M1cPSPI" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=ojo9M1cPSPI</a></text></comment> |
26,934,768 | 26,934,846 | 1 | 2 | 26,934,577 | train | <story><title>Has UML died without anyone noticing?</title><url>https://garba.org/posts/2021/uml/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>darkerside</author><text>UML suffers from false precision. Nobody cares about most of the specific rules and grammar of the language because the output is designed to be generally readable by a lay audience. The time your spend making your diagram compliant with UML is better spent making and remaking good general diagrams.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Daishiman</author><text>Also the level of detail that UML demands <i>always</i> turns out to be imprecise once coders end up implementing specs. So it&#x27;s a place where enough formality is required to be a PITA to model but where it falls just short enough of the specifics a programmer will need once they get to actually building out the product.</text></comment> | <story><title>Has UML died without anyone noticing?</title><url>https://garba.org/posts/2021/uml/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>darkerside</author><text>UML suffers from false precision. Nobody cares about most of the specific rules and grammar of the language because the output is designed to be generally readable by a lay audience. The time your spend making your diagram compliant with UML is better spent making and remaking good general diagrams.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bastawhiz</author><text>Exactly. Tools to build visually appealing diagrams well appeared. I remember how <i>fun</i> it was diagramming in Visio for the first time.<p>Why would someone (especially someone non-technical) spend the time to learn and write what&#x27;s essentially code to make a diagram when the alternative is drag and drop? That&#x27;s not to say UML is without value, but to me it comes down to the difference between CLI and GUI tools: when the latter is broadly available to the masses, the former is only going to be used by power users who want the flexibility.<p>Another personal nit: I&#x27;ve never seen a &quot;pretty&quot; UML diagram. The value of aesthetics is obviously not critical, but if I&#x27;m looking to make a nice diagram to show my boss and the options are UML and Whimsical, I&#x27;m going with Whimsical every time.</text></comment> |
32,970,129 | 32,969,776 | 1 | 2 | 32,950,268 | train | <story><title>Packing a backpack (2014)</title><url>https://info.deuter.com/blog/packing-a-backpack</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Eleison23</author><text>Once upon a time I was homeless, and everything I owned needed to fit into a normal-size collegiate backpack, or I couldn&#x27;t keep it.<p>Fast-forward 20 years; retaining my packrat qualities, I began to realize I was overpacking every time I left home for an errand. I also seldom unpacked when I returned home, and I would just &quot;let it ride&quot; whatever was still in the backpack next time I went out.<p>So I&#x27;ve tightened a discipline of keeping my bags empty while at home. I try to narrow down my mission each day: what is the core task I need to accomplish? Why do I really need to throw this item in the bag? When I return home, I evaluate each item by its usefulness to me. If I didn&#x27;t even remember it, or think to pull it out, then it&#x27;s gonna stay at home.<p>I also try to use smaller bags. I picked up a nice electronics bag at a thrift store, and it fits my phone, keys, bus pass, wallet. So I don&#x27;t drag around a duffel bag or backpack if I don&#x27;t need it. Honestly, it&#x27;s much easier to find something if I don&#x27;t need to open a dozen zippers. It&#x27;s easier to ride around on an e-Scooter if I&#x27;m not bogged down by 25lbs of kit.<p>I also try to run drop-off errands more often. I&#x27;ll take a bag of donations to the thrift store, or some recycling will go out. Then I can have the satisfaction of emptying out my bag, even discarding it and returning home lighter. This contrasts with packrats who will go shopping or picking stuff up every day and they just accumulate more and more stuff at home. You gotta balance that out at some point.</text></comment> | <story><title>Packing a backpack (2014)</title><url>https://info.deuter.com/blog/packing-a-backpack</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>DonHopkins</author><text>I&#x27;m hoping Tom Bihn Bags will come out with a high quality knock-off of the spacious &quot;Flextrek Whipsnake&quot;:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=ZAtzN_ScKXY" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=ZAtzN_ScKXY</a><p>But seriously, Bihn bags are extremely well designed, and are so well made they last forever!<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.tombihn.com&#x2F;collections&#x2F;backpacks" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.tombihn.com&#x2F;collections&#x2F;backpacks</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=4873988" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=4873988</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=13684860" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=13684860</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.huffpost.com&#x2F;entry&#x2F;washing-instructions-idiot-president_n_5893ef86e4b0c1284f253d61" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.huffpost.com&#x2F;entry&#x2F;washing-instructions-idiot-pr...</a><p><pre><code> Wash with warm water.
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<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.snopes.com&#x2F;fact-check&#x2F;bihn-label&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.snopes.com&#x2F;fact-check&#x2F;bihn-label&#x2F;</a></text></comment> |
2,705,877 | 2,705,422 | 1 | 3 | 2,705,067 | train | <story><title>The BeOS file system: an OS geek retrospective</title><url>http://arstechnica.com/open-source/news/2010/06/the-beos-filesystem.ars</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>tambourine_man</author><text>BeOS was the greatest experience I've ever had with an OS.<p>It felt faster booted from a ZIP Drive on a 160MHz PPC with 192MB of RAM than my machine feels today, and this is not an overstatement. There wasn't a single click that didn't instantly produce a response.<p>Everybody points to iOS's design, but to me, one of the reasons for its success is that a system that fits in your pocket feels faster than the one at your desk.<p>If more people had been exposed to it back then, maybe we wouldn't put up with today's software as it is.</text></comment> | <story><title>The BeOS file system: an OS geek retrospective</title><url>http://arstechnica.com/open-source/news/2010/06/the-beos-filesystem.ars</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>cpt1138</author><text>I worked with the Be guys when they were bought by Palm. Never in my career have I experienced such an obsession with solving problems no one has. To me its kind of sad so much obviously raw talent wasted on such frivolous effort.</text></comment> |
18,031,157 | 18,030,563 | 1 | 2 | 18,029,357 | train | <story><title>The Deliberate Awfulness of Social Media</title><url>https://www.newyorker.com/books/under-review/the-deliberate-awfulness-of-social-media</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>eksemplar</author><text>The only people I know with twitter accounts are journalists. One friend in particular has a hard time understanding how you can function without twitter.<p>I tried using it, like most people, but when you work a job that doesn’t involve trolling the internet for news, it’s really hard to use twitter in any meaningful manner.<p>You’ll post something and a few days later you’ll have time to post a reply. Or you’ll follow a few interest points and miss everything they post because you don’t visit every hour and it’ll drown in the feed if you don’t.<p>I honestly think all the regular people on twitter are either unemployed or spending so much work time on social media that they ought to be fired.<p>I like social media by the way, but I don’t think it has a lot of value when it’s done primarily with strangers. I mean, my friends use Facebook groups and events to organize stuff and it’s really, really good at that. We use discord&#x2F;WhatsApp chats to keep in touch on day to day chitchat - which would be better in person but we live in different cities&#x2F;have children etc. So that sort of social media is great.<p>But talking with strangers? I mean, I’m home in bed with the flu right now, and we’re having this conversation, except I can’t be sure you’ll ever read what I post or if you’ll find it interesting or reply, and even if we do get to have a talk, we’ll likely never have another one. So it doesn’t hold a lot of real value aside from wasting time, and that’s kind of what twitter is all of the time.</text></item><item><author>sonnyblarney</author><text>&quot; you know that you could leave at any time and you know that you will not.&quot;<p>I have no problem.<p>The press needs to take more responsibility for this as they are the primary enablers of Twitter.<p>Tweets are presented all the time in articles as expression of legitimate opinion, and often used as the basis for some kind of rally bad straw-man argument the author wants to make.<p>I think Twitter will wane but it won&#x27;t go away as those who make their business making noise, either celebs or those who report on them, will just keep going with it.<p>It may become purely PR providence though - I can see regular people giving up the notion of actively tweeting entirely.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pjc50</author><text>Don&#x27;t use twitter for <i>general</i> news. Mute the news sources if you have to. If it&#x27;s big enough it will bleed over into your feed anyway. Often I can work out what the news is by reverse-engineering the jokes about it.<p>It&#x27;s much more interesting for highly specific news. I&#x27;ve got some accounts I follow for local news, some for gamedev news, people doing interesting tech, art, jokes, and a few &quot;commentators&quot; who are excellent enough to be worth reading on their own. It <i>can</i> be great for kibitzing on live TV events too.<p>Mind you, these days I post very little original stuff too. The internet is just too much of a live-fire zone.</text></comment> | <story><title>The Deliberate Awfulness of Social Media</title><url>https://www.newyorker.com/books/under-review/the-deliberate-awfulness-of-social-media</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>eksemplar</author><text>The only people I know with twitter accounts are journalists. One friend in particular has a hard time understanding how you can function without twitter.<p>I tried using it, like most people, but when you work a job that doesn’t involve trolling the internet for news, it’s really hard to use twitter in any meaningful manner.<p>You’ll post something and a few days later you’ll have time to post a reply. Or you’ll follow a few interest points and miss everything they post because you don’t visit every hour and it’ll drown in the feed if you don’t.<p>I honestly think all the regular people on twitter are either unemployed or spending so much work time on social media that they ought to be fired.<p>I like social media by the way, but I don’t think it has a lot of value when it’s done primarily with strangers. I mean, my friends use Facebook groups and events to organize stuff and it’s really, really good at that. We use discord&#x2F;WhatsApp chats to keep in touch on day to day chitchat - which would be better in person but we live in different cities&#x2F;have children etc. So that sort of social media is great.<p>But talking with strangers? I mean, I’m home in bed with the flu right now, and we’re having this conversation, except I can’t be sure you’ll ever read what I post or if you’ll find it interesting or reply, and even if we do get to have a talk, we’ll likely never have another one. So it doesn’t hold a lot of real value aside from wasting time, and that’s kind of what twitter is all of the time.</text></item><item><author>sonnyblarney</author><text>&quot; you know that you could leave at any time and you know that you will not.&quot;<p>I have no problem.<p>The press needs to take more responsibility for this as they are the primary enablers of Twitter.<p>Tweets are presented all the time in articles as expression of legitimate opinion, and often used as the basis for some kind of rally bad straw-man argument the author wants to make.<p>I think Twitter will wane but it won&#x27;t go away as those who make their business making noise, either celebs or those who report on them, will just keep going with it.<p>It may become purely PR providence though - I can see regular people giving up the notion of actively tweeting entirely.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>1337biz</author><text>Twitter truly feels like a dangerous mixup of mostly journalist, social activists and social media gurus, who all reaffirm their existance on the platform.</text></comment> |
39,419,023 | 39,419,019 | 1 | 2 | 39,418,412 | train | <story><title>Apple broke iPhone web apps in the EU for anticompetitive reasons – Tim Sweeney</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2024/02/16/epic-games-ceo-suggests-apple-broke-iphone-web-apps-in-the-eu-for-anticompetitive-reasons/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>cybrox</author><text>People don&#x27;t care because Apple has made sure they don&#x27;t care. They have crippled web app adoption for years to push the app store and now argue that &quot;well, only a few people use that anyways&quot;.<p>How many apps in the app store are just webviews? I myself have paid apple to publish webview wrappers around pages because they strictly raise users to expect these, instead of the web apps they have no control over (and cannot take 30% of every transaction).</text></item><item><author>dubcanada</author><text>As much as I would love to agree, the general population really does not care about features like &quot;home screen web apps&quot;. Nobody outside of HN even knows what they are.<p>Everyone just goes on the app store and downloads random website app. Even if it is just a browser app that renders a website.<p>Apple would have to eliminate something that people actually care about for any boycott Apple to happen.</text></item><item><author>Gareth321</author><text>He&#x27;s right. Apple has been strangling web app progress on iOS for many years. They wanted to ensure that web apps could never compete with native apps on the App Store, because they can extract their 30% fee. Now that Apple are forced to permit third party browser engines, web apps would suddenly be a lot more powerful. Apple just won&#x27;t have that, so they&#x27;re disabling a useful feature for everyone.<p>I think this will backfire on them. Downgrading their own feature offerings to spite the competition is only going to fuel more animosity by everyone: users, businesses, developers, and legislators. I feel quite firmly that their proposal to comply with the Digital Markets Act is non-compliant. The DMA requires <i>free</i> interoperability, and Apple has imposed a very anti-competitive fee. Once this is eliminated, developers will be free to distribute whatever native apps they wish, and at this stage there are a lot of developers who will jump to any other app store.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>roenxi</author><text>I want my mother to have as safe a phone as possible with a bare minimum of ways she can accidentally get hacked. Ideally with a gatekeeper between her and anything she is going to install that has permission to use phone features; like cameras. She would very much concur, insofar as she understands the issues.<p>She&#x27;s using an iPhone specifically because Apple doesn&#x27;t go for shenanigans like multiple ways to get apps on the phone. The point is to have an App store and funnel everything through it. There is enough sensitive stuff on a phone that I&#x27;m not even sure running a full web browser is a good idea for her. &quot;Limited capability&quot; really is the name of the game here.<p>It isn&#x27;t just we don&#x27;t care because Apple doesn&#x27;t support it. We are in fact grateful to Apple for not supporting it. This is value-add by Apple. The &quot;App for Everything&quot; model of interacting with iPhones is&#x2F;was a brief golden age for unsophisticated users where Apple was more than earning its commission. Android phones are technically fine, if people wanted this sort of thing they would go buy Android.</text></comment> | <story><title>Apple broke iPhone web apps in the EU for anticompetitive reasons – Tim Sweeney</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2024/02/16/epic-games-ceo-suggests-apple-broke-iphone-web-apps-in-the-eu-for-anticompetitive-reasons/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>cybrox</author><text>People don&#x27;t care because Apple has made sure they don&#x27;t care. They have crippled web app adoption for years to push the app store and now argue that &quot;well, only a few people use that anyways&quot;.<p>How many apps in the app store are just webviews? I myself have paid apple to publish webview wrappers around pages because they strictly raise users to expect these, instead of the web apps they have no control over (and cannot take 30% of every transaction).</text></item><item><author>dubcanada</author><text>As much as I would love to agree, the general population really does not care about features like &quot;home screen web apps&quot;. Nobody outside of HN even knows what they are.<p>Everyone just goes on the app store and downloads random website app. Even if it is just a browser app that renders a website.<p>Apple would have to eliminate something that people actually care about for any boycott Apple to happen.</text></item><item><author>Gareth321</author><text>He&#x27;s right. Apple has been strangling web app progress on iOS for many years. They wanted to ensure that web apps could never compete with native apps on the App Store, because they can extract their 30% fee. Now that Apple are forced to permit third party browser engines, web apps would suddenly be a lot more powerful. Apple just won&#x27;t have that, so they&#x27;re disabling a useful feature for everyone.<p>I think this will backfire on them. Downgrading their own feature offerings to spite the competition is only going to fuel more animosity by everyone: users, businesses, developers, and legislators. I feel quite firmly that their proposal to comply with the Digital Markets Act is non-compliant. The DMA requires <i>free</i> interoperability, and Apple has imposed a very anti-competitive fee. Once this is eliminated, developers will be free to distribute whatever native apps they wish, and at this stage there are a lot of developers who will jump to any other app store.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>throwaway11460</author><text>How many people use them on Android? Nobody around me... The Add to home prompt is &quot;that thing you always click no or you get ads&quot;.</text></comment> |
13,617,099 | 13,616,734 | 1 | 2 | 13,616,123 | train | <story><title>Change at Buffer: The Next Phase, and Why Our Co-Founder and CTO Are Moving On</title><url>https://open.buffer.com/change-at-buffer/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jpeg_hero</author><text>My guess at what happened: the natural hyper growth engine ran out, they tried a bunch of things to jump start it, none of them worked, so now they are on the slow growth path.<p>If they were not remote-only maybe they could have pulled off the CTO&#x27;s plan of hiring a bunch of traditional managers and &quot;pushing&quot; the company forward (probably enterprise sales), but they&#x27;d have restructure the bones of the company at great expense. The great expense part probably doesn&#x27;t work, because since the sizzle is off the growth, the next VC round would be tough if not impossible to do. It would be very &quot;term-y&quot; and founders are already underwater enough on investor preference.<p>They probably made the right call of not shooting for the moon, and slowing down into a remote-only company that takes its time. Skype and boxer shorts.<p>But now the COO and CTO are faced with the decision of A) sitting around and riding it out at $185,000 and $182,089 per year respectively (healthy money no doubt but not DHH buy-a-racing-team like earn outs) or B) move on to the next thing while the market for vc funding is still hot and they can still get some juice from their association with buffer.<p>Rational decisions all around.<p>Oh, and Twitter launched scheduled tweets.</text></comment> | <story><title>Change at Buffer: The Next Phase, and Why Our Co-Founder and CTO Are Moving On</title><url>https://open.buffer.com/change-at-buffer/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>CPLX</author><text>Summary: the cofounders disagreed so two of them left.<p>Maybe I&#x27;m an old guy but I don&#x27;t really understand why this blog post exists, it&#x27;s like hundreds of words of emotive rambling and vague talk of journeys and values and euphemisms for simple concepts.<p>Would it like have ruined anything to write something like &quot;A couple key early people are moving on but we&#x27;re doing pretty good, we make social media software and have revenue ok hey thanks for listening I&#x27;m going to get back to that now have a great Friday&quot; and then hit save?</text></comment> |
21,414,677 | 21,414,417 | 1 | 2 | 21,402,717 | train | <story><title>BZFlag</title><url>https://www.bzflag.org/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Uehreka</author><text>I&#x27;ve made a couple of comments like this on HN before, but whenever you make a homepage for a project, whether it&#x27;s a game, game engine, software library, command line tool or anything--please start by describing what the thing is in one or two sentences.<p>Here&#x27;s what I thought when I clicked this link:<p>&gt; BZFlag? Does this have something to do with zipping files? Meh, I&#x27;ll click and see what it is.<p>&gt; A picture of some 3D rendered stuff, and download links for a bunch of platforms... Is this a game engine? A physics simulator? Maybe if I scroll down I&#x27;ll find out<p>&gt; Hmm, the project news doesn&#x27;t tell me much... &quot;A Flying tank&quot;, &quot;Tanks with Superpowers&quot;... I guess this is a game where you drive tanks? I&#x27;ll take a look at the comments.<p>&gt; Ohhhhhh, I see.<p>This could&#x27;ve been fixed by just having an h2 and a paragraph at the top saying &quot;BZFlag&quot; and &quot;An open source tank-based warfare game with online multiplayer, going strong since 2008!&quot; (or whenever the project started)<p>You don&#x27;t necessarily need to have a tagline like that on every release page or documentation page, but if I end up on your site and delete everything from the URL except &quot;projectname.org&quot;, I should be 2 seconds away from a simple description of what your project is.<p>With all that said, people seem to like this game, I may check it out later!<p>Edit: Looks like they added a tagline to the page. It’s clear, it’s obvious, it makes sense. Thanks!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>97b683f8</author><text>It&#x27;s a FPS with jumping tanks. Grab flags on the ground and get special abilities.<p>The main gameplay element is that when a tank is in the air it keeps its rotational momentum and you have no way to correct the trajectory mid air. Sometimes you have to jump and aim on the right or even backwards and this all gets down to injecting the exact quantity of movement prior to the jump with the mouse (a nice addition beyond the classical pointing mechanics of FPS).<p>Tanks can&#x27;t tilt, but hopefully they can jump, so another saillent part of the gameplay are mid-air duels, when two tanks facing each other start firing, jump to avoid the slow-moving orbs, and carry the fight into the air.<p>It looks like a caricature, but it has great mechanics that could make a good basis for an e-sport. If e-sports are introduced into the Olympic Games and they decide to look for an open-source game, BZFlag would be a good contender.</text></comment> | <story><title>BZFlag</title><url>https://www.bzflag.org/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Uehreka</author><text>I&#x27;ve made a couple of comments like this on HN before, but whenever you make a homepage for a project, whether it&#x27;s a game, game engine, software library, command line tool or anything--please start by describing what the thing is in one or two sentences.<p>Here&#x27;s what I thought when I clicked this link:<p>&gt; BZFlag? Does this have something to do with zipping files? Meh, I&#x27;ll click and see what it is.<p>&gt; A picture of some 3D rendered stuff, and download links for a bunch of platforms... Is this a game engine? A physics simulator? Maybe if I scroll down I&#x27;ll find out<p>&gt; Hmm, the project news doesn&#x27;t tell me much... &quot;A Flying tank&quot;, &quot;Tanks with Superpowers&quot;... I guess this is a game where you drive tanks? I&#x27;ll take a look at the comments.<p>&gt; Ohhhhhh, I see.<p>This could&#x27;ve been fixed by just having an h2 and a paragraph at the top saying &quot;BZFlag&quot; and &quot;An open source tank-based warfare game with online multiplayer, going strong since 2008!&quot; (or whenever the project started)<p>You don&#x27;t necessarily need to have a tagline like that on every release page or documentation page, but if I end up on your site and delete everything from the URL except &quot;projectname.org&quot;, I should be 2 seconds away from a simple description of what your project is.<p>With all that said, people seem to like this game, I may check it out later!<p>Edit: Looks like they added a tagline to the page. It’s clear, it’s obvious, it makes sense. Thanks!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>twic</author><text>Web pages? Those&#x27;ll never catch on if you ask me. The package info seems clear enough:<p><pre><code> $ dnf info bzflag | sed &#x27;s&#x2F;^&#x2F; &#x2F;&#x27;
Last metadata expiration check: 0:00:29 ago on Thu 31 Oct 2019 22:24:31 GMT.
Available Packages
Name : bzflag
Version : 2.4.18
Release : 3.fc30
Architecture : x86_64
Size : 11 M
Source : bzflag-2.4.18-3.fc30.src.rpm
Repository : fedora
Summary : 3D multi-player tank battle game
URL : http:&#x2F;&#x2F;bzflag.org
License : LGPLv2
Description : BZFlag is a 3D multi-player tank battle game that allows users
: to play against each other in a networked environment. There are
: five teams: red, green, blue, purple and rogue (rogue tanks are
: black). Destroying a player on another team scores a win, while
: being destroyed or destroying a teammate scores a loss. Rogues
: have no teammates (not even other rogues), so they cannot shoot
: teammates and they do not have a team score. There are two main
: styles of play: capture-the-flag and free-for-all.</code></pre></text></comment> |
20,798,518 | 20,797,544 | 1 | 3 | 20,796,948 | train | <story><title>Spacebook: AGI's near Real-Time satellite viewer</title><url>http://apps.agi.com/SatelliteViewer/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>L_226</author><text>This one is pretty good too, and doesn&#x27;t eat all my RAM - <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;stuffin.space&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;stuffin.space&#x2F;</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Spacebook: AGI's near Real-Time satellite viewer</title><url>http://apps.agi.com/SatelliteViewer/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>SanchoPanda</author><text>This is wonderful.<p>If it catches your fancy, I have also found termtrack to be a great way to fill in a corner of a tmux window.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;pypi.org&#x2F;project&#x2F;termtrack&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;pypi.org&#x2F;project&#x2F;termtrack&#x2F;</a></text></comment> |
3,044,100 | 3,043,585 | 1 | 2 | 3,043,065 | train | <story><title>Toxic Nectar Kills 90% of Mosquito Populations</title><url>http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/27/health/27mosquito.html?_r=1&ref=global-home</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>0x12</author><text><a href="http://www.nature.com/news/2010/100721/full/466432a.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.nature.com/news/2010/100721/full/466432a.html</a><p>Makes a good case for why eradicating mosquitoes will not be problematic.<p>But every time there is a large scale intervention like this the side effects only become apparent decades after the fact. You mess with ecosystems at this scale at your peril. Even if we can't see any downside to this today that doesn't mean there isn't a downside.<p>DDT looked pretty good once upon a time.<p>Another problem is that we simply have not mapped all the interactions between species within an ecosystem and eradicating one species might upset the balance in a hard to predict way.<p>Introduction of a new species can be problematic:<p><a href="http://www.animalcontrol.com.au/rabbit.htm" rel="nofollow">http://www.animalcontrol.com.au/rabbit.htm</a><p>We have some solid proof for that. Maybe 40 years from now we will know why eradicating something as obviously harmful as a mosquito can be problematic too.<p>That's the only way to learn, it would be nice if this research was proven correct.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>velocicopter</author><text>There seems to be an assumption here that ecosystems are friendly places but they really aren't. Nature does not know best. The vast majority all species in history have been wiped out by their natural environments, many by their <i>own genes</i>.<p><i>All</i> actions that we take to try to fix problems go on to create new problems. It's expected.<p>And, of course, this doesn't mean we shouldn't act, unless we have a good explanation <i>now</i> as to why the harm of a proposed course of action outweighs the benefits.<p>The alternative is to follow some kind of 'Precautionary Principle', which, as David Deutsch has pointed out, can only damage our ability to handle threats which we do not foresee.<p>Meanwhile, people's lives are in known peril from malaria.</text></comment> | <story><title>Toxic Nectar Kills 90% of Mosquito Populations</title><url>http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/27/health/27mosquito.html?_r=1&ref=global-home</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>0x12</author><text><a href="http://www.nature.com/news/2010/100721/full/466432a.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.nature.com/news/2010/100721/full/466432a.html</a><p>Makes a good case for why eradicating mosquitoes will not be problematic.<p>But every time there is a large scale intervention like this the side effects only become apparent decades after the fact. You mess with ecosystems at this scale at your peril. Even if we can't see any downside to this today that doesn't mean there isn't a downside.<p>DDT looked pretty good once upon a time.<p>Another problem is that we simply have not mapped all the interactions between species within an ecosystem and eradicating one species might upset the balance in a hard to predict way.<p>Introduction of a new species can be problematic:<p><a href="http://www.animalcontrol.com.au/rabbit.htm" rel="nofollow">http://www.animalcontrol.com.au/rabbit.htm</a><p>We have some solid proof for that. Maybe 40 years from now we will know why eradicating something as obviously harmful as a mosquito can be problematic too.<p>That's the only way to learn, it would be nice if this research was proven correct.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>gerggerg</author><text>I think the major difference between this attempt at species destruction and other previous attempts is the massive amount of human disease and death already perpetrated by the clumsy little biters.<p>It comes down to determining whats better: not messing with the environment and continuing to allow hundreds of thousands of human deaths a year. or trying to kill off mosquitoes.<p>Wikipedia claims that malaria alone causes 2.23% of yearly human death world wide.<p><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malaria" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malaria</a><p>Thats a pretty ridiculous number if you think about it.</text></comment> |
17,890,231 | 17,888,587 | 1 | 2 | 17,882,080 | train | <story><title>How the Brain Experiences Time</title><url>https://neurosciencenews.com/time-perception-9771/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>grecy</author><text>&gt; <i>Professor Moser says the study shows that by changing the activities you engage in, the content of your experience, you can actually change the course of the time-signal in LEC and thus the way you perceive time.</i><p>Huh, After a year driving through West Africa I had come to this same conclusion, and am writing about it now for my next book.
I liken it to how video compression works - your brain doesn&#x27;t bother storing every single event, only those it hasn&#x27;t seen before.<p>Bored sitting at your desk at 2pm on Tuesday? Done that before, don&#x27;t bother remembering.<p>Stuck in traffic? Done that before, don&#x27;t both remembering<p>In those scenarios time tends to &quot;fly&quot; becuase you don&#x27;t remember much.<p>---<p>Watch a guy catch, skin and eat a money? WOAH! Never had that memory before. Remember.<p>Get Malaria? Remember<p>Chat to military with AK47s trying to bribe me in Nigeria? Remember.<p>Now time goes slower, and that one year in West Africa feels longer than the 4 years of sitting at a desk job that came before it.</text></comment> | <story><title>How the Brain Experiences Time</title><url>https://neurosciencenews.com/time-perception-9771/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>outworlder</author><text>&gt; Professor Moser says the study shows that by changing the activities you engage in, the content of your experience, you can actually change the course of the time-signal in LEC and thus the way you perceive time.<p>This correlates with anecdotal experience. A &#x27;routine&#x27; day goes by much faster as opposed to a day with new experiences (travel to previously unseen places for instance).</text></comment> |
12,666,420 | 12,666,382 | 1 | 2 | 12,666,249 | train | <story><title>WoSign Incidents Report Update [pdf]</title><url>https://www.wosign.com/report/WoSign_Incident_Report_Update_07102016.pdf</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>terom</author><text>Awesome use of load balancing for request retry across multiple backend servers:<p>&gt; This was caused by the CMS (Certificate Management System), when it sent the signing request of the certificate to the signing server A, which had no response, then the CMS sent it to the other newly added signing server B. After a while the signing server A signed the certificate and sent to the CMS and also to the subscriber, then the subscriber installed the cert in its website and hat&#x27;s why Censys recorded this certificate; in the
meantime, the signing server B also signed this certificate
some time later (in seconds) and sent it to the CMS, the CMS accepted it and rewrote it in the DB.<p>&gt; This issue happened after adding another signing server on Jan 5th 2015, and found it on April 9th 2015. When had the two signing servers added a load balancer, but the configuration was not properly done because it didn&#x27;t lock the request.<p>Mind you, that&#x27;s a perfectly legit technical bug. Maybe they were using nginx for load balancing POST requests? :)<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=11217477" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=11217477</a></text></comment> | <story><title>WoSign Incidents Report Update [pdf]</title><url>https://www.wosign.com/report/WoSign_Incident_Report_Update_07102016.pdf</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>zamber</author><text>Cross linking the earlier WoSign scandal reports:
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=12389573" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=12389573</a>
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=12582534" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=12582534</a>
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=12617659" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=12617659</a><p>So if I get it right, WoSign will cease to exist as a CA given the 1y probation proposed by Mozilla and the general distrust that will follow?</text></comment> |
37,575,189 | 37,575,219 | 1 | 2 | 37,570,022 | train | <story><title>Facebook is blocking Canadians’ posts on the assassination of a BC Sikh leader</title><url>https://pressprogress.ca/facebook-is-blocking-canadians-posts-about-the-assassination-of-a-bc-sikh-leader-their-posts-were-targeted-by-indias-government/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>screye</author><text>&gt; <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Air_India_Flight_182" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Air_India_Flight_182</a><p>The Khalistani perpetrators of the worst terrorist act on Canadian soil, second only to 9&#x2F;11 in deaths, walked free.<p>I can&#x27;t comment on Canada&#x27;s justice system broadly. But when it comes to holding terrorists accountable, Canada&#x27;s track record is a joke.</text></item><item><author>mabbo</author><text>To those saying &quot;But Bill C-18&quot; - it&#x27;s not the Canadian government taking things down. It&#x27;s the Indian government, taking down articles and posts that accuse them of assassinating a Canadian citizen on Canadian soil.<p>C-18 is a problem. We need to deal with it. That&#x27;s not relevant to the issue at hand.<p>And to those saying &quot;Well he was a terrorist...&quot; we, in Canada, have something called the Rule of Law. You have to prove someone is guilty, in court, with real evidence. They serve time in prison for their crimes. They can be extradited to other countries to face court there.<p>If Bhai Hardeep Singh Nijjar was a terrorist, and there was sufficient evidence to convict him, the Indian government should have brought it to the Canadian Government. It&#x27;s very simple really.<p>Murdering someone without trial because you don&#x27;t like their political speech- why, I think there&#x27;s a word for that.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>gruez</author><text>&gt;The Khalistani perpetrators of the worst terrorist act on Canadian soil, second only to 9&#x2F;11 in deaths, walked free.<p>&gt;I can&#x27;t comment on Canada&#x27;s justice system broadly. But when it comes to holding terrorists accountable, Canada&#x27;s track record is a joke.<p>The wikipedia article says the Canadian government spent $130M prosecuting the accused, but was unable to secure a conviction. If these people can&#x27;t be convicted, isn&#x27;t the correct course of action &quot;walked free&quot;? I&#x27;m not sure what the alternative is here? Should we lock them up anyway? Is there any reason to doubt that their prosecution was botched?</text></comment> | <story><title>Facebook is blocking Canadians’ posts on the assassination of a BC Sikh leader</title><url>https://pressprogress.ca/facebook-is-blocking-canadians-posts-about-the-assassination-of-a-bc-sikh-leader-their-posts-were-targeted-by-indias-government/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>screye</author><text>&gt; <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Air_India_Flight_182" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Air_India_Flight_182</a><p>The Khalistani perpetrators of the worst terrorist act on Canadian soil, second only to 9&#x2F;11 in deaths, walked free.<p>I can&#x27;t comment on Canada&#x27;s justice system broadly. But when it comes to holding terrorists accountable, Canada&#x27;s track record is a joke.</text></item><item><author>mabbo</author><text>To those saying &quot;But Bill C-18&quot; - it&#x27;s not the Canadian government taking things down. It&#x27;s the Indian government, taking down articles and posts that accuse them of assassinating a Canadian citizen on Canadian soil.<p>C-18 is a problem. We need to deal with it. That&#x27;s not relevant to the issue at hand.<p>And to those saying &quot;Well he was a terrorist...&quot; we, in Canada, have something called the Rule of Law. You have to prove someone is guilty, in court, with real evidence. They serve time in prison for their crimes. They can be extradited to other countries to face court there.<p>If Bhai Hardeep Singh Nijjar was a terrorist, and there was sufficient evidence to convict him, the Indian government should have brought it to the Canadian Government. It&#x27;s very simple really.<p>Murdering someone without trial because you don&#x27;t like their political speech- why, I think there&#x27;s a word for that.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Manuel_D</author><text>As per your own link, many of the suspects are dead, on the run, in prison for decades (in the case of one suspect that provided testimony against the other perpetrators), or were found to have not had involvement in the plot. Saying the perpetrators &quot;walked free&quot; is a massive distortion at best.</text></comment> |
10,133,007 | 10,132,211 | 1 | 3 | 10,131,664 | train | <story><title>How recursion got into Algol 60: a comedy of errors</title><url>https://vanemden.wordpress.com/2014/06/18/how-recursion-got-into-programming-a-comedy-of-errors-3/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dragonwriter</author><text>Shouldn&#x27;t this be &quot;how recursion got into Algol 60&quot;? After all, part of the background is that McCarthy wanted it in Algol, <i>coming off his success with Lisp</i>, that had, in its earliest form, <i>only</i> recursion and no iteration. So recursion had already &quot;got into programming&quot; when this story of &quot;How recursion got into programming&quot; kicks off.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>sytelus</author><text>One can argue that many features of programming languages have existed in theory since days of Euclid and Archimedes. This article argues that ALGOL was the first attempt to &quot;standardized&quot; features of a programming language that was expected to be in wide spread usage. It was designed by committee of big name experts and the &quot;comedy&quot; part is that lot of these people considered recursion as unnecessary or even harmful. No one knows what would have happened if ALGOL indeed didn&#x27;t supported recursion, became widespread and was considered as gold standard. How many years before someone would have broken the barrier and said experts were wrong and recursion is one of the most important part of language?</text></comment> | <story><title>How recursion got into Algol 60: a comedy of errors</title><url>https://vanemden.wordpress.com/2014/06/18/how-recursion-got-into-programming-a-comedy-of-errors-3/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dragonwriter</author><text>Shouldn&#x27;t this be &quot;how recursion got into Algol 60&quot;? After all, part of the background is that McCarthy wanted it in Algol, <i>coming off his success with Lisp</i>, that had, in its earliest form, <i>only</i> recursion and no iteration. So recursion had already &quot;got into programming&quot; when this story of &quot;How recursion got into programming&quot; kicks off.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mordocai</author><text>Did the post get updated after you left this comment? The post I read talks about lisp.</text></comment> |
6,938,074 | 6,937,141 | 1 | 2 | 6,936,297 | train | <story><title>Why Bitcoin is a significant breakthrough, but perhaps not as a currency</title><url>http://dpk.io/blockchain</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>rthomas6</author><text>I am convinced that many problems with Bitcoin would be solved if we could come up with a way to tie mining difficulty to the currency&#x27;s demand instead of only to the mining computing power. Instead of ensuring a predictable generation rate, this could ensure a predictable <i>value</i>. When demand wanes, the currency is harder to mine and becomes more scarce, and when demand surges, the currency becomes easier to mine and more available. This would stop some of the volatility in BTC prices. You could plan the rough change in value over time, and build it into the algorithm, perhaps making gains unlimited at first, then making it very deflationary for several years, and gradually easing gains to something like 0-2% deflation per year. A currency with a known long term future value is obviously very useful, and a stable value is also more useful.<p>I can&#x27;t think of a decentralized way to measure demand, though, so maybe this is not possible.</text></comment> | <story><title>Why Bitcoin is a significant breakthrough, but perhaps not as a currency</title><url>http://dpk.io/blockchain</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>fragsworth</author><text>I think we almost all agree that cryptocurrency is a revolutionary thing. It&#x27;s difficult to see <i>how</i> revolutionary, because we are only beginning to understand what can be made possible by it.<p>I often see it compared to the advent of the early Internet in the 1980s, when nobody really knew how big it would get, just that it was &quot;revolutionary&quot; and would become huge.<p>This may be an overestimation caused in part by bitcoin stakeholders trying to promote the idea. But a very similar thing happened in the 90s when everyone was buying tech stocks.</text></comment> |
16,334,173 | 16,334,031 | 1 | 2 | 16,330,698 | train | <story><title>How to Know When a Child’s Flu Turns Serious</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/07/well/family/children-flu-infants-deaths-influenza-complications-fever-breathing-symptoms.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ransom1538</author><text>Oseltamivir. (Tamiflu)<p>My ex-girlfriend (7years) is a big deal chemist at GILD. So I share some under the covers knowledge here. GILD produces some of the best anti-virals on the market [i] (HIV is now a condition). When GILD discovered the power of Oseltamivir it knew they would not be able to produce the scale needed. They sold their rights to Roche. Roche being a sick pro-profits-first company basically shelved the product. Roche wasn&#x27;t interested in the &#x27;cure&#x27; for the flu they were interested in treating the symptoms. But, as it turns out, china was impacted with bird flu during this period -- and gave no shit about patents and wanted to just save their population. Phone calls were made and china basically was going to produce it at at massive scale. Thus, Roche quickly started producing the product. Oseltamivir is amazing at fighting the flu virus. The original purpose was to take Oseltamivir when you have sick family members or know you might be coming down with symptoms. Recently, I came down with the flu (I had the vaccine), I took 4 pills over 2 days and it was turned into a slight cold. It could save lives. Doctors know this and are reluctant to prescribe it -- since they know it is in short supply and critical populations should get it first. Ironically, doctors reluctance to prescribe it - actually reduces the supply. I say to you, get it, keep it in your refrigerator -- when your 65+ year old dad gets the flu give it to him immediately.<p>[i] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bizjournals.com&#x2F;sanfrancisco&#x2F;news&#x2F;2018&#x2F;02&#x2F;07&#x2F;gilead-gild-biktarvy-hiv-aids-genvoya.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bizjournals.com&#x2F;sanfrancisco&#x2F;news&#x2F;2018&#x2F;02&#x2F;07&#x2F;gil...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>refurb</author><text>Your ex-gf&#x27;s story seems a bit off. First, Gilead didn&#x27;t license it to Roche until 1996 and it was approved in 1999. About the time it takes to conduct clinical trials and get FDA approval - no apparent delay.<p>The major Asian bird flu epidemic was ~2005, after it was already brought to market.<p>Tamiflu isn&#x27;t a &quot;cure&quot;, the effects are pretty limited, but it&#x27;s used because we have nothing else.<p>Tamiflu has been wildly successful product for Roche, why would they not develop it and instead try to treat &quot;symptoms&quot;?<p>Tamiflu is not in short supply by any means, Roche produces huge stockpiles for the US gov&#x27;t and the shelf life is pretty long. There is plenty to go around.<p>To summarize, your ex-gf&#x27;s story sounds like a could-be-true story (for those who don&#x27;t know better) that plays to the typical stereotypes for &quot;big pharma&quot;.<p>I&#x27;ll also add that the cost to treat someone with Tamiflu before it went generic was ~$100. Pretty reasonable considering what drug costs are like in general.</text></comment> | <story><title>How to Know When a Child’s Flu Turns Serious</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/07/well/family/children-flu-infants-deaths-influenza-complications-fever-breathing-symptoms.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ransom1538</author><text>Oseltamivir. (Tamiflu)<p>My ex-girlfriend (7years) is a big deal chemist at GILD. So I share some under the covers knowledge here. GILD produces some of the best anti-virals on the market [i] (HIV is now a condition). When GILD discovered the power of Oseltamivir it knew they would not be able to produce the scale needed. They sold their rights to Roche. Roche being a sick pro-profits-first company basically shelved the product. Roche wasn&#x27;t interested in the &#x27;cure&#x27; for the flu they were interested in treating the symptoms. But, as it turns out, china was impacted with bird flu during this period -- and gave no shit about patents and wanted to just save their population. Phone calls were made and china basically was going to produce it at at massive scale. Thus, Roche quickly started producing the product. Oseltamivir is amazing at fighting the flu virus. The original purpose was to take Oseltamivir when you have sick family members or know you might be coming down with symptoms. Recently, I came down with the flu (I had the vaccine), I took 4 pills over 2 days and it was turned into a slight cold. It could save lives. Doctors know this and are reluctant to prescribe it -- since they know it is in short supply and critical populations should get it first. Ironically, doctors reluctance to prescribe it - actually reduces the supply. I say to you, get it, keep it in your refrigerator -- when your 65+ year old dad gets the flu give it to him immediately.<p>[i] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bizjournals.com&#x2F;sanfrancisco&#x2F;news&#x2F;2018&#x2F;02&#x2F;07&#x2F;gilead-gild-biktarvy-hiv-aids-genvoya.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bizjournals.com&#x2F;sanfrancisco&#x2F;news&#x2F;2018&#x2F;02&#x2F;07&#x2F;gil...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>virusduck</author><text>Your girlfriend is overstating the case. In tissue culture, almost 100% of circulating strains of flu are susceptible to oseltamivir. However, clinical and epi studies have shown, at best, a very modest effect on disease in otherwise healthy adults. It may reduce transmission, but it comes with an increased likelihood of vomiting and diarrhea. It is far more critical for those at risk of complications (the elderly, those with underlying respiratory conditions).<p>Widespread usage of oseltamivir will almost certainly lead to widespread resistance, and there aren&#x27;t many other options for future, particularly nasty flus. This is the reason for the US stockpile--even though the data wasn&#x27;t conclusive on its benefits, oseltamivir was the best plan for pandemic flu.<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bmj.com&#x2F;content&#x2F;358&#x2F;bmj.j3266" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bmj.com&#x2F;content&#x2F;358&#x2F;bmj.j3266</a>
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16,188,908 | 16,187,356 | 1 | 2 | 16,185,118 | train | <story><title>Laws of UX</title><url>https://lawsofux.com/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>have_faith</author><text>Did anyone else enjoy it for what it was? I get the criticisms, you want the web to be homogenised and free from any form of expression that doesn&#x27;t present every piece of information in it&#x27;s most human-machine digestible form, I get it. But it was pretty simple to use and the flair was minimal. I don&#x27;t understand the pitchforks. There&#x27;s a few minor annoyances like the back button not working as expected, but they are very minor for a site so small.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>epicide</author><text>I quite enjoyed it. I liked that they didn&#x27;t just give you a checklist of &quot;things to do&quot;, but instead gave you broad &quot;laws&quot; that you can interpret how you see fit coupled with the reasoning behind that law. This keeps each one applicable to multiple scenarios and isn&#x27;t prescriptive.<p>I think a lot of the hate comes from people seeing that it&#x27;s about UX and want to immediately tear it down for not being how they personally prefer information (apparently, if it&#x27;s not the most information dense way possible, they don&#x27;t like it).<p>I actually think having a distinct picture and making you scroll a bit helped me. The distinct picture is a good mnemonic and makes each law stand out from the others (especially by using different colors). If you had them all squished together with no scrolling necessary and no colors, it would be hard to distinguish between them. Sure, it might be more efficient to scroll through, but that in itself might be the point: reading through something and actually grokking it does not happen by scrolling through it as fast as possible, so why optimize for that?<p>It looks fine on mobile to me. The only real complaint I had was losing my position on hitting back, but I wouldn&#x27;t jump to the conclusion that they consciously made it do that. Probably just a bug&#x2F;oversight.</text></comment> | <story><title>Laws of UX</title><url>https://lawsofux.com/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>have_faith</author><text>Did anyone else enjoy it for what it was? I get the criticisms, you want the web to be homogenised and free from any form of expression that doesn&#x27;t present every piece of information in it&#x27;s most human-machine digestible form, I get it. But it was pretty simple to use and the flair was minimal. I don&#x27;t understand the pitchforks. There&#x27;s a few minor annoyances like the back button not working as expected, but they are very minor for a site so small.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>cptskippy</author><text>&gt; I get the criticisms, you want the web to be homogenised and free from any form of expression that doesn&#x27;t present every piece of information in it&#x27;s most human-machine digestible form, I get it.<p>You don&#x27;t get it, you just minimized and dismissed everyone&#x27;s objections to this site.<p>As a power point presentation, this site is great. As a line item on your resume, sure.<p>As a resource that someone can use and reference, it&#x27;s awful.</text></comment> |
11,711,853 | 11,711,599 | 1 | 3 | 11,710,620 | train | <story><title>Symantec/Norton Antivirus Remote Heap/Pool Memory Corruption CVE-2016-2208</title><url>https://bugs.chromium.org/p/project-zero/issues/detail?id=820</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>technion</author><text>It&#x27;s high time some of these compliance groups got together and had a good hard look at themselves.<p>It&#x27;s been years since desktop signature-based antivirus provided a significant improvement to security. Every time there&#x27;s a cryptolocker outbreak, I see people scrambling to make decisions like &quot;we need to replace McAfee with Kaspersky&quot;, as though they feel that&#x27;s their answer.<p>When you try telling an insurance auditor &quot;we have a whitelisting application, nothing runs unless I&#x27;ve approved it, products like Symantec Endpoint are unnecessary in that environment&quot;, you first get a confused look, then you hear &quot;ok, so you&#x27;re DON&#x27;T meet the minimum basic security requirements, let me write that down&quot;.<p>It&#x27;s gotten to a point that it&#x27;s actively part of Intel Security&#x27;s advertising, with a recent partner promotion pushing to &quot;help your clients meet their compliancy requirements&quot;. The brochure never even mentioned actually securing anything, just how it ticked various boxes.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pilif</author><text>This is actually a real problem we need public perception changed. If you have proper white-listing in place then AV does nothing but actually decrease the security as these AV programs probably need to be white-listed and thus expose the machines to the kinds of issues as shown here.<p>Unless the compliance auditors are happy with the software just being installed and don&#x27;t check whether it actually runs. That would still be a colossal waste of money for the licenses but at least it would not compromise your security.</text></comment> | <story><title>Symantec/Norton Antivirus Remote Heap/Pool Memory Corruption CVE-2016-2208</title><url>https://bugs.chromium.org/p/project-zero/issues/detail?id=820</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>technion</author><text>It&#x27;s high time some of these compliance groups got together and had a good hard look at themselves.<p>It&#x27;s been years since desktop signature-based antivirus provided a significant improvement to security. Every time there&#x27;s a cryptolocker outbreak, I see people scrambling to make decisions like &quot;we need to replace McAfee with Kaspersky&quot;, as though they feel that&#x27;s their answer.<p>When you try telling an insurance auditor &quot;we have a whitelisting application, nothing runs unless I&#x27;ve approved it, products like Symantec Endpoint are unnecessary in that environment&quot;, you first get a confused look, then you hear &quot;ok, so you&#x27;re DON&#x27;T meet the minimum basic security requirements, let me write that down&quot;.<p>It&#x27;s gotten to a point that it&#x27;s actively part of Intel Security&#x27;s advertising, with a recent partner promotion pushing to &quot;help your clients meet their compliancy requirements&quot;. The brochure never even mentioned actually securing anything, just how it ticked various boxes.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nihonde</author><text>As a lawyer who deals with contracts, one of my major pet peeves is the stupid warranty that requires a party to use &quot;industry-standard virus detection software&quot;. I&#x27;m fairly certain that none of the lawyers who insist on that language know anything about IT security.</text></comment> |
30,861,066 | 30,860,931 | 1 | 3 | 30,858,311 | train | <story><title>Developers spend most of their time figuring the system out</title><url>https://lepiter.io/feenk/developers-spend-most-of-their-time-figuri-9q25taswlbzjc5rsufndeu0py/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>WindyCityBrew</author><text>There are other benefits, pair programming reduces a whole category of simple bugs&#x2F;typos to basically 0, keeps people on task, offers (literally) immediate feedback.<p>Unlike most programming &quot;best practices&quot; or paradigms, there&#x27;s actual empirical evidence that pair programming is &quot;better&quot;. Fewer bugs, easier to read code, shorter review cycles.<p>My guess as to why we don&#x27;t see more adoption is 1) most developers aren&#x27;t that fond of it, and 2) most managers do some quick gut check mental math and assume 2 programmers + 1 computer can&#x27;t be equal to or greater than 2 programmers + 2 computers, that&#x27;s nonsense, actual evidence be damned.<p>edit to add: I agree with commenters that pairing is more demanding&#x2F;draining than solo work. I shudder at the thought of anyone trying to pair for 8hrs straight, or &quot;all day every day 40hrs&#x2F;wk&quot;. Nobody solo programs like that either though.</text></item><item><author>SomeCallMeTim</author><text>That just <i>can&#x27;t</i> be more productive over the long term, though.<p>Lets say, hypothetically, that you <i>can</i> use it to ramp any programmer up to being an expert on the system. Maybe that takes two months? Or even six months? Once you have a team full of experts, you&#x27;re now spending two programmer hours to do every bit of work that could have been done in one programmer hour by a single expert.<p>Unless you have such incredibly high turnover that the period to transform a developer into an expert is close to or less than the average tenure of an employee, in which case your team has <i>other</i> issues that likely need to be addressed, because why are people jumping ship so quickly if it&#x27;s such a great place to work? (For example: If it takes six months to produce an expert, you&#x27;d need to have an average tenure of less than or equal to six months to <i>really</i> benefit from pairing; anything more and the 50% performance penalty has to eat into your overall productivity.)<p>On top of that, I have never been at a job where it&#x27;s taken me more than a week to get up to speed on a system, or at least to the point where I can simply ask the occasional question of the experts on a team to get me unstuck. Even if the average developer took a month or two, pairing beyond that point is simply fun and not more productive than two programmers developing independently.<p>Unless one of the developers is otherwise likely to produce negative productivity on their own, I suppose. I&#x27;ve worked with that kind of developer as well, and the right answer is to eject them from your team, not pay other developers to babysit them.</text></item><item><author>gleenn</author><text>People always struggle or avoid doing pair programming, and people always think it means that the developers&#x27; time now costs twice as much, but this is a total lie. When I worked at a place that did 100% pair programming with rotation every day, a new developer could hit the ground <i>flying</i>. Sitting next to someone who knows the system and can answer your question immediately means you get up to speed millions of times faster than screwing around by yourself. Pointed-haired bosses and accountants will never understand this. If you pair and rotate, the inexperienced person becomes experienced quickly, and it&#x27;s viral if you also do rotating pairing. A team with one expert and pairing is now a team full of experts.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>darkwater</author><text>As others pointed out, for many of us pair programming is much more demanding on mental resources. The way I tend to work is by doing micro-breaks, checking out other things I would not be comfortable sharing with someone else; if I don&#x27;t do that and keep hyperfocused, I get drained quicker.
Also you can get a couple of programmers that will go down the wrong rabbit hole for much more time because they reinforce their wrong belief mutually. This obviously happens with individuals as well but if you get the wrong mix it can be much worse.</text></comment> | <story><title>Developers spend most of their time figuring the system out</title><url>https://lepiter.io/feenk/developers-spend-most-of-their-time-figuri-9q25taswlbzjc5rsufndeu0py/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>WindyCityBrew</author><text>There are other benefits, pair programming reduces a whole category of simple bugs&#x2F;typos to basically 0, keeps people on task, offers (literally) immediate feedback.<p>Unlike most programming &quot;best practices&quot; or paradigms, there&#x27;s actual empirical evidence that pair programming is &quot;better&quot;. Fewer bugs, easier to read code, shorter review cycles.<p>My guess as to why we don&#x27;t see more adoption is 1) most developers aren&#x27;t that fond of it, and 2) most managers do some quick gut check mental math and assume 2 programmers + 1 computer can&#x27;t be equal to or greater than 2 programmers + 2 computers, that&#x27;s nonsense, actual evidence be damned.<p>edit to add: I agree with commenters that pairing is more demanding&#x2F;draining than solo work. I shudder at the thought of anyone trying to pair for 8hrs straight, or &quot;all day every day 40hrs&#x2F;wk&quot;. Nobody solo programs like that either though.</text></item><item><author>SomeCallMeTim</author><text>That just <i>can&#x27;t</i> be more productive over the long term, though.<p>Lets say, hypothetically, that you <i>can</i> use it to ramp any programmer up to being an expert on the system. Maybe that takes two months? Or even six months? Once you have a team full of experts, you&#x27;re now spending two programmer hours to do every bit of work that could have been done in one programmer hour by a single expert.<p>Unless you have such incredibly high turnover that the period to transform a developer into an expert is close to or less than the average tenure of an employee, in which case your team has <i>other</i> issues that likely need to be addressed, because why are people jumping ship so quickly if it&#x27;s such a great place to work? (For example: If it takes six months to produce an expert, you&#x27;d need to have an average tenure of less than or equal to six months to <i>really</i> benefit from pairing; anything more and the 50% performance penalty has to eat into your overall productivity.)<p>On top of that, I have never been at a job where it&#x27;s taken me more than a week to get up to speed on a system, or at least to the point where I can simply ask the occasional question of the experts on a team to get me unstuck. Even if the average developer took a month or two, pairing beyond that point is simply fun and not more productive than two programmers developing independently.<p>Unless one of the developers is otherwise likely to produce negative productivity on their own, I suppose. I&#x27;ve worked with that kind of developer as well, and the right answer is to eject them from your team, not pay other developers to babysit them.</text></item><item><author>gleenn</author><text>People always struggle or avoid doing pair programming, and people always think it means that the developers&#x27; time now costs twice as much, but this is a total lie. When I worked at a place that did 100% pair programming with rotation every day, a new developer could hit the ground <i>flying</i>. Sitting next to someone who knows the system and can answer your question immediately means you get up to speed millions of times faster than screwing around by yourself. Pointed-haired bosses and accountants will never understand this. If you pair and rotate, the inexperienced person becomes experienced quickly, and it&#x27;s viral if you also do rotating pairing. A team with one expert and pairing is now a team full of experts.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>azemetre</author><text>I don&#x27;t mind pair programming but I don&#x27;t have the physical&#x2F;mental capacity to do it for a full work day. I can only imagine how exhausted I&#x27;d get after several weeks of it.<p>When I do pair, I only work for 3 or 4 hours that day total.</text></comment> |
17,806,432 | 17,806,384 | 1 | 2 | 17,804,617 | train | <story><title>Idempotence: What is it and why should I care?</title><url>http://cloudingmine.com/idempotence-what-is-it-and-why-should-i-care/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rectangletangle</author><text>This is solid advice. Another common trick is to disable the submit event when the submit button is clicked for the first time, preventing two requests from firing, when the user double clicks. Then re-enable the event, if the request fails. Ideally this is done in addition to server side nonce validation, and not as the only preventative measure, because browser differences, or network issues could cause a double request (more likely if the HTTP GET method is used, instead of a proper POST). Regardless server and client side techniques should be used together to create a better UX, similar to using both client and server side email format validation.</text></item><item><author>ageitgey</author><text>This is vital if you are designing apis or clients that deal with charging a user money. It should be literally impossible for a user to accidentally get charged twice due to a flakey connection if you design correctly.<p>The trick is to have the client generate a random &#x27;idempotency key&#x27; (a uuid) to start each logical transaction and have the server use that id to prevent double charges of the same transaction. By always passing that key, client can request that the payment be processed a 100 times with no fear of it being processed more than once.<p>This stripe blog post has as good a description as any: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;stripe.com&#x2F;blog&#x2F;idempotency" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;stripe.com&#x2F;blog&#x2F;idempotency</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>digitaLandscape</author><text>I don&#x27;t like this because in practice sites usually fail to re-enable the submit button if something goes wrong. Just let the user submit multiple requests if they want to retry, don&#x27;t take that away from them, just make it harmless.</text></comment> | <story><title>Idempotence: What is it and why should I care?</title><url>http://cloudingmine.com/idempotence-what-is-it-and-why-should-i-care/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rectangletangle</author><text>This is solid advice. Another common trick is to disable the submit event when the submit button is clicked for the first time, preventing two requests from firing, when the user double clicks. Then re-enable the event, if the request fails. Ideally this is done in addition to server side nonce validation, and not as the only preventative measure, because browser differences, or network issues could cause a double request (more likely if the HTTP GET method is used, instead of a proper POST). Regardless server and client side techniques should be used together to create a better UX, similar to using both client and server side email format validation.</text></item><item><author>ageitgey</author><text>This is vital if you are designing apis or clients that deal with charging a user money. It should be literally impossible for a user to accidentally get charged twice due to a flakey connection if you design correctly.<p>The trick is to have the client generate a random &#x27;idempotency key&#x27; (a uuid) to start each logical transaction and have the server use that id to prevent double charges of the same transaction. By always passing that key, client can request that the payment be processed a 100 times with no fear of it being processed more than once.<p>This stripe blog post has as good a description as any: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;stripe.com&#x2F;blog&#x2F;idempotency" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;stripe.com&#x2F;blog&#x2F;idempotency</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>PinkMilkshake</author><text>That&#x27;s only a partial solution. It may be a user agent or a queuing system (or anything else sitting between a person clicking the button and where the final transaction is recorded) that attempts a retry.</text></comment> |
36,251,589 | 36,250,915 | 1 | 2 | 36,249,958 | train | <story><title>r/ProgrammerHumor will be shutting down to protest Reddit's API changes</title><url>https://reddit.com/r/ProgrammerHumor/comments/141qwy8/programmer_humor_will_be_shutting_down/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>DeepPhilosopher</author><text>&quot;Do we have a federated Mastodon-esque system to replace Reddit yet?&quot;
Yes. It&#x27;s called Lemmy. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;join-lemmy.org" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;join-lemmy.org</a> Just found out about it today.</text></item><item><author>DiabloD3</author><text>HN might as well just run the headline that Reddit is shutting down permanently. All the major subs are either temporarily or permanently shutting down in protest.<p>Do we have a federated Mastodon-esque system to replace Reddit yet? Its the only way to ensure the community survives at this point; Reddit leadership has already proven they only wish to harm both shareholders and the community at large under the guise of &quot;increasing shareholder value&quot; and shove their fiduciary duty under the bus.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>somsak2</author><text>&gt; Popular<p>&gt; 357 users &#x2F; month</text></comment> | <story><title>r/ProgrammerHumor will be shutting down to protest Reddit's API changes</title><url>https://reddit.com/r/ProgrammerHumor/comments/141qwy8/programmer_humor_will_be_shutting_down/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>DeepPhilosopher</author><text>&quot;Do we have a federated Mastodon-esque system to replace Reddit yet?&quot;
Yes. It&#x27;s called Lemmy. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;join-lemmy.org" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;join-lemmy.org</a> Just found out about it today.</text></item><item><author>DiabloD3</author><text>HN might as well just run the headline that Reddit is shutting down permanently. All the major subs are either temporarily or permanently shutting down in protest.<p>Do we have a federated Mastodon-esque system to replace Reddit yet? Its the only way to ensure the community survives at this point; Reddit leadership has already proven they only wish to harm both shareholders and the community at large under the guise of &quot;increasing shareholder value&quot; and shove their fiduciary duty under the bus.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>JauntTrooper</author><text>Is there no way to browse without signing in?</text></comment> |
41,736,591 | 41,732,553 | 1 | 2 | 41,700,559 | train | <story><title>Determinism in League of Legends: Implementation (2017)</title><url>https://technology.riotgames.com/news/determinism-league-legends-implementation</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>TacticalCoder</author><text>LoL was inspired by DotA (Defense of the Ancient). DotA was a Warcraft III mod.<p>Warcraft III came out in 2002 and was fully deterministic. Save files for entire games with up to 8 players (IIRC?) and huge armies were... Tiny. For they only saved the inputs.<p>It comes at a surprise to me not that LoL eventually became deterministic but that it wasn&#x27;t in the first place.<p>As a funny sidenote, around 1990 &#x2F; 1991 I wrote a little 2D game and there was a bug I simply couldn&#x27;t figure out. It&#x27;d happen very very rarely. And I realized, by myself, that if I rewrote the game&#x27;s little physics engine to be 100% deterministic I could just record the inputs while playing and then replay it, hopefully reproducing the crash. It worked. I eventually ended up recording the bug and, sure enough, upon replaying the game would crash: at that point I knew the bug was a goner. It was a dangling pointer in a rare case where the hero had picked an extra allowing to shot two shots at once on screen instead of one and if the player would then finish the level with the first shot gone out of the screen but the second shot still on screen.<p>I had never heard of anyone using a deterministic engine back in 1990&#x2F;1991. Fun memories.</text></comment> | <story><title>Determinism in League of Legends: Implementation (2017)</title><url>https://technology.riotgames.com/news/determinism-league-legends-implementation</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>nightowl_games</author><text>&gt; League of Legends does not use a fixed-step server clock, but rather a measured frame delta time which we throttle to a target frame rate. This makes the server more resilient to system-wide performance spikes, but this pattern definitely complicated determinism.<p>This could use some elaboration. I don&#x27;t even know how it&#x27;s possible to have determinism without a fixed-step. I must misunderstand what this means. Every simulation tick in league of legends has gotta be the same duration, right? ie: 1.0 &#x2F; 60.0?</text></comment> |
15,051,330 | 15,050,802 | 1 | 2 | 15,044,711 | train | <story><title>Life and death in Apple’s forbidden city</title><url>https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/jun/18/foxconn-life-death-forbidden-city-longhua-suicide-apple-iphone-brian-merchant-one-device-extract</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>devrandomguy</author><text>Based on your name, I assume that you are not ethnically Asian. Do you find racism &#x2F; xenophobia to be a significant issue for you in either Shenzhen or Taiwan? As a very white Canadian, if I wanted to explore, work and travel for years on end, and was willing to live at the same financial level as the locals, would that be offensive to them?</text></item><item><author>peterburkimsher</author><text>I went to Shenzhen and worked for Egoman, a Chinese company that made the first batch of Raspberry Pis, before that manufacturing got moved to Wales.<p>The dormitories look typical. I arranged to stay in one through a different friend; mine wasn&#x27;t arranged by the company.<p>Now I&#x27;m in Taiwan, and life is better here. Factories are newer and cleaner, and working hours are more sane. Chinese factories often set long shifts because there&#x27;s nothing to do in the local area except work. Kaohsiung has much more local culture than Shenzhen, so the workers are more interested in time off, and happier for it.<p>I&#x27;ve been here for 3 years to get the necessary work experience for future visas. I&#x27;m now considering other options, particularly New Zealand or Australia, where my girlfriend and I both want to go.<p>Please ask me if you have any other questions, I&#x27;m willing to share my experiences.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>davidzweig</author><text>China seemed to me like a pretty down-to-earth place, people are pragmatic and generally accepting of foreigners. There are many different ethnic groups. If you stick around a while and work on your Mandarin, I think you can find your place quite ok. Kunming is a nice city, and the surrounding area is very pretty.<p>Some photos from a trip here: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;goo.gl&#x2F;photos&#x2F;FawpURbZweNNQt288" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;goo.gl&#x2F;photos&#x2F;FawpURbZweNNQt288</a><p>I am working on some electronics and will be back in Shenzhen sometime this year, although I&#x27;m not sure if I will stay on much longer afterwards, I don&#x27;t know if it&#x27;s that much fun to live there.</text></comment> | <story><title>Life and death in Apple’s forbidden city</title><url>https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/jun/18/foxconn-life-death-forbidden-city-longhua-suicide-apple-iphone-brian-merchant-one-device-extract</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>devrandomguy</author><text>Based on your name, I assume that you are not ethnically Asian. Do you find racism &#x2F; xenophobia to be a significant issue for you in either Shenzhen or Taiwan? As a very white Canadian, if I wanted to explore, work and travel for years on end, and was willing to live at the same financial level as the locals, would that be offensive to them?</text></item><item><author>peterburkimsher</author><text>I went to Shenzhen and worked for Egoman, a Chinese company that made the first batch of Raspberry Pis, before that manufacturing got moved to Wales.<p>The dormitories look typical. I arranged to stay in one through a different friend; mine wasn&#x27;t arranged by the company.<p>Now I&#x27;m in Taiwan, and life is better here. Factories are newer and cleaner, and working hours are more sane. Chinese factories often set long shifts because there&#x27;s nothing to do in the local area except work. Kaohsiung has much more local culture than Shenzhen, so the workers are more interested in time off, and happier for it.<p>I&#x27;ve been here for 3 years to get the necessary work experience for future visas. I&#x27;m now considering other options, particularly New Zealand or Australia, where my girlfriend and I both want to go.<p>Please ask me if you have any other questions, I&#x27;m willing to share my experiences.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mc32</author><text>TW are pretty easy going. Take a short 4mo course (up to you to take more) of mandarin so you can go out and about without a translator.<p>You will not likely face any racism at all, unless you go into strange places. But you won&#x27;t get it from everyday people. If anything they&#x27;ll more than likely assume you&#x27;re educated and have good manners. They pretty much give you the benefit of the doubt.<p>Knowing (even basic) mandarin goes a long way.</text></comment> |
23,895,950 | 23,895,488 | 1 | 2 | 23,894,790 | train | <story><title>In Praise of ZFS on Linux's ZED 'ZFS Event Daemon'</title><url>https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/linux/ZFSZEDPraise</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jclulow</author><text>Despite what the article says about illumos not having something analogous, we do actually have something and have had it for more than a decade: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;illumos.org&#x2F;man&#x2F;1M&#x2F;syseventadm" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;illumos.org&#x2F;man&#x2F;1M&#x2F;syseventadm</a><p>It allows programs to be run in response to sysevents, some of which are generated by ZFS and some of which are generated by other parts of the system (e.g., device hotplug).</text></comment> | <story><title>In Praise of ZFS on Linux's ZED 'ZFS Event Daemon'</title><url>https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/linux/ZFSZEDPraise</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>acd</author><text>Insightful article. Zfs is the best file system. Ability to know that you do not have silent file corruption. Running without raid controllers. Feature to take snapshots super fast without waiting and that take little extra space. You can use Cache SSD with ZFS for read acceleration of physical disk. Transparent file compression. Good command line interface. Now you can take good actions with ZED for example sending a notification to an alert system like Slack, ticket system when disk fails or start disk scrubbing&#x2F;rebuild.<p>If you are on Linux I can highly recommend ZFS and Minio for S3 like storage. ZFS for local storage.</text></comment> |
16,397,220 | 16,397,071 | 1 | 2 | 16,396,318 | train | <story><title>Borneo Lost More Than 100k Orangutans from 1999 to 2015</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/15/science/orangutans-endangered-species.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mdb333</author><text>Its definitely sad to see in person where bordering on pristine primary rainforest are miles of palm plantations encroaching closer every day. Of course, don&#x27;t forget all the problems caused by the farmers slash &amp; burn tactics too.<p>Need to boycott companies and products that use palm oil! Make sure you read labels when you buy foods and choose more sustainable options.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>awakeasleep</author><text>I hate to remind everyone, but Nutella is Palm Oil with cocoa and hazlenut flavor.<p>Of course, Nutella works to ensure all their palm oil has some veneer of sustainability, but the fact is the more of the planet that eats it, the more palms need to be planted.</text></comment> | <story><title>Borneo Lost More Than 100k Orangutans from 1999 to 2015</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/15/science/orangutans-endangered-species.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mdb333</author><text>Its definitely sad to see in person where bordering on pristine primary rainforest are miles of palm plantations encroaching closer every day. Of course, don&#x27;t forget all the problems caused by the farmers slash &amp; burn tactics too.<p>Need to boycott companies and products that use palm oil! Make sure you read labels when you buy foods and choose more sustainable options.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>oldcynic</author><text>Now so much food is a brand in a portfolio of a multi-national I don&#x27;t think boycotts really work. How many tens of thousands need to join a boycott for Nestle to even notice? How many more for them to care enough to change?<p>Back in the days of national companies, most making just a few fairly closely related products, seems like a boycott could achieve much more.</text></comment> |
35,047,004 | 35,047,047 | 1 | 2 | 35,009,063 | train | <story><title>Nalanda University flourished for more than seven centuries</title><url>https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20230222-nalanda-the-university-that-changed-the-world</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mettamage</author><text>Wait, so is this the oldest university then?<p>Because a quick Google says &quot;The Jagiellonian University is a public research university in Kraków, Poland. Founded in 1364 by King Casimir III the Great, it is the oldest university in Poland and the 13th oldest university in continuous operation in the world. It is regarded as Poland&#x27;s most prestigious academic institution.&quot;<p>Ugh...<p>ChatGPT says &quot;The University of Bologna, located in Bologna, Italy, is considered the oldest university in the world, founded in 1088. It was initially established as a law school, but over time, it grew to include faculties of medicine, philosophy, and theology. The university played a significant role in the development of European higher education, and its model of organization and academic freedom has been emulated by other universities around the world.&quot;<p>This seems to be a contentious topic.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jltsiren</author><text>It depends on how you define a university.<p>Medieval European universities are often considered the first true universities, because they are direct ancestors of modern universities, and their traditions have survived and evolved into what we see today. There were earlier institutes of higher education all around the world (including Europe), but those traditions have not survived.</text></comment> | <story><title>Nalanda University flourished for more than seven centuries</title><url>https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20230222-nalanda-the-university-that-changed-the-world</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mettamage</author><text>Wait, so is this the oldest university then?<p>Because a quick Google says &quot;The Jagiellonian University is a public research university in Kraków, Poland. Founded in 1364 by King Casimir III the Great, it is the oldest university in Poland and the 13th oldest university in continuous operation in the world. It is regarded as Poland&#x27;s most prestigious academic institution.&quot;<p>Ugh...<p>ChatGPT says &quot;The University of Bologna, located in Bologna, Italy, is considered the oldest university in the world, founded in 1088. It was initially established as a law school, but over time, it grew to include faculties of medicine, philosophy, and theology. The university played a significant role in the development of European higher education, and its model of organization and academic freedom has been emulated by other universities around the world.&quot;<p>This seems to be a contentious topic.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ghaff</author><text>Continuous operation is a key word--which indeed apparently applies the the University of Bologna--and according to Wikipedia it is the oldest continuously operating university. (It&#x27;s apparently either 1088 or 1180-90 depending on your criteria--just a few years earlier than Oxford with the same criteria).<p>ADDED: As others note &quot;university&quot; is also a key word though college would probably also serve.</text></comment> |
38,201,869 | 38,201,523 | 1 | 3 | 38,188,162 | train | <story><title>Home Assistant blocked from integrating with Garage Door opener API</title><url>https://www.home-assistant.io/blog/2023/11/06/removal-of-myq-integration/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>scrps</author><text>Amazon expects me to weaken my physical security posture to help them defend against an activity I don&#x27;t engage in and is in no way my responsibility?<p>AND<p>Chamberlain expects me to weaken my digital security posture so they can run some opaque crap on my network¹ that I have very little observability into and even less control over so they can make money?<p>Money is one hell of a drug because they are high.<p>How about amazon builds (at their expense) an amazon controlled box, slap a mcu on, do authentication over nfc, rfid, etc etc. Offer it to customers free of charge, hell throw in a sweetener to get them to adopt.<p>[1] I have a default deny in AND out isolated vlan for crap like this, even if you don&#x27;t have a network background try to set one up if your networking equipment is capable.</text></item><item><author>paulgerhardt</author><text>Partially responsible for this. (Sold Lockitron to Chamberlain in 2017 which became the basis for Amazon Key integrations.)<p>Contrary to the popular sentiment in a lot of the comments here, there’s not much value in the analytics. As we all painfully found out in the 2010’s, there are only two viable recurring revenue streams in the IoT space - charging for video storage and charging for commercial access. Chamberlain does both with the MyQ cameras and with the garage access program to partners like Amazon and Walmart. Both retailers have a fraud problem (discussed here <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=38176891">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=38176891</a>). “In garage delivery” promises dropping delivery fraud to zero - ie users falsely claiming package theft. That solution is worth millions to retailers, naturally Chamberlain would like a cut but only if they can successfully defend that chokepoint.<p>For historical reasons having to do with the security of three or four generations of wireless protocols used in garage doors they can’t (and products like ratgdo and OpenSesame exploit this.) Other industries such as automotive have a more secure chain of control over their encryption keys so one has to (for instance) go to the dealer to buy a replacement key fob for your Tesla for $300 and not eBay for $5.<p>Given the turnover in leadership there I’m not surprised the new guy needs to put their hand on the plate to see it’s hot, but there’s a reason this wasn’t implemented before and it wasn’t because of lack of discussion. I can see the temptation in going for monetization given their market share but I think this approach was ill conceived rather than fix foundational issues which would allow home users to integrate with 3rd party services and still charge industry partners for reducing incidences of fraud.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>TheCapeGreek</author><text>I find it odd that the standard policy is to leave packages unattended in any form <i>in the first place</i>. This is another one of those things that is not standard globally.<p>E.g for us in South Africa, this would be unthinkable, regardless of how much time it saves the delivery company. The only time a parcel is left at the door is when it&#x27;s UberEats. Otherwise delivery is rescheduled if we don&#x27;t physically collect parcels in person. This is partly an access issue (many houses&#x2F;apartments&#x2F;estates have gated access) and largely a trust&#x2F;crime issue.</text></comment> | <story><title>Home Assistant blocked from integrating with Garage Door opener API</title><url>https://www.home-assistant.io/blog/2023/11/06/removal-of-myq-integration/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>scrps</author><text>Amazon expects me to weaken my physical security posture to help them defend against an activity I don&#x27;t engage in and is in no way my responsibility?<p>AND<p>Chamberlain expects me to weaken my digital security posture so they can run some opaque crap on my network¹ that I have very little observability into and even less control over so they can make money?<p>Money is one hell of a drug because they are high.<p>How about amazon builds (at their expense) an amazon controlled box, slap a mcu on, do authentication over nfc, rfid, etc etc. Offer it to customers free of charge, hell throw in a sweetener to get them to adopt.<p>[1] I have a default deny in AND out isolated vlan for crap like this, even if you don&#x27;t have a network background try to set one up if your networking equipment is capable.</text></item><item><author>paulgerhardt</author><text>Partially responsible for this. (Sold Lockitron to Chamberlain in 2017 which became the basis for Amazon Key integrations.)<p>Contrary to the popular sentiment in a lot of the comments here, there’s not much value in the analytics. As we all painfully found out in the 2010’s, there are only two viable recurring revenue streams in the IoT space - charging for video storage and charging for commercial access. Chamberlain does both with the MyQ cameras and with the garage access program to partners like Amazon and Walmart. Both retailers have a fraud problem (discussed here <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=38176891">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=38176891</a>). “In garage delivery” promises dropping delivery fraud to zero - ie users falsely claiming package theft. That solution is worth millions to retailers, naturally Chamberlain would like a cut but only if they can successfully defend that chokepoint.<p>For historical reasons having to do with the security of three or four generations of wireless protocols used in garage doors they can’t (and products like ratgdo and OpenSesame exploit this.) Other industries such as automotive have a more secure chain of control over their encryption keys so one has to (for instance) go to the dealer to buy a replacement key fob for your Tesla for $300 and not eBay for $5.<p>Given the turnover in leadership there I’m not surprised the new guy needs to put their hand on the plate to see it’s hot, but there’s a reason this wasn’t implemented before and it wasn’t because of lack of discussion. I can see the temptation in going for monetization given their market share but I think this approach was ill conceived rather than fix foundational issues which would allow home users to integrate with 3rd party services and still charge industry partners for reducing incidences of fraud.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>gorgoiler</author><text>Are you upset with Amazon for hypothetically refusing to deliver to your home unless you give them a virtual key fob to your garage?<p>Let’s just take a step back here and recognise that we’re asking online retailers to leave our deliveries outside our homes, with direct access to members of the public, but we’re <i>also</i> asking for them to assume responsibility if the packages are stolen.<p>Morally, in isolation, it’s not a very defensible position for the consumer to take. I personally don’t feel so bad about it when it’s Amazon — they can afford it, basically — but in general it’s not realistic for porch pirates to be anyone else’s problem except the consumer’s.</text></comment> |
26,430,207 | 26,430,085 | 1 | 2 | 26,422,286 | train | <story><title>Why I don't like Tailwind CSS</title><url>https://www.aleksandrhovhannisyan.com/blog/why-i-dont-like-tailwind-css</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>captainmuon</author><text>I feel like an old man yelling at clouds, but I actually like CSS, with classes, specifity, and the cascade.<p>Maybe the difference is that other people build <i>apps</i> with lots of components. When I write HTML I mostly build web pages - a lot of text, some images, and maybe a menu.<p>I need to be able to tweak properties among a lot of different elements at the same time. E.g. change the font face on all elements in the main area, change the color of all links that are not special links, rotate all titles and underline them, and so on. It&#x27;s an iterative approach, as I evolve the design in HTML (I don&#x27;t have a designer team that hands me a psd I just have to copy). To do this with Tailwind, you&#x27;d have to use components, and you&#x27;d have to add another layer of abstraction to affect the right components together.<p>And I know nobody really uses CSS Zen Garden style themes - but it is great to be able to take a HTML snippet and use it in another project with minimal changes and a different CSS design.<p>CSS has shortcomings - it&#x27;s missing a way to &quot;include&quot;, it could have more complex selectors, it can get unwieldy in larger projects - but it is also does a couple of things really well.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>brundolf</author><text>I build apps with lots of components and I still like CSS with classes, specificity, and the cascade :)</text></comment> | <story><title>Why I don't like Tailwind CSS</title><url>https://www.aleksandrhovhannisyan.com/blog/why-i-dont-like-tailwind-css</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>captainmuon</author><text>I feel like an old man yelling at clouds, but I actually like CSS, with classes, specifity, and the cascade.<p>Maybe the difference is that other people build <i>apps</i> with lots of components. When I write HTML I mostly build web pages - a lot of text, some images, and maybe a menu.<p>I need to be able to tweak properties among a lot of different elements at the same time. E.g. change the font face on all elements in the main area, change the color of all links that are not special links, rotate all titles and underline them, and so on. It&#x27;s an iterative approach, as I evolve the design in HTML (I don&#x27;t have a designer team that hands me a psd I just have to copy). To do this with Tailwind, you&#x27;d have to use components, and you&#x27;d have to add another layer of abstraction to affect the right components together.<p>And I know nobody really uses CSS Zen Garden style themes - but it is great to be able to take a HTML snippet and use it in another project with minimal changes and a different CSS design.<p>CSS has shortcomings - it&#x27;s missing a way to &quot;include&quot;, it could have more complex selectors, it can get unwieldy in larger projects - but it is also does a couple of things really well.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>sammorrowdrums</author><text>I think the styles everywhere thing depends somewhat on how you create components.<p>For example I have used Tailwind with Styled Components so I have isolated CSS for components and interactions, and consistent classes for layout.<p>It really makes maintenance a dream. When you update a component it is clear what CSS is tethered to it, so you don&#x27;t accidentally leave unused classes around or tweak classes that are used elsewhere with unknown results. The bigger the app, and the more developers the more this becomes useful.<p>Of course for personal sites and blogs and projects many tools are overkill. But I have saved so much time, bugs and effort by moving to Styled Components. Tailwind feels like what I previously used bootstrap for.<p>I can hand write the CSS but I want to be able to quickly switch columns and fonts and alignment in a cross browser, mobile friendly way while writing the HTML on the first pass when working professionally.</text></comment> |
9,904,969 | 9,905,111 | 1 | 2 | 9,904,428 | train | <story><title>Tesla’s Model S Gets “Ludicrous” Mode, Will Do 0-60 in 2.8 Seconds</title><url>http://techcrunch.com/2015/07/17/teslas-model-s-gets-ludicrous-mode-will-do-0-60-in-2-8-seconds</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>stefanobernardi</author><text>Even if not a software update, I still find Tesla&#x27;s way of thinking of a car as an actual (continuously update&#x2F;upgrade-able) product fascinating. Very rare for hardware.<p>It gives an amazing user experience, &quot;Hey restart your car and it&#x27;s now got X and Y&quot;. Respect.<p>Edit: clarifying the term &quot;product&quot;.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tthayer</author><text>Agreed. The 2015 Mazda3 we just bought has a horrible info&#x2F;nav system that crashes and frequently stops responding. I&#x27;m guessing the actual chance of it ever being fixed at 0%. Tesla&#x27;s get an automatic OTA update that would fix that kind of thing and it wouldn&#x27;t be something you&#x27;d have to &#x27;deal&#x27; with for the rest of your ownership of the vehicle.</text></comment> | <story><title>Tesla’s Model S Gets “Ludicrous” Mode, Will Do 0-60 in 2.8 Seconds</title><url>http://techcrunch.com/2015/07/17/teslas-model-s-gets-ludicrous-mode-will-do-0-60-in-2-8-seconds</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>stefanobernardi</author><text>Even if not a software update, I still find Tesla&#x27;s way of thinking of a car as an actual (continuously update&#x2F;upgrade-able) product fascinating. Very rare for hardware.<p>It gives an amazing user experience, &quot;Hey restart your car and it&#x27;s now got X and Y&quot;. Respect.<p>Edit: clarifying the term &quot;product&quot;.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nicboobees</author><text>This is an awful user experience though.<p>Look at mobile phones.<p>An old Nokia 3210 or something, just works. It does everything fine. It works as a phone. It was designed from start to finish, and built.<p>Compare that with Android. Every update they seem to break or remove some functionality. Endless software updates, restarting, etc. It was shipped with bugs, it&#x27;ll always have bugs.<p>I&#x27;m not convinced this is an improvement. Also obviously has some pretty big consequences if the update system is hacked, or if there&#x27;s critical bugs etc.</text></comment> |
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