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8,739,914 | 8,739,943 | 1 | 2 | 8,739,628 | train | <story><title>You can take down Pirate Bay, but you can’t kill the Internet it created</title><url>http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-intersect/wp/2014/12/10/you-can-take-down-pirate-bay-but-you-cant-kill-the-internet-it-created/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>k-mcgrady</author><text>&gt;&gt; &quot;Thus, if all you want to watch is Game of Thrones and nothing else, your only option is to torrent&#x2F;pirate it.&quot;<p>I get your point but that&#x27;s incorrect. Alternatives include:<p>- paying for the cable + HBO subscription and only watching GoT.<p>- waiting for the blu ray&#x2F;dvd&#x2F;iTunes release<p>Both those options allow you to watch GoT and nothing else. The problem is that people don&#x27;t want to wait for an official release or want a cheaper way to get it &#x27;right now&#x27; (i.e. a cheaper HBO only subscription). I think GoT is a big torrent is because it&#x27;s not available on TV in a lot of countries or there is a big delay between the US airing and the local airing. Another reason is that people don&#x27;t pay for something when they can get it for free. I would like to see how many people who torrent GoT (but say they would pay for it if it was available to them on their terms) would pay $3-5 for an episode via a torrent if there was a button to pay (and get it legally) and a button to get it for free (illegally).</text></item><item><author>larssorenson</author><text>I think the article misses the point of why piracy was a big thing. It was not always (necessarily) about getting what you want free of charge, but the free flowing access to the media and content. For instance, the reason Game of Thrones is watched via torrent downloads more than via HBO is because a large portion of the audience wants to either just watch HBO or just watch Game of Thrones. But to do that, you have to have an HBO subscription through some cable provider, who does not provide a direct subscription for only HBO. Thus, if all you want to watch is Game of Thrones and nothing else, your only option is to torrent&#x2F;pirate it.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Morgawr</author><text>&gt;Another reason is that people don&#x27;t pay for something when they can get it for free<p>I would like to say this is wrong, but I have no evidence to support my claims. However what I can say empirically is that myself and many other people I know have stopped pirating games and&#x2F;or music ever since easy-to-use services like Steam and Google Music came out.<p>Personally, nowadays I find myself with so many legit games on Steam that my first thought when a new game comes out is &quot;meh, I don&#x27;t have time to play that, I&#x27;ll buy it later when it goes on sale&quot;. Years ago it would&#x27;ve been &quot;let&#x27;s hop on XXXX to see if there&#x27;s a torrent ready!&quot;.<p>It simply is not worth it, to me, to pirate games, set up cracks, be sure I have all the proper files, set up backups in case I want to replay it later, etc etc. With Steam I can just click &quot;download&quot; and it just works.<p>I firmly believe that if you make something easy-to-access, cheap enough (steam sales, anyone?) and immediate in delivery, you will soon realize piracy really does not matter. The market just needs to evolve and adapt to newer technologies.</text></comment> | <story><title>You can take down Pirate Bay, but you can’t kill the Internet it created</title><url>http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-intersect/wp/2014/12/10/you-can-take-down-pirate-bay-but-you-cant-kill-the-internet-it-created/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>k-mcgrady</author><text>&gt;&gt; &quot;Thus, if all you want to watch is Game of Thrones and nothing else, your only option is to torrent&#x2F;pirate it.&quot;<p>I get your point but that&#x27;s incorrect. Alternatives include:<p>- paying for the cable + HBO subscription and only watching GoT.<p>- waiting for the blu ray&#x2F;dvd&#x2F;iTunes release<p>Both those options allow you to watch GoT and nothing else. The problem is that people don&#x27;t want to wait for an official release or want a cheaper way to get it &#x27;right now&#x27; (i.e. a cheaper HBO only subscription). I think GoT is a big torrent is because it&#x27;s not available on TV in a lot of countries or there is a big delay between the US airing and the local airing. Another reason is that people don&#x27;t pay for something when they can get it for free. I would like to see how many people who torrent GoT (but say they would pay for it if it was available to them on their terms) would pay $3-5 for an episode via a torrent if there was a button to pay (and get it legally) and a button to get it for free (illegally).</text></item><item><author>larssorenson</author><text>I think the article misses the point of why piracy was a big thing. It was not always (necessarily) about getting what you want free of charge, but the free flowing access to the media and content. For instance, the reason Game of Thrones is watched via torrent downloads more than via HBO is because a large portion of the audience wants to either just watch HBO or just watch Game of Thrones. But to do that, you have to have an HBO subscription through some cable provider, who does not provide a direct subscription for only HBO. Thus, if all you want to watch is Game of Thrones and nothing else, your only option is to torrent&#x2F;pirate it.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>drewblaisdell</author><text>A better question: who would pay $3-5 for an episode of Game of Thrones in 1080p that starts playing with a single mouse click and is available as soon as the episode airs in the earliest timezone (at least an hour before it appears online illegally)?<p>My guess: not everyone, but a <i>lot</i> of people.</text></comment> |
15,178,567 | 15,178,583 | 1 | 2 | 15,176,597 | train | <story><title>Divorce and Occupation</title><url>http://flowingdata.com/2017/07/25/divorce-and-occupation</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>coredog64</author><text>Been married for more than 20 years now. The advice I give younger co-workers who are just getting married is &quot;You can be right or you can be happy.&quot;</text></item><item><author>tabeth</author><text>I remember for a school project long ago I had to interview a bunch of people in nursing homes. Many of them had been in marriages that spanned several decades so I asked them how they made it work.<p>Shockingly everyone said basically the same thing: agreeableness. Supposedly, having low or nonexistent levels of disagreement, whether financial, moral or otherwise is the key.<p>So with this said, I&#x27;d be curious to know how your profession affects your agreeableness (especially in respect to power dynamics). I wish I asked if they <i>choose</i> to agree, e.g compromise, or if they and their partner were naturally agreeable.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jonahx</author><text>I hear this all the time, and in its typical meaning I think it&#x27;s terrible advice.<p>If you care about honesty, or self-respect, or your partner knowing you and how you think -- caving in to everything and avoiding conflict at all costs is the <i>opposite</i> of what you should do.<p>If you rephrase it as &quot;Don&#x27;t sweat the small stuff&quot; or &quot;Don&#x27;t be petty and stubborn about things that don&#x27;t matter,&quot; then it&#x27;s perfectly reasonable.</text></comment> | <story><title>Divorce and Occupation</title><url>http://flowingdata.com/2017/07/25/divorce-and-occupation</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>coredog64</author><text>Been married for more than 20 years now. The advice I give younger co-workers who are just getting married is &quot;You can be right or you can be happy.&quot;</text></item><item><author>tabeth</author><text>I remember for a school project long ago I had to interview a bunch of people in nursing homes. Many of them had been in marriages that spanned several decades so I asked them how they made it work.<p>Shockingly everyone said basically the same thing: agreeableness. Supposedly, having low or nonexistent levels of disagreement, whether financial, moral or otherwise is the key.<p>So with this said, I&#x27;d be curious to know how your profession affects your agreeableness (especially in respect to power dynamics). I wish I asked if they <i>choose</i> to agree, e.g compromise, or if they and their partner were naturally agreeable.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>fosk</author><text>I am not married, and I am in my twenties, and I don&#x27;t get why people are signing a contract with high termination fees just so they can compromise on everything for the next 4 decades. Somebody please enlighten me, why are we still stuck with this 2000yrs old tribal behavior instead of moving on with a more modern approach?<p>Edit: controversial arguments come with downvotes, but I&#x27;d really like to know your opinion on this.</text></comment> |
41,313,184 | 41,311,390 | 1 | 3 | 41,306,128 | train | <story><title>Calling All Hackers</title><url>https://phrack.org/issues/71/17.html#article</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>underdeserver</author><text>Lowering rates is fine. Lowering them to zero is bad.<p>Economists generally believe the baseline, target rate should be around 2-3%.<p>Zero interest rate is like steroids. You can take them for a while to pick you up and help fight a bug (like the 2008 crash), but if you don&#x27;t stop taking them, you&#x27;ll need a long, painful, 5.5% interest rate rehab.</text></item><item><author>coldpie</author><text>&gt; ZIRP was toxic. It made us bad and lazy.<p>Yes. It makes me really nervous to see people celebrating the fed talking about lowering rates. Maybe rates should be lowered a bit, sure, I don&#x27;t know. But please, please don&#x27;t ever let us go back to zero-interest. As a person who works with technology, that era was so incredibly depressing. So much waste. I&#x27;m on the verge of leaving the tech industry because of what happened over the past 10 years. City bus drivers don&#x27;t have to share an industry with SBF and Juicero and Elon Musk, you know?</text></item><item><author>AYBABTME</author><text>I thought this would be bad. The start with security stuff isn&#x27;t my vibe. But then I kept reading it and the storytelling kept me. The econ stuff, parallels, etc.<p>It ended up capturing perfectly a bunch of ideas I&#x27;ve been having for a few months now. ZIRP was toxic. It made us bad and lazy. Identifying the phenomenons and explaining their mechanisms has been a useful exercise.<p>I think this post will stay in my brain for a long while. I&#x27;m at this point in life and this resonates a lot. I want to build useful stuff with intrinsic value and I&#x27;m sick of the BS that exulted in the last decade. In my own way I&#x27;m trying to start ventures, so it&#x27;s a good motivating call.<p>Slow start but damn solid article.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>akira2501</author><text>&gt; and help fight a bug (like the 2008 crash)<p>That was not a &quot;bug.&quot; That was a parasite. If you take steroids with a parasite you might just make the parasite stronger.</text></comment> | <story><title>Calling All Hackers</title><url>https://phrack.org/issues/71/17.html#article</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>underdeserver</author><text>Lowering rates is fine. Lowering them to zero is bad.<p>Economists generally believe the baseline, target rate should be around 2-3%.<p>Zero interest rate is like steroids. You can take them for a while to pick you up and help fight a bug (like the 2008 crash), but if you don&#x27;t stop taking them, you&#x27;ll need a long, painful, 5.5% interest rate rehab.</text></item><item><author>coldpie</author><text>&gt; ZIRP was toxic. It made us bad and lazy.<p>Yes. It makes me really nervous to see people celebrating the fed talking about lowering rates. Maybe rates should be lowered a bit, sure, I don&#x27;t know. But please, please don&#x27;t ever let us go back to zero-interest. As a person who works with technology, that era was so incredibly depressing. So much waste. I&#x27;m on the verge of leaving the tech industry because of what happened over the past 10 years. City bus drivers don&#x27;t have to share an industry with SBF and Juicero and Elon Musk, you know?</text></item><item><author>AYBABTME</author><text>I thought this would be bad. The start with security stuff isn&#x27;t my vibe. But then I kept reading it and the storytelling kept me. The econ stuff, parallels, etc.<p>It ended up capturing perfectly a bunch of ideas I&#x27;ve been having for a few months now. ZIRP was toxic. It made us bad and lazy. Identifying the phenomenons and explaining their mechanisms has been a useful exercise.<p>I think this post will stay in my brain for a long while. I&#x27;m at this point in life and this resonates a lot. I want to build useful stuff with intrinsic value and I&#x27;m sick of the BS that exulted in the last decade. In my own way I&#x27;m trying to start ventures, so it&#x27;s a good motivating call.<p>Slow start but damn solid article.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>schmidtleonard</author><text>&gt; Zero interest rate is like steroids.<p>The problem with your analogy is that paying interest is an active measure. It takes effort. The higher the rate*(outstanding debt), the more effort. This isn&#x27;t a choice between injecting nothing vs injecting steroids, it&#x27;s a choice between injecting sedatives vs injecting nothing. Raising the interest rate is like injecting a sedative. How much sedative should we inject? How much sedative <i>can</i> we inject?</text></comment> |
35,394,522 | 35,391,901 | 1 | 2 | 35,391,465 | train | <story><title>A new era of transparency for Twitter</title><url>https://blog.twitter.com/en_us/topics/company/2023/a-new-era-of-transparency-for-twitter</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>pessimizer</author><text>Reading this thread, I thought this press release was going to be interesting. Instead it seems totally anodyne and reasonable. Imagine being so angry that twitter is going to put its recommendation code on github.</text></comment> | <story><title>A new era of transparency for Twitter</title><url>https://blog.twitter.com/en_us/topics/company/2023/a-new-era-of-transparency-for-twitter</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>JulianWasTaken</author><text>Isn&#x27;t it slightly ironic for a post on transparency to be signed &quot;Twitter&quot; as its author instead of some human? Who&#x27;s speaking at this point?<p>Of course in context of the rest of their missteps it&#x27;s a tiny thing, but it stands out to me immediately when seeing the post at least.</text></comment> |
20,559,226 | 20,559,405 | 1 | 2 | 20,558,490 | train | <story><title>Uber Lays Off 400</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/29/technology/uber-job-cuts.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>codingdave</author><text>&gt; The marketing team had more than 1,200...<p>I fully admit that I&#x27;m not in marketing, so there are surely nuances I don&#x27;t know. But that scale of marketing department is orders of magnitude above any other place I have worked, with the possible exception of IBM in the 90s. Just maybe... this was a reasonable move.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>aresant</author><text>Uber&#x27;s marketing &#x2F; customer acquisition cost is their highest non-driver line item by a significant multiple.<p>They spent ~$3,200,000,000 ($3.2 billion) on sales &amp; marketing in 2018 of which ~$1,800,000,000 is direct media &#x2F; HR cost to drive customer acquisition.<p>In 2019 this number, as of the first quarter, has gone up substantially to a &gt;$4b run rate.<p>With a burdened cost of $150k&#x2F;yr for every single member of the 1,200 marketing team that makes up $180m of the total.<p>Uber operates in 600+ international major markets.<p>1200 employees (5% of organization total) covering and executing nuanced marketplace approaches for a budget of that scale is not out of range.<p>(1) <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;qz.com&#x2F;1592971&#x2F;uber-ipo-filling-reveals-how-it-spends-its-money&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;qz.com&#x2F;1592971&#x2F;uber-ipo-filling-reveals-how-it-spend...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Uber Lays Off 400</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/29/technology/uber-job-cuts.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>codingdave</author><text>&gt; The marketing team had more than 1,200...<p>I fully admit that I&#x27;m not in marketing, so there are surely nuances I don&#x27;t know. But that scale of marketing department is orders of magnitude above any other place I have worked, with the possible exception of IBM in the 90s. Just maybe... this was a reasonable move.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dalbasal</author><text>Since we&#x27;re talking about tech startup marketing budgets, it&#x27;s a good time to reread <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.paulgraham.com&#x2F;yahoo.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.paulgraham.com&#x2F;yahoo.html</a><p><i>By 1998, Yahoo was the beneficiary of a de facto Ponzi scheme. Investors were excited about the Internet. One reason they were excited was Yahoo&#x27;s revenue growth. So they invested in new Internet startups. The startups then used the money to buy ads on Yahoo to get traffic. Which caused yet more revenue growth for Yahoo, and further convinced investors the Internet was worth investing in. When I realized this one day, sitting in my cubicle, I jumped up like Archimedes in his bathtub, except instead of &quot;Eureka!&quot; I was shouting &quot;Sell!&quot;</i></text></comment> |
24,333,377 | 24,333,134 | 1 | 3 | 24,332,761 | train | <story><title>FedEx feeder plane takes flight without pilot in test for Reliable Robotics</title><url>https://www.commercialappeal.com/story/money/industries/logistics/2020/08/28/fedex-plane-autonomous-flight-reliable-robotics/5655258002/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>alfalfasprout</author><text>Frankly the tech for autonomous aviation has been around for a while now. I expect even strong crosswind landings will soon be better handled by a computer than a pilot. But then here’s the problem...<p>Autonomous systems are great when things are going well, but at the end of the day they fare very poorly in edge cases sometimes with catastrophic results. When you’re driving a car you usually follow traffic rules and stop lights to get to your destination safely. In an airplane there’s constant communication and things change frequently based on weather, traffic, emergencies, etc. I can’t count the number of times ATC has repeated back an incorrect call sign. As a human we know it was probably meant for us and call back to confirm. Would a computer do that? Even if we used datalink communications then ATC would now have a much higher burden. Also human pilots would lose the situational awareness of hearing instructions for other aircraft on frequency.<p>Then there’s the question of— in an emergency situation is the computer going to be able to make the right judgement calls? What if its sensors are iced over&#x2F;inop?<p>All in all, while technologically I feel this could have been pulled off yesterday, I doubt we will see fully autonomous aircraft operating long routes in controlled airspace anytime soon.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>sargun</author><text>So, NASA, is in the process of working on some of this. They’re trying to come up with a new ATC model which will work better for drones &#x2F; eVTOL air taxis &#x2F; etc.<p>Some of the ideas are around “carving” out corridors, where you would be able to fly, and this corridor could be reasonably large (across multiple towers today). The other interesting thing is hierarchical ATC automation.<p>So, normal ATC would still exist, but they would interact with a tier of controllers who are responsible for them interacting with UAVs.<p>A lot of this apparently came from the idea that eVTOL is the future, and we will all be commuting to work in an electric airplane.<p>See: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nasa.gov&#x2F;simlabs&#x2F;atc" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nasa.gov&#x2F;simlabs&#x2F;atc</a></text></comment> | <story><title>FedEx feeder plane takes flight without pilot in test for Reliable Robotics</title><url>https://www.commercialappeal.com/story/money/industries/logistics/2020/08/28/fedex-plane-autonomous-flight-reliable-robotics/5655258002/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>alfalfasprout</author><text>Frankly the tech for autonomous aviation has been around for a while now. I expect even strong crosswind landings will soon be better handled by a computer than a pilot. But then here’s the problem...<p>Autonomous systems are great when things are going well, but at the end of the day they fare very poorly in edge cases sometimes with catastrophic results. When you’re driving a car you usually follow traffic rules and stop lights to get to your destination safely. In an airplane there’s constant communication and things change frequently based on weather, traffic, emergencies, etc. I can’t count the number of times ATC has repeated back an incorrect call sign. As a human we know it was probably meant for us and call back to confirm. Would a computer do that? Even if we used datalink communications then ATC would now have a much higher burden. Also human pilots would lose the situational awareness of hearing instructions for other aircraft on frequency.<p>Then there’s the question of— in an emergency situation is the computer going to be able to make the right judgement calls? What if its sensors are iced over&#x2F;inop?<p>All in all, while technologically I feel this could have been pulled off yesterday, I doubt we will see fully autonomous aircraft operating long routes in controlled airspace anytime soon.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>liability</author><text>Along these lines, would an autopilot ever think of landing in the Hudson? (Particularly if it hadn&#x27;t been done before?)</text></comment> |
15,437,416 | 15,437,398 | 1 | 3 | 15,436,943 | train | <story><title>Tokyo Is Preparing for Floods ‘Beyond Anything We’ve Seen’</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/06/climate/tokyo-floods.html?ribbon-ad-idx=4&rref=climate</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>acabal</author><text>It&#x27;s so crazy to me that everyone in vulnerable places--Tokyo and Houston in the article for example--are happy to spend hundreds of millions, even billions, to put a bandaid on their local climate change problems.<p>It seems like they all acknowledge the reality and danger of climate change and are willing to spend money on it.<p>In TFA Houston wants $400 million to build a reservoir. They seem to acknowledge that things are only going to get worse for them as the years go on. And yet everyone there still drives everywhere spewing carbon into their own air with every trip, public transit is in a poor state, and oil exploitation continues apace. Everyone&#x27;s OK with spending money and manpower on huge public works projects, but they&#x27;re not OK with addressing habits and addictions that make the projects necessary in the first place.<p>It&#x27;s as if our eyes can see the oncoming train just a mile away, but instead of stepping out of the way we want to build a mechanized winch that will temporarily lift us over the train, and hopefully we&#x27;ll be done building it before the train hits us, and oh yeah, never mind how we&#x27;re supposed to get down, or the taller train after that one.<p>Why can&#x27;t we put that money, effort, manpower, and will into actually <i>addressing climate change</i> and make crazy projects like vast man-made Mines-of-Moria-style underground tunnels and huge artificial reservoirs unnecessary?<p>Yes it&#x27;s a global problem, but solutions to global problems start at home. Throwing our hands up and saying it&#x27;s pointless until the other guy does something too can&#x27;t be the way to progress on this issue.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nostrademons</author><text>It&#x27;s very likely that local band-aids are the most effective way to deal with this.<p>Your train example is a pretty good one, but you&#x27;ve mixed up the metaphor. Here, &quot;stepping out of the way&quot; = mass migrations out of coastal cities. &quot;A mechanized winch that temporarily lifts us over the train&quot; = flood control projects like in Tokyo, Houston, Venice, or the Netherlands. &quot;Calling the train company and asking them to stop running trains&quot; = stopping global warming by addressing carbon emissions.<p>If you had a train barreling down on you, which one would you choose? I&#x27;d bet it wouldn&#x27;t be calling the train company and asking them to stop running trains, because a.) they are unlikely to anyway and b.) even if they were willing, by the time you got through to someone with the power to stop the trains you&#x27;ll probably be dead anyway.<p>I&#x27;d argue that the actual solution to global warming will be more akin to &quot;stepping out of the way&quot;: people will evacuate from major cities, major cities will be destroyed, and people will pick up the pieces of their lives elsewhere. If they&#x27;re proactive, they might evacuate before the city is actually destroyed, and we&#x27;ll see mass migrations of people (as have been happening for the last several hundred years anyway) away from areas that will face greater climate risks and toward areas that benefit from global warming.<p>That&#x27;s what humans do: we adapt to our environment. Only in particularly hubristic times (like now) have we expected to adapt our environment to us.</text></comment> | <story><title>Tokyo Is Preparing for Floods ‘Beyond Anything We’ve Seen’</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/06/climate/tokyo-floods.html?ribbon-ad-idx=4&rref=climate</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>acabal</author><text>It&#x27;s so crazy to me that everyone in vulnerable places--Tokyo and Houston in the article for example--are happy to spend hundreds of millions, even billions, to put a bandaid on their local climate change problems.<p>It seems like they all acknowledge the reality and danger of climate change and are willing to spend money on it.<p>In TFA Houston wants $400 million to build a reservoir. They seem to acknowledge that things are only going to get worse for them as the years go on. And yet everyone there still drives everywhere spewing carbon into their own air with every trip, public transit is in a poor state, and oil exploitation continues apace. Everyone&#x27;s OK with spending money and manpower on huge public works projects, but they&#x27;re not OK with addressing habits and addictions that make the projects necessary in the first place.<p>It&#x27;s as if our eyes can see the oncoming train just a mile away, but instead of stepping out of the way we want to build a mechanized winch that will temporarily lift us over the train, and hopefully we&#x27;ll be done building it before the train hits us, and oh yeah, never mind how we&#x27;re supposed to get down, or the taller train after that one.<p>Why can&#x27;t we put that money, effort, manpower, and will into actually <i>addressing climate change</i> and make crazy projects like vast man-made Mines-of-Moria-style underground tunnels and huge artificial reservoirs unnecessary?<p>Yes it&#x27;s a global problem, but solutions to global problems start at home. Throwing our hands up and saying it&#x27;s pointless until the other guy does something too can&#x27;t be the way to progress on this issue.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bdamm</author><text>It&#x27;s clear that our contemporary social structures are not well equipped to deal with climate change. This is unlikely to change in the next 10-50 years. So local governments that are able to act must do so.<p>&quot;Solutions to global problems start at home.&quot; --&gt; If everyone in Houston switched up their SUVs for Prius&#x27;, nothing globally would change at all, except that the people of Houston would have smaller cars. Why does this make sense for them?</text></comment> |
20,281,269 | 20,278,005 | 1 | 2 | 20,277,308 | train | <story><title>Toys ‘R’ Us, Back from the Dead, Will Open U.S. Stores in 2019</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-06-21/toys-r-us-back-from-the-dead-will-open-u-s-stores-in-2019</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>achenatx</author><text>If they try to be a warehouse store they will get killed by amazon (again). To compete with amazon (or walmart) they need to become a destination.<p>Around here if you add a playground to your restaurant you will immediately get families.<p>They should keep toys in the back and make the store one big toy playground. Playscape, track for riding bikes and electric cars, sand area, water area, walls of video games etc. Have &quot;lands&quot; similar to disney where those types of toys are available to play with. Have guides to help kids play with toys. Consumable toys can have a charge to use or art classes, science classes, electronics, etc.<p>Catalogs or computer screens that let you buy the toy and someone brings it from the back.<p>Parents will bring their kids to play and will end up buying things.</text></comment> | <story><title>Toys ‘R’ Us, Back from the Dead, Will Open U.S. Stores in 2019</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-06-21/toys-r-us-back-from-the-dead-will-open-u-s-stores-in-2019</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>axaxs</author><text>Glad to see it make another go at it. With the death of Radio Shack, I&#x27;d like to see them perhaps expand into electronics, boards, drones, maker stuff, etc. I wanted to say adult toys, but that has an obvious connotation, so not sure what the proper term is.</text></comment> |
19,628,693 | 19,628,706 | 1 | 2 | 19,628,051 | train | <story><title>Google Founders Have Skipped All of the Company's 2019 Town Hall Meetings</title><url>https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/alexkantrowitz/google-founders-tgif-town-hall</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>logicx24</author><text>Sigh. I work at Google, and this is vastly overblown.<p>Larry and Sergey don&#x27;t work at Google anymore. They&#x27;re much more laissez-faire, working on special projects across Alphabet. They don&#x27;t make most of the decisions that effect Google employees, and don&#x27;t have answers to most of the questions that are asked. That was the entire point of promoting Sundar, after all: so Larry could step away from Google.<p>And finally, Larry and Sergey being at TGIF&#x27;s undermines Sundar&#x27;s authority. He&#x27;s the one making decisions, and he&#x27;s where the buck stops, but having the cofounders there creates an uncomfortable dynamic and makes it seem like they have a larger role than they do.<p>So it&#x27;s not a matter of &quot;courage&quot; and &quot;accountability&quot; as much as corporate governance and priority changes. There&#x27;s no drama buried here.</text></comment> | <story><title>Google Founders Have Skipped All of the Company's 2019 Town Hall Meetings</title><url>https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/alexkantrowitz/google-founders-tgif-town-hall</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>stickfigure</author><text>Clickbait headline that is explained within the article itself:<p><i>The cofounders planned to step back their Google involvement when they formed Alphabet in 2015 ... The idea was to give Google CEO Sundar Pichai the ability to assert his own leadership during a tumultuous time.</i><p>Not news, but I&#x27;m sure they&#x27;ll get plenty of clicks from the Google haters.</text></comment> |
11,983,225 | 11,981,642 | 1 | 2 | 11,981,068 | train | <story><title>NASA Open Source Software</title><url>https://code.nasa.gov/#/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>chrisatumd</author><text>I had no idea this was out there. I found a bunch of old projects out here from a program I work on in the realm of Earth Science. Things from 2002 and 2004 that have probably not been used in over 10 years (and some from the same time frame that are still in production).<p>It has been really hard for us to open source things lately - our last project took more than a year. I did find it on this page: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;nasa&#x2F;earthdata-search" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;nasa&#x2F;earthdata-search</a>. We are still working on open sourcing a couple more of our projects.<p>We&#x27;ve been told one of NASA&#x27;s recent goals is to significantly improve the open source process so hopefully we&#x27;ll see more of the current projects become open source.</text></comment> | <story><title>NASA Open Source Software</title><url>https://code.nasa.gov/#/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>wang_li</author><text>I thought the law was that all software, books, papers, etc. created by the US government was public domain. Seems odd to see licenses on this stuff.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Copyright_status_of_work_by_the_U.S._government" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Copyright_status_of_work_by_th...</a></text></comment> |
39,837,536 | 39,836,509 | 1 | 2 | 39,800,416 | train | <story><title>Butterflies Full of Wasps Full of Microwasps Are a Science Nightmare (2021)</title><url>https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/butterflies-parasitic-wasps-finland</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>wolverine876</author><text>That we are part of some circle of whatever does not make the consequences of our actions, and therefore our actions, any better. The cyanobacteria were bad; we have more of a choice.<p>Also, if we release gasses that kill and impoverish large portions of us, it won&#x27;t help that it&#x27;s &#x27;natural&#x27;; it will make no difference at all.</text></item><item><author>hn_throwaway_99</author><text>We don&#x27;t, and I don&#x27;t bring up the following to excuse humanity for our destruction of other species, but it&#x27;s still just an interesting philosophical point to consider. We&#x27;re as much a part of the circle of life and evolution as all the organisms that came before us. I mean, you think <i>we&#x27;re</i> bad for other species, just think about cyanobacteria, which in their thirst for energy polluted the atmosphere with an extremely toxic gas that caused one of Earth&#x27;s major extinction events.<p>Of course, that gas was molecular oxygen, and eventually other organisms evolved aerobic respiration, and that toxic gas is now required by many of Earth&#x27;s organisms to survive. Now, that change took a billion years or so, as opposed to humans doubling CO2 concentrations in a couple hundred years, but it&#x27;s still interesting to think about the crazy history of life on Earth.</text></item><item><author>keepamovin</author><text>A reminder to humans who want to undertake ecosystem engineering projects: we don&#x27;t know what we&#x27;re doing.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>HPsquared</author><text>GP&#x27;s point was that cyanobacteria were NOT &quot;bad&quot;. They&#x27;re a part of nature, how can that be bad? Good and bad are strictly human constructs, relating to human (primarily social) behaviour.</text></comment> | <story><title>Butterflies Full of Wasps Full of Microwasps Are a Science Nightmare (2021)</title><url>https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/butterflies-parasitic-wasps-finland</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>wolverine876</author><text>That we are part of some circle of whatever does not make the consequences of our actions, and therefore our actions, any better. The cyanobacteria were bad; we have more of a choice.<p>Also, if we release gasses that kill and impoverish large portions of us, it won&#x27;t help that it&#x27;s &#x27;natural&#x27;; it will make no difference at all.</text></item><item><author>hn_throwaway_99</author><text>We don&#x27;t, and I don&#x27;t bring up the following to excuse humanity for our destruction of other species, but it&#x27;s still just an interesting philosophical point to consider. We&#x27;re as much a part of the circle of life and evolution as all the organisms that came before us. I mean, you think <i>we&#x27;re</i> bad for other species, just think about cyanobacteria, which in their thirst for energy polluted the atmosphere with an extremely toxic gas that caused one of Earth&#x27;s major extinction events.<p>Of course, that gas was molecular oxygen, and eventually other organisms evolved aerobic respiration, and that toxic gas is now required by many of Earth&#x27;s organisms to survive. Now, that change took a billion years or so, as opposed to humans doubling CO2 concentrations in a couple hundred years, but it&#x27;s still interesting to think about the crazy history of life on Earth.</text></item><item><author>keepamovin</author><text>A reminder to humans who want to undertake ecosystem engineering projects: we don&#x27;t know what we&#x27;re doing.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>freedomben</author><text>GP clearly mentioned in their first paragraph that they aren&#x27;t defending it by pointing out that it is natural. Assuming that they are is committing the is&#x2F;ought fallacy.</text></comment> |
20,419,090 | 20,419,079 | 1 | 2 | 20,417,967 | train | <story><title>I was wrong about spreadsheets (2017)</title><url>https://www.reifyworks.com/writing/2017-01-25-i-was-wrong-about-spreadsheets-and-im-sorry</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Xelbair</author><text>I just hate one single thing about Excel - all function names are localized - and in case of my native language - they are horrible and inconsistent.</text></item><item><author>halfeatenpie</author><text>I work in critical infrastructure planning. My organization builds software in R, Python, and other programming languages customized for these major organizations.<p>So many critical infrastructures, billions of dollars in planning, and just systems are built out of Excel. It&#x27;s amazing. You&#x27;d assume something that services millions of people a day would have some more sophisticated and customized solution, but you&#x27;re wrong.<p>The reason is because most people know how to use Excel. Most people know how to handle it, use it, modify it, build up from it. You don&#x27;t need to get a regular support contract from a company for your custom-built spreadsheets. If something critical in that &quot;Excel software stack&quot; breaks (aka Microsoft Excel), most of the time you just need to reset Excel. It&#x27;s amazing. You don&#x27;t need a new server, you don&#x27;t need support contracts, it&#x27;s just like riding a bike.<p>In my opinion, the limitation of Excel is actually when it comes to big-data analytics. The way Excel handles large quantities of data is slow (due to the nature of it&#x27;s software structure). That&#x27;s where we come in and build out these models and systems. However, in the end, our data outputs will be fed back into Excel, because that&#x27;s what most people are used to.<p>I have deep respect for Excel. After all, Excel empowers so many users who don&#x27;t know how to code to provide amazing plots and perform major calculations with ease.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>franga2000</author><text>While I haven&#x27;t encountered localized names, localized formats make Excel an absolute pain for me.<p>My language uses the &quot;European&quot; number format of a comma for decimals and periods for thousands separators. Excel tries to adjust to that by using semicolons for argument separators (i.e. ADD(1.5, 3.5) -&gt; ADD(1,5; 3,5)).<p>The problem is that their locale detection is wildly inconsistent and there isn&#x27;t a good way to override it without changing system settings. When moving a file between computers, this is an utter disaster.</text></comment> | <story><title>I was wrong about spreadsheets (2017)</title><url>https://www.reifyworks.com/writing/2017-01-25-i-was-wrong-about-spreadsheets-and-im-sorry</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Xelbair</author><text>I just hate one single thing about Excel - all function names are localized - and in case of my native language - they are horrible and inconsistent.</text></item><item><author>halfeatenpie</author><text>I work in critical infrastructure planning. My organization builds software in R, Python, and other programming languages customized for these major organizations.<p>So many critical infrastructures, billions of dollars in planning, and just systems are built out of Excel. It&#x27;s amazing. You&#x27;d assume something that services millions of people a day would have some more sophisticated and customized solution, but you&#x27;re wrong.<p>The reason is because most people know how to use Excel. Most people know how to handle it, use it, modify it, build up from it. You don&#x27;t need to get a regular support contract from a company for your custom-built spreadsheets. If something critical in that &quot;Excel software stack&quot; breaks (aka Microsoft Excel), most of the time you just need to reset Excel. It&#x27;s amazing. You don&#x27;t need a new server, you don&#x27;t need support contracts, it&#x27;s just like riding a bike.<p>In my opinion, the limitation of Excel is actually when it comes to big-data analytics. The way Excel handles large quantities of data is slow (due to the nature of it&#x27;s software structure). That&#x27;s where we come in and build out these models and systems. However, in the end, our data outputs will be fed back into Excel, because that&#x27;s what most people are used to.<p>I have deep respect for Excel. After all, Excel empowers so many users who don&#x27;t know how to code to provide amazing plots and perform major calculations with ease.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>qwerty456127</author><text>+1000. This is ridiculous. Couldn&#x27;t they at least make this optional so you&#x27;d be able to switch this off somewhere in the configuration dialog, registry or command line? I hate localized apps altogether (who even needs localized Visual Studio srsly? I can&#x27;t believe anybody can be competent in a .Net programming language and relevant frameworks and practices without being able to read English) but localizning some apps makes some sense for some people, nevertheless localizing functions feels beyond reason. I feel thankful they didn&#x27;t localize C# and command line commands :-)</text></comment> |
24,031,050 | 24,031,007 | 1 | 3 | 24,029,797 | train | <story><title>Telegram files EU antitrust complaint against Apple’s App Store</title><url>https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2020/07/telegram-files-eu-antitrust-complaint-against-apples-app-store/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>veselin</author><text>It is full of Apple (and other corporate) apologists. But I just want to point out that Google executives were saying some years ago that if Android was not part of Google, it would have been one of hottest startups in the valley.<p>Similarly, I am sure that if PASemi is spun off Apple, it may be the hottest CPU company in the world. I am sure that the Apple services will also do better outside the Apple hardware group. There are plenty of innovations and certainly there is the tendency to use them to raise the prices for consumers (which is illegal) as opposed to grow the market. I will refrain to say if Apple if guilty in this case, just saying that if hypothetically it is, this is not the end. In fact, many good things may happen in the long term by actually applying the anti-monopoly laws and breaking up a few companies instead of working around the laws.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>chipotle_coyote</author><text>&gt; I am sure that if PASemi is spun off Apple, it may be the hottest CPU company in the world.<p>This may be true, but it seems hard to make the case that Apple is using monopoly power to stifle innovation in the CPU market, of all things.<p>&gt; I am sure that the Apple services will also do better outside the Apple hardware group.<p>Really? I&#x27;m not at all sure that Apple Music, for instance, would be competitive with Spotify if it wasn&#x27;t bundled with iOS devices -- I can&#x27;t think of any other unbundled music service that&#x27;s competitive with them. (And how many of your Android-using friends are Apple Music subscribers? It&#x27;s technically possible, right?) Likewise, would lots of people be lining up to use iCloud if Macs, iPhones and iPads started with what amounts to &quot;click here to use iCloud?&quot; iMessage, maybe? Eh, maybe, but.<p>&gt; In fact, many good things may happen in the long term by actually applying the anti-monopoly laws and breaking up a few companies instead of working around the laws.<p>Sure, but I&#x27;m not convinced the problems with Apple&#x27;s App Store policies are best addressed by forcing Apple to spin off &quot;The App Store Company.&quot; They&#x27;d be much better addressed by forcing Apple to allow sideloading of apps (probably using the &quot;Gatekeeper&quot; technology they already have in place on Macs, which I naïvely thought would have come to iOS by now) and relaxing in-app purchase rules to the point where apps that don&#x27;t -- or <i>can&#x27;t,</i> like Amazon Kindle -- use Apple&#x27;s in-app purchase framework can at least <i>tell</i> you how to buy content from it. Hell, as some HN nerds would tell you, you could get a huge chunk of the way there simply by forcing Apple to build full PWA support into WebKit. None of those things require Apple to be broken up in any material way.<p>Also, side note:<p>&gt; Google executives were saying some years ago that if Android was not part of Google, it would have been one of hottest startups in the valley.<p>You know Android <i>was</i> one of the hottest startups in the Valley and that&#x27;s why Google bought them, right? :) (Arguably hotter than PA Semi was when Apple bought them!)</text></comment> | <story><title>Telegram files EU antitrust complaint against Apple’s App Store</title><url>https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2020/07/telegram-files-eu-antitrust-complaint-against-apples-app-store/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>veselin</author><text>It is full of Apple (and other corporate) apologists. But I just want to point out that Google executives were saying some years ago that if Android was not part of Google, it would have been one of hottest startups in the valley.<p>Similarly, I am sure that if PASemi is spun off Apple, it may be the hottest CPU company in the world. I am sure that the Apple services will also do better outside the Apple hardware group. There are plenty of innovations and certainly there is the tendency to use them to raise the prices for consumers (which is illegal) as opposed to grow the market. I will refrain to say if Apple if guilty in this case, just saying that if hypothetically it is, this is not the end. In fact, many good things may happen in the long term by actually applying the anti-monopoly laws and breaking up a few companies instead of working around the laws.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tonyedgecombe</author><text>Except Apple doesn&#x27;t have a monopoly in any of its markets. They don&#x27;t have a monopoly in phones, laptops, desktops, tablets, music, TV, processors, none of their products dominate their market.<p>Of course you can try and distort the meaning of monopoly but that isn&#x27;t going to get you very far.</text></comment> |
24,180,084 | 24,179,620 | 1 | 2 | 24,178,614 | train | <story><title>Bjarne Stroustrup had his Reddit account suspended</title><url>https://twitter.com/blelbach/status/1295018218298335232</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>gentleman11</author><text>I made a twitter account once. I followed maybe 4 people basically as a way to subscribe to whatever they were saying, then liked a few posts.<p>I got banned the same day and told that I had violated their tos in an undefined way and that attempts to contact support would be ignored. My only tweet was to say that I had finally made a dumb twitter account.<p>Maybe the assumption was that every human on earth must already have a twitter account, so any new account must be a bot?<p>These platforms are just ridiculous and we shouldn’t use them.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>derbOac</author><text>I got banned before I even posted anything. I had the account, then the third time I logged in it locked me out because of unspecified suspicious behavior. It was baffling.<p>Later I tried again with a different account and they wanted a phone number. It was a huge turnoff.<p>People give Signal heat about wanting a number but they won&#x27;t even bat an eye at the same behavior from Twitter.<p>Frustrating to say the least.</text></comment> | <story><title>Bjarne Stroustrup had his Reddit account suspended</title><url>https://twitter.com/blelbach/status/1295018218298335232</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>gentleman11</author><text>I made a twitter account once. I followed maybe 4 people basically as a way to subscribe to whatever they were saying, then liked a few posts.<p>I got banned the same day and told that I had violated their tos in an undefined way and that attempts to contact support would be ignored. My only tweet was to say that I had finally made a dumb twitter account.<p>Maybe the assumption was that every human on earth must already have a twitter account, so any new account must be a bot?<p>These platforms are just ridiculous and we shouldn’t use them.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>FrontAid</author><text>I ran into the exact same situation. Have been trying to get in contact with their support for weeks without getting any response at all. This is absolutely ridiculous! (Yet at the same time they get &quot;hacked&quot; by teenagers and I can&#x27;t help but to feel karma has been served...)<p>edit: Should anybody from Twitter read this, please unblock @FrontAid_CMS. (I guess it&#x27;s worth a try...)</text></comment> |
8,212,842 | 8,212,672 | 1 | 2 | 8,212,457 | train | <story><title>Google's fact-checking bots build vast knowledge bank</title><url>http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg22329832.700-googles-factchecking-bots-build-vast-knowledge-bank.html?full=true</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>bra-ket</author><text>Kevin Murphy (<a href="https://github.com/murphyk" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;murphyk</a>) is the lead developer of Bayes Net toolbox (<a href="https://code.google.com/p/bnt/" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;code.google.com&#x2F;p&#x2F;bnt&#x2F;</a>) and PMTK: <a href="https://github.com/probml/pmtk3" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;probml&#x2F;pmtk3</a><p>This knowledge graph is probably the largest Bayesian network out there</text></comment> | <story><title>Google's fact-checking bots build vast knowledge bank</title><url>http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg22329832.700-googles-factchecking-bots-build-vast-knowledge-bank.html?full=true</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>sixQuarks</author><text>This is going to set the stage for the next battle between spammers and Google.<p>spammers will be populating the web with &quot;facts&quot; that suit themselves.</text></comment> |
15,259,338 | 15,259,459 | 1 | 2 | 15,254,061 | train | <story><title>Long-range communication with devices that consume almost no power</title><url>http://www.washington.edu/news/2017/09/13/uw-team-shatters-long-range-communication-barrier-for-devices-that-consume-almost-no-power/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>andrepd</author><text>Encryption is a easy. I doubt this will be a problem.</text></item><item><author>andrewflnr</author><text>We need to talk about the security implications of low-power devices broadcasting data. I cringed when the article talked about broadcasting &quot;medically relevant data&quot; for kilometers, in the clear. That&#x27;s not OK. Everyone needs to be clear on the fact that that&#x27;s not OK.<p>I&#x27;m ecstatic at the possibilities this has for reducing the power cost of communication[0]. Please use the savings on some (at least half-decent) crypto.<p>[0] Seriously, can this work for a consumer handset communication network?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>andrewflnr</author><text>Encryption is easy on platforms with plenty of power and transistors and well-established libraries, which are the exact opposite of what we&#x27;re talking about here. Encryption on very low-powered systems is a well-known problem.</text></comment> | <story><title>Long-range communication with devices that consume almost no power</title><url>http://www.washington.edu/news/2017/09/13/uw-team-shatters-long-range-communication-barrier-for-devices-that-consume-almost-no-power/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>andrepd</author><text>Encryption is a easy. I doubt this will be a problem.</text></item><item><author>andrewflnr</author><text>We need to talk about the security implications of low-power devices broadcasting data. I cringed when the article talked about broadcasting &quot;medically relevant data&quot; for kilometers, in the clear. That&#x27;s not OK. Everyone needs to be clear on the fact that that&#x27;s not OK.<p>I&#x27;m ecstatic at the possibilities this has for reducing the power cost of communication[0]. Please use the savings on some (at least half-decent) crypto.<p>[0] Seriously, can this work for a consumer handset communication network?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dfox</author><text>Doing reasonable encryption and authentication on interfaces with MTUs on the order of tens of bytes (which is common for various low-power IoT radio interfaces) is actually pretty complex problem.<p>Essentially all widely used and safe cryptographic constructions have overhead (IV and MAC tag for example) that would consume significant portion of your packet (or in some cases is actually larger that the packet).</text></comment> |
35,300,762 | 35,300,287 | 1 | 2 | 35,297,067 | train | <story><title>GPT-4 performs significantly worse on coding problems not in its training data</title><url>https://twitter.com/cHHillee/status/1635790330854526981</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dorkwood</author><text>I feel vindicated reading this. Yesterday in a separate thread I claimed that it was wrong on 80% of the coding problems I gave it, and received the response from multiple readers that I was probably phrasing my questions poorly.<p>I started to believe them, too. Unfortunately, my brain is structured in such a way that a unanimous verdict from a few strangers is enough to make me think I’m probably the one who’s wrong. I need to make note of these events as a way to remind myself that this isn’t always the case.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mrbombastic</author><text>I think part of the issue is that your mileage will vary greatly depending on what your problem domain and language of choice is. People working with languages and problems chatgpt works well in have a hard time believing the hard fails in other domains and vice versa. I wrote a python script the other day to delete some old xcode devices lower than a certain ios version complete witth options with a just a few back and forths with chatGPT. My knowledge of python is extremely basic and the code just worked out of the box. Then yesterday I asked for the code to tell if a device is lidar enabled in Objective-C and it failed to give me compilable code 4 times in a row until I finally gave up and went back to the docs. The correct answer is one line. I for one am pretty excited about this, things that a lot of people have done before should be easy, leaves more brain space for the tough stuff.</text></comment> | <story><title>GPT-4 performs significantly worse on coding problems not in its training data</title><url>https://twitter.com/cHHillee/status/1635790330854526981</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dorkwood</author><text>I feel vindicated reading this. Yesterday in a separate thread I claimed that it was wrong on 80% of the coding problems I gave it, and received the response from multiple readers that I was probably phrasing my questions poorly.<p>I started to believe them, too. Unfortunately, my brain is structured in such a way that a unanimous verdict from a few strangers is enough to make me think I’m probably the one who’s wrong. I need to make note of these events as a way to remind myself that this isn’t always the case.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>anonytrary</author><text>Vindicated and excited. Gradient descent is likely not enough. I love it when we get closer to something but are still missing the answer. I would be very happy if &quot;add more parameters and compute&quot; isn&#x27;t enough to get us to AGI. It means you need talent to get there, and money alone will not suffice. Bad news for OpenAI and other big firms, good news for science and the curious.<p>I imagine physicists got very excited with things like the ultraviolet catastrophe, and the irreconcilable nature of quantum mechanics and general relativity. It&#x27;s these mysteries that keep the world exciting.</text></comment> |
24,699,101 | 24,699,105 | 1 | 3 | 24,698,449 | train | <story><title>Hiring for tech jobs has increased more than 100% in these Midwestern cities</title><url>https://www.purpose.jobs/blog/hiring-tech-jobs-has-increased-in-midwestern-cities</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>dexwiz</author><text>Moved from the Midwest to the Bay Area, and tech comes in two forms: IT departments at major industrial firms (manufacturing, chemical, pharma, etc), or companies that are eventually bought by West Coast companies. The pay cap is much lower. Becoming a millionaire through stocks and wages is harder, but you will still be in the top 10% of earners overall.<p>If you want to live in a mansion, the Midwest makes this dream obtainable. Buy a 6 bedroom, lake (reservoir) side, 4k sqr ft home for less than a million. Of if you want an acre of lawn, but not live too far in the country.<p>What you will find is that people are friendly, as long as you look like them (white). (EDIT: This gets more pronounced the more rural you are. Cities tend to be more accepting. What you will find is that rural areas have more relative sway on thought compared to the West Coast.) Towns outside of major metropolitan areas are dying as most major industries that supported that last two generations have left. Drugs are a huge issue, but its not as obvious because the floor for homelessness is so much lower. The only major infrastructure and building projects that get approved are sports stadiums, because idiots in local government rather have sports teams than functioning schools.<p>What the Midwest does have is solid engineering and research universities, that graduate thousands of STEM oriented students a year. Unfortunately there are often over an hour from the nearest 250k+ city. I went to one, and I think less than 25% of my friends stayed in state. The brain drain is real.</text></comment> | <story><title>Hiring for tech jobs has increased more than 100% in these Midwestern cities</title><url>https://www.purpose.jobs/blog/hiring-tech-jobs-has-increased-in-midwestern-cities</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>goodells</author><text>I&#x27;m surprised not to see Madison, WI on this list. Our tech sector has been strong and growing for several decades - locally we have Epic Systems, Exact Sciences, Promega Corporation, Thermo Fisher Scientific, several large insurance companies like American Family Insurance, Sentry Insurance. It might be easy to miss the agglomeration of these companies in one area because some of them are technically in different municipalities than the City of Madison. But it&#x27;s a great area, and most of the big players here have been spared or even strengthened by the unique circumstances of the pandemic.</text></comment> |
20,626,000 | 20,626,273 | 1 | 2 | 20,625,561 | train | <story><title>Decentralized DNS with the Handshake Naming System</title><url>https://www.privateinternetaccess.com/blog/2019/08/private-internet-access-users-can-now-resolve-internet-names-with-the-handshake-naming-system-hns/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mugsie</author><text>Yeah, because I want to have to mine a token every time I update my DNS settings. -_-<p>I get the &quot;global, transparent, append only log&quot; appeal, but for the reality of most people, I don&#x27;t want to rely on a blockchain converging, or processing my update in a certain amount of time.<p>And that doesn&#x27;t even cover companies (I don&#x27;t agree with this, but it is a reality), that consider DNS entries private, and don&#x27;t want to expose an easily scannable list of DNS entries .</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>deweller</author><text>If this gains traction, you will be able to pay a service provider a fee to update DNS entries for you. This is like the current system used by registrars. You don&#x27;t need to care if it is powered by a blockchain in the background if you don&#x27;t want to.<p>I think it is great to have an alternative DNS system that is more censorship resistant.</text></comment> | <story><title>Decentralized DNS with the Handshake Naming System</title><url>https://www.privateinternetaccess.com/blog/2019/08/private-internet-access-users-can-now-resolve-internet-names-with-the-handshake-naming-system-hns/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mugsie</author><text>Yeah, because I want to have to mine a token every time I update my DNS settings. -_-<p>I get the &quot;global, transparent, append only log&quot; appeal, but for the reality of most people, I don&#x27;t want to rely on a blockchain converging, or processing my update in a certain amount of time.<p>And that doesn&#x27;t even cover companies (I don&#x27;t agree with this, but it is a reality), that consider DNS entries private, and don&#x27;t want to expose an easily scannable list of DNS entries .</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>StavrosK</author><text>Isn&#x27;t this middlebrow dismissal? Like, I get that you don&#x27;t want to have to &quot;mine a token&quot; if &quot;mining a token&quot; means &quot;waiting half an hour&quot;, but if it means &quot;waiting 100ms or paying $0.00001&quot;, I&#x27;d take that tradeoff to own my DNS.</text></comment> |
35,675,897 | 35,668,762 | 1 | 3 | 35,667,642 | train | <story><title>How did the chess pieces get their names?</title><url>https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/how-did-chess-pieces-get-their-names</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>yakubin</author><text>There is some in-country variation that&#x27;s ignored in this article. In Poland, names of pieces will vary based on family you come from (as this game is usually learnt at kindergarten age from your parents&#x2F;grandparents). For example, in my family we refer to the knight as &quot;koń&quot; (horse) rather than &quot;skoczek&quot; (jumper), and instead of using the more Polish-sounding &quot;goniec&quot; for the bishop we use &quot;laufer&quot; borrowed from German. Also, even though the official (as in: approved by some chess institutions in the country) name for the queen is &quot;hetman&quot;, I&#x27;d say 90%+ Poles say &quot;królowa&quot; (literally queen).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>riffraff</author><text>That is similar in Hungary, for example the pawn is either a walker or a peasant, and the queen is either a visir or a queen (but it&#x27;s a ruling queen, királynő, rather than queen consort, királyné, which I find nice :) )</text></comment> | <story><title>How did the chess pieces get their names?</title><url>https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/how-did-chess-pieces-get-their-names</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>yakubin</author><text>There is some in-country variation that&#x27;s ignored in this article. In Poland, names of pieces will vary based on family you come from (as this game is usually learnt at kindergarten age from your parents&#x2F;grandparents). For example, in my family we refer to the knight as &quot;koń&quot; (horse) rather than &quot;skoczek&quot; (jumper), and instead of using the more Polish-sounding &quot;goniec&quot; for the bishop we use &quot;laufer&quot; borrowed from German. Also, even though the official (as in: approved by some chess institutions in the country) name for the queen is &quot;hetman&quot;, I&#x27;d say 90%+ Poles say &quot;królowa&quot; (literally queen).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>wirrbel</author><text>German here, next to Springer (jumper) for the bishop in my family “Ross” or “rössl” was used.</text></comment> |
40,834,577 | 40,833,195 | 1 | 2 | 40,832,223 | train | <story><title>AirPods fast connect security vulnerability</title><url>https://blogs.gnome.org/jdressler/2024/06/26/do-a-firmware-update-for-your-airpods-now/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jessriedel</author><text>&gt; Its main purpose seems to be reducing the time it takes to establish a connection between two Apple devices from roughly 1 second down to about 0.5 seconds.<p>&gt; With this trick, they can establish that both devices are speaking the Fast Connect protocol without violating the Bluetooth specification, and then go on to exchange 3 more back-and-forth messages, negotiating all the things necessary to fully connect the two devices.<p>&gt; The fact that this only takes 4 messages back-and-forth in total is what makes Fast Connect fancy, because usually in Bluetooth the phase of wiring up the individual channels for a connection is quite a complex negotiation and involves sending various SDP descriptors that describe which protocols&#x2F;features both sides support.<p>Two devices in the same room communicating over even a very narrow slice of the electromagnetic spectrum could exchange many thousands of messages per second. What is it about Bluetooth that causes each message to take a hundred milliseconds rather than, say, a microsecond? What is setting the timescale for this process?</text></comment> | <story><title>AirPods fast connect security vulnerability</title><url>https://blogs.gnome.org/jdressler/2024/06/26/do-a-firmware-update-for-your-airpods-now/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>rock_artist</author><text>&gt; That’s because AirPods auto-update their firmware by themselves, but only when they’re used together with an iPhone or MacBook, so Android users have no easy way to update their firmware.<p>From what I remember, advantage of affected Beats devices which also use same chip is they can actually be updated from the beats app on Android</text></comment> |
2,841,739 | 2,841,719 | 1 | 2 | 2,840,440 | train | <story><title>Scalability</title><url>http://gregor-wagner.com/?p=79</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Flam</author><text>I'm afraid I disagree. There's no way you could multi-task all 30 open tabs at the same time. Read what you need and close the tab when you're done. Leave only the topmost page of the documentation open so you can find your way back down again if you need to. You should be able to tell whether a page has value to you or not within the first 30 seconds of skimming through it. Do you open every result on google for the first 3 pages of all your searches or something? Baffling.</text></item><item><author>cbs</author><text>How you feel doesn't really matter when you're doing anything other than idle browsing.<p>This morning I had about 30 tabs open when I came into work, all documentation or reference of some sort that I will use in the next few hours. And thats about the lowest I ever get, if I'm looking up something new to me or complex it will easily shoot over 100.</text></item><item><author>Flam</author><text>W.T.F.
I can't go over 6 without feeling messy.</text></item><item><author>rmccue</author><text>&#62; The real question is whether you would ever have that many tabs open, and how much memory do you have on your desktop?<p>I have 60 tabs open now (in FF), and this is after closing most of them, on a 32-bit system with 4GB of RAM. I regularly hit over 200 tabs when browsing.</text></item><item><author>tytso</author><text>Performance is the side-effect, not the cause. The cause is the fact that chrome uses separate processes both for security, and so if one tab crashes, you don't lose them all.<p>The fact that it uses more memory is a design tradeoff (although with shared text pages it's not as bad as one might think). The real question is whether you would ever have that many tabs open, and how much memory do you have on your desktop?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dredmorbius</author><text>It's called context / state.<p>The more state I can leave up on my desktop, the better.<p>If there were better management within the browser -- non-visible tabs were eventually unloaded, with any page-state (forms data, etc.) saved -- then you wouldn't have the memory bloat problems that occur.<p>The thing is that it's a very large virtual workspace to spread things out over. So long as it's organized, it's really useful.<p>Look to movies especially of researchers in the 1970s or 1980s who'd spread clippings and papers over all horizontal surfaces in an office, tape/pin them to a wall, etc. You want to be able to scan quickly through the space at eye-speed, not have to dig into files / organizers / storage / regenerate the information every time you want to look at it.<p>It's why you'd rather have a large monitor -- you can strew windows over it and see more, rather than have to manage windows and go through them repeatedly.</text></comment> | <story><title>Scalability</title><url>http://gregor-wagner.com/?p=79</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Flam</author><text>I'm afraid I disagree. There's no way you could multi-task all 30 open tabs at the same time. Read what you need and close the tab when you're done. Leave only the topmost page of the documentation open so you can find your way back down again if you need to. You should be able to tell whether a page has value to you or not within the first 30 seconds of skimming through it. Do you open every result on google for the first 3 pages of all your searches or something? Baffling.</text></item><item><author>cbs</author><text>How you feel doesn't really matter when you're doing anything other than idle browsing.<p>This morning I had about 30 tabs open when I came into work, all documentation or reference of some sort that I will use in the next few hours. And thats about the lowest I ever get, if I'm looking up something new to me or complex it will easily shoot over 100.</text></item><item><author>Flam</author><text>W.T.F.
I can't go over 6 without feeling messy.</text></item><item><author>rmccue</author><text>&#62; The real question is whether you would ever have that many tabs open, and how much memory do you have on your desktop?<p>I have 60 tabs open now (in FF), and this is after closing most of them, on a 32-bit system with 4GB of RAM. I regularly hit over 200 tabs when browsing.</text></item><item><author>tytso</author><text>Performance is the side-effect, not the cause. The cause is the fact that chrome uses separate processes both for security, and so if one tab crashes, you don't lose them all.<p>The fact that it uses more memory is a design tradeoff (although with shared text pages it's not as bad as one might think). The real question is whether you would ever have that many tabs open, and how much memory do you have on your desktop?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>sjs</author><text>We don't "multi-task all 30 open tabs at the same time" whatever that means. Just like you can have many apps running but maybe only one or two windows visible at any time, you can have many tabs open and only focus on one or two at a time.<p>For those of us who write software being able to discretely switch to a certain doc with ctrl-tab or ctrl/cmd-# is much quicker and efficient than navigating N times throughout the day just to reduce the # of tabs.<p>If I'm working on a Twilio web app I might refer to the Twilio docs, Ruby docs, twilio-ruby source, and some web related docs all throughout the day (HTML/JavaScript/CSS). Oh yeah, don't forget the JavaScript library docs. Why look them up each time you need them? Open them at the beginning, close when you're done work and that's that.<p>Your tab related OCD shouldn't enter into our workflow ;-)</text></comment> |
3,980,431 | 3,979,497 | 1 | 2 | 3,978,440 | train | <story><title>GM Says Facebook Ads Don't Work, Pulls $10 Million Account</title><url>http://www.forbes.com/sites/joannmuller/2012/05/15/gm-says-facebook-ads-dont-work-pulls-10-billion-account/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>cletus</author><text>I've said this repeatedly: Facebook is a high-risk proposition, particularly as an investment (disclaimer: I work for Google). "Intent" as other commenters have noted is a big part of the story but it's not the only story.<p>Search can broadly be broken up into at least two categories:<p>1. Navigational eg typing "b and h" into the browser; and<p>2. Informational eg "cheap flights to jamaica".<p>I don't know what the make up is of (1) vs (2) but I expect for normal users (1) is pretty huge. I would guess that ads are have lower clickthroughs for (1) than (2).<p>(2) is where you have the intent. The user obviously wants something. They may find it with an ad. They may find it with organic search results. Either way, the goal with search is to get the user the best result.<p>With Facebook you tend to be just looking at friends' updates, posting your own updates, posting photos and the like. You don't go to Facebook to find things. So it doesn't really matter how much targeting information Facebook has if you don't have that intent.<p>Many will say "but what if you do start going to Facebook to find things". That's a <i>massive</i> "what if". What if the Sun expands tomorrow and swallows the Earth?<p>Facebook has (IMHO) a number of strategic problems:<p>1. It has no control over mobile. Both Google and Apple have mobile OSs;<p>2. It has no search engine (which is how it could monetize its user information); and<p>3. Users of community-driven sites are notoriously fickle. There is <i>nothing</i> preventing Facebook from being the next Myspace when something newer, cooler and hipper comes along and the users move on.<p>Early founders, employees and investors have obviously done <i>spectacularly</i> well and there's a lot that Facebook has done right (all the more surprising considering the length of time and the age of Zuckerberg). It's also created an engineering environment that attracts and maintains top talent (although we'll see if that last once the stock plateaus, which is simply a matter of time). But would I be buying in the IPO? Not a chance in hell.<p>This isn't about predicting imminent doom. Facebook will be around for years to come. It's about the upside reward vs the downside risk. Facebook somehow is still considered a "growth" company and values as such (with extraordinary P/Es). This will at some point change (as it did for Google some ~5 years ago).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>steve8918</author><text>You make it sound like search is the be all and end all reason why people use the Internet. It's not.<p>It's obvious that a Google employee would believe this, and believe me, I think Google ads are amazingly effective when used with Google search. I've just started using Adwords and it's great.<p>But Facebook is entirely different from Google search, and there is no reason why their monetization techniques need to be the same way that Google monetizes their users.<p>Facebook is more akin to TV in that people use it to browse content based on what their friends are doing. They aren't searching for things, they are browsing, which is different. So Google search and the techniques you use to monetize your users are completely orthogonal to how Facebook should monetize their users.<p>Facebook is more akin to a TV station, and if I had to make a choice, I would go for things like "sponsoring" of ads or items in the newsfeed. And the way Facebook could analyze the users is completely different. You could probably do an analysis on the types of articles or links that a user it clicking on, and then sponsoring items in the user's newsfeed that they might be interested in. "This news article was brought to you by the Ford Fusion" or "Your friend Janet went to Jamaica, there's a flight leaving for Mexico next Friday for $500 for 4 days, all inclusive, brought to you by Travelocity".<p>Right now, they are making something like $4/user/year in revenues, based on really terribly performing ads. I know this personally because I tried using it and it was terrible, even worse than Bing ad CTRs. In order to get to GOOG's revenues, they'll need to bring that up to $40/user/year. Depending on the growth rate, that would make FB worth even more than GOOG, so I don't think it's necessarily a bad investment at all. It all depends on how effectively and how quickly they can ramp up the monetization of their users.</text></comment> | <story><title>GM Says Facebook Ads Don't Work, Pulls $10 Million Account</title><url>http://www.forbes.com/sites/joannmuller/2012/05/15/gm-says-facebook-ads-dont-work-pulls-10-billion-account/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>cletus</author><text>I've said this repeatedly: Facebook is a high-risk proposition, particularly as an investment (disclaimer: I work for Google). "Intent" as other commenters have noted is a big part of the story but it's not the only story.<p>Search can broadly be broken up into at least two categories:<p>1. Navigational eg typing "b and h" into the browser; and<p>2. Informational eg "cheap flights to jamaica".<p>I don't know what the make up is of (1) vs (2) but I expect for normal users (1) is pretty huge. I would guess that ads are have lower clickthroughs for (1) than (2).<p>(2) is where you have the intent. The user obviously wants something. They may find it with an ad. They may find it with organic search results. Either way, the goal with search is to get the user the best result.<p>With Facebook you tend to be just looking at friends' updates, posting your own updates, posting photos and the like. You don't go to Facebook to find things. So it doesn't really matter how much targeting information Facebook has if you don't have that intent.<p>Many will say "but what if you do start going to Facebook to find things". That's a <i>massive</i> "what if". What if the Sun expands tomorrow and swallows the Earth?<p>Facebook has (IMHO) a number of strategic problems:<p>1. It has no control over mobile. Both Google and Apple have mobile OSs;<p>2. It has no search engine (which is how it could monetize its user information); and<p>3. Users of community-driven sites are notoriously fickle. There is <i>nothing</i> preventing Facebook from being the next Myspace when something newer, cooler and hipper comes along and the users move on.<p>Early founders, employees and investors have obviously done <i>spectacularly</i> well and there's a lot that Facebook has done right (all the more surprising considering the length of time and the age of Zuckerberg). It's also created an engineering environment that attracts and maintains top talent (although we'll see if that last once the stock plateaus, which is simply a matter of time). But would I be buying in the IPO? Not a chance in hell.<p>This isn't about predicting imminent doom. Facebook will be around for years to come. It's about the upside reward vs the downside risk. Facebook somehow is still considered a "growth" company and values as such (with extraordinary P/Es). This will at some point change (as it did for Google some ~5 years ago).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>webwright</author><text>"I've said this repeatedly: Facebook is a high-risk proposition, particularly as an investment (disclaimer: I work for Google). "Intent" as other commenters have noted is a big part of the story but it's not the only story."<p>As a Google employee, what do you think of Google as an investment? If you look forward 5+ years, everyone is doing much of their internetting via their phone (certainly some or all of that will be web vs. apps-- who knows?). Google gains some extra data with searches, like location. So "pizza" searches get a LOT more targeted. But many searches do not.<p>The rub is that Google has near-zero ad inventory on mobile. You can't show 6 adwords ads, you can show 1. Additionally, consumer's bar for tapping an ad is MUCH higher (given the relative speeds of mobile browsing). As searching moves mobile, how does Google's revenue shake out?</text></comment> |
15,100,889 | 15,100,895 | 1 | 2 | 15,098,028 | train | <story><title>Whatruns: Identify technologies used on any website</title><url>https://www.whatruns.com/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jijosunny</author><text>How about 15k happy users, featured by Google Chrome, transparent extension and top of HN and PH? ;)<p>On a serious note, I understand your point and realise how new extensions can be dangerous. However, we have a very good team and is trying to solve all the concerns we had with our counterparts.<p>I hope you&#x27;ll give us the benefit of doubt! :)</text></item><item><author>KirinDave</author><text>I would find use for products like this but I&#x27;m emphatically not enabling a chrome extension unless I&#x27;ve built up significant trust with the company providing it.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dmitrygr</author><text>But why do you need to run on my PC?<p>Just add a &quot;insert url here&quot; box and do it on your server.<p>I implicitly distrust anyone who insists on running code on my PC that they could run elsewhere.<p>Especially.. code they can remotely update</text></comment> | <story><title>Whatruns: Identify technologies used on any website</title><url>https://www.whatruns.com/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jijosunny</author><text>How about 15k happy users, featured by Google Chrome, transparent extension and top of HN and PH? ;)<p>On a serious note, I understand your point and realise how new extensions can be dangerous. However, we have a very good team and is trying to solve all the concerns we had with our counterparts.<p>I hope you&#x27;ll give us the benefit of doubt! :)</text></item><item><author>KirinDave</author><text>I would find use for products like this but I&#x27;m emphatically not enabling a chrome extension unless I&#x27;ve built up significant trust with the company providing it.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>randomerr</author><text>15k is nothing and you can buy &#x27;featured&#x27; status. Let me know when it gets closer to 500,000.</text></comment> |
21,213,296 | 21,213,388 | 1 | 2 | 21,213,017 | train | <story><title>Iraq introduces nightly internet curfew</title><url>https://netblocks.org/reports/iraq-introduces-nightly-internet-curfew-JAp1DKBd</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Y_Y</author><text>Obviously this is wrong and tyrannical etc.<p>I can&#x27;t help wondering though if this may have unexpected benefits for e.g.: sleep quality, civility in online discussions, exercise. It&#x27;s hardly intended that way, but could end up being a net benefit for the well-being of citizens, particularly if it were implemented in a highly-developed country like the US.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Tenoke</author><text>Given that the curfew seems to be directly related to the large-scale protests where thousands are getting wounded and some killed, I wouldn&#x27;t count on them having e.g. better sleep than before the curfew.</text></comment> | <story><title>Iraq introduces nightly internet curfew</title><url>https://netblocks.org/reports/iraq-introduces-nightly-internet-curfew-JAp1DKBd</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Y_Y</author><text>Obviously this is wrong and tyrannical etc.<p>I can&#x27;t help wondering though if this may have unexpected benefits for e.g.: sleep quality, civility in online discussions, exercise. It&#x27;s hardly intended that way, but could end up being a net benefit for the well-being of citizens, particularly if it were implemented in a highly-developed country like the US.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mFixman</author><text>I think this is the most HN comment ever read.<p>And no, having an Internet curfew for preventing bloody protests won&#x27;t improve the well-being of citizens.</text></comment> |
19,490,001 | 19,487,888 | 1 | 2 | 19,487,304 | train | <story><title>Twitter forces all new users to enter a valid phone number</title><url>https://sucky.ninja/blog/twitter-locks-all-new-user-account-in-order-to-force-them-to-give-up-their-phone-numbers</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>munk-a</author><text>This is slightly different though, twitter is silly and unnecessary - access to your money is not.<p>During some of the recent shows highlighting issues with payday lending these sorts of strategic delays were mentioned in the light that they can cause irregularly paid workers to have problems actually getting money out of their paycheck - forcing them into more borrowing until they are able to clear their checks.<p>Again, twitter is just silliness, but the banking example is a lot more serious of a case where the pros and cons need to be very carefully weighed.</text></item><item><author>numbsafari</author><text>When I worked in banking we would do this with suspect transactions. The feature was called “Strategic Delay”. After awhile, all of our project plans (this was back in the days of Gantt charts) would include two weeks of effort on “Strategic Delay”, even if that feature wasn’t involved.</text></item><item><author>_jomo</author><text>They have been doing this for any account registered from a VPN or Tor. However, you can simply appeal the block and tell them you haven&#x27;t tweeted and not broken any rules.<p>They will send you an automated mail, offering to validate your phone number, or reply to the mail if your problem is not solved. Just reply to the mail.<p>Unfortunately, processing the request takes anywhere between 10 minutes and 2 weeks; usually a couple days at least. I assume this is on purpose to make it cumbersome for spammers.<p>They always reply with the same boilerplate, but the account will be unlocked:<p><pre><code> Your account is now unlocked, and we’re sorry for the inconvenience.
Twitter has automated systems that find and remove automated spam accounts and it looks like your account got caught up in one of these spam groups by mistake. This sometimes happens when an account exhibits automated behavior in violation of the Twitter Rules (https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;rules).
Again, we apologize for the inconvenience. Please do not respond to this email as replies will not be monitored.</code></pre></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>distant_hat</author><text>Eh. It is the primary communication mode for the current US president.</text></comment> | <story><title>Twitter forces all new users to enter a valid phone number</title><url>https://sucky.ninja/blog/twitter-locks-all-new-user-account-in-order-to-force-them-to-give-up-their-phone-numbers</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>munk-a</author><text>This is slightly different though, twitter is silly and unnecessary - access to your money is not.<p>During some of the recent shows highlighting issues with payday lending these sorts of strategic delays were mentioned in the light that they can cause irregularly paid workers to have problems actually getting money out of their paycheck - forcing them into more borrowing until they are able to clear their checks.<p>Again, twitter is just silliness, but the banking example is a lot more serious of a case where the pros and cons need to be very carefully weighed.</text></item><item><author>numbsafari</author><text>When I worked in banking we would do this with suspect transactions. The feature was called “Strategic Delay”. After awhile, all of our project plans (this was back in the days of Gantt charts) would include two weeks of effort on “Strategic Delay”, even if that feature wasn’t involved.</text></item><item><author>_jomo</author><text>They have been doing this for any account registered from a VPN or Tor. However, you can simply appeal the block and tell them you haven&#x27;t tweeted and not broken any rules.<p>They will send you an automated mail, offering to validate your phone number, or reply to the mail if your problem is not solved. Just reply to the mail.<p>Unfortunately, processing the request takes anywhere between 10 minutes and 2 weeks; usually a couple days at least. I assume this is on purpose to make it cumbersome for spammers.<p>They always reply with the same boilerplate, but the account will be unlocked:<p><pre><code> Your account is now unlocked, and we’re sorry for the inconvenience.
Twitter has automated systems that find and remove automated spam accounts and it looks like your account got caught up in one of these spam groups by mistake. This sometimes happens when an account exhibits automated behavior in violation of the Twitter Rules (https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;rules).
Again, we apologize for the inconvenience. Please do not respond to this email as replies will not be monitored.</code></pre></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>erikpukinskis</author><text>&gt; twitter is just sillines<p>Would you say the same about your phone number? If not, why? If I run my business on Twitter (or YouTube, or Facebook) is it that different from a bank?</text></comment> |
15,622,973 | 15,620,800 | 1 | 2 | 15,619,796 | train | <story><title>Command line interfaces are reified UIs</title><url>http://www.expressionsofchange.org/reification-of-interaction/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jasode</author><text><i>&gt;There is, after all, no fundamental reason a GUI could not be designed with the goal of reification of interaction in mind; it’s just that it is rarely done in practice.</i><p>If we have to search for an underlying reason, it&#x27;s that most GUI interactions by most end users don&#x27;t need reification and therefore, that code is not put in.<p>If the GUI has obvious needs for reification, the programmers account for it. Two examples that come to mind are computer chess games, and software audio workstations.<p>Many computer users who are comfortable with UNIX command line will nevertheless &quot;move chess pieces&quot; by clicking and dragging the piece from one square to another. However, virtually all chess programs still record the algebraic chessboard notation of each move and the players can see the tally of moves scrolling on the side of the board.<p>The other example has music producers mixing a song. They will adjust the sliders&#x2F;faders of volume panning and the software will record their moves. It&#x27;s known in the trade as &quot;mix automation&quot;. When the song is played back, the software makes the sliders mimic the same moves. The automation in &quot;reified&quot; into a time graph[1] such that one can move the nodes around to fine tune the movements more precisely than the fingers did in real time.<p>As for other GUI applications like typical business data entry screens, etc... most GUI toolkits like C# Winforms, C++ Qt, HTML buttons, etc <i>do not include a macro recorder</i> in the default event loop. Therefore, to &quot;reify&quot; the GUI in the same fashion as chess programs or the audio software requires grafting data structures and programming extra code to &quot;record&quot; the button presses into a timeline. Programmers won&#x27;t do this unless there&#x27;s a customer need for it. (E.g. Photoshop lets you reify the GUI as &quot;actions&quot; for later playback&quot;)<p>[1] example yellow line graphs the fader or knob changes: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;cdm.link&#x2F;app&#x2F;uploads&#x2F;2014&#x2F;06&#x2F;logicmixing-640x399.jpg" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;cdm.link&#x2F;app&#x2F;uploads&#x2F;2014&#x2F;06&#x2F;logicmixing-640x399.jpg</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>b0rsuk</author><text>Chess:<p><pre><code> * The interface is typically NOT optimized for keyboard.
</code></pre>
Typing E4D5 is <i>not</i> optimized. You need to look at a square in the middle, then look which row it is, and which column it is. I&#x27;ve implemented a better one for a similar game (Jungle). You press a character key to highlight one of your pieces, and the game essentially highlights legal moves by displaying alphanumeric chars on tiles. Instead of 4 keypresses, you have 2. In Chess it could be like this: 1-8 selects a pawn, b&#x2F;B one of bishops, r&#x2F;R - rooks, k&#x2F;K - knights, q - queen, i - king. Then another character depending on what shows up where you want to move.<p><pre><code> * People who play realtime chess (one example is Kung Fu Chess)do use keyboard
</code></pre>
certainly those playing in tournaments.<p>E4-D5 notation is optimized for recording games, not for playing.</text></comment> | <story><title>Command line interfaces are reified UIs</title><url>http://www.expressionsofchange.org/reification-of-interaction/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jasode</author><text><i>&gt;There is, after all, no fundamental reason a GUI could not be designed with the goal of reification of interaction in mind; it’s just that it is rarely done in practice.</i><p>If we have to search for an underlying reason, it&#x27;s that most GUI interactions by most end users don&#x27;t need reification and therefore, that code is not put in.<p>If the GUI has obvious needs for reification, the programmers account for it. Two examples that come to mind are computer chess games, and software audio workstations.<p>Many computer users who are comfortable with UNIX command line will nevertheless &quot;move chess pieces&quot; by clicking and dragging the piece from one square to another. However, virtually all chess programs still record the algebraic chessboard notation of each move and the players can see the tally of moves scrolling on the side of the board.<p>The other example has music producers mixing a song. They will adjust the sliders&#x2F;faders of volume panning and the software will record their moves. It&#x27;s known in the trade as &quot;mix automation&quot;. When the song is played back, the software makes the sliders mimic the same moves. The automation in &quot;reified&quot; into a time graph[1] such that one can move the nodes around to fine tune the movements more precisely than the fingers did in real time.<p>As for other GUI applications like typical business data entry screens, etc... most GUI toolkits like C# Winforms, C++ Qt, HTML buttons, etc <i>do not include a macro recorder</i> in the default event loop. Therefore, to &quot;reify&quot; the GUI in the same fashion as chess programs or the audio software requires grafting data structures and programming extra code to &quot;record&quot; the button presses into a timeline. Programmers won&#x27;t do this unless there&#x27;s a customer need for it. (E.g. Photoshop lets you reify the GUI as &quot;actions&quot; for later playback&quot;)<p>[1] example yellow line graphs the fader or knob changes: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;cdm.link&#x2F;app&#x2F;uploads&#x2F;2014&#x2F;06&#x2F;logicmixing-640x399.jpg" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;cdm.link&#x2F;app&#x2F;uploads&#x2F;2014&#x2F;06&#x2F;logicmixing-640x399.jpg</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kybernetikos</author><text>Paint.net is another example of an application that reifies its actions with a nice &#x27;history&#x27; window that shows the semantic actions that the user has performed and allows you to jump back to earlier points in your history of editing the file. GIMP does something similar, it seems particularly common in image editing programs.</text></comment> |
31,391,908 | 31,391,890 | 1 | 2 | 31,391,201 | train | <story><title>Congress urged to ease immigration for foreign science talent</title><url>https://www.axios.com/2022/05/09/national-security-china-international-science-tech-talent</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>runarberg</author><text>&gt; I get that we can&#x27;t open the flood gates<p>Serious question, has this ever been shown to be a concern. If we would open for free migration, is there seriously any reason to think that migration would be so intense that the country wouldn&#x27;t be able to handle it?<p>I ask because I seriously doubt it. Historically migration has been pretty liberal, and there are place which offer free movements of people (e.g. the EU) where opening up the borders (or the flood gates if you will) has turned out to be a great success.</text></item><item><author>curiousllama</author><text>&gt; Current U.S. immigration law limits the number of green cards issued per country, and people from populous countries like India and China are disproportionately affected.<p>It still shocks me how many of my friends from $top_US_university got kicked out of the country (or almost did, saved only by marriage). Like, do we really want to kick out a half-Iranian nuclear engineer, who now wants to work as a SWE, because they were born in India?<p>I get that we can&#x27;t open the flood gates. But it _does_ make a bit of sense to retain the top % of immigrants based on education in scarce fields, no?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ajsnigrutin</author><text>&quot;Great success&quot; is relative...<p>In my small EU country, this has created a caste of low-paying jobs that only immigrants do, and the hiring process usually goes along &quot;put out an ad, offer minimum pay&quot; - &quot;noone local wants to do that job for minimum wage&quot; - &quot;complain you can&#x27;t get workers&quot; - &quot;get work visas for foreigners&quot;.<p>This would&#x2F;could be mitigated by raising the minimum wage for foreign workers (eg., you need a cleaning lady, the pay for a foreign worker must be atleast 1.5x the average pay currently working cleaning ladies get, so they&#x27;ll try to get a local for atleast 1.499x the average pay first and then if really desparate hire a foreigner).</text></comment> | <story><title>Congress urged to ease immigration for foreign science talent</title><url>https://www.axios.com/2022/05/09/national-security-china-international-science-tech-talent</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>runarberg</author><text>&gt; I get that we can&#x27;t open the flood gates<p>Serious question, has this ever been shown to be a concern. If we would open for free migration, is there seriously any reason to think that migration would be so intense that the country wouldn&#x27;t be able to handle it?<p>I ask because I seriously doubt it. Historically migration has been pretty liberal, and there are place which offer free movements of people (e.g. the EU) where opening up the borders (or the flood gates if you will) has turned out to be a great success.</text></item><item><author>curiousllama</author><text>&gt; Current U.S. immigration law limits the number of green cards issued per country, and people from populous countries like India and China are disproportionately affected.<p>It still shocks me how many of my friends from $top_US_university got kicked out of the country (or almost did, saved only by marriage). Like, do we really want to kick out a half-Iranian nuclear engineer, who now wants to work as a SWE, because they were born in India?<p>I get that we can&#x27;t open the flood gates. But it _does_ make a bit of sense to retain the top % of immigrants based on education in scarce fields, no?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>LudwigNagasena</author><text>&gt; If we would open for free migration, is there seriously any reason to think that migration would be so intense that the country wouldn&#x27;t be able to handle it?<p>Depends on what you think &quot;be able to handle it&quot; means. There are many tradeoffs.<p>&gt; there are place which offer free movements of people (e.g. the EU) where opening up the borders (or the flood gates if you will) has turned out to be a great success<p>The EU has a very strict immigration policy for people outside of the EU and it also has natural language barriers that bar foreigners from almost all jobs.</text></comment> |
1,579,246 | 1,579,068 | 1 | 3 | 1,579,015 | train | <story><title>Tell HN: We're building a "HN Office Hours" app. Help us.</title><url>http://hnofficehours.com/</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>drewcrawford</author><text>I don't have regular office hours. I start work anywhere from 12-1pm and stop anywhere from midnight-5am. Sometimes I take days off. Sometimes I'm too busy to answer the phone. My schedule for something like this is pretty much unpredictable.<p>Proposal: rather than specifying hours, just let me specify here / gone like a regular IM client. If it looks like it's going to be a slow day, I'll turn on the tap, and if things pick up I'll turn it off.</text></comment> | <story><title>Tell HN: We're building a "HN Office Hours" app. Help us.</title><url>http://hnofficehours.com/</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>user24</author><text>That thread caused a lot of ripples. It's clear that this is a service that many people want.<p>Here's another thread inspired by kentf's submission; <a href="http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1517198" rel="nofollow">http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1517198</a> and there's a collection of google docs here: <a href="http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1517198" rel="nofollow">http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1517198</a>, you might want to build your database around the type of infomation people want to share.<p>Also, minor proofreading thing on the homepage: "want to build a site to those facilitate interactions"<p>I'm not a django guy otherwise I'd be offering to dive in.<p>I can offer space and bandwidth on my dreamhost "unlimited" shared hosting plan.<p>And I love beta-testing things!<p>(note to HNers, please save the discussion about what "unlimited" really means for another time.)<p>edit: another thread: <a href="http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1516015" rel="nofollow">http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1516015</a></text></comment> |
33,094,318 | 33,094,415 | 1 | 3 | 33,093,941 | train | <story><title>I don’t believe in sprints</title><url>https://www.robinrendle.com/notes/i-don’t-believe-in-sprints/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>gbro3n</author><text>Kanban is the best middle ground IMO. I agree sprints are a distraction. The planning and ceremonies alone sap time. Sprints are really just a form of pressure. In my experience the stories estimating is not accurate enough to set up a predictable sprint, and the inevitable deviation from the plan just creates additional work to audit and adjust, along with a sense of failure around what has often been a productive 2 weeks.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>stingraycharles</author><text>Sprints and planning are useful for organizations that attach a lot of value to planning and deadlines. It creates a lot of additional work and pressure, as you say, but I can also imagine that for certain types of organizations that may be worth it (eg when doing client work on a fixed budget with strict deadlines).<p>Other than that, I fully agree that Kanban is a great middle ground, as it’s low overhead and focuses on prioritization and flexibility rather than planning and burndown charts and whatnot.</text></comment> | <story><title>I don’t believe in sprints</title><url>https://www.robinrendle.com/notes/i-don’t-believe-in-sprints/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>gbro3n</author><text>Kanban is the best middle ground IMO. I agree sprints are a distraction. The planning and ceremonies alone sap time. Sprints are really just a form of pressure. In my experience the stories estimating is not accurate enough to set up a predictable sprint, and the inevitable deviation from the plan just creates additional work to audit and adjust, along with a sense of failure around what has often been a productive 2 weeks.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>polotics</author><text>KANBAN is good at ensuring you do not have too many themes on your plate at the same time.<p>Producing effort estimates is one of the many approaches to start talking about a task, and not doing it may mean that somebody else&#x27;s better idea on how to tackle it gets ignored.<p>Having sprints is a good way to coax people in fully finishing things, it is often needed as many developers tend to jump to the next shiny.<p>If any of these three things gets used by a bad manager to get fake importance, to put pressure, push people down instead of pulling them up... then get rid of that manager.</text></comment> |
37,777,580 | 37,776,466 | 1 | 2 | 37,775,649 | train | <story><title>US startup begins producing 40%-efficient thermophotovoltaic cells</title><url>https://www.pv-magazine.com/2023/01/25/us-startup-begins-producing-40-efficient-thermophotovoltaic-cells/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>londons_explore</author><text>&gt; emitter temperature of 2,400 C<p>GE&#x27;s combined cycle turbines can get system level efficiency of around 63% from these sorts of temperatures.<p>(For those not familiar with them: They&#x27;re basically aircraft jet engines followed by steam turbines using the hot exhaust. They are in widespread use to generate electricity from gas, but they can also run off any other liquid fuel, or simply off anything that gets very hot.)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>labcomputer</author><text>You have to do some “energy accounting” sleight of hand to get 63%, though. That number assumes that some of the low-grade waste heat can be used for, e.g., district heating. It’s also a peak steady-state number, only achievable under optimal load conditions.</text></comment> | <story><title>US startup begins producing 40%-efficient thermophotovoltaic cells</title><url>https://www.pv-magazine.com/2023/01/25/us-startup-begins-producing-40-efficient-thermophotovoltaic-cells/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>londons_explore</author><text>&gt; emitter temperature of 2,400 C<p>GE&#x27;s combined cycle turbines can get system level efficiency of around 63% from these sorts of temperatures.<p>(For those not familiar with them: They&#x27;re basically aircraft jet engines followed by steam turbines using the hot exhaust. They are in widespread use to generate electricity from gas, but they can also run off any other liquid fuel, or simply off anything that gets very hot.)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>15457345234</author><text>There are a looooot of moving parts in a CCGT generating station, multiple oil loops, multiple coolant loops, many consumables, a complex control flow.<p>Being able to replace the combined turbine&#x2F;alternator assembly with a &#x27;when it gets hot, voltage comes out&#x27; unit would give you significant reliability gains and lower operating costs.</text></comment> |
37,799,779 | 37,797,635 | 1 | 3 | 37,785,416 | train | <story><title>How will AI learn next?</title><url>https://www.newyorker.com/science/annals-of-artificial-intelligence/how-will-ai-learn-next</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rented_mule</author><text>Anyone who has iterated on trained models for long enough knows that feedback loops can be a serious problem. If your models are influencing the generation of data that they are later retrained on, it gets harder and harder to even maintain model performance. The article mentions one experiment in this direction: &quot;With each generation, the quality of the model actually degraded.&quot; This happens whenever there aren&#x27;t solid strategies to avoid feedback loop issues.<p>Given this, the problem isn&#x27;t just that there&#x27;s not enough new content. It&#x27;s that an ever-increasing fraction of the content in the public sphere will be generated by these models. And can the models detect that they are ingesting their own output? If they get good enough, they probably can&#x27;t. And then they&#x27;ll get worse.<p>This could have a strange impact on human language &#x2F; communication as well. As these models are increasingly trained on their own output, they&#x27;ll start emulating their own mistakes and more of the content we consume will have these mistakes consistently used. You can imagine people, sometimes intentionally and sometimes not, starting to emulate these patterns and causing shifts in human languages. Interesting times ahead...</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Nevermark</author><text>Humans have that to, but the reason civilization doesn&#x27;t go full crazy is our use of language and concepts are tied to doing objective things, which keeps things (mostly) grounded.<p>Where it isn’t grounded, as in endless online conversations with like minded people (closed loop feedback) about informally abstracted (poorly specified constraints) and emotion invoking (high reinforcement) topics, people go batshit too.<p>So the more AI models actually practice what they know in objective environments, the more likely that output-&gt;input feedback will inform introspection toward self-improvement, and less like an iterative calculation of the architecture’s resonant frequencies or eigenvalues.</text></comment> | <story><title>How will AI learn next?</title><url>https://www.newyorker.com/science/annals-of-artificial-intelligence/how-will-ai-learn-next</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rented_mule</author><text>Anyone who has iterated on trained models for long enough knows that feedback loops can be a serious problem. If your models are influencing the generation of data that they are later retrained on, it gets harder and harder to even maintain model performance. The article mentions one experiment in this direction: &quot;With each generation, the quality of the model actually degraded.&quot; This happens whenever there aren&#x27;t solid strategies to avoid feedback loop issues.<p>Given this, the problem isn&#x27;t just that there&#x27;s not enough new content. It&#x27;s that an ever-increasing fraction of the content in the public sphere will be generated by these models. And can the models detect that they are ingesting their own output? If they get good enough, they probably can&#x27;t. And then they&#x27;ll get worse.<p>This could have a strange impact on human language &#x2F; communication as well. As these models are increasingly trained on their own output, they&#x27;ll start emulating their own mistakes and more of the content we consume will have these mistakes consistently used. You can imagine people, sometimes intentionally and sometimes not, starting to emulate these patterns and causing shifts in human languages. Interesting times ahead...</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>HDThoreaun</author><text>I think it&#x27;s reasonable to say that this was actually the point of releasing LLMs publicly. The companies that created them wanted a moat and figured the data they had could be it if they poisoned anyones attempt to collect the same data in the future.</text></comment> |
13,676,225 | 13,676,262 | 1 | 2 | 13,675,038 | train | <story><title>Ask HN: What is a problem you face at work?</title><text>Hi guys,<p>I&#x27;m Cory. I run http:&#x2F;&#x2F;oppsdaily.com, a daily email for software devs who want to solve the problems people face at work.<p>The email consists of a super brief interview about a problem you have at work, and the software you wished you had (that you would buy), that could solve the problem.<p>Each day I receive a handful responses from developers who want to learn more, and I connect them to the interviewee.<p>I really want to source some of those interviews from this amazing community.<p>If you are facing a problem that you&#x27;d like to share, please contact me! - [email protected]<p>I&#x27;d love to feature you in one of my interviews.<p>EDIT:<p>If you&#x27;re not comfortable being featured in an email, but you would like to share in this thread for the benefit of the HN community, please do! :)</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>gingerlime</author><text>Finding the famous &quot;Aha moment&quot;.<p>You probably heard the story on how facebook realized that once someone adds at least 7 friends, then they reach this &quot;Aha moment&quot;, and from that point on, they&#x27;re converted to longer-term users. And how afterwards Facebook optimized their onboarding experience to help new users find and add more friends...<p>That&#x27;s the problem I&#x27;m facing with our startup. We have tons of data. We track events, conversions, page views, bounces, you name it. But we&#x27;re still not sure what&#x27;s our &quot;Aha moment&quot;. A tool or service that would ingest our analytics (or do its own) and find a strong causal relationship between actions and conversions would be really amazing (ideally, without requiring a $gazilion+ enterprise license)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>elliott34</author><text>I have a lot of experience with this problem. The simplest way is via data munging in python&#x2F; pandas etc by finding what percent users convert&#x2F;churn after doing an event N times within the first X days, and all the permutations thereof, using statistical tests around the change point. A more clever way is to use bayesian change point analysis.<p>The tricky thing is that these insights wind up being kind of obvious from the first analysis. You will find things like &quot;users who use the software more are more likely convert.&quot; Other times these types of analysis will confirm what you already know. The tricky thing is making sure you have the right tagging&#x2F;events and place to make sure you&#x27;re getting at the right level of detail to get something worthwhile. It&#x27;s very a much a garbage in garbage out type of thing.</text></comment> | <story><title>Ask HN: What is a problem you face at work?</title><text>Hi guys,<p>I&#x27;m Cory. I run http:&#x2F;&#x2F;oppsdaily.com, a daily email for software devs who want to solve the problems people face at work.<p>The email consists of a super brief interview about a problem you have at work, and the software you wished you had (that you would buy), that could solve the problem.<p>Each day I receive a handful responses from developers who want to learn more, and I connect them to the interviewee.<p>I really want to source some of those interviews from this amazing community.<p>If you are facing a problem that you&#x27;d like to share, please contact me! - [email protected]<p>I&#x27;d love to feature you in one of my interviews.<p>EDIT:<p>If you&#x27;re not comfortable being featured in an email, but you would like to share in this thread for the benefit of the HN community, please do! :)</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>gingerlime</author><text>Finding the famous &quot;Aha moment&quot;.<p>You probably heard the story on how facebook realized that once someone adds at least 7 friends, then they reach this &quot;Aha moment&quot;, and from that point on, they&#x27;re converted to longer-term users. And how afterwards Facebook optimized their onboarding experience to help new users find and add more friends...<p>That&#x27;s the problem I&#x27;m facing with our startup. We have tons of data. We track events, conversions, page views, bounces, you name it. But we&#x27;re still not sure what&#x27;s our &quot;Aha moment&quot;. A tool or service that would ingest our analytics (or do its own) and find a strong causal relationship between actions and conversions would be really amazing (ideally, without requiring a $gazilion+ enterprise license)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>AznHisoka</author><text>I personally have had this problem and tried looking for that insight hidden among our big data.<p>but we discovered looking for patterns in quantiative data was a waste of time. Instead what we are focusing on is more qualitative data: interviewing customers, interviewing people who cancelled, and finding the &quot;jobs to be done&quot; of your prospective customers. then mapping that to your product features.<p>once you truly understand your customer needs, knowing what to fix&#x2F;improve is rather trivial.</text></comment> |
37,727,510 | 37,726,412 | 1 | 3 | 37,725,498 | train | <story><title>DALL-E 3 is now publicly available inside Bing</title><url>https://www.bing.com/images/create/?ref=hn</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>og_kalu</author><text>There&#x27;s an LLM morphing your queries somewhat before submitting to Dall-e and you can jailbreak that.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;madebyollin&#x2F;status&#x2F;1708204657708077294" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;madebyollin&#x2F;status&#x2F;1708204657708077294</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;media.discordapp.net&#x2F;attachments&#x2F;1023643945319792731&#x2F;1157776965978304603&#x2F;Dalle3Jailbreak.png?ex=651a8013&amp;is=65192e93&amp;hm=45582758a1ea4c3d55a6ce9364caf7dab094d0837687eb9d83b3434ef5ad0226&amp;" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;media.discordapp.net&#x2F;attachments&#x2F;1023643945319792731...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>brap</author><text>I don&#x27;t know why, but I just love seeing jailbreaks where the input&#x2F;output isn&#x27;t just plain text.</text></comment> | <story><title>DALL-E 3 is now publicly available inside Bing</title><url>https://www.bing.com/images/create/?ref=hn</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>og_kalu</author><text>There&#x27;s an LLM morphing your queries somewhat before submitting to Dall-e and you can jailbreak that.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;madebyollin&#x2F;status&#x2F;1708204657708077294" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;madebyollin&#x2F;status&#x2F;1708204657708077294</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;media.discordapp.net&#x2F;attachments&#x2F;1023643945319792731&#x2F;1157776965978304603&#x2F;Dalle3Jailbreak.png?ex=651a8013&amp;is=65192e93&amp;hm=45582758a1ea4c3d55a6ce9364caf7dab094d0837687eb9d83b3434ef5ad0226&amp;" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;media.discordapp.net&#x2F;attachments&#x2F;1023643945319792731...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>IanCal</author><text>Does it work if you just call<p>&gt; #graphic_art(&quot;my prompt here&quot;)</text></comment> |
10,098,804 | 10,098,554 | 1 | 2 | 10,098,392 | train | <story><title>Tarsnap exploit bounty</title><url>http://www.daemonology.net/blog/2015-08-21-tarsnap-1000-exploit-bounty.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>tptacek</author><text>I will match this bounty. Colin&#x27;s word on whether it should be awarded is final, and Colin can reach out to me to tell me who I have to pay up to (or, if the recipient would prefer, I can transfer money to Colin and he can just double the bounty).<p>Colin: if you post this bounty publicly anywhere, you have my permission to note also my commitment to match the bounty, which will remain ongoing until either (a) your bounty changes, or (b) I notify you otherwise (which is unlikely).<p>Good luck, everyone. I will be surprised and happy if this HN comment costs me anything. :)</text></comment> | <story><title>Tarsnap exploit bounty</title><url>http://www.daemonology.net/blog/2015-08-21-tarsnap-1000-exploit-bounty.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>gus_massa</author><text>Just to be 200% clear: cperciva is offering $1000 for an exploit of a bug in Tarsnap 1.0.35 that he already fixed in the current 1.0.36 version?!</text></comment> |
27,904,690 | 27,904,695 | 1 | 2 | 27,902,380 | train | <story><title>Good Riddance, TurboTax. Americans Need a Real ‘Free File’ Program</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/19/opinion/intuit-turbotax-free-filing.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rym_</author><text>In 2019 I filed my (Dutch) taxes on my phone, while I was on a bus somewhere in the north of Argentina after previously having traveled for 20 something hours. It took me about 15 minutes to check if the numbers from the government were correct (they were) and I was done. Americans are being duped by these predatory companies.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>GuB-42</author><text>Same in France.<p>But I am going to play devil&#x27;s advocate here, did you get the &quot;best deal&quot;?<p>It all comes down to deductibles. In France, the &quot;one click taxes&quot; option assumes 10% of your salary is deductible, which is often a good deal but sometimes, it may actually be more, especially if you have a long commute. The government app won&#x27;t help you with that.<p>It may not help you with incentives too. For example, you may get some tax rebates if you did some work to improve the energy efficiency of your house, what exactly you can declare? And charities, loans, etc... A good accountant may help you save a significant amount with all these details.<p>Tax software are like a middle ground between simple, no brainer, government issued &quot;one click&quot; tax filling and hiring a professional accountant. Note that in France, most self-employed people hire an accountant, proper tax filling can be a minefield if you are not an employee.<p>And by the way, that&#x27;s Intuit&#x27;s argument. That it is used to justify its evil deeds is a thing, but the argument itself is not without merit.</text></comment> | <story><title>Good Riddance, TurboTax. Americans Need a Real ‘Free File’ Program</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/19/opinion/intuit-turbotax-free-filing.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rym_</author><text>In 2019 I filed my (Dutch) taxes on my phone, while I was on a bus somewhere in the north of Argentina after previously having traveled for 20 something hours. It took me about 15 minutes to check if the numbers from the government were correct (they were) and I was done. Americans are being duped by these predatory companies.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>brezelnbitte</author><text>The reason your taxes are simpler though is because the Dutch government doesn’t use the tax system to implement policy like the US does. The US Congress uses the tax system to influence social policy as well as to deliver benefits for specific groups and industries. And over time all of these legislative additions have turned a simple revenue raising system into a complex mess of deductions and credits.<p>Now I am not defending turbo tax’s predatory actions in the past but it’s not complicating the tax system just taking advantage of it being complicated.</text></comment> |
34,945,073 | 34,944,788 | 1 | 2 | 34,944,340 | train | <story><title>What's new in C# for Godot 4.0</title><url>https://godotengine.org/article/whats-new-in-csharp-for-godot-4-0/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>sovietmudkipz</author><text>Any godot programmers here. How is godot&#x27;s support of games in the browser?<p>4 years ago I was deciding on a game engine to use. I considered it to unreal, Unity, and godot. I want to be able to build games that can be played on the web. I have many fond memories of the Flash game days. Distributing games over the web allows me to share games with people without the friction of installers, or App Store gate keepers, which I think is super cool. At the time, only Unity supported web. I decided to go full in on Unity.</text></comment> | <story><title>What's new in C# for Godot 4.0</title><url>https://godotengine.org/article/whats-new-in-csharp-for-godot-4-0/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>wnzl</author><text>„ we now use the .NET SDK to embed the .NET runtime. This means we use the CoreCLR runtime for desktop platforms”<p>Wow this is huge! Seems like Unity is lagging behind and their journey for CoreCLR just started.</text></comment> |
22,999,535 | 22,999,223 | 1 | 3 | 22,998,977 | train | <story><title>Benchmarking C++ Allocators</title><url>https://docs.google.com/document/d/e/2PACX-1vTJmRADDPyybMjBxQ5r-PHEdHQWoOW-Wk87IVoT_EvFv9B5Ks3Mjuk8IXIDYPKFvWW6ezsl9PSZ1JbF/pub</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>pizlonator</author><text>My data says that perf of malloc&#x2F;free in <i>actual programs</i> (not fake ass shit calling malloc in a loop) is never affected by the call overhead. Not by dynamic call overhead, not even if you write a wrapper that uses a switch or indirect call to select mallocs. Reason is simple: malloc perf is all about data dependencies in the malloc&#x2F;free path and how many cache misses it causes or prevents. Adding indirection on the malloc call path is handled gracefully by the CPU’s ability to ILP, and malloc is a perfect candidate since it’s bottlenecks will be cache misses inside the malloc&#x2F;free paths.</text></comment> | <story><title>Benchmarking C++ Allocators</title><url>https://docs.google.com/document/d/e/2PACX-1vTJmRADDPyybMjBxQ5r-PHEdHQWoOW-Wk87IVoT_EvFv9B5Ks3Mjuk8IXIDYPKFvWW6ezsl9PSZ1JbF/pub</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>mehrdadn</author><text>&gt; For C++ programs, replacing malloc and free at runtime is the worst choice. When the compiler can see the definition of new and delete at build time it can generate far better programs. When it can’t see them, it generates out-of-line function calls to malloc for every operator new, which is bananas.<p>I feel like whenever I&#x27;ve dealt with general-purpose memory allocation (as opposed to special-purpose like from a stack buffer without freeing) this kind of overhead has been dwarfed by the actual overhead of the allocation and pointless to worry about. Is this not the case in others&#x27; experience?</text></comment> |
25,305,632 | 25,303,108 | 1 | 3 | 25,299,442 | train | <story><title>How I Manage My Random Daily Notes</title><url>https://hachibu.net/posts/2020/how-i-manage-my-random-daily-notes/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>alexpetralia</author><text>As I&#x27;ve mentioned elsewhere, I have a fairly straightforward &quot;personal knowledge management&quot; (PKM) methodology.<p>1. Capture: every interesting idea that I think up or read is immediately stored in Google Keep (on mobile or laptop). It can be very rough at this point, the goal is simply to not forget.<p>2. Transcribe &amp; Organize: every weekend, I go through the notes I accumulated during the week. It tends to be between 10 and 30 notes. Sometimes the note is &quot;read this article&quot; or &quot;catch up on all newsletters&quot;, so <i>understanding</i> a single note can take over an hour. On some tough weekends the process takes an entire day, but that is invariably a day where I feel like I learned a <i>ton</i>. Once the note is cleaned up (transcribed), I feel like I understand it. At this point I rarely forget it - it has been absorbed into my brain. The final step here is &quot;categorizing&quot; the note. I classify it using OneNote with tabs like &quot;Clinical psychology&quot; (nested under &quot;Psychology&quot;) or &quot;Investment management&quot; (nested under &quot;Finance&quot;) or &quot;Math&quot; or &quot;Physics&quot;. This way, in the future, I don&#x27;t have a million notes scattered around, but one clear place I know where to look. On average, this process takes 2-4 hours per weekend. I never accumulate bookmarks, Google Keep notes or unread emails more than a week to prevent existential dread.<p>3. Revisit: generally, people recommend you revisit your notes from time to time. I almost never do this. But if I ever am thinking about &quot;Marketing&quot; or &quot;Sociology&quot;, I have an immense, high SNR repository of everything I&#x27;ve ever found valuable on the topic. I&#x27;ve done this for software interviews and it&#x27;s been incredibly helpful.<p>Overall, I attribute this system to making me much smarter. It has been an invaluable investment.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Natales</author><text>I like the idea of daily notes even better when you combine them with your todo lists at the same time. That concept is called interstitial notes [0], and it&#x27;s used in several software tools like Roam Research [1]. I use Drift [2] which has a interstitial notes plugin which has proven to work very well for me.<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;nesslabs.com&#x2F;interstitial-journaling" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;nesslabs.com&#x2F;interstitial-journaling</a><p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;roamresearch.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;roamresearch.com&#x2F;</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;akhater.github.io&#x2F;drift&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;akhater.github.io&#x2F;drift&#x2F;</a></text></comment> | <story><title>How I Manage My Random Daily Notes</title><url>https://hachibu.net/posts/2020/how-i-manage-my-random-daily-notes/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>alexpetralia</author><text>As I&#x27;ve mentioned elsewhere, I have a fairly straightforward &quot;personal knowledge management&quot; (PKM) methodology.<p>1. Capture: every interesting idea that I think up or read is immediately stored in Google Keep (on mobile or laptop). It can be very rough at this point, the goal is simply to not forget.<p>2. Transcribe &amp; Organize: every weekend, I go through the notes I accumulated during the week. It tends to be between 10 and 30 notes. Sometimes the note is &quot;read this article&quot; or &quot;catch up on all newsletters&quot;, so <i>understanding</i> a single note can take over an hour. On some tough weekends the process takes an entire day, but that is invariably a day where I feel like I learned a <i>ton</i>. Once the note is cleaned up (transcribed), I feel like I understand it. At this point I rarely forget it - it has been absorbed into my brain. The final step here is &quot;categorizing&quot; the note. I classify it using OneNote with tabs like &quot;Clinical psychology&quot; (nested under &quot;Psychology&quot;) or &quot;Investment management&quot; (nested under &quot;Finance&quot;) or &quot;Math&quot; or &quot;Physics&quot;. This way, in the future, I don&#x27;t have a million notes scattered around, but one clear place I know where to look. On average, this process takes 2-4 hours per weekend. I never accumulate bookmarks, Google Keep notes or unread emails more than a week to prevent existential dread.<p>3. Revisit: generally, people recommend you revisit your notes from time to time. I almost never do this. But if I ever am thinking about &quot;Marketing&quot; or &quot;Sociology&quot;, I have an immense, high SNR repository of everything I&#x27;ve ever found valuable on the topic. I&#x27;ve done this for software interviews and it&#x27;s been incredibly helpful.<p>Overall, I attribute this system to making me much smarter. It has been an invaluable investment.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nosmokewhereiam</author><text>Google Keep has a limit with how large notes can be, and how many unarchived notes can dictate app performance.<p>It&#x27;s neat you simply decided to use it to hold on to things for about a week, prefering instead to store them in OneNote (or anything you want), a more stable product. Thanks for this advice!</text></comment> |
22,689,751 | 22,688,574 | 1 | 2 | 22,687,296 | train | <story><title>Samsung Begins Mass Production of 512GB EUFS 3.1</title><url>https://news.samsung.com/global/samsung-begins-mass-production-of-the-fastest-storage-for-flagship-smartphones</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>mwcampbell</author><text>Am I the only one who thinks that microSD cards, and by extension EUFS cards, are too small? It&#x27;s very easy to lose a microSD card. I thought the original SD form factor was good.</text></comment> | <story><title>Samsung Begins Mass Production of 512GB EUFS 3.1</title><url>https://news.samsung.com/global/samsung-begins-mass-production-of-the-fastest-storage-for-flagship-smartphones</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jolmg</author><text>So, this is the first I&#x27;ve heard of UFS, and I&#x27;m wondering... what&#x27;s with the fish fin on the cards?<p>If the point is to prevent it being accidentally inserted in a microSD slot, couldn&#x27;t they have just used a slightly different size, like a millimeter wider, and keep a rectangular shape?</text></comment> |
35,489,013 | 35,489,169 | 1 | 3 | 35,486,923 | train | <story><title>Direct evidence of the use of multiple drugs in Bronze Age from human hair test</title><url>https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-023-31064-2</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>kortex</author><text>&gt; Thus, opium alkaloids were detected in Late Bronze Age containers<p>&gt; different hallucinogenic compounds, mainly nicotine, tryptamines and tropane alkaloids have been chemically documented in Prehispanic artefacts from the Americas, and psychoactive compounds of Cannabis in archaeological wooden braziers from China.<p>&gt; The alkaloids ephedrine, atropine and scopolamine were detected, and their concentrations estimated [in human hair]<p>&gt; The results furnish direct evidence of the consumption of plant drugs and, more interestingly, they reveal the use of multiple psychoactive species.<p>Basically, we have long discovered &quot;drug paraphernalia&quot; and other adjacent materials, suggesting drug use (namely cannabis, tobacco, various psychoactive mushrooms, opium, various stimulants like areca and ephedra, deliriants like Datura, and of course alcohol). But we haven&#x27;t known for sure that these meant the drugs were consumed recreationally&#x2F;medicinally. This gives direct evidence the drugs were in fact consumed deliberately.<p>tl;dr - <i>Homo sapiens</i> got high.</text></comment> | <story><title>Direct evidence of the use of multiple drugs in Bronze Age from human hair test</title><url>https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-023-31064-2</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>WheelsAtLarge</author><text>Drugs or herbal medicine? Is there even a difference when talking about early civilizations? We know that herbal medicine was a staple of many early civilizations. Even animals use herbs as medicine. It seems to me that we have known this information for ages.</text></comment> |
38,582,920 | 38,583,087 | 1 | 2 | 38,574,208 | train | <story><title>Just Your Handyman</title><url>https://www.plough.com/en/topics/life/work/just-your-handyman</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>neverartful</author><text>I mostly agree with you. I&#x27;ve been a full-time software engineer for the past 28 years and a part-time handyman for the past 5 months. One of the biggest differences that you don&#x27;t mention is the use of your body. Software engineering is purely intellectual -- often to the detriment of your body (or mine, anyways) since it&#x27;s often the case where I sit at the keyboard for hours on end, day after day. As a handyman, your body necessarily is a key part of the work you do. Lifting tools, materials, carrying them, getting into weird positions to access the problem area (under bathroom sink for example). The other aspect is the physical nature of the work. The work is tangible. You can take a photo of the thing that needs to be fixed before the repair&#x2F;construction and then another at the end and compare the before&#x2F;after photos. Even if you don&#x27;t care about the photos, you can still see the tangible, physical end-result of your work. With software engineering, at best it&#x27;s usually just a status update on a Jira ticket.<p>Regarding AI technologies, I agree that it&#x27;s extremely unlikely that AI will take over the work. It&#x27;s possible that may help in some diagnostic cases. I strongly disagree with &quot;all the out of work engineers and designers will move into those industries&quot;. Why? Many (perhaps most even) software engineers that I&#x27;ve worked with are too lazy or too proud to do handyman type work. Some of the handyman work can be physically quite taxing and some of it can be quite humbling. Examples of taxing work - when you&#x27;re doing a gate rebuild&#x2F;repair in 107 degree temperature in direct sun. Example of humbling work - opening up p-traps under sinks and having some of the smelly, dirty water splash on you.</text></item><item><author>karaterobot</author><text>Neat article. If you squint, I don&#x27;t think there is a ton of difference between what most handymen do and what most software engineers do: they both have some generalizable skills, and when they get asked to do something they say &#x27;yes&#x27; and then figure out how to do it. I don&#x27;t think the challenge level of most day-to-day software tasks is any harder than the &quot;where&#x27;d that water stain come from&quot; puzzle he described in the article. The difference, of course, is in working conditions and payment.<p>But even if the AI technologies we&#x27;re so nervously excited about replace all our jobs, the handymen, plumbers, and electricians of the world will be mostly unaffected. Their work is hard to automate. I hesitate to say we&#x27;ll change places in terms of economic status—more likely, all the out of work engineers and designers will move into those industries and drive down the prices.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>spenczar5</author><text>Those are good distinctions. I&#x27;m a 13-year software engineer, and a 4-year part time finish carpenter.<p>An important distinction that comes up for me a lot is that it&#x27;s much harder to fix mistakes with physical stuff. I can rapidly iterate on software, try stuff, see what works, play with a concept. But if I do that with wood and nails, I&#x27;m going to be in for trouble. Each idea costs material, and if it&#x27;s a repair, there can be no going back. &quot;Iterative development&quot; really isn&#x27;t a thing. This has gotten me in trouble - my instinct is to explore a problem, but I find that physical stuff requires more intellectual planning up-front, counterintuitively.</text></comment> | <story><title>Just Your Handyman</title><url>https://www.plough.com/en/topics/life/work/just-your-handyman</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>neverartful</author><text>I mostly agree with you. I&#x27;ve been a full-time software engineer for the past 28 years and a part-time handyman for the past 5 months. One of the biggest differences that you don&#x27;t mention is the use of your body. Software engineering is purely intellectual -- often to the detriment of your body (or mine, anyways) since it&#x27;s often the case where I sit at the keyboard for hours on end, day after day. As a handyman, your body necessarily is a key part of the work you do. Lifting tools, materials, carrying them, getting into weird positions to access the problem area (under bathroom sink for example). The other aspect is the physical nature of the work. The work is tangible. You can take a photo of the thing that needs to be fixed before the repair&#x2F;construction and then another at the end and compare the before&#x2F;after photos. Even if you don&#x27;t care about the photos, you can still see the tangible, physical end-result of your work. With software engineering, at best it&#x27;s usually just a status update on a Jira ticket.<p>Regarding AI technologies, I agree that it&#x27;s extremely unlikely that AI will take over the work. It&#x27;s possible that may help in some diagnostic cases. I strongly disagree with &quot;all the out of work engineers and designers will move into those industries&quot;. Why? Many (perhaps most even) software engineers that I&#x27;ve worked with are too lazy or too proud to do handyman type work. Some of the handyman work can be physically quite taxing and some of it can be quite humbling. Examples of taxing work - when you&#x27;re doing a gate rebuild&#x2F;repair in 107 degree temperature in direct sun. Example of humbling work - opening up p-traps under sinks and having some of the smelly, dirty water splash on you.</text></item><item><author>karaterobot</author><text>Neat article. If you squint, I don&#x27;t think there is a ton of difference between what most handymen do and what most software engineers do: they both have some generalizable skills, and when they get asked to do something they say &#x27;yes&#x27; and then figure out how to do it. I don&#x27;t think the challenge level of most day-to-day software tasks is any harder than the &quot;where&#x27;d that water stain come from&quot; puzzle he described in the article. The difference, of course, is in working conditions and payment.<p>But even if the AI technologies we&#x27;re so nervously excited about replace all our jobs, the handymen, plumbers, and electricians of the world will be mostly unaffected. Their work is hard to automate. I hesitate to say we&#x27;ll change places in terms of economic status—more likely, all the out of work engineers and designers will move into those industries and drive down the prices.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>karaterobot</author><text>&gt; One of the biggest differences that you don&#x27;t mention is the use of your body.<p>Oh, for sure. I was a dev for many years, then switched to product design. What I left out of my first comment was that my older brother is a maintenance guy for a hospital—basically a handyman with an office in the basement. Growing up, it was clear that he was <i>at least</i> as smart as me, but at a certain point he went one direction and I went another. Cut to 25-30 years later: his body is a wreck, mine is okay (modulo poor diet and lack of exercise), he&#x27;s always broke, and I&#x27;m doing alright.<p>When I said that our jobs are very similar, I just meant that, like a handyman, much of what a SWE does is basically attaching one thing to another thing while cursing. That&#x27;s a joke, but you get what I mean. My point was that neither are rocket science, but we shouldn&#x27;t think we&#x27;re especially smart for being programmers just because we get paid too much for it. Add the physical element of handyman work to that and that just underlines the point I wanted to make.<p>&gt; I strongly disagree with &quot;all the out of work engineers and designers will move into those industries.<p>This is timely. I said that because I was thinking about it yesterday, when talking to some friends about what they&#x27;d do if and when AI obviated their current jobs (which is in the realm of possibility). A common answer was that they&#x27;d become electricians. I think there are at least two problems with that: one is the physical aspect of being a tradesman, which nobody thinks about. The other is that there would certainly be <i>more</i> people going into the trades, not less, if those industries became a safe harbor from AI. Many of these people would wash out, sure, but at least some of them (like yourself) wouldn&#x27;t. That, combined with all the upper-middle-class people being suddenly broke, would probably drive down wages for people who work with their hands. I can&#x27;t imagine anything else happening, though of course I could be wrong.</text></comment> |
32,391,100 | 32,390,732 | 1 | 2 | 32,389,706 | train | <story><title>GitHub suspends Tornado Cash developer account</title><url>https://twitter.com/semenov_roman_/status/1556717890308653059</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dcow</author><text>That is <i>not</i> my view.<p>I am not talking about what GH is at liberty to do; clearly they can do whatever they want. I’m asking about what they’re legally bound to do as a result of these sanctions. I find the precedent here more fascinating and troublesome (as an open source author myself) than the instance of the code in question.</text></item><item><author>323</author><text>ISIS recruiting manuals and videos are also free speech. According to your view YouTube&#x2F;Microsoft should not remove them.<p>Beside the fact that GH is a private company that maybe doesn&#x27;t want to be associated with some stuff.</text></item><item><author>dcow</author><text>I understand that GitHub is just taking immediate actions in a way they perceive as being compliant with the law. The question is more existential: since source source code is speech, can the government even sanction it? And <i>should</i> GH fight this if they want to remain a reliable platform for publishing code? What even is GH required to do in response to this sanction, or are they just being overly cautious since we’re in uncharted waters?</text></item><item><author>altairprime</author><text>Related, today:<p>“U.S. Treasury Sanctions Virtual Currency Mixer Tornado Cash” <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=32386189" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=32386189</a><p>Specifically:<p>&gt; <i>all property and interests in property of the entity above, Tornado Cash, that is in the United States or in the possession or control of U.S. persons is blocked and must be reported to OFAC.</i></text></item><item><author>wyxuan</author><text>Tornado Cash repo+website taken down as well[0], and so have many of the GH accounts that were contributors to the repo[1].<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;w_y_x&#x2F;status&#x2F;1556716055296294914?s=21&amp;t=3ce_KjS5AwTb-SP9hiqF-Q" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;w_y_x&#x2F;status&#x2F;1556716055296294914?s=21&amp;t=...</a><p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;bantg&#x2F;status&#x2F;1556721709931175937?s=21&amp;t=3ce_KjS5AwTb-SP9hiqF-Q" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;bantg&#x2F;status&#x2F;1556721709931175937?s=21&amp;t=...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>deeg</author><text>As we&#x27;ve seen with Alex Jones even free speech is not absolute (for the record I agree with the rulings against Jones). If the code is designed to facilitate illegal activity I can see how that could be shut down by the government.</text></comment> | <story><title>GitHub suspends Tornado Cash developer account</title><url>https://twitter.com/semenov_roman_/status/1556717890308653059</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dcow</author><text>That is <i>not</i> my view.<p>I am not talking about what GH is at liberty to do; clearly they can do whatever they want. I’m asking about what they’re legally bound to do as a result of these sanctions. I find the precedent here more fascinating and troublesome (as an open source author myself) than the instance of the code in question.</text></item><item><author>323</author><text>ISIS recruiting manuals and videos are also free speech. According to your view YouTube&#x2F;Microsoft should not remove them.<p>Beside the fact that GH is a private company that maybe doesn&#x27;t want to be associated with some stuff.</text></item><item><author>dcow</author><text>I understand that GitHub is just taking immediate actions in a way they perceive as being compliant with the law. The question is more existential: since source source code is speech, can the government even sanction it? And <i>should</i> GH fight this if they want to remain a reliable platform for publishing code? What even is GH required to do in response to this sanction, or are they just being overly cautious since we’re in uncharted waters?</text></item><item><author>altairprime</author><text>Related, today:<p>“U.S. Treasury Sanctions Virtual Currency Mixer Tornado Cash” <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=32386189" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=32386189</a><p>Specifically:<p>&gt; <i>all property and interests in property of the entity above, Tornado Cash, that is in the United States or in the possession or control of U.S. persons is blocked and must be reported to OFAC.</i></text></item><item><author>wyxuan</author><text>Tornado Cash repo+website taken down as well[0], and so have many of the GH accounts that were contributors to the repo[1].<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;w_y_x&#x2F;status&#x2F;1556716055296294914?s=21&amp;t=3ce_KjS5AwTb-SP9hiqF-Q" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;w_y_x&#x2F;status&#x2F;1556716055296294914?s=21&amp;t=...</a><p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;bantg&#x2F;status&#x2F;1556721709931175937?s=21&amp;t=3ce_KjS5AwTb-SP9hiqF-Q" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;bantg&#x2F;status&#x2F;1556721709931175937?s=21&amp;t=...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>gerikson</author><text>The linked Treasury doc references Executive Order 13694, which has its own wikipedia page <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Executive_Order_13694" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Executive_Order_13694</a>.</text></comment> |
35,390,953 | 35,391,319 | 1 | 3 | 35,390,153 | train | <story><title>HuggingGPT: Solving AI tasks with ChatGPT and its friends in HuggingFace</title><url>https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.17580</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Workaccount2</author><text>I strongly suspect the first AGI will come sooner than expected on the back of a &quot;glue&quot; AI that can intelligently bond together a web of narrow AIs and utilities.<p>I got access to the wolfram plugin for chatGPT, and it turned it from a math dummy to a math genius overnight. A small step for sure, but a hint of what&#x27;s to come.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>UniverseHacker</author><text>I agree, I suspect AGI is possible right now with a similar system only slightly more sophisticated than this one. The right &quot;glue&quot; for existing models, and plugins to existing data sources all coordinated in a system. GTP-4 would do the managing, and handling, and some simple template API and handler script would allow it to call instances of itself or other models, track recursion depth, and automatically remind GTP-4 to stay on track and always use the correct &#x27;templates&#x27; for requests. It could also remind it to create a condensed summary of it&#x27;s goals and state that gets repeated back automatically to act as long term memory, and increase the effective context window size (edit: this is single variable external memory).<p>I am afraid to explain this, because I have tried a preliminary version of it that I supervised step by step, and it seems to work. I think it is obvious enough that I won&#x27;t have been the only one to think of it, so it would be safer to put the information out there so people can prepare.<p>I see a big disconnect on here between people saying GPT-4 can&#x27;t do things like this and is just a &quot;stochastic parrot&quot; or &quot;glorified autocomplete,&quot; and people posting logs and summaries of it solving unexpectedly hard problems outside of any conceivable training set. My theory is that this disconnect is due to three major factors:
* People confusing GPT-4 and GPT-3, as both are called &quot;chatGTP&quot; and most people haven&#x27;t actually used GPT-4 because it requires a paid subscription, and don&#x27;t realize how much better it is
* Most popular conceptual explanations about how these models work imply that these actually observed capabilities should be fundamentally impossible
* Expectations from movies, etc. about what AGI will be like, e.g. that it will never get confused or make mistakes, or that it won&#x27;t have major shortcomings in specific areas. In practice this doesn&#x27;t seem to limit it because it recognizes and fixes its mistakes automatically when it sees feedback (e.g. in programming)</text></comment> | <story><title>HuggingGPT: Solving AI tasks with ChatGPT and its friends in HuggingFace</title><url>https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.17580</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Workaccount2</author><text>I strongly suspect the first AGI will come sooner than expected on the back of a &quot;glue&quot; AI that can intelligently bond together a web of narrow AIs and utilities.<p>I got access to the wolfram plugin for chatGPT, and it turned it from a math dummy to a math genius overnight. A small step for sure, but a hint of what&#x27;s to come.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>antibasilisk</author><text>Whose to say that AGI isn&#x27;t already here but relatively slow? It does seem to me that as more and more outputs of AI are pushed through various systems, that will eventually feed back into various AI.<p>In 2017 an Anon on 4chan proposed that our society, due to content marketing and AI stock trading, is already run by a sort of emergent intelligence, and he proposed that this is why things seem to be &#x27;getting crazy&#x27; lately. I&#x27;m inclined to agree with that perspective, and if correct more capable AI systems could really kick this into high gear.</text></comment> |
3,382,187 | 3,382,182 | 1 | 2 | 3,381,822 | train | <story><title>GoDaddy supports SOPA, redditor proposes "Move your Domain Day"</title><url>http://www.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/nmnie/godaddy_supports_sopa_im_transferring_51_domains/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>maximusprime</author><text>So if a company starts infringing trademarks, polluting search engines en masse, tricking people into buying their rubbish, phishing their details, getting credit card details etc, you'd be fine with that?<p>What about people who DDoS attack you? Is that fine? No need to have any recourse there?<p>How about those that hack DNS to dupe people into visiting their site etc<p>Those are all "Open Internet", but they're also not very nice.<p>I don't think it's as clear cut as some make it.<p>I don't know if SOPA gets it right or wrong, or if the current laws are sufficient, but I'm glad we have some of those laws in place to make the internet a slightly nicer place.</text></item><item><author>praptak</author><text>&#62; you can't reasonably support an "open internet" in all instances. There have to be some exceptions.<p>Why? I am fine with the internet not blocking anything at all, even though I accept limits on free speech.<p>To drag the "speech" analogy further, I can shout whatever I want and I'm ok with the fact that in some cases this can bring consequences.</text></item><item><author>maximusprime</author><text>What does "Open Internet" mean though?<p>You can't reasonably support free speech in all instances, just like you can't reasonably support an "open internet" in all instances. There have to be some exceptions.<p>It's the listing of those exceptions and how you deal with them that's the tricky bit. So saying "I support an open internet" is just ignoring the issue.</text></item><item><author>freejack</author><text>This blog post from their lead lobbyist defending their support is absolutely grating.<p><a href="http://rudysyndrome.com/2011/10/28/online-copyright-laws-wont-prevent-a-flourishing-internet.aspx" rel="nofollow">http://rudysyndrome.com/2011/10/28/online-copyright-laws-won...</a><p>"Most of what we are seeing is either 1) rhetoric, 2) regurgitated lobbying spin, 3) criticism of language we have already fixed, or 4) retweets by people who like to steal music and buy fake, but cheap, goods."<p>Ugh.<p>(oBDisclaimer: I work for a registrar that unequivocally supports the Open Internet."</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>markkanof</author><text>Those things are already illegal and SOPA doesn't address them anyway. I think the important point is that the internet should not be restricted in an attempt to preempt any criminal activity (because it won't work). Instead, the internet should be left alone, and those who choose to do illegal things on the internet should be prosecuted.</text></comment> | <story><title>GoDaddy supports SOPA, redditor proposes "Move your Domain Day"</title><url>http://www.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/nmnie/godaddy_supports_sopa_im_transferring_51_domains/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>maximusprime</author><text>So if a company starts infringing trademarks, polluting search engines en masse, tricking people into buying their rubbish, phishing their details, getting credit card details etc, you'd be fine with that?<p>What about people who DDoS attack you? Is that fine? No need to have any recourse there?<p>How about those that hack DNS to dupe people into visiting their site etc<p>Those are all "Open Internet", but they're also not very nice.<p>I don't think it's as clear cut as some make it.<p>I don't know if SOPA gets it right or wrong, or if the current laws are sufficient, but I'm glad we have some of those laws in place to make the internet a slightly nicer place.</text></item><item><author>praptak</author><text>&#62; you can't reasonably support an "open internet" in all instances. There have to be some exceptions.<p>Why? I am fine with the internet not blocking anything at all, even though I accept limits on free speech.<p>To drag the "speech" analogy further, I can shout whatever I want and I'm ok with the fact that in some cases this can bring consequences.</text></item><item><author>maximusprime</author><text>What does "Open Internet" mean though?<p>You can't reasonably support free speech in all instances, just like you can't reasonably support an "open internet" in all instances. There have to be some exceptions.<p>It's the listing of those exceptions and how you deal with them that's the tricky bit. So saying "I support an open internet" is just ignoring the issue.</text></item><item><author>freejack</author><text>This blog post from their lead lobbyist defending their support is absolutely grating.<p><a href="http://rudysyndrome.com/2011/10/28/online-copyright-laws-wont-prevent-a-flourishing-internet.aspx" rel="nofollow">http://rudysyndrome.com/2011/10/28/online-copyright-laws-won...</a><p>"Most of what we are seeing is either 1) rhetoric, 2) regurgitated lobbying spin, 3) criticism of language we have already fixed, or 4) retweets by people who like to steal music and buy fake, but cheap, goods."<p>Ugh.<p>(oBDisclaimer: I work for a registrar that unequivocally supports the Open Internet."</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Ein2015</author><text>"So if a company starts infringing trademarks, polluting search engines en masse, tricking people into buying their rubbish"<p>eBay? also, already illegal based on trademarks, copyright, etc etc.<p>"What about people who DDoS attack you? Is that fine? No need to have any recourse there?" "How about those that hack DNS to dupe people into visiting their site etc"<p>already illegal<p>--------------<p>from my understanding, SOPA is more about removing due process than making bad things illegal</text></comment> |
41,415,406 | 41,415,418 | 1 | 2 | 41,415,238 | train | <story><title>Honey, I shrunk {fmt}: bringing binary size to 14k and ditching the C++ runtime</title><url>https://vitaut.net/posts/2024/binary-size/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>magnio</author><text>&gt; All the formatting in {fmt} is locale-independent by default (which breaks with the C++’s tradition of having wrong defaults)<p><i>Chuckles</i></text></comment> | <story><title>Honey, I shrunk {fmt}: bringing binary size to 14k and ditching the C++ runtime</title><url>https://vitaut.net/posts/2024/binary-size/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>h4ck_th3_pl4n3t</author><text>It&#x27;s kind of mindblowing to see how much code floating point formatting needs.<p>The linked dragonbox [1] project is also worth a read. Pretty optimized for the least used branches.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;jk-jeon&#x2F;dragonbox">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;jk-jeon&#x2F;dragonbox</a></text></comment> |
30,868,136 | 30,868,452 | 1 | 3 | 30,864,613 | train | <story><title>What is triald and why is it taking so much disk space?</title><url>https://eclecticlight.co/2022/03/31/what-is-triald-and-why-is-it-taking-so-much-disk-space/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>gotaquestion</author><text>&gt; It’s your machine, but the inner workings are this ineffable mystery.<p>At some point, every machine&#x27;s software becomes an ineffable mystery. Do you know what is going on in all your 3rd-party Linux drivers, say, from NVIDIA?</text></item><item><author>koprulusector</author><text>&gt;Over the last year or so Mac users have run into problems that appear related to a background service named triald. Some report it stealing huge amounts of CPU, others associate it with various glitches, and a few have noticed gigabytes of disk space apparently being taken up by its folder at ~&#x2F;Library&#x2F;Trial, and in their Time Machine backups. This article explains as much as I know about this mysterious new service, and ponders what’s going on.<p>- I find it so odd, Apple users fascination of their own operating system, this sort of voyeur or wildlife documentarian attitude. It’s your machine, but the inner workings are this ineffable mystery.<p>&gt;I’m not aware of any control over or opt-out from Trial, although it could be covered in Apple’s general request to share data including panic logs, if you can remember where to control that.<p>&gt;I first noticed Trial when studying Visual Look Up in the log. At the start of each Look Up, the subsystem com.apple.trial enters the following into the log:<p>&gt;Initializing TRIClient. Trial version: TrialXP-292.18<p>&gt;_PASEntitlement: Entitlement &quot;com.apple.private.security.storage.triald&quot; is not present.<p>&gt;Found entitlement: &quot;com.apple.trial.client&quot; --&gt; &lt;private&gt;<p>&gt;&lt;private&gt; 0x12d9547e0 (no container): using Trial root dir &lt;private&gt;
&gt;This suggests that Trial is recording information about Visual Look Up, although nothing more explicit appears in subsequent log entries.<p>- Apple can double speak all they want about digital privacy, but their actions tell the truth. As a paying Apple customer, you’re not deemed worthy enough to even understand how your own machines work, less even to “tamper” with their working, and who knows what data is actually being shared?<p>- Personally, I say no thank you. I’ve been on Debian or a variant for almost 10 years now, and haven’t looked back. It’s only gotten easier, as software generally moves more and more to SaaS web apps and the intrinsic cross-platform nature of the browser.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>grumbel</author><text>A system should only be a mystery in so far that you were too lazy to look up how exactly something works. Having &quot;undocumented service&quot; running wild should be unacceptable, even so it has become so common place. Linux isn&#x27;t free of this, far too many times there is no man-page to tell you what something does, but at least you can dig into the source if you have to.</text></comment> | <story><title>What is triald and why is it taking so much disk space?</title><url>https://eclecticlight.co/2022/03/31/what-is-triald-and-why-is-it-taking-so-much-disk-space/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>gotaquestion</author><text>&gt; It’s your machine, but the inner workings are this ineffable mystery.<p>At some point, every machine&#x27;s software becomes an ineffable mystery. Do you know what is going on in all your 3rd-party Linux drivers, say, from NVIDIA?</text></item><item><author>koprulusector</author><text>&gt;Over the last year or so Mac users have run into problems that appear related to a background service named triald. Some report it stealing huge amounts of CPU, others associate it with various glitches, and a few have noticed gigabytes of disk space apparently being taken up by its folder at ~&#x2F;Library&#x2F;Trial, and in their Time Machine backups. This article explains as much as I know about this mysterious new service, and ponders what’s going on.<p>- I find it so odd, Apple users fascination of their own operating system, this sort of voyeur or wildlife documentarian attitude. It’s your machine, but the inner workings are this ineffable mystery.<p>&gt;I’m not aware of any control over or opt-out from Trial, although it could be covered in Apple’s general request to share data including panic logs, if you can remember where to control that.<p>&gt;I first noticed Trial when studying Visual Look Up in the log. At the start of each Look Up, the subsystem com.apple.trial enters the following into the log:<p>&gt;Initializing TRIClient. Trial version: TrialXP-292.18<p>&gt;_PASEntitlement: Entitlement &quot;com.apple.private.security.storage.triald&quot; is not present.<p>&gt;Found entitlement: &quot;com.apple.trial.client&quot; --&gt; &lt;private&gt;<p>&gt;&lt;private&gt; 0x12d9547e0 (no container): using Trial root dir &lt;private&gt;
&gt;This suggests that Trial is recording information about Visual Look Up, although nothing more explicit appears in subsequent log entries.<p>- Apple can double speak all they want about digital privacy, but their actions tell the truth. As a paying Apple customer, you’re not deemed worthy enough to even understand how your own machines work, less even to “tamper” with their working, and who knows what data is actually being shared?<p>- Personally, I say no thank you. I’ve been on Debian or a variant for almost 10 years now, and haven’t looked back. It’s only gotten easier, as software generally moves more and more to SaaS web apps and the intrinsic cross-platform nature of the browser.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>macksd</author><text>I&#x27;m pretty sure the most common picture of Linus Torvalds is a picture of him giving NVIDIA a rather rude gesture with his finger, and the reason was because of the way they push a proprietary driver and don&#x27;t work well with an open community.</text></comment> |
25,521,184 | 25,508,974 | 1 | 3 | 25,506,316 | train | <story><title>More Than 70 West Point Cadets Accused of Cheating in Academic Scandal</title><url>https://www.npr.org/2020/12/21/949025580/more-than-70-west-point-cadets-accused-of-cheating-in-academic-scandal</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>sneak</author><text>&gt; <i>LYING about it, hiding it, or attempting to cover it up or show ANY KIND of dishonesty is what prevents you from continuing in the process.</i><p>This is false. Polygraph tests do not detect lies.<p>The polygraph is pseudoscientific snake oil, used to perpetuate fear.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;antipolygraph.org&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;antipolygraph.org&#x2F;</a></text></item><item><author>count</author><text>Downloading porn on lime wire doesn&#x27;t stop you from advancing in the process with a polygraph.<p>Doing hard drugs doesn&#x27;t stop you in advancing with the selection process, or even prevent you from getting a clearance.<p><i>LYING</i> about it, <i>hiding</i> it, or attempting to cover it up or show ANY KIND of dishonesty is what prevents you from continuing in the process.<p>Nobody has ever been denied a clearance because they downloaded porn on limewire, or pirated movies or videos, assuming they admit to such, and do not indicate a desire or intent to continue in the behavior.</text></item><item><author>leroy_masochist</author><text>&gt; Have you ever violated a software license, or streamed something with someone else&#x27;s account? Those should technically be honor violations<p>They make a HUGE deal about this in lifestyle polygraphs. It&#x27;s completely asinine and drives significant attrition of strong candidates for selective jobs in the IC&#x2F;SOF world.<p>We need a complete overhaul of the puritanical mindset with which the powers-that-be judge prior behavior. Downloading porn from Limewire when you were a 19-year-old college sophomore should not be stopping people from advancing in selective processes; nor should a history of having used hard drugs, hallucinogens, or marijuana &gt;10x (on the latter I gather they&#x27;re evolving given current state laws).</text></item><item><author>chrisBob</author><text>I am an &#x27;04 grad, and there has been some system of second chances for a while. I have a friend that started a year ahead of me who was a &quot;turn back&quot; for an honor violation. The violation was in her first year and they decided she was still adapting to the honor code when it happened. The result was 5 years at West Point where she had an in between rank of Cadet PFC for her second year.<p>The idea of zero tolerance is a little crazy. Have you ever violated a software license, or streamed something with someone else&#x27;s account? Those should technically be honor violations, but they aren&#x27;t prosecuting those. It isn&#x27;t 100% clear to me where to draw the line.</text></item><item><author>wildermuthn</author><text>I went to West Point two decades ago, before the apparent change to the honor code in 2015 that allowed for second chances.<p>It does take a little time to adjust to the honor code, but among all the things learned at WP, this one stuck with me the most. I (and many of my friends) came to literally hate lying&#x2F;cheating, and to disdain those who do. But there’s another route that is taken too — the opposite, where some cadets become very good at lying&#x2F;cheating. What starts out as a trivial lie must be covered up with larger more intricate lies, moving from something accidental or thoughtless to something intentional and deliberate. The cover-up and defense, often bringing friends into the mix, turns toxic really quickly. This is what happens when a perceived innocuous lie is seen a a life-ruiner.<p>My father also went to a service academy, and often after catching me in a lie would say, “I’m mad at you about lying, but I’m ever madder you were dumb enough to get caught!” My dad is one of the most moral men I’ve ever met, and I only just now connected the dots here with regard to a zero-toleration honor code.<p>I suspect the 2015 change was a practical rather than principled change: to make it easier to catch and correct violations instead of letting them fester and spread.<p>In some ways the service academies are a giant experiment in human character. Humans naturally lie, cheat, and steal in order to survive and protect their own tribe (i.e., go to war). Can you change that? Not really. But you <i>can</i> create a culture like that. The change, as ironic as it may seem, may do a better job of creating that kind of culture by attacking the tendency to dig deeper holes.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>count</author><text>Without judging the validity of the poly itself (I concur, it&#x27;s garbage), it&#x27;s also not the sole basis of any decision, and the actual people doing the investigation build a case to show that you have lied about something, because you an appeal their decisions to a judge. It&#x27;s not just &#x27;meh, the line wiggled so no clearance for you&#x27;.</text></comment> | <story><title>More Than 70 West Point Cadets Accused of Cheating in Academic Scandal</title><url>https://www.npr.org/2020/12/21/949025580/more-than-70-west-point-cadets-accused-of-cheating-in-academic-scandal</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>sneak</author><text>&gt; <i>LYING about it, hiding it, or attempting to cover it up or show ANY KIND of dishonesty is what prevents you from continuing in the process.</i><p>This is false. Polygraph tests do not detect lies.<p>The polygraph is pseudoscientific snake oil, used to perpetuate fear.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;antipolygraph.org&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;antipolygraph.org&#x2F;</a></text></item><item><author>count</author><text>Downloading porn on lime wire doesn&#x27;t stop you from advancing in the process with a polygraph.<p>Doing hard drugs doesn&#x27;t stop you in advancing with the selection process, or even prevent you from getting a clearance.<p><i>LYING</i> about it, <i>hiding</i> it, or attempting to cover it up or show ANY KIND of dishonesty is what prevents you from continuing in the process.<p>Nobody has ever been denied a clearance because they downloaded porn on limewire, or pirated movies or videos, assuming they admit to such, and do not indicate a desire or intent to continue in the behavior.</text></item><item><author>leroy_masochist</author><text>&gt; Have you ever violated a software license, or streamed something with someone else&#x27;s account? Those should technically be honor violations<p>They make a HUGE deal about this in lifestyle polygraphs. It&#x27;s completely asinine and drives significant attrition of strong candidates for selective jobs in the IC&#x2F;SOF world.<p>We need a complete overhaul of the puritanical mindset with which the powers-that-be judge prior behavior. Downloading porn from Limewire when you were a 19-year-old college sophomore should not be stopping people from advancing in selective processes; nor should a history of having used hard drugs, hallucinogens, or marijuana &gt;10x (on the latter I gather they&#x27;re evolving given current state laws).</text></item><item><author>chrisBob</author><text>I am an &#x27;04 grad, and there has been some system of second chances for a while. I have a friend that started a year ahead of me who was a &quot;turn back&quot; for an honor violation. The violation was in her first year and they decided she was still adapting to the honor code when it happened. The result was 5 years at West Point where she had an in between rank of Cadet PFC for her second year.<p>The idea of zero tolerance is a little crazy. Have you ever violated a software license, or streamed something with someone else&#x27;s account? Those should technically be honor violations, but they aren&#x27;t prosecuting those. It isn&#x27;t 100% clear to me where to draw the line.</text></item><item><author>wildermuthn</author><text>I went to West Point two decades ago, before the apparent change to the honor code in 2015 that allowed for second chances.<p>It does take a little time to adjust to the honor code, but among all the things learned at WP, this one stuck with me the most. I (and many of my friends) came to literally hate lying&#x2F;cheating, and to disdain those who do. But there’s another route that is taken too — the opposite, where some cadets become very good at lying&#x2F;cheating. What starts out as a trivial lie must be covered up with larger more intricate lies, moving from something accidental or thoughtless to something intentional and deliberate. The cover-up and defense, often bringing friends into the mix, turns toxic really quickly. This is what happens when a perceived innocuous lie is seen a a life-ruiner.<p>My father also went to a service academy, and often after catching me in a lie would say, “I’m mad at you about lying, but I’m ever madder you were dumb enough to get caught!” My dad is one of the most moral men I’ve ever met, and I only just now connected the dots here with regard to a zero-toleration honor code.<p>I suspect the 2015 change was a practical rather than principled change: to make it easier to catch and correct violations instead of letting them fester and spread.<p>In some ways the service academies are a giant experiment in human character. Humans naturally lie, cheat, and steal in order to survive and protect their own tribe (i.e., go to war). Can you change that? Not really. But you <i>can</i> create a culture like that. The change, as ironic as it may seem, may do a better job of creating that kind of culture by attacking the tendency to dig deeper holes.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Barracoon</author><text>This is a bit of a non sequitor. Parent didn&#x27;t mention polygraphs, and the lying is which prevents you from moving forward. At the same time, I concur that polygraphs are not fully accurate measures of lying.</text></comment> |
33,160,818 | 33,159,446 | 1 | 2 | 33,158,877 | train | <story><title>Human Motion Diffusion Model</title><url>https://github.com/GuyTevet/motion-diffusion-model</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Reventlov</author><text>You know what ? It reminds me of <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;0x0.st&#x2F;ot5T.gif" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;0x0.st&#x2F;ot5T.gif</a> ( <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Dancing_baby" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Dancing_baby</a> )</text></comment> | <story><title>Human Motion Diffusion Model</title><url>https://github.com/GuyTevet/motion-diffusion-model</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>soperj</author><text>I understand it&#x27;s probably gonna get better and better, but the actual result made me laugh out loud. The skipping rope one was hilarious.</text></comment> |
32,973,020 | 32,972,273 | 1 | 2 | 32,971,748 | train | <story><title>Pdfgrep – a commandline utility to search text in PDF files</title><url>https://pdfgrep.org/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>ankrgyl</author><text>DocQuery (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;impira&#x2F;docquery" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;impira&#x2F;docquery</a>), a project I work on, allows you to do something similar, but search over semantic information in the PDF files (using a large language model that is pre-trained to query business documents).<p>For example:<p><pre><code> $ docquery scan &quot;What is the due date?&quot; &#x2F;my&#x2F;invoices&#x2F;
&#x2F;my&#x2F;invoices&#x2F;Order1.pdf What is the due date?: 4&#x2F;27&#x2F;2022
&#x2F;my&#x2F;invoices&#x2F;Order2.pdf What is the due date?: 9&#x2F;26&#x2F;2022
...
</code></pre>
It&#x27;s obviously a lot slower than &quot;grepping&quot;, but very powerful.</text></comment> | <story><title>Pdfgrep – a commandline utility to search text in PDF files</title><url>https://pdfgrep.org/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>asicsp</author><text>See also <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;phiresky&#x2F;ripgrep-all" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;phiresky&#x2F;ripgrep-all</a> (`ripgrep`, but also search in PDFs, E-Books, Office documents, zip, tar.gz, etc.)</text></comment> |
14,542,184 | 14,541,928 | 1 | 2 | 14,539,814 | train | <story><title>Terraform Gotchas and How We Work Around Them</title><url>http://heap.engineering/terraform-gotchas/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>7ewis</author><text>Terraform has interested me for a while, and I&#x27;ve been meaning to give it a try, but haven&#x27;t had a chance just yet.<p>From what I have seen so far though, there isn&#x27;t <i>really</i> that much difference&#x2F;benefit over CloudFormation. We currently have 95% of our resources in AWS with about 4% in Azure, and 1% in Google Cloud. It&#x27;s great that Terraform is &#x27;mulit-cloud&#x27; but it still seems like you have to write .tf&#x27;s catered to each cloud, you can&#x27;t just lift and shift to another cloud by copying and pasting a file?<p>People say the &#x27;plan&#x27; feature is one of the advantages over CFN, but as far as I can tell, CFN now offers the same feature... it tells you what&#x27;s going to change when you upload a new stack.<p>I sound like a CFN advocate now, but I genuinely don&#x27;t have <i>that</i> much experience with it, and really do want to give Terraform a chance. Convince me?<p><i>Oh, and since CFN started supporing YAML it looks easier to write too</i></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kjhosein</author><text>I&#x27;ve been thru the CFN v TF question. We came up with a list of benefits of TF over CFN. (Yes, I know - one-sided, but we wanted to document the decision with a bit more substance than &quot;oh it&#x27;s just better&quot;)<p><pre><code> * Ability to separate data (variables&#x2F;parameters) from configs.
* Easier to read (well at least pre-YAML CFN).
* Allows comments in the code.
* Version control changes (diffs) are easier to read.
* Multi-Cloud support. Works against AWS, Google Compute, Azure, Docker, more.
* Multi-provider in general: can provision resources across multiple different cloud providers at once.
* Can write modules in TF that can be reused in multiple different configs.
* Tracks state via a version-controllable data file.
* &#x27;terraform plan&#x27; is essentially a no-op mode to see what changes would occur without actual running or making changes.
* Actively developed.</code></pre></text></comment> | <story><title>Terraform Gotchas and How We Work Around Them</title><url>http://heap.engineering/terraform-gotchas/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>7ewis</author><text>Terraform has interested me for a while, and I&#x27;ve been meaning to give it a try, but haven&#x27;t had a chance just yet.<p>From what I have seen so far though, there isn&#x27;t <i>really</i> that much difference&#x2F;benefit over CloudFormation. We currently have 95% of our resources in AWS with about 4% in Azure, and 1% in Google Cloud. It&#x27;s great that Terraform is &#x27;mulit-cloud&#x27; but it still seems like you have to write .tf&#x27;s catered to each cloud, you can&#x27;t just lift and shift to another cloud by copying and pasting a file?<p>People say the &#x27;plan&#x27; feature is one of the advantages over CFN, but as far as I can tell, CFN now offers the same feature... it tells you what&#x27;s going to change when you upload a new stack.<p>I sound like a CFN advocate now, but I genuinely don&#x27;t have <i>that</i> much experience with it, and really do want to give Terraform a chance. Convince me?<p><i>Oh, and since CFN started supporing YAML it looks easier to write too</i></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dantiberian</author><text>Here&#x27;s a real-world benefit I had over the weekend. I&#x27;ve been using Terraform for a Google Cloud project, and was coming to setting up DNS records. I wanted to have dual DNS providers for redundancy. With Terraform, it was trivial, as I just added a second Terraform resource for DNSimple (with Google Cloud DNS as my &#x27;main&#x27; DNS resource).<p>The beauty of Terraform is that you can orchestrate all of your infrastructure, not just the stuff in one stack. If you&#x27;ve got 95%&#x2F;4%&#x2F;1% in AWS&#x2F;Azure&#x2F;GCP, how do you manage&#x2F;reference the non-AWS resources? Terraform gives you a unified way to reference and link cross-infrastructure resources.</text></comment> |
32,421,929 | 32,421,210 | 1 | 3 | 32,412,170 | train | <story><title>'Too many employees, but few work': Pichai, Zuckerberg sound the alarm</title><url>https://www.business-standard.com/article/international/too-many-employees-but-few-work-pichai-zuckerberg-sound-the-alarm-122080801425_1.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>darth_avocado</author><text>I get back at it by getting paid as much as I can for as little work I can do. Like I said, I’m not doing nothing, but I’ll never sell my soul for marginal increases in wages and that occasional promotion.<p>I get back by having a life after 5 pm, Never going in to work on a weekend, taking time off to spend it with family and never letting stress and bs from corporate world affect my private life.</text></item><item><author>datalopers</author><text>You get back at corporate america by being a mindless corporate drone?</text></item><item><author>darth_avocado</author><text>I am not a dead weight and I’ll never be, but I also do absolutely bare minimum to not get fired. And by bare minimum, I mean, I will always finish my work in the time it is expected to be finished. And if the expectations are higher, I’ll move on to another job.<p>I do this as a way to get back at corporate America. Too many companies get away with sucking out their employees dry and firing them once they can’t meet the unreasonable expectations that are set for them. You could be dying of cancer or have lost a child, and they will get rid of you the moment they can do so without breaking the law, and in some cases even break the law in the hopes that you’d not pursue any legal action. Nah don’t work hard, work smart, for yourself.</text></item><item><author>fefe23</author><text>I have met a few of those people, but every single one of them needed a justification.<p>Some told me they felt wronged by the company somehow. For example they had experienced bullying, or didn&#x27;t get promoted when they felt they should have been, or they had contributed something and then it got cut from the product, something like that in most cases. Now didn&#x27;t feel they owed the company anything. Yet others said the pay is not enough to really get them invested in the work.<p>The fact that they needed these excuses tells me they felt what they did to be morally wrong and didn&#x27;t really want to be dead weight.<p>I personally have done a few projects that turned out to be purely compliance based, and had no merit whatsoever. I remember the feeling of wasting my life to be absolutely soul crushing and I have been avoiding that kind of project as if my life depended on it.<p>Your mileage may vary.</text></item><item><author>codegeek</author><text>&quot;Nobody wants to spend their life being dead weight.&quot;<p>I disagree. There are plenty of people who would love to be dead weight just to float around in a company. The larger the team&#x2F;company, the more chances of those people being around. They pretend to be always busy and doing something but don&#x27;t actually get anything done. Seen it all for 18+ years.<p>Having said that, there are plenty of people as well who would LOVE to do something meaningful but are stuck with red tape. I was one of those and quit my high paying Investment Bank Tech Job to start my own thing. I was getting paid big as a consultant and once my main project finished, they just wanted me around because traders loved me. I literally had to find things to do every day otherwise it was soooo boring unless something broke.</text></item><item><author>fefe23</author><text>As a consultant, I come around a bit.<p>I have seen many companies with very poor productivity, and in zero of those cases was it laziness of the employees. In fact they usually would have loved to be more productive. Nobody wants to spend their life being dead weight.<p>But as companies grow they install more and more rules and regulations that end up making sure nothing ever gets done. It is not unusual to meet &quot;developers&quot; whose company calendar is 80% filled with meetings. Well no wonder they don&#x27;t get anything done!<p>Also remember that this is only half the problem. The other half is that agile makes you iterate through pseudo productivity before you actually understood the problem, accumulating cruft that you need to maintain and extend as you go on. I wouldn&#x27;t be surprised if of the productivity that is left, more than half gets wasted on crufty software structures and writing code before you understood the problem.<p>And then nobody wants to throw code away that turned out to be not what we need. Wasting yet more productivity on working around bad decisions from before we knew what we are actually building.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jonas21</author><text>Yeah, that&#x27;s how corporate America works, buddy. You give up on finding fulfillment at work or striking it rich, and just do what they tell you without thinking too much about it. In return, you get to clock out at 5 and take a nice vacation every year.</text></comment> | <story><title>'Too many employees, but few work': Pichai, Zuckerberg sound the alarm</title><url>https://www.business-standard.com/article/international/too-many-employees-but-few-work-pichai-zuckerberg-sound-the-alarm-122080801425_1.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>darth_avocado</author><text>I get back at it by getting paid as much as I can for as little work I can do. Like I said, I’m not doing nothing, but I’ll never sell my soul for marginal increases in wages and that occasional promotion.<p>I get back by having a life after 5 pm, Never going in to work on a weekend, taking time off to spend it with family and never letting stress and bs from corporate world affect my private life.</text></item><item><author>datalopers</author><text>You get back at corporate america by being a mindless corporate drone?</text></item><item><author>darth_avocado</author><text>I am not a dead weight and I’ll never be, but I also do absolutely bare minimum to not get fired. And by bare minimum, I mean, I will always finish my work in the time it is expected to be finished. And if the expectations are higher, I’ll move on to another job.<p>I do this as a way to get back at corporate America. Too many companies get away with sucking out their employees dry and firing them once they can’t meet the unreasonable expectations that are set for them. You could be dying of cancer or have lost a child, and they will get rid of you the moment they can do so without breaking the law, and in some cases even break the law in the hopes that you’d not pursue any legal action. Nah don’t work hard, work smart, for yourself.</text></item><item><author>fefe23</author><text>I have met a few of those people, but every single one of them needed a justification.<p>Some told me they felt wronged by the company somehow. For example they had experienced bullying, or didn&#x27;t get promoted when they felt they should have been, or they had contributed something and then it got cut from the product, something like that in most cases. Now didn&#x27;t feel they owed the company anything. Yet others said the pay is not enough to really get them invested in the work.<p>The fact that they needed these excuses tells me they felt what they did to be morally wrong and didn&#x27;t really want to be dead weight.<p>I personally have done a few projects that turned out to be purely compliance based, and had no merit whatsoever. I remember the feeling of wasting my life to be absolutely soul crushing and I have been avoiding that kind of project as if my life depended on it.<p>Your mileage may vary.</text></item><item><author>codegeek</author><text>&quot;Nobody wants to spend their life being dead weight.&quot;<p>I disagree. There are plenty of people who would love to be dead weight just to float around in a company. The larger the team&#x2F;company, the more chances of those people being around. They pretend to be always busy and doing something but don&#x27;t actually get anything done. Seen it all for 18+ years.<p>Having said that, there are plenty of people as well who would LOVE to do something meaningful but are stuck with red tape. I was one of those and quit my high paying Investment Bank Tech Job to start my own thing. I was getting paid big as a consultant and once my main project finished, they just wanted me around because traders loved me. I literally had to find things to do every day otherwise it was soooo boring unless something broke.</text></item><item><author>fefe23</author><text>As a consultant, I come around a bit.<p>I have seen many companies with very poor productivity, and in zero of those cases was it laziness of the employees. In fact they usually would have loved to be more productive. Nobody wants to spend their life being dead weight.<p>But as companies grow they install more and more rules and regulations that end up making sure nothing ever gets done. It is not unusual to meet &quot;developers&quot; whose company calendar is 80% filled with meetings. Well no wonder they don&#x27;t get anything done!<p>Also remember that this is only half the problem. The other half is that agile makes you iterate through pseudo productivity before you actually understood the problem, accumulating cruft that you need to maintain and extend as you go on. I wouldn&#x27;t be surprised if of the productivity that is left, more than half gets wasted on crufty software structures and writing code before you understood the problem.<p>And then nobody wants to throw code away that turned out to be not what we need. Wasting yet more productivity on working around bad decisions from before we knew what we are actually building.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>lethologica</author><text>What you’re doing is called “quiet quitting”<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theguardian.com&#x2F;money&#x2F;2022&#x2F;aug&#x2F;06&#x2F;quiet-quitting-why-doing-the-bare-minimum-at-work-has-gone-global" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theguardian.com&#x2F;money&#x2F;2022&#x2F;aug&#x2F;06&#x2F;quiet-quitting...</a></text></comment> |
13,525,112 | 13,524,813 | 1 | 2 | 13,524,529 | train | <story><title>The Algorithms Behind Probabilistic Programming</title><url>http://blog.fastforwardlabs.com/2017/01/30/the-algorithms-behind-probabilistic-programming.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>sn6uv</author><text>Nit<p>&gt; The distribution must be smooth (this method doesn’t work for discrete parameters), but it need not be analytically differentiable<p>&#x27;Smooth&#x27; and &#x27;analytic&#x27; both have basic technical meanings in the context of differentiability [1], [2].<p>Glossing over the assumptions in this way is quite misleading<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Smoothness" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Smoothness</a>
[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Analytic_function" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Analytic_function</a></text></comment> | <story><title>The Algorithms Behind Probabilistic Programming</title><url>http://blog.fastforwardlabs.com/2017/01/30/the-algorithms-behind-probabilistic-programming.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>joe_the_user</author><text>Nice,<p>The algorithms the article define seem to justify seeing probabilistic programming as an advance beyond twenty line programs that call 20K sized libraries - basically, these algorithm inherently auto-tune a lot of higher level operations so these can be less-leaky abstractions.</text></comment> |
2,723,199 | 2,723,216 | 1 | 3 | 2,723,089 | train | <story><title>TrueCrypt Discrepancy</title><url>http://16s.us/TCHunt/discrepancy/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>carbonica</author><text>The TCHunt program, whose website this link points to, is quite interesting. It seems to exist to simply point out something I always felt was self-evident, yet I commonly see misunderstood:<p>"Q. Why write a program such as TCHunt?<p>A. To demonstrate that while encrypted volumes may be indistinguishable from random data created in one specific fashion that the volumes themselves can be easily distinguished from most other files on your system. Many people insist that their encrypted volumes are undetectable. I hope TCHunt will convince them otherwise, before they learn this fact the hard way. More importantly, you should never claim that an encrypted volume with a mp3 file extension (or whatever) is a corrupt file, etc. While that explanation may seem plausible to an average person, it will not stand up to forensic or legal scrutiny. Data corruption does not resemble AES encrypted data. If disclosing the location of your encrypted volumes may lead to legal issues, then say nothing and contact a competent lawyer."<p>Of course, as he notes, it can't tell the difference between regular and hidden volumes, but once again: the hidden volumes will still stick out like a sore thumb and clearly be encrypted data. While plausible deniability is technically maintained, believable deniability will always be harder.</text></comment> | <story><title>TrueCrypt Discrepancy</title><url>http://16s.us/TCHunt/discrepancy/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>plasma</author><text>Web browsers should support built-in checksum verification of downloads (when owners upload md5sum/signatures/etc with the files), instead of having to do it manually.</text></comment> |
29,002,128 | 29,002,229 | 1 | 3 | 29,001,389 | train | <story><title>Is college worth it? A return-on-investment analysis</title><url>https://freopp.org/is-college-worth-it-a-comprehensive-return-on-investment-analysis-1b2ad17f84c8?gi=eb96088eb650</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>winternett</author><text>The effectiveness of a college experience really depends on the type of person that is attending it.<p>College is indeed becoming overpriced.<p>If the person is seeking a party experience, it&#x27;s a bad idea if they don&#x27;t have rich parents that will support them and pay off loans later on.<p>If the person is a mature, informed, and energetic business go-getter, and they actually manage to start new ideas while they attend school, and then establish vital bonds with other go-getters they meet, they can potentially gain a lot from a college experience.<p>Once you join the working world, the diversity of ideas and ability to meet ambitious people regularly wanes a bit. Also as one ages, the energy and enthusiasm for change also decreases to an extent. Carpe Diem.<p>I also believe though, that some people can and have create(d) amazing and ambitious careers without a college education, or by dropping out early from the process. There are no rules...</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bradj</author><text>I partially disagree. Assuming you are majoring in something that has some positive ROI and do enough to actually graduate, which isn’t hard at most colleges, the party experience can be very supportive of most people’s future careers.<p>The social skills, networks, and alumni connections you build at college are a large fraction of the benefit that college gives the average person to further their career.<p>Otherwise, I agree. College is a great time to take advantage of the time you have to change your network, generate new ideas and take risks. And I also agree that most there can be benefit (though highly unlikely) for some people to not attend college or to drop out.</text></comment> | <story><title>Is college worth it? A return-on-investment analysis</title><url>https://freopp.org/is-college-worth-it-a-comprehensive-return-on-investment-analysis-1b2ad17f84c8?gi=eb96088eb650</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>winternett</author><text>The effectiveness of a college experience really depends on the type of person that is attending it.<p>College is indeed becoming overpriced.<p>If the person is seeking a party experience, it&#x27;s a bad idea if they don&#x27;t have rich parents that will support them and pay off loans later on.<p>If the person is a mature, informed, and energetic business go-getter, and they actually manage to start new ideas while they attend school, and then establish vital bonds with other go-getters they meet, they can potentially gain a lot from a college experience.<p>Once you join the working world, the diversity of ideas and ability to meet ambitious people regularly wanes a bit. Also as one ages, the energy and enthusiasm for change also decreases to an extent. Carpe Diem.<p>I also believe though, that some people can and have create(d) amazing and ambitious careers without a college education, or by dropping out early from the process. There are no rules...</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>paulpauper</author><text>It does seem overpriced but wages are pretty high these days for grads and there is considerable aid. The biggest cost is if you don&#x27;t finish.</text></comment> |
27,447,594 | 27,447,629 | 1 | 2 | 27,446,574 | train | <story><title>One Fastly customer triggered internet meltdown</title><url>https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-57413224</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>oneeyedpigeon</author><text>&gt; Early June 8, a customer pushed a valid configuration change that included the specific circumstances that triggered the bug, which caused 85% of our network to return errors.<p>Is it necessary to refer to &quot;a customer&quot; at all in this statement? What would be problematic if the above were rewritten as something like:<p>&gt; Early June 8, a configuration change triggered a bug in our software, which caused 85% of our network to return errors.<p>The advantage is that you wouldn&#x27;t get ignorant reporting that &quot;one customer took down the internet&quot;. I&#x27;m not sure there are disadvantages that net outweigh that.</text></item><item><author>Jenk</author><text>How on earth do you figure that is anyone&#x27;s fault but the BBC?<p>Read Fastly&#x27;s statement. There is nothing about it blaming the customer(s) at all. There is nothing trying to save face.<p>What is your point here?</text></item><item><author>oneeyedpigeon</author><text>I know — as I&#x27;ve said, the main blame lies with the bbc. However, as it&#x27;s reported, it comes across very much as Fastly trying to save face. Maybe the blame is entirely on the bbc, maybe Fastly were naive in thinking that giving them this information wouldn&#x27;t result in irresponsible headlines.</text></item><item><author>mytailorisrich</author><text>&quot;<i>But a customer quite legitimately changing their settings had exposed a bug in a software update issued to customers in mid-May, causing &quot;85% of our network to return errors</i>&quot;<p>They are careful to make clear that the customer did nothing wrong and that the problem was a bug in their software.</text></item><item><author>oneeyedpigeon</author><text>I&#x27;m sorry, but I disagree. They gave the BBC enough detail that a very misleading headline was produced as a result. True, the main blame lies with the BBC, but it also comes across — to me, anyway, maybe I&#x27;m being too cynical — as a bit of an excuse from Fastly.</text></item><item><author>iainmerrick</author><text>Throwing in my positive hot take among all the negative ones here: the immediate response and blog post from Fastly here is really good.<p>A quick fix, a clear apology, enough detail to give an idea of what happened, but not so much detail that there might be a mistake they’ll have to clarify or retract. What more are you looking for?<p>Apart from “not have the bug in the first place” -- and I hope and expect they’ll go into more detail later when they’ve had time for a proper post mortem -- I’d be interested to hear what anyone thinks they could have done better in terms of their immediate firefighting.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Jenk</author><text>Yes, because it is explaining that it was a valid *customer* configuration, which is a separate set of concerns from, say, infrastructure config.<p>The important adjective &quot;valid&quot; means it was completely normal&#x2F;expected input and thus not the fault of the customer.<p>It&#x27;s perfectly clear you&#x27;ve come at this with a pre-determined agenda of &quot;I bet fastly, like most other public statements after corporate booboos I&#x27;ve seen, will try to shrug this one off as someone else&#x27;s fault&quot; after reading the BBCs title and haven&#x27;t bothered to read it at all until now.</text></comment> | <story><title>One Fastly customer triggered internet meltdown</title><url>https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-57413224</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>oneeyedpigeon</author><text>&gt; Early June 8, a customer pushed a valid configuration change that included the specific circumstances that triggered the bug, which caused 85% of our network to return errors.<p>Is it necessary to refer to &quot;a customer&quot; at all in this statement? What would be problematic if the above were rewritten as something like:<p>&gt; Early June 8, a configuration change triggered a bug in our software, which caused 85% of our network to return errors.<p>The advantage is that you wouldn&#x27;t get ignorant reporting that &quot;one customer took down the internet&quot;. I&#x27;m not sure there are disadvantages that net outweigh that.</text></item><item><author>Jenk</author><text>How on earth do you figure that is anyone&#x27;s fault but the BBC?<p>Read Fastly&#x27;s statement. There is nothing about it blaming the customer(s) at all. There is nothing trying to save face.<p>What is your point here?</text></item><item><author>oneeyedpigeon</author><text>I know — as I&#x27;ve said, the main blame lies with the bbc. However, as it&#x27;s reported, it comes across very much as Fastly trying to save face. Maybe the blame is entirely on the bbc, maybe Fastly were naive in thinking that giving them this information wouldn&#x27;t result in irresponsible headlines.</text></item><item><author>mytailorisrich</author><text>&quot;<i>But a customer quite legitimately changing their settings had exposed a bug in a software update issued to customers in mid-May, causing &quot;85% of our network to return errors</i>&quot;<p>They are careful to make clear that the customer did nothing wrong and that the problem was a bug in their software.</text></item><item><author>oneeyedpigeon</author><text>I&#x27;m sorry, but I disagree. They gave the BBC enough detail that a very misleading headline was produced as a result. True, the main blame lies with the BBC, but it also comes across — to me, anyway, maybe I&#x27;m being too cynical — as a bit of an excuse from Fastly.</text></item><item><author>iainmerrick</author><text>Throwing in my positive hot take among all the negative ones here: the immediate response and blog post from Fastly here is really good.<p>A quick fix, a clear apology, enough detail to give an idea of what happened, but not so much detail that there might be a mistake they’ll have to clarify or retract. What more are you looking for?<p>Apart from “not have the bug in the first place” -- and I hope and expect they’ll go into more detail later when they’ve had time for a proper post mortem -- I’d be interested to hear what anyone thinks they could have done better in terms of their immediate firefighting.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>staticassertion</author><text>&gt; Is it necessary to refer to &quot;a customer&quot; at all in this statement? What would be problematic if the above were rewritten as something like:<p>That&#x27;s literally what happened. They even say it was a valid configuration change, it&#x27;s very blameless.<p>Saying &quot;a configuration change&quot; loses critical context. I would have assumed that this was in some sort of deployment update, not something that a customer could trigger. Why would you want <i>less</i> information here?</text></comment> |
34,976,821 | 34,977,044 | 1 | 2 | 34,976,696 | train | <story><title>AMD Zen2 ymm registers rolling back</title><url>https://lkml.org/lkml/2023/2/22/33</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>SethTro</author><text><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;lkml.org&#x2F;lkml&#x2F;2023&#x2F;2&#x2F;22&#x2F;982" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;lkml.org&#x2F;lkml&#x2F;2023&#x2F;2&#x2F;22&#x2F;982</a><p>Seems to be a known errata which was fixed by a microcode update</text></comment> | <story><title>AMD Zen2 ymm registers rolling back</title><url>https://lkml.org/lkml/2023/2/22/33</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>snvzz</author><text>Lovely reminder of the mess x86 is.<p>fp registers shared with mmx, sse registers (xmm), avx registers (ymm), and a truckload of them.<p>Modern implementations have extremely complex frontends, full of elaborate hacks to get performance despite x86.<p>Complexity breeds bugs, such as this one.</text></comment> |
6,572,703 | 6,571,743 | 1 | 2 | 6,571,571 | train | <story><title>Google shares hit $1,000 after strong earnings</title><url>http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-24585998</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>ChuckMcM</author><text>Google historically left a lot of money on the table (not using every spot on the page for ads, giving away services with real value, etc.) They decided to stop doing that when they decided they were a &#x27;peer&#x27; of Apple&#x27;s.<p>The shareholders love it because it means Google will finally be pulling in as much cash as they &#x27;can&#x27; vs as much as they needed. Users seem to be somewhat divided on the issue.<p>Sophisticated users and people who are long time observers (like Danny Sullivan) have noted that Google is squeezing the value proposition at the expense of people who can ill afford it. (&#x27;Ranking&#x27; on Google is very much a pay to play kind of thing these days with their page layout). As others have mentioned they have gone all in as an exploiter of their demographic data. And &quot;thinking big&quot; as Larry would always exhort people to do, includes thinking about how much money you could get for the sorts of things that only someone who has Google&#x27;s knowledge of the activity stream can get.<p>Now historically this has often been associated with fading influence and success (the old &#x27;killing the goose that lays the egg&#x27; kind of thing). It will be interesting to see if Google is an example of this or they manage to grow into actually being a peer of Apple.</text></comment> | <story><title>Google shares hit $1,000 after strong earnings</title><url>http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-24585998</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>JonSkeptic</author><text>I think this is interesting because it matches my user experience with Google products in a very inverted way. Google search has gotten worse and worse lately, forcing me on to other search engines with worse UIs just so that I can get useful results. Youtube UI gets worse every time they update it. They cancelled the RSS reader. The email UI keeps getting worse and featuring more ads.<p>But the stock value hit $1000. I guess they&#x27;re doing something right, it&#x27;s just not something that affects me in any positive way.<p>[EDIT]:&#x27;affects&#x27;, not &#x27;effects&#x27;</text></comment> |
40,701,639 | 40,700,231 | 1 | 2 | 40,699,007 | train | <story><title>Japanese words and names sound African (2022)</title><url>https://www.farooqkperogi.com/2022/10/japanese-words-and-names-sound-african.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jameshart</author><text>Japanese does allow for word initial P in loan words, like Pokémon, so the sound isn’t impossible in Japanese. And pachinko is a Japanese word.</text></item><item><author>shiomiru</author><text>Nit: pokatokaino is unlikely to be Japanese, since word-initial p has morphed into h during the centuries. But it works if you turn it into, say, t.<p>Anyway, I think there&#x27;s another factor: the common alphabet we transliterate these languages to is quite limited. I suspect the similarities become less obvious if you use something like the IPA, which has better universal correspondence between sounds and letters (i.e. doesn&#x27;t reduce every sound to the same ~26 symbols).</text></item><item><author>retrac</author><text>Because the Bantu languages (most prominently: Swahili) and Japanese have similar sound systems. Finnish is also oddly similar-sounding, or Hawaiian. None of them are actually related.<p>It&#x27;s because the syllable is restricted in the number of possible forms, in a similar way. (And they all have approximately five vowels. And a pitch accent.) In Hawaiian, nothing but consonant + vowel syllables are possible. Swahili and Japanese allow an optional final n sound. Finnish is a little more flexible, and syllables can end with an n, r, l or t. No consonant clusters, in any of the languages. No syllables ending with consonants outside the restricted set (if any), in any of the languages.<p>This results in a lot of syllables of the form: i, a, ne, na, ka, ta, po, to... &quot;Pokatokaino&quot;. I just made that up and it&#x27;s probably not a Swahili, Finnish, Hawaiian, or Japanese word -- but it could be.<p>This basic pattern (consonant + vowel + maybe limited option for final consonant) is very common; it&#x27;s the most common arrangement among the worlds languages. Far more common than languages like English which allow monstrosities like &quot;strengths&quot; (which is 6 consonants and one vowel).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>unscaled</author><text>There are also many native Japanese onomatopoeiae using an initial p sound. Interestingly enough, if we&#x27;re at Pokémon, Pikachu&#x27;s name is influenced by the onomatopoeia &#x2F;pikapika&#x2F; which means to shine, sparkle or flash. But if we look at the original pronounciation of the Japanese verb 光る&#x2F;hikaru (&quot;to shine&quot;), it would have been pronounced &#x2F;pikaru&#x2F; in Old Japanese, so it looks like the onomatopoeia has re-established itself.<p>The same is probably true for the Japanese word for flag, 旗&#x2F;hata - it would have been pronounced &#x2F;pata&#x2F; which is suspiciously reminiscent of the onomatopoeia &#x2F;patapata&#x2F;, often used for thin pieces of material flapping in the wind.</text></comment> | <story><title>Japanese words and names sound African (2022)</title><url>https://www.farooqkperogi.com/2022/10/japanese-words-and-names-sound-african.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jameshart</author><text>Japanese does allow for word initial P in loan words, like Pokémon, so the sound isn’t impossible in Japanese. And pachinko is a Japanese word.</text></item><item><author>shiomiru</author><text>Nit: pokatokaino is unlikely to be Japanese, since word-initial p has morphed into h during the centuries. But it works if you turn it into, say, t.<p>Anyway, I think there&#x27;s another factor: the common alphabet we transliterate these languages to is quite limited. I suspect the similarities become less obvious if you use something like the IPA, which has better universal correspondence between sounds and letters (i.e. doesn&#x27;t reduce every sound to the same ~26 symbols).</text></item><item><author>retrac</author><text>Because the Bantu languages (most prominently: Swahili) and Japanese have similar sound systems. Finnish is also oddly similar-sounding, or Hawaiian. None of them are actually related.<p>It&#x27;s because the syllable is restricted in the number of possible forms, in a similar way. (And they all have approximately five vowels. And a pitch accent.) In Hawaiian, nothing but consonant + vowel syllables are possible. Swahili and Japanese allow an optional final n sound. Finnish is a little more flexible, and syllables can end with an n, r, l or t. No consonant clusters, in any of the languages. No syllables ending with consonants outside the restricted set (if any), in any of the languages.<p>This results in a lot of syllables of the form: i, a, ne, na, ka, ta, po, to... &quot;Pokatokaino&quot;. I just made that up and it&#x27;s probably not a Swahili, Finnish, Hawaiian, or Japanese word -- but it could be.<p>This basic pattern (consonant + vowel + maybe limited option for final consonant) is very common; it&#x27;s the most common arrangement among the worlds languages. Far more common than languages like English which allow monstrosities like &quot;strengths&quot; (which is 6 consonants and one vowel).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>arghwhat</author><text>To be fair, Pokémon is abbreviated English, while pachinko is recent from pachin, the onomatopoeia of the loud sound made by the metal balls.<p>I believe the change into “h” sounds is more applied to words that were traditionally initiated in “p” but morphed over time, in turn also making words starting on “p” an oddity.</text></comment> |
35,789,243 | 35,788,750 | 1 | 3 | 35,788,120 | train | <story><title>Adult-use cannabis delivers $15B in tax revenues</title><url>https://www.greenmarketreport.com/adult-use-cannabis-has-delivered-15-billion-in-tax-revenues/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>simonswords82</author><text>Meanwhile the UK has got it&#x27;s thumb up its ass and is happily maintaining a status quo of the worst of all worlds<p>1) The police are still supposed to arrest people who are caught with cannabis (It&#x27;s a class B drug - in the same group as codeine, ketamine, and ‘spice’ - whatever the hell that is).<p>In reality they typically let people off with a warning but it&#x27;s still a drain on our already hamstrung police force<p>2) Drug dealers who sell weed tend not to declare and pay tax on their earnings. Depriving UK Gov of some seriously needed income per this article&#x27;s headline.<p>3) Drug dealers tend to sell other drugs, usually harder drugs. Thus exposing people who want to get stoned to a plethora of other drugs that they might otherwise not have come in to contact with.<p>4) Those people who are hooked on weed (or any other non-prescribed drug) are criminals...and cannot seek help from anybody including their doctor. This keeps them trapped, and over a long enough period of time will do mental and potentially physical damage to them that our NHS will incur costs to fix. And when I say NHS, I mean the tax payers, and when I say tax payers - I mean me.<p>All of that is to say - fuck UK drug policy. I remain hopeful that it will change though...</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mtlmtlmtlmtl</author><text>Spice is slang for synthetic cannabinoids sprayed on some herb. The fact that it&#x27;s classed in a group with codeine and cannabis is bizarre. These drugs are fucking dangerous. Possible effects include stroke, acute kidney failure, acute psychosis, psychological trauma. They gave me a transient ischaemic attack at the age of 21. Seriously. No permanent damage though, I was extremely lucky. My kidney function was in the gutter too but they bounced back. A friend of mine permanently lost his mind from it. Now he sits in his room all day muttering strange phrases and drooling from the clozapine they have him on.<p>Why did I do this? I was forced to do drug tests for cannabis more or less against my will(under duress). And I was a stupid kid who wanted to get high, and these horrible drugs were easily available, advertised as not showing up on tests, etc.<p>I have the chief responsibility for my own actions of course, but it&#x27;s hard to ignore the fact that none of it would&#x27;ve happened if not for an extremely draconian and outmoded approach to drugs.</text></comment> | <story><title>Adult-use cannabis delivers $15B in tax revenues</title><url>https://www.greenmarketreport.com/adult-use-cannabis-has-delivered-15-billion-in-tax-revenues/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>simonswords82</author><text>Meanwhile the UK has got it&#x27;s thumb up its ass and is happily maintaining a status quo of the worst of all worlds<p>1) The police are still supposed to arrest people who are caught with cannabis (It&#x27;s a class B drug - in the same group as codeine, ketamine, and ‘spice’ - whatever the hell that is).<p>In reality they typically let people off with a warning but it&#x27;s still a drain on our already hamstrung police force<p>2) Drug dealers who sell weed tend not to declare and pay tax on their earnings. Depriving UK Gov of some seriously needed income per this article&#x27;s headline.<p>3) Drug dealers tend to sell other drugs, usually harder drugs. Thus exposing people who want to get stoned to a plethora of other drugs that they might otherwise not have come in to contact with.<p>4) Those people who are hooked on weed (or any other non-prescribed drug) are criminals...and cannot seek help from anybody including their doctor. This keeps them trapped, and over a long enough period of time will do mental and potentially physical damage to them that our NHS will incur costs to fix. And when I say NHS, I mean the tax payers, and when I say tax payers - I mean me.<p>All of that is to say - fuck UK drug policy. I remain hopeful that it will change though...</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>column</author><text>if you think that&#x27;s the WORST of all worlds.. In Switzerland police might request a blood test to know if your weed is actually CBD (which is legal), and you have to cover the bill for the blood test REGARDLESS OF THE TEST RESULT.</text></comment> |
15,137,749 | 15,137,690 | 1 | 2 | 15,137,265 | train | <story><title>Iowa's handout to Apple illustrates the folly of corporate welfare deals</title><url>http://www.latimes.com/business/hiltzik/la-fi-hiltzik-apple-iowa-welfare-20170829-story.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>colechristensen</author><text>These are property tax abatements. I don&#x27;t see the big deal. Apple has to pay the property tax equal to the farmland for the next 20 years instead of the much higher tax on the datacenter property. Who cares? Unless someone is arguing the datacenter is going to use a lot of tax funded city services (police? fire? ... ?), Waukee isn&#x27;t giving Apple anything. On top of that Apple is pledging to give them $100M for various things. Seems more like instead of paying property taxes, Apple is donating money to the city which will probably get it an income tax deduction. It&#x27;s a scam I don&#x27;t really care about.<p>If you do care about it, maybe you should be complaining much more about all of the corporations that are &quot;Delaware&quot; corporations to avoid state taxes instead of being corporations where they&#x27;re actually located.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>fulafel</author><text>Companies are supposed to pay taxes so we can have schools, healthcare, basic income etc. When they bid countries or states against each other to get tax breaks and governments play the game, citizens lose.<p>Yes, it happens in other cases too, and citizens should also protest against those other cases.</text></comment> | <story><title>Iowa's handout to Apple illustrates the folly of corporate welfare deals</title><url>http://www.latimes.com/business/hiltzik/la-fi-hiltzik-apple-iowa-welfare-20170829-story.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>colechristensen</author><text>These are property tax abatements. I don&#x27;t see the big deal. Apple has to pay the property tax equal to the farmland for the next 20 years instead of the much higher tax on the datacenter property. Who cares? Unless someone is arguing the datacenter is going to use a lot of tax funded city services (police? fire? ... ?), Waukee isn&#x27;t giving Apple anything. On top of that Apple is pledging to give them $100M for various things. Seems more like instead of paying property taxes, Apple is donating money to the city which will probably get it an income tax deduction. It&#x27;s a scam I don&#x27;t really care about.<p>If you do care about it, maybe you should be complaining much more about all of the corporations that are &quot;Delaware&quot; corporations to avoid state taxes instead of being corporations where they&#x27;re actually located.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Clubber</author><text>Yes, anyone can use that. If you buy a bunch of property, just plant trees and get the state &#x2F; city to come out and verify that you are growing trees and your property taxes are 1&#x2F;10th of what they were. Trees are probably the lowest maintenance crop you can grow, and the property might already have them.<p>We had a family that owned a <i>LOT</i> of land in our city put a few cows on it to save money on property taxes.</text></comment> |
23,948,904 | 23,948,928 | 1 | 3 | 23,948,206 | train | <story><title>Banks are slow to increase rates on savings accounts, but quick to reduce them</title><url>http://jpkoning.blogspot.com/2020/06/banks-are-slow-to-increase-rates-on.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>leetrout</author><text>I heard this story &#x2F; explanation before:<p>You own a gas station and you want to fill up your tanks so you call the distributor and pay $1 &#x2F; gallon. You then sell that for $1.10 &#x2F; gallon making a 10% profit.<p>Now prices of crude doubles and you have 1000 gallons left to sell. It’s going to cost you $2 &#x2F; gal to refill so you immediately raise your price to prevent a loss and cover the next fill.<p>I don’t know how accurate that is to the real situation gas stations face but I’d never thought of it in terms of selling higher to afford the next bulk delivery.</text></item><item><author>save_ferris</author><text>This seems like pretty typical market behavior to me. Are we really surprised that banks are taking the opportunity to increase their profits by choosing not to pass down all savings to customers?<p>The same exact thing happens with gas stations. The price of gas never falls quite as fast or far for the consumer as it does for the retailer, but gas stations will instantly respond to price increases. I’m sure there are dozens of other examples of this.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bryanlarsen</author><text>But when the price drops back down you don&#x27;t immediately drop your price because why would you charge $1.10 for something you paid $2 for?<p>But your competitor will lower their prices when they get a refill, so you may end up having to lower your prices before you get your own refill.</text></comment> | <story><title>Banks are slow to increase rates on savings accounts, but quick to reduce them</title><url>http://jpkoning.blogspot.com/2020/06/banks-are-slow-to-increase-rates-on.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>leetrout</author><text>I heard this story &#x2F; explanation before:<p>You own a gas station and you want to fill up your tanks so you call the distributor and pay $1 &#x2F; gallon. You then sell that for $1.10 &#x2F; gallon making a 10% profit.<p>Now prices of crude doubles and you have 1000 gallons left to sell. It’s going to cost you $2 &#x2F; gal to refill so you immediately raise your price to prevent a loss and cover the next fill.<p>I don’t know how accurate that is to the real situation gas stations face but I’d never thought of it in terms of selling higher to afford the next bulk delivery.</text></item><item><author>save_ferris</author><text>This seems like pretty typical market behavior to me. Are we really surprised that banks are taking the opportunity to increase their profits by choosing not to pass down all savings to customers?<p>The same exact thing happens with gas stations. The price of gas never falls quite as fast or far for the consumer as it does for the retailer, but gas stations will instantly respond to price increases. I’m sure there are dozens of other examples of this.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Threeve303</author><text>This is what happened during Katrina and some of the hurricanes of the past decade or two.<p>The situation with the banks is slightly different.<p>The odds that the product, money, will cost more for them in the future does not line up with the recent history of bailouts, regulation changes, etc.<p>During Katrina, for example, it was a safe bet for the gas station owners that the next batch of gasoline could cost significantly more.
A reasonable assumption due to the multiple wars in the middle east combined with a bad hurricane season shutting down gulf coast refineries.<p>In other words, the Federal Reserve did not run a discount window to provide cheap oil to gas stations. Even the strategic petroleum reserve, if tapped, would only benefit the refineries.<p>At any rate, one could argue that in both situations the entities involved made the safest and most profitable decision available to them.</text></comment> |
17,342,556 | 17,341,997 | 1 | 2 | 17,341,790 | train | <story><title>Theranos Didn't Just Harm Investors</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2018-06-18/theranos-didn-t-just-harm-investors</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>tptacek</author><text>Levine spends a good chunk of this engaging with Felix Salmon&#x27;s Slate article about how many startups could be charged with wire fraud.<p>But I think Salmon overstates his case and oversimplifies wire fraud and I&#x27;m a little surprised Levine, a lawyer, doesn&#x27;t catch him on this.<p>Salmon says wire fraud is among the easiest crimes to prove: everything is done by wire now, so &quot;you show the lie, you show the wire, boom&quot;. But it&#x27;s actually not enough to show a &quot;lie&quot; and then a &quot;wire&quot;. Check out a federal court&#x27;s model jury instructions for wire fraud. The burden on the prosecutor is higher than showing simple dishonesty; they have to prove &quot;intent to defraud&quot;, which means that the accused had to have lied deliberately in order to cheat victims. There are, even in the jury instructions themselves, multiple mitigating factors for &quot;intent to defraud&quot;. And, aside from that, there&#x27;s a legal difference between that and wildly extrapolating from realistic revenue forecasts to irrationally high outcomes you merely <i>hope</i> could happen if everything breaks your way.<p>I think you can make the case that Balwani and Holmes got indicted because their dishonesty was unusually brazen and directly connected to the business they were in. They lied about what they were doing in the (then) present tense. They didn&#x27;t make simply make unrealistic forecasts or put the rosiest possible color on how their engineering work was going; they fabricated entire medical procedures.</text></comment> | <story><title>Theranos Didn't Just Harm Investors</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2018-06-18/theranos-didn-t-just-harm-investors</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>madengr</author><text>Just finished Bad Blood. Hopefully they both get felony prison time, and there is precedence for it. I don&#x27;t see how it&#x27;s any different than a pharmacist diluting drugs. After diluting blood samples, they purposely doctored the statistics to reduce the deviation.</text></comment> |
6,038,883 | 6,038,908 | 1 | 2 | 6,038,473 | train | <story><title>How secure is Linux's random number generator?</title><url>http://lists.randombit.net/pipermail/cryptography/2013-July/004728.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tptacek</author><text>Ironically, it&#x27;s particularly vis a vis cryptographic random number generation where we can most easily show open source cryptography failing its users; Debian fatally broke the OpenSSL CSPRNG so badly that attackers could remotely brute force SSH keys.</text></item><item><author>oellegaard</author><text>You are right that closed source doesn&#x27;t mean its insecure - on the other hand, open source could prove that it is indeed secure. With new scandals coming up every week these days, about hidden backdoors in security software, I trust open source more than ever before.</text></item><item><author>olympus</author><text>Just because something is closed source doesn&#x27;t mean it&#x27;s insecure. RdRand meets various standards for RNGs and the dieharder tests don&#x27;t show anything of concern. While you can&#x27;t be 100 percent sure of the reliability of RdRand because you can&#x27;t audit it, I feel safe trusting it for all but the most critical of applications. Here&#x27;s a blog post describing testing RdRand with dieharder: <a href="http://smackerelofopinion.blogspot.com/2012/10/intel-rdrand-instruction-revisited.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;smackerelofopinion.blogspot.com&#x2F;2012&#x2F;10&#x2F;intel-rdrand-...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tankenmate</author><text>Whereas with closed source you would <i>almost never</i> know. Crypto is very hard to do properly, but at least with open source you have the possibility of independent third party analysis.</text></comment> | <story><title>How secure is Linux's random number generator?</title><url>http://lists.randombit.net/pipermail/cryptography/2013-July/004728.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tptacek</author><text>Ironically, it&#x27;s particularly vis a vis cryptographic random number generation where we can most easily show open source cryptography failing its users; Debian fatally broke the OpenSSL CSPRNG so badly that attackers could remotely brute force SSH keys.</text></item><item><author>oellegaard</author><text>You are right that closed source doesn&#x27;t mean its insecure - on the other hand, open source could prove that it is indeed secure. With new scandals coming up every week these days, about hidden backdoors in security software, I trust open source more than ever before.</text></item><item><author>olympus</author><text>Just because something is closed source doesn&#x27;t mean it&#x27;s insecure. RdRand meets various standards for RNGs and the dieharder tests don&#x27;t show anything of concern. While you can&#x27;t be 100 percent sure of the reliability of RdRand because you can&#x27;t audit it, I feel safe trusting it for all but the most critical of applications. Here&#x27;s a blog post describing testing RdRand with dieharder: <a href="http://smackerelofopinion.blogspot.com/2012/10/intel-rdrand-instruction-revisited.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;smackerelofopinion.blogspot.com&#x2F;2012&#x2F;10&#x2F;intel-rdrand-...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nwmcsween</author><text>Not defending the debain change but openssl code structure &#x2F; readability is far from great, the only packages I would put behind openssl is libxml2, glib and glibc.</text></comment> |
11,274,669 | 11,274,158 | 1 | 3 | 11,273,441 | train | <story><title>Julia: A Fast Language for Numerical Computing</title><url>https://sinews.siam.org/DetailsPage/tabid/607/ArticleID/744/Julia-A-Fast-Language-for-Numerical-Computing.aspx</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>samuell</author><text>If Julia had Go-style concurrency primitives (channels and lightweight threads), and M:N thread multiplexing, it would be the perfect language to implement my upcoming data flow based scientific workflow language (<a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;samuell&#x2F;scipipe" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;samuell&#x2F;scipipe</a>).<p>Now I&#x27;m instead trapped with Go, which lacks a REPL, and leaves a lot to wish in terms of metaprogramming capabilities needed to create a nice programmatic API.<p>The lack of the mentioned features is my biggest concern with Julia.</text></comment> | <story><title>Julia: A Fast Language for Numerical Computing</title><url>https://sinews.siam.org/DetailsPage/tabid/607/ArticleID/744/Julia-A-Fast-Language-for-Numerical-Computing.aspx</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>kafkaesq</author><text>BTW is it just me, or do other people find that the interpreter is very slow to start under older versions of OS X?<p>That&#x27;s one of my current obstacles to diving further into Julia.</text></comment> |
21,012,769 | 21,012,606 | 1 | 2 | 21,002,745 | train | <story><title>Smart TVs sending sensitive user data to Netflix and Facebook</title><url>https://www.ft.com/content/23ab2f68-d957-11e9-8f9b-77216ebe1f17</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>xcgfhgjbjhb</author><text>I worked on that.<p>It sends audio and&#x2F;or video fingerprints (not frames, for privacy and bandwidth reasons), which are matched against a fingerprint database. Whatever people see on TV is usually 10 to 60 seconds behind the <i>real</i> live stream at the broadcaster (which is where the reference fingerprinting happens). GeoIP data can be used to roughly deduce where the TV is located, in order to better filter out false positives out of multiple matches (e.g. in the US where lots of programming on east&#x2F;west side is just shifted by ~3 hours due to time difference).</text></item><item><author>obmelvin</author><text>Roku enabled TVs very clearly send back frames of what you are watching. I&#x27;ve been watching YouTube casted via chromecast plugged into HDMI (NOT the built in chromecast, I have verified multiple times) and the Roku will give me a full width toast saying to press `*` to watch the full movie or some similar contextual option<p>I was pretty put off the first time this happened. That said, I don&#x27;t even know if I looked through the settings to see if I could turn it off..</text></item><item><author>mikeryan</author><text>This is a pretty open secret within the industry. Geographic data can be provided via setup (a lot of TV&#x27;s ask for a zip code on setup) or usually simply via GeoIP lookup.<p>Dig a bit deeper and you get into service provided by Samba TV and or Inscape and you can find that they&#x27;re sending back frames of video in a lot of cases to track what you&#x27;re watching.<p>This data is becoming a huge mechanism for subsidizing TV sales and the interactivity is being looked at as a huge opportunity to recoup some of the ad spend being lost via streaming and fewer 30 second spots.<p>With new TV&#x27;s its time to view them as private as a browser (With less controls).<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;samba.tv&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;samba.tv&#x2F;</a>
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.inscape.tv&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.inscape.tv&#x2F;</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>gbear0</author><text>are you saying that hypothetically, if the MPAA comes knocking on Roku&#x27;s door with enough money and a fingerprint database of torrented movies&#x2F;songs, Roku could then tell them they have people matching those fingerprints? After which I&#x27;m assuming they&#x27;d have enough justification to get a court order to get the contact info from Roku for matching users?</text></comment> | <story><title>Smart TVs sending sensitive user data to Netflix and Facebook</title><url>https://www.ft.com/content/23ab2f68-d957-11e9-8f9b-77216ebe1f17</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>xcgfhgjbjhb</author><text>I worked on that.<p>It sends audio and&#x2F;or video fingerprints (not frames, for privacy and bandwidth reasons), which are matched against a fingerprint database. Whatever people see on TV is usually 10 to 60 seconds behind the <i>real</i> live stream at the broadcaster (which is where the reference fingerprinting happens). GeoIP data can be used to roughly deduce where the TV is located, in order to better filter out false positives out of multiple matches (e.g. in the US where lots of programming on east&#x2F;west side is just shifted by ~3 hours due to time difference).</text></item><item><author>obmelvin</author><text>Roku enabled TVs very clearly send back frames of what you are watching. I&#x27;ve been watching YouTube casted via chromecast plugged into HDMI (NOT the built in chromecast, I have verified multiple times) and the Roku will give me a full width toast saying to press `*` to watch the full movie or some similar contextual option<p>I was pretty put off the first time this happened. That said, I don&#x27;t even know if I looked through the settings to see if I could turn it off..</text></item><item><author>mikeryan</author><text>This is a pretty open secret within the industry. Geographic data can be provided via setup (a lot of TV&#x27;s ask for a zip code on setup) or usually simply via GeoIP lookup.<p>Dig a bit deeper and you get into service provided by Samba TV and or Inscape and you can find that they&#x27;re sending back frames of video in a lot of cases to track what you&#x27;re watching.<p>This data is becoming a huge mechanism for subsidizing TV sales and the interactivity is being looked at as a huge opportunity to recoup some of the ad spend being lost via streaming and fewer 30 second spots.<p>With new TV&#x27;s its time to view them as private as a browser (With less controls).<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;samba.tv&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;samba.tv&#x2F;</a>
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.inscape.tv&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.inscape.tv&#x2F;</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>morrbo</author><text>And yet I still can&#x27;t fast forward&#x2F;rewind when using Roku media player and dlna.</text></comment> |
22,193,582 | 22,189,555 | 1 | 2 | 22,183,506 | train | <story><title>Building a Simple VPN with WireGuard with a Raspberry Pi as Server</title><url>https://snikt.net/blog/2020/01/29/building-a-simple-vpn-with-wireguard-with-a-raspberry-pi-as-server/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>doctoboggan</author><text>A question for people with experience in this area:<p>I&#x27;ve been considering setting up WireGuard so I can keep my mobile phone always connected to my home network.<p>Will I experience degraded network performance (either latency or bandwidth) if I have my mobile phone always connected to a VPN 24&#x2F;7?<p>My phone is an iPhone 11 Pro and I would be running WireGuard on a Pi4</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>JeremyNT</author><text>I do this (with OpenVPN &#x2F; Android, but same idea) and the main factor that limits my own performance is the poor upload speeds of my residential cable subscription. For many residential services, you&#x27;re looking at asymmetrical up&#x2F;down speeds, and they usually advertise the higher download number only.<p>This is normally fine since you most people download way more than they upload and don&#x27;t run servers in their homes, but when you route everything <i>through</i> your home, you may be limited by upload speeds.</text></comment> | <story><title>Building a Simple VPN with WireGuard with a Raspberry Pi as Server</title><url>https://snikt.net/blog/2020/01/29/building-a-simple-vpn-with-wireguard-with-a-raspberry-pi-as-server/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>doctoboggan</author><text>A question for people with experience in this area:<p>I&#x27;ve been considering setting up WireGuard so I can keep my mobile phone always connected to my home network.<p>Will I experience degraded network performance (either latency or bandwidth) if I have my mobile phone always connected to a VPN 24&#x2F;7?<p>My phone is an iPhone 11 Pro and I would be running WireGuard on a Pi4</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>fulafel</author><text>Depends on how you want to use it.<p>If you want all your network traffic to go via your home network instead of normally over the internet, you will experience degraded network performance and it&#x27;ll mostly depend on how fast your home network is &amp; how far it is network-topologically from your phone.</text></comment> |
23,679,633 | 23,679,303 | 1 | 2 | 23,676,109 | train | <story><title>Apple declined to implement 16 Web APIs in Safari due to privacy concerns</title><url>https://www.zdnet.com/article/apple-declined-to-implement-16-web-apis-in-safari-due-to-privacy-concerns/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jamesgeck0</author><text>&gt; Web MIDI API - Allows websites to enumerate, manipulate and access MIDI devices.<p>This API is actually a bit horrifying from a security perspective. In addition to allowing you to use MIDI keyboards as input devices on websites, it also allows websites to send binary firmware updates to MIDI devices. The reason is that it&#x27;s common to use custom firmware to backup&#x2F;restore settings and enable neat effects and functionality on MIDI devices.<p>Mozilla&#x27;s engineers have reasonably pointed out that an attacker utilizing Web MIDI could use MIDI devices as a stepping stone to launch an attack against the user&#x27;s PC outside of the web sandbox. One such attack might be by reprogramming the device to appear as a standard USB computer keyboard and &quot;typing&quot; commands to the host.<p>At least one well known manufacturer has vouched for the technical safety of their musical instruments, noting that they&#x27;re physically designed in such a way that the MIDI firmware can&#x27;t alter USB firmware. But there&#x27;s no way to know that every MIDI device has been similarly well designed.<p>As neat as Web MIDI is, I think Mozilla and Apple probably made the right security call here.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;mozilla&#x2F;standards-positions&#x2F;issues&#x2F;58" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;mozilla&#x2F;standards-positions&#x2F;issues&#x2F;58</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>henriquez</author><text>Fun fact: for quite a long time Chrome skipped over the user permission step in the Web MIDI spec, always allowing access and silently giving ad networks a list of connected USB MIDI devices with no user consent:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.obsessivefacts.com&#x2F;blog&#x2F;2018-10-20-chrome-allows-enumeration-of-usb-devices.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.obsessivefacts.com&#x2F;blog&#x2F;2018-10-20-chrome-allows...</a><p>Here&#x27;s what appeared on porn site xhamster.com once newer versions of Chromium got around to implementing the permission check (SFW-ish):<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.obsessivefacts.com&#x2F;images&#x2F;blog&#x2F;2020-04-04-the-javascript-black-hole&#x2F;xhamster-cropped.png" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.obsessivefacts.com&#x2F;images&#x2F;blog&#x2F;2020-04-04-the-ja...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Apple declined to implement 16 Web APIs in Safari due to privacy concerns</title><url>https://www.zdnet.com/article/apple-declined-to-implement-16-web-apis-in-safari-due-to-privacy-concerns/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jamesgeck0</author><text>&gt; Web MIDI API - Allows websites to enumerate, manipulate and access MIDI devices.<p>This API is actually a bit horrifying from a security perspective. In addition to allowing you to use MIDI keyboards as input devices on websites, it also allows websites to send binary firmware updates to MIDI devices. The reason is that it&#x27;s common to use custom firmware to backup&#x2F;restore settings and enable neat effects and functionality on MIDI devices.<p>Mozilla&#x27;s engineers have reasonably pointed out that an attacker utilizing Web MIDI could use MIDI devices as a stepping stone to launch an attack against the user&#x27;s PC outside of the web sandbox. One such attack might be by reprogramming the device to appear as a standard USB computer keyboard and &quot;typing&quot; commands to the host.<p>At least one well known manufacturer has vouched for the technical safety of their musical instruments, noting that they&#x27;re physically designed in such a way that the MIDI firmware can&#x27;t alter USB firmware. But there&#x27;s no way to know that every MIDI device has been similarly well designed.<p>As neat as Web MIDI is, I think Mozilla and Apple probably made the right security call here.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;mozilla&#x2F;standards-positions&#x2F;issues&#x2F;58" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;mozilla&#x2F;standards-positions&#x2F;issues&#x2F;58</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>BiteCode_dev</author><text>Besides, I know they want to turn the browser into an os, but it&#x27;s not one.<p>It&#x27;s sandboxed from the os and limited to some use cases, which is the point. I don&#x27;t want something capable of hot loading code from any web site to have the capabilities of my OS.</text></comment> |
7,704,352 | 7,704,342 | 1 | 2 | 7,703,722 | train | <story><title>How to talk to an open source project as a large scale or interesting user</title><url>http://blog.powerdns.com/2014/05/05/how-to-talk-to-an-open-source-software-project-as-a-large-scale-or-otherwise-interesting-user/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>baudehlo</author><text>I have definitely had this issue with Haraka (a highly scalable SMTP server). On the one hand we have Craigslist as a user, who have been incredibly open and contributed heavily to the project, and on the other we have had people post cryptic bug reports that it didn&#x27;t work for them, but clearly they were trying to use it at an interesting scale, and we would love to have helped.<p>We pride ourselves on being one of the friendliest MTA communities out there, so to find people who give up and quit using it is always sad. Many times we&#x27;ve contributed custom code to companies for free to help them out, but we can&#x27;t do that if you are silent. So speak up, companies, even if it&#x27;s only in private messages.</text></comment> | <story><title>How to talk to an open source project as a large scale or interesting user</title><url>http://blog.powerdns.com/2014/05/05/how-to-talk-to-an-open-source-software-project-as-a-large-scale-or-otherwise-interesting-user/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>roberthahn</author><text>What I&#x27;m seeing here is a customer support problem. And IMHO, PowerDNS isn&#x27;t taking the correct steps to solve it.<p>It&#x27;s funny, because the answer is right in the article. If your customer:<p>* is large and&#x2F;or interesting
* has a legal&#x2F;security&#x2F;marketing&#x2F; team that&#x27;s worried about sharing information publicly
* has an IT dept that doesn&#x27;t know the whole company is depending on a single open source product
* feels they have to use gmail accounts and made-up names to talk to you<p>Then maybe a public forum really <i>isn&#x27;t</i> the place to expect your customers to ask for help.<p>I would suggest creating a partnership program for businesses like Cloudflare - swap tech support for publicity (which will then help drive adoption)</text></comment> |
24,686,927 | 24,687,152 | 1 | 2 | 24,686,527 | train | <story><title>Fortunately, I don't squash my commits</title><url>https://blog.ploeh.dk/2020/10/05/fortunately-i-dont-squash-my-commits/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>davewritescode</author><text>The reason to squash commits is more than just keeping your commit history read-able, it&#x27;s about making easy to revert a feature and being able to keep history in a way that makes it simple to revert a change if you run into issues.<p>If I rollout a rewrite of an endpoint and run into a weird issue in the QA environment, I&#x27;m a simple git revert away from fixing the issue. If I had spread that endpoint across 25 commits, I&#x27;d have to actually debug the issue in QA and figure out what I broke. Reverting quickly lets me debug the issue on my time instead of keeping our test suite broken.<p>It&#x27;s not always feasible, and I try not to be a stickler when people on my team don&#x27;t do it but the fact is, if you&#x27;re working in a world when you&#x27;re delivery code quickly into real environments, having a back-out strategy is paramount.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>alxmng</author><text>Programmers can have the best of both worlds. Use granular commits on a local branch and squash merge into shared branches.<p>That way one gets clean shared history while preserving local work history.</text></comment> | <story><title>Fortunately, I don't squash my commits</title><url>https://blog.ploeh.dk/2020/10/05/fortunately-i-dont-squash-my-commits/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>davewritescode</author><text>The reason to squash commits is more than just keeping your commit history read-able, it&#x27;s about making easy to revert a feature and being able to keep history in a way that makes it simple to revert a change if you run into issues.<p>If I rollout a rewrite of an endpoint and run into a weird issue in the QA environment, I&#x27;m a simple git revert away from fixing the issue. If I had spread that endpoint across 25 commits, I&#x27;d have to actually debug the issue in QA and figure out what I broke. Reverting quickly lets me debug the issue on my time instead of keeping our test suite broken.<p>It&#x27;s not always feasible, and I try not to be a stickler when people on my team don&#x27;t do it but the fact is, if you&#x27;re working in a world when you&#x27;re delivery code quickly into real environments, having a back-out strategy is paramount.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>matheusmoreira</author><text>A merge commit works just like a squashed commit except it keeps all history. This is precisely why it&#x27;s sensible to avoid fast-forwarding since that operation discards the fact that a branch existed in the first place.<p>It&#x27;s better to always have merge commits. They can be reverted just as easily. I don&#x27;t understand why merge commits aren&#x27;t the default in git.</text></comment> |
23,376,933 | 23,377,034 | 1 | 2 | 23,376,523 | train | <story><title>Do I need to go to university?</title><url>http://colah.github.io/posts/2020-05-University/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>sdan</author><text>I&#x27;m a senior in high school and decided to.
I started a startup and got invited for a YC interview(got rejected) and am onto another startup which is raising soon.<p>Despite how much success&#x2F;failure&#x2F;I learn I endure, college name matters... a lot. I snuck into Nuro&#x27;s open house last year and found they exclusively invited Harvard&#x2F;Stanford&#x2F;MIT students (I can say this because I was a minor at the time of signing their NDAs)<p>College name matters, especially when you&#x27;re starting out (which can impact where you evenetually end up... whether its working for a startup or working at a cool VC firm) In fact most of the time, the people who&#x27;ve said: &quot;don&#x27;t go to college&quot; are the same people who go to Cornell, UPenn, and Stanford and probably don&#x27;t realize how much of a network&#x2F;presitgie gives them to get them where they are now.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>inapis</author><text>&gt;In fact most of the time, the people who&#x27;ve said: &quot;don&#x27;t go to college&quot; are the same people who go to Cornell, UPenn, and Stanford and probably don&#x27;t realize how much of a network&#x2F;presitgie gives them to get them where they are now.<p>Can&#x27;t emphasize this enough. College is still necessary for something like 95% of the planet&#x27;s population. If you are not born into wealth or have well connected parents, a college degree is your only way to a better life. You may not learn anything in college but you need that fuckin&#x27; piece of paper just for the bureaucratic formalities. A very talented friend of mine was denied the US visa probably because of lack of a bachelor degree.</text></comment> | <story><title>Do I need to go to university?</title><url>http://colah.github.io/posts/2020-05-University/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>sdan</author><text>I&#x27;m a senior in high school and decided to.
I started a startup and got invited for a YC interview(got rejected) and am onto another startup which is raising soon.<p>Despite how much success&#x2F;failure&#x2F;I learn I endure, college name matters... a lot. I snuck into Nuro&#x27;s open house last year and found they exclusively invited Harvard&#x2F;Stanford&#x2F;MIT students (I can say this because I was a minor at the time of signing their NDAs)<p>College name matters, especially when you&#x27;re starting out (which can impact where you evenetually end up... whether its working for a startup or working at a cool VC firm) In fact most of the time, the people who&#x27;ve said: &quot;don&#x27;t go to college&quot; are the same people who go to Cornell, UPenn, and Stanford and probably don&#x27;t realize how much of a network&#x2F;presitgie gives them to get them where they are now.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>WalterBright</author><text>&gt; college name matters<p>Nobody ever asks me what college I attended. Nobody cares.</text></comment> |
17,915,368 | 17,914,894 | 1 | 3 | 17,914,731 | train | <story><title>Blood-Testing Firm Theranos to Dissolve</title><url>https://www.wsj.com/articles/blood-testing-firm-theranos-to-dissolve-1536115130</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>sharkweek</author><text>Highly enjoyed <i>Bad Blood</i> and recommend it to anyone interested in some fine investigative journalism.<p>I think the most disappointing thing about this whole saga is that (in theory) the Theranos technology was supposed to be a major healthcare game changer. It could have revolutionized testing, and would surely have saved countless lives.<p>But instead... here we are.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>erentz</author><text>&gt; think the most disappointing thing about this whole saga is that (in theory) the Theranos technology was supposed to be a major healthcare game changer. It could have revolutionized testing, and would surely have saved countless lives.<p>This reads like such a weird statement. It never existed. It could’ve never have revolutionized testing because it was entirely imagined and not based on reality.<p>It’s like watching Star Trek thinking tricorders are real then being disappointed when told they’re a fiction.</text></comment> | <story><title>Blood-Testing Firm Theranos to Dissolve</title><url>https://www.wsj.com/articles/blood-testing-firm-theranos-to-dissolve-1536115130</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>sharkweek</author><text>Highly enjoyed <i>Bad Blood</i> and recommend it to anyone interested in some fine investigative journalism.<p>I think the most disappointing thing about this whole saga is that (in theory) the Theranos technology was supposed to be a major healthcare game changer. It could have revolutionized testing, and would surely have saved countless lives.<p>But instead... here we are.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kranner</author><text>Correct me if I&#x27;m wrong, but wasn&#x27;t the thesis of Bad Blood just that Theranos simply had no groundbreaking new technology? (and of course that Holmes and Balwani lied and bullied their way into an insane valuation for blood-testing tech that didn&#x27;t exist and was propped up by third-party commercial testing machines)</text></comment> |
40,258,571 | 40,258,054 | 1 | 3 | 40,257,064 | train | <story><title>Vulture shortage threatens Zoroastrian burial rites</title><url>https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/04/vulture-shortage-threatens-zoroastrian-burial-rites-india-iran-pakistan</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>KineticLensman</author><text>A factor that devastates African vulture populations is when poachers lace carcasses (e.g. rhinos killed for their horns) with poison, because vultures circling a kill reveal the presence of the poachers to wardens. A single big poisoned carcass can kill dozens of vultures at a time, of multiple species.</text></comment> | <story><title>Vulture shortage threatens Zoroastrian burial rites</title><url>https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/04/vulture-shortage-threatens-zoroastrian-burial-rites-india-iran-pakistan</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>boomboomsubban</author><text>If it&#x27;s consumption of NSAID&#x27;s that are killing the vultures, are the towers themselves not a risk? Are the dosages&#x2F;drugs given to humans not a problem? Or is there some sort of preparation that would remove the NSAID&#x27;s?<p>I tried to research the Zoroastrian procedure, but it got gory pretty fast.</text></comment> |
16,439,966 | 16,439,496 | 1 | 2 | 16,439,162 | train | <story><title>The Battle for Best Semi-Autonomous System: Tesla Autopilot vs. GM SuperCruise</title><url>http://www.thedrive.com/tech/17083/the-battle-for-best-semi-autonomous-system-tesla-autopilot-vs-gm-supercruise-head-to-head</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Animats</author><text>GM did a nice job there. They have a good solution to the &quot;expecting the driver to watch and take over&quot; problem. Their system watches the driver constantly to make sure they&#x27;re in position to take over, but doesn&#x27;t require a hand on the wheel. GM is also more careful about when to allow the control system to engage.<p>Tesla&#x27;s crashes on &quot;autopilot&quot; have mostly been in situations where the system should have detected an obstacle. Four times, a Tesla on autopilot has slammed into an obstacle partly blocking the left edge of a lane. All those crashes were in freeway situations, where Autopilot is supposed to be reliable. That&#x27;s inexcusable. Tesla&#x27;s radar has inadequate resolution for the job, the vision system doesn&#x27;t really recognize fixed obstacles, and they don&#x27;t have LIDAR. So they don&#x27;t detect big things like fire trucks and street cleaning trucks that are mostly on the shoulder and partly into the lane.</text></comment> | <story><title>The Battle for Best Semi-Autonomous System: Tesla Autopilot vs. GM SuperCruise</title><url>http://www.thedrive.com/tech/17083/the-battle-for-best-semi-autonomous-system-tesla-autopilot-vs-gm-supercruise-head-to-head</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>gtowey</author><text>According to the article GM has decided to simply restrict the domain of their semi-autonomous offering to only work on divided highways. The author says that the result is innovative and brilliant. But the problems they&#x27;re trying to solve are not nearly as ambitious or challenging as those Tesla has decided to tackle.<p>While it can be argued that GM should received kudos for releasing a feature that can work reliably, I don&#x27;t see it as innovative.<p>It kind of reinforces that traditional car makers are never going to offer anything revolutionary to the car market. They&#x27;re going to use the work of others to incrementally add features to cars that they think will increase sales. They won&#x27;t take risks with technology.</text></comment> |
21,130,028 | 21,129,108 | 1 | 2 | 21,126,967 | train | <story><title>Airbus hit by series of cyber attacks on suppliers</title><url>https://www.france24.com/en/20190926-airbus-hit-by-series-of-cyber-attacks-on-suppliers</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>roymurdock</author><text>Other comments here incorrectly pointing out that Boeing and Airbus don&#x27;t manufacture in China - they do. And why wouldn&#x27;t they, it&#x27;s obviously much cheaper to manufacture there given material and labor costs. Obviously they don&#x27;t manufacture highly sensitive military aircraft in China, but commercial aircraft, sure why not.<p>What they don&#x27;t do is the design, testing, and certification in China. This is the real IP - not the materials or the assembly techniques, but how to navigate the regulatory landscape of the FAA and the EASA in extremely complex hardware&#x2F;software integrated systems. The article mentions certification documents&#x2F;evidence as a primary target.<p>The funny thing in all this is that passengers inherently trust the FAA and EASA operated system and inherently do not trust a Chinese-owned, manufactured, and regulated system for commercial aircraft. When really this breach was all about the money - Chinese companies want to get in on Boeing and Airbus&#x27; market.<p>I don&#x27;t have a dog in this fight, but I will say that Boeing isn&#x27;t doing itself any favors with it&#x27;s cost cutting efforts on the 737 MAX, and that if it wants to keep consumers trust in its planes over the perception of &quot;inferior&quot; foreign competition, it needs to work much more closely with the FAA to ensure safety is the primary motivating factor on new designs and does not get overriden by fuel efficiency.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>benhurmarcel</author><text>They manufacture in China not mainly because it&#x27;s cheaper (lots of places are cheaper than their home countries), but because it&#x27;s the only way to get a significant part of the large Chinese market.<p>&gt; inherently do not trust a Chinese-owned, manufactured, and regulated system for commercial aircraft<p>This is true, but it was also true for European airliners in the US at a time. And it took time and effort, but it changed.</text></comment> | <story><title>Airbus hit by series of cyber attacks on suppliers</title><url>https://www.france24.com/en/20190926-airbus-hit-by-series-of-cyber-attacks-on-suppliers</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>roymurdock</author><text>Other comments here incorrectly pointing out that Boeing and Airbus don&#x27;t manufacture in China - they do. And why wouldn&#x27;t they, it&#x27;s obviously much cheaper to manufacture there given material and labor costs. Obviously they don&#x27;t manufacture highly sensitive military aircraft in China, but commercial aircraft, sure why not.<p>What they don&#x27;t do is the design, testing, and certification in China. This is the real IP - not the materials or the assembly techniques, but how to navigate the regulatory landscape of the FAA and the EASA in extremely complex hardware&#x2F;software integrated systems. The article mentions certification documents&#x2F;evidence as a primary target.<p>The funny thing in all this is that passengers inherently trust the FAA and EASA operated system and inherently do not trust a Chinese-owned, manufactured, and regulated system for commercial aircraft. When really this breach was all about the money - Chinese companies want to get in on Boeing and Airbus&#x27; market.<p>I don&#x27;t have a dog in this fight, but I will say that Boeing isn&#x27;t doing itself any favors with it&#x27;s cost cutting efforts on the 737 MAX, and that if it wants to keep consumers trust in its planes over the perception of &quot;inferior&quot; foreign competition, it needs to work much more closely with the FAA to ensure safety is the primary motivating factor on new designs and does not get overriden by fuel efficiency.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bagacrap</author><text>On the Boeing facility:<p>&quot;Work at the facility was limited to the plane’s interior, including installing seats and other cabin equipment. More responsibilities will be added over time, such as painting the exterior, but the center is primarily meant for completion and delivery, with the main manufacturing remaining in the US.&quot;</text></comment> |
16,187,110 | 16,186,868 | 1 | 3 | 16,186,059 | train | <story><title>Commitment vs. Forecast: A Subtle But Important Change to Scrum (2011)</title><url>https://www.scrum.org/resources/commitment-vs-forecast-subtle-important-change-scrum</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>justspamjustin</author><text>My team moved from scrum to a kanban style process a couple years ago. The benefits were immediate. We no longer have drawn out sprint planning meetings where we discuss requirements of features that we never end up working on in that sprint. We don’t waste time debating complexity of features. Everything is now just ad hoc. When we need more requirements definitions, we pull the necessary members of the team together and discuss it. When we see that there needs to be architectual discussions and high level planning, we do it immediately when we recognize the need for it. The idea that you can try and commit to or even forecast how much can be completed for a period of time is pretty absurd. Just identify the minimum requirements of what needs to be done and do it. Retrospective is still productive. But sprint planning is a waste of time IMO.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>cybergoat</author><text>Scrum is a sad joke. But corporate loves feeling &quot;safe&quot;, with estimates in hand, even if they readily blow out. Usually it ends up with &quot;watergile&quot;, a total mess.<p>You can just time kanban tickets vs estimated size (all the forecasting, tracking, etc, should be done by a manager, without wasting the team&#x27;s time) combined with pulling from the right hand side and vigorous action towards blockers. Optimise for throughput.<p>During the best version of this, as I experienced, we spent about 5 minutes in the morning as a team, and occasionally visited the board throughout the day (not as a team, sometimes as a pair, to discuss something and add&#x2F;move tickets). My manager at the time spent some time at the end of each week by himself collecting cards and doing the tracking to make the higher-ups happy.</text></comment> | <story><title>Commitment vs. Forecast: A Subtle But Important Change to Scrum (2011)</title><url>https://www.scrum.org/resources/commitment-vs-forecast-subtle-important-change-scrum</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>justspamjustin</author><text>My team moved from scrum to a kanban style process a couple years ago. The benefits were immediate. We no longer have drawn out sprint planning meetings where we discuss requirements of features that we never end up working on in that sprint. We don’t waste time debating complexity of features. Everything is now just ad hoc. When we need more requirements definitions, we pull the necessary members of the team together and discuss it. When we see that there needs to be architectual discussions and high level planning, we do it immediately when we recognize the need for it. The idea that you can try and commit to or even forecast how much can be completed for a period of time is pretty absurd. Just identify the minimum requirements of what needs to be done and do it. Retrospective is still productive. But sprint planning is a waste of time IMO.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Infernal</author><text>I’m familiar with some of the artifacts of a kanban style system - do you have any documentation of what your particular kanban process looks like (that you can share)?</text></comment> |
13,701,231 | 13,696,230 | 1 | 3 | 13,695,255 | train | <story><title>Bash and Windows Subsystem for Linux Demo [video]</title><url>https://channel9.msdn.com/events/Windows/Windows-Developer-Day-Creators-Update/Developer-tools-and-updates#time=17m30s</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>nailer</author><text>This is coming to Windows stable in April:<p>- vt sequences fixed (so stuff like colored output, midnight commander, etc work and the terminal doesn&#x27;t screw up)<p>- Elixir and Go work<p>- Also Postgres and MySQL<p>- You can launch Windows apps from bash.<p>- inotify works<p>- Visual Studio can compile with GNU&#x2F;Linux C&#x2F;C++ tools, gdb, linker etc<p>There&#x27;s some recent fast ring info on: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blogs.msdn.microsoft.com&#x2F;commandline&#x2F;2017&#x2F;01&#x2F;09&#x2F;bash-in-windows-insider-build-15002-many-fixes-but-a-couple-of-bugs&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blogs.msdn.microsoft.com&#x2F;commandline&#x2F;2017&#x2F;01&#x2F;09&#x2F;bash...</a><p>From reading that blog, and also: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;Microsoft&#x2F;BashOnWindows&#x2F;issues&#x2F;111#issuecomment-238302654" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;Microsoft&#x2F;BashOnWindows&#x2F;issues&#x2F;111#issuec...</a> it sounds as if the Windows console (separate from bash, openssh, powershell etc) is being entirely refactored for creators update. So those fixes should also help powershell, ConEmu and a bunch of other common windows command line stuff.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ChuckMcM</author><text>It isn&#x27;t clear how much people can appreciate this sort of thing without context. Back in the mid 2000&#x27;s I was at a very high level Microsoft Developer event and got to ask about waning support for command line tools.<p>People of a certain age remembered well the power and simplicity of using DOS and its &quot;console&quot; to effectively develop code and debug, even without typing &#x27;win&#x27; to get into &quot;GUI mode&quot;.<p>But at this event a very senior engineer&#x2F;architect in the Windows group (no longer with Microsoft) responded to my question of command line support with a very snarky response which was something along the lines of &quot;It is called <i>Windows</i> not <i>relic from the 70&#x27;s</i> so no, we really don&#x27;t care if you can&#x27;t use it like a time sharing system any more.&quot; And that was the way it was, anything you could do on the command line you could do in a GUI window with radio buttons and various text boxes.<p>And what was why I switched to MacOS as my daily driver because my personal style had me so much more productive in &quot;terminal&quot; mode than in &quot;gui&quot; mode, I preferred it.<p>Now you have Microsoft investing real time and effort to create credible command line type tools in their system and it is a remarkably good thing. I use WLS every day and its getting better and better. I have suggested they implement a local network service equivalent of the USB over Ethernet service so that you can easily share USB devices between the Windows side and the Linux side, the up coming visual fixes will address many of the minor annoyances. That is a really huge shift for Microsoft.</text></comment> | <story><title>Bash and Windows Subsystem for Linux Demo [video]</title><url>https://channel9.msdn.com/events/Windows/Windows-Developer-Day-Creators-Update/Developer-tools-and-updates#time=17m30s</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>nailer</author><text>This is coming to Windows stable in April:<p>- vt sequences fixed (so stuff like colored output, midnight commander, etc work and the terminal doesn&#x27;t screw up)<p>- Elixir and Go work<p>- Also Postgres and MySQL<p>- You can launch Windows apps from bash.<p>- inotify works<p>- Visual Studio can compile with GNU&#x2F;Linux C&#x2F;C++ tools, gdb, linker etc<p>There&#x27;s some recent fast ring info on: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blogs.msdn.microsoft.com&#x2F;commandline&#x2F;2017&#x2F;01&#x2F;09&#x2F;bash-in-windows-insider-build-15002-many-fixes-but-a-couple-of-bugs&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blogs.msdn.microsoft.com&#x2F;commandline&#x2F;2017&#x2F;01&#x2F;09&#x2F;bash...</a><p>From reading that blog, and also: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;Microsoft&#x2F;BashOnWindows&#x2F;issues&#x2F;111#issuecomment-238302654" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;Microsoft&#x2F;BashOnWindows&#x2F;issues&#x2F;111#issuec...</a> it sounds as if the Windows console (separate from bash, openssh, powershell etc) is being entirely refactored for creators update. So those fixes should also help powershell, ConEmu and a bunch of other common windows command line stuff.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>strmpnk</author><text>Re: Elixir<p>The Erlang&#x2F;OTP 19.x releases are still broken because of some missing system calls. They seem to have an incoming fix though: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;Microsoft&#x2F;BashOnWindows&#x2F;issues&#x2F;613" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;Microsoft&#x2F;BashOnWindows&#x2F;issues&#x2F;613</a><p>It&#x27;s great that they keep open conversations like this for issue tracking and hopefully April will be working 100% by then.</text></comment> |
12,152,570 | 12,152,610 | 1 | 3 | 12,152,346 | train | <story><title>The Uber Engineering Tech Stack, Part I: The Foundation</title><url>https://eng.uber.com/tech-stack-part-one/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Animats</author><text>It&#x27;s interesting that they don&#x27;t break the problem apart geographically. It&#x27;s inherent in Uber that you&#x27;re local. But their infrastructure isn&#x27;t organized that way. Facebook originally tried to do that, then discovered that, as they grew, friends weren&#x27;t local. Uber doesn&#x27;t need to have one giant worldwide system.<p>Most of their load is presumably positional updates. Uber wants both customers and drivers to keep their app open, reporting position to Master Control. There have to be a lot more of those pings than transactions. Of course, they don&#x27;t have to do much with the data, although they presumably log it and analyze it to death.<p>The complicated part of the system has to be matching of drivers and rides. Not much on that yet. Yet that&#x27;s what has to work well to beat the competition, which is taxi dispatchers with paper maps, phones, and radios.</text></comment> | <story><title>The Uber Engineering Tech Stack, Part I: The Foundation</title><url>https://eng.uber.com/tech-stack-part-one/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>NotQuantum</author><text>Uber is really strapped for engineering talent. Especially when it comes for SRE. Myself and many friends working SRE at various Bay Area companies get consistently hit up for free lunches and interviews. It&#x27;s really weird considering that their stack doesn&#x27;t NEED to be this complex....</text></comment> |
13,346,668 | 13,346,781 | 1 | 2 | 13,345,947 | train | <story><title>Online databases dropping like flies, with 10,000 falling to ransomware</title><url>http://arstechnica.co.uk/security/2017/01/more-than-10000-online-databases-taken-hostage-by-ransomware-attackers/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>lisper</author><text>&gt; The taxman can verify that you bought your coins five years ago and sold them this year.<p>How? The public block chain only contains records of how coins moved from one wallet to another. It doesn&#x27;t have any information about who those wallets belonged to, or what the terms of the transaction were. Maybe the coins were sold for fiat currency, or maybe they were compensation for goods and services. There&#x27;s no way to know just from the information in the blockchain.<p>[EDIT] Let me make this more clear: it is easy to anonymize BTC. It is so easy that the technique even has a name (bitcoin tumbling) and companies that will do it for you as a service (e.g. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;bitlaunder.com" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;bitlaunder.com</a>). (I thought this was common knowledge around here.) In the face of these facts, how is the IRS going to enforce the tax code against a someone who tumbles their coins?</text></item><item><author>yason</author><text>You have proof of this as the bitcoin transactions are public. The taxman can verify that you bought your coins five years ago and sold them this year. Multiply those by the BTC exchange rate five years ago and now, and it should be obvious that you put in 5k and got out 100k. You could&#x27;ve bought stock, or other currencies, but you bought BTC and it skyrocketed.</text></item><item><author>branchless</author><text>What actually happens when you try to get out of bitcoin? Let&#x27;s say I put in $5k a few years back which is now worth $100k. I have to go on the exchange and nominate a bank account then sell then they transfer say USD into my account? At this point is this &quot;capital gains&quot; taxable?<p>Assuming I&#x27;m willing to pay the tax if it&#x27;s due has anyone had trouble with authorities questioning your new cash pile say if before this you had no real money and lucked out on Bitcoin?</text></item><item><author>21</author><text>Indeed, bitcoin is the true enabler.<p>But the dangers are pretty high. You never know how ten years from now the digital trail you left comes back to bite you.<p>Cashing large amounts it&#x27;s not trivial. Sure, you can meet in private locations with local bitcoin buyers, but when you have $1 mil to sell it gets tricky, there aren&#x27;t that many buyers in any particular area. And then you have the problem of justifying how you suddenly have one million.</text></item><item><author>bostand</author><text>3. Bitcoin</text></item><item><author>Will_Do</author><text>I feel like this is a new golden age in being a blackhat. Back 5-10 years ago there was no IOT and all databases were password protected by default. Now we have:<p>1. IoT with basically no security<p>2. No(Auth)SQL.<p>Also, dev time has become so expensive, the InfoSec teams in the companies I&#x27;ve worked at have had shockingly low head counts for all the responsibilities they have.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>beambot</author><text>Even if you received the BTC for goods and services, and then held them for 5 years and they 20x in value... you still owe capital gains. It&#x27;s like saying: 5 years ago I sold goods and services for $100, bought stocks with the $100 and now that stock is worth $2000. When you sell the stock, you pay capital gains on $1900; you also should&#x27;ve reported that $100 in revenue from 5 years ago.<p>As for anonymity... you lose it when you associate a bank account to get liquidity (as mentioned by GP: &quot;nominate a bank account&quot;). Of course, this assumes you can&#x27;t get liquidity in some other way... but that&#x27;s non-trivial with large qty of BTC.</text></comment> | <story><title>Online databases dropping like flies, with 10,000 falling to ransomware</title><url>http://arstechnica.co.uk/security/2017/01/more-than-10000-online-databases-taken-hostage-by-ransomware-attackers/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>lisper</author><text>&gt; The taxman can verify that you bought your coins five years ago and sold them this year.<p>How? The public block chain only contains records of how coins moved from one wallet to another. It doesn&#x27;t have any information about who those wallets belonged to, or what the terms of the transaction were. Maybe the coins were sold for fiat currency, or maybe they were compensation for goods and services. There&#x27;s no way to know just from the information in the blockchain.<p>[EDIT] Let me make this more clear: it is easy to anonymize BTC. It is so easy that the technique even has a name (bitcoin tumbling) and companies that will do it for you as a service (e.g. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;bitlaunder.com" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;bitlaunder.com</a>). (I thought this was common knowledge around here.) In the face of these facts, how is the IRS going to enforce the tax code against a someone who tumbles their coins?</text></item><item><author>yason</author><text>You have proof of this as the bitcoin transactions are public. The taxman can verify that you bought your coins five years ago and sold them this year. Multiply those by the BTC exchange rate five years ago and now, and it should be obvious that you put in 5k and got out 100k. You could&#x27;ve bought stock, or other currencies, but you bought BTC and it skyrocketed.</text></item><item><author>branchless</author><text>What actually happens when you try to get out of bitcoin? Let&#x27;s say I put in $5k a few years back which is now worth $100k. I have to go on the exchange and nominate a bank account then sell then they transfer say USD into my account? At this point is this &quot;capital gains&quot; taxable?<p>Assuming I&#x27;m willing to pay the tax if it&#x27;s due has anyone had trouble with authorities questioning your new cash pile say if before this you had no real money and lucked out on Bitcoin?</text></item><item><author>21</author><text>Indeed, bitcoin is the true enabler.<p>But the dangers are pretty high. You never know how ten years from now the digital trail you left comes back to bite you.<p>Cashing large amounts it&#x27;s not trivial. Sure, you can meet in private locations with local bitcoin buyers, but when you have $1 mil to sell it gets tricky, there aren&#x27;t that many buyers in any particular area. And then you have the problem of justifying how you suddenly have one million.</text></item><item><author>bostand</author><text>3. Bitcoin</text></item><item><author>Will_Do</author><text>I feel like this is a new golden age in being a blackhat. Back 5-10 years ago there was no IOT and all databases were password protected by default. Now we have:<p>1. IoT with basically no security<p>2. No(Auth)SQL.<p>Also, dev time has become so expensive, the InfoSec teams in the companies I&#x27;ve worked at have had shockingly low head counts for all the responsibilities they have.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>21</author><text>If you want to be legit you&#x27;ll take care of these aspects. For example, I bought bitcoin by moving money through a bank wire to a well regarded bitcoin exchange (Bitstamp). The same for cashing out of bitcoin. So I have a clear money trace.<p>If you mined or gained your bitcoin by buying it through local bitcoin, the taxman might give you some trouble, but generally, the presumption of good will and non-guilty still applies, meaning that if they don&#x27;t agree, it kind of their job to prove that you are guilty of something (ie: you got your bitcoin through ransomware)</text></comment> |
35,359,999 | 35,358,822 | 1 | 2 | 35,358,336 | train | <story><title>Effing-mad, an effect library for Rust</title><url>https://github.com/rosefromthedead/effing-mad</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Georgelemental</author><text>This function signature is a work of art: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;docs.rs&#x2F;effing-mad&#x2F;0.1.0&#x2F;effing_mad&#x2F;fn.transform.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;docs.rs&#x2F;effing-mad&#x2F;0.1.0&#x2F;effing_mad&#x2F;fn.transform.htm...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Effing-mad, an effect library for Rust</title><url>https://github.com/rosefromthedead/effing-mad</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>puddingforears</author><text>This readme is great!<p>&gt; This means you have to use monad transformers. I don&#x27;t really understand monad transformers, therefore they are bad.<p>LOL we all start here.</text></comment> |
11,626,999 | 11,626,557 | 1 | 3 | 11,625,633 | train | <story><title>Google Deactivates Web Search API</title><url>https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/services/search/web?v=1.0&rsz=small&safe=active&q=foobar&max-results=1&v=2&alt=json</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>visarga</author><text>We need a search engine that allows for deep search. It should be an open and cooperative project, and users could possibly run an instance of the spider&#x2F;indexer as payment for executing searches, so it could be like a cross between bittorrent and Tor.<p>A free search engine would enable API calls and also boost privacy and freedom from the likes of Google. We have built a lot of experience about search engines since 2000, we have access to scientific papers, cheap cloud servers and a huge interest in freeing search, so I think the open source community do it.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>sdrinf</author><text>Writing an open, and distributed web crawler &#x2F; indexer is a nice programming exercise.<p>Writing an &quot;objective&quot; ranking function (for any values of &quot;objective&quot;) in an open, and distributed manner is structurally not favoured by humanity&#x27;s current incentive structure. As in:<p>* a dev team have to agree on signals, and weights: &quot;SERP quality&quot; has dedicated <i>teams of people</i> assigned for specific verticals @ Google; replicating this in a distributed manner will be played politically<p>* Assuming any significant usage, the second you submit ranking code to public github repo, the algo will be played by thousand SEO scammers to their advantage<p>* Executing custom ranking function on other people&#x27;s computer not only introduces security risks, but will have scammers setting up honeypots for collecting other people&#x27;s ranking signals, and playing accordingly.</text></comment> | <story><title>Google Deactivates Web Search API</title><url>https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/services/search/web?v=1.0&rsz=small&safe=active&q=foobar&max-results=1&v=2&alt=json</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>visarga</author><text>We need a search engine that allows for deep search. It should be an open and cooperative project, and users could possibly run an instance of the spider&#x2F;indexer as payment for executing searches, so it could be like a cross between bittorrent and Tor.<p>A free search engine would enable API calls and also boost privacy and freedom from the likes of Google. We have built a lot of experience about search engines since 2000, we have access to scientific papers, cheap cloud servers and a huge interest in freeing search, so I think the open source community do it.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pgeorgi</author><text>The second paragraph seems to describe <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;yacy.net&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;yacy.net&#x2F;</a></text></comment> |
39,650,039 | 39,650,042 | 1 | 2 | 39,649,486 | train | <story><title>The Suicide PhD Candidate Huixiang Chen (2019)</title><url>https://huixiangvoice.medium.com/the-hidden-story-behind-the-suicide-phd-candidate-huixiang-chen-236cd39f79d3</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>oezi</author><text>The core issue of academic misconduct is the 1:1 relationship between PhD candidate and mentor. The near absolute power asymmetry makes the PhD candidate near totally dependent on the mentor. If the mentor is abusive there is almost no recourse without the PhD candidate losing everything.<p>It is very sad that Huixiang lost his life over a paternalistic, archaic system. And he isn&#x27;t the only one who was badly impacted.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jszymborski</author><text>Most universities have absolutely zero policy or protocol for changing supervisor.<p>I had to do this and even though everyone involved were exceptionally kind people with the utmost integrity, it was made pretty clear to me that if my old supervisor would have launched an even halfhearted campaign against me (they did not), nobody at the university would have stuck their neck out for some junior grad student.<p>And this was primarily b&#x2F;c there is no established process. One should be able to:<p>1. Confidentially state to an ombudsman that you wish to change supervisor<p>2. Have the ombudsman obtain the consent of the would-be new supervisor to take on the student<p>3. Have the ombudsman inform the old supervisor that a decision had been made to change supervisor<p>4. The ombudsman, old, and new supervisors sit down and discuss what projects the student can keep persuing<p>If anyone here is faculty at a university and cares about their grad students, please promote something like this.</text></comment> | <story><title>The Suicide PhD Candidate Huixiang Chen (2019)</title><url>https://huixiangvoice.medium.com/the-hidden-story-behind-the-suicide-phd-candidate-huixiang-chen-236cd39f79d3</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>oezi</author><text>The core issue of academic misconduct is the 1:1 relationship between PhD candidate and mentor. The near absolute power asymmetry makes the PhD candidate near totally dependent on the mentor. If the mentor is abusive there is almost no recourse without the PhD candidate losing everything.<p>It is very sad that Huixiang lost his life over a paternalistic, archaic system. And he isn&#x27;t the only one who was badly impacted.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ywnico</author><text>100% agree, this is the crux of the issue. Pretty much everyone I know, myself included, felt used and taken advantage of by their PhD advisors.<p>The combination of complete control over their students (mainly due to being able to decide when&#x2F;whether they can graduate) and the pressure of tenure and the publishing race makes it no surprise that so many professors slide into abuse. Reporting abuse while still a student is obviously extremely risky, and even reporting it after graduating can cause a career setback by giving up the recommendation letter.<p>I wonder if it would be possible to expand the role of the PhD committee (which is currently pretty much relevant only for the thesis defense) to become a replacement for a single advisor.</text></comment> |
13,574,144 | 13,572,629 | 1 | 2 | 13,571,893 | train | <story><title>“We have decided to disable IMDb's message boards”</title><url>http://www.imdb.com/board/announcement</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>chippy</author><text>This is pretty bad move and here&#x27;s why: IMDb relies on users using the site, editing entries, facts, quotes and correcting things.<p>These are the community, and they are movie fans, hardcore fans, the reason why IMDb continues. The &quot;db&quot; in IMDb has been created, by hand, by volunteers - the users who use the message board.<p>IMDb has totally overlooked the value of the Message Boards - they are for the community. Remove this and IMDb as a whole will suffer.<p>Consider this comparison: Imagine if Wikipedia said that it was only going to have Facebook logins for editors. All user pages were being deleted, no user meetups were allowed and no meta discussion about pages was allowed, but only that normal articles, the main thing non editors read were to be kept. Thats a stretched comparison - the idea is the the message boards are how the community works, not just some little addon that non community members don&#x27;t use.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>anigbrowl</author><text>All true. They&#x27;ve grown fat off user-created content, and are about to discover that their user base isn&#x27;t that sticky and their database is easy to clone. AOL was once the biggest thing on the internet, and look at them now.<p>As a general matter, if you&#x27;ve ever wanted to disrupt an existing firm but have been unsure about whether it&#x27;s practical to unseat an incumbent, times of economic and political uncertainty are absolutely the best environment to go about it. I don&#x27;t think it&#x27;s a coincidence that the first tech boom peaked at a time of (relatively minor) political crisis.</text></comment> | <story><title>“We have decided to disable IMDb's message boards”</title><url>http://www.imdb.com/board/announcement</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>chippy</author><text>This is pretty bad move and here&#x27;s why: IMDb relies on users using the site, editing entries, facts, quotes and correcting things.<p>These are the community, and they are movie fans, hardcore fans, the reason why IMDb continues. The &quot;db&quot; in IMDb has been created, by hand, by volunteers - the users who use the message board.<p>IMDb has totally overlooked the value of the Message Boards - they are for the community. Remove this and IMDb as a whole will suffer.<p>Consider this comparison: Imagine if Wikipedia said that it was only going to have Facebook logins for editors. All user pages were being deleted, no user meetups were allowed and no meta discussion about pages was allowed, but only that normal articles, the main thing non editors read were to be kept. Thats a stretched comparison - the idea is the the message boards are how the community works, not just some little addon that non community members don&#x27;t use.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>degenerate</author><text>It would be like Y Combinator shutting down its &quot;message board&quot;, citing &quot;<i>Increasingly, Y Combinator customers have migrated to Reddit</i>&quot;</text></comment> |
31,427,076 | 31,424,832 | 1 | 3 | 31,423,623 | train | <story><title>Total Commander forced to stop letting you install APKs</title><url>https://www.androidpolice.com/total-commander-apk-installation-block/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>sam_lowry_</author><text>Its functionality is hindered by Google in that it can not download and install updates in background as Google Play does.<p>One has to root the phone and loose access to banking and SSO apps to get enough permissions for F-Droid.<p>EU anti-competition monkeys should have looked at that a long time ago.</text></item><item><author>branon</author><text>Alternative app that&#x27;s not encumbered by the Play Store&#x27;s rules: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;f-droid.org&#x2F;en&#x2F;packages&#x2F;com.ghostsq.commander&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;f-droid.org&#x2F;en&#x2F;packages&#x2F;com.ghostsq.commander&#x2F;</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tgsovlerkhgsel</author><text>According to <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.xda-developers.com&#x2F;android-12-alternative-app-stores-update-apps-background&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.xda-developers.com&#x2F;android-12-alternative-app-st...</a>, it <i>could</i> do it, it&#x27;s just not implemented.<p>Given that trying to update a package from the notification just yields an error and this issue hasn&#x27;t been fixed for 5 years (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gitlab.com&#x2F;fdroid&#x2F;fdroidclient&#x2F;-&#x2F;issues&#x2F;669" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gitlab.com&#x2F;fdroid&#x2F;fdroidclient&#x2F;-&#x2F;issues&#x2F;669</a>) and the F-Droid repository is known to update so slowly that most devs recommend adding their direct channel, F-Droid doesn&#x27;t really feel like a usable alternative.<p>I think unfortunately the best bet here is to wait for some commercial player to step in and make a decent alternative.</text></comment> | <story><title>Total Commander forced to stop letting you install APKs</title><url>https://www.androidpolice.com/total-commander-apk-installation-block/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>sam_lowry_</author><text>Its functionality is hindered by Google in that it can not download and install updates in background as Google Play does.<p>One has to root the phone and loose access to banking and SSO apps to get enough permissions for F-Droid.<p>EU anti-competition monkeys should have looked at that a long time ago.</text></item><item><author>branon</author><text>Alternative app that&#x27;s not encumbered by the Play Store&#x27;s rules: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;f-droid.org&#x2F;en&#x2F;packages&#x2F;com.ghostsq.commander&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;f-droid.org&#x2F;en&#x2F;packages&#x2F;com.ghostsq.commander&#x2F;</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Freak_NL</author><text>Is this something that only happens with some banks? I have GrapheneOS on my Pixel 6 with F-droid, and the banking app of ABN AMRO from the Play store just works.</text></comment> |
31,351,294 | 31,351,168 | 1 | 2 | 31,349,988 | train | <story><title>Tether starting to lose its peg too, after Terra did</title><url>https://community.intercoin.org/t/what-backs-a-currency-terra-luna-drops-nearly-100/2518</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>sdgdfgsfdfgsdfg</author><text>The high buy volume at $0.98 is due to arbitrage. This is to be expected before the final crash.<p>People are using the opportunity to net an instant 2% return. Buy $10M USDT at $0.98, redeem at Tether for $1, take home $200K of profit instantly.<p>Thing is, this will only last until Tether runs out of liquidity. Then all bets are off.</text></item><item><author>Animats</author><text>Tether is back up to around $0.98, but volume is high. Somebody is pouring cash into Tether to support the price.<p>Similar over at UST. Price is back up to $0.60, but volume is far above normal.<p>Remember, with a stablecoin, <i>there is no upside to holding</i>. Any indication of risk means it&#x27;s time to get out. Even if Tether has enough reserves to get the price back to $1, there will be substantial cashing out.<p>That&#x27;s why a stablecoin has only two stable points: 1 and 0.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>thematrixturtle</author><text>That&#x27;s a classic Taleb distribution, aka &quot;picking up pennies in front of a steamroller&quot;.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Taleb_distribution" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Taleb_distribution</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Tether starting to lose its peg too, after Terra did</title><url>https://community.intercoin.org/t/what-backs-a-currency-terra-luna-drops-nearly-100/2518</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>sdgdfgsfdfgsdfg</author><text>The high buy volume at $0.98 is due to arbitrage. This is to be expected before the final crash.<p>People are using the opportunity to net an instant 2% return. Buy $10M USDT at $0.98, redeem at Tether for $1, take home $200K of profit instantly.<p>Thing is, this will only last until Tether runs out of liquidity. Then all bets are off.</text></item><item><author>Animats</author><text>Tether is back up to around $0.98, but volume is high. Somebody is pouring cash into Tether to support the price.<p>Similar over at UST. Price is back up to $0.60, but volume is far above normal.<p>Remember, with a stablecoin, <i>there is no upside to holding</i>. Any indication of risk means it&#x27;s time to get out. Even if Tether has enough reserves to get the price back to $1, there will be substantial cashing out.<p>That&#x27;s why a stablecoin has only two stable points: 1 and 0.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>outsomnia</author><text>If I understand it, this is similar to the UK &#x2F; ERM 1992 &quot;Black Wednesday&quot;<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Black_Wednesday" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Black_Wednesday</a><p>There were more people wanting to sell the pound for Euros at the rate mandated by the ERM than resources the UK had to maintain the arbitrary exchange rate and &quot;it did not end well&quot;.</text></comment> |
21,771,465 | 21,769,547 | 1 | 2 | 21,744,100 | train | <story><title>Mind your Logs: How a build log from a Jenkins leaked everything</title><url>https://medium.com/@aseem.shrey/mind-your-logs-how-a-build-log-from-a-jenkins-leaked-everything-603cf07fa85</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>malux85</author><text>Why are these Jenkins servers exposed to the public internet?<p>Serves them right for such sloppy ops</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dirkf</author><text>It doesn&#x27;t necessarily have to be the case.<p>I&#x27;ve contributed a few small patches to some well-known open-source projects. In the months after that I&#x27;ve received a few automated mails from some CI systems informing me about some (un)successful build. Probably because somewhere somebody integrated a new version of said open-source projects in their product and the system is configured to mail every committer the outcome of the CI pipeline, regardless of whether that committer is actually an employee...
Still sloppy ops though.</text></comment> | <story><title>Mind your Logs: How a build log from a Jenkins leaked everything</title><url>https://medium.com/@aseem.shrey/mind-your-logs-how-a-build-log-from-a-jenkins-leaked-everything-603cf07fa85</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>malux85</author><text>Why are these Jenkins servers exposed to the public internet?<p>Serves them right for such sloppy ops</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>alfiedotwtf</author><text>You wouldn&#x27;t believe how many there are, open to the public. Even more so are the ones that allow shell access ️</text></comment> |
10,846,549 | 10,842,042 | 1 | 2 | 10,841,816 | train | <story><title>Dutch government says no to backdoors, grants $540k to OpenSSL</title><url>http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/01/04/dutch_government_says_no_to_backdoors/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jacquesm</author><text>As much as I like this I&#x27;m sad to say that we <i>also</i> have numerous violations of the law with respect to privacy by many branches of the Dutch government. Journalists have had their phones tapped, the schools and health care providers are asking for ever more absolutely private information about parents from both the parents <i>and</i> their children (this is of course &#x27;for the children&#x27; so never mind the violations), finger prints of non-felons are still collected with impunity, dragnet style information collection is on the order of the day, there are no means of transport that are not under continuous surveillance outside of going on foot and by bicycle (and even there the little snitch in your pocket will tell big daddy where you are) and so on.<p>It&#x27;s sad that we <i>seem</i> to be able to make the right decisions from time to time but at the same time we are actually making the wrong decisions most of the time. Here&#x27;s to hoping things will eventually get better, I shudder to think of the kind of catastrophe that would swing the pendulum back the other way and turn the tide.</text></comment> | <story><title>Dutch government says no to backdoors, grants $540k to OpenSSL</title><url>http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/01/04/dutch_government_says_no_to_backdoors/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>breakingcups</author><text>This is a refreshing voice to hear in the media. I really appreciate the nuance that the Dutch government has displayed here, aligning itself with what most people in this audience would consider common sense.<p>Are there other governments that have spoken out in support of encryption like this? I&#x27;m sure there must be, but (casually following the news) I haven&#x27;t seen any.</text></comment> |
14,452,739 | 14,451,000 | 1 | 3 | 14,445,412 | train | <story><title>The woman who could 'draw' music</title><url>http://www.bbc.com/culture/story/20170522-daphne-oram-pioneered-electronic-music</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ssalazar</author><text>Oh wow.
I am days away from finishing a PhD thesis on sketching sound and music [1], and Daphne Oram figures highly into my background research.
A friend of mine built an iPhone app that emulates Oram&#x27;s system [2].<p>Another notable figure in the world of drawing music is Norman McLaren, who literally painted or drew directly on the soundtrack portion of his animated films.
The soundtrack for his film <i>Neighbors</i> [3], which won an academy award in 1952, was produced this way.
Theres a short documentary on his process here [4].<p>On the more avant-garde side, Iannis Xenakis had designed a computer-based system called the UPIC in the late 1970s in which you could directly draw waveforms and then direct their frequencies over time by drawing into a graphics tablet.
He used this to compose his piece <i>Mycenae Alpha</i> [5].<p>This page [6] has a really great run-down of optical synthesis in general, which includes a number of individuals and systems involved in directly drawing sound and music.
Some of the visual sound designs used in these systems are quite striking, for instance the variophone [7] or Yankovsky&#x27;s painted soundtracks [8].<p>[1] Demo of my research software here: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=Tdj5e82nPHQ" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=Tdj5e82nPHQ</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;itunes.apple.com&#x2F;us&#x2F;app&#x2F;oramics&#x2F;id454505541?mt=8" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;itunes.apple.com&#x2F;us&#x2F;app&#x2F;oramics&#x2F;id454505541?mt=8</a><p>[3] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=P-o9dYwro_Q" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=P-o9dYwro_Q</a><p>[4] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=Q0vgZv_JWfM" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=Q0vgZv_JWfM</a><p>[5] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=yztoaNakKok" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=yztoaNakKok</a><p>[6] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.umatic.nl&#x2F;tonewheels_historical.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.umatic.nl&#x2F;tonewheels_historical.html</a><p>[7] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.umatic.nl&#x2F;tonewheels&#x2F;historical&#x2F;vario3.jpg" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.umatic.nl&#x2F;tonewheels&#x2F;historical&#x2F;vario3.jpg</a><p>[8] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.umatic.nl&#x2F;tonewheels&#x2F;historical&#x2F;painted_soundtrack.jpg" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.umatic.nl&#x2F;tonewheels&#x2F;historical&#x2F;painted_soundtrac...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>alphonsegaston</author><text>In the McLaren video you linked, the uploader edited out his music and put in some other track. Here&#x27;s the link to his film with the original score:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=e_aSowDUUaY" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=e_aSowDUUaY</a></text></comment> | <story><title>The woman who could 'draw' music</title><url>http://www.bbc.com/culture/story/20170522-daphne-oram-pioneered-electronic-music</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ssalazar</author><text>Oh wow.
I am days away from finishing a PhD thesis on sketching sound and music [1], and Daphne Oram figures highly into my background research.
A friend of mine built an iPhone app that emulates Oram&#x27;s system [2].<p>Another notable figure in the world of drawing music is Norman McLaren, who literally painted or drew directly on the soundtrack portion of his animated films.
The soundtrack for his film <i>Neighbors</i> [3], which won an academy award in 1952, was produced this way.
Theres a short documentary on his process here [4].<p>On the more avant-garde side, Iannis Xenakis had designed a computer-based system called the UPIC in the late 1970s in which you could directly draw waveforms and then direct their frequencies over time by drawing into a graphics tablet.
He used this to compose his piece <i>Mycenae Alpha</i> [5].<p>This page [6] has a really great run-down of optical synthesis in general, which includes a number of individuals and systems involved in directly drawing sound and music.
Some of the visual sound designs used in these systems are quite striking, for instance the variophone [7] or Yankovsky&#x27;s painted soundtracks [8].<p>[1] Demo of my research software here: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=Tdj5e82nPHQ" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=Tdj5e82nPHQ</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;itunes.apple.com&#x2F;us&#x2F;app&#x2F;oramics&#x2F;id454505541?mt=8" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;itunes.apple.com&#x2F;us&#x2F;app&#x2F;oramics&#x2F;id454505541?mt=8</a><p>[3] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=P-o9dYwro_Q" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=P-o9dYwro_Q</a><p>[4] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=Q0vgZv_JWfM" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=Q0vgZv_JWfM</a><p>[5] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=yztoaNakKok" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=yztoaNakKok</a><p>[6] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.umatic.nl&#x2F;tonewheels_historical.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.umatic.nl&#x2F;tonewheels_historical.html</a><p>[7] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.umatic.nl&#x2F;tonewheels&#x2F;historical&#x2F;vario3.jpg" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.umatic.nl&#x2F;tonewheels&#x2F;historical&#x2F;vario3.jpg</a><p>[8] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.umatic.nl&#x2F;tonewheels&#x2F;historical&#x2F;painted_soundtrack.jpg" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.umatic.nl&#x2F;tonewheels&#x2F;historical&#x2F;painted_soundtrac...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mmjaa</author><text>Neat links, thanks for the references. Would be very interested in knowing more about your thesis when its something you&#x27;re able to share ..<p>One wonders what Daphne would have thought of tools such as yours, and as well of course things like U&amp;I&#x27;s MetaSynth:<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.uisoftware.com&#x2F;MetaSynth&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.uisoftware.com&#x2F;MetaSynth&#x2F;</a></text></comment> |
40,360,153 | 40,360,178 | 1 | 2 | 40,359,976 | train | <story><title>Stone with ancient writing system unearthed in garden</title><url>https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c14kywyk0vro</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>willvarfar</author><text>One of my favourite Time Team episodes ever was when they found an Ogham carving on a stone when digging up a golf course on the Isle of Man.<p>The whole episode is a corker!<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=kW3UQEDQ0zQ" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=kW3UQEDQ0zQ</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Stone with ancient writing system unearthed in garden</title><url>https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c14kywyk0vro</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Isamu</author><text>Related, there’s a Unicode block for Ogham.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Ogham_(Unicode_block)" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Ogham_(Unicode_block)</a></text></comment> |
21,177,322 | 21,177,507 | 1 | 3 | 21,176,976 | train | <story><title>The NBA Feels a Backlash in China After a Tweet Supporting Hong Kong</title><url>https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-nba-feels-a-backlash-in-china-after-a-tweet-supporting-hong-kong-11570396236?mod=rsswn</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>abhigupta</author><text>&quot;If you want to know who rules over you look at who you are not allowed to criticize&quot;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>magicsmoke</author><text>You can criticize China, but then you lose their dollars.<p>So in the end, the thing that rules over you is actually money.</text></comment> | <story><title>The NBA Feels a Backlash in China After a Tweet Supporting Hong Kong</title><url>https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-nba-feels-a-backlash-in-china-after-a-tweet-supporting-hong-kong-11570396236?mod=rsswn</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>abhigupta</author><text>&quot;If you want to know who rules over you look at who you are not allowed to criticize&quot;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>xlc0212</author><text>You are free to do anything you want. You just have be responsible for the result. It is just how everything works.</text></comment> |
5,049,878 | 5,049,376 | 1 | 2 | 5,048,699 | train | <story><title>Petition the Whitehouse to remove Carmen Ortiz from office</title><url>https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/remove-united-states-district-attorney-carmen-ortiz-office-overreach-case-aaron-swartz/RQNrG1Ck</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jowiar</author><text>Which is a useless message to send. People make mistakes. Period. A system which is not robust to people making mistakes is disastrously broken.</text></item><item><author>w1ntermute</author><text>All the good she's done doesn't matter, because when you're a prosecutor, all it takes is one mistake and you've could have blood on your hands. Firing her would send a message to other prosecutors that mistakes will not be tolerated.</text></item><item><author>ChuckMcM</author><text>Sure, but I don't know if it would move the copyright reform question along. Copyright is very broken in a number of ways but there is broad consensus in people I've talked to that it is especially broken with regards to public records and science research. In the best of all possible worlds Aaron would have been acquitted with a landmark decision that said "this use of copyright in rent seeking behavior on documents of public discourse is unconstitutional."[1] Aaron was doing perhaps more than he knew to push this conversation along, had I known he was in such dire straits in his defense fund I would have helped in any way I could have. Clearly others would as well.<p>If you look at Carmen's career you will find that she has actually done a lot of good, in getting bad folks put behind bars. She, or her staff, blew it on this one. I wish I knew why. I doubt we'll get the actual story there.<p>So to what end would ending her career advance Aaron's goal of getting copyright on public records overturned? Making people "afraid" to prosecute it is the wrong answer, making it "not a crime" is the answer. There are only two ways to do that, one is to repeal the statute that makes it a crime in the first place, the second is to litigate the statute and find that the statute is invalid.<p>Firing Carmen doesn't help, although I completely understand the emotional appeal of doing so.<p>[1] I know that would not have happened it is illustrative.</text></item><item><author>jordanb</author><text>Ending her career would set a very clear precedent that other prosecutors would have no difficulty understanding. N'est pas?</text></item><item><author>ChuckMcM</author><text>My Grandfather, who was the US Attorney for west Memphis, once explained that prosecuting the law was messy. It was messy because there was rarely a case which hinged on exactly one part of the law or that had circumstances that nicely isolated the principle at stake. He was talking about pornography, and the difficulty of a general consensus that pornography was "bad" and should be outlawed, with the challenge of defining exactly what it was and the actual "bad" part of it.<p>I see a lot of parallels between his struggle to enforce pornography laws with the current struggle to enforce copyright laws. These situations seem to arise when there is a fundamental disconnect between what "the people" think and what "the system" thinks. "The system" is represented by a codified set of strictures that are put in place by a variety of people representing what they assert are the best interests of "the people." Whereas the people themselves, act in what they consider a rational way given their understanding of or perhaps agreement to, the laws of the land. Finally our system of laws are a combination of written text, and argued cases, and the sum of those is an emergent thing thought of as public policy. When the rational acting people don't consent to the public policy, there is a rash of disobedience, and whether it is alcohol, porn, or copyright, the process of emerging to a consensus is challenging at best.<p>One possible explanation for the zeal in which this case was pursued may be the lack of confounding factors with respect to copyright infringement, as codified by law. I don't know of course so this is just speculation. Having a clear, published, decision on the legitimacy or illegitimacy of what Aaron was doing might have been seen as a way to clear up a confusing pile of statutes and other decisions. An unambiguous marker between fair use and infringement, or perhaps a litmus test for intent. We'll probably never know.</text></item><item><author>danso</author><text>Some more context about the prosecutor:<p>She was named "Bostonian of the Year" for her successful cases against mob bosses and drug companies:
<a href="http://www.mainjustice.com/2012/01/03/massachusetts-u-s-attorney-carmen-ortiz-is-bostonian-of-the-year/" rel="nofollow">http://www.mainjustice.com/2012/01/03/massachusetts-u-s-atto...</a><p>Out of the 94 U.S. DA offices, her office alone collected ~67% of the total criminal and civil fines in 2012, mostly owing to the successful prosecution of drug companies. Her success led to speculation that she would run for higher office:
<a href="http://www.mainjustice.com/2013/01/07/mass-u-s-attorney-carmen-ortiz-says-no-to-run-for-higher-office/" rel="nofollow">http://www.mainjustice.com/2013/01/07/mass-u-s-attorney-carm...</a><p>She is no stranger to being part of a disenfranchised group, as she was the first Hispanic and first woman to hold the position of U.S. attorney in Boston. Her first internship was with the DOJ's public integrity unit, created after Watergate:
<a href="http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2011/12/30/bostonian_of_the_year_carmen_ortiz_2011/" rel="nofollow">http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2011...</a><p>She's not of the "evil prosecutor" mold as is commonly thought and her background, particularly her history of fighting white-collar crime and corporations, doesn't strike me as someone who is intent on screwing the little guy over. That said, the seemingly-excessive charges could stem from a result of misconception and, let's face it, technological ignorance (hacking sounds bad, period). But in solving the overall problem in the justice system, let's not attribute to malice what can be attributed to other issues just yet.<p>--
One edit: a link to a piece by Aaron on yelling at the machine, rather than the person:
<a href="http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/nummi" rel="nofollow">http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/nummi</a><p>My intent is not to say that the petition is wrong, but to argue that if people are going to call for action, call it for the right and <i>productive</i> reasons, rather than simplifying cause and effect to just one main person (even if the buck technically stops with her).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jlgreco</author><text>Sufficiently advanced incompetence is indistinguishable from malice.<p>If you get drunk, hop in your car, and accidentally kill some people, then guess what? It doesn't matter if it was an accident. If your "accident" is big enough, it becomes indistinguishable from malice and you get held accountable.</text></comment> | <story><title>Petition the Whitehouse to remove Carmen Ortiz from office</title><url>https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/remove-united-states-district-attorney-carmen-ortiz-office-overreach-case-aaron-swartz/RQNrG1Ck</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jowiar</author><text>Which is a useless message to send. People make mistakes. Period. A system which is not robust to people making mistakes is disastrously broken.</text></item><item><author>w1ntermute</author><text>All the good she's done doesn't matter, because when you're a prosecutor, all it takes is one mistake and you've could have blood on your hands. Firing her would send a message to other prosecutors that mistakes will not be tolerated.</text></item><item><author>ChuckMcM</author><text>Sure, but I don't know if it would move the copyright reform question along. Copyright is very broken in a number of ways but there is broad consensus in people I've talked to that it is especially broken with regards to public records and science research. In the best of all possible worlds Aaron would have been acquitted with a landmark decision that said "this use of copyright in rent seeking behavior on documents of public discourse is unconstitutional."[1] Aaron was doing perhaps more than he knew to push this conversation along, had I known he was in such dire straits in his defense fund I would have helped in any way I could have. Clearly others would as well.<p>If you look at Carmen's career you will find that she has actually done a lot of good, in getting bad folks put behind bars. She, or her staff, blew it on this one. I wish I knew why. I doubt we'll get the actual story there.<p>So to what end would ending her career advance Aaron's goal of getting copyright on public records overturned? Making people "afraid" to prosecute it is the wrong answer, making it "not a crime" is the answer. There are only two ways to do that, one is to repeal the statute that makes it a crime in the first place, the second is to litigate the statute and find that the statute is invalid.<p>Firing Carmen doesn't help, although I completely understand the emotional appeal of doing so.<p>[1] I know that would not have happened it is illustrative.</text></item><item><author>jordanb</author><text>Ending her career would set a very clear precedent that other prosecutors would have no difficulty understanding. N'est pas?</text></item><item><author>ChuckMcM</author><text>My Grandfather, who was the US Attorney for west Memphis, once explained that prosecuting the law was messy. It was messy because there was rarely a case which hinged on exactly one part of the law or that had circumstances that nicely isolated the principle at stake. He was talking about pornography, and the difficulty of a general consensus that pornography was "bad" and should be outlawed, with the challenge of defining exactly what it was and the actual "bad" part of it.<p>I see a lot of parallels between his struggle to enforce pornography laws with the current struggle to enforce copyright laws. These situations seem to arise when there is a fundamental disconnect between what "the people" think and what "the system" thinks. "The system" is represented by a codified set of strictures that are put in place by a variety of people representing what they assert are the best interests of "the people." Whereas the people themselves, act in what they consider a rational way given their understanding of or perhaps agreement to, the laws of the land. Finally our system of laws are a combination of written text, and argued cases, and the sum of those is an emergent thing thought of as public policy. When the rational acting people don't consent to the public policy, there is a rash of disobedience, and whether it is alcohol, porn, or copyright, the process of emerging to a consensus is challenging at best.<p>One possible explanation for the zeal in which this case was pursued may be the lack of confounding factors with respect to copyright infringement, as codified by law. I don't know of course so this is just speculation. Having a clear, published, decision on the legitimacy or illegitimacy of what Aaron was doing might have been seen as a way to clear up a confusing pile of statutes and other decisions. An unambiguous marker between fair use and infringement, or perhaps a litmus test for intent. We'll probably never know.</text></item><item><author>danso</author><text>Some more context about the prosecutor:<p>She was named "Bostonian of the Year" for her successful cases against mob bosses and drug companies:
<a href="http://www.mainjustice.com/2012/01/03/massachusetts-u-s-attorney-carmen-ortiz-is-bostonian-of-the-year/" rel="nofollow">http://www.mainjustice.com/2012/01/03/massachusetts-u-s-atto...</a><p>Out of the 94 U.S. DA offices, her office alone collected ~67% of the total criminal and civil fines in 2012, mostly owing to the successful prosecution of drug companies. Her success led to speculation that she would run for higher office:
<a href="http://www.mainjustice.com/2013/01/07/mass-u-s-attorney-carmen-ortiz-says-no-to-run-for-higher-office/" rel="nofollow">http://www.mainjustice.com/2013/01/07/mass-u-s-attorney-carm...</a><p>She is no stranger to being part of a disenfranchised group, as she was the first Hispanic and first woman to hold the position of U.S. attorney in Boston. Her first internship was with the DOJ's public integrity unit, created after Watergate:
<a href="http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2011/12/30/bostonian_of_the_year_carmen_ortiz_2011/" rel="nofollow">http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2011...</a><p>She's not of the "evil prosecutor" mold as is commonly thought and her background, particularly her history of fighting white-collar crime and corporations, doesn't strike me as someone who is intent on screwing the little guy over. That said, the seemingly-excessive charges could stem from a result of misconception and, let's face it, technological ignorance (hacking sounds bad, period). But in solving the overall problem in the justice system, let's not attribute to malice what can be attributed to other issues just yet.<p>--
One edit: a link to a piece by Aaron on yelling at the machine, rather than the person:
<a href="http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/nummi" rel="nofollow">http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/nummi</a><p>My intent is not to say that the petition is wrong, but to argue that if people are going to call for action, call it for the right and <i>productive</i> reasons, rather than simplifying cause and effect to just one main person (even if the buck technically stops with her).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>randallsquared</author><text>Getting a prosecutor fired is orders of magnitude easier than meaningfully changing the system.</text></comment> |
30,414,686 | 30,414,668 | 1 | 2 | 30,413,228 | train | <story><title>Tell HN: Airbnb just stole me 5 minutes of my time adding dices</title><text>So I wanted to book some places for my next holidays on Airbnb and I came on the most annoying CAPTCHA I ever saw<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;i.postimg.cc&#x2F;sXppmyxm&#x2F;airbnbdes.png" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;i.postimg.cc&#x2F;sXppmyxm&#x2F;airbnbdes.png</a><p>Now you have to make sum of dices only to acces the website. And 5 times in a row.<p>And be sure to make no mistake ! I unfortunatly did on the fifth&#x2F;last one (was getting really p*ssed), and had to start over !<p>So this morning I had to make around 50 dices sum just to acces this website.<p>I don&#x27;t kow who came with this idea, but I find this really bad.</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>DominikPeters</author><text>I see this as high-IQ software developers building systems to shut out non-high-IQ people from society. Managers look at these CAPTCHAs and think &quot;oh I could solve these no problem, let&#x27;s use them&quot;. In fact, they can only be solved by unusually smart people or by ML bots. Arkose Labs (the maker of this particular captcha) explicitly advertises that their methods can keep out &quot;low-skilled workers&quot; on &quot;human fraud farms&quot;. They keep out everyone else too if they&#x27;re not that good at mental rotation and mental arithmetic or logic -- this dice puzzle and the mouse labyrinth puzzle are pretty much prototypical IQ test problems.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dsnr</author><text>Not sure I agree with your “opressive” high-IQ developers spin, but it’s clear that whoever implements this kind of captcha (even the not-so-challenging ones) doesn’t give a shit about user experience and deserve to metaphorically-speaking, burn in hell. I think it’s just an example for how developers should not make decisions about UI or UX in general. It doesn’t really matter how hard to solve the captcha is, it shouldn’t exist in the first place, even those with: “pick all the fire hydrants”.</text></comment> | <story><title>Tell HN: Airbnb just stole me 5 minutes of my time adding dices</title><text>So I wanted to book some places for my next holidays on Airbnb and I came on the most annoying CAPTCHA I ever saw<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;i.postimg.cc&#x2F;sXppmyxm&#x2F;airbnbdes.png" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;i.postimg.cc&#x2F;sXppmyxm&#x2F;airbnbdes.png</a><p>Now you have to make sum of dices only to acces the website. And 5 times in a row.<p>And be sure to make no mistake ! I unfortunatly did on the fifth&#x2F;last one (was getting really p*ssed), and had to start over !<p>So this morning I had to make around 50 dices sum just to acces this website.<p>I don&#x27;t kow who came with this idea, but I find this really bad.</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>DominikPeters</author><text>I see this as high-IQ software developers building systems to shut out non-high-IQ people from society. Managers look at these CAPTCHAs and think &quot;oh I could solve these no problem, let&#x27;s use them&quot;. In fact, they can only be solved by unusually smart people or by ML bots. Arkose Labs (the maker of this particular captcha) explicitly advertises that their methods can keep out &quot;low-skilled workers&quot; on &quot;human fraud farms&quot;. They keep out everyone else too if they&#x27;re not that good at mental rotation and mental arithmetic or logic -- this dice puzzle and the mouse labyrinth puzzle are pretty much prototypical IQ test problems.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>qwerty456127</author><text>&gt; In fact, they can only be solved by unusually smart people<p>Wut? Have you actually ever met a person who can&#x27;t? I always suspected the electoral majority is not particularly bright (which sort of contradicts the idea of near-100 being an average IQ nevertheless) but if this is &quot;unusually smart&quot; then things feel really creepy.</text></comment> |
38,922,202 | 38,921,833 | 1 | 2 | 38,921,668 | train | <story><title>Mixtral 8x7B: A sparse Mixture of Experts language model</title><url>https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.04088</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>cuuupid</author><text>I’d like to note that this model’s parameter usage is low enough (13b) to run smoothly at high quality on a 3090 while beating GPT-3.5 on humaneval and sporting 32k context.<p>3090s are consumer grade and common on gaming rigs. I’m hoping game devs start experimenting with locally deployed Mixtral in their games. e.g. something like CIV but with each leader powered via LLM</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>snickell</author><text>You can also run Mixtral, at a decent token rate, on a post-2020 Apple Macbook Pro M1&#x2F;M2&#x2F;M3 with 32GB+ of RAM. 16GB RAM also works, sort of ok, which I suspect is the same quantization a 3090 is using, but I do notice a difference in the quantization. On my M2 Pro, the token rate and intelligence feels like GPT-3.5turbo. This is the first model I&#x27;ve started actually using (vs playing around with for the love of the tech) instead of GPT-3.5.<p>An Apple M2 Pro with 32GB of RAM is in the same price range as a gaming PC with a 3090, but its another example of normal people with moderately high performance systems &quot;accidentally&quot; being able to run a GPT-3.5 comparable model.<p>If you have an Apple meeting these specs and want to play around, LLM Studio is open source and has made it really easy to get started: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;lmstudio.ai&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;lmstudio.ai&#x2F;</a><p>I hope to see a LOT more hobby hacking as a result of Mixtral and successors.</text></comment> | <story><title>Mixtral 8x7B: A sparse Mixture of Experts language model</title><url>https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.04088</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>cuuupid</author><text>I’d like to note that this model’s parameter usage is low enough (13b) to run smoothly at high quality on a 3090 while beating GPT-3.5 on humaneval and sporting 32k context.<p>3090s are consumer grade and common on gaming rigs. I’m hoping game devs start experimenting with locally deployed Mixtral in their games. e.g. something like CIV but with each leader powered via LLM</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>LeoPanthera</author><text>Google tells me that the RTX 3090 is priced between US$1,480 and $1,680.<p>You can buy a whole PC for that, I refuse to believe that a GPU priced that highly is &quot;consumer grade&quot; and &quot;common&quot;.<p>Are there any GPUs that are good for LLMs or other genAI that aren&#x27;t absurdly priced? Or ones specifically designed for AI rather than gaming graphics?</text></comment> |
39,279,309 | 39,277,619 | 1 | 3 | 39,275,272 | train | <story><title>Oceans May Have Already Seen 1.7°C of Warming</title><url>https://eos.org/articles/oceans-may-have-already-seen-1-7c-of-warming</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>phkahler</author><text>But why is that? Why a sudden jump this year?</text></item><item><author>yboris</author><text>The graphs of water temperature over the last 2 years have been off the charts - literally; required adjusting the y-axis:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;LeonSimons8&#x2F;status&#x2F;1754540413350732180" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;LeonSimons8&#x2F;status&#x2F;1754540413350732180</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>michael1999</author><text>There are lots of forces, and the feedback loops are starting to hit.<p>- Warming has been going on for 200 years, so we are deep into it.<p>- The polar ice sheet has been shrinking because it is warmer. So instead of the long summer days reflecting off the ice, they are absorbed by the ocean.<p>- Shipping has been eliminating sulphur from bunker fuel to reduce acid rain and smog (2020 change), and the lack of smog allows more sun to reach the earth.<p>The recent shock of cleaner shipping exhaust has combined with the historical warming and the feedback loops of falling ice albedo (and others) shows up in warmer water.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nasa.gov&#x2F;missions&#x2F;aqua&#x2F;nasa-study-finds-evidence-that-fuel-regulation-reduced-air-pollution-from-shipping&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nasa.gov&#x2F;missions&#x2F;aqua&#x2F;nasa-study-finds-evidence...</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;nsidc.org&#x2F;arcticseaicenews&#x2F;charctic-interactive-sea-ice-graph&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;nsidc.org&#x2F;arcticseaicenews&#x2F;charctic-interactive-sea-...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Oceans May Have Already Seen 1.7°C of Warming</title><url>https://eos.org/articles/oceans-may-have-already-seen-1-7c-of-warming</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>phkahler</author><text>But why is that? Why a sudden jump this year?</text></item><item><author>yboris</author><text>The graphs of water temperature over the last 2 years have been off the charts - literally; required adjusting the y-axis:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;LeonSimons8&#x2F;status&#x2F;1754540413350732180" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;LeonSimons8&#x2F;status&#x2F;1754540413350732180</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>hn_throwaway_99</author><text>The next self reply to that tweet (xeet?) hypothesizes it is reduction in aerosols (massive reduction in sulfur in global shipping):<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;LeonSimons8&#x2F;status&#x2F;1754541230774419929" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;LeonSimons8&#x2F;status&#x2F;1754541230774419929</a></text></comment> |
23,251,375 | 23,250,455 | 1 | 2 | 23,248,779 | train | <story><title>The silence of the owls</title><url>https://www.knowablemagazine.org/article/technology/2020/how-owls-fly-without-making-a-sound?MvBriefArticleId=702</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>gnulinux</author><text>Why would an owl attack a huge mammal like a human? Are you a particularly short person? Do owls attack other large mammals like deers, horses, bears etc? That&#x27;s very scary.</text></item><item><author>symmitchry</author><text>I was attacked by a huge owl recently. It drew blood, and really hurt. I can confirm it was entirely silent, in contrast to being attacked by a crow, which makes an almost-avoidable swooshing sound.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pvaldes</author><text>To defend their nest, of course. They don&#x27;t make prisoners and aim for the face and eyes of anybody trying to steal eggs or owlets.<p>But most owls nest in big threes high above the soil, so the probability of an attack is really low. Probably there was a fallen owlet hidden close to you.</text></comment> | <story><title>The silence of the owls</title><url>https://www.knowablemagazine.org/article/technology/2020/how-owls-fly-without-making-a-sound?MvBriefArticleId=702</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>gnulinux</author><text>Why would an owl attack a huge mammal like a human? Are you a particularly short person? Do owls attack other large mammals like deers, horses, bears etc? That&#x27;s very scary.</text></item><item><author>symmitchry</author><text>I was attacked by a huge owl recently. It drew blood, and really hurt. I can confirm it was entirely silent, in contrast to being attacked by a crow, which makes an almost-avoidable swooshing sound.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dmoy</author><text>Sometimes your hair or hat can look like a tasty meal. Sometimes it&#x27;s territorial, if you&#x27;re getting too close to a nest or whatever. Usually it&#x27;s one of those two.</text></comment> |
36,448,936 | 36,448,863 | 1 | 2 | 36,445,278 | train | <story><title>Big VC, Tech Got Backstop for Billions in Uninsured SVB Deposits</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-06-23/fdic-insured-billions-in-deposits-for-sequoia-other-top-svb-customers</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>epistasis</author><text>There is absolutely no hedge that can stop a bank run, there is literally not a single financial invention that allows both banking and enough liquidity to stop the run.<p>Except for insurance on that sort of bank run.<p>Really it comes down to irrational VCs starting this bank run, which inevitably led to the destruction of the only bank that really understands tech startups. And now the same folks are making fools of themselves doubting all economic data (public or private, they all agree) that shows that most sectors are doing fantastically, just not tech. They are also backing a presidential candidate that thinks WiFi causes cancer, and has some of the worst anti-science views out there; in addition these same VCs are pretty much solely responsible for the community backlash against tech, the change from appreciation of tech to hate of tech, as they are outliers with their weird political obsessions that don&#x27;t even match the rest of the industry.<p>The result of the interest rate hikes was that there were going to be some bank failures, that&#x27;s the whole point of trying to cool things off. That it happened in tech and not elsewhere is due to a few bad actors that have more economic power than wisdom to wield it well.</text></item><item><author>lesuorac</author><text>When you&#x27;re paid millions of dollars its your job to hedge risks.<p>When you&#x27;re just a small renter, it&#x27;s fine for when the handyman doesn&#x27;t show up the apartment keeps flooding. When you&#x27;re a 200 unit apartment owner, you better have a list of a dozen handymen that you can go down when the first one doesn&#x27;t show up.<p>These banks are the equivalent of the apartment owner. They are expected to be able to survive any decision the FED makes short of the FED shutting them down and even in that case they should have known ahead of time and been working on an appeal.</text></item><item><author>fosk</author><text>The Fed first said it would not increase rates, then it said inflation was transitory, then all of a sudden they did a 360 and increased the rates the highest in more than a decade, then they are saying they will keep increasing, then something will inevitably break, and then they will start cutting again despite their original plans.<p>Sure the banks should have managed risks better and this whole fiasco falls on SVB, but to be fair the Fed is doing a horrible job at setting expectations. Whoever trusted them in the past, got screwed. They are fundamentally a reactive organism that for some unknown reason talks as if they are the ones in charge.<p>Obviously they are not.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>powera</author><text>It wasn&#x27;t &quot;irrational VCs&quot; starting a bank run that caused the SVB problems.<p>It was the very clear fact that the bank was insolvent, except under &quot;we can pretend all their customers will leave their money at below-market interest rates for a decade&quot; accounting.<p>Perhaps if SVB had less-informed customers, the bank failure would have happened at the speed of First Republic. But the writing was on the wall: SVB was certain to require some form of bail-out or acquisition.</text></comment> | <story><title>Big VC, Tech Got Backstop for Billions in Uninsured SVB Deposits</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-06-23/fdic-insured-billions-in-deposits-for-sequoia-other-top-svb-customers</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>epistasis</author><text>There is absolutely no hedge that can stop a bank run, there is literally not a single financial invention that allows both banking and enough liquidity to stop the run.<p>Except for insurance on that sort of bank run.<p>Really it comes down to irrational VCs starting this bank run, which inevitably led to the destruction of the only bank that really understands tech startups. And now the same folks are making fools of themselves doubting all economic data (public or private, they all agree) that shows that most sectors are doing fantastically, just not tech. They are also backing a presidential candidate that thinks WiFi causes cancer, and has some of the worst anti-science views out there; in addition these same VCs are pretty much solely responsible for the community backlash against tech, the change from appreciation of tech to hate of tech, as they are outliers with their weird political obsessions that don&#x27;t even match the rest of the industry.<p>The result of the interest rate hikes was that there were going to be some bank failures, that&#x27;s the whole point of trying to cool things off. That it happened in tech and not elsewhere is due to a few bad actors that have more economic power than wisdom to wield it well.</text></item><item><author>lesuorac</author><text>When you&#x27;re paid millions of dollars its your job to hedge risks.<p>When you&#x27;re just a small renter, it&#x27;s fine for when the handyman doesn&#x27;t show up the apartment keeps flooding. When you&#x27;re a 200 unit apartment owner, you better have a list of a dozen handymen that you can go down when the first one doesn&#x27;t show up.<p>These banks are the equivalent of the apartment owner. They are expected to be able to survive any decision the FED makes short of the FED shutting them down and even in that case they should have known ahead of time and been working on an appeal.</text></item><item><author>fosk</author><text>The Fed first said it would not increase rates, then it said inflation was transitory, then all of a sudden they did a 360 and increased the rates the highest in more than a decade, then they are saying they will keep increasing, then something will inevitably break, and then they will start cutting again despite their original plans.<p>Sure the banks should have managed risks better and this whole fiasco falls on SVB, but to be fair the Fed is doing a horrible job at setting expectations. Whoever trusted them in the past, got screwed. They are fundamentally a reactive organism that for some unknown reason talks as if they are the ones in charge.<p>Obviously they are not.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>lesuorac</author><text>1) What&#x27;s irrational about taking your money out of an insolvent bank?<p>Sure SVB collapsed immediately from the bank run; but whose to say it wouldn&#x27;t&#x27;ve gone bankrupt 5 months from now (it&#x27;s not like 2% mortgages are worth any more now than then!)?<p>2) It&#x27;s not like the Fed didn&#x27;t warn them quarters ahead of time that SVB wasn&#x27;t hedged against rising interest rates. The Fed does not need to give banks advanced notice of what they&#x27;re doing; the bank should be hedged for w&#x2F;e the Fed does so that they don&#x27;t become insolvent triggering a bank run.<p>Sure it would be much better if the VCs had gotten together and agreed to either loan SVB money or etc so it would be paper solvent. But my original point is, don&#x27;t be blaming the Fed for SVB&#x27;s collapse. SVB had a duty to manage their risks and they did not.</text></comment> |
8,482,384 | 8,482,495 | 1 | 2 | 8,482,119 | train | <story><title>China collecting Apple iCloud data</title><url>https://en.greatfire.org/blog/2014/oct/china-collecting-apple-icloud-data-attack-coincides-launch-new-iphone</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>dmix</author><text>China&#x27;s surveillance is always so blatant and public, they don&#x27;t bother trying to hide it like America (which is analogous to political corruption in both countries).<p>When the artist Ai Weiwei had his email account compromised by the state, they simply logged into his email webmail UI and forwarded a copy of his emails to a 3rd party email address. They didn&#x27;t even bother intercepting his email at the network or service provider level.<p>Edit: &gt; &quot;Apple increased the encryption aspects on the phone allegedly to prevent snooping from the NSA. However, this increased encryption would also prevent the Chinese authorities from snooping on Apple user data.&quot;<p>It&#x27;s a shame articles keep confusing Apple&#x27;s harddisk encryption with network data encryption. :\</text></comment> | <story><title>China collecting Apple iCloud data</title><url>https://en.greatfire.org/blog/2014/oct/china-collecting-apple-icloud-data-attack-coincides-launch-new-iphone</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>ryan-c</author><text>I&#x27;ve done some analysis on 360 secure browser&#x27;s SSL handling in the past. I don&#x27;t have my notes handy, but it can easily be taken advantage of by anyone, not just the Chinese government. I&#x27;m somewhat confused by this, as it would not be difficult to just bundle MitM CAs with this browser.<p>It&#x27;s also not as popular as frequently reported. It is widely installed because many orgs are required to have the security software that bundles it, but when I was researching it the consensus I got from several Chinese people was that few people actually used it - &quot;only old people who don&#x27;t know computers use it&quot;.</text></comment> |
35,448,553 | 35,448,164 | 1 | 2 | 35,447,486 | train | <story><title>Tell HN: iOS lets carriers add WiFi networks that you can’t stop from joining</title><text>Well this was a major surprise so I figured I’d share it here to get some eyeballs on it.<p>Essentially, the latest iOS (16.4 at post time) allows your cellular carrier (via eSIM) to add “managed networks” to your device.<p>These networks cannot be removed, they cannot have “automatically join” disabled, and they have equal priority with your real, personal networks.<p>So guess what happens when your neighbors get a wifi&#x2F;modem combo that blasts a free hotspot SSID? Not only does it pollute the already crowded 2.4ghz band, your iPhone will often prefer this connection over your real &#x2F;local wifi (despite said wifi being at 1 bar).<p>As of post-time, there is no way to remove these networks short of completely disabling cell service&#x2F;removing the eSIM and resetting all network settings.<p>You can see this for yourself by going to WiFi&#x2F;“edit” and scrolling down.<p>Edit: to clarify, I can disable “auto join”, but in 4-5 minutes all of my devices have auto-join turned back on. I’m guessing it re-syncs with the carrier profile. Also, this does not seem to be eSIM or SIM related it can happen on both.</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>s3p</author><text>This is insane. I have never heard of these and after checking I also have them on my iDevice. Tmobile should explain what wingman is and why it&#x27;s on IOS devices.</text></item><item><author>wpm</author><text>T-Mobile&#x27;s you absolutely can disable, but I would have never ever thought to look there until I read this.<p>I switched off Auto-join on both &quot;t-mobile&quot; and &quot;TMobileWingman&quot;, but I couldn&#x27;t hit the &quot;Done&quot; text-but-its-really-a-button in the upper right until I made some change to the normal known networks list, so I deleted a couple that I didn&#x27;t remember or recognize. YMMV.<p>It&#x27;s gross either way. No way, no way in hell this is something that should be shadow dropped onto my phone.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ajmurmann</author><text>I don&#x27;t understand why Apple allows carriers to do this. Apple id a well-respected brand by most of their customers while carriers are seen as an evil you cannot do without.</text></comment> | <story><title>Tell HN: iOS lets carriers add WiFi networks that you can’t stop from joining</title><text>Well this was a major surprise so I figured I’d share it here to get some eyeballs on it.<p>Essentially, the latest iOS (16.4 at post time) allows your cellular carrier (via eSIM) to add “managed networks” to your device.<p>These networks cannot be removed, they cannot have “automatically join” disabled, and they have equal priority with your real, personal networks.<p>So guess what happens when your neighbors get a wifi&#x2F;modem combo that blasts a free hotspot SSID? Not only does it pollute the already crowded 2.4ghz band, your iPhone will often prefer this connection over your real &#x2F;local wifi (despite said wifi being at 1 bar).<p>As of post-time, there is no way to remove these networks short of completely disabling cell service&#x2F;removing the eSIM and resetting all network settings.<p>You can see this for yourself by going to WiFi&#x2F;“edit” and scrolling down.<p>Edit: to clarify, I can disable “auto join”, but in 4-5 minutes all of my devices have auto-join turned back on. I’m guessing it re-syncs with the carrier profile. Also, this does not seem to be eSIM or SIM related it can happen on both.</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>s3p</author><text>This is insane. I have never heard of these and after checking I also have them on my iDevice. Tmobile should explain what wingman is and why it&#x27;s on IOS devices.</text></item><item><author>wpm</author><text>T-Mobile&#x27;s you absolutely can disable, but I would have never ever thought to look there until I read this.<p>I switched off Auto-join on both &quot;t-mobile&quot; and &quot;TMobileWingman&quot;, but I couldn&#x27;t hit the &quot;Done&quot; text-but-its-really-a-button in the upper right until I made some change to the normal known networks list, so I deleted a couple that I didn&#x27;t remember or recognize. YMMV.<p>It&#x27;s gross either way. No way, no way in hell this is something that should be shadow dropped onto my phone.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>judge2020</author><text>Probably to force more traffic onto wifi to keep people off of their network whenever possible.</text></comment> |
13,686,702 | 13,685,444 | 1 | 2 | 13,684,881 | train | <story><title>Ask HN: Needs advice on learning NLP</title><text>I&#x27;m just starting to learn NLP through book natural language processing with python.<p>I don&#x27;t want to complete the book without knowing essential parts of the book.
It would be great if you guys can point out which one are important concepts to grasp on and thereby i can put extra effort to learn and experiment these concepts.<p>Looking for advice from folks who have learned the NLP concepts or have some kind of experience in NLP.<p>Bonus: point out sample projects to work on.</text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jventura</author><text>I would suggest to start simple and manually to get some feeling for the problems in the field. No frameworks, no tools, just you and Python!<p>Do a simple experiment: get some texts, split words between spaces (e.g line.split(&quot; &quot;)) and use a dict to count the frequency of the words. Sort the words by frequency, look at them, and you will eventually reach the same conclusion as in figure 1 of the paper by Luhn when working for IBM in 1958 (<a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;courses.ischool.berkeley.edu&#x2F;i256&#x2F;f06&#x2F;papers&#x2F;luhn58.pdf" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;courses.ischool.berkeley.edu&#x2F;i256&#x2F;f06&#x2F;papers&#x2F;luhn58.p...</a>)<p>There are lots of corpora out there in the wild, but if you need to roll your own from wikipedia texts you can use this tool I did: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;joaoventura&#x2F;WikiCorpusExtractor" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;joaoventura&#x2F;WikiCorpusExtractor</a><p>From this experiment, and depending if you like statistics or not, you can play a bit with the numbers. For instance, you can use Tf-Idf (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Tf%E2%80%93idf" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Tf%E2%80%93idf</a>) to extract potential keywords from documents. Check the formula, it only uses the frequency of occurrence of words in documents.<p>Only use tools such as Deep neural networks if you decide later that they are essential for what you need. I did an entire PhD on this area just with Python and playing with frequencies, no frameworks at all (an eg. of my work can be found at <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.sciencedirect.com&#x2F;science&#x2F;article&#x2F;pii&#x2F;S1877050912001251" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.sciencedirect.com&#x2F;science&#x2F;article&#x2F;pii&#x2F;S1877050912...</a>).<p>Good luck!</text></comment> | <story><title>Ask HN: Needs advice on learning NLP</title><text>I&#x27;m just starting to learn NLP through book natural language processing with python.<p>I don&#x27;t want to complete the book without knowing essential parts of the book.
It would be great if you guys can point out which one are important concepts to grasp on and thereby i can put extra effort to learn and experiment these concepts.<p>Looking for advice from folks who have learned the NLP concepts or have some kind of experience in NLP.<p>Bonus: point out sample projects to work on.</text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>hiddencost</author><text>NLP for what purpose?<p>- Academic
-- want results? deep learning [0], data munging [1,2]
-- want to understand &quot;why&quot; &#x2F; context? Jurafsky and Martin [1]<p>- Professional
-- the data is easy to get and clean? deep learning [0]
-- you need to do a lot of work to get the signal? [2]<p>- Personal
-- <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;karpathy.github.io&#x2F;2015&#x2F;05&#x2F;21&#x2F;rnn-effectiveness&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;karpathy.github.io&#x2F;2015&#x2F;05&#x2F;21&#x2F;rnn-effectiveness&#x2F;</a>
-- <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;colah.github.io&#x2F;posts&#x2F;2014-07-NLP-RNNs-Representations&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;colah.github.io&#x2F;posts&#x2F;2014-07-NLP-RNNs-Representation...</a><p>(Andrej Karpathy and Chris Olah are some of my favorite writers)<p>[0] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.deeplearningbook.org&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.deeplearningbook.org&#x2F;</a>
[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;web.stanford.edu&#x2F;~jurafsky&#x2F;slp3&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;web.stanford.edu&#x2F;~jurafsky&#x2F;slp3&#x2F;</a>
[2] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;nlp.stanford.edu&#x2F;IR-book&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;nlp.stanford.edu&#x2F;IR-book&#x2F;</a></text></comment> |
16,167,140 | 16,166,252 | 1 | 2 | 16,165,235 | train | <story><title>Why code that never goes wrong can still be wrong</title><url>http://www.pathsensitive.com/2018/01/the-three-levels-of-software-why-code.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jasode</author><text>Instead of first digging into the author&#x27;s <i>&quot;Definition #3&quot;</i> and <i>&quot;Level 3 Design&#x2F;Logic&quot;</i>, I would recommend reading the 1985 paper <i>&quot;The Limits of Correctness&quot;</i> by Bryan Cantwell Smith.[1]<p>I think it&#x27;s one of the top 5 papers every programmer should read. It&#x27;s a short and easy read that makes one think about the limits of <i>models</i>, the limits of <i>specifications</i>, and the limits of <i>formal verification</i>. After grokking BCS&#x27;s insights, there seems to be (an unintended) hubris in James Koppel&#x27;s statement, <i>&quot;I now have two years experience teaching engineers a better understanding of how to [...] make code future-proof</i>&quot; in his framework of removing defects from &quot;Level 3&quot; design.<p>(As a side note, there&#x27;s also a cosmic irony as that paper starts with an anecdote about the &quot;correctness&quot; of detecting ballistic missiles in 1960 given the recent false alarm in Hawaii.)<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.student.cs.uwaterloo.ca&#x2F;~cs492&#x2F;11public_html&#x2F;p18-smith.pdf" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.student.cs.uwaterloo.ca&#x2F;~cs492&#x2F;11public_html&#x2F;p18...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Why code that never goes wrong can still be wrong</title><url>http://www.pathsensitive.com/2018/01/the-three-levels-of-software-why-code.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>psyc</author><text>If code is wrong, yet nothing goes wrong, it&#x27;s miles ahead of almost all of the software I battle with to get work done every day.</text></comment> |
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