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18,455,371 | 18,454,302 | 1 | 2 | 18,452,345 | train | <story><title>Astronomers discover super-Earth around Barnard's star</title><url>https://phys.org/news/2018-11-astronomers-super-earth-barnard-star.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Topgamer7</author><text>It would only take ~50 years to reach Barnard&#x27;s star with a theoretical fusion engine according to a research study named Project Daedalus. Someone shoot a probe at the planet and maybe our kids can see some cool imagery!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>cultus</author><text>I think fission fragment rockets might be more promising. Doable with current tech, they can have exhaust velocities of a few percent the speed of light (specific impulse in the 6 figures), comparable or better than fusion engines.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Fission-fragment_rocket" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Fission-fragment_rocket</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Astronomers discover super-Earth around Barnard's star</title><url>https://phys.org/news/2018-11-astronomers-super-earth-barnard-star.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Topgamer7</author><text>It would only take ~50 years to reach Barnard&#x27;s star with a theoretical fusion engine according to a research study named Project Daedalus. Someone shoot a probe at the planet and maybe our kids can see some cool imagery!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rbanffy</author><text>With 100 tons of propellant and the best imaginable VASIMR engine we could send a 10 ton payload (mostly nuclear reactor) there in...<p>2600 years.<p>We need better engines. A Daedalus-class fusion drive would be a great option, but first we&#x27;d need to develop it.</text></comment> |
16,040,787 | 16,040,675 | 1 | 2 | 16,040,463 | train | <story><title>AI-assisted fake porn are being used by people on Reddit for self-completion</title><url>https://linustechtips.com/main/topic/872276-ai-assisted-fake-porn-are-being-used-by-people-on-reddit-for-self-completion/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>mabbo</author><text>This is what&#x27;s being accomplished by one amateur with a little bit of hardware. Imagine what will happen when you have professional services (legal or otherwise) making altered videos of whoever or whatever you want.<p>Want court evidence of your wife cheating? Fake grainy hidden camera video. Want to discredit a politician? Here he is picking up a male escort and using racial slurs. These sorts of things could be used to start wars.<p>Sure, deeper analysis might prove that this video isn&#x27;t real, but that won&#x27;t stop the immediate public reaction and response. The knee-jerk reaction to what the public sees is the end-goal. I&#x27;ll bet good money that this technology plays a major role in future elections.</text></comment> | <story><title>AI-assisted fake porn are being used by people on Reddit for self-completion</title><url>https://linustechtips.com/main/topic/872276-ai-assisted-fake-porn-are-being-used-by-people-on-reddit-for-self-completion/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>akerro</author><text>Source code: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;joshua-wu&#x2F;deepfakes_faceswap" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;joshua-wu&#x2F;deepfakes_faceswap</a><p>NSFW posts <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reddit.com&#x2F;user&#x2F;deepfakes&#x2F;submitted&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reddit.com&#x2F;user&#x2F;deepfakes&#x2F;submitted&#x2F;</a> (includes porn)</text></comment> |
33,854,298 | 33,852,403 | 1 | 3 | 33,851,586 | train | <story><title>Building an interpreter for my programming language with ChatGPT</title><url>https://6502.is-a.dev/posts/aoc-2022/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>qnr</author><text>I have been developing a hobby project (AI powered document search) for a few months and was in sore need of a frontend. My frontend development skills however are stuck in late 1990s and I have zero skill with anything but plain HTML and a little bit of JS. Several times I tried learning React, reading tutorials, watching videos, but the whole idea of it was very removed from how I learned to code, so I gave up every time.<p>Today, I asked ChatGPT to develop the React app for me. ChatGPT guided me through the entire process starting from installing npm and necessary dependencies. The commands it suggested sometimes didn&#x27;t work but every time I just copy-pasted the resulting error message into ChatGPT and it offered a working solution. I gave it the example of JSON output from my API backend and it generated the search UI which, to my surprise, worked.<p>My wet dream for the past few months was to implement infinite scrolling for my search. Again, after hours of google searches, tutorials, etc. I just gave up every single time. Not today. I asked ChatGPT to add infinite scrolling to my app. It wasn&#x27;t easy. It didn&#x27;t produce a working app immediately, it took a couple hours of conversations: I had many questions how different parts of React worked, how to fix errors etc. etc. In the end however, I had my working search app, and with infinite scroll to boot!<p>I haven&#x27;t done a single google search or consulted any external documentation to do it and I was able to progress faster than I have ever did before when learning a new thing. ChatGPT is, for all intents and purposes, magic.</text></comment> | <story><title>Building an interpreter for my programming language with ChatGPT</title><url>https://6502.is-a.dev/posts/aoc-2022/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>habibur</author><text>ChatGPT will be the google killer, if they can scale it up for unregistered general use.<p>No idea how much openai&#x27;s computational cost is per query. Unless it&#x27;s an order of magnitude higher than google&#x27;s, we can assume the next thing after yahoo -&gt; altavista -&gt; google is here.</text></comment> |
13,826,131 | 13,825,735 | 1 | 2 | 13,825,282 | train | <story><title>Healthy California Act: proposal to make findings about single-payer healthcare</title><url>http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB562</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mmanfrin</author><text>[2] is about CalPERS, which is separate from the budget of the State. There may be a current budget shortfall, but CalPERS is fine (it is the largest non-country pension fund in the world; and comes in the top 10 when listed among countries).<p>[3] mentions that tax revenues will fall because of the end of temporary tax increases; those increases are likely to be renewed.<p>Categorizing these as &#x27;severe budget issues&#x27; is disingenuous and misleading. California has had a <i>bumper crop</i> in terms of tax revenue over the past decade, and this stupid meme about California being out of money needs to be corrected.<p>That being said, health care is not an inexpensive line-item, and will <i>have</i> to be funded with taxes.<p>But as a Californian, I&#x27;m sure as shit happy to pay more in taxes for a universal single single-payer. I have many friends who are either contractors or who earn very little and find themselves in that uncomfortable valley of having to pay for expensive insurance -- I&#x27;d rather that people (like me) who are better off financially foot a bit more of a communal bill so that no one would need to worry about it.</text></item><item><author>gavman</author><text>Vermont tried this a few years ago, they had to cancel it since in the end it wasn&#x27;t financially feasible [1]. CA is already dealing with severe budget issues [2][3], so while it sounds nice in theory I&#x27;m hesitant to believe the finances actually work out.<p>[1] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.politico.com&#x2F;story&#x2F;2014&#x2F;12&#x2F;single-payer-vermont-113711" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.politico.com&#x2F;story&#x2F;2014&#x2F;12&#x2F;single-payer-vermont-1...</a><p>[2] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.latimes.com&#x2F;projects&#x2F;la-me-pension-crisis-davis-deal&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.latimes.com&#x2F;projects&#x2F;la-me-pension-crisis-davis-d...</a><p>[3] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cnbc.com&#x2F;2016&#x2F;05&#x2F;26&#x2F;californias-revenue-picture-dims.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cnbc.com&#x2F;2016&#x2F;05&#x2F;26&#x2F;californias-revenue-picture-d...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>DrScump</author><text><p><pre><code> California has had a bumper crop in terms of tax revenue
</code></pre>
... but is <i>outspending</i> even that! There was a &quot;surprise&quot; <i>extra</i> $1.9 billion deficit hit from Medi-Cal last fiscal year[0] (which should tell you something about the government&#x27;s inability to track or control spending), and an overall budget <i>deficit</i> is projected for the current year.<p>And this doesn&#x27;t even count the huge infrastructure deficiencies and deferred maintenance.<p>[0] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.pressdemocrat.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;6563825-181&#x2F;19-billion-error-adds-to" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.pressdemocrat.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;6563825-181&#x2F;19-billion-err...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Healthy California Act: proposal to make findings about single-payer healthcare</title><url>http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB562</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mmanfrin</author><text>[2] is about CalPERS, which is separate from the budget of the State. There may be a current budget shortfall, but CalPERS is fine (it is the largest non-country pension fund in the world; and comes in the top 10 when listed among countries).<p>[3] mentions that tax revenues will fall because of the end of temporary tax increases; those increases are likely to be renewed.<p>Categorizing these as &#x27;severe budget issues&#x27; is disingenuous and misleading. California has had a <i>bumper crop</i> in terms of tax revenue over the past decade, and this stupid meme about California being out of money needs to be corrected.<p>That being said, health care is not an inexpensive line-item, and will <i>have</i> to be funded with taxes.<p>But as a Californian, I&#x27;m sure as shit happy to pay more in taxes for a universal single single-payer. I have many friends who are either contractors or who earn very little and find themselves in that uncomfortable valley of having to pay for expensive insurance -- I&#x27;d rather that people (like me) who are better off financially foot a bit more of a communal bill so that no one would need to worry about it.</text></item><item><author>gavman</author><text>Vermont tried this a few years ago, they had to cancel it since in the end it wasn&#x27;t financially feasible [1]. CA is already dealing with severe budget issues [2][3], so while it sounds nice in theory I&#x27;m hesitant to believe the finances actually work out.<p>[1] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.politico.com&#x2F;story&#x2F;2014&#x2F;12&#x2F;single-payer-vermont-113711" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.politico.com&#x2F;story&#x2F;2014&#x2F;12&#x2F;single-payer-vermont-1...</a><p>[2] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.latimes.com&#x2F;projects&#x2F;la-me-pension-crisis-davis-deal&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.latimes.com&#x2F;projects&#x2F;la-me-pension-crisis-davis-d...</a><p>[3] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cnbc.com&#x2F;2016&#x2F;05&#x2F;26&#x2F;californias-revenue-picture-dims.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cnbc.com&#x2F;2016&#x2F;05&#x2F;26&#x2F;californias-revenue-picture-d...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ng12</author><text>&gt; it is the largest non-country pension fund in the world; and comes in the top 10 when listed among countries<p>Yes, and that&#x27;s the problem. It&#x27;s funding is at 73% and dropping -- that 27% is an astronomical deficit.<p>Numbers here: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.calpers.ca.gov&#x2F;page&#x2F;newsroom&#x2F;calpers-news&#x2F;2017&#x2F;annual-report-details-fund-finances" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.calpers.ca.gov&#x2F;page&#x2F;newsroom&#x2F;calpers-news&#x2F;2017&#x2F;a...</a></text></comment> |
19,879,665 | 19,879,898 | 1 | 2 | 19,877,124 | train | <story><title>Nest, the company, died at Google I/O 2019</title><url>https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2019/05/nest-the-company-died-at-google-io-2019/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bradlys</author><text>It&#x27;s not even a matter of &quot;safe&quot;. I live in a neighborhood that is seen as very safe. Yet, we had a burglary two houses down not too long ago. And they happen frequently enough to myself. I&#x27;ve had plenty stolen. Without a camera, there&#x27;s ~0% chance of anyone being caught.<p>I ended up buying a camera for peace of mind and for checking in on my place to see who&#x27;s entering my residence area. Sometimes it&#x27;s genuinely helpful.</text></item><item><author>smbullet</author><text>Not all of us live in safe neighborhoods like yourself.</text></item><item><author>AlexandrB</author><text>&gt; In 5 years when all the crap is worked out and you eventually buy a system with extra security at your door or backyard, or a something to that effect I&#x27;d like you to come back and admit it.<p>I heard this same song and dance 5 years ago. The problems with the &quot;IoT&quot; market are foundational. Most IoT devices are not designed to be used for extended periods without internet access and a continuous stream of updates. The former means that, in general, they are only as reliable as your internet connection (including that crappy modem&#x2F;router the ISP gave you). The latter means that unlike traditional home hardware, once you install &quot;smart&quot; devices you&#x27;re at the mercy of the business plans of the vendor. So even if you get something set up that works acceptably, it will last 5 years tops (see Nest) before the vendor&#x27;s priorities change.<p>Finally to address the &quot;extra security&quot; comment. Security from <i>what</i>? The developed world is objectively safer than ever, why would I invest in &quot;solutions&quot; to problems invented out of whole cloth? The paranoia of people installing cameras all over their own home (often cameras whose footage they have no real control over) astounds me. We&#x27;re more mistrustful of our own neighbours than the companies that are actually exploiting our privacy and manipulating us psychologically for profit.</text></item><item><author>rhacker</author><text>This is the exact kind of comment that would make it to the top because it just empowered everyone that DOESN&#x27;T have one such system. It&#x27;s filled with finger pointing. Most of the replies basically point out yeah, I hate IoT lights, but this use case is good... It&#x27;s not genuine to dismiss the entire enchilada because YOU don&#x27;t have it. In 5 years when all the crap is worked out and you eventually buy a system with extra security at your door or backyard, or a something to that effect I&#x27;d like you to come back and admit it.</text></item><item><author>dustinmoris</author><text>Smart people don&#x27;t buy smart home devices.<p>My relatively poor grandparents and my slightly less poor parents had a hard working life, but none of them had to sleep in a dark cold room because the switch to turn the lights on or the heating stopped working. Ever. This problem has been solved by other people many many years ago.<p>Last month I watched a documentary where a billionaire was showing of his multi million mansion and when he wanted to show the camera team his 100k home cinema room they couldn&#x27;t see anything because his smart lighting system was stuck in an update loop and nobody had a clue how to fix it. In the interview he said it&#x27;s not a big deal because he doesn&#x27;t like to have the lights on when watching a movie anyway. L.O.L.<p>If I had a 100k cinema room then it would be certainly be a big deal to me if I can&#x27;t even see where the heck I&#x27;m walking.<p>In my entire life I never thought &quot;damn, how nice would it be if I could turn on the lights in my bedroom from downstairs on my phone&quot;. It&#x27;s just not a problem which I think people have, but somehow the consumer industry has convinced so many fools to buy cheaply fabricated, badly secured, even worse programmed and often not long supported smart home devices which add absolutely no benefit to anyone&#x27;s everyday life and cause lots of problems.<p>By the time I find my phone lying around in my lounge, unlock it through Face ID or finger touch, open up the home app, find the home device which I want to control, then make whatever change I wanted to do I am much faster to just get my arse up from the couch, walk over and turn it on&#x2F;off with a normal hand movement. On the way I can also grab a beer from the fridge and then continue watching the telly and laugh about some fools who spent 100k on a home cinema without lights.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dx87</author><text>If you&#x27;re frequently having things stolen, you don&#x27;t live in a &quot;very safe&quot; neighborhood. I&#x27;ve lived in working class neighborhoods most of my life, and the only thing I&#x27;ve ever had stolen from me was a bike that I left on my front porch when I was a kid. The only thing the people I know have had stolen is stuff like car stereos or GPS devices back before most people used their phones. Just small crime of opportunity stuff, no breaking into people&#x27;s homes.</text></comment> | <story><title>Nest, the company, died at Google I/O 2019</title><url>https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2019/05/nest-the-company-died-at-google-io-2019/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bradlys</author><text>It&#x27;s not even a matter of &quot;safe&quot;. I live in a neighborhood that is seen as very safe. Yet, we had a burglary two houses down not too long ago. And they happen frequently enough to myself. I&#x27;ve had plenty stolen. Without a camera, there&#x27;s ~0% chance of anyone being caught.<p>I ended up buying a camera for peace of mind and for checking in on my place to see who&#x27;s entering my residence area. Sometimes it&#x27;s genuinely helpful.</text></item><item><author>smbullet</author><text>Not all of us live in safe neighborhoods like yourself.</text></item><item><author>AlexandrB</author><text>&gt; In 5 years when all the crap is worked out and you eventually buy a system with extra security at your door or backyard, or a something to that effect I&#x27;d like you to come back and admit it.<p>I heard this same song and dance 5 years ago. The problems with the &quot;IoT&quot; market are foundational. Most IoT devices are not designed to be used for extended periods without internet access and a continuous stream of updates. The former means that, in general, they are only as reliable as your internet connection (including that crappy modem&#x2F;router the ISP gave you). The latter means that unlike traditional home hardware, once you install &quot;smart&quot; devices you&#x27;re at the mercy of the business plans of the vendor. So even if you get something set up that works acceptably, it will last 5 years tops (see Nest) before the vendor&#x27;s priorities change.<p>Finally to address the &quot;extra security&quot; comment. Security from <i>what</i>? The developed world is objectively safer than ever, why would I invest in &quot;solutions&quot; to problems invented out of whole cloth? The paranoia of people installing cameras all over their own home (often cameras whose footage they have no real control over) astounds me. We&#x27;re more mistrustful of our own neighbours than the companies that are actually exploiting our privacy and manipulating us psychologically for profit.</text></item><item><author>rhacker</author><text>This is the exact kind of comment that would make it to the top because it just empowered everyone that DOESN&#x27;T have one such system. It&#x27;s filled with finger pointing. Most of the replies basically point out yeah, I hate IoT lights, but this use case is good... It&#x27;s not genuine to dismiss the entire enchilada because YOU don&#x27;t have it. In 5 years when all the crap is worked out and you eventually buy a system with extra security at your door or backyard, or a something to that effect I&#x27;d like you to come back and admit it.</text></item><item><author>dustinmoris</author><text>Smart people don&#x27;t buy smart home devices.<p>My relatively poor grandparents and my slightly less poor parents had a hard working life, but none of them had to sleep in a dark cold room because the switch to turn the lights on or the heating stopped working. Ever. This problem has been solved by other people many many years ago.<p>Last month I watched a documentary where a billionaire was showing of his multi million mansion and when he wanted to show the camera team his 100k home cinema room they couldn&#x27;t see anything because his smart lighting system was stuck in an update loop and nobody had a clue how to fix it. In the interview he said it&#x27;s not a big deal because he doesn&#x27;t like to have the lights on when watching a movie anyway. L.O.L.<p>If I had a 100k cinema room then it would be certainly be a big deal to me if I can&#x27;t even see where the heck I&#x27;m walking.<p>In my entire life I never thought &quot;damn, how nice would it be if I could turn on the lights in my bedroom from downstairs on my phone&quot;. It&#x27;s just not a problem which I think people have, but somehow the consumer industry has convinced so many fools to buy cheaply fabricated, badly secured, even worse programmed and often not long supported smart home devices which add absolutely no benefit to anyone&#x27;s everyday life and cause lots of problems.<p>By the time I find my phone lying around in my lounge, unlock it through Face ID or finger touch, open up the home app, find the home device which I want to control, then make whatever change I wanted to do I am much faster to just get my arse up from the couch, walk over and turn it on&#x2F;off with a normal hand movement. On the way I can also grab a beer from the fridge and then continue watching the telly and laugh about some fools who spent 100k on a home cinema without lights.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>stephenr</author><text>&gt; Without a camera, there&#x27;s ~0% chance of anyone being caught.<p>If you&#x27;re only interested in recording what happened (as evidence) an IP camera can run on PoE to a laptop or mini-pc on a UPS, and record for as long as you want, even in the case of a power outage if you include a UPS (an old laptop works well in this case - you can potentially just run the PoE switch&#x2F;injector on the UPS and let the laptop run on its battery).<p>No internet connection required. No &quot;service&quot; to stop working. No &quot;API&quot; to become deprecated.</text></comment> |
13,268,726 | 13,268,040 | 1 | 3 | 13,267,108 | train | <story><title>About Those Air Cushions in Amazon Packages</title><url>https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2016/12/air-cushions/511487/?single_page=true</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>massysett</author><text>Amazon ships a huge box, then loads it halfway with paper or air bubbles. Everything shifts around, so it protects nothing in transit. They often ship non-delicate items like clothes in cardboard boxes, where plastic bags would be less wasteful and more protective. Overall, the result of their shipping is that I spend a lot of time deflating plastic, breaking down boxes, and moving lots of garbage to my garage and, subsequently, the curb. Then a truck hauls it some more. All for packaging that ultimately protected paper towels, or that was so loose that the box rattled anyway. It&#x27;s worse than worthless--it destroys value, takes time, is inconvenient, and hurts the environment, all for no useful result at all.<p>And Amazon does not seem to care. It is so bad that I have shifted purchases offline to Costco in part so I don&#x27;t have to deal with all this shipping waste. Costco doesn&#x27;t even give me a bag.</text></item><item><author>anexprogrammer</author><text>That&#x27;s sensible. What isn&#x27;t is the often <i>vast</i> oversize of Amazon packaging. Like sending one hard drive in a 2cu ft box with lots of packaging. There&#x27;s now lots of scope for the item to move around so the single item inevitably ends up in a corner against the outer box.<p>Amazon never seem to actually bubble wrap anything any more - which has led to damage more than once. Neither the string of air pockets, as in the article, or paper is as effective as they rarely use enough to prevent movement.<p>Here in the UK Amazon seems to have switched solely to paper inner packaging. Environmentally I prefer this.</text></item><item><author>greglindahl</author><text>UPS wants 2 inches of space between the product and the outer box... keeps real damage from happening if the outer box is slightly punctured by something.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ups.com&#x2F;content&#x2F;us&#x2F;en&#x2F;resources&#x2F;ship&#x2F;packaging&#x2F;guidelines&#x2F;how_to2.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ups.com&#x2F;content&#x2F;us&#x2F;en&#x2F;resources&#x2F;ship&#x2F;packaging&#x2F;g...</a></text></item><item><author>krapp</author><text>I had to package and tape boxes at an Amazon fulfillment center over peak season one day.<p>One of the &quot;problems&quot; I found with the process is the system tells you the size of box to use. You&#x27;re not allowed to use a smaller size, even if it would work, only that size or larger. It also tends to overestimate the size of the item, so many boxes wind up with a lot more empty space than would be necessary, and more packing.<p>I&#x27;m sure this bias is intentional, but I found it odd at the time.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>function_seven</author><text>I recently ordered this decal[1]. It came in this box[2].<p>If you don’t want to visit the links below, the sticker is 4 inches square, and the box is 7” x 5” x 10”. Why a cardboard mailer wasn’t enough, I don’t know. At least the seven air pouches included with it protected it from high G forces...<p>1. <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;a.co&#x2F;ew4OGOB" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;a.co&#x2F;ew4OGOB</a>
2. <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;imgur.com&#x2F;qCsvJu7" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;imgur.com&#x2F;qCsvJu7</a></text></comment> | <story><title>About Those Air Cushions in Amazon Packages</title><url>https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2016/12/air-cushions/511487/?single_page=true</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>massysett</author><text>Amazon ships a huge box, then loads it halfway with paper or air bubbles. Everything shifts around, so it protects nothing in transit. They often ship non-delicate items like clothes in cardboard boxes, where plastic bags would be less wasteful and more protective. Overall, the result of their shipping is that I spend a lot of time deflating plastic, breaking down boxes, and moving lots of garbage to my garage and, subsequently, the curb. Then a truck hauls it some more. All for packaging that ultimately protected paper towels, or that was so loose that the box rattled anyway. It&#x27;s worse than worthless--it destroys value, takes time, is inconvenient, and hurts the environment, all for no useful result at all.<p>And Amazon does not seem to care. It is so bad that I have shifted purchases offline to Costco in part so I don&#x27;t have to deal with all this shipping waste. Costco doesn&#x27;t even give me a bag.</text></item><item><author>anexprogrammer</author><text>That&#x27;s sensible. What isn&#x27;t is the often <i>vast</i> oversize of Amazon packaging. Like sending one hard drive in a 2cu ft box with lots of packaging. There&#x27;s now lots of scope for the item to move around so the single item inevitably ends up in a corner against the outer box.<p>Amazon never seem to actually bubble wrap anything any more - which has led to damage more than once. Neither the string of air pockets, as in the article, or paper is as effective as they rarely use enough to prevent movement.<p>Here in the UK Amazon seems to have switched solely to paper inner packaging. Environmentally I prefer this.</text></item><item><author>greglindahl</author><text>UPS wants 2 inches of space between the product and the outer box... keeps real damage from happening if the outer box is slightly punctured by something.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ups.com&#x2F;content&#x2F;us&#x2F;en&#x2F;resources&#x2F;ship&#x2F;packaging&#x2F;guidelines&#x2F;how_to2.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ups.com&#x2F;content&#x2F;us&#x2F;en&#x2F;resources&#x2F;ship&#x2F;packaging&#x2F;g...</a></text></item><item><author>krapp</author><text>I had to package and tape boxes at an Amazon fulfillment center over peak season one day.<p>One of the &quot;problems&quot; I found with the process is the system tells you the size of box to use. You&#x27;re not allowed to use a smaller size, even if it would work, only that size or larger. It also tends to overestimate the size of the item, so many boxes wind up with a lot more empty space than would be necessary, and more packing.<p>I&#x27;m sure this bias is intentional, but I found it odd at the time.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>huac</author><text>Amazon owns East Dane&#x2F;ShopBop, clothing sites which do always use plastic bags. I guess for mainline Amazon they don&#x27;t care enough about to differentiate what they ship products in.</text></comment> |
26,134,194 | 26,134,046 | 1 | 2 | 26,131,178 | train | <story><title>The complexity that lives in the GUI</title><url>https://blog.royalsloth.eu/posts/the-complexity-that-lives-in-the-gui/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>brundolf</author><text>The fundamental challenge of GUIs is that they have state as a core concern. Unlike most systems, state is not an implementation detail that can be refactored away. It is central to the problem domain. The <i>end user</i> sees and cares about having a stateful system.<p>The hardest part of dealing with state in a complex system is maintaining consistency in different places. Some instances of this this can be avoided by creating single-sources-of-truth, but in other cases you can&#x27;t unify your state, or you&#x27;re dealing with an external stateful system (like the DOM), and you have no choice but to find a way to keep separate pieces of state in sync.<p>I should probably write a blog post on this</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>danielvaughn</author><text>You could conceive of a GUI as merely a projection of internal state. If you do, then a GUI could be a completely stateless layer that exists solely to render visual content parametrically.<p>I&#x27;ve been developing a convention in React over the last year that uses this idea and it&#x27;s very very nice. I&#x27;m also trying to write a platform-agnostic UI language specifically for designers that makes this a first class concept.</text></comment> | <story><title>The complexity that lives in the GUI</title><url>https://blog.royalsloth.eu/posts/the-complexity-that-lives-in-the-gui/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>brundolf</author><text>The fundamental challenge of GUIs is that they have state as a core concern. Unlike most systems, state is not an implementation detail that can be refactored away. It is central to the problem domain. The <i>end user</i> sees and cares about having a stateful system.<p>The hardest part of dealing with state in a complex system is maintaining consistency in different places. Some instances of this this can be avoided by creating single-sources-of-truth, but in other cases you can&#x27;t unify your state, or you&#x27;re dealing with an external stateful system (like the DOM), and you have no choice but to find a way to keep separate pieces of state in sync.<p>I should probably write a blog post on this</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rwmj</author><text>The way Tcl&#x2F;Tk dealt with this was nice: You could watch the value in a variable, getting notified when the variable changed. GUI controls could therefore exactly reflect the content of variables. Of course this comes with a certain hidden overhead.<p>This complete example will toggle the checkbox every second (1000ms), or the user can click to update the variable. The checkbox watches variable &quot;v&quot;.<p><pre><code> #!&#x2F;usr&#x2F;bin&#x2F;wish
checkbutton .button -variable v -text &quot;Click me&quot;
pack .button
proc run {} {
global v
after 1000 run
set v [expr !$v]
}
run</code></pre></text></comment> |
7,797,890 | 7,797,584 | 1 | 2 | 7,796,794 | train | <story><title>US man finds lost mother in an isolated Amazon tribe</title><url>http://nypost.com/2014/05/24/son-finds-his-lost-mother-in-a-stone-age-tribe/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>phaus</author><text>&gt;Old men marrying children is common in many parts of the world.<p>There are quite a few shitty people in the world. As much as many of us hate to admit it, there are also quite a few shitty cultures. Any 36 year-old man, from any culture that has ever existed, that finds it acceptable to marry a 9-12 year old and then start raping her when she&#x27;s 13 is a piece of shit. Any culture or individual that condones such behavior shouldn&#x27;t exist anymore.</text></item><item><author>DanBC</author><text>Old men marrying children is common in many parts of the world.<p><a href="http://www.unicef.org/protection/57929_58008.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.unicef.org&#x2F;protection&#x2F;57929_58008.html</a><p><a href="http://tooyoungtowed.org/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;tooyoungtowed.org&#x2F;</a></text></item><item><author>mherkender</author><text>Wow, his father sounds like a piece of work.<p>He decides that culture is the only real reason he shouldn&#x27;t marry someone who was &quot;about 9 to 12&quot; when he&#x27;s 36. Then his long absences put her at risk of being brutally gang-raped, which happens. She ends up in the US, and eventually goes back without her kids. He tells his kids nothing about her, why she left, who she is, but still has his son beg her to come back in front of a video camera. His son thinks she abandoned him and becomes an alcoholic by 14. The guy says “We weren’t a touchy-feely, talk-about-things kind of family&quot;.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>fallinghawks</author><text>&gt; Any 36 year-old man ... that finds it acceptable to marry a 9-12 year old and then start raping her when she&#x27;s 13 is a piece of shit<p>I would assume she fully expected to have sex with her husband, 13 years old or not. To suggest this was rape, against her will, is a bit preposterous and an incorrect usage of the word. At the same time I find it reprehensible that a 36 year old American, whose culture says underage is below 18, would get involved with what we&#x27;d consider a child.</text></comment> | <story><title>US man finds lost mother in an isolated Amazon tribe</title><url>http://nypost.com/2014/05/24/son-finds-his-lost-mother-in-a-stone-age-tribe/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>phaus</author><text>&gt;Old men marrying children is common in many parts of the world.<p>There are quite a few shitty people in the world. As much as many of us hate to admit it, there are also quite a few shitty cultures. Any 36 year-old man, from any culture that has ever existed, that finds it acceptable to marry a 9-12 year old and then start raping her when she&#x27;s 13 is a piece of shit. Any culture or individual that condones such behavior shouldn&#x27;t exist anymore.</text></item><item><author>DanBC</author><text>Old men marrying children is common in many parts of the world.<p><a href="http://www.unicef.org/protection/57929_58008.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.unicef.org&#x2F;protection&#x2F;57929_58008.html</a><p><a href="http://tooyoungtowed.org/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;tooyoungtowed.org&#x2F;</a></text></item><item><author>mherkender</author><text>Wow, his father sounds like a piece of work.<p>He decides that culture is the only real reason he shouldn&#x27;t marry someone who was &quot;about 9 to 12&quot; when he&#x27;s 36. Then his long absences put her at risk of being brutally gang-raped, which happens. She ends up in the US, and eventually goes back without her kids. He tells his kids nothing about her, why she left, who she is, but still has his son beg her to come back in front of a video camera. His son thinks she abandoned him and becomes an alcoholic by 14. The guy says “We weren’t a touchy-feely, talk-about-things kind of family&quot;.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jackmaney</author><text>I couldn&#x27;t have said it any better, myself. Not all cultures are good. Quite a few of them are, in fact, terrible, and should no longer exist.</text></comment> |
19,315,505 | 19,315,388 | 1 | 2 | 19,314,999 | train | <story><title>Chunkwm – a tiling window manager for macOS</title><url>https://koekeishiya.github.io/chunkwm</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>comboy</author><text>I can&#x27;t zoom the text on this website. I don&#x27;t want to generalize to wm design choices but why, why would people do that on some sites, why is this even technically possible.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>fao_</author><text>It&#x27;s negative accessibility, if you zoom the text gets smaller.</text></comment> | <story><title>Chunkwm – a tiling window manager for macOS</title><url>https://koekeishiya.github.io/chunkwm</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>comboy</author><text>I can&#x27;t zoom the text on this website. I don&#x27;t want to generalize to wm design choices but why, why would people do that on some sites, why is this even technically possible.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>aboutruby</author><text>I have compiled a few usability issues from their website: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;koekeishiya&#x2F;chunkwm&#x2F;issues&#x2F;576" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;koekeishiya&#x2F;chunkwm&#x2F;issues&#x2F;576</a></text></comment> |
37,311,563 | 37,310,452 | 1 | 2 | 37,305,338 | train | <story><title>Why does the USA use 110V and UK use 230-240V? (2014)</title><url>https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/115200/why-does-the-usa-use-110v-and-uk-use-230-240v</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mhandley</author><text>According to Twinings tea:<p><i>Always use freshly drawn (filtered if possible) cold water in the kettle. Tea loves oxygen as it helps the flavour develop.</i><p><i>Most of us are guilty of the following... looking at the kettle seeing there is some old, used water in there and simply re-boiling.</i><p><i>If you keep re-boiling the water in the kettle, it loses all of its oxygen and you’ll be left with a really flat cup of tea.</i><p><i>If you boil the kettle with fresh water, you’ll have a delicious cup of oxygenated tea that tastes divine.</i><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twinings.co.uk&#x2F;blogs&#x2F;news&#x2F;how-to-make-a-cup-of-tea-perfectly" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twinings.co.uk&#x2F;blogs&#x2F;news&#x2F;how-to-make-a-cup-of-tea-p...</a><p>I&#x27;m not sure how much difference this makes, but when I use the hot water boiler at work, the tea definitely tastes slightly off compared to using a kettle at home. But it&#x27;s also possible the hot water boiler at work is not producing hot enough water.</text></item><item><author>jedberg</author><text>I have a question for you as a Brit. I live in an Asian household (my wife is Asian). We have a hot water boiler, as most Asian households do. It keeps 4L of water at &quot;tea&quot; temperature at all times (after boiling it).<p>When we want tea, we just fill up the cup with the already boiled and ready water. It&#x27;s super efficient because it&#x27;s super insulated so it barely takes any energy to keep it hot after it&#x27;s been boiled.<p>Why don&#x27;t Brits (and other tea drinking cultures in Europe) do this?</text></item><item><author>mhandley</author><text>As a Brit, the best thing about 230v is being able to run a 3kW kettle to make my tea. I took this for granted until I moved to the US.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>benhurmarcel</author><text>Honestly if it’s to put Twinings in it, it doesn’t really matter.</text></comment> | <story><title>Why does the USA use 110V and UK use 230-240V? (2014)</title><url>https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/115200/why-does-the-usa-use-110v-and-uk-use-230-240v</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mhandley</author><text>According to Twinings tea:<p><i>Always use freshly drawn (filtered if possible) cold water in the kettle. Tea loves oxygen as it helps the flavour develop.</i><p><i>Most of us are guilty of the following... looking at the kettle seeing there is some old, used water in there and simply re-boiling.</i><p><i>If you keep re-boiling the water in the kettle, it loses all of its oxygen and you’ll be left with a really flat cup of tea.</i><p><i>If you boil the kettle with fresh water, you’ll have a delicious cup of oxygenated tea that tastes divine.</i><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twinings.co.uk&#x2F;blogs&#x2F;news&#x2F;how-to-make-a-cup-of-tea-perfectly" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twinings.co.uk&#x2F;blogs&#x2F;news&#x2F;how-to-make-a-cup-of-tea-p...</a><p>I&#x27;m not sure how much difference this makes, but when I use the hot water boiler at work, the tea definitely tastes slightly off compared to using a kettle at home. But it&#x27;s also possible the hot water boiler at work is not producing hot enough water.</text></item><item><author>jedberg</author><text>I have a question for you as a Brit. I live in an Asian household (my wife is Asian). We have a hot water boiler, as most Asian households do. It keeps 4L of water at &quot;tea&quot; temperature at all times (after boiling it).<p>When we want tea, we just fill up the cup with the already boiled and ready water. It&#x27;s super efficient because it&#x27;s super insulated so it barely takes any energy to keep it hot after it&#x27;s been boiled.<p>Why don&#x27;t Brits (and other tea drinking cultures in Europe) do this?</text></item><item><author>mhandley</author><text>As a Brit, the best thing about 230v is being able to run a 3kW kettle to make my tea. I took this for granted until I moved to the US.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Astronaut3315</author><text>An Asian style water boiler maintains the temp just below boiling, so there isn’t any reboiling throughout the day. Think of it as a water boiling thermos.<p>You’re meant to replace the water daily. Not sure how many follow that guideline.<p>ETA: Only the so-called “hybrid” models have vacuum insulation. It’s worth the extra charge.</text></comment> |
3,512,929 | 3,512,960 | 1 | 3 | 3,512,842 | train | <story><title>Reddit: 2012 State of the Servers</title><url>http://blog.reddit.com/2012/01/january-2012-state-of-servers.html</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>gameshot911</author><text>Having no experience with database/website administration myself, I'm struck by just how <i>little</i> I'm able to translate the works and concepts in this post into actual, manual labor.<p>For each and every thing that Jason talked about...upgrading Cassandra, moving off EBS, embarking on self-heal and auto-scale projects...what took the reader a few seconds to read and cognise undoubtedly represented hours and hours of work on the part of the Reddit admins.<p>I guess it's just the nature of the human mind. I don't think I could ever fully appreciate the amount of work that goes into <i>any</i> project unless I've been through it myself (and even then, the brain is awesome at minimizing the memory of pain). So Reddit admins, if you're reading this, while I certainly can't fully appreciate the amount of labor and life-force you've dedicated to the site, I honestly do appreciate it, and I wish you guys nothing but success in the future!</text></comment> | <story><title>Reddit: 2012 State of the Servers</title><url>http://blog.reddit.com/2012/01/january-2012-state-of-servers.html</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>thought_alarm</author><text>It reminds me of Slashdot circa 1998/99, back when we watched those guys grow their then-new-found popularity out of a dorm-room Linux box; at a time when the web was a mere fraction of the size it is today.<p>Godspeed, reddit. You're on the right track.</text></comment> |
27,887,299 | 27,887,436 | 1 | 3 | 27,886,900 | train | <story><title>A proof P = NP was accidentally published in TOCT</title><url>https://twitter.com/danluu/status/1417215848633159689</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>gberger</author><text>Here is some additional context: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;rrwilliams&#x2F;status&#x2F;1417161397960646658" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;rrwilliams&#x2F;status&#x2F;1417161397960646658</a></text></comment> | <story><title>A proof P = NP was accidentally published in TOCT</title><url>https://twitter.com/danluu/status/1417215848633159689</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>allochthon</author><text>Can someone in the know unpack what&#x27;s going on here for a less-informed audience? I know vaguely about the outstanding question of whether P = NP, and how it&#x27;s generally thought that P is not equal to NP. But beyond that most of the context here is unknown to me.</text></comment> |
9,748,478 | 9,748,492 | 1 | 3 | 9,747,131 | train | <story><title>The Greatest Good: What is the best charitable cause in the world?</title><url>http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2015/06/what-is-the-greatest-good/395768?single_page=true</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>reasonattlm</author><text>Clearly the SENS Research Foundation, as a 501c3 charity that gives you the 80&#x2F;20 win for a good expectation value for your dollars to do the most good in speeding up progress towards ending age-related disease. If you want to do better than the SRF at assigning dollars to speeding up progress towards ending age-related disease, you&#x27;re going to have to spend some years reading research and making connections. (I wish more people would, actually, no such thing as too much help here).<p>Age-related disease kills ~100,000 people every day, and causes horrible day to day suffering for hundreds of millions of others. Nothing else comes even close as a single presently addressable cause of terrible things in the world, and lack of money is the greatest obstacle to progress towards meaningful treatments that address the root causes of aging and thus all age-related disease.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>baddox</author><text>Even if you assume that ending age-related disease is the best cause, you also have to estimate the likelihood of them actually being successful and weight your recommendations by that likelihood.</text></comment> | <story><title>The Greatest Good: What is the best charitable cause in the world?</title><url>http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2015/06/what-is-the-greatest-good/395768?single_page=true</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>reasonattlm</author><text>Clearly the SENS Research Foundation, as a 501c3 charity that gives you the 80&#x2F;20 win for a good expectation value for your dollars to do the most good in speeding up progress towards ending age-related disease. If you want to do better than the SRF at assigning dollars to speeding up progress towards ending age-related disease, you&#x27;re going to have to spend some years reading research and making connections. (I wish more people would, actually, no such thing as too much help here).<p>Age-related disease kills ~100,000 people every day, and causes horrible day to day suffering for hundreds of millions of others. Nothing else comes even close as a single presently addressable cause of terrible things in the world, and lack of money is the greatest obstacle to progress towards meaningful treatments that address the root causes of aging and thus all age-related disease.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bhouston</author><text>SENS Research Foundation is made for relatively wealthy people who already have money and health who want to live longer. Do they have any successes or measures of efficiency? It seems like science fiction pie in the sky research by a small group of true believers.</text></comment> |
843,007 | 842,919 | 1 | 2 | 842,685 | train | <story><title>Doug McIlroy: McCarthy Presents Lisp</title><url>http://www.paulgraham.com/mcilroy.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Keyframe</author><text>I always wondered why Lisp is dead in the water. I got replies from people that never professorially coded anything in Lisp or Scheme (yeah..) - argument was along the lines that in the past hardware was always dictating lower level languages and leagues of people were taught the ways of the everyday code that was only a few (if any) levels above the hardware. Thus, all of the primitives of the age (ASM, C, Pascal, whatnot).<p>However, I don't think that is the main story here. It sure is a big part, but not main for sure. I mean, there were LISP systems in usage at the big boys houses where money/hardware was no object. Later on, Moore law brought us supercomputers of the past to our desktops and we got C++, Java and Python; Even Ada was formed and deployed.<p>So, what's the deal? My primary focus in life has been computer graphics, and my first language was C. I was born in 1980 and my early serious computer endeavor is inherently tied to the Amiga platform (SAS C and alike), so I didn't have exposure to other language paradigms at all until later.<p>Later on, through a marvelous turns of event I was exposed to Scheme and at first I didn't "get it" - but there was this epiphany moment or two where I could see almost everything I needed in computer language for my needs, yet it was so simple.<p>Not to bore you more with details - I always wanted to get into game development. Career of TV and Commercials direction happened in the mean time, and now I am back into making my game development ideal a reality. My weapon of choice is D/Tango, since it really best suites my mindset. However, after seeing a PPT/PDF from naughty dog earlier this year about how they have utilized an embedded PLT Scheme, I came to wonder once again about maybe using Scheme as a scripting language after all.<p>tl;dr; Can anyone, preferably a pro Lisp or Scheme developer give a rationale why it isn't used more often? Everything I've read makes absolutely no sense why it isn't. Oh, and about the python argument that gets thrown around - I like the python as the next guy, but let's not fool ourselves.<p>&#60;/rant&#62;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>derefr</author><text>I'm not a pro Lisper, but I think reasons offered for this include:<p>* The AI winter (with Lisp, at the time, being seen as "the AI language")<p>* The heavy-cost and closed nature of the toolchain, and lack of standardization between toolchains, when industry was searching for a language to rally behind several decades ago<p>* The continued lack of standardization on all the "included batteries" when the open source movement was looking for languages to adopt for scripting a decade ago<p>* The deep semantic rabbit-hole a Lisp codebase can turn into when any macro-like functionality is used, meaning that a programmer has to basically learn every project as its own language (that is, DSL) before they can get to work—further meaning that projects grow a sense of individual stewardship/artistic direction, and become harder to work on by hiring committees and one-off contractors<p>* The continued outside impression of Lisps as slow, pure-functional and academic (even though most today are none of those)<p>* The unwillingness for most Lisps to embrace the Unix philosophy (meaning that it's easier to write a web browser in e-lisp than to loosely couple to one already written in some other language. Clojure is basically the only Lisp that escapes this, cleanly interoperating with the APIs of other languages... on the JVM, which itself throws Unix design principles out the window.)<p>I'm sure there are more well-founded answers, but all of those came to mind on my road to accepting Lisp.</text></comment> | <story><title>Doug McIlroy: McCarthy Presents Lisp</title><url>http://www.paulgraham.com/mcilroy.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Keyframe</author><text>I always wondered why Lisp is dead in the water. I got replies from people that never professorially coded anything in Lisp or Scheme (yeah..) - argument was along the lines that in the past hardware was always dictating lower level languages and leagues of people were taught the ways of the everyday code that was only a few (if any) levels above the hardware. Thus, all of the primitives of the age (ASM, C, Pascal, whatnot).<p>However, I don't think that is the main story here. It sure is a big part, but not main for sure. I mean, there were LISP systems in usage at the big boys houses where money/hardware was no object. Later on, Moore law brought us supercomputers of the past to our desktops and we got C++, Java and Python; Even Ada was formed and deployed.<p>So, what's the deal? My primary focus in life has been computer graphics, and my first language was C. I was born in 1980 and my early serious computer endeavor is inherently tied to the Amiga platform (SAS C and alike), so I didn't have exposure to other language paradigms at all until later.<p>Later on, through a marvelous turns of event I was exposed to Scheme and at first I didn't "get it" - but there was this epiphany moment or two where I could see almost everything I needed in computer language for my needs, yet it was so simple.<p>Not to bore you more with details - I always wanted to get into game development. Career of TV and Commercials direction happened in the mean time, and now I am back into making my game development ideal a reality. My weapon of choice is D/Tango, since it really best suites my mindset. However, after seeing a PPT/PDF from naughty dog earlier this year about how they have utilized an embedded PLT Scheme, I came to wonder once again about maybe using Scheme as a scripting language after all.<p>tl;dr; Can anyone, preferably a pro Lisp or Scheme developer give a rationale why it isn't used more often? Everything I've read makes absolutely no sense why it isn't. Oh, and about the python argument that gets thrown around - I like the python as the next guy, but let's not fool ourselves.<p>&#60;/rant&#62;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mahmud</author><text><i>Can anyone, preferably a pro Lisp or Scheme developer give a rationale why it isn't used more often?</i><p>You will need to bite bullets, take responsibilities and own projects and budgets if you want to use lisp at "work". I am doing my current project in Common Lisp, all the way down. It wasn't always like that; I started as project manager for a tiny but growing PHP codebase. The application domain is both too broad, and also error prone; a large web application <i>platform</i>. There are both budget and time constraints and corporate buyers are on our ass daily.<p>Between conference calls and discussions with the outsourcing company that was doing our project, I decided to prototype it on the side in CL and see how far I can go. Honestly, I prototyped it just to see if I understood the application domain. The programmers where coming to me on an hourly basis asking questions and it came down to the level where I had to spoon-feed them fully specified PHP classes, well documented API designs and database models. These guys were just typing out my sweat and getting paid for it.<p>I bit the bullet, took full responsibility, looked my boss in the eye and and said it was now MY project.</text></comment> |
13,982,481 | 13,982,267 | 1 | 3 | 13,981,184 | train | <story><title>The House just voted to wipe out the FCC’s landmark Internet privacy protections</title><url>https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2017/03/28/the-house-just-voted-to-wipe-out-the-fccs-landmark-internet-privacy-protections/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>0xa</author><text>The reality is more nuanced--the time to stop this legislation was by preventing it coming to vote in the senate. Typically the senate needs 60 votes to forcefully end debate[0], then merely majority to pass it. Once can disguise support for a bill by approving to end debate, then voting &quot;Nay&quot; given it will get the necessary 50 to be approved.<p>For JS 34 [1] Mitch McConnell (R, KY) limited debate to 10 minutes--I&#x27;m unclear from the transcript exactly how this was allowed. Richard Blumenthal (D, CT) offered resistance to limiting debate, and Kamala Harris (D, CA) and Patrick Leahy (D, VT) requested the role be called several times as a delaying tactic, but the limiting of debate went through.<p>Just prior to the vote, Brian Schatz (D, HI) offered some debate, but this is cosmetic given the known votes.<p>My read there is little to be gained by trying to legislate implementation power that has been ceded to the executive branch and the various agencies that are run by appointment, and therefore a costly filibuster and fight was not worth the time, effort and political mud.<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.senate.gov&#x2F;CRSpubs&#x2F;577d2a5e-2b47-4045-95fa-a76398e41461.pdf" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.senate.gov&#x2F;CRSpubs&#x2F;577d2a5e-2b47-4045-95fa-a7639...</a><p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.congress.gov&#x2F;congressional-record&#x2F;2017&#x2F;03&#x2F;23&#x2F;senate-section&#x2F;article&#x2F;S1942-4" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.congress.gov&#x2F;congressional-record&#x2F;2017&#x2F;03&#x2F;23&#x2F;sen...</a></text></item><item><author>ComradeTaco</author><text>The votes in both the house and the senate were almost entirely along party lines. Every republican in the senate that voted, voted for this act and every democrat in the senate that voted, voted against this act.</text></item><item><author>pnathan</author><text>This, right here, is the consequence of the withdrawal from politics many geeks advocated very strongly in an earlier time. &quot;Everything is corrupt, it doesn&#x27;t matter&quot;... turns out to only be a viable philosophy when things <i>mostly work well enough</i>.<p>What we have in protections and freedoms were purchased through a ton of hard work by prior generations: the liberty to slack and think that it just works ok is a nice side effect of the prior sweat.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>entee</author><text>You can&#x27;t do that for rule repeals, they are only subject to a majority vote in the senate:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Congressional_Review_Act" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Congressional_Review_Act</a><p>Relevant section:<p><i>The law provides a procedure for expedited consideration in the Senate. If the committee to which a joint resolution is referred has not reported it out within 20 calendar days after referral, it may be discharged from further consideration by a written petition of 30 Members of the Senate, at which point the measure is placed on the calendar, and it is in order at any time for a Senator to move to proceed to the joint resolution.[7] If the Senate agrees to the motion to proceed, debate on the floor is limited to 10 hours and no amendments to the resolution or motions to proceed to other business are in order, and so the Senate may pass the joint resolution with a simple majority.[7] A joint resolution of disapproval meeting certain criteria cannot be filibustered.[8]</i></text></comment> | <story><title>The House just voted to wipe out the FCC’s landmark Internet privacy protections</title><url>https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2017/03/28/the-house-just-voted-to-wipe-out-the-fccs-landmark-internet-privacy-protections/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>0xa</author><text>The reality is more nuanced--the time to stop this legislation was by preventing it coming to vote in the senate. Typically the senate needs 60 votes to forcefully end debate[0], then merely majority to pass it. Once can disguise support for a bill by approving to end debate, then voting &quot;Nay&quot; given it will get the necessary 50 to be approved.<p>For JS 34 [1] Mitch McConnell (R, KY) limited debate to 10 minutes--I&#x27;m unclear from the transcript exactly how this was allowed. Richard Blumenthal (D, CT) offered resistance to limiting debate, and Kamala Harris (D, CA) and Patrick Leahy (D, VT) requested the role be called several times as a delaying tactic, but the limiting of debate went through.<p>Just prior to the vote, Brian Schatz (D, HI) offered some debate, but this is cosmetic given the known votes.<p>My read there is little to be gained by trying to legislate implementation power that has been ceded to the executive branch and the various agencies that are run by appointment, and therefore a costly filibuster and fight was not worth the time, effort and political mud.<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.senate.gov&#x2F;CRSpubs&#x2F;577d2a5e-2b47-4045-95fa-a76398e41461.pdf" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.senate.gov&#x2F;CRSpubs&#x2F;577d2a5e-2b47-4045-95fa-a7639...</a><p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.congress.gov&#x2F;congressional-record&#x2F;2017&#x2F;03&#x2F;23&#x2F;senate-section&#x2F;article&#x2F;S1942-4" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.congress.gov&#x2F;congressional-record&#x2F;2017&#x2F;03&#x2F;23&#x2F;sen...</a></text></item><item><author>ComradeTaco</author><text>The votes in both the house and the senate were almost entirely along party lines. Every republican in the senate that voted, voted for this act and every democrat in the senate that voted, voted against this act.</text></item><item><author>pnathan</author><text>This, right here, is the consequence of the withdrawal from politics many geeks advocated very strongly in an earlier time. &quot;Everything is corrupt, it doesn&#x27;t matter&quot;... turns out to only be a viable philosophy when things <i>mostly work well enough</i>.<p>What we have in protections and freedoms were purchased through a ton of hard work by prior generations: the liberty to slack and think that it just works ok is a nice side effect of the prior sweat.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mayneack</author><text>I don&#x27;t quite agree with &quot;typically&quot;. The numbers of filibusters (and cloture votes) has radically increased in recent history, but I&#x27;m not sure if you can really call it the default behavior yet.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Filibuster_in_the_United_States_Senate#21st_century" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Filibuster_in_the_United_State...</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.senate.gov&#x2F;pagelayout&#x2F;reference&#x2F;cloture_motions&#x2F;clotureCounts.htm" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.senate.gov&#x2F;pagelayout&#x2F;reference&#x2F;cloture_motions&#x2F;...</a><p>Also, it&#x27;s not even applied to 50% of resolutions:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.govtrack.us&#x2F;congress&#x2F;bills&#x2F;statistics" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.govtrack.us&#x2F;congress&#x2F;bills&#x2F;statistics</a></text></comment> |
27,682,587 | 27,681,553 | 1 | 2 | 27,676,666 | train | <story><title>Walmart unveils low-price analog insulin amid rising diabetes drug costs</title><url>https://www.cnbc.com/2021/06/29/walmart-unveils-low-price-analog-insulin-amid-rising-diabetes-drug-costs.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>giarc</author><text>How is this sold to Americans as a good option? Is it that you have &quot;choice&quot; of insurance providers? Is it that you might pay less if you are healthy? I don&#x27;t get it, why do so many American&#x27;s vote in politicians who advocate for this type of healthcare?!</text></item><item><author>mustacheemperor</author><text>You get a whole <i>check-up</i> per year at that rate? Here in the states I had to see a doctor (in network with my health insurance) twice during the pandemic, each visit lasted under 40 minutes in an online video call, combined cost out of pocket: $1000 USD.</text></item><item><author>memetcn</author><text>It absolutely blows my mind that people are hyped about a Supermarket started selling insulin at low cost.<p>And I&#x27;m writing from Turkey which you would think it would be terrible in managing any public infrastructure including health.<p>My company pays equivalent to 400 USD per year for private health insurance, gives me unlimited access for surgeries, any treatment that I need to stay at hospital and a check-up per year. The insurance is valid in any private hospital including the ones that look like straight out of Space Odyssey.<p>You know what&#x27;s more interesting? If you think this is a good deal, then almost everyone in Turkey thinks this kind of service should be provided by public healthcare system and demand it. Not only for the people that can pay 400 USD per year.<p>edit: I realized it sounds like you need to pay 400 USD for unlimited healthcare but you don&#x27;t need to pay anything for the state hospitals. The insurance is for zero-cost treatment at the private hospitals. You do pay a contribution fee around 3-5 USD for every visit plus prescription at the state hospitals though. I believe it is for discouraging unnecessary visits to the hospitals but even that causes a stir.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dcolkitt</author><text>The high cost of healthcare in the US has very little to do with the structure of insurance. Insurance industry profits only account for 2% of aggregate medical expenditures.<p>The reason that Turkish healthcare is much cheaper than American healthcare is primarily because Turkish doctors are paid much less than American doctors. (As are Turkish nurses, and Turkish drug and device wholesalers, and so on.) There&#x27;s a very simple solution to that. All you have to do is let Turkish doctors come to the United States and practice medicine. Or better yet let Turkish hospitals open entire branches in the United States and wholesale import their staff, equipment, and drugs from Turkey.<p>The reason that doesn&#x27;t happen is because we have a cartel called the American Medical Association that continuously lobbies for antiquated barriers to foreign competition. Unless a physician does a residency in America (which good luck, if you&#x27;re a foreigner from a foreign school), you will never be allowed to practice in the US.</text></comment> | <story><title>Walmart unveils low-price analog insulin amid rising diabetes drug costs</title><url>https://www.cnbc.com/2021/06/29/walmart-unveils-low-price-analog-insulin-amid-rising-diabetes-drug-costs.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>giarc</author><text>How is this sold to Americans as a good option? Is it that you have &quot;choice&quot; of insurance providers? Is it that you might pay less if you are healthy? I don&#x27;t get it, why do so many American&#x27;s vote in politicians who advocate for this type of healthcare?!</text></item><item><author>mustacheemperor</author><text>You get a whole <i>check-up</i> per year at that rate? Here in the states I had to see a doctor (in network with my health insurance) twice during the pandemic, each visit lasted under 40 minutes in an online video call, combined cost out of pocket: $1000 USD.</text></item><item><author>memetcn</author><text>It absolutely blows my mind that people are hyped about a Supermarket started selling insulin at low cost.<p>And I&#x27;m writing from Turkey which you would think it would be terrible in managing any public infrastructure including health.<p>My company pays equivalent to 400 USD per year for private health insurance, gives me unlimited access for surgeries, any treatment that I need to stay at hospital and a check-up per year. The insurance is valid in any private hospital including the ones that look like straight out of Space Odyssey.<p>You know what&#x27;s more interesting? If you think this is a good deal, then almost everyone in Turkey thinks this kind of service should be provided by public healthcare system and demand it. Not only for the people that can pay 400 USD per year.<p>edit: I realized it sounds like you need to pay 400 USD for unlimited healthcare but you don&#x27;t need to pay anything for the state hospitals. The insurance is for zero-cost treatment at the private hospitals. You do pay a contribution fee around 3-5 USD for every visit plus prescription at the state hospitals though. I believe it is for discouraging unnecessary visits to the hospitals but even that causes a stir.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ansible</author><text>The debate in the USA is framed with the implication that if you (the health care consumer) does not have &quot;choice&quot; then you will be forced to only see a really terrible doctor, and get substandard care at a high price. And that, with a little effort on your own part, you will be able to select a better doctor at a affordable price.<p>Therefore, if you have a bad doctor or expensive care, it is your own damn fault. You just didn&#x27;t try hard enough to find a good one.<p>It is the same thing with the debate about school vouchers vs. a standard public education for everyone. A heaping dose of &quot;the free market fixes everything&quot;, for all life&#x27;s problems.<p>I would rather not have a &quot;choice&quot;. I would like to be able to select <i>any</i> nearby doctor, and be assured of getting competent care.<p>I&#x27;m not often in the situation where I have a wacky tropical disease that presents odd and incongruous symptoms, which would take a Dr. House to figure out. I am far more likely to have run-of-the-mill heart disease or a common form of cancer. I just need a doctor with some basic level of competence, who can just listen to me and help me through the common health problems of modern life.</text></comment> |
32,709,891 | 32,709,869 | 1 | 2 | 32,709,201 | train | <story><title>Stable Diffusion PR optimizes VRAM, generate 576x1280 images with 6 GB VRAM</title><url>https://github.com/basujindal/stable-diffusion/pull/103</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>p-e-w</author><text>&gt; And yes, StableDiffusion from the original repo will rick roll you if you try to generate something that triggers its NSFW filter.<p>It goes without saying that the authors of a piece of software have the right to make the software do whatever they want, but that shouldn&#x27;t stop us from recognizing that AI engineers are starting to act like megalomaniac overseers who consider it part of their mission to steer humanity onto the &quot;right&quot; path.<p>Who exactly do these people think they are?<p>Imagine this behavior from a web browser. &quot;The URL of the file you were trying to download triggered my NSFW classifier, so I&#x27;m going to replace the file with this funny image.&quot;<p>This isn&#x27;t funny, it&#x27;s creepy.</text></item><item><author>qdot76367</author><text>For everyone about to comment on the garbage in the commit:<p>It looks like the committer made their changes in the top commit, then merged the updated CompViz StableDiffusion change set on top of it for some reason. That&#x27;s where the license change, rick astley image, etc come from.<p>And yes, StableDiffusion from the original repo will rick roll you if you try to generate something that triggers its NSFW filter.<p>Here&#x27;s the code that does it:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;CompVis&#x2F;stable-diffusion&#x2F;blob&#x2F;main&#x2F;scripts&#x2F;txt2img.py#L79" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;CompVis&#x2F;stable-diffusion&#x2F;blob&#x2F;main&#x2F;script...</a><p>And here&#x27;s what it looks like:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;qDot&#x2F;status&#x2F;1565076751465648128" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;qDot&#x2F;status&#x2F;1565076751465648128</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>qdot76367</author><text>Nah it’s just basic due diligence for releasing an open source app of this nature. Turning it off is a simple one line change, because everything is obviously named. This is not some high wall to scale.<p>As someone that manages nsfw open source projects, this move seems fine to me.<p>And actually kinda hilarious.</text></comment> | <story><title>Stable Diffusion PR optimizes VRAM, generate 576x1280 images with 6 GB VRAM</title><url>https://github.com/basujindal/stable-diffusion/pull/103</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>p-e-w</author><text>&gt; And yes, StableDiffusion from the original repo will rick roll you if you try to generate something that triggers its NSFW filter.<p>It goes without saying that the authors of a piece of software have the right to make the software do whatever they want, but that shouldn&#x27;t stop us from recognizing that AI engineers are starting to act like megalomaniac overseers who consider it part of their mission to steer humanity onto the &quot;right&quot; path.<p>Who exactly do these people think they are?<p>Imagine this behavior from a web browser. &quot;The URL of the file you were trying to download triggered my NSFW classifier, so I&#x27;m going to replace the file with this funny image.&quot;<p>This isn&#x27;t funny, it&#x27;s creepy.</text></item><item><author>qdot76367</author><text>For everyone about to comment on the garbage in the commit:<p>It looks like the committer made their changes in the top commit, then merged the updated CompViz StableDiffusion change set on top of it for some reason. That&#x27;s where the license change, rick astley image, etc come from.<p>And yes, StableDiffusion from the original repo will rick roll you if you try to generate something that triggers its NSFW filter.<p>Here&#x27;s the code that does it:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;CompVis&#x2F;stable-diffusion&#x2F;blob&#x2F;main&#x2F;scripts&#x2F;txt2img.py#L79" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;CompVis&#x2F;stable-diffusion&#x2F;blob&#x2F;main&#x2F;script...</a><p>And here&#x27;s what it looks like:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;qDot&#x2F;status&#x2F;1565076751465648128" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;qDot&#x2F;status&#x2F;1565076751465648128</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>esjeon</author><text>Yeah, but, when it comes to <i>generating</i> NSFW contents, it is illegal to distribute pornographic software in some countries, and doing so can lead to domain blockage and such (i.e. South Korea, believe or not). This is something you gotta understand.<p>Also, if the author wanted to block NSFW contents at all, I&#x27;m pretty sure one can actually make the filter inseparable from the main network. This isn&#x27;t the case here AFAIK.</text></comment> |
34,532,778 | 34,532,623 | 1 | 3 | 34,532,295 | train | <story><title>Tell HN: Confluent laying off 8% of staff</title><text>It hasn&#x27;t been posted publicly but staff recieved an email from the CEO this morning announcing that 8% of staff have been cut in a &quot;restructuring&quot;. This is especially surprising because staff have repeatedly been told that the company has strong cash reserves and is on a trajectory to profitability, even with market headwinds. No word on the breakdown by department or role.</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>voytec</author><text>The real question is: does the CEO take full responsibility?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>f6v</author><text>I mean, it’s a funny joke. But this attitude only upsets people who thought jobs were not transactional. Kind of reminds me of stories by people who paid for sex and found out the sex worker didn’t want to cuddle afterwards.</text></comment> | <story><title>Tell HN: Confluent laying off 8% of staff</title><text>It hasn&#x27;t been posted publicly but staff recieved an email from the CEO this morning announcing that 8% of staff have been cut in a &quot;restructuring&quot;. This is especially surprising because staff have repeatedly been told that the company has strong cash reserves and is on a trajectory to profitability, even with market headwinds. No word on the breakdown by department or role.</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>voytec</author><text>The real question is: does the CEO take full responsibility?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>NotYourLawyer</author><text><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;m.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=u48vYSLvKNQ">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;m.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=u48vYSLvKNQ</a></text></comment> |
29,085,358 | 29,084,585 | 1 | 3 | 29,082,060 | train | <story><title>People prefer friendliness, trustworthiness in teammates over skill competency</title><url>https://www.binghamton.edu/news/story/3318/research-people-prefer-friendliness-trustworthiness-in-teammates-over-skill-competency</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>supernova87a</author><text>I am confused why people are so outraged at the idea that some part of selecting people to work with may be based on whether you get along with them.<p>People are social beings. Part of working together comes from feeling like you want to cooperate. You could have someone who is incredibly smart and clever as your business partner, but will you really feel like you want to go the extra mile for him&#x2F;her? Do you have to watch your back constantly? Do you have the same goals in life? Does every interaction drain energy from you?<p>We come from families, social structures. We have people in our families who are incompetent but we love them. It&#x27;s not unreasonable to think that some of this behavior would continue in our work worlds.<p>&quot;Diversity&quot; in the trendy usage today, for most people still doesn&#x27;t trump whether you want to work with someone, and that hopefully doesn&#x27;t have much to do with race&#x2F;background&#x2F;gender&#x2F;etc. I say hopefully of course, and helping people overcome or not be prejudiced that some characteristic correlates with ability&#x2F;desire to work with them, is an important thing to do.<p>But forcing people to believe that someone&#x27;s &lt;x&gt; characteristic is more important than whether you want to work with them is a recipe for dissatisfaction and backlash against people who insist that it should be so.</text></item><item><author>cletus</author><text>Roger Sterling of Mad Men said it best [1]:<p>&gt; I don&#x27;t know if anyone&#x27;s ever told you that half the time this business comes down to &#x27;I don&#x27;t like that guy.&#x27;<p>In all my years of working, this is probably the most important thing you can learn. Except for marginal cases, it&#x27;s not about how good you are at your job. You just have to be liked while being sufficiently good.<p>It&#x27;s also why the perennial &quot;hiring is broken&quot; posts and threads miss the point completely: really they&#x27;re just trying to find someone they like. It&#x27;s what &quot;culture fit&quot; really means. And people like people like themselves. This is part of what can lead to unlawful discrimination.<p>Trustworthiness is an interesting one as it seems to be hard to define but some people just have it and some don&#x27;t. This has been studied and can have a profound effect on, say, criminal sentencing [2].<p>[1]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;madmenqts&#x2F;status&#x2F;783648743690231808?lang=en" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;madmenqts&#x2F;status&#x2F;783648743690231808?lang...</a><p>[2]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.npr.org&#x2F;sections&#x2F;health-shots&#x2F;2015&#x2F;07&#x2F;17&#x2F;423600926&#x2F;in-court-your-face-could-determine-your-fate" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.npr.org&#x2F;sections&#x2F;health-shots&#x2F;2015&#x2F;07&#x2F;17&#x2F;4236009...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>twoheadedboy</author><text>Because you&#x27;re on a site where a significant portion of the population probably have poor social skills &#x2F; are unlikable but have high degrees of technical skill.<p>If you had this conversation in the real world instead of the internet, everyone would just say &quot;yeah, duh&quot;.</text></comment> | <story><title>People prefer friendliness, trustworthiness in teammates over skill competency</title><url>https://www.binghamton.edu/news/story/3318/research-people-prefer-friendliness-trustworthiness-in-teammates-over-skill-competency</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>supernova87a</author><text>I am confused why people are so outraged at the idea that some part of selecting people to work with may be based on whether you get along with them.<p>People are social beings. Part of working together comes from feeling like you want to cooperate. You could have someone who is incredibly smart and clever as your business partner, but will you really feel like you want to go the extra mile for him&#x2F;her? Do you have to watch your back constantly? Do you have the same goals in life? Does every interaction drain energy from you?<p>We come from families, social structures. We have people in our families who are incompetent but we love them. It&#x27;s not unreasonable to think that some of this behavior would continue in our work worlds.<p>&quot;Diversity&quot; in the trendy usage today, for most people still doesn&#x27;t trump whether you want to work with someone, and that hopefully doesn&#x27;t have much to do with race&#x2F;background&#x2F;gender&#x2F;etc. I say hopefully of course, and helping people overcome or not be prejudiced that some characteristic correlates with ability&#x2F;desire to work with them, is an important thing to do.<p>But forcing people to believe that someone&#x27;s &lt;x&gt; characteristic is more important than whether you want to work with them is a recipe for dissatisfaction and backlash against people who insist that it should be so.</text></item><item><author>cletus</author><text>Roger Sterling of Mad Men said it best [1]:<p>&gt; I don&#x27;t know if anyone&#x27;s ever told you that half the time this business comes down to &#x27;I don&#x27;t like that guy.&#x27;<p>In all my years of working, this is probably the most important thing you can learn. Except for marginal cases, it&#x27;s not about how good you are at your job. You just have to be liked while being sufficiently good.<p>It&#x27;s also why the perennial &quot;hiring is broken&quot; posts and threads miss the point completely: really they&#x27;re just trying to find someone they like. It&#x27;s what &quot;culture fit&quot; really means. And people like people like themselves. This is part of what can lead to unlawful discrimination.<p>Trustworthiness is an interesting one as it seems to be hard to define but some people just have it and some don&#x27;t. This has been studied and can have a profound effect on, say, criminal sentencing [2].<p>[1]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;madmenqts&#x2F;status&#x2F;783648743690231808?lang=en" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;madmenqts&#x2F;status&#x2F;783648743690231808?lang...</a><p>[2]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.npr.org&#x2F;sections&#x2F;health-shots&#x2F;2015&#x2F;07&#x2F;17&#x2F;423600926&#x2F;in-court-your-face-could-determine-your-fate" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.npr.org&#x2F;sections&#x2F;health-shots&#x2F;2015&#x2F;07&#x2F;17&#x2F;4236009...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bennysomething</author><text>Yeah I got kick back on HN for expressing this opinion. There&#x27;s a lot of unexplained reasons why people like each other, dating sites haven&#x27;t cracked this either. But anything unexplained in this realm now seems to immediately explained with &quot;unconscious bias&quot;. I can&#x27;t explain why I like certain people but can&#x27;t stand others.</text></comment> |
34,545,691 | 34,543,423 | 1 | 2 | 34,542,064 | train | <story><title>The Galaga no-fire-cheat mystery (2012)</title><url>https://jasoneckert.github.io/myblog/the-galaga-no-fire-cheat-mystery/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>nmg</author><text>This game was so perfect. One thing I miss about this era was the cacophony of various games as you walked into the arcade. All those machines blaring their sinusoidal siren songs at once. The audio design of Galaga was extraordinary and a huge part of its charm in my opinion, but to truly experience it, you really need to be standing at the machine, fully bathed in it, with a backing chorus of all the other machines chirping and crooning their tunes.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>cainxinth</author><text>The mechanic where you have to potentially sacrifice one of your lives by letting it be captured so that you can try and get it back later for double firing is a stroke of genius. It’s the perfect balance of risk and reward to make things exciting.</text></comment> | <story><title>The Galaga no-fire-cheat mystery (2012)</title><url>https://jasoneckert.github.io/myblog/the-galaga-no-fire-cheat-mystery/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>nmg</author><text>This game was so perfect. One thing I miss about this era was the cacophony of various games as you walked into the arcade. All those machines blaring their sinusoidal siren songs at once. The audio design of Galaga was extraordinary and a huge part of its charm in my opinion, but to truly experience it, you really need to be standing at the machine, fully bathed in it, with a backing chorus of all the other machines chirping and crooning their tunes.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>beebeepka</author><text>I also miss having a crowd looking at what you do. Some would cheer, others would try and get you killed. Practically grew up at the arcades.</text></comment> |
32,558,899 | 32,558,879 | 1 | 3 | 32,558,191 | train | <story><title>Stripe down for 4 hours (and counting) for all those with Stripe Tax enabled</title><url>https://status.stripe.com/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>candiddevmike</author><text>Switched to Paddle earlier this year for other reasons, glad I&#x27;m not affected by this. Paddle is not as pleasant to work with as Stripe from a dev perspective but it also handles so much more that what I need to integrate is tiny compared to Stripe.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>fastball</author><text>We tried to use Paddle for our company but back when we were trialling them they didn&#x27;t even have a dev environment (their suggestion was to create free products in production mode and use those to test dev&#x2F;staging).<p>At that point I nope&#x27;d out of there and moved to Stripe.</text></comment> | <story><title>Stripe down for 4 hours (and counting) for all those with Stripe Tax enabled</title><url>https://status.stripe.com/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>candiddevmike</author><text>Switched to Paddle earlier this year for other reasons, glad I&#x27;m not affected by this. Paddle is not as pleasant to work with as Stripe from a dev perspective but it also handles so much more that what I need to integrate is tiny compared to Stripe.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>brentmitchell25</author><text>We&#x27;re switching ACH to Dwolla since it&#x27;s far cheaper. The 1.25% for the new ACH 2.0 for faster payouts (which we require) is outrageously priced. It basically cut our revenue in half overnight once we got out of the beta for it.</text></comment> |
2,837,704 | 2,837,068 | 1 | 2 | 2,836,883 | train | <story><title>ViTunes</title><url>http://danielchoi.com/software/vitunes.html</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>nyellin</author><text>Obligatory emacs alternatives:<p>* <a href="http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/itunes.el" rel="nofollow">http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/itunes.el</a><p>* <a href="http://www.geocities.jp/tmjb2006/itunes/itunes-mode.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.geocities.jp/tmjb2006/itunes/itunes-mode.html</a><p>* <a href="http://www.mahalito.net/~harley/elisp/osx-itunes.el" rel="nofollow">http://www.mahalito.net/~harley/elisp/osx-itunes.el</a><p>(I don't think any have a GUI as nice as ViTunes)</text></comment> | <story><title>ViTunes</title><url>http://danielchoi.com/software/vitunes.html</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>tibbon</author><text>Awesome work Dan. If you keep putting out awesome Vim stuff like this, I'm really going to have to ditch Textmate at some point and join the club.<p>For those of you who haven't seen before, Dan is putting out some awesome software like this about every 2 months it seems. And it is always awesome and useful.</text></comment> |
11,920,146 | 11,919,674 | 1 | 2 | 11,918,230 | train | <story><title>The illegal city of Somerville</title><url>http://cityobservatory.org/the-illegal-city-of-somerville/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>vkou</author><text>The only thing I wish on NIMBYs is for them to spend a decade in a Soviet queue for apartments.<p>This shortage is <i>man-made</i>.</text></item><item><author>bhickey</author><text>We&#x27;re talking about this a lot in Cambridge and I&#x27;m hoping to put together an analogous map for us. For example, here&#x27;s a map of parcels where the floor-area-ratio exceeds 0.75: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;i.imgur.com&#x2F;D9m9Gx2.jpg" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;i.imgur.com&#x2F;D9m9Gx2.jpg</a><p>Most of our residential zones are currently zoned with a 0.5 or 0.6 cap.<p>The local NIMBY group has been petitioning the zoning board for more restrictions: downzone an entire neighborhood, add setbacks and more area restrictions along the main thoroughfare. Meanwhile, everyone who isn&#x27;t affluent or in subsidized housing is getting pushed out to the surrounding towns.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ktRolster</author><text>Everyone is a NIMBY in their own way, it&#x27;s just a difference of how much annoyance you are willing to tolerate. Most people wouldn&#x27;t want a noisy factory or a smelly dairy next door, for example, but those things have to be <i>somewhere.</i><p>Now imagine you spent a lot of money to get a house with a nice view. Suddenly Larry Ellison decides to build a skyscraper next door, which blocks the sun on your property every day. You can&#x27;t even grow flowers anymore because there&#x27;s not enough sun. Some of your trees die. Are you happy?<p>Now imagine you spent a lot of money for your house. A housing company proposes changes to the neighborhood that will reduce the value of your house by 20%. In other words, you will be working and paying for years on a portion of your house that no longer has value. Are you happy? Well, maybe you can handle it because you&#x27;re rich.<p>So these are the kinds of things that go through the minds of NIMBYs.</text></comment> | <story><title>The illegal city of Somerville</title><url>http://cityobservatory.org/the-illegal-city-of-somerville/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>vkou</author><text>The only thing I wish on NIMBYs is for them to spend a decade in a Soviet queue for apartments.<p>This shortage is <i>man-made</i>.</text></item><item><author>bhickey</author><text>We&#x27;re talking about this a lot in Cambridge and I&#x27;m hoping to put together an analogous map for us. For example, here&#x27;s a map of parcels where the floor-area-ratio exceeds 0.75: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;i.imgur.com&#x2F;D9m9Gx2.jpg" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;i.imgur.com&#x2F;D9m9Gx2.jpg</a><p>Most of our residential zones are currently zoned with a 0.5 or 0.6 cap.<p>The local NIMBY group has been petitioning the zoning board for more restrictions: downzone an entire neighborhood, add setbacks and more area restrictions along the main thoroughfare. Meanwhile, everyone who isn&#x27;t affluent or in subsidized housing is getting pushed out to the surrounding towns.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>eru</author><text>Have a look at &quot;Why are there NIMBYs?&quot;<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=11919667" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=11919667</a></text></comment> |
3,620,024 | 3,620,018 | 1 | 3 | 3,619,782 | train | <story><title>Kevin Fox on recent Google UX changes: from strange-to-me to just-plain-crazy</title><url>https://plus.google.com/117599103108596130864/posts/47yZLnxcnhv</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>citricsquid</author><text>&#62; First up is the 'new tab' chicklet in the Chrome tab bar. Somewhere around Chrome 16 the '+' disappeared from it, leaving a little ghost of a button that, to my mind, wouldn't be recognized for what it was by a user who hadn't already formed their mental model on earlier versions of Chrome.<p>I'd noticed this and it was very irritating! I assumed it was a bug and for whatever reason the image was missing, not that they had intentionally removed it. That's nonsensical to me, without the + being there it indicates... nothing. His point is exactly right.</text></comment> | <story><title>Kevin Fox on recent Google UX changes: from strange-to-me to just-plain-crazy</title><url>https://plus.google.com/117599103108596130864/posts/47yZLnxcnhv</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>guynamedloren</author><text>I'm most confused about Google's decision to remove the links from the logos. This is a convention engrained in the interwebs and I can't come up with a single reason why they would change it. Sure maybe inexperienced users wouldn't know the functionality exists, but when has that ever been a reason to remove a feature?<p>I think there was a HN discussion about this recently, but I missed it. Anybody know why they made this decision?</text></comment> |
18,921,621 | 18,921,311 | 1 | 3 | 18,920,079 | train | <story><title>After GDPR, The New York Times cut off ad exchanges and kept growing ad revenue</title><url>https://digiday.com/media/new-york-times-gdpr-cut-off-ad-exchanges-europe-ad-revenue/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rusk</author><text>My experience of targeted advertising is Amazon trying to sell me things I’ve already bought ...</text></item><item><author>MarkMc</author><text>I would be absolutely astounded if targeted ads did not provide significant long-term advantage to a big player like Google. How can it be that having intimate knowledge of someone would not allow you to sell them more stuff? John has a 10th wedding anniversary coming up. Mary is single and goes to the gym every day. Steve just got a promotion and likes the BMW 3 series. Michael is overweight but has just gone on a diet. Are such details of no significance determining what ads to show these people?<p>Having said that, I&#x27;m constantly surprised by how bad Google is at targeted advertising. For example, today when I visit nytimes.com I see an ad from Google <i>with the ad text in French</i>. Hey Google, despite my recent visit to Paris <i>I don&#x27;t speak French</i> - maybe your AI experts could analyse my 13 years of Gmail and search history to figure that out!<p>PS: I&#x27;m a Google shareholder, so my confirmation bias is in the other direction :)</text></item><item><author>bitofhope</author><text>I honestly would not be surprised if the difference in effectiveness of targeted vs untargeted advertisement turns out to be none, negligible or even unfavorable to targeted. Sure, NYT is not enough data to be significant, especially when compensating for my confirmation bias, but I would really like to see more sites stop tracking, at least from an ethical standpoint.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>badwolf</author><text>This is a point I bring up when casually talking with non-tech minded friends when they start talking about machine learning taking over everything...<p>I bought a Dyson last summer. Amazon is still suggesting that I buy more vacuum cleaners.</text></comment> | <story><title>After GDPR, The New York Times cut off ad exchanges and kept growing ad revenue</title><url>https://digiday.com/media/new-york-times-gdpr-cut-off-ad-exchanges-europe-ad-revenue/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rusk</author><text>My experience of targeted advertising is Amazon trying to sell me things I’ve already bought ...</text></item><item><author>MarkMc</author><text>I would be absolutely astounded if targeted ads did not provide significant long-term advantage to a big player like Google. How can it be that having intimate knowledge of someone would not allow you to sell them more stuff? John has a 10th wedding anniversary coming up. Mary is single and goes to the gym every day. Steve just got a promotion and likes the BMW 3 series. Michael is overweight but has just gone on a diet. Are such details of no significance determining what ads to show these people?<p>Having said that, I&#x27;m constantly surprised by how bad Google is at targeted advertising. For example, today when I visit nytimes.com I see an ad from Google <i>with the ad text in French</i>. Hey Google, despite my recent visit to Paris <i>I don&#x27;t speak French</i> - maybe your AI experts could analyse my 13 years of Gmail and search history to figure that out!<p>PS: I&#x27;m a Google shareholder, so my confirmation bias is in the other direction :)</text></item><item><author>bitofhope</author><text>I honestly would not be surprised if the difference in effectiveness of targeted vs untargeted advertisement turns out to be none, negligible or even unfavorable to targeted. Sure, NYT is not enough data to be significant, especially when compensating for my confirmation bias, but I would really like to see more sites stop tracking, at least from an ethical standpoint.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>delinka</author><text>This seems to be ingrained deeper than targeted ads. Orders give me the option to &quot;buy it again&quot; for things that I only ever need one of.</text></comment> |
10,087,864 | 10,086,217 | 1 | 2 | 10,085,121 | train | <story><title>Sorting out graph processing</title><url>https://github.com/frankmcsherry/blog/blob/master/posts/2015-08-15.md</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>ibdknox</author><text>Looks like one of the x-stream guys replied: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;ar104&#x2F;sortingVsScanning&#x2F;blob&#x2F;master&#x2F;SortingConsideredHarmful" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;ar104&#x2F;sortingVsScanning&#x2F;blob&#x2F;master&#x2F;Sorti...</a><p>Related discussion on twitter: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;roy_amitabha&#x2F;status&#x2F;634078514698952704" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;roy_amitabha&#x2F;status&#x2F;634078514698952704</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Sorting out graph processing</title><url>https://github.com/frankmcsherry/blog/blob/master/posts/2015-08-15.md</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jules</author><text>Brilliant writing style! Also check out his work on Naiad, which is IMO by far the most interesting work in its area, and check out the Scalability! But at what COST? paper: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.frankmcsherry.org&#x2F;assets&#x2F;COST.pdf" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.frankmcsherry.org&#x2F;assets&#x2F;COST.pdf</a> which showed that a program running on a single thread often outperforms distributed systems running on 100+ cores.</text></comment> |
3,167,650 | 3,167,427 | 1 | 2 | 3,166,997 | train | <story><title>On Stack Overflow's recent battles with the .NET Garbage Collector</title><url>http://samsaffron.com/archive/2011/10/28/in-managed-code-we-trust-our-recent-battles-with-the-net-garbage-collector</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>david_a_r_kemp</author><text>Let me prefix this rant by saying I Love C# and .Net. I think it's a really good platform to build on, as demonstrated by it's growth outside of the Microsoft world.<p>This article highlights why (good) C/C++ have such a hard time moving to C#/.Net. In .Net memory management is, 99.9999999999% of the time, fire and forget, whereas a big chunk of learning and programming C/C++ is about memory management.
Most C, and some C++, programmers would have baulked at having a massive object graph in memory - releasing it becomes a massive headache, and that's before you even get into synchronisation issues, and the .Net team have done a really good job of taking this headache away (yes, I realise they 're not the first).
However, we're now at the point where there are a lot of C# programmers who've never heard of a linker (by default, csc compiles and links in one go), have little concept of static vs dynamic linking, and, more importantly, don't have the first clue about memory management.
This manifests itself in things like not using IDisposable properly/consistently, using the string.+ operator rather than using StringBuilder/StringWriter, and developers have no idea about the difference between class and struct, especially when it comes to parameter handling.
Even books like (the excellent) C# in Depth are pretty light on the memory management side of things, deferring this to books about the CLI and DNR. Whereas, the truth is, if you're going to write a big application, you're going to have some concept of this.</text></comment> | <story><title>On Stack Overflow's recent battles with the .NET Garbage Collector</title><url>http://samsaffron.com/archive/2011/10/28/in-managed-code-we-trust-our-recent-battles-with-the-net-garbage-collector</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>smiler</author><text>I think stackoverflow is the first high volume .net site that have gone in depth publically with how they are solving their performance issues. Microsoft should be paying them for the continued great PR</text></comment> |
36,955,450 | 36,955,628 | 1 | 3 | 36,951,809 | train | <story><title>Why This AI Moment May Be the Real Deal</title><url>https://www.thenewatlantis.com/publications/why-this-ai-moment-may-be-the-real-deal</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>optimalsolver</author><text>What&#x27;s a large language model doing when it&#x27;s not being queried?<p>Am I correct that they only compute information when dealing with a prompt? If so, that seems like a fundamental flaw. An actual &quot;thinking machine&quot; would be constantly running computations on its accumulated experience in order to improve its future output.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ben_w</author><text>&gt; What&#x27;s a large language model doing when it&#x27;s not being queried?<p>Nothing.<p>&gt; Am I correct that they only compute information when dealing with a prompt?<p>Yes.<p>&gt; If so, that seems like a fundamental flaw.<p>Flawed in what way? It clearly doesn&#x27;t need to be like us to be useful, because it&#x27;s useful and definitely not like us.<p>&gt; An actual &quot;thinking machine&quot; would be constantly running computations on its accumulated experience in order to improve its future output.<p>This might be good, but it&#x27;s not clear if, or to what extent, we really do that ourselves — the differences between working&#x2F;short&#x2F;long term memories, between episodic and skill, even linguistically between knowledge of phonemes, words, grammar, and the connection between those and the things they represent all being impaired independently of each other by localised brain damage[0].<p>Then there&#x27;s how much this changes with some stages of sleep, and meditation to clear your mind.<p>Given the number of users (what is it, 100 million?), having it always on, continuously integrating, would still be inhuman even if the architecture was a perfect mirror of the human brain.<p>Also, if the AI is structured to be a &quot;thinking machine&quot;, does that make it murder to switch it off?<p>[0] <i>Cognitive Psychology for Dummies</i>, currently listening to it as an audiobook.</text></comment> | <story><title>Why This AI Moment May Be the Real Deal</title><url>https://www.thenewatlantis.com/publications/why-this-ai-moment-may-be-the-real-deal</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>optimalsolver</author><text>What&#x27;s a large language model doing when it&#x27;s not being queried?<p>Am I correct that they only compute information when dealing with a prompt? If so, that seems like a fundamental flaw. An actual &quot;thinking machine&quot; would be constantly running computations on its accumulated experience in order to improve its future output.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>gmerc</author><text>Our brain is made of interconnected systems but somehow expect LLM architecture to encompass the whole spectrum.<p>Nothing stops you from running a loop that involves other systems such as long term memory (vector &#x2F;dev storage), visual pre-processor (CNN), auto lora, and more.<p>That’s the fundamental flaw with most of the criticism - the tech is out only a few short months in the hands of everyone. The disruption will come from plugging it into feedback systems.</text></comment> |
14,621,057 | 14,620,978 | 1 | 3 | 14,617,713 | train | <story><title>Why is the Internet so Slow?</title><url>https://blog.apnic.net/2017/06/19/why-is-the-internet-so-slow/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Lagged2Death</author><text><i>If the 3x slowdown from the infrastructure were eliminated, each round-trip-time being 3x faster would affect all the protocols above, and we could immediately cut the latency inflation from ~37x to around 10x, without any protocol modifications.</i><p>The page this article is published on makes 87 separate network requests to 19 different domains. Even with a great deal of the content cached, it takes 7 seconds to reload over my WiFi today. This is because I&#x27;m using an ad blocker; without one, the page makes more requests to more domains and transfers more stuff, slower.<p>It seems likely that cutting bloat would have a much bigger impact on responsiveness than infrastructure upgrades. Cutting bloat would produce benefits even (especially) in times and places where signals or infrastructure are marginal. Cutting bloat could mean your old phone or tablet computer could browse the web tolerably instead of ending up in a landfill. Cutting bloat from a website today produces a benefit, for all visitors, worldwide, <i>today</i>. Improving infrastructure may be a good investment, but cutting bloat is a force multiplier.<p>The responsiveness of the web has been adjusted to optimize the number of eyeballs that see ads. If a site is too sluggish, people leave, but a site that&#x27;s too fast is leaving money on the table. How many advertising, tracking, and affiliate domains would a web page like this connect to, if latency were cut by two thirds?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>haldean</author><text>This took me a total of 5 minutes: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;static.haldean.org&#x2F;why-is-the-internet-slow.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;static.haldean.org&#x2F;why-is-the-internet-slow.html</a><p>The page is 2.3kB on the wire, and the single other request it makes (for the image) adds another 70kB. Taken together, this is a two-order-of-magnitude decrease in page size, with exactly the same content.<p>Every byte is sacred! This webpage infuriates me.</text></comment> | <story><title>Why is the Internet so Slow?</title><url>https://blog.apnic.net/2017/06/19/why-is-the-internet-so-slow/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Lagged2Death</author><text><i>If the 3x slowdown from the infrastructure were eliminated, each round-trip-time being 3x faster would affect all the protocols above, and we could immediately cut the latency inflation from ~37x to around 10x, without any protocol modifications.</i><p>The page this article is published on makes 87 separate network requests to 19 different domains. Even with a great deal of the content cached, it takes 7 seconds to reload over my WiFi today. This is because I&#x27;m using an ad blocker; without one, the page makes more requests to more domains and transfers more stuff, slower.<p>It seems likely that cutting bloat would have a much bigger impact on responsiveness than infrastructure upgrades. Cutting bloat would produce benefits even (especially) in times and places where signals or infrastructure are marginal. Cutting bloat could mean your old phone or tablet computer could browse the web tolerably instead of ending up in a landfill. Cutting bloat from a website today produces a benefit, for all visitors, worldwide, <i>today</i>. Improving infrastructure may be a good investment, but cutting bloat is a force multiplier.<p>The responsiveness of the web has been adjusted to optimize the number of eyeballs that see ads. If a site is too sluggish, people leave, but a site that&#x27;s too fast is leaving money on the table. How many advertising, tracking, and affiliate domains would a web page like this connect to, if latency were cut by two thirds?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>samstave</author><text>What has always pissed me off is the global bandwidth overhead that ads have while not reducing the actual cost of connectivity to the average internet customer.<p>What percentage of my cellular data-consumption is specifically ads?<p>I need an app that tracks all data connections and tells me what percent went to which advertisers and a mechanism to block them or bill them to subsidize the cellular bill I pay for data, but that payment has a sizeable chuck allocated to my device displaying their ads.<p>Does anyone not recall the impetus behind the original paid cable tv model was that &quot;you pay for the content of cable TV, thus we won&#x27;t show you commercials&quot;<p>The. They found out they could say &quot;fuck you&quot; to consumers, play commercials, hike up rates and also take in billions of government subsidies for infra upgrades that were never performed.<p>And companies wonder why some people want vigilante justice on such companies.</text></comment> |
14,891,989 | 14,891,741 | 1 | 2 | 14,891,192 | train | <story><title>Teenagers who read news online may be a criminals, according to the DoJ (2013)</title><url>https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2013/04/are-you-teenager-who-reads-news-online-according-justice-department-you-may-be</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>rayiner</author><text>The CFAA is a clusterfuck that has generated splits among the federal appellate courts on what it means.<p>The Second Circuit, adopting a narrow interpretation of what &quot;exceeds authorized access&quot; means, put it well: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;scholar.google.com&#x2F;scholar_case?case=11783993212131547013&amp;q=807+F.3d+508&amp;hl=en&amp;as_sdt=20006" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;scholar.google.com&#x2F;scholar_case?case=117839932121315...</a> (&quot;Where, as here, ordinary tools of legislative construction fail to establish that the Government&#x27;s position is unambiguously correct, we are required by the rule of lenity to adopt the interpretation that favors the defendant. Santos, 553 U.S. at 514, 128 S.Ct. 2020; United States v. Granderson, 511 U.S. 39, 54, 114 S.Ct. 1259, 127 L.Ed.2d 611 (1994). We do not think it too much to ask that Congress define criminal conduct with precision and clarity.&quot;).<p>Can&#x27;t give the DOJ a pass here either. Prosecutors should not be pushing the boundaries of creative legal theories; that&#x27;s for defense lawyers.</text></comment> | <story><title>Teenagers who read news online may be a criminals, according to the DoJ (2013)</title><url>https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2013/04/are-you-teenager-who-reads-news-online-according-justice-department-you-may-be</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>phkahler</author><text>If violating a web sites terms of service is a felony, then the government has delegated authority in defining felonies to every web site operator. That is not appropriate.<p>This goes back to the old problem of identity. If people were identifiable on the internet then web sites could easily blacklist or whitelist users and no rely on ToS for things like this.</text></comment> |
19,000,677 | 19,000,757 | 1 | 3 | 18,999,758 | train | <story><title>At least 14,000 unpaid IRS workers did not show up for work</title><url>https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2019/01/25/least-unpaid-irs-workers-did-not-show-up-work-broad-shutdown-disruption-hits-tax-agency-according-house-aides/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>thecolorblue</author><text>Is it better to find short term solutions, like odd jobs, or to find new employment?</text></item><item><author>esotericn</author><text>Good for them!<p>Working without pay is completely nonsensical. The relationship between the employee and employer has been broken.<p>If I were in some of these guys shoes I&#x27;d be working odd jobs to make ends meet.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>surge</author><text>&quot;The IRS is also losing 25 IT staffers every week since the shutdown began, with many finding other jobs, one House aide said, citing the IRS officials&#x27; briefing.&quot;<p>At least some are already doing this.</text></comment> | <story><title>At least 14,000 unpaid IRS workers did not show up for work</title><url>https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2019/01/25/least-unpaid-irs-workers-did-not-show-up-work-broad-shutdown-disruption-hits-tax-agency-according-house-aides/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>thecolorblue</author><text>Is it better to find short term solutions, like odd jobs, or to find new employment?</text></item><item><author>esotericn</author><text>Good for them!<p>Working without pay is completely nonsensical. The relationship between the employee and employer has been broken.<p>If I were in some of these guys shoes I&#x27;d be working odd jobs to make ends meet.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dragonwriter</author><text>One possible motivation for the administration holding out on the shutdown is it encourages people to leave the civil service; they&#x27;ve been fairly open previously about wanting to purge he federal civil service of those not loyal to Trump, either leaving holes or backfilling with loyalists. Civil service rules make this difficult, but driving people off with no pay (and publicly characterizing staying in that situation as a noble gesture of loyalty to the President, as some admin figures have done) is one way to do some.of that in a way which avoids civil service protections.</text></comment> |
29,636,252 | 29,634,472 | 1 | 2 | 29,632,813 | train | <story><title>Build retro games using WebAssembly for a fantasy console</title><url>https://wasm4.org/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Dylan16807</author><text>Interesting mix of constraints for a console. A full framebuffer but only 4 colors on the same screen. Small cartridges and lots of RAM. And it appears to have unlimited CPU power?</text></comment> | <story><title>Build retro games using WebAssembly for a fantasy console</title><url>https://wasm4.org/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>TulliusCicero</author><text>I don&#x27;t understand why the default seems to be using arrow keys for movement, instead of WASD. A gamepad has the movement controls on the left hand, either d-pad or stick, and for PC games, using WASD for movement is standard. Using arrow keys swaps the hands, and thus makes it less intuitive to anyone with gaming experience. It&#x27;s the equivalent of forcing anyone who comes to your website to switch which hand they use for their mouse.<p>At the very least, just support arrow keys AND WASD.</text></comment> |
39,403,680 | 39,401,162 | 1 | 3 | 39,398,803 | train | <story><title>Why we stopped building cut and cover</title><url>https://worksinprogress.co/issue/why-we-stopped-building-cut-and-cover/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jlhawn</author><text>Recently in the SF Bay Area, there&#x27;s been a lot of displeasure by transit activists that object to VTA&#x27;s BART to San Jose extension (it&#x27;s being built by VTA not BART) who had the choice between two tunneling options:<p>1. Two small-bore TBMs ~2 stories underground, one for rail in each direction. This would require cut and cover for the <i>stations only</i><p>2. One large-bore TBM ~7 stories underground, with technically enough space to fit an entire station platform inside but displaces a HUGE amount of soil&#x2F;rock along the entire line, and require very deep stations that take a long time for riders to enter&#x2F;exit.<p>VTA consultants went with option 2 because they didn&#x27;t want to disrupt the surface (again, only for the few blocks where the stations would be built) even though it costs $$ billions more.<p>Many transit activists (including me) are upset because it makes the project both take much longer and cost more. We could save money by literally just giving billions of dollars to the businesses on the affected blocks. There&#x27;s no geo-technical reason to go with the large-bore option. This has also led to a lot of recent VTA-negativity among these activists.</text></comment> | <story><title>Why we stopped building cut and cover</title><url>https://worksinprogress.co/issue/why-we-stopped-building-cut-and-cover/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>renewiltord</author><text>Interestingly, the existence of TBMs has made SF Bay Area transit impossible to construct. Because TBMs exist, cut-and-cover is impossible since it can be pointed to as an alternative mechanism. However, they are hopelessly expensive here and consequently nothing gets built. Fascinating outcome.<p>I think that&#x27;s a cool outcome in a coordination problem, where added technology makes neither technology workable.<p>This article was wicked sick, by the way. Great use of illustrations etc. This is free? Incredible. It&#x27;s like the old web.</text></comment> |
36,408,726 | 36,408,171 | 1 | 3 | 36,407,152 | train | <story><title>Things I wish I’d known before fulltime RVing (2017)</title><url>https://www.wheelingit.us/2011/09/22/10-things-i-wished-id-known-before-fulltime-rving/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>seattle_spring</author><text>Question for all the RVers here on HN: why do so many of you refuse to use designated pull outs? The ones specifically created for vehicles like yours to move over and let the dozen+ cars behind you pass so they can go more than 20 under the speed limit. Many RVs I encounter even go out of their way to prevent passing. I don&#x27;t really understand it, and it seems like an RV-specific behavior.</text></comment> | <story><title>Things I wish I’d known before fulltime RVing (2017)</title><url>https://www.wheelingit.us/2011/09/22/10-things-i-wished-id-known-before-fulltime-rving/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>dylan604</author><text>The best RVing advice I was given was to not buy an RV and buy a pull trailer instead which somewhat correlates to the TFA&#x27;s &quot;bigger is not always better&quot;. RVs get horrible gas mileage, and are not easy to drive around. This is why you see a lot of RVs pulling trailers with a smaller car on it. The trailer route allows you to drop off the trailer and then use the pulling vehicle separately. I&#x27;m sure it&#x27;s confirmation bias, but people I know that have RVs use them less than the people I know that have trailers.</text></comment> |
20,109,147 | 20,109,413 | 1 | 3 | 20,108,096 | train | <story><title>“Apps intended for kids may not include third-party advertising or analytics”</title><url>https://developer.apple.com/app-store/review/guidelines/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>kerng</author><text>I totally agree with this!<p>I built a game and naively added ads to it as it seemed a good way to monetize. The game started to be really liked, and had 300k+ downloads overall. Many kids started playing it also.<p>Luckily I realized quickly that kids play on the devices of parents and so the ads they might see are at times super inappropriate!<p>Then I removed all ads, I&#x27;d rather make less money but have people play and have a good time. Its not always about money. At times I get contacted by players, how they love the game and how it has been part of their childhood etc. Some very moving messages, worth more then a few additional bucks from ads and I feel much better because players aren&#x27;t exposed to random ads, pictures and messages.<p>The learning for me was that I will never work on anything that uses ads as source of income, this includes turning down jobs at Google and Facebook.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>TheCapn</author><text>Do you morally disagree with advertising&#x2F;tracking monetization as a whole or just those particularly geared towards vulnerable populations? (children in your instance)<p>I have my professional job developing software solutions for clients on a contractual base, but for a period after I graduated university I dabbled in mobile development and made the decision during that time that I&#x27;d never bloat my crappy apps with ads or tracking. I can&#x27;t particularly articulate why I&#x27;m against that business method as a whole, but something always felt wrong in subjecting people to tracking&#x2F;advertisements for my own monetary gain... if I&#x27;m not producing something worth paying outright for then I&#x27;m not going to skim pennies off the privacy of my users.</text></comment> | <story><title>“Apps intended for kids may not include third-party advertising or analytics”</title><url>https://developer.apple.com/app-store/review/guidelines/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>kerng</author><text>I totally agree with this!<p>I built a game and naively added ads to it as it seemed a good way to monetize. The game started to be really liked, and had 300k+ downloads overall. Many kids started playing it also.<p>Luckily I realized quickly that kids play on the devices of parents and so the ads they might see are at times super inappropriate!<p>Then I removed all ads, I&#x27;d rather make less money but have people play and have a good time. Its not always about money. At times I get contacted by players, how they love the game and how it has been part of their childhood etc. Some very moving messages, worth more then a few additional bucks from ads and I feel much better because players aren&#x27;t exposed to random ads, pictures and messages.<p>The learning for me was that I will never work on anything that uses ads as source of income, this includes turning down jobs at Google and Facebook.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>musicale</author><text>&gt; I removed all ads, I&#x27;d rather make less money but have people play and have a good time<p>I wish more developers would think this way!<p>Pretty sure sure I&#x27;ve never heard anyone say &quot;the great thing about this game is all of the fun advertisements and cool micro-transactions.&quot;</text></comment> |
34,869,898 | 34,862,706 | 1 | 2 | 34,846,606 | train | <story><title>Email: Explained from first principles</title><url>https://explained-from-first-principles.com/email/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>layer8</author><text>I love such thorough expositions, although it isn’t quite as thorough as I would like. Two examples that caught my attention in the parts I read:<p>1. It doesn’t mention the old convention for writing an email address with display name as<p><pre><code> [email protected] (John Doe)
</code></pre>
instead of:<p><pre><code> John Doe &lt;[email protected]&gt;
</code></pre>
2. It states that subject prefixes like “Re:” have no technical relevance. That’s not entirely true, because email clients recognize existing prefixes when replying&#x2F;forwarding, in order to not add a redundant one. There are several issues here:<p>- Localized email software sometimes uses a different prefix than “Re”, based on the local language. This is an issue when having an email thread between email clients who don’t recognize each other’s local-language prefixes. (Arguably, it would be better for everyone to stick with “Re” regardless of language.)<p>- Some email clients have the convention of adding a count to the “Re”, e.g. “Re[2]:”, “Re[3]:”, and so on. When you write an email client, you may want to consider recognizing those.<p>Due to the variety in subject prefixes, some email clients allow users to configure a regex.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>KasparEtter</author><text>Hi layer8, thanks for the feedback! I must say that your standards for thoroughness are pretty high. Since I claimed at the very top that my article covers all aspects of modern email, I don&#x27;t mind your criticism at all.<p>I haven&#x27;t thought about the prefix chaining issue, and I&#x27;m happy to mention this in a future revision of the article. I would still argue that this is below a reasonable level of technical significance as neither conversation grouping nor message delivery is affected by it. It&#x27;s more like displaying &quot;(No subject)&quot; instead of actually displaying no subject.<p>Do you have any source for what you say is an old display name convention? I&#x27;ve just checked the standards, and as far as I can tell after a quick glance, RFC 822 (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;datatracker.ietf.org&#x2F;doc&#x2F;html&#x2F;rfc822#section-6" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;datatracker.ietf.org&#x2F;doc&#x2F;html&#x2F;rfc822#section-6</a>) doesn&#x27;t mention display names at all, and its successor RFC 2822 (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;datatracker.ietf.org&#x2F;doc&#x2F;html&#x2F;rfc2822#section-3.4" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;datatracker.ietf.org&#x2F;doc&#x2F;html&#x2F;rfc2822#section-3.4</a>) mentions display names only with angle brackets.<p>PS: I have quite a few topics on my todo list, which I should add in a future revision of the article in order to live up to the claim of covering all aspects of modern email. These include MAPI, Microsoft&#x27;s autodiscover mechanism, direct mailbox addressing, domain-to-domain encryption, and link rewriting in incoming mails. Some information is also no longer up to date by now.</text></comment> | <story><title>Email: Explained from first principles</title><url>https://explained-from-first-principles.com/email/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>layer8</author><text>I love such thorough expositions, although it isn’t quite as thorough as I would like. Two examples that caught my attention in the parts I read:<p>1. It doesn’t mention the old convention for writing an email address with display name as<p><pre><code> [email protected] (John Doe)
</code></pre>
instead of:<p><pre><code> John Doe &lt;[email protected]&gt;
</code></pre>
2. It states that subject prefixes like “Re:” have no technical relevance. That’s not entirely true, because email clients recognize existing prefixes when replying&#x2F;forwarding, in order to not add a redundant one. There are several issues here:<p>- Localized email software sometimes uses a different prefix than “Re”, based on the local language. This is an issue when having an email thread between email clients who don’t recognize each other’s local-language prefixes. (Arguably, it would be better for everyone to stick with “Re” regardless of language.)<p>- Some email clients have the convention of adding a count to the “Re”, e.g. “Re[2]:”, “Re[3]:”, and so on. When you write an email client, you may want to consider recognizing those.<p>Due to the variety in subject prefixes, some email clients allow users to configure a regex.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>sbuk</author><text>Email clients don’t really have a spec to follow other than parsing messages that are received via POP or more likely IMAP these days (not forgetting MAPI either). Adding FWD or RE to a subject field doesn’t appear anywhere in the email message RFCs, starting with 822. As such they are undocumented conventions or extensions to the specs, and as the article points out technically irrelevant - no MDAs, MTAs or MUAs that do not “support” features that utilise these conventions will fail to parse a message.</text></comment> |
22,872,954 | 22,872,980 | 1 | 3 | 22,871,158 | train | <story><title>California’s Roadmap to Modify the Stay-at-Home Order [pdf]</title><url>https://www.gov.ca.gov/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/California-Roadmap-to-Modify-the-Stay-at-Home-Order.pdf</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mchusma</author><text>A real plan would look like this <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;imgur.com&#x2F;spemOeG" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;imgur.com&#x2F;spemOeG</a> specifying the levels of restrictions and the metrics we will use to track the metrics. This allows people to understand what to expect the best possible. We already have huge uncertainty, we don&#x27;t need to add uncertainty of government response on top of uncertainty of the virus. I think there is huge room to debate the numbers and what goes in what level, but this is what a real roadmap looks like.<p>This &quot;roadmap&quot; is quite scary as this is not a plan that would pass muster in in YC Boardroom.
(1) The one chart with data is horribly innacurate:
(a) It shows interventions causing worse than no interventions in the short term?
(b) Shows hospitalizations increasing despite the fact that they have not for some time.
(c) Shows &quot;Surge Capacity&quot; as a static value, which you would hope they are increasing if they really think this is the issue.<p>(2) It does not specify in any fashion what the different levels of coming back are.
When can medical procedures resume?
When can non-essential work where social distancing is easy resume (e.g. Los Angeles apparently has banned gardeners, who don&#x27;t need to get near a soul)?<p>(3) If he believes masks work (as I do and as indicated in this presentation), why are masks not required and businesses shut down? Shouldn&#x27;t we do the less painful and restrictive measure first before we shut down businesses?<p>(4) Most importantly there is not an actual goal clearly articulated here. Is he going for suppression? Is he going for mitigation?<p>I like many others are deeply upset by leadership from both parties, at all levels of government.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>charlesju</author><text>The reason why your solution is not good is because it pigeon holes the government into expectations. The government doesn&#x27;t have a crystal ball as to how this all plays out, they need to have the flexibility to change how they want to respond to each situation without having to defend an ultimatum.<p>For example, even in your own example here are several situations you didn&#x27;t account:<p>-- The availability of tests for the public at large<p>-- Whether we&#x27;re doing temperature checks everywhere<p>-- Whether we&#x27;re requiring people to download a contact tracing app<p>-- How much capacity we have in the hospital system even though cases are going down<p>-- If we can find a drug that helps shorten the time people spend in a hospital<p>-- If we find new information like masks don&#x27;t help or they greatly help<p>-- We run out of swabs but cases are low<p>There are a lot of factors that has to go into how the government changes the rules and while it might make it easier for the public to be at ease when the rules are hard, it also makes it a lot harder to adjust the rules.<p>I think being upset at the government is your right, but I also think you should channel your energy into something more productive and thank that at least in California we acted a lot faster than other areas of the country.<p>I think Governor Cuomo said something very interesting the other day, to paraphrase, when he was asked whether he should&#x27;ve started stay at home earlier and if that would&#x27;ve saved lives. Of course it would have, but the interviewer is not taking into account compliance and public sentiment. Likewise, for you, I think you&#x27;re viewing this problem from a very individualistic point of view to get strict rules on what happens when, but you&#x27;re not accounting for the edge cases where the government needs a backdoor to change the rules with new information and to play it close to public sentiment.</text></comment> | <story><title>California’s Roadmap to Modify the Stay-at-Home Order [pdf]</title><url>https://www.gov.ca.gov/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/California-Roadmap-to-Modify-the-Stay-at-Home-Order.pdf</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mchusma</author><text>A real plan would look like this <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;imgur.com&#x2F;spemOeG" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;imgur.com&#x2F;spemOeG</a> specifying the levels of restrictions and the metrics we will use to track the metrics. This allows people to understand what to expect the best possible. We already have huge uncertainty, we don&#x27;t need to add uncertainty of government response on top of uncertainty of the virus. I think there is huge room to debate the numbers and what goes in what level, but this is what a real roadmap looks like.<p>This &quot;roadmap&quot; is quite scary as this is not a plan that would pass muster in in YC Boardroom.
(1) The one chart with data is horribly innacurate:
(a) It shows interventions causing worse than no interventions in the short term?
(b) Shows hospitalizations increasing despite the fact that they have not for some time.
(c) Shows &quot;Surge Capacity&quot; as a static value, which you would hope they are increasing if they really think this is the issue.<p>(2) It does not specify in any fashion what the different levels of coming back are.
When can medical procedures resume?
When can non-essential work where social distancing is easy resume (e.g. Los Angeles apparently has banned gardeners, who don&#x27;t need to get near a soul)?<p>(3) If he believes masks work (as I do and as indicated in this presentation), why are masks not required and businesses shut down? Shouldn&#x27;t we do the less painful and restrictive measure first before we shut down businesses?<p>(4) Most importantly there is not an actual goal clearly articulated here. Is he going for suppression? Is he going for mitigation?<p>I like many others are deeply upset by leadership from both parties, at all levels of government.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>marktangotango</author><text>&gt; Is he going for suppression? Is he going for mitigation?<p>This is the factor that has been missing from all the reporting on this crises. The goal of suppressing the virus to zero and merely seeking mitigate the virus surge effect on available ICU beds leads to drastic differences in all metrics most notably “peak deaths”. If the goal is mitigation with rolling shutdowns, there will be many many more deaths. Virus suppression require several months of shutdown. This is the most basic result of the “models”.<p>None of the major outlets have reported on this at all.</text></comment> |
4,454,527 | 4,453,176 | 1 | 3 | 4,452,005 | train | <story><title>The truth about Goobuntu: Google's in-house desktop Ubuntu Linux</title><url>http://www.zdnet.com/the-truth-about-goobuntu-googles-in-house-desktop-ubuntu-linux-7000003462/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>joshAg</author><text>""We chose Debian because packages and apt [Debian's basic software package programs] are light-years of RPM (Red Had and SUSE's default package management system.]”"<p>Would someone mind giving a brief overview of why apt is better than rpm (or why someone might think this?)?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tytso</author><text>Here's an example of why dpkg (and its associated tools) is more sophisticated than rpm (and its associated tools):<p>While building a debian packakge, there are tools which will scan all of the binaries, determine which symbols they are using in a shared library, and compare that with a list which shows when a particular symbol was first introduced to that shared library, and use that to calculate the minimum prerequisite version for that particular shared library. This is important, because otherwise you could install a new version of a binary, and it might not work because you don't have a new enough version of its dependencies.<p>I recently had a user who complained about this with e2fsprogs, when it used a new interface, who demanded that I bump the major version of the library (thus declaring it backwards incompatible) because this was the only way rpm and yum would automatically figure out the version dependency. I refused, and instead asked them to manually update the version dependency in their package, and pointed out that debian could automatically figure out major and minor version dependencies without needing any manual work.<p>For an example of this text file which maps symbol versions to minimum package versions, please see:<p><a href="http://git.kernel.org/?p=fs/ext2/e2fsprogs.git;a=blob;f=debian/e2fslibs.symbols;h=1840a2dba2f8ad6eb006fa6ce4a941a20a0bebbe;hb=HEAD" rel="nofollow">http://git.kernel.org/?p=fs/ext2/e2fsprogs.git;a=blob;f=debi...</a><p>P.S. Because RPM doesn't do this sort of thing automatically, sometimes the only safe thing you can do to make sure there aren't any overlooked version dependencies is to download the latest versions of all of the packages installed on your system, and run the command rpm -Fvh *....</text></comment> | <story><title>The truth about Goobuntu: Google's in-house desktop Ubuntu Linux</title><url>http://www.zdnet.com/the-truth-about-goobuntu-googles-in-house-desktop-ubuntu-linux-7000003462/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>joshAg</author><text>""We chose Debian because packages and apt [Debian's basic software package programs] are light-years of RPM (Red Had and SUSE's default package management system.]”"<p>Would someone mind giving a brief overview of why apt is better than rpm (or why someone might think this?)?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>strictfp</author><text>I'm just a casual user, and I didn't really notice any difference between deb and rpm. But I did notice a significant difference between apt and yum. Yum was much slower and less clever in figuring out dependencies. I've had yum uninstall unrelated programs sharing libs with the one being uninstalled. It seems like apt(itude) has more advanced resolution algos built in. Plus more is avail as deb than rpm, no need for manual download via websites.</text></comment> |
22,846,031 | 22,845,561 | 1 | 2 | 22,842,774 | train | <story><title>YouTube accidentally permanently terminated my account</title><url>https://medium.com/@alexhowlett/youtube-accidentally-permanently-terminated-my-account-4b5852c80679</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>hpcjoe</author><text>I keep hearing stories about similar issues. Suddenly someone is terminated from a Google service for unknown reasons, without any possibility of reversing such decisions.<p>This appears to be true of Twitter and others as well.<p>From my vantage point, it appears to be quite arbitrary. And quite concerning in a number of cases, given the centralization of email, docs, etc.<p>I do make backups of google content every so often.<p>I guess the irony of making a copy of a cloud set of services data locally, as you may not be able to trust that these services will be there over longer intervals, is either ironic ... or problematic.<p>It speaks directly to the concept of risk of extended supply chains ... is the risk to your data, and ability to interact with services worth maintaining a presence on the systems?<p>This behavior on their and related tech giants generally makes me question how much we should rely on them for important things (like permanent email addresses) over time. This has been making me uneasy for a while, and seeing more stories like this is not quelling my discomfort.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>apostacy</author><text>It used to be much harder to knock someone you didn&#x27;t like offline. You used to have to organize a DDOS attack. But now, all you have to do is organize a much easier mass-flagging attack. We need to update our threat models to account for how unreliable major platforms have become.<p>We can no longer rely on these companies. After big tech spent so much time investing in their own infrastructure, they are undermining themselves like this.<p>We need to just accept that a major liability of using a major platform like this is that your content may be removed and your account deleted, for unknown reasons.<p>Want to host your podcasts? Well don&#x27;t rely solely on Apple Google or YouTube, they are not up for the job. Instead, you have to span it on multiple platforms and tell your audience where to find you if you get deleted.</text></comment> | <story><title>YouTube accidentally permanently terminated my account</title><url>https://medium.com/@alexhowlett/youtube-accidentally-permanently-terminated-my-account-4b5852c80679</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>hpcjoe</author><text>I keep hearing stories about similar issues. Suddenly someone is terminated from a Google service for unknown reasons, without any possibility of reversing such decisions.<p>This appears to be true of Twitter and others as well.<p>From my vantage point, it appears to be quite arbitrary. And quite concerning in a number of cases, given the centralization of email, docs, etc.<p>I do make backups of google content every so often.<p>I guess the irony of making a copy of a cloud set of services data locally, as you may not be able to trust that these services will be there over longer intervals, is either ironic ... or problematic.<p>It speaks directly to the concept of risk of extended supply chains ... is the risk to your data, and ability to interact with services worth maintaining a presence on the systems?<p>This behavior on their and related tech giants generally makes me question how much we should rely on them for important things (like permanent email addresses) over time. This has been making me uneasy for a while, and seeing more stories like this is not quelling my discomfort.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>wpietri</author><text>Yeah, I think there are two broad relationships between a person and a company: personal and statistical.<p>At my corner grocery store, it&#x27;s personal. I know all the staff, we say hello, we look out for one another. My doctor knows me as a person, and we talk as equals. You see the same thing between companies of similar scales. If my company is a significant customer of yours, we can talk as peers when we need to.<p>Google Youtube and Twitter, on the other hand, are mainly selling eyeballs to advertisers. Not only do they not care about any given individual, they couldn&#x27;t if they wanted to. The ratio between users and workers is 10,000:1 or worse. At that scale they know they&#x27;re going to screw over people; at best, at best, they make sure the errors aren&#x27;t too biased in any one direction. And of course they will work hard to clean up PR problems, as those are expensive enough to justify actual attention.</text></comment> |
17,037,588 | 17,035,978 | 1 | 3 | 17,035,679 | train | <story><title>The Senate has forced a vote to restore net neutrality</title><url>https://www.theverge.com/2018/5/9/17333108/net-neutrality-congressional-review-act-cra-resolution-vote-senate</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>tzs</author><text>&gt; Reddit, Tumblr, Etsy and other sites have put up Red Alert banners as part of a day of action to drive petitions in support of the resolution.<p>This is being seriously mismanaged, and that may actually cause long term harm to the chances of saving (or restoring) net neutrality.<p>The big mistake being made is not explaining where the Congressional Review Act (CRA) approach fits into the bigger picture. There are several places along the timeline of net neutrality repeal where it in theory could be saved. The Congressional Review Act (CRA) approach is just one of them.<p>The CRA approach has almost no chance of actually passing both houses (it has a pretty good chance in the Senate, but because of the way the House is structured it would take a miracle there).<p>When you consider it in the context of the bigger picture, that&#x27;s not a problem. Its role in the overall effort is to get members of Congress on the record, which might be useful later in campaigns for office. The public is broadly in favor of net neutrality and this support is very high even among Republicans.<p>That&#x27;s probably not enough to get Republican voters to vote Democrat, because it is not high on the list of important issues for them, but it could be enough to get them to vote for more moderate Republicans in the Republican primaries or caucuses.<p>In sports terms, this is not a play to score a goal. It is an attempt to get better position to set up a later scoring play. But the people running these campaigns treat everything like it is a scoring attempt...and then when it doesn&#x27;t score the people who participated feel like they failed.<p>That can discourage them, making them less likely to respond to later calls to action. Then they might not be there when it is time to actually go for a goal (e.g., get out and vote).</text></comment> | <story><title>The Senate has forced a vote to restore net neutrality</title><url>https://www.theverge.com/2018/5/9/17333108/net-neutrality-congressional-review-act-cra-resolution-vote-senate</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>craftyguy</author><text>&gt; Reddit, Tumblr, Etsy and other sites have put up Red Alert banners as part of a day of action to drive petitions in support of the resolution.<p>I get the feeling that these sites are just &#x27;preaching to the choir&#x27; (i.e. their customers already support these things, and most likely have let their &#x27;representative&#x27; know).<p>Is anyone doing anything to give the 50 senators who are against this a taste of what is to come? I recall cloudflare or someome along those lines threatenning to throttle traffic from government IPs, or maybe that just happened in my dream..</text></comment> |
19,905,831 | 19,904,523 | 1 | 2 | 19,903,986 | train | <story><title>Lenovo launches HoloLens competitor</title><url>https://www.engadget.com/2019/05/13/lenovo-thinkreality-ar-vr-headset-hololens-2/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>taneq</author><text>I wonder how this will play out with IP, given that Lenovo has been manufacturing a Windows Mixed Reality headset using Microsoft&#x27;s VR&#x2F;AR tech? They&#x27;d have to tread very carefully to avoid stepping on any MS patents etc. with inside-out tracking.<p>Also, once again (as with Valve vs. HTC) we see the pattern playing out:<p>1) Platform owner develops new tech to be used on their platform, tries to foster an ecosystem<p>2) Third parties develop products based on the tech<p>3) Third parties launch competing platform because in the end, platforms are more profitable than hardware<p>4) Market is fragmented and we can&#x27;t have nice things</text></comment> | <story><title>Lenovo launches HoloLens competitor</title><url>https://www.engadget.com/2019/05/13/lenovo-thinkreality-ar-vr-headset-hololens-2/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>dna_polymerase</author><text>The only place I see such devices are highly polished demos to show the &#x27;capabilities of AR&#x2F;VR&#x27;. I&#x27;ve never seen such headsets used for anything even remotely useful (not considering gaming as extremely useful). I think the AR&#x2F;VR craze is just here because we have nothing really new at the moment and investors want to pour money into something.</text></comment> |
12,675,373 | 12,671,708 | 1 | 2 | 12,670,951 | train | <story><title>The importance of science fiction to entrepreneurship</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2016/10/08/the-importance-of-science-fiction-to-entrepreneurship/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>crdb</author><text>The article makes the case for the world descriptions and concepts introduced in SF being an inspiration to real world entrepreneurs, such as Stephenson inspiring the PayPal co-founders and a series of portal companies.<p>But science fiction has a greater impact in being one of the few forms in 20th century arts that dared to present an optimistic view of the future and of values that led to a better world, be it Picard&#x27;s exemplary leadership in Star Trek TNG, or Heinlein&#x27;s &quot;normal person finding their courage and values has an impact&quot; novels.<p>Apocalypse Now or Brazil may be &quot;great&quot; movies but they are incredibly depressing. &quot;Resign yourself to the brokenness of the world, people. The state&#x2F;realpolitik will crush you.&quot; &quot;No&quot;, says Asimov, &quot;your actions matter and have an impact. Courage and reason are great qualities, go build the world you want.&quot; How many other mainstream movies, books or artworks have this message, outside of science fiction?</text></comment> | <story><title>The importance of science fiction to entrepreneurship</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2016/10/08/the-importance-of-science-fiction-to-entrepreneurship/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Phithagoras</author><text>Good article. Anyone here a fan of Greg Egan? I found &quot;Schild&#x27;s Ladder&quot; the best piece of Sci-Fi I ever read. Can anyone suggest similar authors?</text></comment> |
12,589,716 | 12,588,663 | 1 | 2 | 12,588,202 | train | <story><title>Is developer compensation becoming bimodal?</title><url>http://danluu.com/bimodal-compensation/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mafribe</author><text>I teach computer science at a well-known, large and mediocre university.<p>I see bimodal grade distributions all the time. The more technical a subject, the more bimodal the grades.<p>In fluff subjects like software engineering where grading relates to essay writing and group projects, grade distribution tends to be gaussian.
OTOH in technical subjects where I grade by automated test suits, basically students fail almost all tests or pass almost all tests.<p>These grade distributions have been constant, regardless of university, regardless of who teaches the course.<p>There really is a sharp threshold that separates those who get programming from those who don&#x27;t. And those who get programming really are <i>a lot</i> more productive than those who don&#x27;t get it. Moreover, once you get it, learning further parts of CS (e.g. new algorithms, new programming languages, new OSes etc) is much easier then if you don&#x27;t get it, and learning new things makes you even more powerful. The mastery of doing great things is joyful and makes you want to learn more. The frustration of failure drives you away from the subject.<p>I find it plausible that grade distributions turn into similar income distributions later in life.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Bartweiss</author><text>I&#x27;ve held this basic theory for a while, and it seems to explain a lot of things about the state of software engineering.<p>Most visibly, there&#x27;s a wild disagreement about whether we have too many programmers, or not enough. Big tech companies consistently say that they struggle to find programmers, while contrarians at places like <i>The Atlantic</i> love writing pieces about how we&#x27;re education way more programmers than we hire each year, and the bubble is going to burst.<p>The ultra-cynical take is that companies are trying to drive a crash to drop salaries. It fits with the wage-fixing collusion, but doesn&#x27;t really explain things like paying massive referral bonuses for new hires.<p>The more interesting take is that it&#x27;s about this bimodal distribution. &quot;A degree in computer science&quot; is a pretty amorphous thing, and thinkpiece writers who assume that every CS program produces employable CS-job-seekers aren&#x27;t going to get decent data.<p>So I think the explanation might be that CS isn&#x27;t harder than EE or chemical engineering, but rather less prescriptive. There&#x27;s a huge range of programs producing &quot;CS degrees&quot;, and jobs titled &quot;software engineering&quot;, and they&#x27;re not really describing the same things.</text></comment> | <story><title>Is developer compensation becoming bimodal?</title><url>http://danluu.com/bimodal-compensation/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mafribe</author><text>I teach computer science at a well-known, large and mediocre university.<p>I see bimodal grade distributions all the time. The more technical a subject, the more bimodal the grades.<p>In fluff subjects like software engineering where grading relates to essay writing and group projects, grade distribution tends to be gaussian.
OTOH in technical subjects where I grade by automated test suits, basically students fail almost all tests or pass almost all tests.<p>These grade distributions have been constant, regardless of university, regardless of who teaches the course.<p>There really is a sharp threshold that separates those who get programming from those who don&#x27;t. And those who get programming really are <i>a lot</i> more productive than those who don&#x27;t get it. Moreover, once you get it, learning further parts of CS (e.g. new algorithms, new programming languages, new OSes etc) is much easier then if you don&#x27;t get it, and learning new things makes you even more powerful. The mastery of doing great things is joyful and makes you want to learn more. The frustration of failure drives you away from the subject.<p>I find it plausible that grade distributions turn into similar income distributions later in life.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>stdbrouw</author><text>I don&#x27;t think the conclusion follows from the data. It&#x27;s not implausible that in computer science you need to &quot;get&quot; a whole bunch of things before it clicks and you start being productive, and a bimodal distribution of grades would then be indicative only of people who are further along in the learning process vs. those that have not yet reached that critical point, rather than any huge difference in intrinsic ability. This is just speculation, of course, but so is any other explanation and I prefer giving people the benefit of the doubt.</text></comment> |
8,249,345 | 8,248,098 | 1 | 3 | 8,247,803 | train | <story><title>Atreus: My Custom Keyboard</title><url>http://blog.mattgauger.com/blog/2014/08/19/atreus-my-custom-keyboard/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>technomancy</author><text>Designer of the Atreus here. The post linked to the Atreus OSS project, but I am also selling kits for anyone who wants to put one together without tracking down the parts yourself. <a href="http://atreus.technomancy.us" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;atreus.technomancy.us</a> Happy to answer any questions.</text></comment> | <story><title>Atreus: My Custom Keyboard</title><url>http://blog.mattgauger.com/blog/2014/08/19/atreus-my-custom-keyboard/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>wyager</author><text>Cool! The case is super nice!<p>I posted my keyboard project on HN a while back. I decided not to do a case, but to split it like an ErgoDox. <a href="http://yager.io/keyboard/keyboard.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;yager.io&#x2F;keyboard&#x2F;keyboard.html</a> I&#x27;ve been considering the possibility of fabricating a case of some kind. Looks like I&#x27;ll have to add wood to the list.</text></comment> |
13,503,184 | 13,501,716 | 1 | 3 | 13,501,170 | train | <story><title>Microsoft earnings blow past estimates in every category, beats Street</title><url>http://www.cnbc.com/2017/01/26/microsoft-earnings-q2-2017.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>xt00</author><text>Yea the smart play Microsoft is making is to go to businesses and say &quot;look you could go with us or AWS.. AWS essentially says &quot;good luck you&#x27;re on your own&quot; and we will hold your hand and our premier support people will come to your business and set it all up for you and show your like 2 IT guys how to manage things.. They will make a ton of money on cloud because a huge amount of businesses are basically lagging behind the rest of the industry with cloud adoption and getting rid of their old servers and hosting services.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>reggieband</author><text>I can&#x27;t agree more.<p>I work in an enterprise place and we discuss this frequently. Even worse than AWS is Google, they just don&#x27;t get the fact that Technical Managers at big enterprise places want hand-hold turn-key solutions. The amount of money they leave on the table is mind-bending.<p>You go to Google and say &quot;We need to do X&quot; and they say &quot;Here is product Y that connects to product Z, but you need to write your own connector.&quot; And each product has it&#x27;s own pricing structure (one by CPU usage, one with flat fees, one based on throughput) so working out total cost is a nightmare. Then you have to hire around those techs, project manage the build of the infrastructure, etc. At that point you start to ask &quot;Why are we using them again?&quot;<p>I&#x27;ve heard &quot;Amazon and Google don&#x27;t understand enterprise&quot; at least a dozen times in the last couple of months. You don&#x27;t hear that about Microsoft. Coming from a startup&#x2F;open source&#x2F;indie background I thought AWS and Google would be eating the world but at least in enterprise they appear to be missing a big opportunity.</text></comment> | <story><title>Microsoft earnings blow past estimates in every category, beats Street</title><url>http://www.cnbc.com/2017/01/26/microsoft-earnings-q2-2017.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>xt00</author><text>Yea the smart play Microsoft is making is to go to businesses and say &quot;look you could go with us or AWS.. AWS essentially says &quot;good luck you&#x27;re on your own&quot; and we will hold your hand and our premier support people will come to your business and set it all up for you and show your like 2 IT guys how to manage things.. They will make a ton of money on cloud because a huge amount of businesses are basically lagging behind the rest of the industry with cloud adoption and getting rid of their old servers and hosting services.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kwillets</author><text>MS&#x27;s chief economist believes that basic cloud services will be commodity-priced, so the strategy is to add value, and both tools and services will be key for that.</text></comment> |
13,743,424 | 13,741,328 | 1 | 3 | 13,739,476 | train | <story><title>No publication without confirmation</title><url>http://www.nature.com/news/no-publication-without-confirmation-1.21509</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>beloch</author><text>&quot;Confirmatory labs would be less dependent on positive results than the original researchers, a situation that should promote the publication of null and negative results. They would be rewarded by authorship on published papers, service fees, or both. They would also be more motivated to build a reputation for quality and competence than to achieve a particular finding.&quot;<p>Sounds great, but how would this <i>actually</i> work. Nobody is going to get juicy grants from existing funding agencies for being a &quot;confirmatory&quot; lab. Nature sure as hell isn&#x27;t going to pay for this. Most researchers probably can&#x27;t afford to pay an outside lab to duplicate their research. Is Nature going to suddenly start refusing papers whose results haven&#x27;t been reproduced elsewhere? That&#x27;s basically suicide for their journal because researchers are frequently in a race with other researchers to publish first, so why publish with a journal that requires you to double your budget to pay a confirmatory lab and wait months or years for them to do the job? The pressure will be intense to publish <i>elsewhere</i> first.<p>I have a simpler solution.<p>Don&#x27;t just slap the names of confirmatory lab authors onto other papers. Publish original papers <i>and</i> publish confirmatory papers with equal prominence to the original papers. Hell, devote a portion of Nature to doing <i>just</i> that. Currently, if you want to publish a paper about confirming someone <i>else&#x27;s</i> original findings, not even a third rate journal will touch it unless you put at least <i>some</i> kind of novel-sounding spin on it. Nature should use all that scummy impact factor gaming they do to make confirmatory papers <i>respectable</i>. Only when the work of reproducing results gains labs respect will funding agencies start supporting &quot;confirmation labs&quot;. At present, such &quot;unoriginal&quot;, &quot;hack&quot; work is not respected at all, and Nature is a big part of the reason why.</text></comment> | <story><title>No publication without confirmation</title><url>http://www.nature.com/news/no-publication-without-confirmation-1.21509</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>StClaire</author><text>I have an idea: if a research study doesn&#x27;t go the way you thought it would, put it out there.<p>We need a central repository like Arxiv where we dump the experiments that didn&#x27;t work out so that we can quickly compare a &quot;successful&quot; one to ones done before. That gives us a better idea of if the data is just a fluke.<p>The papers wouldn&#x27;t have to be super involved. What did you do? What were statistical conclusions. Give an upper-level undergraduate or an early masters student some experience writing up a procedure. Shouldn&#x27;t take more than a couple hours but it could save a lot of time dealing with publication bias</text></comment> |
32,393,885 | 32,392,767 | 1 | 2 | 32,392,161 | train | <story><title>The case against a C alternative</title><url>https://c3.handmade.network/blog/p/8486-the_case_against_a_c_alternative</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bee_rider</author><text>But the presence of a better language to write innocent programs in wouldn&#x27;t protect the innocent programs from malicious programs written in C and assembly...</text></item><item><author>woodruffw</author><text>They&#x27;re aimed at protecting innocent programs from exploitation. If we knew which programs were actually malicious, our lives would be much easier!</text></item><item><author>bee_rider</author><text>You are the security engineer, so you certainly know better than me, but aren&#x27;t those runtime mitigations aimed at malicious programs? Which is to say, even if a better-C was written that didn&#x27;t allow people to write a program that would bump into those mitigations, the bad guys could still write their programs in assembly or C or whatever, right?</text></item><item><author>clysm</author><text>&gt; any safety checks put into the competing language will have a runtime cost, which often is unacceptable.<p>And what is the runtime cost of all the mitigations put in place <i>because we don&#x27;t use a memory safe language</i>? Stack canaries, safe stacks, ASLR, control flow integrity, code pointer integrity, runtime attestation, library re-linking and randomization. Not to mention sandboxing techniques and other system level mitigations.<p>I suppose I should thank the C language for job security as a security engineer.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>elihu</author><text>Think about web browsers. We&#x27;re not really that worried about people running malicious web browsers. It&#x27;s potentially a problem, but as long as people know not to run software that some random spammer sends them in an email then it&#x27;s easy to avoid.<p>On the other hand what computer security people worry about a lot is that the web browsers made by reputable organizations and teams of competent programmers nevertheless contain security flaws that can be exploited by a maliciously-written website to cause those browsers to do unexpected and dangerous things.<p>Many of those security flaws in otherwise well-regarded software are due to memory management errors that just aren&#x27;t present in safer languages, or they&#x27;re due to type errors that wouldn&#x27;t be present in more type-safe languages.<p>There are some implementation bugs that could be present in any language no matter how many safety features it has, but many security bugs aren&#x27;t due to, say, an incorrectly specified algorithm, they&#x27;re due to the programmer asking the computer to do something that&#x27;s literally nonsense, like asking for the fourth element of a list that only has three elements, or recording that someone&#x27;s age is apricot. Programming languages with powerful nonsense filters can remove a lot of those kinds of security bugs. (And powerful type systems often give programmers mechanisms to tell the compiler more about the program so that it can filter out more kinds of nonsense than it would otherwise.)</text></comment> | <story><title>The case against a C alternative</title><url>https://c3.handmade.network/blog/p/8486-the_case_against_a_c_alternative</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bee_rider</author><text>But the presence of a better language to write innocent programs in wouldn&#x27;t protect the innocent programs from malicious programs written in C and assembly...</text></item><item><author>woodruffw</author><text>They&#x27;re aimed at protecting innocent programs from exploitation. If we knew which programs were actually malicious, our lives would be much easier!</text></item><item><author>bee_rider</author><text>You are the security engineer, so you certainly know better than me, but aren&#x27;t those runtime mitigations aimed at malicious programs? Which is to say, even if a better-C was written that didn&#x27;t allow people to write a program that would bump into those mitigations, the bad guys could still write their programs in assembly or C or whatever, right?</text></item><item><author>clysm</author><text>&gt; any safety checks put into the competing language will have a runtime cost, which often is unacceptable.<p>And what is the runtime cost of all the mitigations put in place <i>because we don&#x27;t use a memory safe language</i>? Stack canaries, safe stacks, ASLR, control flow integrity, code pointer integrity, runtime attestation, library re-linking and randomization. Not to mention sandboxing techniques and other system level mitigations.<p>I suppose I should thank the C language for job security as a security engineer.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>woodruffw</author><text>I don&#x27;t understand this response. Nothing really stops that, regardless of implementation language. It&#x27;s why we have an entire bodged and mostly ineffective AV industry, as well as a slightly less bodged and partially effective endpoint monitoring&#x2F;detection industry.<p>Runtime mitigations exist to mitigate <i>some</i> of the latent risk associated with programming in unsafe programming languages. We use them because they&#x27;re our best known approach to continuing to use those languages without letting script kiddies own us like it&#x27;s 1993.</text></comment> |
29,434,237 | 29,434,280 | 1 | 2 | 29,432,816 | train | <story><title>An alarming trend in K-12 math education: a guest post and an open letter</title><url>https://scottaaronson.blog/?p=6146</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>syki</author><text>I teach math at a community college. It is all about removing complexity. The idea in education is that everyone is intellectually equal. Therefore the racial achievement gap in mathematics is due to racism. The solution is to change things. Too many POC students aren’t placing into college level math therefore get rid of placement test and get rid of remedial courses. Create new college algebra with just in time tutoring and voila, no more racial achievement gap. If you dumb things down enough everyone passes and we can pat ourselves on the back and claim to have solved the racial achievement gap.<p>My complaint about these reforms is that the root cause of the issue is not being addressed. This has long term negative effects. My own anecdotal experience is that what used to be a C is now an A or a B in my classes and I’m passing people who don’t know anything. I’m judged by the passing rate so I’m maximizing that metric. These reforms are just doing what I’m doing but in a less forthright way.</text></item><item><author>PragmaticPulp</author><text>I had originally assumed the criticisms were exaggerated, but the more I read about the new curriculum the less comfortable I am.<p>It seems every defense is built around hedges like this one:<p>&gt; although they are cutting geometry a bit, which doesn&#x27;t make as much sense today as it did 100 years ago when far more people grew up to be farmers or ranchers<p>Which suggests to me that they really <i>are</i> trying to walk back the complexity of the education, perhaps as part of a goal to force the variance of educational progress into a narrower range within classes.<p>The language is so vague that it&#x27;s hard to understand exactly what they&#x27;re trying to do, which I think is their point. If they wanted to emphasize advanced education topics it would have been front and center in the plan. Instead, it seems like a footnote that we&#x27;re supposed to assume will get taken care of in some future iteration of this integrative math program.</text></item><item><author>humanistbot</author><text>The manufactured outrage over the California math recommendations keep getting posted on HN. Read the actual text of the plans here [1]. The FAQ is at [2] and directly responds to these characterizations. They are not banning gifted &amp; talented programs or advanced students taking accelerated courses. They are not taking algebra out of the curriculum, although they are cutting geometry a bit, which doesn&#x27;t make as much sense today as it did 100 years ago when far more people grew up to be farmers or ranchers. They are adding more statistics and probability, which I think are crucial in today&#x27;s society.<p>What they are fundamentally doing is breaking up the classic U.S. staged path where you learn algebra for a year, then geometry for a year, then back to algebra &#x2F; pre-calc for a year, then maybe take statistics or calculus as an elective, etc. Instead, all branches of math will be taught in an integrated approach focused around applied problems.<p>This is how a lot of European math courses are taught. In fact, I think HN would appreciate the shift from focusing on pure numbers and classic formulas to more applied uses of math, including algorithms, probability, data collected and analyzed in charts, etc. Students also forget a lot of algebra when they do a year of geometry by itself, then have to go back to algebra &#x2F; pre-calc.<p>It also does mean that in the transition, it will be harder for students to &quot;test out&quot; of the classic algebra I&#x2F;II, geometry, pre-calc sequence, because it will just be &quot;year X integrated math.&quot; But the framework does not forbid gifted and talented programs or anything like that. There will just be a few awkward years while the curriculum shifts.<p>Now, there are some on the left who advocated for the elimination of gifted and talented programs altogether, for equity reasons. They did not get what they wanted in the new California framework. That hasn&#x27;t stopped a lot of people from looking at what California is doing and imagining it is actually some kind of Harrison Bergeron dystopia, when that is absolutely not the case.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cde.ca.gov&#x2F;ci&#x2F;ma&#x2F;cf&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cde.ca.gov&#x2F;ci&#x2F;ma&#x2F;cf&#x2F;</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cde.ca.gov&#x2F;ci&#x2F;ma&#x2F;cf&#x2F;mathfwfaqs.asp" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cde.ca.gov&#x2F;ci&#x2F;ma&#x2F;cf&#x2F;mathfwfaqs.asp</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>csee</author><text>&gt; My complaint about these reforms is that the root cause of the issue is not being addressed.<p>The root cause is well outside of the scope of schools to address. Perhaps they can help to a small extent through things like lunchtime meals. But curriculum reform itself will never narrow the gap more than a tiny amount.<p>Childhood nutrition, single parent households, health of mother during pregnancy, culture&#x2F;respect towards education as a virtue in the community and household, education level of parents and the time they have to play and talk with their kids.<p>All these things are going to impact the capabilities of young school children and feed into outcome gaps between various groups (Black vs White, poor vs rich).<p>I believe most proponents of &quot;math equity&quot; actually know all this, and are just maliciously virtue signalling either because they&#x27;re jealous that their own kids aren&#x27;t doing well, or for social credit.</text></comment> | <story><title>An alarming trend in K-12 math education: a guest post and an open letter</title><url>https://scottaaronson.blog/?p=6146</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>syki</author><text>I teach math at a community college. It is all about removing complexity. The idea in education is that everyone is intellectually equal. Therefore the racial achievement gap in mathematics is due to racism. The solution is to change things. Too many POC students aren’t placing into college level math therefore get rid of placement test and get rid of remedial courses. Create new college algebra with just in time tutoring and voila, no more racial achievement gap. If you dumb things down enough everyone passes and we can pat ourselves on the back and claim to have solved the racial achievement gap.<p>My complaint about these reforms is that the root cause of the issue is not being addressed. This has long term negative effects. My own anecdotal experience is that what used to be a C is now an A or a B in my classes and I’m passing people who don’t know anything. I’m judged by the passing rate so I’m maximizing that metric. These reforms are just doing what I’m doing but in a less forthright way.</text></item><item><author>PragmaticPulp</author><text>I had originally assumed the criticisms were exaggerated, but the more I read about the new curriculum the less comfortable I am.<p>It seems every defense is built around hedges like this one:<p>&gt; although they are cutting geometry a bit, which doesn&#x27;t make as much sense today as it did 100 years ago when far more people grew up to be farmers or ranchers<p>Which suggests to me that they really <i>are</i> trying to walk back the complexity of the education, perhaps as part of a goal to force the variance of educational progress into a narrower range within classes.<p>The language is so vague that it&#x27;s hard to understand exactly what they&#x27;re trying to do, which I think is their point. If they wanted to emphasize advanced education topics it would have been front and center in the plan. Instead, it seems like a footnote that we&#x27;re supposed to assume will get taken care of in some future iteration of this integrative math program.</text></item><item><author>humanistbot</author><text>The manufactured outrage over the California math recommendations keep getting posted on HN. Read the actual text of the plans here [1]. The FAQ is at [2] and directly responds to these characterizations. They are not banning gifted &amp; talented programs or advanced students taking accelerated courses. They are not taking algebra out of the curriculum, although they are cutting geometry a bit, which doesn&#x27;t make as much sense today as it did 100 years ago when far more people grew up to be farmers or ranchers. They are adding more statistics and probability, which I think are crucial in today&#x27;s society.<p>What they are fundamentally doing is breaking up the classic U.S. staged path where you learn algebra for a year, then geometry for a year, then back to algebra &#x2F; pre-calc for a year, then maybe take statistics or calculus as an elective, etc. Instead, all branches of math will be taught in an integrated approach focused around applied problems.<p>This is how a lot of European math courses are taught. In fact, I think HN would appreciate the shift from focusing on pure numbers and classic formulas to more applied uses of math, including algorithms, probability, data collected and analyzed in charts, etc. Students also forget a lot of algebra when they do a year of geometry by itself, then have to go back to algebra &#x2F; pre-calc.<p>It also does mean that in the transition, it will be harder for students to &quot;test out&quot; of the classic algebra I&#x2F;II, geometry, pre-calc sequence, because it will just be &quot;year X integrated math.&quot; But the framework does not forbid gifted and talented programs or anything like that. There will just be a few awkward years while the curriculum shifts.<p>Now, there are some on the left who advocated for the elimination of gifted and talented programs altogether, for equity reasons. They did not get what they wanted in the new California framework. That hasn&#x27;t stopped a lot of people from looking at what California is doing and imagining it is actually some kind of Harrison Bergeron dystopia, when that is absolutely not the case.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cde.ca.gov&#x2F;ci&#x2F;ma&#x2F;cf&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cde.ca.gov&#x2F;ci&#x2F;ma&#x2F;cf&#x2F;</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cde.ca.gov&#x2F;ci&#x2F;ma&#x2F;cf&#x2F;mathfwfaqs.asp" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cde.ca.gov&#x2F;ci&#x2F;ma&#x2F;cf&#x2F;mathfwfaqs.asp</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>cm2187</author><text>And the irony of course is that these anti-racism policies that are based on the assumption that minority students aren’t smart enough to pass the tests and therefore the tests need to dumbed down to achieve social justice, are fundamentally racist.</text></comment> |
22,228,159 | 22,228,409 | 1 | 3 | 22,227,266 | train | <story><title>Microsoft Teams outage due to expired certificate</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2020/02/03/microsoft-teams-has-been-down-this-morning/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>akerro</author><text>Is anyone else redirected by this url to <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;guce.advertising.com&#x2F;collectIdentifiers?sessionId=3_cc-session_3982b38b-2de1-484a-98bd-4a0b8635308c" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;guce.advertising.com&#x2F;collectIdentifiers?sessionId=3_...</a> ?<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gfycat.com&#x2F;fortunateyawningcopperhead" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gfycat.com&#x2F;fortunateyawningcopperhead</a><p>My router is blocking this domain on DNS level in OpenWRT, techcrunch.com is redirecting me there, so I can&#x27;t visit this page.<p>Edit: I literally can not visit any techcrunch.com article, all of them redirect me to this doggy ads+tracking domain. It doesn&#x27;t matter if I came from google, DDG, reddit or HN.</text></comment> | <story><title>Microsoft Teams outage due to expired certificate</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2020/02/03/microsoft-teams-has-been-down-this-morning/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>godelmachine</author><text>I am going to seize this opportunity and rant out my angst against Microsoft’s worst product till date.<p>Has anyone even felt that Teams is a heavy app that consumes a lot of time to come alive?<p>Even during calls, the quality is horrible that I don’t even want to describe the pain I go through. There’s strong distortion and voices will never be heard clearly.</text></comment> |
15,909,530 | 15,906,570 | 1 | 3 | 15,906,305 | train | <story><title>SEC Shuts Down Munchee ICO</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2017/12/12/sec-shuts-down-munchee-ico/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>zachruss92</author><text>Honestly, i&#x27;m kind of annoyed by everyone offering an ICO for [insert irrelevant product here]. It&#x27;s creating a misleading advertising scheme built on top of a current tech _craze_ that will likely leave a lot of &quot;investors&quot; out of money.<p>The problem is that you&#x27;re giving money to a relatively unknown company while speculating that the company will create inherent value. Unlike with stocks, you don&#x27;t have ownership in the company or any voting rights. There is nothing stopping the company&#x27;s creators from distributing the ICO money to themselves (there might be a board, but since the company isn&#x27;t public who knows who the board is).<p>In this case the SEC is right to step in so there aren&#x27;t a ton of unregulated securities going around and a lot of consumers potentially getting screwed.<p>Even with cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin, it can be scary. You&#x27;re literally getting into the ForEx market, which is known to be one of the riskiest markets in existence. With other currencies, at least they&#x27;re backed by a government that (at least at least attempts) to regulate it&#x27;s value and protect it from manipulation. With bitcoin, I saw that 40% of all coins in existence are owned by less that 1,000 people. How do we know that the current price inflations aren&#x27;t a manipulation (or collusion) to jack up the price, sell for USD, then crash the market? It&#x27;s not illegal&#x2F;collusion because Bitcoin isn&#x27;t regulated.<p>This is definitely a rant, but I have some serious concerns as to where this market is going. Would love to hear other&#x27;s thoughts.</text></comment> | <story><title>SEC Shuts Down Munchee ICO</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2017/12/12/sec-shuts-down-munchee-ico/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>azernik</author><text>Related to this bigger HN submission from yesterday (&quot;Statement on Cryptocurrencies and Initial Coin Offerings&quot;): <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=15902054" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=15902054</a><p>That statement was released on the same day as the Munchee decision, and the Munchee decision is linked from the statement<p>Context (the Munchee decision is in footnote 6): &quot;I urge market professionals, including securities lawyers, accountants and consultants, to read closely the investigative report we released earlier this year (the “21(a) Report”)[5] and review our subsequent enforcement actions.[6]&quot;</text></comment> |
10,195,286 | 10,195,229 | 1 | 3 | 10,192,711 | train | <story><title>Apple Unveils the iPad Pro</title><url>http://techcrunch.com/2015/09/09/apple-unveils-the-ipad-pro/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jff</author><text>Predicted by a 3 year old comic: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;pbs.twimg.com&#x2F;media&#x2F;COenroJWEAAjLoi.jpg:large" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;pbs.twimg.com&#x2F;media&#x2F;COenroJWEAAjLoi.jpg:large</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>qyv</author><text>The weird part for me is that everyone I know who tried an iPad for getting work done (ie: PROfessionals) gave up on it. iOS is simply not geared towards productivity nor content creation, it is a consumption device. The surface pro is the exact opposite, it is a machine that works for getting shit done on the go (for some people, not all obviously).</text></comment> | <story><title>Apple Unveils the iPad Pro</title><url>http://techcrunch.com/2015/09/09/apple-unveils-the-ipad-pro/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jff</author><text>Predicted by a 3 year old comic: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;pbs.twimg.com&#x2F;media&#x2F;COenroJWEAAjLoi.jpg:large" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;pbs.twimg.com&#x2F;media&#x2F;COenroJWEAAjLoi.jpg:large</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rayiner</author><text>I don&#x27;t think it&#x27;s accurate to say Surface Pro presaged the iPad Pro by three years. Surface Pro was a basically different vision (not to mention a severely compromised device). A laptop without a keyboard but with a fan and short battery life. A software stack that requires you to go into the desktop to access non-trivial settings.<p>The iPad Pro is a big iPad. No x86, no fan, touch-based software stack, etc. It&#x27;s not a computer, it doesn&#x27;t have USB ports, it can&#x27;t run desktop software. You can&#x27;t plug it into a dock hook use it as a desktop machine.[1] On purpose. It&#x27;s a very different point in the design space.<p>[1] Some people may consider the iPad Pro to be a Surface 3 with less features. And maybe it is depending on what you want from it. My take is that I&#x27;ve got a quad-core laptop with 16GB of RAM as my workhorse. I don&#x27;t want a compromise device that&#x27;s part tablet and part ULV laptop. I want a companion device with a big screen that I can mark up PDFs on. I want a bigger iPad, not a laptop with a detachable keyboard.</text></comment> |
30,924,506 | 30,924,037 | 1 | 2 | 30,921,628 | train | <story><title>The next Google</title><url>https://dkb.io/post/the-next-google</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>idiotsecant</author><text>The death of the web is because most people don&#x27;t want what you want. They don&#x27;t mind walled gardens, so long as they are easy to use and have the content and connections that they want to see.<p>The audience of HN is extremely skewed towards preferring systems that allow tinkering but that&#x27;s not what the market wants.</text></item><item><author>mostlysimilar</author><text>&gt; a simple box where you put a question in and it gives you answers<p>Google is very good at this, but this is exactly what I _don&#x27;t_ want in the &quot;Next Google&quot;. I want a _search engine_ for the web, not an answers engine that tries to know what I want better than I do.<p>Search the web. Give me links to websites. This seems obvious to me, but everyone is trying to be like Google.<p>I&#x27;m convinced the death of the web and independent forum communities is largely the fault of Google&#x27;s lousy search results no longer actually returning real web results.</text></item><item><author>Barrin92</author><text>I think &#x27;more customization&#x27; which is a theme with a lot of these alternatives is a fundamental dead end. I don&#x27;t know where this persistent myth comes from that people love choice and tinkering, because they clearly don&#x27;t. There&#x27;s a huge cost associated with having to make choices, and one feature of successful modern apps is that they&#x27;re frictionless. That&#x27;s why TikTok is so successful. There&#x27;s no login, no user chosen social graph, everything&#x27;s abstracted away.<p>And that&#x27;s by the way why Google is still successful as well. Because it literally still is a simple box where you put a question in and it gives you answers without needing to do anything else. The only way to beat that is to make it even better while not making it more complicated which is very hard to do.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>baxtr</author><text>This. People don&#x27;t realize that the early web was elitist. Now, the entire population is online. And, as you said, most people simply don&#x27;t care about the stuff we care about.<p>That&#x27;s also why &quot;Google&#x27;s search results are soo bad.&quot; They&#x27;re not. For the bulk of Google&#x27;s visitors, they&#x27;re good enough.</text></comment> | <story><title>The next Google</title><url>https://dkb.io/post/the-next-google</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>idiotsecant</author><text>The death of the web is because most people don&#x27;t want what you want. They don&#x27;t mind walled gardens, so long as they are easy to use and have the content and connections that they want to see.<p>The audience of HN is extremely skewed towards preferring systems that allow tinkering but that&#x27;s not what the market wants.</text></item><item><author>mostlysimilar</author><text>&gt; a simple box where you put a question in and it gives you answers<p>Google is very good at this, but this is exactly what I _don&#x27;t_ want in the &quot;Next Google&quot;. I want a _search engine_ for the web, not an answers engine that tries to know what I want better than I do.<p>Search the web. Give me links to websites. This seems obvious to me, but everyone is trying to be like Google.<p>I&#x27;m convinced the death of the web and independent forum communities is largely the fault of Google&#x27;s lousy search results no longer actually returning real web results.</text></item><item><author>Barrin92</author><text>I think &#x27;more customization&#x27; which is a theme with a lot of these alternatives is a fundamental dead end. I don&#x27;t know where this persistent myth comes from that people love choice and tinkering, because they clearly don&#x27;t. There&#x27;s a huge cost associated with having to make choices, and one feature of successful modern apps is that they&#x27;re frictionless. That&#x27;s why TikTok is so successful. There&#x27;s no login, no user chosen social graph, everything&#x27;s abstracted away.<p>And that&#x27;s by the way why Google is still successful as well. Because it literally still is a simple box where you put a question in and it gives you answers without needing to do anything else. The only way to beat that is to make it even better while not making it more complicated which is very hard to do.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ouid</author><text>What the market has produced is not ipso facto what the people want. The market is simultaneously optimizing many things. Walled gardens are much better explained by companies benefitting from not having to allow their competitors access to their customers than by &quot;being what the people want&quot;.</text></comment> |
5,821,584 | 5,821,608 | 1 | 2 | 5,820,785 | train | <story><title>A founder-friendly term sheet</title><url>http://blog.samaltman.com/a-founder-friendly-term-sheet</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mindcrime</author><text><i>All founders equity shall be subject to a repurchase right which also reflects a standard 4 year vesting schedule.</i><p>If we were taking outside money tomorrow, this would be a point of contention. I understand the idea behind a vesting schedule for founders (the investors don't want you to walk away two days after they invest), and I might grudgingly agree to something like that. But no way would I ever agree to make 100% of my founder equity subject to vesting or repurchase. The bottom line is, I've spend 2+ years working on this company, and without the work I (and the other co-founders) have put in, there is no company, no valuation, no nothing. I'm not going to put all of that equity at risk just to make an investor feel good. If we're all supposed to "be in this together" and have aligned interests, they would have to accept that we've already earned the right to a significant portion of the company.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>sama</author><text>If the founders have been working on the company for awhile I'll usually agree to a shorter vesting schedule. That said, one of my favorite things in the world is when a founder proposes 6-year vesting for a company they've already been working on for awhile to set the right standard for everyone else.</text></comment> | <story><title>A founder-friendly term sheet</title><url>http://blog.samaltman.com/a-founder-friendly-term-sheet</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mindcrime</author><text><i>All founders equity shall be subject to a repurchase right which also reflects a standard 4 year vesting schedule.</i><p>If we were taking outside money tomorrow, this would be a point of contention. I understand the idea behind a vesting schedule for founders (the investors don't want you to walk away two days after they invest), and I might grudgingly agree to something like that. But no way would I ever agree to make 100% of my founder equity subject to vesting or repurchase. The bottom line is, I've spend 2+ years working on this company, and without the work I (and the other co-founders) have put in, there is no company, no valuation, no nothing. I'm not going to put all of that equity at risk just to make an investor feel good. If we're all supposed to "be in this together" and have aligned interests, they would have to accept that we've already earned the right to a significant portion of the company.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kogir</author><text>In the (hopefully) unlikely case one founder has to be fired by the others, this keeps incentives properly aligned.<p>Few things are as demoralizing as needing to fire a co-founder in the first place, but if they keep the same equity stake as the founders who remain it's worlds worse.</text></comment> |
7,967,239 | 7,967,152 | 1 | 2 | 7,966,680 | train | <story><title>The Economy</title><url>http://blog.samaltman.com/the-economy</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>gautambay</author><text>i prefer universal essential services (healthcare, education, etc.) over a guaranteed basic income.<p>with basic income, you run the risk that the receivers spend it on shiny objects (especially in an economy like ours with rampant consumerism) instead of things that benefit them and their families long-term.<p>of course, what constitutes &quot;essential services&quot; can be the subject of a lengthy debate.</text></item><item><author>sama</author><text>oops, i accidentally published an earlier draft. i added a bit more of my thinking here--my sense is that it would probably lead to less waste than current systems.<p>i&#x27;m also not sure it&#x27;s the right approach, but i haven&#x27;t heard any better ideas yet.</text></item><item><author>klunger</author><text>He just suggested a basic income for everybody.<p>I just wanted to point this out in case people missed it when skimming.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>roc</author><text>&gt; <i>&quot;i prefer universal essential services (healthcare, education, etc.) over a guaranteed basic income.&quot;</i><p>If we believe in the market&#x27;s ability to efficiently find the path forward, identifying &quot;essential services&quot;, even if it were possible, is wasteful at best and more likely counter-productive over time.<p>Twenty years ago we&#x27;d have locked in home phone service and missed internet. 10 years ago we might have locked in cell service, but missed mobile data. We&#x27;d have propped up &quot;bad&quot; products, at massive profits for the benefactors, for years beyond their relevance, instead of allowing the market to evaluate and react to changing conditions.<p>And while we might agree that it&#x27;s <i>logically possible</i> for efficient and effective government to correct mistakes like those, the &quot;money is speech&quot; reality in the US gives such outsized power to lobbying interests that even an optimist has to rate effective &quot;steering&quot; of any definition of &quot;essential services&quot; as &quot;unlikely&quot;.<p>Never mind the basic question of whether it&#x27;s at all desirable to <i>force</i> a youth from an underprivileged family to &quot;buy&quot; government-guaranteed education, instead of allowing him to spend even a fraction of the equivalent on a laptop, smartphone and developer tools -- or a 3d printer and amazon hosting services. Or even allowing him to look outside the box of lobbiest-approved education providers, and allowing him to &quot;spend&quot; his assistance on developer conferences or workshops or online learning or just moving to another town that has a better local program.<p>Would some people inevitably spend a guaranteed income poorly? Of course they would. They also sell food stamps for cash -- at 50% of their face value -- to make their bad decisions regardless of what we might prefer.<p>It isn&#x27;t worth the cost to try to enforce &quot;essential services&quot; spending at the micro level. It&#x27;s too rich a target for corporate lobbyists to <i>define</i> approved services at the macro level. And at the economic level, there&#x27;s little reason to believe it will give us better outcomes.</text></comment> | <story><title>The Economy</title><url>http://blog.samaltman.com/the-economy</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>gautambay</author><text>i prefer universal essential services (healthcare, education, etc.) over a guaranteed basic income.<p>with basic income, you run the risk that the receivers spend it on shiny objects (especially in an economy like ours with rampant consumerism) instead of things that benefit them and their families long-term.<p>of course, what constitutes &quot;essential services&quot; can be the subject of a lengthy debate.</text></item><item><author>sama</author><text>oops, i accidentally published an earlier draft. i added a bit more of my thinking here--my sense is that it would probably lead to less waste than current systems.<p>i&#x27;m also not sure it&#x27;s the right approach, but i haven&#x27;t heard any better ideas yet.</text></item><item><author>klunger</author><text>He just suggested a basic income for everybody.<p>I just wanted to point this out in case people missed it when skimming.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ef4</author><text>Ah, the classic paternalistic argument. It&#x27;s deeply appealing to many people&#x27;s preconceptions. But a growing body of experimental results call it into question.<p>When you actually conduct the experiment -- a randomized controlled trial where you give some poor people cash and others in-kind services, the cash group outperforms.</text></comment> |
17,742,715 | 17,741,716 | 1 | 2 | 17,736,566 | train | <story><title>The Art of Not Dying: the First Emperor’s Pursuit of Immortality</title><url>https://www.laphamsquarterly.org/roundtable/art-not-dying</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>rgovostes</author><text>My small town in Japan was heavily influenced by a scholar who was searching for this elixir for Qin Shihuang. There&#x27;s a park dedicated to the scholar, Jofuku:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.shinguu.jp&#x2F;en&#x2F;spots&#x2F;detail&#x2F;A0005" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.shinguu.jp&#x2F;en&#x2F;spots&#x2F;detail&#x2F;A0005</a></text></comment> | <story><title>The Art of Not Dying: the First Emperor’s Pursuit of Immortality</title><url>https://www.laphamsquarterly.org/roundtable/art-not-dying</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>man-and-laptop</author><text>Being mummified was a clever move. If his brain were preserved long enough, then he may hypothetically have been brought back to life. A bit like cryogenics.</text></comment> |
17,365,674 | 17,365,507 | 1 | 2 | 17,361,168 | train | <story><title>Firefox is back. It's time to give it a try</title><url>https://mobile.nytimes.com/2018/06/20/technology/personaltech/firefox-chrome-browser-privacy.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>afranchuk</author><text>That&#x27;s been my experience&#x2F;preference as well. In fact I have been very taken aback by all the &quot;Firefox is back&quot; and &quot;time to try Firefox again&quot; headlines. I guess I didn&#x27;t realize what sort of exodus occurred when chrome came out. But honestly, I <i>never</i> ran into performance issues with Firefox over the years and various versions, including the overhaul with Firefox 3.<p>I typically have 2-8 tabs open (hasn&#x27;t changed much over the years). Maybe other usage patterns used to cause problems... Also worth noting I was always on Linux; maybe Windows&#x2F;Mac versions weren&#x27;t as good?<p>When quantum came out, I didn&#x27;t personally notice a big performance improvement in terms of user experience (though I don&#x27;t doubt it&#x27;s there, and I don&#x27;t watch CPU&#x2F;MEM constantly). I&#x27;ve seen these headlines and have just been thinking to myself &quot;but it&#x27;s always been good!&quot;</text></item><item><author>radmuzom</author><text>Most of the comments here are about using or not using Firefox, depending on it&#x27;s features as compared to primarily Chrome. However, for me, it is not about being better or having more features at all - it is because I like Firefox and want to support Mozilla and believe that Google should not control the web. It is somewhat similar to the free software vs. open source debate - one should use free software not because it is better, but because it is the right thing to do (I understand that not many people agree with this philosophy, which is fine).<p>Having said that, all sites which I regularly use work perfectly for me in Firefox with acceptable performance. So I never found a reason to switch at all. Rarely, I come across a website which is &quot;best viewed with Chrome&quot;; my default action is to close that site immediately.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Bartweiss</author><text>This is an interesting take, since it&#x27;s so difference from my experience. There&#x27;s definitely <i>some</i> difference in use cases that had a large impact - whether that&#x27;s device memory, open tabs, or even choice of websites.<p>I didn&#x27;t switch to Chrome when it first came out, but over the next couple of years I found Firefox frustratingly slow and crash-prone. When I cut over, everything was drastically faster and more reliable, plus the feature set (extensions, url completion, incognito for parallel sign-ins, and so on) was noticeably better. High memory usage was the only price, and Chrome surrenders that somewhat gracefully when it&#x27;s needed.<p>I&#x27;m hoping to make the switch back. Chrome has become more frustrating as Google adds brand alignment, and moreover I simply don&#x27;t <i>like</i> being siloed by a brand. But the usability gain was massive when I first switched, and I&#x27;m only making the move now because there&#x27;s been a lot of good news out of Mozilla.</text></comment> | <story><title>Firefox is back. It's time to give it a try</title><url>https://mobile.nytimes.com/2018/06/20/technology/personaltech/firefox-chrome-browser-privacy.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>afranchuk</author><text>That&#x27;s been my experience&#x2F;preference as well. In fact I have been very taken aback by all the &quot;Firefox is back&quot; and &quot;time to try Firefox again&quot; headlines. I guess I didn&#x27;t realize what sort of exodus occurred when chrome came out. But honestly, I <i>never</i> ran into performance issues with Firefox over the years and various versions, including the overhaul with Firefox 3.<p>I typically have 2-8 tabs open (hasn&#x27;t changed much over the years). Maybe other usage patterns used to cause problems... Also worth noting I was always on Linux; maybe Windows&#x2F;Mac versions weren&#x27;t as good?<p>When quantum came out, I didn&#x27;t personally notice a big performance improvement in terms of user experience (though I don&#x27;t doubt it&#x27;s there, and I don&#x27;t watch CPU&#x2F;MEM constantly). I&#x27;ve seen these headlines and have just been thinking to myself &quot;but it&#x27;s always been good!&quot;</text></item><item><author>radmuzom</author><text>Most of the comments here are about using or not using Firefox, depending on it&#x27;s features as compared to primarily Chrome. However, for me, it is not about being better or having more features at all - it is because I like Firefox and want to support Mozilla and believe that Google should not control the web. It is somewhat similar to the free software vs. open source debate - one should use free software not because it is better, but because it is the right thing to do (I understand that not many people agree with this philosophy, which is fine).<p>Having said that, all sites which I regularly use work perfectly for me in Firefox with acceptable performance. So I never found a reason to switch at all. Rarely, I come across a website which is &quot;best viewed with Chrome&quot;; my default action is to close that site immediately.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dspillett</author><text>&gt;* I guess I didn&#x27;t realize what sort of exodus occurred when chrome came out.*<p>It wasn&#x27;t really a mass exodus, but a gradual wax &amp; wane over time (with more moves FF-&gt;C over the long term than C-&gt;FF).<p>In development fields the count is complicated by people who regularly use both, but prefer one.<p><i>&gt; I typically have 2-8 tabs open</i><p>I tend to have many open[1], over several windows on different desktops. I use open tabs more than I use bookmarks! Every once in a while I go through the open tabs and close those I&#x27;ve not touched in a while that I don;t expect to touch any time soon (obviously the need to have it open has passed). I currently use Chrome more then FF, and here The Great Suspender[1] is a godsend for saving RAM (and to a lesser extent CPU time) Chrome would otherwise consume.<p>[1] TGS lists my current use on this machine as &quot;22 windows, 148 tabs&quot;</text></comment> |
16,233,064 | 16,233,040 | 1 | 2 | 16,225,455 | train | <story><title>Jack White bans phones at gigs for “100% human experience”</title><url>http://www.nme.com/news/music/jack-white-bans-phones-gigs-2227093</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jonnycomputer</author><text>My goodness, all those people who went to concerts before cell phones must have been so hardcore, taking risks like that.<p>My guess is that if you put your phone away you&#x27;re less likely to hurt from, you know, other people doing the stupid stuff they do at concerts.<p>I understand that people want video, so they can post it, and get their dopa-soc on Facebook, or wherever, but seriously, musical artists (especially the ones who don&#x27;t lipsync their concerts) feed off the audience&#x27;s vibe. Its a two-way, not a one-way. Jack White isn&#x27;t feeling the energy and is doing something about it.<p>I say, Jack should just take out his phone and sit there recording the audience, until the get the hint.</text></item><item><author>maxehmookau</author><text>I agree, the safety aspects of this are shocking and the &#x27;be free of phones&#x27; puritanism is a bit dull.<p>A _very_ strict code of conduct for attendees is something that can (and does) work.<p>Jazz pianist, Keith Jarrett has been known to stop his 4-hour long improvisation sessions in some of the world&#x27;s most prestigous venues mid-flow to dress down an attendee trying to film him. People don&#x27;t make that mistake twice. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theguardian.com&#x2F;music&#x2F;musicblog&#x2F;2007&#x2F;aug&#x2F;09&#x2F;keithjarrettsoutburstshouldbeapplauded" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theguardian.com&#x2F;music&#x2F;musicblog&#x2F;2007&#x2F;aug&#x2F;09&#x2F;keit...</a><p>Unrelated, but I&#x27;d be way more on board with this if the DVD of the show wasn&#x27;t £30 afterwards.</text></item><item><author>davb</author><text>I experienced the Yondr phone prison last night for the first time (at a Chris Rock show). While I detest people being disruptive with their phones, I don’t think this is the right solution.<p>From a practical standpoint, it took a lot longer to get into and out of the venue when phones had to be locked up. Checking your phone when you pop out to the toilet meant waiting in a queue to have your phone unlocked, and being kept in a small penned off area. There have been a number of times when I’ve been split up from friends at large venues - not being able to text each other to meet up is inconvenient.<p>It doesn’t work. Unless stewards are doing a thorough search (which would be offputting in itself), people will manage to bring phones in. They did last night. Mine got locked up, my fiancées didn’t.<p>In the event of an emergency, this is a really bad idea. At the extreme end, you’ve got things like the Manchester bombing, where access to a phone would be a useful thing. But more likely it’s a fire alarm and subsequent evacuation, where you end up separated from your group. The venue last night (the SSE Hydro in Glasgow) said that in the event of an evacuation you should not attempt to have your phone unlocked but should leave immediately - sensible but if phones weren’t locked up, it wouldn’t even be a concern.<p>I think the solution is to simply enforce a strict “no phones during the performance” policy. Treat people like adults. If they break the rules, ask them to leave. Last night we were sitting in front of a very drunken, obnoxious heckler. After several people complained, she was asked to leave. This is how many venues handle it.<p>Interestingly, all of the venue stewards last night were wearing Yondr hi vis vests. They seem to be on a major marketing push. I really hope it doesn’t become commonplace.<p>The venue seemed to want to distance themselves from the decision, making announcements along the lines of “At Chris Rock’s request, phones will not be allowed at tonight’s show and will be locked in Yondr cases and given back you you. Consequently, Apple Pay will not be available tonight.”</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>throwaway43532</author><text>&gt; My goodness, all those people who went to concerts before cell phones must have been so hardcore, taking risks like that.<p>I get the point you&#x27;re trying to make, but to me this just reads like gatekeeping.<p>Cell phones <i>are</i> useful and they <i>can</i> make people safer. In a world with cell phones not having timely access to one <i>is</i> riskier. In a world without cell phones it&#x27;s a moot point.<p>The more interesting issue -- which others in this thread are discussing -- is whether the benefits of having a cell phone outweigh the harms people can cause with them, and whether policy can help strike an appropriate balance.</text></comment> | <story><title>Jack White bans phones at gigs for “100% human experience”</title><url>http://www.nme.com/news/music/jack-white-bans-phones-gigs-2227093</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jonnycomputer</author><text>My goodness, all those people who went to concerts before cell phones must have been so hardcore, taking risks like that.<p>My guess is that if you put your phone away you&#x27;re less likely to hurt from, you know, other people doing the stupid stuff they do at concerts.<p>I understand that people want video, so they can post it, and get their dopa-soc on Facebook, or wherever, but seriously, musical artists (especially the ones who don&#x27;t lipsync their concerts) feed off the audience&#x27;s vibe. Its a two-way, not a one-way. Jack White isn&#x27;t feeling the energy and is doing something about it.<p>I say, Jack should just take out his phone and sit there recording the audience, until the get the hint.</text></item><item><author>maxehmookau</author><text>I agree, the safety aspects of this are shocking and the &#x27;be free of phones&#x27; puritanism is a bit dull.<p>A _very_ strict code of conduct for attendees is something that can (and does) work.<p>Jazz pianist, Keith Jarrett has been known to stop his 4-hour long improvisation sessions in some of the world&#x27;s most prestigous venues mid-flow to dress down an attendee trying to film him. People don&#x27;t make that mistake twice. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theguardian.com&#x2F;music&#x2F;musicblog&#x2F;2007&#x2F;aug&#x2F;09&#x2F;keithjarrettsoutburstshouldbeapplauded" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theguardian.com&#x2F;music&#x2F;musicblog&#x2F;2007&#x2F;aug&#x2F;09&#x2F;keit...</a><p>Unrelated, but I&#x27;d be way more on board with this if the DVD of the show wasn&#x27;t £30 afterwards.</text></item><item><author>davb</author><text>I experienced the Yondr phone prison last night for the first time (at a Chris Rock show). While I detest people being disruptive with their phones, I don’t think this is the right solution.<p>From a practical standpoint, it took a lot longer to get into and out of the venue when phones had to be locked up. Checking your phone when you pop out to the toilet meant waiting in a queue to have your phone unlocked, and being kept in a small penned off area. There have been a number of times when I’ve been split up from friends at large venues - not being able to text each other to meet up is inconvenient.<p>It doesn’t work. Unless stewards are doing a thorough search (which would be offputting in itself), people will manage to bring phones in. They did last night. Mine got locked up, my fiancées didn’t.<p>In the event of an emergency, this is a really bad idea. At the extreme end, you’ve got things like the Manchester bombing, where access to a phone would be a useful thing. But more likely it’s a fire alarm and subsequent evacuation, where you end up separated from your group. The venue last night (the SSE Hydro in Glasgow) said that in the event of an evacuation you should not attempt to have your phone unlocked but should leave immediately - sensible but if phones weren’t locked up, it wouldn’t even be a concern.<p>I think the solution is to simply enforce a strict “no phones during the performance” policy. Treat people like adults. If they break the rules, ask them to leave. Last night we were sitting in front of a very drunken, obnoxious heckler. After several people complained, she was asked to leave. This is how many venues handle it.<p>Interestingly, all of the venue stewards last night were wearing Yondr hi vis vests. They seem to be on a major marketing push. I really hope it doesn’t become commonplace.<p>The venue seemed to want to distance themselves from the decision, making announcements along the lines of “At Chris Rock’s request, phones will not be allowed at tonight’s show and will be locked in Yondr cases and given back you you. Consequently, Apple Pay will not be available tonight.”</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>edgarvaldes</author><text>Yep, I don&#x27;t get why &quot;the safety aspects of this are shocking&quot;. Shocking?</text></comment> |
27,210,130 | 27,209,756 | 1 | 2 | 27,206,656 | train | <story><title>Elixir 1.12</title><url>https://elixir-lang.org/blog/2021/05/19/elixir-v1-12-0-released/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>nelsonic</author><text>Sadly that HN thread is biased toward the person&#x2F;team that is &quot;leaving&quot; Elixir because it wasn&#x27;t a good fit for them. For the people who understand Elixir&#x2F;OTP&#x27;s strengths it&#x27;s excellent. We use Elixir for several apps and haven&#x27;t had any issues recruiting&#x2F;training people (remote). If we were to chose again we would 100% pick Elixir; nothing else comes close for our use-case.</text></item><item><author>WayToDoor</author><text>See also, <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=27192873" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=27192873</a> (Ask HN: Are you satisfied with Elixir or do you regret choosing Elixir?) with great insights about the language.<p>Another popular thread that comes to mind is the one about Discord scaling Elixir (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=14748028" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=14748028</a> and <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=19238221" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=19238221</a>)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rapsey</author><text>The point how all of Erlangs strengths are now obsolete because of XYZ that now exists misses the point how with Erlang&#x2F;Elixir all of those things are at your fingertips using a single technology stack that is not hard to use and will scale very well for practically anyone.</text></comment> | <story><title>Elixir 1.12</title><url>https://elixir-lang.org/blog/2021/05/19/elixir-v1-12-0-released/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>nelsonic</author><text>Sadly that HN thread is biased toward the person&#x2F;team that is &quot;leaving&quot; Elixir because it wasn&#x27;t a good fit for them. For the people who understand Elixir&#x2F;OTP&#x27;s strengths it&#x27;s excellent. We use Elixir for several apps and haven&#x27;t had any issues recruiting&#x2F;training people (remote). If we were to chose again we would 100% pick Elixir; nothing else comes close for our use-case.</text></item><item><author>WayToDoor</author><text>See also, <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=27192873" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=27192873</a> (Ask HN: Are you satisfied with Elixir or do you regret choosing Elixir?) with great insights about the language.<p>Another popular thread that comes to mind is the one about Discord scaling Elixir (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=14748028" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=14748028</a> and <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=19238221" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=19238221</a>)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>weatherlight</author><text>I went though that persons submissions&#x2F;comments on HN. its literally the only time they mention Elixir, everything else is ruby&#x2F;rails or python. Makes me wonder if it&#x27;s a troll post.</text></comment> |
36,621,938 | 36,621,959 | 1 | 2 | 36,620,536 | train | <story><title>Twitter is threatening to sue Meta over Threads</title><url>https://www.semafor.com/article/07/06/2023/twitter-is-threatening-to-sue-meta-over-threads</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>edavis</author><text>&gt; the arrival of Threads is definitely an existential threat for Twitter<p>I had a similar thought when I joined Threads last night and within 30 seconds saw the accounts of Adam Schefter, Adrian Wojnarowski, and Shams Charania all actively posting.<p>If you follow NFL and NBA news you&#x27;ll know these names but for anybody that doesn&#x27;t, these insider accounts are firmly at the center of the NFL and NBA breaking news universe and for going on a decade now Twitter was where you went to follow them.<p>What Threads has done is break that monopoly Twitter had on this sort of thing. It gives regular users a clean, familiar, functional, working UI with a simple onboard process and it gives high-profile accounts a stable platform, a verified badge, and a boatload of users.<p>Could Twitter survive if it was no longer the epicenter of North American sports discussion? Probably, but it would be a big loss and would signal to other communities on there that Twitter&#x27;s expiration date is rapidly approaching.</text></item><item><author>minimaxir</author><text>Between this and Twitter CEO Linda Yaccarino&#x27;s weird tweet about how great Twitter is (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;lindayacc&#x2F;status&#x2F;1676965566597464065" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;lindayacc&#x2F;status&#x2F;1676965566597464065</a>), the arrival of Threads is <i>definitely</i> an existential threat for Twitter.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>paxys</author><text>And the reason they are all immediately on Threads is that they saw the existential threat to their careers when Twitter went private and restricted their accounts to viewing 600&#x2F;6000 Tweets last week. It&#x27;s clear that with the daily random rule changes and service interruptions Twitter isn&#x27;t the reliable platform that they need, and Instagram has a great track record of it.</text></comment> | <story><title>Twitter is threatening to sue Meta over Threads</title><url>https://www.semafor.com/article/07/06/2023/twitter-is-threatening-to-sue-meta-over-threads</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>edavis</author><text>&gt; the arrival of Threads is definitely an existential threat for Twitter<p>I had a similar thought when I joined Threads last night and within 30 seconds saw the accounts of Adam Schefter, Adrian Wojnarowski, and Shams Charania all actively posting.<p>If you follow NFL and NBA news you&#x27;ll know these names but for anybody that doesn&#x27;t, these insider accounts are firmly at the center of the NFL and NBA breaking news universe and for going on a decade now Twitter was where you went to follow them.<p>What Threads has done is break that monopoly Twitter had on this sort of thing. It gives regular users a clean, familiar, functional, working UI with a simple onboard process and it gives high-profile accounts a stable platform, a verified badge, and a boatload of users.<p>Could Twitter survive if it was no longer the epicenter of North American sports discussion? Probably, but it would be a big loss and would signal to other communities on there that Twitter&#x27;s expiration date is rapidly approaching.</text></item><item><author>minimaxir</author><text>Between this and Twitter CEO Linda Yaccarino&#x27;s weird tweet about how great Twitter is (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;lindayacc&#x2F;status&#x2F;1676965566597464065" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;lindayacc&#x2F;status&#x2F;1676965566597464065</a>), the arrival of Threads is <i>definitely</i> an existential threat for Twitter.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>sylens</author><text>People noticed that Twitter was unavailable on the first day of NBA Free Agency. I bet that is typically one of the biggest days on Twitter in terms of activity</text></comment> |
21,674,789 | 21,674,743 | 1 | 2 | 21,673,368 | train | <story><title>EU antitrust regulators say they are investigating Google's data collection</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/article/us-eu-alphabet-antitrust-exclusive/exclusive-eu-antitrust-regulators-say-they-are-investigating-googles-data-collection-idUSKBN1Y40NX</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>edgyquant</author><text>amp is so annoying. Just link to the sites no need to track (can&#x27;t they just do it with js) and then the number of people who then post them to Reddit or Facebook because they copy the results link the whole thing is infuriating.</text></item><item><author>dannyw</author><text>I hope part of this investigation revolves around AMP and Google&#x27;s tracking and analytics on AMP sites...</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dastx</author><text><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;addons.mozilla.org&#x2F;en-US&#x2F;firefox&#x2F;addon&#x2F;amp2html&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;addons.mozilla.org&#x2F;en-US&#x2F;firefox&#x2F;addon&#x2F;amp2html&#x2F;</a></text></comment> | <story><title>EU antitrust regulators say they are investigating Google's data collection</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/article/us-eu-alphabet-antitrust-exclusive/exclusive-eu-antitrust-regulators-say-they-are-investigating-googles-data-collection-idUSKBN1Y40NX</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>edgyquant</author><text>amp is so annoying. Just link to the sites no need to track (can&#x27;t they just do it with js) and then the number of people who then post them to Reddit or Facebook because they copy the results link the whole thing is infuriating.</text></item><item><author>dannyw</author><text>I hope part of this investigation revolves around AMP and Google&#x27;s tracking and analytics on AMP sites...</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tarsinge</author><text>Reddit and Facebook are relatively well indexed on DuckDuckGo. Do yourself a favor and change your default search engine (just use !g when you need it).</text></comment> |
3,797,822 | 3,797,200 | 1 | 2 | 3,796,869 | train | <story><title>You Really Should Log Client-Side Errors</title><url>http://openmymind.net/2012/4/4/You-Really-Should-Log-Client-Side-Error/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rakeshpai</author><text>I'm the developer of Errorception (<a href="http://errorception.com/" rel="nofollow">http://errorception.com/</a>), and wanted to jump in to talk about some of the points raised on the thread here.<p>As chrisacky mentioned, making one HTTP post for every error is very wasteful. It's much better to buffer up such errors (Errorception does it in memory, since localStorage can be unavailable and/or full), and post them every once in a while.<p>As masklinn pointed out, window.onerror _is_ complete shit, so Errorception does a couple of tricks to make this slightly better. Firstly, on IE, the stack isn't lost when window.onerror is called, so it's possible to get the call stack and arguments at each level of the stack. Secondly, it's very easy to get other kind of details (browser, version, page, etc.), which helps a great deal in aiding debugging.<p>However, masklinn's suggestion about wrapping code in try/catch blocks is probably not a good idea. This is because some interpreters (I know v8 does this) don't compile the code in such code-paths. May cause a performance hit.<p>As DavidPP mentioned, depending on the nature of your application, it might be a good idea to not record too much sensitive information. For example, Errorception doesn't record function arguments if the page is served over SSL.<p>troels is right - this does create a massive flood of errors. There are several ways to deal with this. What we do for example, is hide away errors from most third-parties - Facebook, Twitter, GoogleBot, GoogleAnalytics, etc. The rest of the errors can still be huge in number, so we group similar errors together based on several parameters like browsers, browser versions, possible variation in inline code line-numbers because of dynamic content, etc.<p>Also, as Kartificial pointed out, this is probably something you don't want to do on your own server. You want to move this out of your infrastructure, and distribute it if possible.<p>There are other concerns - some that come to mind are page load time, ensuring that your error catching code itself doesn't raise errors (or if it does, it doesn't affect your app in any way), and that of managing data-growth on the server. These are fun problems, but it's probably not worth re-inventing the wheel.<p>&#60;/plug&#62;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ef4</author><text>The V8 performance issue with try/catch is widely misunderstood, and it causes people to unnecessarily avoid using it.<p>try/catch can slow down code <i>in the same function as the try/catch statements</i>. But it doesn't slow down any other function called from within there. In other words, it only affects the stack frame at which the try/catch statement actually appears.<p>So if you have some top level error trapping function like:<p><pre><code> errorCatcher = function(continuation){
try {
continuation();
catch(err){
reportErrorToServer(err);
}
}
</code></pre>
and you only call it once at every entry point to your code, the impact will be totally undetectable, because there's only a single function invocation within the unoptimizable area.<p>I encourage people to performance test the difference caused by try/catch like this. You'll see that it doesn't hurt at all. It's only a problem if you actually write a try statement within some tight inner-loop function.</text></comment> | <story><title>You Really Should Log Client-Side Errors</title><url>http://openmymind.net/2012/4/4/You-Really-Should-Log-Client-Side-Error/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rakeshpai</author><text>I'm the developer of Errorception (<a href="http://errorception.com/" rel="nofollow">http://errorception.com/</a>), and wanted to jump in to talk about some of the points raised on the thread here.<p>As chrisacky mentioned, making one HTTP post for every error is very wasteful. It's much better to buffer up such errors (Errorception does it in memory, since localStorage can be unavailable and/or full), and post them every once in a while.<p>As masklinn pointed out, window.onerror _is_ complete shit, so Errorception does a couple of tricks to make this slightly better. Firstly, on IE, the stack isn't lost when window.onerror is called, so it's possible to get the call stack and arguments at each level of the stack. Secondly, it's very easy to get other kind of details (browser, version, page, etc.), which helps a great deal in aiding debugging.<p>However, masklinn's suggestion about wrapping code in try/catch blocks is probably not a good idea. This is because some interpreters (I know v8 does this) don't compile the code in such code-paths. May cause a performance hit.<p>As DavidPP mentioned, depending on the nature of your application, it might be a good idea to not record too much sensitive information. For example, Errorception doesn't record function arguments if the page is served over SSL.<p>troels is right - this does create a massive flood of errors. There are several ways to deal with this. What we do for example, is hide away errors from most third-parties - Facebook, Twitter, GoogleBot, GoogleAnalytics, etc. The rest of the errors can still be huge in number, so we group similar errors together based on several parameters like browsers, browser versions, possible variation in inline code line-numbers because of dynamic content, etc.<p>Also, as Kartificial pointed out, this is probably something you don't want to do on your own server. You want to move this out of your infrastructure, and distribute it if possible.<p>There are other concerns - some that come to mind are page load time, ensuring that your error catching code itself doesn't raise errors (or if it does, it doesn't affect your app in any way), and that of managing data-growth on the server. These are fun problems, but it's probably not worth re-inventing the wheel.<p>&#60;/plug&#62;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>xd</author><text>"making one HTTP post for every error is very wasteful."<p>We implemented this where I work many years back, and as long as you are keeping on top of the errors this isn't a problem.<p>If you are having to buffer your errors before sending them off to be logged because you are noticing a drain on your resources, you're doing it wrong.</text></comment> |
31,834,786 | 31,833,761 | 1 | 3 | 31,822,800 | train | <story><title>“True” Damascus steel is not a “lost art”</title><url>https://www.reddit.com/r/history/comments/vdvtrh/a_widely_believed_history_myth_no_true_damascus/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>hef19898</author><text>I think one has to seperate the steel alloy, which covered, and the forging techniques used. The former ran out, at which point steel quality decreased. Lets call that steel from Damascus.<p>And there is what is now commonly called Damast steel, basically folded and twisted steel of dofferent properties. That technique is as old as blacksmithing because it was, more or less, the only way to get rid of impurities. The Japanese developed this technique to the extreme by not just getting rid of impurities but by gettind <i>specific</i> steel properties to defined parts of a blade.<p>European sword smiths stopped doing that, first European steel became better and more homogenous and didn&#x27;t require anywhere near as much imourity removal. Secondly, spring steel is pretty sturdy monosteel, so need need to get specific steel in specific parts of a blade. And lastky, European bladed weapons from the Napoleonic era onwards were industrially mass produced (as compared to the manufacture mass production from earlier periods). And mass production means cost reductions, that didn&#x27;t start with MBAs. Sonce those weapons were good enough to kill people by stabbing, cutting and slashing them Damast steel wasn&#x27;t needed. The obvious exception are expensive master pieces forged individually. And the better quality &quot;industrial&quot; ones.<p>Damast steel has renessaonce at the moment, mainly because it looks great. And it is a way for knife makers to upsell, otherwise not a singpe one of them could compete on price.<p>The Japanese way of blade making has the benefit of having properties of the alloy at, e.g., the blade (hard and sharp) and the core and back of a blade (softer and stronger). Damast steels properties are all over the place, meaning it has no real value, IMHO, regarding a blades capabilities when it c;mes to cutting. Those blades so, as the Japanese ones, are falling into the region of art so, and there the optical properties matter a lot. And there Damast is just beautiful.<p>From experience so, Damast steel bars are hard to get rigjt, I&#x27;ll go out on a limb and say Japanese bar steel is easier (if you forgo the tradidional Tamahagane way that is). Finishing the blade is easier woth Damast so, a proper Japanese blade requires so much delicate heat treatment and polishing to get right, it is borderline rediculous.</text></item><item><author>throwaway81523</author><text>This article doesn&#x27;t address the 1998 discovery that the &quot;lost&quot; art was the presence of vanadium in the ores that real damascus blades were made from. The vanadium gave the steel its strength from the 13th to 17th centuries or something like that. It was present in iron ore mined in a particular region, and those mines eventually ran out, after which the &quot;recipes&quot; for damascus steel weren&#x27;t lost, they simply stopped working and no one knew why. They had no way to tell the difference between iron ore from one place and ore from another.<p>This is explained in the 1998 Verhoeven, Pendray, and Dauksch (VPD) article]1] that the reddit post cites without touching on this crucial aspect. Or anyway, I thought that VPD&#x27;s explanation was now generally accepted. This isn&#x27;t anywhere near my field though.<p>[1] Verhoeven, John D. et al. “The key role of impurities in ancient damascus steel blades.” JOM 50 (1998): 58-64.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>trashtester</author><text>&gt; so need need to get specific steel in specific parts of a blade.<p>This is not quite true. Even today, there are many secrets surrounding metalworking. The highest quality &quot;blades&quot; (such as plow blades&#x2F;moldboards), may have steel with quite diffent qualities in different areas of the blade.<p>The blade may start out as monosteel, but differential exposure to oxygen, carbon or different temperatures in different parts of the blade is a common way to create blades that have different microstructures (crystal structures, chemical bonds, microshapes) as well as a carbon content that can vary within the blade. These helps them to retain an edge better, better avoid scratching, while maximizing durability and minimizing weight and thickness.</text></comment> | <story><title>“True” Damascus steel is not a “lost art”</title><url>https://www.reddit.com/r/history/comments/vdvtrh/a_widely_believed_history_myth_no_true_damascus/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>hef19898</author><text>I think one has to seperate the steel alloy, which covered, and the forging techniques used. The former ran out, at which point steel quality decreased. Lets call that steel from Damascus.<p>And there is what is now commonly called Damast steel, basically folded and twisted steel of dofferent properties. That technique is as old as blacksmithing because it was, more or less, the only way to get rid of impurities. The Japanese developed this technique to the extreme by not just getting rid of impurities but by gettind <i>specific</i> steel properties to defined parts of a blade.<p>European sword smiths stopped doing that, first European steel became better and more homogenous and didn&#x27;t require anywhere near as much imourity removal. Secondly, spring steel is pretty sturdy monosteel, so need need to get specific steel in specific parts of a blade. And lastky, European bladed weapons from the Napoleonic era onwards were industrially mass produced (as compared to the manufacture mass production from earlier periods). And mass production means cost reductions, that didn&#x27;t start with MBAs. Sonce those weapons were good enough to kill people by stabbing, cutting and slashing them Damast steel wasn&#x27;t needed. The obvious exception are expensive master pieces forged individually. And the better quality &quot;industrial&quot; ones.<p>Damast steel has renessaonce at the moment, mainly because it looks great. And it is a way for knife makers to upsell, otherwise not a singpe one of them could compete on price.<p>The Japanese way of blade making has the benefit of having properties of the alloy at, e.g., the blade (hard and sharp) and the core and back of a blade (softer and stronger). Damast steels properties are all over the place, meaning it has no real value, IMHO, regarding a blades capabilities when it c;mes to cutting. Those blades so, as the Japanese ones, are falling into the region of art so, and there the optical properties matter a lot. And there Damast is just beautiful.<p>From experience so, Damast steel bars are hard to get rigjt, I&#x27;ll go out on a limb and say Japanese bar steel is easier (if you forgo the tradidional Tamahagane way that is). Finishing the blade is easier woth Damast so, a proper Japanese blade requires so much delicate heat treatment and polishing to get right, it is borderline rediculous.</text></item><item><author>throwaway81523</author><text>This article doesn&#x27;t address the 1998 discovery that the &quot;lost&quot; art was the presence of vanadium in the ores that real damascus blades were made from. The vanadium gave the steel its strength from the 13th to 17th centuries or something like that. It was present in iron ore mined in a particular region, and those mines eventually ran out, after which the &quot;recipes&quot; for damascus steel weren&#x27;t lost, they simply stopped working and no one knew why. They had no way to tell the difference between iron ore from one place and ore from another.<p>This is explained in the 1998 Verhoeven, Pendray, and Dauksch (VPD) article]1] that the reddit post cites without touching on this crucial aspect. Or anyway, I thought that VPD&#x27;s explanation was now generally accepted. This isn&#x27;t anywhere near my field though.<p>[1] Verhoeven, John D. et al. “The key role of impurities in ancient damascus steel blades.” JOM 50 (1998): 58-64.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>robinsoh</author><text>&gt; Lets call that steel from Damascus.<p>That&#x27;s confusing to me, what exactly was from Damascus, the steel or the forging technique? Reading the article OP cited says: &quot;This suggests the possibility that the low levels of vanadium found in the genuine wootz blades of Table III may have resulted from ore deposits in India where the wootz steels were produced. &quot;</text></comment> |
28,044,385 | 28,039,913 | 1 | 2 | 28,038,807 | train | <story><title>Google Tensor SoC debuts on the new Pixel 6 this fall</title><url>https://blog.google/products/pixel/google-tensor-debuts-new-pixel-6-fall/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>peq</author><text>&gt; Pixel 6 will have the most layers of hardware security in any phone**.<p>&gt; **Based on a count of independent hardware security subsystems and components.<p>That does not seem like a meaningful measure for security.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Havoc</author><text>Throw it in a zip lock bag for an immediate +1 security layer</text></comment> | <story><title>Google Tensor SoC debuts on the new Pixel 6 this fall</title><url>https://blog.google/products/pixel/google-tensor-debuts-new-pixel-6-fall/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>peq</author><text>&gt; Pixel 6 will have the most layers of hardware security in any phone**.<p>&gt; **Based on a count of independent hardware security subsystems and components.<p>That does not seem like a meaningful measure for security.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>amluto</author><text>From experience with x86: adding more security layers does not inherently make a better design.</text></comment> |
17,316,305 | 17,316,252 | 1 | 2 | 17,314,949 | train | <story><title>The Transistor, Part 3: Endless Reinvention</title><url>https://technicshistory.wordpress.com/2018/03/31/the-transistor-part-3-endless-reinvention/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>pgcudahy</author><text>This series of longform articles is incredible. The first batch are on the history of the switch and probably add up to a shortish book in length. There&#x27;s a nice focus on how at several steps there were many who discovered a new innovation, but there were fewer who had a clear grasp of what their innovation meant and could carry the field forward. Can&#x27;t wait for this author to publish a book.</text></comment> | <story><title>The Transistor, Part 3: Endless Reinvention</title><url>https://technicshistory.wordpress.com/2018/03/31/the-transistor-part-3-endless-reinvention/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>fernly</author><text>I&#x27;m amazed at how fast things moved in the computer industry. Per the article, FETs only just began to work in 1960, but by 1964 Seymour Cray at CDC was completing the 6600[1], a &quot;supercomputer&quot; with massive numbers of them.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;CDC_6600" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;CDC_6600</a></text></comment> |
18,352,884 | 18,352,717 | 1 | 2 | 18,351,685 | train | <story><title>A Gentle Visual Intro to Data Analysis in Python Using Pandas</title><url>https://jalammar.github.io/gentle-visual-intro-to-data-analysis-python-pandas/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jalammar</author><text>Hello HN, author here. If you&#x27;ve ever wanted to get into data analysis, this is my best attempt at getting you past that first hump. A lot of these concepts are easier than you might think.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>qwerty456127</author><text>Thank you very much. I would certainly love to read more and more about Pandas (or anything) written this style and go deeper in the subject.<p>Are you going to write more? Can you (or anybody) recommend where (a book, a YouTube channel, a website or whatever) do I continue from the point where you intro ends? As for now all I use of Pandas is a datetime-indexed array of real numbers + simple vector operations on its columns but I feel like I would like to take a learning&#x2F;career path to becoming a Pandas expert.</text></comment> | <story><title>A Gentle Visual Intro to Data Analysis in Python Using Pandas</title><url>https://jalammar.github.io/gentle-visual-intro-to-data-analysis-python-pandas/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jalammar</author><text>Hello HN, author here. If you&#x27;ve ever wanted to get into data analysis, this is my best attempt at getting you past that first hump. A lot of these concepts are easier than you might think.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>lesss365</author><text>This is a perfect out-of-tutor-session reference for my novice data analysis pupils. Will be sharing with them later today. Thank you!</text></comment> |
40,197,673 | 40,158,867 | 1 | 2 | 40,158,751 | train | <story><title>China’s Moon atlas is the most detailed ever made</title><url>https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-01223-0</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>JKCalhoun</author><text>Being in the U.S., I am isolated from China and the zeitgeist of its people - but I&#x27;m getting little hints that the Moon may very well be in the forefront.<p>With this &quot;mood&quot;, Chinese astronauts on the Moon seems inevitable now. And I don&#x27;t say that with dread, it&#x27;s just more of an awakening I am having to a future that I had not thought much about until very recently. I think in fact I look forward to it because I suppose I want a technological rival to also draw the U.S. back to the Moon.<p>I&#x27;m not sure why though. My child-brain has never even questioned the validity of pursuing space exploration. But I guess as I get old now and see the Earth itself heading into dangerous territory I can kind of understand the naysayers that may have not been as enthusiastic as I was as a kid about a future that follows a timeline similar to Kubrick&#x27;s &quot;2001&quot;.</text></comment> | <story><title>China’s Moon atlas is the most detailed ever made</title><url>https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-01223-0</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>herodotus</author><text>A book? A website? If a book, how does one buy it? If a website, what is the link?<p>A search just turns up essentially the article above which seems to be a copy and paste of the news release.</text></comment> |
24,826,790 | 24,826,659 | 1 | 3 | 24,825,567 | train | <story><title>No-till no-herbicide farming system in trial since 1981</title><url>https://rodaleinstitute.org/science/farming-systems-trial/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bregma</author><text>&gt; They&#x27;re running 72 experiments on 12 acres.<p>I live on a 54 acre property: I can picture 12 acres as about a quarter of my property. If I further divide that into 72 plots, I end up with a bunch of little gardens.<p>What works in a small garden plot is usually totally unscalable at crop production volumes. My experience (over decades) is I couldn&#x27;t sustain my family for a year on a 1-acre garden plot even if I had the time to work it intensively and used nothing but recycled organic byproduct (compost and, uh, other stuff) as fertilizer. Even if we tried to reproduce the great Kampuchean agricultural experiment of the mid-1970s and put everyone to work in the fields full time we could not feed the world this way.<p>I don&#x27;t have a problem with folks idly dallying in this kind of research, and I think useful practices could possibly be revealed, but scale and practicality need to be taken into account when interpreting results.</text></item><item><author>estsauver</author><text>They&#x27;re running 72 experiments on 12 acres. That&#x27;s mostly interesting to me because that&#x27;s an incredibly small area of land. US corn agriculture is on about 83 million acres of land. Subsaharan African Agriculture also plants about 83 million acres of maize. They see yields that are 1&#x2F;3 to 1&#x2F;4 of US agricultural yields. These yield gaps dramatically close when you start using fertilizer and modern agricultural practices. (The One Acre Fund puts out some pretty good data on this, the Burke and Lobell lab at Stanford have a few good papers on this as well.)<p>In short, I would just ask people to remember that there are quite a few farmers who would <i>love</i> to stop paying for fertilizer if it didn&#x27;t impact their yields: all of them in fact. It&#x27;s one of their biggest costs generally. When an organization says &quot;The Farming Systems Trial was started by Bob Rodale, who wanted scientific backing for the recommendations being made to the newly forming National Organic Program in the 1980s&quot; they&#x27;ve incorporated confirmation bias into their heart.<p>I&#x27;m certainly biased, I&#x27;m the CTO of a company that&#x27;s trying to improve agricultural inputs by financing access to smallholders in subsaharan Africa (Apollo Agriculture, we&#x27;re actually a YC F1 company also,) but it&#x27;s worth noting that this is research that&#x27;s quite a bit outside the normal recommendations that ag scientists believe. I also worked at The Climate Corporation before, to put all my potential biases out on the table.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>durkie</author><text>&gt; My experience (over decades) is I couldn&#x27;t sustain my family for a year on a 1-acre garden plot even if I had the time to work it intensively and used nothing but recycled organic byproduct (compost and, uh, other stuff) as fertilizer.<p>I find this surprising. I help run an Atlanta-area non-profit that has a ~1 acre organic farm that donates everything it produces. For the year 2020 we have already donated 3120 lb &#x2F; 1415 kg of food.<p>We&#x27;re not trying to produce a nutritionally complete output on the farm, but that&#x27;s still ~70 lb &#x2F; 31.7 kg of food a week on average.</text></comment> | <story><title>No-till no-herbicide farming system in trial since 1981</title><url>https://rodaleinstitute.org/science/farming-systems-trial/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bregma</author><text>&gt; They&#x27;re running 72 experiments on 12 acres.<p>I live on a 54 acre property: I can picture 12 acres as about a quarter of my property. If I further divide that into 72 plots, I end up with a bunch of little gardens.<p>What works in a small garden plot is usually totally unscalable at crop production volumes. My experience (over decades) is I couldn&#x27;t sustain my family for a year on a 1-acre garden plot even if I had the time to work it intensively and used nothing but recycled organic byproduct (compost and, uh, other stuff) as fertilizer. Even if we tried to reproduce the great Kampuchean agricultural experiment of the mid-1970s and put everyone to work in the fields full time we could not feed the world this way.<p>I don&#x27;t have a problem with folks idly dallying in this kind of research, and I think useful practices could possibly be revealed, but scale and practicality need to be taken into account when interpreting results.</text></item><item><author>estsauver</author><text>They&#x27;re running 72 experiments on 12 acres. That&#x27;s mostly interesting to me because that&#x27;s an incredibly small area of land. US corn agriculture is on about 83 million acres of land. Subsaharan African Agriculture also plants about 83 million acres of maize. They see yields that are 1&#x2F;3 to 1&#x2F;4 of US agricultural yields. These yield gaps dramatically close when you start using fertilizer and modern agricultural practices. (The One Acre Fund puts out some pretty good data on this, the Burke and Lobell lab at Stanford have a few good papers on this as well.)<p>In short, I would just ask people to remember that there are quite a few farmers who would <i>love</i> to stop paying for fertilizer if it didn&#x27;t impact their yields: all of them in fact. It&#x27;s one of their biggest costs generally. When an organization says &quot;The Farming Systems Trial was started by Bob Rodale, who wanted scientific backing for the recommendations being made to the newly forming National Organic Program in the 1980s&quot; they&#x27;ve incorporated confirmation bias into their heart.<p>I&#x27;m certainly biased, I&#x27;m the CTO of a company that&#x27;s trying to improve agricultural inputs by financing access to smallholders in subsaharan Africa (Apollo Agriculture, we&#x27;re actually a YC F1 company also,) but it&#x27;s worth noting that this is research that&#x27;s quite a bit outside the normal recommendations that ag scientists believe. I also worked at The Climate Corporation before, to put all my potential biases out on the table.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>voisin</author><text>&gt; I couldn&#x27;t sustain my family for a year on a 1-acre garden plot even if I had the time to work it intensively and used nothing but recycled organic byproduct<p>Check out “The Market Gardener”[0] if you need help learning how to do far, far better than this. We need more, smaller farms. Biointensive farming and permaculture can save our planet.<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.goodreads.com&#x2F;book&#x2F;show&#x2F;18406251" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.goodreads.com&#x2F;book&#x2F;show&#x2F;18406251</a></text></comment> |
22,063,610 | 22,062,498 | 1 | 2 | 22,061,842 | train | <story><title>Reverse engineering course</title><url>https://github.com/0xZ0F/Z0FCourse_ReverseEngineering</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>lynxjerm</author><text>RPISEC RE&#x2F;VR courses (a little scattered due to the passage of time):<p>Secure Software Principles - CSCI 4971, Spring 2010:<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cs.rpi.edu&#x2F;academics&#x2F;courses&#x2F;spring10&#x2F;csci4971&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cs.rpi.edu&#x2F;academics&#x2F;courses&#x2F;spring10&#x2F;csci4971&#x2F;</a><p>Malware Analysis - CSCI 4972&#x2F;6963, Spring 2013:<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;security.cs.rpi.edu&#x2F;courses&#x2F;malware-spring2013&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;security.cs.rpi.edu&#x2F;courses&#x2F;malware-spring2013&#x2F;</a><p>Advanced Exploitation and Rootkit Development, Spring 2013:<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;security.cs.rpi.edu&#x2F;~candej2&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;security.cs.rpi.edu&#x2F;~candej2&#x2F;</a><p>Program Obfuscation, Fall 2013:<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;security.cs.rpi.edu&#x2F;courses&#x2F;obfuscation-fall2013&#x2F;syllabus.pdf" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;security.cs.rpi.edu&#x2F;courses&#x2F;obfuscation-fall2013&#x2F;syll...</a><p>Windows Exploitation, Spring 2014:<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;security.cs.rpi.edu&#x2F;~gaasem&#x2F;winexp&#x2F;IndependentStudy.pdf" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;security.cs.rpi.edu&#x2F;~gaasem&#x2F;winexp&#x2F;IndependentStudy.p...</a><p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;gaasedelen.blogspot.com&#x2F;2014&#x2F;02&#x2F;windows-exploitation-smashing-stacks.html?q=independent+study" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;gaasedelen.blogspot.com&#x2F;2014&#x2F;02&#x2F;windows-exploitation-...</a><p>Modern Binary Exploitation - CSCI 4968, Spring 2015:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;RPISEC&#x2F;MBE" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;RPISEC&#x2F;MBE</a><p>Malware Analysis - CSCI 4976, Fall 2015:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;RPISEC&#x2F;Malware" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;RPISEC&#x2F;Malware</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Reverse engineering course</title><url>https://github.com/0xZ0F/Z0FCourse_ReverseEngineering</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>sepen77</author><text>I&#x27;ll admit I haven&#x27;t had the chance to look through it at all yet.. in fact, I&#x27;m typing this comment just I took a glance at the table of contents. It&#x27;s a small thing, but it kind of irks me that &quot;Final Notes&quot; following &quot;0x509 ImplementingPlayer&quot; is indexed as 0x510 rather than 0x50a<p>Anyway, I&#x27;m going to save this for later viewing.. very interesting post.</text></comment> |
33,967,895 | 33,966,687 | 1 | 2 | 33,965,914 | train | <story><title>Programs are dead, and JavaScript has killed them</title><url>https://pouria.dev/programs-are-dead/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mouzogu</author><text>&gt; During the past 5–6 years of my JavaScript experience, every time I wanted to go back to any of my projects—from tiny to big, server-side or front-end—there was always a challenge, a problem to tackle or an obstacle to overcome before I can update or sometimes even just run my program.<p>why i moved mostly from writing node cmd tools to using bash. don&#x27;t need to go on a bunch of side missions every time i run npm install<p>not enough pragmatism in the JS <i>community</i> (people). more about hot new thing as opposed to boring long term stability. maybe because of web&#x2F;chrome as a constantly moving platform, and Apple&#x2F;Jobs app-ification of everything, relative young age of JS community.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>cxr</author><text>It&#x27;s funny. The issue described (inability to replicate the conditions to build and&#x2F;or run the original program using NPM) is something that gets brought up a lot, but people will appear who are downright adamant that it&#x27;s not a problem. Not just that it&#x27;s not prevalent enough to be concerned about, but that they&#x27;ve literally never seen it happen ever. We&#x27;re living in completely separate worlds.<p>And let&#x27;s be clear: this is an *NPMJS* problem, not a *JS* problem. For folks who have read and written lots of JS before and during NPM&#x27;s reign over programmers&#x27; attention and will continue to do so afterward (when NPM as the dominant culture evaporates) and have kept NPM- and NodeJS-inspired &quot;best practices&quot; at arms length precisely for these reasons and more, it&#x27;s irksome to see people full-on equate JS with what-the-NPMers-are-doing.</text></comment> | <story><title>Programs are dead, and JavaScript has killed them</title><url>https://pouria.dev/programs-are-dead/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mouzogu</author><text>&gt; During the past 5–6 years of my JavaScript experience, every time I wanted to go back to any of my projects—from tiny to big, server-side or front-end—there was always a challenge, a problem to tackle or an obstacle to overcome before I can update or sometimes even just run my program.<p>why i moved mostly from writing node cmd tools to using bash. don&#x27;t need to go on a bunch of side missions every time i run npm install<p>not enough pragmatism in the JS <i>community</i> (people). more about hot new thing as opposed to boring long term stability. maybe because of web&#x2F;chrome as a constantly moving platform, and Apple&#x2F;Jobs app-ification of everything, relative young age of JS community.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Gibbon1</author><text>A month ago I found a bug in command line utility I wrote in C# and hadn&#x27;t touched in 8 years. I checked out the project and opened it in Visual Studio. And it compiled. I fixed the bug and it just worked. End to end it took half an hour. I feel like there is an advantage to libraries and tools managed by adults with long term skin in the game.</text></comment> |
5,908,806 | 5,908,666 | 1 | 3 | 5,907,999 | train | <story><title>Your Feedback Matters – Update on Xbox One</title><url>http://news.xbox.com/2013/06/update</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ebbv</author><text>This takes care of the used games issue but it doesn&#x27;t take care of:<p>- $100 more expensive than PS4.<p>- Kinect always included, always connected and always on. Cannot be removed, disabled or turned off.<p>- Netflix behind Xbox Live Gold paywall, available for free on PS4.<p>Plus other numerous functionality complaints such as it&#x27;s supposed to be the way you watch TV but it isn&#x27;t a DVR, you still need a separate DVR. And it&#x27;s supposed to be the center of your home theater but only has a single HDMI input.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>alyx</author><text>Stop spreading privacy FUD.<p>Kinect can be controlled and disabled.<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.xbox.com&#x2F;2013&#x2F;06&#x2F;privacy" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.xbox.com&#x2F;2013&#x2F;06&#x2F;privacy</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Your Feedback Matters – Update on Xbox One</title><url>http://news.xbox.com/2013/06/update</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ebbv</author><text>This takes care of the used games issue but it doesn&#x27;t take care of:<p>- $100 more expensive than PS4.<p>- Kinect always included, always connected and always on. Cannot be removed, disabled or turned off.<p>- Netflix behind Xbox Live Gold paywall, available for free on PS4.<p>Plus other numerous functionality complaints such as it&#x27;s supposed to be the way you watch TV but it isn&#x27;t a DVR, you still need a separate DVR. And it&#x27;s supposed to be the center of your home theater but only has a single HDMI input.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dualboot</author><text>Personally, I don&#x27;t care if the Kinect is always connected if the thing isn&#x27;t online at all.<p>Also a $100 Discount doesn&#x27;t have any traction with me regarding all of the bad will they created from the decades of pushing highly proprietary technologies into the market. Their terrible practices for me hit a crescendo when they made my life miserable via in-laws putting Sony rootkit audio-cd&#x27;s into their PC.<p>Nope. Not getting any more of my dollars.</text></comment> |
24,371,303 | 24,368,216 | 1 | 3 | 24,361,029 | train | <story><title>Coping with Cats</title><url>https://acesounderglass.com/2020/09/02/coping-with-cats/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>grawprog</author><text>It&#x27;s an alright list, but that&#x27;s some beginner level stuff. Where&#x27;s things like<p>-cat is obssessed with plastic bags whenever he wants attention and ends up wearing them like a cape trailing it through the house causing havoc.<p>-cat likes to knock over your breakable things just cause it likes to see them smash<p>-wake up at 2 in the morning to some weird noises only to find the cat spiderman-ing up the screen on the window because some rats or something were outside<p>-on the note of two in the morning, that&#x27;s of course the cats favourite time to run around the house meowing on the top of his lungs, just because.<p>-if you have a cat and get a puppy, get ready for that puppy to start walking on window sills, the back of the couch, and even up on the coffee table even if it&#x27;s over 50lbs and clumsy as hell, cause the cat does it.<p>-Oh, you were 5 minutes late feeding the cat, well have fun with non stop fucking around for the rest of the day or night<p>-made some steak, fish, chicken, even salad...and turned your back for a second, well that cat&#x27;s gonna be all up in that, as a bonus, maybe he&#x27;ll knock it onto the ground so him and the dogs can feast.<p>But despite all this...and more, still love the furry little bastard.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>aahortwwy</author><text>Almost all of these sorts of behavioural issues (with the exception of the food-motivated ones) tend to disappear when you allow your cat the freedom to go outside whenever it wants. They&#x27;re not well suited to confinement and it always shows in their behavior. Sometimes they just get depressed and mopey, which a lot of people interpret as their cat &quot;not minding&quot; its confinement. Other times they try to relieve the soul-crushing boredom of their lives by knocking things over, yelling, or actively messing with you. Sure, you can &quot;train&quot; your cat not to engage in these behaviors (as other commenters note, however, they&#x27;re smart enough to realize you&#x27;re not always watching them) or you could just allow them access to the far more compelling activities that exist outdoors. They&#x27;ll even choose to do mundane stuff (lie in the sun, poop) outdoors nine times out of ten. They just prefer being out.<p>Reading some of the things people in this thread do to their cats made me sad, especially the people talking about techniques for preventing their cats from getting out the front door.[0] If you would never treat a human the way you treat your cat on a regular basis, that should give you pause. If it&#x27;s &quot;for their own good&quot; you made a selfish choice in pet ownership.<p>[0] An airlock system where the cat is required to sit perfectly still before you open the door? Don&#x27;t they do similar stuff in actual prisons?</text></comment> | <story><title>Coping with Cats</title><url>https://acesounderglass.com/2020/09/02/coping-with-cats/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>grawprog</author><text>It&#x27;s an alright list, but that&#x27;s some beginner level stuff. Where&#x27;s things like<p>-cat is obssessed with plastic bags whenever he wants attention and ends up wearing them like a cape trailing it through the house causing havoc.<p>-cat likes to knock over your breakable things just cause it likes to see them smash<p>-wake up at 2 in the morning to some weird noises only to find the cat spiderman-ing up the screen on the window because some rats or something were outside<p>-on the note of two in the morning, that&#x27;s of course the cats favourite time to run around the house meowing on the top of his lungs, just because.<p>-if you have a cat and get a puppy, get ready for that puppy to start walking on window sills, the back of the couch, and even up on the coffee table even if it&#x27;s over 50lbs and clumsy as hell, cause the cat does it.<p>-Oh, you were 5 minutes late feeding the cat, well have fun with non stop fucking around for the rest of the day or night<p>-made some steak, fish, chicken, even salad...and turned your back for a second, well that cat&#x27;s gonna be all up in that, as a bonus, maybe he&#x27;ll knock it onto the ground so him and the dogs can feast.<p>But despite all this...and more, still love the furry little bastard.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>gumby</author><text>Aren’t these all reasons for having a cat as a pet?<p>Intellectually it seems strange to have pets: after all we build homes to keep alien species <i>out</i>. Yet when I met a neighbor who didn’t have a pet it seemed weird and even somewhat of a personality disorder. Which is absurd: households with pets are in the minority. But I really can’t imagine living without dogs, cats and assorted other vertebrates.</text></comment> |
40,999,143 | 40,999,376 | 1 | 2 | 40,997,850 | train | <story><title>Transcribro: On-device Accurate Speech-to-text</title><url>https://github.com/soupslurpr/Transcribro</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>james2doyle</author><text>Looks similar to the new FUTO keyboard: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;voiceinput.futo.org&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;voiceinput.futo.org&#x2F;</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>iamjackg</author><text>I&#x27;ve been using this for a while (the voice input, not their keyboard) and it&#x27;s so refreshing to be able to just speak and have the output come out as fully formed, well punctuated sentences with proper capitalization.</text></comment> | <story><title>Transcribro: On-device Accurate Speech-to-text</title><url>https://github.com/soupslurpr/Transcribro</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>james2doyle</author><text>Looks similar to the new FUTO keyboard: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;voiceinput.futo.org&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;voiceinput.futo.org&#x2F;</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>leobg</author><text>Anything like that available for iOS?</text></comment> |
17,123,315 | 17,122,534 | 1 | 2 | 17,121,822 | train | <story><title>A New Look Inside Theranos’ Dysfunctional Corporate Culture</title><url>https://www.wired.com/story/a-new-look-inside-theranos-dysfunctional-corporate-culture/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>mhneu</author><text>It is ludicrous that Theranos&#x27; punishment for all their fraud was merely paying a fine.
We need to resume prosecuting the individuals who commit white collar crimes. Otherwise, getting caught committing crime just gets budgeted into the business plan.<p>The book <i>The Chickenshit Club</i> does a good job highlighting this (fairly recent) problem with US justice.
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nytimes.com&#x2F;2017&#x2F;07&#x2F;05&#x2F;books&#x2F;review&#x2F;the-chickenshit-club-jesse-eisinger-.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nytimes.com&#x2F;2017&#x2F;07&#x2F;05&#x2F;books&#x2F;review&#x2F;the-chickens...</a>
&quot;America’s Top Prosecutors Used to Go After Top Executives. What Changed?&quot;</text></comment> | <story><title>A New Look Inside Theranos’ Dysfunctional Corporate Culture</title><url>https://www.wired.com/story/a-new-look-inside-theranos-dysfunctional-corporate-culture/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jjxw</author><text>The author of this book, John Carreyou, was apparently public enemy number 1 at Theranos. Theranos both dedicated time at an all hands to chant &quot;f--- you Carreyou&quot; and developed a space invaders like game where players could shoot pictures of his head.[0] It does put some of the more... unflattering descriptions of Balwani in the article in context. For someone who was so viciously attacked and ultimately vindicated on his bearish view of the Theranos it&#x27;s understandable.<p>[0]<a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.businessinsider.com&#x2F;theranos-employees-made-space-invaders-game-where-you-shoot-journalist-that-exposed-startup-problems-2018-4" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.businessinsider.com&#x2F;theranos-employees-made-space...</a></text></comment> |
15,192,711 | 15,191,986 | 1 | 2 | 15,191,630 | train | <story><title>Marijuana Compound Removes Toxic Alzheimer’s Protein from the Brain</title><url>https://futurism.com/marijuana-compound-removes-toxic-alzheimers-protein-from-the-brain/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>guyt00</author><text>Problems with this terrible title:<p>1. In vitro petri dish testing is a million light years away from showing a compound works in humans.<p>2. This is a particularly bad problem in brain diseases as getting your compound to cross the blood-brain barrier in correct therapeutic quantities is extremely difficult.<p>3. We have lots of direct antibodies that kill beta amyloid in vivo that are very advanced in human trials. The problem now is that they often cause micro-damage when removing various forms of amyloid protein or have been shown to be administered far too late when the damage is already done.<p>4. It&#x27;s still not clear that beta amyloid is even the main causal agent of Alzheimers!<p>In general, if you see someone touting a low effort, pre-clinical study as major medical breakthrough, start hitting the downvote button. I&#x27;m disappointed this even got to the main page.</text></comment> | <story><title>Marijuana Compound Removes Toxic Alzheimer’s Protein from the Brain</title><url>https://futurism.com/marijuana-compound-removes-toxic-alzheimers-protein-from-the-brain/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>chillingeffect</author><text>article is a value-added summary of:
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.sciencedaily.com&#x2F;releases&#x2F;2016&#x2F;06&#x2F;160629095609.htm" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.sciencedaily.com&#x2F;releases&#x2F;2016&#x2F;06&#x2F;160629095609.h...</a><p>which is based on this press release:
<a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.salk.edu&#x2F;news-release&#x2F;cannabinoids-remove-plaque-forming-alzheimers-proteins-from-brain-cells&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.salk.edu&#x2F;news-release&#x2F;cannabinoids-remove-plaque-...</a><p>original paper here:
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nature.com&#x2F;articles&#x2F;npjamd201612" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nature.com&#x2F;articles&#x2F;npjamd201612</a>
&quot;Amyloid proteotoxicity initiates an inflammatory response blocked by cannabinoids&quot;<p>original paper:
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nature.com&#x2F;articles&#x2F;npjamd201612.pdf" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nature.com&#x2F;articles&#x2F;npjamd201612.pdf</a></text></comment> |
18,341,664 | 18,341,499 | 1 | 3 | 18,336,202 | train | <story><title>Why Jupyter is data scientists’ computational notebook of choice</title><url>https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-07196-1</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>zmmmmm</author><text>As with so many things python related (including python itself), I am perplexed by how willing people seem to be to fall in love with solutions that have so many limitations and problems. I find Jupyter just barely usable. I constantly have issues with editing in the cells, diagrams not sizing correctly, cells accidentally displaying huge amounts of data and freezing my browser, complete failure of autocompletion in many languages, a very awkward security model involving manual cutting and pasting of auth tokens around, nearly impossible to get a reasonable rendering of the notebook into something reasonable like PDF (yes there attempts at solutions, they are full of problems). Many limitations derive directly from the architecture where the kernels are limited in what they can do because specific parts have to be interpreted in the browser that are language specific.<p>From my perspective, it&#x27;s a dumpster fire - in 2018 there should be something so much better than this. RStudio is a thousand times better but only does R. I used to like Beaker Notebook but it gave up due to Jupyter&#x27;s popularity and converted itself into a bunch of Jupyter extensions which now have all of Jupyter&#x27;s limitations.<p>Yet despite all this I can see that there&#x27;s this enormous community that loves this and keeps developing and contributing to it.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>narwally</author><text>I feel the same way, especially as an emacs user. Org-babel seems to be a superior implementation of the same idea. Org is just a text document, so git and git diffs work. I can use any combination of languages I want in a document and have them running in different sessions. And best of all I can edit code blocks using my customized major mode for that language. On top of that you get all the goodness that comes with org-mode, not least of which is the ability export it to dozens of other human readable formats for easy sharing. I think there&#x27;s even an exporter for jupyter notebooks (there&#x27;s at least one for ipython notebooks).</text></comment> | <story><title>Why Jupyter is data scientists’ computational notebook of choice</title><url>https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-07196-1</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>zmmmmm</author><text>As with so many things python related (including python itself), I am perplexed by how willing people seem to be to fall in love with solutions that have so many limitations and problems. I find Jupyter just barely usable. I constantly have issues with editing in the cells, diagrams not sizing correctly, cells accidentally displaying huge amounts of data and freezing my browser, complete failure of autocompletion in many languages, a very awkward security model involving manual cutting and pasting of auth tokens around, nearly impossible to get a reasonable rendering of the notebook into something reasonable like PDF (yes there attempts at solutions, they are full of problems). Many limitations derive directly from the architecture where the kernels are limited in what they can do because specific parts have to be interpreted in the browser that are language specific.<p>From my perspective, it&#x27;s a dumpster fire - in 2018 there should be something so much better than this. RStudio is a thousand times better but only does R. I used to like Beaker Notebook but it gave up due to Jupyter&#x27;s popularity and converted itself into a bunch of Jupyter extensions which now have all of Jupyter&#x27;s limitations.<p>Yet despite all this I can see that there&#x27;s this enormous community that loves this and keeps developing and contributing to it.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>stult</author><text>I love everything about RStudio, except for all the R stuff.</text></comment> |
9,759,529 | 9,758,443 | 1 | 2 | 9,758,003 | train | <story><title>Google didn’t lead the self-driving vehicle revolution, John Deere did</title><url>http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-switch/wp/2015/06/22/google-didnt-lead-the-self-driving-vehicle-revolution-john-deere-did/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>da_chicken</author><text>While I certainly agree that self-driving farm equipment is revolutionary, I&#x27;d argue that Google&#x27;s technological advances are in the field of being able to understand how to drive on a road which marked for humans to drive on, and which is simultaneously in use by human drivers as well.<p>I&#x27;m sure that there are problems and issues which arise from navigating a field and manipulating whatever equipment you&#x27;ve got for whatever task you&#x27;re working on that I&#x27;m just not fully appreciating. However, I really question if that task is anywhere near as complex as safely navigating traffic while obeying all the laws of the road when you can&#x27;t even be sure of the state of the road you&#x27;ll be travelling on.<p>It&#x27;s just a totally different problem being solved. This is apples and oranges.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kbenson</author><text>I agree. A farm is a type of factory, and thus has fairly controlled conditions compared to a public thoroughfare. Any number of solutions could work for a farm that would be untenable for self driving cars, such as marking the expected area with sensors to define the working area, outlining the area on a GPS map, running the equipment over the area one or more times to teach it, etc. None of these work as a general purpose solution to a self driving car, and they might not even be progenitors to the self driving technology we end up with.<p>A solution to a highly constrained version of a problem may not be applicable to the general purpose problem in any way.<p>Edit: mean to say &quot;may <i>not</i> be applicable&quot; in last sentence.</text></comment> | <story><title>Google didn’t lead the self-driving vehicle revolution, John Deere did</title><url>http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-switch/wp/2015/06/22/google-didnt-lead-the-self-driving-vehicle-revolution-john-deere-did/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>da_chicken</author><text>While I certainly agree that self-driving farm equipment is revolutionary, I&#x27;d argue that Google&#x27;s technological advances are in the field of being able to understand how to drive on a road which marked for humans to drive on, and which is simultaneously in use by human drivers as well.<p>I&#x27;m sure that there are problems and issues which arise from navigating a field and manipulating whatever equipment you&#x27;ve got for whatever task you&#x27;re working on that I&#x27;m just not fully appreciating. However, I really question if that task is anywhere near as complex as safely navigating traffic while obeying all the laws of the road when you can&#x27;t even be sure of the state of the road you&#x27;ll be travelling on.<p>It&#x27;s just a totally different problem being solved. This is apples and oranges.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>markbnj</author><text>Yeah, agreed. The overlap technologies of position fixing and mechanical control have actually been solved for a long time now. The current interest in self-driving vehicles is based on advances in sensors and processing to detect environmental conditions and hazards on roadways and in places where people commonly drive cars.</text></comment> |
16,028,888 | 16,027,621 | 1 | 3 | 16,026,622 | train | <story><title>An introduction to reverse-engineering x86 microcode and writing it</title><url>https://media.ccc.de/v/34c3-9058-everything_you_want_to_know_about_x86_microcode_but_might_have_been_afraid_to_ask</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>madez</author><text>Recently here on Hacker News I had a short discussion with Steve Klabnik about JavaScript and WebAssembly among other things.[0] My point is that to execute randomly downloaded code is realistically impossible to secure, practically used to deliver malware and usually used against the interests of the user of the computer. If I can infer from Steve&#x27;s stance the opinion of Mozilla, then it&#x27;s sad to see that the only big browser developer organization I had hopes in simply waves these problems away and keeps on making JavaScript and WebAssembly more usable and widespread. It&#x27;s disheartening to see that.<p>The connection to this talk is that they demo triggering a backdoor hidden in microcode by executing some WebAssembly code in an up-to-date FireFox.<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=15981178" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=15981178</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rft</author><text>Author here:
I chose WebAssembly, because it allowed for easy insertion of an instruction we understand perfectly and can backdoor. With more work we could have highjacked an instruction in the actual binary of Firefox and started the attack from there. WebAssembly simply gives primitives that allow for an easier attack (emitting of a specific instruction, chosing constants and predictive code generation). Not WebAssembly itself enabled the attack, it just made it easier.<p>Exploiting HTML or font rendering is more work, but as you still run known instructions in a known sequence processing known data the primitives are still there. The same can happen for anything that processes foreign data, be it script, video, images or just CSV.</text></comment> | <story><title>An introduction to reverse-engineering x86 microcode and writing it</title><url>https://media.ccc.de/v/34c3-9058-everything_you_want_to_know_about_x86_microcode_but_might_have_been_afraid_to_ask</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>madez</author><text>Recently here on Hacker News I had a short discussion with Steve Klabnik about JavaScript and WebAssembly among other things.[0] My point is that to execute randomly downloaded code is realistically impossible to secure, practically used to deliver malware and usually used against the interests of the user of the computer. If I can infer from Steve&#x27;s stance the opinion of Mozilla, then it&#x27;s sad to see that the only big browser developer organization I had hopes in simply waves these problems away and keeps on making JavaScript and WebAssembly more usable and widespread. It&#x27;s disheartening to see that.<p>The connection to this talk is that they demo triggering a backdoor hidden in microcode by executing some WebAssembly code in an up-to-date FireFox.<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=15981178" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=15981178</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>afuchs</author><text>&gt; [...] My point is that to execute randomly downloaded code is realistically impossible to secure, practically used to deliver malware and usually used against the interests of the user of the computer. [...]<p>This argument has been rehashed over and over again. Some of the mass appeal of the web, as a platform, is that random arbitrary code can be downloaded and run inside a sandbox. It appears that these web technologies will continue to be used regardless of any security implications.<p>If users demand something like JavaScript or WebAssembly, do you have an alternative proposal to satisfy them?</text></comment> |
40,436,926 | 40,436,840 | 1 | 2 | 40,435,771 | train | <story><title>A Road to Common Lisp (2018)</title><url>https://stevelosh.com/blog/2018/08/a-road-to-common-lisp/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>b3lm0nt</author><text>I wanted to love Common Lisp, but as a Vim user every day was a struggle. One typically uses plugins (Slimv, Vlime) that contort buffers in bizarre ways in order to simulate the SLIME EMacs REPL — if not, they will lose out on the interactive development experience that is so central to CL.<p>Being tied to either EMacs or an enterprise solution like LispWorks to get the full language experience was ultimately a non-starter. I’d love for someone to build an alternative CL development experience that could work in a wider range of text editors and IDEs.<p>There is a lot to learn from CL, but I think it can be hard to access for most developers.</text></comment> | <story><title>A Road to Common Lisp (2018)</title><url>https://stevelosh.com/blog/2018/08/a-road-to-common-lisp/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>nomilk</author><text>Great read. Highly fond of long single-pagers.<p>Curious why lisp&#x27;s REPL is frequently touted as an incredible language feature e.g.:<p>&gt; Support for this style of interactive development doesn&#x27;t just come from some fancy editor plugins — it&#x27;s baked into the bones of the language.<p>&gt; So how do you actually get this wonderful interactive experience?<p>I&#x27;ve only ever programmed in interpreted languages (R, ruby), so I can&#x27;t really understand how or why a REPL is so great since to me a (console|REPL|interpreter) is a standard feature (nothing extraordinary). Perhaps because I haven&#x27;t had to work in a language without the convenient and immediate ability to execute arbitrary user inputs (as a REPL or interpreter can), for example a compiled language.</text></comment> |
743,410 | 743,276 | 1 | 2 | 743,107 | train | <story><title>I'm Moving To San Francisco, I Need A Job</title><url>http://zedshaw.com/blog/2009-08-05.html</url><text>Of note for HN: "I am interested in working for a funded startup that has about 5-20 employees and is growing or would like to grow."</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>yan</author><text>This is why having a well-known online presence is important.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nir</author><text>It's worth noting that it's an online presence backed by serious code, which makes Zed worth listening to (and hiring). It seems like many online presences have the attitude without supplying the code.</text></comment> | <story><title>I'm Moving To San Francisco, I Need A Job</title><url>http://zedshaw.com/blog/2009-08-05.html</url><text>Of note for HN: "I am interested in working for a funded startup that has about 5-20 employees and is growing or would like to grow."</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>yan</author><text>This is why having a well-known online presence is important.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>apgwoz</author><text>But, will his online presence hurt him or help him in this case? Zed is obviously intelligent, but his tendency to not "play nice" with others might not fit with too many grow mode startups who don't want drama, and just want to get the best stuff out the door as fast as possible. Though, maybe a little Zed drama will help get <i>better</i> stuff out the door. It's a tough call. I wish him the best of luck and can't wait to see what happens with the lucky company that he fits into.</text></comment> |
38,295,554 | 38,295,568 | 1 | 3 | 38,293,777 | train | <story><title>Amazon announces online car sales for the first time, starting with Hyundai</title><url>https://www.theverge.com/2023/11/16/23964233/amazon-car-online-sale-hyundai-dealer-alexa</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>theGnuMe</author><text>There was a program where you could fly to Germany and buy a BMW there, drive it for a few days and ship it home. Ended up being cheaper than buying it at a local dealership. Not sure if it is still available.<p>Dealerships are local jobs programs in some sense and they got State laws enacted to secure their positions. Tesla went up against them and won I guess.<p>My guess is the Amazon program will be similar to the Costco program.</text></item><item><author>Spartan-S63</author><text>So much this. I&#x27;d much rather pay a shipping fee from the factory to my address than a dealer handling fee.<p>I honestly wish I could just order a Tacoma straight from Toyota, pay for it to be shipped to me, and avoid the dealership rigamarole altogether. I&#x27;m okay waiting my turn in line from the factory. I don&#x27;t want to deal with artificial dealership &quot;market adjustments.&quot; I don&#x27;t understand why we haven&#x27;t deregulated the car sales industry to allow (and even require?) manufacturers to directly sell to consumers, circumventing dealerships entirely. It would upend that industry and force them to prove they actually are a value-add service.</text></item><item><author>gwbas1c</author><text>The issue isn&#x27;t &quot;online buying.&quot;<p>The current dealership model creates and tolerates incentives for dealers to rip me off at sale time. It also injects a set of complexity into the model, where if I choose to buy a car of brand X, I then have to comparison shop for the exact same car at multiple dealerships.<p>I&#x27;ve bought two Teslas, and the nice thing about the process is that it doesn&#x27;t matter where I pick up the car, I get the same price, and the exact same experience. Tesla also won&#x27;t try to rip me off on buy-ups like tire protection and seat protection. (Then again, Tesla really needs price protection because they significantly dropped the price of the Model Y shortly after I bought it.)<p>One of the most annoying situations was a Subaru dealer that made me sit through a pitch for various upsells (that were rip offs) and then sign a form that I listened to them.<p>I really hope the Amazon car purchases explicitly prohibit upsells and other nonsense. Just bring me the car, give me the keys, and stay long enough to make sure that the car works. No BS upsells.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>lastofthemojito</author><text>Volvo does it too (for Europe-made models, not China-made models): <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.volvocars.com&#x2F;us&#x2F;l&#x2F;osd-tourist&#x2F;" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.volvocars.com&#x2F;us&#x2F;l&#x2F;osd-tourist&#x2F;</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Amazon announces online car sales for the first time, starting with Hyundai</title><url>https://www.theverge.com/2023/11/16/23964233/amazon-car-online-sale-hyundai-dealer-alexa</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>theGnuMe</author><text>There was a program where you could fly to Germany and buy a BMW there, drive it for a few days and ship it home. Ended up being cheaper than buying it at a local dealership. Not sure if it is still available.<p>Dealerships are local jobs programs in some sense and they got State laws enacted to secure their positions. Tesla went up against them and won I guess.<p>My guess is the Amazon program will be similar to the Costco program.</text></item><item><author>Spartan-S63</author><text>So much this. I&#x27;d much rather pay a shipping fee from the factory to my address than a dealer handling fee.<p>I honestly wish I could just order a Tacoma straight from Toyota, pay for it to be shipped to me, and avoid the dealership rigamarole altogether. I&#x27;m okay waiting my turn in line from the factory. I don&#x27;t want to deal with artificial dealership &quot;market adjustments.&quot; I don&#x27;t understand why we haven&#x27;t deregulated the car sales industry to allow (and even require?) manufacturers to directly sell to consumers, circumventing dealerships entirely. It would upend that industry and force them to prove they actually are a value-add service.</text></item><item><author>gwbas1c</author><text>The issue isn&#x27;t &quot;online buying.&quot;<p>The current dealership model creates and tolerates incentives for dealers to rip me off at sale time. It also injects a set of complexity into the model, where if I choose to buy a car of brand X, I then have to comparison shop for the exact same car at multiple dealerships.<p>I&#x27;ve bought two Teslas, and the nice thing about the process is that it doesn&#x27;t matter where I pick up the car, I get the same price, and the exact same experience. Tesla also won&#x27;t try to rip me off on buy-ups like tire protection and seat protection. (Then again, Tesla really needs price protection because they significantly dropped the price of the Model Y shortly after I bought it.)<p>One of the most annoying situations was a Subaru dealer that made me sit through a pitch for various upsells (that were rip offs) and then sign a form that I listened to them.<p>I really hope the Amazon car purchases explicitly prohibit upsells and other nonsense. Just bring me the car, give me the keys, and stay long enough to make sure that the car works. No BS upsells.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bobthepanda</author><text>They haven&#x27;t won in every state, I don&#x27;t think.<p>Not only do dealerships provide local jobs but generally their owners tend to be well to do and donate prolifically to local elections, where dollars are normally otherwise scarce because of their lower participation rates.</text></comment> |
17,416,375 | 17,414,566 | 1 | 2 | 17,414,326 | train | <story><title>BBC releases its computer history archive</title><url>http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/internet/entries/94265de9-a16a-4daa-b128-3bbe01e1b10c</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>piceas</author><text>(1984) Electronic Office, Episode 6: Easy to Use? has a nice demo from Bell Labs showing an interactive map, navigation, and restaurant search.<p>&quot;There are many possibilities because you can imagine it being used, for example in a car, in connection with some kind of advanced mobile phone service in which you would actually call in from your car terminal and get directions, and you could even imagine that the computer was tracking the car in some way so it could tell you when to make your turns&quot; - Michael Lesk<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;computer-literacy-project.pilots.bbcconnectedstudio.co.uk&#x2F;6cfbf61582b1fd8a811cc02be0d24560" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;computer-literacy-project.pilots.bbcconnectedstudio....</a></text></comment> | <story><title>BBC releases its computer history archive</title><url>http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/internet/entries/94265de9-a16a-4daa-b128-3bbe01e1b10c</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jonhendry18</author><text>Cool.<p>Episode of &quot;Micro Live&quot; with a brief demo of a Fairlight CMI Series III<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;computer-literacy-project.pilots.bbcconnectedstudio.co.uk&#x2F;b8a2ca1e800873c2cd8f38e5ed8bd5b4" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;computer-literacy-project.pilots.bbcconnectedstudio....</a><p>Clip from Micro Live that visits Infocom during the development of text adventure &quot;Spellbreaker&quot;. LISP mentioned in passing.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;computer-literacy-project.pilots.bbcconnectedstudio.co.uk&#x2F;a2e1d6d7656c5505bd3dc74a8ef8d392" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;computer-literacy-project.pilots.bbcconnectedstudio....</a><p>2011 documentary on Steve Jobs: &quot;Billion Dollar Hippy&quot;:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;computer-literacy-project.pilots.bbcconnectedstudio.co.uk&#x2F;a54d226a1c0d98b7d93f4859efa34421" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;computer-literacy-project.pilots.bbcconnectedstudio....</a></text></comment> |
39,551,481 | 39,551,580 | 1 | 2 | 39,551,035 | train | <story><title>The internet feels fake now. It's all just staged videos and marketing</title><url>https://old.reddit.com/r/Millennials/comments/1b301qj/the_internet_feels_fake_now_its_all_just_staged/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>fullshark</author><text>A lot of people thought the people they chatted with or watched content of on the internet were their friends, and not just bored strangers. Once money got legit it became profit seeking individuals&#x2F;enterprises.<p>The solution is not to pine for the old days of the internet but to rethink your friendship&#x2F;companionship seeking strategy.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>BobaFloutist</author><text>Bored strangers is the embryonic stage of many, if not most friendships. The more exposure we have to bored strangers, the more opportunities we have for establishing friendships.</text></comment> | <story><title>The internet feels fake now. It's all just staged videos and marketing</title><url>https://old.reddit.com/r/Millennials/comments/1b301qj/the_internet_feels_fake_now_its_all_just_staged/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>fullshark</author><text>A lot of people thought the people they chatted with or watched content of on the internet were their friends, and not just bored strangers. Once money got legit it became profit seeking individuals&#x2F;enterprises.<p>The solution is not to pine for the old days of the internet but to rethink your friendship&#x2F;companionship seeking strategy.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mathgradthrow</author><text>&gt;were their friends.<p>This was true. I don&#x27;t know what to tell you. I&#x27;ve been to weddings. It used to be a good place to meet people.</text></comment> |
25,194,714 | 25,193,048 | 1 | 2 | 25,186,843 | train | <story><title>Walmart router, others on Amazon, eBay have hidden backdoors to control devices</title><url>https://cybernews.com/security/walmart-exclusive-routers-others-made-in-china-contain-backdoors-to-control-devices/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>heavyset_go</author><text>If Walmart sold products that were contaminated with lead, and people got sick, they would still be held liable even if they didn&#x27;t manufacture the products themselves.</text></item><item><author>kortilla</author><text>It doesn’t sound like the back door was put in for Walmart to use. So no, Walmart shouldn’t be slammed for this vulnerability anymore than for the vulnerabilities in the PCs they sell.</text></item><item><author>javajosh</author><text>Am I the only one who thinks that Wal-Mart should be absolutely <i>slammed</i> for doing this? Like, they are a corporation actively participating in the material worsening of our national security. I don&#x27;t even want to <i>think</i> about a threat model that includes undermined router hardware! If they can&#x27;t be patched remotely those things need to be recalled, destroyed, and Wal-Mart fined significantly.<p>(When I say slammed I mostly mean &quot;pay big fines&quot;, maybe jail time if the flaw was known, and it should result in real reputational damage to Wal-Mart and its willingness to sell anything with a network connected computer in it. At the very least, if the buy cost is even less than the china price, that difference is coming from somewhere. Wal Mart should have spotted that.)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>floatingatoll</author><text>Only if Walmart failed to apply a level of diligence sufficient to protect against lead exposure risk, a known risk with laws in place demanding appropriate care and notification and recalls.<p>What is the industry-accepted, “will pass muster by a judge and jury”, level of due diligence that is considered minimally acceptable when purchasing Internet-connected devices from a supplier for resale to consumers?<p>The current answer as I understand is, simply, “no level of due diligence is expected with regards to network functionality, as the relevant UL&#x2F;CE standards for ‘networking’ only concern themselves with RF interference at most”.<p>Should all computer resellers of any business size, whether Walmart nationwide or PC Hand-Me-Downs in a single city, be required to hire specialists to disassemble device firmwares for auditing purposes? Should this burden be placed on importers? Is this even legal under the DMCA?<p>Should the UL certification be found at fault here, since clearly they did not audit nor certify the device’s preinstalled firmware?</text></comment> | <story><title>Walmart router, others on Amazon, eBay have hidden backdoors to control devices</title><url>https://cybernews.com/security/walmart-exclusive-routers-others-made-in-china-contain-backdoors-to-control-devices/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>heavyset_go</author><text>If Walmart sold products that were contaminated with lead, and people got sick, they would still be held liable even if they didn&#x27;t manufacture the products themselves.</text></item><item><author>kortilla</author><text>It doesn’t sound like the back door was put in for Walmart to use. So no, Walmart shouldn’t be slammed for this vulnerability anymore than for the vulnerabilities in the PCs they sell.</text></item><item><author>javajosh</author><text>Am I the only one who thinks that Wal-Mart should be absolutely <i>slammed</i> for doing this? Like, they are a corporation actively participating in the material worsening of our national security. I don&#x27;t even want to <i>think</i> about a threat model that includes undermined router hardware! If they can&#x27;t be patched remotely those things need to be recalled, destroyed, and Wal-Mart fined significantly.<p>(When I say slammed I mostly mean &quot;pay big fines&quot;, maybe jail time if the flaw was known, and it should result in real reputational damage to Wal-Mart and its willingness to sell anything with a network connected computer in it. At the very least, if the buy cost is even less than the china price, that difference is coming from somewhere. Wal Mart should have spotted that.)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>cogman10</author><text>Seems analogous the child labor and slave problem.<p>Walmart keeps on getting caught selling unethically produced goods. We need stronger laws to punish them when that happens. It doesn&#x27;t seem to be enough to allow them to self govern.<p>Ditto for the likes of Amazon.</text></comment> |
6,021,770 | 6,021,633 | 1 | 3 | 6,020,647 | train | <story><title>The SEC Just Voted To Lift The Ban On General Solicitation</title><url>https://wefunder.com/post/36-the-sec-just-voted-to-lift-the-ban-on-general-solicitation</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ChuckMcM</author><text>I think this is a mixed blessing. I agree that the ban has been a hindrance on people trying to find investors but lifting it may not be the best solution.<p>If you look at the way YC demo day works, its a pretty reasonable way for potential investors to find startups which are compatible with their investment goals. I think this addresses the challenge of the general solicitation rule (finding the startups) without the negative of creating a bunch of unvetted startups advertising for dollars. Basically, I believe lifting this ban increases the noise significantly without much boost to the signal.<p>The analog I thought about when I saw the SEC was thinking about going this way was the lift on advertising prescription drugs. That really hasn&#x27;t been a &#x27;win&#x27; for me, while I&#x27;m sure some folks have discovered there are drugs available their doctor didn&#x27;t know about (signal), a whole lot more people are asking their doctors to give them drugs which aren&#x27;t really appropriate to their symptoms (noise). It has made the national news shows practically infomercials for a variety of meds for &#x27;old people problems&#x27;.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jmj42</author><text>&gt; I think this addresses the challenge of the general solicitation rule (finding the startups) without the negative of creating a bunch of unvetted startups advertising for dollars.<p>Not really. We, here on HN, tend to frame things around tech startups, but there&#x27;s a larger world out there that incubators don&#x27;t (and often can&#x27;t) address. Consider this (real life) example:<p>Recently a local pub came up for sale. The asking price was $200,000. The purchase would include all current equipment and supplies, existing vendor contracts (subject to state transferability rules on the alcohol contracts), and local liquor license (the state license isn&#x27;t transferable). It also included the building which housed 3 occupied (at the time) apartments.<p>The question, of course, is how to raise the $200K. Standard business loans were out (not an established business). There&#x27;s SBA, but the loan amount we were looking for was a bit high for SBA. Friends and family, of course, but we wouldn&#x27;t even come close.<p>In the end, we had to pass (though funding was only a part of the decision to pass). Here&#x27;s kicker: If we could have spread the net wider, we may have had a chance to raise the money (with less effort), and been able to go ahead with the purchase.<p>While this is one story, I see these kinds of things al the time. A few years back, a founder looking to start a paintball facility got nailed by this (he was advertising the investment opportunity). It ended up shutting down the project.<p>The point is, outside of the technology world, getting investment funding for small businesses is very hard. This rule change makes it much easier.</text></comment> | <story><title>The SEC Just Voted To Lift The Ban On General Solicitation</title><url>https://wefunder.com/post/36-the-sec-just-voted-to-lift-the-ban-on-general-solicitation</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ChuckMcM</author><text>I think this is a mixed blessing. I agree that the ban has been a hindrance on people trying to find investors but lifting it may not be the best solution.<p>If you look at the way YC demo day works, its a pretty reasonable way for potential investors to find startups which are compatible with their investment goals. I think this addresses the challenge of the general solicitation rule (finding the startups) without the negative of creating a bunch of unvetted startups advertising for dollars. Basically, I believe lifting this ban increases the noise significantly without much boost to the signal.<p>The analog I thought about when I saw the SEC was thinking about going this way was the lift on advertising prescription drugs. That really hasn&#x27;t been a &#x27;win&#x27; for me, while I&#x27;m sure some folks have discovered there are drugs available their doctor didn&#x27;t know about (signal), a whole lot more people are asking their doctors to give them drugs which aren&#x27;t really appropriate to their symptoms (noise). It has made the national news shows practically infomercials for a variety of meds for &#x27;old people problems&#x27;.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>JumpCrisscross</author><text>My instinct is to lash out against this move. General solicitation lowers the amount of social vetting a manager must go through before being able to raise funds. It also makes un-accredited investors more aware of the investment barriers around them, which could loosen resolve for maintaining those walls.<p>But 2013 isn&#x27;t 1933. The average sophisticated investor is more versed in finance, more wary of solicitation if they are not, or closer to one of the former.<p>What this is, is a boost to non-conventional assets and managers. The ones too young or crazy to have made it through the traditional vetting process. There&#x27;s already plenty of noise if some idiot broker put you on a mailing list...</text></comment> |
40,858,357 | 40,851,955 | 1 | 2 | 40,847,963 | train | <story><title>Supreme Court rules ex-presidents have immunity for official acts</title><url>https://apnews.com/article/supreme-court-trump-capitol-riot-immunity-2dc0d1c2368d404adc0054151490f542</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>cogman10</author><text>What about overthrowing the government? Because that&#x27;s the &quot;offical&quot; act of the president with today&#x27;s ruling.<p>Further, it should be noted that the lower court already did exactly what the supreme court remanded back to them. They said &quot;we don&#x27;t know what sorts of immunity are granted to a president, but if there is any they are not granted, it&#x27;s overturning an election as is accused in this specific case&quot;.<p>The supreme court took up this case specifically to help donald trump and because they couldn&#x27;t challenge the ruling given they made up their own facts to give the ruling they wanted to give.</text></item><item><author>throwadobe</author><text>Everyone seems to be calling this &quot;blanket immunity&quot; but that&#x27;s not right. It&#x27;s immunity for official acts which are the prerogative of the president. Basically the president is allowed to do all presidential things without having to worry about whether it will be deemed illegal.<p>This doesn&#x27;t mean that the president cannot be tried for some illegal act that was not their official duty. Murdering someone, for example.</text></item><item><author>afavour</author><text>I&#x27;m dismayed by this ruling but I&#x27;m curious: can someone defend it? I&#x27;m able to understand the counter-perspectives to my own on many hot-button issues (2nd amendment, abortion bans) but this one seems very nakedly bad. But maybe I&#x27;m just not seeing the counterpoint?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tiltowait</author><text>Doesn’t the ruling say the lower courts have to go back and determine which acts were and were not official?</text></comment> | <story><title>Supreme Court rules ex-presidents have immunity for official acts</title><url>https://apnews.com/article/supreme-court-trump-capitol-riot-immunity-2dc0d1c2368d404adc0054151490f542</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>cogman10</author><text>What about overthrowing the government? Because that&#x27;s the &quot;offical&quot; act of the president with today&#x27;s ruling.<p>Further, it should be noted that the lower court already did exactly what the supreme court remanded back to them. They said &quot;we don&#x27;t know what sorts of immunity are granted to a president, but if there is any they are not granted, it&#x27;s overturning an election as is accused in this specific case&quot;.<p>The supreme court took up this case specifically to help donald trump and because they couldn&#x27;t challenge the ruling given they made up their own facts to give the ruling they wanted to give.</text></item><item><author>throwadobe</author><text>Everyone seems to be calling this &quot;blanket immunity&quot; but that&#x27;s not right. It&#x27;s immunity for official acts which are the prerogative of the president. Basically the president is allowed to do all presidential things without having to worry about whether it will be deemed illegal.<p>This doesn&#x27;t mean that the president cannot be tried for some illegal act that was not their official duty. Murdering someone, for example.</text></item><item><author>afavour</author><text>I&#x27;m dismayed by this ruling but I&#x27;m curious: can someone defend it? I&#x27;m able to understand the counter-perspectives to my own on many hot-button issues (2nd amendment, abortion bans) but this one seems very nakedly bad. But maybe I&#x27;m just not seeing the counterpoint?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>curt15</author><text>&gt;
What about overthrowing the government? Because that&#x27;s the &quot;offical&quot; act of the president with today&#x27;s ruling.<p>The ruling basically says the only way for the case to move forward is to determine what parts of Trump&#x27;s conduct can be deemed &quot;unofficial&quot;.</text></comment> |
14,820,479 | 14,816,528 | 1 | 3 | 14,814,970 | train | <story><title>80-year Harvard study has been showing how to live a healthy and happy life</title><url>http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2017/04/over-nearly-80-years-harvard-study-has-been-showing-how-to-live-a-healthy-and-happy-life/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rubicon33</author><text>What I take from this article is that social interaction is extremely important to ones health, and it&#x27;s something that we largely taken for granted. In the age of computers and secluded work environments, I think we need to be aware of the effect that even casual interaction has on our mental and physical health. I have some personal&#x2F;anecdotal experience which back this research up and affirms my belief that communication and interaction with others is vital.<p>I&#x27;ve been working from home for a number of years. During this time I&#x27;ve on average spoken with and interacted with 1 person every day - my wife.<p>I occasionally go out, occasionally see family members, but the majority of my day-to-day work is quiet, alone, working at a computer.<p>- I have been more sick in recent years than ever before in my life. This is even compared to previously living in a major city and taking public transportation.<p>- I have been experiencing sharp mental decline especially in the last year. Solving complex problems is much more challenging.<p>- My memory is suffering. Even my wife has begun to notice, I forget little things and have developed an &quot;aloof professor&quot; disposition that wasn&#x27;t natural to me.<p>- I now find social interaction more difficult. I&#x27;m more akward, and find myself over-thinking previously natural interactions.<p>- Lastly ... I&#x27;m far more depressed. I just don&#x27;t enjoy much these days. I wake up, work, don&#x27;t talk to many people.<p>The TLDR here is that I urge everyone to tend to their social garden. I let mine decay for too long, and I&#x27;m paying the price now. I am beginning the process of restoring connections, and getting out more, and I&#x27;m already noticing an improved mood.<p>Oh and I should mention - I&#x27;m naturally an introvert so this reclusive lifestyle was all too comfortable for me.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kevstev</author><text>I went from very brutal environments (massively stressful jobs in algorithmic trading, generally sitting on loud trading floors with late hours, weekends, etc) to working remotely and found almost the opposite.<p>Instead of being sick several times a year- we would literally watch colds and other illnesses work their way up and down the rows, I instead got sick maybe once a year.<p>Solving problems in a nice quiet room with no coworker conversations around me improved my ability to concentrate and do the hard things 10x.<p>Social interaction is a mixed bag. My last two jobs I was surrounded by a bunch of people who hated their work, and we only really bonded over the fact that we would rather be literally anywhere else. My remote coworkers all get along great, and it would be nice to spend more face time with them, but I have an active personal social life so that helps.<p>I think you are missing a big piece here though- and that&#x27;s activity. I take my dog on long walks and generally like to bike around town (I live in a city) but it requires much more of an active effort. Luckily I eat a lot better and much less than I used to. I don&#x27;t keep junk food or really any prepared foods in the house.<p>YMMV.</text></comment> | <story><title>80-year Harvard study has been showing how to live a healthy and happy life</title><url>http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2017/04/over-nearly-80-years-harvard-study-has-been-showing-how-to-live-a-healthy-and-happy-life/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rubicon33</author><text>What I take from this article is that social interaction is extremely important to ones health, and it&#x27;s something that we largely taken for granted. In the age of computers and secluded work environments, I think we need to be aware of the effect that even casual interaction has on our mental and physical health. I have some personal&#x2F;anecdotal experience which back this research up and affirms my belief that communication and interaction with others is vital.<p>I&#x27;ve been working from home for a number of years. During this time I&#x27;ve on average spoken with and interacted with 1 person every day - my wife.<p>I occasionally go out, occasionally see family members, but the majority of my day-to-day work is quiet, alone, working at a computer.<p>- I have been more sick in recent years than ever before in my life. This is even compared to previously living in a major city and taking public transportation.<p>- I have been experiencing sharp mental decline especially in the last year. Solving complex problems is much more challenging.<p>- My memory is suffering. Even my wife has begun to notice, I forget little things and have developed an &quot;aloof professor&quot; disposition that wasn&#x27;t natural to me.<p>- I now find social interaction more difficult. I&#x27;m more akward, and find myself over-thinking previously natural interactions.<p>- Lastly ... I&#x27;m far more depressed. I just don&#x27;t enjoy much these days. I wake up, work, don&#x27;t talk to many people.<p>The TLDR here is that I urge everyone to tend to their social garden. I let mine decay for too long, and I&#x27;m paying the price now. I am beginning the process of restoring connections, and getting out more, and I&#x27;m already noticing an improved mood.<p>Oh and I should mention - I&#x27;m naturally an introvert so this reclusive lifestyle was all too comfortable for me.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>aaron-lebo</author><text>You mention that this is anecdotal, anyway, but stress to yourself that it is <i>anecdotal</i>.<p>You sound depressed and you mention that social interaction might be the cause, but is it not possible that you are finding your work unfulfilling, that&#x27;s causing depression and the rest follows?<p>I only say this because I&#x27;ve worked long stretches more or less alone with limited social interaction (didn&#x27;t have a wife around) and didn&#x27;t suffer any of those symptoms, but that&#x27;s an anecdote for you. I did suffer those symptoms when depressed, though, and that didn&#x27;t take solitude.<p>Some people are very happy with solitude and there&#x27;s no hard rule that it affects everyone the same.</text></comment> |
29,297,017 | 29,297,261 | 1 | 2 | 29,296,321 | train | <story><title>Why thieves love to steal catalytic converters</title><url>https://thehustle.co/why-thieves-love-to-steal-catalytic-converters/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>iramiller</author><text>This would be easily solved if car manufacturers cared at all… simply cover the bottom of the car with panels. A side benefit would be the increased fuel economy from the cleaner airflow and reduction in drag (this is an inherit benefit of electric vehicles—-especially trucks). It’s not done because no one looks under their cars and it’s easier&#x2F;cheaper to manufacture and design for cooling.<p>I should add that installing a simple piece of metal cut to fit over the bottom of your vehicle isn’t a great idea if it doesn’t properly account for the changes in ventilation and cooling that it causes.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Someone1234</author><text>We&#x27;re starting to see changes in vehicle design to address this but typically it is only during a major model redesign rather than between model years.<p>The popular solution, that is almost free, is simply moving the catalytic converter from mid-tailpipe to directly connected to the engine block. Essentially the CC is surrounded by the engine block itself on all sides, and you have to disassemble the entire engine from above to get to it.<p>But you&#x27;re talking about 4~ years between redesigns and that doesn&#x27;t address any of the vehicles already sold&#x2F;tens of years of old designs.</text></comment> | <story><title>Why thieves love to steal catalytic converters</title><url>https://thehustle.co/why-thieves-love-to-steal-catalytic-converters/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>iramiller</author><text>This would be easily solved if car manufacturers cared at all… simply cover the bottom of the car with panels. A side benefit would be the increased fuel economy from the cleaner airflow and reduction in drag (this is an inherit benefit of electric vehicles—-especially trucks). It’s not done because no one looks under their cars and it’s easier&#x2F;cheaper to manufacture and design for cooling.<p>I should add that installing a simple piece of metal cut to fit over the bottom of your vehicle isn’t a great idea if it doesn’t properly account for the changes in ventilation and cooling that it causes.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bradlys</author><text>People buy at a price point. Adding those panels adds cost. You’d have to give something up to get those panels.<p>Luxury cars have had these panels for a long time because they’re built to a higher price point.</text></comment> |
15,362,629 | 15,358,016 | 1 | 2 | 15,347,067 | train | <story><title>Anthony Levandowski, self driving car whiz who fell from grace</title><url>https://www.wired.com/story/god-is-a-bot-and-anthony-levandowski-is-his-messenger</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>KKKKkkkk1</author><text>&gt; In early 2011, that plan was to bring 510 Systems into the Googleplex. The startup’s engineers had long complained that they did not have equity in the growing company. When matters came to a head, Levandowski drew up a plan that would reserve the first $20 million of any acquisition for 510’s founders and split the remainder among the staff, according to two former 510 employees. “They said we were going to sell for hundreds of millions,” remembers one engineer. “I was pretty thrilled with the numbers.”<p>&gt; Indeed, that summer, Levandowski sold 510 Systems and Anthony’s Robots to Google – for $20 million, the exact cutoff before the wealth would be shared. Rank and file engineers did not see a penny, and some were even let go before the acquisition was completed.<p>I made a rule for myself that once I find out for sure that a person is an asshole, I will cut all my ties to that person. (Fool me once etc.) Apparently Silicon Valley does not have a similar rule.</text></comment> | <story><title>Anthony Levandowski, self driving car whiz who fell from grace</title><url>https://www.wired.com/story/god-is-a-bot-and-anthony-levandowski-is-his-messenger</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>valuearb</author><text>&quot;But Larry Page is no longer convinced that Levandowski was key to Chauffeur’s success. In his deposition to the court, Page said, “I believe Anthony’s contributions are quite possibly negative of a high amount.” At Uber, some engineers privately say that Levandowski’s poor management style set back that company’s self-driving effort by a couple of years.&quot;<p>So does this mean Waymo owes Uber damages, or payment for taking the problem off their hands?</text></comment> |
32,925,328 | 32,924,525 | 1 | 2 | 32,923,098 | train | <story><title>Ask HN: What's happening with Gmail spam filtering?</title><text>In the last 2 weeks my gmail inbox went from zero spam to at least 2&#x2F;3 spam&#x2F;phishing emails per day on the inbox. I&#x27;m marking them as spam but nonetheless it keeps happening. I&#x27;m wondering if because spam traffic increased and spammers found a new way to trick anti-spam or if gmail engineers changed something on their end. Is anyone experiencing the same?<p>Not a big deal as it&#x27;s been almost a year I&#x27;m migrating off gmail and I&#x27;m keeping it only for a few things, but still annoying</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>enlyth</author><text>To offer a singular data point, contrary to other posters here, I am not seeing this at all, and I pretty actively use my two Gmail addresses which have been active since 2005. My spam inbox regularly gets correctly categorized spam, and important emails still correctly land in my inbox.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>crazygringo</author><text>Same here. I haven&#x27;t had Gmail let a single spam email through in years.<p>To the contrary, I find myself going through my spam folder to mark as NOT spam things like monthly newsletters from arts organizations. There are a bunch of concerts and plays I&#x27;ve sadly missed because of this. (Which I can only assume comes from people abusing the mark-as-spam button instead of properly unsubscribing, which sucks because it leads to other people missing the legitimate emails.)<p>Also things like invoices from Apple purchases (e.g. a paid app or AppleCare) show up in spam. Which isn&#x27;t a biggie, but it does seem like bizarre that Gmail could ever get that wrong.</text></comment> | <story><title>Ask HN: What's happening with Gmail spam filtering?</title><text>In the last 2 weeks my gmail inbox went from zero spam to at least 2&#x2F;3 spam&#x2F;phishing emails per day on the inbox. I&#x27;m marking them as spam but nonetheless it keeps happening. I&#x27;m wondering if because spam traffic increased and spammers found a new way to trick anti-spam or if gmail engineers changed something on their end. Is anyone experiencing the same?<p>Not a big deal as it&#x27;s been almost a year I&#x27;m migrating off gmail and I&#x27;m keeping it only for a few things, but still annoying</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>enlyth</author><text>To offer a singular data point, contrary to other posters here, I am not seeing this at all, and I pretty actively use my two Gmail addresses which have been active since 2005. My spam inbox regularly gets correctly categorized spam, and important emails still correctly land in my inbox.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rconti</author><text>It is incredibly strange to hear from you (and others in this thread) who don&#x27;t have a spam problem with GMail. From everyone I&#x27;ve talked to, it seemed endemic. From my experiences with my own account (circa 2004), GMail has moved backwards in recent years. I&#x27;d say it became a serious problem a few years ago. Marking things as spam is useless because then you immediately start getting legitimate mail marked as spam. Marking those as not-spam just leads directly to getting more spam. It happens with a single click. It&#x27;s a 2 position slider at this point.</text></comment> |
8,931,016 | 8,930,652 | 1 | 3 | 8,930,020 | train | <story><title>Drone carrying drugs crashes near US-Mexico border</title><url>http://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-30931367</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>aresant</author><text>This reminds me of a VICE program around Columbian Narco Submarines (1)<p>The show highlights, at one point, a guy who engineered an incredible drug &quot;torpedo&quot; that could be towed behind a fast boat, cut and dropped instantly if trouble arose, and recovered via digital homing beacons safe and sound at a later time.<p>I was struck by how proud he was of it, from a purely technical perspective.<p>And it was a damn smart solution to a problem, albeit one that was unfortunately illegal.<p>(1) <a href="https://www.vice.com/video/colombian-narcosubs" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.vice.com&#x2F;video&#x2F;colombian-narcosubs</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Drone carrying drugs crashes near US-Mexico border</title><url>http://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-30931367</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>ChuckMcM</author><text>This has been discussed before and is a favorite of some of the robotics communities. This particular drone seemed to be a bit overloaded (2.7kg?) and I&#x27;m guessing the person who launched it hadn&#x27;t made the connection between flight time and weight. But still it seems a pretty straight forward way to get drugs from point A to point B.<p>That said, 2.7kg of crystal meth might be worth $270,000 [1]. So the cost of the drone is insignificant to the &#x27;value&#x27; of the meth it was carrying. Sending 1kg chunks over on $10,000 drones would still net a decent profit. And $10,000 is a pretty nice drone.<p>[1] <a href="http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/meth/faqs/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.pbs.org&#x2F;wgbh&#x2F;pages&#x2F;frontline&#x2F;meth&#x2F;faqs&#x2F;</a></text></comment> |
15,893,623 | 15,893,186 | 1 | 2 | 15,892,066 | train | <story><title>Show HN: Airmash – Multiplayer Missile Warfare HTML5 Game</title><url>https://airma.sh/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>pvsukale3</author><text>I opened this game in an incognito tab. And started dev tools.
The entire game is only 2.8 MB. It loads fast. Such graphics, much small. A lesson for modern web developers about website obesity and performance.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>WhitneyLand</author><text>Yes, also the immediacy of experience. No signup, no prompts or forms, no friction. Just one click and you’re immersed in the action.<p>When companies clutter first experience with legal disclaimers, signup offers, and every other thing, I wonder if they are always carefully balancing the competing interests of business and product design as a big picture weighing everything together.<p>To the extent they do that’s great, but it seems sometimes its a lawyer trying to do and think only of their job, a marketing person only thinking of their job, sales only thinking about revenue, rather than globally optimized decision.</text></comment> | <story><title>Show HN: Airmash – Multiplayer Missile Warfare HTML5 Game</title><url>https://airma.sh/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>pvsukale3</author><text>I opened this game in an incognito tab. And started dev tools.
The entire game is only 2.8 MB. It loads fast. Such graphics, much small. A lesson for modern web developers about website obesity and performance.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>chickenfries</author><text>I mean this is nice but it&#x27;s really not a lesson for web developers. The fact that this is 2.8mb doesn&#x27;t really teach a web developer any lessons, unless you think that large website payloads exist because developers are literally too lazy or don&#x27;t know how asset optimization works.<p>Instead, having worked in web development, I know that website payload size is often driven by having to include vendored javascript for business reasons (analytics and social are big culprits) or because your boss doesn&#x27;t give you the time to focus on performance because for the business, it is good enough and they want to use their limited web development resources to do something other than shrinking javascript payloads.<p>Another thing, you&#x27;re impressed by the graphics and how the developer was able to include them while keeping the payload small. It seems to be made using vectors and particle effects. Both of these techniques are not heavy in terms of payload. Shaders and particle effects are generally very small amounts of code. Think about how this is different for a website that heavily relies on all sorts of user-generated content: jpgs, mp4, gif, png, etc. Much larger assets than a few shaders and svg.</text></comment> |
27,005,179 | 27,005,190 | 1 | 3 | 27,004,688 | train | <story><title>Audacity Aquired by Muse Group</title><url>https://www.scoringnotes.com/news/muse-group-formed-to-support-musescore-ultimate-guitar-acquires-audacity/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>dkdbejwi383</author><text>Tantacrul who has been working with Muse Score for a while now to improve their UX will also be working on Audacity. They also plan to hire some full time devs.<p>Source: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;RMWNvwLiXIQ" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;RMWNvwLiXIQ</a><p>Well worth watching his other videos too, even if you don’t use musical notation software. Funny and insightful commentary on software usability in general.</text></comment> | <story><title>Audacity Aquired by Muse Group</title><url>https://www.scoringnotes.com/news/muse-group-formed-to-support-musescore-ultimate-guitar-acquires-audacity/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>spamalot159</author><text>My first reaction was &quot;oh no..&quot;. Audacity has to be one of the most beloved and widely recommended software of all time. It&#x27;s not often that an aquisition like this goes well for very long.<p>After looking at MuseScore and UltimateGuitar, however, it looks like they are also free and have a similar aesthetic to Audacity. Maybe this will work out after all.</text></comment> |
6,342,252 | 6,342,372 | 1 | 2 | 6,341,568 | train | <story><title>YC Will Now Fund Nonprofits Too</title><url>http://ycombinator.com/np.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>e1ven</author><text>It&#x27;s interesting to compare the differences between the two applications-<p>For Profit -
<a href="https://gist.github.com/e1ven/6467215" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gist.github.com&#x2F;e1ven&#x2F;6467215</a><p>Non Profit-
<a href="https://gist.github.com/e1ven/6467309" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gist.github.com&#x2F;e1ven&#x2F;6467309</a><p>Overall, it seems like they&#x27;ve replaced &#x27;company&#x27; with &#x27;organization&#x27;, and dropped a number of questions relating to making money.<p>Interestingly, many of the questions have been dropped without replacement, even when I would imagine the answer would be very interesting to YC!<p>For instance, &#x27;Who are your competitors&#x27; has been dropped entirely.
Nonprofit companies can certainly compete with one another.. But they also often compete with for-profit companies.<p>Take for example Wikipedia - They&#x27;re a 501(c)(3) but they&#x27;ve certainly competed with Encyclopedia Britannica, Grolier, Encarta, etc.
It might be helpful to keep the questions, but to ask them in a modified way.
For instance, &quot;Who is this going to disrupt?&quot;<p>Similarly they dropped &quot;How do or will you make money?&quot;, without replacing it with &quot;How do you plan to you raise money?&quot;<p>&quot;How will you get users&quot;, and &quot;Was any of your code written by someone who is not one of your founders?&quot; were also dropped.<p>They also haven&#x27;t (yet) added questions relating to non-profits, such as &quot;Why do you think you will be able to get a 501c(3) classification?&quot;<p>It&#x27;s a really interesting idea, and it&#x27;ll be interesting to see where they grow with it.<p>It really reminds me of the first few years of YC where they were making it up as they went along, before they started the current cycle of continuous improvements through validated learning.<p>Watsi was the MVP, now they&#x27;re ready for Beta ;)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>derefr</author><text>I&#x27;d love to see a question that addresses the nonprofit&#x27;s goals from an Effective Altruism perspective. Maybe something like: &quot;who are your competitors, and what is their average cost-effectiveness in DALYs[1]? If they aren&#x27;t very cost-effective, what makes you think your process will be better?&quot;<p>[1] <a href="http://www.givewell.org/international/technical/additional/DALY" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.givewell.org&#x2F;international&#x2F;technical&#x2F;additional&#x2F;D...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>YC Will Now Fund Nonprofits Too</title><url>http://ycombinator.com/np.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>e1ven</author><text>It&#x27;s interesting to compare the differences between the two applications-<p>For Profit -
<a href="https://gist.github.com/e1ven/6467215" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gist.github.com&#x2F;e1ven&#x2F;6467215</a><p>Non Profit-
<a href="https://gist.github.com/e1ven/6467309" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gist.github.com&#x2F;e1ven&#x2F;6467309</a><p>Overall, it seems like they&#x27;ve replaced &#x27;company&#x27; with &#x27;organization&#x27;, and dropped a number of questions relating to making money.<p>Interestingly, many of the questions have been dropped without replacement, even when I would imagine the answer would be very interesting to YC!<p>For instance, &#x27;Who are your competitors&#x27; has been dropped entirely.
Nonprofit companies can certainly compete with one another.. But they also often compete with for-profit companies.<p>Take for example Wikipedia - They&#x27;re a 501(c)(3) but they&#x27;ve certainly competed with Encyclopedia Britannica, Grolier, Encarta, etc.
It might be helpful to keep the questions, but to ask them in a modified way.
For instance, &quot;Who is this going to disrupt?&quot;<p>Similarly they dropped &quot;How do or will you make money?&quot;, without replacing it with &quot;How do you plan to you raise money?&quot;<p>&quot;How will you get users&quot;, and &quot;Was any of your code written by someone who is not one of your founders?&quot; were also dropped.<p>They also haven&#x27;t (yet) added questions relating to non-profits, such as &quot;Why do you think you will be able to get a 501c(3) classification?&quot;<p>It&#x27;s a really interesting idea, and it&#x27;ll be interesting to see where they grow with it.<p>It really reminds me of the first few years of YC where they were making it up as they went along, before they started the current cycle of continuous improvements through validated learning.<p>Watsi was the MVP, now they&#x27;re ready for Beta ;)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pg</author><text>We don&#x27;t know yet what will turn out to be the most important questions for nonprofits, so we just kept the subset of questions that seemed to apply to any project whether for profit or not.</text></comment> |
13,336,463 | 13,336,575 | 1 | 2 | 13,335,658 | train | <story><title>Research papers in the .NET source</title><url>http://www.mattwarren.org/2016/12/12/Research-papers-in-the-.NET-source/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>wintom</author><text>The papers are great, a lot of research has been done in this area despite the closed nature of .net prior to the recent open sourcing. Too tough to summarize in one comment but I want to add a few things for anyone thinking of checking them out.<p>I firmly believe .NET poses a fantastic programming environment for anyone to build systems, applications, the back bone of companies on top of. I think its significantly better than Java and has received much better support form Microsoft than the Java eco system and the JVM has from Oracle.<p>Functional languages like F# are allowing startups to build systems quickly that can scale from 0 to millions of users and I think this whole eco system, now that its open, is due for a renaissance.</text></comment> | <story><title>Research papers in the .NET source</title><url>http://www.mattwarren.org/2016/12/12/Research-papers-in-the-.NET-source/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>arthur2e5</author><text>Just for fun I searched for &quot;pdf&quot; and &quot;paper&quot; in the other popular .NET JIT runtime, and here&#x27;s what I got:<p><pre><code> - SSAPRE: https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;mono&#x2F;mono&#x2F;blob&#x2F;0bcbe39&#x2F;docs&#x2F;ssapre.txt#L249
- Dice, thin locks: https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;mono&#x2F;mono&#x2F;blob&#x2F;49c26ad&#x2F;mono&#x2F;metadata&#x2F;monitor.c#L51
- IBS Tree: https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;mono&#x2F;mono&#x2F;blob&#x2F;0bcbe39&#x2F;mcs&#x2F;class&#x2F;referencesource&#x2F;System.ServiceModel&#x2F;System&#x2F;ServiceModel&#x2F;Dispatcher&#x2F;QueryIntervalOp.cs#L10
- Huffman tree: https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;mono&#x2F;mono&#x2F;blob&#x2F;0bcbe39&#x2F;mcs&#x2F;class&#x2F;referencesource&#x2F;System&#x2F;sys&#x2F;system&#x2F;IO&#x2F;compression&#x2F;HuffmanTree.cs#L16
- GC survey: https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;mono&#x2F;mono&#x2F;blob&#x2F;0bcbe39&#x2F;libgc&#x2F;doc&#x2F;gcdescr.html#L13
- malloc survey: https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;mono&#x2F;mono&#x2F;blob&#x2F;0bcbe39&#x2F;mono&#x2F;utils&#x2F;dlmalloc.c#L1501</code></pre></text></comment> |
36,234,359 | 36,234,296 | 1 | 2 | 36,229,782 | train | <story><title>Bard is getting better at logic and reasoning</title><url>https://blog.google/technology/ai/bard-improved-reasoning-google-sheets-export/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>marginalia_nu</author><text>I&#x27;m not sure I would pass that test, not for lack of reasoning abilities, but from not understanding the rules of the game.</text></item><item><author>underyx</author><text>Trying my favorite LLM prompt to benchmark reasoning, as I mentioned in a thread four weeks ago[0].<p>&gt; I&#x27;m playing assetto corsa competizione, and I need you to tell me how many liters of fuel to take in a race. The qualifying time was 2:04.317, the race is 20 minutes long, and the car uses 2.73 liters per lap.<p>The correct answer is around 29, which GPT-4 has always known, but Bard just gave me 163.8, 21, and 24.82 as answers across three drafts.<p>What&#x27;s even weirder is that Bard&#x27;s first draft output ten lines of (wrong) Python code to calculate the result, even though my prompt mentioned nothing coding related. I wonder how non-technical users will react to this behavior. Another interesting thing is that the code follows Google&#x27;s style guides.<p>[0]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=35893130" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=35893130</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>anonylizard</author><text>Knowledge recall is part of an LLM&#x27;s skills.<p>I test LLMs on the plot details of Japanese Visual Novels. They are popular enough to be in the training dataset somewhere, but only rarely.<p>For popular visual novels, GPT-4 can write an essay, 0 shot, and very accurately and eloquently.
For less popular visual novels (Like maybe 10k people ever played it in the west). It still understands the general plot outline).<p>Claude can also do this to an extent.<p>Any lesser model, and its total hallucination time, they can&#x27;t even write a 2 sentence summary accurately.<p>You can&#x27;t test this skill on say Harry Potter, because it appears in the training dataset too frequently.</text></comment> | <story><title>Bard is getting better at logic and reasoning</title><url>https://blog.google/technology/ai/bard-improved-reasoning-google-sheets-export/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>marginalia_nu</author><text>I&#x27;m not sure I would pass that test, not for lack of reasoning abilities, but from not understanding the rules of the game.</text></item><item><author>underyx</author><text>Trying my favorite LLM prompt to benchmark reasoning, as I mentioned in a thread four weeks ago[0].<p>&gt; I&#x27;m playing assetto corsa competizione, and I need you to tell me how many liters of fuel to take in a race. The qualifying time was 2:04.317, the race is 20 minutes long, and the car uses 2.73 liters per lap.<p>The correct answer is around 29, which GPT-4 has always known, but Bard just gave me 163.8, 21, and 24.82 as answers across three drafts.<p>What&#x27;s even weirder is that Bard&#x27;s first draft output ten lines of (wrong) Python code to calculate the result, even though my prompt mentioned nothing coding related. I wonder how non-technical users will react to this behavior. Another interesting thing is that the code follows Google&#x27;s style guides.<p>[0]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=35893130" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=35893130</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>reaperman</author><text>In testing LLMs it’s also still fair to test that it can recall and integrate its vast store of latent knowledge about things like this. Just so long as you’re fully aware that you’re doing a multi-part test, that isn’t solely testing pure reasoning.</text></comment> |
14,341,222 | 14,341,084 | 1 | 2 | 14,340,137 | train | <story><title>Human rights activist risks prison over refusal to disclose password to police</title><url>http://www.middleeasteye.net/news/cage-director-faces-jail-over-refusal-disclose-password-during-airport-interrogation-681177289</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>amarant</author><text>Id like to be able to configure 2 passwords on my devices, one that logs me in, and another &quot;destruct password&quot; that when entered as password, wipes the device clean and overwrites the drive.<p>preferably I&#x27;d be able to configure certain directories that should be wiped, so only confidential data is destroyed.<p>then it would log in normally. I doubt silly borderguards would realize the pwnage</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kortex</author><text>That&#x27;s clever and all, but I feel like it dodges a very important human rights issue, rather than tackling it head-on. People shouldn&#x27;t have to resort to some Inspector Gadget-esque &quot;this message will selfdestruct&quot; or real-partition-hidden-partition mechanism. Furthermore it also disadvantages people who are less tech savvy and can&#x27;t implement such mechanisms. If you&#x27;re not served a warrant, they shouldn&#x27;t be allowed go snooping into locked devices.</text></comment> | <story><title>Human rights activist risks prison over refusal to disclose password to police</title><url>http://www.middleeasteye.net/news/cage-director-faces-jail-over-refusal-disclose-password-during-airport-interrogation-681177289</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>amarant</author><text>Id like to be able to configure 2 passwords on my devices, one that logs me in, and another &quot;destruct password&quot; that when entered as password, wipes the device clean and overwrites the drive.<p>preferably I&#x27;d be able to configure certain directories that should be wiped, so only confidential data is destroyed.<p>then it would log in normally. I doubt silly borderguards would realize the pwnage</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>lr4444lr</author><text>Clever, but would likely add &quot;obstruction of justice&quot; to the charges against you, and reduce your chances at beating the original point of suspicion, should it ever result in charges, due to spoliation of evidence.<p>Why not instead just refuse, and use the technicality of violation of privacy, to beat the authorities by making anything they find inadmissible in the first place?<p>(I&#x27;m assuming US-centric here, of course.)</text></comment> |
12,688,265 | 12,688,150 | 1 | 2 | 12,687,148 | train | <story><title>ResinOS, run Docker containers on embedded devices</title><url>https://resinos.io/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>chapingt</author><text>I always have trouble calling platforms that can run a system of this magnitude &quot;embedded.&quot; For some reason I always had the term &quot;single-purpose&quot; linked with the idea of an embedded system. Once you add tons of RAM, a relatively powerful processor, and can only last a couple of hours on a battery--I feel like then it&#x27;s just a small general purpose computer.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Matthias247</author><text>I think there are simply 2 views for the systems: One is the developers view, the other the end users view.<p>From the developers view these Linux based systems are pretty much general purpose computers.<p>However what mostly counts for the definition of &quot;embedded system&quot; is the end users view. The end user (customer) gets a complete system for a specific purpose, he can&#x27;t install any own applications and partly can&#x27;t even update the system.</text></comment> | <story><title>ResinOS, run Docker containers on embedded devices</title><url>https://resinos.io/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>chapingt</author><text>I always have trouble calling platforms that can run a system of this magnitude &quot;embedded.&quot; For some reason I always had the term &quot;single-purpose&quot; linked with the idea of an embedded system. Once you add tons of RAM, a relatively powerful processor, and can only last a couple of hours on a battery--I feel like then it&#x27;s just a small general purpose computer.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>roymurdock</author><text>I work for a firm that sizes various segments of the embedded hardware and software market. Here&#x27;s our definition:<p><i>A specialized or dedicated computer used to control devices (such as automobiles, home and office appliances, handheld units of all kinds, etc.) where the operating system and application functions are often combined in the same program. An embedded system implies a fixed set of functions programmed into a non-volatile memory (ROM, flash memory, etc.) in contrast to a general-purpose computing machine. However, sometimes single board computers and rack-mounted computers are called “embedded computers” if used to control a terminal interface, machine, motor, etc. An embedded device or system may contain more than one operating system and&#x2F;or processors (microprocessor, microcontroller, etc.). Specifically excluded from this definition are all types of enterprise computing machines deployed as general-purpose computers (i.e., desktop PCs, standard laptop PCs, enterprise servers, etc.). Our definition of embedded system&#x2F;device is intended to give a good indication of the potential operating system and run-time software royalty opportunity within the embedded systems market.</i><p>So there you go. As you can see our definition has grown substantially over the years as the embedded and IT&#x2F;enterprise markets have converged. It&#x27;s much more helpful to think in terms of vendors though.<p>Traditional embedded silicon vendors include NXP&#x2F;Freescale, Renesas, Microchip, Rockchip, Cypress&#x2F;Broadcom etc. Traditional embedded OS vendors include Wind River (Intel), Green Hills, Express Logic, Enea, Micrium, etc.<p>Intel&#x2F;Samsung&#x2F;TI and Microsoft attribute small portions of their revenue to embedded systems, but they don&#x27;t show up often in conversations with embedded vendors in their respective markets...they focus on enterprise servers&#x2F;computers&#x2F;software so they are usually less relevant to the day-to-day going ons of embedded vendors (until they swoop in with the intent to acquire).<p>This is changing though...has been fun advising some larger players on embedded strategies. Interesting time to be in the market for sure.</text></comment> |
11,715,224 | 11,715,306 | 1 | 2 | 11,714,340 | train | <story><title>You're Gonna Need a License for That</title><url>http://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2016-05-17/you-re-going-to-need-a-license-for-that-job</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>lucaspiller</author><text>As UK citizen it really surprises me how much things are licensed and regulated in the US. I&#x27;ve been following &#x2F;r&#x2F;diy recently, and in some states you need to be licensed to even change a light switch. I assume this is to prevent someone from doing it wrong and burning down a 10 storey apartment building, but come on? Can&#x27;t you trust people to use their own judgement as to whether they can do it sensibly or not?<p>Today I read a story about a car getting tickets for $100k [0], one of the tickets was for being in a &quot;hazardous and dilapidated condition&quot;, broken headlights and cracked windows. I&#x27;m currently living in Rome, Italy - the traffic wardens would have a field day here, basically every car has some sort of damage from an incident.<p>Don&#x27;t even get me started about HOA rules...<p>[0] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.thenewspaper.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;39&#x2F;3958.asp" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.thenewspaper.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;39&#x2F;3958.asp</a></text></item><item><author>adekok</author><text>The attitude of &quot;license all the things&quot; comes from two places.<p>Existing groups use licensing to shut out newcomers. They are largely anti-competitive, and anti-capitalistic.<p>The other is where unlicensed activities results in people dying. The outrage from such events often ends up with &quot;license the people&quot;, so that Bad Things can&#x27;t happen.<p>That&#x27;s arguably a better approach, for mechanics, nuclear power technicians, etc. Perhaps even hairdressers, who work with toxic chemicals and need to know basic safety.<p>For me, the &quot;health and safety&quot; requirements make sense. Anything outside of that is typically anti-competitive, and likely rent-seeking.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>drhayes9</author><text>I don&#x27;t know how I feel about this issue. Haven&#x27;t decided.<p>But if my neighbor miswires a light switch and it starts a fire that burns my house down because they&#x27;re close together, that would suck. In that situation, I would have wanted a say in whether my neighbor chose to do that themselves or hire someone who knows what they&#x27;re doing.<p>I&#x27;m living in a house that is filled with small jobs that seemed like they were done by someone who didn&#x27;t know what they were doing. Lots of scrap lumber, mis-matching parts, electrical re-wires that just didn&#x27;t work, etc. I&#x27;m glad I don&#x27;t need a permit to fix some of that myself, but I would&#x27;ve loved to stop this guy before he did these things.<p>Or if someone&#x27;s half-assery endangered otherwise innocent lives. Note: not necessarily crying &quot;save the children!&quot; &quot;Innocent&quot; as in &quot;couldn&#x27;t influence decision to get someone who knows what they&#x27;re doing&quot;.</text></comment> | <story><title>You're Gonna Need a License for That</title><url>http://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2016-05-17/you-re-going-to-need-a-license-for-that-job</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>lucaspiller</author><text>As UK citizen it really surprises me how much things are licensed and regulated in the US. I&#x27;ve been following &#x2F;r&#x2F;diy recently, and in some states you need to be licensed to even change a light switch. I assume this is to prevent someone from doing it wrong and burning down a 10 storey apartment building, but come on? Can&#x27;t you trust people to use their own judgement as to whether they can do it sensibly or not?<p>Today I read a story about a car getting tickets for $100k [0], one of the tickets was for being in a &quot;hazardous and dilapidated condition&quot;, broken headlights and cracked windows. I&#x27;m currently living in Rome, Italy - the traffic wardens would have a field day here, basically every car has some sort of damage from an incident.<p>Don&#x27;t even get me started about HOA rules...<p>[0] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.thenewspaper.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;39&#x2F;3958.asp" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.thenewspaper.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;39&#x2F;3958.asp</a></text></item><item><author>adekok</author><text>The attitude of &quot;license all the things&quot; comes from two places.<p>Existing groups use licensing to shut out newcomers. They are largely anti-competitive, and anti-capitalistic.<p>The other is where unlicensed activities results in people dying. The outrage from such events often ends up with &quot;license the people&quot;, so that Bad Things can&#x27;t happen.<p>That&#x27;s arguably a better approach, for mechanics, nuclear power technicians, etc. Perhaps even hairdressers, who work with toxic chemicals and need to know basic safety.<p>For me, the &quot;health and safety&quot; requirements make sense. Anything outside of that is typically anti-competitive, and likely rent-seeking.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ghaff</author><text>The viral Australian &quot;Dumb Ways to Die&quot; video from a couple of years back by Metro Trains Melbourne included a snippet about &quot;doing your own electrical work&quot; which seemed rather incongruous to me as a fairly typical American with a house who doesn&#x27;t think twice about swapping light switches and such. (Especially given the popular image of self-reliant Australians and all that--however atypical sheep and cattle stations may be of the average resident.)<p>When I commented about this previously though, I was told it reflected strong union etc. rules in Australia.<p>In practice, in the US, lots of people do some amount of their home repairs including electrical. I&#x27;m sure, in many cases, that work is theoretically supposed to be done by a licensed electrician, plumber, etc.</text></comment> |
18,193,947 | 18,193,799 | 1 | 2 | 18,193,557 | train | <story><title>Faster R with FastR</title><url>https://medium.com/graalvm/faster-r-with-fastr-4b8db0e0dceb</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>WhompingWindows</author><text>&quot;Moreover, support for dplyr and data.table are on the way. &quot;<p>Well, I can&#x27;t really use it in my day to day work, since that almost always involves cleaning and munging via one of those two packages. And it&#x27;s not like ggplot2 is where my R code is most delayed, usually I&#x27;m working on aggregate data or perhaps a very much smaller analytical dataset which requires much less speed for plotting. My hang-ups are in initial munging phases where the data is still very large, which often calls for data.table over dplyr due to the latter&#x27;s much slower performance.</text></comment> | <story><title>Faster R with FastR</title><url>https://medium.com/graalvm/faster-r-with-fastr-4b8db0e0dceb</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>claytonjy</author><text>Maybe 3-4 years ago there was a big push to speedup R by replacing the runtime; at least 3 competing replacements were talked about pretty actively. None of them achieved much mindshare. R trades runtime speed for dev speed, and we juice performance by writing slow stuff in C++ and linking Intel&#x27;s MKL. The RStudio folks are also making the low-level stuff faster and more consistent through the r-lib family of packages, which are awesome.<p>Big barriers to adoption here: not a truly drop-in replacement, R people have an aversion to Java (we&#x27;ve all spent hours debugging rJava; luckily most of those packages have been rewritten in C++ now), and nobody likes Oracle.<p>I think the best-case scenario here is that progress on FastR pushes the R-Core team to improve GNU-R.</text></comment> |
20,405,082 | 20,404,297 | 1 | 2 | 20,403,233 | train | <story><title>Google’s 4k-Word Privacy Policy Is a History of the Internet</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/07/10/opinion/google-privacy-policy.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>smnrchrds</author><text>There is a separation between NYT the corporation and the editorial staff. Just a couple of weeks ago, there was an article in NYT complaining about CCTVs installed in NYT office [0]. Should we now dismiss every article in NYT complaining about surveillance (especially workplace surveillance) as hypocritical and ironic, because if NYT thinks surveillance is bad, why do they do it themselves?<p>Newspapers like NYT are one of the few institutions where workers enjoy a level of freedom from management in doing their work. The other example is tenured professors. We should celebrate this, not mock it.<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nytimes.com&#x2F;2019&#x2F;06&#x2F;01&#x2F;opinion&#x2F;surveillance-cameras-work.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nytimes.com&#x2F;2019&#x2F;06&#x2F;01&#x2F;opinion&#x2F;surveillance-came...</a></text></item><item><author>jsnell</author><text>The NYT privacy policy [0] is 5.2K words. It contains basically everything that they&#x27;re criticizing Google for. And a bit more. Apparently NYT will by default sell (sorry, &quot;rent&quot;) your name and postal address to direct mail advertisers.<p>&gt; [If you use technology, someone is using your information. We’ll tell you how — and what you can do about it. Sign up for our limited-run newsletter.]<p>Uh-huh. If there&#x27;s even a trace of irony in that writing, I can&#x27;t spot it.<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;help.nytimes.com&#x2F;hc&#x2F;en-us&#x2F;articles&#x2F;115014892108-Privacy-policy?module=inline" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;help.nytimes.com&#x2F;hc&#x2F;en-us&#x2F;articles&#x2F;115014892108-Priv...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>btrettel</author><text>&gt; Newspapers like NYT are one of the few institutions where workers enjoy a level of freedom from management in doing their work. The other example is tenured professors.<p>PhD student here. I think the impression that tenured professors have freedom from management is an illusion at best. As far as I can tell, getting a PhD, getting hired as a professor, and getting tenure seem to filter out people who would challenge the system. It&#x27;s easy for a university to say that their tenured faculty are free to do whatever they want if they select and cultivate people who won&#x27;t take them up on that offer. (Now that I write this, I&#x27;m reminded of web hosting companies that offer unlimited storage or bandwidth but get irritated if you actually use a lot of storage or bandwidth.)<p>Personally, I&#x27;m leaning towards the conclusions of the financial independence&#x2F;early retirement community: real freedom comes when you have &quot;FU money&quot;. Money is the unit of freedom in the US.</text></comment> | <story><title>Google’s 4k-Word Privacy Policy Is a History of the Internet</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/07/10/opinion/google-privacy-policy.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>smnrchrds</author><text>There is a separation between NYT the corporation and the editorial staff. Just a couple of weeks ago, there was an article in NYT complaining about CCTVs installed in NYT office [0]. Should we now dismiss every article in NYT complaining about surveillance (especially workplace surveillance) as hypocritical and ironic, because if NYT thinks surveillance is bad, why do they do it themselves?<p>Newspapers like NYT are one of the few institutions where workers enjoy a level of freedom from management in doing their work. The other example is tenured professors. We should celebrate this, not mock it.<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nytimes.com&#x2F;2019&#x2F;06&#x2F;01&#x2F;opinion&#x2F;surveillance-cameras-work.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nytimes.com&#x2F;2019&#x2F;06&#x2F;01&#x2F;opinion&#x2F;surveillance-came...</a></text></item><item><author>jsnell</author><text>The NYT privacy policy [0] is 5.2K words. It contains basically everything that they&#x27;re criticizing Google for. And a bit more. Apparently NYT will by default sell (sorry, &quot;rent&quot;) your name and postal address to direct mail advertisers.<p>&gt; [If you use technology, someone is using your information. We’ll tell you how — and what you can do about it. Sign up for our limited-run newsletter.]<p>Uh-huh. If there&#x27;s even a trace of irony in that writing, I can&#x27;t spot it.<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;help.nytimes.com&#x2F;hc&#x2F;en-us&#x2F;articles&#x2F;115014892108-Privacy-policy?module=inline" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;help.nytimes.com&#x2F;hc&#x2F;en-us&#x2F;articles&#x2F;115014892108-Priv...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>icxa</author><text>&gt; We should celebrate this, not mock it.<p>I don&#x27;t know what dystopian world you want to live in, but any time I see a company profit off sheer hypocrisy, I am going to call it out and mock it. They can have freedom all they want, but this article is generating clicks and revenues for Parent Corp, so they deserve the scrutiny. This isn&#x27;t some public service they are providing.</text></comment> |
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