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22,139,249 | 22,139,242 | 1 | 2 | 22,137,909 | train | <story><title>Police begin operational use of live facial recognition technology in London</title><url>http://news.met.police.uk/news/met-begins-operational-use-of-live-facial-recognition-lfr-technology-392451</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>borjamoya</author><text>There are a lot of things going on that I find interesting. But one that has caught my attention is the realization that surveillance is a profitable business.<p>Live facial recognition deployments cost a lot of money. Just in Cardiff alone the police spent 3 million pounds in this technology. And they have more than 25 police officers and with brand new iPads surveilling people in real time. (I was there.)<p>Imagine how much money they&#x27;re going to spend in London now. So besides the obvious human rights related questions, the other not so obvious one is: Who is getting these contracts? Where is that money going?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>45ure</author><text>Who is getting these contracts? Where is that money going?<p>From the official PR, it is NEC Corporation.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nec.com&#x2F;en&#x2F;case&#x2F;mps&#x2F;index.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nec.com&#x2F;en&#x2F;case&#x2F;mps&#x2F;index.html</a><p>Metropolitan Police Press Release.
<a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.met.police.uk&#x2F;news&#x2F;met-begins-operational-use-of-live-facial-recognition-lfr-technology-392451" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.met.police.uk&#x2F;news&#x2F;met-begins-operational-use-of...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Police begin operational use of live facial recognition technology in London</title><url>http://news.met.police.uk/news/met-begins-operational-use-of-live-facial-recognition-lfr-technology-392451</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>borjamoya</author><text>There are a lot of things going on that I find interesting. But one that has caught my attention is the realization that surveillance is a profitable business.<p>Live facial recognition deployments cost a lot of money. Just in Cardiff alone the police spent 3 million pounds in this technology. And they have more than 25 police officers and with brand new iPads surveilling people in real time. (I was there.)<p>Imagine how much money they&#x27;re going to spend in London now. So besides the obvious human rights related questions, the other not so obvious one is: Who is getting these contracts? Where is that money going?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>chmod775</author><text>&gt; Just in Cardiff alone the police spent 3 million pounds in this technology.<p>This is and also isn&#x27;t a lot of money. It&#x27;s a small amount for an infrastructure project, but it&#x27;s still 10 pounds per citizen.<p>You might manage to build a two lane car bridge for that same amount of money. Or a mile of road.</text></comment> |
5,715,238 | 5,714,933 | 1 | 3 | 5,714,557 | train | <story><title>The new Google Hangouts will not support XMPP</title><text>Hello from Google!<p>You are the administrator for one or more Google App Engine applications that may be impacted by an upcoming new product release. Google will be releasing a new communications product called Hangouts which users may choose to use instead of Google Talk. The new service does not support XMPP.<p>As a result XMPP bots such as the App Engine XMPP service will not be able to communicate with users who adopt the new service. There are two ways to keep your App Engine XMPP service working for end users:<p>1) Your users may use any chat client that supports XMPP. XMPP clients will continue to work as usual with the App Engine XMPP service.<p>2) End users will be asked to opt-into the new service when it goes live. Note that the go-live date may vary for Google Apps domains. End users and google app domain administrators may choose not to opt into the new system. If they do not opt in they will remain on the current Talk client and there will be no change to their existing functionality, including being able to exchange messages with App Engine XMPP bots. Users who already opted in may toggle back to the old XMPP based chat clients in Gmail.<p>Note that the changes discussed above have no impact on non-Google XMPP clients, which will continue to work as usual with the App Engine XMPP service.<p>If you have any questions, comments, or concerns, please don't hesitate to email us at [email protected].<p>Sincerely,<p>The Google App Engine Team<p>© 2013 Google Inc. 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043<p>You have received this mandatory email service announcement to update you about important changes to Google Cloud Platform or your account.</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>sp332</author><text>That app shows Youtube videos without ads. That seems like a clear violation of Youtube's TOS and I don't blame Google for being upset about it. Edit: I woulnd't flag the story though.</text></item><item><author>recoiledsnake</author><text>That's rich when just today Google sent a C&#38;D to Microsoft to take down the Youtube Windows Phone 8 app and refuse to make one themselves.<p>"Google demands Microsoft removes YouTube Windows Phone app, cites lack of ads "<p><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5714520" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5714520</a><p>That was after they started serving a degraded experience to Windows Phone on Google Maps, and restored access after people complained and called their bluff that it didn't support needed features.<p><a href="http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2013/01/google-maps-windows-phone-and-an-avoidable-mess/" rel="nofollow">http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2013/01/google-maps-windows-p...</a><p>Then they dropped support for ActiveSync from Gmail and Calendar so Microsoft had to scramble to add CalDAV support.<p><a href="http://www.theverge.com/2013/1/21/3832838/windows-phone-carddav-caldav-support" rel="nofollow">http://www.theverge.com/2013/1/21/3832838/windows-phone-card...</a><p>And then comes a second round of Spring Cleaning, which deprecates CalDAV support and moves to the Google Calendar API!<p><a href="http://www.sparsebundle.net/posts/google-deprecating-caldav-in-favour-of-google-calendar-api/" rel="nofollow">http://www.sparsebundle.net/posts/google-deprecating-caldav-...</a><p>Edit: Predictably, that post about Google asking for a takedown on the WP Youtube App is getting flagged.<p><a href="http://i.imgur.com/4MBcGom.png" rel="nofollow">http://i.imgur.com/4MBcGom.png</a><p>Just like the Windows 8.1 Blue being free post yesterday.<p><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5707805" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5707805</a><p>Google can do no wrong on HN, whereas everything Microsoft does is wrong.</text></item><item><author>mtgx</author><text>Larry Page seemed very upset [1] that Microsoft is basically leeching off their Gtalk contacts into Outlook, without returning the favor (with Skype I assume), and he said he'd prefer if things weren't like this and everyone was more open.<p>He didn't continue that idea, but I think he would've continued it with "...but since nobody wants to do that, then we won't do it anymore either". So they are probably responding in the same way they responded to the leeching of Gmail contacts by Facebook a few years ago, by blocking that API, or in this case replacing the XMPP protocol with a proprietary one. It's too bad it had to come to this, though.<p>[1] - <a href="http://www.theverge.com/2013/5/15/4334242/larry-page-to-tech-world-being-negative-is-not-how-we-make-progress" rel="nofollow">http://www.theverge.com/2013/5/15/4334242/larry-page-to-tech...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>makomk</author><text>Apparently it also has a button to download videos from YouTube. Google's been C&#38;Ding anyone that does that for years.</text></comment> | <story><title>The new Google Hangouts will not support XMPP</title><text>Hello from Google!<p>You are the administrator for one or more Google App Engine applications that may be impacted by an upcoming new product release. Google will be releasing a new communications product called Hangouts which users may choose to use instead of Google Talk. The new service does not support XMPP.<p>As a result XMPP bots such as the App Engine XMPP service will not be able to communicate with users who adopt the new service. There are two ways to keep your App Engine XMPP service working for end users:<p>1) Your users may use any chat client that supports XMPP. XMPP clients will continue to work as usual with the App Engine XMPP service.<p>2) End users will be asked to opt-into the new service when it goes live. Note that the go-live date may vary for Google Apps domains. End users and google app domain administrators may choose not to opt into the new system. If they do not opt in they will remain on the current Talk client and there will be no change to their existing functionality, including being able to exchange messages with App Engine XMPP bots. Users who already opted in may toggle back to the old XMPP based chat clients in Gmail.<p>Note that the changes discussed above have no impact on non-Google XMPP clients, which will continue to work as usual with the App Engine XMPP service.<p>If you have any questions, comments, or concerns, please don't hesitate to email us at [email protected].<p>Sincerely,<p>The Google App Engine Team<p>© 2013 Google Inc. 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043<p>You have received this mandatory email service announcement to update you about important changes to Google Cloud Platform or your account.</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>sp332</author><text>That app shows Youtube videos without ads. That seems like a clear violation of Youtube's TOS and I don't blame Google for being upset about it. Edit: I woulnd't flag the story though.</text></item><item><author>recoiledsnake</author><text>That's rich when just today Google sent a C&#38;D to Microsoft to take down the Youtube Windows Phone 8 app and refuse to make one themselves.<p>"Google demands Microsoft removes YouTube Windows Phone app, cites lack of ads "<p><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5714520" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5714520</a><p>That was after they started serving a degraded experience to Windows Phone on Google Maps, and restored access after people complained and called their bluff that it didn't support needed features.<p><a href="http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2013/01/google-maps-windows-phone-and-an-avoidable-mess/" rel="nofollow">http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2013/01/google-maps-windows-p...</a><p>Then they dropped support for ActiveSync from Gmail and Calendar so Microsoft had to scramble to add CalDAV support.<p><a href="http://www.theverge.com/2013/1/21/3832838/windows-phone-carddav-caldav-support" rel="nofollow">http://www.theverge.com/2013/1/21/3832838/windows-phone-card...</a><p>And then comes a second round of Spring Cleaning, which deprecates CalDAV support and moves to the Google Calendar API!<p><a href="http://www.sparsebundle.net/posts/google-deprecating-caldav-in-favour-of-google-calendar-api/" rel="nofollow">http://www.sparsebundle.net/posts/google-deprecating-caldav-...</a><p>Edit: Predictably, that post about Google asking for a takedown on the WP Youtube App is getting flagged.<p><a href="http://i.imgur.com/4MBcGom.png" rel="nofollow">http://i.imgur.com/4MBcGom.png</a><p>Just like the Windows 8.1 Blue being free post yesterday.<p><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5707805" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5707805</a><p>Google can do no wrong on HN, whereas everything Microsoft does is wrong.</text></item><item><author>mtgx</author><text>Larry Page seemed very upset [1] that Microsoft is basically leeching off their Gtalk contacts into Outlook, without returning the favor (with Skype I assume), and he said he'd prefer if things weren't like this and everyone was more open.<p>He didn't continue that idea, but I think he would've continued it with "...but since nobody wants to do that, then we won't do it anymore either". So they are probably responding in the same way they responded to the leeching of Gmail contacts by Facebook a few years ago, by blocking that API, or in this case replacing the XMPP protocol with a proprietary one. It's too bad it had to come to this, though.<p>[1] - <a href="http://www.theverge.com/2013/5/15/4334242/larry-page-to-tech-world-being-negative-is-not-how-we-make-progress" rel="nofollow">http://www.theverge.com/2013/5/15/4334242/larry-page-to-tech...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kvb</author><text>Is there a YouTube API that provides the ads, or is Microsoft's only alternative to embed a YouTube web page?</text></comment> |
10,294,892 | 10,294,557 | 1 | 2 | 10,293,793 | train | <story><title>The Case of Richard Glossip</title><url>http://pg.posthaven.com/the-case-of-richard-glossip</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>lisa_henderson</author><text>About this:<p>&quot;Though a jury is a good idea and the best we&#x27;ve got, the process they run through seems ripe for reform.&quot;<p>How do you justify the statement that a jury is the best idea that we have? Germany has the concept of Schöffe, and some believe this offers results that stick closer to the law than the jury system:<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.britannica.com&#x2F;topic&#x2F;Schoffe" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.britannica.com&#x2F;topic&#x2F;Schoffe</a><p>While any government of mortal human flesh must inevitably have some flaws, the jury system seems especially bad at overcoming popular prejudice. In the USA, &quot;a jury of one&#x27;s peers&quot; has often meant a mostly white (or all white) jury judging a black person, a circumstance that has given the USA many hundreds of famous miscarriages of justice.<p>The system that grew out of English Common Law, and which dominates England, Canada, the USA, Australia and New Zealand, is not the only system known to liberal Western societies. The English system is unique in the authority it gives to juries. Most of the Continental judicial systems either lack juries or have juries whose goal is constrained relative to the English system.<p>A review of the legal traditions in liberal Western nations reveals a lot of good ideas, many of which are probably superior to the jury system.</text></item><item><author>johnnyg</author><text>RE: How people are and the death penalty<p>The other day I was driving down the road and thinking about how people are.<p>It was 33 years coming but here&#x27;s what hit me: people do what they want, even in the face of devastating consequences.<p>See that long line outside any burger joint? See the stats on the amount of hard drugs guaranteed to destroy your world we consume? See that person cheating? See that DA wanting a win?<p>If you want a burger, a high, an orgasm or a conviction, you generally will get it at some price that&#x27;s ultimately...above market.<p>How much more prone to excess is someone in the heat of a moment? How unlike the event does its moment by moment reconstruction during a trial appear? The mismatch has always struck me as unjust. As people judging an event whose experience they haven&#x27;t had and haven&#x27;t attempted to recreate. Though a jury is a good idea and the best we&#x27;ve got, the process they run through seems ripe for reform.<p>An eye for an eye has its place. If you walk into a school, start shooting and are captured alive - I think you just forfeited any claim on life or potential rehabilitation.<p>Any shade of grey zooming out from that seems too hard for any government system to decide well. I hear people say things in passing like &quot;he only got 20 years&quot;. 20 years is a huge and devastating amount of time, as is one year. As we&#x27;ve ramped up the time on these sentences and made it an all or nothing proposition. Unfortunately, I don&#x27;t think 20 years will do it if 1 year hasn&#x27;t and I don&#x27;t think death will do it if 20 years hasn&#x27;t.<p>Regarding Richard Glossip. I don&#x27;t know him or his case. I don&#x27;t know the victim and while they won&#x27;t return, there&#x27;s a debt owed that I don&#x27;t know how to pay. I want Richard Glossip to live. I don&#x27;t think taking another life will pay the debt of the first. What I want most of all is for someone to tell me how to pay that debt.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kriro</author><text>The bigger issue is that these things are hard to test and noone is willing to run the tests. In theory the US has a good setup for a state to decide to do some testing but politics make it impossible (and there&#x27;s a decent ethical argument for either side that is far from simple). I mean think about the reactions if some politician would say &quot;we need to see if our courts are as good as they can be, I propose we get rid of the jury system and replace it with X to see if X is superior&quot;<p>1) That&#x27;s UNAMERICAN. Courts and jury is the way god intended it to be.<p>2) Lol crackpot.<p>3) What if X turns out to be worse, sucks for the people who got trials like this during that time.<p>4) Lol crackpot.<p>Experimentation for political systems, judiciary infrastructure and the like is a really hard problem and I think de facto impossible. I applaud everyone who tries no matter how crazy it seems (seasteading) but at the end of the day I think there is no such thing as radical political entrepreneurship.
I think it&#x27;s unfortunate but I also can&#x27;t envision how (rapid) experimentation cycles could be transfered to such systems.</text></comment> | <story><title>The Case of Richard Glossip</title><url>http://pg.posthaven.com/the-case-of-richard-glossip</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>lisa_henderson</author><text>About this:<p>&quot;Though a jury is a good idea and the best we&#x27;ve got, the process they run through seems ripe for reform.&quot;<p>How do you justify the statement that a jury is the best idea that we have? Germany has the concept of Schöffe, and some believe this offers results that stick closer to the law than the jury system:<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.britannica.com&#x2F;topic&#x2F;Schoffe" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.britannica.com&#x2F;topic&#x2F;Schoffe</a><p>While any government of mortal human flesh must inevitably have some flaws, the jury system seems especially bad at overcoming popular prejudice. In the USA, &quot;a jury of one&#x27;s peers&quot; has often meant a mostly white (or all white) jury judging a black person, a circumstance that has given the USA many hundreds of famous miscarriages of justice.<p>The system that grew out of English Common Law, and which dominates England, Canada, the USA, Australia and New Zealand, is not the only system known to liberal Western societies. The English system is unique in the authority it gives to juries. Most of the Continental judicial systems either lack juries or have juries whose goal is constrained relative to the English system.<p>A review of the legal traditions in liberal Western nations reveals a lot of good ideas, many of which are probably superior to the jury system.</text></item><item><author>johnnyg</author><text>RE: How people are and the death penalty<p>The other day I was driving down the road and thinking about how people are.<p>It was 33 years coming but here&#x27;s what hit me: people do what they want, even in the face of devastating consequences.<p>See that long line outside any burger joint? See the stats on the amount of hard drugs guaranteed to destroy your world we consume? See that person cheating? See that DA wanting a win?<p>If you want a burger, a high, an orgasm or a conviction, you generally will get it at some price that&#x27;s ultimately...above market.<p>How much more prone to excess is someone in the heat of a moment? How unlike the event does its moment by moment reconstruction during a trial appear? The mismatch has always struck me as unjust. As people judging an event whose experience they haven&#x27;t had and haven&#x27;t attempted to recreate. Though a jury is a good idea and the best we&#x27;ve got, the process they run through seems ripe for reform.<p>An eye for an eye has its place. If you walk into a school, start shooting and are captured alive - I think you just forfeited any claim on life or potential rehabilitation.<p>Any shade of grey zooming out from that seems too hard for any government system to decide well. I hear people say things in passing like &quot;he only got 20 years&quot;. 20 years is a huge and devastating amount of time, as is one year. As we&#x27;ve ramped up the time on these sentences and made it an all or nothing proposition. Unfortunately, I don&#x27;t think 20 years will do it if 1 year hasn&#x27;t and I don&#x27;t think death will do it if 20 years hasn&#x27;t.<p>Regarding Richard Glossip. I don&#x27;t know him or his case. I don&#x27;t know the victim and while they won&#x27;t return, there&#x27;s a debt owed that I don&#x27;t know how to pay. I want Richard Glossip to live. I don&#x27;t think taking another life will pay the debt of the first. What I want most of all is for someone to tell me how to pay that debt.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>philwelch</author><text>The purpose of a jury isn&#x27;t necessarily to make the best, most legally correct decision. The purpose of a jury is to put the people in control of the state.<p>One could argue, perhaps from the experience of China, that elections aren&#x27;t the most effective means of choosing political leaders. But this misses the point of elections.</text></comment> |
7,123,652 | 7,121,508 | 1 | 2 | 7,121,144 | train | <story><title>Nvidia marketing manager killed during train rescue attempt</title><url>http://www.polygon.com/2014/1/25/5344390/nvidia-marketing-manager-killed-during-train-rescue-attempt</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>kposehn</author><text>Something that I realized is overlooked in this thread is the other-other victim: the Caltrain engineer.<p>Railroad crews that hit people and&#x2F;or vehicles can get extremely bad PTSD and it can have a massive impact on them. My best wishes go to the crewmember who is likely dealing with a very trying time.</text></comment> | <story><title>Nvidia marketing manager killed during train rescue attempt</title><url>http://www.polygon.com/2014/1/25/5344390/nvidia-marketing-manager-killed-during-train-rescue-attempt</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>GuiA</author><text>Those Caltrain accidents seem to happen all the frigging time [1]. I&#x27;m not sure much can be done about them, but every time I hear about one my heart sinks a little lower.
Is there any obvious thing that I&#x27;m missing that could be done?<p>[1]: 12 a year on average apparently: <a href="http://kalw.org/post/caltrain-engineer-talks-about-coping-track-deaths" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;kalw.org&#x2F;post&#x2F;caltrain-engineer-talks-about-coping-tr...</a></text></comment> |
15,007,985 | 15,007,309 | 1 | 2 | 15,005,031 | train | <story><title>An Intro to Compilers</title><url>https://nicoleorchard.com/blog/compilers</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>simonebrunozzi</author><text>Ha, sweet memories.<p>I am 40 now; back in 2004-2006, for two years I was one of the youngest professors in Italy, teaching &quot;compilers and programming languages&quot;.<p>I still feel so fortunate to have had that experience.<p>To help my students save the relatively huge amount of money to buy the dragon book(s), I created a condensed version of the parts that were required for the course - and I didn&#x27;t charge anything for it, unlike what usually happens pretty much everywhere in Italy. They were available in PDF and OpenOffice formats, on the website that I created for the course (yes, the CS department didn&#x27;t really have a proper website to use as CMS - I kid you not).<p>You can find the material here, it&#x27;s in Italian but it might be fun to take a quick look: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.lulu.com&#x2F;shop&#x2F;simone-brunozzi&#x2F;dispense-lab-linguaggi-di-programmazione-e-compilatori-informatica-unipgit&#x2F;ebook&#x2F;product-17491425.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.lulu.com&#x2F;shop&#x2F;simone-brunozzi&#x2F;dispense-lab-lingua...</a><p>Such good memories.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>gnuvince</author><text>I was T.A. for COMP-520, Compiler Design, at McGill University for two years, and it was the best job I&#x27;ve ever had. The compiler project had not been updated in 10-12 years; my adviser trusted me to make a new, interesting project. I was paid by the department for 5 hours of work per week, but I poured in more than 35 per week to design, document, and implement a subset of Go<p>My hard work paid off immediately. Students were more interested by a language that was new, modern, and used in the industry than by the previous language that was used, Wig. As a result, enrollment jumped from 12-14 students to 45. Though it was a subset, and much of what makes Go interesting was removed (concurrency, interfaces, GC) it was still an extremely demanding project. Many times I thought that the project was too big, that we needed to cut back, but the students were real troopers and chugged through (by the way, when did 20-year olds become so smart?! I was never this bright when I was their age!) and all teams completed the project and made me very proud.<p>You can see the page for the first year of the class, along with relevant documents at <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cs.mcgill.ca&#x2F;~cs520&#x2F;2015&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cs.mcgill.ca&#x2F;~cs520&#x2F;2015&#x2F;</a></text></comment> | <story><title>An Intro to Compilers</title><url>https://nicoleorchard.com/blog/compilers</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>simonebrunozzi</author><text>Ha, sweet memories.<p>I am 40 now; back in 2004-2006, for two years I was one of the youngest professors in Italy, teaching &quot;compilers and programming languages&quot;.<p>I still feel so fortunate to have had that experience.<p>To help my students save the relatively huge amount of money to buy the dragon book(s), I created a condensed version of the parts that were required for the course - and I didn&#x27;t charge anything for it, unlike what usually happens pretty much everywhere in Italy. They were available in PDF and OpenOffice formats, on the website that I created for the course (yes, the CS department didn&#x27;t really have a proper website to use as CMS - I kid you not).<p>You can find the material here, it&#x27;s in Italian but it might be fun to take a quick look: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.lulu.com&#x2F;shop&#x2F;simone-brunozzi&#x2F;dispense-lab-linguaggi-di-programmazione-e-compilatori-informatica-unipgit&#x2F;ebook&#x2F;product-17491425.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.lulu.com&#x2F;shop&#x2F;simone-brunozzi&#x2F;dispense-lab-lingua...</a><p>Such good memories.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>negativ0</author><text>Do you have a link to download it without registering to lulu.com ?</text></comment> |
34,525,661 | 34,525,791 | 1 | 2 | 34,525,139 | train | <story><title>CamelCase vs. underscores revisited (2013)</title><url>https://whatheco.de/2013/02/16/camelcase-vs-underscores-revisited/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>inDigiNeous</author><text>Good to see some scientific studies on the easier_readability_of_snake_case, versusComparedToCamelCaseBouncingUpAndDown.<p>I tried to convince my co-workers toTransitionFromCamelCase to the world_of_easy_reading_snake_case, but alas, the codebase alreadyUsingCamelCase won.<p>Maybe it&#x27;s the idea that &quot;shorter == better&quot;, or whatever, but if I could choose, I would use snake_case_everywhere man.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>brookst</author><text>I am pro-snake myself, but those that use double underscores, especially in a meaningful way, are drilling holes in our boat.</text></comment> | <story><title>CamelCase vs. underscores revisited (2013)</title><url>https://whatheco.de/2013/02/16/camelcase-vs-underscores-revisited/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>inDigiNeous</author><text>Good to see some scientific studies on the easier_readability_of_snake_case, versusComparedToCamelCaseBouncingUpAndDown.<p>I tried to convince my co-workers toTransitionFromCamelCase to the world_of_easy_reading_snake_case, but alas, the codebase alreadyUsingCamelCase won.<p>Maybe it&#x27;s the idea that &quot;shorter == better&quot;, or whatever, but if I could choose, I would use snake_case_everywhere man.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>stevula</author><text>I do prefer snakecase visually but having to press shift for the underscore is a pain and it’s also quite far from the home row on the keyboard.<p>I wonder if a lot of people rebind the underscore character to a more convenient key?</text></comment> |
21,827,545 | 21,827,547 | 1 | 3 | 21,827,175 | train | <story><title>Teen Marijuana Vaping Soars, Displacing Other Habits</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/18/health/teen-drug-use.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>anyanswers</author><text>&gt; weed is certainly the weakest of drugs (including alcohol) wrt harm for the body.<p>is the brain a part of the body?<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov&#x2F;pmc&#x2F;articles&#x2F;PMC3930618&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov&#x2F;pmc&#x2F;articles&#x2F;PMC3930618&#x2F;</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.apa.org&#x2F;monitor&#x2F;2015&#x2F;11&#x2F;marijuana-brain" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.apa.org&#x2F;monitor&#x2F;2015&#x2F;11&#x2F;marijuana-brain</a></text></item><item><author>noobermin</author><text>It&#x27;s funny because for years, as the opening of the article suggests, usual teenage vices (booze, drugs, and sex) have been dropping contrary to 80s teen movie stereotypes. FWIW, apart from the potential concerns with inhaling vaporized anything--something people skeptical of vaping point to although the science hasn&#x27;t really established if it is harmful or not yet, weed is certainly the weakest of drugs (including alcohol) wrt harm for the body.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>caleb-allen</author><text>Your first source states in the abstract that causality between marijuana use and altered brain function was not determined<p><i>edit:</i> if anything I think more research is needed to inform effective regulation. I&#x27;m astonished how little there is on this drug</text></comment> | <story><title>Teen Marijuana Vaping Soars, Displacing Other Habits</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/18/health/teen-drug-use.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>anyanswers</author><text>&gt; weed is certainly the weakest of drugs (including alcohol) wrt harm for the body.<p>is the brain a part of the body?<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov&#x2F;pmc&#x2F;articles&#x2F;PMC3930618&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov&#x2F;pmc&#x2F;articles&#x2F;PMC3930618&#x2F;</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.apa.org&#x2F;monitor&#x2F;2015&#x2F;11&#x2F;marijuana-brain" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.apa.org&#x2F;monitor&#x2F;2015&#x2F;11&#x2F;marijuana-brain</a></text></item><item><author>noobermin</author><text>It&#x27;s funny because for years, as the opening of the article suggests, usual teenage vices (booze, drugs, and sex) have been dropping contrary to 80s teen movie stereotypes. FWIW, apart from the potential concerns with inhaling vaporized anything--something people skeptical of vaping point to although the science hasn&#x27;t really established if it is harmful or not yet, weed is certainly the weakest of drugs (including alcohol) wrt harm for the body.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ipnon</author><text>Alcohol and cannabis are both detrimental to brain development.</text></comment> |
33,553,293 | 33,550,306 | 1 | 3 | 33,548,134 | train | <story><title>We should have Markdown-rendered websites</title><url>https://ipfs.io/ipfs/bafybeid7lt7snuzcvcmfqs5a5hlc5fmk3xmflz4hx2qa7c674vm3rpsdvm/why-we-should-have-markdown-rendered-websites.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jmull</author><text>This doesn&#x27;t really make sense, for a couple reasons...<p>There are many flavors of markdown. We&#x27;d need a standards body, compatibility suites, etc., and for all the browser vendors to adopt it.<p>Meanwhile, markdown is designed to transform to HTML, which browsers already render. Adding a markdown-to-html plugin&#x2F;step to your web server or publishing process is not exactly the most burdensome thing, relative to everything else it takes to develop, publish, and maintain a site. And it resolves the markdown flavors issue.<p>The thing is, people could <i>choose</i> to publish, simple uncomplicated sites now -- it would be cheap and easy, too. The HTML is barely more complicated than the equivalent markdown, and it would take a few lines of CSS to apply a basic style.<p>The many sites that choose to be complicated, cluttered, and expensive will continue to be so, for the same reasons they are now. Markdown would just be another way to build simple sites, which they don&#x27;t want.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>minhmeoke</author><text>For people considering adding Markdown support to web browsers or other publishing tools, please consider adopting Djot instead: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;jgm&#x2F;djot" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;jgm&#x2F;djot</a><p>It&#x27;s very similar to the Markdown syntax we all know and love&#x2F;hate, but fixes many inconsistencies in the spec, and also makes it possible to parse a document in linear time, with no backtracking. It is also much fuller-featured than commonmark, with support for definition lists, footnotes, tables, several new kinds of inline formatting (insert, delete, highlight, superscript, subscript), math, smart punctuation, attributes that can be applied to any element, and generic containers for block-level, inline-level, and raw content.<p>Some examples, showing how Djot would be rendered into HTML:
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;htmlpreview.github.io&#x2F;?https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;jgm&#x2F;djot&#x2F;blob&#x2F;master&#x2F;doc&#x2F;syntax.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;htmlpreview.github.io&#x2F;?https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;jgm&#x2F;djot&#x2F;b...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>We should have Markdown-rendered websites</title><url>https://ipfs.io/ipfs/bafybeid7lt7snuzcvcmfqs5a5hlc5fmk3xmflz4hx2qa7c674vm3rpsdvm/why-we-should-have-markdown-rendered-websites.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jmull</author><text>This doesn&#x27;t really make sense, for a couple reasons...<p>There are many flavors of markdown. We&#x27;d need a standards body, compatibility suites, etc., and for all the browser vendors to adopt it.<p>Meanwhile, markdown is designed to transform to HTML, which browsers already render. Adding a markdown-to-html plugin&#x2F;step to your web server or publishing process is not exactly the most burdensome thing, relative to everything else it takes to develop, publish, and maintain a site. And it resolves the markdown flavors issue.<p>The thing is, people could <i>choose</i> to publish, simple uncomplicated sites now -- it would be cheap and easy, too. The HTML is barely more complicated than the equivalent markdown, and it would take a few lines of CSS to apply a basic style.<p>The many sites that choose to be complicated, cluttered, and expensive will continue to be so, for the same reasons they are now. Markdown would just be another way to build simple sites, which they don&#x27;t want.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>6502nerdface</author><text>Interestingly, your comment is very similar to the Gemini FAQ &quot;2.9 Why didn&#x27;t you just use Markdown instead of defining text&#x2F;gemini?&quot; [1]<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gemini.circumlunar.space&#x2F;docs&#x2F;faq.gmi" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gemini.circumlunar.space&#x2F;docs&#x2F;faq.gmi</a></text></comment> |
12,669,775 | 12,669,454 | 1 | 2 | 12,669,086 | train | <story><title>Libreboot – A free BIOS or UEFI replacement</title><url>https://libreboot.org/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jimjimjim</author><text>for a long time i thought the name of the project was libReboot. libreBoot does make more sense though.</text></comment> | <story><title>Libreboot – A free BIOS or UEFI replacement</title><url>https://libreboot.org/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>geofft</author><text>If I want to hack on Libreboot on a separate machine from my primary one, what&#x27;s a good laptop to get? Are there laptops that are close to working but not on the HCL yet?</text></comment> |
34,832,842 | 34,831,985 | 1 | 2 | 34,826,085 | train | <story><title>Show HN: I made an early 2000s-inspired internet forum</title><url>https://basementcommunity.com</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>julianlam</author><text>As the maintainer of a self-proclaimed &quot;modern&quot; forum software, I always get really excited when new board software comes out.<p>You&#x27;ve probably discovered that building forum software is a lot more complicated than it looks. Those early boards really had a lot more going on under the hood than you thought!<p>It took us (a team of 3) two solid years before we considered ourselves on par with those old boards, feature-wise.<p>I&#x27;ll say what I always say when I discover new board software — give me a run for my money. Good luck!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>sunaurus</author><text>&gt; It took us (a team of 3) two solid years before we considered ourselves on par with those old boards, feature-wise.<p>This is really interesting to me, because I created an &quot;old&quot; style forum from scratch for a gaming community about a decade ago, and it only took me a month or two to build.<p>I built it with Python and Angularjs. I think I had pretty much all the typical features: subforums, threads, posts, user profiles, signatures, full moderation tools, etc.<p>I&#x27;m actually genuinely curious about what I did differently from you. Do you have any blog posts or anything like that going into more detail about the hidden complexities that you guys dealt with under the hood?<p>Edit: Aha, I found your product through your profile and had a quick look. I guess it probably just comes down to amount features - you guys have a LOT more stuff going on that just a typical old forum did.</text></comment> | <story><title>Show HN: I made an early 2000s-inspired internet forum</title><url>https://basementcommunity.com</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>julianlam</author><text>As the maintainer of a self-proclaimed &quot;modern&quot; forum software, I always get really excited when new board software comes out.<p>You&#x27;ve probably discovered that building forum software is a lot more complicated than it looks. Those early boards really had a lot more going on under the hood than you thought!<p>It took us (a team of 3) two solid years before we considered ourselves on par with those old boards, feature-wise.<p>I&#x27;ll say what I always say when I discover new board software — give me a run for my money. Good luck!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rambambram</author><text>NodeBB looks nice. A mobile first experience for a forum was lacking in the old ones. Your blog doesn&#x27;t seem to have an RSS feed!?</text></comment> |
24,128,670 | 24,128,734 | 1 | 2 | 24,127,778 | train | <story><title>Court dismisses Genius lawsuit over lyrics-scraping by Google</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2020/08/11/court-dismisses-genius-lawsuit-over-lyrics-scraping-by-google/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>JMTQp8lwXL</author><text>If I was going to scrape this data and re-purpose it, I would&#x27;ve absolutely cleaned up those apostrophes. The pivoting between straight and curly would certainly be a pet peeve. Unless there&#x27;s a semantic difference between the two I&#x27;m unaware of.</text></item><item><author>jonas21</author><text>Regardless of what you think about the lawsuit, you have to give them credit for their watermarking method:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;imgur.com&#x2F;IGs0sg7" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;imgur.com&#x2F;IGs0sg7</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jdub</author><text>The semantic difference would be important in a song like Baby Got Back by Sir Mix-a-lot, which includes both speech quotes and imperial measurements.</text></comment> | <story><title>Court dismisses Genius lawsuit over lyrics-scraping by Google</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2020/08/11/court-dismisses-genius-lawsuit-over-lyrics-scraping-by-google/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>JMTQp8lwXL</author><text>If I was going to scrape this data and re-purpose it, I would&#x27;ve absolutely cleaned up those apostrophes. The pivoting between straight and curly would certainly be a pet peeve. Unless there&#x27;s a semantic difference between the two I&#x27;m unaware of.</text></item><item><author>jonas21</author><text>Regardless of what you think about the lawsuit, you have to give them credit for their watermarking method:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;imgur.com&#x2F;IGs0sg7" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;imgur.com&#x2F;IGs0sg7</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>a-nikolaev</author><text>Yeah, makes sense, but this is still a pretty good approach. Inserting invisible or unusual Unicode symbols would prompt the scraper to carefully cleanup the read files (maybe even fixing these apostrophes as a result). Unusual whitespace is also likely to be removed and cleaned up.
On the other hand, these alternating apostrophes have a chance to stay unnoticed (or neglected), falling through the cracks.</text></comment> |
12,811,029 | 12,811,001 | 1 | 2 | 12,809,561 | train | <story><title>Alphabet Announces Third Quarter 2016 Results</title><url>https://abc.xyz/investor/news/earnings/2016/Q3_alphabet_earnings/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ultimoo</author><text>Can someone shed light on why companies do a stock repurchase?</text></item><item><author>d4l3k</author><text><p><pre><code> Stock Repurchase
In October 2016, the board of directors of Alphabet authorized the company to repurchase up to $7,019,340,976.83 of its Class C capital stock. The repurchase is expected to be executed from time to time, subject to general business and market conditions and other investment opportunities, through open market purchases or privately negotiated transactions, including through Rule 10b5-1 plans.
</code></pre>
Is it typical for Google to have stock repurchases? I haven&#x27;t heard of them doing that before.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>hencq</author><text>Basically a way to reward shareholders. They&#x27;re more or less equivalent to dividend, but considered more tax efficient, because capital gains tax is lower than tax on dividends.</text></comment> | <story><title>Alphabet Announces Third Quarter 2016 Results</title><url>https://abc.xyz/investor/news/earnings/2016/Q3_alphabet_earnings/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ultimoo</author><text>Can someone shed light on why companies do a stock repurchase?</text></item><item><author>d4l3k</author><text><p><pre><code> Stock Repurchase
In October 2016, the board of directors of Alphabet authorized the company to repurchase up to $7,019,340,976.83 of its Class C capital stock. The repurchase is expected to be executed from time to time, subject to general business and market conditions and other investment opportunities, through open market purchases or privately negotiated transactions, including through Rule 10b5-1 plans.
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Is it typical for Google to have stock repurchases? I haven&#x27;t heard of them doing that before.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>xyzzyz</author><text>It is a mean to return money to shareholders. The reason it is used over paying dividends is tax optimization. If you pay out the dividend, the shareholders need to pay income tax. If you do stock buyback, the shareholders need to pay capital gains tax, which is deferred until sale, and can even be offset by losses incurred on other capital holdings.</text></comment> |
38,076,168 | 38,075,832 | 1 | 3 | 38,072,756 | train | <story><title>Autism and responding to authority (2019)</title><url>https://neuroclastic.com/autism-and-responding-to-authority/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>digging</author><text>Ok, somebody else explain why neurotypical people are content to obey arbitrary authority when they don&#x27;t have to.<p>I surely shouldn&#x27;t have included that bit of speculation because all the replies to my comment have nothing to do with the actual point of the comment.</text></item><item><author>hotnfresh</author><text>&gt; But many of us experienced &quot;listen to me because I said so&quot; as children, and continue to experience that in school and into adulthood in the workplace. It&#x27;s meaningless, but many neurotypical people neither notice that it&#x27;s wrong or understand why it&#x27;s wrong<p>This would not be perhaps <i>the</i> most-universal example of arbitrary authority, played with in countless pieces of mainstream media, if neurotypicals were as you suppose they are.<p>I think you need to go back to the drawing board on this one.</text></item><item><author>digging</author><text>I suspect the author meant something more like, &quot;neurotypical people live contented lives holding the belief that arbitrary authority actually exists.&quot; But I can&#x27;t truly speak for them.<p>Even before I fully reasoned it out, growing up I always knew that arbitrary authority doesn&#x27;t exist for me. Sure a SME should be given more weight discussing their subject, and a parent understands dangers of the world that their young child literally can&#x27;t comprehend. But many of us experienced &quot;listen to me because I said so&quot; as children, and continue to experience that in school and into adulthood in the workplace. It&#x27;s meaningless, but many neurotypical people neither notice that it&#x27;s wrong or understand why it&#x27;s wrong, perhaps because their brains aren&#x27;t wired a way to unconsciously detect those red flags.</text></item><item><author>JohnBooty</author><text>This article is a bit maddening. I find the beginning encouraging....<p><pre><code> I’ve written before about how autistic people often
struggle to know how to act around authority figures.
Actually, that’s not true– we don’t seem to *care* how
we act around authority.
</code></pre>
I like the distinction between unknowing and uncaring. I like the level of personal responsibility that this suggests and I wish the rest of the article continued in this vein.<p><pre><code> It makes us *really weird* to neurotypical people,
who seem to accept authority happily.
</code></pre>
This is not correct at all in my experience. I don&#x27;t think anybody loves submitting to authority just for the fun of it.<p>Certainly there is a lot of personal calculus that goes into whether or not we accept a given authority. Cost vs. benefit. Whether we see a reason to respect the authority. Whether we see value in it. Social pressure. Of course this calculus will be different from person to person and from situation to situation, and of course neurotypicals and folks on the spectrum will tend to have a different view.<p>But, &quot;seem to accept authority happily?&quot; Yeesh. It seems to imply an absence of thought rather than different criteria weights.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Jtsummers</author><text>&quot;Content&quot; is an assumption on your part. Higher tolerance for bullshit is also a plausible explanation. Or a difference in emotional intelligence and the corresponding understanding of (and willingness to play) the political game to get through the day. I&#x27;m not &quot;content&quot; with my management, but I know it&#x27;s temporary and that I don&#x27;t want to be unemployed in the interim and my pay is good enough that I&#x27;m not ready to nope out of here (if the pay was worse, or my fu funds weren&#x27;t spent a couple years ago and not yet recovered, it would be a different situation).</text></comment> | <story><title>Autism and responding to authority (2019)</title><url>https://neuroclastic.com/autism-and-responding-to-authority/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>digging</author><text>Ok, somebody else explain why neurotypical people are content to obey arbitrary authority when they don&#x27;t have to.<p>I surely shouldn&#x27;t have included that bit of speculation because all the replies to my comment have nothing to do with the actual point of the comment.</text></item><item><author>hotnfresh</author><text>&gt; But many of us experienced &quot;listen to me because I said so&quot; as children, and continue to experience that in school and into adulthood in the workplace. It&#x27;s meaningless, but many neurotypical people neither notice that it&#x27;s wrong or understand why it&#x27;s wrong<p>This would not be perhaps <i>the</i> most-universal example of arbitrary authority, played with in countless pieces of mainstream media, if neurotypicals were as you suppose they are.<p>I think you need to go back to the drawing board on this one.</text></item><item><author>digging</author><text>I suspect the author meant something more like, &quot;neurotypical people live contented lives holding the belief that arbitrary authority actually exists.&quot; But I can&#x27;t truly speak for them.<p>Even before I fully reasoned it out, growing up I always knew that arbitrary authority doesn&#x27;t exist for me. Sure a SME should be given more weight discussing their subject, and a parent understands dangers of the world that their young child literally can&#x27;t comprehend. But many of us experienced &quot;listen to me because I said so&quot; as children, and continue to experience that in school and into adulthood in the workplace. It&#x27;s meaningless, but many neurotypical people neither notice that it&#x27;s wrong or understand why it&#x27;s wrong, perhaps because their brains aren&#x27;t wired a way to unconsciously detect those red flags.</text></item><item><author>JohnBooty</author><text>This article is a bit maddening. I find the beginning encouraging....<p><pre><code> I’ve written before about how autistic people often
struggle to know how to act around authority figures.
Actually, that’s not true– we don’t seem to *care* how
we act around authority.
</code></pre>
I like the distinction between unknowing and uncaring. I like the level of personal responsibility that this suggests and I wish the rest of the article continued in this vein.<p><pre><code> It makes us *really weird* to neurotypical people,
who seem to accept authority happily.
</code></pre>
This is not correct at all in my experience. I don&#x27;t think anybody loves submitting to authority just for the fun of it.<p>Certainly there is a lot of personal calculus that goes into whether or not we accept a given authority. Cost vs. benefit. Whether we see a reason to respect the authority. Whether we see value in it. Social pressure. Of course this calculus will be different from person to person and from situation to situation, and of course neurotypicals and folks on the spectrum will tend to have a different view.<p>But, &quot;seem to accept authority happily?&quot; Yeesh. It seems to imply an absence of thought rather than different criteria weights.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>RoyalHenOil</author><text>Consider the possibility that, as someone who is not neurotypical, you may not be accurately reading the contentment level of people who are neurotypical.</text></comment> |
13,809,131 | 13,808,484 | 1 | 3 | 13,808,254 | train | <story><title>German institute successfully tests underwater energy storage sphere</title><url>https://arstechnica.com/science/2017/03/german-institute-successfully-tests-underwater-energy-storage-sphere/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>_nalply</author><text>I read about that about four days ago in a Swiss online newspaper [1] (German). The Lake Constance is a large lake (length 64km &#x2F; 39mi) carved by the Ice Age Rhine glacier shared by Germany, Switzerland and Austria.<p>Since November last year a hollow concrete sphere with the weight of 20 metric tons has been sitting on the lake bed at a depth of 100m &#x2F; 300ft. In times of excess power water is pumped out of the sphere and power is regenerated by inflowing water powering a turbine.<p>Now they are going to experiment with an even bigger sphere in the sea. Perhaps there will be some differences because of the salt water environment.<p>[1]: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.tagblatt.ch&#x2F;ostschweiz&#x2F;Forscher-speichern-Strom-im-Bodensee-mit-Betonkugel;art120094,4918903" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.tagblatt.ch&#x2F;ostschweiz&#x2F;Forscher-speichern-Strom-i...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>German institute successfully tests underwater energy storage sphere</title><url>https://arstechnica.com/science/2017/03/german-institute-successfully-tests-underwater-energy-storage-sphere/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>ISL</author><text>This is amazing. To store temporary energy, you don&#x27;t need a mountain range anymore. Instead, you can use nearby offshore trenches and continental shelves.<p>Open Google Earth. Look at the Philippines, the Arabian Peninsula, Hawaii, and eastern North Carolina. It&#x27;s a perfect complement to solar energy in certain parts of the world.<p>Some good ideas are simple. This may be one of them.</text></comment> |
19,079,813 | 19,077,007 | 1 | 2 | 19,075,812 | train | <story><title>Istio – An open platform to connect, manage, and secure microservices</title><url>https://github.com/istio/istio</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>olafmol</author><text>Istio adds to Kubernetes:<p>- Automatic load balancing for HTTP, gRPC, WebSockets, and TCP traffic.<p>- Fine-grained control of traffic behaviour with rich routing rules, retries, fail-overs, and fault injection.<p>- A pluggable policy layer and configuration API supporting access controls, rate limits and quotas.<p>- Automatic metrics, logs, and traces for all traffic within a cluster, including cluster ingress and egress.<p>- Secure service-to-service communication in a cluster with strong identity-based authentication and authorization.<p>Istio on its own is powerful and flexible. It can also be hard to understand, setup, and manage, plus can be brittle.<p>(disclaimer: I&#x27;m co-founder of Vamp.io, a canary test &amp; release system for DevOps teams that works with both HAProxy and Istio)<p>What Istio imho misses is a user-friendly way of setting up, managing and automating Istio configurations for microservices topologies to quickly achieve automated canary-releasing and A&#x2F;B testing pipelines. Call Vamp a canary-releasing and A&#x2F;B testing “control plane” for Istio&#x2F;K8s if you will.<p>Basically the potential of service-meshes like Istio lies in &quot;driving&quot; it from higher-level metric&#x2F;KPI-based automation systems.<p>We wrote several blog-posts on how to make use of Istio, starting here: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;medium.com&#x2F;vamp-io&#x2F;taming-istio-76fab339f685" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;medium.com&#x2F;vamp-io&#x2F;taming-istio-76fab339f685</a> (more blogs on Istio can be found here <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;medium.com&#x2F;vamp-io&#x2F;tagged&#x2F;istio" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;medium.com&#x2F;vamp-io&#x2F;tagged&#x2F;istio</a>)<p>Hopefully this gives some more insights in what Istio is, what it isn&#x27;t, and how you can leverage it in your pipelines and architectures.</text></comment> | <story><title>Istio – An open platform to connect, manage, and secure microservices</title><url>https://github.com/istio/istio</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Tobani</author><text>I like the concepts behind istio. I want to be able to use istio, but I had it running in a test&#x2F;dev environment, and it would just randomly start saying 503 for my virtual services. Removing and adding the virtual service would fix it for a couple of days. I didn&#x27;t have time to really spend debugging it, and I didn&#x27;t see any obvious errors in the logs. :-&#x2F;</text></comment> |
10,933,654 | 10,933,073 | 1 | 2 | 10,930,950 | train | <story><title>OpenFace: Free and open source face recognition with deep neural networks</title><url>http://cmusatyalab.github.io/openface/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>kefka</author><text>I also built an Open Source (GPL3) facial recognition program as well, called uWho (github.com&#x2F;jwcrawley&#x2F;uWho). Mine doesn&#x27;t need anything like CUDA or OpenCL, and runs on a 6 year old laptop at 1280x720@15fps.<p>I ran it at our free, ticketless convention called Makevention (bloomington, IN). Estimates were that 650-700 people showed up. My tracker counted 669 uniques, which I think is spot on.<p>I also wrote mine for privacy in mind. The database was a KNN on a perceptual hash of the face. The data that was stored was only a hash and could only verify a face: it could not generate the face from the hash. Considering the application (Maker&#x2F;Hacker con) I wanted to be sure that this was the case. (The data only resided on that machine, and it&#x27;s wiped now.)<p>I&#x27;ve halted work on the <i>gui</i> version of it. Now I want to make it into a client&#x2F;server, where the clients are RasPis (or other cheap compute with camera) and the server is whatever good machine you have. Initially, I&#x27;ll reimplement the same algo, but I know that KNN has exponential time&#x2F;cpu requirements the more samples I get.</text></comment> | <story><title>OpenFace: Free and open source face recognition with deep neural networks</title><url>http://cmusatyalab.github.io/openface/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>thedangler</author><text>I would use it to detect friends that come over to my place and load their taste in music on my media server.</text></comment> |
2,808,298 | 2,808,203 | 1 | 2 | 2,807,422 | train | <story><title>When you're in a team that I lead, there are 3 things that I'd like to ask you</title><url>http://kkovacs.eu/teamwork-ground-rules</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>cletus</author><text>I don't necessarily disagree with the points the author raises but to paraphrase JFK "ask not what your people can do for you, ask what you can do for your people".<p>I've been in team leading positions before and my approach is this:<p>1. Lead by example. You should be working at least as hard as anyone else who's reporting to you. Never make a fuss about it. Never complain about it. Just do it;<p>2. Shield your people from crap. Part of your job when you're in a leadership position is to shield them from crap. And by crap I mean things like management BS, customer requirements and so forth. Let them get on with getting the job done. Your job, at least in part, is to deal with these (typically overblown if not outright imagined) exigencies that customers tend to have. Likewise, your people should spend very little time in meetings, particularly with people outside your team;<p>3. Appreciate that every developer is different. We all like to work in different ways. Some of us are good at (and like) sailing through uncharted waters. Some like a far more structured environment. It's your job to cater to that to get the most of your people; and<p>4. Make sure each person knows how what they do fits into the big picture. This can be as simple as "you're writing this component so when the reporting falls over, which happens because of X, Y or Z, the system recovers". People work better, in my experience, when they have a level of understanding about where their piece of the puzzle goes and why it's important. Again, different people want/need different levels of detail here.<p>Too often management also thinks that team leadership just happens. In my experience, depending on the project and the size of the team, it can take as much as 25-50% of your time. Too often you're still expected to produce work as if you were spending 100% of your time programming however.</text></comment> | <story><title>When you're in a team that I lead, there are 3 things that I'd like to ask you</title><url>http://kkovacs.eu/teamwork-ground-rules</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>run4yourlives</author><text>Sorry, but this is horrible, and simply not how leadership works.<p>It's the team lead's job to answer all of these questions on their own, by <i>interacting</i> and <i>communicating</i> with the team members. The role of the leader is to take up the communication slack of the team members because they are to <i>focus on getting the work done</i>.<p>Now, that's not to suggest that members shouldn't be communicating at all, but this is presented in such a way that if all team members followed it properly and consistently, they are basically self governing and don't require a leader at all.<p>The whole point of the leadership position is to account for each of these failures in human nature.<p>There was an old saying that was used in the Army that I remember fondly:<p>"If the student hasn't learned, then you have not taught."<p>In other words - it's always the teacher (or leader's) fault, because it is the job of the leader to <i>adapt to the personalities on the team</i> not the other way around.<p>It's easy to be a leader of all-stars, all you need to do is stay out of the way (topic for another day). Being a good team lead is about achieving all-star results with normal people.</text></comment> |
13,428,781 | 13,428,801 | 1 | 2 | 13,427,670 | train | <story><title>My Go Resolutions for 2017</title><url>https://research.swtch.com/go2017</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>xyzzy_plugh</author><text>I see where you are coming from, but that isn&#x27;t the go way.<p>Switch on arbitrary types, followed by typecasting? That&#x27;s the go way. No surprises. Explicit instead if implicit behavior.</text></item><item><author>bsaul</author><text>Along with generics, they should probably also reconsider algebraic data types, such a enums with values. This is <i>the</i> best feature swift adds to the table hands on, and it seems to me as it&#x27;s pretty orthogonal to the rest of the language ( although it carries a lot of other features with it, such as pattern matching).<p>They wrote that they considered it to be redundant with interface programming, but really i don&#x27;t understand why. Interface is about behavior, not data. An int doesn&#x27;t &quot;behave&quot; like one, it <i>is</i> one. And something that&#x27;s either an int or an array of string, doesn&#x27;t &quot;behave&quot; like anything you&#x27;d want to describe with an interface...<p>As an example, one should see how protobuf &quot;one of&quot; messages are dealt with in go : switch on arbitrary types followed by manual typecasting. That&#x27;s just gross...</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>coldtea</author><text>If anything, ADT&#x27;s would make it even more explicit. And pattern matching will make it impossible to miss cases.</text></comment> | <story><title>My Go Resolutions for 2017</title><url>https://research.swtch.com/go2017</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>xyzzy_plugh</author><text>I see where you are coming from, but that isn&#x27;t the go way.<p>Switch on arbitrary types, followed by typecasting? That&#x27;s the go way. No surprises. Explicit instead if implicit behavior.</text></item><item><author>bsaul</author><text>Along with generics, they should probably also reconsider algebraic data types, such a enums with values. This is <i>the</i> best feature swift adds to the table hands on, and it seems to me as it&#x27;s pretty orthogonal to the rest of the language ( although it carries a lot of other features with it, such as pattern matching).<p>They wrote that they considered it to be redundant with interface programming, but really i don&#x27;t understand why. Interface is about behavior, not data. An int doesn&#x27;t &quot;behave&quot; like one, it <i>is</i> one. And something that&#x27;s either an int or an array of string, doesn&#x27;t &quot;behave&quot; like anything you&#x27;d want to describe with an interface...<p>As an example, one should see how protobuf &quot;one of&quot; messages are dealt with in go : switch on arbitrary types followed by manual typecasting. That&#x27;s just gross...</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bsaul</author><text>If you have a look at swift, it&#x27;s also very explicit, and non-magical ( which is why i like it so much). The difference with go is that you can&#x27;t make any type error when unwrapping the enum, because the compiler knows what are the different possibilities.<p>I see no reason for go not to adopt it, in all honesty. it&#x27;s nothing like generics, because it doesn&#x27;t seem to add complexity to the rest of the language ( imho ).</text></comment> |
41,791,090 | 41,791,019 | 1 | 2 | 41,784,287 | train | <story><title>US weighs Google break-up in landmark antitrust case</title><url>https://www.ft.com/content/f6e84608-e0e5-48c5-a0eb-dde7675fb608</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>relistan</author><text>Hilarious to see all the people lamenting the break-up of AT&amp;T. That break-up sparked the long distance phone race, which became the driving force for the massive laying of fiber optics... which enabled the Internet boom of the 1990s.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bityard</author><text>Breaking up AT&amp;T was unquestionably the right call. (So to say.)<p>Long distance was expensive for quite a while even after the break-up. If you called up an out-of-state friend or relative to catch up, you expected the call to cost you at least a few bucks. (And you hoped they would be the ones to call you next time.) Even into the 90&#x27;s, long distance at $0.10&#x2F;minute was considered cheap. And in most rural areas, everywhere past a mile or so out of town was long distance.<p>I remember buying long-distance calling cards to bring our phone costs down. For about 5 years, it was cheaper to just get a local-only phone line and then buy your long-distance as phone cards. Each card came with a certain number of minutes pre-loaded. You&#x27;d dial the 1-800 number on the back, scratch off your PIN, enter it, and then you&#x27;d dial your destination number. Other than the hassle of buying and using the card, the major downside was that your own number didn&#x27;t (usually) show up on the caller ID.<p>They were also good if you stayed in hotels a lot, since hotels would charge upward of usurious amounts for both local and long-distance calls but they would typically allow toll-free calls to go through without charge.</text></comment> | <story><title>US weighs Google break-up in landmark antitrust case</title><url>https://www.ft.com/content/f6e84608-e0e5-48c5-a0eb-dde7675fb608</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>relistan</author><text>Hilarious to see all the people lamenting the break-up of AT&amp;T. That break-up sparked the long distance phone race, which became the driving force for the massive laying of fiber optics... which enabled the Internet boom of the 1990s.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>CSMastermind</author><text>My understanding was that most of the internet infrastructure was laid by Bell before their break-up because they projected video calling being a huge use case in the future.</text></comment> |
19,710,276 | 19,709,061 | 1 | 3 | 19,707,543 | train | <story><title>We Don't Have a Talent Shortage. We Have a Sucker Shortage</title><url>https://resumeskills.us/talent/shortage</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rubicon33</author><text>Yup. And they&#x27;re missing the point that this isn&#x27;t 1985 anymore. A high school student with a week of JavaScript and HTML could write AirBnB. Or at least, JavaScript and similar languages make programming much, much easier (and hence the barrier to entry much easier).<p>As coding difficulty drops, and supply increases, the net effect will be a much higher demand for jobs than supply. And that&#x27;s exactly where big tech wants it to be.<p>edit: here comes the javascript developer downvotes.</text></item><item><author>_57jb</author><text>I think you are making the mistake that enterprises who employ thousands of developers are looking for quality over butts in seats.</text></item><item><author>zaroth</author><text>Trying to teach “everyone” to code is like teaching everyone to draw in high school art classes. It gives a lot of people exposure to what it means to code&#x2F;draw, the fundamental steps of coding&#x2F;drawing but doesn’t increase the supply of coders&#x2F;artists in the world to the point where the skilled artists&#x2F;programmers become commonplace.</text></item><item><author>rubicon33</author><text>I feel like a broken record, but I&#x27;m going to say it anyways.<p>There is NOT a shortage of software developers. That myth was developed by big tech, and pushed all the way up the ladder, to the top of government. The goal? Reduce labor costs.<p>Big tech has always been 1 step ahead of the employee, just like coal, and metal working was. They saw the huge need for developers and realized their costs would increase unless they actively pursued ways to prevent that from happening.<p>And that&#x27;s how you get organizations like code.org. That&#x27;s how you get President Obama on the big screen, telling everyone to learn to code. That&#x27;s how you get a GREAT job, and make it BLUE COLLAR.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>seattle_spring</author><text>&gt; A high school student with a week of JavaScript and HTML could write AirBnB<p>I actually love it when a developer says something like this, because it tells me way more than even 2 full days of pairing or interviewing could: They know absolutely nothing about software at scale, and are probably extremely arrogant to boot.</text></comment> | <story><title>We Don't Have a Talent Shortage. We Have a Sucker Shortage</title><url>https://resumeskills.us/talent/shortage</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rubicon33</author><text>Yup. And they&#x27;re missing the point that this isn&#x27;t 1985 anymore. A high school student with a week of JavaScript and HTML could write AirBnB. Or at least, JavaScript and similar languages make programming much, much easier (and hence the barrier to entry much easier).<p>As coding difficulty drops, and supply increases, the net effect will be a much higher demand for jobs than supply. And that&#x27;s exactly where big tech wants it to be.<p>edit: here comes the javascript developer downvotes.</text></item><item><author>_57jb</author><text>I think you are making the mistake that enterprises who employ thousands of developers are looking for quality over butts in seats.</text></item><item><author>zaroth</author><text>Trying to teach “everyone” to code is like teaching everyone to draw in high school art classes. It gives a lot of people exposure to what it means to code&#x2F;draw, the fundamental steps of coding&#x2F;drawing but doesn’t increase the supply of coders&#x2F;artists in the world to the point where the skilled artists&#x2F;programmers become commonplace.</text></item><item><author>rubicon33</author><text>I feel like a broken record, but I&#x27;m going to say it anyways.<p>There is NOT a shortage of software developers. That myth was developed by big tech, and pushed all the way up the ladder, to the top of government. The goal? Reduce labor costs.<p>Big tech has always been 1 step ahead of the employee, just like coal, and metal working was. They saw the huge need for developers and realized their costs would increase unless they actively pursued ways to prevent that from happening.<p>And that&#x27;s how you get organizations like code.org. That&#x27;s how you get President Obama on the big screen, telling everyone to learn to code. That&#x27;s how you get a GREAT job, and make it BLUE COLLAR.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>antt</author><text>&gt;Yup. And they&#x27;re missing the point that this isn&#x27;t 1985 anymore. A high school student with a week of JavaScript and HTML could write AirBnB.<p>Sorry is this a joke? Because I&#x27;m missing it.</text></comment> |
18,000,621 | 18,000,692 | 1 | 3 | 17,999,686 | train | <story><title>Apple Lightning Connector Serial Access (2015)</title><url>http://ramtin-amin.fr/#tristar</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>exabrial</author><text>Apple is kinda put into a tight spot with lightning; they spent a bunch of money developing the connector an accessory platform. Now usb-c is taking over and they&#x27;ve moved to 100% usb-c on their laptops. it&#x27;ll be interesting to see if the lightning connector gets The Chopping Block anytime soon</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>gumby</author><text>Don&#x27;t forget that Apple also participated in the design of Type C, which followed development of lightning.<p>The big wins for lightning are that it&#x27;s tsuper thin and that the part more likely to break is on the cable rather than the socket, while the type c socket on my MacBook and the one on my Anker charger (somewhat) rapidly became loose. I&#x27;d hoped that it would be the ground shroud on the cable but sadly it was the sockets that failed.<p>The newer phones are getting thicker again so it&#x27;s possible there will be room for Type C. The 6&#x2F;7&#x2F;8 designs were too thin to admit a type C cable, especially given the camber.</text></comment> | <story><title>Apple Lightning Connector Serial Access (2015)</title><url>http://ramtin-amin.fr/#tristar</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>exabrial</author><text>Apple is kinda put into a tight spot with lightning; they spent a bunch of money developing the connector an accessory platform. Now usb-c is taking over and they&#x27;ve moved to 100% usb-c on their laptops. it&#x27;ll be interesting to see if the lightning connector gets The Chopping Block anytime soon</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>scarface74</author><text>Apple spent $356 million on Authentec for its fingerprint authentication technology and more on research and is dropping that in favor of Face ID.<p>Apple is well known for dropping ports. It dropped all of its ports for USB back in 1997.<p>I doubt that Apple will let sunk costs stop it from moving forward.</text></comment> |
9,652,985 | 9,652,906 | 1 | 3 | 9,652,269 | train | <story><title>WikiLeaks offers $100k for details of Obama’s trade deal</title><url>http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/in-the-loop/wp/2015/06/02/wikileaks-offers-100000-for-details-of-obamas-trade-deal/?hpid=z2</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jpwagner</author><text><i>What&#x27;s wrong with that?</i><p>In the past, Wikileaks has not been the moral arbiter. If a whistleblower decides that exposing information is in the public interest, that is on them, Wikileaks provides a medium.<p>Here, whether or not information should remain secret, there is an incentive to expose it. Wikileaks has decided what deserves to be public -- it&#x27;s irrelevant if I, personally, agree with that judgment when I say: this makes me question Wikileaks as a trusted medium.</text></item><item><author>kauffj</author><text>An individual holds information that is in the public good to be released.<p>Said individual is threatened with significant harm by states if the information is released.<p>Only those with tremendous conscious, like Snowden or Manning, step up in the face of odds like that.<p>Financial compensation shifts the balance to make dangerous humanitarian disclosures more self-interested. It means that more information that should be public becomes public.<p>What&#x27;s wrong with that?</text></item><item><author>ohitsdom</author><text>TPP details definitely need to be in the public, but I&#x27;m surprised WikiLeaks is offering a bounty. Have they done this before? Not that I can recall. And I would think offering money would change the tone of prosecuting the &quot;whistle-blower&quot;. It&#x27;d be hard to claim that you are a whistle-blower when you are receiving money- that seems a lot more like standard espionage to me.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>DSMan195276</author><text>I agree with you on pretty much everything. However, I think it&#x27;s worth noting that Wikileaks isn&#x27;t actually the one paying $100,000, in that way the title is misleading IMO. What Wikileaks is doing is holding a funding goal of $100,000, with the funding currently around $35,000. So, while it was Wikileaks&#x27; idea, ultimately it&#x27;s the general public (Or, at-least, a few people who would like this to be leaked) who are offering this money as a bounty. So I wouldn&#x27;t consider it exactly the same as Wikileaks just flat-out offering $100,000 - This bounty won&#x27;t happen unless there are a decent amount of people which support this decision and fund it. It still does change the dynamic like you&#x27;ve said though.</text></comment> | <story><title>WikiLeaks offers $100k for details of Obama’s trade deal</title><url>http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/in-the-loop/wp/2015/06/02/wikileaks-offers-100000-for-details-of-obamas-trade-deal/?hpid=z2</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jpwagner</author><text><i>What&#x27;s wrong with that?</i><p>In the past, Wikileaks has not been the moral arbiter. If a whistleblower decides that exposing information is in the public interest, that is on them, Wikileaks provides a medium.<p>Here, whether or not information should remain secret, there is an incentive to expose it. Wikileaks has decided what deserves to be public -- it&#x27;s irrelevant if I, personally, agree with that judgment when I say: this makes me question Wikileaks as a trusted medium.</text></item><item><author>kauffj</author><text>An individual holds information that is in the public good to be released.<p>Said individual is threatened with significant harm by states if the information is released.<p>Only those with tremendous conscious, like Snowden or Manning, step up in the face of odds like that.<p>Financial compensation shifts the balance to make dangerous humanitarian disclosures more self-interested. It means that more information that should be public becomes public.<p>What&#x27;s wrong with that?</text></item><item><author>ohitsdom</author><text>TPP details definitely need to be in the public, but I&#x27;m surprised WikiLeaks is offering a bounty. Have they done this before? Not that I can recall. And I would think offering money would change the tone of prosecuting the &quot;whistle-blower&quot;. It&#x27;d be hard to claim that you are a whistle-blower when you are receiving money- that seems a lot more like standard espionage to me.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jarradhope</author><text>Well, isn&#x27;t the bounty is crowdfunded? So it&#x27;s the public asking for this, via WikiLeaks. The press value of this move puts the issue in the media spotlight which also good for the issue in public favour, WikiLeaks using it&#x27;s name makes more sense from a media perspective as opposed to &quot;some random assortment of people&quot;.<p>Really, the TPP should be public, shouldn&#x27;t we be questioning the trust of the Governments?</text></comment> |
14,649,815 | 14,647,698 | 1 | 2 | 14,644,938 | train | <story><title>Cloudflare launches app development platform, announces $100M investment fund</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2017/06/27/cloudflare-launches-cloudflare-apps-platform-and-100m-fund-from-investors</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>zackbloom</author><text>I&#x27;m a lead engineer on the Cloudflare Apps team and I&#x27;d love to answer any questions. Cloudflare has been working on building apps into our platform for over six years, and I&#x27;ve personally been working on this codebase for over three (1200 days exactly today in fact).<p>The initial goal of Apps is to make it possible for everyone to use all the tools technical people find and use on Github and npm everyday. Our long term goal is to make it possible for developers to make a living building tools which make the web better. As an engineer myself, the moment I will personally enjoy the most is when a developer makes $1MM on the store meaning it has truly changed their lives. That will be when this experiment is proven a success and we can&#x27;t wait!<p>UPDATE: I found a visualization that Teffen Ellis on our team made of every commit throughout the history of the project: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;drive.google.com&#x2F;file&#x2F;d&#x2F;0B6EsMIhQjoQYT2pmS05hU1RuUTQ&#x2F;view" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;drive.google.com&#x2F;file&#x2F;d&#x2F;0B6EsMIhQjoQYT2pmS05hU1RuUTQ...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Cloudflare launches app development platform, announces $100M investment fund</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2017/06/27/cloudflare-launches-cloudflare-apps-platform-and-100m-fund-from-investors</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>kentt</author><text>I&#x27;d be very wary about investing my time and resources on a platform with such a corrupt CEO. Just a few months ago he was blatantly lying* about the massive security issues they were having.<p>* <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=13721644" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=13721644</a></text></comment> |
27,260,349 | 27,258,634 | 1 | 2 | 27,257,641 | train | <story><title>The Limits to Blockchain Scalability</title><url>https://vitalik.ca/general/2021/05/23/scaling.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>idlewords</author><text>The really obvious weakness in any blockchain setup is the software. Whoever controls the software upgrade channel will always have potential control of the blockchain, whether that&#x27;s the official entity in charge, or some intermediary.<p>If you want really widespread distribution of full nodes, you need to make a consumer-friendly distribution of the node software, and package it and keep it updated in a way that regular users can run it and forget it. This same convenience introduces a centralization problem that obviates the whole point of running a distributed ledger.<p>This is a point so obvious I hesitate to make it, but I&#x27;ve learned that in blockchain territory there is no flaw too obvious to point out.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rauljordan2020</author><text>Ethereum proof of stake has 4 production implementations today that run the chain. They are from independent teams that are not part of the Ethereum Foundation</text></comment> | <story><title>The Limits to Blockchain Scalability</title><url>https://vitalik.ca/general/2021/05/23/scaling.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>idlewords</author><text>The really obvious weakness in any blockchain setup is the software. Whoever controls the software upgrade channel will always have potential control of the blockchain, whether that&#x27;s the official entity in charge, or some intermediary.<p>If you want really widespread distribution of full nodes, you need to make a consumer-friendly distribution of the node software, and package it and keep it updated in a way that regular users can run it and forget it. This same convenience introduces a centralization problem that obviates the whole point of running a distributed ledger.<p>This is a point so obvious I hesitate to make it, but I&#x27;ve learned that in blockchain territory there is no flaw too obvious to point out.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>wmf</author><text>That&#x27;s why some blockchains have multiple implementations and don&#x27;t use auto-updates. There&#x27;s also some work on taking governance out of developer&#x27;s hands (e.g. Tezos where users vote on new features).</text></comment> |
22,056,559 | 22,055,988 | 1 | 3 | 22,053,798 | train | <story><title>Vegetation is expanding at high altitudes in the Himalayas</title><url>https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-51050456</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>chrisco255</author><text>Carbon Dioxide Fertilization Greening Earth, Study Finds:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nasa.gov&#x2F;feature&#x2F;goddard&#x2F;2016&#x2F;carbon-dioxide-fertilization-greening-earth" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nasa.gov&#x2F;feature&#x2F;goddard&#x2F;2016&#x2F;carbon-dioxide-fer...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Vegetation is expanding at high altitudes in the Himalayas</title><url>https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-51050456</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>mirimir</author><text>This is not at all surprising. It&#x27;s happening in central Mexico too. But there, it&#x27;s desert that&#x27;s moving up.<p>Generally, moving inland, poleward, and up are the options.</text></comment> |
34,479,627 | 34,479,783 | 1 | 2 | 34,477,498 | train | <story><title>Tell HN: MS forcing Edge shortcut on desktop</title><text>Yesterday morning, I powered up my desktop with Win 10 Pro, and I noticed a shortcut for Edge browser on my desktop. I figured it must&#x27;ve been put there during the most recent update and sent it to the recycling bin.<p>This morning, I power up the same PC, and it&#x27;s back. So as far as I can tell, the update forces the presence of an Edge browser shortcut on the Windows 10 desktop.</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>nailer</author><text>I wish there was a genuine Pro version of Windows I could pay for that didn’t have any of this.</text></item><item><author>chadlavi</author><text>This is the kind of shenanigan that happens when you use an OS that literally has third party advertisements in its start menu</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>LeifCarrotson</author><text>LTSC doesn&#x27;t, but it&#x27;s not easily available through conventional retail channels. If you&#x27;re putting a Windows machine in a kiosk, POS, machine, or similar commercial setting, though, LTSC is the way to go.</text></comment> | <story><title>Tell HN: MS forcing Edge shortcut on desktop</title><text>Yesterday morning, I powered up my desktop with Win 10 Pro, and I noticed a shortcut for Edge browser on my desktop. I figured it must&#x27;ve been put there during the most recent update and sent it to the recycling bin.<p>This morning, I power up the same PC, and it&#x27;s back. So as far as I can tell, the update forces the presence of an Edge browser shortcut on the Windows 10 desktop.</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>nailer</author><text>I wish there was a genuine Pro version of Windows I could pay for that didn’t have any of this.</text></item><item><author>chadlavi</author><text>This is the kind of shenanigan that happens when you use an OS that literally has third party advertisements in its start menu</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Yoofie</author><text>Its called Windows 10 LTSC. I have been running it for years and everytime I use a non-LTSC version of Windows, i&#x27;m baffled by the amount of bullshit MS manages stuff in their OS. It&#x27;s almost as if they are actively trying to make people leave their ecosystem.</text></comment> |
34,680,519 | 34,678,191 | 1 | 3 | 34,677,217 | train | <story><title>Tell HN: Microsoft classifies own emails as junk</title><text>While going through my Outlook junk folder, I noticed that nearly all my Azure related mails are classified as such.<p>These e-mails are all real and also sent by addresses like [email protected] with the source SMTP server being in a subdomain of PROD.OUTLOOK.COM.<p>How comes that Microsoft would not just whitelist their own domains on their own e-mail service?</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>zvolsky</author><text>The fact that Microsoft doesn&#x27;t just whitelist their own domains speaks to their commitment to strict security measures and good engineering culture. Special cases aren&#x27;t special enough to break the rules.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>wongarsu</author><text>If they don&#x27;t whitelist and use the rate at which their own emails end as spam to improve their spam filter, that&#x27;s great engineering culture.<p>If they don&#x27;t whitelist and the emails just land in spam without anyone taking notice, that reminds me more of the well-known slightly satirical image of Microsoft&#x27;s org chart [1]<p>1: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;bonkersworld.net&#x2F;organizational-charts" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;bonkersworld.net&#x2F;organizational-charts</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Tell HN: Microsoft classifies own emails as junk</title><text>While going through my Outlook junk folder, I noticed that nearly all my Azure related mails are classified as such.<p>These e-mails are all real and also sent by addresses like [email protected] with the source SMTP server being in a subdomain of PROD.OUTLOOK.COM.<p>How comes that Microsoft would not just whitelist their own domains on their own e-mail service?</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>zvolsky</author><text>The fact that Microsoft doesn&#x27;t just whitelist their own domains speaks to their commitment to strict security measures and good engineering culture. Special cases aren&#x27;t special enough to break the rules.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>toomanydoubts</author><text>&gt;speaks to their commitment to strict security measures and good engineering culture<p>Does it really or does it just mean that nobody cared enough to do it for whatever reason?</text></comment> |
27,017,512 | 27,015,930 | 1 | 2 | 27,014,367 | train | <story><title>It’s nearly impossible to buy an original Bob Ross painting</title><url>https://thehustle.co/why-its-nearly-impossible-to-buy-an-original-bob-ross-painting/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>h2odragon</author><text>&gt; “He was about as uninterested in the actual paintings as you could possibly be,” says Kowalski. “For him, it was the journey — he wanted to teach people. The paintings were just a means to do that.”<p>I&#x27;m actually impressed that they haven&#x27;t cashed out on those paintings they hold; wonder how long they&#x27;ll be able to hold on to cherishing memories before &quot;maximizing profits&quot; displaces them, and crushes any feeling of goodwill the public has towards the custodians of his legacy.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>caymanjim</author><text>They&#x27;re not holding on to cherished memories.<p>&gt; “The paintings have always just sort of been here,” she says, with a chuckle. “We were sort of behind the times… it never occurred to us that anyone would want them.”<p>They&#x27;ve got stacks of his paintings piled up on the floor. Nothing in the article indicates that they cherish them or are curating them. I don&#x27;t have a problem with that, but it&#x27;s not like they&#x27;re doing anyone any good where they are.<p>Bob Ross wanted to make painting approachable and demystify it. He started out selling them himself, sold them or gave them away throughout his career. He knew they weren&#x27;t high art; that was kinda the point. I think he would want them sold off if having one brought joy to someone. Contrary to crushing feelings of goodwill, I think his fans would be grateful for the opportunity to have one of his paintings for themselves. They&#x27;re not one-of-a-kind masterpieces that belong in a museum; they&#x27;re paintings for the people.</text></comment> | <story><title>It’s nearly impossible to buy an original Bob Ross painting</title><url>https://thehustle.co/why-its-nearly-impossible-to-buy-an-original-bob-ross-painting/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>h2odragon</author><text>&gt; “He was about as uninterested in the actual paintings as you could possibly be,” says Kowalski. “For him, it was the journey — he wanted to teach people. The paintings were just a means to do that.”<p>I&#x27;m actually impressed that they haven&#x27;t cashed out on those paintings they hold; wonder how long they&#x27;ll be able to hold on to cherishing memories before &quot;maximizing profits&quot; displaces them, and crushes any feeling of goodwill the public has towards the custodians of his legacy.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>peterpost2</author><text>Bob ross namebrand paint and other materials are already kinda overpriced.</text></comment> |
33,053,641 | 33,053,559 | 1 | 2 | 33,052,550 | train | <story><title>LSD-like molecules counter depession without the trip</title><url>https://www.ucsf.edu/news/2022/09/423891/lsd-molecules-counter-depression-without-trip</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>isoprophlex</author><text>As someone with a background in organic chemistry, I have a silly nit to pick with the phrasing &quot;LSD-like molecules&quot;<p>These molecules look nothing like LSD! Structurally they are as different from eachother as a dog is to a flying squirrel.<p>Of course they <i>act</i> like LSD by binding to 5HT2a. This is absolutely terribly pedantic and probably only applies to the mind of someone who wants to see the molecules first, and the rest of the research later, but I would have preferred &quot;Molecules that act like LSD can counter depression without the trip&quot;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>lifeisstillgood</author><text>&quot;This is absolutely terribly pedantic and...&quot;<p>Don&#x27;t worry. You&#x27;re in the right place :-)</text></comment> | <story><title>LSD-like molecules counter depession without the trip</title><url>https://www.ucsf.edu/news/2022/09/423891/lsd-molecules-counter-depression-without-trip</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>isoprophlex</author><text>As someone with a background in organic chemistry, I have a silly nit to pick with the phrasing &quot;LSD-like molecules&quot;<p>These molecules look nothing like LSD! Structurally they are as different from eachother as a dog is to a flying squirrel.<p>Of course they <i>act</i> like LSD by binding to 5HT2a. This is absolutely terribly pedantic and probably only applies to the mind of someone who wants to see the molecules first, and the rest of the research later, but I would have preferred &quot;Molecules that act like LSD can counter depression without the trip&quot;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>xdfgh1112</author><text>&quot;LSD-like&quot; can mean &quot;acts like&quot; just as well as &quot;looks like&quot;, so you&#x27;re being hyperpedantic.</text></comment> |
28,662,200 | 28,660,639 | 1 | 3 | 28,658,089 | train | <story><title>How great is the great firewall? Measuring China’s DNS censorship [pdf]</title><url>https://www.usenix.org/system/files/sec21-hoang.pdf</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jiggawatts</author><text>As someone living blissfully unaware of the struggles people go through in countries with rampant government censorship -- sorry, <i>control for the public good</i> -- of the Internet, it was a bit a of a shock when I got some first-hand experience.<p>I had a customer that wanted to set up some web servers in China so that they could sign up students for some classes at their school.<p>At first I just assumed that this is a straightforward matter of selecting a Chinese region in a public cloud, deploying a couple of web servers, and we&#x27;d be done by lunch. Easy!<p>Turns out... that this is actually technically achievable, as long as: You have a Chinese business registered in China, you have a photo ID that you register with the &quot;local authorities&quot; (in person!), pay in Renminbi from a Chinese bank account, and read and write Chinese.<p>No, really. That&#x27;s the process. <i>Really:</i> <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;docs.microsoft.com&#x2F;en-us&#x2F;azure&#x2F;china&#x2F;overview-checklist" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;docs.microsoft.com&#x2F;en-us&#x2F;azure&#x2F;china&#x2F;overview-checkl...</a><p>They want to make sure they have <i>someone</i> by the balls. It&#x27;s either you personally, or someone willing to step up and take the risk of jailtime on your behalf if you publish anything the Grand Pooh Xi doesn&#x27;t like.<p>Meanwhile, I can spin up a server in Dubai or South Africa or Brazil like... <i>right now.</i> No paperwork. No prostrating myself in front of the Police to beg for permission to be able to post government-approved content.<p>Meanwhile, on the map of AWS or Azure regions -- or on any CDNs map -- there&#x27;s just a <i>hole</i> where China is. It&#x27;s like those photos of Earth from space, where you can see the city lights glowing brightly everywhere except for North Korea, where there&#x27;s just <i>darkness</i>.<p>Remind me, why do we do business with these people again? Why do we give them our money?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>throwaway984393</author><text>You have to get your ICP number registered by a Chinese national (like you say) and then display it on the footer of all your web pages (if you don&#x27;t, your site will be taken down &amp; you&#x27;ll be fined). You&#x27;ve also got to store all data on Chinese citizens on a Chinese server.<p>And they don&#x27;t mention this on that page, but for every publc IP you want to use in China, you have to re-submit your ICP filing&#x2F;license paperwork, listing every public IP you will use, and what it is used for. So don&#x27;t accidentally destroy your AWS load balancer, or you&#x27;ll need to re-file all your paperwork before you can bring your site back up! (AWS load balancers can&#x27;t be configured with static IPs)<p>&gt; Remind me, why do we do business with these people again? Why do we give them our money?<p>Because then <i>we</i> get money. It&#x27;s the largest &quot;emerging&quot; market in the world. If you have a product that makes 1 million dollars in the US, do some localization work and launch it in China, and you&#x27;ve doubled your money. Every major corporation is actively working on launching in China, because it&#x27;s obvious that they&#x27;re leaving money on the table by <i>not</i> being in China.</text></comment> | <story><title>How great is the great firewall? Measuring China’s DNS censorship [pdf]</title><url>https://www.usenix.org/system/files/sec21-hoang.pdf</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jiggawatts</author><text>As someone living blissfully unaware of the struggles people go through in countries with rampant government censorship -- sorry, <i>control for the public good</i> -- of the Internet, it was a bit a of a shock when I got some first-hand experience.<p>I had a customer that wanted to set up some web servers in China so that they could sign up students for some classes at their school.<p>At first I just assumed that this is a straightforward matter of selecting a Chinese region in a public cloud, deploying a couple of web servers, and we&#x27;d be done by lunch. Easy!<p>Turns out... that this is actually technically achievable, as long as: You have a Chinese business registered in China, you have a photo ID that you register with the &quot;local authorities&quot; (in person!), pay in Renminbi from a Chinese bank account, and read and write Chinese.<p>No, really. That&#x27;s the process. <i>Really:</i> <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;docs.microsoft.com&#x2F;en-us&#x2F;azure&#x2F;china&#x2F;overview-checklist" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;docs.microsoft.com&#x2F;en-us&#x2F;azure&#x2F;china&#x2F;overview-checkl...</a><p>They want to make sure they have <i>someone</i> by the balls. It&#x27;s either you personally, or someone willing to step up and take the risk of jailtime on your behalf if you publish anything the Grand Pooh Xi doesn&#x27;t like.<p>Meanwhile, I can spin up a server in Dubai or South Africa or Brazil like... <i>right now.</i> No paperwork. No prostrating myself in front of the Police to beg for permission to be able to post government-approved content.<p>Meanwhile, on the map of AWS or Azure regions -- or on any CDNs map -- there&#x27;s just a <i>hole</i> where China is. It&#x27;s like those photos of Earth from space, where you can see the city lights glowing brightly everywhere except for North Korea, where there&#x27;s just <i>darkness</i>.<p>Remind me, why do we do business with these people again? Why do we give them our money?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>fuckchina</author><text>Your comment is one of the reasons why my account is named like this, their dictatorship is absolutely ridiculous, btw they even claim they got democracy and free speech over there[1].<p>[1]: Simply search &quot;中國 民主&quot; or something like &quot;
中國 言論自由&quot; and you could found various bulls****. here&#x27;s one of them ( <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.qingdaonews.com&#x2F;content&#x2F;2010-06&#x2F;08&#x2F;content_8398807.htm" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.qingdaonews.com&#x2F;content&#x2F;2010-06&#x2F;08&#x2F;content_83988...</a> )</text></comment> |
7,840,108 | 7,836,662 | 1 | 2 | 7,835,253 | train | <story><title>HomeKit</title><url>https://developer.apple.com/homekit/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>zmmmmm</author><text>Dear Apple, please for the love of god and the good of everyone, get together with Google and iron out a common protocol for this stuff. Don&#x27;t make this one of your competitive technologies designed to fragment the world into Apple and not-Apple. Home automation is just dying to take off and there&#x27;s a pile of gold for everyone if you just show a tiny bit of cooperation to get it started ... And you can all still sue each other afterwards if you like about the design of the light switches or whatever turns you on, but can we please just let the industry move forward first?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>windexh8er</author><text>But...<p>They won&#x27;t. Please, if you&#x27;re developing on iOS don&#x27;t do this. Apple is hungry and looking for another market segment to lock out the slow, but good, innovation taking place. Today I happily control 70% of my house with full access to scene programming and enjoy no vendor lock-in other than the protocols my choice of controller supports. The biggest things here is I have access to a local API, I don&#x27;t need to rely on Internet connectivity - something most everyone gets wrong.<p>Home automation is huge. Apple mindlessly taking it down to simplistic &quot;Xfinity home automation levels&quot; but making it pretty doesn&#x27;t help.<p>SmartThings, WigWag, Revolv - all suck. They lock the smart home user out by not exposing an API. Why? They want to collect sit in the middle and collect data. None of these companies seem to get that there&#x27;s a middle ground and the initial users are not all ones that trust a start-up 1) with their data and 2) to be around next year. There&#x27;s only a few that get it right and they&#x27;re not the prettiest by far or they&#x27;d, likely, rule the landscape.<p>I&#x27;ve been running home automation for over 3 years now on the same platform - nothing today is anything new or different. If I want my phone to be a piece of my HA system I&#x27;ll use applications specific that help me make those tie-ins, but I don&#x27;t want Google, Apple or some other fly-by-night-startup to get in the middle of that. It&#x27;s my home, that&#x27;s personal.</text></comment> | <story><title>HomeKit</title><url>https://developer.apple.com/homekit/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>zmmmmm</author><text>Dear Apple, please for the love of god and the good of everyone, get together with Google and iron out a common protocol for this stuff. Don&#x27;t make this one of your competitive technologies designed to fragment the world into Apple and not-Apple. Home automation is just dying to take off and there&#x27;s a pile of gold for everyone if you just show a tiny bit of cooperation to get it started ... And you can all still sue each other afterwards if you like about the design of the light switches or whatever turns you on, but can we please just let the industry move forward first?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>krschultz</author><text>I absolutely doubt that Apple will. Look at AirPlay. Look at AirDrop. Look at iMessage and Facetime. Even their original content formats were not all that portable.<p>Some of those are for technical&#x2F;licensing reasons, but many are not.</text></comment> |
13,524,945 | 13,524,575 | 1 | 2 | 13,515,239 | train | <story><title>Chronic sleep deprivation suppresses immune system</title><url>http://sciencebulletin.org/archives/9813.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>temp246810</author><text>I hope to see more and more of these studies.<p>I&#x27;ve always since I can remember struggled with sleep.<p>During the periods where I&#x27;ve had it under control everything is just better: your outlook is more positive, more energy, less anxiety, and on and on and on.<p>People say exercise should be put into a pill - I really wish they did this with sleep.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>colept</author><text>I wish Americans as a whole took sleep more seriously.<p>We stay up late, brag about how little of it we need, and ignore the downsides. When I sleep less I find myself more irritable.<p>To see studies like this is refreshing.</text></comment> | <story><title>Chronic sleep deprivation suppresses immune system</title><url>http://sciencebulletin.org/archives/9813.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>temp246810</author><text>I hope to see more and more of these studies.<p>I&#x27;ve always since I can remember struggled with sleep.<p>During the periods where I&#x27;ve had it under control everything is just better: your outlook is more positive, more energy, less anxiety, and on and on and on.<p>People say exercise should be put into a pill - I really wish they did this with sleep.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>marrone12</author><text>There are sleeping pills, everything from benadryl to xanax to ambien. It&#x27;s just that there are a lot of side effects to any of these approaches.</text></comment> |
15,819,714 | 15,818,178 | 1 | 3 | 15,816,964 | train | <story><title>Uber’s Losses Widen as SoftBank Launches Bid to Buy Shares</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-11-29/uber-s-third-quarter-loss-is-said-to-widen-to-1-46-billion</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>JumpCrisscross</author><text>Uber had $6.6bn on hand at the end of June [1]. That means they are down to $5.1bn.<p>Absent cost-cutting, that implies a 9 to 12 month runway. Even if SoftBank injects $1bn, that could only mean a few months’ runway. A large fine in the Waymo case [2] could literally bankrupt them.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;venturebeat.com&#x2F;2017&#x2F;08&#x2F;23&#x2F;uber-is-still-burning-cash-at-a-rate-of-2-billion-a-year&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;venturebeat.com&#x2F;2017&#x2F;08&#x2F;23&#x2F;uber-is-still-burning-cas...</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;mobile.nytimes.com&#x2F;2017&#x2F;11&#x2F;29&#x2F;business&#x2F;waymo-uber-trial.html?referer=https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;mobile.nytimes.com&#x2F;2017&#x2F;11&#x2F;29&#x2F;business&#x2F;waymo-uber-tr...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>T2_t2</author><text>Except... Growth.<p>The (buzzword warning) hyper-growth startup model is in essence 2X revenue, 1.5X costs. Repeat until inevitably profitable - and I say inevitably because with enough time, 2X revenue, 1.5X costs gets to profitable. The only variable there is having a long enough runway.<p>Uber seem, from the financial data I have seen, to be sticking to that playbook down to the 3rd decimal place (exaggeration for effect). When Uber does turn the profitability corner, it will be at a level well over a billion a quarter.<p>Sure it&#x27;s a risk, but if any company was setup to be huge, had followed almost all the meta-rules on growth and looked to be hitting those growth targets, it is certainly Uber.</text></comment> | <story><title>Uber’s Losses Widen as SoftBank Launches Bid to Buy Shares</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-11-29/uber-s-third-quarter-loss-is-said-to-widen-to-1-46-billion</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>JumpCrisscross</author><text>Uber had $6.6bn on hand at the end of June [1]. That means they are down to $5.1bn.<p>Absent cost-cutting, that implies a 9 to 12 month runway. Even if SoftBank injects $1bn, that could only mean a few months’ runway. A large fine in the Waymo case [2] could literally bankrupt them.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;venturebeat.com&#x2F;2017&#x2F;08&#x2F;23&#x2F;uber-is-still-burning-cash-at-a-rate-of-2-billion-a-year&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;venturebeat.com&#x2F;2017&#x2F;08&#x2F;23&#x2F;uber-is-still-burning-cas...</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;mobile.nytimes.com&#x2F;2017&#x2F;11&#x2F;29&#x2F;business&#x2F;waymo-uber-trial.html?referer=https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;mobile.nytimes.com&#x2F;2017&#x2F;11&#x2F;29&#x2F;business&#x2F;waymo-uber-tr...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ProAm</author><text>Honestly if they need to make money, they can lay off a ton of staff, and license their logistics software to a lot of companies. It wouldn&#x27;t be what their game plan has been, definitely a severe pivot but they would be a money printing machine for years to come.</text></comment> |
6,690,426 | 6,682,834 | 1 | 2 | 6,681,238 | train | <story><title>Show HN: I'm working on an open-source Gmail replacement</title><url>http://khamidou.github.io/kite</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>hbbio</author><text>We have been working on such project in our own Opa technology for quite some time.<p>Do you think we should work on an open source solution for
<a href="https://peps.mlstate.com" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;peps.mlstate.com</a> ?<p>The project is a very clean webmail server, starting with our clean protocol implementations (SMTP, POP, IMAP) and does not require external projects.<p>Try with hn&#x2F;hn...<p>Update: Please don&#x27;t change the password for this hn account. As an admin, I can reset it, but have better things to do today ;)</text></item><item><author>darklajid</author><text>I just put the finishing touches on my ansible playbook for my &#x27;Goodbye Google&#x27; server (Mail via dovecot&#x2F;postfix w&#x2F; dkim, dspam, greylist, sieve, Radicale for CardDAV, CalDAV, Prosody for xmpp). Works fine so far.<p>What I&#x27;m lacking right now is a decent webmail client. Roundcube isn&#x27;t exactly my type of thing, mailpile might be interesting. This seems ambitious and interesting in general, but seems to come with too much strings attached (puppet? No, ansible. Comes with postfix? I already have that). So .. it is more than I&#x27;d need.<p>I do like the idea of ready-made, easy mail server setups though (obviously, given the first paragraph). Perhaps a project like this could integrate well into owncloud or arkos though?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jlgaddis</author><text><i>&gt; starting with our clean protocol implementations (SMTP, POP, IMAP) and does not require external projects.</i><p>I&#x27;m curious of the reasoning behind your decision to reimplement SMTP instead of just using Postfix, for example. I run mail servers for an ISP (and myself) and take advantage of a lot of the &quot;advanced&quot; functionality that Postfix has acquired in the last 15 years.</text></comment> | <story><title>Show HN: I'm working on an open-source Gmail replacement</title><url>http://khamidou.github.io/kite</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>hbbio</author><text>We have been working on such project in our own Opa technology for quite some time.<p>Do you think we should work on an open source solution for
<a href="https://peps.mlstate.com" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;peps.mlstate.com</a> ?<p>The project is a very clean webmail server, starting with our clean protocol implementations (SMTP, POP, IMAP) and does not require external projects.<p>Try with hn&#x2F;hn...<p>Update: Please don&#x27;t change the password for this hn account. As an admin, I can reset it, but have better things to do today ;)</text></item><item><author>darklajid</author><text>I just put the finishing touches on my ansible playbook for my &#x27;Goodbye Google&#x27; server (Mail via dovecot&#x2F;postfix w&#x2F; dkim, dspam, greylist, sieve, Radicale for CardDAV, CalDAV, Prosody for xmpp). Works fine so far.<p>What I&#x27;m lacking right now is a decent webmail client. Roundcube isn&#x27;t exactly my type of thing, mailpile might be interesting. This seems ambitious and interesting in general, but seems to come with too much strings attached (puppet? No, ansible. Comes with postfix? I already have that). So .. it is more than I&#x27;d need.<p>I do like the idea of ready-made, easy mail server setups though (obviously, given the first paragraph). Perhaps a project like this could integrate well into owncloud or arkos though?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>schrodinger</author><text>Mobile site needs some work.. But one suggestion is turn off autocomplete and autocapitalize for the username box... Makes logging in on iOS hard.</text></comment> |
28,000,702 | 28,000,555 | 1 | 2 | 27,998,878 | train | <story><title>Activision Blizzard Hires Notorious Union-Busting Firm WilmerHale</title><url>https://www.promethean.news/news/activision-hires-notorious-union-busting-firm-wilmerhale</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bakuninsbart</author><text>Some of the best fiction was written by people with absolutely despicable opinions like Francois Céline or Knut Hamsun. You can see it in their art, but their art isn&#x27;t limited to it, and still holds a lot of value. Friedrich Nietzsche&#x27;s opinions on women and politics are plain dumb, yet his <i>other</i> thought can be extremely compelling, and he is rightfully one of the most influential thinkers of modern times.<p>Going back further in time will only make you miserable if you hold the work closely accountable to the person. Terrible people can still say really good things, and I don&#x27;t believe it is different with games or modern entertainment in general. Old Blizzard games are still good, and old Louis CK sets are still funny.</text></item><item><author>kelnos</author><text>I don&#x27;t really understand this attitude, or line of reasoning, or whatever you want to call it.<p>Sure, if a company does something that you find reprehensible, not giving them further money (or attention) is certainly a reasonable -- and honorable! -- thing to do.<p>But if you&#x27;ve already purchased a standalone[0], non-subscription product from that company, and that company doesn&#x27;t gain any benefit from your further use of that product (or lose anything from you stopping use), I feel like you&#x27;re only hurting yourself if you stop using it.<p>I will concede that if the act of playing one of these standalone games makes you think of the bad thing the company did and makes you angry&#x2F;upset, I guess it makes sense to stop playing them. But unless the bad thing they did is something personally&#x2F;viscerally important to you, it feels like that&#x27;s a bit of an odd trigger.<p>[0] If the game is multiplayer, and connects to a company-run server, I guess you could make the argument that they benefit in some way from their active-users numbers being higher. I personally don&#x27;t find that argument all that compelling, but everyone can of course decide where the cutoff of benefit is for them.</text></item><item><author>brainfish</author><text>I cut my teeth on Diablo, and played Diablo II for probably fifteen years after its release off and on as a way to stay connected with a friend who loved it similarly. More recently, I have consistently played Starcraft II since its release and enjoy a sense of mastery over that game unparalleled by my experience in any other.<p>I haven&#x27;t purchased new Blizzard products since the Hong Kong censorship debacle[1] and quit playing Hearthstone at that time. However I had still played some of my other old favorites, reasoning that I was not providing them further financial support. The recent announcements about their terrible, sexist culture had challenged that notion for me, and I was not sure what to do.<p>This news is the straw that breaks <i>my</i> back. That Activision&#x2F;Blizzard would double down on their despicable behavior and stance in this way is completely beyond the pale, and I for one will never again fire up those games that I loved so much.<p>Thanks for ruining that for me, Blizzard.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Blitzchung_controversy" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Blitzchung_controversy</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>aftergibson</author><text>Celine and Hamsun aren’t getting engagement activity from their in-app analytics. They also can’t respond to all of the legitimate criticisms against them. Activision can and they’ve decided to bring in the Pinkertons.<p>At the end of the day, another player booting up an Activision game is another (tiny) data point that says whatever activity Activision&#x2F;Blizzard is engaging in is a-ok with that player. It’s not revenue driving right now, but in 6-12 months, this has blown over and enough of the tiny subset of temporarily outraged players will eventually start to generate revenue. That’s what they’re banking on.<p>Decide what you care about or don’t, but at least accept&#x2F;own the impact of your decisions and don’t conflate the situation with century old authors.</text></comment> | <story><title>Activision Blizzard Hires Notorious Union-Busting Firm WilmerHale</title><url>https://www.promethean.news/news/activision-hires-notorious-union-busting-firm-wilmerhale</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bakuninsbart</author><text>Some of the best fiction was written by people with absolutely despicable opinions like Francois Céline or Knut Hamsun. You can see it in their art, but their art isn&#x27;t limited to it, and still holds a lot of value. Friedrich Nietzsche&#x27;s opinions on women and politics are plain dumb, yet his <i>other</i> thought can be extremely compelling, and he is rightfully one of the most influential thinkers of modern times.<p>Going back further in time will only make you miserable if you hold the work closely accountable to the person. Terrible people can still say really good things, and I don&#x27;t believe it is different with games or modern entertainment in general. Old Blizzard games are still good, and old Louis CK sets are still funny.</text></item><item><author>kelnos</author><text>I don&#x27;t really understand this attitude, or line of reasoning, or whatever you want to call it.<p>Sure, if a company does something that you find reprehensible, not giving them further money (or attention) is certainly a reasonable -- and honorable! -- thing to do.<p>But if you&#x27;ve already purchased a standalone[0], non-subscription product from that company, and that company doesn&#x27;t gain any benefit from your further use of that product (or lose anything from you stopping use), I feel like you&#x27;re only hurting yourself if you stop using it.<p>I will concede that if the act of playing one of these standalone games makes you think of the bad thing the company did and makes you angry&#x2F;upset, I guess it makes sense to stop playing them. But unless the bad thing they did is something personally&#x2F;viscerally important to you, it feels like that&#x27;s a bit of an odd trigger.<p>[0] If the game is multiplayer, and connects to a company-run server, I guess you could make the argument that they benefit in some way from their active-users numbers being higher. I personally don&#x27;t find that argument all that compelling, but everyone can of course decide where the cutoff of benefit is for them.</text></item><item><author>brainfish</author><text>I cut my teeth on Diablo, and played Diablo II for probably fifteen years after its release off and on as a way to stay connected with a friend who loved it similarly. More recently, I have consistently played Starcraft II since its release and enjoy a sense of mastery over that game unparalleled by my experience in any other.<p>I haven&#x27;t purchased new Blizzard products since the Hong Kong censorship debacle[1] and quit playing Hearthstone at that time. However I had still played some of my other old favorites, reasoning that I was not providing them further financial support. The recent announcements about their terrible, sexist culture had challenged that notion for me, and I was not sure what to do.<p>This news is the straw that breaks <i>my</i> back. That Activision&#x2F;Blizzard would double down on their despicable behavior and stance in this way is completely beyond the pale, and I for one will never again fire up those games that I loved so much.<p>Thanks for ruining that for me, Blizzard.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Blitzchung_controversy" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Blitzchung_controversy</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>falcolas</author><text>One small difference between those specific artists and Activison-Blizzard - they&#x27;re dead. But more importantly, their beliefs are also a product of their times.<p>ACTI doesn&#x27;t have that excuse. They&#x27;re all with us now, and their actions don&#x27;t have the shield of being reasonable in the society they exist in.</text></comment> |
39,728,016 | 39,727,352 | 1 | 2 | 39,725,678 | train | <story><title>Y Combinator's chief startup whisperer is demoting himself</title><url>https://www.wired.com/story/plaintext-y-combinator-michael-seibel-startup-whisperer/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>JCM9</author><text>I find the “demoting” term amusing &#x2F; inaccurate. He’s in a career position to do basically whatever he wants and is doing just that. That seems like the ultimate role &#x2F; achievement that’s far higher than any position on an org chart. Like a startup founder that realizes being CEO isn’t all it’s cracked up to be and they just want to go back to building, which is what they truly enjoy in life. Congrats and more power to you.</text></comment> | <story><title>Y Combinator's chief startup whisperer is demoting himself</title><url>https://www.wired.com/story/plaintext-y-combinator-michael-seibel-startup-whisperer/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>swyx</author><text>siebel’s podcast youtube series with dalton caldwell of founder advice has been great recently, in case anyone hasnt been following</text></comment> |
2,840,979 | 2,840,566 | 1 | 3 | 2,840,440 | train | <story><title>Scalability</title><url>http://gregor-wagner.com/?p=79</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tytso</author><text>Performance is the side-effect, not the cause. The cause is the fact that chrome uses separate processes both for security, and so if one tab crashes, you don't lose them all.<p>The fact that it uses more memory is a design tradeoff (although with shared text pages it's not as bad as one might think). The real question is whether you would ever have that many tabs open, and how much memory do you have on your desktop?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rmccue</author><text>&#62; The real question is whether you would ever have that many tabs open, and how much memory do you have on your desktop?<p>I have 60 tabs open now (in FF), and this is after closing most of them, on a 32-bit system with 4GB of RAM. I regularly hit over 200 tabs when browsing.</text></comment> | <story><title>Scalability</title><url>http://gregor-wagner.com/?p=79</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tytso</author><text>Performance is the side-effect, not the cause. The cause is the fact that chrome uses separate processes both for security, and so if one tab crashes, you don't lose them all.<p>The fact that it uses more memory is a design tradeoff (although with shared text pages it's not as bad as one might think). The real question is whether you would ever have that many tabs open, and how much memory do you have on your desktop?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>zobzu</author><text>Firefox compartment memory as well. Using a separate process it the easy way, using thread is the hard way. Each has pro and cons I guess. Even Firefox is getting a multiprocess model for testing.<p>But for example you can't completely isolate a thread if it crashes. But you can forbid it to access other memory areas for security, that's what Firefox does.<p>Since Firefox 4 each tab has it's own separate garbage collector.</text></comment> |
31,292,660 | 31,292,668 | 1 | 2 | 31,291,322 | train | <story><title>It’s time we fix the unethical design of cookie consent windows</title><url>https://uxdesign.cc/unethical-design-of-cookie-consent-windows-857ef68f1bd6?gi=d060c7b22ab</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tjoff</author><text>No thanks. Stop normalizing this bullshit.<p>First, every shady website that despite the UX detriments decide that they want to sell their users must publicly state that. <i>That is a feature.</i> I want to know that, I want to see how far in dark patterns they are willing to go to absolutely ruin any trust they imagine they could exploit.<p>Second, while (most of) these popups are illegal it is so abundantly clear what and how they are trying to get away with it. If the &quot;browser&quot; did this for me I wouldn&#x27;t know what absolute illegal nonsense they would try to sneak in via &quot;legitimate interest&quot;.<p>Third, normal decently behaved sites&#x2F;operators obviously don&#x27;t have cookie-banners at all. That is also a feature, it is an edge. If you see two sites for X one with a cookie-banner and one without it is clear as day which one you&#x27;d close and forget.<p>The times I&#x27;ve backed out of sites because of cookie banners is uncountable. And it is liberating.</text></item><item><author>logicalmonster</author><text>IMO, focusing on better UX is the wrong approach.<p>This should be handled at the browser level. There&#x27;s no reason for most users to ever be burdened with even a fantastically designed cookie consent window.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>divan</author><text>I believe by &quot;handling at the browser level&quot; people generally mean the option in the Settings that allow autoaccept &quot;necessary&quot; or &quot;all&quot; cookies. If you care, just leave it unchecked.</text></comment> | <story><title>It’s time we fix the unethical design of cookie consent windows</title><url>https://uxdesign.cc/unethical-design-of-cookie-consent-windows-857ef68f1bd6?gi=d060c7b22ab</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tjoff</author><text>No thanks. Stop normalizing this bullshit.<p>First, every shady website that despite the UX detriments decide that they want to sell their users must publicly state that. <i>That is a feature.</i> I want to know that, I want to see how far in dark patterns they are willing to go to absolutely ruin any trust they imagine they could exploit.<p>Second, while (most of) these popups are illegal it is so abundantly clear what and how they are trying to get away with it. If the &quot;browser&quot; did this for me I wouldn&#x27;t know what absolute illegal nonsense they would try to sneak in via &quot;legitimate interest&quot;.<p>Third, normal decently behaved sites&#x2F;operators obviously don&#x27;t have cookie-banners at all. That is also a feature, it is an edge. If you see two sites for X one with a cookie-banner and one without it is clear as day which one you&#x27;d close and forget.<p>The times I&#x27;ve backed out of sites because of cookie banners is uncountable. And it is liberating.</text></item><item><author>logicalmonster</author><text>IMO, focusing on better UX is the wrong approach.<p>This should be handled at the browser level. There&#x27;s no reason for most users to ever be burdened with even a fantastically designed cookie consent window.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>froh</author><text>You decline &quot;legitimate interest&quot;, too, in your browser presets, of course you do.<p>And if it goes via browser you can deliberately choose advertisers you trust, centrally in one place.<p>Of course I want this in the browser.</text></comment> |
26,442,295 | 26,442,359 | 1 | 2 | 26,441,214 | train | <story><title>CA crews handle tricky fire at Tesla factory</title><url>https://www.firehouse.com/operations-training/news/21214084/ca-crews-handle-tricky-fire-at-tesla-factory</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dmlittle</author><text>I was curious as to the reason why water or CO2 can&#x27;t be used to put off a metal fire. The TL;DR is that with a metal fire the high temperatures cause the H2O and CO2 molecules to be unstable enough that the metal can attract the oxygen molecules to fuel the ongoing fire rendering them useless as a fire suppressors. H2O is even worse as once the oxygen is split from the water molecule you are left with hydrogen which will combust and explosion might cause the molten fire to spread further. This doesn&#x27;t happen with wood burning as the attraction to the oxygen molecules from the carbon being burnt is the same or stronger than the attraction from the CO2 or H2O molecules.</text></item><item><author>joering2</author><text>Props to Fire Dept. for having some decent response code enforcement - I mean you would never put off a molten metal; it would burn forever, and while you add water to it, it would only expand. AFAIK the only way to put it off is with sand.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>DavidPeiffer</author><text>Another big concern is the water turning to steam. It expands 1,000x. 2 cubic centimeters of water expanding to a 2 liter bottle worth of steam. My facility had its own quick response fire unit (production employees who went through fire and rescue training), and I believe the company helped fund a ladder truck for the town of ~600 people which is adjacent to a decent metropolitan area. Fast response is vital to minimize danger to people and damage to the facility.<p>Factories have been leveled by water hitting molten aluminum. The Hackaday link below does a great job summarizing the dangers.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;hackaday.com&#x2F;2020&#x2F;12&#x2F;30&#x2F;water-and-molten-aluminium-is-a-dangerous-combination&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;hackaday.com&#x2F;2020&#x2F;12&#x2F;30&#x2F;water-and-molten-aluminium-i...</a><p>Explosion links:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;sIJmwF1Qs7M" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;sIJmwF1Qs7M</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;jvddrln900Q" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;jvddrln900Q</a> (last ~20 seconds)<p>Source: Used to work at a very large aluminum facility.</text></comment> | <story><title>CA crews handle tricky fire at Tesla factory</title><url>https://www.firehouse.com/operations-training/news/21214084/ca-crews-handle-tricky-fire-at-tesla-factory</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dmlittle</author><text>I was curious as to the reason why water or CO2 can&#x27;t be used to put off a metal fire. The TL;DR is that with a metal fire the high temperatures cause the H2O and CO2 molecules to be unstable enough that the metal can attract the oxygen molecules to fuel the ongoing fire rendering them useless as a fire suppressors. H2O is even worse as once the oxygen is split from the water molecule you are left with hydrogen which will combust and explosion might cause the molten fire to spread further. This doesn&#x27;t happen with wood burning as the attraction to the oxygen molecules from the carbon being burnt is the same or stronger than the attraction from the CO2 or H2O molecules.</text></item><item><author>joering2</author><text>Props to Fire Dept. for having some decent response code enforcement - I mean you would never put off a molten metal; it would burn forever, and while you add water to it, it would only expand. AFAIK the only way to put it off is with sand.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>myself248</author><text>We did this in HS chem class, with a block of dry ice that we cut in half and hollowed out. Then we coiled up some magnesium ribbon so it would perch in the hole, lit it with a MAPP gas torch, and closed the block. The magnesium continued to burn long after any lingering air in the hollow could&#x27;ve been consumed. After a few minutes the magnesium was gone and we opened the block, and there was black carbon dust in the bottom of the hollow.<p>And that introduced the conversation about using the right extinguisher for the job!</text></comment> |
16,806,520 | 16,806,320 | 1 | 3 | 16,806,114 | train | <story><title>Why SQLite Does Not Use Git</title><url>https://sqlite.org/whynotgit.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>neals</author><text>I&#x27;m a big fan of Fossil myself. But the SQlite people have something that I don&#x27;t really have within the teams I operate : the authority to dare and speak out against Git and not be laughed away like a hipster that is just trying to be different.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>cies</author><text>Hipster source code management? See this Rust project:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;pijul.org" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;pijul.org</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;pijul.org&#x2F;manual&#x2F;why_pijul.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;pijul.org&#x2F;manual&#x2F;why_pijul.html</a><p>A bit like DARCS (also very hipster, in Haskell and has some math behind it), but then fast.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;pijul.org&#x2F;model&#x2F;#efficient-algorithms" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;pijul.org&#x2F;model&#x2F;#efficient-algorithms</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;pijul.org&#x2F;faq&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;pijul.org&#x2F;faq&#x2F;</a><p>Oh and it uses a cool hi-perf storage lib (also in Rust, by the same devs):<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;nest.pijul.com&#x2F;pijul_org&#x2F;sanakirja" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;nest.pijul.com&#x2F;pijul_org&#x2F;sanakirja</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Why SQLite Does Not Use Git</title><url>https://sqlite.org/whynotgit.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>neals</author><text>I&#x27;m a big fan of Fossil myself. But the SQlite people have something that I don&#x27;t really have within the teams I operate : the authority to dare and speak out against Git and not be laughed away like a hipster that is just trying to be different.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tetha</author><text>What the hell, speaking against git makes you a hipster now? I was called a hipster for proposing git over CSV and SVC.</text></comment> |
39,457,202 | 39,457,238 | 1 | 2 | 39,453,660 | train | <story><title>iMessage with PQ3 Cryptographic Protocol</title><url>https://security.apple.com/blog/imessage-pq3/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jwells89</author><text>The main things holding back Signal usage in my case is practically nobody in my social circle using it and the desktop client not being as nice as that of Messages or Telegram, the latter being particularly relevant for myself and contacts who primarily message with their computers rather than their phones.</text></item><item><author>yesimahuman</author><text>For me, Signal is so much better for my friend or work group chats. My friends are on a mix of devices and platforms, and Signal is a lot nicer for embedded media sharing. And the auto disappearing feature is a must!</text></item><item><author>adamtaylor_13</author><text>In my experience, these markets can overlap but don’t necessarily always do so.<p>I message everyone via iMessage, and while I enjoy the feeling of security from the blue bubble it’s not a must-have for me. Signal on the other hand seems like a must-have for many people living under oppressive regimes or whose data is significantly more valuable than mine.<p>I am one data point, but that’s what I’ve noticed in my bubble.</text></item><item><author>yesimahuman</author><text>Pretty great advertisement for Signal, as the sole cross-platform option in the PQC bucket. Does it seem likely they will match Apple here eventually?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>godelski</author><text>Sounds like time to become an evangelist then. I had to do this in my group and other than security a major benefit is just that getting potatos instead of pictures has significantly declined.<p>Here&#x27;s my advice: don&#x27;t sell security as the foremost feature. Sell it as &quot;iMessage, but for everyone.&quot; You got stickers, reactions, high quality videos and images. Then mention security, it is the cherry on top.</text></comment> | <story><title>iMessage with PQ3 Cryptographic Protocol</title><url>https://security.apple.com/blog/imessage-pq3/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jwells89</author><text>The main things holding back Signal usage in my case is practically nobody in my social circle using it and the desktop client not being as nice as that of Messages or Telegram, the latter being particularly relevant for myself and contacts who primarily message with their computers rather than their phones.</text></item><item><author>yesimahuman</author><text>For me, Signal is so much better for my friend or work group chats. My friends are on a mix of devices and platforms, and Signal is a lot nicer for embedded media sharing. And the auto disappearing feature is a must!</text></item><item><author>adamtaylor_13</author><text>In my experience, these markets can overlap but don’t necessarily always do so.<p>I message everyone via iMessage, and while I enjoy the feeling of security from the blue bubble it’s not a must-have for me. Signal on the other hand seems like a must-have for many people living under oppressive regimes or whose data is significantly more valuable than mine.<p>I am one data point, but that’s what I’ve noticed in my bubble.</text></item><item><author>yesimahuman</author><text>Pretty great advertisement for Signal, as the sole cross-platform option in the PQC bucket. Does it seem likely they will match Apple here eventually?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>perardi</author><text>I used Telegram during a time when I lived a cross-border and cross-platform lifestyle.<p>Telegram, and really Telegram on desktop, was great. I am a stubborn old man at the age of 40, and I really prefer to type on a keyboard. It had a great UI, it always delivered messages, and syncing between devices was seemingly instant. iMessage, somehow, is still not perfect at syncing between devices, and while Signal is quite good at that, it&#x27;s a pain to start using on a new device, as it doesn&#x27;t bring along your message history. (For legitimate reasons, mind you.)</text></comment> |
38,688,082 | 38,686,824 | 1 | 2 | 38,685,607 | train | <story><title>Nikola founder to be sentenced for federal fraud charges</title><url>https://www.cnbc.com/2023/12/18/nikola-founder-trevor-milton-sentencing-fraud-charges.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tony69</author><text>Part of the story is how passive index ETFs work. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.etf.com&#x2F;stock&#x2F;NKLA" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.etf.com&#x2F;stock&#x2F;NKLA</a> sort by # shares owned, you&#x27;ll see the biggest owners of NKLA stock are ishares funds, vanguard etc. These funds buy based on market cap of the stock.
Anyone with a retirement account that holds passive etfs (or things like target date retirement funds) is a stockholder in NKLA, a stock which no active fund manager would touch with a 10foot pole.<p>As passive accounts for more than half of the total market funds&#x2F;flows, blatant frauds that somehow manage to be included in these funds have an easier time surviving (and the larger the market cap, the more inflows their shares receive).
In the 2021 stock mania there were other factors at play too.</text></item><item><author>sokoloff</author><text>The whole Nikola situation was fascinating to me at the time.<p>I shorted the shares and bought puts in the days to couple of months following the Hindenburg publication. I was surprised at how long the shares held up; they were still trading around $10&#x2F;sh when I closed the last of my shorts at the end of 2021 (~15 months after the publication which was never substantially refuted and never substantially in doubt as far as I could tell).<p>I would have expected a much quicker and less orderly collapse of share prices and the absence of that made me question my understanding of the stock market entirely, specifically my previous belief that “all public information is quickly priced in.” (That is still not entirely resolved for me.)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>sillyinseattle</author><text>&gt; Anyone with a retirement account that holds passive etfs<p>This is incorrect. Not all ETFs. These funds are sector focused (vehicles). A regular S&amp;P500 ETF will not hold NKLA.</text></comment> | <story><title>Nikola founder to be sentenced for federal fraud charges</title><url>https://www.cnbc.com/2023/12/18/nikola-founder-trevor-milton-sentencing-fraud-charges.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tony69</author><text>Part of the story is how passive index ETFs work. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.etf.com&#x2F;stock&#x2F;NKLA" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.etf.com&#x2F;stock&#x2F;NKLA</a> sort by # shares owned, you&#x27;ll see the biggest owners of NKLA stock are ishares funds, vanguard etc. These funds buy based on market cap of the stock.
Anyone with a retirement account that holds passive etfs (or things like target date retirement funds) is a stockholder in NKLA, a stock which no active fund manager would touch with a 10foot pole.<p>As passive accounts for more than half of the total market funds&#x2F;flows, blatant frauds that somehow manage to be included in these funds have an easier time surviving (and the larger the market cap, the more inflows their shares receive).
In the 2021 stock mania there were other factors at play too.</text></item><item><author>sokoloff</author><text>The whole Nikola situation was fascinating to me at the time.<p>I shorted the shares and bought puts in the days to couple of months following the Hindenburg publication. I was surprised at how long the shares held up; they were still trading around $10&#x2F;sh when I closed the last of my shorts at the end of 2021 (~15 months after the publication which was never substantially refuted and never substantially in doubt as far as I could tell).<p>I would have expected a much quicker and less orderly collapse of share prices and the absence of that made me question my understanding of the stock market entirely, specifically my previous belief that “all public information is quickly priced in.” (That is still not entirely resolved for me.)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>hunter2_</author><text>Are these ETFs, target date retirement funds, etc. protected against class action lawsuits from shareholders who end up holding the bag due to the inclusion of fraudulent stocks like this? Obviously waivers are signed about how performance is never guaranteed, but that&#x27;s a bit different from a need to timely exit positions in fraudulent companies.</text></comment> |
28,301,539 | 28,301,469 | 1 | 3 | 28,300,797 | train | <story><title>OnlyFans drops planned porn ban</title><url>https://variety.com/2021/digital/news/onlyfans-drops-porn-ban-sexually-explicit-policy-1235048705/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dna_polymerase</author><text>&gt; it should be noted that she is a brilliant individual<p>it should NOT be noted. Too many good people died in the wars of past centuries to get us to the freedom and liberty we enjoy today to let any fundamentalists dictate what a normal job is and who works it.<p>Sex work is work and if you dislike it you&#x27;d might enjoy Afghanistan these days.</text></item><item><author>immmmmm</author><text>a good friend of mine is a sex worker, a cam girl to be precise, and uses OF as it is safer than other platforms. it should be noted that she is a brilliant individual and do this job due to severe psychiatric problems that prevent her doing more &quot;normal&quot; jobs. she feeds one child with this money, as a lot of sex workers that are also loving moms.<p>it is important that such platforms do exist (if they implement proper safeguards) and that these content creators are not stigmatized.</text></item><item><author>rootsudo</author><text>My biggest shock was how much &quot;PR&quot; was generated on Reddit, and how many sexworkers really do use the platform.<p>I knew it was a thing, I knew of the memes, but to see both sides in arms over a company vs branding, creating their own website and content - and vanity domain as well.<p>People really do just want a one click solution for creating adult content, and consuming adult content.<p>And the memes, I think they&#x27;re pretty toxic, 4chan, incel, reddit, twitter memes - I never knew there was that much angst.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mumblemumble</author><text>We should try to read each others&#x27; comments in the most charitable light possible.<p>In this case, I think the friendly way to interpret that comment is as an attempt to anticipate and pre-empt a very common and harmful misconception about sex workers.</text></comment> | <story><title>OnlyFans drops planned porn ban</title><url>https://variety.com/2021/digital/news/onlyfans-drops-porn-ban-sexually-explicit-policy-1235048705/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dna_polymerase</author><text>&gt; it should be noted that she is a brilliant individual<p>it should NOT be noted. Too many good people died in the wars of past centuries to get us to the freedom and liberty we enjoy today to let any fundamentalists dictate what a normal job is and who works it.<p>Sex work is work and if you dislike it you&#x27;d might enjoy Afghanistan these days.</text></item><item><author>immmmmm</author><text>a good friend of mine is a sex worker, a cam girl to be precise, and uses OF as it is safer than other platforms. it should be noted that she is a brilliant individual and do this job due to severe psychiatric problems that prevent her doing more &quot;normal&quot; jobs. she feeds one child with this money, as a lot of sex workers that are also loving moms.<p>it is important that such platforms do exist (if they implement proper safeguards) and that these content creators are not stigmatized.</text></item><item><author>rootsudo</author><text>My biggest shock was how much &quot;PR&quot; was generated on Reddit, and how many sexworkers really do use the platform.<p>I knew it was a thing, I knew of the memes, but to see both sides in arms over a company vs branding, creating their own website and content - and vanity domain as well.<p>People really do just want a one click solution for creating adult content, and consuming adult content.<p>And the memes, I think they&#x27;re pretty toxic, 4chan, incel, reddit, twitter memes - I never knew there was that much angst.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>immmmmm</author><text>i know, unfortunately sex work is still highly stigmatized, including in western present cultures.<p>you don&#x27;t need to go as far as afghanistan, i&#x27;m back from eastern europe where my friends from the LGBTQ community are literally being beaten by neo nazi funded by putin.</text></comment> |
4,357,042 | 4,356,529 | 1 | 2 | 4,356,197 | train | <story><title>Debian Now Defaults To Xfce Desktop</title><url>http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTE1NTk</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>fleitz</author><text>This is what I love about linux on the desktop, on one thread we've got serious complaints about usability, on another thread we're switching window managers because it won't fit on a CD.<p>A CD? In 2012? Windows and OS X haven't fit on a CD in almost 10 years and you can barely find a copy of OS X on DVD. Yet the primary concern on linux is not usability but whether it fits on an install CD.<p>I think there might be higher priority concerns than whether a user is able to install a modern operating system on the Pentium MMX &#38; 8X CD drive they found in the dumpster.</text></comment> | <story><title>Debian Now Defaults To Xfce Desktop</title><url>http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTE1NTk</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>sanxiyn</author><text>Since all desktop environments in Debian are maintained with equal commitments and you can install any of them easily, change of "default" desktop environment is a rather symbolic gesture.<p>Technically, the reason for the change is that GNOME won't fit in a CD without a diet and Xfce will. I am not sure how many people install Debian with CD (not DVD, not USB, not network install, etc.) though...</text></comment> |
36,337,247 | 36,335,590 | 1 | 2 | 36,335,104 | train | <story><title>On the slow productivity of John Wick</title><url>https://calnewport.com/on-the-slow-productivity-of-john-wick/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>nosefrog</author><text>Very interesting essay. Reminds me of how Donald Knuth describes his job:<p>&gt; Email is a wonderful thing for people whose role in life is to be on top of things. But not for me; my role is to be on the bottom of things. What I do takes long hours of studying and uninterruptible concentration. I try to learn certain areas of computer science exhaustively; then I try to digest that knowledge into a form that is accessible to people who don&#x27;t have time for such study.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu&#x2F;~knuth&#x2F;email.html" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu&#x2F;~knuth&#x2F;email.html</a><p>It&#x27;s an aspiration for how I want my career to go, though I haven&#x27;t been very effective at moving in that direction.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>underdeserver</author><text>It&#x27;s really not an attainable career for almost anyone. Not even the vast majority of professors, who juggle the actual research with grant writing, mentoring students, lecturing, organizing and participating in conferences.</text></comment> | <story><title>On the slow productivity of John Wick</title><url>https://calnewport.com/on-the-slow-productivity-of-john-wick/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>nosefrog</author><text>Very interesting essay. Reminds me of how Donald Knuth describes his job:<p>&gt; Email is a wonderful thing for people whose role in life is to be on top of things. But not for me; my role is to be on the bottom of things. What I do takes long hours of studying and uninterruptible concentration. I try to learn certain areas of computer science exhaustively; then I try to digest that knowledge into a form that is accessible to people who don&#x27;t have time for such study.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu&#x2F;~knuth&#x2F;email.html" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu&#x2F;~knuth&#x2F;email.html</a><p>It&#x27;s an aspiration for how I want my career to go, though I haven&#x27;t been very effective at moving in that direction.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>RcouF1uZ4gsC</author><text>&gt; I try to learn certain areas of computer science exhaustively; then I try to digest that knowledge into a form that is accessible to people who don&#x27;t have time for such study.<p>Then there are the next level of authors who digest The Art of Computer Programming into simpler books for people who don’t have time for such study. Then there are those who digest the books into blog posts. And finally there are those who digest the blog posts into HN comments.</text></comment> |
37,217,469 | 37,216,082 | 1 | 3 | 37,211,675 | train | <story><title>Upcoming .com and .xyz domain price increase</title><url>https://www.namecheap.com/blog/upcoming-com-and-xyz-domain-price-increase/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tiffanyh</author><text>$9.73 renewals at Porkbun.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;porkbun.com&#x2F;tld&#x2F;com" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;porkbun.com&#x2F;tld&#x2F;com</a></text></item><item><author>agwa</author><text>Namecheap&#x27;s current .com renewal price of $14.58 is broken down as:<p><pre><code> $0.18 ICANN fee
$8.97 Verisign&#x27;s current registry fee
$5.43 Namecheap&#x27;s markup
</code></pre>
Namecheap&#x27;s new .com renewal price of $15.88 will be broken down as:<p><pre><code> $0.18 ICANN fee (no change)
$9.59 Verisign&#x27;s new registry fee (7% increase)
$6.11 Namecheap&#x27;s new markup (13% increase)
</code></pre>
So the price increase is not entirely &quot;out of [Namecheap&#x27;s] control&quot;. They are also increasing their markup.<p>Edit: fixed error in Namecheap&#x27;s markup - thanks everyone for pointing that out!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jfoster</author><text>Pricing like that makes me uncomfortable.<p>Even if they have a tiny margin on the domain costs, that means that they are probably a loss-making business. So they plan to just sell to Google, Amazon or Microsoft in the future, and we don&#x27;t yet know which one of those it&#x27;s going to be?<p>Even if they had a small margin, does that mean that there&#x27;s poor quality support, despite domains being mission-critical to businesses?</text></comment> | <story><title>Upcoming .com and .xyz domain price increase</title><url>https://www.namecheap.com/blog/upcoming-com-and-xyz-domain-price-increase/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tiffanyh</author><text>$9.73 renewals at Porkbun.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;porkbun.com&#x2F;tld&#x2F;com" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;porkbun.com&#x2F;tld&#x2F;com</a></text></item><item><author>agwa</author><text>Namecheap&#x27;s current .com renewal price of $14.58 is broken down as:<p><pre><code> $0.18 ICANN fee
$8.97 Verisign&#x27;s current registry fee
$5.43 Namecheap&#x27;s markup
</code></pre>
Namecheap&#x27;s new .com renewal price of $15.88 will be broken down as:<p><pre><code> $0.18 ICANN fee (no change)
$9.59 Verisign&#x27;s new registry fee (7% increase)
$6.11 Namecheap&#x27;s new markup (13% increase)
</code></pre>
So the price increase is not entirely &quot;out of [Namecheap&#x27;s] control&quot;. They are also increasing their markup.<p>Edit: fixed error in Namecheap&#x27;s markup - thanks everyone for pointing that out!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>fullstackchris</author><text>Wow! Porkbun! I nearly forgot about that place!<p>Shamelessly been using Namecheap for a while now... their UI is a bit old school but they have some of the best prices around (at least did)</text></comment> |
38,925,148 | 38,922,440 | 1 | 3 | 38,921,668 | train | <story><title>Mixtral 8x7B: A sparse Mixture of Experts language model</title><url>https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.04088</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>coder543</author><text>Mixtral works great at 3-bit quantization. It fits onto a single RTX 3090 and runs at about 50 tokens&#x2F;s. The output quality is not &quot;ruined&quot; at all.<p>For the amount of money you&#x27;re talking about, you could also buy two 3090s (~$750 each on eBay) and have 48GB of VRAM to run with less quantization at full speed.<p>M-series Macs are surprisingly flexible platforms, but they&#x27;re not &quot;the only&quot; consumer platform that can do Mixtral.</text></item><item><author>Casteil</author><text>I&#x27;ve had excellent results with Mixtral too - it&#x27;s genuinely impressive. Only problem is that it&#x27;s a relatively big model that&#x27;s difficult to run with full GPU inference on consumer hardware (vs the 7b&#x2F;13b models people typically use).<p>So far, the main consumer platform capable of running it without &#x27;ruining&#x27; the quality of its output (with high levels of quantization) is the newer Apple Silicon Macs with unified memory - generally &gt;=48GB. It can apparently be done on 32 or 36GB, but there&#x27;s not much headroom.<p>Edit: As coder543 points out, yes - you can run it without more lossy levels of quantization on multi-GPU setups providing those have enough combined vram.</text></item><item><author>vessenes</author><text>This paper details the model that&#x27;s been in the wild for approximately a month now. Mixtral 8x7B is very, very good. It&#x27;s roughly sized at 13B, and ranked much, much higher than competitively sized models by, e.g. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;LocalLLaMA&#x2F;comments&#x2F;1916896&#x2F;llm_comparisontest_confirm_leaderboard_big_news&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;LocalLLaMA&#x2F;comments&#x2F;1916896&#x2F;llm_com...</a>. Ravenwolf notes that the model slightly outperforms some of its benchmark testing, and this is my experience. It&#x27;s surprisingly good for a model of its size, and a very capable daily driver on a Mac for chat, code input and other uses.<p>Something that has come to light since the release of the weights, and not mentioned in this paper is that it looks like fairly likely that the 8 experts were all seeded by Mistral 7B and subsequently diverged. This has generated a lot of experimentation in the local LLM community with cloning models as a way to cheaply generate experts.<p>It was generally thought likely that training an 8x7B network would be as much work as training 8 7B networks, but this seems not to have been true for Mistral, which is super interesting.<p>There&#x27;s still a lot of rapid innovation happening in this space, with papers like Calm from DeepMind this week, and a lot of the adhoc experimental layer combining happening in the wild, (see, e.g. Goliath-120b), I think we&#x27;re likely to see some pretty interesting architectural improvements this year in the LLM space.<p>Calm seems to point the way to a next step after MoE, and models like Goliath seem to indicate that even a really really lazy version of Calm (no Linear layer combination, just literally alternating layers at full weights) can be very impactful. Overall I think we will see really, really strong models that are performant on consumer hardware in 2024, likely first half of this year.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bekantan</author><text>&gt; The output quality is not &quot;ruined&quot; at all.<p>That was my experience as well - 3-bit version is pretty good.<p>I also tried 2-bit version, which was disappointing.<p>However, there is a new 2-bit approach in the works[1] (merged yesterday) which performs surprisingly well for Mixtral 8x7B Instruct with 2.10 bits per weight (12.3 GB model size).<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;ggerganov&#x2F;llama.cpp&#x2F;pull&#x2F;4773">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;ggerganov&#x2F;llama.cpp&#x2F;pull&#x2F;4773</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Mixtral 8x7B: A sparse Mixture of Experts language model</title><url>https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.04088</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>coder543</author><text>Mixtral works great at 3-bit quantization. It fits onto a single RTX 3090 and runs at about 50 tokens&#x2F;s. The output quality is not &quot;ruined&quot; at all.<p>For the amount of money you&#x27;re talking about, you could also buy two 3090s (~$750 each on eBay) and have 48GB of VRAM to run with less quantization at full speed.<p>M-series Macs are surprisingly flexible platforms, but they&#x27;re not &quot;the only&quot; consumer platform that can do Mixtral.</text></item><item><author>Casteil</author><text>I&#x27;ve had excellent results with Mixtral too - it&#x27;s genuinely impressive. Only problem is that it&#x27;s a relatively big model that&#x27;s difficult to run with full GPU inference on consumer hardware (vs the 7b&#x2F;13b models people typically use).<p>So far, the main consumer platform capable of running it without &#x27;ruining&#x27; the quality of its output (with high levels of quantization) is the newer Apple Silicon Macs with unified memory - generally &gt;=48GB. It can apparently be done on 32 or 36GB, but there&#x27;s not much headroom.<p>Edit: As coder543 points out, yes - you can run it without more lossy levels of quantization on multi-GPU setups providing those have enough combined vram.</text></item><item><author>vessenes</author><text>This paper details the model that&#x27;s been in the wild for approximately a month now. Mixtral 8x7B is very, very good. It&#x27;s roughly sized at 13B, and ranked much, much higher than competitively sized models by, e.g. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;LocalLLaMA&#x2F;comments&#x2F;1916896&#x2F;llm_comparisontest_confirm_leaderboard_big_news&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;LocalLLaMA&#x2F;comments&#x2F;1916896&#x2F;llm_com...</a>. Ravenwolf notes that the model slightly outperforms some of its benchmark testing, and this is my experience. It&#x27;s surprisingly good for a model of its size, and a very capable daily driver on a Mac for chat, code input and other uses.<p>Something that has come to light since the release of the weights, and not mentioned in this paper is that it looks like fairly likely that the 8 experts were all seeded by Mistral 7B and subsequently diverged. This has generated a lot of experimentation in the local LLM community with cloning models as a way to cheaply generate experts.<p>It was generally thought likely that training an 8x7B network would be as much work as training 8 7B networks, but this seems not to have been true for Mistral, which is super interesting.<p>There&#x27;s still a lot of rapid innovation happening in this space, with papers like Calm from DeepMind this week, and a lot of the adhoc experimental layer combining happening in the wild, (see, e.g. Goliath-120b), I think we&#x27;re likely to see some pretty interesting architectural improvements this year in the LLM space.<p>Calm seems to point the way to a next step after MoE, and models like Goliath seem to indicate that even a really really lazy version of Calm (no Linear layer combination, just literally alternating layers at full weights) can be very impactful. Overall I think we will see really, really strong models that are performant on consumer hardware in 2024, likely first half of this year.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Casteil</author><text>Fair enough. I did put &#x27;ruining&#x27; in quotes for a reason - I haven&#x27;t compared output between Q3 and Q4_K_M that I use, but you do generally sacrifice output quality at higher quantization levels.<p>And you&#x27;re right, you can run it on a multi-GPU setup if you&#x27;re so inclined.</text></comment> |
11,212,798 | 11,211,914 | 1 | 3 | 11,211,344 | train | <story><title>Show HN: Sensible Bash: An attempt at saner Bash defaults</title><url>https://github.com/mrzool/bash-sensible</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>thom_nic</author><text>I feel like discussion of &#x27;sensible bash defaults&#x27; is incomplete without mention of .inputrc. My most &quot;can&#x27;t live without it&quot; setting for bash is actually an .inputrc setting:<p><pre><code> # From http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ukuug.org&#x2F;events&#x2F;linux2003&#x2F;papers&#x2F;bash_tips&#x2F;
# Incremental searching with Up and Down is configured in .inputrc
&quot;\e[A&quot;: history-search-backward
&quot;\e[B&quot;: history-search-forward
</code></pre>
... so if I type `ssh &lt;up arrow&gt;` I get the last command that started with `ssh`, not the last command I ran. oh-my-zsh thankfully does this by default as well. But I still use my .inputrc on server boxen where I don&#x27;t want&#x2F;need to install a different default shell.<p>Also worth noting that all of those `bind` commands in OP&#x27;s script are actually .inputrc lines if you remove the `bind` and surrounding quotes.</text></comment> | <story><title>Show HN: Sensible Bash: An attempt at saner Bash defaults</title><url>https://github.com/mrzool/bash-sensible</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>rout39574</author><text>May be an old-fart prejudice, but my eyes cross to think that &#x27;dash and underline are equivalent&#x27; might be a desired thing. Making bash be clever seems like a pile of pitfalls.<p>To each their own.</text></comment> |
23,369,701 | 23,369,638 | 1 | 2 | 23,368,851 | train | <story><title>Chemical analysis and origin of the smell of line-dried laundry</title><url>https://www.publish.csiro.au/en/EN19206</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>brudgers</author><text>Related popular article, <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nytimes.com&#x2F;2020&#x2F;05&#x2F;29&#x2F;science&#x2F;laundry-smell-line.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nytimes.com&#x2F;2020&#x2F;05&#x2F;29&#x2F;science&#x2F;laundry-smell-lin...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Chemical analysis and origin of the smell of line-dried laundry</title><url>https://www.publish.csiro.au/en/EN19206</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>throw0101a</author><text>In Ontario, Canada, some condo boards for town house developments (like home-owner associations) didn&#x27;t like people putting up laundry lines and so prevented them since backyards were considered &quot;common elements&quot; and under group jurisdiction.<p>So the provincial government had an existing law that prevented the use of &quot;renewable energy&quot; systems from being blocked by local by-laws and such. So they classified clothes lines as a renewable energy system so people could use &quot;solar power&quot; to dry their clothes as a energy conservation mechanism.<p>&gt; <i>&quot;There&#x27;s a whole generation of kids growing up today who think a clothesline is a wrestling move,&quot; [Premier] McGuinty said during his announcement.</i><p>* <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;toronto.ctvnews.ca&#x2F;ontario-premier-lifts-outdoor-clothesline-ban-1.290136" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;toronto.ctvnews.ca&#x2F;ontario-premier-lifts-outdoor-clo...</a><p>The current Ford government repealed the law that allowed for this, so I&#x27;m not sure what the legal status is now exactly.</text></comment> |
31,936,291 | 31,935,562 | 1 | 2 | 31,929,941 | train | <story><title>Atlassian is 20 years old and unprofitable</title><url>https://www.smartcompany.com.au/startupsmart/analysis/atlassian-unprofitable-valuation-adam-schwab/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ASalazarMX</author><text>What&#x27;s wrong with having a small or medium company? Why must a company sell its soul for the chance of becoming a money-printing behemoth in the future?<p>I understand that being small leaves you vulnerable to the predatory tactics of big players, but I see that as a consequence of lax regulation. There are too many mono&#x2F;duopolies already, and the bigger they get, the harder it will be to split them apart.</text></item><item><author>dalbasal</author><text>The idea that growth is better than profits was in-built into Atlassian&#x27;s proposition to shareholders, ultimately.<p>The slow and steady mentality is fine, but we see over and over that it isn&#x27;t what the market wants. A private company or a high risk growth company, those are the two options for a software company.<p>Either that or they&#x27;ll be taken over. They&#x27;re revenue <i>now</i> is just a $2bn, so that &quot;grow grow&quot; mindset from 10 years ago did not work out. In theory, a steady CEO could try to steady at that size with a nice margin. But, actually declaring and pursuing that would mean halving the companies market cap to a &quot;normal&quot; P&#x2F;E of 20-30X.<p>At that price (say $20bn) one of the big software companies would just buy them... for their own growth targets.<p>Moderation has no place in the public markets as a software company. It&#x27;s remarkable how unstable a stable condition is.</text></item><item><author>ryanackley</author><text>Worked there from 2008-2013. So early-ish employee here. I still have a chunk of shares from the original ESOP program. Saying that for full disclosure because I&#x27;m biased and this feels like a hit piece to me.<p>When I worked there, they disclosed all financials in our internal Confluence site. There was a policy of full transparency with the employees. The owners (Mike and Scott) had impressive business discipline. They were profitable every quarter. They had many many opportunities to get vc money and go wild. When they finally took VC money, It was a modest amount ($60M I think) and the purpose was explained to us as setting up an ESOP program and putting Atlassian on the path to go public.<p>A year or two later, Doug Berman, the founder of Great Plains software became chairman of the Atlassian board. He gave a presentation to all of the employees at the Sydney office. One thing that stood out was that he said, it&#x27;s actually bad to be profitable when you&#x27;re growing. I&#x27;m paraphrasing here but he essentially said, you&#x27;re leaving growth on the table. His thesis was growth is more important than profits.<p>So whether you agree with that or not, that is obviously the idea they are operating on rather than uncontrolled spending and helicopter dropping stock on employees heads out of desperation.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>aeturnum</author><text>&gt; <i>I understand that being small leaves you vulnerable to the predatory tactics of big players</i><p>This, I think, is the core of why. It&#x27;s not that being a medium sized publicly traded company is immoral or unprofitable - it&#x27;s that in a public market your stock is priced on future earnings and choosing to be smaller than possible means your tech can be bought for cheap. If you choose to stay smaller than maybe you could be - you&#x27;re leaving ROI on the table in a lot of peoples&#x27; eyes (even if you&#x27;re right and you&#x27;d lose money trying to get huge). So, as your stock price drops off to reflect the expectation that you&#x27;re not going to get super impressive earning growth, you start to look appealing as an alternative to developing technology for an industry giant. Why spend $5bn over 10 years to develop competing services when you can borrow $5bn today, buy atlassian, get a tax break on the debt and start making a play for market dominance with the atlassian tech?<p>If you want a small or medium company, staying private is a more sustainable approach.</text></comment> | <story><title>Atlassian is 20 years old and unprofitable</title><url>https://www.smartcompany.com.au/startupsmart/analysis/atlassian-unprofitable-valuation-adam-schwab/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ASalazarMX</author><text>What&#x27;s wrong with having a small or medium company? Why must a company sell its soul for the chance of becoming a money-printing behemoth in the future?<p>I understand that being small leaves you vulnerable to the predatory tactics of big players, but I see that as a consequence of lax regulation. There are too many mono&#x2F;duopolies already, and the bigger they get, the harder it will be to split them apart.</text></item><item><author>dalbasal</author><text>The idea that growth is better than profits was in-built into Atlassian&#x27;s proposition to shareholders, ultimately.<p>The slow and steady mentality is fine, but we see over and over that it isn&#x27;t what the market wants. A private company or a high risk growth company, those are the two options for a software company.<p>Either that or they&#x27;ll be taken over. They&#x27;re revenue <i>now</i> is just a $2bn, so that &quot;grow grow&quot; mindset from 10 years ago did not work out. In theory, a steady CEO could try to steady at that size with a nice margin. But, actually declaring and pursuing that would mean halving the companies market cap to a &quot;normal&quot; P&#x2F;E of 20-30X.<p>At that price (say $20bn) one of the big software companies would just buy them... for their own growth targets.<p>Moderation has no place in the public markets as a software company. It&#x27;s remarkable how unstable a stable condition is.</text></item><item><author>ryanackley</author><text>Worked there from 2008-2013. So early-ish employee here. I still have a chunk of shares from the original ESOP program. Saying that for full disclosure because I&#x27;m biased and this feels like a hit piece to me.<p>When I worked there, they disclosed all financials in our internal Confluence site. There was a policy of full transparency with the employees. The owners (Mike and Scott) had impressive business discipline. They were profitable every quarter. They had many many opportunities to get vc money and go wild. When they finally took VC money, It was a modest amount ($60M I think) and the purpose was explained to us as setting up an ESOP program and putting Atlassian on the path to go public.<p>A year or two later, Doug Berman, the founder of Great Plains software became chairman of the Atlassian board. He gave a presentation to all of the employees at the Sydney office. One thing that stood out was that he said, it&#x27;s actually bad to be profitable when you&#x27;re growing. I&#x27;m paraphrasing here but he essentially said, you&#x27;re leaving growth on the table. His thesis was growth is more important than profits.<p>So whether you agree with that or not, that is obviously the idea they are operating on rather than uncontrolled spending and helicopter dropping stock on employees heads out of desperation.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>RC_ITR</author><text>Well, it <i>is</i> fine to be a small enterprise, but unless you have a huge moat, you run the risk of a <i>different</i> growth-at-all-costs competitor (not necessarily a giant) coming in and vacuuming up all your customers.<p>Salesforce vs. Siebel being a great example of exactly that.</text></comment> |
15,795,794 | 15,795,565 | 1 | 2 | 15,793,568 | train | <story><title>Ubuntu 17.10: Return of the Gnome</title><url>https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2017/11/ubuntu-17-10-return-of-the-gnome/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>int_19h</author><text>For the past, oh, 10 years or so, it feels like every time I try a new release of one of the prominent Linux DEs, I keep going back to Xfce after a short while, because it &quot;just works&quot;, can be customized exactly how I want it to be, and doesn&#x27;t try to break my flow with every major release, because someone in UX has a new Grand Unifying Theory of What Users Really Want (Even if They Don&#x27;t Know It).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>lultimouomo</author><text>I agree with you SO MUCH.
I&#x27;ve been using Gnome lately on my XPS13 because HiDPI support in Xfce is not quite there yet (while in honesty is pretty well supported in Gnome), and I hate it with a passion. It seems like they decided to reinvent every single well established UX paradigm there was, and somehow managed to make every one of them worse.
Random example: they managed to break Alt+Tab; you now need to think whether the other window you want was created by the same executable that created the one in the foreground right now or not. Plus if you use Ctrl+Shift+T in chromium you will never be able to Alt+Tab to it again.
Other random example: pushing the computer power button does not pop up a shutdown dialog because &quot;shutting down is disruptive&quot;!</text></comment> | <story><title>Ubuntu 17.10: Return of the Gnome</title><url>https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2017/11/ubuntu-17-10-return-of-the-gnome/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>int_19h</author><text>For the past, oh, 10 years or so, it feels like every time I try a new release of one of the prominent Linux DEs, I keep going back to Xfce after a short while, because it &quot;just works&quot;, can be customized exactly how I want it to be, and doesn&#x27;t try to break my flow with every major release, because someone in UX has a new Grand Unifying Theory of What Users Really Want (Even if They Don&#x27;t Know It).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mrweasel</author><text>I&#x27;m actually somewhat concerned that in the move to Wayland those of us who just want the window manager, and not a desktop environment will be forgotten. To me it seems silly to use a lot of processing power on a desktop environment that want be seen or used most of the time anyway.<p>Evilwm still seems like the window manager that got thing mostly right to me. It draws the windows and there&#x27;s a keyboard short cut for opening an Xterm (and for moving and resizing the windows), you don&#x27;t really need much more than that. Sadly it seem that the focus for the simplest window managers is tiling, which I also to like.<p>Hopefully a non-tiling, dead simple window manager for Wayland will appear in the future.</text></comment> |
29,055,545 | 29,054,480 | 1 | 3 | 29,053,714 | train | <story><title>I Miss the Old Internet (2019)</title><url>http://misc-stuff.terraaeon.com/articles/miss-old-internet.html/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>aimor</author><text>I miss organization too. Every time I use Netflix, Hulu, YouTube, etc I feel at the mercy of the website as it shows me rocks one by one and I shake my virtual head &quot;no.. no.. no..&quot; until by chance something looks interesting. They have the metadata, why can&#x27;t I browse by year or filter by director or actors, or any arbitrary combination of the available data?<p>And this is the same for news sites, where there should be a 20+ year history of articles but I can&#x27;t browse it. And obviously social media where information is ephemeral and you only need to see what&#x27;s happening right now. Shopping is ok on smaller sites, where inventory is static and items are either in stock or not. But earlier this year I could have snapped my keyboard in half trying to find a specific piece of hardware on the Lowes&#x2F;Home Depot&#x2F;Amazon website. There&#x27;s no clear answer like &quot;we don&#x27;t carry that item&quot; instead the search box vomits back all kinds of misinformation. Web Search itself might be the worst, only giving the most shallow corporate results, I&#x27;m not surprised it feels like there are few personal website when our index to the internet is so polluted.</text></item><item><author>Causality1</author><text>I just miss organization. Everything feels like a mess now. Content is either in an endless scroll or it&#x27;s only accessible through a search box and you have absolutely no idea whether the site doesn&#x27;t have the content you wanted or if you just failed to use the correct terms. Increased reliance on CDNs and cross-site content has simultaneously made web pages expire faster than ever and made them harder to archive.<p>Multimedia is also a shadow of what it once was. Twenty years ago it was common for material to be presented in a way that integrated text, sound, pictures, and video together in an easily navigable way. A page on, say, Lewis and Clark would offer you an audio introduction, an interactive map that brought up text journal entries for clickable points of interest, and relevant pictures. Now your only option is a web page with embedded pictures which may as well be a paper encyclopedia entry, or a video that may or may not offer you any useful way to navigate it aside from jumping around at random and most certainly doesn&#x27;t give you rich annotations throughout.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bbarnett</author><text>Amazon seems to get worse and worse by the day.<p>All their idiotic sponsored results make finding things impossible.<p>For example, if I try to search for x, maybe I want to only see x from brand y.<p>They have an option for only brand y, yet sponsored results are immune to this.<p>Worse, lately, they now show different options as individual search results.<p>So, looking for a shirt I want, from brand x, has 1&#x2F;2 the page filled with sponsored garbage, and often the rest with 7 colours of the exact same shirt, individually show.<p>Add to this, that search terms seem to be mild suggestions?<p>Well, if I am in the shirt category, search as above, but with a unique thing like turtleneck, I get a boatload of responses without any turtlenecks.<p>Obviously, some sellers are motivated to lie with their tags, but this isn&#x27;t the only reason this isn&#x27;t happening.<p>Add to this that most listings have no size chart, no fabric info, no origin location, or even conflicting info, and holy pita.<p>EG, I am not polyester friendly, yet some listings say things like 100% polyester, then the very next line, 95% cotton, 5% spandex.<p>Just 100% crap amazon!<p>All of this could be improved with more standardized listings controls and forms for sellers, and amazon has the cash and has had years to do it, too.<p>And lately, 20% of the stuff I order comes opened, used, even dirty.<p>I&#x27;m not paying new pricing for dirty clothes, amazon!<p>Especally shoes, socks, underwear (wtf?!).<p>I swear, walmart must have amazon moles, or is getting paid off &#x2F; bribed by amazon, because a clown could do better against them.</text></comment> | <story><title>I Miss the Old Internet (2019)</title><url>http://misc-stuff.terraaeon.com/articles/miss-old-internet.html/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>aimor</author><text>I miss organization too. Every time I use Netflix, Hulu, YouTube, etc I feel at the mercy of the website as it shows me rocks one by one and I shake my virtual head &quot;no.. no.. no..&quot; until by chance something looks interesting. They have the metadata, why can&#x27;t I browse by year or filter by director or actors, or any arbitrary combination of the available data?<p>And this is the same for news sites, where there should be a 20+ year history of articles but I can&#x27;t browse it. And obviously social media where information is ephemeral and you only need to see what&#x27;s happening right now. Shopping is ok on smaller sites, where inventory is static and items are either in stock or not. But earlier this year I could have snapped my keyboard in half trying to find a specific piece of hardware on the Lowes&#x2F;Home Depot&#x2F;Amazon website. There&#x27;s no clear answer like &quot;we don&#x27;t carry that item&quot; instead the search box vomits back all kinds of misinformation. Web Search itself might be the worst, only giving the most shallow corporate results, I&#x27;m not surprised it feels like there are few personal website when our index to the internet is so polluted.</text></item><item><author>Causality1</author><text>I just miss organization. Everything feels like a mess now. Content is either in an endless scroll or it&#x27;s only accessible through a search box and you have absolutely no idea whether the site doesn&#x27;t have the content you wanted or if you just failed to use the correct terms. Increased reliance on CDNs and cross-site content has simultaneously made web pages expire faster than ever and made them harder to archive.<p>Multimedia is also a shadow of what it once was. Twenty years ago it was common for material to be presented in a way that integrated text, sound, pictures, and video together in an easily navigable way. A page on, say, Lewis and Clark would offer you an audio introduction, an interactive map that brought up text journal entries for clickable points of interest, and relevant pictures. Now your only option is a web page with embedded pictures which may as well be a paper encyclopedia entry, or a video that may or may not offer you any useful way to navigate it aside from jumping around at random and most certainly doesn&#x27;t give you rich annotations throughout.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>FpUser</author><text>&gt;&quot;Every time I use Netflix, Hulu, YouTube, etc &quot;<p>Netflix GUI drives me up the wall</text></comment> |
32,426,094 | 32,425,157 | 1 | 2 | 32,424,559 | train | <story><title>Satellite images of damage done to Saki airfield in Crimea</title><url>https://twitter.com/IntelArrow/status/1557449807345733635</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>spywaregorilla</author><text>The reason this is significant, besides being an enormous loss of difficult to replace aircraft, is that it was so far from the front lines. Russia has been fumbling in the last month to adjust to western HIMAR weapons that have been precisely targeting ammo depots, hqs, and other high value targets far behind the front lines. Russian logistics is largely train based. They ship everything by train and unpack it to a nearby warehouse, then rely on trucks for the last mile. The HIMARs have been destroying the warehouses, meaning Russia is now needing to use trucks for much much more than the last mile because they can&#x27;t unpack everything near the front. This new strike is even longer range than the weapon specs Ukraine was believed to have. And it was 2 very precise explosions. How this was achieved is not clear, but if Ukraine now has frequent precise missile capabilities for 200-300km strikes, that means Russia may need to scramble their logistics all over again.<p>Right now the most important location in the war is Kherson, occupied by Russia. It&#x27;s the only truly valuable asset that Russia has seized, and recent Ukranian advances have made Russia pull 20-30k troops off of other front lines to reinforce this area. It&#x27;s a very difficult position for Russia. There&#x27;s just a couple bridges leading into Kherson from the south (Russia &#x2F; Crimea side) and Ukraine has been blowing them up. Logistics of supplying those 30k troops is going to be really tough. And now Crimea, the main logistics hub for those troops, is appearing very vulnerable.<p>Ukraine&#x27;s goal here is to make the defense of Kherson extremely resource intensive, meaning Russia has to either lose the territory or weaken up on other fronts.</text></comment> | <story><title>Satellite images of damage done to Saki airfield in Crimea</title><url>https://twitter.com/IntelArrow/status/1557449807345733635</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>onychomys</author><text>Here&#x27;s some much larger shots, along with explanations of what they show and what each destroyed Russian plane is: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.thedrive.com&#x2F;the-war-zone&#x2F;widespread-destruction-seen-after-blasts-at-russian-base-in-crimea" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.thedrive.com&#x2F;the-war-zone&#x2F;widespread-destruction...</a></text></comment> |
31,796,869 | 31,796,839 | 1 | 2 | 31,796,239 | train | <story><title>Bitcoin mining becomes unprofitable as BTC price falls to average cost of mining</title><url>https://finbold.com/bitcoin-mining-becomes-unprofitable-as-btc-price-falls-to-the-average-cost-of-mining/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>RL_Quine</author><text>You don&#x27;t have to do anything dodgy to get power at an unbelievably low cost, even in north america bulk rates are a couple of cents per kilowatt hour if you know where to look, and in some cases you can even be paid to use power due to politics. You can also be mining at a loss and have it be completely rational, because it is less of a loss than turning it off and writing off the equipment. The economics are very non intuitive for people who aren&#x27;t exposed to the industry.</text></item><item><author>MengerSponge</author><text>If they&#x27;re either using subsidized or pirated electricity, and their hardware is paid for, why would miners pull out?</text></item><item><author>thematrixturtle</author><text>It&#x27;s a self-correcting equilibrium though, since the block difficulty is tied to the hashrate, which will fall as miners pull out.<p>That said, the hashrate is not showing major drops yet:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.blockchain.com&#x2F;charts&#x2F;hash-rate" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.blockchain.com&#x2F;charts&#x2F;hash-rate</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>praptak</author><text>A dude I know has cheap electricity on his allotment garden where he built a wooden hut&#x2F;cabin. He uses three PCs built from throwaway parts to heat the hut in the autumn and early spring (in winter there&#x27;s nothing to do there).<p>On the PCs he runs an app that basically manages the mining for you, automatically switching between cryptos to get the most microcents per watt per second.<p>I have no idea why the allotment gardens got the cheap deal on electricity and I don&#x27;t know if the mining gives him a significant &quot;discount&quot; on the heating.</text></comment> | <story><title>Bitcoin mining becomes unprofitable as BTC price falls to average cost of mining</title><url>https://finbold.com/bitcoin-mining-becomes-unprofitable-as-btc-price-falls-to-the-average-cost-of-mining/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>RL_Quine</author><text>You don&#x27;t have to do anything dodgy to get power at an unbelievably low cost, even in north america bulk rates are a couple of cents per kilowatt hour if you know where to look, and in some cases you can even be paid to use power due to politics. You can also be mining at a loss and have it be completely rational, because it is less of a loss than turning it off and writing off the equipment. The economics are very non intuitive for people who aren&#x27;t exposed to the industry.</text></item><item><author>MengerSponge</author><text>If they&#x27;re either using subsidized or pirated electricity, and their hardware is paid for, why would miners pull out?</text></item><item><author>thematrixturtle</author><text>It&#x27;s a self-correcting equilibrium though, since the block difficulty is tied to the hashrate, which will fall as miners pull out.<p>That said, the hashrate is not showing major drops yet:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.blockchain.com&#x2F;charts&#x2F;hash-rate" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.blockchain.com&#x2F;charts&#x2F;hash-rate</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>roenxi</author><text> &gt;The economics are very non intuitive for people who aren&#x27;t exposed to the industry.<p>In the short term, sure. There&#x27;ll probably be fireworks for the next month or two. But thread ancestor might well be talking medium-long term where the economics are really simple - the amount of resources the miners put in to hashing will drop until they are making a profit again.<p>The miners will be profitable again inside 12 months. Even if all that means in practice is that &quot;miners&quot; is some kid in a basement in Khazakstan with an old Pentium.</text></comment> |
26,759,460 | 26,756,135 | 1 | 3 | 26,747,305 | train | <story><title>Embrace the Grind</title><url>https://jacobian.org/2021/apr/7/embrace-the-grind/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jldugger</author><text>&gt; For example, I once joined a team maintaining a system that was drowning in bugs. There were something like two thousand open bug reports. Nothing was tagged, categorized, or prioritized. The team couldn’t agree on which issues to tackle
&gt; I spent almost three weeks in that room, and emerged with every bug report reviewed, tagged, categorized, and prioritized.<p>Honestly, this is one of those traps a team can fall into, where nobody feels empowered to ignore the rest of the business for 3 weeks to put the bell on the cat. The only person without deliverables and due dates is the new hire. And it takes a special kind of new hire to have the expertise to parachute in, recognize that work needs to be done, and then do it with little supervision.<p>But he&#x27;s right in general, that you can get some surprising things done by just putting in the time and focus. Which is why it&#x27;s so utterly toxic that corporate America runs on an interrupt driven system, with meetings sprinkled carelessly across engineer calendars.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Animats</author><text>I did that when I first came to Silicon Valley. I went to work for a company which operated a large, for its day, mainframe data center. (Not IBM, UNIVAC). Each time the operating system crashed, which it did several times a day, a &quot;panic dump&quot; was produced, a stack of paper about an inch thick, with a summary and stack backtrace at the top, and a full listing of the contents of memory.<p>There were two stacks of these, six feet high, waiting for me.<p>It took me most of a year to work through the pile, finding out why the crash had occurred, by tracking pointers through memory with pencil and colored marker and comparing this with paper listings of the operating system. Then I&#x27;d code a fix for that problem, test it (usually around 2 AM when I could take over a mainframe), and nervously put it into production on one mainframe. Slowly, the piles of crash dumps got shorter and the mean time to failure went from hours to weeks.<p>There were very few meetings, and nobody interfered. They were just happy to see the crash dump pile shrink and the uptime increase.<p>After a few years of this, by which time the systems would stay up for months, I got a job in R&amp;D at another company and got out of maintenance programming and into theory.</text></comment> | <story><title>Embrace the Grind</title><url>https://jacobian.org/2021/apr/7/embrace-the-grind/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jldugger</author><text>&gt; For example, I once joined a team maintaining a system that was drowning in bugs. There were something like two thousand open bug reports. Nothing was tagged, categorized, or prioritized. The team couldn’t agree on which issues to tackle
&gt; I spent almost three weeks in that room, and emerged with every bug report reviewed, tagged, categorized, and prioritized.<p>Honestly, this is one of those traps a team can fall into, where nobody feels empowered to ignore the rest of the business for 3 weeks to put the bell on the cat. The only person without deliverables and due dates is the new hire. And it takes a special kind of new hire to have the expertise to parachute in, recognize that work needs to be done, and then do it with little supervision.<p>But he&#x27;s right in general, that you can get some surprising things done by just putting in the time and focus. Which is why it&#x27;s so utterly toxic that corporate America runs on an interrupt driven system, with meetings sprinkled carelessly across engineer calendars.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pbourke</author><text>&gt; Which is why it&#x27;s so utterly toxic that corporate America runs on an interrupt driven system, with meetings sprinkled carelessly across engineer calendars.<p>I agree with this statement and your other points. I’ve noticed a more insidious variant of this behavior: the expectation of interruptions. Some groups have such frequent priority shifts and&#x2F;or a culture of fire fighting or door knocking such that even with a relatively open schedule, one is dissuaded from engaging in longer stretches of work for fear of having it all go to waste when the next meteor strike arrives.</text></comment> |
29,441,276 | 29,441,173 | 1 | 2 | 29,440,536 | train | <story><title>Hackers are spamming businesses’ receipt printers with ‘antiwork’ manifestos</title><url>https://www.vice.com/en/article/qjbb9d/hackers-are-spamming-businesses-receipt-printers-with-antiwork-manifestos</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>egypturnash</author><text>This gave me hope when I saw it yesterday morning. For once, some news that sounded like something the <i>heros</i> of a cyberpunk novel would have been doing, instead of another corporation being even more horrible than a supposedly-parodic fictional corporation with a technology to abuse for profit.</text></comment> | <story><title>Hackers are spamming businesses’ receipt printers with ‘antiwork’ manifestos</title><url>https://www.vice.com/en/article/qjbb9d/hackers-are-spamming-businesses-receipt-printers-with-antiwork-manifestos</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>washadjeffmad</author><text>Goofy employees shouldn&#x27;t be ruled out, either. I added fake menu items that printed from fortune, employee quotes, ASCII art, etc that went unnoticed and unchanged for years.<p>The items were originally created as printer tests, but it became too useful to prebuild regular catering orders, add delivery directions, and import internal notes like regular or VIP preferences from CRM. This also meant if you created a new customer profile, you could create a menu item tied to it that you could program to send to any printer, which probably four out of a few hundred ever did anything funny with.</text></comment> |
36,780,186 | 36,779,271 | 1 | 2 | 36,778,041 | train | <story><title>Accessing Llama 2 from the command-line with the LLM-replicate plugin</title><url>https://simonwillison.net/2023/Jul/18/accessing-llama-2/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>xrd</author><text>I&#x27;m so confused about running these models locally only. When reading about the llm tool, I thought, ok, this helps organize all the pieces on my machine. But then it uses a replicate API key, so clearly it requires a network connection. Is this just to download the models? I feel like we need a new license or packaging model that clearly states whether the computation is happening locally or remotely. It&#x27;s very important to me and often hard to know until I&#x27;m a long way into the installation process.</text></comment> | <story><title>Accessing Llama 2 from the command-line with the LLM-replicate plugin</title><url>https://simonwillison.net/2023/Jul/18/accessing-llama-2/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>simonw</author><text>More about my LLM tool (and Python library) here: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;llm.datasette.io&#x2F;" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;llm.datasette.io&#x2F;</a><p>Here&#x27;s the full implementation of that llm-replicate plugin: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;simonw&#x2F;llm-replicate&#x2F;blob&#x2F;0.2&#x2F;llm_replicate&#x2F;__init__.py">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;simonw&#x2F;llm-replicate&#x2F;blob&#x2F;0.2&#x2F;llm_replica...</a><p>If you want to write a plugin for some other LLM I have a detailed tutorial here: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;llm.datasette.io&#x2F;en&#x2F;stable&#x2F;plugins&#x2F;tutorial-model-plugin.html" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;llm.datasette.io&#x2F;en&#x2F;stable&#x2F;plugins&#x2F;tutorial-model-pl...</a> - plus a bunch of examples linked from here: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;simonw&#x2F;llm-plugins">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;simonw&#x2F;llm-plugins</a></text></comment> |
18,519,723 | 18,519,129 | 1 | 3 | 18,518,407 | train | <story><title>Fourth National Climate Assessment, Volume II</title><url>https://nca2018.globalchange.gov/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>CalRobert</author><text>I was talking to my dad last night and he was saying how important it is to maximize your 401k, etc. and all I could think was &quot;but even I have money it won&#x27;t effing mean anything when billions of people are starving and you need to defend any means to produce food with force&quot;.<p>But hey, you know, reusable grocery bags and telecommuting 1 day a week should do it. I guess.<p>It&#x27;s like we found the asteroid headed for Earth and decided to pretend it doesn&#x27;t exist.</text></item><item><author>graeme</author><text>It&#x27;s rather sobering. It&#x27;s also my impression that most people who &quot;believe&quot; in climate change haven&#x27;t near come to grips with the scale and urgency of the problem.<p>I&#x27;ve been thinking of writing an essay along the lines of the world being &quot;default dead&quot;. Basically, unless we come up with something to suck carbon from the air and replace our energy use, I believe we&#x27;re sunk.<p>A lot of people seem to believe that if we just stopped or &quot;reduced&quot; we&#x27;d solve the problem. But if we continue for just a few years as normal, then even a total cessation of emissions wouldn&#x27;t solve our predicament.<p>Reducing, eliminating: these are important things. But, we&#x27;re basically dead by default, and need to do something more to actually reverse what we emitted.</text></item><item><author>ForHackernews</author><text>Wow, Table 14.1 is terrifying:<p>&gt; Considering both historical and projected non-CO2 effects reduces the estimated cumulative CO2 budget compatible with any future warming goal, and in the case of 3.6°F (2°C) it reduces the aforementioned estimate to 790 GtC. Given this more comprehensive estimate, limiting the global average temperature increase to below 3.6°F (2°C) means approximately 230 GtC more CO2 could be emitted globally. To illustrate, if one assumes future global emissions follow a pathway consistent with the lower scenario (RCP4.5), this cumulative carbon threshold is exceeded by around 2037, while under the higher scenario (RCP8.5) this occurs by around 2033. To limit the global average temperature increase to 2.7°F (1.5°C), the estimated cumulative CO2 budget is about 590 GtC (assuming linear scaling with the compatible 3.6°F (2°C) budget that also considers non-CO2 effects), meaning only about 30 GtC more of CO2 could be emitted. Further emissions of 30 GtC (in the form of CO2) are projected to occur in the next few years (Table 14.1).<p>Dates by when cumulative carbon emissions (GtC) since 1870 reach amount commensurate with 2.7°F (1.5°C), when accounting for non-CO2 forcings:<p><pre><code> 66% = 593 GtC 50% = 615 GtC 33% = 675 GtC
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By next year, we&#x27;ll (most likely) have burned through our chance of holding climate change to 1.5°C</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>usaar333</author><text>&gt; I was talking to my dad last night and he was saying how important it is to maximize your 401k, etc. and all I could think was &quot;but even I have money it won&#x27;t effing mean anything when billions of people are starving and you need to defend any means to produce food with force&quot;.<p>The nytimes summary (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nytimes.com&#x2F;2018&#x2F;11&#x2F;23&#x2F;climate&#x2F;us-climate-report.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nytimes.com&#x2F;2018&#x2F;11&#x2F;23&#x2F;climate&#x2F;us-climate-report...</a>) claims the report talks about a 10% hit to US GDP in 2100 (note: I can&#x27;t actually find such language in the report).<p>If you are in America, that type of hit is hardly on the level of life destroying, though I&#x27;ll admit a) there&#x27;s tail-probabilities of much worse happening, b) people in developing countries will be hurt far more, c) if you care about the outdoors, you&#x27;ll be a lot less happy.</text></comment> | <story><title>Fourth National Climate Assessment, Volume II</title><url>https://nca2018.globalchange.gov/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>CalRobert</author><text>I was talking to my dad last night and he was saying how important it is to maximize your 401k, etc. and all I could think was &quot;but even I have money it won&#x27;t effing mean anything when billions of people are starving and you need to defend any means to produce food with force&quot;.<p>But hey, you know, reusable grocery bags and telecommuting 1 day a week should do it. I guess.<p>It&#x27;s like we found the asteroid headed for Earth and decided to pretend it doesn&#x27;t exist.</text></item><item><author>graeme</author><text>It&#x27;s rather sobering. It&#x27;s also my impression that most people who &quot;believe&quot; in climate change haven&#x27;t near come to grips with the scale and urgency of the problem.<p>I&#x27;ve been thinking of writing an essay along the lines of the world being &quot;default dead&quot;. Basically, unless we come up with something to suck carbon from the air and replace our energy use, I believe we&#x27;re sunk.<p>A lot of people seem to believe that if we just stopped or &quot;reduced&quot; we&#x27;d solve the problem. But if we continue for just a few years as normal, then even a total cessation of emissions wouldn&#x27;t solve our predicament.<p>Reducing, eliminating: these are important things. But, we&#x27;re basically dead by default, and need to do something more to actually reverse what we emitted.</text></item><item><author>ForHackernews</author><text>Wow, Table 14.1 is terrifying:<p>&gt; Considering both historical and projected non-CO2 effects reduces the estimated cumulative CO2 budget compatible with any future warming goal, and in the case of 3.6°F (2°C) it reduces the aforementioned estimate to 790 GtC. Given this more comprehensive estimate, limiting the global average temperature increase to below 3.6°F (2°C) means approximately 230 GtC more CO2 could be emitted globally. To illustrate, if one assumes future global emissions follow a pathway consistent with the lower scenario (RCP4.5), this cumulative carbon threshold is exceeded by around 2037, while under the higher scenario (RCP8.5) this occurs by around 2033. To limit the global average temperature increase to 2.7°F (1.5°C), the estimated cumulative CO2 budget is about 590 GtC (assuming linear scaling with the compatible 3.6°F (2°C) budget that also considers non-CO2 effects), meaning only about 30 GtC more of CO2 could be emitted. Further emissions of 30 GtC (in the form of CO2) are projected to occur in the next few years (Table 14.1).<p>Dates by when cumulative carbon emissions (GtC) since 1870 reach amount commensurate with 2.7°F (1.5°C), when accounting for non-CO2 forcings:<p><pre><code> 66% = 593 GtC 50% = 615 GtC 33% = 675 GtC
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By next year, we&#x27;ll (most likely) have burned through our chance of holding climate change to 1.5°C</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ramblerouser</author><text>Or some rich and powerful people decided to tell you a metior was about to pummel the Earth and you better accept a reduced standard of living while they fly to and from climate conferences in their private jets.<p>If your political beliefs tell you to not save for your retirement because the apocalypse is coming, that should be a serious red flag.</text></comment> |
24,195,042 | 24,194,114 | 1 | 3 | 24,193,278 | train | <story><title>Dependency</title><url>https://xkcd.com/2347/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>outworlder</author><text>Image title:<p>&gt; Someday ImageMagick will finally break for good and we&#x27;ll have a long period of scrambling as we try to reassemble civilization from the rubble.<p>EDIT: don&#x27;t forget to always hover over the image. Half of XKCD&#x27;s fun comes from those tidbits.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>II2II</author><text>I was fumbling with a random piece of software one day, then realized that ImageMagick was installed as a dependency. &quot;Oh,&quot; I thought, while recollections of years past flooded my mind. After a few minutes of reading ImageMagick documentation, I stopped fumbling around and completed the work with ImageMagick instead.</text></comment> | <story><title>Dependency</title><url>https://xkcd.com/2347/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>outworlder</author><text>Image title:<p>&gt; Someday ImageMagick will finally break for good and we&#x27;ll have a long period of scrambling as we try to reassemble civilization from the rubble.<p>EDIT: don&#x27;t forget to always hover over the image. Half of XKCD&#x27;s fun comes from those tidbits.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ldd</author><text>I use imagemagick to split spritesheets into single images for games that I make[0]. More than 1 gamedev has saved countless of hours thanks to it, so I 100% hope it never breaks.<p>[0]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gist.github.com&#x2F;ldd&#x2F;9b576bb6f0ac99a0a7895eaf1aae7802" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gist.github.com&#x2F;ldd&#x2F;9b576bb6f0ac99a0a7895eaf1aae7802</a></text></comment> |
36,449,674 | 36,449,924 | 1 | 2 | 36,427,385 | train | <story><title>EVE Online: Add-in for MS Excel</title><url>https://www.eveonline.com/news/view/information-is-power-excel-release</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>geek_at</author><text>Oh my god that reminds me so much on oldschool browser games (before&#x2F;without flash or JS).<p>My favourites were Ogame [1] and Galaxywars [2] which were both unplayable after a few months because you were just raided every day without a chance to bounce back and balancing in general was horrible. Still good memories though because the game continued when you were not online. You sent an attack that took 8 hours on way so after 8 Hours you know if you succeeded and after 16 hours had your loot and ships back (or not)<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;OGame" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;OGame</a>
[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;de.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Galaxywars" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;de.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Galaxywars</a> (german only sadly)</text></item><item><author>Titan2189</author><text>A few months ago I&#x27;ve found this browser-based game which ditches the whole 3D game ui directly and allows you to do all your spreadsheet planning right there.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;prosperousuniverse.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;prosperousuniverse.com&#x2F;</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>wwilim</author><text>There were three types of kids in Poland in the early 00s, those who had no Internet access, those on dial-up who played Ogame, and those on broadband who played Tibia. Funnily enough, those two games uncannily reflected the reality those kids were born into - both were infamous for constant danger presented by other players and ruthless difficulty where you could lose everything in any given moment.</text></comment> | <story><title>EVE Online: Add-in for MS Excel</title><url>https://www.eveonline.com/news/view/information-is-power-excel-release</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>geek_at</author><text>Oh my god that reminds me so much on oldschool browser games (before&#x2F;without flash or JS).<p>My favourites were Ogame [1] and Galaxywars [2] which were both unplayable after a few months because you were just raided every day without a chance to bounce back and balancing in general was horrible. Still good memories though because the game continued when you were not online. You sent an attack that took 8 hours on way so after 8 Hours you know if you succeeded and after 16 hours had your loot and ships back (or not)<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;OGame" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;OGame</a>
[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;de.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Galaxywars" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;de.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Galaxywars</a> (german only sadly)</text></item><item><author>Titan2189</author><text>A few months ago I&#x27;ve found this browser-based game which ditches the whole 3D game ui directly and allows you to do all your spreadsheet planning right there.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;prosperousuniverse.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;prosperousuniverse.com&#x2F;</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>BbzzbB</author><text>Botting TribalWars kinda got me into programming 3-4 years ago. Fun times, automating farming gives you time to play politics, but managing a top 3 tribe was kind of a full time job even when you don&#x27;t have to grind.</text></comment> |
8,040,741 | 8,040,728 | 1 | 2 | 8,040,170 | train | <story><title>Machine Learning frameworks, libraries and software</title><url>https://github.com/josephmisiti/awesome-machine-learning</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>alsocasey</author><text>The R portion needs some serious filling - for starters: you include the Julia wrapper to glmnet, which was originally implemented in R.<p>glmnet - lasso&#x2F;ridge&#x2F;elastic net glm models.<p>e1071 - SVM classifiers.<p>randomForest - random forest classifiers.<p>mixOmics - a good collection of component-based approaches (PCA, ICA, PLS, etc. includes sparse variants of all of the above is feature selection is required).<p>caret - similar to Java&#x27;s Weka.</text></comment> | <story><title>Machine Learning frameworks, libraries and software</title><url>https://github.com/josephmisiti/awesome-machine-learning</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>tomaskazemekas</author><text>I suggest adding Torch. <a href="http://torch.ch/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;torch.ch&#x2F;</a>
It is a scientific ML framework written in LuaJIT. Recently it was recommended by Yann LeCun, Director of AI in Facebook.
<a href="http://www.reddit.com/r/MachineLearning/comments/25lnbt/ama_yann_lecun/chisdw1" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;MachineLearning&#x2F;comments&#x2F;25lnbt&#x2F;ama_...</a></text></comment> |
31,194,427 | 31,194,531 | 1 | 3 | 31,194,165 | train | <story><title>I employed a California resident, so now I’m subject to its regulations</title><url>https://ccleve.com/p/dont-hire-remote-employees-living</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>zenlikethat</author><text>So OP wanted to become an employer but had no idea what being an employer actually entailed or did any basic research into things like the fee to do business in California. Got it.<p>Not that Cali’s system is awesome but give me a break, OP jumps into having W2s yet complains that Congress needs to pass laws and no one should hire in CA?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ccleve</author><text>I was fully aware that being an employer means filing all employer-related paperwork, withholding, unemployment insurance, and dealing with various employment-related regulations, and I did that.<p>I was not aware that hiring a remote employee there required that my business file an <i>income</i> tax return, which is completely unrelated to employment. My income is none of California&#x27;s damn business if I don&#x27;t sell anything there and have no other nexus with the state.<p>Plus, no other state has California&#x27;s absurd franchise fee, even for small businesses with zero revenue.</text></comment> | <story><title>I employed a California resident, so now I’m subject to its regulations</title><url>https://ccleve.com/p/dont-hire-remote-employees-living</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>zenlikethat</author><text>So OP wanted to become an employer but had no idea what being an employer actually entailed or did any basic research into things like the fee to do business in California. Got it.<p>Not that Cali’s system is awesome but give me a break, OP jumps into having W2s yet complains that Congress needs to pass laws and no one should hire in CA?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>cscurmudgeon</author><text>When people complain about monopolies, remember applying the same set of onerous regulations on a company like Amazon and this guy with a one employee startup favors the large companies by orders of magnitude more.<p>When only the rich and powerful can start companies, it is not a fair world.</text></comment> |
23,389,818 | 23,386,791 | 1 | 2 | 23,384,227 | train | <story><title>How Not to Learn Cryptography (2014)</title><url>http://esl.cs.brown.edu/blog/how-not-to-learn-cryptography/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>loup-vaillant</author><text>Cryptopals strikes me as a very good way of scaring people from not only inventing, but also <i>implementing</i> their own crypto. It seems it&#x27;s primary effect is to make people confident enough to repeat the &quot;don&#x27;t roll your own crypto&quot; mantra to anyone who would listen.<p>Some people however don&#x27;t really have a choice. &quot;Just Libsodium&quot; doesn&#x27;t work on anything smaller than a Raspberry-Pi, or pretty much any embedded system out there. There are alternatives out there (shameless plug: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;monocypher.org" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;monocypher.org</a>), but sometimes your only choice is to code and optimise it yourself.<p>Sometimes, your only reasonable choice is to implement your own crypto. And I can tell from experience, a few weeks of full time learning is enough to not shoot yourself in the foot. The trick is to learn the right things (not everybody can spend a few weeks with Dan Boneh), but if you limit yourself to simple primitives like Chacha20 and Curve25519, it&#x27;s not that hard. (Fun fact: I did <i>not</i> spend a few weeks with Dan Boneh, and I <i>did</i> shoot myself in the foot once.)<p>Because let&#x27;s be honest: you don&#x27;t need to know all the attacks to protect yourself from them. What you need to know is the relevant <i>classes</i> of attacks, and how to void them. For instance, all timing attacks are stopped if your code runs in constant time (which in practice mostly means without secret-dependent branches and without secret-dependent indices).</text></item><item><author>zeroxfe</author><text>I&#x27;ve been working through the Cryptopals Crypto challenges (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;cryptopals.com" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;cryptopals.com</a>) over the last month-and-a-half (almost done with Set 6), and they&#x27;ve been extremely educational.<p>Attacks that I thought were just &quot;theoretical&quot; turned out to be very practical (sometimes even quite simple.) I&#x27;ve always known that one shouldn&#x27;t roll their own crypto because there&#x27;s so many ways to shoot yourself -- but holy hell, executing some of these attacks really drive the point through.<p>(Also, I&#x27;ve learned more number theory in the last few weeks than in my whole life!)<p>If anyone&#x27;s interested, I&#x27;ve been solving them in Go (which turned out to be surprisingly convenient for many reasons), and my solutions (so far) are here: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;0xfe&#x2F;cryptopals" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;0xfe&#x2F;cryptopals</a>.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>zeroxfe</author><text>Thanks, I agree with almost all of this. I didn&#x27;t mean to imply that Cryptopals is how you become a cryptographer, just that it&#x27;s a fantastic way to get down and dirty with cryptography, and learn a ton.<p>These challenges are not easy, and you need some programming sophistication to get through them, since most of them require you to actually implement well-known primitives and algorithms (like Diffie-Hellman, RSA, DSA, PRNGs, etc.)<p>And to do that correctly, you end up studying a _lot_ of side material.<p>You do come out of the other end learning about various classes of attacks, but not necessarily how to avoid them -- that depends entirely upon your intellectual curiosity. :-)</text></comment> | <story><title>How Not to Learn Cryptography (2014)</title><url>http://esl.cs.brown.edu/blog/how-not-to-learn-cryptography/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>loup-vaillant</author><text>Cryptopals strikes me as a very good way of scaring people from not only inventing, but also <i>implementing</i> their own crypto. It seems it&#x27;s primary effect is to make people confident enough to repeat the &quot;don&#x27;t roll your own crypto&quot; mantra to anyone who would listen.<p>Some people however don&#x27;t really have a choice. &quot;Just Libsodium&quot; doesn&#x27;t work on anything smaller than a Raspberry-Pi, or pretty much any embedded system out there. There are alternatives out there (shameless plug: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;monocypher.org" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;monocypher.org</a>), but sometimes your only choice is to code and optimise it yourself.<p>Sometimes, your only reasonable choice is to implement your own crypto. And I can tell from experience, a few weeks of full time learning is enough to not shoot yourself in the foot. The trick is to learn the right things (not everybody can spend a few weeks with Dan Boneh), but if you limit yourself to simple primitives like Chacha20 and Curve25519, it&#x27;s not that hard. (Fun fact: I did <i>not</i> spend a few weeks with Dan Boneh, and I <i>did</i> shoot myself in the foot once.)<p>Because let&#x27;s be honest: you don&#x27;t need to know all the attacks to protect yourself from them. What you need to know is the relevant <i>classes</i> of attacks, and how to void them. For instance, all timing attacks are stopped if your code runs in constant time (which in practice mostly means without secret-dependent branches and without secret-dependent indices).</text></item><item><author>zeroxfe</author><text>I&#x27;ve been working through the Cryptopals Crypto challenges (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;cryptopals.com" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;cryptopals.com</a>) over the last month-and-a-half (almost done with Set 6), and they&#x27;ve been extremely educational.<p>Attacks that I thought were just &quot;theoretical&quot; turned out to be very practical (sometimes even quite simple.) I&#x27;ve always known that one shouldn&#x27;t roll their own crypto because there&#x27;s so many ways to shoot yourself -- but holy hell, executing some of these attacks really drive the point through.<p>(Also, I&#x27;ve learned more number theory in the last few weeks than in my whole life!)<p>If anyone&#x27;s interested, I&#x27;ve been solving them in Go (which turned out to be surprisingly convenient for many reasons), and my solutions (so far) are here: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;0xfe&#x2F;cryptopals" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;0xfe&#x2F;cryptopals</a>.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tptacek</author><text>What&#x27;s rough about implementing your own crypto is that sometimes you screw it up, as you well know. When you screw up an attack, nobody suffers. Not so for novel implementations of primitives that you provide to others.</text></comment> |
17,787,081 | 17,786,604 | 1 | 3 | 17,785,616 | train | <story><title>U.S. government seeks Facebook help to wiretap Messenger</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/article/us-facebook-encryption-exclusive/exclusive-u-s-government-seeks-facebook-help-to-wiretap-messenger-sources-idUSKBN1L226D</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mjevans</author><text>I think it has become abundantly clear that a fully peer to peer, encryption required (non-optional), no single central server infrastructure solution is the answer.<p>No points to tap.<p>No point in tapping the data.<p>If they want to capture conversations it&#x27;s time to go back to the proper old ways of actually spying on high-value targets.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>apatters</author><text>This discussion should never be framed as a choice between legal solutions and technical solutions. They are complementary.<p>The legal approach is correct and easy for the public to understand. Explained correctly it is also popular. The government used to have to do things like get a warrant and investigate specific crimes. They couldn&#x27;t listen to everyone&#x27;s phone conversations all the time and they shouldn&#x27;t be able to do this on the Internet either. Digital dragnets are illegal and unconstitutional.<p>The technical approach is also correct. If you&#x27;re building something that makes it harder for criminals inside the government to commit more crimes, you&#x27;re doing work that is profound and in the best interests of society. Anyone with passion and technical skill can participate in this work. It&#x27;s the right thing to do.<p>Both efforts help each other. Keep the government in line and accountable to the people. Make it harder for people inside the government to do the wrong thing. All approaches deserve support and should leverage each other&#x27;s work. They should cooperate with law-abiding, constitutionally empowered government authorities as well. There are good guys in the government too.</text></comment> | <story><title>U.S. government seeks Facebook help to wiretap Messenger</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/article/us-facebook-encryption-exclusive/exclusive-u-s-government-seeks-facebook-help-to-wiretap-messenger-sources-idUSKBN1L226D</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mjevans</author><text>I think it has become abundantly clear that a fully peer to peer, encryption required (non-optional), no single central server infrastructure solution is the answer.<p>No points to tap.<p>No point in tapping the data.<p>If they want to capture conversations it&#x27;s time to go back to the proper old ways of actually spying on high-value targets.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>partycoder</author><text>It is not the answer.<p>What are the building blocks for encryption?<p>1) An cryptographic algorithm<p>2) Some form of key generation<p>3) A software implementation of 1) and 2)<p>4) A binary distribution of 3)<p>5) A computer that executes 4)<p>In practice, chances are those 5 are all rigged. They are rigged because you have so far trusted:<p>- That there are no tricks in the algorithm or its practical implementation<p>- That there are no tricks in the key generation algorithm or its practical implementation<p>- Hundreds of contributors to the software implementation of those algorithms<p>- The guy that compiled the software into binary form and distributed it<p>- The compiler used to compile the software and all the libraries and dependencies the software has<p>- Hardware manufacturers<p>So, common sense tells me that because you have trusted so many people, in practice, it is very unlikely you can have end-to-end encryption or any real ambition to have privacy.<p>This does not even consider more aspects, like your operating system, your sources of entropy, etc.</text></comment> |
6,812,329 | 6,811,369 | 1 | 2 | 6,810,543 | train | <story><title>A Prediction: Bitcoin Is Doomed to Fail</title><url>http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2013/11/27/a-prediction-bitcoin-is-doomed-to-fail/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>brador</author><text>That&#x27;s because Bitcoins are relatively easy to buy and very difficult to cash out into real currency. Once enough people see how hard it is to liquidate their Bitcoins back to USD the realization will follow.</text></item><item><author>Aqueous</author><text>They are applying old-world money ideas to something that is so new that we don&#x27;t have useful models yet for deciding how it will behave, thinking that they do apply without loss of content. The rules of supply and demand apply, sure, but none of the other common-sense intuitions about how money works.<p>BitCoins don&#x27;t have any resistance to movement, or very little. Physical money does. This means the difference between BitCoins and physical money is perhaps comparable to the difference between massive particles like atoms and massless particles like photons, or to the difference between a classical conductor and a superconductor. Which is only to say that the same rules don&#x27;t apply - new behaviors are observed.<p>We are in a new world and the study of economics is about to take a huge left-turn.</text></item><item><author>cs702</author><text>Bitcoin befuddles experts who analyze it from a narrow perspective, because it is not just a new medium of exchange or a new store of value: it is also a new kind of point-of-sale payment system (one that doesn&#x27;t require payment processors), a new kind of global financial transfer system (one that doesn&#x27;t require financial institutions), a new kind of time-stamping certification system (one that doesn&#x27;t require notaries or county clerks), a new kind of contract-enforcing mechanism (one that doesn&#x27;t require lawyers), etc.<p>With rising global adoption, many new kinds of applications are likely to be created to take advantage of the Bitcoin network, the design of which even specifies a built-in script for defining and executing new types of transactions involving any arbitrary number of parties.[1]<p>In short, Bitcoin is a <i>technology platform</i> -- one that is benefiting from network effects.<p>It may fail as &quot;money&quot; (in a narrow sense) and still succeed as a global platform.<p>In fact, Bitcoin is already a success.<p>--<p>[1] <a href="https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Script" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.bitcoin.it&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Script</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jnbiche</author><text>Wrong. Have you actually tried to buy a Bitcoin? If not, ask someone who has. At the moment, it&#x27;s hard for Bitcoin novices to buy Bitcoins, and much less hard to sell them.<p>Actually, once you&#x27;ve been verified by an exchange (required prior to buying Bitcoins unless you do a private party sale), selling Bitcoins is easy; it&#x27;s getting your USD wired&#x2F;ACHed to your bank account that can be time-consuming. This is due to the legacy banking system, and not some problem inherent to Bitcoin.<p>EDIT: By the way, it&#x27;s not &quot;very difficult&quot; to sell Bitcoins. If I want to sell a Bitcoin, I log onto my Bitstamp account, put in a limit order. When the sale is executed, I submit a short, pre-filled form for a wire transfer to my bank. I then wait a few days and the money is in my bank account, in USD. Not hard.</text></comment> | <story><title>A Prediction: Bitcoin Is Doomed to Fail</title><url>http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2013/11/27/a-prediction-bitcoin-is-doomed-to-fail/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>brador</author><text>That&#x27;s because Bitcoins are relatively easy to buy and very difficult to cash out into real currency. Once enough people see how hard it is to liquidate their Bitcoins back to USD the realization will follow.</text></item><item><author>Aqueous</author><text>They are applying old-world money ideas to something that is so new that we don&#x27;t have useful models yet for deciding how it will behave, thinking that they do apply without loss of content. The rules of supply and demand apply, sure, but none of the other common-sense intuitions about how money works.<p>BitCoins don&#x27;t have any resistance to movement, or very little. Physical money does. This means the difference between BitCoins and physical money is perhaps comparable to the difference between massive particles like atoms and massless particles like photons, or to the difference between a classical conductor and a superconductor. Which is only to say that the same rules don&#x27;t apply - new behaviors are observed.<p>We are in a new world and the study of economics is about to take a huge left-turn.</text></item><item><author>cs702</author><text>Bitcoin befuddles experts who analyze it from a narrow perspective, because it is not just a new medium of exchange or a new store of value: it is also a new kind of point-of-sale payment system (one that doesn&#x27;t require payment processors), a new kind of global financial transfer system (one that doesn&#x27;t require financial institutions), a new kind of time-stamping certification system (one that doesn&#x27;t require notaries or county clerks), a new kind of contract-enforcing mechanism (one that doesn&#x27;t require lawyers), etc.<p>With rising global adoption, many new kinds of applications are likely to be created to take advantage of the Bitcoin network, the design of which even specifies a built-in script for defining and executing new types of transactions involving any arbitrary number of parties.[1]<p>In short, Bitcoin is a <i>technology platform</i> -- one that is benefiting from network effects.<p>It may fail as &quot;money&quot; (in a narrow sense) and still succeed as a global platform.<p>In fact, Bitcoin is already a success.<p>--<p>[1] <a href="https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Script" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.bitcoin.it&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Script</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jafaku</author><text>News flash: A transaction requires a buyer and a seller. If you bought Bitcoin, someone else sold Bitcoin.</text></comment> |
9,589,857 | 9,589,782 | 1 | 3 | 9,588,175 | train | <story><title>A Repository with 44 Years of Unix Evolution</title><url>http://www.dmst.aueb.gr/dds/pubs/conf/2015-MSR-Unix-History/html/Spi15c.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>fit2rule</author><text>As a 45 year old with 30 years of experience in the computer industry, such titles interest me, immensely.<p>I grew up with Unix.<p>I remember the days when Unix was a seriously advanced topic, available only to the elite privileged (adults) who were granted access to it as a technological resource only through machinations that were out of my scope of influence, as a 13 year old learning computing in 1983. It was a vast mystery.<p>It was only with great effort on my part that access was eventually granted in the form of a login over a slow modem. That was enough for me to move to the next phase.<p>Then, it was a mystery in terms of taxology. I had a near-infinite, seemingly overwhelming number of things to learn - more than what was in my high school curriculum, more than my little home 8-bit computer could teach me, more .. it seemed at the time .. than all the books on my shelf.<p>Well, it was only a few years - actually probably less than 10 months - until I was able to grasp at least a <i>little bit</i> of the subject, and do something with it. That was enough to propel me into the professional sphere - where I was able to move from a clueless teenager into the clued-up programmer zone.<p>And then (late 80&#x27;s) it became a game of &quot;which Unix do you want to know?&quot;, and that game was as thorny as any other. I chose Risc&#x2F;OS (from MIPS, pre-SGI) and it worked out: I gained my own machine (physical hardware) as a result of commercial delivery of products - a few files of .c&#x2F;.h - which I&#x27;d managed to build as a result of eager learning applied to real application.<p>And then: Linux. This changed the world completely, at least for me at the time. When I first saw Linus&#x27; post on the minix-list, announcing his sharing of work I thought completely inapproachable and beyond the horizon, I immediately applied myself to catching up. And then, through the 90&#x27;s, the commercial applications of these skills gave me an even deeper understanding of the subject - and Unix became less of a mystery and more of a resource for living. And so it was: for a decade I built Unix software, like no other, which resulted in many great things for many great people.<p>Then, we flipped the century bit, and Unix - in spite of all the predictions from industry experts - was still with us. It didn&#x27;t just go away because of pop-culture desires and mores, it was seriously entrenched. That 80&#x27;s decision seemed all the more wise in 2001, when it became clear to me that Unix was not going away.<p>So I kept at it. I coded all I could. I got a tiBook - astounded, but content nevertheless, that Apple (of all companies) was producing a portable Unix workstation - something that I&#x27;d dreamed of for over a decade. And there it was, the tiBook. So I&#x27;ve upgraded my way from there, to my current extremely satisfying device (MBP Retina) .. and beyond that, even beyond my wildest teenage dreams: here we are today - I carry around a Unix workstation in my pocket.<p>Its my primary means of communication, just like I always knew it would be. It does all the things that I used to do with the Risc&#x2F;OS pizza box. It does it in a way that makes total sense - a simple interface, like the embodiment of the holy pipe, but at my fingertips.<p>It has been a challenge, a fantasy, and a real desire to see Unix become what it is today - but its also been a privilege. I think that all of my fellow hackers who professed faith in the technology, must feel the same - at least those who have watched it happen over decades. Truly, a unique human experience.<p>And therefore I&#x27;m really glad to see this article. It has been very enlightening - and as well, personally satisfying - to see that others recognize the power of this technology, which took decades to become the force of power that it is today.</text></comment> | <story><title>A Repository with 44 Years of Unix Evolution</title><url>http://www.dmst.aueb.gr/dds/pubs/conf/2015-MSR-Unix-History/html/Spi15c.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>duiker101</author><text>The first commit sits at page 11070, <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;dspinellis&#x2F;unix-history-repo&#x2F;tree&#x2F;7317268623b44e8f3a51c34e3ca717316f613958" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;dspinellis&#x2F;unix-history-repo&#x2F;tree&#x2F;7317268...</a></text></comment> |
17,709,234 | 17,706,248 | 1 | 2 | 17,702,380 | train | <story><title>Plan to replicate 50 high-impact cancer papers shrinks to just 18</title><url>http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2018/07/plan-replicate-50-high-impact-cancer-papers-shrinks-just-18</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>sytelus</author><text>Every academic cries about this but no one wants to accept an <i>obvious</i> solution: Add reprodicibility criteria for peer review. Right now even Tier 1 conferences do not have this criteria in their peer review system. The reviewer simply can&#x27;t reject paper because authors didn&#x27;t provided reproducibility information!<p>This is truely a plague in research right now. I&#x27;ve came across quite a few instances where authors told me that their experiments weren&#x27;t reproducible even for them! They do not note this in paper because ultimately everyone needs to show some result for the funding they received (i.e. &quot;published paper&quot;). They obviously never want to share any code, data files, hardware etc. On one instance, author wrote me back that they can&#x27;t share code with me because they lost all the code because their hard drive crashed! Reproducibility is a fundamental tenant of doing scientific work and this is actively and completely ignored in current peer review system.<p>I think conference chairs needs to take stand on this. We get now 4X to 8X papers in tier 1 conferences. Reproducibility could be a great filter when area chairs are scrambling to find reasons to reject papers. Sure, there will be papers where very specialized hardware or internal infrastructure of 10,000 computers were used. But those papers would be great for Tier 2 conferences.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>setgree</author><text>Hi sytelus, <i>Nature</i> is piloting (analytical&#x2F;computational) reproducibility as part of peer review with, disclosure, the company I work for, Code Ocean:<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;blogs.nature.com&#x2F;ofschemesandmemes&#x2F;2018&#x2F;08&#x2F;01&#x2F;nature-research-journals-trial-new-tools-to-enhance-code-peer-review-and-publication" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;blogs.nature.com&#x2F;ofschemesandmemes&#x2F;2018&#x2F;08&#x2F;01&#x2F;nature-...</a><p>A few political science journals also hire staff to make sure that the code reproduce the results in the article:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;ajps.org&#x2F;ajps-replication-policy&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;ajps.org&#x2F;ajps-replication-policy&#x2F;</a><p>A nice writeup of the AJPS&#x27;s experiences:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.insidehighered.com&#x2F;blogs&#x2F;rethinking-research&#x2F;should-journals-be-responsible-reproducibility" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.insidehighered.com&#x2F;blogs&#x2F;rethinking-research&#x2F;sho...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Plan to replicate 50 high-impact cancer papers shrinks to just 18</title><url>http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2018/07/plan-replicate-50-high-impact-cancer-papers-shrinks-just-18</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>sytelus</author><text>Every academic cries about this but no one wants to accept an <i>obvious</i> solution: Add reprodicibility criteria for peer review. Right now even Tier 1 conferences do not have this criteria in their peer review system. The reviewer simply can&#x27;t reject paper because authors didn&#x27;t provided reproducibility information!<p>This is truely a plague in research right now. I&#x27;ve came across quite a few instances where authors told me that their experiments weren&#x27;t reproducible even for them! They do not note this in paper because ultimately everyone needs to show some result for the funding they received (i.e. &quot;published paper&quot;). They obviously never want to share any code, data files, hardware etc. On one instance, author wrote me back that they can&#x27;t share code with me because they lost all the code because their hard drive crashed! Reproducibility is a fundamental tenant of doing scientific work and this is actively and completely ignored in current peer review system.<p>I think conference chairs needs to take stand on this. We get now 4X to 8X papers in tier 1 conferences. Reproducibility could be a great filter when area chairs are scrambling to find reasons to reject papers. Sure, there will be papers where very specialized hardware or internal infrastructure of 10,000 computers were used. But those papers would be great for Tier 2 conferences.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dekhn</author><text>If a researcher told me they couldn&#x27;t provide primary data because their hard drive crashed, I&#x27;d contact their dean and the editor of the journal that published the article, and let them know. Researchers have a duty (unfortunately not well codified) to retain primary source data, and &quot;hard drive crash&quot; isn&#x27;t an excuse (it means they didn&#x27;t take even basic backup and archival measures).</text></comment> |
18,050,270 | 18,049,692 | 1 | 2 | 18,044,088 | train | <story><title>Chinese Thesis Ghostwriting Scandal Reveals Huge Gray Market</title><url>https://www.caixinglobal.com/2018-09-15/chinese-thesis-ghostwriting-scandal-reveals-huge-gray-market-101326436.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>aldoushuxley001</author><text>&gt; Always ask the candidate to walk you through the repo line by line!<p>That seems a bit much, you&#x27;re liable to scare away good talent that way.</text></item><item><author>xkcd-sucks</author><text>Yeah so do all these fucking bootcamp graduates who copypaste their classmates&#x27; code into new repos and star each other. Always ask the candidate to walk you through the repo line by line!</text></item><item><author>ausjke</author><text>Not just that, github is abused in china now, you pay and they will set up a repo for you, star it for you, so you can show your potential employer &quot;your&quot; github repo, it&#x27;s a business operation now.<p>There is another group of people that will take the phone interview and the remote online coding test for you until you get an onsite interview, since not all phone interview has video chat. That too helped quite some to get accepted into good companies eventually.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>gaius</author><text><i>you&#x27;re liable to scare away good talent that way</i><p>People, in general, like to talk about themselves, and engineers like to talk about their own code. &quot;See this if statement, well there&#x27;s a funny story behind that...&quot;.<p>A few years ago I interviewed a candidate who mentioned Github on her CV but no actual URL. What&#x27;s your username on there, I asked, let&#x27;s look at some of your code. She refused and said she didn&#x27;t want me to look at it. Then why did you mention it on your CV I asked? Because she was told she had to, she said. All in all a weird experience, probably for both of us.</text></comment> | <story><title>Chinese Thesis Ghostwriting Scandal Reveals Huge Gray Market</title><url>https://www.caixinglobal.com/2018-09-15/chinese-thesis-ghostwriting-scandal-reveals-huge-gray-market-101326436.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>aldoushuxley001</author><text>&gt; Always ask the candidate to walk you through the repo line by line!<p>That seems a bit much, you&#x27;re liable to scare away good talent that way.</text></item><item><author>xkcd-sucks</author><text>Yeah so do all these fucking bootcamp graduates who copypaste their classmates&#x27; code into new repos and star each other. Always ask the candidate to walk you through the repo line by line!</text></item><item><author>ausjke</author><text>Not just that, github is abused in china now, you pay and they will set up a repo for you, star it for you, so you can show your potential employer &quot;your&quot; github repo, it&#x27;s a business operation now.<p>There is another group of people that will take the phone interview and the remote online coding test for you until you get an onsite interview, since not all phone interview has video chat. That too helped quite some to get accepted into good companies eventually.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>stingraycharles</author><text>I do try to talk a lot about their own projects during interviews, though, since I can only assume they like to talk about it.<p>And it can lead to very interesting discussions, you learn a lot about a candidate that way.</text></comment> |
35,918,314 | 35,917,416 | 1 | 3 | 35,917,030 | train | <story><title>Things You Can Do with KDE Connect on Linux</title><url>https://www.makeuseof.com/things-you-can-do-with-kde-connect-on-linux/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>unstuck3958</author><text>KDE Connect is a great piece of software. Everyone I recommended it to uses it almost daily.<p>It makes me wonder about the state of FOSS software: there are plenty of genuinely good FOSS apps that can, in theory, be a part of a FOSS &quot;ecosystem.&quot; But not many people actually know about them or use them.<p>While I am still curious to know why this is, it seems like &quot;advertisement&quot; is still the greater predictor of software usage than anything else (including functionality and ease-of-use). Which is sad (especially because <i>FOSS apps get better the more people use them</i>).</text></comment> | <story><title>Things You Can Do with KDE Connect on Linux</title><url>https://www.makeuseof.com/things-you-can-do-with-kde-connect-on-linux/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>duffyjp</author><text>Point #3 (Using Your Phone as a Mouse and Keyboard) mentions utilizing the gyroscope. I&#x27;ve had that idea in the back of my head for years and years and am super excited somebody actually built it. Looking forward to trying this out.<p>If it works well enough to actually use I&#x27;m gonna be turning heads at the next in person meeting. :)</text></comment> |
23,660,167 | 23,660,120 | 1 | 2 | 23,659,037 | train | <story><title>Examining ARM vs. x86 Memory Models with Rust</title><url>https://www.nickwilcox.com/blog/arm_vs_x86_memory_model/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>RcouF1uZ4gsC</author><text>&gt; The x86 processor was able to run the test successfully all 10,000 times, but the ARM processor failed on the 35th attempt.<p>I think this issue might prove a problem in the long tail of desktop and server software running on ARM.<p>A lot of desktop and server applications try to take advantage of all the cores. Many times, they are using libraries that were either implemented prior to C and C++ having defined memory models or else without that much care for memory model as long as it ran without issues on the developer computer (x86) and server (x86). Going to ARM is going to expose a lot of these bugs as developers recompile their code for ARM without making sure that their code actually adheres to the C&#x2F;C++ memory models.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nindalf</author><text>There’s now 2 incentive to support ARM better - Apple’s move to ARM on the desktop and cheaper cloud bills if you’re willing to use ARM instances. Either one wouldn’t be enough of an incentive, but together it will cause a shift in the next 3-5 years.<p>Developers will become more aware of the differences between the architectures, tool chains will accommodate both better, people and software will stop assuming they are running on x86 as default. ARM won’t “win” the desktop or the server market, but it will become a viable alternative, squeezing the profits of companies who depend on x86.</text></comment> | <story><title>Examining ARM vs. x86 Memory Models with Rust</title><url>https://www.nickwilcox.com/blog/arm_vs_x86_memory_model/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>RcouF1uZ4gsC</author><text>&gt; The x86 processor was able to run the test successfully all 10,000 times, but the ARM processor failed on the 35th attempt.<p>I think this issue might prove a problem in the long tail of desktop and server software running on ARM.<p>A lot of desktop and server applications try to take advantage of all the cores. Many times, they are using libraries that were either implemented prior to C and C++ having defined memory models or else without that much care for memory model as long as it ran without issues on the developer computer (x86) and server (x86). Going to ARM is going to expose a lot of these bugs as developers recompile their code for ARM without making sure that their code actually adheres to the C&#x2F;C++ memory models.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>vbezhenar</author><text>Smartphones used ARM for a while. I think that many of the major libraries were used in one or another project. So I think that this problem won&#x27;t be as severe, because those bugs hopefully were fixed.<p>Also Raspberry Pi was a popular choice for many tinkerers for years which also helps with ARM penetration.</text></comment> |
16,815,802 | 16,815,873 | 1 | 2 | 16,810,980 | train | <story><title>The Myth of 'Learning Styles'</title><url>https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2018/04/the-myth-of-learning-styles/557687/?single_page=true</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>turingcompeteme</author><text>My SO teaches elementary math, and we&#x27;ve had a few discussions about this.<p>When teaching a new concept, say the area of a parallelogram, she will present the concept in multiple different ways:<p>- Give printouts of parallelograms on graph paper, so the students can count the number of squares in a parallelogram. Also give them scissors and see what happens.<p>- Give students two triangles and a square (which they know how to get the areas of already), as well as some tape.<p>- Simply give students the length of the base, height, and the area of multiple parallelograms.<p>The interesting thing is that there will be a somewhat equal split among which way makes the concept click for the students. Some will instantly start counting squares on graph paper and figure it out. Some will tape the different shapes together and go from there. Others will play with the base and height numbers and arrive at a formula.<p>So while &quot;learning styles&quot; may be a misnomer, I do believe that presenting one topic in a variety of ways is beneficial.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mattferderer</author><text>I strongly agree in presenting a topic in a variety of ways since being able to relate new information to information already known is a major key to learning new concepts. The more ways a topic is presented, the better chance a person&#x27;s brain can relate it to something already known.<p>I have a strong assumption that when many people hear &quot;learning styles&quot;, they assume it to this instead of auditory vs visual.</text></comment> | <story><title>The Myth of 'Learning Styles'</title><url>https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2018/04/the-myth-of-learning-styles/557687/?single_page=true</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>turingcompeteme</author><text>My SO teaches elementary math, and we&#x27;ve had a few discussions about this.<p>When teaching a new concept, say the area of a parallelogram, she will present the concept in multiple different ways:<p>- Give printouts of parallelograms on graph paper, so the students can count the number of squares in a parallelogram. Also give them scissors and see what happens.<p>- Give students two triangles and a square (which they know how to get the areas of already), as well as some tape.<p>- Simply give students the length of the base, height, and the area of multiple parallelograms.<p>The interesting thing is that there will be a somewhat equal split among which way makes the concept click for the students. Some will instantly start counting squares on graph paper and figure it out. Some will tape the different shapes together and go from there. Others will play with the base and height numbers and arrive at a formula.<p>So while &quot;learning styles&quot; may be a misnomer, I do believe that presenting one topic in a variety of ways is beneficial.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>r00fus</author><text>&gt; So while &quot;learning styles&quot; may be a misnomer, I do believe that presenting one topic in a variety of ways is beneficial.<p>Absolutely. I think &quot;learning styles&quot; is a <i>reductionist</i> view of Universal Design for Learning [1], which is essentially what you described how your SO teaches.<p>It&#x27;s quite possible that at a given time, someone may be inclined to visual learning, but may be more kinesthetically inclined in another setting&#x2F;moment.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Universal_Design_for_Learning" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Universal_Design_for_Learning</a></text></comment> |
30,322,645 | 30,322,670 | 1 | 3 | 30,321,888 | train | <story><title>Ask HN: Disillusioned with the direction of society and technology</title><text>Technology seems like a giant waste of time and energy for human civilisation.<p>Specifically the social media giants and advertising funded tech companies seem like the definition of emotional vampires. So do cryptocurrencies.<p>They are making society worse not better. For a time maybe 15-20 years ago, maybe peaking around the era of Snowden it looked like technology was going to truly democratise the world.<p>Now we are being led into an orwellian hell hole.<p>For what tech produces it is overly rewarded economically. The true economic value of some companies like facebook or amazon may be negative.<p>What can we do or is it already too late to save the world from the big tech monster?<p>I think it is already too late. The internet is like an opiate or stimulant for the masses and a vampire, feeding off of and feeding into emotions and mass popular delusions allowing people to be manipulated as sheep and resulting in time and energy being wasted by literally billions.</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>pirate787</author><text>Revolving doors -- when people work for companies and then that industry&#x27;s regulators, and back -- are a symptom of the problem. The problem is the government is too large and engages in too many activities that pick winners and losers. The government should be a neutral referee. End corporate subsidies (including regulatory cross-subsidies) and flatten the tax code to reform this area.<p>Also a ban is plainly unconstitutional, people have a right to free speech, free association, and to work for whom they choose.</text></item><item><author>zouhair</author><text>Let&#x27;s start by making revolving doors illegal.</text></item><item><author>civilized</author><text>Some lessons that will come with age.<p>1. There is no magic that will change human nature.<p>2. Rules that keep people from harming others are very important.<p>3. Don&#x27;t expect to live a &quot;special&quot; or &quot;great&quot; or &quot;revolutionary&quot; life. Aspire to something extraordinary if you see an opportunity, but ordinary things like health, moderate wealth, and family are also good enough, and will have to be good enough for most people. And there is something very special in simply living a very good ordinary life.<p>4. Try not to be pushed into doing things that corrode the moral goodness within you. You will not regret spurning material rewards to live in accordance with your values, but you will regret the opposite.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jrd259</author><text>Certainly they do, but the public also has a right to insist that its servants (regulators, in this case, but also the other branches of government) be free of conflict of interest. In the particular case, they should not hire directly from the very industry they regulate. Ensuring that the regulators have expertise will be a problem, but at least no conflict of interest</text></comment> | <story><title>Ask HN: Disillusioned with the direction of society and technology</title><text>Technology seems like a giant waste of time and energy for human civilisation.<p>Specifically the social media giants and advertising funded tech companies seem like the definition of emotional vampires. So do cryptocurrencies.<p>They are making society worse not better. For a time maybe 15-20 years ago, maybe peaking around the era of Snowden it looked like technology was going to truly democratise the world.<p>Now we are being led into an orwellian hell hole.<p>For what tech produces it is overly rewarded economically. The true economic value of some companies like facebook or amazon may be negative.<p>What can we do or is it already too late to save the world from the big tech monster?<p>I think it is already too late. The internet is like an opiate or stimulant for the masses and a vampire, feeding off of and feeding into emotions and mass popular delusions allowing people to be manipulated as sheep and resulting in time and energy being wasted by literally billions.</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>pirate787</author><text>Revolving doors -- when people work for companies and then that industry&#x27;s regulators, and back -- are a symptom of the problem. The problem is the government is too large and engages in too many activities that pick winners and losers. The government should be a neutral referee. End corporate subsidies (including regulatory cross-subsidies) and flatten the tax code to reform this area.<p>Also a ban is plainly unconstitutional, people have a right to free speech, free association, and to work for whom they choose.</text></item><item><author>zouhair</author><text>Let&#x27;s start by making revolving doors illegal.</text></item><item><author>civilized</author><text>Some lessons that will come with age.<p>1. There is no magic that will change human nature.<p>2. Rules that keep people from harming others are very important.<p>3. Don&#x27;t expect to live a &quot;special&quot; or &quot;great&quot; or &quot;revolutionary&quot; life. Aspire to something extraordinary if you see an opportunity, but ordinary things like health, moderate wealth, and family are also good enough, and will have to be good enough for most people. And there is something very special in simply living a very good ordinary life.<p>4. Try not to be pushed into doing things that corrode the moral goodness within you. You will not regret spurning material rewards to live in accordance with your values, but you will regret the opposite.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mushbino</author><text>So instead of banning revolving doors we should have fewer regulations on them? That somehow fixes the problem?<p>Maybe allowing private money and politics to mix at all is the problem.</text></comment> |
14,956,399 | 14,956,021 | 1 | 2 | 14,955,693 | train | <story><title>A Systematic Analysis of the Juniper Dual EC Incident [pdf]</title><url>https://www.cs.uic.edu/~s/papers/juniper2016/juniper2016.pdf</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>tetha</author><text>I gotta say, the combine subtlety of this vulnerability is impressive:<p>- There is a config flag, which may or may not have a valid use. I&#x27;m not a networker or security expert, I cannot tell.<p>- That config flag in turn causes two random number generators to interact via a global variable to cause
a small off-by-one error. Furthermore, both code pieces don&#x27;t look strinkingly wrong, from a cursory glance by someone not familiar with the code base. I&#x27;ve seen worse code being approved in a review.<p>- This boundary error leaks internal state of the inner EC-based PRNG, which allows an attacker with prior knowledge, sufficient computing capacity and solid knowledge of math and crypto to get the state of the inner RNG<p>- This information can be exfiltrated through both a complex queue&#x2F;pool-system and a complex handshaking protocol. Maybe I&#x27;m more familiar with PRNGs, but the IKE part started to go over my head.<p>I&#x27;ve always acknowledged the idea of very subtle, deniable and complex vulnerability introduction, both through cryptographic conditions, subtle code and language issues and all of that. Software is hard and complex.<p>But this is an example that&#x27;s both scary, very complex and close enough to comprehension to be very, very scary without being vague. Thank you for the analysis and the write-up.</text></comment> | <story><title>A Systematic Analysis of the Juniper Dual EC Incident [pdf]</title><url>https://www.cs.uic.edu/~s/papers/juniper2016/juniper2016.pdf</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>okket</author><text>Abstract: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;eprint.iacr.org&#x2F;2016&#x2F;376" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;eprint.iacr.org&#x2F;2016&#x2F;376</a><p>In December 2015, Juniper Networks announced that unknown attackers had added unauthorized code to ScreenOS, the operating system for their NetScreen VPN routers. This code created two vulnerabilities: an authentication bypass that enabled remote administrative access, and a second vulnerability that allowed passive decryption of VPN traffic. Reverse engineering of ScreenOS binaries revealed that the first of these vulnerabilities was a conventional back door in the SSH password checker. The second is far more intriguing: a change to the Q parameter used by the Dual EC pseudorandom number generator. It is widely known that Dual EC has the unfortunate property that an attacker with the ability to choose Q can, from a small sample of the generator&#x27;s output, predict all future outputs. In a 2013 public statement, Juniper noted the use of Dual EC but claimed that ScreenOS included countermeasures that neutralized this form of attack.<p>In this work, we report the results of a thorough independent analysis of the ScreenOS randomness subsystem, as well as its interaction with the IKE VPN key establishment protocol. Due to apparent flaws in the code, Juniper&#x27;s countermeasures against a Dual EC attack are never executed. Moreover, by comparing sequential versions of ScreenOS, we identify a cluster of additional changes that were introduced concurrently with the inclusion of Dual EC in a single 2008 release. Taken as a whole, these changes render the ScreenOS system vulnerable to passive exploitation by an attacker who selects Q. We demonstrate this by installing our own parameters, and showing that it is possible to passively decrypt a single IKE handshake and its associated VPN traffic in isolation without observing any other network traffic.</text></comment> |
17,510,612 | 17,510,478 | 1 | 3 | 17,509,038 | train | <story><title>FCC Proposes Changing Comment System After WSJ Found Thousands of Fakes</title><url>https://www.wsj.com/articles/fcc-proposes-rebuilding-comment-system-after-thousands-revealed-as-fake-1531315654</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>craftyguy</author><text>So basically, it doesn&#x27;t really matter if comments are fake or legitimate, if pai is going to ignore them anyways.</text></item><item><author>0xbadcafebee</author><text>Some background:<p>28 senators, and the New York Attorney General, had to tell Pai to stop the FCC voting on new rules last year because of all the fraudulent comments. The fake comments were made apparent over a year ago. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cnet.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;net-neutrality-fcc-ajit-pai-bots-senators-letter&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cnet.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;net-neutrality-fcc-ajit-pai-bots-s...</a><p>The FCC refused to provide records to the NY AG in order to investigate the possibility of fake comments. In other words, the NY AG was the only part of the government investigating the fake comments, and the FCC actively worked against investigating them. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.slashdot.org&#x2F;story&#x2F;17&#x2F;12&#x2F;10&#x2F;0037222&#x2F;fcc-refuses-records-for-investigation-into-fake-net-neutrality-comments" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.slashdot.org&#x2F;story&#x2F;17&#x2F;12&#x2F;10&#x2F;0037222&#x2F;fcc-refuses...</a><p>Pai&#x27;s office issued this response to calls to delay the vote:<p><pre><code> This is just evidence that supporters of heavy-handed Internet
regulations are becoming more desperate by the day as their effort
to defeat Chairman Pai&#x27;s plan to restore Internet freedom has stalled.
The vote will proceed as scheduled on December 14.
</code></pre>
As promised, the FCC voted to repeal Net Neutrality.<p>And now, 7 months later, the FCC is saying there were fraudulent comments, and maybe they should redesign their website.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Delmania</author><text>Right, this is a poor attempt to save face. Pai was going to repeal net neutrality no matter what, his corporate sponsors&#x2F;donors&#x2F;masters demanded that. Now that he&#x27;s achieved his single goal, now he can pretend to care about everyone else in an attempt to influence the midterm elections.</text></comment> | <story><title>FCC Proposes Changing Comment System After WSJ Found Thousands of Fakes</title><url>https://www.wsj.com/articles/fcc-proposes-rebuilding-comment-system-after-thousands-revealed-as-fake-1531315654</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>craftyguy</author><text>So basically, it doesn&#x27;t really matter if comments are fake or legitimate, if pai is going to ignore them anyways.</text></item><item><author>0xbadcafebee</author><text>Some background:<p>28 senators, and the New York Attorney General, had to tell Pai to stop the FCC voting on new rules last year because of all the fraudulent comments. The fake comments were made apparent over a year ago. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cnet.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;net-neutrality-fcc-ajit-pai-bots-senators-letter&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cnet.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;net-neutrality-fcc-ajit-pai-bots-s...</a><p>The FCC refused to provide records to the NY AG in order to investigate the possibility of fake comments. In other words, the NY AG was the only part of the government investigating the fake comments, and the FCC actively worked against investigating them. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.slashdot.org&#x2F;story&#x2F;17&#x2F;12&#x2F;10&#x2F;0037222&#x2F;fcc-refuses-records-for-investigation-into-fake-net-neutrality-comments" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.slashdot.org&#x2F;story&#x2F;17&#x2F;12&#x2F;10&#x2F;0037222&#x2F;fcc-refuses...</a><p>Pai&#x27;s office issued this response to calls to delay the vote:<p><pre><code> This is just evidence that supporters of heavy-handed Internet
regulations are becoming more desperate by the day as their effort
to defeat Chairman Pai&#x27;s plan to restore Internet freedom has stalled.
The vote will proceed as scheduled on December 14.
</code></pre>
As promised, the FCC voted to repeal Net Neutrality.<p>And now, 7 months later, the FCC is saying there were fraudulent comments, and maybe they should redesign their website.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kevin_b_er</author><text>He will ignore any comments that go against his politics of maximal corporate profit and minimal service to the public citizenry.</text></comment> |
22,034,087 | 22,033,274 | 1 | 3 | 22,029,206 | train | <story><title>Judge rules that student loan debt is dischargeable in bankruptcy</title><url>https://finance.yahoo.com/news/student-loans-discharged-in-bankruptcy-kevin-rosenberg-190151284.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>systemtest</author><text>From a Dutch point of view, would you save money by mimicking our University system? So no sports, no stadiums, no (or less) scholarships, privatise fraternities, privatise dorms, privatise cafeteria, privatise extracurricular activities, six-figure cap on income for all staff. We have a projected average student debt of only €21,000 which I believe is less than US students.</text></item><item><author>clarkmoody</author><text>The non-dischargeability of student loan debt is the linchpin of the higher education bubble.<p>Let&#x27;s play out a causal chain:<p>1. If it becomes possible to get out of student debt through bankruptcy, then there must be additional collateral posted by the debtors.<p>2. This will cause fewer loans to be made, which will reduce the available pool of money sloshing into higher ed.<p>3. Enrollment and revenues will fall, forcing universities to:<p>a. Fight for some other form of government-ensured revenue stream (beyond the funds that state schools already receive). Get the popcorn out for this political rhetoric.<p>b. Reduce scope and conserve the more limited funds coming in the door. This probably starts with eliminating the endless program offices and initiatives that serve to swell the ranks of non-teaching staff.<p>c. Compete on price and return on investment by improving quality and employment rates of graduates.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>koffiezet</author><text>As a Belgian: student debt? What&#x27;s that?<p>Seriously. The first time I heard about this concept was when I was well in my 20&#x27;s about a guy in the UK.<p>It boggles my mind why anyone would think it&#x27;s a good idea to put people that early in their lives in debt.</text></comment> | <story><title>Judge rules that student loan debt is dischargeable in bankruptcy</title><url>https://finance.yahoo.com/news/student-loans-discharged-in-bankruptcy-kevin-rosenberg-190151284.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>systemtest</author><text>From a Dutch point of view, would you save money by mimicking our University system? So no sports, no stadiums, no (or less) scholarships, privatise fraternities, privatise dorms, privatise cafeteria, privatise extracurricular activities, six-figure cap on income for all staff. We have a projected average student debt of only €21,000 which I believe is less than US students.</text></item><item><author>clarkmoody</author><text>The non-dischargeability of student loan debt is the linchpin of the higher education bubble.<p>Let&#x27;s play out a causal chain:<p>1. If it becomes possible to get out of student debt through bankruptcy, then there must be additional collateral posted by the debtors.<p>2. This will cause fewer loans to be made, which will reduce the available pool of money sloshing into higher ed.<p>3. Enrollment and revenues will fall, forcing universities to:<p>a. Fight for some other form of government-ensured revenue stream (beyond the funds that state schools already receive). Get the popcorn out for this political rhetoric.<p>b. Reduce scope and conserve the more limited funds coming in the door. This probably starts with eliminating the endless program offices and initiatives that serve to swell the ranks of non-teaching staff.<p>c. Compete on price and return on investment by improving quality and employment rates of graduates.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>VoidWhisperer</author><text>The issue with removing scholarships is that there are some groups of people that would preclude from being able to seek higher education at all - There are plenty of people in the US who absolutely cannot afford college without taking on loans or scholarships, and in many cases they may require the scholarships if they are unable to get the loans that they need (IE they have extremely bad credit).<p>Also, random side tangent, but I doubt you&#x27;d be able to convince America to get rid of college sports, it is too big of a thing here..</text></comment> |
22,216,436 | 22,216,433 | 1 | 3 | 22,213,996 | train | <story><title>AMD reckons it can win the high-end GPU battle</title><url>https://www.techradar.com/news/amd-reckons-it-can-win-the-high-end-gpu-battle-and-dethrone-nvidia-just-like-it-did-with-intel</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>pixelpoet</author><text>AMD&#x27;s rather old Radeon VII can really smash a 2080 Ti if you&#x27;re doing relatively simple streaming computation, like say video processing. That 1TB&#x2F;s HBM is no joke, and there&#x27;s 16GB of it, at ~half the price of the 2080 Ti with 11GB.<p>Nvidia&#x27;s memory compression is very impressive and allows them to do better with a narrower memory bus in many situations (such as games), however if your data is not so compressible (often the case in GPGPU) this advantage disappears.<p>Really all I care about is a good OpenCL driver implementation, especially OpenCL 2.2 support would be extremely attractive.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>MaxBarraclough</author><text>&gt; Really all I care about is a good OpenCL driver implementation, especially OpenCL 2.2 support would be extremely attractive.<p>nVidia seem to still only support OpenCL 1.1.<p>Presumably this is a conscious decision - they&#x27;d rather invest in CUDA.<p>I have no idea what AMD is up to regarding OpenCL. Have they just quietly dropped all support? [0][1]<p>Intel seem to be doing better, with support for OpenCL 2.1, with support for both CPU and GPU targets. [2]<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;community.amd.com&#x2F;thread&#x2F;232600" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;community.amd.com&#x2F;thread&#x2F;232600</a><p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;community.amd.com&#x2F;thread&#x2F;233197" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;community.amd.com&#x2F;thread&#x2F;233197</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;software.intel.com&#x2F;en-us&#x2F;articles&#x2F;opencl-drivers" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;software.intel.com&#x2F;en-us&#x2F;articles&#x2F;opencl-drivers</a></text></comment> | <story><title>AMD reckons it can win the high-end GPU battle</title><url>https://www.techradar.com/news/amd-reckons-it-can-win-the-high-end-gpu-battle-and-dethrone-nvidia-just-like-it-did-with-intel</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>pixelpoet</author><text>AMD&#x27;s rather old Radeon VII can really smash a 2080 Ti if you&#x27;re doing relatively simple streaming computation, like say video processing. That 1TB&#x2F;s HBM is no joke, and there&#x27;s 16GB of it, at ~half the price of the 2080 Ti with 11GB.<p>Nvidia&#x27;s memory compression is very impressive and allows them to do better with a narrower memory bus in many situations (such as games), however if your data is not so compressible (often the case in GPGPU) this advantage disappears.<p>Really all I care about is a good OpenCL driver implementation, especially OpenCL 2.2 support would be extremely attractive.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bamboozled</author><text>I recently purchased a laptop with an Nvidia&#x2F;Intel composite setup.<p>As a Linux user, I’ll never buy a laptop with an Nvidia GPU again (if I can help it). What a pain.<p>A nice piece of hardware with relatively pathetic software to drive it.</text></comment> |
30,830,682 | 30,828,450 | 1 | 2 | 30,825,405 | train | <story><title>I hate what video games have become</title><url>https://ivanca.tumblr.com/post/679923341152468992/i-hate-what-video-games-have-become</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bootloop</author><text>This is absurd. So you also don&#x27;t use any software products which are a) free to use or b) habe a free tier?</text></item><item><author>OtomotO</author><text>As a (non game) developer, I can say, thay free to play is instantly dead on arrival for me.<p>The moment something is known to become or becomes free to play is the moment I lose all interest.<p>The dishonesty in the system itself is what makes this unbearable for me.<p>Developers need to eat, Managers need to eat, Marketeers need to eat... And sometimes psychologists doing evil mindtricks and supporting gambling addictions need to eat too... Or buy a lambo, or two.<p>I don&#x27;t care whether it&#x27;s only cosmetic or not, I have and will never support that business model</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mmcdermott</author><text>Not the GP, but I have a hard pass rule on F2P as well. My reasons for it are two-fold. The biggest one is that I just don&#x27;t want to deal with it. I spend my entire day &quot;doing business.&quot; Games are a place away from all that and I don&#x27;t want the F2P shop to intrude on my time away from the rat race. The other reason is that in the vast majority of scenarios, F2P creates incentives on the developer to create games that feature things I don&#x27;t like (grinding and lootboxes being examples).</text></comment> | <story><title>I hate what video games have become</title><url>https://ivanca.tumblr.com/post/679923341152468992/i-hate-what-video-games-have-become</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bootloop</author><text>This is absurd. So you also don&#x27;t use any software products which are a) free to use or b) habe a free tier?</text></item><item><author>OtomotO</author><text>As a (non game) developer, I can say, thay free to play is instantly dead on arrival for me.<p>The moment something is known to become or becomes free to play is the moment I lose all interest.<p>The dishonesty in the system itself is what makes this unbearable for me.<p>Developers need to eat, Managers need to eat, Marketeers need to eat... And sometimes psychologists doing evil mindtricks and supporting gambling addictions need to eat too... Or buy a lambo, or two.<p>I don&#x27;t care whether it&#x27;s only cosmetic or not, I have and will never support that business model</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>midasuni</author><text>Back in the 90s shareware was common, you’d get the first level of Duke Nukem, but to get the rest you had to pay<p>That’s closer to the “free tier” stuff, and a very different model to modern “freenium” games.</text></comment> |
40,222,468 | 40,222,352 | 1 | 2 | 40,222,213 | train | <story><title>I've forked neofetch to keep it alive</title><url>https://github.com/LorenDB/neofetch</url><text>I just learned that neofetch, the tool for showing system information in your CLI, has been archived after years of no activity. Neofetch is a great tool, so I&#x27;ve created a fork to allow community development to continue.<p>I&#x27;m going to be working through the massive backlog of PRs on neofetch in the coming days and merging everything that is ready to be merged, plus possibly overhauling some not-yet-perfect PRs.</text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>EspadaV9</author><text>Aren&#x27;t there many, many, alternatives to NeoFetch? I seem to recall Linux Matters mentioning them in a podcast recently[0].<p>Turns out it wasn&#x27;t so recent, but the ones they mentioned are;<p>fastfetch: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;fastfetch-cli&#x2F;fastfetch">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;fastfetch-cli&#x2F;fastfetch</a><p>cpufetch: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;Dr-Noob&#x2F;cpufetch">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;Dr-Noob&#x2F;cpufetch</a><p>onefetch: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;o2sh&#x2F;onefetch">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;o2sh&#x2F;onefetch</a><p>ramfetch: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;codeberg.org&#x2F;jahway603&#x2F;ramfetch" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;codeberg.org&#x2F;jahway603&#x2F;ramfetch</a><p>[0]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;linuxmatters.sh&#x2F;21&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;linuxmatters.sh&#x2F;21&#x2F;</a></text></comment> | <story><title>I've forked neofetch to keep it alive</title><url>https://github.com/LorenDB/neofetch</url><text>I just learned that neofetch, the tool for showing system information in your CLI, has been archived after years of no activity. Neofetch is a great tool, so I&#x27;ve created a fork to allow community development to continue.<p>I&#x27;m going to be working through the massive backlog of PRs on neofetch in the coming days and merging everything that is ready to be merged, plus possibly overhauling some not-yet-perfect PRs.</text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>forgotpwd16</author><text>Checking the network graph (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;dylanaraps&#x2F;neofetch&#x2F;network">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;dylanaraps&#x2F;neofetch&#x2F;network</a>) seems hyfetch (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;hykilpikonna&#x2F;hyfetch">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;hykilpikonna&#x2F;hyfetch</a>) is an actively maintained fork, having 500+ commits over neofetch&#x27;s latest update.<p>On another note, good to know Dylan still alive. He kinda disappeared 2 years ago.</text></comment> |
32,171,388 | 32,169,328 | 1 | 2 | 32,168,521 | train | <story><title>High property taxes are good</title><url>http://brooock.com/a/property-taxes-are-good</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>anonymousiam</author><text>Prop 13 solved two problems at once. It forced a reduction in the out-of-control government spending, and it saved seniors from losing their houses. IMHO the only problem with Prop 13 was the &quot;grandfathering&quot; clause. The cuts should have been perpetual and across the board.</text></item><item><author>btilly</author><text>And, thanks to Proposition 13, California has entirely removed this policy tool from consumer housing.<p>A tremendous amount of our problems, from high rent to gridlock, can be traced back to this decision.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mdorazio</author><text>&gt; It forced a reduction in the out-of-control government spending<p>No, it didn&#x27;t. California just kept adding taxes everywhere else to make up the difference and still had an annual deficit most of the 13 years I lived there.<p>&gt; It saved seniors from losing their houses<p>Why are seniors magically allowed to be immune to basic market forces when no one else is?</text></comment> | <story><title>High property taxes are good</title><url>http://brooock.com/a/property-taxes-are-good</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>anonymousiam</author><text>Prop 13 solved two problems at once. It forced a reduction in the out-of-control government spending, and it saved seniors from losing their houses. IMHO the only problem with Prop 13 was the &quot;grandfathering&quot; clause. The cuts should have been perpetual and across the board.</text></item><item><author>btilly</author><text>And, thanks to Proposition 13, California has entirely removed this policy tool from consumer housing.<p>A tremendous amount of our problems, from high rent to gridlock, can be traced back to this decision.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>throwthroyaboat</author><text>Doesn&#x27;t Prop 13 also apply to commercial property? And second&#x2F;third&#x2F;30th houses? I think they smuggled a bear in as a rabbit with this one.</text></comment> |
20,031,081 | 20,030,944 | 1 | 2 | 20,028,836 | train | <story><title>Steep decline in nuclear power would threaten energy security and climate goals</title><url>https://www.iea.org/newsroom/news/2019/may/steep-decline-in-nuclear-power-would-threaten-energy-security-and-climate-goals.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>umvi</author><text>Haven&#x27;t nuclear waste recycling and safety features gotten really good in the past few decades? I feel like not many people know just how little waste is created with modern recycling and just how safe nuclear is with modern safety features.<p>Seems like we need a positive PR campaign to help convince folks that nuclear is way better than fossil fuels. This could easily be bipartisan.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pjc50</author><text>There&#x27;s really two kinds of waste: spent fuel (which can be effectively recycled, leaving only a tiny bit of extremely dangerous lanthanides, actinides, and plutonium), and &quot;lower level&quot; waste. The latter includes pretty much every other part of the reactor building after it&#x27;s decomissioned.<p>&gt; positive PR campaign<p>The nuclear industry has been at this for decades; at this stage, the PR is part of the problem.<p>My view on this is that it&#x27;s probably too late to start building new nuclear plants, the cost overrun problems are severe, and there are plenty of countries that they should not be built in. But that doesn&#x27;t mean we should close the existing ones early. If they can be refurbished economically without compromising safety, we should do that.<p>Switching from nuclear to natural gas indicates that gas is too cheap, and should be subject to carbon pricing and curtailment of new drilling and fracking.</text></comment> | <story><title>Steep decline in nuclear power would threaten energy security and climate goals</title><url>https://www.iea.org/newsroom/news/2019/may/steep-decline-in-nuclear-power-would-threaten-energy-security-and-climate-goals.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>umvi</author><text>Haven&#x27;t nuclear waste recycling and safety features gotten really good in the past few decades? I feel like not many people know just how little waste is created with modern recycling and just how safe nuclear is with modern safety features.<p>Seems like we need a positive PR campaign to help convince folks that nuclear is way better than fossil fuels. This could easily be bipartisan.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Tharkun</author><text>&gt; Haven&#x27;t nuclear waste recycling and safety features gotten really good in the past few decades?<p>I thought you were being snarky at first, but the rest of the comment appears to indicate you&#x27;re being serious. In Belgium we&#x27;ve been stuck in endless discussions regarding what to do with our nuclear waste. We used to dump it in the sea, which was probably a bad idea. Now it&#x27;s stored in barrels which are apparently leaking some kind of radioactive goo[1].<p>So either this waste recycling isn&#x27;t as good everywhere, or we have a different definition of the word &quot;good&quot;.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;fanc.fgov.be&#x2F;nl&#x2F;informatiedossiers&#x2F;radioactief-afval&#x2F;beheer-van-radioactief-afval&#x2F;berging&#x2F;zeeberging-van-belgisch" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;fanc.fgov.be&#x2F;nl&#x2F;informatiedossiers&#x2F;radioactief-afval...</a> (Dutch)</text></comment> |
24,148,235 | 24,147,924 | 1 | 3 | 24,146,793 | train | <story><title>Parents are 5X as Worried about Infection and School than Work and Paying Bills</title><url>https://www.interest.com/mortgage/pandemic-top-parent-school-vs-mortgage-worries/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>umvi</author><text>&gt; I am just so confused why some people are acting like kids are a different species when it comes to covid.<p>Well, it&#x27;s not that surprising when you have a disease whose harm factor is a function of your age. The vast majority of covid deaths are the elderly. The tiniest minority of covid deaths are young children. Their ability to spread to adults is their biggest risk factor, not the disease itself.</text></item><item><author>roland35</author><text>Yeah this is definitely not surprising to the least! Even if I was laid off I am more worried about my children having long term health effects (or worse) than missing a few bills, and that is before considering how flexible lenders are claiming to be (I&#x27;ve gotten emails from all my major bills about covid related help they can provide).<p>I am just so confused why some people are acting like kids are a different species when it comes to covid. Yes they have less effects than adults but some children do go to the hospital and ICU. And also they can easily spread it to the parents&#x2F;grandparents.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>_jal</author><text>&gt; Their ability to spread to adults is their biggest risk factor<p>Others have mentioned this, but just for emphasis: you do not know that. Nor does anyone else. Repeating it is irresponsible, and you should stop doing that.<p>There have been a lot of lessons the epidemic can teach us. But one big one is that magical thinking is still accepted as a substitute for reason by a frightening number of people, and that&#x27;s before you get to the outright grifters.</text></comment> | <story><title>Parents are 5X as Worried about Infection and School than Work and Paying Bills</title><url>https://www.interest.com/mortgage/pandemic-top-parent-school-vs-mortgage-worries/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>umvi</author><text>&gt; I am just so confused why some people are acting like kids are a different species when it comes to covid.<p>Well, it&#x27;s not that surprising when you have a disease whose harm factor is a function of your age. The vast majority of covid deaths are the elderly. The tiniest minority of covid deaths are young children. Their ability to spread to adults is their biggest risk factor, not the disease itself.</text></item><item><author>roland35</author><text>Yeah this is definitely not surprising to the least! Even if I was laid off I am more worried about my children having long term health effects (or worse) than missing a few bills, and that is before considering how flexible lenders are claiming to be (I&#x27;ve gotten emails from all my major bills about covid related help they can provide).<p>I am just so confused why some people are acting like kids are a different species when it comes to covid. Yes they have less effects than adults but some children do go to the hospital and ICU. And also they can easily spread it to the parents&#x2F;grandparents.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>buhhh</author><text>Are you confusing harm with death rates? It&#x27;s a novel virus and we still do not know the long term health impacts of it.</text></comment> |
21,205,745 | 21,205,733 | 1 | 3 | 21,205,083 | train | <story><title>Epic CEO says it won't ban Fortnite players for taking a stance on human rights</title><url>https://twitter.com/TimSweeneyEpic/status/1181946357759844352</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>kangnkodos</author><text>Why have the League of Legends announcers stopped saying the words &quot;Hong Kong&quot; in phrases such as the team &quot;Honk Kong Attitude&quot;, and instead only say HKA?<p>Does Tencent control the broadcast&#x2F;streaming?</text></comment> | <story><title>Epic CEO says it won't ban Fortnite players for taking a stance on human rights</title><url>https://twitter.com/TimSweeneyEpic/status/1181946357759844352</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>loceng</author><text>Tencent bought 40% of Epic Games at some point: what&#x27;s different between Blizzard and Epic&#x27;s relationship - is it, as the CEO said, he is the controlling shareholder?<p>As many gamers are saying however, him stating this, because Tencent will profit from their ownership of Epic - they will boycott Epic&#x27;s games as well.</text></comment> |
25,431,297 | 25,431,241 | 1 | 2 | 25,430,689 | train | <story><title>Facebook Is a Doomsday Machine</title><url>https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2020/12/facebook-doomsday-machine/617384/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>blakesterz</author><text>Wow. As much as I do agree with this, this is some hyperbolic writing. I&#x27;ve read so many articles just like this one, they show up on HN quite often it seems, and I&#x27;ve never seen one that had what seemed like a realistic fix to the problem. I don&#x27;t think there is a fix really. All social media platforms will be full of bots&#x2F;fakes that exist to spread garbage. All social media platforms will be full of real people doing the same. It also seems like the loudest people (and bots) are the most toxic and get the most engagement. It&#x27;s people, all the way down, and there will always be a bunch of people doing the wrong thing. Those people will be highly incentivized and motivated, while the rest of us will just be looking for something to read.<p>(Also, maybe interesting, the author of this is the executive editor of The Atlantic, not just some reporter.)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>soupfordummies</author><text>The fix is easy and it&#x27;s simple -- stop using them! Normalize it. Encourage others to do the same. Make it &quot;cool&quot; to not be on them&#x2F;&quot;lame&quot; to use them.<p>I struggle to see how personal FB&#x2F;IG&#x2F;Twitter use is anything other than a net negative at this point. And it&#x27;s gotten a lot more so over the last several years, IMO.</text></comment> | <story><title>Facebook Is a Doomsday Machine</title><url>https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2020/12/facebook-doomsday-machine/617384/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>blakesterz</author><text>Wow. As much as I do agree with this, this is some hyperbolic writing. I&#x27;ve read so many articles just like this one, they show up on HN quite often it seems, and I&#x27;ve never seen one that had what seemed like a realistic fix to the problem. I don&#x27;t think there is a fix really. All social media platforms will be full of bots&#x2F;fakes that exist to spread garbage. All social media platforms will be full of real people doing the same. It also seems like the loudest people (and bots) are the most toxic and get the most engagement. It&#x27;s people, all the way down, and there will always be a bunch of people doing the wrong thing. Those people will be highly incentivized and motivated, while the rest of us will just be looking for something to read.<p>(Also, maybe interesting, the author of this is the executive editor of The Atlantic, not just some reporter.)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>OminousWeapons</author><text>The solution to some of these problems is obvious: ban collection of data for advertising purposes and ban targeted, cross platform advertising. You would still be allowed to advertise, but ads would have to function like magazine ads effectively where the only targeting is by site interest. This would force these social media companies (and many others) to change their business model and actually charge users directly for services which would not only shrink the user base but would make running a bot farm increasingly unaffordable at scale.</text></comment> |
24,254,873 | 24,254,680 | 1 | 2 | 24,254,117 | train | <story><title>Realtime California Air Quality</title><url>https://www.purpleair.com/map?opt=1/i/mAQI/a10/cC4#7.22/37.494/-120.928</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>ilyagr</author><text>I&#x27;ve found <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.airnow.gov" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.airnow.gov</a> very helpful and faster to load than the Purple Air map. They also have a simple but efficient app.<p>Airnow&#x27;s map is slow to load, but shows smoke, air monitors (including the Purple Air ones^[footnote]), and fires all at once: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;fire.airnow.gov&#x2F;?lat=37.40&amp;lng=-122.077&amp;zoom=10#" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;fire.airnow.gov&#x2F;?lat=37.40&amp;lng=-122.077&amp;zoom=10#</a><p>A less detailed, fast, static map for the SF Bay Area is available at <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.baaqmd.gov" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.baaqmd.gov</a>.<p>Last, but not least, there is a forecast of surface-level smoke available at <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;hwp-viz.gsd.esrl.noaa.gov&#x2F;smoke&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;hwp-viz.gsd.esrl.noaa.gov&#x2F;smoke&#x2F;</a>. I found it from <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;NWSBayArea" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;NWSBayArea</a>, which is a good source of news for the Bay Area.<p>[footnote]: To make the numbers match, I had to set PurpleAir to show One-Hour Averages with the LRAPA scoring. See <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;imgur.com&#x2F;a&#x2F;d6yFtow" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;imgur.com&#x2F;a&#x2F;d6yFtow</a>.</text></comment> | <story><title>Realtime California Air Quality</title><url>https://www.purpleair.com/map?opt=1/i/mAQI/a10/cC4#7.22/37.494/-120.928</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>modeless</author><text>I like PurpleAir&#x27;s air quality map but felt it was a bit too slow to check frequently. So I used their API to make the fastest air quality site around: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;aqi.today" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;aqi.today</a></text></comment> |
20,664,931 | 20,664,877 | 1 | 2 | 20,664,553 | train | <story><title>Companies Use Borrowed Billions to Buy Back Stock, Not to Invest</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-08-08/companies-use-borrowed-billions-to-buy-back-stock-not-to-invest</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>hn_throwaway_99</author><text>So many comments here along the lines of &quot;So what, they&#x27;re making an efficient use of capital.&quot; That&#x27;s missing the point. So much of the argument behind the 2017 tax cuts and the Fed&#x27;s low interest rates was that they would spur <i>real</i> investment (that is, investment which increases productive capacity or improves productivity) that would benefit everyone, mainly through jobs. If all this extra money is just resulting in a more tax-efficient way for companies to give money to their shareholders, which in reality is a small slice of the populace, highly skewed towards the wealthy, it&#x27;s certainly worth it to call bullshit that these governmental moves that everyone ends up paying for only end up benefiting the wealthy.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Lazare</author><text>&gt; So much of the argument behind the 2017 tax cuts and the Fed&#x27;s low interest rates was that they would spur real investment (that is, investment which increases productive capacity or improves productivity) that would benefit everyone, mainly through jobs.<p>Sure. Do we have any reason to think that&#x27;s not working? When an investor makes a successful investment, and the company becomes very profitable and has spare cash they can&#x27;t find a productive use for, and give it back to the original investors...<p>...what do you think the investor is going to do with it?<p>1) Look for another good investment (something they have a track record for doing)<p>2) Pile the money up in a big pile and have a bonfire, as they literally have no other ideas for what to do with the money.<p>3) Something else?<p>1 is the obvious answer, yet you seem to be the answer must be 2 and can&#x27;t possibly be 1, but you provide no reason to think so, the linked article provides no reason to think so, and you don&#x27;t even seem to have realised 1 is a possible outcome.<p>Further, you seem to be implicitly assuming that a company management who are not professional investors and who don&#x27;t think they can find a good use for the money will still do a better job of making investments than the firm&#x27;s investors, who are. Is there a reason for this?</text></comment> | <story><title>Companies Use Borrowed Billions to Buy Back Stock, Not to Invest</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-08-08/companies-use-borrowed-billions-to-buy-back-stock-not-to-invest</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>hn_throwaway_99</author><text>So many comments here along the lines of &quot;So what, they&#x27;re making an efficient use of capital.&quot; That&#x27;s missing the point. So much of the argument behind the 2017 tax cuts and the Fed&#x27;s low interest rates was that they would spur <i>real</i> investment (that is, investment which increases productive capacity or improves productivity) that would benefit everyone, mainly through jobs. If all this extra money is just resulting in a more tax-efficient way for companies to give money to their shareholders, which in reality is a small slice of the populace, highly skewed towards the wealthy, it&#x27;s certainly worth it to call bullshit that these governmental moves that everyone ends up paying for only end up benefiting the wealthy.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mrfredward</author><text>Say a company buys back 2 billion in stock, rather than investing it in new equipment. Does that reduce the amount of money invested in the economy? The answer depends on what the investors who sold do with that money. If they invest it somewhere else, then the company&#x27;s decision doesn&#x27;t reduce the amount invested in the economy.<p>I don&#x27;t believe private investors decide they&#x27;d rather buy a yacht than invest their money just because a company bought back shares. More likely, the share buyback just moved money from a mature company to growth stocks or startups, which is exactly what should happen in a healthy economy.<p>Put another way...should Dinosaur Oil Inc use their profits to build another refinery even when they don&#x27;t think it makes financial sense...or should they buy back stock, make their investors happy, and then be in a more vulnerable position when the investors turn around and fund Shiny Solar Inc?</text></comment> |
18,836,597 | 18,835,800 | 1 | 3 | 18,832,155 | train | <story><title>9999999999999999.0 – 9999999999999998.0</title><url>http://geocar.sdf1.org/numbers.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>TFortunato</author><text>How do you mean? The x86-64 instruction set &#x2F; abi specifies long doubles as 80-bits, and still supports them ...</text></item><item><author>garmaine</author><text>That hasn’t been the case for over a decade.</text></item><item><author>TFortunato</author><text>So interestingly, processor makers are on the same page with you re: computations, and lots of processors can internally do computations in &quot;extended precision&quot;, e.g. 80-bit floats, only converting to&#x2F;from 64-bit doubles at the start and end of the computation.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Extended_precision" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Extended_precision</a></text></item><item><author>erik_seaberg</author><text>There&#x27;s no reason for every step of a computation to be confined to the same <i>very small</i> message length. And the necessary error analysis should be built into the language, preferably in the same &quot;advanced users only, here be dragons&quot; package as the imprecise types themselves.</text></item><item><author>lenticular</author><text>Yeah, the limitations of FP are well-known to anyone who does much numerical work.<p>Floating point numbers are the optimal minimum message length method of representing reals with an improper Jeffery&#x27;s prior distribution. A Jeffery&#x27;s prior is a prior that is <i>invariant</i> under reparameterization, which is a mandatory property for approximating the reals.<p>In this case, it is where Prob(log(|x|)) is proportional to a constant.<p>Thus, we aren&#x27;t going to ever do better than floats if we are programming on physical computers that exist in this universe. There is a reason why all numerical code uses them. Best to learn their limitations if you are going to use them, otherwise use arbitrary precision.</text></item><item><author>twtw</author><text>I don&#x27;t understand all the crap that IEEE 754 gets. I appreciate that it may be surprising that 0.1 + 0.2 != 0.3 at first, or that many people are not educated about floating point, but I don&#x27;t understand the people who &quot;understand&quot; floating point and continue to criticize it for the 0.1 + 0.2 &quot;problem.&quot;<p>The fact is that IEEE 754 is an exceptionally good way to approximate the reals in computers with a minimum number of problems or surprises. People who don&#x27;t appreciate this should try to do math in fixed point to gain some insight into how little you have to think about doing math in floating point.<p>This isn&#x27;t to say there aren&#x27;t issues with IEEE 754 - of course there are. Catastrophic cancellation and friends are not fun, and there are some criticisms to be made with how FP exceptions are usually exposed, but these are pretty small problems considering the problem is to fit the reals into 64&#x2F;32&#x2F;16 bits and have fast math.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>simonbyrne</author><text>Essentially there are two different sets of floating point instructions on x86 and x86-64:
- the x87 instructions, which descend from the original 8087 coprocessor (and have 80-bit registers), and
- the SSE instructions, which descend from the Pentium MMX feature set, are faster, support SIMD operations, and can be fully pipelined.<p>The x87 instructions are basically for legacy compatibility, or if you manually use long doubles on some platforms.<p>The idea behind extended precision registers was good in theory, but ultimately caused too much hassle in practice.</text></comment> | <story><title>9999999999999999.0 – 9999999999999998.0</title><url>http://geocar.sdf1.org/numbers.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>TFortunato</author><text>How do you mean? The x86-64 instruction set &#x2F; abi specifies long doubles as 80-bits, and still supports them ...</text></item><item><author>garmaine</author><text>That hasn’t been the case for over a decade.</text></item><item><author>TFortunato</author><text>So interestingly, processor makers are on the same page with you re: computations, and lots of processors can internally do computations in &quot;extended precision&quot;, e.g. 80-bit floats, only converting to&#x2F;from 64-bit doubles at the start and end of the computation.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Extended_precision" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Extended_precision</a></text></item><item><author>erik_seaberg</author><text>There&#x27;s no reason for every step of a computation to be confined to the same <i>very small</i> message length. And the necessary error analysis should be built into the language, preferably in the same &quot;advanced users only, here be dragons&quot; package as the imprecise types themselves.</text></item><item><author>lenticular</author><text>Yeah, the limitations of FP are well-known to anyone who does much numerical work.<p>Floating point numbers are the optimal minimum message length method of representing reals with an improper Jeffery&#x27;s prior distribution. A Jeffery&#x27;s prior is a prior that is <i>invariant</i> under reparameterization, which is a mandatory property for approximating the reals.<p>In this case, it is where Prob(log(|x|)) is proportional to a constant.<p>Thus, we aren&#x27;t going to ever do better than floats if we are programming on physical computers that exist in this universe. There is a reason why all numerical code uses them. Best to learn their limitations if you are going to use them, otherwise use arbitrary precision.</text></item><item><author>twtw</author><text>I don&#x27;t understand all the crap that IEEE 754 gets. I appreciate that it may be surprising that 0.1 + 0.2 != 0.3 at first, or that many people are not educated about floating point, but I don&#x27;t understand the people who &quot;understand&quot; floating point and continue to criticize it for the 0.1 + 0.2 &quot;problem.&quot;<p>The fact is that IEEE 754 is an exceptionally good way to approximate the reals in computers with a minimum number of problems or surprises. People who don&#x27;t appreciate this should try to do math in fixed point to gain some insight into how little you have to think about doing math in floating point.<p>This isn&#x27;t to say there aren&#x27;t issues with IEEE 754 - of course there are. Catastrophic cancellation and friends are not fun, and there are some criticisms to be made with how FP exceptions are usually exposed, but these are pretty small problems considering the problem is to fit the reals into 64&#x2F;32&#x2F;16 bits and have fast math.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>leiroigh</author><text>And nobody uses this terrible mis-feature in practice, everything runs via 64 bit xmm registers.<p>Rightly so, because programmers want their optimizing compiler to decide when to put a variable on the stack and when to elide a store&#x2F;load cycle by keeping it in a register. With 80 bit precision, this makes a semantic difference and you end up in volatile hell.</text></comment> |
13,711,874 | 13,711,764 | 1 | 3 | 13,710,144 | train | <story><title>What Happens to Your Body on a Thru-Hike</title><url>https://www.outsideonline.com/2125031/what-happens-your-body-thru-hike</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Dowwie</author><text>I came across three emaciated, bearded men on the continental divide trail in glacier national park. When I asked one of them where he was from he looked at his buddies and they all replied excitedly, in unison, &quot;Mexico!&quot;. It was at that moment that I came to realize that these men were one day away from completing the entire thru-hike.<p>I vividly recall one of their dinners: Dried ramen noodle, straight from the bag.<p>They slept in their bags exposed, beneath a basic light tarp.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jon_richards</author><text>The best foods for backpacking are actually peanut butter, salami (depending on the brand), cheese, and nutella. They all have roughly the same calorie density at about 70% fat. Toblerone actually comes surprisingly close (even compared to other chocolates&#x2F;candies).<p>Raman noodles or tortillas or something like that are generally used as a carrier for those foods to keep you sane, but they aren&#x27;t very good from a weight to calories standpoint. M&amp;Ms are also common, as they are easy to eat and keep well.<p>Some people actually just drink cooking oil, but it&#x27;s rarely worth the tiny bit of extra weight efficiency.</text></comment> | <story><title>What Happens to Your Body on a Thru-Hike</title><url>https://www.outsideonline.com/2125031/what-happens-your-body-thru-hike</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Dowwie</author><text>I came across three emaciated, bearded men on the continental divide trail in glacier national park. When I asked one of them where he was from he looked at his buddies and they all replied excitedly, in unison, &quot;Mexico!&quot;. It was at that moment that I came to realize that these men were one day away from completing the entire thru-hike.<p>I vividly recall one of their dinners: Dried ramen noodle, straight from the bag.<p>They slept in their bags exposed, beneath a basic light tarp.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>BarkMore</author><text>When you carry your gear for a thousands of miles, you reevaluate what you really need. A stove is not needed because food can be consumed raw. A full tent is not needed because a basic tarp and careful site selection are enough to keep a person dry while sleeping. Toilet paper is not needed because smooth rocks, leaves and other material found on the trail can be used to wipe.</text></comment> |
13,579,075 | 13,579,059 | 1 | 3 | 13,577,827 | train | <story><title>Federal Court Says Public Safety Laws Can Be Locked Behind Paywalls</title><url>https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2017/02/federal-court-rules-against-publicresourceorg-says-public-safety-laws-can-be</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jawns</author><text>I can see troubling consequences that arise from both sides&#x27; arguments.<p>If private companies can hold copyrights on portions of the law, that inhibits access to those laws, and I think any reasonable person would agree that citizens have a basic right to access the text of laws and legally binding regulations, and paywalls or other restrictions conflict with that right.<p>But if the government can essentially revoke a private individual or company&#x27;s copyright merely by incorporating otherwise protected text into legislation, that can have adverse effects on copyright holders.<p>And it would be interesting to see just how far you could stretch a claim on both sides.<p>For instance, let&#x27;s say that a law specifies that vehicles used by some governmental department must be maintained according to the specifications in their respective owners&#x27; manuals. Could that be argued to be a type of &quot;incorporation by reference&quot; of the specifications, thus voiding the copyright of the owners&#x27; manuals?<p>Or what if a private company tried to impose absurd restrictions on accessing copyrighted material that has been incorporated by reference, such that even the governmental agencies charged with enforcing the law were unable to access it? Could that be a way of subverting the law?<p>Or what if a lawmaker has it out for a particular publisher or writer, and purposefully quotes their copyrighted texts (beyond what would typically be considered fair use) in legislation as a way of damaging their copyright?<p>And if it is the case that nonprofit groups that devise standards for public safety and device interoperability are deprived of their copyrights because those standards are incorporated into legislation, I would imagine it would disincentivize the work they do, perhaps leading to less well thought out public safety and device interoperability standards.</text></comment> | <story><title>Federal Court Says Public Safety Laws Can Be Locked Behind Paywalls</title><url>https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2017/02/federal-court-rules-against-publicresourceorg-says-public-safety-laws-can-be</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>paulajohnson</author><text>The lowest level of the US court system tries hard to stick to what law and precedent say, and to avoid engaging with constitutional issues. If you want to drive change you have to appeal it up a level or two, where the senior judges consider it to be within their pay scale. That is what is going to happen here.</text></comment> |
40,429,465 | 40,426,860 | 1 | 2 | 40,390,941 | train | <story><title>The Vietnamese Computer Scientist Who Made Toy Story Possible</title><url>https://time.com/6974656/toy-story-vietnam-war/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>kevinsync</author><text>Forever immortalized in ReBoot!<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;reboot.fandom.com&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Phong" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;reboot.fandom.com&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Phong</a></text></comment> | <story><title>The Vietnamese Computer Scientist Who Made Toy Story Possible</title><url>https://time.com/6974656/toy-story-vietnam-war/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>junon</author><text>Ohhhhhhh this is where Phong lighting comes from! Legend!</text></comment> |
37,254,193 | 37,253,941 | 1 | 3 | 37,252,258 | train | <story><title>Corrupted Blood incident</title><url>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corrupted_Blood_incident</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>whartung</author><text>I&#x27;ve learned long ago to never second guess Blizzard on the complexity of a &quot;fix&quot; for anything that goes awry in this game. There are innumerable &quot;how hard can it be&quot; bugs that show up that, evidently, are hard to fix. The ripple affects seem to carry to all sorts of unintended consequences. And there have been uncountable bugs where you go &quot;How the heck did they manifest that after this patch?&quot;<p>I remember the Blood Plague, I was there when it happened. I distinctly recall someone in front of the Ironforge Auction House calling out &quot;everyone come to me, it&#x27;s better when we get close&quot;. Which, of course, it&#x27;s not. It&#x27;s a bad idea. But it was his idea of a good time. The solution was to abandon the cities. But there were always folks who enjoyed spreading the plague. And, honestly, that never bothered me. It IS fun. It was a fun encounter, and certainly fun in terms of the whole dynamic going on, appreciating what a novel &quot;World Event&quot; it became.<p>World Events is WoW have almost always led to disaster, so we don&#x27;t get them anymore. The game simply doesn&#x27;t handle huge volumes of players in a single area well. Their last big try was the Gate Opening that turned the Silithus zone into a slide show for most of the day. But as a player, it was still a great, epic experience, because you know it will never happen again. In a game of continual routine, outliers are always fun.<p>The Blood Plague was a novel event, it made the World more &quot;alive&quot;. I&#x27;m glad I was there to see it and be part of it. Just one of those things the makes WoW history even richer.</text></comment> | <story><title>Corrupted Blood incident</title><url>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corrupted_Blood_incident</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>dang</author><text>Related:<p><i>Corrupted Blood Incident</i> - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=9463545">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=9463545</a> - April 2015 (14 comments)</text></comment> |
24,466,105 | 24,465,281 | 1 | 2 | 24,463,423 | train | <story><title>Signs of Life discovered on Venus and atmosphere</title><url>https://twitter.com/brianroemmele/status/1304984620304232448</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tectonic</author><text>On the other hand, we may have instead found evidence of a new abiotic form of phosphine synthesis— I expect scientists will be working hard to propose non-biological processes that could explain these results. I also expect some new Venus probes real soon now.<p>This definitely could be the result of an unknown abiotic process. It also definitely could be evidence of life.<p>Some papers to check out:<p>- <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;arxiv.org&#x2F;abs&#x2F;1910.05224" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;arxiv.org&#x2F;abs&#x2F;1910.05224</a><p>- <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.liebertpub.com&#x2F;doi&#x2F;10.1089&#x2F;ast.2017.1783" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.liebertpub.com&#x2F;doi&#x2F;10.1089&#x2F;ast.2017.1783</a><p>For 3 billion years, ending about 750 million years ago, Venus was likely hospitable, leaving the tantalizing possibility that we’ve detected the last vestiges of an ancient ecosystem.<p>Self-promotion: we&#x27;ll cover this in-depth in Orbital Index (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;orbitalindex.com" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;orbitalindex.com</a>) this week.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>alpineidyll3</author><text>There&#x27;s about eleven bajillion abiotic routes to phosphine. The authors of this paper are totally crazy-go-nuts riding the hype train. Phosphine can be made from elemental phosphorus by simple acid catalysis. The atmosphere of venus is highly acidic. Venus is so close to earth that space spectroscopy could find a bunch of actually complex molecules that would imply life, if they were there. Phosphine is literally the simplest compound of phosphorus, a common element.</text></comment> | <story><title>Signs of Life discovered on Venus and atmosphere</title><url>https://twitter.com/brianroemmele/status/1304984620304232448</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tectonic</author><text>On the other hand, we may have instead found evidence of a new abiotic form of phosphine synthesis— I expect scientists will be working hard to propose non-biological processes that could explain these results. I also expect some new Venus probes real soon now.<p>This definitely could be the result of an unknown abiotic process. It also definitely could be evidence of life.<p>Some papers to check out:<p>- <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;arxiv.org&#x2F;abs&#x2F;1910.05224" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;arxiv.org&#x2F;abs&#x2F;1910.05224</a><p>- <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.liebertpub.com&#x2F;doi&#x2F;10.1089&#x2F;ast.2017.1783" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.liebertpub.com&#x2F;doi&#x2F;10.1089&#x2F;ast.2017.1783</a><p>For 3 billion years, ending about 750 million years ago, Venus was likely hospitable, leaving the tantalizing possibility that we’ve detected the last vestiges of an ancient ecosystem.<p>Self-promotion: we&#x27;ll cover this in-depth in Orbital Index (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;orbitalindex.com" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;orbitalindex.com</a>) this week.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>awb</author><text>From a quora post by the same author of the tweets:<p>&gt; Astronomers will think of all the ways to justify Phosphine without life and I welcome that. Please do, because we are at the end of our possibilities to show abiotic processes that can make Phosphine<p>&gt; there very well could be an abiotic source but that alone would be an amazing discovery. However we must deploy Occam’s Razor and suggest the simplest explanation and the evidence suggests the simple explanation is biological sources, life.<p>Wouldn&#x27;t a better announcement be &quot;Phosphine detected in Venus atmosphere&quot;. Maybe it&#x27;s compelling evidence for life, but claiming &quot;Signs of Life Detected&quot; seems a bit premature, no?<p>And from the link on the author&#x27;s Twitter bio:<p>&gt; Over the long, winding arc of his career, Brian has built and run payments and tech businesses, worked in media, including the promotion of top musicians, and explored a variety of other subjects along the way.<p>Not exactly who I thought would be announcing the discovery of life beyond our planet.</text></comment> |
17,134,432 | 17,134,443 | 1 | 2 | 17,134,117 | train | <story><title>UK ISPs have to stop lying about broadband speeds</title><url>http://www.wired.co.uk/article/uk-broadband-speeds-fibre-to-the-home</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>signal11</author><text>&gt; The UK’s fibre to the home infrastructure is so poor it’s out-performed by almost every other country in Europe (Latvia, with 50.6 per cent fibre coverage, ranks first in terms of market penetration).<p>The reason the UK is on a mix of copper and fiber is because the entrenched monopoly, BT, didn&#x27;t think fiber to the home (FTTH) was worth investing in. To protect their investment in their existing copper network, they pushed tech like VDSL&#x2F;FTTC (up to 80Mbps) and now G.Fast (up to 500Mbps), which are &quot;fiber to the cabinet&quot; but the last mile is copper. The problem is, speeds fall off depending on how far your home is from the cabinet. I&#x27;ve seen many non-technical consumers be disappointed and say &quot;the ISP said I can only get 11Mbps but they advertise up to 80Mbps&quot;.<p>BT have now been told by the telecoms regulator to prioritize deploying fiber to the home. Also, serious money is now pouring into alternative network providers. CityFibre, which is installing its own gigabit-grade fiber network in about 30 UK cities (so home users in all these cities can be offered FTTH), was recently acquired by a consortium with fairly deep pockets. BT, which historically was the entrenched monopoly, is no longer the sole arbiter of the UK&#x27;s broadband future.</text></comment> | <story><title>UK ISPs have to stop lying about broadband speeds</title><url>http://www.wired.co.uk/article/uk-broadband-speeds-fibre-to-the-home</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>oldcynic</author><text>The UK <i>could</i> have had world leading broadband were it not for Mrs T. She decided BT&#x27;s late 1980s decision to rollout fibre was anti-competitive and killed it in 1990 when we were pretty much leading the world [0].<p>So the grindingly slow reality of ADSL isn&#x27;t especially surprising sadly.<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.techradar.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;world-of-tech&#x2F;how-the-uk-lost-the-broadband-race-in-1990-1224784" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.techradar.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;world-of-tech&#x2F;how-the-uk-lost...</a></text></comment> |
11,977,385 | 11,977,394 | 1 | 2 | 11,977,267 | train | <story><title>AsteroidOS: An open-source operating system for smartwatches</title><url>http://asteroidos.org/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>galistoca</author><text>I fail to understand a reason why someone would use this... right now it seems to only work on a few LG watches, and isn&#x27;t Android open source as well? Why would someone choose to implement this when they can implement Android?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>lnanek2</author><text>Working at a company that ships an embedded Android product, I know Android sometimes costs us far more than it helps us. It took us months to figure out how to route some audio from incoming A2DP Sink Bluetooth profile to the speakers, for example. Fighting with patches, and Android app Java code, and Bluetooth app Java code, and JNI glue, and CPP Android services, and C Bluedroid stack. Meanwhile anyone on the team could have gotten it working in a day on Linux running BlueZ.<p>Then we constantly have the same issues working with the display. We output ARGB for an augmented reality product, but Android is not designed to output anything but RGB to the final LCD. So similarly, if we were just dealing with a Linux frame buffer, we&#x27;d have had a much easier time doing the customization than fighting all of Android&#x27;s various SurfaceFlinger and other layers between the app and the display.</text></comment> | <story><title>AsteroidOS: An open-source operating system for smartwatches</title><url>http://asteroidos.org/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>galistoca</author><text>I fail to understand a reason why someone would use this... right now it seems to only work on a few LG watches, and isn&#x27;t Android open source as well? Why would someone choose to implement this when they can implement Android?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>PeCaN</author><text>Off the top of my head:<p>- Not Google<p>- More hackable<p>- Qt + QML<p>looks really cool to me. Android is decidedly <i>not</i> the be-all-end-all of mobile OSes, and an alternative project is always nice.</text></comment> |
12,646,464 | 12,646,666 | 1 | 2 | 12,643,978 | train | <story><title>A bot crawled thousands of studies looking for simple math errors</title><url>http://www.vox.com/science-and-health/2016/9/30/13077658/statcheck-psychology-replication</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>c3534l</author><text>&gt; and whether online critiques of past work constitute “bullying” or shaming. The PubPeer comments are just a tiny part of that debate. But it can hit a nerve.<p>&gt; Susan Fiske, a former president of the Association for Psychological Science, alluded to Statcheck in an interview with Business Insider, calling it a “gotcha algorithm.”<p>&gt; The draft of the article said these online critics were engaging in “methodological terrorism.”<p>If these are attitudes typical of psychology, then I cannot say I consider psychology to be a proper social science. There is a fundamental misunderstanding of how knowledge is created through the scientific process if the verification step is considered to be offensive or taboo. That anyone in the field of psychology would even be comfortable publically espousing a non-scientific worldview like that means that psychologists are not being properly educated in the scientific method and should not be in the business of producing research since they do not have a mature understanding of what &quot;scientific&quot; implies.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dmd</author><text>I took a class with Susan Fiske in grad school, and the following is a quote from one of her comments on a homework where I had called into question a paper that was clearly not just statistically incorrectly done but was based on urban-legend-level assumptions:<p>&quot;These results are from respected investigators, so it&#x27;s inappropriate to question them.&quot;</text></comment> | <story><title>A bot crawled thousands of studies looking for simple math errors</title><url>http://www.vox.com/science-and-health/2016/9/30/13077658/statcheck-psychology-replication</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>c3534l</author><text>&gt; and whether online critiques of past work constitute “bullying” or shaming. The PubPeer comments are just a tiny part of that debate. But it can hit a nerve.<p>&gt; Susan Fiske, a former president of the Association for Psychological Science, alluded to Statcheck in an interview with Business Insider, calling it a “gotcha algorithm.”<p>&gt; The draft of the article said these online critics were engaging in “methodological terrorism.”<p>If these are attitudes typical of psychology, then I cannot say I consider psychology to be a proper social science. There is a fundamental misunderstanding of how knowledge is created through the scientific process if the verification step is considered to be offensive or taboo. That anyone in the field of psychology would even be comfortable publically espousing a non-scientific worldview like that means that psychologists are not being properly educated in the scientific method and should not be in the business of producing research since they do not have a mature understanding of what &quot;scientific&quot; implies.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>SilasX</author><text>Yes! Similarly, I remember a few years back being shocked at the attitude toward the replication crisis, where authors of irreproducible work were miffed that no one talked to them first.<p>I was like, &quot;Um, the whole point of science is that it&#x27;s knowledge <i>in the public record</i>. If you need to &#x27;chill&#x27; with the original researcher to get critical details, that&#x27;s not science anymore.&quot;<p>Remember, the studies might form the basis of an FDA approval. If <i>only</i> the original lab can produce the result, then is the FDA approval of the treatment going to be limited to <i>only</i> that lab as well? Kinda limits scalability...<p>I did a search and found the blog post that quoted the researcher [1] with this scary attitude:<p>&gt;When researchers at Amgen, a pharmaceutical company in Thousand Oaks, California, failed to replicate many important studies in preclinical cancer research, they tried to contact the authors and exchange materials. They could confirm only 11% of the papers. I think that if more biotech companies had the patience to send someone to the original labs, perhaps the percentage of reproducibility would be much higher.<p>[1] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;andrewgelman.com&#x2F;2013&#x2F;12&#x2F;17&#x2F;replication-backlash&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;andrewgelman.com&#x2F;2013&#x2F;12&#x2F;17&#x2F;replication-backlash&#x2F;</a> (thanks Google)</text></comment> |
15,768,565 | 15,768,664 | 1 | 2 | 15,768,303 | train | <story><title>Due to Bitcoin network fees, customer loses $10 trying to buy $25 game on Steam</title><url>https://www.reddit.com/r/CryptoCurrency/comments/7e7wsq/shady_business_of_bitpay_buy_29_game_on_steam/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Lazare</author><text>From the second screenshot, the transaction value was 0.003857 BTC.
From the guy&#x27;s post, he transferred 0.003853 BTC. From the first screenshot, BitPay is saying he underpaid by 0.000004 BTC which would seem to be...100% correct?<p>I mean, obviously Bitcoin is a pretty silly way to buy a game on Steam, but this seems to be 100% user error.<p>...well, probably. There&#x27;s some key info missing here, but this seems highly suggestive:<p>&quot;BitPay emailed me saying I underpaid by 3 cents at the time, and said to refund me. I checked the price of bitcoin 0.003853 btc in usd is around $31 which was a lie on their part.&quot;<p>No, they said he underpaid by 0.000004 BTC. And the number he was googling is, coincidentally, 0.000004 BTC lower than the transaction value in his screenshot, so...</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>makomk</author><text>Unless BitPay have changed their policies, the exchange rate is only locked in for 15 minutes. If the transaction doesn&#x27;t get its first confirmation before then, it expires and if the exchange rate goes up even slightly they consider the transaction underpaid. That&#x27;s almost certainly what happened here. They used to be more sensible and only require the transaction to be broadcast to them within the 15 minute window, but they quietly changed it a few years back.</text></comment> | <story><title>Due to Bitcoin network fees, customer loses $10 trying to buy $25 game on Steam</title><url>https://www.reddit.com/r/CryptoCurrency/comments/7e7wsq/shady_business_of_bitpay_buy_29_game_on_steam/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Lazare</author><text>From the second screenshot, the transaction value was 0.003857 BTC.
From the guy&#x27;s post, he transferred 0.003853 BTC. From the first screenshot, BitPay is saying he underpaid by 0.000004 BTC which would seem to be...100% correct?<p>I mean, obviously Bitcoin is a pretty silly way to buy a game on Steam, but this seems to be 100% user error.<p>...well, probably. There&#x27;s some key info missing here, but this seems highly suggestive:<p>&quot;BitPay emailed me saying I underpaid by 3 cents at the time, and said to refund me. I checked the price of bitcoin 0.003853 btc in usd is around $31 which was a lie on their part.&quot;<p>No, they said he underpaid by 0.000004 BTC. And the number he was googling is, coincidentally, 0.000004 BTC lower than the transaction value in his screenshot, so...</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>alanfalcon</author><text>Bitcoin was a perfectly reasonable way to buy a game on Steam in February last year. Of course my 0.035631 BTC purchase means I could have paid $15 cash and saved the coins and had $287 worth of BTC today. So maybe it wasn’t reasonable.</text></comment> |
27,948,306 | 27,947,928 | 1 | 3 | 27,947,004 | train | <story><title>PinePhone – Open Source Smart Phone Supported by Major Linux Phone Projects</title><url>https://www.pine64.org/pinephone/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>katmannthree</author><text>The pinephone is great, in fact I&#x27;m typing this comment from mine.<p>That said, fair warning to anyone thinking about getting one: it&#x27;s slow, buggy, and flat out unreliable if you need to be able to receive &#x2F; answer calls and texts for anything important (e.g. work).<p>Once they get the software worked out over the next few years though, it&#x27;ll be the best thing out there. No ads, no bullshit, just a phone with a mainline linux distribution.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dogma1138</author><text>I think the main thing that PinePhone has going for them is the price $150-200 for what essentially is a hobbyist device at this point is more than reasonable.<p>This is in stark contrast to the Purism phones which offer about the same hardware (slightly better CPU but worse GPU) at flagship prices.<p>This is somewhat also proof that the prices that Purism charges aren’t due to lack of economy of scale you can make these devices on the cheap, the hardware is available.<p>I have a similar complaint about their laptops they charge a hefty premium for what is essentially a bog standard OEM laptop from China which you can get for almost half the price in many cases including from other direct to customer vendors.</text></comment> | <story><title>PinePhone – Open Source Smart Phone Supported by Major Linux Phone Projects</title><url>https://www.pine64.org/pinephone/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>katmannthree</author><text>The pinephone is great, in fact I&#x27;m typing this comment from mine.<p>That said, fair warning to anyone thinking about getting one: it&#x27;s slow, buggy, and flat out unreliable if you need to be able to receive &#x2F; answer calls and texts for anything important (e.g. work).<p>Once they get the software worked out over the next few years though, it&#x27;ll be the best thing out there. No ads, no bullshit, just a phone with a mainline linux distribution.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>theodric</author><text>You have a strange definition of &quot;great.&quot; If any other phone exhibited those characteristics, I would write it off as garbage, not excuse its faults with a promise that they&#x27;ll be fixed Real Soon Now™</text></comment> |
29,158,265 | 29,156,546 | 1 | 2 | 29,154,216 | train | <story><title>Use forums rather than Slack/Discord to support developer community</title><url>https://www.mooreds.com/wordpress/archives/3451</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>thaumasiotes</author><text>Just a couple of days ago, I signed in to a gmail account using the correct username and password.<p>Gmail intercepted me and claimed to be worried that they couldn&#x27;t recognize the device I was using. According to the flow, they wanted me to verify my identity in one of three ways: (1) I could verify the backup email address associated with the account; (2) if unable to do that, I could provide the 2FA code sent to that same backup email address (how would I be able to know this without being able to know what the address was?); or (3) I could provide a phone number -- previously unknown to Google -- on the spot, and then provide the 2FA code sent to that brand-new phone number. (How is this supposed to help them verify my identity?)<p>I went for option (2), the email 2FA code. After providing the code, I was informed that, before signing in to my existing gmail account, I must also provide a phone number and enter the 2FA code sent to my new phone number.<p>So I went back and went for option (1), typing in my backup email address. Same thing happened. Because Google &quot;couldn&#x27;t recognize the device I was using&quot;, I was not allowed to sign in to an account I obviously controlled without providing a phone number with absolutely zero authentication value.<p>I did find a workaround. If you attempt to sign in to an account afflicted in this way <i>in an incognito browser window</i>, Google will, for the moment, allow it.<p>&quot;Don&#x27;t be evil&quot; is long gone.</text></item><item><author>errantspark</author><text>I constantly run into this problem, I&#x27;ve used my google voice number for everything for years (yeah it&#x27;s not a great move but very hard to migrate away from) and a frustrating number of services recently have been rejecting it for verification. I end up having to take the sim out of my laptop and put it in my PinePhone. It&#x27;s such a hassle. This whole &quot;you&#x27;re not a human unless you have a phone number&quot; thing sucks. Same thing with having a credit score. You&#x27;re just assumed to participate in these systems even though there&#x27;s no mandate to do so or protection for you if you don&#x27;t.</text></item><item><author>jedberg</author><text>Oh please do. This seems like the perfect time to bring this up:<p>I had a piece of software that used Discord for support. They required that users be verified, which requires you to give you phone number to Discord. I gave them my Google Voice number, which is the only number I have, and they rejected it because they don&#x27;t support VOIP numbers. I asked them if there was any other way to verify my identity.<p>They told me, &quot;Just use a friend&#x27;s phone to verify. As long as they don&#x27;t try to verify on Discord in six months it should be fine, we won&#x27;t check again&quot;.<p>Their official answer to identity verification was to impersonate someone else!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>eftychis</author><text>Never ever ever ever give your phone number to Google for verification or authorization. People just don&#x27;t understand how easy it is to find someone&#x27;s phone number and then steal it for long enough to steal e.g. emails. Has happened, will happen etc. Like ssn, phone numbers were never made for this purpose. In fact phone numbers and services (e.g. SMS) are just the front end and are setup to be easy to redirect.<p>We had incidents in the past just because the colleague had given the number to Google and those were corporate accounts.<p>Every time a service moves to SMS or phone calls for 2FA a cry can be felt across the universe by any security engineer&#x2F;cryptographer.<p>If you are a person responsible for this: please don&#x27;t. If my antiquated bank that is insured and doesn&#x27;t really care can understand this, so can you, if you care just a bit.</text></comment> | <story><title>Use forums rather than Slack/Discord to support developer community</title><url>https://www.mooreds.com/wordpress/archives/3451</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>thaumasiotes</author><text>Just a couple of days ago, I signed in to a gmail account using the correct username and password.<p>Gmail intercepted me and claimed to be worried that they couldn&#x27;t recognize the device I was using. According to the flow, they wanted me to verify my identity in one of three ways: (1) I could verify the backup email address associated with the account; (2) if unable to do that, I could provide the 2FA code sent to that same backup email address (how would I be able to know this without being able to know what the address was?); or (3) I could provide a phone number -- previously unknown to Google -- on the spot, and then provide the 2FA code sent to that brand-new phone number. (How is this supposed to help them verify my identity?)<p>I went for option (2), the email 2FA code. After providing the code, I was informed that, before signing in to my existing gmail account, I must also provide a phone number and enter the 2FA code sent to my new phone number.<p>So I went back and went for option (1), typing in my backup email address. Same thing happened. Because Google &quot;couldn&#x27;t recognize the device I was using&quot;, I was not allowed to sign in to an account I obviously controlled without providing a phone number with absolutely zero authentication value.<p>I did find a workaround. If you attempt to sign in to an account afflicted in this way <i>in an incognito browser window</i>, Google will, for the moment, allow it.<p>&quot;Don&#x27;t be evil&quot; is long gone.</text></item><item><author>errantspark</author><text>I constantly run into this problem, I&#x27;ve used my google voice number for everything for years (yeah it&#x27;s not a great move but very hard to migrate away from) and a frustrating number of services recently have been rejecting it for verification. I end up having to take the sim out of my laptop and put it in my PinePhone. It&#x27;s such a hassle. This whole &quot;you&#x27;re not a human unless you have a phone number&quot; thing sucks. Same thing with having a credit score. You&#x27;re just assumed to participate in these systems even though there&#x27;s no mandate to do so or protection for you if you don&#x27;t.</text></item><item><author>jedberg</author><text>Oh please do. This seems like the perfect time to bring this up:<p>I had a piece of software that used Discord for support. They required that users be verified, which requires you to give you phone number to Discord. I gave them my Google Voice number, which is the only number I have, and they rejected it because they don&#x27;t support VOIP numbers. I asked them if there was any other way to verify my identity.<p>They told me, &quot;Just use a friend&#x27;s phone to verify. As long as they don&#x27;t try to verify on Discord in six months it should be fine, we won&#x27;t check again&quot;.<p>Their official answer to identity verification was to impersonate someone else!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>megous</author><text>It&#x27;s especially nice when traveling. I was once asked by a client to do something while I was in other country about 5k km from regular location. Couldn&#x27;t login to the apps account for this reason (no backup email or phone set). So I didn&#x27;t do the work.<p>I suspect it&#x27;s some work-life balance enhancing thing. :D<p>I don&#x27;t really mind, since it also helps me bash Google services in front of my clients who still use them, without being aware of these failure modes.<p>Personally speaking, it&#x27;s absolutely a no go service. I can probably handle service loss at home quite fine, but if I relied on google or other services with these &quot;anti-abuse&quot; features while traveling that would be very stressful. I usually print out everything important before departing so I don&#x27;t rely on any electronics, anyway, because none of it is as reliable and as quickly accessible as a piece of paper or a bunch of cash.</text></comment> |
22,463,365 | 22,462,256 | 1 | 2 | 22,460,018 | train | <story><title>Epistemic standards for “Why did it take so long to invent X?”</title><url>https://rootsofprogress.org/epistemic-standards-for-why-it-took-so-long</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>pfdietz</author><text>Some inventions are gated by scientific discovery, particularly in materials.<p>For example, ductile iron (which involves adding 1% magnesium to molten iron, causing carbon to precipitate on cooling as small spheroids instead of dendrites, making the iron much less brittle than ordinary cast iron) could have been invented any time after 1808, when Davy produced magnesium. But it wasn&#x27;t invented until 1948. No one had done the experiment and seen that effect.<p>Another example, also coincidentally involving magnesium, is magnesium diboride. It was synthesized and its structure characterized in 1953, but it wasn&#x27;t until 2001 that it was realized it was a superconductor with a critical temperature of 39 K.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Gravityloss</author><text>Basic research. There are a lot of combinations to try. It makes sense to try them methodically and share the results, to avoid duplication of effort.
(The experiment of course can certainly be retried, in case there was an error, but the published result has value). There was a good interview of Doron Aurbach on this, but sadly it appears to have disappeared from Soundcloud. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.electrochem.org&#x2F;ecs-blog&#x2F;doron-aurbach-commercial-li-ion-batteries&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.electrochem.org&#x2F;ecs-blog&#x2F;doron-aurbach-commercia...</a><p>Chemistry and materials research is an especially bad fit for the startup solution model where everybody&#x27;s repeating the same things, often even in secret.<p>The startups instead build on top of that basic research. Like electric scooters or cars were built on top of the technology of cheap energy-dense lithium batteries.</text></comment> | <story><title>Epistemic standards for “Why did it take so long to invent X?”</title><url>https://rootsofprogress.org/epistemic-standards-for-why-it-took-so-long</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>pfdietz</author><text>Some inventions are gated by scientific discovery, particularly in materials.<p>For example, ductile iron (which involves adding 1% magnesium to molten iron, causing carbon to precipitate on cooling as small spheroids instead of dendrites, making the iron much less brittle than ordinary cast iron) could have been invented any time after 1808, when Davy produced magnesium. But it wasn&#x27;t invented until 1948. No one had done the experiment and seen that effect.<p>Another example, also coincidentally involving magnesium, is magnesium diboride. It was synthesized and its structure characterized in 1953, but it wasn&#x27;t until 2001 that it was realized it was a superconductor with a critical temperature of 39 K.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>scythe</author><text>Discovery is half the battle. Theory plays a role.<p>Currently there is some research into &quot;high-entropy alloys&quot; which are just mixtures of metals we&#x27;ve known about for a while with certain special crystal properties. It&#x27;s a foregone conclusion that many of the known HEAs could have been prepared in the 1930s, but would it make sense to do so? What epiphany could possibly tell you to prepare Cr19.75Mn20.10Fe20.25Co20.48Ni19.42 (<i>Science</i> 345 (6201) 1153-8) without having a theory of crystal deformation in metals?</text></comment> |
29,103,315 | 29,103,209 | 1 | 3 | 29,079,079 | train | <story><title>Raft Consensus Protocol</title><url>https://www.consul.io/docs/architecture/consensus</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>atonse</author><text>I’m going to ask folks here a question.<p>Recently our consul and nomad clusters both blew up within a day of each other.<p>In some crazy twist of luck, Amazon removed the underlying instances that happened to run the leaders to both clusters. This was in our QA environment so they were all t2.nanos.<p>In this situation, shouldn’t we just expect the other two nodes to hold an election and elect a new leader? Isn’t this the most plain vanilla use case there is?<p>In both situations, the clusters got stuck without leaders indefinitely because they got stuck trying to ping the leader to see if they could hold an election (how could they?? the whole point of the election is because the leader disappeared). And the only way to recover was to do some insane dance of building a JSON file and hard coding IPs.<p>Based on some research, it seems like we need to hard code IPs to avoid this in the future. This seems like a huge smell and goes against everything I’ve ever read about raft and the idea of self healing clusters.<p>What am I missing here? I don’t remember ever having to deal with this with mongodb in 2014.</text></comment> | <story><title>Raft Consensus Protocol</title><url>https://www.consul.io/docs/architecture/consensus</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>zuj</author><text>For those looking for how raft works<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;thesecretlivesofdata.com&#x2F;raft&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;thesecretlivesofdata.com&#x2F;raft&#x2F;</a></text></comment> |
16,971,802 | 16,971,912 | 1 | 2 | 16,971,052 | train | <story><title>Macbook Pro frying USB peripherals</title><url>https://discussions.apple.com/thread/8223635</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Kelbit</author><text>As an electrical engineer - I think incidents like these are a pretty solid argument for incorporating overvoltage protection into 5V USB peripherals.<p>Even something as simple as a zener clamp with a polyfuse to make a dead-simple crowbar circuit will save a device and won&#x27;t contribute a whole lot to BOM cost.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>joshvm</author><text>It&#x27;s a bit odd, most older Macbooks have current limiting ICs on the USB ports. I&#x27;ve found this out when tinkering with devboards and accidentally shorting things. In fact most motherboards have some kind of protection for overcurrent conditions.<p>But USB-C isn&#x27;t limited to 5V, power delivery is at 20V. That might explain what&#x27;s going on here (since the user reports 20V on the output) - it thinks that the peripheral is a power hungry device and it&#x27;s trying to charge it. That&#x27;s a problem, but it could be that the peripheral is poorly designed and is mistakenly asking for power that it can&#x27;t actually handle.<p>Edit: in this case the peripheral seems to be the Macbook charger... and plugging it in causes 20V on all the other outputs with only a dongle plugged in. Oops. Yeah not good.<p>I wonder what happens if you actually load the port? Perhaps it&#x27;ll drop down to 5V? Or maybe it&#x27;ll fry things.<p>That said, my comment above still applies: USB-C relies on <i>both</i> devices to be compliant with the spec. Otherwise you can get into situations where one device fries the other, or tries to charge things it shouldn&#x27;t, etc.</text></comment> | <story><title>Macbook Pro frying USB peripherals</title><url>https://discussions.apple.com/thread/8223635</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Kelbit</author><text>As an electrical engineer - I think incidents like these are a pretty solid argument for incorporating overvoltage protection into 5V USB peripherals.<p>Even something as simple as a zener clamp with a polyfuse to make a dead-simple crowbar circuit will save a device and won&#x27;t contribute a whole lot to BOM cost.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>koala_man</author><text>If you were a business major, you would instead put that circuitry in a USB surge protector and sell them for $4.99</text></comment> |
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