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34,129,981 | 34,129,789 | 1 | 2 | 34,128,776 | train | <story><title>HelloSilicon – An introduction to assembly on Apple Silicon Macs</title><url>https://github.com/below/HelloSilicon</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>TheBrokenRail</author><text>So what&#x27;s the difference between ARM and Apple Silicon?<p>It&#x27;s a little odd seeing it treated as its own unique architecture (for instance with people specifically porting software or writing guides about Apple Silicon rather than ARM in general) when it&#x27;s just ARM64. Which already has a lot of stuff already ported to it and is quite extensively documented.<p>Am I missing something? Did Apple do something crazy non-standard when making their chips which make them behave differently?</text></comment> | <story><title>HelloSilicon – An introduction to assembly on Apple Silicon Macs</title><url>https://github.com/below/HelloSilicon</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>NelsonMinar</author><text>The book this is based on is quite good. Stephen Smith&#x27;s &quot;Programming with 64-Bit ARM Assembly Language&quot;. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.goodreads.com&#x2F;en&#x2F;book&#x2F;show&#x2F;53671067" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.goodreads.com&#x2F;en&#x2F;book&#x2F;show&#x2F;53671067</a></text></comment> |
20,764,289 | 20,763,766 | 1 | 2 | 20,762,031 | train | <story><title>Splunk acquires cloud monitoring service SignalFx for $1.05B</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2019/08/21/splunk-acquires-cloud-monitoring-service-signalfx-for-1-05b/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>deanmoriarty</author><text>Does anybody know if employees will end up actually making any money from this massive acquisition, or if yet again board and investors found a way through some shenanigans to distribute all the wealth just to themselves?<p>EDIT: I&#x27;m being downvoted, but I&#x27;ve been increasingly hearing a shady Silicon Valley practice where, upon successful acquisition, the board will vote to emit a large number of new shares (think 5-10X the total pool), which will be redistributed just among execs and investors. So, if you are an employee who held on to your 0.1% (which, on 1B, might be worth 1M), you might find out that after the acquisition you are going to be diluted maybe to 0.01%. And this is after all the other &quot;healthy&quot; dilutions that have happened to the company over the years, as part of their financing rounds.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>windexh8er</author><text>I was part of a smaller acquisition Splunk made. My existing options at the original company were worthless at the time the deal closed. Instead Splunk and our management agreed to pay us out in cash that was lower than the value of what Splunk paid. In turn Splunk slapped on the golden handcuffs for those they wanted to keep and bumped up our salaries and threw the standard four year vesting RSUs at us with everyone starting at day 0. The rumor was our founder took the lion&#x27;s share of cash on acquisition. Once I was in Splunk it was, unfortunately, what I feared. Beyond a lot of mediocre mid-level management and everyone calling themselves rockstars I asked about how a specific prior acquisition had gone. Most Splunkers were pretty candid about how poorly that had gone (it was their UBA acquisition, I was part of the SOAR acquisition). I saw the writing on the wall within a few months and left money on the table. It just wasn&#x27;t worth it to me to stick around as I had been in a similar size Valley security company that was equally as bad.<p>It&#x27;s unfortunate this is what the landscape has become. On one hand I&#x27;m happy for the SignalFX founders to have made it and hit pay dirt. But everyone else... Yeah, they&#x27;re all going to get swindled on the deal. Sure you&#x27;ll make some money but not nearly as much as a select few and even then there&#x27;s a good chance anyone who tries out Splunk internally runs into the same wall myself and a bunch of my peers did. Splunk, Palo Alto Networks, IBM... They&#x27;re all are done innovating. These companies buy relevancy and then are proud of their accompliments in changing the world. Or that&#x27;s what they tell their prospects, customers and themselves. So much great technology and brain power are getting locked up in these non-R&amp;D companies who are at a stage of run rate revenue but still think they&#x27;re a startup that will continue to pull 50% growth YoY. It&#x27;s absurd.<p>Splunk isn&#x27;t good at acquisitions. I&#x27;ve seen it first hand. I&#x27;d never go back there willingly. I hope the SignalFX crew ends up better. But at the end of the day you&#x27;re working at Splunk.</text></comment> | <story><title>Splunk acquires cloud monitoring service SignalFx for $1.05B</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2019/08/21/splunk-acquires-cloud-monitoring-service-signalfx-for-1-05b/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>deanmoriarty</author><text>Does anybody know if employees will end up actually making any money from this massive acquisition, or if yet again board and investors found a way through some shenanigans to distribute all the wealth just to themselves?<p>EDIT: I&#x27;m being downvoted, but I&#x27;ve been increasingly hearing a shady Silicon Valley practice where, upon successful acquisition, the board will vote to emit a large number of new shares (think 5-10X the total pool), which will be redistributed just among execs and investors. So, if you are an employee who held on to your 0.1% (which, on 1B, might be worth 1M), you might find out that after the acquisition you are going to be diluted maybe to 0.01%. And this is after all the other &quot;healthy&quot; dilutions that have happened to the company over the years, as part of their financing rounds.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>alynn</author><text>Yup, this is very common.<p>Exact numbers are pretty confidential. Ballpark numbers from something a few years ago: tech company sold for $400+ million. CEO got $10 million, head of sales $5 million, CTO $1 million, middle managers $20k, and regular employees $5k. VCs got everything else.<p>Seemed pretty standard from what I could tell.<p>Not a new practice at all; first heard of this happening to a friend about 15 years ago, his share class was revalued to zero at the same time as the acquisition of the startup he worked for.<p>And this goes back even further: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;web.archive.org&#x2F;web&#x2F;20050208022306&#x2F;http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.suck.com&#x2F;daily&#x2F;96&#x2F;09&#x2F;06&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;web.archive.org&#x2F;web&#x2F;20050208022306&#x2F;http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.suck.c...</a></text></comment> |
21,683,094 | 21,683,422 | 1 | 3 | 21,682,505 | train | <story><title>California car burglaries are at crisis levels</title><url>https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2019-12-02/california-car-burglaries-lawmakers-loophole</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Shivetya</author><text>Proposition 47 is the real bugaboo, it moved from felony to misdemeanor thefts under $950 which includes damage caused by them. this made breaking into cars pretty much a free pass because window damage rarely could exceed that. becoming a misdemeanor meant cops have no real reason to follow up. throw in the requirement to prove the doors are locked, well its easy to understand<p>however the real dishonesty is from Lorena Gonzalez (D-San Diego) who claims a bill to at least remove the requirement for prosecutors prove a car was locked before being broken into based on costs. As in, they are very willing to pass the costs onto individuals; hence there still is a cost but to government it does not occur unless on their books. As it was pointed out, how is it never a crime to enter a vehicle you do not own without permission?<p>Prop 47 lead to an increase in shop lifting because it set the limit high enough that it basically insured no one would get prosecuted. the common method is to send a bunch of people into a store at one time to get the goods in volume but with each individual being under the limit in monetary value if being young enough prosecution won&#x27;t work either</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mc32</author><text>At a local Safeway woman loads cart with bottles of liquor. Walks out. She yells “I know my rights, I know my rights”. What are the cashiers and security going to do? Nothing, they let her go.<p>At another place kids get caught stealing they turn over a display and run out. Again, nothing done. All those costs are borne by the paying customers.<p>People are gonna get sick of it; the progressive supes are gonna rue this move. The DA race in SF was close. I think it’s gonna go the other way next election.<p>Also word on the street is apparently thieves prefer SF to Daly City because San Mateo county doesn’t play as nice as SF.</text></comment> | <story><title>California car burglaries are at crisis levels</title><url>https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2019-12-02/california-car-burglaries-lawmakers-loophole</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Shivetya</author><text>Proposition 47 is the real bugaboo, it moved from felony to misdemeanor thefts under $950 which includes damage caused by them. this made breaking into cars pretty much a free pass because window damage rarely could exceed that. becoming a misdemeanor meant cops have no real reason to follow up. throw in the requirement to prove the doors are locked, well its easy to understand<p>however the real dishonesty is from Lorena Gonzalez (D-San Diego) who claims a bill to at least remove the requirement for prosecutors prove a car was locked before being broken into based on costs. As in, they are very willing to pass the costs onto individuals; hence there still is a cost but to government it does not occur unless on their books. As it was pointed out, how is it never a crime to enter a vehicle you do not own without permission?<p>Prop 47 lead to an increase in shop lifting because it set the limit high enough that it basically insured no one would get prosecuted. the common method is to send a bunch of people into a store at one time to get the goods in volume but with each individual being under the limit in monetary value if being young enough prosecution won&#x27;t work either</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>beat</author><text>It&#x27;s not just California, either. I live in MN, had my car window smashed out for a couple of bucks in loose change. The neighbor&#x27;s doorbell camera caught it on video, but the cops didn&#x27;t even want to see it. Just file a report, my insurance replaced the window, and it was mostly just a pain.</text></comment> |
32,995,500 | 32,995,234 | 1 | 3 | 32,993,306 | train | <story><title>It Hurts to Ask [pdf]</title><url>https://scholar.princeton.edu/sites/default/files/rbenabou/files/ihta_august_7.pdf</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jjice</author><text>Anecdotally, when I started at my current job, it was made clear to me that I should ask questions and not think twice about it. They said to ask in our public engineering slack channel (remote work) so everyone could see and have more eyes on it for answers plus future searching. It was such a great experience, and I put a lot of that on the culture of questions my boss put into place.<p>When we had more and more engineers join, including interns, I made sure they heard the same thing I did and felt comfortable asking <i>any</i> questions. I really love this philosophy, but I found out that you can&#x27;t just say it once or else people are still a bit skittish sometimes (young engineers mostly). I will repeat it to the point where it&#x27;s likely annoying during mentoring and onboarding meetings, but people will be very open with their questions, which I&#x27;m very happy with. It takes a bit of extra time out of everyone&#x27;s day to respond to questions, but you&#x27;re unblocking someone in 2 chunks of 10 minutes (mentor and mentee) which saves the mentee upwards of hours, and this can compound with future situations if they don&#x27;t have a complete understanding of the situation.<p>I really appreciate a question friendly culture and I would never want to work at a place that isn&#x27;t like that again.</text></comment> | <story><title>It Hurts to Ask [pdf]</title><url>https://scholar.princeton.edu/sites/default/files/rbenabou/files/ihta_august_7.pdf</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>photochemsyn</author><text>Scanning through this I couldn&#x27;t find much on the ratio of askers to askees (what the paper seems to call Receivers and Senders, respectively).<p>That seems like a major factor - there&#x27;s the classic example of the IT person who&#x27;s constantly being asked to help with relatively basic tasks. If that&#x27;s their defined job, that&#x27;s not a problem - but if they have other responsibilities that are not being met due to constant requests for assistance, it becomes a problem.<p>A similar example is found in areas with a high concentration of homeless people - i.e. if there is just one homeless person in a neighborhood, people might go out of their way to be helpful, or if they were asking for money people might be willing to give them a few dollars - but if there are 100 homeless people in a neighborhood, then treating them all equally would mean shelling out several hundred dollars, a more significant burden.<p>Once a problem becomes organizational-scale or societal-scale, then this focus on individual relationships no longer makes much sense. In the former case, hiring a person (or team) whose sole job is to provide technical assitance is the solution; in the latter, some kind of social safety net aimed at keeping people off the street is needed.</text></comment> |
6,460,912 | 6,460,872 | 1 | 2 | 6,460,425 | train | <story><title>Taking PHP Seriously [pdf]</title><url>https://raw.github.com/strangeloop/StrangeLoop2013/master/slides/sessions/Adams-TakingPHPSeriously.pdf</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dkhenry</author><text>At this point we almost need to stop saying facebook programs in PHP. I know this was defending PHP, but look at what is happening. Facebook ( big engineering firm, lots of developers and resources ) could not get php to work for them short of rewriting the core (HPHP ) and then adding on features to the language that most other languages have determined are useful enough to be baked into the language.<p>Here is my TL;DR of this article. PHP is bad we all know this and accept it. Facebook has made it better by keeping most of the syntax and chucking everything else out the window. Run your stuff on HipHop ( unless you need extensions in which case your OOL )</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kmavm</author><text>Video of the talk is not up yet, and it&#x27;s a little cryptic with just the slides. But one of the points I was trying to make is that PHP actually makes you <i>more</i> likely to be successful than a lot of its competition. The lolsy stuff on &quot;The Case Against PHP&quot; slides is all you ever hear because ... well, because they fit on slides. They&#x27;re immediately, obviously weird. But these problems are shallow. There are deeper properties of the language and its interaction with the environment that overcome those problems, and then some.<p>Also, it&#x27;s a little obscure for languages like PHP where we&#x27;re unused to making architecture&#x2F;implementation distinctions, but if HHVM is good then PHP is good. It runs the same core <i>language</i> as php.net. To the extent we don&#x27;t, it&#x27;s likely to be a bug these days. I think HHVM is a better <i>implementation</i> of that language than php.net, but I am biased, and that isn&#x27;t the point of the talk. We&#x27;re also chipping away at running other popular programs, extensions and all: <a href="http://www.hhvm.com/blog/?p=875" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.hhvm.com&#x2F;blog&#x2F;?p=875</a><p>Edit: transposed sentence</text></comment> | <story><title>Taking PHP Seriously [pdf]</title><url>https://raw.github.com/strangeloop/StrangeLoop2013/master/slides/sessions/Adams-TakingPHPSeriously.pdf</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dkhenry</author><text>At this point we almost need to stop saying facebook programs in PHP. I know this was defending PHP, but look at what is happening. Facebook ( big engineering firm, lots of developers and resources ) could not get php to work for them short of rewriting the core (HPHP ) and then adding on features to the language that most other languages have determined are useful enough to be baked into the language.<p>Here is my TL;DR of this article. PHP is bad we all know this and accept it. Facebook has made it better by keeping most of the syntax and chucking everything else out the window. Run your stuff on HipHop ( unless you need extensions in which case your OOL )</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>workhere-io</author><text><i>could not get php to work for them short of rewriting the core (HPHP )</i><p>I&#x27;ve heard this argument before, but it&#x27;s important to realize that Facebook was able to use standard PHP up until the point when they had roughly 500 million users. Unless your site has a half billion users you can&#x27;t compare your use case to Facebook&#x27;s.</text></comment> |
13,218,175 | 13,218,224 | 1 | 3 | 13,217,320 | train | <story><title>Solar Now Produces a Better Energy Return on Investment Than Oil</title><url>https://robertscribbler.com/2016/12/19/solar-now-produces-a-better-energy-return-on-investment-than-oil/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>CountSessine</author><text>I always hear these vague allusions to oil and gas subsidies, but never concrete examples. In fact, we actually tax the hell out of oil and gas at retail, so it seems a bit strange that we would actually be subsidizing it at the same time.<p>What kind of&#x2F;magnitude of subsidies does oil and gas enjoy?</text></item><item><author>ghouse</author><text>Oil, gas, and coal enjoy their own subsidies. Both direct and indirect. Increasing these subsidies for fossil fuels will slow the transition.</text></item><item><author>ryao</author><text>&quot;efforts made to slow this transition by Trump and others in his administration should be seen as a protectionist, nonsensical, and amoral top-down defense of the harmful fossil fuel industry.&quot;<p>As a solar panel owner, I want to know, is this a response to the tax credit going away or is there something else of which I am not aware? If solar is able to stand on its own, the tax credit would seem to have served its purpose. The discontinuity in the level of feasibility when it goes away will not be fun, but I thought that people expected that to happen when it eventually does go away.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>twinge</author><text>I&#x27;m just a simple investor and have no ties to the oil industry. I was surprised to learn about the tax incentives for investing in oil: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.investopedia.com&#x2F;articles&#x2F;07&#x2F;oil-tax-break.asp" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.investopedia.com&#x2F;articles&#x2F;07&#x2F;oil-tax-break.asp</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Solar Now Produces a Better Energy Return on Investment Than Oil</title><url>https://robertscribbler.com/2016/12/19/solar-now-produces-a-better-energy-return-on-investment-than-oil/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>CountSessine</author><text>I always hear these vague allusions to oil and gas subsidies, but never concrete examples. In fact, we actually tax the hell out of oil and gas at retail, so it seems a bit strange that we would actually be subsidizing it at the same time.<p>What kind of&#x2F;magnitude of subsidies does oil and gas enjoy?</text></item><item><author>ghouse</author><text>Oil, gas, and coal enjoy their own subsidies. Both direct and indirect. Increasing these subsidies for fossil fuels will slow the transition.</text></item><item><author>ryao</author><text>&quot;efforts made to slow this transition by Trump and others in his administration should be seen as a protectionist, nonsensical, and amoral top-down defense of the harmful fossil fuel industry.&quot;<p>As a solar panel owner, I want to know, is this a response to the tax credit going away or is there something else of which I am not aware? If solar is able to stand on its own, the tax credit would seem to have served its purpose. The discontinuity in the level of feasibility when it goes away will not be fun, but I thought that people expected that to happen when it eventually does go away.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>xorxornop</author><text>Well, how about the fact there&#x27;s an absolutely enormous, untaxed negative externality? It&#x27;s implicit - normally you tax something to reduce use of something harmful. Renewable energy would be far more competitive if this was factored in.<p>Fossil fuels are causing incredible economic damage - but in a way that isn&#x27;t captured by traditional economic models. It&#x27;s going to have huge costs to future generations - if we taxed it, not only would we get off fossil fuels faster, we might then have extra cash around to soften the blow when it inevitably comes.</text></comment> |
18,526,073 | 18,524,589 | 1 | 2 | 18,524,298 | train | <story><title>The special effects for the computer display in “Escape From New York”</title><url>https://twitter.com/Foone/status/1066284025600339968</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>hazeii</author><text>The effect was actually done using retroreflective tape; the building were indeed a physical model, with the edges covered in 3M Scotchlite tape. From first-hand experience (on other movies) the camera is placed behind a half-silvered mirror placed with a 45 degree tilt, with a projector underneath (in this case shining green light). The net result is the camera and projector are on the same optical axis, so no shadows are visible and because the tape (retro)reflects so strongly that&#x27;s the only thing that shows up.<p>We used exactly the same technique on &#x27;Superman&#x27;, but projecting footage in sync with the camera and the most massive screen of Scotchlite behind the actors (it&#x27;s must&#x27;ve been something like 200 feet wide and 50 high, so big we had to dig a curved trench several feet deep in the floor of Pinewood&#x27;s A stage to fit it all in (my boss at the time won an Oscar for the flying FX).</text></comment> | <story><title>The special effects for the computer display in “Escape From New York”</title><url>https://twitter.com/Foone/status/1066284025600339968</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>alan_wade</author><text>On the other hand, I&#x27;ve just watched a behind the scenes video [1] about Mission Impossible: Fallout, and was absolutely shocked by how much of it was shot in real life.<p>Basically, most of it. When I saw the movie, I would&#x27;ve bet my left kidney that 90% of the effects were green screen, I definitely would never have guessed that the skydivig scene, helicopter chase, and the canyon fight are for real. I could barely believe such canyon existed! Absolutely stunning.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=lCv59-y123g&amp;t=0s" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=lCv59-y123g&amp;t=0s</a></text></comment> |
12,271,347 | 12,269,948 | 1 | 2 | 12,269,917 | train | <story><title>Automattic open sources Simplenote</title><url>https://simplenote.com/2016/08/11/ios-android-and-macos-apps-now-open-source/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>hellcow</author><text>Simplenote was my favorite note taking app until it lost notes of mine a few years back.<p>I decided to give them another chance recently--hoping that these syncing issues had been cleared up--and Simplenote lost even more notes. It hasn&#x27;t been dependable at all in my experience, and that&#x27;s a shame because I love the interface and its focus on simplicity.<p>I&#x27;m excited that parts of it are going open-source. Hopefully the server will be made open so some of these core issues can be addressed.</text></comment> | <story><title>Automattic open sources Simplenote</title><url>https://simplenote.com/2016/08/11/ios-android-and-macos-apps-now-open-source/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>stephenr</author><text>The client apps are open source. Without the server side component that&#x27;s meaningless to me.</text></comment> |
8,490,946 | 8,490,884 | 1 | 3 | 8,488,500 | train | <story><title>Firebase is Joining Google</title><url>https://www.firebase.com/blog/2014-10-21-firebase-joins-google.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>christiansmith</author><text>I&#x27;d like to take that devil by the horns and strongly suggest that companies like Firebase, who clearly deliver a critical infrastructure dependency for anyone using their service, should open source their platform as an act of good faith toward their customers.<p>No one wants to run yet another cluster, but anyone with an eye to business continuity ought to want the assurance that they <i>can</i> migrate to and from their own servers if that need should arise.<p>That might not be in the short term interests of Firebase, but it&#x27;s definitely in the long term interests of their customers. Why would anyone ever base the future of their own business on the exit needs of another company&#x27;s investors? It <i>is</i> a ridiculous risk. As much as I love what Firebase has built, I&#x27;d never use it for anything more than a toy project for that exact reason.<p>Basho, ElasticSearch and Docker(?) seem to be on a good path with commercial open source models. Is there any reason that a startup like Firebase couldn&#x27;t do both? Offer their open source product as a service with non-critical value adds? GitHub is another example that comes to mind. If they were to get bought and shut down, it would be a pain in the ass to set up new remotes, but no one would have to stop using git.</text></item><item><author>johns</author><text>Startup dilemma pre-acquisition: &quot;they&#x27;re just a startup! how will I know they&#x27;ll be around in 12 months?! so risky!&quot;<p>Startup dilemma post-acquisition: &quot;they&#x27;re no longer in control! how can I trust they&#x27;ll be around in 12 months!? so risky!&quot;</text></item><item><author>skrebbel</author><text>Congrats founders, YC, and other shareholders!<p>But still, I just started using Firebase, and this news makes it clear to me that I should move off them as soon as I can. Firebase was an interesting technology supplier: When they were a small company, I could count on it that as a customer, I would count. Google is known to not give a damn about paying customers (ref: all the Google Apps customers who lose their email (for whatever reason) and get redirected to a FAQ page with answers to unrelated questions). Google is also known to Be Evil: I&#x27;m not sure I dare waiting until the terms change such that my user&#x27;s data is subject to googlebot scanning.<p>Firebase&#x27;s business model is aligned with my interests: the more users I have, the more I (hopefully) earn, so the more I pay Firebase. I strongly doubt, however, that Google is buying Firebase because they think they can get very rich selling Firebase subscriptions. It&#x27;s either going to turn out a acquihire, or it is some part of a grand ecosystem plan. Acquihire means they&#x27;ll pull the plug sooner or later, grand ecosystem plan means vendor lock-in. While I&#x27;m happy to be locked in to the services of a small independent business, I&#x27;d think twice before becoming entirely dependent on a company that could lose me as a customer and not even notice the slightest impact on their bottom line.<p>I know all of the Firebase guys are reading this, and I don&#x27;t mean to piss on your parade. I&#x27;m certain you&#x27;re not lying when you say that things are only going to get better. But I&#x27;m also certain that your jobs don&#x27;t depend on that anymore, and when higher-ups decide to move the big boat&#x27;s direction, Firebase might be over sooner than any of us wants it to.<p>That&#x27;s a pretty big risk to take as a startup that fully depends on Firebase for their data storage.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kenjackson</author><text>One company similar in services to FireBase is FanOut (fanout.io) and they share your open philosophy. Their server code is open source, and they make money by running it for you. I&#x27;m optimistic about FanOut and hope that they can be a success based on this model (and their service in general).</text></comment> | <story><title>Firebase is Joining Google</title><url>https://www.firebase.com/blog/2014-10-21-firebase-joins-google.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>christiansmith</author><text>I&#x27;d like to take that devil by the horns and strongly suggest that companies like Firebase, who clearly deliver a critical infrastructure dependency for anyone using their service, should open source their platform as an act of good faith toward their customers.<p>No one wants to run yet another cluster, but anyone with an eye to business continuity ought to want the assurance that they <i>can</i> migrate to and from their own servers if that need should arise.<p>That might not be in the short term interests of Firebase, but it&#x27;s definitely in the long term interests of their customers. Why would anyone ever base the future of their own business on the exit needs of another company&#x27;s investors? It <i>is</i> a ridiculous risk. As much as I love what Firebase has built, I&#x27;d never use it for anything more than a toy project for that exact reason.<p>Basho, ElasticSearch and Docker(?) seem to be on a good path with commercial open source models. Is there any reason that a startup like Firebase couldn&#x27;t do both? Offer their open source product as a service with non-critical value adds? GitHub is another example that comes to mind. If they were to get bought and shut down, it would be a pain in the ass to set up new remotes, but no one would have to stop using git.</text></item><item><author>johns</author><text>Startup dilemma pre-acquisition: &quot;they&#x27;re just a startup! how will I know they&#x27;ll be around in 12 months?! so risky!&quot;<p>Startup dilemma post-acquisition: &quot;they&#x27;re no longer in control! how can I trust they&#x27;ll be around in 12 months!? so risky!&quot;</text></item><item><author>skrebbel</author><text>Congrats founders, YC, and other shareholders!<p>But still, I just started using Firebase, and this news makes it clear to me that I should move off them as soon as I can. Firebase was an interesting technology supplier: When they were a small company, I could count on it that as a customer, I would count. Google is known to not give a damn about paying customers (ref: all the Google Apps customers who lose their email (for whatever reason) and get redirected to a FAQ page with answers to unrelated questions). Google is also known to Be Evil: I&#x27;m not sure I dare waiting until the terms change such that my user&#x27;s data is subject to googlebot scanning.<p>Firebase&#x27;s business model is aligned with my interests: the more users I have, the more I (hopefully) earn, so the more I pay Firebase. I strongly doubt, however, that Google is buying Firebase because they think they can get very rich selling Firebase subscriptions. It&#x27;s either going to turn out a acquihire, or it is some part of a grand ecosystem plan. Acquihire means they&#x27;ll pull the plug sooner or later, grand ecosystem plan means vendor lock-in. While I&#x27;m happy to be locked in to the services of a small independent business, I&#x27;d think twice before becoming entirely dependent on a company that could lose me as a customer and not even notice the slightest impact on their bottom line.<p>I know all of the Firebase guys are reading this, and I don&#x27;t mean to piss on your parade. I&#x27;m certain you&#x27;re not lying when you say that things are only going to get better. But I&#x27;m also certain that your jobs don&#x27;t depend on that anymore, and when higher-ups decide to move the big boat&#x27;s direction, Firebase might be over sooner than any of us wants it to.<p>That&#x27;s a pretty big risk to take as a startup that fully depends on Firebase for their data storage.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>SiVal</author><text>Maybe Google could open source it themselves. A lot of us didn&#x27;t want to risk much on Firebase, because who knew what might happen to a small company. With the acquisition, we are now in the position of not wanting to risk a significant part of our business on an insignificant part of Google&#x27;s.<p>What to do?<p>Google could resolve that by both hosting Firebase and open sourcing it. That way, you could outsource the critical Firebase management to Google and not have to build it yourself, while still having the security of knowing that if Google ever made it unavailable (shutting it down, worsening service, raising the price, etc.), you wouldn&#x27;t be wiped out.<p>They already offer hosted database service for other OS databases. I hope they&#x27;ll do the same with Firebase.</text></comment> |
33,335,842 | 33,334,458 | 1 | 3 | 33,330,864 | train | <story><title>My dad's resume and skills from 1980</title><url>https://github.com/runvnc/dadsresume</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>hnlmorg</author><text>Universities are always several years behind the curve. At college in the 90s they were still teaching token ring networking despite Ethernet already being common place. The same college told me that programmers didn’t design any of the code they write; they only transcribe code from flow charts.<p>Just yesterday I was talking to a grad about DevOps. He said the field sounded boring from what he was taught at uni. Then when we discussed it more it turned out his “DevOps” course was actually just teaching them how to be a scrum master and didn’t include a single thing about automation, infrastructure as code, etc.<p>I also remember just how garbage general publications were with regards to IT. And to be fair they still are now. But there was always a wealth of better information in specialist publications as well as online (particularly by the late 90s).</text></item><item><author>lambdasquirrel</author><text>&gt; &quot;I didn&#x27;t thought this thing about computers would go too far.&quot;<p>I almost didn&#x27;t major in Computer Science because in the late 90s, there were so many negative articles in the New York Times, vis-a-vis software. People don&#x27;t remember it now, but the media and the culture were utterly hostile towards us, and loved to say our jobs were going to India, that everything there was to know about Computer Science could be studied in railyard switching, in existing abstract math textbooks, etc.<p>By a combination of luck, and my dad&#x27;s insistence, I ended up at Carnegie Mellon, and while I was there, I saw what folks at Google were doing, and I thought to myself, no, this stuff is hard, and this is just going to be the beginning.<p>&gt; &quot;It was way too tedious to do. You&#x27;d spend hours getting the cards just right. We used to put them in a shoebox and mark them with a pen in case we dropped them on the way to the lab. Then you&#x27;d wait until the next day to get your results. If you had a mistake you&#x27;d repeat the whole process&quot;<p>Even what came after that, e.g. in C &#x2F; C++ was considerably tedious compared to what we do today. Folks sometimes had to do objdumps of compiled binaries to debug what was going on. We had to get coredumps, load them up, and try to determine what memory error had caused things to crash (this is an entire class of problems that doesn&#x27;t exist today). You used to legit need that CS degree in order to code in your day-to-day because you had to understand the function stack, the network stack, basic syscalls like wait and poll, etc.<p>It was a lot of work, for relatively little product, and I think part of the reason why software is paid more today is in part because of 1. faster processing speeds and 2. better tooling and automation, and higher-level programming languages – all of which were enabled in part by cheaper &#x2F; faster CPU speeds (e.g. people don&#x27;t have to care about how slow Python is – you can optimize it after you find product-market-fit), and 3. a better understanding of how software should be developed, at all levels of management.</text></item><item><author>nervousvarun</author><text>We probably are close to the same age. My dad was an engineer who also learned to program FORTRAN in the 70&#x27;s.<p>When I asked him a similar question his reply was (quotes are paraphrased): &quot;It was way too tedious to do. You&#x27;d spend hours getting the cards just right. We used to put them in a shoebox and mark them with a pen in case we dropped them on the way to the lab. Then you&#x27;d wait until the next day to get your results. If you had a mistake you&#x27;d repeat the whole process&quot;.<p>Basically it was considered tedious, grunt work in his opinion (at the time...he later of course has come to understand the importance).</text></item><item><author>marcodiego</author><text>My father was a physicist. He learned to program in FORTRAN in the university in the 70&#x27;s.<p>Decades later I, still a teenager, asked him something like this: &quot;Dad, you were a FORTRAN programmer and physicist in the 70&#x27;s, you could be a very well paid developer anywhere in the developed world... why didn&#x27;t you?&quot;; he answered me: &quot;I didn&#x27;t thought this thing about computers would go too far.&quot;</text></item><item><author>walnutclosefarm</author><text>When I first entered the working world as a programmer and administrator of an &quot;academic computing center&quot;, in the early 70s, you met men like Ray - ex-military, GI-bill educated, learned computers from the electricity on up in their mid-career, rather frequently, either as customer engineers for one of the big mainframe manufacturers (there were 7 or 8, depending on when and how you counted), or from the minicomputer upstarts who were then assaulting the mainframe world of computing with their smaller, cheaper, 12 and 16 bit newcomers. Sometimes you&#x27;d get the privilege of a lunch or dinner with one sent out &quot;from the lab&quot; who was actually designing and building the machines you were working on.<p>It&#x27;s hard to explain just how new it all felt, then. But in 1973, even though we were sitting on the cusp of the single chip microprocessor and personal computer revolution, the commercial computer was less than 20 years old, and college recruiting materials might well brag that at their institution, there were not one, but two computers on campus. I remember the day the total RAM at our institution passed the megabyte mark - closer to the end, than the beginning, of the 1970s. The ability to &quot;program&quot; was a rare skill - even the people who taught it were still just learning it.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>walnutclosefarm</author><text>That may well be true of some universities today. In 1970, they were pretty much the only place you could get hands on experience with a computer unless you somehow slid into a programming job in the financial industry, or a one of the few other areas that actually used them. And they were not behind the curve on the technology, although they tended to have lower end hardware than industry, because any compute was very expensive. The invoice on a 64k byte HP3000 in 1972, which on a good day could support half a dozen users actually doing any work, was over $100K. Memory upgrades to 128K ran you about $1&#x2F;byte installed - maybe $8 in today&#x27;s money. It was a big deal to be allowed hands on use of them.</text></comment> | <story><title>My dad's resume and skills from 1980</title><url>https://github.com/runvnc/dadsresume</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>hnlmorg</author><text>Universities are always several years behind the curve. At college in the 90s they were still teaching token ring networking despite Ethernet already being common place. The same college told me that programmers didn’t design any of the code they write; they only transcribe code from flow charts.<p>Just yesterday I was talking to a grad about DevOps. He said the field sounded boring from what he was taught at uni. Then when we discussed it more it turned out his “DevOps” course was actually just teaching them how to be a scrum master and didn’t include a single thing about automation, infrastructure as code, etc.<p>I also remember just how garbage general publications were with regards to IT. And to be fair they still are now. But there was always a wealth of better information in specialist publications as well as online (particularly by the late 90s).</text></item><item><author>lambdasquirrel</author><text>&gt; &quot;I didn&#x27;t thought this thing about computers would go too far.&quot;<p>I almost didn&#x27;t major in Computer Science because in the late 90s, there were so many negative articles in the New York Times, vis-a-vis software. People don&#x27;t remember it now, but the media and the culture were utterly hostile towards us, and loved to say our jobs were going to India, that everything there was to know about Computer Science could be studied in railyard switching, in existing abstract math textbooks, etc.<p>By a combination of luck, and my dad&#x27;s insistence, I ended up at Carnegie Mellon, and while I was there, I saw what folks at Google were doing, and I thought to myself, no, this stuff is hard, and this is just going to be the beginning.<p>&gt; &quot;It was way too tedious to do. You&#x27;d spend hours getting the cards just right. We used to put them in a shoebox and mark them with a pen in case we dropped them on the way to the lab. Then you&#x27;d wait until the next day to get your results. If you had a mistake you&#x27;d repeat the whole process&quot;<p>Even what came after that, e.g. in C &#x2F; C++ was considerably tedious compared to what we do today. Folks sometimes had to do objdumps of compiled binaries to debug what was going on. We had to get coredumps, load them up, and try to determine what memory error had caused things to crash (this is an entire class of problems that doesn&#x27;t exist today). You used to legit need that CS degree in order to code in your day-to-day because you had to understand the function stack, the network stack, basic syscalls like wait and poll, etc.<p>It was a lot of work, for relatively little product, and I think part of the reason why software is paid more today is in part because of 1. faster processing speeds and 2. better tooling and automation, and higher-level programming languages – all of which were enabled in part by cheaper &#x2F; faster CPU speeds (e.g. people don&#x27;t have to care about how slow Python is – you can optimize it after you find product-market-fit), and 3. a better understanding of how software should be developed, at all levels of management.</text></item><item><author>nervousvarun</author><text>We probably are close to the same age. My dad was an engineer who also learned to program FORTRAN in the 70&#x27;s.<p>When I asked him a similar question his reply was (quotes are paraphrased): &quot;It was way too tedious to do. You&#x27;d spend hours getting the cards just right. We used to put them in a shoebox and mark them with a pen in case we dropped them on the way to the lab. Then you&#x27;d wait until the next day to get your results. If you had a mistake you&#x27;d repeat the whole process&quot;.<p>Basically it was considered tedious, grunt work in his opinion (at the time...he later of course has come to understand the importance).</text></item><item><author>marcodiego</author><text>My father was a physicist. He learned to program in FORTRAN in the university in the 70&#x27;s.<p>Decades later I, still a teenager, asked him something like this: &quot;Dad, you were a FORTRAN programmer and physicist in the 70&#x27;s, you could be a very well paid developer anywhere in the developed world... why didn&#x27;t you?&quot;; he answered me: &quot;I didn&#x27;t thought this thing about computers would go too far.&quot;</text></item><item><author>walnutclosefarm</author><text>When I first entered the working world as a programmer and administrator of an &quot;academic computing center&quot;, in the early 70s, you met men like Ray - ex-military, GI-bill educated, learned computers from the electricity on up in their mid-career, rather frequently, either as customer engineers for one of the big mainframe manufacturers (there were 7 or 8, depending on when and how you counted), or from the minicomputer upstarts who were then assaulting the mainframe world of computing with their smaller, cheaper, 12 and 16 bit newcomers. Sometimes you&#x27;d get the privilege of a lunch or dinner with one sent out &quot;from the lab&quot; who was actually designing and building the machines you were working on.<p>It&#x27;s hard to explain just how new it all felt, then. But in 1973, even though we were sitting on the cusp of the single chip microprocessor and personal computer revolution, the commercial computer was less than 20 years old, and college recruiting materials might well brag that at their institution, there were not one, but two computers on campus. I remember the day the total RAM at our institution passed the megabyte mark - closer to the end, than the beginning, of the 1970s. The ability to &quot;program&quot; was a rare skill - even the people who taught it were still just learning it.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mgkimsal</author><text>I was having to deal with token ring in &#x27;96-&#x27;97, and have not touched it since. Seems like it went away quite quickly. Cue up someone replying that they&#x27;re still maintaining a token ring system in 2022... :)</text></comment> |
36,258,324 | 36,258,339 | 1 | 2 | 36,257,981 | train | <story><title>Shreddit is a Python program to remove all your Reddit comments</title><url>https://github.com/x89/Shreddit</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>CoastalCoder</author><text>I&#x27;m trying to understand various activist goals regarding Reddit. Is it some combination of the following?<p>(a) Burn down Reddit, as vengeance for their behavior in recent years.<p>(b) Burn down Reddit, to lay the groundwork for a more user-friendly alternative.<p>(c) Temporarily apply pressure on Reddit, especially regarding their planned IPO, as a rebuke so they become more user-friendly.<p>(d) some thing else, and&#x2F;or some combination of the above</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>the_pwner224</author><text>For deleting posts&#x2F;comments:<p>Reddit exists because we give it content. We&#x27;re the ones bringing value to Reddit. Like any social media, it wouldn&#x27;t exist without us, the users. Reddit also provides a valuable service as being the host. Reddit is entitled to make some profit off of that.<p>We contribute content to Reddit for free. Reddit acts as a good host, connects us users together, and makes some money for their work.<p>But they&#x27;ve been growing increasingly user hostile and greedy. I&#x27;m not going to give you free content if you&#x27;re super hostile to me and other users. Hosting Reddit isn&#x27;t <i>that</i> expensive, afaik they were already making a profit back when you could buy gold to fund server time? But if you&#x27;re going all in on ads and maximizing profit, at the cost of my user experience... either you give me a cut of that, or I&#x27;m going to leave and take my content away with me. I don&#x27;t want you maliciously profiting off of my content which I spent my time creating.</text></comment> | <story><title>Shreddit is a Python program to remove all your Reddit comments</title><url>https://github.com/x89/Shreddit</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>CoastalCoder</author><text>I&#x27;m trying to understand various activist goals regarding Reddit. Is it some combination of the following?<p>(a) Burn down Reddit, as vengeance for their behavior in recent years.<p>(b) Burn down Reddit, to lay the groundwork for a more user-friendly alternative.<p>(c) Temporarily apply pressure on Reddit, especially regarding their planned IPO, as a rebuke so they become more user-friendly.<p>(d) some thing else, and&#x2F;or some combination of the above</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>brk</author><text>I think in general there is a lot of anger or frustration around the fact that Reddit&#x27;s primary trove of value is content that has been created, posted, and moderated for free by their community. Despite this, Reddit trends more and more user hostile every year, with rules, redesigns, and other limitations that often come across as attempting to punish or hinder the very group that is the core of their value. While I doubt the majority of the user base takes issue with Reddit wanting to be profitable, the potential IPO is coming across very much as a rug pull of sorts to those users.</text></comment> |
22,630,258 | 22,630,448 | 1 | 2 | 22,615,317 | train | <story><title>LiquidText: A tool for academical note taking</title><url>https://www.liquidtext.net/liquidtextadeeperdive</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>helloworm</author><text>It’s a nice app for light users, but if you try to use it heavily as a detailed infinity board with lots and lots of notes spread around the canvas visually, you’ll quickly get flustered by the lack of quality-of-life improvements . Examples would be lack of setting text styles , requiring -every-single-textbox- you create to click through three or more separate ui flows to change the: color, size, emphasis, (and font).<p>It’s a nice concept but their devs have moved on and barely update it at all. Trivially small feature updates are spun as huge improvements , but only released every six months to a year (!).<p>For the same paradigm but with a much, much better user experience with constant quality of life upgrades and devs that actually spend full time job on it, use Margin Notes 3 (iOS).</text></comment> | <story><title>LiquidText: A tool for academical note taking</title><url>https://www.liquidtext.net/liquidtextadeeperdive</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>tduberne</author><text>I am more and more reluctant to use any note taking app. Ideally, notes I take on the book I am reading today should still be available to me in 20 years. No app can offer that kind of guarantee. I switched to using plaintext files, and do not look back. The only thing one needs is to have a clear workflow to make sure notes remain accessible and useful. I like the Zettelkasten method for this (see eg <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;zettelkasten.de" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;zettelkasten.de</a>, no affiliation).<p>Not to criticize this app in particular, I actually quite like the concepts listed (which remind me of the Zettelkasten idea). Just the whole idea of keeping my thoughts in an app. Even if it does allow to export the data, it is probably in a format that is difficult to use outside of the app, and thus close to useless.</text></comment> |
28,140,499 | 28,140,428 | 1 | 2 | 28,139,889 | train | <story><title>New EU Law Removes Digital Privacy</title><url>https://www.patrick-breyer.de/en/posts/message-screening/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>randomchars</author><text>&gt; What if a 15 year old Dane sends a dick pick to a 17 year old girl in France? Is she a child pornographer?<p>In some countries, you can have sex at 14, but only do sexting at 18. Total mindfuck.</text></item><item><author>noduerme</author><text>This assault on privacy is premised on a very flimsy concern over CP, which is a problem but is absolutely no reason (just as terrorism isn&#x27;t) to deprive citizens of their rights. I&#x27;m just curious - first of all, what happened to the large amount of child pornography and the industry around it that existed in Denmark throughout the 1970s? The pendulum certainly swings both ways, but it&#x27;s strange and interesting that the fact that it was legal to <i>produce</i> CP in swathes of Europe has simply been swept under the rug. I&#x27;d assume those images and films are now hashed and searched for, but I&#x27;d also assume there are hard copies of them laying around in a plurality of Danish households. How do you prosecute possession of something that was legal at the time?
Secondly, just to keep using liberal ol&#x27; Denmark as an example, since the legal age of consent there is <i>still</i> 15 years old, how do you &quot;harmonize&quot; spying on adults there with spying on minors in the rest of Europe? It&#x27;s okay to read every 15 year old&#x27;s text messages and look at their photos because it might be illegal in some other country? What if a 15 year old Dane sends a dick pick to a 17 year old girl in France? Is she a child pornographer?<p>Sexual assault is one thing, but it&#x27;s worth taking a minute to realize how arbitrary and ridiculous some of these laws are before you start throwing children into jail for texting... let alone stripping away basic civil liberties on the basis of &quot;some people are bad so we can&#x27;t have nice things.&quot;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>WhyNotHugo</author><text>In some US states you can&#x27;t buy porn until you&#x27;re 21 years old, but you can ACT in porn as of 18.<p>Laws are far from being logical or always making sense.</text></comment> | <story><title>New EU Law Removes Digital Privacy</title><url>https://www.patrick-breyer.de/en/posts/message-screening/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>randomchars</author><text>&gt; What if a 15 year old Dane sends a dick pick to a 17 year old girl in France? Is she a child pornographer?<p>In some countries, you can have sex at 14, but only do sexting at 18. Total mindfuck.</text></item><item><author>noduerme</author><text>This assault on privacy is premised on a very flimsy concern over CP, which is a problem but is absolutely no reason (just as terrorism isn&#x27;t) to deprive citizens of their rights. I&#x27;m just curious - first of all, what happened to the large amount of child pornography and the industry around it that existed in Denmark throughout the 1970s? The pendulum certainly swings both ways, but it&#x27;s strange and interesting that the fact that it was legal to <i>produce</i> CP in swathes of Europe has simply been swept under the rug. I&#x27;d assume those images and films are now hashed and searched for, but I&#x27;d also assume there are hard copies of them laying around in a plurality of Danish households. How do you prosecute possession of something that was legal at the time?
Secondly, just to keep using liberal ol&#x27; Denmark as an example, since the legal age of consent there is <i>still</i> 15 years old, how do you &quot;harmonize&quot; spying on adults there with spying on minors in the rest of Europe? It&#x27;s okay to read every 15 year old&#x27;s text messages and look at their photos because it might be illegal in some other country? What if a 15 year old Dane sends a dick pick to a 17 year old girl in France? Is she a child pornographer?<p>Sexual assault is one thing, but it&#x27;s worth taking a minute to realize how arbitrary and ridiculous some of these laws are before you start throwing children into jail for texting... let alone stripping away basic civil liberties on the basis of &quot;some people are bad so we can&#x27;t have nice things.&quot;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>A_non_e-moose</author><text>Reminds me of the kinder egg VS AR15 ownership thing in the US</text></comment> |
2,951,329 | 2,950,550 | 1 | 3 | 2,949,543 | train | <story><title>Why Developers Never Use State Machines</title><url>http://www.skorks.com/2011/09/why-developers-never-use-state-machines/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>fab13n</author><text>Having used state machines a lot for embedded development, I find that they have one huge drawback: the resulting C code is unreadable, which turns maintenance into a nightmare.<p>SM have a key quality: they are a compact and unambiguous way for specifying a behavior. If your system's behavior is set in stone, it's worth specifying it as a SM and implementing it as one. This SM is also great to include in a spec, standard, RFC etc. But if the system evolves, small changes can require dramatic reshaping of the machine.<p>Also, they can lead to very efficient implementations, especially if you don't have the benefits of a serious OS with a fancy scheduler underneath.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>fdkz</author><text>This paper talks about an alternative to SMs:<p>"Protothreads: Simplifying Event-Driven Programming of Memory-Constrained Embedded Systems"
<a href="http://www.sics.se/~adam/dunkels06protothreads.pdf" rel="nofollow">http://www.sics.se/~adam/dunkels06protothreads.pdf</a><p>source files (~60 lines without comments):
<a href="http://www.sics.se/~adam/pt/" rel="nofollow">http://www.sics.se/~adam/pt/</a><p>abstract:<p>Event-driven programming is a popular model for writing programs for tiny embedded systems and sensor network nodes. While event-driven programming can keep the memory overhead down, it enforces a state machine programming style which makes many programs difficult to write, main- tain, and debug. We present a novel programming abstraction called protothreads that makes it possible to write eventdriven programs in a thread-like style, with a memory overhead of only two bytes per protothread. We show that protothreads significantly reduce the complexity of a number of widely used programs previously written with event-driven state machines. For the examined programs the majority of the state machines could be entirely removed. In the other cases the number of states and transitions was drastically decreased. With protothreads the number of lines of code was reduced by one third. The execution time overhead of protothreads is on the order of a few processor cycles.</text></comment> | <story><title>Why Developers Never Use State Machines</title><url>http://www.skorks.com/2011/09/why-developers-never-use-state-machines/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>fab13n</author><text>Having used state machines a lot for embedded development, I find that they have one huge drawback: the resulting C code is unreadable, which turns maintenance into a nightmare.<p>SM have a key quality: they are a compact and unambiguous way for specifying a behavior. If your system's behavior is set in stone, it's worth specifying it as a SM and implementing it as one. This SM is also great to include in a spec, standard, RFC etc. But if the system evolves, small changes can require dramatic reshaping of the machine.<p>Also, they can lead to very efficient implementations, especially if you don't have the benefits of a serious OS with a fancy scheduler underneath.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>zwieback</author><text>Exactly my experience. Over the years we've tried many different ways of coding state machines and it's very hard to keep them readable. Still we continue to use them, the pros outweigh the cons.<p>There's a pretty interesting RTOS approach based on state machines (www.state-machine.com, no less) that uses single-stack run-to-completion "tasks". They also have some kind of wizard approach to generate code but I haven't had enough time to evaluate it.<p>For anyone who finds state machines in HLLs unreadable, try looking at a state machine implemented in ladder logic on a PLC!</text></comment> |
8,981,577 | 8,980,357 | 1 | 3 | 8,979,886 | train | <story><title>Croatia just canceled the debts of its poorest citizens</title><url>http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2015/01/31/croatia-just-canceled-the-debts-of-its-poorest-citizens/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>popee</author><text>Hi, croat here. Just one detail, this year there will be elections in Croatia and current gov didn&#x27;t do anything useful for our economy, so this is kind of popular measure. Don&#x27;t get me wrong, it&#x27;s always nice to help, but situation is little bit complicated, taxes are very high and in some way this is not fair to people that are paying everything. Also, there are huge number of people living and exploiting social measures, so ... In this context it&#x27;s impossible to help those who really need help.<p>You know what is the saddest part? Opposition party (conservatives that ruled from 2007-2011) is convicted for criminality and they are atm most popular, so for <i>common</i> and <i>independent</i> people there is no light at the end of the tunnel. If someone can solve this chaos he&#x2F;she will be candidate for Nobel&#x27;s price.<p>P.S. Sorry on bad english</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ricardobeat</author><text>These exact same words could come out of a Brazilian. Word by word. I don&#x27;t know about Croatia, but in that case they are only half-truths. The idea that there are &#x27;people who pay for everything&#x27; is usually misguided. There are the exploited, and the less exploited. Both pay in one way or another, and only a very small elite group is actually well off.<p>You say &quot;the situation is complicated&quot; and &quot;this is not fair&quot;, but how exactly do you think this measure will fail? From a distance it sounds like it would boost the economy by allowing people to prosper, while debt is written off mostly by private entities, not the tax payers directly. Even if it was, it might still be a win.</text></comment> | <story><title>Croatia just canceled the debts of its poorest citizens</title><url>http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2015/01/31/croatia-just-canceled-the-debts-of-its-poorest-citizens/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>popee</author><text>Hi, croat here. Just one detail, this year there will be elections in Croatia and current gov didn&#x27;t do anything useful for our economy, so this is kind of popular measure. Don&#x27;t get me wrong, it&#x27;s always nice to help, but situation is little bit complicated, taxes are very high and in some way this is not fair to people that are paying everything. Also, there are huge number of people living and exploiting social measures, so ... In this context it&#x27;s impossible to help those who really need help.<p>You know what is the saddest part? Opposition party (conservatives that ruled from 2007-2011) is convicted for criminality and they are atm most popular, so for <i>common</i> and <i>independent</i> people there is no light at the end of the tunnel. If someone can solve this chaos he&#x2F;she will be candidate for Nobel&#x27;s price.<p>P.S. Sorry on bad english</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bsaul</author><text>Your comment made me realize a more appropriate title would be :
&quot;Current croatian government cancels poor citizen&#x27;s debts one year before election&quot;.<p>But that would probably cast a VERY different light on the event. The original intent was probably to give the (positive i guess) impression that the greek trend of not paying debts is spreading.</text></comment> |
23,427,130 | 23,427,163 | 1 | 3 | 23,426,189 | train | <story><title>Mental Wealth</title><url>https://jjbeshara.com/2020/06/04/mental-wealth/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>onion2k</author><text>I find articles like this one where 100% of the onus for coping with mental health problems is put on the individual quite annoying. There&#x27;s nothing in the article about getting help from other people, or how to cope with problems that you <i>can&#x27;t</i> fix easily. It&#x27;s kind of a toxic attitude because it makes others believe people with mental health issues <i>just aren&#x27;t trying hard enough</i> and completely ignores individual circumstances or our ability to help ourselves. It&#x27;s all very well to tell people with mental health problems that they should sleep better, eat better and get some exercise, but that ignores the fact that mental health problems can <i>physically</i> stop people doing that.<p>If fixing your mental health was simple then it wouldn&#x27;t be such a prevalent problem.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>austincheney</author><text>Actually the article right at the beginning asks the reader not to equivocate mental health with mental illness and heath, or rather wholistic well-being, is actually almost entirely the proactive responsibility of the individual. The basic starting point is fitness which applies to mental health conditioning just as it does to physical exercise.<p>To be fair to your point though the article does say we should shift our thinking on mental health to the same perceptions granted towards physical health. That should mean the mental health evaluation equivalent of a physical every four years. That is absolutely beneficial to everybody because even perfectly healthy people get regular physicals even when they are perfectly healthy.</text></comment> | <story><title>Mental Wealth</title><url>https://jjbeshara.com/2020/06/04/mental-wealth/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>onion2k</author><text>I find articles like this one where 100% of the onus for coping with mental health problems is put on the individual quite annoying. There&#x27;s nothing in the article about getting help from other people, or how to cope with problems that you <i>can&#x27;t</i> fix easily. It&#x27;s kind of a toxic attitude because it makes others believe people with mental health issues <i>just aren&#x27;t trying hard enough</i> and completely ignores individual circumstances or our ability to help ourselves. It&#x27;s all very well to tell people with mental health problems that they should sleep better, eat better and get some exercise, but that ignores the fact that mental health problems can <i>physically</i> stop people doing that.<p>If fixing your mental health was simple then it wouldn&#x27;t be such a prevalent problem.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rwnspace</author><text>Imagine if we put the blame on wild animals for their behavioural adaptations after we destroyed their natural environments.<p>Imagine if we simply observed obesity as &quot;what happens to x% of the human population after y years of exposure to this environment&quot;.<p>Imagine if we observed the growing disconnect between intelligence and critical thinking ability as a function of changes in the information ecology.</text></comment> |
38,914,221 | 38,913,837 | 1 | 2 | 38,911,791 | train | <story><title>What PWA Can Do Today</title><url>https://whatpwacando.today</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>starfox64_</author><text>It&#x27;s kinda sad that the website doesn&#x27;t prominently display which features have &quot;universal&quot; support across iOS and Android. The whole point of PWAs is to provide cross platforms apps so if a feature isn&#x27;t available on all&#x2F;most platforms, I don&#x27;t think it&#x27;s fair to say that it&#x27;s really usable at all in your PWA.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>onion2k</author><text><i>The whole point of PWAs is to provide cross platforms apps so if a feature isn&#x27;t available on all&#x2F;most platforms, I don&#x27;t think it&#x27;s fair to say that it&#x27;s really usable at all in your PWA.</i><p>You should be delivering the best possible experience for the user based on what their device can do, not the lowest common denominator of some arbitrary set of features. Progressive enhancement, API detection, and polyfilling are all common strategies that can be used to mitigate almost all device differences.</text></comment> | <story><title>What PWA Can Do Today</title><url>https://whatpwacando.today</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>starfox64_</author><text>It&#x27;s kinda sad that the website doesn&#x27;t prominently display which features have &quot;universal&quot; support across iOS and Android. The whole point of PWAs is to provide cross platforms apps so if a feature isn&#x27;t available on all&#x2F;most platforms, I don&#x27;t think it&#x27;s fair to say that it&#x27;s really usable at all in your PWA.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pjmlp</author><text>PWAs are the next step in mobile Web, for most forms over data apps, it isn&#x27;t really needed.<p>When I came back to Web&#x2F;Distributed Systems after my stint dealing with Windows desktop, all the applications I have been involved only had Web frontends, including for mobile devices, not Web views, the actual browser.<p>They managed perfectly fine.</text></comment> |
18,164,740 | 18,164,448 | 1 | 2 | 18,164,189 | train | <story><title>Ask HN: Cheap places to live with a good intellectual atmosphere?</title><text>I&#x27;m a software engineer in the bay area and have been thinking about moving somewhere cheaper (in USA or aboard) where I can live cheaply and focus on my own intellectual pursuits. I&#x27;d love to be in a place where the living costs are low and where there exists a thriving intellectual community (I&#x27;ve noticed cities near top academic institutions tend to create that sort of atmosphere but not necessarily). I&#x27;d prefer a place where English speakers are common enough such that I won&#x27;t feel isolated by a language barrier. I haven&#x27;t traveled too often and would love to hear from HN community about any places that match this general description. Thank you in advance!</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>msadowski</author><text>If you feel adventurous you can consider moving to Poland. I would recommend Krakow. Most young people will speak English, there are couple of top Universities there (PK and AGH for technical schools, UJ for humanities, medicine and some tech too and UE for economics). The tech scene seems to be constantly growing, with lots of international companies having their offices there. As a senior dev in Poland you can earn somewhere between 12-20k PLN a month. Renting a flat will be between 1.5-3k PLN(~400-800USD) depending on thr standard. Additional perks you can enjoy is free(as you pay it on your taxes) healthcare, amazing food, great nightlife and proximity of other European countries (the flights are super cheap).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>flavor8</author><text>You&#x27;d have to be quite apolitical to consider a move to Poland right now.</text></comment> | <story><title>Ask HN: Cheap places to live with a good intellectual atmosphere?</title><text>I&#x27;m a software engineer in the bay area and have been thinking about moving somewhere cheaper (in USA or aboard) where I can live cheaply and focus on my own intellectual pursuits. I&#x27;d love to be in a place where the living costs are low and where there exists a thriving intellectual community (I&#x27;ve noticed cities near top academic institutions tend to create that sort of atmosphere but not necessarily). I&#x27;d prefer a place where English speakers are common enough such that I won&#x27;t feel isolated by a language barrier. I haven&#x27;t traveled too often and would love to hear from HN community about any places that match this general description. Thank you in advance!</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>msadowski</author><text>If you feel adventurous you can consider moving to Poland. I would recommend Krakow. Most young people will speak English, there are couple of top Universities there (PK and AGH for technical schools, UJ for humanities, medicine and some tech too and UE for economics). The tech scene seems to be constantly growing, with lots of international companies having their offices there. As a senior dev in Poland you can earn somewhere between 12-20k PLN a month. Renting a flat will be between 1.5-3k PLN(~400-800USD) depending on thr standard. Additional perks you can enjoy is free(as you pay it on your taxes) healthcare, amazing food, great nightlife and proximity of other European countries (the flights are super cheap).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>sawmurai</author><text>+1 for Poland. I am not living there but very time we visit my fiancée family we literally see how the economy is thriving. Exciting times for Poland.</text></comment> |
528,728 | 528,708 | 1 | 2 | 528,671 | train | <story><title>Jakob Nielsen: Mega Drop-Down Navigation Menus Work Well</title><url>http://www.useit.com/alertbox/mega-dropdown-menus.html</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>run4yourlives</author><text>Um, I realize that the audience here is mostly university students, but do we really need frat house language in our submission titles now?<p>I'm not really offended, but would you say that you "had a chubby" for a new feature around the boardroom table, with women present? It would be nice if we could keep this site a little more esteemed than the sad excuse for language found on most of the internet.<p>EDIT (Obviously, the editors have changed the title.)</text></comment> | <story><title>Jakob Nielsen: Mega Drop-Down Navigation Menus Work Well</title><url>http://www.useit.com/alertbox/mega-dropdown-menus.html</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>mixmax</author><text><i>"Also as always, the more faddish features such as tag clouds exhibit major usability problems. "</i><p>This is worth taking note of. Particularly if your users aren't very web-savvy.</text></comment> |
16,021,110 | 16,019,662 | 1 | 2 | 16,013,136 | train | <story><title>Big Tech Is Going After Health Care</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/26/technology/big-tech-health-care.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>aviv</author><text>Why do we need technology to help improve lives when so many diseases (type 2 diabetes, Crohn&#x27;s, IBS, high blood pressure, arthritis, and dozens of others) can already be reversed and prevented by simply changing a person&#x27;s diet and lifestyle habits? It&#x27;s really quite insane that people would rather take pills for the rest of their lives to treat symptoms of a disease than actually getting rid of it altogether by giving up food habits.<p>Part of it is also due to traditional physicians being so dismissive of the role nutrition plays in a person&#x27;s well being.</text></item><item><author>joshgel</author><text>Interesting you bring up heart failure readmissions. Not saying they aren&#x27;t a problem, but here is a fascinating study in JAMA that argues that places with lower readmissions have higher (worse) mortality. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;jamanetwork.com&#x2F;journals&#x2F;jamacardiology&#x2F;article-abstract&#x2F;2663213" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;jamanetwork.com&#x2F;journals&#x2F;jamacardiology&#x2F;article-abst...</a><p>Not sure we (I&#x27;m a physician) understand even what the problems we need technology to solve are. But yes, we need technology to help (find and) solve some major problems that will improve lives.</text></item><item><author>blhack</author><text>Good.<p>I spent a few years working in a medical IoT startup, and the current state of the &quot;mainstream&quot; medical monitoring technology is not inspiring.<p>During a brainstorming meeting, I asked one of our cofounders, a physician, to tell me about some of the problems he had seen in health. Don&#x27;t try and solve it, just lets talk about problems.<p>He said that <i>by far</i> one of the most common causes for re-hospitalization is congestive heart failure. It&#x27;s a super common problem, <i>and</i> it&#x27;s actually really easy to catch (it has strong indicators). When your heart begins to fail, depending on what side of it fails, your body will retain fluid (in the form of blood) in either your heart or your organs. Regardless, you will bloat up, and gain weight quickly.<p>So if a patient is at risk for CHF, a nurse will monitor their weight every day (or multiple times a day) and watch for spikes. If their weight spikes, a doctor will intervene in whatever way is necessary.<p>Can you imagine my frustration at hearing this? It&#x27;s this massive problem with an obvious (CHEAP!! SO FUCKING CHEAP!!) solution.<p>I spend $30 on a scale from amazon immediately, and about an hour after it arrived I had it connected to an android tablet and broadcasting its readings to a webservice.<p>We never went to market with that (long story). Please, if you have the means to take something like that and scale it, do so. You could save lives. I&#x27;m currently trying. More people should be trying. This stuff is so easy, and the impact that you could have is massive.<p>Also: please call your grandparents and just talk to them. Ask them how they are feeling. Social isolation (full disclosure: this is what my current project is trying to solve) is probably the area where we as software people could have the biggest impact.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dang</author><text>You broke the site guidelines by taking this thread into a flamewar and grossly overposting. We&#x27;re trying for quality, not quantity, in discussion here—you went far in the other direction. You also broke the HN guidelines in other ways, like personal attacks and going on about comment voting.<p>All of this is really bad. Please don&#x27;t abuse the site like this again.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;newsguidelines.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;newsguidelines.html</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Big Tech Is Going After Health Care</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/26/technology/big-tech-health-care.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>aviv</author><text>Why do we need technology to help improve lives when so many diseases (type 2 diabetes, Crohn&#x27;s, IBS, high blood pressure, arthritis, and dozens of others) can already be reversed and prevented by simply changing a person&#x27;s diet and lifestyle habits? It&#x27;s really quite insane that people would rather take pills for the rest of their lives to treat symptoms of a disease than actually getting rid of it altogether by giving up food habits.<p>Part of it is also due to traditional physicians being so dismissive of the role nutrition plays in a person&#x27;s well being.</text></item><item><author>joshgel</author><text>Interesting you bring up heart failure readmissions. Not saying they aren&#x27;t a problem, but here is a fascinating study in JAMA that argues that places with lower readmissions have higher (worse) mortality. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;jamanetwork.com&#x2F;journals&#x2F;jamacardiology&#x2F;article-abstract&#x2F;2663213" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;jamanetwork.com&#x2F;journals&#x2F;jamacardiology&#x2F;article-abst...</a><p>Not sure we (I&#x27;m a physician) understand even what the problems we need technology to solve are. But yes, we need technology to help (find and) solve some major problems that will improve lives.</text></item><item><author>blhack</author><text>Good.<p>I spent a few years working in a medical IoT startup, and the current state of the &quot;mainstream&quot; medical monitoring technology is not inspiring.<p>During a brainstorming meeting, I asked one of our cofounders, a physician, to tell me about some of the problems he had seen in health. Don&#x27;t try and solve it, just lets talk about problems.<p>He said that <i>by far</i> one of the most common causes for re-hospitalization is congestive heart failure. It&#x27;s a super common problem, <i>and</i> it&#x27;s actually really easy to catch (it has strong indicators). When your heart begins to fail, depending on what side of it fails, your body will retain fluid (in the form of blood) in either your heart or your organs. Regardless, you will bloat up, and gain weight quickly.<p>So if a patient is at risk for CHF, a nurse will monitor their weight every day (or multiple times a day) and watch for spikes. If their weight spikes, a doctor will intervene in whatever way is necessary.<p>Can you imagine my frustration at hearing this? It&#x27;s this massive problem with an obvious (CHEAP!! SO FUCKING CHEAP!!) solution.<p>I spend $30 on a scale from amazon immediately, and about an hour after it arrived I had it connected to an android tablet and broadcasting its readings to a webservice.<p>We never went to market with that (long story). Please, if you have the means to take something like that and scale it, do so. You could save lives. I&#x27;m currently trying. More people should be trying. This stuff is so easy, and the impact that you could have is massive.<p>Also: please call your grandparents and just talk to them. Ask them how they are feeling. Social isolation (full disclosure: this is what my current project is trying to solve) is probably the area where we as software people could have the biggest impact.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>joshgel</author><text>Before you become &quot;so dismissive&quot; of traditional physicians, you try getting someone to radically alter their lifestyle for the promise of potential benefit in 10-20 years. Even if you can point to a few people that have done it, I can point you to plenty of data that says it&#x27;s really hard and most people can&#x27;t. Even technology may not help: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;jamanetwork.com&#x2F;journals&#x2F;jama&#x2F;fullarticle&#x2F;2553448" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;jamanetwork.com&#x2F;journals&#x2F;jama&#x2F;fullarticle&#x2F;2553448</a>.<p>Edit:
Also reversed is a pretty strong word. I haven&#x27;t seen any compelling evidence that Crohn&#x27;s can be cured with lifestyle change.</text></comment> |
24,581,218 | 24,581,277 | 1 | 3 | 24,576,991 | train | <story><title>Mark in the Middle</title><url>https://www.theverge.com/21444203/facebook-leaked-audio-zuckerberg-trump-pandemic-blm</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>roenxi</author><text>Although a follow up would be the comforting level of maturity in Facebook&#x27;s leadership, acknowledging that it isn&#x27;t their role to bring politics into the workplace.<p>It is distressingly refreshing to see a company in the news for taking a stance like &quot;In my work with Joel, I’ve found him to be ... very rigorous and principled in his thinking [and therefore I&#x27;m happy to work with him despite being a Republican]&quot;. It really is remarkable that Zuckerberg is in a position to have to defend that. From company employees of all people.</text></item><item><author>jsiepkes</author><text>&gt; &quot;The community we serve tends to be, on average, ideologically a little bit more conservative than our employee base.&quot;<p>If I had to pick one sentence of the article which sums up the entire issue it would be this one.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nemothekid</author><text>&gt;<i>acknowledging that it isn&#x27;t their role to bring politics into the workplace.</i><p>This is very hard for me to square with Facebook. It&#x27;s like working at the NY Times and saying &quot;no politics in the work place.&quot; Almost any decision FB makes is by definition political. The top 10 most interacted pages on Facebook are political. COVID-19, in the US, is political.<p>It doesn&#x27;t strike me as mature, it&#x27;s deceitful. It&#x27;s very easy to claim things are non-political when the outcomes do not affect you at all.</text></comment> | <story><title>Mark in the Middle</title><url>https://www.theverge.com/21444203/facebook-leaked-audio-zuckerberg-trump-pandemic-blm</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>roenxi</author><text>Although a follow up would be the comforting level of maturity in Facebook&#x27;s leadership, acknowledging that it isn&#x27;t their role to bring politics into the workplace.<p>It is distressingly refreshing to see a company in the news for taking a stance like &quot;In my work with Joel, I’ve found him to be ... very rigorous and principled in his thinking [and therefore I&#x27;m happy to work with him despite being a Republican]&quot;. It really is remarkable that Zuckerberg is in a position to have to defend that. From company employees of all people.</text></item><item><author>jsiepkes</author><text>&gt; &quot;The community we serve tends to be, on average, ideologically a little bit more conservative than our employee base.&quot;<p>If I had to pick one sentence of the article which sums up the entire issue it would be this one.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mattacular</author><text>Whenever someone says &quot;don&#x27;t bring politics into X&quot; it&#x27;s a cop-out. Doubly so for anything related to Facebook. Politics is how we solve all problems between competing interests as a society. You can&#x27;t operate a business in this country (or any) which is divorced from politics. It&#x27;s absurd for Zuck to suggest that his business should be immune to political forces.</text></comment> |
15,923,226 | 15,922,694 | 1 | 3 | 15,911,740 | train | <story><title>Gabriel García Márquez’s Archive Freely Available Online</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/11/arts/gabriel-garcia-marquez-archive-online.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>osense</author><text>I have been wondering about this — how much more enjoyable is it to read a book in it&#x27;s original language, as opposed to just reading someone&#x27;s translation? Or is it just the thought that you&#x27;re able to read the original, as author intended — possibly after spending time to learn a language just to be able to do this — that makes it count?</text></item><item><author>forinti</author><text>It&#x27;s worth it to learn Spanish just to read his books.</text></item><item><author>spodek</author><text>Two of the greatest opening lines to books:<p>“Many years later, as he faced the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano Buendia was to remember that distant day when his father took him to discover ice.” – One Hundred Years of Solitude<p>“It was inevitable. The scent of bitter almonds always reminded Dr. Juvenal Urbino of the fate of unrequited love.” – Love in the Time of Cholera<p>Each is almost a story in itself, a pleasure to read, and an even greater pleasure to unpack and understand.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>lmkg</author><text>A currently-popular literary theory (strongly espoused by Jorge Luis Borges, whose translation of Kafka&#x27;s <i>Metamorphosis</i> was highly influential to Marques) is that the translation of a literary work is, in fact, a brand new literary work authored by the translator. The fact that languages don&#x27;t line up one-to-one, and the fact that language (and literature) is deeply entwined with culture, means that the translator has to make a lot of creative decisions when translating, and that the final product can never be a &#x27;perfect&#x27; reproduction of the original text.<p>It&#x27;s not necessarily about enjoyment, as it is about reading what the author wrote as opposed to what the translator wrote. But this also means that sometimes, the translated work is a good work in its own right and worth reading (Borges once said &quot;The original is not faithful to the translation&quot;). So, it really depends on a lot of things. But for Marques in particular, his works are very tied to Spanish culture so even as an outsider, learning Spanish and reading the originals still isn&#x27;t quite the same as reading them as a Spaniard.</text></comment> | <story><title>Gabriel García Márquez’s Archive Freely Available Online</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/11/arts/gabriel-garcia-marquez-archive-online.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>osense</author><text>I have been wondering about this — how much more enjoyable is it to read a book in it&#x27;s original language, as opposed to just reading someone&#x27;s translation? Or is it just the thought that you&#x27;re able to read the original, as author intended — possibly after spending time to learn a language just to be able to do this — that makes it count?</text></item><item><author>forinti</author><text>It&#x27;s worth it to learn Spanish just to read his books.</text></item><item><author>spodek</author><text>Two of the greatest opening lines to books:<p>“Many years later, as he faced the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano Buendia was to remember that distant day when his father took him to discover ice.” – One Hundred Years of Solitude<p>“It was inevitable. The scent of bitter almonds always reminded Dr. Juvenal Urbino of the fate of unrequited love.” – Love in the Time of Cholera<p>Each is almost a story in itself, a pleasure to read, and an even greater pleasure to unpack and understand.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>watwut</author><text>How well you speak that other language? Unless you speak really well, it is likely you get more from translation.</text></comment> |
2,324,433 | 2,323,980 | 1 | 2 | 2,322,798 | train | <story><title>If I haven't succeeded in my mid 20s, could I be successful?</title><url>http://www.quora.com/Success/If-I-havent-succeeded-in-my-mid-20s-could-I-be-successful-in-the-rest-of-my-life?srid=uej</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>edw519</author><text>Harland "Colonel" Sanders was 62 when he started Kentucky Fried Chicken.<p>Rodney Dangerfield started writing jokes when he was 15. He finally hit it big when he was 52.<p>Ray Kroc was 52 when he started McDonalds.<p>Orville Redenbacher was 58 when he founded his popcorn business.<p>Ronald Reagan was a B-List actor who was 56 when he became Governor of California and 70 when he became President of the United States.<p>Grandma Moses was 78 when she started painting.<p>Tina Turner was 44 when she recorded her first #1 hit.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>staunch</author><text>Supposedly Julius Caesar was worried about this same thing. When he was around 30 he came upon a statue of Alexander, who at his age had conquered the known world. Caesar had very little to show for himself at that point.<p>He was in his late thirties and early forties before he had any remarkable success or power.</text></comment> | <story><title>If I haven't succeeded in my mid 20s, could I be successful?</title><url>http://www.quora.com/Success/If-I-havent-succeeded-in-my-mid-20s-could-I-be-successful-in-the-rest-of-my-life?srid=uej</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>edw519</author><text>Harland "Colonel" Sanders was 62 when he started Kentucky Fried Chicken.<p>Rodney Dangerfield started writing jokes when he was 15. He finally hit it big when he was 52.<p>Ray Kroc was 52 when he started McDonalds.<p>Orville Redenbacher was 58 when he founded his popcorn business.<p>Ronald Reagan was a B-List actor who was 56 when he became Governor of California and 70 when he became President of the United States.<p>Grandma Moses was 78 when she started painting.<p>Tina Turner was 44 when she recorded her first #1 hit.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>GeoffreyHull</author><text>Samuel L. Jackson was 46 when he was cast in his breakout role in Pulp Fiction</text></comment> |
19,178,849 | 19,178,748 | 1 | 2 | 19,178,282 | train | <story><title>Most Americans don’t realize what companies can predict from their data</title><url>https://theconversation.com/most-americans-dont-realize-what-companies-can-predict-from-their-data-110760</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mattkrause</author><text>I’m not thrilled about the amount of information being hoovered up, but....the predictions being made with it aren’t terribly impressive.<p>Facebook should know a great deal about me, but the advertising categories it puts me in are either completely obvious (based on locations and group memberships that I’ve explicitly told it), or bonkers. It currently thinks I’m part of multiple wildly incompatible religions and political groups and am interested in a weird collection of abstract concepts (“decay”?)<p>Amazon thinks that my interests are dominated by textbooks and vacuum cleaners (if only!)<p>Twitter has correctly sussed out that someone who mostly follows scientists might be interested in science....or dogs.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pdkl95</author><text>&gt; the predictions being made with it aren’t terribly impressive<p>So what? They still have the data and can refine their methods tomorrow. Today their predictions might be low quality, but they can retry as many times as they want. The problem is not the predictions they are making today; it&#x27;s the many predictions (or inferences) are able to keep making in the future.<p>&gt; political groups<p>Remember that some types of advertising is <i>not</i> targeted. Some political advertising or branding advertising is intended to reach &quot;all voters&quot;j or maybe a very broad category like &quot;Everyone Californian of voting age&quot;. Branding campaigns don&#x27;t care if you&#x27;re interested in e.g. vacuum cleaners. They just want you to think of their name first every time you happen to think of or hear about vacuum cleaners.<p>edit: (Multiple contradicting groups could be pushing ads at your (very general) demographic.)<p>&gt; science....or dogs<p>Many scientists like dogs?<p>&gt; Amazon thinks that my interests<p>No, they think that showing you textbooks and vacuum cleaners has a greater chance of increasing their revenue, according to various statistical models. Targeted advertising isn&#x27;t about targeting what <i>your</i> are interested in. It&#x27;s about letting other people target your with what they think they can sell you.<p>edit2: Of course, it could also be a terrible model trying to use data in stupid ways. I&#x27;m just suggesting that there are many plausible explanations.</text></comment> | <story><title>Most Americans don’t realize what companies can predict from their data</title><url>https://theconversation.com/most-americans-dont-realize-what-companies-can-predict-from-their-data-110760</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mattkrause</author><text>I’m not thrilled about the amount of information being hoovered up, but....the predictions being made with it aren’t terribly impressive.<p>Facebook should know a great deal about me, but the advertising categories it puts me in are either completely obvious (based on locations and group memberships that I’ve explicitly told it), or bonkers. It currently thinks I’m part of multiple wildly incompatible religions and political groups and am interested in a weird collection of abstract concepts (“decay”?)<p>Amazon thinks that my interests are dominated by textbooks and vacuum cleaners (if only!)<p>Twitter has correctly sussed out that someone who mostly follows scientists might be interested in science....or dogs.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>cirgue</author><text>I do modeling for an advertising recommendation engine (not at Amazon). We do controls against both human-made rulesets and random, and we consistently outperform both by a big margin. However, click through rate is always really low, and a model that massively increases revenue still serves irrelevant content most of the time, and still seems random from the POV of the user. The point of ML in advertising recommendation is to guess better in aggregate, not get it right all the time.</text></comment> |
15,105,413 | 15,104,974 | 1 | 3 | 15,104,430 | train | <story><title>Fun vs. Computer Science (2016)</title><url>http://prog21.dadgum.com/221.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>hesselink</author><text>I feel like this is a false dichotomy: you can have a fast iteration cycle, <i>and</i> have statically checked guarantees. I&#x27;ve worked in Haskell for 7 years and had exactly this. I could load my entire app in GHCi, make changes, reload and test. Now I&#x27;m working in Java and in IntelliJ I can have something similar with hot-swap. And in the browser with typescript I have a strong type-system and can reload my app in seconds.<p>I agree that it&#x27;s easy to build a slow, batch based build system and just tell people that&#x27;s how it is. Fast iteration is important and requires effort to keep working. It might even be more important than a static type system, at least for some apps. But you can have both.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>falcolas</author><text>This has not been my experience with strongly and statically typed systems. The biggest problem is the coding is not fast; especially if you make a change that requires &quot;shaking the tree&quot;. Turnaround to me is as much about the code you write as it is the results you get from that code.<p>For example, I start my program thinking that I need a duck for all of my various waterfowl systems. However, four days into the coding process, I realize I need to allow for an ugly duckling to be passed around as well. Now I have four days worth of code to comb through and re-type. I could just use a refactoring tool to change all of the existing &#x27;duck&#x27; types, but some of that code actually does need a duck, and won&#x27;t work with an ugly duckling. So I have to come up with a more abstract type which can encompass both an ugly duckling and a duck, and refactor that into my program.<p>Eventually my code will be correct again, at least until I realize that a platypus needs to be included into my now-renamed aquatic_ecosystem as well.<p>The nice thing about strong and dynamically typed systems - I just start treating the incoming object as what I need it to be. No error chasing, no wading through four days worth of code. Yes, I&#x27;m more likely to have incorrect code, and it&#x27;s probably going to show up while the code is running, and not before. Many times, that&#x27;s a tradeoff I&#x27;m willing to accept.<p>My ideal system? I don&#x27;t think at all about types. I just write code, and the (still fast) compiler will tell me when I&#x27;m passing something that doesn&#x27;t quack to a function which expects quacks.</text></comment> | <story><title>Fun vs. Computer Science (2016)</title><url>http://prog21.dadgum.com/221.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>hesselink</author><text>I feel like this is a false dichotomy: you can have a fast iteration cycle, <i>and</i> have statically checked guarantees. I&#x27;ve worked in Haskell for 7 years and had exactly this. I could load my entire app in GHCi, make changes, reload and test. Now I&#x27;m working in Java and in IntelliJ I can have something similar with hot-swap. And in the browser with typescript I have a strong type-system and can reload my app in seconds.<p>I agree that it&#x27;s easy to build a slow, batch based build system and just tell people that&#x27;s how it is. Fast iteration is important and requires effort to keep working. It might even be more important than a static type system, at least for some apps. But you can have both.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>CJefferson</author><text>One very common complaint I&#x27;ve heard about Haskell is slow compile times, see this discussion for example with a bunch of GHC developers:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;haskell&#x2F;comments&#x2F;45q90s&#x2F;is_anything_being_done_to_remedy_the_soul&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;haskell&#x2F;comments&#x2F;45q90s&#x2F;is_anything...</a></text></comment> |
26,251,683 | 26,251,588 | 1 | 3 | 26,250,854 | train | <story><title>Money Creation: 344% in the Last 12mo (Fed, M1, $)</title><url>https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/M1NS</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rootusrootus</author><text>Perhaps worth reading along with this:
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;fredblog.stlouisfed.org&#x2F;2021&#x2F;01&#x2F;whats-behind-the-recent-surge-in-the-m1-money-supply&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;fredblog.stlouisfed.org&#x2F;2021&#x2F;01&#x2F;whats-behind-the-rec...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jnwatson</author><text>The important bit: &quot;According to this ruling, if a bank suspends enforcement of the six-transfer limit on a savings deposit, the bank may report that account as a “transaction account” on its FR 2900 reports.&quot;<p>This is just a reclassification artifact. Savings accounts were M2 before, M1 now. No news here.</text></comment> | <story><title>Money Creation: 344% in the Last 12mo (Fed, M1, $)</title><url>https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/M1NS</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rootusrootus</author><text>Perhaps worth reading along with this:
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;fredblog.stlouisfed.org&#x2F;2021&#x2F;01&#x2F;whats-behind-the-recent-surge-in-the-m1-money-supply&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;fredblog.stlouisfed.org&#x2F;2021&#x2F;01&#x2F;whats-behind-the-rec...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>PragmaticPulp</author><text>Key context:<p>&gt; This suggests that the rapid acceleration in M1 since May 2020 is mainly from money moving out of the non-M1 components of M2 into M1, rather than reflecting any acceleration in the demand for transaction balances.</text></comment> |
10,501,894 | 10,500,789 | 1 | 3 | 10,500,488 | train | <story><title>The Road to 2M Websocket Connections in Phoenix</title><url>http://www.phoenixframework.org/v1.0.0/blog/the-road-to-2-million-websocket-connections</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>polskibus</author><text>Great job Phoenix team! I wonder how much of this wouldn&#x27;t even be possible if not for the great BEAM platform and Cowboy web server.<p>Whatsapp famously works with 2m connections on a FreeBSD box (this number is old, I bet they&#x27;ve beaten that number).
<a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;highscalability.com&#x2F;blog&#x2F;2014&#x2F;2&#x2F;26&#x2F;the-whatsapp-architecture-facebook-bought-for-19-billion.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;highscalability.com&#x2F;blog&#x2F;2014&#x2F;2&#x2F;26&#x2F;the-whatsapp-archi...</a><p>I wonder whether these two cases are in any way comparable. Different stacks, different machines, different test. The only similarity being BEAM&#x2F;Erlang used as a platform. Speaks well of its scalability!</text></comment> | <story><title>The Road to 2M Websocket Connections in Phoenix</title><url>http://www.phoenixframework.org/v1.0.0/blog/the-road-to-2-million-websocket-connections</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>chrismccord</author><text>My ElixirConfEU keynote gave a high-level overview of the channels design for those interested - quick jump to place in presentation:
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;u21S_vq5CTw?t=22m34s" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;u21S_vq5CTw?t=22m34s</a><p>I&#x27;m also happy to answer any other questions. The team is very excited about our channel and pubsub layers progress over the last year.</text></comment> |
19,945,208 | 19,945,251 | 1 | 3 | 19,944,510 | train | <story><title>Federated Learning</title><url>https://federated.withgoogle.com/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ahelwer</author><text>All right, I&#x27;m cynical as all heck about ad companies and privacy, but this has me optimistic. Somebody disillusion me, why shouldn&#x27;t I be optimistic?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>cavisne</author><text>Well the cynical view would be.<p>1) This still lets you have personalized models, just trained on more than 1 user, thats fine at google&#x27;s scale anyway<p>2) Their competitors (FB, AMZN) dont have the edge compute (Android) to do this, and to a lesser degree don&#x27;t have the ML stack (however Android implements this at the API level will be very Tensorflow focused)<p>3) Now google can push for privacy regulations that prevent FB and AMZN from storing your raw data<p>4) Profit<p>That said theres nothing stopping FB doing federated learning within their app on mobile, I just don&#x27;t think they have the privacy background to bother.</text></comment> | <story><title>Federated Learning</title><url>https://federated.withgoogle.com/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ahelwer</author><text>All right, I&#x27;m cynical as all heck about ad companies and privacy, but this has me optimistic. Somebody disillusion me, why shouldn&#x27;t I be optimistic?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nixpulvis</author><text>Well the skeptic in me doesn&#x27;t want <i>my</i> model touched by other peoples models.<p>Of course it depends on the application... For example, I might not want my keyboard autocomplete learning from others, but I might want my self driving car to do it.<p>For applications where we want a common model, I see no other way to do it but this. The idea companies collect massive stockpiles of data forever is infeasible.</text></comment> |
15,447,824 | 15,447,660 | 1 | 2 | 15,447,305 | train | <story><title>A Surprise from the Supervolcano Under Yellowstone</title><url>https://nytimes.com/2017/10/10/science/yellowstone-volcano-eruption.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>njarboe</author><text>Caldera collapse volcanic eruptions the size of Yellowstone occurr at random intervals, not periodically every 100,000 years, as the article states. The last big one was the Toba eruption in Indonesia about 72,000 years ago. That one almost killed off the human race.<p>The Long Valley Caldera in California became more active in the 1970&#x27;s. If this study&#x27;s conclusions hold up under investigation and it only takes a few decades of activity before a &quot;supervolcano&quot; can erupt, we should monitor these caldera a bit more closely.</text></comment> | <story><title>A Surprise from the Supervolcano Under Yellowstone</title><url>https://nytimes.com/2017/10/10/science/yellowstone-volcano-eruption.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>mikeytown2</author><text>Summary: super volcanoes can go from dormant to erupting in a human lifetime; previous estimates were it took much longer.</text></comment> |
3,334,751 | 3,333,607 | 1 | 3 | 3,333,158 | train | <story><title>JQuery plugins site accidentally deleted - last backup one year old.</title><url>http://blog.jquery.com/2011/12/08/what-is-happening-to-the-jquery-plugins-site/#pluginstldr</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jasonkester</author><text>One rule to live by:<p><i>Never use 3rd party javascript</i><p>In the 15-odd years I've been doing client-side web development, I've seen precisely one piece of script on the internet that worked as advertised and was durable enough to consider including in one my projects. That exception to the rule is jQuery itself.<p>jQuery <i>plugins</i>, however, exemplify that golden rule. Every time I've tried to use one (being a hopeless optimist and breaking my own rule), I've been bitten hard and ended up either rewriting it from scratch or spending more time trying to get it to work in a reliable manner than it would have taken to rewrite it from scratch.<p>I have no idea why this has to be the case, but it is. Javascript you find on the internet is worse than worthless. As such, while it's a shame they lost their plugin site, we're all probably a little better off for having to write our own stuff for a while.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tptacek</author><text>That sounds like an excuse for NIH. It's an easy one to make because there are so. many. bad. jquery. "plugins". But there are also excellent ones; for instance, it seems like a big waste of time to replace jQuery Cycle. Similarly, I'm 50/50 on implementing dynamic tables by hand and using DataTables, but it seems silly to say "never use DataTables".</text></comment> | <story><title>JQuery plugins site accidentally deleted - last backup one year old.</title><url>http://blog.jquery.com/2011/12/08/what-is-happening-to-the-jquery-plugins-site/#pluginstldr</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jasonkester</author><text>One rule to live by:<p><i>Never use 3rd party javascript</i><p>In the 15-odd years I've been doing client-side web development, I've seen precisely one piece of script on the internet that worked as advertised and was durable enough to consider including in one my projects. That exception to the rule is jQuery itself.<p>jQuery <i>plugins</i>, however, exemplify that golden rule. Every time I've tried to use one (being a hopeless optimist and breaking my own rule), I've been bitten hard and ended up either rewriting it from scratch or spending more time trying to get it to work in a reliable manner than it would have taken to rewrite it from scratch.<p>I have no idea why this has to be the case, but it is. Javascript you find on the internet is worse than worthless. As such, while it's a shame they lost their plugin site, we're all probably a little better off for having to write our own stuff for a while.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rufugee</author><text>That's an incredibly broad brush you're painting with there. I've used things like jqgrid and datatables for years now with great success.</text></comment> |
18,009,119 | 18,007,211 | 1 | 2 | 17,997,911 | train | <story><title>C64 OS: A Commodore 64 OS with Modern Concepts</title><url>http://c64os.com/c64os</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Flow</author><text>Here&#x27;s a video of a classic Mac OS style UI running on 1.79MHz Atari 8-bit computers. I find this to be a very very impressive feat.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=T14dL9MeMHE" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=T14dL9MeMHE</a><p>Speed-wise this appear to me to be about the same speed 8MHz 68000 Mac SE did run it&#x27;s graphics.</text></comment> | <story><title>C64 OS: A Commodore 64 OS with Modern Concepts</title><url>http://c64os.com/c64os</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>billpg</author><text>At which point have you just replaced so much hardware that you&#x27;ve just got a modern PC on your desk?</text></comment> |
19,776,649 | 19,776,592 | 1 | 2 | 19,755,326 | train | <story><title>How the dream of cheap streaming television became a pricey, complicated mess</title><url>https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2019/04/13/how-dream-cheap-streaming-television-became-pricey-complicated-mess/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>gambiting</author><text>What would you call it then? Otherwise it&#x27;s just entitlement to something because you can&#x27;t buy it - &quot;oh look, this movie is not available to purchase in my country, I guess I&#x27;m getting it for free!&quot;. It&#x27;s not anyone&#x27;s god-given right to be able to get every media ever released - if it&#x27;s not available in your market then either import it, or....don&#x27;t get it?</text></item><item><author>TheSpiceIsLife</author><text>Without some very disingenuous mental gymnastics it can&#x27;t possible count as piracy if you were never able to purchase the media in the first place.</text></item><item><author>kyriakos</author><text>Piracy is also fueled by availability. As long as licensing agreements prohibit a uniform release schedule for movies and TV series Worldwide people will try to pirate.<p>If I am not living in the US and want to watch a hulu series I have zero choice but to pirate it or use a shady vpn.</text></item><item><author>gregmac</author><text>After a marked decrease, piracy appears to be on the rise again [1]. The timing coincides with the peak content availability of Netflix, and then the fragmentation as every studio decided they needed to build their own streaming service.<p>It&#x27;s kind of frustrating to see how close things came to actually getting to the ideal (imho, anyway): any show, streamed on demand, on any device, for a reasonable fee. Instead, the studios are going to try to compete on content - which is not really competition. I don&#x27;t care what studio makes funny_show (either when deciding what to subscribe to, or when trying to figure out what app to launch to watch it), I just want to watch it. I don&#x27;t want to watch similar_but_not_as_good_knock_off on another service.<p>What&#x27;s crazy is the seemingly unstoppable train wreck the industry is currently involved in. It&#x27;s bad enough to not only see what the music industry was forced into (which is basically ideal for consumers, at least without dismantling the entire way music is produced), but the movie industry already went through this a half century ago, when theaters used to be owned by the studios and only show their own exclusive movies [2].<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.maketecheasier.com&#x2F;internet-piracy-is-on-the-rise&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.maketecheasier.com&#x2F;internet-piracy-is-on-the-ris...</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;United_States_v._Paramount_Pictures,_Inc" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;United_States_v._Paramount_P...</a>.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>DanBC</author><text>&gt; if it&#x27;s not available in your market then either import it,<p>You&#x27;re saying this is the moral and legal option, but the copyright holders lobbied hard to make this illegal. That&#x27;s why there are no stores in my country offering imported DVDs for sale. It&#x27;s illegal to import these if you&#x27;re a business. I have to go to a foreign company and import the disc strictly for personal use.<p>So, I get a DVD &#x2F; BluRay from a different region. How do I play this? The shop where I bought the player is forbidden, by law, from telling me how to convert my player into a multi-region player.<p>People aren&#x27;t saying &quot;I want this for free&quot;. They&#x27;re saying &quot;allow me to pay for it&quot;. They&#x27;re also saying &quot;the easier it is to pay for something the more people will pay for it&quot;.</text></comment> | <story><title>How the dream of cheap streaming television became a pricey, complicated mess</title><url>https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2019/04/13/how-dream-cheap-streaming-television-became-pricey-complicated-mess/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>gambiting</author><text>What would you call it then? Otherwise it&#x27;s just entitlement to something because you can&#x27;t buy it - &quot;oh look, this movie is not available to purchase in my country, I guess I&#x27;m getting it for free!&quot;. It&#x27;s not anyone&#x27;s god-given right to be able to get every media ever released - if it&#x27;s not available in your market then either import it, or....don&#x27;t get it?</text></item><item><author>TheSpiceIsLife</author><text>Without some very disingenuous mental gymnastics it can&#x27;t possible count as piracy if you were never able to purchase the media in the first place.</text></item><item><author>kyriakos</author><text>Piracy is also fueled by availability. As long as licensing agreements prohibit a uniform release schedule for movies and TV series Worldwide people will try to pirate.<p>If I am not living in the US and want to watch a hulu series I have zero choice but to pirate it or use a shady vpn.</text></item><item><author>gregmac</author><text>After a marked decrease, piracy appears to be on the rise again [1]. The timing coincides with the peak content availability of Netflix, and then the fragmentation as every studio decided they needed to build their own streaming service.<p>It&#x27;s kind of frustrating to see how close things came to actually getting to the ideal (imho, anyway): any show, streamed on demand, on any device, for a reasonable fee. Instead, the studios are going to try to compete on content - which is not really competition. I don&#x27;t care what studio makes funny_show (either when deciding what to subscribe to, or when trying to figure out what app to launch to watch it), I just want to watch it. I don&#x27;t want to watch similar_but_not_as_good_knock_off on another service.<p>What&#x27;s crazy is the seemingly unstoppable train wreck the industry is currently involved in. It&#x27;s bad enough to not only see what the music industry was forced into (which is basically ideal for consumers, at least without dismantling the entire way music is produced), but the movie industry already went through this a half century ago, when theaters used to be owned by the studios and only show their own exclusive movies [2].<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.maketecheasier.com&#x2F;internet-piracy-is-on-the-rise&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.maketecheasier.com&#x2F;internet-piracy-is-on-the-ris...</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;United_States_v._Paramount_Pictures,_Inc" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;United_States_v._Paramount_P...</a>.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>chii</author><text>&gt; It&#x27;s not anyone&#x27;s god-given right to be able to get every media ever released<p>participating in culture is required by many, esp. the young. If they can&#x27;t easily get it via a legitimate means, piracy is the default.<p>Not watching it is not an option.</text></comment> |
24,620,052 | 24,620,184 | 1 | 2 | 24,618,031 | train | <story><title>TSMC to Mass Produce Breakthrough 2nm Mbcfet Transistors in 2024</title><url>https://wccftech.com/ssmc-mass-produce-2nm-2024/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jmt_</author><text>Can someone ELI5 how TSMC is able to produce sub-7nm chips? I know quantum tunneling and the like becomes an issue at this size. I don&#x27;t have a great physics background so I&#x27;m struggling to find a simple enough explanation for how they are dealing with this. Is it not as big a deal as I may think?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Nokinside</author><text>The number 7nm 5nm etc. ceased to refer anything physical after the technology moved on from planar transistors. Now it&#x27;s just a commercial name for a generation.<p>The most important dimensions are the gate pitch and metal pitch. For TSMC&#x27;s 7nm process they are something like 60 and 40 nm and go down in the future to something like 30 nm and 20 nm in the 2nm process. Fin width might be the closest thing to commercial name.<p>They are not even comparable across companies. For example, TSMC 7nm process technology has 91 MTr&#x2F;mm², Intel&#x27;s 10 nm prosess technology has 100 MTr&#x2F;mm². Samsung 10nm has 52 MTr&#x2F;mm². (MTr&#x2F;mm² refers to millions of transistors per mm²).</text></comment> | <story><title>TSMC to Mass Produce Breakthrough 2nm Mbcfet Transistors in 2024</title><url>https://wccftech.com/ssmc-mass-produce-2nm-2024/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jmt_</author><text>Can someone ELI5 how TSMC is able to produce sub-7nm chips? I know quantum tunneling and the like becomes an issue at this size. I don&#x27;t have a great physics background so I&#x27;m struggling to find a simple enough explanation for how they are dealing with this. Is it not as big a deal as I may think?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>robert_dipaolo</author><text>der8auer recently did a 3 part video on YouTube where he cut up AMD and Intel chips and looked at the transistors with an electron microscope. It sheads some light on meaning (or non-meaning) of the node names. Is also really interesting;<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;uEMDkbF3hu0" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;uEMDkbF3hu0</a>
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;uXu_1zXOZdY" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;uXu_1zXOZdY</a>
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;_wAeL3f3iV4" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;_wAeL3f3iV4</a></text></comment> |
35,198,917 | 35,197,450 | 1 | 3 | 35,193,188 | train | <story><title>Testing GPT 4's code-writing capabilities with some real world problems</title><url>https://tylerglaiel.substack.com/p/can-gpt-4-actually-write-code</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>vages</author><text>If increased productivity equaled job loss, there would be two programmers alive today, doing the same job as the fewer than 10000 programmers using punch cards as we entered the year 1950.<p>A lot of projects today are not even greenlit because they would be too expensive to make. For instance, there are a lot processes in almost every country that require you to file paper forms, even though we have had web forms and databases for 25 years. This goes even for rich countries. If one programmer is able to do the job of 5 others, we will probably have 5 times as many systems to tend to now that businesses and institutions can afford them.</text></item><item><author>IKLOL</author><text>I think the fear should be less about AI taking 100% of jobs but it should be AI making a single programmer do the job of 5, which would wipe a majority of the market out and make it a non-viable career option for most.<p>Companies are already bloated, imagine when they realize one overworked highly paid senior can replace 10 juniors.</text></item><item><author>quitit</author><text>This is so common in many types of business, and usually a very difficult point to articulate so thank you for that. It&#x27;s something to be shown to those ringing the death-knell for programmers, artists, and the like.<p>Those death-knell types seemingly aren&#x27;t aware of what day to day operations looks like and how AI makes a great tool, but doesn&#x27;t necessarily deal with the very human factors of whims, uncertainty, reactive business mentalities and the phenomenon that is best summarised by this webcomic: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;theoatmeal.com&#x2F;comics&#x2F;design_hell" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;theoatmeal.com&#x2F;comics&#x2F;design_hell</a><p>In my field they like to call this &quot;hurry up and wait&quot;, a nonsensical but fitting description that summarises everything from changing scope to the unjust imbalance of time between the principal and the agent.<p>(There is a comment further down which suggests that we could just train AI to deal with this variability, I hope that&#x27;s humour... sweet summer child thinks you can train AI to predict the future.)</text></item><item><author>danwee</author><text>I want to see GPT-4 dealing with this situation:<p>- they: we need a new basic POST endpoint<p>- us: cool, what does the api contract look like? URL? Query params? Payload? Response? Status code?<p>- they: Not sure. Third-party company XXQ will let you know the details. They will be the ones calling this new endpoint. But in essence it should be very simple: just grab whatever they pass and save it in our db<p>- us: ok, cool. Let me get in contact with them<p>- ... one week later...<p>- company XXQ: we got this contract here: &lt;contract_json&gt;<p>- us: thanks! We&#x27;ll work on this<p>- ... 2 days later...<p>- us: umm, there&#x27;s something not specified in &lt;contract_json&gt;. What about this part here that says that...<p>- ... 2 days later...<p>- company XXQ: ah sure, sorry we missed that part. It&#x27;s like this...<p>- ...and so on...<p>Basically, 99% of the effort is NOT WRITING CODE. It&#x27;s all about communication with people, and problem solving. If we use GPT-X in our company, it will help us with 1% of our workload. So, I couldn&#x27;t care less about it.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>_fizz_buzz_</author><text>This is true for other domains also. My wife translates for an ecommerce business. A lot of what she does is very automated. The software she uses remembers all phrases she has translated and uses a word bank she manages for special parts and uses DeepL for new translations which are then only proofread and fine tuned. It&#x27;s amazing how much stuff she can translate that way in a day (no idea how many thousands words). She is kind of managing and overseeing an AI (DeepL) and sanity checking the work. If this was 20 years ago one would probably need a translation department of 10-15 people to do the same work. However, her company would have never been able to justify that kind of cost. So, in my view: Software and AI made translators probably more than 10x more efficient in the last 10 years, however the amount of stuff that gets translated also increased 10 fold during this time.</text></comment> | <story><title>Testing GPT 4's code-writing capabilities with some real world problems</title><url>https://tylerglaiel.substack.com/p/can-gpt-4-actually-write-code</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>vages</author><text>If increased productivity equaled job loss, there would be two programmers alive today, doing the same job as the fewer than 10000 programmers using punch cards as we entered the year 1950.<p>A lot of projects today are not even greenlit because they would be too expensive to make. For instance, there are a lot processes in almost every country that require you to file paper forms, even though we have had web forms and databases for 25 years. This goes even for rich countries. If one programmer is able to do the job of 5 others, we will probably have 5 times as many systems to tend to now that businesses and institutions can afford them.</text></item><item><author>IKLOL</author><text>I think the fear should be less about AI taking 100% of jobs but it should be AI making a single programmer do the job of 5, which would wipe a majority of the market out and make it a non-viable career option for most.<p>Companies are already bloated, imagine when they realize one overworked highly paid senior can replace 10 juniors.</text></item><item><author>quitit</author><text>This is so common in many types of business, and usually a very difficult point to articulate so thank you for that. It&#x27;s something to be shown to those ringing the death-knell for programmers, artists, and the like.<p>Those death-knell types seemingly aren&#x27;t aware of what day to day operations looks like and how AI makes a great tool, but doesn&#x27;t necessarily deal with the very human factors of whims, uncertainty, reactive business mentalities and the phenomenon that is best summarised by this webcomic: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;theoatmeal.com&#x2F;comics&#x2F;design_hell" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;theoatmeal.com&#x2F;comics&#x2F;design_hell</a><p>In my field they like to call this &quot;hurry up and wait&quot;, a nonsensical but fitting description that summarises everything from changing scope to the unjust imbalance of time between the principal and the agent.<p>(There is a comment further down which suggests that we could just train AI to deal with this variability, I hope that&#x27;s humour... sweet summer child thinks you can train AI to predict the future.)</text></item><item><author>danwee</author><text>I want to see GPT-4 dealing with this situation:<p>- they: we need a new basic POST endpoint<p>- us: cool, what does the api contract look like? URL? Query params? Payload? Response? Status code?<p>- they: Not sure. Third-party company XXQ will let you know the details. They will be the ones calling this new endpoint. But in essence it should be very simple: just grab whatever they pass and save it in our db<p>- us: ok, cool. Let me get in contact with them<p>- ... one week later...<p>- company XXQ: we got this contract here: &lt;contract_json&gt;<p>- us: thanks! We&#x27;ll work on this<p>- ... 2 days later...<p>- us: umm, there&#x27;s something not specified in &lt;contract_json&gt;. What about this part here that says that...<p>- ... 2 days later...<p>- company XXQ: ah sure, sorry we missed that part. It&#x27;s like this...<p>- ...and so on...<p>Basically, 99% of the effort is NOT WRITING CODE. It&#x27;s all about communication with people, and problem solving. If we use GPT-X in our company, it will help us with 1% of our workload. So, I couldn&#x27;t care less about it.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>coldtea</author><text>&gt;<i>If increased productivity equaled job loss there would be two programmers alive today, doing the same job as the fewer than 10000 programmers using punch cards as we entered the year 1950.</i><p>The only reason it&#x27;s not the case in this example is because computers at the time were a tiny early adopter niche, which massively multiplied and expanded to other areas. Like, only 1 in 10,000 businesses would have one in 1950, and only big firms would. Heck, then 1 in 100 million people even had a computer.<p>Today they&#x27;ve already done that expansion into all businesses and all areas of corporate, commerce, and leisure activities. Now almost everybody has one (or a comparable device in their pocket).<p>Already cloud based systems have made it so that a fraction of programmers and admins are needed. In some cases eliminating the need for one altogether.<p>There are tons of other fields, however, more mature, where increased productivity very much equaled job loss...</text></comment> |
5,662,767 | 5,661,821 | 1 | 3 | 5,660,770 | train | <story><title>Five Hundred and Seven Mechanical Movements (1868)</title><url>http://books.google.com/books?id=vOhIAAAAMAAJ&pg=PR1#v=onepage&q&f=false</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>pavel_lishin</author><text>Of interest is also 507movements.com, which is trying to provide animated versions of the movements.<p>Most aren't done yet, of course, but as you click through, you can find some interesting ones:<p><a href="http://507movements.com/mm_038.html" rel="nofollow">http://507movements.com/mm_038.html</a>
<a href="http://507movements.com/mm_123.html" rel="nofollow">http://507movements.com/mm_123.html</a>
<a href="http://507movements.com/mm_223.html" rel="nofollow">http://507movements.com/mm_223.html</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Five Hundred and Seven Mechanical Movements (1868)</title><url>http://books.google.com/books?id=vOhIAAAAMAAJ&pg=PR1#v=onepage&q&f=false</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>gnu8</author><text>It's baffling that Google requires a captcha to download this book, which prevents anyone (actually no one) from efficiently downloading all of these books, and that google adds a ridiculous page to the front, self-servingly begging the reader not to remove, but really just serving as an ad for Google. I'm not saying Google doesn't deserve credit for digitizing these, but they should not be restricting access or defacing the book. The book is public domain and belongs to everyone. It's not more content for them to use to drive ad revenue. So much for "don't be evil".</text></comment> |
22,866,617 | 22,866,385 | 1 | 2 | 22,861,129 | train | <story><title>William Gibson says today’s internet is nothing like what he envisioned</title><url>https://www.npr.org/2020/03/19/810570879/william-gibson-says-todays-internet-is-nothing-like-what-he-envisioned</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Nasrudith</author><text>There were also gameplay reasons behind that for flow. One of the criticisms of the newer model is that the needless connectivity without so much as a logistical benefit doesn&#x27;t make the decker&#x2F;hacker feel smart so much as make it feel like the world is set up by colossal idiots who would think giving the army hand grenades which are always remote detonatable without a manual safety fuse would be an excellent idea and be utterly shocked that their entire army got blown up by one hacker.</text></item><item><author>mcv</author><text>&gt; <i>&quot;the internet when he first conceived it, he thought it was a place that we would all leave the world and go to. Whereas in fact, it came here.&quot;</i><p>Somehow this reminds me of the difference between various editions of <i>Shadowrun</i>, a cyberpunk-fantasy rolepalying game in a dystopian near future where magic and dragons returned (though the magic is irrelevant to my point here).<p>In the earlier editions, from 1989 through the 1990s and early 2000s, the Matrix (their &#x27;internet&#x27;) was all virtual reality, and the &#x27;Decker&#x27; using it would disappear into that world and barely interact with the rest of the team.<p>In more recent editions, written after smartphones and wireless internet became common, <i>everything</i> was connected. Everything is connected to the Matrix. In combat, a Decker can hack the opponents&#x27; guns to disable them, for example. It&#x27;s not a world to disappear into; that world has come to the physical world and merged with it.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>naravara</author><text>I think this was done as much for gameplay flow as anything else. The main criticism of the older model was that you had to manage combat in 3 separate, and only mildly overlapping, planes which made combat a time-consuming pain to track. Lots of playgroups would discourage people from playing deckers or mages just so they wouldn&#x27;t have to deal with astral plane&#x2F;matrix stuff.</text></comment> | <story><title>William Gibson says today’s internet is nothing like what he envisioned</title><url>https://www.npr.org/2020/03/19/810570879/william-gibson-says-todays-internet-is-nothing-like-what-he-envisioned</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Nasrudith</author><text>There were also gameplay reasons behind that for flow. One of the criticisms of the newer model is that the needless connectivity without so much as a logistical benefit doesn&#x27;t make the decker&#x2F;hacker feel smart so much as make it feel like the world is set up by colossal idiots who would think giving the army hand grenades which are always remote detonatable without a manual safety fuse would be an excellent idea and be utterly shocked that their entire army got blown up by one hacker.</text></item><item><author>mcv</author><text>&gt; <i>&quot;the internet when he first conceived it, he thought it was a place that we would all leave the world and go to. Whereas in fact, it came here.&quot;</i><p>Somehow this reminds me of the difference between various editions of <i>Shadowrun</i>, a cyberpunk-fantasy rolepalying game in a dystopian near future where magic and dragons returned (though the magic is irrelevant to my point here).<p>In the earlier editions, from 1989 through the 1990s and early 2000s, the Matrix (their &#x27;internet&#x27;) was all virtual reality, and the &#x27;Decker&#x27; using it would disappear into that world and barely interact with the rest of the team.<p>In more recent editions, written after smartphones and wireless internet became common, <i>everything</i> was connected. Everything is connected to the Matrix. In combat, a Decker can hack the opponents&#x27; guns to disable them, for example. It&#x27;s not a world to disappear into; that world has come to the physical world and merged with it.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ses1984</author><text>Whoever paid for that grenade doesn&#x27;t trust the soldier &#x2F; mercenary they gave it to very far, that&#x27;s why the network connection exists in the first place, hackers can exploit that.<p>At least that&#x27;s the reason I just made up.</text></comment> |
12,949,854 | 12,948,078 | 1 | 3 | 12,947,551 | train | <story><title>A man who created a tiny country he can no longer enter</title><url>http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-37941931</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>igor_varga</author><text>As someone who grew up and lived very close to that area I find this free-state territorial claim attempt deeply disturbing and here are some reasons for that.<p>Probably most important is psychological one since there was a war and violent clash between disputed sides in the 1990s and that land was claimed in very similar manner like this guy is attempting now. Coming there with such claims is very wrong and locals and authorities from both sides will be irritated by such attempts.<p>This guy&#x27;s sad interpretation of current dispute situation would be something like: there is a free piece of land and everyone is invited to claim it. That is far away from reality.
There is a dispute about that area but that doesn&#x27;t mean that it doesn&#x27;t belong to anyone and that it is not controlled. At the moment land part access is controlled by Croatian police and river access by both sides. Legally that land still belongs to Serbia and that comes from last legal border agreement between two sides which is constitution document of Yugoslavia dating from 1974. Borders between countries were defined back then very precisely but that document is subject of dispute from 1990s till now. Dispute and border changes were caused by war, politics and riverbed changes.<p>Both river and land were used for years by locals as a result of agreement between disputed sides in order enable local population to access that area without too much hassle by the border police.<p>Now, thanks to this idiot, locals are banned from using it any more. Besides collecting a lot of money for his agenda from similar people like him around the world, that is the only concrete result of his actions.</text></comment> | <story><title>A man who created a tiny country he can no longer enter</title><url>http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-37941931</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>walrus01</author><text>For a recent (within the last 100 years) example of Terra Nullius, look at Svalbard and the Svalbard treaty. Any citizen of a signatory to the treaty is entitled to live there. In practice it&#x27;s kind of hard to do, since there&#x27;s not much economic activity up there and logistics&#x2F;transport costs and energy costs makes everything very expensive. But theoretically an Afghan citizen could move to Svalbard freely.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Svalbard_Treaty" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Svalbard_Treaty</a><p>also, no, it does not have any armored polar bears.</text></comment> |
15,845,108 | 15,844,988 | 1 | 3 | 15,828,514 | train | <story><title>Never edit a method, always rewrite it?</title><url>https://dave.cheney.net/2017/11/30/never-edit-a-method-always-rewrite-it</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>JulianMorrison</author><text>It has been my experience that after a substantial period of being in real use, methods embody tacit knowledge about the problem domain that isn&#x27;t necessarily evident from their public interface. Because initially they didn&#x27;t embody that, and it caused bugs, so people edited in fixes.<p>It has been my experience that rewrites from scratch typically lose all this tacit knowledge and re-implement the original bugs.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>DavidWoof</author><text>That&#x27;s sort of the point of the suggestion, I think. If you <i>always</i> rewrite from scratch rather than edit, this sort of tacit knowledge won&#x27;t get embedded undocumented and untested into the middle of a function.<p>This is sort of the great contradiction of software development. Untested legacy software is hard to work with. So should our focus be on how to work with legacy software or how not to create it in the first place? There&#x27;s really no answer to that.</text></comment> | <story><title>Never edit a method, always rewrite it?</title><url>https://dave.cheney.net/2017/11/30/never-edit-a-method-always-rewrite-it</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>JulianMorrison</author><text>It has been my experience that after a substantial period of being in real use, methods embody tacit knowledge about the problem domain that isn&#x27;t necessarily evident from their public interface. Because initially they didn&#x27;t embody that, and it caused bugs, so people edited in fixes.<p>It has been my experience that rewrites from scratch typically lose all this tacit knowledge and re-implement the original bugs.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dionidium</author><text>This is the central argument in this famous piece by Joel Spolsky:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.joelonsoftware.com&#x2F;2000&#x2F;04&#x2F;06&#x2F;things-you-should-never-do-part-i&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.joelonsoftware.com&#x2F;2000&#x2F;04&#x2F;06&#x2F;things-you-should-...</a><p>To wit:<p>&quot;<i>Back to that two page function. Yes, I know, it’s just a simple function to display a window, but it has grown little hairs and stuff on it and nobody knows why. Well, I’ll tell you why: those are bug fixes. One of them fixes that bug that Nancy had when she tried to install the thing on a computer that didn’t have Internet Explorer. Another one fixes that bug that occurs in low memory conditions. Another one fixes that bug that occurred when the file is on a floppy disk and the user yanks out the disk in the middle. That LoadLibrary call is ugly but it makes the code work on old versions of Windows 95.</i>&quot;</text></comment> |
8,108,948 | 8,108,961 | 1 | 2 | 8,107,193 | train | <story><title>Tor security advisory: “relay early” traffic confirmation attack</title><url>https://blog.torproject.org/blog/tor-security-advisory-relay-early-traffic-confirmation-attack</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>scottalpert</author><text>First rule of security: There is no perfect security. You need a multilayered strategy. Tor is a start. Anonymized OSs like Tails are another aspect. Not releasing personal info on the web -- to the extent you can do that -- is another.</text></comment> | <story><title>Tor security advisory: “relay early” traffic confirmation attack</title><url>https://blog.torproject.org/blog/tor-security-advisory-relay-early-traffic-confirmation-attack</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Udo</author><text>Is this problem even solvable on a fundamental level?<p>Of course, they can work on preventing nodes forwarding hidden header information, but an entity with global network insight will always be able to correlate users by the timing of their transmissions alone.<p>The introduction of malicious nodes is a workable option for lesser players. But hidden in the realtime nature of the Tor network is always the possibility of deanonymizing users if you&#x27;re a powerful agency that can afford to inspect a sufficiently large part of all network traffic - they don&#x27;t even have to run any nodes themselves.</text></comment> |
28,760,201 | 28,760,009 | 1 | 3 | 28,759,181 | train | <story><title>Firefox 93</title><url>https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/93.0/releasenotes/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>kongin</author><text>Edge is a chrome skin. They don&#x27;t have engineers working on a browser, they have engineers working on a _theme_.</text></item><item><author>BitwiseFool</author><text>&gt;&quot;hire a full development team that can hopefully catch up and overtake Chrome?&quot;<p>In an ideal world the best browser would win but marketshare doesn&#x27;t work that way.<p>Microsoft has full time development teams working on Edge and it is just barely chipping away at chrome&#x27;s dominance. And, in no small part because they pester Windows users to make Edge the default at every opportunity.</text></item><item><author>akie</author><text>Give me a way to pay for Firefox, please, and use the proceeds to hire a full development team that can hopefully catch up and overtake Chrome? Please?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jve</author><text>They actually contribute to chromium. Almost a year old tweet: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;ericlaw&#x2F;status&#x2F;1329200077517295618?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1329200077517295618%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&amp;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fmspoweruser.com%2Fmicrosoft-touts-their-contributions-to-chromium-development%2F" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;ericlaw&#x2F;status&#x2F;1329200077517295618?ref_s...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Firefox 93</title><url>https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/93.0/releasenotes/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>kongin</author><text>Edge is a chrome skin. They don&#x27;t have engineers working on a browser, they have engineers working on a _theme_.</text></item><item><author>BitwiseFool</author><text>&gt;&quot;hire a full development team that can hopefully catch up and overtake Chrome?&quot;<p>In an ideal world the best browser would win but marketshare doesn&#x27;t work that way.<p>Microsoft has full time development teams working on Edge and it is just barely chipping away at chrome&#x27;s dominance. And, in no small part because they pester Windows users to make Edge the default at every opportunity.</text></item><item><author>akie</author><text>Give me a way to pay for Firefox, please, and use the proceeds to hire a full development team that can hopefully catch up and overtake Chrome? Please?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Lendal</author><text>Really? So every time you bring in a dependency on a library written by someone else, your software is just a theme or wrapper? I guess that&#x27;s one way to look at it.</text></comment> |
36,782,305 | 36,782,177 | 1 | 3 | 36,781,248 | train | <story><title>ASUS to manufacture and sell Intel’s NUC products</title><url>https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/newsroom/news/intel-nuc-systems-agreement.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bfdm</author><text>I <i>have</i> been using a NUC as an HTPC for several years now and it&#x27;s great, though the comments in the previous conversation about them ending the line were right about the noise.<p>I&#x27;m in the market for a similar device to replace my dangerously past EOL desktop, and funny enough I have been circling around Asus&#x27; SFF line.</text></item><item><author>RandomBK</author><text>I find the development quite interesting, and it lends credence to the theory Intel&#x27;s NUC line was <i>technically profitable</i> (or at least not horrifically in the red), but just didn&#x27;t make strategic sense - especially from a &#x27;competing with your own customers&#x27; view.<p>While I never bought one of these NUCs myself, I&#x27;ve used quite a few deployed as thin clients and kiosk machines. Let&#x27;s see what ASUS ends up doing with the product segment.<p>More broadly, I hope the trend of selling off business units rather than closing them outright continues (Google Domains selling to Squarespace being another recent example).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>magicalhippo</author><text>&gt; about the noise<p>I&#x27;ve been thinking of getting a fanless case[1] for my Asus PN51. Akasa also makes some for Intel NUCs too[2], amongst others.<p>[1]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.akasa.com.tw&#x2F;update.php?tpl=list%2FCHASSIS+POWER.tpl&amp;type=FANLESS+CASES&amp;type_sub=AMD+Mini+PC" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.akasa.com.tw&#x2F;update.php?tpl=list%2FCHASSIS+POWER...</a><p>[2]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.akasa.com.tw&#x2F;update.php?tpl=list%2FCHASSIS+POWER.tpl&amp;type=FANLESS+CASES&amp;type_sub=Intel+NUC&amp;nuc=all&amp;generation=all" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.akasa.com.tw&#x2F;update.php?tpl=list%2FCHASSIS+POWER...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>ASUS to manufacture and sell Intel’s NUC products</title><url>https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/newsroom/news/intel-nuc-systems-agreement.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bfdm</author><text>I <i>have</i> been using a NUC as an HTPC for several years now and it&#x27;s great, though the comments in the previous conversation about them ending the line were right about the noise.<p>I&#x27;m in the market for a similar device to replace my dangerously past EOL desktop, and funny enough I have been circling around Asus&#x27; SFF line.</text></item><item><author>RandomBK</author><text>I find the development quite interesting, and it lends credence to the theory Intel&#x27;s NUC line was <i>technically profitable</i> (or at least not horrifically in the red), but just didn&#x27;t make strategic sense - especially from a &#x27;competing with your own customers&#x27; view.<p>While I never bought one of these NUCs myself, I&#x27;ve used quite a few deployed as thin clients and kiosk machines. Let&#x27;s see what ASUS ends up doing with the product segment.<p>More broadly, I hope the trend of selling off business units rather than closing them outright continues (Google Domains selling to Squarespace being another recent example).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>shaklee3</author><text>I had an htpc for over a decade in various forms. I finally just settled on the Nvidia shield reading over NFS. It&#x27;s so much better than the htpc I don&#x27;t regret it for a minute.</text></comment> |
39,459,371 | 39,459,198 | 1 | 3 | 39,453,660 | train | <story><title>iMessage with PQ3 Cryptographic Protocol</title><url>https://security.apple.com/blog/imessage-pq3/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>andy_xor_andrew</author><text>I&#x27;m way out of my depth in terms of the math here.<p>But my &#x27;software engineer brain&#x27; likes the ideal of using the prime factoring problem, because it&#x27;s so simple to understand, and feels like some kind of universal primitive. &quot;It&#x27;s easy to multiply but hard to factor.&quot; It just seems so intuitive.<p>But I&#x27;m reading the &#x27;learning with errors&#x27; wiki page and it&#x27;s beyond my comprehension.<p>There&#x27;s a weird fear in my mind that all these &quot;post quantum algorithms&quot; are so complicated, with such a large surface area, that they may hide flaws. While prime factoring, or even the elliptic key stuff, is so simple to comprehend.<p>that said, obviously the experts know what they&#x27;re doing, and I&#x27;ll use what they suggest. just saying that this thought has crossed my mind.</text></item><item><author>sandyarmstrong</author><text>This is pretty fascinating. For easier reading, the Signal blog post [0] they link to is great.<p>Both Signal and Apple went with CRYSTALS-Kyber [1] as their post-quantum algorithm. If you&#x27;re interested in the math, and maybe learned at some point about how classic public key cryptography is built on the idea that it&#x27;s easy to multiply two primes, but hard to factor them, and how this (or other math problems) can be used as a one-way function to make encryption hard to break, the hard math problem that backs Kyber is the &quot;learning-with-errors&quot; [2] problem.<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;signal.org&#x2F;blog&#x2F;pqxdh&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;signal.org&#x2F;blog&#x2F;pqxdh&#x2F;</a><p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;pq-crystals.org&#x2F;kyber&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;pq-crystals.org&#x2F;kyber&#x2F;</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Learning_with_errors" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Learning_with_errors</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>hannob</author><text>I know that thinking, but learning more about RSA, I came to realize that there&#x27;s a flipside of this.<p>People think &quot;RSA is easy&quot;, because someone gave them a lecture of a simplified&#x2F;wrong&#x2F;insecure version of RSA. Pretty much all &quot;simple introductions to RSA&quot; you can find out there are wrong.<p>The truth is: RSA isn&#x27;t that simple. If you want to have RSA, and want to have it secure, there&#x27;s a whole bunch of things to consider. But RSA looks simple.<p>So lots of people go ahead and implement their RSA. And then you end up with, hey, I can break almost a third of the top 100 webpage&#x27;s RSA implementations. (I&#x27;m not kidding, I did that -&gt; <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;robotattack.org&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;robotattack.org&#x2F;</a> .)<p>I think the fact that crystals-kyber is obviously not that simple may actually protect us. Because hopefully most peopple will end up using some hopefully well audited optimized free implementation, because they won&#x27;t even have the idea that they could do this on their own.</text></comment> | <story><title>iMessage with PQ3 Cryptographic Protocol</title><url>https://security.apple.com/blog/imessage-pq3/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>andy_xor_andrew</author><text>I&#x27;m way out of my depth in terms of the math here.<p>But my &#x27;software engineer brain&#x27; likes the ideal of using the prime factoring problem, because it&#x27;s so simple to understand, and feels like some kind of universal primitive. &quot;It&#x27;s easy to multiply but hard to factor.&quot; It just seems so intuitive.<p>But I&#x27;m reading the &#x27;learning with errors&#x27; wiki page and it&#x27;s beyond my comprehension.<p>There&#x27;s a weird fear in my mind that all these &quot;post quantum algorithms&quot; are so complicated, with such a large surface area, that they may hide flaws. While prime factoring, or even the elliptic key stuff, is so simple to comprehend.<p>that said, obviously the experts know what they&#x27;re doing, and I&#x27;ll use what they suggest. just saying that this thought has crossed my mind.</text></item><item><author>sandyarmstrong</author><text>This is pretty fascinating. For easier reading, the Signal blog post [0] they link to is great.<p>Both Signal and Apple went with CRYSTALS-Kyber [1] as their post-quantum algorithm. If you&#x27;re interested in the math, and maybe learned at some point about how classic public key cryptography is built on the idea that it&#x27;s easy to multiply two primes, but hard to factor them, and how this (or other math problems) can be used as a one-way function to make encryption hard to break, the hard math problem that backs Kyber is the &quot;learning-with-errors&quot; [2] problem.<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;signal.org&#x2F;blog&#x2F;pqxdh&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;signal.org&#x2F;blog&#x2F;pqxdh&#x2F;</a><p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;pq-crystals.org&#x2F;kyber&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;pq-crystals.org&#x2F;kyber&#x2F;</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Learning_with_errors" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Learning_with_errors</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pbsd</author><text>The LWE problem is one level of abstraction away from the fundamental lattice problems it reduces to. It is somewhat analogous to the Diffie-Hellman problem that many constructions reduce to, which itself is related to the lower-level discrete logarithm problem.<p>The lattice equivalent of integer factorization is the shortest vector problem: you&#x27;re given n vectors of length m, and you have to find the sum of integer multiples of those vectors that comes closest to (or a small factor away from the closest) the zero vector. Say you have the 4 vectors<p><pre><code> [ 3 92 4 2]
[54 0 92 41]
[19 91 61 48]
[39 59 40 14].
</code></pre>
The shortest vector that you can obtain from adding integer multiples of these vectors is [19 -8 -15 2], which you can obtain by 3*[39 59 40 14] + [19 91 61 48] - 2*[54 0 92 41] - 3*[ 3 92 4 2].<p>With only 4 vectors it is easy to find the solution here. But the hardness grows exponentially with the dimension, and the dimensions in cryptographically relevant lattices are in the hundreds to thousands.</text></comment> |
8,331,230 | 8,330,339 | 1 | 2 | 8,330,053 | train | <story><title>iOS 8 reviewed</title><url>http://arstechnica.com/apple/2014/09/ios-8-thoroughly-reviewed/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Someone1234</author><text>Credit where credit is due, the lack of customisable keyboards was a major gripe of mine when people asked me why I&#x27;d never buy an iOS device.<p>A Swype-like keyboard (I actually use Google Keyboard&#x27;s Swype mode, even though I own Swype) is a &quot;must have&quot; on my phone and has been for over three and a half years (since Swype beta was available on the original Galaxy Note).<p>While there are definitely thumb typists who can type quite fast, for me personally Swyping is significantly faster than tapping. I refuse to go back to that, it is bad enough things like passwords require tapping (although thanks to LastPass working with Chrome on Android, that too might be a thing of the past).<p>Now all we need is Microsoft to get with the program. Windows 8&#x2F;8.1 still lacks a Swype-like keyboard and third party keyboards don&#x27;t really exist. Kind of sucks on the Surface (you don&#x27;t ALWAYS have the keyboard cover on).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>drzaiusapelord</author><text>Two things have kept me away from iOS: the tiny phone screens and the lack of Swype. I can see myself moving back since I switched to Android from my old 3GS. The Android fragmentation is out of control, the app quality is usually sub-par, and making sure to keep buying a Nexus to avoid OEM crapware gets tiresome.<p>I also find that bugs that would have gotten Apple mocked in the press and caused a massive outrage are ignored in the Android world. Namely the year or so Google Play Services would randomly lose its mind and drain your battery and the never ending Chrome bug where clicking a link just leads to an immediate page not loading condition (blank page appears and the spinning loading icon stops immediately). Heck, even the new version of Chrome does this. Thankfully not as often.<p>If either of these happened in the iOS world, there would be a lot of yelling a demands for fixing, as opposed to the current state where serious bugs persist for months at a time.<p>I&#x27;m willing to give Android L a chance before I leave. Hoepfully, we&#x27;ll be seeing a higher quality of product here.</text></comment> | <story><title>iOS 8 reviewed</title><url>http://arstechnica.com/apple/2014/09/ios-8-thoroughly-reviewed/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Someone1234</author><text>Credit where credit is due, the lack of customisable keyboards was a major gripe of mine when people asked me why I&#x27;d never buy an iOS device.<p>A Swype-like keyboard (I actually use Google Keyboard&#x27;s Swype mode, even though I own Swype) is a &quot;must have&quot; on my phone and has been for over three and a half years (since Swype beta was available on the original Galaxy Note).<p>While there are definitely thumb typists who can type quite fast, for me personally Swyping is significantly faster than tapping. I refuse to go back to that, it is bad enough things like passwords require tapping (although thanks to LastPass working with Chrome on Android, that too might be a thing of the past).<p>Now all we need is Microsoft to get with the program. Windows 8&#x2F;8.1 still lacks a Swype-like keyboard and third party keyboards don&#x27;t really exist. Kind of sucks on the Surface (you don&#x27;t ALWAYS have the keyboard cover on).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>guardian5x</author><text>Interestingly Windows Phone 8.1 already has a Swype-like keyboard which works really well. I hope they will include it in Windows 8.1 or maybe Threshold as well.</text></comment> |
14,974,265 | 14,974,376 | 1 | 3 | 14,972,738 | train | <story><title>Why We Said “No” to a $40M Round</title><url>https://blog.parse.ly/post/6282/why-we-said-no-vc-money/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>andrewstuart</author><text>Just a UX comment .... often one of the key values of a blog is to draw people to your website to find out about your product&#x2F;service.<p>For me, the typical flow is to go to blog and click on the logo at the top.<p>For the optimum marketing outcome, the top logo links to your main website.<p>In this case, the top logo links back to the blog. This site possibly lost the marketing opportunity because now I have to go to the trouble of clicking in the URL and changing it to www from blog. Might not sound like much but I think some people are willing to spend a few seconds having a look at something if it is incredibly easy to do so, but can&#x27;t be bothered to make it happen if it requires anything more than a click.</text></comment> | <story><title>Why We Said “No” to a $40M Round</title><url>https://blog.parse.ly/post/6282/why-we-said-no-vc-money/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>bkanber</author><text>Modern guidelines for valuing a tech company in an M&amp;A:<p>- The technology asset is worth $3-5M, no matter what it is.<p>- Higher AWS bill = better product.<p>- EBITDA is not important, you can ignore that.<p>- What&#x27;s the QoQ revenue growth for the last 8 quarters? Doesn&#x27;t matter if margins are going down. Only revenue growth matters.<p>- More employees = better company. Obviously.<p>- Valuation should be directly proportional to venture capital raised.<p>- You have a remote engineering team in the US? Why not go offshore or nearshore?<p>- Make sure it&#x27;s an asset deal, not a stock deal, so that you can write it off but the founders get double-taxed.<p>- Design earnouts such that they are unachievable.</text></comment> |
12,096,981 | 12,096,935 | 1 | 2 | 12,095,510 | train | <story><title>Shedding light on the dark web</title><url>http://www.economist.com/news/international/21702176-drug-trade-moving-street-online-cryptomarkets-forced-compete</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>acctid4325</author><text>To what extend it is society&#x27;s job to protect people from themselves?<p>So let&#x27;s assume that we legalize &#x27;drugs&#x27; for everyone: can I now buy pot and meth and acid and heroine and what not complete with shooting accessories from 7-Eleven? Are we seriously proposing that people in masses would be able to responsibly consume these newly available substances. If there is doubt, maybe we add, similar to obtaining a drivers license, a class of responsible substance use for kids to their high school curriculum. A 12-step program from mild to mind blowing experience that runs from elementary to the high school graduation. Which begs the question, do we make them free for all ages, subject to parents discretion, or maybe no drugs for minors? Or high schoolers? But then again, that would make it all less-free.<p>These blanket statements about legalizing drugs made by arm chair i-dont-know-what equate to trolling, victim of which I feel I just fell ;-)</text></item><item><author>dopamean</author><text>Any time I read anything about the illegal drug trade I am struck by how much the industry would change if all drugs were legalized everywhere. So much effort is expended to keep things hidden from law enforcement and other criminals that it adds an incredible amount of friction to the purchasing process for the purchaser and the seller.<p>From the buyer&#x27;s perspective you now have to go into business with some often unsavory people just to get high. From the seller&#x27;s perspective you have to make sure that the buyer isn&#x27;t law enforcement and also not someone who is going to rob you because you have zero legal recourse. It&#x27;s really a shitty experience for everyone involved. Considering how shitty that experience is it says a lot about people and their desire to take drugs that the market continues to exist and basically never stops serving the customer.<p>It really seems like when confronted with something inevitable, like drug use and sales, the effort to prevent it may be more costly and damaging than just allowing it to happen in a more controlled environment.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bwanab</author><text>At least in Colorado, you can only by pot from licensed shops where they card you when you go in and card you again when you purchase. This is a far cry from 7-Eleven.<p>Colorado has seen pot smoking go down for kids which is counterintuitive, right? Not really. I&#x27;ve got kids in high school and they tell me that pot is easy to get (I don&#x27;t live in Colorado). In Colorado, the illegal trade has dried up, thus making it harder, not easier for kids to get it. There&#x27;s no reason to believe it would be that different for other drugs.</text></comment> | <story><title>Shedding light on the dark web</title><url>http://www.economist.com/news/international/21702176-drug-trade-moving-street-online-cryptomarkets-forced-compete</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>acctid4325</author><text>To what extend it is society&#x27;s job to protect people from themselves?<p>So let&#x27;s assume that we legalize &#x27;drugs&#x27; for everyone: can I now buy pot and meth and acid and heroine and what not complete with shooting accessories from 7-Eleven? Are we seriously proposing that people in masses would be able to responsibly consume these newly available substances. If there is doubt, maybe we add, similar to obtaining a drivers license, a class of responsible substance use for kids to their high school curriculum. A 12-step program from mild to mind blowing experience that runs from elementary to the high school graduation. Which begs the question, do we make them free for all ages, subject to parents discretion, or maybe no drugs for minors? Or high schoolers? But then again, that would make it all less-free.<p>These blanket statements about legalizing drugs made by arm chair i-dont-know-what equate to trolling, victim of which I feel I just fell ;-)</text></item><item><author>dopamean</author><text>Any time I read anything about the illegal drug trade I am struck by how much the industry would change if all drugs were legalized everywhere. So much effort is expended to keep things hidden from law enforcement and other criminals that it adds an incredible amount of friction to the purchasing process for the purchaser and the seller.<p>From the buyer&#x27;s perspective you now have to go into business with some often unsavory people just to get high. From the seller&#x27;s perspective you have to make sure that the buyer isn&#x27;t law enforcement and also not someone who is going to rob you because you have zero legal recourse. It&#x27;s really a shitty experience for everyone involved. Considering how shitty that experience is it says a lot about people and their desire to take drugs that the market continues to exist and basically never stops serving the customer.<p>It really seems like when confronted with something inevitable, like drug use and sales, the effort to prevent it may be more costly and damaging than just allowing it to happen in a more controlled environment.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>squeaky-clean</author><text>&gt; So let&#x27;s assume that we legalize &#x27;drugs&#x27; for everyone: can I now buy pot and meth and acid and heroine and what not complete with shooting accessories from 7-Eleven?<p>If I visit nearly any 7-Eleven after 10pm, I could buy any of these substances, it would just be in the parking lot instead of inside the store. And I wouldn&#x27;t be able to tell if it was fake or cut with something.</text></comment> |
6,041,507 | 6,041,514 | 1 | 2 | 6,040,777 | train | <story><title>Dijkstra: “You will be treated as grown-ups”</title><url>http://www.cs.utexas.edu/~EWD/transcriptions/EWD12xx/EWD1256.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>nugget</author><text>Why do we celebrate this theme of Professor as omnipotent, benevolent dictator of the classroom? My last year in school the combined cost of tuition, books, and room and board hit $40,000. At what point do you become not just a student, but also a fee for service consumer, with an appropriate set of expectations for some level of responsiveness and customer service?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>GuiA</author><text>See, that&#x27;s one of the problems I have with outrageous tuition: it creates dumb expectations from students.<p>In most European countries, your education is quasi free, and as a result students don&#x27;t complain about professors not providing &quot;customer service&quot;. You go to the university to learn from some of the most eminent figures of your field, people who have devoted their life to it, and you do as they say. If you&#x27;re not happy, well you can just leave. And sure, some of them are quirky or do dumb stuff, but you&#x27;re 19- you&#x27;ll live. And TBH, even the professors I had in college who exposed me to the most BS are nothing compared to some of the BS I&#x27;ve experienced in the real world, with clients&#x2F;bosses&#x2F;etc.<p>If you&#x27;re going to University of Phoenix, sure, feel entitled to some degree of &quot;customer service&quot;. But if you&#x27;re studying under Dijkstra, just suck it up and soak in as much as you can, even if the &quot;customer service&quot; leaves to be desired. Again, you&#x27;re 19- you&#x27;ll live.<p>Sorry, this is a bit abrasive, but I&#x27;ve been on multiple sides of the equation (student in EU university, student in US university, TA in EU university, TA in US university), and the students who say things like &quot;I pay tuition, I&#x27;m a paying customer, professors have to do X&#x2F;Y&#x2F;Z for me&quot; are rarely the ones at the top of the class (and rarely aspire to do so).</text></comment> | <story><title>Dijkstra: “You will be treated as grown-ups”</title><url>http://www.cs.utexas.edu/~EWD/transcriptions/EWD12xx/EWD1256.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>nugget</author><text>Why do we celebrate this theme of Professor as omnipotent, benevolent dictator of the classroom? My last year in school the combined cost of tuition, books, and room and board hit $40,000. At what point do you become not just a student, but also a fee for service consumer, with an appropriate set of expectations for some level of responsiveness and customer service?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ColinWright</author><text>The service you seek is to gain knowledge and abilities. There is a body of evidence to suggest that you cannot gain that knowledge and experience without making considerable effort, and that the role of the instructors, be they professor or lowly TA, is to give you the opportunity. As such, getting easy-to-understand explanations, perfectly produced and complete notes, and attending entertaining lectures, is not the best way of achieving the stated goal.<p>Many lecturers are indeed less than ideal, and many instructors similarly fall short, but just because the students give them poor ratings, and complain about work loads, that does not mean that they are not being given exactly what is needed to achieve their stated goals.<p>You don&#x27;t get physically fit by listening to work-out videos and watching people jog in the park. You have to go out and do it yourself. People hire personal trainers to devise a plan, and then to shout at them to make them stick to it and to put in the work.<p>Maybe that&#x27;s a good analogy. Maybe to get good at math (and programming) you actually need to put in the work, and true learning is born from the effort and confusion you go through before enlightenment.</text></comment> |
10,246,227 | 10,245,471 | 1 | 3 | 10,244,619 | train | <story><title>“We don’t do autism”</title><url>https://medium.com/@AutismJohnDoe/we-don-t-do-autism-d6de9d4f8913</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>codingdave</author><text>I&#x27;ve been working with doctors for a while now trying to diagnose some issues, and while I share the author&#x27;s frustrations (believe me, it can thrash your life to shreds if you let it), he seems to be falling into a danger zone that I have been warned about. Which is that &quot;normal&quot; ranges of almost every metric on the human body are not well defined lines. Rather, they describe a bell curve or measurements, such that 6% of the population will just naturally fall out of the &quot;normal&quot; ranges. So a number that is 5, 10, even 50% beyond normal does not necessarily indicate a problem. Not in the slightest. It could very well just be normal variations between humans. But people searching for answers tend get a laser focus on such things, thinking they have found the clue that will lead them to an answer. Most of the time, they have not.<p>And we who search for answers also hear the stories of others like us, spending years trying to get a diagnosis, who did find the one clue, and did follow that to a diagnosis and treatment, which turned out to be correct. But those stories are outliers. Most of the time, we are wrong.<p>Doctors know the numbers. They know that for every 100 people in our situation, 99% of them will have the common answers, and that why they treat us the way they do, and give us the advice they do.<p>But in this author&#x27;s case, he had someone drill a hole in his brother&#x27;s head. I&#x27;m not going to judge that decision, there are days I would try some pretty extreme things myself. But I can absolutely understand why doctors would not be jumping up to perform that procedure. And at the end of the day, it did not change his brother&#x27;s condition.<p>In my mind, that is the real point of this story. Most of our own medical theories coming from our internet research are wrong. Not all. And I absolutely do not want to discourage people from seeking answers. You do need to be your own advocate in today&#x27;s world. But I also have to believe that if you are asking for medical procedures and multiple doctors are turning you down, it is worth listening to their reasons.<p>EDIT: Yes, I stated the procedure incorrectly. Sorry about that. Please do not let my mistake detract from the larger point.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Itaxpica</author><text>I&#x27;ve started and stopped my own response to this article about a half dozen times, but this post gets to the crux of it very well. I&#x27;ve worked in a research lab studying the neuroscience of autism (via MRI and FMRI, even), and this article is a classic example of a little knowledge being a dangerous thing. The author has taken a bundle of half-understandings about an extraordinarily complex field, and tried to tie them together in to a Unified Theory of Autism, with predictably bad results.<p>I don&#x27;t really blame the author - it&#x27;s the most natural thing to do in the world when faced with something like a loved one being diagnosed with autism, and this is far from the first time I&#x27;ve seen it happen - but it&#x27;s always a little frustrating to see.</text></comment> | <story><title>“We don’t do autism”</title><url>https://medium.com/@AutismJohnDoe/we-don-t-do-autism-d6de9d4f8913</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>codingdave</author><text>I&#x27;ve been working with doctors for a while now trying to diagnose some issues, and while I share the author&#x27;s frustrations (believe me, it can thrash your life to shreds if you let it), he seems to be falling into a danger zone that I have been warned about. Which is that &quot;normal&quot; ranges of almost every metric on the human body are not well defined lines. Rather, they describe a bell curve or measurements, such that 6% of the population will just naturally fall out of the &quot;normal&quot; ranges. So a number that is 5, 10, even 50% beyond normal does not necessarily indicate a problem. Not in the slightest. It could very well just be normal variations between humans. But people searching for answers tend get a laser focus on such things, thinking they have found the clue that will lead them to an answer. Most of the time, they have not.<p>And we who search for answers also hear the stories of others like us, spending years trying to get a diagnosis, who did find the one clue, and did follow that to a diagnosis and treatment, which turned out to be correct. But those stories are outliers. Most of the time, we are wrong.<p>Doctors know the numbers. They know that for every 100 people in our situation, 99% of them will have the common answers, and that why they treat us the way they do, and give us the advice they do.<p>But in this author&#x27;s case, he had someone drill a hole in his brother&#x27;s head. I&#x27;m not going to judge that decision, there are days I would try some pretty extreme things myself. But I can absolutely understand why doctors would not be jumping up to perform that procedure. And at the end of the day, it did not change his brother&#x27;s condition.<p>In my mind, that is the real point of this story. Most of our own medical theories coming from our internet research are wrong. Not all. And I absolutely do not want to discourage people from seeking answers. You do need to be your own advocate in today&#x27;s world. But I also have to believe that if you are asking for medical procedures and multiple doctors are turning you down, it is worth listening to their reasons.<p>EDIT: Yes, I stated the procedure incorrectly. Sorry about that. Please do not let my mistake detract from the larger point.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pragone</author><text>This is an excellent reply to this article; it says what I wanted much better than I did below.<p>I just wanted to point out that I don&#x27;t recall any procedure from the article discussion any sort of &quot;hole drilled&quot; into the patient&#x27;s head; I believe it was just the MRI and the lumbar puncture that were discussed. The latter is a procedure where a physician puts a needle into the area of your spinal cord down near your lower back. (This area is continuous with the brain, and hence draining CSF from this area will also decrease intracerebral pressure.)</text></comment> |
28,365,809 | 28,365,815 | 1 | 2 | 28,364,923 | train | <story><title>Voila – From notebooks to standalone web applications and dashboards</title><url>https://voila.readthedocs.io/en/stable/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>vladev</author><text>Note that there&#x27;s also streamlit [1]. It uses regular python files, rather than notebooks, so they can be easily version controlled. And it has more UI tools.<p>[1]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;streamlit.io&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;streamlit.io&#x2F;</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>IanCal</author><text>Exceptionally strong recommendation for streamlit from me.<p>I can create a GUI for a tool that looks nice <i>faster</i> than I can make a CLI. I&#x27;ve built useful <i>production</i> systems (ok, sure, for internal use) in literally minutes.<p>You&#x27;re a bit limited in what kinds of apps you can make but the tradeoffs it makes here means that it&#x27;s astoundingly easy to make a wide range of very useful tools.</text></comment> | <story><title>Voila – From notebooks to standalone web applications and dashboards</title><url>https://voila.readthedocs.io/en/stable/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>vladev</author><text>Note that there&#x27;s also streamlit [1]. It uses regular python files, rather than notebooks, so they can be easily version controlled. And it has more UI tools.<p>[1]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;streamlit.io&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;streamlit.io&#x2F;</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>byteface</author><text>I wasn&#x27;t aware of this so thanks for sharing. I&#x27;ve been setting up a repo that utilises github actions to build exe&#x2F;app files as noted in this guys blog...<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;data-dive.com&#x2F;multi-os-deployment-in-cloud-using-pyinstaller-and-github-actions" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;data-dive.com&#x2F;multi-os-deployment-in-cloud-using-pyi...</a><p>It uses pyinstaller to build and even pushes the build as a zip into your release page on github and appears to be working quite well.</text></comment> |
40,800,291 | 40,799,994 | 1 | 2 | 40,752,728 | train | <story><title>What Happens When You Put a Database in the Browser?</title><url>https://motherduck.com/blog/olap-database-in-browser/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>xnorswap</author><text>I don&#x27;t understand these &quot;DB in browser&quot; products.<p>If the data &quot;belongs&quot; to the server, why not send the query to the server and run it there?<p>If the data &quot;belongs&quot; on the client, why have it in database form, particularly a &quot;data-lake&quot; structured db, at all?<p>A lot of the benefits of such databases are their ability to optimise queries for improving performance in a context where the data can&#x27;t fit in memory (and possibly not even on single disks&#x2F;machines), as well as additional durability and atomicity improvements. If the data is small enough to be reasonable to send to a client, then it&#x27;s small enough to fit in memory, which means it&#x27;ll be fast to query no matter how you go about it.<p>The page says one advantage is &quot;Ad-hoc queries on data lakes&quot;, but isn&#x27;t that possible with the most basic form that simply sends a query to the database?<p>What am I failing to understand about this category of products?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>sktrdie</author><text>I think a large benefit to &quot;DB in browser&quot; is about the whole &quot;local-first&quot; software movement. A good overview is written here <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;sqlsync.dev&#x2F;posts&#x2F;stop-building-databases&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;sqlsync.dev&#x2F;posts&#x2F;stop-building-databases&#x2F;</a><p>The essence of the approach is that a large majority of FE apps have constructed quite complex caching layers to improve performance over &quot;querying backend data&quot; - take a look at things like Next.js or React Query &lt;- as the post above mentions, they&#x27;re essentially rebuilding databases. So instead this approach just moves the db to the browser, along with a powerful syncing layer.<p>I think it&#x27;s an approach that deserves more attention, especially to improve DX where we end up writing a whole lot of database-related logic on clients. Mind as well then just use a database on the client as well</text></comment> | <story><title>What Happens When You Put a Database in the Browser?</title><url>https://motherduck.com/blog/olap-database-in-browser/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>xnorswap</author><text>I don&#x27;t understand these &quot;DB in browser&quot; products.<p>If the data &quot;belongs&quot; to the server, why not send the query to the server and run it there?<p>If the data &quot;belongs&quot; on the client, why have it in database form, particularly a &quot;data-lake&quot; structured db, at all?<p>A lot of the benefits of such databases are their ability to optimise queries for improving performance in a context where the data can&#x27;t fit in memory (and possibly not even on single disks&#x2F;machines), as well as additional durability and atomicity improvements. If the data is small enough to be reasonable to send to a client, then it&#x27;s small enough to fit in memory, which means it&#x27;ll be fast to query no matter how you go about it.<p>The page says one advantage is &quot;Ad-hoc queries on data lakes&quot;, but isn&#x27;t that possible with the most basic form that simply sends a query to the database?<p>What am I failing to understand about this category of products?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jerf</author><text>To the other good points, I&#x27;d add that when people start making queries that aren&#x27;t O(1) or O(n), modern computers and networks are capable of reasonably conveniently moving around amounts of data where it becomes practical for remote client to use its rather substantial power to answer questions on a gigabyte or two of data with its own computing power, and if enough people are doing this at once the combined client power they can have can easily overpower any reasonable amount of cloud compute you might be willing to deploy for this problem as they run non-trivial queries. I may be happy for dozens of clients to download some data and chew through some O(n log n) with mixed O(n^2) components on their own whereas I would not care to provision enough cloud compute to handle it all.<p>I think people forget that as cheap as cloud compute is, client compute is even cheaper. Generally it&#x27;s already paid for. (Marginal electricity costs are lost in the noise of everything else you&#x27;re supporting a client user with.) And while the years of doubling every 1.5 years may be gone, clients do continue to speed up, and they are especially speeding up in ways that databases can take advantage of (more cores, more RAM, more CPU cache). Moving compute to clients can be a valuable thing in some circumstances on its own.</text></comment> |
10,443,881 | 10,443,373 | 1 | 3 | 10,442,641 | train | <story><title>Running a modern infrastructure stack</title><url>https://blog.barricade.io/running-a-modern-infrastructure-stack/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>skywhopper</author><text>Hmm, this is the second such post I&#x27;ve seen recently that lays out the company&#x27;s infrastructure stack and after a few points, it mentions how they&#x27;ve outsourced all their logging and alerting to DataDog who solved all their problems in that area. DataDog seems like a nice product, and I know nothing about it, but after seeing how ... aggressively they were marketing at re:Invent, color me skeptical that these stack discussions are entirely spontaneous.</text></comment> | <story><title>Running a modern infrastructure stack</title><url>https://blog.barricade.io/running-a-modern-infrastructure-stack/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>mwcampbell</author><text>Have you looked at Joyent&#x27;s Triton service? They claim they can run containers securely on bare metal, since the underlying kernel is Illumos (but it can run Linux binaries and thus Docker containers). So the trade-off between isolation and efficient resource usage would disappear.<p>On the one hand, they don&#x27;t have all the same higher-level services as AWS, like ELB, let alone managed database services. On the other hand, I don&#x27;t think I&#x27;d sleep well running anything based on EBS ever again, since EBS is so notorious for cascading failures.</text></comment> |
3,468,122 | 3,467,864 | 1 | 2 | 3,467,550 | train | <story><title>Alexis Ohanian vs NBC - Debating SOPA</title><url>http://upwithchrishayes.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/01/15/10161056-debating-sopa</url><text></text></story><parent_chain><item><author>inmygarage</author><text>A summary for those who don't have 18 minutes:<p>1. Excellent introduction and overview of the debate by Chris Hayes<p>2. NBC General Counsel makes three interesting (cringe-worthy) points:<p>-jobs<p>-this only applies to international sites<p>-the internet is a lawless place<p>3. He is mostly shot down by Hayes who said if it really only applied to international rogue sites then people wouldn't be making such a big deal about it<p>4. Alexis makes the points:<p>-the problem of piracy will best be solved by innovation, not legislation<p>-the internet is not a "lawless" place and the DMCA is effective<p>-"piracy is a service problem" ie, if you provide better access to information you will win<p>5. Random other dude chimes in and says the government did a massive study and can't conclusively say that piracy is killing jobs <i>at all</i>... the entertainment industry is actually growing<p>6. NBC GC talks a little bit more, mostly being hysterical about how piracy is rampant and terrible.<p>Great job Alexis!!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kn0thing</author><text>Thanks for the recap and all the comments below; I'm doing a heavy post-mortem on this.<p>I really didn't expect him to so adamantly lie like that. And then to first be called out by Chris about it and boldly say "Chris, seriously, that is wrong" and then declare that we're making it up -- that takes stones.<p>I'd really love to know what the best way to confront this in such a format (my first time doing live TV debate).<p>Is it:<p>"No, you're wrong. Anti-circumvention provisions affect US sites, US sites with foreign domain names (like .it) are affected, and US companies who would have to remove links from search results are all examples of how you're wrong."<p>I worry I've lost the average TV viewer by the second sentence.<p>And then there's dealing with someone interrupting you... I'm curious to see what the HN community thinks about optimally handling that one.</text></comment> | <story><title>Alexis Ohanian vs NBC - Debating SOPA</title><url>http://upwithchrishayes.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/01/15/10161056-debating-sopa</url><text></text></story><parent_chain><item><author>inmygarage</author><text>A summary for those who don't have 18 minutes:<p>1. Excellent introduction and overview of the debate by Chris Hayes<p>2. NBC General Counsel makes three interesting (cringe-worthy) points:<p>-jobs<p>-this only applies to international sites<p>-the internet is a lawless place<p>3. He is mostly shot down by Hayes who said if it really only applied to international rogue sites then people wouldn't be making such a big deal about it<p>4. Alexis makes the points:<p>-the problem of piracy will best be solved by innovation, not legislation<p>-the internet is not a "lawless" place and the DMCA is effective<p>-"piracy is a service problem" ie, if you provide better access to information you will win<p>5. Random other dude chimes in and says the government did a massive study and can't conclusively say that piracy is killing jobs <i>at all</i>... the entertainment industry is actually growing<p>6. NBC GC talks a little bit more, mostly being hysterical about how piracy is rampant and terrible.<p>Great job Alexis!!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>flatline</author><text>&#62; the DMCA is effective<p>I love this: keep pushing things further out of whack and all of a sudden the previous onerous policies start looking pretty good. The DMCA takedown provisions do give the little guy some power to defend copyright without going to federal court, but there is little recourse when abuse occurs and many of the other provisions of the act were a pure profit taking by industry giants.</text></comment> |
33,474,353 | 33,473,942 | 1 | 3 | 33,473,249 | train | <story><title>From Google to Twitter</title><url>https://ma.nu/blog/from-google-to-twitter</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>cpeterso</author><text>That post was from March 2022. The author has since been laid off: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;ma.nu&#x2F;blog&#x2F;bye-twitter" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;ma.nu&#x2F;blog&#x2F;bye-twitter</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nixgeek</author><text>Based on the note he posted from HR he was fired for cause and wasn’t “laid off” by the usual definition of same — he was told by HR that he had violated several company policies and his employment was being terminated immediately.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;ma.nu&#x2F;blog&#x2F;img&#x2F;2022-11-01_bye_twitter&#x2F;termination_email.png" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;ma.nu&#x2F;blog&#x2F;img&#x2F;2022-11-01_bye_twitter&#x2F;termination_em...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>From Google to Twitter</title><url>https://ma.nu/blog/from-google-to-twitter</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>cpeterso</author><text>That post was from March 2022. The author has since been laid off: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;ma.nu&#x2F;blog&#x2F;bye-twitter" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;ma.nu&#x2F;blog&#x2F;bye-twitter</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>paganel</author><text>Also, previous HN discussion [1] about the author&#x27;s cartoons while he was at Google. He also has a wikipedia page [2]<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=27778774" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=27778774</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Manu_Cornet" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Manu_Cornet</a></text></comment> |
9,397,286 | 9,396,864 | 1 | 3 | 9,395,217 | train | <story><title>RethinkDB 2.0 is amazing</title><url>http://rob.conery.io/2015/04/17/rethinkdb-2-0-is-amazing/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dmgbrn</author><text>MongoDB has just done so much to erode my trust in novel databases. My knee jerk reaction is always &quot;NOPE stickin with Postgres!&quot;. So I&#x27;m going to hold off on checking this one out, even though it seems from the comments that it&#x27;s avoided many of Mongo&#x27;s horrible design flaws.<p>Just my 2 cents of Mongo hate :-)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>apalmer</author><text>You are absolutely right. However bear in mind this thinking is a slippery slope. Meaning most good CIOs, architects, technical leads, etc shy away from betting the house on new or novel technology precisely because experience had shown them first hand the risks of jumping on the shiny new exciting well marketed technology. At a certain point however you will find that this pushes you behind the technology curve...<p>the engineering skill here is the ability to trade off risk vs benefit... I will tell you from my own experience the best designed software systems I have personally dealt with tend to use components somewhat behind the curve.</text></comment> | <story><title>RethinkDB 2.0 is amazing</title><url>http://rob.conery.io/2015/04/17/rethinkdb-2-0-is-amazing/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dmgbrn</author><text>MongoDB has just done so much to erode my trust in novel databases. My knee jerk reaction is always &quot;NOPE stickin with Postgres!&quot;. So I&#x27;m going to hold off on checking this one out, even though it seems from the comments that it&#x27;s avoided many of Mongo&#x27;s horrible design flaws.<p>Just my 2 cents of Mongo hate :-)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>james33</author><text>When did you last use Mongo? We&#x27;ve been using it in production for 3+ years, and while there were certainly some issues early on, we&#x27;ve had nothing but success with it (especially over the last few major versions).</text></comment> |
12,086,798 | 12,086,955 | 1 | 2 | 12,085,890 | train | <story><title>Transforming NYC's Payphones into a 'Personalized Propaganda Engine'</title><url>http://www.villagevoice.com/news/google-is-transforming-nycs-payphones-into-a-personalized-propaganda-engine-8822938</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>walterbell</author><text>Google&#x27;s business model is based on selling user-generated data to advertisers, unlike telcos who sell network data <i>to you</i>.<p>See Harvard professor Shoshana Zuboff&#x27;s video on Surveillance Capitalism, <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;vimeo.com&#x2F;110222526" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;vimeo.com&#x2F;110222526</a><p>NYC has the leverage to negotiate better financial terms for capturing the value of city residents data. The money generated <i>from</i> harvesting city resident behavior can then be invested into city infrastructure and services for residents.<p>Data and networks are here to stay. What is open for negotiation is the split of revenue between city residents and vendors. For example, kiosks could be funded as neutral infrastructure that could be shared by competing vendors. A city itself is &quot;shared infrastructure&quot;.</text></item><item><author>krschultz</author><text>I came here to say something similar. I&#x27;ve seen many people using them all hours of the day &amp; night. People are watching music videos, charging their phone, getting directions, and surfing the internet. The people using them are often those that don&#x27;t have the luxury (necessity?) of walking around with a nice smart phone and a big data plan.<p>Do they have ads on them? Of course. So do the bus shelters which are funded using a similar public&#x2F;private partnership.<p>If you are worried about the data collection, don&#x27;t use them or the wifi provided by them. But you are basically saying you trust Verizon&#x2F;AT&amp;T&#x2F;T-Mobile&#x2F;Sprint with your data more than you trust Sidewalk Labs&#x2F;Google. Is that an informed tradeoff?</text></item><item><author>heheocoenev</author><text>I was walking down 3rd ave at 2am a week ago. I saw a homeless man with headphones listening to music on YouTube on a link. He had a little chair and was rocking out. It was beautiful.<p>We might give up a lot, but maybe those with nothing to give have plenty to gain.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kbenson</author><text>&gt; Google&#x27;s business model is based on selling user-generated data to advertisers, unlike telcos who sell network data to you.<p>Sure, because the telcos have no interest in tracking their customers for profit[1]? As long as it&#x27;s profitable and legal, any public company will eventually sell metadata regarding you. Since the data is profitable, if we want to protect ourselves from this that leaves us with making it illegal to collect and share, either through contract or by law.<p>1: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theverge.com&#x2F;2016&#x2F;3&#x2F;7&#x2F;11173010&#x2F;verizon-supercookie-fine-1-3-million-fcc" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theverge.com&#x2F;2016&#x2F;3&#x2F;7&#x2F;11173010&#x2F;verizon-supercooki...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Transforming NYC's Payphones into a 'Personalized Propaganda Engine'</title><url>http://www.villagevoice.com/news/google-is-transforming-nycs-payphones-into-a-personalized-propaganda-engine-8822938</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>walterbell</author><text>Google&#x27;s business model is based on selling user-generated data to advertisers, unlike telcos who sell network data <i>to you</i>.<p>See Harvard professor Shoshana Zuboff&#x27;s video on Surveillance Capitalism, <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;vimeo.com&#x2F;110222526" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;vimeo.com&#x2F;110222526</a><p>NYC has the leverage to negotiate better financial terms for capturing the value of city residents data. The money generated <i>from</i> harvesting city resident behavior can then be invested into city infrastructure and services for residents.<p>Data and networks are here to stay. What is open for negotiation is the split of revenue between city residents and vendors. For example, kiosks could be funded as neutral infrastructure that could be shared by competing vendors. A city itself is &quot;shared infrastructure&quot;.</text></item><item><author>krschultz</author><text>I came here to say something similar. I&#x27;ve seen many people using them all hours of the day &amp; night. People are watching music videos, charging their phone, getting directions, and surfing the internet. The people using them are often those that don&#x27;t have the luxury (necessity?) of walking around with a nice smart phone and a big data plan.<p>Do they have ads on them? Of course. So do the bus shelters which are funded using a similar public&#x2F;private partnership.<p>If you are worried about the data collection, don&#x27;t use them or the wifi provided by them. But you are basically saying you trust Verizon&#x2F;AT&amp;T&#x2F;T-Mobile&#x2F;Sprint with your data more than you trust Sidewalk Labs&#x2F;Google. Is that an informed tradeoff?</text></item><item><author>heheocoenev</author><text>I was walking down 3rd ave at 2am a week ago. I saw a homeless man with headphones listening to music on YouTube on a link. He had a little chair and was rocking out. It was beautiful.<p>We might give up a lot, but maybe those with nothing to give have plenty to gain.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>morgante</author><text>&gt; Google&#x27;s business model is based on selling user-generated data to advertisers, unlike telcos who sell network data to you.<p>Really? Where?<p>I have worked on some large marketing projects. We&#x27;d <i>love</i> to be able to buy user data from Google.<p>This facile argument is really getting old. When you get a free newspaper, does that mean you&#x27;re getting &quot;sold?&quot;</text></comment> |
17,239,038 | 17,238,797 | 1 | 2 | 17,237,510 | train | <story><title>Hype and plunder: Domo a new low for self-indulgent IPOs</title><url>http://www.latimes.com/business/hiltzik/la-fi-hiltzik-domo-ipo-20180604-story.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dpark</author><text>&gt; <i>Domo actually is part of the Salt Lake City region’s “Silicon Slope,” one of several regional offshoots of Silicon Valley.</i><p>Going off on a tangent, this is really dumb. It’s not an “offshoot” of Silicon Valley. It’s a distant, unrelated region that happens to also have a tech industry. Are Austin, Seattle, and Portland also “offshoots” of Silicon Valley? How about New York? Zurich?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tntn</author><text>Right on. &quot;Silicon Slopes&quot; is surprisingly effective attempt by Utah County people to get investors to dump money there.<p>Quick summary of the companies in &quot;Silicon Slopes&quot;: Qualtrics (surveys), Domo (vapor), Adobe, Micron (fab only, but claim to &quot;silicon&quot; in the name), Nu Skin (MLM cosmetics&#x2F;diet supplements) , doterra (essential oil MLM), NatureSunshine (MLM).<p>Great place to be. Lots of innovation in MLMs.</text></comment> | <story><title>Hype and plunder: Domo a new low for self-indulgent IPOs</title><url>http://www.latimes.com/business/hiltzik/la-fi-hiltzik-domo-ipo-20180604-story.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dpark</author><text>&gt; <i>Domo actually is part of the Salt Lake City region’s “Silicon Slope,” one of several regional offshoots of Silicon Valley.</i><p>Going off on a tangent, this is really dumb. It’s not an “offshoot” of Silicon Valley. It’s a distant, unrelated region that happens to also have a tech industry. Are Austin, Seattle, and Portland also “offshoots” of Silicon Valley? How about New York? Zurich?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pm90</author><text>Its a lazy way to jump on the SV bandwagon. So Austin is&#x2F;was known as Silicon Hills or something and there are many other Silicon Something monikers for other places.</text></comment> |
22,848,439 | 22,848,400 | 1 | 2 | 22,847,799 | train | <story><title>Fastmail Labels Beta</title><url>https://beta.fastmail.com/help/receive/labels-beta.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>ocdtrekkie</author><text>When I transitioned from Gmail to FastMail, I had to get used to using folders again instead of labels. While it was painful, I am glad I am no longer using labels, and I have no intention to start using them again. I vastly prefer being able to rely on the basic email client functionality in any given mail app, and using goofy nonstandard parts like snooze and labels makes that difficult.<p>I appreciate that with JMAP, FastMail has essentially become the first entity to do labels correctly, with a freaking standard behind it, but client support isn&#x27;t going to be there for many years so I will avoid it. The big upside for me is it&#x27;ll take away one reason people say they can&#x27;t leave Gmail.</text></comment> | <story><title>Fastmail Labels Beta</title><url>https://beta.fastmail.com/help/receive/labels-beta.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>ccmcarey</author><text>It wasn&#x27;t super obvious to me, but you have to use beta.fastmail.com for this to work.<p>Confused me for a moment as you can complete the first step of enabling this (changing to New Rules) using the stable client.<p>---<p>Oh, no, it&#x27;s even more confusing than that. You enable the labels beta function on the beta website, but then it applies even on the main website.</text></comment> |
39,230,262 | 39,230,316 | 1 | 2 | 39,229,727 | train | <story><title>An alternative cause for the Great Stagnation: the cargo cult company</title><url>https://www.shyamsankar.com/p/technology-is-the-problem</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>candiddevmike</author><text>The Costco screenshot is really interesting. The terminal apps of old were truly works of art and _incredibly_ fast. A non-technical worker wouldn&#x27;t take long to understand the system and the keys&#x2F;shortcuts to do something quickly. I remember having to sit with a few folks when we were looking at modernizing an app, watching them with a few key strokes process a record or something and thinking &quot;we&#x27;ll never match this speed&quot;.<p>Web or even desktop apps these days really pale in comparison.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nicbou</author><text>I edit text for a living. I&#x27;ve recently moved from a content management system to markdown files on my computer. It&#x27;s insane how fast the latter feels. Everything just works instantly, and the software is built for power users.<p>I wonder how much productivity is lost looking at spinners on single-page apps, and clicking around web interfaces instead of modifying files.<p>I really feel that when I do my accounting. These 1-3 second delays between pages add up to a lot.</text></comment> | <story><title>An alternative cause for the Great Stagnation: the cargo cult company</title><url>https://www.shyamsankar.com/p/technology-is-the-problem</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>candiddevmike</author><text>The Costco screenshot is really interesting. The terminal apps of old were truly works of art and _incredibly_ fast. A non-technical worker wouldn&#x27;t take long to understand the system and the keys&#x2F;shortcuts to do something quickly. I remember having to sit with a few folks when we were looking at modernizing an app, watching them with a few key strokes process a record or something and thinking &quot;we&#x27;ll never match this speed&quot;.<p>Web or even desktop apps these days really pale in comparison.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>hedora</author><text>There have been systematic studies of this. UI productivity for people that have had time to learn the software peaked in the mid 1980’s.<p>So, the industry traded being able to walk up and use a thing in the first 30 seconds for having it be painfully bad after the first 30 minutes.<p>People like to say, “oh, but power users are rare”. That’s only true if you count users that bounce after 29 minutes the same as users that use the software more than once.</text></comment> |
23,051,520 | 23,051,509 | 1 | 2 | 23,050,721 | train | <story><title>‘I Could Solve Most of Your Problems’: Eric Schmidt’s Pentagon Offensive</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/02/technology/eric-schmidt-pentagon-google.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>spodek</author><text>He sounds like Robert McNamara, wonderkind of business in his time, relatively inexperienced in politics and military.<p>Then came Vietnam. Eventually McNamara would admit<p>&gt; &quot;We were wrong, terribly wrong. We owe it to future generations to explain why.&quot;<p>You can read more in &quot;McNamara Recalls, and Regrets, Vietnam&quot; <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nytimes.com&#x2F;1995&#x2F;04&#x2F;09&#x2F;world&#x2F;mcnamara-recalls-and-regrets-vietnam.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nytimes.com&#x2F;1995&#x2F;04&#x2F;09&#x2F;world&#x2F;mcnamara-recalls-an...</a>.<p>Besides military problems, we face environmental catastrophe, which Silicon Valley&#x27;s ethos that technology will solve it, when it&#x27;s mostly exacerbating it, and I expect Schmidt will end up more than &quot;wrong, terribly wrong.&quot;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>baybal2</author><text>That idiot ordered to kill president Ngo only to complain later:<p>&gt; By the mid-1960&#x27;s, Mr. McNamara says, it was clear that &quot;political stability did not exist and was unlikely ever to be achieved&quot;<p>You can not call this just an incompetency. He is a type of a person who can not be entrusted with lacing his own shoes, let alone statecraft.<p>People must stop decrying types like McNamara, Kisinger, Dulles as some kind of &quot;smart calculating types.&quot; They were top idiots at the apex of power, and their coming was a prelude to what America got itself in now.</text></comment> | <story><title>‘I Could Solve Most of Your Problems’: Eric Schmidt’s Pentagon Offensive</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/02/technology/eric-schmidt-pentagon-google.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>spodek</author><text>He sounds like Robert McNamara, wonderkind of business in his time, relatively inexperienced in politics and military.<p>Then came Vietnam. Eventually McNamara would admit<p>&gt; &quot;We were wrong, terribly wrong. We owe it to future generations to explain why.&quot;<p>You can read more in &quot;McNamara Recalls, and Regrets, Vietnam&quot; <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nytimes.com&#x2F;1995&#x2F;04&#x2F;09&#x2F;world&#x2F;mcnamara-recalls-and-regrets-vietnam.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nytimes.com&#x2F;1995&#x2F;04&#x2F;09&#x2F;world&#x2F;mcnamara-recalls-an...</a>.<p>Besides military problems, we face environmental catastrophe, which Silicon Valley&#x27;s ethos that technology will solve it, when it&#x27;s mostly exacerbating it, and I expect Schmidt will end up more than &quot;wrong, terribly wrong.&quot;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>smackay</author><text>Errol Morris&#x27; documentary on McNamara, The Fog of War is well worth your time to watch.<p>The parallels with Donald Rumsfeld&#x27;s time as Secretary of Defense are remarkable - it seems Rumsfeld was making all the moves and mistakes that McNamara made. I fully expect Eric Schmidt to suffer the same fate.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;The_Fog_of_War" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;The_Fog_of_War</a></text></comment> |
16,064,501 | 16,064,449 | 1 | 2 | 16,061,837 | train | <story><title>Spotify files for its IPO</title><url>https://www.axios.com/exclusive-spotify-files-for-its-ipo-2522109160.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>nunez</author><text>It’s really not though because music is a loss leader for amazon, apple and google, but it is spotify’s entire business. The only other major competitors out there are either in major cahoots with the big 3 (tidal, pandora) or gone (soundcloud, grooveshark, rdio).<p>Netflix has this problem too but they “solved” it by making their own content. Amazon are Google are doing the same thing. That’s the direction I see Spotify going, though I wonder why Apple hasn’t done this yet.</text></item><item><author>pembrook</author><text>This is the same problem Netflix &amp; Amazon have been successful in combating. The answer is to become a content owner by competing with the big labels directly.<p>All Spotify needs to push the big labels back on their heels is to sign a few top 40 artists of their own.<p>I might be wrong but I remember reading something like 90%+ of streams on music services are of songs currently on the charts. Capture the popular culture like Netflix has and the labels will start rolling over on rates.</text></item><item><author>_whm1</author><text>I don&#x27;t think this is a good long term investment.<p>Disclaimer: I worked for a Spotify competitor in the past, so i have a pretty solid understanding of how the business works.<p>I think it is a bad investment for one simple reason: Spotify purchases its main product (music) from a oligopoly. I&#x27;d estimate that 95%+ of the tracks streamed (by total playtime) are from one of the 3 major music labels: Universal, Sony or Warner. That includes sublabels that in some cases may have a seperate deal with Spotify, but at the end of the day are still part of the big 3. Imagine you are a Sony executive, walking by a news stand and the Wall Street Journal Headline is &quot;Spotify Q2 earnings 30% up&quot;. What are you gonna do? You will squeeze them, make them pay, just enough that they survive. And Spotify has zero negotiation power here. If Sptify fails to have a deal with any 1 of these 3 labels, they become useless overnight. People will switch to Apple Music, Amazon PrimeMusic, Tidal or any other service quickly. It doesn&#x27;t matter if Spotifys app is slighty better than the competitors software if they lack 1&#x2F;3 of the music.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>fragsworth</author><text>Music is quite a bit different, in that people spend lots of time curating their own playlists and they listen to the same songs repeatedly. It is incredibly annoying to have songs that you <i>want</i> in your playlists but can&#x27;t get, EVEN if you pay for multiple services.<p>Making their own content for video has the advantage that most people are OK with opening a new browser tab or an app to watch a specific movie or show.<p>With music, however, you don&#x27;t want to run multiple conflicting music players, especially when they don&#x27;t sync up playlists and seamlessly work together.<p>I wonder how that will pan out. It&#x27;s a significant difference.</text></comment> | <story><title>Spotify files for its IPO</title><url>https://www.axios.com/exclusive-spotify-files-for-its-ipo-2522109160.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>nunez</author><text>It’s really not though because music is a loss leader for amazon, apple and google, but it is spotify’s entire business. The only other major competitors out there are either in major cahoots with the big 3 (tidal, pandora) or gone (soundcloud, grooveshark, rdio).<p>Netflix has this problem too but they “solved” it by making their own content. Amazon are Google are doing the same thing. That’s the direction I see Spotify going, though I wonder why Apple hasn’t done this yet.</text></item><item><author>pembrook</author><text>This is the same problem Netflix &amp; Amazon have been successful in combating. The answer is to become a content owner by competing with the big labels directly.<p>All Spotify needs to push the big labels back on their heels is to sign a few top 40 artists of their own.<p>I might be wrong but I remember reading something like 90%+ of streams on music services are of songs currently on the charts. Capture the popular culture like Netflix has and the labels will start rolling over on rates.</text></item><item><author>_whm1</author><text>I don&#x27;t think this is a good long term investment.<p>Disclaimer: I worked for a Spotify competitor in the past, so i have a pretty solid understanding of how the business works.<p>I think it is a bad investment for one simple reason: Spotify purchases its main product (music) from a oligopoly. I&#x27;d estimate that 95%+ of the tracks streamed (by total playtime) are from one of the 3 major music labels: Universal, Sony or Warner. That includes sublabels that in some cases may have a seperate deal with Spotify, but at the end of the day are still part of the big 3. Imagine you are a Sony executive, walking by a news stand and the Wall Street Journal Headline is &quot;Spotify Q2 earnings 30% up&quot;. What are you gonna do? You will squeeze them, make them pay, just enough that they survive. And Spotify has zero negotiation power here. If Sptify fails to have a deal with any 1 of these 3 labels, they become useless overnight. People will switch to Apple Music, Amazon PrimeMusic, Tidal or any other service quickly. It doesn&#x27;t matter if Spotifys app is slighty better than the competitors software if they lack 1&#x2F;3 of the music.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>joemi</author><text>&gt; or gone (soundcloud, grooveshark, rdio)<p>I can&#x27;t speak for grooveshark or rdio, but as far as I know soundcloud still exists. I just added a song there and listened to some other stuff a week ago. Did I miss something?</text></comment> |
18,300,388 | 18,298,791 | 1 | 3 | 18,298,388 | train | <story><title>Tesla Autopilot retrofit on a classic P85 (2016)</title><url>https://skie.net/skynet/projects/tesla/view_post/14_Autopilot+Retrofit+on+Classic+P85</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>mikeash</author><text>I was not expecting the massively negative responses here. For a site called “Hacker News,” you folks sure seem to stand in complete opposition to any hacking that’s outside your comfort zone.</text></comment> | <story><title>Tesla Autopilot retrofit on a classic P85 (2016)</title><url>https://skie.net/skynet/projects/tesla/view_post/14_Autopilot+Retrofit+on+Classic+P85</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>dkhenry</author><text>Amazingly detailed write up. I would love to know the reference material used to figure out the pinout&#x27;s of the control units. One of the things I miss from older cars is how hackable they were. It feels like new cars are just a bunch of black boxes strapped together with no labels on them, so reading someone able to actually mod one is super impressive.</text></comment> |
31,045,253 | 31,045,006 | 1 | 2 | 31,043,766 | train | <story><title>How to draw sub cutaways in MS Paint (2015)</title><url>http://www.hisutton.com/How%20to%20draw%20sub%20cutaways%20in%20MS%20Paint.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>matsemann</author><text>&gt; <i>Note that I do not use black, but a wide range of near-blacks. MS Paint&#x27;s fill tool only fills the exact same color so using a range of near-same colors allows you to use the fill function to erase errors without impacting other parts of the drawing.</i><p>Wow, what a workaround for not having layers!<p>At junior high, this guy sitting close to me would spend all lessons where a computer was available to draw Scania trucks in paint. Somewhat similar in style to this random one I found by a search now, but sometimes even at an angle with perspective <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.flickr.com&#x2F;photos&#x2F;145204045@N05&#x2F;31629814288" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.flickr.com&#x2F;photos&#x2F;145204045@N05&#x2F;31629814288</a></text></comment> | <story><title>How to draw sub cutaways in MS Paint (2015)</title><url>http://www.hisutton.com/How%20to%20draw%20sub%20cutaways%20in%20MS%20Paint.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>kingcharles</author><text>Once you get really good at something and know how to use it really well, it can be hard to change. I look at this and think how much easier it would be for him in Illustrator. But then I remember how hard it would be for him to learn Illustrator from scratch, and all the infuriating things that can catch you out, where he&#x27;ll be spending 2 hours Googling just to find out how to change the color of a line or something simple like that.<p>There are lots of things I do that others would consider dumb. I code my own versions of so many tools and projects that already exist, just because I like to do it. Any sane programmer would look at my work and roll their eyes.</text></comment> |
34,095,733 | 34,095,832 | 1 | 3 | 34,094,422 | train | <story><title>Staging is dead: The rise of preview environments</title><url>https://www.withcoherence.com/post/staging-is-dead-the-rise-of-preview-environments</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>kypro</author><text>Maybe I&#x27;m missing something here, but I haven&#x27;t worked anywhere for years that&#x27;s had a &quot;staging&quot; environment, as least not as this article describes it.<p>Everywhere I&#x27;ve worked either has spin up environments, a developer issued test environment or various lower testing environments where we can deploy individual features for testing and QA.<p>But more to the point everywhere I&#x27;ve worked has also combined these lower level testing environments with some kind of pre-production environment which features more data (typically a clone of prod). On this environment often a further layer of tests are ran and new features are manually reviewed one last time before being deployed to production.<p>Where does a &quot;staging&quot; environment fit in this? Unless I&#x27;m miss understanding the article seems to suggest code goes, dev -&gt; staging -&gt; prod, but aside from one developer role I had in the early 00s it&#x27;s always been, dev -&gt; test env -&gt; pre-prod -&gt; prod.<p>Is the article suggesting you can just do away with pre-prod environments for &quot;preview&quot; environments? And why would you even want to do that? As I understand it one of the features of a pre-prod environment is that is persists and isn&#x27;t a clean slate each time. Any mess that can accumulate in prod can accumulate in a pre-prod environment.<p>I guess I&#x27;m not following what this article is advocating for.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ezekg</author><text>&gt; But more to the point everywhere I&#x27;ve worked has also combined these lower level testing environments with some kind of pre-production environment which features more data (typically a clone of prod). On this environment often a further layer of tests are ran and new features are manually reviewed one last time before being deployed to production.<p>Sounds like staging to me...</text></comment> | <story><title>Staging is dead: The rise of preview environments</title><url>https://www.withcoherence.com/post/staging-is-dead-the-rise-of-preview-environments</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>kypro</author><text>Maybe I&#x27;m missing something here, but I haven&#x27;t worked anywhere for years that&#x27;s had a &quot;staging&quot; environment, as least not as this article describes it.<p>Everywhere I&#x27;ve worked either has spin up environments, a developer issued test environment or various lower testing environments where we can deploy individual features for testing and QA.<p>But more to the point everywhere I&#x27;ve worked has also combined these lower level testing environments with some kind of pre-production environment which features more data (typically a clone of prod). On this environment often a further layer of tests are ran and new features are manually reviewed one last time before being deployed to production.<p>Where does a &quot;staging&quot; environment fit in this? Unless I&#x27;m miss understanding the article seems to suggest code goes, dev -&gt; staging -&gt; prod, but aside from one developer role I had in the early 00s it&#x27;s always been, dev -&gt; test env -&gt; pre-prod -&gt; prod.<p>Is the article suggesting you can just do away with pre-prod environments for &quot;preview&quot; environments? And why would you even want to do that? As I understand it one of the features of a pre-prod environment is that is persists and isn&#x27;t a clean slate each time. Any mess that can accumulate in prod can accumulate in a pre-prod environment.<p>I guess I&#x27;m not following what this article is advocating for.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pmontra</author><text>The article is about spinning up multiple staging servers, maybe one per branch&#x2F;feature and possibly leaving them there for hours or days, to be inspected at each own URL until somebody confirms that the implementation is OK. All of this is automated (a git push?)<p>The usual staging and&#x2F;or preproduction environments would be the preview of their own branches.<p>It sounds nice. The only problems I can see are:<p>1) The cost, because each one of those instances could have its own queues, databases, connections with third party APIs, etc.<p>2) Seeding the database with a meaningful amount of data. I often see preproduction database built by testers month by month after a minimal seeding. Each instance here has to be seeded with all data plus what&#x27;s required to demo the new feature. That must be saved before destroying the database, reused for further branches, merged with the data for other features.</text></comment> |
14,946,759 | 14,946,423 | 1 | 2 | 14,945,045 | train | <story><title>IT is the cause of rising income and wealth inequality since the 1970s [pdf]</title><url>http://economistsview.typepad.com/files/formation-of-capital-and-wealth-draft-5-07-2017.pdf</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>nippples</author><text>I really thought it was corrupt politicians giving away public resources to private mega corporations, irresponsible financing systems, wall street selling lel bonds, the undermining of the national working class, bogus copyright laws that are designed to squish small and upcoming competition, and people purchasing garbage degrees instead of useful ones with money they don&#x27;t have guaranteeing they&#x27;ll be indebted for at least two or three decades.<p>But no, it&#x27;s just IT. How wrong I was.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jrs95</author><text>There does seem to be a hostility towards people who work in tech on the left. To me this feels like pandering to that by Clintonian types who don&#x27;t actually have any interest in dealing with class issues.</text></comment> | <story><title>IT is the cause of rising income and wealth inequality since the 1970s [pdf]</title><url>http://economistsview.typepad.com/files/formation-of-capital-and-wealth-draft-5-07-2017.pdf</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>nippples</author><text>I really thought it was corrupt politicians giving away public resources to private mega corporations, irresponsible financing systems, wall street selling lel bonds, the undermining of the national working class, bogus copyright laws that are designed to squish small and upcoming competition, and people purchasing garbage degrees instead of useful ones with money they don&#x27;t have guaranteeing they&#x27;ll be indebted for at least two or three decades.<p>But no, it&#x27;s just IT. How wrong I was.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kartan</author><text>Yes. I work in IT and I&#x27;m rich, aren&#x27;t you rich like the rest on engineers that read Hacker News?
Not like the poor people at finance institutions, they create so much value and get so few in return...</text></comment> |
21,177,525 | 21,177,471 | 1 | 3 | 21,176,976 | train | <story><title>The NBA Feels a Backlash in China After a Tweet Supporting Hong Kong</title><url>https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-nba-feels-a-backlash-in-china-after-a-tweet-supporting-hong-kong-11570396236?mod=rsswn</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>khc</author><text>This is more representing the power of social media mob justice than what &quot;China&quot; wants. It&#x27;s really not that different from how the left or the right boycott a business after any other tweet</text></item><item><author>reaperducer</author><text>China is offended by him offering an opinion on something. So, that makes them right?<p>I&#x27;m offended by his backpedaling. That makes me right, right?<p>China really needs to get a grip and understand that with seven billion people in the world, not everyone is going to agree with everything it wants.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>alisonatwork</author><text>This is only superficially true.<p>In China the CPC exercises strict control over what topics are allowed to trend on social media, so what appears to be &quot;mob justice&quot; is actually a carefully curated event. The state media chose to report on this rather than ignore it. The Cyberspace Administration chose to allow this outrage to gain momentum while topics that do not toe the party line are squashed.<p>You cannot really compare the kind of social media &quot;mob justice&quot; people speak of in the west to how things are managed on the Chinese internet.</text></comment> | <story><title>The NBA Feels a Backlash in China After a Tweet Supporting Hong Kong</title><url>https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-nba-feels-a-backlash-in-china-after-a-tweet-supporting-hong-kong-11570396236?mod=rsswn</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>khc</author><text>This is more representing the power of social media mob justice than what &quot;China&quot; wants. It&#x27;s really not that different from how the left or the right boycott a business after any other tweet</text></item><item><author>reaperducer</author><text>China is offended by him offering an opinion on something. So, that makes them right?<p>I&#x27;m offended by his backpedaling. That makes me right, right?<p>China really needs to get a grip and understand that with seven billion people in the world, not everyone is going to agree with everything it wants.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>supercanuck</author><text>Sure it is. One represents free speech in response to market participants making decisions.<p>The other is an authoritarian government shutting down business ties based on one employee opinion.<p>How do people not see the difference in this? On twitter, people are to speak whatever they want and can choose to buy whatever they want.<p>In China. Not so much.</text></comment> |
31,369,013 | 31,369,279 | 1 | 2 | 31,365,053 | train | <story><title>Employers’ Use of AI Tools Can Violate the Americans with Disabilities Act</title><url>https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/justice-department-and-eeoc-warn-against-disability-discrimination</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>theptip</author><text>One point that I think is under-discussed in the AI bias area:<p>While it is true that using an algorithmic process to select candidates may introduce discrimination against protected groups, it seems to me that it should be much easier to detect and prove than with previous processes with human judgement in the loop.<p>You can just subpoena the algorithm and then feed test data to it, and make observations. Even feed synthetic data like swapping in “stereotypically black” names for real resumes of other races, or in this case adding “uses a wheelchair” to a resume. (Of course in practice it’s more complex but hopefully this makes the point.)<p>With a human, you can’t really do an A&#x2F;B test to determine if they would have prioritized a candidate if they hadn’t included some signal; it’s really easy to rationalize away discrimination at the margins.<p>So while most AI&#x2F;ML developers are not currently strapping their models to a discrimination-tester, I think the end-state could be much better when they do.<p>(I think a concrete solution would be to regulate these models to require a certification with some standardized test framework to show that developers have actually attempted to control these potential sources of bias. Google has done some good work in this area: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;ai.google&#x2F;responsibilities&#x2F;responsible-ai-practices&#x2F;?category=fairness" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;ai.google&#x2F;responsibilities&#x2F;responsible-ai-practices&#x2F;...</a> - though there is nothing stopping model-sellers from self-regulating and publishing this testing first, to try to get ahead of formal regulation.)</text></comment> | <story><title>Employers’ Use of AI Tools Can Violate the Americans with Disabilities Act</title><url>https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/justice-department-and-eeoc-warn-against-disability-discrimination</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>theptip</author><text>The linked article gives some examples that I think are very useful clarifications:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.eeoc.gov&#x2F;tips-workers-americans-disabilities-act-and-use-software-algorithms-and-artificial-intelligence" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.eeoc.gov&#x2F;tips-workers-americans-disabilities-act...</a><p>&gt; The format of the employment test can screen out people with disabilities [for example:] A job application requires a timed math test using a keyboard. Angela has severe arthritis and cannot type quickly.<p>&gt; The scoring of the test can screen out people with disabilities [for example:] An employer uses a computer program to test “problem-solving ability” based on speech patterns for a promotion. Sasha meets the requirements for the promotion. Sasha stutters so their speech patterns do not match what the computer program expects.<p>Interestingly, I think the second one is problematic for common software interview practices. If your candidate asked for an accommodation (say, no live rapid-fire coding) due to a recognized medical condition, you would be legally required to provide it.<p>This request hasn’t come up for me in all the (startup) hiring I’ve done, but it could be tough to honor this request fairly on short notice, so worth thinking about in advance.</text></comment> |
29,478,378 | 29,477,868 | 1 | 3 | 29,475,714 | train | <story><title>Over 200 newspapers now involved in lawsuits vs. Google, Facebook</title><url>https://www.axios.com/1-local-newspapers-lawsuits-facebook-google-3c3dee3a-cce3-49ef-b0a2-7a98c2e15c91.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jccalhoun</author><text>I have long said the problem with paying for news is that it is rarely worth paying for. When I was in grad school there was a program that gave us &quot;free&quot; copies of the NYTimes and USA Today (I&#x27;m sure part of our tuition paid for it but all we had to do was swipe our student id to open the newspaper box). I would get them every day and there were rarely more than one story in them that I would actually read.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>threatofrain</author><text>1. News isn&#x27;t worth paying for when the race-to-the-bottom has already occurred. How do you persuade people to buy things which are basically free and can be viewed even without ads?<p>2. For many events, it&#x27;s not the writing I care about but the <i>information</i>. IMO Google realizes the difference and bets on information over writing, whereas NYT still wants to sell writing. All publications which are trying to stop Google from scraping their information are basically insisting that their copyrightable storytelling is being ruined by Google&#x27;s information extraction.<p>3. For <i>general</i> news, I often don&#x27;t know what I want to know. This is where news aggregation is way better than individual outlets, at least most of the time, with exceptions going to specific domains like food or games. If WION gets the exclusive interview, then WION is where I want to go and everyone else is just re-reporting. News aggregation also allows you to take in a sense of inter-rater reliability on a per-story level. But this is all playing into Google&#x27;s strengths.<p>Given this, I don&#x27;t understand people saying this or that outlet sucks; for example, does Buzzfeed News suck? Just the name alone makes it sound like celebrity news gossip. But then once and awhile Buzzfeed News gets an exclusive interview (such as on Palantir matters), and guess what, I want them to show up on my aggregators.</text></comment> | <story><title>Over 200 newspapers now involved in lawsuits vs. Google, Facebook</title><url>https://www.axios.com/1-local-newspapers-lawsuits-facebook-google-3c3dee3a-cce3-49ef-b0a2-7a98c2e15c91.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jccalhoun</author><text>I have long said the problem with paying for news is that it is rarely worth paying for. When I was in grad school there was a program that gave us &quot;free&quot; copies of the NYTimes and USA Today (I&#x27;m sure part of our tuition paid for it but all we had to do was swipe our student id to open the newspaper box). I would get them every day and there were rarely more than one story in them that I would actually read.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>reaperducer</author><text><i>I would get them every day and there were rarely more than one story in them that I would actually read.</i><p>Maybe the problem wasn&#x27;t the paper.<p>The New York Times&#x27; target audience isn&#x27;t grad students. I don&#x27;t think it&#x27;s all that surprising that you weren&#x27;t all that interested in it.<p>As we get older, we change. We learn more. We become interested in more things. Depending on how long it&#x27;s been since grad school, you may be interested in what&#x27;s in the Times now.<p>I know that I don&#x27;t like the same thing I did back in grad school. I certainly know that I&#x27;m interested in more things than I was then.<p>When I was in grad school, I couldn&#x27;t stand the taste of tapioca. Now, I love it.</text></comment> |
12,120,179 | 12,119,271 | 1 | 2 | 12,118,532 | train | <story><title>Memory management in C programs (2014)</title><url>http://nethack4.org/blog/memory.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>deathanatos</author><text>&gt; <i>plenty of modern code written in languages like C++ (whose exception support is often eschewed) and Go gets by without [exceptions].</i><p>I would not consider C++ code that eschews exceptions &quot;modern&quot;. To eschew exceptions almost always entails giving up RAII, and if you give up RAII you&#x27;ve done yourself a huge disservice: you&#x27;re now stuck manually managing memory and resources, and suffering all the bugs that come with that. While RAII does not outright prevent these bugs (which is one of the reasons I&#x27;m a huge fan of Rust), coding along its principles greatly reduces the risk that you will run into problems.<p>If you&#x27;re wondering: giving up exceptions means a constructor has no way to signal failure, as the result of a ctor in C++ is always either an exception, or a constructed object. Most &quot;no exceptions&quot; C++ code I&#x27;ve seen opts to construct what I call &quot;zombie objects&quot;; internally, the object tracks that an error has occurred, and all uses of the real object must be first checked against that internal error flag to ensure the object isn&#x27;t a zombie (or if it is, then error). The object is effectively a null pointer, and has all the trouble that entails.<p>(I also won&#x27;t pretend that exceptions aren&#x27;t without problems; in particular, the argument against them because you can&#x27;t tell, at a particular point in a function&#x27;s code, if an exception can occur, or where it would be caught, is completely valid, but no different in many popular languages, such as Python, C#, and in some ways, Java. However, I think the advantages of RAII — and exceptions — outweigh their disadvantages.)<p>&gt; <i>It just has to be written so that most functions manually propagate error codes they receive</i><p>When I&#x27;ve had to write C, I&#x27;ve found this to be exceptionally tedious to do correctly, and all too easy to ignore.</text></item><item><author>comex</author><text>I&#x27;m going to claim that the problem being solved here fundamentally comes from attempting to shoehorn early exit into an ancient codebase that wasn&#x27;t designed for it, via longjmp. Exceptions can be a handy language feature, but plenty of modern code written in languages like C++ (whose exception support is often eschewed) and Go gets by without them. It just has to be written so that most functions manually propagate error codes they receive, potentially after manually unwinding some core state. C code can be written that way too: the manual cleanup that must be written then extends to mundane buffer freeing, but that&#x27;s a tractable and local requirement; no need for complicated global reasoning around static buffers and custom allocation schemes.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>flohofwoe</author><text>RAII (or rather the only useful part of the idea: that the destructor is called when an object goes out of scope) without exceptions is totally fine if you&#x27;re not too dogmatic about initialising <i>everything</i> (especially not things that can go wrong) in the constructor but instead have one or more separate init methods with a return value. The only important part is to cleanup everything in the destructor. This is all IMHO of course, but I&#x27;ve been writing C++ code for 20 years just fine without ever thinking &#x27;gee it would be nice to use exceptions here&#x27;.</text></comment> | <story><title>Memory management in C programs (2014)</title><url>http://nethack4.org/blog/memory.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>deathanatos</author><text>&gt; <i>plenty of modern code written in languages like C++ (whose exception support is often eschewed) and Go gets by without [exceptions].</i><p>I would not consider C++ code that eschews exceptions &quot;modern&quot;. To eschew exceptions almost always entails giving up RAII, and if you give up RAII you&#x27;ve done yourself a huge disservice: you&#x27;re now stuck manually managing memory and resources, and suffering all the bugs that come with that. While RAII does not outright prevent these bugs (which is one of the reasons I&#x27;m a huge fan of Rust), coding along its principles greatly reduces the risk that you will run into problems.<p>If you&#x27;re wondering: giving up exceptions means a constructor has no way to signal failure, as the result of a ctor in C++ is always either an exception, or a constructed object. Most &quot;no exceptions&quot; C++ code I&#x27;ve seen opts to construct what I call &quot;zombie objects&quot;; internally, the object tracks that an error has occurred, and all uses of the real object must be first checked against that internal error flag to ensure the object isn&#x27;t a zombie (or if it is, then error). The object is effectively a null pointer, and has all the trouble that entails.<p>(I also won&#x27;t pretend that exceptions aren&#x27;t without problems; in particular, the argument against them because you can&#x27;t tell, at a particular point in a function&#x27;s code, if an exception can occur, or where it would be caught, is completely valid, but no different in many popular languages, such as Python, C#, and in some ways, Java. However, I think the advantages of RAII — and exceptions — outweigh their disadvantages.)<p>&gt; <i>It just has to be written so that most functions manually propagate error codes they receive</i><p>When I&#x27;ve had to write C, I&#x27;ve found this to be exceptionally tedious to do correctly, and all too easy to ignore.</text></item><item><author>comex</author><text>I&#x27;m going to claim that the problem being solved here fundamentally comes from attempting to shoehorn early exit into an ancient codebase that wasn&#x27;t designed for it, via longjmp. Exceptions can be a handy language feature, but plenty of modern code written in languages like C++ (whose exception support is often eschewed) and Go gets by without them. It just has to be written so that most functions manually propagate error codes they receive, potentially after manually unwinding some core state. C code can be written that way too: the manual cleanup that must be written then extends to mundane buffer freeing, but that&#x27;s a tractable and local requirement; no need for complicated global reasoning around static buffers and custom allocation schemes.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kabdib</author><text>I&#x27;ve not seen a large production C++ code base that did anything with exceptions other than to catch them, record some debug information and restart.<p>This is especially true when third party code is involved. C++ is hard enough to get right without exceptions; dealing with failure in bodies of code that you didn&#x27;t write and maybe don&#x27;t have control over (or even source code of) is death on wheels.<p>If that means the code I&#x27;m working on isn&#x27;t modern . . . I think that&#x27;s fine. But the first volume (of three?) of Herb Sutter&#x27;s <i>Exceptional C++</i> should be enough to convince anyone that dealing with exceptions &quot;correctly&quot; is time better spent eschewing exceptions and restructuring your code so you can do <i>worthwhile</i> hard things.</text></comment> |
10,576,597 | 10,576,684 | 1 | 2 | 10,570,069 | train | <story><title>18F's Micro-Purchase Experiment: Why I Bid $1</title><url>http://www.brendansudol.com/writing/18f-micropurchase/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>femto113</author><text>I think if there&#x27;s any lesson to be taken from this it&#x27;s that presenting bounded, well-described (and thus easily undertaken) sub-projects is probably more effective than simply inviting developers to &quot;help out&quot; in some non-specific manner on a larger open-source efforts.</text></comment> | <story><title>18F's Micro-Purchase Experiment: Why I Bid $1</title><url>http://www.brendansudol.com/writing/18f-micropurchase/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>OJFord</author><text>This is a great outcome for that story. I must admit, I did too assume it was trolling behaviour when I saw the bidding on HN.<p>He wanted to do the work, he got what he wanted, and the US Government got the job done for just $1!<p>Not sure how anyone can see this but a victory for the US public.<p>18F is, I think, a fantastic initiative; I hope HM Government takes note - could be fantastic here in the UK too.</text></comment> |
26,713,698 | 26,713,292 | 1 | 3 | 26,712,524 | train | <story><title>I hope work from home continues</title><url>https://www.ryanmercer.com/ryansthoughts/2021/4/6/some-of-the-reasons-i-hope-work-from-home-continues-and-i-never-have-to-return-to-an-office</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>protonimitate</author><text>I have a hard time wrapping my head around why companies are mandating 100% return to office.<p>Cost issues aside, I&#x27;ve always maintained that the absolute best experience is a hybrid&#x2F;flexible schedule and location policy. I&#x27;m currently full time remote (I&#x27;m on the East Coast working for a West Coast company). My previous company had its main office in my current city, but allowed a super flexible choose-where-you-work-from policy. It was the best.<p>Didn&#x27;t feel like dealing with the commute or had a ton of heads down work to do? Stay at home. Wanted to go in to be present for meetings? Easy. Start the day at the office and go home to finish off the day and avoid the commute? Sure.<p>Of course they made it possible by actively managing it. No meetings before 11am ET (to accomodate those in different TZs). Every scheduled meeting required a Zoom&#x2F;conference link. Dedicated offices were set up as &quot;conference rooms&quot; so remote people could call in. And of course, people all the way up the ladder worked from home at least some of the time.<p>Being full remote doesn&#x27;t work for everyone. Providing a space for those who want it is such a huge quality of life bonus imo. But the biggest factor is creating a culture of inclusion, despite your employees working preferences. This is the hardest thing to do, especially at scale.</text></item><item><author>blunte</author><text>Wow, the author has a pretty miserable company :(.<p>That said, I share most of the opinions even though I quite like the office environment of my company.<p>I abso-fking-love choosing where I work (and to some degree, when). Being able to take my laptop and go sit under a canopy in my back yard when the weather is nice, seeing my rabbits hopping around the yard, my cats avoiding the aggressive she-rabbit, hearing the birds, etc., while working, is just about as happy as I can be while also working on stuff that doesn&#x27;t really matter much.<p>As I begin to form my own company, one of my priorities is to allow my employees to have at least some of their time completely at their own discretion. They choose when and where they work as long as they can attend some important anchor meetings (and obviously be productive). And for the social aspect, weekend or week-long dev retreats are ideal. 4 hours of intense serious work, plus a couple of hours of colleague social interaction, and the rest left to the individual to spend however they like, is the kind of situation I would have not even been able to dream of when I was younger.<p>And from a bean-counter owner perspective, do not underestimate the employee loyalty and overachievement motivation you can get by giving some nice free trips, nice free food, and quality equipment.<p>Big companies lack this freedom to treat their creative talent not because they cannot afford it but because the people in charge tend to not be creative thinkers. This is why most interesting things happen in smaller companies (and ultimately tend to get bought by the laggard big companies).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mumblemumble</author><text>&gt; I have a hard time wrapping my head around why companies are mandating 100% return to office.<p>Hot take: There&#x27;s a whole way of communicating and handling team organization that grew up around 20th century business management culture, and it just doesn&#x27;t work well with remote teams. Methods that <i>do</i> work well with remote teams, though, don&#x27;t work well with traditional deeply hierarchical management structures. At best, they tend to make all those management layers somewhat superfluous.<p>This means getting people back into the office may be a matter of self-preservation for career managers, whether they realize it consciously or not.</text></comment> | <story><title>I hope work from home continues</title><url>https://www.ryanmercer.com/ryansthoughts/2021/4/6/some-of-the-reasons-i-hope-work-from-home-continues-and-i-never-have-to-return-to-an-office</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>protonimitate</author><text>I have a hard time wrapping my head around why companies are mandating 100% return to office.<p>Cost issues aside, I&#x27;ve always maintained that the absolute best experience is a hybrid&#x2F;flexible schedule and location policy. I&#x27;m currently full time remote (I&#x27;m on the East Coast working for a West Coast company). My previous company had its main office in my current city, but allowed a super flexible choose-where-you-work-from policy. It was the best.<p>Didn&#x27;t feel like dealing with the commute or had a ton of heads down work to do? Stay at home. Wanted to go in to be present for meetings? Easy. Start the day at the office and go home to finish off the day and avoid the commute? Sure.<p>Of course they made it possible by actively managing it. No meetings before 11am ET (to accomodate those in different TZs). Every scheduled meeting required a Zoom&#x2F;conference link. Dedicated offices were set up as &quot;conference rooms&quot; so remote people could call in. And of course, people all the way up the ladder worked from home at least some of the time.<p>Being full remote doesn&#x27;t work for everyone. Providing a space for those who want it is such a huge quality of life bonus imo. But the biggest factor is creating a culture of inclusion, despite your employees working preferences. This is the hardest thing to do, especially at scale.</text></item><item><author>blunte</author><text>Wow, the author has a pretty miserable company :(.<p>That said, I share most of the opinions even though I quite like the office environment of my company.<p>I abso-fking-love choosing where I work (and to some degree, when). Being able to take my laptop and go sit under a canopy in my back yard when the weather is nice, seeing my rabbits hopping around the yard, my cats avoiding the aggressive she-rabbit, hearing the birds, etc., while working, is just about as happy as I can be while also working on stuff that doesn&#x27;t really matter much.<p>As I begin to form my own company, one of my priorities is to allow my employees to have at least some of their time completely at their own discretion. They choose when and where they work as long as they can attend some important anchor meetings (and obviously be productive). And for the social aspect, weekend or week-long dev retreats are ideal. 4 hours of intense serious work, plus a couple of hours of colleague social interaction, and the rest left to the individual to spend however they like, is the kind of situation I would have not even been able to dream of when I was younger.<p>And from a bean-counter owner perspective, do not underestimate the employee loyalty and overachievement motivation you can get by giving some nice free trips, nice free food, and quality equipment.<p>Big companies lack this freedom to treat their creative talent not because they cannot afford it but because the people in charge tend to not be creative thinkers. This is why most interesting things happen in smaller companies (and ultimately tend to get bought by the laggard big companies).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>trentnix</author><text><i>I have a hard time wrapping my head around why companies are mandating 100% return to office.</i><p>I doubt it lasts, at least in software. Talented people are going to have lots of remote options making it harder to find good people willing to show up for daily cubicle warfare.<p>I was someone who preferred to be in the office every day prior to the pandemic. But after adjusting, I really, really like working from home. Truth is, I can&#x27;t imagine I&#x27;ll ever take another job that expects me to show up to an actual office everyday. I&#x27;m sure I&#x27;m not the only one.</text></comment> |
7,661,599 | 7,661,341 | 1 | 2 | 7,660,924 | train | <story><title>Leaving Go</title><url>http://jozefg.bitbucket.org/posts/2013-08-23-leaving-go.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tptacek</author><text>If you&#x27;re looking for a language that will enable &quot;bottom-up development&quot;, where you gradually define, in Paul Graham On Lisp style, a language optimized for your problem domain, Golang is not the language for you.<p>Similarly, if you&#x27;re looking for a language that will read and write like a specification for your problem domain, so that writing your program has the side effect of doing half the work of proving your program correct, Golang is also not a good choice.<p>What&#x27;s worse, those two approaches to solving programming problems are compatible with each other. Lots of sharp programmers deeply appreciate both of them, and are used to languages that gracefully provide both of those facilities. If that describes you, Golang is a terrible choice; it will feel like writing 1990s Java (even though it really isn&#x27;t).<p>There are two kinds of programmers for whom Golang will really resonate:<p>Python and Ruby developers who wish they could trade a bit of flexibility, ambiguousness, or dynamicism for better performance or safer code seem to like Golang a lot. Naive Golang code will outperform either Python or Ruby. Golang&#x27;s approach to concurrency, while not revolutionary, is very well executed; Python and Ruby developers who want to write highly concurrent programs, particularly if they&#x27;re used to the evented model, will find Golang not only faster but also probably easier to build programs in.<p>Systems C programmers (<i>not</i> C++ programmers; if you&#x27;re a C++ programmer in 2014, chances are you appreciate a lot of the knobs and dials Golang has deliberately jettisoned) might appreciate Golang for writing a lot like C, while providing 80% of the simplicity and flexibility value of Python. In particular, if you&#x27;re the kind of programmer that starts projects in Python and then routinely &quot;drops down&quot; to C for the high-performance bits, Golang is kind of a dream. Golang&#x27;s tooling is also optimized in such a way that C programmers will deeply appreciate it, without getting frustrated by the tools Golang misses that are common to other languages (particularly, REPLs).<p>At the end of the day, Golang is overwhelmingly about pragmatism and refinement. If you&#x27;re of the belief that programming is stuck in a rut of constructs from the 1980s and 1990s, and that what is needed is better <i>languages</i> that more carefully describe and address the problems of correct and expressive programming, Golang will drive you nuts. If you&#x27;re the kind of person who sees programming languages as mere tools --- and I think that&#x27;s a totally legitimate perspective, personally --- you might find Golang very pleasant to use. I don&#x27;t know that Golang is a great <i>language</i>, but it is an extremely well-designed tool.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>stiff</author><text>There is something to your description. I use Go sometimes, for pragmatic reasons, when I need more performance than I can get from Python or Ruby, but boy is it a ugly language!<p>There are just tens of little ugly things Go does and the result is, well, even uglier. Writing four functions for every collection to be sorted, writing x = append(x, foo) everywhere, shitty namespacing that prevents you from writing list := list.New() and so on and so forth. Even C is more elegant, and I would probably prefer to use C, if only C came with a library manager like rubygems or go get and a decent repository of libraries. I would even prefer <i>Java</i> if it produced native binaries and had an integrated library manager.</text></comment> | <story><title>Leaving Go</title><url>http://jozefg.bitbucket.org/posts/2013-08-23-leaving-go.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tptacek</author><text>If you&#x27;re looking for a language that will enable &quot;bottom-up development&quot;, where you gradually define, in Paul Graham On Lisp style, a language optimized for your problem domain, Golang is not the language for you.<p>Similarly, if you&#x27;re looking for a language that will read and write like a specification for your problem domain, so that writing your program has the side effect of doing half the work of proving your program correct, Golang is also not a good choice.<p>What&#x27;s worse, those two approaches to solving programming problems are compatible with each other. Lots of sharp programmers deeply appreciate both of them, and are used to languages that gracefully provide both of those facilities. If that describes you, Golang is a terrible choice; it will feel like writing 1990s Java (even though it really isn&#x27;t).<p>There are two kinds of programmers for whom Golang will really resonate:<p>Python and Ruby developers who wish they could trade a bit of flexibility, ambiguousness, or dynamicism for better performance or safer code seem to like Golang a lot. Naive Golang code will outperform either Python or Ruby. Golang&#x27;s approach to concurrency, while not revolutionary, is very well executed; Python and Ruby developers who want to write highly concurrent programs, particularly if they&#x27;re used to the evented model, will find Golang not only faster but also probably easier to build programs in.<p>Systems C programmers (<i>not</i> C++ programmers; if you&#x27;re a C++ programmer in 2014, chances are you appreciate a lot of the knobs and dials Golang has deliberately jettisoned) might appreciate Golang for writing a lot like C, while providing 80% of the simplicity and flexibility value of Python. In particular, if you&#x27;re the kind of programmer that starts projects in Python and then routinely &quot;drops down&quot; to C for the high-performance bits, Golang is kind of a dream. Golang&#x27;s tooling is also optimized in such a way that C programmers will deeply appreciate it, without getting frustrated by the tools Golang misses that are common to other languages (particularly, REPLs).<p>At the end of the day, Golang is overwhelmingly about pragmatism and refinement. If you&#x27;re of the belief that programming is stuck in a rut of constructs from the 1980s and 1990s, and that what is needed is better <i>languages</i> that more carefully describe and address the problems of correct and expressive programming, Golang will drive you nuts. If you&#x27;re the kind of person who sees programming languages as mere tools --- and I think that&#x27;s a totally legitimate perspective, personally --- you might find Golang very pleasant to use. I don&#x27;t know that Golang is a great <i>language</i>, but it is an extremely well-designed tool.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>m0th87</author><text>You&#x27;re right, Golang is all about pragmatism, and a very pragmatic thing for language designers to do is to listen to the marketplace on how the language should evolve. Lack of polymorphism must be the most common critique of Golang. It seems pretty practical to add it, as it would greatly reduce the amount of boilerplate. And it&#x27;s not as if polymorphism is stuck in the ivory tower - languages used in industry have had them for decades.</text></comment> |
30,192,219 | 30,191,722 | 1 | 3 | 30,191,126 | train | <story><title>Apple Podcasts suddenly became a five-star app</title><url>https://www.theverge.com/2022/2/2/22914612/apple-podcasts-app-rating-user-reviews-problem</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>mrtksn</author><text>FTA:<p>&gt; That’s right: they’re reviews of the podcasts themselves, not the Apple Podcasts app.<p>Yep, this happens all the time. People often rate the message and not the messenger. If you think about it, kind of make sense since many people would not understand who provides what in the experience.<p>I wouldn&#x27;t be surprised if Google Chrome has 5 start reviews about that great website they visited or 1 start reviews about website that was not nice to them.<p>To put yourself in their shoes, consider how do you review a shopping experience in a supermarket. Are the low quality products the shop owners fault? Are the high quality products shop owners success? You might think that the answer is straightforward but it is not, some shops simply sell stands where the producers put their products and in other shops they are very involved through the whole experience.<p>Time that with the recommended pattern of &quot;Ask for a review when something good happens in your app&quot; and you have a glee of happy users recommending the experience to everyone.</text></comment> | <story><title>Apple Podcasts suddenly became a five-star app</title><url>https://www.theverge.com/2022/2/2/22914612/apple-podcasts-app-rating-user-reviews-problem</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>herghost</author><text>It might have been my failure, but I couldn&#x27;t get the Podcast app to list and play all my outstanding podcasts in the order that they&#x27;d arrived. So I had to be regularly fiddling with it to switch what I was listening to rather than just letting a timeline of content play out. Like I said, maybe it was my failure, but it seems like an odd thing to not be really obviously available to a user of a podcast app.<p>Overcast is my app of choice now, and I subscribe to it since it&#x27;s such a great app.</text></comment> |
20,584,542 | 20,584,713 | 1 | 3 | 20,583,871 | train | <story><title>California Police Are Sharing Facial Recognition Databases to ID Suspects</title><url>https://onezero.medium.com/california-police-are-sharing-facial-recognition-databases-to-id-suspects-3317726d31ad</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>landcoctos</author><text>My local PD wants to do this. The need the City Commission to pass a resolution allowing them to sign this agreement.<p>I spoke with one of my commissioners who then had a meeting with the Police Department. The end result was the Police removed the item from the Commission meeting because they needed more time to prepare, justify and lay out policies in its use.<p>Had I not reached out this likely would have been rubber stamped.</text></comment> | <story><title>California Police Are Sharing Facial Recognition Databases to ID Suspects</title><url>https://onezero.medium.com/california-police-are-sharing-facial-recognition-databases-to-id-suspects-3317726d31ad</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>gumby</author><text>I have a hard time getting too upset about this <i>as described in the article</i>. Sharing <i>police</i> fingerprints and mug shots doesn’t sound too bad.<p>There are of course “but”s:
- should mug shots be retained for people later freed&#x2F;not convicted? Certainly. It he case today for photos, prints, and (in California) DNA.<p>- expanding into the DL database, as mentioned in the article seems like a dangerous scope creep — though what if they are investigating a driving offense like a hit and run?<p>Anyway, a useful article. But not <i>necessarily</i> a bad thing, for a change.</text></comment> |
15,580,257 | 15,580,382 | 1 | 2 | 15,579,684 | train | <story><title>DOJ: Billionaire pharma owner fueled the opioid epidemic with bribery scheme</title><url>https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2017/10/doj-billionaire-pharma-owner-fueled-the-opioid-epidemic-with-bribery-scheme/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>alkonaut</author><text>I trust this guy will get what he deserves, but surely there should be other people falling here?<p>Usually it&#x27;s the <i>taker</i> of bribes that is the biggest criminal. Any doctor who can be shown to have given addictive opioids to people that aren&#x27;t terminally ill should be investigated.<p>This is completely regardless of whether it was the &quot;standard practice&quot; at the time, or whether some pharmaceutical sales rep told them it was a good idea.<p>If just a couple of hundred doctors would lose their license and a few dozen end up in jail, that would make some headlines and perhaps make other doctors think twice before prescribing oxycodone to someone with normal back pain. Doing that is like amputating someone at the hip for toenail fungus.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pjc50</author><text>&gt; Any doctor who can be shown to have given addictive opioids to people that aren&#x27;t terminally ill should be investigated.<p>This is a <i>terrible</i> idea. All opioids are theoretically addictive. They&#x27;re also the most effective painkillers. Even cocodamol is an opiate. Escalating the War on Drugs like this is just going to leave a whole load more people in treatable pain.<p>It&#x27;s a complex problem, but I think this Vice article is a good summary of how the UK has avoided a comparable crisis: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.vice.com&#x2F;en_uk&#x2F;article&#x2F;ppm5eg&#x2F;the-truth-about-oxycodone" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.vice.com&#x2F;en_uk&#x2F;article&#x2F;ppm5eg&#x2F;the-truth-about-ox...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>DOJ: Billionaire pharma owner fueled the opioid epidemic with bribery scheme</title><url>https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2017/10/doj-billionaire-pharma-owner-fueled-the-opioid-epidemic-with-bribery-scheme/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>alkonaut</author><text>I trust this guy will get what he deserves, but surely there should be other people falling here?<p>Usually it&#x27;s the <i>taker</i> of bribes that is the biggest criminal. Any doctor who can be shown to have given addictive opioids to people that aren&#x27;t terminally ill should be investigated.<p>This is completely regardless of whether it was the &quot;standard practice&quot; at the time, or whether some pharmaceutical sales rep told them it was a good idea.<p>If just a couple of hundred doctors would lose their license and a few dozen end up in jail, that would make some headlines and perhaps make other doctors think twice before prescribing oxycodone to someone with normal back pain. Doing that is like amputating someone at the hip for toenail fungus.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>propman</author><text>2 doctors who prescribed the 10,000x more potent than morphine that is only approved for late stage terminal cancer, note this is far far more potent than any other opioid. The doctors prescribed it for knee pain, minor injuries, headaches, minor Joint pain, any and everything and they owned their own pharmacy which essentiallY just sold that and one other opiodmillegally. 81 witnesses came forward showing how addicting themselves to this insanely worse than opiod substance ruined their lives.<p>Meanwhile one doctor had 23 Lamborghinis, many beach front condos and 2 doctors prescribed 1&#x2F;3 of the total prescriptions in the world. Both serving 20+ years sentenced last year, NPs who pushed all this got 3 years, almost every executive has been charged and trial 2018</text></comment> |
31,202,091 | 31,201,989 | 1 | 2 | 31,178,021 | train | <story><title>LineByLine: Memorize Anything</title><url>https://www.linebyline.app/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>bulbosaur123</author><text>Cool, some UX tips:
Remove fade ins, fade outs. Takes too long. I use Anki daily and would use this app for longer texts to compare to Anki, but everything has to be optimised for minimum amount of clicks with no fancy effects like fade ins. When you are working with 50 texts a day those pause intervals for extra clicking and fade ins add up and burn time. Add keywords shortcuts like in Anki. Clicking with mouse is too toiling. Space should be used to reveal text and 1 and 2 buttons to confirm if you memorised or not. Add push notifications for daily exercise reminders. Good potential though.</text></comment> | <story><title>LineByLine: Memorize Anything</title><url>https://www.linebyline.app/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>virissimo</author><text>Ah, this looks like a generalized version of a tool I made specifically to learn The Lusiads (a Portuguese epic poem). It&#x27;s called MemorizeOnline and you can find it here: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;memorize.online" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;memorize.online</a>.<p>Very cool project btw.</text></comment> |
40,277,767 | 40,277,901 | 1 | 2 | 40,276,957 | train | <story><title>Patagonia's New Study Finds Fleece Jackets Are a Serious Pollutant (2016)</title><url>https://www.outsideonline.com/outdoor-gear/gear-news/patagonias-new-study-finds-fleece-jackets-are-serious-pollutant/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>sweetheart</author><text>There has got to be an option for a fleece-like material that doesn&#x27;t involve significant pollution or significant animal suffering. At some point, fleece has just gotta be phased out if we can&#x27;t produce it without enormous downsides.</text></item><item><author>nextos</author><text>There are several German brands selling fleece jackets made of boiled wool.<p>They are quite nice to be honest, and the price is not very different from decent synthetics.<p>Also boiled wool is not tricky to wash. Even regular wool is not hard to wash. If you have a washing machine with a wool program and you use soap specific for wool, things are straightforward.<p>We should favor natural fabrics. Synthetics are polluting during manufacturing and wear, plus they are hard to recycle. Externalities that turn into future debt.</text></item><item><author>jerlam</author><text>I found a 2023 followup from Patagonia:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.patagonia.com&#x2F;stories&#x2F;toward-an-end-to-microfiber-pollution&#x2F;story-141340.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.patagonia.com&#x2F;stories&#x2F;toward-an-end-to-microfibe...</a><p>They still make fleece clothes, but they recommend washing less and have funded or sell filters to capture the microfibers.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>hedora</author><text>Wool farming is pretty humane. The sheep generally live outside ib large pastures and are sheared once a year.<p>I wonder if it’s possible to make fleece from hemp.</text></comment> | <story><title>Patagonia's New Study Finds Fleece Jackets Are a Serious Pollutant (2016)</title><url>https://www.outsideonline.com/outdoor-gear/gear-news/patagonias-new-study-finds-fleece-jackets-are-serious-pollutant/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>sweetheart</author><text>There has got to be an option for a fleece-like material that doesn&#x27;t involve significant pollution or significant animal suffering. At some point, fleece has just gotta be phased out if we can&#x27;t produce it without enormous downsides.</text></item><item><author>nextos</author><text>There are several German brands selling fleece jackets made of boiled wool.<p>They are quite nice to be honest, and the price is not very different from decent synthetics.<p>Also boiled wool is not tricky to wash. Even regular wool is not hard to wash. If you have a washing machine with a wool program and you use soap specific for wool, things are straightforward.<p>We should favor natural fabrics. Synthetics are polluting during manufacturing and wear, plus they are hard to recycle. Externalities that turn into future debt.</text></item><item><author>jerlam</author><text>I found a 2023 followup from Patagonia:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.patagonia.com&#x2F;stories&#x2F;toward-an-end-to-microfiber-pollution&#x2F;story-141340.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.patagonia.com&#x2F;stories&#x2F;toward-an-end-to-microfibe...</a><p>They still make fleece clothes, but they recommend washing less and have funded or sell filters to capture the microfibers.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>1053r</author><text>Not sure if you count insects into your moral calculus, but silk farming only involves caterpillars and mulberry trees. It&#x27;s warmer, softer, lighter, and way less smelly than plastic, so it doesn&#x27;t need as much washing, so less environmental impact. I can wear a silk t-shirt for about a week before it gets smelly, most of the time, whereas plastic shirts sometimes need to be washed twice after a single wearing to get the smell out!<p>The fibers are stronger than polyester, so if you get a thick silk fabric, it will last a lifetime. Unfortunately, it&#x27;s absurdly expensive, so even though the total cost of ownership isn&#x27;t terrible if you get a thick fabric because it will last forever, it&#x27;s a ton of money up front. Additionally, most places sell super thin silk to keep the price down, which means it doesn&#x27;t last, so you have to shop around and find the good thick stuff.<p>I love silkliving.com&#x27;s 100% silk line, which even includes a fleece hoodie! I&#x27;m not associated with them other than as a satisfied customer that paid full price.</text></comment> |
7,283,185 | 7,283,285 | 1 | 2 | 7,282,406 | train | <story><title>Colorado Pot Tax Proving More Lucrative Than Expected</title><url>http://www.slate.com/blogs/moneybox/2014/02/20/colorado_pot_tax_revenue_more_money_than_expected.html</url><text></text></story><parent_chain><item><author>gopalv</author><text>Ugh, is this going to look like Big Tobacco in 50 years?<p>Vice taxes and revenue streams to be kept alive for the district?<p>That&#x27;s going to be such a kick-in-the-backside for everyone who just wanted to decriminalize it &amp; stop putting people away for years.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tomphoolery</author><text>I don&#x27;t believe it will be quite the same. Big Tobacco really profits off the fact that most people can&#x27;t grow tobacco year round, and thus must purchase it at some point throughout the year. That basic fact is what ensures those companies never die. Tobacco was always grown outdoors, and there was never a need to research how to cultivate it clandestinely, be it indoors or small numbers.<p>On the other hand, pot can be grown in a computer case or a closet. It&#x27;s been bred for almost 100 years (maybe more) to be grown out of sight and out of mind. Given a very small amount of research and learning, almost anyone on the face of this planet can grow a marijuana plant. It&#x27;s called &quot;weed&quot; for a reason.<p>edit: In other words, it&#x27;s not exactly the same thing as what big tobacco was doing, which is marketing products on a mass scale, all the while knowing the kind of health damage that such products caused. That is what people had problems with.</text></comment> | <story><title>Colorado Pot Tax Proving More Lucrative Than Expected</title><url>http://www.slate.com/blogs/moneybox/2014/02/20/colorado_pot_tax_revenue_more_money_than_expected.html</url><text></text></story><parent_chain><item><author>gopalv</author><text>Ugh, is this going to look like Big Tobacco in 50 years?<p>Vice taxes and revenue streams to be kept alive for the district?<p>That&#x27;s going to be such a kick-in-the-backside for everyone who just wanted to decriminalize it &amp; stop putting people away for years.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>hershel</author><text>Technically, there are ways to prevent some of the harms of marijuana: Using e-cigarettes and using marijuana strains who mostly contain CBD(which generally has positive effects) and little THC(which creates feelings of paranoia and might have mental health risks) , so there are possible regulatory means to reduce lots of the risks without reducing tax revenue.</text></comment> |
31,786,822 | 31,786,082 | 1 | 3 | 31,785,084 | train | <story><title>Online privacy: to what extent should you try to go dark?</title><url>https://cyb3rsecurity.tips/p/-online-privacy-to-what-extent-should</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>photochemsyn</author><text>The only real way to ensure your data isn&#x27;t being collected and sold in the course of every single transaction you engage in (cash transactions being somewhat less trackable, however), is to get data privacy laws passed that forbid this activity by retailers, data brokers, and related entities. The EU has the right idea on this.<p>Ordinary individuals who attempt to use technology to &#x27;go dark&#x27; will likely, if they&#x27;re careful, be able to conceal their online identity from your average stalker type, malicious ex, or seedy credit card fraudster, but certainly not from the likes of Google, Apple, Verizon, or any number of government agencies with access to those outfit&#x27;s data centers. This is called mass domestic warrantless surveillance and it is illegal under any reasonable interpretation of the US constitution, and certainly shouldn&#x27;t be allowed by private parties either.<p>As far as spies, every history of spies I&#x27;ve ever read has one thing in common: they all hide in plain sight, using cover identities of some sort, acting as much like a normal member of society or their organization as possible, and then running off to do their data transfer&#x2F;nefarious activity in secret only rarely. Notably, mass domestic surveillance isn&#x27;t a very useful tool for catching such people - it&#x27;s more about authoritarian snooping on the population, engendering fear of the state as with STASI, as a means of control. That nonsense shouldn&#x27;t be allowed, and those who promote it are nothing but authoritarian enemies of democratic rule and free expression.</text></comment> | <story><title>Online privacy: to what extent should you try to go dark?</title><url>https://cyb3rsecurity.tips/p/-online-privacy-to-what-extent-should</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>DoreenMichele</author><text>These articles frequently err on the side of assuming that online security is entirely about worrying about random internet strangers taking advantage of you. For many people, the primary concern is an abusive SO, ex or relative, getting fired from their current job et al.<p>Some articles do address such things but they have something of a tendency to be addressed as a <i>separate issue</i> from &quot;online privacy&quot; rather than one element of the issue and a bigger issue for some individuals than others.</text></comment> |
32,073,569 | 32,072,423 | 1 | 2 | 32,071,124 | train | <story><title>Lofi Girl: YouTube sorry for taking down music stream</title><url>https://www.bbc.com/news/newsbeat-62133768</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>code51</author><text>Exactly.<p>Google is not paying my Admob money even after 5 months has passed (no violation, self-close of account)<p>Through the Kafkaesque maze of non-existent Adsense support, my case (they say) finally got escalated to a payment person at Google. Yet, I didn&#x27;t hear update for the past month.<p>You can&#x27;t ask anything about your case and you can&#x27;t get any time projection on when you&#x27;ll hear anything back.<p>If you don&#x27;t have big traffic or huge social reach, you are expendable and <i>can</i> get stuck in a never-ending hell.</text></item><item><author>mirashii</author><text>From a tweet: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;TeamYouTube&#x2F;status&#x2F;1546419223466999809#m" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;TeamYouTube&#x2F;status&#x2F;1546419223466999809#m</a><p>&gt; &amp; thx for your patience as we sorted it out<p>But they haven&#x27;t really sorted it out, have they? False copyright strike claims have been plaguing creators for years. This is just another case of someone needing social media and a huge reach or an inside connection to Google employees to get human eyes on a situation and &quot;resolve&quot; it, with no recourse on the lost revenue from the time it was down and no real guarantee it won&#x27;t happen again.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>derefr</author><text>In the old days, bigcorps just wouldn&#x27;t engage with ISVs directly at all. Instead, as an ISV, you&#x27;d engage the services of an &#x27;integrator&#x27; or &#x27;reseller&#x27; — a smaller-scale but still-large entity that you&#x27;d have a support contract with — where <i>the integrator</i> would then have a support contract with the bigcorp. If you were having an issue with the bigcorp&#x27;s product, you&#x27;d complain to the reseller, and then <i>they&#x27;d</i> complain to the bigcorp. And because the bigcorp only had a few such resellers as clients, each reseller would actually be able to get the bigcorp on the line.<p>This was (and still is) the IBM model for B2B software; and it was also the industry-standard model for game developers (interacting with the platform owner through a &quot;publisher&quot; — essentially taking the role here of an integrator.) It&#x27;s probably still the industry-standard model for musicians to engage with big record labels.<p>I&#x27;m honestly not sure why Google <i>doesn&#x27;t</i> push for this model. Their focus on &quot;scaling services as much as possible using as few human support staff as possible&quot; means this model is essentially perfect for them. But they ignore it. Maybe because they think it&#x27;d make them look like a dinosaur?<p>(I know they <i>do</i> do it in some places — we use GCP, and apparently, to be able to switch from card-based billing to invoice-based billing, we&#x27;re required to also switch from direct GCP support, to a support-contract with a GCP reseller. So we&#x27;d be paying the reseller — the invoices would be riding as accounts-receivable on the reseller&#x27;s books, rather than on Google&#x27;s!)</text></comment> | <story><title>Lofi Girl: YouTube sorry for taking down music stream</title><url>https://www.bbc.com/news/newsbeat-62133768</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>code51</author><text>Exactly.<p>Google is not paying my Admob money even after 5 months has passed (no violation, self-close of account)<p>Through the Kafkaesque maze of non-existent Adsense support, my case (they say) finally got escalated to a payment person at Google. Yet, I didn&#x27;t hear update for the past month.<p>You can&#x27;t ask anything about your case and you can&#x27;t get any time projection on when you&#x27;ll hear anything back.<p>If you don&#x27;t have big traffic or huge social reach, you are expendable and <i>can</i> get stuck in a never-ending hell.</text></item><item><author>mirashii</author><text>From a tweet: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;TeamYouTube&#x2F;status&#x2F;1546419223466999809#m" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;TeamYouTube&#x2F;status&#x2F;1546419223466999809#m</a><p>&gt; &amp; thx for your patience as we sorted it out<p>But they haven&#x27;t really sorted it out, have they? False copyright strike claims have been plaguing creators for years. This is just another case of someone needing social media and a huge reach or an inside connection to Google employees to get human eyes on a situation and &quot;resolve&quot; it, with no recourse on the lost revenue from the time it was down and no real guarantee it won&#x27;t happen again.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>somehnguy</author><text>Adsense held my funds for 6+ years in a never ending loop of bank account not valid-&gt;can’t edit this bank account. Same kafkaesque maze of non-existent support. Beyond frustrating.
One day it just suddenly let me fix the issue. No idea why.<p>Your point is spot on, if you don’t have a huge social media following you might as well be invisible. This <i>has</i> to change, hopefully via law. Because it isn’t just a google problem.</text></comment> |
24,635,300 | 24,635,191 | 1 | 2 | 24,633,490 | train | <story><title>How India Censors the Web</title><url>http://iamkush.me/how-india-censors-the-web/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>wtmt</author><text>&gt; The whimsical attitude towards web censorship from both ISPs and the Government necessitates the development of a crowdsourced tool to monitor and measure such censorship from different vantage points in the country.<p>I have to say, the whimsical attitude towards all kinds of censorship (not just the Internet) and to control people’s behavior is pervasive. Mass media does not focus on issues that have ramifications for the future generations, and the masses have been drugged into believing high pitch and nuance-less broadcasts as the truth. What’s worse is that legislators themselves don’t know or care much about these freedoms or are easily misled by vested interests in the bureaucracy.<p>Edit: As to why such problems not only exist but also thrive, I have to add the patronizing attitude that the governments (central and state) have towards citizens, residents, critics, dissenters and protestors. This is accepted and nurtured by many people who don’t understand the impact. It’s a long standing phenomenon that could almost be classified as core culture, IMO.</text></comment> | <story><title>How India Censors the Web</title><url>http://iamkush.me/how-india-censors-the-web/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>justDankin</author><text>I&#x27;m one of the authors of the paper in the post, we&#x27;re trying to extend this work by crowdsourcing censorship measurements from different vantage points in India.<p>We&#x27;ve compiled these tests into an android app, please consider running it if you live in India and would like to contribute to the research :) <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;play.google.com&#x2F;store&#x2F;apps&#x2F;details?id=com.censorwatch.netprobesapp" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;play.google.com&#x2F;store&#x2F;apps&#x2F;details?id=com.censorwatc...</a><p>It&#x27;s completely anonymous, doesn&#x27;t require any permissions, and does not store any user related information.</text></comment> |
36,002,177 | 35,999,954 | 1 | 3 | 35,998,882 | train | <story><title>Andy Rourke: The Smiths bassist dies aged 59</title><url>https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-65644596</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>minimal-o</author><text>I&#x27;m old enough to remember when &quot;The Smiths&quot; album was released and hit the underground club scene in the city where I grew up.<p>&quot;How Soon Is Now&quot; was a smash hit with the ecstacy crowd and was the track that compelled me to go right out and buy the record. I can&#x27;t count how many times I listened to that album for the lyrics, but moreso for the music.
To that point, Andy Rourke&#x27;s bass lines were prominent in the mix of every song, and a core component to The Smith&#x27;s &quot;sound&quot;. As much as Johnny Marr&#x27;s rhythm and lead guitar in my opinion.<p>And as important as Peter Hook&#x27;s bass playing or Ian Curtis&#x27; off key vocals were to Joy Division&#x27;s sound.<p>RIP young brother</text></comment> | <story><title>Andy Rourke: The Smiths bassist dies aged 59</title><url>https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-65644596</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>arathis</author><text>I spent an evening with Andy Rourke a few years ago. He was DJing a small bar and I was looking after him.<p>Man, he really didn’t think much of Morrissey!<p>He was a lovely man.</text></comment> |
18,733,542 | 18,733,677 | 1 | 2 | 18,733,048 | train | <story><title>FCC fines Swarm $900K for unauthorized satellite launch</title><url>https://reuters.com/article/amp/idUSKCN1OJ2WT</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mabbo</author><text>It feels to me as though the mantra of &quot;move fast and break things&quot; wasn&#x27;t meant to apply to <i>laws</i>. Purposely ignoring laws, regulations, or seeing vague ones that didn&#x27;t expect your crazy idea, and then hoping you can work it all out later after you&#x27;ve made lots of money- this is becoming more and more common in tech startups. And I personally don&#x27;t like it.<p>Uber and AirBnB are the classic examples (and it&#x27;s worked out wonderfully for them). In Toronto, Car2Go told customers to just park anywhere- don&#x27;t worry about getting parking tickets, we&#x27;ll handle it. (They didn&#x27;t). Swarm was told that their satellites could not be launched, so they just did it anyways hoping no one would notice. (Someone did). RobinHood announced checking accounts without checking if there were laws around such things. (There are).<p>Governments would be better to be ready for disruptive ideas and have flexibility in regulations to try them out. And we should all be voting and supporting candidates who want to see such changes happen. But until they do, it seems wrong to purposely break laws in order to make money.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jstanley</author><text>Unfortunately, laws are unlikely to change without a bit of violation.<p>Alcohol prohibition in the US didn&#x27;t end because everyone stayed good and sober.</text></comment> | <story><title>FCC fines Swarm $900K for unauthorized satellite launch</title><url>https://reuters.com/article/amp/idUSKCN1OJ2WT</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mabbo</author><text>It feels to me as though the mantra of &quot;move fast and break things&quot; wasn&#x27;t meant to apply to <i>laws</i>. Purposely ignoring laws, regulations, or seeing vague ones that didn&#x27;t expect your crazy idea, and then hoping you can work it all out later after you&#x27;ve made lots of money- this is becoming more and more common in tech startups. And I personally don&#x27;t like it.<p>Uber and AirBnB are the classic examples (and it&#x27;s worked out wonderfully for them). In Toronto, Car2Go told customers to just park anywhere- don&#x27;t worry about getting parking tickets, we&#x27;ll handle it. (They didn&#x27;t). Swarm was told that their satellites could not be launched, so they just did it anyways hoping no one would notice. (Someone did). RobinHood announced checking accounts without checking if there were laws around such things. (There are).<p>Governments would be better to be ready for disruptive ideas and have flexibility in regulations to try them out. And we should all be voting and supporting candidates who want to see such changes happen. But until they do, it seems wrong to purposely break laws in order to make money.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bluGill</author><text>The problem is not all laws are moral. Regulatory capture is a thing. Many different people (often paid by a corporation) have come up with scheme that greatly harm their competition for no gain, yet made them sound good.</text></comment> |
6,715,796 | 6,715,814 | 1 | 2 | 6,715,702 | train | <story><title>$4.1m goes missing as Chinese bitcoin trading platform GBL vanishes</title><url>http://www.coindesk.com/4-1m-goes-missing-chinese-bitcoin-trading-platform-gbl-vanishes/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>frandroid</author><text>So bitcoin has given us untraceable currency without the state, except that without traceability, you also have no accountability, no justice, no law. This libertarian nightmare will soon come crashing down.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Anderkent</author><text>Yeah, exactly. That&#x27;s why no one uses cash anymore. Just think of it! If you give someone your cash, they might just disappear!<p>&#x2F;s<p>Bitcoin won&#x27;t die just because people that want to ride the bubble lose some of their investments. It&#x27;ll slow down, of course, but storing wealth is not bitcoins selling point, and trusted central exchanges are not essential to the model.</text></comment> | <story><title>$4.1m goes missing as Chinese bitcoin trading platform GBL vanishes</title><url>http://www.coindesk.com/4-1m-goes-missing-chinese-bitcoin-trading-platform-gbl-vanishes/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>frandroid</author><text>So bitcoin has given us untraceable currency without the state, except that without traceability, you also have no accountability, no justice, no law. This libertarian nightmare will soon come crashing down.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Frozenlock</author><text>Yeah! That&#x27;s exactly what happened with cash!<p>Civilization crumbled and humanity disappeared.<p>In fact you are just dreaming this life.
Time to wake up!<p>&lt;insert dramatic chipmunk music&gt;</text></comment> |
29,786,013 | 29,784,027 | 1 | 3 | 29,783,154 | train | <story><title>YouTube and Twitter delete Joe Rogan interview with scientist</title><url>https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10364679/YouTube-Twitter-delete-Joe-Rogan-interview-scientist-helped-invent-MRNA-vaccines.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Commodore63</author><text>Malone&#x27;s been bootstrapping this &quot;cancelled scientist&quot; grift in plain sight since his appearance on Weinstein&#x27;s podcast.<p>It&#x27;s a formula you see over and over again.
1) Say enough shit to get your hand slapped
2) Do the IDW podcast tour to whine about the &quot;establishment&quot; and plug your Patreon and&#x2F;or supplements.
3) Get bankrolled by Thiel.</text></comment> | <story><title>YouTube and Twitter delete Joe Rogan interview with scientist</title><url>https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10364679/YouTube-Twitter-delete-Joe-Rogan-interview-scientist-helped-invent-MRNA-vaccines.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>eyablokov</author><text>Rogan stopped publishing his episodes on YouTube, since his contract with Spotify says that.</text></comment> |
14,527,993 | 14,527,914 | 1 | 2 | 14,527,710 | train | <story><title>Are Google, Amazon and others getting too big?</title><url>http://www.bbc.com/news/business-39875417</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>wildmusings</author><text>I am ultimately skeptical of companies that get all of their revenue from advertising and who fail to make money from sales of products. The value of online advertising is massively inflated.<p>Of the tech giants, Apple, Amazon, and Microsoft seem to be in the best shape at the moment. They make their money from selling real products and services to real end users.<p>Amazon is strong but not unbeatable. Walmart in particular, as well as a hypothetical alliance&#x2F;merger of supermarket chains, are well positioned to break Amazon&#x27;s dominance of e-commerce. But they will need the ambition and ruthlessness that has served Bezos so well. Few large American corporations still have the vigor and virility of Bezos&#x27;s Amazon.<p>Microsoft (full disclosure: my former employer) too is strong but not unbeatable. All of their products are facing tough competition from Apple (in OS and hardware sales), Google (in online services), and multiple others (in business software). Microsoft&#x27;s wins are hard fought and fair, and the competition never lags too much.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jacquesm</author><text>&gt; Microsoft&#x27;s wins are hard fought and fair<p>No, they were unfairly fought. Don&#x27;t let the fact that it is your former employer cloud your vision.<p>Not many companies have such a sordid history of unfair competition as Microsoft does.</text></comment> | <story><title>Are Google, Amazon and others getting too big?</title><url>http://www.bbc.com/news/business-39875417</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>wildmusings</author><text>I am ultimately skeptical of companies that get all of their revenue from advertising and who fail to make money from sales of products. The value of online advertising is massively inflated.<p>Of the tech giants, Apple, Amazon, and Microsoft seem to be in the best shape at the moment. They make their money from selling real products and services to real end users.<p>Amazon is strong but not unbeatable. Walmart in particular, as well as a hypothetical alliance&#x2F;merger of supermarket chains, are well positioned to break Amazon&#x27;s dominance of e-commerce. But they will need the ambition and ruthlessness that has served Bezos so well. Few large American corporations still have the vigor and virility of Bezos&#x27;s Amazon.<p>Microsoft (full disclosure: my former employer) too is strong but not unbeatable. All of their products are facing tough competition from Apple (in OS and hardware sales), Google (in online services), and multiple others (in business software). Microsoft&#x27;s wins are hard fought and fair, and the competition never lags too much.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>izacus</author><text>The problem with that is that those companies can use the ad revenue to dump prices in other field and essentially drive any possible competition out of the market. This can cause a dangerous snowball where a few huge corporations control several markets and competing is impossible because they don&#x27;t need to earn profit (or earn anything at all) on those secondary markets.<p>Add vendor lockin and you just created a corporate monopoly which is terrible for consumers.</text></comment> |
27,060,772 | 27,060,386 | 1 | 3 | 27,059,899 | train | <story><title>Catala: A Programming Language for the Law</title><url>https://arxiv.org/abs/2103.03198</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Y_Y</author><text>Awesome to see someone trying to implement this idea, which I bet most people here have wished existed at some point.<p><pre><code> 1 scope Section121SinglePerson:
2 rule requirements_ownership_met under condition
3 aggregate_periods_from_last_five_years of personal.property_ownership &gt;=^ 730 day
4 consequence fulfilled
</code></pre>
Syntax (shown above with line numbers added) looks pretty clean and simple. Hopefully it is enough like natural language that non-techies wouldn&#x27;t run away at first sight<p>This probably won&#x27;t cause a legal revolution tomorrow, but I hope it can be the start of a slow reform toward linguistic precision and machine-friendliness in legislation in the future.<p>Also it&#x27;s a bad name, since that&#x27;s already the (local) name of a widely spoken natural language.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>seanhunter</author><text>This snippet begs all the important questions. How is the value of &quot;aggregate_periods_from_last_five_years of personal.property_ownership&quot; calculated? What does it mean to own a property? Does it count if you jointly own a property with someone else? If so, how much of a percentage of ownership counts as ownership? What about if for some part of the 730 days the ownership of the property was subject to dispute and it could have been owned or not owned by the person in question?<p>The whole thing smacks of false precision to me. It&#x27;s precise about things that are not legally complex to be precise about in the current system, and the language gives the false impression that it&#x27;s actually going to be possible to be precise about everything.<p>Secondly, it feels like it will have a similar drawback to sql[1] in that it seems on the surface to be non-technical, but actually requires significant technical expertise to avoid numerous beartraps and understand anything beyond the very most obvious.<p>[1] Which was originally intended to be a formal version of natural language understandable to non-technical people (hence the original name SEQUEL &quot;Structured English Query Language&quot;)</text></comment> | <story><title>Catala: A Programming Language for the Law</title><url>https://arxiv.org/abs/2103.03198</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Y_Y</author><text>Awesome to see someone trying to implement this idea, which I bet most people here have wished existed at some point.<p><pre><code> 1 scope Section121SinglePerson:
2 rule requirements_ownership_met under condition
3 aggregate_periods_from_last_five_years of personal.property_ownership &gt;=^ 730 day
4 consequence fulfilled
</code></pre>
Syntax (shown above with line numbers added) looks pretty clean and simple. Hopefully it is enough like natural language that non-techies wouldn&#x27;t run away at first sight<p>This probably won&#x27;t cause a legal revolution tomorrow, but I hope it can be the start of a slow reform toward linguistic precision and machine-friendliness in legislation in the future.<p>Also it&#x27;s a bad name, since that&#x27;s already the (local) name of a widely spoken natural language.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>josalhor</author><text>&gt; Also it&#x27;s a bad name, since that&#x27;s already the (local) name of a widely spoken natural language.<p>As a native Catalan myself I was quite surprised by the title.</text></comment> |
26,724,242 | 26,720,880 | 1 | 2 | 26,720,403 | train | <story><title>Lisp as an alternative to Java (2000)</title><url>https://norvig.com/java-lisp.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>mabbo</author><text>I think the lesson to learn from Java was that we, developers, were evaluating languages on the wrong parameters.<p>Java is too verbose! (But that can reduce the need for so many comments, and comments can often mislead as software changes. Also, Java 8 was 2014 and it changed the game massively.)<p>Java runs slowly because of the JVM! (But the JVM evolves and improves, giving free upgrades to all Java programs over time. Also, I have a multi-GHZ processor now.)<p>Java takes longer to write! (But the first time you write a program is never the hard part- it&#x27;s continuous evolution of software that matters.)<p>Norvig&#x27;s code is beautiful and very good Lisp. But it&#x27;s so dense that it requires more lines of explanatory comments than actual functionality. The code&#x27;s functionality isn&#x27;t self-evident. And sure, you can write Java code that has the same flaws, but I find it&#x27;s easier to write readable Java code than it is to write readable Lisp.<p>I think Python&#x27;s success is further evidence of this perspective.</text></comment> | <story><title>Lisp as an alternative to Java (2000)</title><url>https://norvig.com/java-lisp.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>dang</author><text>If curious, related past threads (some with comments by norvig! <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;posts?id=norvig" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;posts?id=norvig</a>):<p><i>Lisp as an Alternative to Java – Faster, More Productive</i> - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=21899854" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=21899854</a> - Dec 2019 (1 comment)<p><i>Lisp as an Alternative to Java (1999)</i> - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=12197131" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=12197131</a> - July 2016 (103 comments)<p><i>Lisp as an Alternative to Java (2000) [pdf]</i> - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=9045574" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=9045574</a> - Feb 2015 (21 comments)<p><i>Lisp as an alternative to Java (2000) [pdf]</i> - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=8446368" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=8446368</a> - Oct 2014 (55 comments)<p><i>Lisp as an Alternative to Java</i> - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=3447101" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=3447101</a> - Jan 2012 (37 comments)<p><i>Python as an Alternative to Lisp or Java, Peter Norvig revisited</i> - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=2032743" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=2032743</a> - Dec 2010 (95 comments)<p><i>Ask PG: Lisp vs Python (2010)</i> - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=1803351" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=1803351</a> - Oct 2010 (192 comments)<p><i>Lisp as an Alternative to Java [PDF]</i> - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=61320" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=61320</a> - Sept 2007 (9 comments)</text></comment> |
4,528,607 | 4,527,703 | 1 | 3 | 4,527,506 | train | <story><title>Bill Gates: Books I Read this Summer</title><url>http://www.thegatesnotes.com/GatesNotesV2/Personal/Books-I-Read-This-Summer</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jacques_chester</author><text>I'm finding that writing reviews, even very surface-level reviews, of books I am reading is helping me to derive a lot more value from them.<p>Firstly, while reading, I find myself reflecting more on the book. After all -- I will be writing a review, I need to be an active participant.<p>Secondly, I find that books will often spark some thinking on a topic and the review will essentially morph into an essay. I wrote a 3000-word review of one book[1] that diverged into fuzzy logic, theories of jurisprudence and a few other areas in order to properly explain my reaction. Right now I'm writing a review of <i>Waltzing with Bears</i> that will diverge into financial accounting and a pet theory of mine about how tools create paradigms that shape entire bodies of knowledge.<p>Third, books can often be connected to one another. I find that my reviews tend to link to each other. Not because I am trying to drive internal link traffic (I'm basically a nobody in internet terms, it's not worth the bother). But book A will have tangentially touched on the topic of book B; or perhaps book C illuminates something only poorly discussed in book D. To the point where I refer to books from before I started reviewing with an "unreviewed" annotation.<p>Finally, some people find my reviews useful. My hobby is Olympic-style weightlifting and I do a lot of reading both on it directly and on allied subjects (eg, anatomy). Fellow strength nerds have found my reviews useful in helping them select books for their own libraries. It's nice when people give you positive feedback on something like that.<p>[1] <a href="http://chester.id.au/2012/04/09/review-drift-into-failure/" rel="nofollow">http://chester.id.au/2012/04/09/review-drift-into-failure/</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Bill Gates: Books I Read this Summer</title><url>http://www.thegatesnotes.com/GatesNotesV2/Personal/Books-I-Read-This-Summer</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>sixQuarks</author><text>It's kind of funny that he recommends: "Awakening Joy: 10 Steps That Will Put You on the Road to Real Happiness"<p>Step 1: Be worth billions of dollars<p>On a serious note, I realize that money doesn't buy happiness. Proven scientifically over and over again, people get used to their situations usually within 6 months, good or bad, and get back to their "normal" happiness levels regardless.</text></comment> |
982,261 | 982,309 | 1 | 2 | 982,004 | train | <story><title>Google Goggles</title><url>http://www.google.com/mobile/goggles/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>bradgessler</author><text>This is a great example of how Google could out-do the iPhone. The more non-trivial mobile applications have some processing that happen in the cloud. If Android phones could translate voice in real-time during a phone call and the iPhone could not, which phone would you consider buying?<p>Realistically though Google wants their services and applications on <i>all</i> platforms; now if only the App store would approve these...</text></comment> | <story><title>Google Goggles</title><url>http://www.google.com/mobile/goggles/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jodrellblank</author><text>One step closer to photographing a sign in a foreign country and doing OCR followed by Google Translate, maybe followed by overlaying the translated text back on the sign.<p>I think this would be a killer feature. I've never had much of a positive response when posting it as an idea previously - is it the case that if it really would be a killer feature, people would be all over the idea as well as the implementation, or is it possible to be a little supported idea that turns into a killer feature?<p>(Edit: Or maybe it's just more a European thing where several foreign languages are a few hours drive in any direction?)</text></comment> |
7,808,377 | 7,808,454 | 1 | 2 | 7,806,023 | train | <story><title>HipChat is now free for unlimited users</title><url>https://blog.hipchat.com/2014/05/27/hipchat-is-now-free-for-unlimited-users/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>freerobby</author><text>I disagree. We tried Slack on our 26-person team and left it after a week. It had a few fans, but most people found the interface to be more complex and noisy than HipChat. Lots of red icons and blue banners that could not be disabled. No ability to see at a glance who is in a room without clicking the list and scrolling through it. The integrations were nice and the search was amazing, but those things were less important to us than the frictionless communication tools, which HipChat has nailed. Additionally, Slack lacks a distinction between @all and @here, which is frustrating when you want to announce something in a room without emailing everyone present.</text></item><item><author>joeblau</author><text>HipChat is probably under fire from Slack. That&#x27;s why I think they are making this change, because I just made the transition a few weeks ago and Slack has been amazing. Once you go Slack, you never go back.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>baddox</author><text>Slack&#x27;s blue &quot;unread messages&quot; banner should be a deal-breaker. I feel like I spend 10% of my day clicking around on Slack trying to get all the channels to realize I have read all their messages. It&#x27;s such an insane usability nightmare that I can&#x27;t believe any person or team seriously building a chat app would implement it.</text></comment> | <story><title>HipChat is now free for unlimited users</title><url>https://blog.hipchat.com/2014/05/27/hipchat-is-now-free-for-unlimited-users/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>freerobby</author><text>I disagree. We tried Slack on our 26-person team and left it after a week. It had a few fans, but most people found the interface to be more complex and noisy than HipChat. Lots of red icons and blue banners that could not be disabled. No ability to see at a glance who is in a room without clicking the list and scrolling through it. The integrations were nice and the search was amazing, but those things were less important to us than the frictionless communication tools, which HipChat has nailed. Additionally, Slack lacks a distinction between @all and @here, which is frustrating when you want to announce something in a room without emailing everyone present.</text></item><item><author>joeblau</author><text>HipChat is probably under fire from Slack. That&#x27;s why I think they are making this change, because I just made the transition a few weeks ago and Slack has been amazing. Once you go Slack, you never go back.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>eli</author><text>Similar story. I really liked Slack and the integrations are fantastic, but the UI has way too much going on and the lack of a native Windos client meant even just deploying the app is a hassle. The mobile client has menus that slide from left, right, and top last I checked. I told them they&#x27;d have had my business easily if they had a one click windows install and an optional Dummy Mode I could turn on for users by default that makes it work like a simple irc client.<p>I went to HipChat instead but it&#x27;s got its own problems. Weirdly you can choose to get notifications for all rooms you&#x27;re in or none of them, but nothing in between. Very frustrating.</text></comment> |
19,409,866 | 19,410,041 | 1 | 2 | 19,409,513 | train | <story><title>The Secret to Becoming an Annoyingly Productive Early Morning Person</title><url>https://nickwignall.com/the-secret-to-productive-mornings/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>felipemnoa</author><text>&gt;&gt;200mg caffeine<p>I used to be a big caffeine drinker. In my experience the problem with caffeine is that your body&#x27;s tolerance to it seems to increase and so you need to keep increasing the dosage in order to get the same effect. It ended up being a net negative for me.<p>I&#x27;ve noticed that the best way to wake up early is simply to go to sleep early. Takes a bit of work at the beginning if you&#x27;ve developed some bad habits but eventually you can get used to it. Seems to be more mental than physical.<p>Also, caffeine should really be used only for emergencies in my opinion. Like if you&#x27;ve had very little sleep but you still need to be productive. Other than that I would stay away from it. Your body really does not need daily doses of caffeine to function, just like it does not need nicotine nor alcohol nor any other drug (assuming no medical need). They are just net negatives.<p>Drink green tea if you really feel like having some mild stimulant every day.</text></item><item><author>kough</author><text>The way I&#x27;ve switched from a &#x27;wake-at-2-pm&#x27; kind of person to a &#x27;wake-at-6-am&#x27; kind of person is setting an alarm, popping 200mg caffeine + 200mg modafinil, then going back to bed. In 10 minutes I&#x27;ll be right back up and ready to go to the gym and go about my day. I&#x27;ve started dialing back the modafinil since it seems unnecessary to get up anymore and I have some ethical concerns (see comment below.)<p>I&#x27;ll also +1 the friction removal concept -- laying out my gym clothes the night before really helps me get out the door as soon as I&#x27;m up in the morning. Otherwise, I&#x27;ll tend to want to go back to bed.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kough</author><text>I&#x27;m surprised that you&#x27;re commenting about the caffeine and not the modafinil!<p>Caffeine has lots of wonderful effects on the mind and the body. It was essential in helping me switch to an earlier routine: can&#x27;t go to bed at 10pm if you&#x27;re not tired because you woke up at noon; best way to be tired at 10pm is to get up at 6am; caffeine helped me get up at 6am.<p>Cycling your caffeine intake is a great way to still reap the benefits of caffeine without building up a tolerance.</text></comment> | <story><title>The Secret to Becoming an Annoyingly Productive Early Morning Person</title><url>https://nickwignall.com/the-secret-to-productive-mornings/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>felipemnoa</author><text>&gt;&gt;200mg caffeine<p>I used to be a big caffeine drinker. In my experience the problem with caffeine is that your body&#x27;s tolerance to it seems to increase and so you need to keep increasing the dosage in order to get the same effect. It ended up being a net negative for me.<p>I&#x27;ve noticed that the best way to wake up early is simply to go to sleep early. Takes a bit of work at the beginning if you&#x27;ve developed some bad habits but eventually you can get used to it. Seems to be more mental than physical.<p>Also, caffeine should really be used only for emergencies in my opinion. Like if you&#x27;ve had very little sleep but you still need to be productive. Other than that I would stay away from it. Your body really does not need daily doses of caffeine to function, just like it does not need nicotine nor alcohol nor any other drug (assuming no medical need). They are just net negatives.<p>Drink green tea if you really feel like having some mild stimulant every day.</text></item><item><author>kough</author><text>The way I&#x27;ve switched from a &#x27;wake-at-2-pm&#x27; kind of person to a &#x27;wake-at-6-am&#x27; kind of person is setting an alarm, popping 200mg caffeine + 200mg modafinil, then going back to bed. In 10 minutes I&#x27;ll be right back up and ready to go to the gym and go about my day. I&#x27;ve started dialing back the modafinil since it seems unnecessary to get up anymore and I have some ethical concerns (see comment below.)<p>I&#x27;ll also +1 the friction removal concept -- laying out my gym clothes the night before really helps me get out the door as soon as I&#x27;m up in the morning. Otherwise, I&#x27;ll tend to want to go back to bed.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>danenania</author><text>For people like me who often find &quot;go to sleep early&quot; impossible, try to get in an hour or so of solid exercise at least every couple of days--running, biking, lifting, or whatever--something that will fully exhaust you physically. And if possible, do it outside in the sun. This is the best way I&#x27;ve found to regulate sleeping patterns, and it also counteracts caffeine if I&#x27;ve had too much. I haven&#x27;t found anything else that works as well.</text></comment> |
36,167,388 | 36,167,335 | 1 | 2 | 36,166,250 | train | <story><title>North America is now the growth leader for new battery factories</title><url>https://electrek.co/2023/05/31/north-america-battery-factories/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>version_five</author><text>I don&#x27;t know about the US but Canada spent an absurd amount of public money to subsidize manufacturers and convince them to come. That is why they&#x27;re here, and they&#x27;ll leave the second we stop paying them.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tracker1</author><text>While I mostly agree, I think that many corporate leaders are starting to realize there&#x27;s other reasons to choose to build in a country beyond the bottom line numbers. There&#x27;s ongoing relations, restrictions and even supported&#x2F;sanctioned IP&#x2F;Design theft to consider. For better or worse, making anything is largely going to be global, and a big part is going to come down to not just payments, but other incentives to produce in a given region.<p>I think that the US and Canada are more incentivized to be competitive. My biggest concern is dealing with runoff&#x2F;waste from production facilities. I&#x27;m also concerned that rapidly expanding EV is too far ahead of grid support, not to mention even recent legislation restricting new car sales to only 3rd party dealers (middlemen taking big cuts), and they don&#x27;t want to sell EVs that require less maintenance.</text></comment> | <story><title>North America is now the growth leader for new battery factories</title><url>https://electrek.co/2023/05/31/north-america-battery-factories/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>version_five</author><text>I don&#x27;t know about the US but Canada spent an absurd amount of public money to subsidize manufacturers and convince them to come. That is why they&#x27;re here, and they&#x27;ll leave the second we stop paying them.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bryanlarsen</author><text>Companies don&#x27;t just abandon billion-dollar-plus factories.</text></comment> |
25,000,251 | 24,999,522 | 1 | 2 | 24,999,239 | train | <story><title>Volvo Trucks to launch full range of electric trucks in Europe in 2021</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/article/us-volvo-electric/volvo-trucks-to-launch-full-range-of-electric-trucks-in-europe-in-2021-idUSKBN27L0SI</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>stiray</author><text>Actually I was quite surprised that those are ordinary trucks without superhero style exterior etc. I think that this is a recipe for success of electric vehicles (and they are hurting EV market on long run) - not that they look like from outer space (at hefty price mark) but comparable to prices of non-EV while driving on electricity.<p>What companies like Tesla do is driving the hype for the sake of stock market, which is wrong - the target should be users of vehicles and the purpose they were purposed for.<p>I would choose the Volvo over any newage design with huge waste of space for transport - they are meant to be a TRANSPORT vehicles not a design for driving to a shopping mall picking chicks (that dont care about transport vehicle anyway).<p>And Volvo did it right. Targeting purpose, targeting users and business. Congrats. Finally.</text></comment> | <story><title>Volvo Trucks to launch full range of electric trucks in Europe in 2021</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/article/us-volvo-electric/volvo-trucks-to-launch-full-range-of-electric-trucks-in-europe-in-2021-idUSKBN27L0SI</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>c0nfused</author><text>Since the article is short on details here is the Volvo trucks page.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.volvotrucks.com&#x2F;en-en&#x2F;trucks&#x2F;alternative-fuels&#x2F;electric-trucks.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.volvotrucks.com&#x2F;en-en&#x2F;trucks&#x2F;alternative-fuels&#x2F;e...</a><p>They appear to be in the testing stage</text></comment> |
38,827,579 | 38,827,235 | 1 | 2 | 38,809,454 | train | <story><title>The step-by-step mechanical logic of old pinball machines [video]</title><url>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E3p_Cv32tEo</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>rezonant</author><text>Alec&#x27;s (Technology Connections) videos on that pinball machine are fantastically detailed, and his ability to map it all out and present it visually is amazing.<p>I&#x27;ve been a supporter of TC for many years, he has a fantastic backlog of videos on many topics. The series that hooked me (especially since I do a lot of work around broadcast software) was the one about the technology of television.<p>Give yourself a gift in the new year of watching through his backlog, you will not be disappointed!</text></comment> | <story><title>The step-by-step mechanical logic of old pinball machines [video]</title><url>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E3p_Cv32tEo</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>djmips</author><text>I&#x27;ve learned a lot about these old machines from Joe&#x27;s Classic Video Games <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;@LyonsArcade" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;@LyonsArcade</a><p>There&#x27;s several other channels that feature work on the old Electromechanical pinball machines like Goat Shed EM Pinball repair.</text></comment> |
21,392,629 | 21,392,407 | 1 | 3 | 21,389,657 | train | <story><title>Xfinity Is Man-in-the-Middle Attacking My Internet</title><url>https://rietta.com/blog/comcast-insecure-injection/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>panzagl</author><text>My HOA was sued for some slightly uneven sidewalks and the fact that some people had parked cars that jutted out of their driveways. Plaintiff doesn&#x27;t live here, has pretty much made a living by such lawsuits. So while I agree with the tenets of the ADA, it&#x27;s just one more example of how legislated morality will be abused by a small percentage for their own gain. If it were repealed tomorrow I would shrug.</text></item><item><author>jorvi</author><text>Only tangentially related, but how is the ADA act looked upon by Americans? The only time I&#x27;ve heard about it as an European was when Stanford (?) was forced by litigation to take entire swathes of free online education offline because it didn&#x27;t have subtitles. I&#x27;m all for making the web more accessible but it really soured me on the notion of such acts and if they are the best way to enforce said accessibility.</text></item><item><author>KingMachiavelli</author><text>&gt; This attack entirely breaks tab ordering, deeming the internet unusable for people requiring software assistance to provide accessibility to the World Wide Web. Additionally, the “escape” key, which is often used to close dialogs, doesn’t close the Xfinity notice.<p>A few weeks (months?) back there was an article about ongoing litigation on if websites are required to have accessibility compliance under the ADA act. I would be very happy to see Xfinity sued for this practice under that precedent and hopefully <i>any</i> injection would be considered a violation.<p>Status of supreme court case: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.scotusblog.com&#x2F;case-files&#x2F;cases&#x2F;dominos-pizza-llc-v-robles&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.scotusblog.com&#x2F;case-files&#x2F;cases&#x2F;dominos-pizza-ll...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ortusdux</author><text>I hear plenty of stories like this out of California. Their enforcement of the ADA is somewhat unique. Instead of having inspections and compliance officers, any wronged party can file a claim and receive ~$4k in compensation. There are plenty of people who make a considerable amount of money as &#x27;freelance&#x27; code enforcement.<p>My issue with this system is the animosity it causes. Panzagl had one interaction with this method and it was enough for them to be ambivalent about the ADA.<p>A friend of mine does public outreach for an organization for the blind in Seattle, and 99% of ADA non-compliance that they see stems from ignorance and is solved by education.</text></comment> | <story><title>Xfinity Is Man-in-the-Middle Attacking My Internet</title><url>https://rietta.com/blog/comcast-insecure-injection/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>panzagl</author><text>My HOA was sued for some slightly uneven sidewalks and the fact that some people had parked cars that jutted out of their driveways. Plaintiff doesn&#x27;t live here, has pretty much made a living by such lawsuits. So while I agree with the tenets of the ADA, it&#x27;s just one more example of how legislated morality will be abused by a small percentage for their own gain. If it were repealed tomorrow I would shrug.</text></item><item><author>jorvi</author><text>Only tangentially related, but how is the ADA act looked upon by Americans? The only time I&#x27;ve heard about it as an European was when Stanford (?) was forced by litigation to take entire swathes of free online education offline because it didn&#x27;t have subtitles. I&#x27;m all for making the web more accessible but it really soured me on the notion of such acts and if they are the best way to enforce said accessibility.</text></item><item><author>KingMachiavelli</author><text>&gt; This attack entirely breaks tab ordering, deeming the internet unusable for people requiring software assistance to provide accessibility to the World Wide Web. Additionally, the “escape” key, which is often used to close dialogs, doesn’t close the Xfinity notice.<p>A few weeks (months?) back there was an article about ongoing litigation on if websites are required to have accessibility compliance under the ADA act. I would be very happy to see Xfinity sued for this practice under that precedent and hopefully <i>any</i> injection would be considered a violation.<p>Status of supreme court case: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.scotusblog.com&#x2F;case-files&#x2F;cases&#x2F;dominos-pizza-llc-v-robles&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.scotusblog.com&#x2F;case-files&#x2F;cases&#x2F;dominos-pizza-ll...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nothal</author><text>Just because someone is entering a seemingly frivolous lawsuit, is it fair that the HOAs sidewalks are inaccessible in general? I feel like it feels wrong because someone is profiting on it but society is more equitable as a result and I don&#x27;t feel that is an abuse of the legislation.</text></comment> |
29,464,906 | 29,464,712 | 1 | 3 | 29,463,051 | train | <story><title>Evidence for the “great resignation” is thin on the ground</title><url>https://www.economist.com/finance-and-economics/evidence-for-the-great-resignation-is-thin-on-the-ground/21806659</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>honkycat</author><text>So sick of seeing this. I grew up in rural Illinois, first 20 years of my life. Also spent 10 years in Chicago proper. 40 miles outside of Chicago is the middle of nowhere.<p>It is not a substitute for living in a city. I do not see the draw in buying a cheap house in a rural community with nothing to do and nothing around it. My family owns a house in a rural community. It is dead weight. Nobody wants to buy it from us.<p>It is not a good place to raise your kids. The schools are under-funded. The people you interact with are bigots and they will teach your kids to be bigots.<p>If your kid is gifted they will sit them in a corner and do NOTHING to address how they are learning more quickly than their peers. They will suffer from under-funded schooling that is just desperately trying to keep the bottom half of the students from spilling out.<p>Kids are heavily influenced by their peers. There are no &quot;garage bands&quot; or art groups or clubs or anything for your kids to participate in. There is school and sports. If you are lucky there will be a marching band.<p>Also, you are assuming this person is a cis hetero white male. There IS sexism in these communities, there IS racism, there IS bigotry. You will not be welcome if you do not fit in. You WILL be confronted, you WILL be harassed.</text></item><item><author>derekp7</author><text>To add on to this, point a real estate app (Zillow, etc) to Racine Wisconsin. The east side is fairly nice. Also, look at north-eastern Illinois, starting in a radius about 40 miles or so outside of Chicago. The grate thing about that area is there is a lot of open farm land, and pieces get converted to housing development periodically whenever the market can support it. So that means many areas have 1500 sqft on 1&#x2F;4 acre homes in the $200K range (or $100k if you want to put some work into fixing it up).<p>And everything is &quot;close enough&quot; to a major city, and there is enough of the city that expands out in the surrounding areas (a number of large employers aren&#x27;t downtown, although some have been migrating back to the city to attract the employee demographic that prefers the city life).</text></item><item><author>jrochkind1</author><text>So this all sucks, and you&#x27;re in a rough situation, and I sympathasize, and I&#x27;m <i>not</i> trying to tell you not to complain or that it&#x27;s under your control. I think you wrote that well in a way that is aware of a lot of what&#x27;s going on and your position.<p>BUT. &quot;where does this leave the majority of this country?&quot; -- well, the majority of the country does not have as crazy a real estate market as Seattle, as far as paying ~$1.5 mil for a dump where you&#x27;re basically just paying for the land. That is not most of the country.<p>So... have you considered moving elsewhere? Even if you take a salary drop, you can probably wind up ahead overall with cost of living, especially if buying a home is a main goal you have. Of course, you won&#x27;t get to live in Seattle. Seattle is awfully nice, it&#x27;s true. But maybe you can afford a nice home and <i>without</i> working 60 hour weeks either.<p>But as far as &quot;where does this leave the majority of this country&quot; -- definitely not in the insane Seattle or San Francisco (or other &quot;hot&quot; cities with tech money) real estate market, is where.<p>Where I live (on the east coast even, but in a disinvested non-top-tier city) you can easily get a perfectly liveable no-repairs-needed if modest-sized ~1300 sq ft townhome for $200K, or easily a nice detached larger home in a &quot;good&quot; neighborhood for $500K. which I almost don&#x27;t want to talk about, becuase if the tech money comes here, maybe that won&#x27;t last.<p>But there&#x27;s plenty of the country that&#x27;s not on the coasts and is not Austin or Boulder or something, that is like this or even cheaper.<p>(And, as we both know, there are also plenty of people in even these cities who don&#x27;t make nearly as much as you or I, and have trouble affording a home in them too!)</text></item><item><author>ozzythecat</author><text>I don’t know what exactly the truth is, but I’m one of the tech workers living in the Seattle area.<p>I’ll start off by saying that I work 60 hours a week, at least. My stress and anxiety levels are manageable now, but only because I found ways of managing them. They’re not reasonable though and most importantly, they’re not sustainable.<p>Based on the neighborhood I live in and my compensation, I am extremely privileged. I don’t have money concerns that my parents had. Most things that I might need, I can buy them without having to think too much or without putting a dent in my net worth.<p>But my job is not sustainable. So, I live way below my means and avoid any lifestyle creep.<p>I would like to own a home, a nice one. Not a $1M property that’s not even comparable to my parents home. Given my compensation and many, many years of savings, this would be reasonable. I looked at several houses over the weekend. One dump after another, going for $1.3MM at the minimum. One actually had an offer accepted, merely hours after we toured it. They told us the buyer offered $1.6MM.<p>But Seattle has become a lawless dump. The east side has started homes for $1.4MM where the inspection report shows you that you’re basically just paying for the land.<p>If I have to be a renter my whole damn life and can’t even afford a house, what is the god damn point? Yeah I get paid very well, but I am a pawn of people who earn significantly more. And it’s not that I’m just comparing myself, but even after all this work and money I can’t comfortably buy a house - then where does this leave the majority of this country?<p>I don’t know.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>hardwaregeek</author><text>Yeah...there&#x27;s something spooky about places like Racine, Wisconsin or rural Illinois. And I don&#x27;t think it&#x27;s specific to me. Get Out resonated with a lot of people (ofc it&#x27;s way different and difficult for Black people) because there is some fear and discomfort in going to a white, rural area. Even if the white, rural area is ostensibly liberal and friendly. There&#x27;s something disturbing about being alone, the only one of your race and surrounded.</text></comment> | <story><title>Evidence for the “great resignation” is thin on the ground</title><url>https://www.economist.com/finance-and-economics/evidence-for-the-great-resignation-is-thin-on-the-ground/21806659</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>honkycat</author><text>So sick of seeing this. I grew up in rural Illinois, first 20 years of my life. Also spent 10 years in Chicago proper. 40 miles outside of Chicago is the middle of nowhere.<p>It is not a substitute for living in a city. I do not see the draw in buying a cheap house in a rural community with nothing to do and nothing around it. My family owns a house in a rural community. It is dead weight. Nobody wants to buy it from us.<p>It is not a good place to raise your kids. The schools are under-funded. The people you interact with are bigots and they will teach your kids to be bigots.<p>If your kid is gifted they will sit them in a corner and do NOTHING to address how they are learning more quickly than their peers. They will suffer from under-funded schooling that is just desperately trying to keep the bottom half of the students from spilling out.<p>Kids are heavily influenced by their peers. There are no &quot;garage bands&quot; or art groups or clubs or anything for your kids to participate in. There is school and sports. If you are lucky there will be a marching band.<p>Also, you are assuming this person is a cis hetero white male. There IS sexism in these communities, there IS racism, there IS bigotry. You will not be welcome if you do not fit in. You WILL be confronted, you WILL be harassed.</text></item><item><author>derekp7</author><text>To add on to this, point a real estate app (Zillow, etc) to Racine Wisconsin. The east side is fairly nice. Also, look at north-eastern Illinois, starting in a radius about 40 miles or so outside of Chicago. The grate thing about that area is there is a lot of open farm land, and pieces get converted to housing development periodically whenever the market can support it. So that means many areas have 1500 sqft on 1&#x2F;4 acre homes in the $200K range (or $100k if you want to put some work into fixing it up).<p>And everything is &quot;close enough&quot; to a major city, and there is enough of the city that expands out in the surrounding areas (a number of large employers aren&#x27;t downtown, although some have been migrating back to the city to attract the employee demographic that prefers the city life).</text></item><item><author>jrochkind1</author><text>So this all sucks, and you&#x27;re in a rough situation, and I sympathasize, and I&#x27;m <i>not</i> trying to tell you not to complain or that it&#x27;s under your control. I think you wrote that well in a way that is aware of a lot of what&#x27;s going on and your position.<p>BUT. &quot;where does this leave the majority of this country?&quot; -- well, the majority of the country does not have as crazy a real estate market as Seattle, as far as paying ~$1.5 mil for a dump where you&#x27;re basically just paying for the land. That is not most of the country.<p>So... have you considered moving elsewhere? Even if you take a salary drop, you can probably wind up ahead overall with cost of living, especially if buying a home is a main goal you have. Of course, you won&#x27;t get to live in Seattle. Seattle is awfully nice, it&#x27;s true. But maybe you can afford a nice home and <i>without</i> working 60 hour weeks either.<p>But as far as &quot;where does this leave the majority of this country&quot; -- definitely not in the insane Seattle or San Francisco (or other &quot;hot&quot; cities with tech money) real estate market, is where.<p>Where I live (on the east coast even, but in a disinvested non-top-tier city) you can easily get a perfectly liveable no-repairs-needed if modest-sized ~1300 sq ft townhome for $200K, or easily a nice detached larger home in a &quot;good&quot; neighborhood for $500K. which I almost don&#x27;t want to talk about, becuase if the tech money comes here, maybe that won&#x27;t last.<p>But there&#x27;s plenty of the country that&#x27;s not on the coasts and is not Austin or Boulder or something, that is like this or even cheaper.<p>(And, as we both know, there are also plenty of people in even these cities who don&#x27;t make nearly as much as you or I, and have trouble affording a home in them too!)</text></item><item><author>ozzythecat</author><text>I don’t know what exactly the truth is, but I’m one of the tech workers living in the Seattle area.<p>I’ll start off by saying that I work 60 hours a week, at least. My stress and anxiety levels are manageable now, but only because I found ways of managing them. They’re not reasonable though and most importantly, they’re not sustainable.<p>Based on the neighborhood I live in and my compensation, I am extremely privileged. I don’t have money concerns that my parents had. Most things that I might need, I can buy them without having to think too much or without putting a dent in my net worth.<p>But my job is not sustainable. So, I live way below my means and avoid any lifestyle creep.<p>I would like to own a home, a nice one. Not a $1M property that’s not even comparable to my parents home. Given my compensation and many, many years of savings, this would be reasonable. I looked at several houses over the weekend. One dump after another, going for $1.3MM at the minimum. One actually had an offer accepted, merely hours after we toured it. They told us the buyer offered $1.6MM.<p>But Seattle has become a lawless dump. The east side has started homes for $1.4MM where the inspection report shows you that you’re basically just paying for the land.<p>If I have to be a renter my whole damn life and can’t even afford a house, what is the god damn point? Yeah I get paid very well, but I am a pawn of people who earn significantly more. And it’s not that I’m just comparing myself, but even after all this work and money I can’t comfortably buy a house - then where does this leave the majority of this country?<p>I don’t know.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mechanical_bear</author><text>Calling all (or at least most) rural dwellers bigots… ah, the irony.</text></comment> |
29,989,977 | 29,982,028 | 1 | 3 | 29,980,913 | train | <story><title>Eyeo wins German copyright decision, sets legal precedent for who ‘owns’ HTML</title><url>https://eyeo.com/eyeo-wins-copyright-court-case/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>blibble</author><text>&gt; developer of best-in-class ad-filtering technology found in millions of browsers and products around the world<p>I must admit, this is pretty funny... there is &quot;ublock&quot; which users are tricked into installing (instead of the real ublock origin), which uses their &quot;acceptable ads&quot;<p>and people have said that their business model is based on extorting ad companies to pay them to not block their ads</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>happybuy</author><text>Yes, Eyeo is a dodgy company that misrepresents their product and how they actually really make money from users &amp; advertisers.<p>As one of the largest ad blockers around they also try and extinguish any potential competition before it has a chance to establish itself.<p>When I initially released my ad blocker for the iPhone and Mac – Magic Lasso Adblock (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.magiclasso.co&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.magiclasso.co&#x2F;</a>) they attempted to stop its distribution through the Apple App Stores.<p>They sent legal threats directly to myself and then to Apple claiming that they own the term &#x27;adblock&#x27; and demanded that my product stop using that term in any marketing or App Store keywords. This went on for months with them constantly pushing less and less plausible evidence for their ownership of the term.<p>I eventually told their enforcement loonies to stop contacting me and provided evidence to Apple that their claims are baseless (which meant their claims directly to Apple could also be ignored). They eventually stopped but I can see how their tactics could discourage any new entrants in the space.</text></comment> | <story><title>Eyeo wins German copyright decision, sets legal precedent for who ‘owns’ HTML</title><url>https://eyeo.com/eyeo-wins-copyright-court-case/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>blibble</author><text>&gt; developer of best-in-class ad-filtering technology found in millions of browsers and products around the world<p>I must admit, this is pretty funny... there is &quot;ublock&quot; which users are tricked into installing (instead of the real ublock origin), which uses their &quot;acceptable ads&quot;<p>and people have said that their business model is based on extorting ad companies to pay them to not block their ads</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>josephcsible</author><text>Is &quot;acceptable ads&quot; really a bad thing? I&#x27;m not opposed to seeing any ads; I just don&#x27;t want badly behaved ones. And is there a less bad alternative to accomplish that?</text></comment> |
17,654,116 | 17,649,408 | 1 | 2 | 17,645,170 | train | <story><title>Security Begins at the Home Router</title><url>https://insights.sei.cmu.edu/sei_blog/2018/07/security-begins-at-the-home-router.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>securityn0w</author><text>Do you realize that OpenWrt is not very secure and DD-Wrt is even worse?</text></item><item><author>j45</author><text>Solid firmwares like OpenWRT run on a lot of routers already.<p>It should be possible to have some amount of regular updates, if not automatic.</text></item><item><author>Yizahi</author><text>You will probably need more complex hardware to accommodate this and it will be much more complex to implement correctly. For SOHO it is better to simply optimize for quicker boot process. For homes it doesn&#x27;t even matter, just reboot the thing automatically on schedule during night. My expensive router does this and it is not hard or expensive to implement in all new models, regardless of their price.</text></item><item><author>0xfeba</author><text>I agree with Steven Gibson. The biggest defense we can have on this is autoupdating routers. At a minimum, just restart at some fixed time after an update is downloaded. More fancy would be dynamically calculating a low usage day and time to restart.<p>But this would also involve the router manufacturer keeping it up-to-date as well.<p>Which gets me thinking... Does a SOHO (or any) device exist that effectively runs two firmware instances at once to allow minimal downtime as it switches over to new firmware? I imagine larger routers do, or at least, two identical physical routers accomplishes as much.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>flas9sd</author><text>With a current kernel and updated userland? the no-password root ssh after flashing is vulnerable to others in your local network yes, keep it offline until pubkey-only auth is configured. To save against dropbear exploits, bind ssh to the internal-ethernet interface and if installed, access uhttpd&#x2F;LuCI only via this tunnel. Other than that it seems equal to other default distribution installs. Apparmor&#x2F;selinux steps up ubuntus&#x2F;fedoras game yes, I don&#x27;t know how much of this has been a concern yet in OpenWrt, a recent talk touches shortly on it. It seems to be a clean, easy-to-configure distribution that is alive and well after the remerge that just got a recent stable-release. Secondary vectors like package-system are a factor. But despite being reliant on the vendor, it buildable by the end-user. I applaud their efforts.</text></comment> | <story><title>Security Begins at the Home Router</title><url>https://insights.sei.cmu.edu/sei_blog/2018/07/security-begins-at-the-home-router.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>securityn0w</author><text>Do you realize that OpenWrt is not very secure and DD-Wrt is even worse?</text></item><item><author>j45</author><text>Solid firmwares like OpenWRT run on a lot of routers already.<p>It should be possible to have some amount of regular updates, if not automatic.</text></item><item><author>Yizahi</author><text>You will probably need more complex hardware to accommodate this and it will be much more complex to implement correctly. For SOHO it is better to simply optimize for quicker boot process. For homes it doesn&#x27;t even matter, just reboot the thing automatically on schedule during night. My expensive router does this and it is not hard or expensive to implement in all new models, regardless of their price.</text></item><item><author>0xfeba</author><text>I agree with Steven Gibson. The biggest defense we can have on this is autoupdating routers. At a minimum, just restart at some fixed time after an update is downloaded. More fancy would be dynamically calculating a low usage day and time to restart.<p>But this would also involve the router manufacturer keeping it up-to-date as well.<p>Which gets me thinking... Does a SOHO (or any) device exist that effectively runs two firmware instances at once to allow minimal downtime as it switches over to new firmware? I imagine larger routers do, or at least, two identical physical routers accomplishes as much.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bigiain</author><text>Have you got links or keywords I can search for details about that? (I&#x27;m in the middle of a decision about moving to an OpenWRT or Mikrotik router...)</text></comment> |
24,625,912 | 24,625,833 | 1 | 2 | 24,624,951 | train | <story><title>Samsung TV owners complain about increasingly obtrusive ads</title><url>https://www.flatpanelshd.com/news.php?subaction=showfull&id=1583755244</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>izacus</author><text>&gt; Never buy a consumer product that expects an Internet connection.<p>This is a nice trite trope, but getting an affordable TV without these features might be nearly impossible for most people these days.</text></item><item><author>bleepblorp</author><text>Just as the &#x27;s&#x27; in &#x27;IoT&#x27; stands for &#x27;security&#x27;, the &#x27;f&#x27; in &#x27;IoT&#x27; stands for &#x27;fairness to users.&#x27;<p>Never buy a consumer product that expects an Internet connection.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ChrisRR</author><text>Exactly, we bought my 75ish year old father in law a new TV because he was using a small SD flat panel and his eyesight is going.<p>But he hates it because there&#x27;s a million buttons and menus to navigate, when all he wants is to type in the channel numbers.<p>It even needed a firmware update out of the box and he didn&#x27;t have a clue why a TV would need new software and immediately panicked and refused to use the thing until we drove 150 miles to accept the update for him<p>We just wanted a TV that receives terrestrial TV and has a couple of HDMI ports for his DVR which he knows how to use without over complex menus, is that so much to ask?</text></comment> | <story><title>Samsung TV owners complain about increasingly obtrusive ads</title><url>https://www.flatpanelshd.com/news.php?subaction=showfull&id=1583755244</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>izacus</author><text>&gt; Never buy a consumer product that expects an Internet connection.<p>This is a nice trite trope, but getting an affordable TV without these features might be nearly impossible for most people these days.</text></item><item><author>bleepblorp</author><text>Just as the &#x27;s&#x27; in &#x27;IoT&#x27; stands for &#x27;security&#x27;, the &#x27;f&#x27; in &#x27;IoT&#x27; stands for &#x27;fairness to users.&#x27;<p>Never buy a consumer product that expects an Internet connection.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>vanderZwan</author><text>How ridiculous is it that it&#x27;s harder to get a product <i>without</i> extra nonsense added?</text></comment> |
34,753,070 | 34,753,028 | 1 | 2 | 34,752,293 | train | <story><title>DeepMind AI is as fast as humans at solving previously unseen tasks</title><url>https://www.newscientist.com/article/2357017-deepmind-ai-is-as-fast-as-humans-at-solving-previously-unseen-tasks/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>belter</author><text>OpenAI and Microsoft will be hit by a big bus called GDPR.<p>&quot;Unveiling the Crucial 5 GDPR Obstacles of ChatGPT That Can’t Be Ignored&quot; - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=34709482" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=34709482</a></text></item><item><author>jrvarela56</author><text>Google gives me Xerox PARC vibes wrt AI. Got to the insights first, way ahead of everyone else, but OpenAI is productizing faster (like Apple did with Xerox PARC&#x27;s research).</text></item><item><author>mshake2</author><text>Maybe they should make a persuasive demo if they want people to care. ChatGPT isn&#x27;t so hot right now because boring PR articles were written about its abilities. It&#x27;s hot because you can try it and see for yourself. Basic showmanship.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dkislyuk</author><text>The LLM &#x2F; foundation model industry will happily stay in the United States and ignore the stifling regulation of the EU if necessary. There is so much market share to capture domestically at the moment.</text></comment> | <story><title>DeepMind AI is as fast as humans at solving previously unseen tasks</title><url>https://www.newscientist.com/article/2357017-deepmind-ai-is-as-fast-as-humans-at-solving-previously-unseen-tasks/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>belter</author><text>OpenAI and Microsoft will be hit by a big bus called GDPR.<p>&quot;Unveiling the Crucial 5 GDPR Obstacles of ChatGPT That Can’t Be Ignored&quot; - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=34709482" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=34709482</a></text></item><item><author>jrvarela56</author><text>Google gives me Xerox PARC vibes wrt AI. Got to the insights first, way ahead of everyone else, but OpenAI is productizing faster (like Apple did with Xerox PARC&#x27;s research).</text></item><item><author>mshake2</author><text>Maybe they should make a persuasive demo if they want people to care. ChatGPT isn&#x27;t so hot right now because boring PR articles were written about its abilities. It&#x27;s hot because you can try it and see for yourself. Basic showmanship.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>wand3r</author><text>I have no idea how OpenAI would look at this, and of course there are similar obstacles here re:copilot vs. gpl, but couldn&#x27;t they just shut off European access.<p>I think AI would be so important that Europe couldnt afford to not have AI. Wonder how this would resolve.</text></comment> |
4,930,451 | 4,930,399 | 1 | 2 | 4,930,061 | train | <story><title>I Don't Understand</title><url>http://bjk5.com/post/38101106878/i-dont-understand</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Evbn</author><text>Why does it matter who is responsible for a mistake? Whence this antiquated notion that failures are to be blamed on a scapegoat?</text></item><item><author>zaidf</author><text>Making a clear statement such as "I don't understand" also is a great signal to your coworkers. It kills confusion and builds trust: I know that if you don't understand, you will let me know. That is much better than having someone who I have to poke to admit that they don't understand something.<p>Another personal favorite is stating unequivocally, loud and clear that "<i>This was my mistake</i>". It is tempting to just fix the mistake but even if you have fixed it, if there isn't clear <i>declared</i> ownership, you probably haven't addressed the root cause.<p>Doing this keeps you honest to yourself and also removes the awkward air where no one knows who is responsible for this mistake because no one has taken ownership. To pull this off you need an environment that won't punish mistakes by default.<p>There are absolutely fireable mistakes but if you do this right, the employee should volunteer to be let go because he realizes the gravity of his error.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>zaidf</author><text><i>Why does it matter who is responsible for a mistake?</i><p>Because the person who makes the mistake is often in one of the finest positions to suggest ways to prevent the same and similar mistakes not just by him, but by others in the future. In all, that adds great long term value to the organization.<p>Accepting <i>responsibility</i> does not mean "blame" or "scapegoating". Blame and scapegoating is something done by <i>others</i> in the organization and reflects on a poor culture than someone accepting responsibility.<p>It <i>does</i> mean seeing a situation <i>objectively</i>. If Mary broke the site and she knows why, it helps no one to keep that a mystery. It helps everyone if the environment lets her come forward and say it was her mistake, this is the fix and this is how we will prevent this category of mistakes in future.<p>In fact, in order for this to work, you have to go out of your way to make sure that "responsibility" is not used to blame or scapegoat. If it is, people responsible will stop accepting responsibility.</text></comment> | <story><title>I Don't Understand</title><url>http://bjk5.com/post/38101106878/i-dont-understand</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Evbn</author><text>Why does it matter who is responsible for a mistake? Whence this antiquated notion that failures are to be blamed on a scapegoat?</text></item><item><author>zaidf</author><text>Making a clear statement such as "I don't understand" also is a great signal to your coworkers. It kills confusion and builds trust: I know that if you don't understand, you will let me know. That is much better than having someone who I have to poke to admit that they don't understand something.<p>Another personal favorite is stating unequivocally, loud and clear that "<i>This was my mistake</i>". It is tempting to just fix the mistake but even if you have fixed it, if there isn't clear <i>declared</i> ownership, you probably haven't addressed the root cause.<p>Doing this keeps you honest to yourself and also removes the awkward air where no one knows who is responsible for this mistake because no one has taken ownership. To pull this off you need an environment that won't punish mistakes by default.<p>There are absolutely fireable mistakes but if you do this right, the employee should volunteer to be let go because he realizes the gravity of his error.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>klibertp</author><text>I understand this the following way: when nobody claims "ownership" of a mistake, everybody (ie. in a team) feels guilty about it, even of they had no control over what lead to this mistake. If someone says clearly that it was his mistake, everybody else may stop worrying and either concentrate on something else or help mistaken person avoid such mistakes in the future.<p>This has nothing to do with scapegoats, but my understanding can be, of course, completely off.</text></comment> |
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