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34,934,362 | 34,929,978 | 1 | 2 | 34,892,413 | train | <story><title>Earth’s innermost layer is a 644 kilometer wide ball of iron, new study finds</title><url>https://www.archyde.com/earths-innermost-layer-is-a-644-kilometer-wide-ball-of-iron-new-study-finds/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jofer</author><text>Mantle plumes don&#x27;t significantly change the shape of the core or mantle, though. They&#x27;re convection within the mantle. They rise from the core mantle boundary, but they&#x27;re basically temperature features, not structural features.<p>In other words, mantle plumes are parts of the mantle that are hotter than the other identically composed mantle around them.<p>In contrast, the core and the crust are different compositions than the mantle.<p>Just to clear up another common confusion, the mantle is very much solid, except for a tiny fraction of melt in a narrow and shallow zone called the athenosphere. The mantle flows over time despite being solid, though (think of a glacier). Just like a marble slab will bend over time (see benches in old graveyards that sag in the middle), the mantle slowly flows, but a hammer&#x2F;etc would bounce right off of it. That&#x27;s also true of large portions of the crust.<p>As far as how smooth or not smooth the actually core boundaries are, we don&#x27;t really know in detail. To a first order, they&#x27;re smooth (i.e. we measure a broadly consistent radius from multiple directions), but that doesn&#x27;t mean they&#x27;re necessarily a &quot;billard ball&quot;. There&#x27;s likely fairly complex topography at the boundary that we can&#x27;t easily measure.</text></item><item><author>LeifCarrotson</author><text>This article shows the layers of the Earth as being perfectly spherical, like the oblate spheroid that is the top layer of Earth&#x27;s crust. Little 8km high Everest mountain ranges or 8km deep Mariana trenches are peach fuzz on the 12,750 km diameter billiard ball, and I suppose it seems reasonable to assume that the mantle and core beneath are similarly shaped by gravity to near-perfect spheroids.<p>But I recently learned about the African and Central Pacific mantle plumes, which rise far above the circles in those Pac-man renderings:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theatlantic.com&#x2F;science&#x2F;archive&#x2F;2020&#x2F;01&#x2F;seismic-mystery-underneath-africa-and-pacific&#x2F;604729&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theatlantic.com&#x2F;science&#x2F;archive&#x2F;2020&#x2F;01&#x2F;seismic-...</a><p>I expect that&#x27;s old news to someone in the field, but I haven&#x27;t thought critically about that diagram since high school.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nine_k</author><text>If you take a real well-played snooker ball, it has plenty of tiny but visible scratches, say, 0.25 mm deep.the ball&#x27;s diameter is 52.5 mm, so the scratches depth is about 1&#x2F;200 of its diameter. If we take Earth&#x27;s diameter as 12750 km, scratches like that would be features about 63 km tall, nearly an order of magnitude larger than tallest mountains on Earth. If course the mantle is smaller diameter, but unless we cannot detect roughly 50 km-tall ridges (I don&#x27;t know much about seismic wave registration), it&#x27;s about as smooth as a billiard ball %)</text></comment> | <story><title>Earth’s innermost layer is a 644 kilometer wide ball of iron, new study finds</title><url>https://www.archyde.com/earths-innermost-layer-is-a-644-kilometer-wide-ball-of-iron-new-study-finds/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jofer</author><text>Mantle plumes don&#x27;t significantly change the shape of the core or mantle, though. They&#x27;re convection within the mantle. They rise from the core mantle boundary, but they&#x27;re basically temperature features, not structural features.<p>In other words, mantle plumes are parts of the mantle that are hotter than the other identically composed mantle around them.<p>In contrast, the core and the crust are different compositions than the mantle.<p>Just to clear up another common confusion, the mantle is very much solid, except for a tiny fraction of melt in a narrow and shallow zone called the athenosphere. The mantle flows over time despite being solid, though (think of a glacier). Just like a marble slab will bend over time (see benches in old graveyards that sag in the middle), the mantle slowly flows, but a hammer&#x2F;etc would bounce right off of it. That&#x27;s also true of large portions of the crust.<p>As far as how smooth or not smooth the actually core boundaries are, we don&#x27;t really know in detail. To a first order, they&#x27;re smooth (i.e. we measure a broadly consistent radius from multiple directions), but that doesn&#x27;t mean they&#x27;re necessarily a &quot;billard ball&quot;. There&#x27;s likely fairly complex topography at the boundary that we can&#x27;t easily measure.</text></item><item><author>LeifCarrotson</author><text>This article shows the layers of the Earth as being perfectly spherical, like the oblate spheroid that is the top layer of Earth&#x27;s crust. Little 8km high Everest mountain ranges or 8km deep Mariana trenches are peach fuzz on the 12,750 km diameter billiard ball, and I suppose it seems reasonable to assume that the mantle and core beneath are similarly shaped by gravity to near-perfect spheroids.<p>But I recently learned about the African and Central Pacific mantle plumes, which rise far above the circles in those Pac-man renderings:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theatlantic.com&#x2F;science&#x2F;archive&#x2F;2020&#x2F;01&#x2F;seismic-mystery-underneath-africa-and-pacific&#x2F;604729&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theatlantic.com&#x2F;science&#x2F;archive&#x2F;2020&#x2F;01&#x2F;seismic-...</a><p>I expect that&#x27;s old news to someone in the field, but I haven&#x27;t thought critically about that diagram since high school.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ASalazarMX</author><text>&gt; Just like a marble slab will bend over time (see benches in old graveyards that sag in the middle), the mantle slowly flows<p>I had to see more of this, and it took me a while because most results are about construction and marble products. It looks like thin slabs of marble bow because of microfractures and internal stress, not by flowing.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;link.springer.com&#x2F;article&#x2F;10.1007&#x2F;s00254-008-1307-z" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;link.springer.com&#x2F;article&#x2F;10.1007&#x2F;s00254-008-1307-z</a></text></comment> |
37,560,978 | 37,560,180 | 1 | 2 | 37,556,719 | train | <story><title>Kargo, a multi-stage application lifecycle orchestrator</title><url>https://akuity.io/blog/introducing-kargo/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>wg0</author><text>I don&#x27;t understand one thing about GitOps.<p>Imagine 10 apps deployed. All are actively deployed let&#x27;s say few times a day.<p>You want to go back 10 days for App A. But in doing so you would have reverted whole state and all apps as they were 10 days ago.<p>Only way is to cherry pick particular commit and revert it.<p>No? I mean how git can be useful in rolling back singel components back and forth?</text></item><item><author>rjzzleep</author><text>I&#x27;ve used Flux, Flux2 and Argo for GitOps, and they all had their quirks. In general it seems that most CloudNative projects were kinda set in their own vision with very opinionated devs and a lot of corner cases that are not accounted for and won&#x27;t be accounted for.<p>I have a little bit of hope that this one is going to be different with the lessons they got from Argo, but I&#x27;m not holding my breath.<p>Ps. when I first saw Argo, I thought this is it. The solution to all my problems.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>avianlyric</author><text>Personally I like to treat the Git in GitOps as an implementation detail. The underlying principle of GitOps is that your entire environments setup and config is written in code, and version controlled. So you can in theory pick any version of your entire env, throw it at blank slate, and reliably get the environment specified by that git hash.<p>Then there’s the whole constant reconciliation of your version controlled env specification, and the actual env, and how you automatically resolve differences. With the most important principle being that the version controlled code&#x2F;config is absolute truth and something needs to figure out how to bend the world to match.<p>But importantly in all of this, Git isn’t that important. Version control is important, infrastructure as code is important, but Git isn’t. Arguably Git isn’t a great tool for GitOps due to issues like the ones you mention. But the huge ecosystem around Git makes the pain worth it.<p>I would argue the “correct” solution to your problem is a tool that automatically creates the correct cherrypicks and reverts for you based on a request to rollback application X.<p>Treat git as a dumb version control system, and broadly ignore “good practice”, because at lot of those good practices are designed for software development, not infrastructure development. We need to develop new working practices, built on top of Git fundamental components, rather than trying to rationalise existing working practices against the new problems that appear in GitOps.</text></comment> | <story><title>Kargo, a multi-stage application lifecycle orchestrator</title><url>https://akuity.io/blog/introducing-kargo/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>wg0</author><text>I don&#x27;t understand one thing about GitOps.<p>Imagine 10 apps deployed. All are actively deployed let&#x27;s say few times a day.<p>You want to go back 10 days for App A. But in doing so you would have reverted whole state and all apps as they were 10 days ago.<p>Only way is to cherry pick particular commit and revert it.<p>No? I mean how git can be useful in rolling back singel components back and forth?</text></item><item><author>rjzzleep</author><text>I&#x27;ve used Flux, Flux2 and Argo for GitOps, and they all had their quirks. In general it seems that most CloudNative projects were kinda set in their own vision with very opinionated devs and a lot of corner cases that are not accounted for and won&#x27;t be accounted for.<p>I have a little bit of hope that this one is going to be different with the lessons they got from Argo, but I&#x27;m not holding my breath.<p>Ps. when I first saw Argo, I thought this is it. The solution to all my problems.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>benterix</author><text>If you use GitOps to manage apps, you better isolate them somehow, for example put each app in a different directory. In this case, a revert for App A wouldn&#x27;t cause problems for B and C.<p>But frankly, GitOps works best with stateless apps. Managing stateful apps is possible but you need to take care of state yourself.</text></comment> |
37,874,451 | 37,873,699 | 1 | 3 | 37,873,486 | train | <story><title>OpenZFS 2.2: Block Cloning, Linux Containers, BLAKE3</title><url>https://github.com/openzfs/zfs/releases/tag/zfs-2.2.0</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>gavinhoward</author><text>Question for ZFS experts: the docs say ([1]) that I can change the checksum used, and I want to change it to BLAKE3.<p>However, based on [2], it seems the checksum doesn&#x27;t store the type of checksum, so it seems that it&#x27;s an all-or-nothing thing instead of a setting that only applies to new blocks.<p>Can I actually change the checksum? What happens when I do?<p>Edit: It appears the type of checksum actually <i>is</i> stored per-block, in `blk_prop` ([3]) of `blkptr_t` ([4]).<p>Edit 2: The manpage says that the change only applies to new data, so yes, it&#x27;s safe.<p>[1]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;openzfs.github.io&#x2F;openzfs-docs&#x2F;Basic%20Concepts&#x2F;Checksums.html" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;openzfs.github.io&#x2F;openzfs-docs&#x2F;Basic%20Concepts&#x2F;Chec...</a><p>[2]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;people.freebsd.org&#x2F;~gibbs&#x2F;zfs_doxygenation&#x2F;html&#x2F;d9&#x2F;dce&#x2F;structzio__cksum.html" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;people.freebsd.org&#x2F;~gibbs&#x2F;zfs_doxygenation&#x2F;html&#x2F;d9&#x2F;d...</a><p>[3]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;openzfs&#x2F;zfs&#x2F;blob&#x2F;c0e58995e33479a9c1d97fb2a19f8f507cc954b7&#x2F;include&#x2F;sys&#x2F;spa.h#L442-L448">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;openzfs&#x2F;zfs&#x2F;blob&#x2F;c0e58995e33479a9c1d97fb2...</a><p>[4]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;openzfs&#x2F;zfs&#x2F;blob&#x2F;c0e58995e33479a9c1d97fb2a19f8f507cc954b7&#x2F;include&#x2F;sys&#x2F;spa.h#L375-L383">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;openzfs&#x2F;zfs&#x2F;blob&#x2F;c0e58995e33479a9c1d97fb2...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>OpenZFS 2.2: Block Cloning, Linux Containers, BLAKE3</title><url>https://github.com/openzfs/zfs/releases/tag/zfs-2.2.0</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>throw0101b</author><text>Note that cloning was already possible at the filesystem&#x2F;snapshot level for a while:<p>* <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;openzfs.github.io&#x2F;openzfs-docs&#x2F;man&#x2F;master&#x2F;8&#x2F;zfs-clone.8.html" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;openzfs.github.io&#x2F;openzfs-docs&#x2F;man&#x2F;master&#x2F;8&#x2F;zfs-clon...</a><p>* <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;openzfs.github.io&#x2F;openzfs-docs&#x2F;man&#x2F;master&#x2F;7&#x2F;zfsconcepts.7.html#Clones" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;openzfs.github.io&#x2F;openzfs-docs&#x2F;man&#x2F;master&#x2F;7&#x2F;zfsconce...</a><p>(ZFS uses the fairly &#x27;standard&#x27; nomenclature of &quot;snapshots&quot; being read-only copies and &quot;clones&quot; being read-write copies.)</text></comment> |
16,036,668 | 16,036,635 | 1 | 3 | 16,035,120 | train | <story><title>LAPD arrests man on suspicion of making deadly swatting call to Wichita police</title><url>http://www.kansas.com/news/local/crime/article192281169.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bastijn</author><text>Here we have the exact opposite and police are often prosecuted for firing their weapon. Result is they get kicked, slapped, scolded and vocabulary assaulted by 13 year olds who know they would win the case for a judge if it comes to it (or otherwise get 40 hours of public service). Why? Because &quot;police needs to know better and accept it as part of their job&quot;.<p>Maybe US is a bit much to the other side but with the statistics of people with guns there it makes sense.<p>You know what would help? If the police tells you to do something, do it without question or big mouthing. Cops tell you to put your hands where they can see them? Do it. Tell you to lie down? Do it. Fight them later for any unjust actions but while at gunpoint just beeping comply.<p>April from all that I hope they will prosecute the idiot swatter to set an example. This ain&#x27;t no games you do for fun.</text></item><item><author>api</author><text>The blame can be placed on both. The person who faked a police report is guilty of homicide, but this was made possible by an overly trigger happy police force.</text></item><item><author>mmmBacon</author><text>Sorry but almost all the blame is on the person who pulls the trigger. Swatting is possible because of police militarization. Frankly while the idiot who made the call certainly shares some responsibility, our police policies of shoot first and ask questions later are the problem. When police are trained to respond to citizens, even violent ones, like enemies in war, we get the outcomes of police killings that we have today. Citizens are not enemies or combatants and as such the military style training of police in the US today is wholly inappropriate.</text></item><item><author>v64</author><text>&gt; So - the demonstrations following some police shootings aside, is there any significant push in the US to drive the police towards less lethal encounters with the public it is to serve and protect?<p>I&#x27;m from the southern US, which is historically more conservative than the rest of the country. I&#x27;m not in any way claiming that the following viewpoints are universal and accepted in this region, but a large enough portion of the population holds these viewpoints, preventing further progress:<p>1) Anyone who gets shot by cops must have done something to warrant being shot. Even for people who get shot during traffic stops, that person did something to get pulled over in the first place. If they had a criminal record in the past, even if they didn&#x27;t commit an offense during the situation where they were killed, there&#x27;s a good chance they would have offended again, and this preemptive killing probably prevented a future crime.<p>2) In the case of this swatting incident, the blame lies 100% on the person who made the false police report. No false report, no shooting. The cop had reason to believe based on the report that the man who emerged from the door claimed to have a gun and had killed in the last hour, so it was plausible to believe he may try to retaliate and the appropriate force was used. No time for fact checking during an active shooter situation. &quot;Shoot first, ask questions later&quot; is considered an appropriate way for the police to deal with criminals.<p>Obviously there are numerous refutations, and that isn&#x27;t lost on people. Many people will justify it by saying that regardless of the circumstances, the police put their lives on the line every day, so that gives them a pass when they make mistakes. Many people would view your suggestions as weakening the police, and the militarization of US police is viewed by many as making us safer, not less safe.</text></item><item><author>lb1lf</author><text>Coming from a country where the police spends more time developing people skills than doing gun practice, it never ceases to puzzle me how the solution to any situation appears to be to shoot anything that moves on the flimsiest of assumptions, then figure out what happened afterwards.<p>Now, I appreciate that the police in the US does face a population with more guns on hand than the Norwegian police does; this surely goes some way towards explaining their apparent eagerness to shoot first, then ask questions later.<p>However, what puzzles me most is this - if the police around here shot but one innocent, there&#x27;d be cries for resignations, perhaps even going all the way to the secretary of justice; we collectively would expect - nah, demand - that the police come up with policies and training which would make it less likely that another, similar incident would ever occur, &amp;c.<p>So - the demonstrations following some police shootings aside, is there any significant push in the US to drive the police towards less lethal encounters with the public it is to serve and protect?<p>Say, requiring better people skills, more use of non-lethal weapons (and, if sufficiently effective non-lethal weapons do not yet exist - to have them developed), more passive safety for police officers (say, if you are wearing body armour which will stop a cal. 50-round, maybe you do not have to fire the first shot) etc?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>lb1lf</author><text>&gt; You know what would help? If the police tells you to do something, do it without question or big mouthing. Cops tell you to put your hands where they can see them? Do it. Tell you to lie down? Do it. Fight them later for any unjust actions but while at gunpoint just beeping comply.<p>-The problem, at least in some cases, is that you may get confusing, if not direct contradictory orders.<p>Say, if one officer yells &#x27;Put your hands up&#x27; whereas another yells &#x27;Get down, get down&#x27; - sure, keeping your wits about you, you could get your hands up, then kneel and get down - however, you are probably stressed as hell (being at gunpoint hopefully not being an everyday occurrence), and stressed people make mistakes.<p>Being frightened is NOT a condition which carries the death penalty. Police officers are the professional party in encounters like this. They should act like it - and receive training in how Joe Q. Public is likely to react when having a gun pointed at him.<p>(Heck, it might even be justified to have a masked instructor crash a class at the police academy and holding them at gunpoint for a few seconds (better make it a class where the cadets are not armed!) - with any luck, the brighter ones will remember how scared they were and cut civilians they encounter later a little slack for being scared s--tless.</text></comment> | <story><title>LAPD arrests man on suspicion of making deadly swatting call to Wichita police</title><url>http://www.kansas.com/news/local/crime/article192281169.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bastijn</author><text>Here we have the exact opposite and police are often prosecuted for firing their weapon. Result is they get kicked, slapped, scolded and vocabulary assaulted by 13 year olds who know they would win the case for a judge if it comes to it (or otherwise get 40 hours of public service). Why? Because &quot;police needs to know better and accept it as part of their job&quot;.<p>Maybe US is a bit much to the other side but with the statistics of people with guns there it makes sense.<p>You know what would help? If the police tells you to do something, do it without question or big mouthing. Cops tell you to put your hands where they can see them? Do it. Tell you to lie down? Do it. Fight them later for any unjust actions but while at gunpoint just beeping comply.<p>April from all that I hope they will prosecute the idiot swatter to set an example. This ain&#x27;t no games you do for fun.</text></item><item><author>api</author><text>The blame can be placed on both. The person who faked a police report is guilty of homicide, but this was made possible by an overly trigger happy police force.</text></item><item><author>mmmBacon</author><text>Sorry but almost all the blame is on the person who pulls the trigger. Swatting is possible because of police militarization. Frankly while the idiot who made the call certainly shares some responsibility, our police policies of shoot first and ask questions later are the problem. When police are trained to respond to citizens, even violent ones, like enemies in war, we get the outcomes of police killings that we have today. Citizens are not enemies or combatants and as such the military style training of police in the US today is wholly inappropriate.</text></item><item><author>v64</author><text>&gt; So - the demonstrations following some police shootings aside, is there any significant push in the US to drive the police towards less lethal encounters with the public it is to serve and protect?<p>I&#x27;m from the southern US, which is historically more conservative than the rest of the country. I&#x27;m not in any way claiming that the following viewpoints are universal and accepted in this region, but a large enough portion of the population holds these viewpoints, preventing further progress:<p>1) Anyone who gets shot by cops must have done something to warrant being shot. Even for people who get shot during traffic stops, that person did something to get pulled over in the first place. If they had a criminal record in the past, even if they didn&#x27;t commit an offense during the situation where they were killed, there&#x27;s a good chance they would have offended again, and this preemptive killing probably prevented a future crime.<p>2) In the case of this swatting incident, the blame lies 100% on the person who made the false police report. No false report, no shooting. The cop had reason to believe based on the report that the man who emerged from the door claimed to have a gun and had killed in the last hour, so it was plausible to believe he may try to retaliate and the appropriate force was used. No time for fact checking during an active shooter situation. &quot;Shoot first, ask questions later&quot; is considered an appropriate way for the police to deal with criminals.<p>Obviously there are numerous refutations, and that isn&#x27;t lost on people. Many people will justify it by saying that regardless of the circumstances, the police put their lives on the line every day, so that gives them a pass when they make mistakes. Many people would view your suggestions as weakening the police, and the militarization of US police is viewed by many as making us safer, not less safe.</text></item><item><author>lb1lf</author><text>Coming from a country where the police spends more time developing people skills than doing gun practice, it never ceases to puzzle me how the solution to any situation appears to be to shoot anything that moves on the flimsiest of assumptions, then figure out what happened afterwards.<p>Now, I appreciate that the police in the US does face a population with more guns on hand than the Norwegian police does; this surely goes some way towards explaining their apparent eagerness to shoot first, then ask questions later.<p>However, what puzzles me most is this - if the police around here shot but one innocent, there&#x27;d be cries for resignations, perhaps even going all the way to the secretary of justice; we collectively would expect - nah, demand - that the police come up with policies and training which would make it less likely that another, similar incident would ever occur, &amp;c.<p>So - the demonstrations following some police shootings aside, is there any significant push in the US to drive the police towards less lethal encounters with the public it is to serve and protect?<p>Say, requiring better people skills, more use of non-lethal weapons (and, if sufficiently effective non-lethal weapons do not yet exist - to have them developed), more passive safety for police officers (say, if you are wearing body armour which will stop a cal. 50-round, maybe you do not have to fire the first shot) etc?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jakelazaroff</author><text><i>&gt; Result is they get kicked, slapped, scolded and vocabulary assaulted by 13 year olds who know they would win the case for a judge if it comes to it (or otherwise get 40 hours of public service).</i><p>I&#x27;m gonna go out on a limb and say that if an offense only warrants 40 hours of public service, it&#x27;s probably not serious enough for a cop to use their firearm.</text></comment> |
24,630,316 | 24,630,259 | 1 | 3 | 24,628,189 | train | <story><title>Benchmarking TensorFlow on Nvidia GeForce RTX 3090</title><url>https://www.evolution.ai/post/benchmarking-deep-learning-workloads-with-tensorflow-on-the-nvidia-geforce-rtx-3090</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jakear</author><text>That second table is aa good example of why always including units (or even just a &quot;higher is better&quot;) is a good idea... I have no clue what I&#x27;m looking at.<p>Edit: It&#x27;s been edited, thx Evolution :) (or I totally glossed over it the first time around... but I don&#x27;t think so)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>TomVDB</author><text>Even after the edit, it&#x27;s a bit confusing in that, without looking at the table, you get the impression that FP16 is slower than FP32.</text></comment> | <story><title>Benchmarking TensorFlow on Nvidia GeForce RTX 3090</title><url>https://www.evolution.ai/post/benchmarking-deep-learning-workloads-with-tensorflow-on-the-nvidia-geforce-rtx-3090</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jakear</author><text>That second table is aa good example of why always including units (or even just a &quot;higher is better&quot;) is a good idea... I have no clue what I&#x27;m looking at.<p>Edit: It&#x27;s been edited, thx Evolution :) (or I totally glossed over it the first time around... but I don&#x27;t think so)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>hughes</author><text>Even after being edited, it&#x27;s still wrong. It shows the significantly lower Inception4 performance as a &quot;40% speedup&quot; instead of 40% of baseline images&#x2F;sec.</text></comment> |
4,002,363 | 4,001,627 | 1 | 3 | 4,000,931 | train | <story><title>Thiel on 60 minutes</title><url>http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=7409142n&tag=contentBody;storyMediaBox</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jonny_eh</author><text>I have a degree in computer engineering and have founded a struggling startup. My one year doing my failed startup was immensely more valuable to me than my 4 years at university. But that's just one anecdote.</text></item><item><author>kevinalexbrown</author><text>The last line sums up most of what I disliked about this piece: "where only big ideas flourish and school's out for everybody".<p>Safer tries to suggest that Thiel is advocating against college for everybody, or any field. What I take from Thiel's stance is that college has become less of a place of learning, and more of an inefficient credentialing mechanism.<p>Safer makes the interesting point that most startups will fail, but what he seems to miss (or Thiel doesn't point out): Thiel Fellows also have a credential of a kind, and even in failure, an extremely lucrative one.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Peteris</author><text>Did you apply yourself equally at both? Without making any assumptions, many people do sail through college hardly putting enough effort. If people half-assed startups the same way, starting work on the prototype two days before an investor pitch, say, that wouldn't be much of a learning experience either.<p>In your own startup, it feels like every stroke counts, and you are doing something you find exciting and meaningful. It's likely not that startups offer more teaching experience, it's just that you're bound to get more out of something you really dive into.<p>Having said that, most (all?) college curricula do not cater for people intending to do startups, but they still have a lot to offer.</text></comment> | <story><title>Thiel on 60 minutes</title><url>http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=7409142n&tag=contentBody;storyMediaBox</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jonny_eh</author><text>I have a degree in computer engineering and have founded a struggling startup. My one year doing my failed startup was immensely more valuable to me than my 4 years at university. But that's just one anecdote.</text></item><item><author>kevinalexbrown</author><text>The last line sums up most of what I disliked about this piece: "where only big ideas flourish and school's out for everybody".<p>Safer tries to suggest that Thiel is advocating against college for everybody, or any field. What I take from Thiel's stance is that college has become less of a place of learning, and more of an inefficient credentialing mechanism.<p>Safer makes the interesting point that most startups will fail, but what he seems to miss (or Thiel doesn't point out): Thiel Fellows also have a credential of a kind, and even in failure, an extremely lucrative one.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mmatants</author><text>But both are still valuable, aren't they? Perhaps school and startup experiences are in combination worth more than the sum of the parts.</text></comment> |
11,487,200 | 11,486,765 | 1 | 2 | 11,478,991 | train | <story><title>Our software must get better</title><url>http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2016/04/our-software-must-get-better.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>katzgrau</author><text>I dig Seth Godin a lot, but the real reason that software trends toward mediocrity over time is that the code base generally becomes an unmaintainable pile of crap. I find this this takes place over the course of years due to:<p>1. Tight development timelines that encourage features getting slapped in quickly at the expense of proper refactoring or architecture.<p>2. A shifting or unclear product spec - sometimes so dramatic that refactoring or rewriting is prohibitive (a hack is born)<p>3. The fact that many developers will touch the code over time. Not only will developers have differing code styles, the preferred code styles and patterns of the language and framework change over time too. The attitudes and level of commitment changes over time as original developers leave and new ones come in. If the code finally gets shipped to an outsourcing firm, you can bet that any last traces of quality are going to disappear.<p>This doesn&#x27;t just happen at lazy or cheap firms - I&#x27;ve seen projects with an incredibly strong development team devolve over time too. It can be prevented, but it happens more often than not.<p>PayPal? Imagine the twisted bunch of cgi they probably still have lying around in their core code base. I&#x27;d be willing to bet there are still traces of Peter Thiel and Elon Musk in there, and nobody wants to touch it</text></comment> | <story><title>Our software must get better</title><url>http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2016/04/our-software-must-get-better.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>retrogradeorbit</author><text>I think the problem stems from the customer not caring about the quality of software. That combined with wanting it for nothing. They may <i>say</i> they care about it, but when you look at their behaviour, and not at what they say, they really don&#x27;t care at all. It could literally delete all their files and most would shrug and go, oh well. What are you going to do?<p>When software users really start to care, and are willing to put their money where their mouth is, then you will see general software quality improve.</text></comment> |
23,210,938 | 23,209,813 | 1 | 2 | 23,208,954 | train | <story><title>An Airbnb for farmland hits a snag, as farmers raise data privacy concerns</title><url>https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2020/02/24/808764422/data-privacy-concerns-are-raised-after-startup-tries-to-rent-farmland</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jelliclesfarm</author><text>There is actually more to this than is visible on the surface. And I can’t talk about some of it.<p>But here it is:<p>1. Climate Corp was part of Monsanto before it became Bayer. It was acquired by Monsanto.
2. John Deere wanted to buy Climate as well as Monsanto but that was struck down by US courts and Bayer bought Monsanto.
3. What was Climate Corp doing before? They had something called Field View where they charged farmers to collect and collate data.
4. All precision Ag, Ag robotics and farm data collections have two big industry ‘partners’: Wall Street and Farm input companies.
5. Now add farmland to Precision Ag&#x2F;Ag robotics.
6. This is a kind of consolidation of land, inputs, data and machinery.
6. Eventually, all land will be owned by farm machinery companies and input companies. There won’t be any more farmers in the future but only farming corporations.
7. It goes back to Wall Street because big Ag is commodities.<p>I am a small scale farmer interested in small acreage Ag robotics to save labour. But no one was interested even though food is important and Ag is a big deal in the USA.<p>No investors, no traction, no interest and I have no qualms about cold calling...and down that rabbit hole, I found out that diff between food farming and commodity crop farming.<p>In reality, there is no agtech for food farming. In the USA anyways. Agtech is about land, inputs and mostly commodity crops. And speculation markets.<p>I don’t have an opinion. Maybe this is more efficient. Maybe it’s not a good idea. And this kind of Ag isn’t even what I am interested in and I just stumbled upon this while trying to figure why Agtech is such a big deal but I can’t find interest in automating food production.<p>It is pretty fascinating how Big Ag has managed to consolidate and rein in together. The players are still the same and it’s a few big corporations that will control this sector.<p>Many of the players and VC companies and start ups are well known but it’s not really necessary to drop those names. But anyone can connect the dots if they invested some time. It is literally a web ..six degrees and all that.<p>Back to the article, expect ‘family farmers’ to be separated from their land in the near and near-distant future. Already a lot of American farmland is owned by foreign countries&#x2F;investors, pension funds, insurance companies, university wealth funds and hedge funds.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>lucb1e</author><text>With formatting:<p>&quot;&quot;&quot;<p>1. Climate Corp was part of Monsanto before it became Bayer. It was acquired by Monsanto.<p>2. John Deere wanted to buy Climate as well as Monsanto but that was struck down by US courts and Bayer bought Monsanto.<p>3. What was Climate Corp doing before? They had something called Field View where they charged farmers to collect and collate data.<p>4. All precision Ag, Ag robotics and farm data collections have two big industry ‘partners’: Wall Street and Farm input companies.<p>5. Now add farmland to Precision Ag&#x2F;Ag robotics.<p>6. This is a kind of consolidation of land, inputs, data and machinery.<p>6. Eventually, all land will be owned by farm machinery companies and input companies. There won’t be any more farmers in the future but only farming corporations.<p>7. It goes back to Wall Street because big Ag is commodities.<p>&quot;&quot;&quot;<p>(Command to format, since this comes up regularly: sed &#x27;s&#x2F; \([0-9]\. \)&#x2F;\n\n\1&#x2F;g&#x27;)</text></comment> | <story><title>An Airbnb for farmland hits a snag, as farmers raise data privacy concerns</title><url>https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2020/02/24/808764422/data-privacy-concerns-are-raised-after-startup-tries-to-rent-farmland</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jelliclesfarm</author><text>There is actually more to this than is visible on the surface. And I can’t talk about some of it.<p>But here it is:<p>1. Climate Corp was part of Monsanto before it became Bayer. It was acquired by Monsanto.
2. John Deere wanted to buy Climate as well as Monsanto but that was struck down by US courts and Bayer bought Monsanto.
3. What was Climate Corp doing before? They had something called Field View where they charged farmers to collect and collate data.
4. All precision Ag, Ag robotics and farm data collections have two big industry ‘partners’: Wall Street and Farm input companies.
5. Now add farmland to Precision Ag&#x2F;Ag robotics.
6. This is a kind of consolidation of land, inputs, data and machinery.
6. Eventually, all land will be owned by farm machinery companies and input companies. There won’t be any more farmers in the future but only farming corporations.
7. It goes back to Wall Street because big Ag is commodities.<p>I am a small scale farmer interested in small acreage Ag robotics to save labour. But no one was interested even though food is important and Ag is a big deal in the USA.<p>No investors, no traction, no interest and I have no qualms about cold calling...and down that rabbit hole, I found out that diff between food farming and commodity crop farming.<p>In reality, there is no agtech for food farming. In the USA anyways. Agtech is about land, inputs and mostly commodity crops. And speculation markets.<p>I don’t have an opinion. Maybe this is more efficient. Maybe it’s not a good idea. And this kind of Ag isn’t even what I am interested in and I just stumbled upon this while trying to figure why Agtech is such a big deal but I can’t find interest in automating food production.<p>It is pretty fascinating how Big Ag has managed to consolidate and rein in together. The players are still the same and it’s a few big corporations that will control this sector.<p>Many of the players and VC companies and start ups are well known but it’s not really necessary to drop those names. But anyone can connect the dots if they invested some time. It is literally a web ..six degrees and all that.<p>Back to the article, expect ‘family farmers’ to be separated from their land in the near and near-distant future. Already a lot of American farmland is owned by foreign countries&#x2F;investors, pension funds, insurance companies, university wealth funds and hedge funds.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kitotik</author><text>Thanks for the extremely insightful context.<p>With so much first-hand knowledge of this situation, I’m having a hard time processing how you don’t have an opinion on it. It seems that this is exceedingly detrimental to the well being of literally everyone and everything involved except for those that profit from it.</text></comment> |
15,190,784 | 15,190,739 | 1 | 2 | 15,190,199 | train | <story><title>Bringing back the iPhone headphone jack, in China</title><url>https://strangeparts.com/bringing-back-the-iphone-headphone-jack-in-china/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>fifnir</author><text>You should check his video on this, the guy also casually bought a dremmel, a printer and a fucking microscope (stereoscope?) in the process of making this....</text></item><item><author>Kluny</author><text>&gt; I went through a ton of iterations and debugging to get this to work. The hardest parts were the electrical design and getting everything to fit inside the phone.<p>Crikey! How many iphones did he drill holes in?<p>&gt; I also ended up having to buy lots, and lots, and lots of spare parts. I went through 3 complete iPhone 7s, a handful of screens, and countless internal components (mostly bottom cable assemblies and taptic engines).<p>3. Ok, that&#x27;s dedication.<p>&gt; I feel like I got extremely lucky about finding space inside the phone. There was inexplicably a lot of extra room in the lower left hand corner, right where I wanted to put the headphone jack.<p>Suspicious... almost like their engineers left room to change their minds about the jack at the last second if they wanted to :)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>theshrike79</author><text>But these are Shenzhen prices, not western retail prices.<p>I&#x27;m pretty sure that &quot;Dremel&quot; didn&#x27;t cost him much over $10.</text></comment> | <story><title>Bringing back the iPhone headphone jack, in China</title><url>https://strangeparts.com/bringing-back-the-iphone-headphone-jack-in-china/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>fifnir</author><text>You should check his video on this, the guy also casually bought a dremmel, a printer and a fucking microscope (stereoscope?) in the process of making this....</text></item><item><author>Kluny</author><text>&gt; I went through a ton of iterations and debugging to get this to work. The hardest parts were the electrical design and getting everything to fit inside the phone.<p>Crikey! How many iphones did he drill holes in?<p>&gt; I also ended up having to buy lots, and lots, and lots of spare parts. I went through 3 complete iPhone 7s, a handful of screens, and countless internal components (mostly bottom cable assemblies and taptic engines).<p>3. Ok, that&#x27;s dedication.<p>&gt; I feel like I got extremely lucky about finding space inside the phone. There was inexplicably a lot of extra room in the lower left hand corner, right where I wanted to put the headphone jack.<p>Suspicious... almost like their engineers left room to change their minds about the jack at the last second if they wanted to :)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>maxerickson</author><text>On reddit he mentions shooting 225 hours of footage:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;videos&#x2F;comments&#x2F;6ygqxk&#x2F;guy_who_made_his_own_iphone_brings_35mm_jack_back&#x2F;dmnutr2&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;videos&#x2F;comments&#x2F;6ygqxk&#x2F;guy_who_made...</a></text></comment> |
32,688,639 | 32,688,149 | 1 | 3 | 32,687,784 | train | <story><title>John A Phillips</title><url>https://nuclearprinceton.princeton.edu/people/john-phillips-1955-present</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>alkonaut</author><text>If you just want a bad atomic bomb, isn&#x27;t it enough to put 2 chunks of fissile (enough) material at either end of a very thick steel tube and shoot them together using explosives? The question is how you use $2k to buy or produce the fissile material, because if the BOM was really $2k including &quot;weapons grade&quot; fissile material then the interesting question is how to get the fissile material that cheaply.<p>If the BOM is $2k <i>excluding</i> the fissile material then... is that really surprising? I thought crude bomb designs were pretty easy to create if you have no interest in maximizing yield or minimizing how dirty the bomb gets?</text></comment> | <story><title>John A Phillips</title><url>https://nuclearprinceton.princeton.edu/people/john-phillips-1955-present</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>danbruc</author><text>... if you happen to have a critical mass of enriched Uranium [1] laying around in your garage.<p>[1] Preferably not in a single lump.</text></comment> |
40,191,907 | 40,190,213 | 1 | 3 | 40,190,136 | train | <story><title>The AI expert who cited himself thousands of times on scientific paper</title><url>https://english.elpais.com/science-tech/2024-04-26/the-seven-lies-of-the-ai-expert-who-cited-himself-thousands-of-times-on-scientific-papers.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>limaoscarjuliet</author><text>When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Goodhart%27s_law" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Goodhart%27s_law</a></text></comment> | <story><title>The AI expert who cited himself thousands of times on scientific paper</title><url>https://english.elpais.com/science-tech/2024-04-26/the-seven-lies-of-the-ai-expert-who-cited-himself-thousands-of-times-on-scientific-papers.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>hilux</author><text>This guy, David Sinclair at Harvard, Marc T-L at Stanford ... disappointing but not entirely surprising that even in academia the spoils go to the scammers.</text></comment> |
32,928,666 | 32,927,439 | 1 | 2 | 32,926,073 | train | <story><title>Getty Images bans AI-generated content over fears of copyright claims</title><url>https://www.theverge.com/2022/9/21/23364696/getty-images-ai-ban-generated-artwork-illustration-copyright</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jfoster</author><text>Reading between the lines of this, it sounds to me like Getty is preparing a copyright claim against the AI companies:<p>1. They seem of the opinion that the copyright question is open.<p>2. Their business stands to lose substantially as a result of such models existing.<p>3. It would be a bad look for them to make a claim whilst simultaneously accepting works from the models into Getty.<p>4. At least some of their watermarked content seems to have been included in the training data of the OpenAI model: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=32573523" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=32573523</a><p>If I&#x27;m correct about that, they will probably not settle, as their business was likely worth substantially more than any feasible settlement arrangement.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ar-nelson</author><text>I&#x27;ve seen a lot of confidence on HN and other tech communities that a court would never rule that training an AI on copyrighted images is infringement, but I&#x27;m not so sure. To be clear, I hope that training AI on copyrighted images remains legal, because it would cripple the field of AI text and image generation if it wasn&#x27;t!<p>But think about these similar hypotheticals:<p>1. I take a copyrighted Getty stock image (that I don&#x27;t own, maybe even watermarked), blur it with a strong Gaussian blur filter until it&#x27;s unrecognizable, and use it as the background of an otherwise original digital painting.<p>2. I take a small GPL project on GitHub, manually translate it from C to Python (so that the resulting code does not contain a single line of code identical to the original), then redistribute the translated project under a GPL-incompatible license without acknowledging the original.<p>Are these infringements?<p>In both of these cases, a copyrighted original work is transformed and incorporated into a different work in such a way that the original could not be reconstructed. But, intuitively, both cases <i>feel</i> like infringement. I don&#x27;t know how a court would rule, but there&#x27;s at least some chance these would be infringements, and they&#x27;re conceptually not too different from distilling an image into an AI model and generating something new based on it.</text></comment> | <story><title>Getty Images bans AI-generated content over fears of copyright claims</title><url>https://www.theverge.com/2022/9/21/23364696/getty-images-ai-ban-generated-artwork-illustration-copyright</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jfoster</author><text>Reading between the lines of this, it sounds to me like Getty is preparing a copyright claim against the AI companies:<p>1. They seem of the opinion that the copyright question is open.<p>2. Their business stands to lose substantially as a result of such models existing.<p>3. It would be a bad look for them to make a claim whilst simultaneously accepting works from the models into Getty.<p>4. At least some of their watermarked content seems to have been included in the training data of the OpenAI model: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=32573523" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=32573523</a><p>If I&#x27;m correct about that, they will probably not settle, as their business was likely worth substantially more than any feasible settlement arrangement.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>wnevets</author><text>&gt; 1. They seem of the opinion that the copyright question is open.<p>I&#x27;m surprised it has taken this long to be honest. I&#x27;ve seen generated images with the blurred Getty watermark on them.</text></comment> |
5,401,051 | 5,401,009 | 1 | 3 | 5,400,087 | train | <story><title>Why do we eat grains? Thermodynamics</title><url>http://supplementsos.com/blog/why-do-we-eat-grains/</url><text></text></story><parent_chain><item><author>Irregardless</author><text>&#62; Eating fewer grain products is not synonymous with popular diets like low-carb or gluten-free. It needn’t be borne by commitment to a food movement like paleo.<p>Sure, it doesn't <i>need</i> to be related to the Paleo diet, but that's still where it all stems from. It's the same as any other fad diet or pseudoscience: Come up with some reasonable-sounding claims that take advantage of poor scientific awareness (e.g. <i>10,000 years isn't enough time for humans to adapt to eating grains, so we should eat like cave men instead</i>), then make millions of dollars promoting your diet and selling books to your unquestioning followers.<p>There's a common sentiment among Paleo zealots that they finally need to distance themselves from the irrational underpinnings that started the whole fad (see here[1] for a FAQ by the 'Paleo diet' inventor). The problem arises when they go searching for scientific evidence to support their grain bashing, and then we end up with statements like this:<p>&#62; It can stem from the simple proposition that fruits and vegetables are generally healthier to eat than grains. That’s an argument I’ll cover more deeply in later posts.<p>Oh, how convenient. Save the crux of the argument for another time. We'll all be patiently holding our breath.<p>[1] <a href="http://thepaleodiet.com/paleo-diet-faq/" rel="nofollow">http://thepaleodiet.com/paleo-diet-faq/</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>potatolicious</author><text>I don't see a paleo slant to this at all.<p>&#62; <i>"(e.g. 10,000 years isn't enough time for humans to adapt to eating grains, so we should eat like cave men instead)"</i><p>This is a common claim by paleo supporters, but I don't see it in the article.<p>If anything the approach is the opposite: carbs are fine, but they are calorie-dense. In an era where we're over-consuming calories it makes sense to start cutting the most calorie-dense (and also least filling) foods first.<p>As someone who went to Fat Class when he was a kid, this has been accepted practice for dietitians for years. If you're over-consuming, you want to optimize for a balance of the amount of calories reduced vs. the amount of hunger increased. Leaving oneself hungry is the surest way to fall of a diet-change wagon - and cheap sugars give the "worst" combination of fillingness vs. calories consumed (it would be best if we actually needed said calories).<p>The argument doesn't stem from some pseudoscientific belief that some foods are magically worse than others for inscrutable reasons like inverting the polaron field. It makes its argument from the (typically anti-paleo) stance that all foods are (more or less equal) and calories are the primary concern.</text></comment> | <story><title>Why do we eat grains? Thermodynamics</title><url>http://supplementsos.com/blog/why-do-we-eat-grains/</url><text></text></story><parent_chain><item><author>Irregardless</author><text>&#62; Eating fewer grain products is not synonymous with popular diets like low-carb or gluten-free. It needn’t be borne by commitment to a food movement like paleo.<p>Sure, it doesn't <i>need</i> to be related to the Paleo diet, but that's still where it all stems from. It's the same as any other fad diet or pseudoscience: Come up with some reasonable-sounding claims that take advantage of poor scientific awareness (e.g. <i>10,000 years isn't enough time for humans to adapt to eating grains, so we should eat like cave men instead</i>), then make millions of dollars promoting your diet and selling books to your unquestioning followers.<p>There's a common sentiment among Paleo zealots that they finally need to distance themselves from the irrational underpinnings that started the whole fad (see here[1] for a FAQ by the 'Paleo diet' inventor). The problem arises when they go searching for scientific evidence to support their grain bashing, and then we end up with statements like this:<p>&#62; It can stem from the simple proposition that fruits and vegetables are generally healthier to eat than grains. That’s an argument I’ll cover more deeply in later posts.<p>Oh, how convenient. Save the crux of the argument for another time. We'll all be patiently holding our breath.<p>[1] <a href="http://thepaleodiet.com/paleo-diet-faq/" rel="nofollow">http://thepaleodiet.com/paleo-diet-faq/</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>michaelkeenan</author><text>&#62; 10,000 years isn't enough time for humans to adapt to eating grains, so we should eat like cave men instead<p>One of the details of that argument is that grains contain phytic acid[1], which humans can't digest. Phytic acid binds with important minerals, such as calcium, magnesium, iron, and zinc, making them unavailable when digested. Cows, sheep, goats, and other non-humans produce various phytases, enzymes that digest phytic acid, but humans don't. Some people (such as Marlene Zuk, author of Paleofantasy, recently linked on HN) say that 10,000 years is enough to adapt to a new food, and cite lactose tolerance as an example. But lactose tolerance is the result of a single SNP, which can occur in at least two places. To digest phytic acid, humans would need to evolve a whole new enzyme. You need more than 10,000 years for that.<p>[1] <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phytic_acid" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phytic_acid</a></text></comment> |
12,307,995 | 12,307,312 | 1 | 3 | 12,306,844 | train | <story><title>Humble Book Bundle: The Joy of Coding</title><url>https://www.humblebundle.com/books/joy-of-coding-book-bundle</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>qwertyuiop924</author><text>Having read several of these, I know they&#x27;re good.<p>LYAH and LYSE are both VERY good. Like, really, really good. They are free, but if they weren&#x27;t, they&#x27;d make this bundle worth it on their own.<p>Likewise, The Land of Lisp and The Realm of Racket are great if you want to <i>think</i> like a Lisper&#x2F;Schemer. TLOL, however, is a better book, covering (I think) more stuff. TROR also suffers a library dependance, but I don&#x27;t especially LIKE Racket, so take this with a grain of salt.<p>If Hemmingway Wrote Javascript is an excellent exploration. You&#x27;ll see a variety of code, some good, some bad, some smart, some dumb, and all of it mind-expanding and entertaining. It demonstrates Javascript&#x27;s remarkable flexability, and argues that there is no one way to write good JS: you should use the right tool for the job. It doesn&#x27;t substantiate this well, but it&#x27;s fun all the same.<p>I&#x27;ve heard good things about EQJS, and Write Good Code looks interesting, but I haven&#x27;t read any of them, so I cannot pass judgement.<p>But honestly, most of NoStarch&#x27;s stuff is pretty good. Not as consistently good as O&#x27;Reilley, but their best stuff is better than O&#x27;Reilley, although not as good as MITPress.<p>Seriously, if you&#x27;re ever in Camebridge, visit the MITPress bookstore. It&#x27;s full of good books, Has excellent staff, and sells off slightly damaged books at discounts that aren&#x27;t even funny. And even without the discount, it&#x27;s much cheaper than buying their stuff online.<p>&#x2F;shameless-plug</text></comment> | <story><title>Humble Book Bundle: The Joy of Coding</title><url>https://www.humblebundle.com/books/joy-of-coding-book-bundle</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>yojex</author><text>I would gladly pay for a higher tier (at least $50) that ships you physical copies of these books.</text></comment> |
34,428,577 | 34,428,796 | 1 | 2 | 34,426,421 | train | <story><title>OpenAI used Kenyan workers on less than $2 per hour to make ChatGPT less toxic</title><url>https://time.com/6247678/openai-chatgpt-kenya-workers/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dylan604</author><text>I&#x27;ve heard arguments in the past of paying &quot;acceptable&quot; US wages to people in other countries would destabilize the other country more than it would help. I&#x27;m not an economist, so I don&#x27;t know how valid those arguments are. I have always thought they were more scare tactics used in favor of being able to pay those low wages for as long as they could get away with it. I could see though how paying a small-ish number of people wages that dwarfs the larger number of people could cause a bit of turmoil.<p>to me, it goes back to the argument about remote workers should be paid less than the in office worker. or workers living in cheaper areas should be paid less than those living in expensive areas. to me, the salary should be paying for the work being done and that&#x27;s it. if the same level of work is being done by both employees, it shouldn&#x27;t matter if one is in Kenya and the other is in the US. the value of the work is what should be getting compensated. again though, i&#x27;m no economist.</text></item><item><author>yawboakye</author><text>fellow african here, with a few questions.<p>could the average income in kenya be around $1.25 because companies decide to pay abysmally? or the people don&#x27;t merit any higher? would openai be offending the kenyans if they paid them, say, $5&#x2F;hour? i think this is the question you should grapple with. openai will be selling this tech around the world, and i wonder if these $2&#x2F;hr workers can afford it at all. would they, or their loved ones, be able to enjoy produce of their labor?</text></item><item><author>Ombudsman</author><text>To put it in perspective, the average income in Kenya is around $1.25 an hour and tbh (as a Kenyan) I really can&#x27;t see it as a bad thing. A lot of people here live in abject poverty, they live in situations you can&#x27;t really begin to imagine. So any sort of help coming our way is good.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>NickC25</author><text>&gt;<i>I&#x27;ve heard arguments in the past of paying &quot;acceptable&quot; US wages to people in other countries would destabilize the other country more than it would help.</i><p>Which honestly is a bullshit argument. The only destabilizing thing here is it would make the person in the higher-paying profession more valuable to society and more able to make economic impact where it might not normally. In this case, a rising tide does lift all boats...because you&#x27;re giving more economic purchasing power to more people. Will this kill some businesses or disrupt the status quo? Yeah. Will it help more people than it hurts? Maybe, probably, who knows? But I personally see no problem with paying people relative to their output, no matter where in the world they are.<p>Having been to Kenya myself and worked with Kenyan developers for several years, most of whom were quite talented, I see absolutely no problem with paying them their value relative to the work being done. I have no problem with high skilled Kenyans making much more than the local average because they have a skill that is in demand all around the world.<p>&gt;<i>the salary should be paying for the work being done and that&#x27;s it</i><p>100% agree. If a business derives $X profit from a laborer and agrees to pay a given % of $X to the laborer as compensation, it should not matter if the laborer is in a high cost or low cost of living area - the business still makes the same amount in profit, and shouldn&#x27;t get to say &quot;hey yeah we made $10mm off your application, but we&#x27;re going to only pay you 5% of our profits as compensation because you live in Bangladesh and the cost of living is lower, so be happy with what we&#x27;re giving you&quot; when if you did the exact same labor and lived in, say, LA or NYC, they&#x27;d give you 10%. Just bullshit IMO.</text></comment> | <story><title>OpenAI used Kenyan workers on less than $2 per hour to make ChatGPT less toxic</title><url>https://time.com/6247678/openai-chatgpt-kenya-workers/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dylan604</author><text>I&#x27;ve heard arguments in the past of paying &quot;acceptable&quot; US wages to people in other countries would destabilize the other country more than it would help. I&#x27;m not an economist, so I don&#x27;t know how valid those arguments are. I have always thought they were more scare tactics used in favor of being able to pay those low wages for as long as they could get away with it. I could see though how paying a small-ish number of people wages that dwarfs the larger number of people could cause a bit of turmoil.<p>to me, it goes back to the argument about remote workers should be paid less than the in office worker. or workers living in cheaper areas should be paid less than those living in expensive areas. to me, the salary should be paying for the work being done and that&#x27;s it. if the same level of work is being done by both employees, it shouldn&#x27;t matter if one is in Kenya and the other is in the US. the value of the work is what should be getting compensated. again though, i&#x27;m no economist.</text></item><item><author>yawboakye</author><text>fellow african here, with a few questions.<p>could the average income in kenya be around $1.25 because companies decide to pay abysmally? or the people don&#x27;t merit any higher? would openai be offending the kenyans if they paid them, say, $5&#x2F;hour? i think this is the question you should grapple with. openai will be selling this tech around the world, and i wonder if these $2&#x2F;hr workers can afford it at all. would they, or their loved ones, be able to enjoy produce of their labor?</text></item><item><author>Ombudsman</author><text>To put it in perspective, the average income in Kenya is around $1.25 an hour and tbh (as a Kenyan) I really can&#x27;t see it as a bad thing. A lot of people here live in abject poverty, they live in situations you can&#x27;t really begin to imagine. So any sort of help coming our way is good.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>blagie</author><text>The basic argument is a little bit different. There is a huge population in Kenya living, or in some places, failing to live for under $2&#x2F;day. Most of these people are independent -- for example, street-side sellers in an urban slum, or living in a village far from Nairobi.<p>The key question is how we improve lives of these people.<p>It is difficult for me to overstate the impact a 5-fold improvement in income has on people&#x27;s lives. I&#x27;ve seen initiatives which train people to do tasks like basic data entry, bricklaying, or otherwise, taking $2&#x2F;day workers to be $10&#x2F;day workers. Programs like these are typically a few months long. They don&#x27;t train people to have the equivalent of even a middle school diploma, and they won&#x27;t be competitive with even the least educated Western workers.<p>Still, breaking generational poverty is a long process, and that basic increased stability is a first step.<p>If we shut off employment paths following those programs by giving bad PR to anyone who employs people for $2&#x2F;hour, we&#x27;ve doomed a key pathway for hundreds of millions of people to escape abject poverty.<p>Gapminder shows four income levels:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.gapminder.org&#x2F;fw&#x2F;income-levels&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.gapminder.org&#x2F;fw&#x2F;income-levels&#x2F;</a><p>Westerners tend to group levels 1-3 together. However, the gap in quality-of-life from level 1 to level 2 is much greater than the rest of the stack. Level 1, life basically sucks. Hunger, lack of basic life-saving medicine, and early death.<p>Levels 2-4, I&#x27;ve lived at (for at least a few months), and it&#x27;s okay once you get used to it.<p>It takes surprisingly little to bring people from 1 to 2, and these sorts of jobs are one way to do that.<p>As a footnote: People often confuse financial stress with simply being poor, since in the US, those correlate almost completely. Financial stress sucks. Most people worldwide living at levels 2-3 don&#x27;t have high levels of financial stress. A much more typical situation is a village, where no one has a lot of stuff, but people own the land and their homes. Financial stress sucks. I&#x27;d rather own a home at Level 3, with savings, a stable family, income, etc. than live paycheck-to-paycheck at Level 4.</text></comment> |
23,668,607 | 23,668,761 | 1 | 2 | 23,668,110 | train | <story><title>The CDC lost control of the coronavirus pandemic, then the agency disappeared</title><url>https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/danvergano/cdc-coronavirus-containment-redfield</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rayiner</author><text>Militaries are reliant on domestic production and labor. (Paying Chinese solider costs the government a fraction as much as an American soldier.) So instead of an exchange rate conversion, you should be doing a purchasing-power conversion. For these three countries, that means multiplying by 2x to 4x.<p>Also, the US is particularly inefficient at capital spending. It costs us a billion dollars to build a mile of subway, and costs countries like France a fraction of that. So that weighs further in favor of discounting our spending in that comparison.</text></item><item><author>chmod775</author><text>I don&#x27;t think spending more on military than the next 10 countries combined can be described as &quot;only&quot; in any way.<p>The highest spender are the US, with $732.0 billion, followed by China with $261.0 billion, then India and Russia with $71.1 and $65.1 billion respectively.</text></item><item><author>ransom1538</author><text>I love this &quot;half of annual discretionary spending&quot;. It is designed to confuse the fact that military spending is only %15. [1]<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.kff.org&#x2F;medicare&#x2F;issue-brief&#x2F;the-facts-on-medicare-spending-and-financing&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.kff.org&#x2F;medicare&#x2F;issue-brief&#x2F;the-facts-on-medica...</a></text></item><item><author>icegreentea2</author><text>I think you&#x27;d make a stronger argument by instead of making a military or other things argument, and just make a &#x27;fund other things more&#x27; argument.<p>The reason I think you should stay away from pointing fingers, especially at a relatively divisive issue like military or especially aircraft carrier funding is because then you shift a question of &quot;should American be world leading in commercial air travel regulation, pandemic prevention and control, and medical development&quot; to a far more complex one of what America&#x27;s role in the world should be.<p>The combined CDC, FDA and FAA budget is something like 35 billion dollars a year. Overall DOD budget is is nearly 700 billion, making up nearly half of annual discretionary spending (roughly 1.5 trillion). You could literally double the funding of those three agencies and barely budge the overall calculus of the budget.<p>Edit&#x2F;Add-on: I think the whole sub-thread under my comment (my bad =&#x2F; - I get the irony...) is an example of the types of distractions that might be avoidable if you don&#x27;t scope military spending into discussions.</text></item><item><author>vikramkr</author><text>Over the past few years a series of American agencies have lost their reputation and world standing. The FAA with the 737 max, the CDC with the test, the FDA with testing regulation and hydroxychloroquine. Its important to have institutions that work, but we&#x27;ve spent years deliberately gutting them and undervaluing them. All that money spent on the military and homeland security, and in the end we were caught utterly unprepared for the greatest national security threat of the past few decades. Even though we have more aircraft carriers than makes sense to have, we&#x27;d rather build another one than invest in crucial infrastructure such as strong regulatory agencies and science infrastructure. And we get to pay the price of those misplaced priorities as we barrel towards 200,000 dead. Hopefully this serves as a sort of wakeup call.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>CydeWeys</author><text>The majority of DoD&#x27;s budget is not salaries. Only the salaries should be scaled in this way.<p>E.g. many other countries are buying our F-35s at the same price we are. Other countries simply can&#x27;t get equally effective jet fighters, aircraft carriers, etc., at a third to a quarter of the price.</text></comment> | <story><title>The CDC lost control of the coronavirus pandemic, then the agency disappeared</title><url>https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/danvergano/cdc-coronavirus-containment-redfield</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rayiner</author><text>Militaries are reliant on domestic production and labor. (Paying Chinese solider costs the government a fraction as much as an American soldier.) So instead of an exchange rate conversion, you should be doing a purchasing-power conversion. For these three countries, that means multiplying by 2x to 4x.<p>Also, the US is particularly inefficient at capital spending. It costs us a billion dollars to build a mile of subway, and costs countries like France a fraction of that. So that weighs further in favor of discounting our spending in that comparison.</text></item><item><author>chmod775</author><text>I don&#x27;t think spending more on military than the next 10 countries combined can be described as &quot;only&quot; in any way.<p>The highest spender are the US, with $732.0 billion, followed by China with $261.0 billion, then India and Russia with $71.1 and $65.1 billion respectively.</text></item><item><author>ransom1538</author><text>I love this &quot;half of annual discretionary spending&quot;. It is designed to confuse the fact that military spending is only %15. [1]<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.kff.org&#x2F;medicare&#x2F;issue-brief&#x2F;the-facts-on-medicare-spending-and-financing&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.kff.org&#x2F;medicare&#x2F;issue-brief&#x2F;the-facts-on-medica...</a></text></item><item><author>icegreentea2</author><text>I think you&#x27;d make a stronger argument by instead of making a military or other things argument, and just make a &#x27;fund other things more&#x27; argument.<p>The reason I think you should stay away from pointing fingers, especially at a relatively divisive issue like military or especially aircraft carrier funding is because then you shift a question of &quot;should American be world leading in commercial air travel regulation, pandemic prevention and control, and medical development&quot; to a far more complex one of what America&#x27;s role in the world should be.<p>The combined CDC, FDA and FAA budget is something like 35 billion dollars a year. Overall DOD budget is is nearly 700 billion, making up nearly half of annual discretionary spending (roughly 1.5 trillion). You could literally double the funding of those three agencies and barely budge the overall calculus of the budget.<p>Edit&#x2F;Add-on: I think the whole sub-thread under my comment (my bad =&#x2F; - I get the irony...) is an example of the types of distractions that might be avoidable if you don&#x27;t scope military spending into discussions.</text></item><item><author>vikramkr</author><text>Over the past few years a series of American agencies have lost their reputation and world standing. The FAA with the 737 max, the CDC with the test, the FDA with testing regulation and hydroxychloroquine. Its important to have institutions that work, but we&#x27;ve spent years deliberately gutting them and undervaluing them. All that money spent on the military and homeland security, and in the end we were caught utterly unprepared for the greatest national security threat of the past few decades. Even though we have more aircraft carriers than makes sense to have, we&#x27;d rather build another one than invest in crucial infrastructure such as strong regulatory agencies and science infrastructure. And we get to pay the price of those misplaced priorities as we barrel towards 200,000 dead. Hopefully this serves as a sort of wakeup call.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>fauigerzigerk</author><text><i>&gt;So instead of an exchange rate conversion, you should be doing a purchasing-power conversion. For these three countries, that means multiplying by 3x or 4x.</i><p>Where did you get those numbers from? According to the OECD the renminbi PPP rate is 4.198 whereas the the current exchange rate is 7. That&#x27;s 1.67x not 3x.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;data.oecd.org&#x2F;conversion&#x2F;purchasing-power-parities-ppp.htm" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;data.oecd.org&#x2F;conversion&#x2F;purchasing-power-parities-p...</a></text></comment> |
27,429,491 | 27,426,407 | 1 | 3 | 27,425,622 | train | <story><title>FaceTime is coming to Android and Windows via the web</title><url>https://www.theverge.com/2021/6/7/22522889/apple-facetime-android-windows-web-ios-15-wwdc</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>kevincox</author><text>Wow. That is unexpected. I have to say that FaceTime in a browser sandbox is one of the few Apple products I would consider using. I wonder what made them take this path?<p>I also wonder if someone could build a Matrix bridge if it is available via web, that would be fairly cool.<p>Some questions:<p>- Is it phone-number based IDs? Or can I pick a username or get a random ID?<p>- Is spam going to be a problem? Previous Apple had the advantage that you had to buy a multi-hundred dollar advice to call someone. Will they need to implement new spam measures (or will you simply have to add a contact first)?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>axiosgunnar</author><text>&gt; I wonder what made them take this path?<p>Very simple.<p>Video conferencing software has an anti-network effect:<p>If just one person in a group cannot use a particular app, nobody in the group can.</text></comment> | <story><title>FaceTime is coming to Android and Windows via the web</title><url>https://www.theverge.com/2021/6/7/22522889/apple-facetime-android-windows-web-ios-15-wwdc</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>kevincox</author><text>Wow. That is unexpected. I have to say that FaceTime in a browser sandbox is one of the few Apple products I would consider using. I wonder what made them take this path?<p>I also wonder if someone could build a Matrix bridge if it is available via web, that would be fairly cool.<p>Some questions:<p>- Is it phone-number based IDs? Or can I pick a username or get a random ID?<p>- Is spam going to be a problem? Previous Apple had the advantage that you had to buy a multi-hundred dollar advice to call someone. Will they need to implement new spam measures (or will you simply have to add a contact first)?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kwanbix</author><text>This is a honest question, so, what is so good about FaceTime? I have not used an iPhone since version 3GS, so it has been a while, but I understand it is just something similar to whatsapp video calls, google meet, or even zoom?</text></comment> |
18,998,076 | 18,998,052 | 1 | 2 | 18,997,670 | train | <story><title>The pros and cons of placebo buttons</title><url>https://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/2019/01/26/the-pros-and-cons-of-placebo-buttons</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>_bxg1</author><text>This makes me so annoyed. I much prefer ones without buttons because I don&#x27;t have to mess with it; when there is a button, I assume I have to go over and press it, but it sounds like in some cases I don&#x27;t (for a while now I&#x27;ve suspected them to be pointless). But there&#x27;s no way to tell the difference so I still have to everywhere.</text></comment> | <story><title>The pros and cons of placebo buttons</title><url>https://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/2019/01/26/the-pros-and-cons-of-placebo-buttons</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jkingsbery</author><text>I work in New York, but I go to Seattle periodically because that&#x27;s where my company&#x27;s headquarters is. How people treat the buttons is wildly different between those two cities. I hardly ever see anyone press the cross button in NY, since the convention is to wait for there to be no cars and then cross (and not bother with the button). In Seattle, I&#x27;ve seen people wait patiently at a cross walk even though there&#x27;s no cars anywhere in sight.<p>I would imagine rather than a placebo effect, it&#x27;s more of a self-selection phenomenon - rather than pressing a button making people more patient, the people who are more likely to follow &quot;the rules&quot; are more likely to press the button. And even if there is hypothetically a placebo effect, the result would be irrelevant if almost no one presses the button.</text></comment> |
3,268,970 | 3,268,389 | 1 | 2 | 3,268,045 | train | <story><title>Apache considered harmful</title><url>http://www.mikealrogers.com/posts/apache-considered-harmful.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jaaron</author><text>Ok, there's a lot to cover here.<p>First off, the Apache Software Foundation isn't trying to absorb anyone or anything. Projects and people come to the ASF. It's a specific policy of the Foundation to NOT solicit projects. If someone says they're representing Apache and soliciting projects, they're wrong.<p>Secondly, Apache is very opinionated about how projects should be run. This comes from years of experience as not only a successful project, but as a successful non-profit organization overseeing dozens of projects. If a community doesn't like the ASF's style or rules (such as no dictators, benevolent or otherwise), they don't need to be there. No one wants to keep projects hostage. Part of the point of the Incubator is to get this figured out earlier than later.<p>Thirdly, about git and subversion. First off, there's increasing support for git at Apache (see <a href="http://git.apache.org/" rel="nofollow">http://git.apache.org/</a>) but there are some serious drawbacks for use of git. Consider this: subversion was practically made for Apache in the way Linus made git for Linux. With that in mind, subversion isn't going anywhere at the ASF. Some of the rational is just plain stubbornness, but some of it goes straight to the core values of the Foundation.<p>Apache has become, for better or worse, the place where lots of projects go when they grow up. Growing up is hard to do. It's not fun. You have to do things like get a job, pay taxes, etc. When a project grows up, people start caring about who contributed what, under which license and making sure every line of code is legit. A lot of engineers don't care about this, but businesses and their lawyers do. A lot of the Apache Foundation "bureaucracy" is to handle this oversight and paperwork.<p>Git is an impressive tool and github is awesome for what it is, but it's not a non-profit foundation and it won't replace one. Confusing the Apache Software Foundation for your coding sandbox only suggests you don't understand the true purpose of either.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dscape</author><text>[this text was written by mikeal originally here but somehow got censored. gist exactly as he wrote it <a href="https://gist.github.com/1387977" rel="nofollow">https://gist.github.com/1387977</a>]<p>This is perhaps the most depressing response I've received to my article.<p>As I said in my article this is far less about git and more about the chasm that has grown between Apache and the rest of the community.<p>Your first two points boil down to "nobody makes you join Apache, if you don't like our policies then you can get out". How does this help Apache or its projects?<p>Apache could still be valuable to the community but this kind of stubborn attitude will insure that it continues to become irrelevant when it could be a leader.<p>I do understand the purpose of Apache and it is not hosting source code. That is the point I'm trying to make. If that is not its value, and its policies around hosting that source are no longer beneficial to its projects, then it should change its policy.<p>I think that you, and many people in the ASF, have married the existing policies of Apache with the purposes for which they were created. While the intentions of the policies may still be relevant, and in my opinion correct, the policies themselves will not remain relevant forever in a field as rapidly evolving as technology and GitHub may just be the first example of Apache policy incompatibility with evolution of open source.</text></comment> | <story><title>Apache considered harmful</title><url>http://www.mikealrogers.com/posts/apache-considered-harmful.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jaaron</author><text>Ok, there's a lot to cover here.<p>First off, the Apache Software Foundation isn't trying to absorb anyone or anything. Projects and people come to the ASF. It's a specific policy of the Foundation to NOT solicit projects. If someone says they're representing Apache and soliciting projects, they're wrong.<p>Secondly, Apache is very opinionated about how projects should be run. This comes from years of experience as not only a successful project, but as a successful non-profit organization overseeing dozens of projects. If a community doesn't like the ASF's style or rules (such as no dictators, benevolent or otherwise), they don't need to be there. No one wants to keep projects hostage. Part of the point of the Incubator is to get this figured out earlier than later.<p>Thirdly, about git and subversion. First off, there's increasing support for git at Apache (see <a href="http://git.apache.org/" rel="nofollow">http://git.apache.org/</a>) but there are some serious drawbacks for use of git. Consider this: subversion was practically made for Apache in the way Linus made git for Linux. With that in mind, subversion isn't going anywhere at the ASF. Some of the rational is just plain stubbornness, but some of it goes straight to the core values of the Foundation.<p>Apache has become, for better or worse, the place where lots of projects go when they grow up. Growing up is hard to do. It's not fun. You have to do things like get a job, pay taxes, etc. When a project grows up, people start caring about who contributed what, under which license and making sure every line of code is legit. A lot of engineers don't care about this, but businesses and their lawyers do. A lot of the Apache Foundation "bureaucracy" is to handle this oversight and paperwork.<p>Git is an impressive tool and github is awesome for what it is, but it's not a non-profit foundation and it won't replace one. Confusing the Apache Software Foundation for your coding sandbox only suggests you don't understand the true purpose of either.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>buff-a</author><text>There's no reason apache can't maintain its own "legally authorative" git repo. Nothing in the authors post suggest that he is confusing the ASF with a "coding sandbox". Making that claim suggests to me that you are invested in the alternative and not thinking objectively.<p>And I disagree about subversion being "made for Apache in the way Linus made git for Linux". Subversion is an utterly derivative implementation of any server based VCS in existence, where as git is an example of truly creative thought (not just from Linus) about what VCS should be for a large community that requires the accountability that you claim ASF requires.</text></comment> |
6,794,952 | 6,795,006 | 1 | 3 | 6,794,122 | train | <story><title>FDA Warning Letter to 23andMe</title><url>http://www.fda.gov/ICECI/EnforcementActions/WarningLetters/2013/ucm376296.htm</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jfasi</author><text>This seems absolutely reasonable. The letter indicates that the FDA has notified 23andMe that their products are not satisfactorily cleared, they&#x27;re reached out to them several times, and they&#x27;ve offered assistance through a group they specifically set up to help companies in this situation.<p>Meanwhile, 23andMe went ahead and began marketing and selling their product, despite the FDA&#x27;s concerns.<p>Relevant quotes:<p>&gt; Most of these uses have not been classified and thus require premarket approval or de novo classification, as FDA has explained to you on numerous occasions.<p>&gt; However, to date, your company has failed to address the issues described during previous interactions with the Agency or provide the additional information identified in our September 13, 2012 letter for (b)(4) and in our November 20, 2012 letter<p>&gt; To date, 23andMe has failed to provide adequate information to support a determination that the PGS is substantially equivalent to a legally marketed predicate for any of the uses for which you are marketing it; ...<p>&gt; ...we have proposed modifications to the device’s labeling that could mitigate risks and render certain intended uses appropriate for de novo classification.<p>&gt; As part of our interactions with you, including more than 14 face-to-face and teleconference meetings, hundreds of email exchanges, and dozens of written communications, we provided you with specific feedback on study protocols and clinical and analytical validation requirements, discussed potential classifications and regulatory pathways (including reasonable submission timelines), provided statistical advice, and discussed potential risk mitigation strategies...<p>&gt; Thus, months after you submitted your 510(k)s and more than 5 years after you began marketing, you still had not completed some of the studies and had not even started other studies necessary to support a marketing submission for the PGS.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jxf</author><text>If you look at the FDA&#x27;s website, it&#x27;s littered with dozens of communications begging 23andme to submit some documentation about their product so that the FDA can evaluate the medical claims they&#x27;re making.<p>See, e.g., this one from June 10, 2010:<p>[0] <a href="http://www.fda.gov/downloads/MedicalDevices/ResourcesforYou/Industry/UCM215240.pdf" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.fda.gov&#x2F;downloads&#x2F;MedicalDevices&#x2F;ResourcesforYou&#x2F;...</a><p>All the FDA wants in this letter is some kind of understanding that their genetic tests are actually valid and correct, since they are making medical claims regarding their accuracy:<p>&gt; 23andMe has never submitted information on the analytical or clinical validity of its tests to FDA for clearance or approval. However, your website states that the 23andMe Personal Genome Service™ is intended to tell patients in advance how they will respond to certain medications including warfarin and clopidogrel. It also states that the data generated from the 23andMe Odds Calculator, a feature ofthe 23andMe Personal Genome Service™, includes the contribution of single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) to disease risk. Consumers may make medical decisions in reliance on this information.<p>The FDA then establishes its ability to regulate this (remember, it&#x27;s legally <i>required</i> to do this):<p>&gt; During a meeting between 23andMe and FDA on July 29, 2009, you described the 23andMe Personal Genome Service™ as consisting of a software program that analyzes genetic test results that are generated by an external laboratory in order to generate a patient specific test report. Thus, the 23andMe Personal Genome Service™ is a diagnostic device and subject to all applicable requirements of the Act.<p>They then very helpfully point them to all the forms, documents, etc., necessary to satisfy the legal requirements:<p>&gt; For a device requiring premarket approval, the notification required by section 510(k)of the Act, 21 U.S.C. 360(k), is deemed satisfied when a PMA is pending before the agency. 21 C.F.R. 807.81(b).<p>There&#x27;s even a helpful mailing address and fax number:<p>&gt; Please direct your questions and response to: James L. Woods, Food and Drug Administration, 10903 New Hampshire Avenue, W066-5688, Silver Spring, MD 20993<p>Honestly, this sounds like 23andme has been getting away with something for a while and the FDA is tired of giving them leeway.</text></comment> | <story><title>FDA Warning Letter to 23andMe</title><url>http://www.fda.gov/ICECI/EnforcementActions/WarningLetters/2013/ucm376296.htm</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jfasi</author><text>This seems absolutely reasonable. The letter indicates that the FDA has notified 23andMe that their products are not satisfactorily cleared, they&#x27;re reached out to them several times, and they&#x27;ve offered assistance through a group they specifically set up to help companies in this situation.<p>Meanwhile, 23andMe went ahead and began marketing and selling their product, despite the FDA&#x27;s concerns.<p>Relevant quotes:<p>&gt; Most of these uses have not been classified and thus require premarket approval or de novo classification, as FDA has explained to you on numerous occasions.<p>&gt; However, to date, your company has failed to address the issues described during previous interactions with the Agency or provide the additional information identified in our September 13, 2012 letter for (b)(4) and in our November 20, 2012 letter<p>&gt; To date, 23andMe has failed to provide adequate information to support a determination that the PGS is substantially equivalent to a legally marketed predicate for any of the uses for which you are marketing it; ...<p>&gt; ...we have proposed modifications to the device’s labeling that could mitigate risks and render certain intended uses appropriate for de novo classification.<p>&gt; As part of our interactions with you, including more than 14 face-to-face and teleconference meetings, hundreds of email exchanges, and dozens of written communications, we provided you with specific feedback on study protocols and clinical and analytical validation requirements, discussed potential classifications and regulatory pathways (including reasonable submission timelines), provided statistical advice, and discussed potential risk mitigation strategies...<p>&gt; Thus, months after you submitted your 510(k)s and more than 5 years after you began marketing, you still had not completed some of the studies and had not even started other studies necessary to support a marketing submission for the PGS.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dnautics</author><text>Not all of it is reasonable, at all:<p>&quot;For instance, if the BRCA-related risk assessment for breast or ovarian cancer reports a false positive, it could lead a patient to undergo prophylactic surgery&quot;<p>Uh, you don&#x27;t think the surgeon is going to demand a second BRCA test be done before performing the surgery?</text></comment> |
21,037,069 | 21,036,266 | 1 | 3 | 21,035,986 | train | <story><title>Boeing's Managerial Revolution Created the 737 Max Disaster</title><url>https://newrepublic.com/article/154944/boeing-737-max-investigation-indonesia-lion-air-ethiopian-airlines-managerial-revolution</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>ineedasername</author><text><i>&gt; Everybody thinks his business is different, because everybody is the same. Nobody. Is. Different. [from a wall street analyst about Boeing]</i><p>This in a nutshell represents the core failure of modern managerial thinking. What started as &quot;scientific management&quot; many decades ago, an attempt to systematically understand how corporations should operate, quickly evolved into a group think belief that management could function as fungible &amp; completely replaceable units of work-- that a &quot;manager&quot; could be trained up in various basic principles and plugged into any role<p>There are of course commonalities across businesses, and commonalities across managers for necessary skill, but each business is, in some core, fundamental way, <i>different</i> from others. Good management of a company doesn&#x27;t following a paint-by-numbers rule book, it requires deep understanding of the particulars of <i>that</i> business, the market &amp; industry it operates in.<p>I think this is changing, slowly, but the legacy of this flawed thinking is a long one.</text></comment> | <story><title>Boeing's Managerial Revolution Created the 737 Max Disaster</title><url>https://newrepublic.com/article/154944/boeing-737-max-investigation-indonesia-lion-air-ethiopian-airlines-managerial-revolution</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>ssivark</author><text>Couldn&#x27;t resist posting this excerpt:<p>---<p><i>And while Boeing’s engineers toiled to get McDonnell’s lemon planes into the sky, their own hopes of designing a new plane to compete with Airbus, Boeing’s only global market rival, were shriveling. Under the sway of all the naysayers who had called out the folly of the McDonnell deal, the board had adopted a hard-line “never again” posture toward ambitious new planes. Boeing’s leaders began crying “crocodile tears,” Sorscher claimed, about the development costs of 1995’s 777, even though some industry insiders estimate that it became the most profitable plane of all time. The premise behind this complaining was silly, Sorscher contended in PowerPoint presentations and a Harvard Business School-style case study on the topic. A return to the “problem-solving” culture and managerial structure of yore, he explained over and over again to anyone who would listen, was the only sensible way to generate shareholder value. But when he brought that message on the road, he rarely elicited much more than an eye roll. “I’m not buying it,” was a common response. Occasionally, though, someone in the audience was outright mean, like the Wall Street analyst who cut him off mid-sentence: </i><p><i>“Look, I get it. What you’re telling me is that your business is different. That you’re special. Well, listen: Everybody thinks his business is different, because everybody is the same. Nobody. Is. Different.” </i><p><i>And indeed, that would appear to be the real moral of this story: Airplane manufacturing is no different from mortgage lending or insulin distribution or make-believe blood analyzing software—another cash cow for the one percent, bound inexorably for the slaughterhouse.</i></text></comment> |
4,290,667 | 4,290,342 | 1 | 2 | 4,289,958 | train | <story><title>Starting a Django Project the Right Way</title><url>http://www.jeffknupp.com/blog/2012/02/09/starting-a-django-project-the-right-way/</url><text></text></story><parent_chain><item><author>yummyfajitas</author><text>Don't use Fabric. Seriously, just don't.<p>It's easier to set up than puppet/chef, but you lose a huge amount of flexibility/robustness. All fabric does is runs commands on host machines. Dependency management is your responsibility.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>hcarvalhoalves</author><text>I wouldn't be so harsh. Both Puppet and Chef come with their own (enterprisey) overhead and it's Yet Another Tool to understand and maintain. Chef in particular feels like an over-engineered solution for anyone managing less than hundreds of servers, it adds a lot of cruft (centralized server, authorization, protocols, etc.) that most people wouldn't need. I believe a lot of people like it for the sole reason they are not experienced managing servers, so they can just use pre-made recipes and call it a day.<p>Anyway, you can go a long way with just a bunch of scripts leveraging Fabric's API. I have setup ~10 servers for a news portal I run from the ground up in just a few lines of code. Managing dependencies is not ridiculously difficult as you make it sound, package managers (apt-get, pip) already handle that for you without any overhead.</text></comment> | <story><title>Starting a Django Project the Right Way</title><url>http://www.jeffknupp.com/blog/2012/02/09/starting-a-django-project-the-right-way/</url><text></text></story><parent_chain><item><author>yummyfajitas</author><text>Don't use Fabric. Seriously, just don't.<p>It's easier to set up than puppet/chef, but you lose a huge amount of flexibility/robustness. All fabric does is runs commands on host machines. Dependency management is your responsibility.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>arocks</author><text>Interestingly most posts which recommend using Puppet/Chef depend on Fabric for deployment. Is a mutually exclusive or pure Puppet/Chef approach better in any way?</text></comment> |
27,350,874 | 27,348,029 | 1 | 2 | 27,347,035 | train | <story><title>On Smoking</title><url>https://annagat.substack.com/p/on-smoking</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>unixhero</author><text>I quit smoking, and it was very very hard. I don&#x27;t agree with you that the addiction, need and nicotine + other triggers will remain with me until the end of time.<p>Deprogramming is part of the process of quitting to smoke. I do now never want to smoke. It is not attractive to me as a way to relax or focus. I can stand in a tobacco section of an airport taxfree shop holding a 5 cartons in my hands with absolutely no desire to smoke. Likewise for being around other people who smoke. There is no creeping need, no urge.<p>The deprogramming comes last. When it came around for me, it was gradual but it did definitely come. There is no way, not a chance in the world that I would somehow &quot;relapse&quot;. It just is not interesting to me any more.<p>EDIT:
*On slaying the dragon*<p>I want to add the timeframes, which could be useful as anecdotal data.<p>It took me 9 months after my last cigarette to get rid of the &quot;critical urges&quot;.
Then after that it took another 12 months to get rid of the sweet itch I would get. After that period it was gone completely, and I mean absolutely completely. It was an exorcism. To anyone trying to quit smoking; know this, if you fight through it, it all does go away.</text></item><item><author>murat131</author><text>The thing about smoking is that when you quit smoking you quit it every day. Imagine a light switch on the wall. You turn it off by quitting smoking and you can always go back at a desperate time for instance and turn it on. And some time later off again. Smoking your first cigarette implants that light switch on your mind and you can&#x27;t make it go away. Since you know how it makes you feel good when the switch is on, you at some level desire to back to it. Whole idea of quitting smoking is then finding ways to stop yourself from turning it on again and this is true until you die. So do yourself a favor and avoid any substance that creates such light switches in your mind.<p>Edit: Of course this is not the case for 100% of humans. Everyone is different. Some weak some strong in willpower, discipline, etc. But we can all agree that it is an addiction that sucks life out of you slowly. You wouldn&#x27;t want to test your willpower your whole life against such a sneaky enemy.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>reissbaker</author><text>+1. I quit smoking a little over a decade ago, gradually, by winnowing myself down cigarette-by-cigarette. If I smoked six cigarettes a day, for the next two weeks I&#x27;d smoke five; by the end of two weeks I&#x27;d stop feeling the urge for a sixth. Then I&#x27;d move down to four, etc etc, until finally I was down to two and just stopped entirely.<p>For the first year after stopping <i>regularly</i> smoking, I still felt the urge when drinking, and sometimes would have a cigarette with drinks on the weekend. After two years, I mostly stopped even wanting that.<p>For many years after, cigarette smoke still smelled good to me, although I had no daily urge for one. But eventually even the positive association with the smell faded, and now I&#x27;m back to the original state of thinking cigarettes smell bad.<p>Nicotine&#x27;s hooks run deep, but they&#x27;re not permanent. Stay away long enough and you&#x27;ll eventually make it back to wondering why anyone smokes in the first place.<p>I think it&#x27;s important for people who are addicted to know that quitting is possible — you aren&#x27;t permanently rewired. And it doesn&#x27;t have to consume your life.</text></comment> | <story><title>On Smoking</title><url>https://annagat.substack.com/p/on-smoking</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>unixhero</author><text>I quit smoking, and it was very very hard. I don&#x27;t agree with you that the addiction, need and nicotine + other triggers will remain with me until the end of time.<p>Deprogramming is part of the process of quitting to smoke. I do now never want to smoke. It is not attractive to me as a way to relax or focus. I can stand in a tobacco section of an airport taxfree shop holding a 5 cartons in my hands with absolutely no desire to smoke. Likewise for being around other people who smoke. There is no creeping need, no urge.<p>The deprogramming comes last. When it came around for me, it was gradual but it did definitely come. There is no way, not a chance in the world that I would somehow &quot;relapse&quot;. It just is not interesting to me any more.<p>EDIT:
*On slaying the dragon*<p>I want to add the timeframes, which could be useful as anecdotal data.<p>It took me 9 months after my last cigarette to get rid of the &quot;critical urges&quot;.
Then after that it took another 12 months to get rid of the sweet itch I would get. After that period it was gone completely, and I mean absolutely completely. It was an exorcism. To anyone trying to quit smoking; know this, if you fight through it, it all does go away.</text></item><item><author>murat131</author><text>The thing about smoking is that when you quit smoking you quit it every day. Imagine a light switch on the wall. You turn it off by quitting smoking and you can always go back at a desperate time for instance and turn it on. And some time later off again. Smoking your first cigarette implants that light switch on your mind and you can&#x27;t make it go away. Since you know how it makes you feel good when the switch is on, you at some level desire to back to it. Whole idea of quitting smoking is then finding ways to stop yourself from turning it on again and this is true until you die. So do yourself a favor and avoid any substance that creates such light switches in your mind.<p>Edit: Of course this is not the case for 100% of humans. Everyone is different. Some weak some strong in willpower, discipline, etc. But we can all agree that it is an addiction that sucks life out of you slowly. You wouldn&#x27;t want to test your willpower your whole life against such a sneaky enemy.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dimmke</author><text>I agree. I quit smoking back in 2016 and I don’t think of myself as a smoker at all anymore. I sometimes have to remind myself I used to smoke.</text></comment> |
8,412,433 | 8,412,039 | 1 | 2 | 8,411,638 | train | <story><title>Live Coding in VR with Oculus Rift, Firefox WebVR, JavaScript, Three.js [video]</title><url>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=db-7J5OaSag</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tinco</author><text>This is why I bought a DK2, I believe VR IDE&#x27;s are going to be a thing, and they&#x27;re going to be great. The fonts aren&#x27;t very crisp in this video, but once we get some nice editors in there it&#x27;s going to rock, the new display has a high enough resolution to make it look great, and I bet the consumer version is going to have a retina display which will just make any discomfort vanish.<p>Note that in the video there&#x27;s just one editing window, in an IDE obviously there could be editing windows and references all around you. You would never need a mouse as your head movements convey positional information, though you can use a mouse of course, and with good keyboard controls I think you can have an editing space ten times as big as the traditional dual 27&quot; monitors give you.<p>No more hiding buffers in tabs, no more disruptions of flow as you&#x27;re scrolling through your buffers looking for the right one. You just access the visual memory in your brain to intuively remember where you left the buffers you use.<p>Also, the idea that this would somehow be bad for your neck sounds ludicrous to me, how is staring for hours at a stationary rectangle with miniature information more natural and easy for your neck muscles than having information spread around you in even spacing at a comfortable virtual distance? I think it&#x27;s going to be a relief for nearly everyone.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>JackC</author><text>&gt; how is staring for hours at a stationary rectangle with miniature information more natural and easy for your neck muscles than having information spread around you in even spacing at a comfortable virtual distance?<p>Low-pixel displays can&#x27;t replace high-pixel displays (yet). It&#x27;s all about the speed your head can move, vs. the speed your eyes can move, vs. the speed your display can refresh.<p>As a simple test, try holding your head still while moving your eyes back and forth ten times, from one extreme of your FOV to the other. Then try moving your head back and forth ten times to see things beyond your FOV on each side. Two observations when I try this: (1) the eye movement was much faster than the head movement; (2) the head movement was much more tiring.<p>In fact, eye movement is the fastest thing we can do, and even uses special circuits to reduce latency:<p>&quot;Saccades are the fastest movements produced by the human body. The peak angular speed of the eye during a saccade reaches up to 900°&#x2F;s in humans; in some monkeys, peak speed can reach 1000°&#x2F;s. ... Under certain laboratory circumstances, the latency of, or reaction time to, saccade production can be cut nearly in half (express saccades). These saccades are generated by a neuronal mechanism that bypasses time-consuming circuits and activates the eye muscles more directly.&quot;[1]<p>Head movement apparently maxes out at 500°&#x2F;s or so, and that&#x27;s not comfortable to keep up for long. So it&#x27;s at least twice as fast to access high-resolution information by eye movement as to access the same information at lower res by turning your head. That&#x27;s the tradeoff between using a fixed monitor at your max comfortable resolution, and using a lower-res head-mounted display.<p>At the same time, a fixed display (for now) allows you to move your head <i>more</i> rather than less while reading comfortably. A head-mounted display has to update the display in response to your head movement, and a fixed display doesn&#x27;t.<p>As a test here, see how fast you can move your head back and forth while reading text on your fixed display. Then see how fast you can move back and forth while reading on your DK2. The second will be slower, because the Oculus has to impersonate a pixel on your virtual display by juggling which physical pixels are used to render it as your head turns. In addition to further throwing away resolution by aliasing your virtual display onto your real display (the virtual text has to look sharp regardless of how it happens to overlap with physical pixels), this means the refresh rate is a limiting factor on how fast you can turn your head and still read. The text which was crisp while your head was still is physically blurred before it even gets to your eye, because the Oculus can&#x27;t quite keep up with where it should be. That stops being a factor at, say, 1000hz, but we&#x27;re not there yet.[2]<p>So on a fixed display, you can actually move and stretch your neck and turn your head without affecting the reading experience; on a virtual display, those movements will blur the text you&#x27;re trying to read.<p>I&#x27;m very excited about all of the things VR can be -- just saying that one thing it can&#x27;t be, yet, is a replacement for a high-resolution monitor when you&#x27;re trying to quickly access lots of text.<p>[1] <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saccade" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Saccade</a>
[2] <a href="http://blogs.valvesoftware.com/abrash/down-the-vr-rabbit-hole-fixing-judder/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;blogs.valvesoftware.com&#x2F;abrash&#x2F;down-the-vr-rabbit-hol...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Live Coding in VR with Oculus Rift, Firefox WebVR, JavaScript, Three.js [video]</title><url>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=db-7J5OaSag</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tinco</author><text>This is why I bought a DK2, I believe VR IDE&#x27;s are going to be a thing, and they&#x27;re going to be great. The fonts aren&#x27;t very crisp in this video, but once we get some nice editors in there it&#x27;s going to rock, the new display has a high enough resolution to make it look great, and I bet the consumer version is going to have a retina display which will just make any discomfort vanish.<p>Note that in the video there&#x27;s just one editing window, in an IDE obviously there could be editing windows and references all around you. You would never need a mouse as your head movements convey positional information, though you can use a mouse of course, and with good keyboard controls I think you can have an editing space ten times as big as the traditional dual 27&quot; monitors give you.<p>No more hiding buffers in tabs, no more disruptions of flow as you&#x27;re scrolling through your buffers looking for the right one. You just access the visual memory in your brain to intuively remember where you left the buffers you use.<p>Also, the idea that this would somehow be bad for your neck sounds ludicrous to me, how is staring for hours at a stationary rectangle with miniature information more natural and easy for your neck muscles than having information spread around you in even spacing at a comfortable virtual distance? I think it&#x27;s going to be a relief for nearly everyone.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Void_</author><text>I&#x27;m happy with a single 24&quot; monitor with one split screen.<p>There is a virtual space 10 times bigger than 27&quot; monitor, but it&#x27;s only in my head, and I have no need to see it in 3D space.<p>But that&#x27;s because I work in this space every day, I know all filenames by memory, I always know exactly where I wanna go, and type cmd+t followed by filename automatically.<p>This VR idea is like flying through places, but you don&#x27;t need that if you can teleport.<p>I can&#x27;t imagine this being useful in day-to-day programming, but definitely would use it for discovering an unknown project.</text></comment> |
5,502,412 | 5,501,403 | 1 | 3 | 5,500,738 | train | <story><title>Dell/Alienware release Ubuntu gaming desktop</title><url>http://alienware.com/ubuntu/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>notatoad</author><text>This seems like the sort of thing where they don't really care whether they sell any or not. Gaming on Ubuntu is a hot blog topic right now, so they took an existing product and put Ubuntu on it. Probably cost a couple thousand to do all the paperwork surrounding a new SKU, and they'll probably sell enough of these to make cover that. Boom, Free marketing and some cred with the indie gaming &#38; Linux community. And if Steam on Linux does take off, they've already got their foot in the door.<p>It's kind of awesome that we're at a place where releasing a Ubuntu desktop is a matter of "why not?" Rather than "why?"</text></comment> | <story><title>Dell/Alienware release Ubuntu gaming desktop</title><url>http://alienware.com/ubuntu/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>neya</author><text>This is interesting, but not compelling.<p>I want:<p>1) Better video drivers.<p>2) An option to Dual-boot with another OS.<p>3) To remove the painful Unity interface.<p>4) More titles to play.<p>And then I would buy this without a second thought.<p>With just Ubuntu, with very little games with mediocre Graphic card drivers and a painful interface like unity (try hiding/unhiding/switching between hidden windows for example) it's hard to convince myself to buy this..</text></comment> |
29,357,720 | 29,357,635 | 1 | 3 | 29,356,874 | train | <story><title>No U PNP</title><url>https://computer.rip/2021-11-26-no-u-pnp.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>cyounkins</author><text>&gt; I am actually somewhat skeptical of the security advantages of disabling UPnP for this purpose. The concern is usually that malware on a machine in the local network will use UPnP to map inbound ports...<p>For me the concern is not malware but crappy&#x2F;insecure software proudly exposing itself on the internet.<p>Many IP cameras will use UPnP to make their web interface publicly accessible. Because of the long history of opening router ports, seeing a random open port on my public IP was quite surprising. If you haven&#x27;t recently, check your own public IP in Shodan.io .<p>The cameras I&#x27;ve used run crappy web interfaces that almost certainly do not get security updates. If an attack was successful on the camera, from there the attacker would have access to my internal network.</text></comment> | <story><title>No U PNP</title><url>https://computer.rip/2021-11-26-no-u-pnp.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>phoronixrly</author><text>The issue I always had with DLNA is that I found its implementations and apecifically controllers and renderers rather wonky:<p>- Open-source controllers are unstable and with terrible UX when they manage to discover the renderers and servers. Closed source controllers all seemed suspicious to me, esp. on Android.
- Renderers all support different media formats, some support sutitles, others not at all...<p>Don&#x27;t get me wrong, I marvel at the engineering thought that went into designing the spec, however adoption was never up to par IMO.
I&#x27;d love to be proven wrong that this is no longer the case, however the defeatist tone of TFA makes me doubt this...<p>On the issue with NAT-PMP, PCP, IGD, I am somewhat jaded. I use OpenWrt and XMPP. For my home use this setup works hassle-free and file transfers and calls just work. (IoT is in a different vlan, cut off from the internet). However I doubt setting this up is not really something the average consumer would do. Maybe only if pirating as Torrent clients, too have very good support for the protocol.</text></comment> |
9,960,596 | 9,959,772 | 1 | 2 | 9,959,451 | train | <story><title>Stripe Raises New Funding and Partners with Visa</title><url>http://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/28/technology/stripe-digital-payments-start-up-raises-new-funding-and-partners-with-visa.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>pc</author><text>&gt; <i>In the US Stripe charges 2.9%. That&#x27;s 66% more than in Australia. Do you think it costs Visa that much extra to process a payment in the US? No, it clearly does not.</i><p>The extra interchange in the US doesn&#x27;t go to Visa but instead to the banks that issue the cards -- much of which then, in turn, gets passed to consumers in the form of rewards. So, whether it costs more depends on your definition of &quot;cost&quot; -- but Visa itself does indeed incur much higher fees in the US (since they&#x27;re paying more to banks). To a large degree, it&#x27;s just a different equilibrium.<p>That aside, I&#x27;m one of Stripe&#x27;s cofounders. We&#x27;re not beholden to credit cards: Stripe was the first major payments company to support Bitcoin; we support Alipay; we support ACH. We funded Stellar. And we have more in the works.<p>But we should acknowledge that credit cards are by far the dominant instrument today. The purpose of this partnership is to help build products that improve the experience of accepting credit cards on behalf of the businesses that use Stripe. (And there sure is plenty of improvement possible there!)</text></item><item><author>objclxt</author><text>In the US Stripe charges 2.9%. That&#x27;s <i>66%</i> more than in Australia. Do you think it costs Visa that much extra to process a payment in the US? No, it clearly does not.<p>Whilst I&#x27;ll happily congratulate Stripe for the investment, I don&#x27;t myself see it as a good thing. With Stripe having investments from both Visa and AmEx they have little incentive to challenge the current fee structure. Stripe processes its payments in the US through a strategic deal with Wells Fargo, who have a substantial (&gt; $1 billion) investment in Visa, who in turn have an investment in Stripe. Do any large retailers or merchants have similar investments in Stripe? I don&#x27;t believe they do.<p>If you&#x27;re a merchant I wouldn&#x27;t see Visa and American Express investing and taking equity in Stripe as a good thing. These are companies that have every possible reason to keep credit card fees as high as possible and prevent regulation from reducing them (which is exactly why Australia&#x27;s fees are much lower - they&#x27;re regulated).<p>I like Stripe as a company. I think they do great stuff. But a Stripe that&#x27;s received investment from the card networks is a Stripe less likely to make disruptive moves to break the monopoly card networks have today.</text></item><item><author>thejosh</author><text>The nice thing about Stripe is that they have really shaken up the online payments here in Australia. They are 1.75%+30c per transaction here, and that caused the others to drop down to that as well (even Braintree which was one the last IIRC).<p>eWay is still 2.6%, hopefully that changes too.<p>So thanks Stripe for your awesome API &amp; team.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>abalone</author><text>All due respect but I believe you are leaving out a key piece of information: that the Durbin Amendment regulated down the cost of <i>debit</i> cards to next to nothing (not unlike Australia&#x27;s interchange regulations), yet Stripe still charges the same as credit cards.<p>I think it&#x27;s fair to call Stripe out on this because you position the 2.9% as a &quot;it&#x27;s not our fault, it&#x27;s the payment instrument, we&#x27;re happy to pass on savings if you use alternatives like Bitcoin etc.&quot; But you are not passing on the very significant savings of debit cards.<p>How significant? Whereas credit card cards are in the ballpark of 1.5-2% plus 10 cents, major debit cards are just 0.05% + 21 cents.[1]<p>That&#x27;s right.. 0.05%.<p>So why is Stripe charging 2.9%?<p>[1] Visa interchange rates: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;usa.visa.com&#x2F;download&#x2F;merchants&#x2F;Visa-USA-Interchange-Reimbursement-Fees-2015-April-18.pdf" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;usa.visa.com&#x2F;download&#x2F;merchants&#x2F;Visa-USA-Interchange-...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Stripe Raises New Funding and Partners with Visa</title><url>http://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/28/technology/stripe-digital-payments-start-up-raises-new-funding-and-partners-with-visa.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>pc</author><text>&gt; <i>In the US Stripe charges 2.9%. That&#x27;s 66% more than in Australia. Do you think it costs Visa that much extra to process a payment in the US? No, it clearly does not.</i><p>The extra interchange in the US doesn&#x27;t go to Visa but instead to the banks that issue the cards -- much of which then, in turn, gets passed to consumers in the form of rewards. So, whether it costs more depends on your definition of &quot;cost&quot; -- but Visa itself does indeed incur much higher fees in the US (since they&#x27;re paying more to banks). To a large degree, it&#x27;s just a different equilibrium.<p>That aside, I&#x27;m one of Stripe&#x27;s cofounders. We&#x27;re not beholden to credit cards: Stripe was the first major payments company to support Bitcoin; we support Alipay; we support ACH. We funded Stellar. And we have more in the works.<p>But we should acknowledge that credit cards are by far the dominant instrument today. The purpose of this partnership is to help build products that improve the experience of accepting credit cards on behalf of the businesses that use Stripe. (And there sure is plenty of improvement possible there!)</text></item><item><author>objclxt</author><text>In the US Stripe charges 2.9%. That&#x27;s <i>66%</i> more than in Australia. Do you think it costs Visa that much extra to process a payment in the US? No, it clearly does not.<p>Whilst I&#x27;ll happily congratulate Stripe for the investment, I don&#x27;t myself see it as a good thing. With Stripe having investments from both Visa and AmEx they have little incentive to challenge the current fee structure. Stripe processes its payments in the US through a strategic deal with Wells Fargo, who have a substantial (&gt; $1 billion) investment in Visa, who in turn have an investment in Stripe. Do any large retailers or merchants have similar investments in Stripe? I don&#x27;t believe they do.<p>If you&#x27;re a merchant I wouldn&#x27;t see Visa and American Express investing and taking equity in Stripe as a good thing. These are companies that have every possible reason to keep credit card fees as high as possible and prevent regulation from reducing them (which is exactly why Australia&#x27;s fees are much lower - they&#x27;re regulated).<p>I like Stripe as a company. I think they do great stuff. But a Stripe that&#x27;s received investment from the card networks is a Stripe less likely to make disruptive moves to break the monopoly card networks have today.</text></item><item><author>thejosh</author><text>The nice thing about Stripe is that they have really shaken up the online payments here in Australia. They are 1.75%+30c per transaction here, and that caused the others to drop down to that as well (even Braintree which was one the last IIRC).<p>eWay is still 2.6%, hopefully that changes too.<p>So thanks Stripe for your awesome API &amp; team.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>objclxt</author><text>I do always appreciate your willingness to comment here on stories about Stripe, so first of all thanks for taking the time to reply. I know so many people who have great experiences using Stripe and love the services you provide - I&#x27;ve evangelized them myself on occasion.<p>But it is good, I think, to be a little skeptical about vertical integration - which isn&#x27;t a bad thing per se, but you do have to wonder whether investments by the established card networks will have any impact on Stripe&#x27;s ability to disrupt the space and work to benefit the merchant, rather than the bank (or both!). It&#x27;s really good it sounds like that&#x27;s not the case.<p>&gt; <i>The extra interchange in the US doesn&#x27;t go to Visa but instead to the banks that issue the cards</i><p>Whilst this is true, it&#x27;s <i>also</i> true that until 2008 Visa was owned by the issuing banks, and since Visa IPO&#x27;d the banks have maintained significant investments. So I don&#x27;t think it&#x27;s quite as clear cut as &quot;the banks vs the networks&quot;. They have a somewhat symbiotic relationship.<p>I think it&#x27;s pretty clear that there&#x27;s no appetite in the US on either the banks or the networks to reduce interchange unless forced to by regulation. And I think that&#x27;s going to happen one day just as it did for debit cards, and it will be really interesting to see how the payment processors react to that - whether they lobby against it, or for it.</text></comment> |
36,507,711 | 36,507,811 | 1 | 2 | 36,506,865 | train | <story><title>We raised a bunch of money</title><url>https://fly.io/blog/we-raised-a-bunch-of-money/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>kkielhofner</author><text>People forget AWS is 20 years old. When I routinely remind people of that fact they often remark (incredulously) with &quot;WHAT? Really?&quot; When I think about it the entire paradigm of &quot;regions&quot; itself seems completely antiquated in the grand scheme of things. AWS has made a few moves on this but in the end you&#x27;re largely still tied to this fundamental regional concept in terms of control planes, etc and you incur the ridiculousness that is VPCs, wild billing and availability issues, all kinds of hacks, stacks, and effort all over the place to have multiple regions&#x2F;AZs, etc.<p>I suspect that later starters like Fly, Cloudflare, etc with their approaches of (more or less) compute at edge with no concept of region etc will grow more and more to dominate the cloud space with AWS region-based approaches primarily relegated to &quot;legacy applications&quot; that are stuck there. It may take a generation or so to get there but more and more the next crop of startups, etc are building on things like Fly instead of AWS and friends.<p>When I think about it the region based approaches are more akin to &quot;hosted elastic datacenter&quot; than they are what could be described as a &quot;true cloud&quot; - where it&#x27;s just everywhere and not even a consideration.</text></item><item><author>geraldwhen</author><text>“ The result of this is an Internet where all of the world&#x27;s CRUD apps are hosted in Loudoun County, VA (motto: &quot;where tradition meets innovation&quot;), at Amazon&#x27;s us-east-1 in Ashburn, a city with so many Rails apps that one of them was elected to the county Board of Supervisors.”<p>So true it hurts</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kortilla</author><text>The realities of regions don’t go away. It’s a primitive to save you money. If a new entrant doesn’t have it they are either just operating in one region or you’re paying cross-region prices for everything.</text></comment> | <story><title>We raised a bunch of money</title><url>https://fly.io/blog/we-raised-a-bunch-of-money/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>kkielhofner</author><text>People forget AWS is 20 years old. When I routinely remind people of that fact they often remark (incredulously) with &quot;WHAT? Really?&quot; When I think about it the entire paradigm of &quot;regions&quot; itself seems completely antiquated in the grand scheme of things. AWS has made a few moves on this but in the end you&#x27;re largely still tied to this fundamental regional concept in terms of control planes, etc and you incur the ridiculousness that is VPCs, wild billing and availability issues, all kinds of hacks, stacks, and effort all over the place to have multiple regions&#x2F;AZs, etc.<p>I suspect that later starters like Fly, Cloudflare, etc with their approaches of (more or less) compute at edge with no concept of region etc will grow more and more to dominate the cloud space with AWS region-based approaches primarily relegated to &quot;legacy applications&quot; that are stuck there. It may take a generation or so to get there but more and more the next crop of startups, etc are building on things like Fly instead of AWS and friends.<p>When I think about it the region based approaches are more akin to &quot;hosted elastic datacenter&quot; than they are what could be described as a &quot;true cloud&quot; - where it&#x27;s just everywhere and not even a consideration.</text></item><item><author>geraldwhen</author><text>“ The result of this is an Internet where all of the world&#x27;s CRUD apps are hosted in Loudoun County, VA (motto: &quot;where tradition meets innovation&quot;), at Amazon&#x27;s us-east-1 in Ashburn, a city with so many Rails apps that one of them was elected to the county Board of Supervisors.”<p>So true it hurts</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bfung</author><text>Stateless compute is relatively simple to be region-less, but even fly’s homepage has a map of regions.<p>When state is introduced, then CAP&#x2F;PACELC distributed systems issues arise, and figuring out approaches to deal with them are a must. Read fly’s Postgres docs, and regions come right back in.</text></comment> |
27,329,163 | 27,329,150 | 1 | 2 | 27,326,268 | train | <story><title>Using fake reviews to find dangerous extensions</title><url>https://krebsonsecurity.com/2021/05/using-fake-reviews-to-find-dangerous-extensions/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>extesy</author><text>&gt; In other words, there a great many developers who are likely to be open to someone else buying up their creation along with their user base.<p>As a maintainer of a relatively popular extension (hoverzoom+, ~360K users) I get business offers all the time [1]. A few of them are pretty good, actually. I&#x27;m not surprised that some developers eventually give up and take one of those offers. But I am surprised that there aren&#x27;t more of these &quot;under new management&quot; extensions, or maybe we just don&#x27;t know about them.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;extesy&#x2F;hoverzoom&#x2F;discussions&#x2F;670" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;extesy&#x2F;hoverzoom&#x2F;discussions&#x2F;670</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dang</author><text>Related current thread based on that link:<p><i>Many temptations of an open-source Chrome extension developer</i> - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=27327892" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=27327892</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Using fake reviews to find dangerous extensions</title><url>https://krebsonsecurity.com/2021/05/using-fake-reviews-to-find-dangerous-extensions/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>extesy</author><text>&gt; In other words, there a great many developers who are likely to be open to someone else buying up their creation along with their user base.<p>As a maintainer of a relatively popular extension (hoverzoom+, ~360K users) I get business offers all the time [1]. A few of them are pretty good, actually. I&#x27;m not surprised that some developers eventually give up and take one of those offers. But I am surprised that there aren&#x27;t more of these &quot;under new management&quot; extensions, or maybe we just don&#x27;t know about them.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;extesy&#x2F;hoverzoom&#x2F;discussions&#x2F;670" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;extesy&#x2F;hoverzoom&#x2F;discussions&#x2F;670</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>gnicholas</author><text>The Hover Zoom extension I&#x27;m seeing in the Chrome Store [1] refers to a prior version that was overrun by malware and removed from the store.<p>&gt; <i>This is an open source version of the original HoverZoom extension which is now overrun by malware and deleted from store. In this version all spyware has been removed, many bugs were fixed and new features were added.</i><p>Were you involved with the project when that all went down?<p>1: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;chrome.google.com&#x2F;webstore&#x2F;detail&#x2F;hover-zoom%20&#x2F;pccckmaobkjjboncdfnnofkonhgpceea" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;chrome.google.com&#x2F;webstore&#x2F;detail&#x2F;hover-zoom%20&#x2F;pccc...</a></text></comment> |
17,432,462 | 17,432,518 | 1 | 2 | 17,431,609 | train | <story><title>Why you should not use Google Cloud</title><url>https://medium.com/@serverpunch/why-you-should-not-use-google-cloud-75ea2aec00de</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>aleph-</author><text>So piggybacking on this, I have a similar story to tell. We had a nice young startup, infra entirely built out on Google Cloud. Nicely, resiliently built, good solid stuff. Because of a keyword monitor picked up by their auto-moderation bot our entire project was shut down immediately, wasn&#x27;t able to bring it up for several hours, thank god we hadn&#x27;t gone live yet as we were then told by support that because of the grey area of our tech, they couldn&#x27;t guarantee this wouldn&#x27;t keep happening. And in fact told us straight out that it would and we should move.<p>So maybe think about which hosting provider to go with, don&#x27;t get me wrong I like their tech. But their moderation does need a more human element, to be frank all their products do. Simply ceding control to algorithmic judgement just won&#x27;t work in the short term if ever at all.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>setquk</author><text>I’m starting to favour buying physical rack space again and running everything 2005 style with a light weight ansible layer. As long as your workload is predictable, the lock in, unpredictability, navigation through the maze of billing, weird rules and what-the-fuckism you have to deal with on a daily basis is merely trading one vendor specific hell for another. Your knowledge isn’t transferable between cloud vendors either so I’d rather have a hell I&#x27;m totally in control of and of which the knowledge has some retention value and will move around vendors no problems. You can also span vendors then thus avoiding the whole all eggs in one basket problem.</text></comment> | <story><title>Why you should not use Google Cloud</title><url>https://medium.com/@serverpunch/why-you-should-not-use-google-cloud-75ea2aec00de</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>aleph-</author><text>So piggybacking on this, I have a similar story to tell. We had a nice young startup, infra entirely built out on Google Cloud. Nicely, resiliently built, good solid stuff. Because of a keyword monitor picked up by their auto-moderation bot our entire project was shut down immediately, wasn&#x27;t able to bring it up for several hours, thank god we hadn&#x27;t gone live yet as we were then told by support that because of the grey area of our tech, they couldn&#x27;t guarantee this wouldn&#x27;t keep happening. And in fact told us straight out that it would and we should move.<p>So maybe think about which hosting provider to go with, don&#x27;t get me wrong I like their tech. But their moderation does need a more human element, to be frank all their products do. Simply ceding control to algorithmic judgement just won&#x27;t work in the short term if ever at all.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bitL</author><text>I can tell a similar story with Amazon MWS, where even if we had access to &quot;human support&quot;, it felt like talking to some bad ML, not understanding what we were saying. Ultimately that start up was disbanded, never violating any rule they had, but flagged because of a false positive, and we couldn&#x27;t even prove we didn&#x27;t violate anything because we didn&#x27;t even go live yet. It felt Kafkaesque, punishing one of a myriad possible intents due to malfunctioning ML, with no recourse.<p>Maybe support just needed to satisfy their quota of kicked out companies for the month, who knows?</text></comment> |
25,199,504 | 25,198,773 | 1 | 3 | 25,197,509 | train | <story><title>FreeBSD Commands Cheat Sheet</title><url>https://github.com/sbz/freebsd-commands</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Zenst</author><text>Well the Sony Playstation 4 based it&#x27;s OS upon FreeBSD9 and they still update that today (3 days ago last checked). Unsure upon what the PS5 runs for certain, but can be sure that FBSD will live on and amazing how much from that codebase that people use.<p>So whilst Linux for many put BSD&#x27;s to distant past memories, the amount of code from it that is used in other projects&#x2F;products down the line is larger than many realise and can imagine that more people run lines of code with FreeBSD origins today than early 2000&#x27;s.</text></item><item><author>tannhaeuser</author><text>Hope FBSD makes a comeback in mainstream computing. Used FreeBSD 4 for a mail server with sendmail until early 2000s with vinum RAID and afs distributed FS. Such an orderly, unconfused O&#x2F;S.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>drewg123</author><text>There are still some companies using FreeBSD. At Netflix, we serve a large percentage of the internet&#x27;s traffic using our Open Connect CDN, which runs FreeBSD-current.<p>WRT to the C10K problem mentioned below... We find FreeBSD scales quite well to at least several hundred thousand connections. Our largest experimental machines can serve nearly 400Gb&#x2F;s of real customer traffic across hundreds of thousands of TCP conns from a single-socket AMD Rome. This is all with a &quot;traditional&quot; kernel-based workflow, serving media files with sendfile, and doing encryption of HTTPS traffic via kTLS (with NIC-based hardware TLS offload in this case). There is no DPDK or other userspace networking or storage.</text></comment> | <story><title>FreeBSD Commands Cheat Sheet</title><url>https://github.com/sbz/freebsd-commands</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Zenst</author><text>Well the Sony Playstation 4 based it&#x27;s OS upon FreeBSD9 and they still update that today (3 days ago last checked). Unsure upon what the PS5 runs for certain, but can be sure that FBSD will live on and amazing how much from that codebase that people use.<p>So whilst Linux for many put BSD&#x27;s to distant past memories, the amount of code from it that is used in other projects&#x2F;products down the line is larger than many realise and can imagine that more people run lines of code with FreeBSD origins today than early 2000&#x27;s.</text></item><item><author>tannhaeuser</author><text>Hope FBSD makes a comeback in mainstream computing. Used FreeBSD 4 for a mail server with sendmail until early 2000s with vinum RAID and afs distributed FS. Such an orderly, unconfused O&#x2F;S.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>trasz</author><text>There&#x27;s plenty of products based on FreeBSD, not just PlayStation: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;List_of_products_based_on_FreeBSD" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;List_of_products_based_on_Free...</a></text></comment> |
7,135,305 | 7,135,109 | 1 | 3 | 7,134,099 | train | <story><title>Take Buffett's Billion</title><url>http://www.takebuffettsbillion.com/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>startupfounder</author><text>Buffett is making big money on this deal, increasing his personal brand and here is how (my guess):<p>Quicken is paying Buffett for the advertising exposure right before tax season.<p>Quicken is also taking out prize indemnity insurance[0] from National Indemnity Company[1] which Buffett owns.<p>Even if someone happens to beat the odds (which they won&#x27;t) it&#x27;s still a win-win for Buffett because he has stacked the odds in his favor.<p>Its 40 annual payments of $25M or a single payout of $500M. Also, they are only allowing 10M people to register.[2]<p>We should all take a note from his playbook on this one.<p>[0] <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prize_indemnity_insurance" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Prize_indemnity_insurance</a><p>[1] <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Indemnity_Company" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;National_Indemnity_Company</a><p>[2] <a href="http://www.latimes.com/business/money/la-fi-mo-warren-buffett-billion-dollar-bet-ncaa-basketball-20140121,0,1345560.story#axzz2reJ7kr1a" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.latimes.com&#x2F;business&#x2F;money&#x2F;la-fi-mo-warren-buffet...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>startupfounder</author><text>Fun Side Note:<p>The $10M Ansari XPRIZE payed out to Burt Rutan &amp; SpaceShipOne was &quot;hole-in-one&quot; indemnity insurance because the insurer took the bet that a team couldn&#x27;t get to space twice within the allotted time period. The Ansari family put up the money to pay the premium to get the $10M insurance. Genius.<p>This is also a fascinating story about thinking outside the box on a galactic scale.<p><a href="http://www.thespacereview.com/article/234/1" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.thespacereview.com&#x2F;article&#x2F;234&#x2F;1</a><p><a href="http://www.ted.com/talks/peter_diamandis_on_our_next_giant_leap.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ted.com&#x2F;talks&#x2F;peter_diamandis_on_our_next_giant_l...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Take Buffett's Billion</title><url>http://www.takebuffettsbillion.com/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>startupfounder</author><text>Buffett is making big money on this deal, increasing his personal brand and here is how (my guess):<p>Quicken is paying Buffett for the advertising exposure right before tax season.<p>Quicken is also taking out prize indemnity insurance[0] from National Indemnity Company[1] which Buffett owns.<p>Even if someone happens to beat the odds (which they won&#x27;t) it&#x27;s still a win-win for Buffett because he has stacked the odds in his favor.<p>Its 40 annual payments of $25M or a single payout of $500M. Also, they are only allowing 10M people to register.[2]<p>We should all take a note from his playbook on this one.<p>[0] <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prize_indemnity_insurance" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Prize_indemnity_insurance</a><p>[1] <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Indemnity_Company" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;National_Indemnity_Company</a><p>[2] <a href="http://www.latimes.com/business/money/la-fi-mo-warren-buffett-billion-dollar-bet-ncaa-basketball-20140121,0,1345560.story#axzz2reJ7kr1a" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.latimes.com&#x2F;business&#x2F;money&#x2F;la-fi-mo-warren-buffet...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ssharp</author><text>The deal is with Quicken Loans, not Quicken&#x2F;Intuit. The companies are no longer related and have separate ownership.<p>Quicken Loans is owned by Dan Gilbert who also owns the Cleveland Cavaliers, so he&#x27;s obviously interested in basketball.</text></comment> |
16,498,547 | 16,498,333 | 1 | 2 | 16,494,677 | train | <story><title>Agent on Demand – Job Offer Negotiation as a Service</title><url>https://www.10xmanagement.com/agent-on-demand/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rb212nyc</author><text>I&#x27;m one of the 10x founders. Just wanted to comments here...I won&#x27;t answer every question but this one felt important to answer. My thoughts are as follows...<p>There are mitigating factors as it relates to what we are offering and the concerns you raise -- and one misunderstanding.<p>The misunderstanding first...we are not selling anyone to anything. We have no involvement in finding you the job, we are not recruiters, we are not headhunters. So we have no alignment with anyone other than YOU.<p>The first mitigating factor is that we offer two different negotiation options. One is us leading the process and speaking directly to your prosepctive employer, the other is us advising you behind the scenes and you talk directly to your prospective employer. In both cases, we are working hand in hand with you so nothing that is being conveyed is something you&#x27;re not endorsing. Our goal IS to get to a yes, but ONLY a yes that you feel good about. If you don&#x27;t feel good about it, then the negotiation ends and we move on.<p>The other thing is that we&#x27;re offering to provide this service during our beta phase as a pay what you feel it&#x27;s worth to you. You could choose to pay us nothing...we need to EARN whatever amount you choose to pay us. So we are 100% incentivized to be both ethical and effective during this process. Because if we&#x27;re not, you&#x27;re not going to recommend us to others and you&#x27;re not going to pay us. And honestly, this business will be built and has been built almost exclusively on recommendations and word of mouth so that&#x27;s a MAJOR incentive to us.<p>I do agree with you about one thing though, negotiating is NOT about fighting. It&#x27;s about presenting reasonable and substantiated reasons why certain points should be adjusted. It&#x27;s about knowing the myriad of areas TO negotiate. It&#x27;s about understanding the standards and practices across different verticals. And most importantly it&#x27;s about truly understanding what YOU want out of a deal. Fighting has NO place in this process.<p>As a concluding comment, agenting is a VERY old profession and widely used in many other verticals. There is a very good reason for this, put simply, most people are not the best at advocating for themselves. But if that doesn&#x27;t describe you, if you possess all the knowledge required to get you the best deal possible, that&#x27;s great. No need for our help. Otherwise, let us prove to you why there is a difference. If you don&#x27;t like it, don&#x27;t pay us.</text></item><item><author>mtgex</author><text>This suffers from the same issue with using a real estate agent to buy &#x2F; sell a house.<p>Agents are not financially incentivized to get you the best offer. They are financially incentivized for you to accept any offer, period.<p>The extra commission on negotiating a higher offer does not justify the time and energy. Additionally, it increases the chances that either party will terminate the negotiation outright.<p>Agents are not working for you, they are working on closing a deal and in fact the agent and the company they&#x27;re selling you to have the exact same incentives. Get you in as quickly and as cheaply as possible.<p>Negotiation is more about soft skills, charisma, information obfuscation, and outright lying than it is about fighting to get what you &quot;deserve.&quot;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>whiddershins</author><text>Great response the only thing I’d like to point out is that agenting is the most common and effective when someone needs repeat representation.<p>A musician or actor is constantly signing new deals and the agent needs (in theory) to balance any immediate incentive to close the deal versus long term income from retaining their best talent.<p>A salaried job negotiation is more similar to a real estate deal in that it tends represent a very large portion of the client’s financial world and happen much less frequently.<p>The divergence of incentives becomes harder to manage in that case, because each individual deal ends up being such a smaller part of the agent’s income than the client’s.<p>That’s a known problematic dynamic across many “verticals” that your answer only partly addresses.</text></comment> | <story><title>Agent on Demand – Job Offer Negotiation as a Service</title><url>https://www.10xmanagement.com/agent-on-demand/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rb212nyc</author><text>I&#x27;m one of the 10x founders. Just wanted to comments here...I won&#x27;t answer every question but this one felt important to answer. My thoughts are as follows...<p>There are mitigating factors as it relates to what we are offering and the concerns you raise -- and one misunderstanding.<p>The misunderstanding first...we are not selling anyone to anything. We have no involvement in finding you the job, we are not recruiters, we are not headhunters. So we have no alignment with anyone other than YOU.<p>The first mitigating factor is that we offer two different negotiation options. One is us leading the process and speaking directly to your prosepctive employer, the other is us advising you behind the scenes and you talk directly to your prospective employer. In both cases, we are working hand in hand with you so nothing that is being conveyed is something you&#x27;re not endorsing. Our goal IS to get to a yes, but ONLY a yes that you feel good about. If you don&#x27;t feel good about it, then the negotiation ends and we move on.<p>The other thing is that we&#x27;re offering to provide this service during our beta phase as a pay what you feel it&#x27;s worth to you. You could choose to pay us nothing...we need to EARN whatever amount you choose to pay us. So we are 100% incentivized to be both ethical and effective during this process. Because if we&#x27;re not, you&#x27;re not going to recommend us to others and you&#x27;re not going to pay us. And honestly, this business will be built and has been built almost exclusively on recommendations and word of mouth so that&#x27;s a MAJOR incentive to us.<p>I do agree with you about one thing though, negotiating is NOT about fighting. It&#x27;s about presenting reasonable and substantiated reasons why certain points should be adjusted. It&#x27;s about knowing the myriad of areas TO negotiate. It&#x27;s about understanding the standards and practices across different verticals. And most importantly it&#x27;s about truly understanding what YOU want out of a deal. Fighting has NO place in this process.<p>As a concluding comment, agenting is a VERY old profession and widely used in many other verticals. There is a very good reason for this, put simply, most people are not the best at advocating for themselves. But if that doesn&#x27;t describe you, if you possess all the knowledge required to get you the best deal possible, that&#x27;s great. No need for our help. Otherwise, let us prove to you why there is a difference. If you don&#x27;t like it, don&#x27;t pay us.</text></item><item><author>mtgex</author><text>This suffers from the same issue with using a real estate agent to buy &#x2F; sell a house.<p>Agents are not financially incentivized to get you the best offer. They are financially incentivized for you to accept any offer, period.<p>The extra commission on negotiating a higher offer does not justify the time and energy. Additionally, it increases the chances that either party will terminate the negotiation outright.<p>Agents are not working for you, they are working on closing a deal and in fact the agent and the company they&#x27;re selling you to have the exact same incentives. Get you in as quickly and as cheaply as possible.<p>Negotiation is more about soft skills, charisma, information obfuscation, and outright lying than it is about fighting to get what you &quot;deserve.&quot;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>yanslookup</author><text>&gt; One is us leading the process and speaking directly to your prosepctive employer,<p>This is exactly what I want and would pay for. However, I wonder how this works in practice. I work for a fairly well known software company and am involved in the hiring process and I can say with about 90% certainty that negotiations would cease as soon as a candidate presented representation. And my gut is telling me that is the norm in the software industry.<p>Can you speak to this concern? Have you run in to this or has this come up at all for past clients?</text></comment> |
20,822,772 | 20,821,669 | 1 | 2 | 20,821,503 | train | <story><title>Tufts Ph.D. ‘Punished’ for Reporting Adviser’s Fabricated Research: Lawsuit</title><url>https://www.thedailybeast.com/kristy-meadows-tufts-university-graduate-punished-for-reporting-advisers-fabricated-research-lawsuit</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>ChuckMcM</author><text>This sort of situation is something I suggest people think about ahead of time. If you decompose it into the basic<p>&quot;I just discovered that some one, or my company&#x2F;institution, on which my livelihood currently depends, is engaged in fraudulent&#x2F;immoral&#x2F;illegal&#x2F;unethical activies.&quot;<p>The next question is &quot;Now what do I do?&quot; It ranges from report it and leave immediately, to let the leadership know you are there to help. When I was at Intel I discovered that someone within Intel was selling memory chips that had &#x27;binned out&#x27; (failed one of the edge cases tested post production) on the grey market. I took the path of reporting it, which ended up in this employee&#x27;s dismissal. My manager at the time talked with me and said that while he admired my integrity he wondered if I understood the risk I had taken. We talked about it, and the number of people that had to be working together in order for this little scheme to work, and they only fired one guy. The implication was that there were still an unknown number of people at the company who knew (or suspected) that I had interrupted their gravy train. At least one of them had to be reasonably high up the management chain. So now I likely had &#x27;enemies&#x27; where before I was just an unknown.<p>You might think, &quot;Wow, are people really thinking like that?&quot; and my experience suggests that yes, they really do.<p>So think about the consequences of being the &quot;good guy&quot; can be just as painful for you in a different way than they are for the &quot;bad guy.&quot; It isn&#x27;t an easy choice.</text></comment> | <story><title>Tufts Ph.D. ‘Punished’ for Reporting Adviser’s Fabricated Research: Lawsuit</title><url>https://www.thedailybeast.com/kristy-meadows-tufts-university-graduate-punished-for-reporting-advisers-fabricated-research-lawsuit</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>aphextim</author><text>&gt;When she approached Byrnes with this discovery, her adviser told her that “it was fine to publish this data, because if they had done the experiment, this data reflected the result they would have gotten,” the lawsuit claims.<p>This seems pretty alarming.</text></comment> |
37,946,497 | 37,946,447 | 1 | 2 | 37,942,567 | train | <story><title>The reason CEOs want workers to RTO is because they want you to quit</title><url>https://www.fastcompany.com/90969112/op-ed-the-real-reason-ceos-want-workers-back-in-the-office-is-because-they-want-you-to-quit</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>linkjuice4all</author><text>&quot;My advice to the many CEOs tasked with this decision? Just own it.&quot;<p>It would be nice if we could get this level of honesty from CEOs - but let&#x27;s not pretend that firing people is the only driver for RTO.<p>Some other motivations include:<p><pre><code> - We took a tax break that specifies some level of in-office time per employee and we already spent the money
- We&#x27;re getting pressured from local governments to bring customers into the city to spend money at local businesses
- We&#x27;ve sunk cost into our little in-person fiefdom and upper management needs the powertrip to justify the headache that is working in upper management
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Obviously this is not an exhaustive list - but it&#x27;s annoying to deal with the deception when looking for jobs or trying to determine if a company is going to pull the rug out for the purposes of &quot;business&quot;.<p>So yes - the CEOs should just own &quot;it&quot;, but so should the politicians and real estate owners&#x2F;investors who are also concerned that their tax base or investment value don&#x27;t hold up to this new model of working.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>taylodl</author><text>You&#x27;ve hit the nail on the head. The workers know it&#x27;s BS, they know they&#x27;re having smoke blown up their ass, and they know they&#x27;re being lied to. The next thing you know there&#x27;s going to be companies complaining of poor employee morale. Wow! Who would have thought continually lying to your employees would produce poor morale?<p>Then what really burns my ass is these are the same people who are going to be <i>whining</i> to the major &quot;news&quot; outlets that &quot;nobody wants to work anymore.&quot; No, we just don&#x27;t want to work for assholes like <i>them.</i></text></comment> | <story><title>The reason CEOs want workers to RTO is because they want you to quit</title><url>https://www.fastcompany.com/90969112/op-ed-the-real-reason-ceos-want-workers-back-in-the-office-is-because-they-want-you-to-quit</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>linkjuice4all</author><text>&quot;My advice to the many CEOs tasked with this decision? Just own it.&quot;<p>It would be nice if we could get this level of honesty from CEOs - but let&#x27;s not pretend that firing people is the only driver for RTO.<p>Some other motivations include:<p><pre><code> - We took a tax break that specifies some level of in-office time per employee and we already spent the money
- We&#x27;re getting pressured from local governments to bring customers into the city to spend money at local businesses
- We&#x27;ve sunk cost into our little in-person fiefdom and upper management needs the powertrip to justify the headache that is working in upper management
</code></pre>
Obviously this is not an exhaustive list - but it&#x27;s annoying to deal with the deception when looking for jobs or trying to determine if a company is going to pull the rug out for the purposes of &quot;business&quot;.<p>So yes - the CEOs should just own &quot;it&quot;, but so should the politicians and real estate owners&#x2F;investors who are also concerned that their tax base or investment value don&#x27;t hold up to this new model of working.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>MaxHoppersGhost</author><text>Is it crazy to think that working from an office is just more productive? Especially if you’re a big company and have a lot of new grads&#x2F;inexperienced hires that are harder to train up remotely?</text></comment> |
39,131,876 | 39,130,869 | 1 | 2 | 39,128,977 | train | <story><title>Japan's precision moon lander has hit its target, but appears to be upside-down</title><url>https://phys.org/news/2024-01-japan-craft-successful-pin-moon.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>smeej</author><text>&gt; For the pinpoint landing, Sakai said, he would give SLIM a &quot;perfect score.&quot;<p>I get being really, really proud of what you accomplished here, but...<i>perfect</i>? Really? You can&#x27;t think of anything that maybe could have gone better?<p>I know it&#x27;s a much more sophisticated problem than this, but my inner child thinks they just forgot &quot;the planet(oid) has to be &#x27;down&#x27; on both ends of the trajectory.&quot;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>makeitdouble</author><text>Other commentors are already pointing out how we went from kilometers of precision to a target of under 100m for this mission. But in practice, the team is confident it landed within 10m, which is pretty darn good.<p>On the context of the &quot;perfect score&quot;, they initially gave themselves a 60 out of 100 score during their first press conference after the landing, and today a member of the audience explicitely asked them to revise that score knowing what we know now.<p>The speaker made the point that achieving that much of precision is just ground breaking and will completely change how we frame the &quot;where do we land&quot; question from now on,so giving it a perfect score is I think legit.</text></comment> | <story><title>Japan's precision moon lander has hit its target, but appears to be upside-down</title><url>https://phys.org/news/2024-01-japan-craft-successful-pin-moon.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>smeej</author><text>&gt; For the pinpoint landing, Sakai said, he would give SLIM a &quot;perfect score.&quot;<p>I get being really, really proud of what you accomplished here, but...<i>perfect</i>? Really? You can&#x27;t think of anything that maybe could have gone better?<p>I know it&#x27;s a much more sophisticated problem than this, but my inner child thinks they just forgot &quot;the planet(oid) has to be &#x27;down&#x27; on both ends of the trajectory.&quot;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>csa</author><text>&gt; but...perfect? Really? You can&#x27;t think of anything that maybe could have gone better?<p>The context of the comment in the article referred to the “pinpoint landing” aspect of the landing. They narrowed down the landing range from 10,000m (10k) to 100m… two orders of magnitude.<p>From the the article,
emphasis mine:<p>&gt; For the <i>pinpoint</i> landing, Sakai said, he would give SLIM a &quot;perfect score.&quot;<p>&gt; &quot;We demonstrated that we can land where we want,&quot; Sakai said. &quot;We opened a door to a new era.&quot;<p>I don’t know if this comment was made in English or Japanese, but I could see how a very specific comment about the pinpoint aspect of the landing in Japanese could be vague when translated into English.<p>I don’t think anyone is disillusioned enough to think the overall landing was perfect.</text></comment> |
17,004,216 | 17,004,066 | 1 | 2 | 17,003,155 | train | <story><title>Hello Qt for Python</title><url>http://blog.qt.io/blog/2018/05/04/hello-qt-for-python/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>stavros</author><text>What would you recommend to someone who wants to write Python desktop applications today? I&#x27;ve used wxWindows way back when, and I&#x27;d hate to use Electron. Would you go with Qt for Python, or PyQT?<p>Also, what&#x27;s PySide&#x2F;PySide2?</text></item><item><author>mherrmann</author><text>Very happy to hear this as the author of a PyQt-based file manager [1] and an open source library for solving the many headaches that come with developing desktop apps [2]. Once Qt for Python is stable enough, I&#x27;ll be happy to switch to it from PyQt.<p>[1]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;fman.io" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;fman.io</a><p>[2]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;mherrmann&#x2F;fbs" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;mherrmann&#x2F;fbs</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kbumsik</author><text>As you can see, Qt for Python is not yet stable release. So you will want to use PyQt5 first. I remcommand PyQt5 because there are more resouces available on the internet now.<p>PyQt5 and Qt for Python is a 1-to-1 binding to the original Qt and their APIs are almost identical, so you should be able to switch to Qt for Python quite easily when it is stable.<p>By the way, Qt for Python is re-branded from PySide2. They are the same.</text></comment> | <story><title>Hello Qt for Python</title><url>http://blog.qt.io/blog/2018/05/04/hello-qt-for-python/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>stavros</author><text>What would you recommend to someone who wants to write Python desktop applications today? I&#x27;ve used wxWindows way back when, and I&#x27;d hate to use Electron. Would you go with Qt for Python, or PyQT?<p>Also, what&#x27;s PySide&#x2F;PySide2?</text></item><item><author>mherrmann</author><text>Very happy to hear this as the author of a PyQt-based file manager [1] and an open source library for solving the many headaches that come with developing desktop apps [2]. Once Qt for Python is stable enough, I&#x27;ll be happy to switch to it from PyQt.<p>[1]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;fman.io" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;fman.io</a><p>[2]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;mherrmann&#x2F;fbs" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;mherrmann&#x2F;fbs</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>paulie_a</author><text>Wxwindows was a dream to work with. Electron needs to die a fiery death. preferably the corpse is then mauled by bears and tigers</text></comment> |
12,201,061 | 12,200,668 | 1 | 2 | 12,200,266 | train | <story><title>DistroWatch Ubuntu Phone review</title><url>https://distrowatch.com/weekly.php?issue=20160801#ubuntuphone</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>rglullis</author><text>I got the BQ Aquarius 5 a few months ago, after my Moto G2 SIM card stopped working. So when comparing two budget-but-capable-phones, I can say that the hardware on the Ubuntu phone is not the problem.<p>The software they have is great, and I haven&#x27;t seen any half-backed features. The updates are consistent and always bring something interesting. The idea of lenses and scopes are great as an alternative to the lack of common apps. I didn&#x27;t miss not having a weather app or yelp, or youtube or whatever.<p>The one thing that is lacking on Ubuntu Touch are the things that are core to mobile use cases. For example:<p>- I understand that I won&#x27;t get a decent Google Maps app, but there is no real alternative. Here Maps comes installed, but I could not find a way to get public transportation data. uNav seems to do the turn-by-turn navigation, but they don&#x27;t have voice, which is useless when I am on a bike.<p>- There is no decent story for messaging&#x2F;VoIP: You can have Telegram, but also is just a webview wrapper. Messenger, Whatsapp? Nothing. And if at least they had half-decent XMPP&#x2F;SIP clients, I could try to drop the closed services and <i>try</i> to switch my friends and family with me. But what good is a smartphone that I can&#x27;t use to talk or chat?<p>Because of these things, I was basically forced to always be walking around with two phones: the Ubuntu one for connectivity and basic media and as a hotspot for my broken Android, which I would then use when I needed to look into maps or call&#x2F;message someone. The hassle was enough for me to find a replacement board for the SIM card and go back to use only Android for everything. The Ubuntu phone now is in a drawer, waiting for me to get some time to play with application development for Ubuntu Touch.<p>All-in-all, my feeling is that Canonical is close to get its break and make Ubuntu a compelling alternative. It is just not there yet. I also hope that this Moto G was my last Android phone.</text></comment> | <story><title>DistroWatch Ubuntu Phone review</title><url>https://distrowatch.com/weekly.php?issue=20160801#ubuntuphone</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>kogepathic</author><text>&gt; Over the past year and a half I have become accustomed to the idea that I get to run free applications on my phone in exchange for being shown semi-frequent ads. This tended not to bother me most of the time, except when Android apps would suddenly show me full screen videos at high volume.<p>Really? I installed AdAway [1] on my Android phone and since then I have seen no ads. Zero.<p>The only issue is that some legitimate apps don&#x27;t work, because they pull content from sits which are blacklisted (mostly stock ticker apps). I feel that&#x27;s a small price to pay for not having battery and data sucking ads during my phone experience.<p>Yes, it requires root to install the hosts file. That&#x27;s basically a one time event (I rarely update the list and still never see ads) and the battery impact is none because the ad blocking works at DNS level (as opposed to say, a system-wide proxy)<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;f-droid.org&#x2F;repository&#x2F;browse&#x2F;?fdfilter=Adaway&amp;fdid=org.adaway" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;f-droid.org&#x2F;repository&#x2F;browse&#x2F;?fdfilter=Adaway&amp;fdid=...</a></text></comment> |
25,440,347 | 25,439,149 | 1 | 3 | 25,435,652 | train | <story><title>CD Projekt Conference Call with the Management Board [pdf] (Dec 14)</title><url>https://www.cdprojekt.com/en/wp-content/uploads-en/2020/12/call-transcript_en.pdf</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>PragmaticPulp</author><text>You&#x27;re not seeing the issues because you&#x27;re not playing the affected versions. Notice how all of the positive anecdotes are coming from PC players?<p>IGN went so far as to split their Cyberpunk 2077 review into two separate reviews: One for consoles, and one for PC. Quote from the console review:<p>&gt; The Xbox One&#x2F;PS4 version is nearly unrecognizable compared to the PC version.<p>The PC version scored 9&#x2F;10 and the console version scored 4&#x2F;10.<p>They also concluded that console gamers should request a refund from CDPR as soon as possible. I suspect console gamers are requesting refunds in droves due to the issues, which is surely going to impact their long-term sales projections.</text></item><item><author>dotdi</author><text>I see CDPR being bashed a lot and I wanted to chip in: I bought the game on release day on GOG and am playing it on a Macbook Pro via Geforce Now.<p>It&#x27;s running very well for me. I&#x27;ve had 0 crashes. Very few glitches, and if, then they were cosmetic i.e. didn&#x27;t cause any gameplay problems†.<p>The visuals are absolutely amazing. Combat is very nice. The skill tree is interesting. Night city is beautifully immersive and the story is thrilling. I&#x27;m not much of a gamer, but I feel that I&#x27;ll sink a large amount of time into this game. As of now, I can&#x27;t stop thinking about the game when I&#x27;m away from it.<p>† Although I almost had a heart attack as one time a bad guy that I had taken down just got up and sat back down on the bench he was sitting on before. He was still &quot;dead&quot; but just chilling on the bench. Hidden zombie mode?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>blub</author><text>I&#x27;m playing on the PS4 slim and yes, there were some crashes and some graphics bugs, but so far the game&#x27;s at least a solid 8 for me. I was actually worried while downloading and reading all the comments from the doomsayers on reddit, but I figured that they will eventually fix the bugs and I do like Deus Ex-style games so I don&#x27;t really have much to lose by getting it now.<p>If one liked Deus Ex: Mankind divided they will like Cyberpunk 2077.</text></comment> | <story><title>CD Projekt Conference Call with the Management Board [pdf] (Dec 14)</title><url>https://www.cdprojekt.com/en/wp-content/uploads-en/2020/12/call-transcript_en.pdf</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>PragmaticPulp</author><text>You&#x27;re not seeing the issues because you&#x27;re not playing the affected versions. Notice how all of the positive anecdotes are coming from PC players?<p>IGN went so far as to split their Cyberpunk 2077 review into two separate reviews: One for consoles, and one for PC. Quote from the console review:<p>&gt; The Xbox One&#x2F;PS4 version is nearly unrecognizable compared to the PC version.<p>The PC version scored 9&#x2F;10 and the console version scored 4&#x2F;10.<p>They also concluded that console gamers should request a refund from CDPR as soon as possible. I suspect console gamers are requesting refunds in droves due to the issues, which is surely going to impact their long-term sales projections.</text></item><item><author>dotdi</author><text>I see CDPR being bashed a lot and I wanted to chip in: I bought the game on release day on GOG and am playing it on a Macbook Pro via Geforce Now.<p>It&#x27;s running very well for me. I&#x27;ve had 0 crashes. Very few glitches, and if, then they were cosmetic i.e. didn&#x27;t cause any gameplay problems†.<p>The visuals are absolutely amazing. Combat is very nice. The skill tree is interesting. Night city is beautifully immersive and the story is thrilling. I&#x27;m not much of a gamer, but I feel that I&#x27;ll sink a large amount of time into this game. As of now, I can&#x27;t stop thinking about the game when I&#x27;m away from it.<p>† Although I almost had a heart attack as one time a bad guy that I had taken down just got up and sat back down on the bench he was sitting on before. He was still &quot;dead&quot; but just chilling on the bench. Hidden zombie mode?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mike_d</author><text>&gt; The PC version scored 9&#x2F;10 and the console version scored 4&#x2F;10.<p>CD Projekt games historically have been PC with console ports after launch. They probably would have done the same here if not being pushed to be a launch title for &quot;next gen&quot; consoles.<p>I think Sony&#x2F;Microsoft are just as much to blame. They also had to QA the game and sign off on it.</text></comment> |
11,606,687 | 11,606,309 | 1 | 2 | 11,605,600 | train | <story><title>The Increasing Problem with the Misinformed</title><url>https://www.baekdal.com/analysis/the-increasing-problem-with-the-misinformed</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>AlldenKope</author><text>1. Arguably the biggest misinformation problem involves scale. Media spends a lot of time talking about something of relatively small impact, like guns, or transgender bathroom protocols - and these are important - but practically neglible compared with, say, discussing solutions to large-scale problems like poverty&#x2F;income inequality, or mosquitoes and communicable disease - which is exacerbated by climate change, which drives droughts and more poverty, which makes calls to jihad more appealing to disenfranchised young men, and so on. Not that we must always think big picture - part of solving big problems involves breaking them up into smaller problems, but the amount of time devoted to addressing issues of critical importance to our society is grossly disproportionate compared with issues where the magnetism is primarily emotional.<p>2. This article doesn’t really address a) Politifact’s cherry-picking or b) its ownership. Want to paint a politician as more honest? Fact check more statements from them that you know to be true. As long as the aggregate score tops the competition you’re against, you’ve nudged your readership. The article also doesn’t go into ownership - Politifact is owned by a newspaper who has endorsed a candidate, who in turn has owners with interests.<p>3. As for sites that explain the news, there should be more of them to emphasize what’s important and why, and what the potential solutions are. Sites like Vox, however, are biased and often intellectually dishonest. They’ll use opinion as evidence for their conclusions. See for example (adblockers on) an article where they are claiming to assess media bias against Sanders, and say things like he is “at sea in foreign policy” without providing any evidence or analysis to support that claim. Even 538 - though I admire their data-driven approach - write scathing editorials against Trump. I don’t like Trump, but to say 538’s journalism is objective is to admit illiteracy. See headlines like “Trump doesn’t have a monopoly on intolerant supporters”.</text></comment> | <story><title>The Increasing Problem with the Misinformed</title><url>https://www.baekdal.com/analysis/the-increasing-problem-with-the-misinformed</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>whack</author><text>I agree with the article&#x27;s premise that a misinformed public is dangerous to democracy, but I disagree with the premise that this is a new development. The public has always been misinformed for one simple reason: everyone loves to form opinions on how things ought to be, but few people feel the need to do the research and homework needed to actually form credible opinions on the topic.<p>This is not a popular thing to say, but democracy would work a lot better if misinformed people were simply not allowed to vote: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;outlookzen.wordpress.com&#x2F;2014&#x2F;01&#x2F;21&#x2F;democracy-by-jury&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;outlookzen.wordpress.com&#x2F;2014&#x2F;01&#x2F;21&#x2F;democracy-by-jur...</a></text></comment> |
31,103,928 | 31,103,754 | 1 | 2 | 31,099,791 | train | <story><title>If founders treated investors the way they treat employees</title><url>https://software.rajivprab.com/2020/08/18/if-founders-treated-their-investors-the-same-way-they-treated-their-employees/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>carlosdp</author><text>Every time one of these is written, it comes off as if the 90-day window is something startups came up with to try and screw employees.<p>A reminder that the 90-day window is a requirement by law in order for options to qualify as Incentive Stock Options, and receive favorable tax treatment for employees [1].<p>If you want to do 10-yr exercise, that&#x27;s fine, but until the law is changed those will be NSOs and not receive that special tax treatment and will be taxed on exercise instead of on sale.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cooleygo.com&#x2F;isos-v-nsos-whats-the-difference&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cooleygo.com&#x2F;isos-v-nsos-whats-the-difference&#x2F;</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jkaplowitz</author><text>That&#x27;s true and it&#x27;s not true.<p>An increasing number of startups issue their grants such that they qualify as ISOs if exercised within the 90-day window but automatically convert to NSOs 90 days after departure (with the actual exercise deadline dependent on employee tenure), so that the employee and their tax advisors at time of departure get to decide how to handle the tradeoff of more time for reflection vs better tax treatment.<p>What&#x27;s more, if an employee gets more than $100k of exercisable options in a year - very possible especially in cases where early exercise is allowed - only $100k of those are treated as ISOs. There&#x27;s no way in which the tax law privileges a short post-termination exercise period for the excess above $100k.<p>Last, some companies use the same options plan both inside the US and outside, including my two most recent employers. Most employees working outside the US, with some exceptions like US citizens and green card holders, wouldn&#x27;t have to care about this US tax law nuance.</text></comment> | <story><title>If founders treated investors the way they treat employees</title><url>https://software.rajivprab.com/2020/08/18/if-founders-treated-their-investors-the-same-way-they-treated-their-employees/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>carlosdp</author><text>Every time one of these is written, it comes off as if the 90-day window is something startups came up with to try and screw employees.<p>A reminder that the 90-day window is a requirement by law in order for options to qualify as Incentive Stock Options, and receive favorable tax treatment for employees [1].<p>If you want to do 10-yr exercise, that&#x27;s fine, but until the law is changed those will be NSOs and not receive that special tax treatment and will be taxed on exercise instead of on sale.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cooleygo.com&#x2F;isos-v-nsos-whats-the-difference&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cooleygo.com&#x2F;isos-v-nsos-whats-the-difference&#x2F;</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>woah</author><text>There was a talk that&#x27;s been shared on here from Ben Horowitz where he explicitly pitches the 90-day window as a way to screw employees. That&#x27;s probably where the perception comes from:<p>&gt; The second way to handle it - no companies do this, which is why I actually really like this post that he wrote - is you can say up front, &quot; Look you are guaranteed to get your salary but for your stock to be meaningful, these are the things that have to happened. You have to have vested. Two, you have to stay until we get to an exit. Untile the company makes it. You&#x27;ve got other money.&quot; Finally, the company actually has to be worth something. Because 10 percent of nothing is nothing. The reason we set the policy this way is we really value people who stay. So don&#x27;t join this company if you are going to join another one in 18 months because you&#x27;re going to get screwed. Our policy guarantees you&#x27;re going to get screwed.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;genius.com&#x2F;B-horowitz-lecture-15-how-to-manage-annotated" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;genius.com&#x2F;B-horowitz-lecture-15-how-to-manage-annot...</a></text></comment> |
9,666,910 | 9,666,685 | 1 | 2 | 9,666,013 | train | <story><title>Autopsy: Lessons from Failed Startups</title><url>http://autopsy.io/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>feedjoelpie</author><text>I am 100% serious, by the way. People have the most ridiculous ideas about why things failed and how it will totally work next time. If they just follow these ego-comforting steps that don&#x27;t even begin to address the problem.<p>My top at-a-glance eye-roller says <i>&quot;technical co-founder quit &amp; pulled the code out from under me&quot;</i>.<p>So completely neglectful of basic business structuring that the tech co-founder could just walk away with the code, to which you don&#x27;t have copyright claim? If a non-technical co-founder can&#x27;t even bring responsible management to the table, why are they at the table?<p>Article goes on to suggest that if the non-technical co-founder had learned to code so as to not feel so helpless, things would have gone better. Just wow.</text></item><item><author>feedjoelpie</author><text>Can we vote on which ones accurately assess their failings and which ones still harbor serious delusions about them?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nostrademons</author><text>At a startup (before traction, employees, etc.), you are pretty much doomed if your technical cofounder quits even if you&#x27;ve structured the company with vesting, ownership of IP, etc. All the domain knowledge, architectural knowledge, etc. goes out the window when the person who wrote all the code leaves. It&#x27;s very hard to drop someone else into an unfamiliar codebase and have them pick up where the original person left off, and you probably would&#x27;ve made many different decisions (about product, platform, languages, architecture) with a different team.<p>The real fail there is poor relationship management. <i>Why</i> did the cofounder quit? What was running through their head? Did they not really want to commit to a startup in the first place, in which case the business founder should&#x27;ve vetted them more thoroughly before starting the company? Or did they lose trust in the business founder&#x27;s leadership, market knowledge, and integrity? Were their incentives never aligned to begin with?</text></comment> | <story><title>Autopsy: Lessons from Failed Startups</title><url>http://autopsy.io/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>feedjoelpie</author><text>I am 100% serious, by the way. People have the most ridiculous ideas about why things failed and how it will totally work next time. If they just follow these ego-comforting steps that don&#x27;t even begin to address the problem.<p>My top at-a-glance eye-roller says <i>&quot;technical co-founder quit &amp; pulled the code out from under me&quot;</i>.<p>So completely neglectful of basic business structuring that the tech co-founder could just walk away with the code, to which you don&#x27;t have copyright claim? If a non-technical co-founder can&#x27;t even bring responsible management to the table, why are they at the table?<p>Article goes on to suggest that if the non-technical co-founder had learned to code so as to not feel so helpless, things would have gone better. Just wow.</text></item><item><author>feedjoelpie</author><text>Can we vote on which ones accurately assess their failings and which ones still harbor serious delusions about them?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>chrismarlow9</author><text>Heh, yeah I would advise if you&#x27;re the &quot;find funding&quot; type of serial entrepreneur to think long and hard about what you write there. It may come back to bite you.</text></comment> |
29,089,193 | 29,088,923 | 1 | 2 | 29,088,134 | train | <story><title>The Architecture of Open Source Applications: Nginx (2012)</title><url>https://aosabook.org/en/nginx.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>codetrotter</author><text>I used to use Nginx for a long while, but for the past several years I’ve been using Caddy instead and it’s been serving me well. Caddy, like Nginx, is open source.<p>What originally made me switch is how dead simple it was to set up Caddy to use Let’s Encrypt with renewal via DNS records using the Caddy Cloudflare plugin. It’s basically just download Caddy with the plugin (or build from source if you prefer), generate token for domain in Cloudflare, paste token into Caddy config file and never worry about it again.<p>The reason that DNS based Let’s Encrypt renewal is superior is that you can even use it on servers that are not serving the site to the Internet. And aside from that just how simple, reliable and free of worry the setup is with Caddy and the Caddy Cloudflare plugin.</text></comment> | <story><title>The Architecture of Open Source Applications: Nginx (2012)</title><url>https://aosabook.org/en/nginx.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>brundolf</author><text>&gt; nginx (pronounced &quot;engine x&quot;) is a free open source web server<p>As a relatively young dev, the idea of a &quot;web server&quot; as a standalone binary that serves your application (vs a library that you use to write your own &quot;server&quot;) feels strange.<p>Of course nginx is more than that- in my limited experience I mostly see it used as a static file server and&#x2F;or reverse-proxy and&#x2F;or load balancer. But I believe (someone correct me if I&#x27;m wrong) that the classic Apache-style paradigm was to have &quot;the server&quot; be generic and explicitly support certain application languages, which it knows how to load and interpret for handling requests.</text></comment> |
34,260,855 | 34,260,863 | 1 | 2 | 34,260,283 | train | <story><title>Investors conclude that Tesla is a carmaker, not a tech firm</title><url>https://www.economist.com/business/2023/01/04/investors-conclude-that-tesla-is-a-carmaker-not-a-tech-firm</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>judge2020</author><text>The difference seems to be that Tesla was 5-10 years ahead on everything: Minimalistic interiors, modern infotainment, mobile app performance, and of course they lead the way in making electric cars viable by showing that they can both look good and blast off in record time. But you&#x27;re right that other automakers see Tesla as a threat and are catching up; for example, the range and charging curve improvements on models like the EV6 &#x2F; Ioniq 5 look great, assuming the charger work [in the cold].</text></item><item><author>msoad</author><text>I have a Tesla and I also hold a short position on TSLA. My Tesla is a great car. The best car that I&#x27;ve ever driven but I&#x27;m not sure if it has anything that other car manufacturers can&#x27;t replicate. I think Apple can make an even better car than Tesla if they build the hardware and software like their phones and computers.<p>The idea that Autopilot has some magic sauce that nobody else can replicate is laughable.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>cainxinth</author><text>&gt; Minimalistic interiors, modern infotainment, mobile app performance<p>None of that is why Tesla was ahead of everyone for so long.<p>It&#x27;s because their cars have better range, and Tesla is still the range leader. They held four of the top six spots in 2022, and the number one is the Lucid Air (only 3k of them have actually been sold):<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.caranddriver.com&#x2F;shopping-advice&#x2F;g32634624&#x2F;ev-longest-driving-range&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.caranddriver.com&#x2F;shopping-advice&#x2F;g32634624&#x2F;ev-lo...</a><p>Also, I just want to say I am categorically not an Elon or Tesla fanboi and I am rooting for other brands to meet and exceed their range performance.</text></comment> | <story><title>Investors conclude that Tesla is a carmaker, not a tech firm</title><url>https://www.economist.com/business/2023/01/04/investors-conclude-that-tesla-is-a-carmaker-not-a-tech-firm</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>judge2020</author><text>The difference seems to be that Tesla was 5-10 years ahead on everything: Minimalistic interiors, modern infotainment, mobile app performance, and of course they lead the way in making electric cars viable by showing that they can both look good and blast off in record time. But you&#x27;re right that other automakers see Tesla as a threat and are catching up; for example, the range and charging curve improvements on models like the EV6 &#x2F; Ioniq 5 look great, assuming the charger work [in the cold].</text></item><item><author>msoad</author><text>I have a Tesla and I also hold a short position on TSLA. My Tesla is a great car. The best car that I&#x27;ve ever driven but I&#x27;m not sure if it has anything that other car manufacturers can&#x27;t replicate. I think Apple can make an even better car than Tesla if they build the hardware and software like their phones and computers.<p>The idea that Autopilot has some magic sauce that nobody else can replicate is laughable.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bartread</author><text>&gt; Minimalistic interiors<p>Is this something you see as a benefit? For me Tesla&#x27;s overall aesthetic, including both their exterior looks and interior design, along with the absence of physical controls that go long with that represent their biggest downsides (outside of build quality).</text></comment> |
4,721,742 | 4,721,354 | 1 | 2 | 4,721,165 | train | <story><title>Time Spent Waiting for an Answer in StackOverflow (by language)</title><url>http://blog.guillermowinkler.com/blog/2012/10/30/how-long-waiting-for-an-answer-in-stackoverflow/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>doesnt_know</author><text>Strange that there is no Python there.<p>[Insert joke about Python being so intuitive and easy to use no one asks questions about it].</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>fuzzix</author><text>"[Insert joke about Python being so intuitive and easy to use no one asks questions about it]."<p>Hey, that must be true of Perl too! :)</text></comment> | <story><title>Time Spent Waiting for an Answer in StackOverflow (by language)</title><url>http://blog.guillermowinkler.com/blog/2012/10/30/how-long-waiting-for-an-answer-in-stackoverflow/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>doesnt_know</author><text>Strange that there is no Python there.<p>[Insert joke about Python being so intuitive and easy to use no one asks questions about it].</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>quink</author><text>I'll bite, in response to the average time being just over half an hour.<p>&#62; I think the time is higher than that of PHP or JavaScript because almost everything is just soooo easy with Python, so only questions with at least a bit of complexity get asked.</text></comment> |
15,600,547 | 15,598,767 | 1 | 2 | 15,598,429 | train | <story><title>Risk of false positives in fMRI of post-mortem Atlantic salmon (2010) [pdf]</title><url>https://www.dropbox.com/s/o7gb13j26v9f4dp/Bennett-Salmon-2010.pdf?dl=0</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>_qbxp</author><text>I was doing fMRI work around the time this paper was published. It astonished me that people would simply set an uncorrected voxel-level threshold and call it a day. No FWE-correction, no cluster-threshold - just an 0.001 uncorrected threshold. It was sad that this paper needed to be published to get researchers to start paying attention to that.<p>I&#x27;ll be honest - when the paper was published I was thinking &quot;no shit - why do we need a paper to tell us what we all learned in stats 101 about multiple comparisons??&quot; And then realized the quantity of fMRI papers that used uncorrected thresholds.<p>Very similar feeling when the &quot;Voodoo Correlations&quot; paper came out. Except I was admittedly guilty of having presented correlation coefficients from clusters that had already been identified using thresholding. So that paper really did make me take a closer look at some of my figures&#x2F;conclusions.</text></comment> | <story><title>Risk of false positives in fMRI of post-mortem Atlantic salmon (2010) [pdf]</title><url>https://www.dropbox.com/s/o7gb13j26v9f4dp/Bennett-Salmon-2010.pdf?dl=0</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>prefrontal</author><text>Hey all. I’m the author of the poster and subsequent paper. Happy to answer any questions that you might have.<p>Glad to see this on Hacker News so many years after the poster first went up!</text></comment> |
6,117,127 | 6,116,284 | 1 | 2 | 6,115,810 | train | <story><title>Sleepwalking into censorship</title><url>https://www.openrightsgroup.org/blog/2013/sleepwalking-into-censorship</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>binarymax</author><text><i>[X] Extremist and terrorist related content</i><p>That to me looks like a big red flag to classify you as a terrorist if you uncheck the box, if they decide later they don&#x27;t like you for some other reason.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rmc</author><text>Don&#x27;t worry! The UK Government <i>never</i> misuses terrorism laws or brings in heavy handed anti-terrorism laws! Just ask all the people in Northern Ireland!</text></comment> | <story><title>Sleepwalking into censorship</title><url>https://www.openrightsgroup.org/blog/2013/sleepwalking-into-censorship</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>binarymax</author><text><i>[X] Extremist and terrorist related content</i><p>That to me looks like a big red flag to classify you as a terrorist if you uncheck the box, if they decide later they don&#x27;t like you for some other reason.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>turbojerry</author><text>Every security &#x2F; defence researcher and consultant in the country will now be labeled a terrorist, making their work harder and the country less secure.</text></comment> |
19,108,331 | 19,108,555 | 1 | 3 | 19,106,767 | train | <story><title>When AWS Autoscale Doesn’t</title><url>https://segment.com/blog/when-aws-autoscale-doesn-t/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>DVassallo</author><text>The way I&#x27;ve been happiest using EC2 Auto Scaling was to have a single cron-job continuously calculating how many instances I should be running, and it sets the desired capacity manually with the Auto Scaling API[1]. This may seem to defeat the purpose of Auto Scaling, but it&#x27;s actually much more convenient than spinning up&#x2F;down EC2 instances with the EC2 API. You get to precisely control how to scale, and won&#x27;t be at the mercy of the Auto Scaling heuristics.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;docs.aws.amazon.com&#x2F;autoscaling&#x2F;ec2&#x2F;userguide&#x2F;as-manual-scaling.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;docs.aws.amazon.com&#x2F;autoscaling&#x2F;ec2&#x2F;userguide&#x2F;as-man...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>samstave</author><text>So we had this cause a spectacular outage a few years ago.<p>We were doing exactly this - but we had a flaw: we didnt handle the case when the AWS API was actually down.<p>So we were constantly monitoring for how many running instances we had - but when the API went down, just as we were ramping up for our peak traffic - the system thought that none were running because the API was down - so it just kept continually launching instances.<p>The increased scale of instances pummeled the control plane
with thousands of instances all trying to come online and pull down their needed data to get operational -- which them killed our DBs, pipeline etc...<p>We had to reboot our entire production environment at peak service time...</text></comment> | <story><title>When AWS Autoscale Doesn’t</title><url>https://segment.com/blog/when-aws-autoscale-doesn-t/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>DVassallo</author><text>The way I&#x27;ve been happiest using EC2 Auto Scaling was to have a single cron-job continuously calculating how many instances I should be running, and it sets the desired capacity manually with the Auto Scaling API[1]. This may seem to defeat the purpose of Auto Scaling, but it&#x27;s actually much more convenient than spinning up&#x2F;down EC2 instances with the EC2 API. You get to precisely control how to scale, and won&#x27;t be at the mercy of the Auto Scaling heuristics.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;docs.aws.amazon.com&#x2F;autoscaling&#x2F;ec2&#x2F;userguide&#x2F;as-manual-scaling.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;docs.aws.amazon.com&#x2F;autoscaling&#x2F;ec2&#x2F;userguide&#x2F;as-man...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>cdoxsey</author><text>This is how the cluster-autoscaler works in kubernetes. It sets the desired capacity based on the number of pods needing to be scheduled.<p>Coupled with a horizontal pod autoscaler (which sets the replica count based on a metric) you get the best of both worlds.</text></comment> |
27,128,463 | 27,127,868 | 1 | 2 | 27,125,728 | train | <story><title>Lasting immunity found after recovery from Covid-19</title><url>https://www.nih.gov/news-events/nih-research-matters/lasting-immunity-found-after-recovery-covid-19</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>thwarted</author><text>This is getting stupid, if it wasn&#x27;t already.<p>Requiring vaccination is &quot;curtailing liberties&quot;.<p>Restricting movement due not being vaccinated is &quot;curtailing liberties&quot;.<p>No shit. One can either be part of society or not. Society has minimum requirements if one wants to participate. One is free—exercise their liberty—to live as a hermit if they don&#x27;t want to do either of these things. That&#x27;s the price of admission of getting the benefits, whatever they may be, of interacting with other people. Added bonus, the rest of us don&#x27;t need to hear about hermits complaining about their liberties then too.<p>Building sewage management infrastructure is not curtailing liberties. There is very little noise made about having to give up liberties because of the majority of other public works. Civilization decided that shitting on the sidewalk is not something that should be encouraged or condoned, so here we are with our sewage management infrastructure. We gain the freedom of <i>not</i> having to dig a hole and maintain an outhouse.<p>No one is giving up any &quot;liberties&quot; by getting vaccinated, but it&#x27;s more likely they are acquiring liberties by getting vaccinated. At the very least it&#x27;s the liberty of reducing the risk of dying.<p>This is all a &quot;I don&#x27;t want to do what you said I should do purely because you said it&quot;. Fine. The rest of us are at liberty to exclude or chastise these people.</text></item><item><author>radu_floricica</author><text>I agree with your points, but I&#x27;d really really like to avoid giving the impression of... glee? &quot;Look at those unwashed unvaccinated Trump supporters, so good they&#x27;ll be forced to do things our ways now!&quot;. I&#x27;m not saying you&#x27;re doing it, I&#x27;m just piggybacking on your comment.<p>I&#x27;m pretty much a high-modernist when it comes to vaccines - I think that having governments build sewage and create vaccines go into the same category of &quot;damn useful for civilization&quot;. But it does involve curtailing liberties, and I just can&#x27;t put it in a &quot;fell good&quot; category.</text></item><item><author>Cederfjard</author><text>&gt; Thus limiting those that are not vaccinated and making it difficult to move freely for them.<p>&gt; ... that effectively will force many to be vaccinated.<p>Yup, that’s the point.<p>No man is an island. You already can’t walk around doing literally whatever you want just because it’s your body you’re doing it with. You depend on other people, and other people depend on you (or at least can’t avoid intermingling with you, especially if you decide to travel internationally). Those who don’t get vaccinated slow down our recovery from the pandemic, putting other people’s health and lives at risk. Society has to make these trade-offs, and this one seems very reasonable to me.</text></item><item><author>sharken</author><text>Thus limiting those that are not vaccinated and making it difficult to move freely for them.<p>The travel pass is a horrible idea, that effectively will force many to be vaccinated.<p>That should not be the european way.</text></item><item><author>walterbell</author><text>For those in the EU, the upcoming travel pass will cover three categories of people: vaccinated, PCR-tested negative, and recovered (i.e. positive antibody test of immunity), <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.schengenvisainfo.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;all-your-questions-on-eus-covid-19-vaccine-certificate-answered&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.schengenvisainfo.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;all-your-questions-on-...</a><p><i>&gt; For travellers who have recovered from the virus: date of the positive test result, an issuer of the certificate, date of issuance, validity date</i><p>The bureaucratic stumbling block will be agreement on antibody and T-cell testing definitions across country borders.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>radu_floricica</author><text>Except putting &quot;curtailing liberties&quot; into scare quotes, what are you saying, exactly?<p>This is exactly the kind of tone and comment I was speaking against. I am _pro_ vaccinations, I am _pro_ making them soft-mandatory, I was even pro other restrictions back before vaccines. All I said, in a rather moderate tone, is that I disagree with being happy about the downsides. Somehow in the kind of comments I&#x27;m speaking against, yours included, I don&#x27;t see happiness that we&#x27;re getting vaccinated per se. I don&#x27;t see &quot;yey, poeple won&#x27;t be dying any more&quot;. I see a lot of &quot;chastise these people&quot;.<p>I also see quite a lot of scare quotes and misrepresentation. I didn&#x27;t say sewage was a restriction - I gave it as positive example. I didn&#x27;t say (WHO would even say that?) that getting a vaccine is giving up liberties. That&#x27;s stupid, really, it doesn&#x27;t even make sense. I will say that not being able to do stuff without being vaccinated is a restriction. A worthy one, yes, and one I totally agree with, but by god, how can you even try to spin ... I&#x27;m not even sure what you&#x27;re trying to spin, because the more I read your comment the more I realize it&#x27;s just appeal to emotion and void of content.<p>Are you free to rant against categories of people? Yes. I just said it&#x27;s not a nice thing to do, is all.</text></comment> | <story><title>Lasting immunity found after recovery from Covid-19</title><url>https://www.nih.gov/news-events/nih-research-matters/lasting-immunity-found-after-recovery-covid-19</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>thwarted</author><text>This is getting stupid, if it wasn&#x27;t already.<p>Requiring vaccination is &quot;curtailing liberties&quot;.<p>Restricting movement due not being vaccinated is &quot;curtailing liberties&quot;.<p>No shit. One can either be part of society or not. Society has minimum requirements if one wants to participate. One is free—exercise their liberty—to live as a hermit if they don&#x27;t want to do either of these things. That&#x27;s the price of admission of getting the benefits, whatever they may be, of interacting with other people. Added bonus, the rest of us don&#x27;t need to hear about hermits complaining about their liberties then too.<p>Building sewage management infrastructure is not curtailing liberties. There is very little noise made about having to give up liberties because of the majority of other public works. Civilization decided that shitting on the sidewalk is not something that should be encouraged or condoned, so here we are with our sewage management infrastructure. We gain the freedom of <i>not</i> having to dig a hole and maintain an outhouse.<p>No one is giving up any &quot;liberties&quot; by getting vaccinated, but it&#x27;s more likely they are acquiring liberties by getting vaccinated. At the very least it&#x27;s the liberty of reducing the risk of dying.<p>This is all a &quot;I don&#x27;t want to do what you said I should do purely because you said it&quot;. Fine. The rest of us are at liberty to exclude or chastise these people.</text></item><item><author>radu_floricica</author><text>I agree with your points, but I&#x27;d really really like to avoid giving the impression of... glee? &quot;Look at those unwashed unvaccinated Trump supporters, so good they&#x27;ll be forced to do things our ways now!&quot;. I&#x27;m not saying you&#x27;re doing it, I&#x27;m just piggybacking on your comment.<p>I&#x27;m pretty much a high-modernist when it comes to vaccines - I think that having governments build sewage and create vaccines go into the same category of &quot;damn useful for civilization&quot;. But it does involve curtailing liberties, and I just can&#x27;t put it in a &quot;fell good&quot; category.</text></item><item><author>Cederfjard</author><text>&gt; Thus limiting those that are not vaccinated and making it difficult to move freely for them.<p>&gt; ... that effectively will force many to be vaccinated.<p>Yup, that’s the point.<p>No man is an island. You already can’t walk around doing literally whatever you want just because it’s your body you’re doing it with. You depend on other people, and other people depend on you (or at least can’t avoid intermingling with you, especially if you decide to travel internationally). Those who don’t get vaccinated slow down our recovery from the pandemic, putting other people’s health and lives at risk. Society has to make these trade-offs, and this one seems very reasonable to me.</text></item><item><author>sharken</author><text>Thus limiting those that are not vaccinated and making it difficult to move freely for them.<p>The travel pass is a horrible idea, that effectively will force many to be vaccinated.<p>That should not be the european way.</text></item><item><author>walterbell</author><text>For those in the EU, the upcoming travel pass will cover three categories of people: vaccinated, PCR-tested negative, and recovered (i.e. positive antibody test of immunity), <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.schengenvisainfo.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;all-your-questions-on-eus-covid-19-vaccine-certificate-answered&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.schengenvisainfo.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;all-your-questions-on-...</a><p><i>&gt; For travellers who have recovered from the virus: date of the positive test result, an issuer of the certificate, date of issuance, validity date</i><p>The bureaucratic stumbling block will be agreement on antibody and T-cell testing definitions across country borders.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mns</author><text>&gt; No one is giving up any &quot;liberties&quot; by getting vaccinated, but it&#x27;s more likely they are acquiring liberties by getting vaccinated. At the very least it&#x27;s the liberty of reducing the risk of dying.<p>As a person waiting to get his booster shot next week, I find this quite concerning. Those liberties we had and were taken away from us. Nobody cares about people dying. I am sitting now next to my mom who 1 month ago was diagnosed with terminal secondary cancer after all her check-ups were cancelled last year. So yeah, nobody gives a damn about anything else than seeming virtuos and better than others online. But no one cares any more about any other diseases or other people that are suffering, it’s all social signaling for the rich and well off people to show how moral they are, all while their lifestyle is supported by those that can’t afford to have any liberties.</text></comment> |
9,896,929 | 9,895,333 | 1 | 3 | 9,894,237 | train | <story><title>Potato paradox</title><url>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potato_paradox</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>chestervonwinch</author><text>Neat. This bumps up my list of food-related maths from 3 to 4. So far:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Ham_sandwich_theorem" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Ham_sandwich_theorem</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Pizza_theorem" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Pizza_theorem</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Layer_cake_representation" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Layer_cake_representation</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>gjm11</author><text>One of the people I went to university with had a little (very short) mental catalogue of &quot;chromatic mathematical fruit jokes&quot;. There are exactly two famous ones. &quot;What&#x27;s purple and commutes?&quot; &quot;An abelian grape.&quot; And: &quot;What&#x27;s yellow and equivalent to the axiom of choice?&quot; &quot;Zorn&#x27;s lemon.&quot; He invented another, which requires more esoteric knowledge: &quot;What&#x27;s green and determined up to isomorphism by its first Chern class?&quot; &quot;A lime bundle.&quot; I don&#x27;t remember whether anyone found a credible fourth example.<p>(Oh, how we laughed.)<p>[In case anyone reading this thinks the above might be amusing if only they knew what mathematical objects were actually being referred to: (1) No, probably not. (2) Abelian group; Zorn&#x27;s lemma; line bundle. For the last one, you need to make it the first <i>Stiefel-Whitney</i> class if you&#x27;re working over the real numbers rather than the complex numbers.]</text></comment> | <story><title>Potato paradox</title><url>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potato_paradox</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>chestervonwinch</author><text>Neat. This bumps up my list of food-related maths from 3 to 4. So far:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Ham_sandwich_theorem" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Ham_sandwich_theorem</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Pizza_theorem" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Pizza_theorem</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Layer_cake_representation" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Layer_cake_representation</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>leohutson</author><text>You can add <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Pancake_sorting" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Pancake_sorting</a></text></comment> |
9,477,493 | 9,477,500 | 1 | 2 | 9,477,014 | train | <story><title>Evaluation of C, Go, and Rust in the HPC environment [pdf]</title><url>http://octarineparrot.com/assets/mrfloya-thesis-ba.pdf</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>bsdetector</author><text>The author has a &quot;lack of equal experience in the three evaluated languages&quot;, especially C, but is comparing them for development time and SLOC based on a sample size of one developer and one very small program.<p>He rewrites a distributed program as a threaded one, because Rust and Go didn&#x27;t have a distributed computing library, but says Go and Rust have &quot;similar performance&quot; in HPC.<p>He says he was surprised at the C performance, but there&#x27;s no investigation of a cause. Maybe just because C is slow...<p>I don&#x27;t mean to be overly critical, but these results in the paper mean absolutely nothing. It&#x27;s a waste of time.</text></comment> | <story><title>Evaluation of C, Go, and Rust in the HPC environment [pdf]</title><url>http://octarineparrot.com/assets/mrfloya-thesis-ba.pdf</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>dgacmu</author><text>The problem with reading this in BS thesis form is that it hasn&#x27;t gone through the wringer enough. Most of the performance comparison results vs C are bogus because (to its credit, as noted), the author accidentally compiled some important support libraries for the C version <i>without optimization</i> and used those on the cluster. Oopsie.<p><i>As briefly mentioned in the previous chapter this performance regression might have been caused by the two unoptimized libraries that were compiled on the development laptop and copied to the cluster.</i></text></comment> |
4,024,111 | 4,024,249 | 1 | 2 | 4,023,765 | train | <story><title>Facebook To Buy Opera? Maybe.</title><url>http://thenextweb.com/insider/2012/05/25/facebook-to-acquire-browser-maker-opera-maybe-heres-what-we-know/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>damoncali</author><text>Can you imagine the privacy issues of Facebook owning a browser? I'd be afraid to install the damn thing.<p>Edit: For those who point out Google, I would argue that Google has demonstrated only a desire to show me ads (which I actually like). Facebook has demonstrated a desire to show everyone everything.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>forgotusername</author><text>After all, none of the other data-hungry vendors address bars behave exactly like a keylogger (<i>cough</i> Chrome)</text></comment> | <story><title>Facebook To Buy Opera? Maybe.</title><url>http://thenextweb.com/insider/2012/05/25/facebook-to-acquire-browser-maker-opera-maybe-heres-what-we-know/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>damoncali</author><text>Can you imagine the privacy issues of Facebook owning a browser? I'd be afraid to install the damn thing.<p>Edit: For those who point out Google, I would argue that Google has demonstrated only a desire to show me ads (which I actually like). Facebook has demonstrated a desire to show everyone everything.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ticks</author><text>A browser is troubling but you can opt-out by using a competitor (I think that's a reason why Google still supports Firefox). It's when they start buying ISPs that you should treat it seriously because that's an attempt to control the platform from the street to the servers.</text></comment> |
27,879,316 | 27,879,144 | 1 | 2 | 27,874,527 | train | <story><title>Right or left, you should be worried about big tech censorship</title><url>https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/07/right-or-left-you-should-be-worried-about-big-tech-censorship</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Nevermark</author><text>Big tech censorship will not solved without addressing the other half of a problem with two sides.<p>Without systems that promote quality, non-ideological, nuanced, original, tolerant dialogue we will keep running into the false dilemma of unmoderated cess pools or heavy handed moderation.<p>If we are to avoid this dilemma we need systems that organically promote constructive, tolerant and inclusive communication, and original, nuanced, intelligent, non-ideological ideas, instead of the opposite.<p>This cannot be done by organizations whose profit incentive is aligned with user attention instead of user satisfaction.<p>Those organizations benefit from degraded communication until strong moderation is both continually demanded and decried.<p>---<p>On a side note, I am so disappointed in the constant framing of ideas as right or left. It dumbs society down incredibly to view so much through the filter of two (often arbitrarily correlated, historically shifting) clusters of supposedly disjoint options.<p>In the real world, communes work well sometimes, markets often work better at scale but not for everything, markets require &quot;social solutions&quot; like non-commercial criminal and civil justice systems, education and health could be explicitly tested and then managed as investments with a pay off of lower taxes (including for the rich) instead of as charities forced on the rich, etc.<p>The Right&#x2F;Left and associated ideologies are all self-defeating when believed in isolation and the nuances of their ragged edges, their limitations, and constructive combinations ignored.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>_ykl9</author><text>Agreed. I think it&#x27;s a major issue in political discourse when people begin to identify with labels and slogans, and treat them as prescriptive (ideals to be adhered to) rather than descriptive (approximate reflections of one&#x27;s current general beliefs).<p>Surveys consistently show that most of us agree on far more than we disagree when questions are phrased in politically neutral terms. People quickly realize when they actually talk to other people that most are fairly reasonable and relatable, even if they have good faith disagreements on particular points, but social media being optimized for maximum engagement with shallow&#x2F;short-form discussion just results in seeing the most extreme elements of society talk over each other and largely fail to come to a common understanding.</text></comment> | <story><title>Right or left, you should be worried about big tech censorship</title><url>https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/07/right-or-left-you-should-be-worried-about-big-tech-censorship</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Nevermark</author><text>Big tech censorship will not solved without addressing the other half of a problem with two sides.<p>Without systems that promote quality, non-ideological, nuanced, original, tolerant dialogue we will keep running into the false dilemma of unmoderated cess pools or heavy handed moderation.<p>If we are to avoid this dilemma we need systems that organically promote constructive, tolerant and inclusive communication, and original, nuanced, intelligent, non-ideological ideas, instead of the opposite.<p>This cannot be done by organizations whose profit incentive is aligned with user attention instead of user satisfaction.<p>Those organizations benefit from degraded communication until strong moderation is both continually demanded and decried.<p>---<p>On a side note, I am so disappointed in the constant framing of ideas as right or left. It dumbs society down incredibly to view so much through the filter of two (often arbitrarily correlated, historically shifting) clusters of supposedly disjoint options.<p>In the real world, communes work well sometimes, markets often work better at scale but not for everything, markets require &quot;social solutions&quot; like non-commercial criminal and civil justice systems, education and health could be explicitly tested and then managed as investments with a pay off of lower taxes (including for the rich) instead of as charities forced on the rich, etc.<p>The Right&#x2F;Left and associated ideologies are all self-defeating when believed in isolation and the nuances of their ragged edges, their limitations, and constructive combinations ignored.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>semitones</author><text>&quot;Without systems that promote quality, non-ideological, nuanced, original, tolerant dialogue we will keep running into the false dilemma of unmoderated cess pools or heavy handed moderation.&quot; - it is impossible to measure the qualifiers &quot;quality&quot;, &quot;nuanced&quot;, &quot;tolerant&quot;, &quot;original&quot;, &quot;non-ideological&quot; while still being objective. Thus, whatever implementation for enforcing these qualifiers you choose, it will inevitably lean towards some ideology. Hence, contradiction.</text></comment> |
31,642,721 | 31,637,747 | 1 | 3 | 31,636,812 | train | <story><title>Absolute truths I unlearned as junior developer (2019)</title><url>https://monicalent.com/blog/2019/06/03/absolute-truths-unlearned-as-junior-developer/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>lifeisstillgood</author><text>Thank you. Agreed completely<p>I see software as a form of literacy, and it both amuses and saddens me to hear things like &quot;I used to write code, but since I moved to management I have stopped&quot;<p>We don&#x27;t hear phrases like &quot;I used to read and write English, but since I moved to management I have stopped&quot;<p>It seems sad to note that this &quot;move to management&quot; is now also becoming the &quot;move to senior engineering&quot;. This indicates to me some problem with job title inflation - like there are not enough manager slots so the management layer is moving down a rung to senior engineer.<p>Edit: of course Linus Torvalds wrote more emails than code. Which tends to indicate something.</text></item><item><author>silisili</author><text>I hate that this has become the norm. Sometimes, even most of the time, tight clean code and proper data structures and clean smart queries are vital for both cost and performance reasons.<p>That smart(experienced) people think up how to approach a problem and throw it over the wall to the juniors makes me sad, even if it has become somewhat commonplace.<p>I was actually offered a position doing exactly that for a rather successful, nonFAANG valley company. Literally &#x27;decide how to solve the problem, then hand it off and never think about it again.&#x27; It sounded awful for everyone involved. I&#x27;d just write in abstracts and never code, and the coder just codes without thinking a ton. Sounds terrible for both party&#x27;s growth.</text></item><item><author>camjohnson26</author><text>The truth I had to unlearn is that coding is a solitary activity, and that coding is the most important part of a senior software engineer’s job. Now I rarely have the chance to code for a few hours straight because if I have enough information to write code then all that’s left is the easy part. The hard part is coordinating, defining the problem, planning for the future, and communicating the current status of the problem. Not to mention onboarding newer devs who haven’t learned the technologies yet.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>corrral</author><text>Consider the manager who tries to put in a couple hours a week helping with filing (as in, organizing paper files). Let&#x27;s say the filing system is very busy and constantly evolving to meet new needs.<p>Odds are they&#x27;re just going to mess things up and annoy the people who do it as a major component of their job. Now, it may still be worth it, to keep the manager somewhat aware of how workers are doing their jobs, but it&#x27;s not going to be <i>helpful</i>.<p>You need literacy to work on filing, as you need programming ability to do software development, but in either case it&#x27;s not sufficient. If you&#x27;re just dipping in here and there, you&#x27;ll likely be screwing things up more than you&#x27;re helping. There&#x27;s too much context required.<p>Reading, writing, and programming may be forms of literacy, but if you try to jump in with tiny and inconsistent efforts to help someone write a novel—and I mean the actual writing, not helping them with organization or sales or something—you&#x27;re probably doing more harm than good. Collaboration is possible even on novel-writing, of course, but <i>very</i> part-time efforts aren&#x27;t likely to improve anything.<p>Programming is the same, and that&#x27;s why once someone gets past about half-coding-half-managing it gets harder to keep helping with the coding, productively. It&#x27;s not about literacy—the person trying to help with an hour or two of novel-writing a week is literate, after all—it&#x27;s about context.</text></comment> | <story><title>Absolute truths I unlearned as junior developer (2019)</title><url>https://monicalent.com/blog/2019/06/03/absolute-truths-unlearned-as-junior-developer/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>lifeisstillgood</author><text>Thank you. Agreed completely<p>I see software as a form of literacy, and it both amuses and saddens me to hear things like &quot;I used to write code, but since I moved to management I have stopped&quot;<p>We don&#x27;t hear phrases like &quot;I used to read and write English, but since I moved to management I have stopped&quot;<p>It seems sad to note that this &quot;move to management&quot; is now also becoming the &quot;move to senior engineering&quot;. This indicates to me some problem with job title inflation - like there are not enough manager slots so the management layer is moving down a rung to senior engineer.<p>Edit: of course Linus Torvalds wrote more emails than code. Which tends to indicate something.</text></item><item><author>silisili</author><text>I hate that this has become the norm. Sometimes, even most of the time, tight clean code and proper data structures and clean smart queries are vital for both cost and performance reasons.<p>That smart(experienced) people think up how to approach a problem and throw it over the wall to the juniors makes me sad, even if it has become somewhat commonplace.<p>I was actually offered a position doing exactly that for a rather successful, nonFAANG valley company. Literally &#x27;decide how to solve the problem, then hand it off and never think about it again.&#x27; It sounded awful for everyone involved. I&#x27;d just write in abstracts and never code, and the coder just codes without thinking a ton. Sounds terrible for both party&#x27;s growth.</text></item><item><author>camjohnson26</author><text>The truth I had to unlearn is that coding is a solitary activity, and that coding is the most important part of a senior software engineer’s job. Now I rarely have the chance to code for a few hours straight because if I have enough information to write code then all that’s left is the easy part. The hard part is coordinating, defining the problem, planning for the future, and communicating the current status of the problem. Not to mention onboarding newer devs who haven’t learned the technologies yet.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>BlargMcLarg</author><text>I&#x27;d argue more people severely overestimate the need of communication <i>quantity</i> and management roles&#x2F;responsibilities have inflated everything as a result. Worse, people who want to primarily talk are going to advocate for others to talk more.<p>Regardless, whoever brings up what GP does is frequently bombarded with the old &quot;communication important&quot; or &quot;soft skills matter&quot; spiel in an attempt to validate the explosion of communicational requirements.</text></comment> |
33,770,230 | 33,769,838 | 1 | 2 | 33,767,746 | train | <story><title>Meta’s Adversarial Threat Report, Third Quarter 2022</title><url>https://about.fb.com/news/2022/11/metas-adversarial-threat-report-q3-2022/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>cstejerean</author><text>* US: 39 accounts
* China: 81 accounts
* Russia: 1,633 accounts<p>Either Russia invests orders of magnitude more in these coordinated inauthentic behavior campaigns, or they are just that much worse at flying under the radar.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>polyomino</author><text>Typically you build up accounts and pages over a long time period and try to fly under the radar until you&#x27;re big enough to affect change without getting caught. In this case, my read is Russia is much better at growing before getting caught, probably due to more experience with influence operations.</text></comment> | <story><title>Meta’s Adversarial Threat Report, Third Quarter 2022</title><url>https://about.fb.com/news/2022/11/metas-adversarial-threat-report-q3-2022/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>cstejerean</author><text>* US: 39 accounts
* China: 81 accounts
* Russia: 1,633 accounts<p>Either Russia invests orders of magnitude more in these coordinated inauthentic behavior campaigns, or they are just that much worse at flying under the radar.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>droopyEyelids</author><text>Or russians used more accounts per campaign. Or facebook puts more effort into finding russian campaigns. Or russian campaigns are inherently easier to identify, or trying to achieve more difficult goals.</text></comment> |
40,936,474 | 40,936,489 | 1 | 2 | 40,935,576 | train | <story><title>If AI chatbots are the future, I hate it</title><url>https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2024/if-ai-chatbots-are-future-i-hate-it</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>oliwarner</author><text>I think your opinion stems from never having dealt with <i>normal people</i> interfacing with a <i>technical product</i>. They&#x27;re not asking the same questions you or I might, they&#x27;re asking documented questions and they&#x27;re doing it in obscene volume, with such little ability to help themselves.<p>ISPs probably take the cup for worst ratio of technical issues to technical idiots. It&#x27;s not just a modem, there&#x27;s a line, an internal network and a really bothersome user all working against optimal service.<p>Your desire to handle that all in-house by organic, corn-fed, English-as-their-first-language meat-bags is lovely but you&#x27;d be bankrupt in a week.<p>This isn&#x27;t new. We&#x27;ve had customer service levels for decades. What happened before is you talked to non-technical staff following scripts before escalation. Then that model pushed those staff overseas. Now the lowest rung is a LLM. The trick they have to re-learn when to let the user tell you to step back and fetch a real person. That, and getting the tone of the LLM to not declare everything as if that&#x27;ll definitely fix the problem.</text></item><item><author>FL410</author><text>The general trend of insulating the human customer away from human customer service is just a horrible thing that keeps spreading. It was bad enough outsourcing customer support to overseas agents who have their hands tied to only read from a script and generally do nothing, and now we&#x27;re just talking to computers that can generally do nothing. The message is the same: we don&#x27;t <i>actually</i> care about our customers.<p>I own a small business and I would rather shut my doors than force my paying customers through AI cattle gates to struggle for help. I can understand that providing customer support on a massive scale is <i>hard</i>, but it is arguably the MOST important part of the customer experience, maybe even more so than the product itself. It seems incomprehensibly short-sighted to abstract it away in the name of short-term profits.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>syncbehind</author><text>&gt;Your desire to handle that all in-house by organic, corn-fed, English-as-their-first-language meat-bags is lovely but you&#x27;d be bankrupt in a week.<p>This sentiment is, in essence, the problem. It&#x27;s perfectly logical for this trend of distancing customers from their , as you put it, &quot;all in-house by organic, corn-fed, English-as-their-first-language-meat-bags&quot; when you start with the core concept that the _only_ purpose of a company is to earn capital.</text></comment> | <story><title>If AI chatbots are the future, I hate it</title><url>https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2024/if-ai-chatbots-are-future-i-hate-it</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>oliwarner</author><text>I think your opinion stems from never having dealt with <i>normal people</i> interfacing with a <i>technical product</i>. They&#x27;re not asking the same questions you or I might, they&#x27;re asking documented questions and they&#x27;re doing it in obscene volume, with such little ability to help themselves.<p>ISPs probably take the cup for worst ratio of technical issues to technical idiots. It&#x27;s not just a modem, there&#x27;s a line, an internal network and a really bothersome user all working against optimal service.<p>Your desire to handle that all in-house by organic, corn-fed, English-as-their-first-language meat-bags is lovely but you&#x27;d be bankrupt in a week.<p>This isn&#x27;t new. We&#x27;ve had customer service levels for decades. What happened before is you talked to non-technical staff following scripts before escalation. Then that model pushed those staff overseas. Now the lowest rung is a LLM. The trick they have to re-learn when to let the user tell you to step back and fetch a real person. That, and getting the tone of the LLM to not declare everything as if that&#x27;ll definitely fix the problem.</text></item><item><author>FL410</author><text>The general trend of insulating the human customer away from human customer service is just a horrible thing that keeps spreading. It was bad enough outsourcing customer support to overseas agents who have their hands tied to only read from a script and generally do nothing, and now we&#x27;re just talking to computers that can generally do nothing. The message is the same: we don&#x27;t <i>actually</i> care about our customers.<p>I own a small business and I would rather shut my doors than force my paying customers through AI cattle gates to struggle for help. I can understand that providing customer support on a massive scale is <i>hard</i>, but it is arguably the MOST important part of the customer experience, maybe even more so than the product itself. It seems incomprehensibly short-sighted to abstract it away in the name of short-term profits.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>AnimalMuppet</author><text>My dad&#x27;s ISP did exactly what you say is impossible. It was a small ISP in Salt Lake City (xmission, if anyone cares). They had actual humans answering the phone, and no bankruptcies.</text></comment> |
6,871,307 | 6,871,347 | 1 | 3 | 6,869,776 | train | <story><title>NSA morale down after Edward Snowden revelations, former U.S. officials say</title><url>http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/nsa-morale-down-after-edward-snowden-revelations-former-us-officials-say/2013/12/07/24975c14-5c65-11e3-95c2-13623eb2b0e1_story.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tokenadult</author><text><i>More like &quot;USA morale down after Edward Snowden revelations, much of U.S. population says,&quot; I&#x27;d say.</i><p>I suppose you and I meet different subsets of the United States population in our daily lives. I am on record here on HN as having participated in the Take Back the Fourth protest in Minneapolis about overreaching NSA surveillance. I was not afraid to go out in public in view of TV cameras and the police (the protest location was a plaza across the street from the headquarters of the Minneapolis police deparment, and I saw officers with cameras overlooking the protest location) to indicate that I think governmental surveillance, if it occurs at all, should be according to law, and strictly limited by law.<p>That said, I don&#x27;t treat Snowden as a hero, and I hope no one else in the United States emulates him, ever. He would have done a lot more good for humankind by increasing the NSA&#x27;s ability to conduct surveillance in China and in Russia (the two countries that have protected him so far) and in central Asia in general. And what has most struck me as I have conversations with American adults of approximately my age (birth years in the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s) who remember more history is that they are mostly very eager to see Snowden prosecuted to the full extent of the law, which would probably mean spending the rest of his life in prison.<p>Yes, people choose where they work. And some people remember not to stab their co-workers in the back when they go to work. I have never chosen to work for NSA, and I would be glad to see NSA have more effective oversight from Congress and a more limited role in data-gathering. But the United States (like every other country in the world) needs some intelligence-gathering capabilities, and I seem to be joined in my daily activities by a lot of Americans who think that Snowden didn&#x27;t help anyone by revealing official secrets and that he has a very misguided set of priorities about which governments to oppose. My morale decreases to know that anyone who was contracting for NSA wasn&#x27;t checked out well enough to detect that tendency to treachery in advance.<p>The day the news broke that Edward Snowden had left Hong Kong, I was out of town at a soccer tournament with my daughter. The parents of her teammates, mostly younger than I am, heard me announce that news, and when one parent asked, what Snowden&#x27;s destination was, another said, &quot;Gitmo?&quot; with a smile that indicated that he thought Snowden belongs there. I find that reaction quite commonplace among Americans I know.<p>AFTER EDIT: I see the downvotes indicating disagreement are already coming here, and that is not a surprise here on Hacker News, but do we have strong evidence that the general opinion of the American public is united in supporting the HN community view of Snowden&#x27;s conduct as an NSA contractor? That&#x27;s one factual question worthy of factual discussion here, whether you agree with my opinion or not.<p>AFTER FURTHER EDITS: I appreciate the replies to my comment, practicing free speech to help me understand other people&#x27;s perspectives. I would say that it&#x27;s quite possible to be a genuine whistleblower without disclosing the degree of operational information that Snowden disclosed. And it is possible--it has been done--to decry current NSA practice and still stay in the United States, as some NSA officials have done in the last few years. I&#x27;ll check the polling data kindly shared in one reply. I&#x27;ll note that Americans my age and older (well above the modal or median age of HN participants) have multiple sources of information through which to form opinions on this issue, and don&#x27;t rely solely on governmental statements or influence from political leaders to make up our minds on these issues.</text></item><item><author>spodek</author><text>More like &quot;<i>USA</i> morale down after Edward Snowden revelations, much of U.S. population says,&quot; I&#x27;d say.<p>That happens when you do something most people would feel shame for.<p>A major difference between NSA employees and the rest of us is that they can easily stop what they&#x27;re doing. Let&#x27;s hope their pitiful loss of morale leads them to develop a conscience, respect for the law, or whatever it takes to stop doing things that lead to feeling so bad.<p>&gt; <i>“They feel they’ve been hung out to dry, and they’re right.”</i><p>Bullshit. They&#x27;re adults who chose to do what they did and work where they work.<p>We have emotions to guide our behavior. If they feel bad for the environment they chose to work in and the work they chose to do, maybe they should look in the mirror and ask if they ought to reconsider their choices and do something that doesn&#x27;t draw shame and contempt from the rest of the world while undermining their county&#x27;s interests.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>lemming</author><text><i>...when one parent asked, what Snowden&#x27;s destination was, another said, &quot;Gitmo?&quot; with a smile that indicated that he thought Snowden belongs there. I find that reaction quite commonplace among Americans I know.</i><p>I find that reaction quite horrifying. It is appalling (although not surprising) to me that supposedly educated people are willing to support extrajudicial process and treatment amounting to torture because they don&#x27;t agree with the way someone has acted. Even if they think a crime has been committed this sort of blasé Bush-style attitude that &quot;you&#x27;re with us or you&#x27;re against us, and if you&#x27;re against us you deserve everything we can dream up to do to you&quot; contributes a lot to foreign disgust at the US attitude.</text></comment> | <story><title>NSA morale down after Edward Snowden revelations, former U.S. officials say</title><url>http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/nsa-morale-down-after-edward-snowden-revelations-former-us-officials-say/2013/12/07/24975c14-5c65-11e3-95c2-13623eb2b0e1_story.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tokenadult</author><text><i>More like &quot;USA morale down after Edward Snowden revelations, much of U.S. population says,&quot; I&#x27;d say.</i><p>I suppose you and I meet different subsets of the United States population in our daily lives. I am on record here on HN as having participated in the Take Back the Fourth protest in Minneapolis about overreaching NSA surveillance. I was not afraid to go out in public in view of TV cameras and the police (the protest location was a plaza across the street from the headquarters of the Minneapolis police deparment, and I saw officers with cameras overlooking the protest location) to indicate that I think governmental surveillance, if it occurs at all, should be according to law, and strictly limited by law.<p>That said, I don&#x27;t treat Snowden as a hero, and I hope no one else in the United States emulates him, ever. He would have done a lot more good for humankind by increasing the NSA&#x27;s ability to conduct surveillance in China and in Russia (the two countries that have protected him so far) and in central Asia in general. And what has most struck me as I have conversations with American adults of approximately my age (birth years in the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s) who remember more history is that they are mostly very eager to see Snowden prosecuted to the full extent of the law, which would probably mean spending the rest of his life in prison.<p>Yes, people choose where they work. And some people remember not to stab their co-workers in the back when they go to work. I have never chosen to work for NSA, and I would be glad to see NSA have more effective oversight from Congress and a more limited role in data-gathering. But the United States (like every other country in the world) needs some intelligence-gathering capabilities, and I seem to be joined in my daily activities by a lot of Americans who think that Snowden didn&#x27;t help anyone by revealing official secrets and that he has a very misguided set of priorities about which governments to oppose. My morale decreases to know that anyone who was contracting for NSA wasn&#x27;t checked out well enough to detect that tendency to treachery in advance.<p>The day the news broke that Edward Snowden had left Hong Kong, I was out of town at a soccer tournament with my daughter. The parents of her teammates, mostly younger than I am, heard me announce that news, and when one parent asked, what Snowden&#x27;s destination was, another said, &quot;Gitmo?&quot; with a smile that indicated that he thought Snowden belongs there. I find that reaction quite commonplace among Americans I know.<p>AFTER EDIT: I see the downvotes indicating disagreement are already coming here, and that is not a surprise here on Hacker News, but do we have strong evidence that the general opinion of the American public is united in supporting the HN community view of Snowden&#x27;s conduct as an NSA contractor? That&#x27;s one factual question worthy of factual discussion here, whether you agree with my opinion or not.<p>AFTER FURTHER EDITS: I appreciate the replies to my comment, practicing free speech to help me understand other people&#x27;s perspectives. I would say that it&#x27;s quite possible to be a genuine whistleblower without disclosing the degree of operational information that Snowden disclosed. And it is possible--it has been done--to decry current NSA practice and still stay in the United States, as some NSA officials have done in the last few years. I&#x27;ll check the polling data kindly shared in one reply. I&#x27;ll note that Americans my age and older (well above the modal or median age of HN participants) have multiple sources of information through which to form opinions on this issue, and don&#x27;t rely solely on governmental statements or influence from political leaders to make up our minds on these issues.</text></item><item><author>spodek</author><text>More like &quot;<i>USA</i> morale down after Edward Snowden revelations, much of U.S. population says,&quot; I&#x27;d say.<p>That happens when you do something most people would feel shame for.<p>A major difference between NSA employees and the rest of us is that they can easily stop what they&#x27;re doing. Let&#x27;s hope their pitiful loss of morale leads them to develop a conscience, respect for the law, or whatever it takes to stop doing things that lead to feeling so bad.<p>&gt; <i>“They feel they’ve been hung out to dry, and they’re right.”</i><p>Bullshit. They&#x27;re adults who chose to do what they did and work where they work.<p>We have emotions to guide our behavior. If they feel bad for the environment they chose to work in and the work they chose to do, maybe they should look in the mirror and ask if they ought to reconsider their choices and do something that doesn&#x27;t draw shame and contempt from the rest of the world while undermining their county&#x27;s interests.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>austinz</author><text>&gt; I am on record here on HN as having participated in the Take Back the Fourth protest in Minneapolis about overreaching NSA surveillance.<p>Let your argument stand on its merits, not on what the argument-maker has or hasn&#x27;t done in the past.<p>&gt; He would have done a lot more good for humankind by increasing the NSA&#x27;s ability to conduct surveillance in China and in Russia...<p>The United States has done tremendous good for humanity. But given our history of extralegal, unaccountable meddling in the foreign policy of other countries and how spectacularly it&#x27;s blown up in our faces over and over again, I must absolutely disagree with you.<p>&gt; the two countries that have protected him so far...<p>Every time a Snowden discussion comes up this point also bubbles to the top, as if people actually thought Snowden chose to flee to those countries because he felt that Russia and China had better support for freedom...as opposed to those two being practically the only possible countries he could flee to without being assured of his extradition.<p>&gt; I seem to be joined in my daily activities by a lot of Americans who think that Snowden didn&#x27;t help anyone by revealing official secrets<p>I think the NSA didn&#x27;t help anyone by grossly overstepping its mandate and doing things which only tinfoil-hat cranks would have claimed the government did five years ago.<p>&gt; which governments to oppose<p>This sort of belief, where government wrongdoing can never be exposed because the United States is implicitly locked in some sort of existential crusade against foes which do even worse (and exposing it would undermine this crusade), can be used to justify all sorts of evil, totalitarian actions. I don&#x27;t think our moral yardstick should be set relative to the worst country(ies) in the world. I don&#x27;t think our ideals (the ones tested by the War of 1812, the Civil War, WWII, the fight against segregation, and countless other times) are so fragile that we need to sink to the bottom of the barrel in order to guarantee our national survival.<p>&gt; another said, &quot;Gitmo?&quot; with a smile that indicated that he thought Snowden belongs there<p>If this is the mindset of the &quot;general opinion of the American public&quot;, I fear for the long-term future of rule of law in this country.</text></comment> |
9,590,384 | 9,589,721 | 1 | 2 | 9,588,825 | train | <story><title>LaZagne – An open source application used to retrieve lots of passwords</title><url>https://github.com/AlessandroZ/LaZagne</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>ben174</author><text>Accepting pull requests? I can think of a couple of pieces of software I could contribute to the discoveries.</text></comment> | <story><title>LaZagne – An open source application used to retrieve lots of passwords</title><url>https://github.com/AlessandroZ/LaZagne</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>infinitone</author><text>Combine this with USBdriveby, and its just too easy.</text></comment> |
18,764,250 | 18,764,359 | 1 | 3 | 18,763,486 | train | <story><title>Patreon Bars Anti-Feminist for Racist Speech, Inciting Revolt</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/24/technology/patreon-hate-speech-bans.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>throwawaysea</author><text>I don&#x27;t understand why commenters in these threads keep noting that free speech only protects people from government censorship. This is a common, distracting, and empty statement. Proponents of free speech are pro free speech as a general concept and principle, beyond what protections are afforded under American law today. The idea of free speech predates the existence of the United States. Free speech is hugely valuable to defend, because what society finds acceptable or unacceptable is very much subjective and changes with time&#x2F;location&#x2F;culture&#x2F;setting&#x2F;leadership&#x2F;etc. Having an open exchange of ideas is good and necessary for the long-term health and stability of society, especially if we care about being a collectively truth-seeking society.<p>There are also frequent comments on such articles saying that content creators can just seek another platform, which frankly seems like an obviously unhelpful suggestion. Twitter, Reddit, Patreon, and others are massive in scale and have a ubiquity and reach that isn&#x27;t found elsewhere. Platforms that benefit from network effects don&#x27;t face effective competition, and investors typically won&#x27;t invest in new competitors in those arenas, because it is such a long shot to break through those barriers. We could argue that Patreon is not one of the platforms whose value is driven by network effects, but the underlying payment processors (e.g. Visa) definitely benefit from network effects. And of course, Visa has deplatformed many parties, including famously, Wikileaks back in 2010.<p>There are also examples of folks who followed that advice and left Patreon for other platforms (e.g. SubscribeStar) and then got deplatformed (e.g. by Stripe or PayPal). There are examples of lower-level entities like Visa&#x2F;Mastercard _forcing_ platforms built on top of them to censor someone or risk being banned by them. Clearly, these privately-owned platforms are monopolies or oligopolies in a sense, holding access to large segments of the population with no competitive forces acting on them. Alternatively, we can look at them as being the digital public square, and therefore they should be subject to regulation that prevents them from taking action beyond what the law in their jurisdiction requires.<p>The big risk is this: when only a few entities funnel so much societal discourse or control our communication infrastructure or process payments, those entities making arbitrary decisions about who they serve has similar impacts&#x2F;risks to the government imposing similar restrictions through the law. These companies should not act as a moral police and should not impose their own personal governance above what is minimally required by the law. Nor should they rely on the judgment of an angry mob to make decisions.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>darawk</author><text>It&#x27;s an interesting problem. Speech has never truly been free, sometimes and in some places its been regulated by government, but in modern liberal democracies its been regulated by <i>culture</i>. Polite society regulates speech by rejecting people who engage in whatever that society views as harmful speech.<p>Social media platforms and the internet generally, substantially weaken the power of culture to regulate speech in the way that it used to. I don&#x27;t know what we do about this. We don&#x27;t want government regulating speech, and it doesn&#x27;t seem like allowing social media platforms to regulate it arbitrarily is particularly good either. But the gates that culture and localism placed on speech in the past did, seemingly, serve some useful purpose.<p>Do we want to live in a world where speech is <i>truly</i> unregulated, even by shame or culture? Maybe. It&#x27;s possible that the answer here is yes we do, that sunlight is <i>always</i> the best disinfectant, and that the truth <i>always</i> emerges victorious in the end. But it&#x27;s also possible that those things aren&#x27;t true. I don&#x27;t have an answer, but I don&#x27;t think one way or the other is the obviously correct path forward either.</text></comment> | <story><title>Patreon Bars Anti-Feminist for Racist Speech, Inciting Revolt</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/24/technology/patreon-hate-speech-bans.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>throwawaysea</author><text>I don&#x27;t understand why commenters in these threads keep noting that free speech only protects people from government censorship. This is a common, distracting, and empty statement. Proponents of free speech are pro free speech as a general concept and principle, beyond what protections are afforded under American law today. The idea of free speech predates the existence of the United States. Free speech is hugely valuable to defend, because what society finds acceptable or unacceptable is very much subjective and changes with time&#x2F;location&#x2F;culture&#x2F;setting&#x2F;leadership&#x2F;etc. Having an open exchange of ideas is good and necessary for the long-term health and stability of society, especially if we care about being a collectively truth-seeking society.<p>There are also frequent comments on such articles saying that content creators can just seek another platform, which frankly seems like an obviously unhelpful suggestion. Twitter, Reddit, Patreon, and others are massive in scale and have a ubiquity and reach that isn&#x27;t found elsewhere. Platforms that benefit from network effects don&#x27;t face effective competition, and investors typically won&#x27;t invest in new competitors in those arenas, because it is such a long shot to break through those barriers. We could argue that Patreon is not one of the platforms whose value is driven by network effects, but the underlying payment processors (e.g. Visa) definitely benefit from network effects. And of course, Visa has deplatformed many parties, including famously, Wikileaks back in 2010.<p>There are also examples of folks who followed that advice and left Patreon for other platforms (e.g. SubscribeStar) and then got deplatformed (e.g. by Stripe or PayPal). There are examples of lower-level entities like Visa&#x2F;Mastercard _forcing_ platforms built on top of them to censor someone or risk being banned by them. Clearly, these privately-owned platforms are monopolies or oligopolies in a sense, holding access to large segments of the population with no competitive forces acting on them. Alternatively, we can look at them as being the digital public square, and therefore they should be subject to regulation that prevents them from taking action beyond what the law in their jurisdiction requires.<p>The big risk is this: when only a few entities funnel so much societal discourse or control our communication infrastructure or process payments, those entities making arbitrary decisions about who they serve has similar impacts&#x2F;risks to the government imposing similar restrictions through the law. These companies should not act as a moral police and should not impose their own personal governance above what is minimally required by the law. Nor should they rely on the judgment of an angry mob to make decisions.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>thelasthuman</author><text>&quot;The big risk is this: when only a few entities funnel so much societal discourse or control our communication infrastructure or process payments, those entities making arbitrary decisions about who they serve has similar impacts&#x2F;risks to the government imposing similar restrictions through the law.&quot;<p>So the problem isn&#x27;t kicking haters off a private platform, it&#x27;s that corporations have grown to large.<p>I agree.</text></comment> |
35,690,925 | 35,690,819 | 1 | 2 | 35,686,121 | train | <story><title>Remote work brings hidden penalty for young professionals, study says</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/24/business/remote-work-feedback.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>disport</author><text>As a remote, older professional now, my career nevertheless supports the premise of this article: in-office was beneficial when I started out.<p>My first job had a strong lunch culture, providing an environment for serendipitous conversations, daily. Over time, I bumped into folks I never would have met in the normal scope of my role, across finance, legal, SRE, support, sales, data science, etc.<p>In turn, as a young professional, I was able to develop a mental model for how businesses &quot;work&quot;, why they&#x27;re organized how they are, and how (good) culture can bind everyone together towards a profitable outcome. I made some friends and acquaintances that I&#x27;m still in touch with to this day.<p>As a remote, older professional now, I don&#x27;t necessarily &quot;need&quot; these serendipitous conversations anymore, although I miss the general socialization. But I do feel like they&#x27;re an essential &quot;ladder&quot; that every subsequent generation of professionals should be able to access, and that it&#x27;s a moral obligation for me to &quot;pay it forward&quot;.<p>For remote work to be &quot;fair&quot; to young professionals, its systems should facilitate the same career benefits, with the same effort.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>shmatt</author><text>I think leadership at many of these companies have their wires crossed in terms of messaging but also expectations and ideas about what they want to extract out of employees<p>They always start with return to office = productivity, which people push back on, because the office is full of 2 hour lunch breaks and water cooler discussions about fantasy football. Then discourse gets worse when CEOs talk about the &quot;overemployed&quot; and people running errands during a work day. If we&#x27;re talking lines of codes written nothing beats working at home for most<p>But you&#x27;re right, there is a ton to learn during those 2 hour lunches, pulling people in to impromptu meetings, and socializing as a whole<p>The messaging needs to be fixed, expectations adjusted, people should be empowered to both work heads down at home, and do less head down work at the office</text></comment> | <story><title>Remote work brings hidden penalty for young professionals, study says</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/24/business/remote-work-feedback.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>disport</author><text>As a remote, older professional now, my career nevertheless supports the premise of this article: in-office was beneficial when I started out.<p>My first job had a strong lunch culture, providing an environment for serendipitous conversations, daily. Over time, I bumped into folks I never would have met in the normal scope of my role, across finance, legal, SRE, support, sales, data science, etc.<p>In turn, as a young professional, I was able to develop a mental model for how businesses &quot;work&quot;, why they&#x27;re organized how they are, and how (good) culture can bind everyone together towards a profitable outcome. I made some friends and acquaintances that I&#x27;m still in touch with to this day.<p>As a remote, older professional now, I don&#x27;t necessarily &quot;need&quot; these serendipitous conversations anymore, although I miss the general socialization. But I do feel like they&#x27;re an essential &quot;ladder&quot; that every subsequent generation of professionals should be able to access, and that it&#x27;s a moral obligation for me to &quot;pay it forward&quot;.<p>For remote work to be &quot;fair&quot; to young professionals, its systems should facilitate the same career benefits, with the same effort.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>o_nate</author><text>I&#x27;m an older professional now working in a hybrid arrangement, but I very much concur with the parent comment. I can&#x27;t imagine how my early career would have gone without being able to put in the time in the office. Its a cliche, but work culture really does exist, and it&#x27;s about social cues and rules of courtesy. These mores are not taught in school but are absolutely essential to working effectively in an office. I would suspect this socialization is even more important for people who perhaps come from families where no parent was a white-collar office worker. I was lucky to start out at places where it was common for teams to eat lunch together. These unofficial interactions were just as important as regular work interactions in helping me to understand the psychology of my more experienced colleagues, what was polite, and what was taboo.</text></comment> |
39,397,362 | 39,395,581 | 1 | 3 | 39,385,228 | train | <story><title>Three virtues of a great programmer</title><url>https://thethreevirtues.com/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bamboozled</author><text>I love Python, but basically 96% of Python code and developers absolutely suck at everything, I&#x27;m fixing a shit python codebase right now. It&#x27;s like a language which people love to use to write shit code.</text></item><item><author>bdjsiqoocwk</author><text>And then, python.</text></item><item><author>neilv</author><text>Laziness, Impatience, and Hubris were especially clear&#x2F;obvious in Perl at the time.<p>Perl was a gazillion times more powerful than Bourne and C-shell (including all the Unix shell tools like `awk`), much more rapid than working in C, incredibly terse (perhaps too much so), and also portable (to all the oddball systems you might have).<p>And the purposes to which Perl was put were often to automate things you&#x27;d been doing manually, or that you couldn&#x27;t do without Perl.<p>You&#x27;d be quietly doing big things with Perl. And there were sayings about how you&#x27;d automated your job, and presumably spent your time writing more Perl scripts and reading Usenet. And the occasional joke of replacing someone else with a one-line Perl script.<p>Also, note that not only was this before the dotcom boom (when programmers suddenly were no longer nerds but getting rich and fashionable), but also-- a lot of the programmers using Perl professionally weren&#x27;t even professional programmers, but actually sysadmins or random university researchers, who happened to have the power of Perl. The majority of professional programmers on Unix actually didn&#x27;t know Perl.<p>So, Perl people speaking of Perl people in terms of vices could be seen as a self-deprecating, joking spin <i>conscious</i> of the unusual power that they wielded.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tpmoney</author><text>Python has become my goto for anything more complicated than a 3 line bash script, but not so complex it need multiple files to logically separate the code. Argparse isn&#x27;t perfect, but it lets you get 90% of the way to a nice functional argument parsing system, with auto-generated help output that mostly doesn&#x27;t suck. It&#x27;s also built in so I can rely on it being anywhere python is already installed. And python is ubiquitous enough in default installs now I can pretty much rely on it being present as much as I can rely on bash being present.<p>As a result, every command line bit of glue code I&#x27;ve written for the last decade or so has been in python. At a certain point, it does start to get unwieldy and you can indeed write some awful code in it, but then again, I&#x27;ve seen some pretty awful bash scripts too.<p>My favorite trick is the fact that you can tell python to</text></comment> | <story><title>Three virtues of a great programmer</title><url>https://thethreevirtues.com/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bamboozled</author><text>I love Python, but basically 96% of Python code and developers absolutely suck at everything, I&#x27;m fixing a shit python codebase right now. It&#x27;s like a language which people love to use to write shit code.</text></item><item><author>bdjsiqoocwk</author><text>And then, python.</text></item><item><author>neilv</author><text>Laziness, Impatience, and Hubris were especially clear&#x2F;obvious in Perl at the time.<p>Perl was a gazillion times more powerful than Bourne and C-shell (including all the Unix shell tools like `awk`), much more rapid than working in C, incredibly terse (perhaps too much so), and also portable (to all the oddball systems you might have).<p>And the purposes to which Perl was put were often to automate things you&#x27;d been doing manually, or that you couldn&#x27;t do without Perl.<p>You&#x27;d be quietly doing big things with Perl. And there were sayings about how you&#x27;d automated your job, and presumably spent your time writing more Perl scripts and reading Usenet. And the occasional joke of replacing someone else with a one-line Perl script.<p>Also, note that not only was this before the dotcom boom (when programmers suddenly were no longer nerds but getting rich and fashionable), but also-- a lot of the programmers using Perl professionally weren&#x27;t even professional programmers, but actually sysadmins or random university researchers, who happened to have the power of Perl. The majority of professional programmers on Unix actually didn&#x27;t know Perl.<p>So, Perl people speaking of Perl people in terms of vices could be seen as a self-deprecating, joking spin <i>conscious</i> of the unusual power that they wielded.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bdjsiqoocwk</author><text>Because it&#x27;s so easy the average quality of the user is lower. This isn&#x27;t surprising to me.</text></comment> |
28,249,013 | 28,249,133 | 1 | 2 | 28,248,188 | train | <story><title>I won over $55M in the lottery, but didn’t tell my friends or family</title><url>https://www.marketwatch.com/story/i-won-over-55-million-in-the-california-lottery-but-didnt-tell-my-friends-or-family-did-i-do-the-right-thing-11625001363</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>TheMerovingian</author><text>I don&#x27;t think you need to win the lottery to be in this situation. Imagine having a cushy job in a FAANG company, where your base salary is probably more than what your parents make combined. It is in my case.<p>I made the mistake of telling them (roughly) what I earn and it definitely has changed the way they interact with me. I get remarks about my &#x27;wealth&#x27; and that I can easily drop $10K on something frivolous. I get other remarks that compare their hard job to my &#x27;easy&#x27; job that has catering and long lunch breaks. No one asks how my mental state is. No one asks whether I take my work home with me at the end of the day. No one asks how many hours I put in. All they see is a family member that will drop a ton of cash on a nice vacation or a larger house.<p>Word of advice: don&#x27;t tell your family how much you make either.</text></item><item><author>thepasswordis</author><text>Not that much, but I did make a ton of money in crypto. Similar thing: bought a house, also bought myself a nice car.<p>I didn&#x27;t tell any of my friends, but did mistakenly tell one of my parents, who then felt it necessary to share this information with the rest of my family.<p>If you make a bunch of money: I would highly recommend not telling people. The <i>will</i> treat you differently (not in a good way).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mbesto</author><text>&gt; Word of advice: don&#x27;t tell your family how much you make either.<p>YMMV. I don&#x27;t have any immediate family members who are at risk for monetary issues (luckily) and I have not had any issues with them knowing how much I earn. I&#x27;m also lucky that my family has been taught the value of a dollar since I was little. Not everyone has that advantage so I can definitely see why the default advice should be &quot;don&#x27;t tell them&quot;.<p>My dad&#x27;s sisters and some cousins on the other hand...ya...they don&#x27;t need to know.</text></comment> | <story><title>I won over $55M in the lottery, but didn’t tell my friends or family</title><url>https://www.marketwatch.com/story/i-won-over-55-million-in-the-california-lottery-but-didnt-tell-my-friends-or-family-did-i-do-the-right-thing-11625001363</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>TheMerovingian</author><text>I don&#x27;t think you need to win the lottery to be in this situation. Imagine having a cushy job in a FAANG company, where your base salary is probably more than what your parents make combined. It is in my case.<p>I made the mistake of telling them (roughly) what I earn and it definitely has changed the way they interact with me. I get remarks about my &#x27;wealth&#x27; and that I can easily drop $10K on something frivolous. I get other remarks that compare their hard job to my &#x27;easy&#x27; job that has catering and long lunch breaks. No one asks how my mental state is. No one asks whether I take my work home with me at the end of the day. No one asks how many hours I put in. All they see is a family member that will drop a ton of cash on a nice vacation or a larger house.<p>Word of advice: don&#x27;t tell your family how much you make either.</text></item><item><author>thepasswordis</author><text>Not that much, but I did make a ton of money in crypto. Similar thing: bought a house, also bought myself a nice car.<p>I didn&#x27;t tell any of my friends, but did mistakenly tell one of my parents, who then felt it necessary to share this information with the rest of my family.<p>If you make a bunch of money: I would highly recommend not telling people. The <i>will</i> treat you differently (not in a good way).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>version_five</author><text>What you describe is true of many successes I find. Lots of people look at it as if you got some unfair or lucky break. Maybe that is true for the lottery, but for things like good grades, good job, wealth, or even access to leisure time (for example having time to exercise), many get defensive instead of being happy for the success. I&#x27;ve done it to, to some extent it&#x27;s human nature, but it&#x27;s something to try and avoid.</text></comment> |
12,075,094 | 12,074,996 | 1 | 3 | 12,074,388 | train | <story><title>Chalice: Python Serverless Microframework for AWS</title><url>https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/developer/preview-the-python-serverless-microframework-for-aws/?sc_channel=sm&sc_campaign=launch_sdk_tools_4a8efa18&sc_publisher=tw_go&sc_content=Python_Microframework&sc_country=global&sc_geo=global&adbsc=social_launches_20160711_63715856&adbid=752600622390587393&adbpl=tw&adbpr=66780587</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>SwellJoe</author><text>AWS Lambda is cool and all, but aren&#x27;t people doing the math on this? Lambda seems like a <i>really</i> expensive way to deliver almost anything. Likewise, the AWS API Gateway is expensive, but at least provides some additional capabilities. Lambda seems like its profitable niche would be very small; limited computing environment, very high cost (relative to almost every other way to host an API), and having to learn a whole bunch of new APIs and processes to make it all spin.<p>Am I missing something?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>AReallyGoodName</author><text>I&#x27;ve found Lambda to be really ridiculously fucking cheap. We moved image resizing onto it and saved thousands a month.<p>Don&#x27;t compare the cost of Lambda per 100ms to the cost of a virtual machine per month since Lambda only charges as you use it. You&#x27;d have to have the CPU pegged at 100% usage to make that a fair comparison. Mind you even if you took the cost of Lambda per 100ms and multiplied that out for a monthly cost it&#x27;s still about the same as an EC2 instance of the same capacity. (Eg. if I had a 1GB Lambda running for a total of 1 month compute time in the uswest2 region it&#x27;d cost $32).<p>Oh and the cost of API gateway is $3.50 per million requests and the bandwidth cost is completely negligible for us (we redirect to the resized image hosted on S3, fronted by cloudfront). We get 3 million image resizing requests a day. That&#x27;s over 30 per second. It would take a lot of VMs to handle that (image resizing isn&#x27;t trivial). Or we could just pay the whole $11.50.<p>I have to ask have you done the math? Lambda beats everything in cost except for some funky solutions using unreliable and less scalable lowendbox.com services.</text></comment> | <story><title>Chalice: Python Serverless Microframework for AWS</title><url>https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/developer/preview-the-python-serverless-microframework-for-aws/?sc_channel=sm&sc_campaign=launch_sdk_tools_4a8efa18&sc_publisher=tw_go&sc_content=Python_Microframework&sc_country=global&sc_geo=global&adbsc=social_launches_20160711_63715856&adbid=752600622390587393&adbpl=tw&adbpr=66780587</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>SwellJoe</author><text>AWS Lambda is cool and all, but aren&#x27;t people doing the math on this? Lambda seems like a <i>really</i> expensive way to deliver almost anything. Likewise, the AWS API Gateway is expensive, but at least provides some additional capabilities. Lambda seems like its profitable niche would be very small; limited computing environment, very high cost (relative to almost every other way to host an API), and having to learn a whole bunch of new APIs and processes to make it all spin.<p>Am I missing something?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nostrademons</author><text>I think the appeal of Lambda is that most services get zero-to-low usage, and so something which is &quot;pay only for usage&quot; may be a net win over dedicated computing resources if you use it for the right parts.<p>I&#x27;ve had a number of startup ideas that went nowhere, and it would&#x27;ve been handy to test &amp; demo them without springing for the full $17&#x2F;month for an EC2 t2.micro instance. Usually they have some key aspect that&#x27;s prevented me from running them on Lambda (eg. you can&#x27;t exactly run a hacked Node.js binary on Lambda, and sending push notifications from it requires going through SNS and adopting its API), but if I could run arbitrary code &amp; third-party packages and pay for only the computing time I use, it&#x27;s an attractive proposition.<p>In general you use AWS for convenience anyway - if you&#x27;re concerned about minimizing costs, you can sometimes get 10x price&#x2F;performance ratios by moving to dedicated hosting.</text></comment> |
26,144,466 | 26,144,321 | 1 | 2 | 26,143,909 | train | <story><title>Clubhouse’s Inevitability</title><url>https://stratechery.com/2021/clubhouses-inevitability/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>vyrotek</author><text>&gt; <i>Make no mistake, most of these conversations will be terrible. That, though, is the case for all user-generated content.</i><p>My perception is that Clubhouse is that it&#x27;s yet-another amplifier for the group of folks who already have a large following and are able to produce quality content. Listening to anything long-form and live risks being a huge waste of time. Audiences are willing to listen to well-known people because it has a higher chance of being interesting at all.<p>Unfortunately, the feedback I&#x27;ve heard is that the meetings hosted by the rest of the not-so well-known community have been generally terrible. I think people underestimate power of async communication and how it powers discoverability. There&#x27;s too much noise out there already and very little time to filter it out to discover new content. Especially when the content is only produced live. Growing a YouTube&#x2F;Podcast audience and growing a Clubhouse audience are going to be very different challenges.<p>I&#x27;m also unconvinced that this is a winner-take-all space. My understanding is that the technology moat here is very narrow compared to what it takes to run YouTube, Twitch, etc. I&#x27;ve already seen several interesting hacks put together by individuals with their own twist to this space.<p>That said, I&#x27;d really like to see the community stop claiming that &quot;Clubhouse will be bigger than X platform!&quot; such as Twitter and LinkedIn.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tootie</author><text>I think another important point being missed is how hard it is to create compelling improvised content. Youtube and Tiktok are amateur productions but the successful creators are still writing and editing. Conversations are going to meander and the absolute worst offense possible for this kind of medium is being boring.</text></comment> | <story><title>Clubhouse’s Inevitability</title><url>https://stratechery.com/2021/clubhouses-inevitability/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>vyrotek</author><text>&gt; <i>Make no mistake, most of these conversations will be terrible. That, though, is the case for all user-generated content.</i><p>My perception is that Clubhouse is that it&#x27;s yet-another amplifier for the group of folks who already have a large following and are able to produce quality content. Listening to anything long-form and live risks being a huge waste of time. Audiences are willing to listen to well-known people because it has a higher chance of being interesting at all.<p>Unfortunately, the feedback I&#x27;ve heard is that the meetings hosted by the rest of the not-so well-known community have been generally terrible. I think people underestimate power of async communication and how it powers discoverability. There&#x27;s too much noise out there already and very little time to filter it out to discover new content. Especially when the content is only produced live. Growing a YouTube&#x2F;Podcast audience and growing a Clubhouse audience are going to be very different challenges.<p>I&#x27;m also unconvinced that this is a winner-take-all space. My understanding is that the technology moat here is very narrow compared to what it takes to run YouTube, Twitch, etc. I&#x27;ve already seen several interesting hacks put together by individuals with their own twist to this space.<p>That said, I&#x27;d really like to see the community stop claiming that &quot;Clubhouse will be bigger than X platform!&quot; such as Twitter and LinkedIn.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>newsclues</author><text>The question I’m left with is, will Clubhouse be able to scale building communities?</text></comment> |
4,612,490 | 4,612,550 | 1 | 2 | 4,612,331 | train | <story><title>Linus on keeping a clean git history (2009)</title><url>http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg39091.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>lukev</author><text>This highlights the only thing I don't like about Git. It's an immensely capable tool, but it gives no guidance regarding the <i>right</i> way to do things.<p>Our own teams have a set of practices which are similar but different from what Linus outlines here. And different projects on my company use different practices from those.<p>The worst thing is that there's no way of enforcing these workflows or practices other than out-of-band social conventions. And so minor mistakes happen, all the time. Our Git projects are never as pretty as they should be.<p>In other words, Git provides an awesome set of primitives for source control. I'm not sure what it'd look like, but I'd like to see a product that built on those primitives to enforce a little more order on projects.</text></comment> | <story><title>Linus on keeping a clean git history (2009)</title><url>http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg39091.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>mattdeboard</author><text>Like lukev said, git is "an awesome set of primitives". How you build a workflow out of those primitives isn't set in stone (though, like most things, Linus has strong opinions on exactly how to use his products). This is basically what Github has done, with an extra layer of UI glitz, social, and (much-improved) notifications.<p>That said, IMO there is still quite a lot of room for customization in git workflow when using Github. For example, we don't "send patches around" as Linus says. Our private feature branches live on Github but we've adopted the convention that the "private" branch name is prefixed by who's working on it, e.g. mdeboard-oauth, jschmoe-url-routes. If it has someone's name at the front, don't touch it. That enables us to still use the "D" in DVCS while retaining the ability to safely rebase our own work to keep our history clean.<p>The only reason I'd want a git-based product to "enforce order" is a culture-related one: ensure that contributors/collaborators do things in line with the conventions we've established. However, IMO it's always better to have a conversation about that than work with an overly prescriptive tool.</text></comment> |
36,385,325 | 36,385,305 | 1 | 2 | 36,385,032 | train | <story><title>ChatGPT, Google Bard Generates Generic Windows 11, Windows 10 Pro Keys</title><url>https://www.tomshardware.com/news/chatgpt-generates-windows-11-pro-keys</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>NoZebra120vClip</author><text>I&#x27;m not sure I understand the point of these keys. &quot;These make it possible to install the operating system or upgrade to the operating system in question, but they are not the same as activation keys. You can use the OS, but it will run in an unactivated mode with limited features.&quot;<p>Last time I checked, I was able to download a bootable ISO of Windows 10, I boot from that disc&#x2F;USB, and I install the OS. I didn&#x27;t need no key for that. Are they saying that some sort of key is required just for an install to go forward now? Separately from the activation process? Is the generic key supposed to cost money or something? It doesn&#x27;t represent an OS license though, just license to install? This is all new news to me.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kotaKat</author><text>There are what Microsoft calls &quot;generic volume license keys&quot; or GVLKs which are used to target a specific edition to install from Windows media that holds multiple edition images (eg, Home, Pro, etc). GVLKs only install but don&#x27;t activate Windows -- they tell Windows to begin the Key Management Services client activation procedure and look for a corporate KMS server on your network to activate against.<p>Most of the time if a home user is reinstalling Windows the setup is picking up on the license &#x27;embedded&#x27; on the device in the BIOS&#x2F;EFI so you don&#x27;t ever get the key prompt. If you&#x27;re using multi-edition and volume license ISOs you&#x27;re often asked for the key to select edition.<p>They&#x27;re also not a secret by any stretch of the means -- <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;learn.microsoft.com&#x2F;en-us&#x2F;previous-versions&#x2F;windows&#x2F;it-pro&#x2F;windows-server-2012-r2-and-2012&#x2F;jj612867(v=ws.11)" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;learn.microsoft.com&#x2F;en-us&#x2F;previous-versions&#x2F;windows&#x2F;...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>ChatGPT, Google Bard Generates Generic Windows 11, Windows 10 Pro Keys</title><url>https://www.tomshardware.com/news/chatgpt-generates-windows-11-pro-keys</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>NoZebra120vClip</author><text>I&#x27;m not sure I understand the point of these keys. &quot;These make it possible to install the operating system or upgrade to the operating system in question, but they are not the same as activation keys. You can use the OS, but it will run in an unactivated mode with limited features.&quot;<p>Last time I checked, I was able to download a bootable ISO of Windows 10, I boot from that disc&#x2F;USB, and I install the OS. I didn&#x27;t need no key for that. Are they saying that some sort of key is required just for an install to go forward now? Separately from the activation process? Is the generic key supposed to cost money or something? It doesn&#x27;t represent an OS license though, just license to install? This is all new news to me.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ocdtrekkie</author><text>So most computers sold with Windows have their actual key embedded in the BIOS on the motherboard. Others, which were upgraded to Windows 10, send Microsoft&#x27;s servers their hardware ID, and are activated based on a digital license stored server side.<p>So the generic keys will allow the installer to proceed, but won&#x27;t actually provide a Windows license... but most computers already have that anyways and will activate themselves when they go online using one of the above ways.</text></comment> |
2,936,152 | 2,936,168 | 1 | 2 | 2,935,944 | train | <story><title>The "overlearning the game" problem</title><url>http://andrewoneverything.com/the-overlearning-the-game-problem</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>wisty</author><text>It's related to Goodhart's Law:<p><i>Any observed statistical regularity will tend to collapse once pressure is placed upon it for control purposes.</i><p>This is often the result of attempting to overoptimize a system. You can optimize a race car to a huge degree, because you know <i>exactly</i> what you want it to do.<p>You can't optimize a schooling system, because you <i>don't</i> know exactly what you want it to do. A little noise is a good thing, because the you want a little wiggle room for teachers to sidestep the dictums of education czars, and students to sidestep the dictums of teachers.<p>The Greeks solved this quite a few years ago, with sortition. Under sortition (injecting noise into elections - <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sortition" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sortition</a>), Bush and Gore would have been forced to pay "paper, scissors, rock" for the presidency. Under the US's more pure democracy, they would have been tempted to make all kind of Faustian bargains with sordid players to nail down the last 0.01% of votes.<p>Randomization means that the last percent is just not worth chasing, so players in a competition won't be tempted to bend the rules for a tiny advantage.<p>The same process could be used for tests. If you allocate places in desirable courses (say medicine) randomly to anyone above a certain score, the top students won't bother drilling as hard just to get the top score.<p>Stocks are the same - quants wouldn't sweat timing as much if their placement in order books was randomized. It would be more efficient to pay attention to fundamental value than momentary fluctuations if they weren't guaranteed to make large profits on the momentary fluctuations. Some would still work on timing, but not as many.<p>Patents are just bad policy badly implemented at the moment, not over-optimized.</text></comment> | <story><title>The "overlearning the game" problem</title><url>http://andrewoneverything.com/the-overlearning-the-game-problem</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>drewcrawford</author><text>If you pay a man by the hour, he'll work a lot of hours. If you pay him by the brick, he'll lay a lot of bricks.<p>These "games" are basically the equivalent of counting lines of code or checkins. We're measuring poor proxies instead of the things we're actually interested in. The solution isn't an arms race to build bigger and better proxies, the solution is to measure real things instead of artificial ones.<p>Here's just one example of what I mean by "measure real things". Electing representatives every X years to decide the laws of the land was once upon a time the fairest and best way to have the voices of the masses heard. Today it is feasible to directly poll everybody about every issue, so we no longer need the proxy. If you say everyone cannot be educated about every issue, fine, I can "follow" PG's votes on wall street reform and grellas's votes on IP tort reform and Schneier's votes on TSA etc just by copying their votes on those issues into my ballot, a permission which I can revoke at any time or on a vote-by-vote basis, as easy as unfollowing them on VoteTwitter. This is better than the proxy of professional politicians deciding every issue with fixed terms.</text></comment> |
24,523,158 | 24,523,163 | 1 | 2 | 24,522,908 | train | <story><title>Ruth Bader Ginsburg has died</title><url>https://www.npr.org/2020/09/18/100306972/justice-ruth-bader-ginsburg-champion-of-gender-equality-dies-at-87</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>awalton</author><text>McConnell says you never replace a Supreme Court Justice in an election year.<p>Let&#x27;s see just how long it takes him to release a public statement going back on that one...</text></item><item><author>atonse</author><text>As much as I respected and admired RBG, even she would’ve known it’s at best a wish and nothing else.<p>If things weren’t so polarized, they absolutely should spare no time in replacing the seat, as is their duty. But we know it’ll be yet another cynical and dishonest process as it was last time.</text></item><item><author>adzm</author><text>&gt; According to her granddaughter Clara Spera, Ginsburg said, “My most fervent wish is that I will not be replaced until a new president is installed.”<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;briantylercohen&#x2F;status&#x2F;1307101417522561025" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;briantylercohen&#x2F;status&#x2F;13071014175225610...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>wilg</author><text>&gt; Mr. McConnell and his allies say the two situations are different. Where one party controls the Senate and the other the presidency, as in 2016, they say, vacancies should not be filled in a presidential election year. Where the same party controls both the Senate and presidency, they argue, confirmations may proceed.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nytimes.com&#x2F;2020&#x2F;09&#x2F;18&#x2F;us&#x2F;justice-ruth-bader-ginsburg-dies-at-87.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nytimes.com&#x2F;2020&#x2F;09&#x2F;18&#x2F;us&#x2F;justice-ruth-bader-gin...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Ruth Bader Ginsburg has died</title><url>https://www.npr.org/2020/09/18/100306972/justice-ruth-bader-ginsburg-champion-of-gender-equality-dies-at-87</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>awalton</author><text>McConnell says you never replace a Supreme Court Justice in an election year.<p>Let&#x27;s see just how long it takes him to release a public statement going back on that one...</text></item><item><author>atonse</author><text>As much as I respected and admired RBG, even she would’ve known it’s at best a wish and nothing else.<p>If things weren’t so polarized, they absolutely should spare no time in replacing the seat, as is their duty. But we know it’ll be yet another cynical and dishonest process as it was last time.</text></item><item><author>adzm</author><text>&gt; According to her granddaughter Clara Spera, Ginsburg said, “My most fervent wish is that I will not be replaced until a new president is installed.”<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;briantylercohen&#x2F;status&#x2F;1307101417522561025" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;briantylercohen&#x2F;status&#x2F;13071014175225610...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>gamblor956</author><text>He already has, in a talk at the Federalist Society last year, where he said that if given the chance to replace a SCOTUS justice in 2020 he would not hesitate.<p><i>EDIT: And again, just over an hour ago, McConnell promised that he would have a vote on a new justice within a week of receiving the nomination.<p>Meanwhile, Murkowski of Alaska announced she would not support confirmation hearings until after the election.<p>And in other related news, Senate Democrats have promised to add seats to the Supreme Court if they win the Presidency and Senate in November and McConnell goes ahead with his plans...<p>The next few months are going to be exciting.</i></text></comment> |
6,379,623 | 6,379,582 | 1 | 2 | 6,379,439 | train | <story><title>Google knows nearly every Wi-Fi password in the world</title><url>http://blogs.computerworld.com/android/22806/google-knows-nearly-every-wi-fi-password-world</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>crb</author><text>Google also knows all the secrets of General David Petraeus, or anyone else that uses Gmail. And everything you&#x27;ve (secretly) searched for.<p>Google&#x27;s business model is based on aggregating that information and gaining value out of the data, mostly in the form of advertising. As soon as it lets a major secret out, even just once, it&#x27;s game over, and no-one will ever trust a secret to Google again. This is why they publish videos saying that no-one can ever walk out of a Google data centre with a hard drive.<p>I continue to use the services I use because I find the benefit I gain from them, more useful than the potential risk of exposure.<p>Should these secrets be encrypted? If they were, it would be possible for Google to steal your key if they wanted to. This is the same kind of perception problem that led to the Chrome team being hauled over the coals in public for not encrypting saved passwords. They have to be available to be useful, but people would rather perceive they weren&#x27;t available.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>r0h1n</author><text>&gt; As soon as it lets a major secret out, even just once, it&#x27;s game over, and no-one will ever trust a secret to Google again.<p>Just out of curiosity, how would we know even if a secret was let out to, say, the NSA or US Govt? Because (a) Google isn&#x27;t allowed to legally acknowledge it and (b) US LEOs will use &quot;parallel construction&quot; to obscure the fact that they obtained such secret information.<p>Moreover, if you&#x27;re not a US citizen, even lesser chances of ever coming to know what information is being handed over&#x2F;intercepted by the US Govt. If Presidents of countries can be targeted for surveillance, no reason a common person cannot.<p>Please note, I am not saying Google was specifically guilty of passing on info to the NSA in these cases, but just that, even if they were forced to, there&#x27;s no way the affected users would come to know.<p>Link: <a href="http://worldnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/09/02/20291489-snowden-leak-journalist-nsa-spied-on-emails-of-brazil-and-mexico-presidents" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;worldnews.nbcnews.com&#x2F;_news&#x2F;2013&#x2F;09&#x2F;02&#x2F;20291489-snowd...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Google knows nearly every Wi-Fi password in the world</title><url>http://blogs.computerworld.com/android/22806/google-knows-nearly-every-wi-fi-password-world</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>crb</author><text>Google also knows all the secrets of General David Petraeus, or anyone else that uses Gmail. And everything you&#x27;ve (secretly) searched for.<p>Google&#x27;s business model is based on aggregating that information and gaining value out of the data, mostly in the form of advertising. As soon as it lets a major secret out, even just once, it&#x27;s game over, and no-one will ever trust a secret to Google again. This is why they publish videos saying that no-one can ever walk out of a Google data centre with a hard drive.<p>I continue to use the services I use because I find the benefit I gain from them, more useful than the potential risk of exposure.<p>Should these secrets be encrypted? If they were, it would be possible for Google to steal your key if they wanted to. This is the same kind of perception problem that led to the Chrome team being hauled over the coals in public for not encrypting saved passwords. They have to be available to be useful, but people would rather perceive they weren&#x27;t available.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>amirmc</author><text>&gt; <i>&quot;As soon as it lets a major secret out, even just once, it&#x27;s game over, and no-one will ever trust a secret to Google again.&quot;</i><p>I used to think this but now I&#x27;m not so sure. With the way services like FB and others slowly change settings, Sony gets hacked and other data breaches, news about govt spying etc, I wonder whether the mass public is suffering from Learned Helplessness [1]. After all, what alternatives do most people really have?<p>[1] <a href="http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Learned_helplessness" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Learned_helplessness</a></text></comment> |
35,181,325 | 35,180,090 | 1 | 3 | 35,177,257 | train | <story><title>Will AIs take all our jobs and end human history? It’s complicated</title><url>https://writings.stephenwolfram.com/2023/03/will-ais-take-all-our-jobs-and-end-human-history-or-not-well-its-complicated/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mLuby</author><text>&gt; And one possibility might be that AIs could “improve themselves” to produce a single “apex intelligence” that would in a sense dominate everything else. But here we can see computational irreducibility as coming to the rescue. Because it implies that there can never be a “best at everything” computational system. It’s a core result of the emerging field of metabiology: that whatever “achievement” you specify, there’ll always be a computational system somewhere out there in the computational universe that will exceed it.<p>That tigers are stronger than wolves doesn&#x27;t prevent wolves from killing you.<p>Wolfram makes that class of error repeatedly. Another example: what prevents a system of ethics from being both Godel-incomplete&#x2F;inconsistent and at the same time encompassing everything in the realm of human experience?<p>&gt; For the first time in history, it’s become realistic to truly automate intellectual tasks. The leverage this provides is completely unprecedented.<p>The essay also mentions how humans are still the best at manual labor, and how government can work with humans directing the AI as it runs things every more efficiently. It doesn&#x27;t touch on <i>which</i> humans wield that leverage, naively assuming it&#x27;ll be all of us in a cozy democracy.<p>The author is too used to thinking from first principles and hasn&#x27;t studied enough human history to understand how leverage gets abused.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>slowmovintarget</author><text>The worst part of this is we haven&#x27;t produced intelligence. We&#x27;ve produced very good autocomplete. There&#x27;s no motivating force governing what it spits out, or what inputs it takes in, short of the people prompting or training it.<p>That means it can only do as it&#x27;s told, and not what is meant by what it&#x27;s told, and that class of errors, when executed with high efficiency and sophistication, makes all sorts of bad things happen.</text></comment> | <story><title>Will AIs take all our jobs and end human history? It’s complicated</title><url>https://writings.stephenwolfram.com/2023/03/will-ais-take-all-our-jobs-and-end-human-history-or-not-well-its-complicated/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mLuby</author><text>&gt; And one possibility might be that AIs could “improve themselves” to produce a single “apex intelligence” that would in a sense dominate everything else. But here we can see computational irreducibility as coming to the rescue. Because it implies that there can never be a “best at everything” computational system. It’s a core result of the emerging field of metabiology: that whatever “achievement” you specify, there’ll always be a computational system somewhere out there in the computational universe that will exceed it.<p>That tigers are stronger than wolves doesn&#x27;t prevent wolves from killing you.<p>Wolfram makes that class of error repeatedly. Another example: what prevents a system of ethics from being both Godel-incomplete&#x2F;inconsistent and at the same time encompassing everything in the realm of human experience?<p>&gt; For the first time in history, it’s become realistic to truly automate intellectual tasks. The leverage this provides is completely unprecedented.<p>The essay also mentions how humans are still the best at manual labor, and how government can work with humans directing the AI as it runs things every more efficiently. It doesn&#x27;t touch on <i>which</i> humans wield that leverage, naively assuming it&#x27;ll be all of us in a cozy democracy.<p>The author is too used to thinking from first principles and hasn&#x27;t studied enough human history to understand how leverage gets abused.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ly3xqhl8g9</author><text>15,687 words in that article and none of them are <i>wisdom</i> or <i>metaphysics</i>. As long as we won&#x27;t have a change in our metaphysics (assigning value and deriving meaning from &#x27;having a job&#x27; and so on), and we still proud ourselves in being &quot;jobs creators&quot; [1], it&#x27;s all for nothing, i.e., more shareholder value.<p>Because of our current metaphysics, instead of living in a world in which we just can&#x27;t wait and go full throttle towards a future in which AIs take all the jobs, we fear and dread even the minor but very plausible day in which narrow AI will do the <i>trivial</i> task of driving autonomously all the vehicles on all the roads, because that would imply that 200+ millions of jobs will disappear as if they never were.<p>[1] &quot;Last May, Samsung outlined a plan to pour more than $350 billion into its businesses and create tens of thousands of new jobs through 2026&quot;, <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;edition.cnn.com&#x2F;2023&#x2F;03&#x2F;15&#x2F;tech&#x2F;korea-chips-investment-hnk-intl&#x2F;index.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;edition.cnn.com&#x2F;2023&#x2F;03&#x2F;15&#x2F;tech&#x2F;korea-chips-investme...</a></text></comment> |
31,695,793 | 31,693,849 | 1 | 3 | 31,692,116 | train | <story><title>New ultra-stealthy Linux backdoor isn’t your everyday malware discovery</title><url>https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2022/06/novel-techniques-in-never-before-seen-linux-backdoor-make-it-ultra-stealthy/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>prvit</author><text>LD_PRELOAD rootkits are by definition not &quot;ultra-stealthy&quot;.<p>Nothing here looks special, there are a plenty of these:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;chokepoint&#x2F;Jynx2" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;chokepoint&#x2F;Jynx2</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;chokepoint&#x2F;jynxkit" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;chokepoint&#x2F;jynxkit</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;NexusBots&#x2F;Umbreon-Rootkit" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;NexusBots&#x2F;Umbreon-Rootkit</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;chokepoint&#x2F;azazel" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;chokepoint&#x2F;azazel</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;unix-thrust&#x2F;beurk" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;unix-thrust&#x2F;beurk</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;mempodippy&#x2F;vlany" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;mempodippy&#x2F;vlany</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;nopn0p&#x2F;rkorova" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;nopn0p&#x2F;rkorova</a><p>And presumably tens more I&#x27;ve forgotten about. Highschoolers write stuff like this.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>farisjarrah</author><text>This seems to be different from previous LD_PRELOAD vulnerabilities in that it&#x27;s using eBPF as part of the mechanism to obfuscate itself.</text></comment> | <story><title>New ultra-stealthy Linux backdoor isn’t your everyday malware discovery</title><url>https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2022/06/novel-techniques-in-never-before-seen-linux-backdoor-make-it-ultra-stealthy/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>prvit</author><text>LD_PRELOAD rootkits are by definition not &quot;ultra-stealthy&quot;.<p>Nothing here looks special, there are a plenty of these:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;chokepoint&#x2F;Jynx2" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;chokepoint&#x2F;Jynx2</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;chokepoint&#x2F;jynxkit" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;chokepoint&#x2F;jynxkit</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;NexusBots&#x2F;Umbreon-Rootkit" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;NexusBots&#x2F;Umbreon-Rootkit</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;chokepoint&#x2F;azazel" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;chokepoint&#x2F;azazel</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;unix-thrust&#x2F;beurk" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;unix-thrust&#x2F;beurk</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;mempodippy&#x2F;vlany" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;mempodippy&#x2F;vlany</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;nopn0p&#x2F;rkorova" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;nopn0p&#x2F;rkorova</a><p>And presumably tens more I&#x27;ve forgotten about. Highschoolers write stuff like this.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>VoidWhisperer</author><text>Side tangent: Why does github let these repos for Malware stay up? I understand some of them use the excuse &#x27;this is for education, i&#x27;m not responsible for what you do with it&#x27;, but some don&#x27;t even bother with that, and atleast my concern would be that some person could easily pull the code, modify it slightly, and off they go if the IOC&#x2F;detections for the attack method aren&#x27;t good yet</text></comment> |
17,319,266 | 17,318,880 | 1 | 2 | 17,316,120 | train | <story><title>Ask HN: What has the past 12 months taught you?</title></story><parent_chain><item><author>firefoxd</author><text>* Five co-founders are too many.<p>* If you are working on someone else&#x27;s crappy idea, think about working on your own crappy idea.<p>* Call people you might need later when you don&#x27;t need them. Or they tend to disappear when you do need them.<p>* Learn about the stock market and invest right away. You&#x27;ll make money, lose money, then understand money.<p>* Build as many projects as time allows. It&#x27;s nice to have the option to pick and choose.<p>* If you don&#x27;t do the thing you want to do today, 5 years from now you&#x27;ll remember and wonder how different your life would have been if you did.<p>* Don&#x27;t ask people what they think about your idea. They&#x27;ll either be supportive or mean to you. None of these are about your idea.<p>* Have a conversation with someone who doesn&#x27;t speak your language. Make the effort to understand them. Mr Tereso, came out of nowhere and taught me life lessons that changed my life. He spoke no English, and i spoke Duolingo level Japanese.<p>* I&#x27;ll end with this. If you are bored, create something. Make a clay pot, a drawing on paper, a JavaScript file, a wooden structure, a shoe rack, a sand castle, a matchstick home, a story. Make something you can look at the end result and you&#x27;ll never get bored again...</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>chiefalchemist</author><text>&gt; &quot;I&#x27;ll end with this. If you are bored, create something. Make a clay pot, a drawing on paper, a JavaScript file, a wooden structure, a shoe rack, a sand castle, a matchstick home, a story. Make something you can look at the end result and you&#x27;ll never get bored again...&quot;<p>This might be the best single sentence I&#x27;ve read on the internet so far this year. Kudos.<p>In short: Boredom is a function of creativity &#x2F; creating.<p>Thanks again.</text></comment> | <story><title>Ask HN: What has the past 12 months taught you?</title></story><parent_chain><item><author>firefoxd</author><text>* Five co-founders are too many.<p>* If you are working on someone else&#x27;s crappy idea, think about working on your own crappy idea.<p>* Call people you might need later when you don&#x27;t need them. Or they tend to disappear when you do need them.<p>* Learn about the stock market and invest right away. You&#x27;ll make money, lose money, then understand money.<p>* Build as many projects as time allows. It&#x27;s nice to have the option to pick and choose.<p>* If you don&#x27;t do the thing you want to do today, 5 years from now you&#x27;ll remember and wonder how different your life would have been if you did.<p>* Don&#x27;t ask people what they think about your idea. They&#x27;ll either be supportive or mean to you. None of these are about your idea.<p>* Have a conversation with someone who doesn&#x27;t speak your language. Make the effort to understand them. Mr Tereso, came out of nowhere and taught me life lessons that changed my life. He spoke no English, and i spoke Duolingo level Japanese.<p>* I&#x27;ll end with this. If you are bored, create something. Make a clay pot, a drawing on paper, a JavaScript file, a wooden structure, a shoe rack, a sand castle, a matchstick home, a story. Make something you can look at the end result and you&#x27;ll never get bored again...</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rntrg</author><text>&gt; Don&#x27;t ask people what they think about your idea. They&#x27;ll either be supportive or mean to you. None of these are about your idea.<p>While I agree that some people will be blindly supportive or mean (or will lie as another comment pointed out), it sounds to me that you might be asking the wrong people or you might be allowing ego to taint your perception of their responses.<p>In my experience, there are plenty of thoughtful, analytical people out there who can help you explore aspects of your idea you might not have considered. Those people, however, will likely only give you their honest assessment if you already have a relationship with them. For me, having a small network of thoughtful individuals that I trust (friends, family, etc) is essential.<p>In addition, you have to be able to separate your ego from the idea so that you can view criticism of it in an objective way, rather than as simply “mean” (which it might be, but might also contain grains of truth).<p>This is, of course, no substitute for feedback from actual customers&#x2F;users, though I would argue that, in the early stages of exploring an idea, it is equally necessary.</text></comment> |
21,528,746 | 21,527,475 | 1 | 3 | 21,526,284 | train | <story><title>Mirantis acquires Docker Enterprise and Docker raises $35M</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2019/11/13/mirantis-acquires-docker-enterprise/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>AaronFriel</author><text>Docker is the single best thing to happen to software deployment in 20 years, not just because of what it did for eliminating &quot;works on my machine&quot; build problems, but because of what it enabled. A <i>huge</i> ecosystem has sprung up around containerization, with immense value created for other businesses. Their &quot;Docker for Windows&#x2F;Mac&quot; apps are one of the first things I install on any new dev machine.<p>It&#x27;s unfortunate they didn&#x27;t figure out a way to make money off the best thing to happen to building and deploying software in 20 years.<p>A lot of other people did, from the startups now selling value-adds to Kubernetes like Kong and Tigera and TwistLock (since acquired) and others, to the public clouds which all offer Docker-based build services, image registries, and PaaS deployment tooling, to Kubernetes itself which for most users today still relies on Docker.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mmcnl</author><text>Happy to read this here, somehow any topic related to Docker on here ends up with someone saying Docker brings nothing new to the table except for a propietary API and you could just as well use LCX or whatever. I can personally see from inside a big corporation how Docker (or containerization) has a huge impact in how &quot;easy&quot; it becomes for developers to build and run their own code.<p>Without Docker everything new becomes a project on its own where you need to call in &quot;ops&quot; for the smallest of things. Not anymore. Ofcourse this has some other downsides, but in general it&#x27;s a massive step forward.</text></comment> | <story><title>Mirantis acquires Docker Enterprise and Docker raises $35M</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2019/11/13/mirantis-acquires-docker-enterprise/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>AaronFriel</author><text>Docker is the single best thing to happen to software deployment in 20 years, not just because of what it did for eliminating &quot;works on my machine&quot; build problems, but because of what it enabled. A <i>huge</i> ecosystem has sprung up around containerization, with immense value created for other businesses. Their &quot;Docker for Windows&#x2F;Mac&quot; apps are one of the first things I install on any new dev machine.<p>It&#x27;s unfortunate they didn&#x27;t figure out a way to make money off the best thing to happen to building and deploying software in 20 years.<p>A lot of other people did, from the startups now selling value-adds to Kubernetes like Kong and Tigera and TwistLock (since acquired) and others, to the public clouds which all offer Docker-based build services, image registries, and PaaS deployment tooling, to Kubernetes itself which for most users today still relies on Docker.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>VonGuard</author><text>It&#x27;s a lot like Sun Microsystems and Java. That was a big improvement in the lives of developers, but the company behind it never really figured out how to make money on it.</text></comment> |
17,521,057 | 17,520,862 | 1 | 3 | 17,520,134 | train | <story><title>How to build an NPM worm</title><url>https://jamie.build/how-to-build-an-npm-worm</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>skrebbel</author><text>This interests me. I find HN to be one of the least toxic places on the internet. I mean, I left Twitter because the outrage constantly made me angry, I never joined Facebook or Instagram. I have a low tolerance for toxic. Yet HN, here I am, and have been for years.<p>I truly wonder, without judgment, why the author thinks that HN is toxic. I doubt he reads this but maybe some people who don&#x27;t share my impression can guess?</text></item><item><author>rmccue</author><text>Flagged, as URL is now unavailable when linked with the message:<p><pre><code> This page is unavailable when linked to from news.ycombinator.com.
Please find a less toxic place to spend your time.
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Per <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;jamiebuilds&#x2F;jamie.build&#x2F;commit&#x2F;b66f185df4c2fb25d7da08ba2529eaff5ec16603" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;jamiebuilds&#x2F;jamie.build&#x2F;commit&#x2F;b66f185df4...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>DanBC</author><text>HN can be pretty horrible if it&#x27;s talking about anything connected with diversity.</text></comment> | <story><title>How to build an NPM worm</title><url>https://jamie.build/how-to-build-an-npm-worm</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>skrebbel</author><text>This interests me. I find HN to be one of the least toxic places on the internet. I mean, I left Twitter because the outrage constantly made me angry, I never joined Facebook or Instagram. I have a low tolerance for toxic. Yet HN, here I am, and have been for years.<p>I truly wonder, without judgment, why the author thinks that HN is toxic. I doubt he reads this but maybe some people who don&#x27;t share my impression can guess?</text></item><item><author>rmccue</author><text>Flagged, as URL is now unavailable when linked with the message:<p><pre><code> This page is unavailable when linked to from news.ycombinator.com.
Please find a less toxic place to spend your time.
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Per <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;jamiebuilds&#x2F;jamie.build&#x2F;commit&#x2F;b66f185df4c2fb25d7da08ba2529eaff5ec16603" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;jamiebuilds&#x2F;jamie.build&#x2F;commit&#x2F;b66f185df4...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>curiousgal</author><text>&gt;I find HN to be one of the least toxic places on the internet<p>I love it here but sometimes it can be very negative. Any discussion of Bitcoin for instance used to bring out the worst of people.</text></comment> |
6,320,865 | 6,320,783 | 1 | 2 | 6,320,320 | train | <story><title>The Number One Trait of a Great Developer</title><url>http://tammersaleh.com/posts/the-number-one-trait-of-a-great-developer/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>gfodor</author><text>The catch-22, of course, is that at some point, MySQL <i>was</i> the &quot;new thing&quot; to Diane, so how did she learn it in the first place?<p>The answer of course is that judgement is less about making decisions upon familiarity per se and more about knowing when unfamiliar technology seems to provide good trade offs given what is known about it. For example, PostgreSQL may be unfamiliar, but choosing it is a wildly different type of decision than choosing another less mature unfamiliar data store, since at a high level PostgreSQL is known to be a well-understood, mature technology that may provide significant leverage over MySQL in certain scenarios. Being able to understand the various dimensions of technology choices and make good ones with limited information and experience is what makes good judgement, not just an outright aversion to unfamiliar things.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>raverbashing</author><text>I see this as a 3D optimisation problem.<p>1st dimension: power of the tool<p>2nd dimension: ecosystem of the tool (developers&#x2F;libraries&#x2F;support&#x2F;etc)<p>3rd dimension: developer&#x27;s ability to use the tool (time to learn, current ability, etc)<p>If you think on factors going from 0 to 10, MySql could be [4, 7, 8] and Postgres could be [7, 7, 4] for that developer.<p>Of course the 3rd factor depends on the developer (and on the time available), for example I know Go is very powerful, but I wouldn&#x27;t use it, unless the available options for me are not good enough for a given problem (so the time to learn compensates for the loss that using other technologies would incur)</text></comment> | <story><title>The Number One Trait of a Great Developer</title><url>http://tammersaleh.com/posts/the-number-one-trait-of-a-great-developer/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>gfodor</author><text>The catch-22, of course, is that at some point, MySQL <i>was</i> the &quot;new thing&quot; to Diane, so how did she learn it in the first place?<p>The answer of course is that judgement is less about making decisions upon familiarity per se and more about knowing when unfamiliar technology seems to provide good trade offs given what is known about it. For example, PostgreSQL may be unfamiliar, but choosing it is a wildly different type of decision than choosing another less mature unfamiliar data store, since at a high level PostgreSQL is known to be a well-understood, mature technology that may provide significant leverage over MySQL in certain scenarios. Being able to understand the various dimensions of technology choices and make good ones with limited information and experience is what makes good judgement, not just an outright aversion to unfamiliar things.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mwcampbell</author><text>Diane most likely chose MySQL because it was the most popular open-source database. Popularity is often reason enough to choose a particular tool, because it means that that tool is more likely to be supported by other good tools.</text></comment> |
11,999,041 | 11,998,587 | 1 | 3 | 11,997,996 | train | <story><title>PulseAudio 9.0 released</title><url>https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/PulseAudio/Notes/9.0/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>kevin_thibedeau</author><text>&gt; but it seems that there is some use for rates as high as 384 kHz<p>Nyquist would suggest otherwise but why let pesky math get in the way of the golden ears. This is just more MHz war, DECT 6.0 style BS. I&#x27;m holding out for the dulcet tones of 1Mhz PCM audio myself.</text></item><item><author>amluto</author><text>&gt; PulseAudio has traditionally limited the maximum sample rate to 192 kHz, but it seems that there is some use for rates as high as 384 kHz, so the hard limit has been increased.<p>I can think of a use: plug a long wire into an audio out port and use it to transmit very-low-power AM radio without even needing a mixer. 384 kHz is enough to cover a decent chunk of the AM radio band :)<p>Of course, I bet your average &quot;384 kHz&quot; soundcard does some &quot;direct stream digital&quot; or similar garbage and has a truly atrocious SNR that those frequencies, so this might not actually work.<p>EDIT: Brain fart. 384 kilosamples per second is too low for normal AM radio unless there&#x27;s a nonlinearity you can exploit. It would still be a fun experiment, though.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nitrogen</author><text>In line with what others have mentioned, there are more uses for &quot;sound&quot; cards than just human ears. Maybe a musician wants to record some ultrasonic insect noise and slow it down to get a unique effect, or a scientist is working with non-human animals with ultrasonic hearing, or a digital restorer is using upper harmonics of noise on a recording to detect the original recording speed (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;The_Live_Wire:_Woody_Guthrie_in_Performance_1949" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;The_Live_Wire:_Woody_Guthrie...</a>).</text></comment> | <story><title>PulseAudio 9.0 released</title><url>https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/PulseAudio/Notes/9.0/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>kevin_thibedeau</author><text>&gt; but it seems that there is some use for rates as high as 384 kHz<p>Nyquist would suggest otherwise but why let pesky math get in the way of the golden ears. This is just more MHz war, DECT 6.0 style BS. I&#x27;m holding out for the dulcet tones of 1Mhz PCM audio myself.</text></item><item><author>amluto</author><text>&gt; PulseAudio has traditionally limited the maximum sample rate to 192 kHz, but it seems that there is some use for rates as high as 384 kHz, so the hard limit has been increased.<p>I can think of a use: plug a long wire into an audio out port and use it to transmit very-low-power AM radio without even needing a mixer. 384 kHz is enough to cover a decent chunk of the AM radio band :)<p>Of course, I bet your average &quot;384 kHz&quot; soundcard does some &quot;direct stream digital&quot; or similar garbage and has a truly atrocious SNR that those frequencies, so this might not actually work.<p>EDIT: Brain fart. 384 kilosamples per second is too low for normal AM radio unless there&#x27;s a nonlinearity you can exploit. It would still be a fun experiment, though.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>amluto</author><text>It wouldn&#x27;t surprise me if the hardware BOM cost of supporting these high sample rates for playback is basically zero. Any decent audio DAC will oversample internally, so if you don&#x27;t actually care about fidelity at inaudibly high frequencies, you can just oversample to the same frequency but shove more bits in. Of course, if you do this, you ought to do your oversampling carefully to avoid sounding <i>worse</i> due to leading harmonics of your actual audible signal through your filters into your amp and tweeter.<p>If you use a bona fide 1-bit DAC, you can sample pretty much as fast as you want if all you care about is your pretty spec sheet. 2+MHz sampling? No problem!<p>The classic article is here:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;xiph.org&#x2F;~xiphmont&#x2F;demo&#x2F;neil-young.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;xiph.org&#x2F;~xiphmont&#x2F;demo&#x2F;neil-young.html</a><p>Count me out, of course, but I still think it would be amusing to find a &quot;384 kHz&quot; audio DAC that actually worked at high enough frequencies to transmit AM radio. You&#x27;d have to actively exploit insufficiently filtered harmonics to have a chance.</text></comment> |
19,062,982 | 19,062,012 | 1 | 2 | 19,060,699 | train | <story><title>Insurance Company Says NotPetya Is an “Act of War”, Refuses to Pay</title><url>https://ridethelightning.senseient.com/2019/01/insurance-company-says-notpetya-is-an-act-of-war-refuses-to-pay.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Scoundreller</author><text>This is why I try to avoid insurance policies wherever possible.<p>It’s still hard to argue with people questioning why I don’t buy insurance for my $25k or so of household contents in a relatively secure building.<p>I don’t care how cheap the policy is, I’m assuming they’re charging more than they payout on average, and I lock my doors consistently.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>adetrest</author><text>I... Don&#x27;t get this mentality. Yes replacing 25k worth of contents isn&#x27;t <i>that</i> big a deal (although it would suck), but in a fire there are other costs that dwarf your contents. Think about how much your building&#x2F;unit is worth. If the fire started in your place, you could be responsible for all these damages (and especially your neighbour&#x27;s). Can you afford to repay a whole new building for you and your neighbours + their contents? How about living out of a hotel for a few months while the place is being repaired (which repairs you&#x27;ll have to cover too) and potentially paying your neighbours&#x27; bills for that as well? How does that compare to a 1000$ deductible and a 300$&#x2F;year premium? To me it&#x27;s a no brainer. If you really want a low premium, get a 2 or 5k deductible, 5k contents, and shop around. You&#x27;ll also get added protection like third party liability which is usually minimum 1 million $ and covers any damage you&#x27;d do to other&#x27;s property. Of course no-one wakes up thinking they&#x27;ll set their house on fire or flood the unit under them. And yet that happens every day. I don&#x27;t know anyone who didn&#x27;t have insurance and who got struck by a fire&#x2F;flood&#x2F;other damages say that they regret nothing and wouldn&#x27;t buy insurance if they could go back in time.</text></comment> | <story><title>Insurance Company Says NotPetya Is an “Act of War”, Refuses to Pay</title><url>https://ridethelightning.senseient.com/2019/01/insurance-company-says-notpetya-is-an-act-of-war-refuses-to-pay.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Scoundreller</author><text>This is why I try to avoid insurance policies wherever possible.<p>It’s still hard to argue with people questioning why I don’t buy insurance for my $25k or so of household contents in a relatively secure building.<p>I don’t care how cheap the policy is, I’m assuming they’re charging more than they payout on average, and I lock my doors consistently.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Broken_Hippo</author><text>Because fire isn&#x27;t going to affect you, obviously. The &quot;security&quot; of your house is only part of what folks buy such insurance for.<p>Only the privileged can do such things and get away with it. You&#x27;d have to have enough money to have a nest egg large enough to replace the stuff you need and care about, money to replace documents and ID, money for a hotel and travel, and money leftover so that a second even in a short timeframe does not leave you horribly off.<p>Poor people go without insurance all the time, but that is more the lack of ability to pay the premiums.<p>And of course they are charging more than they are paying out - much like a retailer charges more for a product than it cost them to make. There are exceptions in both cases: A car accident can mean someone gets more benefits than they pay in and retailers take losses on some things - but it isn&#x27;t the norm. The entire point, however, is that the risk is spread out so that most folks aren&#x27;t hit with a life-destroying event when bad things happen. That&#x27;s the real service you are paying a bit extra for. I find it weird that you&#x27;d judge teh company on making money.<p>You can judge by how well they pay out claims - how much time it takes, what percentage they pay, and so on. Or how much money they make in total - and this should probably be something over a few years to balance out natural disasters.</text></comment> |
16,653,370 | 16,652,993 | 1 | 2 | 16,650,800 | train | <story><title>BMW says electric car mass production not viable until 2020</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/article/us-bmw-results-electrification/bmw-says-electric-car-mass-production-not-viable-until-2020-idUSKBN1GY1BQ</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>reubenswartz</author><text>This has a lot to do with culture. Microsoft had a mockup of an e-reader before the Kindle, but the powers that be in the company insisted that it should run Windows (not out of malice, but because that&#x27;s how they saw the world.) When Bezos, who, at the time, ran a giant bookstore, started his Kindle project, he put them on a secret team in a different building.<p>Car companies are run by people who love engines that burn gas. The notion that electric vehicles might be something more than compliance nightmares, that they might actually be better <i>cars</i> than gas-powered vehicles is foreign. It&#x27;s like the Microsoft execs saying &quot;of course the e-reader should also be able to open spreadsheets and what-not.&quot; Meanwhile, the Kindle is better as an e-reader because they started from the ground up.<p>Same thing with Tesla. (With whom, none of these companies would be talking about going electric.) They started from the ground up.<p>If BMW wanted to make money on electric vehicles, Tesla has proven that you can sell an $80-$100K+ electric car (with a ~$50K interior) with profitable unit economics. I&#x27;m pretty sure an electric 7-series would sell like hotcakes, and make money. Instead, you get the i3, which some people love, but it&#x27;s certainly an acquired taste, and the 3 series e, which I drove recently-- it has about 11 miles of electric range. ;( If they just made it all electric, I&#x27;d buy one tomorrow at the already high 3-series prices. But the culture isn&#x27;t there yet...</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mmalone</author><text>This is a whole lot of conjecture. Auto manufacturers were investing in alternative fuel way before Tesla came around. BMW lost some ground on electric because they made a huge bet on hydrogen in the late 90s&#x2F;early 2000s that didn’t pan out (which is too bad because it probably would have been better and easier to transition to). There will always be nostalgia for the “purity” and raw mechanical feel of older big gas engines, but car people tend to like better cars, regardless of tech. Gas engines are getting smaller across the board. Many of the newest hypercars incorporate electric motors, and they’ve been generally well received.<p>I think what’s most likely is that they are right: they can’t reliably produce electric cars at scale that meet all of their requirements and customer expectations. Tesla is having trouble doing it, why wouldn’t BMW? Musk is charismatic and well liked. He is able to speculate wildly and miss deadlines with little consequence. I think BMW is right that they wouldn’t be given the same affordances by investors and consumers.</text></comment> | <story><title>BMW says electric car mass production not viable until 2020</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/article/us-bmw-results-electrification/bmw-says-electric-car-mass-production-not-viable-until-2020-idUSKBN1GY1BQ</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>reubenswartz</author><text>This has a lot to do with culture. Microsoft had a mockup of an e-reader before the Kindle, but the powers that be in the company insisted that it should run Windows (not out of malice, but because that&#x27;s how they saw the world.) When Bezos, who, at the time, ran a giant bookstore, started his Kindle project, he put them on a secret team in a different building.<p>Car companies are run by people who love engines that burn gas. The notion that electric vehicles might be something more than compliance nightmares, that they might actually be better <i>cars</i> than gas-powered vehicles is foreign. It&#x27;s like the Microsoft execs saying &quot;of course the e-reader should also be able to open spreadsheets and what-not.&quot; Meanwhile, the Kindle is better as an e-reader because they started from the ground up.<p>Same thing with Tesla. (With whom, none of these companies would be talking about going electric.) They started from the ground up.<p>If BMW wanted to make money on electric vehicles, Tesla has proven that you can sell an $80-$100K+ electric car (with a ~$50K interior) with profitable unit economics. I&#x27;m pretty sure an electric 7-series would sell like hotcakes, and make money. Instead, you get the i3, which some people love, but it&#x27;s certainly an acquired taste, and the 3 series e, which I drove recently-- it has about 11 miles of electric range. ;( If they just made it all electric, I&#x27;d buy one tomorrow at the already high 3-series prices. But the culture isn&#x27;t there yet...</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>davewritescode</author><text>I think you’re way oversimplifying the situation. BMW isn’t anything like Microsoft.<p>It’s important to remember that, if you count hybrids, BMW already sells more electrified cars than Tesla and the vast majority of them at a more affordable price point than Tesla (the i3 is a pretty good value).<p>BMW sells a ton of cars and has made pretty good progress on the electric front. They’re just not a hype machine like Tesla.</text></comment> |
11,307,892 | 11,307,900 | 1 | 3 | 11,306,272 | train | <story><title>US government pushed tech firms to hand over source code</title><url>http://www.zdnet.com/article/us-government-pushed-tech-firms-to-hand-over-source-code/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jlgaddis</author><text>&quot;&quot;&quot; IBM referred to a 2014 statement saying that the company does not provide &quot;software source code or encryption keys to the NSA or any other government agency for the purpose of accessing client data.&quot;<p>A spokesperson ... did not comment further on whether source code had been handed over to a government agency for any other reason. &quot;&quot;&quot;<p>I&#x27;m glad the author pressed them further (&quot;for any other reason&quot;). So many times we see such statements like this from companies but nobody bothers to ask the obvious (to me) follow-up question.</text></comment> | <story><title>US government pushed tech firms to hand over source code</title><url>http://www.zdnet.com/article/us-government-pushed-tech-firms-to-hand-over-source-code/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>acqq</author><text>The source code alone is less problem than the private keys.<p>If the agencies have private keys of the creators of your OS, who then signed the &quot;signed updates&quot; you&#x27;ve got?<p>Example, recently from Microsoft:<p>In their forums: &quot;Is Update KB3103709 Fake?&quot;<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;answers.microsoft.com&#x2F;en-us&#x2F;protect&#x2F;forum&#x2F;protect_other-protect_start&#x2F;is-update-kb3103709-fake&#x2F;c9fea314-1469-4d6f-b22f-d1fa0c11c503?auth=1" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;answers.microsoft.com&#x2F;en-us&#x2F;protect&#x2F;forum&#x2F;protect_oth...</a><p>On their site: &quot; Try searching for what you need This page doesn’t exist.&quot;<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;support.microsoft.com&#x2F;en-gb&#x2F;kb&#x2F;3103709" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;support.microsoft.com&#x2F;en-gb&#x2F;kb&#x2F;3103709</a></text></comment> |
13,693,106 | 13,693,192 | 1 | 2 | 13,692,632 | train | <story><title>Uber Taps Eric Holder to Investigate Discrimination Claims</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-02-21/uber-taps-eric-holder-to-look-into-gender-discrimination-claims?utm_content=markets&utm_campaign=socialflow-organic&utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&cmpid%3D=socialflow-twitter-markets</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>AckSyn</author><text>High performer meaning he lost hundreds of thousands of assault rifles in the &quot;Fast and Furious&quot; scam that sent small arms into Mexico. Which were immediately lost and use against US Citizens abroad and in our own country.<p>That Holder?</text></item><item><author>imron</author><text>He&#x27;s a high performer. And if he makes a mistake, I&#x27;m sure it&#x27;ll only be his first offense.</text></item><item><author>freyr</author><text>So they chose an Uber lobbyist, an Uber director, and the head of the department under investigation to lead their &quot;independent investigation&quot;? This company really has some audacity.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>freyr</author><text>&gt; <i>That Holder?</i><p>Right, the Holder who cut his teeth representing banks, became U.S. attorney general and refused to prosecute banks, and then went back to work representing banks. The Holder who has advocated on Uber&#x27;s behalf in the past, and whose firm, Covington &amp; Burling, has counseled Uber. I&#x27;m sure he&#x27;s a real bastion of impartiality.</text></comment> | <story><title>Uber Taps Eric Holder to Investigate Discrimination Claims</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-02-21/uber-taps-eric-holder-to-look-into-gender-discrimination-claims?utm_content=markets&utm_campaign=socialflow-organic&utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&cmpid%3D=socialflow-twitter-markets</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>AckSyn</author><text>High performer meaning he lost hundreds of thousands of assault rifles in the &quot;Fast and Furious&quot; scam that sent small arms into Mexico. Which were immediately lost and use against US Citizens abroad and in our own country.<p>That Holder?</text></item><item><author>imron</author><text>He&#x27;s a high performer. And if he makes a mistake, I&#x27;m sure it&#x27;ll only be his first offense.</text></item><item><author>freyr</author><text>So they chose an Uber lobbyist, an Uber director, and the head of the department under investigation to lead their &quot;independent investigation&quot;? This company really has some audacity.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>CalChris</author><text><i>That</i> Holder didn&#x27;t start <i>Fast and Furious</i>. It was authorized under Alberto Gonzales in 2006. Yeah, <i>that</i> Gonzales.<p>Actually, I had to review the history on this. <i>Wide Receiver</i> was started in 2006. <i>Fast and Furious</i> was a follow on in 2009. Holder has testified that he didn&#x27;t authorize it. Issa+Company sure investigated the hell out of it although Gonzales never testified.<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cnn.com&#x2F;2013&#x2F;08&#x2F;27&#x2F;world&#x2F;americas&#x2F;operation-fast-and-furious-fast-facts&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cnn.com&#x2F;2013&#x2F;08&#x2F;27&#x2F;world&#x2F;americas&#x2F;operation-fast-...</a></text></comment> |
12,773,661 | 12,773,724 | 1 | 3 | 12,772,851 | train | <story><title>A Little-Known Company That Enables Mass Surveillance</title><url>https://theintercept.com/2016/10/23/endace-mass-surveillance-gchq-governments/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jgrahamc</author><text>These DPI companies always make me smile because 20 years ago I was the inventor on this patent: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;patents.google.com&#x2F;patent&#x2F;US6182146B1&#x2F;en" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;patents.google.com&#x2F;patent&#x2F;US6182146B1&#x2F;en</a> It describes a way of doing DPI to identify protocols that are not running on standard ports. We used this for a protocol analysis product [0] that did network monitoring (for accounting purposes inside companies and led to companies discovering what people were mis-using their network connections for---hello PointCast[1]) and for prediction of network scaling needs. And all that was based on stuff I&#x27;d been doing from about 1984 [2].<p>Bottom line: scooping up packets is easy; encrypt your shit.<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cnet.com&#x2F;au&#x2F;news&#x2F;tool-gauges-web-apps&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cnet.com&#x2F;au&#x2F;news&#x2F;tool-gauges-web-apps&#x2F;</a><p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;PointCast_(dotcom)" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;PointCast_(dotcom)</a><p>[2] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.jgc.org&#x2F;2011&#x2F;01&#x2F;network-protocol-analysis-prior-art.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.jgc.org&#x2F;2011&#x2F;01&#x2F;network-protocol-analysis-prior-...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>A Little-Known Company That Enables Mass Surveillance</title><url>https://theintercept.com/2016/10/23/endace-mass-surveillance-gchq-governments/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>tptacek</author><text>This article perfectly illustrates a major flaw in surveillance journalism.<p>As luck would have it, I&#x27;m pretty familiar with Endace --- or was, back in 2003-2005. I was at Arbor Networks then. Arbor does large-scale network instrumentation for anti-DDoS and performance monitoring. By the time I left, every major ISP in the world had their network instrumented with Arbor gear.<p>We&#x27;d had lots of conversations with Endace. We were as a firm extremely interested in any technology we could buy off the rack to get performant access to raw packets and telemetry data --- Arbor had no hardware engineers, and everything they shipped at the time shipped on COTS X86 rackmounts running OpenBSD. My point here is not just that there are multiple uses for the kind of stuff Endace makes, but also that I vividly remember Endace because very few companies made products in this space at all.<p>Obviously, any company that can facilitate efficient access to, storage of, and analysis of raw traffic data is going to have multiple markets to sell to. And we should not make apologies for companies that take the extra money --- sell their souls, so to speak --- by offering their products to facilitate dragnet surveillance. We would all do well to keep in mind that the problem with selling to this market is far worse than NSA&#x27;s abuses, which are <i>trivial</i> compared to the abuses perpetrated by countries in the Middle East and Asia. Point being: packaging and selling for the global surveillance market is ethically hazardous in the extreme.<p>No, the problem here is that this kind of story is unintentionally deceptive about who the real enablers of large-scale surveillance are. They&#x27;re not the dinky little company in New Zealand selling packet capture technology. They&#x27;re the networking and database giants, the companies our parents automatically have their retirement accounts invested in because they&#x27;re huge components of the stock market, who have entire teams of people, euphemistically named (maybe something like &quot;public sector&quot; or &quot;APAC public sector&quot; or &quot;GSA&quot; or &quot;defense&quot;), packaging and selling 8-9 figure &quot;solutions&quot; to government around the world. Compared the giants, Endace is a gnat. They&#x27;re not the enablers. We know who the real enablers are.<p>You can tell, because of the article&#x27;s lurid descriptions of Endace&#x27;s major transactions with GCHQ --- the focus of the article. They&#x27;ve got smoking gun proof: invoices for $300,000 and $160,000. Or: less than SourceFire would have charged Chick-Fil-A† to install commercial Snort boxes.<p>† <i>I have no idea if Chick-Fil-A was a SourceFire customer.</i></text></comment> |
33,098,480 | 33,097,786 | 1 | 2 | 33,097,235 | train | <story><title>SpaceX exploring mission to boost Hubble</title><url>https://orbitalindex.com/archive/2022-10-05-Issue-188/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mlyle</author><text>Yup. Though--- I do wonder about the desire to keep it functioning at all costs. Servicing is expensive: humans and their consumables aren&#x27;t cheap.<p>I wonder what we&#x27;d get instead if we dumped equivalent or slightly more resources into a new telescope, instead.</text></item><item><author>themanmaran</author><text>It&#x27;s amazing to see a 32 year old chunk of hardware remain active and useful to this day. And projected to remain functioning for another 15 years.<p>While James Webb has become the new celebrity satellite, Hubble is still cranking out scans every week. It even caught some of the DART impact last week[1].<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nasa.gov&#x2F;feature&#x2F;goddard&#x2F;2022&#x2F;webb-hubble-capture-detailed-views-of-dart-impact" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nasa.gov&#x2F;feature&#x2F;goddard&#x2F;2022&#x2F;webb-hubble-captur...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Sharlin</author><text>We&#x27;re going to have another Hubble up in 2027 if all goes well: the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, or Roman for short. Originally known as WFIRST, it&#x27;s a 1.6m-primary-mirror declassified Keyhole spy sat similar to Hubble, but with a shorter focal length and thus a much wider field of view (around 1&#x2F;4 square degrees, roughly the area of a full moon). Still, its angular resolution will be comparable to Hubble thanks to a much higher-resolution, 300 megapixel imager. It&#x27;s a visible&#x2F;near IR instrument, so won&#x27;t replace Hubble&#x27;s near UV capabilities. Also, Roman won&#x27;t have a traditional spectrograph on board. What it will have, however, is a novel coronagraphic instrument for imaging and spectrography of companions of nearby stars (brown dwarfs and gas giants in wide orbits -- still no imaging exo-Earths or even exo-Jupiters, alas).<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Nancy_Grace_Roman_Space_Telescope" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Nancy_Grace_Roman_Space_Telesc...</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;roman.gsfc.nasa.gov&#x2F;why_Roman_Space_Telescope.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;roman.gsfc.nasa.gov&#x2F;why_Roman_Space_Telescope.html</a></text></comment> | <story><title>SpaceX exploring mission to boost Hubble</title><url>https://orbitalindex.com/archive/2022-10-05-Issue-188/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mlyle</author><text>Yup. Though--- I do wonder about the desire to keep it functioning at all costs. Servicing is expensive: humans and their consumables aren&#x27;t cheap.<p>I wonder what we&#x27;d get instead if we dumped equivalent or slightly more resources into a new telescope, instead.</text></item><item><author>themanmaran</author><text>It&#x27;s amazing to see a 32 year old chunk of hardware remain active and useful to this day. And projected to remain functioning for another 15 years.<p>While James Webb has become the new celebrity satellite, Hubble is still cranking out scans every week. It even caught some of the DART impact last week[1].<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nasa.gov&#x2F;feature&#x2F;goddard&#x2F;2022&#x2F;webb-hubble-capture-detailed-views-of-dart-impact" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nasa.gov&#x2F;feature&#x2F;goddard&#x2F;2022&#x2F;webb-hubble-captur...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dwheeler</author><text>I expect NASA to do the calculations, but I would expect boosting the orbit of an existing working telescope would be <i>much</i> cheaper than building a new one <i>AND</i> <i>ALSO</i> putting it in orbit. There are relatively few telescopes outside Earth&#x27;s atmosphere; keeping Hubble running seems like a good idea.</text></comment> |
13,788,183 | 13,787,998 | 1 | 3 | 13,787,276 | train | <story><title>Uber’s vice president of product and growth Ed Baker has resigned</title><url>http://www.recode.net/2017/3/3/14805384/uber-ed-baker-resigns-travis-kalanick</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>genericpseudo</author><text>At this point, it doesn&#x27;t matter whether he&#x27;s leaving because of accusations or if he&#x27;s leaving because of everyone <i>else&#x27;s</i> accusations – let&#x27;s assume the latter because that&#x27;s more charitable.<p>This is what a PR tailspin looks like. All your good people will leave, all your bad people will have to be fired, and consumer demand and driver supply will be affected. Perception is reality, and that means Uber are in real trouble here and it&#x27;s gonna cost them a lot – maybe most of the exec suite – to get out of it.<p>The key question is: who benefits? This is corporate politics by insurgent means, so I wonder who is emptying their opposition research briefing against Uber and why. Could even be an investor who wants to force leadership out, possibly as a prelude to driving Uber to an exit.<p>Those tactics don&#x27;t work unless the dirt exists, so this really, really doesn&#x27;t excuse anything which Uber may (and, on the balance of probabilities, there&#x27;s more than likely fire to go with this smoke) have done. And I don&#x27;t think it&#x27;s likely the individuals alleging harassment in particular are part of this at all, so anyone coming trying to impugn their motivations can go pound sand; but, as a byproduct of their legit and serious grievances, they created the environment where this kind of power-play can be made.<p>So who benefits?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>untog</author><text>I don&#x27;t think this requires a grand conspiracy to still make sense.<p>If you&#x27;re an Uber employee that&#x27;s been around for a while, you have significant value tied up in Uber stock. The senior management has long indicated little interest in going public, so in theory you have a lot of employees that are being prevented from becoming millionaires by their employer.<p>Worse, that stock is now decreasing in value (impossible to assess of course, but...) - might it not be better to leak all the things you&#x27;ve seen in the last few years and hurry the departure of the senior staff at Uber? Then you&#x27;ll get a new set of executives who will be much more open to going public and making you rich. Maybe not as rich as you might have been before all this started, but it&#x27;s better than terminal decline.</text></comment> | <story><title>Uber’s vice president of product and growth Ed Baker has resigned</title><url>http://www.recode.net/2017/3/3/14805384/uber-ed-baker-resigns-travis-kalanick</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>genericpseudo</author><text>At this point, it doesn&#x27;t matter whether he&#x27;s leaving because of accusations or if he&#x27;s leaving because of everyone <i>else&#x27;s</i> accusations – let&#x27;s assume the latter because that&#x27;s more charitable.<p>This is what a PR tailspin looks like. All your good people will leave, all your bad people will have to be fired, and consumer demand and driver supply will be affected. Perception is reality, and that means Uber are in real trouble here and it&#x27;s gonna cost them a lot – maybe most of the exec suite – to get out of it.<p>The key question is: who benefits? This is corporate politics by insurgent means, so I wonder who is emptying their opposition research briefing against Uber and why. Could even be an investor who wants to force leadership out, possibly as a prelude to driving Uber to an exit.<p>Those tactics don&#x27;t work unless the dirt exists, so this really, really doesn&#x27;t excuse anything which Uber may (and, on the balance of probabilities, there&#x27;s more than likely fire to go with this smoke) have done. And I don&#x27;t think it&#x27;s likely the individuals alleging harassment in particular are part of this at all, so anyone coming trying to impugn their motivations can go pound sand; but, as a byproduct of their legit and serious grievances, they created the environment where this kind of power-play can be made.<p>So who benefits?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kbenson</author><text>&gt; This is corporate politics by insurgent means<p>Do you mind explaining that? I&#x27;m not sure I follow. It&#x27;s obvious that a lot of dirt is coming out, but it seems to all be sourced internally. Or are you referring to people with media connections pushing the stories for more exposure (which I don&#x27;t know if is happening or not)? I don&#x27;t think there <i>needs</i> to be an explanation for why there&#x27;s a lot of stories beyond it hitting the tipping point for many employees, but that doesn&#x27;t mean there isn&#x27;t one.</text></comment> |
23,498,303 | 23,496,680 | 1 | 3 | 23,494,366 | train | <story><title>University of the People: Tuition-Free, Accredited Online Degree Programs</title><url>https://www.uopeople.edu/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>BeetleB</author><text>&gt; But if you can&#x27;t do the middle-class job because you can&#x27;t write, the piece of paper will only get you so far. It may get you an entry-level job, but you probably won&#x27;t get much in the way of promotions. So even from that perspective, plagiarism isn&#x27;t helpful.<p>Where do these mythical jobs exist where being able to write well is a requirement for career growth? Certainly not at engineering companies.<p>I <i>wish</i> what you said were true, but in my experience, &quot;being able to write and communicate well is critical in the workplace&quot; is one of the top lies taught to me when I was at university. We had to take a regular writing class, and a technical writing class to graduate with an engineering degree. And when I get to industry, I see no signs of people practicing what they&#x27;re taught, and it doesn&#x27;t hold anyone back.<p><i>Edit</i>: I should say my experience is more about writing than communicating as a whole. People do need to be good speakers&#x2F;presenters. But writing? Not really.</text></item><item><author>AnimalMuppet</author><text>But if you can&#x27;t <i>do</i> the middle-class job because you can&#x27;t write, the piece of paper will only get you so far. It may get you an entry-level job, but you probably won&#x27;t get much in the way of promotions. So even from that perspective, plagiarism isn&#x27;t helpful.</text></item><item><author>khawkins</author><text>This is under the assumption that you see college is a program of self-betterment and not busy work for receiving a degree that says you can have a middle-class job. It feels like even the universities themselves see it as the latter these days.</text></item><item><author>infogulch</author><text>The problem with plagiarism isn&#x27;t best characterized as some sort of power struggle between teachers and students via bullshit assignments.<p>The purpose of learning to write is to make yourself a formidable communicator. If you can independently analyze a new topic to learn something new and apply the results of those learnings towards a particular goal, you can be amazingly effective in everything you aim for. But if you plagiarize every assignment you rob yourself of your own training of this critically important competency.<p>Plagiarizing some work doesn&#x27;t really hurt the work, it hurts <i>you</i>.</text></item><item><author>themodelplumber</author><text>&gt; could not grasp the idea of plagiarism being unethical<p>I remember experiencing this at a private religious university. At the time, my hyper-religious mind was blown to see students outright cheating in the Testing Center.<p>Since then I&#x27;ve been exposed to additional perspectives on plagiarism. It is an extremely deep and nuanced topic. A few years out of school, I ended up mentoring and then teaching college students who seem to match the sort of person you describe. This was a huge shock at first.<p>The more I learned about these students, the more I learned about the sheer variety of perceptions involved: One person&#x27;s fairness concept is, to another person or group, a latent power dynamic which ought to be questioned.<p>Or, this person&#x27;s concern for the big-picture ethical questions is this other person&#x27;s small-picture roadblock in an economic problem which seems more urgent with each passing moment. You want a big picture? Can you justify it in seconds, with something that&#x27;s not simply a subjective perception or largely-covert moral construct of your own?<p>Yet another person&#x27;s assumption of perpetually commonly-understood contract is another&#x27;s baroque exercise in cleverness and flexibility. It&#x27;s the sneaky laser dance from _Ocean&#x27;s Twelve_, and _that_ kind of challenge is, psychologically speaking, extremely energizing for them. Don&#x27;t think they didn&#x27;t notice how things work in the &quot;real&quot; world! (When these two see each other face to face--so to speak--there are harsh outcomes)<p>Anyway--sorry to hear about your experience &amp; thank you for sharing so that others can be more educated about their choice of institution.</text></item><item><author>dart600</author><text>Hi. I attended this school and then got accepted to another more standard institution, which I applied at the same time to. The new institution, learning I had been attending U of the P, promptly told me that U of the P credits would not transfer. Universal transferability in question, I opted out.<p>I did enjoy meeting people from all walks of life, all over the world. However, I also saw a grossly wide range of educational professionalism in the students. In the introductory mandatory writing course, for example,there were a number of classmates whom could not grasp the idea of plagiarism being unethical. With a plagiarism assignment graded by those peers, it was difficult to not feel like higher educational learning was moving along for oneself at a progressively intellectually challenging pace.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>brobdingnagians</author><text>Yes, writing is important. I have coworkers who struggle at writing, and it takes mental overhead to try to understand them. It hurts their ability to communicate clearly, think clearly, and to be taken seriously. I have clients who struggle to write well; I was just barely looking at a legally binding document that is incomprehensible in places and would have serious repercussions on those using it. That is bad. Society is better when we are truly educated to think and to communicate. We can be enriched by each other when we understand each other. Writing coherently helps us think coherently. That improves our lives more than a degree certificate ever will.</text></comment> | <story><title>University of the People: Tuition-Free, Accredited Online Degree Programs</title><url>https://www.uopeople.edu/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>BeetleB</author><text>&gt; But if you can&#x27;t do the middle-class job because you can&#x27;t write, the piece of paper will only get you so far. It may get you an entry-level job, but you probably won&#x27;t get much in the way of promotions. So even from that perspective, plagiarism isn&#x27;t helpful.<p>Where do these mythical jobs exist where being able to write well is a requirement for career growth? Certainly not at engineering companies.<p>I <i>wish</i> what you said were true, but in my experience, &quot;being able to write and communicate well is critical in the workplace&quot; is one of the top lies taught to me when I was at university. We had to take a regular writing class, and a technical writing class to graduate with an engineering degree. And when I get to industry, I see no signs of people practicing what they&#x27;re taught, and it doesn&#x27;t hold anyone back.<p><i>Edit</i>: I should say my experience is more about writing than communicating as a whole. People do need to be good speakers&#x2F;presenters. But writing? Not really.</text></item><item><author>AnimalMuppet</author><text>But if you can&#x27;t <i>do</i> the middle-class job because you can&#x27;t write, the piece of paper will only get you so far. It may get you an entry-level job, but you probably won&#x27;t get much in the way of promotions. So even from that perspective, plagiarism isn&#x27;t helpful.</text></item><item><author>khawkins</author><text>This is under the assumption that you see college is a program of self-betterment and not busy work for receiving a degree that says you can have a middle-class job. It feels like even the universities themselves see it as the latter these days.</text></item><item><author>infogulch</author><text>The problem with plagiarism isn&#x27;t best characterized as some sort of power struggle between teachers and students via bullshit assignments.<p>The purpose of learning to write is to make yourself a formidable communicator. If you can independently analyze a new topic to learn something new and apply the results of those learnings towards a particular goal, you can be amazingly effective in everything you aim for. But if you plagiarize every assignment you rob yourself of your own training of this critically important competency.<p>Plagiarizing some work doesn&#x27;t really hurt the work, it hurts <i>you</i>.</text></item><item><author>themodelplumber</author><text>&gt; could not grasp the idea of plagiarism being unethical<p>I remember experiencing this at a private religious university. At the time, my hyper-religious mind was blown to see students outright cheating in the Testing Center.<p>Since then I&#x27;ve been exposed to additional perspectives on plagiarism. It is an extremely deep and nuanced topic. A few years out of school, I ended up mentoring and then teaching college students who seem to match the sort of person you describe. This was a huge shock at first.<p>The more I learned about these students, the more I learned about the sheer variety of perceptions involved: One person&#x27;s fairness concept is, to another person or group, a latent power dynamic which ought to be questioned.<p>Or, this person&#x27;s concern for the big-picture ethical questions is this other person&#x27;s small-picture roadblock in an economic problem which seems more urgent with each passing moment. You want a big picture? Can you justify it in seconds, with something that&#x27;s not simply a subjective perception or largely-covert moral construct of your own?<p>Yet another person&#x27;s assumption of perpetually commonly-understood contract is another&#x27;s baroque exercise in cleverness and flexibility. It&#x27;s the sneaky laser dance from _Ocean&#x27;s Twelve_, and _that_ kind of challenge is, psychologically speaking, extremely energizing for them. Don&#x27;t think they didn&#x27;t notice how things work in the &quot;real&quot; world! (When these two see each other face to face--so to speak--there are harsh outcomes)<p>Anyway--sorry to hear about your experience &amp; thank you for sharing so that others can be more educated about their choice of institution.</text></item><item><author>dart600</author><text>Hi. I attended this school and then got accepted to another more standard institution, which I applied at the same time to. The new institution, learning I had been attending U of the P, promptly told me that U of the P credits would not transfer. Universal transferability in question, I opted out.<p>I did enjoy meeting people from all walks of life, all over the world. However, I also saw a grossly wide range of educational professionalism in the students. In the introductory mandatory writing course, for example,there were a number of classmates whom could not grasp the idea of plagiarism being unethical. With a plagiarism assignment graded by those peers, it was difficult to not feel like higher educational learning was moving along for oneself at a progressively intellectually challenging pace.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jimmaswell</author><text>&gt; &quot;being able to write and communicate well is critical in the workplace&quot; is one of the top lies taught to me when I was at university<p>Definitely. Communication full of casual txtspeak and&#x2F;or broken English all over. I suspected my first job&#x27;s recruitment emails to possibly be some kind of scam at first because they were made in 3 different fonts in the same email with random words capitalized or colored various colors for emphasis, of course full of broken English - and I&#x27;m not talking about just terms like &quot;do the needful&quot; which are valid Indian English, that&#x27;s fine, but even evaluating as that language so much of the communication is just terrible and nobody seems to care. I guess it works out fine and ultimately doesn&#x27;t matter much but it still feels unprofessional.</text></comment> |
41,406,689 | 41,404,452 | 1 | 2 | 41,403,286 | train | <story><title>500 Python Interpreters</title><url>https://izzys.casa/2024/08/463-python-interpreters/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jiggunjer</author><text>So this means modules like concurrent.futures can create a thread pool object (as opposed to processpool) and run in parallel?<p>Or is the functionality as of 3.13 still limited to low level python embedding applications?</text></comment> | <story><title>500 Python Interpreters</title><url>https://izzys.casa/2024/08/463-python-interpreters/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>curious_cat_163</author><text>&gt; &quot;No matter what happens there is going to be a lock occurring. No two PyThreadStates can execute Python bytecode at the same time. However, they can execute multiple C calls at the same time which is why for long running pure C operations extension and embedding developers are encouraged to release the GIL temporarily.&quot;<p>Very exciting! I wonder what the first set of motivating applications are and what kind of performance gains are they expecting.</text></comment> |
37,813,015 | 37,812,703 | 1 | 2 | 37,785,330 | train | <story><title>Star observatories you can visit in the United States</title><url>https://matadornetwork.com/read/us-observatories/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>gnatman</author><text>Another cool spot to add to your roadtrip is Cherry Springs State Park, a dark sky preserve in Pennsylvania.<p>&gt; Astronomers and stargazers appreciate Cherry Springs State Park for the darkness and clarity of its skies, which make it &quot;perhaps the last best refuge of the natural night sky&quot; in the eastern half of the United States. The sky at Cherry Springs has been classified as a 2 on the Bortle Dark-Sky Scale, meaning it has almost no light pollution. Such &quot;truly dark, starry skies are unavailable to two-thirds of the world&#x27;s population, including 99 percent of people in the continental U.S. and Western Europe&quot;. With optimum conditions, 10,000 stars are visible with the naked eye at the park, clouds appear only as black holes in the starry sky, and the Milky Way is so bright that it casts a discernible shadow.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Cherry_Springs_State_Park#Dark_skies" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Cherry_Springs_State_Park#Dark...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Star observatories you can visit in the United States</title><url>https://matadornetwork.com/read/us-observatories/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>megalomanu</author><text>If any French people happen to come across this thread, I recommend visiting the Observatoire des Baronnies Provençales. I went there this summer and really loved the experience. We observed various astronomical elements (the sun, planets, galaxies, stars, etc.) from 2pm to 2am. We used different instruments, from a large dome telescope to smaller ones, as well as a connected telescope for taking pictures—the eVscope, an amazing piece of hardware and software—and infrared binoculars. We also did other activities, like identifying an exoplanet with the astrophysicist in residence. Highly recommended for amateur astronomers.
Places like these are unfortunately quite uncommon in France.</text></comment> |
7,934,737 | 7,934,718 | 1 | 3 | 7,934,177 | train | <story><title>We have the potential to solve the biggest problems of today</title><url>http://www.christophmccann.com/blog/2014/6/23/we-have-the-potential-to-solve-the-biggest-problems-of-today</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>pdabbadabba</author><text>There&#x27;s a lot that I dislike about this article, but I&#x27;ll start with this: it is probably self-refuting. Someone could just have easily written: &quot;I find it difficult to see individuals who could focus their time and effort solving [problems like energy, food, water, health, education], instead put their efforts into something like a takedown of the moral priorities of the people behind Yo on a their personal blog.&quot; A person could argue that the post has more value than Yo (though I&#x27;m not sure this is self-evident), but it still isn&#x27;t in the same ballpark as &quot;energy, food, water, health, education.&quot; I mean, c&#x27;mon Christoph McCann, get your priorities straight!<p>Of course, I don&#x27;t actually make that argument, because I reject its premise. As the above argument hopefully illustrates, it is not reasonable to insist that everyone spend all their time in the most socially beneficial way possible. Should we all strive to make the world a better place? Of course. But I don&#x27;t know many people who think that we need to spend all our time tackling the world&#x27;s biggest problems.<p>And, by the way, who appointed Christoph McCann arbiter of what it good and valuable in this world? Maybe an app like Yo will bring us together in a new (albeit marginal) way. That&#x27;s valuable, even if it is also silly. (See, e.g., the first few paragraphs of this article: <a href="http://www.forbes.com/sites/quickerbettertech/2014/06/23/goodbye-yo-or-how-the-worlds-most-fun-and-heartwarming-app-met-its-tragic-end/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.forbes.com&#x2F;sites&#x2F;quickerbettertech&#x2F;2014&#x2F;06&#x2F;23&#x2F;goo...</a>) Or maybe it provide a cautionary tale to remind us (as, perhaps, it already has) what is really important. Value exists in subtle forms that are not so easy to glibly list, and can be advanced in subtle and unexpected ways. While I wish we lived in a world where more people focused on problems like energy, food, water, health, education, I&#x27;m not sure I want to live in a world where EVERYONE works on those problems. I want people to be free to do the unexpected, even if the results sometimes seem frivolous.<p>So, if McCann&#x27;s only point is that we should take a moment and reconsider our priorities, point taken. But this looks suspiciously like something a bit more (with respect, and apologies) totalitarian.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jal278</author><text>&quot;The best minds of my generation are thinking about how to make people click ads. That sucks.&quot; [0]<p>The reason why this article resonates with many readers is that it expresses frustration with the triviality of how our economy allocates resources to start-ups. The promise of tech is huge, but following the money often leads to optimizing ads, machine learning algorithms competing with each other in HFT, or other applications with little net benefit to society.<p>It&#x27;s not that <i>EVERYONE</i> should be working on the big problems -- just that the incentive systems seem to lean towards triviality over deep human benefit.<p>[0] <a href="http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/11_17/b4225060960537.htm" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.businessweek.com&#x2F;magazine&#x2F;content&#x2F;11_17&#x2F;b42250609...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>We have the potential to solve the biggest problems of today</title><url>http://www.christophmccann.com/blog/2014/6/23/we-have-the-potential-to-solve-the-biggest-problems-of-today</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>pdabbadabba</author><text>There&#x27;s a lot that I dislike about this article, but I&#x27;ll start with this: it is probably self-refuting. Someone could just have easily written: &quot;I find it difficult to see individuals who could focus their time and effort solving [problems like energy, food, water, health, education], instead put their efforts into something like a takedown of the moral priorities of the people behind Yo on a their personal blog.&quot; A person could argue that the post has more value than Yo (though I&#x27;m not sure this is self-evident), but it still isn&#x27;t in the same ballpark as &quot;energy, food, water, health, education.&quot; I mean, c&#x27;mon Christoph McCann, get your priorities straight!<p>Of course, I don&#x27;t actually make that argument, because I reject its premise. As the above argument hopefully illustrates, it is not reasonable to insist that everyone spend all their time in the most socially beneficial way possible. Should we all strive to make the world a better place? Of course. But I don&#x27;t know many people who think that we need to spend all our time tackling the world&#x27;s biggest problems.<p>And, by the way, who appointed Christoph McCann arbiter of what it good and valuable in this world? Maybe an app like Yo will bring us together in a new (albeit marginal) way. That&#x27;s valuable, even if it is also silly. (See, e.g., the first few paragraphs of this article: <a href="http://www.forbes.com/sites/quickerbettertech/2014/06/23/goodbye-yo-or-how-the-worlds-most-fun-and-heartwarming-app-met-its-tragic-end/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.forbes.com&#x2F;sites&#x2F;quickerbettertech&#x2F;2014&#x2F;06&#x2F;23&#x2F;goo...</a>) Or maybe it provide a cautionary tale to remind us (as, perhaps, it already has) what is really important. Value exists in subtle forms that are not so easy to glibly list, and can be advanced in subtle and unexpected ways. While I wish we lived in a world where more people focused on problems like energy, food, water, health, education, I&#x27;m not sure I want to live in a world where EVERYONE works on those problems. I want people to be free to do the unexpected, even if the results sometimes seem frivolous.<p>So, if McCann&#x27;s only point is that we should take a moment and reconsider our priorities, point taken. But this looks suspiciously like something a bit more (with respect, and apologies) totalitarian.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>gfodor</author><text>Yes, I believed you missed the point. Someone lamenting the fact that smart people are working on stupid problems is not the same thing as them saying that smart people should be forced to work on hard problems. Hamming put it best:<p>&quot;Over on the other side of the dining hall was a chemistry table. I had worked with one of the fellows, Dave McCall; furthermore he was courting our secretary at the time. I went over and said, ``Do you mind if I join you?&#x27;&#x27; They can&#x27;t say no, so I started eating with them for a while. And I started asking, ``What are the important problems of your field?&#x27;&#x27; And after a week or so, ``What important problems are you working on?&#x27;&#x27; And after some more time I came in one day and said, ``If what you are doing is not important, and if you don&#x27;t think it is going to lead to something important, why are you at Bell Labs working on it?&#x27;&#x27; I wasn&#x27;t welcomed after that; I had to find somebody else to eat with! That was in the spring.&quot;<p><a href="http://www.cs.virginia.edu/~robins/YouAndYourResearch.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cs.virginia.edu&#x2F;~robins&#x2F;YouAndYourResearch.html</a><p>Yo&#x27;s developers getting more than a million in funding at least makes it pretty clear at least in part <i>why</i> this happens.</text></comment> |
25,795,896 | 25,795,821 | 1 | 2 | 25,794,987 | train | <story><title>Elasticsearch is dead, long live Open Distro for Elasticsearch</title><url>https://www.logicalclocks.com/blog/elasticsearch-is-dead-long-live-open-distro-for-elasticsearch</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jchw</author><text>My PoV: a bunch of startups chose to do open source because it’s good PR and marketing. Then it proved to be bad for their business model so they moved to something much closer to shared source.<p>Personally, I don’t think there’s anything immoral or shameful about selling proprietary software or shared source or whatever. However, SSPL and TSL and friends are just not open source licenses. They’re more restrictive than AGPL. They are designed to protect a business model, not your rights as an end user.<p>So it irks me that the only perspective I see reliably is that Amazon is screwing everyone and not how startups are willing to take advantage of the good will and marketing bonus and then switch it up when they realize it can’t be reconciled with their business model. Continuing to call it “open source” is just insult to injury, imo.</text></item><item><author>mrkurt</author><text>Rephrased: Amazon played hardball with open source Elasticsearch, limiting elastic&#x27;s ability to make money and forcing a license change. Now you should use Amazon&#x27;s fork instead!<p>This is not a good outcome for people who want an independent OSS ecosystem.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mrkurt</author><text>&quot;Bad for their business model&quot; because Amazon has tremendous power. It wasn&#x27;t just a series of bad choices by the startups that got them here, it was concentration of an emerging market over 10-15 years.<p>Amazon dominates conversations because they extract the most value from open source projects. They make more money selling PostgreSQL, MySQL, Elasticsearch, _Docker_, Linux, etc than the creators of those projects. It&#x27;s not the only perspective, but it dominates for a reason.<p>Startups OSS their work because it helps them get users and figure out what to build. Amazon has the benefit of watching which projects become most viable (frequently because the startup threatens their revenue somehow) and packaging them up as their own services.<p>I want to live in a world where smaller startups _can_ OSS their work and also monetize it. And I&#x27;d like them to be able to do it without raising $100mm in VC.</text></comment> | <story><title>Elasticsearch is dead, long live Open Distro for Elasticsearch</title><url>https://www.logicalclocks.com/blog/elasticsearch-is-dead-long-live-open-distro-for-elasticsearch</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jchw</author><text>My PoV: a bunch of startups chose to do open source because it’s good PR and marketing. Then it proved to be bad for their business model so they moved to something much closer to shared source.<p>Personally, I don’t think there’s anything immoral or shameful about selling proprietary software or shared source or whatever. However, SSPL and TSL and friends are just not open source licenses. They’re more restrictive than AGPL. They are designed to protect a business model, not your rights as an end user.<p>So it irks me that the only perspective I see reliably is that Amazon is screwing everyone and not how startups are willing to take advantage of the good will and marketing bonus and then switch it up when they realize it can’t be reconciled with their business model. Continuing to call it “open source” is just insult to injury, imo.</text></item><item><author>mrkurt</author><text>Rephrased: Amazon played hardball with open source Elasticsearch, limiting elastic&#x27;s ability to make money and forcing a license change. Now you should use Amazon&#x27;s fork instead!<p>This is not a good outcome for people who want an independent OSS ecosystem.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>majormajor</author><text>I think you&#x27;re painting it as more cynical and malicious than it was. There was probably too much naivety, but &quot;open source your software and charge for support and operations&quot; was promoted pretty heavily for a while <i>not just by these companies, but by people who wanted to enjoy those projects being open source</i>.<p>And then it got torpedoed...</text></comment> |
22,239,036 | 22,238,995 | 1 | 3 | 22,237,745 | train | <story><title>Expert programmers have fine-tuned cortical representations of source code</title><url>https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.01.28.923953v1</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>ible</author><text>I don&#x27;t know what &#x27;cortical representations&#x27; are exactly, but it seems generally true that experts in a domain build up gradually higher level pattern recognition in their area of expertise. Whether it is driving a car, playing a sport or game, or writing software.<p>As a beginning programmer I had to consciously think about fundamental concepts all the time, or grapple with my limited knowledge of a programming language, instead of thinking about the problem.<p>As an experienced programmer I think in higher level concepts and abstractions, and the fine code details happen without me consciously thinking about them particularly.<p>This actually makes learning a new programming language or IDE more painful now than it was when I was new. It probably takes me less time to get to an equal level of skill in language X than a beginner, but getting to the level of fluency where the low level details don&#x27;t require conscious thought takes time and practice. Being slowed down so much while getting to that point is deeply frustrating.</text></comment> | <story><title>Expert programmers have fine-tuned cortical representations of source code</title><url>https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.01.28.923953v1</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>BigHatLogan</author><text>&quot;Tell me what you pay attention to and I will tell you who you are.&quot; - Jose Ortega<p>This is fantastic. I&#x27;ve always had a hunch that experts are &quot;seeing&quot; things differently than novices, and seeing things that people who aren&#x27;t in the same domain aren&#x27;t even aware of. As people develop more expertise, I imagine the gap becomes larger, to the point where they&#x27;re aware of things that &quot;laymen&quot; aren&#x27;t even cognizant of.<p>Two examples:<p>In one of Malcolm Gladwell&#x27;s books--I forget which one--he writes about a firefighter who, almost unconsciously, ordered his men out of a building right before it collapsed. He didn&#x27;t even know why. After going through the day&#x27;s events with a researcher, the researcher realized that the fireman was subconsciously (unconsciously?) attuned to what was happening around him. His brain was operating unbeknownst to him due to his years of expertise.<p>A friend of mine started a small business late last year. He started it on a lark, after a trip to the local autobody shop. Usually his spouse handled all of the car-related affairs, but for some reason he ended up having to do it himself this time. When he went to the store, he noticed that the software they were using to manage their inventory was dated and quite awful. He took down the manager&#x27;s information and messaged him a week later with a proposal for revamping their software system. The autobody became his first client. The manager said that hundreds of people come in and out of that store every day, but my friend was the first person to point out that their software wasn&#x27;t very good. My friend isn&#x27;t an expert programmer by any stretch, but he was more of an expert than anybody in that office in regards to developing software. His brain basically zeroed in on it without him noticing.<p>Related to a thread from last week about our brains physically changing depending on what we do and pay attention to: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=22201771" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=22201771</a><p>I&#x27;ve become somewhat &quot;obsessed&quot; with this topic recently and would love to know if others know of any resources I can check out. I read &quot;The World Beyond Your Head&quot; by Matthew Crawford recently--he spells out this phenomenon quite well.<p>EDIT: Jose Ortega&#x27;s full name is Jose Ortega y Gasset--I forgot to add the last part.</text></comment> |
20,828,837 | 20,828,554 | 1 | 3 | 20,824,984 | train | <story><title>MacBook Pro Keyboard Drives Me Crazy</title><url>https://ryanbigg.com/2019/08/can-apple-please-design-a-laptop-that-has-a-functional-keyboard-for-the-love-of-all-that-is-precious</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tolmasky</author><text>The worst part is that I can tell this keyboard is actually having a detrimental effect on my typing abilities. Since being on these keyboards for years now, I&#x27;ve noticed that my typing speed has slowed, as I spend a significant amount of cognitive energy preparing to fix mistakes. The faster you type, the more annoying it is to go farther back to fix something. I&#x27;m not sure how to quantify the focus it steals from tasks or the anxiety it gives me, but I think they are also real. Not to mention it is infuriating to see some strange spelling error that is completely the keyboard&#x27;s fault in a message or email you sent, making you look like an idiot.<p>The thread from @getify ( <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;getify&#x2F;status&#x2F;1165300052463480832" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;getify&#x2F;status&#x2F;1165300052463480832</a> ) on having to wait <i>3 days</i> for a repair, even though it is done in-store is truly infuriating. He is absolutely right that it makes no sense to have to leave a computer sitting around doing nothing, and you should just be able to be told to bring it back when your computer <i>would be</i> 24 hours away from being repaired. The computer isn&#x27;t being shipped anywhere, but Apple must still severely hamper your productivity on a product you spent <i>thousands of dollars on</i>.<p>Their constant reference to a &quot;small minority of users experiencing this&quot; in light of these huge delays at the store for a super-quick and simple fix has become insulting. I won&#x27;t register anywhere as someone &quot;experiencing this issue&quot; since I don&#x27;t have 3 days to not use my computer for a fix that will probably break again in months.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>vegardx</author><text>&gt; having to wait 3 days for a repair, even though it is done in-store is truly infuriating<p>Oh - but it gets worse. I had my keyboard replaced a year ago, and it took over a week. In Norway they don&#x27;t stock US International keyboards, which I can accept, but they can&#x27;t (or won&#x27;t, hard to tell) order a replacement unit before taking it into service. So it has to stay with them while they wait a 3-5 days just to get the spare parts. Great!<p>I was about to walk out of the store when they told me they needed my password to run &quot;keyboard diagnostics&quot; and that they were unsure wether or not KEYS FALLING OFF was covered by warranty.</text></comment> | <story><title>MacBook Pro Keyboard Drives Me Crazy</title><url>https://ryanbigg.com/2019/08/can-apple-please-design-a-laptop-that-has-a-functional-keyboard-for-the-love-of-all-that-is-precious</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tolmasky</author><text>The worst part is that I can tell this keyboard is actually having a detrimental effect on my typing abilities. Since being on these keyboards for years now, I&#x27;ve noticed that my typing speed has slowed, as I spend a significant amount of cognitive energy preparing to fix mistakes. The faster you type, the more annoying it is to go farther back to fix something. I&#x27;m not sure how to quantify the focus it steals from tasks or the anxiety it gives me, but I think they are also real. Not to mention it is infuriating to see some strange spelling error that is completely the keyboard&#x27;s fault in a message or email you sent, making you look like an idiot.<p>The thread from @getify ( <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;getify&#x2F;status&#x2F;1165300052463480832" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;getify&#x2F;status&#x2F;1165300052463480832</a> ) on having to wait <i>3 days</i> for a repair, even though it is done in-store is truly infuriating. He is absolutely right that it makes no sense to have to leave a computer sitting around doing nothing, and you should just be able to be told to bring it back when your computer <i>would be</i> 24 hours away from being repaired. The computer isn&#x27;t being shipped anywhere, but Apple must still severely hamper your productivity on a product you spent <i>thousands of dollars on</i>.<p>Their constant reference to a &quot;small minority of users experiencing this&quot; in light of these huge delays at the store for a super-quick and simple fix has become insulting. I won&#x27;t register anywhere as someone &quot;experiencing this issue&quot; since I don&#x27;t have 3 days to not use my computer for a fix that will probably break again in months.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>addicted</author><text>I contrast this with the experience my dad has while traveling in NYC with his pro laptop in about 2011. The Apple Store needed 3 days to repair, and he was leaving the city before then. They simply recommended a 3rd party repairer who could do it within the day, which is what happened, and consequently giving my dad what he needed, boosting the Apple eco system, and providing better feelings towards Apple.<p>In the past 5 or so years, however, Apple has consistently been killing their 3rd party repair eco system, as well documented by Louis Rossmann. The idea that they may recommend a 3rd party repair source seems unimaginable, but further, most 3rd party repair basically involves sending the package to Apple repair anyways, as they’re not allowed to make changes on their own for anything but a small subset of issues.</text></comment> |
12,498,110 | 12,498,256 | 1 | 2 | 12,495,628 | train | <story><title>Uber starts self-driving car pickups in Pittsburgh</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2016/09/14/1386711/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>kakabanga</author><text>This is the only way i can see Uber can survive in the future.<p>Its business model was sacrificing someone&#x27;s income in the middle to be cheaper than ordinary taxis. But with self driving cars, they can minimize the costs without hurting anyone.<p>Really really smart and huge move at the same time. Whoever pushed this idea in the company deserves a huge credit.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bwilliams18</author><text>But doesn&#x27;t this business model entirely eliminate someone&#x27;s income to be cheaper?<p>Is a total elimination better or worse than a reduction? I don&#x27;t have an answer, and I see good arguments for each side...</text></comment> | <story><title>Uber starts self-driving car pickups in Pittsburgh</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2016/09/14/1386711/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>kakabanga</author><text>This is the only way i can see Uber can survive in the future.<p>Its business model was sacrificing someone&#x27;s income in the middle to be cheaper than ordinary taxis. But with self driving cars, they can minimize the costs without hurting anyone.<p>Really really smart and huge move at the same time. Whoever pushed this idea in the company deserves a huge credit.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>chrismbarr</author><text>Except now those people who would normally be drivers now get zero dollars from Uber. I do agree with you that this is the way for the future and I&#x27;m all behind it, however doing this does cut out jobs (eventually) for a lot of drivers. I don&#x27;t think that&#x27;s necessarily a bad thing, and I suspect there will always be at least some human drivers. I live in a small town and I really couldn&#x27;t see them justifying the cost of this here. Where I live there&#x27;s currently one 1 or 2 uber drivers anyway, and they aren&#x27;t always active and I just have to call the regular taxi company.</text></comment> |
38,987,550 | 38,986,721 | 1 | 2 | 38,984,096 | train | <story><title>What is the difference between a terminal, a shell, a TTY and a console? (2012)</title><url>https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/4126/what-is-the-exact-difference-between-a-terminal-a-shell-a-tty-and-a-con</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>khazhoux</author><text>But it misses the most obvious answer (and most likely where the question originated from): <i>terminal, console, and shell often refer to the same thing</i>.
If one is following a tutorial and it says to “enter this command into your console”, they mean the same as type it in your terminal app or into your shell. The terms are indeed somewhat interchangeable, as a starting point at least for the clearest answer.<p>Then we can dig into actual differences: the shell is actually an application that runs inside the terminal&#x2F;console, and you can swap in your favorite shell app; on MacOS, the Console and Terminal apps look similar, but Terminal is what you should use normally, with Console more for debugging system outputs. And so on.<p>Humor people with practical answers sometimes, for christsake, instead of these agonzing pendantic expositions. Side notes on pseudo-ttys, ioctl, virtual condoles, and control sequences when the OP posted an elementary question?? Yeah, we get it, professor: <i>you are overburdened with information which you must share.</i></text></item><item><author>blendergeek</author><text>Fortunately the top answer doesn&#x27;t suffer from that issue as far as I can tell. It is much longer and explains both the etymology of the terms and how they are used today.</text></item><item><author>khazhoux</author><text>Classic Stack Overflow, willfully ignores the likely intent of the questioner, with pedantic answers which ignore the most common modern usages of the terms. Subtle condescension and authoritative declarations (“a console MUST be a piece of hardware”) which are actually incorrect in modern usage.<p>SO really does attract misanthropes.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>zzyzxd</author><text>Well, the OP already realized that they often refer to the same thing, and was just curious about the fundamental differences.<p>&gt; Side notes on pseudo-ttys, ioctl, virtual condoles, and control sequences when the OP posted an elementary question?? Yeah, we get it, professor: you are overburdened with information which you must share.<p>I don&#x27;t know if it&#x27;s elementary but I knew ioctl long before I learned that &quot;tty&quot; stands for teletypewriter. (Top answer: &quot;tty is a strange abbreviation&quot;. Me: ha, sure, because if you are curious enough to look up for the abbreviation, the long form itself is pretty much self explanatory).<p>The answer doesn&#x27;t feel condescending to me. Similarly, my professor talked to me like that when I was a student and I didn&#x27;t find that condescending -- it&#x27;s just a person who knows a particular topic better than me trying to make a gentle introduction.<p>If someone not only answered my question, but also voluntarily spent another hour telling me all the background stories, I would have nothing but gratitude. Sure, some of those people may not be the nicest person in the world. if you just need a quick answer and be done, you can ask ChatGPT to summarize it.</text></comment> | <story><title>What is the difference between a terminal, a shell, a TTY and a console? (2012)</title><url>https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/4126/what-is-the-exact-difference-between-a-terminal-a-shell-a-tty-and-a-con</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>khazhoux</author><text>But it misses the most obvious answer (and most likely where the question originated from): <i>terminal, console, and shell often refer to the same thing</i>.
If one is following a tutorial and it says to “enter this command into your console”, they mean the same as type it in your terminal app or into your shell. The terms are indeed somewhat interchangeable, as a starting point at least for the clearest answer.<p>Then we can dig into actual differences: the shell is actually an application that runs inside the terminal&#x2F;console, and you can swap in your favorite shell app; on MacOS, the Console and Terminal apps look similar, but Terminal is what you should use normally, with Console more for debugging system outputs. And so on.<p>Humor people with practical answers sometimes, for christsake, instead of these agonzing pendantic expositions. Side notes on pseudo-ttys, ioctl, virtual condoles, and control sequences when the OP posted an elementary question?? Yeah, we get it, professor: <i>you are overburdened with information which you must share.</i></text></item><item><author>blendergeek</author><text>Fortunately the top answer doesn&#x27;t suffer from that issue as far as I can tell. It is much longer and explains both the etymology of the terms and how they are used today.</text></item><item><author>khazhoux</author><text>Classic Stack Overflow, willfully ignores the likely intent of the questioner, with pedantic answers which ignore the most common modern usages of the terms. Subtle condescension and authoritative declarations (“a console MUST be a piece of hardware”) which are actually incorrect in modern usage.<p>SO really does attract misanthropes.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>basil-rash</author><text>That was already included in the question, there’s no use repeating it in the answer.</text></comment> |
13,082,583 | 13,081,419 | 1 | 3 | 13,081,231 | train | <story><title>AWS Shield – Managed DDoS Protection</title><url>https://aws.amazon.com/shield/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Rapzid</author><text>I have a lot of questions&#x2F;problems with this. Here are two.<p>1.) They mention in the compare tiers &quot;Application traffic monitoring&quot; for Advanced. However in the FAQ: &quot;In addition, customers can also use AWS WAF to protect against Application layer attacks&quot;. WAF is only available through CloudFront, and CloudFront charges 600 dollars a month for a custom SSL certificate with dedicated IP.<p>So do they have &quot;Application traffic monitoring&quot; outside of WAF? I&#x27;m lead to believe not.<p>2.) They mentioned multiple times you can call on the DRT team to help you. However buried in the FAQ is this little gem: &quot;Response times for DRT depends on the AWS Support plan you are subscribed to&quot;.<p>So for 3k&#x2F;mo I can&#x27;t get better than 24&#x2F;hr turnaround when I&#x27;m under attack without ALSO having a business&#x2F;enterprise support plan?</text></comment> | <story><title>AWS Shield – Managed DDoS Protection</title><url>https://aws.amazon.com/shield/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jedberg</author><text>I&#x27;ve been saying for years that AWS has secret DDOS protection. Never confirmed, but I&#x27;m pretty sure the basic level is just them admitting that they&#x27;ve always had that service.</text></comment> |
22,360,793 | 22,360,876 | 1 | 3 | 22,360,559 | train | <story><title>Indian police open case against hundreds in Kashmir for using VPN</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2020/02/18/indian-police-open-case-against-hundreds-in-kashmir-for-using-vpn/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>aarongray</author><text>It&#x27;s really too bad that the two rising tech countries - China and India - have such a third-world approach to censorship on the Internet. You would think they would want to mimic the US&#x27;s successful formula in hopes of building their presence as a tech powerhouse, but in this area they don&#x27;t seem to be doing that.</text></comment> | <story><title>Indian police open case against hundreds in Kashmir for using VPN</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2020/02/18/indian-police-open-case-against-hundreds-in-kashmir-for-using-vpn/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>RcouF1uZ4gsC</author><text>This is a reminder that without physical security, electronic security is pretty much worthless. The best encryption won&#x27;t save you from rubberhose cryptanalysis where they beat you until you reveal your key. Clever circumvention technologies such as VPN won&#x27;t save you when they arrest your for using circumvention technologies.<p>These are all good things, but we in tech, oftentimes think we can program our way out of bad physical governance. We can&#x27;t! We need now more than ever to engage with everyone to make sure that we have good physical governments.</text></comment> |
24,362,823 | 24,362,235 | 1 | 3 | 24,358,507 | train | <story><title>Release of methane gas from the seafloor in the Southern Hemisphere</title><url>https://lnu.se/en/meet-linnaeus-university/current/news/2020/massive-release-of-methane-gas-from-the-seafloor-linked-to-global-warming-discovered-for-the-first-time-in-the-southern-hemisphere/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bamboozled</author><text>Food production is of course part of it, but it&#x27;s harder to solve because people need to eat.<p>We don&#x27;t need to burn coal or oil anymore en masse.</text></item><item><author>vertis</author><text>It&#x27;s nowhere near that simple though. CO2 is one big contributor, but not the only one. Methane is also a big contributor[1], and things like beef production are a big part of increased Methane emissions (by no means the only source).<p>[1]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nationalgeographic.com&#x2F;environment&#x2F;global-warming&#x2F;methane&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nationalgeographic.com&#x2F;environment&#x2F;global-warmin...</a></text></item><item><author>bamboozled</author><text>What about just simplifying it and saying that, the majority of the reason for climate change is burning coal and oil ?<p>I don’t think we need to regress back to living in mud clay huts and blocking Amazon orders.<p>We <i>did</i> need to stop burning coal for generating power 100 years ago.</text></item><item><author>baron_harkonnen</author><text>&gt; Like there&#x27;s was a dip in CO2 emiisions during covid, but only like a 15%. Who&#x27;s producing the rest?<p>While I agree very much about the absurd logic of trying to put the solutions to climate change on individuals, I am honestly perplexed that you don&#x27;t seem to understand how all of your daily consumption contributes to climate change.<p>CO2 emissions doesn&#x27;t just come from driving your car. If you ordered anything delivered from amazon that created CO2, if you live in a developing city your environment creates CO2, if you consume food that is grown non-locally or that uses fertilizer that also create CO2.<p>It&#x27;s not just a &quot;small number of companies&quot; it&#x27;s every company and every part of our modern life. Look around you and I can assure you that most of the things you see where shipped around the globe using ships powered by bunker fuel, they were made with materials gathered using a non-trivial amount of non-renewable energy.<p>Again, I agree that we can&#x27;t expect that individually we&#x27;ll all radically alter our lives and live like it&#x27;s 1800, but it is essential to realize who much of your current way of live contributes to the enormous production of CO2.<p>The fact that things slowed down and we decreased emissions by some notable percentage but we suffered incredible economic consequences for this show just how unsustainable our entire way of life is.</text></item><item><author>mattmanser</author><text>Yikes like the clathrate gun that turned out to be nonsense, or yikes as in it&#x27;s actually a threat? Not saying climate change isn&#x27;t something to be worried about, but this article doesn&#x27;t say if it&#x27;ll release like 10% of yearly methane, or like 0.00001% and Ketzer&#x27;s just trying to pump his publication count.<p>What I would really love to see is an indepedant website ranking all the threats. How bad is global shipping vs leaving your lights on? Or the clathrate gun vs burning oil fields? Or recycling your plastic vs throwing your plastic shit in the river in 3rd world countries?<p>Like there&#x27;s was a dip in CO2 emiisions during covid, but only like a 15%. Who&#x27;s producing the rest? &#x27;cause it&#x27;s now obviously not most of the population of the world who get lectured about recycling, it&#x27;s obviously a small number of companies, which I think most of us would suspect probably has a high intersection with the small number of people hoarding wealth in the world.</text></item><item><author>chrisweekly</author><text>Yikes.<p>&quot;Gas hydrate is an ice-like substance formed by water and methane at depths of several hundred metres at the bottom of our oceans at high pressure and low temperatures. Methane is a potent greenhouse gas, roughly 25 times more potent than carbon dioxide, and it is estimated that methane frozen in these sediments constitute the largest organic carbon reservoir on Earth. The fact that methane gas has now started leaking out through gas hydrate dissociation is not good news for the climate.&quot;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>austhrow743</author><text>People needing to eat would be the equivalent of people needing energy in this scenario.<p>People need to eat specifically meat like they need to burn specifically coal and oil.</text></comment> | <story><title>Release of methane gas from the seafloor in the Southern Hemisphere</title><url>https://lnu.se/en/meet-linnaeus-university/current/news/2020/massive-release-of-methane-gas-from-the-seafloor-linked-to-global-warming-discovered-for-the-first-time-in-the-southern-hemisphere/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bamboozled</author><text>Food production is of course part of it, but it&#x27;s harder to solve because people need to eat.<p>We don&#x27;t need to burn coal or oil anymore en masse.</text></item><item><author>vertis</author><text>It&#x27;s nowhere near that simple though. CO2 is one big contributor, but not the only one. Methane is also a big contributor[1], and things like beef production are a big part of increased Methane emissions (by no means the only source).<p>[1]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nationalgeographic.com&#x2F;environment&#x2F;global-warming&#x2F;methane&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nationalgeographic.com&#x2F;environment&#x2F;global-warmin...</a></text></item><item><author>bamboozled</author><text>What about just simplifying it and saying that, the majority of the reason for climate change is burning coal and oil ?<p>I don’t think we need to regress back to living in mud clay huts and blocking Amazon orders.<p>We <i>did</i> need to stop burning coal for generating power 100 years ago.</text></item><item><author>baron_harkonnen</author><text>&gt; Like there&#x27;s was a dip in CO2 emiisions during covid, but only like a 15%. Who&#x27;s producing the rest?<p>While I agree very much about the absurd logic of trying to put the solutions to climate change on individuals, I am honestly perplexed that you don&#x27;t seem to understand how all of your daily consumption contributes to climate change.<p>CO2 emissions doesn&#x27;t just come from driving your car. If you ordered anything delivered from amazon that created CO2, if you live in a developing city your environment creates CO2, if you consume food that is grown non-locally or that uses fertilizer that also create CO2.<p>It&#x27;s not just a &quot;small number of companies&quot; it&#x27;s every company and every part of our modern life. Look around you and I can assure you that most of the things you see where shipped around the globe using ships powered by bunker fuel, they were made with materials gathered using a non-trivial amount of non-renewable energy.<p>Again, I agree that we can&#x27;t expect that individually we&#x27;ll all radically alter our lives and live like it&#x27;s 1800, but it is essential to realize who much of your current way of live contributes to the enormous production of CO2.<p>The fact that things slowed down and we decreased emissions by some notable percentage but we suffered incredible economic consequences for this show just how unsustainable our entire way of life is.</text></item><item><author>mattmanser</author><text>Yikes like the clathrate gun that turned out to be nonsense, or yikes as in it&#x27;s actually a threat? Not saying climate change isn&#x27;t something to be worried about, but this article doesn&#x27;t say if it&#x27;ll release like 10% of yearly methane, or like 0.00001% and Ketzer&#x27;s just trying to pump his publication count.<p>What I would really love to see is an indepedant website ranking all the threats. How bad is global shipping vs leaving your lights on? Or the clathrate gun vs burning oil fields? Or recycling your plastic vs throwing your plastic shit in the river in 3rd world countries?<p>Like there&#x27;s was a dip in CO2 emiisions during covid, but only like a 15%. Who&#x27;s producing the rest? &#x27;cause it&#x27;s now obviously not most of the population of the world who get lectured about recycling, it&#x27;s obviously a small number of companies, which I think most of us would suspect probably has a high intersection with the small number of people hoarding wealth in the world.</text></item><item><author>chrisweekly</author><text>Yikes.<p>&quot;Gas hydrate is an ice-like substance formed by water and methane at depths of several hundred metres at the bottom of our oceans at high pressure and low temperatures. Methane is a potent greenhouse gas, roughly 25 times more potent than carbon dioxide, and it is estimated that methane frozen in these sediments constitute the largest organic carbon reservoir on Earth. The fact that methane gas has now started leaking out through gas hydrate dissociation is not good news for the climate.&quot;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>devdas</author><text>Lowering dairy and beef consumption would go a long way to reduce that damage.</text></comment> |
21,280,103 | 21,279,116 | 1 | 3 | 21,272,322 | train | <story><title>Dark matter nightmare: What if we are just using the wrong equations?</title><url>http://backreaction.blogspot.com/2019/10/dark-matter-nightmare-what-if-we-just.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>philwelch</author><text>Yeah, maybe. The thing is, there are a lot of independent observations that match up really really well with the hypothesis, &quot;there&#x27;s a bunch of matter around that only interacts with us via gravity&quot;. If our models are off, they would have to be off in exactly the right way to affect our observations of gravitational forces but not really anything else. Which may very well be the case--or it may be the case that baryonic matter isn&#x27;t really the end-all be-all of the universe and we&#x27;re just a bunch of baryonic chauvinists for thinking so because that&#x27;s what we&#x27;re made of ;)<p>Obviously, nobody knows for sure yet. But I would caution most fellow laymen not to rely too heavily on the intuition that says, &quot;dark matter? pffft!&quot; or even, &quot;but what about all of those observations that didn&#x27;t match Newtonian dynamics?&quot;. Physicists (including the author here!) are generally smart enough to have thought of those objections themselves, which is why they&#x27;ve spent decades trying really hard to disprove the notion of &quot;dark matter&quot; by compiling all of these anomalous observations. Sometimes the universe is just unintuitive, at least to dumb apes like us.<p>I&#x27;m not saying you can&#x27;t have a hunch that we&#x27;re just doing the math wrong somehow; I just wouldn&#x27;t be overly confident that&#x27;s the case just yet.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Certhas</author><text>Hossenfelder is refering to the ongoing discussion in the physicist community on this topic. Some of the giants of the field (Wald, Ellis) semi-regularly exchange papers on this.<p>It&#x27;s not a hunch.<p>Green and Wald tried to proof that the inhomogeneities don&#x27;t matter, others disagree that they proofed anything of the sort. It&#x27;s a fairly robust debate, and I am not qualified to summarize the state of play. Here are some slides:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;cosmoback.sciencesconf.org&#x2F;data&#x2F;program&#x2F;Ostrowski.pdf" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;cosmoback.sciencesconf.org&#x2F;data&#x2F;program&#x2F;Ostrowski.pd...</a><p>Edit: The rebuttal paper to Green-Wald from three years ago already has 100 citations... <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;arxiv.org&#x2F;abs&#x2F;1505.07800" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;arxiv.org&#x2F;abs&#x2F;1505.07800</a><p>It&#x27;s possible that the question will be settled in the next years through numerical simulations:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;journals.aps.org&#x2F;prl&#x2F;abstract&#x2F;10.1103&#x2F;PhysRevLett.116.251302" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;journals.aps.org&#x2F;prl&#x2F;abstract&#x2F;10.1103&#x2F;PhysRevLett.11...</a><p>Edit 2: All of this is for dark energy, for dark matter I don&#x27;t know if there is a similar discussion on the role of the post-newtonian approximation that is used there.</text></comment> | <story><title>Dark matter nightmare: What if we are just using the wrong equations?</title><url>http://backreaction.blogspot.com/2019/10/dark-matter-nightmare-what-if-we-just.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>philwelch</author><text>Yeah, maybe. The thing is, there are a lot of independent observations that match up really really well with the hypothesis, &quot;there&#x27;s a bunch of matter around that only interacts with us via gravity&quot;. If our models are off, they would have to be off in exactly the right way to affect our observations of gravitational forces but not really anything else. Which may very well be the case--or it may be the case that baryonic matter isn&#x27;t really the end-all be-all of the universe and we&#x27;re just a bunch of baryonic chauvinists for thinking so because that&#x27;s what we&#x27;re made of ;)<p>Obviously, nobody knows for sure yet. But I would caution most fellow laymen not to rely too heavily on the intuition that says, &quot;dark matter? pffft!&quot; or even, &quot;but what about all of those observations that didn&#x27;t match Newtonian dynamics?&quot;. Physicists (including the author here!) are generally smart enough to have thought of those objections themselves, which is why they&#x27;ve spent decades trying really hard to disprove the notion of &quot;dark matter&quot; by compiling all of these anomalous observations. Sometimes the universe is just unintuitive, at least to dumb apes like us.<p>I&#x27;m not saying you can&#x27;t have a hunch that we&#x27;re just doing the math wrong somehow; I just wouldn&#x27;t be overly confident that&#x27;s the case just yet.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>lonelappde</author><text>I think you misread. Sabine is arguing that maybe dark matter is just the error term in our approximations of real matter, and pointing out that no one yet has actually taken the time to disprove that Occam&#x27;s Razor theory.</text></comment> |
34,840,117 | 34,838,044 | 1 | 3 | 34,836,683 | train | <story><title>Waiting for Postgres 16: Cumulative I/O statistics with pg_stat_io</title><url>https://pganalyze.com/blog/pg-stat-io</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>fswd</author><text>Does anyone know if 16 will bring back JSON_TABLE from Postgres 15? They initially had it in the beta, then at the last moment, removed it.</text></comment> | <story><title>Waiting for Postgres 16: Cumulative I/O statistics with pg_stat_io</title><url>https://pganalyze.com/blog/pg-stat-io</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>trollied</author><text>I see lots of similarities between the (newer) Postgres wait analysis logging&#x2F;views and Oracle AWR&#x2F;ASH. I suspect it was heavily inspired.</text></comment> |
15,271,272 | 15,270,803 | 1 | 2 | 15,270,189 | train | <story><title>Discover the world of microcontrollers through Rust</title><url>https://japaric.github.io/discovery/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>shijie</author><text>This is exactly, exactly what I&#x27;ve been looking for. As a software engineer whose professional career has focused entirely around the web, embedded systems is a strange, enticing landscape with what seems to be an &quot;old guard,&quot; that eschews the frenetic pace of web technologies and frameworks, and relies on old, proven, get-shit-done tooling and technology. Which is amazing. But it also means that no one is writing blog posts on medium about this stuff, and beginner tutorials are sparse. For spoiled Elixir devs like me, this is perfect.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pjc50</author><text>Microcontrollers have got a lot more accessible since Arduino. There&#x27;s lots of beginner material out there, although admittedly not on Medium. (Unsurprisingly, the people involved prefer a more bare metal approach and put it on blogs or forums instead)<p>The tooling is nearly always C, so it&#x27;s interesting to see Rust moving into this space. Memory management is not so much of an issue, but multitasking correctness is; perhaps there will be some new micro-RTOS framework with provably correct interrupt handling. (We have sel4, but that&#x27;s not quite the same thing)<p>As you get more low level, the tutorials get sparser. You move into FPGAs, where you have a choice of two languages with 1970s design principles, or third-party tools which work despite the manufacturer&#x27;s total closedness. As you go deeper into actual IC design, nobody will attempt it without supervision from someone experienced to tell you all the little tricks. And then there&#x27;s <i>analog</i> IC design, which is basically black magic.</text></comment> | <story><title>Discover the world of microcontrollers through Rust</title><url>https://japaric.github.io/discovery/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>shijie</author><text>This is exactly, exactly what I&#x27;ve been looking for. As a software engineer whose professional career has focused entirely around the web, embedded systems is a strange, enticing landscape with what seems to be an &quot;old guard,&quot; that eschews the frenetic pace of web technologies and frameworks, and relies on old, proven, get-shit-done tooling and technology. Which is amazing. But it also means that no one is writing blog posts on medium about this stuff, and beginner tutorials are sparse. For spoiled Elixir devs like me, this is perfect.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>phkahler</author><text>Small micro controllers don&#x27;t have the resources you&#x27;re used to. The smallest thing I ever wrote code for was in the PIC family and had 176 bytes of RAM and like 4 or 8K of flash (EEPROM?). Even on more common parts you may find only a few K of RAM and 10&#x27;s or 100&#x27;s of K flash. In that space we don&#x27;t do any dynamic memory allocation, never mind garbage collection. If you did it&#x27;s entirely possible you&#x27;d run out of heap space and the program would crash. It&#x27;s a really different world than what web developers and app developers are used to. I highly recommend taking the dive even if it&#x27;s just for fun and to see a different type of software development.</text></comment> |
30,639,256 | 30,632,025 | 1 | 3 | 30,631,462 | train | <story><title>Old Age and Creativity</title><url>https://inference-review.com/article/old-age-and-creativity</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>ChrisMarshallNY</author><text>Like many of these types of sweeping inferences, I suspect that the devil is in the details.<p>Namely, <i>what</i>, exactly, is being measured?<p>Everybody changes, as we age. I&#x27;m almost 60, and, as I look back on my yute (I live in New York, so I have to use the correct lingo), I am amazed at what an addlepated, compulsive, reactive, emotion-driven, knucklehead I was. When I think about what I considered &quot;earth-shatteringly important ideals&quot; back then, I wince. What a waste of energy.<p>It would be easy to say that I was &quot;more creative&quot; back then, because I had diarrhea of the mouth. You couldn&#x27;t shut me up, and I was always spouting pseudo-intellectual claptrap. I guess, for some people, they would have considered me to be &quot;a creative intellectual.&quot; I also spit out a lot of rather naive little projects and artworks; crowing at each one, as if it were <i>The Mona Lisa</i>.<p>I probably would have thought I was just a jerk.<p>These days, <i>I get stuff done</i>. That does mean a lot of compromises, and acceptance of limitations. I don&#x27;t tilt at windmills, anymore. I hook generators to them.</text></comment> | <story><title>Old Age and Creativity</title><url>https://inference-review.com/article/old-age-and-creativity</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jleyank</author><text>How many academic scientists end up being buried in managing science, particularly seeking funding? There’s way fewer aristocrats funding scientists as they would a zoo. Maybe the most visible advances come from those hungry enough and with time enough to do it?<p>Some of these older fellows trained a lot of students, such as bethe or wheeler. How old were the bell labs people when they did plan 9? Is Knuth still considered active? Maybe also, art is subjective while physics or engineering “just is”</text></comment> |
22,450,845 | 22,448,557 | 1 | 3 | 22,447,229 | train | <story><title>FCC Proposes to Fine Wireless Carriers $200M for Selling Customer Location Data</title><url>https://krebsonsecurity.com/2020/02/fcc-proposes-to-fine-wireless-carriers-200m-for-selling-customer-location-data/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>hedora</author><text>This should be set as a function of how much they made, and damages incurred. 10x amount they charged + $200&#x2F;victim&#x2F;incident (so, $200 for each record sent) seems reasonable to me.<p>The latter part of the fine should go to the victims, I think.<p>If this bankrupts them, the executives, then board, then shareholders should be the ones to take a bath. (Not pensions, etc). After that, the fine should be reduced until it leads to a net zero valuation of the company, with the difference being given to the victims by issuing stock at the resulting stock price.<p>I’d like the fines to be applicable to anyone selling location data (app developers, linking shady libraries, I’m looking at you), and enforceable via class action rights that can’t be waived, as well as small claims court.<p>The rules should also apply to data returned by any non-mandatory compliance with government requests.<p>For class actions, consumers should get at least $190 of the $200, regardless of any pre-trial settlements.<p>I think these are minimally adequate steps to end this behavior.</text></comment> | <story><title>FCC Proposes to Fine Wireless Carriers $200M for Selling Customer Location Data</title><url>https://krebsonsecurity.com/2020/02/fcc-proposes-to-fine-wireless-carriers-200m-for-selling-customer-location-data/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>LatteLazy</author><text>There you have it: the price of privacy is less than 1usd per citizen.</text></comment> |
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