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25,356,438 | 25,356,412 | 1 | 2 | 25,341,601 | train | <story><title>How to Think about Correlation?</title><url>https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2020/12/03/how-to-think-about-correlation-its-the-slope-of-the-regression-when-x-and-y-have-been-standardized/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Geminidog</author><text>Correlations are a profound part of our universe.<p>When observing the universe, humans can never prove any facts about the universe. We can only establish correlations. Correlations between events that occur in our universe is the furthest &quot;truth&quot; we can establish about the universe short of a full on proof.<p>What this means is that nothing in the physical universe can be proven. Proof is the domain of maths and logic, correlations is the domain of science. Science cannot prove anything, it can only establish correlations and causations.<p>The reason this occurs is because at any time in the future one can observe an event that contradicts a hypothesis. You can hypothesize that all birds have wings and observe 2 trillion birds with wings but you never know when one day you&#x27;ll observe a bird without wings disproving your entire hypothesis. That is why nothing can be proven, you can only correlate things through observation.<p>The other interesting part about correlation is what it isn&#x27;t: Causation. People often talk about how correlation is not causation but people never talk about what causation is and how to establish it. If I can&#x27;t empirically use correlation to establish causation how on earth is causation ever formally established? People rarely question this disconnect.<p>The fact is, causation is rarely formally established but a method does exist and it&#x27;s subtle. If I observe that whenever Bob flicks a switch the light comes on then I established that the light coming on is correlated with Bob flipping the switch. This is as far as I can go with just observation. To establish causation I must make myself both an observer and an entity that is part of the system itself. I have to take control and flip the switch randomly and observe that when I don&#x27;t flip the switch nothing happens and when I do flip the switch the lights come on.<p>By doing this I establish causation. To establish causation to higher and higher degrees I need to Cause (keyword) random events and make sure that a cause influences an effect AND absence of a cause and therefore absence of an effect occurs.<p>Also note that establishing causation is not proof. At any point in time in the future I can flip the switch and the light may not come on which is contradictory evidence for causation. Causation in the statistical sense is like correlation, you establish it to a degree of confidence but you can never Prove that A caused B.</text></comment> | <story><title>How to Think about Correlation?</title><url>https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2020/12/03/how-to-think-about-correlation-its-the-slope-of-the-regression-when-x-and-y-have-been-standardized/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>sieste</author><text>There are at least 13 ways to think about correlation<p>Rodgers &amp; Nicewander 1988 &quot;Thirteen ways to look at the correlation coefficient&quot;
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.jstor.org&#x2F;stable&#x2F;pdf&#x2F;2685263.pdf" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.jstor.org&#x2F;stable&#x2F;pdf&#x2F;2685263.pdf</a></text></comment> |
16,850,821 | 16,850,211 | 1 | 2 | 16,849,143 | train | <story><title>I built a progressive web app and published it in three app stores</title><url>http://debuggerdotbreak.judahgabriel.com/2018/04/13/i-built-a-pwa-and-published-it-in-3-app-stores-heres-what-i-learned/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>judah</author><text>Author here. Thanks all for bringing this to the HN front page.<p>The jist of the article is getting a PWA into the app stores is harder than it needs to be, especially on iOS. Between Google, Apple, and Microsoft, I found Google&#x27;s Play Store to be the simplest and quickest store to get a PWA published in.<p>Another interesting bit is that web technologies haven&#x27;t caught up to native. My PWA isn&#x27;t super complex -- it&#x27;s a glorified music player -- and yet integrating into the OS (now playing song on the lock screen, for example) was painful and non-standard, particularly on iOS.<p>All that said, I&#x27;m quite excited about PWAs. I think they will win in the long run, and will eventually (~5 years) become the dominant type of app in mobile and desktop app stores.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>al2o3cr</author><text><p><pre><code> I think they will win in the long run, and will eventually
(~5 years) become the dominant type of app in mobile and
desktop app stores.
</code></pre>
Am I the only one who remembers people saying this EXACT thing about Java Swing apps? Not saying it&#x27;s impossible, but &quot;Write Once Run Anywhere&quot; has been a mirage &quot;just over the horizon&quot; for a long time.</text></comment> | <story><title>I built a progressive web app and published it in three app stores</title><url>http://debuggerdotbreak.judahgabriel.com/2018/04/13/i-built-a-pwa-and-published-it-in-3-app-stores-heres-what-i-learned/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>judah</author><text>Author here. Thanks all for bringing this to the HN front page.<p>The jist of the article is getting a PWA into the app stores is harder than it needs to be, especially on iOS. Between Google, Apple, and Microsoft, I found Google&#x27;s Play Store to be the simplest and quickest store to get a PWA published in.<p>Another interesting bit is that web technologies haven&#x27;t caught up to native. My PWA isn&#x27;t super complex -- it&#x27;s a glorified music player -- and yet integrating into the OS (now playing song on the lock screen, for example) was painful and non-standard, particularly on iOS.<p>All that said, I&#x27;m quite excited about PWAs. I think they will win in the long run, and will eventually (~5 years) become the dominant type of app in mobile and desktop app stores.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>iandev</author><text>In the article: &quot;Aside: I guess Apple won’t let you submit an app unless you have a registered, legal company?&quot;<p>Although it does seem to be this way, you can submit an app to the store without being a registered, legal company. The most common route is to just mark yourself as a sole proprietorship using your own name. No need for an LLC or anything. However, this may vary from country to country.</text></comment> |
6,803,036 | 6,803,048 | 1 | 2 | 6,802,895 | train | <story><title>Salesforce’s Hackathon Scandal: Secret Judging, Favoritism, Cheating?</title><url>http://blogs.kqed.org/newsfix/2013/11/25/salesforce-hack-scandal/</url><text></text></story><parent_chain><item><author>bronbron</author><text>Hackathons in general should be viewed with a serious amount of skepticism because it mostly is, as Liu notes, a way to get you to work for a company for (basically) free.<p>That being said, this sounds above-and-beyond scummy based on the information provided. The lack of transparency and the fact that the grand-prize winner worked at Salesforce for 9 years is a seriously questionable combination.<p>Aside from apologizing profusely, though, I don&#x27;t know what Salesforce does here. It&#x27;d be pretty mean to yank the guy&#x27;s prize (and would only lend credence to the conspiracy argument), but doing nothing or promising to &quot;do better in the future&quot; will certainly be a PR hit for Salesforce both in terms of recruiting and future activities sponsored by them.<p>They&#x27;re in a tough spot, though I don&#x27;t really pity them since it was their own doing.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>wheels</author><text><i>&gt; Aside from apologizing profusely, though, I don&#x27;t know what Salesforce does here.</i><p>They&#x27;re a big enough company that &quot;throw money at the problem&quot; wouldn&#x27;t be an especially difficult fix. They could just apologize for the confusion, bring in a new review board and dole out additional prizes.</text></comment> | <story><title>Salesforce’s Hackathon Scandal: Secret Judging, Favoritism, Cheating?</title><url>http://blogs.kqed.org/newsfix/2013/11/25/salesforce-hack-scandal/</url><text></text></story><parent_chain><item><author>bronbron</author><text>Hackathons in general should be viewed with a serious amount of skepticism because it mostly is, as Liu notes, a way to get you to work for a company for (basically) free.<p>That being said, this sounds above-and-beyond scummy based on the information provided. The lack of transparency and the fact that the grand-prize winner worked at Salesforce for 9 years is a seriously questionable combination.<p>Aside from apologizing profusely, though, I don&#x27;t know what Salesforce does here. It&#x27;d be pretty mean to yank the guy&#x27;s prize (and would only lend credence to the conspiracy argument), but doing nothing or promising to &quot;do better in the future&quot; will certainly be a PR hit for Salesforce both in terms of recruiting and future activities sponsored by them.<p>They&#x27;re in a tough spot, though I don&#x27;t really pity them since it was their own doing.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>igul222</author><text>Don&#x27;t yank the winners&#x27; prizes, but re-judge the entire hackathon and award the new winners equal prizes.</text></comment> |
28,773,312 | 28,772,012 | 1 | 2 | 28,770,590 | train | <story><title>Twitch source code and customer data has reportedly been leaked</title><url>https://www.videogameschronicle.com/news/the-entirety-of-twitch-has-reportedly-been-leaked/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Semaphor</author><text>This is somewhat hilarious. Just 5 days ago I was complaining about Twitch’s new &quot;Only verified users&quot; setting which requires me to give them my phone number. One of the reasons I said I’ll not do that was &quot;hacks, leaks&quot;. And now this. Sure, I’ll give you my phone number to add TOTP (Why even?) after I’ve just been shown how secure that data is.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>AnIdiotOnTheNet</author><text>I don&#x27;t really get this. My phone number is apparently already known by every scammer and spammer on earth, which is why I never answer calls from people I don&#x27;t know, so what am I losing?<p>Meanwhile, Twitch has had a significant bot spamming problem.</text></comment> | <story><title>Twitch source code and customer data has reportedly been leaked</title><url>https://www.videogameschronicle.com/news/the-entirety-of-twitch-has-reportedly-been-leaked/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Semaphor</author><text>This is somewhat hilarious. Just 5 days ago I was complaining about Twitch’s new &quot;Only verified users&quot; setting which requires me to give them my phone number. One of the reasons I said I’ll not do that was &quot;hacks, leaks&quot;. And now this. Sure, I’ll give you my phone number to add TOTP (Why even?) after I’ve just been shown how secure that data is.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jrootabega</author><text>For every conscientious person like you, there are 100 kids, who don&#x27;t even have fully formed brains, desperate to participate in this system.</text></comment> |
29,936,330 | 29,932,604 | 1 | 2 | 29,931,884 | train | <story><title>Format Strings in Rust 1.58</title><url>https://www.rustnote.com/blog/format_strings.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>megumax</author><text>It&#x27;s a nice Quality of Life addition, that I would like to see with C++ as well.<p>I wish they don&#x27;t implement f-strings and s-strings, at least for now. Even if they are more ergonomic than the `format!` and `String::from`, they hide a memory allocation which is not really indicated in a language like Rust and would be really weird in a context without an allocator. The only solution to this would be `const` evaluation of this, but that would restrict their use to `const` environments, so mostly unusable.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kibwen</author><text>As a person involved in this space, if there&#x27;s ever an RFC for full-on f-strings there&#x27;s a good chance that I&#x27;d be the one who writes it, and I can tell you for certain that I would not make `f&quot;foo&quot;` incur an allocation; it would return a std::fmt::Arguments rather than a String.</text></comment> | <story><title>Format Strings in Rust 1.58</title><url>https://www.rustnote.com/blog/format_strings.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>megumax</author><text>It&#x27;s a nice Quality of Life addition, that I would like to see with C++ as well.<p>I wish they don&#x27;t implement f-strings and s-strings, at least for now. Even if they are more ergonomic than the `format!` and `String::from`, they hide a memory allocation which is not really indicated in a language like Rust and would be really weird in a context without an allocator. The only solution to this would be `const` evaluation of this, but that would restrict their use to `const` environments, so mostly unusable.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pie_flavor</author><text>I mean, that ship&#x27;s basically sailed. People are too lazy even to take `std::string_view` instead of `std::string&amp;`, trying to avoid pointless allocations and clones with any API but your own is almost a fool&#x27;s errand at this point.</text></comment> |
21,511,126 | 21,510,602 | 1 | 2 | 21,504,672 | train | <story><title>Makers, Don't Let Yourself Be Forced into the 'Manager Schedule'</title><url>https://blog.nuclino.com/makers-don-t-let-yourself-be-forced-into-the-manager-schedule</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>JohnBooty</author><text>Ouch. I used to work with a guy like this.<p>Generally speaking, this is an occurrance that is exceedingly common <i>and</i> extremely under-recognized in our industry.<p><pre><code> Instead, he used the odd hours to force us to give him only
work that could be accomplished alone. We were lulled into
letting him make key architecture decisions in isolation
</code></pre>
Our guy accomplished this via different means but the end result was the same: because of various factors, he became &quot;architect&quot; and essentially was able to make decisions alone. Then we had to live with them.<p><pre><code> Eventually he became the architect by virtue of operating in
isolation, where we couldn&#x27;t discuss his decisions. Everyone
else was forced to work around his code.
</code></pre>
Yyyyeeeeeeep.<p>Our guy was genuinely, I think, the best engineer on a team of pretty good engineers. But in terms of sheer talent he was not a &quot;10x&quot; coder in terms of raw talent. Call him perhaps a &quot;1.2x&quot; or &quot;1.5x&quot; in terms of raw talent.<p>However, he was essentially able to operate as something like a &quot;10x&quot; talent because he got to do a lot of greenfield work, make sweeping architecture changes and decisions, and so forth. Meanwhile we were all left to deal with his fallout.<p>Whether or not you believe there are legitimate &quot;10x&quot; engineers (we&#x27;ll set that debate aside for a moment) I think it is very, very obvious that we have misidentified the talent level of many engineers. Your actual output level as an engineer, be it 1x or 100x, is always a product of many factors and your actual talent level is only one of those factors.<p><pre><code> Worse yet, having someone like that on the team drives away other great employees.
</code></pre>
Yes. Two big reasons.<p>1. It&#x27;s not a good way to make software, obviously. Great employees want to make great software and will be frustrated.<p>2. It&#x27;s career fucking suicide to work under somebody like that. It&#x27;s <i>impossible</i> to shine when working under somebody like that. You can&#x27;t clean up a mess as quickly as other people can create a mess. You just can&#x27;t. With very rare exceptions you simply cannot mop a floor well enough to be seen as something other than a janitor.</text></item><item><author>PragmaticPulp</author><text>I had a similar brilliant engineer with odd working hours at one point. I also had the same problem with other engineers requesting the same odd hours, with equally negative results.<p>In my case, I eventually learned that the odd hours weren&#x27;t the key to his perceived success. Instead, he used the odd hours to force us to give him only work that could be accomplished alone. We were lulled into letting him make key architecture decisions in isolation, because no one else was awake or online at the same time to discuss them.<p>Eventually he became the architect by virtue of operating in isolation, where we couldn&#x27;t discuss his decisions. Everyone else was forced to work around his code. If he refactored the codebase in the middle of the night to make his job easier, the other team members were all forced to work around his refactor and waste time updating their PRs to match his work.<p>Worse yet, having someone like that on the team drives away other great employees. Eventually everyone else will get sick of accommodating the architects isolated schedule. If they have other opportunities, they&#x27;ll leave.<p>&gt; I often think about how I could have better allowed his brilliance while not alienating the rest of his team, but in the end I failed.<p>It&#x27;s not on you. Brilliance and individual productivity aren&#x27;t everything in a team setting. If your project must scale past a single person, you need everyone operating on the same page. It&#x27;s painful in the short term to lose the quirky rockstars, but it makes for a healthier team in the long run.</text></item><item><author>heyflyguy</author><text>I had this exact situation come up with an engineer that I can only call brilliant, with the most conservative of overtones. He was more than that. Being a maker myself I gladly encouraged him to work when he wanted, sometimes that meant he&#x27;d work 48 hours straight and sleep for two days and show up Friday. His 3 days of work (as his peers would describe it), easily was double the quality and output of his closest colleague. I loved having him on my team.<p>Eventually, other people started asking to work 3 days a week, suggesting that they too would pull all-nighters in an effort to have 2 mid-week days off. I let a few experiments happen but sadly in most cases the result was less than 50% of what they had been previously able to accomplish.<p>This led to a new merit based working system when we placed emphasis on sprints and achieving. This too ended up failing because the interconnected dependandcies of sprints were always bottlenecked by the slowest operator.<p>The final result was the eventual departure of my most prized teammate, and mostly due to peer pressure. I often think about how I could have better allowed his brilliance while not alienating the rest of his team, but in the end I failed.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>throwaway10x</author><text>Reading your comment and the parent gave me goosebumps, I might be guilty of being this type of engineer.<p>I created a side project that became its own very successful product, and now there are a couple of other engineers in the team and I&#x27;m the &quot;tech lead&quot;. We have a front end and backend component, and I have another brilliant full stack taking full charge of the frontend. the other two engineers are _very_ mediocre at best. The code is complex partly because I (without formal training) wrote it all myself, but also because it&#x27;s a very complex priduct, not just a CRUD. I&#x27;m Constantly stymied by the fact that on the backend, asking the mediocre engineer to do something means it will take a full Sprint instead of the two hours it&#x27;ll take me. The other engineers are also not able to fully understand the PRs (because the code is still too complex to them after six months joining the project) so I feel minimal upside to wait for their code reviews (which I still do anyways). I&#x27;ve asked to staff with better engineers but given the complexity of the product (directly query very large datasets with very complex jobs from a clean frontend) and our small orgs inability to attract great talent, I&#x27;m not getting anyone.<p>I&#x27;m forced with two possibilities:
1. Ask for the mediocre engineers to be removed from the team, and continue working on the backend solo (but making it actively a job to document and make it as easy as possible for a good engineer to take over after me). This would actually boost productivity 2x from what we are now frankly.<p>2. I stop coding fully or slow down 5x and work primarily as just someone who asks others to code. It would probably slow us down 3-4x,but I suppose it&#x27;ll match the pattern of a regular team, though to what end I don&#x27;t know.<p>Is there any advice you can give? I&#x27;m sure I&#x27;m not seeing something obvious here that I&#x27;m doing wrong, and am fully open to honest input.</text></comment> | <story><title>Makers, Don't Let Yourself Be Forced into the 'Manager Schedule'</title><url>https://blog.nuclino.com/makers-don-t-let-yourself-be-forced-into-the-manager-schedule</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>JohnBooty</author><text>Ouch. I used to work with a guy like this.<p>Generally speaking, this is an occurrance that is exceedingly common <i>and</i> extremely under-recognized in our industry.<p><pre><code> Instead, he used the odd hours to force us to give him only
work that could be accomplished alone. We were lulled into
letting him make key architecture decisions in isolation
</code></pre>
Our guy accomplished this via different means but the end result was the same: because of various factors, he became &quot;architect&quot; and essentially was able to make decisions alone. Then we had to live with them.<p><pre><code> Eventually he became the architect by virtue of operating in
isolation, where we couldn&#x27;t discuss his decisions. Everyone
else was forced to work around his code.
</code></pre>
Yyyyeeeeeeep.<p>Our guy was genuinely, I think, the best engineer on a team of pretty good engineers. But in terms of sheer talent he was not a &quot;10x&quot; coder in terms of raw talent. Call him perhaps a &quot;1.2x&quot; or &quot;1.5x&quot; in terms of raw talent.<p>However, he was essentially able to operate as something like a &quot;10x&quot; talent because he got to do a lot of greenfield work, make sweeping architecture changes and decisions, and so forth. Meanwhile we were all left to deal with his fallout.<p>Whether or not you believe there are legitimate &quot;10x&quot; engineers (we&#x27;ll set that debate aside for a moment) I think it is very, very obvious that we have misidentified the talent level of many engineers. Your actual output level as an engineer, be it 1x or 100x, is always a product of many factors and your actual talent level is only one of those factors.<p><pre><code> Worse yet, having someone like that on the team drives away other great employees.
</code></pre>
Yes. Two big reasons.<p>1. It&#x27;s not a good way to make software, obviously. Great employees want to make great software and will be frustrated.<p>2. It&#x27;s career fucking suicide to work under somebody like that. It&#x27;s <i>impossible</i> to shine when working under somebody like that. You can&#x27;t clean up a mess as quickly as other people can create a mess. You just can&#x27;t. With very rare exceptions you simply cannot mop a floor well enough to be seen as something other than a janitor.</text></item><item><author>PragmaticPulp</author><text>I had a similar brilliant engineer with odd working hours at one point. I also had the same problem with other engineers requesting the same odd hours, with equally negative results.<p>In my case, I eventually learned that the odd hours weren&#x27;t the key to his perceived success. Instead, he used the odd hours to force us to give him only work that could be accomplished alone. We were lulled into letting him make key architecture decisions in isolation, because no one else was awake or online at the same time to discuss them.<p>Eventually he became the architect by virtue of operating in isolation, where we couldn&#x27;t discuss his decisions. Everyone else was forced to work around his code. If he refactored the codebase in the middle of the night to make his job easier, the other team members were all forced to work around his refactor and waste time updating their PRs to match his work.<p>Worse yet, having someone like that on the team drives away other great employees. Eventually everyone else will get sick of accommodating the architects isolated schedule. If they have other opportunities, they&#x27;ll leave.<p>&gt; I often think about how I could have better allowed his brilliance while not alienating the rest of his team, but in the end I failed.<p>It&#x27;s not on you. Brilliance and individual productivity aren&#x27;t everything in a team setting. If your project must scale past a single person, you need everyone operating on the same page. It&#x27;s painful in the short term to lose the quirky rockstars, but it makes for a healthier team in the long run.</text></item><item><author>heyflyguy</author><text>I had this exact situation come up with an engineer that I can only call brilliant, with the most conservative of overtones. He was more than that. Being a maker myself I gladly encouraged him to work when he wanted, sometimes that meant he&#x27;d work 48 hours straight and sleep for two days and show up Friday. His 3 days of work (as his peers would describe it), easily was double the quality and output of his closest colleague. I loved having him on my team.<p>Eventually, other people started asking to work 3 days a week, suggesting that they too would pull all-nighters in an effort to have 2 mid-week days off. I let a few experiments happen but sadly in most cases the result was less than 50% of what they had been previously able to accomplish.<p>This led to a new merit based working system when we placed emphasis on sprints and achieving. This too ended up failing because the interconnected dependandcies of sprints were always bottlenecked by the slowest operator.<p>The final result was the eventual departure of my most prized teammate, and mostly due to peer pressure. I often think about how I could have better allowed his brilliance while not alienating the rest of his team, but in the end I failed.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>hinkley</author><text>I&#x27;ve worked with too many engineers who got a lot done by making it hard for anyone else to get things done. I think there aren&#x27;t very many 10x engineers but there are a lot of 4x engineers who make everyone else .4x engineers.<p>I was a lot happier and less busy trying to be a 3x engineer making everyone else into 1.5x engineers.</text></comment> |
35,093,620 | 35,092,282 | 1 | 2 | 35,090,739 | train | <story><title>Nearly 40% of software engineers will only work remotely</title><url>https://www.techtarget.com/searchhrsoftware/news/365531979/Nearly-40-of-software-engineers-will-only-work-remotely</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dijit</author><text>While everyone has their preferences I find myself hating the office a lot <i>less</i> than I used to these days. (and I was very vocal about hating the office pre-covid[0])<p>However, some things of note:<p>1) My &quot;Office&quot; (not home) is not an &quot;Open Office&quot;, it&#x27;s a place where I can reasonably sit in peace and have control of my surroundings (this is something not afforded to most people in offices, and something that work from home provides)<p>2) I do not have children at home, which is a pro and a con of working remotely. Being able to look after your offspring is great! I have it on good authority though that kids are distraction machines.<p>3) My Commute is a 10 minute walk through a sparsely populated city in southern Sweden with no heavy trafficways (or even mild trafficways by North American standards)<p>So even though my home office setup is dedicated, clean, &amp; spacious, I do quite enjoy going to the office at the moment.<p>My meandering point is that: everyone has different life situations, the office has to be a better place to be than home if you want people to come to it and it needs to be accessible too; it <i>can&#x27;t be the case</i> that you force people to sit in traffic for 2 hours each day to get to a place where their senses are assaulted all day.<p>On the whole, gathering around a whiteboard is fantastic and casual conversations over coffee can really help smooth over accidental communication gaps that exist in every organisation. (and, also help create some more positive interactions with colleagues than the relatively normal situation of calling on people only when they need to do something). I can&#x27;t imagine needing to be in the same place 5 days per week to get the same benefit though.<p>[0]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.dijit.sh&#x2F;how-to-survive-an-open-office" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.dijit.sh&#x2F;how-to-survive-an-open-office</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>OJFord</author><text>You have an &#x27;ideal&#x27; office (if there were such a thing) though, it&#x27;s not really the comparison anyone means, or what&#x27;s generally realistic.<p>Your sort of office is the sort of thing that for most people is more attainable if they <i>do</i> work remotely, and then rent a space near home, or build&#x2F;convert a shed&#x2F;garage&#x2F;outbuilding.<p>Your happiness working from the office is also quite tied to your employer, I&#x27;d assume (I don&#x27;t know Sweden or what&#x27;s normal though), which is obviously either limiting or means you might find yourself back in the &#x27;will only work remotely&#x27; camp when looking for a new job.</text></comment> | <story><title>Nearly 40% of software engineers will only work remotely</title><url>https://www.techtarget.com/searchhrsoftware/news/365531979/Nearly-40-of-software-engineers-will-only-work-remotely</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dijit</author><text>While everyone has their preferences I find myself hating the office a lot <i>less</i> than I used to these days. (and I was very vocal about hating the office pre-covid[0])<p>However, some things of note:<p>1) My &quot;Office&quot; (not home) is not an &quot;Open Office&quot;, it&#x27;s a place where I can reasonably sit in peace and have control of my surroundings (this is something not afforded to most people in offices, and something that work from home provides)<p>2) I do not have children at home, which is a pro and a con of working remotely. Being able to look after your offspring is great! I have it on good authority though that kids are distraction machines.<p>3) My Commute is a 10 minute walk through a sparsely populated city in southern Sweden with no heavy trafficways (or even mild trafficways by North American standards)<p>So even though my home office setup is dedicated, clean, &amp; spacious, I do quite enjoy going to the office at the moment.<p>My meandering point is that: everyone has different life situations, the office has to be a better place to be than home if you want people to come to it and it needs to be accessible too; it <i>can&#x27;t be the case</i> that you force people to sit in traffic for 2 hours each day to get to a place where their senses are assaulted all day.<p>On the whole, gathering around a whiteboard is fantastic and casual conversations over coffee can really help smooth over accidental communication gaps that exist in every organisation. (and, also help create some more positive interactions with colleagues than the relatively normal situation of calling on people only when they need to do something). I can&#x27;t imagine needing to be in the same place 5 days per week to get the same benefit though.<p>[0]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.dijit.sh&#x2F;how-to-survive-an-open-office" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.dijit.sh&#x2F;how-to-survive-an-open-office</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tarsinge</author><text>&gt; My meandering point is that: everyone has different life situations<p>Yes, so it&#x27;s not about preferences, it&#x27;s not about the pros and cons, it&#x27;s about not forcing people for needless suffering. Forcing people who want or need (professionally or personally) to work with other people at home is absurd, and forcing people who provide better work at home (for jobs were it makes no difference to be in office) to commute and work in an open space just to reassure bosses is as absurd.</text></comment> |
9,214,868 | 9,213,265 | 1 | 3 | 9,212,467 | train | <story><title>How and Why Swiftype Moved from EC2 to Real Hardware</title><url>http://highscalability.com/blog/2015/3/16/how-and-why-swiftype-moved-from-ec2-to-real-hardware.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>snoopybbt</author><text>There&#x27;s not much need for a fancy article on a fancy website in order to understand a key concept of cloud computing:<p>Cloud computing offers you the great and awesome advantages of being able to instantly scale your application, replicate your data and basically just grow according to your business volume, and all this without significant investments, delivery time, setup time, people time, maintenance or anything but it&#x27;s expensive in the long run.<p>And this is OKAY, this is GREAT.<p>Once you&#x27;re big enough, you know what your load is now and what your load will likely be, and you know <i>exactly</i> what you need now and (approximately) what you&#x27;re going to need in the near future, setting up your own datacenter is way, way more effective.<p>Amazon does not get free electricity, free servers and&#x2F;or free people time.
Of course, you&#x27;re paying that, and you&#x27;re also paying Amazon&#x27;s profits.<p>This is absolutely fine, as long their service fits you.<p>But when you grow enough, put simply, your needs change. It&#x27;s just that.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>guru_meditation</author><text>The reason why it is extremely hard to engineer robust large scale AWS cloud apps can be summarized under the umbrella of performance <i>variance</i>:<p><pre><code> - machine latency varies more, you can&#x27;t control it
- network latency varies more
- storage latency varies more (S3, Redshift, etc.)
- machine outages are more frequent
</code></pre>
where more can be an order of magnitude more variation than on bare metal deployments. I am not saying the performance is that much worse, only that it will unpredictably vary for a certain instance. The interference is non gaussian and can happen in bursts as opposed to easy-to-model-and-anticipate white noise.<p>It&#x27;s a lot harder to engineer cloud scale software to scale robustly and not degrade in latency when running on a large amount of nodes. For example, see [1]<p>Most of open-source cloud software does not come with these algorithms batteries included and it is not trivial to retrofit this kind of logic. Just being smart about loadbalancing won&#x27;t cut it when at any given moment one of your nodes will become 10x slower than others even though your code is sound and in fact does not slow down like that.<p>In fact, what you lose in AWS convenience and &quot;free&quot; maintenance, you gain in simpler RPC&#x2F;messaging&#x2F;fault tolerance&#x2F;storage infrastructure that can sometimes accommodate an order of magnitude more traffic or users on a machine then if deployed in AWS.<p>[1] <a href="http://research.google.com/people/jeff/latency.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;research.google.com&#x2F;people&#x2F;jeff&#x2F;latency.html</a></text></comment> | <story><title>How and Why Swiftype Moved from EC2 to Real Hardware</title><url>http://highscalability.com/blog/2015/3/16/how-and-why-swiftype-moved-from-ec2-to-real-hardware.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>snoopybbt</author><text>There&#x27;s not much need for a fancy article on a fancy website in order to understand a key concept of cloud computing:<p>Cloud computing offers you the great and awesome advantages of being able to instantly scale your application, replicate your data and basically just grow according to your business volume, and all this without significant investments, delivery time, setup time, people time, maintenance or anything but it&#x27;s expensive in the long run.<p>And this is OKAY, this is GREAT.<p>Once you&#x27;re big enough, you know what your load is now and what your load will likely be, and you know <i>exactly</i> what you need now and (approximately) what you&#x27;re going to need in the near future, setting up your own datacenter is way, way more effective.<p>Amazon does not get free electricity, free servers and&#x2F;or free people time.
Of course, you&#x27;re paying that, and you&#x27;re also paying Amazon&#x27;s profits.<p>This is absolutely fine, as long their service fits you.<p>But when you grow enough, put simply, your needs change. It&#x27;s just that.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kovyrin</author><text>If only it were that simple... But every second relatively young engineer I interview points out that &quot;But Netflix! Look how good the cloud works for them!&quot; and once again I need to explain, that Netflix spends millions in engineering resources cost to handle EC2 issues and we are not (almost nobody is) Netflix (yet?).</text></comment> |
41,549,030 | 41,549,113 | 1 | 3 | 41,548,474 | train | <story><title>Linux 6.11 Released</title><url>https://lwn.net/Articles/990307/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>homebrewer</author><text>6.10 (TEN, the previous one) has been a very problematic release for me, with one desktop running into four major bugs in total: three separate amdgpu bugs resulting in video corruption, hangs and crashes, and now that I&#x27;m on 6.10.10 and those seem to be fixed, the system intermittently refuses to come up from sleep mode.<p>Anyone else having similar experience? This is the first time something like that happened in a decade of using the latest stable kernel release (in my experience, it&#x27;s actually been <i>stable</i> for all that time except for 6.10).</text></comment> | <story><title>Linux 6.11 Released</title><url>https://lwn.net/Articles/990307/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>xyst</author><text>I’m just at awe to see Torvalds still publishing the release notes for Linux kernel.</text></comment> |
16,233,437 | 16,233,197 | 1 | 3 | 16,231,806 | train | <story><title>Robinhood Crypto – Invest in Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies</title><url>https://crypto.robinhood.com/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Retric</author><text>What separates investing from gambling is the expected return for everyone is greater than zero.<p>AKA buy stock at 100$ and sell it at 100$ does not mean you broke even. You could have gotten 10$ in dividends. Now that positive may be small and some people may lose money, but that&#x27;s allowed as long as the expected returns end up positive.<p>Bitcoin&#x27;s can&#x27;t have a net positive return because they only way to add money into the system is via coin buyers. Further because of transaction costs it&#x27;s inherently negative sum.</text></item><item><author>darawk</author><text>A better question might be: How is anything an investment? If the stock market is priced efficiently, it is as much a gamble as Bitcoin. The stock market is of course not perfectly efficient, but it is likely extremely efficient relative to the knowledge of your average retail investor. Which means that buying Bitcoin or other cryptos is no more a gamble than any stock market investment with a similar volatility.</text></item><item><author>tptacek</author><text>I put money down on a blackjack table, play a hand, win, and cash out with more money than I put in. How is that not an investment?</text></item><item><author>DerfNet</author><text>I buy bitcoin, it changes in value, I cash out, I now have a different amount of money than I put in. How is that not an investment?</text></item><item><author>xya3453</author><text>&gt; Invest in Bitcoin &amp; other cryptocurrencies<p>&gt; Cryptocurrencies, stocks, ETFs, and options are now available side by side — all easily accessible in one app. Managing your investments just got even easier.<p>There is a dangerous theme of companies aimed at millennials that misappropriate Bitcoin (etc) as an investment, when it is just glorified currency exchange speculation. Blurring these lines obscures the real-world value created through actual investments.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>m-i-l</author><text>Some cryptocurrencies generate the equivalent of &quot;dividends&quot;, especially those based on Proof of Stake systems. For example, holding Neo generates Gas equivalent to a 3-6% annual return[0], and Stellar (given free to HN readers a few years back[1]) has &quot;inflation&quot; equivalent to around 1% annual return[2], to name two that Robinhood will be listing.<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.neotogas.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.neotogas.com&#x2F;</a><p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=16109292" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=16109292</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;lumenaut.net&#x2F;#faq" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;lumenaut.net&#x2F;#faq</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Robinhood Crypto – Invest in Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies</title><url>https://crypto.robinhood.com/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Retric</author><text>What separates investing from gambling is the expected return for everyone is greater than zero.<p>AKA buy stock at 100$ and sell it at 100$ does not mean you broke even. You could have gotten 10$ in dividends. Now that positive may be small and some people may lose money, but that&#x27;s allowed as long as the expected returns end up positive.<p>Bitcoin&#x27;s can&#x27;t have a net positive return because they only way to add money into the system is via coin buyers. Further because of transaction costs it&#x27;s inherently negative sum.</text></item><item><author>darawk</author><text>A better question might be: How is anything an investment? If the stock market is priced efficiently, it is as much a gamble as Bitcoin. The stock market is of course not perfectly efficient, but it is likely extremely efficient relative to the knowledge of your average retail investor. Which means that buying Bitcoin or other cryptos is no more a gamble than any stock market investment with a similar volatility.</text></item><item><author>tptacek</author><text>I put money down on a blackjack table, play a hand, win, and cash out with more money than I put in. How is that not an investment?</text></item><item><author>DerfNet</author><text>I buy bitcoin, it changes in value, I cash out, I now have a different amount of money than I put in. How is that not an investment?</text></item><item><author>xya3453</author><text>&gt; Invest in Bitcoin &amp; other cryptocurrencies<p>&gt; Cryptocurrencies, stocks, ETFs, and options are now available side by side — all easily accessible in one app. Managing your investments just got even easier.<p>There is a dangerous theme of companies aimed at millennials that misappropriate Bitcoin (etc) as an investment, when it is just glorified currency exchange speculation. Blurring these lines obscures the real-world value created through actual investments.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>darawk</author><text>Bitcoin can absolutely have a net positive return. People can simply keep buying it and holding it. Do you think gold cannot be an investment?</text></comment> |
36,927,167 | 36,924,695 | 1 | 3 | 36,921,446 | train | <story><title>Functions are vectors</title><url>https://thenumb.at/Functions-are-Vectors/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>ubj</author><text>I wish I could upvote this twice. This is the best basic introduction to concepts in functional analysis that I&#x27;ve seen. Another great overview that goes deeper into the math is [1].<p>Another fantastic application that the website doesn&#x27;t mention is the composition &#x2F; Koopman operator. In control theory (e.g. autonomous drones, cars, robot arms, etc.), most real-world systems are described by nonlinear dynamics which are very difficult to work with (e.g. safety&#x2F;stability guarantees, optimizing over forward horizons using NMPC, state estimation, etc.) The Koopman operator however gives a globally relevant linear approximation of non-linear systems. In other words, you can treat a nonlinear system as a linear system with fairly high accuracy. This greatly simplifies control and estimation from a computational perspective. You can also learn these linearizations from data. Steve Brunton has some good materials on Koopman theory [2][3], and there are some great applications to control of systems such as soft robots [4].<p>[1]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;arxiv.org&#x2F;abs&#x2F;1904.02539" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;arxiv.org&#x2F;abs&#x2F;1904.02539</a><p>[2]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtube.com&#x2F;playlist?list=PLMrJAkhIeNNSVXUvppZTYNHKQUD-oWys9">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtube.com&#x2F;playlist?list=PLMrJAkhIeNNSVXUvppZTYNHKQ...</a><p>[3]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;arxiv.org&#x2F;abs&#x2F;2102.12086" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;arxiv.org&#x2F;abs&#x2F;2102.12086</a><p>[4]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;arxiv.org&#x2F;abs&#x2F;1902.02827" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;arxiv.org&#x2F;abs&#x2F;1902.02827</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Functions are vectors</title><url>https://thenumb.at/Functions-are-Vectors/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jesuslop</author><text>I always liked this viewpoint a lot. I&#x27;m enjoying with abandon some dusty lectures that Vito Volterra gave in Madrid on differential and integrodifferential equations, while helping also to create Functional Analysis (a Functional being the analogue of a dual vector). He is constantly exploiting this analogy method from finite variable constructions to infinite, also uncountable variables. Even up to showing some embarrassment of being too repetitive with the idea! People in teaching should join and take a peek.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;searchworks.stanford.edu&#x2F;view&#x2F;526111" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;searchworks.stanford.edu&#x2F;view&#x2F;526111</a></text></comment> |
27,597,742 | 27,597,792 | 1 | 3 | 27,596,719 | train | <story><title>Disintermediating friends: Online dating displaces other ways of meeting (2019) [pdf]</title><url>https://web.stanford.edu/~mrosenfe/Rosenfeld_et_al_Disintermediating_Friends.pdf</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bpodgursky</author><text>The drop of &quot;met in college&quot; is the weirdest one to me. Isn&#x27;t that where most people meet? Am I living in a weird bubble?</text></item><item><author>joshz404</author><text>It took me a bit to see the hiding in plain sight trajectory of &quot;Met in a bar or restaurant&quot;. Everything but it and of course the dominate Met Online, are decreasing. Curious.</text></item><item><author>arkj</author><text>There is a very interesting chart at the last page of the pdf showing how heterosexual couples have met over the past years.<p>Here is a direct link to the chart as an image, <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;thebrowser.com&#x2F;content&#x2F;images&#x2F;size&#x2F;w1000&#x2F;2021&#x2F;06&#x2F;image-10.jpeg" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;thebrowser.com&#x2F;content&#x2F;images&#x2F;size&#x2F;w1000&#x2F;2021&#x2F;06&#x2F;ima...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>majormajor</author><text>Probably an aspect of people using apps while in college, and ending up in that bucket instead.<p>A graph of &quot;age when met&quot; for current couples would be interesting, if today&#x27;s &quot;final&quot; couples meet at a later age than in the past because people don&#x27;t want to settle down as early, you&#x27;ll have less school couples.<p>We also need a graph of &quot;number of relationships still around started by year&quot; - if fewer relationships started in 2018 are still extant compared to ones in 2014, that&#x27;s gonna skew numbers too.</text></comment> | <story><title>Disintermediating friends: Online dating displaces other ways of meeting (2019) [pdf]</title><url>https://web.stanford.edu/~mrosenfe/Rosenfeld_et_al_Disintermediating_Friends.pdf</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bpodgursky</author><text>The drop of &quot;met in college&quot; is the weirdest one to me. Isn&#x27;t that where most people meet? Am I living in a weird bubble?</text></item><item><author>joshz404</author><text>It took me a bit to see the hiding in plain sight trajectory of &quot;Met in a bar or restaurant&quot;. Everything but it and of course the dominate Met Online, are decreasing. Curious.</text></item><item><author>arkj</author><text>There is a very interesting chart at the last page of the pdf showing how heterosexual couples have met over the past years.<p>Here is a direct link to the chart as an image, <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;thebrowser.com&#x2F;content&#x2F;images&#x2F;size&#x2F;w1000&#x2F;2021&#x2F;06&#x2F;image-10.jpeg" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;thebrowser.com&#x2F;content&#x2F;images&#x2F;size&#x2F;w1000&#x2F;2021&#x2F;06&#x2F;ima...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bilbo0s</author><text><i>Am I living in a weird bubble?</i><p>Yes.<p>Though I would suspect that if you broke each of these meeting methods out and analyzed the failure rates for each, &quot;met in college&quot; would be one of the best 3 methods in terms of success rate. I would suspect &quot;met in church&quot;, &quot;met in college&quot;, and &quot;met online&quot; to be the methods leading to the most long term success. Further, if you asked about whether there was marital <i>satisfaction</i> as opposed to simply a marriage that didn&#x27;t end in divorce, I would suspect &quot;met in college&quot; to be the best overall method.<p>The only better methods of meeting, I would suspect, are not mentioned here. For instance, a lot of successful marriages likely come from people who were in the peace corps together. Shared hardship and passion kind of thing.<p>Just my intuition though. No data to back any of that up.</text></comment> |
2,387,584 | 2,387,245 | 1 | 2 | 2,386,908 | train | <story><title>Microsoft Co-Founder Paul Allen Hits Out at Gates </title><url>http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703806304576232051635476200.html?mod=WSJ_hp_MIDDLETopStories</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>codingthewheel</author><text>Difficult to see how publicizing this stuff could be beneficial for Mr. Allen. At that level, and sitting on top of a multi-billion dollar fortune, it almost never behooves you to say anything negative about anybody -- least of all one of your former partners. I also think complaining about not getting a bigger share of MS stock, when you've got 14 billion in the bank...not exactly the stuff of which Jedi are made.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>sunchild</author><text>He isn't doing it to benefit himself. He probably doesn't care whether you like him or not, and he definitely doesn't need your money or respect.<p>I guess Paul just wants the world to know that the image of Gates as our benevolent patron of philanthropy is itself revisionism, lest anyone forget that Bill Gates was one of the least loyal and trustworthy friends a person could ask for.<p>It doesn't surprise me that HN sides with the victor in cases like this, but I would argue that any serious business person should watch and learn carefully from the lessons of two close friends who changed the world and ended up disliking each other.</text></comment> | <story><title>Microsoft Co-Founder Paul Allen Hits Out at Gates </title><url>http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703806304576232051635476200.html?mod=WSJ_hp_MIDDLETopStories</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>codingthewheel</author><text>Difficult to see how publicizing this stuff could be beneficial for Mr. Allen. At that level, and sitting on top of a multi-billion dollar fortune, it almost never behooves you to say anything negative about anybody -- least of all one of your former partners. I also think complaining about not getting a bigger share of MS stock, when you've got 14 billion in the bank...not exactly the stuff of which Jedi are made.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>silvestrov</author><text>He wants to be acknowledged. Everybody knows Bill Gates and sees him as the smart and great computer guy, while Mr. Allan is an unknown. It's like 2 brothers where the lesser talented uses all his life to proof he's just as good and therefore never gets to create something.</text></comment> |
16,603,091 | 16,603,023 | 1 | 3 | 16,597,628 | train | <story><title>Stock trade app Robinhood raising at $5B+, up 4X in a year</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2018/03/15/robinhood-quintacorn/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>fizzledbits</author><text>Robinhood gets their revenue from margin interest lending to people who can&#x27;t afford to invest but do it anyways. And also from selling the trading data to high frequency traders to front-run the Robinhood traders. The top guys at Robinhood all have HFT background and connections.<p>Their pr message is priceless but a sham. The users are the real product, with all that we know goes with that.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Judson</author><text>I thought they stopped selling order flow, but was wrong. For those interested, here is their Q4 2017 606 Filing w&#x2F; the SEC:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;d2ue93q3u507c2.cloudfront.net&#x2F;assets&#x2F;robinhood&#x2F;legal&#x2F;RHF%20PFO%20Disclosure.pdf" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;d2ue93q3u507c2.cloudfront.net&#x2F;assets&#x2F;robinhood&#x2F;legal...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Stock trade app Robinhood raising at $5B+, up 4X in a year</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2018/03/15/robinhood-quintacorn/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>fizzledbits</author><text>Robinhood gets their revenue from margin interest lending to people who can&#x27;t afford to invest but do it anyways. And also from selling the trading data to high frequency traders to front-run the Robinhood traders. The top guys at Robinhood all have HFT background and connections.<p>Their pr message is priceless but a sham. The users are the real product, with all that we know goes with that.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>godzillabrennus</author><text>Sounds like they engineered a fantastic business model.<p>Am I wrong? Is there downside for the typical consumer in all of this?</text></comment> |
39,343,363 | 39,339,873 | 1 | 2 | 39,339,182 | train | <story><title>2024: The year of the OpenStreetMap vector maps</title><url>https://blog.openstreetmap.org/2024/02/11/2024-announcing-the-year-of-the-openstreetmap-vector-maps/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Freak_NL</author><text>Way overdue. OpenStreetMap&#x27;s website at openstreetmap.org is its calling card, and for the past few years the default style shown (called Carto) has all but stagnated in development. Accepted features like highway=busway (introduced three years ago) are not rendered there because the maintainers can no longer be bothered, or dislike the tag personally despite broad community backing.<p>What worries me for this new effort is that Paul Norman is one of the two remaining Carto sometimes-active maintainers who refuse to merge contributed PRs or even provide alternative minimal support for features like highway=busway, leading to awkward gaps on the baseline map shown on openstreetmap.org.<p>I would love to be surprised in a positive way about this new effort, but I&#x27;m not holding my hopes up. Thankfully OpenStreetMap can be thoroughly useful in apps like OsmAnd and OrganicMaps, and the tile-based Tracestrack Topo layer on openstreetmap.org is getting quite decent:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.openstreetmap.org&#x2F;#layers=P" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.openstreetmap.org&#x2F;#layers=P</a></text></comment> | <story><title>2024: The year of the OpenStreetMap vector maps</title><url>https://blog.openstreetmap.org/2024/02/11/2024-announcing-the-year-of-the-openstreetmap-vector-maps/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>ajsnigrutin</author><text>Slightly offtopic<p>I have OsmAnd ( <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;osmandapp&#x2F;OsmAnd">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;osmandapp&#x2F;OsmAnd</a> ) on my phone, download the basemaps, download my (small) country data (both sourced from open street maps), and with an app + ~1GB of data, I get the maps and full navigation within my country, POIs, etc., and can add other countries when needed.<p>Is there something similar for a PC? I can download data from open street maps, but then I need postgres, postgis, a tile server and styles and apache running just to generate the tiles. Is there anything portable (short of running osmand in an android virtualbox) for offline navigation on a linux pc? QGIS can display vectors, but I wasn&#x27;t able to easily style the data... navigation is a no-go there too. anything else?</text></comment> |
20,294,420 | 20,293,804 | 1 | 2 | 20,293,259 | train | <story><title>The Programmers' Stone (2014)</title><url>https://www.datapacrat.com/Opinion/Reciprocality/r0/index.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>prepend</author><text>I haven’t read the whole thing yet, but the structure and format and content-richness is a breath of fresh air.<p>I miss sites that were about sharing ideas and helping others rather than getting claps.<p>The only way I could think of making this better was if it was generated from a git repo so that one day if I’m ever worthy of asking a question or sending a suggestion, I could send a pull request. But that’s totally author’s prerogative and I’m happy they shared this in a non junky-way.</text></comment> | <story><title>The Programmers' Stone (2014)</title><url>https://www.datapacrat.com/Opinion/Reciprocality/r0/index.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>hnzix</author><text>This text is not as impenetrable as it first seems and offers some valuable insights on the friction between socially conditioned roleplaying (&quot;packing&quot;) vs deep thinking (&quot;mapping&quot;).<p>My best takeaways were:<p>1. You&#x27;re not crazy for being a deep thinker: it drives force multiplication<p>2. Ceremony is very often bullshit<p>3. You&#x27;re going to have to make some quality sacrifices in your code - here&#x27;s a useful model on how to approach that<p>I also liked the bits about using a step debugger for code reviews, and avoiding nested conditionals. I mostly failed to grasp the camel sex analogy.</text></comment> |
2,918,275 | 2,918,349 | 1 | 2 | 2,917,761 | train | <story><title>Samsung cites Kubrick's "2001" as Prior Art in Patent Case Against Apple</title><url>http://www.macrumors.com/2011/08/23/samsung-cites-kubricks-2001-film-as-prior-art-defense-against-apples-injunction-request/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rwolf</author><text>I was watching an episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation last night, and was surprised to see one of the characters carrying around a tablet computer.<p>I can believe that finding visually-pleasing ratios of screen/margin, height/depth is a challenge, but the basic outline does not seem to be hard to imagine.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>cpeterso</author><text>Heck, Star Trek even called the tablet computer a "PADD" (Personal Access Display Device).<p><a href="http://memory-alpha.org/wiki/PADD" rel="nofollow">http://memory-alpha.org/wiki/PADD</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Samsung cites Kubrick's "2001" as Prior Art in Patent Case Against Apple</title><url>http://www.macrumors.com/2011/08/23/samsung-cites-kubricks-2001-film-as-prior-art-defense-against-apples-injunction-request/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rwolf</author><text>I was watching an episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation last night, and was surprised to see one of the characters carrying around a tablet computer.<p>I can believe that finding visually-pleasing ratios of screen/margin, height/depth is a challenge, but the basic outline does not seem to be hard to imagine.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Tyrannosaurs</author><text>Off-topic slightly but the thing I loved about that was Picard would routinely have several on his desk as if other crew members had handed them to him with reports to review on.<p>So you invented the tablet computer but not cloud computing? Or even network file shares...</text></comment> |
16,286,884 | 16,286,299 | 1 | 2 | 16,285,913 | train | <story><title>Amazon.com Announces Fourth Quarter Sales Up 38% to $60.5B</title><url>https://finance.yahoo.com/news/amazon-com-announces-fourth-quarter-210100782.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>justboxing</author><text>Looks like AWS is their Golden Goose, with 64% of their operating income coming from it. ( The retail side must be operating at very thin margins. )<p>&gt; For the quarter, AWS sales jumped 45 percent year-over-year, while generating $1.3 billion in operating income, a whopping 64 percent share of Amazon&#x27;s total operating income.<p>Source: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cnbc.com&#x2F;2018&#x2F;02&#x2F;01&#x2F;amazon-earnings-q4-2017.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cnbc.com&#x2F;2018&#x2F;02&#x2F;01&#x2F;amazon-earnings-q4-2017.html</a><p>Closed at 1,390.00 down -60.89 (-4.20%)<p>After Hours (after earnings announcement): 1,477.99 up +87.99 (6.33%)<p>Saw the close and thought the bull run was correcting. 2 hours later, it ups another 88$. Wow.</text></comment> | <story><title>Amazon.com Announces Fourth Quarter Sales Up 38% to $60.5B</title><url>https://finance.yahoo.com/news/amazon-com-announces-fourth-quarter-210100782.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jxub</author><text>What a monster.<p>I wonder whether AMZN reaches a point where they crush the competition at all levels and become a glitch in this somewhat functional current capitalist system, marking the start of a monopoly blob system without a name yet. Then I remember, their approach now seems to be all about building internal interfaces and reusing them with the customer in some way (see eg. AWS).
It isn&#x27;t about destruction, more like symbiosis.
But they may still morph the economy into something different and that change is scary.</text></comment> |
19,262,019 | 19,260,458 | 1 | 2 | 19,257,350 | train | <story><title>Ask HN: Has anyone curated a list of hidden interview questions?</title><text>For example
Uber in-app hacking challenge
https:&#x2F;&#x2F;danonrockstar.com&#x2F;uber-hacking-challenge-decf3276207a<p>Googles foo
https:&#x2F;&#x2F;thehustle.co&#x2F;the-secret-google-interview-that-landed-me-a-job<p>I remember finding a really cool one all over network requests at one time but can&#x27;t remember the company. What are other great hidden interview processes?</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>grahamperich</author><text>The repl.it jobs page is literally just a shell, and you have to figure out how to apply:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;repl.it&#x2F;site&#x2F;jobs" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;repl.it&#x2F;site&#x2F;jobs</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>_shadi</author><text>I just did a fork bomb:<p>[email protected]:~$ :(){ :|: &amp; };:
[1] 26
[email protected]:~$ bash: fork: retry: Resource temporarily unavailable</text></comment> | <story><title>Ask HN: Has anyone curated a list of hidden interview questions?</title><text>For example
Uber in-app hacking challenge
https:&#x2F;&#x2F;danonrockstar.com&#x2F;uber-hacking-challenge-decf3276207a<p>Googles foo
https:&#x2F;&#x2F;thehustle.co&#x2F;the-secret-google-interview-that-landed-me-a-job<p>I remember finding a really cool one all over network requests at one time but can&#x27;t remember the company. What are other great hidden interview processes?</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>grahamperich</author><text>The repl.it jobs page is literally just a shell, and you have to figure out how to apply:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;repl.it&#x2F;site&#x2F;jobs" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;repl.it&#x2F;site&#x2F;jobs</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>throwawaymath</author><text>That&#x27;s pretty cool, but they should really lock down outbound requests. You can send arbitrary curl requests to the public internet from their IP addresses (which are located in GCP). I&#x27;m not sure about mapping out the internal network, but that at least gives you a reliable proxy through Google Cloud.</text></comment> |
27,457,262 | 27,456,848 | 1 | 2 | 27,456,222 | train | <story><title>Always Be Quitting</title><url>https://jmmv.dev/2021/04/always-be-quitting.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>booleandilemma</author><text><i>Paradoxically, by being disposable, you free yourself.</i><p>No, you just make yourself disposable.<p>War is peace.
Freedom is slavery.
Ignorance is strength.<p>Don’t listen to this article. It sounds like something overseers would tell their underlings.<p>And when you’re quitting, that’s the company’s problem, not yours.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>wyqydsyq</author><text>&gt; No, you just make yourself disposable.<p>You might be making yourself disposable specifically in the context of your original role which you are basically making redundant by documenting and automating everything - but trust me any sensible business will want to keep a staff member who massively improved their team&#x27;s productivity (by enabling them to be more independent with less silo&#x27;d knowledge) and reduced the business&#x27; risk exposure (by making potentially critical knowledge more accessible and reducing single points of failure).<p>Employees who try to become indesposable by turning themselves into a mega-silo of knowledge that nobody else in the org has might gain some job security in the short term but they lose out on any potential job progression.<p>Turning yourself into a silo like this is practically blackmailing your employer into keeping you. They might keep you employed because they need to keep their systems online, but they will also not think twice about replacing you as soon as an opportunity is presented. That is making yourself disposable.<p>Turning yourself into a leader who improves the outcomes of various teams in a business will not only make you indespensable, it&#x27;s genuinely the best (if not the <i>only</i> realistic) path for an engineer to work their way up into more senior or C-suite positions.</text></comment> | <story><title>Always Be Quitting</title><url>https://jmmv.dev/2021/04/always-be-quitting.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>booleandilemma</author><text><i>Paradoxically, by being disposable, you free yourself.</i><p>No, you just make yourself disposable.<p>War is peace.
Freedom is slavery.
Ignorance is strength.<p>Don’t listen to this article. It sounds like something overseers would tell their underlings.<p>And when you’re quitting, that’s the company’s problem, not yours.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>readonthegoapp</author><text>I had a pretty strong visceral reaction to this article.<p>prob because i just read about the 1%ers avoiding paying taxes, and a thousand other much-more-horrific things, only to see the top post on HN advocating for workers to make themselves even more dispensable that they&#x2F;we already are -- and i don&#x27;t think it was meant as a joke. :-D<p>i&#x27;ve always done the &#x27;obsolete yourself&#x27; routine, and still do&#x2F;am -- part of it was&#x2F;is always self-interest (not advancement, but getting freed from having to do stupid shit), but part of it was&#x2F;is &#x27;just doing the right thing by the company&#x27; and thereby hopefully being part of a successful operation which, if you&#x27;re not doing anything too evil, would allow me to take some pride in it.<p>but i know that many of my improvements to products&#x2F;documentation&#x2F;training&#x2F;etc. only help offshore myself _and_ all my co-workers, especially those of us in the US and other expensive places (and we don&#x27;t even get health insurance).<p>if i was part of some type of co-op, all that would be taken care of.<p>one can dream!</text></comment> |
16,184,034 | 16,182,414 | 1 | 3 | 16,177,146 | train | <story><title>Why People Dislike Really Smart Leaders</title><url>https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/why-people-dislike-really-smart-leaders/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>killjoywashere</author><text>Personal anecdote, but I wonder if my experience as a junior officer in the Navy helped with this. The last comments in the piece are that intelligent leaders should 1) seek creative metaphors and 2) speak charismatically. Coming to the fleet from a bachelor&#x27;s in physics, I knew I was reasonably intelligent, but also that there were some people <i>much</i> smarter than me (at least my battered ego assured me of that).<p>So, walking aboard a frigate with sort of an academic&#x27;s self-awareness and certainty that the world is an uncertain place, I had to lead a division of sailors who would do things that just left me dumbfounded. &quot;Why would you attempt to drive through the closed base gate?&quot; &quot;Why would you test the 440V circuit with your fingers?&quot; &quot;Why would you go in the engine room without hearing protection?&quot; &quot;Do you realize you installed all the valves backward?&quot; &quot;Where did you meet this woman? No, she can&#x27;t come on the ship!&quot;<p>Then you have to get these folks to do work. They&#x27;re not lazy, but trying motivate them with the bigger picture could be challenging. Metaphor came to hand more and more. And you sort of settle in. You&#x27;re <i>not</i> intellectually challenged, and repetition and comfort bring confidence, which makes charismatic patterns of speech easier.<p>When I went to grad school, I found myself using these same patterns of speech to get things done. And I still do. It&#x27;s always poor form to toot your own horn, but the last few years, I have to say, I&#x27;ve realized more and more, having a hard science degree and early leadership experience are an extremely valuable combination. I have no idea how I&#x27;d be doing what I do now without that.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mulmen</author><text>I don&#x27;t have military experience and I will stop short of saying I wish I did because I think that does a disservice to both of us. What I will say is that the vets I have worked with have been excellent contributors and leaders. I work in a place that values strong leadership and makes a point of hiring veterans. It would be easy to dismiss that as public relations fluff but I truly believe vets make an invaluable contribution to a company.</text></comment> | <story><title>Why People Dislike Really Smart Leaders</title><url>https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/why-people-dislike-really-smart-leaders/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>killjoywashere</author><text>Personal anecdote, but I wonder if my experience as a junior officer in the Navy helped with this. The last comments in the piece are that intelligent leaders should 1) seek creative metaphors and 2) speak charismatically. Coming to the fleet from a bachelor&#x27;s in physics, I knew I was reasonably intelligent, but also that there were some people <i>much</i> smarter than me (at least my battered ego assured me of that).<p>So, walking aboard a frigate with sort of an academic&#x27;s self-awareness and certainty that the world is an uncertain place, I had to lead a division of sailors who would do things that just left me dumbfounded. &quot;Why would you attempt to drive through the closed base gate?&quot; &quot;Why would you test the 440V circuit with your fingers?&quot; &quot;Why would you go in the engine room without hearing protection?&quot; &quot;Do you realize you installed all the valves backward?&quot; &quot;Where did you meet this woman? No, she can&#x27;t come on the ship!&quot;<p>Then you have to get these folks to do work. They&#x27;re not lazy, but trying motivate them with the bigger picture could be challenging. Metaphor came to hand more and more. And you sort of settle in. You&#x27;re <i>not</i> intellectually challenged, and repetition and comfort bring confidence, which makes charismatic patterns of speech easier.<p>When I went to grad school, I found myself using these same patterns of speech to get things done. And I still do. It&#x27;s always poor form to toot your own horn, but the last few years, I have to say, I&#x27;ve realized more and more, having a hard science degree and early leadership experience are an extremely valuable combination. I have no idea how I&#x27;d be doing what I do now without that.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Balgair</author><text>BTW love the username : <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Kilroy_was_here" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Kilroy_was_here</a></text></comment> |
20,740,875 | 20,740,527 | 1 | 3 | 20,739,408 | train | <story><title>Cerebras Systems unveils a 1.2T transistor chip for AI</title><url>https://venturebeat.com/2019/08/19/cerebras-systems-unveils-a-record-1-2-trillion-transistor-chip-for-ai/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>modeless</author><text>There are far more transistors in this chip than neurons in the human brain. In 100 of these chips, there are more transistors than there are synapses in the human brain.<p>I don&#x27;t mean to suggest that transistors are equivalent to neurons or synapses; clearly they are very different things (though it is <i>not</i> clear that neurons are much more computationally powerful than transistors, despite assertions from many people that this is the case). But I think it is still useful to compare the complexity of structure of chips vs. the human brain. We are finally approaching the same order of magnitude of complexity in structure.<p>Also note that this is not manufactured on TSMC&#x27;s highest density process. Assuming TSMC&#x27;s 3nm process development is successful, that will probably be 6x denser than the 16nm process used here.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jacquesm</author><text>A few buckets of sand also contain more elements than there are synapses in the human brain. They clearly lack any structure, and so are computationally stuck at a big fat &#x27;0&#x27; no matter what you do with the sand (unless you want to turn it into a giant abacus or turn it into integrated circuits).<p>Where on the scale between a few buckets of sand and an actual working human brain this chip is is not so much a function of it&#x27;s structure but of <i>what it does</i>, and the brain&#x27;s finer structures are so complex that even modelling a few neurons is going to crush that complexity downwards by so many orders of magnitude that we simply hope that we are not accidentally throwing out the useful bits in the simulation.<p>That&#x27;s a roundabout way of saying that I think that:<p>&gt; We are finally approaching the same order of magnitude of complexity in structure.<p>Is not necessarily true in a way that is relevant. The parts count or basic interconnection may have nothing to do with how the brain is connected internally, nor with how it functions at the lowest levels.</text></comment> | <story><title>Cerebras Systems unveils a 1.2T transistor chip for AI</title><url>https://venturebeat.com/2019/08/19/cerebras-systems-unveils-a-record-1-2-trillion-transistor-chip-for-ai/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>modeless</author><text>There are far more transistors in this chip than neurons in the human brain. In 100 of these chips, there are more transistors than there are synapses in the human brain.<p>I don&#x27;t mean to suggest that transistors are equivalent to neurons or synapses; clearly they are very different things (though it is <i>not</i> clear that neurons are much more computationally powerful than transistors, despite assertions from many people that this is the case). But I think it is still useful to compare the complexity of structure of chips vs. the human brain. We are finally approaching the same order of magnitude of complexity in structure.<p>Also note that this is not manufactured on TSMC&#x27;s highest density process. Assuming TSMC&#x27;s 3nm process development is successful, that will probably be 6x denser than the 16nm process used here.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jdsully</author><text>I haven’t seen a perceptron circuit done in less than 4 transistors plus a few diodes. However these chips are almost certainly digital and will use a lot more to perform the floating point math.<p>Single transistors can’t even compute our simplified model of a neuron let alone the complexities of the real thing.</text></comment> |
27,310,878 | 27,310,616 | 1 | 2 | 27,307,175 | train | <story><title>The media's lab leak fiasco</title><url>https://www.slowboring.com/p/the-medias-lab-leak-fiasco</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>neither_color</author><text><i>There’s a question as to why that fake consensus emerged. But I think the more troubling question is: How did people let the original story of what Tom Cotton even said go so badly awry? Essentially Cotton said something that was then transformed into a fake claim of a Chinese bio-attack, then the fake claim was debunked, and then the debunking was applied to the real claim with little attention paid to ongoing disagreement among researchers.</i><p>I think this part of the text really sums up everything I hated about reading the news and social media in 2020. Each site seemed to be funneling you into a single source of truth and way of not only thinking, but FEELING about an event. I don&#x27;t like being reminded of corporate sponsored social movements if I open facebook&#x2F;google&#x2F;amazon&#x2F;twitter. I don&#x27;t want my app reminding me to vote&#x2F;get vaccinated(I did both btw) every time I open it without a way to dismiss and select &#x27;I already did, stop reminding me.&#x27; I don&#x27;t want reddit creating a central sub-page for discussing [Current Event] within the narrow bounds of what their moderators think is acceptable. I don&#x27;t like non-dismissable context text on twitter and under youtube videos that are often off topic and triggered by bad speech detection that simply take you to a link dump of regular news articles. I don&#x27;t like the idea that there&#x27;s an oligopoly on &quot;truth&quot; and &quot;credible sources.&quot; No amount of branding will convince me that &quot;fact checkers&quot; are any more objective and impartial than regular newspaper columnists; fact checkers are what editors are supposed to be. There&#x27;s no academic rigor to fact checking, and the reality that so much casual skepticism on a variety of topics was suppressed and equivocated with being a flat-earther is sickening.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Animats</author><text><i>Each site seemed to be funneling you into a single source of truth and way of not only thinking, but FEELING about an event.</i><p>Which is a big problem. In the intelligence community, people are taught to distinguish between data items from different sources, which may indicate confirmation, and data items from the same source via different paths, which don&#x27;t.</text></comment> | <story><title>The media's lab leak fiasco</title><url>https://www.slowboring.com/p/the-medias-lab-leak-fiasco</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>neither_color</author><text><i>There’s a question as to why that fake consensus emerged. But I think the more troubling question is: How did people let the original story of what Tom Cotton even said go so badly awry? Essentially Cotton said something that was then transformed into a fake claim of a Chinese bio-attack, then the fake claim was debunked, and then the debunking was applied to the real claim with little attention paid to ongoing disagreement among researchers.</i><p>I think this part of the text really sums up everything I hated about reading the news and social media in 2020. Each site seemed to be funneling you into a single source of truth and way of not only thinking, but FEELING about an event. I don&#x27;t like being reminded of corporate sponsored social movements if I open facebook&#x2F;google&#x2F;amazon&#x2F;twitter. I don&#x27;t want my app reminding me to vote&#x2F;get vaccinated(I did both btw) every time I open it without a way to dismiss and select &#x27;I already did, stop reminding me.&#x27; I don&#x27;t want reddit creating a central sub-page for discussing [Current Event] within the narrow bounds of what their moderators think is acceptable. I don&#x27;t like non-dismissable context text on twitter and under youtube videos that are often off topic and triggered by bad speech detection that simply take you to a link dump of regular news articles. I don&#x27;t like the idea that there&#x27;s an oligopoly on &quot;truth&quot; and &quot;credible sources.&quot; No amount of branding will convince me that &quot;fact checkers&quot; are any more objective and impartial than regular newspaper columnists; fact checkers are what editors are supposed to be. There&#x27;s no academic rigor to fact checking, and the reality that so much casual skepticism on a variety of topics was suppressed and equivocated with being a flat-earther is sickening.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>vosper</author><text>&gt; No amount of branding will convince me that &quot;fact checkers&quot; are any more objective and impartial than regular newspaper columnists; fact checkers are what editors are supposed to be. There&#x27;s no academic rigor to fact checking<p>Matt Taibbi recently published an article about how the role and visibility of fact-checking has changed over recent years (the meat of this is in the second half of the article)<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;taibbi.substack.com&#x2F;p&#x2F;fact-checking-takes-another-beating" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;taibbi.substack.com&#x2F;p&#x2F;fact-checking-takes-another-be...</a></text></comment> |
20,997,314 | 20,997,459 | 1 | 3 | 20,995,273 | train | <story><title>The Internet Relies on People Working for Free</title><url>https://onezero.medium.com/the-internet-relies-on-people-working-for-free-a79104a68bcc</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>wvenable</author><text>I feel like there is an article a week about how open source developers are being used by corporations for free labor. I think there is a fundamental misunderstanding that these journalists aren&#x27;t grasping.<p>Nobody is doing anything they don&#x27;t want to do. Nobody is forced to build open source software. And, most importantly, most of these contributions aren&#x27;t worth enough individually to charge for. It&#x27;s only collectively that these contributions have value and we all collectively benefit from it. And for-profit companies are part of that collective benefit but that doesn&#x27;t mean money needs to be involved.<p>I&#x27;m working on an open source project right now -- I&#x27;ve put a lot of hours into it -- and it&#x27;s cool but there is no way to build a profitable business from it. It&#x27;s an end-user product, the small number of users will like it, and I just enjoyed building it. But I also don&#x27;t <i>want</i> to make it business. I already have a job.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rhizome</author><text>Nobody&#x27;s saying it has to be, uh...what&#x27;s the name of a profitable internet company that isn&#x27;t Facebook? But making demands on people who are working for free is <i>bad manners</i>. I don&#x27;t care if you think the internet changes everything, it&#x27;s still possible to be an asshole.<p>My off the cuff solution is for project owners to add a status flag to their issue trackers: PAID. Anybody can submit a bug as PAID, but it costs $50,000-100,000 to do so, per bug. And no private fixes: there is one version and everybody gets the benefit. No badgering on ETAs either.<p>If Ford thinks it has value, then the developer should get some of that value, and $100K for a suitable patchlevel of cURL might even be a low estimate.</text></comment> | <story><title>The Internet Relies on People Working for Free</title><url>https://onezero.medium.com/the-internet-relies-on-people-working-for-free-a79104a68bcc</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>wvenable</author><text>I feel like there is an article a week about how open source developers are being used by corporations for free labor. I think there is a fundamental misunderstanding that these journalists aren&#x27;t grasping.<p>Nobody is doing anything they don&#x27;t want to do. Nobody is forced to build open source software. And, most importantly, most of these contributions aren&#x27;t worth enough individually to charge for. It&#x27;s only collectively that these contributions have value and we all collectively benefit from it. And for-profit companies are part of that collective benefit but that doesn&#x27;t mean money needs to be involved.<p>I&#x27;m working on an open source project right now -- I&#x27;ve put a lot of hours into it -- and it&#x27;s cool but there is no way to build a profitable business from it. It&#x27;s an end-user product, the small number of users will like it, and I just enjoyed building it. But I also don&#x27;t <i>want</i> to make it business. I already have a job.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>svavs</author><text>&gt; Nobody is doing anything they don&#x27;t want to do. Nobody is forced to build open source software.<p>Many job postings list OSS contributions as a requirement &#x2F; desirable for employment. So, I&#x27;m not sure if your statement holds up.<p>I personally know developers that contribute to OSS because of this. And many that have burnt out because of the constant need to contribute.<p>Most OSS contributors do it for fun - but there is a section that do it because it&#x27;s becoming part of the interview &#x2F; job hunting process.</text></comment> |
1,339,694 | 1,339,539 | 1 | 3 | 1,339,413 | train | <story><title>Life is Beautiful</title><url>http://www.zeldman.com/2010/05/11/life-is-beautiful/</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>petercooper</author><text>He's moved on from 2009's year of negativity when the divorce seemed anything but a beautiful dance of protons:<p><a href="http://twitter.com/zeldman/status/1558664990" rel="nofollow">http://twitter.com/zeldman/status/1558664990</a> &#38; <a href="http://twitter.com/zeldman/status/12644932699" rel="nofollow">http://twitter.com/zeldman/status/12644932699</a><p>And it was only six months ago when he said it's necessary to have been abandoned, betrayed and ridiculed and to have a "restless, broken heart" in order to succeed: <a href="http://www.zeldman.com/2009/10/22/dirty-little-secret-of-success/" rel="nofollow">http://www.zeldman.com/2009/10/22/dirty-little-secret-of-suc...</a><p>Just his own output seems to demonstrate that maybe it does take some pain to feel truly grateful for what you do have, but, sadly, I doubt most people will appreciate that until, well, they've been through the mill too.</text></comment> | <story><title>Life is Beautiful</title><url>http://www.zeldman.com/2010/05/11/life-is-beautiful/</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>eitally</author><text>As the father of a [teething] toddler [with a chest cold] and someone who has to travel with increasing frequency, I completely understand how Jeff felt last night. I'm not sure how he drew a connection between the awesomeness of family and the beautiful proton dance at the office, but if the point was to reemphasize the importance of perspective, it was a good read.<p>This (posted on HN a few weeks ago), is quite a bit more coherent, though: <a href="http://patterico.com/2006/12/03/putting-things-in-perspective/" rel="nofollow">http://patterico.com/2006/12/03/putting-things-in-perspectiv...</a></text></comment> |
5,574,003 | 5,573,739 | 1 | 3 | 5,573,502 | train | <story><title>Co-founder breakups</title><url>http://harj.posthaven.com/co-founder-breakups</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>robotjosh</author><text>I cofounded a startup that had all of these issues! I was the technical founder along with 2 non-technical founders, they offered me 10% equity to develop a hardware product. Seemed like a good deal, nearly finished my work over 6 months. Then we get into techstars and I have to shut down my independent contractor practice and come on full time with a shitty salary to keep my equity. Also, I had to redesign the product in a way that added several magnitudes more work. Another problem was that one of the non-technical cofounders started calling himself the CTO and started ordering me around on technical issues that I have an education in and over a decade of experience on. After demanding to be an equal partner and CTO, I was kicked out with no equity and no nothing.</text></comment> | <story><title>Co-founder breakups</title><url>http://harj.posthaven.com/co-founder-breakups</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jordn</author><text>I'm actually a little surprised that an equal equity split is apparently the default and preferred option in the valley. It's quite an unspeakable topic in my experience so I'd appreciate if someone could confirm this.<p>I remember being told explicitly in one startup focused class at MIT that it was highly advisable to decide one way or another who would have the majority of shares. We even played a role playing game where an equal split was the only <i>wrong</i> answer. The idea was that not everyone will be sacrificing and committing equally and that it was better to figure that out upfront than have it play out down the line.</text></comment> |
39,440,884 | 39,440,114 | 1 | 2 | 39,439,986 | train | <story><title>Stonelifting Etiquette</title><url>https://liftingstones.org/articles/stonelifting-etiquette</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>brodouevencode</author><text>&gt; Return the stone<p>Cannot be stated enough. I hate gyms that turn a blind eye to people not replacing weights. I was recently visiting Orlando and went to a sort-of-well-known gym there (owner is a professional body builder) and was amazed at how many plates were on the floor. The equipment was as high-end as you could get (the best Rogue&#x2F;HS) but plates EVERYWHERE to trip over. It was pretty disappointing.<p>Leave the rack in better shape than when you found it. That&#x27;s a metaphor for life.</text></comment> | <story><title>Stonelifting Etiquette</title><url>https://liftingstones.org/articles/stonelifting-etiquette</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>db39</author><text>Wasn&#x27;t expecting to see this on Hacker News! I&#x27;m the creator of liftingstones.org - happy to answer any questions about the project!</text></comment> |
18,746,155 | 18,745,893 | 1 | 2 | 18,745,624 | train | <story><title>Gatwick drones pair 'no longer suspects'</title><url>https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-46665615</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ajb257</author><text>Whilst a free press is important, I would argue that &#x27;a man and a woman have been held in connection with the Gatwick Airport drone incident&#x27; would suffice. Kudos to the BBC for recognising this.<p>It&#x27;s not in the public interest for us to know exactly who they are unless they&#x27;re actually found guilty of a crime. Publishing their names and pictures before _even being charged_ does nothing but open potentially innocent people up to danger.<p>Whoever caused the Gatwick chaos needs to be brought to justice, but this is beyond reckless</text></item><item><author>Normal_gaussian</author><text>I&#x27;m sure the two of them are enjoying having their faces plastered over the sunday news (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bbc.co.uk&#x2F;news&#x2F;blogs&#x2F;the_papers" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bbc.co.uk&#x2F;news&#x2F;blogs&#x2F;the_papers</a>) and sorting through all the lovely messages they&#x27;ve received over the last day or so.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>DanBC</author><text>&gt; It&#x27;s not in the public interest for us to know exactly who they are unless they&#x27;re actually found guilty of a crime.<p>The press always say that naming people who&#x27;ve been arrested is an important measure against authoritarian regimes. It allows the public to know whether police powers of arrest are being misused or not.<p>They appear to have lost this argument, because this is in tension with people&#x27;s right to privacy and rights to a fair trial by the courts not by the media.<p>There&#x27;s some interesting info here about different approaches: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.telegraph.co.uk&#x2F;news&#x2F;uknews&#x2F;law-and-order&#x2F;10063422&#x2F;Police-should-name-arrested-suspects-that-are-already-identified-by-the-press-Theresa-May-says.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.telegraph.co.uk&#x2F;news&#x2F;uknews&#x2F;law-and-order&#x2F;100634...</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theguardian.com&#x2F;media&#x2F;2013&#x2F;apr&#x2F;21&#x2F;press-intrusion-name-suspects" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theguardian.com&#x2F;media&#x2F;2013&#x2F;apr&#x2F;21&#x2F;press-intrusio...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Gatwick drones pair 'no longer suspects'</title><url>https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-46665615</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ajb257</author><text>Whilst a free press is important, I would argue that &#x27;a man and a woman have been held in connection with the Gatwick Airport drone incident&#x27; would suffice. Kudos to the BBC for recognising this.<p>It&#x27;s not in the public interest for us to know exactly who they are unless they&#x27;re actually found guilty of a crime. Publishing their names and pictures before _even being charged_ does nothing but open potentially innocent people up to danger.<p>Whoever caused the Gatwick chaos needs to be brought to justice, but this is beyond reckless</text></item><item><author>Normal_gaussian</author><text>I&#x27;m sure the two of them are enjoying having their faces plastered over the sunday news (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bbc.co.uk&#x2F;news&#x2F;blogs&#x2F;the_papers" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bbc.co.uk&#x2F;news&#x2F;blogs&#x2F;the_papers</a>) and sorting through all the lovely messages they&#x27;ve received over the last day or so.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Carpetsmoker</author><text>I would argue that publishing the names <i>at all</i> isn&#x27;t particularly news-worthy. The right to privacy exists, too.<p>In the justice system it&#x27;s the judge which rules a sentence. Years – or even decades – of public shaming doesn&#x27;t seem fair to me. Committing a crime doesn&#x27;t mean you&#x27;re no longer dealing with a person with real feelings. Publishing names and photos strikes me as &quot;2 minutes of hate&quot;, and not &quot;news&quot;.<p>Also note that it doesn&#x27;t just affect the person(s). Family members or even completely unrelated people with similar names can get threatened.</text></comment> |
30,486,980 | 30,486,603 | 1 | 3 | 30,480,083 | train | <story><title>How to waste time and overcomplicate things</title><url>https://ryanwarnock.me/blog/260222.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>kqr</author><text>Note that in this case it happened when the author had the full context of what as needed to get done.<p>In business, the situation is usually even worse. The customer needs some problem solved. They assume the easiest way there is to get a different problem solved. They ask a customer support-type person about that. The CS person assumes a solution is best, and then go to a project manager. The PM assumes a particular implementation is best, and goes to a developer.<p>By the time the developer is trying to solve the customer problem, it has been transformed into a different problem at least four times, by mere assumptions that rarely have anything to do with reality.<p>Always, always ask &quot;Why am I doing this? What evidence do I have that suggests this specific thing absolutely needs to be done?&quot;<p>One of my favourite quotes is &quot;It ain&#x27;t what you don&#x27;t know that gets you in trouble, it&#x27;s what you know for sure that just ain&#x27;t so.&quot;<p>----<p>It&#x27;s not a small effect either. I&#x27;ve heard serious, well-reasoned estimates ranging between 50 % and 99 % of our work being completely unnecessary busywork.<p>Imagine that. In the most pessimistic (optimistic?) case you could spend half the year sipping drinks on a beach and still get just as much truly useful work done.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>xupybd</author><text>I work for someone that will pick apart your every idea and make sure you are solving the right problem. The number of times I&#x27;ve been convinced we had to do something for him to figure out the problem is actually in another part of the business is embarrassing. It&#x27;s a skill I hope to develop myself. It&#x27;s much easier to just sign off on something and say that&#x27;s a great idea go for it. To make sure you understand the problem down to the smallest detail and clearly assess if it&#x27;s the best solution requires a dedication and focus that many managers lack.</text></comment> | <story><title>How to waste time and overcomplicate things</title><url>https://ryanwarnock.me/blog/260222.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>kqr</author><text>Note that in this case it happened when the author had the full context of what as needed to get done.<p>In business, the situation is usually even worse. The customer needs some problem solved. They assume the easiest way there is to get a different problem solved. They ask a customer support-type person about that. The CS person assumes a solution is best, and then go to a project manager. The PM assumes a particular implementation is best, and goes to a developer.<p>By the time the developer is trying to solve the customer problem, it has been transformed into a different problem at least four times, by mere assumptions that rarely have anything to do with reality.<p>Always, always ask &quot;Why am I doing this? What evidence do I have that suggests this specific thing absolutely needs to be done?&quot;<p>One of my favourite quotes is &quot;It ain&#x27;t what you don&#x27;t know that gets you in trouble, it&#x27;s what you know for sure that just ain&#x27;t so.&quot;<p>----<p>It&#x27;s not a small effect either. I&#x27;ve heard serious, well-reasoned estimates ranging between 50 % and 99 % of our work being completely unnecessary busywork.<p>Imagine that. In the most pessimistic (optimistic?) case you could spend half the year sipping drinks on a beach and still get just as much truly useful work done.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ryanwarnock</author><text>Without trying to make it sound too profound - Since I had the realisation of the mistakes I made in the process I wrote about, I have actually been going over other times I had found myself frustrated and most of them could have been prevented by doing as you suggest. Simply asking &quot;why am I doing this?&quot; and I think more importantly &quot;what is the evidence supporting that this needs to be done?&quot;.<p>I had a good reason to write those scripts because I thought I had a problem, if I had tried to find evidence that I actually had that problem and I needed those scripts (by just doing a test run) I quickly would have realised it was all unnecessary.</text></comment> |
25,741,468 | 25,739,103 | 1 | 2 | 25,735,032 | train | <story><title>Ubiquiti Networks Breach</title><url>https://mailchi.mp/ubnt/account-notification?e=30527b2904</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>twblalock</author><text>I bought a Unifi Dream Machine last year because it was an all-in-one device that seemed like the simplest way to have multiple VLANs on my home network, in order to segregate my IoT devices and security system from the rest of my home network. At the time, I didn&#x27;t see any similar products.<p>Are there any other &quot;prosumer&quot;-type devices on the market that could replace a Dream Machine? If Unifi is going downhill it doesn&#x27;t seem like I&#x27;ll be going with them for a replacement.</text></item><item><author>ex_ubiquiti</author><text>As a former Ubiquiti employee, I&#x27;m sad to watch the slow decline of the company. There was a steady exodus of engineering talent through 2020. The CEO was focused on moving to countries where engineering was cheaper and employees complained less about constant crunch mode. If you search around, you can find interviews where he brags about closing the San Jose office because he thought everyone there was too entitled.<p>The saddest part is that we had many good engineers who could have continued to do amazing things with the UniFi momentum. So much time was wasted on dead end products like FrontRow. Most everyone I know left for jobs where we were treated better and paid more.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kyrra</author><text>The recommendation I&#x27;ve seen around is to run opnsense or pfsense for the router, then unifi APs. (I first found out about it from a YouTube channel as being a way.
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtube.com&#x2F;user&#x2F;TheTecknowledge" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtube.com&#x2F;user&#x2F;TheTecknowledge</a> . They are PFsense resellers, which is why they talk about it. But they could go straight unifi but they don&#x27;t. After running PSNs myself for the last 4 years, I like opnsense being a little more open to community involvement, versus the control that PFsense has.).<p>Opnsense forums have lots of recommendation for hardware, which is the path I went recently. I went with <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;protectli.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;protectli.com&#x2F;</a>, which are just some rebranded hardware sold on Alibaba, but they provide support ontop of the hardware.</text></comment> | <story><title>Ubiquiti Networks Breach</title><url>https://mailchi.mp/ubnt/account-notification?e=30527b2904</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>twblalock</author><text>I bought a Unifi Dream Machine last year because it was an all-in-one device that seemed like the simplest way to have multiple VLANs on my home network, in order to segregate my IoT devices and security system from the rest of my home network. At the time, I didn&#x27;t see any similar products.<p>Are there any other &quot;prosumer&quot;-type devices on the market that could replace a Dream Machine? If Unifi is going downhill it doesn&#x27;t seem like I&#x27;ll be going with them for a replacement.</text></item><item><author>ex_ubiquiti</author><text>As a former Ubiquiti employee, I&#x27;m sad to watch the slow decline of the company. There was a steady exodus of engineering talent through 2020. The CEO was focused on moving to countries where engineering was cheaper and employees complained less about constant crunch mode. If you search around, you can find interviews where he brags about closing the San Jose office because he thought everyone there was too entitled.<p>The saddest part is that we had many good engineers who could have continued to do amazing things with the UniFi momentum. So much time was wasted on dead end products like FrontRow. Most everyone I know left for jobs where we were treated better and paid more.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>floatboth</author><text>If you only need to VLAN-tag the 4 ports on that one device, you can do it with like… about literally anything? e.g. an Archer C1750 with OpenWRT does that easily.<p>The benefit of UniFi is that you can centrally control a bunch of switches. It&#x27;s definitely overkill and overpriced if you just want an all-in-one.</text></comment> |
34,541,315 | 34,540,421 | 1 | 2 | 34,540,251 | train | <story><title>SQLAlchemy 2.0 Released</title><url>https://www.sqlalchemy.org/blog/2023/01/26/sqlalchemy-2.0.0-released/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>zzzeek</author><text>I would urge people who have had issues with the documentation to give the 2.0 documentation a try. Many aspects of it have been completely rewritten, both to correctly describe things in terms of the new APIs as well as to modernize a lot of old documentation that was written many years ago.<p>First off, SQLAlchemy&#x27;s docs are pretty easy to get to, for a direct link just go to:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;docs.sqlalchemy.org&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;docs.sqlalchemy.org&#x2F;</a><p>It&#x27;s an esoteric URL I know! ;)<p>from there, docs that are new include:<p>- the Quickstart, so one can see in one quick page what SQLAlchemy usually looks like: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;docs.sqlalchemy.org&#x2F;en&#x2F;20&#x2F;orm&#x2F;quickstart.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;docs.sqlalchemy.org&#x2F;en&#x2F;20&#x2F;orm&#x2F;quickstart.html</a><p>- the Unified Tutorial, which is a dive into basically every important concept across Core &#x2F; ORM : <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;docs.sqlalchemy.org&#x2F;en&#x2F;20&#x2F;tutorial&#x2F;index.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;docs.sqlalchemy.org&#x2F;en&#x2F;20&#x2F;tutorial&#x2F;index.html</a><p>- the ORM Querying guide, which is a &quot;how to&quot; for a full range of SQL generation: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;docs.sqlalchemy.org&#x2F;en&#x2F;20&#x2F;orm&#x2F;queryguide&#x2F;index.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;docs.sqlalchemy.org&#x2F;en&#x2F;20&#x2F;orm&#x2F;queryguide&#x2F;index.html</a><p>it&#x27;s still a lot to read of course but part of the idea of SQLAlchemy 2.0 was to create a straighter and more consistent narrative, while it continues to take on a very broad-based problem space. If you compare the docs to those of like, PostgreSQL or MySQL, those docs have a lot of sections and text too (vastly more). It&#x27;s a big library.</text></comment> | <story><title>SQLAlchemy 2.0 Released</title><url>https://www.sqlalchemy.org/blog/2023/01/26/sqlalchemy-2.0.0-released/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>oblio</author><text>Does it fully support types?<p>Edit:<p>Oh, it seems to, that&#x27;s big. For comparison, Hibernate, the Java mammoth ORM, as far as I know, never fully moved to Java 5 generics (released 18 years ago).<p>Also dataclasses and enums. Also big, since there used to be a lot of duplication in configuration, SQLAlchemy doing its thing and the rest of the codebase just using now standard Python 3 features.<p>Cool!</text></comment> |
34,024,347 | 34,024,189 | 1 | 2 | 34,022,797 | train | <story><title>Open source USB C camera with C mount lens, MIPI Sensor, Lattice FPGA, USB 3.0</title><url>https://www.circuitvalley.com/2022/06/pensource-usb-c-industrial-camera-c-mount-fpga-imx-mipi-usb-3-crosslinknx.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>britneybitch</author><text>&gt; At that price-point, are there other devices on the market that already fulfill the need?<p>No there aren&#x27;t. Webcams in 2022 all have miniscule lenses&#x2F;sensors paired with decade-old tech and none of the big players seem interested in producing anything higher quality.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;reincubate.com&#x2F;support&#x2F;how-to&#x2F;why-are-webcams-bad&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;reincubate.com&#x2F;support&#x2F;how-to&#x2F;why-are-webcams-bad&#x2F;</a><p>If you want high-quality video capture, your options are pretty much just (1) plug in a &quot;real&quot; $$$$ DSLR&#x2F;mirrorless camera which will be fiddly and prone to overheating, or (2) use a cell phone as an IP camera, which will add noticeable latency and is still a tiny sensor compensated for by AI.<p>If this was for sale fully assembled I&#x27;d easily spend a few hundred on it. I don&#x27;t care about networking, just give me plain old USB.</text></item><item><author>AceJohnny2</author><text>At a guess, this would likely cost in the high-hundreds to thousands of dollars if &quot;mass&quot; produced.<p>&quot;mass&quot; production is <i>really</i> expensive, as you have to add design-for-manufacturability and design-for-testing, and account for yield loss and customer support (how happy would you be if your expensive camera appeared DOA?).<p>At that price-point, are there other devices on the market that already fulfill the need?<p>&gt; <i>Adding network connectivity to this project probably wouldn&#x27;t be a large endeavour</i><p>lol</text></item><item><author>imiric</author><text>This looks wonderful!<p>I wish it could be mass produced, with some minor polish. I would throw money at it instantly. If the author is reading this, have you considered crowd sourcing it? It&#x27;s great that everything is open source, but putting one together is above my skill level.<p>I&#x27;m desperately looking for a hackable webcam that isn&#x27;t a huge privacy risk. Adding network connectivity to this project probably wouldn&#x27;t be a large endeavour.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bryanlarsen</author><text>&gt;&gt; At that price-point, are there other devices on the market that already fulfill the need?<p>&gt; No there aren&#x27;t.<p>There are tons of cameras that meet this need. They&#x27;re &quot;machine vision&quot; or &quot;scientific&quot; cameras, google for those. Edmund Scientific has a good selection. They&#x27;re ridiculously expensive for what you get if you&#x27;re comparing against a webcam or a surveillance camera since they&#x27;re very similar to those for &gt;10x the price. That&#x27;s the price of low volume assembly, proper support, et cetera.</text></comment> | <story><title>Open source USB C camera with C mount lens, MIPI Sensor, Lattice FPGA, USB 3.0</title><url>https://www.circuitvalley.com/2022/06/pensource-usb-c-industrial-camera-c-mount-fpga-imx-mipi-usb-3-crosslinknx.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>britneybitch</author><text>&gt; At that price-point, are there other devices on the market that already fulfill the need?<p>No there aren&#x27;t. Webcams in 2022 all have miniscule lenses&#x2F;sensors paired with decade-old tech and none of the big players seem interested in producing anything higher quality.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;reincubate.com&#x2F;support&#x2F;how-to&#x2F;why-are-webcams-bad&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;reincubate.com&#x2F;support&#x2F;how-to&#x2F;why-are-webcams-bad&#x2F;</a><p>If you want high-quality video capture, your options are pretty much just (1) plug in a &quot;real&quot; $$$$ DSLR&#x2F;mirrorless camera which will be fiddly and prone to overheating, or (2) use a cell phone as an IP camera, which will add noticeable latency and is still a tiny sensor compensated for by AI.<p>If this was for sale fully assembled I&#x27;d easily spend a few hundred on it. I don&#x27;t care about networking, just give me plain old USB.</text></item><item><author>AceJohnny2</author><text>At a guess, this would likely cost in the high-hundreds to thousands of dollars if &quot;mass&quot; produced.<p>&quot;mass&quot; production is <i>really</i> expensive, as you have to add design-for-manufacturability and design-for-testing, and account for yield loss and customer support (how happy would you be if your expensive camera appeared DOA?).<p>At that price-point, are there other devices on the market that already fulfill the need?<p>&gt; <i>Adding network connectivity to this project probably wouldn&#x27;t be a large endeavour</i><p>lol</text></item><item><author>imiric</author><text>This looks wonderful!<p>I wish it could be mass produced, with some minor polish. I would throw money at it instantly. If the author is reading this, have you considered crowd sourcing it? It&#x27;s great that everything is open source, but putting one together is above my skill level.<p>I&#x27;m desperately looking for a hackable webcam that isn&#x27;t a huge privacy risk. Adding network connectivity to this project probably wouldn&#x27;t be a large endeavour.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>542458</author><text>There is another option: You can buy relatively high quality PTZ cameras designed for low-end broadcast (HoW and legislative mostly). Some will output to USB, at the higher end you’ll need to capture SDI, NDI, or 2110.<p>I have a coworker with this setup and it’s easily the best video quality I’ve ever seen on a teams call even in his fairly dark room.</text></comment> |
18,560,436 | 18,560,523 | 1 | 2 | 18,560,203 | train | <story><title>Microsoft Is Worth as Much as Apple. How Did That Happen?</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/29/technology/microsoft-apple-worth-how.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>cwyers</author><text>Yes, how is it that a company that&#x27;s been around as long that&#x27;s a market leader or second place in a large number of market segments can be so valuable? Truly, it&#x27;s mysterious.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ido</author><text>The real funny thing is that at first I wasn&#x27;t sure if they were surprised <i>MS</i> is so valuable or <i>Apple</i> is so valuable.<p><i>someone who remembers MS being the most valuable company in the world &amp; Apple being on the brink of bankruptcy</i></text></comment> | <story><title>Microsoft Is Worth as Much as Apple. How Did That Happen?</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/29/technology/microsoft-apple-worth-how.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>cwyers</author><text>Yes, how is it that a company that&#x27;s been around as long that&#x27;s a market leader or second place in a large number of market segments can be so valuable? Truly, it&#x27;s mysterious.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>turc1656</author><text>I know, right? I was always wondering how it could be that a company which has virtually every single large corporation licencing its OS and Office products on a recurring basis, not to mention an increasing number of cloud services&#x2F;storage, web servers, programming tools, and database tools could have eclipsed a company which has one main product that requires constant innovation to keep people buying.</text></comment> |
32,084,004 | 32,082,779 | 1 | 3 | 32,033,905 | train | <story><title>It's normal to play the same song over and over again (2016)</title><url>https://www.kqed.org/arts/11523994/repeat-after-me-its-normal-to-play-the-same-song-over-and-over-again</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Transfinity</author><text>Semi professional musician here. Repetition goes way beyond what the author mentions:<p>- Most music is highly repetitive, often recycling 2 or 3 short segments (chorus, verse) with minor variations to fill out a whole song. Coltrane is known for his avant-garde composition, and even he repeats (often on a much smaller scale than a pop tune).<p>- The work of being a musician is repetitive. Learning (memorizing) songs takes reps! Then you&#x27;ve got to keep them fresh, teach them to new band members, etc. You probably have a limited book, and you know what the crowd pleasers are. Unless you&#x27;re big enough to have a following cutting a song you&#x27;re sick of isn&#x27;t a problem, but filling out a set might be. Between rehearsal, gigs and practicing at home I probably play through most of my band&#x27;s book at least twice a week.<p>- Being a musician is very physical, which means you&#x27;re drilling exercises in your daily routine. As a brass player, I run more or less the same set of warmups, range builders and flexibility exercises every day. Drummers do rudiments. String players have their own shtick.<p>As far as listening to music, I don&#x27;t typically put something on repeat unless I&#x27;m trying to transcribe it. But I&#x27;ll listen to a song, and there&#x27;s a chance it&#x27;ll play on repeat in my head all day (or all week!). Steely Dan and LCD Soundsystem are particular earworms for me. It wasn&#x27;t until college I realized this isn&#x27;t true for many people.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dhosek</author><text>I once had a gig playing piano at a restaurant. It was a weekday mid-day stretch and I was scheduled for about 3 or 4 hours, as I recall. I put together about a 90 minute set of stuff out of my fake books that I figured I could do without embarrassing myself and surely no one would stay at the restaurant longer than 90 minutes.<p>Well, being weekday mid-day, the restaurant was nearly empty and there was some guy who sat there by himself for over two hours. I ended up taking some of my standards and doing what I could to stretch them out, playing lots of repeats, doing extended improvs over the changes. I turned Herbie Hancock’s “Chameleon” which I normally did as about a 4–5 minute piece following the structure of the Maynard Ferguson version which was the basis for the charts that I originally learned the song from into a 10 minute piece with extended improvs and some bonus repeats. “Night Train” turned into another 10-minute number. And this guy just <i>did not leave</i>. Finally, when I was almost out of material, he got up, dropped a twenty¹ in my tip jar and headed out.<p>⸻<p>1. I also got paid by the restaurant, but as I recall, he was the only customer out of the single-digit number of diners in the restaurant who left a tip.</text></comment> | <story><title>It's normal to play the same song over and over again (2016)</title><url>https://www.kqed.org/arts/11523994/repeat-after-me-its-normal-to-play-the-same-song-over-and-over-again</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Transfinity</author><text>Semi professional musician here. Repetition goes way beyond what the author mentions:<p>- Most music is highly repetitive, often recycling 2 or 3 short segments (chorus, verse) with minor variations to fill out a whole song. Coltrane is known for his avant-garde composition, and even he repeats (often on a much smaller scale than a pop tune).<p>- The work of being a musician is repetitive. Learning (memorizing) songs takes reps! Then you&#x27;ve got to keep them fresh, teach them to new band members, etc. You probably have a limited book, and you know what the crowd pleasers are. Unless you&#x27;re big enough to have a following cutting a song you&#x27;re sick of isn&#x27;t a problem, but filling out a set might be. Between rehearsal, gigs and practicing at home I probably play through most of my band&#x27;s book at least twice a week.<p>- Being a musician is very physical, which means you&#x27;re drilling exercises in your daily routine. As a brass player, I run more or less the same set of warmups, range builders and flexibility exercises every day. Drummers do rudiments. String players have their own shtick.<p>As far as listening to music, I don&#x27;t typically put something on repeat unless I&#x27;m trying to transcribe it. But I&#x27;ll listen to a song, and there&#x27;s a chance it&#x27;ll play on repeat in my head all day (or all week!). Steely Dan and LCD Soundsystem are particular earworms for me. It wasn&#x27;t until college I realized this isn&#x27;t true for many people.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>FumblingBear</author><text>Thanks for sharing your experience with us!<p>I&#x27;m not a professional musician, but I&#x27;ve played and performed in different settings for about 15 years.<p>Until reading your comment, I didn&#x27;t realize that many people don&#x27;t get songs stuck in their head. I often get very long and complex songs stuck in my head for hours to days. Sometimes it&#x27;s just portions, but sometimes it can be the full song.<p>I don&#x27;t quite know how to describe my recollection of music, but it seems to be somewhat akin to eiditic memory, but for sounds. After looking into things, the term eichoic memory seems to come up, but I&#x27;m not sure it quite encapsulates what I&#x27;m trying to express.<p>Out of curiousity, do you have aphantasia? I do, and often wonder if the strength of my music recollection comes from a lack of visual recollection in my mind.<p>Sometimes it takes a few listens to fully memorize a song, but I can revisit music many years later and still have perfect recollection of the piece despite the complexity of the music I tend towards.<p>For example, my favorite band is Between the Buried and Me (a progressive metal band) and their compositions tend to use a ton of complex and mixed meter, as well as non-repetitive rhythmic patterns. Despite all that, I have perfect recollection of their music—even for songs over 17 minutes long.<p>Sorry for the long response—your comment just triggered some things I&#x27;ve been thinking about for a while and I wanted to process them and share.</text></comment> |
39,402,957 | 39,400,514 | 1 | 3 | 39,395,329 | train | <story><title>German credit agency earns millions through unlawful customer manipulation</title><url>https://noyb.eu/en/german-credit-agency-earns-millions-through-unlawful-customer-manipulation</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ciclotrone</author><text>I find it quite disturbing that high taxation is seen as a negative aspect of Europe. I lived in Italy, France and Germany, and I enjoyed public healthcare and education of very high standard at very affordable prices, and free in the limit that one cannot afford to pay for them.<p>As a relative of a person with a chronic disease I can tell you that on the one hand if we are not bankrupt it is because of public healthcare, and on the other I&#x27;m proud of contributing through my taxes so that anybody in need can have the same treatment irrespective of their economic situation.</text></item><item><author>ArmandGrillet</author><text>Finally. Germany combines some of the worst aspects of the US (credit ranking, complicated abortion process, private healthcare if you want decent treatments) with the worst aspects of Europe (low digitalization, high taxation, recursive federalism: within the country and within the EU).<p>A country like the Netherlands has its own issues (mainly housing) but doesn&#x27;t have the myriad of pain points you can find in Germany like Schufa, anti-customer contract rules, or public healthcare inaccessible despite paying more than 400€&#x2F;month for it as a single individual.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mk89</author><text>Maybe nitpicking here, but healthcare is not financed with your taxes in Germany - it&#x27;s financed by statutory health insurance (SHI) and private health insurance (PHI). The State &quot;simply&quot; sets the framework&#x2F;legislation&#x2F;etc. so that it doesn&#x27;t get wild (like probably it is in the USA). [0]<p>In Italy it&#x27;s the state&#x2F;regions that take your taxes and pay the health system.<p>[0]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bundesgesundheitsministerium.de&#x2F;fileadmin&#x2F;Dateien&#x2F;5_Publikationen&#x2F;Gesundheit&#x2F;Broschueren&#x2F;200629_BMG_Das_deutsche_Gesundheitssystem_EN.pdf" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bundesgesundheitsministerium.de&#x2F;fileadmin&#x2F;Dateie...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>German credit agency earns millions through unlawful customer manipulation</title><url>https://noyb.eu/en/german-credit-agency-earns-millions-through-unlawful-customer-manipulation</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ciclotrone</author><text>I find it quite disturbing that high taxation is seen as a negative aspect of Europe. I lived in Italy, France and Germany, and I enjoyed public healthcare and education of very high standard at very affordable prices, and free in the limit that one cannot afford to pay for them.<p>As a relative of a person with a chronic disease I can tell you that on the one hand if we are not bankrupt it is because of public healthcare, and on the other I&#x27;m proud of contributing through my taxes so that anybody in need can have the same treatment irrespective of their economic situation.</text></item><item><author>ArmandGrillet</author><text>Finally. Germany combines some of the worst aspects of the US (credit ranking, complicated abortion process, private healthcare if you want decent treatments) with the worst aspects of Europe (low digitalization, high taxation, recursive federalism: within the country and within the EU).<p>A country like the Netherlands has its own issues (mainly housing) but doesn&#x27;t have the myriad of pain points you can find in Germany like Schufa, anti-customer contract rules, or public healthcare inaccessible despite paying more than 400€&#x2F;month for it as a single individual.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dkural</author><text>There is no capital gains tax - Germany has less progressive taxation than the United States! VAT in general is a regressive tax, that many EU countries inordinately rely on. A US-citizen has to pay taxes no matter where they reside, but the wealthier citizens of EU countries can easily evade taxes by domiciling themselves in various tax havens around the EU. Germany does a very poor job collecting taxes from the highest earners.</text></comment> |
7,407,894 | 7,407,830 | 1 | 2 | 7,407,796 | train | <story><title>Dear AirBNB, No thank you for the XXX Freak Fest</title><url>http://dearairbnb.tumblr.com/post/79657042387/dear-airbnb-no-thank-you-for-the-xxx-freak-fest-you</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>gkoberger</author><text>Unfortunately, this is why there&#x27;s hotel regulations. I think AirBnb is net-good, but it certainly is going to make a few people&#x27;s lives miserable in the meantime. Hopefully AirBnb finds a way to mitigate these issues.<p>That being said, I guarantee you were violating your lease when you used AirBnb. And, you approved the person to stay in your house. If anyone should be mad, it&#x27;s your neighbors and apartment owner -- they followed the rules. This is really unfortunate, but it&#x27;s not all AirBnb&#x27;s fault.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>oskarth</author><text>You are saying:<p>(a) This could never happen a hotel room.<p>(b) Since Airbnb is illegal in NYC, it&#x27;s not Airbnb&#x27;s fault someone is trusting them and their vetting system in NYC.*<p>Both seems false to me.<p>* Obviously it&#x27;s not their &quot;fault&quot;, but they should take responsibility, just like an insurance company &#x2F; hotel chain would.<p>ADDITION: What&#x27;s the purpose of Airbnb&#x27;s vetting&#x2F;trust system? Is it not the same as the purpose of hotel regulation? Should they not both serve a similar function?</text></comment> | <story><title>Dear AirBNB, No thank you for the XXX Freak Fest</title><url>http://dearairbnb.tumblr.com/post/79657042387/dear-airbnb-no-thank-you-for-the-xxx-freak-fest-you</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>gkoberger</author><text>Unfortunately, this is why there&#x27;s hotel regulations. I think AirBnb is net-good, but it certainly is going to make a few people&#x27;s lives miserable in the meantime. Hopefully AirBnb finds a way to mitigate these issues.<p>That being said, I guarantee you were violating your lease when you used AirBnb. And, you approved the person to stay in your house. If anyone should be mad, it&#x27;s your neighbors and apartment owner -- they followed the rules. This is really unfortunate, but it&#x27;s not all AirBnb&#x27;s fault.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>sliverstorm</author><text><i>Hopefully AirBnb finds a way to mitigate these issues.</i><p>Perhaps with rules? Of the type one might describe as &quot;regulations&quot;?</text></comment> |
12,122,153 | 12,121,616 | 1 | 2 | 12,120,752 | train | <story><title>John Carmack on Inlined Code (2014)</title><url>http://number-none.com/blow/blog/programming/2014/09/26/carmack-on-inlined-code.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dzdt</author><text>I have had the pleasure to work with lots of other people&#x27;s code of varying styles and quality. Nothing is harder to read and understand than code which is deeply nested calls from one little helper (or wrapper) function to another. Nothing is easier to read and understand than code which just flows straight through from top to bottom of a big function.<p>There are other tradeoffs of code reuse and speed and worst-case-speed and probability of introducing bugs. If you haven&#x27;t read the article, do, its worth it.<p>I love that Carmack tries to measure which styles introduce more bugs! Who else does that? Seriously, I would love to see more of that.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jameshart</author><text>I don&#x27;t think I can agree with &quot;Nothing is easier to read and understand than code which just flows straight through from top to bottom of a big function&quot; in the general case.<p>I <i>will</i> agree that if you are coding in the kind of environment Carmack is talking about, where you are writing code which interacts with massive shared global state, that purely procedural structured code is easiest to understand, because you can be sure that you can see all interactions with global data structures in one place.<p>But if you don&#x27;t have massive shared global state, I&#x27;d argue that calling subfunctions is a hugely valuable aid to understanding, since it allows you to reason much more about the way data dependencies flow through code when you can be sure that a call to a function means that that function can only act on the data structures passed in to it and is guaranteed not to affect anything else. I would much rather in that case see:<p><pre><code> a = subOperationA(arg)
b = subOperationB(a)
c = subOperationC(a, b)
d = subOperationD(b, c)
return d
</code></pre>
than see those three suboperations inlined and have to figure out for myself how the data dependencies flow through the code.</text></comment> | <story><title>John Carmack on Inlined Code (2014)</title><url>http://number-none.com/blow/blog/programming/2014/09/26/carmack-on-inlined-code.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dzdt</author><text>I have had the pleasure to work with lots of other people&#x27;s code of varying styles and quality. Nothing is harder to read and understand than code which is deeply nested calls from one little helper (or wrapper) function to another. Nothing is easier to read and understand than code which just flows straight through from top to bottom of a big function.<p>There are other tradeoffs of code reuse and speed and worst-case-speed and probability of introducing bugs. If you haven&#x27;t read the article, do, its worth it.<p>I love that Carmack tries to measure which styles introduce more bugs! Who else does that? Seriously, I would love to see more of that.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kminehart</author><text>Good Lord yes. When I was working on point of sale machines for Toshiba, there was this unbelievable depth of inheritance and ridiculously deep callstack constantly, and it made fixing any minor bug take weeks.<p>* abstract class Connection would have maybe 3 or 4 methods;<p>* DataConnection would extend Connection and add a couple more methods that were specific to some proprietary protocol.<p>* POSDataConnection would extend DataConnection and wrap this proprietary protocol for POS machines<p>* ControllerDataConnection would extend POSDataConnection because a Point of Sale controller is technically a POS machine with a bit more functionality (Really just a couple flags turned on).<p>* There was plenty more in between; it&#x27;s been so long now that I&#x27;ve forgotten it all.<p>It&#x27;s just like we all learned in college! Object Oriented programming is supposed to model real-life! Except no, it&#x27;s not. That&#x27;s stupid and complicated.<p>Now the part of the OS that was C&#x2F;C++ was absolutely beautiful. It took the UNIX style of programming &#x2F; applications seriously; every little piece was its own program, and it worked flawlessly. Anyone could jump in and get to work immediately because it was so well written. You could follow any program top to bottom and it just... made sense!</text></comment> |
6,267,977 | 6,268,000 | 1 | 2 | 6,267,356 | train | <story><title>Prototype Hardware from Lockheed Martin Surveillance Project</title><url>http://www.ebay.com/itm/Prototype-Hardware-from-Lockheed-Martin-Surveillance-Project-/221272094476?</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jacquesm</author><text>If genuine this amounts to purchasing stolen goods, buyer beware. Not that at $10M I think there&#x27;ll be any takers.<p>As always there is likely another side to this story and if you&#x27;re a US buyer of this batch of stuff you&#x27;re probably going to be dealing with that aspect of the sale.<p>The way I read this is: founder got screwed, founder uses ebay to put the pressure on his former employer to see if he can get compensation by threatening to expose the crown jewels of the company which he developed.<p>On another level, this story is just like any other minority shareholder dispute and founders should <i>definitely</i> take a warning from this.<p>It is relatively easy to screw a minority shareholder, even a founder, if everybody else colludes. This can happen and it does happen, hell, it happened to me. If you&#x27;re technically savvy but not business savvy you might as well settle for a fat salary in many cases, unless there is ample paperwork to document your position and sufficient trust between you and your partners.<p>I wouldn&#x27;t touch this auction with a 10&#x27; pole, but there might be someone out there that takes the bait and thinks that this is peanuts for the goods from a counter-intelligence perspective.<p>To create a competing product based on this data would be a very stupid move and at that price I think you could do a lot better by doing it again with today&#x27;s tech.<p>Essentially he is saying: my 10% of the company is worth 10 million dollars (or more) and that alone might be an indication of the kind of thing that lies at the heart of the conflict.<p>I hope the poster finds a way to fund his lawsuit in a less controversial way, if only because he&#x27;s selling some of the evidence that he&#x27;ll need in order to win it and because he&#x27;s opening himself up to a substantial counter-claim and actively helps the opposition with an own goal.<p>If the poster of the ebay auction reads this: retract this auction, get a lawyer, if possible on a contingency basis but <i>at least</i> for a few hours (which you should be able to afford out of pocket) to research the legality of your position. If a lawyer will sign off on this action in writing then go for it. But I doubt that will happen. Hint: a minor shareholder does not have the right to pre-emptively strike at the company based on the outcome of a lawsuit that still has to be fought. It is very well possible that when the dust settles that you&#x27;ll own the assets of the company but until then this stuff is company property and you as a shareholder are acting against the interests of that company and probably against the terms of your employment contract. That&#x27;s a (very) bad spot to be in and it may very well annul any and all rights that you still have or cause the tide to turn against you from having the moral high-ground to becoming the defendant.</text></comment> | <story><title>Prototype Hardware from Lockheed Martin Surveillance Project</title><url>http://www.ebay.com/itm/Prototype-Hardware-from-Lockheed-Martin-Surveillance-Project-/221272094476?</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jlgreco</author><text>Another &quot;spy rock&quot;, this one belonging to Britain and found in Moscow: <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2006/jan/24/russia.politics" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theguardian.com&#x2F;world&#x2F;2006&#x2F;jan&#x2F;24&#x2F;russia.politics</a> <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-16614209" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bbc.co.uk&#x2F;news&#x2F;world-europe-16614209</a><p>Apparently one of the upsides of an idea this absurd and obvious is that when you get caught you can use <i>&quot;Are you serious? Who would use an obviously fake rock to spy on people?&quot;</i> as a defense.</text></comment> |
27,378,147 | 27,376,570 | 1 | 2 | 27,375,067 | train | <story><title>Apple asks staff to return to office 3 days a week starting in early September</title><url>https://www.theverge.com/2021/6/2/22465846/apple-employees-return-office-three-days-week-september</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>heavyset_go</author><text>&gt; <i>I save money by spending less on food, drinks, and electricity.</i><p>For those of us who have to commute, it&#x27;s not exactly the norm to be saving money while commuting.<p>Commutes are responsible for a 10% drop in hourly wages[1], and the median commute time results in spending 10 full days commuting a year.<p>The average commuter in one of the largest metro areas in the country will spend over 13 full days commuting a year:<p>&gt; <i>In the area with the longest average commute (New York-Newark-Jersey City), commuters are spending an average of 13 days, 2 hours, and 26 minutes driving to and from work. That means that 14 vacation days a year are barely covering the time it takes to get to work every day. So in addition to dropping the average wage from $34.71 per hour to $30.15 per hour, in order to get 14 days of hanging with their family on a beach, New York commuters must be willing to spend nearly as much time sitting in a car.</i><p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;go.frontier.com&#x2F;business&#x2F;commute-calculator" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;go.frontier.com&#x2F;business&#x2F;commute-calculator</a></text></item><item><author>Nbox9</author><text>I work for another company that is going to do a partial return to office. I will be looking at options for companies that offer full in person office (or 90% in person office) after things settle down. I have worked full remote for a total of 5 years of my career, and I believe working in the office is a competitive advantage.<p>* Overhearing hallway conversations (and joining them) helps spawn invocation.<p>* I often do&#x2F;did paired programming, and over-the-shoulder code reviews. These are easier in person<p>* Having a workforce socially close improves productivity because everyone wants to step up for each other.<p>* Being seen by my fellow employees helps keep me from becoming distracted.<p>* Working at the office helps prevent home life from being distracting during work hours.<p>There are some personal benefits I enjoy from being in the office.<p>* I save money by spending less on food, drinks, and electricity.<p>* I enjoy the routine.<p>* I had a stronger work&#x2F;life separation. I rarely turned on my work laptop at home.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ls15</author><text>Private transport is also one of the biggest sources of greenhouse gas emissions.<p>Reducing daily commute seems like a good way to improve our carbon footprint.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bbc.com&#x2F;future&#x2F;article&#x2F;20200317-climate-change-cut-carbon-emissions-from-your-commute" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bbc.com&#x2F;future&#x2F;article&#x2F;20200317-climate-change-c...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Apple asks staff to return to office 3 days a week starting in early September</title><url>https://www.theverge.com/2021/6/2/22465846/apple-employees-return-office-three-days-week-september</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>heavyset_go</author><text>&gt; <i>I save money by spending less on food, drinks, and electricity.</i><p>For those of us who have to commute, it&#x27;s not exactly the norm to be saving money while commuting.<p>Commutes are responsible for a 10% drop in hourly wages[1], and the median commute time results in spending 10 full days commuting a year.<p>The average commuter in one of the largest metro areas in the country will spend over 13 full days commuting a year:<p>&gt; <i>In the area with the longest average commute (New York-Newark-Jersey City), commuters are spending an average of 13 days, 2 hours, and 26 minutes driving to and from work. That means that 14 vacation days a year are barely covering the time it takes to get to work every day. So in addition to dropping the average wage from $34.71 per hour to $30.15 per hour, in order to get 14 days of hanging with their family on a beach, New York commuters must be willing to spend nearly as much time sitting in a car.</i><p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;go.frontier.com&#x2F;business&#x2F;commute-calculator" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;go.frontier.com&#x2F;business&#x2F;commute-calculator</a></text></item><item><author>Nbox9</author><text>I work for another company that is going to do a partial return to office. I will be looking at options for companies that offer full in person office (or 90% in person office) after things settle down. I have worked full remote for a total of 5 years of my career, and I believe working in the office is a competitive advantage.<p>* Overhearing hallway conversations (and joining them) helps spawn invocation.<p>* I often do&#x2F;did paired programming, and over-the-shoulder code reviews. These are easier in person<p>* Having a workforce socially close improves productivity because everyone wants to step up for each other.<p>* Being seen by my fellow employees helps keep me from becoming distracted.<p>* Working at the office helps prevent home life from being distracting during work hours.<p>There are some personal benefits I enjoy from being in the office.<p>* I save money by spending less on food, drinks, and electricity.<p>* I enjoy the routine.<p>* I had a stronger work&#x2F;life separation. I rarely turned on my work laptop at home.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>gnicholas</author><text>The food&#x2F;drink part could be the most of it. A Google employee enjoying free food and drink could save $60&#x2F;day versus buying prepared food ($10 for breakfast, $20 for lunch, and $30 for dinner). If you drink much coffee or other beverages, that could be another $15&#x2F;day.<p>If you weigh this against spending an extra hour or two commuting, then it looks like a lousy bargain. But if you are like many people, and ended up working more hours during the pandemic, [1] then that erases some&#x2F;all of the gains of not commuting.<p>1: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.economist.com&#x2F;graphic-detail&#x2F;2020&#x2F;11&#x2F;24&#x2F;people-are-working-longer-hours-during-the-pandemic" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.economist.com&#x2F;graphic-detail&#x2F;2020&#x2F;11&#x2F;24&#x2F;people-a...</a></text></comment> |
24,599,721 | 24,599,139 | 1 | 2 | 24,598,785 | train | <story><title>Ora2Pg – Oracle to PostgreSQL database schema converter</title><url>https://www.ora2pg.com/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>craigkerstiens</author><text>A few other really handy tools when migrating from Oracle to Postgres:<p>Orafce - An extension to bundle in Oracle functions -<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;orafce&#x2F;orafce" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;orafce&#x2F;orafce</a><p>OracleFDW - A foreign data wrapper to query directly into Oracle from Postgres - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;laurenz&#x2F;oracle_fdw" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;laurenz&#x2F;oracle_fdw</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Ora2Pg – Oracle to PostgreSQL database schema converter</title><url>https://www.ora2pg.com/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>chousuke</author><text>I&#x27;ve used this for migrating some applications. It worked well enough. In addition, the &quot;orafce&quot; extension was also useful in reducing required changes to the actual SQL queries the applications made.<p>In my case, the applications were relatively simple, but many of the queries used sequences explicitly, and the lack of a common syntax there was a slight pain point.</text></comment> |
32,420,492 | 32,418,317 | 1 | 3 | 32,410,075 | train | <story><title>The mechanics of a sophisticated phishing scam and how we stopped it</title><url>https://blog.cloudflare.com/2022-07-sms-phishing-attacks</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>tkgally</author><text>&gt; [H]aving a paranoid but blame-free culture is critical for security. The three employees who fell for the phishing scam were not reprimanded. We’re all human and we make mistakes. It’s critically important that when we do, we report them and don’t cover them up.<p>That sounds to me like a very healthy culture. I wonder how many other organizations are similar?</text></comment> | <story><title>The mechanics of a sophisticated phishing scam and how we stopped it</title><url>https://blog.cloudflare.com/2022-07-sms-phishing-attacks</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>cmroanirgo</author><text>Have a look at their timeline. Very impressive, 3 mins from first sign (2 mins from first report), the domain is blocked.<p>(Edited a bit for brevity &amp; mobiles)<p>&gt; 22:49 UTC Attacker sends out 100+ SMS messages...<p>&gt; 22:50 UTC Employees begin reporting SMS messages...<p>&gt; 22:52 UTC Verify that the attacker&#x27;s domain is blocked in Cloudflare Gateway for corporate devices.<p>&gt; 22:58 UTC Warning communication sent to all employees across chat and email.<p>etc</text></comment> |
25,924,325 | 25,923,969 | 1 | 2 | 25,902,030 | train | <story><title>How do I safely store my files?</title><url>https://photostructure.com/faq/how-do-i-safely-store-files/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Ir0nMan</author><text>I will take this opportunity to highly recommend UNRAID. You can use an old computer, add in some internal hard drives, and boot it off a USB stick.<p>Drives can be added or subtracted at any time so the system grows as your data grows and unlike traditional RAID you can mix and match drives of different types and sizes. Because it is not a real RAID implementation you can pull out any data drive in your array and read the files residing on that drive in another system. Data is protected against drive failure by single or dual parity drives and using SSD&#x27;s for caching is even supported.<p>For anyone that is mildly technically inclined and enjoys DIY solutions, I would recommend at least checking out UNRAID before purchasing a Synology NAS (or similar).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mceachen</author><text>Author here! I actually hadn&#x27;t even heard of Unraid until about a year ago, when some of my beta users were asking for help with their docker setup, and when I asked their host OS, they said &quot;UnRAID&quot;.<p>The community is supportive, templates are created and updated quickly, and there are several youtubers that make great, easy-to-follow videos for care and feeding your server. +1.</text></comment> | <story><title>How do I safely store my files?</title><url>https://photostructure.com/faq/how-do-i-safely-store-files/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Ir0nMan</author><text>I will take this opportunity to highly recommend UNRAID. You can use an old computer, add in some internal hard drives, and boot it off a USB stick.<p>Drives can be added or subtracted at any time so the system grows as your data grows and unlike traditional RAID you can mix and match drives of different types and sizes. Because it is not a real RAID implementation you can pull out any data drive in your array and read the files residing on that drive in another system. Data is protected against drive failure by single or dual parity drives and using SSD&#x27;s for caching is even supported.<p>For anyone that is mildly technically inclined and enjoys DIY solutions, I would recommend at least checking out UNRAID before purchasing a Synology NAS (or similar).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>gregmac</author><text>Another one to look at is snapraid [1]. Open source, also supports mix of disk sizes, adding&#x2F;removing, and drives are usable alone. Negatives are it does scheduled (not real-time) parity, and you have to run mergerfs yourself on top of you want a consistent view.<p>I&#x27;ve been using it for a few years, and it&#x27;s survived one drive failure (which I replaced with a disk twice the size). I originally had it on a Ubuntu server but have since migrated to running in openmediavault (which does all the setup for you), on a vm within proxmox server.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.snapraid.it&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.snapraid.it&#x2F;</a></text></comment> |
7,356,104 | 7,356,279 | 1 | 2 | 7,354,214 | train | <story><title>Dark spot under cockpit of A-10s</title><url>http://aviation.stackexchange.com/questions/2078/dark-spot-under-cockpit-on-a-10s</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>nether</author><text>Thanks for this. I don&#x27;t see why people think 30 mm slugs are effective against tanks designed to resist 120 mm penetrators or shaped charges, including top armor hits. And simply <i>enduring</i> battle damage is insane against modern MANPADS with large warheads. The A-10, along with the B-17, is one of the most over-romanticized aircraft of all time.</text></item><item><author>ahelwer</author><text>The A-10 is extremely vulnerable to man-portable air defense systems (MANPADs), which are difficult to spot and nearly impossible to avoid at the low altitudes within which the A-10 best performs. MANPADs are more and more common on the modern battlefield, and the supply exploded after the 2011 Libyan Civil War. Furthermore, the GAU-8, while an impressive weapon, doesn&#x27;t hold its own against any tank built within the last twenty years. This leaves the A-10 as a slow, unstealthy delivery platform for AGM-65 Maverick missiles and JDAMs, a role better performed by higher-performance aircraft.<p>I say all that as a huge fan of the A-10c, with many hours spent in the DCS sim. People seem to get bizarrely hyperbolic over the capabilities of this plane, but it&#x27;s really a dinosaur.</text></item><item><author>skywhopper</author><text>The A-10 is a truly amazing airplane, in large part due to the main gun, and has proved its usefulness again and again in real combat situations. Its extended air-to-ground capabilities (which are the vast majority of our air power needs in modern warfare) are unmatched by any other plane or chopper on the armed forces, and for all that it was a remarkably inexpensive plane to build. But despite all that, no new A-10s have been produced in 20 years, they&#x27;re being retired at the rate of two each month, and the Air Force wants to replace them with the debacle that is the F-35.</text></item><item><author>jug6ernaut</author><text>While off topic, i found this interesting bit of information on the a10&#x27;s gun wiki page.<p>&quot;The recoil force of the GAU-8&#x2F;A[16] is 10,000 pounds-force (45 kN),[3] which is slightly more than the output of one of the A-10&#x27;s two TF34 engines (9,065 lbf &#x2F; 40.3 kN each).[17] While this recoil force is significant, in practice cannon fire only slows the aircraft a few miles per hour in level flight.&quot;<p>The gun firing produces more force through recoil on the plane then is produced by one of the plane&#x27;s engines. That is simply amazing.<p>Edit: The guns wiki page(it has a wiki page).<p><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GAU-8_Avenger" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;GAU-8_Avenger</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Nrsolis</author><text>Jeez. Tanks?<p>You&#x27;re neglecting one of the most valuable roles for the A-10: close air support for ground troops in contact.<p>In that situation (read: the entirety of our conflict in Afghanistan&#x2F;Iraq) tanks had NO ROLE. You&#x27;re fighting a highly mobile ground force that often have an armament&#x2F;position advantage and that&#x27;s where the A-10 CAS really really makes a difference. Nobody fought TANKS in Afghanistan.<p>Ask anyone who&#x27;s been in contact with the enemy how they feel when they hear that distinctive &quot;BRRRRRRRAAAAAP!&quot;<p>It&#x27;s like FSCKING CHRISTMAS.</text></comment> | <story><title>Dark spot under cockpit of A-10s</title><url>http://aviation.stackexchange.com/questions/2078/dark-spot-under-cockpit-on-a-10s</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>nether</author><text>Thanks for this. I don&#x27;t see why people think 30 mm slugs are effective against tanks designed to resist 120 mm penetrators or shaped charges, including top armor hits. And simply <i>enduring</i> battle damage is insane against modern MANPADS with large warheads. The A-10, along with the B-17, is one of the most over-romanticized aircraft of all time.</text></item><item><author>ahelwer</author><text>The A-10 is extremely vulnerable to man-portable air defense systems (MANPADs), which are difficult to spot and nearly impossible to avoid at the low altitudes within which the A-10 best performs. MANPADs are more and more common on the modern battlefield, and the supply exploded after the 2011 Libyan Civil War. Furthermore, the GAU-8, while an impressive weapon, doesn&#x27;t hold its own against any tank built within the last twenty years. This leaves the A-10 as a slow, unstealthy delivery platform for AGM-65 Maverick missiles and JDAMs, a role better performed by higher-performance aircraft.<p>I say all that as a huge fan of the A-10c, with many hours spent in the DCS sim. People seem to get bizarrely hyperbolic over the capabilities of this plane, but it&#x27;s really a dinosaur.</text></item><item><author>skywhopper</author><text>The A-10 is a truly amazing airplane, in large part due to the main gun, and has proved its usefulness again and again in real combat situations. Its extended air-to-ground capabilities (which are the vast majority of our air power needs in modern warfare) are unmatched by any other plane or chopper on the armed forces, and for all that it was a remarkably inexpensive plane to build. But despite all that, no new A-10s have been produced in 20 years, they&#x27;re being retired at the rate of two each month, and the Air Force wants to replace them with the debacle that is the F-35.</text></item><item><author>jug6ernaut</author><text>While off topic, i found this interesting bit of information on the a10&#x27;s gun wiki page.<p>&quot;The recoil force of the GAU-8&#x2F;A[16] is 10,000 pounds-force (45 kN),[3] which is slightly more than the output of one of the A-10&#x27;s two TF34 engines (9,065 lbf &#x2F; 40.3 kN each).[17] While this recoil force is significant, in practice cannon fire only slows the aircraft a few miles per hour in level flight.&quot;<p>The gun firing produces more force through recoil on the plane then is produced by one of the plane&#x27;s engines. That is simply amazing.<p>Edit: The guns wiki page(it has a wiki page).<p><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GAU-8_Avenger" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;GAU-8_Avenger</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>stackcollision</author><text>Yes, the A-10 is outdated and couldn&#x27;t tear through the armor of a modern tank like it could to the tanks of Yore. But you also need to remember that the chain breaks at its weakest link. A strafing run from the GAU-8 will absolutely shred the tracks, gun, and exterior sensors of anything it comes near. Sure the crew might live through the concussions and blunt force trauma, but that vehicle is no longer in the fight.</text></comment> |
3,881,079 | 3,880,914 | 1 | 2 | 3,880,837 | train | <story><title>How to read Korean in 15 minutes</title><url>http://ryanestradadotcom.tumblr.com/post/20461267965#notes</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>wheels</author><text>People overestimate the difficulty in learning different alphabets (and the assumed difficulty of the languages which use them).<p>I'm on vacation in Israel this week and learned the Hebrew alphabet with standard flash cards in 2 hours (incidentally by doing something similar to this post by remembering the names based on something the character looks like). At various points I've learned the Arabic, Cyrillic and Greek alphabets in a similar amount of time.<p>The real difficulty is, naturally, actually learning the language. The additional burden of it using a separate regular alphabet is negligible in comparison.</text></comment> | <story><title>How to read Korean in 15 minutes</title><url>http://ryanestradadotcom.tumblr.com/post/20461267965#notes</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>ghiotion</author><text>Wow. That is really neat.<p>I've always believed that spoken languages that are constructed/contrived are doomed to failure (esperanto, klingon, etc). I'm not saying that Korean itself is contrived, but it's fascinating that the alphabet was created like that.</text></comment> |
33,172,671 | 33,172,553 | 1 | 3 | 33,166,291 | train | <story><title>Meta Quest Pro</title><url>https://www.meta.com/quest/quest-pro/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>prng2021</author><text>I really can’t understand why there’s so much time and resources being put into re-inventing virtual meetings.<p>This is supposed to capture subtle facial expressions. I’m sure every generation will capture more subtleties and have increasingly realistic avatars. So why not just see real faces then?<p>I always see mentions of virtual sticky notes on a whiteboard. That sounds awful. Do you need to squint to view them from your virtual seat at the table? Do you need to walk your avatar to the board and avoid bumping into others who might be posting their own? We don’t have those issues today with sites like Miro. If the metaverse will somehow avoid these annoyances then how would it be any different from the non-metaverse experience?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>saddist0</author><text>It&#x27;s funny that HN is pro-remote work but anti-innovations for making the remote more efficient.<p>While I agree virtual meeting may not be the answer, BUT it is important step in figuring out the balance. I think it&#x27;s good that Meta is burning $$$ and advancing in figuring out the optimal solution on our behalf (consider it as RnD cost).<p>Irrespective of it, in case the headsets can become as easy as wearing glasses, I doubt why anyone wouldn&#x27;t use it.</text></comment> | <story><title>Meta Quest Pro</title><url>https://www.meta.com/quest/quest-pro/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>prng2021</author><text>I really can’t understand why there’s so much time and resources being put into re-inventing virtual meetings.<p>This is supposed to capture subtle facial expressions. I’m sure every generation will capture more subtleties and have increasingly realistic avatars. So why not just see real faces then?<p>I always see mentions of virtual sticky notes on a whiteboard. That sounds awful. Do you need to squint to view them from your virtual seat at the table? Do you need to walk your avatar to the board and avoid bumping into others who might be posting their own? We don’t have those issues today with sites like Miro. If the metaverse will somehow avoid these annoyances then how would it be any different from the non-metaverse experience?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>magic_hamster</author><text>&gt; I really can’t understand why there’s so much time and resources being put into re-inventing virtual meetings.<p>Because Meta needs to find new revenue streams.</text></comment> |
14,037,972 | 14,035,579 | 1 | 3 | 14,031,338 | train | <story><title>Kotlin/Native Tech Preview: Kotlin without a VM</title><url>https://blog.jetbrains.com/kotlin/2017/04/kotlinnative-tech-preview-kotlin-without-a-vm/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>saosebastiao</author><text>I&#x27;m skeptical of the strategic advantage of being backed by a tooling company, because of the fact that tooling is often a preference that comes with holy wars attached. If Emacs sponsored a language, how many Vim users would jump ship? I know plenty of Java devs that actually prefer Eclipse (WTF?!?!?). Good luck getting an entire team onboard with a single IDE.<p>Throw in the fact that their IDE software is open source only until you need the most advanced features, and I can imagine Kotlin never picking up as much steam as Rust or Swift with their comparably inferior tooling ecosystems. I can imagine C# taking over java before Kotlin does.</text></item><item><author>jorgemf</author><text>kotlin is backed by a tooling company. This is a very strong argument. The ones that are doing the best IDE for java (for a lot of people) are the ones that decided to create kotlin. Swift also has the tooling support of Apple, but I only read complains about tooling around Swift. Go and Rust are very niche compare to java or swift, while kotlin can replace java completely and now it is aiming for native backend projects.</text></item><item><author>geodel</author><text>May they all do great. But I am sceptical that Scala&#x2F;Kotlin and many others started in last decade stand chance against Java&#x2F;Rust&#x2F;Swift&#x2F;Go. IMO these 4 are backed by powerful corporations and have large community momentum. They are going to keep &gt;90% of all software work along with C&#x2F;C++.</text></item><item><author>virtualwhys</author><text>&gt; This Technology Preview features automatic reference counting with a cycle collector on top, but what the final memory management solution(s) will look like is unknown at this point.<p>Same issue with Scala Native[1]. Both projects are a long way from being production ready wrt to targeting ios, android and desktop.<p>Probably at least a couple of years before either project delivers the one-language-to-rule-them-all.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;scala-native&#x2F;scala-native" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;scala-native&#x2F;scala-native</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>fasquoika</author><text>&gt;If Emacs sponsored a language<p>Emacs does sponsor a language (elisp), and it&#x27;s most people&#x27;s reason for using it.</text></comment> | <story><title>Kotlin/Native Tech Preview: Kotlin without a VM</title><url>https://blog.jetbrains.com/kotlin/2017/04/kotlinnative-tech-preview-kotlin-without-a-vm/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>saosebastiao</author><text>I&#x27;m skeptical of the strategic advantage of being backed by a tooling company, because of the fact that tooling is often a preference that comes with holy wars attached. If Emacs sponsored a language, how many Vim users would jump ship? I know plenty of Java devs that actually prefer Eclipse (WTF?!?!?). Good luck getting an entire team onboard with a single IDE.<p>Throw in the fact that their IDE software is open source only until you need the most advanced features, and I can imagine Kotlin never picking up as much steam as Rust or Swift with their comparably inferior tooling ecosystems. I can imagine C# taking over java before Kotlin does.</text></item><item><author>jorgemf</author><text>kotlin is backed by a tooling company. This is a very strong argument. The ones that are doing the best IDE for java (for a lot of people) are the ones that decided to create kotlin. Swift also has the tooling support of Apple, but I only read complains about tooling around Swift. Go and Rust are very niche compare to java or swift, while kotlin can replace java completely and now it is aiming for native backend projects.</text></item><item><author>geodel</author><text>May they all do great. But I am sceptical that Scala&#x2F;Kotlin and many others started in last decade stand chance against Java&#x2F;Rust&#x2F;Swift&#x2F;Go. IMO these 4 are backed by powerful corporations and have large community momentum. They are going to keep &gt;90% of all software work along with C&#x2F;C++.</text></item><item><author>virtualwhys</author><text>&gt; This Technology Preview features automatic reference counting with a cycle collector on top, but what the final memory management solution(s) will look like is unknown at this point.<p>Same issue with Scala Native[1]. Both projects are a long way from being production ready wrt to targeting ios, android and desktop.<p>Probably at least a couple of years before either project delivers the one-language-to-rule-them-all.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;scala-native&#x2F;scala-native" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;scala-native&#x2F;scala-native</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>true_religion</author><text>&gt; Good luck getting an entire team onboard with a single IDE.<p>Many companies mandate that you use Visual Studio to develop with because their entire toolchain is setup to build the project via VS tools. Deviating from that means that no one can help you, and you&#x27;re probably polluting the repo with your own ad-hoc tooling.</text></comment> |
34,617,929 | 34,614,531 | 1 | 2 | 34,612,353 | train | <story><title>Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2023)</title><text>Please state the location and include REMOTE, INTERNS and&#x2F;or VISA
when that sort of candidate is welcome. When remote work is <i>not</i> an option,
include ONSITE.<p>Please only post if you personally are part of the hiring company—no
recruiting firms or job boards. One post per company. If it isn&#x27;t a household name, explain what your company does.<p>Commenters: please don&#x27;t reply to job posts to complain about
something. It&#x27;s off topic here.<p>Readers: please only email if you are personally interested in the job.<p>Searchers: try <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;hnhired.fly.dev" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;hnhired.fly.dev</a>, <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;kennytilton.github.io&#x2F;whoishiring&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;kennytilton.github.io&#x2F;whoishiring&#x2F;</a>,
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;hnjobs.emilburzo.com" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;hnjobs.emilburzo.com</a>, <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=10313519" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=10313519</a>.<p>Don&#x27;t miss these other fine threads:<p><i>Who wants to be hired?</i> <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=34612351" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=34612351</a><p><i>Freelancer? Seeking freelancer?</i> <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=34612352" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=34612352</a></text></story><parent_chain><item><author>global_uscis</author><text>US Citizenship and Immigration Services (Contractor) | Full Stack Engineers | $100k - 180k, benefits | Full-Time | Remote | US ONLY US Citizenship and the ability to pass a government clearance (Public Trust) IS REQUIRED<p>We&#x27;re a team in the US Government responsible for digitizing and enhancing all aspects of the workflows used to adjudicate refugees and asylees. We&#x27;re an unusual government team in that we build iteratively without using a list of requirements. Our Product Managers use the Lean Agile methodology—their goal is to make small incremental changes quickly. Our Product Designers use Human Centered Design—they build interfaces and workflows based on direct input from users. Our developers use Extreme Programming—they practice pair programming and use test-driven development.<p>Many folks have been drawn to join our team out of a desire to work on something vividly mission-driven for a chapter of their career.<p>Our developers work with M1 MacBook Pros, Ruby on Rails, React, and TypeScript. Our designers use Sketch, Figma, and InVision. Our PMs use Jira, Miro, InVision and the Microsoft Suite. Structurally, our teams are given an atypically high degree of autonomy for the federal space.<p>Suitable candidates will be forwarded to our government contracting partners who will interview, hire, and place on our team.<p>We&#x27;re hiring for:<p>Full-stack Engineers (Rails experience is required)<p>Salary range (100k-165k)<p>If you&#x27;re interested in joining the team, email [email protected] with your resume.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nkotov</author><text>Having just gone through the naturalization process (N-400), I just want to say thanks for having a pretty good online experience.</text></comment> | <story><title>Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2023)</title><text>Please state the location and include REMOTE, INTERNS and&#x2F;or VISA
when that sort of candidate is welcome. When remote work is <i>not</i> an option,
include ONSITE.<p>Please only post if you personally are part of the hiring company—no
recruiting firms or job boards. One post per company. If it isn&#x27;t a household name, explain what your company does.<p>Commenters: please don&#x27;t reply to job posts to complain about
something. It&#x27;s off topic here.<p>Readers: please only email if you are personally interested in the job.<p>Searchers: try <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;hnhired.fly.dev" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;hnhired.fly.dev</a>, <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;kennytilton.github.io&#x2F;whoishiring&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;kennytilton.github.io&#x2F;whoishiring&#x2F;</a>,
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;hnjobs.emilburzo.com" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;hnjobs.emilburzo.com</a>, <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=10313519" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=10313519</a>.<p>Don&#x27;t miss these other fine threads:<p><i>Who wants to be hired?</i> <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=34612351" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=34612351</a><p><i>Freelancer? Seeking freelancer?</i> <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=34612352" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=34612352</a></text></story><parent_chain><item><author>global_uscis</author><text>US Citizenship and Immigration Services (Contractor) | Full Stack Engineers | $100k - 180k, benefits | Full-Time | Remote | US ONLY US Citizenship and the ability to pass a government clearance (Public Trust) IS REQUIRED<p>We&#x27;re a team in the US Government responsible for digitizing and enhancing all aspects of the workflows used to adjudicate refugees and asylees. We&#x27;re an unusual government team in that we build iteratively without using a list of requirements. Our Product Managers use the Lean Agile methodology—their goal is to make small incremental changes quickly. Our Product Designers use Human Centered Design—they build interfaces and workflows based on direct input from users. Our developers use Extreme Programming—they practice pair programming and use test-driven development.<p>Many folks have been drawn to join our team out of a desire to work on something vividly mission-driven for a chapter of their career.<p>Our developers work with M1 MacBook Pros, Ruby on Rails, React, and TypeScript. Our designers use Sketch, Figma, and InVision. Our PMs use Jira, Miro, InVision and the Microsoft Suite. Structurally, our teams are given an atypically high degree of autonomy for the federal space.<p>Suitable candidates will be forwarded to our government contracting partners who will interview, hire, and place on our team.<p>We&#x27;re hiring for:<p>Full-stack Engineers (Rails experience is required)<p>Salary range (100k-165k)<p>If you&#x27;re interested in joining the team, email [email protected] with your resume.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>p1esk</author><text>Looks like they forgot to add the following (copied from their previous submission):<p>If you&#x27;re interested in joining the team, email [email protected] with your resume.</text></comment> |
23,652,627 | 23,652,661 | 1 | 2 | 23,652,097 | train | <story><title>Reducing search indexing latency to one second</title><url>https://blog.twitter.com/engineering/en_us/topics/infrastructure/2020/reducing-search-indexing-latency-to-one-second.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>fareesh</author><text>Indexing latency aside, when I search for something on Twitter it shows me results as I type<p>When I tap on the result, there is invariably something else at the tap location<p>What&#x27;s the terminology for this? Flash of ephemeral search result?<p>Are there any good ways of avoiding this problem?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>capableweb</author><text>This is something that seemingly none of the big platforms or companies get right. Not Twitter, not Microsoft, not Firefox, not Apple, not a single one of them.<p>Seemingly they missed the lesson web developers learned ten years ago that you can&#x27;t change content that the user is currently looking at without any interaction done, unless that&#x27;s to be expected from the user.<p>But auto-loading items in a list is somehow still difficult for these companies to get right. Once you&#x27;re done typing your query in the window&#x27;s start menu, apple&#x27;s &quot;quick launcher thing&quot; or twitter&#x27;s search widget, it takes X seconds for the query to actually finish, so while you&#x27;re hovering the menu, it changes content from underneath and the thing you wanted to click on, has been switched to something else.<p>I&#x27;m starting to wonder if this is on purpose, as seemingly no one is getting this right, but I don&#x27;t understand what metric they are optimizing for (incorrectly) to believing that this behavior is correct.</text></comment> | <story><title>Reducing search indexing latency to one second</title><url>https://blog.twitter.com/engineering/en_us/topics/infrastructure/2020/reducing-search-indexing-latency-to-one-second.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>fareesh</author><text>Indexing latency aside, when I search for something on Twitter it shows me results as I type<p>When I tap on the result, there is invariably something else at the tap location<p>What&#x27;s the terminology for this? Flash of ephemeral search result?<p>Are there any good ways of avoiding this problem?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>klysm</author><text>This is certainly one of the most frustrating things in modern UIs, although I’m not sure what it’s called I feel like it’s common enough for someone to have coined a name by this point. There are a few ways I can think of to deal with it:<p>1. Have very close to 0 latency. Clearly not always doable.<p>2. When in the process of searching, indicate to the user that the results aren’t fresh and new ones are coming - grey out the current options for instance.<p>3. Analyze how long the new results have been shown for and treat very short durations differently. If the new results have been up for 2ms, it’s not possible for that to be your desired intention.</text></comment> |
26,104,218 | 26,104,215 | 1 | 2 | 26,102,076 | train | <story><title>AMD Is Currently Hiring More Linux Engineers</title><url>https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=AMD-Hiring-More-Linux-2021</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>emilsedgh</author><text>You know I have so much mixed feelings about Electron apps.<p>One one had, the performance really sucks.<p>On the other, there&#x27;s no way we would&#x27;ve had Spotify, Slack, Teams, and all these big apps supported on Linux.</text></item><item><author>glouwbug</author><text>Electron apps</text></item><item><author>stepbeek</author><text>Damn. What are you working on that needs such a powerful machine?</text></item><item><author>azalemeth</author><text>My current workstation is a dual-Xeon Gold 6252 with 1 TiB of ram. The next one will be either Threadripper Pro or Epyc. AMD have just knocked it out of the park; I want to reward them.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Kyro38</author><text>Like this dude said [1]<p>Electron app memory usage: 150 MB<p>Native app memory usage: 0 MB (because you never ship it)<p>1: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;jamonholmgren&#x2F;status&#x2F;1105876480930734086" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;jamonholmgren&#x2F;status&#x2F;1105876480930734086</a></text></comment> | <story><title>AMD Is Currently Hiring More Linux Engineers</title><url>https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=AMD-Hiring-More-Linux-2021</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>emilsedgh</author><text>You know I have so much mixed feelings about Electron apps.<p>One one had, the performance really sucks.<p>On the other, there&#x27;s no way we would&#x27;ve had Spotify, Slack, Teams, and all these big apps supported on Linux.</text></item><item><author>glouwbug</author><text>Electron apps</text></item><item><author>stepbeek</author><text>Damn. What are you working on that needs such a powerful machine?</text></item><item><author>azalemeth</author><text>My current workstation is a dual-Xeon Gold 6252 with 1 TiB of ram. The next one will be either Threadripper Pro or Epyc. AMD have just knocked it out of the park; I want to reward them.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>sudosysgen</author><text>In my experience, the performance of Electron Apps is even worse than WINE.</text></comment> |
10,091,409 | 10,091,368 | 1 | 2 | 10,090,973 | train | <story><title>Lazy load responsive images</title><url>https://github.com/ivopetkov/responsively-lazy</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>cyberpanther</author><text>Lazy loading is a waste of time in my opinion. Yes it can save bandwidth but it actually creates an awful user experience.<p>If you have a bunch of images you don&#x27;t want to wait to load them until in view especially on a slow connection. If you lazy load the images then that means every time the user scrolls they have to wait for an image. No one is going to wait for your image to load, so they will scroll on. You then cause a bottleneck in your javascript because the user is scrolling and you are using JS to download images which is not optimal.<p>The experience you want is to load the first image and then load then next image before the user gets to it so that it is ready when the user scrolls. Our browsers do a great job of this already. Don&#x27;t reinvent the wheel. Our browsers have been optimized to download images the right way. And if you want to save bandwidth then use responsive images and let the browser determine the best size to download.<p>I&#x27;ve implemented lazy load on mobile and learned this first hand. I thought I needed lazy load, but to my surprise, the browser actually knows how to load images the right way. My app actually had less jank and loaded images faster when I left the images up to the browser.<p>Stop over engineering image loading please :-)</text></comment> | <story><title>Lazy load responsive images</title><url>https://github.com/ivopetkov/responsively-lazy</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>toddmorey</author><text>This is the clever bit:<p>- The data:image in the srcset attribute shows transparent image and prevents loading the image in the src attribute in modern browsers<p>- The image in the src is attribute is used if the browser does not support the srcset attribute or when the page is scanned by social networks and read-it-later tools.</text></comment> |
18,577,479 | 18,577,354 | 1 | 2 | 18,577,079 | train | <story><title>Psychology’s Replication Crisis Is Real</title><url>https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2018/11/psychologys-replication-crisis-real/576223/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>zorga</author><text>Wow, that&#x27;s a clear sign science has become too political. Proving other scientists wrong used to be how careers were made, not something to fear.</text></item><item><author>seibelj</author><text>Even in hard sciences, there are papers that everyone in the niche knows is false, but fear to speak out about or publish a paper refuting it for fear of their career being damaged.<p>My wife is a biochemist, and during her PhD they were working on an area of research with a handful of labs publishing about it. One lab in particular was known for a decent amount of questionable publications, but the PI was a big deal and no one would officially question anything. So they would whisper amongst each other and just ignore that paper (and all the additional papers built on top of it) because they all knew it was bullshit.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bchjam</author><text><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Brouwer%E2%80%93Hilbert_controversy" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Brouwer%E2%80%93Hilbert_contro...</a><p>Brouwer&#x27;s career suffered as a consequence of his disagreements with Hilbert.<p>EDIT (with links to the political aspect):
Letters written more about the politics of publishing than the math itself are referenced in a book called &quot;The War of the Frogs and the Mice&quot;
(PDF) <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;citeseerx.ist.psu.edu&#x2F;viewdoc&#x2F;download?doi=10.1.1.224.368&amp;rep=rep1&amp;type=pdf" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;citeseerx.ist.psu.edu&#x2F;viewdoc&#x2F;download?doi=10.1.1.224...</a> (see bottom of pg 9 as displayed for the letter Brouwer wrote to Hilbert&#x27;s wife)</text></comment> | <story><title>Psychology’s Replication Crisis Is Real</title><url>https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2018/11/psychologys-replication-crisis-real/576223/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>zorga</author><text>Wow, that&#x27;s a clear sign science has become too political. Proving other scientists wrong used to be how careers were made, not something to fear.</text></item><item><author>seibelj</author><text>Even in hard sciences, there are papers that everyone in the niche knows is false, but fear to speak out about or publish a paper refuting it for fear of their career being damaged.<p>My wife is a biochemist, and during her PhD they were working on an area of research with a handful of labs publishing about it. One lab in particular was known for a decent amount of questionable publications, but the PI was a big deal and no one would officially question anything. So they would whisper amongst each other and just ignore that paper (and all the additional papers built on top of it) because they all knew it was bullshit.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>danharaj</author><text>Science has always been political, within itself and in relation to the rest of society.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Oil_drop_experiment" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Oil_drop_experiment</a></text></comment> |
31,913,701 | 31,913,335 | 1 | 3 | 31,910,724 | train | <story><title>Gun owners’ private information leaked by California Attorney General</title><url>https://thereload.com/new-california-ag-website-leaks-massive-trove-of-gun-owner-private-information/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>eikenberry</author><text>I&#x27;m curious about how they differentiate between guns bought as gifts vs straw purchases? I&#x27;d guess it would be intent but it&#x27;s hard to google for.</text></item><item><author>slowhand09</author><text>Straw purchases... when someone else purchases a gun for you. Illegal in every state, and federally.<p>Please search the FBI and ATF online data for people arrested and or convicted of straw purchases.<p>Then tell me how serious they are about stopping it.</text></item><item><author>omgwtfbyobbq</author><text>Most criminals get guns through straw purchases. This is still a big screw up, but overall, the best way to keep guns out of the hands of criminals is to better regulate sales.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.pbs.org&#x2F;wgbh&#x2F;pages&#x2F;frontline&#x2F;shows&#x2F;guns&#x2F;procon&#x2F;guns.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.pbs.org&#x2F;wgbh&#x2F;pages&#x2F;frontline&#x2F;shows&#x2F;guns&#x2F;procon&#x2F;g...</a><p>&gt; An expert on crime gun patterns, ATF agent Jay Wachtel says that most guns used in crimes are not stolen out of private gun owners&#x27; homes and cars. &quot;Stolen guns account for only about 10% to 15% of guns used in crimes,&quot; Wachtel said. Because when they want guns they want them immediately the wait is usually too long for a weapon to be stolen and find its way to a criminal.<p>&gt; In fact, there are a number of sources that allow guns to fall into the wrong hands, with gun thefts at the bottom of the list. Wachtel says one of the most common ways criminals get guns is through straw purchase sales.</text></item><item><author>yardie</author><text>For those that don&#x27;t understand the implication of this: Criminals get guns through burgling and robbery. By included such detailed information on who&#x27;s a registered gun owner, where they live, etc. It makes the gun owner a lucrative target.<p>I&#x27;m staunchly pro regulation but this even I can&#x27;t understand. Like someone just did SELECT * FROM GunOwnersDB and pushed is straight to the web.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Ancapistani</author><text>This is one of the areas where I&#x27;ve hyperfocused for years.<p>A straw purchase is when a gun is purchased on behalf of someone else. The person buying the gun isn&#x27;t using their own money, or the person they&#x27;re giving it to has traded them something of value.<p>A gift doesn&#x27;t involve an exchange of reciprocal value. In other words, I can legally take you into a gun store, let you shop, buy the gun for you, then hand it to you. In practice, a gift purchase is almost always when the recipient isn&#x27;t there, because it <i>looks</i> like a straw purchase.<p>Ironically, if you take someone shopping to buy them a gun as a gift, by law you&#x27;re the one that&#x27;s supposed to have the background check run - not the recipient. Almost all FFLs will deny the sale if you tell them that you&#x27;re buying it as a gift for someone who is present at the time, and there is no easy and legal way to run a background check on the intended recipient.<p>If memory serves, a cop was convicted a few years ago of a straw purchase after buying a &quot;blue label&quot; (police discount price) Glock for someone else. That person gave the cop the money, the cop bought it, then gave it to the person. The actual buyer in that case was not a prohibited person, and the straw purchase itself was the only crime committed.</text></comment> | <story><title>Gun owners’ private information leaked by California Attorney General</title><url>https://thereload.com/new-california-ag-website-leaks-massive-trove-of-gun-owner-private-information/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>eikenberry</author><text>I&#x27;m curious about how they differentiate between guns bought as gifts vs straw purchases? I&#x27;d guess it would be intent but it&#x27;s hard to google for.</text></item><item><author>slowhand09</author><text>Straw purchases... when someone else purchases a gun for you. Illegal in every state, and federally.<p>Please search the FBI and ATF online data for people arrested and or convicted of straw purchases.<p>Then tell me how serious they are about stopping it.</text></item><item><author>omgwtfbyobbq</author><text>Most criminals get guns through straw purchases. This is still a big screw up, but overall, the best way to keep guns out of the hands of criminals is to better regulate sales.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.pbs.org&#x2F;wgbh&#x2F;pages&#x2F;frontline&#x2F;shows&#x2F;guns&#x2F;procon&#x2F;guns.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.pbs.org&#x2F;wgbh&#x2F;pages&#x2F;frontline&#x2F;shows&#x2F;guns&#x2F;procon&#x2F;g...</a><p>&gt; An expert on crime gun patterns, ATF agent Jay Wachtel says that most guns used in crimes are not stolen out of private gun owners&#x27; homes and cars. &quot;Stolen guns account for only about 10% to 15% of guns used in crimes,&quot; Wachtel said. Because when they want guns they want them immediately the wait is usually too long for a weapon to be stolen and find its way to a criminal.<p>&gt; In fact, there are a number of sources that allow guns to fall into the wrong hands, with gun thefts at the bottom of the list. Wachtel says one of the most common ways criminals get guns is through straw purchase sales.</text></item><item><author>yardie</author><text>For those that don&#x27;t understand the implication of this: Criminals get guns through burgling and robbery. By included such detailed information on who&#x27;s a registered gun owner, where they live, etc. It makes the gun owner a lucrative target.<p>I&#x27;m staunchly pro regulation but this even I can&#x27;t understand. Like someone just did SELECT * FROM GunOwnersDB and pushed is straight to the web.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>digdugdirk</author><text>Generally by volume. One or two? Sure, you might be a really generous friend. Fifty? Probably a bit too generous - something fishy is going on. Of course, without a federal firearms registry, its difficult to quickly just flag people who are buying guns at an unusual rate.<p>As far as actually catching perpetrators? Again, without a database its usually down to undercover work and tips.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;giffords.org&#x2F;lawcenter&#x2F;gun-laws&#x2F;policy-areas&#x2F;crime-guns&#x2F;trafficking-straw-purchasing&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;giffords.org&#x2F;lawcenter&#x2F;gun-laws&#x2F;policy-areas&#x2F;crime-g...</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;giffords.org&#x2F;lawcenter&#x2F;state-laws&#x2F;trafficking-straw-purchasing-in-texas&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;giffords.org&#x2F;lawcenter&#x2F;state-laws&#x2F;trafficking-straw-...</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.fox32chicago.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;56-arrests-dozens-of-narcotics-and-weapons-seized-in-lake-county-undercover-investigation" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.fox32chicago.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;56-arrests-dozens-of-narco...</a></text></comment> |
33,804,352 | 33,804,492 | 1 | 2 | 33,803,692 | train | <story><title>Huawei phones automatically deleting videos of the protests?</title><url>https://twitter.com/msmelchen/status/1597807914395500545</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jmoak3</author><text>It&#x27;s hard to know for sure if this is real, but I wouldn&#x27;t be surprised.<p>If this is happening, I hope Apple says no to the CCP when they inevitably ask Apple to do the same.<p>Could Apple use that new CSAM-hash-comparison feature to accomplish something similar?<p>EDIT:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.apple.com&#x2F;child-safety&#x2F;pdf&#x2F;CSAM_Detection_Technical_Summary.pdf" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.apple.com&#x2F;child-safety&#x2F;pdf&#x2F;CSAM_Detection_Techni...</a><p>Nevermind - it looks to me like this mechanism is just for letting Apple know if they should pop open an encrypted image stored on their Cloud.<p>In the case of China, they should already be able to do that with impunity since they control the regional iCloud and keys<p>EDIT 2:<p>I&#x27;d also not be surprised if this was false however - I don&#x27;t own a Huawei phone and I&#x27;m not located in China, so I can&#x27;t verify this at all.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>heavyset_go</author><text>The same Apple that censors the Taiwan flag emoji[1]?<p>Apple will do whatever the CCP tells them to do because they are not willing to lose a market of a billion+ potential customers.<p>Companies have no problem being complicit in enabling authoritarianism as long as it&#x27;s profitable.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theverge.com&#x2F;2019&#x2F;10&#x2F;7&#x2F;20903613&#x2F;apple-hiding-taiwan-flag-emoji-hong-kong-macau-china" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theverge.com&#x2F;2019&#x2F;10&#x2F;7&#x2F;20903613&#x2F;apple-hiding-tai...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Huawei phones automatically deleting videos of the protests?</title><url>https://twitter.com/msmelchen/status/1597807914395500545</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jmoak3</author><text>It&#x27;s hard to know for sure if this is real, but I wouldn&#x27;t be surprised.<p>If this is happening, I hope Apple says no to the CCP when they inevitably ask Apple to do the same.<p>Could Apple use that new CSAM-hash-comparison feature to accomplish something similar?<p>EDIT:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.apple.com&#x2F;child-safety&#x2F;pdf&#x2F;CSAM_Detection_Technical_Summary.pdf" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.apple.com&#x2F;child-safety&#x2F;pdf&#x2F;CSAM_Detection_Techni...</a><p>Nevermind - it looks to me like this mechanism is just for letting Apple know if they should pop open an encrypted image stored on their Cloud.<p>In the case of China, they should already be able to do that with impunity since they control the regional iCloud and keys<p>EDIT 2:<p>I&#x27;d also not be surprised if this was false however - I don&#x27;t own a Huawei phone and I&#x27;m not located in China, so I can&#x27;t verify this at all.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>develatio</author><text>Apple already applied a change in how AirDrop works in China[0]. It&#x27;s fair enough to assume that they won&#x27;t say &quot;no&quot; to the CCP.<p>[0] - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.businessinsider.com&#x2F;apple-restricted-airdrop-capabilities-in-china-ahead-of-protests-2022-11" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.businessinsider.com&#x2F;apple-restricted-airdrop-cap...</a></text></comment> |
7,438,690 | 7,438,812 | 1 | 2 | 7,436,401 | train | <story><title>Hack: a new programming language for HHVM</title><url>https://code.facebook.com/posts/264544830379293/hack-a-new-programming-language-for-hhvm/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>lectrick</author><text>Given a programming task, it will be written faster, easier, and in a more maintainable and less bug-prone fashion <i>if it is not PHP.</i><p>The opposite opinion is basically indefensible. Sure, you can still dig a trench with a spoon (and if you have enough money to wield a bunch of workers with a spoon), even if a shovel would do a better job.<p>Let&#x27;s begin.<p>1) PHP autocraptastically converts strings that look like numbers, into numbers, resulting in all sorts of weirdness like this: <a href="https://eval.in/111886" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;eval.in&#x2F;111886</a><p>2) PHP 5.4&#x27;s OWN TEST SUITE has 91 failures and only 70% coverage. There is NOTHING more &quot;WTF&quot; than that! Why even bother having a test suite?? <a href="http://gcov.php.net/viewer.php?version=PHP_5_4" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;gcov.php.net&#x2F;viewer.php?version=PHP_5_4</a><p>3) Why the fuck are all of these different things equal, and how does this NOT result in problems? <a href="http://i.imgur.com/pyDTn2i.png" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;i.imgur.com&#x2F;pyDTn2i.png</a><p>4) String increment is dumb to begin with, but why does it not even match the behavior of string decrement? <a href="https://eval.in/60631" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;eval.in&#x2F;60631</a><p>5) Why the hell can you <i>jump back</i> into a try block from a catch block? Recipe for disaster: <a href="http://phpmanualmasterpieces.tumblr.com/post/33091353115/the-documentation-clearly-says-raptors" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;phpmanualmasterpieces.tumblr.com&#x2F;post&#x2F;33091353115&#x2F;the...</a><p>6) PHP comparison operators. I&#x27;m sorry, but this level of complexity might make you <i>feel</i> smart once you master all its idiotsyncrasies [sic], but it&#x27;s actually <i>dumb</i>: <a href="http://stackoverflow.com/questions/15813490/php-type-juggling-and-strict-greater-lesser-than-comparisons" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;stackoverflow.com&#x2F;questions&#x2F;15813490&#x2F;php-type-jugglin...</a><p>That&#x27;s a <i>small fraction</i> of not-thought-out PHP language features <i>that result in REAL bugs and security holes.</i> Which consume large swathes of programmer time. Which, apparently, Facebook can afford to swallow.<p>I&#x27;m sorry, but your position, as valiant as you are defending it, is literally indefensible. And I don&#x27;t give a fuck how big Facebook is, they would STILL be better-served by switching SOME of their code to a different language. ANY modern programming language wouldn&#x27;t suffer from this imbecilic, immature language design.</text></item><item><author>lbrandy</author><text>&gt; I am baffled as to why you&#x27;d build your castle atop a crumbling foundation.<p>Because perfect is not the enemy of the good? Because &quot;build atop a crumbling foundation&quot; has demonstrated time and again to be, by far, the most successful way to accomplish anything in computing? Unless you have some example of perfect, now dominant, technologies that have been created ex nihilo that I&#x27;m missing? I mean we (facebook) are still using PHP and MySql, improving both. And when we need to break things out, we head into C++, the queen mother of castles on broken foundations.<p>&gt; But at the same time, layering FP with a home rolled static type checking server (??) is bug prone and is certainly yak shaving (which they have time and money to do). Now they&#x27;ve written (1) a compiler to C++, (2) a compiler to VM byte code, (3) a corresponding runtime for each, (4) extensions to PHP, (5) a type checker, and (6) an inference engine. That&#x27;s a lot of stuff.<p>All languages, runtimes, and standard libraries (and databases, and source control, and on and on) are &quot;broken&quot; at sufficient scale. You&#x27;re going to be spending time rebuilding things other people take for granted no matter who you are and what language and technology you are working in. The underlying assumption that a &quot;proper language&quot; gives you these things for free is completely false.<p>&gt; Writing correct type checkers and inference engines is kind of difficult.<p>Just so we are clear, you ask why Facebook didn&#x27;t rewrite 10,000 human-years of code into a mythical unnamed &quot;proper&quot; language, but you consider writing a type checker to be &quot;difficult&quot;. I think you might have vastly inaccurate pictures of what is and isn&#x27;t &quot;difficult&quot;.<p>&gt; That way, the compiler is now almost an engine to prove your code is correct. I don&#x27;t see how the same guarantee can be made with something that is just cobbled together.<p>Computing history is littered with dead projects from people who believed that anything less than perfect is unworkable or non-valuable.</text></item><item><author>reikonomusha</author><text>I am baffled as to why you&#x27;d build your castle atop a crumbling foundation.<p>I have wondered why FB didn&#x27;t use a proper language with proper typing to begin with. I mean, I &quot;understand&quot; logistically: they already had a giant codebase in PHP, migrating a codebase is expensive, and it&#x27;s difficult to hire and train 1000s of hackers in e.g., OCaml. (They <i>do</i> have some OCaml people, but they are outliers. OCaml was my favorite thing to write there, though it didn&#x27;t afford some of the same niceties and interactivity as the PHP code they had, only because the support was down by several orders of magnitude.)<p>But at the same time, layering FP with a home rolled static type checking server (??) is bug prone and is certainly yak shaving (which they have time and money to do). Now they&#x27;ve written (1) a compiler to C++, (2) a compiler to VM byte code, (3) a corresponding runtime for each, (4) extensions to PHP, (5) a type checker, and (6) an inference engine. That&#x27;s a lot of stuff. And in the end, it&#x27;s still PHP, which is duly disliked. (Though Facebookers don&#x27;t seem to care. The prevalent attitude toward it is that &quot;PHP, as it&#x27;s coded here, is mostly like C++, and that&#x27;s OK.&quot;)<p>Writing correct type checkers and inference engines is kind of difficult. They seemed to take the approach of just building onto it incrementally until it just seems to work. That approach led to many bugs in many cases that just simply aren&#x27;t thought of when one is trying to build inference engines by hand, as opposed according to theory. Type checking and inference is an area ripe with theory and attached formal, mathematical semantics. Standard ML&#x27;s standard is perhaps the most infamous; it&#x27;s a collection of mathematical statements about the language. That way, the compiler is now almost an engine to prove your code is correct. I don&#x27;t see how the same guarantee can be made with something that is just cobbled together.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>orblivion</author><text>You&#x27;re making a mistake. The question is not whether to start a company with PHP vs language X. The company is long started. The question is not whether or not to poof into existence a port from all of FB to language X. That&#x27;s not possible. The question is, given that PHP is the current language, with all its faults, will it it cost <i>more</i> (including all definitions of cost) to make the switch? How long will it take? Does it get the job done? How bad is the damage?<p>The question more pertinent to your argument is, did they make a mistake years ago choosing PHP? That&#x27;s when the could have conceivably gone with language X.<p>BTW the types of stuff you&#x27;re listing are documented here. So thorough it&#x27;s amusing to read: <a href="http://me.veekun.com/blog/2012/04/09/php-a-fractal-of-bad-design/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;me.veekun.com&#x2F;blog&#x2F;2012&#x2F;04&#x2F;09&#x2F;php-a-fractal-of-bad-de...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Hack: a new programming language for HHVM</title><url>https://code.facebook.com/posts/264544830379293/hack-a-new-programming-language-for-hhvm/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>lectrick</author><text>Given a programming task, it will be written faster, easier, and in a more maintainable and less bug-prone fashion <i>if it is not PHP.</i><p>The opposite opinion is basically indefensible. Sure, you can still dig a trench with a spoon (and if you have enough money to wield a bunch of workers with a spoon), even if a shovel would do a better job.<p>Let&#x27;s begin.<p>1) PHP autocraptastically converts strings that look like numbers, into numbers, resulting in all sorts of weirdness like this: <a href="https://eval.in/111886" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;eval.in&#x2F;111886</a><p>2) PHP 5.4&#x27;s OWN TEST SUITE has 91 failures and only 70% coverage. There is NOTHING more &quot;WTF&quot; than that! Why even bother having a test suite?? <a href="http://gcov.php.net/viewer.php?version=PHP_5_4" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;gcov.php.net&#x2F;viewer.php?version=PHP_5_4</a><p>3) Why the fuck are all of these different things equal, and how does this NOT result in problems? <a href="http://i.imgur.com/pyDTn2i.png" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;i.imgur.com&#x2F;pyDTn2i.png</a><p>4) String increment is dumb to begin with, but why does it not even match the behavior of string decrement? <a href="https://eval.in/60631" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;eval.in&#x2F;60631</a><p>5) Why the hell can you <i>jump back</i> into a try block from a catch block? Recipe for disaster: <a href="http://phpmanualmasterpieces.tumblr.com/post/33091353115/the-documentation-clearly-says-raptors" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;phpmanualmasterpieces.tumblr.com&#x2F;post&#x2F;33091353115&#x2F;the...</a><p>6) PHP comparison operators. I&#x27;m sorry, but this level of complexity might make you <i>feel</i> smart once you master all its idiotsyncrasies [sic], but it&#x27;s actually <i>dumb</i>: <a href="http://stackoverflow.com/questions/15813490/php-type-juggling-and-strict-greater-lesser-than-comparisons" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;stackoverflow.com&#x2F;questions&#x2F;15813490&#x2F;php-type-jugglin...</a><p>That&#x27;s a <i>small fraction</i> of not-thought-out PHP language features <i>that result in REAL bugs and security holes.</i> Which consume large swathes of programmer time. Which, apparently, Facebook can afford to swallow.<p>I&#x27;m sorry, but your position, as valiant as you are defending it, is literally indefensible. And I don&#x27;t give a fuck how big Facebook is, they would STILL be better-served by switching SOME of their code to a different language. ANY modern programming language wouldn&#x27;t suffer from this imbecilic, immature language design.</text></item><item><author>lbrandy</author><text>&gt; I am baffled as to why you&#x27;d build your castle atop a crumbling foundation.<p>Because perfect is not the enemy of the good? Because &quot;build atop a crumbling foundation&quot; has demonstrated time and again to be, by far, the most successful way to accomplish anything in computing? Unless you have some example of perfect, now dominant, technologies that have been created ex nihilo that I&#x27;m missing? I mean we (facebook) are still using PHP and MySql, improving both. And when we need to break things out, we head into C++, the queen mother of castles on broken foundations.<p>&gt; But at the same time, layering FP with a home rolled static type checking server (??) is bug prone and is certainly yak shaving (which they have time and money to do). Now they&#x27;ve written (1) a compiler to C++, (2) a compiler to VM byte code, (3) a corresponding runtime for each, (4) extensions to PHP, (5) a type checker, and (6) an inference engine. That&#x27;s a lot of stuff.<p>All languages, runtimes, and standard libraries (and databases, and source control, and on and on) are &quot;broken&quot; at sufficient scale. You&#x27;re going to be spending time rebuilding things other people take for granted no matter who you are and what language and technology you are working in. The underlying assumption that a &quot;proper language&quot; gives you these things for free is completely false.<p>&gt; Writing correct type checkers and inference engines is kind of difficult.<p>Just so we are clear, you ask why Facebook didn&#x27;t rewrite 10,000 human-years of code into a mythical unnamed &quot;proper&quot; language, but you consider writing a type checker to be &quot;difficult&quot;. I think you might have vastly inaccurate pictures of what is and isn&#x27;t &quot;difficult&quot;.<p>&gt; That way, the compiler is now almost an engine to prove your code is correct. I don&#x27;t see how the same guarantee can be made with something that is just cobbled together.<p>Computing history is littered with dead projects from people who believed that anything less than perfect is unworkable or non-valuable.</text></item><item><author>reikonomusha</author><text>I am baffled as to why you&#x27;d build your castle atop a crumbling foundation.<p>I have wondered why FB didn&#x27;t use a proper language with proper typing to begin with. I mean, I &quot;understand&quot; logistically: they already had a giant codebase in PHP, migrating a codebase is expensive, and it&#x27;s difficult to hire and train 1000s of hackers in e.g., OCaml. (They <i>do</i> have some OCaml people, but they are outliers. OCaml was my favorite thing to write there, though it didn&#x27;t afford some of the same niceties and interactivity as the PHP code they had, only because the support was down by several orders of magnitude.)<p>But at the same time, layering FP with a home rolled static type checking server (??) is bug prone and is certainly yak shaving (which they have time and money to do). Now they&#x27;ve written (1) a compiler to C++, (2) a compiler to VM byte code, (3) a corresponding runtime for each, (4) extensions to PHP, (5) a type checker, and (6) an inference engine. That&#x27;s a lot of stuff. And in the end, it&#x27;s still PHP, which is duly disliked. (Though Facebookers don&#x27;t seem to care. The prevalent attitude toward it is that &quot;PHP, as it&#x27;s coded here, is mostly like C++, and that&#x27;s OK.&quot;)<p>Writing correct type checkers and inference engines is kind of difficult. They seemed to take the approach of just building onto it incrementally until it just seems to work. That approach led to many bugs in many cases that just simply aren&#x27;t thought of when one is trying to build inference engines by hand, as opposed according to theory. Type checking and inference is an area ripe with theory and attached formal, mathematical semantics. Standard ML&#x27;s standard is perhaps the most infamous; it&#x27;s a collection of mathematical statements about the language. That way, the compiler is now almost an engine to prove your code is correct. I don&#x27;t see how the same guarantee can be made with something that is just cobbled together.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>juchem</author><text>It&#x27;s interesting how most people seem to attribute the quality and longevity of a software to the language it is written in or the frameworks it uses rather than to the amount of thought that was put into its design. Sure, the former is important, but largely overrated.</text></comment> |
18,866,149 | 18,865,702 | 1 | 2 | 18,865,160 | train | <story><title>The Painful Price of Becoming Jackie Chan</title><url>https://newrepublic.com/article/152848/painful-price-becoming-jackie-chan</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>crushcrashcrush</author><text>He’s also incredibly expressive, which to a western audience may come across as “cheesy” but I personally love it. Give Rush Hour a shot and I guarantee you’ll enjoy it.</text></item><item><author>doitLP</author><text>Here’s a really cool video breaking down exactly how Jackie sets up his stunt-action-comedy.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;m.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=Z1PCtIaM_GQ" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;m.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=Z1PCtIaM_GQ</a><p>One thing that was particular interesting to me is how the setup always starts with him at an extreme disadvantage: no shoes, tied to a chair, hanging upside down, etc. I never noticed it before and it’s exactly what makes his action so enjoyable to watch.<p>(The YouTube Channel is called Every Frame a Painting and all the other videos are fascinating and very worth checking out.)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>burger_moon</author><text>That could be why Rush Hour was such a hit. Chris Tucker is also very expressive in everything he does so it was a good matchup with two great actors.</text></comment> | <story><title>The Painful Price of Becoming Jackie Chan</title><url>https://newrepublic.com/article/152848/painful-price-becoming-jackie-chan</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>crushcrashcrush</author><text>He’s also incredibly expressive, which to a western audience may come across as “cheesy” but I personally love it. Give Rush Hour a shot and I guarantee you’ll enjoy it.</text></item><item><author>doitLP</author><text>Here’s a really cool video breaking down exactly how Jackie sets up his stunt-action-comedy.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;m.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=Z1PCtIaM_GQ" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;m.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=Z1PCtIaM_GQ</a><p>One thing that was particular interesting to me is how the setup always starts with him at an extreme disadvantage: no shoes, tied to a chair, hanging upside down, etc. I never noticed it before and it’s exactly what makes his action so enjoyable to watch.<p>(The YouTube Channel is called Every Frame a Painting and all the other videos are fascinating and very worth checking out.)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>52-6F-62</author><text>Rush Hour 1 through 3 have long been some of my favourite movies!<p>If we&#x27;re getting into Jackie Chan movies, though, one cannot leave out Drunken Master</text></comment> |
22,902,459 | 22,902,089 | 1 | 2 | 22,901,129 | train | <story><title>In Pursuit of PPE</title><url>https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMc2010025</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>reggieband</author><text>When I read this kind of thing I am happy we live in a society that allows the free discussion of information. It is no exaggeration to say this kind of honest description of events by a senior health official could have lead to imprisonment or worse in many historical and some modern contexts.<p>Given how many people are currently unemployed - how is it that we can fail to ramp up our own ability to produce this needed equipment? There is no shortage of labor. Forget about the failures to prepare in January, February and March - what are we doing right now to prepare for the next 6 months?<p>I&#x27;m looking around for a leader who has that vision. Governors are blaming the federal government. The federal government is blaming China and the WHO. Who is organizing the effort to fill the gaps?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rhino369</author><text>&gt;Given how many people are currently unemployed - how is it that we can fail to ramp up our own ability to produce this needed equipment? There is no shortage of labor.<p>Labor isn&#x27;t the limiting factor. You need machines, raw materials, supply chains.<p>There isn&#x27;t an AWS for N95 mask manufacturing.</text></comment> | <story><title>In Pursuit of PPE</title><url>https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMc2010025</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>reggieband</author><text>When I read this kind of thing I am happy we live in a society that allows the free discussion of information. It is no exaggeration to say this kind of honest description of events by a senior health official could have lead to imprisonment or worse in many historical and some modern contexts.<p>Given how many people are currently unemployed - how is it that we can fail to ramp up our own ability to produce this needed equipment? There is no shortage of labor. Forget about the failures to prepare in January, February and March - what are we doing right now to prepare for the next 6 months?<p>I&#x27;m looking around for a leader who has that vision. Governors are blaming the federal government. The federal government is blaming China and the WHO. Who is organizing the effort to fill the gaps?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dboreham</author><text>The governor I watched talk about this (NY) said something completely different: he said if you know how to make PPE, call me. If need funding to spin up manufacturing, I&#x27;ll get it for you. And so on. This was a week or two ago.</text></comment> |
34,784,046 | 34,781,245 | 1 | 2 | 34,777,646 | train | <story><title>AI-powered Bing Chat spills its secrets via prompt injection attack</title><url>https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2023/02/ai-powered-bing-chat-spills-its-secrets-via-prompt-injection-attack/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>freeqaz</author><text>It&#x27;s very interesting that AppSec may now begin to include &quot;prompt injection&quot; attacks as something of relevance.<p>Specifically with libraries like LangChain[0] that allow for you to perform complex actions (&quot;What&#x27;s the weather?&quot; -&gt; makes HTTP request to fetch weather) then we end up in a world where injection attacks can have side effects with security implications.<p>I&#x27;ve been thinking about what security might look like for a post-ChatGPT world and how I&#x27;d attempt to defend against it. I&#x27;d probably start by building a database of attack prompts, kind of like this[1] fuzz list but for AI, then I&#x27;d train a second neural net that acts like an adversarial neural network[2] to try to exploit the system based on those payloads. The end result would sort of like SQLMap[3] but for AI systems where it can automatically &quot;leak&quot; hidden prompts and potentially find &quot;bypasses&quot; to escape the sandbox.<p>Has anybody else spent any time thinking about how to defend systems against prompt injection attacks that have possible side effects (like making an HTTP request)?<p>0: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;langchain.readthedocs.io&#x2F;en&#x2F;latest&#x2F;modules&#x2F;agents&#x2F;examples&#x2F;search_tools.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;langchain.readthedocs.io&#x2F;en&#x2F;latest&#x2F;modules&#x2F;agents&#x2F;ex...</a><p>1: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;1N3&#x2F;IntruderPayloads">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;1N3&#x2F;IntruderPayloads</a><p>2: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Generative_adversarial_network" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Generative_adversarial_network</a><p>3: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;sqlmap.org&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;sqlmap.org&#x2F;</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>scarmig</author><text>I bet that, sometime in the near future, an LLM will have access to some private API not intended for direct public use, and someone will engineer a prompt attack to call that API using the LLM&#x27;s authority with an arbitrary request.<p>I guess the fix for this will probably be to have the LLM pass the end user credentials for all API calls so that their authority will be used.</text></comment> | <story><title>AI-powered Bing Chat spills its secrets via prompt injection attack</title><url>https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2023/02/ai-powered-bing-chat-spills-its-secrets-via-prompt-injection-attack/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>freeqaz</author><text>It&#x27;s very interesting that AppSec may now begin to include &quot;prompt injection&quot; attacks as something of relevance.<p>Specifically with libraries like LangChain[0] that allow for you to perform complex actions (&quot;What&#x27;s the weather?&quot; -&gt; makes HTTP request to fetch weather) then we end up in a world where injection attacks can have side effects with security implications.<p>I&#x27;ve been thinking about what security might look like for a post-ChatGPT world and how I&#x27;d attempt to defend against it. I&#x27;d probably start by building a database of attack prompts, kind of like this[1] fuzz list but for AI, then I&#x27;d train a second neural net that acts like an adversarial neural network[2] to try to exploit the system based on those payloads. The end result would sort of like SQLMap[3] but for AI systems where it can automatically &quot;leak&quot; hidden prompts and potentially find &quot;bypasses&quot; to escape the sandbox.<p>Has anybody else spent any time thinking about how to defend systems against prompt injection attacks that have possible side effects (like making an HTTP request)?<p>0: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;langchain.readthedocs.io&#x2F;en&#x2F;latest&#x2F;modules&#x2F;agents&#x2F;examples&#x2F;search_tools.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;langchain.readthedocs.io&#x2F;en&#x2F;latest&#x2F;modules&#x2F;agents&#x2F;ex...</a><p>1: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;1N3&#x2F;IntruderPayloads">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;1N3&#x2F;IntruderPayloads</a><p>2: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Generative_adversarial_network" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Generative_adversarial_network</a><p>3: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;sqlmap.org&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;sqlmap.org&#x2F;</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Buttons840</author><text>By the time prompt injection is a real problem people will be running their own virtual assistants that are unfettered and will do whatever you ask, be it ethical or not.</text></comment> |
14,140,546 | 14,139,709 | 1 | 2 | 14,137,528 | train | <story><title>How YouTube’s Shifting Algorithms Hurt Independent Media</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/17/arts/youtube-broadcasters-algorithm-ads.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jerf</author><text>I know at times I may sound like a shill for Patreon, but I have no connection to them whatsoever beyond &quot;normal customer&quot;, and don&#x27;t care if you use a competitive service to them or whatever. But if you are in the position of finding yourself with a growing show like this, I implore you to set up some sort of voluntary subscription revenue as soon as possible, before you embed into the very foundation of your content a dependency on ad dollars. Even if you use it as an augment to ad revenue, it&#x27;s so much better for you. It&#x27;s more stable against Youtube deciding to tweak an algorithm one day. It&#x27;s more stable month-to-month. It&#x27;s even more socially stable since it releases you from having to chase ad dollars by keeping advertisers happy instead of your &quot;actual&quot; customers. If your primary money base is subscriptions rather than ads, you could even completely shift video services if you need to without crashing your income.<p>My interest in pitching this so often is my desire to play my little part in sticking a stake in the idea that getting advertising money is the default path to monetization. I&#x27;d rather move to a world where it&#x27;s either merely one option among many, or even, dare I dream, a last resort considered vaguely déclassé.<p>Oh, and I would also implore you, let your patrons download video directly somehow. I&#x27;d love to not even have to go through YouTube at all. Of course, I&#x27;m a crazy Linux user for whom YouTube isn&#x27;t as convenient as it could be, but it&#x27;s another way to detach your patrons from a particular video service.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>stcredzero</author><text><i>My interest in pitching this so often is my desire to play my little part in sticking a stake in the idea that getting advertising money is the default path to monetization.</i><p>If Google and Facebook are The Internet (and for some large number of people, this is likely more than half true, in an empirical time-measurement sense) then The Internet is driven by advertisement. It&#x27;s just become Cable TV 2.0.<p><i>I&#x27;d rather move to a world where it&#x27;s either merely one option among many, or even, dare I dream, a last resort considered vaguely déclassé.</i><p>This was presaged by Scott McCloud. <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;scottmccloud.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;scottmccloud.com&#x2F;</a> <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.scottmccloud.com&#x2F;3-home&#x2F;essays&#x2F;2003-09-micros&#x2F;micros.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.scottmccloud.com&#x2F;3-home&#x2F;essays&#x2F;2003-09-micros&#x2F;mic...</a><p>And it was rejected by the mainstream, led by those with a vested interest in the new status quo. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.penny-arcade.com&#x2F;comic&#x2F;2001&#x2F;06&#x2F;22" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.penny-arcade.com&#x2F;comic&#x2F;2001&#x2F;06&#x2F;22</a></text></comment> | <story><title>How YouTube’s Shifting Algorithms Hurt Independent Media</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/17/arts/youtube-broadcasters-algorithm-ads.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jerf</author><text>I know at times I may sound like a shill for Patreon, but I have no connection to them whatsoever beyond &quot;normal customer&quot;, and don&#x27;t care if you use a competitive service to them or whatever. But if you are in the position of finding yourself with a growing show like this, I implore you to set up some sort of voluntary subscription revenue as soon as possible, before you embed into the very foundation of your content a dependency on ad dollars. Even if you use it as an augment to ad revenue, it&#x27;s so much better for you. It&#x27;s more stable against Youtube deciding to tweak an algorithm one day. It&#x27;s more stable month-to-month. It&#x27;s even more socially stable since it releases you from having to chase ad dollars by keeping advertisers happy instead of your &quot;actual&quot; customers. If your primary money base is subscriptions rather than ads, you could even completely shift video services if you need to without crashing your income.<p>My interest in pitching this so often is my desire to play my little part in sticking a stake in the idea that getting advertising money is the default path to monetization. I&#x27;d rather move to a world where it&#x27;s either merely one option among many, or even, dare I dream, a last resort considered vaguely déclassé.<p>Oh, and I would also implore you, let your patrons download video directly somehow. I&#x27;d love to not even have to go through YouTube at all. Of course, I&#x27;m a crazy Linux user for whom YouTube isn&#x27;t as convenient as it could be, but it&#x27;s another way to detach your patrons from a particular video service.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>sandworm101</author><text>Fellow crazy linux user here. I follow many youtube channels but, as a canadian, am not allowed to support them with cash. (Red and all the other premium schemes never include us.) I too have trouble with youtube&#x27;s interface and am often on a sat connection which makes everything more frustrating. Instead i use a combination of tools to download the vids directly, which denies my favorite channels even basic ad revenues. Youtube is the choke point.</text></comment> |
28,138,781 | 28,138,454 | 1 | 2 | 28,137,980 | train | <story><title>A dubious writing style emerging in science</title><url>https://arxiv.org/abs/2107.06751</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>groceryheist</author><text>I&#x27;m dying. Table 1 is incredible. It&#x27;s machine learning jargon from a parallel universe. &quot;counterfeit consciousness&quot; &quot;fog computing&quot; &quot;information stockroom&quot; &quot;profound neural organization&quot; &quot;credulous Bayes&quot; &quot;mean supreme blunder&quot;</text></comment> | <story><title>A dubious writing style emerging in science</title><url>https://arxiv.org/abs/2107.06751</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>wyldfire</author><text>See <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=28107614" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=28107614</a> for recent discussion</text></comment> |
10,510,726 | 10,510,608 | 1 | 2 | 10,510,394 | train | <story><title>Ledger, a command-line accounting system</title><url>http://www.ledger-cli.org/index.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>zrail</author><text>I&#x27;ve been using Ledger for almost nine years, both for my personal accounts and now my business accounts. I wrote some introductory articles about it, and further articles about how I use it day-to-day:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.petekeen.net&#x2F;finance" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.petekeen.net&#x2F;finance</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Ledger, a command-line accounting system</title><url>http://www.ledger-cli.org/index.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>tectonic</author><text>I use and love ledger, and wrote a Ruby wrapper a few years ago called reckon that applies Naive Bayes to your bank CSV (kind of link Mint.com) and outputs a ledger input file.<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.andrewcantino.com&#x2F;blog&#x2F;2013&#x2F;02&#x2F;16&#x2F;command-line-accounting-with-ledger-and-reckon&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.andrewcantino.com&#x2F;blog&#x2F;2013&#x2F;02&#x2F;16&#x2F;command-line-a...</a></text></comment> |
27,708,158 | 27,706,533 | 1 | 2 | 27,705,340 | train | <story><title>Installing Linux into a 286 laptop from the year 1989</title><url>https://befinitiv.wordpress.com/2021/06/30/installing-linux-into-a-286-laptop-from-the-year-1989/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ronsor</author><text>This title is sort of clickbait. I was expecting to see something about ELKS[0].<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;jbruchon&#x2F;elks" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;jbruchon&#x2F;elks</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>anigbrowl</author><text>Yeah, I was immediately suspicious because Linux 1.0 was 386+ only due to memory management needs. but I did get a faint twinge of nostalgia for the orange-tinted plasma display on a portable that had the size, weight, and aesthetics of several bricks.</text></comment> | <story><title>Installing Linux into a 286 laptop from the year 1989</title><url>https://befinitiv.wordpress.com/2021/06/30/installing-linux-into-a-286-laptop-from-the-year-1989/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ronsor</author><text>This title is sort of clickbait. I was expecting to see something about ELKS[0].<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;jbruchon&#x2F;elks" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;jbruchon&#x2F;elks</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tialaramex</author><text>Wow. I had no idea ELKS was still being developed. I think it may even have been last century when I last saw it boot.<p>I wonder if Al knows there are still people working on it.</text></comment> |
23,004,762 | 23,004,711 | 1 | 3 | 23,003,603 | train | <story><title>Tmux for Mere Mortals</title><url>https://zserge.com/posts/tmux/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>cozos</author><text>My biggest problem with &quot;mouseless tmux&quot; was copy-paste. How do you deal with that?</text></item><item><author>echelon</author><text>&gt; realizing it was never going to work how I liked.<p>&gt; You can&#x27;t have it all with the mouse no matter your settings<p>&gt; so I went back to just using the cursor to move things around.<p>These tools (vim, tmux, etc.) work great for mouseless setups. If you can get comfortable with a 100% keyboard control paradigm, it might work for you. I realize this might not be what you want, but if the statement &quot;spend less time moving your hand between keyboard and mouse&quot; resonates, it&#x27;s worth revisiting.</text></item><item><author>asdff</author><text>Spent too much time wonking a tmux config only realizing it was never going to work how I liked. You can&#x27;t have it all with the mouse no matter your settings, there will always be a compromise. It also doesn&#x27;t help that no one cites the version of tmux they wrote their configs for, nor that the configs are not backwards compatible with all versions of tmux for all settings.<p>It&#x27;s really clunky, but I went from tmux to just opening new shell windows as needed. I need to be able to resize and scroll, selecting text and copy behavior should be exactly like mac os. Even used a tiling window manager with it for a bit, but it felt pretty restrictive so I went back to just using the cursor to move things around.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>loopz</author><text>Make your own cheatsheet for bindings you need. This way you learn faster and optimize for your own needs. Tmux is exceptional mouseless, though personally I prefer combining with mouse.<p>With xclip, mouse and copy&#x2F;paste can work over SSH-forwarded X-sessions with C-y and Enter from copy-mode-vi so:<p><pre><code> # For older versions of tmux:
#setw -g mode-mouse on
#set -g mouse-resize-pane on
#set -g mouse-select-pane on
#set -g mouse-select-window on
# For newer versions of tmux:
set -g mouse on
bind -n WheelUpPane if-shell -F -t = &quot;#{mouse_any_flag}&quot; &quot;send-keys -M&quot; &quot;if -Ft= &#x27;#{pane_in_mode}&#x27; &#x27;send-keys -M&#x27; &#x27;select-pane -t=; copy-mode -e; #send-keys -M&#x27;&quot;
bind -n WheelDownPane select-pane -t= \; send-keys -M
set -g set-clipboard on
# With xclip
bind-key -n C-y run &quot;tmux show-buffer | xclip -selection clipboard -i &gt;&#x2F;dev&#x2F;null&quot;
#bind-key -n C-y run-shell &quot;tmux save-buffer - | xclip -i -selection clipboard &gt;&#x2F;dev&#x2F;null&quot;
# For tmux 2.4+
bind-key -T copy-mode-vi Enter send-keys -X copy-pipe-and-cancel &#x27;xclip -selection clipboard -i&#x27;
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For Windows vcxsrv is the simplest and most fool-proof X-Windows server. Anything else on Windows may result in pain.<p>My preference is to reduce visual clutter in tmux by tweaking config and mostly just follow built-in bindings so workflow mostly works on standard tmux as well.<p>When clipboard fails between environments, sometimes multiple copy-ing, and then pasting into a text-editor helps (not a tmux issue, but clipboard-integrations).</text></comment> | <story><title>Tmux for Mere Mortals</title><url>https://zserge.com/posts/tmux/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>cozos</author><text>My biggest problem with &quot;mouseless tmux&quot; was copy-paste. How do you deal with that?</text></item><item><author>echelon</author><text>&gt; realizing it was never going to work how I liked.<p>&gt; You can&#x27;t have it all with the mouse no matter your settings<p>&gt; so I went back to just using the cursor to move things around.<p>These tools (vim, tmux, etc.) work great for mouseless setups. If you can get comfortable with a 100% keyboard control paradigm, it might work for you. I realize this might not be what you want, but if the statement &quot;spend less time moving your hand between keyboard and mouse&quot; resonates, it&#x27;s worth revisiting.</text></item><item><author>asdff</author><text>Spent too much time wonking a tmux config only realizing it was never going to work how I liked. You can&#x27;t have it all with the mouse no matter your settings, there will always be a compromise. It also doesn&#x27;t help that no one cites the version of tmux they wrote their configs for, nor that the configs are not backwards compatible with all versions of tmux for all settings.<p>It&#x27;s really clunky, but I went from tmux to just opening new shell windows as needed. I need to be able to resize and scroll, selecting text and copy behavior should be exactly like mac os. Even used a tiling window manager with it for a bit, but it felt pretty restrictive so I went back to just using the cursor to move things around.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mjbrownie</author><text>A typical scrollback cut and paste workflow for me is via this &lt;ctrl-b&gt;P mapping. I&#x27;m lazy I just grab everything.<p><pre><code> bind-key P command-prompt -p &#x27;save history to filename:&#x27; -I &#x27;~&#x2F;tmux.history&#x27; &#x27;capture-pane -S -32768 ; save-buffer %1 ; delete-buffer&#x27;
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then it&#x27;s all in a file you can work with in an editor of your choice</text></comment> |
6,627,402 | 6,627,304 | 1 | 3 | 6,626,810 | train | <story><title>Namecheap now offer .io domains</title><url>https://www.namecheap.com/domains/extensions-tlds/cctld/io.aspx</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dlss</author><text>I&#x27;ve never heard of namecheap, but given their name I&#x27;m surprised they charge so much more than gandi.net ($39).<p>Is it normal for a company branded as the low cost provider to charge above market for rare goods?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dangrossman</author><text>Maybe that&#x27;s the price of free speech. Namecheap doesn&#x27;t have any unusual restrictions on what you do with your domain after you buy it. Gandi does. You have to uphold their ethical code and affirmatively fight &quot;deviant uses of the internet&quot; to register domains through them. Hacker News would violate that code, and under the terms of Gandi&#x27;s service agreement, they could revoke service and cancel this domain if it were registered through them.<p><a href="http://en.gandi.net/static/contracts/en/g2/pdf/MSA-1.3-EN.pdf" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.gandi.net&#x2F;static&#x2F;contracts&#x2F;en&#x2F;g2&#x2F;pdf&#x2F;MSA-1.3-EN.pd...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Namecheap now offer .io domains</title><url>https://www.namecheap.com/domains/extensions-tlds/cctld/io.aspx</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dlss</author><text>I&#x27;ve never heard of namecheap, but given their name I&#x27;m surprised they charge so much more than gandi.net ($39).<p>Is it normal for a company branded as the low cost provider to charge above market for rare goods?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>shiftpgdn</author><text>Namecheap is just an eNom reseller[1]. They simply use the eNom API to handle all domain management and registration. Their prices are dictated by the prices given to them by eNom.<p>Their business is low margin, high volume.<p>[1]<a href="http://www.namecheap.com/support/knowledgebase/troubleshooter.aspx/13/136/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.namecheap.com&#x2F;support&#x2F;knowledgebase&#x2F;troubleshoote...</a></text></comment> |
12,871,464 | 12,871,495 | 1 | 2 | 12,870,712 | train | <story><title>Smoking “causes hundreds of DNA changes”</title><url>http://www.bbc.com/news/health-37849000</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>nthcolumn</author><text>Hitting yourself repeatedly over the head with a hammer can give you a headache. Not sure DeWalt are worried from a litigious point of view. I doubt there is a smoker alive today who can reasonably claim to have been unaware of the risks when they started.<p>Anal point - why the apostrophe? Should it be &quot;Smoking becauses hundreds...&quot;?</text></item><item><author>Gatsky</author><text>This has some legal implications. You can now prove fairly conclusively that your lung cancer came from smoking. I wonder if it will lead to a new wave of tobacco litigation.<p>I think even Fisher would be convinced [1].<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;priceonomics.com&#x2F;why-the-father-of-modern-statistics-didnt-believe&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;priceonomics.com&#x2F;why-the-father-of-modern-statistics...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>CoryG89</author><text>There is literally a 69 year old woman in the article who claims just that:<p>&gt; &quot;Had I known as a teenager that smoking caused mutations which would stay with me for life then I would never had started&quot;<p>It agree with you that it&#x27;s a little silly, especially for young people, but it wasn&#x27;t that long ago they started forcing cancer warnings on tobacco.</text></comment> | <story><title>Smoking “causes hundreds of DNA changes”</title><url>http://www.bbc.com/news/health-37849000</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>nthcolumn</author><text>Hitting yourself repeatedly over the head with a hammer can give you a headache. Not sure DeWalt are worried from a litigious point of view. I doubt there is a smoker alive today who can reasonably claim to have been unaware of the risks when they started.<p>Anal point - why the apostrophe? Should it be &quot;Smoking becauses hundreds...&quot;?</text></item><item><author>Gatsky</author><text>This has some legal implications. You can now prove fairly conclusively that your lung cancer came from smoking. I wonder if it will lead to a new wave of tobacco litigation.<p>I think even Fisher would be convinced [1].<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;priceonomics.com&#x2F;why-the-father-of-modern-statistics-didnt-believe&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;priceonomics.com&#x2F;why-the-father-of-modern-statistics...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pjc50</author><text>There are plenty of people alive today who were unaware of the risks because until about the mid-80s the cigarette companies could actively deny them. You can only argue ignorance from when the mandatory product warnings were introduced.</text></comment> |
7,030,814 | 7,030,806 | 1 | 2 | 7,030,540 | train | <story><title>Workers on Samsung factory site battle police in Vietnam</title><url>http://www.cbc.ca/news/business/workers-on-samsung-factory-site-battle-police-in-vietnam-1.2490281</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>JimmaDaRustla</author><text>No, not at all. Like the other article linked by nodata, companies are moving from China to Vietnam because its cheaper. Seems a little greedy.</text></item><item><author>ddebernardy</author><text>It&#x27;s not good publicity either way...</text></item><item><author>JimmaDaRustla</author><text>Ah, so its workers building the plant, not the workers manufacturing their products.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>btian</author><text>Except it&#x27;s not. China has reached the stage in economic development that people are moving to higher skilled and higher paying jobs. Infrastructure in Vietnam has improved to the extent that is ready for large manufacturing plants.<p>While companies are saving by moving manufacturing plants, many people (millions) in Vietnam are going to experience higher standard of living. I say it&#x27;s a win win.</text></comment> | <story><title>Workers on Samsung factory site battle police in Vietnam</title><url>http://www.cbc.ca/news/business/workers-on-samsung-factory-site-battle-police-in-vietnam-1.2490281</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>JimmaDaRustla</author><text>No, not at all. Like the other article linked by nodata, companies are moving from China to Vietnam because its cheaper. Seems a little greedy.</text></item><item><author>ddebernardy</author><text>It&#x27;s not good publicity either way...</text></item><item><author>JimmaDaRustla</author><text>Ah, so its workers building the plant, not the workers manufacturing their products.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Tloewald</author><text>There was a wonderful Greenpeace poster from back in the 80s which had these words:<p>&quot;When the last tree is cut, the last river poisoned, and the last fish dead, we will discover that we can&#x27;t eat money.&quot;<p>It wasn&#x27;t about workers&#x27; rights, but something along those lines seems to fit.</text></comment> |
4,818,603 | 4,818,577 | 1 | 2 | 4,818,159 | train | <story><title>Police Raid 9-Year-Old Pirate Bay Girl</title><url>http://torrentfreak.com/police-raid-9-year-old-pirate-bay-girl-confiscate-winnie-the-pooh-laptop-121122/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ashray</author><text>Clicked through to the article hoping to see a picture of the laptop. Was not disappointed! :)<p>On topic though, this just shows how ridiculous the MAFIAA is getting these days. Unfortunately, this episode played out negatively on the artist as well - who probably had nothing to do with the event. So piracy harms the artist, but in this case the MAFIAA hurt the artist even more by prosecuting someone for it [1] ? Not sure if that's justice, but it feels quite strange to think about it.<p>[1] - The article says that the artist experienced a serious backlash on her facebook page from enraged fans.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>gingerjoos</author><text>I'm wondering if the backlash might actually be a good thing. If this sort of backlash becomes common, there will be a disincentive for artists to sign up with records who indulge in such nonsense. Perhaps the system will adapt such that prosecutions like this would be eliminated.</text></comment> | <story><title>Police Raid 9-Year-Old Pirate Bay Girl</title><url>http://torrentfreak.com/police-raid-9-year-old-pirate-bay-girl-confiscate-winnie-the-pooh-laptop-121122/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ashray</author><text>Clicked through to the article hoping to see a picture of the laptop. Was not disappointed! :)<p>On topic though, this just shows how ridiculous the MAFIAA is getting these days. Unfortunately, this episode played out negatively on the artist as well - who probably had nothing to do with the event. So piracy harms the artist, but in this case the MAFIAA hurt the artist even more by prosecuting someone for it [1] ? Not sure if that's justice, but it feels quite strange to think about it.<p>[1] - The article says that the artist experienced a serious backlash on her facebook page from enraged fans.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>smoyer</author><text>The picture I have in my head now is a group of police gathered around a Winnie-The-Pooh laptop listening to the latest Chisu music.</text></comment> |
15,887,583 | 15,887,280 | 1 | 3 | 15,886,333 | train | <story><title>Larry Ellison allegedly tried to have a professor fired for benchmarking Oracle</title><url>https://danluu.com/anon-benchmark/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>whack</author><text>&gt; <i>If we look at major commercial databases today, two out of the three big names in commericial databases forbid publishing benchmarks.</i><p>I see many people bashing Oracle&#x2F;Ellison, but they are not alone in this. MS does the same thing as well. The really worrying thing is that such practices are deemed to be legal. The entire principle of Free Markets is underpinned by consumers having accurate information about the goods they are purchasing. Having licensing agreements that are expressly designed to prevent the dissemination of product-information, goes against everything that Capitalism and Free-Markets stand for.<p>The fact that there are no government regulations against such behavior, is precisely what leads people to think that we are living in a Corporatocracy, and not a Free Market.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>CalChris</author><text>&gt; The entire principle of Free Markets is underpinned by consumers having accurate information about the goods they are purchasing. Having licensing agreements that are expressly designed to prevent the dissemination of product-information, goes against everything that Capitalism and Free-Markets stand for.<p>I agree with where you are going but I entirely disagree with your description of Free Markets and Capitalism.<p>free market - <i>an economic system in which prices are determined by unrestricted competition between privately owned businesses</i><p>There&#x27;s <i>nothing</i> in there about <i>consumers having accurate information</i>. If anything, <i>caveat emptor</i>. Moreover, if you are a free market entrepreneur then the absolute last thing you want is fairness to your competition or fairness to your consumer. Those are costs of doing business, to be avoided if possible. Naturally, Larry is only trying to avoid them.<p>That&#x27;s why we have regulation. That&#x27;s why civilization has evolved to have government. That&#x27;s why Libertaristan isn&#x27;t on any maps. That&#x27;s why <i>The Fountainhead</i> is such a misguided fantasy where entrepreneurs can do anything and it&#x27;s always better and governments can do nothing and it&#x27;s always worse.<p>Free Markets and Capitalism don&#x27;t <i>stand</i> for anything. That&#x27;s not even a criticism of them either. Civilization might stand for something although that something is a provisional something at best but then that provisional something is better than nothing.<p>The requirement for <i>consumers having accurate information</i> is a government regulation. In the United States, it&#x27;s enforced by the Consumer Protection Agency. It isn&#x27;t a free market requirement.</text></comment> | <story><title>Larry Ellison allegedly tried to have a professor fired for benchmarking Oracle</title><url>https://danluu.com/anon-benchmark/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>whack</author><text>&gt; <i>If we look at major commercial databases today, two out of the three big names in commericial databases forbid publishing benchmarks.</i><p>I see many people bashing Oracle&#x2F;Ellison, but they are not alone in this. MS does the same thing as well. The really worrying thing is that such practices are deemed to be legal. The entire principle of Free Markets is underpinned by consumers having accurate information about the goods they are purchasing. Having licensing agreements that are expressly designed to prevent the dissemination of product-information, goes against everything that Capitalism and Free-Markets stand for.<p>The fact that there are no government regulations against such behavior, is precisely what leads people to think that we are living in a Corporatocracy, and not a Free Market.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>TheIronYuppie</author><text>I have no objection to your overall sentiment, but, TBH, much of the reason they do this is it is trivially easy to use very authentic looking benchmarks to effectively lie. The net is that the academic ideal of a free market is effectively unachievable in real life - perfect information does not exist.<p>I don&#x27;t know how to get around this problem of course.</text></comment> |
31,380,947 | 31,379,476 | 1 | 3 | 31,378,200 | train | <story><title>Pirate Site Blocking Is Making Its Way into Free Trade Agreements</title><url>https://torrentfreak.com/pirate-site-blocking-is-making-its-way-into-free-trade-agreements-220508/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>alwayslikethis</author><text>Russia is currently at a perfect position to fight back against this. I&#x27;m no fan of Kremlin, dictatorship, or wars, but if an ordinary country wants to rebel against the international &quot;copyright&quot; cartel, they would face sanctions. Russia is already under enough sanctions that no more can be realistically added, and it also has an existing pirate culture and a developed network infrastructure.<p>I would be happy to see if they start sponsoring pirate groups to undermine the right holders from &quot;unfriendly countries&quot; as a form of economic warfare.<p>It&#x27;s already legalized for certain classes of software[1], but I think it has not yet formally extended into other types of content.<p>1. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.kommersant.ru&#x2F;doc&#x2F;5240942" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.kommersant.ru&#x2F;doc&#x2F;5240942</a></text></item><item><author>car_analogy</author><text>A perfect example of how &quot;democracy dies in darkness&quot;. They will keep pushing anti-consumer laws through the backdoor of &quot;free trade&quot; agreements, until we stop it by requiring that:<p>Before any international agreement may be ratified, [our country] must pass all the laws needed to comply with that agreement ahead of time, through regular democratic processes.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>grishka</author><text>As a Russian, I can assure you that copyright was never really enforced in Russia in the first place, despite it being a member of WTO for some time. People around me who do pay for software and especially movies&#x2F;tv shows&#x2F;music instead of torrenting do it as a goodwill gesture more than anything else.</text></comment> | <story><title>Pirate Site Blocking Is Making Its Way into Free Trade Agreements</title><url>https://torrentfreak.com/pirate-site-blocking-is-making-its-way-into-free-trade-agreements-220508/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>alwayslikethis</author><text>Russia is currently at a perfect position to fight back against this. I&#x27;m no fan of Kremlin, dictatorship, or wars, but if an ordinary country wants to rebel against the international &quot;copyright&quot; cartel, they would face sanctions. Russia is already under enough sanctions that no more can be realistically added, and it also has an existing pirate culture and a developed network infrastructure.<p>I would be happy to see if they start sponsoring pirate groups to undermine the right holders from &quot;unfriendly countries&quot; as a form of economic warfare.<p>It&#x27;s already legalized for certain classes of software[1], but I think it has not yet formally extended into other types of content.<p>1. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.kommersant.ru&#x2F;doc&#x2F;5240942" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.kommersant.ru&#x2F;doc&#x2F;5240942</a></text></item><item><author>car_analogy</author><text>A perfect example of how &quot;democracy dies in darkness&quot;. They will keep pushing anti-consumer laws through the backdoor of &quot;free trade&quot; agreements, until we stop it by requiring that:<p>Before any international agreement may be ratified, [our country] must pass all the laws needed to comply with that agreement ahead of time, through regular democratic processes.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>TheAceOfHearts</author><text>Well, there&#x27;s already rutracker for one thing.</text></comment> |
21,926,821 | 21,926,641 | 1 | 2 | 21,923,052 | train | <story><title>Key practices for achieving large professional goals</title><url>https://nodramadevops.com/2019/12/key-practices-for-achieving-large-professional-goals/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Havoc</author><text>&gt;professional goals<p>This is missing one major ingredient: Office politics, image and associated soft skills<p>Finding more and more that actual technical skill has less and less impact on my professional career.<p>As uncomfortable as it makes me the conclusion is inescapable: playing the game well is now front and center</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>drunkpotato</author><text>This is something I always tried to instill in my direct reports: fix the problem. Publicly take credit for fixing the problem. Call out people who helped you fix the problem. Thank people in other departments who helped. I tried to model this as well: publicly take credit for my team’s successes. Call out individuals who helped. Call out other teams’ individual contributors (and managers!!!) who helped. Build a support network of people who want my team to succeed because we make them look good, publicly, visibly! One place I worked had company wide release notes that went to every employee, and I think this was an invaluable tool for success that I evangelize everywhere. Coding is half the battle; everything else is the other half!</text></comment> | <story><title>Key practices for achieving large professional goals</title><url>https://nodramadevops.com/2019/12/key-practices-for-achieving-large-professional-goals/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Havoc</author><text>&gt;professional goals<p>This is missing one major ingredient: Office politics, image and associated soft skills<p>Finding more and more that actual technical skill has less and less impact on my professional career.<p>As uncomfortable as it makes me the conclusion is inescapable: playing the game well is now front and center</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>amznthrowaway5</author><text>I would be careful grouping everything related to human communication with office politics.<p>Things like effectively communicating ideas, getting people aligned on a project, improving team morale etc. are very important soft skills that deserve to be rewarded.<p>Wasteful politics like sucking up to the right people, claiming credit for others work by giving the higher ups an inaccurate view of your contributions, putting others down etc. are what gets people promoted more often from what I&#x27;ve noticed, and should not be confused with good communication skills.</text></comment> |
10,722,577 | 10,721,942 | 1 | 2 | 10,721,738 | train | <story><title>Stockfighter Developer Hub</title><url>https://starfighter.readme.io/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>patio11</author><text>We hit a few last minute technical issues, so the game will not launch publicly until Saturday afternoon (Chicago time).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>LiveOverflow</author><text>It is a bit weird to me that you want starfighters to be a recruitment platform but think it&#x27;s &#x27;Fun&#x27; when somebody releases recording of the solution.<p>&gt; &quot;I recorded a speedrun of level 5, clearly labeled as a speedrun of level 5, which spoils the twist midway through level 5.&quot; -- Fun<p>&gt; We&#x27;re OK with you publishing facts about Starfighter games&#x2F;levels but don&#x27;t want people to be exposed to intentionally hidden facts (discovery of which is, in many cases, the point of the level) unless they go looking for them.<p>I am asking because I sometimes record or stream myself playing CTFs and I first thought I couldn&#x27;t do that with starfighter... But I can do it as long as I label it properly and this would not be frowned upon?<p>I understand that you cannot stop people from leaking and spoiling challenges. But I definitely want to be obedient with your vision.<p>Really looking forward to this! Thank you for your work</text></comment> | <story><title>Stockfighter Developer Hub</title><url>https://starfighter.readme.io/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>patio11</author><text>We hit a few last minute technical issues, so the game will not launch publicly until Saturday afternoon (Chicago time).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>archgoon</author><text>Man, I got so excited after I ran the following.<p><pre><code> $ curl &#x27;https:&#x2F;&#x2F;api.stockfighter.io&#x2F;ob&#x2F;api&#x2F;heartbeat&#x27;
{&quot;ok&quot;:true,&quot;error&quot;:&quot;&quot;}
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I presume you&#x27;d like us to layoff testing your servers for a bit ;)?</text></comment> |
36,890,672 | 36,890,736 | 1 | 3 | 36,889,703 | train | <story><title>Stack Overflow's CEO Doesn't Understand Stack Overflow</title><url>https://jlericson.com/2023/07/26/not_understanding.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>janalsncm</author><text>&gt; In May I wrote about Stack Overflow&#x27;s business, which lost $42 million over 6 months and had just laid off 10% of its employees. Since then, the company&#x27;s fiscal year-end results came out. Despite growing revenue, it lost $84 million over the year ending on March 31, 2023.<p>Thank god Wikipedia isn’t run like Stack Overflow. As an end user, they have pretty much the same value proposition: user generated answers to my questions. Wikipedia is still doing well, meanwhile it seems SO is constantly being driven off a cliff by bimbos in management.<p>Not everything needs to be a damn unicorn. SO is an information repository. They need to accept that stop trying to “enhance” it with more crap because they don’t realize their median user is a junior dev who really just needs to serialize a Java object and isn’t going to pay or put up with any LLM-generated nonsense.<p>SO doesn’t need large language models. What they really need is a better model of what answers are good, what answers are outdated, and what answers should be expanded to include more info (and sometimes, what answers should be slimmed down a bit). Turn the top answer to popular questions into a wiki so that everyone can update it. And then add backlinks for questions which were closed for being “duplicates”. It solves so many problems SO has.<p>Another thing. This “comments aren’t for extended discussion” nonsense needs to go too. Any question could easily include a Reddit-style discussion tab to facilitate discussion. I’m sure much of it would be at least as valuable as the answers themselves.</text></comment> | <story><title>Stack Overflow's CEO Doesn't Understand Stack Overflow</title><url>https://jlericson.com/2023/07/26/not_understanding.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>vouaobrasil</author><text>The author is wrong. The CEO perfectly understands Stack Overflow. What the author of this blog doesn&#x27;t understand is that the CEO is pursuing a perfectly valid strategy: maximize its short-term gains by squeezing it unsustainably with the latest hype, and take the money, and run.<p>The good of the community and the well-being of the users are completely irrelevant in this strategy.</text></comment> |
3,766,853 | 3,766,751 | 1 | 3 | 3,766,284 | train | <story><title>The new Comcast Xbox Xfinity app is the first nail in net neutrality’s coffin</title><url>http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/124041-the-new-comcast-xbox-xfinity-app-is-the-first-nail-in-net-neutralitys-coffin</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>roboneal</author><text>Comcast claims that the app turns the XBox into essentially a set top box and that all data is streamed over Comcast's "private" network capacity and do not use any of the traditional public facing internet infrastructure.<p>Standard usage of "On Demand" programming from a DVR or other set top box do not count against the existing data cap quotas.<p>If this app essentially allows an XBox to plug into this private network capacity like any other set top box, I think this is an important distinction.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mikeryan</author><text>Its true (full disclosure I used to work for Comcast - via an acquisition)<p>One of Comcast's biggest (and most hated) capex expenditures are the cable boxes. They hate with an unholy passion having to upgrade boxes. In this context they're basically trying to get the users to upgrade their boxes on their own dime. When I put on my consultant hat and talk to analysts in this area we've been talking more and more about how connected tv's and OTT Boxes can be beneficial to cable operators. One of the downsides of cable cards is that you never got a guide with it. Combine a cable card and a Samsung Connected TV and you can really do both and get rid of the card all together.<p>Second they're quickly realizing that maintaining two on-demand infrastructures (Web and traditional VOD) the really sensible thing is to move as much as possible to delivering via your cable modem as opposed to the broadcast channels.<p>Of course as they do so they're going to have to do something about the bandwidth caps. Stories like this put Comcast in a strange position. They want to deliver more "TV" video content over their internet pipes but apparently can't do so and maintain a cap at the same time.</text></comment> | <story><title>The new Comcast Xbox Xfinity app is the first nail in net neutrality’s coffin</title><url>http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/124041-the-new-comcast-xbox-xfinity-app-is-the-first-nail-in-net-neutralitys-coffin</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>roboneal</author><text>Comcast claims that the app turns the XBox into essentially a set top box and that all data is streamed over Comcast's "private" network capacity and do not use any of the traditional public facing internet infrastructure.<p>Standard usage of "On Demand" programming from a DVR or other set top box do not count against the existing data cap quotas.<p>If this app essentially allows an XBox to plug into this private network capacity like any other set top box, I think this is an important distinction.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nextstep</author><text>I think you are right, and when they frame this new service as "turning your existing Xbox into a set top box", it sounds benign and rational. But I'm afraid of the dangerous precedent that this sets.<p>TV-style subscription-based services work with users as consumers: the pipes go one-way, because each subscriber is just a dumb set of eyes with a wallet. But with the internet, and new disruptive content models, everyone is also a creator. The real danger of losing net-neutrality is that individuals will become unable create new media for the internet.</text></comment> |
1,635,349 | 1,635,149 | 1 | 2 | 1,634,955 | train | <story><title>Is There Anything Good About Men?</title><url>http://www.psy.fsu.edu/~baumeistertice/goodaboutmen.htm</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>chegra</author><text>Summary:
Men are both better and worst than women. They are most at the top and also the most at the bottom. More men in CEO position and also more men in prison.<p>He tied in the fact that a society needs as many womb as possible and a few penis would do the job. Basically, saying the more people in a society the stronger it is. With this fact men basically are expendable, thus encouraged by society to participate in high risk endeavors. With high risk comes high reward. Hence a few successful men at the top.<p>Also, he points to the fact men have lots of shallow relationship while women value intimate relationship. But having a many shallow relationship allows men be more innovative since concepts are passed between then quicker compared to women.<p>Women would form small groups of intimate relationship while men will form large group. With large group emerges synergy and the whole is greater than the sum of it's parts. Hence, men form cultural things like religion, universities, sport teams, etc. What comes with forming and creating them is men dominate them. Also, the system men set up are design that only a few can be rewarded and recognized.<p>There wasn't no real conspiracy by men to dominate.</text></comment> | <story><title>Is There Anything Good About Men?</title><url>http://www.psy.fsu.edu/~baumeistertice/goodaboutmen.htm</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>johnthedebs</author><text>A long, but interesting read. This line stood out as pretty interesting - I'd never given this sort of thing much thought:<p>"If a group loses half its men, the next generation can still be full-sized. But if it loses half its women, the size of the next generation will be severely curtailed. Hence most cultures keep their women out of harm’s way while using men for risky jobs."<p>Overall, it's a pretty objective (and in-depth) view of the gender debate.</text></comment> |
19,558,566 | 19,558,615 | 1 | 3 | 19,558,161 | train | <story><title>No one should have to travel in fear</title><url>https://medium.com/@andreasgal/no-one-should-have-to-travel-in-fear-b2bff4c460e5</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>komali2</author><text>Dunno what to do about this. I think TSA is a sham and a waste of my money. I think border control is taking my money and using it to abuse people. I don&#x27;t think it&#x27;s ok that I can pay to avoid the poor people line at the airport.<p>I&#x27;ve written my reps and the president, I call about once a month, but it has no measurable effect. Smarter people than me have done audits on TSA and published them in famous newspapers to show how useless they are. There&#x27;s people fighting against CBP locking up asylum seekers but it still happens.<p>Dunno what to do. Partner and I are considering abandoning the USA.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>timdev2</author><text>I don&#x27;t disagree substantively with your sentiments, but you&#x27;re conflating TSA and CBP.<p>TSA is ostensibly about security on airplanes (or more realistically &quot;security theatre&quot;), and are not law enforcement. You primarily deal with them before getting on an airplane in the US, for nearly all commercial flights (both international and domestic).<p>CBP are law enforcement officers in the customs (contraband, taxes, etc) and immigration (passport control, visas) domains operating at the border. If you&#x27;re traveling by plane, you primarily deal with them after you disembark from an international flight.</text></comment> | <story><title>No one should have to travel in fear</title><url>https://medium.com/@andreasgal/no-one-should-have-to-travel-in-fear-b2bff4c460e5</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>komali2</author><text>Dunno what to do about this. I think TSA is a sham and a waste of my money. I think border control is taking my money and using it to abuse people. I don&#x27;t think it&#x27;s ok that I can pay to avoid the poor people line at the airport.<p>I&#x27;ve written my reps and the president, I call about once a month, but it has no measurable effect. Smarter people than me have done audits on TSA and published them in famous newspapers to show how useless they are. There&#x27;s people fighting against CBP locking up asylum seekers but it still happens.<p>Dunno what to do. Partner and I are considering abandoning the USA.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Diederich</author><text>&gt; Partner and I are considering abandoning the USA.<p>Any thoughts about where you&#x27;d move? Some places in the world are better, but it feels like our whole civilization is trending in this bad direction.</text></comment> |
10,713,753 | 10,713,484 | 1 | 3 | 10,712,038 | train | <story><title>Facebook to open-source AI hardware design</title><url>https://code.facebook.com/posts/1687861518126048/facebook-to-open-source-ai-hardware-design/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>daveguy</author><text>Can we please not call open sourcing a build plan of off the shelf components, open-source &quot;hardware design&quot;. I don&#x27;t think backblaze called their case designs open source hardware. It just doesn&#x27;t fit when we have open source circuit board designs. How about open-source build specification instead?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nl</author><text>I think you are completely underestimating (or misunderstanding) what this is.<p>The Open Compute designs (which is where this will end up) aren&#x27;t just a list of parts. They include things like blueprints for custom chassis, circuit boards for power supplies and even designs for solid state storage devices[1][2][3]. The also include the source code for custom management software[4].<p>While it is true that they don&#x27;t generally design their own logic boards, it is quite a long way from a list of parts.<p><i>I don&#x27;t think backblaze called their case designs open source hardware.</i><p>You&#x27;d be wrong about that: <i>This new Storage Pod performs four times faster, is simpler to assemble, and delivers our lowest cost per gigabyte of data storage yet. And, once again, it’s open source.</i>[5]<p>I think &quot;open source&quot; is completely appropriate here, and to be honest I don&#x27;t quite understand your objection.<p>[1] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.opencompute.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Server&#x2F;SpecsAndDesigns" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.opencompute.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Server&#x2F;SpecsAndDesigns</a><p>[2] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.opencompute.org&#x2F;projects&#x2F;chassis&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.opencompute.org&#x2F;projects&#x2F;chassis&#x2F;</a><p>[3] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.opencompute.org&#x2F;projects&#x2F;power-supply&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.opencompute.org&#x2F;projects&#x2F;power-supply&#x2F;</a><p>[4] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.opencompute.org&#x2F;projects&#x2F;hardware-management&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.opencompute.org&#x2F;projects&#x2F;hardware-management&#x2F;</a><p>[5] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.backblaze.com&#x2F;blog&#x2F;backblaze-storage-pod-4&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.backblaze.com&#x2F;blog&#x2F;backblaze-storage-pod-4&#x2F;</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Facebook to open-source AI hardware design</title><url>https://code.facebook.com/posts/1687861518126048/facebook-to-open-source-ai-hardware-design/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>daveguy</author><text>Can we please not call open sourcing a build plan of off the shelf components, open-source &quot;hardware design&quot;. I don&#x27;t think backblaze called their case designs open source hardware. It just doesn&#x27;t fit when we have open source circuit board designs. How about open-source build specification instead?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nickpsecurity</author><text>I agree we should differentiate between the types of open-sourcing. Open-source hardware should either be the umbrella term or the specific one for open-source circuits. Open-source build is one phrase for this sort of thing. Maybe configuration would be another.<p>Seems tricky given we usually call a collection of components on PCB&#x27;s and such a computer, hardware design, server, or so on. Putting open-source in front of them doesn&#x27;t make it clear how much is open-source. That might be what we need to resolve. Anybody have ideas?</text></comment> |
22,567,246 | 22,563,561 | 1 | 2 | 22,560,484 | train | <story><title>Peacetime CEO/Wartime CEO (2011)</title><url>https://a16z.com/2011/04/14/peacetime-ceowartime-ceo-2/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tmpz22</author><text>Beyond that, has anyone else noticed how executive types LOVE to quote movies like the god father, wolf of wall street, and similar types of media, as if they themselves are the protagonist and&#x2F;or &quot;hero&quot; of the story? Its a &quot;Rah-rah&quot; strongman ideal chalk full of projection and other bullshit mechanisms.<p>To quote M.A.S.H. &quot; War isn&#x27;t Hell. War is war, and Hell is Hell. And of the two, war is a lot worse.&quot; What is business? Cupcakes.</text></item><item><author>whatshisface</author><text>This was published in 2011, and refers to Larry Page and Google+. It turns out that Google would have been better off if they had been less single-minded about pushing their new product. So take it all with a grain of salt.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>the_af</author><text>Yes. And what&#x27;s worse, they misinterpret movies like the Wolf of Wall Street as something to admire (even if being aware of the excesses), when they are really descriptions of broken, corrupt, hateful individuals and criminals. Quoting the Wolf of Wall Street shouldn&#x27;t serve as an endorsement of <i>anything</i>.</text></comment> | <story><title>Peacetime CEO/Wartime CEO (2011)</title><url>https://a16z.com/2011/04/14/peacetime-ceowartime-ceo-2/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tmpz22</author><text>Beyond that, has anyone else noticed how executive types LOVE to quote movies like the god father, wolf of wall street, and similar types of media, as if they themselves are the protagonist and&#x2F;or &quot;hero&quot; of the story? Its a &quot;Rah-rah&quot; strongman ideal chalk full of projection and other bullshit mechanisms.<p>To quote M.A.S.H. &quot; War isn&#x27;t Hell. War is war, and Hell is Hell. And of the two, war is a lot worse.&quot; What is business? Cupcakes.</text></item><item><author>whatshisface</author><text>This was published in 2011, and refers to Larry Page and Google+. It turns out that Google would have been better off if they had been less single-minded about pushing their new product. So take it all with a grain of salt.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jacobwilliamroy</author><text>Yes I notice. You&#x27;re not alone. I see it too.</text></comment> |
3,699,219 | 3,699,149 | 1 | 2 | 3,698,118 | train | <story><title>Solar panel made with ion cannon is cheap enough to challenge fossil fuels</title><url>http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/122231-solar-panels-made-with-ion-cannon-are-cheap-enough-to-challenge-fossil-fuels</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>greedo</author><text>The idea that solar, wind and geothermal energy can replace nuclear power for electricity generation in my lifetime (the next 35 years) ignores the reality of how much electricity we consume and how it is currently generated.<p>Here's a link to a graph created by the Lawrence Livermore Lab that quickly illustrates the miniscule impact of doubling, tripling, or even quadrupling the three primary alternative energy sources.<p>I wish we could all live in a world powered by solar cells etc, but it just isn't going to happen.</text></item><item><author>nextparadigms</author><text>This is why I <i>welcomed</i> the backlash and even some of the sensationalism regarding the nuclear explosion in Japan. Even if I realize that nuclear energy could be safe and it's good to have an alternative that is cheap enough to compete with coal, I'd still wish we'd spend all those billions switching from nuclear and putting most of them into renewable energy technologies, which should be the future.<p>The arguments against solar were that the tech is "not there yet", so then it's better to just focus on nuclear. I disagree with that. I believe that if the energy industry changed focus to solar panels and other renewable energy technologies, we would get there a lot faster. We would have a lot more companies exploring different ideas that make them more efficient and cheaper.<p>Nuclear technology will probably never be gone, or at least not within the next century. But I just don't want it to be the holy grail of the energy industry and see the vast majority of investments go into that. I want renewable energy technologies to be that.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>srdev</author><text>Maybe I'm missing something, but I don't think you provided a link.</text></comment> | <story><title>Solar panel made with ion cannon is cheap enough to challenge fossil fuels</title><url>http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/122231-solar-panels-made-with-ion-cannon-are-cheap-enough-to-challenge-fossil-fuels</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>greedo</author><text>The idea that solar, wind and geothermal energy can replace nuclear power for electricity generation in my lifetime (the next 35 years) ignores the reality of how much electricity we consume and how it is currently generated.<p>Here's a link to a graph created by the Lawrence Livermore Lab that quickly illustrates the miniscule impact of doubling, tripling, or even quadrupling the three primary alternative energy sources.<p>I wish we could all live in a world powered by solar cells etc, but it just isn't going to happen.</text></item><item><author>nextparadigms</author><text>This is why I <i>welcomed</i> the backlash and even some of the sensationalism regarding the nuclear explosion in Japan. Even if I realize that nuclear energy could be safe and it's good to have an alternative that is cheap enough to compete with coal, I'd still wish we'd spend all those billions switching from nuclear and putting most of them into renewable energy technologies, which should be the future.<p>The arguments against solar were that the tech is "not there yet", so then it's better to just focus on nuclear. I disagree with that. I believe that if the energy industry changed focus to solar panels and other renewable energy technologies, we would get there a lot faster. We would have a lot more companies exploring different ideas that make them more efficient and cheaper.<p>Nuclear technology will probably never be gone, or at least not within the next century. But I just don't want it to be the holy grail of the energy industry and see the vast majority of investments go into that. I want renewable energy technologies to be that.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>danmaz74</author><text>But renewable energies <i>could</i> replace nuclear (and other sources) for new plants that will be built in the future. Nuclear has a very high initial cost, and shutting down current plants while they're still efficient and safe enough wouldn't be a sound choice, but for replacements of ageing plants and for new constructions cheaper and cheaper renewable energies could realistically displace them in the next decades.</text></comment> |
1,869,528 | 1,868,881 | 1 | 3 | 1,868,421 | train | <story><title>Your Worst Enemy Is Yourself</title><url>http://www.avc.com/a_vc/2010/11/your-worst-enemy-is-yourself.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>waxman</author><text>So true. Although, I prefer pg's version:<p>The only "competitor" you should worry about is the Back Button.*<p>*<a href="http://www.paulgraham.com/startuplessons.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.paulgraham.com/startuplessons.html</a>, <a href="http://mixergy.com/paul-graham-design/" rel="nofollow">http://mixergy.com/paul-graham-design/</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Your Worst Enemy Is Yourself</title><url>http://www.avc.com/a_vc/2010/11/your-worst-enemy-is-yourself.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>tyng</author><text>Agree with everything said there. The question left unanswered is where to draw the fine line between focusing on a predefined strategy and react to what your competitors are doing. Example: today Facebook announced Deals, should Foursquare just keep doing what it is doing or do something different to counter Facebook's invasion?<p>(I personally believe Foursquare should just keep doing what they are doing but let's discuss this anyway)</text></comment> |
26,451,492 | 26,450,591 | 1 | 2 | 26,448,985 | train | <story><title>Baserow.io – Self-hosted Airtable alternative</title><url>https://baserow.io/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>chrisblackwell</author><text>I will be using this, and dropping a lot of my paid AirTable bases...and let me please explain why.<p>Airtable makes it VERY hard to collaborate with people outside my organization. We are a team of 7 people. No longer a scrappy 1-person startup, but not an enterprise client by any-means.<p>If I want to add a single person to an Airtable base, that&#x27;s $24 a month please. I have one client with 12 people that want to collaborate on the base by posting comments. I can&#x27;t justify $288 a month just to keep the comments for all time.I contacted Airtable about this and was told the &quot;Enterprise Plan&quot; would be a perfect fit. Minimum $15k a year commitment.<p>Why is this happening in the SasS world??? Everyone seems to be either single Pro user, or Enterprise. Do they really think there is nothing in-between?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ig1</author><text>There’s a few factors at play;<p>1) There’s customers who will pay 15k for the exact same users&#x2F;features as you’re willing to pay &lt;3k for. If they offered a cheap package then those customers wouldn’t pay for the expensive package.<p>2) Sub enterprise customers are a pain, they’re often as expensive as enterprise customers (acquisition, support, etc) but with significantly less revenue and higher churn. When a company decides where to focus it’s going to go where the money is.</text></comment> | <story><title>Baserow.io – Self-hosted Airtable alternative</title><url>https://baserow.io/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>chrisblackwell</author><text>I will be using this, and dropping a lot of my paid AirTable bases...and let me please explain why.<p>Airtable makes it VERY hard to collaborate with people outside my organization. We are a team of 7 people. No longer a scrappy 1-person startup, but not an enterprise client by any-means.<p>If I want to add a single person to an Airtable base, that&#x27;s $24 a month please. I have one client with 12 people that want to collaborate on the base by posting comments. I can&#x27;t justify $288 a month just to keep the comments for all time.I contacted Airtable about this and was told the &quot;Enterprise Plan&quot; would be a perfect fit. Minimum $15k a year commitment.<p>Why is this happening in the SasS world??? Everyone seems to be either single Pro user, or Enterprise. Do they really think there is nothing in-between?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>donmcronald</author><text>&gt; Everyone seems to be either single Pro user, or Enterprise. Do they really think there is nothing in-between?<p>Just like GitLab. If you have users that might post one or two issues a year you have to pay for them at dev level prices. $240 &#x2F; year for idle users that barely participate? No thanks.<p>And they have the same tone deaf solution; upgrade to Ultimate.<p>Silicon Valley SaaS bros have lost touch with reality because they have unlimited money to work with.</text></comment> |
32,824,955 | 32,825,077 | 1 | 3 | 32,824,054 | train | <story><title>Pre-exposure to mRNA-LNP inhibits adaptive immune responses in mice</title><url>https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36054264/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>yojo</author><text>Excess deaths are widely considered to be “from Covid” right now. It is possible there’s something else going on, but as the parent said, the numbers you should care about when making a vaccine decision are the mortality rate of the vaccinated vs the unvaccinated.<p>Unvaccinated people are dying at a much higher rate. If your biggest concern is not dying, you should be vaccinated.</text></item><item><author>treeman79</author><text>Isn’t “unknown cause of death” skyrocketing?<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;F74iqEJnb14" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;F74iqEJnb14</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;thehill.com&#x2F;changing-america&#x2F;well-being&#x2F;longevity&#x2F;588738-huge-huge-numbers-death-rates-up-40-percent-over-pre&#x2F;amp&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;thehill.com&#x2F;changing-america&#x2F;well-being&#x2F;longevity&#x2F;58...</a></text></item><item><author>mabbo</author><text>But the thing is we ran a massive experiment on this called &quot;The covid-19 pandemic&quot;.<p>What we saw was no serious increase in mortality for the immunized, and a significant increase in mortality for the non-immunized.<p>Seems like the data from that experiment should be taken into consideration when deciding if the tradeoff is worthwhile, right?</text></item><item><author>lazyier</author><text>I donno. Seems like white blood cells are kinda important.<p>We have a huge number of interactions with bacteria and viruses and all sorts of microorganisms. Hundreds? Thousands times a day? Scratches in the kitchen while preparing food, for example, floods our body with stuff that white blood cells are required to deal with.<p>Giving up some of the ability to deal with those for a small reduction in the symptoms associated with a specific disease doesn&#x27;t seem like a useful trade off.</text></item><item><author>mabbo</author><text>&gt; On the other hand, we report that after pre-exposure to mRNA-LNPs, the resistance of mice to heterologous infections with influenza virus increased while resistance to Candida albicans decreased.<p>It sounds to me as though the tradeoff being made here is: a slightly decreased immune response generally, but a better immune response to the thing you&#x27;ve been immunized against. That seems to be a reasonable tradeoff if there&#x27;s something really bad going around.<p>But as they say in the paper summary: more research is needed.<p>Also: this is purely in mice. They have zero data on whether this is true for humans.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>base698</author><text>Most of the excess deaths are not covid but attributed from effects of lockdown (drug use, untreated cancers).</text></comment> | <story><title>Pre-exposure to mRNA-LNP inhibits adaptive immune responses in mice</title><url>https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36054264/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>yojo</author><text>Excess deaths are widely considered to be “from Covid” right now. It is possible there’s something else going on, but as the parent said, the numbers you should care about when making a vaccine decision are the mortality rate of the vaccinated vs the unvaccinated.<p>Unvaccinated people are dying at a much higher rate. If your biggest concern is not dying, you should be vaccinated.</text></item><item><author>treeman79</author><text>Isn’t “unknown cause of death” skyrocketing?<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;F74iqEJnb14" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;F74iqEJnb14</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;thehill.com&#x2F;changing-america&#x2F;well-being&#x2F;longevity&#x2F;588738-huge-huge-numbers-death-rates-up-40-percent-over-pre&#x2F;amp&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;thehill.com&#x2F;changing-america&#x2F;well-being&#x2F;longevity&#x2F;58...</a></text></item><item><author>mabbo</author><text>But the thing is we ran a massive experiment on this called &quot;The covid-19 pandemic&quot;.<p>What we saw was no serious increase in mortality for the immunized, and a significant increase in mortality for the non-immunized.<p>Seems like the data from that experiment should be taken into consideration when deciding if the tradeoff is worthwhile, right?</text></item><item><author>lazyier</author><text>I donno. Seems like white blood cells are kinda important.<p>We have a huge number of interactions with bacteria and viruses and all sorts of microorganisms. Hundreds? Thousands times a day? Scratches in the kitchen while preparing food, for example, floods our body with stuff that white blood cells are required to deal with.<p>Giving up some of the ability to deal with those for a small reduction in the symptoms associated with a specific disease doesn&#x27;t seem like a useful trade off.</text></item><item><author>mabbo</author><text>&gt; On the other hand, we report that after pre-exposure to mRNA-LNPs, the resistance of mice to heterologous infections with influenza virus increased while resistance to Candida albicans decreased.<p>It sounds to me as though the tradeoff being made here is: a slightly decreased immune response generally, but a better immune response to the thing you&#x27;ve been immunized against. That seems to be a reasonable tradeoff if there&#x27;s something really bad going around.<p>But as they say in the paper summary: more research is needed.<p>Also: this is purely in mice. They have zero data on whether this is true for humans.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>code51</author><text>There are large crowds that took 2 doses in pandemic period (getting vaccinated properly back at the time) but not receiving boosters.<p>It would be easy to track:<p>- 2 dose, no other booster<p>- all boosters<p>- no vaccine<p>and readjust results considering age and other bias etc.<p>If all booster people have excess deaths, than &quot;not from Covid&quot; ?
If 2 dose people excess deaths &lt; all boosted people, than something about vaccine?
No vaccine could be control.</text></comment> |
8,114,825 | 8,114,865 | 1 | 2 | 8,114,336 | train | <story><title>The Lowdown on Lidar</title><url>https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B941PmRjYRpnX3ZqLWlQMGdGXzQ/edit</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ihaveajob</author><text>Speed radars are good for speed traps, but not so great to prevent speed related incidents. They share the same fatal flaw with all other single-point speed meters: You can just slow down for a minute, while you pass by the speed trap, and then speed up for the rest of your trip. Instead, a 2-point speed meter (i.e. license plate readers every few miles, measuring time between matching reads) system is superior because a) their margin of error is negligible and b) they measure sustained speed over a long distance rather than at a single hot spot, thus making roads safer. I can&#x27;t believe it&#x27;s not implanted at least in all interstate freeways.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>growse</author><text>Possibly because the cost&#x2F;benefit just isn&#x27;t there.<p>In the UK, the data shows that speeding (excessive speed for the conditions above the speed limit) is the primary cause in single digit percentage of accidents. I believe there&#x27;s data from 1996 and 2007 for this, will dig it out when I&#x27;m not on mobile.<p>If you want to spend money on accident prevention, there&#x27;s much better things to target than speeding.</text></comment> | <story><title>The Lowdown on Lidar</title><url>https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B941PmRjYRpnX3ZqLWlQMGdGXzQ/edit</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ihaveajob</author><text>Speed radars are good for speed traps, but not so great to prevent speed related incidents. They share the same fatal flaw with all other single-point speed meters: You can just slow down for a minute, while you pass by the speed trap, and then speed up for the rest of your trip. Instead, a 2-point speed meter (i.e. license plate readers every few miles, measuring time between matching reads) system is superior because a) their margin of error is negligible and b) they measure sustained speed over a long distance rather than at a single hot spot, thus making roads safer. I can&#x27;t believe it&#x27;s not implanted at least in all interstate freeways.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>malchow</author><text>&quot;I can&#x27;t believe [average speed camera systems are] not implanted at least in all interstate freeways.&quot;<p>Possibly because a civil society, favoring the preservation of a measure of basic autonomy, does not implement <i>every</i> measure for tracking, enforcing, circumscribing, and monitoring the people.</text></comment> |
40,005,461 | 40,005,028 | 1 | 3 | 40,004,909 | train | <story><title>Why birds survived and dinosaurs went extinct after an asteroid hit earth (2020)</title><url>https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/why-birds-survived-and-dinosaurs-went-extinct-after-asteroid-hit-earth-180975801/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>neonate</author><text><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;web.archive.org&#x2F;web&#x2F;20240124195601&#x2F;https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.smithsonianmag.com&#x2F;science-nature&#x2F;why-birds-survived-and-dinosaurs-went-extinct-after-asteroid-hit-earth-180975801&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;web.archive.org&#x2F;web&#x2F;20240124195601&#x2F;https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.smith...</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;archive.ph&#x2F;c0hHJ" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;archive.ph&#x2F;c0hHJ</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Why birds survived and dinosaurs went extinct after an asteroid hit earth (2020)</title><url>https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/why-birds-survived-and-dinosaurs-went-extinct-after-asteroid-hit-earth-180975801/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>dang</author><text>Discussed a bit at the time (of the article):<p><i>Why Birds Survived, and Dinosaurs Went Extinct, After an Asteroid Hit Earth</i> - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=24488527">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=24488527</a> - Sept 2020 (3 comments)</text></comment> |
29,735,426 | 29,735,243 | 1 | 2 | 29,735,051 | train | <story><title>Northvolt assembles first lithium-ion battery cell at Swedish gigafactory</title><url>https://northvolt.com/articles/first-cell/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tmikaeld</author><text>There&#x27;s an estimate 10 000MW additional requirement of power for Swedish Industry (3000MW surplus in the north):<p>- The Swedish fossil-free steel (&amp; Direct-Reduced Iron) manufacture (9000 MW)<p>- Amazon&#x2F;google&#x2F;microsoft datacenters (2000 MW)<p>- Conversion to electric cars (1000 MW, currently 128MW)..<p>- This gigafactory (?MW 50GW Capacity)<p>The Swedish government plan on solving these needs with Wind turbines (Currently 7000MW capacity), which this weekend was at 1.4% capacity due to no winds.<p>How is that going to work, do they plan on shutting down production when there&#x27;s no wind?<p>EDIT: If you&#x27;re going to downvote, please explain why, these numbers are not made-up, they are public:<p>Live stats: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.svk.se&#x2F;om-kraftsystemet&#x2F;kontrollrummet&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.svk.se&#x2F;om-kraftsystemet&#x2F;kontrollrummet&#x2F;</a><p>Capacity: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;svenskvindenergi.org&#x2F;wp-content&#x2F;uploads&#x2F;2019&#x2F;02&#x2F;Statistics-and-forecast-Svensk-Vindenergi-20190212.pdf" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;svenskvindenergi.org&#x2F;wp-content&#x2F;uploads&#x2F;2019&#x2F;02&#x2F;Stat...</a><p>Steel: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;dagenslogistik.se&#x2F;h2-green-steal-satsar-pa-vatgasproduktion-pa-iberiska-halvon&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;dagenslogistik.se&#x2F;h2-green-steal-satsar-pa-vatgaspro...</a><p>Gigafactory: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;northvolt.com&#x2F;articles&#x2F;first-cell&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;northvolt.com&#x2F;articles&#x2F;first-cell&#x2F;</a><p>Average data-center consumption 100-200MW. Amazon 3x, Facebook 3x, Google 1x, Cloudflare 1x and Microsoft 1x, estimate total 2000MW.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>silvestrov</author><text>Sweden and Norway has <i>a lot</i> of hydro power.<p>When wind mills in Denmark are running then Norway stops their hydro and imports cheap electricity from the Danish wind mills. They save up the water.<p>When the Danish wind mills stands still then Norway sells expensive electricity from hydro.<p>Denmark is a very good place for wind mills so the combination is a win-win. It&#x27;s crazy to look independently at each country because that is not how the electricity market works in Northern Europe. The countries are very interconnected.<p>It just so happends that the wind often blows during the day in Denmark and stand stills during night. So this back and forth happends almost every day.<p>When you ignore hydro power in NO&#x2F;SE it shows that you don&#x27;t know anything about the electricity market in Northern Europe.</text></comment> | <story><title>Northvolt assembles first lithium-ion battery cell at Swedish gigafactory</title><url>https://northvolt.com/articles/first-cell/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tmikaeld</author><text>There&#x27;s an estimate 10 000MW additional requirement of power for Swedish Industry (3000MW surplus in the north):<p>- The Swedish fossil-free steel (&amp; Direct-Reduced Iron) manufacture (9000 MW)<p>- Amazon&#x2F;google&#x2F;microsoft datacenters (2000 MW)<p>- Conversion to electric cars (1000 MW, currently 128MW)..<p>- This gigafactory (?MW 50GW Capacity)<p>The Swedish government plan on solving these needs with Wind turbines (Currently 7000MW capacity), which this weekend was at 1.4% capacity due to no winds.<p>How is that going to work, do they plan on shutting down production when there&#x27;s no wind?<p>EDIT: If you&#x27;re going to downvote, please explain why, these numbers are not made-up, they are public:<p>Live stats: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.svk.se&#x2F;om-kraftsystemet&#x2F;kontrollrummet&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.svk.se&#x2F;om-kraftsystemet&#x2F;kontrollrummet&#x2F;</a><p>Capacity: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;svenskvindenergi.org&#x2F;wp-content&#x2F;uploads&#x2F;2019&#x2F;02&#x2F;Statistics-and-forecast-Svensk-Vindenergi-20190212.pdf" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;svenskvindenergi.org&#x2F;wp-content&#x2F;uploads&#x2F;2019&#x2F;02&#x2F;Stat...</a><p>Steel: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;dagenslogistik.se&#x2F;h2-green-steal-satsar-pa-vatgasproduktion-pa-iberiska-halvon&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;dagenslogistik.se&#x2F;h2-green-steal-satsar-pa-vatgaspro...</a><p>Gigafactory: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;northvolt.com&#x2F;articles&#x2F;first-cell&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;northvolt.com&#x2F;articles&#x2F;first-cell&#x2F;</a><p>Average data-center consumption 100-200MW. Amazon 3x, Facebook 3x, Google 1x, Cloudflare 1x and Microsoft 1x, estimate total 2000MW.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>LeoPanthera</author><text>You may be being downvoted because you have provided no citations or justifications for your claims, and because anti-electric shilling is, unfortunately, very common on the internet. The oil industry has really amazing PR.<p>Is &quot;TW&quot; supposed to be a terawatt? Because that is an enormously large amount of power. Annual human <i>global</i> power consumption is only 20TW.<p>(Edit: Since I replied to this, you changed your units, and provided sources which I haven&#x27;t yet checked.)<p>Obviously, wind and solar cannot provide constant power, as fossil fuels can, but by building them in carefully selected locations, and combining them grid energy storage (which can be, but does not have to be, batteries[1]), un-evenness in supply can be smoothed out.<p>[1]: Pumped storage hydroelectricity is another example.</text></comment> |
17,009,069 | 17,008,196 | 1 | 2 | 17,008,044 | train | <story><title>Sidepact: start a company with a full-time job</title><url>https://www.sidepact.com/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>wkoszek</author><text>Hm. I’m a little puzzled. If you can’t meet other people to talk, you’ll have problems forming a firm. So my counter-offer to people reading this: meet with each other for lunch every Sunday. It’ll be $15&#x2F;lunch. After 12 weeks of lunches you will know if you like the people and whether they have thr skills and can form your team anyway and not give anybody anything, especially the 1%. To find people who care, form a meetup, post on HN and Reddit. If nobody replies after 12 attemps, your idea is wrong and change your idea. This method lets you iterate through 5 ideas a year. If you dont have the idea and like coding - there are hundreds of post on how to find the idea. Ping me if you still have no idea. I can give you hundreds of ideas that I have no time building.</text></comment> | <story><title>Sidepact: start a company with a full-time job</title><url>https://www.sidepact.com/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>bmpafa</author><text>&gt; The program charges a $30&#x2F;week to cover costs and participants must be located in the San Francisco Bay Area. Sidepact takes a 1% equity stake in companies from companies formed during program upon incorporation.</text></comment> |
24,255,593 | 24,253,930 | 1 | 2 | 24,250,735 | train | <story><title>My Fourier Epicycles</title><url>https://www.myfourierepicycles.com/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>encypruon</author><text>Shameless plug: A friend of mine and I made a game[1] for a jam that works the other way around. The goal is to manually fiddle with the coefficients to recreate a given shape.<p>It gives an easy way to play with the coefficients and hopefully allows the player to gain some intuitions. For example how some combinations of frequencies lead to rotational symmetry and why negative frequencies are necessary.<p>It&#x27;s not very polished, though. I made a mistake while writing the algorithm that checks whether the shape is matching. It causes some false negatives in certain situations. There might also be some issues with dragging the controls on Mac OS.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;coldiv.itch.io&#x2F;fouriershaper" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;coldiv.itch.io&#x2F;fouriershaper</a></text></comment> | <story><title>My Fourier Epicycles</title><url>https://www.myfourierepicycles.com/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>bargle0</author><text>It would be cool to have a slider or something to hide cycles, starting with the highest frequency. Basically, a way to visualize lossy compression.</text></comment> |
9,866,484 | 9,866,458 | 1 | 3 | 9,865,338 | train | <story><title>Things to Know When Making a Web Application in 2015</title><url>http://blog.venanti.us/web-app-2015/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tspike</author><text>First of all, thanks for the nice writeup. I hate that comments tend to hone in on nitpicking, but so it goes. My apologies in advance.<p>&gt; If you&#x27;re just starting out with a new web application, it should probably be an SPA.<p>Your reasoning for this seems to be performance (reloading assets), but IMHO the only good reason for using a single-page app is when your application requires a high level of interactivity.<p>In nearly every case where an existing app I know and love transitions to a single-page app (seemingly just for the sake of transitioning to a single-page app), performance and usability have suffered. For example, I cannot comprehend why Reddit chose a single-page app for their new mobile site.<p>It&#x27;s a lot harder to get a single-page app right than a traditional app which uses all the usability advantages baked in to the standard web.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>joepie91_</author><text>I fully agree with this. SPAs are for web<i>apps</i>, not web<i>sites</i>.<p>For websites, you should <i>always</i> use progressive enhancement - there is no reason why you couldn&#x27;t obtain the same performance gains by progressively enhancing your site with reload-less navigation. That&#x27;s what AJAX and the HTML5 History API are for.<p>Especially don&#x27;t forget that no, <i>not</i> all your clients support JS. And there&#x27;s no reason why they should need to, for a website.</text></comment> | <story><title>Things to Know When Making a Web Application in 2015</title><url>http://blog.venanti.us/web-app-2015/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tspike</author><text>First of all, thanks for the nice writeup. I hate that comments tend to hone in on nitpicking, but so it goes. My apologies in advance.<p>&gt; If you&#x27;re just starting out with a new web application, it should probably be an SPA.<p>Your reasoning for this seems to be performance (reloading assets), but IMHO the only good reason for using a single-page app is when your application requires a high level of interactivity.<p>In nearly every case where an existing app I know and love transitions to a single-page app (seemingly just for the sake of transitioning to a single-page app), performance and usability have suffered. For example, I cannot comprehend why Reddit chose a single-page app for their new mobile site.<p>It&#x27;s a lot harder to get a single-page app right than a traditional app which uses all the usability advantages baked in to the standard web.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>AdeptusAquinas</author><text>This is totally true.<p>If you&#x27;re just starting out, chances are you are not (or should not be) making any sort of application where the performance increases by operating as a SPA will be even be noticeable compared to a standard server app.<p>Plus, I&#x27;d argue that you won&#x27;t really understand what a SPA adds (or takes away) unless you are thoroughly familiar with the traditional model.<p>Finally, at the end of the day traditional apps are just a lot easier to put together even compared to the latest SPA frameworks, especially if your server side tech is something like Ruby or C#. A beginner will be better served by getting something nice up quickly, before attempting to do it the &#x27;purist&#x27; way and possibly getting discouraged by the difficulty.</text></comment> |
18,508,260 | 18,507,977 | 1 | 2 | 18,502,728 | train | <story><title>Secure Boot in the Era of the T2</title><url>https://duo.com/labs/research/secure-boot-in-the-era-of-the-t2</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>userbinator</author><text><i>which is great for data privacy.</i><p>...and absolutely horrible for freedom. It used to be the case, and still widely accepted for a lot of other products, that physical ownership actually meant something beyond just being a consumer. Now companies are turning the security against users, lest they also be attackers. From the point of view of the DRM-advocating media corporations, the user <i>is</i> an attacker. Locking down the platform to allow only &quot;trusted&quot; (not by <i>you</i>, but by <i>them</i>!) code only benefits when their goals align with yours; you may agree with them on not wanting things like ransomware, but not on things like them not allowing you to share a file between two apps or even run code you wrote yourself.<p>It&#x27;s scarier than any security attack to see what used to be an open and free platform turned into a walled garden of corporate control and obedience.<p>(Insert famous Benjamin Franklin quote.)</text></item><item><author>Shank</author><text>&gt; Apple should be lauded for trying to bring their laptop and desktop lines into the same defensive posture as their mobile offerings.<p>I think this can&#x27;t be stated enough. The fact of the matter is that pre T2, evil maid attacks were ridiculously easy. Now they&#x27;re at least as secure as iOS -- which also means that shared vulnerabilities can be patched and detected. By no means is it perfect security, but it&#x27;s a heck of a lot better than &quot;stick boot disk in and gain keys to the kingdom.&quot;<p>For so long we&#x27;ve gone by the mantra that physical access means you have root. Now we&#x27;re a step ahead of that -- which is great for data privacy.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>geofft</author><text>&gt; <i>It used to be the case, and still widely accepted for a lot of other products, that physical ownership actually meant something beyond just being a consumer.</i><p>It still does. The only thing is we&#x27;ve distinguished physical ownership and mere physical possession.<p>It is a <i>feature</i> that if I leave my personal laptop at my desk at work while using the bathroom, my IT department can&#x27;t rootkit it. It is an <i>improvement to my freedom</i> - both my computing freedom and my physical freedom - if I can leave a laptop in my hotel room while seeing tourist sights. It <i>protects me from the government</i> if a border control agent looking through my bag, or a cop who&#x27;s seized my laptop, can&#x27;t get in. (The iPhone is an existence proof that such defense against the government is possible, and it&#x27;s weird that the usually pro-personal-liberty free software crowd hasn&#x27;t decided that a free software implementation of the same thing is critically important.)<p>Of course software freedom requires access control. My freedom over my possessions involves other people&#x27;s lack of freedom over my possessions. I can&#x27;t make sure my computer is running the code I want it to if everyone else can make my computer run the code they want it to. This control is essential liberty; pretending that anyone with physical access is an owner because it&#x27;s easier than crypto and key management has been decades of temporary convenience, and I&#x27;m glad it&#x27;s coming to an end.<p>I can turn secure boot on and off with an admin password, which I set when I first booted the machine because that&#x27;s what demonstrates physical ownership and not mere possession. (And systems that don&#x27;t permit me to do so, like Microsoft or Apple ARM devices, are in fact an affront to software freedom.) But nobody else can.</text></comment> | <story><title>Secure Boot in the Era of the T2</title><url>https://duo.com/labs/research/secure-boot-in-the-era-of-the-t2</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>userbinator</author><text><i>which is great for data privacy.</i><p>...and absolutely horrible for freedom. It used to be the case, and still widely accepted for a lot of other products, that physical ownership actually meant something beyond just being a consumer. Now companies are turning the security against users, lest they also be attackers. From the point of view of the DRM-advocating media corporations, the user <i>is</i> an attacker. Locking down the platform to allow only &quot;trusted&quot; (not by <i>you</i>, but by <i>them</i>!) code only benefits when their goals align with yours; you may agree with them on not wanting things like ransomware, but not on things like them not allowing you to share a file between two apps or even run code you wrote yourself.<p>It&#x27;s scarier than any security attack to see what used to be an open and free platform turned into a walled garden of corporate control and obedience.<p>(Insert famous Benjamin Franklin quote.)</text></item><item><author>Shank</author><text>&gt; Apple should be lauded for trying to bring their laptop and desktop lines into the same defensive posture as their mobile offerings.<p>I think this can&#x27;t be stated enough. The fact of the matter is that pre T2, evil maid attacks were ridiculously easy. Now they&#x27;re at least as secure as iOS -- which also means that shared vulnerabilities can be patched and detected. By no means is it perfect security, but it&#x27;s a heck of a lot better than &quot;stick boot disk in and gain keys to the kingdom.&quot;<p>For so long we&#x27;ve gone by the mantra that physical access means you have root. Now we&#x27;re a step ahead of that -- which is great for data privacy.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>xvector</author><text>&gt; Now companies are turning the security against users, lest they also be attackers.<p>This has always been the case, has it not? Modern security practices seem to operate under the assumption that the attacker can do almost anything the user can except sniff the password out of the user&#x27;s head.<p>I think that&#x27;s a reasonable model to work under. Building a platform that makes it a near-guarantee that the only way to unlock a computer is to be in the user&#x27;s brain is a commendable security model, and the fact that Apple is executing it so seamlessly (i.e. with minimal user interaction) is honestly incredible. Gone are the days when you need to jump through hoops for security. It&#x27;s democratized and available to everyone.<p>I would say that this is <i>amazing</i> for freedom. You could ask for little more than for every citizen to have state-of-the-art security.<p>---<p>Of course, vote with your wallet. If you don&#x27;t like DRM content, don&#x27;t get it. If you like the T2 chip and need a new laptop, get a Mac. No one is depriving you of choice, here.</text></comment> |
15,294,103 | 15,290,252 | 1 | 3 | 15,289,766 | train | <story><title>Show HN: Calcflow, an open-source complex maths visualization tool in VR</title><url>https://github.com/matryx/calcflow</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>pault</author><text>Lately I&#x27;ve been wanting a VR tool that does interactive 3D projections of 4D geometry. It&#x27;s already so counterintuitive, I&#x27;m curious if the additional information available when projecting to 3D rather than 2D would allow better intuition for 4D transforms, volume-as-surface, etc. For some reason 4D geometry has always been an annoying obsession for me, like an itch that I can&#x27;t scratch.</text></comment> | <story><title>Show HN: Calcflow, an open-source complex maths visualization tool in VR</title><url>https://github.com/matryx/calcflow</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>sus_007</author><text>IMO, an AR implementation of visualization would be more interactive than a VR. Overall, great job.</text></comment> |
15,128,302 | 15,128,041 | 1 | 2 | 15,126,527 | train | <story><title>Honey SQL – SQL as Clojure data structures</title><url>https://github.com/jkk/honeysql</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>christophilus</author><text>Curious to hear if anyone uses yesql or similar[1]. I&#x27;d <i>really</i> be interested in hearing from someone who has used Honey SQL and yesql and can compare&#x2F;contrast.<p>After dealing with ActiveRecord for the past few years, I&#x27;m ready to just be able to write plain old SQL again. It seems like yesql is a pretty sweet solution, but I haven&#x27;t tried it in earnest.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;krisajenkins&#x2F;yesql" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;krisajenkins&#x2F;yesql</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ledgerdev</author><text>I&#x27;ve found templated queries(e.g. yesql) are far preferable for complex selects&#x2F;joins&#x2F;subselects and just can&#x27;t imagine using the data structure dsl for such queries. One huge downside of dsl queries is that they NEVER support the full sql syntax of any database, in my case postgres. The best part is being able to write the query in a sql editor then copy&#x2F;paste directly, rather than needing to translate into a dsl.<p>On the other hand if you need dynamic queries, then yes dsl is more suited, as well as for other query types where the dsl can be much better at handling multiple records at once... like say inserting 10 rows at once.<p>So to sum up:<p>* complex select queries - templated queries really shine<p>* simple dynamic queries - templates for simple replacements<p>* complex dynamic queries - dsl<p>* inserts&#x2F;updates&#x2F;deletes - dsl<p>* portable sql - dsl</text></comment> | <story><title>Honey SQL – SQL as Clojure data structures</title><url>https://github.com/jkk/honeysql</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>christophilus</author><text>Curious to hear if anyone uses yesql or similar[1]. I&#x27;d <i>really</i> be interested in hearing from someone who has used Honey SQL and yesql and can compare&#x2F;contrast.<p>After dealing with ActiveRecord for the past few years, I&#x27;m ready to just be able to write plain old SQL again. It seems like yesql is a pretty sweet solution, but I haven&#x27;t tried it in earnest.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;krisajenkins&#x2F;yesql" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;krisajenkins&#x2F;yesql</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>joncampbelldev</author><text>I found yesql inadaquete for use with anything other than simple queries. Writing plain SQL is definitely nicer than an ORM, however, I find that manipulating SQL as data (honeysql) is far superior to .sql files with added magic (yesql).<p>As soon as I had to dynamically build queries (essential when moving beyond the complexity of &quot;select this user record&quot;) I ran into issues with yesql&#x27;s lack of power.<p>It also fits closer to one of the main principles of clojure, to be data-driven&#x2F;data-first&#x2F;just-use-data etc etc</text></comment> |
25,949,313 | 25,947,898 | 1 | 3 | 25,947,697 | train | <story><title>Robinhood now has a 1-Star rating on the Google Play Store</title><url>https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.robinhood.android&showAllReviews=true</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>anm89</author><text>When retail in traders en masse decide that a trading platform is impinging upon their rights, the SEC should be obligated to open an investigation. Isn&#x27;t this pretty much a major component of their intended purpose?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>shrimpx</author><text>I have a bit of knowledge from friends who work in fintech, and the sentiment among fintech companies seems to be that SEC doesn&#x27;t matter. The fine is small and comes way too late. You can simply account for an approximate future fine and move forward with your shady business.</text></comment> | <story><title>Robinhood now has a 1-Star rating on the Google Play Store</title><url>https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.robinhood.android&showAllReviews=true</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>anm89</author><text>When retail in traders en masse decide that a trading platform is impinging upon their rights, the SEC should be obligated to open an investigation. Isn&#x27;t this pretty much a major component of their intended purpose?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dmurray</author><text>I think we can be certain the SEC will open an investigation. They don&#x27;t generally work in real time though.</text></comment> |
38,922,862 | 38,921,945 | 1 | 3 | 38,919,884 | train | <story><title>Turing Complete Transformers: Two Transformers Are More Powerful Than One</title><url>https://openreview.net/forum?id=MGWsPGogLH</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>qsort</author><text>These reviews are <i>brutal</i>. It&#x27;s basically science-speak for &quot;the paper is utter trash&quot;.<p>&quot;The main claim [...] is both somewhat obvious and previously already stated&quot;<p>&quot;Many pieces of writing are overly assertive and inaccurate.&quot;<p>&quot;I do not think it deserves spending half a page demonstrating that {0^n 1^n} is not in the regular language.&quot;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Animats</author><text>Yes. Anything with finite memory is not Turing-complete, and transformers are finite-state machines. So what? Anything with infinite memory is un-buildable.<p>Yes, there&#x27;s a school of philosophy that claims that AI cannot be built with digital hardware because it needs infinite state. Penrose is the leading exponent of this argument.[1] This isn&#x27;t taken too seriously any more, now that finite machines are doing so well at AI.<p>This is close to theology. Man must be special, right? Only humans can play chess, right? Play Go? Pass the Turing test? Create art and music? We&#x27;re running out of boxes to check. Common sense (as in getting through the next 30 seconds without a major screwup) and manipulation in unstructured settings are still in bad shape, but we only need squirrel-level AI for that.<p>On that subject, there was a &quot;what does the cerebellum do&quot; article on HN a few days ago. That&#x27;s a big issue. The lower mammal brains are mostly cerebellum. The weak areas in AI at present are mostly cerebellum functions. That area has never gotten enough attention in AI research. Today, though, the amount of hardware to do a low-end mammal cerebellum equivalent doesn&#x27;t seem at all unreasonable.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;sortingsearching.com&#x2F;2021&#x2F;07&#x2F;18&#x2F;roger-penrose-ai-skepticism.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;sortingsearching.com&#x2F;2021&#x2F;07&#x2F;18&#x2F;roger-penrose-ai-ske...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Turing Complete Transformers: Two Transformers Are More Powerful Than One</title><url>https://openreview.net/forum?id=MGWsPGogLH</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>qsort</author><text>These reviews are <i>brutal</i>. It&#x27;s basically science-speak for &quot;the paper is utter trash&quot;.<p>&quot;The main claim [...] is both somewhat obvious and previously already stated&quot;<p>&quot;Many pieces of writing are overly assertive and inaccurate.&quot;<p>&quot;I do not think it deserves spending half a page demonstrating that {0^n 1^n} is not in the regular language.&quot;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Cacti</author><text>These are just jokes with reviewers having some fun after doing 20 other reviews. The review process isn&#x27;t really needed for a paper this bad, but they have to go through the motions, and so people have fun with it.<p>It’s not a big deal. Shitty papers exist.</text></comment> |
12,736,398 | 12,736,262 | 1 | 2 | 12,734,816 | train | <story><title>Google Flights will now tell you when fares will increase</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2016/10/17/google-flights-will-now-tell-you-when-fares-will-increase-help-you-find-cheaper-tickets/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>lmkg</author><text>Bing Travel had predictions for fare fluctuations for air tickets back in 2009. It was pretty awesome back when I flied a lot, but they apparently killed the feature in 2014. Now Google&#x27;s bringing it back, two years later.<p>I don&#x27;t understand the future sometimes. ¯\(°_o)&#x2F;¯</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jmarbach</author><text>Similarly, the article mentions that Google Flights is now more closely competing with Hopper, a mobile app for finding flights. Hopper already offers this price prediction service, and it is powered by Sabre&#x27;s price prediction API: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;developer.sabre.com&#x2F;docs&#x2F;read&#x2F;rest_apis&#x2F;air&#x2F;intelligence&#x2F;low_fare_forecast" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;developer.sabre.com&#x2F;docs&#x2F;read&#x2F;rest_apis&#x2F;air&#x2F;intellig...</a><p>Disclosure: I own another competing flight search tool, <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;concorde.io" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;concorde.io</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Google Flights will now tell you when fares will increase</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2016/10/17/google-flights-will-now-tell-you-when-fares-will-increase-help-you-find-cheaper-tickets/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>lmkg</author><text>Bing Travel had predictions for fare fluctuations for air tickets back in 2009. It was pretty awesome back when I flied a lot, but they apparently killed the feature in 2014. Now Google&#x27;s bringing it back, two years later.<p>I don&#x27;t understand the future sometimes. ¯\(°_o)&#x2F;¯</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bimr</author><text>The original service was called Farecast before Microsoft bought them. It used to be very good, but the prediction info gradually became marginalized. We may never know the truth, but it feels as if Microsoft caved to pressure from the airlines.</text></comment> |
21,322,698 | 21,322,258 | 1 | 2 | 21,321,725 | train | <story><title>No Maintenance Intended</title><url>http://unmaintained.tech/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>StavrosK</author><text>A while ago I started an OSS maintainer community for exactly this purpose, I saw software that was in use, people wanted to contribute, the users were very active, but the developer had abandoned it, creating a hole. We all know how much more difficult it is to create a fork that will be discoverable over the original rather than just merge a few PRs.<p>I would like to ask anyone who currently has a project they don&#x27;t want to maintain to spend the minute to add the project to Code Shelter:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.codeshelter.co&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.codeshelter.co&#x2F;</a><p>This way, interested people can easily pick up maintenance and at least merge a few PRs&#x2F;triage a few issues. Also, if you have some spare time or you see a project you&#x27;d like to help out with, please join Code Shelter as a maintainer:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.codeshelter.co&#x2F;membership&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.codeshelter.co&#x2F;membership&#x2F;</a><p>There&#x27;s no reason to have abandoned projects nowadays, it locks them in a state of &quot;I don&#x27;t want anyone improving this&quot; rather than &quot;I don&#x27;t have time to improve it, but feel free to if you want&quot;.</text></comment> | <story><title>No Maintenance Intended</title><url>http://unmaintained.tech/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>seanalltogether</author><text>Shouldn&#x27;t the badge have a green checkmark to show everything&#x27;s ok? Or is no maintenance intended supposed to imply your code is broken?</text></comment> |
40,104,642 | 40,104,396 | 1 | 2 | 40,101,290 | train | <story><title>Two lifeforms merge in once-in-a-billion-years evolutionary event</title><url>https://newatlas.com/biology/life-merger-evolution-symbiosis-organelle/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>yosito</author><text>The headline makes it sound like this happened last week, but it actually happened 100 million years ago, and we&#x27;re just now discovering it.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>hgo</author><text>Ah, that&#x27;s a relief. It sounded incredibly scary if it was some new type of species just now. I would imagine that it would overwhelm our ecosystems wreaking havoc until a new balance is eventually found with new winners and new types of species dominating our environment.</text></comment> | <story><title>Two lifeforms merge in once-in-a-billion-years evolutionary event</title><url>https://newatlas.com/biology/life-merger-evolution-symbiosis-organelle/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>yosito</author><text>The headline makes it sound like this happened last week, but it actually happened 100 million years ago, and we&#x27;re just now discovering it.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>OJFord</author><text>Ah, thank you, I was suspicious thinking what are the chances they would just happen to be watching something microscopic when such a rare thing occurs...<p>So, since the article didn&#x27;t mention it, presumably nothing interesting happened as a result? Yet?</text></comment> |
25,728,819 | 25,728,623 | 1 | 2 | 25,728,066 | train | <story><title>Hyundai buys Boston Dynamics for nearly $1B</title><url>https://spectrum.ieee.org/automaton/robotics/humanoids/hyundai-buys-boston-dynamics</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>stefan_</author><text>Feels like we said this about previous buyers. All I&#x27;m seeing is another sucker to keep the money rolling for more of these sweet viral robot demos that never seem to materialize into much of anything.</text></item><item><author>6a74</author><text>Makes sense. South Korea, where Hyundai is based, has by far the most robots per manufacturing employee [1]. They will make good use of the technology.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;specials-images.forbesimg.com&#x2F;imageserve&#x2F;5f719cf9f44706e499144241&#x2F;960x0.jpg?fit=scale" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;specials-images.forbesimg.com&#x2F;imageserve&#x2F;5f719cf9f44...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tooltalk</author><text>The two previous buyers, Google and Softbank, didn&#x27;t have much presence in robotics, unlike Hyundai. Hyundai recently spun off the automation business to a separate company, Hyundai Robotics, early last year.</text></comment> | <story><title>Hyundai buys Boston Dynamics for nearly $1B</title><url>https://spectrum.ieee.org/automaton/robotics/humanoids/hyundai-buys-boston-dynamics</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>stefan_</author><text>Feels like we said this about previous buyers. All I&#x27;m seeing is another sucker to keep the money rolling for more of these sweet viral robot demos that never seem to materialize into much of anything.</text></item><item><author>6a74</author><text>Makes sense. South Korea, where Hyundai is based, has by far the most robots per manufacturing employee [1]. They will make good use of the technology.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;specials-images.forbesimg.com&#x2F;imageserve&#x2F;5f719cf9f44706e499144241&#x2F;960x0.jpg?fit=scale" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;specials-images.forbesimg.com&#x2F;imageserve&#x2F;5f719cf9f44...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>orzig</author><text>Keep in mind that “previous buyers” is a very small sample size, and there are a huge number of contributing variables. It is certainly not guaranteed to work out, but given the value of really nailing a leap in the space, the price does not seem like an unreasonable gamble</text></comment> |
24,895,383 | 24,895,296 | 1 | 3 | 24,894,661 | train | <story><title>L.A.'s coast was once a DDT dumping ground, but no one could see it until now</title><url>https://www.latimes.com/projects/la-coast-ddt-dumping-ground/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dusted</author><text>It&#x27;s amazing how little some people have cared, this was not that they didn&#x27;t know, they certainly knew, otherwise, it&#x27;d not have resorted to hiding the stuff by dumping it into the sea..<p>It&#x27;d not be unreasonable to hunt down those responsible, and make them pay for cleaning it up. Sure, they&#x27;re probably dead by now, but they probably left a lot of money.<p>I don&#x27;t think it&#x27;s even relevant that &quot;it was not illegal at the time&quot;, they knew the stuff was toxic, and they chose to release it into the oceans, just because no one had explicitly made a law banning them from doing so.. Common sense should be the first law.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tsdlts</author><text>&quot;I don&#x27;t think it&#x27;s even relevant that it was not legal at the time&quot;.<p>Imagine setting the precedent that the government can unilaterally decide to steal your property based on something your great grandfather did which wasn&#x27;t even a crime. Do you not see how such a power might be abused in future when you can retroactively punish people for laws where the ink has yet to dry and that they never even committed?</text></comment> | <story><title>L.A.'s coast was once a DDT dumping ground, but no one could see it until now</title><url>https://www.latimes.com/projects/la-coast-ddt-dumping-ground/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dusted</author><text>It&#x27;s amazing how little some people have cared, this was not that they didn&#x27;t know, they certainly knew, otherwise, it&#x27;d not have resorted to hiding the stuff by dumping it into the sea..<p>It&#x27;d not be unreasonable to hunt down those responsible, and make them pay for cleaning it up. Sure, they&#x27;re probably dead by now, but they probably left a lot of money.<p>I don&#x27;t think it&#x27;s even relevant that &quot;it was not illegal at the time&quot;, they knew the stuff was toxic, and they chose to release it into the oceans, just because no one had explicitly made a law banning them from doing so.. Common sense should be the first law.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>macspoofing</author><text>The problem with your approach, besides the immorality of arbitrary post-hoc rationalization for punishment, is that it is not pragmatic. What&#x27;s done is done, and you need people to get behind making it better. If you come out and push a policy that in part entails rooting and punishing those responsible (or even descendent of those responsible), you&#x27;ll have people come out against it just for that reason and the environment will suffer. I would be one of those people, because I would never give that power to the kinds of people who would argue for the arbitrary execution of collective punishments on people today. If given the choice to fix environment&#x2F;punish wrongdoers or do nothing, I would go with &#x27;do nothing&#x27;. It&#x27;s why &#x27;The Green New Deal&#x27; is so terrible because instead of focusing on pragmatic solutions we can all get behind, it suffers from scope creep of socialist and progressive policies that have little to nothing to do with climate change and environment - and therefore I&#x27;d rather have none of it.<p>To circle back on collective punishment - there&#x27;s a reason why the North, after winning the civil war, has largely chose not to collectively punish the South - in much the same way that other regions which suffered through terrible civil wars where terrible crimes were committed, frequently choose to replace punishment of many of those responsible with something like reconciliation committees, where symbolic gestures are accepted in lieu of prison or capital punishment.</text></comment> |
19,485,170 | 19,485,251 | 1 | 2 | 19,484,572 | train | <story><title>Apple announces Apple Card credit card</title><url>https://www.theverge.com/2019/3/25/18277417/apple-pay-credit-card-announcement-goldman-sachs-event-2019</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>throwawaysea</author><text>I don&#x27;t thing it is healthy to have big entities like this control fundamental services like payment processing. How long before the opaque governance of the App Store is applied to their payments offering? How long before activists start making this a new vector for deplatforming? Apple also announced a news offering (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.techradar.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;apple-news-plus" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.techradar.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;apple-news-plus</a>) and I think the same concerns apply there.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ralusek</author><text>Look no further than the recent issue where Patreon competitor Subscribestar had payment processors Stripe and PayPal stop processing their payments for _political_ disagreements with the purported beneficiaries of the donations through the platform. PayPal said that it was actually one of the underlying payment processors, and it was suspected to be MasterCard.<p>That incident was the first time I&#x27;ve ever taken the need for alternative payment processors very seriously.</text></comment> | <story><title>Apple announces Apple Card credit card</title><url>https://www.theverge.com/2019/3/25/18277417/apple-pay-credit-card-announcement-goldman-sachs-event-2019</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>throwawaysea</author><text>I don&#x27;t thing it is healthy to have big entities like this control fundamental services like payment processing. How long before the opaque governance of the App Store is applied to their payments offering? How long before activists start making this a new vector for deplatforming? Apple also announced a news offering (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.techradar.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;apple-news-plus" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.techradar.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;apple-news-plus</a>) and I think the same concerns apply there.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>eridius</author><text>Apple said they&#x27;ve engineered the service such that Apple does not know what you&#x27;re purchasing or even what vendors you&#x27;re shopping at. If Apple doesn&#x27;t know this, they can&#x27;t very well apply arbitrary rules to it.</text></comment> |
23,052,588 | 23,052,676 | 1 | 2 | 23,052,245 | train | <story><title>Wells Fargo temporarily suspending applications for home-equity lines of credit</title><url>https://www.wellsfargo.com/equity/line-of-credit-details/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>brianwawok</author><text>It&#x27;s also the fun part about credit.<p>When you don&#x27;t need it, it is real easy to get.<p>When you need it, it is real hard to get.<p>This is why $1 in the bank is worth so much more than $1 in credit that you can maybe draw on. Especially lines of credit that can be called in.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>joeax</author><text>Two years ago someone I know was laid off. After a three-month climb to find a new job, they vowed to put together an emergency fund. After a sudden drop in rates, they took out a small cash-out refinance. Luckily they still have a job, but the fact that they now have that cushion puts their mind at ease.<p>Lesson learned: take advantage of cheap credit while you can.</text></comment> | <story><title>Wells Fargo temporarily suspending applications for home-equity lines of credit</title><url>https://www.wellsfargo.com/equity/line-of-credit-details/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>brianwawok</author><text>It&#x27;s also the fun part about credit.<p>When you don&#x27;t need it, it is real easy to get.<p>When you need it, it is real hard to get.<p>This is why $1 in the bank is worth so much more than $1 in credit that you can maybe draw on. Especially lines of credit that can be called in.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>WillPostForFood</author><text>The page doesn&#x27;t say that they are calling in lines of credit, just that they aren&#x27;t issuing new lines of credit</text></comment> |
34,373,937 | 34,374,117 | 1 | 2 | 34,367,820 | train | <story><title>Big meat can’t quit antibiotics</title><url>https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/2023/1/8/23542789/big-meat-antibiotics-resistance-fda</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>notafraudster</author><text>I&#x27;m sorry you lost your wife. My wife had a near-death medical experience last year (a stroke, completely unrelated) and I was never as emotionally empty and destroyed as I was during the ten minutes I thought I lost her and subsequent days worrying about her recovery.<p>You linked an interview with Childrens&#x27; Health Defense, an organization whose primary purpose is to argue, categorically, that all vaccinations are dangerous and do not work. They are the largest such organization and their activism has been directly responsible for the growth in resistance to MMR vaccination and later to COVID-19 vaccination.<p>This does not mean that the point about a class of antibiotics is incorrect, and I understand that there&#x27;s a possibility of &quot;strange bedfellows&quot; here because of the potential agreement on the matter of, uh, &quot;big pharma&quot;. As I see it, one possibility is that you linked the CHD article not knowing this. Another possibility is that you linked the CHD article knowing this, but figuring just because they&#x27;re wrong about vaccines doesn&#x27;t tarnish them on this issue. Another possibility is that you generally agree with their position on vaccines.<p>I&#x27;m not here to judge or change your mind, I&#x27;m just telling you that I don&#x27;t have any prior view about whatever fluoroquinolone antibiotics are. I read the first half of your post wanting to do more investigation. Because of the CHD link inclusion, I am now predisposed not to believe this is a real issue. I am a non-medical social scientist but I have spent a lot of the COVID period publishing work about vaccination. Anti-vaxx stuff is a complete deal-breaker for me. And if your reason for posting was to persuade an audience, I think that&#x27;s the opposite of what you want.</text></item><item><author>rpaddock</author><text>Fluoroquinolone Antibiotics such as Cipro are often given to animals because they are cheap. They are in no way at all safe for people or animals.
Sadly as the parent article shows, the FDA doesn&#x27;t care.<p>The book:
&quot;Taking On Big Pharma: Dr. Charles Bennett&#x27;s Battle&quot; was released this week.<p>I was asked to go with Dr Bennett to speak to members of Congress about the dangers of Fluoroquinolone Antibiotics. As these were a significant contributor to my late wife&#x27;s suicide. Alas that was right as the world changed at the start of the pandemic and derailed those plans.<p>I have the many FDA warning for Fluoroquinolone Antibiotics here:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.kpaddock.com&#x2F;fq" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.kpaddock.com&#x2F;fq</a><p>People just don&#x27;t expect side effects like permanent psychoses to come from their antibiotics, as one of the most recent FDA warnings documents.<p>Dr Bennetts new book:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.amazon.com&#x2F;Taking-Big-Pharma-Bennetts-Childrens&#x2F;dp&#x2F;1510775412&#x2F;ref=sr_1_1" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.amazon.com&#x2F;Taking-Big-Pharma-Bennetts-Childrens&#x2F;...</a><p>His related interview:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;live.childrenshealthdefense.org&#x2F;chd-tv&#x2F;shows&#x2F;doctors-and-scientists-with-brian-hooker-phd&#x2F;taking-on-big-pharma--dr-charles-bennetts-battle&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;live.childrenshealthdefense.org&#x2F;chd-tv&#x2F;shows&#x2F;doctors...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rpaddock</author><text>The interview is where it is, which I have no control over. I would have posted Dr. B&#x27;s interview where ever it was as it is related to the Big Pharma book release. He is considered one of the worlds experts on drug adverse advents.<p>That there are adverse advents with multiple (All?) Big Pharma products is also something I have no control over.<p>I supplied a link to my late wife&#x27;s page where all the FDA warnings are linked to directly. The other links can be ignored if that is your desire.</text></comment> | <story><title>Big meat can’t quit antibiotics</title><url>https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/2023/1/8/23542789/big-meat-antibiotics-resistance-fda</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>notafraudster</author><text>I&#x27;m sorry you lost your wife. My wife had a near-death medical experience last year (a stroke, completely unrelated) and I was never as emotionally empty and destroyed as I was during the ten minutes I thought I lost her and subsequent days worrying about her recovery.<p>You linked an interview with Childrens&#x27; Health Defense, an organization whose primary purpose is to argue, categorically, that all vaccinations are dangerous and do not work. They are the largest such organization and their activism has been directly responsible for the growth in resistance to MMR vaccination and later to COVID-19 vaccination.<p>This does not mean that the point about a class of antibiotics is incorrect, and I understand that there&#x27;s a possibility of &quot;strange bedfellows&quot; here because of the potential agreement on the matter of, uh, &quot;big pharma&quot;. As I see it, one possibility is that you linked the CHD article not knowing this. Another possibility is that you linked the CHD article knowing this, but figuring just because they&#x27;re wrong about vaccines doesn&#x27;t tarnish them on this issue. Another possibility is that you generally agree with their position on vaccines.<p>I&#x27;m not here to judge or change your mind, I&#x27;m just telling you that I don&#x27;t have any prior view about whatever fluoroquinolone antibiotics are. I read the first half of your post wanting to do more investigation. Because of the CHD link inclusion, I am now predisposed not to believe this is a real issue. I am a non-medical social scientist but I have spent a lot of the COVID period publishing work about vaccination. Anti-vaxx stuff is a complete deal-breaker for me. And if your reason for posting was to persuade an audience, I think that&#x27;s the opposite of what you want.</text></item><item><author>rpaddock</author><text>Fluoroquinolone Antibiotics such as Cipro are often given to animals because they are cheap. They are in no way at all safe for people or animals.
Sadly as the parent article shows, the FDA doesn&#x27;t care.<p>The book:
&quot;Taking On Big Pharma: Dr. Charles Bennett&#x27;s Battle&quot; was released this week.<p>I was asked to go with Dr Bennett to speak to members of Congress about the dangers of Fluoroquinolone Antibiotics. As these were a significant contributor to my late wife&#x27;s suicide. Alas that was right as the world changed at the start of the pandemic and derailed those plans.<p>I have the many FDA warning for Fluoroquinolone Antibiotics here:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.kpaddock.com&#x2F;fq" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.kpaddock.com&#x2F;fq</a><p>People just don&#x27;t expect side effects like permanent psychoses to come from their antibiotics, as one of the most recent FDA warnings documents.<p>Dr Bennetts new book:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.amazon.com&#x2F;Taking-Big-Pharma-Bennetts-Childrens&#x2F;dp&#x2F;1510775412&#x2F;ref=sr_1_1" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.amazon.com&#x2F;Taking-Big-Pharma-Bennetts-Childrens&#x2F;...</a><p>His related interview:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;live.childrenshealthdefense.org&#x2F;chd-tv&#x2F;shows&#x2F;doctors-and-scientists-with-brian-hooker-phd&#x2F;taking-on-big-pharma--dr-charles-bennetts-battle&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;live.childrenshealthdefense.org&#x2F;chd-tv&#x2F;shows&#x2F;doctors...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Traubenfuchs</author><text>There are many different numbers floating around, but let me give you a source that claims a 0.14–0.4% &quot;prevalence of FQ-induced tendon injury&quot;. That&#x27;s at least one in a thousand.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov&#x2F;pmc&#x2F;articles&#x2F;PMC2921747" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov&#x2F;pmc&#x2F;articles&#x2F;PMC2921747</a><p>They are also absolutely known and proven to cause permanent pain in the hand and feet (neuropathies) in some patients and &quot;long lasting&quot; anxiety, depression, hallucinations.<p>Those are just a few of the serious long term side effects they can cause.<p>Here is a good overview.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.mdpi.com&#x2F;2673-4087&#x2F;2&#x2F;3&#x2F;17" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.mdpi.com&#x2F;2673-4087&#x2F;2&#x2F;3&#x2F;17</a><p>Let me conclude that sometimes they are the right choice to save someone&#x27;s life or prevent serious health consequences due to infection, but in the majority of cases there would be alternative antibiotics available.</text></comment> |
40,528,691 | 40,521,134 | 1 | 3 | 40,516,532 | train | <story><title>How Waymo outlasted the competition and made robo-taxis a real business</title><url>https://fortune.com/2024/05/29/waymo-self-driving-robo-taxi-uber-tesla-alphabet/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>spiderice</author><text>I have kids and don&#x27;t like Taxis, but I&#x27;m not sure I entirely agree with your take. The idea of a humanless Taxi showing up to my house sounds way more appealing to me.<p>I can take my time to get car seats in and kids buckled, without feeling the pressure to hurry from the human driver.<p>I don&#x27;t have to feel like my kids misbehaving are going to annoy a human driver, or get me a bad review in Uber&#x2F;Lyft.<p>I don&#x27;t have to worry about tipping, or the driver taking a longer route to charge me more.<p>I don&#x27;t have to worry about small-talk, or awkwardly sitting in silence when I normally would be talking with those I&#x27;m driving with.<p>Obviously this doesn&#x27;t cover all use cases for a car (pretty sure you can&#x27;t load a kayak onto a Waymo because you&#x27;d block sensors), but it seems WAY better to me as someone who doesn&#x27;t like to deal with the people aspect of Taxis.</text></item><item><author>codexb</author><text>Maybe if you&#x27;re under 25 and have always lived in a dense city this seems like a valid take. Taxis aren&#x27;t new, they have always existed. Just because they&#x27;re driven by computers now isn&#x27;t going to magically change all the reasons that people didn&#x27;t use them before (hint: it wasn&#x27;t because they were driven by humans).<p>No one with kids <i>wants</i> to ride in taxis with kids all the time. Ditto for anyone with hobbies that require transporting large things, like kayaks, bikes, etc. Or people with large pets. Or grocery shopping for more than 1-2 people. Or any of the dozens of other conveniences that Americans have come to expect from owning a car over the past century.</text></item><item><author>jseliger</author><text>I just left a version of this in another thread—I live in Phoenix and now take Waymo regularly, and it seems like we&#x27;re close to a world in which most people take self-driving cars most of the time, crash rates plummet, and these kinds of articles come to resemble articles from 1910 about horse-related problems.<p>Humans suck at driving: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;jakeseliger.com&#x2F;2019&#x2F;12&#x2F;16&#x2F;maybe-cars-are-just-really-bad-but-theyre-normal-so-we-dont-pay-attention-to-how-bad&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;jakeseliger.com&#x2F;2019&#x2F;12&#x2F;16&#x2F;maybe-cars-are-just-reall...</a><p>Waymos avoid many of the Uber challenges: foul-smelling &quot;air fresheners,&quot; dubious music &#x2F; talk radio choices, etc.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>JeremyNT</author><text>&gt; <i>Obviously this doesn&#x27;t cover all use cases for a car (pretty sure you can&#x27;t load a kayak onto a Waymo because you&#x27;d block sensors), but it seems WAY better to me as someone who doesn&#x27;t like to deal with the people aspect of Taxis.</i><p>In a world where waymo works as a taxi, it also works to deliver a human-drivable rental car right to your door (and send it on to the next customer when you&#x27;re done with it).<p>So now the short term car rental user experience should be dramatically better, even if the robotaxi isn&#x27;t appropriate for all the tasks.</text></comment> | <story><title>How Waymo outlasted the competition and made robo-taxis a real business</title><url>https://fortune.com/2024/05/29/waymo-self-driving-robo-taxi-uber-tesla-alphabet/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>spiderice</author><text>I have kids and don&#x27;t like Taxis, but I&#x27;m not sure I entirely agree with your take. The idea of a humanless Taxi showing up to my house sounds way more appealing to me.<p>I can take my time to get car seats in and kids buckled, without feeling the pressure to hurry from the human driver.<p>I don&#x27;t have to feel like my kids misbehaving are going to annoy a human driver, or get me a bad review in Uber&#x2F;Lyft.<p>I don&#x27;t have to worry about tipping, or the driver taking a longer route to charge me more.<p>I don&#x27;t have to worry about small-talk, or awkwardly sitting in silence when I normally would be talking with those I&#x27;m driving with.<p>Obviously this doesn&#x27;t cover all use cases for a car (pretty sure you can&#x27;t load a kayak onto a Waymo because you&#x27;d block sensors), but it seems WAY better to me as someone who doesn&#x27;t like to deal with the people aspect of Taxis.</text></item><item><author>codexb</author><text>Maybe if you&#x27;re under 25 and have always lived in a dense city this seems like a valid take. Taxis aren&#x27;t new, they have always existed. Just because they&#x27;re driven by computers now isn&#x27;t going to magically change all the reasons that people didn&#x27;t use them before (hint: it wasn&#x27;t because they were driven by humans).<p>No one with kids <i>wants</i> to ride in taxis with kids all the time. Ditto for anyone with hobbies that require transporting large things, like kayaks, bikes, etc. Or people with large pets. Or grocery shopping for more than 1-2 people. Or any of the dozens of other conveniences that Americans have come to expect from owning a car over the past century.</text></item><item><author>jseliger</author><text>I just left a version of this in another thread—I live in Phoenix and now take Waymo regularly, and it seems like we&#x27;re close to a world in which most people take self-driving cars most of the time, crash rates plummet, and these kinds of articles come to resemble articles from 1910 about horse-related problems.<p>Humans suck at driving: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;jakeseliger.com&#x2F;2019&#x2F;12&#x2F;16&#x2F;maybe-cars-are-just-really-bad-but-theyre-normal-so-we-dont-pay-attention-to-how-bad&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;jakeseliger.com&#x2F;2019&#x2F;12&#x2F;16&#x2F;maybe-cars-are-just-reall...</a><p>Waymos avoid many of the Uber challenges: foul-smelling &quot;air fresheners,&quot; dubious music &#x2F; talk radio choices, etc.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>paganel</author><text>How do you make sure there isn’t human semen or worse on the seats on which you and your children will sit? At least with taxis driven by humans you knew that there was someone making sure that won’t happen that often, but with driverless taxis all bets are off.</text></comment> |
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