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5,341,248 | 5,340,896 | 1 | 2 | 5,339,852 | train | <story><title>Amazon stops selling Sim City V over game issues</title><url>http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B007VTVRFA?ie=UTF8&force-full-site=1&ref_=aw_bottom_links</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>roc</author><text>&#62; <i>"Takeover by EA is usually considered a death knell for game studios..."</i><p>Further to this point: Maxis, makers of Sim City, were notable for a long time as being the <i>glaring exception</i> when it came to EA's habit of buying and squeezing studios to death.<p>But the writing was on the wall when THE SIMS hit so big and was.. "exploited"[1] so heavily.<p>And when Will left... well, it's just flat-out inconceivable that anyone remained naive about what EA was going to get up to.<p>[1] <a href="http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2007/12/05" rel="nofollow">http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2007/12/05</a></text></item><item><author>Irregardless</author><text>EA has a reputation for being more akin to a sweatshop than a place where passionate people work on things they love, and it's been that way for many years now.<p>I do feel bad for anyone who works in that type of environment, but I don't think many (if any) of their employees are under the impression that their work will be lauded by adoring fans. Gamers resent everything that EA stands for -- especially their constant profiteering and manipulation -- and begrudgingly buy their games because they're one of the few companies with the budget to create AAA titles.<p>Takeover by EA is usually considered a death knell for game studios...</text></item><item><author>kevinalexbrown</author><text>I feel bad for the game devs who got to see their hard work turn into something they don't intend.<p>I suppose this is a great advertising technique for small firms, startups, indie shops, etc. "Don't want this[<a href="http://amazon-pulls-sim-city" rel="nofollow">http://amazon-pulls-sim-city</a>] to happen? Work for our small team. We won't destroy your work."<p>I know it's standard to say "you get a part in the decisionmaking process!" That's part of it. But a lot of people are willing to let go of the big decisions if they get to be a part of something great. But they have to trust that it will come out well in the end.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>sshumaker</author><text>That's slightly revisionist history. EA bought Maxis when they weren't in great financial shape (it didn't help that basically every Friday was spent at the bar). It's true that the Sims was a huge success that EA didn't anticipate (they repeatedly tried to kill the project), but the jury is still out if Maxis would have survived long enough to release it without EA's funding and support.</text></comment> | <story><title>Amazon stops selling Sim City V over game issues</title><url>http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B007VTVRFA?ie=UTF8&force-full-site=1&ref_=aw_bottom_links</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>roc</author><text>&#62; <i>"Takeover by EA is usually considered a death knell for game studios..."</i><p>Further to this point: Maxis, makers of Sim City, were notable for a long time as being the <i>glaring exception</i> when it came to EA's habit of buying and squeezing studios to death.<p>But the writing was on the wall when THE SIMS hit so big and was.. "exploited"[1] so heavily.<p>And when Will left... well, it's just flat-out inconceivable that anyone remained naive about what EA was going to get up to.<p>[1] <a href="http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2007/12/05" rel="nofollow">http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2007/12/05</a></text></item><item><author>Irregardless</author><text>EA has a reputation for being more akin to a sweatshop than a place where passionate people work on things they love, and it's been that way for many years now.<p>I do feel bad for anyone who works in that type of environment, but I don't think many (if any) of their employees are under the impression that their work will be lauded by adoring fans. Gamers resent everything that EA stands for -- especially their constant profiteering and manipulation -- and begrudgingly buy their games because they're one of the few companies with the budget to create AAA titles.<p>Takeover by EA is usually considered a death knell for game studios...</text></item><item><author>kevinalexbrown</author><text>I feel bad for the game devs who got to see their hard work turn into something they don't intend.<p>I suppose this is a great advertising technique for small firms, startups, indie shops, etc. "Don't want this[<a href="http://amazon-pulls-sim-city" rel="nofollow">http://amazon-pulls-sim-city</a>] to happen? Work for our small team. We won't destroy your work."<p>I know it's standard to say "you get a part in the decisionmaking process!" That's part of it. But a lot of people are willing to let go of the big decisions if they get to be a part of something great. But they have to trust that it will come out well in the end.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>MartinCron</author><text>I remember when The Sims was first announced, where Maxis was saying "And most of the game isn't even done yet. We've got loads of new stuff we'll release for free online!" which turned into dozens of boxed expansion packs.<p>Yuck.</text></comment> |
19,932,354 | 19,932,343 | 1 | 3 | 19,932,054 | train | <story><title>Have we forgotten to make heat traps? (2012)</title><url>https://www.esbe.eu/it/en/news/have-we-forgotten-to-make-heat-traps</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>mcmatterson</author><text>I designed and installed a complete hydronic heating system in our house last year, replacing a conventional forced air system. It being the first time I&#x27;d ever done such a thing (and indeed, the first time I&#x27;d ever really been exposed to hydronic heating at all) I learned everything through reading (mostly the excellent idonrics series at <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.caleffi.com&#x2F;usa&#x2F;en-us&#x2F;technical-magazine" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.caleffi.com&#x2F;usa&#x2F;en-us&#x2F;technical-magazine</a>). I went <i>really</i> deep on the reading so while I had&#x2F;have a pretty solid theoretical understanding I was&#x2F;am a complete novice on the craft side of the field.<p>Overall, the practice seems to be very heuristic based, with every installation being a bit different and rules of thumb being the norm. Our system seems to work fairly well in practice, but I&#x27;ve been curious to get a professional&#x27;s opinion on it (the only pro that&#x27;s seen it was the gas guy who did the final hookup, who seemed impressed but didn&#x27;t really offer any specific criticisms).<p>Repo at <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;mtrudel&#x2F;boiler" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;mtrudel&#x2F;boiler</a><p>I&#x27;ve since added an elixir based graphing system to it, at<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;mat.geeky.net&#x2F;boiler" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;mat.geeky.net&#x2F;boiler</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Have we forgotten to make heat traps? (2012)</title><url>https://www.esbe.eu/it/en/news/have-we-forgotten-to-make-heat-traps</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>thefourthchime</author><text>Seems like something trivial to make with PEX these days. I have no idea if it&#x27;s regular practice or not. The only downside I can see is if there was recent hot water, it might take slightly longer to reach the faucet.</text></comment> |
40,174,240 | 40,174,437 | 1 | 2 | 40,170,955 | train | <story><title>Solar power is changing life deep in the Amazon</title><url>https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-solutions/interactive/2024/amazon-solar-panels-ecuador/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>RetroTechie</author><text>I&#x27;m ~50&#x2F;50 divided on whether humanity will reach some post-scarcity, Star Trek like utopia. In harmony with nature, and the interests of society-at-large as #1 motivation for most people.<p>Or that greed &amp; selfishness will prevail and we lay this planet to waste, possibly removing our species in the process.<p>Stories like this strengthen my belief in the former. More, plz!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>epistasis</author><text>In Star Trek, there&#x27;s still scarcity of Galaxy Class Starships, as well as great scarcity of commisions for captains of Galaxy Class Starships.<p>Once one thing becomes abundant, other things start to feel more scarce.<p>Where I live in California, we have an abundance of food, wealth, and materials for building homes. What is scarce is permission to actually build. Which sends housing prices through the roof, which then causes labor prices to go through the roof, which makes building itself more expensive.<p>The politics will always be challenging, and I think most examples in the real world point to the politics of distribution to be more challenging than the act of production.</text></comment> | <story><title>Solar power is changing life deep in the Amazon</title><url>https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-solutions/interactive/2024/amazon-solar-panels-ecuador/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>RetroTechie</author><text>I&#x27;m ~50&#x2F;50 divided on whether humanity will reach some post-scarcity, Star Trek like utopia. In harmony with nature, and the interests of society-at-large as #1 motivation for most people.<p>Or that greed &amp; selfishness will prevail and we lay this planet to waste, possibly removing our species in the process.<p>Stories like this strengthen my belief in the former. More, plz!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>NegativeLatency</author><text>For anyone else who feels similarly the genre &quot;solarpunk&quot; and specifically one of my favorite authors, Becky Chambers are worth checking out: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;A_Psalm_for_the_Wild-Built" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;A_Psalm_for_the_Wild-Built</a></text></comment> |
39,286,246 | 39,285,698 | 1 | 3 | 39,284,893 | train | <story><title>EU coal and gas collapse as wind and solar ascend</title><url>https://electrek.co/2024/02/06/eu-coal-and-gas-collapse-wind-and-solar-ascend/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>calpaterson</author><text>I don&#x27;t agree that the &quot;vast majority&quot; of government motivations for green energy are &quot;geostrategic&quot;. Some of it is but much is clearly driven by genuine concern about the environment by elected representatives.<p>If Germany were most motivated by energy independence they would not have closed so many nuclear power plants. There are in fact lots of decisions that politicians make that are inconsistent with aiming for strategic benefits but are consistent with an earnest (and sometimes quixotic) concern for the environment. If the UK was so bent on energy independence we would have made more progress on heat pumps. Yet gas boilers (lifespan: 15 years) are still being fitted today. In truth, governments thing about energy security a bit, they think about green stuff a bit and they aren&#x27;t always very effective agents of change...<p>I also think you&#x27;re not right to imply that energy production largely happens as a result of government direction. In fact, energy prices are high at the moment and the prospect of profit drives development of green energy a great deal (not that subsidies don&#x27;t have an effect as well).<p>To be honest (and I hope I&#x27;m not straying into a personal attack here - that&#x27;s not intended) I think your viewpoint sounds clever because it is cynical. Cynical views - especially the attribution of an ulterior motive - usually sound clever. But I think your post is at best partly right and perhaps even mostly wrong. Political realism is a drug to take only in small doses.</text></item><item><author>mjburgess</author><text>What goes missing in the analysis of energy sources is their geostrategic impact. The vast majority of government motivations for &#x27;green energy&#x27; is geostrategic.<p>Oil&#x2F;coal&#x2F;etc. is distributed &#x27;unhelpfully&#x27; for western and asian interests, and it&#x27;s use once. So the countries which have it must be permanently available for oil trade. Whereas with green energy, barring the provision of somewhat renewable metal supply, states do not need particularly complex diplomatic relationships.<p>The reason for the world&#x27;s attention now being drawn to the middle east isn&#x27;t as simple as Hamas. Europe needs trade open from the middle east, and it needs oil. This is at the heart of trying to balance interests in the region wrt israel.<p>Both china, us and europe are overwhelmingly against any disruption in the region which is why it hasnt spiraled into a full-blown regional conflict <i>yet</i>.<p>Issues such as these play strongly on the minds of states as they try to transition. China&#x27;s &quot;going green&quot; because its a net importer, and very worried about its dependence on russia and the middle east.<p>This, I think, should give us hope. Whilst going green is an economic hit, it&#x27;s a massive security boost. And states almost always trade wealth for security (, since, in the end, without secrutiy your wealth will disappear).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>richardw</author><text>EU obviously has many reasons to shift to renewables, but a huge amount of urgency was provided by the Russia&#x2F;Ukraine war. There was both effort to shift supply to other countries, and reduce overall demand.<p>&quot;A regulation on co-ordinated demand reduction measures for gas: This targets a 15% voluntary reduction in EU gas demand between 1 August 2022 and 31 March 2023, compared with its five-year average. The European Commission has adopted the European Gas Demand Reduction Plan with best practices and guidance for member states to help them reduce gas demand.&quot;<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.iea.org&#x2F;reports&#x2F;how-to-avoid-gas-shortages-in-the-european-union-in-2023&#x2F;the-need-for-action" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.iea.org&#x2F;reports&#x2F;how-to-avoid-gas-shortages-in-th...</a><p>&quot;In March 2022, the European Commission and International Energy Agency presented joint plans to reduce reliance on Russian energy, reduce Russian gas imports by two thirds within a year, and completely by 2030.[15][16]<p>In April 2022, the European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said &quot;the era of Russian fossil fuels in Europe will come to an end&quot;.[17] On 18 May 2022, the European Union published plans to end its reliance on Russian oil, natural gas and coal by 2027.&quot;<p>&quot;A fully open study from Zero Lab at Princeton University published in July 2022 and based on the GenX framework concluded that reliance on Russia gas could end by October 2022 under the three core scenarios they investigated – which ranged from high coal usage to accelerated renewables deployment.[63][64][needs update] All three cases would result in falling greenhouse gas emissions, relative to business as usual.&quot;<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;2022–2023_Russia–European_Union_gas_dispute" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;2022–2023_Russia–European_Unio...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>EU coal and gas collapse as wind and solar ascend</title><url>https://electrek.co/2024/02/06/eu-coal-and-gas-collapse-wind-and-solar-ascend/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>calpaterson</author><text>I don&#x27;t agree that the &quot;vast majority&quot; of government motivations for green energy are &quot;geostrategic&quot;. Some of it is but much is clearly driven by genuine concern about the environment by elected representatives.<p>If Germany were most motivated by energy independence they would not have closed so many nuclear power plants. There are in fact lots of decisions that politicians make that are inconsistent with aiming for strategic benefits but are consistent with an earnest (and sometimes quixotic) concern for the environment. If the UK was so bent on energy independence we would have made more progress on heat pumps. Yet gas boilers (lifespan: 15 years) are still being fitted today. In truth, governments thing about energy security a bit, they think about green stuff a bit and they aren&#x27;t always very effective agents of change...<p>I also think you&#x27;re not right to imply that energy production largely happens as a result of government direction. In fact, energy prices are high at the moment and the prospect of profit drives development of green energy a great deal (not that subsidies don&#x27;t have an effect as well).<p>To be honest (and I hope I&#x27;m not straying into a personal attack here - that&#x27;s not intended) I think your viewpoint sounds clever because it is cynical. Cynical views - especially the attribution of an ulterior motive - usually sound clever. But I think your post is at best partly right and perhaps even mostly wrong. Political realism is a drug to take only in small doses.</text></item><item><author>mjburgess</author><text>What goes missing in the analysis of energy sources is their geostrategic impact. The vast majority of government motivations for &#x27;green energy&#x27; is geostrategic.<p>Oil&#x2F;coal&#x2F;etc. is distributed &#x27;unhelpfully&#x27; for western and asian interests, and it&#x27;s use once. So the countries which have it must be permanently available for oil trade. Whereas with green energy, barring the provision of somewhat renewable metal supply, states do not need particularly complex diplomatic relationships.<p>The reason for the world&#x27;s attention now being drawn to the middle east isn&#x27;t as simple as Hamas. Europe needs trade open from the middle east, and it needs oil. This is at the heart of trying to balance interests in the region wrt israel.<p>Both china, us and europe are overwhelmingly against any disruption in the region which is why it hasnt spiraled into a full-blown regional conflict <i>yet</i>.<p>Issues such as these play strongly on the minds of states as they try to transition. China&#x27;s &quot;going green&quot; because its a net importer, and very worried about its dependence on russia and the middle east.<p>This, I think, should give us hope. Whilst going green is an economic hit, it&#x27;s a massive security boost. And states almost always trade wealth for security (, since, in the end, without secrutiy your wealth will disappear).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Gud</author><text>Germany closed their nuclear plants when the fear of nuclear was at an all time high, due to Fukushima.<p>At the same time, the risk of war has been downplayed ever since the fall of the Soviet Union.</text></comment> |
15,395,697 | 15,394,856 | 1 | 2 | 15,393,126 | train | <story><title>Breast-cancer death rate drops almost 40 percent</title><url>https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/to-your-health/wp/2017/10/03/breast-cancer-death-rate-drops-almost-40-percent-saving-32200-lives-study-says</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>dweekly</author><text>Great! Now can the people interested in helping fewer women (and men) die of cancer please turn their attention to lung cancer, where there is far better &quot;bang for the buck&quot; on research investment?<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cancer.org&#x2F;cancer&#x2F;non-small-cell-lung-cancer&#x2F;about&#x2F;key-statistics.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cancer.org&#x2F;cancer&#x2F;non-small-cell-lung-cancer&#x2F;abo...</a><p>Most people who get and die from lung cancer are not smokers. Like my mom.</text></comment> | <story><title>Breast-cancer death rate drops almost 40 percent</title><url>https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/to-your-health/wp/2017/10/03/breast-cancer-death-rate-drops-almost-40-percent-saving-32200-lives-study-says</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>stevenwoo</author><text>I don&#x27;t know much about statistics - can someone tell me why five year survival rates are always used for cancer? This seems kind of off, that instead one should be using the average or median age to which one is expected to live versus how long a cancer survivor lives. Five years seems most misleading when applied to children that get cancer.</text></comment> |
23,522,424 | 23,521,493 | 1 | 3 | 23,515,593 | train | <story><title>Night owls have more grey matter in their brains than early birds</title><url>https://phys.org/news/2020-06-night-owls-grey-brains-early.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>DaiPlusPlus</author><text>&gt; You employ licensed caregivers to yell at you in the morning?<p>Yes. I use sites like Care.com and WellBeyondCare.com to find them.<p>&gt; Are you implying you are paying a nurse to open your door and yell at you &quot;get out of bed sleepyhead?&quot;<p>They aren’t nurses. The going rate for a caregiver in the US is only slightly above minimum-wage which is awful - especially considering the “human” value of the work they do for us and our loved-ones.<p>&gt; Or is your insurance paying?<p>I pay for it myself. A good chunk of my income is 1099-based and my CPA said I can deduct my caregiving expenses as a business expense because without their help I wouldn’t be working anywhere near as many hours as I do otherwise.<p>I pay them $30-35&#x2F;hr - with a 1-hour minimum. They pay for themselves as far as I’m concerned.<p>&gt; Do they actually drive to your house and do this?<p>Yes. They come-by around 6-7am and spend about 15-30 minutes with me before they go off to their main day job, so I imagine it’s a nice little (easy!) side-gig for them.<p>&gt; Do they do anything else for you?<p>I’ve had a few that stayed for a full hour - they’d make me a proper cooked breakfast while I’m spending 20+ minutes just waking up in the shower.<p>...it’s like living with my parents again.<p>My generation likes to joke about “bed gravity” but it’s a real problem :&#x2F;</text></item><item><author>OriginalPenguin</author><text>You employ licensed caregivers to yell at you in the morning?<p>Can you explain more? Are you implying you are paying a nurse to open your door and yell at you &quot;get out of bed sleepyhead?&quot; Or is your insurance paying?<p>Do they actually drive to your house and do this? Do they do anything else for you?</text></item><item><author>DaiPlusPlus</author><text>I’m certifiably a night-owl and definitely not a morning-person (to the point where I employ licensed caregivers to yell at me in the morning - my psychologist recommended it!) - but I wouldn’t attribute it in any way to being “social” - for some reason I just find it significantly easier to be focused, motivated, and productive after 6pm than any time before.<p>I used to attribute it to my horrible procrastination and how only in the night before a school or uni homework deadline I’d crank something out out of desperation, but it’s still an ongoing habit with my current day-job (er... night-job?) where deadlines aren’t really a thing (I love my boss) but I still feel most-productive in the evenings.<p>I’m ASD+ADHD[1] too - and I see similar things with other people I know with similar diagnoses. I believe they’re all related.<p>[1]: I really dislike the “ADHD” label because I’m not hyperactive in any way - or resemble stereotypical symptoms - if I could rename whatever it is I’ve got I’d call it “Motivation deficit” or similar.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>RickS</author><text>This is so great. I&#x27;ve considered it many times. Do these people offer help with administrative tasks as well? Sites like upwork and taskrabbit haven&#x27;t really delivered. (edit: looks like you&#x27;re in Redmond. I&#x27;m in Seattle, so local tips are welcome)<p>I spent the last two years mulling over hiring an assistant, and told a friend I had $1000&#x2F;mo for this in a heartbeat. Got in a fender bender without insurance (I could afford it, just never got the paperwork together), and my friend pointed out that had I gotten the assistant, they would have paid for themselves merely by mitigating the cost of that one incident.<p>I can totally relate to how this seemingly absurd expense is an absolute no-brainer for people like us.</text></comment> | <story><title>Night owls have more grey matter in their brains than early birds</title><url>https://phys.org/news/2020-06-night-owls-grey-brains-early.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>DaiPlusPlus</author><text>&gt; You employ licensed caregivers to yell at you in the morning?<p>Yes. I use sites like Care.com and WellBeyondCare.com to find them.<p>&gt; Are you implying you are paying a nurse to open your door and yell at you &quot;get out of bed sleepyhead?&quot;<p>They aren’t nurses. The going rate for a caregiver in the US is only slightly above minimum-wage which is awful - especially considering the “human” value of the work they do for us and our loved-ones.<p>&gt; Or is your insurance paying?<p>I pay for it myself. A good chunk of my income is 1099-based and my CPA said I can deduct my caregiving expenses as a business expense because without their help I wouldn’t be working anywhere near as many hours as I do otherwise.<p>I pay them $30-35&#x2F;hr - with a 1-hour minimum. They pay for themselves as far as I’m concerned.<p>&gt; Do they actually drive to your house and do this?<p>Yes. They come-by around 6-7am and spend about 15-30 minutes with me before they go off to their main day job, so I imagine it’s a nice little (easy!) side-gig for them.<p>&gt; Do they do anything else for you?<p>I’ve had a few that stayed for a full hour - they’d make me a proper cooked breakfast while I’m spending 20+ minutes just waking up in the shower.<p>...it’s like living with my parents again.<p>My generation likes to joke about “bed gravity” but it’s a real problem :&#x2F;</text></item><item><author>OriginalPenguin</author><text>You employ licensed caregivers to yell at you in the morning?<p>Can you explain more? Are you implying you are paying a nurse to open your door and yell at you &quot;get out of bed sleepyhead?&quot; Or is your insurance paying?<p>Do they actually drive to your house and do this? Do they do anything else for you?</text></item><item><author>DaiPlusPlus</author><text>I’m certifiably a night-owl and definitely not a morning-person (to the point where I employ licensed caregivers to yell at me in the morning - my psychologist recommended it!) - but I wouldn’t attribute it in any way to being “social” - for some reason I just find it significantly easier to be focused, motivated, and productive after 6pm than any time before.<p>I used to attribute it to my horrible procrastination and how only in the night before a school or uni homework deadline I’d crank something out out of desperation, but it’s still an ongoing habit with my current day-job (er... night-job?) where deadlines aren’t really a thing (I love my boss) but I still feel most-productive in the evenings.<p>I’m ASD+ADHD[1] too - and I see similar things with other people I know with similar diagnoses. I believe they’re all related.<p>[1]: I really dislike the “ADHD” label because I’m not hyperactive in any way - or resemble stereotypical symptoms - if I could rename whatever it is I’ve got I’d call it “Motivation deficit” or similar.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>GEBBL</author><text>This is shocking! You spend about $700 a month just to be woken up?<p>I can’t get my head round this at all.</text></comment> |
15,700,248 | 15,698,690 | 1 | 2 | 15,697,791 | train | <story><title>The evolution of eyes</title><url>https://www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/2016/02/evolution-of-eyes/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mamoswined</author><text>I&#x27;m surprised they didn&#x27;t mention jumping spiders (Salticidae), which are notable because they are inverts, have the ability to see an unusual number of colors, and unlike the mantis shrimp can be <i>trained</i> on them. Also another advantage is they can be rewarded with sugar water. Evolutionarily, their eyesight is a marvel. No other spiders really have anything approaching it.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.nationalgeographic.com&#x2F;2015&#x2F;05&#x2F;150518-jumping-spider-color-vision-mating-animals-science&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.nationalgeographic.com&#x2F;2015&#x2F;05&#x2F;150518-jumping-s...</a><p>I have a couple as pets (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;medium.com&#x2F;@melissamcewen&#x2F;how-i-ended-up-with-pet-jumping-spiders-187d70a3e296" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;medium.com&#x2F;@melissamcewen&#x2F;how-i-ended-up-with-pet-ju...</a>) and sometimes have managed to get them interested in videos of other bugs but I&#x27;d like to develop something geared just towards them. There are a couple of things like this used in the lab, but nothing open sourced that I know of.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rhcom2</author><text>Wow what a rabbit hole you&#x27;ve sent me down. Check out this diagram of the jumping spiders (almost) completely 360 field of view.
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Jumping_spider#&#x2F;media&#x2F;File:Jumping_spider_vision_David_Hill.png" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Jumping_spider#&#x2F;media&#x2F;File:Jum...</a><p>Have you been able to breed them?</text></comment> | <story><title>The evolution of eyes</title><url>https://www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/2016/02/evolution-of-eyes/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mamoswined</author><text>I&#x27;m surprised they didn&#x27;t mention jumping spiders (Salticidae), which are notable because they are inverts, have the ability to see an unusual number of colors, and unlike the mantis shrimp can be <i>trained</i> on them. Also another advantage is they can be rewarded with sugar water. Evolutionarily, their eyesight is a marvel. No other spiders really have anything approaching it.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.nationalgeographic.com&#x2F;2015&#x2F;05&#x2F;150518-jumping-spider-color-vision-mating-animals-science&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.nationalgeographic.com&#x2F;2015&#x2F;05&#x2F;150518-jumping-s...</a><p>I have a couple as pets (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;medium.com&#x2F;@melissamcewen&#x2F;how-i-ended-up-with-pet-jumping-spiders-187d70a3e296" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;medium.com&#x2F;@melissamcewen&#x2F;how-i-ended-up-with-pet-ju...</a>) and sometimes have managed to get them interested in videos of other bugs but I&#x27;d like to develop something geared just towards them. There are a couple of things like this used in the lab, but nothing open sourced that I know of.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>julianh95</author><text>Very nice write-up. You have inspired me to look into building a terrarium and keeping some spiders. I had a Green Lynx Hunter outside my backdoor for awhile and he was so nice to watch.<p>Also, I hate to be &quot;that guy&quot; but I found a few grammatical errors towards the end of your post. The first being with &quot;No, not poisonous, but all spiders produced venom...&quot;(produced &gt; produce) and &quot;Their are no jumping spiders that have venom&quot;(Their &gt; There). &#x2F;grammar policing over :P Otherwise awesome article, thanks for the inspiration!</text></comment> |
14,597,857 | 14,598,096 | 1 | 2 | 14,595,290 | train | <story><title>Rigetti Forest 1.0 – programming environment for quantum/classical computing</title><url>https://medium.com/rigetti/introducing-forest-f2c806537c6d</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>reikonomusha</author><text>Now. &quot;Exponential&quot; is faster than most people, including myself, can believe. When one unit of resource doubles your computational capacity, it doesn&#x27;t take many units.<p>I like to use the analogy. Adding 1 GB of RAM these days isn&#x27;t that big of a deal. You can maybe open two more tabs in Chrome. :) Adding 1 giga-qubit to your computer would make it 4.6 x 10^301029995 times better. That&#x27;s unimaginably more powerful than anything any human can think of.<p>We don&#x27;t have quantum software engineering figured out. And it&#x27;s not going to be figured out by a few academics, although they may lay some good foundations. It&#x27;s going to be figured out by the same folks who figured out traditional computing: people who try stuff, break stuff, and experiment.</text></item><item><author>pieteradejong</author><text>As a software engineer looking for a highly marketable and differentiated skill set, given your projections for quantum computing roadmap, when should I start exploring this area? (or: when should I start writing code and doing side projects)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>semi-extrinsic</author><text>I disagree. Through Scott Aaronson&#x27;s writings, I gather we still don&#x27;t have conclusive evidence [1] that anyone&#x27;s built an actual quantum computer capable of more sophisticated computations than a human 10-year-old can do with pen and paper, and furthermore that it&#x27;s not clear we&#x27;ll be able to build such a machine in our lifetimes. I&#x27;m not saying it&#x27;s impossible, but we know it&#x27;s going to be really hard.<p>What you&#x27;re ignoring with your exponential growth argument is that it is <i>also</i> exponentially harder to add one qubit while maintaining usefulness (i.e. long decoherence times).<p>I&#x27;d say, anyone who doesn&#x27;t want to work either in academia or on &quot;vanity projects&quot; like D-Wave&#x27;s much-hyped collabs with Lockheed, Google etc. should wait half a decade and see.<p>[1] Arguably the D-Wave machines are faster than a human, but we don&#x27;t have evidence (yet) that it&#x27;s not just a fancy annealing ASIC.</text></comment> | <story><title>Rigetti Forest 1.0 – programming environment for quantum/classical computing</title><url>https://medium.com/rigetti/introducing-forest-f2c806537c6d</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>reikonomusha</author><text>Now. &quot;Exponential&quot; is faster than most people, including myself, can believe. When one unit of resource doubles your computational capacity, it doesn&#x27;t take many units.<p>I like to use the analogy. Adding 1 GB of RAM these days isn&#x27;t that big of a deal. You can maybe open two more tabs in Chrome. :) Adding 1 giga-qubit to your computer would make it 4.6 x 10^301029995 times better. That&#x27;s unimaginably more powerful than anything any human can think of.<p>We don&#x27;t have quantum software engineering figured out. And it&#x27;s not going to be figured out by a few academics, although they may lay some good foundations. It&#x27;s going to be figured out by the same folks who figured out traditional computing: people who try stuff, break stuff, and experiment.</text></item><item><author>pieteradejong</author><text>As a software engineer looking for a highly marketable and differentiated skill set, given your projections for quantum computing roadmap, when should I start exploring this area? (or: when should I start writing code and doing side projects)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>algorias</author><text>&gt; Now. &quot;Exponential&quot; is faster than most people, including myself, can believe. When one unit of resource doubles your computational capacity, it doesn&#x27;t take many units.<p>Please don&#x27;t make bullshit claims about exponential speedups. I don&#x27;t know exactly what technology you are claiming to have, but statements like this cause me to believe less in your technology, not more.<p>We&#x27;ve been through the cycle of unfounded hype many times (with D-WAVE and others). Scott Aaronson has an entire category on his blog filled with depressingly many posts debunking the same bullshit over and over [0].<p>[0] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.scottaaronson.com&#x2F;blog&#x2F;?cat=17" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.scottaaronson.com&#x2F;blog&#x2F;?cat=17</a></text></comment> |
21,809,146 | 21,809,183 | 1 | 2 | 21,808,619 | train | <story><title>IBM Stops Server Side Swift Framework Development</title><url>https://forums.swift.org/t/december-12th-2019/31735</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>veidr</author><text>Two guys that IBM was paying to work on server-side Swift are stepping down from the server working group (presumably because IBM decided not to pay them to do that anymore).<p>I think these guys were best known for Kitura, the (previously) IBM-backed web app framework.<p>I don&#x27;t do web apps in Swift &quot;for realz&quot; (I use TypeScript and tools like Angular and Koa.js for that kind of thing), but I do use Swift on Linux and have built some toy ones using both Kitura and Vapor.<p>My impression is that Vapor gained a lot more traction than Kitura did, so in some ways this might just be &quot;the market choosing&quot; and Kitura heading for the sunset.</text></comment> | <story><title>IBM Stops Server Side Swift Framework Development</title><url>https://forums.swift.org/t/december-12th-2019/31735</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>tannernelson</author><text>While it&#x27;s sad to see IBM go, Vapor and the Swift Server working group are alive and more active than ever<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;vapor&#x2F;vapor&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;vapor&#x2F;vapor&#x2F;</a>
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;swift.org&#x2F;server&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;swift.org&#x2F;server&#x2F;</a><p>Amazon has also created a Swift web framework:
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;amzn&#x2F;smoke-framework" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;amzn&#x2F;smoke-framework</a></text></comment> |
17,033,946 | 17,033,699 | 1 | 2 | 17,032,805 | train | <story><title>California Votes to Require Rooftop Solar Power on New Homes</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-05-09/california-votes-to-require-rooftop-solar-power-on-new-homes</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>alkonaut</author><text>Requiring specific technical solutions is rarely a good idea. For example mandating that all new cars have catalytic converters is a common but not very good requirement. The requirement should be formulated as a goal&#x2F;limit, not a solution.<p>Having one solution required means you can’t innovate to find a cheaper or better solution to the same problem.<p>The answer in this context would be to require a total net power draw for the home. Adding a production unit just gives more room in the calculation and not having one might mean more expensive insulation or smaller windows are needed instead.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>litany</author><text>That is how title 24 has operated for years. They have two methods for compliance, prescriptive and engineered. The prescriptive method is they specify minimum Efficiency values for things like insulation, doors, windows, HVAC, water heater, etc and takes climate zone into consideration. The engineered gives you an annual energy budget and you just have to meet that in the model. So for instance you can have a house that doesn’t have insulation but with enough solar on the roof you can make up for it. The idea is prescriptive is to make it easier on owner builders and engineered is so that professional builders can optimize with market forces in consideration and designers can make trade offs like spending more money on efficiency in order to allow larger openings (doors and windows) as a percentage of total area.<p>This solar requirement has been a long time coming. I haven’t looked at the new standard, it’s called Title 24 2019 because it’s still under development but they might just pushing the energy budget low enough that solar is effectively required. Otherwise it may be required for prescriptive title 24 compliance. The article talks about square footage and 2kW minimum systems which to me sounds like the prescriptive requirement.<p>Personally I’ve never been able to use prescriptive for design reasons but some contractors for sure do, and they don’t understand the concept of modeling.<p>So yeah, you can innovate all you want and CA set it up that way for years now.</text></comment> | <story><title>California Votes to Require Rooftop Solar Power on New Homes</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-05-09/california-votes-to-require-rooftop-solar-power-on-new-homes</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>alkonaut</author><text>Requiring specific technical solutions is rarely a good idea. For example mandating that all new cars have catalytic converters is a common but not very good requirement. The requirement should be formulated as a goal&#x2F;limit, not a solution.<p>Having one solution required means you can’t innovate to find a cheaper or better solution to the same problem.<p>The answer in this context would be to require a total net power draw for the home. Adding a production unit just gives more room in the calculation and not having one might mean more expensive insulation or smaller windows are needed instead.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>forapurpose</author><text>&gt; Requiring specific technical solutions is rarely a good idea. ... The requirement should be formulated as a goal&#x2F;limit, not a solution.<p>While I instinctively agree, does anyone know of any research in this area?<p>I can speculate about possible downsides to legislating a performance specification rather than a solution: Giving people every possible option could result in people gaming the system, it could hamper investment because it creates uncertainty about what the future solution will be, or it could simply reduce transparency because the specification may be written to favor one solution anyway. That&#x27;s just speculation, however; we need data and expertise.</text></comment> |
8,067,056 | 8,065,969 | 1 | 3 | 8,065,207 | train | <story><title>State Laws That Stop Cities From Installing Fast Internet</title><url>http://broadbandnow.com/report/municipal-broadband-roadblocks/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>js2</author><text>NC&#x27;s law was practically written by TWC after Wilson, NC got fed up and ran its own fiber. For years Wilson had attempted to get its citizens decent broadband and TWC et al didn&#x27;t want to invest in the city. So Wilson ran its own fiber. TWC didn&#x27;t want to see that happen again, and after 4 years of lobbying eventually got a bill passed to ensure it wouldn&#x27;t.<p><a href="https://www.wilsonnc.org/living/fiberopticnetwork/greenlighthistory/" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.wilsonnc.org&#x2F;living&#x2F;fiberopticnetwork&#x2F;greenlight...</a><p><a href="http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/22/time-warner-and-embarq-cant-compete-with-city-owned-isp-trying/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.engadget.com&#x2F;2009&#x2F;04&#x2F;22&#x2F;time-warner-and-embarq-ca...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>State Laws That Stop Cities From Installing Fast Internet</title><url>http://broadbandnow.com/report/municipal-broadband-roadblocks/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>briandear</author><text>Do the laws prohibit private companies from installing fast internet? I don&#x27;t necessarily want a city government running my internet. Cities should not be in the telecommunications business. However, there SHOULD be laws promoting competition and thus restricting the de facto monopoly positions of many providers. Where I live in France, I have, in just my small town of Avignon, at least 5 high speed internet providers available -- resulting in my monthly cost for 120mbs + full cable (all the movie channels) cell phone with unlimited data, unlimited calls to over 49 countries in the world AND home phone (which I never use) for about 70 euro per month. The internet portion of that is something like 20 euro per month, the cell portion is about 15 or so (give or take 3 euro.)<p>Cities don&#x27;t need to get in the telecoms business -- however governments do have a responsibility to promote competition. Cities getting into the internet business would be about as efficient as the Post Office getting into the letter delivery business -- a ton of public-union-related waste, bureaucratic inefficiencies as well as an inherit incentive to discourage private companies, thus reducing innovation. You also have the issue of city-run networks being subject to political pressures such as &quot;I&#x27;ll donate money to your reelection if you allow my content to have preference on the network.&quot; You also have the city having access to your usage records and they&#x27;d be nothing keeping them from using it for law enforcement purposes without a warrant or your consent. After all, you&#x27;d be using city-owned property, thus you really wouldn&#x27;t have much leverage. The police would certainly leverage that. We all know that most internet traffic isn&#x27;t going to be safe from NSA-types, however, there&#x27;s a reasonable belief that NSA-level intercepts aren&#x27;t filtering down to the local cop on the beat. Maybe it&#x27;s a bit of paranoia, however based on my experiences with city governments in the US, they are some of the most power-hungry, corrupt sufferers of little-man(woman) syndrome I&#x27;ve ever encountered. These are the same twits that want to ban large sodas because they think they&#x27;re your daddies and mommies. Yeah, count me out. Last thing anyone needs to do is give a city (or any) government more power to do anything.</text></comment> |
13,353,014 | 13,352,804 | 1 | 2 | 13,352,503 | train | <story><title>Dell unveils 8K 32-inch monitor at CES 2017</title><url>https://www.extremetech.com/computing/242192-dell-unveils-new-8k-32-inch-monitor-ces-2017-shipping-year</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Sephr</author><text>For $5000, I&#x27;d much rather buy the 4K 120hz HDR 0.1ms response time OLED monitor Dell announced in CES 2016 (the UP3017Q). Unfortunately it seems like it may never come out. Hopefully Dell will try again with microLED in the future.<p>An 8K 60Hz LCD in 32 inches seems like a waste for literally every application I can think of except medical diagnostics (and even then, many doctors might not have the vision to benefit from this over 5K). The only practical uses for 8K are in completely different form factors and using different screen technologies.<p>The sweet spots for every current use case (gaming, content creation &amp; consumption, web browsing, reading, medical diagnostics) that are possible with HDMI 2.1 are probably as follows:<p>Desktop monitor: 27&quot; 5K 165Hz HDR OLED&#x2F;microLED display<p>VR HMD: 2&quot; 4000x4000 165Hz HDR OLED&#x2F;microLED displays per-eye<p>AR HMD: 2&quot; 8000px diameter HDR ???Hz fiber scanning displays[1] per-eye<p>[1]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gpuofthebrain.com&#x2F;blog&#x2F;2016&#x2F;7&#x2F;22&#x2F;how-magic-leap-will-work" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gpuofthebrain.com&#x2F;blog&#x2F;2016&#x2F;7&#x2F;22&#x2F;how-magic-leap-will...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Dell unveils 8K 32-inch monitor at CES 2017</title><url>https://www.extremetech.com/computing/242192-dell-unveils-new-8k-32-inch-monitor-ces-2017-shipping-year</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>wbond</author><text>I feel like 32&quot; at a high PPI is hitting the point of perfection in a display.<p>The 32&quot; size gives a generous amount of space for multiple programs to be visible on the screen at once, without being too large for normal desk usage. Trying to use something like a 47&quot; inch TV results in lots of head movement to scan the entire screen.<p>For anyone who has used a high PPI screen, the smoothness of text and geometric shapes is beautiful.<p>Before this the two compromises were a 32&quot; 4K, which is a normal PPI screen, or a 27&quot; 5K, which doesn&#x27;t have the same real estate for 4-up viewing.<p>Alas, $5k is clearly a steep price filtering out all but the largest hardware budgets. Considering the price of the 32&quot; 4K Dell dropped by 50% over a few years, hopefully these will be sub-$2k by 2019.</text></comment> |
28,381,560 | 28,380,513 | 1 | 2 | 28,378,575 | train | <story><title>William Gibson is a literary genius</title><url>https://thewalrus.ca/why-william-gibson-is-a-literary-genius/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>UI_at_80x24</author><text>I love reading Gibson. His prose is brilliant.<p>In his book &quot;Pattern Recognition&quot; he spends the first page and half describing jet-lag in such brilliant manner that you feel like you just experienced art.<p>Unfortunately I feel his plot&#x2F;stories never seem to hold up.
I will always consider him an artist. Something to savor. I&#x27;ve always felt that it was superior to true &#x27;literature&#x27; in that each word is a morsel that adds to the whole and not up to the interpretation of the reader.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>freediver</author><text>Excerpt:<p>&quot;She knows, now, absolutely, hearing the white noise that is London, that Damien&#x27;s theory of jet lag is correct: that her mortal soul is leagues behind her, being reeled in on some ghostly umbilical down the vanished wake of the plane that brought her here, hundreds of thousands of feet above the Atlantic. Souls can&#x27;t move that quickly, and are left behind, and must be awaited, upon arrival, like lost luggage.&quot;</text></comment> | <story><title>William Gibson is a literary genius</title><url>https://thewalrus.ca/why-william-gibson-is-a-literary-genius/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>UI_at_80x24</author><text>I love reading Gibson. His prose is brilliant.<p>In his book &quot;Pattern Recognition&quot; he spends the first page and half describing jet-lag in such brilliant manner that you feel like you just experienced art.<p>Unfortunately I feel his plot&#x2F;stories never seem to hold up.
I will always consider him an artist. Something to savor. I&#x27;ve always felt that it was superior to true &#x27;literature&#x27; in that each word is a morsel that adds to the whole and not up to the interpretation of the reader.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tgv</author><text>For me, it&#x27;s the casual way in which he introduces new concepts and words, not breaking the flow of the sentence, leaving it as an exercise for the reader to determine their meaning as the story unfolds and paints a fairly convincing picture of the near future.<p>The friend who introduced me to Gibson was also lyrical about the jet lag passage, but I remember thinking that traveling North-South would be a counter example. Anyway, it is well written.</text></comment> |
24,602,030 | 24,600,768 | 1 | 2 | 24,599,434 | train | <story><title>The fresh smell of ransomed coffee</title><url>https://decoded.avast.io/martinhron/the-fresh-smell-of-ransomed-coffee/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tgsovlerkhgsel</author><text>The (editorialized) current HN title (&quot;Coffee makers are demanding ransom&quot;) implies that this is an in-the-wild attack.<p>It&#x27;s just another PoC showing that IoT devices tend to have bad security.<p>In-the-wild ransomware would be interesting news because the same fragmentation that makes it unprofitable to secure devices (too few devices sold of each vendor&#x2F;model for the vendor to invest serious money in security) makes it unprofitable to attack most devices.<p>Ransomware is particularly pointless for non-critical devices like a coffee maker. I could see it working e.g. with something controlling heating that isn&#x27;t easily bypassable (pay us now, or by the time you get a tech out your pipes will be frozen and your house ruined), or something that can otherwise cause harm before the user can disable it (which is likely rare).<p>With a coffee maker, you can easily unplug the device (preventing it from doing further harm&#x2F;threatening to burn your house down), put it in a box, and ship it to the vendor to fix it.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dang</author><text>We changed the title to a substring of the title (&quot;Coffee makers are demanding a ransom&quot;) to make it less baity but I see how that could be misleading. I&#x27;ve attempted to disambiguate it above.<p>Edit: perhaps a better solution is to change to the original source, pointed out by commenters in this thread. We&#x27;ve changed to that from <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;arstechnica.com&#x2F;information-technology&#x2F;2020&#x2F;09&#x2F;how-a-hacker-turned-a-250-coffee-maker-into-ransom-machine&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;arstechnica.com&#x2F;information-technology&#x2F;2020&#x2F;09&#x2F;how-a...</a>.</text></comment> | <story><title>The fresh smell of ransomed coffee</title><url>https://decoded.avast.io/martinhron/the-fresh-smell-of-ransomed-coffee/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tgsovlerkhgsel</author><text>The (editorialized) current HN title (&quot;Coffee makers are demanding ransom&quot;) implies that this is an in-the-wild attack.<p>It&#x27;s just another PoC showing that IoT devices tend to have bad security.<p>In-the-wild ransomware would be interesting news because the same fragmentation that makes it unprofitable to secure devices (too few devices sold of each vendor&#x2F;model for the vendor to invest serious money in security) makes it unprofitable to attack most devices.<p>Ransomware is particularly pointless for non-critical devices like a coffee maker. I could see it working e.g. with something controlling heating that isn&#x27;t easily bypassable (pay us now, or by the time you get a tech out your pipes will be frozen and your house ruined), or something that can otherwise cause harm before the user can disable it (which is likely rare).<p>With a coffee maker, you can easily unplug the device (preventing it from doing further harm&#x2F;threatening to burn your house down), put it in a box, and ship it to the vendor to fix it.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>m463</author><text>I thought it might be about Keurig, whose coffeemakers don&#x27;t brew unauthorized coffee.</text></comment> |
26,650,857 | 26,647,374 | 1 | 3 | 26,646,497 | train | <story><title>Turing Award goes to Aho and Ullman</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/31/technology/turing-award-aho-ullman.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>cxr</author><text>It was just a few days ago when I mentioned how often I see the dragon book held up as a punching bag. It seems that at some point the book, along with K&amp;R, have become the target for unsubstantiated criticism. I&#x27;ve pressed for details, and I&#x27;ve seen others do the same, but it never ends in anything concrete—just an implicit appeal to the new conventional wisdom that they do more harm than good. Reminds me of how &quot;truth&quot; gets synthesized on Reddit.<p>Here&#x27;s a counterexample: Russ Cox has a series on regular expressions, beginning with Regular Expression Matching Can Be Simple And Fast &lt;<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;swtch.com&#x2F;~rsc&#x2F;regexp&#x2F;regexp1.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;swtch.com&#x2F;~rsc&#x2F;regexp&#x2F;regexp1.html</a>&gt;. In the last several years, it has become very well-received. In it, he lays out the case for Thompson NFAs, and also laments in some places about how the approach is not more widely known, having become a sort of lost knowledge. (See also Jonathan Blow&#x27;s &lt;<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=ZSRHeXYDLko" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=ZSRHeXYDLko</a>&gt;.) For all the criticism of the dragon book, though, you&#x27;d think that would mean enough people have read it that someone would have pointed out that Thompson is cited in Chapter 3, where his approach is described in some detail.<p>I think that what&#x27;s actually going on is that, like The Art Of Computer Programming, the dragon book is widely referenced and rarely read. Now, enter the 21st century meme factory.<p>Having said that, the most recent comment I saw that was being casually dismissive of the dragon book—ironically for its &quot;second-rate methods&quot; that have &quot;held back&quot; compiler development—did motivate me into digging the book out, which itself led to me to spending an hour or so chasing down the source of McCarthy&#x27;s &quot;ho, ho, you&#x27;re confusing theory with practice&quot; quip, since the origin story of Lisp&#x27;s eval is also told in Chapter 11 of the dragon book. &lt;<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;hypothes.is&#x2F;a&#x2F;pQs39pAhEeupnAuO5qfOeQ" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;hypothes.is&#x2F;a&#x2F;pQs39pAhEeupnAuO5qfOeQ</a>&gt;</text></item><item><author>jonstewart</author><text>I never took a compilers course in college and came to regret that. Ten years later I started reading the Dragon Book, and realized how I could trivially modify the NFA regular expression search algorithm to solve a problem I’d seen in digital forensics and eDiscovery. The writing is extremely clear and easy to follow, and I now tell all interns to be sure to take a compilers course before they graduate. Well-earned!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kingaillas</author><text>As others noted, the Dragon Book spends far too much time on parsing, and not nearly enough on optimizations. To be fair, the first edition of the book is from 1986. It looks like the 2nd edition (2006) adds 3 chapters on data flow analysis, parallelization. I don&#x27;t happen to have that version of the book so I don&#x27;t know how good the material is.<p>I took compilers in grad school in the early 90&#x27;s. Even then, we mostly skipped parsing because that was considered covered in another class (Theory of Computation, a class that covered regular expression, finite automata, Turing machines, P vs NP, those sorts of topics).<p>The professor spent as much time as he could on optimizations, since that was his research focus. He then went onto write his own compiler book (Engineering a Compiler; Cooper &amp; Torczon) so you can compare the table of contents (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.elsevier.com&#x2F;books&#x2F;engineering-a-compiler&#x2F;cooper&#x2F;978-0-12-088478-0" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.elsevier.com&#x2F;books&#x2F;engineering-a-compiler&#x2F;cooper...</a>) and see what current compiler researchers feel are important topics to cover in a textbook.<p>Not throwing the Dragon Book under the bus, but it probably is in the &quot;cited widely but rarely read&quot; category as you have noted, just from its position as being first&#x2F;early.<p>An anecdote from me - I had the occasion to write a parser for a work project a few years ago. Rather than reach for flex&#x2F;bison or any theory I had from compiler courses... I went with the new-to-me method of a parser combinator. This was awesome and I might even describe as fun. Granted the target language I was parsing was much simpler than a programming language, but I hope that is covered in today&#x27;s compilers courses. I remember really tedious parsing homework problems back in the day.</text></comment> | <story><title>Turing Award goes to Aho and Ullman</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/31/technology/turing-award-aho-ullman.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>cxr</author><text>It was just a few days ago when I mentioned how often I see the dragon book held up as a punching bag. It seems that at some point the book, along with K&amp;R, have become the target for unsubstantiated criticism. I&#x27;ve pressed for details, and I&#x27;ve seen others do the same, but it never ends in anything concrete—just an implicit appeal to the new conventional wisdom that they do more harm than good. Reminds me of how &quot;truth&quot; gets synthesized on Reddit.<p>Here&#x27;s a counterexample: Russ Cox has a series on regular expressions, beginning with Regular Expression Matching Can Be Simple And Fast &lt;<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;swtch.com&#x2F;~rsc&#x2F;regexp&#x2F;regexp1.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;swtch.com&#x2F;~rsc&#x2F;regexp&#x2F;regexp1.html</a>&gt;. In the last several years, it has become very well-received. In it, he lays out the case for Thompson NFAs, and also laments in some places about how the approach is not more widely known, having become a sort of lost knowledge. (See also Jonathan Blow&#x27;s &lt;<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=ZSRHeXYDLko" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=ZSRHeXYDLko</a>&gt;.) For all the criticism of the dragon book, though, you&#x27;d think that would mean enough people have read it that someone would have pointed out that Thompson is cited in Chapter 3, where his approach is described in some detail.<p>I think that what&#x27;s actually going on is that, like The Art Of Computer Programming, the dragon book is widely referenced and rarely read. Now, enter the 21st century meme factory.<p>Having said that, the most recent comment I saw that was being casually dismissive of the dragon book—ironically for its &quot;second-rate methods&quot; that have &quot;held back&quot; compiler development—did motivate me into digging the book out, which itself led to me to spending an hour or so chasing down the source of McCarthy&#x27;s &quot;ho, ho, you&#x27;re confusing theory with practice&quot; quip, since the origin story of Lisp&#x27;s eval is also told in Chapter 11 of the dragon book. &lt;<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;hypothes.is&#x2F;a&#x2F;pQs39pAhEeupnAuO5qfOeQ" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;hypothes.is&#x2F;a&#x2F;pQs39pAhEeupnAuO5qfOeQ</a>&gt;</text></item><item><author>jonstewart</author><text>I never took a compilers course in college and came to regret that. Ten years later I started reading the Dragon Book, and realized how I could trivially modify the NFA regular expression search algorithm to solve a problem I’d seen in digital forensics and eDiscovery. The writing is extremely clear and easy to follow, and I now tell all interns to be sure to take a compilers course before they graduate. Well-earned!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jnwatson</author><text>I took a compilers class around the dragon book. I think the valid criticism is the sequence of the book. An undergraduate compiler class can only cover perhaps half the book.<p>IMHO, the number of students that would benefit from learning about AST transformation and code gen vastly outnumbers the folks that would benefit from learning about finite automata transformation (and I took a dedicated course in that).<p>There simply aren’t that many folks working on regex engines.</text></comment> |
11,627,560 | 11,627,630 | 1 | 2 | 11,626,967 | train | <story><title>Google: End of the Online Advertising Bubble</title><url>https://kalkis-research.com/google-end-of-the-online-advertising-bubble</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>red_admiral</author><text>&quot;Facebook on the other hand, has a better control of who is actually seeing its ads, and will benefit from the turmoil by gaining market share.&quot;<p>Did they pay you to write this?<p>Google ads in search will always be valuable because you can advertise nail varnish to people who have just searched for &quot;buy nail varnish&quot;.<p>This is also about the millionth post I&#x27;ve read which assumes that companies simply throw money at advertising and don&#x27;t run any statistics of their own. Simply, if you spend a lot on an ad campaign for a product and your sales don&#x27;t go up, you notice that and rethink your next campaign. CPM and all that are at best proxy metrics for the thing you really care about, &quot;are our profits&#x2F;sales up&quot;.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>onion2k</author><text><i>Google ads in search will always be valuable because you can advertise nail varnish to people who have just searched for &quot;buy nail varnish&quot;.</i><p>Google <i>and</i> Facebook both have the problem that their business model is predicated on having thousands of small advertisers bidding on ads. That&#x27;s what they leverage to generate profit. In any market that&#x27;s dominated by a single entity that smaller companies won&#x27;t compete with for ad space, both Google and Facebook lose the ability to make money.<p>When the majority of people who want to buy nail varnish bypass search entirely and go straight to Amazon, Google and Facebook have a <i>huge</i> problem. The same is true if developers go straight to Stack Overflow, people looking for rooms go straight to AirBNB, people moving around cities go straight to Uber, etc, then Google and Facebook will have no one to sell ad space to any more.<p>I&#x27;m not about to suggest Google and Facebook are doomed; they both have talent enough to think of ways to meet these challenges. I would however suggest that they are <i>not</i> too big to fail.</text></comment> | <story><title>Google: End of the Online Advertising Bubble</title><url>https://kalkis-research.com/google-end-of-the-online-advertising-bubble</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>red_admiral</author><text>&quot;Facebook on the other hand, has a better control of who is actually seeing its ads, and will benefit from the turmoil by gaining market share.&quot;<p>Did they pay you to write this?<p>Google ads in search will always be valuable because you can advertise nail varnish to people who have just searched for &quot;buy nail varnish&quot;.<p>This is also about the millionth post I&#x27;ve read which assumes that companies simply throw money at advertising and don&#x27;t run any statistics of their own. Simply, if you spend a lot on an ad campaign for a product and your sales don&#x27;t go up, you notice that and rethink your next campaign. CPM and all that are at best proxy metrics for the thing you really care about, &quot;are our profits&#x2F;sales up&quot;.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Udik</author><text>&gt; Google ads in search will always be valuable because you can advertise nail varnish to people who have just searched for &quot;buy nail varnish&quot;<p>Yes, how dumb is that? A few weeks ago I googled for a company I was going to interview with. Since then the ad spaces in my web pages have been filled with ads of this company, which sells IT services for logistics.<p>I&#x27;m a sort of atypical consumer - not very willing to spend money on gadgets, for example; but I&#x27;m surprised nonetheless that with all this talk of &quot;big data&quot;, they can&#x27;t do a better job at figuring out the things I&#x27;m really interested in and instead keep bombarding me with ads related to any random search I&#x27;ve made. That&#x27;s silly and a big waste of money.</text></comment> |
41,444,176 | 41,444,193 | 1 | 3 | 41,443,336 | train | <story><title>Firefox will consider a Rust implementation of JPEG-XL</title><url>https://github.com/mozilla/standards-positions/pull/1064</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>gardaani</author><text>&gt; the team at Google has agreed to apply their subject matter expertise to build a safe, performant, compact, and compatible JPEG-XL decoder in Rust<p>There&#x27;s already a JPEG-XL decoder written in Rust: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;crates.io&#x2F;crates&#x2F;jxl-oxide" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;crates.io&#x2F;crates&#x2F;jxl-oxide</a><p>It would be nice to hear why it&#x27;s not good enough.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tux3</author><text>This is the same Google that wrote the libgav1 decoder instead of using dav1d, they don&#x27;t have a strong history of starting from code that was invented elsewhere.<p>(In the case of AV1 I think they eventually gave up and started offering dav1d on Android, but not before shipping their in-house implementation that was much less efficient and no safer than state of the art, perplexing everyone in the process.)</text></comment> | <story><title>Firefox will consider a Rust implementation of JPEG-XL</title><url>https://github.com/mozilla/standards-positions/pull/1064</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>gardaani</author><text>&gt; the team at Google has agreed to apply their subject matter expertise to build a safe, performant, compact, and compatible JPEG-XL decoder in Rust<p>There&#x27;s already a JPEG-XL decoder written in Rust: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;crates.io&#x2F;crates&#x2F;jxl-oxide" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;crates.io&#x2F;crates&#x2F;jxl-oxide</a><p>It would be nice to hear why it&#x27;s not good enough.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>lifthrasiir</author><text>For one thing, I believe jxl-oxide is not yet performant enough to replace libjxl&#x27;s decoder (not necessarily because of a difference between C++ and Rust, however).</text></comment> |
3,269,434 | 3,268,767 | 1 | 3 | 3,266,772 | train | <story><title>Traveling, Writing and Programming</title><url>http://alexmaccaw.co.uk/posts/traveling_writing_programming</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mbesto</author><text><i>I thank you, Alex, for allowing me to live vicariously through your year for the past 5 minutes.</i><p>This comment made me perk up.<p>I've eliminated all of those things you mentioned from my life and replaced them with:<p>1. Alcohol
2. Traveling
3. Triathletics<p>In the last 3 years I've been to over 20 countries, been to every continent (except antartica), boot strapped two companies in NYC and have completed a half-ironman (and on my way to do a full next year). I realize I couldn't have done any of that if I had any of those aforementioned responsibilities.<p>Random, but honest (meta) question: Would people be interested in reading more about this? I always feel like if I blog about these things it would just sound like bragging.</text></item><item><author>edw519</author><text><i>The peculiar thing about programmers is that they're the one profession that can easily work remotely and travel, and yet they're the one profession that doesn't.</i><p>I believe that the ease with which one "can easily work remotely and travel" is affected far more by life situation than by profession. Modern technology has made it just as easy for non-programming electronic workers to do this, too.<p>"Life situation" is another matter. Just a few of the things that make it difficult for some people to do this:<p><pre><code> - marriage
- children
- spouse's job
- pets
- caring for elderly parents/others
- community commitments
- financial responsibilities (mortgage, etc.)
</code></pre>
As one who is tethered to his home and family, I thank you, Alex, for allowing me to live vicariously through your year for the past 5 minutes. The stories were interesting and the pictures were beautiful.<p>&#60;/BackToRegressionTestNumber127BeforeThePhoneRingsAgainAndTheCatNeedsFed&#62;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tome</author><text>Hang on. You mean you've removed your marriage, children, pets and caring for elderly relatives from your life?</text></comment> | <story><title>Traveling, Writing and Programming</title><url>http://alexmaccaw.co.uk/posts/traveling_writing_programming</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mbesto</author><text><i>I thank you, Alex, for allowing me to live vicariously through your year for the past 5 minutes.</i><p>This comment made me perk up.<p>I've eliminated all of those things you mentioned from my life and replaced them with:<p>1. Alcohol
2. Traveling
3. Triathletics<p>In the last 3 years I've been to over 20 countries, been to every continent (except antartica), boot strapped two companies in NYC and have completed a half-ironman (and on my way to do a full next year). I realize I couldn't have done any of that if I had any of those aforementioned responsibilities.<p>Random, but honest (meta) question: Would people be interested in reading more about this? I always feel like if I blog about these things it would just sound like bragging.</text></item><item><author>edw519</author><text><i>The peculiar thing about programmers is that they're the one profession that can easily work remotely and travel, and yet they're the one profession that doesn't.</i><p>I believe that the ease with which one "can easily work remotely and travel" is affected far more by life situation than by profession. Modern technology has made it just as easy for non-programming electronic workers to do this, too.<p>"Life situation" is another matter. Just a few of the things that make it difficult for some people to do this:<p><pre><code> - marriage
- children
- spouse's job
- pets
- caring for elderly parents/others
- community commitments
- financial responsibilities (mortgage, etc.)
</code></pre>
As one who is tethered to his home and family, I thank you, Alex, for allowing me to live vicariously through your year for the past 5 minutes. The stories were interesting and the pictures were beautiful.<p>&#60;/BackToRegressionTestNumber127BeforeThePhoneRingsAgainAndTheCatNeedsFed&#62;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>felipemnoa</author><text>Definitely interested. I would read your article/book.</text></comment> |
15,185,952 | 15,185,623 | 1 | 3 | 15,184,809 | train | <story><title>23andMe is raising about $200M, led by Sequoia</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2017/09/05/23andme-is-raising-about-200-million-led-by-sequoia/?ncid=rss&utm_source=tctwreshare&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Techcrunch+%28TechCrunch%29&sr_share=twitter</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Spooky23</author><text>Sell it to an insurance company, who in the future may be able to discriminate against you due to your genetic characteristics.<p>Sharing fundamental characteristics of yourself with random cloud service providers is probably one of the dumbest things I can think of.</text></item><item><author>jakelarkin</author><text>If 23andMe is eventually acquired&#x2F;reaped, what is the worst thing the new owner can do with the data?<p>to ensure long-term stewardship of the data, a company that holds genetic info should be a non-profit owned by the DNA providers, along the lines of a mutual insurance company.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>daxorid</author><text>&gt; who in the future may be able to discriminate against you due to your genetic characteristics.<p>Look, I know it&#x27;s fashionable to disavow discrimination in all its forms and for all its reasons, but businesses built on evaluating risk, like insurance companies, NEED to discriminate.<p>It&#x27;s impossible to price and discount risk without access to accurate information.<p>I&#x27;d be FAR FAR more worried about governments misusing my genetic data than insurance companies using it to determine an accurate risk profile.</text></comment> | <story><title>23andMe is raising about $200M, led by Sequoia</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2017/09/05/23andme-is-raising-about-200-million-led-by-sequoia/?ncid=rss&utm_source=tctwreshare&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Techcrunch+%28TechCrunch%29&sr_share=twitter</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Spooky23</author><text>Sell it to an insurance company, who in the future may be able to discriminate against you due to your genetic characteristics.<p>Sharing fundamental characteristics of yourself with random cloud service providers is probably one of the dumbest things I can think of.</text></item><item><author>jakelarkin</author><text>If 23andMe is eventually acquired&#x2F;reaped, what is the worst thing the new owner can do with the data?<p>to ensure long-term stewardship of the data, a company that holds genetic info should be a non-profit owned by the DNA providers, along the lines of a mutual insurance company.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>maxerickson</author><text>If insurance companies are able to take advantage of genetic information, won&#x27;t they just pay people to gather it?<p>Like, for $500 someone could follow you around for several days waiting for the 1 lapse where you leak a little DNA into the public environment.<p>Or you know, they will just discriminate against people that refuse to share their DNA. The narrow wedge where they are forbidden from requiring DNA but free to discriminate based upon it is still a pretty fucked up world.</text></comment> |
3,414,390 | 3,414,329 | 1 | 3 | 3,413,936 | train | <story><title>Deca - a systems language based on modern PL principles</title><url>http://code.google.com/p/decac/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Dn_Ab</author><text>I keep a (small) list of active awesome and interesting alternatives to C. Cyclone has been mentioned already, adding Deca now. the other two I know are:<p>* ATS <a href="http://www.ats-lang.org/#what_is_ats_good_for" rel="nofollow">http://www.ats-lang.org/#what_is_ats_good_for</a><p>* Clay <a href="http://claylabs.com/clay/" rel="nofollow">http://claylabs.com/clay/</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Deca - a systems language based on modern PL principles</title><url>http://code.google.com/p/decac/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>eternalban</author><text>I greped for "core", "memory manager", "thread", "threading", and "cache", in the pdf [1]. Am I missing something? I'll probably get flak for this, but this programmer looks for a modern systems language that directly addresses these concerns.<p><i>"The fundamental problems of a systems-programming task or environment are hard limits on computational resources and a lack of safety protections. Systems programs have to deal with hardware-imposed limitations on their CPU time, registers, memory space, storage space on I/O devices, and I/O bandwidth. They also often have to deal with a lack of the safety features normally given to most programming environments: garbage-collection of memory, validation of memory accesses, synchronization primitives, abstracted access to I/O devices, and transparent multitasking. In fact, the point of systems programming is usually to create such abstractions and program such protections."</i><p>Let's take Go, as an example. (Or D). Per above definition, neither is a "systems programming" language. I know for a fact [2] that Go team would disagree.<p>So what is the accepted definition of a "modern" systems programming language?<p>[1]: <a href="http://code.google.com/p/decac/downloads/detail?name=Deca%20Thesis.pdf&#38;can=2&#38;q=" rel="nofollow">http://code.google.com/p/decac/downloads/detail?name=Deca%20...</a><p>[2]: <a href="http://golang.org/doc/go_faq.html#What_is_the_purpose_of_the_project" rel="nofollow">http://golang.org/doc/go_faq.html#What_is_the_purpose_of_the...</a></text></comment> |
33,628,770 | 33,628,647 | 1 | 2 | 33,626,670 | train | <story><title>Mom handcuffed, jailed for 8-year-old son walking half a mile</title><url>https://reason.com/2022/11/16/suburban-mom-jailed-handcuffed-cps-son-walk-home/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Mountain_Skies</author><text>It puts neighbors in a bad situation. Yesterday there was a kid, probably about eight years old, outside my house wandering around by himself, yelling at passing cars. There are lots of kids in my neighborhood and I&#x27;m accustomed to them being loud when they&#x27;re out playing but this kid was alone, going out into the road, and just acting a bit weird. It wasn&#x27;t a kid I knew so I couldn&#x27;t call the parents but calling the police also seemed like a questionable thing to do. I&#x27;m near a speed bump so cars generally go slow through here but there are other parts of the street when they often have more speed. I didn&#x27;t want to approach him (all manner of trouble can come from an adult approaching a child they don&#x27;t know), police seemed like overkill, but being out in the road, especially since he was walking away from the speed bump area, seemed potentially dangerous. Eventually he went into a house across the street five or six houses down which recently sold so probably is a new family to the neighborhood.<p>Still not sure what I should have done if he hadn&#x27;t gone home or really if this is a problem waiting to happen. At his age I wandered much further from home and put myself in worse potential danger at times, though I probably never yelled at passing cars. No one ever called the police on me though there were a few times when an adult told me to stop doing whatever I was up to or go somewhere else.</text></item><item><author>pdonis</author><text><i>&gt; Let&#x27;s quickly drop the idea that this is the fault of nosey neighbors</i><p>No, let&#x27;s not. According to the article, the neighbor who called the cops asked the boy where he lived, &quot;verified that it was just down the street, and proceeded to call nonetheless&quot;. Excuse me? What decent neighbor calls the cops on a neighbor&#x27;s kid walking just down the street from his own house?<p>I agree the law in question shouldn&#x27;t even be on the books in the first place, but one of the things you&#x27;re supposed to do as a neighbor is to understand that we have an insane legal system and not invoke it on one of your neighbors unless you really, really have to.</text></item><item><author>nineplay</author><text>&gt; As they stood on her porch, the officers told Wallace that her son could have been kidnapped and sex trafficked. &quot;&#x27;You don&#x27;t see much sex trafficking where you are, but where I patrol in downtown Waco, we do,&#x27;&quot; said one of the cops, according to Wallace<p>&gt; &quot;I still didn&#x27;t know it was illegal and I said, &#x27;I don&#x27;t know,&#x27;&quot; says Wallace. &quot;That&#x27;s when the cop replied, &#x27;Okay, I&#x27;m going to have to arrest you.&#x27;&quot;<p>Let&#x27;s quickly drop the idea that this is the fault of nosey neighbors, helicopter parents, soccer moms, or &quot;Karens&quot;. This is 100% a justice department problem and anyone from the police to the district attorney could have nipped this nonsense in the bud.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>hn_user2</author><text>Weird time to be alive when we are afraid to get within 10 feet of a kid a yell &quot;HEY KID, GET OUT OF THE ROAD!&quot;. And yet, totally understand.</text></comment> | <story><title>Mom handcuffed, jailed for 8-year-old son walking half a mile</title><url>https://reason.com/2022/11/16/suburban-mom-jailed-handcuffed-cps-son-walk-home/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Mountain_Skies</author><text>It puts neighbors in a bad situation. Yesterday there was a kid, probably about eight years old, outside my house wandering around by himself, yelling at passing cars. There are lots of kids in my neighborhood and I&#x27;m accustomed to them being loud when they&#x27;re out playing but this kid was alone, going out into the road, and just acting a bit weird. It wasn&#x27;t a kid I knew so I couldn&#x27;t call the parents but calling the police also seemed like a questionable thing to do. I&#x27;m near a speed bump so cars generally go slow through here but there are other parts of the street when they often have more speed. I didn&#x27;t want to approach him (all manner of trouble can come from an adult approaching a child they don&#x27;t know), police seemed like overkill, but being out in the road, especially since he was walking away from the speed bump area, seemed potentially dangerous. Eventually he went into a house across the street five or six houses down which recently sold so probably is a new family to the neighborhood.<p>Still not sure what I should have done if he hadn&#x27;t gone home or really if this is a problem waiting to happen. At his age I wandered much further from home and put myself in worse potential danger at times, though I probably never yelled at passing cars. No one ever called the police on me though there were a few times when an adult told me to stop doing whatever I was up to or go somewhere else.</text></item><item><author>pdonis</author><text><i>&gt; Let&#x27;s quickly drop the idea that this is the fault of nosey neighbors</i><p>No, let&#x27;s not. According to the article, the neighbor who called the cops asked the boy where he lived, &quot;verified that it was just down the street, and proceeded to call nonetheless&quot;. Excuse me? What decent neighbor calls the cops on a neighbor&#x27;s kid walking just down the street from his own house?<p>I agree the law in question shouldn&#x27;t even be on the books in the first place, but one of the things you&#x27;re supposed to do as a neighbor is to understand that we have an insane legal system and not invoke it on one of your neighbors unless you really, really have to.</text></item><item><author>nineplay</author><text>&gt; As they stood on her porch, the officers told Wallace that her son could have been kidnapped and sex trafficked. &quot;&#x27;You don&#x27;t see much sex trafficking where you are, but where I patrol in downtown Waco, we do,&#x27;&quot; said one of the cops, according to Wallace<p>&gt; &quot;I still didn&#x27;t know it was illegal and I said, &#x27;I don&#x27;t know,&#x27;&quot; says Wallace. &quot;That&#x27;s when the cop replied, &#x27;Okay, I&#x27;m going to have to arrest you.&#x27;&quot;<p>Let&#x27;s quickly drop the idea that this is the fault of nosey neighbors, helicopter parents, soccer moms, or &quot;Karens&quot;. This is 100% a justice department problem and anyone from the police to the district attorney could have nipped this nonsense in the bud.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pdonis</author><text><i>&gt; Still not sure what I should have done</i><p>If you don&#x27;t know which house the kid belongs in, the first thing I would do is to find out. Start knocking on doors and asking if it&#x27;s their kid.<p>Now that you <i>do</i> know, the obvious thing to do is to introduce yourself to the neighbors and describe what their kid was doing. They&#x27;re new to the neighborhood so you can pitch it as letting them know that there are a lot of passing cars at that point and kids should be aware of the danger.</text></comment> |
24,886,718 | 24,886,714 | 1 | 3 | 24,886,039 | train | <story><title>Hackers hijack and publish mental health data of hundreds of people</title><url>https://www.foreigner.fi/articulo/national/scandal-over-the-hijack-and-and-publication-of-private-mental-health-data/20201023121903008599.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>INGELRII</author><text>This issue can be solved with mandatory insurance and compensation structure. For this sensitive private health information compensation should be at least 5 figures per person, no excuses. A data breach involving 10,000 people could cost 100s of millions.<p>Companies would have to take mandatory insurance against massive data leaks. In order to keep insurance fees reasonable, they would have to implement good security. Insurance companies would do audits because they don&#x27;t want to lose money. They would promote secure data vaults, require hardware authentication devices from their customers in exchange of insuring them.<p>Car manufacturers must be prepared to do massive recalls in case there is a fault in the car. Automotive recall insurance is a big business. Same thing. Regulatory structures protecting consumers.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>TedDoesntTalk</author><text>No insurance company is going to take that deal because infosec audits are not perfect and they can not audit every possible software release.<p>So your plan means governments will have to provide this insurance (there is precendent for governments providing insurance; eg Medicare in the US)<p>That means taxpayers will fund the payouts.<p>This is not a good solution. I don’t have an alternative, but I dont like this one.</text></comment> | <story><title>Hackers hijack and publish mental health data of hundreds of people</title><url>https://www.foreigner.fi/articulo/national/scandal-over-the-hijack-and-and-publication-of-private-mental-health-data/20201023121903008599.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>INGELRII</author><text>This issue can be solved with mandatory insurance and compensation structure. For this sensitive private health information compensation should be at least 5 figures per person, no excuses. A data breach involving 10,000 people could cost 100s of millions.<p>Companies would have to take mandatory insurance against massive data leaks. In order to keep insurance fees reasonable, they would have to implement good security. Insurance companies would do audits because they don&#x27;t want to lose money. They would promote secure data vaults, require hardware authentication devices from their customers in exchange of insuring them.<p>Car manufacturers must be prepared to do massive recalls in case there is a fault in the car. Automotive recall insurance is a big business. Same thing. Regulatory structures protecting consumers.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kebman</author><text>Wouldn&#x27;t it be better to simply invest that money in better security to begin with? An insurance scheme looks to me like a great incentive to hack insured servers, in order to cause insurance payouts on top of blackmail.<p>Anyway, just want to say that there&#x27;s a special place in Hell reserved for people who do that kind of thing, and to minors, even...</text></comment> |
5,794,179 | 5,793,979 | 1 | 2 | 5,792,202 | train | <story><title>Why DIY fecal transplants are a thing</title><url>http://blogs.plos.org/publichealth/2013/05/29/why-diy-fecal-transplants-are-a-thing-and-the-fda-is-only-part-of-the-reason/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>DanBC</author><text>Intestinal flora are complex. Here's a story about <i>Akkermansia muciniphila</i> (<a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-22458428" rel="nofollow">http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-22458428</a>) which appears to make it harder for people to become obese.<p>Here's an article from Nature that shows mice can become more easily obese if you infect them with some, er, stuff, and that this is transmissible (<a href="http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v444/n7122/abs/nature05414.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v444/n7122/abs/nature05...</a>)<p>So you could be giving yourself stuff that would make it easier for you to become obese, or you could be giving yourself stuff that would make it easier for you to stay not-obese.<p>And that's just these few bugs. There are a whole range of really quite unpleasant things you could be getting.<p>Regulations are important. They're not to protect well informed people from making calm rational choices, although they do have that unfortunate effect sometimes. Regulations are to prevent cynical, or stupid, people from offering dangerous untested unproven "treatments" at great cost to desperate and ill people.<p>It'd be great if there was a safe way to decouple these, allowing people to gamble with their own health if that's what they want to do, but protecting people from evil con-merchants.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ef4</author><text>&#62; Regulations are to prevent cynical, or stupid, people from offering dangerous untested unproven "treatments" at great cost to desperate and ill people.<p>That's the rationale for the regulations, but it's not why we have them. The laws we have didn't get passed because the public demanded protection. They got passed because industry groups pushed hard for them, as a way to lock out potential competitors.<p>A system actually designed to prevent harm would look quite different.<p>Preventing the use of a good treatment (type I statistical error) <i>is just as bad</i> as allowing a bad treatment (type II statistical error). A balanced regulatory regime would make both kinds of errors with about equal probability. Our current system is so heavily biased toward preventing type II errors that we accept a vast number of type I errors.</text></comment> | <story><title>Why DIY fecal transplants are a thing</title><url>http://blogs.plos.org/publichealth/2013/05/29/why-diy-fecal-transplants-are-a-thing-and-the-fda-is-only-part-of-the-reason/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>DanBC</author><text>Intestinal flora are complex. Here's a story about <i>Akkermansia muciniphila</i> (<a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-22458428" rel="nofollow">http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-22458428</a>) which appears to make it harder for people to become obese.<p>Here's an article from Nature that shows mice can become more easily obese if you infect them with some, er, stuff, and that this is transmissible (<a href="http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v444/n7122/abs/nature05414.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v444/n7122/abs/nature05...</a>)<p>So you could be giving yourself stuff that would make it easier for you to become obese, or you could be giving yourself stuff that would make it easier for you to stay not-obese.<p>And that's just these few bugs. There are a whole range of really quite unpleasant things you could be getting.<p>Regulations are important. They're not to protect well informed people from making calm rational choices, although they do have that unfortunate effect sometimes. Regulations are to prevent cynical, or stupid, people from offering dangerous untested unproven "treatments" at great cost to desperate and ill people.<p>It'd be great if there was a safe way to decouple these, allowing people to gamble with their own health if that's what they want to do, but protecting people from evil con-merchants.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jere</author><text>One of my favorite quotes on this subject from Kurt Harris:<p>&#62;This is why I am very hesitant to offer ANY specific prescriptions for what to do about your gut biome. The advice to eat dirty vegetables or even start walking around barefoot in the dirt or drinking pond water or whatever "natural" activity you can think of is VERY DANGEROUS.<p>&#62;The reason is not all parasites are "old friends", only some of the ones that are commensals that we co-evolved with. Getting toxoplasmosis from a cat, or a zoonotic helminth from dog shit or a dead raccoon or a pig tapeworm will do your immune system no favors and could even kill you.<p>&#62;DO NOT PLAY AROUND WITH THIS CONCEPT UNLESS YOU ARE ABSOLUTELY CERTAIN WHAT YOU ARE DOING.</text></comment> |
6,645,199 | 6,645,138 | 1 | 3 | 6,644,955 | train | <story><title>Fixing Unix Filenames (2012)</title><url>http://www.dwheeler.com/essays/fixing-unix-linux-filenames.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>overgard</author><text>I&#x27;m sure most reasonable people would agree that (simple) unicode characters are fine, but what possible use is there for having control characters in a filename, like newline or carriage return? (Or if you&#x27;re really evil, beep). If you remove &quot;special&quot; characters from the filesystem, you also remove a lot of complexity from other parts of the system for dealing with pathological corner cases. It&#x27;s a win for everyone.</text></item><item><author>ketralnis</author><text>Half of these problems are problems with the shell and have nothing to do with the filesystem. The shell is <i>really, really, really bad</i> about doing things like expanding spaces in filenames or environment variables into separate arguments. Notice that every example here about how it&#x27;s &quot;wrong&quot; is a small shell script that has unexpected behaviour. That&#x27;s mostly because the shell is wrong!<p>&gt; Oh, and don’t display filenames. Filenames could contain control characters that control the terminal (and X-windows), causing nasty side-effects on display<p>That&#x27;s the fault of the terminal, mostly. If it&#x27;s an otherwise &quot;reasonable&quot; name containing, say, encoded unicode, that&#x27;s everyone&#x27;s fault from the filesystem to the terminal to (sometimes) the shell. But the fault is spread out over more than just the fact that the filesystem lets you name files however you like.<p>But now, Linus&#x27; quote there:<p>&gt; &quot;...filesystem people should aim to make &quot;badly written&quot; code &quot;just work&quot; unless people are really really unlucky. Because like it or not, that’s what 99% of all code is... Crying that it’s an application bug is like crying over the speed of light: you should deal with <i>reality</i>, not what you wish reality was.&quot; — Linus Torvalds, on a slightly different topic (but I like the sentiment) (<a href="http://lwn.net/Articles/326505/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;lwn.net&#x2F;Articles&#x2F;326505&#x2F;</a>)<p>speaks to both &quot;sides&quot; here: there are applications in the real world that create filenames with special characters in them. The simplest most obvious of these is the space, but yes, in the real world we have applications that do this. So neither alternate reality (&quot;restrict filesystems&#x27; names&quot; or &quot;keep doing what we&#x27;re doing but have bug-free applications&quot;) exists, so which &quot;reality&quot; are you proposing that we deal with here?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>gilgoomesh</author><text>Ignoring the fact that non-terminal users <i>regularly</i> want spaces, hyphens and newlines in their filenames since they have visual purpose...<p>The argument in favor of newlines is the same argument in favor of spaces in filenames or filenames starting with hyphen: the filesystem should not be restricted by bash and other shell scripts continual confusion between data and instructions. We should fix&#x2F;replace lazy programs, don&#x27;t try to fix lazy programming by neutering the system.<p>I think the correct action should be to design shell scripting languages that are robust about data versus instructions. The lack of robustness in shell scripting languages has been a burden since their inception. Restricting the filesystem won&#x27;t stop problems with shell scripts making the same mistakes on other kinds of data.</text></comment> | <story><title>Fixing Unix Filenames (2012)</title><url>http://www.dwheeler.com/essays/fixing-unix-linux-filenames.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>overgard</author><text>I&#x27;m sure most reasonable people would agree that (simple) unicode characters are fine, but what possible use is there for having control characters in a filename, like newline or carriage return? (Or if you&#x27;re really evil, beep). If you remove &quot;special&quot; characters from the filesystem, you also remove a lot of complexity from other parts of the system for dealing with pathological corner cases. It&#x27;s a win for everyone.</text></item><item><author>ketralnis</author><text>Half of these problems are problems with the shell and have nothing to do with the filesystem. The shell is <i>really, really, really bad</i> about doing things like expanding spaces in filenames or environment variables into separate arguments. Notice that every example here about how it&#x27;s &quot;wrong&quot; is a small shell script that has unexpected behaviour. That&#x27;s mostly because the shell is wrong!<p>&gt; Oh, and don’t display filenames. Filenames could contain control characters that control the terminal (and X-windows), causing nasty side-effects on display<p>That&#x27;s the fault of the terminal, mostly. If it&#x27;s an otherwise &quot;reasonable&quot; name containing, say, encoded unicode, that&#x27;s everyone&#x27;s fault from the filesystem to the terminal to (sometimes) the shell. But the fault is spread out over more than just the fact that the filesystem lets you name files however you like.<p>But now, Linus&#x27; quote there:<p>&gt; &quot;...filesystem people should aim to make &quot;badly written&quot; code &quot;just work&quot; unless people are really really unlucky. Because like it or not, that’s what 99% of all code is... Crying that it’s an application bug is like crying over the speed of light: you should deal with <i>reality</i>, not what you wish reality was.&quot; — Linus Torvalds, on a slightly different topic (but I like the sentiment) (<a href="http://lwn.net/Articles/326505/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;lwn.net&#x2F;Articles&#x2F;326505&#x2F;</a>)<p>speaks to both &quot;sides&quot; here: there are applications in the real world that create filenames with special characters in them. The simplest most obvious of these is the space, but yes, in the real world we have applications that do this. So neither alternate reality (&quot;restrict filesystems&#x27; names&quot; or &quot;keep doing what we&#x27;re doing but have bug-free applications&quot;) exists, so which &quot;reality&quot; are you proposing that we deal with here?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>stass</author><text>It&#x27;s not. Just look at what limitation of such sort lead to in Windows, where each application tries to serialize an otherwise perfectly valid filename into a set of characters allowed in Windows. Of corse, majority of them never get that right.<p>Unix is tools, not policy. It&#x27;s what you make of it, and that&#x27;s its beauty.</text></comment> |
22,768,590 | 22,767,060 | 1 | 2 | 22,766,665 | train | <story><title>The Object Model of Self</title><url>https://github.com/pavel-krivanek/articles/tree/master/SelfObjectModel</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>scroot</author><text>Anyone interested in prototype-based languages should also checkout io [1], which is a really clever implementation that doesn&#x27;t get enough love. And unlike Self it will work with your favorite teletype emulation environments.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;iolanguage.org&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;iolanguage.org&#x2F;</a></text></comment> | <story><title>The Object Model of Self</title><url>https://github.com/pavel-krivanek/articles/tree/master/SelfObjectModel</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>artemonster</author><text>Really nice explanation. Having read almost all papers on this endless debate &quot;Classes vs Prototypes&quot; you&#x27;d get a feeling that prototype-based object system wins in any aspects (expressiveness, flexibility, whatever), and yet almost all prototype-based languages in the end include crude class implementations (as Class for a signle namespace to contain all related traits, constructor method and&#x2F;or prototypical instance for cloning) - interesting, why so? Is this model ingrained in our brains by our education or we do really think that way (i.e. with sets of related entities).</text></comment> |
29,241,416 | 29,241,290 | 1 | 2 | 29,240,785 | train | <story><title>Decentralized Woo Hoo</title><url>https://www.stephendiehl.com/blog/decentralized-woo.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>capableweb</author><text>Maybe the title should be updated. It doesn&#x27;t have anything to do with decentralization per se, but about cryptocurrencies, which is just a technology that happens to use decentralization as a technology.<p>I actually thought the article was gonna be about decentralization (as in P2P technology, like BitTorrent), but instead it&#x27;s about the authors distaste for cryptocurrencies.<p>Edit: Maybe it&#x27;s just me, but the article feels less and less honest the more I look into it. &quot;Stephen Diehl&quot; (the author) apparently founded a company that has the following tagline on GitHub &quot;Adjoint digitises cash and settlement processes for multinational corporates.&quot; (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;adjoint-io" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;adjoint-io</a>) but I didn&#x27;t find this disclosed in the post. There is a clear conflict of interest, but it&#x27;s not highlighted for some reason.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>woodruffw</author><text>Normally when we use the phrase &quot;conflict of interest,&quot; we use it to imply a conflict between <i>parties.</i> One of the parties in your account is the blog author and&#x2F;or their company; who is the other? The cryptocurrency <i>community</i>? They aren&#x27;t a <i>party</i> in the traditional sense, and the concept weakens further when we consider the press campaign among cryptocurrency fans to rebrand their schemes as transaction substrates.<p>Framed as such, this seems more like an impassioned technical rebuke from an informed individual than a &quot;conflict of interest.&quot;</text></comment> | <story><title>Decentralized Woo Hoo</title><url>https://www.stephendiehl.com/blog/decentralized-woo.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>capableweb</author><text>Maybe the title should be updated. It doesn&#x27;t have anything to do with decentralization per se, but about cryptocurrencies, which is just a technology that happens to use decentralization as a technology.<p>I actually thought the article was gonna be about decentralization (as in P2P technology, like BitTorrent), but instead it&#x27;s about the authors distaste for cryptocurrencies.<p>Edit: Maybe it&#x27;s just me, but the article feels less and less honest the more I look into it. &quot;Stephen Diehl&quot; (the author) apparently founded a company that has the following tagline on GitHub &quot;Adjoint digitises cash and settlement processes for multinational corporates.&quot; (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;adjoint-io" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;adjoint-io</a>) but I didn&#x27;t find this disclosed in the post. There is a clear conflict of interest, but it&#x27;s not highlighted for some reason.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kethinov</author><text>The article is about how the term decentralization has become a generic buzzword for good and in fact could describe a range of technologies that are either good or bad, hence we should be immediately skeptical whenever we see the term decentralized used to describe something as good and innovative and look more closely at the details.</text></comment> |
35,878,656 | 35,878,300 | 1 | 2 | 35,872,647 | train | <story><title>What is permaculture? (2015)</title><url>https://www.permaculturedesignmagazine.com/what-is-permaculture</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>roboben</author><text>Most fun thing about permaculture is the fact that no one is making money from actually applying it but rather just selling courses, books and other media. It’s funny since the first thing you learn about it, is that you don’t need to spend a lot of money doing it.<p>Beside that, permaculture is nothing more than a framework for systems design. Can be applied to much more than your garden.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>debacle</author><text>A few people are making money from it, but they&#x27;re content to make money. The majority of people doing homesteading are:<p>1. At-home farmers who are eating healthier, but paying for the privilege.<p>2. People who are quiet because they&#x27;re actually making very good money doing what they&#x27;re doing.<p>3. People who haven&#x27;t quite grasped that permaculture and&#x2F;or homesteading are still farming, and farming is still hard work despite how blog-friendly you make it.<p>4. People trying to sell their &quot;next best thing&quot; marketing to hopeful mommmy bloggers.<p>I am currently a #1 hoping to become a #2 eventually. Online, I predominantly follow #2s and they never try and sell me classes, PDFs, etc, because they&#x27;re busy making money farming.</text></comment> | <story><title>What is permaculture? (2015)</title><url>https://www.permaculturedesignmagazine.com/what-is-permaculture</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>roboben</author><text>Most fun thing about permaculture is the fact that no one is making money from actually applying it but rather just selling courses, books and other media. It’s funny since the first thing you learn about it, is that you don’t need to spend a lot of money doing it.<p>Beside that, permaculture is nothing more than a framework for systems design. Can be applied to much more than your garden.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>11235813213455</author><text>&gt; no one is making money<p>your comment makes me think of <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=35847327" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=35847327</a><p>Permaculture is mostly about growing food for yourself and local friends</text></comment> |
19,963,478 | 19,963,068 | 1 | 3 | 19,962,330 | train | <story><title>One whole-body MRI could replace multiple cancer scans</title><url>http://www.pharmatimes.com/news/one_whole-body_mri_could_replace_multiple_cancer_scans_1287814</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>hammock</author><text>State of the art MRI machine costs $3 million up front. Would take 20 scans a week, every week, for 10 years to break even on that investment at $300 per scan. Not counting physician &amp; staff time or cost of capital.</text></item><item><author>sampleinajar</author><text>&gt; The average cost of a WB-MRI scan for NSCLC patients was £317<p>Wow!
$3000+ here in the US.
Ever get the feeling you&#x27;ve been cheated?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>benaadams</author><text>NHS isn&#x27;t a for profit healthcare system; and they&#x27;ll break even earlier on the early detection and diagnosis as since it covers you for life treating you early is less expensive then treating you later when the treatment costs would be higher.<p>Considerations would be different if the MRI scanner was running as for profit; or you could switch coverage so the later costs would be borne by someone else.</text></comment> | <story><title>One whole-body MRI could replace multiple cancer scans</title><url>http://www.pharmatimes.com/news/one_whole-body_mri_could_replace_multiple_cancer_scans_1287814</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>hammock</author><text>State of the art MRI machine costs $3 million up front. Would take 20 scans a week, every week, for 10 years to break even on that investment at $300 per scan. Not counting physician &amp; staff time or cost of capital.</text></item><item><author>sampleinajar</author><text>&gt; The average cost of a WB-MRI scan for NSCLC patients was £317<p>Wow!
$3000+ here in the US.
Ever get the feeling you&#x27;ve been cheated?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Someone1234</author><text>Only 20 scans a week?<p>A scan takes 30-60 minutes. So even if they only work 8 hour days and assume an hour for lunch&#x2F;flex that&#x27;s 35 scans per 5 day week. If they use it on weekends at all or run it for more than eight hours, that&#x27;s just gravy.<p>I&#x27;m not sure where you got the 20 scans a week number.</text></comment> |
4,660,328 | 4,660,309 | 1 | 3 | 4,660,072 | train | <story><title>The Next Twenty Years: What Windows 8's Closed Distribution Means for Developers</title><url>http://www.gamasutra.com/view/feature/179420/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>programminggeek</author><text>I wonder if MSFT will stop supporting SDK's that don't run through their store long term. At some point will you only be able to write things that run on Windows that go through the Windows store? It looks like Win RT is going to go that route. I think it will be hard for MSFT to totally shut that down on mainline Windows for a while, but longer term it might all look a lot like walled garden distribution across all Windows.<p>I imagine that MSFT will have some kind of enterprise program where you can run your own Windows Store Server to do enterprise deploys of Metro apps.<p>Either way, it looks like Linux might end up the one place where you can install and run your own software over the long haul.</text></comment> | <story><title>The Next Twenty Years: What Windows 8's Closed Distribution Means for Developers</title><url>http://www.gamasutra.com/view/feature/179420/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>apetrovic</author><text>I don't get it.<p>Everyone is gushing about the post-pc era, Eric Schmidt announced a few days ago that Microsoft is irrelevant, and the article takes for granted that Microsoft and PC as we know it will survive for next 20 years, and Windows will be dominant platform on PC?<p>If history teach us anything, it's that there's always some solution for the problem. If Windows 8 marketplace turns to be too restrictive, game developers will turn to Steam on Linux. And with enough gamers on Linux, Asus or Gigabyte will not be pressed to make only "compatible with Windows 8" UEFI-locked motherboards.<p>Or the consumers (and the gamers) will find Win8 marketplace acceptable. Or maybe in five or ten years some other player will sweep the market.<p>Looking at the current technology and lamenting about the end of the world is just plain stupid.</text></comment> |
25,077,330 | 25,073,945 | 1 | 2 | 25,071,847 | train | <story><title>Guido van Rossum joins Microsoft</title><url>https://twitter.com/gvanrossum/status/1326932991566700549</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bit_logic</author><text>Wow, the replies to this actually saying Guido van Rossum should do an algorithm&#x2F;DS leetcode interview.<p>It&#x27;s so ridiculous to see these replies. So Microsoft should&#x27;ve sent Guido van Rossum a note saying, hey study algorithm&#x2F;DS for at least a month and do 100 leetcode before you come talk to us or it&#x27;s a waste of time, thanks, bye.<p>Discussions of the industry tech interview process are now poisoned by these factors:<p>* There is an entire industry built around tech interview prep now (books, websites, practice&#x2F;mock interviews). Many would defend this practice because their paycheck directly depends on it.<p>* Many see this as a hazing ritual that protects their high compensation and often their egos as well. These people are often young and will eventually see how harmful these interviews are when they get older and need to switch jobs. But by then there will be a new generation of young engineers defending the practice.</text></item><item><author>maxioatic</author><text>I wonder if they asked him algorithm problems in his interview &#x2F;s<p>This is cool though. I&#x27;ll be curious to see what he works on.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jsmeaton</author><text>It&#x27;s like people forget the purposes of interviewing. &quot;Can this candidate do the job we&#x27;re asking them to do?&quot;. If the candidate has a proven, public, track record doing the things you&#x27;re going to ask them to do, then you can skip the jumping through hoops part.<p>We use shitty algorithmic questions as a proxy for answering the above question (in the vast majority of cases).</text></comment> | <story><title>Guido van Rossum joins Microsoft</title><url>https://twitter.com/gvanrossum/status/1326932991566700549</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bit_logic</author><text>Wow, the replies to this actually saying Guido van Rossum should do an algorithm&#x2F;DS leetcode interview.<p>It&#x27;s so ridiculous to see these replies. So Microsoft should&#x27;ve sent Guido van Rossum a note saying, hey study algorithm&#x2F;DS for at least a month and do 100 leetcode before you come talk to us or it&#x27;s a waste of time, thanks, bye.<p>Discussions of the industry tech interview process are now poisoned by these factors:<p>* There is an entire industry built around tech interview prep now (books, websites, practice&#x2F;mock interviews). Many would defend this practice because their paycheck directly depends on it.<p>* Many see this as a hazing ritual that protects their high compensation and often their egos as well. These people are often young and will eventually see how harmful these interviews are when they get older and need to switch jobs. But by then there will be a new generation of young engineers defending the practice.</text></item><item><author>maxioatic</author><text>I wonder if they asked him algorithm problems in his interview &#x2F;s<p>This is cool though. I&#x27;ll be curious to see what he works on.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>acqq</author><text>Previously:<p>Google bureaucracy expected from <i>Ken Thompson</i> (!) to pass a C language exam (!!).<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theregister.co.uk&#x2F;2010&#x2F;04&#x2F;21&#x2F;ken_thompson_take_our_test&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theregister.co.uk&#x2F;2010&#x2F;04&#x2F;21&#x2F;ken_thompson_take_o...</a><p>&quot;So Mr Thompson, you say you have some programming skills&quot;</text></comment> |
11,144,773 | 11,144,643 | 1 | 2 | 11,144,193 | train | <story><title>The Apple letter to customers couldn't happen under proposed UK law</title><url>https://privacyinternational.org/node/751</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>madaxe_again</author><text>That wouldn&#x27;t make a difference here in Airstrip One - the court order can be public, but you&#x27;re still not allowed to respond, or even mention it, as while it&#x27;s a matter of public record, it&#x27;s also secret.<p>There&#x27;s a whole bunch of stuff like this. Turn up at a classified government site and ask to see the silos, and watch a press officer do impressive mental gymnastics.</text></item><item><author>ikeboy</author><text>The court order was public. Apple didn&#x27;t reveal anything not already known. This article seems unaware of that fact.<p>Also, there&#x27;s NSLs in the US as well.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>vidarh</author><text>The most hilarious example to me is that the BT Tower (originally Post Office Tower) did not use to appear on Ordnance Survey maps because its location was deemed an official secret.<p>In 1993, an MP finally &quot;revealed&quot; the location to draw attention to the idiocy by exercising parliamentary privilege and mentioning the location in parliament.<p>For those of you who have not been to London, or isn&#x27;t aware which tower I&#x27;m talking about, this is it (note the pictures showing it in the London skyline...):<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;BT_Tower" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;BT_Tower</a><p>It is rather hard to miss, given that it rises 177 meters above street level in a part of London where the nearest other highrise is a 117m building about 1km away...<p>It also had a viewing platform and restaurant <i>open to the public</i> for 15 years while it was still an official secret...<p>The UK is quite fantastic at this. When you know about stuff like this, it puts UK comedy like Monthy Python&#x27;s Dead Parrot Sketch[1] into very different perspective as a good illustration of behaviour that officialdom in the UK see as perfectly rational.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Dead_Parrot_sketch" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Dead_Parrot_sketch</a></text></comment> | <story><title>The Apple letter to customers couldn't happen under proposed UK law</title><url>https://privacyinternational.org/node/751</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>madaxe_again</author><text>That wouldn&#x27;t make a difference here in Airstrip One - the court order can be public, but you&#x27;re still not allowed to respond, or even mention it, as while it&#x27;s a matter of public record, it&#x27;s also secret.<p>There&#x27;s a whole bunch of stuff like this. Turn up at a classified government site and ask to see the silos, and watch a press officer do impressive mental gymnastics.</text></item><item><author>ikeboy</author><text>The court order was public. Apple didn&#x27;t reveal anything not already known. This article seems unaware of that fact.<p>Also, there&#x27;s NSLs in the US as well.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ovi256</author><text>I get that you&#x27;re using &quot;the silos&quot; as something uber-secret, but note that the UK does not have (and never had) land-based nuclear weapons, so does not have any missile launching silos. The only nuclear weapon the UK has is Trident - submarine launched missiles.</text></comment> |
24,795,581 | 24,795,227 | 1 | 2 | 24,792,413 | train | <story><title>FCC to move ahead with 'rulemaking' on Section 230</title><url>https://twitter.com/AjitPaiFCC/status/1316808733805236226</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>akersten</author><text>HackerNews could not exist in your proposed world.<p>I doubt YC would hire a full-time staff of moderators to vet every single post. Since we remove things for being off-topic or overly mean, the only possible conclusion is that HN would shut down because they do not want to bear liability for the posts they leave up.<p>The Internet as we know it would not exist without S230. Please read this[0] for a primer.<p>[0]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.techdirt.com&#x2F;articles&#x2F;20200531&#x2F;23325444617&#x2F;hello-youve-been-referred-here-because-youre-wrong-about-section-230-communications-decency-act.shtml" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.techdirt.com&#x2F;articles&#x2F;20200531&#x2F;23325444617&#x2F;hello...</a></text></item><item><author>ajsnigrutin</author><text>I think that every company should decide if they&#x27;re a &quot;publisher&quot; or a &quot;platform&quot;.<p>If you&#x27;re a platform, you&#x27;re not responsible for what your users say (except directly illegal stuff, eg. child porn), and have no say in what stays on, or gets removed&#x2F;hidden (except, again, illegal stuff).<p>If you&#x27;re a publisher, you have a say what is posted on your site, and you carry full responsibility for all the onsite content.<p>Walking the line, and not wanting to take responsibility in some cases, but still deletin in other cases should be forbidden</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>AnHonestComment</author><text>HN also wouldn’t be able to benefit from immunity when infringing my content while simultaneously shadowbanning me for “wrongthink”.<p>HN would have to give users tools to moderate content themselves, instead of HN using moderation as a tool of political control.<p>Good.</text></comment> | <story><title>FCC to move ahead with 'rulemaking' on Section 230</title><url>https://twitter.com/AjitPaiFCC/status/1316808733805236226</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>akersten</author><text>HackerNews could not exist in your proposed world.<p>I doubt YC would hire a full-time staff of moderators to vet every single post. Since we remove things for being off-topic or overly mean, the only possible conclusion is that HN would shut down because they do not want to bear liability for the posts they leave up.<p>The Internet as we know it would not exist without S230. Please read this[0] for a primer.<p>[0]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.techdirt.com&#x2F;articles&#x2F;20200531&#x2F;23325444617&#x2F;hello-youve-been-referred-here-because-youre-wrong-about-section-230-communications-decency-act.shtml" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.techdirt.com&#x2F;articles&#x2F;20200531&#x2F;23325444617&#x2F;hello...</a></text></item><item><author>ajsnigrutin</author><text>I think that every company should decide if they&#x27;re a &quot;publisher&quot; or a &quot;platform&quot;.<p>If you&#x27;re a platform, you&#x27;re not responsible for what your users say (except directly illegal stuff, eg. child porn), and have no say in what stays on, or gets removed&#x2F;hidden (except, again, illegal stuff).<p>If you&#x27;re a publisher, you have a say what is posted on your site, and you carry full responsibility for all the onsite content.<p>Walking the line, and not wanting to take responsibility in some cases, but still deletin in other cases should be forbidden</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>hyper0perator</author><text>Disagree. Platforms are immune to liability of their users. HN could become a platform and abide regulations like the phone company.</text></comment> |
22,439,419 | 22,435,326 | 1 | 3 | 22,434,259 | train | <story><title>The war on food waste is a waste of time</title><url>https://theoutline.com/post/8739/food-waste-fight-waste-of-time</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>zachware</author><text>I&#x27;ve been working on this problem for a few years now. The problem is systemic. You can solve the retail&#x2F;consumer level issues but the big problems are market-level.<p>Here are a few facts often overlooked because they aren&#x27;t surface-level.<p>- 1.3 billion metric tons (2,866 billion pounds) of food worldwide are produced and not consumed each year, representing approximately one-third of total food production by volume (FAO, 2011).<p>- Most importantly, nearly 40 percent of losses in North American fruits and vegetables occur at the farm and distributor level...before it gets to the consumer.<p>- USDA ERS: &quot;The inelastic nature of fresh produce demand causes prices to fluctuate rapidly due to changes in supply. Prices fluctuate daily and can often cause the value of edible product to drop below the marginal cost of production. Depending on where and when the price fluctuations occur, produce could be left in the field, discarded at a packing shed, or dumped from the back of a truck.&quot;<p>- Growers today earn roughly 30 cents for every dollar their products command at the end-customer point.<p>It&#x27;s a market system problem. It&#x27;s a middleman problem. It&#x27;s an incentive problem.<p>It&#x27;s going to change but it will take time and a willingness to ignore sexy-looking things like Imperfect Produce and the like.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>imgabe</author><text>Loss is also slack in the system. The alternative might be food shocks when demand is underestimated and we run out of food. That is much much worse than some food getting thrown away. Food shortages are society-destroying levels of bad and some food waste is an acceptable price to pay to avoid them.<p>Until we get matter replicators, I don&#x27;t think we can have just-in-time inventory for food.</text></comment> | <story><title>The war on food waste is a waste of time</title><url>https://theoutline.com/post/8739/food-waste-fight-waste-of-time</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>zachware</author><text>I&#x27;ve been working on this problem for a few years now. The problem is systemic. You can solve the retail&#x2F;consumer level issues but the big problems are market-level.<p>Here are a few facts often overlooked because they aren&#x27;t surface-level.<p>- 1.3 billion metric tons (2,866 billion pounds) of food worldwide are produced and not consumed each year, representing approximately one-third of total food production by volume (FAO, 2011).<p>- Most importantly, nearly 40 percent of losses in North American fruits and vegetables occur at the farm and distributor level...before it gets to the consumer.<p>- USDA ERS: &quot;The inelastic nature of fresh produce demand causes prices to fluctuate rapidly due to changes in supply. Prices fluctuate daily and can often cause the value of edible product to drop below the marginal cost of production. Depending on where and when the price fluctuations occur, produce could be left in the field, discarded at a packing shed, or dumped from the back of a truck.&quot;<p>- Growers today earn roughly 30 cents for every dollar their products command at the end-customer point.<p>It&#x27;s a market system problem. It&#x27;s a middleman problem. It&#x27;s an incentive problem.<p>It&#x27;s going to change but it will take time and a willingness to ignore sexy-looking things like Imperfect Produce and the like.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jka</author><text>Those are some staggering figures.<p>Regarding the 40% loss rate pre-consumer - can you share any details of products and&#x2F;or distribution methods which are succeeding in reducing that rate?</text></comment> |
37,082,324 | 37,082,509 | 1 | 3 | 37,081,306 | train | <story><title>HashiCorp adopts Business Source License</title><url>https://www.hashicorp.com/blog/hashicorp-adopts-business-source-license</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jamestanderson</author><text>All that I get from this is that HashiCorp is no longer an open source company.<p>&gt; However, there are other vendors who take advantage of pure OSS models, and the community work on OSS projects, for their own commercial goals, without providing material contributions back. We don’t believe this is in the spirit of open source.<p>This is 100% in the spirit of open source. If this is a problem for them, why not adopt an open source license that compels developers to open source their code instead, like the AGPL?<p>This is purely a way for HashiCorp to ensure they are the only ones who can commercialize these formerly open source projects. Which is fine. But just go closed source, then, and own that, instead of trying to have it both ways.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>joeduffy</author><text>Pulumi Founder&#x2F;CEO here.<p>The blog post is disingenuous. We tried many times to contribute upstream fixes to Terraform providers, but HashiCorp would never accept them. So we&#x27;ve had to maintain forks. They lost their OSS DNA a long time ago, and this move just puts the final nail in the coffin.<p>Thankfully over time, they already pushed responsibility for most Terraform providers back onto their partners, so I&#x27;m hopeful the ecosystem of providers can still stay vibrant and open.<p>We are deep believers in open source---heck my last project at Microsoft was to take .NET open source and cross-platform, our CTO helped found TypeScript, and Pulumi is an Apache open source project---it seems HashiCorp no longer is.</text></comment> | <story><title>HashiCorp adopts Business Source License</title><url>https://www.hashicorp.com/blog/hashicorp-adopts-business-source-license</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jamestanderson</author><text>All that I get from this is that HashiCorp is no longer an open source company.<p>&gt; However, there are other vendors who take advantage of pure OSS models, and the community work on OSS projects, for their own commercial goals, without providing material contributions back. We don’t believe this is in the spirit of open source.<p>This is 100% in the spirit of open source. If this is a problem for them, why not adopt an open source license that compels developers to open source their code instead, like the AGPL?<p>This is purely a way for HashiCorp to ensure they are the only ones who can commercialize these formerly open source projects. Which is fine. But just go closed source, then, and own that, instead of trying to have it both ways.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>davorak</author><text>&gt; This is purely a way for HashiCorp to ensure they are the only ones who can commercialize these formerly open source projects. Which is fine. But just go closed source, then, and own that, instead of trying to have it both ways.<p>Pragmatically I would rather bsl than closed source and I am more likely to use a product that is bsl, with reasonable transfer time and license, than a 100% closed source product.</text></comment> |
40,188,891 | 40,188,305 | 1 | 2 | 40,187,334 | train | <story><title>Flow Field Pathfinding</title><url>https://www.redblobgames.com/blog/2024-04-27-flow-field-pathfinding/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>amitp</author><text>Author here. A surprise seeing this on HN!<p>The context: I&#x27;m writing my own blog software for various reasons [1], including my desire to post less to social media. As much as possible I&#x27;m trying to reuse the build system for the rest of the site, including the template. I have worked on and off on this for the past two months and I expect to keep adding features for another month or two. I&#x27;m currently adding categories not only for the blog but to the whole site. After that I&#x27;ll work on archives by month. And I want to import the 21 years of old blog content [2] which is stored on blogger.com, and put it on the new blog, which is just a folder [3] on my existing site.<p>I&#x27;m writing some blog posts to test out the workflow (integrating into emacs, my build script, an internal status page) and also various content types (images, video, source code, figures, links). Each time I post I find some more things to tweak.<p>This post to HN made me realize that it&#x27;s not <i>labeled</i> as a blog post. Oops. I guess that&#x27;s one of the downsides of reusing the exact same template! So another tweak coming…<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.redblobgames.com&#x2F;blog&#x2F;2024-03-08-new-blog&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.redblobgames.com&#x2F;blog&#x2F;2024-03-08-new-blog&#x2F;</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;simblob.blogspot.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;simblob.blogspot.com&#x2F;</a><p>[3] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.redblobgames.com&#x2F;blog&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.redblobgames.com&#x2F;blog&#x2F;</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Flow Field Pathfinding</title><url>https://www.redblobgames.com/blog/2024-04-27-flow-field-pathfinding/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>kevindamm</author><text>Ah, redblobgames! I remember their hexagonal coordinate system post from many years ago:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.redblobgames.com&#x2F;grids&#x2F;hexagons&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.redblobgames.com&#x2F;grids&#x2F;hexagons&#x2F;</a><p>An excellent example of their more interactive posts and great for those interested in hex-grid rendering and navigating.<p>edit: wow, over 10 years ago and the content has been updated but the look and feel is much as I remember it. This was before reactive systems took over the web, too, so the &#x27;toggle selection here, see updates everywhere&#x27; was quite notable for the time.<p>On the actual topic of the post.. I think flow fields easily get overshadowed by waypoints and other hierarchical approaches. Or, folded into the heuristic function for A*.</text></comment> |
41,781,242 | 41,780,337 | 1 | 3 | 41,776,861 | train | <story><title>Do U.S. ports need more automation?</title><url>https://www.construction-physics.com/p/do-us-ports-need-more-automation</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>zubiaur</author><text>Automation messes up the flow of illegal drugs. The big stuff does not come in a backpack but in container ships&#x2F;trucks.<p>In LATAM, dock workers make sure this goes undetected. I know of an IE who was championing a dock worker scheduling optimization algo, typical Operations Management stuff. Dude was killed.<p>I&#x27;d like to think that this kind of things do not happen here. But every time I&#x27;ve thought along those lines, I&#x27;ve been mistaken. It&#x27;s just happens at a different scale.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>which</author><text>This interpretation is at odds with what happens in Rotterdam aka cocaine ground zero (or is it Antwerp now?). It&#x27;s the most automated port in the world. They still routinely bust port insiders who help crooks there.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bbc.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;stories-59379474" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bbc.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;stories-59379474</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.vice.com&#x2F;en&#x2F;article&#x2F;belgium-netherlands-cocaine-trafficking-narcostate&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.vice.com&#x2F;en&#x2F;article&#x2F;belgium-netherlands-cocaine-...</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.occrp.org&#x2F;en&#x2F;project&#x2F;narcofiles-the-new-criminal-order&#x2F;inside-job-how-a-hacker-helped-cocaine-traffickers-infiltrate-europes-biggest-ports" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.occrp.org&#x2F;en&#x2F;project&#x2F;narcofiles-the-new-criminal...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Do U.S. ports need more automation?</title><url>https://www.construction-physics.com/p/do-us-ports-need-more-automation</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>zubiaur</author><text>Automation messes up the flow of illegal drugs. The big stuff does not come in a backpack but in container ships&#x2F;trucks.<p>In LATAM, dock workers make sure this goes undetected. I know of an IE who was championing a dock worker scheduling optimization algo, typical Operations Management stuff. Dude was killed.<p>I&#x27;d like to think that this kind of things do not happen here. But every time I&#x27;ve thought along those lines, I&#x27;ve been mistaken. It&#x27;s just happens at a different scale.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>snapetom</author><text>&gt; Automation messes up the flow of illegal drugs.<p>This is the real reason and one of the primary reasons productivity won&#x27;t be optimized, especially at the LATAM ports.</text></comment> |
13,407,159 | 13,407,322 | 1 | 2 | 13,404,758 | train | <story><title>Google and Facebook ad traffic is 90% useless</title><url>https://youexec.com/dev/2017/1/14/google-facebook-ads-traffic-is-useless</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>victorhooi</author><text>What exactly is &quot;dumb&quot; amounts of money? If by dumb, you mean enough for authors to get by, then you are probably in the minority.<p>People love talking about how much they hate ads, and how, no, they&#x27;re not cheap, they would totally pay for content.<p>Let&#x27;s be honest - internet users are cheap. They want stuff for free. And if site A starts charging, they will jump ship to site B, until eventually it&#x27;s a race to the bottom.<p>Ads seems to be the only model that works (thus far).<p>Many attempts have been made to monetise things (a la micropayments).<p>I believe Google did something before, where you paid cents, or fractions of a cent to authors for article views. This was back in 2012:<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bbc.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;business-20395407" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bbc.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;business-20395407</a><p>And recently Mozilla&#x27;s Brendan Eich is doing Brave, with bitcoin micropayments. I&#x27;d love to see it gain traction, but I don&#x27;t see it going mainstream.<p>Look, I know some ad networks go too far - but IMHO, Google&#x2F;FB ads are hardly <i>that</i> intrusive. (I personally hate pop-up&#x2F;pop-under ads, and auto-playing videos)<p>(Disclaimer: I work for Google, but not in ads - above opinions are purely my own).</text></item><item><author>dajohnson89</author><text>We, as users, have been oversaturated and desensitized. There is so much crap shoved in our faces, that we&#x27;ve learned over the years to ignore all ads.<p>Speaking for myself, I have an almost visceral negative reaction with ads. I would (and do) pay dumb amounts of money for a service if that means I&#x27;m not served ads.</text></item><item><author>abalashov</author><text>I really thought I was crazy when I thought that a 99% bounce rate is unreal, even for my highly specialised product sites which cater to a very niche audience. But I ultimately came to a similar conclusion; no matter what ads I come up with, it&#x27;s money down the drain, and I&#x27;ve never had a single conversion that came through the door that way. I&#x27;ve spent untold thousands on paid ads. I learned a great deal about which keywords to target, and mimicked the reputedly successful approaches of my competitors. Nada. Would have been better off shoveling cash into an open pit.<p>The only customers I&#x27;ve gained through web marketing have been organic, coming through bona fide referrals on other sites. The &quot;hit rate&quot; on that has been pretty good, suggesting that the blame can&#x27;t lie entirely with my crappy sites...</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bumblebeard</author><text>I guess I&#x27;m cheap then. I have no interest in paying any amount of money to read most of the things I read online. It seems to me that it&#x27;s not so much that people are demanding this content for free as it is that people don&#x27;t think it&#x27;s worth paying for. It&#x27;s not that I particularly wanted to see an article about the usefulness of advertising as it is that it&#x27;s something to read on the bus. I would probably just look out the window instead if the alternative weren&#x27;t free.<p>Most articles&#x2F;videos on sites like HN fall into this category - I wouldn&#x27;t have paid to read this article for example. To me, this comment thread is worth much more than the article itself and I don&#x27;t see anybody here upset that they aren&#x27;t getting paid to comment.<p>I guess that means that I would probably pay a subscription fee to a site like HN but that I wouldn&#x27;t generally pay for the content itself, which does seem a little backwards. Still, that&#x27;s what&#x27;s valuable to me. Does anybody else feel this way or am I weird?</text></comment> | <story><title>Google and Facebook ad traffic is 90% useless</title><url>https://youexec.com/dev/2017/1/14/google-facebook-ads-traffic-is-useless</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>victorhooi</author><text>What exactly is &quot;dumb&quot; amounts of money? If by dumb, you mean enough for authors to get by, then you are probably in the minority.<p>People love talking about how much they hate ads, and how, no, they&#x27;re not cheap, they would totally pay for content.<p>Let&#x27;s be honest - internet users are cheap. They want stuff for free. And if site A starts charging, they will jump ship to site B, until eventually it&#x27;s a race to the bottom.<p>Ads seems to be the only model that works (thus far).<p>Many attempts have been made to monetise things (a la micropayments).<p>I believe Google did something before, where you paid cents, or fractions of a cent to authors for article views. This was back in 2012:<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bbc.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;business-20395407" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bbc.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;business-20395407</a><p>And recently Mozilla&#x27;s Brendan Eich is doing Brave, with bitcoin micropayments. I&#x27;d love to see it gain traction, but I don&#x27;t see it going mainstream.<p>Look, I know some ad networks go too far - but IMHO, Google&#x2F;FB ads are hardly <i>that</i> intrusive. (I personally hate pop-up&#x2F;pop-under ads, and auto-playing videos)<p>(Disclaimer: I work for Google, but not in ads - above opinions are purely my own).</text></item><item><author>dajohnson89</author><text>We, as users, have been oversaturated and desensitized. There is so much crap shoved in our faces, that we&#x27;ve learned over the years to ignore all ads.<p>Speaking for myself, I have an almost visceral negative reaction with ads. I would (and do) pay dumb amounts of money for a service if that means I&#x27;m not served ads.</text></item><item><author>abalashov</author><text>I really thought I was crazy when I thought that a 99% bounce rate is unreal, even for my highly specialised product sites which cater to a very niche audience. But I ultimately came to a similar conclusion; no matter what ads I come up with, it&#x27;s money down the drain, and I&#x27;ve never had a single conversion that came through the door that way. I&#x27;ve spent untold thousands on paid ads. I learned a great deal about which keywords to target, and mimicked the reputedly successful approaches of my competitors. Nada. Would have been better off shoveling cash into an open pit.<p>The only customers I&#x27;ve gained through web marketing have been organic, coming through bona fide referrals on other sites. The &quot;hit rate&quot; on that has been pretty good, suggesting that the blame can&#x27;t lie entirely with my crappy sites...</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Fnoord</author><text>&gt; Let&#x27;s be honest - internet users are cheap. They want stuff for free.<p>There are 3 problems with this statement.<p>1) There is a <i>lot</i> of free content, easily found, and content gets more rapidly out of date nowadays. Paid content must deal with this (newsworthy, in depth competition).<p>2) Your view is US centric; the vast majority (read: not all) of internet users from other countries generally have less money to spend.<p>3) The cost of loss of privacy is indirect, therefore hidden, and US companies generally get away with it. This is why data mining is currently profitable.<p>In order to solve #3 shit must first hit the fan, to increase awareness. #1 is solved by collectively putting the high quality content behind paywall. #2 can in theory be solved by globalisation in long-term. Short-term, dynamic price makes sense, but it makes #1 &amp; #3 worse.<p>Let me quote the rest of your statement:<p>&gt; [...] They want stuff for free. And if site A starts charging, they will jump ship to site B, until eventually it&#x27;s a race to the bottom.<p>Agreed, except for example for (local) newspapers who also provide online access as part of their sub. Global newspapers have more competition. Especially given the widespread English language.<p>&gt; Ads seems to be the only model that works (thus far).<p>For Google, yes. For privacy, no. In apps on an unrooted Android device, yes. On recent iOS and desktops, no (the latter 2 due to ad blockers).<p>Also, streaming media such as Spotify proves a subscription in a new market (not newspapers) can work. Netflix proves it for video.<p>&gt; And recently Mozilla&#x27;s Brendan Eich is doing Brave, with bitcoin micropayments. I&#x27;d love to see it gain traction, but I don&#x27;t see it going mainstream.<p>Not yet a final, stable non developer version released AFAIK. Also, Eich is no longer part of Mozilla.</text></comment> |
40,045,345 | 40,045,256 | 1 | 3 | 40,044,901 | train | <story><title>Ramanujan's lost notebook</title><url>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ramanujan%27s_lost_notebook</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>hi41</author><text>In the spirit of openness which is the hallmark of FOSS such as GNU&#x2F;Linux, would this book be scanned and published for all to see? That would be great. Like FOSS, math too belongs to the world. I heard someone say that the university has not published many of his works. That would be sad. If published someone like Terrence Tao could write formal proofs for them like he and his team did some improvements for the work by Yitang Zhang.</text></comment> | <story><title>Ramanujan's lost notebook</title><url>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ramanujan%27s_lost_notebook</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Der_Einzige</author><text>I’m an atheist, but when Ramanujan claims to derive all of their formulas from god, I ask how we can make it easier for them to listen to god, rather than feel the urge to argue against them.</text></comment> |
35,879,475 | 35,878,676 | 1 | 3 | 35,877,146 | train | <story><title>Downtown SF has 18.4M square feet of empty office space. We mapped every vacancy</title><url>https://www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/downtown-empty-offices-business-tech-17911258.php</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dffdsa432</author><text>The most violent cities in America are all blue cities.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;worldpopulationreview.com&#x2F;us-city-rankings&#x2F;most-violent-cities-in-america" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;worldpopulationreview.com&#x2F;us-city-rankings&#x2F;most-viol...</a></text></item><item><author>CapstanRoller</author><text>Mass shootings aren&#x27;t correlated with poverty. Guns are expensive.<p>Most mass shooters are disaffected folks in the &quot;middle class&quot; who have money to acquire weapons (or access to weapons via relatives) and time to spend immersing themselves in online right-wing cesspits.<p>Actual poor people are too busy trying to grind and survive.</text></item><item><author>oatmeal1</author><text>Avoiding red states to avoid being shot would be extremely dumb for many reasons.<p>1. Cities and neighborhoods in any state can be safe, even in the states with the most shootings<p>2. If you have enough money to choose to live in another state, you&#x27;re probably not going to be living in an extremely poor area that is the most likely to be beset with gun violence<p>3. Other commonplace things are much more likely to kill you than being shot (cars, for example).</text></item><item><author>Tiktaalik</author><text>The thing is that personal politics don&#x27;t end up being a personal thing because they result in real policies that guide real material outcomes.<p>At this point saying one is uninterested in living in a red state could be about party politics, but it also could just as much about not being inclined to subject onesself to starkly higher risks of being shot and killed (the outcome of someone&#x27;s personal politics).<p>eg. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.politico.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;magazine&#x2F;2023&#x2F;04&#x2F;23&#x2F;surprising-geography-of-gun-violence-00092413" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.politico.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;magazine&#x2F;2023&#x2F;04&#x2F;23&#x2F;surprising...</a><p>&gt; In reality, the region the Big Apple comprises most of is far and away the safest part of the U.S. mainland when it comes to gun violence, while the regions Florida and Texas belong to have per capita firearm death rates (homicides and suicides) three to four times higher than New York’s. On a regional basis it’s the southern swath of the country — in cities and rural areas alike — where the rate of deadly gun violence is most acute, regions where Republicans have dominated state governments for decades.</text></item><item><author>bityard</author><text>Personal politics, IMO, is not a good reason to avoid living in certain areas. I&#x27;m a liberal-leaning moderate but many of my favorite people (friends and family) are conservative, and many of my hobbies tend to be populated mainly by the conservative demographic. You&#x27;ll always find people here and there who won&#x27;t give you the time of day if you&#x27;re not on Team Blue or Team Red, but my take on it is, if I can&#x27;t make friends with people who hold beliefs different from my own, then maybe I&#x27;m the asshole.<p>That said, if it really matters that much to you, you&#x27;ll find plenty of swing states with mid-sized cities in the Midwest. Upsides are low cost of living, 20 minutes from the center of the city to cornfields. Downsides are you can&#x27;t go too far north if you don&#x27;t like cold winters.<p>No area is thriving right now thanks to the recession, but it sounds like you are aiming for remote work anyway, so why does that matter? If I were in your shoes, I would pick a place that has the geography, climate, and cost of living I am looking for and not worry so much about the politics and economic prospects of the area.</text></item><item><author>SeanAnderson</author><text>I live in SF and spend a fair amount of time thinking about its poor 5-year economic outlook. It&#x27;s not great, but I am curious how it compares to other metros?<p>If I were to move from SF, wanted to live in a metro area, and was uncomfortable living in a very red state - where should I consider? Where is thriving? I have a good amount of friends in Portland, but Portland is adjacent SF in terms of poor economic recovery and it&#x27;s not especially tech-focused. So, I think there&#x27;s at least a bit more at play here.<p>There&#x27;s a seismic shift occurring with WFH, Starlink, etc. Yes, San Francisco is near the bottom of many post-Covid economic recovery lists, but are there other metros that are on sound financial footing if 30%+ of their populace chooses a more suburban&#x2F;rural lifestyle?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mikeryan</author><text>Shit. Your own source disproves that if you use the most recent data<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;worldpopulationreview.com&#x2F;us-city-rankings&#x2F;most-dangerous-cities-in-the-us" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;worldpopulationreview.com&#x2F;us-city-rankings&#x2F;most-dang...</a><p>Take off the minimum population requirement of 100k residents and the most dangerous metro areas are all small, rural conservative towns. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.statista.com&#x2F;statistics&#x2F;433603&#x2F;us-metropolitan-areas-with-the-highest-violent-crime-rate&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.statista.com&#x2F;statistics&#x2F;433603&#x2F;us-metropolitan-a...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Downtown SF has 18.4M square feet of empty office space. We mapped every vacancy</title><url>https://www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/downtown-empty-offices-business-tech-17911258.php</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dffdsa432</author><text>The most violent cities in America are all blue cities.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;worldpopulationreview.com&#x2F;us-city-rankings&#x2F;most-violent-cities-in-america" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;worldpopulationreview.com&#x2F;us-city-rankings&#x2F;most-viol...</a></text></item><item><author>CapstanRoller</author><text>Mass shootings aren&#x27;t correlated with poverty. Guns are expensive.<p>Most mass shooters are disaffected folks in the &quot;middle class&quot; who have money to acquire weapons (or access to weapons via relatives) and time to spend immersing themselves in online right-wing cesspits.<p>Actual poor people are too busy trying to grind and survive.</text></item><item><author>oatmeal1</author><text>Avoiding red states to avoid being shot would be extremely dumb for many reasons.<p>1. Cities and neighborhoods in any state can be safe, even in the states with the most shootings<p>2. If you have enough money to choose to live in another state, you&#x27;re probably not going to be living in an extremely poor area that is the most likely to be beset with gun violence<p>3. Other commonplace things are much more likely to kill you than being shot (cars, for example).</text></item><item><author>Tiktaalik</author><text>The thing is that personal politics don&#x27;t end up being a personal thing because they result in real policies that guide real material outcomes.<p>At this point saying one is uninterested in living in a red state could be about party politics, but it also could just as much about not being inclined to subject onesself to starkly higher risks of being shot and killed (the outcome of someone&#x27;s personal politics).<p>eg. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.politico.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;magazine&#x2F;2023&#x2F;04&#x2F;23&#x2F;surprising-geography-of-gun-violence-00092413" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.politico.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;magazine&#x2F;2023&#x2F;04&#x2F;23&#x2F;surprising...</a><p>&gt; In reality, the region the Big Apple comprises most of is far and away the safest part of the U.S. mainland when it comes to gun violence, while the regions Florida and Texas belong to have per capita firearm death rates (homicides and suicides) three to four times higher than New York’s. On a regional basis it’s the southern swath of the country — in cities and rural areas alike — where the rate of deadly gun violence is most acute, regions where Republicans have dominated state governments for decades.</text></item><item><author>bityard</author><text>Personal politics, IMO, is not a good reason to avoid living in certain areas. I&#x27;m a liberal-leaning moderate but many of my favorite people (friends and family) are conservative, and many of my hobbies tend to be populated mainly by the conservative demographic. You&#x27;ll always find people here and there who won&#x27;t give you the time of day if you&#x27;re not on Team Blue or Team Red, but my take on it is, if I can&#x27;t make friends with people who hold beliefs different from my own, then maybe I&#x27;m the asshole.<p>That said, if it really matters that much to you, you&#x27;ll find plenty of swing states with mid-sized cities in the Midwest. Upsides are low cost of living, 20 minutes from the center of the city to cornfields. Downsides are you can&#x27;t go too far north if you don&#x27;t like cold winters.<p>No area is thriving right now thanks to the recession, but it sounds like you are aiming for remote work anyway, so why does that matter? If I were in your shoes, I would pick a place that has the geography, climate, and cost of living I am looking for and not worry so much about the politics and economic prospects of the area.</text></item><item><author>SeanAnderson</author><text>I live in SF and spend a fair amount of time thinking about its poor 5-year economic outlook. It&#x27;s not great, but I am curious how it compares to other metros?<p>If I were to move from SF, wanted to live in a metro area, and was uncomfortable living in a very red state - where should I consider? Where is thriving? I have a good amount of friends in Portland, but Portland is adjacent SF in terms of poor economic recovery and it&#x27;s not especially tech-focused. So, I think there&#x27;s at least a bit more at play here.<p>There&#x27;s a seismic shift occurring with WFH, Starlink, etc. Yes, San Francisco is near the bottom of many post-Covid economic recovery lists, but are there other metros that are on sound financial footing if 30%+ of their populace chooses a more suburban&#x2F;rural lifestyle?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>theironhammer</author><text>And most of that is done by drug dealers fighting over turf. The shootings are highly concentrated in certain geographic areas.</text></comment> |
8,556,675 | 8,555,852 | 1 | 2 | 8,555,285 | train | <story><title>How I made the print and eBook versions of my web book</title><url>http://journal.stuffwithstuff.com/2014/11/03/bringing-my-web-book-to-print-and-ebook/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>vram22</author><text>Other ebook creation &#x2F; selling options:<p>Leanpub: <a href="https://leanpub.com/" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;leanpub.com&#x2F;</a><p>Softcover: <a href="https://www.softcover.io/" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.softcover.io&#x2F;</a>
By Michael Hartl, author of the Rails tutorial.<p>Lulu: <a href="https://www.lulu.com/" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.lulu.com&#x2F;</a> is still around too, originally by the creator of Red Hat.<p>O&#x27;Reilly Atlas: <a href="https://atlas.oreilly.com/" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;atlas.oreilly.com&#x2F;</a> - new; may be only for books you write with them as publisher, not sure.<p>There must be some others too.</text></comment> | <story><title>How I made the print and eBook versions of my web book</title><url>http://journal.stuffwithstuff.com/2014/11/03/bringing-my-web-book-to-print-and-ebook/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>netcan</author><text>This is the sort of stuff that was mainly in the realm of publishers until recently. I&#x27;m always curious about the degree to which what publishers, record labels and similar industries do is being parceled out to smaller services.<p>When writers write about why they need publishers, they usually mention editing, marketing &amp; advances. I imagine for many people marketing is not very relevant. Either the publishers will not do much of it anyway or the author has access to an audience himself. Advances are also (I imagine) not that important to many authors. Maybe some need the commitment as part of their process but purely as a way of financing, I don&#x27;t see an insurmountable requirement that this be bundled with the other things they do. Most authors are not going to make money anyway so a small chunk now or a slightly larger trickle later doesn&#x27;t matter much either way.<p>Is there a thriving industry of editors for hire? People who will take raw text and turn it into books?<p>What&#x27;s the state of this ecosystem today?</text></comment> |
36,211,934 | 36,212,164 | 1 | 3 | 36,210,548 | train | <story><title>Digg's v4 launch: an optimism born of necessity (2018)</title><url>https://lethain.com/digg-v4/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>deergomoo</author><text>Good read. Interesting that the author’s takeaway is that folks consider Digg v4 to be a catastrophic launch because of the myriad technical issues.<p>I don’t even remember there <i>being</i> technical issues, I just remember logging in one day to find a website I enjoyed replaced with a bunch of crap I wasn’t interested in.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>what-the-grump</author><text>Digg was Digg, then V4 launched, and it was no longer Digg. It was really that simple, oh hey I should check Digg maybe there is something interesting went to oh hey I need to find something else to check because Digg is stale, the new UI had much lower information density, coupled with less content meant that there was no reason to go back if you could find a faster feed.<p>New stuff like reddit, insta, twitter, simply took over filling the urge to hit f5 for latest content.</text></comment> | <story><title>Digg's v4 launch: an optimism born of necessity (2018)</title><url>https://lethain.com/digg-v4/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>deergomoo</author><text>Good read. Interesting that the author’s takeaway is that folks consider Digg v4 to be a catastrophic launch because of the myriad technical issues.<p>I don’t even remember there <i>being</i> technical issues, I just remember logging in one day to find a website I enjoyed replaced with a bunch of crap I wasn’t interested in.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mustacheemperor</author><text>It’s interesting that as users, we think of v4 as this pivotal moment when the platform changed forever - but the article’s author seems to think of it more as the inflection point of ongoing problems that had built up for a while.<p>Especially with a high profile implosion like this, it’s really interesting to contrast our experience in the userbase to an internal perspective.<p>&gt;Digg V4 is sometimes referenced as an example of a catastrophic launch, with an implied lesson that we shouldn’t have launched it. At one point, I used to agree, but these days I think we made the right decision to launch. Our traffic was significantly down, we were losing a bunch of money each month, we had recently raised money and knew we couldn’t easily raise more. If we’d had the choice between launching something great and something awful, we’d have preferred to launch something great, but instead we had the choice of taking one last swing or turning in our bat quietly.</text></comment> |
38,407,935 | 38,407,296 | 1 | 3 | 38,406,478 | train | <story><title>Mail-in-a-Box: a mail server in a box</title><url>https://github.com/mail-in-a-box/mailinabox</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>abdullahkhalids</author><text>I have been running mailinabox with a hetzner server for 2-3 years now.<p>- Setup was largely painless. Main problem was making sure dns settings at my domain registrar were correct.<p>- Almost zero problems with mail delivery on the big providers [1]. Last time my email was dropped was by amd.com.<p>- Last year had to do a major version upgrade to mailinabox and it was a huge hassle. I think they need to improve on this. Rolling updates are painless.<p>Here is my advice to people who are on the threshold of wanting to host their own email, but are unsure because of mail delivery issues. Well, there are zero problems with incoming mail. So setup mailinabox and use that email to register for websites [2]. Use it for all your mailing lists etc.<p>Do it for a few years and see how it feels. Occasionally send out email. If enough people do it, then over time it will become easier for more people to host their own email.<p>[1] I have a theory that I deployed. I asked a whole bunch of people with gmail&#x2F;hotmail email addresses to send me emails first on my new email. I then replied to them. I think this ensured that from that start I was put on the good lists.<p>[2] Use [email protected] to register. Easy to block spam this way.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jimmaswell</author><text>It was flat out impossible for me to get Outlook to accept my mail server. They&#x27;d only give me some vague response with no actionable steps to resolve it. I gave up and used a gmail account to route everything outgoing. That way mail still shows up as from:[email protected] but rides on Google&#x27;s reputation. Defeats the purpose a little but there&#x27;s nothing more I can do (apparently unless I buy my own non residential ISP line, host the server in my house, and build reputatiom forever, but that&#x27;s an absurd length to have to go through. ideally we&#x27;d have antitrust legislation forcing MS et al to be fair towards smaller email and save the open internet overall, but I&#x27;m not holding my breath.).<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=35691618">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=35691618</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Mail-in-a-Box: a mail server in a box</title><url>https://github.com/mail-in-a-box/mailinabox</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>abdullahkhalids</author><text>I have been running mailinabox with a hetzner server for 2-3 years now.<p>- Setup was largely painless. Main problem was making sure dns settings at my domain registrar were correct.<p>- Almost zero problems with mail delivery on the big providers [1]. Last time my email was dropped was by amd.com.<p>- Last year had to do a major version upgrade to mailinabox and it was a huge hassle. I think they need to improve on this. Rolling updates are painless.<p>Here is my advice to people who are on the threshold of wanting to host their own email, but are unsure because of mail delivery issues. Well, there are zero problems with incoming mail. So setup mailinabox and use that email to register for websites [2]. Use it for all your mailing lists etc.<p>Do it for a few years and see how it feels. Occasionally send out email. If enough people do it, then over time it will become easier for more people to host their own email.<p>[1] I have a theory that I deployed. I asked a whole bunch of people with gmail&#x2F;hotmail email addresses to send me emails first on my new email. I then replied to them. I think this ensured that from that start I was put on the good lists.<p>[2] Use [email protected] to register. Easy to block spam this way.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>asmor</author><text>I&#x27;ve done MiaB from 2015-2017, and I&#x27;ve always had deliverability issues from Digital Ocean. Microsoft is particularly nasty, and Gmail kept marking me as spam silently instead of rejecting mail.<p>I&#x27;ve decided to just move on and pay Fastmail. Email isn&#x27;t private anyway.</text></comment> |
20,949,397 | 20,949,174 | 1 | 2 | 20,948,434 | train | <story><title>Ban kids from loot box gambling in games</title><url>https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-49661870</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>antpls</author><text>If we ban loot boxes in video games, why dont we ban Magic&#x2F;Pokemon card boosters that you can buy from physical shops?<p>As it&#x27;s written in the article, problems arise for a <i>minority</i> of children. From the article, we know little about the background of these children and about their parents. It is possible that those children would have developed an addiction to something else if it wasn&#x27;t video games loot boxes. Yes, some of them spend thousands, but what if they are millionaires&#x27;s kids? They play by different rules.<p>In my opinion, gambling in videos game means your kids will experience the risk of gambling sooner, and if you watch your kid and educate them about it, they can experience it in a safer environment than when they are adults.<p>To me, banning virtual loot boxes is extreme and doesynt solve the actual problem (education programs are misaligned, lack of mental healthcare programs, etc). Addiction might reveal a problem, but it&#x27;s not necessary the root cause.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>PeterStuer</author><text>Yeah ... except the whole video game gambling is fine-tuned and relentless in its pursuit to prey upon the vulnerabilities and blind-sights of the very exploitable. It is an addiction machine fishing for kids to enthrall.<p>By all means educate your kids, but also make sure to protect them at their most vulnerable against an &#x27;opponent&#x27; in a very uneven playing field.<p>As for your comparison to trading card game boosters: sure, there are some dimensions of the experience that are similar. Varying rarity and desirability of items contained in a purchased container that does not reveal its content until after purchase. There are also things that are vastly different. There are things like the virtualization of the transaction (spending online virtual coins, even though you purchased them with real money has been proven to be psychologically very different from a cash transaction), the sensory stimuli that are build into the opening rituals (real card packs at most can optimize the tearing experience and the smell of the freshly opened pack, which they do btw) which makes it a very different matter.<p>Sometimes there are real grey zones when it comes to the balance of overprotectiveness vs predation. It is not because the delineation can&#x27;t be made extremely precise that we can&#x27;t identify that some things are clearly outside of the acceptable middle.<p>IMHO lootboxes do not fall into this grey area, and are clearly a predatory mechanism that the most vulnerable should be prevented from having to be in a perpetual armsrace against.</text></comment> | <story><title>Ban kids from loot box gambling in games</title><url>https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-49661870</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>antpls</author><text>If we ban loot boxes in video games, why dont we ban Magic&#x2F;Pokemon card boosters that you can buy from physical shops?<p>As it&#x27;s written in the article, problems arise for a <i>minority</i> of children. From the article, we know little about the background of these children and about their parents. It is possible that those children would have developed an addiction to something else if it wasn&#x27;t video games loot boxes. Yes, some of them spend thousands, but what if they are millionaires&#x27;s kids? They play by different rules.<p>In my opinion, gambling in videos game means your kids will experience the risk of gambling sooner, and if you watch your kid and educate them about it, they can experience it in a safer environment than when they are adults.<p>To me, banning virtual loot boxes is extreme and doesynt solve the actual problem (education programs are misaligned, lack of mental healthcare programs, etc). Addiction might reveal a problem, but it&#x27;s not necessary the root cause.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>JauntyHatAngle</author><text>Because magic the gathering cards are an actual item tradeable for actual money to other players and resellers. It&#x27;s still questionable in many ways, sure.<p>But many of these virtual items are closed economies with the supply entirely owned by the producer of the game. These have no intrinsic value outside of this closed system and there is no ability to exchange them for real money.<p>I&#x27;m not saying booster packs are necessarily morally correct either, but want to highlight that there is a qualitative difference between them and most loot box economies.</text></comment> |
20,483,443 | 20,481,219 | 1 | 2 | 20,478,860 | train | <story><title>CanvasKit – Skia and WebAssembly</title><url>https://skia.org/user/modules/canvaskit</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bcheung</author><text>What is this for and why would someone want to use it?<p>There&#x27;s basically nothing on the website but the API. No decent overview or tutorial or even why someone would want to use this project.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>leonidasv</author><text>Skia is a graphics engine developed in C++. Think of it as the building block for graphical interfaces, animations and everything else that involves displaying some 2D data on a screen, specially vectorial data.<p>For example, Flutter uses it to draw its UIs and Chrome uses it for almost everything, including rendering text parsed from HTML. Sublime Text, Firefox, Xamarin and many other projects also rely on Skia for the same sort of thing.<p>However, unlike, let&#x27;s say, Qt or GTK+, Skia does not provide already done widgets (i.e., drop-in buttons, windows, text inputs etc.). It&#x27;s like the fundamental building block on top of which you can create your buttons, animations and everything else and then display it on screen.<p>Now, CanvasKit is Skia ported to the browser via WebAssembly. Since Skia is a mature project and very performant (as you can guess from who is using it), it&#x27;s now an alternative to Canvas API and DOM to render things on websites and will also let existing native applications to be ported to the web more easily.</text></comment> | <story><title>CanvasKit – Skia and WebAssembly</title><url>https://skia.org/user/modules/canvaskit</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bcheung</author><text>What is this for and why would someone want to use it?<p>There&#x27;s basically nothing on the website but the API. No decent overview or tutorial or even why someone would want to use this project.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Secretmapper</author><text>I had a really hard time understanding it as well, and as someone who is supposed to at least have some understanding in this space (HTML5 gamedev) it made me feel a bit dumb.<p>However, from what I understand, there seems to be two things needed to be noted here:<p>Skia - a standardised library that can &#x27;render&#x27; to different backends - i.e. it can render to OpenGL or SVG or PDFs.<p>CanvasKit (the actual one linked) - basically use Skia on the web (with webgl).<p>A huge boon here would be performance. For example, in WebGL, if you want to draw text, the current method is actually to render it in the canvas first, and reupload the texture to the GPU. From what I understand Skia seems to handle the rendering &#x27;natively&#x27; so this step is not necessary. So basically it would just make it easier to draw &#x27;primitives&#x27; since they are provided by the Skia API without having to do workarounds or writing really low level webgl fragments&#x2F;shaders.<p>This is just from what I gathered, but yeah it is confusing. If anyone knowledgeable reads this, let me know if I got anything wrong!</text></comment> |
15,333,930 | 15,331,921 | 1 | 2 | 15,330,541 | train | <story><title>Sears's History Predicts Almost Everything Amazon's Doing</title><url>https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2017/09/sears-predicts-amazon/540888/?utm_source=atlfb&amp;single_page=true</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jasode</author><text><i>&gt;In 1993 they closed their mail order division. In 1995, Amazon launched.</i><p>If one compresses the timeline, it does seem like Amazon killed off Sears when in reality, Sears was already getting killed off in the 10 years before 1995.<p>In the 1980s...<p>- Home Depot, Lowes, Builders Square, etc home improvement stores were taking away business from Sears power tools (Craftsman)<p>- Best Buy and Circuit City were taking the consumer electronics business and appliances. Less customers buy Sears Kenmore.<p>- Target, Walmart, Williams-Sonoma, etc were taking housewares (pots, pans, etc) business<p>- consumers (especially kids) didn&#x27;t want &quot;department store brand&quot; clothing from Sears&#x2F;JCPenney because they were &quot;uncool&quot;. They wanted the boutique brands (Guess jeans, Calvin Klein, etc)<p>- peak mall traffic was 1986 and malls started dying off after that. An easy way for me to remember that point in time is the 1985 movie <i>&quot;Back to The Future&quot;.</i> When you watch the DeLorean spinning around the parking lot of Twin Pines Mall, remind yourself that you&#x27;re seeing &quot;peak mall&quot;.<p>- credit-cards criteria were loosened and easy credit was expanded. Sears no longer had a captive audience with the Sears credit-card that kept shoppers within Sears&#x27; &quot;walled-garden&quot;. Before 1990s, if a young person had zero credit history, one of the first credit cards one attempted to get was the <i>&quot;Sears department store credit card&quot;.</i> Once one built up credit history with it, he&#x2F;she could then try to get Visa&#x2F;Mastercard. In the meantime, they used the Sears card to <i>spend money at Sears</i>. To contrast the difference, today an 18-year-old college student can get a Visa&#x2F;MC <i>without a parent</i> as a cosigner. That type of easy credit approval for a person with no job was unheard of in the 1960s&#x2F;1970s.<p>There were lots of competitive forces that Sears&#x27; management didn&#x27;t respond to long before Jeff Bezos arrived on the scene.</text></item><item><author>michaelt</author><text>I read an interesting forum post about Sears a few years back [1]<p>TLDR: In 1985 Sears had vast mail order experience, co-founded an ISP (Prodigy), and had their own credit cards (Discover). All the components they&#x27;d need to dominate online retail. In 1993 they closed their mail order division. In 1995, Amazon launched.<p>[1] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.metafilter.com&#x2F;62394&#x2F;The-Record-Industrys-Decline#1742245" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.metafilter.com&#x2F;62394&#x2F;The-Record-Industrys-Decline...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Steko</author><text>Ben Thompson goes all the way back to 1962 to chart the forces that would end up killing Sears:<p><i>1962 was perhaps the most consequential year in retailing history: in Ohio the five-and-dime retailer F.W. Woolworth Company created a new discount retailer called Woolco; S.S. Kresge Corporation created Kmart in Michigan; the Dayton Company opened the first Target in Minnesota; and Sam Walton founded the first Walmart. All four were based on the same premise: branded goods didn’t need the expensive overhead of mass merchandisers, which meant prices could be lower. Lower prices served in turn as a powerful draw for customers, driving higher volumes, which meant more inventory turns, which increased profitability.</i><p><i>Sears, which had introduced a huge number of those brands to America’s middle class, first through their catalog and then through a massive post-World War II expansion into physical retail, was stuck in the middle: higher prices than the discounters, but much less differentiation than high-end department stores. By the time Buldak gave his statement the company’s fate as an also-ran was sealed, even though no one at Sears had a clue: Buldak’s stated mission of being “an integrated, powerful specialty merchant, with brand names and our own lines of exclusive merchandise” failed to consider whether customers gave a damn.</i><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;stratechery.com&#x2F;2016&#x2F;walmart-and-the-multichannel-trap&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;stratechery.com&#x2F;2016&#x2F;walmart-and-the-multichannel-tr...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Sears's History Predicts Almost Everything Amazon's Doing</title><url>https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2017/09/sears-predicts-amazon/540888/?utm_source=atlfb&amp;single_page=true</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jasode</author><text><i>&gt;In 1993 they closed their mail order division. In 1995, Amazon launched.</i><p>If one compresses the timeline, it does seem like Amazon killed off Sears when in reality, Sears was already getting killed off in the 10 years before 1995.<p>In the 1980s...<p>- Home Depot, Lowes, Builders Square, etc home improvement stores were taking away business from Sears power tools (Craftsman)<p>- Best Buy and Circuit City were taking the consumer electronics business and appliances. Less customers buy Sears Kenmore.<p>- Target, Walmart, Williams-Sonoma, etc were taking housewares (pots, pans, etc) business<p>- consumers (especially kids) didn&#x27;t want &quot;department store brand&quot; clothing from Sears&#x2F;JCPenney because they were &quot;uncool&quot;. They wanted the boutique brands (Guess jeans, Calvin Klein, etc)<p>- peak mall traffic was 1986 and malls started dying off after that. An easy way for me to remember that point in time is the 1985 movie <i>&quot;Back to The Future&quot;.</i> When you watch the DeLorean spinning around the parking lot of Twin Pines Mall, remind yourself that you&#x27;re seeing &quot;peak mall&quot;.<p>- credit-cards criteria were loosened and easy credit was expanded. Sears no longer had a captive audience with the Sears credit-card that kept shoppers within Sears&#x27; &quot;walled-garden&quot;. Before 1990s, if a young person had zero credit history, one of the first credit cards one attempted to get was the <i>&quot;Sears department store credit card&quot;.</i> Once one built up credit history with it, he&#x2F;she could then try to get Visa&#x2F;Mastercard. In the meantime, they used the Sears card to <i>spend money at Sears</i>. To contrast the difference, today an 18-year-old college student can get a Visa&#x2F;MC <i>without a parent</i> as a cosigner. That type of easy credit approval for a person with no job was unheard of in the 1960s&#x2F;1970s.<p>There were lots of competitive forces that Sears&#x27; management didn&#x27;t respond to long before Jeff Bezos arrived on the scene.</text></item><item><author>michaelt</author><text>I read an interesting forum post about Sears a few years back [1]<p>TLDR: In 1985 Sears had vast mail order experience, co-founded an ISP (Prodigy), and had their own credit cards (Discover). All the components they&#x27;d need to dominate online retail. In 1993 they closed their mail order division. In 1995, Amazon launched.<p>[1] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.metafilter.com&#x2F;62394&#x2F;The-Record-Industrys-Decline#1742245" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.metafilter.com&#x2F;62394&#x2F;The-Record-Industrys-Decline...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>chipperyman573</author><text>&gt;today an 18-year-old college student can get a Visa&#x2F;MC without a parent as a cosigner.<p>FWIW, when I was 18 I had to get a secured card[0] and I was barely able to get it (I had to go to my bank twice to appeal the decision). It&#x27;s definitely different from 40 years ago but it&#x27;s not super easy for most college students, and a lot of it came down to the fact that I had a few grand sitting in a checking account and a job that paid $12.50&#x2F;hr. Some of my friends who didn&#x27;t have that got flat out declined multiple times (I have one friend who has applied for three different cards and she&#x27;s been denied all three times, with no credit history at all).<p>[0]: Basically, the card had a $500 credit limit and you had to give the bank $500 for a year, after a year if you&#x27;ve made all your payments they give you your $500 back. It still sat in my savings account generating &quot;interest&quot;, but I couldn&#x27;t spend it</text></comment> |
9,562,560 | 9,562,216 | 1 | 3 | 9,559,672 | train | <story><title>How I do my computing</title><url>https://stallman.org/stallman-computing.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>kauffj</author><text>Agreed, but a max-width on the content would do <i>wonders</i> for readability.</text></item><item><author>userbinator</author><text><i>I want stallman.org to remain simple: not a &quot;user experience&quot; but rather a place where I present certain information, views and action opportunities to you.</i><p>...and as a result, I think it gives a very good &quot;user experience&quot; - I wish more webpages were like this, plain and informative without distractions.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>205guy</author><text>Wonders for YOUR readability. Other people have different viewports and screen sizes&#x2F;resolutions and that would most likely interfere with some of them. Some people might even prefer dense text and long lines (doesn&#x27;t bother ME).<p>As others have pointed out, you should be able to adjust your browser to get the reading experience you want. Turn your tablet vertically if reading in landscape. Open current tab in new window and make it as narrow as you want. Or have smart browser extensions that do it automatically for YOU.</text></comment> | <story><title>How I do my computing</title><url>https://stallman.org/stallman-computing.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>kauffj</author><text>Agreed, but a max-width on the content would do <i>wonders</i> for readability.</text></item><item><author>userbinator</author><text><i>I want stallman.org to remain simple: not a &quot;user experience&quot; but rather a place where I present certain information, views and action opportunities to you.</i><p>...and as a result, I think it gives a very good &quot;user experience&quot; - I wish more webpages were like this, plain and informative without distractions.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Symbiote</author><text>A little Javascript bookmarklet should do that nicely. I&#x27;ll write one tomorrow, if I don&#x27;t find one.</text></comment> |
35,113,194 | 35,111,953 | 1 | 2 | 35,110,924 | train | <story><title>Ivy League Schools Sure Look Like a Cartel</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2023-03-11/ivy-league-athletic-scholarship-lawsuit-exposes-cartel-like-behavior</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>lofatdairy</author><text>Cui bono?<p>There are <i>a lot</i> of problems with the Ivy League, the lack of athletic scholarships are one of the few things they do absolutely right. The thing is that athletics are less, not more democratic as a distribution mechanism for admission slots. The author seems to be under the mistaken belief that most of these slots would be available for your football and basketball players, where stories of rising from poverty are commonplace at the highest level. That&#x27;s simply not the case at Ivies. You think underrepresented and the economically disadvantaged are rowing or playing squash or fencing or golfing or diving at the level where this would matter? Sure, there are ways of making this equitable, but that&#x27;s not solved by the scope of this argument.<p>The fact is that athletics has been a backdoor for admissions, and always used to exclude, not to include, those outside the upper class. The college admission scandal showed as much, with the Stanford sailing coach. It has historical roots in excluding Jewish students, and it&#x27;s currently used to exclude Asian students among maintaining a proportion of elite students.<p>Certainly, it looks like price fixing, and I don&#x27;t have a problem with that argument, but I would prefer is more universities took courage to actually focus on academics like chicago, caltech, mit, etc.</text></comment> | <story><title>Ivy League Schools Sure Look Like a Cartel</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2023-03-11/ivy-league-athletic-scholarship-lawsuit-exposes-cartel-like-behavior</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>nobodyandproud</author><text>The author seems to have an axe to grind.<p>&gt; The need for diversity in education is as vital today as ever. But it’s not clear whether the Ivy Agreement’s ban on athletic scholarships actually promotes that end. One might even wonder whether, by not competing over sports stars, the schools are reducing the diversity of their student bodies.<p>Yet later admits:<p>&gt; But recent research tells us that fielding a great team predicts higher alumni giving only to the athletics department. And a 2005 study found little connection between on-field success and giving, at least among those alums who regularly attended sporting events.<p>Higher education became corrupted with money from athletics and I wish more schools took note of:<p>&gt; In the Ivy Group Agreement, the universities defend their ban on athletic scholarships as part of a general policy “that the players shall be truly representative of the student body and not composed of a group of specially recruited athletes.”</text></comment> |
28,727,870 | 28,726,632 | 1 | 3 | 28,725,803 | train | <story><title>Show HN: Dependently typed language for proofs that you can implement in one day</title><url>https://github.com/caotic123/PomPom-Language</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dwohnitmok</author><text>I find the often ML-inspired syntax too high of a bar for most programmers to clear when being introduced to a language.<p>I think a syntax more similar to something like what is introduced here: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;shuangrimu.com&#x2F;posts&#x2F;language-agnostic-intro-to-dependent-types.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;shuangrimu.com&#x2F;posts&#x2F;language-agnostic-intro-to-depe...</a> more accessible for a lot of programmers.<p>I separately think that proofs are actually a bit overblown when it comes to dependent types and that dependent types are most useful for specification, but often times could benefit from &quot;fake&quot; implementations.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Zababa</author><text>I agree that ML-style function signature is probably the best and most readable. `name: type` is a lot better than `type name`. I would argue that `match x with` would be better than `case x of`, to highlight that pattern matching is different than your usual switch. Calling out explicitely the contructors with `contructors` is a good idea, I think it can make things easier for new people.<p>Edit: I wonder if it would help to also have a record type. Enum allows you to have full ADTs, but named tuples are often more useful than regular tuples.</text></comment> | <story><title>Show HN: Dependently typed language for proofs that you can implement in one day</title><url>https://github.com/caotic123/PomPom-Language</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dwohnitmok</author><text>I find the often ML-inspired syntax too high of a bar for most programmers to clear when being introduced to a language.<p>I think a syntax more similar to something like what is introduced here: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;shuangrimu.com&#x2F;posts&#x2F;language-agnostic-intro-to-dependent-types.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;shuangrimu.com&#x2F;posts&#x2F;language-agnostic-intro-to-depe...</a> more accessible for a lot of programmers.<p>I separately think that proofs are actually a bit overblown when it comes to dependent types and that dependent types are most useful for specification, but often times could benefit from &quot;fake&quot; implementations.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>caotic123</author><text>The syntax you presented is <i>really</i> very accessible. Of course, it makes things a little more verbose, but I think you are right, the path for bringing more attention to dependent types is probably making more accessible also. Btw, great article I will have a more detailed look after.</text></comment> |
38,130,673 | 38,126,019 | 1 | 3 | 38,125,348 | train | <story><title>Bringing garbage collected programming languages efficiently to WebAssembly</title><url>https://v8.dev/blog/wasm-gc-porting</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>samsquire</author><text>This is exciting.<p>I think WASM is an example of a thin waist [1] with its garbage collector and N+M rather than N×M. (N languages + M virtual machines + G garbage collectors). That&#x27;s a mature garbage collector in V8.<p>I was curious if there was a WASM to JVM and it seems there is one on GitHub, I haven&#x27;t used it I was just curious because the JVM is a mature (and parallel) garbage collector.<p>Now I&#x27;m excited for WASM Threads for true parallelism and not just IO parallelism because I didn&#x27;t think WASMGC would come out so soon.<p>The opportunity to solve async and parallelism and garbage collection EFFECTIVELY would strengthen WASM and not be a source of confusion or difficulty for developers. I think that&#x27;s why WASI is so important, a chance to define an API as stable as POSIX.<p>1: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.oilshell.org&#x2F;blog&#x2F;2022&#x2F;02&#x2F;diagrams.html" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.oilshell.org&#x2F;blog&#x2F;2022&#x2F;02&#x2F;diagrams.html</a><p>2: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;cretz&#x2F;asmble">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;cretz&#x2F;asmble</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kodablah</author><text>&gt; I was curious if there was a WASM to JVM and it seems there is one on GitHub [...] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;cretz&#x2F;asmble">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;cretz&#x2F;asmble</a><p>While it works well, this was mostly a fun project for me and I no longer really maintain it. I hope that the ideas and explanations of how I mapped WASM IR to JVM bytecodes helps whoever does build this in a more official capacity. I don&#x27;t have any plans to support WASM GC currently.</text></comment> | <story><title>Bringing garbage collected programming languages efficiently to WebAssembly</title><url>https://v8.dev/blog/wasm-gc-porting</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>samsquire</author><text>This is exciting.<p>I think WASM is an example of a thin waist [1] with its garbage collector and N+M rather than N×M. (N languages + M virtual machines + G garbage collectors). That&#x27;s a mature garbage collector in V8.<p>I was curious if there was a WASM to JVM and it seems there is one on GitHub, I haven&#x27;t used it I was just curious because the JVM is a mature (and parallel) garbage collector.<p>Now I&#x27;m excited for WASM Threads for true parallelism and not just IO parallelism because I didn&#x27;t think WASMGC would come out so soon.<p>The opportunity to solve async and parallelism and garbage collection EFFECTIVELY would strengthen WASM and not be a source of confusion or difficulty for developers. I think that&#x27;s why WASI is so important, a chance to define an API as stable as POSIX.<p>1: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.oilshell.org&#x2F;blog&#x2F;2022&#x2F;02&#x2F;diagrams.html" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.oilshell.org&#x2F;blog&#x2F;2022&#x2F;02&#x2F;diagrams.html</a><p>2: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;cretz&#x2F;asmble">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;cretz&#x2F;asmble</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pjmlp</author><text>Following CLR footsteps, 22 years later.<p>&gt; More than 20 programming tools vendors offer some 26 programming languages — including C++, Perl, Python, Java, COBOL, RPG and Haskell — on .NET.<p>From <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.microsoft.com&#x2F;2001&#x2F;10&#x2F;22&#x2F;massive-industry-and-developer-support-for-microsoft-net-on-display-at-professional-developers-conference-2001&#x2F;" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.microsoft.com&#x2F;2001&#x2F;10&#x2F;22&#x2F;massive-industry-and-d...</a></text></comment> |
20,401,982 | 20,401,814 | 1 | 2 | 20,401,251 | train | <story><title>Nintendo Switch Lite: a smaller, cheaper Switch built for handheld play</title><url>https://www.theverge.com/circuitbreaker/2019/7/10/20687801/nintendo-switch-lite-price-release-date-size-battery-life-motion-control-games</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>izzydata</author><text>Kind of the opposite of what I would want. I only use mine while docked to a TV. If you cut off the controllers and the screen you could probably make a black box version for $150. Or make it more powerful and keep it at $200.<p>For a mobile only Switch to make sense for me it would need to be small enough to fit in a pocket.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>aczerepinski</author><text>I agree with you (only like to play docked) but my son only plays it handheld. I bet it’s common for people to strongly prefer one way or the other, favoring either higher resolution more immersive graphics, or that intimate&#x2F;private feeling of having the screen right in your hands.</text></comment> | <story><title>Nintendo Switch Lite: a smaller, cheaper Switch built for handheld play</title><url>https://www.theverge.com/circuitbreaker/2019/7/10/20687801/nintendo-switch-lite-price-release-date-size-battery-life-motion-control-games</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>izzydata</author><text>Kind of the opposite of what I would want. I only use mine while docked to a TV. If you cut off the controllers and the screen you could probably make a black box version for $150. Or make it more powerful and keep it at $200.<p>For a mobile only Switch to make sense for me it would need to be small enough to fit in a pocket.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Eric_WVGG</author><text>It makes sense for large families, college students, kids who haul everything in backpacks, frequent travelers, and people who don’t own televisions.<p>I never take mine anywhere, and will definitely be looking to trade-in.</text></comment> |
19,511,199 | 19,511,062 | 1 | 2 | 19,507,225 | train | <story><title>Cisco Fixes RV320/RV325 Vulnerability by Banning “curl” in User-Agent</title><url>https://twitter.com/RedTeamPT/status/1110843396657238016</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>nabla9</author><text>&quot;Engineer&quot; conveys image of middle class white-collar job with relatively high status, good education and responsibilities. That word now used for everyone doing programming related jobs inside office space for no good reason.<p>I think the word &quot;tehnician&quot; should be used to describe most grey-collar ICT jobs, including most programmers. Their responsibility and scope of their work is limited. Many programming jobs are closer to blue collar factory level mechanic than engineer.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Grey-collar" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Grey-collar</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Technician" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Technician</a></text></item><item><author>admax88q</author><text>On HN its always big bad management who is the cause of every security problem or shoddy piece of engineering. If only that pesky management would screw off then we could do things &quot;properly&quot;.<p>You&#x27;d be suprieed at how many incompetent engineers there are out there. If &quot;engineer&quot; Alice in your story was actually competent they would never agree to implement the proposed &quot;fix&quot;. Its not a fix. To pass it off as one would be malpractice for a real Engineer.</text></item><item><author>0xcde4c3db</author><text>Having been involved in meetings where &quot;stop ship&quot; was the phrase of the day, I&#x27;d bet money that the following at least vaguely resembles a real conversation:<p>Engineer Alice: We should really fix this properly.<p>Manager: How sure are you that the proper fix won&#x27;t break something else for $BIG_CUSTOMERS who are responsible for $OBSCENE percent of this product line&#x27;s revenue?<p>Engineer Bob: Uh, ten percent on a good day? Do you remember the last time we applied a &quot;simple&quot; hotfix to this function? I almost had to sleep under my desk.<p>Manager: And we can just prevent it with an extra regex rule in the front end code?<p>Engineer Alice: ... Yes. <i>irrepressibly existential sigh</i><p>Manager: How much QA effort to call this good?<p>QA Engineer: We can run through a cut-down version of the acceptance test suite in four or five hours.<p>Manager: And for the proper fix?<p>QA Engineer: Oh, hell, at least a week of stress testing to really be sure.<p>Manager: Add the regex rule.</text></item><item><author>danso</author><text>Of all the security post-mortems I’ve ever wanted to read, it’s sad I’ll probably never get to read this one and its tale of how a team of well-paid comfortable engineers got together and decided this patch was a good idea.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>TeMPOraL</author><text>Yup. The reality of this industry is that most programmers are closer to the handymen you call to fix your faucet or lay floor tiles than to actual engineers. And we all have first-hand or second-hand horror stories related to handymen.</text></comment> | <story><title>Cisco Fixes RV320/RV325 Vulnerability by Banning “curl” in User-Agent</title><url>https://twitter.com/RedTeamPT/status/1110843396657238016</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>nabla9</author><text>&quot;Engineer&quot; conveys image of middle class white-collar job with relatively high status, good education and responsibilities. That word now used for everyone doing programming related jobs inside office space for no good reason.<p>I think the word &quot;tehnician&quot; should be used to describe most grey-collar ICT jobs, including most programmers. Their responsibility and scope of their work is limited. Many programming jobs are closer to blue collar factory level mechanic than engineer.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Grey-collar" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Grey-collar</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Technician" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Technician</a></text></item><item><author>admax88q</author><text>On HN its always big bad management who is the cause of every security problem or shoddy piece of engineering. If only that pesky management would screw off then we could do things &quot;properly&quot;.<p>You&#x27;d be suprieed at how many incompetent engineers there are out there. If &quot;engineer&quot; Alice in your story was actually competent they would never agree to implement the proposed &quot;fix&quot;. Its not a fix. To pass it off as one would be malpractice for a real Engineer.</text></item><item><author>0xcde4c3db</author><text>Having been involved in meetings where &quot;stop ship&quot; was the phrase of the day, I&#x27;d bet money that the following at least vaguely resembles a real conversation:<p>Engineer Alice: We should really fix this properly.<p>Manager: How sure are you that the proper fix won&#x27;t break something else for $BIG_CUSTOMERS who are responsible for $OBSCENE percent of this product line&#x27;s revenue?<p>Engineer Bob: Uh, ten percent on a good day? Do you remember the last time we applied a &quot;simple&quot; hotfix to this function? I almost had to sleep under my desk.<p>Manager: And we can just prevent it with an extra regex rule in the front end code?<p>Engineer Alice: ... Yes. <i>irrepressibly existential sigh</i><p>Manager: How much QA effort to call this good?<p>QA Engineer: We can run through a cut-down version of the acceptance test suite in four or five hours.<p>Manager: And for the proper fix?<p>QA Engineer: Oh, hell, at least a week of stress testing to really be sure.<p>Manager: Add the regex rule.</text></item><item><author>danso</author><text>Of all the security post-mortems I’ve ever wanted to read, it’s sad I’ll probably never get to read this one and its tale of how a team of well-paid comfortable engineers got together and decided this patch was a good idea.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pjmlp</author><text>Thankfully there are countries where Engineer is still a proper word, not something that you are allowed to call yourself after a 6 month bootcamp.</text></comment> |
34,732,306 | 34,732,509 | 1 | 2 | 34,726,735 | train | <story><title>GitHub to lay off 10% and close all offices</title><url>https://twitter.com/webology/status/1623722731819659269</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>laurels-marts</author><text>&gt;Employees are often reluctant to leave jobs where they have a lot of personal relationships<p>That sounds like having a life. I guess the alternative is to isolate yourself to a point where you don&#x27;t have any personal relationships. No hard choices then.</text></item><item><author>simplicio</author><text>Maybe, but that works both ways. Employees are often reluctant to leave jobs where they have a lot of personal relationships, or if getting a new job would entail moving to a new city&#x2F;state&#x2F;country, even if jumping ship would entail a sizable payraise or other improvement in working conditions.<p>In an industry where remote work is the norm and changing jobs doesn&#x27;t even require changing offices, people are much less likely to give up some pay to stay where they are.</text></item><item><author>JasserInicide</author><text>I&#x27;ll contend that while I&#x27;ve been fully taken advantage of remote work (and probably want my next job to be remote too), I still fully believe it&#x27;s a long term &quot;leading lambs to the slaughter&quot; type of plan. Companies save big on remote in so many ways. No more offices. No more weekly happy hours (just do a company retreat every 6 months). They can now depress salaries even further because they have a wider pool from which to choose. Don&#x27;t need to bother with those pesky things called relationships because your boss from 500 miles away can lay off your ass without breaking a sweat.<p>It&#x27;s short term benefits for all, but ultimately the workers <i>will</i> lose out.</text></item><item><author>geuis</author><text>Look, you can&#x27;t have it both ways. People on HN are always talking badly about companies that don&#x27;t allow work from home, or require at least a couple days in the office. Then a company says it&#x27;s going entirely remote (not including the layoff context) and people shit on that.<p>Which is it?<p>As for the layoffs, I don&#x27;t have anything to add to that. There a Microsoft decision.</text></item><item><author>rossdavidh</author><text>Closing all offices, I have to say, makes it way easier to do more layoffs. Having been through layoffs in semiconductor manufacturing in the 90&#x27;s, when you had to, you know, get the people from work and take them to a place and all that, it involved paying a lot of money for extra security and such. With no offices, it&#x27;s a lot easier, and you never have to meet the person face to face.<p>Five years from now, I think we will not see &quot;remote only&quot; for a large company and think &quot;ooh, they value their employees I guess&quot;, but rather, &quot;uh oh, they like to think of their employees as being like virtual servers, easy to spin up and easy to shut down the moment you don&#x27;t need to pay for that capacity&quot;.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>xkcd-sucks</author><text>idk I religiously firewall my work and personal life but still feel a lot of &quot;personal work employment inertia&quot;:<p><pre><code> - I know that everyone doesn&#x27;t suck to work with
- I know who to ask for specific institutional knowledge, or to get something done through unofficial channels
- I know who is more or less competent in specific domains
- I know what kind of work people do and do not enjoy
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etc. It&#x27;s actually the main reason I haven&#x27;t done the whole salary optimization by job hopping thing, well that and the effort of hyping myself up into extroverted self-pimp mode</text></comment> | <story><title>GitHub to lay off 10% and close all offices</title><url>https://twitter.com/webology/status/1623722731819659269</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>laurels-marts</author><text>&gt;Employees are often reluctant to leave jobs where they have a lot of personal relationships<p>That sounds like having a life. I guess the alternative is to isolate yourself to a point where you don&#x27;t have any personal relationships. No hard choices then.</text></item><item><author>simplicio</author><text>Maybe, but that works both ways. Employees are often reluctant to leave jobs where they have a lot of personal relationships, or if getting a new job would entail moving to a new city&#x2F;state&#x2F;country, even if jumping ship would entail a sizable payraise or other improvement in working conditions.<p>In an industry where remote work is the norm and changing jobs doesn&#x27;t even require changing offices, people are much less likely to give up some pay to stay where they are.</text></item><item><author>JasserInicide</author><text>I&#x27;ll contend that while I&#x27;ve been fully taken advantage of remote work (and probably want my next job to be remote too), I still fully believe it&#x27;s a long term &quot;leading lambs to the slaughter&quot; type of plan. Companies save big on remote in so many ways. No more offices. No more weekly happy hours (just do a company retreat every 6 months). They can now depress salaries even further because they have a wider pool from which to choose. Don&#x27;t need to bother with those pesky things called relationships because your boss from 500 miles away can lay off your ass without breaking a sweat.<p>It&#x27;s short term benefits for all, but ultimately the workers <i>will</i> lose out.</text></item><item><author>geuis</author><text>Look, you can&#x27;t have it both ways. People on HN are always talking badly about companies that don&#x27;t allow work from home, or require at least a couple days in the office. Then a company says it&#x27;s going entirely remote (not including the layoff context) and people shit on that.<p>Which is it?<p>As for the layoffs, I don&#x27;t have anything to add to that. There a Microsoft decision.</text></item><item><author>rossdavidh</author><text>Closing all offices, I have to say, makes it way easier to do more layoffs. Having been through layoffs in semiconductor manufacturing in the 90&#x27;s, when you had to, you know, get the people from work and take them to a place and all that, it involved paying a lot of money for extra security and such. With no offices, it&#x27;s a lot easier, and you never have to meet the person face to face.<p>Five years from now, I think we will not see &quot;remote only&quot; for a large company and think &quot;ooh, they value their employees I guess&quot;, but rather, &quot;uh oh, they like to think of their employees as being like virtual servers, easy to spin up and easy to shut down the moment you don&#x27;t need to pay for that capacity&quot;.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>matwood</author><text>&gt; you don&#x27;t have any personal relationships.<p>You mean work relationships?<p>I have relationships outside work. Though, I&#x27;m fully remote and also have work relationships.</text></comment> |
21,555,558 | 21,550,453 | 1 | 2 | 21,547,369 | train | <story><title>Show HN: Faster UTF-8 validator</title><url>https://github.com/zwegner/faster-utf8-validator</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>andrewf</author><text>Hi! I took a shot at vectorized UTF-8 validation in 2012. I just put this faster validator, and Daniel Lemire&#x27;s code, into my test harness at <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;andrewffff&#x2F;utf8fuzz&#x2F;tree&#x2F;2019_compare" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;andrewffff&#x2F;utf8fuzz&#x2F;tree&#x2F;2019_compare</a><p>On an i7-7800X (clang 6.0.0-1ubuntu2, WSL, don&#x27;t trust my numbers) my benchmarks showed about the same relationship between SSE4, AVX2 and Lemire&#x27;s code, as your benchmarks did. My own attempt is about half as fast. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;raw.githubusercontent.com&#x2F;andrewffff&#x2F;utf8fuzz&#x2F;2019_compare&#x2F;rough-benchmark.png" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;raw.githubusercontent.com&#x2F;andrewffff&#x2F;utf8fuzz&#x2F;2019_c...</a><p>A few examples of invalid UTF-8 from Markus Kuhn&#x27;s suite pass this validator right now, specifically 4.1.3, 4.2.3 and 4.3.3. My randomized tests, which compare the results from different validators, also fail a small percentage of the time, I&#x27;d guess for the same reason. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cl.cam.ac.uk&#x2F;~mgk25&#x2F;ucs&#x2F;examples&#x2F;UTF-8-test.txt" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cl.cam.ac.uk&#x2F;~mgk25&#x2F;ucs&#x2F;examples&#x2F;UTF-8-test.txt</a><p>I&#x27;m really interested in the different approaches taken here. Fortunately both Daniel and you&#x27;ve communicated what you were doing, I think it&#x27;s going to take longer for me to re-comprehend my own approach!<p>Thanks for sharing this.</text></comment> | <story><title>Show HN: Faster UTF-8 validator</title><url>https://github.com/zwegner/faster-utf8-validator</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>BeeOnRope</author><text>Good stuff.<p>The key to a solid claim, especially for something as bold as &quot;fastest in the world&quot;, is a complete specification of the inputs to the benchmark.<p>You mention random ASCII bytes and &quot;random UTF-8 bytes&quot;. The former is definitely an really important case but also the least interesting. I can write on a napkin a UTF-8-but-is-actually-ASCII decoder that approaches 256 bytes a cycle cached (with a fallback routine when the ASCII assumption fails).<p>So then what about the random UTF-8 bytes. What does it mean? Do you generate random bytes and then exclude invalid sequences? Do you generate a uniform random codepoint in the 21-bit codepoint space and then concert it to utf-8?<p>At a minimum it would good to see a benchmark with random distributions that approximate common languages.<p>The true fastest decoders on such realistic data will be adaptive and more complicated than yours.</text></comment> |
11,410,409 | 11,409,933 | 1 | 2 | 11,409,507 | train | <story><title>Bay Area Home Prices by Transit Stop</title><url>http://www.estately.com/bay-area-home-affordability-transit-stop?largemap=true</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>EarthIsHome</author><text>Related somewhat: Atlanta median income down MARTA&#x27;s Red line (travels North to South) <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.wabe.org&#x2F;post&#x2F;atlanta-biggest-gap-between-rich-and-poor-us" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.wabe.org&#x2F;post&#x2F;atlanta-biggest-gap-between-rich-a...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>zumatic</author><text>And here&#x27;s one for London:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.thrillist.com&#x2F;lifestyle&#x2F;london&#x2F;london-underground-rent-map" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.thrillist.com&#x2F;lifestyle&#x2F;london&#x2F;london-undergroun...</a><p>Direct link to large-scale map:<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;assets3.thrillist.com&#x2F;v1&#x2F;image&#x2F;1560005" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;assets3.thrillist.com&#x2F;v1&#x2F;image&#x2F;1560005</a><p>Note we tend to think of flats in terms of number of bedrooms. Hatton Cross is right next to Heathrow airport, if you&#x27;re wondering why it is so cheap.</text></comment> | <story><title>Bay Area Home Prices by Transit Stop</title><url>http://www.estately.com/bay-area-home-affordability-transit-stop?largemap=true</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>EarthIsHome</author><text>Related somewhat: Atlanta median income down MARTA&#x27;s Red line (travels North to South) <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.wabe.org&#x2F;post&#x2F;atlanta-biggest-gap-between-rich-and-poor-us" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.wabe.org&#x2F;post&#x2F;atlanta-biggest-gap-between-rich-a...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Rhapso</author><text>It is fun to play &quot;who will get off at which stop&quot; on marta Red line because of this effect.<p>The income disparity in atlanta is insane and getting worse.</text></comment> |
19,482,267 | 19,482,152 | 1 | 2 | 19,477,845 | train | <story><title>India’s data labellers are powering the global AI race</title><url>https://factordaily.com/indian-data-labellers-powering-the-global-ai-race/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>snrji</author><text>Unsupervised learning is the dark matter of AI, as LeCun said. We cannot rely on labeled data, which is expensive and scarce.<p>The first company to figure out how to leverage the massive unlabeled data that is available will win the AI arms race.<p>We have already seen impressive progress (language models, GANs...) but much more work remains. Models requiring labeled data or only working with toy data (even if unlabeled) will soon become irrelevant.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bjoernbu</author><text>&gt; The first company to figure out how to leverage the massive unlabeled data that is available will win the AI arms race.<p>I would expect that this will remain a per-task question for a very long time, maybe even forever. For example, I was amazed at how elegant <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;openai.com&#x2F;blog&#x2F;unsupervised-sentiment-neuron&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;openai.com&#x2F;blog&#x2F;unsupervised-sentiment-neuron&#x2F;</a> is for an unsupervised model for sentiment analysis.<p>I think there are numerous similar application in text understanding and I would not be suprised to eventually seen many sota systems learn in an unsupervised fashion.
Still, there remain many other tasks (in general, but also for text understanding) where this and similar strategies do not seem applicable to me -- or at least where I cannot directly imagine how they should be.<p>I would not be suprised if we end up with many, many successful strategies to apply unsupervised learning -- many completely different, and thousands of problems still being used with the help of supervised learning. Not with a &quot;company to figure out&quot; a general case</text></comment> | <story><title>India’s data labellers are powering the global AI race</title><url>https://factordaily.com/indian-data-labellers-powering-the-global-ai-race/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>snrji</author><text>Unsupervised learning is the dark matter of AI, as LeCun said. We cannot rely on labeled data, which is expensive and scarce.<p>The first company to figure out how to leverage the massive unlabeled data that is available will win the AI arms race.<p>We have already seen impressive progress (language models, GANs...) but much more work remains. Models requiring labeled data or only working with toy data (even if unlabeled) will soon become irrelevant.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Tenoke</author><text>&gt;Unsupervised learning is the dark matter of AI, as LeCun said. We cannot rely on labeled data, which is expensive and scarce.<p>This sounds very extreme to me. Sure, unsupervised learning is already bearing fruit (most obviously in NLP) but there are domains where labeled data is unlikely to disappear soon - in many cases semi-supervised learning is a more reasonable goal which will reduce the need for labeling (or labeling-related tasks).<p>&gt;The first company to figure out how to leverage the massive unlabeled data that is available will win the AI arms race.<p>This is an even stronger claim. Why are you so sure only one actor will be able to leverage it? Yes, it will be a huge boon but claiming that the first to crack it will &#x27;win&#x27; seems very farfetched.</text></comment> |
16,064,510 | 16,064,706 | 1 | 3 | 16,063,946 | train | <story><title>GIMPS Project Discovers Largest Known Prime Number</title><url>https://www.mersenne.org/primes/press/M77232917.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>imhelpingu</author><text>So <i>that&#x27;s</i> what it&#x27;s working on when it&#x27;s starting up.</text></comment> | <story><title>GIMPS Project Discovers Largest Known Prime Number</title><url>https://www.mersenne.org/primes/press/M77232917.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>netcraft</author><text>so I didn&#x27;t know this, but got curious about how many known prime there are - I knew there were infinite primes, but thought that there would be some concrete list of all the primes that we had discovered somewhere - but apparently not<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;math.stackexchange.com&#x2F;questions&#x2F;272791&#x2F;how-many-prime-numbers-are-known" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;math.stackexchange.com&#x2F;questions&#x2F;272791&#x2F;how-many-pri...</a><p>&gt; Nobody&#x27;s really keeping count. ... There are very many hundred-digit primes to find. We could cover the Earth in harddisks full of distinct hundred-digit primes to a height of hundreds of meters, without even making a dent in the supply of hundred-digit primes.</text></comment> |
27,420,936 | 27,421,066 | 1 | 3 | 27,420,667 | train | <story><title>HTTP Status Dogs (2011)</title><url>https://httpstatusdogs.com/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>MattKimber</author><text>One surprisingly practical use I found for things like this; when internal tools throw up a 404 or a 503 with the usual default status page, people assume &quot;oh it&#x27;s not working, I&#x27;ll try again later&quot;.<p>When they get an unexpected cat (or dog, in this case) they tend to go and ask their tech team, &quot;what&#x27;s with the cat?&quot; It&#x27;s not a substitute for good logging and alerting in any way, and is totally unsuitable for environments where internal tools need to appear professional and sensible, but as a way to get people to pay attention when something goes wrong then a cute animal can work a lot better than a &quot;normal&quot; notification.</text></comment> | <story><title>HTTP Status Dogs (2011)</title><url>https://httpstatusdogs.com/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>kypro</author><text>Might be okay on a humour site, or perhaps in an internal tool, but some of these are a bit tasteless IMO. It could be far more useful if you were able to pick from a selection of individual images or image sets depending on the usecase. Although even then these kinds of http error images scream early-2000s web humour to me.</text></comment> |
15,829,541 | 15,829,604 | 1 | 2 | 15,827,177 | train | <story><title>The Great American Single-Family Home Problem</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/01/business/economy/single-family-home.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>leggomylibro</author><text>People are selfish; if they make a big investment and you&#x27;re about to reduce its value, they will fight tooth and nail. Any conversation about &#x27;right&#x27;, &#x27;wrong&#x27;, &#x27;moral&#x27;, it all goes out the window.<p>It really sucks that so much of peoples&#x27; value is often tied up in a single property. It would be a gobsmackingly terrible investment decision, if you didn&#x27;t need shelter to live reasonably well.<p>So let&#x27;s be clear. These people are being incredibly selfish, and that is reprehensible. But they also don&#x27;t really have a good alternative that wouldn&#x27;t lose them a lot of money in a time where, if they&#x27;re not in the class that owns multiple houses, they&#x27;re already struggling. And that is sort of ameliorating imo.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ajross</author><text>&gt; But they also don&#x27;t really have a good alternative that wouldn&#x27;t lose them a lot of money in a time where, if they&#x27;re not in the class that owns multiple houses, they&#x27;re already struggling<p>These people are <i>property owners in Berkeley, California</i>. While I&#x27;m sure yarns can be spun about the difference between asset value and cash liquidity, this is just not an impoverished class, sorry. They&#x27;ve seen their property values go through the roof, then the trees, now through the first cloud layer into the open sky with eyes toward low orbit. Arguing that they don&#x27;t have an &quot;alternative&quot; is a little spun.<p>To wit: cry me a river. Build those homes.</text></comment> | <story><title>The Great American Single-Family Home Problem</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/01/business/economy/single-family-home.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>leggomylibro</author><text>People are selfish; if they make a big investment and you&#x27;re about to reduce its value, they will fight tooth and nail. Any conversation about &#x27;right&#x27;, &#x27;wrong&#x27;, &#x27;moral&#x27;, it all goes out the window.<p>It really sucks that so much of peoples&#x27; value is often tied up in a single property. It would be a gobsmackingly terrible investment decision, if you didn&#x27;t need shelter to live reasonably well.<p>So let&#x27;s be clear. These people are being incredibly selfish, and that is reprehensible. But they also don&#x27;t really have a good alternative that wouldn&#x27;t lose them a lot of money in a time where, if they&#x27;re not in the class that owns multiple houses, they&#x27;re already struggling. And that is sort of ameliorating imo.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>lisper</author><text>Some people want to live in a place that looks like this:<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.unitedcountry.com&#x2F;CountryHomes&#x2F;img&#x2F;Country_Homes_7.jpg" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.unitedcountry.com&#x2F;CountryHomes&#x2F;img&#x2F;Country_Homes_...</a><p>and some people want to live in a place that looks like this:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cmgsite.com&#x2F;wp-content&#x2F;uploads&#x2F;2015&#x2F;03&#x2F;Presidio-Landmark-0031.jpg" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cmgsite.com&#x2F;wp-content&#x2F;uploads&#x2F;2015&#x2F;03&#x2F;Presidio-...</a><p>and some people want to live in a place that looks like this:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;upload.wikimedia.org&#x2F;wikipedia&#x2F;commons&#x2F;2&#x2F;23&#x2F;Hong_Kong_Skyline_Restitch_-_Dec_2007.jpg" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;upload.wikimedia.org&#x2F;wikipedia&#x2F;commons&#x2F;2&#x2F;23&#x2F;Hong_Kon...</a><p>The problem is that someone who moves to the first type of place doesn&#x27;t want to have to move again when it turns into the second type of place, and someone who moves to the second type of place doesn&#x27;t want to move again when it turns into the third type of place. It&#x27;s not entirely unreasonable.</text></comment> |
32,192,520 | 32,192,139 | 1 | 2 | 32,191,702 | train | <story><title>Eve Online's most notorious player has quit the game</title><url>https://www.pcgamer.com/eve-onlines-most-notorious-player-has-quit-the-game/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>JRKrause</author><text>While I haven&#x27;t played EvE in many years, I still hold many fond memories of it back from my middle&#x2F;high school years.
Particularly when I chose to abandon the peaceful in-game lifestyle of building and selling ship to other players in favor of the pirate life.<p>I did this by fitting a small and fast ship with close-range weaponry that allowed me to take engagements versus much larger ships whose weapons couldn&#x27;t reliably hit a target with so much transverse velocity. In addition I would run a special module that allowed you to deactivate your opponents warp drive, preventing them from escaping.<p>In game life was then just patrolling law-less star systems waiting for another player to arrive, typically they&#x27;d come to my star-systems in search of NPC pirates to destroy, netting in-game currency.<p>Once the prey was busy fighting the ai-pirates, I&#x27;d warp into their local space and begin shooting them to pieces. Once their ship was on the brink of destruction, I&#x27;d open a comm channel and demand an in-game currency transfer in exchange for letting them go.<p>This was a mutually beneficial arrangement as the ransom was lower than their ship value but also higher than what I could salvage from their wreckage.<p>As you&#x27;d imagine, responses were varied. More often than not however I&#x27;d get the payment and they&#x27;d return to safe space intact.<p>Ironically, I received more in-game love-mail than hate-mail for my exploits.<p>I&#x27;ve grown into a much nicer person since then but I can&#x27;t help but look back on those times fondly.</text></comment> | <story><title>Eve Online's most notorious player has quit the game</title><url>https://www.pcgamer.com/eve-onlines-most-notorious-player-has-quit-the-game/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>AdmiralAsshat</author><text>Hard to tell from the article whether the real person is stepping down, or his in-universe avatar is. Like, is he gone for good? Or will he just reappear as a new lvl 1 player in two weeks?<p>I assume the former, but there&#x27;s something perversely funny about the idea of a player in a fictional universe having to resign from fictional corporation because he failed to adequately address in-universe HR claims.</text></comment> |
25,748,123 | 25,744,466 | 1 | 2 | 25,735,032 | train | <story><title>Ubiquiti Networks Breach</title><url>https://mailchi.mp/ubnt/account-notification?e=30527b2904</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>nh2</author><text>Regarding authenticity, from the TechCrunch article about this:<p>&gt; The networking company quickly followed its email with a post on its community pages confirming that the email was authentic, after several complained that the email sent to customers included typos.<p>Indeed: How am I supposed to know whether this email is really from Ubiquiti?<p>* There was apparently no official press release.<p>* All links in the email, including the &quot;Change password&quot; button, are to e.g. `<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;ui.us8.list-manage.com&#x2F;track&#x2F;click?u=somehexnumber&amp;id=morehex&amp;e=morehex" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;ui.us8.list-manage.com&#x2F;track&#x2F;click?u=somehexnumber&amp;i...</a>`.<p>* The delivering server is `mail42.atl11.rsgsv.net`, which the TLD of which doesn&#x27;t seem to resolve in my browser to provide hints.<p>* Various news sites that reported this either just referred to &quot;emails people got&quot;, screenshots random people got via Twitter, or link to the Mailchimp site, for which I&#x27;m not sure how to verify whether the &quot;ubnt&quot; account actually belongs to Ubiquiti.<p>Given this, how shall the normal affected user figure out that this isn&#x27;t well-executed phishing?<p>It seems companies could do a much better job making it obvious that their emails are legit. Especially if they were just breached, and &quot;Change password&quot; buttons are involved.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>stronglikedan</author><text>I missed a mortgage payment, because my mortgage company launched their &quot;new&quot; website as a subdomain on a primary domain that wasn&#x27;t registered to them. They sent an email from that same domain, directing people to the new site. I tried to verify the authenticity of the email with their customer service team, but, crickets. No one bothered contacting me until they wanted to chase me down for the payment, at which point, I told them what a horrible practice it was, and insisted they remove the late fee. They did remove the fee, but the site and all related emails <i>still</i> look like phishing attempts. Not surprising really, given that the majority of companies double-down on stupid when called out for their blunders.</text></comment> | <story><title>Ubiquiti Networks Breach</title><url>https://mailchi.mp/ubnt/account-notification?e=30527b2904</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>nh2</author><text>Regarding authenticity, from the TechCrunch article about this:<p>&gt; The networking company quickly followed its email with a post on its community pages confirming that the email was authentic, after several complained that the email sent to customers included typos.<p>Indeed: How am I supposed to know whether this email is really from Ubiquiti?<p>* There was apparently no official press release.<p>* All links in the email, including the &quot;Change password&quot; button, are to e.g. `<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;ui.us8.list-manage.com&#x2F;track&#x2F;click?u=somehexnumber&amp;id=morehex&amp;e=morehex" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;ui.us8.list-manage.com&#x2F;track&#x2F;click?u=somehexnumber&amp;i...</a>`.<p>* The delivering server is `mail42.atl11.rsgsv.net`, which the TLD of which doesn&#x27;t seem to resolve in my browser to provide hints.<p>* Various news sites that reported this either just referred to &quot;emails people got&quot;, screenshots random people got via Twitter, or link to the Mailchimp site, for which I&#x27;m not sure how to verify whether the &quot;ubnt&quot; account actually belongs to Ubiquiti.<p>Given this, how shall the normal affected user figure out that this isn&#x27;t well-executed phishing?<p>It seems companies could do a much better job making it obvious that their emails are legit. Especially if they were just breached, and &quot;Change password&quot; buttons are involved.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>cutthegrass2</author><text>The best user behaviour on receiving a potentially &#x27;fishy&#x27; email is to not click any inks, but to go directly to the site in question and change your password, if you feel the email is genuine in anyway.</text></comment> |
23,353,906 | 23,353,071 | 1 | 3 | 23,352,128 | train | <story><title>Two years in, GDPR defined by mixed signals, unbalanced enforcement</title><url>https://www.complianceweek.com/gdpr/two-years-in-gdpr-defined-by-mixed-signals-unbalanced-enforcement/28972.article</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>volak</author><text>I would pay a subscription to a news site if they spent all their time evaluating 2-5 year old events and determining which side was right.<p>2 years ago comments of &quot;this will only benefit the lawyers&quot; would be -50 points. Turns out... actually yeah.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>exabrial</author><text>Reminds me when the EU &quot;Fixed&quot; Cookies and now we have these stupid click-through warnings everywhere that have pretty much ruined the user experience. Root cause: people passing laws they have idea what about.</text></comment> | <story><title>Two years in, GDPR defined by mixed signals, unbalanced enforcement</title><url>https://www.complianceweek.com/gdpr/two-years-in-gdpr-defined-by-mixed-signals-unbalanced-enforcement/28972.article</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>volak</author><text>I would pay a subscription to a news site if they spent all their time evaluating 2-5 year old events and determining which side was right.<p>2 years ago comments of &quot;this will only benefit the lawyers&quot; would be -50 points. Turns out... actually yeah.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kodablah</author><text>There is a bit deja vu, since at that time we were pointing out similar flaws in the DPD (lack of enforcement, lack of clarity, govt inefficiencies, the inability for proponents to separate intent from reality, etc).<p>Sadly, there is an absolute &quot;for or against&quot; mentality out there. You can&#x27;t make it clear that the implementation of such a law would be poor enough to not justify it being enacted in the first place lest you are told &quot;well, should we do nothing?&quot;. We can easily start with easy-to-understand&#x2F;implement transparency requirements (maybe even just as guidelines or requirements for a form of certification at first while encouraging technical solutions in the meantime). Never-realized scary fines might as well have never been brought forth.</text></comment> |
22,141,057 | 22,140,858 | 1 | 2 | 22,140,226 | train | <story><title>How to Read Self-Help</title><url>https://tjcx.me/posts/more-from-self-help/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jordanpg</author><text>My main objection to these types of books is how overly verbose they tend to be. With a few exceptions, this category of book is built around a nucleus of few possibly valuable pearls of <i>wisdom</i>, and then 300 pages of filler is added. Usually lots of anecdotes (&quot;Let me tell you about my friend Alice...&quot;), checklists, and needless exposition.<p>If this really is <i>wisdom</i>, it does not follow that it takes 300 pages to communicate. But I suppose the propounders have to make a living somehow.<p>To be honest, I don&#x27;t object to buying the book if it&#x27;s really got some good wisdom, but I would be more likely to if they shipped with some sort of executive summary.</text></comment> | <story><title>How to Read Self-Help</title><url>https://tjcx.me/posts/more-from-self-help/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>brenschluss</author><text>I’m a fan of some self-help books. However, a major aspect that this article misses is that self-help is not a purely mental &amp; cognitive activity. In my experience, the best books are pathways to action - they are like recipe cookbooks, where you actually have to try out the thing in order to experience a change. Neurosurgeons don’t get their wisdom by reading - they practice, watch other people, assist, perform, and train. They learn by training. Self-help is the same.<p>Evaluating self-help books by what we understood by reading it is like trying to feel full and satiated by reading a cookbook of recipes. The cookbook and self-help book is there to be acted on.</text></comment> |
21,974,805 | 21,974,956 | 1 | 3 | 21,974,609 | train | <story><title>Better protecting kids’ privacy on YouTube</title><url>https://youtube.googleblog.com/2020/01/better-protecting-kids-privacy-on-YouTube.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Rebelgecko</author><text>Some of the features that get disabled for &quot;children&#x27;s content&quot; are a bit surprising:<p>Playback in the Miniplayer<p>Save to playlist and Save to watch later<p>Likes and dislikes on YouTube Music<p>Donate buttons<p>I guess it&#x27;s hard to do these in a way that is compliant with the privacy rules, or they&#x27;re worried that kids will donate $1000 to their favorite Youtuber with Mom and Dad&#x27;s credit card? It will be interesting to see how good their machine learning is at identifying &quot;kid&#x27;s content&quot;. From reading the FTC page, the delineation seems a bit arbitrary. I suppose we&#x27;ll see if there&#x27;s a financial impact on Youtubers that are borderline (is someone playing a video game considered children&#x27;s content? What if the videogame is rated M? Will the tiebreaker be statistics about their actual viewers?)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rexf</author><text>Unintended purchases are a real issue. I&#x27;ve witnessed first hand how young kids tend to press anything on the screen without any thought. I saw them press and nearly purchase youtube&#x27;s &quot;Super Chat, a tool that lets you pay to pin comments on live streams&quot; without knowing what it was.</text></comment> | <story><title>Better protecting kids’ privacy on YouTube</title><url>https://youtube.googleblog.com/2020/01/better-protecting-kids-privacy-on-YouTube.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Rebelgecko</author><text>Some of the features that get disabled for &quot;children&#x27;s content&quot; are a bit surprising:<p>Playback in the Miniplayer<p>Save to playlist and Save to watch later<p>Likes and dislikes on YouTube Music<p>Donate buttons<p>I guess it&#x27;s hard to do these in a way that is compliant with the privacy rules, or they&#x27;re worried that kids will donate $1000 to their favorite Youtuber with Mom and Dad&#x27;s credit card? It will be interesting to see how good their machine learning is at identifying &quot;kid&#x27;s content&quot;. From reading the FTC page, the delineation seems a bit arbitrary. I suppose we&#x27;ll see if there&#x27;s a financial impact on Youtubers that are borderline (is someone playing a video game considered children&#x27;s content? What if the videogame is rated M? Will the tiebreaker be statistics about their actual viewers?)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tshaddox</author><text>I think we&#x27;ll find that distinguishing between &quot;children&#x27;s content&quot; and &quot;family-friendly content&quot; is difficult not just for YouTube&#x27;s algorithms but for humans as well. I suspect we&#x27;ll see even more channels get hit by this simply because they&#x27;re not identifiably &quot;adult&quot; in any way.</text></comment> |
2,290,306 | 2,290,232 | 1 | 2 | 2,290,105 | train | <story><title>Judge Allows Sony to Unmask Anyone Who Visited GeoHot Site</title><url>http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2011/03/geohot-site-unmasking/</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>A1kmm</author><text><p><pre><code> $ telnet geohot.com 80
HEAD / HTTP/1.1
Host: geohot.com
User-Agent: Dear Sony, I heard you would be reading this log. Because of the way you treat researchers like GeoHot, and your own customers, I will never buy a Sony product again.</code></pre></text></comment> | <story><title>Judge Allows Sony to Unmask Anyone Who Visited GeoHot Site</title><url>http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2011/03/geohot-site-unmasking/</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jseifer</author><text>Reading this article was really crazy. Sony has also subpoenaed YouTube for information on <i>anyone who watched the video he posted</i> and it was approved. The rationale is that they're trying to sue in California and this will help better prove distribution there. It does not say what Sony intends to do with the information otherwise which is kind of scary.</text></comment> |
17,013,973 | 17,013,549 | 1 | 3 | 17,012,995 | train | <story><title>Concorde ‘B’</title><url>https://www.heritageconcorde.com/concorde-b</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tetrep</author><text>There&#x27;s a wealth of public transit options that will reliably get you from Manhattan to JFK in about an hour.<p>I haven&#x27;t waited in a security line at an airport for more than 30 minutes in years. When lines get long they drop the security theater and start letting people through very quickly. I imagine people who are willing to pay for SST would also pay the troll toll and spend comparatively very little time in security lines.<p>For context, I fly (usually coast to coast) about a dozen or more times a year.</text></item><item><author>zwieback</author><text>I have a hard time imagining SST making any sense given that we spend hours stuck in traffic, then stuck in the TSA line, customs, stuck in traffic again. The gain of a few hours from NY to London or Paris doesn&#x27;t seem enough. If you could extend the range to where you can do really long-haul flights maybe it would be interesting to a tiny elite.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>hammock</author><text>I was (trying) to fly out of jfk terminal 7 yesterday coast to coast. The line at security was 2-3 hours long and there is no precheck lane. They were still naked scanning over 50% of passengers. I had to cut the line to make my flight.<p>This is not typical, but it does still happen even at the airports you mentioned.</text></comment> | <story><title>Concorde ‘B’</title><url>https://www.heritageconcorde.com/concorde-b</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tetrep</author><text>There&#x27;s a wealth of public transit options that will reliably get you from Manhattan to JFK in about an hour.<p>I haven&#x27;t waited in a security line at an airport for more than 30 minutes in years. When lines get long they drop the security theater and start letting people through very quickly. I imagine people who are willing to pay for SST would also pay the troll toll and spend comparatively very little time in security lines.<p>For context, I fly (usually coast to coast) about a dozen or more times a year.</text></item><item><author>zwieback</author><text>I have a hard time imagining SST making any sense given that we spend hours stuck in traffic, then stuck in the TSA line, customs, stuck in traffic again. The gain of a few hours from NY to London or Paris doesn&#x27;t seem enough. If you could extend the range to where you can do really long-haul flights maybe it would be interesting to a tiny elite.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jacquesm</author><text>&gt; When lines get long they drop the security theater and start letting people through very quickly.<p>Which airports? US domestic flights? Because internationally I&#x27;ve never seen this happen.</text></comment> |
26,741,294 | 26,740,415 | 1 | 2 | 26,739,124 | train | <story><title>Tell HN: Today I learned Epub is just HTML/CSS</title><url>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EPUB#:~:text=EPUB%20is%20an%20e%2Dbook,smartphones%2C%20tablets%2C%20and%20computers.</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ocdtrekkie</author><text>This is why I&#x27;m super irritated Microsoft dropped EPUB support in Edge when switching to Chromium, and why it&#x27;s so frustrating that EPUB support isn&#x27;t common by default in operating systems: It&#x27;s literally just HTML&#x2F;CSS in an opinionated structure. EPUB should be as ubiquitously supported as PDF is today, no browser has an excuse for not supporting it.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>arthur2e5</author><text>One of the possible reasons Chromium is a bad for EPUB is its lack of MathML support. But then it&#x27;s not like all EPUB readers have it, and it&#x27;s not like MathJax can&#x27;t be used for rendering.</text></comment> | <story><title>Tell HN: Today I learned Epub is just HTML/CSS</title><url>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EPUB#:~:text=EPUB%20is%20an%20e%2Dbook,smartphones%2C%20tablets%2C%20and%20computers.</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ocdtrekkie</author><text>This is why I&#x27;m super irritated Microsoft dropped EPUB support in Edge when switching to Chromium, and why it&#x27;s so frustrating that EPUB support isn&#x27;t common by default in operating systems: It&#x27;s literally just HTML&#x2F;CSS in an opinionated structure. EPUB should be as ubiquitously supported as PDF is today, no browser has an excuse for not supporting it.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jrimbault</author><text>The epub reader in old-Edge was quite nice.</text></comment> |
10,100,120 | 10,099,944 | 1 | 3 | 10,098,392 | train | <story><title>Tarsnap exploit bounty</title><url>http://www.daemonology.net/blog/2015-08-21-tarsnap-1000-exploit-bounty.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mostafah</author><text>&gt; No bounty if you&#x27;re in Iran, North Korea, or some other problem countries.<p>I’m a Tarsnap user from Iran. I’m not interested in these bounties anyways, but the phrase “problem countries” feels a little strange to me.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>cperciva</author><text>As elahd hypothesized, this is the trade-sanctions thing -- if someone from Iran would win and there&#x27;s some way I can legally pay out the bounty, I&#x27;ll do it, but I don&#x27;t want to be in the position of owing someone a bounty but having geopolitics prevent me from paying it.<p>The reference to &quot;other problem countries&quot; is simply because I can&#x27;t keep track of which countries are on the list right now... I&#x27;m pretty sure Iraq, Syria, and Libya have all gone onto Canada&#x27;s list at some point recently but some or all of them may be back off the list. Sorry if it seemed a bit pithy; given how often I see no-sanctioned-countries clauses online I figured that residents of said countries would know if they were likely to be affected.</text></comment> | <story><title>Tarsnap exploit bounty</title><url>http://www.daemonology.net/blog/2015-08-21-tarsnap-1000-exploit-bounty.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mostafah</author><text>&gt; No bounty if you&#x27;re in Iran, North Korea, or some other problem countries.<p>I’m a Tarsnap user from Iran. I’m not interested in these bounties anyways, but the phrase “problem countries” feels a little strange to me.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>elahd</author><text>He&#x27;s probably referring to the problem of sending money to those countries from Canada, where he lives.</text></comment> |
33,198,066 | 33,198,137 | 1 | 2 | 33,196,146 | train | <story><title>Toyota suffered a data breach by accidentally exposing a secret key on GitHub</title><url>https://blog.gitguardian.com/toyota-accidently-exposed-a-secret-key-publicly-on-github-for-five-years/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>fiddlerwoaroof</author><text>I wish I could set this up to block pushes proactively instead of reacting to pushed secrets.</text></item><item><author>greysteil</author><text>GitHub PM here. Glad that was a good experience! We work with ~50 partners (details in the link below) to notify them when tokens for their service are exposed in public repos, so that they can notify you.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;docs.github.com&#x2F;en&#x2F;code-security&#x2F;secret-scanning&#x2F;secret-scanning-patterns#supported-secrets-for-partner-patterns" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;docs.github.com&#x2F;en&#x2F;code-security&#x2F;secret-scanning&#x2F;sec...</a></text></item><item><author>Natsukvshii</author><text>I actually had something similar happen to me last month. I accidentally published a discord API key to GitHub and within minutes I got a nice message from “Safety Jim” to my personal discord account letting me know they’ve found my key on a public repo and have gone ahead and revoked it.<p>I felt like a bit of a dope but it was neat to have it happen to me. Lesson learned for sure.</text></item><item><author>danielodievich</author><text>Many years ago I got a trial license key for something, Aspose components of some sorts I think, and without thinking of it, checked it in into public Github repo. Well, few days later Aspose&#x27;s support sends me a nicely worded note saying that they noticed that it was there and invalidated it for me. Their description and instructions were very clear about why they did it and why I shouldn&#x27;t have checked it in. I thought that was very proactive and excellent customer service.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>iancarroll</author><text>This exists on GitHub but is not free.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;docs.github.com&#x2F;en&#x2F;enterprise-cloud@latest&#x2F;code-security&#x2F;secret-scanning&#x2F;protecting-pushes-with-secret-scanning#using-secret-scanning-as-a-push-protection-from-the-command-line" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;docs.github.com&#x2F;en&#x2F;enterprise-cloud@latest&#x2F;code-secu...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Toyota suffered a data breach by accidentally exposing a secret key on GitHub</title><url>https://blog.gitguardian.com/toyota-accidently-exposed-a-secret-key-publicly-on-github-for-five-years/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>fiddlerwoaroof</author><text>I wish I could set this up to block pushes proactively instead of reacting to pushed secrets.</text></item><item><author>greysteil</author><text>GitHub PM here. Glad that was a good experience! We work with ~50 partners (details in the link below) to notify them when tokens for their service are exposed in public repos, so that they can notify you.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;docs.github.com&#x2F;en&#x2F;code-security&#x2F;secret-scanning&#x2F;secret-scanning-patterns#supported-secrets-for-partner-patterns" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;docs.github.com&#x2F;en&#x2F;code-security&#x2F;secret-scanning&#x2F;sec...</a></text></item><item><author>Natsukvshii</author><text>I actually had something similar happen to me last month. I accidentally published a discord API key to GitHub and within minutes I got a nice message from “Safety Jim” to my personal discord account letting me know they’ve found my key on a public repo and have gone ahead and revoked it.<p>I felt like a bit of a dope but it was neat to have it happen to me. Lesson learned for sure.</text></item><item><author>danielodievich</author><text>Many years ago I got a trial license key for something, Aspose components of some sorts I think, and without thinking of it, checked it in into public Github repo. Well, few days later Aspose&#x27;s support sends me a nicely worded note saying that they noticed that it was there and invalidated it for me. Their description and instructions were very clear about why they did it and why I shouldn&#x27;t have checked it in. I thought that was very proactive and excellent customer service.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>neuronexmachina</author><text>Yelp has a &quot;detect-secrets&quot; project that can detect potential secrets and can be used as a pre-commit hook: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;Yelp&#x2F;detect-secrets" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;Yelp&#x2F;detect-secrets</a></text></comment> |
28,094,834 | 28,093,794 | 1 | 2 | 28,091,750 | train | <story><title>The Problem with Perceptual Hashes</title><url>https://rentafounder.com/the-problem-with-perceptual-hashes/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>marcinzm</author><text>Given all the zero day exploits on iOS I wonder if it&#x27;s now going to be viable to hack someone&#x27;s phone and upload child porn to their account. Apple with happily flag the photos and then, likely, get those people arrested. Now they have to, in practice, prove they were hacked which might be impossible. Will either ruin their reputation or put them in jail for a long time. Given past witch hunts it could be decades before people get exonerated.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dylan604</author><text>&gt;Given past witch hunts it could be decades before people get exonerated.<p>Given how pedophiles are treated in prison, that might be longer than your expected lifespan if you are sent to prison because of this. Of course I&#x27;m taking it to the dark place, but you kinda gotta, you know?</text></comment> | <story><title>The Problem with Perceptual Hashes</title><url>https://rentafounder.com/the-problem-with-perceptual-hashes/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>marcinzm</author><text>Given all the zero day exploits on iOS I wonder if it&#x27;s now going to be viable to hack someone&#x27;s phone and upload child porn to their account. Apple with happily flag the photos and then, likely, get those people arrested. Now they have to, in practice, prove they were hacked which might be impossible. Will either ruin their reputation or put them in jail for a long time. Given past witch hunts it could be decades before people get exonerated.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>seph-reed</author><text>Someone is going to figure out how to make false positives, and then an entire genre of meme will be born from putting regular memes through a false positive machine, just for the lulz.<p>Someone else could find a way to make every single possible mutation of false positive Goatse&#x2F;Lemonparty&#x2F;TubGirl&#x2F;etc. Then some poor Apple employee has to check those out.</text></comment> |
39,766,960 | 39,764,657 | 1 | 2 | 39,763,750 | train | <story><title>Regex character "$" doesn't mean "end-of-string"</title><url>https://sethmlarson.dev/regex-$-matches-end-of-string-or-newline</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Karellen</author><text>&gt; Folks who&#x27;ve worked with regular expressions before might know about ^ meaning &quot;start-of-string&quot; and correspondingly see $ as &quot;end-of-string&quot;.<p>Huh. I always think of them as &quot;start-of-line&quot; and &quot;end-of-line&quot;. I mean, a lot of the time when I&#x27;m working with regexes, I&#x27;m working with text a line at a time so the effect is the same, but that doesn&#x27;t change how I think of those operators.<p>Maybe because a fair amount of the work I do with regexes (and, probably, how I was introduced to them) is via `grep`, so I&#x27;m often thinking of the inputs as &quot;lines&quot; rather than &quot;strings&quot;?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Izkata</author><text>Same here; when I saw the title I was like &quot;well obviously not, where did you hear that?&quot;<p>In nearly two decades of using regex I think this might be the first time I&#x27;ve heard of $ being end of string. It&#x27;s always been end of line for me.</text></comment> | <story><title>Regex character "$" doesn't mean "end-of-string"</title><url>https://sethmlarson.dev/regex-$-matches-end-of-string-or-newline</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Karellen</author><text>&gt; Folks who&#x27;ve worked with regular expressions before might know about ^ meaning &quot;start-of-string&quot; and correspondingly see $ as &quot;end-of-string&quot;.<p>Huh. I always think of them as &quot;start-of-line&quot; and &quot;end-of-line&quot;. I mean, a lot of the time when I&#x27;m working with regexes, I&#x27;m working with text a line at a time so the effect is the same, but that doesn&#x27;t change how I think of those operators.<p>Maybe because a fair amount of the work I do with regexes (and, probably, how I was introduced to them) is via `grep`, so I&#x27;m often thinking of the inputs as &quot;lines&quot; rather than &quot;strings&quot;?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>wccrawford</author><text>It&#x27;s kind of driving me nuts that the article says ^ is &quot;start of string&quot; when it&#x27;s actually &quot;start of line&quot;, just like $ is &quot;end of line&quot;. \A is apparently &quot;start of string&quot; like \Z is &quot;end of string&quot;.</text></comment> |
19,099,621 | 19,098,629 | 1 | 2 | 19,096,369 | train | <story><title>What Happened to the 100000 Hour LED Bulbs?</title><url>https://hackaday.com/2019/02/05/what-happened-to-the-100000-hour-led-bulbs/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tzs</author><text>I replaced around 25 bulbs in my house with cheap Walmart &quot;Great Value&quot; LEDs just under 3 years ago and they&#x27;ve all been fine. Previously, I had replaced around 4 bulbs with Cree LEDs from Home Depot, and half of those were dead within a few months.<p>The Walmart bulbs without any special pricing were way cheaper than the Cree bulbs from Home Depot, but even better, there was some sort of automatic rebate or something like that in cooperation with the local electric company that made the Walmart bulbs $0.17. By &quot;automatic rebate&quot;, I mean that the bulbs rang up on checkout at $0.17. No rebate forms to send in or anything like that.</text></item><item><author>setquk</author><text>I&#x27;ve taken every single LED bulb that has failed on me to pieces and it&#x27;s always the same failure mode. The heatsink compound isn&#x27;t applied properly to the back of the LED board. The LEDs immediately in the gaps smoke out.<p>Alas this isn&#x27;t a problem. If a lightbulb goes, Amazon send me a new one out now free of charge and tell me to throw the old one in the trash.<p>This is one manufacturer, prevalent on Amazon, the Long Life Lamp Company. Long Life my ass.<p>They have been replaced by Philips and Ikea LED bulbs now which the oldest are 5 years old now and still going strong.<p>Edit: one thing to note is the really cheap ones run pretty hot. They have 105 oC rated capacitors in them. If you look at the derating curves at the running temperature they are clearly designed to last just past a year.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rsync</author><text>&quot;Previously, I had replaced around 4 bulbs with Cree LEDs from Home Depot, and half of those were dead within a few months.&quot;<p>Were those the original Cree bulbs with the heavy, finned metal heatsink around the base ?<p>I currently have a bag of about 14 of those that I bought (with great enthusiasm) and that burned out (or turned weird purple colors) within 2-3 years.<p>New style cree bulbs appear to have these issues solved. In fact, I continue to buy them as they perform better than other (satco, fein) bulbs that I have. In most cases I get satco&#x2F;fein as long as they have the color temperature and output I want, but if I am having issues with a dimmer, etc., I get a cree bulb.</text></comment> | <story><title>What Happened to the 100000 Hour LED Bulbs?</title><url>https://hackaday.com/2019/02/05/what-happened-to-the-100000-hour-led-bulbs/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tzs</author><text>I replaced around 25 bulbs in my house with cheap Walmart &quot;Great Value&quot; LEDs just under 3 years ago and they&#x27;ve all been fine. Previously, I had replaced around 4 bulbs with Cree LEDs from Home Depot, and half of those were dead within a few months.<p>The Walmart bulbs without any special pricing were way cheaper than the Cree bulbs from Home Depot, but even better, there was some sort of automatic rebate or something like that in cooperation with the local electric company that made the Walmart bulbs $0.17. By &quot;automatic rebate&quot;, I mean that the bulbs rang up on checkout at $0.17. No rebate forms to send in or anything like that.</text></item><item><author>setquk</author><text>I&#x27;ve taken every single LED bulb that has failed on me to pieces and it&#x27;s always the same failure mode. The heatsink compound isn&#x27;t applied properly to the back of the LED board. The LEDs immediately in the gaps smoke out.<p>Alas this isn&#x27;t a problem. If a lightbulb goes, Amazon send me a new one out now free of charge and tell me to throw the old one in the trash.<p>This is one manufacturer, prevalent on Amazon, the Long Life Lamp Company. Long Life my ass.<p>They have been replaced by Philips and Ikea LED bulbs now which the oldest are 5 years old now and still going strong.<p>Edit: one thing to note is the really cheap ones run pretty hot. They have 105 oC rated capacitors in them. If you look at the derating curves at the running temperature they are clearly designed to last just past a year.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tempestn</author><text>Those early Home Depot Cree bulbs were definitely defective. We bought a ton of them and have since replaced nearly all under warranty... twice. The first round they replaced with identical ones, which also quickly failed. (Always the same; started with an intermittent flicker, which progressively got more severe and regular.) More recently we&#x27;ve gotten a new design back, which seem better. Fortunately, after the first ones, it&#x27;s been as simple as replying to the email thread and telling them how many more replacements I need!</text></comment> |
41,354,673 | 41,353,813 | 1 | 2 | 41,348,844 | train | <story><title>Linux Pipes Are Slow</title><url>https://qsantos.fr/2024/08/25/linux-pipes-are-slow/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>AkBKukU</author><text>I have a project that uses a proprietary SDK for decoding raw video. I output the decoded data as pure RGBA in a way FFMpeg can read through a pipe to re-encode the video to a standard codec. FFMpeg can&#x27;t include the Non-Free SDK in their source, and it would be wildly impracticable to store the pure RGBA in a file. So pipes are the only way to do it, there are valid reasons to use high throughput pipes.</text></item><item><author>0xbadcafebee</author><text>Calling Linux pipes &quot;slow&quot; is like calling a Toyota Corolla &quot;slow&quot;. It&#x27;s fast enough for all but the most extreme use cases. Are you racing cars? In a sport where speed is more important than technique? Then get a faster car. Otherwise stick to the Corolla.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ploxiln</author><text>What percentage of CPU time is used by the pipe in this scenario? If pipes were 10x faster, would you really notice any difference in wall-clock-time or overall-cpu-usage, while this decoding SDK is generating the raw data and ffmpeg is processing it? Are these video processing steps anywhere near memory copy speeds?</text></comment> | <story><title>Linux Pipes Are Slow</title><url>https://qsantos.fr/2024/08/25/linux-pipes-are-slow/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>AkBKukU</author><text>I have a project that uses a proprietary SDK for decoding raw video. I output the decoded data as pure RGBA in a way FFMpeg can read through a pipe to re-encode the video to a standard codec. FFMpeg can&#x27;t include the Non-Free SDK in their source, and it would be wildly impracticable to store the pure RGBA in a file. So pipes are the only way to do it, there are valid reasons to use high throughput pipes.</text></item><item><author>0xbadcafebee</author><text>Calling Linux pipes &quot;slow&quot; is like calling a Toyota Corolla &quot;slow&quot;. It&#x27;s fast enough for all but the most extreme use cases. Are you racing cars? In a sport where speed is more important than technique? Then get a faster car. Otherwise stick to the Corolla.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>CyberDildonics</author><text><i>So pipes are the only way to do it</i><p>Lets not get carried away. You can use ffmpeg as a library and encode buffers in a few dozen lines of C++.</text></comment> |
11,410,518 | 11,410,536 | 1 | 2 | 11,405,146 | train | <story><title>Schools Are Slow to Learn That Sleep Deprivation Hits Teenagers Hardest</title><url>http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/29/upshot/schools-are-slow-to-learn-that-sleep-deprivation-hits-teenagers-hardest.html?ribbon-ad-idx=6&rref=upshot&module=Ribbon&version=context&region=Header&action=click&contentCollection=The%20Upshot&pgtype=article&_r=0</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>sgentle</author><text>I predict this will be a difficult sell, for the reasons pg outlined in &quot;Why Nerds are Unpopular&quot; (<a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.paulgraham.com&#x2F;nerds.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.paulgraham.com&#x2F;nerds.html</a>):<p>&gt; Now adults have no immediate use for teenagers. They would be in the way in an office. So they drop them off at school on their way to work, much as they might drop the dog off at a kennel if they were going away for the weekend.<p>Schools are government-subsidised daycare first, educational institutions second, which is the reason they often fail at teaching students but rarely fail at keeping them in place.<p>From that perspective, why would you change a child&#x27;s school hours to anything less compatible with their parents&#x27; work hours? If anything, I would expect the trend to be towards longer hours at school, perhaps by more tightly integrating after-school activities.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>superuser2</author><text>Except we&#x27;re not talking about people who need babysitting, but people who <i>are</i> babysitters. High school students are perfectly capable of waking up and getting ready for the day after their parents have left the house.<p>There&#x27;s no good reason for high school hours and parents work hours to be coupled, unless it is necessary for a parent to drive the kids to school on their way to work (i.e. because the bus is too slow and would require waking up hours earlier).<p>In which case the actual problem has nothing to do with education policy, and everything to do with the parents&#x27; decision to live in sprawl.</text></comment> | <story><title>Schools Are Slow to Learn That Sleep Deprivation Hits Teenagers Hardest</title><url>http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/29/upshot/schools-are-slow-to-learn-that-sleep-deprivation-hits-teenagers-hardest.html?ribbon-ad-idx=6&rref=upshot&module=Ribbon&version=context&region=Header&action=click&contentCollection=The%20Upshot&pgtype=article&_r=0</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>sgentle</author><text>I predict this will be a difficult sell, for the reasons pg outlined in &quot;Why Nerds are Unpopular&quot; (<a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.paulgraham.com&#x2F;nerds.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.paulgraham.com&#x2F;nerds.html</a>):<p>&gt; Now adults have no immediate use for teenagers. They would be in the way in an office. So they drop them off at school on their way to work, much as they might drop the dog off at a kennel if they were going away for the weekend.<p>Schools are government-subsidised daycare first, educational institutions second, which is the reason they often fail at teaching students but rarely fail at keeping them in place.<p>From that perspective, why would you change a child&#x27;s school hours to anything less compatible with their parents&#x27; work hours? If anything, I would expect the trend to be towards longer hours at school, perhaps by more tightly integrating after-school activities.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>aab0</author><text>There&#x27;s also the much-cited football problem: if high schools ended at a more reasonable hour like 3PM or 3:30PM, this causes problems for football coaches, who might see their after-school practices running to 6PM or something.<p>I&#x27;m reminded of how my school district carefully made sure that the austerity or budget-freeze budgets which happened when voters failed to approve their preferred budgets always just happened to not have enough funding for football...</text></comment> |
38,930,073 | 38,929,678 | 1 | 2 | 38,928,182 | train | <story><title>Samsung forecasts 85% drop in profit as chip sales falter</title><url>https://koreajoongangdaily.joins.com/news/2024-01-09/business/industry/Samsung-forecasts-85-drop-in-profit-for-last-year-amid-chip-slump/1954130</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>hn_throwaway_99</author><text>Big pet peeve is when journalists highlight the percentage change in <i>profit</i> in the headline just because it&#x27;s a bigger, scarier number. Big companies swing from profits to losses (and vice versa) all the time, but you rarely see it highlighted as &quot;Profits drop 158%!&quot; because (a) that doesn&#x27;t really make sense, but more importantly (b) it highlights how dumb it is to use percentage change in profit in the first place.<p>The more useful metric is given in the article: <i>revenue</i> was down 14.6 percent on year.</text></comment> | <story><title>Samsung forecasts 85% drop in profit as chip sales falter</title><url>https://koreajoongangdaily.joins.com/news/2024-01-09/business/industry/Samsung-forecasts-85-drop-in-profit-for-last-year-amid-chip-slump/1954130</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>bastardoperator</author><text>Is it just chips? Because their consumer appliance division seems to have huge problems. I bought a fridge and it was fully dead in under 6 months. I was able to get a full refund because they lost a class action lawsuit, but it&#x27;s crazy how bad their appliances are, I don&#x27;t trust samsung for anything, also:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.usatoday.com&#x2F;story&#x2F;news&#x2F;investigations&#x2F;2023&#x2F;10&#x2F;25&#x2F;samsung-refrigerator-investigation-complaints-continue&#x2F;70982873007&#x2F;#:~:text=A%20federal%20class%2Daction%20lawsuit,dismiss%2C%20the%20legal%20action%20continues" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.usatoday.com&#x2F;story&#x2F;news&#x2F;investigations&#x2F;2023&#x2F;10&#x2F;2...</a>.</text></comment> |
28,712,262 | 28,712,008 | 1 | 2 | 28,711,421 | train | <story><title>Always-on Processor magic: How Find My works while iPhone is powered off</title><url>https://naehrdine.blogspot.com/2021/09/always-on-processor-magic-how-find-my.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>pininja</author><text>Very interesting read. This seems to be implemented as a Bluetooth LE app running on the ultra-low power “always on processor” used for a variety of features, like “wake-up on motion.”<p>Much like an Tile or AirTag is implemented. No comment on what this is capable in the future.. but for now this shows power usage &#x2F; signal strength &#x2F; proximity of other “actually on” devices are a limitations of this feature.<p>What’s impressive is the mesh network effect of all these iPhones &#x2F; iDevices to locate a “lost” device. I’ll be thankful if I manage to use this to retrieve a lost phone. I’ll be pretty shocked if I’m “spied on” with this style of device.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>TaylorAlexander</author><text>The chances of you being directly spied on are low. The chances of someone being spied on who could influence the world around you is much higher. So a journalist could be spied on right before they break a big story, potentially leading to a cover up. That’s the problem with stuff like this. Even if you have “nothing to hide” you might rely on someone who legitimately does.</text></comment> | <story><title>Always-on Processor magic: How Find My works while iPhone is powered off</title><url>https://naehrdine.blogspot.com/2021/09/always-on-processor-magic-how-find-my.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>pininja</author><text>Very interesting read. This seems to be implemented as a Bluetooth LE app running on the ultra-low power “always on processor” used for a variety of features, like “wake-up on motion.”<p>Much like an Tile or AirTag is implemented. No comment on what this is capable in the future.. but for now this shows power usage &#x2F; signal strength &#x2F; proximity of other “actually on” devices are a limitations of this feature.<p>What’s impressive is the mesh network effect of all these iPhones &#x2F; iDevices to locate a “lost” device. I’ll be thankful if I manage to use this to retrieve a lost phone. I’ll be pretty shocked if I’m “spied on” with this style of device.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>trangus_1985</author><text>If you&#x27;re not familiar with it, their platform security team releases a whitepaper about the technical details of their security. Regardless of how you feel about Apple, these documents are incredibly well done and interesting to read. The Find My section may have more information, as will their contract tracing docs (which use a riff of the same technology)<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;covid19.apple.com&#x2F;contacttracing" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;covid19.apple.com&#x2F;contacttracing</a><p>I highly recommend anyone interested in security or privacy to read this from start to finish:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;manuals.info.apple.com&#x2F;MANUALS&#x2F;1000&#x2F;MA1902&#x2F;en_US&#x2F;apple-platform-security-guide.pdf" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;manuals.info.apple.com&#x2F;MANUALS&#x2F;1000&#x2F;MA1902&#x2F;en_US&#x2F;app...</a></text></comment> |
12,564,311 | 12,564,377 | 1 | 3 | 12,563,400 | train | <story><title>Poverty and social background remain huge barriers in scientific careers</title><url>http://www.nature.com/news/is-science-only-for-the-rich-1.20650</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>kaitai</author><text>As I write this, there are just a small number of comments, all saying &quot;there&#x27;s no money in research&quot; and &quot;scientists are paid less than McDonald&#x27;s burger flipper&quot;. It&#x27;s like a whole section of disgruntled grad students who wanted to be professors. There is tons of money in science! People who &quot;fail out&quot; of or never wanted to pursue the stupid academic dream become active in patent law, become managers at pharma and biomed companies, oversee quality control at chemical firms, write documentation for medical devices, run labs, work as lab techs. These are all good jobs compared to the jobs the majority of Americans are qualified for.<p>Seems like HN has a very warped view, this view that &quot;there&#x27;s no money in research&quot; means some poor kid is better off flipping burgers into her 50s than becoming a lab manager.</text></comment> | <story><title>Poverty and social background remain huge barriers in scientific careers</title><url>http://www.nature.com/news/is-science-only-for-the-rich-1.20650</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>ap22213</author><text>Man, wish I could find the link - I had read something probably 10 years ago that discussed the abnormally high number of independently wealthy people in academia and research. Makes sense given how expensive it is and how infrequently it nets positive ROI.<p>A big part of science are &#x27;ideas&#x27;, and ideas are interesting things in Human culture. To be the &#x27;idea person&#x27; in a social group requires considerable social status. I see so many people in corporations battling to have their ideas win. I see so many people of higher status claiming ownership of the ideas of those &#x27;beneath&#x27; them. I see plenty of great ideas being ignored because of who proposes them. And, it&#x27;s very rare to see an outsider&#x27;s idea gain influence.<p>They say that execution matters much more than ideas - but they go hand-in-hand. The person who gets to execute also gets to choose the idea.<p>Given the comparitive physical weakness of the Human, &#x27;the idea&#x27; is their number one weapon and asset. It enables power. So, there are probably a lot of social reasons why most lower-status (lower income) people are kept out of science and research. It&#x27;s probably more of a systematic result of Human behavior than just being poor.</text></comment> |
16,427,872 | 16,427,517 | 1 | 2 | 16,426,418 | train | <story><title>Toyota develops first neodymium-reduced, heat-resistant magnet for motors</title><url>http://www.greencarcongress.com/2018/02/20180220-nd.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>philipkglass</author><text>The headline is about the reduced neodymium content but the most interesting part of the development is good high-temperature performance without requiring any terbium or dysprosium. Additions of those expensive, almost-exclusively-China-produced rare earth elements have been how neodymium magnets are made suitable for high-power, high-temperature applications in motors and generators. Neodymium, cerium, and lanthanum are more common rare earth elements that have more good mineral resources outside China.<p>Most wind turbines use electromagnets in their generators, plus gearing systems. So-called &quot;direct drive&quot; turbines use high strength permanent magnets and can have longer lifetimes since the gearbox is the fastest-degrading part of conventional turbines. But turbines with permanent magnet generators have been only a minority of the market, in part because affordable and assured supplies of key heavy rare earth elements are not available outside China. (Goldwind, the only wind turbine manufacturer presently with an all-direct-drive lineup, is Chinese.) Powerful magnets with less need for rare materials can improve wind turbines to charge EVs as well as motors to move them.</text></comment> | <story><title>Toyota develops first neodymium-reduced, heat-resistant magnet for motors</title><url>http://www.greencarcongress.com/2018/02/20180220-nd.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Hextinium</author><text>I am very curious how they create grains of the cerium and then coat them with neodymium to then fuse them together.
I theorize that they first alloy the cerium and lanthanum together and then grind it to a correct particle size. Then they negatively electrically charge the rare earth particles and bond neodymium to it with vapor deposition but I don&#x27;t know it that is possible at that scale.
They would then press the particles together and heat them up so that they fuse but don&#x27;t liquify.
All of this looks very very cool I just have no concept for how it would actually happen.</text></comment> |
24,568,482 | 24,564,457 | 1 | 3 | 24,562,850 | train | <story><title>How to say no, for the people pleaser who always says yes</title><url>https://www.npr.org/2020/09/15/913207918/how-to-say-no-for-the-people-pleaser-who-always-says-yes</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>closeparen</author><text>My life got a lot better after I stopped considering questions in terms of my own preferences and started considering them in terms of how they would connect me to others. I really don’t want to go out for drinks after work. But this preference is <i>nothing</i> compared to how much I value the friendships that come from doing it. Hiking a mountain is not in the top 100 things I want to do with my weekend. But a shared experience with a group of people is something I need deep in my soul.<p>Human connection is the preference that weighs many times more than all the others combined. Prioritizing my own inane sense of self rather than adopting behaviors that could enable relationships was just idiotic self-torture.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>citrate05</author><text>The point of the article isn’t to never do anything someone else suggests. It’s to get you out of the habit of <i>reflexively</i> agreeing to do other people favors out of anxiety, guilt, or a sense of obligation. If you’ve said “yes” to every request that crossed your desk, you’re probably not going to be left with much time to go out for drinks or to go climb a mountain with your friends.<p>What you’re describing is more of a tension between going with your immediate emotional response (feeling annoyed that you have to expend some effort) versus your values (connecting with other people; other examples might be creating something, or leaving a positive legacy). That’s actually pretty congruent with the message of this piece. People who are habitual people-pleasers tend to let their initial emotional response of guilt or anxiety win over their values. The immediate outcomes may be different (over- vs. undercommitting), but the long term outcome in both cases is feeling like you’re living a life without much meaning or purpose.</text></comment> | <story><title>How to say no, for the people pleaser who always says yes</title><url>https://www.npr.org/2020/09/15/913207918/how-to-say-no-for-the-people-pleaser-who-always-says-yes</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>closeparen</author><text>My life got a lot better after I stopped considering questions in terms of my own preferences and started considering them in terms of how they would connect me to others. I really don’t want to go out for drinks after work. But this preference is <i>nothing</i> compared to how much I value the friendships that come from doing it. Hiking a mountain is not in the top 100 things I want to do with my weekend. But a shared experience with a group of people is something I need deep in my soul.<p>Human connection is the preference that weighs many times more than all the others combined. Prioritizing my own inane sense of self rather than adopting behaviors that could enable relationships was just idiotic self-torture.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>apples_oranges</author><text>Great comment. I would add that this ties in with goal setting, which is an activity where you set the priorities for your life. If it&#x27;s fitness for example you will skip the drinks and go to the gym instead. If it&#x27;s money you will work on your business and so forth. You decided it&#x27;s social connections, but it will be different for everyone. It&#x27;s important to sit down and decide what we want out of life, imho.</text></comment> |
22,571,461 | 22,571,405 | 1 | 2 | 22,570,909 | train | <story><title>Bill Gates has stepped down from Microsoft's board</title><url>https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/microsoft-announces-change-to-its-board-of-directors-301023293.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>sytelus</author><text>Most of the board members seem to be partners at various investment firms. Many of them don&#x27;t seem to even remotely tech people. It&#x27;s kind of sad that the Microsoft board lacks any external visionaries.</text></item><item><author>daxfohl</author><text>Kind of odd, being an employee there, I&#x27;ve never heard of eleven of the twelve board members before.</text></item><item><author>chollida1</author><text>Also stepped down from the Berkshire board as well.<p>Given that he stepped away from a day to day role in 2008 and then stepped down as the chairman in 2014, I&#x27;m guessing he&#x27;s focusing on his foundation.<p>He&#x27;s still the 8th largest shareholder according to Bloomberg&#x27;s records(103,000,000 share), which is pretty impressive given that the 7 entities above him are all funds.<p>Incase you wanted to know who the remaining 12 board members are:<p>With Gates’ departure, the Board will consist of 12 members, including John W. Thompson, Microsoft independent chair; Reid Hoffman, partner at Greylock Partners; Hugh Johnston, vice chairman and chief financial officer of PepsiCo; Teri L. List-Stoll, executive vice president and chief financial officer of Gap, Inc.; Satya Nadella, chief executive officer of Microsoft; Sandra E. Peterson, operating partner, Clayton, Dubilier &amp; Rice; Penny Pritzker, founder and chairman, PSP Partners; Charles W. Scharf, chief executive officer and president of Wells Fargo &amp; Co.; Arne Sorenson, president and CEO, Marriott International Inc.; John W. Stanton, chairman of Trilogy Equity Partners; Emma Walmsley, CEO of GlaxoSmithKline plc (GSK); and Padmasree Warrior, founder, CEO and president, Fable Group Inc.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bdamm</author><text>It actually makes a lot of sense. Technical people sometimes think that the higher up you go the bigger the decisions, but normally decision making peters off around the Director level. Above that and it&#x27;s really about how to keep the company going as a company, or in other words the business of maintaining a structure of people that continues to survive within the regulatory context that the company operates within. And for a large multinational company like Microsoft, that&#x27;s an enormously big deal. You&#x27;re generally lucky if the CEO has any technical capabilities at all.</text></comment> | <story><title>Bill Gates has stepped down from Microsoft's board</title><url>https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/microsoft-announces-change-to-its-board-of-directors-301023293.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>sytelus</author><text>Most of the board members seem to be partners at various investment firms. Many of them don&#x27;t seem to even remotely tech people. It&#x27;s kind of sad that the Microsoft board lacks any external visionaries.</text></item><item><author>daxfohl</author><text>Kind of odd, being an employee there, I&#x27;ve never heard of eleven of the twelve board members before.</text></item><item><author>chollida1</author><text>Also stepped down from the Berkshire board as well.<p>Given that he stepped away from a day to day role in 2008 and then stepped down as the chairman in 2014, I&#x27;m guessing he&#x27;s focusing on his foundation.<p>He&#x27;s still the 8th largest shareholder according to Bloomberg&#x27;s records(103,000,000 share), which is pretty impressive given that the 7 entities above him are all funds.<p>Incase you wanted to know who the remaining 12 board members are:<p>With Gates’ departure, the Board will consist of 12 members, including John W. Thompson, Microsoft independent chair; Reid Hoffman, partner at Greylock Partners; Hugh Johnston, vice chairman and chief financial officer of PepsiCo; Teri L. List-Stoll, executive vice president and chief financial officer of Gap, Inc.; Satya Nadella, chief executive officer of Microsoft; Sandra E. Peterson, operating partner, Clayton, Dubilier &amp; Rice; Penny Pritzker, founder and chairman, PSP Partners; Charles W. Scharf, chief executive officer and president of Wells Fargo &amp; Co.; Arne Sorenson, president and CEO, Marriott International Inc.; John W. Stanton, chairman of Trilogy Equity Partners; Emma Walmsley, CEO of GlaxoSmithKline plc (GSK); and Padmasree Warrior, founder, CEO and president, Fable Group Inc.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>lacker</author><text>At a huge company like Microsoft the board isn&#x27;t really a great place for visionaries. It&#x27;s much better at things like helping the CEO understand the thoughts of large institutional investors that provide Microsoft with capital. A visionary is better suited as a &quot;special advisor&quot; to someone... like the role that Bill Gates is keeping.</text></comment> |
12,037,214 | 12,036,943 | 1 | 2 | 12,035,514 | train | <story><title>Freely available programming books</title><url>https://github.com/vhf/free-programming-books</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Mithaldu</author><text>Take note that this list seems to include any book, regardless of how old it is and how bad its contents are now, 10+ years later.<p>Before investing time in any of these, do yourself, and the world, a favor and find the community of the language and ask them if the book you found on that list is shit.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>agumonkey</author><text>Let me add a tiny suggestion: sometimes even old, and obsolete has value. There might be an intermediate step in the paradigm or exercise that will suit your mind better. For instance: I failed twice at the calculating change problem in courses (Coursera, SICP). I find a variant in an old Caml problems book, that made me able to revisit the change problem and solve it on my own.<p>Seek for stimulation and keep growing.
Cheers.</text></comment> | <story><title>Freely available programming books</title><url>https://github.com/vhf/free-programming-books</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Mithaldu</author><text>Take note that this list seems to include any book, regardless of how old it is and how bad its contents are now, 10+ years later.<p>Before investing time in any of these, do yourself, and the world, a favor and find the community of the language and ask them if the book you found on that list is shit.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>sotojuan</author><text>This is my gripe with laundry list GitHub repos (see most &quot;awesome-X&quot; repos). People just make them for the stars and &quot;fame&quot; and have no intention of curating or reviewing.</text></comment> |
1,145,185 | 1,145,101 | 1 | 2 | 1,145,050 | train | <story><title>SEO for Startups: Top 7 Lessons + A Trip to Y Combinator</title><url>http://www.seomoz.org/blog/seo-for-startups-top-7-lessons</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>patio11</author><text>It was excellent of Rand both to give this presentation and for him and YC to post it publicly, because I think the startup community has a giant blind spot where SEO is concerned. It isn't just black magic, goat entrails, and snake oil.<p>My one qualification, on advice #7 ("you should have sources of traffic other than Google"): while it is certainly dangerous to have 90% of your traffic coming from Google, in certain niches you have little other choice. If you're pitching a product in a niche with lots of linkerati in it, you're going to have lots of non-Google traffic. If you're pitching a product on Facebook, you're going to have lots of non-Google traffic. If you're pitching a product to forty-something ladies, you're probably not going to have lots of non-Google traffic, because <i>Google is the Internet's navigation for these users</i>. They don't have a regular blog they trust, they don't spread links around themselves at nearly the velocities y'all do, they don't tweet. But they do Google. The sites that they might click through to you from? They got to those by Google, too.<p>Since I tend to pitch to non-technical users and need marketing that scales out of proportion to time invested, Plan A: Google. Plan B: AdWords. Plan C: I've been looking for a good candidate for 3 years now. (P.S. If your startup has an option I will pay you money for it.)</text></comment> | <story><title>SEO for Startups: Top 7 Lessons + A Trip to Y Combinator</title><url>http://www.seomoz.org/blog/seo-for-startups-top-7-lessons</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>leelin</author><text><p><pre><code> Posterous (I learned the official way to pronounce it - "pastarus")
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Actually, the two founders of Posterous pronounce their startup differently, unless one of them caved recently.</text></comment> |
39,726,314 | 39,726,239 | 1 | 2 | 39,724,045 | train | <story><title>Libraries struggle to afford e-books, seek new laws in fight with publishers</title><url>https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/libraries-struggle-afford-demand-books-seek-new-state-108035200</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ses1984</author><text>&gt;Cut copyright to a less stupid number like what it was originally 14 years. Make maintaining a copyright for those years contingent on having X % of sales available for free in libraries<p>I’m nitpicking but this isn’t less regulation, it’s different regulation. Some would even say it’s more. You’re reducing a number but adding complexity with the percent sales requirement.</text></item><item><author>snapplebobapple</author><text>Its actually an argument for less regulation. Its the regulation causing the market failure. Cut copyright to a less stupid number like what it was originally 14 years. Make maintaining a copyright for those years contingent on having X % of sales available for free in libraries. We are asking the fundamentally wrong question with copyright, we should not be maximizing monopoly for copyright owners, we should be minimizing market disruption to get a chosen amount of extra creative production</text></item><item><author>bluish29</author><text>The argument in publishing industry (about papers and textbooks) is that if you cannot afford to buy&#x2F;rent at the current market value then you still can use a public&#x2F;university library to get it. This became actually more of a cliché than an argument over time.<p>Now with a significant portion of textbooks (and books in general) become mainly E-books, the industry limited library capabilities and required pay per lend and restrict number of simultaneous lends. For papers, many universities canceled access contracts because it became too costly. Not to mention that smaller universities couldn&#x27;t afford most of these subscriptions anyway.<p>Publishing industry really needs more regulation. Free market hardly work there.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ghaff</author><text>And if we&#x27;re talking textbooks, I&#x27;m not sure what cutting copyright to 14 years actually accomplishes. I&#x27;m also not sure how you dole out X% of sales to libraries that might be interested. Especially given libraries are often ill-defined.</text></comment> | <story><title>Libraries struggle to afford e-books, seek new laws in fight with publishers</title><url>https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/libraries-struggle-afford-demand-books-seek-new-state-108035200</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ses1984</author><text>&gt;Cut copyright to a less stupid number like what it was originally 14 years. Make maintaining a copyright for those years contingent on having X % of sales available for free in libraries<p>I’m nitpicking but this isn’t less regulation, it’s different regulation. Some would even say it’s more. You’re reducing a number but adding complexity with the percent sales requirement.</text></item><item><author>snapplebobapple</author><text>Its actually an argument for less regulation. Its the regulation causing the market failure. Cut copyright to a less stupid number like what it was originally 14 years. Make maintaining a copyright for those years contingent on having X % of sales available for free in libraries. We are asking the fundamentally wrong question with copyright, we should not be maximizing monopoly for copyright owners, we should be minimizing market disruption to get a chosen amount of extra creative production</text></item><item><author>bluish29</author><text>The argument in publishing industry (about papers and textbooks) is that if you cannot afford to buy&#x2F;rent at the current market value then you still can use a public&#x2F;university library to get it. This became actually more of a cliché than an argument over time.<p>Now with a significant portion of textbooks (and books in general) become mainly E-books, the industry limited library capabilities and required pay per lend and restrict number of simultaneous lends. For papers, many universities canceled access contracts because it became too costly. Not to mention that smaller universities couldn&#x27;t afford most of these subscriptions anyway.<p>Publishing industry really needs more regulation. Free market hardly work there.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ryandrake</author><text>Plus, if you got rid of or reduced copyright, publishers would just find other ways to engage in cartel-like behavior and continue to screw everyone.<p>I can’t think of any case where regulation&#x2F;government was <i>reduced</i> and companies responded with something less profitable for the company.</text></comment> |
15,421,890 | 15,421,491 | 1 | 2 | 15,421,112 | train | <story><title>Disqus Security Alert: User Info Breach</title><url>https://blog.disqus.com/security-alert-user-info-breach</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>cristoperb</author><text>I just learned about this thanks to an email from <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;haveibeenpwned.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;haveibeenpwned.com&#x2F;</a> alerting me that my account info was leaked.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>toyg</author><text>I had three emails from HIBP today, for 3 different breaches: Disqus, Kickstarter and Bitly. Three, in a day. These breaches are all <i>years old</i> and at least one of them was set to one of my old passwords I reused in a lot of places (before moving to a pwd manager), so it could have done some real damage. The fact that it didn&#x27;t happen, makes me think that salted hashing did what it was supposed to do, discouraging bruteforce decryption just enough.<p>Still, the state of the industry is pretty shocking. We are doing more and more stuff (super-encryption at rest, constant password rotation, password managers etc) and still breaches happen with regularity. It feels a bit like when Office started having a system to recover documents after a crash - yeah, great, but why is the crash happening so often that we need it in the first place?</text></comment> | <story><title>Disqus Security Alert: User Info Breach</title><url>https://blog.disqus.com/security-alert-user-info-breach</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>cristoperb</author><text>I just learned about this thanks to an email from <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;haveibeenpwned.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;haveibeenpwned.com&#x2F;</a> alerting me that my account info was leaked.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>cisanti</author><text>And I learned it from your comment. Just tried haveibeen and confirmed disqus leak. No emails from disqus!</text></comment> |
17,413,319 | 17,412,347 | 1 | 2 | 17,412,117 | train | <story><title>In Memory of Jesse Helms and the Condom on His House (2008)</title><url>https://www.poz.com/blog/in-memory-of-je</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>olivermarks</author><text>It&#x27;s easy to forget, because of the light hearted tone of the essay, that this was actually an incredibly brave thing to do at that time.</text></comment> | <story><title>In Memory of Jesse Helms and the Condom on His House (2008)</title><url>https://www.poz.com/blog/in-memory-of-je</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>morley</author><text>What a great story. I really like the use of humor to defang. To me, that feels a lot more effective than wrath or spite.</text></comment> |
20,044,713 | 20,043,513 | 1 | 3 | 20,041,321 | train | <story><title>Uber will start deactivating riders with low ratings</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2019/05/29/uber-will-start-deactivating-riders-with-low-ratings/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rootusrootus</author><text>First, using an arbitrary number of stars is part of the problem. Too much opportunity for legitimate differences of rating to come into play. Just make the question &quot;would you do business with this driver&#x2F;rider again?&quot; and leave it at that. At the very least the rating should be market-specific, since there is so much cultural influence over such ratings.<p>Second, Uber should not be making the choice based on some arbitrarily chosen numerical value. Present the rating to the drivers, maybe with some comments, let them choose who they want to take. After all, if Uber isn&#x27;t employing the drivers and is just the middleman, wouldn&#x27;t they want to avoid being seen as a crucial decision maker?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>hombre_fatal</author><text>I saw my girlfriend rate our driver 3&#x2F;5 stars for a ride that was perfect. When I asked her what problem she had with the driver to rate him so low, she said &quot;huh? it was just an average ride, nothing special.&quot;<p>I think of this whenever people suggest that a star rating system is ideal.</text></comment> | <story><title>Uber will start deactivating riders with low ratings</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2019/05/29/uber-will-start-deactivating-riders-with-low-ratings/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rootusrootus</author><text>First, using an arbitrary number of stars is part of the problem. Too much opportunity for legitimate differences of rating to come into play. Just make the question &quot;would you do business with this driver&#x2F;rider again?&quot; and leave it at that. At the very least the rating should be market-specific, since there is so much cultural influence over such ratings.<p>Second, Uber should not be making the choice based on some arbitrarily chosen numerical value. Present the rating to the drivers, maybe with some comments, let them choose who they want to take. After all, if Uber isn&#x27;t employing the drivers and is just the middleman, wouldn&#x27;t they want to avoid being seen as a crucial decision maker?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mirceal</author><text>this is already happening. the driver does see the rating and does decide if they want to pick you up or not.
effectively, if you have a low rating you will have troubles getting a ride today without uber banning you.</text></comment> |
16,644,850 | 16,643,526 | 1 | 3 | 16,642,340 | train | <story><title>California should emulate Tokyo, where housing stayed ahead of population growth</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2018-03-14/california-affordable-housing-is-no-mystery-just-build-more</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>nimbius</author><text>Here in Los Angeles we have some of the most overvalued real estate in America. a bungalow in the city can go for millions, and is often torn down and replaced by a gleaming white McMansion because renovation is slower and costlier than filing new papers with the city. We cant just build more housing because traditional neighborhoods will fight to the death in courts to prevent multi family housing from devaluing their property or worse, competing for their rental income. The large apartment complexes that do get built are divided between anyone who can affort 10k a month in rent and fees, and &quot;lower income&quot; applicants who pay a fraction of this but are also held to strict terms and conditions. You wind up with millionaires and single moms living in beachfront Santa Monica communities, while anyone with a regular office job often commutes 40-70 miles in from the valley. Its often said you dont quit your job in LA, you quit your commute.<p>new apartments built are not priced affordably because banks and investors want their interest back quickly and have promised surrounding neighborhoods they will price accordingly to keep out the riff raff. in turn, dilapidated apartment complexes from the 60&#x27;s go for about the same rates because these property owners know there is no &quot;better offer&quot; in town.<p>this doesnt even cover the 73,000 homeless people in Los Angeles county we cant seem to find a place for because no beach city wants to house their own unsustainable numbers of homeless, and no desert community is within a radius of health and welfare services required by many transients.<p>Then there are the haters. people like the Aids Healthcare Foundation who ran a 6 month campaign to defeat city legislation for new affordable housing. Why? Mike Weinstein doesnt want any development to obstruct the view from his penthouse.<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.latimes.com&#x2F;local&#x2F;lanow&#x2F;la-me-ln-aids-foundation-political-spending-20170221-story.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.latimes.com&#x2F;local&#x2F;lanow&#x2F;la-me-ln-aids-foundation-...</a><p>My husband and I live in LA and love it. but honestly, its bittersweet. We will never truly own anything more than a latte here.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>JBlue42</author><text>&gt;this doesnt even cover the 73,000 homeless people in Los Angeles county we cant seem to find a place for because no beach city wants to house their own unsustainable numbers of homeless, and no desert community is within a radius of health and welfare services required by many transients.<p>Wasn&#x27;t there a pledge to spend over $100 million on this issue last year? Not to mention a new tax w&#x2F; HHH.<p>But yeah, LA is bittersweet. Great weather and lots to do but the lack of a true center, unaffordable housing, and the slow, expensive build out of public transit leaves a lot to be desired.<p>At my age, I don&#x27;t care so much about housing in my current situation (to be honest, given the schools here, I would go elsewhere), I would just like half my income not to go to rent (this is in a rent stabilized building - my recent bout of unemployment would&#x27;ve seen me joining the other flood of folks leaving since it wouldn&#x27;t have covered market rate rent).</text></comment> | <story><title>California should emulate Tokyo, where housing stayed ahead of population growth</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2018-03-14/california-affordable-housing-is-no-mystery-just-build-more</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>nimbius</author><text>Here in Los Angeles we have some of the most overvalued real estate in America. a bungalow in the city can go for millions, and is often torn down and replaced by a gleaming white McMansion because renovation is slower and costlier than filing new papers with the city. We cant just build more housing because traditional neighborhoods will fight to the death in courts to prevent multi family housing from devaluing their property or worse, competing for their rental income. The large apartment complexes that do get built are divided between anyone who can affort 10k a month in rent and fees, and &quot;lower income&quot; applicants who pay a fraction of this but are also held to strict terms and conditions. You wind up with millionaires and single moms living in beachfront Santa Monica communities, while anyone with a regular office job often commutes 40-70 miles in from the valley. Its often said you dont quit your job in LA, you quit your commute.<p>new apartments built are not priced affordably because banks and investors want their interest back quickly and have promised surrounding neighborhoods they will price accordingly to keep out the riff raff. in turn, dilapidated apartment complexes from the 60&#x27;s go for about the same rates because these property owners know there is no &quot;better offer&quot; in town.<p>this doesnt even cover the 73,000 homeless people in Los Angeles county we cant seem to find a place for because no beach city wants to house their own unsustainable numbers of homeless, and no desert community is within a radius of health and welfare services required by many transients.<p>Then there are the haters. people like the Aids Healthcare Foundation who ran a 6 month campaign to defeat city legislation for new affordable housing. Why? Mike Weinstein doesnt want any development to obstruct the view from his penthouse.<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.latimes.com&#x2F;local&#x2F;lanow&#x2F;la-me-ln-aids-foundation-political-spending-20170221-story.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.latimes.com&#x2F;local&#x2F;lanow&#x2F;la-me-ln-aids-foundation-...</a><p>My husband and I live in LA and love it. but honestly, its bittersweet. We will never truly own anything more than a latte here.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jayd16</author><text>The last paragraph is interesting. If we get more multi-family homes in LA, that&#x27;s still not something to own. I guess single family homes could all turn into condominiums, as long as that counts as true ownership.</text></comment> |
19,719,669 | 19,719,242 | 1 | 2 | 19,718,284 | train | <story><title>TurboTax Uses Dark Patterns to Trick You into Paying to File Your Taxes</title><url>https://www.propublica.org/article/turbotax-just-tricked-you-into-paying-to-file-your-taxes</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>1024core</author><text>The <i>real</i> dark pattern is their ability to bribe the Congress into preventing IRS from implementing free filing.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>turc1656</author><text>Nah, you&#x27;re missing the forest when looking at the trees. Go bigger. Why the hell is the tax code so damn complicated that it requires certified experts and special software to perform <i>personal</i> tax filings? I can see the case for a complex code for business taxes since there are many different industries that have different rules. But personal returns should never, ever have such complicated rules. And that doesn&#x27;t mean I agree with business taxes being complicated, merely that the argument is much more reasonable.</text></comment> | <story><title>TurboTax Uses Dark Patterns to Trick You into Paying to File Your Taxes</title><url>https://www.propublica.org/article/turbotax-just-tricked-you-into-paying-to-file-your-taxes</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>1024core</author><text>The <i>real</i> dark pattern is their ability to bribe the Congress into preventing IRS from implementing free filing.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rootusrootus</author><text>While Intuit definitely feeds Congress some money in support of their corporate goals, the lack of free tax filing is probably more Grover Norquist&#x27;s fault. He strongly opposes anything that would make paying taxes easier, and he has a lot more influence than Intuit.</text></comment> |
15,316,158 | 15,316,143 | 1 | 2 | 15,314,659 | train | <story><title>Is Rotten Tomatoes Killing the Movie Industry? No, Bad Movies Are</title><url>http://www.philly.com/philly/entertainment/movies/rotten-tomatoes-tom-cruise-baywatch-brett-ratner-new-york-times-20170922.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>slg</author><text>These type of articles never explore the potential results of the Rotten Tomatoes voting system. As the article mentions the RT rating is not a measure of how good a movie is, it is a measure of the percentage of people who viewed the movie positively. A 100% doesn&#x27;t mean a movie is perfect or even particularly good, it means no one thought it was bad.<p>A movie designed to do well on a RT score needs to please everyone. The end result is something that tries to be bland, uninteresting, and inoffensive. As an avid movie goer, that is a horrible result. I would much rather see a movie that takes risks and fails than something with little ambition outside turning a profit.<p>If you ask people why they don&#x27;t go to the movies more they will often cite the idea that there is nothing new they haven&#x27;t seen before (besides the complaints you hear about prices). That is another way of phrasing this exact problem. It is becoming more and more risky to innovate and try something new. You end up with lots of sequels, remakes, and other cookie cutter projects. It is safer to invest in the next mediocre superhero movie that most people will be fine with than an innovative middle budget drama that might have a harder time finding an audience. That is what is hurting the movie industry.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>paganel</author><text>&gt; A movie designed to do well on a RT score needs to please everyone. The end result is something that tries to be bland, uninteresting, and inoffensive. As an avid movie goer, that is a horrible result. I would much rather see a movie that takes risks and fails than something with little ambition outside turning a profit.<p>I&#x27;ve just finished watching for the second time a non-bland and pretty-offensive (at least for today&#x27;s sensibilities) 1997 comedy starring Jamie Foxx and Vivica Fox, among others. It&#x27;s called &quot;Booty Call&quot;. It has a 5.3 rating on IMDB (which is comparatively speaking pretty low) and only 25% on RT (which I guess is even lower). It doesn&#x27;t matter, because this movie has made me laugh so hard that I literally had tears in the corners of my eyes and my stomach-muscles were beginning to hurt because of all the laughing. And remember, this was the second time when I was watching it, but I was still laughing my a.s off.<p>Now, I thought that maybe I&#x27;m the crazy one out, a stupid viewer who doesn&#x27;t understand interesting and thought-provoking movies and who only laughs at &quot;stupid&quot; movies, but when I went to the movie&#x27;s comment page on IMDB (<a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.imdb.com&#x2F;title&#x2F;tt0118750&#x2F;reference" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.imdb.com&#x2F;title&#x2F;tt0118750&#x2F;reference</a>) I saw that I was not alone in this, all the top comments were giving the movie a rating between 8 and 10 and the commenters were mentioning how hard they had laughed while watching it.<p>The conclusion is that there is something definitely wrong with the way some movies are rated. I&#x27;m not sure if there exists a fix for that, apart from us, the &quot;normal&quot; viewers, just starting to ignore reviews and movie-critics and then watching movies with no preconceptions.</text></comment> | <story><title>Is Rotten Tomatoes Killing the Movie Industry? No, Bad Movies Are</title><url>http://www.philly.com/philly/entertainment/movies/rotten-tomatoes-tom-cruise-baywatch-brett-ratner-new-york-times-20170922.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>slg</author><text>These type of articles never explore the potential results of the Rotten Tomatoes voting system. As the article mentions the RT rating is not a measure of how good a movie is, it is a measure of the percentage of people who viewed the movie positively. A 100% doesn&#x27;t mean a movie is perfect or even particularly good, it means no one thought it was bad.<p>A movie designed to do well on a RT score needs to please everyone. The end result is something that tries to be bland, uninteresting, and inoffensive. As an avid movie goer, that is a horrible result. I would much rather see a movie that takes risks and fails than something with little ambition outside turning a profit.<p>If you ask people why they don&#x27;t go to the movies more they will often cite the idea that there is nothing new they haven&#x27;t seen before (besides the complaints you hear about prices). That is another way of phrasing this exact problem. It is becoming more and more risky to innovate and try something new. You end up with lots of sequels, remakes, and other cookie cutter projects. It is safer to invest in the next mediocre superhero movie that most people will be fine with than an innovative middle budget drama that might have a harder time finding an audience. That is what is hurting the movie industry.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Retric</author><text>Bland movies don&#x27;t actually rate all that highly in practice.<p>Spiderman homecoming got a 92% from critics and 89% from fans because people got what they expected from the movie. The Hitman&#x27;s Bodyguard on the other hand rated poorly 38%:71% because it failed to deliver.<p>And really, general ratings need to be in the context of the kind of person that might like the movie.</text></comment> |
21,802,520 | 21,800,436 | 1 | 2 | 21,800,335 | train | <story><title>The Cost of Avoiding Sensitive Questions</title><url>https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3437468</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>gampleman</author><text>My wife was* one of those rare people who just went ahead and asked people whatever was on her mind. This had a curious effect as I often internally winced and thought &quot;you did not just say that&quot;. Sometimes I had the impulse to apologize for her or put in a joke to soften the blow. However, curiously, generally people didn&#x27;t seem to mind or sometimes registered very mild embarrassment. In very rare cases they just avoided answering the question and she wouldn&#x27;t press them.<p>But the great thing about it was that one could have really interesting deep conversations with near strangers, because one would skip over all the smalltalk and immediately discuss something everyone cared deeply about. In comparison I would have shyly still been discussing the weather whereas she would be already talking theology.<p>* She does it less now. Perhaps my bad influence or having kids?</text></comment> | <story><title>The Cost of Avoiding Sensitive Questions</title><url>https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3437468</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>sandoooo</author><text>The author misses the point. People are avoiding sensitive questions not because it impacts opinion on average, but because of the rare outliers that ruin it for everybody.<p>It takes just a single asshole reporting you to HR to ruin your life.</text></comment> |
10,729,468 | 10,729,311 | 1 | 2 | 10,729,019 | train | <story><title>Google has quietly launched a CDN</title><url>http://venturebeat.com/2015/12/09/google-cloud-cdn/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>cagenut</author><text>Not to rag on the offering, but the headline is just not right. This is a CloudFront competitor not an Akamai competitor. Its a very rigid barebones product at a low margin via self-serv tooling.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nickbauman</author><text>The best part about it, I automatically write to three caches whenever I write to GAE datastore. One to the instance, one to memcache and one to Google&#x27;s edge cache. It&#x27;s just part of the GAE api, you get it for free.</text></comment> | <story><title>Google has quietly launched a CDN</title><url>http://venturebeat.com/2015/12/09/google-cloud-cdn/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>cagenut</author><text>Not to rag on the offering, but the headline is just not right. This is a CloudFront competitor not an Akamai competitor. Its a very rigid barebones product at a low margin via self-serv tooling.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mkj</author><text>Google&#x27;s reach of &quot;Edge Caches&quot; seems closer to Akamai&#x27;s than CloudFront&#x27;s though - lots of indivdual ISPs have them.</text></comment> |
35,308,078 | 35,308,079 | 1 | 2 | 35,306,805 | train | <story><title>Generate a Cover Letter by Pasting the Job Post and Your Resume</title><url>https://www.careered.ai/tool/cover-letter</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rosywoozlechan</author><text>So AI resumes and AI cover letters are now being auto-submitted to AI generated automated job postings then parsed by hiring AI. What an absolute circus this is becoming.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jagged-chisel</author><text>As long as the AI hires my wetware neural network for an acceptable salary, I’m game</text></comment> | <story><title>Generate a Cover Letter by Pasting the Job Post and Your Resume</title><url>https://www.careered.ai/tool/cover-letter</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rosywoozlechan</author><text>So AI resumes and AI cover letters are now being auto-submitted to AI generated automated job postings then parsed by hiring AI. What an absolute circus this is becoming.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>vkou</author><text>Has anyone hiring for a company with more than 10 employees in the 21st century even <i>read</i> a cover letter?<p>And if they have, are they stupid enough to actually believe it?<p>For most people looking for work, rent&#x27;s due next month, and they are machine-gunning applications, they aren&#x27;t actually deeply passionate about getting a job at &lt;your particular company&gt;.</text></comment> |
37,504,264 | 37,500,647 | 1 | 3 | 37,499,720 | train | <story><title>Marvel Visual Effects Workers Vote to Unionize</title><url>https://www.rollingstone.com/tv-movies/tv-movie-news/marvel-visual-effects-workers-vote-unionize-1234824215/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>chargingmarmot</author><text>An August 2022 Gallup poll showed that US approval of labor unions was at its highest point since 1965 (71%, up from 48% in ~2010; comparable to levels of 70-75% in the 1940s-60s). [1]<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.gallup.com&#x2F;poll&#x2F;398303&#x2F;approval-labor-unions-highest-point-1965.aspx" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.gallup.com&#x2F;poll&#x2F;398303&#x2F;approval-labor-unions-hi...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Marvel Visual Effects Workers Vote to Unionize</title><url>https://www.rollingstone.com/tv-movies/tv-movie-news/marvel-visual-effects-workers-vote-unionize-1234824215/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>soultrees</author><text>We’re going to see this more and more. Here in Vancouver there is a push from the VFX artists and there is some sort of local band-but-not-union that seems to stick together.<p>I won’t be surprised to see VFX, in IATSE in the near future but then it will be the 3D Artists who are being shafted. So much filmmaking requires unreal engine work these days and those guys are being shit on in the industry at the moment.</text></comment> |
21,778,193 | 21,778,149 | 1 | 2 | 21,773,543 | train | <story><title>Google Gives Feds 1,500 Phone Locations in Unprecedented ‘Geofence’ Search</title><url>https://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewster/2019/12/11/google-gives-feds-1500-leads-to-arsonist-smartphones-in-unprecedented-geofence-search/#7e36570827dc</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tomcooks</author><text>Unlike company, law is equal to everyone.<p>I respect the law, and the lawmakers should work for me. The ROI calculations are to be budgeted and accounted for, otherwise why am I being taxed?</text></item><item><author>blacksmith_tb</author><text>Isn&#x27;t that just a cost&#x2F;benefit calculation? How many projects have you worked on where someone suggested spending X hours on something only to have it shot down for minimal ROI? Obviously it matters more to you personally, and you&#x27;d like to have a sense that &quot;justice is done&quot; but really it&#x27;s just an insurance claim. Of course it&#x27;s also frustrating if the thief has only gotten some random junk out of your car - if it wouldn&#x27;t lead to endless extortion I personally would be happy to hand him or her $10 to not break my window, even if there&#x27;s no deductible, just to spare me dealing with it.</text></item><item><author>appleshore</author><text>Conversely, if someone smashes into my parked car and flees, most major cities won’t investigate. Whereas they could use stop light cameras and a few hours of work to potentially identify the suspect.<p>Likewise, if live in SF and someone breaks in your car, the police won’t investigate it unless you’re A-Rod.</text></item><item><author>asperous</author><text>Emotionally, when I hear things like this I think unconsciously I secretly want companies not to give data over ever. And really the companies shouldn&#x27;t collect it (hackers also exist)..<p>However rationally I think there is a balance. Investigators need to do their jobs and chase every lead they can to catch criminals. I wonder if google could have complied with a query that simply grabbed the users in the areas during the 3 time periods combined.<p>Maybe we just need laws that limit how much data can be returned per warrant, to encourage more limited warrants.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bilbo0s</author><text>&gt;<i>law is equal to everyone</i><p>I understand the goal of this sentiment, but this is not how most societies work. Equality under the law is the proper ideal, but it&#x27;s not at all how things work. There are a lot of reasons for that, from bias to lack of resources. But whatever the particular reason may be, most people only notice and complain about inequality when they are its losing side.<p>Make no mistake about it though, from the police at the bottom of the stack, all the way up to how the judges rule on cases at the top of the stack, the legal system has never been equitable.</text></comment> | <story><title>Google Gives Feds 1,500 Phone Locations in Unprecedented ‘Geofence’ Search</title><url>https://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewster/2019/12/11/google-gives-feds-1500-leads-to-arsonist-smartphones-in-unprecedented-geofence-search/#7e36570827dc</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tomcooks</author><text>Unlike company, law is equal to everyone.<p>I respect the law, and the lawmakers should work for me. The ROI calculations are to be budgeted and accounted for, otherwise why am I being taxed?</text></item><item><author>blacksmith_tb</author><text>Isn&#x27;t that just a cost&#x2F;benefit calculation? How many projects have you worked on where someone suggested spending X hours on something only to have it shot down for minimal ROI? Obviously it matters more to you personally, and you&#x27;d like to have a sense that &quot;justice is done&quot; but really it&#x27;s just an insurance claim. Of course it&#x27;s also frustrating if the thief has only gotten some random junk out of your car - if it wouldn&#x27;t lead to endless extortion I personally would be happy to hand him or her $10 to not break my window, even if there&#x27;s no deductible, just to spare me dealing with it.</text></item><item><author>appleshore</author><text>Conversely, if someone smashes into my parked car and flees, most major cities won’t investigate. Whereas they could use stop light cameras and a few hours of work to potentially identify the suspect.<p>Likewise, if live in SF and someone breaks in your car, the police won’t investigate it unless you’re A-Rod.</text></item><item><author>asperous</author><text>Emotionally, when I hear things like this I think unconsciously I secretly want companies not to give data over ever. And really the companies shouldn&#x27;t collect it (hackers also exist)..<p>However rationally I think there is a balance. Investigators need to do their jobs and chase every lead they can to catch criminals. I wonder if google could have complied with a query that simply grabbed the users in the areas during the 3 time periods combined.<p>Maybe we just need laws that limit how much data can be returned per warrant, to encourage more limited warrants.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>derefr</author><text>Laws and budgets are set on different time-scales; there is never 100% alignment between the cost of enforcing the law and the availability of the budget required.<p>In fact, most of the time, there&#x27;s very little alignment, because there&#x27;s no incentive to have those things be aligned. Sometimes even disincentive: there are laws on the books nobody wants enforced, and a culture in policing of enforcing the letter of the law, not the spirit—but one can always choose to not enforce a law one doesn&#x27;t agree with by just making an informal agreement that certain crimes (of basically equal severity) take enforcement priority, such that those crimes nobody sees as crimes just get &quot;de-prioritized&quot; to the point that they&#x27;re never enforced at all.</text></comment> |
11,657,829 | 11,657,512 | 1 | 2 | 11,657,379 | train | <story><title>Twitter Bars Intelligence Agencies from Using Analytics Service</title><url>http://www.wsj.com/articles/twitter-bars-intelligence-agencies-from-using-analytics-service-1462751682?mod=e2tw</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>npx</author><text>I&#x27;m not convinced that the goal here is actually to obstruct intelligence agencies, I think they&#x27;d just use a shell company or flatly demand access if they wanted it. As far as I&#x27;m aware, the Library of Congress is archiving all tweets.<p>It feels like a cheap way to generate press portraying Twitter as a staunch defender of liberty. I&#x27;m not sold.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>StanislavPetrov</author><text>Couldn&#x27;t agree more. In addition to that, the NSA (among other government organizations) sniffs and logs all internet (including Twitter) traffic. Given the unlimited resources of the government to sift, sort, and mine this data (thanks to our taxpayer dollars) it wouldn&#x27;t be at all surprising if they didn&#x27;t already construct a superior, parallel analytic system unconstrained by any of the regulations or financial restrictions faced by Twitter.</text></comment> | <story><title>Twitter Bars Intelligence Agencies from Using Analytics Service</title><url>http://www.wsj.com/articles/twitter-bars-intelligence-agencies-from-using-analytics-service-1462751682?mod=e2tw</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>npx</author><text>I&#x27;m not convinced that the goal here is actually to obstruct intelligence agencies, I think they&#x27;d just use a shell company or flatly demand access if they wanted it. As far as I&#x27;m aware, the Library of Congress is archiving all tweets.<p>It feels like a cheap way to generate press portraying Twitter as a staunch defender of liberty. I&#x27;m not sold.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>greglindahl</author><text>LOC was archiving in 2010, but that project is no longer going forward: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.politico.com&#x2F;story&#x2F;2015&#x2F;07&#x2F;library-of-congress-twitter-archive-119698.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.politico.com&#x2F;story&#x2F;2015&#x2F;07&#x2F;library-of-congress-tw...</a></text></comment> |
19,921,921 | 19,920,806 | 1 | 2 | 19,920,539 | train | <story><title>FCC Chairman Proposes Robocall Blocking by Default</title><url>https://www.fcc.gov/document/chairman-pai-proposes-robocall-blocking-default</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>js2</author><text>I&#x27;ve been getting this call[1] literally every month for about a year now. It goes straight to voicemail because their dialer can&#x27;t get past my voice captcha. I tried blocking the caller id but they keep using a different last four numbers. I&#x27;ve now configured the call flow so that this entire exchange now has to pass the captcha to even get to voice mail.<p>What I&#x27;m saying is, this proposal can&#x27;t come soon enough.<p>1. Transcription, for your amusement: <i>Hi this is Carolyn calling from reliable resource communications. Reliable resource communications is a telecommunications service used by other companies to notify consumers on their behalf. I have made numerous attempts to reach you regarding an entry form that was filled out in your name within the last 12 to 18 months to receive a new car. Now this will be my final attempt to notify you that your name was pulled and you are going to receive one of our top three major prizes. It will be in your best interest to give me a call back at soon as possible. My number is 984-292-1515 at extension 3:21. We are not a telemarketing agency nor timeshare and this is not a cold call please do not ignore this message. I&#x27;m very aware of the do not call list but wouldn&#x27;t be calling unless someone actually answered. This is a time sensitive matter and I do look forward to hearing from you. Once again congratulations my name is Carolyn.</i></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>deathanatos</author><text>&gt; <i>this will be my final attempt to notify you</i><p>It&#x27;s always the final attempt&#x2F;notice. Every time. I&#x27;ve received dozens of &quot;final notices&quot; that my 22 year old car&#x27;s factory warranty (10 yrs, 100k miles) is &quot;about&quot; to expire.</text></comment> | <story><title>FCC Chairman Proposes Robocall Blocking by Default</title><url>https://www.fcc.gov/document/chairman-pai-proposes-robocall-blocking-default</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>js2</author><text>I&#x27;ve been getting this call[1] literally every month for about a year now. It goes straight to voicemail because their dialer can&#x27;t get past my voice captcha. I tried blocking the caller id but they keep using a different last four numbers. I&#x27;ve now configured the call flow so that this entire exchange now has to pass the captcha to even get to voice mail.<p>What I&#x27;m saying is, this proposal can&#x27;t come soon enough.<p>1. Transcription, for your amusement: <i>Hi this is Carolyn calling from reliable resource communications. Reliable resource communications is a telecommunications service used by other companies to notify consumers on their behalf. I have made numerous attempts to reach you regarding an entry form that was filled out in your name within the last 12 to 18 months to receive a new car. Now this will be my final attempt to notify you that your name was pulled and you are going to receive one of our top three major prizes. It will be in your best interest to give me a call back at soon as possible. My number is 984-292-1515 at extension 3:21. We are not a telemarketing agency nor timeshare and this is not a cold call please do not ignore this message. I&#x27;m very aware of the do not call list but wouldn&#x27;t be calling unless someone actually answered. This is a time sensitive matter and I do look forward to hearing from you. Once again congratulations my name is Carolyn.</i></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>hangonhn</author><text>What&#x27;s this voice captcha you use?</text></comment> |
33,761,107 | 33,760,819 | 1 | 3 | 33,760,607 | train | <story><title>No cure for loneliness</title><url>https://compactmag.com/article/no-cure-for-loneliness</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>reillyse</author><text>So, while every country in the world has issues with social isolation and loneliness I think the US seems to have a particularly large problem with it. I have no evidence to back this up but it seems to me that family structures in the US are less solid than they are in other countries. And for the people who say &quot;I&#x27;m from X immigrant community and we have very strong familial bonds&quot;, imagine how much stronger they would be had you not come to the US, and will the next generations bonds be as strong or stronger than your generations bonds?<p>There is a self-reliance in the US which when it works seems to work ok (although even &quot;successful&quot; people can be very lonely), but when it breaks down very quickly leaves people with no where to turn. People often travel long distances from their families. Often relocating across the country again for work breaking whatever bonds they formed in University. People see their families once or twice a year (because the distances are so great). People prioritize economic needs over family and societal needs and this weakening of familial and societal bonds is the result. Often you end up living far from your family with a spouse and kids. If that doesn&#x27;t work out - say you break up - you can find yourself alone very fast.<p>I feel that the homeless problem in the US is a symptom of this - although it also has many other causes. In societies with much stronger societal bonds, people don&#x27;t let people live on the streets.<p>I don&#x27;t have a solution for it, it&#x27;s just something I&#x27;ve noticed and think about a lot when I listen to stories like this one. And don&#x27;t get me wrong. Every country has problems like this. It&#x27;s very easy to get isolated in large crowds of people, I just think the US has a pronounced case of it.</text></comment> | <story><title>No cure for loneliness</title><url>https://compactmag.com/article/no-cure-for-loneliness</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>joe_the_user</author><text>Oddly, doesn&#x27;t directly argue there&#x27;s no cure for loneliness, just outlines the sad extent of loneliness today. I certainly hope there is something that can be done for the situation today.</text></comment> |
32,123,537 | 32,120,964 | 1 | 2 | 32,120,478 | train | <story><title>U.S. transition to 988 suicide and crisis lifeline begins Saturday</title><url>https://www.hhs.gov/about/news/2022/07/15/us-transition-988-suicide-crisis-lifeline-begins-saturday.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>kromem</author><text>I wonder at how proving a legal path to ending life for anyone (with a lengthy waiting period and multiple psych sessions) would reduce the instances of impromptu suicide.<p>My suspicion is that the availability of a legitimized path to the same result, but with a far less traumatizing method for both the individual and their loved ones, might allow for transitioning people into getting help when that&#x27;s not the outcome they really want and provide a respectful and humane exit for those that clinically and chronically find living unbearable.<p>I&#x27;m not sure that the most ethical approach to life is forcing people to continue with it against their will, it is clearly not working, and by pushing the pursuit of death underground we&#x27;re likely missing tens of thousands of people each year who would turn away from that downward spiral through treatment.<p>The people I knew that eventually committed suicide due to chronic depression spent many years thinking about it - a year waiting list for a state authorized humane option I&#x27;m sure would have been fine with any of them. But the ones that committed suicide in response to temporary circumstances didn&#x27;t have any outlet other than admitting the intent to commit a crime and facing the social and economic consequences of that being outed.<p>Even the number of stories I&#x27;ve heard from survivors about the regret as soon as it was too late to take back is harrowing.<p>I&#x27;d have to wonder how many push the button for the nitrogen chamber (the likely method for state authorized suicide) only to regret it in the last moment where someone could successfully abort the procedure to save them. The low level of repeat attempts would be promising for the availability of &quot;suicide with emergency break&quot; alone.<p>The religious puritanism surrounding suicide has doomed us to adopt policies and attitudes towards it as a society that probably do more harm than good.</text></comment> | <story><title>U.S. transition to 988 suicide and crisis lifeline begins Saturday</title><url>https://www.hhs.gov/about/news/2022/07/15/us-transition-988-suicide-crisis-lifeline-begins-saturday.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Waterluvian</author><text>Policing is in such a horrible state in America that an emergency number that excludes police involvement seems increasingly necessary. I wonder if you can get paramedics through this route or if it just rings and you eventually get a counsellor.</text></comment> |
21,562,089 | 21,561,874 | 1 | 3 | 21,560,083 | train | <story><title>Scapegoating free software’s failures</title><url>https://writing.kemitchell.com/2019/11/17/VC-Shill.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>api</author><text>I&#x27;ve thought this for years: the aggressive defense of super liberal OSS licenses with no sort of &quot;SaaS clause&quot; or other limits turns FOSS into free labor for SaaS companies.<p>SaaS is more closed than closed: you control nothing, not even your data, and can trivially be spied on and monetized in other questionable ways. The fact that some of the pieces of a SaaS site are open source is meaningless and changes nothing.<p>If all code must be free &quot;as in beer&quot; for all uses then this kind of SaaS (paid or &quot;free&quot; and paid for via surveillance capitalism) is literally the only possible business model. Well that and traditional 100% closed. The Googles and Facebooks of the world are fine with that.</text></item><item><author>catern</author><text>While this article&#x27;s tone is somewhat angry and personal, it makes some quite interesting points and takes a perspective that I&#x27;ve never heard before.<p>Before reading the article I was tentatively in favor of more expansive copyleft licenses such as Mongo&#x27;s SSPL, for various reasons. But I hadn&#x27;t considered something implied by that position, which this article says directly: The FSF and what one might call &quot;mainstream copyleft&quot; are aggressively defending corporate interests by attacking such licenses. Perhaps they (the FSF et al) don&#x27;t do it intentionally, but that&#x27;s nevertheless their effect...</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>skybrian</author><text>Just as a side note, &quot;free labor&quot; is common and not necessarily a bad thing. Whenever you give someone a gift, whatever work you did on it is effectively free labor. You could also think of donations to charity that way when you fund them out of your salary, not to mention volunteering.<p>It&#x27;s true that often people don&#x27;t want to do that, though, and this is certainly understandable.</text></comment> | <story><title>Scapegoating free software’s failures</title><url>https://writing.kemitchell.com/2019/11/17/VC-Shill.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>api</author><text>I&#x27;ve thought this for years: the aggressive defense of super liberal OSS licenses with no sort of &quot;SaaS clause&quot; or other limits turns FOSS into free labor for SaaS companies.<p>SaaS is more closed than closed: you control nothing, not even your data, and can trivially be spied on and monetized in other questionable ways. The fact that some of the pieces of a SaaS site are open source is meaningless and changes nothing.<p>If all code must be free &quot;as in beer&quot; for all uses then this kind of SaaS (paid or &quot;free&quot; and paid for via surveillance capitalism) is literally the only possible business model. Well that and traditional 100% closed. The Googles and Facebooks of the world are fine with that.</text></item><item><author>catern</author><text>While this article&#x27;s tone is somewhat angry and personal, it makes some quite interesting points and takes a perspective that I&#x27;ve never heard before.<p>Before reading the article I was tentatively in favor of more expansive copyleft licenses such as Mongo&#x27;s SSPL, for various reasons. But I hadn&#x27;t considered something implied by that position, which this article says directly: The FSF and what one might call &quot;mainstream copyleft&quot; are aggressively defending corporate interests by attacking such licenses. Perhaps they (the FSF et al) don&#x27;t do it intentionally, but that&#x27;s nevertheless their effect...</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>closeparen</author><text>&gt;free labor for SaaS companies<p>Approximately all then open source software I work with on a daily basis is SaaS companies pooling efforts on the problems they have in common, yes.</text></comment> |
20,440,474 | 20,440,152 | 1 | 3 | 20,439,518 | train | <story><title>Show HN: ImportDoc – Use the content from a Google Doc in any web page</title><url>https://importdoc.com/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>monkeydust</author><text>Also noticed this recently - whats driving this? Non-developers looking to prototype or build actual products without developer involvement? Democratisation of technology?</text></item><item><author>quickthrower2</author><text>I’m seeing so many google docs&#x2F;sheets ideas on HN lately. Maybe there’s a new trend! This on, the database one and someone linked to one that turns it into an AppStore ready app!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rev12</author><text>I would say ease of use and cost. A friend of mine has been using Google Sheets for years to power some small bits of data on his website. Maintaining and running his site costs nothing but the domain since he uses Netlify for CI w&#x2F;Github and hosting with Google Sheets for dynamic data.<p>His &quot;credits&quot; section and song list uses Google Sheets: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.pontusrufelt.com" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.pontusrufelt.com</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Show HN: ImportDoc – Use the content from a Google Doc in any web page</title><url>https://importdoc.com/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>monkeydust</author><text>Also noticed this recently - whats driving this? Non-developers looking to prototype or build actual products without developer involvement? Democratisation of technology?</text></item><item><author>quickthrower2</author><text>I’m seeing so many google docs&#x2F;sheets ideas on HN lately. Maybe there’s a new trend! This on, the database one and someone linked to one that turns it into an AppStore ready app!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>hanniabu</author><text>It&#x27;s a nice solution if you don&#x27;t have any experience with a database. I know this has been my reason to use it in the past.</text></comment> |
20,076,751 | 20,076,641 | 1 | 2 | 20,076,455 | train | <story><title>The Startup Party Is Over</title><url>http://news.quelsolaar.com/#post111</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>nlh</author><text>I rarely get such a viscerally negative reaction to reading something as I did reading this article.<p>The party is not over. It’s never over. There are always always always more ideas, great businesses waiting to be built, and wonderful opportunities for clever people.<p>Of course the “obvious” apps&#x2F;website have been built — do you know why? Because they only seem obvious in retrospect - most weren’t obvious at the time they were built. And even if they were, implementing was harder than you’d think and adoption was even harder.<p>Argh this frustrates me so much.<p>HNers: Don’t give up - don’t throw in the towel, and definitely don’t assume there are no more ideas to build with a good brain and a keyboard at your disposal.</text></comment> | <story><title>The Startup Party Is Over</title><url>http://news.quelsolaar.com/#post111</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>askafriend</author><text>Discord - publicly launched 2015<p>Robinhood - publicly launched 2014<p>Airtable - publicly launched 2015<p>Plaid - founded May 2013<p>Nextdoor - publicly launched 2012<p>Opendoor - founded 2013<p>Keeptruckin - founded 2013<p>Samsara - founded 2015<p>Calm - founded 2012<p>Niantic - founded 2010, first launch in 2012 (Ingress) then Pokemon Go in 2016.<p>Quip - founded 2015, acquired by Salesforce for ~800mm.<p>All examples of ~multi-billion dollar companies founded in Silicon Valley in the past few years solving real problems and scaling fast.<p>I can keep listing more but I think my point has been made.<p>Sure the market is more mature, but there&#x27;s still tremendous potential out there and there always will be. It&#x27;s too convenient to think all the easy problems have been solved (but yes, many have) and that the big guys will crush you (but when is that <i>not</i> a possibility?).<p>I think this article is just pessimistic with no substance. It&#x27;s quite fashionable to be pessimistic about Silicon Valley.</text></comment> |
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