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34,161,560 | 34,161,783 | 1 | 2 | 34,161,528 | train | <story><title>Laid off tech workers quickly find new jobs</title><url>https://www.wsj.com/articles/laid-off-tech-workers-quickly-find-new-jobs-11672097730</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>cmbailey</author><text><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;archive.vn&#x2F;20221227114050&#x2F;https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.wsj.com&#x2F;articles&#x2F;laid-off-tech-workers-quickly-find-new-jobs-11672097730" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;archive.vn&#x2F;20221227114050&#x2F;https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.wsj.com&#x2F;articl...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Laid off tech workers quickly find new jobs</title><url>https://www.wsj.com/articles/laid-off-tech-workers-quickly-find-new-jobs-11672097730</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>bearjaws</author><text>As someone working hiring engineers (4+ positions open), it&#x27;s been about 10% easier than mid-2022.<p>Like the article states, way more open jobs than people looking for them still.</text></comment> |
34,809,756 | 34,805,233 | 1 | 3 | 34,804,650 | train | <story><title>Sea life bounced back fast after the ‘mother of mass extinctions’</title><url>https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-00383-9</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>RegularOpossum</author><text>Oceans as an ecosystem are fascinating. This is simplified but on land the food chain is usually something like Plant-Herbivore-Predator but in the ocean the food chain is much longer, algae-Zooplankton--Predator-Predator-Predator-Predator-Predator-Predator-Predator. There&#x27;s so much opportunities in the predator niche in the oceans that land animals keep going back to the ocean, because the evolutionary challenges were regularly worth it. This truly is a blue planet.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>culi</author><text>Interesting, I wouldn&#x27;t really think the ocean food chain is &quot;more complicated&quot;. Soil ecosystems themselves are extremely complex and much more tightly integrated with what&#x27;s happening above ground than we often realize for example<p>But I do agree there&#x27;s some really interesting key differences. For one, speciation on land is often driven by geological barriers that split populations apart. But these types of barriers are much less common in the ocean where this only really happens to organisms that are restricted to shallow waters (and even then &quot;island-hopping&quot; happens much more commonly)</text></comment> | <story><title>Sea life bounced back fast after the ‘mother of mass extinctions’</title><url>https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-00383-9</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>RegularOpossum</author><text>Oceans as an ecosystem are fascinating. This is simplified but on land the food chain is usually something like Plant-Herbivore-Predator but in the ocean the food chain is much longer, algae-Zooplankton--Predator-Predator-Predator-Predator-Predator-Predator-Predator. There&#x27;s so much opportunities in the predator niche in the oceans that land animals keep going back to the ocean, because the evolutionary challenges were regularly worth it. This truly is a blue planet.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>HPsquared</author><text>I suppose in economic terms there is a lot of &quot;liquidity&quot; (pardon the pun). Species can move around very freely and find their ideal niche.</text></comment> |
41,374,827 | 41,373,616 | 1 | 2 | 41,372,833 | train | <story><title>Faster CRDTs (2021)</title><url>https://josephg.com/blog/crdts-go-brrr/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>pjz</author><text>&gt; And why 32 entries? I ran this benchmark with a bunch of different bucket sizes and 32 worked well. I have no idea why that worked out to be the best.<p>If you were using 2-byte ints, this is likely because cache lines are 64 bytes, so 32 entries would be exactly one cache line, letting each cache line hold an entire bucket, thus reducing those expensive main memory transfers.</text></comment> | <story><title>Faster CRDTs (2021)</title><url>https://josephg.com/blog/crdts-go-brrr/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jzelinskie</author><text>What are some real world apps using CRDTs that have really good experiences?<p>IIRC Notion was supposed to be one of them but realistically taking notes with two people in Notion is almost unusable compared to Google Docs.</text></comment> |
3,152,831 | 3,151,965 | 1 | 2 | 3,151,892 | train | <story><title>John McCarthy: The Robot and the Baby</title><url>http://www-formal.stanford.edu/jmc/robotandbaby/robotandbaby.html</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>commieneko</author><text>If you liked this story you may like _The Time of Eve_, which is a short animated Japanese science fiction series. It explores many of the same themes. I hadn't read this story before, but I wouldn't be at all surprised to find out the authors of the series had read it.<p>Viewable on CrunchyRoll, legally, for free:<p><a href="http://www.crunchyroll.com/time-of-eve/episode-1-akiko-452708" rel="nofollow">http://www.crunchyroll.com/time-of-eve/episode-1-akiko-45270...</a><p>There are six episodes of about 15 minutes each.</text></comment> | <story><title>John McCarthy: The Robot and the Baby</title><url>http://www-formal.stanford.edu/jmc/robotandbaby/robotandbaby.html</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>marcusestes</author><text>This is the first time I've come across the use of code as a meaningful narrative element in a work of fiction. It's not exactly Nabokov, but this is a pretty wonderful story. RIP, John.</text></comment> |
2,941,971 | 2,941,253 | 1 | 2 | 2,940,552 | train | <story><title>Linear algebra for game developers </title><url>http://blog.wolfire.com/2009/07/linear-algebra-for-game-developers-part-1/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ColinWright</author><text>I've just re-read what I've said, and while I'm going to leave it as written, I'd ask please not to take it the wrong way. My background is in pure math, so my understanding and expectation is different from most people here.<p>So ...<p>I'm surprised to see this sort of thing described as "Linear Algebra" because to me it's just utterly basic vectors, pretty much the first 20 minutes of the Linear Algebra course I did. I've always been confused in the past when people have said that learning linear algebra is critical to games and similar, but if this is what they meant, the confusion is largely cleared.<p>So I'd ask the HN community:<p>* Is this what you all mean by Linear Algebra?<p>* What other topics do you want to know about?<p>Many thanks in advance, I always welcome the opportunity to learn, even when painful at the time.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Ogre</author><text>I'm a game developer. My specialty is network programming, so I don't deal with this stuff a lot, but it's impossible to completely avoid it.<p>I also majored in CS at a college where the CS department was part of the Mathematics department (though it moved to Engineering in my last year.)<p>What I mainly remember of Linear Algebra was that it and I didn't get along. I struggled a lot with all the heavy math classes. When I started picking up matrix operations much later, from looking at other programmers' code, it didn't really occur to me to call it "Linear Algebra". When I saw the title of this article, I still didn't think that's what it was going to be about.<p>So, I'm a game developer and I'm with you, it's not what I'd think when I hear Linear Algebra either, though if I thought really hard and fought off the flashbacks, I could probably find matrix operations mixed in somewhere with my scant memories of Linear Algebra in college.<p>That said, this is a great series of articles for aspiring game developers. Everyone needs to know these basics these days (Ok, maybe not if you're making match 3 games or word puzzles or the like). I wish someone had just shown me this 15 years ago.</text></comment> | <story><title>Linear algebra for game developers </title><url>http://blog.wolfire.com/2009/07/linear-algebra-for-game-developers-part-1/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ColinWright</author><text>I've just re-read what I've said, and while I'm going to leave it as written, I'd ask please not to take it the wrong way. My background is in pure math, so my understanding and expectation is different from most people here.<p>So ...<p>I'm surprised to see this sort of thing described as "Linear Algebra" because to me it's just utterly basic vectors, pretty much the first 20 minutes of the Linear Algebra course I did. I've always been confused in the past when people have said that learning linear algebra is critical to games and similar, but if this is what they meant, the confusion is largely cleared.<p>So I'd ask the HN community:<p>* Is this what you all mean by Linear Algebra?<p>* What other topics do you want to know about?<p>Many thanks in advance, I always welcome the opportunity to learn, even when painful at the time.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tptacek</author><text>This is an awesome thread.<p>Since you asked:<p>Give me the shortest path in Khan videos, reading assignments, and exercises to LLL lattice reduction starting at "the first 20 minutes of a linear algebra class".<p>(You asked! Lattice basis reduction is used in several practical RSA attacks).</text></comment> |
12,676,081 | 12,676,117 | 1 | 2 | 12,674,533 | train | <story><title>The Dutch Reach: Clever Workaround to Keep Cyclists from Getting “Doored”</title><url>http://99percentinvisible.org/article/dutch-reach-clever-workaround-keep-cyclists-getting-doored/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>wobbleblob</author><text>If you&#x27;ve tried driving in the Netherlands, you know why so many people prefer to ride a bike instead. Well maintained, but narrow and extremely busy roads, densely packed with tiny vehicles. Wearing a helmet while cycling in the Dutch bike lanes is a bit like wearing a helmet while walking on the side walk. I used to only wear it while racing.<p>Since I had a bad crash after being hit in the eye by an insect, I wear a helmet and cycling glasses on my commute as well. This has a remarkable effect on how you are treated in traffic. Gone is the usual friendly coexistence between cyclists, pedestrians, drivers and even scooters. Without the helmet, I&#x27;m just one of the thousands riding their bike to work, but wearing it, apparently now I&#x27;m an asshole bike racer who needs to be taught a lesson, much the way cyclists in general seem to be treated in cycling-hostile countries. A helmet doesn&#x27;t really make you feel safer if it changes the way you&#x27;re treated by the rest of traffic.</text></item><item><author>djsumdog</author><text>The amount of bicycles in The Netherlands is absolutely surreal. Both in major cities and out in the suburbs, bicycles are everywhere. I also find it interesting the Dutch rarely ever wear helmets.<p>Large cities in Germany or the UK or anywhere else I&#x27;ve seen cannot compare to the magnitude of people on bicycles in The Netherlands.</text></item><item><author>smartbit</author><text>It is true that getting doored is not part of the Dutch vocabulary as it is not something that happens often. But there are more reasons than grabbing the handle with the opposite hand.<p>A non extensive list: 1) Dutch car drivers <i>all</i> have been bicyclist before they get their driver license, everyday to school more than an hour being nothing being frowned on. 2) Major transit bike routes have separate bike lanes, the tiny narrow ones of the gif in the article barely exist. 3) Bike lanes in cities usually are placed between the footpath and the parked cars, with <i>most of the times</i> a 50cm wide band left of the bike path allowing for car doors being opened without going over the bike paths, usually this is used for planting trees too 4) All politicians drive bike, the Dutch Prime Minister comes to work on his bike 5) There are local associations part of the national <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;fietersbond.nl" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;fietersbond.nl</a> in every town and they passionately lobby every time they see an opportunity. 6) these volunteers are highly respected and their input is valued by the municipalities 7) one of the <i>prime goals</i> of Dutch national ministerie of Traffic is lowering the number of injured and death in traffic, good recording of cause by police is step one, good statistics then determine the ways roads are laid out. 8) On smaller roads without a separate bicycle path, as a bicyclist you&#x27;re always on the watch if someone might step out of a car and try to keep a distance by bicycling towards the middle of the road which isn&#x27;t an issue as this is low traffic street, major bike transit always has separated bike paths with distance to the parked cars. 9) during driving lessons, watching bicyclist is a prime part of the lessons and a good driver keeps an eye on the mirrors for back-coming bicyclist and will warn passengers on the back seats before they get out.<p>And there are probably more reasons that Dutch have few accidents being doored.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tinco</author><text>This comment is important in how it shows biking is totally different in The Netherlands. The first type of bike most non-Dutch think of when they hear &#x27;bicycle&#x27;, where the rider sits hunched forward poised to race is not even considered a regular bike here. If you go faster than 15mph you are basically considered to be comparable to a moped and doing it without a helmet is frowned upon even here.<p>When you are not in The Netherlands you should most definitely wear a helmet no matter what kind of bike. The fact that you can ride a bike without a helmet in The Netherlands is a sort of democratic miracle of the 70&#x27;s where the public convinced the politicians to make bikes a first class mode of transport. The effect of this is that almost <i>every</i> road in The Netherlands has some sort of provision for bicycles, or has at least been considered to have some. And in most cases not just in the form of a line but actual infrastructures, curbs, asphalt, specifically constructed in a way to make bicycling safe.<p>And even when there would be no infrastructure for bicyclists, every motorist is trained to deal with cyclists. From the driving lessons (usually 40-50 hours are necessary to pass the exam these days) where a considerable amount of time is spent on being aware of cyclists, to the fact that when you&#x27;re on a Dutch road and you want to turn right you are almost guaranteed to wait for cyclists you have to yield to, so not having a shoulder check habit wouldn&#x27;t get you 100m out of your driveway without an accident.</text></comment> | <story><title>The Dutch Reach: Clever Workaround to Keep Cyclists from Getting “Doored”</title><url>http://99percentinvisible.org/article/dutch-reach-clever-workaround-keep-cyclists-getting-doored/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>wobbleblob</author><text>If you&#x27;ve tried driving in the Netherlands, you know why so many people prefer to ride a bike instead. Well maintained, but narrow and extremely busy roads, densely packed with tiny vehicles. Wearing a helmet while cycling in the Dutch bike lanes is a bit like wearing a helmet while walking on the side walk. I used to only wear it while racing.<p>Since I had a bad crash after being hit in the eye by an insect, I wear a helmet and cycling glasses on my commute as well. This has a remarkable effect on how you are treated in traffic. Gone is the usual friendly coexistence between cyclists, pedestrians, drivers and even scooters. Without the helmet, I&#x27;m just one of the thousands riding their bike to work, but wearing it, apparently now I&#x27;m an asshole bike racer who needs to be taught a lesson, much the way cyclists in general seem to be treated in cycling-hostile countries. A helmet doesn&#x27;t really make you feel safer if it changes the way you&#x27;re treated by the rest of traffic.</text></item><item><author>djsumdog</author><text>The amount of bicycles in The Netherlands is absolutely surreal. Both in major cities and out in the suburbs, bicycles are everywhere. I also find it interesting the Dutch rarely ever wear helmets.<p>Large cities in Germany or the UK or anywhere else I&#x27;ve seen cannot compare to the magnitude of people on bicycles in The Netherlands.</text></item><item><author>smartbit</author><text>It is true that getting doored is not part of the Dutch vocabulary as it is not something that happens often. But there are more reasons than grabbing the handle with the opposite hand.<p>A non extensive list: 1) Dutch car drivers <i>all</i> have been bicyclist before they get their driver license, everyday to school more than an hour being nothing being frowned on. 2) Major transit bike routes have separate bike lanes, the tiny narrow ones of the gif in the article barely exist. 3) Bike lanes in cities usually are placed between the footpath and the parked cars, with <i>most of the times</i> a 50cm wide band left of the bike path allowing for car doors being opened without going over the bike paths, usually this is used for planting trees too 4) All politicians drive bike, the Dutch Prime Minister comes to work on his bike 5) There are local associations part of the national <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;fietersbond.nl" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;fietersbond.nl</a> in every town and they passionately lobby every time they see an opportunity. 6) these volunteers are highly respected and their input is valued by the municipalities 7) one of the <i>prime goals</i> of Dutch national ministerie of Traffic is lowering the number of injured and death in traffic, good recording of cause by police is step one, good statistics then determine the ways roads are laid out. 8) On smaller roads without a separate bicycle path, as a bicyclist you&#x27;re always on the watch if someone might step out of a car and try to keep a distance by bicycling towards the middle of the road which isn&#x27;t an issue as this is low traffic street, major bike transit always has separated bike paths with distance to the parked cars. 9) during driving lessons, watching bicyclist is a prime part of the lessons and a good driver keeps an eye on the mirrors for back-coming bicyclist and will warn passengers on the back seats before they get out.<p>And there are probably more reasons that Dutch have few accidents being doored.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>aexaey</author><text>Indeed, Dutch view this two ways to use bicycle very differently. There are even completely different verbs to describe that:<p>- <i>fietsen</i> i.e. literally &quot;bicycling&quot; would refer to riding an <i>opafiets</i> [1] bicycle, at moderate speed, without helmet or any sort of cycling attire;<p>- <i>wielrennen</i>, i.e. literally &quot;wheel running&quot; instead describes sort of cycling that you would see in Tour de France race - racing bike, helmet, lycra gear on, considerably faster.<p>Second is far less common, and doing so on busy city streets during rush hour is frowned upon, of course.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Roadster_(bicycle)" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Roadster_(bicycle)</a></text></comment> |
11,162,409 | 11,161,529 | 1 | 2 | 11,161,311 | train | <story><title>Zynga to Put Headquarters Building in San Francisco on the Market</title><url>http://news.theregistrysf.com/zynga-to-put-headquarters-building-in-san-francisco-on-the-market/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jedberg</author><text>A lot of people seem to be missing the fact that they plan to sell the building and then rent it back, turning an already paid CapEx into an OpEx.<p>Zynga seems to be really good at the CapEx&#x2F;OpEx game. Back before they went public, they did everything on Amazon, so it was all OpEx. Then they built the ZCloud, which converted OpEx to CapEx, which investors liked.<p>What a lot of people don&#x27;t realize is that they have been slowing dismantling ZCloud and going back to AWS (converting previous CapEx to current OpEx).</text></comment> | <story><title>Zynga to Put Headquarters Building in San Francisco on the Market</title><url>http://news.theregistrysf.com/zynga-to-put-headquarters-building-in-san-francisco-on-the-market/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>beamatronic</author><text>It&#x27;s a neat building. It sits in the design center of San Francicso, and was originally built as a mall. Here is some of the history.<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.syserco.com&#x2F;projects&#x2F;zynga" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.syserco.com&#x2F;projects&#x2F;zynga</a></text></comment> |
28,361,595 | 28,361,596 | 1 | 2 | 28,360,987 | train | <story><title>NYC major crime complaints fell when cops took a break from ‘proactive policing’</title><url>https://www.latimes.com/science/sciencenow/la-sci-sn-proactive-policing-crime-20170925-story.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>exogeny</author><text>I&#x27;ve lived in a few different major cities and NYC for the last decade, and I can definitely say I have never seen more broken, ineffective policing than here. It&#x27;s truly ridiculous. Your experience, obviously, may vary.<p>Multiple instances of police openly threatening citizens. Phones ripped out of hands and smashed onto the ground, for the mere crime of filming an interaction. During the BLM protests, every single act of instigation and provocation that I witnessed was started by the police.<p>I don&#x27;t know what the answer is. But it is very clear the police here are a paramilitary jackboot squad, and that the city and the strength of their union protects them. They have almost complete impunity, and they see normal, everyday citizens as the enemy. I fear that we&#x27;re in for more trouble now that we&#x27;ve elected an ex-cop Mayor of the city.<p>(For background, I&#x27;m a tall, white man. I can&#x27;t imagine how bad it would be if I wasn&#x27;t.)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>sjm</author><text>Yeah it really feels like the NYPD has a lot of contempt for the city they operate in, politically, socially, culturally. I saw the same thing at every protest I attended — when there were no cops around, it was extremely peaceful. I only ever saw it get ugly when cops were harassing people, pushing people around, or trying to basically shut down protests by blocking off surrounding streets and trying to close in on protesters.</text></comment> | <story><title>NYC major crime complaints fell when cops took a break from ‘proactive policing’</title><url>https://www.latimes.com/science/sciencenow/la-sci-sn-proactive-policing-crime-20170925-story.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>exogeny</author><text>I&#x27;ve lived in a few different major cities and NYC for the last decade, and I can definitely say I have never seen more broken, ineffective policing than here. It&#x27;s truly ridiculous. Your experience, obviously, may vary.<p>Multiple instances of police openly threatening citizens. Phones ripped out of hands and smashed onto the ground, for the mere crime of filming an interaction. During the BLM protests, every single act of instigation and provocation that I witnessed was started by the police.<p>I don&#x27;t know what the answer is. But it is very clear the police here are a paramilitary jackboot squad, and that the city and the strength of their union protects them. They have almost complete impunity, and they see normal, everyday citizens as the enemy. I fear that we&#x27;re in for more trouble now that we&#x27;ve elected an ex-cop Mayor of the city.<p>(For background, I&#x27;m a tall, white man. I can&#x27;t imagine how bad it would be if I wasn&#x27;t.)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>akudha</author><text>I saw 5 or 6 cops tackle a drunk guy. He was so drunk, barely able to stand, a 10 year old kid could&#x27;ve taken him down. The amount of force used in the most trivial of cases blew my mind.<p>During the occupy wall street protests, I saw the cops a few times (I was working in a nearby building). The amount of serious gear they had, it was insane. I bet they are better armed than most militaries.<p>All I can say is they are super scary.</text></comment> |
24,731,342 | 24,731,148 | 1 | 2 | 24,728,809 | train | <story><title>Why the Arabic world turned away from science (2011)</title><url>http://www.thenewatlantis.com/publications/why-the-arabic-world-turned-away-from-science</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>thisiscorrect</author><text>Is this claiming that ethnic diversity within a country&#x27;s borders causes strife, and in turn hinders scientific development?</text></item><item><author>rsynnott</author><text>&gt; Japan went from insular agrarianism to a world power to collapse to continued scientific development through to the 21st century. As did much of the Far East. Why not the Middle east?<p>There are lots of theories, of course, but one I find interesting is that East Asia, in addition to never being colonized to the same extent as most places, emerged with national boundaries largely intact. The Middle East was under foreign control for, well, basically forever (Romans -&gt; Ottomans -&gt; mandates) and ended up with some pretty weird national boundaries. This encouraged a lot of strife.<p>There&#x27;s also the oil theory; countries with huge natural resources seem to often struggle to develop normally.</text></item><item><author>pjc50</author><text>&gt; &quot;We will turn to this question later, but it is important to keep in mind that the decline of scientific activity is the rule, not the exception, of civilizations. While it is commonplace to assume that the scientific revolution and the progress of technology were inevitable, in fact the West is the single sustained success story out of many civilizations with periods of scientific flourishing. Like the Muslims, the ancient Chinese and Indian civilizations, both of which were at one time far more advanced than the West, did not produce the scientific revolution.&quot;<p>.. so far, so good. There&#x27;s always the risk that the West might internally reject the scientific revolution. This paragraph is a useful reminder that historical &quot;progress&quot; isn&#x27;t linear or monotonic.<p>This article is very good on the background in the era of the Caliphate and early scientific progress in medieval Europe. Where it falls down is the past century. We can draw comparison with the Meiji restoration; Japan went from insular agrarianism to a world power to collapse to continued scientific development through to the 21st century. As did much of the Far East. Why not the Middle east?<p>Anyway, excellent longread.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dx87</author><text>Not ethnic diversity, but lack of a shared identity. Outside of the major cities, the people living in the middle eastern countries were more loyal to their tribe and village than whatever power happened to currently be in charge of the country. That&#x27;s also why it seems like so much religious extremism comes out of the middle east; a shared religion is one of the only things in common among the people living there, so any calls to action normally use religion as common ground to bring people together.</text></comment> | <story><title>Why the Arabic world turned away from science (2011)</title><url>http://www.thenewatlantis.com/publications/why-the-arabic-world-turned-away-from-science</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>thisiscorrect</author><text>Is this claiming that ethnic diversity within a country&#x27;s borders causes strife, and in turn hinders scientific development?</text></item><item><author>rsynnott</author><text>&gt; Japan went from insular agrarianism to a world power to collapse to continued scientific development through to the 21st century. As did much of the Far East. Why not the Middle east?<p>There are lots of theories, of course, but one I find interesting is that East Asia, in addition to never being colonized to the same extent as most places, emerged with national boundaries largely intact. The Middle East was under foreign control for, well, basically forever (Romans -&gt; Ottomans -&gt; mandates) and ended up with some pretty weird national boundaries. This encouraged a lot of strife.<p>There&#x27;s also the oil theory; countries with huge natural resources seem to often struggle to develop normally.</text></item><item><author>pjc50</author><text>&gt; &quot;We will turn to this question later, but it is important to keep in mind that the decline of scientific activity is the rule, not the exception, of civilizations. While it is commonplace to assume that the scientific revolution and the progress of technology were inevitable, in fact the West is the single sustained success story out of many civilizations with periods of scientific flourishing. Like the Muslims, the ancient Chinese and Indian civilizations, both of which were at one time far more advanced than the West, did not produce the scientific revolution.&quot;<p>.. so far, so good. There&#x27;s always the risk that the West might internally reject the scientific revolution. This paragraph is a useful reminder that historical &quot;progress&quot; isn&#x27;t linear or monotonic.<p>This article is very good on the background in the era of the Caliphate and early scientific progress in medieval Europe. Where it falls down is the past century. We can draw comparison with the Meiji restoration; Japan went from insular agrarianism to a world power to collapse to continued scientific development through to the 21st century. As did much of the Far East. Why not the Middle east?<p>Anyway, excellent longread.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mcguire</author><text>A hypothesis: not diversity, but division. Consider the Kurds; their traditional territory is in about 5 modern countries, and they don&#x27;t particularly get along with any of their governments.<p>That isn&#x27;t directly related to &quot;scientific development&quot;, but that, like most things, relies on economic and political stability.</text></comment> |
26,780,816 | 26,781,022 | 1 | 2 | 26,780,244 | train | <story><title>Statement of FSF board on election of Richard Stallman</title><url>https://www.fsf.org/news/statement-of-fsf-board-on-election-of-richard-stallman</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>WesolyKubeczek</author><text>One can&#x27;t deny, sadly, that a software freedom geek with consistency and integrity as applied to that philosophy and insight therein of RMS&#x27;s caliber doesn&#x27;t yet exist.<p>I&#x27;m afraid, for this reason alone quite a few people get to think that if you consistently apply software freedom principles in all parts of your life where you use or produce software, it must come with the baggage of all other flaws of RMS&#x27;s character, complete with questionable hygiene habits and abrasive personality.<p>As if you just can&#x27;t have the same principles, but bring in flaws of your own.</text></comment> | <story><title>Statement of FSF board on election of Richard Stallman</title><url>https://www.fsf.org/news/statement-of-fsf-board-on-election-of-richard-stallman</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>kmeisthax</author><text>This past month has completely destroyed my confidence in FSF leadership. I hope they can earn it back.<p>Say what you want about the open letter - and it is an inaccurate open letter - the fact is that most people who had legitimate criticisms of RMS&#x27;s leadership decided to sign onto it anyway. You might argue that this is malice. I&#x27;d argue that the open letter&#x27;s ultimate conclusion - wipe the FSF management slate clean - was still warranted. Remember: the FSF did not attempt to defend, explain, or rehabilitate Stallman&#x27;s behavior or character. That was individuals within the community doing that - and themselves making the mistake of, say, ignoring other, better criticisms of RMS&#x27;s behavior than misreading his personal quirks as inherently sexist.<p>I find it hard <i>not</i> to read the FSF&#x27;s conduct as anything but &quot;let&#x27;s just quietly bring RMS back once the mainstream media gets off our case&quot;. They ignored the fact that people within the community had significant problems with his conduct, completely unrelated to the Epstein thing. The Minsky e-mail was just a catalyst, like putting a spoon in superheated water. If they had handled this the way Linus Torvalds did - i.e. making a show out of toning down his toxic behavior, and then <i>actually</i> toning it down, this could have worked. It&#x27;s possible for the FSF to actually still do this, despite having been apparently(!?) caught on the backfoot... but that&#x27;s going to be far harder than if they had actually messaged this properly.<p>Since nobody&#x27;s head is actually going to roll for this terrible PR nightmare, I can only hope that the organization tries to tone down RMS&#x27;s toxic behavior, and maybe we&#x27;ll get something useful out of deliberately reopening year-old (or for some, decade-old) wounds. Still, I feel like this is akin to Mozilla&#x27;s crippling Google dependency - it&#x27;s not like RMS is going to live forever, he&#x27;s pushing 70. His number will come up sooner or later. His remaining tenure with the FSF should be wholly dedicated towards making the organization relevant to those who aren&#x27;t already &quot;in the know&quot; so that we have suitable replacements when we lose RMS.</text></comment> |
40,568,567 | 40,568,526 | 1 | 3 | 40,564,332 | train | <story><title>Go east from Seattle</title><url>https://finmoorhouse.com/writing/go-east/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>cush</author><text>Travel exactly due East. Now, ignore what East means. Then, ignore the giant white arrow pointing East into Montana in the image we&#x27;ve created to illustrate this question. Also, don&#x27;t worry about anything called a Great Circle, it&#x27;s completely unimportant. What country would you first encounter?<p>Did you get it, idiot? No? Let me explain to you why you&#x27;re wrong.<p>First, you completely missed that the Great Circle I told you not to worry about doesn&#x27;t actually follow along the white arrow I used to illustrate the problem. Clearly, if you completely ignore all the information that was given to you, and what East is, the answer is obviously Australia. Because if you were at the North Pole, a line going East would be a tight circle.<p>Please like and subscribe. To leave a comment, first you must solve this simple math problem<p><pre><code> 6 ÷ 2(1+2) = ?</code></pre></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>enoch_r</author><text>&gt; Travel exactly due East. Now, ignore what East means.<p>It&#x27;s &quot;face east, then travel in a straight line,&quot; not &quot;travel due East&quot; (though I agree that the title itself is misleading).<p>IMO, it&#x27;s a cool thought experiment because it demonstrates that an instruction to &quot;travel in a straight line&quot; is <i>incompatible</i> with an instruction to &quot;travel due East&quot; (unless you&#x27;re on the equator!) - as the North Pole example illustrates. Start 3 feet south of the North Pole and face east, then start traveling in a straight line. Obviously after 10 or 100 or 1000 miles of travel you&#x27;ll be essentially due south of the pole - and in fact, if you take a single step to the left, you will be <i>exactly</i> due south of the pole!</text></comment> | <story><title>Go east from Seattle</title><url>https://finmoorhouse.com/writing/go-east/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>cush</author><text>Travel exactly due East. Now, ignore what East means. Then, ignore the giant white arrow pointing East into Montana in the image we&#x27;ve created to illustrate this question. Also, don&#x27;t worry about anything called a Great Circle, it&#x27;s completely unimportant. What country would you first encounter?<p>Did you get it, idiot? No? Let me explain to you why you&#x27;re wrong.<p>First, you completely missed that the Great Circle I told you not to worry about doesn&#x27;t actually follow along the white arrow I used to illustrate the problem. Clearly, if you completely ignore all the information that was given to you, and what East is, the answer is obviously Australia. Because if you were at the North Pole, a line going East would be a tight circle.<p>Please like and subscribe. To leave a comment, first you must solve this simple math problem<p><pre><code> 6 ÷ 2(1+2) = ?</code></pre></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>lIl-IIIl</author><text>The way I&#x27;d explain it is:<p>You have a perfect paper airplane. It flies in a straight line regardless of wind, rain, hail or snow. And it keeps in the air a really long time.<p>You get into an air balloon over Seattle and launch your paper airplane directly East.<p>The plane descends so slowly it can leave North America and go over the ocean and eventually will reach another country and still not touch the ground. What is the first country it will reach?</text></comment> |
13,725,697 | 13,725,680 | 1 | 2 | 13,724,990 | train | <story><title>Reddit is being manipulated by big financial services companies</title><url>https://www.forbes.com/sites/jaymcgregor/2017/02/20/reddit-is-being-manipulated-by-big-financial-services-companies/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>codingdave</author><text>I&#x27;m not sure how anyone can think discussions on reddit are not manipulated at this point. If you watch carefully, you see the exact same verbiage used from multiple accounts on the same topic used to steer conversations. And as new responses come up, there will be a multi-hour delay, then new verbiage will get posted simultaneously to multiple accounts. There is clearly behind-the-scenes writing efforts going on, then being distributed to accounts. And if I see this just as a casual observer, I can only imagine what you would find if you really dug deep.</text></comment> | <story><title>Reddit is being manipulated by big financial services companies</title><url>https://www.forbes.com/sites/jaymcgregor/2017/02/20/reddit-is-being-manipulated-by-big-financial-services-companies/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>hacker_9</author><text>It&#x27;s a shame this has happened. It used to that aggregated news was the best news because it wasn&#x27;t opinionated. It also didn&#x27;t need to focus on the big ticket items (murder, sex, drugs) like newspapers, as sales weren&#x27;t a concern, so you have science, tech, and I kid you not, actual good news to read about!<p>But now with the pay-to-get-upvotes scams going on, we get utterly biased and even ridiculous stories constantly on the front page. And how to even start on the comments, which just read like blurbs to the title. A great example on the front page at the moment:<p><i>&quot;Donald Trump&#x27;s war on media is &#x27;biggest threat to democracy&#x27; says Navy Seal who brought down Osama Bin Laden&quot;</i>.<p>I almost feel like this stuff is AI generated at this point, just throwing together keywords that get clicks. As someone across the pond looking in, the bias is laughable obvious. I just hope that more people realise that manipulation is present, and remember not to believe everything they read.</text></comment> |
40,462,750 | 40,462,421 | 1 | 2 | 40,461,096 | train | <story><title>Dehydration associated with poorer performance on attention tasks among adults</title><url>https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ajhb.24051</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>8372049</author><text>If you can back that up with a source, please do so. In any case, my point isn&#x27;t about margins. My point is that you get thirsty if you need to drink more water. With some exceptions, such as old age.<p>Drinking too much water is harmful. Drinking too little water is harmful. You want a proper hydration balance, and in most circumstances—with several exceptions—this is well regulated by thirst. All of this is well documented and none of this is should be controversial at all.</text></item><item><author>Carrok</author><text>What an absurd statement. Over hydration has to go WAY over to compete with the dangers of under hydration.</text></item><item><author>8372049</author><text>You would have to try harder to drink <i>too little</i> water, because your body regulates hydration by getting thirsty, under normal conditions. Overhydration can lead to significant consequences such as heart failure and urinary tract abnormalities. Excess water consumption can cause hyponatremia, which is an independent risk factor for bone fractures.<p>&quot;Staying hydrated&quot; means to match the body&#x27;s needs, not more, not less. Like with all other silly hypes (antioxidants, electrolytes, vitamin supplements, etc. etc.), too much is potentially harmful. It is a hype, because it&#x27;s so easy to say &quot;stay hydrated&quot; and it seems like an uncontroversial thing, but it can be just as harmful as dehydration. In fact, among e.g. long distance runners, severe complications from <i>over</i>hydration are more common than severe complications from dehydration.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov&#x2F;27548748&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov&#x2F;27548748&#x2F;</a></text></item><item><author>Carrok</author><text>You would have to try VERY hard to drink too much water. Every one of all ages can benefit from staying hydrated.</text></item><item><author>8372049</author><text>It&#x27;s worth emphasizing, which they also do, that this primarily affects middle-aged to older people, and &quot;extreme&quot; conditions. There is no benefit to &quot;stay hydrated&quot; beyond <i>not</i> being dehydrated and in fact it can be somewhat harmful to drink too much water. If you are middle aged or above, if you are in an excessively warm or cold climate, if you do great physical exertion etc. you may need to be mindful of your water intake and make sure you drink enough (and not too much), but generally your body will regulate this through the sense of thirst. Obviously being too focused on your work can also mean you neglect said thirst, so frequent breaks are healthy for several reasons.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>zztop44</author><text>You’re writing with an authoritative tone, but I’m confused by what you’re trying to say. I drink a lot of water. I keep a 2 liter bottle on my desk and refill it 2-3 times over the course of a work day. Sometimes more, sometimes less. I also drink tea and coffee, and sometimes beer in the evening.<p>I drink water because I want to? It’s not exactly being thirsty (I sometimes get thirsty when I’m out and about for extended periods; that feels different). It’s just wanting to drink water, and water being there. Should I be worried? Should I be limiting myself to only drinking water when I feel truly thirty?<p>I’m also an amateur marathon runner, and I reckon I probably drink much less liquid while running a marathon than in a comparable 3.5 hour block working (although I drink a lot of water and sports drink after finishing).<p>Edit: In case it matters, I don’t drink water because I’ve bought into “stay hydrated” hype. I’m well aware that I drink more than enough water to meet my body’s needs. I just like it.</text></comment> | <story><title>Dehydration associated with poorer performance on attention tasks among adults</title><url>https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ajhb.24051</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>8372049</author><text>If you can back that up with a source, please do so. In any case, my point isn&#x27;t about margins. My point is that you get thirsty if you need to drink more water. With some exceptions, such as old age.<p>Drinking too much water is harmful. Drinking too little water is harmful. You want a proper hydration balance, and in most circumstances—with several exceptions—this is well regulated by thirst. All of this is well documented and none of this is should be controversial at all.</text></item><item><author>Carrok</author><text>What an absurd statement. Over hydration has to go WAY over to compete with the dangers of under hydration.</text></item><item><author>8372049</author><text>You would have to try harder to drink <i>too little</i> water, because your body regulates hydration by getting thirsty, under normal conditions. Overhydration can lead to significant consequences such as heart failure and urinary tract abnormalities. Excess water consumption can cause hyponatremia, which is an independent risk factor for bone fractures.<p>&quot;Staying hydrated&quot; means to match the body&#x27;s needs, not more, not less. Like with all other silly hypes (antioxidants, electrolytes, vitamin supplements, etc. etc.), too much is potentially harmful. It is a hype, because it&#x27;s so easy to say &quot;stay hydrated&quot; and it seems like an uncontroversial thing, but it can be just as harmful as dehydration. In fact, among e.g. long distance runners, severe complications from <i>over</i>hydration are more common than severe complications from dehydration.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov&#x2F;27548748&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov&#x2F;27548748&#x2F;</a></text></item><item><author>Carrok</author><text>You would have to try VERY hard to drink too much water. Every one of all ages can benefit from staying hydrated.</text></item><item><author>8372049</author><text>It&#x27;s worth emphasizing, which they also do, that this primarily affects middle-aged to older people, and &quot;extreme&quot; conditions. There is no benefit to &quot;stay hydrated&quot; beyond <i>not</i> being dehydrated and in fact it can be somewhat harmful to drink too much water. If you are middle aged or above, if you are in an excessively warm or cold climate, if you do great physical exertion etc. you may need to be mindful of your water intake and make sure you drink enough (and not too much), but generally your body will regulate this through the sense of thirst. Obviously being too focused on your work can also mean you neglect said thirst, so frequent breaks are healthy for several reasons.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>beeeeerp</author><text>Maybe it’s confirmation bias, but I have heard of very few over-hydration cases whereas medical dehydration seems pretty common.<p>Granted the pressures for dehydration are a lot more common (hiking with too little water, running competitions, maybe little access to water in a hot climate, etc). Once one has ample access to water, I doubt there is much pressure to keep drinking to over-hydration.</text></comment> |
26,098,238 | 26,098,318 | 1 | 3 | 26,097,013 | train | <story><title>Larry Flynt has died</title><url>https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-56019589</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ThrowawayR2</author><text>&gt; &quot;<i>I don’t understand what’s wrong with owning your platform to exercise your speech rights.</i>&quot;<p>MLK and the civil rights movement didn&#x27;t own their own platform.<p>The LGBT rights movement didn&#x27;t own their own platform.<p>The women&#x27;s rights movement didn&#x27;t own their own platform.<p>Would you have been okay with them being swept under the rug? It&#x27;s not as if people in power didn&#x27;t want to.</text></item><item><author>eyelidlessness</author><text>I don’t understand what’s wrong with owning your platform to exercise your speech rights. You still have a public square. It’s as free as it’s been since Flynt was a prominent figure. (I’m happy to talk about how unfree it can be from experience, but it hasn’t gotten worse especially for the people most up in arms about platform access.)<p>Instead of being constantly on the defense here... Why do you think you have a right to someone else’s resources for your speech? What entitles you to be published by anyone else at all?</text></item><item><author>eplanit</author><text>I&#x27;m afraid people now see it as an antiquated and outmoded perspective on free speech. His attitude was embraced by progressive people of the late 20th century.<p>That said, he too had to own his own platform in order to exercise his rights.</text></item><item><author>annoyingnoob</author><text>Larry has an interesting take, especially given the current environment.<p>&quot;You know, a free press is not freedom for the thought you love, but rather for the thought you hate the most. People need to tolerate the Larry Flynts of the world so they can be free.&quot; -Larry Flynt</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>AdamJacobMuller</author><text>The bigger problem is &quot;define platform&quot;<p>Don&#x27;t like twitter censorship, make your own twitter.<p>Ergo, Parler.<p>Oh, but, that&#x27;s not &quot;your&quot; platform, that&#x27;s built on AWS&#x27;s platform. So AWS can deplatform you.<p>What&#x27;s next, if Parler sets up in a datacenter with their own physical servers are people going to attack their colocation&#x2F;transit&#x2F;peers or their DNS provider or their domain registrar or their SSL certificate issuer? Is LetsEncrypt a platform?<p>The biggest issue IMO is that with this you&#x27;re centralizing all the idiotic and dangerous opinions and putting them in a huge echo chamber where they only ever see (mostly stupid) opinions of people they agree with. It&#x27;s accomplishing the some of the goal the de-platformers want (they don&#x27;t want to see the dumb content) but the content is still there, just more fringe and more radical and now they can rightfully complain about suppression of their opinions.</text></comment> | <story><title>Larry Flynt has died</title><url>https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-56019589</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ThrowawayR2</author><text>&gt; &quot;<i>I don’t understand what’s wrong with owning your platform to exercise your speech rights.</i>&quot;<p>MLK and the civil rights movement didn&#x27;t own their own platform.<p>The LGBT rights movement didn&#x27;t own their own platform.<p>The women&#x27;s rights movement didn&#x27;t own their own platform.<p>Would you have been okay with them being swept under the rug? It&#x27;s not as if people in power didn&#x27;t want to.</text></item><item><author>eyelidlessness</author><text>I don’t understand what’s wrong with owning your platform to exercise your speech rights. You still have a public square. It’s as free as it’s been since Flynt was a prominent figure. (I’m happy to talk about how unfree it can be from experience, but it hasn’t gotten worse especially for the people most up in arms about platform access.)<p>Instead of being constantly on the defense here... Why do you think you have a right to someone else’s resources for your speech? What entitles you to be published by anyone else at all?</text></item><item><author>eplanit</author><text>I&#x27;m afraid people now see it as an antiquated and outmoded perspective on free speech. His attitude was embraced by progressive people of the late 20th century.<p>That said, he too had to own his own platform in order to exercise his rights.</text></item><item><author>annoyingnoob</author><text>Larry has an interesting take, especially given the current environment.<p>&quot;You know, a free press is not freedom for the thought you love, but rather for the thought you hate the most. People need to tolerate the Larry Flynts of the world so they can be free.&quot; -Larry Flynt</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mannykannot</author><text>I am not sure you are making the point you intended to. These movements were opposed by powerful elements, they did not own the largest platforms, and yet they prevailed. Any movement that depends on the most powerful elements of society to secure it a platform is at grave risk of becoming dependent on them.</text></comment> |
25,765,488 | 25,765,242 | 1 | 2 | 25,763,863 | train | <story><title>Workaholism leads to health problems, work addiction risk depends on occupation</title><url>https://www.hse.ru/en/news/research/433782660.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>honkycat</author><text>Most of the time I&#x27;ve seen it, it is avoidance of the rest of their life. &quot;Change diapers? Oh, sorry honey, I uhh... gotta do this thing at work. Darn it!&quot;<p>One phenomenon I&#x27;ve always noticed about workaholics is that they THINK they are being more productive, but often times they are just spending more time spinning their wheels. Also the effect it has on their mood&#x2F;interpersonal skills, and the pressure it puts on the rest of the team cancels it out. Seriously, one rude comment in the morning can throw a developer off for the rest of the day, it&#x27;s not worth it.<p>&quot;Man what&#x27;s up with frank today?&quot;<p>&quot;Oh he was pulling an all-nighter doing a non-urgent task.&quot;<p>&quot;Did anybody ask him to?&quot;<p>&quot;No. In fact we asked him to stop.&quot;<p>I consider independent study, side-projects, reading a good book, smoking some dope, cooking a good meal with my partner, getting enough sleep, relaxing, and exercising(!!!!) part of my job. I don&#x27;t care what kind of mutant you THINK you are, you will perform better if you go to bed and get a full nights rest and clean your brain out. It is just science.<p>Finally, while it is true that &quot;work more = better review at work&quot;, it&#x27;s just... not worth it. If your job is your whole life and you are not making +200k: GET A LIFE. You have better things to do with your time than make some other man money. Work is a &quot;safe place.&quot; Time goes in, money comes out. But that doesn&#x27;t mean it is a healthy way to spend all of your time.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>justathrowa</author><text>&gt;But that doesn&#x27;t mean it is a healthy way to spend all of your time.<p>Dunno about that.<p>Just a personal anecdote, but this year my boss specifically told me to work less, slashing my salary down by $10,000 a year to emphasize the point. Prior to this, 200 to 240 hours a month was pretty typical and has been for the last 8 years. (I doubt it&#x27;s out of real concern for my health, my workload hasn&#x27;t been reduced).<p>What I&#x27;ve found was that in the times of idleness though I&#x27;ve thought more and more about suicide. The Christmas holidays were some of the first I&#x27;ve had to have an entire week to myself and I spent most of it was spent testing methods for speed, logistics, and discomfort, as well as scouting suitable locations; somewhere that would force an EMS &#x2F; police arrival on site by 10 minutes or so. Updated my will and managed to work out the logistics of transferring all my assets to to remaining family quickly when I finally make the decision to kill myself.<p>Never in my life has it gotten this far before; never really had time to seriously think about until now. I&#x27;d imagine that most people though would probably be more fine with a miserably but living workaholic, then a corpse dead of suicide.<p>As such, could you really say that is working long hours such is really unhealthy? Or such a terrible thing?</text></comment> | <story><title>Workaholism leads to health problems, work addiction risk depends on occupation</title><url>https://www.hse.ru/en/news/research/433782660.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>honkycat</author><text>Most of the time I&#x27;ve seen it, it is avoidance of the rest of their life. &quot;Change diapers? Oh, sorry honey, I uhh... gotta do this thing at work. Darn it!&quot;<p>One phenomenon I&#x27;ve always noticed about workaholics is that they THINK they are being more productive, but often times they are just spending more time spinning their wheels. Also the effect it has on their mood&#x2F;interpersonal skills, and the pressure it puts on the rest of the team cancels it out. Seriously, one rude comment in the morning can throw a developer off for the rest of the day, it&#x27;s not worth it.<p>&quot;Man what&#x27;s up with frank today?&quot;<p>&quot;Oh he was pulling an all-nighter doing a non-urgent task.&quot;<p>&quot;Did anybody ask him to?&quot;<p>&quot;No. In fact we asked him to stop.&quot;<p>I consider independent study, side-projects, reading a good book, smoking some dope, cooking a good meal with my partner, getting enough sleep, relaxing, and exercising(!!!!) part of my job. I don&#x27;t care what kind of mutant you THINK you are, you will perform better if you go to bed and get a full nights rest and clean your brain out. It is just science.<p>Finally, while it is true that &quot;work more = better review at work&quot;, it&#x27;s just... not worth it. If your job is your whole life and you are not making +200k: GET A LIFE. You have better things to do with your time than make some other man money. Work is a &quot;safe place.&quot; Time goes in, money comes out. But that doesn&#x27;t mean it is a healthy way to spend all of your time.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>aerosmile</author><text>I found it interesting that you put a price tag on it. Also, $200k is about $150k more than most people make, but if you look at just the workaholic population and isolate for industries such as finance and law, many people in that group are going to be within the shooting range of that threshold. And there you have it - even within your own framework, it becomes understandable why we have so many workaholics.<p>My point is - the moment you put a price tag on your work-life balance, it becomes very difficult to escape the rat race. You really have to be quite militant about it or otherwise it won&#x27;t work.</text></comment> |
36,342,309 | 36,342,589 | 1 | 2 | 36,341,941 | train | <story><title>Reddit’s blackout protest is set to continue indefinitely</title><url>https://old.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/149zmar/reddits_blackout_protest_is_set_to_continue/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>idiotsecant</author><text>It seems to me like this is turning into a subreddit migration in slow motion. A lot people still want to post content and a lot of people still want to read content, so what&#x27;s happening is people are posting it to the less popular &#x27;alternative&#x27; versions of the popular subreddits and those posts make the frontpage instead. It seems like there is a noticeable decline in quality but i&#x27;m still seeing quite a bit of posting. Not sure if it&#x27;s having the intended impact or not. I think the missing thing here is a viable, popular alternative. Digg died because reddit existed. If there was a consensus on the next reddit I would think reddit should be much more worried.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rblatz</author><text>Also most people don’t really care about the API&#x2F;3rd party app thing. It doesn’t impact them and it looks from the outside like a bunch of dorks with no lives getting worked up over nothing.<p>I’ve been on Reddit since the digg migration and I’ve never felt the need for an app, old.reddit.com and Adblock works perfectly fine on the phone. Better than Reddit’s mobile site.</text></comment> | <story><title>Reddit’s blackout protest is set to continue indefinitely</title><url>https://old.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/149zmar/reddits_blackout_protest_is_set_to_continue/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>idiotsecant</author><text>It seems to me like this is turning into a subreddit migration in slow motion. A lot people still want to post content and a lot of people still want to read content, so what&#x27;s happening is people are posting it to the less popular &#x27;alternative&#x27; versions of the popular subreddits and those posts make the frontpage instead. It seems like there is a noticeable decline in quality but i&#x27;m still seeing quite a bit of posting. Not sure if it&#x27;s having the intended impact or not. I think the missing thing here is a viable, popular alternative. Digg died because reddit existed. If there was a consensus on the next reddit I would think reddit should be much more worried.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>adeon</author><text>I think even though there is no consensus on the next Reddit, this might be another inflection point in Reddit downhill. It might not die on short term but I think being super crappy to your userbase makes you more vulnerable to future competition. I&#x27;m thinking something like what Tiktok did to Instagram or Facebook.<p>I am really hoping the next Reddit is not some megacorp effort.</text></comment> |
6,183,560 | 6,183,185 | 1 | 2 | 6,182,507 | train | <story><title>The costly criminalisation of the mentally ill</title><url>http://www.economist.com/news/united-states/21582535-costly-criminalisation-mentally-ill-locked</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>phren0logy</author><text>I am an HN regular, and a forensic psychiatrist. Every day I work with mentally ill people who have been charged with crimes. I don&#x27;t have much to add here except to say thanks for taking an interest.<p>The mentally ill and the incarcerated are two of the most deeply marginalized groups in our society. It&#x27;s nice that someone outside of our world is thinking about them.</text></comment> | <story><title>The costly criminalisation of the mentally ill</title><url>http://www.economist.com/news/united-states/21582535-costly-criminalisation-mentally-ill-locked</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>auctiontheory</author><text>I see many comments here about developers upset about being treated as &quot;just a developer.&quot;<p>Well, if you want to be respected as more than &quot;just a developer,&quot; you&#x27;ll need to understand more about the real world. Specifically people.<p>If that doesn&#x27;t convince you, look at it this way: healthcare is a huge, growing, and technologically behind-the-curve industry. It offers a huge market for your services. Mental healthcare needs better solutions.<p>Also, I have met my share of severally mentally disturbed developers. So this could be any of us we&#x27;re talking about.</text></comment> |
21,632,223 | 21,631,672 | 1 | 2 | 21,628,573 | train | <story><title>Bye Bye Microsoft Office, Hello LibreOffice</title><url>https://easydns.com/blog/2019/11/25/bye-bye-microsoft-office-hello-libreoffice/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>chadash</author><text>Software engineers opining on Excel vs LibreOffice strikes me as pretty funny. Imagine someone who programs sporadically asking why anyone would pay for intelliJ or Visual Studio.<p>Even if Excel is just marginally better than LibreOffice, if you use it day after day to do your job, the $150&#x2F;year cost is basically nothing (especially when enterprise software that does a lot less can routinely charge $1000&#x2F;user&#x2F;year). Meanwhile, It Just Works™. Plus, it&#x27;s a huge pain to learn something new or deal with the aggravation of compatibility issues. Any LibreOffice document will tend to open up nicely in Word or Excel because otherwise, it&#x27;s worthless if you want to share it with others. But the opposite definitely isn&#x27;t true.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>lucb1e</author><text>You should read the post.<p>&gt; if you use it day after day to do your job, the $150&#x2F;year cost is basically nothing [...] [Excel] Just Works™.<p>From the post:<p>&gt; It’s not that I’m cheap either, I just want something that works according to my preferences, not Microsoft’s.<p>See the post for details about what&#x27;s wrong with Microsoft&#x27;s Office offering.<p>The author even goes on to say:<p>&gt; I took the $319 I was about to spend on an Office license and I donated it to the LibreOffice project, and will just continue to do so every time I have to go through this process.<p>I really don&#x27;t think they&#x27;re as cheap as you make them out to be.<p>And I agree with the sentiment. I&#x27;d also be fine to pay for it, but I don&#x27;t want to have to struggle with emulation layers to get Microsoft&#x27;s crap to work on a non-Microsoft supported operating system (it&#x27;s not as if I can compile it myself), when there is a perfectly fine alternative that does not rely on being a monopoly. If someone has a layout issue with my document, the solution is very simple. If someone has a layout issue with Microsoft-made documents, they expect the other party to pay over a hundred bucks just to open one document (it doesn&#x27;t happen more than once a year to me, so they&#x27;re asking me to pay that for one document). This scheme only works if there is a monopoly because those people wouldn&#x27;t actually themselves pay for two or three licenses just to open other people&#x27;s documents.<p>For me, LibreOffice also works better (ever tried opening a CSV in Excel? It comes out wrong 90% of the time and I don&#x27;t know how, or if, you can change it; LibreOffice Calc just gives you a dialog with the csv settings and a preview of the result), in part because I&#x27;m used to it and no longer used to newer Office versions, it aligns with my ideology more, and on top of all that it&#x27;s free.<p>&quot;Even if [one] is just marginally better than [the other], if you use it day after day to do your job&quot; then indeed it&#x27;s a no-brainer to use LibreOffice instead of pay money for an inferior product.</text></comment> | <story><title>Bye Bye Microsoft Office, Hello LibreOffice</title><url>https://easydns.com/blog/2019/11/25/bye-bye-microsoft-office-hello-libreoffice/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>chadash</author><text>Software engineers opining on Excel vs LibreOffice strikes me as pretty funny. Imagine someone who programs sporadically asking why anyone would pay for intelliJ or Visual Studio.<p>Even if Excel is just marginally better than LibreOffice, if you use it day after day to do your job, the $150&#x2F;year cost is basically nothing (especially when enterprise software that does a lot less can routinely charge $1000&#x2F;user&#x2F;year). Meanwhile, It Just Works™. Plus, it&#x27;s a huge pain to learn something new or deal with the aggravation of compatibility issues. Any LibreOffice document will tend to open up nicely in Word or Excel because otherwise, it&#x27;s worthless if you want to share it with others. But the opposite definitely isn&#x27;t true.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>robocat</author><text>&gt; the $150&#x2F;year cost is basically nothing<p>The cost is a lot higher for Linux developers - you also need a Windows licence and to spend significant time managing a VM (I did that, no more).<p>I boot Linux for my dev machine (because Windows costs me more time).<p>I actually like Excel.<p>(Word and Outlook are toxic waste as far as I am concerned: they frustrate me more than they serve me).</text></comment> |
16,814,595 | 16,814,686 | 1 | 3 | 16,812,950 | train | <story><title>Uber is launching Uber Rent, a rental car service with Getaround</title><url>https://qz.com/1250062/uber-is-launching-uber-rent-a-rental-car-service-with-getaround/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>nlh</author><text>It’s pretty clear now that Uber’s goal is to own the solution to “I need transportation”, not just be a fancy taxi company. It’s ambitious for sure.<p>I need transportation:<p>For 5 minutes, and cheap? Grab an Uber Scooter.<p>For 30 minutes, with sunshine? Grab an Uber Bike<p>For 30 minutes, quickly? Grab an UberX&#x2F;UberPool&#x2F;UberBlack, etc.<p>For a weekend? Grab an Uber Rent.<p>If you frame their goal in these terms, it gives you a pretty good idea what other sort of deals we’ll see coming down the road (boats, aircraft, scooters, etc.)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>DenisM</author><text>Also, Uber Train, Uber Spaceship, Uber Rollerblades ondemand rental, Uber-Nike running shoe sharing, and of course the coveted Uber Slippers for those lazy Sunday afternoon trips to the kitchen...<p>I am still unsure how I fell about the Uber Sofa for the essential null-travel events.</text></comment> | <story><title>Uber is launching Uber Rent, a rental car service with Getaround</title><url>https://qz.com/1250062/uber-is-launching-uber-rent-a-rental-car-service-with-getaround/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>nlh</author><text>It’s pretty clear now that Uber’s goal is to own the solution to “I need transportation”, not just be a fancy taxi company. It’s ambitious for sure.<p>I need transportation:<p>For 5 minutes, and cheap? Grab an Uber Scooter.<p>For 30 minutes, with sunshine? Grab an Uber Bike<p>For 30 minutes, quickly? Grab an UberX&#x2F;UberPool&#x2F;UberBlack, etc.<p>For a weekend? Grab an Uber Rent.<p>If you frame their goal in these terms, it gives you a pretty good idea what other sort of deals we’ll see coming down the road (boats, aircraft, scooters, etc.)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>wpietri</author><text>And I&#x27;ll note that they&#x27;ve already done UberJET as a gimmick a couple of times, and even UberCHOPPER: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;fortune.com&#x2F;2016&#x2F;06&#x2F;17&#x2F;uber-uberjet-romania&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;fortune.com&#x2F;2016&#x2F;06&#x2F;17&#x2F;uber-uberjet-romania&#x2F;</a><p>As interesting and PR-friendly as it is, it seems to add a lot of complexity at a time where Uber is already struggling. My impression is that troubled companies usually benefit from focus on the core.</text></comment> |
8,660,208 | 8,659,151 | 1 | 3 | 8,658,879 | train | <story><title>Visualizing distributions of data</title><url>http://nbviewer.ipython.org/github/mwaskom/seaborn/blob/master/examples/plotting_distributions.ipynb</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>skeletonjelly</author><text>Really loving these ipython visualisation articles!<p>There was one about detecting bubbles in liquid for the purposes of reducing spilling that was very interesting<p><a href="http://nbviewer.ipython.org/github/soft-matter/trackpy-examples/blob/master/notebooks/custom_feature_detection.ipynb" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;nbviewer.ipython.org&#x2F;github&#x2F;soft-matter&#x2F;trackpy-examp...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Visualizing distributions of data</title><url>http://nbviewer.ipython.org/github/mwaskom/seaborn/blob/master/examples/plotting_distributions.ipynb</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>stared</author><text>I find it nicer than bare-bone matplotlib for plotting (one line of code per standard plot + very pleasant graphically).<p>I knew that it exists for some time (and I had it already installed) but only today I rediscovered it as a really useful tool for default plots in my data analysis &#x2F; data exploration.</text></comment> |
12,139,901 | 12,139,858 | 1 | 2 | 12,139,627 | train | <story><title>What If There Just Aren’t Enough Jobs to Go Around?</title><url>http://blogs.wsj.com/economics/2016/07/21/what-if-there-just-arent-enough-jobs-to-go-around/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>TheOtherHobbes</author><text>No, the problem is misallocation of labor.<p>There&#x27;s a huge to-do list of jobs that need to be done at almost every level, from design and build of significant infrastructure in most countries around the world, to community-level support work.<p>It would be perfectly possible to retrain the long term unemployed for all but the most difficult design and management elements.<p>They&#x27;re not done because the metrics of Wall St deem them &quot;not profitable&quot; - which means traders can&#x27;t make quick gains out of them.<p>Allocating labor on the basis of whether or not traders and stock owners can profit in the short to medium term turns out to be an unintelligent way to strategise an economy.</text></item><item><author>criley2</author><text>Is the &quot;infinite work hypothesis&quot; finally ending??<p>The answer to &quot;what happens to workers being replaced&quot; has always been &quot;they&#x27;ll find jobs elsewhere, every time you make a job redundant you create other new jobs&quot;, what I&#x27;ve seen called the &quot;infinite work hypothesis&quot; where there will always be new work and the problem is agility, job training, not demand.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>welanes</author><text>&gt; There&#x27;s a huge to-do list of jobs that need to be done at almost every level, from design and build of significant infrastructure in most countries around the world, to community-level support work.<p>But not the money to pay for these jobs.<p>&gt; It would be perfectly possible to retrain the long term unemployed.<p>But who pays for this training?<p>&gt; Allocating labor on the basis of whether or not traders and stock owners can profit in the short to medium term turns out to be an unintelligent way to strategise an economy.<p>Most companies are not publicly traded. These companies are not hiring the unemployed because they either don&#x27;t need them or can&#x27;t afford to (negative return on investment). The bottom-line matters to Mom &amp; Pop stores as much as it does to big Corps.</text></comment> | <story><title>What If There Just Aren’t Enough Jobs to Go Around?</title><url>http://blogs.wsj.com/economics/2016/07/21/what-if-there-just-arent-enough-jobs-to-go-around/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>TheOtherHobbes</author><text>No, the problem is misallocation of labor.<p>There&#x27;s a huge to-do list of jobs that need to be done at almost every level, from design and build of significant infrastructure in most countries around the world, to community-level support work.<p>It would be perfectly possible to retrain the long term unemployed for all but the most difficult design and management elements.<p>They&#x27;re not done because the metrics of Wall St deem them &quot;not profitable&quot; - which means traders can&#x27;t make quick gains out of them.<p>Allocating labor on the basis of whether or not traders and stock owners can profit in the short to medium term turns out to be an unintelligent way to strategise an economy.</text></item><item><author>criley2</author><text>Is the &quot;infinite work hypothesis&quot; finally ending??<p>The answer to &quot;what happens to workers being replaced&quot; has always been &quot;they&#x27;ll find jobs elsewhere, every time you make a job redundant you create other new jobs&quot;, what I&#x27;ve seen called the &quot;infinite work hypothesis&quot; where there will always be new work and the problem is agility, job training, not demand.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>forgotpwtomain</author><text>&gt; Allocating labor on the basis of whether or not traders and stock owners can profit in the short to medium term turns out to be an unintelligent way to strategise an economy.<p>And yet, this turns out to be the most succesful strategy civilization has used so far.</text></comment> |
39,524,201 | 39,524,322 | 1 | 2 | 39,522,798 | train | <story><title>Rainwater everywhere on the planet is unsafe to drink due to chemicals (2022)</title><url>https://phys.org/news/2022-08-rainwater-unsafe-due-chemicals.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>nostrademons</author><text>I went and did some research, and have a friend who&#x27;s a material scientist. The harms of PFAS are pretty substantial. Teflon is nasty; if you can do without it in your cookware, you probably should.<p>However, statistically the things that are most likely to prevent you from passing on your genes are:<p><pre><code> 1. Not making enough money.
2. Anxiety&#x2F;depression
3. Drug overdoses
4. Car accidents
5. An unhappy family life
6. Swimming pools
</code></pre>
And on that list of offspring averted, PFAS basically don&#x27;t register. You are much better off making sure you get into a good career, talking to your kids about drugs, being very careful when you drive, and otherwise not sweating the small things than obsessing about forever-chemicals in the atmosphere.</text></item><item><author>hn_throwaway_99</author><text>I feel like that&#x27;s taking the commenter&#x27;s quote out of context, or at least missing the point. They aren&#x27;t arguing that PFAS aren&#x27;t everywhere, or even that they aren&#x27;t harmful. They&#x27;re arguing that, in the grand scheme of things, the harm produced by PFAS to humans is relatively inconsequential, especially when you consider all the improvements that technology, broadly, has brought to the human condition.<p>To emphasize, I think that point is very debatable, but I don&#x27;t know enough about the real harms of PFAS to comment. But I <i>do</i> think it&#x27;s valid to have a substantive debate on the true harms of PFAS, even if the other side of that debate is that comparing ourselves now to a time when the majority of kids died is the wrong yardstick.</text></item><item><author>tomxor</author><text>&gt; I think what&#x27;s changed most is our standards.<p>PFAS didn&#x27;t exist 75 years ago. Now we&#x27;ve almost permanently contaminated our environment and atmosphere with it, that&#x27;s quite a big change.</text></item><item><author>nostrademons</author><text>&gt; However, Cousins noted that PFAS levels in people have actually dropped &quot;quite significantly in the last 20 years&quot; and &quot;ambient levels (of PFAS in the environment) have been the same for the past 20 years&quot;.<p>&gt; &quot;What&#x27;s changed is the guidelines. They&#x27;ve gone down millions of times since the early 2000s, because we&#x27;ve learned more about the toxicity of these substances.&quot;<p>I think what&#x27;s changed most is our standards. Used to be if you survived to reproduce, you were doing pretty good. Extra points if you got to watch your kids grow up. Now the standard is basically &quot;Every substance that can be demonstrated to have worse health outcomes than its absence is toxic&quot; - which on a technical level is <i>true</i>, and might even be what you <i>care about</i>, but you also need take a bigger-picture perspective and weigh it against all the other risks of ordinary living you face.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nonrandomstring</author><text>What is remarkable here is that every single thing you say is correct.<p>Everything on your statistical list looks right, and can probably be
proven by a stack of peer-reviewed scientific studies from medicine,
sociology, psychology...<p>And yet as an <i>argument</i>, it&#x27;s worthless. Worse... it&#x27;s dangerous.<p>Because in your schema, the impact of climate change, pollution and
other threats that will <i>end this species</i> each rank as zero! You get
to &quot;pass on your genes&quot; merely to consign a few hundred of your
descendents to a miserable death.<p>This is the tyranny of instrumental reason that you so cleverly use
against the goal (reproduction of genes) that you purport to champion.</text></comment> | <story><title>Rainwater everywhere on the planet is unsafe to drink due to chemicals (2022)</title><url>https://phys.org/news/2022-08-rainwater-unsafe-due-chemicals.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>nostrademons</author><text>I went and did some research, and have a friend who&#x27;s a material scientist. The harms of PFAS are pretty substantial. Teflon is nasty; if you can do without it in your cookware, you probably should.<p>However, statistically the things that are most likely to prevent you from passing on your genes are:<p><pre><code> 1. Not making enough money.
2. Anxiety&#x2F;depression
3. Drug overdoses
4. Car accidents
5. An unhappy family life
6. Swimming pools
</code></pre>
And on that list of offspring averted, PFAS basically don&#x27;t register. You are much better off making sure you get into a good career, talking to your kids about drugs, being very careful when you drive, and otherwise not sweating the small things than obsessing about forever-chemicals in the atmosphere.</text></item><item><author>hn_throwaway_99</author><text>I feel like that&#x27;s taking the commenter&#x27;s quote out of context, or at least missing the point. They aren&#x27;t arguing that PFAS aren&#x27;t everywhere, or even that they aren&#x27;t harmful. They&#x27;re arguing that, in the grand scheme of things, the harm produced by PFAS to humans is relatively inconsequential, especially when you consider all the improvements that technology, broadly, has brought to the human condition.<p>To emphasize, I think that point is very debatable, but I don&#x27;t know enough about the real harms of PFAS to comment. But I <i>do</i> think it&#x27;s valid to have a substantive debate on the true harms of PFAS, even if the other side of that debate is that comparing ourselves now to a time when the majority of kids died is the wrong yardstick.</text></item><item><author>tomxor</author><text>&gt; I think what&#x27;s changed most is our standards.<p>PFAS didn&#x27;t exist 75 years ago. Now we&#x27;ve almost permanently contaminated our environment and atmosphere with it, that&#x27;s quite a big change.</text></item><item><author>nostrademons</author><text>&gt; However, Cousins noted that PFAS levels in people have actually dropped &quot;quite significantly in the last 20 years&quot; and &quot;ambient levels (of PFAS in the environment) have been the same for the past 20 years&quot;.<p>&gt; &quot;What&#x27;s changed is the guidelines. They&#x27;ve gone down millions of times since the early 2000s, because we&#x27;ve learned more about the toxicity of these substances.&quot;<p>I think what&#x27;s changed most is our standards. Used to be if you survived to reproduce, you were doing pretty good. Extra points if you got to watch your kids grow up. Now the standard is basically &quot;Every substance that can be demonstrated to have worse health outcomes than its absence is toxic&quot; - which on a technical level is <i>true</i>, and might even be what you <i>care about</i>, but you also need take a bigger-picture perspective and weigh it against all the other risks of ordinary living you face.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>joe8756438</author><text>Swimming pools because of drowning or chemical exposure?</text></comment> |
14,996,606 | 14,995,607 | 1 | 3 | 14,993,756 | train | <story><title>Britain's Forgotten Bike Highways</title><url>https://www.citylab.com/transportation/2017/05/bike-lane-highway-network-united-kingdom-bike-boom/527226</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mintone</author><text>If you are carrying nothing. If you need to carry anything larger than a laptop bag &#x2F; backpack then a bike becomes highly impractical very, very quickly.</text></item><item><author>thescarzy</author><text>I really hope that the bicycle makes a comeback that we can attribute to increased urbanisation. It makes so much sense as a mode of transport in and around cities.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>drsim</author><text>Or: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Freight_bicycle" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Freight_bicycle</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Britain's Forgotten Bike Highways</title><url>https://www.citylab.com/transportation/2017/05/bike-lane-highway-network-united-kingdom-bike-boom/527226</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mintone</author><text>If you are carrying nothing. If you need to carry anything larger than a laptop bag &#x2F; backpack then a bike becomes highly impractical very, very quickly.</text></item><item><author>thescarzy</author><text>I really hope that the bicycle makes a comeback that we can attribute to increased urbanisation. It makes so much sense as a mode of transport in and around cities.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jdavis703</author><text>I carry a couple days worth of groceries home regularly -- on a skateboard of all things. I can even get eggs back home without breaking them. And there&#x27;s also a laptop in my bag since I&#x27;m picking these up on the way back from work.</text></comment> |
29,776,723 | 29,776,187 | 1 | 3 | 29,775,023 | train | <story><title>An Algorithm for Passing Programming Interviews (2020)</title><url>https://malisper.me/an-algorithm-for-passing-programming-interviews/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mrfusion</author><text>I’ve gotten interview questions I’d recently solved and my problem was it was too easy. I had trouble acting like it was the right amount of struggle. Is there a trick for that?</text></item><item><author>arduinomancer</author><text>Interviews are really a dumb game these days so if you want to really game it you can go with a statistical approach:<p>* Practice questions by company on LeetCode, sort by frequency of last 6 months and work down the list, do maybe 75-100, the list updates once a week<p>* Search for the company on the LeetCode forums and sort by most recent. If a question is not on LC yet it will likely get posted there, so you can get really fresh intel.<p>I&#x27;ve read of people doing this and getting like 6&#x2F;6 questions they&#x27;ve seen before.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>benlivengood</author><text>I&#x27;ve interviewed folks for FAANG roles. If you know how to solve the problem already, just tell the interviewer up front. Either they have another question or they will go deeper into a discussion about why and how you solved it the way you did, testing it, other approaches and why they are or are not good tradeoffs, etc.<p>It&#x27;s pretty obvious to interviewers if you&#x27;ve solved a problem before, and we appreciate the honesty. Interviews are not adversarial; they&#x27;re to see if a candidate is a good fit for the role and dishonesty is never a good fit.</text></comment> | <story><title>An Algorithm for Passing Programming Interviews (2020)</title><url>https://malisper.me/an-algorithm-for-passing-programming-interviews/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mrfusion</author><text>I’ve gotten interview questions I’d recently solved and my problem was it was too easy. I had trouble acting like it was the right amount of struggle. Is there a trick for that?</text></item><item><author>arduinomancer</author><text>Interviews are really a dumb game these days so if you want to really game it you can go with a statistical approach:<p>* Practice questions by company on LeetCode, sort by frequency of last 6 months and work down the list, do maybe 75-100, the list updates once a week<p>* Search for the company on the LeetCode forums and sort by most recent. If a question is not on LC yet it will likely get posted there, so you can get really fresh intel.<p>I&#x27;ve read of people doing this and getting like 6&#x2F;6 questions they&#x27;ve seen before.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kortilla</author><text>Empty your bowel into your underwear. It’s all a show anyway, at least make it a good one.</text></comment> |
23,658,890 | 23,657,380 | 1 | 2 | 23,648,803 | train | <story><title>Extraordinary ‘megaflash’ lightning strikes cover several hundred kilometres</title><url>https://news.un.org/en/story/2020/06/1067182</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mikeInAlaska</author><text>The lot next to where I live has a cell tower which gets hit now and then. It is ... way beyond.. loud. The last time it happened all my pets were in front of me within 10 seconds after, as if saying &quot;Pardon sir, we are not programmed for this event! Please advise!&quot;.<p>The induced EMF in my long cables like cat-5 throughout the house and my outdoor observatory also takes out motherboards, DSL interfaces and ethernet adapters each time. These days when I hear thunder I start unplugging devices.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jameshart</author><text>Lightning seems particularly tough on high frequency signal processing hardware. A lightning strike on an invisible dog fence the previous owners had left in place around our house fried, along with a couple of ethernet ports, every HDMI connector that was plugged in in one particular room at the time. Rest of the devices continued to function perfectly, but those HDMI input&#x2F;outputs were cooked. Similar HDMI devices in another room were totally unaffected. My working theory is that the devices in the affected room were plugged in to multiple power sockets, giving a longer antenna loop through the sensitive components, while in the unaffected room all the devices were running off the same power strip. Would explain why ethernet - connecting devices in different rooms - also seems vulnerable.<p>Not much more evidence to go on, so it&#x27;s largely superstition, but as a result I do generally try to keep my whole AV setup - game console, TV, AV receiver, etc. - plugged into a single power strip now.<p>I also now have a cat who is <i>exceptionally</i> nervous whenever he hears thunder. My wife and son were home at the time and... yes, the sound of a lightning strike at point blank is not just <i>loud</i>, it&#x27;s.. like a crack in the world.</text></comment> | <story><title>Extraordinary ‘megaflash’ lightning strikes cover several hundred kilometres</title><url>https://news.un.org/en/story/2020/06/1067182</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mikeInAlaska</author><text>The lot next to where I live has a cell tower which gets hit now and then. It is ... way beyond.. loud. The last time it happened all my pets were in front of me within 10 seconds after, as if saying &quot;Pardon sir, we are not programmed for this event! Please advise!&quot;.<p>The induced EMF in my long cables like cat-5 throughout the house and my outdoor observatory also takes out motherboards, DSL interfaces and ethernet adapters each time. These days when I hear thunder I start unplugging devices.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nkrisc</author><text>I was once walking along a soccer field in Costa Rica during the daily afternoon shower in the rainy season. Suddenly the entire sky beyond the treeline turned completely white. It was like I was looking at a black and white silhouette of the treeline. At the same moment I heard the loudest sound I&#x27;ve ever heard. It was like an explosion; I could feel the ground tremble. I have no idea how close the strike was, only that the sound and lightning were simultaneous from my perspective. It honestly could have been just on the other side of the trees across the field, or maybe half a kilometer away, I couldn&#x27;t tell you. All I can say for sure is I ran like hell to the nearest house.<p>I&#x27;m not regularly around explosions and such so I&#x27;ve never experienced anything like that before or since.</text></comment> |
15,827,746 | 15,827,704 | 1 | 2 | 15,826,953 | train | <story><title>AT&T wants you to forget that it blocked FaceTime over cellular in 2012</title><url>https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2017/12/att-says-it-never-blocked-apps-fails-to-mention-how-it-blocked-facetime/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>tech2</author><text>It&#x27;s not just Facetime, there&#x27;s all manner of related stuff. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.freepress.net&#x2F;blog&#x2F;2017&#x2F;04&#x2F;25&#x2F;net-neutrality-violations-brief-history" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.freepress.net&#x2F;blog&#x2F;2017&#x2F;04&#x2F;25&#x2F;net-neutrality-vio...</a><p>Each time I see a NN post I&#x27;m generally too late and it&#x27;s been run rampant with defenders of &quot;light touch&quot; regulation... no, just no. If the companies had competition, then, maybe. Sadly they&#x27;re entrenched monopolies (and more are merging each day, further limiting choice). NN is the way to go.</text></comment> | <story><title>AT&T wants you to forget that it blocked FaceTime over cellular in 2012</title><url>https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2017/12/att-says-it-never-blocked-apps-fails-to-mention-how-it-blocked-facetime/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>basseq</author><text>I&#x27;d forgotten this! The dark ages of iPhone on AT&amp;T. Seems... quant, now, doesn&#x27;t it?<p><pre><code> We never will, but it’s very important that we be able
to. But we won’t. So let us do it. Because we won’t do
it. Which is why we’re spending so much money to make
sure we can. But we won’t. But let us.
</code></pre>
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32,461,350 | 32,461,252 | 1 | 2 | 32,424,755 | train | <story><title>The four pillars of data observability: metrics, metadata, lineage, and logs</title><url>https://www.metaplane.dev/blog/the-four-pillars-of-data-observability</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>pbowyer</author><text>We&#x27;re good at logging text, but how do you handle logging assets (images, audio - anything non-textual but generated) and associating them with your logs?<p>For example an image processing pipeline. You don&#x27;t always want to log (it&#x27;d never scale) but as part of a trace you might want to keep the intermediate files so you can track down where the problem is. You&#x27;ve already got text logging for each step, recording metrics like duration and which filters were involved. I have saved files and referenced them in the logfile, but no log viewers I&#x27;ve seen understand anything beyond text. So I then have to build my own UI or open the images in turn.<p>Is there a pattern to handle this?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kzh_</author><text>+1 on existing log viewers being particularly well suited for text over non-textual assets. My experience here is limited but I believe Grafana has a dynamic image plugin if you store a link to an asset in blob storage or Base64 encode it.<p>I&#x27;ve also heard of people storing those links in a database like Snowflake then creating displays on top using Tableau or Looker, to avoid having to build a web app from scratch.</text></comment> | <story><title>The four pillars of data observability: metrics, metadata, lineage, and logs</title><url>https://www.metaplane.dev/blog/the-four-pillars-of-data-observability</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>pbowyer</author><text>We&#x27;re good at logging text, but how do you handle logging assets (images, audio - anything non-textual but generated) and associating them with your logs?<p>For example an image processing pipeline. You don&#x27;t always want to log (it&#x27;d never scale) but as part of a trace you might want to keep the intermediate files so you can track down where the problem is. You&#x27;ve already got text logging for each step, recording metrics like duration and which filters were involved. I have saved files and referenced them in the logfile, but no log viewers I&#x27;ve seen understand anything beyond text. So I then have to build my own UI or open the images in turn.<p>Is there a pattern to handle this?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nerdponx</author><text>It might be interesting to have something like &quot;statistical logging&quot;, which saves the intermediate image files 1% of the time and discards them after 30 days.</text></comment> |
14,255,381 | 14,255,304 | 1 | 3 | 14,255,031 | train | <story><title>Review of “Adults in the Room” by Yanis Varoufakis</title><url>https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/may/03/yanis-varoufakis-greece-greatest-political-memoir</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>IslaDeEncanta</author><text>Varoufakis is a hero to the international working class. His most recent book before this one is also excellent.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mc32</author><text>He&#x27;s an interesting guy no doubt, but accounts tell us he was just doing his job. When he went to Germany and tried to force their hands by feigning he might grexit, to his amazement the private response was more or less, how can we help you gtecit? Despite appearances, he did not want grexit and was a ploy to get better terms, but the ecb had already discounted Greece.<p>At least he tried, for sure.</text></comment> | <story><title>Review of “Adults in the Room” by Yanis Varoufakis</title><url>https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/may/03/yanis-varoufakis-greece-greatest-political-memoir</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>IslaDeEncanta</author><text>Varoufakis is a hero to the international working class. His most recent book before this one is also excellent.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pif</author><text>Why? What did he do, apart from letting the Greeks believe they could choose not to refund the debt?</text></comment> |
23,565,741 | 23,565,885 | 1 | 3 | 23,565,192 | train | <story><title>Mozilla VPN</title><url>https://blog.mozilla.org/futurereleases/2020/06/18/introducing-firefox-private-network-vpns-official-product-the-mozilla-vpn/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Jonnax</author><text>Ask yourself why you want a VPN.<p>Is it to avoid your ISP collecting browsing data off you and selling it?<p>Perhaps using 8.8.8.8 or 1.1.1.1 as your DNS might be good enough.<p>Is it to watch geo region blocked videos?<p>Then pretty much any service will work for you. Except that video streaming sites have caught on and blocked hosting provider IP blocks.
So that might require you to shop around.<p>Do you want the most privacy or want to get around blocking?<p>Then get a VM from a provider and configure a VPN to it.
Wireguard works fine.<p>Want to do something illegal?<p>Don&#x27;t expect a VPN to save you.</text></item><item><author>haunter</author><text>Every single time I start researching VPN services I end up more confused and with more questions than before because basically every vouched service has the same amount of negative comments too. Like feels like the whole sector is a honeypot (lol) of shady stuff and also they figthing against each other (or not?). So I just wait until when turns out Mullvad is also one of the bad guys.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>badRNG</author><text>&gt;Want to do something illegal? Don&#x27;t expect a VPN to save you.<p>I&#x27;m not condoning piracy, but VPNs are generally a foolproof way to avoid DMCA letters from your ISP. Privacy means something different to every individual, everyone&#x27;s threat model is different. And many models can benefit from a VPN; journalists, activists, and many others might find benefit from using a VPN.</text></comment> | <story><title>Mozilla VPN</title><url>https://blog.mozilla.org/futurereleases/2020/06/18/introducing-firefox-private-network-vpns-official-product-the-mozilla-vpn/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Jonnax</author><text>Ask yourself why you want a VPN.<p>Is it to avoid your ISP collecting browsing data off you and selling it?<p>Perhaps using 8.8.8.8 or 1.1.1.1 as your DNS might be good enough.<p>Is it to watch geo region blocked videos?<p>Then pretty much any service will work for you. Except that video streaming sites have caught on and blocked hosting provider IP blocks.
So that might require you to shop around.<p>Do you want the most privacy or want to get around blocking?<p>Then get a VM from a provider and configure a VPN to it.
Wireguard works fine.<p>Want to do something illegal?<p>Don&#x27;t expect a VPN to save you.</text></item><item><author>haunter</author><text>Every single time I start researching VPN services I end up more confused and with more questions than before because basically every vouched service has the same amount of negative comments too. Like feels like the whole sector is a honeypot (lol) of shady stuff and also they figthing against each other (or not?). So I just wait until when turns out Mullvad is also one of the bad guys.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Maximus9000</author><text>&gt; Is it to avoid your ISP collecting browsing data off you and selling it? Perhaps using 8.8.8.8 or 1.1.1.1 as your DNS might be good enough.<p>Wouldn&#x27;t your ISP still see what IP&#x27;s you are visiting? Then, your ISP could just reverse DNS that IP to get the domain name, right?</text></comment> |
34,704,664 | 34,704,113 | 1 | 2 | 34,700,883 | train | <story><title>Nintendo Will Pay Its Workers 10% More</title><url>https://www.gamespot.com/articles/nintendo-will-pay-its-workers-10-more/1100-6511268/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>habibur</author><text>I was wondering why software industry didn&#x27;t take off in Japan like in the USA.<p>Now I know. It&#x27;s the employment rules that makes firing people hard once recruited.</text></item><item><author>laurieg</author><text>Japanese employment law is a bit of a double edged sword. It&#x27;s very difficult to fire employees, so if you hire someone on a high salary and it turns out they weren&#x27;t worth it you are now stuck with an employee for years or decades. You basically have to show that employee is malicious to get rid of them. Low wages is one way to soften this risk.<p>The other side of this is many people are not full time employees. Dispatch (派遣) employees are employed by one company and then sent to work alongside regular employees at other companies, with the dispatch company taking a good slice. The employer is now able to shrink their workforce more easily and the employee gets a smaller piece of the pie.<p>Simply writing a temporary contract might not even be enough. Recent changes to the law say that if you have been on temporary contract that is renewed for 5 years then you have the right to full time employment with the same conditions. Now you see plenty of people getting let go at 4 years, just to be on the safe side.</text></item><item><author>nickpeterson</author><text>I’ve always heard that Japanese software developers were very poorly paid compared to their us counterparts. This 10% might be pretty terrible if your peers received large raises for years beforehand.<p>I do feel like something is off with Nintendo, their games seem very scarce recently. Either they’re launching a new system this year at e3 or Covid really messed up their dev practices.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>diceduckmonk</author><text>It&#x27;s much more complex than that.<p>Japan has the lowest TOEFL score in Asia amongst 30+ countries. English proficiency is much higher in both advanced and developing Asian economies. This is not inherently a blocker for software development, but it reflects a trend counter to globalization and being receptive to American practices.<p>Japan has less billionaires than both Hong Kong, SK and Taiwan, all of which have a fraction of the population. Tax policy is one part of this, but there is a cultural aversion to risk taking. The typical apartment lease is 2+ years, which reflects the sense to long term commitment. There&#x27;s also more restrictive regulation and actually following policies to the tee. Even human-powered bicycles require registration and not too powerful e-bikes requires license plates, registration, insurance. All of this means there are less startups, less startup ecosystem, less hackers. Heck, Indonesia has since grown a more vibrant startup ecosystem and even deca-unicorns.<p>Also reigning in from Japan&#x27;s manufacturing era is prioritizing reliability and virtueing craft. Japan is still building appliances and electronics that last decades, which is at odds with the SDLC chasing shiny new features for smartphones every year. Unfortunately, consumers have spoke with their wallets that they value updates more than reliability. Ironically, Japan&#x27;s software is pretty crap and not reliable. My bank is one of the more vibrants one, going through a DX digital experience &#x2F; &quot;digital transformation&quot; as it is called, but all of the technology, hardware and software is atrocious. It&#x27;s been the second time within a year where my ATM card has stopped working because it&#x27;s gotten demagnetized. It&#x27;s a lot of security theater.</text></comment> | <story><title>Nintendo Will Pay Its Workers 10% More</title><url>https://www.gamespot.com/articles/nintendo-will-pay-its-workers-10-more/1100-6511268/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>habibur</author><text>I was wondering why software industry didn&#x27;t take off in Japan like in the USA.<p>Now I know. It&#x27;s the employment rules that makes firing people hard once recruited.</text></item><item><author>laurieg</author><text>Japanese employment law is a bit of a double edged sword. It&#x27;s very difficult to fire employees, so if you hire someone on a high salary and it turns out they weren&#x27;t worth it you are now stuck with an employee for years or decades. You basically have to show that employee is malicious to get rid of them. Low wages is one way to soften this risk.<p>The other side of this is many people are not full time employees. Dispatch (派遣) employees are employed by one company and then sent to work alongside regular employees at other companies, with the dispatch company taking a good slice. The employer is now able to shrink their workforce more easily and the employee gets a smaller piece of the pie.<p>Simply writing a temporary contract might not even be enough. Recent changes to the law say that if you have been on temporary contract that is renewed for 5 years then you have the right to full time employment with the same conditions. Now you see plenty of people getting let go at 4 years, just to be on the safe side.</text></item><item><author>nickpeterson</author><text>I’ve always heard that Japanese software developers were very poorly paid compared to their us counterparts. This 10% might be pretty terrible if your peers received large raises for years beforehand.<p>I do feel like something is off with Nintendo, their games seem very scarce recently. Either they’re launching a new system this year at e3 or Covid really messed up their dev practices.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>htag</author><text>There&#x27;s always more than one reason for such a complex question. It would be just as fair to say the Japanese economy was more focused on manufacturing then services when the software industry really started to boom and by the time they transitioned to a service based economy their population was skewed too old to be a major player in the new industry.</text></comment> |
16,364,177 | 16,361,604 | 1 | 2 | 16,360,890 | train | <story><title>Hidden work when launching a SaaS</title><url>https://workshop.kwoosh.com/post/the-hidden-work-when-launching-a-saas.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>mrkurt</author><text>This is hidden work for running a function SaaS, not launching one.<p>The trick to launching a SaaS is picking the right things to _not do_. Some of the fun of a SaaS is iterating on everything from product features to pricing to support tooling. It&#x27;s very difficult to get pricing, trial periods, and billing model right on the first try. So usually you&#x27;re better off doing less of that, and figuring it out later.<p>And you really don&#x27;t need a crazy sophisticated drip email setup. Doing email marketing for existing users and new signups right is something that will get you incremental gains. If you convert 5% better when you have 1000 signups per month, you&#x27;ll be happy. If you convert 5% better when you have 10 signups per month you&#x27;ll never even know.<p>Silly as it sounds, if you spend more than an hour or two thinking about sales tax before launch, you&#x27;re wasting time. Screwing up sales tax at launch will not kill you. _Skipping sales tax entirely_ at launch will not kill you. In fact, very little that can go wrong will kill you. You&#x27;re probably going to die because you didn&#x27;t make enough go right.</text></comment> | <story><title>Hidden work when launching a SaaS</title><url>https://workshop.kwoosh.com/post/the-hidden-work-when-launching-a-saas.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>dalfonso</author><text>Yes, these are the &quot;features&quot; that really bog down the excitement when trying to launch -- user invites, user profiles, billing, transactional emails, password reset, file upload, PDF conversion, free trial capability, coupon code capability, shared accounts, PERMISSIONS, etc. Then you get to the next level -- search, caching, deploying.<p>Not exactly in the same vein as the others, but I&#x27;ve never seen soft-deletes done really well either i.e. the user can &quot;delete&quot; something but it still lives in the database. It&#x27;s one of those features that sounds good but when it comes time to implement, it ends up being more trouble than it&#x27;s worth.</text></comment> |
27,030,829 | 27,030,307 | 1 | 3 | 27,029,776 | train | <story><title>Show HN: I built Grafar, a visualization library</title><url>https://thoughtspile.github.io/grafar?new</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>mkl</author><text>This looks neat! I think you really need a gallery page that shows all the kinds of things that are possible.<p>Is there a way to make the background transparent, so you just see the page background behind the plot? I have a project that needs that, and for 2D plots we&#x27;re doing it with JSXGraph, but for 3D we&#x27;ve been using GeoGebra so far, and the figures look like something else embedded rather than an intrinsic part of the page.</text></comment> | <story><title>Show HN: I built Grafar, a visualization library</title><url>https://thoughtspile.github.io/grafar?new</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>krono</author><text>This is awesome! More amazing still is that my Macbook 16&quot; isn&#x27;t even going into VTOL&#x2F;Artic emergency space heater mode when playing with the demos!<p>These sort of graphs always manage to surprise me with these hidden patterns that the brain thinks it recognises but never seems to be able to pinpoint.<p>Wish I knew what to do with a library like this in a personal project. Sadly, mathematics isn&#x27;t exactly my biggest strength...<p>If anyone has any cool graphs or visualisations with hidden patterns or meaning to share I&#x27;d love to see them. And to stay on topic and to not hijack the thread: bonus points if they were (re)created using OP&#x27;s lib :)</text></comment> |
16,610,456 | 16,610,205 | 1 | 2 | 16,609,379 | train | <story><title>NIH Courted Alcohol Industry to Fund Study on Benefits of Moderate Drinking</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/17/health/nih-alcohol-study-liquor-industry.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tabeth</author><text>This should shock no one. Health wise, alcohol is bad for you. Period. However the potential decrease in loneliness and potential resulting friendships may negate the health negatives somewhat. However the increased likelihood of injuring yourself and&#x2F;or others with too much consumption may negate that, and so forth.<p>This is exactly why it&#x27;s difficult to properly control for the supposed <i>moderate</i> drinking that&#x27;s &quot;healthy&quot;. Sooo many ways to explain why &quot;moderate&quot; drinkers are healthier:<p>1. Maybe they&#x27;re a self selected group of people who can properly moderate usage of something that&#x27;s bad in order to get the benefits, in this case, friendships and social activity.<p>2. Maybe drinking is bad and moderate drinkers know it. Therefore moderate drinkers intentionally moderate their drinking and overcompensate in other miscellaneous healthy activity.<p>etc etc etc</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>brownbat</author><text>There was a good meta analysis in 2016 on this, you lose the mortality benefits of moderate drinking once you correct for study design, which can basically dictate results here. One big confound, a lot of current strict abstainers are former heavy drinkers with serious health problems:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov&#x2F;m&#x2F;pubmed&#x2F;26997174&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov&#x2F;m&#x2F;pubmed&#x2F;26997174&#x2F;</a></text></comment> | <story><title>NIH Courted Alcohol Industry to Fund Study on Benefits of Moderate Drinking</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/17/health/nih-alcohol-study-liquor-industry.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tabeth</author><text>This should shock no one. Health wise, alcohol is bad for you. Period. However the potential decrease in loneliness and potential resulting friendships may negate the health negatives somewhat. However the increased likelihood of injuring yourself and&#x2F;or others with too much consumption may negate that, and so forth.<p>This is exactly why it&#x27;s difficult to properly control for the supposed <i>moderate</i> drinking that&#x27;s &quot;healthy&quot;. Sooo many ways to explain why &quot;moderate&quot; drinkers are healthier:<p>1. Maybe they&#x27;re a self selected group of people who can properly moderate usage of something that&#x27;s bad in order to get the benefits, in this case, friendships and social activity.<p>2. Maybe drinking is bad and moderate drinkers know it. Therefore moderate drinkers intentionally moderate their drinking and overcompensate in other miscellaneous healthy activity.<p>etc etc etc</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>seanmcdirmid</author><text>The same could be said about smoking. Bad for you without a doubt, but the social aspects are undeniably attractive (and I don’t mean looking cool, but having reasons to take and socialize during breaks). It made giving it up that much tougher.</text></comment> |
41,302,258 | 41,302,267 | 1 | 2 | 41,301,447 | train | <story><title>Exposure to the Sun's UV radiation may be good for you</title><url>https://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/2024/08/12/exposure-to-the-suns-uv-radiation-may-be-good-for-you</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>klipt</author><text>But some people think that just popping a vitamin D pill gives you all the benefits of sun exposure without the downsides.<p>Research on all cause mortality disagrees. Some sun exposure reduces all cause mortality even if you already take vitamin D.</text></item><item><author>Aurornis</author><text>&gt; But I don&#x27;t understand why people seem so resistant to the idea that some sun is probably beneficial.<p>There are some people who believe this, but Vitamin D and sun exposure have been a popular topic for a very long time now. It’s getting harder to find people who think that avoiding all sun exposure is a good idea.<p>The most confusing part appears to be the idea that wearing sunscreen is equivalent to avoiding UV exposure. Sunscreen reduces UV exposure, but does not completely eliminate it. This misconception has produced a lot of people who think “sunscreen bad” because “UV good”. You can get moderate UV exposure while wearing sunscreen.</text></item><item><author>taeric</author><text>This always strikes me as a tough discussion. With the odd hostility between the two extremes of &quot;all sun is bad exposure&quot; and &quot;you should get more sun.&quot; With the later taken to be &quot;all sun is good exposure.&quot;<p>Just observing a typical yard, it is easy to see that grass can both have too much and too little sun. Indeed, cover it up and it will die. Expose it to direct sun all day for several days with no water and it will similarly die. (Well, not similarly, it will die in a different way.)<p>I realize we don&#x27;t photosynthesize, and burning is clearly bad for us. But I don&#x27;t understand why people seem so resistant to the idea that some sun is probably beneficial.<p>I also realize that literally &quot;basking in the sun&quot; is almost certainly taking it too far. :(</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Aerroon</author><text>But what doses did they take in the research? Vitamin D RDA has been increased by like 5-10x recently in some countries (others are still lagging behind), because the RDA that we&#x27;ve used for decades had a calculation error.<p>If the studies dosed vitamin D based on recommendations then it shouldn&#x27;t be surprising that supplementing vitamin D didn&#x27;t work. Considering that only a few countries have updated their vitamin D RDA in the past few years, and most haven&#x27;t, then I think it&#x27;s likely that most studies on the topic will have too low of a dose of vitamin D supplementation.<p>The vitamin D error: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov&#x2F;pmc&#x2F;articles&#x2F;PMC4210929&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov&#x2F;pmc&#x2F;articles&#x2F;PMC4210929&#x2F;</a><p>---<p>It&#x27;s also possible that some of the health benefits don&#x27;t come from vitamin D or UV exposure, but instead from something like red light exposure or some other wavelength. (Red) light therapy is a popular topic for example. It&#x27;s mostly touted to improve skin aging and it&#x27;s being studied as a help with myopia in children. Does it work? No idea.</text></comment> | <story><title>Exposure to the Sun's UV radiation may be good for you</title><url>https://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/2024/08/12/exposure-to-the-suns-uv-radiation-may-be-good-for-you</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>klipt</author><text>But some people think that just popping a vitamin D pill gives you all the benefits of sun exposure without the downsides.<p>Research on all cause mortality disagrees. Some sun exposure reduces all cause mortality even if you already take vitamin D.</text></item><item><author>Aurornis</author><text>&gt; But I don&#x27;t understand why people seem so resistant to the idea that some sun is probably beneficial.<p>There are some people who believe this, but Vitamin D and sun exposure have been a popular topic for a very long time now. It’s getting harder to find people who think that avoiding all sun exposure is a good idea.<p>The most confusing part appears to be the idea that wearing sunscreen is equivalent to avoiding UV exposure. Sunscreen reduces UV exposure, but does not completely eliminate it. This misconception has produced a lot of people who think “sunscreen bad” because “UV good”. You can get moderate UV exposure while wearing sunscreen.</text></item><item><author>taeric</author><text>This always strikes me as a tough discussion. With the odd hostility between the two extremes of &quot;all sun is bad exposure&quot; and &quot;you should get more sun.&quot; With the later taken to be &quot;all sun is good exposure.&quot;<p>Just observing a typical yard, it is easy to see that grass can both have too much and too little sun. Indeed, cover it up and it will die. Expose it to direct sun all day for several days with no water and it will similarly die. (Well, not similarly, it will die in a different way.)<p>I realize we don&#x27;t photosynthesize, and burning is clearly bad for us. But I don&#x27;t understand why people seem so resistant to the idea that some sun is probably beneficial.<p>I also realize that literally &quot;basking in the sun&quot; is almost certainly taking it too far. :(</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>cube2222</author><text>I wonder if it’s just correlation, with the actual cause of both being physical activity. Physical activity likely makes you go out into the sun more, and it also likely reduces mortality.<p>Would be great if you provided a source so we could check whether they controlled for physical activity.</text></comment> |
10,145,063 | 10,144,996 | 1 | 3 | 10,144,905 | train | <story><title>What is ADD?</title><url>http://adrusi.com/what-is-add/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>JohnBooty</author><text>Very close to my own experiences.<p>ADD is like a television with excellent reception - only problem is, you don&#x27;t get to choose which channel it&#x27;s tuned into. :)<p><pre><code> &quot;Had I been diagnosed 30 years ago...&quot;
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The goddamn name itself is painfully misleading. It&#x27;s probably why I or my parents and teachers never even considered it until I was diagnosed in my 30s. &quot;Attention deficit disorder&quot; sounds like a disorder where you <i>can&#x27;t pay attention,</i> not a disorder where you <i>pay attention very well, just not to things of your choosing.</i><p>The misleading name is also probably part of the reason why some people question ADD&#x27;s existence: they don&#x27;t even understand what it is. They see kids with ADD focusing on video games or whatever and say: &quot;See, they can pay attention!&quot;<p>I have one problem with the article: not everybody experiences ADD exactly the same way. There are recognized subtypes such as predominately inattentive ADD, etc.</text></comment> | <story><title>What is ADD?</title><url>http://adrusi.com/what-is-add/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>BillyParadise</author><text>Good article. I was diagnosed as an adult, and now have coping strategies (including some stimulants for days when I really need to get shit done). Had I been diagnosed 30 years ago, oh the things I could have done.<p>The worst? My mother was a teacher. You&#x27;d think she would have caught it.<p>Task switching is really my biggest issue. Once I get in hyperfocus mode on something, a) I really hate getting interrupted, probably because b) getting back focused again is all but impossible.</text></comment> |
15,888,611 | 15,887,995 | 1 | 3 | 15,884,698 | train | <story><title>Did Bitcoin just prove it can't scale?</title><text>The past few days have shown what happens when many people attempt many transactions using Bitcoin. The network slowed to a crawl. Transaction prices went through the roof. And we still are at a point where only a tiny fraction of people are using Bitcoin, and only a tiny fraction of all financial transactions are using Bitcoin.<p>How is this expected to work with 7 billion people using it for every tiny financial transaction? I don&#x27;t think it can.<p>I have owned BTC for 5 years and I am enjoying the rally, but with the high transaction fees, back log, and long transaction times, I wonder how well it can really work as a replacement for banks.<p>Am I wrong?</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>theWatcher37</author><text>This defeats the entire purpose of bitcoin. The goal is a decentralized currency that isn’t controlled by shady political interests, and can reasonably replace normal currency.<p>Why would you want Bank 2.0?</text></item><item><author>wildmusings</author><text>I’m not sold on Bitcoin but I don’t agree with your definition of what it needs to be successful. There is no reason that actual bitcoin end-users need to deal directly in bitcoin. If Bitcoin were to ever become a major currency, a big if, there would be financial institutions (banks) issuing instruments (physical or digital notes) backed by real bitcoins held by those institutions. Real bitcoin transactions would be mostly performed between such institutions, or anyone else willing to pay the higher transaction fees. Most people would have their needs perfectly served by relying on bitcoin banks, at least for performing frequent transactions. Though they might very well seek to hold large sums directly in BTC.</text></item><item><author>KirinDave</author><text>Bitcoin is a lot of things, and many of them interesting, but suggesting that ~4 t&#x2F;s is impressive or &quot;scaling&quot; is an insult to kids in high school writing rails apps that can do 100x the volume.<p>We already know at least 2 obvious ways to improve the transaction flow rate of bitcoin in trustless ways, and many others are being proposed that do not also create energy arms races.<p>Please don&#x27;t redefine success.</text></item><item><author>moduspol</author><text>Others here are touching on Bitcoin being like the &quot;1.0&quot; of cryptocurrency, but it&#x27;s actually a lot more than that. In the public eye, it&#x27;s a symbol of what cryptocurrencies can be.<p>You&#x27;re suggesting Bitcoin just proved it can&#x27;t scale, but it actually just proved it did--just not with transaction volume. The network continued to process transactions averaging one block every ten minutes exactly as it was built to do, despite the heavy load.<p>To put it differently: A different online payment system could have stopped accepting transactions, or run out of resources, allow transactions it shouldn&#x27;t have, disallow ones it should, or something else terrible. But Bitcoin didn&#x27;t. If you wanted into the next block, you&#x27;d need to pay more, but that&#x27;s (from a technical perspective) entirely by design.<p>What Bitcoin is proving is that it has clear and well-understood limits and continues to work well within them, and that&#x27;s incredibly important for public perception. IMO, if Bitcoin&#x27;s transaction capacity never scales, it&#x27;ll still be a huge technological success. Other cryptocurrencies can try their hand at scaling, but Bitcoin needs to be rock solid to the extent possible for all cryptocurrencies&#x27; sake.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>PKop</author><text>No it doesn&#x27;t. The purpose of Bitcoin is sound money.. A finite currency immune to governments&#x27; and central banks&#x27; desire to devalue currency for debt financing.<p>Bitcoin is more scarce and therefore better store of value than any fiat currency could ever be.<p>Do you not understand second layer solutions do not put your Bitcoin at risk? You commit to a payment channel which defaults to closing the channel according to original amounts when opened.. if the other party doesn&#x27;t follow through. Again, your funds are not at risk so it&#x27;s not like a bank, and there&#x27;s no fractional reserve nor devaluing, so the SOV use case is preserved.<p>Not at all like current fiat money system.</text></comment> | <story><title>Did Bitcoin just prove it can't scale?</title><text>The past few days have shown what happens when many people attempt many transactions using Bitcoin. The network slowed to a crawl. Transaction prices went through the roof. And we still are at a point where only a tiny fraction of people are using Bitcoin, and only a tiny fraction of all financial transactions are using Bitcoin.<p>How is this expected to work with 7 billion people using it for every tiny financial transaction? I don&#x27;t think it can.<p>I have owned BTC for 5 years and I am enjoying the rally, but with the high transaction fees, back log, and long transaction times, I wonder how well it can really work as a replacement for banks.<p>Am I wrong?</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>theWatcher37</author><text>This defeats the entire purpose of bitcoin. The goal is a decentralized currency that isn’t controlled by shady political interests, and can reasonably replace normal currency.<p>Why would you want Bank 2.0?</text></item><item><author>wildmusings</author><text>I’m not sold on Bitcoin but I don’t agree with your definition of what it needs to be successful. There is no reason that actual bitcoin end-users need to deal directly in bitcoin. If Bitcoin were to ever become a major currency, a big if, there would be financial institutions (banks) issuing instruments (physical or digital notes) backed by real bitcoins held by those institutions. Real bitcoin transactions would be mostly performed between such institutions, or anyone else willing to pay the higher transaction fees. Most people would have their needs perfectly served by relying on bitcoin banks, at least for performing frequent transactions. Though they might very well seek to hold large sums directly in BTC.</text></item><item><author>KirinDave</author><text>Bitcoin is a lot of things, and many of them interesting, but suggesting that ~4 t&#x2F;s is impressive or &quot;scaling&quot; is an insult to kids in high school writing rails apps that can do 100x the volume.<p>We already know at least 2 obvious ways to improve the transaction flow rate of bitcoin in trustless ways, and many others are being proposed that do not also create energy arms races.<p>Please don&#x27;t redefine success.</text></item><item><author>moduspol</author><text>Others here are touching on Bitcoin being like the &quot;1.0&quot; of cryptocurrency, but it&#x27;s actually a lot more than that. In the public eye, it&#x27;s a symbol of what cryptocurrencies can be.<p>You&#x27;re suggesting Bitcoin just proved it can&#x27;t scale, but it actually just proved it did--just not with transaction volume. The network continued to process transactions averaging one block every ten minutes exactly as it was built to do, despite the heavy load.<p>To put it differently: A different online payment system could have stopped accepting transactions, or run out of resources, allow transactions it shouldn&#x27;t have, disallow ones it should, or something else terrible. But Bitcoin didn&#x27;t. If you wanted into the next block, you&#x27;d need to pay more, but that&#x27;s (from a technical perspective) entirely by design.<p>What Bitcoin is proving is that it has clear and well-understood limits and continues to work well within them, and that&#x27;s incredibly important for public perception. IMO, if Bitcoin&#x27;s transaction capacity never scales, it&#x27;ll still be a huge technological success. Other cryptocurrencies can try their hand at scaling, but Bitcoin needs to be rock solid to the extent possible for all cryptocurrencies&#x27; sake.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>maehwasu</author><text>Bank 2.0 could also run its ledger of debts and credits on a public&#x2F;easily auditable blockchain, and make a lot of guarantees that Bank 1.0 can&#x27;t.</text></comment> |
38,493,872 | 38,493,654 | 1 | 2 | 38,493,105 | train | <story><title>A Nouveau graphics driver update</title><url>https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/953144/b85b695d0c760692/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>fny</author><text>I still don’t understand why it’s so damn hard to use a NVIDIA GPU on Linux vs Windows. The NVIDIA drivers are closed source for both. Once deep learning took off, I expected things to change, but the other day I tried to install drivers for a new card and my Bluetooth and WiFi stopped working.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bayindirh</author><text>NVIDIA’s main target on Linux is data center cards (Teslas). Desktop is just happen to be supported for the hobbyist market.<p>This was not like that before their Tesla series took off with such momentum.Currently, X11 and display support is provided at the barely minimum level which doesn’t piss off the people.<p>I think some parts of their drivers do some black magic, because if that was not the case, there should not be a tug of war about the technical details for providing Wayland support.<p>Monitor power management and related display parts of the driver break constantly, but not the CUDA parts, because it’s the money making part.</text></comment> | <story><title>A Nouveau graphics driver update</title><url>https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/953144/b85b695d0c760692/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>fny</author><text>I still don’t understand why it’s so damn hard to use a NVIDIA GPU on Linux vs Windows. The NVIDIA drivers are closed source for both. Once deep learning took off, I expected things to change, but the other day I tried to install drivers for a new card and my Bluetooth and WiFi stopped working.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tedunangst</author><text>The driver API in the windows kernel changes about once a decade. And they&#x27;re not actively hostile to loading closed source drivers.</text></comment> |
4,338,918 | 4,338,697 | 1 | 3 | 4,338,404 | train | <story><title>Apple's Secrets Revealed During Trial</title><url>http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10000872396390443687504577567421840745452.html?mod=WSJ_hps_LEFTTopStories</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jasonkester</author><text><i>Mr. Forstall said he invented a patent for double-tapping on Web pages because as he had been using a prototype of the iPhone to surf the web, he realized he was spending a lot of time pinching and zooming the page to fit text perfectly on the screen.<p>"I realized I have this incredibly powerful device, why can't it figure out the right size for me?" he said. So, he challenged his team to make the software automatically size the text into the center of the screen when he double-tapped around a webpage."</i><p>This is why we're in such a sad state with regard to software patents. This guy genuinely believes that he "<i>invented</i>" something. And that it should be patentable.<p>Of course, anybody who has actually built anything knows that what he actually did was "decide how something should work". You do this dozens of times when putting out a new product, and it's not in any way a big deal. Certainly not something you should call "inventing", and absolutely not something that you should consider patenting.<p>It's just one of thousands of design decisions you make. It's just sad to watch people who don't understand that making things worse for everybody.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jsz0</author><text>I think double-tap-to-zoom is a perfect example of something that should be patentable. It's a huge improvement over existing systems that often used a zoom box you would position with cursor keys. To work properly it has to take into account the major design elements on a web page and make intelligent choices based on the user's tap target. Web browsing before double-tap-to-zoom and multi-touch zoom was a nightmare. These two features reinvented web browsing on small displays. This was clearly one of the killer features of the original iPhone.</text></comment> | <story><title>Apple's Secrets Revealed During Trial</title><url>http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10000872396390443687504577567421840745452.html?mod=WSJ_hps_LEFTTopStories</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jasonkester</author><text><i>Mr. Forstall said he invented a patent for double-tapping on Web pages because as he had been using a prototype of the iPhone to surf the web, he realized he was spending a lot of time pinching and zooming the page to fit text perfectly on the screen.<p>"I realized I have this incredibly powerful device, why can't it figure out the right size for me?" he said. So, he challenged his team to make the software automatically size the text into the center of the screen when he double-tapped around a webpage."</i><p>This is why we're in such a sad state with regard to software patents. This guy genuinely believes that he "<i>invented</i>" something. And that it should be patentable.<p>Of course, anybody who has actually built anything knows that what he actually did was "decide how something should work". You do this dozens of times when putting out a new product, and it's not in any way a big deal. Certainly not something you should call "inventing", and absolutely not something that you should consider patenting.<p>It's just one of thousands of design decisions you make. It's just sad to watch people who don't understand that making things worse for everybody.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>StavrosK</author><text>Maybe we should define "invention" in terms of "design decision". An invention should be something that requires no fewer than three hundred design decisions to create.</text></comment> |
16,932,047 | 16,931,722 | 1 | 3 | 16,926,524 | train | <story><title>The War on Waze</title><url>http://reason.com/blog/2018/04/25/the-war-on-waze</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>9erdelta</author><text>In LA all you need is a train from Sherman Oaks into one of the stations in Santa Monica or Culver City. That would cut way down on the 405 congestion. It gets tedious reading articles that come up with &quot;stop funding public transit&quot; as a conclusion. In math class that would be the &quot;trivial&quot; therefore useless answer. Seeing as how cities have more roadway now than ever, yet congestion is arguably getting worse...Clearly, building more roads doesn&#x27;t work. Because WE HAVE built more roads. The Sepulveda pass in LA is not that old, yet it is so congested as to be useless every single day of the week, at almost every hour of the day (ok maybe this is an exaggeration).<p>One thing I have noticed is Google Maps will suggest going off a main street for a few blocks then merge back into the said main route. This cuts off everyone who&#x27;s been waiting in line, and potentially puts me in a situation of having to make a left across perhaps 4 lanes of congested traffic, with no light or turn signal. This _IS_ kind of assinine, and it certainly wouldn&#x27;t hurt for Google&#x2F;Waze et. al. to feel some pressure to cut these suggestions out.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bagacrap</author><text>They&#x27;ve recently connected DTLA and Santa Monica via trains and I don&#x27;t think the 10 has improved at all. The problem is that most everyone prefers to drive and the only thing limiting their willingness to drive is traffic itself. Thus, traffic will never get better than whatever the masses deem acceptably bad (and their tolerance seems ludicrously high in LA).</text></comment> | <story><title>The War on Waze</title><url>http://reason.com/blog/2018/04/25/the-war-on-waze</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>9erdelta</author><text>In LA all you need is a train from Sherman Oaks into one of the stations in Santa Monica or Culver City. That would cut way down on the 405 congestion. It gets tedious reading articles that come up with &quot;stop funding public transit&quot; as a conclusion. In math class that would be the &quot;trivial&quot; therefore useless answer. Seeing as how cities have more roadway now than ever, yet congestion is arguably getting worse...Clearly, building more roads doesn&#x27;t work. Because WE HAVE built more roads. The Sepulveda pass in LA is not that old, yet it is so congested as to be useless every single day of the week, at almost every hour of the day (ok maybe this is an exaggeration).<p>One thing I have noticed is Google Maps will suggest going off a main street for a few blocks then merge back into the said main route. This cuts off everyone who&#x27;s been waiting in line, and potentially puts me in a situation of having to make a left across perhaps 4 lanes of congested traffic, with no light or turn signal. This _IS_ kind of assinine, and it certainly wouldn&#x27;t hurt for Google&#x2F;Waze et. al. to feel some pressure to cut these suggestions out.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>MrFantastic</author><text>How do people travel the last mile?</text></comment> |
26,149,084 | 26,149,153 | 1 | 2 | 26,144,528 | train | <story><title>YouTubers have to declare ads. Why doesn't anyone else? [video]</title><url>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L-x8DYTOv7w</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tinco</author><text>Imagine what would happen if this became a thing for TV and movies. Whenever Iron Man would pull up to the Avengers head quarters, you&#x27;d get a message &quot;This scene is sponsored by Audi AG&quot;. Every war movie would have a &quot;Vehicles and props kindly provided by the US Armed Forces&quot;.<p>And those are just the obvious ones. It would be super funny if they&#x27;d have to do it retroactively.</text></item><item><author>tzs</author><text>In case the title might lead to you expect he&#x27;s arguing for the rules for social media influencers to be loosened to match those of movies and TV and radio, it is actually the opposite. He argues that those other media should also have the stricter disclosure requirements that current only apply to social media.<p>The video is fairly long (about 30 minutes), but goes into a lot of the history of advertising (explicit, product placements, paid endorsements, etc) in radio, TV, and movies in order to make a thorough case.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>walrus01</author><text>&gt; Every war movie would have a &quot;Vehicles and props kindly provided by the US Armed Forces&quot;.<p>There&#x27;s a whole bunch of war movies that are absolutely NOT approved by the US DoD, because they show things in an unfavorable light. Generally this means no access to actual equipment like M1 tanks or &#x27;real&#x27; aircraft, which must be substituted using somebody else&#x27;s b-roll, or CGI.<p>It is generally pretty easy to tell the difference between movies that were filmed with DoD filming office cooperation (Battleship), and ones that might show something about the military in an unflattering or unprofessional light (Three Kings).<p>One very famous example is Apocalypse Now, the helicopter scene and a lot of the rest of it was filmed in the Philippines, after making a large payment to their military for use of the Hueys.</text></comment> | <story><title>YouTubers have to declare ads. Why doesn't anyone else? [video]</title><url>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L-x8DYTOv7w</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tinco</author><text>Imagine what would happen if this became a thing for TV and movies. Whenever Iron Man would pull up to the Avengers head quarters, you&#x27;d get a message &quot;This scene is sponsored by Audi AG&quot;. Every war movie would have a &quot;Vehicles and props kindly provided by the US Armed Forces&quot;.<p>And those are just the obvious ones. It would be super funny if they&#x27;d have to do it retroactively.</text></item><item><author>tzs</author><text>In case the title might lead to you expect he&#x27;s arguing for the rules for social media influencers to be loosened to match those of movies and TV and radio, it is actually the opposite. He argues that those other media should also have the stricter disclosure requirements that current only apply to social media.<p>The video is fairly long (about 30 minutes), but goes into a lot of the history of advertising (explicit, product placements, paid endorsements, etc) in radio, TV, and movies in order to make a thorough case.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>JacobAldridge</author><text>I watched “Kelly’s Heroes” (1970) for the first time last weekend. Turns out the film was made in Yugoslavia (Croatia today) because the Yugoslav army still used WWII-era Sherman tanks, which were part of the plot so could be cheaply accessed.<p>(There were also some tax or funding reasons I believe.)<p>(Side note - holds up well for a 50 year old movie; and one of the best Donald Sutherland performances, in the same year he did MASH.)</text></comment> |
30,092,658 | 30,092,345 | 1 | 2 | 30,090,790 | train | <story><title>To my surprise and elation, the Webb Space Telescope is going to work</title><url>https://arstechnica.com/science/2022/01/whats-left-for-the-webb-telescope-now-waggling-mirrors-turning-on-instruments/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>skybrian</author><text></text></item><item><author>fullstackchris</author><text>The successful launch (and subsequent deployment steps) that went of without a hitch restored my faith in humanity.<p>I&#x27;m so pumped to see what science and images the Webb produces.<p>Could 2022 be the year we find an exoplanet with conclusive biomarkers?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>munificent</author><text>Here&#x27;s a funny asymmetry I&#x27;ve started noticing online:<p>* Whenever a person or group do something bad, the response is always, &quot;Look how much humanity sucks.&quot;<p>* Whenever a person or group does something good, the response is always, &quot;Look how good <i>those particular people</i> are.&quot;<p>Now, there is a positive explanation for this: It&#x27;s good to give credit. When someone does something particularly good, it diminishes their act to say that it&#x27;s just another example of humanity.<p>But at the same time, the aggregate effect of this bias is that always appears that humanity sucks with the rare exception of a few blessed individuals. But the opposite is much more likely to be true.</text></comment> | <story><title>To my surprise and elation, the Webb Space Telescope is going to work</title><url>https://arstechnica.com/science/2022/01/whats-left-for-the-webb-telescope-now-waggling-mirrors-turning-on-instruments/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>skybrian</author><text></text></item><item><author>fullstackchris</author><text>The successful launch (and subsequent deployment steps) that went of without a hitch restored my faith in humanity.<p>I&#x27;m so pumped to see what science and images the Webb produces.<p>Could 2022 be the year we find an exoplanet with conclusive biomarkers?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>stavros</author><text>Ah, you know, this is as much humanity&#x27;s success as global warming is its failure. We built a world that can make both these things.</text></comment> |
27,067,455 | 27,067,266 | 1 | 2 | 27,065,361 | train | <story><title>Fungi on Mars? Evidence of Growth and Behavior from Sequential Images [pdf]</title><url>https://www.researchgate.net/publication/351252619_Fungi_on_Mars_Evidence_of_Growth_and_Behavior_From_Sequential_Images</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>sam-2727</author><text>The first author has had questionable publications in the past: &quot;Quantum Physics of God: How Consciousness Became the Universe and Created Itself&quot; (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.researchgate.net&#x2F;publication&#x2F;344906681_Quantum_Physics_of_God_How_Consciousness_Became_the_Universe_and_Created_Itself" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.researchgate.net&#x2F;publication&#x2F;344906681_Quantum_P...</a>) and &quot;Quantum Entanglement with the Future: Lincoln Dreams of His Assassination&quot; (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.researchgate.net&#x2F;publication&#x2F;344907026_Quantum_Entanglement_with_the_Future_Lincoln_Dreams_of_His_Assassination" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.researchgate.net&#x2F;publication&#x2F;344907026_Quantum_E...</a>). Other coauthors have past evidence for fringe publications (the last author is an astrophysicist who doesn&#x27;t believe black holes exist). Given the publication records, I would be very skeptical of this paper, even if it seems convincing at face value.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jamal-kumar</author><text><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;brainmind.com&#x2F;images&#x2F;JosephGalaxy.jpg" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;brainmind.com&#x2F;images&#x2F;JosephGalaxy.jpg</a><p>His personal website is a certified 100% pure gem as well</text></comment> | <story><title>Fungi on Mars? Evidence of Growth and Behavior from Sequential Images [pdf]</title><url>https://www.researchgate.net/publication/351252619_Fungi_on_Mars_Evidence_of_Growth_and_Behavior_From_Sequential_Images</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>sam-2727</author><text>The first author has had questionable publications in the past: &quot;Quantum Physics of God: How Consciousness Became the Universe and Created Itself&quot; (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.researchgate.net&#x2F;publication&#x2F;344906681_Quantum_Physics_of_God_How_Consciousness_Became_the_Universe_and_Created_Itself" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.researchgate.net&#x2F;publication&#x2F;344906681_Quantum_P...</a>) and &quot;Quantum Entanglement with the Future: Lincoln Dreams of His Assassination&quot; (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.researchgate.net&#x2F;publication&#x2F;344907026_Quantum_Entanglement_with_the_Future_Lincoln_Dreams_of_His_Assassination" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.researchgate.net&#x2F;publication&#x2F;344907026_Quantum_E...</a>). Other coauthors have past evidence for fringe publications (the last author is an astrophysicist who doesn&#x27;t believe black holes exist). Given the publication records, I would be very skeptical of this paper, even if it seems convincing at face value.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>udev</author><text>First author definitely creative with his titles.<p>This kind of papers are testament to the amount of data that we are bringing from Mars: multiple rovers with progressively better and better resolution cameras, and the orbiters.<p>As the amount of data coming from Mars will increase over the years we will see more such &quot;creative&quot; attempts to pick convenient subsets of this data and try to reach for conclusion.<p>But over time, I think, the wind will blow away the chaff and reveal real results, just like the marsian wind moves the sand around hiding and revealing pebbles at its surface.</text></comment> |
32,236,991 | 32,236,940 | 1 | 3 | 32,234,022 | train | <story><title>The Dangers of Microsoft Pluton</title><url>https://gabrielsieben.tech/2022/07/25/the-power-of-microsoft-pluton-2/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dx034</author><text>Secure chips like this are already in all devices but PCs. And in none of these areas has any of that happened. Quite the opposite, Apple got a fine when they slowed down older devices to save battery (at least what they said).<p>So the government will clearly help out here. And none of these companies has an incentives to stop sales to smaller companies, they make a lot of money with those.</text></item><item><author>ftyhbhyjnjk</author><text>What you can install on YOUR pc will be at the sole mercy of microsoft&#x2F;or maybe someone else.... That&#x27;s the cusp of it. Not that it can be used for good, but that it sets the way for heavy misuse by large corporations.<p>Wait a few years. Smaller companies won&#x27;t even be allowed to order high end cpu&#x27;s. You&#x27;ll be at 100% mercy of these corporations.<p>If after 2 years they decide to brick your pc, they&#x27;ll just do it. You think government will help you out here? Lol...</text></item><item><author>Gh0stRAT</author><text>I&#x27;m completely missing how his example of a Word document that can only be opened by approved users on approved hardware within the corporation is supposed to be a bad thing.<p>Honestly, that sounds pretty fantastic. I&#x27;ve been using 3rd party tools&#x2F;extensions to do this sort of thing in corporate and government environments for years, but having the attestation go all the way down to the hardware level is a big value-add, especially with so much ransomware&#x2F;spyware&#x2F;extortion&#x2F;espionage going on these days.<p>Can someone please explain to me how the author might see this level of security as a bad thing?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>autoexec</author><text>&gt; Secure chips like this are already in all devices but PCs. And in none of these areas has any of that happened.<p>Ah, that must be why we all have root access and can freely modify or install anything we want on every device we own! Oh, wait, we don&#x27;t have those things and our non-PC systems are increasingly locked down and routinely do things against the wishes of the people who own them.</text></comment> | <story><title>The Dangers of Microsoft Pluton</title><url>https://gabrielsieben.tech/2022/07/25/the-power-of-microsoft-pluton-2/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dx034</author><text>Secure chips like this are already in all devices but PCs. And in none of these areas has any of that happened. Quite the opposite, Apple got a fine when they slowed down older devices to save battery (at least what they said).<p>So the government will clearly help out here. And none of these companies has an incentives to stop sales to smaller companies, they make a lot of money with those.</text></item><item><author>ftyhbhyjnjk</author><text>What you can install on YOUR pc will be at the sole mercy of microsoft&#x2F;or maybe someone else.... That&#x27;s the cusp of it. Not that it can be used for good, but that it sets the way for heavy misuse by large corporations.<p>Wait a few years. Smaller companies won&#x27;t even be allowed to order high end cpu&#x27;s. You&#x27;ll be at 100% mercy of these corporations.<p>If after 2 years they decide to brick your pc, they&#x27;ll just do it. You think government will help you out here? Lol...</text></item><item><author>Gh0stRAT</author><text>I&#x27;m completely missing how his example of a Word document that can only be opened by approved users on approved hardware within the corporation is supposed to be a bad thing.<p>Honestly, that sounds pretty fantastic. I&#x27;ve been using 3rd party tools&#x2F;extensions to do this sort of thing in corporate and government environments for years, but having the attestation go all the way down to the hardware level is a big value-add, especially with so much ransomware&#x2F;spyware&#x2F;extortion&#x2F;espionage going on these days.<p>Can someone please explain to me how the author might see this level of security as a bad thing?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>fsflover</author><text>&gt; Quite the opposite, Apple got a fine when they slowed down older devices to save battery<p>But the devices <i>were</i> actually slowed down, so the danger is real.</text></comment> |
10,521,678 | 10,520,711 | 1 | 3 | 10,519,487 | train | <story><title>The Decay of Twitter</title><url>http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2015/11/conversation-smoosh-twitter-decay/412867/?single_page=true</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>benten10</author><text>I <i>really</i> hope twitter somehow makes money. I would be willing to pay a subscription fee if that helps it sustain. Facebook, I&#x27;d rather see die in the hottest fires of all the hells.<p>I don&#x27;t exaggerate when I say this: twitter has made me smarter. If I&#x27;m interested in a new field, I just follow the experts in that field that are on twitter. The conversations and the discussions not only make me feel like an insider, but make me explore the field in a much deeper level. Three of the fields that I have gotten &#x27;into&#x27; because of twitter are Urban &#x27;renewal&#x27; sort of projects (citylab, atlantic cities, etcetera), the book reviews circle, and a certain subfield of computer science I won&#x27;t mention, because I&#x27;d probably be the only intersection of those fields. : P<p>Sometimes, some people I follow tweet things I&#x27;d rather not hear. So I simply mute them. Done. (This is however NOT a apology for all the awful harassment that does happen)<p>I cull my &#x27;following&#x27; list to get to 300 people once every couple of months, so it doesn&#x27;t get out of hand, and it&#x27;s worked perfectly for me. I can catch up with pretty much everything that appears on my timeline. I Like twitter because it doesn&#x27;t &#x27;curate&#x27; my content for me. The day it decides to get rid of the &#x27;everything&#x27; timeline will be the day the &#x27;decay&#x27; begins.<p>Perhaps my viewpoint is tainted, but in the past six years (that&#x27;s how long I&#x27;ve been on it&#x2F;using it), the number of twitter users has been growing (at least in terms of people I know), and their quality increasing. I realize harassment is still a huge issue, but despite that, Twitter is still a great community : )</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ogurechny</author><text>Why do we never see the phrase “TCP&#x2F;IP made me smarter”?<p>Smart people and your active search for them made you smarter, not “Twitter”. You explained it yourself. If Twitter had some technology tuned to solve your specific task for a freshly registered user, it could take the credit, but it&#x27;s neutral and indifferent.<p>Also, I can&#x27;t see much difference between good ongoing conversation and a good conversation that happened thousand years ago. Part of the problem, as described in the article, is that Twitter “community” matured and generally switched from using it for transitory chirps to gathering and organizing knowledge for a long term somehow. And, as we all know, Twitter is horrible in that regard. Enormous planetary-scale log file without tools to parse it is a giant step backwards.</text></comment> | <story><title>The Decay of Twitter</title><url>http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2015/11/conversation-smoosh-twitter-decay/412867/?single_page=true</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>benten10</author><text>I <i>really</i> hope twitter somehow makes money. I would be willing to pay a subscription fee if that helps it sustain. Facebook, I&#x27;d rather see die in the hottest fires of all the hells.<p>I don&#x27;t exaggerate when I say this: twitter has made me smarter. If I&#x27;m interested in a new field, I just follow the experts in that field that are on twitter. The conversations and the discussions not only make me feel like an insider, but make me explore the field in a much deeper level. Three of the fields that I have gotten &#x27;into&#x27; because of twitter are Urban &#x27;renewal&#x27; sort of projects (citylab, atlantic cities, etcetera), the book reviews circle, and a certain subfield of computer science I won&#x27;t mention, because I&#x27;d probably be the only intersection of those fields. : P<p>Sometimes, some people I follow tweet things I&#x27;d rather not hear. So I simply mute them. Done. (This is however NOT a apology for all the awful harassment that does happen)<p>I cull my &#x27;following&#x27; list to get to 300 people once every couple of months, so it doesn&#x27;t get out of hand, and it&#x27;s worked perfectly for me. I can catch up with pretty much everything that appears on my timeline. I Like twitter because it doesn&#x27;t &#x27;curate&#x27; my content for me. The day it decides to get rid of the &#x27;everything&#x27; timeline will be the day the &#x27;decay&#x27; begins.<p>Perhaps my viewpoint is tainted, but in the past six years (that&#x27;s how long I&#x27;ve been on it&#x2F;using it), the number of twitter users has been growing (at least in terms of people I know), and their quality increasing. I realize harassment is still a huge issue, but despite that, Twitter is still a great community : )</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>chad_strategic</author><text>--&gt;&gt;I really hope twitter somehow makes money. I would be willing to pay a subscription fee if that helps it sustain. Facebook, I&#x27;d rather see die in the hottest fires of all the hells.<p>Bravo, Bravo. This can&#x27;t be more true. I don&#x27;t follow friends on twitter, just news sites twitter accounts and other interesting people that I don&#x27;t know in IRL. Friends don&#x27;t follow me on twitter, so I&#x27;m not trying to impress people with the latest family &quot;staged&quot; photo shoot.<p>I have always argued that Twitter is nicely organized RSS feed &#x2F; generator.<p>Twitter, I believe is a very important in spreading news, in real time. Most of the time before main stream media. Remember the guy that inadvertently tweeted the Osama bin Laden operation? Finally, since it&#x27;s only 141 characters, there isn&#x27;t a lot of spin on news via twitter, just the facts. At that point you can chose which direction to go with the spin...<p>However the internet can be a cesspool, but I see twitter as the filter that cleans out.<p>okay, I got to get back to work...</text></comment> |
30,472,861 | 30,473,049 | 1 | 3 | 30,456,026 | train | <story><title>A quick breakdown of what SWIFT is and why it matters</title><url>https://twitter.com/sahilbloom/status/1496861068945154056</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>periheli0n</author><text>What would keep some entity that has its SWIFT access revoked from switching to China&#x27;s CIPS or even crypto? Would it be merely an inconvenience, requiring the change of a few processes, or would it create hard problems?</text></item><item><author>sealthedeal</author><text>CEO and co-founder of Routefusion here, a cross-border bank to bank payment API. We use the SWIFT network regularly. I can 100% confirm that all money in the world is just literally numbers, and it is balanced by the different federal reserve systems around the world to ensure no one can &quot;create&quot; money without notifying everyone.<p>I guess if I was super cool I would do an AMA because this is the only thread that is really my time to shine hahaha.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>lxgr</author><text>When people say &quot;revoking somebody&#x27;s SWIFT access&quot;, I think they really mean putting them on national or international sanction&#x2F;embargo lists that prohibit them from doing any kind of business with them (in particular, sending payments in their name or for their benefit), rather than actually, technically removing their SWIFT network access.<p>Since SWIFT is not the only, but certainly the largest financial&#x2F;interbank messaging network, I suppose the effects are similar, but &quot;disabling SWIFT&quot; to me always sounds like an implementation detail.</text></comment> | <story><title>A quick breakdown of what SWIFT is and why it matters</title><url>https://twitter.com/sahilbloom/status/1496861068945154056</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>periheli0n</author><text>What would keep some entity that has its SWIFT access revoked from switching to China&#x27;s CIPS or even crypto? Would it be merely an inconvenience, requiring the change of a few processes, or would it create hard problems?</text></item><item><author>sealthedeal</author><text>CEO and co-founder of Routefusion here, a cross-border bank to bank payment API. We use the SWIFT network regularly. I can 100% confirm that all money in the world is just literally numbers, and it is balanced by the different federal reserve systems around the world to ensure no one can &quot;create&quot; money without notifying everyone.<p>I guess if I was super cool I would do an AMA because this is the only thread that is really my time to shine hahaha.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>anonporridge</author><text>Or Russia&#x27;s new SWIFT alternative that they stood up after the west threatened SWIFT censorship after they annexed Crimea?<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;SPFS" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;SPFS</a></text></comment> |
21,624,633 | 21,623,630 | 1 | 2 | 21,620,300 | train | <story><title>The team that powers VLC</title><url>https://increment.com/teams/the-team-that-powers-vlc/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jbk</author><text>(disclaimer: president of VideoLAN here and old VLC dev)<p>What&#x27;s interesting in this article (quite accurate, for once) is the focus on the size of the team, which is quite small; and on the development process. And how the team are now friends more than co-developers...<p>In fact, VLC is ported - and maintained - in a very large number of platforms (probably more than Firefox, Chrome, Office or Libreoffice) with Android (+TV), ChromeOS, iOS&#x2F;iPadOS, AppleTV, WinRT&amp;Xbox, Windows (XP+), macOS (10.7+), Linux, Unixes, BSD, OS&#x2F;2. While the core team has always been around 5 persons, and always less than 10. And most developers have been working on their free time...<p>The VideoLAN non-profit needs also to maintain quite a bit of infra (updater, crash reporter, bugtracker, forum, wiki, ml, gitlab, git) for a lot of projects (not only VLC, but things like x264 and dav1d) and do support, appstores, PR, translations and partnerships (the only way to get support from MS, Google or Apple).<p>Sure, VLC is probably not always the best for your usecase, and there are probably better solutions for each platform, but we are consistent, completely open source and open process, therefore people can trust the project and the brand: VLC will be around in 5 years, and we will do our best to port on all platforms, in an open way. A lot of players come and go, but the project is structured so it can last.<p>Since HN is a technical crowd, we&#x27;re currently working on 2 fun projects: VLC.js and integrating sandboxing inside VLC :)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tahdig</author><text>&gt; Sure, VLC is probably not always the best for your usecase<p>VLC is both consistent and almost always the best media player for the platform. I especially love your Android UI&#x2F;UX.<p>It has been my go-to player for ~14 years now, installed it on my high school desktop windows, my university linux and now work MBP and personal Android never disappointed me. Thanks for keeping up the quality work, I give you as example of good quality open-source project when the topic comes up.<p>Do you have any &quot;need&quot; for a fullstack&#x2F;infra kind of person? Or any place we can see what know-how needs you have at the moment?<p>Would love to get involved with my limited capacity.<p>Also thanks for staying open source and privacy conscious.</text></comment> | <story><title>The team that powers VLC</title><url>https://increment.com/teams/the-team-that-powers-vlc/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jbk</author><text>(disclaimer: president of VideoLAN here and old VLC dev)<p>What&#x27;s interesting in this article (quite accurate, for once) is the focus on the size of the team, which is quite small; and on the development process. And how the team are now friends more than co-developers...<p>In fact, VLC is ported - and maintained - in a very large number of platforms (probably more than Firefox, Chrome, Office or Libreoffice) with Android (+TV), ChromeOS, iOS&#x2F;iPadOS, AppleTV, WinRT&amp;Xbox, Windows (XP+), macOS (10.7+), Linux, Unixes, BSD, OS&#x2F;2. While the core team has always been around 5 persons, and always less than 10. And most developers have been working on their free time...<p>The VideoLAN non-profit needs also to maintain quite a bit of infra (updater, crash reporter, bugtracker, forum, wiki, ml, gitlab, git) for a lot of projects (not only VLC, but things like x264 and dav1d) and do support, appstores, PR, translations and partnerships (the only way to get support from MS, Google or Apple).<p>Sure, VLC is probably not always the best for your usecase, and there are probably better solutions for each platform, but we are consistent, completely open source and open process, therefore people can trust the project and the brand: VLC will be around in 5 years, and we will do our best to port on all platforms, in an open way. A lot of players come and go, but the project is structured so it can last.<p>Since HN is a technical crowd, we&#x27;re currently working on 2 fun projects: VLC.js and integrating sandboxing inside VLC :)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>gen3</author><text>Thank you for staying a nonprofit; I&#x27;m sure you have received many offers in the past.<p>I&#x27;m glad to have been a user of VLC since I first got a computer. I happily install &#x2F; recommend it to family and friends. It does what it needs to do very well, and without bloat.</text></comment> |
14,641,258 | 14,641,231 | 1 | 2 | 14,640,087 | train | <story><title>Apple’s AR is closer to reality than Google’s</title><url>https://www.theverge.com/2017/6/26/15872332/apple-arkit-ios-11-augmented-reality-developer-excitement</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>pavlakoos</author><text>Seriously, can anyone longer-than-5 list AR use cases that make sense?<p>Today I learned about that restaurant menu app, which shows food on top of the empty plate. Luckily, you can even rotate it! Making the world a better place...</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>malux85</author><text>As vision models get better there&#x27;s lots of future applications - a database of all known insect and plant life with realtime overlay. Guided plumbing &#x2F; electrical repair and teaching. Virtual pets that interact with each other and real objects. Redesign &#x2F; repaint your interior. Optimal flooring &#x2F; carpet cutting with easy measurement tool in the demo.
The technology is in its infancy, give it a chance</text></comment> | <story><title>Apple’s AR is closer to reality than Google’s</title><url>https://www.theverge.com/2017/6/26/15872332/apple-arkit-ios-11-augmented-reality-developer-excitement</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>pavlakoos</author><text>Seriously, can anyone longer-than-5 list AR use cases that make sense?<p>Today I learned about that restaurant menu app, which shows food on top of the empty plate. Luckily, you can even rotate it! Making the world a better place...</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>JumpCrisscross</author><text>Think industrial, not consumer. The latter will be games and art for a while.<p>The former needs to visualise interior design changes, factory layouts or even just overlay navigational information for leisure boat and&#x2F;or plane piloting. I would love an underwater AR that tells me what fish I&#x27;m looking at, or a cosmology one that lets me pinch-and-zoom the night sky. I agree that the middle-income consumer won&#x27;t see anything grand for a few years. But that&#x27;s not the point.</text></comment> |
41,502,358 | 41,502,338 | 1 | 3 | 41,501,630 | train | <story><title>Ford seeks patent for tech that listens to driver conversations to serve ads</title><url>https://therecord.media/ford-patent-application-in-vehicle-listening-advertising</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>candiddevmike</author><text>What prevents me from patenting every draconian idea I can possibly think of in order to block corporations from doing it?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bdowling</author><text>Patent application filing fees and the time you spend preparing the applications, primarily. Also the loss of privacy (name, etc. in application) in applying for the patent.<p>Edit: Also the risk that your application is rejected so that you don&#x27;t get a blocking patent, which would mean anyone else can use the invention or even patent an improvement. An improver might even cite your rejected application in their applications for more draconian inventions, which could be demoralizing.</text></comment> | <story><title>Ford seeks patent for tech that listens to driver conversations to serve ads</title><url>https://therecord.media/ford-patent-application-in-vehicle-listening-advertising</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>candiddevmike</author><text>What prevents me from patenting every draconian idea I can possibly think of in order to block corporations from doing it?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>BadHumans</author><text>Nothing but the legal fees from enforcing it.</text></comment> |
3,394,165 | 3,394,202 | 1 | 2 | 3,394,027 | train | <story><title>GoDaddy Responds To Namecheap Accusations, Removes “Normal” Rate Limiting Block</title><url>http://techcrunch.com/2011/12/26/godaddy-responds-to-namecheap-accusations-removes-normal-rate-limiting-block/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>freejack</author><text>These types of things happen all the time behind the scenes. The entire domain registration system is very loosely coupled as it relates to transfers - too loose imo, and breakage is really easy. We had a situation last week where a registrar made a small change to their registrar name and it threw our whois parsers for a loop. From a casual view, it looked like the other end had cut us off, and a quick deep dive made the parsing issue immediately apparent.<p>Domain transfers was an afterthought to the multi-registrar model and was designed and implemented as policy (i.e. ICANN), not as a technical process (i.e. IETF). I wish we'd done a better job in 1999.</text></comment> | <story><title>GoDaddy Responds To Namecheap Accusations, Removes “Normal” Rate Limiting Block</title><url>http://techcrunch.com/2011/12/26/godaddy-responds-to-namecheap-accusations-removes-normal-rate-limiting-block/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>hamax</author><text>A namecheap employee claims that they did contact goDaddy and that they resorted to the PR release only after they couldn't resolve the issue directly with them: <a href="http://community.namecheap.com/blog/2011/12/26/godaddy-transfer-update/#comment-1709" rel="nofollow">http://community.namecheap.com/blog/2011/12/26/godaddy-trans...</a></text></comment> |
21,097,557 | 21,097,317 | 1 | 3 | 21,096,864 | train | <story><title>California's ‘Surprise’ Billing Law Is Protecting Patients and Angering Doctors</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/26/upshot/california-surprise-medical-billing-law-effects.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>riahi</author><text>Physician here.<p>The problem with this law is it takes the medical reimbursement contract system and then shoots the physicians in the back.<p>When insurance companies are trying to get people to join their network, they offer competitive rates. Once they are large enough, they start to exert downward pressure on physician reimbursement to both existing and new medical service providers (hospitals and physicians). The only way to counteract their pricing power is to be willing to walk. Physicians do not like going out of network; the insurance companies make it incredibly painful, refuse to pay you, and instead send the check to the patient who is expected to deposit it and forward it to the patient (if they pay at all).<p>However, what has happened post-ACA is massive consolidation across the medical services sector so that large staffing companies would deliberately go out of network to force better rates strategically. It was no longer the individual physicians choice whether or not to out of network; rather their employers&#x27;.<p>However, these laws are a huge gift to the insurance companies. They remove the physician&#x2F;hospital&#x27;s ability to negotiate, and already, we are seeing insurance carriers refuse to negotiate or offer rates greater than 125% of Medicare. It also completely eliminates the incentive for insurance carriers to even bother creating a provider network. This is not the intent of the law and fundamentally is acting as a wage-cap.<p>Medicare rates are intentionally set by fiat and often below the cost of goods sold. 125% of Medicare is an arbitrary &quot;sounds good&quot; number that is not helping anyone but the insurance companies.<p>Instead, a better version of the law would be to have payments indexed to the FAIR health claims database [<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.fairhealth.org" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.fairhealth.org</a>].<p>Yes, I agree the medical reimbursement system in the US is not ideal; however, this is tantamount to price fixing which in EVERY thread on compensation for software engineers, people think what Google&#x2F;Apple&#x2F;et Al did to prevent wage increases and poaching was unethical and unfair to workers. I don&#x27;t think this is any different.</text></comment> | <story><title>California's ‘Surprise’ Billing Law Is Protecting Patients and Angering Doctors</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/26/upshot/california-surprise-medical-billing-law-effects.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>imgabe</author><text>It should go further. End the in-network &#x2F; out-of-network crap. One price per procedure that is the same for all customers. All providers should accept all insurances. The system we have is insane.</text></comment> |
23,396,530 | 23,396,870 | 1 | 2 | 23,392,393 | train | <story><title>Lawmakers begin bipartisan push to cut off police access to military-style gear</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/01/us/politics/police-military-gear.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>stdbrouw</author><text>&gt; The police need to push cars to the side of the road on, I&#x27;d venture, a daily basis.<p>In what kind of weird and twisted world do police officers need to push cars to the side on a daily basis?</text></item><item><author>rconti</author><text>Pusher bumpers are just standard, and have been forever. A friend got accidentally rear-ended by a cop, no damage thanks to the pusher.<p>The police need to push cars to the side of the road on, I&#x27;d venture, a daily basis.</text></item><item><author>coopsmgoops</author><text>I agree from a public relations standpoint too. All the new cruisers in my city are black Chargers&#x2F;Challengers with battering ram front bumpers and they look way too intense for the job.<p>I&#x27;m also scared irreparable damage had been done to the police brand such that way fewer &quot;good&quot; people will want to sign up.</text></item><item><author>sandworm101</author><text>5) Change the uniforms.<p>Dress for the job you want. If they all dress like storm troopers some of them will act like storm troopers.<p>NY <i>state</i> patrol uniform: Grey with <i>purple</i> ties. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;northcountrynow.com&#x2F;sites&#x2F;default&#x2F;files&#x2F;images&#x2F;Zone2Platoon2.gif" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;northcountrynow.com&#x2F;sites&#x2F;default&#x2F;files&#x2F;images&#x2F;Zone2...</a><p>NYPD (new york <i>city</i>) police: Black on black with black ties. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;media.timeout.com&#x2F;images&#x2F;103899055&#x2F;image.jpg" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;media.timeout.com&#x2F;images&#x2F;103899055&#x2F;image.jpg</a><p>It seems meaningless, but having interacted with a few police agencies I have noticed a trend. They cops that show up for meetings in head-to-toe black tend to be more aggressive. They try to assert themselves in every meeting, which is entertaining as we are the military. They cannot win the &quot;who has the bigger gun&quot; thing. The cops that come in oldschool blue shirts and ties are much easier to work with.<p>(Fyi, if those two NYPD officers in the pic were in the military they would get a talking to about attitude. Hands in pockets. Chewing. Crossed arms. In public? Have some respect for your uniform.)</text></item><item><author>Shivetya</author><text>The equipment issue isn&#x27;t going to solve anything, this is just lip service to the real problem. Police Unions have effectively created a system by which officers are nearly immune from prosecution and even if successfully prosecuted their record cannot travel with them in many cases.<p>Now one fix that removing some of the equipment will do will reduce the amount of psychological impact it has on those wielding it, as in reduce the Rambo effect. The idea of attaching military style equipment to the current problems is only for political purposes, they needed to blame Trump for the violence.<p>However in the end, there are few alternatives to fixing the police and their application and misapplication of force<p>1) Restrict conditions that can be placed in union negotiated contracts regarding officer behavior, culpability, and indemnification.<p>2) If not 1) then make it illegal for the unions to exist with regards to any public servant who is armed<p>3) civilian oversight boards that are veto proof against the police they monitor. Not only would they review incidents which are questionable they would have to involved in any use of concentrated force to include no knock warrants; something which should be illegal except in the most incredible cases.<p>4) holding elected and appointed officials of the localities, city, county, or state, accountable for the harm caused by their police forces.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mstade</author><text>Clearly you’ve never driven in the US of A. ;o)<p>Facetious commentary aside – and I do apologize for the tongue in cheekness – as a European I’ve always been struck by just how many wrecks and other debris are littered by the side of the roads in the US. Mileage varies I’m sure (no pun intended) but I covered 6660 miles on a road trip through in the US last year and it seemed almost universal to me that you’d see at least one car wreck (often partially or fully burned out) and loads of other debris like blown tires etc.<p>I think I’ve even got video from when I was leaving Kennedy Space Center and just a few miles from the bridges there was a car by the side of the road engulfed in flames.<p>On my latest road trip someone explained to me that the remnants of blown tires are from 18-wheelers that just keep on truckin’ once that happens, basically ignoring it till the next stop or even later. Given how many trucks you see on the road I wouldn’t be surprised if that’s true.</text></comment> | <story><title>Lawmakers begin bipartisan push to cut off police access to military-style gear</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/01/us/politics/police-military-gear.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>stdbrouw</author><text>&gt; The police need to push cars to the side of the road on, I&#x27;d venture, a daily basis.<p>In what kind of weird and twisted world do police officers need to push cars to the side on a daily basis?</text></item><item><author>rconti</author><text>Pusher bumpers are just standard, and have been forever. A friend got accidentally rear-ended by a cop, no damage thanks to the pusher.<p>The police need to push cars to the side of the road on, I&#x27;d venture, a daily basis.</text></item><item><author>coopsmgoops</author><text>I agree from a public relations standpoint too. All the new cruisers in my city are black Chargers&#x2F;Challengers with battering ram front bumpers and they look way too intense for the job.<p>I&#x27;m also scared irreparable damage had been done to the police brand such that way fewer &quot;good&quot; people will want to sign up.</text></item><item><author>sandworm101</author><text>5) Change the uniforms.<p>Dress for the job you want. If they all dress like storm troopers some of them will act like storm troopers.<p>NY <i>state</i> patrol uniform: Grey with <i>purple</i> ties. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;northcountrynow.com&#x2F;sites&#x2F;default&#x2F;files&#x2F;images&#x2F;Zone2Platoon2.gif" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;northcountrynow.com&#x2F;sites&#x2F;default&#x2F;files&#x2F;images&#x2F;Zone2...</a><p>NYPD (new york <i>city</i>) police: Black on black with black ties. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;media.timeout.com&#x2F;images&#x2F;103899055&#x2F;image.jpg" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;media.timeout.com&#x2F;images&#x2F;103899055&#x2F;image.jpg</a><p>It seems meaningless, but having interacted with a few police agencies I have noticed a trend. They cops that show up for meetings in head-to-toe black tend to be more aggressive. They try to assert themselves in every meeting, which is entertaining as we are the military. They cannot win the &quot;who has the bigger gun&quot; thing. The cops that come in oldschool blue shirts and ties are much easier to work with.<p>(Fyi, if those two NYPD officers in the pic were in the military they would get a talking to about attitude. Hands in pockets. Chewing. Crossed arms. In public? Have some respect for your uniform.)</text></item><item><author>Shivetya</author><text>The equipment issue isn&#x27;t going to solve anything, this is just lip service to the real problem. Police Unions have effectively created a system by which officers are nearly immune from prosecution and even if successfully prosecuted their record cannot travel with them in many cases.<p>Now one fix that removing some of the equipment will do will reduce the amount of psychological impact it has on those wielding it, as in reduce the Rambo effect. The idea of attaching military style equipment to the current problems is only for political purposes, they needed to blame Trump for the violence.<p>However in the end, there are few alternatives to fixing the police and their application and misapplication of force<p>1) Restrict conditions that can be placed in union negotiated contracts regarding officer behavior, culpability, and indemnification.<p>2) If not 1) then make it illegal for the unions to exist with regards to any public servant who is armed<p>3) civilian oversight boards that are veto proof against the police they monitor. Not only would they review incidents which are questionable they would have to involved in any use of concentrated force to include no knock warrants; something which should be illegal except in the most incredible cases.<p>4) holding elected and appointed officials of the localities, city, county, or state, accountable for the harm caused by their police forces.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pc86</author><text>Literally any accident where stopped traffic can be more dangerous than slow-moving traffic (such as any highway).<p>It&#x27;s really not a strange concept and it&#x27;s weird to me that you can&#x27;t comprehend a first responder having a need to move a large, heavy, immobilized object.</text></comment> |
39,558,655 | 39,558,624 | 1 | 2 | 39,555,598 | train | <story><title>Things You Should Never Do, Part I (2000)</title><url>https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2000/04/06/things-you-should-never-do-part-i/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bdw5204</author><text>The main reason why developers do rewrites is because it is easier to read your own code than it is to read somebody else&#x27;s code. Doing a rewrite means you only have to work with code that was written by your current coworkers or by yourself.<p>This is also the core motivation behind all of the schemes to force a single coding style on all developers at the cost of performance and usually with an extremely complicated design for seemingly no reason. Usually, these turn out to be unreadable messes as well a generation later once everybody has moved onto the latest and &quot;greatest&quot; coding style trend.<p>Instead of doing rewrites, you can just refactor code. That means, among other things, deleting obsolete code for platforms you no longer support and, in the case of C&#x2F;C++, converting macros to functions. You can also document the codebase (with comments not commit messages) so that developers understand what the code does and why it is there. But a full rewrite is usually a bad idea that will just introduce new bugs and remove existing functionality.<p>Refactor vs rewrite is basically the software development equivalent of reform vs revolution in political science and everybody with even a minimal knowledge of history knows that revolutions usually end badly with an even worse regime taking power. Likewise, the failure to accept the need for reform (i.e. refusing to allow refactoring) inevitably leads to revolution.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ehnto</author><text>This is why I recommend using a framework in commercial projects, and following it&#x27;s idioms as closely as makes sense for your project.<p>It means there is a shared idiomatic approach across your team and all the documentation for it is just the framework documentation. It is also easier to hire devs, if you can vet their ability to write idiomatic code in a specific framework then you can better assume they will mesh well with yor codebase.<p>It is a communication and empathy problem at its heart. You are being empathetic to future devs and future you by acknowledging the knowledge they would need to work on your code. Then the communication of your idioms is baked into the framework ecosystem and docs.</text></comment> | <story><title>Things You Should Never Do, Part I (2000)</title><url>https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2000/04/06/things-you-should-never-do-part-i/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bdw5204</author><text>The main reason why developers do rewrites is because it is easier to read your own code than it is to read somebody else&#x27;s code. Doing a rewrite means you only have to work with code that was written by your current coworkers or by yourself.<p>This is also the core motivation behind all of the schemes to force a single coding style on all developers at the cost of performance and usually with an extremely complicated design for seemingly no reason. Usually, these turn out to be unreadable messes as well a generation later once everybody has moved onto the latest and &quot;greatest&quot; coding style trend.<p>Instead of doing rewrites, you can just refactor code. That means, among other things, deleting obsolete code for platforms you no longer support and, in the case of C&#x2F;C++, converting macros to functions. You can also document the codebase (with comments not commit messages) so that developers understand what the code does and why it is there. But a full rewrite is usually a bad idea that will just introduce new bugs and remove existing functionality.<p>Refactor vs rewrite is basically the software development equivalent of reform vs revolution in political science and everybody with even a minimal knowledge of history knows that revolutions usually end badly with an even worse regime taking power. Likewise, the failure to accept the need for reform (i.e. refusing to allow refactoring) inevitably leads to revolution.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>SoftTalker</author><text>In 2000, refactoring was not really a thing as few projects had many automated unit tests and any change to the code had to be tested manually.</text></comment> |
36,623,350 | 36,623,300 | 1 | 3 | 36,622,691 | train | <story><title>Stanford Graduate Students Won Their Union Vote</title><url>https://twitter.com/StanfordGWU/status/1677048098080845824</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Atreiden</author><text>Good for them! Academia is a toxic and broken environment, and this seems like a great first step in fixing it. Interested to see how the dynamic plays out at Stanford, and if other American universities follow suit.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>xhkkffbf</author><text>Alas, I&#x27;m not sure a union can begin to fix anything except a few cosmetic things. The biggest problem is the massive oversupply of people who want academic careers versus the number of real jobs. The individual unions at the schools can&#x27;t tackle this oversupply at all because it&#x27;s caused by the schools acting independently. The natural game is to protect the insiders by restricting admission like many of the other unions like the AMA that actively campaign against too many doctors.<p>Indeed, the unions risk the bad optics of campaigning to reduce new admits in order to maintain opportunities for those already in the pipeline. In other words, slamming the door shut on people who want to learn all to restrict supply of work for the privileged.<p>I suppose the unions might be able to help in the rare case of a real jerk of a professor who mistreats her students, but I think most professors are smart enough to play passive aggressive games instead. The schools nurture the ability to act passive aggressively.<p>The rest of the time, the students in the union are going to waste their time arguing about something instead of working on their dissertation, the one thing that will spring them from the jail.</text></comment> | <story><title>Stanford Graduate Students Won Their Union Vote</title><url>https://twitter.com/StanfordGWU/status/1677048098080845824</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Atreiden</author><text>Good for them! Academia is a toxic and broken environment, and this seems like a great first step in fixing it. Interested to see how the dynamic plays out at Stanford, and if other American universities follow suit.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mensetmanusman</author><text>It will be interesting. Some federal grants seem to have pay limit maximums lower than the new minimum pay requirement.<p>Maybe this will have the effect of sending more federal grant money to lower cost of living research institutes. That could be an interesting outcome.</text></comment> |
21,649,039 | 21,649,245 | 1 | 2 | 21,648,582 | train | <story><title>Apocalyptic Claims About Climate Change Are Wrong</title><url>https://www.forbes.com/sites/michaelshellenberger/2019/11/25/why-everything-they-say-about-climate-change-is-wrong/#4dd5de4912d6</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tyre</author><text>The threats of climate change are not that some biblical flood rises up to swallow humanity.<p>The danger of climate change is that incremental sea level rise would put tens of millions of people underwater.<p>Could they move? Absolutely. And we clearly have enough land to move people around, both globally and in many countries.<p>The danger is whether we can make those migrations without civil unrest. What land is taken for them to move to? What about Vietnam, where most of the country is projected to be underwater by 2050? We’re going to just move millions of Vietnamese and no one is going to be upset?<p>If we look today at the relatively tiny migration of people into the United States and Europe, we can see how quickly voters swing far right as The Other settles in.<p>The trickle down of these effects is tremendous.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Cthulhu_</author><text>Not to mention famine; it&#x27;s not so much natural disasters that&#x27;ll kill a lot of people (after all, we&#x27;re pretty good at moving out of the way, building shelters &#x2F; dikes, etc), but it&#x27;s going to be failed crops. This is already happening, and has happend in the past - all it takes is one hot &#x2F; dry summer for a country and millions of people to be at risk.<p>Climate change means the chance of a hot &#x2F; dry summer (or long &#x2F; cold winter) will increase. Sure, at the time it seems like a fluke, and sure especially the more wealthy countries will be able to survive well enough, but at the same time it will cost lives. The poorest and disadvantaged will likely be the first to go, those that can&#x27;t afford the gradually increasing prices of food.<p>And the problem will become bigger as the climate change becomes more widespread. We can (as a collective) survive a year of famine well enough, but what if crops fail two or three years in a row?</text></comment> | <story><title>Apocalyptic Claims About Climate Change Are Wrong</title><url>https://www.forbes.com/sites/michaelshellenberger/2019/11/25/why-everything-they-say-about-climate-change-is-wrong/#4dd5de4912d6</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tyre</author><text>The threats of climate change are not that some biblical flood rises up to swallow humanity.<p>The danger of climate change is that incremental sea level rise would put tens of millions of people underwater.<p>Could they move? Absolutely. And we clearly have enough land to move people around, both globally and in many countries.<p>The danger is whether we can make those migrations without civil unrest. What land is taken for them to move to? What about Vietnam, where most of the country is projected to be underwater by 2050? We’re going to just move millions of Vietnamese and no one is going to be upset?<p>If we look today at the relatively tiny migration of people into the United States and Europe, we can see how quickly voters swing far right as The Other settles in.<p>The trickle down of these effects is tremendous.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>thefreeman</author><text>Right?? I thought the author was making somewhat reasonable points until they just shrugged off a prediction that sea level will rise 2 feet in the next 80 years or so with &quot;Well 1&#x2F;3 of the Netherlands is below sea level and they are ok soo......&quot;. Like that is even remotely equivalent to the sea level of entire planet rising by 2 feet.</text></comment> |
18,544,894 | 18,545,099 | 1 | 2 | 18,544,105 | train | <story><title>Google employees: We no longer believe the company places values over profits</title><url>https://www.cnbc.com/2018/11/27/read-google-employees-open-letter-protesting-project-dragonfly.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Apreche</author><text>It never did. Otherwise it would have incorporated as a non-profit or a PBC. Since its inception, Google has always been a for-profit entity, which is legally required to put shareholders profits as a higher priority than everything else.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rosser</author><text>&gt; <i>...which is legally required to put shareholders profits as a higher priority than everything else.</i><p>Please retire this egregiously broken misconstrual of fiduciary duty. I promise you, this is <i>not</i> the law, and you sound a fool for repeating it.</text></comment> | <story><title>Google employees: We no longer believe the company places values over profits</title><url>https://www.cnbc.com/2018/11/27/read-google-employees-open-letter-protesting-project-dragonfly.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Apreche</author><text>It never did. Otherwise it would have incorporated as a non-profit or a PBC. Since its inception, Google has always been a for-profit entity, which is legally required to put shareholders profits as a higher priority than everything else.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>cosmie</author><text>Shareholder value[1], not shareholder profit. There&#x27;s a subtle but important difference. It&#x27;s pretty easy to engineer short term profits, but usually results in cannibalizing long-term value.<p>The amassed engineering talent and accumulated knowledge-base at Google is a strategically important asset to Google, and defection of that knowledge-base en-masse would be a very bad thing. Both by handicapping Google&#x27;s ability itself while simultaneously seeding the marketplace with a large concentration of individuals that know the inner workings of Google technology. While this already happens through normal attrition, happening en-masse would be far more of a market risk.<p>In this instance, Google employees being as vocal as they are is more influential than you make it sound. Even viewing it through the lens of shareholder value. Which is also not actually a legal requirement, which [1] provides details about towards the end.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.investopedia.com&#x2F;terms&#x2F;s&#x2F;shareholder-value.asp" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.investopedia.com&#x2F;terms&#x2F;s&#x2F;shareholder-value.asp</a></text></comment> |
28,089,779 | 28,088,306 | 1 | 3 | 28,084,150 | train | <story><title>A cocktail of pesticides, parasites and hunger leaves bees down and out</title><url>https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-02079-4</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>lettergram</author><text>I’ve been telling everyone I know. The number 1 concern we should all have are pesticides!<p>The number of insects have dropped dramatically and that has impacts on the entire food chain. Particularly, the ability for plants to reproduce. The pesticides themselves also make it all the way up the food chain.<p>Neonicotinoids have a half life of 5 years and we spray fields EVERY YEAR. So it’s building up in the supply chain. I live surrounded by corn fields and I basically only see wasps, Japanese beetles and some ants. Growing up we saw a ton of different insect species and numbers.<p>Finally, all these chemicals interact and frankly we have no idea of the long term impacts when combined.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>BostonEnginerd</author><text>Since we bought our house, we&#x27;re saturated in ads for pest control companies who want to spray our entire property to kill bugs. It&#x27;s unbelievable that this is actually legal.<p>I think that the use of pesticides should be strictly limited to acute infestations -- or small specific things like a barrier placed on the foundation of the house for termite prevention.</text></comment> | <story><title>A cocktail of pesticides, parasites and hunger leaves bees down and out</title><url>https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-02079-4</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>lettergram</author><text>I’ve been telling everyone I know. The number 1 concern we should all have are pesticides!<p>The number of insects have dropped dramatically and that has impacts on the entire food chain. Particularly, the ability for plants to reproduce. The pesticides themselves also make it all the way up the food chain.<p>Neonicotinoids have a half life of 5 years and we spray fields EVERY YEAR. So it’s building up in the supply chain. I live surrounded by corn fields and I basically only see wasps, Japanese beetles and some ants. Growing up we saw a ton of different insect species and numbers.<p>Finally, all these chemicals interact and frankly we have no idea of the long term impacts when combined.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pfdietz</author><text>&gt; The number of insects have dropped dramatically<p>Are you referring to the 2017 &quot;Insect Apocalypse&quot; paper? It has not done well under subsequent examination.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;ecologyisnotadirtyword.com&#x2F;2019&#x2F;12&#x2F;20&#x2F;moving-on-from-the-insect-apocalypse-to-evidence-based-conservation&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;ecologyisnotadirtyword.com&#x2F;2019&#x2F;12&#x2F;20&#x2F;moving-on-from...</a><p>&quot;From a scientific perspective, there is so much wrong with the paper, it really shouldn’t have been published in its current form: the biased search method, the cherry-picked studies, the absence of any real quantitative data to back up the bizarre 40% extinction rate that appears in the abstract (we don’t even have population data for 40% of the world’s insect species), and the errors in the reference list. And it was presented as a ‘comprehensive review’ and a ‘meta-analysis’, even though it is neither.&quot;</text></comment> |
29,020,291 | 29,020,177 | 1 | 2 | 29,018,804 | train | <story><title>How I made Google’s data grid scroll faster with a line of CSS</title><url>https://medium.com/@johan.isaksson/how-i-made-googles-data-grid-scroll-10x-faster-with-one-line-of-css-78cb1e8d9cb1</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>lxe</author><text>I&#x27;ve been doing web development for 20 years now. I don&#x27;t know if it&#x27;s strictly endemic to web or frontend, but I feel like we&#x27;re solving the same problems over and over again, using the same low levels of abstraction.<p>There&#x27;s no reason for lists to scroll slowly after so many years of scrolling lists. There should just be one way to do a scrolling list, implemented natively and left alone. Yet, in web development, there&#x27;s always a new and different way to do a thing, with either new, or pretty much the same ways for things to be broken.<p>Grumble grumble</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>wildrhythms</author><text>I work in UX, I am constantly being given designs that don&#x27;t work well with native&#x2F;semantic elements- a great example is tables. As soon as the table needs some kind of animation, drag-drop behavior, anything like that, I can&#x27;t use a &lt;table&gt; anymore; or it becomes some frankenstein kafkaesque amalgamation that is impossible to maintain. Does the table really need an animation? (probably not) drag and drop? (probably not) But management and the people in charge of OK&#x27;ing these designs have a &#x27;make-it-happen&#x27; attitude and nobody really cares about semantic, native feel when they&#x27;ve invested so much into a &quot;design system&quot; that is largely antithetical to that.<p>Select elements are the bane of my existence. Impossible to style. I am constantly re-implementing a &lt;select&gt; because it has to look a certain way. Just terrible.</text></comment> | <story><title>How I made Google’s data grid scroll faster with a line of CSS</title><url>https://medium.com/@johan.isaksson/how-i-made-googles-data-grid-scroll-10x-faster-with-one-line-of-css-78cb1e8d9cb1</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>lxe</author><text>I&#x27;ve been doing web development for 20 years now. I don&#x27;t know if it&#x27;s strictly endemic to web or frontend, but I feel like we&#x27;re solving the same problems over and over again, using the same low levels of abstraction.<p>There&#x27;s no reason for lists to scroll slowly after so many years of scrolling lists. There should just be one way to do a scrolling list, implemented natively and left alone. Yet, in web development, there&#x27;s always a new and different way to do a thing, with either new, or pretty much the same ways for things to be broken.<p>Grumble grumble</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>vaughan</author><text>There is not one set of static requirements for lists. New UX paradigms are being invented all the time, which actually make things more usable.<p>E.g. Think about Airtable vs Google Sheets.<p>Also consider data sources and data binding. Do you bind a cell, a row, the entire table? How do you handle real-time updates or infinite scrolling. How is styling done?<p>It always feels like we should just standardize the current thing because we cannot see what will come next.<p>That said, there still does not feel like a good data grid for React, and trying to build one makes it feel like React is just getting in the way.</text></comment> |
22,173,319 | 22,173,055 | 1 | 3 | 22,170,786 | train | <story><title>Thunderbird’s New Home</title><url>https://blog.thunderbird.net/2020/01/thunderbirds-new-home/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>wink</author><text>I admit that software needs some sort of upkeep to not fall to bitrot, but I simply don&#x27;t understand how we got to the near-falldown of Thunderbird a few years ago. You don&#x27;t have to add new features, keeping it alive and simply fixing critical bugs is fine. Basically everyone I know would prefer a stable mail client not getting any new features over a few new features and addons breaking.<p>I&#x27;m really happy Thunderbird hasn&#x27;t gone the way of the dodo.</text></comment> | <story><title>Thunderbird’s New Home</title><url>https://blog.thunderbird.net/2020/01/thunderbirds-new-home/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>ForHackernews</author><text>Does this mean I need to shift my donation?<p>I&#x27;ve been giving specifically to support Thunderbird development, not other Mozilla work [0] for the past few years because I think it&#x27;s vitally important that email remains an open protocol, supported by mainstream desktop clients. Without Thunderbird, I fear email will be lost to the Gmail &amp; Apple walled garden.<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;give.thunderbird.net&#x2F;en-US&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;give.thunderbird.net&#x2F;en-US&#x2F;</a></text></comment> |
27,857,314 | 27,857,135 | 1 | 2 | 27,854,850 | train | <story><title>Illinois first state to tell police they can't lie to minors in interrogations</title><url>https://www.npr.org/2021/07/16/1016710927/illinois-is-the-first-state-to-tell-police-they-cant-lie-to-minors-in-interrogat</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Clubber</author><text>&gt;It&#x27;s slightly less disturbing to think that the cops legitimately think they&#x27;re doing a good job over the alternative of intentionally ignoring their responsibility. Still troubling to think they could be that deluded.<p>Stalin truly believed what he was doing was for the greater good of the USSR. It&#x27;s extremely easy to justify bad deeds and fool yourself that the ends justify the means.</text></item><item><author>boomboomsubban</author><text>I saw something before that said something like 80% of cops thought they had never arrested an innocent person. From that, it is likely that they believe these people are the criminals but the crafty villains won&#x27;t admit it without being tricked.<p>It&#x27;s slightly less disturbing to think that the cops legitimately think they&#x27;re doing a good job over the alternative of intentionally ignoring their responsibility. Still troubling to think they could be that deluded.</text></item><item><author>_fat_santa</author><text>I also never understood this. It almost seems as if interrogations aren&#x27;t for discovery of information but moreso &quot;we have this lead and we&#x27;re going to beat you into submission until you confirm our lead&quot;.<p>You see it all the time with wrongful convictions and people signing confessions to crimes they didn&#x27;t commit. I often wonder in these cases, do the officers, does law enforcement in this case really care who did it? If you bring someone in and interrogate them for 12+ hours and eventually they give you the answer you want to hear, do they never stop and ask themselves if the reason the person gave that answer is simply to make whatever they were doing stop?<p>It seems like some of these investigations the point isn&#x27;t to solve the crime, but to dot the I&#x27;s and cross your T&#x27;s. It seems like actual public safety is an afterthought as long as you &quot;catch the criminal&quot; on paper.</text></item><item><author>tomalpha</author><text>&gt; After hours of interrogation, police told one of the teenagers, Terrill Swift, that if he just confessed to being at the scene he could go home — so he did.<p>What&#x27;s the advantage to society of allowing interviewers to lie (to anyone, let alone kids)? Not just insinuate something like &quot;your partner&#x27;s in the next room, it&#x27;s only a matter of time until he talks so you should come clean now&quot;, but blatantly lie and then be able to rely on the result of that in court?<p>It kinda feels a <i>little</i> like the common law doctrine of Promissary Estoppel [0] where if someone relies on something you&#x27;ve promised, you can&#x27;t then hold them responsible for relying on that thing.<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.law.cornell.edu&#x2F;wex&#x2F;promissory_estoppel" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.law.cornell.edu&#x2F;wex&#x2F;promissory_estoppel</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>eldavido</author><text>Great illustration of why respect for individual rights is so important.<p>There will always be some megalomaniac, whether dictator, president, cop, or some authority figure, who &quot;knows best&quot;.<p>Individual rights are the brakes. They&#x27;re the lines we&#x27;ve agreed not to cross as a society, even when we&#x27;re really sure we &quot;know best&quot;. Example: property rights. No matter how sure you are that there&#x27;s stolen property in the building, even law enforcement doesn&#x27;t get to enter without a warrant.<p>Individual rights <i>limit</i> what others can do.</text></comment> | <story><title>Illinois first state to tell police they can't lie to minors in interrogations</title><url>https://www.npr.org/2021/07/16/1016710927/illinois-is-the-first-state-to-tell-police-they-cant-lie-to-minors-in-interrogat</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Clubber</author><text>&gt;It&#x27;s slightly less disturbing to think that the cops legitimately think they&#x27;re doing a good job over the alternative of intentionally ignoring their responsibility. Still troubling to think they could be that deluded.<p>Stalin truly believed what he was doing was for the greater good of the USSR. It&#x27;s extremely easy to justify bad deeds and fool yourself that the ends justify the means.</text></item><item><author>boomboomsubban</author><text>I saw something before that said something like 80% of cops thought they had never arrested an innocent person. From that, it is likely that they believe these people are the criminals but the crafty villains won&#x27;t admit it without being tricked.<p>It&#x27;s slightly less disturbing to think that the cops legitimately think they&#x27;re doing a good job over the alternative of intentionally ignoring their responsibility. Still troubling to think they could be that deluded.</text></item><item><author>_fat_santa</author><text>I also never understood this. It almost seems as if interrogations aren&#x27;t for discovery of information but moreso &quot;we have this lead and we&#x27;re going to beat you into submission until you confirm our lead&quot;.<p>You see it all the time with wrongful convictions and people signing confessions to crimes they didn&#x27;t commit. I often wonder in these cases, do the officers, does law enforcement in this case really care who did it? If you bring someone in and interrogate them for 12+ hours and eventually they give you the answer you want to hear, do they never stop and ask themselves if the reason the person gave that answer is simply to make whatever they were doing stop?<p>It seems like some of these investigations the point isn&#x27;t to solve the crime, but to dot the I&#x27;s and cross your T&#x27;s. It seems like actual public safety is an afterthought as long as you &quot;catch the criminal&quot; on paper.</text></item><item><author>tomalpha</author><text>&gt; After hours of interrogation, police told one of the teenagers, Terrill Swift, that if he just confessed to being at the scene he could go home — so he did.<p>What&#x27;s the advantage to society of allowing interviewers to lie (to anyone, let alone kids)? Not just insinuate something like &quot;your partner&#x27;s in the next room, it&#x27;s only a matter of time until he talks so you should come clean now&quot;, but blatantly lie and then be able to rely on the result of that in court?<p>It kinda feels a <i>little</i> like the common law doctrine of Promissary Estoppel [0] where if someone relies on something you&#x27;ve promised, you can&#x27;t then hold them responsible for relying on that thing.<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.law.cornell.edu&#x2F;wex&#x2F;promissory_estoppel" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.law.cornell.edu&#x2F;wex&#x2F;promissory_estoppel</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mumblemumble</author><text>This seems like a valid, if hyperbolic, point to me. I think that one could make a plausible argument that one of the most basic implications of the principle of rule of law is that, at least where the police are concerned, the ends <i>don&#x27;t</i> justify the means. Allowing them to behave otherwise isn&#x27;t a slippery slope that leads to rampant abuse of power; it&#x27;s a dead drop.</text></comment> |
12,631,808 | 12,631,021 | 1 | 2 | 12,630,095 | train | <story><title>New lower Azure pricing</title><url>https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/new-lower-azure-pricing/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>BonoboIO</author><text>Cloud Pricing is ridiculous ... made the comparison between a dedicated server and cloud offerings of microsoft, google, amazon ... rackspace (SO EXPENSIVE) and you pay 5 times in the cloud for the same.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>paulddraper</author><text>Restaurant prices are ridiculous ... made the comparison between groceries and menu offerings of McDonalds, Taco Bell, Burger King ... Olive Garden (SO EXPENSIVE) and you pay 5 times at a restaurant for the same.<p>---<p>You&#x27;re not paying for hardware. You&#x27;re paying for hardware, expertise, services, and convenience.<p>On-prem or colocation may be a good choice. But limiting your comparison to raw computing power mischaracterizes the decision.</text></comment> | <story><title>New lower Azure pricing</title><url>https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/new-lower-azure-pricing/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>BonoboIO</author><text>Cloud Pricing is ridiculous ... made the comparison between a dedicated server and cloud offerings of microsoft, google, amazon ... rackspace (SO EXPENSIVE) and you pay 5 times in the cloud for the same.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Someone1234</author><text>While undeniably true, you have to look at the levels of redundancy. With a dedicated server, if the box dies you&#x27;re offline, if the storage dies you may lose data, etc.<p>Plus, there&#x27;s also a premium just for access to the ecosystem&#x2F;APIs. You are often paying for the theoretical convenience of being able to spawn additional instances programmatically.</text></comment> |
5,865,267 | 5,865,026 | 1 | 2 | 5,864,762 | train | <story><title>Norwegian lawyer had visa withdrawn after private chat with client on Facebook</title><url>http://translate.google.com/translate?sl=no&tl=en&js=n&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.vg.no%2Fnyheter%2Finnenriks%2Fartikkel.php%3Fartid%3D10104089&act=url</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>belorn</author><text>Be you a lawyer talking privileged to a client, a priest talking privileged to a follower, a hot-line worker talking privileged to someone thinking about suicide, or a social service person talking to a child who been sexually assaulted, every ones communication is equally collected.<p>This is after all the result of ubiquitous surveillance. When people learn about it, the reaction is very simple. people stop talking. They do not call the lawyer. They don&#x27;t call the priest. The person thinking about suicide won&#x27;t call the hot-line, and the sexually assaulted child will stay quiet in fear of people finding out. After Germany introduced their ubiquitous surveillance law, this was exactly what the statistics ended up showing. I wonder, while hoping not, if the same result will happen in the US too after the current wave of news.</text></comment> | <story><title>Norwegian lawyer had visa withdrawn after private chat with client on Facebook</title><url>http://translate.google.com/translate?sl=no&tl=en&js=n&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.vg.no%2Fnyheter%2Finnenriks%2Fartikkel.php%3Fartid%3D10104089&act=url</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Vivtek</author><text>Ah. This one is actually kind of credible.<p>But if the client was already accused of terrorism, then this monitoring was on his end, and surely covered by a specific warrant. So this isn&#x27;t (presumably) the kind of massive data hoovering that is the primary concern; every country does this kind of thing. (Back when I was running Despammed.com I&#x27;d get requests from various LEOs - one came with a real live subpoena for information related to an identity theft ring, and one was from Italian authorities pursuing an insult to Mary.)<p>Where it gets to be a concern is revoking a guy&#x27;s visa because he&#x27;s defending a terror suspect.</text></comment> |
29,271,014 | 29,271,301 | 1 | 3 | 29,270,460 | train | <story><title>The NFT Bay is the galaxy's most resilient NFT BitTorrent site!</title><url>https://thenftbay.org/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>kn0where</author><text>&gt; Did you know that a NFT is just a hyperlink to an image thats usually hosted on Google Drive or another web2.0 webhost? People are dropping millions on instructions on how to download images. That&#x27;s why you can right click save—as because they are standard images. The image is not stored in the blockchain contract. As web2.0 webhosts are known to go offline (404 errors) this handy torrent contains all of the NFT&#x27;s so that future generations can study this generations tulip mania and collectively go... &quot;WTF? We destroyed our planet for THIS?!&quot;</text></comment> | <story><title>The NFT Bay is the galaxy's most resilient NFT BitTorrent site!</title><url>https://thenftbay.org/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>theon144</author><text>Now I like to make fun of cryptobros like anyone else, but...<p>Isn&#x27;t it ironic that this one joke site actually helps solve one of the most commonly quoted issues people have with NFTs, i.e. that &quot;you only own an URL which can be taken down at any time&quot;, by providing means of wide-scale decentralized P2P storage?</text></comment> |
20,725,698 | 20,725,565 | 1 | 2 | 20,724,672 | train | <story><title>Parsing JSON Is a Minefield (2018)</title><url>http://seriot.ch/parsing_json.php</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>userbinator</author><text>I suppose you could saw that parsing <i>any</i> text-based protocol in general &quot;Is a Minefield&quot;. They look so simple and &quot;readable&quot;, which is why they&#x27;re appealing initially, but parsing text always involves lots of corner-cases and I&#x27;ve always thought it a huge waste of resources to use text-based protocols for data that&#x27;s not actually meant for human consumption the vast majority of the time.<p>Consider something as simple as parsing an integer in a text-based format; there may be whitespace to skip, an optional sign character, and then a loop to accumulate digits and convert them (itself a subtraction, multiply, and add), and there&#x27;s still the questions of all the invalid cases and what they should do. In contrast, in a binary format, all that&#x27;s required is to read the data, and the most complex thing which might be required is endianness conversion. Length-prefixed binary formats are almost trivial to parse, on par with reading a field from a struture.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>robocat</author><text>Binary formats have their own serious problems.<p>&gt; Length-prefixed binary formats are almost trivial to parse<p>They definitely are not, as displayed by the fact that binary lengths are the root cause of a huge number of security flaws. JSON mostly avoids that.<p>&gt; the most complex thing which might be required is endianness conversion<p>That is a gross simplification. When you look at the details of binary representations, things get complex, and you end up with corner cases.<p>Let&#x27;s look at floating point numbers: with a binary format you can transmit NaN, Infinity, -infinity, and -0. You can also create two NaN numbers that do not have the same binary representation. You have to choose single or double precision (maybe a benefit, not always). Etc.<p>Similarly in JSON integers or arrays of integers are nothing special. It is mostly a benefit not to have to specify UInt8Array.<p>JSON is one of many competitors within an ecology of programming, including binary formats, and yet JSON currently dominates large parts of that ecology. So far a binary format mutation hasn&#x27;t beaten JSON, which is telling since binary had the early advantage (well: binary definitely wins in parts of the ecology, just as JSON wins in other parts).</text></comment> | <story><title>Parsing JSON Is a Minefield (2018)</title><url>http://seriot.ch/parsing_json.php</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>userbinator</author><text>I suppose you could saw that parsing <i>any</i> text-based protocol in general &quot;Is a Minefield&quot;. They look so simple and &quot;readable&quot;, which is why they&#x27;re appealing initially, but parsing text always involves lots of corner-cases and I&#x27;ve always thought it a huge waste of resources to use text-based protocols for data that&#x27;s not actually meant for human consumption the vast majority of the time.<p>Consider something as simple as parsing an integer in a text-based format; there may be whitespace to skip, an optional sign character, and then a loop to accumulate digits and convert them (itself a subtraction, multiply, and add), and there&#x27;s still the questions of all the invalid cases and what they should do. In contrast, in a binary format, all that&#x27;s required is to read the data, and the most complex thing which might be required is endianness conversion. Length-prefixed binary formats are almost trivial to parse, on par with reading a field from a struture.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>juliusmusseau</author><text>Consider only this: &quot;1.001&quot;<p>I&#x27;ll use JavaScript numeric literals here as my translation medium (ironic!):<p>Norway locale parses it to: 1001<p>USA locale parses it to: 1.001<p>France locale parses it to: NaN<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;docs.oracle.com&#x2F;cd&#x2F;E19455-01&#x2F;806-0169&#x2F;overview-9&#x2F;index.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;docs.oracle.com&#x2F;cd&#x2F;E19455-01&#x2F;806-0169&#x2F;overview-9&#x2F;ind...</a></text></comment> |
37,502,582 | 37,502,620 | 1 | 2 | 37,502,329 | train | <story><title>Hutter Prize for compressing human knowledge</title><url>http://prize.hutter1.net/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>slashdev</author><text>I think the mistake here is to require lossless compression.<p>Humans and LLMs only do lossy compression. I think lossy compression might be more critical to intelligence. The ability to forget, change your synapses or weights, is crucial to being able to adapt to change.</text></comment> | <story><title>Hutter Prize for compressing human knowledge</title><url>http://prize.hutter1.net/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>omoikane</author><text>500000 EUR is the prize pool. Each winner has to gain at least 1% improvement over previous record to claim a prize that is proportional to the improvement. Getting the full 500000 EUR prize requires an 100% improvement (i.e. compressing 1GB to zero bytes).</text></comment> |
11,393,812 | 11,393,435 | 1 | 2 | 11,393,074 | train | <story><title>The Basics of Web Application Security</title><url>http://martinfowler.com/articles/web-security-basics.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>CiPHPerCoder</author><text>I&#x27;ve taken a different approach to explaining the basics of application security.<p>These are the things that are most likely to cause your application to be secure:<p><pre><code> 1. Data being treated as code.
2. Invalid (or missing) logic.
3. Insecure operating environment. (e.g. outdated packages)
4. Cryptography failures.
</code></pre>
Data being treated as code covers the obvious things like SQL Injection and Cross-Site Scripting, and makes it easier to conceptualize the solution: Never mix the two. That&#x27;s what prepared statements accomplish.<p>Invalid&#x2F;missing logic is the realm of &quot;missing access controls&quot; and &quot;confused deputy&quot; problems. (This is also where I&#x27;d place CSRF vulnerabilities.)<p>Insecure operating environment: A secure application on an insecure server is not secure. Patch your systems. Use HTTPS. WordPress can&#x27;t save you from CVE-2012-1823. Apache can&#x27;t save you from Shellshock.<p>Cryptography failures are their own category, where the phrase &quot;padding oracle&quot; is routinely uttered with a straight face, a single mistake can cripple your application, and comparing strings the normal way programmers compare strings is considered dangerous. The solution here for people who aren&#x27;t interested in becoming an expert is to hire one. Or a team of them.<p>These descriptions are an attempt to address the fundamental problems with how insecure code is written, rather than to arm the reader with a checklist of specific instances of vulnerabilities they can check off.<p>I generally dislike checklists (OWASP 10, SANS 25).<p>How many people are well-armed against SQL Injection, but pass user data to PHP&#x27;s unserialize() function with reckless abandon? This is a data-as-code issue.<p>How many people use str_shuffle() for password reset token generation? This is a cryptographic failure.<p>I wrote about this at length here: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;paragonie.com&#x2F;blog&#x2F;2015&#x2F;08&#x2F;gentle-introduction-application-security" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;paragonie.com&#x2F;blog&#x2F;2015&#x2F;08&#x2F;gentle-introduction-appli...</a><p>If anyone&#x27;s interested, I also curate this reading list on Github: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;paragonie&#x2F;awesome-appsec" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;paragonie&#x2F;awesome-appsec</a></text></comment> | <story><title>The Basics of Web Application Security</title><url>http://martinfowler.com/articles/web-security-basics.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>philjr</author><text>I say this with a lot of respect, but this seems pretty noddy for a Martin Fowler article. There&#x27;s not a lot of meat here and I really don&#x27;t consider myself an app sec expert :-)</text></comment> |
5,818,757 | 5,818,777 | 1 | 3 | 5,817,728 | train | <story><title>Why Finnish babies sleep in cardboard boxes</title><url>http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-22751415</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>yummyfajitas</author><text><i>... but young parents are usually given quite a few months of vacation time and salary from the state, a sort of children allowance until a child is 18 years old (100EUR or so)...</i><p>In the US we earn 30% more money than Finland (adjusted for cost of living, which is quite high in Finland), so we can just pay for these things with savings if we want to. Most of us choose not to, suggesting these benefits are worth less to us than money.<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(PPP)_per_capita" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(PPP)...</a></text></item><item><author>jan_g</author><text>It's more than a baby box. I do not know how familiar you are with some European countries' social system, but young parents are usually given quite a few months of vacation time and salary from the state, a sort of children allowance until a child is 18 years old (100EUR or so), tax deductions for every child until a child is 18 years old, kindergarten 'bonuses', free health care for every child and similar.<p>So this definitely deserves a lot of attention as it makes young parents' lives quite easier. And I am not arguing against it, just that in the end someone has to pay for it.</text></item><item><author>belorn</author><text>&#62; It is worth noting that all this is not free, but paid for by the tax payer.<p>While its technically true, its really misrepresent it. Every time i hear that argument it sounds like a kid holding one part of a singular share of Microsoft stock, proclaiming to the world that he has now "funded Microsoft!" because of his $10 investment.<p>Sure, in societies with lower tax, the state would be less likely to be funding a baby box. However, in trade of, society itself tend to then evolve a culture of charities to handle the slack. The US is a good example here, where such a box would likely also exist in some places, but maybe coupled with a bible or a cooperation logo on. People could then argue that such a thing is also "not free", but provide under advertisement for a religion or brand.<p>So while its technically true that this is a gift paid by tax payers money, that description deserve a lesser attention that we currently are giving it.</text></item><item><author>jan_g</author><text>It is worth noting that all this is not free, but paid for by the tax payer. Many European countries have similar arrangements.<p>Personally, I think all this is money well spent by the governments as it gives nice financial boost to young parents and a sense that someone/something cares about them and their baby.</text></item><item><author>ProcessBlue</author><text>Lovely article. However, I must say that the box is only the tip of the iceberg. It's been almost four years since we went through the gauntlet so my memory may be a bit fuzzy but if I remember correctly the FREE tier of forming babby in Finland includes:<p>- Initially monthly (increaing to weekly) pre-natal checkups that include bloodwork, metabolism tests, ultrasounds and any treatments necessary to ensure the baby's and mother's health.<p>- About 12 hours of parental training which I found surprisingly useful (containing none of the Lamaze class stereotypes I had been expecting). Also, our group of people contained an absolutely adorable teenage couple, everybody else was in their late twenties to mid thirties.<p>- The whole "actual business". Now this bit we did have to pay for, about $80 per day that we stayed in one of the maternity ward's private rooms with full room service.<p>- First weekly and later monthly post natal checkups (also for the mom) including vaccinations. At two years the schedule switches to annual checkups and starts including dental chaeckups. At some point during the first months a doctor actually visits your home to check up on how you are dealing with the whole situation. If there are clear indicators of problems (e.g. alcoholism) the doc can point you in the direction for help.<p>- You start getting about $150/month from the state for the baby (until it is 18 years old), this is about half of the cost of municpal daycare. In addition to this you get financial support during (m|p)aternity leave (the amount is actually scaled based on your salary). Maternity leave is about 100 days, paternity leave is about 50 days and on top of that you are entitled to 160 days of parental leave (either mom or dad can take this). Your place of employment can get state compensation if they decide to pay you a full salaray during your leave. Then there is a general child care leave than can extend to three years, it gets nitty gritty with the bureaucracy of compensations but effectively it is possible to take care of your kid for the first three years and still have your old job back when you're done. In our circle of friends there are at least a couple of "career women" who have checked out for ~5 years to have two kids and successfully gotten back into the game.<p>So yeah, the box is nice but it is only the icing on the fabulous cake that is having a baby in Finland :-).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rlpb</author><text>&#62; Most of us choose not to, suggesting these benefits are worth less to us than money.<p>Or you could be suffering from a Tragedy of the Commons. Your American viewpoint may be preventing you all from pooling your money together and saving overall. Instead you all have to act as individuals, and in this case it is in your individual best interests to not spend the money, since you only get the saving if you all act together.<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tragedy_of_the_commons" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tragedy_of_the_commons</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Why Finnish babies sleep in cardboard boxes</title><url>http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-22751415</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>yummyfajitas</author><text><i>... but young parents are usually given quite a few months of vacation time and salary from the state, a sort of children allowance until a child is 18 years old (100EUR or so)...</i><p>In the US we earn 30% more money than Finland (adjusted for cost of living, which is quite high in Finland), so we can just pay for these things with savings if we want to. Most of us choose not to, suggesting these benefits are worth less to us than money.<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(PPP)_per_capita" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(PPP)...</a></text></item><item><author>jan_g</author><text>It's more than a baby box. I do not know how familiar you are with some European countries' social system, but young parents are usually given quite a few months of vacation time and salary from the state, a sort of children allowance until a child is 18 years old (100EUR or so), tax deductions for every child until a child is 18 years old, kindergarten 'bonuses', free health care for every child and similar.<p>So this definitely deserves a lot of attention as it makes young parents' lives quite easier. And I am not arguing against it, just that in the end someone has to pay for it.</text></item><item><author>belorn</author><text>&#62; It is worth noting that all this is not free, but paid for by the tax payer.<p>While its technically true, its really misrepresent it. Every time i hear that argument it sounds like a kid holding one part of a singular share of Microsoft stock, proclaiming to the world that he has now "funded Microsoft!" because of his $10 investment.<p>Sure, in societies with lower tax, the state would be less likely to be funding a baby box. However, in trade of, society itself tend to then evolve a culture of charities to handle the slack. The US is a good example here, where such a box would likely also exist in some places, but maybe coupled with a bible or a cooperation logo on. People could then argue that such a thing is also "not free", but provide under advertisement for a religion or brand.<p>So while its technically true that this is a gift paid by tax payers money, that description deserve a lesser attention that we currently are giving it.</text></item><item><author>jan_g</author><text>It is worth noting that all this is not free, but paid for by the tax payer. Many European countries have similar arrangements.<p>Personally, I think all this is money well spent by the governments as it gives nice financial boost to young parents and a sense that someone/something cares about them and their baby.</text></item><item><author>ProcessBlue</author><text>Lovely article. However, I must say that the box is only the tip of the iceberg. It's been almost four years since we went through the gauntlet so my memory may be a bit fuzzy but if I remember correctly the FREE tier of forming babby in Finland includes:<p>- Initially monthly (increaing to weekly) pre-natal checkups that include bloodwork, metabolism tests, ultrasounds and any treatments necessary to ensure the baby's and mother's health.<p>- About 12 hours of parental training which I found surprisingly useful (containing none of the Lamaze class stereotypes I had been expecting). Also, our group of people contained an absolutely adorable teenage couple, everybody else was in their late twenties to mid thirties.<p>- The whole "actual business". Now this bit we did have to pay for, about $80 per day that we stayed in one of the maternity ward's private rooms with full room service.<p>- First weekly and later monthly post natal checkups (also for the mom) including vaccinations. At two years the schedule switches to annual checkups and starts including dental chaeckups. At some point during the first months a doctor actually visits your home to check up on how you are dealing with the whole situation. If there are clear indicators of problems (e.g. alcoholism) the doc can point you in the direction for help.<p>- You start getting about $150/month from the state for the baby (until it is 18 years old), this is about half of the cost of municpal daycare. In addition to this you get financial support during (m|p)aternity leave (the amount is actually scaled based on your salary). Maternity leave is about 100 days, paternity leave is about 50 days and on top of that you are entitled to 160 days of parental leave (either mom or dad can take this). Your place of employment can get state compensation if they decide to pay you a full salaray during your leave. Then there is a general child care leave than can extend to three years, it gets nitty gritty with the bureaucracy of compensations but effectively it is possible to take care of your kid for the first three years and still have your old job back when you're done. In our circle of friends there are at least a couple of "career women" who have checked out for ~5 years to have two kids and successfully gotten back into the game.<p>So yeah, the box is nice but it is only the icing on the fabulous cake that is having a baby in Finland :-).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Nursie</author><text>That's right kids, Americans <i>choose</i> never to have any vacation time and spend all their lives in work...<p>Also LOL @ Savings. From what I've read only around 55% of Americans have more savings than credit-card debt.</text></comment> |
9,365,607 | 9,365,591 | 1 | 3 | 9,365,317 | train | <story><title>Linux 4.0</title><url>https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=39a8804455fb23f09157341d3ba7db6d7ae6ee76</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jjcm</author><text>Windows Threshold<p>OSX Yosemite<p>Linux &quot;Hurr durr I&#x27;ma sheep&quot;<p>-----<p>In some ways it&#x27;s comforting that such an intergral part of all of our lives doesn&#x27;t have to be branded and packaged in a way that&#x27;s stylistic. It&#x27;s nice knowing that this truly is a community project, and that it&#x27;s an effort of people - not some megacorp who needs to market it to the highest amount of people possible.<p>Great work everyone who worked on this.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>oliyoung</author><text>To be fair, you&#x27;re comparing apples (ha!) and oranges…<p>“Windows Threshold&#x2F;XP&#x2F;9&#x2F;10”, “OS X Yosemite” are comparable to “Ubuntu“, not Linux.<p>NT &amp; -Darwin- [Edit: You&#x27;re right LukeShu, XNU] are the Linux equivalents, they&#x27;re the names of the kernels and not supposed to be consumer friendly.</text></comment> | <story><title>Linux 4.0</title><url>https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=39a8804455fb23f09157341d3ba7db6d7ae6ee76</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jjcm</author><text>Windows Threshold<p>OSX Yosemite<p>Linux &quot;Hurr durr I&#x27;ma sheep&quot;<p>-----<p>In some ways it&#x27;s comforting that such an intergral part of all of our lives doesn&#x27;t have to be branded and packaged in a way that&#x27;s stylistic. It&#x27;s nice knowing that this truly is a community project, and that it&#x27;s an effort of people - not some megacorp who needs to market it to the highest amount of people possible.<p>Great work everyone who worked on this.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>vezzy-fnord</author><text>Well, the bulk of it de facto comes from corporate contributors: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.linuxfoundation.org&#x2F;news-media&#x2F;infographics&#x2F;who-writes-linux-2015" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.linuxfoundation.org&#x2F;news-media&#x2F;infographics&#x2F;who-w...</a> (the Linux Foundation itself being a corporate consortium).<p>Not that such a thing isn&#x27;t practically inevitable for a project the scale of the Linux kernel.</text></comment> |
33,643,212 | 33,642,814 | 1 | 3 | 33,639,397 | train | <story><title>Crypto dominoes fall in the wake of FTX's collapse</title><url>https://www.axios.com/2022/11/17/crypto-dominoes-ftx-collapse-winklevoss-gemini-blockfi</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>woeirua</author><text>Tick, tick, tick. The doomsday clock for Tether just moved closer to midnight. When Tether finally depegs, all the exchanges will go under (except maybe Coinbase and a few others that are tightly regulated). Coinbase will probably still go bankrupt because the crypto trading market is going to evaporate. The value of most coins will go to zero. There will be a liquidity crisis the likes of which we haven&#x27;t seen since the 19th century.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>lizknope</author><text>People need to actually redeem the tethers for actual US dollars in order to collapse the tether scam. I think all the crypto exchange collapses and bankruptcy declarations will actually help tether. All the money will be locked up for years as the lawyers and accountants go through everything.<p>The Mt Gox &quot;hack&quot; was in 2014 and people have still not gotten money back yet. That is 8 years and counting.</text></comment> | <story><title>Crypto dominoes fall in the wake of FTX's collapse</title><url>https://www.axios.com/2022/11/17/crypto-dominoes-ftx-collapse-winklevoss-gemini-blockfi</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>woeirua</author><text>Tick, tick, tick. The doomsday clock for Tether just moved closer to midnight. When Tether finally depegs, all the exchanges will go under (except maybe Coinbase and a few others that are tightly regulated). Coinbase will probably still go bankrupt because the crypto trading market is going to evaporate. The value of most coins will go to zero. There will be a liquidity crisis the likes of which we haven&#x27;t seen since the 19th century.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>prox</author><text>Who knew if you made an unregulated market full of sharks that you would get this outcome? &#x2F;s [0]<p>0 : <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Wall_Street_Crash_of_1929" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Wall_Street_Crash_of_1929</a></text></comment> |
26,267,112 | 26,264,987 | 1 | 3 | 26,263,942 | train | <story><title>Scientists begin building highly accurate digital twin of our planet</title><url>https://ethz.ch/en/news-and-events/eth-news/news/2021/02/a-highly-accurate-digital-twin-of-our-planet.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jandrewrogers</author><text>I am highly skeptical of this approach. Not only has this been attempted before, it appears to be on course to repeat the same technical design mistakes that caused prior attempts to fail. You can&#x27;t decompose weather&#x2F;climate style supercomputing models below a certain resolution because the fundamental characteristics of the computation are not meaningfully representable that way. Scalable models that correctly and efficiently capture the macro effects of many types of sparse, high-resolution dynamics require much more sophisticated computer science, systems engineering, and ways of representing data. You can&#x27;t brute force it.<p>In particular, this is a notoriously poor approach to modeling complex large-scale interactions between humans and their environments. There was a study I was involved in last year to determine why one of the epidemiological models for COVID was so badly off target. The root cause was modeling human behavior in the same way you would model weather, which is quite inappropriate but the implementors of the epidemiological model did not have the expertise to know better.<p>The selection of GPUs is also not appropriate for the nominal objectives of the program. When modeled correctly, i.e. not as weather, these kinds of things aren&#x27;t the kind of workload GPUs are good at. They tend to look more like very high dimensionality sparse graphs -- latency-hiding is more important than computational throughput. CPUs are actually quite good at this.<p>This looks more like a program more designed to produce press releases than useful results.</text></comment> | <story><title>Scientists begin building highly accurate digital twin of our planet</title><url>https://ethz.ch/en/news-and-events/eth-news/news/2021/02/a-highly-accurate-digital-twin-of-our-planet.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>thisisbrians</author><text>This is an extremely ambitious project, and hopefully turns out to be worthwhile. For complex&#x2F;interconnected systems, building ~accurate simulations can vastly decrease the cost of decision-making, and I&#x27;m very bullish on digital twin technology, generally. Trying things out in a simulation can be a cheap way to guide more detailed engineering analysis and &#x27;rough in&#x27; an approach.<p>As an example, my startup, Bractlet (bractlet.com), uses detailed, physics-based energy simulation (aka &quot;digital energy twin&quot;) technology as a tool to optimize HVAC design and controls in large commercial buildings. I&#x27;m sure efficacy varies widely by domain, but it&#x27;s worked extremely well for us so far; we typically help our customers save about 20-30% on their energy expenditures annually, and the digital twin is the bedrock of our approach.</text></comment> |
41,025,059 | 41,024,183 | 1 | 2 | 41,023,547 | train | <story><title>rr – record and replay debugger for C/C++</title><url>https://rr-project.org/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>whatsakandr</author><text>I&#x27;ve used rr very sucessfully for reverse engineering a large code base using a break on variable change combined with reverse-continue. Took the time to extract critical logic way down.</text></comment> | <story><title>rr – record and replay debugger for C/C++</title><url>https://rr-project.org/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>suby</author><text>Perhaps worth mentioning is that someone attempted to port this to Rust and got about 60,000 lines of code into it before archiving the project. I feel like comparing these two efforts would be an interesting case study on the impacts &#x2F; benefits &#x2F; limitations or difficulties, etc involved in rewriting from C++ to Rust.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;sidkshatriya&#x2F;rd&#x2F;">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;sidkshatriya&#x2F;rd&#x2F;</a></text></comment> |
36,190,857 | 36,188,070 | 1 | 3 | 36,187,705 | train | <story><title>Popular Subreddits are organizing a strike on 2023-06-12 b/c high API prices</title><url>https://old.reddit.com/r/LifeProTips/comments/140b6q6/rlifeprotips_will_be_going_dark_from_june_1214_in/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>GenericDev</author><text>I wish they would just let Reddit die.<p>I hate it so much. I&#x27;m tired of ecosystems.<p>We need to get away from content farms. Get away from shitty monetization driven efforts. Get away from shitty people moderating communities without giving members any locus of control.<p>Bring back the 90s web. Bring back personal websites. Bring back people sharing their own content on their own terms.<p>God I hope Reddit sticks to this API nonsense and kills themselves in the process.<p>Part of me wants this to happen to Hacker News too. This community sucks, but for different reasons.</text></comment> | <story><title>Popular Subreddits are organizing a strike on 2023-06-12 b/c high API prices</title><url>https://old.reddit.com/r/LifeProTips/comments/140b6q6/rlifeprotips_will_be_going_dark_from_june_1214_in/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>UpToTheSky</author><text>What is the hard thing about building an open, user-friendly Reddit alternative?<p>Hosting the posts shouldn&#x27;t be that hard. Storage is so cheap these days. Is it the legal aspects of handling user generated content?<p>Ranking the posts is another issue. Is that where the value of Reddit lies?<p>Maybe one could build some hybrid thing which capitalizes on existing structures? I could imagine a frontend which only shows posts by users who signed their posts via their Hacker News accounts. Aka they sign their post with a private key and publish the public key on their HN profile. This way, a new Reddit alternative could benefit from the karma distribution of the best community on the web today.<p>Hosting the content could maybe be done via one of the new decentralized systems like Mastodon, Nostr or Bluesky? Those inherently have open APIs, so it would be easy to build a frontend which aggregates the content into one simple UI.</text></comment> |
10,886,975 | 10,883,163 | 1 | 2 | 10,841,761 | train | <story><title>Working fewer hours would make us more productive</title><url>http://www.theguardian.com/sustainable-business/2015/nov/09/fewer-working-hours-doctors-eu-negotiations</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>JohnCarmack</author><text>Following up on the links you gave me on Twitter.<p>These two fall into the awful pop-sci writing category:<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.economist.com&#x2F;blogs&#x2F;freeexchange&#x2F;2013&#x2F;09&#x2F;working-hours" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.economist.com&#x2F;blogs&#x2F;freeexchange&#x2F;2013&#x2F;09&#x2F;working-...</a>
“And it seems that more productive—and, consequently, better-paid—workers put in less time at the office”
“So maybe we should be more self-critical about how much we work. Working less may make us more productive.”<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.oecdobserver.org&#x2F;news&#x2F;fullstory.php&#x2F;aid&#x2F;3841&#x2F;Productive_hours.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.oecdobserver.org&#x2F;news&#x2F;fullstory.php&#x2F;aid&#x2F;3841&#x2F;Prod...</a>
This points out that the average worker in Greece works more hours than the average worker in Germany.<p>These are clearly confusing correlation with causation, and I doubt very much that any of the actual researchers involved, as opposed to op-ed writers, would even imply that if only the workers in Greece would ease up a bit, they would get the productivity of Germany. Would you make that statement?<p>This one covers a lot of actual research, but mostly on the relationship between overtime and worker health and safety:
<a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cdc.gov&#x2F;niosh&#x2F;docs&#x2F;2004-143&#x2F;pdfs&#x2F;2004-143.pdf" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cdc.gov&#x2F;niosh&#x2F;docs&#x2F;2004-143&#x2F;pdfs&#x2F;2004-143.pdf</a><p>I don’t find much to argue with here. I don’t dispute the premise that working very long hours can have a health impact in some cases.<p>It was interesting to see the clear step function in the leading graph of average annual work hours by country with the US at ~1850 as the highest of the mostly-western countries, but Thailand, Hong Kong, and South Korea in a distinctly different class, topping out at ~2450 for South Korea. That made me smile, because one of the Samsung people we work with referred to us at the Oculus Dallas office as “honorary Koreans” because of how hard we work. I do note that the chart in the Economist link with more recent data has them still at the top, but down to ~2100 hours in 2012.<p>A couple interesting (unrelated) counterpoints from the studies:<p>Sokejima and Kagamimori [1998] observed a U-shaped relationship: as compared with 7 to 9 hours of work per day, higher risk (for cardiovascular problems) was associated with both shorter hours (less than 7 hours a day) and longer hours (more than 11 hours a day)<p>Nakanishi et al. [2001b], however, published the opposite results: white collar workers reporting 10 or more hours of work per day had a lower risk for developing hypertension when compared with workers reporting less than 8 hours of work per day<p>There are some small bits directly discussing performance:<p>3.2d Extended Work Shifts and Performance
Two laboratory studies reported deterioration in performance with extended shifts.
In contrast, four field studies reported no differences in their performance measures during extended shifts.<p>3.4b Very Long Shifts and Performance
A study in Ireland by Leonard et al. [1998] reported declines in two tests of alertness and concentration in medical residents who had worked 32-hour on-call shifts. They reported no significant declines in a test of psychomotor performance or a test of memory. A New Zealand survey of anesthesiologists linked long working hours to self-reported clinical errors [Gander et al. 2000].<p>I glanced at the other links, and they look potentially interesting, but non-responsive as far as giving actual data showing that working more than 40 hours a week makes you less productive.<p>Perhaps there is confusion about my position, so let me clarify:<p>Average productivity per hour will decline with extended work. The highest average hourly productivity could be with shifts as short as six hours for many people; I have no particular thoughts on this, as I have never had reason to care to optimize it. An assembly line job that is embarrassingly parallel with minimal communication overhead may well be better served to have shorter shifts and more workers.<p>Total net productivity per worker, discounting for any increases in errors and negative side effects, continues increasing well past 40 hours per week. There are a great many tasks where inefficiency grows significantly with additional workers involved; the Mythical Man Month problem is real. In cases like these, you are better off with a smaller team of harder working people, even if their productivity-per-hour is somewhat lower.<p>This is critical: it isn’t necessary to maintain performance on an extended shift to still contribute value. Productivity per hour can deteriorate, even precipitously, and still be non-negative. Only when you are so broken down that even when you come back the following day your productivity per hour is significantly impaired, do you open up the possibility of actually reducing your net output.<p>There are cases where the consequences of an increased error rate can be a dominant factor -- airline pilots and nuclear plant operators come to mind. I had to work under FAA mandated crew rest guidelines while operating the Armadillo Aerospace rockets, and I made no complaints.<p>I believe most research that people glance at and see “declines in productivity with longer hours” are talking about declines in productivity-per-hour, and people jump to the incorrect conclusion that you can get just as much done in less time.<p>You called my post “so wrong, and so potentially destructive”, which leads me to believe that you hold an ideological position that the world would be better if people didn’t work as long. I don’t actually have a particularly strong position there; my point is purely about the effective output of an individual. If we were fighting an existential threat, say an asteroid that would hit the earth in a year, would you really tell everyone involved in the project that they should go home after 35 hours a week, because they are harming the project if they work longer?</text></item><item><author>glyph</author><text>The Guardian:<p>&gt; <i>Research shows</i> that shorter work weeks are just as effective.<p>John Carmack:<p>&gt; <i>I feel</i> like longer work weeks are more effective.<p>Does anyone else see the problem with this?<p>Of course, pop-sci writing is often terrible. Of course, headlines can wildly misrepresent the research they&#x27;re covering. Of course, there may be issues at stake (such as, in this case, personal freedom) beyond the simple phenomenon being described.<p>However, if you have an issue with the research&#x27;s methodology, explain it. It might even be a little interesting to hear a new conflicting hypothesis from your own anecdotal experiences.<p>As it happens, regarding the quality of pop-sci journalism, on this particular issue, the research on the starkly diminishing returns of overtime and the negative impact it has on work (especially creative work) is all pretty consistent. For those who do not have the luxury of working in cushy chair-sitting industries like Mr. Carmack and myself, overtime is strongly correlated with an increase in industrial accidents, both fatal and otherwise.<p>I really wish that high-status people in the software industry would stop thinking that their success exempts them from cognitive bias and the need to make a rational argument, or that their experience writing software somehow transfers, with no particular education, to social science or management.<p>The problem with this opinion is neatly summed up by this statement:<p>&gt; Given two equally talented people, the one that pursues a goal obsessively, for well over 40 hours a week, is going to achieve more.<p>which has been all but <i>proven</i> wrong by repeated scientific studies. In the general case, it is not true. In the specific cases of outliers where it appears to be true, my understanding of the research indicates that the &quot;People with the psychological makeup that allows them to productively pursue a goal obsessively for well over 40 hours a week will tend to be extremely successful&quot;. But this attribute is highly unusual, and it may not be something you can cultivate; people who are taller also tend to do better in life, but that does not mean that the average person should torture themselves on the rack for 80 hours a week in the hopes of getting taller, either.</text></item><item><author>JohnCarmack</author><text>I find these “shorter work weeks are just as effective” articles to be nonsense, at least for knowledge workers with some tactical discretion. I can imagine productivity at an assembly line job having a peak such that overworking grinds someone down to the point that they become a liability, but people that claim working nine hours in a day instead of eight gives no (or negative) additional benefit are either being disingenuous or just have terrible work habits. Even in menial jobs, it is sort of insulting – “Hey you, working three jobs to feed your family! Half of the time you are working is actually of negative value so you don’t deserve to be paid for it!”<p>If you only have seven good hours a day in you, does that mean the rest of the day that you spend with your family, reading, exercising at the gym, or whatever other virtuous activity you would be spending your time on, are all done poorly? No, it just means that focusing on a single thing for an extended period of time is challenging.<p>Whatever the grand strategy for success is, it gets broken down into lots of smaller tasks. When you hit a wall on one task, you could say “that’s it, I’m done for the day” and head home, or you could switch over to something else that has a different rhythm and get more accomplished. Even when you are clearly not at your peak, there is always plenty to do that doesn’t require your best, and it would actually be a waste to spend your best time on it. You can also “go to the gym” for your work by studying, exploring, and experimenting, spending more hours in service to the goal.<p>I think most people excited by these articles are confusing not being aligned with their job’s goals with questions of effectiveness. If you don’t want to work, and don’t really care about your work, less hours for the same pay sounds great! If you personally care about what you are doing, you don’t stop at 40 hours a week because you think it is optimal for the work, but rather because you are balancing it against something else that you find equally important. Which is fine.<p>Given two equally talented people, the one that pursues a goal obsessively, for well over 40 hours a week, is going to achieve more. They might be less happy and healthy, but I’m not even sure about that. Obsession can be rather fulfilling, although probably not across an entire lifetime.<p>This particular article does touch on a goal that isn’t usually explicitly stated: it would make the world “less unequal” if everyone was prevented from working longer hours. Yes, it would, but I am deeply appalled at the thought of trading away individual freedom of action and additional value in the world for that goal.</text></item><item><author>xiaoma</author><text>I just finished reading <i>The Masters of Doom</i> and really got the impression that working <i>more</i> hours made Carmack more productive than nearly everyone else in the field.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bustervill</author><text>Okay, let&#x27;s ignore all them pesky negatives of overworking, like killing a patient from time to time or messing with the wrong piece of data somewhere. Let&#x27;s also ignore the issue of personal freedom vs. the hours mandated by your employer. Let&#x27;s focus only on maximizing the total output you can generate. As I understand, this is your case.<p>The metric productivity-per-hour is stupid. It&#x27;s useless trying to optimize it - just like you said. The natural cycle for humans is a day. The body requires rest and is tuned to have an optimal performance if the do&#x2F;rest cycles are loosely synced with the day&#x2F;night cycles of the sun. You need to optimize that cycle, in the long run, to maximize your total output.<p>&quot;... when you come back the following day your productivity per hour is significantly impaired, do you open up the possibility of actually reducing your net output.&quot;<p>Yes, I do. The burnout today at work has an effect on your productivity tomorrow. In attempt to get a little extra done today, tomorrow you won&#x27;t be that efficient at your peak, and you&#x27;ll be more tired and unproductive at the and of the day, compared to the previous. This way your average productivity per day, from both days, can easily be lower than if you had worked 3 hours less the first night and the second day were just as efficient and productive as the first.<p>This effect extends in a long run. Fatigue accumulation and sleep debt are real phenomenons. Poorly managed day-to-day cycles can render people incapable of doing any meaningful work. The remedy is rest&#x2F;vacation, which kills your averages even more.<p>You should know, even better than me, that working people don&#x27;t only produce output. They are learning too. The work that you&#x27;ll be required to do in a year or two is not the same as the one you do today. Mental fatigue impairs learning new stuff a lot more than it impairs <i>doing</i> stuff you already know.</text></comment> | <story><title>Working fewer hours would make us more productive</title><url>http://www.theguardian.com/sustainable-business/2015/nov/09/fewer-working-hours-doctors-eu-negotiations</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>JohnCarmack</author><text>Following up on the links you gave me on Twitter.<p>These two fall into the awful pop-sci writing category:<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.economist.com&#x2F;blogs&#x2F;freeexchange&#x2F;2013&#x2F;09&#x2F;working-hours" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.economist.com&#x2F;blogs&#x2F;freeexchange&#x2F;2013&#x2F;09&#x2F;working-...</a>
“And it seems that more productive—and, consequently, better-paid—workers put in less time at the office”
“So maybe we should be more self-critical about how much we work. Working less may make us more productive.”<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.oecdobserver.org&#x2F;news&#x2F;fullstory.php&#x2F;aid&#x2F;3841&#x2F;Productive_hours.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.oecdobserver.org&#x2F;news&#x2F;fullstory.php&#x2F;aid&#x2F;3841&#x2F;Prod...</a>
This points out that the average worker in Greece works more hours than the average worker in Germany.<p>These are clearly confusing correlation with causation, and I doubt very much that any of the actual researchers involved, as opposed to op-ed writers, would even imply that if only the workers in Greece would ease up a bit, they would get the productivity of Germany. Would you make that statement?<p>This one covers a lot of actual research, but mostly on the relationship between overtime and worker health and safety:
<a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cdc.gov&#x2F;niosh&#x2F;docs&#x2F;2004-143&#x2F;pdfs&#x2F;2004-143.pdf" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cdc.gov&#x2F;niosh&#x2F;docs&#x2F;2004-143&#x2F;pdfs&#x2F;2004-143.pdf</a><p>I don’t find much to argue with here. I don’t dispute the premise that working very long hours can have a health impact in some cases.<p>It was interesting to see the clear step function in the leading graph of average annual work hours by country with the US at ~1850 as the highest of the mostly-western countries, but Thailand, Hong Kong, and South Korea in a distinctly different class, topping out at ~2450 for South Korea. That made me smile, because one of the Samsung people we work with referred to us at the Oculus Dallas office as “honorary Koreans” because of how hard we work. I do note that the chart in the Economist link with more recent data has them still at the top, but down to ~2100 hours in 2012.<p>A couple interesting (unrelated) counterpoints from the studies:<p>Sokejima and Kagamimori [1998] observed a U-shaped relationship: as compared with 7 to 9 hours of work per day, higher risk (for cardiovascular problems) was associated with both shorter hours (less than 7 hours a day) and longer hours (more than 11 hours a day)<p>Nakanishi et al. [2001b], however, published the opposite results: white collar workers reporting 10 or more hours of work per day had a lower risk for developing hypertension when compared with workers reporting less than 8 hours of work per day<p>There are some small bits directly discussing performance:<p>3.2d Extended Work Shifts and Performance
Two laboratory studies reported deterioration in performance with extended shifts.
In contrast, four field studies reported no differences in their performance measures during extended shifts.<p>3.4b Very Long Shifts and Performance
A study in Ireland by Leonard et al. [1998] reported declines in two tests of alertness and concentration in medical residents who had worked 32-hour on-call shifts. They reported no significant declines in a test of psychomotor performance or a test of memory. A New Zealand survey of anesthesiologists linked long working hours to self-reported clinical errors [Gander et al. 2000].<p>I glanced at the other links, and they look potentially interesting, but non-responsive as far as giving actual data showing that working more than 40 hours a week makes you less productive.<p>Perhaps there is confusion about my position, so let me clarify:<p>Average productivity per hour will decline with extended work. The highest average hourly productivity could be with shifts as short as six hours for many people; I have no particular thoughts on this, as I have never had reason to care to optimize it. An assembly line job that is embarrassingly parallel with minimal communication overhead may well be better served to have shorter shifts and more workers.<p>Total net productivity per worker, discounting for any increases in errors and negative side effects, continues increasing well past 40 hours per week. There are a great many tasks where inefficiency grows significantly with additional workers involved; the Mythical Man Month problem is real. In cases like these, you are better off with a smaller team of harder working people, even if their productivity-per-hour is somewhat lower.<p>This is critical: it isn’t necessary to maintain performance on an extended shift to still contribute value. Productivity per hour can deteriorate, even precipitously, and still be non-negative. Only when you are so broken down that even when you come back the following day your productivity per hour is significantly impaired, do you open up the possibility of actually reducing your net output.<p>There are cases where the consequences of an increased error rate can be a dominant factor -- airline pilots and nuclear plant operators come to mind. I had to work under FAA mandated crew rest guidelines while operating the Armadillo Aerospace rockets, and I made no complaints.<p>I believe most research that people glance at and see “declines in productivity with longer hours” are talking about declines in productivity-per-hour, and people jump to the incorrect conclusion that you can get just as much done in less time.<p>You called my post “so wrong, and so potentially destructive”, which leads me to believe that you hold an ideological position that the world would be better if people didn’t work as long. I don’t actually have a particularly strong position there; my point is purely about the effective output of an individual. If we were fighting an existential threat, say an asteroid that would hit the earth in a year, would you really tell everyone involved in the project that they should go home after 35 hours a week, because they are harming the project if they work longer?</text></item><item><author>glyph</author><text>The Guardian:<p>&gt; <i>Research shows</i> that shorter work weeks are just as effective.<p>John Carmack:<p>&gt; <i>I feel</i> like longer work weeks are more effective.<p>Does anyone else see the problem with this?<p>Of course, pop-sci writing is often terrible. Of course, headlines can wildly misrepresent the research they&#x27;re covering. Of course, there may be issues at stake (such as, in this case, personal freedom) beyond the simple phenomenon being described.<p>However, if you have an issue with the research&#x27;s methodology, explain it. It might even be a little interesting to hear a new conflicting hypothesis from your own anecdotal experiences.<p>As it happens, regarding the quality of pop-sci journalism, on this particular issue, the research on the starkly diminishing returns of overtime and the negative impact it has on work (especially creative work) is all pretty consistent. For those who do not have the luxury of working in cushy chair-sitting industries like Mr. Carmack and myself, overtime is strongly correlated with an increase in industrial accidents, both fatal and otherwise.<p>I really wish that high-status people in the software industry would stop thinking that their success exempts them from cognitive bias and the need to make a rational argument, or that their experience writing software somehow transfers, with no particular education, to social science or management.<p>The problem with this opinion is neatly summed up by this statement:<p>&gt; Given two equally talented people, the one that pursues a goal obsessively, for well over 40 hours a week, is going to achieve more.<p>which has been all but <i>proven</i> wrong by repeated scientific studies. In the general case, it is not true. In the specific cases of outliers where it appears to be true, my understanding of the research indicates that the &quot;People with the psychological makeup that allows them to productively pursue a goal obsessively for well over 40 hours a week will tend to be extremely successful&quot;. But this attribute is highly unusual, and it may not be something you can cultivate; people who are taller also tend to do better in life, but that does not mean that the average person should torture themselves on the rack for 80 hours a week in the hopes of getting taller, either.</text></item><item><author>JohnCarmack</author><text>I find these “shorter work weeks are just as effective” articles to be nonsense, at least for knowledge workers with some tactical discretion. I can imagine productivity at an assembly line job having a peak such that overworking grinds someone down to the point that they become a liability, but people that claim working nine hours in a day instead of eight gives no (or negative) additional benefit are either being disingenuous or just have terrible work habits. Even in menial jobs, it is sort of insulting – “Hey you, working three jobs to feed your family! Half of the time you are working is actually of negative value so you don’t deserve to be paid for it!”<p>If you only have seven good hours a day in you, does that mean the rest of the day that you spend with your family, reading, exercising at the gym, or whatever other virtuous activity you would be spending your time on, are all done poorly? No, it just means that focusing on a single thing for an extended period of time is challenging.<p>Whatever the grand strategy for success is, it gets broken down into lots of smaller tasks. When you hit a wall on one task, you could say “that’s it, I’m done for the day” and head home, or you could switch over to something else that has a different rhythm and get more accomplished. Even when you are clearly not at your peak, there is always plenty to do that doesn’t require your best, and it would actually be a waste to spend your best time on it. You can also “go to the gym” for your work by studying, exploring, and experimenting, spending more hours in service to the goal.<p>I think most people excited by these articles are confusing not being aligned with their job’s goals with questions of effectiveness. If you don’t want to work, and don’t really care about your work, less hours for the same pay sounds great! If you personally care about what you are doing, you don’t stop at 40 hours a week because you think it is optimal for the work, but rather because you are balancing it against something else that you find equally important. Which is fine.<p>Given two equally talented people, the one that pursues a goal obsessively, for well over 40 hours a week, is going to achieve more. They might be less happy and healthy, but I’m not even sure about that. Obsession can be rather fulfilling, although probably not across an entire lifetime.<p>This particular article does touch on a goal that isn’t usually explicitly stated: it would make the world “less unequal” if everyone was prevented from working longer hours. Yes, it would, but I am deeply appalled at the thought of trading away individual freedom of action and additional value in the world for that goal.</text></item><item><author>xiaoma</author><text>I just finished reading <i>The Masters of Doom</i> and really got the impression that working <i>more</i> hours made Carmack more productive than nearly everyone else in the field.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>gnarbarian</author><text>&quot;If you don’t want to work, and don’t really care about your work, less hours for the same pay sounds great! If you personally care about what you are doing, you don’t stop at 40 hours a week because you think it is optimal for the work, but rather because you are balancing it against something else that you find equally important.&quot;<p>This is spot on. I think motivation is a huge factor here. Motivated workers are more capable of remaining productive over longer periods. Switching projects&#x2F;tasks when you run out of gas is usually reinvigorating. Also, some people seem to have more innate motivation like an extended &quot;honeymoon&quot; phase when new people start a job and they are more tenacious and eager to prove themselves.<p>A cool project is an external motivating factor, or an existential threat ranging from potentially losing your job to being wiped out by an asteroid. As terrible as it is, fear is a great motivator. I&#x27;ve worked on projects so mind numbingly boring and pointless that I&#x27;ve had to change tasks after a couple hours because I found myself staring at my editor hating what I was doing. I&#x27;ve also worked on projects where I could stay motivated and productive 16 hours a day for two weeks at a time trying to meet an important deadline.<p>Bottom line in my opinion is there&#x27;s no such thing as a broad rule of thumb for how long someone can stay productive.</text></comment> |
29,387,162 | 29,387,325 | 1 | 2 | 29,386,239 | train | <story><title>Ex-Google workers sue company, saying it betrayed 'Don't Be Evil' motto</title><url>https://www.npr.org/2021/11/29/1059821677/google-dont-be-evil-lawsuit</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>asdfasgasdgasdg</author><text>&gt; The problem here is &quot;Don&#x27;t Be Evil&quot; is so vague.<p>They&#x27;re going to have an extremely uphill battle to fight if this is the basis of their legal argument. No reasonable person could understand the phrase, &quot;Don&#x27;t Be Evil,&quot; to mean, &quot;Don&#x27;t do things that I personally consider evil.&quot; For example, I very much doubt that a court is going to find that Customs and Border Protection is &quot;evil,&quot; and thus any actions the plaintiffs took against Google&#x27;s dealings with CBP were contractually mandated by the employment agreement.<p>To the extent that this is a headache for Google at all, it will serve as a great example as to why legalese and corporate-speak is so common in the U.S. Google tried to have a motto that, while legally ambiguous, expressed a sentiment about how they wanted to treat their users and act in the marketplace. There will be different opinions about how well Google lives up to the motto, but certainly at the time it was coined, that was the idea behind it. And now they&#x27;re getting sued, essentially frivolously, over the language. If it causes them a problem, it&#x27;s a lesson to other companies: avoid mottos that are subject to creative and motivated interpretation during litigation. Or to put it another way, don&#x27;t have mottos.</text></item><item><author>Laremere</author><text>It seems the title is implying that the people suing think Google had an obligation to not be evil because that was its motto.<p>Reading the article, the lawsuit is about something more reasonable: They signed an employee code of conduct which included &quot;Don&#x27;t Be Evil&quot;. They organized a movement within Google in pursuit of contractually obligated motto, and believe they were fired for doing this organizing.<p>Say you were hired as security. You signed a contract stating you wouldn&#x27;t let anyone enter the building who doesn&#x27;t have a valid employee id. One day a VP forgets his ID at home, and puts you in a tough spot. Fearing you&#x27;d be fired because you violated your contract, you deny the VP access to the building. The VP is mad, and gets revenge on you by getting you fired. In this case, suing the company for following the rules it made you follow seems reasonable.<p>The problem here is &quot;Don&#x27;t Be Evil&quot; is so vague. I&#x27;m unsure it will have enough standing to succeed, but it&#x27;s not entirely unreasonable.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>chickenpotpie</author><text><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Contra_proferentem" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Contra_proferentem</a><p>Ambiguity in a contract benefits the party that did not draft it</text></comment> | <story><title>Ex-Google workers sue company, saying it betrayed 'Don't Be Evil' motto</title><url>https://www.npr.org/2021/11/29/1059821677/google-dont-be-evil-lawsuit</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>asdfasgasdgasdg</author><text>&gt; The problem here is &quot;Don&#x27;t Be Evil&quot; is so vague.<p>They&#x27;re going to have an extremely uphill battle to fight if this is the basis of their legal argument. No reasonable person could understand the phrase, &quot;Don&#x27;t Be Evil,&quot; to mean, &quot;Don&#x27;t do things that I personally consider evil.&quot; For example, I very much doubt that a court is going to find that Customs and Border Protection is &quot;evil,&quot; and thus any actions the plaintiffs took against Google&#x27;s dealings with CBP were contractually mandated by the employment agreement.<p>To the extent that this is a headache for Google at all, it will serve as a great example as to why legalese and corporate-speak is so common in the U.S. Google tried to have a motto that, while legally ambiguous, expressed a sentiment about how they wanted to treat their users and act in the marketplace. There will be different opinions about how well Google lives up to the motto, but certainly at the time it was coined, that was the idea behind it. And now they&#x27;re getting sued, essentially frivolously, over the language. If it causes them a problem, it&#x27;s a lesson to other companies: avoid mottos that are subject to creative and motivated interpretation during litigation. Or to put it another way, don&#x27;t have mottos.</text></item><item><author>Laremere</author><text>It seems the title is implying that the people suing think Google had an obligation to not be evil because that was its motto.<p>Reading the article, the lawsuit is about something more reasonable: They signed an employee code of conduct which included &quot;Don&#x27;t Be Evil&quot;. They organized a movement within Google in pursuit of contractually obligated motto, and believe they were fired for doing this organizing.<p>Say you were hired as security. You signed a contract stating you wouldn&#x27;t let anyone enter the building who doesn&#x27;t have a valid employee id. One day a VP forgets his ID at home, and puts you in a tough spot. Fearing you&#x27;d be fired because you violated your contract, you deny the VP access to the building. The VP is mad, and gets revenge on you by getting you fired. In this case, suing the company for following the rules it made you follow seems reasonable.<p>The problem here is &quot;Don&#x27;t Be Evil&quot; is so vague. I&#x27;m unsure it will have enough standing to succeed, but it&#x27;s not entirely unreasonable.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>geofft</author><text>You can see the whole legal argument - it&#x27;s linked from the first sentence of the article, and it quotes the relevant section of the employee code of conduct: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.documentcloud.org&#x2F;documents&#x2F;21119310-google_complaint_filed" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.documentcloud.org&#x2F;documents&#x2F;21119310-google_comp...</a><p>&gt; <i>“Don’t be evil.” Googlers generally apply those words to how we serve our users. But “Don’t be evil” is much more than that. Yes, it’s about providing our users unbiased access to information. focusing on their needs and giving them the best products and services we can. But it&#x27;s also about doing the right thing more generally ~ following the law, acting honorably and treating each other with respect.</i><p>That is pretty specific. You need to provide users unbiased access to information, focus on their needs, and give them the best products and services you can. You also need to follow the law, act honorably, and treat each other with respect.<p>The courts do in fact understand legally-binding terms to mean <i>something</i>. (See also the fact that IBM&#x27;s lawyers sought a specific exemption from the JSON license&#x27;s &quot;The Software shall be used for Good, and not Evil,&quot; because they knew there was a chance the courts would find something they did &quot;Evil,&quot; because if it&#x27;s in a contract, it means something.) So what do they mean?<p>Some of these clauses - &quot;giving them the best products and services we can,&quot; &quot;acting honorably,&quot; etc. - are a little squishy. But &quot;providing our users unbiased access to information&quot; is pretty clear-cut.<p>The plaintiffs organized against Dragonfly, a censored version of Google that would provide users biased access to information. IMO they&#x27;ve got a pretty good case that the employee handbook, which they had to abide by to keep their job, told them to do that.</text></comment> |
5,988,740 | 5,988,413 | 1 | 2 | 5,988,204 | train | <story><title>Somewhat Verbatim Conversation with a Startup Recruiter</title><url>http://blog.galler.io/startup-dialog</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jmduke</author><text>This article is a cheap shot, though my friends&#x27; anecdotal experiences suggest that this kind of thing is unfortunately grounded in reality.<p>The three biggest takeaways, I think, when seeking employment at a startup:<p>1. Money v. Experience is a false dichotomy.<p>2. It is worth your time and effort to quantify the actual value of things like free lunches and insurance.<p>3. Follow patio11&#x27;s advice on evaluating equity:<p><i>Roll d100. (Not the right kind of geek? Sorry. rand(100) then.)<p>0~70: Your equity grant is worth nothing.<p>71~94: Your equity grant is worth a lump sum of money which makes you about as much money as you gave up working for the startup, instead of working for a megacorp at a higher salary with better benefits.<p>95~99: Your equity grant is a lifechanging amount of money. You won’t feel rich — you’re not the richest person you know, because many of the people you spent the last several years with are now richer than you by definition — but your family will never again give you grief for not having gone into $FAVORED_FIELD like a proper $YOUR_INGROUP.<p>100: You worked at the next Google, and are rich beyond the dreams of avarice. Congratulations.</i></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>drusenko</author><text>To be fair, there are good and bad apples in any general population. Startups are no different, and the posted conversation is a complete trainwreck.<p>In defense of <i>good</i> startups:<p>1- Some of us pay equal to or more than BigCo, so you&#x27;re not always making a salary trade-off.<p>2- Options are a lottery, but with better odds than most people give them credit for: 13% of VC-backed startups exit for over $10M, 5% exit for over $50M, and 2% exit for over $100M, which is what I&#x27;d call a meaningful exit for all parties involved [1]. Everybody&#x27;s experience is different, but many of our early employees can attest that options sure can be worth quite a lot.<p>3- You get to have real impact at a startup. Try doing that at BigCo.<p>4- The culture isn&#x27;t soul-sucking.<p>If you find the right startup, I think you are &quot;optimizing for happiness&quot;. Get paid market, be in an environment where you can have autonomy and impact, get stuff done and shipped, and focus on what you enjoy doing.<p>You don&#x27;t have to worry about the millions of ups and downs of starting your own or freelancing. And you have a 1&#x2F;50 lottery ticket of making it big, and a pretty decent chance of picking up some sizable savings.<p>Obviously, I am biased :)<p>[1] <a href="http://www.quora.com/What-is-the-truth-behind-9-out-of-10-startups-fail" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.quora.com&#x2F;What-is-the-truth-behind-9-out-of-10-st...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Somewhat Verbatim Conversation with a Startup Recruiter</title><url>http://blog.galler.io/startup-dialog</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jmduke</author><text>This article is a cheap shot, though my friends&#x27; anecdotal experiences suggest that this kind of thing is unfortunately grounded in reality.<p>The three biggest takeaways, I think, when seeking employment at a startup:<p>1. Money v. Experience is a false dichotomy.<p>2. It is worth your time and effort to quantify the actual value of things like free lunches and insurance.<p>3. Follow patio11&#x27;s advice on evaluating equity:<p><i>Roll d100. (Not the right kind of geek? Sorry. rand(100) then.)<p>0~70: Your equity grant is worth nothing.<p>71~94: Your equity grant is worth a lump sum of money which makes you about as much money as you gave up working for the startup, instead of working for a megacorp at a higher salary with better benefits.<p>95~99: Your equity grant is a lifechanging amount of money. You won’t feel rich — you’re not the richest person you know, because many of the people you spent the last several years with are now richer than you by definition — but your family will never again give you grief for not having gone into $FAVORED_FIELD like a proper $YOUR_INGROUP.<p>100: You worked at the next Google, and are rich beyond the dreams of avarice. Congratulations.</i></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>davidcuddeback</author><text>The funny thing about that table is that rand(100) never returns 100. I wonder if that was on purpose.</text></comment> |
5,089,960 | 5,089,988 | 1 | 2 | 5,089,602 | train | <story><title>How M.I.T. Ensnared a Hacker, Bucking a Freewheeling Culture</title><url>http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/21/technology/how-mit-ensnared-a-hacker-bucking-a-freewheeling-culture.html?hpw&_r=0</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>tchalla</author><text>In order to understand why this incident was even more shocking than usual, one just needs to read this snippet<p><pre><code> The arrest shocked friends of Mr. Swartz, as well as
M.I.T. alumni. Brewster Kahle, an M.I.T. graduate and
founder of the digital library Internet Archive, where
Mr. Swartz gave programming assistance, wrote: “When I
was at M.I.T., if someone went to hack the system, say
by downloading databases to play with them, might be
called a hero, get a degree, and start a company. But
they called the cops on him. Cops.”
</code></pre>
I find the change of perspective - from hero to criminal - from MIT quite astonishing. I wonder if this incident makes current students wary about the change in <i>MIT ethos</i>.</text></comment> | <story><title>How M.I.T. Ensnared a Hacker, Bucking a Freewheeling Culture</title><url>http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/21/technology/how-mit-ensnared-a-hacker-bucking-a-freewheeling-culture.html?hpw&_r=0</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>waterlesscloud</author><text>"At 9:44 a.m. the M.I.T. police were called in; by 10:30 a.m., the Cambridge police were en route, and by 11 a.m., Michael Pickett, a Secret Service agent and expert on computer crime, was on the scene. "<p>Less than 1.5 hours from campus cops to Secret Service <i>on scene</i>.</text></comment> |
24,356,649 | 24,356,400 | 1 | 2 | 24,354,265 | train | <story><title>Russia opposition leader poisoned with Novichok</title><url>https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-54002880</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dang</author><text>This comment breaks the site guidelines: &quot;<i>Please don&#x27;t post insinuations about astroturfing, shilling, brigading, foreign agents and the like. It degrades discussion and is usually mistaken. If you&#x27;re worried about abuse, email [email protected] and we&#x27;ll look at the data.</i>&quot;<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;newsguidelines.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;newsguidelines.html</a><p>Sinister insinuation about astroturfing is the internet&#x27;s favorite pastime. The overwhelming majority of this, as far as we can tell from countless hours looking at the data, is pure imagination.<p>Is it possible that the manipulation is so sinister and so clever that it leaves no traces we can see in the data, and yet thousands of internet commenters see what we don&#x27;t? Sure it&#x27;s possible. But following that path means abandoning evidence. That way leads to the wilderness of mirrors. The only sane way to look at this is to require some evidence, some objective peg of some kind (we&#x27;ll take anything!) to hang your suspicions on. The presence of opposing viewpoints, downvotes, and flags on divisive issues is no evidence at all. It just means that the community is divided.<p>As far as I can tell, the psychological phenomenon driving this phenomenon is that people are deeply reluctant to take in how wide the range of legitimately opposing views is. We&#x27;re probably hard-wired to see the world as much smaller than it is. Bring us all, with that hard-wiring, into a community of millions of people on the internet, and the inevitable result is that people see spies, shills, astroturfers, and foreign agents everywhere. No—what you&#x27;re seeing is that there are a <i>lot</i> of humans with very different backgrounds from yours. And on any issue with an international dimension, multiply that phenomenon by a hundred.<p>I&#x27;ve written about this a zillion times: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;hn.algolia.com&#x2F;?sort=byDate&amp;dateRange=all&amp;type=comment&amp;storyText=false&amp;prefix=true&amp;page=0&amp;query=astroturf%20by:dang" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;hn.algolia.com&#x2F;?sort=byDate&amp;dateRange=all&amp;type=comme...</a>. See also <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;hn.algolia.com&#x2F;?dateRange=all&amp;page=0&amp;prefix=false&amp;query=by%3Adang%20wilderness%20of%20mirrors&amp;sort=byDate&amp;type=comment" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;hn.algolia.com&#x2F;?dateRange=all&amp;page=0&amp;prefix=false&amp;qu...</a> and <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;hn.algolia.com&#x2F;?dateRange=all&amp;page=0&amp;prefix=false&amp;query=by%3Adang%20backgrounds&amp;sort=byDate&amp;type=comment" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;hn.algolia.com&#x2F;?dateRange=all&amp;page=0&amp;prefix=false&amp;qu...</a> for how often I repeat myself.</text></item><item><author>actionscripted</author><text>If you ever wonder about the extent of Russia&#x27;s online efforts consider that the comments on this HN thread might be part of things.<p>Not saying anything in here is good&#x2F;bad&#x2F;other but you rarely see this level of flagged and down-voted comments in a HN thread.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>sam_lowry_</author><text>@dang, I collected 5000 exit points of what seems to be sources of Kremlinbot activity here: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gist.github.com&#x2F;mikhailian&#x2F;5d65694fdaaf0ccbab4c6cf39de47544" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gist.github.com&#x2F;mikhailian&#x2F;5d65694fdaaf0ccbab4c6cf39...</a> watch out these are IPv4 and IPv6 formatted lists of subnets as exported from ipset.<p>There are some specifics to my use case, take this with a grain of sault. Hope this helps sorting genuine Putin-lovers from Kremlin bots.</text></comment> | <story><title>Russia opposition leader poisoned with Novichok</title><url>https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-54002880</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dang</author><text>This comment breaks the site guidelines: &quot;<i>Please don&#x27;t post insinuations about astroturfing, shilling, brigading, foreign agents and the like. It degrades discussion and is usually mistaken. If you&#x27;re worried about abuse, email [email protected] and we&#x27;ll look at the data.</i>&quot;<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;newsguidelines.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;newsguidelines.html</a><p>Sinister insinuation about astroturfing is the internet&#x27;s favorite pastime. The overwhelming majority of this, as far as we can tell from countless hours looking at the data, is pure imagination.<p>Is it possible that the manipulation is so sinister and so clever that it leaves no traces we can see in the data, and yet thousands of internet commenters see what we don&#x27;t? Sure it&#x27;s possible. But following that path means abandoning evidence. That way leads to the wilderness of mirrors. The only sane way to look at this is to require some evidence, some objective peg of some kind (we&#x27;ll take anything!) to hang your suspicions on. The presence of opposing viewpoints, downvotes, and flags on divisive issues is no evidence at all. It just means that the community is divided.<p>As far as I can tell, the psychological phenomenon driving this phenomenon is that people are deeply reluctant to take in how wide the range of legitimately opposing views is. We&#x27;re probably hard-wired to see the world as much smaller than it is. Bring us all, with that hard-wiring, into a community of millions of people on the internet, and the inevitable result is that people see spies, shills, astroturfers, and foreign agents everywhere. No—what you&#x27;re seeing is that there are a <i>lot</i> of humans with very different backgrounds from yours. And on any issue with an international dimension, multiply that phenomenon by a hundred.<p>I&#x27;ve written about this a zillion times: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;hn.algolia.com&#x2F;?sort=byDate&amp;dateRange=all&amp;type=comment&amp;storyText=false&amp;prefix=true&amp;page=0&amp;query=astroturf%20by:dang" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;hn.algolia.com&#x2F;?sort=byDate&amp;dateRange=all&amp;type=comme...</a>. See also <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;hn.algolia.com&#x2F;?dateRange=all&amp;page=0&amp;prefix=false&amp;query=by%3Adang%20wilderness%20of%20mirrors&amp;sort=byDate&amp;type=comment" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;hn.algolia.com&#x2F;?dateRange=all&amp;page=0&amp;prefix=false&amp;qu...</a> and <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;hn.algolia.com&#x2F;?dateRange=all&amp;page=0&amp;prefix=false&amp;query=by%3Adang%20backgrounds&amp;sort=byDate&amp;type=comment" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;hn.algolia.com&#x2F;?dateRange=all&amp;page=0&amp;prefix=false&amp;qu...</a> for how often I repeat myself.</text></item><item><author>actionscripted</author><text>If you ever wonder about the extent of Russia&#x27;s online efforts consider that the comments on this HN thread might be part of things.<p>Not saying anything in here is good&#x2F;bad&#x2F;other but you rarely see this level of flagged and down-voted comments in a HN thread.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>BrianOnHN</author><text>&gt; countless hours looking at the data<p>Will you provide that data for independent review?<p>Edit: it&#x27;s not that you shouldn&#x27;t be trusted. The issue is the old “It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.” For example, what if a large segment of the user base, that regularly contributed extraordinarily positive engagements, existed solely for the opportunities to frame certain conversations, even in the slightest, or even in preparation for something in the distant future.</text></comment> |
26,356,945 | 26,356,774 | 1 | 2 | 26,347,654 | train | <story><title>Dr. Seuss books deemed offensive will be delisted from eBay</title><url>https://www.wsj.com/articles/dr-seuss-books-deemed-offensive-will-be-delisted-from-ebay-11614884201</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dr_dshiv</author><text>Isn&#x27;t this more of a matter of copyright and, specifically, the moral rights of authors and copyright holders to control their work? It&#x27;s not that ebay is so offended—it&#x27;s that Dr Seuss Enterprises doesn&#x27;t want to lose billions due to a tarnished legacy. (Oops!) To me, this is just like a mature author that wants to stop the sale of an embarrassing early book because it was poorly written. In this case, the rightsholder thinks the early books are in poor taste and no longer wants them associated with the brand.<p>For the record, the same whitewashing (wokewashing?) happened to the Richard Scarry books which are all &quot;abridged&quot; because they were so offensively conservative about the role of women.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.upworthy.com&#x2F;8-changes-that-were-made-to-a-classic-richard-scarry-book-to-keep-up-with-the-times-progress" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.upworthy.com&#x2F;8-changes-that-were-made-to-a-class...</a></text></item><item><author>NeverFade</author><text>Amazon has started to remove books on political grounds as well: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;ncac.org&#x2F;news&#x2F;amazon-book-removal" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;ncac.org&#x2F;news&#x2F;amazon-book-removal</a><p>The Dr. Seuss books were banned not just by eBay but also by their publisher, which holds the copyright, so you can still buy them used on Amazon... for $1,500+ per copy: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.wane.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;prices-skyrocket-for-dr-seuss-books-on-amazon&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.wane.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;prices-skyrocket-for-dr-seuss-book...</a><p>The reality is that these books will not be accessible to the vast majority of future American readers. This is just a fact at this point.<p>It doesn&#x27;t even matter if Amazon keeps selling them, as the publisher banned them, so the number of (legal) copies will dwindle to zero. Also, with Amazon starting to ban books on similar political grounds, saying &quot;but Amazon didn&#x27;t ban <i>this</i> specific book (yet)&quot; or &quot;you can still get a copy at some obscure second-hand stores&quot; is burying our heads in the sand and ignoring the reality of what is happening.</text></item><item><author>UncleMeat</author><text>&gt; These are huge book distributors like Amazon and eBay effectively deciding what people can and cannot read.<p>The books are available on Amazon.<p>&gt; This is book-banning, pure and simple.<p>I&#x27;d wager that sales of these six books will be higher in the next week than they were in the last two years combined.</text></item><item><author>NeverFade</author><text>These are market-dominating book distributors like Amazon and eBay effectively deciding what people can and cannot read.<p>The fact that a few people might still be able to view images of these books (illegally, as they are copyrighted) on some tiny closed forum on the internet isn&#x27;t a real comfort.<p>In the Soviet Union, there were also tiny isolated pockets where &quot;forbidden books&quot; were surreptitiously copied and read. However, the project to ban them was still very successful overall. The average subject of the Soviet regime would not have access to these books.<p>This is very much what is happening in the US right now. These books are being banned, and the next generations of US readers will have no access to them. The fact that one person in ten thousand might be able to find a used copy at a rare used bookstore (and pay pay thousands of dollars for it) doesn&#x27;t really change anything, and it&#x27;s dishonest to pretend otherwise.<p>This is book-banning, pure and simple.<p>&gt; <i>The actions of the publisher and ebay enhance the first (freedom from)</i><p>I would also like to thank our cultural commissars at Amazon and eBay for &quot;freeing&quot; us from dangerous ideas by forcibly preventing us from buying and selling the books which contain them.<p>eBay just took away the freedom of private individuals to sell books they legally own to each other.<p>You are calling this &quot;freedom&quot;, using the word to refer to its exact opposite. This is Newspeak.</text></item><item><author>helsinkiandrew</author><text>There&#x27;s two kinds of freedom: freedom from and freedom to.<p>These are some children&#x27;s books that contain illustrations that some people find offensive and the publisher (and sellers) are deciding they no longer want to be associated with and sell to children. There are internet forums where the images are available and people can view them without the police knocking your door down, and I&#x27;m sure these are available in 2nd hand bookshops.<p>The actions of the publisher and ebay enhance the first (freedom from) without inhibiting the second much (freedom to) for those that really want to view the images.<p>There&#x27;s a difference between &quot;utterly repugnant&quot; content being available and it being casually given to children, and people and companies being forced to sell it.</text></item><item><author>lgleason</author><text>As dis-heartening as this story is, compared to a couple of years ago, it is encouraging to see lots of comments from people beginning to wake up to what is going on with this craziness and not being modded here.<p>Free speech is about protecting the right of the un-popular and views that some may find utterly repugnant. Why? because, as we are seeing with all of the woke craziness, when you don&#x27;t stand up for everyones ability (including views you do not like) to freely speak, the censorship will end up being turned against you.<p>The key things with all of this, is that if enough people were to collectively have the courage to push back against this craziness it would stop...people recognizing that there is a problem is a good first step.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>NeverFade</author><text>The bottom line is that books are being banned.<p>Sometimes it&#x27;s because the copyright holders (which are <i>not</i> the authors) decided to stop publishing them for political reasons. This decision is all too easy to make when you are a massive copyright holder like Disney. The result is that these massive copyright holders can decide which ideas are allowed, and which ideas will be banned.<p>In other cases, these book bans are executed by large book distributors, like Amazon: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;ncac.org&#x2F;news&#x2F;amazon-book-removal" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;ncac.org&#x2F;news&#x2F;amazon-book-removal</a>. These are done very much <i>against</i> the wishes of the author, publisher, and copyright holder.<p>In still other cases, the book ban is enacted by a secondary market distributor, forcibly preventing one private legal owner of the work from selling it to another reader. This is what&#x27;s happening here with eBay and the Dr. Seuss books.<p>This is a multi-pronged attack on the freedom to express and distribute ideas. And yes, it&#x27;s all legal, much like the commissar control of all book publications under the Soviet regime.</text></comment> | <story><title>Dr. Seuss books deemed offensive will be delisted from eBay</title><url>https://www.wsj.com/articles/dr-seuss-books-deemed-offensive-will-be-delisted-from-ebay-11614884201</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dr_dshiv</author><text>Isn&#x27;t this more of a matter of copyright and, specifically, the moral rights of authors and copyright holders to control their work? It&#x27;s not that ebay is so offended—it&#x27;s that Dr Seuss Enterprises doesn&#x27;t want to lose billions due to a tarnished legacy. (Oops!) To me, this is just like a mature author that wants to stop the sale of an embarrassing early book because it was poorly written. In this case, the rightsholder thinks the early books are in poor taste and no longer wants them associated with the brand.<p>For the record, the same whitewashing (wokewashing?) happened to the Richard Scarry books which are all &quot;abridged&quot; because they were so offensively conservative about the role of women.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.upworthy.com&#x2F;8-changes-that-were-made-to-a-classic-richard-scarry-book-to-keep-up-with-the-times-progress" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.upworthy.com&#x2F;8-changes-that-were-made-to-a-class...</a></text></item><item><author>NeverFade</author><text>Amazon has started to remove books on political grounds as well: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;ncac.org&#x2F;news&#x2F;amazon-book-removal" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;ncac.org&#x2F;news&#x2F;amazon-book-removal</a><p>The Dr. Seuss books were banned not just by eBay but also by their publisher, which holds the copyright, so you can still buy them used on Amazon... for $1,500+ per copy: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.wane.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;prices-skyrocket-for-dr-seuss-books-on-amazon&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.wane.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;prices-skyrocket-for-dr-seuss-book...</a><p>The reality is that these books will not be accessible to the vast majority of future American readers. This is just a fact at this point.<p>It doesn&#x27;t even matter if Amazon keeps selling them, as the publisher banned them, so the number of (legal) copies will dwindle to zero. Also, with Amazon starting to ban books on similar political grounds, saying &quot;but Amazon didn&#x27;t ban <i>this</i> specific book (yet)&quot; or &quot;you can still get a copy at some obscure second-hand stores&quot; is burying our heads in the sand and ignoring the reality of what is happening.</text></item><item><author>UncleMeat</author><text>&gt; These are huge book distributors like Amazon and eBay effectively deciding what people can and cannot read.<p>The books are available on Amazon.<p>&gt; This is book-banning, pure and simple.<p>I&#x27;d wager that sales of these six books will be higher in the next week than they were in the last two years combined.</text></item><item><author>NeverFade</author><text>These are market-dominating book distributors like Amazon and eBay effectively deciding what people can and cannot read.<p>The fact that a few people might still be able to view images of these books (illegally, as they are copyrighted) on some tiny closed forum on the internet isn&#x27;t a real comfort.<p>In the Soviet Union, there were also tiny isolated pockets where &quot;forbidden books&quot; were surreptitiously copied and read. However, the project to ban them was still very successful overall. The average subject of the Soviet regime would not have access to these books.<p>This is very much what is happening in the US right now. These books are being banned, and the next generations of US readers will have no access to them. The fact that one person in ten thousand might be able to find a used copy at a rare used bookstore (and pay pay thousands of dollars for it) doesn&#x27;t really change anything, and it&#x27;s dishonest to pretend otherwise.<p>This is book-banning, pure and simple.<p>&gt; <i>The actions of the publisher and ebay enhance the first (freedom from)</i><p>I would also like to thank our cultural commissars at Amazon and eBay for &quot;freeing&quot; us from dangerous ideas by forcibly preventing us from buying and selling the books which contain them.<p>eBay just took away the freedom of private individuals to sell books they legally own to each other.<p>You are calling this &quot;freedom&quot;, using the word to refer to its exact opposite. This is Newspeak.</text></item><item><author>helsinkiandrew</author><text>There&#x27;s two kinds of freedom: freedom from and freedom to.<p>These are some children&#x27;s books that contain illustrations that some people find offensive and the publisher (and sellers) are deciding they no longer want to be associated with and sell to children. There are internet forums where the images are available and people can view them without the police knocking your door down, and I&#x27;m sure these are available in 2nd hand bookshops.<p>The actions of the publisher and ebay enhance the first (freedom from) without inhibiting the second much (freedom to) for those that really want to view the images.<p>There&#x27;s a difference between &quot;utterly repugnant&quot; content being available and it being casually given to children, and people and companies being forced to sell it.</text></item><item><author>lgleason</author><text>As dis-heartening as this story is, compared to a couple of years ago, it is encouraging to see lots of comments from people beginning to wake up to what is going on with this craziness and not being modded here.<p>Free speech is about protecting the right of the un-popular and views that some may find utterly repugnant. Why? because, as we are seeing with all of the woke craziness, when you don&#x27;t stand up for everyones ability (including views you do not like) to freely speak, the censorship will end up being turned against you.<p>The key things with all of this, is that if enough people were to collectively have the courage to push back against this craziness it would stop...people recognizing that there is a problem is a good first step.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>helsinkiandrew</author><text>&gt; the same whitewashing (wokewashing?) happened to the Richard Scarry books which are all &quot;abridged&quot;<p>Do you really have issues with the changes they made? They weren&#x27;t abridged but just edited to show both sexes and different races doing jobs other than being maids and housewives. I&#x27;m not sure replacing milkman, fireman and cowboys with firefighters, gardeners and scientists is &#x27;woke&#x27;</text></comment> |
17,909,968 | 17,909,803 | 1 | 3 | 17,909,594 | train | <story><title>Show HN: Magic Sandbox – learn Kubernetes on real infrastructure</title><url>https://magicsandbox.com</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tootie</author><text>This is a really cool platform, but it kinda exposes the extremely high barrier of entry to getting running with k8s. It&#x27;s a very powerful and useful platform, but it doesn&#x27;t seem to strike the right balance with it&#x27;s abstractions to actually make intuitive sense to developers.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>djsumdog</author><text>This is the problem I have with almost all container orchestration systems (DC&#x2F;OS, K8s, etc.) None of them can go from 1 node running all your apps to 100, in an easy straight forward manner. I wrote about this not too long ago:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;penguindreams.org&#x2F;blog&#x2F;my-love-hate-relationship-with-docker-and-container-orchestration-systems&#x2F;#zero-to-a-hundred" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;penguindreams.org&#x2F;blog&#x2F;my-love-hate-relationship-wit...</a><p>I&#x27;ve also worked at both Kubernetes shops and DCOS&#x2F;marathon shops and I honestly don&#x27;t understand why people are choosing K8s. I&#x27;m sure a lot of it is the marketing and the power of Google behind it, but our DC&#x2F;OS cluster had hundreds of nodes and could scale applications really well. Plus I found the marathon json files way less confusing. (Plus if you really want, you can use k8s to schedule containers on DC&#x2F;OS, alongside marathon).<p>That being said, that DCOS platform team was 11 people and they had tons of custom scripts, wiki pages, labels and specific networking ingress&#x2F;egress points that all worked together. (You could even use a label to specify if you wanted to run containers on the local VMWare cluster or in AWS; with nodes that auto-scaled out into AWS in high load).<p>I&#x27;ve met people at smaller startups who&#x27;ve gone the Nomad route instead, which seems a lot more sane in many ways, but still requires pretty careful planning and setup for large deploys.</text></comment> | <story><title>Show HN: Magic Sandbox – learn Kubernetes on real infrastructure</title><url>https://magicsandbox.com</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tootie</author><text>This is a really cool platform, but it kinda exposes the extremely high barrier of entry to getting running with k8s. It&#x27;s a very powerful and useful platform, but it doesn&#x27;t seem to strike the right balance with it&#x27;s abstractions to actually make intuitive sense to developers.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>striking</author><text>That&#x27;s because, for the vast majority of developers, there&#x27;s no point in using k8s.<p>It&#x27;s really only necessary when you have a big app (or a few instances of a few big apps) that will have lots of containers and lots of management required.<p>Please. Don&#x27;t use k8s as a golden hammer. Docker alone (or with docker-compose) will be just fine for most people, especially when paired with a basic CI pipeline like Drone or Jenkins.<p>(If you&#x27;re reading this, thinking &quot;but it makes installing and managing services I depend on easier!&quot; it doesn&#x27;t obviate you of that responsibility entirely, not in production. You still have to make sure those services deploy properly, you still have to manage them to some degree... for some time, it was considered inadvisable to run your DB in-cluster because of how many ways it could fail.)</text></comment> |
15,878,483 | 15,877,525 | 1 | 3 | 15,876,260 | train | <story><title>Bookbinding: A Tutorial (1995)</title><url>http://homepage.divms.uiowa.edu/~jones/book/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>MichailP</author><text>Now this is an ideal crowd and topic to ask a question that is niggling me for a long time. What paper could you use with regular laser printers to get professionally looking printed book? The regular A4 is just too thick, and books printed this way look clumsy.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>omnimus</author><text>Regular office paper is 80gsm. Many books are printed with 80gsm paper. Books with lots of pages often use lower paper weight (so they are not so thick) but opposite is also true. You don&#x27;t want too thin book. Books with like 150 pages usually use papers with 120+gsm and books with lot of pictures or photos even more (childrens books, photography&#x2F;art books etc.).<p>What i am trying to say - paper weight does not matter. 80gsm is used because it is the thinnest paper that will reliably not get stuck in the laser printer.<p>Try more creamy less bleached (ultrawhite) paper. Since they are not used too much in offices they look immediately less cheap. It can be challenge to find some adjusted to laser printer formats because professional always need big sheets not small ones.<p>Laser printer will often look not so professional because the color is baked layer on top of the paper and it does not bleed into the paper at all. Offset printing bleeds into the paper tiny bit and it becomes part of the paper. It also has much higher resolution so it is more detailed. The difference is even bigger when you print pictures&#x2F;photos. You will not get good looking pictures out of laser printer.</text></comment> | <story><title>Bookbinding: A Tutorial (1995)</title><url>http://homepage.divms.uiowa.edu/~jones/book/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>MichailP</author><text>Now this is an ideal crowd and topic to ask a question that is niggling me for a long time. What paper could you use with regular laser printers to get professionally looking printed book? The regular A4 is just too thick, and books printed this way look clumsy.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>clickok</author><text>&quot;Regular&quot; paper is usually 20 lb. or 24 lb.; I am not sure what that is in gsm.
So far I&#x27;ve found it to be too thin, actually, though I&#x27;m using an inkjet printer (modified for a continuous ink system).<p>I&#x27;ve used 28 lb. and 32 lb. paper, although next time I see it I&#x27;m going to buy something thicker (36 lb. or 40 lb., assuming the pattern for commercially available thicknesses holds inductively).
Thinner paper seems to be a bit too transparent, but that might be a function of the type of paper or my printer&#x27;s generosity with regards to ink.<p>Having sewn and bound a couple of books following similar tutorials, my advice is to actually get a professional print shop to make your books if you want something of professional quality[0].
Doing it by hand is a viable hobby, but even with my continuous ink system, it&#x27;s probably not economical because of the time required to bind everything together.
Printing with laser is probably more expensive.<p>-----<p>0. If you just want to get some notes together in a reasonably permanent form, here&#x27;s my three step approach to creating usable, but necessarily &quot;beautiful&quot; books.
First, print off your book, arrange the pages, and add a blank page before the first page and after the last page.
Second, align the pages carefully, ensuring that the spine is flat. Clamp the pages together, using something flat (another book, or a piece of wood works) to distribute the pressure.
Finally, apply some Gorilla Glue (or similar) to the spine of the book, ensuring that the entire spine is covered but wiping away excess insofar as that is possible. Leave overnight, or until the glue cures.<p>The result: a surprisingly durable book from a process that takes <i>less than 10 minutes</i>, assuming you&#x27;ve got the materials handy.
You can make it more presentable by adding a cover (I cut folders or cardstock into a book cover, and then glue them onto those blank pages).</text></comment> |
7,548,663 | 7,548,760 | 1 | 2 | 7,548,468 | train | <story><title>OpenSSL Security Advisory: TLS heartbeat read overrun</title><url>http://www.openssl.org/news/secadv_20140407.txt</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>tptacek</author><text>Ugh, that&#x27;s a horrible vulnerability. We found something similar in nginx a few years ago, and the result is that you can repeatedly open up client connections and dump server memory as it changes, revealing keys and, without any real effort, authentication info and cookies.</text></comment> | <story><title>OpenSSL Security Advisory: TLS heartbeat read overrun</title><url>http://www.openssl.org/news/secadv_20140407.txt</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>dmix</author><text>I had to google what &quot;heartbeat extension&quot; does:<p><pre><code> DTLS is designed to secure traffic running on top of unreliable
transport protocols. Usually such protocols have no session
management. The only mechanism available at the DTLS layer to figure
out if a peer is still alive is performing a costly renegotiation.
If the application uses unidirectional traffic there is no other way.
TLS is based on reliable protocols but there is not necessarily a
feature available to keep the connection alive without continuous
data transfer.
The Heartbeat Extension as described in this document overcomes these
limitations. The user can use the new HeartbeatRequest message which
has to be answered by the peer with a HeartbeartResponse immediately.
</code></pre>
<a href="https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-tls-dtls-heartbeat-01" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;tools.ietf.org&#x2F;html&#x2F;draft-ietf-tls-dtls-heartbeat-01</a><p>Edit: here is the commit patching the bug <a href="https://github.com/openssl/openssl/commit/7e840163c06c7692b796a93e3fa85a93136adbb2" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;openssl&#x2F;openssl&#x2F;commit&#x2F;7e840163c06c7692b7...</a></text></comment> |
26,218,183 | 26,217,661 | 1 | 3 | 26,213,984 | train | <story><title>Activists who embrace nuclear power</title><url>https://www.newyorker.com/tech/annals-of-technology/the-activists-who-embrace-nuclear-power</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>macspoofing</author><text>&gt;There are plenty of sites that would happily accept more nuclear being built, but all other forms of energy have undercut the cost of nuclear.<p>Honestly ... it isn&#x27;t just about cost. Nuclear is expensive but it isn&#x27;t prohibitively expensive. The big picture is we know that nuclear can power an economy, it does not emit global warming gasses, and also places a tiny footprint on the surrounding ecosystem.<p>Solar and wind cannot power an economy. But let&#x27;s pretend they can so as to not get bogged down on this point. Let&#x27;s also pretend they are non-trivially cheaper than nuclear. Even under those assumptions nuclear still wins in my eyes.<p>Global warming is only one environmental problem we have to solve and it may not be the most important one either. The other one is regular environmental collapse due to needing to support 7-10 billion people. In this context, solar and wind are atrocious and a total disaster because they have massive land-use requirements (land-use around mining for necessary materials, deployment and maintenance of the collectors, and finally land-fill once out of use). And they will always have those horrendous land-use requirements because solar and wind are diffuse energy sources. Worse, we&#x27;re going to need to increase solar and wind collector production by several orders of magnitude (and come up with a battery technology that doesn&#x27;t exist today) to fully support a fossil fuel transition. What cost do you think the environment will bear for that compared to nuclear infrastructure?</text></item><item><author>epistasis</author><text>Articles like this miss the main point and instead focus on culture war material. There are plenty of sites that would happily accept more nuclear being built, but all other forms of energy have undercut the cost of nuclear. It&#x27;s no longer cost competitive, and places like China that adopt a &quot;let&#x27;s try everything and see what works best&quot; approach have heavily pulled back on nuclear.<p>The issues aren&#x27;t safety, waste, and environments opposition. There are plenty of climate hawks that support nuclear too. It&#x27;s all excessive costs.<p>They briefly mention the cooling retrofits for Diablo Canyon in San Lui Obispo, but they don&#x27;t mention that they bids from Bechtel to simply build a modern cooling system were all billions of dollars of expense. Just the cooling system is more expensive than alternatives.<p>And this is a trend we will see in the future. For primary generation of electrons, steam based thermodynamic cycles are pretty much obsolete. The number I typically hear is that it&#x27;s $1-2W to build, say, a cooling system for coal steam. A nuclear plants cooling is pretty much identical. Solar and wind are going to undercut that cost very soon.<p>So the name of the game is now storage. Attaching four hours of storage to a solar generation farm, just enough to get through the duck curve, is now slightly cheaper than coal.<p>The best estimate of what the cheapest possible future grid looks like is: solar&#x2F;wind capacity at 4x of total demand (thermal generators are roughly at 2x on the current grid), with 3-4 days of storage. This translates to world with abundant energy, at certain times, that&#x27;s generated at zero marginal cost. There are still lots of transmission costs however. The future of energy is all about spatial and temporal arbitrage of renewable electrons.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>elihu</author><text>&gt; In this context, solar and wind are atrocious and a total disaster because they have massive land-use requirements.<p>No, they don&#x27;t. There is a lot of empty land in the world that isn&#x27;t useful for people to live in or to grow crops due to lack of rainfall, which also makes those sites more valuable for solar energy.<p>We&#x27;d consider a utility-scale solar array that&#x27;s a couple square miles to be absolutely huge, but plotted on a map of, say, the United States it would be a barely visible dot in a massive sea of land-that-isn&#x27;t-devoted-to-solar-power. The Earth is very big, and when you get outside the areas where people congregate there&#x27;s a lot of wide open spaces.<p>This says that US electricity consumption was 3.9 trillion killowatt-hours in 2019:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.eia.gov&#x2F;energyexplained&#x2F;electricity&#x2F;use-of-electricity.php" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.eia.gov&#x2F;energyexplained&#x2F;electricity&#x2F;use-of-elect...</a><p>39 quadrillion watt hours divided by (365<i>24) gives us average power consumption in watts.<p>Let&#x27;s say a pretty good solar panel gets 100 watts per square meter, then reduce that to 30 to account for night-time. If we divide average power consumption by 30 watts per meter and divide by 1,000,000 to convert to square kilometers, we get:<p>Prelude&gt; (((3.9 </i> 1000 * 1000 * 1000 * 1000 * 1000) &#x2F; (365<i>24)) &#x2F; 30) &#x2F; (1000 </i> 1000)
14840.182648401827<p>So, about 15,000 square kilometers of solar panels would satisfy current US electrical needs. Let&#x27;s double that to be conservative, that&#x27;s 30,000 square kilometers. Sounds like a lot, right? That&#x27;s a rectangle 100 km by 300 km. It&#x27;s slightly more than 10% of the land area of Nevada. Definitely big, but attainable. Compared to the land we use for farming, it&#x27;s barely anything (and it can be done in places that we don&#x27;t farm). And in practice it would be spread out, not just in one place. And it also assumes we get 100% of our power from solar, which we wouldn&#x27;t.</text></comment> | <story><title>Activists who embrace nuclear power</title><url>https://www.newyorker.com/tech/annals-of-technology/the-activists-who-embrace-nuclear-power</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>macspoofing</author><text>&gt;There are plenty of sites that would happily accept more nuclear being built, but all other forms of energy have undercut the cost of nuclear.<p>Honestly ... it isn&#x27;t just about cost. Nuclear is expensive but it isn&#x27;t prohibitively expensive. The big picture is we know that nuclear can power an economy, it does not emit global warming gasses, and also places a tiny footprint on the surrounding ecosystem.<p>Solar and wind cannot power an economy. But let&#x27;s pretend they can so as to not get bogged down on this point. Let&#x27;s also pretend they are non-trivially cheaper than nuclear. Even under those assumptions nuclear still wins in my eyes.<p>Global warming is only one environmental problem we have to solve and it may not be the most important one either. The other one is regular environmental collapse due to needing to support 7-10 billion people. In this context, solar and wind are atrocious and a total disaster because they have massive land-use requirements (land-use around mining for necessary materials, deployment and maintenance of the collectors, and finally land-fill once out of use). And they will always have those horrendous land-use requirements because solar and wind are diffuse energy sources. Worse, we&#x27;re going to need to increase solar and wind collector production by several orders of magnitude (and come up with a battery technology that doesn&#x27;t exist today) to fully support a fossil fuel transition. What cost do you think the environment will bear for that compared to nuclear infrastructure?</text></item><item><author>epistasis</author><text>Articles like this miss the main point and instead focus on culture war material. There are plenty of sites that would happily accept more nuclear being built, but all other forms of energy have undercut the cost of nuclear. It&#x27;s no longer cost competitive, and places like China that adopt a &quot;let&#x27;s try everything and see what works best&quot; approach have heavily pulled back on nuclear.<p>The issues aren&#x27;t safety, waste, and environments opposition. There are plenty of climate hawks that support nuclear too. It&#x27;s all excessive costs.<p>They briefly mention the cooling retrofits for Diablo Canyon in San Lui Obispo, but they don&#x27;t mention that they bids from Bechtel to simply build a modern cooling system were all billions of dollars of expense. Just the cooling system is more expensive than alternatives.<p>And this is a trend we will see in the future. For primary generation of electrons, steam based thermodynamic cycles are pretty much obsolete. The number I typically hear is that it&#x27;s $1-2W to build, say, a cooling system for coal steam. A nuclear plants cooling is pretty much identical. Solar and wind are going to undercut that cost very soon.<p>So the name of the game is now storage. Attaching four hours of storage to a solar generation farm, just enough to get through the duck curve, is now slightly cheaper than coal.<p>The best estimate of what the cheapest possible future grid looks like is: solar&#x2F;wind capacity at 4x of total demand (thermal generators are roughly at 2x on the current grid), with 3-4 days of storage. This translates to world with abundant energy, at certain times, that&#x27;s generated at zero marginal cost. There are still lots of transmission costs however. The future of energy is all about spatial and temporal arbitrage of renewable electrons.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>brightball</author><text>The thing about land use that always got me was that solar can be implemented as a roofing system in parking lots. We have a lot of parking lots out there.<p>IMO the model used for parking at Lego Land looks like the ideal approach for solar expansion to me.</text></comment> |
2,259,018 | 2,258,145 | 1 | 2 | 2,257,827 | train | <story><title>New MacBook Pro series</title><url>http://apple.com/macbookpro/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>siglesias</author><text>&#62;&#62;• 3 hours less battery life<p>The old battery tests were unrealistic. They advertised 8 hours on the 17'', but who really got even close to that under normal use?<p>I'm thankful they're taking the hit on pure battery life numbers to report an honest, realistic test.</text></item><item><author>wheels</author><text>Color me disappointed. I was hoping for:<p>• Ditching the optical media for longer battery life<p>• 4 cores in the 13"<p>• Max RAM of 12 GB (this one isn't listed ... maybe?)<p>• The higher resolution 1440x900 resolution in the 13" that the Macbook Air has<p>Altogether it's a pretty wussy update. Basically it looks like the diff (on the 13" model, which is what I care about) is:<p>• Faster CPU (finally!)<p>• Thunderbolt port (count on buying another $30 display adapter like every generation)<p>• 3 hours less battery life</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>younata</author><text>They advertised 10 hours for my (now) last-gen MacBook pro. I can easily do 12 hours. And have. Screen brightness at minimum, using terminal.app. I prefer vim to any graphical editor (haven't tried emacs), and nethack is one of my favorite games ever.
That's what I spend my long plane rides doing.</text></comment> | <story><title>New MacBook Pro series</title><url>http://apple.com/macbookpro/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>siglesias</author><text>&#62;&#62;• 3 hours less battery life<p>The old battery tests were unrealistic. They advertised 8 hours on the 17'', but who really got even close to that under normal use?<p>I'm thankful they're taking the hit on pure battery life numbers to report an honest, realistic test.</text></item><item><author>wheels</author><text>Color me disappointed. I was hoping for:<p>• Ditching the optical media for longer battery life<p>• 4 cores in the 13"<p>• Max RAM of 12 GB (this one isn't listed ... maybe?)<p>• The higher resolution 1440x900 resolution in the 13" that the Macbook Air has<p>Altogether it's a pretty wussy update. Basically it looks like the diff (on the 13" model, which is what I care about) is:<p>• Faster CPU (finally!)<p>• Thunderbolt port (count on buying another $30 display adapter like every generation)<p>• 3 hours less battery life</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>wheels</author><text>I'd be surprised if that's what happened. I suspect this is just another unrealistic number that's the same proportion of reality as the previous numbers.<p>That said, when I'm traveling and going for extended battery life (read: trans-atlantic flights) I get pretty close to the rated number by dimming my backlight and shutting off wifi and bluetooth.</text></comment> |
27,960,497 | 27,960,460 | 1 | 2 | 27,959,722 | train | <story><title>Japan pitches 'Society 5.0' to keep its edge in tech and science</title><url>https://asia.nikkei.com/Business/Science/Japan-pitches-Society-5.0-to-keep-its-edge-in-tech-and-science</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>alephnan</author><text>Bank ATMs in Japan stop working between 6-9PM, and on weekends.<p>My debit card got de-magnetized ( like a flaky hotel room key ) and stopped working at the official bank ATM. It doesn&#x27;t work at most third party ATMs, but I&#x27;ve found the 7-11 ATMs are quite robust and is actually able to transact. Seems like a weird security mechanism if the official bank ATM can&#x27;t authenticate the card, but somehow 7-11 ATMs can bypass this and allow me to withdraw money.<p>The bank&#x27;s website also has a very strange username &#x2F; password rules. They can only contain numbers and letters, case insensitively. Also, you can&#x27;t have more than 2 consecutive numbers or letters. For example, &#x27;foo2bar&#x27; would not be valid, nor would &#x27;fo911baz&#x27;. &#x27;fo23ba23&#x27; works.<p>One of my friends in Japan is a doctor from Belarus, one of the poorest countries in Eastern Europe. She came to Japan thinking it was technologically advanced, and was shocked to find that in some aspects Belarus is more technologically modern.<p>I have a very cynical theory about why technology is seemingly archaic here. I think the state of digital technology is due to structural &#x2F; hierarchical social reasons that these initiatives don&#x27;t really address. Not directly related to the hierarchical constructs, but examples of traditional practices include:<p>- resumes must be hand-written<p>- the stack of paperwork you need to sign for an apartment is about 1 inches thick. If you&#x27;re purchasing a property, you&#x27;ll probably need a couple binders.<p>- you need to create Hanko ( personal seal stamp ) as your official signature for some paperwork</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>chucksta</author><text>The major US company I worked for 6-7 years ago had a global presence, but were all sort of independent. We started to merge into 1 formal company, and started reviewing IT processes.<p>The Japan location still had people walking through the data center with a sheet of paper and a pen, going through and manually checking servers off a list in the data center. It blew everyone&#x27;s mind</text></comment> | <story><title>Japan pitches 'Society 5.0' to keep its edge in tech and science</title><url>https://asia.nikkei.com/Business/Science/Japan-pitches-Society-5.0-to-keep-its-edge-in-tech-and-science</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>alephnan</author><text>Bank ATMs in Japan stop working between 6-9PM, and on weekends.<p>My debit card got de-magnetized ( like a flaky hotel room key ) and stopped working at the official bank ATM. It doesn&#x27;t work at most third party ATMs, but I&#x27;ve found the 7-11 ATMs are quite robust and is actually able to transact. Seems like a weird security mechanism if the official bank ATM can&#x27;t authenticate the card, but somehow 7-11 ATMs can bypass this and allow me to withdraw money.<p>The bank&#x27;s website also has a very strange username &#x2F; password rules. They can only contain numbers and letters, case insensitively. Also, you can&#x27;t have more than 2 consecutive numbers or letters. For example, &#x27;foo2bar&#x27; would not be valid, nor would &#x27;fo911baz&#x27;. &#x27;fo23ba23&#x27; works.<p>One of my friends in Japan is a doctor from Belarus, one of the poorest countries in Eastern Europe. She came to Japan thinking it was technologically advanced, and was shocked to find that in some aspects Belarus is more technologically modern.<p>I have a very cynical theory about why technology is seemingly archaic here. I think the state of digital technology is due to structural &#x2F; hierarchical social reasons that these initiatives don&#x27;t really address. Not directly related to the hierarchical constructs, but examples of traditional practices include:<p>- resumes must be hand-written<p>- the stack of paperwork you need to sign for an apartment is about 1 inches thick. If you&#x27;re purchasing a property, you&#x27;ll probably need a couple binders.<p>- you need to create Hanko ( personal seal stamp ) as your official signature for some paperwork</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>drstewart</author><text>&gt;I think the state of digital technology is due to structural &#x2F; hierarchical social reasons that these initiatives don&#x27;t really address.<p>Maybe a trite &#x2F; cliche saying now, but the quote about Japan being the most futuristic society you could imagine in the 1990s just rung so true after visiting.</text></comment> |
17,809,490 | 17,809,584 | 1 | 2 | 17,799,907 | train | <story><title>Farmers in Niger are nurturing gao trees to drive environmental change in Africa</title><url>https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/aug/16/regreening-niger-how-magical-gaos-transformed-land</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>myth_drannon</author><text>Mandatory mention of Kenyan Wangari Maathai <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Wangari_Maathai" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Wangari_Maathai</a>
She started a grassroots movement of planting millions of trees in Kenya.
She received Nobel prize in 2004 for her environmental work in Africa.</text></comment> | <story><title>Farmers in Niger are nurturing gao trees to drive environmental change in Africa</title><url>https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/aug/16/regreening-niger-how-magical-gaos-transformed-land</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>vezycash</author><text>On topic: Researching Gao trees, I learned about Fertilizer Trees.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Fertilizer_tree" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Fertilizer_tree</a><p>Question:
Does nitrogen fixing remove the need for adding other soil macro nutrients?</text></comment> |
5,945,752 | 5,945,787 | 1 | 3 | 5,945,365 | train | <story><title>A summer job paid tuition back in ’81, but then we got cheap</title><url>http://seattletimes.com/html/localnews/2021250505_westneat23xml.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>calinet6</author><text>Robert Birgeneau, the chancellor emeritus of Berkeley, spoke at a fundraising event I attended and said something I thought was poignant:<p>&quot;The University of California has gone from being a state-funded institution, to a state-sponsored institution, to a state-<i>located</i> institution.&quot;<p>The level at which the State of California funds the university is practically nothing at this point. Alumni donations have filled <i>some</i> gaps but don&#x27;t nearly cover everything. Tuition has increased to the point where even I, who graduated in 2006, consider it ridiculous. It is now over 8 times the maximum semester tuition I paid.<p>I can&#x27;t imagine considering Berkeley a &quot;great value&quot; anymore, as I did when I was there considering the (excellent) quality of education versus the price. It used to be a sense of pride; that a public university could be so great, to prove the experiment, to show that society could produce academic excellence without falling to the vices of money and the divisions that come with it. Now that experiment has failed, and only those who believe in it strongly—the Alumni and supporters—are upholding it, but that&#x27;s not sustainable.<p>We need to grow up. This fantasy of American individualism is killing us. We need to grow up and learn how to share—and this is the worst part: <i>as we once did.</i></text></comment> | <story><title>A summer job paid tuition back in ’81, but then we got cheap</title><url>http://seattletimes.com/html/localnews/2021250505_westneat23xml.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jseliger</author><text><i>Well, that’s the part we don’t want to talk about anymore.</i><p>That&#x27;s not true at all: college costs are <i>constantly</i> discussed. The book <i>Why Does College Cost So Much</i> is the most comprehensive treatment of the issue I&#x27;ve seen, and it argues that the <i>main</i> driver of college costs is Baumol&#x27;s Cost Disease.<p><i>It’s that taxpayers back then picked up 90 percent of the tab. We weren’t Horatio Algers. We were socialists.</i><p>Universities like the University of Washington are also in a spending arms race: universities are <i>increasing</i> their per-student spending, even in the face of falling state spending: <a href="http://www.slate.com/blogs/moneybox/2013/06/04/public_university_spending_is_up_not_down.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.slate.com&#x2F;blogs&#x2F;moneybox&#x2F;2013&#x2F;06&#x2F;04&#x2F;public_univer...</a> .<p>A side note: Danny Westneat is something of a joke among people who read the <i>Seattle Times</i>, and it&#x27;s a mistake to take almost anything he writes seriously. He&#x27;s the sort of pious liberal that makes intellectually minded and honest liberals crazy because of his tendency to repeat various kinds of half-truths. This is a good example: he&#x27;s right that if Washington picked up 90% of UW&#x27;s tab, tuition would be cheaper.<p>But it&#x27;s also true that if he&#x27;d read more, and read more about the people who actually study this issue, he&#x27;d have a more complete picture of the situation. You&#x27;ll learn more reading this comment than reading his column.</text></comment> |
7,209,424 | 7,209,372 | 1 | 2 | 7,209,149 | train | <story><title>Godot Engine open sourced</title><url>http://www.godotengine.org/wp/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>chipsy</author><text>The site is totally hammered right now but I managed to grab a copy and get a feel for what&#x27;s in this. There&#x27;s some truly exciting stuff to comb through since it&#x27;s a well-used engine with a lot of history, not someone&#x27;s hobby hack.<p>What I&#x27;ve seen so far:<p>A custom scripting language(GDScript) which is roughly Python-esque. The wiki explains that after trying the other common choices(Lua, Squirrel, Angelscript) over a period of years, they rolled their own solution that could be more closely integrated to the engine.<p>An in-editor help, it has some API docs.<p>Classes for GUI controls, including layout containers.<p>A fairly rich audio API, including positional audio, streamed audio, common sample playback controls(pan, volume, pitch, looping), and some effects(reverb, chorus, frequency filter).<p>Some networking functionality, including HTTP, TCP, and UDP(unclear?) mechanisms.<p>Keyboard, joystick, mouse, and touchscreen input classes.<p>And of course lots of rendering and physics-related stuff, including various shapes, cameras, meshes, sprites, animation, tilemaps, texture atlasing, internationalized fonts, particle systems, and multiple viewports.</text></comment> | <story><title>Godot Engine open sourced</title><url>http://www.godotengine.org/wp/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>xacaxulu</author><text>Godot! Just what I&#x27;ve been waiting for!</text></comment> |
16,650,224 | 16,650,192 | 1 | 2 | 16,647,445 | train | <story><title>Krita 4.0 – A painting app for cartoonists, illustrators, and concept artists</title><url>https://krita.org/en/item/krita-4-0-0-released/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mattigames</author><text>That&#x27;s exactly as saying that someone made a full c++ program using nothing but notepad and therefore it&#x27;s impressive. All I see its someone that made their lives more difficult by purpose.</text></item><item><author>JoeDaDude</author><text>I like good tools as much as anybody, but I am always impressed with what a little talent and practice can do with existing tools. This story was in the news lately, about a woman that uses nothing but MS Paint:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;mymodernmet.com&#x2F;grandma-ms-paint-art&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;mymodernmet.com&#x2F;grandma-ms-paint-art&#x2F;</a></text></item><item><author>headsoup</author><text>I&#x27;m very much an amateur but Krita is a great piece of software for me and does everything I need so far, for free. Much easier to use than GIMP, seems quite comparable to Photoshop and the development is going strong.<p>It&#x27;s also neat that they now include by default a lot of the deevad brushes as it&#x27;s a broad selection. Keep up the good work Krita team.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>steamer25</author><text>I remember some documentary with Jack White talking about how he tries to make music composition more difficult on purpose. I had a very similar reaction to yours--the example they played under his voice over wasn&#x27;t very impressive to me and I&#x27;m not much of a Jack White fan to begin with.<p>Now that I&#x27;m writing this, I suppose one useful concept is that of constraints promoting creativity by forcing you to come at the blank canvas from a different mindset than you&#x27;re used to.<p>I suppose there are some times to struggle and grow but other times, like a competitive swimmer shedding his &#x27;drags&#x27;, to engage our full unhindered capacity free of such artificial handicaps.<p>Another musical example for me is the band Amaranthe. They usually make extensive use of modern production techniques but their talent is also very evident when they&#x27;re unplugged:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;embed&#x2F;J4Jhpx2Qmz4?start=61&amp;end=290" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;embed&#x2F;J4Jhpx2Qmz4?start=61&amp;end=290</a><p>Music video for the same song:
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;D8lV1To-_fU" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;D8lV1To-_fU</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Krita 4.0 – A painting app for cartoonists, illustrators, and concept artists</title><url>https://krita.org/en/item/krita-4-0-0-released/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mattigames</author><text>That&#x27;s exactly as saying that someone made a full c++ program using nothing but notepad and therefore it&#x27;s impressive. All I see its someone that made their lives more difficult by purpose.</text></item><item><author>JoeDaDude</author><text>I like good tools as much as anybody, but I am always impressed with what a little talent and practice can do with existing tools. This story was in the news lately, about a woman that uses nothing but MS Paint:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;mymodernmet.com&#x2F;grandma-ms-paint-art&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;mymodernmet.com&#x2F;grandma-ms-paint-art&#x2F;</a></text></item><item><author>headsoup</author><text>I&#x27;m very much an amateur but Krita is a great piece of software for me and does everything I need so far, for free. Much easier to use than GIMP, seems quite comparable to Photoshop and the development is going strong.<p>It&#x27;s also neat that they now include by default a lot of the deevad brushes as it&#x27;s a broad selection. Keep up the good work Krita team.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Xyzodiac</author><text>Really not the same thing. You could produce the same C++ program in Notepad that you could in any other editor or IDE. Here the artist is working with restricted tools in a way that the restriction becomes part of the work itself</text></comment> |
11,810,904 | 11,807,573 | 1 | 2 | 11,806,739 | train | <story><title>The Perks Are Great, Just Don’t Ask What We Do</title><url>https://backchannel.com/the-perks-are-great-just-dont-ask-us-what-we-do-d5abc6867103?source=rss----d16afa0ae7c---4</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>aresant</author><text>So what else is new.<p>If you work at Facebook or Google you&#x27;re benefiting directly from the similarly shady practices they used to grow on their way to being &quot;pillars of tech&quot; today.<p>Do you remember when at LEAST 20% of Facebook&#x27;s revenue came from Zynga? Like less than 5 years ago? Many speculated it was considerably higher, but Facebook never provided a full accounting (1).<p>Or do you remember when Facebook literally had an &quot;affiliate marketing panel&quot; that they worked with at the C-suite level packed with guys selling weight loss affiliate slop? Almost impossible to find reference of it now, was well known in many circles and you can still see references of it here and there. (2)<p>Or maybe when Google was caught colluding with a notorious gangster when he turned state&#x27;s evidence to demonstrate to the DOJ how quickly Google was willing to skirt around laws to sell illegally imported drugs? They were fined $500,000,000.00. Google was. (3)<p>50onRed is clearly engaged in scumb-bag advertising practices, but at least they keep good company.<p>(1) <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;allthingsd.com&#x2F;20120423&#x2F;zynga-accounted-for-15-percent-of-facebooks-revenues-in-q1&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;allthingsd.com&#x2F;20120423&#x2F;zynga-accounted-for-15-percen...</a><p>(2) <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.shoemoney.com&#x2F;2009&#x2F;11&#x2F;16&#x2F;dennis-yu-rise-and-fall-of-a-con-man-in-the-affiliate-industry&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.shoemoney.com&#x2F;2009&#x2F;11&#x2F;16&#x2F;dennis-yu-rise-and-fall-...</a> &amp; <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.jimcockrum.com&#x2F;blog&#x2F;2011&#x2F;10&#x2F;19&#x2F;the-biggest-dog-in-affiliate-marketing-is-starting-to-sound-a-lot-like-me&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.jimcockrum.com&#x2F;blog&#x2F;2011&#x2F;10&#x2F;19&#x2F;the-biggest-dog-in...</a> &amp; <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;techcrunch.com&#x2F;2009&#x2F;11&#x2F;01&#x2F;how-to-spam-facebook-like-a-pro-an-insiders-confession&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;techcrunch.com&#x2F;2009&#x2F;11&#x2F;01&#x2F;how-to-spam-facebook-like-a...</a><p>(3) <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.justice.gov&#x2F;opa&#x2F;pr&#x2F;google-forfeits-500-million-generated-online-ads-prescription-drug-sales-canadian-online" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.justice.gov&#x2F;opa&#x2F;pr&#x2F;google-forfeits-500-million-g...</a> &amp; <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.wired.com&#x2F;2013&#x2F;05&#x2F;google-pharma-whitaker-sting&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.wired.com&#x2F;2013&#x2F;05&#x2F;google-pharma-whitaker-sting&#x2F;</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>notatoad</author><text>Or in a similar vein, when YC funded the adware distribution company InstallMonetizer.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.techdirt.com&#x2F;articles&#x2F;20130115&#x2F;17343321692&#x2F;why-are-y-combinator-andreessen-horowitz-backing-drive-by-toolbaradware-installer.shtml" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.techdirt.com&#x2F;articles&#x2F;20130115&#x2F;17343321692&#x2F;why-a...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>The Perks Are Great, Just Don’t Ask What We Do</title><url>https://backchannel.com/the-perks-are-great-just-dont-ask-us-what-we-do-d5abc6867103?source=rss----d16afa0ae7c---4</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>aresant</author><text>So what else is new.<p>If you work at Facebook or Google you&#x27;re benefiting directly from the similarly shady practices they used to grow on their way to being &quot;pillars of tech&quot; today.<p>Do you remember when at LEAST 20% of Facebook&#x27;s revenue came from Zynga? Like less than 5 years ago? Many speculated it was considerably higher, but Facebook never provided a full accounting (1).<p>Or do you remember when Facebook literally had an &quot;affiliate marketing panel&quot; that they worked with at the C-suite level packed with guys selling weight loss affiliate slop? Almost impossible to find reference of it now, was well known in many circles and you can still see references of it here and there. (2)<p>Or maybe when Google was caught colluding with a notorious gangster when he turned state&#x27;s evidence to demonstrate to the DOJ how quickly Google was willing to skirt around laws to sell illegally imported drugs? They were fined $500,000,000.00. Google was. (3)<p>50onRed is clearly engaged in scumb-bag advertising practices, but at least they keep good company.<p>(1) <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;allthingsd.com&#x2F;20120423&#x2F;zynga-accounted-for-15-percent-of-facebooks-revenues-in-q1&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;allthingsd.com&#x2F;20120423&#x2F;zynga-accounted-for-15-percen...</a><p>(2) <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.shoemoney.com&#x2F;2009&#x2F;11&#x2F;16&#x2F;dennis-yu-rise-and-fall-of-a-con-man-in-the-affiliate-industry&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.shoemoney.com&#x2F;2009&#x2F;11&#x2F;16&#x2F;dennis-yu-rise-and-fall-...</a> &amp; <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.jimcockrum.com&#x2F;blog&#x2F;2011&#x2F;10&#x2F;19&#x2F;the-biggest-dog-in-affiliate-marketing-is-starting-to-sound-a-lot-like-me&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.jimcockrum.com&#x2F;blog&#x2F;2011&#x2F;10&#x2F;19&#x2F;the-biggest-dog-in...</a> &amp; <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;techcrunch.com&#x2F;2009&#x2F;11&#x2F;01&#x2F;how-to-spam-facebook-like-a-pro-an-insiders-confession&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;techcrunch.com&#x2F;2009&#x2F;11&#x2F;01&#x2F;how-to-spam-facebook-like-a...</a><p>(3) <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.justice.gov&#x2F;opa&#x2F;pr&#x2F;google-forfeits-500-million-generated-online-ads-prescription-drug-sales-canadian-online" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.justice.gov&#x2F;opa&#x2F;pr&#x2F;google-forfeits-500-million-g...</a> &amp; <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.wired.com&#x2F;2013&#x2F;05&#x2F;google-pharma-whitaker-sting&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.wired.com&#x2F;2013&#x2F;05&#x2F;google-pharma-whitaker-sting&#x2F;</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>eloff</author><text>Despite the examples you give, I don&#x27;t think it&#x27;s fair to lump Facebook and Google in with 50onRed. The former two are mostly above board, with some occasional exceptions, while the latter is completely, morally, underwater.</text></comment> |
15,584,653 | 15,584,665 | 1 | 2 | 15,584,456 | train | <story><title>Google, Facebook, and Amazon have fundamentally transformed the web</title><url>https://staltz.com/the-web-began-dying-in-2014-heres-how.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>BatFastard</author><text>This analysis is flawed in that it equates size of traffic with individual user actions. Of course YouTube or another video heavy site like FB is going to dominate when only size is considered.<p>A better metric would be a measurement of user initiated actions. Now sure how to pull that off, but it would be a more accurate measure of how the net is changing.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>throwawayReply</author><text>That&#x27;s reasonably captured by the &quot;upstream&quot; table which isn&#x27;t as weighted by large content.<p>Besides, the direction and relative values show clear and growing dominance.</text></comment> | <story><title>Google, Facebook, and Amazon have fundamentally transformed the web</title><url>https://staltz.com/the-web-began-dying-in-2014-heres-how.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>BatFastard</author><text>This analysis is flawed in that it equates size of traffic with individual user actions. Of course YouTube or another video heavy site like FB is going to dominate when only size is considered.<p>A better metric would be a measurement of user initiated actions. Now sure how to pull that off, but it would be a more accurate measure of how the net is changing.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>inglor</author><text>There are a lot of other video content websites that aren&#x27;t YouTube and are struggling to compete with the large players like YouTube and Netflix that can put a box in every ISP in the world.</text></comment> |
16,316,685 | 16,316,557 | 1 | 3 | 16,316,140 | train | <story><title>Is-Vegan – Helps you to find out which food ingredients are vegan</title><url>https://github.com/hmontazeri/is-vegan</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>simonsarris</author><text>There has to be a word for this kind of... comprehensive incompleteness. Being so particular about a vegan diet (for ethical reasons) strikes me as very odd when animal products are in use every day around us by vegans. Do people know we use every part of the proverbial buffalo? Or do vegans often ponder the &quot;ingredients&quot; in everyday objects?<p>Is vaccinating your kids vegan? Are all vegans anti-vax?<p>Are soaps, cosmetics, detergents, plastics, tires, and lubricants made with stearic acid and other beef products vegan?<p>Vegans for ethical reasons seem to only not want to consume a single part of the animal, but consume the rest, which is a pretty large portion, by weight.<p>And if you&#x27;re eating organic food, isn&#x27;t it more likely that your spinach was grown in a bath of bone meal, blood meal, fish meal? Do vegans know how we produce organic fertilizers?</text></item><item><author>toomanybeersies</author><text>Doesn&#x27;t this fall prey to the fact that there isn&#x27;t a black and what distinction for exactly what&#x27;s vegan?<p>There are people that will argue that honey is suitable for vegans: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;veganbros.com&#x2F;1-reason-honey-vegan&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;veganbros.com&#x2F;1-reason-honey-vegan&#x2F;</a><p>There are even people that will argue that shellfish are suitable for vegans to eat: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.slate.com&#x2F;articles&#x2F;life&#x2F;food&#x2F;2010&#x2F;04&#x2F;consider_the_oyster.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.slate.com&#x2F;articles&#x2F;life&#x2F;food&#x2F;2010&#x2F;04&#x2F;consider_the...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tom_mellior</author><text>&gt; Or do vegans often ponder the &quot;ingredients&quot; in everyday objects?<p>Yes.<p>&gt; Is vaccinating your kids vegan? Are all vegans anti-vax?<p>There is certainly a lunatic anti-vax fringe. But no, not all vegans are like that, even though many vaccines contain animal derived products. I find this interesting: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;rvgn.org&#x2F;2015&#x2F;05&#x2F;09&#x2F;anti-vax-and-veganism&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;rvgn.org&#x2F;2015&#x2F;05&#x2F;09&#x2F;anti-vax-and-veganism&#x2F;</a><p>&gt; Are soaps, cosmetics, detergents, plastics, tires, and lubricants made with stearic acid and other beef products vegan?<p>No.<p>&gt; Vegans for ethical reasons seem to only not want to consume a single part of the animal, but consume the rest, which is a pretty large portion, by weight.<p>No vegan I ever interacted with fit this description.<p>&gt; And if you&#x27;re eating organic food, isn&#x27;t it more likely that your spinach was grown in a bath of bone meal, blood meal, fish meal?<p>Possible, but if everyone stopped eating those animals, the prices of these products would presumably make their use uneconomical, so promoting veganism would change this.<p>Though I admit I haven&#x27;t heard vegans I know ever discuss this particular point. They are probably not aware of how the plants they eat are fertilized.</text></comment> | <story><title>Is-Vegan – Helps you to find out which food ingredients are vegan</title><url>https://github.com/hmontazeri/is-vegan</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>simonsarris</author><text>There has to be a word for this kind of... comprehensive incompleteness. Being so particular about a vegan diet (for ethical reasons) strikes me as very odd when animal products are in use every day around us by vegans. Do people know we use every part of the proverbial buffalo? Or do vegans often ponder the &quot;ingredients&quot; in everyday objects?<p>Is vaccinating your kids vegan? Are all vegans anti-vax?<p>Are soaps, cosmetics, detergents, plastics, tires, and lubricants made with stearic acid and other beef products vegan?<p>Vegans for ethical reasons seem to only not want to consume a single part of the animal, but consume the rest, which is a pretty large portion, by weight.<p>And if you&#x27;re eating organic food, isn&#x27;t it more likely that your spinach was grown in a bath of bone meal, blood meal, fish meal? Do vegans know how we produce organic fertilizers?</text></item><item><author>toomanybeersies</author><text>Doesn&#x27;t this fall prey to the fact that there isn&#x27;t a black and what distinction for exactly what&#x27;s vegan?<p>There are people that will argue that honey is suitable for vegans: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;veganbros.com&#x2F;1-reason-honey-vegan&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;veganbros.com&#x2F;1-reason-honey-vegan&#x2F;</a><p>There are even people that will argue that shellfish are suitable for vegans to eat: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.slate.com&#x2F;articles&#x2F;life&#x2F;food&#x2F;2010&#x2F;04&#x2F;consider_the_oyster.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.slate.com&#x2F;articles&#x2F;life&#x2F;food&#x2F;2010&#x2F;04&#x2F;consider_the...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mikk14</author><text>Note: I am not vegan, nor I necessarily endorse the thinking behind this answer, but I&#x27;m trying to do a service to the discussion by reporting what I heard from a conversation with a vegan friend.<p>I think the argument here is that most of most animals&#x27; worth come from eating them or their products. If everybody were to stop eating animals then it would not be economically feasible any more to use the &quot;waste&quot; parts of the animal for all the other products. We would find other more economically feasible ways to produce the same products (via plant matter or synthetics). Thus, by refusing to eat meat and animal products, all the other uses of animal suffering would cease to exist.</text></comment> |
29,616,485 | 29,616,382 | 1 | 2 | 29,615,101 | train | <story><title>NYU is top-ranked in loans that alumni and parents struggle to repay</title><url>https://www.wsj.com/articles/nyu-college-graduate-parent-student-loans-11639618241</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>paxys</author><text>The only solution to fixing the student loan crisis is the one no one wants to hear – end federally backed student loans, and make the loans dischargeable in bankruptcy. The economic brunt of a bad loan needs to be felt by the issuing bank, not be distributed among taxpayers.<p>When lenders get more stringent about handing out hundreds of thousands of dollars to teenagers, colleges will automatically have to scale back fees in order to get people to apply. No more 5-star hotel rates for shoebox dorms and cafeteria food. No more multi-million dollar pay packages for administrators and sports coaches. No more textbooks which cost $300 per class and need to be &quot;refreshed&quot; every year to prevent reuse. Prioritize lending for degrees which have a higher earning potential and so a higher chance of paying back. Favor students with a better academic record. Enforce a minimum GPA in order to keep getting funded. Issuing loans is a business, so treat it like a business rather than a social service with privatized gains and public losses.<p>Conversely, the worst thing you can do for the problem is forgive existing loans. What do you then do when universities jack up tuition even more and students run up a tab of another trillion dollars over the next decade and refuse to pay, knowing that the government will bail them out anyways?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>julienchastang</author><text>&gt; end federally backed student loans<p>Unfortunately, higher education will be completely opposed to this plan, because they get paid upfront, take on zero risk, and can charge whatever they want. (Yet another example of moral hazard. When the loan cannot be repaid the taxpayers foot the bill. Remember, “gains are privatized and losses are nationalized.”) Also as incredibly flawed as the present system is, I wonder if it provides an avenue to higher education to students that would otherwise have no such path. I propose that the universities should be financially responsible (instead of the federal government) when the student cannot repay the loan. That would provide a strong incentive for universities to have A. the student graduate B. have a manageable amount of debt with respect to future income.</text></comment> | <story><title>NYU is top-ranked in loans that alumni and parents struggle to repay</title><url>https://www.wsj.com/articles/nyu-college-graduate-parent-student-loans-11639618241</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>paxys</author><text>The only solution to fixing the student loan crisis is the one no one wants to hear – end federally backed student loans, and make the loans dischargeable in bankruptcy. The economic brunt of a bad loan needs to be felt by the issuing bank, not be distributed among taxpayers.<p>When lenders get more stringent about handing out hundreds of thousands of dollars to teenagers, colleges will automatically have to scale back fees in order to get people to apply. No more 5-star hotel rates for shoebox dorms and cafeteria food. No more multi-million dollar pay packages for administrators and sports coaches. No more textbooks which cost $300 per class and need to be &quot;refreshed&quot; every year to prevent reuse. Prioritize lending for degrees which have a higher earning potential and so a higher chance of paying back. Favor students with a better academic record. Enforce a minimum GPA in order to keep getting funded. Issuing loans is a business, so treat it like a business rather than a social service with privatized gains and public losses.<p>Conversely, the worst thing you can do for the problem is forgive existing loans. What do you then do when universities jack up tuition even more and students run up a tab of another trillion dollars over the next decade and refuse to pay, knowing that the government will bail them out anyways?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>caymanjim</author><text>The biggest problem I have with the idea of student loan forgiveness is that it punishes people who worked hard and paid their loans back and rewards people who didn&#x27;t. If we&#x27;re going to do a massive wealth distribution and cancel student loans, we should first pay back the people who actually paid off their loans. If that sounds ridiculous to people, then so should forgiving the outstanding loans.</text></comment> |
36,866,475 | 36,865,300 | 1 | 3 | 36,851,644 | train | <story><title>Have attention spans been declining?</title><url>https://slimemoldtimemold.com/2023/07/24/your-mystery-have-attention-spans-been-declining/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>throwaway2037</author><text><p><pre><code> The flip side is that when people get used to consuming content in 30 second blipverts, they become unable to maintain attention through a 10 second break in the action.
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I see this written so frequently. Is there any studies to back up this claim? Please forgive me: Normally, I abhor the &quot;citation please&quot; type of response, but this claim is misleading to me. It just sounds like grumpy old person complaining about speed of the world and young(er) people.<p>Example: I tried Googling for &quot;does consuming short content make it harder to focus on longer content?&quot;. None of the content is scientific research, just a bunch of blowhards writing &quot;it&#x27;s never been worse&quot; blog posts.</text></item><item><author>mlyle</author><text>The flip side is that when people get used to consuming content in 30 second blipverts, they become unable to maintain attention through a 10 second break in the action.<p>I don&#x27;t know for sure about causation, but the students that I see incessantly consume tiktok completely lose state and working context in a very short time. It&#x27;s a very strong correlation.<p>(And, I disagree a bit with your premise: for those of us who have become literate at skimming directions, the 30 second tiktok is still slower and more context-switch heavy than we&#x27;re accustomed to... also, the risk that the tiktok is just quickly presented snap-edited bullshit that we don&#x27;t have time to adequately question is high).<p>Developing some skills requires focus and careful study. We&#x27;re robbing youth of the patience needed to conquer these skills.</text></item><item><author>jjoonathan</author><text>There is far more content than there used to be but no more hours in the day. Our filters <i>must</i> reject more.<p>Yes, there are costs -- deep work &amp; study both suffer -- but there are benefits too: informational content that can be compressed does get compressed. An introduction to a concrete skill that would at one time have been padded out to fit into an hour long movie or lecture might become a 30 minute youtube video and then a 30 second tiktok, by which point it has become a snap cut between the critical actions and finger-wag followed by pitfalls. You can look it up, watch it multiple times until it&#x27;s committed to memory, and you don&#x27;t have to spend hours torturing yourself with irrelevant tangents and nonsense. This is an astonishingly compact form of communication and it&#x27;s beautiful to see.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Aerbil313</author><text>You can try yourself. Use the most short-form content media: either one of HN, reddit and tiktok for 8 hours per day for one week. I can guarantee you won’t be able to concencrate on <i>anything</i> after the one week.</text></comment> | <story><title>Have attention spans been declining?</title><url>https://slimemoldtimemold.com/2023/07/24/your-mystery-have-attention-spans-been-declining/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>throwaway2037</author><text><p><pre><code> The flip side is that when people get used to consuming content in 30 second blipverts, they become unable to maintain attention through a 10 second break in the action.
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I see this written so frequently. Is there any studies to back up this claim? Please forgive me: Normally, I abhor the &quot;citation please&quot; type of response, but this claim is misleading to me. It just sounds like grumpy old person complaining about speed of the world and young(er) people.<p>Example: I tried Googling for &quot;does consuming short content make it harder to focus on longer content?&quot;. None of the content is scientific research, just a bunch of blowhards writing &quot;it&#x27;s never been worse&quot; blog posts.</text></item><item><author>mlyle</author><text>The flip side is that when people get used to consuming content in 30 second blipverts, they become unable to maintain attention through a 10 second break in the action.<p>I don&#x27;t know for sure about causation, but the students that I see incessantly consume tiktok completely lose state and working context in a very short time. It&#x27;s a very strong correlation.<p>(And, I disagree a bit with your premise: for those of us who have become literate at skimming directions, the 30 second tiktok is still slower and more context-switch heavy than we&#x27;re accustomed to... also, the risk that the tiktok is just quickly presented snap-edited bullshit that we don&#x27;t have time to adequately question is high).<p>Developing some skills requires focus and careful study. We&#x27;re robbing youth of the patience needed to conquer these skills.</text></item><item><author>jjoonathan</author><text>There is far more content than there used to be but no more hours in the day. Our filters <i>must</i> reject more.<p>Yes, there are costs -- deep work &amp; study both suffer -- but there are benefits too: informational content that can be compressed does get compressed. An introduction to a concrete skill that would at one time have been padded out to fit into an hour long movie or lecture might become a 30 minute youtube video and then a 30 second tiktok, by which point it has become a snap cut between the critical actions and finger-wag followed by pitfalls. You can look it up, watch it multiple times until it&#x27;s committed to memory, and you don&#x27;t have to spend hours torturing yourself with irrelevant tangents and nonsense. This is an astonishingly compact form of communication and it&#x27;s beautiful to see.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Spooky23</author><text>I doubt there are controlled studies, but you can probably make a reasonable hypothesis based on viewing habits at different ages. Old people in 1993 watched Bonanza reruns; in 2023 they’re hooked to the constant crisis of cable news.<p>Anecdotally, I’ve definitely seen a shift in corporate comms as people gravitate to IM and text as opposed to email, driven both by habit and by avoiding accountability as email audit has become common.</text></comment> |
17,200,949 | 17,196,798 | 1 | 3 | 17,196,270 | train | <story><title>Opening of Romeo and Juliet Recited in the Accent of Shakespeare’s Time [video]</title><url>https://laughingsquid.com/romeo-juliet-recited-in-original-shakespeare-accent/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>pavel_lishin</author><text>&gt; <i>I do really wish more Shakespeare was performed in an original accent, as there&#x27;s an awful lot of rhymes and jokes that don&#x27;t work in modern pronunciation. Like &quot;hour to hour&quot; being pronounced like &quot;whore to whore&quot;, which suddenly makes that line quite a bit funnier.</i><p>Things like this, among others, continue to convince me that reading Shakespeare plays in high school is largely a waste of time. Unless you have an excellent teacher, who explains the puns, the historical context, and other things, it&#x27;s about as useful as looking at storyboards of a movie instead of watching the movie itself.</text></item><item><author>robotmay</author><text>I do really wish more Shakespeare was performed in an original accent, as there&#x27;s an awful lot of rhymes and jokes that don&#x27;t work in modern pronunciation. Like &quot;hour to hour&quot; being pronounced like &quot;whore to whore&quot;, which suddenly makes that line quite a bit funnier.<p>Here&#x27;s another video of the same bloke that I&#x27;ve seen in the past: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=gPlpphT7n9s" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=gPlpphT7n9s</a><p>I do like that he mentioned being asked to perform using his native Welsh accent in the OP&#x27;s video. Shakespeare was after all the playright for people of every standing, and it feels a bit daft to posh it all up.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>JoeSmithson</author><text>I remember the footnotes in one Shakespeare play I read at school saying something like &quot;[2] this is a humourous reference to Christopher Marlowe&#x27;s contemporaneous play...&quot; which I sort of rolled my eyes at and remarked how that was a bit of a stretch and was anyone really supposed to notice that.<p>My teacher drew the analogy to Scary Movie (which was relatively new at the time) and how we could all enjoy it just fine without footnotes explaining &quot;this is a humourous reference to contemporaneous horror film Scream...&quot; etc. It suddenly struck me the difference between studying culture historically and actually experiencing it &quot;live&quot;. This analogy has only gotten better with time because I probably would need footnotes to get half the jokes in Scary Movie nowadays.</text></comment> | <story><title>Opening of Romeo and Juliet Recited in the Accent of Shakespeare’s Time [video]</title><url>https://laughingsquid.com/romeo-juliet-recited-in-original-shakespeare-accent/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>pavel_lishin</author><text>&gt; <i>I do really wish more Shakespeare was performed in an original accent, as there&#x27;s an awful lot of rhymes and jokes that don&#x27;t work in modern pronunciation. Like &quot;hour to hour&quot; being pronounced like &quot;whore to whore&quot;, which suddenly makes that line quite a bit funnier.</i><p>Things like this, among others, continue to convince me that reading Shakespeare plays in high school is largely a waste of time. Unless you have an excellent teacher, who explains the puns, the historical context, and other things, it&#x27;s about as useful as looking at storyboards of a movie instead of watching the movie itself.</text></item><item><author>robotmay</author><text>I do really wish more Shakespeare was performed in an original accent, as there&#x27;s an awful lot of rhymes and jokes that don&#x27;t work in modern pronunciation. Like &quot;hour to hour&quot; being pronounced like &quot;whore to whore&quot;, which suddenly makes that line quite a bit funnier.<p>Here&#x27;s another video of the same bloke that I&#x27;ve seen in the past: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=gPlpphT7n9s" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=gPlpphT7n9s</a><p>I do like that he mentioned being asked to perform using his native Welsh accent in the OP&#x27;s video. Shakespeare was after all the playright for people of every standing, and it feels a bit daft to posh it all up.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>delecti</author><text>In addition, I think it&#x27;s absurd for your first exposure to any of the plays to be reading it; so much of the dialog only makes sense when being spoken. The homework assignments should never be &quot;read Act I&quot;, it should be &quot;watch the first 45 minutes of movie version &lt;blah&gt;&quot;. Even a disengaged viewer will get more out of watching it than having their first experience be reading it.</text></comment> |
14,045,134 | 14,045,060 | 1 | 2 | 14,040,906 | train | <story><title>Paradoxes of probability and other statistical strangeness</title><url>https://theconversation.com/paradoxes-of-probability-and-other-statistical-strangeness-74440</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>p1esk</author><text>It did not get any more intuitive for me.</text></item><item><author>casta</author><text>If you see this problem as a special case of another problem the answer becomes pretty intuitive.<p>Suppose there are N (let&#x27;s pick 1000) doors:
Behind one door is a car; behind the others N-1 (999), goats.
You pick a door, say No. 1, and the host, who knows what&#x27;s behind the doors, opens N-2 (998) doors, excluding No. 1, which have have goats.<p>Now there are only two doors closed, the one you picked No. 1, and one that was part of N-1 (999) doors.
He then says to you, &quot;Do you want to pick door No. 1 or the other one?&quot;
Is it to your advantage to switch your choice?</text></item><item><author>pmoriarty</author><text>My favorite probability paradox has always been the Monty Hall problem[1]:<p><i>Suppose you&#x27;re on a game show, and you&#x27;re given the choice of three doors:</i><p><i>Behind one door is a car; behind the others, goats.</i><p><i>You pick a door, say No. 1, and the host, who knows what&#x27;s behind the doors, opens another door, say No. 3, which has a goat.</i><p><i>He then says to you, &quot;Do you want to pick door No. 2?&quot;</i><p><i>Is it to your advantage to switch your choice?</i><p>[1] - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Monty_Hall_problem" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Monty_Hall_problem</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>yellowstuff</author><text>Let me try. Say you pick the prize door initially. Obviously, if you switch you will now have a non-prize door.<p>Say you pick one of the two non-prize doors initially. The host now opens the other non-prize door, leaving only the prize door. If you switch you get the prize door.<p>So switching always changes the prize door to a non-prize door and a non-prize door to the prize door. You start on the prize door 1&#x2F;3 of the time and a non-prize door 2&#x2F;3, so you should always switch.</text></comment> | <story><title>Paradoxes of probability and other statistical strangeness</title><url>https://theconversation.com/paradoxes-of-probability-and-other-statistical-strangeness-74440</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>p1esk</author><text>It did not get any more intuitive for me.</text></item><item><author>casta</author><text>If you see this problem as a special case of another problem the answer becomes pretty intuitive.<p>Suppose there are N (let&#x27;s pick 1000) doors:
Behind one door is a car; behind the others N-1 (999), goats.
You pick a door, say No. 1, and the host, who knows what&#x27;s behind the doors, opens N-2 (998) doors, excluding No. 1, which have have goats.<p>Now there are only two doors closed, the one you picked No. 1, and one that was part of N-1 (999) doors.
He then says to you, &quot;Do you want to pick door No. 1 or the other one?&quot;
Is it to your advantage to switch your choice?</text></item><item><author>pmoriarty</author><text>My favorite probability paradox has always been the Monty Hall problem[1]:<p><i>Suppose you&#x27;re on a game show, and you&#x27;re given the choice of three doors:</i><p><i>Behind one door is a car; behind the others, goats.</i><p><i>You pick a door, say No. 1, and the host, who knows what&#x27;s behind the doors, opens another door, say No. 3, which has a goat.</i><p><i>He then says to you, &quot;Do you want to pick door No. 2?&quot;</i><p><i>Is it to your advantage to switch your choice?</i><p>[1] - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Monty_Hall_problem" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Monty_Hall_problem</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Jedd</author><text>The most succinct description I&#x27;ve ever found of why you switch was so good I made a note of it, though sadly not the provenance:<p>&quot;If you stay with the door you picked initially you succeed if the initial door has a car, which has a chance of 1&#x2F;3. If your strategy is to switch then you succeed if your initial pick is a goat, which has a chance of 2&#x2F;3.&quot;</text></comment> |
29,695,789 | 29,685,331 | 1 | 2 | 29,679,716 | train | <story><title>Show me a 10ft paywall, I’ll show you a 12ft ladder</title><url>https://12ft.io/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>janaagaard</author><text>So the argument is, that ‘because Google Bot can read the content for free, then I should be allowed to do so too’? This seems like a pretty week excuse for bypassing a paywall. I think the reason we have annoyances like ‘please sign up for our news letters’ is that news sites are struggling to make money. A service like 12ft.io is only making the situation worse.</text></item><item><author>kazinator</author><text>It&#x27;s 100% their own fault. They could block the Google spider from getting the full content for free just like any other non-paying rando, and just serve it the same teaser content.</text></item><item><author>geysersam</author><text>&quot;I believe Google Adwords killed the web because it incentives SEO optimized garbage&quot;, then proceeds stripping publishers of their ability to get paid for quality non ads-financed content. The motivation makes little sense to me.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kazinator</author><text>The argument is this:<p>Suppose someone puts free stuff on the sidewalk and says, &quot;provided free-of-charge to clowns; everyone else $5&quot;.<p>Then if I put on a clown nose and take the stuff, I&#x27;m completely in the right.<p>If the purveyor does not agree then they can:<p>1. Not put the stuff on the public sidewalk, but offer it inside their store only.<p>2. Have the cashier, validate that the the customer holds a clowning license issued by the state and is a member in good standing of some clowning association.<p>The argument is not at all anyone is <i>entitled</i> to the stuff no matter what, even in the face of protective measures like (1) and (2). The argument is that if some server discriminates what information it put out to the <i>unauthenticated public</i> according to some superficial browser client indications that are easily donned by any client, then it&#x27;s perfectly fair game for anyone to manipulate those indications in order to be served any&#x2F;all thus available versions of the content.<p>If that doesn&#x27;t reflect the purveyor&#x27;s intent, then they have a clear technological avenue for securing the protected content to authenticated users only.</text></comment> | <story><title>Show me a 10ft paywall, I’ll show you a 12ft ladder</title><url>https://12ft.io/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>janaagaard</author><text>So the argument is, that ‘because Google Bot can read the content for free, then I should be allowed to do so too’? This seems like a pretty week excuse for bypassing a paywall. I think the reason we have annoyances like ‘please sign up for our news letters’ is that news sites are struggling to make money. A service like 12ft.io is only making the situation worse.</text></item><item><author>kazinator</author><text>It&#x27;s 100% their own fault. They could block the Google spider from getting the full content for free just like any other non-paying rando, and just serve it the same teaser content.</text></item><item><author>geysersam</author><text>&quot;I believe Google Adwords killed the web because it incentives SEO optimized garbage&quot;, then proceeds stripping publishers of their ability to get paid for quality non ads-financed content. The motivation makes little sense to me.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>austinjp</author><text>I see it in reverse: the reason some news sites struggle to make money is their belief in a broken business model that&#x27;s perpetuated by mega-corps like Google. The rules of the game are rigged; house always wins. The only way to win is to not play.<p>I wouldn&#x27;t say this &quot;justifies&quot; a service like 12ft.io, but such services are inevitable.</text></comment> |
41,405,027 | 41,404,087 | 1 | 2 | 41,368,583 | train | <story><title>Marketing to Engineers (2001)</title><url>https://www.bly.com/Pages/documents/STIKFS.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mgdev</author><text>I disagree with point three. Engineers do make purchases based on emotions, just different ones than typical consumers.<p>Engineers are driven by emotions like:<p>- Desire for intellectual respect: Choosing innovative products to appear forward-thinking.<p>- Risk aversion: Preferring established brands to avoid project failures.<p>- Professional pride: Selecting high-performing solutions for personal satisfaction.<p>- Peer validation: Making choices they believe colleagues will approve of.<p>- Cognitive bias: Favoring solutions that confirm existing beliefs.<p>What looks like logical decision-making is often an emotion-driven choice justified with technical arguments. This is evident in online discussions where product critiques are framed logically but stem from emotional responses or biases.<p>Effective marketing to engineers should recognize these emotional drivers while providing the technical depth needed to rationalize decisions. It&#x27;s not about ignoring emotions, but addressing the specific emotional needs of a technical audience.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ozim</author><text>I would expand on risk aversion.<p>If I am running a service as an engineer I already have huge amounts of stuff that can go wrong. If that stuff is in my control so I can do something about it when it breaks I feel safe and confident.<p>As soon as I get to depend on a 3rd party who might or might not have resources to fix my issue I feel nervous because I have my own stuff to deal with and now I get 3rd party tool that might bring more problems.</text></comment> | <story><title>Marketing to Engineers (2001)</title><url>https://www.bly.com/Pages/documents/STIKFS.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mgdev</author><text>I disagree with point three. Engineers do make purchases based on emotions, just different ones than typical consumers.<p>Engineers are driven by emotions like:<p>- Desire for intellectual respect: Choosing innovative products to appear forward-thinking.<p>- Risk aversion: Preferring established brands to avoid project failures.<p>- Professional pride: Selecting high-performing solutions for personal satisfaction.<p>- Peer validation: Making choices they believe colleagues will approve of.<p>- Cognitive bias: Favoring solutions that confirm existing beliefs.<p>What looks like logical decision-making is often an emotion-driven choice justified with technical arguments. This is evident in online discussions where product critiques are framed logically but stem from emotional responses or biases.<p>Effective marketing to engineers should recognize these emotional drivers while providing the technical depth needed to rationalize decisions. It&#x27;s not about ignoring emotions, but addressing the specific emotional needs of a technical audience.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>andrenotgiant</author><text>I think it goes even further.<p>I&#x27;m not sure if it&#x27;s unique to developers, but many have tools and vendors that they HATE or LOVE with an irrational passion.<p>HATE - Seems often about tools or vendors that they had no choice in, but had to spend a great deal of time working with.<p>LOVE - Seems often about tools or vendors that they associate with advancements in their career.<p>These feelings of LOVE and HATE lead to emotional decisions.</text></comment> |
5,167,533 | 5,166,103 | 1 | 2 | 5,163,407 | train | <story><title>Speaking up</title><url>http://www.sazzy.co.uk/2013/02/speaking-up/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mwetzler</author><text>On Friday I pitched my company to a room of 150 developers, since my company was a hackathon sponsor. I was the only female speaker out of about 15.<p>Afterwards, a well-known, elite developer asked me if I programmed. When I said yes, he said that made me 50% less attractive. Then he asked me if I cooked and cleaned. To my face.<p>You don't have to be high profile to deal with this stuff. Just being in a room where you're 1 female out of 15 males is enough to get this kind of attention.</text></item><item><author>h2s</author><text>Are there any high profile women in this industry who haven't been treated like shit in some way such as this? What a nasty bunch of people we are. Are we (developers) the douchey 80s guy of the 21st century?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>gfodor</author><text>What the fuck, I really can't wrap my mind around the fact that stuff like this happens. Who are these idiots? It would be pretty useful if there were a way to get these types of things anonymously reported so the accusers could have some way to publicize it, the accuser have their chance to voice their side of the story, and failing to clear the issue up (in your case, there is no excuse for that kind of response) the rest of the entire industry could never, ever hire that person. It's embarrassing that interactions like this happen in a professional setting and there are no good measures in place to report and prevent them.</text></comment> | <story><title>Speaking up</title><url>http://www.sazzy.co.uk/2013/02/speaking-up/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mwetzler</author><text>On Friday I pitched my company to a room of 150 developers, since my company was a hackathon sponsor. I was the only female speaker out of about 15.<p>Afterwards, a well-known, elite developer asked me if I programmed. When I said yes, he said that made me 50% less attractive. Then he asked me if I cooked and cleaned. To my face.<p>You don't have to be high profile to deal with this stuff. Just being in a room where you're 1 female out of 15 males is enough to get this kind of attention.</text></item><item><author>h2s</author><text>Are there any high profile women in this industry who haven't been treated like shit in some way such as this? What a nasty bunch of people we are. Are we (developers) the douchey 80s guy of the 21st century?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jellicle</author><text>You know, naming names is probably one of the best ways to combat this. Silence helps the asshole keep doing it.<p>I understand the reasons why you might not want to. It's tragedy of the commons problem; you get no benefit and possible detriment from naming names - only society as a whole benefits.<p>Nevertheless you should. It's the right thing to do.</text></comment> |
18,875,778 | 18,875,351 | 1 | 3 | 18,874,028 | train | <story><title>Roadmap to becoming a web developer in 2019</title><url>https://github.com/kamranahmedse/developer-roadmap</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>sudofail</author><text>I&#x27;m currently teaching my brother web development and I guarantee if I were to show him this, he&#x27;d just quit. This is way too much information.<p>All a beginner needs to know is JS and the basics of HTML&#x2F;CSS&#x2F;SQL. If they have a mentor, the mentor should draw out and explain how frontend, backend and databases relate, and the general lifecycle of a request to a webpage.<p>That&#x27;s all you really need to start building stuff. The next thing will probably be a basic understanding of DNS and how requests get routed.<p>Anything much more than that is overkill.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>whytaka</author><text>I would also add a few unix commands. Just enough to get a server running to deploy a website.<p>Since the early 2000s, I&#x27;d been working with HTML&#x2F;CSS, with a touch of JS and making visually rich, pixel perfect websites. Then a few years later, I taught myself Python and came to understand how programming works and my skills transferred over to JS as well.<p>It wasn&#x27;t until many years after that I finally learned some unix command lines that I was able to bring together my skills to make any use out of them.</text></comment> | <story><title>Roadmap to becoming a web developer in 2019</title><url>https://github.com/kamranahmedse/developer-roadmap</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>sudofail</author><text>I&#x27;m currently teaching my brother web development and I guarantee if I were to show him this, he&#x27;d just quit. This is way too much information.<p>All a beginner needs to know is JS and the basics of HTML&#x2F;CSS&#x2F;SQL. If they have a mentor, the mentor should draw out and explain how frontend, backend and databases relate, and the general lifecycle of a request to a webpage.<p>That&#x27;s all you really need to start building stuff. The next thing will probably be a basic understanding of DNS and how requests get routed.<p>Anything much more than that is overkill.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>protonimitate</author><text>It&#x27;s a good reference resource to have. It&#x27;s great to see what X technology is, and how it relates to everything else.<p>I would agree that handing this to a beginner would be over kill.<p>This is probably best suited for people who are in the &#x27;I know the basics, but want to know what this technology-of-the-month is and how it fits in to what I already know&#x27; stage.</text></comment> |
31,024,834 | 31,024,798 | 1 | 2 | 31,024,127 | train | <story><title>Making Rust a Better Fit for Cheri and Other Platforms</title><url>https://tratt.net/laurie/blog/2022/making_rust_a_better_fit_for_cheri_and_other_platforms.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>davidhyde</author><text>It would also be nice to be able to use unsigned types (like u8, u16 and u32) to index into slices and arrays up until usize (usually a u32 or u64). Using a usize often seems wasteful for indexing into small arrays and slices and casting makes the code look ugly (also dangerous because the effect of casting is checked by the developer, not the compiler). Admittedly, this would have the downside of having code that compiles on one architecture but not another so it’s probably not worth it.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ATsch</author><text>&gt; Using a usize often seems wasteful for indexing into small arrays and slices<p>The opposite is often the case, as the architecture may not support offsetting a pointer by those sizes, requiring lots of casting in tight loops. Making that explicit makes the programmer aware of this.<p>This is one major reason that C compiler developers want all overflow to be undefined behavior, as it allows them to upgrade for loops that use smaller index types to larger ones.</text></comment> | <story><title>Making Rust a Better Fit for Cheri and Other Platforms</title><url>https://tratt.net/laurie/blog/2022/making_rust_a_better_fit_for_cheri_and_other_platforms.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>davidhyde</author><text>It would also be nice to be able to use unsigned types (like u8, u16 and u32) to index into slices and arrays up until usize (usually a u32 or u64). Using a usize often seems wasteful for indexing into small arrays and slices and casting makes the code look ugly (also dangerous because the effect of casting is checked by the developer, not the compiler). Admittedly, this would have the downside of having code that compiles on one architecture but not another so it’s probably not worth it.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ekidd</author><text>Rust really doesn&#x27;t do implicit numeric conversion, and I suspect it would be hard to retrofit. But you could write a function i(...) that promoted u8, etc, to usize:<p><pre><code> v[i(my_u8_index)]
</code></pre>
This could be implemented as a compile-time check, with no runtime errors. You&#x27;d have to limit which types you support as indices if you want to be portable to platforms with tiny pointers, of course.<p>I guess something like this might be useful inside of specialized library code that worked with lots of small vectors.<p>But in general, Rust heavily favors explicit over implicit in many areas. If you want lots of automatic implicit behavior, something like Scala might be a better choice?</text></comment> |
3,800,604 | 3,800,573 | 1 | 2 | 3,797,410 | train | <story><title>Yahoo announces 2,000 job cuts</title><url>http://finance.yahoo.com/news/yahoo-statement-131500015.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>lkrubner</author><text>I am frustrated to see a great company get destroyed like this.<p>Scott Thompson, CEO of Yahoo! says:<p>"We are intensifying our efforts on our core businesses and redeploying resources to our most urgent priorities. "<p>In the background, unstated but assumed, is the theory of business "core competence". I believe the phrase was invented by by C.K. Prahalad and Gary Hamel in this May, 1990 issue of the Harvard Business Review:<p><a href="http://hbr.org/1990/05/the-core-competence-of-the-corporation/ar/1" rel="nofollow">http://hbr.org/1990/05/the-core-competence-of-the-corporatio...</a><p>Sometimes a great essay gets badly misinterpreted.<p>Since that time, there have been many, many books that have developed this idea. See "Strategic Management and Core Competencies: Theory and Application" by Anders Drejer.<p>Inspirational for this concept was what Jack Welch argued for while he was CEO of GE, during the 80s and 90s: the company must be in the #1 or #2 spot in any industry, otherwise they will leave that industry. This is taught to MBAs. I have the sense that most of them draw this lesson: shrink the company down and focus on whatever currently works. My concern is that this frequently means focusing on what works in the short-term, without much thinking about where growth will come from over the long-term.<p>The original essay by C.K. Prahalad and Gary Hamel can be interpreted in another way. This sentence sounds like it is describing Amazon.com, constantly inventing new services:<p>"A few companies have proven themselves adept at inventing new markets, quickly entering emerging markets, and dramatically shifting patterns of customer choice in established markets."<p>When CEOs have no idea what a company should do in the long-term, they claim that the company is going to focus "our efforts on our core businesses". There is absolutely no hope for a company that follows that strategy. Especially in technology, where things change quickly, one needs to be inventing the new, new thing, or one is dead.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jpdoctor</author><text>&#62; <i>I believe the phrase was invented by by C.K. Prahalad and Gary Hamel in this May, 1990 issue of the Harvard Business Review</i><p>A quick search of google will show you it was around quite a long time before that.<p>&#62; <i>Inspirational for this concept was what Jack Welch argued for while he was CEO of GE, during the 80s and 90s: the company must be in the #1 or #2 spot in any industry</i><p>Jack Welch took an industrial organization and mortgaged it. GE capital was an enormous percentage of the company when he left. Sure enough, a credit contraction caused GE to take a bailout in 2008.<p>He talked a great game, but their performance was exposed after he left.</text></comment> | <story><title>Yahoo announces 2,000 job cuts</title><url>http://finance.yahoo.com/news/yahoo-statement-131500015.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>lkrubner</author><text>I am frustrated to see a great company get destroyed like this.<p>Scott Thompson, CEO of Yahoo! says:<p>"We are intensifying our efforts on our core businesses and redeploying resources to our most urgent priorities. "<p>In the background, unstated but assumed, is the theory of business "core competence". I believe the phrase was invented by by C.K. Prahalad and Gary Hamel in this May, 1990 issue of the Harvard Business Review:<p><a href="http://hbr.org/1990/05/the-core-competence-of-the-corporation/ar/1" rel="nofollow">http://hbr.org/1990/05/the-core-competence-of-the-corporatio...</a><p>Sometimes a great essay gets badly misinterpreted.<p>Since that time, there have been many, many books that have developed this idea. See "Strategic Management and Core Competencies: Theory and Application" by Anders Drejer.<p>Inspirational for this concept was what Jack Welch argued for while he was CEO of GE, during the 80s and 90s: the company must be in the #1 or #2 spot in any industry, otherwise they will leave that industry. This is taught to MBAs. I have the sense that most of them draw this lesson: shrink the company down and focus on whatever currently works. My concern is that this frequently means focusing on what works in the short-term, without much thinking about where growth will come from over the long-term.<p>The original essay by C.K. Prahalad and Gary Hamel can be interpreted in another way. This sentence sounds like it is describing Amazon.com, constantly inventing new services:<p>"A few companies have proven themselves adept at inventing new markets, quickly entering emerging markets, and dramatically shifting patterns of customer choice in established markets."<p>When CEOs have no idea what a company should do in the long-term, they claim that the company is going to focus "our efforts on our core businesses". There is absolutely no hope for a company that follows that strategy. Especially in technology, where things change quickly, one needs to be inventing the new, new thing, or one is dead.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>zmmmmm</author><text>&#62; There is absolutely no hope for a company that follows that strategy.<p>Well said. It may work or even be optimal in mature areas where there is little or no change. But in a technology company failing to adventure into new areas aggressively is death. Consider that once Yahoo was the 800lb gorilla and Google was the tiny startup. Where was Yahoo's Android? Where is their Google docs, etc? They've made lots and lots of small bets but they never made the big bets, at least, not successfully. Now they are too weak to make big bets, but they should make them anyway, possibly under a different brand.</text></comment> |
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