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4,783,581 | 4,783,564 | 1 | 2 | 4,783,259 | train | <story><title>CodernityDB — pure Python, NoSQL, fast database</title><url>http://labs.codernity.com/codernitydb</url><text></text></story><parent_chain><item><author>AaronBBrown</author><text>"CodernityDB pure python, NoSQL, fast database"<p>Is the fact that it is written in "pure Python" really the <i>most</i> important thing to reenforce after the name of the product itself?<p>Why would I use this over established products like Riak, Redis, MongoDB, etc?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>zalew</author><text>&#62; Is the fact that it is written in "pure Python" really the most important thing to reenforce after the name of the product itself?<p>It's definitely a selling point for Python programmers, because it's so easy to use with your Python projects. You just set the package requirement and you're done, it will work in the same environment wherever your app works, upgrades are a piece of cake, no need to worry about platform support, permissions, etc.<p>f.ex. Whoosh (full-text search) gained a lot of traction in the Python world not because it was the fastest at the time nor the most full-featured (compared to the more mature Java-based ones), but because of convenience. Such solutions, even when they're not the most advanced player in the league, are great for starting up fast and pushing features out the door.<p>On a side note, it's a pleasure for me to see it's from Poland. Will test it out on a feature project in the next few days.</text></comment> | <story><title>CodernityDB — pure Python, NoSQL, fast database</title><url>http://labs.codernity.com/codernitydb</url><text></text></story><parent_chain><item><author>AaronBBrown</author><text>"CodernityDB pure python, NoSQL, fast database"<p>Is the fact that it is written in "pure Python" really the <i>most</i> important thing to reenforce after the name of the product itself?<p>Why would I use this over established products like Riak, Redis, MongoDB, etc?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>zimbatm</author><text>If you look at the speed benchs they compare it to kyoto cabinet. I think that CodernityDB is meant to be embedded and is thus only interesting to python people. In that case the advantage would be to avoid the compilation step on intall that kyoto cabinet or sqlite would incur.<p>It's a library database like sqlite and kyoto cabinet</text></comment> |
25,057,801 | 25,031,389 | 1 | 2 | 25,029,727 | train | <story><title>The Snood Bloober is an open-source reverse-engineered Sound Blaster 1.0 clone</title><url>https://github.com/schlae/snark-barker</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>EvanAnderson</author><text>The &quot;MADE IN ANGER&quot; on the silkscreen cracks me up every time I see it. The juxtaposition of a silly message w&#x2F; my experience that only &quot;SERIOUS TEXT&quot; goes on PCB silkscreens makes for total hilarity to me.</text></comment> | <story><title>The Snood Bloober is an open-source reverse-engineered Sound Blaster 1.0 clone</title><url>https://github.com/schlae/snark-barker</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>djmips</author><text>Check out this awesome talk on how he reversed the Sound Blaster including never having one in person and how he got inside the &#x27;DSP&#x27; chip to read out the ROM.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=xyged8Vk8uk" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=xyged8Vk8uk</a></text></comment> |
37,061,751 | 37,061,774 | 1 | 2 | 37,035,981 | train | <story><title>Remains found in China may belong to third human lineage</title><url>https://phys.org/news/2023-08-china-human-lineage.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ausudhz</author><text>somewhat similar to the demonization of communism that the west pushed for decades?<p>Apparently there are many people that are more incline to just smile and nod rather than arguing. Probably the geographical location of these is not really important. They&#x27;re equally distributed across the globe</text></item><item><author>rsynnott</author><text>As I understand it, it&#x27;s somewhat encouraged by the government. China&#x27;s the sort of place where, if the government has a preferred wacky theory, one may be inclined to smile and nod rather than arguing.</text></item><item><author>pringk02</author><text>It&#x27;s interesting that it is the widely believed theory in China, or at least it was often stated to me as fact when I lived there.<p>Seems to stem from the discovery of the Peking Man:
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Peking_Man" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Peking_Man</a></text></item><item><author>AbrahamParangi</author><text>There are a number of claims of unique Chinese hominids and they’re typically related to the “multiregional origin theory”<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Multiregional_origin_of_modern_humans" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Multiregional_origin_of_mode...</a><p>This theory holds that humans in different parts of the world are primarily descended from local hominids vs the commonly accepted theory that humans are all primarily and recently descended from a population somewhere in East or South Africa with a small amount of admixture with local hominids.<p>Most people consider the multiregional origin theory <i>highly</i> motivated reasoning and also completely garbage science.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rsynnott</author><text>If you’re talking about McCarthyism, then yes, similar dynamic. If you’re talking about today, then don’t be silly.</text></comment> | <story><title>Remains found in China may belong to third human lineage</title><url>https://phys.org/news/2023-08-china-human-lineage.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ausudhz</author><text>somewhat similar to the demonization of communism that the west pushed for decades?<p>Apparently there are many people that are more incline to just smile and nod rather than arguing. Probably the geographical location of these is not really important. They&#x27;re equally distributed across the globe</text></item><item><author>rsynnott</author><text>As I understand it, it&#x27;s somewhat encouraged by the government. China&#x27;s the sort of place where, if the government has a preferred wacky theory, one may be inclined to smile and nod rather than arguing.</text></item><item><author>pringk02</author><text>It&#x27;s interesting that it is the widely believed theory in China, or at least it was often stated to me as fact when I lived there.<p>Seems to stem from the discovery of the Peking Man:
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Peking_Man" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Peking_Man</a></text></item><item><author>AbrahamParangi</author><text>There are a number of claims of unique Chinese hominids and they’re typically related to the “multiregional origin theory”<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Multiregional_origin_of_modern_humans" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Multiregional_origin_of_mode...</a><p>This theory holds that humans in different parts of the world are primarily descended from local hominids vs the commonly accepted theory that humans are all primarily and recently descended from a population somewhere in East or South Africa with a small amount of admixture with local hominids.<p>Most people consider the multiregional origin theory <i>highly</i> motivated reasoning and also completely garbage science.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>joenot443</author><text>This is a wildly off-base comparison to make, I&#x27;d be impressed if your comment stays up for long.</text></comment> |
11,528,512 | 11,527,975 | 1 | 2 | 11,527,763 | train | <story><title>Is Bitcoin Becoming More Stable Than Gold?</title><url>http://blogs.wsj.com/moneybeat/2016/04/19/is-bitcoin-becoming-more-stable-than-gold/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>JamilD</author><text>&gt; &quot;The last 24 days mark the longest period in which bitcoin prices have been less volatile than gold prices, going back to 2010.&quot;<p>Twenty-four days is not enough time to extrapolate any real meaning. It could be just chance, it could be indicative of a long-term trend, but I&#x27;d file this headline under the category of &quot;questions to which the answer is no&quot;.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>cb18</author><text>Not only is it not enough time to extrapolate any real meaning, but to choose a period of 24 days that correspond to a period of diminishing interest in bitcoin and heightened interest in gold because of roiling in the broader markets and then to suggest bitcoin is now more stable than gold is reaching the heights of absurdity.<p>Which is more &#x27;stable&#x27;?<p>A commodity on which economies have rested for millennia along with many other established uses, or a commodity less than a decade old that has yet to establish any sustainable use?<p>hmmm..</text></comment> | <story><title>Is Bitcoin Becoming More Stable Than Gold?</title><url>http://blogs.wsj.com/moneybeat/2016/04/19/is-bitcoin-becoming-more-stable-than-gold/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>JamilD</author><text>&gt; &quot;The last 24 days mark the longest period in which bitcoin prices have been less volatile than gold prices, going back to 2010.&quot;<p>Twenty-four days is not enough time to extrapolate any real meaning. It could be just chance, it could be indicative of a long-term trend, but I&#x27;d file this headline under the category of &quot;questions to which the answer is no&quot;.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>cloudjacker</author><text>Twenty four days is pretty arbitrary, but the main takeaway is that it is a very non-volatile period in bitcoin&#x27;s price history<p>Unfortunately extremely boring</text></comment> |
7,560,516 | 7,560,237 | 1 | 2 | 7,559,915 | train | <story><title>Erlang/OTP 17.0 has been released</title><url>http://erlang.org/pipermail/erlang-questions/2014-April/078563.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>mononcqc</author><text>Learn You Some Erlang has a new chapter on maps for the occasion: <a href="http://learnyousomeerlang.com/maps" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;learnyousomeerlang.com&#x2F;maps</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Erlang/OTP 17.0 has been released</title><url>http://erlang.org/pipermail/erlang-questions/2014-April/078563.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>talklittle</author><text>Reference manual for Maps: <a href="http://www.erlang.org/doc/reference_manual/maps.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.erlang.org&#x2F;doc&#x2F;reference_manual&#x2F;maps.html</a><p>Manpage for Maps: <a href="http://www.erlang.org/doc/man/maps.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.erlang.org&#x2F;doc&#x2F;man&#x2F;maps.html</a><p>Older documentation for Maps (EEP): <a href="http://www.erlang.org/eeps/eep-0043.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.erlang.org&#x2F;eeps&#x2F;eep-0043.html</a><p>Important note found on the reference manual page:<p><i>Maps are considered experimental during OTP 17 and may be subject to change.</i><p><i>The documentation below describes it being possible to use arbitrary expressions or variables as keys, this is NOT implemented in the current version of Erlang&#x2F;OTP.</i><p><i>Exceptions returns badarg instead of badmap, this will change in the future releases.</i></text></comment> |
25,803,207 | 25,802,787 | 1 | 3 | 25,802,366 | train | <story><title>Google Safe Browsing can kill a startup</title><url>https://gomox.medium.com/google-safe-browsing-can-kill-your-startup-7d73c474b98d</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>freedomben</author><text>After years of seeing developments like this, getting worse and worse, it fills me with rage to think about how clearly nobody in power at Google cares.<p>I naively used to think, &quot;they probably don&#x27;t realize what&#x27;s happening and will fix it.&quot; I always try to give benefit of the doubt, especially having been on the other side so many times and seeing how 9 times out of 10 it&#x27;s not malice, just incompetence, apathy, or hard priority choices based on economic constraints (the latter not likely a problem Google has though).<p>At this point however, I still don&#x27;t think it&#x27;s outright malice, but the doubling down on these horrific practices (algorithmically and opaquely destroying people) is so egregious that it doesn&#x27;t really matter. As far as I&#x27;m concerned, Google is to be considered a hostile actor. It&#x27;s not possible to do business on the internet in any way without running into them, so &quot;de-Googling&quot; isn&#x27;t an option. Instead, I am going to personally (and advise my clients as well) to:<p><i>Consider Google as a malicious actor&#x2F;threat in the InfoSec threat modeling that you do</i>. Actively have a mitigation strategy in place to minimize damage to your company should you become the target of their attack.<p>As with most security planning&#x2F;analyzing&#x2F;mitigation, you have to balance the concerns of the CIA Triad. You can&#x27;t just refuse Google altogether these days, but do NOT treat them as a friend or ally of your business, because they are most assuredly NOT.<p>I&#x27;m also considering AWS and Digital Ocean more in the same vein, although that&#x27;s off topic on this thread. (I use Linode now as their support is great and they don&#x27;t just drop ban hammers and leave you scrambling to figure out what happened).<p>Edit: Just to clarify (based on confusion in comments below), I am not saying Google is acting with malice (I don&#x27;t believe they are personally). I am just suggesting you treat it as such for purposes of threat modeling your business&#x2F;application.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>at_a_remove</author><text>Jon Williams, circa 1987, wrote a story of a far-flung humanity&#x27;s future in &quot;Dinosaurs,&quot; in which humans had been engineered into a variety of specialized forms to better serve humanity. After nine million years of tweaking, most of them are not too bright but they are perfect at what they do. Ambassador Drill is trying to prevent a newly discovered species, the Shar, from treading on the toes of humanity, because if the Shar do have even a <i>slight</i> accidental conflict as the result of human terraforming ships wiping out Shar colonies because they just didn&#x27;t <i>notice</i> them, the rather terrifyingly adapted military subspecies branches of humanity will utterly wipe out the Shar, as they have efficiently done with so many others, just as a reflex. Ambassador Drill fears that negotations, despite his desire for peace, may not go well, because the terraforming ships will take a long time to receive information that the Shar are in fact sentient and billions of them ought not to be wiped out ...<p>Google, somehow, strikes me as this vision of humanity, but without an Ambassador Drill. It simply lumbers forward, doing its thing. It is to be modeled as a threat not because it is malign, but because it doesn&#x27;t notice you <i>exist</i> as it takes another step forward. Threat modeling Lovecraft-style: entities that are alien and unlikely to single you out in particular, it&#x27;s just what they <i>do</i> is a problem.<p>Google&#x27;s desire for scale, scale, scale, meant that interactions must be handled through The Algorithms. I can imagine it still muttering &quot;The algorithms said ...&quot; as anti-trust measures reverse-Frankenstein it into hopefully more manageable pieces.</text></comment> | <story><title>Google Safe Browsing can kill a startup</title><url>https://gomox.medium.com/google-safe-browsing-can-kill-your-startup-7d73c474b98d</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>freedomben</author><text>After years of seeing developments like this, getting worse and worse, it fills me with rage to think about how clearly nobody in power at Google cares.<p>I naively used to think, &quot;they probably don&#x27;t realize what&#x27;s happening and will fix it.&quot; I always try to give benefit of the doubt, especially having been on the other side so many times and seeing how 9 times out of 10 it&#x27;s not malice, just incompetence, apathy, or hard priority choices based on economic constraints (the latter not likely a problem Google has though).<p>At this point however, I still don&#x27;t think it&#x27;s outright malice, but the doubling down on these horrific practices (algorithmically and opaquely destroying people) is so egregious that it doesn&#x27;t really matter. As far as I&#x27;m concerned, Google is to be considered a hostile actor. It&#x27;s not possible to do business on the internet in any way without running into them, so &quot;de-Googling&quot; isn&#x27;t an option. Instead, I am going to personally (and advise my clients as well) to:<p><i>Consider Google as a malicious actor&#x2F;threat in the InfoSec threat modeling that you do</i>. Actively have a mitigation strategy in place to minimize damage to your company should you become the target of their attack.<p>As with most security planning&#x2F;analyzing&#x2F;mitigation, you have to balance the concerns of the CIA Triad. You can&#x27;t just refuse Google altogether these days, but do NOT treat them as a friend or ally of your business, because they are most assuredly NOT.<p>I&#x27;m also considering AWS and Digital Ocean more in the same vein, although that&#x27;s off topic on this thread. (I use Linode now as their support is great and they don&#x27;t just drop ban hammers and leave you scrambling to figure out what happened).<p>Edit: Just to clarify (based on confusion in comments below), I am not saying Google is acting with malice (I don&#x27;t believe they are personally). I am just suggesting you treat it as such for purposes of threat modeling your business&#x2F;application.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>gomox</author><text>Author here. I don&#x27;t think it&#x27;s malice on their part, but their hammer is too big to be wielded so carelessly.</text></comment> |
543,512 | 543,433 | 1 | 2 | 543,431 | train | <story><title>37signals' follow up on "Get Satisfaction, Or Else..."</title><url>http://www.37signals.com/svn/posts/1661-follow-up-on-get-satisfaction-or-else</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>calambrac</author><text>The frustrating thing about this for me is that I liked Get Satisfaction. It's a really well-done site, for the most part, and it was easy and convenient. I had never used it deeply, and only for services that were actually using it as their primary support channel, so I didn't even realize that they had pages for companies that hadn't signed up with them.<p>All the GS pages look pretty much identical, save for a few logos. After a while, you blow past the repeated boilerplate on each page, and you just use the functionality. I was one of the people who would never have noticed the small distinctions between official and unofficial; I would have thought any GS page was sanctioned by the company, because frankly, it never would have even entered my mind that GS would so brazenly try to unilaterally pose as a company's support channel.<p>This is exactly the kind of thing that trademarks are intended to protect against. I hate to say it, but all the hand-wringing over whether 37s was being rude by dropping a bomb of a blog post, is kind of silly. It could have very legitimately been a bomb of a lawsuit.</text></comment> | <story><title>37signals' follow up on "Get Satisfaction, Or Else..."</title><url>http://www.37signals.com/svn/posts/1661-follow-up-on-get-satisfaction-or-else</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>pchristensen</author><text>I'm impressed with how Jason handled it. GS made some changes that sounded good enough to me, but after reading this post, I'm firmly on 37signals side. GetSatisfaction is a good idea but it's presented very deceptively and has the potential to hurt customers as much as it helps.</text></comment> |
4,923,125 | 4,921,920 | 1 | 2 | 4,921,047 | train | <story><title>Working alone sucks</title><url>http://fleetadmiral.tumblr.com/post/37907736486/working-alone-sucks</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>paulsutter</author><text>This is a pretty clear take on the cofounder debate. Key quote:<p>"I don’t have a CFO, COO or other peers with the same overall picture of the company and incentive structure that I have"<p>In the early days of Quantcast, Konrad (the other cofounder) and I wondered why the employees didn't generally have the same sense of urgency that we did. My friend Bryan asked "so, what do you do when you read an article about a competitive threat?" and we both answered "we share it with each other". "and not the employees?", and we looked at each other and said "we don't want to be discouraging". Bryan said "no wonder they don't feel urgency".<p>And that's at the core of having a cofounder. Or more importantly, perhaps that's one of the real reasons you want the initial team of a company to all be cofounders (YC style). You want everyone in the same boat, with a big bet on the line, sharing information openly.<p>I'd love to hear any other thoughts about the real underlying reasons that the success rates are higher with companies that have cofounders. Most of the discussion on HN is about the observation, and examples either way. But I'd love to hear insight into the reasons.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>gsharma</author><text>I am curious to know how you cultivated sense of urgency among employees after this conversation? Did you start sharing more about competition and/or other information? Did you share it directly or massaged the message so the employees don't get discouraged? Or was "we don't want to be discouraging" an assumption?</text></comment> | <story><title>Working alone sucks</title><url>http://fleetadmiral.tumblr.com/post/37907736486/working-alone-sucks</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>paulsutter</author><text>This is a pretty clear take on the cofounder debate. Key quote:<p>"I don’t have a CFO, COO or other peers with the same overall picture of the company and incentive structure that I have"<p>In the early days of Quantcast, Konrad (the other cofounder) and I wondered why the employees didn't generally have the same sense of urgency that we did. My friend Bryan asked "so, what do you do when you read an article about a competitive threat?" and we both answered "we share it with each other". "and not the employees?", and we looked at each other and said "we don't want to be discouraging". Bryan said "no wonder they don't feel urgency".<p>And that's at the core of having a cofounder. Or more importantly, perhaps that's one of the real reasons you want the initial team of a company to all be cofounders (YC style). You want everyone in the same boat, with a big bet on the line, sharing information openly.<p>I'd love to hear any other thoughts about the real underlying reasons that the success rates are higher with companies that have cofounders. Most of the discussion on HN is about the observation, and examples either way. But I'd love to hear insight into the reasons.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>labaraka</author><text>You've nailed it!<p>I should have been clearer in my post and maybe titled the post "Not having co-founders sucks".</text></comment> |
7,512,942 | 7,512,662 | 1 | 2 | 7,512,469 | train | <story><title>409A as a Service: Cash Cows Get Slaughtered</title><url>http://siliconhillslawyer.com/2014/03/15/409a-service-cash-cows-get-slaughtered/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>ChuckMcM</author><text>God this is an insanely good idea. Not only do you solve a real pain point for startups (the whole 409a eval) but if they sign up and feed you monthly updates on their financial position you could massively front run the market on what startups were going to pop and which were going to expire quietly. Google thinking about acquiring your startup? Lets have a look at the other six companies in your space for which is the right one to grab and for how much. Ka-CHING!</text></comment> | <story><title>409A as a Service: Cash Cows Get Slaughtered</title><url>http://siliconhillslawyer.com/2014/03/15/409a-service-cash-cows-get-slaughtered/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Orangeair</author><text>With the 2048-as-a-service thing earlier, I thought at first that this was just a misspelled attempt to try to one-up them.</text></comment> |
41,098,471 | 41,096,141 | 1 | 2 | 41,095,839 | train | <story><title>Show HN: A football/soccer pass visualizer made with Three.js</title><url>https://statsbomb-3d-viz.vercel.app/</url><text>I&#x27;ve been working on a football pass visualiser for the past week.<p>It uses open data from StatsBomb to analyse and visualise passing patterns, allowing users to explore and filter the data by pass distance, team and players.</text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>thom</author><text>Always nice to see people doing cool stuff with our free data! If anyone else wanted to play there’s thousands of free soccer games at:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;statsbomb&#x2F;open-data">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;statsbomb&#x2F;open-data</a><p>Part of the soccer data is us going back and collecting every Lionel Messi game, and we started doing the same for Tom Brady in American football here:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;statsbomb&#x2F;amf-open-data">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;statsbomb&#x2F;amf-open-data</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Show HN: A football/soccer pass visualizer made with Three.js</title><url>https://statsbomb-3d-viz.vercel.app/</url><text>I&#x27;ve been working on a football pass visualiser for the past week.<p>It uses open data from StatsBomb to analyse and visualise passing patterns, allowing users to explore and filter the data by pass distance, team and players.</text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>chaosprint</author><text>Great interface. Maybe provide a direct example, if I want to change to something else, I will find the raw json myself through the guidance you provided.<p>After loading it, I don’t quite understand why you use threejs. Because you also use a heat map to show the height of the pass. The passing route on whoscored seems more intuitive.</text></comment> |
32,915,763 | 32,915,648 | 1 | 2 | 32,915,089 | train | <story><title>Video shows GOP fake elector giving 'unauthorized access' to voting equipment</title><url>https://www.wabe.org/lawyers-seek-gop-fake-electors-data-in-georgia-election-equipment-breach/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>toomim</author><text>When you don&#x27;t understand them, that&#x27;s how you know you&#x27;re in a bubble. Try getting out and talking to them.</text></item><item><author>babypuncher</author><text>&gt; We already have the majority of one party believing the last election as stolen despite a comprehensive lack of evidence.<p>This is the part that gets me. I don&#x27;t know how anyone with two brain cells to rub together can see this behavior and then still support the people perpetrating it.</text></item><item><author>standardUser</author><text>We&#x27;re going to hit a breaking point soon on faith in elections. We have poll workers refusing to work due to threats to their safety. We have an increasing number of candidates and elected officials who believe the last election was stolen in positions to override actual election results. We have an increasing number of people who want to &quot;police&quot; the polls (this one troubles me the most). And of course there&#x27;s been a huge increase in restrictive and oftentimes convoluted voting laws that are going to confuse the hell out of people and result in many votes not being cast or counted.<p>We already have the majority of one party believing the last election as stolen despite a comprehensive lack of evidence. It won&#x27;t take too many more people until a clear majority simply stop believing any election results are valid.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jimt1234</author><text>I&#x27;ve tried talking to election deniers; all I hear for supporting evidence is disproven conspiracy theories and what-about-ism.</text></comment> | <story><title>Video shows GOP fake elector giving 'unauthorized access' to voting equipment</title><url>https://www.wabe.org/lawyers-seek-gop-fake-electors-data-in-georgia-election-equipment-breach/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>toomim</author><text>When you don&#x27;t understand them, that&#x27;s how you know you&#x27;re in a bubble. Try getting out and talking to them.</text></item><item><author>babypuncher</author><text>&gt; We already have the majority of one party believing the last election as stolen despite a comprehensive lack of evidence.<p>This is the part that gets me. I don&#x27;t know how anyone with two brain cells to rub together can see this behavior and then still support the people perpetrating it.</text></item><item><author>standardUser</author><text>We&#x27;re going to hit a breaking point soon on faith in elections. We have poll workers refusing to work due to threats to their safety. We have an increasing number of candidates and elected officials who believe the last election was stolen in positions to override actual election results. We have an increasing number of people who want to &quot;police&quot; the polls (this one troubles me the most). And of course there&#x27;s been a huge increase in restrictive and oftentimes convoluted voting laws that are going to confuse the hell out of people and result in many votes not being cast or counted.<p>We already have the majority of one party believing the last election as stolen despite a comprehensive lack of evidence. It won&#x27;t take too many more people until a clear majority simply stop believing any election results are valid.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>zcw100</author><text>&quot;So what has you so upset?&quot;.....&quot;Comet Ping-pong pedo ring, contrails, Q, where we go one we go all, derrrrr&quot;<p>Nope, coming in loud and clear, not a bubble problem.</text></comment> |
35,074,447 | 35,073,842 | 1 | 2 | 35,069,813 | train | <story><title>AI is making it easier to create more noise, when all I want is good search</title><url>https://rachsmith.com/i-want-good-search/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>nico</author><text>Everyday I’m using Google search less and less, while using ChatGPT more and more.<p>It’s pretty rare that I want to find a website or document. Most of the times I want an answer or a solution, and ChatGPT is so much better at that than google.<p>The ChatGPT user-experience is mind-blowing, but when you start using their API and see, partly, how the sausage is made, you realize that the context-awareness is just a very well done illusion. But that’s exactly where the magic of the experience is, and what gives ChatGPT it’s edge.<p>Google should just launch a “chatux” version of their search.</text></item><item><author>barbariangrunge</author><text>The Seo spam has already made it hard to find what you want on google. Seo spam + ai is going to be a dumpster fire. Whoever solves this problem will probably get to be the new google<p>Can’t wait to see how this affects hn comments over the next 5 years</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>userbinator</author><text>Does ChatGPT know things like part numbers for mid-80s ICs by Japanese manufacturers?<p>That&#x27;s what I use search for. Unfortunately Google is getting worse at those queries, but I doubt AI is going to be better.<p>Beware of wanting &quot;answers&quot; or &quot;solutions&quot; --- that&#x27;s a slippery slope towards complacency and loss of agency, replaced by corporate subservience. Classic example: instead of finding a service manual or discussions on repairing something, AI may try to convince you to buy a new one.</text></comment> | <story><title>AI is making it easier to create more noise, when all I want is good search</title><url>https://rachsmith.com/i-want-good-search/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>nico</author><text>Everyday I’m using Google search less and less, while using ChatGPT more and more.<p>It’s pretty rare that I want to find a website or document. Most of the times I want an answer or a solution, and ChatGPT is so much better at that than google.<p>The ChatGPT user-experience is mind-blowing, but when you start using their API and see, partly, how the sausage is made, you realize that the context-awareness is just a very well done illusion. But that’s exactly where the magic of the experience is, and what gives ChatGPT it’s edge.<p>Google should just launch a “chatux” version of their search.</text></item><item><author>barbariangrunge</author><text>The Seo spam has already made it hard to find what you want on google. Seo spam + ai is going to be a dumpster fire. Whoever solves this problem will probably get to be the new google<p>Can’t wait to see how this affects hn comments over the next 5 years</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>sangnoir</author><text>&gt; Everyday I’m using Google search less and less, while using ChatGPT more and more.<p>Wasn&#x27;t ChatGPT3 trained on web content with a cutoff of 2021? Future ChatGPT versions will likely be trained on data tainted by AI-generated fluff, and will face the same challenges Google is facing with today&#x27;s web content.</text></comment> |
23,278,486 | 23,275,785 | 1 | 2 | 23,270,232 | train | <story><title>Siri, What Time Is It in London?</title><url>https://daringfireball.net/linked/2020/05/22/what-time-is-it-in-london</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>reaperducer</author><text>About once a week Siri and I have this conversation:<p>Me: &quot;Siri, turn off the bedroom lights.&quot;<p>Siri: &quot;OK. Your 6am alarm is off.&quot;<p>For the most part Siri works for me, with the exception of the above and her insistence on adding &quot;ginger ale&quot; to my grocery list as two items.<p>&#x2F;Native English speaker, specifically trained in non-regional diction because I used to work on-air in radio.</text></item><item><author>kilo_bravo_3</author><text>Siri doesn&#x27;t know that my front door is called &quot;FRONT DOOR&quot;.<p>I only have one smart lock, which works perfectly, and it is called &quot;FRONT DOOR&quot; in HomeKit.<p>When I ask Siri about my FRONT DOOR she responds that she cannot find it.<p>When I ask Siri about the status of my DOOR, she responds with &quot;The FRONT DOOR is locked&#x2F;unlocked&quot;.<p>I&#x27;ll then say &#x27;Alright Siri you literally just used the phrase &quot;FRONT DOOR&quot; five seconds ago and the text transcript on the screen says &quot;FRONT DOOR&quot; hey Siri is my FRONT DOOR locked&#x27;<p>Siri: WTF are you talking about? You don&#x27;t have a FRONT DOOR.<p>&quot;Hey Siri is my door locked&quot;<p>Siri: Your FRONT DOOR is locked.<p>Google and Alexa handle things flawlessly.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>GloriousKoji</author><text>Me: &quot;120 degrees Fahrenheit in Celsius&quot;<p>Siri: &quot;Contacting emergency services in five seconds&quot;<p>To be fair I was in a noisy environment and Siri only got the &quot;120&quot; part but seriously, why would that be okay? My phone is registered in America with an American phone number and English set as it&#x27;s only language. Why should it think 120 is equivalent to 911?</text></comment> | <story><title>Siri, What Time Is It in London?</title><url>https://daringfireball.net/linked/2020/05/22/what-time-is-it-in-london</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>reaperducer</author><text>About once a week Siri and I have this conversation:<p>Me: &quot;Siri, turn off the bedroom lights.&quot;<p>Siri: &quot;OK. Your 6am alarm is off.&quot;<p>For the most part Siri works for me, with the exception of the above and her insistence on adding &quot;ginger ale&quot; to my grocery list as two items.<p>&#x2F;Native English speaker, specifically trained in non-regional diction because I used to work on-air in radio.</text></item><item><author>kilo_bravo_3</author><text>Siri doesn&#x27;t know that my front door is called &quot;FRONT DOOR&quot;.<p>I only have one smart lock, which works perfectly, and it is called &quot;FRONT DOOR&quot; in HomeKit.<p>When I ask Siri about my FRONT DOOR she responds that she cannot find it.<p>When I ask Siri about the status of my DOOR, she responds with &quot;The FRONT DOOR is locked&#x2F;unlocked&quot;.<p>I&#x27;ll then say &#x27;Alright Siri you literally just used the phrase &quot;FRONT DOOR&quot; five seconds ago and the text transcript on the screen says &quot;FRONT DOOR&quot; hey Siri is my FRONT DOOR locked&#x27;<p>Siri: WTF are you talking about? You don&#x27;t have a FRONT DOOR.<p>&quot;Hey Siri is my door locked&quot;<p>Siri: Your FRONT DOOR is locked.<p>Google and Alexa handle things flawlessly.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ThePowerOfFuet</author><text>&gt;Native English speaker, specifically trained in non-regional diction because I used to work on-air in radio.<p>Well there&#x27;s your problem (&#x2F;s):
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=Avp9aUkM5g0" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=Avp9aUkM5g0</a></text></comment> |
2,176,728 | 2,176,340 | 1 | 2 | 2,176,043 | train | <story><title>'Don’t ignore your stupid ideas.'</title><url>http://williamwilkinson.com/post/3089051066</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>MicahWedemeyer</author><text>Not shown: 1000s of goofy iphone apps that generated close to $0<p>If the moral of the story is "Do funky apps for fun and be happily surprised if they make any money" then I agree. If the moral is "Do funky apps and expect to make $16k over a weekend" then I have to disagree.<p>Note: I say this as the co-author of a very nice funky app: <a href="http://fakewhale.com" rel="nofollow">http://fakewhale.com</a> I am currently waiting by the phone for investors or acquirers to call.</text></comment> | <story><title>'Don’t ignore your stupid ideas.'</title><url>http://williamwilkinson.com/post/3089051066</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>seanalltogether</author><text>For all the new designers out there, please don't add a CSS text shadow to the main body of your text content. By highlighting everything, you make everything less readable.</text></comment> |
41,456,938 | 41,455,876 | 1 | 3 | 41,454,779 | train | <story><title>Porting systemd to musl Libc-powered Linux</title><url>https://catfox.life/2024/09/05/porting-systemd-to-musl-libc-powered-linux/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dmwilcox</author><text>it&#x27;s funny that many people mention boot time as a metric when for most servers, VMs and laptops the devices are either always on or sleeping. startup times do nothing in those cases.<p>personally I use a custom alpine live-usb that is immutable and I fully shutdown and start-up all the time. openrc doesn&#x27;t give me any grief, the bulk of my startup time is copying my 500mb rootfs into a tmpfs<p>systemd for me is solidly &quot;at work&quot; software, and not stuff I&#x27;m a big fan of either (journald, networkd and the silly dns resolver all have serious issues). so please, keep away from my alpine or I&#x27;ll have to fork -again- :)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rkangel</author><text>&gt; it&#x27;s funny that many people mention boot time as a metric<p>For the majority of deployments of systemd, that&#x27;s probably true. Note that this is a musl port, and that the existing musl port is from OpenEmbedded. It&#x27;s embedded devices that are often using cut-down userspaces (e.g. using MUSL), and embedded devices often do care about startup time because they&#x27;re not Always-On.<p>E.g. the VTech baby monitor I&#x27;ve just bought is generally pretty good, but spends &gt;10 seconds at a splash screen when you turn it on. No idea if it&#x27;s Linux under the hood, but an optimised boot time would be great.<p>In a previous work project, we need the Linux based software to be ready from low power state quickly (battery powered, only doing work occasionally). By getting the boot time down &lt;1s, I could also avoid a load of sleep-state shenanigans - when we wanted to power save, we just turned off completely (there was already a supervisory micro to decide when to turn back on).</text></comment> | <story><title>Porting systemd to musl Libc-powered Linux</title><url>https://catfox.life/2024/09/05/porting-systemd-to-musl-libc-powered-linux/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dmwilcox</author><text>it&#x27;s funny that many people mention boot time as a metric when for most servers, VMs and laptops the devices are either always on or sleeping. startup times do nothing in those cases.<p>personally I use a custom alpine live-usb that is immutable and I fully shutdown and start-up all the time. openrc doesn&#x27;t give me any grief, the bulk of my startup time is copying my 500mb rootfs into a tmpfs<p>systemd for me is solidly &quot;at work&quot; software, and not stuff I&#x27;m a big fan of either (journald, networkd and the silly dns resolver all have serious issues). so please, keep away from my alpine or I&#x27;ll have to fork -again- :)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>btreecat</author><text>The biggest issue I ran into with OpenRC was the lack of metadata related to hot-plugging events.<p>There currently is no way to fire specific events based on vendor&#x2F;device id like you would with systemd.<p>This forced me to write a shim script to enable USB passthrough with arbitrary k8s nodes. The shim was short but is very hacky and relies on 3p packages because the info needed isn&#x27;t available in stock alpine.<p>Blog post about it here:
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;stephentanner.com&#x2F;home-assistant-on-k3s.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;stephentanner.com&#x2F;home-assistant-on-k3s.html</a><p>Follow up post in the works based on additional improvements up streamed to OpenRC. The biggest issue was getting literally anyone from the project to comment on the PR to progress it forward to acceptance.</text></comment> |
14,842,094 | 14,840,838 | 1 | 2 | 14,839,672 | train | <story><title>Mysterious Mac Malware Has Infected Victims for Years</title><url>https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/zmv79w/mysterious-mac-malware-has-infected-hundreds-of-victims-for-years</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>epistasis</author><text>&gt;the widespread belief that they are virus-free, Macs aren&#x27;t immune from invasive and dangerous malware.<p>This is an area where it&#x27;s really hard to extrapolate from my personal experience to the entire population, but is this really an accurate statement of many people&#x27;s beliefs?<p>I think what people <i>actually</i> think is that the chances are much lower of encountering malware in the wild on a Mac. In support of that, having an article this long on a <i>single</i> piece of malware that isn&#x27;t particularly damaging, would indicate that it&#x27;s not the normal state of affairs in Mac land.<p>I would similarly expect that the chances of drive-by malware on Linux are tiny, perhaps even less common than on a Mac, and thus it would be newsworthy if there were some widespread (in relative terms) Gnome malware, or similar.<p>It&#x27;s one thing to think that it&#x27;s uncommon, and another to think that it&#x27;s impossible.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>NelsonMinar</author><text>People think Macs are virus-free because Apple spent years telling them were. Example ad, with John Hodgman as the Windows guy with a virus. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=M3Z386vXrt4" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=M3Z386vXrt4</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Mysterious Mac Malware Has Infected Victims for Years</title><url>https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/zmv79w/mysterious-mac-malware-has-infected-hundreds-of-victims-for-years</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>epistasis</author><text>&gt;the widespread belief that they are virus-free, Macs aren&#x27;t immune from invasive and dangerous malware.<p>This is an area where it&#x27;s really hard to extrapolate from my personal experience to the entire population, but is this really an accurate statement of many people&#x27;s beliefs?<p>I think what people <i>actually</i> think is that the chances are much lower of encountering malware in the wild on a Mac. In support of that, having an article this long on a <i>single</i> piece of malware that isn&#x27;t particularly damaging, would indicate that it&#x27;s not the normal state of affairs in Mac land.<p>I would similarly expect that the chances of drive-by malware on Linux are tiny, perhaps even less common than on a Mac, and thus it would be newsworthy if there were some widespread (in relative terms) Gnome malware, or similar.<p>It&#x27;s one thing to think that it&#x27;s uncommon, and another to think that it&#x27;s impossible.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>horsawlarway</author><text>I would say it is accurate. I doubt most users really think it through, and Apple went out of their way to enforce the idea that Macs don&#x27;t get viruses in their advertising campaigns around 2010 to 2012.<p>Most users just don&#x27;t think about it much, and the only exposure they got was ads telling them the thing doesn&#x27;t get viruses, which Apple finally stopped doing in 2012 after have a <i>very</i> uncomfortable year... <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.wired.com&#x2F;2012&#x2F;06&#x2F;mac_viruses&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.wired.com&#x2F;2012&#x2F;06&#x2F;mac_viruses&#x2F;</a><p>If you&#x27;re here talking on HN, then yes, you probably fall into the category of folks who properly understand that uncommon != impossible. I sincerely doubt the vast majority of users make that jump.</text></comment> |
12,198,207 | 12,198,204 | 1 | 3 | 12,197,197 | train | <story><title>Microsoft sued over Windows 10 update campaign</title><url>http://www.seattletimes.com/business/microsoft/microsoft-sued-over-windows-10-update-campaign/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>totony</author><text>Or we should stop overlesgislating. Users are responsible for their own actions.</text></item><item><author>Esau</author><text>If the default settings are for user information to be shared, then the defaults are evil (even if the intent behind them is not). I say this because they know most people will accept the defaults.<p>Maybe there needs to be a law about default settings and privacy.</text></item><item><author>kctess5</author><text>What I find most appalling about Windows 10 is the draconian &quot;default install&quot; options. Seriously, how did having a key logger as the default option get through privacy review? Also desktop ad tracking?<p>I said no to three solid screens full of what I consider to be highly privacy infringing settings on install, all of which were on by default if you didn&#x27;t do a &quot;custom install.&quot;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>TheSpiceIsLife</author><text>You&#x27;ve heard of <i>dark patterns</i> right? <i>Dark Patterns are User Interfaces that are designed to trick people.</i><p>In my opinion that shares a remarkable similarity to the concept of <i>fraud</i>: <i>In law, fraud is deliberate deception to secure unfair or unlawful gain, or to deprive a victim of a legal right.</i><p>How can the user be responsible for their own actions when the results of their actions are deliberately obscured by the people who wrote the software?</text></comment> | <story><title>Microsoft sued over Windows 10 update campaign</title><url>http://www.seattletimes.com/business/microsoft/microsoft-sued-over-windows-10-update-campaign/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>totony</author><text>Or we should stop overlesgislating. Users are responsible for their own actions.</text></item><item><author>Esau</author><text>If the default settings are for user information to be shared, then the defaults are evil (even if the intent behind them is not). I say this because they know most people will accept the defaults.<p>Maybe there needs to be a law about default settings and privacy.</text></item><item><author>kctess5</author><text>What I find most appalling about Windows 10 is the draconian &quot;default install&quot; options. Seriously, how did having a key logger as the default option get through privacy review? Also desktop ad tracking?<p>I said no to three solid screens full of what I consider to be highly privacy infringing settings on install, all of which were on by default if you didn&#x27;t do a &quot;custom install.&quot;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>eximius</author><text>That&#x27;s a problem with these industries of oligarchies and megacorps. If we say, &quot;Microsoft, we refuse to use your product until you fix this&quot;, there isn&#x27;t an alternative to go to to force them to change.<p>There are a number of cultural issues that we&#x27;ll have to face, but the cognitive dissonance that occurs in corporations whereby employees make decisions that benefit the company but harm themselves is one of the most important.</text></comment> |
39,111,636 | 39,111,620 | 1 | 2 | 39,111,494 | train | <story><title>Anon Boeing engineer reveals why the 737 door blew off</title><url>https://leehamnews.com/2024/01/15/unplanned-removal-installation-inspection-procedure-at-boeing/#comment-509962</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>gnabgib</author><text>Do we need another duplicate posting? First post was 12 hours ago[0] (469 points, 362 comments), and a dupe was 3 hours ago (116 points, 7 remaining comments - was merged into the first)<p>[0]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=39102021">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=39102021</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Anon Boeing engineer reveals why the 737 door blew off</title><url>https://leehamnews.com/2024/01/15/unplanned-removal-installation-inspection-procedure-at-boeing/#comment-509962</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>pxeboot</author><text>If this is true, it is impressive the door stayed attached to the plane as long as it did. If they really forgot to install all of the bolts intended to hold it in place, I would have expected to to fail much sooner.</text></comment> |
21,180,701 | 21,176,600 | 1 | 3 | 21,174,335 | train | <story><title>Building a constraint programming solver in Julia</title><url>http://opensourc.es/blog/constraint-solver-1</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>all2</author><text>Could we use this for arbitrary constraints like for mechanical modeling, or 3d animation?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tobmlt</author><text>As part of my PhD dissertation, I wrote an &quot;interval valued&quot; constraint solver and a Python internal DSL based originally on miniKanren, that ran it. The intervals handle the floating point in interval chunks, allowing for set-like reasoning and relational constraint programming atop floating point.<p>I used it to operate on a design space as a single entity, or sliced into finite chunks, and to cut out sub-spaces of infeasible designs by constraint propagation.<p>I think interval valued relational constraint programming could be extended (and probably already has) for mechanical modeling, and 3D animation, yes.
But the utility of a purely discrete constraint solver, such as the one posted here, is maybe less for these types of cases. Interval systems methods (for solving nonlinear equations) have a long history in optimization and motion planning. No reason a constraint solver couldn&#x27;t be applied there. Similarly, if you have a specific use case, I could try and offer more about constraint solving for it.<p>I should also note that constraint solving with real or and especially interval data goes back to at least the 80s. I just made use of some low hanging fruit!</text></comment> | <story><title>Building a constraint programming solver in Julia</title><url>http://opensourc.es/blog/constraint-solver-1</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>all2</author><text>Could we use this for arbitrary constraints like for mechanical modeling, or 3d animation?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jefft255</author><text>From a quick glance, this and most software doing “constraint programming” deal with discrete problems. Not saying those are useless for mechanical modeling or 3D animation, but those areas typically deal with continuous constraints which require different solvers. My experience in this is limited to a single class in CP 3 years ago so take this with a grain of salt!!</text></comment> |
36,793,877 | 36,793,592 | 1 | 2 | 36,791,506 | train | <story><title>What differentiates front-end frameworks</title><url>https://themer.dev/blog/the-single-most-important-factor-that-differentiates-front-end-frameworks</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>emorning3</author><text>Totally disagree with this.<p>Change detection is nothing but a hack to get around the fact that interacting directly with the browser DOM is very slow and blinky.<p>Imagine a world where interacting directly with the browser DOM didn&#x27;t suck, then none of these libraries would exist.<p>The crux of the problem is that the browser immediately reflects changes to the DOM to the screen.
And when you make a bunch of changes to the DOM you immediately see a bunch of changes happen, with portions of the screen being blanked out, and layout changes happening, and a whole bunch of other nasty stuff happening <i>immediately</i>, which all sucks.
And updating a physical screen is <i>slow</i> too, double sucky.
Change detection is a technique for minimizing updates to the DOM to avoid the suckiness.<p>I implemented word processors, and I&#x27;ve used a technique called &#x27;double buffering&#x27; to rerender complete pages off-screen, fast. And then update the screen smoothly.
If we used a proper word processor engine to display our UIs instead of a browser engine then we&#x27;d have no need for React etc...
After decades, Chrome finally has a rational equivalent to this technique called the View Transitions API.<p>My hope is that the days of doing change detection are numbered and we can finally leave all this change detection crap behind us.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>spankalee</author><text>&gt; the fact that interacting directly with the browser DOM is very slow and blinky.<p>This is not really true, or at least hasn&#x27;t been for many years.<p>Change detection&#x27;s primary purpose is to let other code know when something has changed, and what changed. You could theoretically re-render all your DOM based on that information, and in many cases that works much better than people expect. But the DOM is stateful, and truly large trees of 1000s of nodes are too slow to update, so frameworks try to also do minimal DOM updates.<p>&gt; The crux of the problem is that the browser immediately reflects changes to the DOM to the screen. And when you make a bunch of changes to the DOM you immediately see a bunch of changes happen, with portions of the screen being blanked out, and layout changes happening, and a whole bunch of other nasty stuff happening immediately, which all sucks<p>This is also not really true. The browser doesn&#x27;t update the screen until an animation frame. Anything you do synchronously is <i>not</i> rendered to the screen until code yields to the event loop. Even many async things, done on the microtask queue, block the next animation frame giving us visually atomic updates.<p>Lit, for instance, uses this to get async, batching rendering without unintended partial renders of the screen.</text></comment> | <story><title>What differentiates front-end frameworks</title><url>https://themer.dev/blog/the-single-most-important-factor-that-differentiates-front-end-frameworks</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>emorning3</author><text>Totally disagree with this.<p>Change detection is nothing but a hack to get around the fact that interacting directly with the browser DOM is very slow and blinky.<p>Imagine a world where interacting directly with the browser DOM didn&#x27;t suck, then none of these libraries would exist.<p>The crux of the problem is that the browser immediately reflects changes to the DOM to the screen.
And when you make a bunch of changes to the DOM you immediately see a bunch of changes happen, with portions of the screen being blanked out, and layout changes happening, and a whole bunch of other nasty stuff happening <i>immediately</i>, which all sucks.
And updating a physical screen is <i>slow</i> too, double sucky.
Change detection is a technique for minimizing updates to the DOM to avoid the suckiness.<p>I implemented word processors, and I&#x27;ve used a technique called &#x27;double buffering&#x27; to rerender complete pages off-screen, fast. And then update the screen smoothly.
If we used a proper word processor engine to display our UIs instead of a browser engine then we&#x27;d have no need for React etc...
After decades, Chrome finally has a rational equivalent to this technique called the View Transitions API.<p>My hope is that the days of doing change detection are numbered and we can finally leave all this change detection crap behind us.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>robear</author><text>I don&#x27;t see it that way. The main need for change detection in my opinion is to remove the need to update parts of the DOM in an imperative manner. It is fine to do that for smaller projects but when a project gets large, it becomes difficult to reason about the myriad of changes happening without a system to handle that. I find any one of the examples in the linked post way more easy to reason about than manual DOM updates.</text></comment> |
23,968,567 | 23,967,339 | 1 | 3 | 23,967,201 | train | <story><title>Sailor pictured with laser rifle on board USS Minnesota nuclear sub</title><url>https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/35106/check-out-this-sailor-holding-a-laser-dazzler-rifle-aboard-nuclear-submarine-uss-minnesota</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>fode</author><text>Wow, this explains it all! I currently live on the beach in Dakar Sénégal. About 2 weeks ago, I was up late on my balcony and saw these dazzling green lights coming from really far out in the ocean. For one I was wondering what it was, and two, I was surprised that the green lights seemed to be coming from so far out from the ocean, but yet they were lighting up the beach like someone was standing right there with a flash light. And I&#x27;m talking super far!<p>I had a hunch that it might be military related. It was fascinating to see how powerful the green lights were after they bounced off the water and hit the sand.<p>I&#x27;m so glad I caught this article here. I was going nuts for a while there lol</text></comment> | <story><title>Sailor pictured with laser rifle on board USS Minnesota nuclear sub</title><url>https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/35106/check-out-this-sailor-holding-a-laser-dazzler-rifle-aboard-nuclear-submarine-uss-minnesota</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>supernova87a</author><text>Two side observations unrelated to the laser rifle:<p>1) It&#x27;s surprising or kind of amusing that such a huge and complex submarine uses plain old Raytheon &#x2F; Raymarine radar when operating in harbor, etc. as if were just a little sailboat. But whatever works and is effective! I wonder how it has to be dismantled and put up, taken down each time? Perhaps it&#x27;s mostly for being visible to other ships&#x2F;monitoring stations? I recalled hearing that a sub is never in such places without accompanying surface fleet&#x2F;tugs&#x2F;etc anyway.<p>2) Looking at the periscope mast, the amount of technological sophistication in that thing must be incredible. The amount of communications (radio, laser, metallurgy, stealth coatings, etc) gadgetry there I&#x27;m sure would boggle the mind. Yet it all goes to the theme -- here is a boat worth many billions of $ and the pinnacle of US military sophistication, being put into the hands and trust of mostly 20-something young sailors, and mostly without incident. Truly amazing that we&#x27;re able to do that.</text></comment> |
12,154,240 | 12,154,089 | 1 | 2 | 12,153,644 | train | <story><title>Brain may flush out toxins during sleep (2015)</title><url>http://qz.com/424120/our-poor-sleeping-habits-could-be-filling-our-brains-with-neurotoxins</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>clumsysmurf</author><text>Related, there is the possibility that posture during sleep may impact the efficiency of the glymphatic system<p>Paper: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov&#x2F;pmc&#x2F;articles&#x2F;PMC4524974&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov&#x2F;pmc&#x2F;articles&#x2F;PMC4524974&#x2F;</a><p>Press release: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;sb.cc.stonybrook.edu&#x2F;news&#x2F;general&#x2F;150804sleeping.php" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;sb.cc.stonybrook.edu&#x2F;news&#x2F;general&#x2F;150804sleeping.php</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Brain may flush out toxins during sleep (2015)</title><url>http://qz.com/424120/our-poor-sleeping-habits-could-be-filling-our-brains-with-neurotoxins</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>singold</author><text>&quot;warns that sleeping next to your smartphone—the one that emits 3G and 4G signals all night—affects your brain patterns, restructuring your brain cells and likely preventing you from allowing your brain to clean out waste material properly.&quot;<p>Does anyone have any kind of evidence&#x2F;study of this kind of effects?</text></comment> |
27,963,116 | 27,962,978 | 1 | 2 | 27,962,567 | train | <story><title>Bye-bye, Bitcoin: It's time to ban cryptocurrencies</title><url>https://thehill.com/opinion/cybersecurity/564696-bye-bye-bitcoin-time-to-ban-crypto-currencies</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>nscalf</author><text>This is some of the worst junk writing I&#x27;ve seen on the hill. Some pretty wrong things in here, like insinuating that the only value of crypto is to criminals, and all but saying that the reason there are hackings to things like critical infrastructure is because crypto exists, which is just silly. Then it flags bitcoin as an environmental hazard, though estimates seem to be ~50-70% of BTC energy use is from renewables. I would label that as a bad faith argument because there isn&#x27;t really a standardized basis of measuring things by energy consumption (what&#x27;s the energy consumption to mine for gold? Create plastics? Etc.). All of this coupled with support for a government cryptocurrency? By a person who says they don&#x27;t understand crypto or its value prop in the first sentence. That probably means they should go learn more before having an opinion...<p>For people not in this world, cryptocurrency does NOT mean digital money. It needs to be rebranding. It&#x27;s a wave of projects building (mostly) decentralized tools or things secured by a blockchain secured through some protocol, such as finance exchanges, art minting and exchanging for digital scarcity, video games, real world supply chain tracking, music creation + tracking (hard to determine who is in every song and what sampling they used to pay artists), general contract writing with built in logic to be able to have trust in an interaction without having to involve a third party. There are many more examples, but it&#x27;s more apt to call it Web 3.0 than cryptocurrency at this point.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Jasper_</author><text>&gt; though estimates seem to be ~50-70% of BTC energy use is from renewables<p>Bullshit. When <i>one</i> coal mine in a remote region of China flooded, the Bitcoin hash rate measurably dropped by 30%. Keep in mind this was just one coal mine. Not all of China&#x27;s production.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;fortune.com&#x2F;2021&#x2F;04&#x2F;20&#x2F;bitcoin-mining-coal-china-environment-pollution&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;fortune.com&#x2F;2021&#x2F;04&#x2F;20&#x2F;bitcoin-mining-coal-china-env...</a><p>&gt; it&#x27;s more apt to call it Web 3.0 than cryptocurrency at this point.<p>I&#x27;ve said this so many times: But what does it doooooo??? Name one project that isn&#x27;t &quot;speculation&quot; or &quot;loans&quot; built on cryptocurrency that has seen any uptick or utility. NFTs sure ain&#x27;t it. DAOs sure ain&#x27;t it. Supply chain tracking sure ain&#x27;t it.<p>I haven&#x27;t seen one work. Don&#x27;t say it&#x27;s the early internet and we&#x27;ll find one eventually, because it&#x27;s been 12 years since Bitcoin&#x27;s launch in 2009, and the ideas are all still junk. Widespread broadband to the home was in strong demand in the early 90s, and Amazon was already selling books while dwellings with connectivity were in the single-digit numbers. The 80s saw university lines saturated by BBSes, newsgroups and MUDs. There was far more demand than supply, and it was very immediately clear what the utility was.</text></comment> | <story><title>Bye-bye, Bitcoin: It's time to ban cryptocurrencies</title><url>https://thehill.com/opinion/cybersecurity/564696-bye-bye-bitcoin-time-to-ban-crypto-currencies</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>nscalf</author><text>This is some of the worst junk writing I&#x27;ve seen on the hill. Some pretty wrong things in here, like insinuating that the only value of crypto is to criminals, and all but saying that the reason there are hackings to things like critical infrastructure is because crypto exists, which is just silly. Then it flags bitcoin as an environmental hazard, though estimates seem to be ~50-70% of BTC energy use is from renewables. I would label that as a bad faith argument because there isn&#x27;t really a standardized basis of measuring things by energy consumption (what&#x27;s the energy consumption to mine for gold? Create plastics? Etc.). All of this coupled with support for a government cryptocurrency? By a person who says they don&#x27;t understand crypto or its value prop in the first sentence. That probably means they should go learn more before having an opinion...<p>For people not in this world, cryptocurrency does NOT mean digital money. It needs to be rebranding. It&#x27;s a wave of projects building (mostly) decentralized tools or things secured by a blockchain secured through some protocol, such as finance exchanges, art minting and exchanging for digital scarcity, video games, real world supply chain tracking, music creation + tracking (hard to determine who is in every song and what sampling they used to pay artists), general contract writing with built in logic to be able to have trust in an interaction without having to involve a third party. There are many more examples, but it&#x27;s more apt to call it Web 3.0 than cryptocurrency at this point.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jandrese</author><text>&gt; Then it flags bitcoin as an environmental hazard, though estimates seem to be ~50-70% of BTC energy use is from renewables.<p>Is Bitcoin offsetting other uses that those renewables would have gone for or are people building solar farms out of their Bitcoin gains to fund more Bitcoin?</text></comment> |
23,827,998 | 23,826,753 | 1 | 2 | 23,823,210 | train | <story><title>Building Elixir from source segfaults on macOS on Apple Silicon while compiling</title><url>https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/elixir-lang-core/9s6-BIxaCz8/i-NmhjabAQAJ</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>KenoFischer</author><text>Well, for one, this means that Apple Silicon has no Fortran compiler, which breaks a decent chunk of the scientific computing ecosystem.</text></item><item><author>marcinzm</author><text>No GCC support if I read that correctly and the effort is expected to take months of full time work. I wonder what that&#x27;d break or is Clang significantly more common on OSX now?</text></item><item><author>oefrha</author><text>Related: ongoing compatibility table compiled by the Homebrew team: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;Homebrew&#x2F;brew&#x2F;issues&#x2F;7857" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;Homebrew&#x2F;brew&#x2F;issues&#x2F;7857</a>. (Please respect the team and refrain from polluting the thread. If in doubt check the comments marked off topic.)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bluejekyll</author><text>Won’t this work? <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;lfortran.org&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;lfortran.org&#x2F;</a><p>I just did a quick google search for it. I know nothing more than that it is FORTRAN compiler for LLVM. (It claims to be an alpha release)</text></comment> | <story><title>Building Elixir from source segfaults on macOS on Apple Silicon while compiling</title><url>https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/elixir-lang-core/9s6-BIxaCz8/i-NmhjabAQAJ</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>KenoFischer</author><text>Well, for one, this means that Apple Silicon has no Fortran compiler, which breaks a decent chunk of the scientific computing ecosystem.</text></item><item><author>marcinzm</author><text>No GCC support if I read that correctly and the effort is expected to take months of full time work. I wonder what that&#x27;d break or is Clang significantly more common on OSX now?</text></item><item><author>oefrha</author><text>Related: ongoing compatibility table compiled by the Homebrew team: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;Homebrew&#x2F;brew&#x2F;issues&#x2F;7857" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;Homebrew&#x2F;brew&#x2F;issues&#x2F;7857</a>. (Please respect the team and refrain from polluting the thread. If in doubt check the comments marked off topic.)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>cat199</author><text>Not sure if it&#x27;s changed, but last i checked a few years back, most of the BLAS&#x2F;LAPACK etc. stuff was f77, which should &#x27;do&#x27; with f2c (albeit, perhaps not as fast) and is at least partly why f2c was hosted at netlib..</text></comment> |
26,190,216 | 26,189,461 | 1 | 3 | 26,188,765 | train | <story><title>12 requests per second: A realistic look at Python web frameworks</title><url>https://suade.org/dev/12-requests-per-second-with-python/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>imperio59</author><text>My experience doing perf optimizations in real world systems with many many people writing code to the same app is a lot of inefficiencies happen due to over fetching data, inefficiencies caused by naively using the ORM without understanding the underlying cost of the query, and lack of actual profiling to find where the actual bottlenecks are (usually people writing dumb code without realizing it&#x27;s expensive).<p>Sure, the framework matters at very large scale and the benefits from optimizing the framework become large when you&#x27;re doing millions of requests a second over many thousands of servers because it can help reduce baseline cost of running the service.<p>But I agree with the author&#x27;s main point which seems to be that framework performance is pretty meaningless when comparing frameworks if you&#x27;re just starting on a new project. Focus on making a product people wanna actually use first. If you&#x27;re lucky enough to get to scale you can work about optimizing it then.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>stevenjohns</author><text>There is lots of truth to this. Some ORMs like Django perform joins in very unsuspecting ways.<p>A simple example is, say, foreign keys. Trying to access the foreign key of an object by doing `book.user.id` does an additional query for the user table to get the ID. It&#x27;s less known that the id is immediately available by just doing `book.user_id` instead.<p>I&#x27;ve spent time optimising things like text searches down from 2000+ queries to about ~4, and one of the more noticeable things to me isn&#x27;t actually the number of joins, rather the SELECT&#x27;s that take place. Many of these ORMs do a SELECT * unless you explicitly tell them to otherwise, and when dealing with large-ish datasets or on models that have large text fields this translates into significant time taken to <i>serialise</i> these attributes. So you can optimise the query and still have it take a long time until you realise that limiting the initial `SELECT` parameter is probably more efficient than limiting the number of joins.</text></comment> | <story><title>12 requests per second: A realistic look at Python web frameworks</title><url>https://suade.org/dev/12-requests-per-second-with-python/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>imperio59</author><text>My experience doing perf optimizations in real world systems with many many people writing code to the same app is a lot of inefficiencies happen due to over fetching data, inefficiencies caused by naively using the ORM without understanding the underlying cost of the query, and lack of actual profiling to find where the actual bottlenecks are (usually people writing dumb code without realizing it&#x27;s expensive).<p>Sure, the framework matters at very large scale and the benefits from optimizing the framework become large when you&#x27;re doing millions of requests a second over many thousands of servers because it can help reduce baseline cost of running the service.<p>But I agree with the author&#x27;s main point which seems to be that framework performance is pretty meaningless when comparing frameworks if you&#x27;re just starting on a new project. Focus on making a product people wanna actually use first. If you&#x27;re lucky enough to get to scale you can work about optimizing it then.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Izkata</author><text>&gt; (usually people writing dumb code without realizing it&#x27;s expensive)<p>Some years ago, one morning I gave a co-worker a recommendation on how to improve a loop that was unnecessarily hitting database through the Django ORM. He committed the fix that afternoon. Barely an hour later I accidentally reintroduced the exact same slowdown in the exact same loop when adding a different piece of data to it.<p>Soooo yeah, ORMs can be so simplistic it&#x27;s too easy to do by accident even if you know exactly what&#x27;s going on under the hood.</text></comment> |
4,105,811 | 4,105,877 | 1 | 2 | 4,105,325 | train | <story><title>New Apple Macbook Pro RAM is soldered to the motherboard | Ian Chilton</title><url>http://www.ichilton.co.uk/blog/apple/new-apple-macbook-pro-ram-is-soldered-to-the-motherboard-513.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>gouranga</author><text>Sorry but you have got to be a fucking idiot to buy one to be honest if that is the case.<p>Apple are making an attempt to turn generic computers into disposable appliances with moves like these. I would never accept a compromise like that with a computer that I owned.<p>My rationale is as follows: If I pay £1800 for one of those machines, I expect to be able to repair common problems easily. That's a lot of money sitting in one component waiting to fail and considering the warranty is a year (or 3 if you are extorted for even more cash by Apple for their expensive AppleCare service).<p>First it was the batteries - now no longer replaceable by mere mortals, then the SSDs were brought in with proprietary interfaces, now the RAM is soldered on the board.<p>In the average 5 year life span of a computer, I have found that you will need to replace the battery between 1-2 times, the memory will need to be upgraded at least once and the disk will need to be upgraded. These are observations but rational ones.<p>I'm now sitting on a Lenovo T61 which is 5 years old. EVERY component in this machine can be replaced for literally nothing and very rapidly.<p>Sorry but stuff like this is just pandering to consumerism if it is disposable by design.<p>The design is retarded.<p>EDIT: It appears the battery is GLUED in so that's not replaceable any more either, even with the aid of a screwdriver.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ctdonath</author><text>Making components replaceable increases volume, weight, and cost.<p>If you want replaceable components, go buy a computer for which that is a feature - and know that you will get a machine which is larger, heavier, and more expensive (all other factors being equal). Swapable components require additional casing, connectors, testing, sales channels, etc. You're not going to get a 3/4" 5-lb 7-hour 256GB-SSD 8GB-RAM MBA Retina for $2200 <i>and</i> be able to swap out darn near everything; something's gonna give.<p>Some of us DON'T want to replace components, having learned over the years that by the time we're replacing components we'd rather replace the whole computer outright. If I need more RAM, it's best matched with a new CPU. If I need more storage, I'll need more RAM to throw around more data. When the battery dies, all those other components are gettin' obsolete anyway. I also know from experience that upgrading parts doesn't always go as planned, and time wasted upgrading can very quickly add up to the cost of a new machine outright. I'd rather have a notebook which is very thin, very light, very fast - and just replace the whole package when the time comes as I see fit.<p>You're welcome to a different POV, and there is a market happy to serve our different needs &#38; desires.<p>However, just because we have a different POV doesn't make me a f<i></i>*ing idiot.</text></comment> | <story><title>New Apple Macbook Pro RAM is soldered to the motherboard | Ian Chilton</title><url>http://www.ichilton.co.uk/blog/apple/new-apple-macbook-pro-ram-is-soldered-to-the-motherboard-513.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>gouranga</author><text>Sorry but you have got to be a fucking idiot to buy one to be honest if that is the case.<p>Apple are making an attempt to turn generic computers into disposable appliances with moves like these. I would never accept a compromise like that with a computer that I owned.<p>My rationale is as follows: If I pay £1800 for one of those machines, I expect to be able to repair common problems easily. That's a lot of money sitting in one component waiting to fail and considering the warranty is a year (or 3 if you are extorted for even more cash by Apple for their expensive AppleCare service).<p>First it was the batteries - now no longer replaceable by mere mortals, then the SSDs were brought in with proprietary interfaces, now the RAM is soldered on the board.<p>In the average 5 year life span of a computer, I have found that you will need to replace the battery between 1-2 times, the memory will need to be upgraded at least once and the disk will need to be upgraded. These are observations but rational ones.<p>I'm now sitting on a Lenovo T61 which is 5 years old. EVERY component in this machine can be replaced for literally nothing and very rapidly.<p>Sorry but stuff like this is just pandering to consumerism if it is disposable by design.<p>The design is retarded.<p>EDIT: It appears the battery is GLUED in so that's not replaceable any more either, even with the aid of a screwdriver.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jwr</author><text>No need for profanity. Why the strong emotions?<p>To make a laptop this small and thin with this much stuff inside, you have to get rid of certain elements. Before calling people names I'd suggest you check if it is at all possible to fit two (you'd want TWO, right?) SODIMM slots in the space available.<p>Same goes for the battery — when I saw the first pictures of the internals, I said "well, they finally got rid of the integrated battery pack": you have to, if you want to get that much mAh into that little space.<p>It's a natural progression — an externally replaceable battery takes the most space, an internal (but still a single one) battery pack takes less, and a bunch of cells glued all over the place take even less.<p>I think it's a good compromise. I'd order a laptop with the amount of RAM and storage that I'll need over the next 2 years, which is the time I amortize the purchase over.<p>And — if you don't like it, just don't buy it.</text></comment> |
18,498,978 | 18,498,554 | 1 | 2 | 18,497,218 | train | <story><title>The Homeless Crisis Is Getting Worse in America’s Richest Cities</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2018-11-20/the-homeless-crisis-is-getting-worse-in-america-s-richest-cities</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>spookthesunset</author><text>&gt; endless money pits<p>The reason they are money pits is because they aren&#x27;t something that will be solved by a city or even a state. Any attempt to solve the problem locally in a &quot;humane&quot; way has a high risk of just attracting more folks in the same circumstance to the area.<p>The most effective way for a city or state to &quot;solve&quot; the local homeless problem is to simply pay for one-way bus tickets to somewhere else. But that doesn&#x27;t solve the actual problem.<p>Homelessness is a systemic problem that can only be meaningly addressed in a humane way by the federal government.</text></item><item><author>crooked-v</author><text>&gt; suddenly we get very &quot;every person for themselves&quot; the second homelessness has a price tag.<p>A confounding factor involved here is that many government strategies for dealing with the homeless are endless money pits without noticeable results. I think a lot of people would be more comfortable with their tax dollars going to that purpose if they didn&#x27;t feel like nothing was actually happening from it.</text></item><item><author>sharkweek</author><text>Long-time Seattle resident here who volunteered for several years in the homeless community. Homelessness has always been a <i>thing</i> in Seattle, but has definitely become a much larger issue in the past five years.<p>I&#x27;ll spare my thoughts on any number of reasons as to why we got here as a city, but will say I think we are doing a terrible disservice to actually finding a solution by lumping &quot;anyone who doesn&#x27;t have a home&quot; into the &quot;homeless crisis.&quot;<p>There are so many nuanced issues across a variety of problems here. There are drug abuse issues, mental health issues, physical health issues, cost of living issues, etc., and not to mention the varying cocktail of comorbidity, that to bulk &quot;people without permanent housing&quot; all under the umbrella of &quot;homeless crisis&quot; is not going to get us anywhere. Trying to assist the single mother with children who lives in her car because she lost her job is a VASTLY different issue than trying to assist the drug addict sitting in an alley passed out in their own feces. But at the end of the day, they&#x27;re both human beings, and it breaks my heart that either of them are in that situation.<p>Several separate issues, that need to be subdivided and approached in distinct ways if any progress is to be made on any of them. Smaller, subdivided problems should feel more solvable, too.<p>Unfortunately, a lot of the solutions are expensive and frankly politically toxic. Despite Seattle&#x27;s deep blue on most things, suddenly we get very &quot;every person for themselves&quot; the second homelessness has a price tag.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>flaque</author><text>&gt; Any attempt to solve the problem locally in a &quot;humane&quot; way has a high risk of just attracting more folks in the same circumstance to the area.<p>This is just provably false. Utah solved it&#x27;s homelessness problem by just giving people homes. And it was pretty effective.</text></comment> | <story><title>The Homeless Crisis Is Getting Worse in America’s Richest Cities</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2018-11-20/the-homeless-crisis-is-getting-worse-in-america-s-richest-cities</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>spookthesunset</author><text>&gt; endless money pits<p>The reason they are money pits is because they aren&#x27;t something that will be solved by a city or even a state. Any attempt to solve the problem locally in a &quot;humane&quot; way has a high risk of just attracting more folks in the same circumstance to the area.<p>The most effective way for a city or state to &quot;solve&quot; the local homeless problem is to simply pay for one-way bus tickets to somewhere else. But that doesn&#x27;t solve the actual problem.<p>Homelessness is a systemic problem that can only be meaningly addressed in a humane way by the federal government.</text></item><item><author>crooked-v</author><text>&gt; suddenly we get very &quot;every person for themselves&quot; the second homelessness has a price tag.<p>A confounding factor involved here is that many government strategies for dealing with the homeless are endless money pits without noticeable results. I think a lot of people would be more comfortable with their tax dollars going to that purpose if they didn&#x27;t feel like nothing was actually happening from it.</text></item><item><author>sharkweek</author><text>Long-time Seattle resident here who volunteered for several years in the homeless community. Homelessness has always been a <i>thing</i> in Seattle, but has definitely become a much larger issue in the past five years.<p>I&#x27;ll spare my thoughts on any number of reasons as to why we got here as a city, but will say I think we are doing a terrible disservice to actually finding a solution by lumping &quot;anyone who doesn&#x27;t have a home&quot; into the &quot;homeless crisis.&quot;<p>There are so many nuanced issues across a variety of problems here. There are drug abuse issues, mental health issues, physical health issues, cost of living issues, etc., and not to mention the varying cocktail of comorbidity, that to bulk &quot;people without permanent housing&quot; all under the umbrella of &quot;homeless crisis&quot; is not going to get us anywhere. Trying to assist the single mother with children who lives in her car because she lost her job is a VASTLY different issue than trying to assist the drug addict sitting in an alley passed out in their own feces. But at the end of the day, they&#x27;re both human beings, and it breaks my heart that either of them are in that situation.<p>Several separate issues, that need to be subdivided and approached in distinct ways if any progress is to be made on any of them. Smaller, subdivided problems should feel more solvable, too.<p>Unfortunately, a lot of the solutions are expensive and frankly politically toxic. Despite Seattle&#x27;s deep blue on most things, suddenly we get very &quot;every person for themselves&quot; the second homelessness has a price tag.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Alex63</author><text>I&#x27;d be interested to hear how homelessness can be meaningfully addressed in a humane way by the federal government (especially if it is constitutional).</text></comment> |
28,855,224 | 28,854,994 | 1 | 2 | 28,853,915 | train | <story><title>What if performance advertising is just an analytics scam?</title><url>https://sparktoro.com/blog/what-if-performance-advertising-is-just-an-analytics-scam/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>simonsarris</author><text>&gt; Technically, when someone does a Google search for “Williams Sonoma Cast Iron Skillet,” they probably would have clicked on one of the first 10 organic results, EVERY ONE OF WHICH leads to their website. But, y’know what ol’ Billy Ma’s performance marketers couldn’t then do: prove their value to their bosses.<p>&gt; [picture of that search term and williams sonoma ads with shopping links]<p>The main problem here is that if Williams Sonoma was <i>not</i> advertising on that search term, Lodge and Food52 etc etc would, and then those companies would be above the Williams Sonoma organic placements.<p>The spend is necessary in a defensive way because Google creates a bidding war even for the hyper relevant.<p>edit: I just checked and if you search &quot;williams sonoma skillet&quot;, if WS was not paying for [green] then the very first &quot;result&quot; (ad) would be Food52 [red] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;imgur.com&#x2F;a&#x2F;9Nnxs6h" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;imgur.com&#x2F;a&#x2F;9Nnxs6h</a><p>I just tried &quot;airbnb paris&quot; and the first result is, somewhat predictably, an ad that is not airbnb. But the second one is also an ad, this time from airbnb. So they clearly didn&#x27;t keep their spend dialed down to zero, and are aware of the need to advertise on their own keyword.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mbesto</author><text>&gt; The main problem here is that if Williams Sonoma was not advertising on that search term, Lodge and Food52 etc etc would, and then those companies would be above the Williams Sonoma organic placements.<p>This is what is known as &quot;on brand&quot; Search ads. I like to call these effectively the &quot;Google Tax&quot; because publishers&#x2F;retailers are forced to pay Google for the traffic they would have already received had the ad not been there.<p>I&#x27;ve seen way too many companies look at their analytics and say &quot;see we get 20x ROAS on on brand! why would we turn it off?!?&quot;. Because silly, people are already going to go to your site <i>without</i> you paying for the traffic. I wouldn&#x27;t be surprised if 25% of Google&#x27;s ad search revenues come from this.</text></comment> | <story><title>What if performance advertising is just an analytics scam?</title><url>https://sparktoro.com/blog/what-if-performance-advertising-is-just-an-analytics-scam/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>simonsarris</author><text>&gt; Technically, when someone does a Google search for “Williams Sonoma Cast Iron Skillet,” they probably would have clicked on one of the first 10 organic results, EVERY ONE OF WHICH leads to their website. But, y’know what ol’ Billy Ma’s performance marketers couldn’t then do: prove their value to their bosses.<p>&gt; [picture of that search term and williams sonoma ads with shopping links]<p>The main problem here is that if Williams Sonoma was <i>not</i> advertising on that search term, Lodge and Food52 etc etc would, and then those companies would be above the Williams Sonoma organic placements.<p>The spend is necessary in a defensive way because Google creates a bidding war even for the hyper relevant.<p>edit: I just checked and if you search &quot;williams sonoma skillet&quot;, if WS was not paying for [green] then the very first &quot;result&quot; (ad) would be Food52 [red] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;imgur.com&#x2F;a&#x2F;9Nnxs6h" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;imgur.com&#x2F;a&#x2F;9Nnxs6h</a><p>I just tried &quot;airbnb paris&quot; and the first result is, somewhat predictably, an ad that is not airbnb. But the second one is also an ad, this time from airbnb. So they clearly didn&#x27;t keep their spend dialed down to zero, and are aware of the need to advertise on their own keyword.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dublinben</author><text>Defensive spending to protect otherwise organic traffic could also be called extortion.</text></comment> |
37,834,490 | 37,834,605 | 1 | 2 | 37,832,319 | train | <story><title>Postgres: The next generation</title><url>https://redmonk.com/jgovernor/2023/10/10/postgres-the-next-generation-investing-in-the-next-generation-of-committers/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>candiddevmike</author><text>I wonder if C codebases are going to have problems finding maintainers in the future. Postgres has commercial backing and inertia, but it seems like we are lacking a pipeline of (proficient) C developers.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>swatcoder</author><text>In some future, of course, but that future is <i>decades</i> away. C is a living language with no shortage of active users and a learning curve that&#x27;s not very steep for systems programmers working in other language.<p>It can feel daunting to today&#x27;s web and application developers who are used to an opaque curtain between themselves and the underlying system architecture, but systems programmers using C++, Rust, etc already work behind that curtain (but with thicker gloves). They&#x27;ve often worked with C in the past, at least in education or experiment, and can ramp up on the footgun quirks with some intentional study when taking it up professionally.<p>There are arguments against picking C for some <i>new</i> systems projects, but -- outside a lack of systems programmers more broadly -- there&#x27;s no pressing concern around finding maintainers for what already exists.</text></comment> | <story><title>Postgres: The next generation</title><url>https://redmonk.com/jgovernor/2023/10/10/postgres-the-next-generation-investing-in-the-next-generation-of-committers/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>candiddevmike</author><text>I wonder if C codebases are going to have problems finding maintainers in the future. Postgres has commercial backing and inertia, but it seems like we are lacking a pipeline of (proficient) C developers.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>anarazel</author><text>(postgres hacker)<p>Yes, I think that will be the case. Obviously not a scientifically measured, by I think we&#x27;re already seeing that average C skills for new contributors are lower than what they used to be - of course that might just be my slowly greying beard speaking. So far I think people just &quot;learn on the job&quot;, but how much delta that bridge I am not sure.<p>I think eventually we&#x27;ll have to make it easier to use some other language in parts of the system (e.g. in-core data type implementations). But realistically I think that&#x27;s still a bit off.</text></comment> |
2,497,821 | 2,497,791 | 1 | 2 | 2,497,360 | train | <story><title>LSD: The Geek's Wonder Drug</title><url>http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/news/2006/01/70015</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>joelhooks</author><text>I'm a little hesitant, but it is hanging here on the wall so:<p><a href="http://i.imgur.com/mhg4c.jpg" rel="nofollow">http://i.imgur.com/mhg4c.jpg</a><p>This was an 8 hour marathon of oil pastel madness. I was in my tiny apartment with 6-8 friends and literally spent the entire time engrossed in this thing. The background was the technique that I could never get back. This was a series of this basic type of drawing I did. There were 4 and this one I like the most. Gave one away to some chick I was seeing :/<p><a href="http://i.imgur.com/HZ2yG.jpg" rel="nofollow">http://i.imgur.com/HZ2yG.jpg</a><p>Bic pens have always been a favorite as well. These are actually meeting drawings from a fairly recent (sober) time, but are representitive of the drawings I don't want to go dig out and scan. My brain didn't do this prior to LSD ;)</text></item><item><author>parfe</author><text>I'd be interested in seeing any scans you might have.</text></item><item><author>joelhooks</author><text>I have several drawings and paintings that I did under the influence that still amaze me today. I could never reproduce the techniques or forms. There were many times that I wouldn't spend the entire duration drawing/painting, but I had several marathon creation sessions under the influence of LSD.<p>We would always make sure to have plenty of supplies. Art or otherwise. Pen and paper was probably the most difficult. The effects on your vision are pronounced and drawing can be... hard. I always enjoyed oil pastels the most. Thick and flowing pools of color. Man those were good times.<p>I was in art school at the time, and critique (the ability to give and receive) was one of the greatest things I walked away with. We would formerly critique on a regular basis in class.<p>&#62; I don't doubt they had a good time, but seeing them utterly fail to use the drug as a tool kinda makes me skeptical of the productive benefits.<p>This is akin to coming onto a software project, seeing a huge tangle of grotesque code produced by some other programmer(s), and determining that the tools were at fault. In both cases it is not necessarily the wand, but perhaps the magician.</text></item><item><author>parfe</author><text>In college I lived with artists. A few of their artist friends come over with big sketch pads, pencils and whatever else artists use. They all drop acid while telling me they can't wait to see their amazing creations once their minds are opened. I went out for a few hours and came back to find them all sitting around the living room.<p>One sketch pad had a long black squiggle on it, the same design you'd make if you fell asleep while holding a pen to paper, and the rest had even less (One was literally two 1" lines forming a 90 degree angle). The next day they described the night as a huge success even though they never really attained any of their stated goals.<p>I don't doubt they had a good time, but seeing them utterly fail to use the drug as a tool kinda makes me skeptical of the productive benefits.<p>As a side note, if you want your ego stroked then ask a student artist for his opinion of your work. In the two years I lived with artists not a single negative comment was spoken by a student of anyone else's work. It was a guaranteed self-congratulatory feedback loop.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>RainFlutter</author><text>These are wonderful and thank you for showing them. The images speak more powerfully than simply saying "yeah LSD helped me out."</text></comment> | <story><title>LSD: The Geek's Wonder Drug</title><url>http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/news/2006/01/70015</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>joelhooks</author><text>I'm a little hesitant, but it is hanging here on the wall so:<p><a href="http://i.imgur.com/mhg4c.jpg" rel="nofollow">http://i.imgur.com/mhg4c.jpg</a><p>This was an 8 hour marathon of oil pastel madness. I was in my tiny apartment with 6-8 friends and literally spent the entire time engrossed in this thing. The background was the technique that I could never get back. This was a series of this basic type of drawing I did. There were 4 and this one I like the most. Gave one away to some chick I was seeing :/<p><a href="http://i.imgur.com/HZ2yG.jpg" rel="nofollow">http://i.imgur.com/HZ2yG.jpg</a><p>Bic pens have always been a favorite as well. These are actually meeting drawings from a fairly recent (sober) time, but are representitive of the drawings I don't want to go dig out and scan. My brain didn't do this prior to LSD ;)</text></item><item><author>parfe</author><text>I'd be interested in seeing any scans you might have.</text></item><item><author>joelhooks</author><text>I have several drawings and paintings that I did under the influence that still amaze me today. I could never reproduce the techniques or forms. There were many times that I wouldn't spend the entire duration drawing/painting, but I had several marathon creation sessions under the influence of LSD.<p>We would always make sure to have plenty of supplies. Art or otherwise. Pen and paper was probably the most difficult. The effects on your vision are pronounced and drawing can be... hard. I always enjoyed oil pastels the most. Thick and flowing pools of color. Man those were good times.<p>I was in art school at the time, and critique (the ability to give and receive) was one of the greatest things I walked away with. We would formerly critique on a regular basis in class.<p>&#62; I don't doubt they had a good time, but seeing them utterly fail to use the drug as a tool kinda makes me skeptical of the productive benefits.<p>This is akin to coming onto a software project, seeing a huge tangle of grotesque code produced by some other programmer(s), and determining that the tools were at fault. In both cases it is not necessarily the wand, but perhaps the magician.</text></item><item><author>parfe</author><text>In college I lived with artists. A few of their artist friends come over with big sketch pads, pencils and whatever else artists use. They all drop acid while telling me they can't wait to see their amazing creations once their minds are opened. I went out for a few hours and came back to find them all sitting around the living room.<p>One sketch pad had a long black squiggle on it, the same design you'd make if you fell asleep while holding a pen to paper, and the rest had even less (One was literally two 1" lines forming a 90 degree angle). The next day they described the night as a huge success even though they never really attained any of their stated goals.<p>I don't doubt they had a good time, but seeing them utterly fail to use the drug as a tool kinda makes me skeptical of the productive benefits.<p>As a side note, if you want your ego stroked then ask a student artist for his opinion of your work. In the two years I lived with artists not a single negative comment was spoken by a student of anyone else's work. It was a guaranteed self-congratulatory feedback loop.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>parfe</author><text>Thank you. Those are some cool drawings and the painting definitely deserves that frame.</text></comment> |
30,063,192 | 30,062,583 | 1 | 2 | 30,061,672 | train | <story><title>Mozilla Rally</title><url>https://rally.mozilla.org/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>yosamino</author><text>Dear Mozilla,<p>We want you to make a browser that is so good, that it can function independenty of Google and Chrome financially and technologically. This is not an end in itself. Google is just not a very trustworthy steward of the marketshare that they have on the browser market.<p>You are in a unique position to make this possible. Please double down on it instead of throwing away your hundreds of millions of monies that you have on unfocused, irrelevant bullshit that noone will remember in two years.<p>You made a whole browser engine that actually improved on current engines in Rust and then you basically threw it away. What on earth was that about ?<p>Mozilla we want you to make Firefox without any tracking, and without and advertizing shit in it , and we want it fast and secure, and we love your extensions. Some of us here are even willing to pay you subscription fees to support the browser! But keep in mind that you have millions of dollars already.<p>We loved you all the way from when your product was still called phoenix, Mozilla suite even, and everyone was so excited to have this excellent browser. We pooled money to take out full page ads in a paper newspaper for Firefox. Because we believed in your product so much. I still have the page here. Do you remember ?<p>Please. Stop with this stupid bullshit.<p>Focus, Mozilla, Focus!<p>From the depth of our hearts,<p>PS: and if you find some time, go fix that bug that makes the active tab so difficult to differentiate if lighting conditions or eyesight aren&#x27;t perfect.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>weaksauce</author><text>&gt; PS: and if you find some time, go fix that bug that makes the active tab so difficult to differentiate if lighting conditions or eyesight aren&#x27;t perfect.<p>fwiw you can change the firefox chrome(what they call the browser widgets itself and predates googlechrome) css to highlight the active tab fairly easily if it&#x27;s important to you.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;FirefoxCSS&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;FirefoxCSS&#x2F;</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Mozilla Rally</title><url>https://rally.mozilla.org/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>yosamino</author><text>Dear Mozilla,<p>We want you to make a browser that is so good, that it can function independenty of Google and Chrome financially and technologically. This is not an end in itself. Google is just not a very trustworthy steward of the marketshare that they have on the browser market.<p>You are in a unique position to make this possible. Please double down on it instead of throwing away your hundreds of millions of monies that you have on unfocused, irrelevant bullshit that noone will remember in two years.<p>You made a whole browser engine that actually improved on current engines in Rust and then you basically threw it away. What on earth was that about ?<p>Mozilla we want you to make Firefox without any tracking, and without and advertizing shit in it , and we want it fast and secure, and we love your extensions. Some of us here are even willing to pay you subscription fees to support the browser! But keep in mind that you have millions of dollars already.<p>We loved you all the way from when your product was still called phoenix, Mozilla suite even, and everyone was so excited to have this excellent browser. We pooled money to take out full page ads in a paper newspaper for Firefox. Because we believed in your product so much. I still have the page here. Do you remember ?<p>Please. Stop with this stupid bullshit.<p>Focus, Mozilla, Focus!<p>From the depth of our hearts,<p>PS: and if you find some time, go fix that bug that makes the active tab so difficult to differentiate if lighting conditions or eyesight aren&#x27;t perfect.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bee_rider</author><text>&gt; PS: and if you find some time, go fix that bug that makes the active tab so difficult to differentiate if lighting conditions or eyesight aren&#x27;t perfect.<p>Is it possible that this is just a theme issue?</text></comment> |
41,210,799 | 41,209,891 | 1 | 2 | 41,209,181 | train | <story><title>Deep Live Cam: Real-time face swapping and one-click video deepfake tool</title><url>https://deeplive.cam</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Xeoncross</author><text>It&#x27;s interesting, because the subconscious ability of the mind to identify discrepancies is incredible (even if we ignore that feeling we get about something).<p>The feel of counterfeit bills, the color someone choose to wear, the sound that doesn&#x27;t quite fit.<p>I think deep-fakes are mostly a danger to people without a lot of source material for their minds to compare against. You could trick me into believing I was taking with Elon, but not my son.</text></item><item><author>cs702</author><text>Well, I understand how it works, and I still find it freaking amazing. The quality is... impressive.<p>On the flip side, the ability to deep-fake a face in real time on a video call is now accessible to pretty much every script kiddie out there.<p>In other words, you can no longer trust what your eyes see on video calls.<p>We live in interesting times.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>cs702</author><text>The key take-away, for me, is that I should &quot;keep my guard up&quot; on any video call about <i>money or other important matters</i>, even if other participants on the call are colleagues, friends, or relatives. There are no guarantees of authenticity anymore. My new motto for video calls is &quot;trust by verify.&quot;</text></comment> | <story><title>Deep Live Cam: Real-time face swapping and one-click video deepfake tool</title><url>https://deeplive.cam</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Xeoncross</author><text>It&#x27;s interesting, because the subconscious ability of the mind to identify discrepancies is incredible (even if we ignore that feeling we get about something).<p>The feel of counterfeit bills, the color someone choose to wear, the sound that doesn&#x27;t quite fit.<p>I think deep-fakes are mostly a danger to people without a lot of source material for their minds to compare against. You could trick me into believing I was taking with Elon, but not my son.</text></item><item><author>cs702</author><text>Well, I understand how it works, and I still find it freaking amazing. The quality is... impressive.<p>On the flip side, the ability to deep-fake a face in real time on a video call is now accessible to pretty much every script kiddie out there.<p>In other words, you can no longer trust what your eyes see on video calls.<p>We live in interesting times.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>emsign</author><text>What if that source material for young brains gets more and more contaminated with artificial junk?</text></comment> |
41,082,503 | 41,081,124 | 1 | 3 | 41,079,819 | train | <story><title>How Mihoyo's monetization works</title><url>https://moonbearmusings.com/lets-talk-about-how-mihoyos-monetization-works/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>nottorp</author><text>Read this and try to explain to me again how going free to play does not corrupt a game&#x27;s design :)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mappu</author><text>What do you think the game&#x27;s design is? Because I think it&#x27;s a gorgeous open world single player ARPG. The story, character cast, literary inspiration, gameplay mechanics, and music, are all just incredible.<p>There are a thousand great things to say about Genshin before you even get anywhere near talking about the nonintrusive and ignorable monetization model. I think people hear &quot;Gacha&quot; and mentally lump it in with spammy 2d animated gif idle clicker games. But it&#x27;s a better BOTW, and anything else misses the forest for the trees.</text></comment> | <story><title>How Mihoyo's monetization works</title><url>https://moonbearmusings.com/lets-talk-about-how-mihoyos-monetization-works/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>nottorp</author><text>Read this and try to explain to me again how going free to play does not corrupt a game&#x27;s design :)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>sunrunner</author><text>The game was designed to be free to play from the beginning, so any design decisions are fundamentally going to be geared towards making that work. The design could never be corrupted, because that implies it wasn&#x27;t to begin with :)</text></comment> |
20,193,889 | 20,193,244 | 1 | 3 | 20,192,645 | train | <story><title>Comparing the Same Project in Rust, Haskell, C++, Python, Scala and OCaml</title><url>http://thume.ca/2019/04/29/comparing-compilers-in-rust-haskell-c-and-python/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>galaxyLogic</author><text>That is all true. At the same time here the groups were allowed to use the language of their choice. Presumably they chose languages they felt they were competent in.<p>Of course an expert of a given programming language can write much better in it than a novice. But a comparison like this is not necessarily about comparing top-programmers in every language, but average programmers, because we want to know results that are true &quot;on average&quot; .<p>The author does note he &quot;knew (they) were highly competent&quot;. So they were not exactly novices in their language of choice. Writing a compiler is not a task for novices in general.</text></item><item><author>WalterBright</author><text>It&#x27;s difficult to write a fair comparison without being a fairly competent programmer in each of the languages. The trouble is, if a person is an expert C programmer and then translates it to Python that he&#x27;s only modestly familiar with, the Python program will look like C. It won&#x27;t be idiomatic Python.<p>For example, my early Fortran programs looked like Basic. My early C programs looked like Fortran. My early C++ programs looked like C. And my early D code looked like C++.<p>It takes much more than being able to write a program in X to be able to write one that makes proper use of the language.</text></item><item><author>bfung</author><text>Excellently written, great topic, and done w&#x2F;o flaming&#x2F;too much bias. I&#x27;m amazed as many older folks in the industry would not be able to have this level of content and maturity to write an informative article.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tigershark</author><text>There were people with 2k to 10k loc of experience in some language. That seems <i>extremely</i> low for any meaningful comparison and I would really hope that “average” programmers have way more experience than that...
I think I was pretty junior after writing north of 100k loc and working on 1M loc projects. And for sure I don’t consider myself highly competent in F# after writing some thousands lines.
I agree with the conclusions when they say that the design decisions are much more important than the language of choice. But I still firmly believe that the language makes a very big difference in real world projects. In toy throw away projects obviously metaprogramming cuts a lot of locs.</text></comment> | <story><title>Comparing the Same Project in Rust, Haskell, C++, Python, Scala and OCaml</title><url>http://thume.ca/2019/04/29/comparing-compilers-in-rust-haskell-c-and-python/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>galaxyLogic</author><text>That is all true. At the same time here the groups were allowed to use the language of their choice. Presumably they chose languages they felt they were competent in.<p>Of course an expert of a given programming language can write much better in it than a novice. But a comparison like this is not necessarily about comparing top-programmers in every language, but average programmers, because we want to know results that are true &quot;on average&quot; .<p>The author does note he &quot;knew (they) were highly competent&quot;. So they were not exactly novices in their language of choice. Writing a compiler is not a task for novices in general.</text></item><item><author>WalterBright</author><text>It&#x27;s difficult to write a fair comparison without being a fairly competent programmer in each of the languages. The trouble is, if a person is an expert C programmer and then translates it to Python that he&#x27;s only modestly familiar with, the Python program will look like C. It won&#x27;t be idiomatic Python.<p>For example, my early Fortran programs looked like Basic. My early C programs looked like Fortran. My early C++ programs looked like C. And my early D code looked like C++.<p>It takes much more than being able to write a program in X to be able to write one that makes proper use of the language.</text></item><item><author>bfung</author><text>Excellently written, great topic, and done w&#x2F;o flaming&#x2F;too much bias. I&#x27;m amazed as many older folks in the industry would not be able to have this level of content and maturity to write an informative article.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>anaphor</author><text>The article says that the instructor for the course cautioned against using Haskell because some people overestimated their competency with it.<p>I think it is actually very likely that people would chose a programming language or system for reasons other than how competent they are with it. E.g. to seem &quot;smart&quot; because you wrote your compiler in Haskell, even though you actually have much more experience with Java or Python.<p>FTA:<p>&gt; Another interesting thing to note is that at the start of every offering of the course the professor says that students can use any language that can run on the school servers, but issues a warning that teams using Haskell have the highest variance in mark of any language, with many teams using Haskell overestimating their ability and crashing and burning then getting a terrible mark, more than any other language, while some Haskell teams do quite well and get perfect like my friends.</text></comment> |
39,047,721 | 39,047,138 | 1 | 2 | 39,046,930 | train | <story><title>Norwegian youth win climate court case against the Norwegian State</title><url>https://www.greenpeace.org/international/press-release/64831/environmental-youth-groups-win-climate-court-case-against-norwegian-state/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>burkaman</author><text>Title is a little misleading (for me at least), this is not one of the many cases where a group of young people sued their government for a broad violation of their rights. This is a more narrow case where the plaintiffs said the government is supposed to consider emissions impact when approving oil and gas projects, and did not. There aren&#x27;t really any youth directly involved.<p>The court didn&#x27;t say Norway can&#x27;t drill anymore, just that when you&#x27;re doing an environmental impact assessment of a new oil field (which is required in Norway) you obviously have to assess the impact of burning the oil. I don&#x27;t think this is very controversial.</text></comment> | <story><title>Norwegian youth win climate court case against the Norwegian State</title><url>https://www.greenpeace.org/international/press-release/64831/environmental-youth-groups-win-climate-court-case-against-norwegian-state/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>toomuchtodo</author><text>Related: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;apnews.com&#x2F;article&#x2F;youth-climate-lawsuit-montana-supreme-court-7a40821843d5dffca98ec83e2d11c4b4" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;apnews.com&#x2F;article&#x2F;youth-climate-lawsuit-montana-sup...</a> (&quot;AP: Montana Supreme Court upholds landmark climate ruling that said emissions can’t be ignored&quot;)</text></comment> |
13,785,931 | 13,786,094 | 1 | 2 | 13,785,564 | train | <story><title>How Uber Used Secret “Greyball” Tool to Deceive Authorities Worldwide</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/03/technology/uber-greyball-program-evade-authorities.html?_r=0</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>lacampbell</author><text><i>I don&#x27;t like the US government much, but I like it a lot better than the average multinational. When it comes down to it, we don&#x27;t have more than our choice of devils.</i><p>If I don&#x27;t like Uber, I can... stop using Uber. What can I do if I don&#x27;t like the service a state provides - can I opt out and stop paying? No, my only option is to flee - which the state will often try and prevent you doing anyway.<p>The state is a huge corporation, that will use force to change you for its services, whether they are good or not, or whether you use them or not. Your only option to avoid this involuntary charge s to flee - and the state reserves the right to employ violence to stop you doing even that.<p>It seems pretty clear to me which is more immoral.</text></item><item><author>maldusiecle</author><text>My perspective is the opposite. In a world where large multinationals have the power to evade the law in a deliberate and systematic way like this, it&#x27;s easy for governments to claim they need the same kind of power. Things like this are exactly what bureaucrats point to when they make their arguments for a surveillance state.<p>I don&#x27;t like the US government much, but I like it a lot better than the average multinational. When it comes down to it, we don&#x27;t have more than our choice of devils.</text></item><item><author>HorizonXP</author><text>How diabolical!<p>In a world where privacy has been traded away for convenience, it&#x27;s poetic justice where a startup uses data mining techniques to subvert the government. This is the same government that would have no issues to use the same techniques to spy on its own people for its own motives.<p>I&#x27;m neither on Uber nor the government&#x27;s side in this case, just simply making an observation. The lack of data privacy seems to be a double-edged sword for users and government&#x2F;law enforcement alike.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nemacol</author><text>You can vote, run for office, petition, volunteer, protest,etc to the local, state, and federal government to have policies that reflect your values. The only thing you can do with Uber is use it or not. Maybe you could write Uber a letter.<p>You have a say in government - that is its stated goal and purpose. Of the people for the people.</text></comment> | <story><title>How Uber Used Secret “Greyball” Tool to Deceive Authorities Worldwide</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/03/technology/uber-greyball-program-evade-authorities.html?_r=0</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>lacampbell</author><text><i>I don&#x27;t like the US government much, but I like it a lot better than the average multinational. When it comes down to it, we don&#x27;t have more than our choice of devils.</i><p>If I don&#x27;t like Uber, I can... stop using Uber. What can I do if I don&#x27;t like the service a state provides - can I opt out and stop paying? No, my only option is to flee - which the state will often try and prevent you doing anyway.<p>The state is a huge corporation, that will use force to change you for its services, whether they are good or not, or whether you use them or not. Your only option to avoid this involuntary charge s to flee - and the state reserves the right to employ violence to stop you doing even that.<p>It seems pretty clear to me which is more immoral.</text></item><item><author>maldusiecle</author><text>My perspective is the opposite. In a world where large multinationals have the power to evade the law in a deliberate and systematic way like this, it&#x27;s easy for governments to claim they need the same kind of power. Things like this are exactly what bureaucrats point to when they make their arguments for a surveillance state.<p>I don&#x27;t like the US government much, but I like it a lot better than the average multinational. When it comes down to it, we don&#x27;t have more than our choice of devils.</text></item><item><author>HorizonXP</author><text>How diabolical!<p>In a world where privacy has been traded away for convenience, it&#x27;s poetic justice where a startup uses data mining techniques to subvert the government. This is the same government that would have no issues to use the same techniques to spy on its own people for its own motives.<p>I&#x27;m neither on Uber nor the government&#x27;s side in this case, just simply making an observation. The lack of data privacy seems to be a double-edged sword for users and government&#x2F;law enforcement alike.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>anigbrowl</author><text>Sorry, services like Uber have externalities and do not only impact their consumers.<p><i>Your only option to avoid this involuntary charge s to flee</i><p>Bollocks. People organize for and achieve their political goals by modifying government on a regular basis. Governmental institutions suffer from numerous flaws, but your argument is that government is fundamentally totalitarian which is nonsense.</text></comment> |
14,823,919 | 14,823,218 | 1 | 3 | 14,821,587 | train | <story><title>Paying people to preserve forests seems to work</title><url>https://arstechnica.com/science/2017/07/paying-people-to-preserve-forests-really-seems-to-work/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>CWuestefeld</author><text>NY State has a program called &quot;480-A&quot; that gives landowners a tax break for exercising proper stewardship of forest resources. To qualify you need not only to have the trees, but also document periodic maintenance like &quot;TSI&quot; (Timber Stand Improvement, where you&#x27;re supposed to thin out some of the younger trees to give the remainder more space to grow), and harvesting of the large mature trees.<p>The thing about this program is that there&#x27;s so much bureaucratic nonsense around it, with all kinds of reporting requirements and such, and that if you&#x27;re not compliant they&#x27;ll retroactively claw back 10 years worth of benefits if you mess up.<p>I&#x27;ve got 76 forested acres upstate that was enrolled in this program when I bought it. Despite the tax advantages I pulled the land out of the program as soon as I could. Between the hassle of the red tape, and the fear of the financial repercussions, I didn&#x27;t want the risk. I still do the stuff they want you to do - it only makes sense, as it provides an income from harvesting the lumber - but my motivation is nothing to do with their program itself.<p>My point is that when government sets its bureaucracy on what might otherwise be a good idea, they can taint the benefit that it was supposed to carry, making it ineffective.</text></comment> | <story><title>Paying people to preserve forests seems to work</title><url>https://arstechnica.com/science/2017/07/paying-people-to-preserve-forests-really-seems-to-work/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Overtonwindow</author><text>My great aunt received a check from the government for most of her life for growing trees on her land, and agreeing not to cut them down without permission.</text></comment> |
20,632,313 | 20,632,180 | 1 | 2 | 20,630,595 | train | <story><title>Who Did the Math for General Relativity First, Einstein or Hilbert?</title><url>https://medium.com/cantors-paradise/einstein-and-hilberts-race-to-generalize-relativity-6885f44e3cbe</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>BlackFly</author><text>The history misses several salient steps, like Lorentz and Poincare describing special relativity before 1905. I guess if you want to describe the controversy of general relativity you might not want to get distracted by the controversy over special relativity... but a pattern starts to emerge.<p>Then the history leaves out Nordstrom&#x27;s contributions to the theory of gravity which are really important if you are going to state that &quot;It is indisputable that Hilbert, like all of his other colleagues, acknowledged Einstein as the sole creator of relativity theory,&quot; it seems Hilbert was simply willing to drop it. Almost all practitioners I am aware of are at the very least aware of the contributions of Marcel Grossman even if nobody knows about Nordstrom and others. It is a huge overstatement to say that Einstein was the sole creator.<p>Reading about the history of Nordstrom&#x27;s theory of gravity is far more illuminating on the actual active research attempting to find a relativistic theory of gravity. In fact a student of Lorentz, Fokker, working with Einstein was able to show that Nordstrom&#x27;s theory was equivalent to an expression involving the ricci scalar and a trace of the stress energy tensor. Unlike Einstein&#x27;s proposal around this time, it was diffeomorphism invariant. It is likely this development, by Fokker, lead Einstein to propose the R_ij = 8\pi T_ij formulation he was pushing before the controversial period with Hilbert.<p>Why might this be important? Well people have a tendency to be interested in history. The extended history involving Hilbert, Nordstrom, Grossman and more is important because it is more illuminating to the reality of how physical theories are actually developed. It turns out that maybe Einstein doesn&#x27;t deserve the level of hero worship he gets, which certain types of people may find invigorating. Also, this episode shows that petty squabbles and politics exist in &quot;modern&quot; science.</text></comment> | <story><title>Who Did the Math for General Relativity First, Einstein or Hilbert?</title><url>https://medium.com/cantors-paradise/einstein-and-hilberts-race-to-generalize-relativity-6885f44e3cbe</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Iv</author><text>I find it uncanny how a &quot;who got it first?&quot; become a salient question today whereas as the time it was obvious both were excited at collaborating to make a theory that works well.<p>Really makes you wonder what would research would like without the race for publication.<p>What I was taught about this &quot;rivalry&quot; is that Einstein struggled with some parts of the theory and Hilbert proposed some complicated mathematical tools that Einstein at first felt should not be necessary but ended up using after a few months of frustration.</text></comment> |
31,653,220 | 31,649,559 | 1 | 2 | 31,648,636 | train | <story><title>Citigroup plans to hire 4k tech staff</title><url>https://www.businesstimes.com.sg/banking-finance/citigroup-plans-to-hire-4000-tech-staff-to-tap-into-digital-explosion</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jason2323</author><text>Banks are where tech careers go to die. Expect to be caught in a myriad of &quot;initiatives&quot; that are all fluff. Remember, if you&#x27;re not making the bank money, you&#x27;re costing them money.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jfzoid</author><text>I live in NYC so many of my friends and colleagues have had tech jobs in the well known banks. Here are some of the data points I&#x27;ve collected.<p>Person 1 says there is a lot of politics, ass-covering, and throwing under the bus<p>Persons 2 and 3 says back in the 80s and 90s there were a lot of exciting projects, but now it&#x27;s all maintenance work and making sure money train does not stop.<p>Person 4 says at his company they tracked how much money your bugs cost the firm, and at the end of the year if that number is too high, you&#x27;re fired.<p>Person 5 corroborates what Person 4 said, adding that no one is allowed to touch production -- you touch production and you might cause an outage in some part of the company you never heard of, next thing that happens is Security shows up at your desk with cardboard boxes telling you to pack your stuff.<p>Person 6 says for the same reasons no one is allowed to touch the base classes you inherit from -- people just make their own copy of the base class and make their changes to it. The code base is littered with many copies of the same file each different in its own way.<p>Person 7 flat out told me &quot;you are too nice, you will get eaten alive at a financial services firm&quot;<p>Person 8 says he was not allowed to talk to or collaborate with a colleague because they worked for competing managers, they had to leave the office to collaborate</text></comment> | <story><title>Citigroup plans to hire 4k tech staff</title><url>https://www.businesstimes.com.sg/banking-finance/citigroup-plans-to-hire-4000-tech-staff-to-tap-into-digital-explosion</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jason2323</author><text>Banks are where tech careers go to die. Expect to be caught in a myriad of &quot;initiatives&quot; that are all fluff. Remember, if you&#x27;re not making the bank money, you&#x27;re costing them money.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>danielvaughn</author><text>I did a relatively quick stint at Citibank for about a month. It was the lowest point in my entire career, I&#x27;ll never do it again.</text></comment> |
15,894,615 | 15,894,233 | 1 | 2 | 15,892,617 | train | <story><title>A simple DIY Heroku replacement to keep your hosting costs down</title><url>https://github.com/githubsaturn/captainduckduck</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>michaelbuckbee</author><text>This, Dokku, Flynn, that 1000+ line bash&#x2F;chef&#x2F;ansible script that the guy who used to do your job before he left are all legitimate solutions for deploying apps (and all better than FTP&#x27;ing up whatever the developer happens to have on their laptop).<p>But, I feel like the comparison to Heroku isn&#x27;t great.<p>Heroku saves you from having to do and worry about significant amounts of (I would argue) extremely important admin and security work.<p>How are datastore backups handled in this scenario? How do you handle updating redundancy? Can you in a couple clicks add a secure Postgres, MongoDB, Memcached or Redis server to your app? Setup CI?<p>Or even just secure these things properly. This stuff gets complex and it&#x27;s extremely easy to accidently set up something that&#x27;s much more open to the world than you would want.<p>To sum up:<p>Heroku -&gt; A way for developers to put up much more robust sites than they could otherwise.<p>Scripted Setups -&gt; a (very positive and cool thing) for those with devops&#x2F;sysadmin skills to more rapidly setup a site.<p>Full disclosure: I do a lot of work in the Heroku ecosystem and could well be defending the platform out of greed. But, I&#x27;ve also seen first hand some of the wild misconceptions and mistakes that were caught by the built in systems and limits to the platform.</text></comment> | <story><title>A simple DIY Heroku replacement to keep your hosting costs down</title><url>https://github.com/githubsaturn/captainduckduck</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>gitgud</author><text>Well, Dokku [1] is already a good solution to the heroku cost problem. All the power and convenience of heroku commands with the freedom and low cost of docker deployment. It has lets-encrypt ssl support too!<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;dokku&#x2F;dokku" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;dokku&#x2F;dokku</a></text></comment> |
20,752,838 | 20,752,664 | 1 | 3 | 20,751,045 | train | <story><title>The GitHub registry public beta is live</title><url>https://help.github.com/en/articles/about-github-package-registry</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>danShumway</author><text>&gt; <i>is a software package hosting service, similar to npmjs.org, rubygems.org, or hub.docker.com, that allows you to host your packages and code in one place. You can host software packages privately or publicly and use them as dependencies in your projects.</i><p>I am... really confused by this.<p>Isn&#x27;t this just Github? <i>Github</i> is a hosting service that allows you to host your packages and code in one place. It has testing and publishing pipeline support, you can add artifacts&#x2F;releases, make your packages private or public, host different types of software at the same time, and it&#x27;s compatible with most existing dependency systems, including NodeJS.<p>I can see this has more download statistics, which is nice. And it has a policy that artifacts can&#x27;t be deleted, which is very nice.<p>Is that it though? I know I have to be missing something; what can I do now that I couldn&#x27;t already do with Github as is?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>brown9-2</author><text>They are implementing the APIs that the package managers expect to fetch artifacts, rather than the package managers having to know how to fetch files via Git.</text></comment> | <story><title>The GitHub registry public beta is live</title><url>https://help.github.com/en/articles/about-github-package-registry</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>danShumway</author><text>&gt; <i>is a software package hosting service, similar to npmjs.org, rubygems.org, or hub.docker.com, that allows you to host your packages and code in one place. You can host software packages privately or publicly and use them as dependencies in your projects.</i><p>I am... really confused by this.<p>Isn&#x27;t this just Github? <i>Github</i> is a hosting service that allows you to host your packages and code in one place. It has testing and publishing pipeline support, you can add artifacts&#x2F;releases, make your packages private or public, host different types of software at the same time, and it&#x27;s compatible with most existing dependency systems, including NodeJS.<p>I can see this has more download statistics, which is nice. And it has a policy that artifacts can&#x27;t be deleted, which is very nice.<p>Is that it though? I know I have to be missing something; what can I do now that I couldn&#x27;t already do with Github as is?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>hn_throwaway_99</author><text>If you are familiar with Nexus or Artifactory or Verdaccio, which all essentially let you have private NPM repos (among other formats like Maven, etc.), that&#x27;s what this is.</text></comment> |
20,169,433 | 20,169,237 | 1 | 2 | 20,168,314 | train | <story><title>Shazam-like technology used to identify bars illegally streaming soccer games</title><url>https://www.theverge.com/2019/6/12/18662968/la-liga-app-illegal-soccer-streaming-fine</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ankit219</author><text>One of those cases where both sides are in the mud. La Liga is struggling with piracy of games for long. They have been trying to make money of their product (football essentially features two of the greatest players to play the game in last 10 years, only one now) but struggle due to their whacky ideas and no care about fans. Sample this: The timings of games are as early as 12PM (spanish siesta is at 4PM) and as late as 11 PM local time. They host 10 rounds every week, most in different slots to get more eyeballs. They have acted in bad faith in a sense too. Spanish law requires one of those 10 games to be free to air. They made sure that game is one held on Friday or Monday at 11 PM (teams&#x27; fans call it graveyard shift) and nothing on f2a tv on weekend.The ones listed are the ideas which made through while others like having one random game in US thankfully did not. Though, given their ineptitude, its a sure wonder how they managed to execute this so well.<p>Bars should not be streaming the games illegally either. But since the cable prices are too high, and nothing on free to air, they have to in order to attract crowds. There is no official streaming service - albeit not bundled with cable tv subscription - that people in these countries can make use of to watch games.<p>The path forward maybe what Formula1 did by introducing a streaming service which is not geo blocked. This way, I can watch a race at reasonable subscription from anywhere in the world. They also allow me a racer only feed, or the global feed, or a feed from a particular stand. I will definitely buy it if any official football league offers that too.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>shusson</author><text>&gt; La Liga is struggling with piracy of games for long. They have been trying to make money of their product but struggle due to their whacky ideas and no care about fans.<p>What are you talking about, La Liga is making billions of dollars [1][2]<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.forbes.com&#x2F;sites&#x2F;bobbymcmahon&#x2F;2019&#x2F;03&#x2F;07&#x2F;report-claims-that-spains-la-liga-is-responsible-for-generating-an-astonishing-17-9b-in-income&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.forbes.com&#x2F;sites&#x2F;bobbymcmahon&#x2F;2019&#x2F;03&#x2F;07&#x2F;report-...</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.laliga.es&#x2F;en&#x2F;news&#x2F;laliga-grows-20-6-and-posts-revenue-of-e4-479-billion" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.laliga.es&#x2F;en&#x2F;news&#x2F;laliga-grows-20-6-and-posts-re...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Shazam-like technology used to identify bars illegally streaming soccer games</title><url>https://www.theverge.com/2019/6/12/18662968/la-liga-app-illegal-soccer-streaming-fine</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ankit219</author><text>One of those cases where both sides are in the mud. La Liga is struggling with piracy of games for long. They have been trying to make money of their product (football essentially features two of the greatest players to play the game in last 10 years, only one now) but struggle due to their whacky ideas and no care about fans. Sample this: The timings of games are as early as 12PM (spanish siesta is at 4PM) and as late as 11 PM local time. They host 10 rounds every week, most in different slots to get more eyeballs. They have acted in bad faith in a sense too. Spanish law requires one of those 10 games to be free to air. They made sure that game is one held on Friday or Monday at 11 PM (teams&#x27; fans call it graveyard shift) and nothing on f2a tv on weekend.The ones listed are the ideas which made through while others like having one random game in US thankfully did not. Though, given their ineptitude, its a sure wonder how they managed to execute this so well.<p>Bars should not be streaming the games illegally either. But since the cable prices are too high, and nothing on free to air, they have to in order to attract crowds. There is no official streaming service - albeit not bundled with cable tv subscription - that people in these countries can make use of to watch games.<p>The path forward maybe what Formula1 did by introducing a streaming service which is not geo blocked. This way, I can watch a race at reasonable subscription from anywhere in the world. They also allow me a racer only feed, or the global feed, or a feed from a particular stand. I will definitely buy it if any official football league offers that too.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>guiomie</author><text>My key take away from your comment is F1 has non geo-fenced service. I just went on their website, and I&#x27;m blown away. You can select a cockpit to stream, you have a bunch of geeky data, all while you can watch the GP in it&#x27;s traditional way. I might get back into F1 just for this.</text></comment> |
15,260,615 | 15,260,633 | 1 | 2 | 15,260,297 | train | <story><title>South Park Season Premier Sets Off Everyone's Amazon Echo</title><url>https://www.maxim.com/entertainment/south-park-season-premiere-sets-off-amazon-echo-units-2017-9</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>5_minutes</author><text>These creators are just great guys. Not only is this again a sign of them being on the edge of healthy creativity, but they&#x27;re also the only show that just has all episodes for free to watch.<p>There&#x27;s a documentary on how they make each show &quot;a la carte&quot; each week, and never missed its deadline except once, but it&#x27;s often been a close call of just a few minutes.<p>Edit: &quot;6 Days to Air: The Making of South Park&quot;<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=gQ-Un8JjUwo" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=gQ-Un8JjUwo</a></text></comment> | <story><title>South Park Season Premier Sets Off Everyone's Amazon Echo</title><url>https://www.maxim.com/entertainment/south-park-season-premiere-sets-off-amazon-echo-units-2017-9</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>cjlars</author><text>Audio is a terribly insecure channel to accept commands through. You presume no one else has access to the device because it is physically locked in your house, but sound travels through walls and through speakers. Heck, you can even make a window pane into a speaker with some simple gear.<p>It&#x27;s no big deal when the worst case scenario is being served up a search result you don&#x27;t need or listening to a song you didn&#x27;t request, but you definitely wouldn&#x27;t want to link voice recognition tech up to anything non-reversible like a stock trade or the lock on your front door.</text></comment> |
22,978,489 | 22,975,676 | 1 | 3 | 22,975,225 | train | <story><title>Puny GUI – A tiny cross platform GUI Kit in Janet</title><url>https://ahungry.com/blog/2020-04-24-Puny-GUI-Puppy-Finder.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>overgard</author><text>GUI frameworks are big because they do a lot. These minimalist things usually only work until you reach the limits of what they can do and then you have to rewrite in something like Qt anyway, or sacrifice what your users want in a GUI for your own code aesthetics.</text></comment> | <story><title>Puny GUI – A tiny cross platform GUI Kit in Janet</title><url>https://ahungry.com/blog/2020-04-24-Puny-GUI-Puppy-Finder.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>pierrec</author><text>&quot;<i>The solution (hint: there wasn&#x27;t one until now)...</i>&quot; That&#x27;s quite the bold statement. I actually thought of IUP&#x2F;Lua when I saw this line, and it turns out you precisely used IUP for the UI portion of your framework! Except you didn&#x27;t use the Lua binding, instead you created a Janet binding.<p>Using something like luastatic[1], with whatever Lua libraries you want (including IUP), you can get something pretty similar to this system, except of course you&#x27;d be using Lua instead of Janet. Janet is really interesting and that alone justifies this framework very well.<p>[1]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;ers35&#x2F;luastatic" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;ers35&#x2F;luastatic</a></text></comment> |
12,597,113 | 12,596,868 | 1 | 2 | 12,596,547 | train | <story><title>Our First 50,000 Stars</title><url>https://facebook.github.io/react/blog/2016/09/28/our-first-50000-stars.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>hellofunk</author><text>I&#x27;m not a big fan of Facebook, but I&#x27;ll admit that React was a real game-changer for my own development life. I don&#x27;t use JS any more but all the idioms I learned using it I now adopt to other languages. I heard once that React actually came out of the Instagram team, which Facebook acquired. Regardless of the history, it&#x27;s an amazing tool.</text></comment> | <story><title>Our First 50,000 Stars</title><url>https://facebook.github.io/react/blog/2016/09/28/our-first-50000-stars.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>drinchev</author><text>Congratulations, guys.<p>I&#x27;m being paid right now for working on React project, so it&#x27;s pretty huge impact for my life.<p>Anyway :<p>&gt; Just three and a half years ago we open sourced a little JavaScript library called React. The journey since that day has been incredibly exciting.<p>I don&#x27;t think that it&#x27;s little [1], though.<p>[1] : <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;facebook&#x2F;react&#x2F;tree&#x2F;0.3-stable" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;facebook&#x2F;react&#x2F;tree&#x2F;0.3-stable</a></text></comment> |
36,093,721 | 36,093,282 | 1 | 2 | 36,091,710 | train | <story><title>KryptEY – Android keyboard for E2EE comms via Signal protocol in any messenger</title><url>https://github.com/amnesica/KryptEY</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>theage</author><text>This approach is a step up from enigma-reloaded[1] which had some copy+paste friction to use. Genius to put it in the android keyboard itself like an enigma machine.<p>[1]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;enigma-reloaded.github.io&#x2F;enigma-reloaded&#x2F;#&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;enigma-reloaded.github.io&#x2F;enigma-reloaded&#x2F;#&#x2F;</a></text></comment> | <story><title>KryptEY – Android keyboard for E2EE comms via Signal protocol in any messenger</title><url>https://github.com/amnesica/KryptEY</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>pabs3</author><text>This reminds me of OTR (now insecure), I wish we still lived in a world where multi-protocol messengers were possible and widely used.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;otr.im&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;otr.im&#x2F;</a></text></comment> |
26,962,818 | 26,961,087 | 1 | 2 | 26,957,215 | train | <story><title>Mighty Makes Google Chrome Faster</title><url>https://www.mightyapp.com/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mosr</author><text>Really interesting service.<p>Why might I use this instead of &#x2F; in addition to Shadow (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;shadow.tech" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;shadow.tech</a>)? I&#x27;m a Shadow user, and they seem to give you beefier hardware at half the price, and it&#x27;s a general purpose OS that will let you run any app (as opposed to &quot;just&quot; a browser).</text></item><item><author>suhail</author><text>Fwiw, we had 5 customers pay $30&#x2F;mo in the last 12 hours who have been trying Mighty for a few weeks.<p>Believe me, I was skeptical too. I remember sitting in a car driving back up from YC with Michael Siebel asking him: &quot;Hey man, do you think I am absolutely nuts thinking people would pay for a browser that&#x27;s FREE? That&#x27;s an idiotic idea right?&quot; and, of course, he encouraged me and I am still feeling pretty encouraged based on talking to users and seeing the revenue&#x2F;usage&#x2F;praise 18 mo later.<p>We have a lot of work to do and I am pretty embarrassed of what we&#x27;ve got still but it felt right to get public about it.</text></item><item><author>andrewguenther</author><text>$30-50&#x2F;month is a wild price point for this. Who is going to pay that? It feels too expensive both for enterprise (existing remote desktop solutions run about half the cost) and for end-users.<p>I worked on a similar solution to this and we had a price point of $5&#x2F;month per user...<p>EDIT: 16GB of RAM and 16vCPUs. What a weird balancing of resources. Chrome is typically memory bound, not CPU bound. This also explains why it would be so wildly expensive compared to anything else out there.<p>EDIT2: A lot of the replies I&#x27;m getting seem to think my implication here is that no one would pay for this or it would be easier for people to build this themselves. I&#x27;m not saying that at all, I&#x27;m just critiquing the price point. There&#x27;s huge market demand for browser isolation, I&#x27;ve worked on products in that field, I just haven&#x27;t encountered any customers willing to pay $30-50&#x2F;month for it.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>suhail</author><text>Most people want an experience where the underlying OS and the application (the browser) interoperate seamlessly versus having to tame two desktop experiences. The primary application people think is slow is their browser by a wide margin so that&#x27;s where we decided to focus as more native desktop apps become web apps. That focus lets us constrain the problems we get solve vs boiling the ocean with all of Windows.<p>Fwiw, we started by streaming Windows and pivoted away.<p>It&#x27;s not clear to me that Shadow&#x27;s business is sustainable. Windows licensing alone for virtualization across end-users if you buy from a reseller is $11&#x2F;mo&#x2F;user alone. I only know because we tried and became a reseller briefly. They also seem to use consumer GPUs that violate NVIDIA&#x27;s licensing and agreements. Maybe they know something we don&#x27;t.</text></comment> | <story><title>Mighty Makes Google Chrome Faster</title><url>https://www.mightyapp.com/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mosr</author><text>Really interesting service.<p>Why might I use this instead of &#x2F; in addition to Shadow (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;shadow.tech" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;shadow.tech</a>)? I&#x27;m a Shadow user, and they seem to give you beefier hardware at half the price, and it&#x27;s a general purpose OS that will let you run any app (as opposed to &quot;just&quot; a browser).</text></item><item><author>suhail</author><text>Fwiw, we had 5 customers pay $30&#x2F;mo in the last 12 hours who have been trying Mighty for a few weeks.<p>Believe me, I was skeptical too. I remember sitting in a car driving back up from YC with Michael Siebel asking him: &quot;Hey man, do you think I am absolutely nuts thinking people would pay for a browser that&#x27;s FREE? That&#x27;s an idiotic idea right?&quot; and, of course, he encouraged me and I am still feeling pretty encouraged based on talking to users and seeing the revenue&#x2F;usage&#x2F;praise 18 mo later.<p>We have a lot of work to do and I am pretty embarrassed of what we&#x27;ve got still but it felt right to get public about it.</text></item><item><author>andrewguenther</author><text>$30-50&#x2F;month is a wild price point for this. Who is going to pay that? It feels too expensive both for enterprise (existing remote desktop solutions run about half the cost) and for end-users.<p>I worked on a similar solution to this and we had a price point of $5&#x2F;month per user...<p>EDIT: 16GB of RAM and 16vCPUs. What a weird balancing of resources. Chrome is typically memory bound, not CPU bound. This also explains why it would be so wildly expensive compared to anything else out there.<p>EDIT2: A lot of the replies I&#x27;m getting seem to think my implication here is that no one would pay for this or it would be easier for people to build this themselves. I&#x27;m not saying that at all, I&#x27;m just critiquing the price point. There&#x27;s huge market demand for browser isolation, I&#x27;ve worked on products in that field, I just haven&#x27;t encountered any customers willing to pay $30-50&#x2F;month for it.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>andrewguenther</author><text>Yep, this is exactly what I was getting at. Shadow is one of many examples of application streaming services which aren&#x27;t limited to the browser and offer similar hardware (or even flexible hardware) at a lower price point.</text></comment> |
6,943,218 | 6,943,225 | 1 | 2 | 6,942,656 | train | <story><title>Canada's top court has overturned all restrictions on prostitution</title><url>http://www.aljazeera.com/news/americas/2013/12/canada-lifts-all-restrictions-prostitution-2013122015318412319.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>sergiotapia</author><text>Pardon my ignorance, but when you say trans are you saying &quot;looks like a man and dresses like a woman&quot; or &quot;genetically a man, but looks and acts like a woman (with or without sex reassignment surgery)&quot;?<p>If it&#x27;s the former, I can understand the reactions of people, it just looks weird; of course people are going to have apprehensions of hiring someone who does dresses like the opposite sex for a public facing job.</text></item><item><author>marquis</author><text>We can&#x27;t ignore the (sad and backwards) social stigma that trans-women face, where a waitressing job, or any public-facing job, is difficult to apply and be accepted for.</text></item><item><author>sergiotapia</author><text>There is a middle ground. It&#x27;s not &quot;either I work using my brain, or I whore myself out.&quot; Many women are waitresses, shopping mall sweepers, store attendants, cashiers, you name it.</text></item><item><author>undoware</author><text>I&#x27;m heartened by the response to this, both on Hacker News and elsewhere.<p>Being a trans woman in IT is a bit weird -- because I can do incredible things with my mind, I&#x27;m off the hook my sisters are on, that makes them have to hook.<p>Several roommates ago, I literally came home and found that my (also trans) roommate, who in addition to being trans was also dealing with immigration and had recently lost her job and had begun turning tricks at home. Had I not come home early from the university, I wouldn&#x27;t have known.<p>And I&#x27;ve always hated the Canadian legal system for making me kick her out. Because just being her roommate, under the previous legislation, would have classified as &#x27;living off the avails&#x27; and would have made me legally indistinguishable from her pimp. Just for being her roommate.<p>That&#x27;s the sort of pauperizing, soul-crushing bullshit that you never, ever forget.<p>Also, I&#x27;m a big fan of Katrina Pacey, the lawyer mentioned in the article. I&#x27;ve worked with her a few times on activist stuff (I got into sex worker advocacy after my up-close-and-personal. They can&#x27;t do it themselves, they go to prison when they try. Well, before today. Go Katrina Pacey! Go Canadian legal system!)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>undoware</author><text>Uh, I mean that I&#x27;m MTF. Full transition, including FFS, SRS, HRT, and a bunch of other TLAs. So is&#x2F;was my roommate. That was ironically part of her problem too: most johns who want a trans woman are <i>actually</i> after a so-called &#x27;shemale&#x27; (a no-op transsexual; i.e. someone who gets everything done but keeps the original plumbing.)<p>Thanks for asking the question respectfully, I really do like explaining things to curious (although I caution you I&#x27;m almost alone in this; please don&#x27;t make a habit of unsolicited questions to trans people! But for better or worse, I love to talk about myself, so let&#x27;s use it to spread some understanding and peace for the holidays!)</text></comment> | <story><title>Canada's top court has overturned all restrictions on prostitution</title><url>http://www.aljazeera.com/news/americas/2013/12/canada-lifts-all-restrictions-prostitution-2013122015318412319.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>sergiotapia</author><text>Pardon my ignorance, but when you say trans are you saying &quot;looks like a man and dresses like a woman&quot; or &quot;genetically a man, but looks and acts like a woman (with or without sex reassignment surgery)&quot;?<p>If it&#x27;s the former, I can understand the reactions of people, it just looks weird; of course people are going to have apprehensions of hiring someone who does dresses like the opposite sex for a public facing job.</text></item><item><author>marquis</author><text>We can&#x27;t ignore the (sad and backwards) social stigma that trans-women face, where a waitressing job, or any public-facing job, is difficult to apply and be accepted for.</text></item><item><author>sergiotapia</author><text>There is a middle ground. It&#x27;s not &quot;either I work using my brain, or I whore myself out.&quot; Many women are waitresses, shopping mall sweepers, store attendants, cashiers, you name it.</text></item><item><author>undoware</author><text>I&#x27;m heartened by the response to this, both on Hacker News and elsewhere.<p>Being a trans woman in IT is a bit weird -- because I can do incredible things with my mind, I&#x27;m off the hook my sisters are on, that makes them have to hook.<p>Several roommates ago, I literally came home and found that my (also trans) roommate, who in addition to being trans was also dealing with immigration and had recently lost her job and had begun turning tricks at home. Had I not come home early from the university, I wouldn&#x27;t have known.<p>And I&#x27;ve always hated the Canadian legal system for making me kick her out. Because just being her roommate, under the previous legislation, would have classified as &#x27;living off the avails&#x27; and would have made me legally indistinguishable from her pimp. Just for being her roommate.<p>That&#x27;s the sort of pauperizing, soul-crushing bullshit that you never, ever forget.<p>Also, I&#x27;m a big fan of Katrina Pacey, the lawyer mentioned in the article. I&#x27;ve worked with her a few times on activist stuff (I got into sex worker advocacy after my up-close-and-personal. They can&#x27;t do it themselves, they go to prison when they try. Well, before today. Go Katrina Pacey! Go Canadian legal system!)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rosser</author><text>No, a trans person is a person with a body that is one gender, but who identifies as the other gender (assuming binary genders, which is an issue the broader trans community would probably dispute with some vehemence).<p>Some trans people only think it, some take supplementary sex hormones (typically testosterone for FTM; and one or more of the female hormones, and possibly also anti-androgens for MTF), and some have surgery to give them parts that match their identities.<p>You&#x27;re thinking of cross-dressers, which community has some overlap with the trans world, but is, in general, a different thing. Cross-dressing is generally also a <i>kink</i>, while being trans is an issue of <i>identity</i>.</text></comment> |
39,434,332 | 39,433,903 | 1 | 2 | 39,433,451 | train | <story><title>Big media publishers are inundating the web with subpar product recommendations</title><url>https://housefresh.com/david-vs-digital-goliaths/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>codexon</author><text>Google has been killing all but the most widely known domains for a very long time. I&#x27;ve mentioned this repeatedly on ycombinator multiple times, but only people who have made their own website 15 years ago and tried to grow it know what I mean.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=38923627#38933675">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=38923627#38933675</a><p>My recommendation is to start moving to some other closed platform that is not part of Google search like Facebook, Twitter, Youtube (yes I know Google owns it but its still not part of the search ecosystem).<p>Tying your entire business to how high you rank on Google search is always going to eventually end up in disaster like this.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>granzymes</author><text>Read past the provocative title, and Google actually seems to be doing the right things here. They cracked down on product reviews that aren’t actually testing the product in 2021, and the article says big media companies (presumably with lower quality review content) suffered as a result.<p>But then those media companies found a loophole with &quot;The Best X&quot; lists that weren&#x27;t subject to the 2021 Products Review Update changes, which lets them continue spamming affiliate links while avoiding the new requirements.<p>So now independent sites with actual reviews are in a holding pattern for these search terms, waiting for Google to bring the hammer down again on sites that are evading its quality metrics. This article is pretty clearly an open letter trying to bring attention to this issue.<p>If the team at Google working on ranking for product reviews is reading this, I hope you have another update in the works to close this loophole. H1 planning just wrapped up!<p>--<p>Edit: The title on HN has changed to be less click-baity. The original title was &quot;How Google is killing independent sites like ours&quot;.<p>Title aside, the article is quite excellent and does a great job of explaining the product review niche of SEO. Kudos to the authors.</text></comment> | <story><title>Big media publishers are inundating the web with subpar product recommendations</title><url>https://housefresh.com/david-vs-digital-goliaths/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>codexon</author><text>Google has been killing all but the most widely known domains for a very long time. I&#x27;ve mentioned this repeatedly on ycombinator multiple times, but only people who have made their own website 15 years ago and tried to grow it know what I mean.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=38923627#38933675">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=38923627#38933675</a><p>My recommendation is to start moving to some other closed platform that is not part of Google search like Facebook, Twitter, Youtube (yes I know Google owns it but its still not part of the search ecosystem).<p>Tying your entire business to how high you rank on Google search is always going to eventually end up in disaster like this.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>cogman10</author><text>Google search has become worthless for me. I use bing instead because of how horrible google results are.<p>On most searches, especially with my phone, the results are almost all sponsored and rarely what I&#x27;m actually looking for.<p>Google search has gone from being one of the best to being ask jeeves at it&#x27;s worst.</text></comment> |
19,394,072 | 19,394,042 | 1 | 3 | 19,393,486 | train | <story><title>Firefox enables deprecated Fido U2F Support for Google Accounts</title><url>https://groups.google.com/d/msg/mozilla.dev.platform/q5cj38hGTEA/lC834665BQAJ</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>snek</author><text>Damn shame to see the internet move backwards because Google refuses to use the standardized APIs.<p>Edit: Usually HN is so angry about Google not following web standards but everyone in this thread seems to be in favor of Google trampling the WebAuthn standard. Weird.</text></comment> | <story><title>Firefox enables deprecated Fido U2F Support for Google Accounts</title><url>https://groups.google.com/d/msg/mozilla.dev.platform/q5cj38hGTEA/lC834665BQAJ</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>mediocrejoker</author><text>This is good. It&#x27;s been working with FastMail for months so I&#x27;m not sure what the problem was.</text></comment> |
19,344,296 | 19,344,280 | 1 | 2 | 19,343,044 | train | <story><title>How to pass a programming interview (2016)</title><url>https://triplebyte.com/blog/how-to-pass-a-programming-interview</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>elteto</author><text>Funny, I just went through a pre-screen assessment for one of the big ones and it was not one but _two_ DP problems. I could have probably come up with a slow solution using recursion and a bit more of time, but was given only 90 minutes. And I thought to myself, what exactly did they learn about _me_ after this exercise? Absolutely nothing, except that I can&#x27;t solve DP problems on the spot. What a waste of time.<p>And the funny thing is, I work as an embedded developer and actually have to look up a topic or two from CLR at least once a year for work stuff (which is not very common). But DP? I&#x27;ve never needed it or used it. Why the emphasis in it then?<p>It feels a lot like software interviewing is just a bunch of rain dances and cargo culting and those that know the dance get through the hoop. I guess I&#x27;ll have to order Elements of Rain Dancing from Amazon and get to practicing.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>donw</author><text>I have yet to find an interview process that works better than RPI (Rob&#x27;s Pairing Interview)[1] plus a day-in-the-life[2].<p>It gives both the employer and the candidate a chance to evaluate each other in context.<p>As an employer, you get to see how the candidate performs on two different real-world tasks, as well as how they interact with existing employees.<p>As an employee, you get to see what the company is <i>really</i> like to work with. No amount of whiteboarding can deliver that.<p>And at the end of the day, if that relationship feels good, both parties can choose to continue onwards towards full employment.<p>On the other hand, computer science trivia, by which I mean &quot;implement Dijkstra or quicksort on a whiteboard&quot;, is a very poor means indeed by which to test for the ability to do real-world work in a real-world context.<p>Sure, it&#x27;s valuable to have a broad understanding of algorithms and data structures. But whiteboard interviews on those types of problems only tests how well you would do competing in an ACM (Association for Computing Machinery) challenge, not how well you can deal with &quot;here is a totally new-to-you problem that lacks a precise solution, now work productively with a team to solve it under the constraints of an operating business&quot;<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;builttoadapt.io&#x2F;the-developer-hiring-process-is-broken-672bf273c183" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;builttoadapt.io&#x2F;the-developer-hiring-process-is-brok...</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.jonrshar.pe&#x2F;2016&#x2F;Dec&#x2F;05&#x2F;pivotal-interviews.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.jonrshar.pe&#x2F;2016&#x2F;Dec&#x2F;05&#x2F;pivotal-interviews.html</a></text></comment> | <story><title>How to pass a programming interview (2016)</title><url>https://triplebyte.com/blog/how-to-pass-a-programming-interview</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>elteto</author><text>Funny, I just went through a pre-screen assessment for one of the big ones and it was not one but _two_ DP problems. I could have probably come up with a slow solution using recursion and a bit more of time, but was given only 90 minutes. And I thought to myself, what exactly did they learn about _me_ after this exercise? Absolutely nothing, except that I can&#x27;t solve DP problems on the spot. What a waste of time.<p>And the funny thing is, I work as an embedded developer and actually have to look up a topic or two from CLR at least once a year for work stuff (which is not very common). But DP? I&#x27;ve never needed it or used it. Why the emphasis in it then?<p>It feels a lot like software interviewing is just a bunch of rain dances and cargo culting and those that know the dance get through the hoop. I guess I&#x27;ll have to order Elements of Rain Dancing from Amazon and get to practicing.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>glangdale</author><text>I feel your pain. I did exactly one dynamic programming algorithm (in the string matcher for Hyperscan) and was pretty inordinately pleased with myself for doing it, but we built dozens of algorithms in that project and that was the only case of DP that I recall.<p>But I expect to go into interviews and have people demand a <i>different</i> rain dance, now that everyone is talking about DP. They like mugging people with &#x27;so big it has to be out of core&#x27; stuff, which is a good way of finding out who went to the right grad school algorithms course. :-)</text></comment> |
13,688,680 | 13,688,185 | 1 | 2 | 13,687,507 | train | <story><title>JPS+: Over 100x Faster than A* (2015) [video]</title><url>http://www.gdcvault.com/play/1022094/JPS-Over-100x-Faster-than</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>amitp</author><text>Title&#x27;s misleading. A* is also 100x faster than A* ;) It depends a lot on the graph you give it.<p>JPS by itself (not JPS+ in this video) is notable for not requiring any precomputation to achieve some speedup.<p>If you&#x27;re willing to precompute some things, there are lots of other techniques available for unweighted grid maps. <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cs.du.edu&#x2F;~sturtevant&#x2F;papers&#x2F;GPPC-2014.pdf" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cs.du.edu&#x2F;~sturtevant&#x2F;papers&#x2F;GPPC-2014.pdf</a> has an overview of techniques and some benchmarks that use real-world game maps (Baldur&#x27;s Gate, Dragon Age).<p>I believe the &quot;goal bounding&quot; from the video is called &quot;arc flags&quot; in the literature.</text></comment> | <story><title>JPS+: Over 100x Faster than A* (2015) [video]</title><url>http://www.gdcvault.com/play/1022094/JPS-Over-100x-Faster-than</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>y7</author><text>Paper: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.aaai.org&#x2F;ocs&#x2F;index.php&#x2F;SOCS&#x2F;SOCS12&#x2F;paper&#x2F;download&#x2F;5396&#x2F;5212" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.aaai.org&#x2F;ocs&#x2F;index.php&#x2F;SOCS&#x2F;SOCS12&#x2F;paper&#x2F;download...</a><p>Previous HN thread: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=9714774" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=9714774</a></text></comment> |
7,037,138 | 7,037,296 | 1 | 2 | 7,036,525 | train | <story><title>Ford Exec: 'We Know Everyone Who Breaks the Law' Thanks To Our GPS In Your Car</title><url>http://www.businessinsider.com/ford-exec-gps-2014-1</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Sambdala</author><text>Edit: op added his second paragraph after I, and several others, replied. While the second paragraph is more reasonable on it&#x27;s own, I still highly disagree with the implied reasoning of the first paragraph.<p>I disagree vehemently.<p>People drive a speed they feel comfortable driving. Full Stop.<p>The only time a speed limit sign changes behavior in the vast majority of drivers (in the US anyway) is when a cop is present.<p>The smarter way to reduce speed in the sections of road that actually are more dangerous is to make them look more dangerous, for example by painting lines on the road that make you think you&#x27;re travelling faster than you are.<p>There are major roads where, except for rush hour, 100% of cars on the road are travelling well above the speed limit because it is set far too low for a modern vehicle driving on a multi-lane, fairly straight highway.<p>This causes a fairly similar attitude toward speed limits that a large percentage of the population has toward pot: you scaremonger about something that obviously isn&#x27;t dangerous in 95% of cases (pot &#x2F; 35 MPH, 6 lane roads), which makes the remaining 5% of cases that are actually dangerous (Heroin &#x2F; sharp turn with low visibility) seem less dangerous because you spent so much effort to conflate the two.<p>Meanwhile, we&#x27;re unable to have a sober conversation about the subject that results in speed limits and road laws that make sense because of <i>think of the children!</i> scaremongering, e.g., &quot;children on their way to school also lose the reverse lottery, but instead of a $300 fine, they die.&quot;</text></item><item><author>jrockway</author><text>I think perfect enforcement of laws would be great. Because traffic tickets are so random, nobody really changes their behavior to avoid them, and it becomes more of a reverse lottery than anything else. Meanwhile, children on their way to school also lose the reverse lottery, but instead of a $300 fine, they die.<p>Perfect enforcement also puts pressure on lawmakers to make reasonable laws. If it&#x27;s just some guy that you don&#x27;t relate to being burned by stupid laws, you&#x27;re not going to care. If it&#x27;s everyone, you are going to care.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>greedo</author><text>So the idiot who drives 50mph on my street, which is 1&#x2F;4 mile long, and has children under the age of 12 in all ten houses on this road should be allowed to drive whatever speed he feels comfortable? There&#x27;s a lot of externalities to his behavior. My intuition tells me that in your world where people drive a speed they feel comfortable is why we have so many traffic accidents. I don&#x27;t give a rats ass about how comfortable a driver is.</text></comment> | <story><title>Ford Exec: 'We Know Everyone Who Breaks the Law' Thanks To Our GPS In Your Car</title><url>http://www.businessinsider.com/ford-exec-gps-2014-1</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Sambdala</author><text>Edit: op added his second paragraph after I, and several others, replied. While the second paragraph is more reasonable on it&#x27;s own, I still highly disagree with the implied reasoning of the first paragraph.<p>I disagree vehemently.<p>People drive a speed they feel comfortable driving. Full Stop.<p>The only time a speed limit sign changes behavior in the vast majority of drivers (in the US anyway) is when a cop is present.<p>The smarter way to reduce speed in the sections of road that actually are more dangerous is to make them look more dangerous, for example by painting lines on the road that make you think you&#x27;re travelling faster than you are.<p>There are major roads where, except for rush hour, 100% of cars on the road are travelling well above the speed limit because it is set far too low for a modern vehicle driving on a multi-lane, fairly straight highway.<p>This causes a fairly similar attitude toward speed limits that a large percentage of the population has toward pot: you scaremonger about something that obviously isn&#x27;t dangerous in 95% of cases (pot &#x2F; 35 MPH, 6 lane roads), which makes the remaining 5% of cases that are actually dangerous (Heroin &#x2F; sharp turn with low visibility) seem less dangerous because you spent so much effort to conflate the two.<p>Meanwhile, we&#x27;re unable to have a sober conversation about the subject that results in speed limits and road laws that make sense because of <i>think of the children!</i> scaremongering, e.g., &quot;children on their way to school also lose the reverse lottery, but instead of a $300 fine, they die.&quot;</text></item><item><author>jrockway</author><text>I think perfect enforcement of laws would be great. Because traffic tickets are so random, nobody really changes their behavior to avoid them, and it becomes more of a reverse lottery than anything else. Meanwhile, children on their way to school also lose the reverse lottery, but instead of a $300 fine, they die.<p>Perfect enforcement also puts pressure on lawmakers to make reasonable laws. If it&#x27;s just some guy that you don&#x27;t relate to being burned by stupid laws, you&#x27;re not going to care. If it&#x27;s everyone, you are going to care.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Shinkei</author><text>The flaw in your argument is, &quot;I trust myself driving, but I don&#x27;t trust anyone else.&quot;<p>I am a great driver and people had been present when I got myself out of &#x27;sticky&#x27; situations--avoided red-light runner t-bones, people merging into me, parking lot fender benders who don&#x27;t check their rear, etc.<p>Problem is, there are plenty of bad drivers out there who would happily go 80-90 and drive recklessly in their parents&#x27; BMW (Palm Beach teenagers, anyone?). The deaths due to traffic accidents are staggering and it&#x27;s a huge public health issue. If speeding is not illegal, then it could be difficult to show wrecklessness or other mitigating circumstances should there be a manslaughter case. IMNAL, but I think it could have wider and unexpected implications.<p>I agree that many speed limits are somewhat arbitrary, but I disagree with &#x27;smart&#x27; means of reducing people&#x27;s speed. People need to learn how to follow the rules or they don&#x27;t belong in society... it&#x27;s as simple as that.</text></comment> |
25,834,324 | 25,833,527 | 1 | 3 | 25,823,546 | train | <story><title>TV detector vans once prowled the streets of England</title><url>https://hackaday.com/2021/01/18/tv-detector-vans-once-prowled-the-streets-of-england/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>saberdancer</author><text>What is the point of this license fee in this day and age? Everyone has a TV, so everyone pays the license fee. Wouldn&#x27;t it be simpler to just use a part of the taxes already collected to go to BBC.<p>My problem with this type of license fee collection is that it bring forward a number of costs associated with it that could be removed if it went directly from taxes and that today everyone has TV so it doesn&#x27;t really &quot;tax the rich&quot; that it probably was intended to do in the early days.</text></item><item><author>boffinism</author><text>The BBC is currently dedicating hours of airtime a day to educational content to match our primary and secondary curricula because the schools are shut and lots of kids can&#x27;t access online provisions. And still people complain about the licence fee in terms of whether or not they enjoy BBC gameshows...</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>carschno</author><text>No, the idea never was to &quot;tax the rich&quot;. The license fees as present in many European countries are not taxes because the broadcasters are independent from the governments, including full control over what they do with _their_ budget. The idea is that the governments cannot (threaten to) cut their budgets to enforce pro-government reporting on public broadcasters.</text></comment> | <story><title>TV detector vans once prowled the streets of England</title><url>https://hackaday.com/2021/01/18/tv-detector-vans-once-prowled-the-streets-of-england/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>saberdancer</author><text>What is the point of this license fee in this day and age? Everyone has a TV, so everyone pays the license fee. Wouldn&#x27;t it be simpler to just use a part of the taxes already collected to go to BBC.<p>My problem with this type of license fee collection is that it bring forward a number of costs associated with it that could be removed if it went directly from taxes and that today everyone has TV so it doesn&#x27;t really &quot;tax the rich&quot; that it probably was intended to do in the early days.</text></item><item><author>boffinism</author><text>The BBC is currently dedicating hours of airtime a day to educational content to match our primary and secondary curricula because the schools are shut and lots of kids can&#x27;t access online provisions. And still people complain about the licence fee in terms of whether or not they enjoy BBC gameshows...</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>andyjohnson0</author><text>&gt; Wouldn&#x27;t it be simpler to just use a part of the taxes already collected to go to BBC.<p>That would make the BBC dependent on the government for its revenue, which definitely isn&#x27;t desirable. The current system, where the BBC collects its own revenue under the authority of a royal charter, is intended to help insulate it from political interference.</text></comment> |
17,137,904 | 17,136,692 | 1 | 2 | 17,134,864 | train | <story><title>The US military is funding an effort to catch deepfakes and other AI trickery</title><url>https://www.technologyreview.com/s/611146/the-us-military-is-funding-an-effort-to-catch-deepfakes-and-other-ai-trickery/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>AlexandrB</author><text>We&#x27;re rapidly heading into a world where every form of non-fictional media has to be mediated by a trusted third party because we have no way to distinguish what&#x27;s true from what&#x27;s fabricated with our own senses. This is a complete reversal of the verifying power that images, audio, and video once provided to everybody <i>regardless</i> of income or education. Think about some of the potent imagery that came out of wars like WWII and Vietnam, for example.<p>We&#x27;re not too far away from the manufacture of literal &quot;fake news&quot; out of whole cloth. I&#x27;m not sure this bodes well for the idea of an informed electorate.</text></comment> | <story><title>The US military is funding an effort to catch deepfakes and other AI trickery</title><url>https://www.technologyreview.com/s/611146/the-us-military-is-funding-an-effort-to-catch-deepfakes-and-other-ai-trickery/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>michaelbuckbee</author><text>Humans have such issues with confirmation bias [1] that I worry it&#x27;s not going to matter.<p>The last election already had algorithmically generated artificial news designed to sway people (note: I&#x27;m talking FB articles with headlines like &quot;$POLITICIAN just insulted $NICHE_AUDIENCE. STOP THEM.&quot; that linked to articles that were scraped&#x2F;spun from other sources). They relied upon people not actually reading and just hitting like&#x2F;forward&#x2F;heart whatever and spreading the top level message.<p>We are not going to be able to convince ourselves, never mind other people, that video (which has been the gold standard for &quot;truth&quot; for nearly a century) isn&#x27;t actually real.<p>Case in point: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=cQ54GDm1eL0" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=cQ54GDm1eL0</a> (which was included in the article) has comments from people deeply confused by it on YT.<p>1 - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.newyorker.com&#x2F;magazine&#x2F;2017&#x2F;02&#x2F;27&#x2F;why-facts-dont-change-our-minds" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.newyorker.com&#x2F;magazine&#x2F;2017&#x2F;02&#x2F;27&#x2F;why-facts-dont...</a></text></comment> |
25,528,562 | 25,528,300 | 1 | 3 | 25,525,457 | train | <story><title>Ask HN: What Lived Up to the Hype?</title><text>Cyberpunk’s reviews paint it as a tire fire. I think it’s a fun game, but it doesn’t live up to the expectation - it’s not the next Witcher 3.<p>There are many examples of overhyped releases: Duke Nukem Forever, the Matrix sequels, etc. What got hyped and actually delivered?</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>DonHopkins</author><text>Factorio!!! (It wasn&#x27;t really hyped, but if it was, it would have lived up to it.)<p>Actual video from the game doesn&#x27;t qualify as hype! And the code is rock solid and wicked efficient.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=DR01YdFtWFI&amp;ab_channel=Factorio" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=DR01YdFtWFI&amp;ab_channel=Facto...</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=KVvXv1Z6EY8&amp;ab_channel=Factorio" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=KVvXv1Z6EY8&amp;ab_channel=Facto...</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=BqaAjgpsoW8&amp;ab_channel=Factorio" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=BqaAjgpsoW8&amp;ab_channel=Facto...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>localhost</author><text>I started playing factorio a few days ago because I read Sriram Krishnan’s interview with Tobi Lutke who raved about it [1]. In fact, I’ve read here on HN that you can expense factorio at Shopify :)<p>It’s almost a perfect game for a software developer. Unlike software which is difficult to visualize, factorio is all about the visualization. It makes it really easy to see your “hacks”, your “scaling”, and your “async”. It also makes it really easy to see your bugs as well. It’s like working on a program that is always running, in a debugger, but with the ability to dynamically add and change the running code in real time.<p>Another observation: it’s kind of like Excel. The sheet is always live and the sheet acts as a debugger (you see the data and not the code, you see the outputs not the transforms).<p>Can’t recommend it enough.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;sriramk&#x2F;status&#x2F;1339257751873064961?s=21" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;sriramk&#x2F;status&#x2F;1339257751873064961?s=21</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Ask HN: What Lived Up to the Hype?</title><text>Cyberpunk’s reviews paint it as a tire fire. I think it’s a fun game, but it doesn’t live up to the expectation - it’s not the next Witcher 3.<p>There are many examples of overhyped releases: Duke Nukem Forever, the Matrix sequels, etc. What got hyped and actually delivered?</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>DonHopkins</author><text>Factorio!!! (It wasn&#x27;t really hyped, but if it was, it would have lived up to it.)<p>Actual video from the game doesn&#x27;t qualify as hype! And the code is rock solid and wicked efficient.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=DR01YdFtWFI&amp;ab_channel=Factorio" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=DR01YdFtWFI&amp;ab_channel=Facto...</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=KVvXv1Z6EY8&amp;ab_channel=Factorio" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=KVvXv1Z6EY8&amp;ab_channel=Facto...</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=BqaAjgpsoW8&amp;ab_channel=Factorio" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=BqaAjgpsoW8&amp;ab_channel=Facto...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bluejellybean</author><text>Factorio is freaking amazing and is my goto game. I&#x27;ve just gotten into the multiplayer aspects and it&#x27;s completely rekindled my love after 1400 hours of game-time (according to steam, far bit of afk here to be honest). There are train worlds, mod worlds, pvp worlds, so many new and unique ways to play. One of the best parts of this game for me has been that both the depth and speed of it are totally up to you. Although many people simply try and speed run rockets or automate their factory, this is all completely optional. You can create works of art, music generators, blinking lights, even straight up computers!<p>One of my recent side projects has been building out a modded multiplayer server that allows me to sell plots of land to players. My idea is to create a city of player-owned museums and shops, all with the backdrop of a custom story narrative in a high-end designed mall of sorts. My inspiration for doing so has been from watching first person videos of people walking in Japan, wanting to experience that but being unable due to the lock-downs. My favorite aspect has been creating an in-game &#x27;paid&#x27; train line that lead the player out of the dense concrete shopping district and into one of the beautiful blue and green tree parks, the visual switch-up makes the experience fantastically enjoyable. I&#x27;m not really sure I&#x27;ll end up making any real income from it but the process has been a complete blast. Playing the game in this fashion feels the same as Minecraft did, just with more automation and potential for world building.<p>Although not strictly Factorio related, something else I&#x27;ve pursued within the game has been setting up a semi-interactive self in my room. I have a few small monitors all linked up playing, and I just set my character to hang out in various places online. One game sits in a train-world just cruising along, another sits in a beautifully animated forest, another still hangs out on a pristine beach that I found. Sitting inside a small room day after day due to the pandemic has been brutal but this setup has greatly improved my sense of connection to the outside. Apart from getting to look over and see something that is visually appealing (and green now that bleakness of winter is here), I&#x27;ll occasionally see random people join a server and become friends trying to build something together, it&#x27;s awesome! My shelf has become an interactive, aquarium, IRC, hybrid, all thanks to this game.</text></comment> |
15,206,189 | 15,205,867 | 1 | 2 | 15,204,845 | train | <story><title>Some publishers are fighting AMP with “View Full Experience” link</title><url>https://twitter.com/WillieJay22/status/904071101269016577</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>aphextron</author><text>The most frustrating thing for me about AMP is that it sidesteps the single most useful feature of Safari on iOS, the &quot;Reader&quot; button, by rendering the entire page in JS. I suspect this is entirely purposeful on Google&#x27;s part as it cuts into ad views. It&#x27;s really gotten out of hand, too. Try doing a google search for practically any news article on mobile now. The entire first few result pages are nothing but AMP.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dingaling</author><text>&gt; The entire first few result pages are nothing but AMP.<p>Except for mobile Firefox, which Google appears to &#x27;punish&#x27; by eliding AMP links. Happy days!</text></comment> | <story><title>Some publishers are fighting AMP with “View Full Experience” link</title><url>https://twitter.com/WillieJay22/status/904071101269016577</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>aphextron</author><text>The most frustrating thing for me about AMP is that it sidesteps the single most useful feature of Safari on iOS, the &quot;Reader&quot; button, by rendering the entire page in JS. I suspect this is entirely purposeful on Google&#x27;s part as it cuts into ad views. It&#x27;s really gotten out of hand, too. Try doing a google search for practically any news article on mobile now. The entire first few result pages are nothing but AMP.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>RKearney</author><text>The reader button works on 100% of amp links I&#x27;ve tested. If anything, the amp links help get me to reader mode faster by loading an optimized version of the page to begin with.</text></comment> |
32,111,543 | 32,111,397 | 1 | 3 | 32,108,926 | train | <story><title>Mass and angular momentum, left ambiguous by Einstein, get defined</title><url>https://www.quantamagazine.org/mass-and-angular-momentum-left-ambiguous-by-einstein-get-defined-20220713/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>hinkley</author><text>Maybe a year ago, possibly here, I finally saw gyroscopic precession demonstrated in a way that didn’t invoke magic thinking. The person simply pointed out that the mistake is in thinking of the rotating mass as a stationary object, when in fact you are applying the lateral force to a different spot on the object at each time interval, leading to very strange vectors.</text></comment> | <story><title>Mass and angular momentum, left ambiguous by Einstein, get defined</title><url>https://www.quantamagazine.org/mass-and-angular-momentum-left-ambiguous-by-einstein-get-defined-20220713/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>ncmncm</author><text>I really appreciate articles that don&#x27;t just say what a new thing reveals, but puts it in a context of what we still don&#x27;t know.</text></comment> |
18,768,641 | 18,768,514 | 1 | 2 | 18,766,709 | train | <story><title>JMAP is on the home straight</title><url>https://fastmail.blog/2018/12/27/jmap-is-on-the-home-straight/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>stonogo</author><text>&quot;The IETF likes separation of concerns&quot; but they&#x27;re letting Google et al. ram through MTA-STS, which fails to define a standard port number for SMTP-over-TLS and instead requires MTA implementations to <i>also</i> be able to fetch port numbers over https, a completely unrelated protocol.<p>All because the authors believe mortal men are not capable of understanding DNSSEC. Leaving aside the unholy alliance of Google + Microsoft + Verizon + Comcast, the fact that the IETF made Fastmail ditch <i>authentication</i> from a mail protocol while letting Google subsume <i>DNS and web-based port knocking</i> into <i>another</i> mail protocol definitely tells me there&#x27;s nobody behind the wheel any more.<p>I&#x27;m happy that the Fastmail team is doing work that excites them, but does anyone know if the IETF has any plans to use ports other than 443 ever again?</text></comment> | <story><title>JMAP is on the home straight</title><url>https://fastmail.blog/2018/12/27/jmap-is-on-the-home-straight/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>tjoff</author><text>I have not tried it or looked at it too closely (since neither my server nor client supports it). But I desperately hope that JMAP succeeds. It&#x27;s exactly what email needs. IMAP and POP are just so inadequate that locking yourself into gmail&#x2F;whatever is a reasonable choice.<p>With JMAP maybe we will actually see some interest in decent desktop and mobile clients for once. And also maybe we will have decent alternatives to the big players for non-techie people too.</text></comment> |
21,954,607 | 21,954,601 | 1 | 2 | 21,953,295 | train | <story><title>How the CIA Overthrew Iran's Democracy in Four Days in 1953 (2019)</title><url>https://www.npr.org/2019/01/31/690363402/how-the-cia-overthrew-irans-democracy-in-four-days</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>nexuist</author><text>In that regard, the current offensive action may as well be viewed as a breath of fresh air.<p>If blood must be shed to end tyranny, perhaps it is a worthwhile gamble. The Iranian people gain nothing from allowing the current regime to grow. A US-Iran war would almost certainly result in a democratic Iran, with a connected and educated populace capable of maintaining it. I think one of the main flaws in Iraq and Afghanistan was simply assuming that you could establish democracy anywhere and then the citizens of the country would come together to form a functional democratic government. Iran&#x27;s populace is much better equipped for democracy. They have already started begging for it [1].<p>I don&#x27;t really believe the air strike was conducted with good intentions. But it may end up having a positive side effect for the Iranian people if the current government is ousted.<p>I&#x27;ll end this by posting something I wrote earlier on reddit:<p>&quot;I mean, it&#x27;s really an interesting conundrum, when is war with anyone ever a good idea?<p>And yet over the course of history there are several wars we have fought that are more or less universally accepted as being good ideas: the Revolutionary War, World War I, and World War II.<p>So obviously, at some point, the calculation must be worth it. But I don&#x27;t know if it is possible for any human being to perform that calculation with the mental capacity we are all given. What I do know is that the Iraq war absolutely ended the suffering of people under Saddam Hussein&#x27;s dictatorship, and the Afghanistan war somewhat ended the suffering of people under Taliban rule (the Taliban unfortunately still exists but is definitely not as strong as it used to be). What I don&#x27;t know, and I don&#x27;t think anyone can really know, is if the loss of those governments and introduction of our armed forces led to a general improvement on quality of life of Iraqi and Afghani citizens. I know the gut reaction is &quot;obviously not&quot; but neither of us are likely living in those countries at the moment, and so we really don&#x27;t know how life has changed for them.<p>The million dollar question is: will toppling Iran&#x27;s government and ending the suffering of its citizenry under it be a net benefit for its people, or is the status quo shielding them from an even worse fate? How can you really know?&quot;<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;2019-20_Iranian_protests" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;2019-20_Iranian_protests</a></text></item><item><author>dr_dshiv</author><text>I agree. It&#x27;s really sad. Iran had&#x2F;has so much potential.</text></item><item><author>emilsedgh</author><text>Iran is still suffering heavily from that coup.<p>That was the closest we ever were to a democracy. However, democracy is very fragile, specially at the beginning.<p>And it was shattered and to this day, we never got as close. Tyrant regimes come and go and we still think what might&#x27;ve been. We could&#x27;ve easily been another France in middle east.<p>Source: Iranian living in the U.S.</text></item><item><author>thdrdt</author><text>Most western people are very negative about countries like Iran, China and Russia because they are the &#x27;bad guys&#x27;.<p>Well this article again shows that there are few countries that will not gain power over dead people. It&#x27;s sad but true.<p>Now imagine you were living in Iran and came to know about the work of the CIA. Whould you think the USA is the greatest country in the world and democracy is the way to go?<p>I think it would be best if we look at people in other countries without judgement and try to understand their point of view. Leaders are to blame but most of the people in this world are just living their life.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mad_tortoise</author><text>How many innocent people must die for the USA to end &#x27;tyranny&#x27; in the Middle East? In Iraq alone it&#x27;s over a million, then we can look at Yemen, Syria, Libya, Palestine, Lebanon before we even begin with Iran. And what then? Iran isn&#x27;t like any of those countries the US has already pillaged, it has a 500k member armed forces, all highly trained. State of the art military systems, they have direct backing from Russia and China, they are perfectly placed to attack the Israel, Saudi, Qatar and the UAE where the US is vulnerable, the US has enraged the member&#x27;s of the Iranian special forces by taking out their leader, so now you have a lot of very angry spec ops guys who will avenge this action.<p>So how many Iranians must die for your version of &#x27;tyranny&#x27; to be met? What figure would you be satisfied with, and what kind of tyranny are you ok with? Because it seems you&#x27;ve got major double standards when it comes to Saudi, Israel, UAE and Qatar, let alone all the extra-judicial and illegal acts carried out by the USA themselves in the name of rooting out &#x27;tyranny&#x27;.</text></comment> | <story><title>How the CIA Overthrew Iran's Democracy in Four Days in 1953 (2019)</title><url>https://www.npr.org/2019/01/31/690363402/how-the-cia-overthrew-irans-democracy-in-four-days</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>nexuist</author><text>In that regard, the current offensive action may as well be viewed as a breath of fresh air.<p>If blood must be shed to end tyranny, perhaps it is a worthwhile gamble. The Iranian people gain nothing from allowing the current regime to grow. A US-Iran war would almost certainly result in a democratic Iran, with a connected and educated populace capable of maintaining it. I think one of the main flaws in Iraq and Afghanistan was simply assuming that you could establish democracy anywhere and then the citizens of the country would come together to form a functional democratic government. Iran&#x27;s populace is much better equipped for democracy. They have already started begging for it [1].<p>I don&#x27;t really believe the air strike was conducted with good intentions. But it may end up having a positive side effect for the Iranian people if the current government is ousted.<p>I&#x27;ll end this by posting something I wrote earlier on reddit:<p>&quot;I mean, it&#x27;s really an interesting conundrum, when is war with anyone ever a good idea?<p>And yet over the course of history there are several wars we have fought that are more or less universally accepted as being good ideas: the Revolutionary War, World War I, and World War II.<p>So obviously, at some point, the calculation must be worth it. But I don&#x27;t know if it is possible for any human being to perform that calculation with the mental capacity we are all given. What I do know is that the Iraq war absolutely ended the suffering of people under Saddam Hussein&#x27;s dictatorship, and the Afghanistan war somewhat ended the suffering of people under Taliban rule (the Taliban unfortunately still exists but is definitely not as strong as it used to be). What I don&#x27;t know, and I don&#x27;t think anyone can really know, is if the loss of those governments and introduction of our armed forces led to a general improvement on quality of life of Iraqi and Afghani citizens. I know the gut reaction is &quot;obviously not&quot; but neither of us are likely living in those countries at the moment, and so we really don&#x27;t know how life has changed for them.<p>The million dollar question is: will toppling Iran&#x27;s government and ending the suffering of its citizenry under it be a net benefit for its people, or is the status quo shielding them from an even worse fate? How can you really know?&quot;<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;2019-20_Iranian_protests" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;2019-20_Iranian_protests</a></text></item><item><author>dr_dshiv</author><text>I agree. It&#x27;s really sad. Iran had&#x2F;has so much potential.</text></item><item><author>emilsedgh</author><text>Iran is still suffering heavily from that coup.<p>That was the closest we ever were to a democracy. However, democracy is very fragile, specially at the beginning.<p>And it was shattered and to this day, we never got as close. Tyrant regimes come and go and we still think what might&#x27;ve been. We could&#x27;ve easily been another France in middle east.<p>Source: Iranian living in the U.S.</text></item><item><author>thdrdt</author><text>Most western people are very negative about countries like Iran, China and Russia because they are the &#x27;bad guys&#x27;.<p>Well this article again shows that there are few countries that will not gain power over dead people. It&#x27;s sad but true.<p>Now imagine you were living in Iran and came to know about the work of the CIA. Whould you think the USA is the greatest country in the world and democracy is the way to go?<p>I think it would be best if we look at people in other countries without judgement and try to understand their point of view. Leaders are to blame but most of the people in this world are just living their life.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pjc50</author><text>&gt; What I do know is that the Iraq war absolutely ended the suffering of people under Saddam Hussein&#x27;s dictatorship, and the Afghanistan war somewhat ended the suffering of people under Taliban rule (the Taliban unfortunately still exists but is definitely not as strong as it used to be). What I don&#x27;t know, and I don&#x27;t think anyone can really know, is if the loss of those governments and introduction of our armed forces led to a general improvement on quality of life of Iraqi and Afghani citizens.<p>The war isn&#x27;t even over yet. Normal countries don&#x27;t have missiles falling out of the sky onto the highway murdering a visiting foreign general, or routine car bombings with hundreds of casualties. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;List_of_mass_car_bombings" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;List_of_mass_car_bombings</a><p>The most systematic attempt at assessing the impact of the war was the famous Lancet study, which estimated the &quot;excess death&quot; from all causes: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Lancet_surveys_of_Iraq_War_casualties" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Lancet_surveys_of_Iraq_War_cas...</a><p>&gt; published on 11 October 2006, estimated 654,965 excess deaths related to the war, or 2.5% of the population, through the end of June 2006<p>So, if we round that to the five years since 9&#x2F;11, or about 1800 days, that&#x27;s 360 casualties a day, or one 9&#x2F;11 roughly every week.<p>You can&#x27;t argue quality of life improvements for the dead.<p>Iraq is a slightly larger country. Quite likely you&#x27;d see a million dead in the first decade of the occupation, on which the US would spend enough for another moon programme or universal healthcare for all its citizens.</text></comment> |
15,881,477 | 15,881,583 | 1 | 2 | 15,879,115 | train | <story><title>Show HN: A New, Clean Geolocation API</title><url>https://ipdata.co</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>qwerty456127</author><text>&gt; Get the following datapoints from any IP address;<p>Again :-( I just wonder if people will ever stop making assumptions about others given their IP address or hair colours and divide the Internet on these slippery grounds. The only legitimate and valid way to determine the client&#x27;s location automatically is the browser or the OS geolocation API, and for the language it is the HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE header. The fact I have contacted your server from an IP address assigned to a Chinese ISP neither means I&#x27;m in China nor that I speak Chinese.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>duiker101</author><text>Believe it or not, you make up about 0.000001%[1] of the internet users. There is no saying in what this can be applied, it doesn&#x27;t have to be for language or anything like that. It doesn&#x27;t even have to be anything customer facing, and if it&#x27;s just some stats you will probably probably just be a bit of noise.<p>Don&#x27;t get me wrong. I totally agree that this thing is definitely not accurate(it thinks i&#x27;m 1300mi away) but it&#x27;s good enough to get a general idea.<p>[1] made up number to get my point across</text></comment> | <story><title>Show HN: A New, Clean Geolocation API</title><url>https://ipdata.co</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>qwerty456127</author><text>&gt; Get the following datapoints from any IP address;<p>Again :-( I just wonder if people will ever stop making assumptions about others given their IP address or hair colours and divide the Internet on these slippery grounds. The only legitimate and valid way to determine the client&#x27;s location automatically is the browser or the OS geolocation API, and for the language it is the HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE header. The fact I have contacted your server from an IP address assigned to a Chinese ISP neither means I&#x27;m in China nor that I speak Chinese.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jjeaff</author><text>This comment reminds me of the couple of people on HN that complain everytime someone shows off a new product and it doesn&#x27;t work well in their text only lynx browser.<p>It&#x27;s such an extreme edge case that it doesn&#x27;t really matter. (unless you are of course targeting that type of market).<p>In other words, IP address gives a general location in a huge number of cases.</text></comment> |
31,746,251 | 31,746,388 | 1 | 3 | 31,742,590 | train | <story><title>Coinbase lays off around 1,100 employees</title><url>https://www.coindesk.com/business/2022/06/14/coinbase-will-layoff-around-1100-employees/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>shinryuu</author><text>A lot of wealth is parked in shares of companies. I&#x27;m not sure to what extent that is actually productive...?</text></item><item><author>throwaway894345</author><text>Also, billionaires&#x27; wealth isn&#x27;t parked in a vault, right? It&#x27;s invested in companies, so it&#x27;s working in the economy whereas it would otherwise go to the government. It&#x27;s not obvious to me that the government is going to provide more value for the public in general than industry, but I would like for that to be the case (an easy solution for inequality that doesn&#x27;t shrink our economy overall).</text></item><item><author>jerry1979</author><text>I&#x27;m not settled on this yet. I&#x27;m from the USA, and one thing that concerns me is the geopolitics of billionaires. What happens when USA taxes billionaires out of existence? Russia and China still have billionaires. Does that do something to the power relationships in the world? Is there such a thing as &quot;our&quot; billionaires?<p>The other question I have has to do with feudalism. If we let &quot;our&quot; billionaires exist, does that mean that we keep feudalistic pressures at bay? Or do we enhance those pressures? Is that even the right question?</text></item><item><author>Johnny555</author><text><i>People keep pointing to Armstrong&#x27;s $110M house like it&#x27;s some sort of injustice. If you think billionaires should exist at all, then that&#x27;s one of the least-bad injustices imaginable</i><p>Ok, I&#x27;ll admit it, billionaires should not exist at all, there should be a heavy wealth tax that makes it hard to become a billionaire. Will a CEO work less hard if he (and his peers) can only ever gain $100M in net worth before a wealth tax on assets kicks in?</text></item><item><author>sillysaurusx</author><text>I think if employees feel slighted by being fired, they&#x27;re fooling themselves. The best mindset is that you could be gone tomorrow. It gives you clarity and purpose. It also happens to be the truth.<p>Coinbase was also extremely generous with severance. 12 weeks plus two for every one year at the company, I think. I&#x27;ve had the experience of being let go without notice and without severance.<p>Devs seem a little more grizzled this time around, so I think this mindset is slowly becoming the norm. College grads seem skittish, but they always are.<p>People keep pointing to Armstrong&#x27;s $110M house like it&#x27;s some sort of injustice. If you think billionaires should exist at all, then that&#x27;s one of the least-bad injustices imaginable. It&#x27;s probably true that no Armstrong, no Coinbase, and 10% of Coinbase is the prize.<p>EDIT: It&#x27;s actually 14 weeks: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.coinbase.com&#x2F;a-message-from-coinbase-ceo-and-cofounder-brian-armstrong-578d76eedb12" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.coinbase.com&#x2F;a-message-from-coinbase-ceo-and-co...</a><p>Three and a half months of dev salary is pretty incredible.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>RHSeeger</author><text>I&#x27;m confused by this statement. If I buy shares from a company, that company has more money to spend on growth&#x2F;bonuses&#x2F;whatever. If I buy shares from another person, that person has money to do things with. I don&#x27;t see how there is even a thing such as &quot;parked in shares of a company&quot;; it doesn&#x27;t park there, it is immediately available for investing in other things.<p>Now, the money could sit in the bank, sure. But even then, the vast majority of the money &quot;in the bank&quot; is actually being lent out to other people, who spend it.<p>So unless the money is literally sitting in a vault, it&#x27;s not &quot;parked&quot; anywhere.<p>I&#x27;m very open to being corrected here, so feel free to do so. My understanding of economics is decidedly limited.</text></comment> | <story><title>Coinbase lays off around 1,100 employees</title><url>https://www.coindesk.com/business/2022/06/14/coinbase-will-layoff-around-1100-employees/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>shinryuu</author><text>A lot of wealth is parked in shares of companies. I&#x27;m not sure to what extent that is actually productive...?</text></item><item><author>throwaway894345</author><text>Also, billionaires&#x27; wealth isn&#x27;t parked in a vault, right? It&#x27;s invested in companies, so it&#x27;s working in the economy whereas it would otherwise go to the government. It&#x27;s not obvious to me that the government is going to provide more value for the public in general than industry, but I would like for that to be the case (an easy solution for inequality that doesn&#x27;t shrink our economy overall).</text></item><item><author>jerry1979</author><text>I&#x27;m not settled on this yet. I&#x27;m from the USA, and one thing that concerns me is the geopolitics of billionaires. What happens when USA taxes billionaires out of existence? Russia and China still have billionaires. Does that do something to the power relationships in the world? Is there such a thing as &quot;our&quot; billionaires?<p>The other question I have has to do with feudalism. If we let &quot;our&quot; billionaires exist, does that mean that we keep feudalistic pressures at bay? Or do we enhance those pressures? Is that even the right question?</text></item><item><author>Johnny555</author><text><i>People keep pointing to Armstrong&#x27;s $110M house like it&#x27;s some sort of injustice. If you think billionaires should exist at all, then that&#x27;s one of the least-bad injustices imaginable</i><p>Ok, I&#x27;ll admit it, billionaires should not exist at all, there should be a heavy wealth tax that makes it hard to become a billionaire. Will a CEO work less hard if he (and his peers) can only ever gain $100M in net worth before a wealth tax on assets kicks in?</text></item><item><author>sillysaurusx</author><text>I think if employees feel slighted by being fired, they&#x27;re fooling themselves. The best mindset is that you could be gone tomorrow. It gives you clarity and purpose. It also happens to be the truth.<p>Coinbase was also extremely generous with severance. 12 weeks plus two for every one year at the company, I think. I&#x27;ve had the experience of being let go without notice and without severance.<p>Devs seem a little more grizzled this time around, so I think this mindset is slowly becoming the norm. College grads seem skittish, but they always are.<p>People keep pointing to Armstrong&#x27;s $110M house like it&#x27;s some sort of injustice. If you think billionaires should exist at all, then that&#x27;s one of the least-bad injustices imaginable. It&#x27;s probably true that no Armstrong, no Coinbase, and 10% of Coinbase is the prize.<p>EDIT: It&#x27;s actually 14 weeks: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.coinbase.com&#x2F;a-message-from-coinbase-ceo-and-cofounder-brian-armstrong-578d76eedb12" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.coinbase.com&#x2F;a-message-from-coinbase-ceo-and-co...</a><p>Three and a half months of dev salary is pretty incredible.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>SkyPuncher</author><text>For many of us on this site, I suspect that actually contributes to our salaries.<p>Either directly as VC capital or indirectly via public ownership. If billionaires suddenly couldn&#x27;t own public companies, stock prices would drop and we&#x27;d likely see layoffs.</text></comment> |
10,115,542 | 10,108,952 | 1 | 2 | 10,107,833 | train | <story><title>Backdooring JavaScript using minifier bugs</title><url>https://zyan.scripts.mit.edu/blog/backdooring-js/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>phpnode</author><text>&gt; Is there any benefit to it?<p>Well, in theory yes. When determining whether a specific function can be inlined into its call site, V8 looks at the length of the function <i>source code</i> to try and guess whether it&#x27;s worth it. Functions longer than 600 characters (including comments) cannot be inlined and therefore they will typically be slower.<p>Whether that makes any meaningful difference to your application performance really depends on the application. In most cases it won&#x27;t.</text></item><item><author>yoz-y</author><text>I wonder. Should one ever use minified javascript code on a server? Assuming that you are using it on your own server and not distributing the code to clients.<p>Is there any benefit to it?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>joepie91_</author><text>You can also just set a flag that changes that maximum length - there&#x27;s more about that here: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=FXyM1yrtloc" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=FXyM1yrtloc</a><p>You certainly don&#x27;t need server-side minification.</text></comment> | <story><title>Backdooring JavaScript using minifier bugs</title><url>https://zyan.scripts.mit.edu/blog/backdooring-js/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>phpnode</author><text>&gt; Is there any benefit to it?<p>Well, in theory yes. When determining whether a specific function can be inlined into its call site, V8 looks at the length of the function <i>source code</i> to try and guess whether it&#x27;s worth it. Functions longer than 600 characters (including comments) cannot be inlined and therefore they will typically be slower.<p>Whether that makes any meaningful difference to your application performance really depends on the application. In most cases it won&#x27;t.</text></item><item><author>yoz-y</author><text>I wonder. Should one ever use minified javascript code on a server? Assuming that you are using it on your own server and not distributing the code to clients.<p>Is there any benefit to it?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Kenji</author><text>That&#x27;s really odd. In my eyes, source code length is not a good way to measure the semantic size of a function. But what you&#x27;re saying is very interesting; I learned something new.</text></comment> |
34,153,858 | 34,153,807 | 1 | 2 | 34,152,865 | train | <story><title>Tesla stopped reporting its Autopilot safety numbers online. Why?</title><url>https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2022-12-27/tesla-stopped-reporting-autopilot-safety-statistics-online</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>gzer0</author><text>Curious to know where you see this false advertising?<p>When you go to purchase Autopilot on the Tesla website [0], it says in the first sentence: <i>&quot;The currently enabled features require active driver supervision and do not make the vehicle autonomous.&quot;</i><p>On Ford&#x27;s website regarding their Blue Cruise[1]: <i>&quot;Blue Cruise allows you to operate your vehicle hands-free while being monitored by a driver-facing camera to make sure you&#x27;re keeping your eyes on the road.&quot;</i><p>If anything, Ford seems to be more bold and brazen with their approach here.<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.tesla.com&#x2F;model3&#x2F;design#overview" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.tesla.com&#x2F;model3&#x2F;design#overview</a><p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ford.com&#x2F;technology&#x2F;driver-assist-technology&#x2F;#bluecruise" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ford.com&#x2F;technology&#x2F;driver-assist-technology&#x2F;#bl...</a></text></item><item><author>nixass</author><text>Probably they do because of false advertising</text></item><item><author>onos</author><text>I wonder if Tesla drivers simply use autopilot more than ford’s do.</text></item><item><author>pcurve</author><text>In a nutshell, the article says adjusting for sales volume, Tesla auto pilot crashes numbers are far higher than the ones from Ford.<p>&quot;...Tesla ought to have a NHTSA-reported crash total of 70 since last summer to be comparable with Ford’s rate. Instead, Tesla reported 516 crashes.&quot;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>delecti</author><text>The fact that on Tesla&#x27;s site the feature is called &quot;Full Self-Driving Capability&quot; while Ford&#x27;s is called &quot;BlueCruise&quot; seems to be a rather relevant difference. &quot;Full Self-Driving&quot; sure <i>feels</i> like false advertising to me, even if it doesn&#x27;t legally qualify as such.</text></comment> | <story><title>Tesla stopped reporting its Autopilot safety numbers online. Why?</title><url>https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2022-12-27/tesla-stopped-reporting-autopilot-safety-statistics-online</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>gzer0</author><text>Curious to know where you see this false advertising?<p>When you go to purchase Autopilot on the Tesla website [0], it says in the first sentence: <i>&quot;The currently enabled features require active driver supervision and do not make the vehicle autonomous.&quot;</i><p>On Ford&#x27;s website regarding their Blue Cruise[1]: <i>&quot;Blue Cruise allows you to operate your vehicle hands-free while being monitored by a driver-facing camera to make sure you&#x27;re keeping your eyes on the road.&quot;</i><p>If anything, Ford seems to be more bold and brazen with their approach here.<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.tesla.com&#x2F;model3&#x2F;design#overview" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.tesla.com&#x2F;model3&#x2F;design#overview</a><p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ford.com&#x2F;technology&#x2F;driver-assist-technology&#x2F;#bluecruise" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ford.com&#x2F;technology&#x2F;driver-assist-technology&#x2F;#bl...</a></text></item><item><author>nixass</author><text>Probably they do because of false advertising</text></item><item><author>onos</author><text>I wonder if Tesla drivers simply use autopilot more than ford’s do.</text></item><item><author>pcurve</author><text>In a nutshell, the article says adjusting for sales volume, Tesla auto pilot crashes numbers are far higher than the ones from Ford.<p>&quot;...Tesla ought to have a NHTSA-reported crash total of 70 since last summer to be comparable with Ford’s rate. Instead, Tesla reported 516 crashes.&quot;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>maximinus_thrax</author><text>Mixed signals<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.tesla.com&#x2F;autopilot" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.tesla.com&#x2F;autopilot</a><p>&quot;Tesla cars come standard with advanced hardware capable of providing Autopilot features, and full self-driving capabilities—through software updates designed to improve functionality over time.&quot;<p>&quot;Current Autopilot features require active driver supervision and do not make the vehicle autonomous.&quot;<p>&quot;The system is designed to be able to conduct short and long distance trips with no action required by the person in the driver’s seat.&quot;</text></comment> |
17,262,220 | 17,261,841 | 1 | 3 | 17,261,117 | train | <story><title>CoreRT – A .NET Runtime for AOT</title><url>http://www.mattwarren.org/2018/06/07/CoreRT-.NET-Runtime-for-AOT/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>MarkSweep</author><text>I think it is really cool how much of the CoreRT is written in C#. Garbage collection and stack frame walking are implemented, but most everything else is C#, including exception dispatch:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;dotnet&#x2F;corert&#x2F;blob&#x2F;master&#x2F;src&#x2F;Runtime.Base&#x2F;src&#x2F;System&#x2F;Runtime&#x2F;ExceptionHandling.cs" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;dotnet&#x2F;corert&#x2F;blob&#x2F;master&#x2F;src&#x2F;Runtime.Bas...</a><p>and type-casting:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;dotnet&#x2F;corert&#x2F;blob&#x2F;master&#x2F;src&#x2F;Runtime.Base&#x2F;src&#x2F;System&#x2F;Runtime&#x2F;TypeCast.cs" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;dotnet&#x2F;corert&#x2F;blob&#x2F;master&#x2F;src&#x2F;Runtime.Bas...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>CoreRT – A .NET Runtime for AOT</title><url>http://www.mattwarren.org/2018/06/07/CoreRT-.NET-Runtime-for-AOT/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>mwcampbell</author><text>If the compiler does tree-shaking, I wonder why it takes ~4 MB just to print a message on the console using the standard library. Is there any way to do a more fine-grained breakdown of where all that code is coming from?</text></comment> |
20,788,907 | 20,788,227 | 1 | 3 | 20,786,448 | train | <story><title>Software Architecture Guide</title><url>https://martinfowler.com/architecture/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>hyperpallium</author><text>Yes. And Computer Science is not a science, and Software Engineering is not an engineering.<p>Guides to it are more like guides to writing. <i>Strunk and White</i>, where is your empirical data? What&#x27;s your control? Where are your PDE&#x27;s?<p>Some also have aspects of business productivity books, with well-known common-sense ideas, like <i>In Search of Excellence</i> (which made up case studies, and a co-author said what&#x27;s the problem?)<p>Even Fred Brooks&#x27; <i>Mythical Man-Month</i> - informed by his leadership of the massive bet-the-company &quot;360&quot; project at IBM - lacks data. It&#x27;s still great though (in, uh... my subjective opinion, I guess).</text></item><item><author>Ozzie_osman</author><text>Lots of hate in this thread..
People asking for proof: what sort of evidence would convince you? I take these blog posts, apply it to my experience, and take what I think makes sense. Sometimes, an idea will solve an obvious pain I&#x27;ve had. Sometimes, an idea will show me a pain I didn&#x27;t know I have. Sometimes I disagree with the idea because it won&#x27;t work for me. That&#x27;s fine. I&#x27;m still much better off thanks to this literature, and I would be worse off if it all had to be evidence-based.<p>If you think you can write better based on your experience, please go for it. I&#x27;d love to have more literature to read, analyze, and learn from. If you can&#x27;t (pressed for time, etc), and only have time to post in HN comment threads, then at least discuss concretely which parts you disagree with so we can learn from that too (I&#x27;m serious, not being facetious). If you can&#x27;t even do THAT, then sorry, all your valuable experience is way less useful than someone like Martin Fowler, because I&#x27;m not learning anything from you.<p>Having a good understanding of how to architect code is hard. Being able to write about that in a way that&#x27;s useful for others is even harder, and is a skill of its own.<p>So personally, I thank Martin &amp; Co for all their writing.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>eitland</author><text>&gt; Even Fred Brooks&#x27; Mythical Man-Month - informed by his leadership of the massive bet-the-company &quot;360&quot; project at IBM - lacks data. It&#x27;s still great though (in, uh... my subjective opinion, I guess).<p>I have just read that book.<p>It is the computer book with most tables pr page of any I have seen.<p>How you come to this conclusion is beyond me.</text></comment> | <story><title>Software Architecture Guide</title><url>https://martinfowler.com/architecture/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>hyperpallium</author><text>Yes. And Computer Science is not a science, and Software Engineering is not an engineering.<p>Guides to it are more like guides to writing. <i>Strunk and White</i>, where is your empirical data? What&#x27;s your control? Where are your PDE&#x27;s?<p>Some also have aspects of business productivity books, with well-known common-sense ideas, like <i>In Search of Excellence</i> (which made up case studies, and a co-author said what&#x27;s the problem?)<p>Even Fred Brooks&#x27; <i>Mythical Man-Month</i> - informed by his leadership of the massive bet-the-company &quot;360&quot; project at IBM - lacks data. It&#x27;s still great though (in, uh... my subjective opinion, I guess).</text></item><item><author>Ozzie_osman</author><text>Lots of hate in this thread..
People asking for proof: what sort of evidence would convince you? I take these blog posts, apply it to my experience, and take what I think makes sense. Sometimes, an idea will solve an obvious pain I&#x27;ve had. Sometimes, an idea will show me a pain I didn&#x27;t know I have. Sometimes I disagree with the idea because it won&#x27;t work for me. That&#x27;s fine. I&#x27;m still much better off thanks to this literature, and I would be worse off if it all had to be evidence-based.<p>If you think you can write better based on your experience, please go for it. I&#x27;d love to have more literature to read, analyze, and learn from. If you can&#x27;t (pressed for time, etc), and only have time to post in HN comment threads, then at least discuss concretely which parts you disagree with so we can learn from that too (I&#x27;m serious, not being facetious). If you can&#x27;t even do THAT, then sorry, all your valuable experience is way less useful than someone like Martin Fowler, because I&#x27;m not learning anything from you.<p>Having a good understanding of how to architect code is hard. Being able to write about that in a way that&#x27;s useful for others is even harder, and is a skill of its own.<p>So personally, I thank Martin &amp; Co for all their writing.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>2_listerine_pls</author><text>Engineering is the application of science. A civil engineer uses laws regarding compression, stress, etc... to build its buildings. If you apply scientifically derived principles when building software then You are a software engineer.</text></comment> |
7,263,653 | 7,263,544 | 1 | 2 | 7,263,466 | train | <story><title>Putin on the Ritz</title><url>http://www.hackerfactor.com/blog/index.php?/archives/595-Putin-on-the-Ritz.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>TeMPOraL</author><text>The main angle of the post (dressing exactly the same all the time) is a very interesting one, but the end points are somewhat scary.<p>Think of it: if it&#x27;s so easy to fake color photos so that people won&#x27;t notice, isn&#x27;t it easier to fake black&amp;white photos? How do you know this is real: <a href="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/05/Yalta_Conference_%28Churchill%2C_Roosevelt%2C_Stalin%29_%28B%26W%29.jpg" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;upload.wikimedia.org&#x2F;wikipedia&#x2F;commons&#x2F;0&#x2F;05&#x2F;Yalta_Con...</a>? I don&#x27;t. If we routinely don&#x27;t trust colour pictures in newspapers, why should we trust historic photographs?<p>We&#x27;ve reached a point in time when we can start actually faking history. The only way to check if something happened now would be to find original copies of old photographs and books. But it&#x27;s only matter of time before they&#x27;ll be gone forever, or stuck deep in museum vaults, to be accessed by selected few. We could rewrite the history for next generation and no one would likely notice it.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rayiner</author><text>&gt; We&#x27;ve reached a point in time when we can start actually faking history.<p>It has always been possible to fake history, inadvertently or intentionally. There was a narrow stretch of time when photography became widespread which made it a bit harder to fake history, but photographs were being faked and staged long before we had computers to do digital editing of them. And before we had photographs, it was possible to fake manuscripts, etc.</text></comment> | <story><title>Putin on the Ritz</title><url>http://www.hackerfactor.com/blog/index.php?/archives/595-Putin-on-the-Ritz.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>TeMPOraL</author><text>The main angle of the post (dressing exactly the same all the time) is a very interesting one, but the end points are somewhat scary.<p>Think of it: if it&#x27;s so easy to fake color photos so that people won&#x27;t notice, isn&#x27;t it easier to fake black&amp;white photos? How do you know this is real: <a href="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/05/Yalta_Conference_%28Churchill%2C_Roosevelt%2C_Stalin%29_%28B%26W%29.jpg" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;upload.wikimedia.org&#x2F;wikipedia&#x2F;commons&#x2F;0&#x2F;05&#x2F;Yalta_Con...</a>? I don&#x27;t. If we routinely don&#x27;t trust colour pictures in newspapers, why should we trust historic photographs?<p>We&#x27;ve reached a point in time when we can start actually faking history. The only way to check if something happened now would be to find original copies of old photographs and books. But it&#x27;s only matter of time before they&#x27;ll be gone forever, or stuck deep in museum vaults, to be accessed by selected few. We could rewrite the history for next generation and no one would likely notice it.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>yoha</author><text>&gt; isn&#x27;t it easier to fake black&amp;white photos<p>Stalin did use black and white photo montages. Check out the Wikipedia article [1].<p>&gt; The only way to check if something happened now would be to find original copies<p>For now. Consider fine-grained 3D printing in the future.<p>&gt; We could rewrite the history for next generation and no one would likely notice it.<p>It is actually a fairly practical problem in medium-term future. The only plausible solution seems to have resilient duplicated information on trusted peers. But with time, even trust rusts.<p>[1] <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photo_manipulation" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Photo_manipulation</a></text></comment> |
20,843,138 | 20,842,434 | 1 | 2 | 20,841,896 | train | <story><title>The physical Apple Card is a case of form over function</title><url>https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2019/physical-apple-card-case-form-over-function</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>cageface</author><text>On another note my experience with customer service on the Apple card is absolutely abysmal. My card was locked on Monday probably because I&#x27;m traveling in Europe and that flagged some fraud detection algorithm. With any of my other cards I could resolve this in minutes with a quick SMS or at worst a phone call. Instead I&#x27;m <i>still</i> waiting for a call back from a representative that was promised to come no later than Wednesday.<p>I guess I&#x27;ll add this to the growing list of recent Apple products that look nice but are overdesigned and under engineered and functionally inferior to the competition.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>masto</author><text>Oh god yes. I got mine a couple of weeks ago and almost immediately experienced the worst customer service ever from a bank (and that’s saying something). I was considered documenting my story and sending to The Verge or something, because they’d eat this up on launch day, but ultimately my laziness and lack of free time prevailed.<p>The short version is that it was similar to yours. Half my transactions were declined for suspected fraud. Most of the time I was able to approve them and retry, but when I booked a non refundable hotel stay in Europe and then had it cancelled on me a couple of days later, the serious downward spiral started. Their chat support was completely incompetent and after literally promising me (I have it in writing, the only good thing about chat support) that I would have no more problems with the card, the next day it was deactivated. Nobody I dealt with ever seemed to understand the concept of fixing a problem, they just kept repeating vague statements about protecting me, without ever addressing my desire to use my card to pay for things, which seemed like the whole point when I signed up for it.<p>I’ve since given up on it for anything other than buying slurpees at the convenience store.</text></comment> | <story><title>The physical Apple Card is a case of form over function</title><url>https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2019/physical-apple-card-case-form-over-function</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>cageface</author><text>On another note my experience with customer service on the Apple card is absolutely abysmal. My card was locked on Monday probably because I&#x27;m traveling in Europe and that flagged some fraud detection algorithm. With any of my other cards I could resolve this in minutes with a quick SMS or at worst a phone call. Instead I&#x27;m <i>still</i> waiting for a call back from a representative that was promised to come no later than Wednesday.<p>I guess I&#x27;ll add this to the growing list of recent Apple products that look nice but are overdesigned and under engineered and functionally inferior to the competition.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ksaj</author><text>&gt; overdesigned<p>Underdesigned in this case. When thinking in terms of &quot;designed to fail&quot; this is seriously egregious. Having the most expensive phone with every useless widget you can throw in is one thing, but being forced to show off a shiny but pathetically impossible to maintain product because it would simply break if handled normally is really stretching it to the limits.<p>This is an example of X-Megacorp making a shitty product and then blaming the consumer for not being willing or able to keep it as a status symbol.<p>That&#x27;s why we have so many &quot;awesome&quot; phones out there with cracked up screens. Look around and you can&#x27;t miss them. Shit products at a premium, when the &quot;lesser&quot; models are clearly better.</text></comment> |
10,126,006 | 10,124,722 | 1 | 2 | 10,122,691 | train | <story><title>Network handover in Google Fi</title><url>http://nicholasarmstrong.com/2015/08/network-handover-google-fi/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>KirinDave</author><text>&quot;but that doesn’t change the fact that Google has produced a service that works, is easy to use, switches quickly between networks,&quot;<p>I&#x27;ve had what can only be described as a hellish experience with Google&#x27;s Fi service since I got it. My bugs include but are not limited to:<p>- SIM cards randomly not being associate with both networks, the fix for which is clearing the Fi app data, restarting the phone, and then re-running the app. With wifi, which is tricky when your car breaks down on highway 1.<p>- Interment and VERY poor data performance, but no interruption in voice service.<p>- Data service working fine, but all incoming and outgoing calls failing.<p>In the support category, Project Fi has also been a nightmare. None of the support staff know what to do when you encounter a problem. They don&#x27;t know why my account (or my friend&#x27;s account) are broken. They&#x27;ve suggested (just to me) and had me do the following things:<p>- Reboot the phone.<p>- Reseat the sim card while the phone is on.<p>- Factory reset the phone<p>- Factory reset the phone again without the sim card in.<p>- Buy a new SIM card. They gave me free shipping, at least?<p>- Flash the phone to a version of Shamu that is not compatible with other carriers.<p>- Remove all other user accounts from the phone.<p>I&#x27;ve been repeatedly asking to cancel my service and get my number ported back to google voice, and I&#x27;ve actually had service reps ignore me claiming they want to explain &quot;[their] side of the story.&quot; I have a chat transcript explaining that.<p>And of course, let&#x27;s not forget the weird callback system bugs. Like last night 4 hours after I scheduled a call they called me 2 times at 1am, and when I asked them not to call me I was told, &quot;If you don&#x27;t want us calling then don&#x27;t schedule a service call!&quot; When I said I didn&#x27;t, they said, &quot;Well that&#x27;s odd because I see it right here&quot; then hung up on me.<p>I still have not successfully cancelled my Fi service. The web form version 500s.<p>I do not think it is very easy to use, or ready. It seems pretty terrible to me.</text></comment> | <story><title>Network handover in Google Fi</title><url>http://nicholasarmstrong.com/2015/08/network-handover-google-fi/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jewel</author><text>When Fi was announced they mentioned that public wifi traffic would go through a VPN to google&#x27;s datacenters. At the time I assumed that they&#x27;d just run ALL traffic through the VPN, since that&#x27;d make for some very seamless switching. As bad as that would be from a privacy perspective, I trust Google more than T-Mobile or Sprint.<p>By running everything through the VPN, you&#x27;d be able to have TCP connections that didn&#x27;t break when the network switched, since your device&#x27;s public IP address would be in a datacenter somewhere.<p>Also with a VPN you&#x27;d be able to send voice traffic over both a carrier connection and the wifi connection at the same time to avoid dropouts.<p>There is something similar called Multi-path TCP (MPTCP) which uses latency to decide which TCP path to send traffic over.</text></comment> |
27,366,171 | 27,363,572 | 1 | 2 | 27,357,592 | train | <story><title>America has a drinking problem</title><url>https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2021/07/america-drinking-alone-problem/619017/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Sophistifunk</author><text>People have the cause and effect backwards in my opinion. You know why &quot;binge drinking&quot; isn&#x27;t a problem in Germany, except for when the Australians turn up for Oktoberfest? It&#x27;s because you can just buy a beer on the side of the road with your currywurst, and drink it without being hassled. If you act up, you get arrested for acting up. Try openly having a few beers in the park in Australia or the US, you&#x27;ll be run out by the constabulary, or at the least they&#x27;ll make you empty it in the trash. When you treat people like naughty children and bake into your culture the idea that drinking is itself an anti-social behaviour that always leads to fighting and dickheaddery, then that&#x27;s how they act.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>hutzlibu</author><text>Binge drinking is a problem in germany.<p>You can allmost call it youth culture, most kids go through, before becoming adults. In my late teenage years, it was common and expected on parties to drink, until you have fun, who can drink the most (and puke afterwards), etc.<p>Most people, like myself, had enough of this after some time and matured - but I know too many people, where the booze and beer stayed with them.</text></comment> | <story><title>America has a drinking problem</title><url>https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2021/07/america-drinking-alone-problem/619017/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Sophistifunk</author><text>People have the cause and effect backwards in my opinion. You know why &quot;binge drinking&quot; isn&#x27;t a problem in Germany, except for when the Australians turn up for Oktoberfest? It&#x27;s because you can just buy a beer on the side of the road with your currywurst, and drink it without being hassled. If you act up, you get arrested for acting up. Try openly having a few beers in the park in Australia or the US, you&#x27;ll be run out by the constabulary, or at the least they&#x27;ll make you empty it in the trash. When you treat people like naughty children and bake into your culture the idea that drinking is itself an anti-social behaviour that always leads to fighting and dickheaddery, then that&#x27;s how they act.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>plandis</author><text>I regularly go out and have picnics with my wife and have never once been harassed about sharing a bottle of wine with our meal. My family goes camping over Memorial Day weekend to state parks all over Ohio and it’s pretty common to have alcoholic drinks but, as long as you’re not bothering anyone, nobody cares. We’ve been doing this for as long as I’ve been alive and not once has anyone cared in 30+ years.<p>The US has open container laws but they primarily exist for a pretense to arrest people for being disorderly, in my experience.<p>Edit: The person I’m responding to isn’t even in the US how is what they are saying more valid then my actual life experiences in the US?</text></comment> |
9,462,348 | 9,462,305 | 1 | 2 | 9,460,628 | train | <story><title>Want a Steady Income? There’s an App for That</title><url>http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/03/magazine/want-a-steady-income-theres-an-app-for-that.html?emc=edit_tnt_20150429&nlid=66702700&tntemail0=y&_r=0</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>grecy</author><text>&gt; <i>Thinking about money gives her a jolt, “like you’re about to get into a car accident,” she later told me. There’s the $3,700 for massage-school tuition that she still owes on her credit card; the $60 a month for drugs for her anxiety and bipolar disorder, which she might skimp on again</i><p>Sentences like that make me sad about the reality of life for tens of millions of working Americans.<p>I just visited Australia after 9 years in North America, and it&#x27;s like a slap in the face to realize there are no desperate people there. Almost everybody has enough money for basic essentials, and nobody is crushed with student debt or the fear of not being able to pay medical bills.<p>It really does feel like another planet when people earning &quot;minimum wage&quot; are doing just fine, are extremely happy, and likely less stressed than the career workers in North America, simply because they earn &quot;enough to live comfortably&quot;</text></comment> | <story><title>Want a Steady Income? There’s an App for That</title><url>http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/03/magazine/want-a-steady-income-theres-an-app-for-that.html?emc=edit_tnt_20150429&nlid=66702700&tntemail0=y&_r=0</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>aresant</author><text>Something that surprised me when I first started hiring employees was how hard it was for people to manage their cash flow, especially at the more limited levels.<p>We started with a once-a-month paycheck, which my co-founder and I were used to and saved some payroll fees.<p>This subsequently blew up in our face within a few months as people would spend heavy @ the front end of the month, wouldn&#x27;t save for things like car repairs &#x2F; gas &#x2F; etc, and were out at the end of the month funding living with CCs.<p>So I applaud this effort for a start-up - I&#x27;m excited to see where they take it.</text></comment> |
9,955,912 | 9,955,863 | 1 | 2 | 9,955,553 | train | <story><title>Show HN: Intro to Machine Learning in Interactive D3.js Visualizations</title><url>http://www.r2d3.us/visual-intro-to-machine-learning-part-1/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>brandonb</author><text>That&#x27;s an incredibly good visualization! Both beautiful and clear. Next time I&#x27;m explaining machine learning to somebody who&#x27;s smart but not a computer scientist or statistician, this is where I&#x27;ll start.<p>Do you think a future tutorial could demystify deep learning and neural networks? Many people are confused by the backpropgation algorithm, but the way it works is simple and intuitive if you can get beyond the mathematical notation. The way that errors propagate backwards through the neural network is not all that dissimilar from the data flow in your &quot;Growing a tree&quot; section.<p>Andrej Karpathy has a great library that trains neural networks directly in the browser:
cs.stanford.edu&#x2F;people&#x2F;karpathy&#x2F;convnetjs&#x2F;</text></comment> | <story><title>Show HN: Intro to Machine Learning in Interactive D3.js Visualizations</title><url>http://www.r2d3.us/visual-intro-to-machine-learning-part-1/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>therobot24</author><text>really nice visual, it&#x27;d be cool to see similar illustrations for areas of ML that do more than just separate classes based on a set of features, rather work with your data in more interesting ways (e.g., CNNs learning features, semi-supervised methods for training with unlabelled data, and subspace techniques like CCA that work on a projected version of your data).</text></comment> |
15,181,028 | 15,180,764 | 1 | 2 | 15,180,193 | train | <story><title>Physical recovery from binge TV-watching gets harder as we get older</title><url>http://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2017/09/04/547580952/get-off-the-couch-baby-boomers-or-you-may-not-be-able-to-later</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>raamdev</author><text>I work remotely 80-90 hours a week using my laptop (this is important: your screen needs to be mobile). Here&#x27;s how I currently try to keep my body moving:<p>- I don&#x27;t have a desk or chair. I have a bar table and a stool. This makes a huge difference. I get uncomfortable sitting on the stool after about 30 minutes, so I get off. Then I&#x27;ll stand at the bar table and work for an hour or two. When I get tired of that, I&#x27;ll spend a minute or two doing a physical activity (see below).<p>- I try to work from different physical places, e.g., cafes, different places in the house when nobody is home, the steps outside, the floor, the hammock hanging by the lake. I make it a game to come up with new and novel places to work from that don&#x27;t require a lot of travel time (unless I&#x27;m walking—then it&#x27;s well-spent travel time), anything to change the physical position of my body while working (and hopefully something that gets uncomfortable within an hour so I&#x27;m pushed to change again).<p>- I have a sandbag next to the bar table that I&#x27;ll pick up at random times throughout the day and do squats, deadlifts, bent-over rows, or just carry the 60lb thing up the stairs or out around the yard once. I&#x27;ll also use it as a weight to hold my feet while I do sit-ups. I have a pull-up bar hanging between two trees outside.<p>- I don&#x27;t watch TV. In fact, I try to avoid anything that involves the sitting position. If I have to sit, I prefer the floor, or if I&#x27;m watching a movie or reading a book, I prefer laying down. If it&#x27;s something for a few minutes and I can stand, I&#x27;ll stand.<p>I&#x27;ve been doing this for about a year now and it&#x27;s the best I&#x27;ve ever felt while working this much. What I&#x27;d like to start mixing in are some runs or long walks, but right now it&#x27;s a choice between those or getting sufficient sleep. I prioritize sleep.</text></comment> | <story><title>Physical recovery from binge TV-watching gets harder as we get older</title><url>http://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2017/09/04/547580952/get-off-the-couch-baby-boomers-or-you-may-not-be-able-to-later</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>mewse</author><text>Though the headline does not say so, I presume that this &#x27;toll&#x27; is only contributed to by the prolonged sitting; the &quot;binge TV-viewing&quot; presumably is only harmful to &quot;ability to walk&quot; inasmuch as it is correlated with an increased amount of prolonged sitting.<p>One assumes that binge tv-viewing would take no toll on ability to walk (or even be beneficial to it) if one was walking on a treadmill whilst watching television?</text></comment> |
4,006,277 | 4,006,294 | 1 | 2 | 4,006,017 | train | <story><title>Bootstrapped GitHub Now Raising a Round from Andreessen Horowitz</title><url>http://pandodaily.com/2012/05/21/bootstrapped-github-now-raising-a-round-from-andreessen-horowitz/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>SeoxyS</author><text>Two questions:<p>- How is GitHub worth less than Pintrest?<p>- What could GitHub possibly gain from raising money? It's clearly not about money. Is this a liquidity event? Couldn't they just issue a dividend for that, they've clearly got plenty of cash… Or is this about the credibility of having a valuation. In that case, couldn't they have gone public? Amazon went public at a sub-$500M valuation, and look at them now!<p>Edit: come to think of it, I can see the possibility of wanting to acquire other companies, and not currently having the capital to do so. That's about it.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dlokshin</author><text>I remember reading an interview with Pierre Omidyar (founder of Ebay) raised $5M from Benchmark, opened a separate bank account, and placed the $5M in there, untouched to this day because eBay was profitable from the very beginning.<p>He raised the money from Benchmark because he needed help recruiting executives to help run and expand the company. His recruitment efforts before that had been largely unsuccessful, and he openly admitted that no one took him seriously before he raised money.<p>Yes, the internet was a new and unproven phenomenon at the time, but there are other reasons to hitch up with a VC other than money.</text></comment> | <story><title>Bootstrapped GitHub Now Raising a Round from Andreessen Horowitz</title><url>http://pandodaily.com/2012/05/21/bootstrapped-github-now-raising-a-round-from-andreessen-horowitz/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>SeoxyS</author><text>Two questions:<p>- How is GitHub worth less than Pintrest?<p>- What could GitHub possibly gain from raising money? It's clearly not about money. Is this a liquidity event? Couldn't they just issue a dividend for that, they've clearly got plenty of cash… Or is this about the credibility of having a valuation. In that case, couldn't they have gone public? Amazon went public at a sub-$500M valuation, and look at them now!<p>Edit: come to think of it, I can see the possibility of wanting to acquire other companies, and not currently having the capital to do so. That's about it.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>fusiongyro</author><text>&#62; How is GitHub worth less than Pinterest?<p>I'll speculate.<p>Github's fighting a losing game. They are trying to charge for something they are also giving away for free, and their target market is people who are uniquely qualified to replace them. There are plenty of quality Github alternatives around right now. To stay on top they have to continue to be at the forefront development-wise and they have to continue to have the majority of developer attention to reap the network effects. It's precarious.<p>Compare to Pinterest. They make money, ostensibly, from every product someone pins. People pin lots of products, and the people doing the pinning and the browsing have higher conversion rates than people browsing Google or other sites looking for things to spend money on. Pinterest is also a brand; it will be hard to get everyone using Pinterest to switch just because a better version exists somewhere else. People can collaborate with Git without using Github; the only tangible loss is the pull request feature.<p>It takes Pinterest less work to convert a byte of bandwidth into profit. Not only do they need less development effort moving forward, they also stand better odds of making money on some random user.</text></comment> |
12,785,467 | 12,779,338 | 1 | 3 | 12,775,983 | train | <story><title>The Remote Freelancer: A list of remote work alternatives to Upwork</title><url>https://github.com/engineerapart/TheRemoteFreelancer</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>stavros</author><text>I had a pretty negative experience with TopTal, where the first interview&#x2F;screening thing involved me solving programming puzzles on some sort of code editor. After spending an hour on a puzzle whose solution turned out to pretty much be &quot;return len(A) - A.count(X)&quot;, I gave up in frustration.<p>One of the site&#x27;s founders emailed me later to tell me that he knew that those questions didn&#x27;t actually really test programming skills, and that they were trying to improve, but the damage was already done.</text></item><item><author>rossriley</author><text>Thanks for the list, there&#x27;s a couple I hadn&#x27;t come across before.<p>Domino and TopTal look like they may be more suitable for more experienced developers.<p>What is everyone else&#x27;s experience for finding work at the higher end of the market ($600 - $900 &#x2F; day)? From my experience I know the demand is out there but currently all of my work comes via traditional recruitment agencies which seems a shame for the companies doing the hiring, since agencies charge fairly big fees.<p>I have in the past tried eLance, Upwork, People Per Hour, and they all seem to end up overrun with low-end work and low-end clients and whilst there may be some gems in there it ends up not being worth your time to sift through &#x2F; send propsals because 95% of clients will choke if you mention your hourly rate.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>eloff</author><text>I passed their tests, spent 50 unpaid hours on a coding assignment, for which I learned react native (not a requirement) and got passed over because their requirements were poorly worded and I didn&#x27;t ask for clarification (it&#x27;s a coding assignment, why shouldn&#x27;t I assume they can at least spell out their own requirements well.)<p>They&#x27;ll give me another shot at it, but honestly it&#x27;s not worth the effort. I discovered from the engineer that the average asking rate for the other 70+ developers in Canada is $45&#x2F;hour. I&#x27;m not going to work for that - as a &quot;top 3%&quot; developer it&#x27;s so much easier to make $65+&#x2F;hour full-time, remotely. Why would I settle for sporadic work and lots of risk for less money? Do yourself a favor and steer clear of those guys if you know what&#x27;s good for you.</text></comment> | <story><title>The Remote Freelancer: A list of remote work alternatives to Upwork</title><url>https://github.com/engineerapart/TheRemoteFreelancer</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>stavros</author><text>I had a pretty negative experience with TopTal, where the first interview&#x2F;screening thing involved me solving programming puzzles on some sort of code editor. After spending an hour on a puzzle whose solution turned out to pretty much be &quot;return len(A) - A.count(X)&quot;, I gave up in frustration.<p>One of the site&#x27;s founders emailed me later to tell me that he knew that those questions didn&#x27;t actually really test programming skills, and that they were trying to improve, but the damage was already done.</text></item><item><author>rossriley</author><text>Thanks for the list, there&#x27;s a couple I hadn&#x27;t come across before.<p>Domino and TopTal look like they may be more suitable for more experienced developers.<p>What is everyone else&#x27;s experience for finding work at the higher end of the market ($600 - $900 &#x2F; day)? From my experience I know the demand is out there but currently all of my work comes via traditional recruitment agencies which seems a shame for the companies doing the hiring, since agencies charge fairly big fees.<p>I have in the past tried eLance, Upwork, People Per Hour, and they all seem to end up overrun with low-end work and low-end clients and whilst there may be some gems in there it ends up not being worth your time to sift through &#x2F; send propsals because 95% of clients will choke if you mention your hourly rate.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>hyperknot</author><text>Exactly the same reason why I&#x27;m not applying for TopTal. I started their tests and realised what it is about is the opposite of what I consider to be good programming and problem solving skills.</text></comment> |
22,080,095 | 22,079,885 | 1 | 3 | 22,079,174 | train | <story><title>PopSockets CEO calls out Amazon's tactics before House committee</title><url>https://mashable.com/article/amazon-bullying-tactics-popsockets-hearing/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>birdyrooster</author><text>As a wrinkle to this conversation, Amazons product and treatment of customers&#x2F;vendors causes even more harm to the environment. People buy more things that they are unsatisfied with than ever before. There are more returns than ever before. There are likely millions more frivolous purchases and many thousands of tons of cardboard and non-recyclable plastics generated each year thanks to Amazon Prime.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>blakesterz</author><text>&quot;treatment of customers&quot;<p>I know I&#x27;m an N of 1 but speaking purely as a customer Amazon has been nothing but awesome. And I know that&#x27;s probably seen by many as maybe selfish and wrong, and I get that argument totally. But I can the stuff I want* pretty darn fast and pretty darn cheap and if it&#x27;s not what I want it&#x27;s easy to send back. I understand that might be short sighted with all the drawbacks, but I still keep ordering. The pluses outweigh the minuses. Am I being selfish?<p>* Not the stuff I need, but the stuff I want. I think that&#x27;s an important point.I guess I go to Wegmans for the stuff I need.</text></comment> | <story><title>PopSockets CEO calls out Amazon's tactics before House committee</title><url>https://mashable.com/article/amazon-bullying-tactics-popsockets-hearing/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>birdyrooster</author><text>As a wrinkle to this conversation, Amazons product and treatment of customers&#x2F;vendors causes even more harm to the environment. People buy more things that they are unsatisfied with than ever before. There are more returns than ever before. There are likely millions more frivolous purchases and many thousands of tons of cardboard and non-recyclable plastics generated each year thanks to Amazon Prime.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>gdulli</author><text>They&#x27;ve done everything possible to engineer impulse buying into e-commerce. At a high level, conflating excess with &quot;convenience&quot; is not a good thing for the environment, or for anyone but them.<p>I don&#x27;t have Prime or use one-click and for me making an online order still involves the mindset of asking myself, do I really need this?<p>Avoiding Amazon also saved me money on my last purchase because I picked something up for $4.80 from Michaels on the way home from work when Amazon&#x27;s price was $8.50.</text></comment> |
20,907,950 | 20,905,195 | 1 | 2 | 20,902,948 | train | <story><title>From FOMO to JOMO: the joy of missing out</title><url>https://nesslabs.com/jomo</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>bigred100</author><text>I believe it’s easy to be cured of this disease by realizing what you want in life and realizing your limitations.<p>I care (like probably most other people) about having a reasonably good career, being reasonably financial stable, taking reasonably care of my health, my spiritual life, working on self-education and becoming more informed over time, practicing a small number of hobbies, socializing some, cleaning my house, and contributing some to the communities I find myself in. I’m not in a relationship but that would be very important if I were.<p>If something doesn’t fall into those, I don’t really care. I’m sure I’ll miss new and improved ways to do those marginally better, but I don’t really care. I basically go out of my way to avoid things that don’t contribute to those unless it’s socially essential (going out with friends or something).<p>Now there are still infinite variations and ways those all relate to each other and pitfalls to avoid. Watching news tv or reading it on the Internet has many cons. Not keeping has its own (out of touch, susceptible to believe nonsense, etc.). So I get a print newspaper and read it sometimes. Reading insane stuff on the internet may make you spend a lot of time incorrectly doing things that you think will help your health. So don’t do that. Etc (maybe some of its useful but certainly a lot isn’t)<p>Also have some humility (easier said than done). People are just going to be smarter and more successful than me and if I’m successful I’ll certainly meet them. No secret or new technique or extreme work routine will make something impossible happen to overcome that.</text></comment> | <story><title>From FOMO to JOMO: the joy of missing out</title><url>https://nesslabs.com/jomo</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>hanoz</author><text>I thought this was going to be about the warm glow you get when you realise that the hot new framework&#x2F;library&#x2F;methodology you haven&#x27;t got round to investigating yet, is already on the way out.</text></comment> |
26,592,425 | 26,592,339 | 1 | 2 | 26,591,570 | train | <story><title>Equivalent of 97% of Scotland’s 2020 electricity consumption was from renewables</title><url>https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-56530424</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>wcoenen</author><text>It might work, but it&#x27;s not necessarily going to be very profitable. The equipment that sits around waiting for low or negative electricity prices represents locked up capital, and ongoing maintenance and depreciation costs.<p>For the same reason, it&#x27;s not a good idea to have bitcoin mining equipment sitting around waiting for cheap electricity. The hardware becomes obsolete very quickly, so there&#x27;s only limited time to earn back the investment.</text></item><item><author>pydry</author><text>&gt;There is an increasing crisis in the UK of negative electricity prices<p>It seems like an opportunity more than a crisis to me.<p>There are tons of potential applications for &quot;free&quot; electricity.<p>* Storage heating&#x2F;cooling that&#x27;s basically free<p>* Manufacturing carbon neutral jet fuel<p>* Cheaper aluminium production<p>It could also lead to onshoring of certain industries which previously moved to locales with access to cheap electricity. This would make supply chains more robust.<p>Some people are gonna get rich off this - partly <i>because</i> more people view it as a threat than an opportunity.</text></item><item><author>martinald</author><text>Really misleading article IMO.<p>What this actually means is Scotland sometimes generated 200-300%+ of its demand from wind (and &quot;exported&quot; the rest), and sometimes low %age points and used other sources&#x2F;imports. It makes it sound like Scotland is wind powered 97% of the time (only 3% more to go!), which is very different.<p>There is an increasing crisis in the UK of negative electricity prices (typically when it is sunny, windy and lower demand in the summer). Last year had more time than ever in negative, and the UK has another 10-20GW of commited offshore wind in construction.<p>Once this comes online, wind generation will often be over 100% of demand UK wide (right now it peaks over 50% regularly). There is approx 5GW of HVDC (with 1-2&#x2F;GW a year more planned over the next while), but it won&#x27;t be enough to export all of it outside the UK (and when it is windy here, it is likely to also be there, so they won&#x27;t want it either).<p>This is going to end up with very negative prices for a lot of the time. Considering ~15% of UK supply is made up with nuclear, this is a real problem. You can&#x27;t stop start nuclear like you can with gas.<p>So we are going to have to pay massive sums of money to wind producers to shut off production. And we are still going need masses of gas backup which is going to be used increasingly inefficiently to pick up the slack.<p>This may spur innovation in storage, but we are talking enormous quantities required in a very short period of time.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bluGill</author><text>That depends on how often you can use the equipment. The company I work with pours cast iron in one factory - if you get a job there you work the overnight shift because that is when power is cheap. Since energy is the main cost of melting iron (it takes a lot of energy to get to get over 1100c) we are willing to let the equipment be idle and pay the workers extra to work a shift that doesn&#x27;t work with the rest of the world.<p>Planned maintenance in that factory is worked with the power company. I&#x27;m not sure if that means they are also doing maintenance on some power plant, or if that means during Christmas lights season.<p>If you can predict high wind times a week in advance I&#x27;ll work my energy hungry production around your cheap energy prices. The only thing I need is some sort of guarantee that those times will happen &quot;often enough&quot;. I can pay employees to work 60 hour weeks some months, and other months get paid vacation, so long as over a full year I get reasonable use of my factory and there is some prediction.</text></comment> | <story><title>Equivalent of 97% of Scotland’s 2020 electricity consumption was from renewables</title><url>https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-56530424</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>wcoenen</author><text>It might work, but it&#x27;s not necessarily going to be very profitable. The equipment that sits around waiting for low or negative electricity prices represents locked up capital, and ongoing maintenance and depreciation costs.<p>For the same reason, it&#x27;s not a good idea to have bitcoin mining equipment sitting around waiting for cheap electricity. The hardware becomes obsolete very quickly, so there&#x27;s only limited time to earn back the investment.</text></item><item><author>pydry</author><text>&gt;There is an increasing crisis in the UK of negative electricity prices<p>It seems like an opportunity more than a crisis to me.<p>There are tons of potential applications for &quot;free&quot; electricity.<p>* Storage heating&#x2F;cooling that&#x27;s basically free<p>* Manufacturing carbon neutral jet fuel<p>* Cheaper aluminium production<p>It could also lead to onshoring of certain industries which previously moved to locales with access to cheap electricity. This would make supply chains more robust.<p>Some people are gonna get rich off this - partly <i>because</i> more people view it as a threat than an opportunity.</text></item><item><author>martinald</author><text>Really misleading article IMO.<p>What this actually means is Scotland sometimes generated 200-300%+ of its demand from wind (and &quot;exported&quot; the rest), and sometimes low %age points and used other sources&#x2F;imports. It makes it sound like Scotland is wind powered 97% of the time (only 3% more to go!), which is very different.<p>There is an increasing crisis in the UK of negative electricity prices (typically when it is sunny, windy and lower demand in the summer). Last year had more time than ever in negative, and the UK has another 10-20GW of commited offshore wind in construction.<p>Once this comes online, wind generation will often be over 100% of demand UK wide (right now it peaks over 50% regularly). There is approx 5GW of HVDC (with 1-2&#x2F;GW a year more planned over the next while), but it won&#x27;t be enough to export all of it outside the UK (and when it is windy here, it is likely to also be there, so they won&#x27;t want it either).<p>This is going to end up with very negative prices for a lot of the time. Considering ~15% of UK supply is made up with nuclear, this is a real problem. You can&#x27;t stop start nuclear like you can with gas.<p>So we are going to have to pay massive sums of money to wind producers to shut off production. And we are still going need masses of gas backup which is going to be used increasingly inefficiently to pick up the slack.<p>This may spur innovation in storage, but we are talking enormous quantities required in a very short period of time.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pydry</author><text>I forsee periods of negative&#x2F;cheap&#x2F;free electricity becoming much more common. If your equipment is not used on average two days a week, the economics start to look a LOT more sensible even for more capital intensive, energy intensive applications.<p>At the moment pretty much every MWh generated is a substituted MWh not generated by gas and periods of negative pricing are still relatively rare.<p>Wind is so cheap though, that at some point, overproduction will become the norm rather than exceptional and being able to timeshift your usage could, unexpectedly, end up saving you more money than reducing your usage.<p>The counterintuitiveness of this and the fact that this is new territory is why I think that there&#x27;s lots of profit potential.</text></comment> |
29,575,041 | 29,574,825 | 1 | 3 | 29,574,027 | train | <story><title>Tell HN: Azure is having a major outage</title><text>One hour into it, no status page update. Looks like Active Directory is down.<p>I guess they felt left out with all the AWS issues lately?</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>jrs235</author><text>How soon until &quot;the cloud&quot; and centralized services &quot;vaporize&quot; and on-premise becomes all the rage?<p>The cycle will continue. What was old will become new again.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>paradite</author><text>One of my favourite quotes is from &quot;Romance of the Three Kingdoms&quot;. It notes an observation that I find generally applicable to many things in life:
&quot;Those long divided shall be united;
those long united shall be divided:
such is the way of the universe.&quot;<p>Original quote in Chinese: ＂话说天下大势，分久必合，合久必分。＂</text></comment> | <story><title>Tell HN: Azure is having a major outage</title><text>One hour into it, no status page update. Looks like Active Directory is down.<p>I guess they felt left out with all the AWS issues lately?</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>jrs235</author><text>How soon until &quot;the cloud&quot; and centralized services &quot;vaporize&quot; and on-premise becomes all the rage?<p>The cycle will continue. What was old will become new again.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>stevejb</author><text>Same as when horse and buggies will come back in response to a disruption of the gasoline supply chain.</text></comment> |
17,510,962 | 17,510,980 | 1 | 2 | 17,509,296 | train | <story><title>Bringing Blogging to the Fediverse</title><url>https://write.as/matt/bringing-blogging-to-the-fediverse</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>chriswarbo</author><text>I&#x27;d really like to see distributed comments across self-hosted sites and blogs, but I haven&#x27;t come across a decent way to prevent spam.<p>I used to embed Disqus in my site, but wasn&#x27;t really happy with its centralised nature (plus it was <i>far</i> slower and bloated than anything else I had; generally a few KB of static HTML with &quot;motherfucking-website&quot; aesthetics).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>KajMagnus</author><text>Does that mean you didn&#x27;t find Disqus to be spammy? Maybe varies from blog to blog? I&#x27;ve seen blogs with maybe 20 Disqus spam comments and 2 real comments, ... I flagged the spammy ones (which were like: &quot;Love this blog post, it helped me so much. Btw here&#x27;s my site: ...&quot; — i.e. copy-paste generic <i>Thanks</i> + a spam link), nothing happened (Disqus didn&#x27;t delete them). And the spammers have many accounts and have upvoted their comments, so spam comments were the topmost ones.</text></comment> | <story><title>Bringing Blogging to the Fediverse</title><url>https://write.as/matt/bringing-blogging-to-the-fediverse</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>chriswarbo</author><text>I&#x27;d really like to see distributed comments across self-hosted sites and blogs, but I haven&#x27;t come across a decent way to prevent spam.<p>I used to embed Disqus in my site, but wasn&#x27;t really happy with its centralised nature (plus it was <i>far</i> slower and bloated than anything else I had; generally a few KB of static HTML with &quot;motherfucking-website&quot; aesthetics).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>harlanji</author><text>I&#x27;ve been messing with RSS again... almost a decade ago I implemented activitystrea.ms while it was still RSS based (now JSON) (still on my GitHub).<p>I like the idea of clients subscribing to feeds, and syndicating comments with parent URIs, into an aggregated view; and there being discovery services, all convention, like XMPP. This is all very 1998 like LiveJournal.</text></comment> |
12,925,607 | 12,925,596 | 1 | 2 | 12,925,177 | train | <story><title>Vancouver plans to tax empty properties 1% of their assessed value</title><url>http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-11-09/vancouver-wields-c-10-000-a-day-fine-in-crackdown-on-empty-homes</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>reneherse</author><text>Shameless plug, for my just-released &quot;fake home occupancy as a service&quot;, where my family and I charge you only 0.5% of the property value to satisfy the government&#x27;s occupancy requirements. Contact info in my profile.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>fdgdasfadsf</author><text>Letting someone have possession of property (yes tenants have possession) like this can be a dangerous thing to do in some jurisdictions - they can quickly gain rights to live there and you lose the rights to evict (or increase the rent - which could be a problem if they are charging you to live there!). Far more likely is that people start renting the empty property out+ - which will increase the supply in the rental market and help the housing costs... I.e. the intended effect.<p>EDITED
+ (with proper tenancy agreements which usually provide some balance of power between owner and tenant)</text></comment> | <story><title>Vancouver plans to tax empty properties 1% of their assessed value</title><url>http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-11-09/vancouver-wields-c-10-000-a-day-fine-in-crackdown-on-empty-homes</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>reneherse</author><text>Shameless plug, for my just-released &quot;fake home occupancy as a service&quot;, where my family and I charge you only 0.5% of the property value to satisfy the government&#x27;s occupancy requirements. Contact info in my profile.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>greenshackle2</author><text>I wouldn&#x27;t trust reneherse&#x27;s service. My competing service, &quot;actual home occupancy as a service&quot;, is bulletproof; we guarantee that we will occupy your house full time.</text></comment> |
15,926,868 | 15,926,774 | 1 | 2 | 15,924,794 | train | <story><title>F.C.C. Repeals Net Neutrality Rules</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/14/technology/net-neutrality-repeal-vote.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>maxsilver</author><text>&gt; As a private citizen, can I (snip) just lay a super long fiber cable straight to (the internet).<p>Yes. I worked on a startup ISP for a few years, which attempted to do this. It&#x27;s actually really easy to do :<p>1) Pick a point where you can get connection to the internet. (Backhaul). This is usually a phone companies central office, but it can also be at a data centre or other point of presence.<p>2) Run fiber cable from there to your customers. (You can also use wireless gear instead for a WISP. I don&#x27;t like this approach, it&#x27;s very 1990s despite all the newer better gear, but it&#x27;s much cheaper than fiber and if your careful it can work out OK)<p>3) Setup some light network management.<p>Some cities &#x2F; municipalities have signed agreements for monopoly rights to a telephone or cable provider. Many (but not all) of them can be worked around by simply not selling telephone or TV service.<p>The land between you and your customers is owned. You&#x27;ll need space in public property (or &#x27;right of way&#x27;) to connect to them. This also varies based on city&#x2F;county&#x2F;state&#x2F;local laws, but in Michigan there are somewhat decent rules around this. (Set rates for underground conduit access or utility pole access, rules about what can&#x2F;can&#x27;t be blocked, etc).<p>The only <i>real</i> roadblock is money. Fiber ISPs are super cheap at scale, but are effectively impossible to bootstrap unless you are already a millionaire. In Michigan, I could easily offer everyone residential 500mbps to the home via fiber for $50&#x2F;month and cover all costs, no problem. But only after we already had a few thousand customers. The cost for your <i>very first</i> customer is somewhere north of $50k&#x2F;each, and prices don&#x27;t become reasonable until your in the thousands.<p>In most areas, the only thing you really need to start an ISP is (1) Lots of money, and (2) perseverance. There&#x27;s not really any rules that prevent it, and the regulations aren&#x27;t unreasonable. But the upfront cost is so high, it rules out basically any honest person from having the chance to do it.</text></item><item><author>komali2</author><text>I&#x27;ve been thinking this over for the past couple months, because I was pretty sure this would be the outcome - that we would lose our net neutrality protection.<p>So let&#x27;s play out the worse case - Comcast, AT&amp;T etc wait out the shitstorm and then start throttling traffic and packaging the internet, releasing cable-esque &quot;plans.&quot;<p>Is it feasible to just start running our own fiber to hubs? I want to learn more about the internet and what it would take to bypass the ISPs. Can I do this? Do I need to be incorporated to do it? What would it take to start a new ISP with the premise &quot;unthrottled, unmonitored traffic, charged by the gigabyte - an internet utility service&quot;?<p>As a private citizen, can I purchase a bunch of land between me and, I dunno, a DNS node or whatever and just lay a super long fiber cable straight to it? Who do I have to pay at the node to get to &quot;plug into&quot; it or whatever?<p>Hmm. I should see if there&#x27;s some &quot;How the Internet Works: for Dummies&quot; book.</text></item><item><author>juris</author><text>This wouldn&#x27;t be a problem if ISP&#x27;s weren&#x27;t de facto monopolies. If there was competition in this space, then there would be incentive to improve the infrastructure and Internet speeds. However, ISP&#x27;s kill competition by making legal arrangements with local governments to only do business with them, and by cutting competitors&#x27; cables. Since we have no way to guarantee reasonable speeds to small time websites now, we should pursue antitrust legal and foster competition in this space. Comcast didn&#x27;t realize it, but net neutrality was their own safety net.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>equalunique</author><text>&quot;Some cities &#x2F; municipalities have signed agreements for monopoly rights to a telephone or cable provider. Many (but not all) of them can be worked around by simply not selling telephone or TV service.&quot;<p>Isn&#x27;t it ironic that the only way for a startup ISP to get around the local monopoly agreement is to not provide services which are regulated by the FCC?<p>Yet somehow, Google, Amazon, and Facebook have convinced most young people that FCC regulation of ISPs is a good idea.<p>The sad part is, the only thing between a mass of young voters and 1984-style internet is just 3 more years of Trump&#x2F;Pai, who most of them hate. Hopefully the FTC&#x27;s renewed authority over &quot;information service&quot; can be demonstrated for the virtue it is before it&#x27;s too late.</text></comment> | <story><title>F.C.C. Repeals Net Neutrality Rules</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/14/technology/net-neutrality-repeal-vote.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>maxsilver</author><text>&gt; As a private citizen, can I (snip) just lay a super long fiber cable straight to (the internet).<p>Yes. I worked on a startup ISP for a few years, which attempted to do this. It&#x27;s actually really easy to do :<p>1) Pick a point where you can get connection to the internet. (Backhaul). This is usually a phone companies central office, but it can also be at a data centre or other point of presence.<p>2) Run fiber cable from there to your customers. (You can also use wireless gear instead for a WISP. I don&#x27;t like this approach, it&#x27;s very 1990s despite all the newer better gear, but it&#x27;s much cheaper than fiber and if your careful it can work out OK)<p>3) Setup some light network management.<p>Some cities &#x2F; municipalities have signed agreements for monopoly rights to a telephone or cable provider. Many (but not all) of them can be worked around by simply not selling telephone or TV service.<p>The land between you and your customers is owned. You&#x27;ll need space in public property (or &#x27;right of way&#x27;) to connect to them. This also varies based on city&#x2F;county&#x2F;state&#x2F;local laws, but in Michigan there are somewhat decent rules around this. (Set rates for underground conduit access or utility pole access, rules about what can&#x2F;can&#x27;t be blocked, etc).<p>The only <i>real</i> roadblock is money. Fiber ISPs are super cheap at scale, but are effectively impossible to bootstrap unless you are already a millionaire. In Michigan, I could easily offer everyone residential 500mbps to the home via fiber for $50&#x2F;month and cover all costs, no problem. But only after we already had a few thousand customers. The cost for your <i>very first</i> customer is somewhere north of $50k&#x2F;each, and prices don&#x27;t become reasonable until your in the thousands.<p>In most areas, the only thing you really need to start an ISP is (1) Lots of money, and (2) perseverance. There&#x27;s not really any rules that prevent it, and the regulations aren&#x27;t unreasonable. But the upfront cost is so high, it rules out basically any honest person from having the chance to do it.</text></item><item><author>komali2</author><text>I&#x27;ve been thinking this over for the past couple months, because I was pretty sure this would be the outcome - that we would lose our net neutrality protection.<p>So let&#x27;s play out the worse case - Comcast, AT&amp;T etc wait out the shitstorm and then start throttling traffic and packaging the internet, releasing cable-esque &quot;plans.&quot;<p>Is it feasible to just start running our own fiber to hubs? I want to learn more about the internet and what it would take to bypass the ISPs. Can I do this? Do I need to be incorporated to do it? What would it take to start a new ISP with the premise &quot;unthrottled, unmonitored traffic, charged by the gigabyte - an internet utility service&quot;?<p>As a private citizen, can I purchase a bunch of land between me and, I dunno, a DNS node or whatever and just lay a super long fiber cable straight to it? Who do I have to pay at the node to get to &quot;plug into&quot; it or whatever?<p>Hmm. I should see if there&#x27;s some &quot;How the Internet Works: for Dummies&quot; book.</text></item><item><author>juris</author><text>This wouldn&#x27;t be a problem if ISP&#x27;s weren&#x27;t de facto monopolies. If there was competition in this space, then there would be incentive to improve the infrastructure and Internet speeds. However, ISP&#x27;s kill competition by making legal arrangements with local governments to only do business with them, and by cutting competitors&#x27; cables. Since we have no way to guarantee reasonable speeds to small time websites now, we should pursue antitrust legal and foster competition in this space. Comcast didn&#x27;t realize it, but net neutrality was their own safety net.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>onezerozeroone</author><text>Crowdsourceable? If you need a couple thousand users, would it be possible to run a marketing campaign, get pre-purchase commitments of $100-200, and give some rewards to early adopters? If you raise enough funding, you&#x27;re good, if not, just cancel the campaign.</text></comment> |
25,825,379 | 25,825,532 | 1 | 3 | 25,810,135 | train | <story><title>Jim Simons proved the textbooks wrong, almost</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2021-01-16/investing-legend-james-simons-s-record-won-t-be-beat</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>probe</author><text>I’ve found RenTech to be fascinating over the years and highly recommend the book on it “Man who solved the market”<p>Two big takeaways for his success -<p>1) He was pretty early, and quite contrarian, in betting on computer and quant strategies and thus took the “low hanging fruit” early on (def wasn’t low hanging back then when no one knew or believed in computer trades strategies)<p>2) From the book, Rentech’s main strategy was based on “reversion to the mean” - I.e “We make money from the reactions people have to price moves”. Trading on how you think OTHERS will trade and systemizing it (ex vol and momentum) is powerful but clearly doesn’t scale when you become the market yourself<p>And a bonus one - despite being a math genius, he basically was failing till he brought on others. He hired the right people (ie those interested in math not finance), created the right environment, took care of logistics, and pushed on a key insight (model to trade). He couldn’t have done it by himself.</text></comment> | <story><title>Jim Simons proved the textbooks wrong, almost</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2021-01-16/investing-legend-james-simons-s-record-won-t-be-beat</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>finnh</author><text>The non-compounding aspect is critical: you can think of the Medallion fund as a business that, with a capital base of (say) 5 billion dollars, produces an annual profit of 2 billion dollars ... but cannot grow, and so distributes all of that profit every year. Kind of like a very profitable but geographically-isolated monopoly, telco, etc.</text></comment> |
37,068,493 | 37,068,148 | 1 | 2 | 37,067,491 | train | <story><title>Java 21: What’s New?</title><url>https://www.loicmathieu.fr/wordpress/en/informatique/java-21-quoi-de-neuf/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jph</author><text>The matching syntax looks really good to me:<p><pre><code> &#x2F;&#x2F; Java 21
if (obj instanceof Point(int x, int y)) {
System.out.println(x+y);
}
&#x2F;&#x2F; Older Java
if (obj instanceof Point p) {
int x = p.x();
int y = p.y();
System.out.println(x+y);
}</code></pre></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>trealira</author><text>And that &quot;older Java&quot; example itself is an alternative (added in Java 16, from looking it up) to what existed before.<p><pre><code> if (obj instanceof Point) {
Point p = (Point) obj;
int x = p.x();
int y = p.y();
System.out.println(x + y);
}</code></pre></text></comment> | <story><title>Java 21: What’s New?</title><url>https://www.loicmathieu.fr/wordpress/en/informatique/java-21-quoi-de-neuf/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jph</author><text>The matching syntax looks really good to me:<p><pre><code> &#x2F;&#x2F; Java 21
if (obj instanceof Point(int x, int y)) {
System.out.println(x+y);
}
&#x2F;&#x2F; Older Java
if (obj instanceof Point p) {
int x = p.x();
int y = p.y();
System.out.println(x+y);
}</code></pre></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>riku_iki</author><text>Its not substantial improvement, but another invariant which need to be learned and adds more brain load.<p>I hope someone will design some jvm SimpleLang eventually, which will have very few syntactic constructions but cover all&#x2F;most of use cases.</text></comment> |
29,804,651 | 29,804,238 | 1 | 3 | 29,800,795 | train | <story><title>No Way to Grow Up</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/04/briefing/american-children-crisis-pandemic.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>quadrifoliate</author><text>American society depends on personal responsibility in the aspects of healthcare, retirement, and employment.<p>Your child&#x27;s education is <i>usually</i> an honorable exception to this in that it&#x27;s totally government run and borderline volunteer-run, but funding for that is not adequate to the point where you can reasonably expect it to continue as usual in the midst of a global pandemic.<p>The sooner you can come to terms with this, the better will be the outcome for your child. I recommend looking up resources on sharing childcare and teaching with other parents in addition to your kids&#x27; teachers.</text></item><item><author>ilteris</author><text>I don&#x27;t give a shit what the article says or specifically points to but I can tell you this much. I am a dad of a 6 year old. My kid goes to public school in NYC and last year was bad... They did a test at the beginning of this year before the start of the first grade and her results were awful. This is an unprecedented event and everyone is clueless including in education. I don&#x27;t make a big deal about the test results and it&#x27;s the reality. Educators are aware but it&#x27;s not enough, we should be aware too. These kids are more resilient than most people think and we still need to support them. I am lucky I can get paid support for her but not all families have that privilege. So please stop being pedantic about the article and instead maybe focus on how you might create solutions. And please exclude online classes from those solutions. Thank you.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jdminhbg</author><text>&gt; funding for that is not adequate to the point where you can reasonably expect it to continue as usual in the midst of a global pandemic<p>The US spends way more on education per capita than many countries that were able to keep their schools open during 2020-2021: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;nces.ed.gov&#x2F;programs&#x2F;coe&#x2F;indicator&#x2F;cmd" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;nces.ed.gov&#x2F;programs&#x2F;coe&#x2F;indicator&#x2F;cmd</a></text></comment> | <story><title>No Way to Grow Up</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/04/briefing/american-children-crisis-pandemic.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>quadrifoliate</author><text>American society depends on personal responsibility in the aspects of healthcare, retirement, and employment.<p>Your child&#x27;s education is <i>usually</i> an honorable exception to this in that it&#x27;s totally government run and borderline volunteer-run, but funding for that is not adequate to the point where you can reasonably expect it to continue as usual in the midst of a global pandemic.<p>The sooner you can come to terms with this, the better will be the outcome for your child. I recommend looking up resources on sharing childcare and teaching with other parents in addition to your kids&#x27; teachers.</text></item><item><author>ilteris</author><text>I don&#x27;t give a shit what the article says or specifically points to but I can tell you this much. I am a dad of a 6 year old. My kid goes to public school in NYC and last year was bad... They did a test at the beginning of this year before the start of the first grade and her results were awful. This is an unprecedented event and everyone is clueless including in education. I don&#x27;t make a big deal about the test results and it&#x27;s the reality. Educators are aware but it&#x27;s not enough, we should be aware too. These kids are more resilient than most people think and we still need to support them. I am lucky I can get paid support for her but not all families have that privilege. So please stop being pedantic about the article and instead maybe focus on how you might create solutions. And please exclude online classes from those solutions. Thank you.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>throwoutway</author><text>Research after research comes out pointing to the fact that parents should be directly involved in their children&#x27;s education.<p>&gt; Your child&#x27;s education is usually an honorable exception to this in that it&#x27;s totally government run<p>It is sad that this is the case</text></comment> |
37,732,142 | 37,732,363 | 1 | 2 | 37,701,884 | train | <story><title>OnlyOffice: Free open source office suite with business productivity tools</title><url>https://github.com/ONLYOFFICE/CommunityServer</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>gjsman-1000</author><text>I’m surprised ONLYOFFICE isn’t more popular in more distributions. It’s AGPL, open source, and almost infinitely more intuitive than LibreOffice to anyone coming from Microsoft Office.</text></comment> | <story><title>OnlyOffice: Free open source office suite with business productivity tools</title><url>https://github.com/ONLYOFFICE/CommunityServer</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>dcsommer</author><text>Anyone have a good comparison between this and LibreOffice?</text></comment> |
34,614,920 | 34,615,052 | 1 | 2 | 34,608,883 | train | <story><title>Do we live in a society without a counterculture?</title><url>https://www.xmodtwo.com/p/do-we-live-in-a-society-without-a</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jjk166</author><text>If you only consume mainstream media then you may personally live in a society which lacks a counterculture.<p>You strike up a conversation with the girl picking mushrooms in the middle of nowhere or you go to an underground death metal concert or spend a bit of time on 4chan and you&#x27;ll find countercultures alive and well that you&#x27;re just not part of.<p>If you think a sense of sameness pervades the creative world then you must be looking at a woefully tiny portion of the creative world. It has never been easier to be weird nor easier to find weirdness.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>narrator</author><text>The way you know 4chan is the counterculture is every time someone releases a new generative art tool, 4chan figures out a way to do stuff with it that makes the creators have to restrict and&#x2F;or shut it down.<p>Like in the 1960s how the mainstream culture would whisper under their breath and point in shock and horror at hippies and try to get them banned from various public venues, and send mobs to beat them up, we have that same situation now, but instead 4chan is treated like that.<p>BTW, just because it&#x27;s not your counterculture, doesn&#x27;t mean it&#x27;s not counterculture. You guys are looking at this all 60 years after the fact and saying that hippies were awesome. That&#x27;s not what people thought at the time. 4chan is generally anti-ukraine war and anti-vax. 60 years from now they might look like the good guys.</text></comment> | <story><title>Do we live in a society without a counterculture?</title><url>https://www.xmodtwo.com/p/do-we-live-in-a-society-without-a</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jjk166</author><text>If you only consume mainstream media then you may personally live in a society which lacks a counterculture.<p>You strike up a conversation with the girl picking mushrooms in the middle of nowhere or you go to an underground death metal concert or spend a bit of time on 4chan and you&#x27;ll find countercultures alive and well that you&#x27;re just not part of.<p>If you think a sense of sameness pervades the creative world then you must be looking at a woefully tiny portion of the creative world. It has never been easier to be weird nor easier to find weirdness.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Taywee</author><text>4chan is obnoxiously and brainlessly countercultural to the point of contrarianism, though. It used to be a fun place where people didn&#x27;t care so much about social conventions and focused mostly on having a good time and poking fun at each other, but it&#x27;s degraded into just hating anything and everything that they can attribute to anybody they don&#x27;t like. I&#x27;ve seen tons of cases where they were on-board for something until it became mainstream and then viciously attacked it.<p>There is &quot;alive and well&quot; counterculture, but 4chan is &quot;automatic, boring, annoying, kneejerk&quot; counterculture. It&#x27;s like a sad shell of what it was, with all the fun sucked out of it.</text></comment> |
12,826,317 | 12,825,983 | 1 | 2 | 12,824,789 | train | <story><title>Strategies of Human Mating (2006) [pdf]</title><url>http://www.weimag.ch/micha/dc/05_Buss_Strategies%20of%20Human%20Mating.pdf</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>sanjeetsuhag</author><text>Saying &quot;I&#x27;ve been noticing you around campus&quot; to a stranger is a great way to get a restraining order.</text></item><item><author>nether</author><text>&gt; Men and women experimenters approached total strangers on a college campus, and said “Hi, I’ve been noticing you around campus, and I find you very attractive.”<p>I&#x27;ve got to try this.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>douche</author><text>Depends on how attractive you are. The line between creepy and flattering is in the eye of the beholder, rarely in the behavior.</text></comment> | <story><title>Strategies of Human Mating (2006) [pdf]</title><url>http://www.weimag.ch/micha/dc/05_Buss_Strategies%20of%20Human%20Mating.pdf</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>sanjeetsuhag</author><text>Saying &quot;I&#x27;ve been noticing you around campus&quot; to a stranger is a great way to get a restraining order.</text></item><item><author>nether</author><text>&gt; Men and women experimenters approached total strangers on a college campus, and said “Hi, I’ve been noticing you around campus, and I find you very attractive.”<p>I&#x27;ve got to try this.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>plainOldText</author><text>Since when has noticing people in places you visit frequently become such a threatening activity?<p>And btw, it was “Hi, I’ve been noticing you around campus, and I find you very attractive.”; which has a non threatening tone and gives off a completely different vibe.</text></comment> |
9,337,266 | 9,336,658 | 1 | 2 | 9,335,607 | train | <story><title>A man who was accidentally released from prison 88 years early</title><url>https://www.themarshallproject.org/2015/04/07/unfreed</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>waterfowl</author><text>The insanity of the charges&#x2F;sentencing reminds me of a passage from <i>The Hot House</i>(which is excellent, Pete Earley somehow got permission to go mingle with prisoners at USP Leavenworth for a year and write about it).<p>A Bank Robber, 45<p><i>&#x27;They originally charged me with murder, kidnapping, and bank robbery, but I&#x27;m really just a bank robber with really bad luck. You see, my buddy and me were robbing this bank, and when we come outside there is a cop waiting across the street and he starts shooting. He shoots my buddy, but I don&#x27;t know he&#x27;s dead so I pull him into the car and drive away. When they bust me, they charge me with murder, kidnapping, and the robbery.<p>I ask my attorney, &quot;How the hell can they do that? All I did was rob a bank&quot;<p>He says the law says if you are committing a felony and someone dies, a bank teller has a heart attack or something, you can be charged with murder. He tells me they charged me with murder because my buddy got killed.<p>He says the law says when I pulled my buddy into the car and drove off, I kidnapped him because I was taking a body from the scene of a crime. That&#x27;s how they got me for kidnapping.<p>He says the law says that I can be charged with all three even though I didn&#x27;t kill nobody and I didn&#x27;t kidnap nobody.<p>I say the law sucks.&#x27;</i></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>downandout</author><text>If you think this sentence was unjust, there is another Colorado prisoner named Michael Dipentino. He is currently serving a 305 year sentence. What was his heinous crime? According to the Denver DA [1] he created phony checks to buy $200,000 worth of postage stamps, that he later pawned or resold. He was facing a <i>minimum</i> of 96 years after his conviction, but the judge decided to give him 305 years.<p>The &quot;justice&quot; system is completely out of control.<p>[1] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.denverda.org&#x2F;News_Release&#x2F;Releases&#x2F;2006%20Release&#x2F;Dipentino%20guilty.pdf" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.denverda.org&#x2F;News_Release&#x2F;Releases&#x2F;2006%20Release...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>A man who was accidentally released from prison 88 years early</title><url>https://www.themarshallproject.org/2015/04/07/unfreed</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>waterfowl</author><text>The insanity of the charges&#x2F;sentencing reminds me of a passage from <i>The Hot House</i>(which is excellent, Pete Earley somehow got permission to go mingle with prisoners at USP Leavenworth for a year and write about it).<p>A Bank Robber, 45<p><i>&#x27;They originally charged me with murder, kidnapping, and bank robbery, but I&#x27;m really just a bank robber with really bad luck. You see, my buddy and me were robbing this bank, and when we come outside there is a cop waiting across the street and he starts shooting. He shoots my buddy, but I don&#x27;t know he&#x27;s dead so I pull him into the car and drive away. When they bust me, they charge me with murder, kidnapping, and the robbery.<p>I ask my attorney, &quot;How the hell can they do that? All I did was rob a bank&quot;<p>He says the law says if you are committing a felony and someone dies, a bank teller has a heart attack or something, you can be charged with murder. He tells me they charged me with murder because my buddy got killed.<p>He says the law says when I pulled my buddy into the car and drove off, I kidnapped him because I was taking a body from the scene of a crime. That&#x27;s how they got me for kidnapping.<p>He says the law says that I can be charged with all three even though I didn&#x27;t kill nobody and I didn&#x27;t kidnap nobody.<p>I say the law sucks.&#x27;</i></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>psychometry</author><text>The deal you get from prosecutors is only as good as your lawyer and good lawyers cost money. This is what happens when the criminal justice system is run by politicking judges and prosecutors elected by a public whose understanding of punitive systems doesn&#x27;t get any more nuanced than &quot;let&#x27;s be hard on crime!&quot;</text></comment> |
37,590,149 | 37,589,848 | 1 | 2 | 37,586,942 | train | <story><title>Boys and Men in the United States Are Struggling. The Left Should Talk About It</title><url>https://jacobin.com/2023/09/boys-men-work-despair-struggling-wages-education/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>LeroyRaz</author><text>Richard Reeves is originally from the left, and there is a podcast interview of him by Ezra Klein (titled &quot;the boys are not alright&quot;). In the interview he describes how he was drawn to feminism and looking at gender inequality, and by looking at the data became convinced that boys and men were a neglected cause. He was then frustrated as other researchers and policy people had no interest in that form of inequality.<p>This experience of a researcher starting by caring deeply about inequality, and starting with feminism, and then identifying male issues and finding a total lack of community interest has occurred before. This is exactly what happened to Warren Farrell, who a was once a major figure in feminism (and then largely ignored once he started talking about the issues facing men) (see his Wikipedia page for details).<p>I think part of what makes getting sociatal buy in on men&#x27;s issues is that one of the biases men face is a lack of care for men in need of help, and this relates to the idea of male disposability.<p>For reference, there is a quite shocking list of statistics where men have significantly worse outcomes than women: longer jail for the same crime, higher rates of homelessness, higher rates of suicide, lower educational outcomes, shorter life spans, less friends on average, ...<p>Obviously women suffer from other issues, but as Ezra Klein is keen to emphasize to any listeners of the interview, empathy is not a zero sum game.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mwbajor</author><text>Can we have an example of toxic masculinity? I&#x27;ve never once received a real definition in a debate like this and when I&#x27;m close to it, the other side tries to make it sound like they are sympathetic to toxic masculinity.<p>For example, I&#x27;ve had it told to me that I shouldnt have my son help me with changing my car&#x27;s oil because thats putting some sort of burden on him at an early age. Does this sound like something a sane person would say? I would go as far to give the benefit of the doubt and say no, most people are sane and the ones that would make this type of argument are drawn into a social mania.</text></comment> | <story><title>Boys and Men in the United States Are Struggling. The Left Should Talk About It</title><url>https://jacobin.com/2023/09/boys-men-work-despair-struggling-wages-education/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>LeroyRaz</author><text>Richard Reeves is originally from the left, and there is a podcast interview of him by Ezra Klein (titled &quot;the boys are not alright&quot;). In the interview he describes how he was drawn to feminism and looking at gender inequality, and by looking at the data became convinced that boys and men were a neglected cause. He was then frustrated as other researchers and policy people had no interest in that form of inequality.<p>This experience of a researcher starting by caring deeply about inequality, and starting with feminism, and then identifying male issues and finding a total lack of community interest has occurred before. This is exactly what happened to Warren Farrell, who a was once a major figure in feminism (and then largely ignored once he started talking about the issues facing men) (see his Wikipedia page for details).<p>I think part of what makes getting sociatal buy in on men&#x27;s issues is that one of the biases men face is a lack of care for men in need of help, and this relates to the idea of male disposability.<p>For reference, there is a quite shocking list of statistics where men have significantly worse outcomes than women: longer jail for the same crime, higher rates of homelessness, higher rates of suicide, lower educational outcomes, shorter life spans, less friends on average, ...<p>Obviously women suffer from other issues, but as Ezra Klein is keen to emphasize to any listeners of the interview, empathy is not a zero sum game.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Jensson</author><text>&gt; empathy is not a zero sum game.<p>But we are biased to empathize more with women than men, both women and men are biased that way. That is the core of &quot;toxic masculinity&quot;, we need everyone to empathize more with men, but instead due to low empathy for men all they say is &quot;just work on your own problems, it isn&#x27;t that bad for you!!&quot;.<p>There isn&#x27;t much you can do in that situation, the low empathy burden men are shouldered with isn&#x27;t something society wants to deal with, neither the left nor the right.</text></comment> |
41,375,204 | 41,374,320 | 1 | 3 | 41,347,368 | train | <story><title>If Your World Is Not Enchanted, You're Not Paying Attention</title><url>https://theconvivialsociety.substack.com/p/if-your-world-is-not-enchanted-youre</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>JohnMakin</author><text>Computers used to be absolutely magical to me until I studied and worked with embedded systems and compilers - much of it is well-defined and not magical at all. One of my biggest regrets is studying computer science, because the magic was stripped from me once I learned or intuited even a little bit of how the black box worked.<p>I&#x27;m not sure I understand the premise at all - to me, the more I pay attention to the world and my senses, the less magical it becomes. Maybe that&#x27;s why I&#x27;m miserable.</text></comment> | <story><title>If Your World Is Not Enchanted, You're Not Paying Attention</title><url>https://theconvivialsociety.substack.com/p/if-your-world-is-not-enchanted-youre</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>DaoVeles</author><text>I recommend the youtube channel Posy. He only uploads about once a month but every time it is an exploration of something that seems so simple but it sparks that child like wonder in the world. The good sense of humour helps as well.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;c&#x2F;PosyMusic" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;c&#x2F;PosyMusic</a></text></comment> |
8,721,549 | 8,719,711 | 1 | 2 | 8,716,538 | train | <story><title>Parable of the Polygons – a playable post on the shape of society</title><url>http://ncase.me/polygons/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>JackC</author><text>This is fantastic! We were just noticing how segregated our own neighborhood near Boston is, and wondering what drives that and what could be done about it. You can see the same thing all over the city -- neighborhoods that are much more white than average right next to neighborhoods that are much less white than average.<p>Really interesting that this could be self-generated with very little bias (setting aside that there&#x27;s definitely still some intentional housing discrimination in Boston). And really interesting that it could potentially be reversed if people started to avoid neighborhoods that are highly segregated in their &quot;favor.&quot;<p>I wonder if integration could be advertised as a benefit of certain properties on real estate sites like Zillow. What would happen if home listings had a &quot;well integrated neighborhood&quot; indicator for neighborhoods that have about the same racial balance as the larger area, the same way they have indicators for good schools and public transportation and so on? Would that be appealing to actual buyers the same way it&#x27;s appealing to the Polygons in the model?<p>The risk is that an index like that could be used to <i>encourage</i> segregation instead -- but I&#x27;m hopeful that, on average, we&#x27;re better than that at this point.<p>Here&#x27;s one census map if you want to check out your neighborhood:<p><a href="http://www.socialexplorer.com/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.socialexplorer.com&#x2F;</a><p>You can show racial data under &quot;Change Data.&quot; We also found it helpful to change &quot;Show data by: Tract&quot; to &quot;Block group&quot; (more fine-grained), and to use quantile cutpoints under the color palette menu.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>vog</author><text><i>&gt; You can show racial data ...</i><p>It is interesting that you applied the squares&#x2F;triangles model to racism.<p>For me, given the 50%&#x2F;50% rate of squares&#x2F;triangles, I was thinking more about men&#x2F;women and the places being workplaces rather than living places. (or teams within a workplace, or girls&#x2F;boys within sports or school activities)<p>I see this as an indicator that the &quot;parable of the polygons&quot; is applicable to many aspects of society.</text></comment> | <story><title>Parable of the Polygons – a playable post on the shape of society</title><url>http://ncase.me/polygons/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>JackC</author><text>This is fantastic! We were just noticing how segregated our own neighborhood near Boston is, and wondering what drives that and what could be done about it. You can see the same thing all over the city -- neighborhoods that are much more white than average right next to neighborhoods that are much less white than average.<p>Really interesting that this could be self-generated with very little bias (setting aside that there&#x27;s definitely still some intentional housing discrimination in Boston). And really interesting that it could potentially be reversed if people started to avoid neighborhoods that are highly segregated in their &quot;favor.&quot;<p>I wonder if integration could be advertised as a benefit of certain properties on real estate sites like Zillow. What would happen if home listings had a &quot;well integrated neighborhood&quot; indicator for neighborhoods that have about the same racial balance as the larger area, the same way they have indicators for good schools and public transportation and so on? Would that be appealing to actual buyers the same way it&#x27;s appealing to the Polygons in the model?<p>The risk is that an index like that could be used to <i>encourage</i> segregation instead -- but I&#x27;m hopeful that, on average, we&#x27;re better than that at this point.<p>Here&#x27;s one census map if you want to check out your neighborhood:<p><a href="http://www.socialexplorer.com/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.socialexplorer.com&#x2F;</a><p>You can show racial data under &quot;Change Data.&quot; We also found it helpful to change &quot;Show data by: Tract&quot; to &quot;Block group&quot; (more fine-grained), and to use quantile cutpoints under the color palette menu.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jameshart</author><text>Anecdotally, I can say living near Boston I&#x27;ve heard plenty of families justify their choices to move to certain suburbs or neighborhoods on the basis that they prefer the diversity over a more homogenous subdivision. Of course, equally I&#x27;ve met people who live in a whitebread suburb and praise its diversity because of the number of Asian doctors&#x27; kids in the schoolsystem.<p>I think that suggests the flaw in this simulation - sure, segregation decreases overall if -everybody- is a little more tolerant of diversity. But how does it work out if some people prefer a diverse neighborhood, and some people don&#x27;t? My guess: you get a new kind of segregation between homogenous neighborhoods, and diverse ones. Kinda like you do round Boston...</text></comment> |
22,616,202 | 22,615,354 | 1 | 2 | 22,614,690 | train | <story><title>Windows Terminal Preview v0.10 Release</title><url>https://devblogs.microsoft.com/commandline/windows-terminal-preview-v0-10-release/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>cmrdporcupine</author><text>Def going to give this a try today. With CLion now supporting WSL as a toolchain I&#x27;ve now found myself in a strangely productive environment where Windows + WSL is my primary environment and I barely notice the transition between the two -- apart from the sub-par terminal experience. Looking forward to this...</text></comment> | <story><title>Windows Terminal Preview v0.10 Release</title><url>https://devblogs.microsoft.com/commandline/windows-terminal-preview-v0-10-release/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>EastSmith</author><text>They seriously need to add a tab rename feature. Right click and rename. I am using it for development (along WSL2) and have 4, 5 tabs opened most of the time - a server, webpack, some ssh stuff, another server, something else.<p>All tabs have the same generic title name. There is a github issue, but it does not look like they take this feature seriously:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;microsoft&#x2F;terminal&#x2F;issues&#x2F;1079" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;microsoft&#x2F;terminal&#x2F;issues&#x2F;1079</a><p>Edit: I am happy with it - they&#x27;ve been improving it constantly (for the last 4 months at least).</text></comment> |
23,696,286 | 23,695,801 | 1 | 2 | 23,689,091 | train | <story><title>How Did Vim Become So Popular?</title><url>https://pragmaticpineapple.com/how-did-vim-become-so-popular/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>duckfruit</author><text>Speaking personally, I&#x27;ve been a professional developer for almost decade and even in my relatively short career I&#x27;ve seen a lot of technologies come and go. I was reluctantly roped into it by my first boss, an enthusiastic Vim advocate. And since, almost nothing else (save for maybe git) beat learning vim from a return on investment perspective. From the default mac OS installation to some old Fedora box that has not been patched since the early 2000s, Vim (or its simpler brother Vi) has always been there!<p>And once I got used to it, I couldn&#x27;t really imagine using computers any other way. I&#x27;d go so far as to say that the &#x27;home row&#x27; concept of vim is the ergonomic ideal of keyboard based computing, and I now try to mimic that behavior everywhere -- the vimium extension in chrome, various vim plugins for vs code and sublime etc. If you&#x27;re on the fence, I&#x27;d urge you to give in!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>licebmi__at__</author><text>Definitely, even now as I use emacs, I&#x27;m a 100% evil. It&#x27;s just so natural (once you get it), that I don&#x27;t know how other bindings (like ctrl-[whatever]) are prevalent in most other software, it&#x27;s not like they are more memorable or intuitive.<p>Fun story: I was into Free&#x2F;Libre software as a teen, when I learnt how to move around in vi(m) and in my first tech gig (as a sysadmin), I was interviewed by some greybeard who wanted me to do some maintenance and configuration tasks. I knew the basics of command line environments, but I had never setup LDAP, mail or DNS. So anyway he asked me to setup some repository on yum, and well, at least I knew how to do that. When he saw me using vi commands to quickly edit the file, he stopped the interview, arguing that anybody who was fluent on vi, was obviously a seasoned admin and I got the postion. I never had the guts to tell him otherwise.</text></comment> | <story><title>How Did Vim Become So Popular?</title><url>https://pragmaticpineapple.com/how-did-vim-become-so-popular/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>duckfruit</author><text>Speaking personally, I&#x27;ve been a professional developer for almost decade and even in my relatively short career I&#x27;ve seen a lot of technologies come and go. I was reluctantly roped into it by my first boss, an enthusiastic Vim advocate. And since, almost nothing else (save for maybe git) beat learning vim from a return on investment perspective. From the default mac OS installation to some old Fedora box that has not been patched since the early 2000s, Vim (or its simpler brother Vi) has always been there!<p>And once I got used to it, I couldn&#x27;t really imagine using computers any other way. I&#x27;d go so far as to say that the &#x27;home row&#x27; concept of vim is the ergonomic ideal of keyboard based computing, and I now try to mimic that behavior everywhere -- the vimium extension in chrome, various vim plugins for vs code and sublime etc. If you&#x27;re on the fence, I&#x27;d urge you to give in!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>stragies</author><text>Same here, and then i discovered EVIL, the vi layer for emacs. The best of all worlds: Vim text manipulation grammar over the emacs engine.</text></comment> |
2,441,282 | 2,441,159 | 1 | 2 | 2,440,319 | train | <story><title>2011: The Year the Check-in Died</title><url>http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/2011_the_year_the_check-in_died.php</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>harryh</author><text>So two points here:<p>1) Usage on foursquare is up 40% since the beginning of the year.<p>2) We've always seen the checkin as just the beginning of what we want to accomplish. With the launch of explore and specials 2.0 we've started to get more of our vision out into the world. You can expect more of this sort of thing from us over the course of 2011.<p>-harryh, engineering lead @ foursquare.<p>ps: Want to be a part of it? We're hiring! <a href="https://foursquare.com/jobs/" rel="nofollow">https://foursquare.com/jobs/</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>wyclif</author><text>I'd be much more excited about Foursquare as a place to work if they did not require a CS degree. It tells me a lot about the culture at 4sq, and what it is telling me is not good. Just a thought.</text></comment> | <story><title>2011: The Year the Check-in Died</title><url>http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/2011_the_year_the_check-in_died.php</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>harryh</author><text>So two points here:<p>1) Usage on foursquare is up 40% since the beginning of the year.<p>2) We've always seen the checkin as just the beginning of what we want to accomplish. With the launch of explore and specials 2.0 we've started to get more of our vision out into the world. You can expect more of this sort of thing from us over the course of 2011.<p>-harryh, engineering lead @ foursquare.<p>ps: Want to be a part of it? We're hiring! <a href="https://foursquare.com/jobs/" rel="nofollow">https://foursquare.com/jobs/</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>sheriff</author><text>Usage being total checkins per month?<p>I'd be more interested in a comparison of engagement (checkins per account per month) over time.
The first metric can hide declining engagement if there are sufficiently many latecomers who haven't burnt out yet.</text></comment> |
7,748,170 | 7,748,193 | 1 | 2 | 7,747,907 | train | <story><title>The Reykjavik Confessions</title><url>http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/special/2014/newsspec_7617/index.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>anvandare</author><text>An example, I&#x27;m afraid, of situations that happen all too often around the world. When we look at the justice system as any other abstract system (with positive&#x2F;negative feedback loops) we find that the actors (the judges, prosecutors, investigators, etc.) are never rewarded for finding <i>the</i> truth. After all, how can you ever know that you found the truth? They are rewarded for finding <i>a</i> truth. For making the picture fit.<p>And that is why you should never collaborate with (or trust) the system. They aren&#x27;t interested in what&#x27;s good for you, they are interested in what&#x27;s good for themselves: finding someone to convict and thereby pushing their yearly evaluation into the positives.<p>[ed.: typo]</text></comment> | <story><title>The Reykjavik Confessions</title><url>http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/special/2014/newsspec_7617/index.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>klausjensen</author><text>The woman involved, Erla Bolladottir, was my Icelandic language teacher when I moved to Iceland. She is an extraordinarily kind and helpful person, and it angers and saddens me that she has been put through this nightmare because of lousy police-work and ill will.</text></comment> |
2,866,088 | 2,865,758 | 1 | 2 | 2,865,484 | train | <story><title>Apple to Lodsys: you'll have to go through us to sue iOS devs</title><url>http://arstechnica.com/apple/news/2011/08/apple-tells-judge-intervention-against-lodsys-should-be-granted.ars</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>grellas</author><text>A few thoughts:<p>1. Under Rule 24(a)(2) of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, the court must grant Apple the right to intervene as of right if Apple can show: (1) that it has filed a timely motion to do so; (2) that it claims an "interest" in "property" that is the subject of the action; (3) that its ability to protect its interest in that property may as a practical matter be impaired or impeded if the legal action is allowed to be disposed of without its participation; and (4) that existing parties cannot adequately represent that interest.<p>2. Consistent with this rule, Apple's legal argument boils down to the idea that it has a license from IV to protect, and rights under that license, all of which will be impaired or impeded if Lodsys is allowed to pursue infringement claims against developers who develop apps for the environment to which Apple's license applies. Hence, Apple must be allowed to step in to defend the integrity of its license and to argue, based on that license, that Lodsys is barred by the doctrine of "patent exhaustion" from pursuing claims against the developers.<p>3. Apple thus argues that it needs to be in the case to protect its own interests, not those of the developers. Now, <i>de facto</i>, this might amount to the same thing since Apple does not want to face a revolt among its developers. But there is irony here in that Lodsys is arguing, as one of its major points on why Apple should not be allowed to intervene, that Apple has no obligation legally to hold the developers harmless (i.e., based on Apple's agreements, the developers are on their own). In seeking to intervene to argue the patent exhaustion doctrine, then, Apple is saying it will protect its license rights primarily and developers only incidentally and, again, without undertaking any legal obligation to indemnify any developer.<p>4. All that said, "patent exhaustion" is a potent defense, the effect of which (if upheld) would be invalidate the patent for misuse. "Misuse" here lies in the idea of extending the exclusive rights afforded by the patent grant beyond their legitimate scope. Apple's ability to prove misuse, though, is by no means easy. To show misuse, it will essentially have to show that the IV license was intended to cover separate products (apps) that did not even exist when the license was granted and that do not constitute an integral part of the Apple product when sold. This will be tricky at best and obviously will take a party of Apple's sophistication and wherewithal to marshal the arguments and factual development effectively. That, of course, is why Lodsys does not want Apple in the case. It would much prefer to bully smaller and less sophisticated parties because that is how patent bullying works best.</text></comment> | <story><title>Apple to Lodsys: you'll have to go through us to sue iOS devs</title><url>http://arstechnica.com/apple/news/2011/08/apple-tells-judge-intervention-against-lodsys-should-be-granted.ars</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>lukejduncan</author><text>Bears repeating:<p>Lodsys acquired its four patents from former Microsoft CTO Nathan Myhrvold's Intellectual Ventures patent holding company. It turns out that Apple already has a license to those patents by virtue of an investment deal in Intellectual Ventures.</text></comment> |
38,654,255 | 38,653,716 | 1 | 3 | 38,642,412 | train | <story><title>Programs are games, programming is a game</title><url>https://blog.charliemeyer.co/programs-are-games-programming-is-a-game/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>gorgoiler</author><text>I bought a Steam Deck recently. It is a very well crafted device and that goes for both the hardware and the Linux distribution it runs. Within a few hours I had sampled the following puzzle games:<p>- Portal 2: simple, physical world logic puzzles with excellent script and graphics.<p>- Stephen’s Sausage Roll: incredibly hard physical world logic puzzles with awful graphics but it’s part of the style and I love it.<p>- The Case of the Golden Idol: interactive mystery fiction logic puzzles with even worse graphics that, again, are part of the charm.<p>- Python 3: text based open world logic puzzles with no graphics whatsoever and some of the most fun I’ve ever had on a computer.<p>(Edit: for clarity this is a humorous anecdote in that the last “game” on my list is a fully fledged programming language, in line with the original article’s thesis that programming can be viewed as being an excellent computer game. I genuinely had my steam deck for all of a few hours before I was using it write primes.py ;)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>CodeSgt</author><text>Maybe a silly question, but how can I find this “Python 3” game? Googling just shows tutorials on making a game in Python 3. Searching “Python 3” on steam doesn’t turn up anything.<p>Edit:<p>Smh I genuinely thought there was a game named Python 3. I’m familiar with the language. Just sleepy.</text></comment> | <story><title>Programs are games, programming is a game</title><url>https://blog.charliemeyer.co/programs-are-games-programming-is-a-game/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>gorgoiler</author><text>I bought a Steam Deck recently. It is a very well crafted device and that goes for both the hardware and the Linux distribution it runs. Within a few hours I had sampled the following puzzle games:<p>- Portal 2: simple, physical world logic puzzles with excellent script and graphics.<p>- Stephen’s Sausage Roll: incredibly hard physical world logic puzzles with awful graphics but it’s part of the style and I love it.<p>- The Case of the Golden Idol: interactive mystery fiction logic puzzles with even worse graphics that, again, are part of the charm.<p>- Python 3: text based open world logic puzzles with no graphics whatsoever and some of the most fun I’ve ever had on a computer.<p>(Edit: for clarity this is a humorous anecdote in that the last “game” on my list is a fully fledged programming language, in line with the original article’s thesis that programming can be viewed as being an excellent computer game. I genuinely had my steam deck for all of a few hours before I was using it write primes.py ;)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pas</author><text>Oh, if you like py3, I recommend the mypy DLC!<p>it&#x27;s fun to imagine the shape and color of your datastructures and how the abstract monsters of the voidspace munch on them! and mypy helps you find the right arcane incantations, so you can be pretty sure that what you imagined will actually rip through that messy real world just the way you envisioned it!<p>well, of course it would be unfair of me if I wouldn&#x27;t mention that there are serious hazards too, as gradual typing is a gateway drug to many abilities some consider to be unnatural. (you too might wake up drenched in sweat thinking about ... what if we all are just monoids in the category of endofunctors!?)</text></comment> |
12,514,611 | 12,514,371 | 1 | 2 | 12,513,880 | train | <story><title>Torrent Site Founder, Moderator and Users Receive Prison Sentences</title><url>https://torrentfreak.com/torrent-site-founder-moderator-users-receive-prison-sentences-160915/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>appleflaxen</author><text>Copyright law is too draconian.<p>At this point, the US should repeal the law completely, and let the chips fall where they may. Hollywood says we&#x27;ll see a loss of culture (fewer movies, songs, books).<p>Let&#x27;s find out.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>maxxxxx</author><text>Copyright and IP (and probably real estate) are pretty much the only way for capitalists to make money the more things like internet, 3D printing, AI, robotics and so on are available to the masses. To me it&#x27;s the only way to keep the current power structures intact so for a lot of powerful people copyright laws are probably the most important laws. They don&#x27;t need the state for personal protection (they can pay for security guards instead of police) but they need the state for protecting their livelihood.</text></comment> | <story><title>Torrent Site Founder, Moderator and Users Receive Prison Sentences</title><url>https://torrentfreak.com/torrent-site-founder-moderator-users-receive-prison-sentences-160915/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>appleflaxen</author><text>Copyright law is too draconian.<p>At this point, the US should repeal the law completely, and let the chips fall where they may. Hollywood says we&#x27;ll see a loss of culture (fewer movies, songs, books).<p>Let&#x27;s find out.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>FilterSweep</author><text>&gt;Hollywood says we&#x27;ll see a loss of culture<p>Seems like some scapegoating is going on here:
(2011)
<a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.slashfilm.com&#x2F;infographic-hollywoods-waning-creativity&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.slashfilm.com&#x2F;infographic-hollywoods-waning-creat...</a></text></comment> |
2,727,998 | 2,727,927 | 1 | 3 | 2,727,624 | train | <story><title>Interview with key LulzSec hacker</title><url>http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn20649-exclusive-first-interview-with-key-lulzsec-hacker.html?full=true</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>trb</author><text>I wonder how Antisec or LulzSec are supposed to bring about change. The interviewee talks about educating and changing people to fight corruption and abuse, but I'm not sure that is happening. For example, look at his involvement in the Tunisian revolution. He talked about disrupting the Tunesian government by defacing the prime ministers website. Did that actually help the Tunisians? I'm under the impression that the hard work got done by the protesters on the street, triggered by Mohamed Bouazizi when he burned himself.<p>I think it's not that different in democratic countries. Change comes about when enough people demand it and put pressure on their representatives. People have to be motivated to work together in large groups, since three letters demanding the same thing won't impress anyone, but a few thousand might. The work of lobbyists has to be countered, corruption has to be documented and brought to court, where hard evidence is a necessity. It takes lot of very demanding, hard work, without any direct gratification for a long time.<p>LulzSec/Antisec/Anonymous do nothing to help with that work. Instead, I fear that their actions will be used by politicians like Sarkozy to effect a policy of stronger internet regulation. In the end, these hacker groups might even do harm.</text></comment> | <story><title>Interview with key LulzSec hacker</title><url>http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn20649-exclusive-first-interview-with-key-lulzsec-hacker.html?full=true</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>ChuckMcM</author><text>I was more impressed with Khalid who went to Egypt and faced the bullets. Breaking into web sites, exposing passwords, is like 'pirate radio' in that its relatively low risk for the participants.<p>I appreciate that you can't believe Sony or someone who says "we'll keep your data safe" but I have to believe there are better ways to get that information out without all the collateral damage. I continue to hope that folks find a way to elevate the discussion without the theatrics.</text></comment> |
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