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2,255,361 | 2,255,333 | 1 | 2 | 2,255,137 | train | <story><title>Mach's designers simply assumed that systems would be rebooted often enough</title><url>http://clozure.com/pipermail/openmcl-devel/2011-February/012567.html</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>mobilemonkey</author><text>I'm not going to pretend I know what Mach is, but around here, (big company that you're familiar with), rebooting/bouncing the servers is pretty much how issues are dealt with. "Response times outside of SLA: bounced the server." "Database connections timing out: bounced the server." "Users experiencing high load times for pages: restarted JVMs. Then bounced the servers."<p>Root cause seems to be "server up too long."</text></comment> | <story><title>Mach's designers simply assumed that systems would be rebooted often enough</title><url>http://clozure.com/pipermail/openmcl-devel/2011-February/012567.html</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jarin</author><text>I wonder if that's been fixed in the OS X/Darwin version of Mach, seems like the only time I ever reboot my MacBook is for system updates.</text></comment> |
9,441,348 | 9,441,295 | 1 | 3 | 9,440,965 | train | <story><title>Looking Up Symptoms Online? These Companies Are Tracking You</title><url>http://motherboard.vice.com/read/looking-up-symptoms-online-these-companies-are-collecting-your-data</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>aw3c2</author><text>Just a reminder that <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.torproject.org" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.torproject.org</a> offers a free and open-source unzip-and-run Firefox to use a anonymizing network run mostly by volunteers.<p>Using Tor to anonymously and privately educate yourself about embarrassing or potentially ostracized problems with yourself is a great use of it. Just remember that you should not ever enter any identifying information while using it.<p>Tor is more than fast enough for every day browsing, heck I use it to watch Youtube without major problems. I also use it to read the news, find recipes or lyrics (or similarly shady web circles) etc.<p>If the other side does not <i>need</i> to know who you are and does not <i>have to</i> synchronize that information into a vast tracking&#x2F;advertising network, why should you willingly submit it?</text></comment> | <story><title>Looking Up Symptoms Online? These Companies Are Tracking You</title><url>http://motherboard.vice.com/read/looking-up-symptoms-online-these-companies-are-collecting-your-data</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>kephra</author><text>NoScript will prevent most of those evil trackings by default. e.g. cdc.gov displays fine without any JS, and google analytics or addthis on my untrusted list anyway.<p>Its still possible to browse without JS most of the time. Some pages are crippled by design, so disabling CSS might show the content. Others provide a escaped_fragment variant. But a stupid JS antipattern is sometimes used to display normal content with JS. One big problem are domains like ajax.google. This is often used to enhanced website, but google using it to track users.<p>When talking about evil Google, one needs to add YT. A friend of mine once claimed: You watch a stripper, if you visit YouPorn. But you strip your privacy, if you visit YouTube.</text></comment> |
29,293,219 | 29,291,957 | 1 | 3 | 29,291,330 | train | <story><title>JEdit – Programmer's Text Editor</title><url>http://www.jedit.org/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>slavapestov</author><text>I started working on jEdit when I was 14 and developed it for 6 years or so. While I haven’t used it in a very long time I’m humbled to see that it is still being maintained and has users.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>lenkite</author><text>I wrote a buffer switch plugin for jEdit which you reviewed and gave feedback on. Didn&#x27;t know you were 14 - thought you were some expert, greybeard Java programmer lol.</text></comment> | <story><title>JEdit – Programmer's Text Editor</title><url>http://www.jedit.org/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>slavapestov</author><text>I started working on jEdit when I was 14 and developed it for 6 years or so. While I haven’t used it in a very long time I’m humbled to see that it is still being maintained and has users.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>karmajunkie</author><text>you were 14?! i always pictured you as much older back in those days when i was an avid user of it.<p>i found you on twitter awhile back, it brought back a lot of memories of being the only guy in the office who insisted on ecshewing IDEs in favor of something light yet capable like jedit. it was truly ahead of its time.</text></comment> |
8,851,690 | 8,851,289 | 1 | 3 | 8,850,763 | train | <story><title>How HoursTracker earns five figures a month on the App Store</title><url>https://medium.com/@carlosribas/how-hourstracker-earns-five-figures-a-month-on-the-app-store-85a20bb972eb</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>debacle</author><text>One thing that I really notice a lot as I get older is that so many people say it isn&#x27;t possible to make money anymore, early adopters had it easy, etc. People say this about apps and startups and the like.<p>I tell myself these same things sometimes, but then I have to check myself - it is actually easier to make <i>way</i> more money on an app these days than ever before. What is bigger is the risk proposition, which is why people tell themselves that success is entirely about luck - if your own skill doesn&#x27;t matter, there&#x27;s no reason to try, and if you try and don&#x27;t succeed it isn&#x27;t your fault.<p>This is a very real trap and I think in the reddit age (where if you aren&#x27;t a cynic by 15 you&#x27;re behind the curve) it is a mental virus. The world still rewards value, even if it takes some time. The people clamoring that it doesn&#x27;t are doing so because they want to believe that it isn&#x27;t their fault they didn&#x27;t succeed.<p>You need to be willing to emotionally and mentally invest yourself in something with a reasonable chance of failure or you will never, ever succeed. The people that you see who you are smarter than that have succeeded haven&#x27;t gotten there because of luck - they&#x27;ve gotten there because they tried. Luck just helped.</text></comment> | <story><title>How HoursTracker earns five figures a month on the App Store</title><url>https://medium.com/@carlosribas/how-hourstracker-earns-five-figures-a-month-on-the-app-store-85a20bb972eb</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>mherrmann</author><text>Cool article but I think things are very different now. If the author launched the same app today, I think he&#x27;d have a much harder time getting to that revenue, even in 6 years. The time when the App Store opened was great for the first developers there but things have changed.</text></comment> |
5,727,760 | 5,725,716 | 1 | 2 | 5,725,579 | train | <story><title>EFF now accepting Bitcoin again</title><url>https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2013/05/eff-will-accept-bitcoins-support-digital-liberty</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>fianchetto</author><text>EFF taking Bitcoin is good for Bitcoin but they won't get a single satoshi from me. I joined EFF not long after the Steve Jackson days and supported them until relatively recently.<p>I didn't believe their original "we don't want to be the story" explanation for not wanting to accept bitcoins. The EFF didn't want to get tagged as 'fringe' in their DC circles by accepting bitcoins in the wake of the Wikileaks/bitcoin story. Now that Bitcoin is being backed by startup money, EFF sees Bitcoin as socially safe again.<p>EFF alienated me by letting go of principle when it was more important to hang onto it.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>hristov</author><text>You have to keep in mind that the EFF get into some very important political battles and earn some very fearsome enemies.<p>In DC politics your enemies will not kill you but they will sue you, or they can do even worse -- they can ask their friends in Congress to open an investigation or to ask the DOJ to do so.<p>Thus, the lawyers for the EFF have to be really really careful and make sure that there are no open avenues of attack. When you are potential target, you have to be much more cautious than you would usually be. Especially if your enemies are very powerful and well connected lawyers, powerbrokers and publicity people. These people can take the slightest infraction, real or imagined, and weave it in a complex and snowballing story that ends with you having lost all credibility.<p>Note what happened to Julian Assange.<p>So no you cannot blame the EFF for refusing to be adventurous vis-a-vis bitcoin.<p>Furthermore, their change of policy is probably not related to startup money but to the government providing guidance for virtual currency.</text></comment> | <story><title>EFF now accepting Bitcoin again</title><url>https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2013/05/eff-will-accept-bitcoins-support-digital-liberty</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>fianchetto</author><text>EFF taking Bitcoin is good for Bitcoin but they won't get a single satoshi from me. I joined EFF not long after the Steve Jackson days and supported them until relatively recently.<p>I didn't believe their original "we don't want to be the story" explanation for not wanting to accept bitcoins. The EFF didn't want to get tagged as 'fringe' in their DC circles by accepting bitcoins in the wake of the Wikileaks/bitcoin story. Now that Bitcoin is being backed by startup money, EFF sees Bitcoin as socially safe again.<p>EFF alienated me by letting go of principle when it was more important to hang onto it.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>throwaway2048</author><text>Not just that, but they gave away all their previously donated bitcoins (which is a very large amount of money at current prices) to some borderline scam "Receive 0.0001 BTC free" operation instead of refunding them.<p>My friend personally donated 20000 BTC to them, luckily he has the disposition of a Buddhist monk.<p>EDIT: Trying to get this story confirmed, as comments below have pointed out, there is clearly a discrepancy.</text></comment> |
18,435,132 | 18,434,992 | 1 | 3 | 18,433,883 | train | <story><title>Reasons to Fear Another ‘Great War’</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2018-11-11/100-years-after-world-war-i-there-s-reason-to-fear?srnd=premium-europe</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>AcerbicZero</author><text>A modern &quot;great war&quot; would require countries of relatively equal military industrial power, so either it would be a great war without the US involved, i.e. China&#x2F;India, Russia&#x2F;China (with caveats), etc. In those situations the countries may temporarily forgo the use of nuclear weapons, at least until one side is pressed beyond the point of rational response.<p>I&#x27;d also suggest the last time countries were so dominant in certain military areas, they didn&#x27;t overlap as much as they do today, so open conflict was easier to maintain. In the early 1800&#x27;s France was the undisputed world leader when it came to land based combat, while the British maintained a serious advantage at sea. Today, the US is undisputed in all 3 categories, land, air, sea, and a 4th if you count space. If another country were able to take a commanding lead in at least 1 of those areas, perhaps we could see a high intensity conflict involving the US, however until that happens, there isn&#x27;t much of a point.<p>Minor Edit: This isn&#x27;t intended as support of the current situation.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>us-throw1</author><text>Are you really sure that the US is undisputed in those 4 categories? A list of obvious weaknesses:<p>* The US economy and industrial power is dependent on IT and brittle supply chains. Nobody knows how much the cyber infrastructure holding this up is already compromised.<p>* Russian S-400s can already deny air superiority to Israeli planes, which are not far behind US planes.<p>* How does the US have space superiority when there is no ASAT defense besides MAD?<p>* The US has not been able to suppress a rebellion in Afghanistan with trillions of dollars and 17 years. Maybe in an actual war their hands would be untied, so this isn&#x27;t the best point.<p>* The US Navy loses war-games to swarm attacks and is just now a decade later deploying solutions to this. When was the last time US ships actually had to fight? Vietnam?<p>* The US has increasing ethnic and social conflicts, not to mention the potential fifth column of residents with ties to enemy powers.<p>* Barely half of US fighter planes are combat ready at any given moment. The trillion dollar F-35 had to be flown with VFR the first time it crossed the IDL. Who knows what else is lurking in that software?</text></comment> | <story><title>Reasons to Fear Another ‘Great War’</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2018-11-11/100-years-after-world-war-i-there-s-reason-to-fear?srnd=premium-europe</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>AcerbicZero</author><text>A modern &quot;great war&quot; would require countries of relatively equal military industrial power, so either it would be a great war without the US involved, i.e. China&#x2F;India, Russia&#x2F;China (with caveats), etc. In those situations the countries may temporarily forgo the use of nuclear weapons, at least until one side is pressed beyond the point of rational response.<p>I&#x27;d also suggest the last time countries were so dominant in certain military areas, they didn&#x27;t overlap as much as they do today, so open conflict was easier to maintain. In the early 1800&#x27;s France was the undisputed world leader when it came to land based combat, while the British maintained a serious advantage at sea. Today, the US is undisputed in all 3 categories, land, air, sea, and a 4th if you count space. If another country were able to take a commanding lead in at least 1 of those areas, perhaps we could see a high intensity conflict involving the US, however until that happens, there isn&#x27;t much of a point.<p>Minor Edit: This isn&#x27;t intended as support of the current situation.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>aqme28</author><text>I wonder if cybersecurity could be counted as a 5th area, and if so, how far behind the US is.</text></comment> |
12,480,568 | 12,480,328 | 1 | 2 | 12,479,370 | train | <story><title>REST Anti-patterns</title><url>http://marcelo-cure.blogspot.com/2016/09/rest-anti-patterns.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>PaulHoule</author><text>This misses the elephant in the room.<p>The REST-inspired API that requires 10,000 API calls to do something that could be done in 1. This is a disaster from a simple performance perspective.<p>There is no simple way to build transactions on top of REST so if you need to do something that involves updating more than one data record you really are best off updating them all in one API call.<p>When you are writing a web front end this is all the more acute because choreographing a complex interaction with a server is a PITA with asynchronous communications.<p>If Fielding&#x27;s thesis went in the trash and got replaced with &quot;one click, one API call, update the UI&quot; we&#x27;d hear a lot less carping about how awful the web platform is.<p>Careful reading of the http spec is a road to hell anyway because 80% of it is dark corners that aren&#x27;t really used or implemented.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>robzhu</author><text>You might want to check out GraphQL: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;graphql.org&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;graphql.org&#x2F;</a>. One of its killer features is the ability for clients to specify exactly the data it needs and obtain it in a single request&#x2F;response.</text></comment> | <story><title>REST Anti-patterns</title><url>http://marcelo-cure.blogspot.com/2016/09/rest-anti-patterns.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>PaulHoule</author><text>This misses the elephant in the room.<p>The REST-inspired API that requires 10,000 API calls to do something that could be done in 1. This is a disaster from a simple performance perspective.<p>There is no simple way to build transactions on top of REST so if you need to do something that involves updating more than one data record you really are best off updating them all in one API call.<p>When you are writing a web front end this is all the more acute because choreographing a complex interaction with a server is a PITA with asynchronous communications.<p>If Fielding&#x27;s thesis went in the trash and got replaced with &quot;one click, one API call, update the UI&quot; we&#x27;d hear a lot less carping about how awful the web platform is.<p>Careful reading of the http spec is a road to hell anyway because 80% of it is dark corners that aren&#x27;t really used or implemented.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>drj077</author><text>How I&#x27;ve addressed the transaction issue in the past is to expose it specifically as a transaction. For instance, POST &#x2F;posts&#x2F;transactions would contain a list of transformations to &#x2F;posts and will receive a transaction id as a response. The id can be polled for success (&#x2F;posts&#x2F;transactions&#x2F;:uuid) or results can be pushed to a browser. It is more work to be able to roll that back if one fails, but that&#x27;s a coding issue not so much an API one.<p>I&#x27;d love some feedback on this approach. How do other people allow efficient mass changes?</text></comment> |
34,810,893 | 34,810,944 | 1 | 2 | 34,810,663 | train | <story><title>SBF Caught Using VPN While Awaiting Criminal Trial [pdf]</title><url>https://ia801508.us.archive.org/25/items/gov.uscourts.nysd.590940/gov.uscourts.nysd.590940.66.0.pdf</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>pphysch</author><text>&gt; Today, it came to the Government’s attention—based on data obtained through the use of a pen register on the defendant’s gmail account—that the defendant
used a VPN or “Virtual Private Network” to access the internet on January 29, 2023, and February 12, 2023.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Pen_register" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Pen_register</a></text></comment> | <story><title>SBF Caught Using VPN While Awaiting Criminal Trial [pdf]</title><url>https://ia801508.us.archive.org/25/items/gov.uscourts.nysd.590940/gov.uscourts.nysd.590940.66.0.pdf</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>londons_explore</author><text>So... let me get this straight... SBF is currently on bail... and the state and his lawyers are arguing about the exact bail terms that should apply...<p>Shouldn&#x27;t the terms of bail be set before bail is granted?</text></comment> |
28,999,960 | 29,000,202 | 1 | 2 | 28,999,117 | train | <story><title>My interview with Steven Levy re. leaking of my Facebook Goodbye post</title><url>https://alecmuffett.com/article/14994</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>fareesh</author><text>On the popularity of Haugen: I find it amusing how your government treats a whistleblower who is promoting government control over social media, vs the way your government treats a whistleblower who leaks evidence of government spying and abuse.<p>The fact that Edward Snowden and Julian Assange are treated the way they are (and the earlier treatment of Manning) gives the US government zero credibility on press freedom, social media legislation or anything remotely related to privacy.<p>EDIT: Furthermore according to the FBI it&#x27;s ok for Hillary Clinton to keep government communication explicitly marked classified in her basement server because no harm is intended, whereas others have been prosecuted in the absence of intended harm.<p>The optics are absolutely terrible on these issues. If I can speak for some of the folks in the rest of the world, we&#x27;re laughing and shaking our heads.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>AlexB138</author><text>&gt; I find it amusing how your government treats a whistleblower who is promoting government control over social media, vs the way your government treats a whistleblower who leaks evidence of government spying and abuse.<p>That is because e.g. Snowden is actually a whistleblower, warning the people against the powers that be, and Haugen is an activist pushing for an agenda which aligns with what the powers that be want, making her a useful political pawn.</text></comment> | <story><title>My interview with Steven Levy re. leaking of my Facebook Goodbye post</title><url>https://alecmuffett.com/article/14994</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>fareesh</author><text>On the popularity of Haugen: I find it amusing how your government treats a whistleblower who is promoting government control over social media, vs the way your government treats a whistleblower who leaks evidence of government spying and abuse.<p>The fact that Edward Snowden and Julian Assange are treated the way they are (and the earlier treatment of Manning) gives the US government zero credibility on press freedom, social media legislation or anything remotely related to privacy.<p>EDIT: Furthermore according to the FBI it&#x27;s ok for Hillary Clinton to keep government communication explicitly marked classified in her basement server because no harm is intended, whereas others have been prosecuted in the absence of intended harm.<p>The optics are absolutely terrible on these issues. If I can speak for some of the folks in the rest of the world, we&#x27;re laughing and shaking our heads.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>helen___keller</author><text>&gt; Furthermore according to the FBI it&#x27;s ok for Hillary Clinton to keep government communication explicitly marked classified in her basement server because no harm is intended, whereas others have been prosecuted in the absence of intended harm<p>What exactly does this have to do with the topic? Your first paragraphs are talking about treatment of whistleblowers and Hillary Clinton is (obviously) not a whistleblower.<p>Adding in a Clinton dig just adds political derailment to the topic for no particular reason.</text></comment> |
11,638,314 | 11,636,650 | 1 | 2 | 11,635,647 | train | <story><title>Elsevier Complaint Shuts Down Sci-Hub Domain Name</title><url>https://torrentfreak.com/elsevier-complaint-shuts-down-sci-hub-domain-name-160504/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jfaucett</author><text>&quot;As a result of the legal battle the site (sci-hub.io) just lost one of its latest domain names. However, the site has no intentions of backing down, and will continue its fight to keep access to scientific knowledge free and open.&quot;<p>Does this not enrage people? Elsevier and closed-access journals like them, are doing all they can to impede human progress while leaching off of tax-payer dollars to do so. Something should be done to make what Elsevier and the like do illegal, are there any groups&#x2F;political parties&#x2F;etc going after them?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rdiddly</author><text>&quot;Does this not enrage people?&quot;<p>I think I have rage-fatigue, with all the swindles, con-jobs and injustices I&#x27;ve seen. But I do recognize this as utter bullshit. Though unfortunately every other effort to take from the commons, charge money for it, and build a private fortune, throughout history, has also been bullshit; hence the rage-fatigue.<p>This and things like it, do enrage people, and that&#x27;s why in the US they gravitate toward Sanders, Trump, nihilism, and crime.</text></comment> | <story><title>Elsevier Complaint Shuts Down Sci-Hub Domain Name</title><url>https://torrentfreak.com/elsevier-complaint-shuts-down-sci-hub-domain-name-160504/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jfaucett</author><text>&quot;As a result of the legal battle the site (sci-hub.io) just lost one of its latest domain names. However, the site has no intentions of backing down, and will continue its fight to keep access to scientific knowledge free and open.&quot;<p>Does this not enrage people? Elsevier and closed-access journals like them, are doing all they can to impede human progress while leaching off of tax-payer dollars to do so. Something should be done to make what Elsevier and the like do illegal, are there any groups&#x2F;political parties&#x2F;etc going after them?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tmptmp</author><text>&gt;&gt;Does this not enrage people? Elsevier and closed-access journals like them, are doing all they can to impede human progress while leaching off of tax-payer dollars to do so. Something should be done to make what Elsevier and the like do illegal, are there any groups&#x2F;political parties&#x2F;etc going after them?<p>This does enrage many people, but one feels somewhat helpless here. But we can surely raise a <i>hue and cry</i> over the internet&#x2F;emails&#x2F;whatsapp&#x2F;social media etc. Let more and more of the scientific community know about the existence of sci-hub and let these scum publishers bleed to death.
Political parties may not want to <i>disturb</i> their money-givers though.</text></comment> |
13,062,815 | 13,062,420 | 1 | 2 | 13,059,565 | train | <story><title>Amazon Worker Jumps Off Company Building After E-Mail to Staff</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-11-28/amazon-worker-jumps-off-company-building-after-e-mail-to-staff</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Futurebot</author><text>Tyler Cowen has written a lot about this:<p>&quot;Individuals don’t in fact enjoy being evaluated all the time, especially when the results are not always stellar: for most people, one piece of negative feedback outweighs five pieces of positive feedback. To the extent that measurement raises income inequality, perhaps it makes relations among the workers tenser and less friendly. Life under a meritocracy can be a little tough, unfriendly, and discouraging, especially for those whose morale is easily damaged. Privacy in this world will be harder to come by, and perhaps “second chances” will be more difficult to find, given the permanence of electronic data. We may end up favoring “goody two-shoes” personality types who were on the straight and narrow from their earliest years and disfavor those who rebelled at young ages, even if those people might end up being more creative later on.&quot;<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;marginalrevolution.com&#x2F;marginalrevolution&#x2F;2015&#x2F;09&#x2F;the-measured-working-man.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;marginalrevolution.com&#x2F;marginalrevolution&#x2F;2015&#x2F;09&#x2F;the...</a><p>Pervasive employee monitoring and feedback isn&#x27;t costless. Some people will improve, others will get fired&#x2F;quit find a new job, but there will be some who cannot take it at all. If losing a job wasn&#x27;t so punishing economically and status-wise, it would take a lot of, but certainly not all, of the sting away.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>77pt77</author><text>&gt; We may end up favoring “goody two-shoes” personality types who were on the straight and narrow from their earliest years and disfavor those who rebelled at young ages, even if those people might end up being more creative later on.&quot;<p>We&#x27;ll keep on doing what we&#x27;ve been doing since the dawn of time: reward Machiavellian behavior.<p>The guy that creates a controlled fire and puts it out will be praised.<p>The guy that cleans the dead foliage to prevent future fires will be punished for being unproductive and a dead weight.<p>Nothing will change.<p>Edit: punctuation</text></comment> | <story><title>Amazon Worker Jumps Off Company Building After E-Mail to Staff</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-11-28/amazon-worker-jumps-off-company-building-after-e-mail-to-staff</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Futurebot</author><text>Tyler Cowen has written a lot about this:<p>&quot;Individuals don’t in fact enjoy being evaluated all the time, especially when the results are not always stellar: for most people, one piece of negative feedback outweighs five pieces of positive feedback. To the extent that measurement raises income inequality, perhaps it makes relations among the workers tenser and less friendly. Life under a meritocracy can be a little tough, unfriendly, and discouraging, especially for those whose morale is easily damaged. Privacy in this world will be harder to come by, and perhaps “second chances” will be more difficult to find, given the permanence of electronic data. We may end up favoring “goody two-shoes” personality types who were on the straight and narrow from their earliest years and disfavor those who rebelled at young ages, even if those people might end up being more creative later on.&quot;<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;marginalrevolution.com&#x2F;marginalrevolution&#x2F;2015&#x2F;09&#x2F;the-measured-working-man.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;marginalrevolution.com&#x2F;marginalrevolution&#x2F;2015&#x2F;09&#x2F;the...</a><p>Pervasive employee monitoring and feedback isn&#x27;t costless. Some people will improve, others will get fired&#x2F;quit find a new job, but there will be some who cannot take it at all. If losing a job wasn&#x27;t so punishing economically and status-wise, it would take a lot of, but certainly not all, of the sting away.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ex_amazon_sde</author><text>A &quot;little tough&quot; for &quot;those whose morale is easily damaged&quot; sounds like an attempt to blame employees.<p>Amazon is not as meritocratic as people imagine. People are often praised for building a shiny thing or stopping a fire. Rarely for preventing a fire, or a security issue, or doing the hard work it takes to keep an old system running. <i>A lot</i> can depend on being in the right team at the right time.<p>On top of that, expectations can be arbitrarily high and are increased based on previous successful reviews.
Essentially you end up competing against your previous self and your colleagues, but this is not discussed openly by management.</text></comment> |
35,391,919 | 35,391,924 | 1 | 2 | 35,386,948 | train | <story><title>Postgres as a graph database</title><url>https://www.dylanpaulus.com/posts/postgres-is-a-graph-database/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mistermann</author><text>Piggybacking on your Neo4J reference....can anyone suggest any resources that would be good for someone from the SQL world who is very uninformed on graph databases to quickly get their head around the key ideas, but even more importantly, how to choose a platform among the offerings (licensing being I think a key issue, I&#x27;ve heard Neo4J can get expensive)...assume a large, &quot;social media&quot; scale system, to be safe.</text></item><item><author>henryfjordan</author><text>I implemented pretty much exactly this setup once.<p>For what it&#x27;s worth, there&#x27;s a lot of footguns with this approach. You need to be careful about infinite cycles and things like that. You also just do not get the ergonomics of using a query language that is meant for graph data. Once you get it all setup and experience the issues you will no doubt be able to build whatever you want but there&#x27;s a learning curve.<p>In the end we switched to using Neo4j and were able to build new features a lot more quickly than we would&#x27;ve been able to on Postgres.<p>It&#x27;s also worth mentioning that there are many ways to store graph data, and using an &quot;adjacency list&quot; like is being done here may or may not be the best way for your use case. Neo4j I think uses a different approach where nodes store info about edges they are connected to directly, so you don&#x27;t even need to hit an index to follow an edge.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>henryfjordan</author><text>Neo4j has a self-hosted community edition that is free, though you need to update to Enterprise to expand your DB beyond one node. It&#x27;s worth noting though that scaling from a single node to a cluster is going to have some pretty huge performance issues whether you are using SQL or Neo4j to store your graph. The power of graph databases is that it should be very inexpensive to follow an edge in the graph but when that leads to a network hop you lose a lot of performance.<p>If you are comfortable fitting your data onto one box, then development speed is probably more important than other factors and I would just try a few databases out and especially pay attention to how good the libraries are in your programming language of choice. Neo4j for instance had high quality libraries in Java but the experience in Python was not as good.<p>If you have a lot of data or need next-level performance, I would start by doing some research on the various ways to store graph data and then pick a DB that supports the approach you want to take.</text></comment> | <story><title>Postgres as a graph database</title><url>https://www.dylanpaulus.com/posts/postgres-is-a-graph-database/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mistermann</author><text>Piggybacking on your Neo4J reference....can anyone suggest any resources that would be good for someone from the SQL world who is very uninformed on graph databases to quickly get their head around the key ideas, but even more importantly, how to choose a platform among the offerings (licensing being I think a key issue, I&#x27;ve heard Neo4J can get expensive)...assume a large, &quot;social media&quot; scale system, to be safe.</text></item><item><author>henryfjordan</author><text>I implemented pretty much exactly this setup once.<p>For what it&#x27;s worth, there&#x27;s a lot of footguns with this approach. You need to be careful about infinite cycles and things like that. You also just do not get the ergonomics of using a query language that is meant for graph data. Once you get it all setup and experience the issues you will no doubt be able to build whatever you want but there&#x27;s a learning curve.<p>In the end we switched to using Neo4j and were able to build new features a lot more quickly than we would&#x27;ve been able to on Postgres.<p>It&#x27;s also worth mentioning that there are many ways to store graph data, and using an &quot;adjacency list&quot; like is being done here may or may not be the best way for your use case. Neo4j I think uses a different approach where nodes store info about edges they are connected to directly, so you don&#x27;t even need to hit an index to follow an edge.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>joshspankit</author><text>As someone who hated being in the SQL world and couldn’t figure out why until years later when I found out about graph databases, here’s one big shift:<p>Graph database store true relationships.<p>The R in RDBMS and the concept of relationships by primary keys are lies (imo). They lead people away from what true relationships can be. Databases like Neo4j are not about doing any sort of PK or join or merge-before-query. Looking up by connection is the <i>fastest</i> way to find information. If your RDBMS had one table for phone numbers, one for email addresses, one for first names, one for last names, one for street, and so-on it would take huge amounts of time to query to find all the detail for a single person. With a graph database it takes a small amount of time to find the first bit of info (let’s say phone number since it’s easily sorted), and then every other bit of linked data is essentially free.</text></comment> |
33,864,224 | 33,864,243 | 1 | 2 | 33,863,073 | train | <story><title>Company ‘Hijacks’ Blender’s CC By-Licensed Film, YouTube Strikes User</title><url>https://torrentfreak.com/company-hijacks-blenders-cc-by-licensed-film-youtube-strikes-user-221205/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>capableweb</author><text>Just as a FYI, Blender runs their own PeerTube instance (that you can subscribe to via ActivityPub&#x2F;Fediverse (so Mastodon and all of those others)) which they fully control: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;video.blender.org&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;video.blender.org&#x2F;</a><p>Reason they created that in the first place was because of a similar accident in the past. Maybe hopefully soon they&#x27;ll stop using YouTube fully as YouTube doesn&#x27;t seem to care about solving the core problem of driveby copyright strikes.</text></comment> | <story><title>Company ‘Hijacks’ Blender’s CC By-Licensed Film, YouTube Strikes User</title><url>https://torrentfreak.com/company-hijacks-blenders-cc-by-licensed-film-youtube-strikes-user-221205/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>paulgb</author><text>Assuming the facts reported here are true, it seems that YouTube is putting its safe harbor in jeopardy by not complying with the counter-takedown:<p>&gt; Following receipt of a compliant counter-notice, the online service provider must restore access to the material after no less than ten and no more than fourteen business days, unless the original notice sender informs the service provider that it has filed a court action against the user.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.copyright.gov&#x2F;512&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.copyright.gov&#x2F;512&#x2F;</a></text></comment> |
8,477,892 | 8,477,654 | 1 | 2 | 8,477,241 | train | <story><title>How a lawyer, mechanic, and engineer blew open an auto scandal</title><url>http://pando.com/2014/10/18/gms-hit-and-run-how-a-lawyer-mechanic-and-engineer-blew-the-lid-off-the-worst-auto-scandal-in-history/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>lovelearning</author><text>I feel the root cause here is the culture of setting hard deadlines by management.<p>Getting a deadline moved even for logical reasons involves pushing against massive internal red tape. Missing a deadline invites greater punishment from management than compromising on quality. Naturally, quality loses out.<p>Happens all the time in our own industry, and sadly, this case shows that it happens even in safety critical industries.<p>All engineers, regardless of industry, should be trained in how to negotiate with management. All managers, regardless of industry, should be trained to respect opinions of subordinates.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>loup-vaillant</author><text>&gt; <i>[…] managers […] should be trained to respect opinions of subordinates.</i><p>That&#x27;s your problem right there: the subordinacy of engineers.<p>We are biased to listen to high-status people more than low-status people. The strength of this bias varies from people to people, and from culture to culture. But if you are asking someone to listen to the opinion of a direct subordinate, you are asking for trouble.<p>This is one reason why Michael O. Church is so big on guilds, or &quot;professions&quot;. If instead of being a subordinate, the engineer was a (possibly certified) master craftsman, things would be different. Just picture the manager calling the the engineer &quot;master&quot;, then <i>not</i> listen to her opinion.<p>&gt; <i>[…] engineers […] should be trained in how to negotiate with management</i><p>Conversely, it&#x27;s harder to negotiate when you have lower status than the manager. You may feel it is not your place. But if you&#x27;re a master programmer, offering your services to said manager, then you could feel more confident about talking to him as a peer. You could feel more confident about saying things like &quot;your idea won&#x27;t work —trust me, it&#x27;s my speciality.&quot;</text></comment> | <story><title>How a lawyer, mechanic, and engineer blew open an auto scandal</title><url>http://pando.com/2014/10/18/gms-hit-and-run-how-a-lawyer-mechanic-and-engineer-blew-the-lid-off-the-worst-auto-scandal-in-history/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>lovelearning</author><text>I feel the root cause here is the culture of setting hard deadlines by management.<p>Getting a deadline moved even for logical reasons involves pushing against massive internal red tape. Missing a deadline invites greater punishment from management than compromising on quality. Naturally, quality loses out.<p>Happens all the time in our own industry, and sadly, this case shows that it happens even in safety critical industries.<p>All engineers, regardless of industry, should be trained in how to negotiate with management. All managers, regardless of industry, should be trained to respect opinions of subordinates.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>amirmc</author><text>That almost sounds like you&#x27;re absolving the engineers (as though they can do no wrong). Changing a part, without also changing it&#x27;s part-number, doesn&#x27;t sound like a normal thing to do (and then forget about).<p>This is a complex issue and I do not agree with the (over-simplistic) reduction to &#x27;management&#x27; and &#x27;deadlines&#x27;.</text></comment> |
15,983,109 | 15,983,011 | 1 | 3 | 15,982,584 | train | <story><title>Goldman Sachs Is Setting Up a Cryptocurrency Trading Desk</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-12-21/goldman-is-setting-up-a-cryptocurrency-trading-desk</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>victor106</author><text>They typically do this for a few reasons:<p>1. High net worth clients demanding such products.
2. Obvious FOMO.
3. In case this crypto thing becomes big they don’t want to be criticized.
4. All companies are seeing a nice bump in their share prices with any association to crypto</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>headmelted</author><text>Mostly I think it&#x27;s 1.<p>A lot of people jump on guys like Jamie Dimon and Lloyd Blankfein for calling Bitcoin massively volatile &#x2F; a bubble &#x2F; whatever, like they <i>hate</i> cryptocurrencies.<p>They don&#x27;t care, and they aren&#x27;t supposed to. Their business is to sell whatever the customer wants to buy, cheaper or easier than they can get it elsewhere - and right now the customer wants to buy Bitcoin. Who cares if the backside falls out of it later?</text></comment> | <story><title>Goldman Sachs Is Setting Up a Cryptocurrency Trading Desk</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-12-21/goldman-is-setting-up-a-cryptocurrency-trading-desk</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>victor106</author><text>They typically do this for a few reasons:<p>1. High net worth clients demanding such products.
2. Obvious FOMO.
3. In case this crypto thing becomes big they don’t want to be criticized.
4. All companies are seeing a nice bump in their share prices with any association to crypto</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>frgtpsswrdlame</author><text>HNWIs are definitely starting to talk about and ask for crypto products.<p>EDIT: I work in the area, not a shill.</text></comment> |
26,941,796 | 26,941,603 | 1 | 2 | 26,940,548 | train | <story><title>Red and blue functions are a good thing</title><url>https://blainehansen.me/post/red-blue-functions-are-actually-good/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>simiones</author><text>Don&#x27;t monads in themselves have the same problem of introducing &quot;coloring&quot; (where each monad is a different color) , so that functions which work for one monad won&#x27;t work with easily compose with functions which work with another monad?<p>For example, isn&#x27;t it true that you can&#x27;t easily compose a function f :: a -&gt; IO b with a function g :: b -&gt; [c] (assuming you don&#x27;t use unsafePerformIO, of course)?<p>Of course, there will be ways to do it (just as you can wrap a sync function in an async function, or .Wait() on an async function result to get a sync function), and Haskell&#x27;s very high level of abstraction will make that wrapping easier than in a language like C#.</text></item><item><author>willtim</author><text>And why restrict oneself to just two colours? Haskell monads also allow one to abstract over the &quot;colour&quot;, such that one can write polymorphic code that works for any colour, which I think was the main objection from the original red&#x2F;blue post.<p>Microsoft&#x27;s Koka is an example of a language that further empraces effect types and makes them easier to use:
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;koka-lang.github.io&#x2F;koka&#x2F;doc&#x2F;index.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;koka-lang.github.io&#x2F;koka&#x2F;doc&#x2F;index.html</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>lmm</author><text>&gt; Don&#x27;t monads in themselves have the same problem of introducing &quot;coloring&quot; (where each monad is a different color) , so that functions which work for one monad won&#x27;t work with easily compose with functions which work with another monad?<p>I&#x27;d say that monads surface a problem that was already there, and give you a vocabulary to talk about it and potentially work with it. Composing effectful functions is still surprising even if you don&#x27;t keep track of those effects in your type system (for example, combining async functions with mutable variables, or either with an Amb-style backtracking&#x2F;nondeterminism function, or any of those with error propagation).<p>But yeah, monads are an incomplete solution to the problem of effects, and when writing composable libraries you often want to abstract a bit further. In the case of Haskell-style languages we have MTL-style typeclasses, or Free coproducts, or various more experimental approaches.</text></comment> | <story><title>Red and blue functions are a good thing</title><url>https://blainehansen.me/post/red-blue-functions-are-actually-good/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>simiones</author><text>Don&#x27;t monads in themselves have the same problem of introducing &quot;coloring&quot; (where each monad is a different color) , so that functions which work for one monad won&#x27;t work with easily compose with functions which work with another monad?<p>For example, isn&#x27;t it true that you can&#x27;t easily compose a function f :: a -&gt; IO b with a function g :: b -&gt; [c] (assuming you don&#x27;t use unsafePerformIO, of course)?<p>Of course, there will be ways to do it (just as you can wrap a sync function in an async function, or .Wait() on an async function result to get a sync function), and Haskell&#x27;s very high level of abstraction will make that wrapping easier than in a language like C#.</text></item><item><author>willtim</author><text>And why restrict oneself to just two colours? Haskell monads also allow one to abstract over the &quot;colour&quot;, such that one can write polymorphic code that works for any colour, which I think was the main objection from the original red&#x2F;blue post.<p>Microsoft&#x27;s Koka is an example of a language that further empraces effect types and makes them easier to use:
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;koka-lang.github.io&#x2F;koka&#x2F;doc&#x2F;index.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;koka-lang.github.io&#x2F;koka&#x2F;doc&#x2F;index.html</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pas</author><text>Yes, they do. (That&#x27;s why there&#x27;s the monad transformer.)<p>But this is fundamentally a very simple thing. If you use an async framework, you have to think inside that. It&#x27;s just as fundamental as CPU architecture, or operating system. If you have an Intel CPU you need a corresponding motherboard. If you have Windows you need programs that use the Win32 API (or use the necessary translation layer, like WSL).<p>Similarly, if you use - let&#x27;s say - libuv in C, you can&#x27;t just expect to call into the kernel and then merrily compose that with whatever libuv is doing.<p>This &quot;coloring&quot; is a suddenly overhyped aspect of programming (software engineering).<p>And of course fundamentally both are wrappable from the other, but it&#x27;s good practice to don&#x27;t mix sync&#x2F;async libs and frameworks and components. (Or do it the right way, with separate threadpools, queues, pipes, or whatnot.)</text></comment> |
3,221,505 | 3,220,884 | 1 | 3 | 3,220,637 | train | <story><title>Redesigning the country selector</title><url>http://baymard.com/labs/country-selector</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mmastrac</author><text>While this has a nice UI, it suffers from a ranking system that fails to weight prefixes correctly.<p>For those of us in Canada, typing "ca" should probably rank countries that start with the "ca" prefix first, followed by countries that have a word that starts with "ca", finally followed by countries that just happen to contain "ca".<p>I don't see much use in showing "United States" as the first match for a user who has typed "c" and "a".<p>The same problem exists for the prefix: "uni". The list in that case is:<p><pre><code> United States
United Kingdom
Réunion
Tanzania, United Republic of
Tunisia
United Arab Emirates
United States Minor Outlying Islands</code></pre></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ajankovic</author><text>That seams as a minor mistake compared to not be able to type the name of the country in my native language. I guess that is not so obvious to the native English speaking users but it's the required feature if you are considering usability improvement as a goal of redesign.</text></comment> | <story><title>Redesigning the country selector</title><url>http://baymard.com/labs/country-selector</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mmastrac</author><text>While this has a nice UI, it suffers from a ranking system that fails to weight prefixes correctly.<p>For those of us in Canada, typing "ca" should probably rank countries that start with the "ca" prefix first, followed by countries that have a word that starts with "ca", finally followed by countries that just happen to contain "ca".<p>I don't see much use in showing "United States" as the first match for a user who has typed "c" and "a".<p>The same problem exists for the prefix: "uni". The list in that case is:<p><pre><code> United States
United Kingdom
Réunion
Tanzania, United Republic of
Tunisia
United Arab Emirates
United States Minor Outlying Islands</code></pre></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ibelimb</author><text>Perhaps adding a geo-ip look up to help weight the results would make this better? None the less this is a huge improvement then a drop-down with every known country.</text></comment> |
17,605,316 | 17,605,036 | 1 | 3 | 17,600,923 | train | <story><title>Hackers Breached Virginia Bank Twice in Eight Months, Stole $2.4M</title><url>https://krebsonsecurity.com/2018/07/hackers-breached-virginia-bank-twice-in-eight-months-stole-2-4m/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>interlocutor</author><text>Some US financial institutions are incorporating cybersecurity disclaimers.<p>Case in point: ETRADE. Just received an update to the customer agreement. The definition of “Force Majeure Event” (unforeseeable circumstances) was updated to include cybersecurity incidents. Also this: ETRADE ... makes no representation or warranty of any kind ... with respect to security.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ballenf</author><text>For anyone else interested, here&#x27;s the old:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;us.etrade.com&#x2F;e&#x2F;t&#x2F;estation&#x2F;help?id=1209031000" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;us.etrade.com&#x2F;e&#x2F;t&#x2F;estation&#x2F;help?id=1209031000</a><p>and the new:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;content.etrade.com&#x2F;etrade&#x2F;estation&#x2F;pdf&#x2F;10118customeragreement.pdf" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;content.etrade.com&#x2F;etrade&#x2F;estation&#x2F;pdf&#x2F;10118customer...</a><p>Here&#x27;s the new force majeure definiton:<p>&gt; “Force Majeure Event” shall mean any act beyond E-TRADE’s control, including any earthquake, flood, severe or extraordinary weather conditions, natural disasters or other act of God, fire, acts of war, acts of foreign or domestic terrorism, insurrection, riot, strikes, labor disputes or similar problems, accident, action of government, government restriction, exchange or market regulation, suspension of trading, communications, system or power failures, cybersecurity incident, and equipment or software malfunction.<p>Here&#x27;s the new force majeure clause:<p>&gt; No Liability for Indirect, Consequential, Exemplary, or Punitive Damages; Force Majeure
In no event shall any E-TRADE Indemnified Parties be held liable for (i) indirect, consequential, exemplary, or punitive damages or (ii) any loss of any kind caused, directly or indirectly, by any Force Majeure Event, and the Account Holder unconditionally waives any right it may have to claim or recover such damages (even if the Account Holder has informed an E-TRADE Indemnified Party of the possibility or likelihood of such damages).<p>Wow. First they define acts beyond their control to include things clearly within their control. Then they say they&#x27;re not liable for &quot;any loss of any kind&quot; resulting therefrom.<p>These contracts are maddening because they won&#x27;t be enforced as written until they are. Until a loss due to an avoidable issue costs them more to cover than it does in reputational damage. So it doesn&#x27;t get reported because it doesn&#x27;t feel like a <i>real</i> policy.<p>New York law applies here. If you sue them and lose, you pay their attorney fees. You&#x27;ve waived the right to a trial by jury and have likely agreed to forced arbitration unless you&#x27;ve explicitly opted out (see last page).</text></comment> | <story><title>Hackers Breached Virginia Bank Twice in Eight Months, Stole $2.4M</title><url>https://krebsonsecurity.com/2018/07/hackers-breached-virginia-bank-twice-in-eight-months-stole-2-4m/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>interlocutor</author><text>Some US financial institutions are incorporating cybersecurity disclaimers.<p>Case in point: ETRADE. Just received an update to the customer agreement. The definition of “Force Majeure Event” (unforeseeable circumstances) was updated to include cybersecurity incidents. Also this: ETRADE ... makes no representation or warranty of any kind ... with respect to security.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kevin_b_er</author><text>Then these financial institutions are openly declaring themselves insecure. But, of course, clickwrap contracts declare them not responsible for anything ever.</text></comment> |
40,185,152 | 40,184,572 | 1 | 2 | 40,179,232 | train | <story><title>What can LLMs never do?</title><url>https://www.strangeloopcanon.com/p/what-can-llms-never-do</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jncfhnb</author><text>I think one should feel comfortable arguing that AGI must be stateful and experience continuous time at least. Such that a plain old LLM is definitively not ever going to be AGI; but an LLM called in a do while true for loop might.</text></item><item><author>dragonwriter</author><text>&gt; There are problems that are easy for human beings but hard for current LLMs (and maybe impossible for them; no one knows). Examples include playing Wordle and predicting cellular automata (including Turing-complete ones like Rule 110). We don’t fully understand why current LLMs are bad at these tasks.<p>I thought we did know for things like playing Wordle, that its because they deal with words as sequence of tokens that correspond to whole words not sequences of letters, so a game that involves dealing with sequences of letters constrained to those that are valid words doesn’t match the way they process information?<p>&gt; Providing an LLM with examples and step-by-step instructions in a prompt means the user is figuring out the “reasoning steps” and handing them to the LLM, instead of the LLM figuring them out by itself. We have “reasoning machines” that are intelligent but seem to be hitting fundamental limits we don’t understand.<p>But providing examples with <i>different</i>, contextually-appropriate sets of reasoning steps results can enable the model to choose its own, more-or-less appropriate, set of reasoning steps for particular questions not matching the examples.<p>&gt; It’s unclear if better prompting and bigger models using existing attention mechanisms can achieve AGI.<p>Since there is no objective definition of AGI or test for it, there’s no basis for any meaningful speculation on what can or cannot achieve it; discussions about it are quasi-religious, not scientific.</text></item><item><author>cs702</author><text>Fantastic essay. Highly recommended!<p>I agree with all key points:<p>* There are problems that are easy for human beings but hard for <i>current</i> LLMs (and maybe impossible for them; no one knows). Examples include playing Wordle and predicting cellular automata (including Turing-complete ones like Rule 110). We don&#x27;t fully understand why <i>current</i> LLMs are bad at these tasks.<p>* Providing an LLM with examples and step-by-step instructions in a prompt means <i>the user</i> is figuring out the &quot;reasoning steps&quot; and <i>handing them to the LLM</i>, instead of the LLM figuring them out by itself. We have &quot;reasoning machines&quot; that are intelligent but seem to be hitting fundamental limits we don&#x27;t understand.<p>* It&#x27;s unclear if better prompting and bigger models using existing attention mechanisms can achieve AGI. As a model of computation, attention is very rigid, whereas human brains are always undergoing synaptic plasticity. There may be a more flexible architecture capable of AGI, but we don&#x27;t know it yet.<p>* For now, using current AI models <i>requires</i> carefully constructing long prompts with right and wrong answers for computational problems, priming the model to reply appropriately, and applying lots of external guardrails (e.g., LLMs acting as agents that review and vote on the answers of other LLMs).<p>* Attention seems to suffer from &quot;goal drift,&quot; making reliability hard without all that external scaffolding.<p>Go read the whole thing.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>PopePompus</author><text>I don&#x27;t understand why you believe it must experience continuous time. If you had a system which clearly could reason, which could learn new tasks on its own, which didn&#x27;t hallucinate any more than humans do, but it was only active for the period required for it to complete an assigned task, and was completely dormant otherwise, why would that dormant period disqualify it as AGI? I agree that such a system should probably not be considered conscious, but I think it&#x27;s an open question whether or not consciousness is required for intelligence.</text></comment> | <story><title>What can LLMs never do?</title><url>https://www.strangeloopcanon.com/p/what-can-llms-never-do</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jncfhnb</author><text>I think one should feel comfortable arguing that AGI must be stateful and experience continuous time at least. Such that a plain old LLM is definitively not ever going to be AGI; but an LLM called in a do while true for loop might.</text></item><item><author>dragonwriter</author><text>&gt; There are problems that are easy for human beings but hard for current LLMs (and maybe impossible for them; no one knows). Examples include playing Wordle and predicting cellular automata (including Turing-complete ones like Rule 110). We don’t fully understand why current LLMs are bad at these tasks.<p>I thought we did know for things like playing Wordle, that its because they deal with words as sequence of tokens that correspond to whole words not sequences of letters, so a game that involves dealing with sequences of letters constrained to those that are valid words doesn’t match the way they process information?<p>&gt; Providing an LLM with examples and step-by-step instructions in a prompt means the user is figuring out the “reasoning steps” and handing them to the LLM, instead of the LLM figuring them out by itself. We have “reasoning machines” that are intelligent but seem to be hitting fundamental limits we don’t understand.<p>But providing examples with <i>different</i>, contextually-appropriate sets of reasoning steps results can enable the model to choose its own, more-or-less appropriate, set of reasoning steps for particular questions not matching the examples.<p>&gt; It’s unclear if better prompting and bigger models using existing attention mechanisms can achieve AGI.<p>Since there is no objective definition of AGI or test for it, there’s no basis for any meaningful speculation on what can or cannot achieve it; discussions about it are quasi-religious, not scientific.</text></item><item><author>cs702</author><text>Fantastic essay. Highly recommended!<p>I agree with all key points:<p>* There are problems that are easy for human beings but hard for <i>current</i> LLMs (and maybe impossible for them; no one knows). Examples include playing Wordle and predicting cellular automata (including Turing-complete ones like Rule 110). We don&#x27;t fully understand why <i>current</i> LLMs are bad at these tasks.<p>* Providing an LLM with examples and step-by-step instructions in a prompt means <i>the user</i> is figuring out the &quot;reasoning steps&quot; and <i>handing them to the LLM</i>, instead of the LLM figuring them out by itself. We have &quot;reasoning machines&quot; that are intelligent but seem to be hitting fundamental limits we don&#x27;t understand.<p>* It&#x27;s unclear if better prompting and bigger models using existing attention mechanisms can achieve AGI. As a model of computation, attention is very rigid, whereas human brains are always undergoing synaptic plasticity. There may be a more flexible architecture capable of AGI, but we don&#x27;t know it yet.<p>* For now, using current AI models <i>requires</i> carefully constructing long prompts with right and wrong answers for computational problems, priming the model to reply appropriately, and applying lots of external guardrails (e.g., LLMs acting as agents that review and vote on the answers of other LLMs).<p>* Attention seems to suffer from &quot;goal drift,&quot; making reliability hard without all that external scaffolding.<p>Go read the whole thing.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pixl97</author><text>A consistent stateful experience may be needed, but not sure about continuous time. I mean human consciousness doesn&#x27;t do that.</text></comment> |
26,869,415 | 26,868,712 | 1 | 2 | 26,864,438 | train | <story><title>How often do people copy and paste from Stack Overflow?</title><url>https://stackoverflow.blog/2021/04/19/how-often-do-people-actually-copy-and-paste-from-stack-overflow-now-we-know/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>henrikeh</author><text>Is it just me or is this also a symptom of Python&#x27;s documentation being really strange to navigate and generally having a massive impedance mismatch with Google?<p>When I search on Google for &quot;python reverse list&quot;, not a single link is to the official Python documentation. Not even if I search for &quot;python reverse&quot; does the documentation page show up. Searching for &quot;python reverse documentation&quot; leads to the second link to the Build-in Functions page (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;docs.python.org&#x2F;3&#x2F;library&#x2F;functions.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;docs.python.org&#x2F;3&#x2F;library&#x2F;functions.html</a>), which is what I &quot;need&quot;.<p>Excuse the comparison, but &quot;matlab reverse list&quot; has the top three to the official documentation (all of them relevant, but slightly different semantics). Why can&#x27;t Python be better than that?</text></item><item><author>arduinomancer</author><text>IMO its not even that we&#x27;re copying people&#x27;s logic, its just that stack overflow acts as a weird sort of crowd-sourced centralized documentation for programming languages.<p>For example if I forget the name of a function for something in a particular language I don&#x27;t even go to the docs, I just google something like &quot;python reverse list&quot; and click the first SO link.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jollybean</author><text>It&#x27;s not you - Python docs are very comprehensive but organized in a very odd way and miss a lot of marks. If you have time to &#x27;read everything&#x27; you&#x27;re fine but it&#x27;s somewhat less suited as a raw reference.<p>Although I don&#x27;t mind the informal voice of the docs - there&#x27;s clearly not much in the way of editorial oversight and pro technical writing. It makes one reconsider how much actual effort goes into putting together docs from corporate backed efforts.<p>That said, I don&#x27;t think anyone does it perfectly well, and that we could do a lot better in terms of providing information - to the point wherein I would consider it a little bit of a failure that SE has to be consulted for smaller problems. One would hope that &#x27;good docs&#x27; would provide clear and concise answers to such things, rather than have the crowd cobble it together and vote on it.</text></comment> | <story><title>How often do people copy and paste from Stack Overflow?</title><url>https://stackoverflow.blog/2021/04/19/how-often-do-people-actually-copy-and-paste-from-stack-overflow-now-we-know/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>henrikeh</author><text>Is it just me or is this also a symptom of Python&#x27;s documentation being really strange to navigate and generally having a massive impedance mismatch with Google?<p>When I search on Google for &quot;python reverse list&quot;, not a single link is to the official Python documentation. Not even if I search for &quot;python reverse&quot; does the documentation page show up. Searching for &quot;python reverse documentation&quot; leads to the second link to the Build-in Functions page (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;docs.python.org&#x2F;3&#x2F;library&#x2F;functions.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;docs.python.org&#x2F;3&#x2F;library&#x2F;functions.html</a>), which is what I &quot;need&quot;.<p>Excuse the comparison, but &quot;matlab reverse list&quot; has the top three to the official documentation (all of them relevant, but slightly different semantics). Why can&#x27;t Python be better than that?</text></item><item><author>arduinomancer</author><text>IMO its not even that we&#x27;re copying people&#x27;s logic, its just that stack overflow acts as a weird sort of crowd-sourced centralized documentation for programming languages.<p>For example if I forget the name of a function for something in a particular language I don&#x27;t even go to the docs, I just google something like &quot;python reverse list&quot; and click the first SO link.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nurpax</author><text>It’s not just you. Python seems to suffer from Python-specific ”tutorial sites” being SEO’d above Python’s official docs. I don’t know what it is about the Python documentation that lowers its rank on Google search results. In general, not a big fan of Python docs.</text></comment> |
20,897,535 | 20,897,725 | 1 | 3 | 20,896,156 | train | <story><title>Police Shut Down a 3k-Person Game of Hide-and-Seek at IKEA</title><url>https://www.housebeautiful.com/lifestyle/a28917427/ikea-hide-and-seek-glasgow-scotland/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ineedasername</author><text>That sounds awesome, but how does a 3k game of hide &amp; seek actually work? I mean, by home rules growing up, one person was &quot;it&quot; and had to find everyone. That would suck. One person would have to find 2999 others, and most of them would just be stuck stuck under an Espevar, waiting.<p>This is an important problem to solve. I call on the engineers of this site to find a solution to the hide &amp; seek scaling problem. Let&#x27;s get to work!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rotexo</author><text>You might be interested in the hide-and-seek variant Sardines. One person hides, with a group of seekers. Seekers that find the one who hides have to hide with them, until one seeker is left. There is nothing like the feeling of looking around, encountering fewer and fewer other seekers, until you are alone with the knowledge that you just lost.</text></comment> | <story><title>Police Shut Down a 3k-Person Game of Hide-and-Seek at IKEA</title><url>https://www.housebeautiful.com/lifestyle/a28917427/ikea-hide-and-seek-glasgow-scotland/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ineedasername</author><text>That sounds awesome, but how does a 3k game of hide &amp; seek actually work? I mean, by home rules growing up, one person was &quot;it&quot; and had to find everyone. That would suck. One person would have to find 2999 others, and most of them would just be stuck stuck under an Espevar, waiting.<p>This is an important problem to solve. I call on the engineers of this site to find a solution to the hide &amp; seek scaling problem. Let&#x27;s get to work!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>hinkley</author><text>When the seeker gets pissed off enough about how well people are hiding, they take the people they found and go inside and watch a movie.<p>As grownups, maybe the bar, or just hang out in the Ikea food court?</text></comment> |
10,999,705 | 10,999,673 | 1 | 2 | 10,999,335 | train | <story><title>Systemd mounted efivarfs read-write, allowing motherboard bricking via 'rm'</title><url>https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/2402</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mmastrac</author><text>These threads are never productive. Running rm -rf &#x2F; is going to offer multiple interesting ways to make your life miserable, eg: a mounted FUSE filesystem, an NFS folder pointed somewhere important, Samba mounts from your network automatically connected from your desktop, etc. I wouldn&#x27;t be surprised if you could nuke firmware off a device by deleting the appropriate file in &#x2F;sys&#x2F;.<p>Systemd hate is en vogue these days so they are an easy and common target. Why no invective towards the kernel that actually implements EFI-as-a-filesystem?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mikeash</author><text>Sometimes people run rm -rf &#x2F; just for fun before reformatting a system, just to see what happens. Given that its purpose in life is to delete files, it stands to reason that running this command on a system which contains no important data is OK. A <i>default</i> configuration which makes this command <i>destroy hardware</i> is not reasonable.</text></comment> | <story><title>Systemd mounted efivarfs read-write, allowing motherboard bricking via 'rm'</title><url>https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/2402</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mmastrac</author><text>These threads are never productive. Running rm -rf &#x2F; is going to offer multiple interesting ways to make your life miserable, eg: a mounted FUSE filesystem, an NFS folder pointed somewhere important, Samba mounts from your network automatically connected from your desktop, etc. I wouldn&#x27;t be surprised if you could nuke firmware off a device by deleting the appropriate file in &#x2F;sys&#x2F;.<p>Systemd hate is en vogue these days so they are an easy and common target. Why no invective towards the kernel that actually implements EFI-as-a-filesystem?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>cmhamill</author><text>The issue here is actually <i>bricking</i> the device. It&#x27;s not your standard &quot;do we let people hang themselves or limit the user&#x27;s capabilities&quot; debate.<p>A filesystem is a perfectly reasonable way to implement access to the EFI vars.</text></comment> |
35,657,818 | 35,655,106 | 1 | 2 | 35,653,648 | train | <story><title>Bard coding update with Colab exporting</title><url>https://blog.google/technology/ai/code-with-bard/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>bg24</author><text>Tried it and love it. This is still not at par with ChatGPT 3.5. I use ChatGPT all the time, and will increase use of Bard from now.<p>Good that Bard is aware of latest version of software (eg. NextJS). Helps when APIs of a software evolves quickly.<p>I use a lot of Google products and really hope that they manage to nail it as at least #2 player in the space. As a company, they have not proven to come back and take the lead from behind.</text></comment> | <story><title>Bard coding update with Colab exporting</title><url>https://blog.google/technology/ai/code-with-bard/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>impulser_</author><text>It&#x27;s pretty cool that it will cite open source if it quotes code from an open source project, unlike ChatGPT and Copilot.</text></comment> |
11,576,272 | 11,575,439 | 1 | 2 | 11,574,487 | train | <story><title>Jenkins 2.0 is here</title><url>https://jenkins.io/blog/2016/04/26/jenkins-20-is-here/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>dang</author><text>This release was discussed at <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=11362058" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=11362058</a>.</text></comment> | <story><title>Jenkins 2.0 is here</title><url>https://jenkins.io/blog/2016/04/26/jenkins-20-is-here/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>mikestew</author><text>I was looking at this over the weekend to see if the risk&#x2F;benefit ratio was appropriate for our team. Meh, we already use the pipelines plug-in, and the insecure-by-default configuration has already been locked down, so for our team the answer is, &quot;no, it&#x27;s not worth risking mikestew having to spend a day putting things back the way they were if the upgrade goes horribly wrong&quot;. I&#x27;m supposed to be writing code, not dicking around with broken installs.<p>That&#x27;s not to poo-poo the hard work that obviously went into this release. Big, shiny new stuff there, and the next Jenkins box I setup will be running 2.0. But for my particular situation at this point in time, it&#x27;ll be 1.6 for a while.</text></comment> |
30,847,364 | 30,847,474 | 1 | 2 | 30,846,659 | train | <story><title>Zulip 5.0: Threaded open-source team chat</title><url>https://blog.zulip.com/2022/03/29/zulip-5-0-released/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>sho_hn</author><text>Meanwhile in Europe, where Slack never made much of a dent, Teams seems to be eating everything.<p>... which is frustrating, because its Linux desktop app is still quite poor and buggy in the basics.</text></item><item><author>pm90</author><text>Same, love Zulip but slack seems too entrenched at the moment. I&#x27;m hoping that OSS communities continue adopting it and using it instead of slack though.</text></item><item><author>dijit</author><text>Nothing but love for Zulip honestly. But getting my company to switch from slack or teams seems to be impossible.<p>For a good example of how great Zulip can be: the rust-lang zulip instance is a shining example.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;forge.rust-lang.org&#x2F;platforms&#x2F;zulip.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;forge.rust-lang.org&#x2F;platforms&#x2F;zulip.html</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>sandermvanvliet</author><text>I might be living in a different Europe than you but from what I see around my Slack is very pervasive and Teams is only used for video meetings because companies are already on office365.<p>Nothing but hate for the chat&#x2F;collaboration features…</text></comment> | <story><title>Zulip 5.0: Threaded open-source team chat</title><url>https://blog.zulip.com/2022/03/29/zulip-5-0-released/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>sho_hn</author><text>Meanwhile in Europe, where Slack never made much of a dent, Teams seems to be eating everything.<p>... which is frustrating, because its Linux desktop app is still quite poor and buggy in the basics.</text></item><item><author>pm90</author><text>Same, love Zulip but slack seems too entrenched at the moment. I&#x27;m hoping that OSS communities continue adopting it and using it instead of slack though.</text></item><item><author>dijit</author><text>Nothing but love for Zulip honestly. But getting my company to switch from slack or teams seems to be impossible.<p>For a good example of how great Zulip can be: the rust-lang zulip instance is a shining example.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;forge.rust-lang.org&#x2F;platforms&#x2F;zulip.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;forge.rust-lang.org&#x2F;platforms&#x2F;zulip.html</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>wellthisisgreat</author><text>Team is horrendous.
Literally the worst group chat there is</text></comment> |
37,015,843 | 37,015,963 | 1 | 2 | 37,015,118 | train | <story><title>Replacing the bad flyback transformer in Apple's Studio Display 17"</title><url>https://www.riveducha.com/fix-apple-studio-display-flyback</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>wkat4242</author><text>Nice job and write-up.<p>As the author says CRTs are dangerous. Even when they&#x27;re off they can still carry insanely high voltages. The flyback transformer is one of the more dangerous components of them.<p>I&#x27;m great at electronics repair and I tend to avoid them. Luckily these days that&#x27;s easy :)<p>If you don&#x27;t know what you&#x27;re doing, you shouldn&#x27;t attempt it. Just get a more technical friend to do it.<p>If you do know what you&#x27;re doing you probably wouldn&#x27;t need this guide in the first place :)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>glhaynes</author><text>I&#x27;ve never worked inside a CRT (but may need to soon) and am <i>not</i> great at electronics repair, but I&#x27;m a little surprised you describe yourself as having a lot of skill but still tend to avoid them. From my understanding, it&#x27;s straightforward to reliably discharge them and make them safe to work on. Do you think it&#x27;s easier to get this wrong than I&#x27;ve understood or do you just feel uneasy about it in general? Just curious!</text></comment> | <story><title>Replacing the bad flyback transformer in Apple's Studio Display 17"</title><url>https://www.riveducha.com/fix-apple-studio-display-flyback</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>wkat4242</author><text>Nice job and write-up.<p>As the author says CRTs are dangerous. Even when they&#x27;re off they can still carry insanely high voltages. The flyback transformer is one of the more dangerous components of them.<p>I&#x27;m great at electronics repair and I tend to avoid them. Luckily these days that&#x27;s easy :)<p>If you don&#x27;t know what you&#x27;re doing, you shouldn&#x27;t attempt it. Just get a more technical friend to do it.<p>If you do know what you&#x27;re doing you probably wouldn&#x27;t need this guide in the first place :)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>the_third_wave</author><text>Ah, electronics hobbyists these days... I repaired my first TV at 16yo, it was a Nordmende B&amp;W set with a resistor directly on the output of the flyback transformer. That resistor was broken which led to a nice corona discharge lighting up the inside of the set, looking at it was like looking at the set of a 30&#x27;s Frankenstein movie. This set me up for a &#x27;career&#x27; of repairing televisions and (later) monitors while at university where I came across all sorts of interesting light&#x2F;sound&#x2F;smoke effects from those 35kV flyback transformers with cascade circuits (called &#x27;tripplers&#x27; since they were used to raise the output voltage) on large-tube sets.<p>I never got zapped which is a good thing since yes, that can be unpleasant and - depending on when and where it happens - dangerous. Discharge those tubes and cascades before you fiddle with them, use a screwdriver connected to a ground wire which is connected to the metal tube frame. If you want to do it &#x27;professionally&#x27; you&#x27;ll want to put a HT resistor in that wire, otherwise just zap the thing by sticking the screwdriver under the plastic cap on the high tension connector at the tube.</text></comment> |
41,561,541 | 41,561,252 | 1 | 2 | 41,560,491 | train | <story><title>The Subprime AI Crisis</title><url>https://www.wheresyoured.at/subprimeai/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>pocketarc</author><text>I think the main problem with AI sustainability is that all this VC investment is burning through ungodly amounts of money to produce something that provides no moat.<p>Even if all AI investment froze tomorrow, I&#x27;d still have my 405B Llama 3.1 model, along with countless other smaller models, and I&#x27;d run them to do whatever the heck I felt like doing, with no commitment to any provider.<p>Writing code with AI? I could swap to a local model. Costs nothing. Provides no revenue to any VC-backed company.<p>Yes, bigger models will always command a premium for the highest end of reasoning. But you don&#x27;t always need the best possible reasoning. GPT-3 and early GPT-4 were more than good enough for a ton of use cases last year.<p>And we&#x27;ve seen the pace of development in the open source world these past two years. The open source community (Meta in particular) has completely obliterated the commercial value of these models.<p>If there were no &quot;weights available&quot; models, OpenAI would have an incredible, unbeatable moat, and they would be worth truly astounding amounts of money. But as it stands, we all have free, unfettered access to local models far better and cheaper than models that were flagship 18 months ago, and close enough to the performance of current flagship models that it won&#x27;t make a difference for a ton of use cases.<p>There is no way to justify the current level of investment, with local models being freely available.<p>The assumption I&#x27;m making, of course, is that this transformer technology won&#x27;t ever lead to AGI - it will just be another tool in our ever-expanding tool-belt.</text></comment> | <story><title>The Subprime AI Crisis</title><url>https://www.wheresyoured.at/subprimeai/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>memothon</author><text>I always find it really strange when articles like this claim nobody is paying for generative AI. I can&#x27;t find reliable stats on this but there are at least a million ChatGPT Plus subscribers. Does that not count?<p>It takes time for new advancements to get proliferated through the economy.</text></comment> |
25,925,914 | 25,926,045 | 1 | 2 | 25,924,566 | train | <story><title>Why does it take so long to build software? (2020)</title><url>https://www.simplethread.com/why-does-it-take-so-long-to-build-software/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>caseyross</author><text>Software takes a long time to build because it&#x27;s always new.<p>That is, software is trivially copy-able, so there is no reason to spend effort duplicating any software that already exists. (Legal reasons and &quot;not-invented-here&quot; syndrome notwithstanding.) This is a <i>huge</i> different from how the &quot;real&quot; world works, where almost all of the work involved in building, say, a car, is actually just the work of assembling identical copies of that product so that it can be physically sold to more than one person.<p>The insane amounts of repeated effort involved in building any physical product at scale have a silver lining, in that the repetition enables a very good and stable estimate of how long another repetition will take. Software is the opposite situation --- we only need to build anything once, but not having built that thing before, we don&#x27;t really know how long it will take.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>TeMPOraL</author><text>I think focusing on this comparison to the real world assemblies and constructions doesn&#x27;t yield much insight. The equivalent of a car being assembled is a compiler building an executable from source. You can consider factories to be just <i>very, very long</i> compiles, and forget about it.<p>The question of why software takes a long time to build pertains to the coding phase, to which real life&#x27;s analogue is drafting&#x2F;design phase. It is my impression that the drafting&#x2F;design phase in &quot;hard&quot; industries can be just as messy and hard to schedule as software development is - we just don&#x27;t pay attention, because for physical products, drafting&#x2F;design is nearly free (capex &amp; opex of the assembly phase dominates), whereas in software, the construction is nearly free (compiler time is too cheap to meter).<p>It&#x27;s true that, on the surface, software is &quot;always new&quot;. But after doing it for a while, I have this sinking feeling that a lot of it is old and repetitive work that we hadn&#x27;t yet automated - there are deep similarities between pieces of code we&#x27;re writing, but we don&#x27;t have a language to fully capture them and abstract them away.</text></comment> | <story><title>Why does it take so long to build software? (2020)</title><url>https://www.simplethread.com/why-does-it-take-so-long-to-build-software/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>caseyross</author><text>Software takes a long time to build because it&#x27;s always new.<p>That is, software is trivially copy-able, so there is no reason to spend effort duplicating any software that already exists. (Legal reasons and &quot;not-invented-here&quot; syndrome notwithstanding.) This is a <i>huge</i> different from how the &quot;real&quot; world works, where almost all of the work involved in building, say, a car, is actually just the work of assembling identical copies of that product so that it can be physically sold to more than one person.<p>The insane amounts of repeated effort involved in building any physical product at scale have a silver lining, in that the repetition enables a very good and stable estimate of how long another repetition will take. Software is the opposite situation --- we only need to build anything once, but not having built that thing before, we don&#x27;t really know how long it will take.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>lazysheepherd</author><text>Best comparison (car&#x2F;machine manufacturing vs software development) I&#x27;ve ever heard on this topic is as following;<p>While producing a machine, there are two steps;<p>1) designing the blueprint (takes a lot of time, unpredictable)<p>2) mass production (takes a lot of time, predictable)<p>Those steps in software development;<p>1) building the software (takes a lot of time, unpredictable)<p>2) deploying the code (takes virtually no time, predictable)<p>So the real difference is this: software is almost all about doing something <i>new</i>, each and every time.
It&#x27;s all flesh and has no bone: e.g. devoid of a long, very stable and predictable mass production stage. It&#x27;s almost all about R&amp;D, all of it&#x27;s length. Hence 98% of the process is novel work therefore takes time and hard to predict.</text></comment> |
2,701,998 | 2,701,767 | 1 | 2 | 2,701,636 | train | <story><title>Supreme Court: first amendment allows mature video games to be sold to minors</title><url>http://arstechnica.com/gaming/news/2011/06/us-supreme-court-strikes-down-video-game-law-on-first-amendment-grounds.ars</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>niels_olson</author><text>I understand how quite a few game hackers would be in favor of a ruling like this, but if these are truly your convictions, I would like to see some video (not screencast, video) of your 12 year-old son playing some game with his mostly nude, thoroughly adult female character slavishly hacking on the corpses of other characters. Is that normal?<p>I was in an ethics discussion in my military surgical program and started to see how the effects of these policies. Full disclosure: a number of my friends have died in the current conflicts, starting with the Pentagon on 9/11. One of the situations we were posed with, by staff who were there, was this:<p>CIA officers approach you, as a doctor, in Kandahar, with a captured informant-turned-double-agent. They want you to give him Ativan so he'll talk. They tell you he knows where a weapons cache is that could be used against Americans. You say no, there's no medical indication. They say, if you don't, they'll torture him and get the information anyway. You're role will only cause him more pain or less.<p>The overwhelming consensus of medical students, interns, and residents was to give him the Ativan. Three of us took the opposite position: you can't let people cajole you into making moral decisions based on threats. Then your just complicit.<p>The irony was that the majority consisted of essentially everyone who hadn't thought about these problems before. In the minority of three were two of us with prior service, and the philosophy major.<p>Here's the point: video game violence develop a shitty moral compass. It's just shit. I don't care if it points in the right direction or the wrong direction. I, your comrade in arms, don't know where it's going to point next time. And that's not the guy I want be sharing a tent with.<p>So enjoy your expanded access to an audience willing to pretend they understand violence. Moral consistency matters. Reliability matters. You can look forward to further international embarrassment when they grow up to make the wrong, randomly wrong, decisions behind the trigger or, worse, at the voting booth.<p>Edit: Look, I'm all for the first amendment. I took an oath to defend it, and I carry a copy of the Constitution with me everywhere. I read it regularly. Genuinely, I support the ideas in the opinion. My concern is that waiting in the wings around this particular opinion, there's a lot of unscrupulous adults salivating over the opportunity to take money from my kids in exchange for making my job as a parent, doctor, military officer, etc, harder.<p>Edit 2: For those asking for evidence: here is the American Academy of Pediatrics Policy Statement on Media Violence, which includes abundant (3500) references if you would like to dig deeper: <a href="http://pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/108/5/1222.full" rel="nofollow">http://pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/108/5/1222.ful...</a><p>Preview of that statement: "The strength of the correlation between media violence and aggressive behavior found on meta-analysis is greater than that of calcium intake and bone mass, lead ingestion and lower IQ, condom nonuse and sexually acquired human immunodeficiency virus infection, or environmental tobacco smoke and lung cancer."<p>Edit 3: I would like to point out that here is a thread full of programmers justifying, essentially to themselves, why their industry is best off with less regulation. Do you extend your arguments to other industries gray areas? Meat processing? Tobacco? Defense? Isn't "corporate self-regulation" best for everyone?</text></comment> | <story><title>Supreme Court: first amendment allows mature video games to be sold to minors</title><url>http://arstechnica.com/gaming/news/2011/06/us-supreme-court-strikes-down-video-game-law-on-first-amendment-grounds.ars</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>portman</author><text>I found it interesting that Scalia, who is the most conservative/religious member of the Court, not only voted with the majority but even wrote the opinion.<p>My guess is that as a father of 9 kids and a grand-father of even more, he's seen firsthand how nominal an impact video games have on minors.<p>In my experience, the most vocal opponents of violence in video games don't actually have any video-game playing children of their own.</text></comment> |
3,167,694 | 3,167,287 | 1 | 2 | 3,166,335 | train | <story><title>Gates to students: Don’t try to be a billionaire, it’s overrated</title><url>http://www.geekwire.com/2011/gates-tells-uw-students-billionaire-overrated</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ehsanu1</author><text>The point of making the billion dollars yourself is having a say in where it gets spent, not in "giving it all away" indiscriminately. Indeed, someone else might choose to just keep their billions in the family, for the sake of obnoxious levels of luxury. I'm sure there are some billionaires exactly like that.<p>Anyways, the whole problem with <i>trying</i> to become a billionaire is that it's really a lottery. Sure, someone determined could probably earn a few million through effort alone, but becoming a billionaire requires a special mix of smarts, hard work, and luck. Mostly luck, disproportionately so. You can't just will yourself to earn billions.</text></item><item><author>hugh3</author><text><i>But Gates's own example shows how wonderfully useful and fulfilling it can be to have tens of billions of dollars to mobilize in a really heroic cause, like working to eradicate various infectious diseases from the human experience.</i><p>Maybe. But it doesn't particularly make <i>me</i> want to be a billionaire. If the main satisfaction you get out of having $100 billion dollars is giving it all away again, I'd rather let someone <i>else</i> make those $100 billion dollars and give 'em away.<p>I figure Bill Gates made $100 billion and gave it away so I wouldn't have to. Thanks Bill!</text></item><item><author>bfe</author><text>Billionaire-scale conspicuous consumption is certainly overrated. But Gates's own example shows how wonderfully useful and fulfilling it can be to have tens of billions of dollars to mobilize in a really heroic cause, like working to eradicate various infectious diseases from the human experience.<p>Just to get started, as long as we don't have clean water, plenty of food, proper healthcare, good education, meaningful personal freedom, and a well-functioning legal system for every human being in the world, cheap carbon-neutral energy, strong environmental protection and sustainable ecosystem conservation throughout the world, a cure for cancer, a complete genome and proteome and extended phenotype encyclopedia for all life on Earth, telescopes that can image Earthlike planets in other galaxies and the first stars to ignite in the extremely early Universe, robots crawling around under the surfaces of Europa and Enceladus and screaming through interstellar space toward Alpha Centauri and Epsilon Eridani, and human colonies on Mars and the asteroids and in the clouds of Venus, there will be plenty of interesting and valuable things to do for someone with tens of billions of dollars to throw at an ambitious project.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>vladd</author><text>&#62; The point of making the billion dollars yourself is having a say in where it gets spent<p>I doubt people that are great at creating value would appreciate making these kind of decisions once they get to know what's involved.<p>Just to give an example: an 8 year-old requested $50'000 from Bill and Melinda Gates foundation to help him survive by contributing to his leukemia treatment, but Gates turned the request down because they don't contribute to individual cases (their policy is to fund programs designed to target large groups of people, i.e. population control in Asia).<p>I don't imagine great founders or great engineers getting up in the morning because they dream in having a "point" to say in this kind of decisions. They love to do what they do best: creating something people want.</text></comment> | <story><title>Gates to students: Don’t try to be a billionaire, it’s overrated</title><url>http://www.geekwire.com/2011/gates-tells-uw-students-billionaire-overrated</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ehsanu1</author><text>The point of making the billion dollars yourself is having a say in where it gets spent, not in "giving it all away" indiscriminately. Indeed, someone else might choose to just keep their billions in the family, for the sake of obnoxious levels of luxury. I'm sure there are some billionaires exactly like that.<p>Anyways, the whole problem with <i>trying</i> to become a billionaire is that it's really a lottery. Sure, someone determined could probably earn a few million through effort alone, but becoming a billionaire requires a special mix of smarts, hard work, and luck. Mostly luck, disproportionately so. You can't just will yourself to earn billions.</text></item><item><author>hugh3</author><text><i>But Gates's own example shows how wonderfully useful and fulfilling it can be to have tens of billions of dollars to mobilize in a really heroic cause, like working to eradicate various infectious diseases from the human experience.</i><p>Maybe. But it doesn't particularly make <i>me</i> want to be a billionaire. If the main satisfaction you get out of having $100 billion dollars is giving it all away again, I'd rather let someone <i>else</i> make those $100 billion dollars and give 'em away.<p>I figure Bill Gates made $100 billion and gave it away so I wouldn't have to. Thanks Bill!</text></item><item><author>bfe</author><text>Billionaire-scale conspicuous consumption is certainly overrated. But Gates's own example shows how wonderfully useful and fulfilling it can be to have tens of billions of dollars to mobilize in a really heroic cause, like working to eradicate various infectious diseases from the human experience.<p>Just to get started, as long as we don't have clean water, plenty of food, proper healthcare, good education, meaningful personal freedom, and a well-functioning legal system for every human being in the world, cheap carbon-neutral energy, strong environmental protection and sustainable ecosystem conservation throughout the world, a cure for cancer, a complete genome and proteome and extended phenotype encyclopedia for all life on Earth, telescopes that can image Earthlike planets in other galaxies and the first stars to ignite in the extremely early Universe, robots crawling around under the surfaces of Europa and Enceladus and screaming through interstellar space toward Alpha Centauri and Epsilon Eridani, and human colonies on Mars and the asteroids and in the clouds of Venus, there will be plenty of interesting and valuable things to do for someone with tens of billions of dollars to throw at an ambitious project.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>femto</author><text>An interesting point. Is it more interesting to do the work, or to pay for the work? I'd come down on the of doing the work, though I guess if you pay for the work, you can be present for the fun bits and absent for the hard slog (the majority).<p>The problem with doing is that it can be hard to make end meet while doing interesting work with long term payoffs. The options I can think of are:<p>1) Get an interesting job.<p>2) Fight tooth and nail to the top of the career/academic heap in a boring job and hope you make it to a position of being able to set your own interesting work while you still have brain cells.<p>3) Find an angel or patron who is prepared to pay for an interesting long shot.<p>4) Say hang it, and do interesting work while keeping your lifestyle within the modest remuneration you can scape together.<p>5) Part time work, with interesting stuff making up a full time load.<p>Can anyone suggest other options that might work with dependents?</text></comment> |
19,917,262 | 19,916,411 | 1 | 2 | 19,915,299 | train | <story><title>The food industry’s new favorite protein source: peas</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-05-14/the-mighty-pea-is-everybody-s-new-favorite-plant-based-protein</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>LordHeini</author><text>Is it only me or is this whole preprocessed food stuff the most American thing ever?<p>Why has everything to be some powder in a bucket or some goop in a tube?<p>It is so strange that people replace animal products with chemistry.<p>I can understand not to eat animal based products on moral or environmental grounds but replacing those with Monsanto soy and chemistry does not strike me as the proper way to do it.<p>Do you think the bucketized bean protein powder extracted from peas might be bad for you? Well eat the freaking peas I bet those taste better as well.</text></comment> | <story><title>The food industry’s new favorite protein source: peas</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-05-14/the-mighty-pea-is-everybody-s-new-favorite-plant-based-protein</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>lemming</author><text>My family has been trialling various alternative meats recently, and one we liked was the Sunfed chicken-free chicken, made here in NZ. Pea protein is the main ingredient. Their advertising claims that people can&#x27;t tell the difference between it and real chicken, which I find hard to believe, but it&#x27;s not bad and it basically serves an equivalent function to chicken for me - it soaks up whatever tasty thing I&#x27;m covering it with and gives me a bunch of protein (much more than real chicken, actually). It&#x27;s not like actual chicken is really super tasty unless you smother it in something yummy.</text></comment> |
30,446,620 | 30,445,774 | 1 | 2 | 30,443,747 | train | <story><title>Ngrok Alternatives</title><url>https://github.com/anderspitman/awesome-tunneling</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>moonchrome</author><text>Ngrok was really cool since I never thought about reverse proxying my localhost before l tried it.<p>But for the price of ngrok I&#x27;m paying for a domain and a 2gb ram&#x2F;2 CPU VM on hetzner and using SSH tunnels to nginx reverse proxy.<p>And setting up a shared server for a team with subdomains is just 10 mins of config changes per user - no way they can justify the cost for me.<p>If it was some symbolic price like 20$&#x2F;year then I wouldn&#x27;t bother, otherwise I&#x27;ll take the VM I can load other random dev crap to when I need it.<p>And you&#x27;re using standard web tech to set this up - if you aren&#x27;t familiar with something required to set this up you will be better off learning it in the long run (if you&#x27;re the target audience for ngrok) : VM setup, nginx, reverse proxy, SSH tunneling, let&#x27;s encrypt, domain management&#x2F;DNS - all valuable fundamental skills to acquire on a small project.</text></comment> | <story><title>Ngrok Alternatives</title><url>https://github.com/anderspitman/awesome-tunneling</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>itsananderson</author><text>I feel like half of Ngrok&#x27;s value prop is being undervalued here. Namely the fact that it captures requests for inspection and replay. That feature is an absolute game-changer for developing things like Webhooks.<p>First, it lets you easily see what the Webhooks payload looks like in real life. Second, it lets you hit your endpoint repeatedly with the same payload (while iterating on your code), without having to trigger the 3rd party event again.</text></comment> |
16,477,331 | 16,475,672 | 1 | 3 | 16,473,508 | train | <story><title>California to allow testing of self-driving cars without a driver present</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2018/02/27/california-to-allow-testing-of-self-driving-cars-without-a-driver-present/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>KKKKkkkk1</author><text>Have you never had the experience of being on a crawling train and counting the minutes after the meeting you were supposed to be at has already started?</text></item><item><author>meri_dian</author><text>People are excited about self driving cars for their potential to reduce accidents by removing human error from the equation. It&#x27;s not just human error that causes accidents though.<p>Human emotion in general causes dangerous situations. When we drive now, we&#x27;re restricted to driving and driving alone. We can listen to the radio but for the most part we are restricted. Because of this, we tend to want to get to our destination as quickly as possible. We drive fast to get the restrictive experience of driving over with.<p>However if we were free to do other things, like get work done or sleep or watch TV while in our cars, I think we would generally be much more tolerant of travelling at a lower speed. While eventually our self driving systems may be capable of being very safe at very high speeds, I think reduced speeds tolerated by people could offer an extra layer of safety.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>joe_the_user</author><text>It seems you&#x27;re confusing the effects of travel being slow with the effects of travel being unreliable. It&#x27;s not the slowness of a train that&#x27;s annoying you, it&#x27;s that the train has slowed unpredictably.<p>That said, I suppose there&#x27;s every reason to think traffic impacts of self-driving cars (more cars circling, waiting for passengers) would make traffic slower and more unpredictable.<p>Edit: And, of course, the people in the non-self-driving cars would get the slowness without any direct benefit to themselves.</text></comment> | <story><title>California to allow testing of self-driving cars without a driver present</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2018/02/27/california-to-allow-testing-of-self-driving-cars-without-a-driver-present/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>KKKKkkkk1</author><text>Have you never had the experience of being on a crawling train and counting the minutes after the meeting you were supposed to be at has already started?</text></item><item><author>meri_dian</author><text>People are excited about self driving cars for their potential to reduce accidents by removing human error from the equation. It&#x27;s not just human error that causes accidents though.<p>Human emotion in general causes dangerous situations. When we drive now, we&#x27;re restricted to driving and driving alone. We can listen to the radio but for the most part we are restricted. Because of this, we tend to want to get to our destination as quickly as possible. We drive fast to get the restrictive experience of driving over with.<p>However if we were free to do other things, like get work done or sleep or watch TV while in our cars, I think we would generally be much more tolerant of travelling at a lower speed. While eventually our self driving systems may be capable of being very safe at very high speeds, I think reduced speeds tolerated by people could offer an extra layer of safety.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dopamean</author><text>You&#x27;re not going to feel any better if you&#x27;re late in your car on the way to the meeting.<p>I take the bus every day to work even though in total it takes exactly twice as long than if I took my motorcycle? Why because I like to read on the bus. It&#x27;s not actually important to me to get there any quicker. In fact on days I have earlier meetings I just leave my apartment earlier. I think the idea that people wouldn&#x27;t mind going slower may be real for a lot of people.</text></comment> |
29,304,969 | 29,303,796 | 1 | 2 | 29,303,023 | train | <story><title>Why is Control Center on Monterey listening on ports?</title><url>https://developer.apple.com/forums/thread/682332</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>rock_artist</author><text>I am surprised to see so much comments without mentioning the reason of that (written in the thread)...<p>* It&#x27;s the new AirPlay server capability.<p>* It can be toggled off.<p>* Those ports are the defaults for AirPlay.<p>It might&#x27;ve been nice to allow simple way of customizing the ports though..</text></comment> | <story><title>Why is Control Center on Monterey listening on ports?</title><url>https://developer.apple.com/forums/thread/682332</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>cromka</author><text>This was discussed before:
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=29006861" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=29006861</a><p>Their usage of port 5000 appears compliant with IANA port designation.</text></comment> |
25,937,259 | 25,937,092 | 1 | 2 | 25,933,121 | train | <story><title>OO in Python is mostly pointless</title><url>https://leontrolski.github.io/mostly-pointless.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>throwaway894345</author><text>&gt; The same is true of functional and procedural programming, too.<p>There are some specific criticisms that are levied against FP for which proponents respond “that’s not true FP”. For example, the criticism “FP is too preoccupied with monads” might engender such a response; however, this response is appropriate because it’s not one of the defining features of FP. Yet for FP, there are still pretty widely-agreed upon features or conventions (functional composition, strong preference for immutability, etc).<p>For OOP, I can’t think of any features or styles that are widely agreed upon. If you mention inheritance, half of OOP proponents will argue that inheritance isn’t a defining characteristic because Kay didn’t mention it in his definition. If you mention message-passing, many others will object. If you mention encapsulation, then you’ve accidentally included virtually all mainstream paradigms.<p>If OOP is a distinct thing, and it isn’t about inheritance or message passing or encapsulation or gratuitous references between objects (the gorilla&#x2F;banana&#x2F;jungle problem), then what exactly <i>is</i> it?</text></item><item><author>mumblemumble</author><text>&gt; This argument seems to come up for every criticism of OO.<p>The same is true of functional and procedural programming, too.<p>The problem, as I see it, is that the profession has a history of treating programming paradigms as just being a bag of features. They&#x27;re not just that, they&#x27;re also sets of guiding principles. And, while there&#x27;s something to be said for knowing when to judiciously break rules, blithely failing to follow a paradigm&#x27;s principles is indeed doing it badly.<p>This is a particular problem for OO and procedural programming. At least as of this current renaissance that FP is enjoying, advocates seem to be doing a much better job of presenting functional programming as being an actual software design paradigm.<p>It&#x27;s also the case that, frankly, a lot of influential thought leadership in object-oriented programming popularized some awful ideas whose lack of merit is only beginning to be widely recognized. If null is a billion dollar mistake, then the Java Bean, for example, is at least a $500M one.</text></item><item><author>throwaway894345</author><text>&gt; It’s not bad because it’s OO, but that it’s very badly done OO<p>This argument seems to come up for every criticism of OO. The criticism is invalid because <i>true</i> OO would never do that. It seems like a No True Scotsman. Notably, when you whittle away all of the things that aren’t <i>true</i> OOP, you seem to be left with something that looks functional or data-oriented (something like idiomatic Go or Rust). There isn’t much remaining that might characterize it as a distinct paradigm.</text></item><item><author>benkuhn</author><text>The author’s OO example is hard to understand, but they’re wrong about why. It’s not bad because it’s OO, but that it’s very badly done OO: the class couples two different concerns (network API client and database). That’s why it makes more sense as a bag of functions.<p>The general version of the point doesn’t work very well, and many of the other OO use-cases the author discusses actually work much better than alternatives.<p>For example, on abstract base classes: if you replace this with a bag of functions I think you end up reinventing virtual dispatch—that is, each function’s top level is a bunch of `if isinstance(...)` branches. This is much harder to read, and harder to add new implementations to, than abstract methods. It’s also no easier to understand.<p>(There is a subset of this advice that I think does improve your code’s understandability, which is “only ever override abstract methods,” but that is very different from “don’t use OO.”)<p>For impure classes, the author suggests e.g. using `responses` (an HTTP-level mocking library) instead of encapsulating these behind an interface. This is a fine pattern for simple stuff, but it is <i>not</i> more understandable than a fake interface. The hand-written fake HTTP responses you end up having to write are a lot less readable than a mock implementation of a purpose-built Python interface. (Source: I once mocked a lot of XML-RPC APIs with `responses` before I knew better; it was not understandable.)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>josephg</author><text>The term may be muddied but it’s not meaningless. Alan Kay’s vision of OO (“it’s about message passing”) never seemed to really take off in the world. When people talk about OO they usually mean classes, objects and methods, used for almost everything as the primary unit of composition. And classes with public methods encapsulating private fields. And often with a dash of inheritance. C++ and Java seem like the flag bearers for this style of programming. It’s popular in C# too.<p>When people criticise OO, they’re usually criticising this the “Effective Java” style, expressed in whatever language. This style is deserving of some criticism - it’s usually more verbose and harder to debug than pure functional code. And it’s usually less performant than the data oriented &#x2F; data flow programming style you see in most modern game engines.</text></comment> | <story><title>OO in Python is mostly pointless</title><url>https://leontrolski.github.io/mostly-pointless.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>throwaway894345</author><text>&gt; The same is true of functional and procedural programming, too.<p>There are some specific criticisms that are levied against FP for which proponents respond “that’s not true FP”. For example, the criticism “FP is too preoccupied with monads” might engender such a response; however, this response is appropriate because it’s not one of the defining features of FP. Yet for FP, there are still pretty widely-agreed upon features or conventions (functional composition, strong preference for immutability, etc).<p>For OOP, I can’t think of any features or styles that are widely agreed upon. If you mention inheritance, half of OOP proponents will argue that inheritance isn’t a defining characteristic because Kay didn’t mention it in his definition. If you mention message-passing, many others will object. If you mention encapsulation, then you’ve accidentally included virtually all mainstream paradigms.<p>If OOP is a distinct thing, and it isn’t about inheritance or message passing or encapsulation or gratuitous references between objects (the gorilla&#x2F;banana&#x2F;jungle problem), then what exactly <i>is</i> it?</text></item><item><author>mumblemumble</author><text>&gt; This argument seems to come up for every criticism of OO.<p>The same is true of functional and procedural programming, too.<p>The problem, as I see it, is that the profession has a history of treating programming paradigms as just being a bag of features. They&#x27;re not just that, they&#x27;re also sets of guiding principles. And, while there&#x27;s something to be said for knowing when to judiciously break rules, blithely failing to follow a paradigm&#x27;s principles is indeed doing it badly.<p>This is a particular problem for OO and procedural programming. At least as of this current renaissance that FP is enjoying, advocates seem to be doing a much better job of presenting functional programming as being an actual software design paradigm.<p>It&#x27;s also the case that, frankly, a lot of influential thought leadership in object-oriented programming popularized some awful ideas whose lack of merit is only beginning to be widely recognized. If null is a billion dollar mistake, then the Java Bean, for example, is at least a $500M one.</text></item><item><author>throwaway894345</author><text>&gt; It’s not bad because it’s OO, but that it’s very badly done OO<p>This argument seems to come up for every criticism of OO. The criticism is invalid because <i>true</i> OO would never do that. It seems like a No True Scotsman. Notably, when you whittle away all of the things that aren’t <i>true</i> OOP, you seem to be left with something that looks functional or data-oriented (something like idiomatic Go or Rust). There isn’t much remaining that might characterize it as a distinct paradigm.</text></item><item><author>benkuhn</author><text>The author’s OO example is hard to understand, but they’re wrong about why. It’s not bad because it’s OO, but that it’s very badly done OO: the class couples two different concerns (network API client and database). That’s why it makes more sense as a bag of functions.<p>The general version of the point doesn’t work very well, and many of the other OO use-cases the author discusses actually work much better than alternatives.<p>For example, on abstract base classes: if you replace this with a bag of functions I think you end up reinventing virtual dispatch—that is, each function’s top level is a bunch of `if isinstance(...)` branches. This is much harder to read, and harder to add new implementations to, than abstract methods. It’s also no easier to understand.<p>(There is a subset of this advice that I think does improve your code’s understandability, which is “only ever override abstract methods,” but that is very different from “don’t use OO.”)<p>For impure classes, the author suggests e.g. using `responses` (an HTTP-level mocking library) instead of encapsulating these behind an interface. This is a fine pattern for simple stuff, but it is <i>not</i> more understandable than a fake interface. The hand-written fake HTTP responses you end up having to write are a lot less readable than a mock implementation of a purpose-built Python interface. (Source: I once mocked a lot of XML-RPC APIs with `responses` before I knew better; it was not understandable.)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mumblemumble</author><text>So, that&#x27;s still focusing on features. If we&#x27;re talking about it from a paradigmatic perspective, instead, then I would argue that the prototypical idea behind object-oriented design is indeed encapsulation.<p>It&#x27;s true that this is not a distinguishing feature. I don&#x27;t see that as problematic, it&#x27;s just how things work. Object-oriented programming, like any paradigm, evolved over time, as people built languages with new ideas, and then spent time figuring out how best to make use of them. And there&#x27;s no rule saying that nobody is allowed to subsequently adopt and adapt a useful idea in other domains. Fuzzy boundaries are part of the natural order, and that is a good thing.<p>But, if you go back and read the seminal papers, it&#x27;s clear that the common thread is encapsulation, every bit as much as referential transparency is the core idea that unites all the seminal work in functional programming. The idea was that programs would be decomposed into modules that were empowered to make their own decisions about what code to execute in response to some instruction. And that this was supposed to liberate the programmer from needing to micro-manage a bunch of state manipulation. Not by eliminating state, as is the ideal in FP, but by delegating the responsibility to manage it.<p>This is why the concept of Beans bothers me. A Bean is a stateful object that throws its state into your face, and forces you to directly manage it. That sort of approach directly contradicts what OOP was originally supposed to be trying to accomplish. For my part, I am convinced that the bulk of the backlash against OOP is really a response to the consequences of that sort of approach having become orthodox in OOP. Which is deeply ironic, because this is an approach that enshrines the very kinds of practices that the paradigm originally sought to eliminate.</text></comment> |
11,766,877 | 11,766,857 | 1 | 2 | 11,766,538 | train | <story><title>How to move from Amazon RDS to a dedicated PostgreSQL server</title><url>http://layer0.authentise.com/how-to-move-from-amazon-rds-to-dedicated-postgresql-server.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>craigkerstiens</author><text>Overall a nice post. It doesn&#x27;t quite get into all the options for pg_dump as there&#x27;s a number of other flags that can be useful to reduce downtime. It&#x27;s also probably worth taking a look at Amazon Migration Service as well (though I haven&#x27;t personally used it or heard from others that have yet) - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;aws.amazon.com&#x2F;dms&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;aws.amazon.com&#x2F;dms&#x2F;</a>.<p>One tool they did miss for continuous archiving is WAL-E, which tends to be the one most used including by us at Citus Cloud and Heroku Postgres - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;wal-e&#x2F;wal-e" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;wal-e&#x2F;wal-e</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>chrisatumd</author><text>We&#x27;ve tested out DMS to migrate from a 3 node Oracle RAC to Oracle RDS, and I was incredibly impressed. They list a bunch of limitations in their documentation that you should look at first. It migrated our roughly 1 TB database in two hours and ten minutes and handled replication flawlessly - not a single record discrepancy between the two database systems over a week long test. We were not expecting it to work that well and doubted that it would work with RAC as the source.</text></comment> | <story><title>How to move from Amazon RDS to a dedicated PostgreSQL server</title><url>http://layer0.authentise.com/how-to-move-from-amazon-rds-to-dedicated-postgresql-server.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>craigkerstiens</author><text>Overall a nice post. It doesn&#x27;t quite get into all the options for pg_dump as there&#x27;s a number of other flags that can be useful to reduce downtime. It&#x27;s also probably worth taking a look at Amazon Migration Service as well (though I haven&#x27;t personally used it or heard from others that have yet) - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;aws.amazon.com&#x2F;dms&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;aws.amazon.com&#x2F;dms&#x2F;</a>.<p>One tool they did miss for continuous archiving is WAL-E, which tends to be the one most used including by us at Citus Cloud and Heroku Postgres - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;wal-e&#x2F;wal-e" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;wal-e&#x2F;wal-e</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>willlll</author><text>Yeah, I would* do a `pg_dump | pg_restore` with these settings: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;heroku&#x2F;heroku&#x2F;blob&#x2F;master&#x2F;lib&#x2F;heroku&#x2F;helpers&#x2F;pg_dump_restore.rb#L65-L73" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;heroku&#x2F;heroku&#x2F;blob&#x2F;master&#x2F;lib&#x2F;heroku&#x2F;help...</a><p>*disclaimer: I wrote that code while at heroku</text></comment> |
22,500,624 | 22,500,464 | 1 | 3 | 22,500,203 | train | <story><title>Stanford Medicine COVID-19 test now in use</title><url>https://med.stanford.edu/news/all-news/2020/03/stanford-medicine-COVID-19-test-now-in-use.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>sebastianconcpt</author><text><i>How test works<p>The Stanford test uses a technique called reverse-transcriptase polymerase chain reaction, or RT-PCR, to rapidly identify the presence of viral RNA in swabs from the noses of potentially infected people. RT-PCR uses short stretches of DNA called primers that bind tightly and specifically only to matching sequences in SARS-CoV-2 RNA. An enzyme called reverse transcriptase then converts the viral RNA into complementary DNA, and as the reaction continues, an enzyme called polymerase is used to generate billions of DNA copies that can be detected by fluorescently tagged molecules called probes.</i></text></comment> | <story><title>Stanford Medicine COVID-19 test now in use</title><url>https://med.stanford.edu/news/all-news/2020/03/stanford-medicine-COVID-19-test-now-in-use.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>daemonk</author><text>Looks like it&#x27;s a RT-PCR. How different are their primers compared to the IDT sets (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.idtdna.com&#x2F;pages&#x2F;landing&#x2F;coronavirus-research-reagents" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.idtdna.com&#x2F;pages&#x2F;landing&#x2F;coronavirus-research-re...</a>)?<p>There are also a couple of papers on biorxiv with primers for RT-LAMP tests, which should be much faster, easier to perform than RT-PCR. And it requires non-sophisticated equipment.<p>It all comes down to the false negative rates though.</text></comment> |
4,023,655 | 4,022,403 | 1 | 2 | 4,020,187 | train | <story><title>Python for Data Analysis (new O'Reilly book from creator of Pandas)</title><url>http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920023784.do</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Cieplak</author><text>If you really want to crunch numbers, I highly recommend Haskell. It falls short of Python in terms of libraries and by some accounts, readability, but it is substantially faster and excels at number crunching. I find it easier to express number crunching in functional rather than object-oriented style programming. Python has lambdas, but usually theres a more pythonic way to express something in Python. Although I must say, I find Haskell's list comprehension syntax slightly more elegant.<p><a href="http://tryhaskell.org/" rel="nofollow">http://tryhaskell.org/</a><p>edit: I take it back about Haskell's list comprehension syntax. At the end of the day they're both great. Haskell's syntax just feels like reading set theory notation.</text></item><item><author>hkmurakami</author><text>As I get my feet wet again in programming, I've gone through phases in dabbling with web, app, and game programming.<p>But about a month ago I realized, "You know, what I really loved about my studies back in academic years was <i>numbers</i>. That's what I want to do with code; <i>I want to crunch numbers</i>"<p>This realization made me switch over from learning Ruby to learning Python. This book is going to be <i>perfect</i> for my interests.<p>Wes, thank you for your efforts in putting this book together.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>yummyfajitas</author><text>I'm not sure I believe you that Haskell is faster than Python. In general, most of your python operations will be raw matrix operations handled by blas/lapack/etc.<p>While Python's functional programming constructs leave a lot to be desired, they are usually good enough for numerical work. Instead of using reduce(...) to sum an array and having it compile down properly, you can just use arr.sum(), which is implemented in C by numpy anyway.<p>I love Haskell (and want it to beat Python), but at this point, Python is the clear winner for numerical work. Libraries matter more than language in this case (as matlab demonstrates).</text></comment> | <story><title>Python for Data Analysis (new O'Reilly book from creator of Pandas)</title><url>http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920023784.do</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Cieplak</author><text>If you really want to crunch numbers, I highly recommend Haskell. It falls short of Python in terms of libraries and by some accounts, readability, but it is substantially faster and excels at number crunching. I find it easier to express number crunching in functional rather than object-oriented style programming. Python has lambdas, but usually theres a more pythonic way to express something in Python. Although I must say, I find Haskell's list comprehension syntax slightly more elegant.<p><a href="http://tryhaskell.org/" rel="nofollow">http://tryhaskell.org/</a><p>edit: I take it back about Haskell's list comprehension syntax. At the end of the day they're both great. Haskell's syntax just feels like reading set theory notation.</text></item><item><author>hkmurakami</author><text>As I get my feet wet again in programming, I've gone through phases in dabbling with web, app, and game programming.<p>But about a month ago I realized, "You know, what I really loved about my studies back in academic years was <i>numbers</i>. That's what I want to do with code; <i>I want to crunch numbers</i>"<p>This realization made me switch over from learning Ruby to learning Python. This book is going to be <i>perfect</i> for my interests.<p>Wes, thank you for your efforts in putting this book together.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kfk</author><text>I never programmed in haskell, but I did in clojure and I must say that functional style and number crunching fit really nice. Said that, I am not sure you can beat things like numpy or pandas when it comes to complex/big datasets. I looked around in the haskell world and it seems that to do the same as, say, in pandas you need to write a lot of things yourself and you can't rely on the same superb documentation.<p>But I will be really happy to be proven wrong. I really think lots of things would be easier in Haskell.</text></comment> |
38,278,812 | 38,278,263 | 1 | 3 | 38,276,951 | train | <story><title>The Small Website Discoverability Crisis (2021)</title><url>https://www.marginalia.nu/log/19-website-discoverability-crisis/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>kyledrake</author><text>Neocities (disclosure: I work on it) has taken steps to try to improve small personal web site discoverability, which ends up being like a platform for people making web sites with a hybrid social component <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;neocities.org" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;neocities.org</a><p>I like the idea of calling this the small web, I usually go with something like &quot;personal web site&quot; or &quot;home pages&quot; but it&#x27;s never quite stuck for me. I hope they&#x27;ve added Neocities to the Kagi small web search because there&#x27;s some pretty incredible sites available for that and our compiled sitemap will make importing easy: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;neocities.org&#x2F;browse" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;neocities.org&#x2F;browse</a><p>The framing for this stuff is usually something like &quot;wow remember the crazy 90s web&quot; nostalgia pieces or &quot;this is an active resistance against Facebook come join us in the lonely space nobody goes to.&quot; But really there&#x27;s some incredible, magical content that requires the canvas the web provides, that isn&#x27;t on the social media super-platforms and people very much still use the web to access them. Neocities alone serves hundreds of millions of views per month across all the sites, there&#x27;s still a lot of web surfing going on.<p>I would actually argue that having a web site gives you <i>more</i> exposure for your content than an average social media account, because sans a few lucky accounts, most are being throttled and limited by weird algorithms to prevent people from seeing your content organically. Your google search ranking might not be great, but people share links all over the place, including in private channels (think Slack&#x2F;Discord&#x2F;IRC&#x2F;IMs) and you can still get meaningful distribution of your content this way.<p>To paraphrase @izs &quot;if you build it, they will come&quot;, is a misquote from a Kevin Costner movie about baseball ghosts, but if you build a good site with good content, people do just magically show up through mechanisms I don&#x27;t myself quite understand yet. It&#x27;s pretty cool to see new sites on Neocities that are unusually interesting and know they&#x27;ll organically get view counts into the millions before it happens.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>hinkley</author><text>Re: Field of Dreams<p>If you look at this story from anyone else’s perspective, right up until the last few moments this is a story about a man with untreated schizophrenia or temporal lobe seizures escalating his illness to the point of kidnapping someone and transporting them across state lines.<p>Almost every company in the dot com boom was convinced the headlights at the end of their story would be vindication, not the ambulance coming to take them to a psychiatric ward. Almost all of them were wrong.</text></comment> | <story><title>The Small Website Discoverability Crisis (2021)</title><url>https://www.marginalia.nu/log/19-website-discoverability-crisis/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>kyledrake</author><text>Neocities (disclosure: I work on it) has taken steps to try to improve small personal web site discoverability, which ends up being like a platform for people making web sites with a hybrid social component <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;neocities.org" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;neocities.org</a><p>I like the idea of calling this the small web, I usually go with something like &quot;personal web site&quot; or &quot;home pages&quot; but it&#x27;s never quite stuck for me. I hope they&#x27;ve added Neocities to the Kagi small web search because there&#x27;s some pretty incredible sites available for that and our compiled sitemap will make importing easy: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;neocities.org&#x2F;browse" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;neocities.org&#x2F;browse</a><p>The framing for this stuff is usually something like &quot;wow remember the crazy 90s web&quot; nostalgia pieces or &quot;this is an active resistance against Facebook come join us in the lonely space nobody goes to.&quot; But really there&#x27;s some incredible, magical content that requires the canvas the web provides, that isn&#x27;t on the social media super-platforms and people very much still use the web to access them. Neocities alone serves hundreds of millions of views per month across all the sites, there&#x27;s still a lot of web surfing going on.<p>I would actually argue that having a web site gives you <i>more</i> exposure for your content than an average social media account, because sans a few lucky accounts, most are being throttled and limited by weird algorithms to prevent people from seeing your content organically. Your google search ranking might not be great, but people share links all over the place, including in private channels (think Slack&#x2F;Discord&#x2F;IRC&#x2F;IMs) and you can still get meaningful distribution of your content this way.<p>To paraphrase @izs &quot;if you build it, they will come&quot;, is a misquote from a Kevin Costner movie about baseball ghosts, but if you build a good site with good content, people do just magically show up through mechanisms I don&#x27;t myself quite understand yet. It&#x27;s pretty cool to see new sites on Neocities that are unusually interesting and know they&#x27;ll organically get view counts into the millions before it happens.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>StableAlkyne</author><text>I just love how Neocities has webrings. They were such a great way to find content related to the site you&#x27;re currently viewing</text></comment> |
2,010,224 | 2,010,226 | 1 | 2 | 2,009,970 | train | <story><title>Homeland Security seizes music blog domains</title><url>http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/14/business/media/14music.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Groxx</author><text>&#62;<i>For now the seized domains are in legal limbo. David Snead, a lawyer specializing in Internet cases who is representing the owner of torrent-finder.com, speculated that it might be 30 to 60 days before he would be able to see a seizure order. “The government is providing zero information to help us determine what he is being charged with,” he said. “It’s a black hole.”</i><p>That's just plain <i>wrong</i>. Under what rational reason have they seized these without notice, and without declaration of wrongdoing? Is it part of a sting operation, or are they being labeled as terrorists?<p>If not, it's simply impeding justice, and seems to <i>me</i> to probably be motivated by the desire to have this go through smoothly; if they can wait out the initial surge of internet-interest, and <i>then</i> make weak claims, there won't be as many people scrutinizing them. Plus, this sort of event might just drive a few of the sites out of existence anyway, so their goals are served regardless, just by keeping their mouths shut.</text></comment> | <story><title>Homeland Security seizes music blog domains</title><url>http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/14/business/media/14music.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>tptacek</author><text>Just a reminder: this isn't a crazy overreach by "Homeland Security". DHS is a very new cabinet department formed, like a beaurocratic Voltron, from a smorgasbord of peripherally-related agencies. One of those agencies was Customs/ICE, which for logical and historical reasons hosts federal anti-counterfeiting enforcement. DHS "acquires" Customs and bam, finds itself in the IP enforcement business.</text></comment> |
41,055,777 | 41,054,689 | 1 | 2 | 41,053,761 | train | <story><title>"Doors" in Solaris: Lightweight RPC Using File Descriptors (1996)</title><url>http://www.kohala.com/start/papers.others/doors.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>monocasa</author><text>Writing a top level comment here to hopefully address some of the misconceptions present across this comment section.<p>Doors at the end of the day aren&#x27;t message passing based RPC. There is no door_recv(2) syscall or equivalent nor any way for a thread pool in the callee to wait for requests.<p>Doors at the end of the day are a control transfer primitive. In a very real sense the calling thread is simply transferred to the callee&#x27;s address space and continues execution there until a door_return(2) syscall transfers it back into the caller address_space.<p>It truly is a &#x27;door&#x27; into another address space.<p>This is most similar to some of the CPU control transfer primitives. It&#x27;s most like task gate style constructs like seen on 286&#x2F;i432&#x2F;mill CPUs. Arguably it&#x27;s kind of like the system call instruction itself too, transferring execution directly to another address space&#x2F;context.</text></comment> | <story><title>"Doors" in Solaris: Lightweight RPC Using File Descriptors (1996)</title><url>http://www.kohala.com/start/papers.others/doors.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>robinhouston</author><text>Back in 1998 or so, a colleague and I were tasked with building a system to target adverts to particular users on a website. It obviously needed to run very efficiently, because it would be invoked on every page load and the server hardware of the time was very underpowered by today’s standards.<p>The Linux server revolution was still a few years away (at least it was for us – perhaps we were behind the curve), so our webservers were all Sun Enterprise machines running Solaris.<p>We decided to use a server process that had an in-memory representation of the active users, which we would query using doors from a custom Apache module. (I had read about doors and thought they sounded cool, but neither of us had used them before.)<p>It worked brilliantly and was extremely fast, though in the end it was never used in production because of changing business priorities.</text></comment> |
11,953,038 | 11,952,637 | 1 | 2 | 11,952,498 | train | <story><title>Dotty: a next generation compiler for Scala</title><url>http://dotty.epfl.ch/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>salex89</author><text>Not directly related, but: do the world a favor and build a new SBT! This &lt;&lt;= one += is a bit -&gt; &quot;&quot;&quot;strange&quot;&quot;&quot; .</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>doikor</author><text>After learning sbt I&#x27;ve found it to be one of my favorite build tools out there. The fact that the build.sbt file is basically just a dialect of Scala allows for some very complex build jobs to be done easily.<p>Also the simplifications coming with sbt 1.0 like removing the Build.scala and dropping support for multiple build.sbt files makes it a bit cleaner in my mind at least. Before everything was spread around in multiple files (and possible 2 different build definition styles with the .sbt and .scala files) instead now everything is in pretty much one single file with a clean enough syntax for anyone to learn. (as someone said you only really need to know :=, += and +== of which the latter 2 function the same as they do in the standard lib for collections)<p>edit: Sorry was wrong about the multiple build.sbt support. Its still in but working with a single build.sbt has been made easier over the 0.13.x versions and we reverted all of our multi project builds into that and I just assumed it was being dropped (We also had a lot of Build.scala stuff so I guess i got mixed)</text></comment> | <story><title>Dotty: a next generation compiler for Scala</title><url>http://dotty.epfl.ch/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>salex89</author><text>Not directly related, but: do the world a favor and build a new SBT! This &lt;&lt;= one += is a bit -&gt; &quot;&quot;&quot;strange&quot;&quot;&quot; .</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>evacchi</author><text>Strongly agree. SBT really is puzzling and (IMO) overcomplicated. Someone is working on an experimental alternative called CBT which is pure Scala (as in: less DSL like syntax)</text></comment> |
20,403,620 | 20,403,395 | 1 | 2 | 20,401,105 | train | <story><title>Living without the modern browser</title><url>https://an3223.github.io/Living-without-the-modern-browser/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>hn_throwaway_99</author><text>As a web developer for the past 20 years, I do know how server-side state works. What baffles me is that, while there is certainly much to complain about the state of front-end JS dev today, the attitude of some that moving the web back 15 years is a good thing.<p>There is a reason single-page apps became a thing, so I&#x27;m not clear why you think a page refresh for every user interaction is somehow a good thing. The dismissive attitude that &quot;Regarding form fields appearing and all your fancy front end logic: none of this would fly in user testing&quot; flies in the face of how 90% of heavy consumer front ends out there work today.</text></item><item><author>deanclatworthy</author><text>Split the form into pages, and use session variables to maintain state. Regarding form fields appearing and all your fancy front end logic: none of this would fly in user testing.<p>I find it mind-boggling there’s a generation of developers after me that doesn’t know the basics of server side state. No offence intended to yourself, and good on you for putting yourself out there to ask :)</text></item><item><author>__ryan__</author><text>&gt; Really, there is no reason why a form should require JavaScript.<p>I’m a web developer who has never done significant forms without JavaScript.<p>So I’m curious: how would you handle reactive form fields without client side scripting? For example (perhaps a bad example): the user is entering data in “rows”. The user clicks “add row” and then a new row of fields appears. The user can also delete rows on a whim. Their changes should only be persisted once submit is clicked.<p>Would the “right” way be a full page reload with the row added&#x2F;deleted, and caching all the values?<p>Not to mention, if fields require cross validation, is it customary to have to submit the form to get the validation error messages to occur? On some of the forms I’ve worked on, this would be very complex.</text></item><item><author>ktpsns</author><text>&gt; JavaScript, captchas, and logins, are the main “gotchas” for text-based browsing, if the functionality of a site (or part of the site) relies on any of these then most likely it will not work.<p>Really, there is no reason why a form should require JavaScript. When jQuery was hip, the js community celebrated &quot;Graceful degradation&quot;. I frequently have the feeling this attitude is lost. That&#x27;s super sad because it also excludes all the handycapped people.<p>Does even anybody remember the good old HTTP basic acess authentification? This is one of the most accessible ways of protecting ressources, it can be consumed by any HTTP client (!), and it is just reduced to the basic.<p>One of the worst things are these terrible captchas everywhere. I wonder why we cannot come up with a web standard interface in a way the captchas could be offloaded to customizable and adaptable GUIS rendered by the browsing client. This way, clients (users) could even declare what kind of captcha they can solve (blind people obviously cannot read images).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Dunedan</author><text>&gt; There is a reason single-page apps became a thing, so I&#x27;m not clear why you think a page refresh for every user interaction is somehow a good thing.<p>So the reason I always hear is performance: Less HTTP-requests, less latency, therefore better user experience. While that might be the case for flaky mobile connections (although executing lots of Javascript on resource constraint devices might not be the best idea either), with fast wired connections I experience the opposite: The single page apps of today feel a lot slower to me, than the websites with the same functionality did 10 years ago, thanks to all the computation which has to be done on client side. Just take Youtube for example: What a bad experience nowadays, especially with Firefox. That was way better back in a time when they didn&#x27;t try to avoid page refreshes. And it&#x27;s not just Youtube, it&#x27;s all over the web. A welcome change to all of that is HN, because it still feels as fast as websites did, before frontend development was even a thing.</text></comment> | <story><title>Living without the modern browser</title><url>https://an3223.github.io/Living-without-the-modern-browser/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>hn_throwaway_99</author><text>As a web developer for the past 20 years, I do know how server-side state works. What baffles me is that, while there is certainly much to complain about the state of front-end JS dev today, the attitude of some that moving the web back 15 years is a good thing.<p>There is a reason single-page apps became a thing, so I&#x27;m not clear why you think a page refresh for every user interaction is somehow a good thing. The dismissive attitude that &quot;Regarding form fields appearing and all your fancy front end logic: none of this would fly in user testing&quot; flies in the face of how 90% of heavy consumer front ends out there work today.</text></item><item><author>deanclatworthy</author><text>Split the form into pages, and use session variables to maintain state. Regarding form fields appearing and all your fancy front end logic: none of this would fly in user testing.<p>I find it mind-boggling there’s a generation of developers after me that doesn’t know the basics of server side state. No offence intended to yourself, and good on you for putting yourself out there to ask :)</text></item><item><author>__ryan__</author><text>&gt; Really, there is no reason why a form should require JavaScript.<p>I’m a web developer who has never done significant forms without JavaScript.<p>So I’m curious: how would you handle reactive form fields without client side scripting? For example (perhaps a bad example): the user is entering data in “rows”. The user clicks “add row” and then a new row of fields appears. The user can also delete rows on a whim. Their changes should only be persisted once submit is clicked.<p>Would the “right” way be a full page reload with the row added&#x2F;deleted, and caching all the values?<p>Not to mention, if fields require cross validation, is it customary to have to submit the form to get the validation error messages to occur? On some of the forms I’ve worked on, this would be very complex.</text></item><item><author>ktpsns</author><text>&gt; JavaScript, captchas, and logins, are the main “gotchas” for text-based browsing, if the functionality of a site (or part of the site) relies on any of these then most likely it will not work.<p>Really, there is no reason why a form should require JavaScript. When jQuery was hip, the js community celebrated &quot;Graceful degradation&quot;. I frequently have the feeling this attitude is lost. That&#x27;s super sad because it also excludes all the handycapped people.<p>Does even anybody remember the good old HTTP basic acess authentification? This is one of the most accessible ways of protecting ressources, it can be consumed by any HTTP client (!), and it is just reduced to the basic.<p>One of the worst things are these terrible captchas everywhere. I wonder why we cannot come up with a web standard interface in a way the captchas could be offloaded to customizable and adaptable GUIS rendered by the browsing client. This way, clients (users) could even declare what kind of captcha they can solve (blind people obviously cannot read images).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>eitland</author><text>&gt; the attitude of some that moving the web back 15 years is a good thing.<p>Straw man. We don’t want to go 15 years back, only 10 :-)<p>Seriously, the web was at a local maximum around 2009. Google worked, GMail was OK, Ajax was expected for r new stuff but was still written with graceful degradation in mind.</text></comment> |
28,458,400 | 28,458,151 | 1 | 3 | 28,457,719 | train | <story><title>ADE 651</title><url>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ADE_651</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>lqet</author><text>This reads like an April&#x27;s fool joke:<p>&gt; The ADE 651 consists of a swivelling antenna mounted via hinge to a plastic handgrip. It requires no battery or other power source; its manufacturer claimed that it is powered solely by the user&#x27;s static electricity.<p>&gt; After a substance-specific &quot;programmed substance detection card&quot; is inserted, the device is supposed to swivel in the user&#x27;s hand to point its antenna in the direction of the target substance. The cards are claimed to be designed to &quot;tune into&quot; the &quot;frequency&quot; of a particular explosive or other substance named on the card<p>&gt; The cards were supposedly &quot;programmed&quot; or &quot;activated&quot; by being placed in a jar for a week along with a sample of the target substance to absorb the substance&#x27;s &quot;vapours&quot;. Initially, McCormick reportedly used his own blood to &quot;program&quot; the cards for detecting human tissue<p>&gt; [McCormick] told The Times that ATSC had been dealing with doubters for ten years and that the device was merely being criticized because of its &quot;primitive&quot; appearance. He said: &quot;We are working on a new model that has flashing lights.&quot;</text></comment> | <story><title>ADE 651</title><url>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ADE_651</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>tyingq</author><text>Hah! That&#x27;s over the top brazen. Like purposefully designing the scam device to not require a battery? And making it look&#x2F;work just like a &quot;dowsing rod&quot;, which should raise suspicions?<p>Including a bit of fake circuitry seems like it would have made sales easier, though he seems to have sold plenty as-is.<p>It feels like he was trying to make a point about how stupid people can be.</text></comment> |
38,542,383 | 38,539,674 | 1 | 2 | 38,538,886 | train | <story><title>Thermoelectric heating stands at the brink of commercialization</title><url>https://spectrum.ieee.org/thermoelectric-heating</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bilsbie</author><text>I’d pay a premium for a solid state AC or heat pump. It’s absurd how much they cost to install.<p>And I don’t get why replacing one is an all day job for three people. There should be standard connections they just plug into. Like a dishwasher.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pjc50</author><text>Replacing like for like should be a fairly easy job. But replacing between different systems does seem to be a nightmare.<p>It&#x27;s interesting that Americans are retrofitting them into HVAC systems, while in the UK we&#x27;re trying to retrofit into natgas&#x2F;water based systems, and seemingly the Scandinavians have gone for .. I&#x27;m not sure but it seems cheaper?<p>I upgraded to a &quot;hybrid&quot; system because it was the least cost &#x2F; minimal change, so I continue to have natgas hot water which can optionally heat the radiators if the control unit deems it economic (no, it doesn&#x27;t have dynamic pricing). And that was still £15,000 even though it could reuse all the existing radiators. Apparently having 8mm &quot;microbore&quot; copper plumbing is a problem for &quot;low temperature&quot; heat pump systems, because they rely on higher throughput.<p>At the end of winter I&#x27;ll write-up my bills and evaluate the experience.</text></comment> | <story><title>Thermoelectric heating stands at the brink of commercialization</title><url>https://spectrum.ieee.org/thermoelectric-heating</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bilsbie</author><text>I’d pay a premium for a solid state AC or heat pump. It’s absurd how much they cost to install.<p>And I don’t get why replacing one is an all day job for three people. There should be standard connections they just plug into. Like a dishwasher.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>hijinks</author><text>I was quoted 10k a head unit to install mini-splits in a home in the colorado mountains. I needed 8 head units.<p>It was nothing but &quot;only rich people are buying these right now so lets cash in&quot; pricing</text></comment> |
20,925,927 | 20,925,012 | 1 | 3 | 20,924,142 | train | <story><title>Unencrypted patient medical information is being broadcast across Vancouver</title><url>https://openprivacy.ca/blog/2019/09/09/open-privacy-discovers-vancouver-patient-medical-data-breach/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>noodlesUK</author><text>In my part of the US, I can overhear loads of PII by just tuning my VHF transceiver to various public safety frequencies. I hear drivers license numbers, medical info, all sorts. I hesitate to think that there’s a better alternative though. I’m terrified that the UK is moving to LTE rather than the current trunked radio. The amount of damage caused by comms failing in a major emergency (or even just dead zones) massively outweighs the risk of a little data loss at present. If there are more reliable communication methods that preserve privacy, then we should be using them, but I’m not sure they exist at the moment.<p>edit: to be fair, it should be possible to encrypt some of the traffic, but things should fail open, not closed, or people will die.</text></comment> | <story><title>Unencrypted patient medical information is being broadcast across Vancouver</title><url>https://openprivacy.ca/blog/2019/09/09/open-privacy-discovers-vancouver-patient-medical-data-breach/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Herodotus38</author><text>I&#x27;m a hospitalist (internal medicine employed by a hospital). I&#x27;m fairly certain that what they are intercepting are pages from the ER to admitting or consulting physicians.<p>In the US, this would be a HIPAA violation but I&#x27;m not sure of the Canadian law. We still use pages at my hospital, but no PHI, only room numbers in the ER for admissions are paged and then you log into the EMR. We use HIPAA compliant texting apps to communicate PHI.</text></comment> |
30,522,771 | 30,522,714 | 1 | 2 | 30,521,927 | train | <story><title>Employers who violate Colorado’s non-compete laws face stiff new penalties</title><url>https://www.gunder.com/news/employers-who-violate-colorados-non-compete-laws-face-stiff-new-penalties-including-jail/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>paxys</author><text>California has proven for decades now that getting rid of non-competes is good for the economy and good for workers. It&#x27;s bizarre that this move hasn&#x27;t been copied in every other state, especially among those who routinely invest large amounts of money to try and become &quot;the next silicon valley&quot;.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>hristov</author><text>Unfortunately sometimes laws are made not for the best benefit of society as a whole but for the benefit of a powerful or well positioned minority. Now check out the Colorado law. It says that non-competes are forbidden except for four exceptions. Check out the fourth exception:<p>4. Contracts with executive and management personnel and employees who constitute professional staff to executive and management personnel.<p>There is an actual clause covering secretaries! So you can be sure your secretary will not go working for a competitor. You do not have to think hard to guess who had this law written for themselves.</text></comment> | <story><title>Employers who violate Colorado’s non-compete laws face stiff new penalties</title><url>https://www.gunder.com/news/employers-who-violate-colorados-non-compete-laws-face-stiff-new-penalties-including-jail/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>paxys</author><text>California has proven for decades now that getting rid of non-competes is good for the economy and good for workers. It&#x27;s bizarre that this move hasn&#x27;t been copied in every other state, especially among those who routinely invest large amounts of money to try and become &quot;the next silicon valley&quot;.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Diesel555</author><text>One of the major assumptions of market economics is a competitive environment. Here is a study on the policy of non-competes from the Office of Economic Policy in the US treasury.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;home.treasury.gov&#x2F;system&#x2F;files&#x2F;226&#x2F;Non_Compete_Contracts_Econimic_Effects_and_Policy_Implications_MAR2016.pdf" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;home.treasury.gov&#x2F;system&#x2F;files&#x2F;226&#x2F;Non_Compete_Contr...</a><p>First I had no idea how prolific non-competes are.<p>&gt; Non-competes are a central labor market institution, with nearly one fifth of all American workers currently bound by such a contract.<p>After the policy recommendations, here is the conclusion from that paper.<p>&gt; Though non-compete contracts can have important social benefits, principally related to the protection of trade secrets, a growing body of evidence suggests that they are frequently used in ways that are inimical to the interests of workers and the broader economy. Enhancing the transparency of non-competes, better aligning them with legitimate social purposes like protection of trade secrets, and instituting minimal worker protections can all help to ensure that non-compete contracts contribute to economic growth without unduly burdening workers.</text></comment> |
14,589,714 | 14,588,577 | 1 | 2 | 14,587,915 | train | <story><title>One-Hour Mandelbrot: Creating a Fractal on the Vintage Xerox Alto</title><url>http://www.righto.com/2017/06/one-hour-mandelbrot-creating-fractal-on.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>forinti</author><text>The first Mandelbrot generator I played with took more than 3 hours on a BBC Micro to render a 160x256 image. That was 30 years ago and I still try out variations on this from time to time (larger exponents, fractional exponents, complex exponents, animations, etc).<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;alquerubim.blogspot.com.br&#x2F;search&#x2F;label&#x2F;Fractais" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;alquerubim.blogspot.com.br&#x2F;search&#x2F;label&#x2F;Fractais</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>DanBC</author><text>This used to be a rite of passage for programmers of the time.<p>One example would be the advice given by Scientific American&#x27;s A.K. Dedney&#x27;s &quot;Computer Diversions&quot; Here&#x27;s a 2010 reprint of a 1985 article: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.scientificamerican.com&#x2F;article&#x2F;mandelbrot-set&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.scientificamerican.com&#x2F;article&#x2F;mandelbrot-set&#x2F;</a><p>And &quot;Fractint&quot; (a fast viewer for many fractal types) was my introduction to open source, although they called it &quot;stone soup&quot;. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Fractint" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Fractint</a></text></comment> | <story><title>One-Hour Mandelbrot: Creating a Fractal on the Vintage Xerox Alto</title><url>http://www.righto.com/2017/06/one-hour-mandelbrot-creating-fractal-on.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>forinti</author><text>The first Mandelbrot generator I played with took more than 3 hours on a BBC Micro to render a 160x256 image. That was 30 years ago and I still try out variations on this from time to time (larger exponents, fractional exponents, complex exponents, animations, etc).<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;alquerubim.blogspot.com.br&#x2F;search&#x2F;label&#x2F;Fractais" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;alquerubim.blogspot.com.br&#x2F;search&#x2F;label&#x2F;Fractais</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Theodores</author><text>I was there too. Plus at the time Mandelbrot was new, as new as Deepdream images are today.<p>So the Alto must pre-date Mandelbrot sets and therefore this demo is non-canonical, like playing Tetris on it, not possible at the time or even imagined.</text></comment> |
21,176,929 | 21,176,765 | 1 | 2 | 21,175,866 | train | <story><title>I hate living in my tiny house</title><url>https://www.fastcompany.com/90407740/why-i-hate-living-in-my-tiny-house</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>i_am_nomad</author><text>This is a very valid point that almost nobody makes, and I still cannot understand why not. People screaming about how unaffordable the Bay Area is, seem to feel like living elsewhere would be some kind of death sentence.</text></item><item><author>orasis</author><text>...combined with a lifestyle choice problem. Hundreds of millions of other Americans do fine not living in the Bay Area.</text></item><item><author>fennecfoxen</author><text>Article&#x27;s conclusions are dubious.<p>&gt; We need ... different housing tech that can lower construction costs<p>If you&#x27;re paying ~$1,600 a month for a shoebox apartment, it&#x27;s not because you need construction technology. It is a housing-policy problem.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>linguae</author><text>Leaving the Bay Area is an appealing prospect in order to save on housing costs, but there are two issues that some people would need to consider in order to make that move:<p>1. There are some specialized types of jobs in the software industry where there are only a small handful of employers and where most of those employers are located in Silicon Valley. There are some areas in the software industry, such as web development and enterprise software, where there are plenty of jobs outside Silicon Valley and similar tech hubs. Plenty of businesses need custom applications, and the Microsoft software stack of Windows Server, SQL Server, .NET, Azure, and other products is commonly used outside of Silicon Valley, which seems to be focused on Linux. But suppose you work in the area of compilers, or you&#x27;re an operating systems developer. The chances of moving to a place that isn&#x27;t a tech hub and finding a compiler or operating systems development job is lower than finding a web development or Microsoft enterprise app development position. My line of work is in research in systems and AI, and it would be difficult for me to me to find similar work in most American metro areas outside of the Bay Area, Seattle, Austin, and New York, all of which (except for Austin) are expensive.<p>2. The Bay Area is famous for its acceptance of diverse cultures, lifestyles, and worldviews. The Bay Area&#x27;s cosmopolitan atmosphere is one of my favorite aspects of living in the area. However, cosmopolitan urban areas in the United States tend to be expensive. New York, Boston, Seattle, and Los Angeles are still expensive places, even if they are not as expensive as the Bay Area. An exception to the correlation between cosmopolitanism and expense is Sacramento, a very diverse place which by California standards is also still affordable despite rising housing prices. I would not mind living there, but it&#x27;s a very long commute to Silicon Valley, and there are not many jobs in my subfield of systems and AI research in the Sacramento area. If I couldn&#x27;t live in or near a diverse, cosmopolitan area, my next preference would be a tourist town with a nice, laid-back atmosphere, such as many of the towns on the Central Coast of California. But, once again, those areas lack the jobs I want.</text></comment> | <story><title>I hate living in my tiny house</title><url>https://www.fastcompany.com/90407740/why-i-hate-living-in-my-tiny-house</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>i_am_nomad</author><text>This is a very valid point that almost nobody makes, and I still cannot understand why not. People screaming about how unaffordable the Bay Area is, seem to feel like living elsewhere would be some kind of death sentence.</text></item><item><author>orasis</author><text>...combined with a lifestyle choice problem. Hundreds of millions of other Americans do fine not living in the Bay Area.</text></item><item><author>fennecfoxen</author><text>Article&#x27;s conclusions are dubious.<p>&gt; We need ... different housing tech that can lower construction costs<p>If you&#x27;re paying ~$1,600 a month for a shoebox apartment, it&#x27;s not because you need construction technology. It is a housing-policy problem.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>smudgymcscmudge</author><text>“and give up on my dream of being a tech billionaire? no thanks”. Also popular is “the bay area has one of the greatest collection of minds ever assembled in the history of the world”. If they are really that smart and money flows so freely, then they should have no problem solving this little problem.</text></comment> |
31,132,651 | 31,132,544 | 1 | 2 | 31,129,936 | train | <story><title>Tcl the Misunderstood (2006)</title><url>http://antirez.com/articoli/tclmisunderstood.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>deepsun</author><text>Watching someone learns basics of programming in Python, I realized that Python is actually not that easy to learn for beginners as I thought:<p>1. Types in Python are implicit. It&#x27;s really hard to explain that they need to always think about what type something is, especially when they haven&#x27;t grasped the concept of types yet.<p>2. Indentation as part of the language. I thought it&#x27;s a great thing for beginners, but it&#x27;s actually confuses beginners that empty space affects your program, e.g. they think that spaces around assignment or arithmetic operators should affect their program too, which is not the case.<p>3. Ranges for iteration -- they just memorize the syntax blindly :(<p>So I started to wonder whether Pascal is better to learn for beginners -- you have to list all the types at the beginning, and no implicit conversions are done.<p>But now I think what about TCL? Maybe it&#x27;d be even easier for total beginners?</text></comment> | <story><title>Tcl the Misunderstood (2006)</title><url>http://antirez.com/articoli/tclmisunderstood.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>thesz</author><text>Tcl forces you to create new data, because you have to think and work harder to introduce effects on variables in upper scope through the use of uplevel and upvar. This reduces side effects significantly and makes data transformation explicit. Which, in turn, reduces cognitive load and increase productivity.<p>Tcl also does not have distinguished NULL value like Python, C, C++, C# and many other languages. You do not have to account for that.<p>The reduction of side effects and no universal no-value value puts Tcl in my hierarchy of programming languages right below Haskell and above pretty much everything else. Tcl is very easy to use when you know how to structure the program.<p>I still use it for various prototyping when I do not want strict type discipline.</text></comment> |
23,640,013 | 23,639,130 | 1 | 2 | 23,638,624 | train | <story><title>Wirecard files for insolvency after financial hole laid bare</title><url>https://www.dw.com/en/wirecard-files-for-insolvency-after-financial-hole-laid-bare/a-53936447</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>simonkafan</author><text>I wonder how many companies in the world are basially built on warm words without any real value behind. I made the experience that a lot of people don&#x27;t really care if a company has positive revenue streams anymore, they don&#x27;t even know what a balance sheet is. They simply invest because other people do. And those other people invested because people before them did. This new style &quot;invest billions now in a lossy start up and hope for a positive cashflow in a few years&quot; is absolutely insane, it transformed the economy into a pure gambling hall.<p>What makes it even worse, in case of wirecard, their auditor EY had audited and certified wirecard&#x27;s balance sheet for years with no objection. They were satisfied with a clumsy fake audit certificate for 2 billion euros in a Philippine account! For how many companies EY did the same? How superficially do they check their customers?</text></comment> | <story><title>Wirecard files for insolvency after financial hole laid bare</title><url>https://www.dw.com/en/wirecard-files-for-insolvency-after-financial-hole-laid-bare/a-53936447</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>adwf</author><text>Doesn&#x27;t surprise me in the slightest.<p>Worked for a fintech company a few years back that used Wirecard as the processor for one of their products. Somehow they managed to lose the PK&#x2F;FK relationship between accounts and transactions (or something like that). A whole lot of our customers suddenly started getting other people&#x27;s transactions on their accounts. It was the final straw that shutdown the entire product line and we moved on to other providers for new projects.<p>So, not at all surprised they don&#x27;t know where their money is.</text></comment> |
22,528,365 | 22,528,554 | 1 | 3 | 22,527,921 | train | <story><title>Australia sues Facebook over Cambridge Analytica</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2020/03/09/australia-sues-facebook-over-cambridge-analytica-fine-could-scale-to-529bn/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>poooogles</author><text>The fact that we (the UK) only fined Facebook £500k [1] is an utter scandal. You can probably say $529bn is too much, but the appropriate amount might be somewhere in the middle of the two...<p>1. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;techcrunch.com&#x2F;2019&#x2F;10&#x2F;30&#x2F;facebook-agrees-to-pay-uk-data-watchdogs-cambridge-analytica-fine-but-settles-without-admitting-liability&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;techcrunch.com&#x2F;2019&#x2F;10&#x2F;30&#x2F;facebook-agrees-to-pay-uk-...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Australia sues Facebook over Cambridge Analytica</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2020/03/09/australia-sues-facebook-over-cambridge-analytica-fine-could-scale-to-529bn/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Upvoter33</author><text>facebook could turn their public perception around in a second by declaring that it is not a political platform and banning political ads. I honestly don&#x27;t care how much they market me to coke and pepsi, but the impact on democracies is way creepier...</text></comment> |
16,135,761 | 16,135,404 | 1 | 3 | 16,131,056 | train | <story><title>How to Think Like a Medieval Monk (2017)</title><url>https://www.laphamsquarterly.org/roundtable/how-think-medieval-monk</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>cicero</author><text>I work with about a dozen Cistercian monks at a school run by Our Lady of Dallas Cistercian Abbey[1]. I started here 10 years ago after working 22 years as a software developer, and it&#x27;s been the best job I&#x27;ve ever had. I manage the IT and I teach computer science and theology.<p>The things discussed in this article are still a part of the modern Cistercian life. In fact, the crests for the abbey and school feature the word &quot;mors&quot;, which is Latin for death. However, there is much more to their lives than these meditations, especially since the monks of this community work as educators either at our prep school or at the University of Dallas.<p>[1] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cistercian.org&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cistercian.org&#x2F;</a></text></comment> | <story><title>How to Think Like a Medieval Monk (2017)</title><url>https://www.laphamsquarterly.org/roundtable/how-think-medieval-monk</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>astine</author><text>It always amuses me to see articles which talk of monasticism as something of the distant past. These traditions are alive and well. Also, a lot of these features exist not just in monastic practice but also in the practice of lay Christians of the Catholic and Orthodox traditions.</text></comment> |
18,287,616 | 18,287,647 | 1 | 2 | 18,285,182 | train | <story><title>Neil Armstrong Remembered</title><url>https://ceas.uc.edu/about/neil-armstrong-remembered.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ambicapter</author><text>I was a bit disappointed recently watching First Man. I get that Neil was a private person, but it was a little too over-dramatic (towards his personal life, not the space program) in my opinion. It seemed like an extrovert&#x27;s wild speculation as to what&#x27;s going on in an introvert&#x27;s head. I think he was just a stoic, analytical type, which doesn&#x27;t mean you need to be completely incapable of communicating emotionally with your kids or SO.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>isomorph</author><text>I absolutely loved the film and thought it was an incredible piece of art and a piercingly realistic depiction of a certain VERY REAL type of masculinity. You&#x27;re lucky that you find it unbelievable &#x2F; overdramatic.<p>Anyway, when I was a kid I used to love seeing those burnt capsules in the Science Museum in London. So crazy to see the story rendered to beautifully, along with the politics, the oxygen fires, the bouncing off the atmosphere... I couldn&#x27;t have asked for anything more.<p>I thought his portrayal was a realistic vision of the pitfalls of masculinity, and not melodramatic at all. My dad&#x27;s like that, except he smiles instead of having the blank Gosling face. My dad didn&#x27;t cry even at his own mother&#x27;s funeral.<p>Seeing Gosling&#x2F;Armstrong closing up the notebooks where he&#x27;d been trying to figure out how to cure his daughter&#x27;s brain cancer, seeing him cover his face to cry silently, seeing him snap at his friend &quot;Do you think I left there because I wanted to talk?&quot;, his fear of his emotions... It was just so true to life. I cried multiple times in that film. Of course films are always a bit romanticised - I have to say at no point was the illusion broken for me.<p>I think that film gets into my top 3 films along with Gattaca and The Matrix.<p>I love Drive but it was really Blade Runner 2049 that made me realise that his &quot;silent&quot; roles are actually a deceptively simple comment of the state of masculinity, kind of like American Psycho (film &gt; book IMO - interestingly the screenwriter of the film was a woman and the directory of the film was a woman, and the film &amp; book are a critique of that version of masculinity).<p>Also Ryan&#x27;s performance in The Big Short made me realise that he is CHOOSING to do his &quot;silent&quot; stuff when he does. He&#x27;s a very talented actor.</text></comment> | <story><title>Neil Armstrong Remembered</title><url>https://ceas.uc.edu/about/neil-armstrong-remembered.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ambicapter</author><text>I was a bit disappointed recently watching First Man. I get that Neil was a private person, but it was a little too over-dramatic (towards his personal life, not the space program) in my opinion. It seemed like an extrovert&#x27;s wild speculation as to what&#x27;s going on in an introvert&#x27;s head. I think he was just a stoic, analytical type, which doesn&#x27;t mean you need to be completely incapable of communicating emotionally with your kids or SO.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>benbreen</author><text>I see where you&#x27;re coming from, but personally I really appreciated the depiction of an introverted main character. Also both of his sons were consultants on the film and apparently supplied part of the dialogue and tone for the scene where he talks to them before leaving for Apollo 11 [1], so that part of his relationship to his family, at least, seems pretty accurate to me.<p>One thing I remain curious about is how serving in the Korean War shaped the psychology of that first crop of astronauts. And I would LOVE to watch a movie with the budget and talent of <i>First Man</i>, but about Yuri Gagarin or Valentina Tereshkova.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nytimes.com&#x2F;2018&#x2F;...&#x2F;first-man-ryan-gosling-claire-foy-damien-chazelle.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nytimes.com&#x2F;2018&#x2F;...&#x2F;first-man-ryan-gosling-clai...</a></text></comment> |
29,334,748 | 29,331,195 | 1 | 2 | 29,329,570 | train | <story><title>Wall Street grudgingly allows remote work as bankers dig in</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/24/business/wall-street-remote-work-banks.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jollybean</author><text>&quot;you&#x27;d better be paying me extra to cover my increased rent&quot;<p>I have some sorry news for Americans thinking this way on this one: you just outsourced yourselves.<p>There are people 2x as smart and who will work 2x as hard for 1&#x2F;2 the salary among remaining 7 Billion people on this planet and if the bank can hire them instead of you, eventually they will.<p>In some aspects, relationships do matter, so those have face-to-face types of interactions will be obviously harder to displace.<p>The US saw a giant outsourcing of manufacturing, and now that US Megacorps are globalized and not locally owned, they don&#x27;t have any reason to care about local talent, the same will start to happen in services.<p>I do however think that communicating matters a lot, and people will just find themselves back at the office.<p>I don&#x27;t think people realize how quickly this can happen.<p>Now that we can work &#x27;remote&#x27; - everyone is thinking about all the projects they can do for x% the cost, they&#x27;re looking to trim the budget, and there&#x27;s a pile of solid applications from Canada, Taiwan, Poland, Brazil, Spain on their desks.</text></item><item><author>mabbo</author><text>Like all industries that can move to remote, I suspect we will soon see a split. Some companies will embrace it, some won&#x27;t. And that&#x27;s not to detract from either side of that choice. It&#x27;s just a choice that has to be made.<p>What&#x27;s going to be more interesting is what this does to the market rate for labor compensation between these two pools. Simply put: if you want me to be in the city from 9-6 every day, while your competitor says I can live anywhere and remote in, you&#x27;d better be paying me extra to cover my increased rent (in the city) or increased time (commuting). Or put another way, your competitors can compensate me less and I&#x27;ll consider it a better deal.<p>If the advantage of face to face is actually significant, then we&#x27;ll see the remote firms slowly die off. If it&#x27;s not, then they&#x27;re going to be here permanently. Or they might just take over.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>csa</author><text>&gt; I have some sorry news for Americans thinking this way on this one: you just outsourced yourselves.<p>&gt; There are people 2x as smart and who will work 2x as hard for 1&#x2F;2 the salary among remaining 7 Billion people on this planet and if the bank can hire them instead of you, eventually they will.<p>&gt; In some aspects, relationships do matter, so those have face-to-face types of interactions will be obviously harder to displace.<p>I have some sorry news for non-Americans who think most of the high-paying American jobs (especially at banks) have anything to do with being smart or working hard or getting paid half as much.<p>Those personal, face-to-face relationships referred to matter a lot. As humans, they will always matter.<p>The main way that remote will impact workers is by allowing people (mostly Americans or folks who could live&#x2F;work here via a visa) who would already be naturally good fits for the job to live and work in a different place, but probably close enough to travel to meetings and clients as necessary (with a lot of necessary).<p>Back office work may be sent abroad or (more likely) contracted out, but the core of the businesses that involve trust and&#x2F;or personal relationships will be collocated for many many decades to come.</text></comment> | <story><title>Wall Street grudgingly allows remote work as bankers dig in</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/24/business/wall-street-remote-work-banks.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jollybean</author><text>&quot;you&#x27;d better be paying me extra to cover my increased rent&quot;<p>I have some sorry news for Americans thinking this way on this one: you just outsourced yourselves.<p>There are people 2x as smart and who will work 2x as hard for 1&#x2F;2 the salary among remaining 7 Billion people on this planet and if the bank can hire them instead of you, eventually they will.<p>In some aspects, relationships do matter, so those have face-to-face types of interactions will be obviously harder to displace.<p>The US saw a giant outsourcing of manufacturing, and now that US Megacorps are globalized and not locally owned, they don&#x27;t have any reason to care about local talent, the same will start to happen in services.<p>I do however think that communicating matters a lot, and people will just find themselves back at the office.<p>I don&#x27;t think people realize how quickly this can happen.<p>Now that we can work &#x27;remote&#x27; - everyone is thinking about all the projects they can do for x% the cost, they&#x27;re looking to trim the budget, and there&#x27;s a pile of solid applications from Canada, Taiwan, Poland, Brazil, Spain on their desks.</text></item><item><author>mabbo</author><text>Like all industries that can move to remote, I suspect we will soon see a split. Some companies will embrace it, some won&#x27;t. And that&#x27;s not to detract from either side of that choice. It&#x27;s just a choice that has to be made.<p>What&#x27;s going to be more interesting is what this does to the market rate for labor compensation between these two pools. Simply put: if you want me to be in the city from 9-6 every day, while your competitor says I can live anywhere and remote in, you&#x27;d better be paying me extra to cover my increased rent (in the city) or increased time (commuting). Or put another way, your competitors can compensate me less and I&#x27;ll consider it a better deal.<p>If the advantage of face to face is actually significant, then we&#x27;ll see the remote firms slowly die off. If it&#x27;s not, then they&#x27;re going to be here permanently. Or they might just take over.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dymk</author><text>Having worked for years with overseas contractors, I’m really not too concerned about my job security</text></comment> |
29,155,029 | 29,155,109 | 1 | 2 | 29,129,166 | train | <story><title>Jony Ive’s first major design since leaving Apple</title><url>https://www.fastcompany.com/90693444/jony-ives-first-major-design-since-leaving-apple-isnt-what-youd-expect</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>koboll</author><text>They&#x27;d still be responsible for killing millions and sickening billions of people via sugar addiction.<p>I guess human bodies are exempt from being considered part of the natural world.</text></item><item><author>lapetitejort</author><text>If PepsiCo (one of the companies listed) ceased production of plastic bottles immediately I would be happy. That is a serious, credible commitment to improve.</text></item><item><author>meragrin_</author><text>If they are terrible for the environment and they are making a serious, credible commitments on improving, shouldn&#x27;t that make you happy?</text></item><item><author>quadrifoliate</author><text>A bit offtopic, but I am disappointed that the the initial &quot;winners&quot; of this seal [1] seem to be almost all companies that are terrible for the environment and society.<p>----------------------------------------<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.sustainable-markets.org&#x2F;terra-carta-seal&#x2F;winners&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.sustainable-markets.org&#x2F;terra-carta-seal&#x2F;winners...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tcskeptic</author><text>Is your position really that no one should be allowed to produce products that are unhealthy? This seems incredibly invasive.</text></comment> | <story><title>Jony Ive’s first major design since leaving Apple</title><url>https://www.fastcompany.com/90693444/jony-ives-first-major-design-since-leaving-apple-isnt-what-youd-expect</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>koboll</author><text>They&#x27;d still be responsible for killing millions and sickening billions of people via sugar addiction.<p>I guess human bodies are exempt from being considered part of the natural world.</text></item><item><author>lapetitejort</author><text>If PepsiCo (one of the companies listed) ceased production of plastic bottles immediately I would be happy. That is a serious, credible commitment to improve.</text></item><item><author>meragrin_</author><text>If they are terrible for the environment and they are making a serious, credible commitments on improving, shouldn&#x27;t that make you happy?</text></item><item><author>quadrifoliate</author><text>A bit offtopic, but I am disappointed that the the initial &quot;winners&quot; of this seal [1] seem to be almost all companies that are terrible for the environment and society.<p>----------------------------------------<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.sustainable-markets.org&#x2F;terra-carta-seal&#x2F;winners&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.sustainable-markets.org&#x2F;terra-carta-seal&#x2F;winners...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>timeon</author><text>&gt; I guess human bodies are exempt from being considered part of the natural world.<p>Still this seems to be like moving the goalposts.</text></comment> |
19,961,282 | 19,961,217 | 1 | 3 | 19,960,842 | train | <story><title>MicroG – Re-implementation of proprietary Android apps and libraries</title><url>https://microg.org</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>djsumdog</author><text>I&#x27;m glad this is still being maintained. It&#x27;s a really great way to still run popular apps without having to go the entire F-Droid&#x2F;OSS only route.<p>My current phone no longer charges and I&#x27;ve already replaced so much stuff on it (back, camera, etc.) that I&#x27;m deciding to go the KDE Plasma route, starting with a new old-stock Nexus 5X.<p>I hope the Purism 5 and Pinephone get released as well. I really want to go the Plasma route. If there is tooling I need that&#x27;s missing, I hope it will force me to write and contribute apps that can help myself and others.<p>We need a real open source mobile operating system, not Google&#x27;s cripple-ware.</text></comment> | <story><title>MicroG – Re-implementation of proprietary Android apps and libraries</title><url>https://microg.org</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>est31</author><text>Most of the proprietary Google apps on Android are actually just frontends to their proprietary network services like play, maps, gmail, gms, firebase, etc. Giving a replacement that deserves the name means that you have to re-create the associated network services which is the actually hard part because you won&#x27;t just get shop owners to upload their opening hours to your service as well as google maps. That&#x27;s an immense competitive moat that Google has built. It&#x27;s on the territory where they are strongest, providing network services. And it&#x27;s part of the reason why they could open source the Android OS in the first place: no competitor manages to replicate all of those network services.</text></comment> |
25,625,191 | 25,624,788 | 1 | 2 | 25,622,322 | train | <story><title>ECC matters</title><url>https://www.realworldtech.com/forum/?threadid=198497&curpostid=198647</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>nostrademons</author><text>I still remember Craig Silverstein being asked what his biggest mistake at Google was and him answering &quot;Not pushing for ECC memory.&quot;<p>Google&#x27;s initial strategy (c. 2000) around this was to save a few bucks on hardware, get non-ECC memory, and then compensate for it in software. It turns out this is a terrible idea, because if you can&#x27;t count on memory being robust against cosmic rays, you also can&#x27;t count on the software being stored in that memory being robust against cosmic rays. And when you have thousands of machines with petabytes of RAM, those bitflips do happen. Google wasted many man-years tracking down corrupted GFS files and index shards before they finally bit the bullet and just paid for ECC.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ksec</author><text>&gt;I still remember Craig Silverstein being asked what his biggest mistake at Google was and him answering &quot;Not pushing for ECC memory.&quot;<p>Did they ( Google ) or He ( Craig Silverstein ) ever officially admit it on record? I did a Google search and results that came up were all on HN. Did they at least make a few PR pieces saying that they are using ECC memory now because I dont see any with searching. Admitting they made a mistake without officially saying it?<p>I mean the whole world of Server or computer might not need ECC insanity was started entirely because of Google [1] [2] with news and articles published even in the early 00s [3]. And after that it has spread like wildfire and became a common accepted fact that even Google doesn&#x27;t need ECC. Just like Apple were using custom ARM instruction to achieve their fast JS VM performance became a &quot;fact&quot;. ( For the last time, no they didn&#x27;t ). And proponents of ECC memory has been fighting this misinformation like mad for decades. To the point giving up and only rant about every now and then. [3]<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.codinghorror.com&#x2F;building-a-computer-the-google-way&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.codinghorror.com&#x2F;building-a-computer-the-google...</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.codinghorror.com&#x2F;to-ecc-or-not-to-ecc&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.codinghorror.com&#x2F;to-ecc-or-not-to-ecc&#x2F;</a><p>[3] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;danluu.com&#x2F;why-ecc&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;danluu.com&#x2F;why-ecc&#x2F;</a></text></comment> | <story><title>ECC matters</title><url>https://www.realworldtech.com/forum/?threadid=198497&curpostid=198647</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>nostrademons</author><text>I still remember Craig Silverstein being asked what his biggest mistake at Google was and him answering &quot;Not pushing for ECC memory.&quot;<p>Google&#x27;s initial strategy (c. 2000) around this was to save a few bucks on hardware, get non-ECC memory, and then compensate for it in software. It turns out this is a terrible idea, because if you can&#x27;t count on memory being robust against cosmic rays, you also can&#x27;t count on the software being stored in that memory being robust against cosmic rays. And when you have thousands of machines with petabytes of RAM, those bitflips do happen. Google wasted many man-years tracking down corrupted GFS files and index shards before they finally bit the bullet and just paid for ECC.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>starfallg</author><text>Recent advances have blurred the lines a bit. The ECC memory that we all know and love is mainly side-band EEC, with the memory bus widened to accommodate the ECC bits driven by the memory controller. However as process size shrink, bit flips become more likely to the point that now many types of memory have on-die EEC, where the error correction is handled internally on the DRAM modules themselves. This is present on some DDR4 and DDR5 modules, but information on this is kept internal by the DRAM makers and not usually public.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;semiengineering.com&#x2F;what-designers-need-to-know-about-error-correction-code-ecc-in-ddr-memories&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;semiengineering.com&#x2F;what-designers-need-to-know-abou...</a><p>There has been a lot of debate regarding this that was summarised in this post -<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.codinghorror.com&#x2F;to-ecc-or-not-to-ecc&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.codinghorror.com&#x2F;to-ecc-or-not-to-ecc&#x2F;</a></text></comment> |
37,783,939 | 37,783,197 | 1 | 2 | 37,781,612 | train | <story><title>Safety vs. Performance. A case study of C, C++ and Rust sort implementations</title><url>https://github.com/Voultapher/sort-research-rs/blob/main/writeup/sort_safety/text.md</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>teunispeters</author><text>Glad to C doing so well at what it&#x27;s best at - efficiency and size.
I worked in embedded space for years. Rust does not suit that environment.<p>Different tools for different needs!<p>I appreciate this, as looking for better tools in embedded space is welcome. Just pity that so many of them come with so many dependencies and large library sizes.</text></item><item><author>Voultapher</author><text>Author here, I&#x27;ve spent the last 1.5ish years researching sort implementations. While developing a test suite and understanding prior art, I&#x27;ve accumulated a list of results and properties I thought would be insightful to share. Feel free to ask me questions.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>m00x</author><text>It actually does. You can modify Rust to run without stdlib, reducing its size significantly. There are also tons of tricks to make this work really well so it&#x27;s very close to C performance.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;esp-rs.github.io&#x2F;book&#x2F;" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;esp-rs.github.io&#x2F;book&#x2F;</a>
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;avr-rust&#x2F;ruduino">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;avr-rust&#x2F;ruduino</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Safety vs. Performance. A case study of C, C++ and Rust sort implementations</title><url>https://github.com/Voultapher/sort-research-rs/blob/main/writeup/sort_safety/text.md</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>teunispeters</author><text>Glad to C doing so well at what it&#x27;s best at - efficiency and size.
I worked in embedded space for years. Rust does not suit that environment.<p>Different tools for different needs!<p>I appreciate this, as looking for better tools in embedded space is welcome. Just pity that so many of them come with so many dependencies and large library sizes.</text></item><item><author>Voultapher</author><text>Author here, I&#x27;ve spent the last 1.5ish years researching sort implementations. While developing a test suite and understanding prior art, I&#x27;ve accumulated a list of results and properties I thought would be insightful to share. Feel free to ask me questions.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Voultapher</author><text>There are many situations where C libraries are amazingly small. This however is not one of those cases. ipnsort is aggressively optimized for binary-size. A sort instantiation for u64 is ~4.5k while crumsort was ~53k last time I measured.<p>I know several easy ways to boost ipnsort&#x27;s performance by 10% but don&#x27;t because they don&#x27;t align with my binary-size and compile-time goals.</text></comment> |
31,975,774 | 31,975,056 | 1 | 3 | 31,957,054 | train | <story><title>Ubuntu Unity desktop back from the dead after several years' hiatus</title><url>https://www.theregister.com/2022/07/01/ubuntu_unity_desktop_updated_after/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>sph</author><text>&quot;This new release doesn&#x27;t come from Canonical: it&#x27;s from Linux wunderkind Rudra Saraswat&quot;, a 12 years old Linux enthusiast from Bengaluru, India.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;wiki.ubuntu.com&#x2F;rs2009" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;wiki.ubuntu.com&#x2F;rs2009</a><p>Incredible stuff, love to see it.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>lproven</author><text>[Article author here]<p>He does amazing work. I did a little profile piece on him a few months ago:
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theregister.com&#x2F;2022&#x2F;02&#x2F;04&#x2F;rudra_sarsawat_ubuntu_projects&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theregister.com&#x2F;2022&#x2F;02&#x2F;04&#x2F;rudra_sarsawat_ubuntu...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Ubuntu Unity desktop back from the dead after several years' hiatus</title><url>https://www.theregister.com/2022/07/01/ubuntu_unity_desktop_updated_after/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>sph</author><text>&quot;This new release doesn&#x27;t come from Canonical: it&#x27;s from Linux wunderkind Rudra Saraswat&quot;, a 12 years old Linux enthusiast from Bengaluru, India.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;wiki.ubuntu.com&#x2F;rs2009" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;wiki.ubuntu.com&#x2F;rs2009</a><p>Incredible stuff, love to see it.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>possiblelion</author><text>Damn, what kid! To be fair - having time and access to computer between the ages of 9-15 is something that I have come to appreciate in my life as well. Even if I didn&#x27;t understand everything at the time, playing with open-source software, Linux, jailbreaking iDevices etc has definitely formed who I am today.</text></comment> |
36,605,596 | 36,605,283 | 1 | 2 | 36,603,816 | train | <story><title>LLama.cpp now has a web interface</title><url>https://github.com/ggerganov/llama.cpp/pull/1998</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mk_stjames</author><text>I&#x27;m always wondering about the, I don&#x27;t even know what to call this, etiquette? of proposing PR&#x27;s to projects like these that add a feature or a demo or whatnot to the main branch of a very focused project by adding something that is very different in interface, language, set and setting etc.<p>So in this case, Tobi made this awesome little web interface that uses minimal HTML and JS as to stay in line with llama.cpp&#x27;s stripped-down-ness. But it is still a completely different mode of operation, it&#x27;s a &#x27;new venue&#x27; essentially.<p>What if GG didn&#x27;t want such a thing? When is something like this better for a separately maintained repo and not a main merge? How do you know when it is OK to submit a PR to add something like this without overstepping (or is it always?)<p>I see this with a few projects on github that really &#x27;blow up&#x27; and everyone starts working on. They get a million PR&#x27;s from people hacking things on it in their domain of knowledge, expanding the complexity (and potentially difficulty to maintain quality). Sometimes it gets weird feeling watching from the outside at least (I&#x27;m not a maintainer on any public FOSS).<p>Just curious what others think because those are my thoughts that came to mind when I saw this.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ggerganov</author><text>My POV is that llama.cpp is primarily a playground for adding new features to the core ggml library and in the long run an interface for efficient LLM inference. The purpose of the examples in the repo is to demonstrate ways of how to use the ggml library and the LLM interface. The examples are decoupled from the primary code - i.e. you can delete all of them and the project will continue to function and build properly. So we can afford to expand them more freely as long as people find them useful and there is enough help for maintaining them. Still, we try to keep the 3rd party dependencies to a minimum so that the build process is simple and accessible<p>There was a similar &quot;dilemma&quot; about the GPU support - initially I didn&#x27;t envision adding GPU support to the core library as I thought that things will become very entangled and hard to maintain. But eventually, we found a way to extend the library with different GPU backends in a relatively well decoupled way. So now, we have various developers maintaining and contributing to the backends in a nice independent way. Each backend can be deleted and you will still be able to build the project and use it.<p>So I guess we are optimizing for how easy it is to delete things :)<p>Note that the project is still pretty much a &quot;big hack&quot; - it supports just LLaMA models and derivatives, therefore it is easy atm. The more &quot;general purpose&quot; it becomes, the more difficult things become to design and maintain. This is the main challenge I&#x27;m thinking how to solve, but for sure keeping stuff minimalistic and small is a great help so far<p>&gt; What if GG didn&#x27;t want such a thing? When is something like this better for a separately maintained repo and not a main merge? How do you know when it is OK to submit a PR to add something like this without overstepping (or is it always?)<p>I try to explain my vision for the project in the issues and the discussion. I think most of the developers are very well aligned with it and can already tell what is a good addition or not</text></comment> | <story><title>LLama.cpp now has a web interface</title><url>https://github.com/ggerganov/llama.cpp/pull/1998</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mk_stjames</author><text>I&#x27;m always wondering about the, I don&#x27;t even know what to call this, etiquette? of proposing PR&#x27;s to projects like these that add a feature or a demo or whatnot to the main branch of a very focused project by adding something that is very different in interface, language, set and setting etc.<p>So in this case, Tobi made this awesome little web interface that uses minimal HTML and JS as to stay in line with llama.cpp&#x27;s stripped-down-ness. But it is still a completely different mode of operation, it&#x27;s a &#x27;new venue&#x27; essentially.<p>What if GG didn&#x27;t want such a thing? When is something like this better for a separately maintained repo and not a main merge? How do you know when it is OK to submit a PR to add something like this without overstepping (or is it always?)<p>I see this with a few projects on github that really &#x27;blow up&#x27; and everyone starts working on. They get a million PR&#x27;s from people hacking things on it in their domain of knowledge, expanding the complexity (and potentially difficulty to maintain quality). Sometimes it gets weird feeling watching from the outside at least (I&#x27;m not a maintainer on any public FOSS).<p>Just curious what others think because those are my thoughts that came to mind when I saw this.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>LawnGnome</author><text>I generally think it&#x27;s fine to do this sort of thing for your own benefit and open a PR as long as you&#x27;re really 100% fine with &quot;no, I&#x27;m not interested in merging this&quot; being the answer.<p>Where the problems tend to arise (in my experience, at least) is when people hack on something expecting that it will be merged, get invested in it, and then get upset when the maintainer(s) aren&#x27;t interested.<p>Checking in before starting to work on something is important if your goal is to have it merged, not just to do the work. The problem is that a lot of people start in the first category, but then move into the second category as they get invested in their project.</text></comment> |
2,049,791 | 2,049,801 | 1 | 3 | 2,049,496 | train | <story><title>Why your child's school bus has no seat belts</title><url>http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/40820669/ns/us_news-life/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dotBen</author><text><i>"The child will go against the seat, and that will absorb most of the impact,"</i><p>It's remarkable how scientists, engineers and tech folk are able to abstract the description of a high-trauma event, especially for a young child's body and describe it in such matter-of-fact terms.<p>I note this here not only because it is striking to read but to also consider that we do this in our own work in the startup world. Often we will think of an act such as 'unfriending' someone as simply a manipulation and purge of row(s) in a database when, from the user's perspective, it may be a significant and deeply nuanced real-world event.<p>I think in both cases we could make better products if we articulated better and humanized events such as "going against the seat" or "unfriending".<p><i>(nb: I'm not comparing the impact of a mass body trauma to that of unfriending someone, fortunately for us there is very little if anything in startup world that has such real-world significant consequences)</i></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tel</author><text>I don't disagree that "we could make better products" when analyzing things from a human point of view — that's practically day 0 in any industrial design class — but I dispute the implicit comparison here. It's extremely important that the person who saves your life doesn't think of it human terms. They need to be thinking in absolute terms because those terms will give them the power to save your life.<p>It again brings to mind the (Canadian version of the) Iron Ring. Building things that abuse the forces of nature and exert power over the shape of our work, building these things and having them <i>work</i>, is distinctly beyond human terms. It's why you pair architects with structural engineers: a friend of mine always complains that his job is to remind architects about gravity. I wonder just how many lives have been secretly saved like that.<p>Of course, the best solution is to somehow hold on to both sides, but I think too much sentiment these days is reactionary against the dehumanized computer technology we're working our way past. I really liked the last slide of one of Job's recent keynotes where they put a signpost labeling the intersection of "technology" and "liberal arts". Always keep that intersection in mind even when you make a decision to walk in one of those directions looking for it.</text></comment> | <story><title>Why your child's school bus has no seat belts</title><url>http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/40820669/ns/us_news-life/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dotBen</author><text><i>"The child will go against the seat, and that will absorb most of the impact,"</i><p>It's remarkable how scientists, engineers and tech folk are able to abstract the description of a high-trauma event, especially for a young child's body and describe it in such matter-of-fact terms.<p>I note this here not only because it is striking to read but to also consider that we do this in our own work in the startup world. Often we will think of an act such as 'unfriending' someone as simply a manipulation and purge of row(s) in a database when, from the user's perspective, it may be a significant and deeply nuanced real-world event.<p>I think in both cases we could make better products if we articulated better and humanized events such as "going against the seat" or "unfriending".<p><i>(nb: I'm not comparing the impact of a mass body trauma to that of unfriending someone, fortunately for us there is very little if anything in startup world that has such real-world significant consequences)</i></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jameskilton</author><text>Well there's also the fact that kids bodies are much more malleable than the average adult body, and given that as crashes aren't expected, the kids won't be tensing up when they hit the seat and will kind of flop around a bit. Same reason drunk drivers almost never die in the accidents they cause. In most cases I would bet that the bus crash wasn't traumatic for the kids but something exciting they'll talk about for a while.</text></comment> |
30,634,544 | 30,632,522 | 1 | 2 | 30,627,892 | train | <story><title>DuckDuckGo “down-rank sites associated with Russian disinformation”</title><url>https://twitter.com/yegg/status/1501716484761997318</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>HeckFeck</author><text>For me, this move by DDG will have the opposite effect of what is intended.<p>I will now trust my own media and sources even less, if they rely on silencing the competition and insist on controlling what I access &quot;for <i>my</i> own good&quot;. Such dirty tactics are insulting, even more so when delivered under a sneering benevolent guise.<p>As if they have perfect knowledge of my motives and wishes. What if I&#x27;m genuinely curious as to how the Russian media is presenting this war? They must have access to this perfect knowledge if they are fit to decide which news sources are &quot;correct&quot;!</text></item><item><author>freediver</author><text>I guess this did not age well:<p>“[W]hen you search, you expect unbiased results, but that’s not what you get on Google,” @matthewde_silva quotes
@yegg<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;DuckDuckGo&#x2F;status&#x2F;1114524914227253249" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;DuckDuckGo&#x2F;status&#x2F;1114524914227253249</a><p>Also, they probably do not realize that they will have to start with Twitter if to be consistent.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>crayboff</author><text>I&#x27;ve been waffling between whether or not I think this is a good thing. I am curious on your thoughts:<p>A lot of malicious actors have learned how to game the search ranking algorithms by making carefully crafted lies that are easily spread as truths online quickly. They are able to get their fake news to spread (and this rank higher) in ways that legitimate sources can&#x27;t.<p>Most people only ever look at the first page of results when searching for answers, and, let&#x27;s be honest, take those answers for the truth.<p>If you were a search engine provider and knew that viral, fake stories were able to do that, wouldn&#x27;t not taking action also be making a decision about what you can and can&#x27;t see? Inaction, in this case, would be tacit approval.<p>Also you can still search for stories about how Russia is presenting the war, but you have to specifically look for it</text></comment> | <story><title>DuckDuckGo “down-rank sites associated with Russian disinformation”</title><url>https://twitter.com/yegg/status/1501716484761997318</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>HeckFeck</author><text>For me, this move by DDG will have the opposite effect of what is intended.<p>I will now trust my own media and sources even less, if they rely on silencing the competition and insist on controlling what I access &quot;for <i>my</i> own good&quot;. Such dirty tactics are insulting, even more so when delivered under a sneering benevolent guise.<p>As if they have perfect knowledge of my motives and wishes. What if I&#x27;m genuinely curious as to how the Russian media is presenting this war? They must have access to this perfect knowledge if they are fit to decide which news sources are &quot;correct&quot;!</text></item><item><author>freediver</author><text>I guess this did not age well:<p>“[W]hen you search, you expect unbiased results, but that’s not what you get on Google,” @matthewde_silva quotes
@yegg<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;DuckDuckGo&#x2F;status&#x2F;1114524914227253249" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;DuckDuckGo&#x2F;status&#x2F;1114524914227253249</a><p>Also, they probably do not realize that they will have to start with Twitter if to be consistent.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>8note</author><text>What I really want is to have a setting where I can turn these kinds of filters on and off, or to different&#x2F;customized priorities.<p>Search is a tool for me to use: give me better control of the results that I can get. Choosing between different ranking algorithms would be wonderful too, to skip around different SEO strategies</text></comment> |
26,169,885 | 26,169,572 | 1 | 2 | 26,166,113 | train | <story><title>UK to launch taxpayer-funded high-risk tech research agency exempt from FOI</title><url>https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/secrecy-for-high-risk-tech-research-agency-aria-h72lql80k</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dalbasal</author><text>Sure, corruption and insiderism is an important topic in its own right.<p>Up and down this thread though, it seems that British HNers are insisting that it&#x27;s the <i>only</i> topic. IE, they&#x27;re against this agency (and presumably everything else that spends money in any way) because corruption.<p>Is this true for roads? No new schools, parks or research agencies until corruption is gone? It seems over the top to me. The &quot;<i>Boris&#x27; girlfriend gets a £100k grant</i>&quot; storyline is salacious, but I don&#x27;t think it&#x27;s unusual. Insiderism exists. It existed yesterday, last year. I&#x27;m sure Winston Churchill&#x27;s girlfriend also did well out of the deal. c&#x27;est la vie<p>I&#x27;m definitely interested in ideas about insiderism, any solutions to it... but are you really at a point where you&#x27;re against everything that the government does on the assumption that it&#x27;s all going to Boris&#x27; girlfriends?</text></item><item><author>lordnacho</author><text>It&#x27;s a good point, Labour did a bunch of PPI deals that didn&#x27;t seem to benefit the public as much as the private collaborators. So it&#x27;s not exclusive to one party, but the Conversatives have been in power for a fairly long time now.<p>Long term we need transparency from whoever is in charge.</text></item><item><author>dalbasal</author><text>The problem with this line of argument is that it applies to anything and everything done under the current conservative banner.<p>IE, Torrie&#x2F;Boris corruption is the <i>only</i> topic. Whether it&#x27;s a British DARPA, new sewage plant, or change to the tax code, the only thing to say is &quot;<i>They&#x27;re corrupt. This is just another pilfering.</i>&quot;<p>I&#x27;m sympathetic to the focus on corruption. Corruption is bad. That said, I don&#x27;t think the UK is at the point where everything is just corruption and nothing more. There <i>is</i> room to talk about things other than corruption too. Besides, this particular flavour of corruption is almost always present. Whether it&#x27;s the VC&#x27;s boyfriend, bank manager&#x27;s mistress or political boys clubs. Insiders get insider access. I don&#x27;t like it either, but where&#x2F;when is this <i>not</i> the case? It&#x27;s not a coincidence that so many of your (or american) parliamentarians went to school together?<p>I am sure knowing people at DARPA, being married to a general or whatever is a big help too.<p>Americans are worse than you guys on these fronts, and they&#x27;re not the worst either.</text></item><item><author>grey-area</author><text>For those doubting the above, here is an example from the recent past of corruption from the Prime Minister, paying his lover with public funds:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;metro.co.uk&#x2F;2019&#x2F;10&#x2F;31&#x2F;10000-grant-given-boris-johnsons-friend-jennifer-arcuri-appropriate-11020662&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;metro.co.uk&#x2F;2019&#x2F;10&#x2F;31&#x2F;10000-grant-given-boris-johns...</a></text></item><item><author>madaxe_again</author><text>That’s nice, but this isn’t what this will be about. This will be a means of funnelling cash to party donors without oversight, nothing more. Hence the FOI exception.<p>I mean, just look at how they’ve fared in the last 18 months alone - how many unaccountable tens of billions did they pay out to their donors?<p>I had Tory ministers’ children approaching me about putting together business plans to help them get covid grants - same crowd who I used to help with R&amp;D grants, which were also used to get high net worth individuals with money of dubious origin into the country. I anticipate I’ll be hearing from them again.<p>This kind of funding will not develop anything but the wealth divide.</text></item><item><author>oli5679</author><text>The USA&#x27;s DARPA program funded important research into<p>- The internet<p>- GPS<p>- Graphical user interface and mouse<p>- Onion routing<p>- Voice assistant<p>Hopefully this program executes well. There is clearly a big social payoff to betting big on credible people doing risky research with high potential impact.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.itpro.co.uk&#x2F;technology&#x2F;34730&#x2F;10-amazing-darpa-inventions" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.itpro.co.uk&#x2F;technology&#x2F;34730&#x2F;10-amazing-darpa-in...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>JeanQuille</author><text>&gt; Insiderism exists. It existed yesterday, last year.<p>I&#x27;m guessing you&#x27;re not living in Britain? The last few years have been on a different scale entirely. We&#x27;ve had to get used to a government that delivers contracts free of tender to shell companies owned by friends and donors that fail to deliver and don&#x27;t even pretend to be legit (have you heard the one about the &quot;ferry company&quot; that thinks it&#x27;s a takeaway restaurant?), while on the other hand openly jeering and mocking such causes as health worker pay.<p>In such light, tell me how you would expect &quot;New project, £X hundred million initial fund, will use novel legislation to remove public oversight&quot; to be received. It&#x27;s not rocket science to work out that if you want people to be grateful instead of angry and you&#x27;re a cabinet with a documented history of lying and corruption, just remove the last clause.<p>I appreciate the faith in progress, but in honesty, our legs are being peed on from a high height while you&#x27;re in here nobly suggesting it could be raining.</text></comment> | <story><title>UK to launch taxpayer-funded high-risk tech research agency exempt from FOI</title><url>https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/secrecy-for-high-risk-tech-research-agency-aria-h72lql80k</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dalbasal</author><text>Sure, corruption and insiderism is an important topic in its own right.<p>Up and down this thread though, it seems that British HNers are insisting that it&#x27;s the <i>only</i> topic. IE, they&#x27;re against this agency (and presumably everything else that spends money in any way) because corruption.<p>Is this true for roads? No new schools, parks or research agencies until corruption is gone? It seems over the top to me. The &quot;<i>Boris&#x27; girlfriend gets a £100k grant</i>&quot; storyline is salacious, but I don&#x27;t think it&#x27;s unusual. Insiderism exists. It existed yesterday, last year. I&#x27;m sure Winston Churchill&#x27;s girlfriend also did well out of the deal. c&#x27;est la vie<p>I&#x27;m definitely interested in ideas about insiderism, any solutions to it... but are you really at a point where you&#x27;re against everything that the government does on the assumption that it&#x27;s all going to Boris&#x27; girlfriends?</text></item><item><author>lordnacho</author><text>It&#x27;s a good point, Labour did a bunch of PPI deals that didn&#x27;t seem to benefit the public as much as the private collaborators. So it&#x27;s not exclusive to one party, but the Conversatives have been in power for a fairly long time now.<p>Long term we need transparency from whoever is in charge.</text></item><item><author>dalbasal</author><text>The problem with this line of argument is that it applies to anything and everything done under the current conservative banner.<p>IE, Torrie&#x2F;Boris corruption is the <i>only</i> topic. Whether it&#x27;s a British DARPA, new sewage plant, or change to the tax code, the only thing to say is &quot;<i>They&#x27;re corrupt. This is just another pilfering.</i>&quot;<p>I&#x27;m sympathetic to the focus on corruption. Corruption is bad. That said, I don&#x27;t think the UK is at the point where everything is just corruption and nothing more. There <i>is</i> room to talk about things other than corruption too. Besides, this particular flavour of corruption is almost always present. Whether it&#x27;s the VC&#x27;s boyfriend, bank manager&#x27;s mistress or political boys clubs. Insiders get insider access. I don&#x27;t like it either, but where&#x2F;when is this <i>not</i> the case? It&#x27;s not a coincidence that so many of your (or american) parliamentarians went to school together?<p>I am sure knowing people at DARPA, being married to a general or whatever is a big help too.<p>Americans are worse than you guys on these fronts, and they&#x27;re not the worst either.</text></item><item><author>grey-area</author><text>For those doubting the above, here is an example from the recent past of corruption from the Prime Minister, paying his lover with public funds:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;metro.co.uk&#x2F;2019&#x2F;10&#x2F;31&#x2F;10000-grant-given-boris-johnsons-friend-jennifer-arcuri-appropriate-11020662&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;metro.co.uk&#x2F;2019&#x2F;10&#x2F;31&#x2F;10000-grant-given-boris-johns...</a></text></item><item><author>madaxe_again</author><text>That’s nice, but this isn’t what this will be about. This will be a means of funnelling cash to party donors without oversight, nothing more. Hence the FOI exception.<p>I mean, just look at how they’ve fared in the last 18 months alone - how many unaccountable tens of billions did they pay out to their donors?<p>I had Tory ministers’ children approaching me about putting together business plans to help them get covid grants - same crowd who I used to help with R&amp;D grants, which were also used to get high net worth individuals with money of dubious origin into the country. I anticipate I’ll be hearing from them again.<p>This kind of funding will not develop anything but the wealth divide.</text></item><item><author>oli5679</author><text>The USA&#x27;s DARPA program funded important research into<p>- The internet<p>- GPS<p>- Graphical user interface and mouse<p>- Onion routing<p>- Voice assistant<p>Hopefully this program executes well. There is clearly a big social payoff to betting big on credible people doing risky research with high potential impact.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.itpro.co.uk&#x2F;technology&#x2F;34730&#x2F;10-amazing-darpa-inventions" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.itpro.co.uk&#x2F;technology&#x2F;34730&#x2F;10-amazing-darpa-in...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Jochim</author><text>&gt; It existed yesterday, last year. I&#x27;m sure Winston Churchill&#x27;s girlfriend also did well out of the deal. c&#x27;est la vie.<p>It&#x27;s exactly this type of dismissal that allows this level of corruption to fester. It was unacceptable yesterday and it still is today. The point is to try and do something about it rather than sit back while they make it harder to punish because &quot;it&#x27;s already a problem&quot;.<p>A research fund where the public will be forbidden from scrutinising the spending of people who are known to be corrupt is not comparable to a public park.</text></comment> |
2,672,926 | 2,672,925 | 1 | 2 | 2,672,854 | train | <story><title>Fish don't know they're in water</title><url>http://sivers.org/fish</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>brianwillis</author><text>This post borrows heavily from the famous "This is Water" speech that David Foster Wallace gave at Kenyon College. It's well worth a read. Full text of the speech available here: <a href="http://moreintelligentlife.com/story/david-foster-wallace-in-his-own-words" rel="nofollow">http://moreintelligentlife.com/story/david-foster-wallace-in...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>sivers</author><text>Wild! I don't remember ever having read that, but I must have years ago, and the metaphor stuck.<p>Thanks for letting me know. I updated the post to give credit.</text></comment> | <story><title>Fish don't know they're in water</title><url>http://sivers.org/fish</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>brianwillis</author><text>This post borrows heavily from the famous "This is Water" speech that David Foster Wallace gave at Kenyon College. It's well worth a read. Full text of the speech available here: <a href="http://moreintelligentlife.com/story/david-foster-wallace-in-his-own-words" rel="nofollow">http://moreintelligentlife.com/story/david-foster-wallace-in...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>thisrod</author><text>I suspect all these derive from a Buddhist parable, in which a novice fish asks a master fish to define the "sea" that the master keeps mentioning. The original point was different: the master's description is necessarily mystical, but the sea is real.</text></comment> |
15,570,857 | 15,570,984 | 1 | 3 | 15,570,235 | train | <story><title>IBM scientists say radical new ‘in-memory’ architecture will speed up computers</title><url>http://www.kurzweilai.net/ibm-scientists-say-radical-new-in-memory-computing-architecture-will-speed-up-computers-by-200-times</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>otakucode</author><text>This is the promise of memristors. Despite innumerable articles being written about neuromorphic architectures like they&#x27;ll be something miraculous, this ability to change from functioning as a bit of memory to being a bunch of functional logic on the fly at the speed of a memory read? That&#x27;s going to be crazy. It will open up possibilities that we probably can&#x27;t even imagine right now.<p>I&#x27;ve never understood why people don&#x27;t get more excited about memristors. They could replace basically everything. Assuming someone can master their manufacture, they should be more successful than transistors. Of course, I&#x27;m still waiting to be able to buy a 2000 ppi display like IBM&#x27;s R&amp;D announced creating back in the late 1990s or so... so I guess I&#x27;d best not hold my breath.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nyolfen</author><text>&gt; I&#x27;ve never understood why people don&#x27;t get more excited about memristors.<p>personally, mostly because i&#x27;ve been seeing articles about how they&#x27;re <i>just about</i> to totally upend computing for the last ten years</text></comment> | <story><title>IBM scientists say radical new ‘in-memory’ architecture will speed up computers</title><url>http://www.kurzweilai.net/ibm-scientists-say-radical-new-in-memory-computing-architecture-will-speed-up-computers-by-200-times</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>otakucode</author><text>This is the promise of memristors. Despite innumerable articles being written about neuromorphic architectures like they&#x27;ll be something miraculous, this ability to change from functioning as a bit of memory to being a bunch of functional logic on the fly at the speed of a memory read? That&#x27;s going to be crazy. It will open up possibilities that we probably can&#x27;t even imagine right now.<p>I&#x27;ve never understood why people don&#x27;t get more excited about memristors. They could replace basically everything. Assuming someone can master their manufacture, they should be more successful than transistors. Of course, I&#x27;m still waiting to be able to buy a 2000 ppi display like IBM&#x27;s R&amp;D announced creating back in the late 1990s or so... so I guess I&#x27;d best not hold my breath.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tasty_freeze</author><text>Transistors provide something that resistors, capacitors, inductors and memristors don&#x27;t, and thus they can&#x27;t be replaced. That thing is gain, ie, amplification (of either voltage or current). All the others are lossy, so if you imagine some building block, then cascade N of them in a row, eventually the signal will become too weak (at some N) to be useful.</text></comment> |
3,315,689 | 3,315,695 | 1 | 3 | 3,315,624 | train | <story><title>Ordered List is a GitHubber</title><url>https://github.com/blog/993-ordered-list-is-a-githubber</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>swanson</author><text>I was surprised that this acquisition includes Ordered List's products (SpeakerDeck and Gaug.es specifically). Assuming they don't get shut down, now Github can host your conference talks and provide analytics (built-in repo analytics anyone?) - in addition to hosting your wiki, bug tracker, code repository, and blog.<p>I think this could be HUGE for Github as they position themselves as the one stop shop for developers.<p>I can see six months down the line that every major conference is posting their collection of slide decks on Github. I can see tight integration with your repos and analytics ("See how this commit affects your conversion rate") and maybe even a "Start A/B test between these two branches" button.</text></comment> | <story><title>Ordered List is a GitHubber</title><url>https://github.com/blog/993-ordered-list-is-a-githubber</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>simonw</author><text>What a brilliant acquisition. Five talented individuals with a proven record of building beautiful software together. Congrats to both parties.</text></comment> |
23,402,108 | 23,401,504 | 1 | 3 | 23,399,484 | train | <story><title>Reinventing the Wheel: Discovering the Optimal Rolling Shape with PyTorch (2019)</title><url>https://blog.benwiener.com/programming/2019/04/29/reinventing-the-wheel.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>matsemann</author><text>&gt; <i>I parameterized the wheel as a twenty sided polygon with a variable radius for each vertex, ri.</i><p>Could this way of representing the problem (radius) introduce bias to the solution? It could probably make many kind of shapes, but it may need to overcome some huge local maxima in order to drastically change it to something else by tweaking multiple of the radii.<p>When writing my thesis on spoke patterns for bicycle wheels, one of the representations outperformed the others, as it had symmetry baked in. That could have made it not find some esoteric solutions (which is why I had multiple representations).</text></comment> | <story><title>Reinventing the Wheel: Discovering the Optimal Rolling Shape with PyTorch (2019)</title><url>https://blog.benwiener.com/programming/2019/04/29/reinventing-the-wheel.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>kd5bjo</author><text>It’s interesting to note that the final result, though essentially circular, has an offset axle. This certainly seems suboptimal, and it would’ve been nice to have some analysis of why this differs from the expected result.</text></comment> |
10,234,085 | 10,234,007 | 1 | 2 | 10,233,464 | train | <story><title>How GOG.com Saves and Restores Classic Videogames</title><url>http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2015/09/16/how-gog-com-save-and-restore-classic-videogames/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>impostervt</author><text>I used GOG to buy the original Master of Orion. Randomly throughout the game, to stop piracy, a screen will pop up and ask you to identify the name of a ship. Back when the game was release, the instruction booklet was the only place to get this information. If you clicked the wrong ship name, the game would exit.<p>In the GOG version, you can click on any ship and the game will continue. I was very impressed that they kept that small detail while providing an easy way around it. It really brought be back to the early 90&#x27;s, playing the game round-robin with my father.<p>Frighteningly, since I hadn&#x27;t played the game in 20+ years, I realized I still actually remembered some of those ship names.</text></comment> | <story><title>How GOG.com Saves and Restores Classic Videogames</title><url>http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2015/09/16/how-gog-com-save-and-restore-classic-videogames/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>VonGuard</author><text>Shameless self promotion (non-profit, though) but if you&#x27;re interested in game preservation, and in particular, games that might not be worth a commercial re-release, the Museum of Art and Digital Entertainment in Oakland is always working to save stuff like Habitat.<p>We&#x27;re running a Kickstarter right now, too, to move into a larger space. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.kickstarter.com&#x2F;projects&#x2F;themade&#x2F;the-museum-of-art-and-digital-entertainment-20" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.kickstarter.com&#x2F;projects&#x2F;themade&#x2F;the-museum-of-a...</a></text></comment> |
8,255,371 | 8,254,844 | 1 | 3 | 8,254,063 | train | <story><title>Urgent security warning that may affect all internet users</title><url>http://community.namecheap.com/blog/2014/09/01/urgent-security-warning-may-affect-internet-users/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>orofino</author><text>The question for us, as technologists, is what are we doing about this?<p>2FA is nice, but not the end all, be all. OAuth has largely failed to gain any reasonable traction. Using Facebook login means Facebook gets to track me as I move around the web.<p>Our users reuse passwords, primarily due to the proliferation of dozens or often hundreds of online accounts that a single individual has. We can&#x27;t expect people to use password managers (they&#x27;re complicated and then centralize everything into a single point of failure). Forcing people to use crazy passwords just results in weaker passwords.<p>I was hopeful that something like persona from Mozilla would catch on, but that has failed. Where are we with replacing the password? It is flawed technology.<p>On top of this we have the compounding factor that our systems are more complicated than ever and it appears that they&#x27;re simply impossible to secure. Too many layers exist with too much code. Many sites just don&#x27;t both with even hashing password, meaning those of us that care, are just kind of throwing our hands up and saying &quot;well it wasn&#x27;t my site that was compromised, so it isn&#x27;t my fault&quot;. All the while, bad guys walk in the front door because we&#x27;ve decided to ignore the reality of the situation.<p>I know I&#x27;m not providing a constructive alternative here, but I&#x27;m a bit ashamed that we&#x27;ve even let it get this far. We&#x27;re failing those that rely on our systems. I don&#x27;t have the answer, but would love to hear some ideas about what can be done.</text></comment> | <story><title>Urgent security warning that may affect all internet users</title><url>http://community.namecheap.com/blog/2014/09/01/urgent-security-warning-may-affect-internet-users/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Negitivefrags</author><text>As someone who runs an online game we find that a huge percentage of our users arrive pre-compromised.<p>Vast quantities of people wander around from site to site using the same email&#x2F;password combo that has been compromised a long time ago.<p>We do a GeoIP check now and send an email with an unlock code any time someone logs in from a different city than last time. This reduced the account compromise problem significantly. Most of these pre-compromised people have a different password on their email at least.</text></comment> |
7,449,429 | 7,449,304 | 1 | 2 | 7,447,510 | train | <story><title>Pending Comments</title><url>https://news.ycombinator.com/pending</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>RogerL</author><text>I am currently spending my life working on signal processing - constructing a story of what is happening in the world from sensor data. And you know what - noise is good. You would perhaps think that the thing to do is to turn on the filters, crank &#x27;em up, and don&#x27;t ever let a noisy bit of data through.<p>But, of course, that does not work. Noise is helpful. It&#x27;s still signal. I can construct more information from a noisy signal than an overly filtered one.<p>Back to forums, I was a participant in several for a different niche area. One was obsessed with post &#x27;quality&#x27; - a horde of moderators swarming around, then after awhile they&#x27;d comb through every thread, deleting every comment they found not worthy so they would have some kind of pristine archive, and so on.<p>They utterly failed. Oh, they are still trundling along. But the sites with the industry leaders posting? Those are the ones with far less concern with &#x27;quality&#x27;. Why would an expert spend time crafting an answer to somebody when it is likely or possible that it will either not get approved to show up, or later deleted? It made no sense to them, they vocally complained, were again and again told this was for the greater good, and so they all left. Now, if you want to talk to an expert, you go to one of the other forums; if you want to talk to a complete amateur, but with never a post off topic, well, you go to the controlled one. You&#x27;ll get terrible advice, or no advice at all, but hey, it&#x27;s civil and on topic.<p>I&#x27;ve concluded nothing about HN yet, but I don&#x27;t forsee myself clicking away, endorsing post after post. This is mostly a &#x27;consume&#x27; site for me, and occasionally, post. I don&#x27;t want to spend my time endorsing and clicking away. I&#x27;ll upvote once in a while, and almost never downvote. I can&#x27;t see that changing much. I can&#x27;t see posting anymore; I am giving you value (or trying to), and you hold it hostage. Ya, okay, if that is how you feel, I&#x27;ll go elsewhere. I recognize that sounds petulant, but back to the site in the first paragraph - a lot of people stopped posting because so much did not survive the great purges that went on. Why go to this effort if others will silence you?<p>Noise is not the enemy of quality. It is not the enemy of value. It&#x27;s a wonderful side effect of free thinking, innovative thinking, of creation, of invention. It&#x27;s messy, it&#x27;s beautiful. I love noise for what it represents. Long live noise.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pfarrell</author><text>Thank you Roger for a well written post. It captured my sentiments in an analogy about complexity and chaos and value.<p>I&#x27;ve been a reader of HN for a long time. I am not am industry thought leader. I&#x27;m one of the nameless horde of programmers that have been integral and famous at companies you&#x27;ve never heard of. I&#x27;ve had an account for over 2200 days, but have less than 250 karma. You know why? I only comment when I have something to say that I think is pertinent. When I do comment, I spend 5-10 minutes getting my wording good enough that I won&#x27;t waste anyone&#x27;s time.<p>I will watch how this plays out, but I suspect this will be my final HN comment. This change confirms that PG does not want people like me participating in his forum. I hope I&#x27;m proved wrong; HN had been my main RSS feed for like 5 years. There&#x27;s always lobste.rs</text></comment> | <story><title>Pending Comments</title><url>https://news.ycombinator.com/pending</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>RogerL</author><text>I am currently spending my life working on signal processing - constructing a story of what is happening in the world from sensor data. And you know what - noise is good. You would perhaps think that the thing to do is to turn on the filters, crank &#x27;em up, and don&#x27;t ever let a noisy bit of data through.<p>But, of course, that does not work. Noise is helpful. It&#x27;s still signal. I can construct more information from a noisy signal than an overly filtered one.<p>Back to forums, I was a participant in several for a different niche area. One was obsessed with post &#x27;quality&#x27; - a horde of moderators swarming around, then after awhile they&#x27;d comb through every thread, deleting every comment they found not worthy so they would have some kind of pristine archive, and so on.<p>They utterly failed. Oh, they are still trundling along. But the sites with the industry leaders posting? Those are the ones with far less concern with &#x27;quality&#x27;. Why would an expert spend time crafting an answer to somebody when it is likely or possible that it will either not get approved to show up, or later deleted? It made no sense to them, they vocally complained, were again and again told this was for the greater good, and so they all left. Now, if you want to talk to an expert, you go to one of the other forums; if you want to talk to a complete amateur, but with never a post off topic, well, you go to the controlled one. You&#x27;ll get terrible advice, or no advice at all, but hey, it&#x27;s civil and on topic.<p>I&#x27;ve concluded nothing about HN yet, but I don&#x27;t forsee myself clicking away, endorsing post after post. This is mostly a &#x27;consume&#x27; site for me, and occasionally, post. I don&#x27;t want to spend my time endorsing and clicking away. I&#x27;ll upvote once in a while, and almost never downvote. I can&#x27;t see that changing much. I can&#x27;t see posting anymore; I am giving you value (or trying to), and you hold it hostage. Ya, okay, if that is how you feel, I&#x27;ll go elsewhere. I recognize that sounds petulant, but back to the site in the first paragraph - a lot of people stopped posting because so much did not survive the great purges that went on. Why go to this effort if others will silence you?<p>Noise is not the enemy of quality. It is not the enemy of value. It&#x27;s a wonderful side effect of free thinking, innovative thinking, of creation, of invention. It&#x27;s messy, it&#x27;s beautiful. I love noise for what it represents. Long live noise.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>grannyg00se</author><text>I really appreciate the sentiment here, but at the same time I don&#x27;t want to see a thread with five hundred comments that say<p><pre><code> This.
</code></pre>
Or whatever trendy catch phrase is floating around the mindspace that month. And this system differs from what you describe in that there will be no set group of moderators. The community itself will decide what it wants to see and encourage the type of contribution it deems valid.</text></comment> |
21,308,528 | 21,308,470 | 1 | 2 | 21,307,888 | train | <story><title>Show HN: Nginx Image with HTTP/3 (QUIC), TLS1.3 with 0-RTT, Brotli</title></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>mnutt</author><text>I&#x27;m just curious, is there a reason not to use a multi-stage docker build here? There are a ton of build steps, and it seems pretty tedious to have to start from scratch every time while developing the image without any layer caching.</text></comment> | <story><title>Show HN: Nginx Image with HTTP/3 (QUIC), TLS1.3 with 0-RTT, Brotli</title></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>ricardbejarano</author><text>You may find my NGINX image[1] interesting.<p>There&#x27;s some features you could easily add to yours in order to make it a better overall image.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;ricardbejarano&#x2F;nginx" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;ricardbejarano&#x2F;nginx</a></text></comment> |
22,385,966 | 22,385,566 | 1 | 2 | 22,382,337 | train | <story><title>Gilbert Strang Teaches Linear Algebra</title><url>https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/mathematics/18-06-linear-algebra-spring-2010/video-lectures/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>randomstring</author><text>I wish I had this when I was learning Linear Algebra. When it was taught to me, both in HS and College, there was not a word of motivation about why we were juggling numbers around in boxes. It was tedious and had seemed to have no connection to anything.<p>I developed a strong dislike for LA, if not outright fear and hatred. This from someone who majored in math at university. I later learned from reading Dr Oakley&#x27;s book, _A Mind For Numbers_, that this is a perfect recipe for not mastering a subject. I was sabotaging my own learning by approaching it from the point of view of something to be despised. It was many years later after reading Oakley&#x27;s book that I challenged myself to learn Linear Algebra.<p>I found the Coursera course Coding the Matrix <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;codingthematrix.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;codingthematrix.com&#x2F;</a> perfect. Not only did Professor Philip Klein explain the subject well, but it was also a programming course in python. Coding the algorithms helped make them that much more concrete. I&#x27;m happy to say I finished the online course with 100% grade.<p>Unfortunately Coding the Matrix is no longer available on Coursera.<p>I know this thread is more about Strang being a teaching god, and he is. I wanted to add something on alternative ways to learn linear algebra.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ofrzeta</author><text>This is a problem I always had in university. Higher math always seemed to start with &quot;the definition of X is Z etc.&quot; and I would never know what&#x27;s the purpose of doing this. When I attended a talk of Gilbert Strang many years later it was eye opening because it was a totally different approach that always accompanied theoretical concepts with a concrete interpretation.<p>Actually I now think it might also be a cultural thing. If you take a look at the approaches the English Wikipedia takes vs. the German Wikipedia take explaining a vector space you&#x27;ll know what I mean:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Vector_space#Introduction_and_definition" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Vector_space#Introduction_and_...</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;de.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Vektorraum#Definition" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;de.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Vektorraum#Definition</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Gilbert Strang Teaches Linear Algebra</title><url>https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/mathematics/18-06-linear-algebra-spring-2010/video-lectures/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>randomstring</author><text>I wish I had this when I was learning Linear Algebra. When it was taught to me, both in HS and College, there was not a word of motivation about why we were juggling numbers around in boxes. It was tedious and had seemed to have no connection to anything.<p>I developed a strong dislike for LA, if not outright fear and hatred. This from someone who majored in math at university. I later learned from reading Dr Oakley&#x27;s book, _A Mind For Numbers_, that this is a perfect recipe for not mastering a subject. I was sabotaging my own learning by approaching it from the point of view of something to be despised. It was many years later after reading Oakley&#x27;s book that I challenged myself to learn Linear Algebra.<p>I found the Coursera course Coding the Matrix <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;codingthematrix.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;codingthematrix.com&#x2F;</a> perfect. Not only did Professor Philip Klein explain the subject well, but it was also a programming course in python. Coding the algorithms helped make them that much more concrete. I&#x27;m happy to say I finished the online course with 100% grade.<p>Unfortunately Coding the Matrix is no longer available on Coursera.<p>I know this thread is more about Strang being a teaching god, and he is. I wanted to add something on alternative ways to learn linear algebra.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>alexhutcheson</author><text>&gt; Unfortunately Coding the Matrix is no longer available on Coursera.<p>The book itself is still for sale, and the website has course slides and auto-grading software for some of the exercises: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;codingthematrix.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;codingthematrix.com&#x2F;</a></text></comment> |
29,271,558 | 29,271,433 | 1 | 3 | 29,270,718 | train | <story><title>Notes on Web3</title><url>https://society.robinsloan.com/archive/notes-on-web3/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>simmanian</author><text>Does anyone know where I can see the latest developments on web 3.0 without most of the tulip mania? It takes so much effort to filter out blog articles and youtube videos on why &lt;insert name&gt; is going to be the next big thing when I just want to see the current state of things.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>clippablematt</author><text>If you want a programmer&#x2F;documentation approach then GitHub and developer forums are where you will get the best shill free discussion, read the eips&#x2F;ercs on github and the eth cat herders forum.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;eips.ethereum.org&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;eips.ethereum.org&#x2F;</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;ethereumcatherders.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;ethereumcatherders.com&#x2F;</a><p>Play with the tools like <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;eth-brownie.readthedocs.io&#x2F;en&#x2F;stable&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;eth-brownie.readthedocs.io&#x2F;en&#x2F;stable&#x2F;</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;hardhat.org&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;hardhat.org&#x2F;</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cairo-lang.org&#x2F;docs&#x2F;hello_starknet&#x2F;index.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cairo-lang.org&#x2F;docs&#x2F;hello_starknet&#x2F;index.html</a><p>Note these are eth focused, but there is overlap with zcash&#x2F;cosmos&#x2F;polkadot and the many evm chains that now exist.<p>I’d also recommend:
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gov.yearn.finance&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gov.yearn.finance&#x2F;</a>
and <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;forum.makerdao.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;forum.makerdao.com&#x2F;</a> for insight into how protocols are managed.</text></comment> | <story><title>Notes on Web3</title><url>https://society.robinsloan.com/archive/notes-on-web3/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>simmanian</author><text>Does anyone know where I can see the latest developments on web 3.0 without most of the tulip mania? It takes so much effort to filter out blog articles and youtube videos on why &lt;insert name&gt; is going to be the next big thing when I just want to see the current state of things.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>sali0</author><text>Twitter is very good for this, but you must follow the builders. Wholly agreed, there is too much trash if you just search for crypto. I&#x27;d recommend finding the founders and devs of a crypto organization or protocol you find interesting and follow along.<p>Some high signal ones are @Bantg from Yearn Finance, @gakonst from Paradigm, @epolynya for Modular Blockchain info, @iamDCinvestor for macro view and NFTs.<p>You can find a lot more good ones by seeing these individuals replies. And if you like, you can follow me as well @_nd_go, I try to keep my feed fairly high signal</text></comment> |
15,953,976 | 15,953,693 | 1 | 2 | 15,953,269 | train | <story><title>Kubernetes 1.9: Apps Workloads GA and Expanded Ecosystem</title><url>http://blog.kubernetes.io/2017/12/kubernetes-19-workloads-expanded-ecosystem.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>linsomniac</author><text>I really wanted to like Kubernetes, but I couldn&#x27;t figure it out. I&#x27;m a pretty experienced Linux admin, and despite days of reading all the sources of documentation I could find I couldn&#x27;t get the networking setup to where I thought it should be.<p>I don&#x27;t know if that was a problem of my mental model being wrong and the documentation not educating me on the correct model, or the documentation of the CNI, Flannel&#x2F;whatever just being too sparse, or what.<p>I started with the Google Ubuntu packages, and was able to get containers up fairly quickly, but being able to access them from anything other than the host machine I just couldn&#x27;t figure out. Asking for help on IRC wasn&#x27;t useful (aside: what&#x27;s the deal with IRC channels with tons of users but no messages for days?)<p>I&#x27;ve since wiped that cluster and tried the Ubuntu Kubernetes installation using conjure-up, it seems like it did the right thing but I&#x27;m not sure yet how to get to a cluster from a single machine.<p>Trying to decide if I pursue Kubernetes more, try Dokku&#x2F;Flynn&#x2F;Deis (which I just saw referenced in a previous HN discussion) because they look really promising...<p>I had hoped it would be the ganeti of containerization, but I had far fewer problems with ganeti.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nickstinemates</author><text>You should take a look at Rancher[1]. I think it has the right mix of raw access to Kubernetes and associated tools, but also addresses some of the requirements you have.<p>1: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;rancher.com" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;rancher.com</a><p>Disclaimer: I&#x27;ve been working in the container ecosystem for a number of years, currently at Rancher.</text></comment> | <story><title>Kubernetes 1.9: Apps Workloads GA and Expanded Ecosystem</title><url>http://blog.kubernetes.io/2017/12/kubernetes-19-workloads-expanded-ecosystem.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>linsomniac</author><text>I really wanted to like Kubernetes, but I couldn&#x27;t figure it out. I&#x27;m a pretty experienced Linux admin, and despite days of reading all the sources of documentation I could find I couldn&#x27;t get the networking setup to where I thought it should be.<p>I don&#x27;t know if that was a problem of my mental model being wrong and the documentation not educating me on the correct model, or the documentation of the CNI, Flannel&#x2F;whatever just being too sparse, or what.<p>I started with the Google Ubuntu packages, and was able to get containers up fairly quickly, but being able to access them from anything other than the host machine I just couldn&#x27;t figure out. Asking for help on IRC wasn&#x27;t useful (aside: what&#x27;s the deal with IRC channels with tons of users but no messages for days?)<p>I&#x27;ve since wiped that cluster and tried the Ubuntu Kubernetes installation using conjure-up, it seems like it did the right thing but I&#x27;m not sure yet how to get to a cluster from a single machine.<p>Trying to decide if I pursue Kubernetes more, try Dokku&#x2F;Flynn&#x2F;Deis (which I just saw referenced in a previous HN discussion) because they look really promising...<p>I had hoped it would be the ganeti of containerization, but I had far fewer problems with ganeti.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>slap_shot</author><text>FWIW, if you create a GKE cluster and create an nginx deployment:<p>kubectl apply -f <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;k8s.io&#x2F;docs&#x2F;tasks&#x2F;run-application&#x2F;deployment.yaml" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;k8s.io&#x2F;docs&#x2F;tasks&#x2F;run-application&#x2F;deployment.yaml</a><p>And simply create a Load Balancer:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;kubernetes.io&#x2F;docs&#x2F;tasks&#x2F;access-application-cluster&#x2F;create-external-load-balancer&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;kubernetes.io&#x2F;docs&#x2F;tasks&#x2F;access-application-cluster&#x2F;...</a><p>You have nginx exposed via an external IP address in about two minutes. Once you&#x27;re comfortable with that, you can start working in Ingress and such to get more sophisticated.<p>I agree the IRC&#x2F;Slack channel communication isn&#x27;t the best. I prefer the Kubernetes User Group. You can usually get a great response in less than a day. I&#x27;ve used it a lot.</text></comment> |
27,307,662 | 27,307,342 | 1 | 2 | 27,306,263 | train | <story><title>JsonLogic</title><url>https://jsonlogic.com/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>whalesalad</author><text>Ultimately it’s all data. The difference between this and lisp is just a bunch of extra characters and noise in the stream.<p>What is really the meaningful difference between this and an s-expression language? “” and {}, really. It’s a different way to serialize the same thing.<p>So I’d argue a lot of the criticism is valid.<p>We do, as an industry, tend to run in circles.</text></item><item><author>joshlemer</author><text>A lot of shallow, smug snark coming into the comments section from people who know what s-expressions are and I guess want to brag about that for some reason. S expressions are cool but that&#x27;s just _a syntax_, there are other possible syntaxes for expressions, and it&#x27;s perfectly fine that somebody chooses to embed a language in JSON rather than s-expressions. Everyone suggesting to use Scheme or Clojure or Common Lisp and dropping the meme-quote that everyone eventually reimplements Lisp are missing the fact that this language is designed to be evaluated deterministically, so it does not support looping or functions and is Turing-Incomplete, unlike Clojure&#x2F;Scheme&#x2F;CommonLisp.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>brundolf</author><text>The difference is the collection of extremely powerful parsers, tooling, language support, etc that already exist for this syntax. There&#x27;s a proper Content-Type header, blazing-fast native parsing in web apps, you could store it directly in MongoDB or the like without an extra serialization&#x2F;parse step, you could query it with jq. Heck, you could statically-check these expressions using TypeScript.<p>Lispers are always pointing out how the parenthesis-and-whitespace notation is just incidental; how s-expressions are really something deeper that isn&#x27;t bound to a specific syntax, and how this is a strength. The OP is a <i>demonstration</i> of that strength.</text></comment> | <story><title>JsonLogic</title><url>https://jsonlogic.com/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>whalesalad</author><text>Ultimately it’s all data. The difference between this and lisp is just a bunch of extra characters and noise in the stream.<p>What is really the meaningful difference between this and an s-expression language? “” and {}, really. It’s a different way to serialize the same thing.<p>So I’d argue a lot of the criticism is valid.<p>We do, as an industry, tend to run in circles.</text></item><item><author>joshlemer</author><text>A lot of shallow, smug snark coming into the comments section from people who know what s-expressions are and I guess want to brag about that for some reason. S expressions are cool but that&#x27;s just _a syntax_, there are other possible syntaxes for expressions, and it&#x27;s perfectly fine that somebody chooses to embed a language in JSON rather than s-expressions. Everyone suggesting to use Scheme or Clojure or Common Lisp and dropping the meme-quote that everyone eventually reimplements Lisp are missing the fact that this language is designed to be evaluated deterministically, so it does not support looping or functions and is Turing-Incomplete, unlike Clojure&#x2F;Scheme&#x2F;CommonLisp.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>athrowaway3z</author><text>I remember years ago when i first came to hackernews there was a project very similar to this. An engineer blog proud of the AST they encoded as JSON.<p>I had only a vague idea of what an AST was, but the highest upvoted comment was clearly saying: This is dumb, we have dedicated formats for turning text into ASTs. ( i.e. a programming language ).<p>In the past decade+? i have learned what an AST is and have now twice, in a professional setting, prevented an engineer from re-inventing this very concept.<p>If i had to choose if hackernews is a place where smug snark comments crack down on re-inventing known concepts or a happy place where every idea is a good one i will choose the former.<p>And once every blue moon we get to laugh and look back at snarky comments such as this: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=9224" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=9224</a></text></comment> |
22,538,749 | 22,538,927 | 1 | 2 | 22,537,850 | train | <story><title>Covid-19 update and guidance to limit spread</title><url>https://www.flattenthecurve.com/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>khawkins</author><text>&gt; Zero universal guaranteed paid sick leave<p>This is a false statement. There are 12 states which require paid sick leave, amounting to 30% of the population [1]. Federal employees are guaranteed paid sick leave days [2]. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, 61% of workers have paid sick leave, 78% have paid vacations, (80%&#x2F;90% in large employers with 500 or more workers) [3].<p>That whole section is just political garbage. There&#x27;s plenty of reasons to believe that businesses will take precautions themselves to limit the spread of the virus internally, which includes offering paid sick leave to encourage people to be extra careful.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ncsl.org&#x2F;research&#x2F;labor-and-employment&#x2F;paid-sick-leave.aspx" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ncsl.org&#x2F;research&#x2F;labor-and-employment&#x2F;paid-sick...</a>
[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.opm.gov&#x2F;policy-data-oversight&#x2F;pay-leave&#x2F;leave-administration&#x2F;fact-sheets&#x2F;sick-leave-general-information&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.opm.gov&#x2F;policy-data-oversight&#x2F;pay-leave&#x2F;leave-ad...</a>
[3] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bls.gov&#x2F;ncs&#x2F;ebs&#x2F;benefits&#x2F;2009&#x2F;ownership&#x2F;private&#x2F;table21a.pdf" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bls.gov&#x2F;ncs&#x2F;ebs&#x2F;benefits&#x2F;2009&#x2F;ownership&#x2F;private&#x2F;...</a></text></item><item><author>Fnoord</author><text>&gt; Relative to Other Countries, US Labor and Healthcare Policies are a Perfect Storm for Pandemics<p>&gt; Zero universal guaranteed paid sick leave [1]<p>The United States of America in the same list as India, North Korea, South Korea, Somalia, Angola, Liberia, and Guinea-Bissau. Some of these countries are poor or low income. The USA isn&#x27;t one of them though. I&#x27;d be ashamed of my country.<p>In The Netherlands, an entire [large] province (North Brabant) has been ordered to stay home if they have anything resembling illness. People are asked to work from home. Children can&#x27;t go to school. Still, working from home is better than nothing.<p>Also, some people are in quarantine. The people who have COVID-19 but otherwise don&#x27;t have it severe can stay home, in quarantine, instead of in the hospital.<p>One thing I wish I knew way earlier is that COVID-19 victims rarely suffer from a runny nose. I recently got it from Our World In Data [2], it was linked here on HN. I did not read about this in our local media, sadly.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.worldpolicycenter.org&#x2F;policies&#x2F;for-how-long-are-workers-guaranteed-paid-sick-leave" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.worldpolicycenter.org&#x2F;policies&#x2F;for-how-long-are-...</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;ourworldindata.org&#x2F;uploads&#x2F;2020&#x2F;03&#x2F;Coronavirus-Symptoms-%E2%80%93-WHO-joint-mission-1.png" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;ourworldindata.org&#x2F;uploads&#x2F;2020&#x2F;03&#x2F;Coronavirus-Sympt...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>wpietri</author><text>It is a literally true statement. Universal means covering everybody. That some slices of the population have it in no way contradicts that. Indeed, most of your numbers prove that sick leave in the US is <i>not</i> universal.</text></comment> | <story><title>Covid-19 update and guidance to limit spread</title><url>https://www.flattenthecurve.com/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>khawkins</author><text>&gt; Zero universal guaranteed paid sick leave<p>This is a false statement. There are 12 states which require paid sick leave, amounting to 30% of the population [1]. Federal employees are guaranteed paid sick leave days [2]. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, 61% of workers have paid sick leave, 78% have paid vacations, (80%&#x2F;90% in large employers with 500 or more workers) [3].<p>That whole section is just political garbage. There&#x27;s plenty of reasons to believe that businesses will take precautions themselves to limit the spread of the virus internally, which includes offering paid sick leave to encourage people to be extra careful.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ncsl.org&#x2F;research&#x2F;labor-and-employment&#x2F;paid-sick-leave.aspx" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ncsl.org&#x2F;research&#x2F;labor-and-employment&#x2F;paid-sick...</a>
[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.opm.gov&#x2F;policy-data-oversight&#x2F;pay-leave&#x2F;leave-administration&#x2F;fact-sheets&#x2F;sick-leave-general-information&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.opm.gov&#x2F;policy-data-oversight&#x2F;pay-leave&#x2F;leave-ad...</a>
[3] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bls.gov&#x2F;ncs&#x2F;ebs&#x2F;benefits&#x2F;2009&#x2F;ownership&#x2F;private&#x2F;table21a.pdf" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bls.gov&#x2F;ncs&#x2F;ebs&#x2F;benefits&#x2F;2009&#x2F;ownership&#x2F;private&#x2F;...</a></text></item><item><author>Fnoord</author><text>&gt; Relative to Other Countries, US Labor and Healthcare Policies are a Perfect Storm for Pandemics<p>&gt; Zero universal guaranteed paid sick leave [1]<p>The United States of America in the same list as India, North Korea, South Korea, Somalia, Angola, Liberia, and Guinea-Bissau. Some of these countries are poor or low income. The USA isn&#x27;t one of them though. I&#x27;d be ashamed of my country.<p>In The Netherlands, an entire [large] province (North Brabant) has been ordered to stay home if they have anything resembling illness. People are asked to work from home. Children can&#x27;t go to school. Still, working from home is better than nothing.<p>Also, some people are in quarantine. The people who have COVID-19 but otherwise don&#x27;t have it severe can stay home, in quarantine, instead of in the hospital.<p>One thing I wish I knew way earlier is that COVID-19 victims rarely suffer from a runny nose. I recently got it from Our World In Data [2], it was linked here on HN. I did not read about this in our local media, sadly.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.worldpolicycenter.org&#x2F;policies&#x2F;for-how-long-are-workers-guaranteed-paid-sick-leave" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.worldpolicycenter.org&#x2F;policies&#x2F;for-how-long-are-...</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;ourworldindata.org&#x2F;uploads&#x2F;2020&#x2F;03&#x2F;Coronavirus-Symptoms-%E2%80%93-WHO-joint-mission-1.png" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;ourworldindata.org&#x2F;uploads&#x2F;2020&#x2F;03&#x2F;Coronavirus-Sympt...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>wickedwiesel</author><text>If I may nitpick your response: the data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics is from 2009. 2018 data suggests 71% of workers receive paid sick leave. [1]<p>BUT, the data is highly skewed if you look at income. [also 1] The worst paid workers also have much less paid sick leave. Only 45% of the lowest 25% income group do. According to the BLS there were 130 million workers in 2019, thus leaving roughly 15 million people (130 x 0.25 x 0.45) without paid sick leave and likely without the financial means to go on unpaid sick leave or get medical help (like testing).<p>Also, the average paid sick leave varies between 6-10 (working) days. Suggested quarantine is 14 days. [2] Only 3% of workers have sick days &quot;as needed&quot;. [3] This supports the argument that these circumstances make matters worse. I tend to agree to the general argument.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bls.gov&#x2F;opub&#x2F;ted&#x2F;2018&#x2F;higher-wage-workers-more-likely-than-lower-wage-workers-to-have-paid-leave-benefits-in-2018.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bls.gov&#x2F;opub&#x2F;ted&#x2F;2018&#x2F;higher-wage-workers-more-l...</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bls.gov&#x2F;opub&#x2F;ted&#x2F;2019&#x2F;private-industry-workers-with-sick-leave-benefits-received-8-days-per-year-at-20-years-of-service.htm" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bls.gov&#x2F;opub&#x2F;ted&#x2F;2019&#x2F;private-industry-workers-w...</a><p>[3] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bls.gov&#x2F;ncs&#x2F;ebs&#x2F;benefits&#x2F;2019&#x2F;ownership&#x2F;civilian&#x2F;table33a.pdf" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bls.gov&#x2F;ncs&#x2F;ebs&#x2F;benefits&#x2F;2019&#x2F;ownership&#x2F;civilian...</a></text></comment> |
1,214,649 | 1,214,541 | 1 | 3 | 1,214,420 | train | <story><title>Digg: 40x Performance Increase by Sorting in PHP Rather than MySQL</title><url>http://highscalability.com/blog/2010/3/23/digg-4000-performance-increase-by-sorting-in-php-rather-than.html</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>petercooper</author><text>On Feed Digest (a RSS feed processor I sold a few years back but was doing ~300m "digests" per month) I had a similar experience, so I think I know why and what they were doing here..<p>The problem was that even though I denormalized my "posts" (from RSS feeds) table into a "post contents" and a "post metadata" table, MySQL wants to create a "temporary table" to do sorting and pulls every relevant row into it (I found this was even true with indexed columns at the time - I hope they improved it). This can lead to heavy disk access if the number of rows needing to be sorted is too high (consider 100,000 rows of 150 bytes each.. 15 megabytes, not good for a server under heavy load that needs to return a query in &#60; 0.2 seconds).<p>My solution was to pull out ONLY the post IDs and date (or whatever column I wanted to sort by) from MySQL, do the sort in memory, then pull out the posts from the database by already ordered IDs (e.g. SELECT * FROM x WHERE id IN(9,4,22,38,4,..)). MySQL is crazy fast at giving you back rows X, Y, Z, and so on, if you specify them directly.<p>I ended up with many more <i>fast</i> queries rather than fewer deathly slow queries, and that was a great tradeoff in the end. I believe the system still runs that way under its new owner.</text></comment> | <story><title>Digg: 40x Performance Increase by Sorting in PHP Rather than MySQL</title><url>http://highscalability.com/blog/2010/3/23/digg-4000-performance-increase-by-sorting-in-php-rather-than.html</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>brutimus</author><text>This quote rubs me the wrong way a little...<p>"The relational database tool chain is not evolving. It has failed for large scale, real-time environments."<p>I've been a big user of Postgres for going on five years now and it has made giant leaps in both features and performance. You can't blindly say relational tools are done evolving. I know the other players have made a lot of progress lately too (Oracle, MySQL, etc).</text></comment> |
3,290,445 | 3,290,400 | 1 | 2 | 3,289,750 | train | <story><title>I regularly hire women for 65% to 75% of what males make</title><url>http://www.reddit.com/r/TwoXChromosomes/comments/hvv2m/i_work_for_a_large_multinational_tech_company_i/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>desigooner</author><text>HR's job is to hire someone at the very least amount possible. They have a range to go by with and at quite a few companies, the difference between upper salary limit of the position that was budgeted and the salary that the hire was made either goes into a pool that is split between the HR recruiters at the end of the year or they get a certain %age of the amount as bonus.<p>Always do your research on similar positions at the same company or different companies through a site like glassdoor.com before even negotiating. You should not be going in blind. Also do research on how much people are making at a role that is similar to yours in terms of work / title / experience. Remember that if there are 2 same positions at a company or even in a department or a team, difference between their salaries could be big.<p>If you're asked to divulge salary history, don't tip your hand. I've made this mistake a couple of times and I have regretted it / having had to settle for a lower salary. If insist on you giving them a number, quote a number that's 10-15% higher than your annual salary (Have to be careful of the company not finding out your current salary through some other means).<p>Always tell them about the value you bring to their organization and your experience and that you deserve this much $ amount because of how much the future company will benefit from your skills. Talk about positive recommendations &#38; performance reviews, performance bonuses, awards &#38; accolades you've earned at your current/ past jobs or at school. Do not bring in a comparative number (this company is offering me this much) unless you really need to as it sort of casts a negative impression about you being all about money. Potray how highly you're interested in the position but you feel that the offer is on a conservative side as far as the market rate goes.<p>If they cannot offer a higher $$$ figure, and you really like the profile, you can negotiate better benefits like full health coverage vs. partial, higher # of vacation days (some companies allow you to cash out some vacation days at the end of the year), commuter benefits, etc.<p>Just be confident and do not hesitate to ask for more (as long as it's realistic and comparable to the going rate). Also, rehearse the negotiation with a friend or just simulate the conversation in your mind before you actually do the talking with the hiring manager.<p>Disclaimer; Some of this might not be right. Please feel free to correct any erroneous statements I've made. :)</text></item><item><author>c4urself</author><text>Crap, i didn't know you could choose _not_ to divulge salary history! I'm horrible at salary negotiations, any links/advice for getting a better salary deal?</text></item><item><author>patio11</author><text>Having been a male engineer for a couple of years now, it is very disquieting to learn that there is any population of people anywhere who are getting ROFLstomped by male engineers in negotiating savvy. A potted plant could handle a salary negotiation better than many people (myself included at one point) -- at least the potted plant wouldn't divulge a salary history when asked.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>reuven</author><text>Wow, it never occurred to me that HR staffers might get a bonus for hiring people at a low salary. I would have hoped (naively, it would seem) that they would get a bonus for hiring really great people that help the company to do better things.<p>This sort of reward structure strikes me as focused on short-term benefits, without regard to the long-term strength of the company. It's very sad to hear (and shows just how out of things I am, having been my own boss for 16 years).</text></comment> | <story><title>I regularly hire women for 65% to 75% of what males make</title><url>http://www.reddit.com/r/TwoXChromosomes/comments/hvv2m/i_work_for_a_large_multinational_tech_company_i/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>desigooner</author><text>HR's job is to hire someone at the very least amount possible. They have a range to go by with and at quite a few companies, the difference between upper salary limit of the position that was budgeted and the salary that the hire was made either goes into a pool that is split between the HR recruiters at the end of the year or they get a certain %age of the amount as bonus.<p>Always do your research on similar positions at the same company or different companies through a site like glassdoor.com before even negotiating. You should not be going in blind. Also do research on how much people are making at a role that is similar to yours in terms of work / title / experience. Remember that if there are 2 same positions at a company or even in a department or a team, difference between their salaries could be big.<p>If you're asked to divulge salary history, don't tip your hand. I've made this mistake a couple of times and I have regretted it / having had to settle for a lower salary. If insist on you giving them a number, quote a number that's 10-15% higher than your annual salary (Have to be careful of the company not finding out your current salary through some other means).<p>Always tell them about the value you bring to their organization and your experience and that you deserve this much $ amount because of how much the future company will benefit from your skills. Talk about positive recommendations &#38; performance reviews, performance bonuses, awards &#38; accolades you've earned at your current/ past jobs or at school. Do not bring in a comparative number (this company is offering me this much) unless you really need to as it sort of casts a negative impression about you being all about money. Potray how highly you're interested in the position but you feel that the offer is on a conservative side as far as the market rate goes.<p>If they cannot offer a higher $$$ figure, and you really like the profile, you can negotiate better benefits like full health coverage vs. partial, higher # of vacation days (some companies allow you to cash out some vacation days at the end of the year), commuter benefits, etc.<p>Just be confident and do not hesitate to ask for more (as long as it's realistic and comparable to the going rate). Also, rehearse the negotiation with a friend or just simulate the conversation in your mind before you actually do the talking with the hiring manager.<p>Disclaimer; Some of this might not be right. Please feel free to correct any erroneous statements I've made. :)</text></item><item><author>c4urself</author><text>Crap, i didn't know you could choose _not_ to divulge salary history! I'm horrible at salary negotiations, any links/advice for getting a better salary deal?</text></item><item><author>patio11</author><text>Having been a male engineer for a couple of years now, it is very disquieting to learn that there is any population of people anywhere who are getting ROFLstomped by male engineers in negotiating savvy. A potted plant could handle a salary negotiation better than many people (myself included at one point) -- at least the potted plant wouldn't divulge a salary history when asked.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>blankenship</author><text><i>HR's job is to hire someone at the very least amount possible.</i><p>Is it?<p>HR strategy should maximize ROI and minimize financial risk regarding your team, but that doesn't necessary mean hiring someone for the least amount possible. Getting the best ROI and minimizing risk sometimes means recruiting the best possible employees and paying them exceptionally well to retain their services and keep them around.</text></comment> |
16,292,637 | 16,292,498 | 1 | 2 | 16,292,224 | train | <story><title>Google’s Fuchsia OS on the Pixelbook</title><url>https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2018/01/googles-fuchsia-os-on-the-pixelbook-it-works-it-actually-works/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>drewvolpe</author><text>The code is available here:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;fuchsia.googlesource.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;fuchsia.googlesource.com&#x2F;</a><p>Key components:<p>## Zircon<p>Zircon is the operating system&#x27;s foundation: it mediates hardware access, implements essential software abstractions over shared resources, and provides a platform for low-level software development.<p>For example, Zircon contains the kernel, device manager, most core and first-party device drivers, and low-level system libraries, such as libc and launchpad. Zircon also defines the Fuchsia IDL (FIDL), which is the protocol spoken between processes in the system, as well as backends for C and C++. The backends for other languages will be added by other layers.<p>## Garnet<p>Garnet provides device-level system services for software installation, administration, communication with remote systems, and product deployment.<p>For example, Garnet contains the network, media, and graphics services. Garnet also contains the package management and update system.<p>## Peridot<p>Peridot presents a cohesive, customizable, multi-device user experience assembled from modules, stories, agents, entities, and other components.<p>For example, Peridot contains the device, user, and story runners. Peridot also contains the ledger and resolver, as well as the context and suggestion engines.<p>## Topaz<p>Topaz augments system functionality by implementing interfaces defined by underlying layers. Topaz contains four major categories of software: modules, agents, shells, and runtimes.<p>For example, modules include the calendar, email, and terminal modules, shells include the base shell and the user shell, agents include the email and chat content providers, and runtimes include the Dart andFlutter runtimes.</text></comment> | <story><title>Google’s Fuchsia OS on the Pixelbook</title><url>https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2018/01/googles-fuchsia-os-on-the-pixelbook-it-works-it-actually-works/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Jesus_Jones</author><text>There&#x27;s no point to these early Fuschia review attempts. I don&#x27;t see how it demonstrates anything. It&#x27;s like looking at the famous first email from Linus Torvald and figuring out what the os would be in the end. So it boots, it has windows, but not apps, and prints some things to the screen. It tells us nothing about real intentions, future capabilities, etc.</text></comment> |
5,431,646 | 5,431,500 | 1 | 3 | 5,431,409 | train | <story><title>Too Perfect a Mirror</title><url>http://jefferai.org/2013/03/24/too-perfect-a-mirror/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Confusion</author><text>The number of commenters that think the KDE sysadmins were stupid enough to not know that "raid isn't a backup strategy" is depressing. You either didn't read the article or you haven't understood it.<p>Git repositories contain redundant information to perform consistency checks. If a bit flips in one of your repos, <i>git fsck</i> will immediately catch it. The KDE sysadmins thought these consistency checks were triggered when keeping a repository clone in sync and thus any FS level corruption would be caught at the first subsequent attempt to sync.<p>If you think "Gee, if I know this, surely they do?!" then perhaps the answer is: "They probably do and this issue is more subtle than you initially thought. Reread carefully before implying how dumb others were."</text></comment> | <story><title>Too Perfect a Mirror</title><url>http://jefferai.org/2013/03/24/too-perfect-a-mirror/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>kurlberg</author><text>&#62;The root of both bugs was a design flaw: the decision that &#62;git.kde.org was always to be considered the trusted, &#62;canonical source.<p>It seems that an even bigger design flaw is that they (still) aren't doing regular backups. The mirroring of course provides some redundancy, similar to what raid does, but as they say: "raid is not a backup solution".</text></comment> |
14,397,882 | 14,396,546 | 1 | 2 | 14,393,501 | train | <story><title>HTTPS on Stack Overflow: The End of a Long Road</title><url>https://nickcraver.com/blog/2017/05/22/https-on-stack-overflow/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>y4mi</author><text>Some people don&#x27;t spy on their customers and don&#x27;t have these kinds of information available for analyses<p>They&#x27;re admittedly few though and their moral high ground is debatable considering that there are self hosted FOSS alternatives around nowadays</text></item><item><author>mattmanser</author><text>I know it&#x27;s hindsight and all that, but why didn&#x27;t you check your website analytics first? Seems a fairly massive assumption that should have taken 10 seconds to check.</text></item><item><author>mrunkel</author><text>At $previous_job we once turned on HTTPS for our entire customer website and online store, only to have our customer support team be bombarded by phone calls claiming that our &quot;website was down.&quot;<p>After much teeth gnashing and research, we determined that a large segment of our user base was still using WinXP and the encryption protocols we offered weren&#x27;t available to them.<p>We didn&#x27;t think this would be a problem because the current version of the software wasn&#x27;t compatible with WinXP any longer.<p>There was some debate internally whether the better fix was to including the legacy encryption protocols or just leave the HTTP version of the site running and use Strict-Transport-Security to move capable browsers to HTTPS.<p>In the end we had to include the legacy protocols so those customers could use our online store.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>beefsack</author><text>I completely understand where you&#x27;re coming from, but the User-Agent string is included in regular HTTP requests and you don&#x27;t need to resort to overbearing client-side analytics to aggregate it; it&#x27;s right there in the access logs on the server.</text></comment> | <story><title>HTTPS on Stack Overflow: The End of a Long Road</title><url>https://nickcraver.com/blog/2017/05/22/https-on-stack-overflow/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>y4mi</author><text>Some people don&#x27;t spy on their customers and don&#x27;t have these kinds of information available for analyses<p>They&#x27;re admittedly few though and their moral high ground is debatable considering that there are self hosted FOSS alternatives around nowadays</text></item><item><author>mattmanser</author><text>I know it&#x27;s hindsight and all that, but why didn&#x27;t you check your website analytics first? Seems a fairly massive assumption that should have taken 10 seconds to check.</text></item><item><author>mrunkel</author><text>At $previous_job we once turned on HTTPS for our entire customer website and online store, only to have our customer support team be bombarded by phone calls claiming that our &quot;website was down.&quot;<p>After much teeth gnashing and research, we determined that a large segment of our user base was still using WinXP and the encryption protocols we offered weren&#x27;t available to them.<p>We didn&#x27;t think this would be a problem because the current version of the software wasn&#x27;t compatible with WinXP any longer.<p>There was some debate internally whether the better fix was to including the legacy encryption protocols or just leave the HTTP version of the site running and use Strict-Transport-Security to move capable browsers to HTTPS.<p>In the end we had to include the legacy protocols so those customers could use our online store.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>HalfwayToDice</author><text>Calling aggregate anonymous analytics &quot;spying on your customers&quot; is absurd nonsense.</text></comment> |
7,295,483 | 7,295,417 | 1 | 2 | 7,295,190 | train | <story><title>MtGox.com is offline</title><url>https://www.mtgox.com/?dead</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>guelo</author><text>Pretty good Ponzi. Not as impressive as Bernie Maddof&#x27;s, but extra points for the tech angle.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jmomo</author><text>I am not aware of any indication that this was a ponzi scheme. Saying that it was, without evidence, is misinformation.<p>The loss of coins was unintentional on the behalf of MtGox. It may have been stupid that basic abc123 auditing would have probably revealed that there was a problem months&#x2F;years ago, but evil has not been shown at this point in time.</text></comment> | <story><title>MtGox.com is offline</title><url>https://www.mtgox.com/?dead</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>guelo</author><text>Pretty good Ponzi. Not as impressive as Bernie Maddof&#x27;s, but extra points for the tech angle.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>colinbartlett</author><text>I would say quite a bit more impressive as Madoff did the same thing that&#x27;s been done hundreds of times before: take money and promise huge returns.<p>Here we have a company that took money and let the &quot;investors&quot; fight it out amongst themselves.</text></comment> |
15,554,199 | 15,553,811 | 1 | 3 | 15,552,574 | train | <story><title>The fight over preserving public land takes a twist in Montana’s mountains</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2017-10-25/this-land-is-no-longer-your-land</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jandrewrogers</author><text>This is a complicated topic. I used to own the lower part of a mountain valley (out west but not in Montana). There were two dirt &quot;roads&quot; into the valley, both immediately against the titled property; the rest of the valley was Federal (BLM) land encircled by mountains that were effectively impassable. Americans generally have a right to use and temporarily occupy these Federal lands without permission, so if I put up a gate&#x2F;sign it would effectively be like owning the entire valley.<p>There are three big issues when you own land like this that people overlook, both of which can be described as &quot;tragedy of a pseudo-commons&quot;:<p>- The Federal government likes to use these roads across private and public land but not only doesn&#x27;t do maintenance but enforces a stack of regulations that actively prohibits others from doing repairs to damage caused by their traffic. Filling in a pothole requires environmental impact studies, archaeological assessments, thousands of dollars in fees, etc. The nice dirt roads you find up in ranch country in Federal wilderness areas <i>are often maintained illegally by locals</i> because the government won&#x27;t do it and the cost of doing it legally is completely unjustifiable. For some people, it is easier to just disallow road access.<p>- Most ranchers do not own the mineral rights of the land, and mineral rights come with privileges that allow mineral exploration companies to abuse your land for the purpose of mineral extraction with little recourse. An effective strategy to prevent this is to actively prohibit the mineral exploration companies from trespassing to establish that there is mineral worth extracting. I&#x27;ve dealt with this twice. Among other things, it requires aggressive enforcement of a &quot;no trespassing&quot; policy that mineral companies will try to ignore or subvert.<p>- People thinking that the private land is Federal and acting under those assumptions, including vandalizing, stealing from, and generally trashing things as Federal agencies do very little to police this. Unfortunately, this is a really common problem in wilderness areas. They tend to avoid areas that look like they are actively managed lest a rancher show up -- well-maintained signs and gates are a good proxy.<p>How this plays out in practice when these issues become a big enough problem that the ranchers start putting up signs and gates everywhere, with the common understanding that these are not for the locals.<p>After years dealing with the above issues, we eventually did like everyone else and prohibited use of the roads (except for locals of course). I would say it was only marginally effective but it was better than the previous situation.</text></comment> | <story><title>The fight over preserving public land takes a twist in Montana’s mountains</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2017-10-25/this-land-is-no-longer-your-land</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>njarboe</author><text>As a research geologist, working in the western US has generally been great because of so much easy access to a large amount of public land. But, over the last 5 years or so, I have noticed more ranchers gating off roads going through their land. This is especially annoying when they have a small in-holding in a national forest or BLM land and the road that has been used for over 100 years is now blocked. Most times there is a new (closed, but not locked(that would be illegal)) gate and a big sign that says no trespassing.<p>One can legally open the gate and use the road and it won&#x27;t be trespassing, but most people won&#x27;t know this. Even if you think you are in the right in going onto someones land, confronting an armed rancher is something most people will not risk doing. I generally don&#x27;t. It would be nice if there were signs that made it clear that it is legal to pass through such gates, but I imagine they would be removed by the ranchers immediately. I&#x27;m glad at least some forest service employees are pushing back on this practice.</text></comment> |
16,419,687 | 16,419,361 | 1 | 2 | 16,419,181 | train | <story><title>Overview and Introduction to Lisp (1986) [video]</title><url>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XYKRVNQ_MqE</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>mattkellyshow</author><text>A really moving and inspirational quote from the opening of SICP:<p>&quot;A computational process is indeed much like a sorcerer&#x27;s idea of a spirit. It cannot be seen or touched. It is not composed of matter at all. However, it is very real. It can perform intellectual work. It can answer questions. It can affect the world by disbursing money at a bank or by controlling a robot arm in a factory. The programs we use to conjure processes are like a sorcerer&#x27;s spells. They are carefully composed from symbolic expressions in arcane and esoteric programming languages that prescribe the tasks we want our processes to perform.&quot;</text></comment> | <story><title>Overview and Introduction to Lisp (1986) [video]</title><url>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XYKRVNQ_MqE</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>cup-of-tea</author><text>This series is brilliant. Why don&#x27;t they teach computer science this way any more? I was so disappointed to learn that MIT switched from Scheme to Python in Programming 101.</text></comment> |
23,215,467 | 23,213,120 | 1 | 3 | 23,211,303 | train | <story><title>Whale fall</title><url>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whale_fall</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>benwerner01</author><text>Biologists reacting to a Whale Fall discovery: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=CZzQhiNQXxU" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=CZzQhiNQXxU</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>baxtr</author><text>Odly, this reminded me of the classic honey badger video...<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;4r7wHMg5Yjg" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;4r7wHMg5Yjg</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Whale fall</title><url>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whale_fall</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>benwerner01</author><text>Biologists reacting to a Whale Fall discovery: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=CZzQhiNQXxU" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=CZzQhiNQXxU</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>zomglings</author><text>Was fascinated by the bone eating worms and their symbiotic relationship with the bacteria that digest the fats and oils from bone.<p>Osedax: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Osedax" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Osedax</a><p>Thanks for the video!</text></comment> |
19,029,382 | 19,029,543 | 1 | 3 | 19,028,899 | train | <story><title>Maze Design (2005)</title><url>http://www.cgl.uwaterloo.ca/csk/projects/mazes/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>xamuel</author><text>People who like this should also check out Robert Bosch&#x27;s &quot;TSP Art&quot; (TSP stands for Travelling Salesman Problem). While this submission focuses on mazes, Bosch focuses on non-intersecting paths. The two problems are clearly dual, since a maze&#x27;s solution is a non-intersecting path, and conversely every non-intersecting path is the solution to a corresponding maze.<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www2.oberlin.edu&#x2F;math&#x2F;faculty&#x2F;bosch&#x2F;tspart-page.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www2.oberlin.edu&#x2F;math&#x2F;faculty&#x2F;bosch&#x2F;tspart-page.html</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Maze Design (2005)</title><url>http://www.cgl.uwaterloo.ca/csk/projects/mazes/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>wyldfire</author><text>&gt; The designer traces regions of interest in an image and annotates the regions with style parameters. They can optionally specify a solution path, which provides a rough guide for laying out the maze&#x27;s actual solution. The system uses novel extensions to well-known maze construction algorithms to build mazes that approximate the tone of the source image, express the desired style in each region, and conform to the user&#x27;s solution path.<p>Sounds cool. Is there a public implementation?</text></comment> |
38,129,667 | 38,128,565 | 1 | 2 | 38,127,203 | train | <story><title>Young people would sacrifice other perks for a 4-day workweek</title><url>https://www.cnbc.com/2023/11/01/what-young-people-would-give-up-for-a-4-day-workweek.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>slashdev</author><text>It&#x27;s not for everybody, but if you can find a way to not play the rigged game, you can get ahead.<p>I moved from a high cost of living city in North America to Latin America. I bought a two floor penthouse overlooking the ocean for less than the price of a two bedroom apartment back where I came from. My mortgage is -$2000 &#x2F; month. That&#x27;s right, negative $2000 because I save the full mortgage payment plus an extra $2000 on taxes each month, completely legally and above board.<p>Now not everything is sunshine and roses (well there is a lot of both, but you know what I mean). The price is I have to work remotely, I had to learn a new language, and Amazon delivery is more like two weeks than 2 days and the shipping is not free. There are definitely things that I miss, but nothing compared to what I gain.</text></item><item><author>onlyrealcuzzo</author><text>Young people don&#x27;t want to work hard because there&#x27;s little incentive.<p>No matter how hard you work, unless you&#x27;re in the top 5%, you&#x27;re <i>far</i> priced out of most places most people want to live.<p>You can afford everything comfortably beside housing &amp; health care (which you don&#x27;t need much of when you&#x27;re young) on a relatively low wage in the US.<p>So you&#x27;ve pretty much given up on housing. What&#x27;s the point in working hard?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nunez</author><text>Your solution is to be the top 5% in some other cheaper economy while continuing to get paid a US comp package. Not sure how that&#x27;s better. In fact, this is exactly the thing that&#x27;s going to drive down all of our comp over time. If you can work effectively in Costa Rica, why won&#x27;t I just hire good English-speaking talent in Costa Rica (more likely Brazil) at a tenth of your expected comp?</text></comment> | <story><title>Young people would sacrifice other perks for a 4-day workweek</title><url>https://www.cnbc.com/2023/11/01/what-young-people-would-give-up-for-a-4-day-workweek.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>slashdev</author><text>It&#x27;s not for everybody, but if you can find a way to not play the rigged game, you can get ahead.<p>I moved from a high cost of living city in North America to Latin America. I bought a two floor penthouse overlooking the ocean for less than the price of a two bedroom apartment back where I came from. My mortgage is -$2000 &#x2F; month. That&#x27;s right, negative $2000 because I save the full mortgage payment plus an extra $2000 on taxes each month, completely legally and above board.<p>Now not everything is sunshine and roses (well there is a lot of both, but you know what I mean). The price is I have to work remotely, I had to learn a new language, and Amazon delivery is more like two weeks than 2 days and the shipping is not free. There are definitely things that I miss, but nothing compared to what I gain.</text></item><item><author>onlyrealcuzzo</author><text>Young people don&#x27;t want to work hard because there&#x27;s little incentive.<p>No matter how hard you work, unless you&#x27;re in the top 5%, you&#x27;re <i>far</i> priced out of most places most people want to live.<p>You can afford everything comfortably beside housing &amp; health care (which you don&#x27;t need much of when you&#x27;re young) on a relatively low wage in the US.<p>So you&#x27;ve pretty much given up on housing. What&#x27;s the point in working hard?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tspike</author><text>Sure, and now you’re inflicting the same problems on the local population who don’t have the option of geographic arbitrage.</text></comment> |
20,348,088 | 20,348,062 | 1 | 2 | 20,346,631 | train | <story><title>The Gap Between Rich and Poor Americans' Health Is Widening</title><url>https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2019/06/28/736938334/the-gap-between-rich-and-poor-americans-health-is-widening</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>denverkarma</author><text>It’s really hard for me not to be skeptical of a study that starts with the premise of measuring everyone else against “the most privileged group,” aka. white men, and then calling their metric “health justice.”<p>I don’t know the stats off the top of my head but I’ve heard many times that men’s health issues are under-studies relative to women’s — ie breast cancer versus prostate cancer. I’ve also seen that mental health problems affect men more than women, as well as behavioral problems with youth, and yet there’s no outcry for “health justice” for all the men with mental issues or men vastly overrepresented in the prison population.<p>The study claims that health correlates most strongly with income, and that the gap between black and white has narrowed - and yet the study author claims there’s a “stunning lack of progress.”<p>Most of America’s problems correlate most strongly with income and more weakly with race and gender, which isn’t surprising when income itself is uneven between race and gender demographics.<p>Yet it feels to me like we’re constantly crying out about race and gender discrimination while paying much less attention to wealth and income which seem to be the root issue.<p>Are there racists in the country? Do hate crimes happen? Yes, and we shouldn’t gloss over them.<p>But are the country’s problems driven mostly by racial hatred? I don’t think so. I think the problem is we have done a lot to pull the ladder up behind the upper-middle class, everyone in the lower income brackets is getting screwed, and <i>that</i> disproportionately affects minorities and historically disadvantaged groups. I think if we could get more serious about putting the ladder back and investing in upward mobility for all, we could make a lot more progress on all the rest of the issues that are affecting the country.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>SolaceQuantum</author><text><i>&quot;I don’t know the stats off the top of my head but I’ve heard many times that men’s health issues are under-studies relative to women’s — ie breast cancer versus prostate cancer.&quot;</i><p>I think the actual metric is extremely complicated. By and large, symptoms of diseases and illness are based on male patients. Drug trials often exclude women (due to pregnancy risk) and many exclude pregnant women (forcing pregnant women to go without necessary medication to protect the fetus). Certain women&#x27;s cancers like breast cancer recieve significant income but other issues like endomeitrosis recieve little to no research. Women are statistically forced to wait longer at ER and have their pain dismissed more regularly as not indicating anything serious.<p>So in some ways men are considered &#x27;default&#x27; for drug trials, clinical health profiles, their pain and health are considered more seriously, etc. On the other hand, there isn&#x27;t a lot of money for mental health geared towards men in particular, certain cancers that are male specific are ignored, and there isn&#x27;t as much pressure for thinness and health on men as there are women socially.<p>So I don&#x27;t think there&#x27;s clear lines that by far X gender is oppressed on all levels in the healthcare field. It would be more accurate to presume that there are many different systemic failures correlated with different demographics, and this affects different demographics differently.<p>While I agree with you that class has a massive influence, I would hesitate to agree with you that the country&#x27;s problems should be considered primarily class based. We are still only a generation past (less than a generation? arguably still ongoing?) purposefully refusing to lend or perform economic deals with people based on their race or gender. This would show up as class stratification but has a racial&#x2F;sexist cause, so it may be inaccurate to presume that solely economic solution would resolve all other societal stratification issues.<p>(But I really do agree with you we need to remove barriers of economic class transfer.)</text></comment> | <story><title>The Gap Between Rich and Poor Americans' Health Is Widening</title><url>https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2019/06/28/736938334/the-gap-between-rich-and-poor-americans-health-is-widening</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>denverkarma</author><text>It’s really hard for me not to be skeptical of a study that starts with the premise of measuring everyone else against “the most privileged group,” aka. white men, and then calling their metric “health justice.”<p>I don’t know the stats off the top of my head but I’ve heard many times that men’s health issues are under-studies relative to women’s — ie breast cancer versus prostate cancer. I’ve also seen that mental health problems affect men more than women, as well as behavioral problems with youth, and yet there’s no outcry for “health justice” for all the men with mental issues or men vastly overrepresented in the prison population.<p>The study claims that health correlates most strongly with income, and that the gap between black and white has narrowed - and yet the study author claims there’s a “stunning lack of progress.”<p>Most of America’s problems correlate most strongly with income and more weakly with race and gender, which isn’t surprising when income itself is uneven between race and gender demographics.<p>Yet it feels to me like we’re constantly crying out about race and gender discrimination while paying much less attention to wealth and income which seem to be the root issue.<p>Are there racists in the country? Do hate crimes happen? Yes, and we shouldn’t gloss over them.<p>But are the country’s problems driven mostly by racial hatred? I don’t think so. I think the problem is we have done a lot to pull the ladder up behind the upper-middle class, everyone in the lower income brackets is getting screwed, and <i>that</i> disproportionately affects minorities and historically disadvantaged groups. I think if we could get more serious about putting the ladder back and investing in upward mobility for all, we could make a lot more progress on all the rest of the issues that are affecting the country.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>save_ferris</author><text>Statistically speaking, white men are far and away the highest income earners in America. They are literally the most privileged group. Until 2008, 44 of 44 of US presidents were white men. White men dominate the Fortune 500, Wall Street, and leadership in the government.<p>The paper also explicitly defined health justice as &quot;a measure of the correlation of health outcomes with income, race&#x2F;ethnicity and sex; and a summary health equity metric.&quot;, which doesn&#x27;t sound like much of an editorialization to me.</text></comment> |
12,431,935 | 12,431,888 | 1 | 3 | 12,431,686 | train | <story><title>The FBI’s Approach to the Cyber Threat</title><url>https://www.fbi.gov/news/speeches/the-fbis-approach-to-the-cyber-threat</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>corysama</author><text>&gt; One of my children described to me what our problem is in recruiting. She said, “Dad, the problem is you’re the man.” I thought that was a compliment, so I said, “Thank you, I really appreciate that.” She said, “Dad, I don’t mean that in a good way. I mean you’re the ‘Man.’ Who would want to work for the ‘Man’?” I think she’s right. But I said to her, “You know, if people saw what this ‘Man’ and ‘Woman’ of the FBI was like, and what we do, and the challenges we face, I think they’d want to come work for us.”<p>Given that even after his daughter explained the term to him, he still doesn&#x27;t know that &#x27;The&#x27; is part of the phrase, I&#x27;m not sure if The Director of the FBI knows what the phrase &#x27;The Man&#x27; means...</text></comment> | <story><title>The FBI’s Approach to the Cyber Threat</title><url>https://www.fbi.gov/news/speeches/the-fbis-approach-to-the-cyber-threat</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>gjdjcjdnxnvjd</author><text>Brought to you by the same agency you know and love who also gave you previous favorites such as &quot;<i>Trying to Make MLK Jr. Commit Suicide</i>&quot; and &quot;<i>Planning to Execute Occupy Protesters With Sniper Teams</i>.&quot;</text></comment> |
21,495,406 | 21,494,123 | 1 | 3 | 21,492,631 | train | <story><title>Effects of Vitamin D and Omega-3 Fatty Acid on Biomarkers of Inflammation</title><url>http://clinchem.aaccjnls.org/content/early/2019/10/23/clinchem.2019.306902</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>eikenberry</author><text>Please define what you mean by &quot;heavily processed foods&quot;. People use those terms for anything they think is bad without any consistency.</text></item><item><author>ianai</author><text>Sleep well every night. The crazy healthy impacts of good sleep are astronomical. Avoid fried or heavily processed foods. Keep your circulation up with exercise so your blood gets everywhere it needs to go and through the liver. This also keeps you nicely oxygenated. Look up diabetic sores for some on how that can go bad. Etc</text></item><item><author>aklemm</author><text>There’s a lot of talk about the dangers of “inflammation” but I’ve failed to find a good list of actions one can take to fight it.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Descartes1</author><text>From a blood sugar and insulin perspective (which is a large part of the inflammatory perspective), it is literally the fineness of the carbohydrate particulate, the addition of refined sugars and the extraction of fiber -- all of which raise the glycemic index. If you look at fast food, this is part of the &quot;process&quot; by which food is made soft and palatable and shelf life is often increased to boot.<p>You&#x27;re correct though. The term is very unclear and doesn&#x27;t help people. Generally speaking the refinement process of carbohydrates and sugars means glucose hits your blood stream faster and increases inflammation. (These refined carbs are also more addictive, reduce insulin sensitivity over time and lead to obesity)<p>For an anti inflammatory diet think raw foods, whole grains, high fiber, quality protein, low amounts of complex sugars, NO refined sugars. Stay low on the glycemic index.<p>Basically, make your body do a little work to metabolize calories. No easy street.<p>Also don&#x27;t fry with vegetable oils. Consume plenty of olive oil and fish oil.</text></comment> | <story><title>Effects of Vitamin D and Omega-3 Fatty Acid on Biomarkers of Inflammation</title><url>http://clinchem.aaccjnls.org/content/early/2019/10/23/clinchem.2019.306902</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>eikenberry</author><text>Please define what you mean by &quot;heavily processed foods&quot;. People use those terms for anything they think is bad without any consistency.</text></item><item><author>ianai</author><text>Sleep well every night. The crazy healthy impacts of good sleep are astronomical. Avoid fried or heavily processed foods. Keep your circulation up with exercise so your blood gets everywhere it needs to go and through the liver. This also keeps you nicely oxygenated. Look up diabetic sores for some on how that can go bad. Etc</text></item><item><author>aklemm</author><text>There’s a lot of talk about the dangers of “inflammation” but I’ve failed to find a good list of actions one can take to fight it.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ianai</author><text>Probably the best definition requires you to actively test your glucose levels after eating. Look to identify foods that spike then drop your numbers. But I know things like white rice and white flour really leave me high and dry quickly. I also try to pick foods that have relatively few, whole food type ingredients. So once we’re talking dozens of ingredients with chemical names instead of easily identifiable names. You’re right, it’s not obvious.</text></comment> |
23,219,871 | 23,219,857 | 1 | 3 | 23,219,412 | train | <story><title>Dutch spies helped Britain's GCHQ break Argentine crypto during Falklands War</title><url>https://www.theregister.co.uk/2020/05/18/maximator_euro_spy_alliance_falklands_war/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>mike_d</author><text>The Dutch have an absolutely amazing intelligence apparatus.<p>In 2014 AIVD hacked the office network of Russia&#x27;s APT29, and maintained access at least through the 2016 DNC hack. The best part was they also had access to the security cameras and were able to watch the attacks in real time.</text></comment> | <story><title>Dutch spies helped Britain's GCHQ break Argentine crypto during Falklands War</title><url>https://www.theregister.co.uk/2020/05/18/maximator_euro_spy_alliance_falklands_war/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>polytely</author><text>Link to the actual source:<p>Maximator: European signals intelligence cooperation, from a Dutch perspective<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.tandfonline.com&#x2F;doi&#x2F;full&#x2F;10.1080&#x2F;02684527.2020.1743538" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.tandfonline.com&#x2F;doi&#x2F;full&#x2F;10.1080&#x2F;02684527.2020.1...</a></text></comment> |
20,192,176 | 20,192,241 | 1 | 2 | 20,191,870 | train | <story><title>Facebook lawyers explain to a judge that privacy on Facebook is nonexistent</title><url>https://theintercept.com/2019/06/14/facebook-privacy-policy-court/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>wybiral</author><text>Users grasp the idea that posting on social media is a public thing. It&#x27;s like getting on stage and shouting to everyone in the room... It&#x27;s not private.<p>But, Facebook is invading privacy in subtle ways that users aren&#x27;t so good at grasping. Like the fact that Facebook remembers every website they visit. And how long you linger on a post in your timeline. And collects your location data even when you&#x27;re not trying to broadcast it. And analyzes all of your private messages. And trains neural networks to recognize you so they can correlate you with other pictures throughout the internet (and who knows, maybe they&#x27;re sharing those models with random governments or other companies).<p>That stuff is the real privacy violation, not the public posts. And that stuff is intentionally obscured from the users and vaguely articulated in their privacy policy.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>annadane</author><text>It&#x27;s also fairly difficult when they intentionally make it hard for the distinction of public&#x2F;non public to be understood. &quot;People you may know&quot; is a privacy violation. &quot;A friend commented on such and such post&quot; is a priacy violation.</text></comment> | <story><title>Facebook lawyers explain to a judge that privacy on Facebook is nonexistent</title><url>https://theintercept.com/2019/06/14/facebook-privacy-policy-court/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>wybiral</author><text>Users grasp the idea that posting on social media is a public thing. It&#x27;s like getting on stage and shouting to everyone in the room... It&#x27;s not private.<p>But, Facebook is invading privacy in subtle ways that users aren&#x27;t so good at grasping. Like the fact that Facebook remembers every website they visit. And how long you linger on a post in your timeline. And collects your location data even when you&#x27;re not trying to broadcast it. And analyzes all of your private messages. And trains neural networks to recognize you so they can correlate you with other pictures throughout the internet (and who knows, maybe they&#x27;re sharing those models with random governments or other companies).<p>That stuff is the real privacy violation, not the public posts. And that stuff is intentionally obscured from the users and vaguely articulated in their privacy policy.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>8ytecoder</author><text>I block every tracker and don’t have Facebook installed and yet they show me ads that are uncanny.
Rode my bike and hurt my back. Pretty sure I searched for remedies - likely on DDG. And bought a massage ball on Amazon. Instagram is filled with ads to address my back pain.</text></comment> |
18,145,939 | 18,145,893 | 1 | 2 | 18,145,622 | train | <story><title>How to build your own neural network from scratch in Python</title><url>https://towardsdatascience.com/how-to-build-your-own-neural-network-from-scratch-in-python-68998a08e4f6</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>a_bonobo</author><text>Too often you see articles like this and they start with<p>$ import a_whole_bunch_of_stuff<p>Good to see that this is not the case here :)<p>The fast.ai course has a similar exercise in the beginning, but you&#x27;ll still import the weights from somewhere else.<p>Their fast.ai v1 library has a very short implementation too (loading the MINIST example dataset and then using Resnet18):<p><pre><code> from fastai import *
from fastai.data import *
untar_data(MNIST_PATH)
data = image_data_from_folder(MNIST_PATH)
learn = ConvLearner(data, tvm.resnet18, metrics=accuracy)
learn.fit(1)
</code></pre>
Done!<p>Source: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;docs.fast.ai&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;docs.fast.ai&#x2F;</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>sprobertson</author><text>How is your example not &quot;$ import a_whole_bunch_of_stuff&quot;?</text></comment> | <story><title>How to build your own neural network from scratch in Python</title><url>https://towardsdatascience.com/how-to-build-your-own-neural-network-from-scratch-in-python-68998a08e4f6</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>a_bonobo</author><text>Too often you see articles like this and they start with<p>$ import a_whole_bunch_of_stuff<p>Good to see that this is not the case here :)<p>The fast.ai course has a similar exercise in the beginning, but you&#x27;ll still import the weights from somewhere else.<p>Their fast.ai v1 library has a very short implementation too (loading the MINIST example dataset and then using Resnet18):<p><pre><code> from fastai import *
from fastai.data import *
untar_data(MNIST_PATH)
data = image_data_from_folder(MNIST_PATH)
learn = ConvLearner(data, tvm.resnet18, metrics=accuracy)
learn.fit(1)
</code></pre>
Done!<p>Source: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;docs.fast.ai&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;docs.fast.ai&#x2F;</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>partycoder</author><text>How to make cake, by Russell Peters<p>First, you get cake.
Then you make it for 20 minutes.
Then you have cake.</text></comment> |
16,275,017 | 16,274,462 | 1 | 3 | 16,270,270 | train | <story><title>Orcas can imitate human speech, research reveals</title><url>https://www.theguardian.com/science/2018/jan/31/orcas-killer-whales-can-imitate-human-speech-research-reveals</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>sethbannon</author><text>Listening to these remarkable recordings, I can&#x27;t help but think that as time goes on, more and more of the artificial mental barriers we&#x27;ve built between us and non-human animals will fall. I hope with more research humanity stops seeing non-human animals as resources to be exploited but rather as sentient beings to be respected.</text></comment> | <story><title>Orcas can imitate human speech, research reveals</title><url>https://www.theguardian.com/science/2018/jan/31/orcas-killer-whales-can-imitate-human-speech-research-reveals</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>gadders</author><text>Seals can do this too [1]. Worth clicking on the link to hear the strong New England accent that Hoover the Seal had.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Hoover_(seal)" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Hoover_(seal)</a></text></comment> |
4,497,229 | 4,496,135 | 1 | 3 | 4,495,980 | train | <story><title>DIY quest for a 6 watt high-end desktop computer</title><url>http://ssj3gohan.tweakblogs.net/blog/8217/fluffy2-59-watt-high-end-desktop-computer.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>ChuckMcM</author><text>This guy should totally go work in Google's platforms power group, they would love him and give him better tools to work with.<p>That said, its inspiring to see folks tinkering at this level. I desoldered the floppy connector on a motherboard so it would fit into a case once and the guy who needed it was shocked that such things could be done successfully. I was pretty amused until I realized an whole bunch of people who are really bright technically have artificially limited themselves to just making changes in software. That is too bad. Old PC's are really easy to get hold of and great for practicing your rework skills, get an old Metcal iron off Ebay or somewhere, a magnifying visor, and boom go to work.<p>The author didn't mention a weight limit but you can passively cool the CPU with a copper heatsink on the back of that monitor, something like 9" x 21" of copper fins has a lot of surface area to work with. Might save a bit of power there too.</text></comment> | <story><title>DIY quest for a 6 watt high-end desktop computer</title><url>http://ssj3gohan.tweakblogs.net/blog/8217/fluffy2-59-watt-high-end-desktop-computer.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>polshaw</author><text>whilst it is an impressive job, the title is misleading; it's 6W <i>idle</i>.. 75W load.</text></comment> |
7,086,476 | 7,086,441 | 1 | 2 | 7,085,662 | train | <story><title> What Happens When the Poor Receive a Stipend?</title><url>http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/01/18/what-happens-when-the-poor-receive-a-stipend/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>JoeAltmaier</author><text>The researcher supposed that the reduced stressors in poor parents&#x27; lives allowed them to be more nurturing, resulting in reduced problems with their children. Seems like a no-brainer to do, considering this analysis:<p>&quot;Bearing that in mind, Randall Akee, an economist at the University of California, Los Angeles, and a collaborator of Professor Costello’s, argues that the supplements actually save money in the long run. He calculates that 5 to 10 years after age 19, the savings incurred by the Cherokee income supplements surpass the initial costs — the payments to parents while the children were minors. That’s a conservative estimate, he says, based on reduced criminality, a reduced need for psychiatric care and savings gained from not repeating grades.&quot;<p>That means, its not only a good idea, its free.</text></comment> | <story><title> What Happens When the Poor Receive a Stipend?</title><url>http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/01/18/what-happens-when-the-poor-receive-a-stipend/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>dahart</author><text>This idea was explored a bit more thoroughly in an episode of This American Life<p><a href="http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2013/08/16/212645252/episode-480-the-charity-that-just-gives-people-money" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.npr.org&#x2F;blogs&#x2F;money&#x2F;2013&#x2F;08&#x2F;16&#x2F;212645252&#x2F;episode-...</a><p>They discuss and question the validity of the very deeply held belief that if you &quot;give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.&quot;<p>While its very hard to argue with this logic, and it seems so true and obvious, it also implicitly assumes that the poor are poor due to lack of education, rather than due to lack of money.<p>I can&#x27;t defend GiveDirectly or stand by any claims made on either side, but apparently the results they&#x27;re achieving is some evidence that the poor really do just need some seed funding to launch from, much like startup companies need inital funding in order to launch.<p>One thing I&#x27;m sure of, whether you&#x27;re poor or trying to start a company is that its <i>very</i> hard to start your virtuous growth cycle without a little money.</text></comment> |
24,474,793 | 24,475,074 | 1 | 3 | 24,472,061 | train | <story><title>Grouparoo: Open-source app to sync customer data with 3rd party tools</title><url>https://www.grouparoo.com</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bleonard</author><text>Thanks for checking us out! Co-founder here, happy to answer any questions. There is so much to do in this space, but we’re excited to be getting started.<p>No engineer wakes up in the morning excited to sync data to Marketo, so we started there - `npm install` and so you can get back to building the core product. We make data self-serve for your non-technical colleagues and we handle all the exhausting integration stuff you don’t want to think about (API nuances, rate limiting, retrying, batching, etc).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mariushn</author><text>First, thanks for providing the `npm install` way to run it. Too many apps require Docker and that&#x27;s it.<p>Question: Could we use Grouparoo to replace mixpanel? Would we need to build the client side to collect events and dump that into Grouparoo?</text></comment> | <story><title>Grouparoo: Open-source app to sync customer data with 3rd party tools</title><url>https://www.grouparoo.com</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bleonard</author><text>Thanks for checking us out! Co-founder here, happy to answer any questions. There is so much to do in this space, but we’re excited to be getting started.<p>No engineer wakes up in the morning excited to sync data to Marketo, so we started there - `npm install` and so you can get back to building the core product. We make data self-serve for your non-technical colleagues and we handle all the exhausting integration stuff you don’t want to think about (API nuances, rate limiting, retrying, batching, etc).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ccleve</author><text>How does this compare to Piesync?<p>There are many tools that do one-way integration from source to destination. Very few do real two-way sync. Is Grouparoo designed for that?</text></comment> |
28,193,499 | 28,193,162 | 1 | 2 | 28,188,822 | train | <story><title>Why is learning functional programming so damned hard? (2019)</title><url>https://cscalfani.medium.com/why-is-learning-functional-programming-so-damned-hard-bfd00202a7d1</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>IIAOPSW</author><text>What makes you say &quot;port&quot; and &quot;starboard&quot; are more clear than &quot;front&quot; and &quot;back&quot;?</text></item><item><author>swiley</author><text>Programming is about clearly communicating theory.<p>Mariners use &quot;port&quot; and &quot;starboard&quot; for vehicle relative directions not because it&#x27;s &quot;cool&quot; but because it&#x27;s clear and unambiguous. Problem decomposition works the same way: some problems decompose better with FP (I would argue databases do) some with OOP, some with EF etc. The more you know the clearer code you can write and the faster you can extract the theory from other people&#x27;s code.</text></item><item><author>yodsanklai</author><text>It&#x27;s not hard at all. It&#x27;s routinely taught to beginners.<p>However, it&#x27;s not a silver bullet. I found that basic software engineering principles are way more important than the language. I&#x27;ve seen extremely messy OCaml code and super clean C code. What is important is how the code is organized at high level. Whether you use a for loop or a fold, an error monad or an exception mechanism matters less.<p>I&#x27;m also wary of functional programming gurus that tend to over-abstract things and use all the language latest features, making code very hard to read.<p>Also, when developing in a niche language, you tend to miss important tools and need to rely on unstable third-party libraries.<p>I used to be quite enthusiastic about FP, but I think I&#x27;d stick with more mainstream languages unless there&#x27;s a good reason not to.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jyounker</author><text>&quot;Port&quot;, &quot;starboard&quot; are unambiguously defined relative to the vessel. &quot;Left&quot; and &quot;right&quot; require specifying or guessing a point of reference.<p>For instance if you&#x27;re facing port and I ask you to take two steps forward, you could either take two steps to port or two steps towards the bow. If I tell you to take two steps to port then the direction is unambiguous.</text></comment> | <story><title>Why is learning functional programming so damned hard? (2019)</title><url>https://cscalfani.medium.com/why-is-learning-functional-programming-so-damned-hard-bfd00202a7d1</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>IIAOPSW</author><text>What makes you say &quot;port&quot; and &quot;starboard&quot; are more clear than &quot;front&quot; and &quot;back&quot;?</text></item><item><author>swiley</author><text>Programming is about clearly communicating theory.<p>Mariners use &quot;port&quot; and &quot;starboard&quot; for vehicle relative directions not because it&#x27;s &quot;cool&quot; but because it&#x27;s clear and unambiguous. Problem decomposition works the same way: some problems decompose better with FP (I would argue databases do) some with OOP, some with EF etc. The more you know the clearer code you can write and the faster you can extract the theory from other people&#x27;s code.</text></item><item><author>yodsanklai</author><text>It&#x27;s not hard at all. It&#x27;s routinely taught to beginners.<p>However, it&#x27;s not a silver bullet. I found that basic software engineering principles are way more important than the language. I&#x27;ve seen extremely messy OCaml code and super clean C code. What is important is how the code is organized at high level. Whether you use a for loop or a fold, an error monad or an exception mechanism matters less.<p>I&#x27;m also wary of functional programming gurus that tend to over-abstract things and use all the language latest features, making code very hard to read.<p>Also, when developing in a niche language, you tend to miss important tools and need to rely on unstable third-party libraries.<p>I used to be quite enthusiastic about FP, but I think I&#x27;d stick with more mainstream languages unless there&#x27;s a good reason not to.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>byroot</author><text>It&#x27;s not &quot;front&quot; and &quot;back&quot; it&#x27;s &quot;left side of the boat&quot; and &quot;right side of the boat&quot;.</text></comment> |
41,081,334 | 41,081,137 | 1 | 3 | 41,075,390 | train | <story><title>Alexandre Grothendieck, The New Universal Church (1971) [pdf]</title><url>https://publish.uwo.ca/~jbell/univ.pdf</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>superb-owl</author><text>I&#x27;ve been working on translating and summarizing some of Grothendieck&#x27;s esoteric writing from his later years. It&#x27;s...pretty bananas. But some fascinating stuff--clearly brilliant and a little crazy.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;superb-owl&#x2F;grothendieck">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;superb-owl&#x2F;grothendieck</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Alexandre Grothendieck, The New Universal Church (1971) [pdf]</title><url>https://publish.uwo.ca/~jbell/univ.pdf</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>wffurr</author><text>This would have been a lot better with a “steelman” version of the “scientism credo” rather than the exaggerated form presented. I found it pretty alienating to try to read this, even though I probably agree with the thesis on the whole.</text></comment> |
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