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40,495,513 | 40,493,073 | 1 | 3 | 40,491,480 | train | <story><title>Instead of “auth”, we should say “permissions” and “login”</title><url>https://ntietz.com/blog/lets-say-instead-of-auth/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ghnws</author><text>Having two almost identical terms that mean completely different things is not a very good idea. Also here you are explaining what the words mean, when &quot;login&quot; and &quot;permission&quot; are immediately obvious. Most people don&#x27;t speak english natively either.</text></item><item><author>aeonik</author><text>&quot;Authorize&quot; and &quot;Authenticate&quot; are excellent words. They go back to medieval times and haven&#x27;t changed meaning too much.<p>Everybody knows what an &quot;authority&quot; is. It means they have power or capability.<p>Everybody knows what authentic means. Something that is proven to be genuine.<p>The difference between the two concepts, as they are used in crypto systems are specific, important to get right, and also inherently intertwined, confusing, and subtle. I&#x27;m skeptical that changing the words would help.<p>It&#x27;s one of the many reasons we have the saying, &quot;Don&#x27;t roll your own crypto.&quot;<p>Trust and verification are just hard problems.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nulbyte</author><text>If you think two different words having different meanings is difficult, wait &#x27;til you hear about contranyms! English is full of words like these, where context is needed to understand the meaning.<p>If something is fast, it moves quickly or not at all. Cocktails can be garnished, but so can wages. Sales or trade of a product could be sanctioned by one country, but sanctioned by another.<p>I generally think it is a good thing to communicate clearly. Sometimes that means using words differently to explain something. Other times, that means using words the same way as others. I think this is a case of the latter.<p>Also, I think the idea of &quot;native speaker&quot; is a bit of a red flag. There are plenty of people that speak English from birth but are utterly unintelligible, and there are plenty of people that speak English as a second language who speak more clearly than those.</text></comment> | <story><title>Instead of “auth”, we should say “permissions” and “login”</title><url>https://ntietz.com/blog/lets-say-instead-of-auth/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ghnws</author><text>Having two almost identical terms that mean completely different things is not a very good idea. Also here you are explaining what the words mean, when &quot;login&quot; and &quot;permission&quot; are immediately obvious. Most people don&#x27;t speak english natively either.</text></item><item><author>aeonik</author><text>&quot;Authorize&quot; and &quot;Authenticate&quot; are excellent words. They go back to medieval times and haven&#x27;t changed meaning too much.<p>Everybody knows what an &quot;authority&quot; is. It means they have power or capability.<p>Everybody knows what authentic means. Something that is proven to be genuine.<p>The difference between the two concepts, as they are used in crypto systems are specific, important to get right, and also inherently intertwined, confusing, and subtle. I&#x27;m skeptical that changing the words would help.<p>It&#x27;s one of the many reasons we have the saying, &quot;Don&#x27;t roll your own crypto.&quot;<p>Trust and verification are just hard problems.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mistercow</author><text>The wild thing is that they’re apparently from different etymologies. “Authorization” comes from “auctor” in Latin, meaning “leader” or “author”, whereas “authentication” originally comes from the Greek “auto” meaning “self”. There probably was some cross influence that brought them into line though.</text></comment> |
33,508,097 | 33,507,699 | 1 | 2 | 33,506,576 | train | <story><title>Microsoft is phoning home the content of PowerPoint slides</title><url>https://rogermexico.bearblog.dev/microsoft-is-phoning-home-the-content-of-your-powerpoint-slides/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>real_dogbert</author><text>Yeah, I&#x27;m surprised every healthcare related business doesn&#x27;t either ban PowerPoint or block this &quot;feature&quot; somehow. HIPAA is a hell of a drug.</text></item><item><author>semi-extrinsic</author><text>I&#x27;ve raised this point repeatedly in different orgs. It&#x27;s met with some combination of indifference and lack of understanding and not-my-responsibility-ism, but I&#x27;m sure that this will eventually blow up hard in some company&#x27;s face - like 9-digit settlement for breach of contract, or worse things like breach of export control laws.<p>Enterprise data security on the &quot;MS Office level&quot; at this point is like driving 60 mph on a road with no lane dividers. You just pray that you never meet a drunk driver or someone texting in oncoming traffic who suddenly swerves into your lane. You pray that none of your employees click the wrong button and bankrupt the company.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>MichaelCollins</author><text>Powerpoint is the raison d&#x27;etre of an entire class of middling bureaucrats. They&#x27;ll fight tooth and nail to protect their turf and preserve their role in society.</text></comment> | <story><title>Microsoft is phoning home the content of PowerPoint slides</title><url>https://rogermexico.bearblog.dev/microsoft-is-phoning-home-the-content-of-your-powerpoint-slides/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>real_dogbert</author><text>Yeah, I&#x27;m surprised every healthcare related business doesn&#x27;t either ban PowerPoint or block this &quot;feature&quot; somehow. HIPAA is a hell of a drug.</text></item><item><author>semi-extrinsic</author><text>I&#x27;ve raised this point repeatedly in different orgs. It&#x27;s met with some combination of indifference and lack of understanding and not-my-responsibility-ism, but I&#x27;m sure that this will eventually blow up hard in some company&#x27;s face - like 9-digit settlement for breach of contract, or worse things like breach of export control laws.<p>Enterprise data security on the &quot;MS Office level&quot; at this point is like driving 60 mph on a road with no lane dividers. You just pray that you never meet a drunk driver or someone texting in oncoming traffic who suddenly swerves into your lane. You pray that none of your employees click the wrong button and bankrupt the company.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>reaperducer</author><text><i>I&#x27;m surprised every healthcare related business doesn&#x27;t either ban PowerPoint or block this &quot;feature&quot; somehow.</i><p>I work in healthcare, and the legal department bars me from using Google Analytics for HIPAA reasons.<p>Meanwhile, IT made Chrome the only browser the employees are allowed to use on every Windows machine in the org.</text></comment> |
32,499,329 | 32,497,501 | 1 | 3 | 32,494,244 | train | <story><title>Learning a new language, or how I gained familiarity with Go</title><url>https://www.jvt.me/posts/2022/08/12/learning-new-language-go/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>thejammahimself</author><text>I feel like a significant part of learning a new language is also learning the standard library alongside the new syntax. Especially because these can be quite different between different languages.</text></item><item><author>kubb</author><text>It&#x27;s always important to ask yourself what concepts you knew before you learned a new technology X. For someone who knows C++ and Java there are no new concepts in Go, so the tour of Go should suffice.<p>For someone who doesn&#x27;t know what a function, a pointer, and a string is, there&#x27;s more work to be done.<p>One of the reasons Go is praised for simplicity is that it only requires us to know basic concepts. You already know how to call a function and store some integers in a struct. All you need is to get used to the new syntax.<p>For those who like to flex their brains and learn to think in new ways, this could be a disadvantage, but for someone overwhelmed with information it&#x27;s a godsend.<p>On the other hand, if you always limit yourself to Go then it will be harder to pick up other technologies that take advantage of concepts not featured there.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Groxx</author><text>Yeah. Particularly after having learned 2 or 3 languages, learning the N+1th <i>language</i> is often the work of like an hour or three.<p>Learning the standard library, and the patterns it has encouraged in the community, takes <i>years</i> and is a moving target. Even a basic (accurate) &quot;feel&quot; for things generally takes weeks, regardless of how &quot;simple&quot; the language is. You might be able to produce code prior to that, but being able to predict where something should be, or how to find it, takes time.</text></comment> | <story><title>Learning a new language, or how I gained familiarity with Go</title><url>https://www.jvt.me/posts/2022/08/12/learning-new-language-go/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>thejammahimself</author><text>I feel like a significant part of learning a new language is also learning the standard library alongside the new syntax. Especially because these can be quite different between different languages.</text></item><item><author>kubb</author><text>It&#x27;s always important to ask yourself what concepts you knew before you learned a new technology X. For someone who knows C++ and Java there are no new concepts in Go, so the tour of Go should suffice.<p>For someone who doesn&#x27;t know what a function, a pointer, and a string is, there&#x27;s more work to be done.<p>One of the reasons Go is praised for simplicity is that it only requires us to know basic concepts. You already know how to call a function and store some integers in a struct. All you need is to get used to the new syntax.<p>For those who like to flex their brains and learn to think in new ways, this could be a disadvantage, but for someone overwhelmed with information it&#x27;s a godsend.<p>On the other hand, if you always limit yourself to Go then it will be harder to pick up other technologies that take advantage of concepts not featured there.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mxuribe</author><text>&gt; I feel like a significant part of learning a new language is also learning the standard library alongside the new syntax...<p>OMG, you are so right! I feel the same. Knowing what the standard libraries bring (or don&#x27;t bring) for each language that one learsn is immensely helpful. Sometimes this helps me decide which language to use for particular use-case&#x2F;project, or sometimes it helps me better understand what the level of effort will be for a project if i use langugae X vs language Y, and on and on, etc. I feel like a tour of each language&#x27;s standard libraries is a must when learning a new language; or at least a cusrosry review of the most important and&#x2F;.or most often used functions, etc. of said standard libs.</text></comment> |
37,727,510 | 37,726,393 | 1 | 2 | 37,725,498 | train | <story><title>DALL-E 3 is now publicly available inside Bing</title><url>https://www.bing.com/images/create/?ref=hn</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>og_kalu</author><text>There&#x27;s an LLM morphing your queries somewhat before submitting to Dall-e and you can jailbreak that.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;madebyollin&#x2F;status&#x2F;1708204657708077294" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;madebyollin&#x2F;status&#x2F;1708204657708077294</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;media.discordapp.net&#x2F;attachments&#x2F;1023643945319792731&#x2F;1157776965978304603&#x2F;Dalle3Jailbreak.png?ex=651a8013&amp;is=65192e93&amp;hm=45582758a1ea4c3d55a6ce9364caf7dab094d0837687eb9d83b3434ef5ad0226&amp;" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;media.discordapp.net&#x2F;attachments&#x2F;1023643945319792731...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>brap</author><text>I don&#x27;t know why, but I just love seeing jailbreaks where the input&#x2F;output isn&#x27;t just plain text.</text></comment> | <story><title>DALL-E 3 is now publicly available inside Bing</title><url>https://www.bing.com/images/create/?ref=hn</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>og_kalu</author><text>There&#x27;s an LLM morphing your queries somewhat before submitting to Dall-e and you can jailbreak that.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;madebyollin&#x2F;status&#x2F;1708204657708077294" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;madebyollin&#x2F;status&#x2F;1708204657708077294</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;media.discordapp.net&#x2F;attachments&#x2F;1023643945319792731&#x2F;1157776965978304603&#x2F;Dalle3Jailbreak.png?ex=651a8013&amp;is=65192e93&amp;hm=45582758a1ea4c3d55a6ce9364caf7dab094d0837687eb9d83b3434ef5ad0226&amp;" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;media.discordapp.net&#x2F;attachments&#x2F;1023643945319792731...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>isoprophlex</author><text>So, we&#x27;re still splatterprompting... only a machine does it for you. That&#x27;s pretty hilarious</text></comment> |
20,452,508 | 20,451,161 | 1 | 3 | 20,449,427 | train | <story><title>Vugu – Modern UI Library for Go and WebAssembly</title><url>https://www.vugu.org/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>floki999</author><text>A UI library which doesn&#x27;t present a visual example of its capabilities on its landing page is missing the point. The underlying technology stack is secondary.</text></comment> | <story><title>Vugu – Modern UI Library for Go and WebAssembly</title><url>https://www.vugu.org/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>23inhouse</author><text>That site&#x27;s moto should be:<p>All your CPU are belong to us</text></comment> |
40,904,480 | 40,904,391 | 1 | 3 | 40,890,633 | train | <story><title>Crystal Fragment Turns Everything You See into 8-Bit Pixel Art</title><url>https://www.yankodesign.com/2024/07/04/this-crystal-fragment-turns-everything-you-see-into-8-bit-pixel-art-and-its-fascinating/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rbanffy</author><text>In order to be properly 8-bit it’d also need to round the colours to some quantised palette. The physics of that would be much, much more interesting.<p>I’m guessing that Atari 8-bit computers would be the easiest, followed by pure 8 and 16-colour RGB and RGBi palettes. To do the Commodore 64 palette would be a very interesting materials science project.<p>And then do that with variable ones, like the Commodore 16, where you have an arbitrary subset of a quantised color space.<p>Try that without a power supply.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>zakary</author><text>It just so happens that one of my colleagues just finished a PhD creating materials which pretty much do exactly this; converting a relatively broad spectrum of light into a much narrower band of light. I’ve seen them in the lab where it’s colourless and clear to start with, and then it will convert any incident light in the blue range into a much narrower band of a specific blue colour. He has recipes for just about any colour, even into UV and IR bands.
Not sure what the real world applications are though, maybe something to do with coatings for photovoltaic cells to increase efficiency</text></comment> | <story><title>Crystal Fragment Turns Everything You See into 8-Bit Pixel Art</title><url>https://www.yankodesign.com/2024/07/04/this-crystal-fragment-turns-everything-you-see-into-8-bit-pixel-art-and-its-fascinating/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rbanffy</author><text>In order to be properly 8-bit it’d also need to round the colours to some quantised palette. The physics of that would be much, much more interesting.<p>I’m guessing that Atari 8-bit computers would be the easiest, followed by pure 8 and 16-colour RGB and RGBi palettes. To do the Commodore 64 palette would be a very interesting materials science project.<p>And then do that with variable ones, like the Commodore 16, where you have an arbitrary subset of a quantised color space.<p>Try that without a power supply.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kaba0</author><text>Resolution and color depth are two different “dimensions”, and 8-bit may refer to either.</text></comment> |
33,947,960 | 33,948,027 | 1 | 2 | 33,947,618 | train | <story><title>Creating aerial imagery with a bike helmet camera (GoPro) and OpenDroneMap</title><url>https://jakecoppinger.com/2022/12/creating-aerial-imagery-with-a-bike-helmet-camera-and-opendronemap/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jakecopp</author><text>I wrote this guide on generating 3D models and orthorectified imagery from 360 degree cameras. Usually this sort of thing is a lot easier with drones, but there are a lot of places you can&#x27;t fly drones!<p>I&#x27;m hoping this makes mapping curb&#x2F;street&#x2F;parking data more accessible.<p>For example, OpenStreetMap has a new street parking spec which could make use of lots of street imagery! <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;wiki.openstreetmap.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Street_parking" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;wiki.openstreetmap.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Street_parking</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Enginerrrd</author><text>I&#x27;ve spent a lot of time trying to get 3d models of rural roads with a truck-mounted go-pro and photogrammetry.<p>At the end of the day, I couldn&#x27;t get it to work despite having some great data sets. I talked to someone who did manage to get this work, proved down to centimeter accuracy but they were only able to get it to work with great difficulty and a rig with 5 different cameras. They said by the time you do all that, you&#x27;ll have invested enough that lidar would make as much sense cost-wise.<p>I believe the problem is at the MVS step, but it seems like none of the libraries handle this use case very well for some reason, despite having great overlapping features.<p>When taken on the ground, doing orbits looking in toward a common object works reasonably well, and colmap handled this the best. Especially with exhaustive matching, but it takes DAYS to process. (Or, 4-6 hours if you REALLY optimize the process.)<p>But moving in a line, no matter how much overlap of the features you get, just doesn&#x27;t work that well, and I do not understand why. I think it fails in the feature matching step and it makes no sense since it has really similar images to try and match if you capture at any reasonable frequency.<p>I think THIS worked better than I would have expected because of the 3d aspect where the lens gives you multiple perspectives on objects along the sides.</text></comment> | <story><title>Creating aerial imagery with a bike helmet camera (GoPro) and OpenDroneMap</title><url>https://jakecoppinger.com/2022/12/creating-aerial-imagery-with-a-bike-helmet-camera-and-opendronemap/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jakecopp</author><text>I wrote this guide on generating 3D models and orthorectified imagery from 360 degree cameras. Usually this sort of thing is a lot easier with drones, but there are a lot of places you can&#x27;t fly drones!<p>I&#x27;m hoping this makes mapping curb&#x2F;street&#x2F;parking data more accessible.<p>For example, OpenStreetMap has a new street parking spec which could make use of lots of street imagery! <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;wiki.openstreetmap.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Street_parking" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;wiki.openstreetmap.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Street_parking</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>saidinesh5</author><text>Been meaning to play with opendronemap for quite a while now. Thanks for the write up.<p>Regarding the fisheye correction, may be you can find some code and presets from the gyroflow project? they have presets for a lot of camera lenses out there, and they do fisheye correction and stabilization real time on GPU: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;gyroflow&#x2F;gyroflow&#x2F;blob&#x2F;master&#x2F;src&#x2F;core&#x2F;calibration&#x2F;mod.rs" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;gyroflow&#x2F;gyroflow&#x2F;blob&#x2F;master&#x2F;src&#x2F;core&#x2F;ca...</a></text></comment> |
15,502,199 | 15,501,834 | 1 | 2 | 15,498,578 | train | <story><title>It Takes Just $1k to Track Someone's Location with Mobile Ads</title><url>https://www.wired.com/story/track-location-with-mobile-ads-1000-dollars-study</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>soared</author><text>Very interesting article, but there is an easy fix unlike the article claims. Many platforms (like facebook) won&#x27;t allow you to use a data pool if there is less than 1000 users. I wasn&#x27;t aware you could target specific device ids just by knowing a single id, but that seems like an obvious flaw in the system.<p>If dsp&#x2F;exchanges just required 1k or 500 users be in a retargeting pool (or list of device ids) then this problem would be solved.<p>As for knowing how many users use a specific app in a location, that is an extremely fuzzy number and I doubt the accuracy of it. Almost no exchanges show you how many auctions you lost, so just finding out how many uniques you served to is flawed and much smaller than the real number.<p>&gt; &quot;This is so easy and it&#x27;s industry-wide,&quot; says Tadayoshi Kohno<p>Maybe across the spying&#x2F;intelligence industry, but advertisers don&#x27;t care about individuals at all. This is an interesting experiment, but most platforms don&#x27;t enable this type of tracking and no advertiser would ever need&#x2F;want to do it.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>SOLAR_FIELDS</author><text>Regarding the pool size for facebook, it wasn’t always like this. The half amusing half creepy story here shows what it was like before the change was made :<a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;ghostinfluence.com&#x2F;the-ultimate-retaliation-pranking-my-roommate-with-targeted-facebook-ads&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;ghostinfluence.com&#x2F;the-ultimate-retaliation-pranking-...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>It Takes Just $1k to Track Someone's Location with Mobile Ads</title><url>https://www.wired.com/story/track-location-with-mobile-ads-1000-dollars-study</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>soared</author><text>Very interesting article, but there is an easy fix unlike the article claims. Many platforms (like facebook) won&#x27;t allow you to use a data pool if there is less than 1000 users. I wasn&#x27;t aware you could target specific device ids just by knowing a single id, but that seems like an obvious flaw in the system.<p>If dsp&#x2F;exchanges just required 1k or 500 users be in a retargeting pool (or list of device ids) then this problem would be solved.<p>As for knowing how many users use a specific app in a location, that is an extremely fuzzy number and I doubt the accuracy of it. Almost no exchanges show you how many auctions you lost, so just finding out how many uniques you served to is flawed and much smaller than the real number.<p>&gt; &quot;This is so easy and it&#x27;s industry-wide,&quot; says Tadayoshi Kohno<p>Maybe across the spying&#x2F;intelligence industry, but advertisers don&#x27;t care about individuals at all. This is an interesting experiment, but most platforms don&#x27;t enable this type of tracking and no advertiser would ever need&#x2F;want to do it.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>PotatoEngineer</author><text>If the advertisers can see the MAID for each ad impression, then there&#x27;s no need to be too specific about who you target - it&#x27;ll just cost you more. On the other hand, if the advertiser doesn&#x27;t get to see the MAID-per-impression, then the easy solution is to supply your one target MAID, plus another 999 bogus MAIDs (or, if the platform verifies that MAIDs are accurate before allowing you to use them, then you use 999 MAIDs from Liberia or some other country that your target won&#x27;t visit).</text></comment> |
36,175,809 | 36,173,510 | 1 | 2 | 36,171,696 | train | <story><title>Calling time on DNSSEC: The costs exceed the benefits</title><url>https://www.mattb.nz/w/2023/06/02/calling-time-on-dnssec/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>peanut-walrus</author><text>Here&#x27;s the full list of DNS attacks DNSSEC protects against:<p><pre><code> * Resolver cache poisoning
* MitM upstream from resolver
</code></pre>
That&#x27;s it. That is all that DNSSEC does. Meanwhile, here&#x27;s some attacks or concerns that are actually seen in the real-world and which DNSSEC does nothing for:<p><pre><code> * Passive data collection
* Malicious DNS resolvers
* Registrar account compromises
* Local network MitM against endpoints
</code></pre>
And these are the real-world attacks which are enabled or made worse by DNSSEC:<p><pre><code> * DNS Amplification DDoS
* DNS server denial of service (on-the-fly signing or validating signed responses adds non-trivial overhead)
* Zone enumeration (NSEC and NSEC3 are hilarious)
* DNS server compromise through RCE exploits (not exclusive to DNSSEC, but handling signed responses adds a lot of complexity to servers and almost all DNS RCE exploits we&#x27;ve seen recently have been in the DNSSEC handling part)
</code></pre>
Add to this the complexity of key handling and the risk of breaking your own zones and the calculation is pretty clear - on the whole, DNSSEC is actively making things worse and not providing a clear benefit for anyone.</text></comment> | <story><title>Calling time on DNSSEC: The costs exceed the benefits</title><url>https://www.mattb.nz/w/2023/06/02/calling-time-on-dnssec/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>thayne</author><text>There is one case where I think DNSSEC provides a lot of value: domain validation for the purpose of issuing a TLS certificate.<p>To get a DV certificate, the most common kind, you <i>just</i> have to prove you own the domain. If someone can MitM the DNS request to verify domain ownership, then they can issue a certificate for your domain. Transperency logs help protect against this, as long as you are watching them, and notice the bad cert issued before too much damage is done. Granted, there isn&#x27;t a big risk of MitM between the nameserver and the CA, hopefully with multiple locations. But a state actor might be able to do it.<p>Still, I&#x27;m not sure that is worth the complexity of DNSSEC. Especially since you really only need signed records for specific records.</text></comment> |
30,774,459 | 30,774,210 | 1 | 2 | 30,774,193 | train | <story><title>New Updated Okta Statement on Lapsus$</title><text>New update, but posted on top of the old public post. Now indicates Okta recognizes a breach officially and has started notified affected organizations.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.okta.com&#x2F;blog&#x2F;2022&#x2F;03&#x2F;updated-okta-statement-on-lapsus&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.okta.com&#x2F;blog&#x2F;2022&#x2F;03&#x2F;updated-okta-statement-on-...</a></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>thr0wawayf00</author><text>I can&#x27;t believe these idiots tried playing chicken with a hacker, heads need to roll over this one. They have completely and needlessly destroyed their credibility by trying and completely failing to control the narrative.</text></comment> | <story><title>New Updated Okta Statement on Lapsus$</title><text>New update, but posted on top of the old public post. Now indicates Okta recognizes a breach officially and has started notified affected organizations.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.okta.com&#x2F;blog&#x2F;2022&#x2F;03&#x2F;updated-okta-statement-on-lapsus&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.okta.com&#x2F;blog&#x2F;2022&#x2F;03&#x2F;updated-okta-statement-on-...</a></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>hexadec</author><text>I think the flip flopping is hurting them and their users more and more. What was initially a flat denial this morning has resulted in taunts from Lapsus$ on Twitter, Okta was out-scooped by Cloudflare&#x27;s public investigation. Now they admit a breach affecting 2.5% (roughly 250 orgs based on public data).<p>The webinar tomorrow should be fascinating if they allow questions.</text></comment> |
32,788,795 | 32,787,631 | 1 | 3 | 32,779,851 | train | <story><title>Why you might want a domain-specific database like TigerBeetleDB</title><url>https://twitter.com/phil_eaton/status/1568247444684554241</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jandrewrogers</author><text>I have always been an unabashed fan of the idea of domain-specific databases. Database implementations make a <i>lot</i> of compromises for the sake of generality and avoid useful features that overfit a single domain. The idea of a database engine perfectly optimized and feature-fit for a domain has obvious qualitative advantages, and it isn&#x27;t controversial that it is eminently possible to build such a database.<p>So why are they so rare? It is expensive in several dimensions to build a narrowly tailored database engine from scratch. Database engines are not modular, you can&#x27;t assemble them from arbitrary parts while maintaining control of their basic characteristics. Building an optimized domain-specific database from scratch is not trivial because you will have to do a lot of the really hard parts yourself.<p>In my head, there has always been a missing piece of software - a &quot;database compiler&quot;, that can take the very complex and high-dimensionality abstract specification for a domain and codegen a purpose-built database engine. I also recognize that this is exceedingly non-trivial; I codegen storage engines to spec and that is already difficult enough. Doing that for a full database engine in a specific domain would have hundreds of input parameters, many of which would require expertise in the underlying codegen to know how to use them. It would be awesome if such a thing existed though.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jorangreef</author><text>&quot;In my head, there has always been a missing piece of software - a &quot;database compiler&quot;, that can take the very complex and high-dimensionality abstract specification for a domain and codegen a purpose-built database engine.&quot;<p>You nailed it!<p>And this is in fact our design for TigerBeetle, an Iron Man suit that you can put any state machine business logic into. You get global consensus protocol and local storage engine, with all the performance of TigerBeetle, and it&#x27;s a really nice experience writing your own business logic inside of that. You can even test everything using Deterministic Simulation Testing.<p>Long term, we want to extract this into a library. Reading the TB source, you&#x27;ll see all these abstractions are something we&#x27;re thinking about.</text></comment> | <story><title>Why you might want a domain-specific database like TigerBeetleDB</title><url>https://twitter.com/phil_eaton/status/1568247444684554241</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jandrewrogers</author><text>I have always been an unabashed fan of the idea of domain-specific databases. Database implementations make a <i>lot</i> of compromises for the sake of generality and avoid useful features that overfit a single domain. The idea of a database engine perfectly optimized and feature-fit for a domain has obvious qualitative advantages, and it isn&#x27;t controversial that it is eminently possible to build such a database.<p>So why are they so rare? It is expensive in several dimensions to build a narrowly tailored database engine from scratch. Database engines are not modular, you can&#x27;t assemble them from arbitrary parts while maintaining control of their basic characteristics. Building an optimized domain-specific database from scratch is not trivial because you will have to do a lot of the really hard parts yourself.<p>In my head, there has always been a missing piece of software - a &quot;database compiler&quot;, that can take the very complex and high-dimensionality abstract specification for a domain and codegen a purpose-built database engine. I also recognize that this is exceedingly non-trivial; I codegen storage engines to spec and that is already difficult enough. Doing that for a full database engine in a specific domain would have hundreds of input parameters, many of which would require expertise in the underlying codegen to know how to use them. It would be awesome if such a thing existed though.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>haney</author><text>It’s kind of coming from the opposite direction, but it feels like Postgres extensions solve many of the needs you’re describing. They allow a developer to use the underlying database engine while extending it to include domain specific primitives.</text></comment> |
39,471,104 | 39,470,451 | 1 | 3 | 39,469,716 | train | <story><title>YouTube addiction, one month sober</title><url>https://www.sophiajt.com/youtube-addiction-one-month-sober/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>futureshock</author><text>It’s bit weird, but I feel like this conversation about screen time and digital addiction dropped out of the public consciousness during Covid, never to return. Apple released their screen time features in 2018, so this issue was just starting to hit critical mass right as Covid hit and dumped us all deep down the digital rabbit hole.<p>Now I notice even more social proof to keep going deeper into the digital life. Public shaming over green chat bubbles and genuine confusion if I tell someone I’m on not on a Meta owned social network.<p>I wonder if we’re all so addicted now that it’s no longer social acceptable to talk about our addiction. I wonder if we just started talking to each other less as well.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>winternett</author><text>It feels like I haven&#x27;t logged onto it in ages... Chrome pushed an update that made me have to log in and do TFA each time I opened the browser, and that was a nail in the coffin.<p>The best content on YouTube is berried behind a wall of Mr Beast and Pewdie Pie style fluffery that I can&#x27;t find any real value in most of the time. They dictate what is favorable, and that ruins the entire experience for me. The search has been flooded with SEO title spam, which makes finding specific content damn near impossible and&#x2F;or very tedious.<p>I don&#x27;t think you can be addicted to a hammer if it&#x27;s a highly functional tool in getting work done. I don&#x27;t think you can get addicted to a television if it&#x27;s a tool used for relaxation or entertainment. I think we need to stop considering that apps become addictive, and really speak on if they manage to deliver on their promises and functional purposes.... Just my opinion.<p>Most apps become extremely annoying after years of being highly functional, and that represents corporate corruption more so than having an addictive product. It&#x27;s not addicting if it does not fulfill a valid purpose when it begins to charge money for ad laced content or repeatedly waste people&#x27;s time, apps cease to be useful after that point.</text></comment> | <story><title>YouTube addiction, one month sober</title><url>https://www.sophiajt.com/youtube-addiction-one-month-sober/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>futureshock</author><text>It’s bit weird, but I feel like this conversation about screen time and digital addiction dropped out of the public consciousness during Covid, never to return. Apple released their screen time features in 2018, so this issue was just starting to hit critical mass right as Covid hit and dumped us all deep down the digital rabbit hole.<p>Now I notice even more social proof to keep going deeper into the digital life. Public shaming over green chat bubbles and genuine confusion if I tell someone I’m on not on a Meta owned social network.<p>I wonder if we’re all so addicted now that it’s no longer social acceptable to talk about our addiction. I wonder if we just started talking to each other less as well.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>DougN7</author><text>The casino scene in the Percy Jackson movie [1] (and book) have always seemed hauntingly accurate to me as far as describing much of modern life.<p>The thing we all have a finite amount of is time, and we’re increasingly distracted to where we waste more and more of it on unimportant, artificial digital worlds&#x2F;life while the real world passes by. As I’m getting older, I’m seeing how precious youth, energy, and health are, but those who have the most of that (younger people) seem to be sucked in even more. We’re racing towards the dystopia shown in the movie Ready Player One.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;m.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=p9-Fbl2QVJc" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;m.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=p9-Fbl2QVJc</a></text></comment> |
15,892,779 | 15,892,601 | 1 | 2 | 15,890,551 | train | <story><title>Comcast is injecting 400+ lines of JavaScript into web pages</title><url>http://forums.xfinity.com/t5/Customer-Service/Are-you-aware-Comcast-is-injecting-400-lines-of-JavaScript-into/td-p/3009551</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Declanomous</author><text>I&#x27;m annoyed by this on several levels. The biggest issue is that I&#x27;m using an Arris SB 6121 and I&#x27;m getting notifications that my modem is EOL. However, the SB6121 is listed as a supported modem for my speed level on their supported modems page.<p>If I go to their supported modem page, I literally get a page where my current modem is shown as not supported, and the exact same modem is shown next to it as &quot;supported.&quot;<p>I&#x27;m calling Comcast, and if this isn&#x27;t immediately resolved I&#x27;m filing a fraud claim with the Illinois attorney general. This is the third or fourth time I&#x27;ve had a supported modem that Comcast has claimed isn&#x27;t supported, and I&#x27;m sick of jumping through hoops getting this resolved.<p>Every time this happens their customer service reps tell me that the only way to avoid this is to use one of their modems. I&#x27;m sick of this. What a terrible company. Fix your shit before you start injecting garbage into the websites I visit.<p>edit: Proof <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;imgur.com&#x2F;lzKBkMs" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;imgur.com&#x2F;lzKBkMs</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>throwahey</author><text>There is a reason they are doing this. After signing up for Xfinity I noticed that the modem we were leasing was broadcasting a public access point with no way to disable it. I purchased my own modem immediately. Then some time later they rolled out their mobile services, which you guessed it, rely’s on those open access points and Sprint as a fall-back. So now customers are paying monthly to host Xfinity mobile services.<p>I will admit that it is clever, but this should be transparent and customers should not be subsidizing the cost.</text></comment> | <story><title>Comcast is injecting 400+ lines of JavaScript into web pages</title><url>http://forums.xfinity.com/t5/Customer-Service/Are-you-aware-Comcast-is-injecting-400-lines-of-JavaScript-into/td-p/3009551</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Declanomous</author><text>I&#x27;m annoyed by this on several levels. The biggest issue is that I&#x27;m using an Arris SB 6121 and I&#x27;m getting notifications that my modem is EOL. However, the SB6121 is listed as a supported modem for my speed level on their supported modems page.<p>If I go to their supported modem page, I literally get a page where my current modem is shown as not supported, and the exact same modem is shown next to it as &quot;supported.&quot;<p>I&#x27;m calling Comcast, and if this isn&#x27;t immediately resolved I&#x27;m filing a fraud claim with the Illinois attorney general. This is the third or fourth time I&#x27;ve had a supported modem that Comcast has claimed isn&#x27;t supported, and I&#x27;m sick of jumping through hoops getting this resolved.<p>Every time this happens their customer service reps tell me that the only way to avoid this is to use one of their modems. I&#x27;m sick of this. What a terrible company. Fix your shit before you start injecting garbage into the websites I visit.<p>edit: Proof <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;imgur.com&#x2F;lzKBkMs" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;imgur.com&#x2F;lzKBkMs</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>timzentu</author><text>FCC complaints are usually more effective, never dealt with one in the current shitty administration, but legally the FCC requires resolution within 7 business days, or at least a plan of action if resolution isn&#x27;t possible for completion.
I used to receive the emails and all the people on an FCC chain put pressure on the lower levels.</text></comment> |
12,882,720 | 12,882,529 | 1 | 2 | 12,881,947 | train | <story><title>Inside NORAD's Cheyenne Mountain Combat Center</title><url>http://thememoryhole2.org/blog/inside-norad</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>sgnelson</author><text>The author states that NORAD &quot;... dropped the ball on 9&#x2F;11..&quot;<p>Let&#x27;s be clear, NORAD did not drop the ball on 9&#x2F;11. You can certainly make the argument that the FBI, CIA, and NSA (and other US intelligence services) dropped the ball on 9&#x2F;11, but NORAD did not. NORAD&#x27;s primary goal has never been to stop terrorism&#x2F;hijacking from occurring on passenger planes within the United States, but rather to warn of enemy planes and missiles from _entering_ the US. (this did change somewhat after 9&#x2F;11, but that&#x27;s after the fact...)<p>Frankly, I stopped reading the article after this line, because clearly the author doesn&#x27;t know what they&#x27;re talking about.<p>But if you&#x27;re interested in this sort of thing, I&#x27;d recommend starting here: Strategic Air Command: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Strategic_Air_Command" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Strategic_Air_Command</a><p>I just finished reading Command and Control by Eric Schlosser, it&#x27;s a pretty decent primer on early US nuclear deterrence and such things as SAC and NORAD. (though there are better books specifically about SAC&#x2F;NORAD, this is an overarching general&#x2F;popular history.)</text></comment> | <story><title>Inside NORAD's Cheyenne Mountain Combat Center</title><url>http://thememoryhole2.org/blog/inside-norad</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>sverige</author><text>When I lived in Colorado Springs, my wife was friends with the wife of one of the military security guards at Cheyenne Mountain. We went on one of the last public tours of the facility in April of 1996 (IIRC).<p>None of the doors in the buildings had any indication of what went on behind them, just numbers, or maybe number-letter combinations. We followed our guide through a maze of these featureless corridors with the anonymous doors all closed, then were ushered into the command center.<p>It&#x27;s pretty small, maybe holds 20 people around a conference table in close quarters. The folks who monitor everything in the world were right next door. One wall is a glass partition between the two rooms, but they pulled a curtain over that because there was some incident going on right then that we were not authorized to see.<p>Then we got a walking tour of much of the rest of the underground complex. The tunnels are wide and high, and there are big reservoirs of water and diesel fuel along the sides.<p>It was really fascinating. Of course no photos were allowed, but I still have a fairly good mental picture of parts of it 20 years later. The photo of the gigantic blast door took me right back - we walked through that very spot.<p>Edit: Thinking about it more, the most surprising thing was the scale of the place. It&#x27;s a quarter mile from the tunnel entrance around the bend (meant as a way to diffuse the energy from a nuclear blast) to the big steel door. We all rode a bus back to that point. We walked about a half mile or maybe more to near the bottom of the other end of the main tunnel. If you look at the diagram in the story, it doesn&#x27;t do justice to the sense of how much work went into carving out the middle of that mountain.<p>The conference room where command decisions were made might have only held 12, not 20. It was very small and spartan. I remember thinking, Shit, the fate of the world might be decided in a room smaller than our conference room at work.<p>Also, it might have been April 1998, not &#x27;96.</text></comment> |
22,031,998 | 22,031,537 | 1 | 3 | 22,024,758 | train | <story><title>Wasm3 – A high performance WebAssembly interpreter in C</title><url>https://github.com/wasm3/wasm3</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>ridiculous_fish</author><text>This is pretty exciting if real:<p>&gt; Bytecode&#x2F;opcodes are translated into more efficient &quot;operations&quot; during a compilation pass, generating pages of meta-machine code<p>WASM compiled to a novel bytecode format aimed at efficient interpretation.<p>&gt; Commonly occurring sequences of operations can can also be optimized into a &quot;fused&quot; operation.<p>Peephole optimizations producing fused opcodes, makes sense.<p>&gt; In M3&#x2F;Wasm, the stack machine model is translated into a more direct and efficient &quot;register file&quot; approach<p>WASM translated to register-based bytecode. That&#x27;s awesome!<p>&gt; Since operations all have a standardized signature and arguments are tail-call passed through to the next, the M3 &quot;virtual&quot; machine registers end up mapping directly to real CPU registers.<p>This is some black magic, if it works!</text></comment> | <story><title>Wasm3 – A high performance WebAssembly interpreter in C</title><url>https://github.com/wasm3/wasm3</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>setheron</author><text>The neater article seems to be about M3 interpreter
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;soundandform&#x2F;m3#m3-massey-meta-machine" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;soundandform&#x2F;m3#m3-massey-meta-machine</a><p>Tbh, I couldn&#x27;t get the eureka moment though.
Might try to read in the AM ;)</text></comment> |
39,407,380 | 39,407,208 | 1 | 2 | 39,405,996 | train | <story><title>Automated Unit Test Improvement Using Large Language Models at Meta</title><url>https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.09171</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tivert</author><text>&gt; 75% of TestGen-LLM&#x27;s test cases built correctly, 57% passed reliably, and 25% increased coverage.<p>The problem I have with LLM generated tests is that it seems highly likely that they&#x27;d &quot;ratify&quot; buggy behavior, and I&#x27;d think that&#x27;d be especially likely if the code-base already had low test coverage. One of the nice things about writing new tests by hand is you&#x27;ve got someone who can judge if it&#x27;s the system being stupid or if it&#x27;s the test.<p>At a minimum they should be segregated in a special test folder, so they can be treated with an appropriate level of suspicion.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ithkuil</author><text>Writing tests is indeed a great opportunity for finding bugs.<p>But a codebase with good test coverage allows you to safely perform large scale refactorings without having regressions and that&#x27;s useful property even if you have bugs and the refactoring preserves them faithfully.<p>The risk of using a tool that generates tests designed to encode the current behaviour is that you may be lulled in a false sense of safety, while all you&#x27;ve done is to encode the current behaviour, as advertised.<p>Perhaps this problem can be just solved by not calling these tests &quot;tests&quot; but something like &quot;behavioural snapshots&quot; or something like that (cannot think of a better name, but the idea is to capture the idea that they were not meant to encode necessarily the correct behaviour but just the current behaviour)</text></comment> | <story><title>Automated Unit Test Improvement Using Large Language Models at Meta</title><url>https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.09171</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tivert</author><text>&gt; 75% of TestGen-LLM&#x27;s test cases built correctly, 57% passed reliably, and 25% increased coverage.<p>The problem I have with LLM generated tests is that it seems highly likely that they&#x27;d &quot;ratify&quot; buggy behavior, and I&#x27;d think that&#x27;d be especially likely if the code-base already had low test coverage. One of the nice things about writing new tests by hand is you&#x27;ve got someone who can judge if it&#x27;s the system being stupid or if it&#x27;s the test.<p>At a minimum they should be segregated in a special test folder, so they can be treated with an appropriate level of suspicion.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>js8</author><text>&gt; One of the nice things about writing new tests by hand is you&#x27;ve got someone who can judge if it&#x27;s the system being stupid or if it&#x27;s the test.<p>This is an instance of a more general problem, which I call &quot;the problem of unwanted change&quot;. If you have an automated system which can change itself, how do you know a change is actually intended&#x2F;correct or merely a symptom of a bug, failure or imperfect knowledge the automation has?<p>That&#x27;s why I think human supervision is always needed to an extent, to determine what scenario has occured.<p>This happens in all sorts of systems. And people tend to think they can solve this with just another layer of automation like here. Testing was originally invented as a way to check if the program works correctly. If you automate it, you will face the same problem, just with a bigger code (in the form of tests rather than assertions).</text></comment> |
36,276,424 | 36,275,144 | 1 | 3 | 36,272,747 | train | <story><title>GCP automatically lowered our quota, caused an incident, and refused to upgrade</title><url>https://twitter.com/JustJake/status/1667478906591666176</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Demmme</author><text>Just an anecdotal counter point: very happy with gcp.<p>Best network from all and coherent modern ui.<p>Not the usability hell like azure... (You know when clicking on a often used resource on the start page which let&#x27;s you jump directly to it but doesn&#x27;t allow you to jump a level up of all the other resources of the same type which totally works fine when you navigate to it the normal way... Or the huge hassle and complexity of resource groups for f everything...)<p>But you know the tweet not even states what quota was reduced.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>faizshah</author><text>I love the GCP UI and the DX in general of their cloud offerings. I also love the feature set of Cloud Run, BigQuery, and DataFlow.<p>My only problem with GCP is that their support is horrible, I much prefer AWS support that’s why I can’t use GCP beyond my hobby projects.<p>I’m trying out Cloudflare workers this weekend so we’ll see how that goes.</text></comment> | <story><title>GCP automatically lowered our quota, caused an incident, and refused to upgrade</title><url>https://twitter.com/JustJake/status/1667478906591666176</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Demmme</author><text>Just an anecdotal counter point: very happy with gcp.<p>Best network from all and coherent modern ui.<p>Not the usability hell like azure... (You know when clicking on a often used resource on the start page which let&#x27;s you jump directly to it but doesn&#x27;t allow you to jump a level up of all the other resources of the same type which totally works fine when you navigate to it the normal way... Or the huge hassle and complexity of resource groups for f everything...)<p>But you know the tweet not even states what quota was reduced.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>elankart</author><text>This is certainly a troll post. I use all three cloud providers. GCP is the worst of all, just try their simple text to speech UI. It doesn’t work most of the times.<p>Don’t even get me started on a deployment story for GCP their deployment manager is deprecated and redirect you to use terraform.<p>I hate to swallow it but Azure was more usable and straightforward.</text></comment> |
38,643,639 | 38,643,567 | 1 | 3 | 38,642,791 | train | <story><title>Cruise slashes 24% of self-driving car workforce in sweeping layoffs</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2023/12/14/cruise-slashes-24-of-self-driving-car-workforce-in-sweeping-layoffs/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dmix</author><text>Why is everyone so overly dramatic about this stuff. I remember when FSD was announced on HN everyone knew it&#x27;d be way longer and he was just pumping it up cuz that&#x27;s how he is. It wasn&#x27;t some big surprise.<p>Now everyone is acting like it&#x27;s do or die, as if everyone bought Tesla&#x27;s <i>just</i> so they won&#x27;t have to ever touch a steering wheel at some point in the future. Only 19% opted for it and plenty of those are probably wealthy people who can afford novelties and all that matters at the end of the day is if you&#x27;re competitive with the alternative options on the market (holistically not just feature to feature). Ultimately it&#x27;s still just a car people bought instead of a BMW or whatever. They&#x27;re not making car purchasing decisions comparing it to some beta project only running via taxis in silicon valley and some random small cities.</text></item><item><author>hef19898</author><text>Tesla cannot abandon FSD, if they did Musk, and by extension (and due to all kinds of financial connetctions and dependencies) all his other companies would be in very serious trouble.</text></item><item><author>ra7</author><text>Tesla has been kept alive only because they are scared to even let drivers take their hands off the wheel. They have very low confidence in the system to allow for driver inattention, let alone completely remove the driver. Numerous software “rewrites” over the years with many buzzwords attached, and they still haven’t clocked a single driverless mile.<p>They also have a huge fan base (investors) who are happy to babysit FSD in order to provide more “training data” and they’ve rationalized themselves whatever little benefit it offers is worthy of the product name.</text></item><item><author>hiddencost</author><text>This whole saga has been really vindicating for Waymo&#x27;s theory of slow-and-steady.<p>Uber and Cruise both tried to cut corners and mistakes caused their operations massive set backs.<p>Tesla&#x27;s efforts have killed the most people, but seem relatively resilient.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>hef19898</author><text>Because Teslas market gap is based on the assumption that it is a tech company. This assumption is, basically, only FSD and Musks image as a tech genious. And a lot relies on Teslas valuation, including for a time SpaceX funding.<p>Officially announcing that FSD is a dead end takes allnof that away, and Tesla might very well be valuated as car company (which it is). And that share price adjustment could, or will, be a very serious problem Musk and his enterprises.</text></comment> | <story><title>Cruise slashes 24% of self-driving car workforce in sweeping layoffs</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2023/12/14/cruise-slashes-24-of-self-driving-car-workforce-in-sweeping-layoffs/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dmix</author><text>Why is everyone so overly dramatic about this stuff. I remember when FSD was announced on HN everyone knew it&#x27;d be way longer and he was just pumping it up cuz that&#x27;s how he is. It wasn&#x27;t some big surprise.<p>Now everyone is acting like it&#x27;s do or die, as if everyone bought Tesla&#x27;s <i>just</i> so they won&#x27;t have to ever touch a steering wheel at some point in the future. Only 19% opted for it and plenty of those are probably wealthy people who can afford novelties and all that matters at the end of the day is if you&#x27;re competitive with the alternative options on the market (holistically not just feature to feature). Ultimately it&#x27;s still just a car people bought instead of a BMW or whatever. They&#x27;re not making car purchasing decisions comparing it to some beta project only running via taxis in silicon valley and some random small cities.</text></item><item><author>hef19898</author><text>Tesla cannot abandon FSD, if they did Musk, and by extension (and due to all kinds of financial connetctions and dependencies) all his other companies would be in very serious trouble.</text></item><item><author>ra7</author><text>Tesla has been kept alive only because they are scared to even let drivers take their hands off the wheel. They have very low confidence in the system to allow for driver inattention, let alone completely remove the driver. Numerous software “rewrites” over the years with many buzzwords attached, and they still haven’t clocked a single driverless mile.<p>They also have a huge fan base (investors) who are happy to babysit FSD in order to provide more “training data” and they’ve rationalized themselves whatever little benefit it offers is worthy of the product name.</text></item><item><author>hiddencost</author><text>This whole saga has been really vindicating for Waymo&#x27;s theory of slow-and-steady.<p>Uber and Cruise both tried to cut corners and mistakes caused their operations massive set backs.<p>Tesla&#x27;s efforts have killed the most people, but seem relatively resilient.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>fossuser</author><text>HN is just generally awful on this topic and not worth commenting in imo.<p>Tesla is very well positioned even if they did zero on FSD (which they won&#x27;t). The Model Y was the best selling car on earth across all categories (including ICE and EVs!) - not sure what more you could want for car company success.</text></comment> |
23,553,748 | 23,554,025 | 1 | 2 | 23,553,325 | train | <story><title>Zoom to bring end-to-end encryption to all users, including non-paying</title><url>https://blog.zoom.us/wordpress/2020/06/17/end-to-end-encryption-update/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>fsflover</author><text>&quot;To make this possible, Free&#x2F;Basic users seeking access to E2EE will participate in a one-time process that will prompt the user for additional pieces of information, such as verifying a phone number via a text message. Many leading companies perform similar steps on account creation to reduce the mass creation of abusive accounts.&quot;<p>Perfect instrument to collect more personal data.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Nextgrid</author><text>Their argument doesn&#x27;t make sense.<p>The objective behind verifying accounts is to prevent spammers creating lots of spam accounts and using those to spam.<p>However, spammers rarely care if their spam is encrypted, so putting E2E behind verification won&#x27;t do anything as far as spammers are concerned - they&#x27;ll happily keep spamming using the unencrypted accounts.<p>There&#x27;s some other reason behind this that <i>isn&#x27;t</i> about reducing spam.</text></comment> | <story><title>Zoom to bring end-to-end encryption to all users, including non-paying</title><url>https://blog.zoom.us/wordpress/2020/06/17/end-to-end-encryption-update/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>fsflover</author><text>&quot;To make this possible, Free&#x2F;Basic users seeking access to E2EE will participate in a one-time process that will prompt the user for additional pieces of information, such as verifying a phone number via a text message. Many leading companies perform similar steps on account creation to reduce the mass creation of abusive accounts.&quot;<p>Perfect instrument to collect more personal data.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Aunche</author><text>Is there any E2EE app that doesn&#x27;t require verification? Whatsapp does. Even Signal requires a phone number.</text></comment> |
21,596,648 | 21,596,881 | 1 | 3 | 21,596,003 | train | <story><title>When will Google shut down Stadia?</title><url>http://stadiacountdown.com/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>marricks</author><text>I wonder about the damage Google does to any potential start ups in a field.<p>How much buzz can you get when everyone’s first thought is “how could this be any good? Google already tried that and failed...”</text></item><item><author>iamsb</author><text>A good model will be to start working on a new startup with a competing product as soon as google launches something. In couple of years when they shut down, provide migration paths. Swim in $$$.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rurp</author><text>I don&#x27;t know, Google has failed at all kinds of products that other companies have achieved massive success with. This includes some really ubiquitous tools like a social network (Google+) or messaging apps (too many to list). I think at this point most people assume a failed project from Google has more to do with the company than the concept itself.</text></comment> | <story><title>When will Google shut down Stadia?</title><url>http://stadiacountdown.com/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>marricks</author><text>I wonder about the damage Google does to any potential start ups in a field.<p>How much buzz can you get when everyone’s first thought is “how could this be any good? Google already tried that and failed...”</text></item><item><author>iamsb</author><text>A good model will be to start working on a new startup with a competing product as soon as google launches something. In couple of years when they shut down, provide migration paths. Swim in $$$.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>malvosenior</author><text>I seriously doubt that&#x27;s everyone&#x27;s first thought. I know my first thought when Google launches a product is: &quot;this will suck and I&#x27;m not even going to bother trying it&quot;. Experience as trained me to avoid Google products and look for migrations away from things I&#x27;m stuck with that they executed well on in the distant past (email, maps, search, browser).</text></comment> |
33,706,852 | 33,705,007 | 1 | 3 | 33,704,254 | train | <story><title>D2, a diagram scripting language that turns text to diagrams, is now open source</title><url>https://github.com/terrastruct/d2</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>alixanderwang</author><text>Hi HN, I&#x27;m Alex, at Terrastruct, where we&#x27;ve been making D2. This actually popped up on HN a couple months back, though it wasn&#x27;t ready, e.g. not open source yet. It is now!<p>We also put up a site for you to compare D2 with MermaidJS, Graphviz, and PlantUML: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;text-to-diagram.com" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;text-to-diagram.com</a>.<p>Full disclosure, we&#x27;re a for-profit company. The open-core part is that we make an alternative layout engine which we sell (Jetbrains model, i.e. your copy is your&#x27;s forever if you&#x27;ve paid for 12+ months). It&#x27;s not packaged with D2, so you won&#x27;t see it if you don&#x27;t want it. D2 is perfectly usable without it, and integrates with multiple free open source layout engines (e.g. the one that Mermaid uses, &quot;dagre&quot;, is D2&#x27;s default). If you want to read more about our plans for D2: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;d2lang.com&#x2F;tour&#x2F;future" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;d2lang.com&#x2F;tour&#x2F;future</a>.<p>Hope you can check it out! It&#x27;s got an easy install (and uninstall) process.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>localhost</author><text>This is a great idea; my go-to approach is the &quot;I&#x27;ll use PowerPoint to do that and take a screenshot&quot; mindset since I don&#x27;t have a need for publication quality output.<p>I really like the comparison site that you have created - it&#x27;s great for learning these languages. I would love to see a plugin for Obsidian for the times where I need to add a custom drawing to my notes. It looks like there already are plugins for PlantUML[1] and graphviz[2] today.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;QAMichaelPeng&#x2F;obsidian-graphviz" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;QAMichaelPeng&#x2F;obsidian-graphviz</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;joethei&#x2F;obsidian-plantuml" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;joethei&#x2F;obsidian-plantuml</a></text></comment> | <story><title>D2, a diagram scripting language that turns text to diagrams, is now open source</title><url>https://github.com/terrastruct/d2</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>alixanderwang</author><text>Hi HN, I&#x27;m Alex, at Terrastruct, where we&#x27;ve been making D2. This actually popped up on HN a couple months back, though it wasn&#x27;t ready, e.g. not open source yet. It is now!<p>We also put up a site for you to compare D2 with MermaidJS, Graphviz, and PlantUML: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;text-to-diagram.com" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;text-to-diagram.com</a>.<p>Full disclosure, we&#x27;re a for-profit company. The open-core part is that we make an alternative layout engine which we sell (Jetbrains model, i.e. your copy is your&#x27;s forever if you&#x27;ve paid for 12+ months). It&#x27;s not packaged with D2, so you won&#x27;t see it if you don&#x27;t want it. D2 is perfectly usable without it, and integrates with multiple free open source layout engines (e.g. the one that Mermaid uses, &quot;dagre&quot;, is D2&#x27;s default). If you want to read more about our plans for D2: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;d2lang.com&#x2F;tour&#x2F;future" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;d2lang.com&#x2F;tour&#x2F;future</a>.<p>Hope you can check it out! It&#x27;s got an easy install (and uninstall) process.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mooneater</author><text>20+ year fan of graphviz here, love seeing what you are doing with D2!<p>Any examples of larger diagrams (1000+s of nodes) and how does that perform in layout?</text></comment> |
13,836,362 | 13,835,852 | 1 | 3 | 13,834,511 | train | <story><title>New Features in C# 7.0</title><url>https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/dotnet/2017/03/09/new-features-in-c-7-0/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ZeroClickOk</author><text>What I love in C# is, each update the language gets even faster, far more natural to write. Soo different of Javascript, where looks you are fighting against the language first, and then if you win, can develop something useful. I use js why I need use it, but I hope use c# instead, high hopes with webassembly, etc</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pmarreck</author><text>&gt; Out variables<p>This is pretty much a terrible language design idea. (Not the &quot;out int x&quot; change, but the whole idea of &quot;out&quot; in an argument list to begin with to indicate values coming <i>out</i> via <i>the arguments</i>.)<p>The path out of mutable argument bug-hell is <i>not</i> to declare that the values of some argument variables <i>will intentionally</i> get changed by the function in the scope where it is called. It is to make arguments immutable (like they are in the traditional mathy definition of &quot;function&quot;), <i>period,</i> and allow multiple assignment to the function call. What I mean is that, conceptually, ideally, values and state should <i>only flow into the function arguments</i> and <i>only back out of the function call itself.</i><p>So for example instead of<p>&gt; p.GetCoordinates(out int x, out int y);<p>I think the following would lead to reduced cognitive load and thus fewer bugs:<p>&gt; int x, int y = p.GetCoordinates;<p>or even better (color me biased by Erlang&#x2F;Elixir):<p>&gt; {x, y} = p.GetCoordinates; # as a pattern match<p>Instead of a smoothly mentally-traceable flow of values into function arguments and out of function returns, we have this monstrosity of conflating mutable arguments (where values go in <i>and then come back out changed in the scope of the function call</i>) with this &quot;out int x&quot; business which seems to be indicating it intends to &quot;push values upstream&quot;, as it were.</text></comment> | <story><title>New Features in C# 7.0</title><url>https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/dotnet/2017/03/09/new-features-in-c-7-0/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ZeroClickOk</author><text>What I love in C# is, each update the language gets even faster, far more natural to write. Soo different of Javascript, where looks you are fighting against the language first, and then if you win, can develop something useful. I use js why I need use it, but I hope use c# instead, high hopes with webassembly, etc</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jfroma</author><text>I worked for 6 years on C#, I was C# MVP and I really enjoyed the language.<p>4 years ago I started to work more with js and then node.js until I stopped working on c#. Js has been for me a gateway to transition to other languages and get paid for that. I learned bash, python, a bit of ruby, go, etc.<p>If I see c# code today I don&#x27;t understand what it does. Sure every version has a lot of new very useful stuff but it also introduces noise, &quot;why he used out x instead of the new shiny out var x, he might not know about it, lets send PR&quot;.<p>Along the way I have learned to appreciate simpler languages that does not change that often. Where there are few or just one way to do something.<p>I think I read an interview to Mitchel Hashimoto (hashicorp) and he said he choose Go over all languages because it was boring.<p>A boring and simple language allows you to focus on the problem you are solving. A language that doesn&#x27;t change for years allows people to catch up and master the tool. It also means that you can open a file written by someone else years ago and understand what it does.<p>IMHO js was in that sweet spot until ES6.</text></comment> |
19,900,111 | 19,899,493 | 1 | 3 | 19,898,731 | train | <story><title>Amazon rolls out machines that pack orders and replace jobs</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/article/us-amazon-com-automation-exclusive-idUSKCN1SJ0X1</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>sandworm101</author><text>I&#x27;m surprised that Amazon still uses boxes. They have the market power to insist manufacturers comply with amazon-specific packaging requirements. Why not just insist that all products be packaged in postal-compatible packaging? Then the amazon warehouse robot need only slap a label on the product and throw it in the shipping bin.<p>Another answer would be to have products packaged in standard, or at lease square, boxes that could be thrown into larger shipping boxes.<p>Or do away with the warehouse altogether and have products ship directly from manufacturers. I wonder if anyone has tried that?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>blairanderson</author><text>You mentioned two processes that have been in place with Amazon Vendors&#x2F;Manufacturers for many years.<p>1. Amazon Direct Fulfillment (dropship): Order is shipped directly from the manufacturer to the customer. Amazon pays for the shipping label and contractually &quot;own&quot; the item once it leaves the MFR doors. Amazon incentivizes Manufacturers by paying the freight and loosening shipment deadlines. [1]<p>2. Ships In Own Container (Amazon SIOC) certification puts the responsibility on the manufacturer to certify their products can be shipped without extra packaging. MFR pays for the testing&#x2F;certification from a third-party. After July 3st 2019, Amazon will charge&#x2F;fine manufacturers $2&#x2F;unit received that are NOT SIOC certified and greater than a certain dimensional threshold. [2]<p>Its a tough economic balance for Amazon because they want to keep shipping stuff, but many MFRs will literally <i>stop</i> selling items to Amazon on July 31st because the costs of SIOC certification are greater than the estimated product profitability.<p>Source: I am a consultant for Manufacturers that sell to Amazon. [3]<p>1: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.andersonassociates.net&#x2F;guides&#x2F;amazon&#x2F;what-is-dropshipping&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.andersonassociates.net&#x2F;guides&#x2F;amazon&#x2F;what-is-dro...</a><p>2: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.andersonassociates.net&#x2F;2018&#x2F;frustration-free&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.andersonassociates.net&#x2F;2018&#x2F;frustration-free&#x2F;</a><p>3: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.andersonassociates.net" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.andersonassociates.net</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Amazon rolls out machines that pack orders and replace jobs</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/article/us-amazon-com-automation-exclusive-idUSKCN1SJ0X1</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>sandworm101</author><text>I&#x27;m surprised that Amazon still uses boxes. They have the market power to insist manufacturers comply with amazon-specific packaging requirements. Why not just insist that all products be packaged in postal-compatible packaging? Then the amazon warehouse robot need only slap a label on the product and throw it in the shipping bin.<p>Another answer would be to have products packaged in standard, or at lease square, boxes that could be thrown into larger shipping boxes.<p>Or do away with the warehouse altogether and have products ship directly from manufacturers. I wonder if anyone has tried that?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>PorterDuff</author><text>Smart dudes have wrestled over those problems for years. I think the strongest case for dropshipping would be new cars. The dealerships have presented a problem for people for years, but they are politically well connected.<p>It&#x27;s a lot easier for a manufacturer to send a boxcar of toilet paper to a warehouse (Amazon or otherwise) than to mail the case to you. Lacking Amazon or Safeway, they&#x27;d probably just recreate a similar system in the form of a co-op.<p>In any case, I don&#x27;t doubt they&#x27;ve gamed and spreadsheeted the bejeepers out of dropshipping, returnable containers, standardized containers, third party (USPS) vs. self shipping vs. drones, etc.</text></comment> |
34,437,406 | 34,437,473 | 1 | 2 | 34,437,285 | train | <story><title>Coinbase halts operations in Japan</title><url>https://www.coinbase.com/blog/halting-operations-in-japan</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>digianarchist</author><text>Previously announced: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.bitcoin.com&#x2F;coinbase-shutting-down-most-crypto-services-in-japan-after-series-of-job-cuts-globally&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.bitcoin.com&#x2F;coinbase-shutting-down-most-crypto-...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Coinbase halts operations in Japan</title><url>https://www.coinbase.com/blog/halting-operations-in-japan</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Danieru</author><text>The context is that the Japanese regulator, FSA (Financial Services Agency) which regulates Banks, Cyrpto, and Brokerages is scary. Notice how Coinbases statement is quick to reassure no Japanese assets have been comingled.<p>Not Americans assets, or anyone else. Coinbase is careful to only mention Japanese assets.<p>The FSA regulated FTX Japan is the only regional FTX moving forward with returning depositor&#x27;s assets. FTX US&#x27;s status is disputed, certainly not issuing a timeline.<p>The collapse of Mt. Gox pushed the FSA to heavily regulate crypto. Of course that means an entity like Coinbase must consider not just the cost of compliance, but also the risk that if they steal customer funds executives can go to jail. Costs are fine, investors bear that. But clearly Coinbases executives most dislike the whole &quot;FSA will haul you into jail for questioning when you loss customer money&quot; most. Hence this announcement.<p>At this point any exchange avoiding FSA regulation is a giant red flag with bonus red siren.</text></comment> |
32,345,010 | 32,344,880 | 1 | 2 | 32,343,332 | train | <story><title>On Being Rich-ish: Lessons I learned becoming suddenly middle-class</title><url>https://www.residentcontrarian.com/p/on-being-rich-ish-lessons-i-learned</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>legitster</author><text>I can relate to a lot of this, I was pretty stinking poor growing up. Now I make good money. (I still buy used tires from shady lots tho).<p>But even now that I&#x27;m making good money, it boggles my mind how richer everyone else still seems. Like, how do so many young people have a favorite island in Hawaii? How is everyone out there affording new cars? People actually picked a college major without thinking about cost?<p>One thing I have to constantly wrap my head around is that being <i>broke</i> doesn&#x27;t correlate to income. I have a family and a mortgage and savings and nothing left over for luxuries at the end of the month. But someone working as a bartender can afford a new Jeep and go to Vegas 4x a year because they have a good roommate situation and they are due to inherit their parent&#x27;s second house one day.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>hnaccount141</author><text>&gt; Like, how do so many young people have a favorite island in Hawaii? How is everyone out there affording new cars?<p>The reality is that oftentimes they simply can&#x27;t, at least according to a responsible definition of &quot;afford&quot;.<p>All we see from the outside is the brand new Jeep, we don&#x27;t see the fact that they&#x27;re underwater on a 72 month loan with 6% interest. The average car loan term in 2019 was 69 months, that&#x27;s insane. Something like 30% of trade ins have negative equity.<p>Even ignoring debt, I&#x27;ve spoken to a surprising number of people who make great money and live lavishly but have effectively no retirement savings. The level of financial literacy in the US is abysmal.</text></comment> | <story><title>On Being Rich-ish: Lessons I learned becoming suddenly middle-class</title><url>https://www.residentcontrarian.com/p/on-being-rich-ish-lessons-i-learned</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>legitster</author><text>I can relate to a lot of this, I was pretty stinking poor growing up. Now I make good money. (I still buy used tires from shady lots tho).<p>But even now that I&#x27;m making good money, it boggles my mind how richer everyone else still seems. Like, how do so many young people have a favorite island in Hawaii? How is everyone out there affording new cars? People actually picked a college major without thinking about cost?<p>One thing I have to constantly wrap my head around is that being <i>broke</i> doesn&#x27;t correlate to income. I have a family and a mortgage and savings and nothing left over for luxuries at the end of the month. But someone working as a bartender can afford a new Jeep and go to Vegas 4x a year because they have a good roommate situation and they are due to inherit their parent&#x27;s second house one day.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>commandlinefan</author><text>I couldn&#x27;t help but do the same thing when I was reading the article, in the opposite direction: &quot;wait - you had a <i>wife</i> and you were poor?&quot; When I was young and my income was low or nonexistent, it seemed like women could <i>smell</i> the poverty on me and I couldn&#x27;t even get close to them. It was like trying to sneak up on a grazing gazelle - they&#x27;d hear me coming and just sprint to a safe distance. The more money I made, the closer I could get until I finally made enough money that they stayed close enough to talk to.<p>Even now, married 20 years, the author talks about the burden on his wife and kids if he went back to being poor - I&#x27;m sure my wife would just leave if I was genuinely stuck in a poverty cycle with no way of getting out, and I wouldn&#x27;t really blame her.</text></comment> |
14,663,101 | 14,662,816 | 1 | 3 | 14,662,373 | train | <story><title>Milestone: 100M Certificates Issued</title><url>https://letsencrypt.org/2017/06/28/hundred-million-certs.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>koolba</author><text>SSL certificate from a traditional provider valid for a year: $10.<p>SSL certificate from a traditional provider valid for two years: $20.<p>Automated SSL certificate generation and deployment via LetsEncrypt with zero human intervention and more importantly zero human intervention to renew it going forward - <i>priceless</i>.<p>---<p>That&#x27;s the real value for me. At $10&#x2F;cert, that&#x27;s not even a rounding error. But manually generating a new CSR, uploading it via crappy web form, waiting a random amount of time, proving domain ownership by responding to an email (sent in plaintext), waiting a different random amount of time, downloading the new cert (again usually sent via plaintext email), and finally copying it over the old cert and reloading the SSL conf ... now that costs some serious time and time <i>is</i> money.</text></comment> | <story><title>Milestone: 100M Certificates Issued</title><url>https://letsencrypt.org/2017/06/28/hundred-million-certs.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jagermo</author><text>I think they nail their point with &quot;it illustrates the strong demand for our services.&quot;<p>Letsencrypt is cheap (free) and easy to use.<p>Even people with not a lot experience can secure their sites and apps, and it just works. Yes, you have to update it every three months, but that&#x27;s worth the price and the excellent documentation.<p>Before letsencrypt I always wanted to secure my blog with https but never got around to it or it just looked super complicated and error prone.<p>Then, my provider built its own tool for LE and its just so easy to implement.</text></comment> |
22,283,447 | 22,281,664 | 1 | 3 | 22,280,433 | train | <story><title>Google's expansion plans show why Canada's tech boom is here to stay</title><url>https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/google-canada-expansion-analysis-1.5455122</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Sytten</author><text>Tech salaries in Canada are very low and I really hope this will raise the bar for everybody. Most of the talent (outside of Quebec) migrates south of the border at some point, because it makes no financial sense to stay. Innovation outside of Toronto is low&#x2F;inexistent and it is hard to get funding. I am always amazed when founders make the national news here when they raise 1-2M$ CAD. At the same time, you have CEOs complaining that the video game industry is poaching dev unfairly (because the salaries are subsidized) instead of raising their own salaries... It really is a sad state. It might be due to the fact that we have a culture of small&#x2F;medium businesses that are very slow to adopt new technologies and a mentally of what we called in french &quot;born for small bread&quot;. At the same time, since nobody is really making a lot of money you also have a more equal society leading to a better quality of life IMO (less crime, more generosity, etc).<p>As a new grad myself, I am in this situation where I get offers of &gt;120k USD if I move to SV with a growth potential (both in technical and financial terms) far better than what I can get here. In Quebec (where I live), I saw most of my peers stay around and accept salaries ranging from 65k CAD to 80k CAD (50k-61k USD). From what I know, an average senior can expect 120-130k CAD in Montreal. The only way to make more is by being a consultant, which is why you see a lot of them around here (for better or worse). I would feel a bit guilty to move to the US right now considering I got basically a free education and I do want to contribute back to society.</text></comment> | <story><title>Google's expansion plans show why Canada's tech boom is here to stay</title><url>https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/google-canada-expansion-analysis-1.5455122</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jariel</author><text>As a Candian, it seems to me so very pathetically and predictably Canadian to literally herald the surrender of your own industries to foreign takeover.<p>Canada is (often) to tech what Mexico is to cars.<p>Mexican &#x27;assembly&#x27; of cars is fine and good, but they don&#x27;t exactly move up the value chain from there.<p>Canada produces a lot of decent tech people, who will work for 2&#x2F;3 the wages, unfortunately, this doesn&#x27;t map to a successful entrepreneurial climate. Now, that&#x27;s a hard thing to contemplate, as &#x27;nobody&#x27; can really compete with SV at their own game, but it&#x27;s disingenuous in the least to farm out labor and compare that activity with those doing much of the higher-level work, and most importantly: controlling the profits.<p>Maybe the Mexico analogy goes a little bit too far, as there are tech startups and a few decent companies in Toronto, by and large, but they have serious trouble scaling into anything. To be fair, it&#x27;s not like most US cities are any better. In fact, aside from the weather and lack of charm, Toronto is a &#x27;better all-around city&#x27; than most American cities.<p>But there&#x27;s a serious lack of exceptionalism, and far too many of Toronto&#x27;s best move on to the US, London, or elsewhere.<p>This kind of &#x27;pathetic nationalism&#x27; is why loathe the CBC. It&#x27;s as though they are utterly unaware of the extent to which they extoll mediocrity.<p>Canadians are well educated, get along pretty well, and the &#x27;average person&#x27; in Canada in many ways lives better than the average American, at very least there&#x27;s a lot less calamity, fraud, there&#x27;s full healthcare which isn&#x27;t great but it&#x27;s mostly good.<p>But - on the issue of talent and exceptionalism, it&#x27;s a disaster. We are near the bottom of the OECD it talent and R&amp;D expenditures. Canada sends China &#x27;raw materials&#x27; and they send us back finished goods: this is the opposite of &#x27;first world&#x2F;developing world&#x27; trading norm.<p>We should not be hailing mediocrity as a victory. It&#x27;s nice to have jobs, but there is no Valley of the North.</text></comment> |
20,074,923 | 20,075,009 | 1 | 2 | 20,067,693 | train | <story><title>Perl 6's given: switch on steroids</title><url>https://tenesianu.blogspot.com/2019/05/perl-6s-given-switch-on-steroids.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>cracauer</author><text>Of course if you&#x27;d use Lisp in the first place you could make a new syntax to input those things in the visually safest manner without waiting for a language revision.<p>Compile-time computing is precisely about this, e.g.
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;medium.com&#x2F;@MartinCracauer&#x2F;a-gentle-introduction-to-compile-time-computing-part-3-scientific-units-8e41d8a727ca" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;medium.com&#x2F;@MartinCracauer&#x2F;a-gentle-introduction-to-...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dan-robertson</author><text>Perl 6 includes the ability to modify the grammar and parser on the fly in a way which is much more convenient than reader macros in Common Lisp (and different to macros in CL). Saying “new syntax” is also slightly disingenuous because the only convenient new syntax available is made of parens.<p>That said, this isn’t really an article about syntax but how several language features fit together.<p>Making something slightly similar in CL could be something like:<p><pre><code> (defmacro with (it &amp;body body)
`(let ((it ,it)) (block nil ,@body)))
(defmacro having (condition &amp;body body)
`(if (smart-match ,condition it)
(return-from nil (progn ,@body))
(values)))
(defgeneric smart-match (matcher thing))
...
</code></pre>
But this makes the behaviour of `having` a bit weird.<p>I feel like this article is much more about how certain perl6 features compose nicely together (in particular smart matching, $_, expressions returning values) in a way that the existing features of given and when compose to give a useful switch mechanism for free.</text></comment> | <story><title>Perl 6's given: switch on steroids</title><url>https://tenesianu.blogspot.com/2019/05/perl-6s-given-switch-on-steroids.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>cracauer</author><text>Of course if you&#x27;d use Lisp in the first place you could make a new syntax to input those things in the visually safest manner without waiting for a language revision.<p>Compile-time computing is precisely about this, e.g.
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;medium.com&#x2F;@MartinCracauer&#x2F;a-gentle-introduction-to-compile-time-computing-part-3-scientific-units-8e41d8a727ca" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;medium.com&#x2F;@MartinCracauer&#x2F;a-gentle-introduction-to-...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>sametmax</author><text>And of course, your code base will end up riddled with those untested, undocumented customizations. People getting into it will hate you for it, and you will look at them with a smug face, stating how they don&#x27;t get the power of a true language.<p>There is a reason Lisp based languages are not more popular: most people don&#x27;t want to learn a new language every time they work on a new project.</text></comment> |
31,918,897 | 31,917,667 | 1 | 3 | 31,905,771 | train | <story><title>Automated PDF Reports with Python Notebooks</title><url>https://mljar.com/blog/automated-reports-python/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>apwheele</author><text>FYI for folks if you want to convert jupyter notebooks to html you can use nbconvert:<p><pre><code> jupyter nbconvert --execute example_report.ipynb --no-input --to html
</code></pre>
I have never been able to get a nice looking report in both html&#x2F;PDF though via the tools to print html to PDF (as opposed to building a nice looking PDF doc using LaTeX directly). So default just worry about making the html look nice.</text></comment> | <story><title>Automated PDF Reports with Python Notebooks</title><url>https://mljar.com/blog/automated-reports-python/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>pplonski86</author><text>Hey! Author here. I&#x27;m working on open-source framework called Mercury. I&#x27;m building it to make notebooks sharing easy, especially with non-technical users. The Mercury can turn Python notebook to web application, dashboard, presentation, REST API or report. It has option to easily hide the code, schedule automatic execution, convert to PDF, and send email notifications. The Github repo: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;mljar&#x2F;mercury" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;mljar&#x2F;mercury</a></text></comment> |
23,056,464 | 23,056,492 | 1 | 2 | 23,056,101 | train | <story><title>Oil's Collapse Is a Geopolitical Reset in Disguise</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2020-04-29/covid-19-oil-collapse-is-geopolitical-reset-in-disguise</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>xiaolingxiao</author><text>I found this part really interesting:
&quot;For dozens of oil producers, the plunge in oil prices is devastating. No major oil producer can balance its budget at prices below $40; according to the International Monetary Fund, with the exception of Qatar, every country in the Middle East requires at least $60, with Algeria at $157 and Iran at a whopping $390. The average Brent price of oil over the past month has been a hair above $20.&quot;<p>It&#x27;s fascinating the cost of extracting oil is so high in Iran in particular, a country that is under constant sanction by the US. I wonder how much of the cost is due to the sanctions and disturbance in trade (ie Iran cannot import key technologies), and how much of it is because Iran&#x27;s oil deposits is just &quot;harder&quot; to drill.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mbreese</author><text>&gt; the cost of extracting oil is so high in Iran<p>I think you might be reading that wrong. It isn’t that the cost of extracting the oil
is so high, but that the budgets of these countries depends on the price of oil being high. When the price drops, they can no longer cover their entire budget and will need to borrow or reduce their spending.<p>These numbers aren’t related to the cost of extraction (which is a different issue but is also variable between different regions).</text></comment> | <story><title>Oil's Collapse Is a Geopolitical Reset in Disguise</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2020-04-29/covid-19-oil-collapse-is-geopolitical-reset-in-disguise</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>xiaolingxiao</author><text>I found this part really interesting:
&quot;For dozens of oil producers, the plunge in oil prices is devastating. No major oil producer can balance its budget at prices below $40; according to the International Monetary Fund, with the exception of Qatar, every country in the Middle East requires at least $60, with Algeria at $157 and Iran at a whopping $390. The average Brent price of oil over the past month has been a hair above $20.&quot;<p>It&#x27;s fascinating the cost of extracting oil is so high in Iran in particular, a country that is under constant sanction by the US. I wonder how much of the cost is due to the sanctions and disturbance in trade (ie Iran cannot import key technologies), and how much of it is because Iran&#x27;s oil deposits is just &quot;harder&quot; to drill.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rckoepke</author><text>Iran&#x27;s oil is not expensive to extract. These aren&#x27;t marginal break-even prices on each barrel of oil...rather they&#x27;re how much their current oil production would have to be sold for in order to balance their national budget, which includes defense and healthcare and whatnot.<p>79% of Iran&#x27;s exports are unrefined crude oil: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;commons.wikimedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;File:Islamic_Republic_of_Iran_Exports_Treemap_2017.svg" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;commons.wikimedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;File:Islamic_Republic_of_...</a> (edited to 2017)<p>Countries typically &quot;go bankrupt&quot; in a practical sense (with very noticeable real-world effects on the local citizens) when their foreign reserves run out.</text></comment> |
35,529,974 | 35,529,800 | 1 | 2 | 35,526,846 | train | <story><title>SQL Maxis: Why We Ditched RabbitMQ and Replaced It with a Postgres Queue</title><url>https://www.prequel.co/blog/sql-maxis-why-we-ditched-rabbitmq-and-replaced-it-with-a-postgres-queue</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ryanjshaw</author><text>&gt; I&#x27;ve never seen this in years of dealing with RabbitMQ.<p>Did you do long running jobs like they did? It&#x27;s a stereotype, but I don&#x27;t think they used the technology correctly here -- you&#x27;re not supposed to hold onto messages for <i>hours</i> before acknowledging. They should have used RabbitMQ just to kick off the job, immediately ACKing the request, and job tracking&#x2F;completion handled inside... a database.</text></item><item><author>mark242</author><text>In summary -- their RabbitMQ consumer library and config is broken in that their consumers are fetching additional messages when they shouldn&#x27;t. I&#x27;ve never seen this in years of dealing with RabbitMQ. This caused a cascading failure in that consumers were unable to grab messages, rightfully, when only one of the messages was manually ack&#x27;ed. Fixing this one fetch issue with their consumer would have fixed the entire problem. Switching to pg probably caused them to rewrite their message fetching code, which probably fixed the underlying issue.<p>It ultimately doesn&#x27;t matter because of the low volume they&#x27;re dealing with, but gang, &quot;just slap a queue on it&quot; gets you the same results as &quot;just slap a cache on it&quot; if you don&#x27;t understand the tool you&#x27;re working with. If they knew that some jobs would take hours and some jobs would take seconds, why would you not immediately spin up four queues. Two for the short jobs (one acting as a DLQ), and two for the long jobs (again, one acting as a DLQ). Your DLQ queues have a low TTL, and on expiration those messages get placed back onto the tail of the original queues. Any failure by your consumer, and that message gets dropped onto the DLQ and your overall throughput is determined by the number * velocity of your consumers, and not on your queue architecture.<p>This pg queue will last a very long time for them. Great! They&#x27;re willing to give up the easy fanout architecture for simplicity, which again at their volume, sure, that&#x27;s a valid trade. At higher volumes, they should go back to the drawing board.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mark242</author><text>The short answer is &quot;yes&quot; but the questions that you should be asking are: A) How long am I willing to block the queue for additional consumers, B) How committed am I to getting close to exactly-once processing, and C) how tolerant of consumer failure should I be? Depending on the answer to those three questions is what drives your queue architecture. Note that this has nothing to do with time spent processing messages or &quot;long running jobs&quot;.<p>Assume that your producers will be able to spike and generate messages faster than your consumers can process them. This is normal! This is why you have a queue in the first place! If your jobs take 5 seconds or 5 hours, your strategy is influenced by the answers to those three questions. For example -- if you&#x27;re willing to drop a message if a consumer gets power-cycled, then yeah, you&#x27;d immediately ack the request and put it back onto a dead letter queue if your consumer runs into an exception. Alternatively, if you&#x27;re unwilling to block and you want to be very tolerant of consumer failure, you&#x27;d fan out your queues and have your consumers checking multiple queues in parallel. Etc etc etc, you get the drift.<p>Keep in mind also that this isn&#x27;t specific to RabbitMQ! You&#x27;d want to answer the same questions if you were using SQS, or if you were using Kafka, or if you were using 0mq, or if you were using Redis queues, or if you were using pg queues.</text></comment> | <story><title>SQL Maxis: Why We Ditched RabbitMQ and Replaced It with a Postgres Queue</title><url>https://www.prequel.co/blog/sql-maxis-why-we-ditched-rabbitmq-and-replaced-it-with-a-postgres-queue</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ryanjshaw</author><text>&gt; I&#x27;ve never seen this in years of dealing with RabbitMQ.<p>Did you do long running jobs like they did? It&#x27;s a stereotype, but I don&#x27;t think they used the technology correctly here -- you&#x27;re not supposed to hold onto messages for <i>hours</i> before acknowledging. They should have used RabbitMQ just to kick off the job, immediately ACKing the request, and job tracking&#x2F;completion handled inside... a database.</text></item><item><author>mark242</author><text>In summary -- their RabbitMQ consumer library and config is broken in that their consumers are fetching additional messages when they shouldn&#x27;t. I&#x27;ve never seen this in years of dealing with RabbitMQ. This caused a cascading failure in that consumers were unable to grab messages, rightfully, when only one of the messages was manually ack&#x27;ed. Fixing this one fetch issue with their consumer would have fixed the entire problem. Switching to pg probably caused them to rewrite their message fetching code, which probably fixed the underlying issue.<p>It ultimately doesn&#x27;t matter because of the low volume they&#x27;re dealing with, but gang, &quot;just slap a queue on it&quot; gets you the same results as &quot;just slap a cache on it&quot; if you don&#x27;t understand the tool you&#x27;re working with. If they knew that some jobs would take hours and some jobs would take seconds, why would you not immediately spin up four queues. Two for the short jobs (one acting as a DLQ), and two for the long jobs (again, one acting as a DLQ). Your DLQ queues have a low TTL, and on expiration those messages get placed back onto the tail of the original queues. Any failure by your consumer, and that message gets dropped onto the DLQ and your overall throughput is determined by the number * velocity of your consumers, and not on your queue architecture.<p>This pg queue will last a very long time for them. Great! They&#x27;re willing to give up the easy fanout architecture for simplicity, which again at their volume, sure, that&#x27;s a valid trade. At higher volumes, they should go back to the drawing board.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>xahrepap</author><text>I’ve used RabbitMq to do long running jobs. Jobs that take hours and hours to complete. Occasionally even 1-2 days.<p>It did take some configuring to get it working. Between acking appropriately and the prefetch (qos perhaps? Can’t remember, don’t have it in front of me). We were able to make it work. It was pretty straightforward it never even crossed my mind that this isn’t a correct use case for RMQ.<p>(Used the Java client.)</text></comment> |
33,183,332 | 33,183,236 | 1 | 2 | 33,182,911 | train | <story><title>87% of American teens own an iPhone; 88% expect an iPhone to be their next phone</title><url>https://www.pipersandler.com/1col.aspx?id=6216</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>nsxwolf</author><text>Given the iPhone&#x27;s marketshare, is it RCS really the industry standard?</text></item><item><author>m348e912</author><text>(iPhone user here) It does seem to me that Apple isn&#x27;t playing fair and this is no longer the technical issue it once was. Apple has so far refused to adopt RCS (the successor to SMS and MMS) which is now an industry standard for text messaging. Because of that, aside from the green bubble, the text messaging experience with non-iPhone users is subpar. Images and videos are compressed and things like tapback and group texts just stink.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.android.com&#x2F;get-the-message&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.android.com&#x2F;get-the-message&#x2F;</a></text></item><item><author>rsync</author><text>My two oldest children - 13 and 15 - have <i>loudly</i> proclaimed that having a &quot;green bubble&quot; would be <i>worse than death</i>.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>onlyrealcuzzo</author><text>Android is ~72% of the global market: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gs.statcounter.com&#x2F;os-market-share&#x2F;mobile" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gs.statcounter.com&#x2F;os-market-share&#x2F;mobile</a><p>So, yes.</text></comment> | <story><title>87% of American teens own an iPhone; 88% expect an iPhone to be their next phone</title><url>https://www.pipersandler.com/1col.aspx?id=6216</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>nsxwolf</author><text>Given the iPhone&#x27;s marketshare, is it RCS really the industry standard?</text></item><item><author>m348e912</author><text>(iPhone user here) It does seem to me that Apple isn&#x27;t playing fair and this is no longer the technical issue it once was. Apple has so far refused to adopt RCS (the successor to SMS and MMS) which is now an industry standard for text messaging. Because of that, aside from the green bubble, the text messaging experience with non-iPhone users is subpar. Images and videos are compressed and things like tapback and group texts just stink.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.android.com&#x2F;get-the-message&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.android.com&#x2F;get-the-message&#x2F;</a></text></item><item><author>rsync</author><text>My two oldest children - 13 and 15 - have <i>loudly</i> proclaimed that having a &quot;green bubble&quot; would be <i>worse than death</i>.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>lijogdfljk</author><text>Does the iPhone have a standard that other phones could adopt? Ie is your argument that Apple has been pushing an alternate standard, but Google is rejecting it? If so what is it?</text></comment> |
18,291,636 | 18,289,937 | 1 | 3 | 18,287,187 | train | <story><title>Lack of progress exposed by the Canary MacGuffin</title><url>https://rachelbythebay.com/w/2018/10/23/idle/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>teilo</author><text>This is what immediately came to mind. The OA missed the fourth reason why his Canary McGuffin wasn&#x27;t touched: Maybe you, who gave the task, haven&#x27;t clearly communicated the problem, or the solution you are looking for. Now who is to blame in that circumstance?<p>Presuming it&#x27;s not an issue of laziness, or incompetence, or of higher priorities trumping your request, why are you looking at your McGuffin instead of communicating with the person you assigned the task?</text></item><item><author>brobdingnagians</author><text>I find it rather humorous in reading the comments that this seems to have hit an interesting nerve, viz. being asked to perform [stupid] tasks for someone else and then being monitored and reminded intermittently in a passive way without clear communication.<p>Sometimes there are good and important tasks whose importance is clearly communicated, but which go undone. But, in my experience, the majority of tasks like this might need to be either (1) better specified so that they can actually be understood and completed or (2) communicate better what the importance of the task is with an honest evaluation by both people and comparing to the value of other workload priorities at present.<p>We have a tendency to believe that our task is the most important one right now, and that our ideas are the best ideas, without understanding what someone else is really doing and without taking an objective look at why something else could be more valuable.<p>We can use that ourselves when we try to assign tasks to others. Are we being fair to them, their priorities, and their workload? Maybe our task isn&#x27;t all that important? Maybe we can communicate better with them to understand the totality of what they value, or maybe what they think a better alternative to our task would be. After all, Alexander the Great asked his troops if they had any ideas for strategies... and he won a lot.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>vidarh</author><text>The <i>starting point</i> of the article is that she discovered a communications issue: For whatever reason her counterpart is giving misleading responses when she thought she was communicating with them.<p>The point is that this &quot;canary McGuffin&quot; revealed there was an issue that talking to them didn&#x27;t. That issue might be all kinds of things, including poor communication prior, but that&#x27;s incidental to the fact that having an idea of how the tasks should proceed means you have a non-intrusive way of checking if their communication means what you think it does.</text></comment> | <story><title>Lack of progress exposed by the Canary MacGuffin</title><url>https://rachelbythebay.com/w/2018/10/23/idle/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>teilo</author><text>This is what immediately came to mind. The OA missed the fourth reason why his Canary McGuffin wasn&#x27;t touched: Maybe you, who gave the task, haven&#x27;t clearly communicated the problem, or the solution you are looking for. Now who is to blame in that circumstance?<p>Presuming it&#x27;s not an issue of laziness, or incompetence, or of higher priorities trumping your request, why are you looking at your McGuffin instead of communicating with the person you assigned the task?</text></item><item><author>brobdingnagians</author><text>I find it rather humorous in reading the comments that this seems to have hit an interesting nerve, viz. being asked to perform [stupid] tasks for someone else and then being monitored and reminded intermittently in a passive way without clear communication.<p>Sometimes there are good and important tasks whose importance is clearly communicated, but which go undone. But, in my experience, the majority of tasks like this might need to be either (1) better specified so that they can actually be understood and completed or (2) communicate better what the importance of the task is with an honest evaluation by both people and comparing to the value of other workload priorities at present.<p>We have a tendency to believe that our task is the most important one right now, and that our ideas are the best ideas, without understanding what someone else is really doing and without taking an objective look at why something else could be more valuable.<p>We can use that ourselves when we try to assign tasks to others. Are we being fair to them, their priorities, and their workload? Maybe our task isn&#x27;t all that important? Maybe we can communicate better with them to understand the totality of what they value, or maybe what they think a better alternative to our task would be. After all, Alexander the Great asked his troops if they had any ideas for strategies... and he won a lot.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>taneq</author><text>Same, my thoughts went straight to the quest giver. After receiving a response of &quot;getting there&quot; or &quot;it&#x27;s tricky&quot; for the third time, rather than sitting back and smugly speculating on the deficiencies of the adventurer while &quot;nothing happens&quot;, maybe they should have asked &quot;what&#x27;s the problem?&quot;<p>I&#x27;m seeing a bit of a pattern in these blog posts, where the author is more interested in proving their superiority over others than in actually getting stuff done.</text></comment> |
18,155,981 | 18,155,831 | 1 | 2 | 18,155,517 | train | <story><title>Supply Chain Security Is the Whole Enchilada, but Who’s Willing to Pay for It?</title><url>https://krebsonsecurity.com/2018/10/supply-chain-security-is-the-whole-enchilada-but-whos-willing-to-pay-for-it/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>dev_dull</author><text>I’m not a protectionist, but we need to start looking USA-based semiconductor supply capacity as a national security imperative. We should never lose our ability to manufacture these critical components, even it means policies that might be viewed as “protectionist”.</text></comment> | <story><title>Supply Chain Security Is the Whole Enchilada, but Who’s Willing to Pay for It?</title><url>https://krebsonsecurity.com/2018/10/supply-chain-security-is-the-whole-enchilada-but-whos-willing-to-pay-for-it/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>nickpsecurity</author><text>The DOD has been paying it through the Trusted Foundry Program. Probably not enough use of that, though. ;)<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.dmea.osd.mil&#x2F;trustedic.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.dmea.osd.mil&#x2F;trustedic.html</a></text></comment> |
16,442,729 | 16,442,159 | 1 | 2 | 16,437,973 | train | <story><title>Hacker News's Undocumented Features and Behaviors</title><url>https://github.com/minimaxir/hacker-news-undocumented</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dkoubsky</author><text>The amount of civility on HN is almost unbelievable. The behavior of the users is one of the HN&#x27;s biggest strengths.</text></item><item><author>rweba</author><text>More and more websites are getting rid of user comments on their websites. Just in the last couple of months the National Review and The Atlantic have got rid of comments.<p>In simple terms they couldn&#x27;t keep up with comment moderation and were not able or willing to invest in enough moderators.<p>So I have to give credit to HN to having one of the most civil comment sections on the internet. What I like about HN is that the comments VERY RARELY descend into the inevitable political sniping that seems to happen almost everywhere else on the internet, even when discussing controversial topics like Trump, and even the percentage of snarky and dismissive comments is kept pretty low.<p>So, keep it up, dang and sctb!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bjelkeman-again</author><text>I wonder if the idea that you may be interviewing or be interviewed by any of the people you are conversing with means that one “behaves” better?<p>I am convinced that the combination of voting up good comments with strict, clear and fair moderation is an important reason. Add to this that reputation among peers may matter to people and maybe that is the formula.</text></comment> | <story><title>Hacker News's Undocumented Features and Behaviors</title><url>https://github.com/minimaxir/hacker-news-undocumented</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dkoubsky</author><text>The amount of civility on HN is almost unbelievable. The behavior of the users is one of the HN&#x27;s biggest strengths.</text></item><item><author>rweba</author><text>More and more websites are getting rid of user comments on their websites. Just in the last couple of months the National Review and The Atlantic have got rid of comments.<p>In simple terms they couldn&#x27;t keep up with comment moderation and were not able or willing to invest in enough moderators.<p>So I have to give credit to HN to having one of the most civil comment sections on the internet. What I like about HN is that the comments VERY RARELY descend into the inevitable political sniping that seems to happen almost everywhere else on the internet, even when discussing controversial topics like Trump, and even the percentage of snarky and dismissive comments is kept pretty low.<p>So, keep it up, dang and sctb!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mygo</author><text>I once said something slightly political and my comment was downvoted into oblivion.<p>So that helps.</text></comment> |
20,869,384 | 20,868,398 | 1 | 3 | 20,866,319 | train | <story><title>Why the Amazon Basics Keyboard Is My Favorite Keyboard</title><url>https://nickjanetakis.com/blog/why-the-amazon-basics-keyboard-is-my-favorite-keyboard</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>whitehouse3</author><text>You&#x27;re right. I bought a $250 Leopold FC660C to combat repetitive strain injury, because my doctor said to minimize the distance between the home row and my mouse pad. But most less-expensive 60% (&quot;ten key-less&quot;) boards either lack arrow keys or have obnoxious, loud switches. These weren&#x27;t feasible because I use arrow keys all the time for Visual Studio and I work in open-office hell. The Leopold has quiet Topre switches.<p>I&#x27;d buy a $15 keyboard in a heartbeat if it wouldn&#x27;t hurt my wrists. But for me, the Leopold is a medical device. I would have paid twice as much for it, which has nothing to do with the key switches at all.<p>In fact, I did pay 2x for it because I bought one for my home system as well.</text></item><item><author>notus</author><text>Most engineers with jobs aren&#x27;t making compromises on the price when their goal is comfort and usability.</text></item><item><author>simonsarris</author><text>Which decent mechanical keyboard has the feature of being $14.50?</text></item><item><author>pteraspidomorph</author><text>That&#x27;s what I was thinking. Any decent mechanical keyboard has all of these features and more, and the sound the keys make depends on the switches, of which there are many different types. Some switches are designed to be loud (like the MX Blues) but you don&#x27;t have to use them.<p>I usually find that people who disparage mechanical keyboards do not actually know a lot about mechanical keyboards...</text></item><item><author>vladharbuz</author><text>&gt; Jokes aside, I totally understand the appeal of mechanical keyboards. I’ve used them and it is satisfying to hear that clickity-click sound and the keys do feel amazing but that just doesn’t work for me due to being on so many pair programming calls and recording video courses.<p>I don&#x27;t like it when people equate mechanical keyboards to loudness. They don&#x27;t have to be loud! My keyboard has MX Clear switches which are not loud in the slightest, and I personally think they feel miles better than any non-mechanical keyboard I&#x27;ve used.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Symbiote</author><text>Both my Microsoft and Logitech ergonomic keyboards are wearing out, so I spent some time last week looking for a replacement. Logitech seem no longer to make one, and Microsoft&#x27;s has laptop keys, which I find very uncomfortable.<p>This site [1] has a quick gallery, and this[2] Github page a lot more (including many niche or kit ones). The Kinesis Freestyle &lt;whatever&gt; looked like a good option, but I decided to try one of the nerdy ones, so I&#x27;ve ordered a VE.A clone from AliExpress.<p>I found both of these pages through the &#x2F;r&#x2F;MechanicalKeyboards wiki [3]. That community has a lot of posts and comments of people showing off gamer&#x2F;geek&#x2F;nerd stuff, but also seems to give reasonable advice to &quot;normal&quot; people wanting advice.<p>[1] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;xahlee.info&#x2F;kbd&#x2F;ergonomic_keyboards_index.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;xahlee.info&#x2F;kbd&#x2F;ergonomic_keyboards_index.html</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;diimdeep&#x2F;awesome-split-keyboards&#x2F;blob&#x2F;master&#x2F;README.md" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;diimdeep&#x2F;awesome-split-keyboards&#x2F;blob&#x2F;mas...</a><p>[3] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;MechanicalKeyboards&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;buying_guide" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;MechanicalKeyboards&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;buying_gui...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Why the Amazon Basics Keyboard Is My Favorite Keyboard</title><url>https://nickjanetakis.com/blog/why-the-amazon-basics-keyboard-is-my-favorite-keyboard</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>whitehouse3</author><text>You&#x27;re right. I bought a $250 Leopold FC660C to combat repetitive strain injury, because my doctor said to minimize the distance between the home row and my mouse pad. But most less-expensive 60% (&quot;ten key-less&quot;) boards either lack arrow keys or have obnoxious, loud switches. These weren&#x27;t feasible because I use arrow keys all the time for Visual Studio and I work in open-office hell. The Leopold has quiet Topre switches.<p>I&#x27;d buy a $15 keyboard in a heartbeat if it wouldn&#x27;t hurt my wrists. But for me, the Leopold is a medical device. I would have paid twice as much for it, which has nothing to do with the key switches at all.<p>In fact, I did pay 2x for it because I bought one for my home system as well.</text></item><item><author>notus</author><text>Most engineers with jobs aren&#x27;t making compromises on the price when their goal is comfort and usability.</text></item><item><author>simonsarris</author><text>Which decent mechanical keyboard has the feature of being $14.50?</text></item><item><author>pteraspidomorph</author><text>That&#x27;s what I was thinking. Any decent mechanical keyboard has all of these features and more, and the sound the keys make depends on the switches, of which there are many different types. Some switches are designed to be loud (like the MX Blues) but you don&#x27;t have to use them.<p>I usually find that people who disparage mechanical keyboards do not actually know a lot about mechanical keyboards...</text></item><item><author>vladharbuz</author><text>&gt; Jokes aside, I totally understand the appeal of mechanical keyboards. I’ve used them and it is satisfying to hear that clickity-click sound and the keys do feel amazing but that just doesn’t work for me due to being on so many pair programming calls and recording video courses.<p>I don&#x27;t like it when people equate mechanical keyboards to loudness. They don&#x27;t have to be loud! My keyboard has MX Clear switches which are not loud in the slightest, and I personally think they feel miles better than any non-mechanical keyboard I&#x27;ve used.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>wilsonnb3</author><text>For what it&#x27;s worth there are many cheaper options that would work for you.<p>For anyone else looking to reduce the distance between mousepad and keyboard, this size is usually called 84-key, 75%, or 80%. They have all of the keys that a tenkeyless has but laid out in such a way that the keyboard is significantly less wide.<p>this one is relatively cheap (they used to sell an even cheaper one that I currently own, which has off brand switched instead of cherry mx)<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.amazon.com&#x2F;DREVO-Excalibur-Mechanical-Keyboard-Specially&#x2F;dp&#x2F;B01N6GBUQE&#x2F;ref=sr_1_3?keywords=drevo+84&amp;qid=1567528824&amp;s=gateway&amp;sr=8-3" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.amazon.com&#x2F;DREVO-Excalibur-Mechanical-Keyboard-S...</a></text></comment> |
36,708,067 | 36,705,075 | 1 | 3 | 36,702,911 | train | <story><title>Recreate the cavity-preventing GMO bacteria BCS3-L1 from precursor</title><url>https://manifund.org/projects/recreate-the-cavity-preventing-gmo-bacteria-bcs3-l1-from-precursor-</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>hrkfmud50k</author><text>&gt; After a single application, this strain persists in the mouth indefinitely, hedging out cavity-causing bacteria<p>&gt; but the developing company declined to go to market, and instead pivoted to selling once-daily probiotic mouthwash.<p>sounds like they preferred to sell a recurring subscription vs a one-time sale</text></item><item><author>rudyfink</author><text>Why do you think the company never took it to market past testing?<p>And thank you for looking into this. I recall reading about experiments on the modified bacteria years ago, but then I forgot about it. Until I read your page, I had not realized it died on the vine.</text></item><item><author>akrolsmir</author><text>Oh wow -- totally didn&#x27;t expect one of our grant proposals to be trending on HN! I&#x27;m Austin, cofounder at Manifund; we just launched our regranting program last week (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;forum.effectivealtruism.org&#x2F;posts&#x2F;RMXctNAksBgXgoszY&#x2F;announcing-manifund-regrants" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;forum.effectivealtruism.org&#x2F;posts&#x2F;RMXctNAksBgXgoszY&#x2F;...</a>) and are currently looking out for cool grants (like this one!) to fund.<p>Happy to answer any questions!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>0cVlTeIATBs</author><text>&quot;Goldman Sachs asks in biotech research report: ‘Is curing patients a sustainable business model?’&quot;<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cnbc.com&#x2F;2018&#x2F;04&#x2F;11&#x2F;goldman-asks-is-curing-patients-a-sustainable-business-model.html" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cnbc.com&#x2F;2018&#x2F;04&#x2F;11&#x2F;goldman-asks-is-curing-patie...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Recreate the cavity-preventing GMO bacteria BCS3-L1 from precursor</title><url>https://manifund.org/projects/recreate-the-cavity-preventing-gmo-bacteria-bcs3-l1-from-precursor-</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>hrkfmud50k</author><text>&gt; After a single application, this strain persists in the mouth indefinitely, hedging out cavity-causing bacteria<p>&gt; but the developing company declined to go to market, and instead pivoted to selling once-daily probiotic mouthwash.<p>sounds like they preferred to sell a recurring subscription vs a one-time sale</text></item><item><author>rudyfink</author><text>Why do you think the company never took it to market past testing?<p>And thank you for looking into this. I recall reading about experiments on the modified bacteria years ago, but then I forgot about it. Until I read your page, I had not realized it died on the vine.</text></item><item><author>akrolsmir</author><text>Oh wow -- totally didn&#x27;t expect one of our grant proposals to be trending on HN! I&#x27;m Austin, cofounder at Manifund; we just launched our regranting program last week (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;forum.effectivealtruism.org&#x2F;posts&#x2F;RMXctNAksBgXgoszY&#x2F;announcing-manifund-regrants" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;forum.effectivealtruism.org&#x2F;posts&#x2F;RMXctNAksBgXgoszY&#x2F;...</a>) and are currently looking out for cool grants (like this one!) to fund.<p>Happy to answer any questions!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>autoexec</author><text>Here&#x27;s hoping that someday someone who cares more about promoting health than padding wallets will take this idea and use it to bring the masses something they can apply once at a low price.</text></comment> |
16,945,497 | 16,945,229 | 1 | 2 | 16,942,058 | train | <story><title>Interview with CTO and Co-founder of Zapier on Working with Remote Engineers</title><url>https://youteam.io/blog/interview-with-bryan-cto-and-co-founder-of-zapier-on-working-with-remote-engineers/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>bryanh</author><text>Disclaimer: said CTO.<p>Happy to answer any questions — though we definitely don’t presume we have all the answers, we’re constantly learning!<p>We are also hiring remote engineers — <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;zapier.com&#x2F;jobs&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;zapier.com&#x2F;jobs&#x2F;</a>. Would lov to talk to anyone in the JS, k8s, and Python community!</text></comment> | <story><title>Interview with CTO and Co-founder of Zapier on Working with Remote Engineers</title><url>https://youteam.io/blog/interview-with-bryan-cto-and-co-founder-of-zapier-on-working-with-remote-engineers/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>bnchrch</author><text>Anecdotally I&#x27;m finding this shift to remote work in some area&#x27;s fascinating and powerful.<p>My career started only about 5 years ago but over that time each position I&#x27;ve had has either been fully remote or had a remote aspect to it.<p>The company I now work for had a similar start to zapier but with one key difference: the co-founders were opposed to remote work. However the market forces of hiring the right people pushed this venture to become remote and our team is now scattered across North America and Asia.<p>I think we&#x27;re going to continue to see companies moving in this direction and more &quot;remote native&quot; workers like myself come to expect it. Especially after visiting Canggu I don&#x27;t think the trend is going to reverse itself.</text></comment> |
29,177,192 | 29,177,219 | 1 | 2 | 29,175,543 | train | <story><title>Uber, DoorDash and similar firms can’t defy the laws of capitalism after all</title><url>https://www.economist.com/business/uber-doordash-and-similar-firms-cant-defy-the-laws-of-capitalism-after-all/21806198</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>xyzzy21</author><text>Ultimately you can NOT &quot;magically&quot; negate &quot;Last Mile Costs&quot; in cities and towns where the Last Mile path distance is enormous.<p>Did my MBA thesis on this subject with the benefit of 20 years of engineering experience. The numbers simply do not work unless you change how cities and residences are built, which would cost far more than you&#x27;d ever gain from solving Last Mile costs - the breakeven time is of the order of 100-200 years!<p>The VERY WORST are US-style suburbs. The best would be Asian-style urban - which NO US CITY is other than some parts of Manhattan.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>toomuchtodo</author><text>Would love to read your thesis if you’re willing to share.</text></comment> | <story><title>Uber, DoorDash and similar firms can’t defy the laws of capitalism after all</title><url>https://www.economist.com/business/uber-doordash-and-similar-firms-cant-defy-the-laws-of-capitalism-after-all/21806198</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>xyzzy21</author><text>Ultimately you can NOT &quot;magically&quot; negate &quot;Last Mile Costs&quot; in cities and towns where the Last Mile path distance is enormous.<p>Did my MBA thesis on this subject with the benefit of 20 years of engineering experience. The numbers simply do not work unless you change how cities and residences are built, which would cost far more than you&#x27;d ever gain from solving Last Mile costs - the breakeven time is of the order of 100-200 years!<p>The VERY WORST are US-style suburbs. The best would be Asian-style urban - which NO US CITY is other than some parts of Manhattan.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>fumar</author><text>What do you think about last mile delivery robots? <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.kiwibot.com" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.kiwibot.com</a> These little bots don&#x27;t require the same level of human physical presence as Uber or DoorDash.</text></comment> |
14,030,759 | 14,030,698 | 1 | 2 | 14,029,813 | train | <story><title>I was a multi-millionaire by 27–here's what I learned</title><url>http://www.cnbc.com/2017/03/28/i-was-a-multi-millionaire-by-27-heres-what-i-learned.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>anothercomment</author><text>He mentions the &quot;basic necessities being taken care of&quot;, but I just want to mention again that a certain amount of money can make a surprising amount of problems go away. I don&#x27;t think that aspect should be underestimated. As I am scrambling by these days, I often run into these problems.<p>For example recently our dishwasher broke down. I spent a lot of time deciding whether to get it repaired or buy a new one, and then researching the latter. With money I would have saved lots of time by simply buying a medium priced new one off the internet.<p>Health issues, accommodation, travel plans, lots of worries can go away and they wear down people who don&#x27;t have the cash. For example we often stress out about travel plans because we have to book far in advance or it gets too expensive. (I know these sound like luxury problems, but when it is a strain on the marriage it can escalate into real problems quickly).<p>On the other hand, it seems a lot of people feel rich when they aren&#x27;t yet. For example, 5 Million $ doesn&#x27;t seem that rich to me, more like a slightly higher pension prospect.<p>I have friends in the tech industry who have some money (not super rich) and take it slow, not taking into account that one day their needs might change and they might suddenly need a lot more money, and have less opportunities to earn it (for example because they get a family, or health issues).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>holri</author><text>A dishwasher and travel bookings are not basic necessities.<p>When I had no money I did not have a dishwasher at all, but washed by hand.
My travels where in the woods nearby, very relaxing and enjoy full at no cost at all. No booking required.<p>Reading stoic philosophy help me a lot more than money.</text></comment> | <story><title>I was a multi-millionaire by 27–here's what I learned</title><url>http://www.cnbc.com/2017/03/28/i-was-a-multi-millionaire-by-27-heres-what-i-learned.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>anothercomment</author><text>He mentions the &quot;basic necessities being taken care of&quot;, but I just want to mention again that a certain amount of money can make a surprising amount of problems go away. I don&#x27;t think that aspect should be underestimated. As I am scrambling by these days, I often run into these problems.<p>For example recently our dishwasher broke down. I spent a lot of time deciding whether to get it repaired or buy a new one, and then researching the latter. With money I would have saved lots of time by simply buying a medium priced new one off the internet.<p>Health issues, accommodation, travel plans, lots of worries can go away and they wear down people who don&#x27;t have the cash. For example we often stress out about travel plans because we have to book far in advance or it gets too expensive. (I know these sound like luxury problems, but when it is a strain on the marriage it can escalate into real problems quickly).<p>On the other hand, it seems a lot of people feel rich when they aren&#x27;t yet. For example, 5 Million $ doesn&#x27;t seem that rich to me, more like a slightly higher pension prospect.<p>I have friends in the tech industry who have some money (not super rich) and take it slow, not taking into account that one day their needs might change and they might suddenly need a lot more money, and have less opportunities to earn it (for example because they get a family, or health issues).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kelnos</author><text>Agreed, this article really rang hollow to me. I think part of it is that (as he admits), he has&#x2F;had a lot of self-esteem&#x2F;self-worth issues, and his (monetary) wealth got mixed in with that. Because of that, I wouldn&#x27;t be surprised if he looks at money with a negative bias (&quot;having money made me feel worse because it didn&#x27;t fix my self-worth issues, so it must be bad&quot;) to some extent.<p>I wouldn&#x27;t call myself rich, but I also don&#x27;t need to worry too much about money for the moment. That means I don&#x27;t have to make a budget, fret over whether or not I should pay more for a flight with a more convenient itinerary, or be constantly anxious over whether or not I&#x27;d be able to pay for medical bills if I unexpectedly injured myself or got very ill. There are <i>so</i> many people in this world that don&#x27;t have that comfort, and I think it&#x27;s very easy to forget what that feels like once you&#x27;ve achieved a certain amount of wealth. (Hell, it&#x27;s hard for <i>me</i> to really viscerally remember what that feels like.)<p>I think that the &quot;basic needs met&quot; thing is a bit of a fallacy, though I suppose it depends on how you define it. If you have a steady job that pays your bills and puts food on the table for you and your family, you might think you have your basic needs met, but also be stressed out because you don&#x27;t feel like you have enough time in the day to split between your job, family, friends, and hobbies. Or you might feel anxiety over job security. Even having a full year of salary in the bank as a buffer (hardly rich by conventional measures, though sadly most people can&#x27;t manage this) can ease those worries greatly.<p>His comments on fuck-you money were a bit weird, too. I think most people get that fuck-you money isn&#x27;t about being able to literally say &quot;fuck you; fire me if you want&quot; to your boss when you don&#x27;t like a decision he&#x2F;she has made. It&#x27;s just about being able to easily walk away from a job that doesn&#x27;t make you happy -- for whatever reason -- without the pressure of needing to find another one immediately.<p>And then there was the bit about having to hire people to do things for you, and manage your money and possessions, and how all that is a full time job... well, no, it isn&#x27;t a big deal, if you don&#x27;t go down the conspicuous-consumption route. I don&#x27;t have to hire people to take care of my things now, and having more money wouldn&#x27;t magically make that a necessity (or even desirable).</text></comment> |
23,009,576 | 23,009,713 | 1 | 2 | 23,008,633 | train | <story><title>“Amazon is holding over 4.2M dollars, suffocating our business”</title><url>https://sellercentral.amazon.com/forums/t/amazon-is-holding-over-4-2-million-dollars-during-a-pandemic-suffocating-our-business/611187</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>55555</author><text>This basically happens for a good reason. Basically, the potential scam is to sign up to a marketplace and list very popular products at lower prices than everyone else. Then ship empty packages or boxes full of rocks. The marketplace will pay you every few days, and if you are &quot;shipping internationally&quot; they won&#x27;t figure it out for a few weeks. So trust is gained slowly.<p>The real takeaway here is that this guy pays $5,000 USD per month to get a support rep on a platform he sells a million dollars a month worth of goods on, of which it already takes a decent percent, and the support rep can&#x27;t even talk to anyone with any power. This is the dark side of monopolies.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ethanwillis</author><text>Surely the scam doesn&#x27;t last since 2013. Stop making excuses for Amazon, this isn&#x27;t acceptable given the circumstances.<p>There&#x27;s no scam going on here and bringing it up is just a way to take blame away from Amazon and for what end?</text></comment> | <story><title>“Amazon is holding over 4.2M dollars, suffocating our business”</title><url>https://sellercentral.amazon.com/forums/t/amazon-is-holding-over-4-2-million-dollars-during-a-pandemic-suffocating-our-business/611187</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>55555</author><text>This basically happens for a good reason. Basically, the potential scam is to sign up to a marketplace and list very popular products at lower prices than everyone else. Then ship empty packages or boxes full of rocks. The marketplace will pay you every few days, and if you are &quot;shipping internationally&quot; they won&#x27;t figure it out for a few weeks. So trust is gained slowly.<p>The real takeaway here is that this guy pays $5,000 USD per month to get a support rep on a platform he sells a million dollars a month worth of goods on, of which it already takes a decent percent, and the support rep can&#x27;t even talk to anyone with any power. This is the dark side of monopolies.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ehnto</author><text>&gt; This is the dark side of monopolies.<p>Tech monopolies are particularly good at it, online support tickets and &quot;community&quot; forums are fantastic decoys for real support.</text></comment> |
7,291,913 | 7,291,661 | 1 | 3 | 7,290,931 | train | <story><title>IBM to Acquire Cloudant</title><url>http://www-03.ibm.com/press/us/en/pressrelease/43238.wss</url><text></text></story><parent_chain><item><author>rdtsc</author><text>It is funny this kind of came full circle. Damien Katz, the original CouchDB author was working on Lotus Notes as some point in his life. After many years, his &quot;creation&quot; comes back to IBM. There is some irony in there I think.<p>I remember him disavowing CouchDB and urging everyone to &quot;ride with him&quot; towards Couchbase. There were promises about how CouchDB will get contributions from Couchbase, and how it will get RPM and packaging scripts, docs and continued help. But not much of that happened. The community split. Most CouchDB developers who ended up on the other side of the fense at Couchbase didn&#x27;t end up committing or helping that much over the years. So I can&#x27;t see, looking back, anything good at all about that split.<p>But Cloudant sort of took over helping and watching over CouchDB. Quite a few of the contributors work for CouchDB, and they are very smart and helpful individuals. I hope this means good news for CouchDB as a project. I would want to see it grow.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>omh</author><text><i>It is funny this kind of came full circle. Damien Katz, the original CouchDB author was working on Lotus Notes as some point in his life</i><p>It&#x27;s definitely interesting. I can remember people in the Notes community wondering why IBM didn&#x27;t either take CouchDB and use it as a new Notes backend, or alternatively push the existing Notes bits as a mature document-based database.<p>The end quote from Katz&#x27;s &quot;Formula Engine Rewrite&quot; post[1] is interesting:<p>&quot;But ultimately IBM killed Iris. In late 2001 IBM folded Iris Associates and converted all the employees to IBM. All the energy the Iris building had was seeping out. Really it was more pushed out by the BS that IBM management kept trying to sell us...&quot;<p>[1] <a href="http://damienkatz.net/2005/01/formula-engine-rewrite.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;damienkatz.net&#x2F;2005&#x2F;01&#x2F;formula-engine-rewrite.html</a></text></comment> | <story><title>IBM to Acquire Cloudant</title><url>http://www-03.ibm.com/press/us/en/pressrelease/43238.wss</url><text></text></story><parent_chain><item><author>rdtsc</author><text>It is funny this kind of came full circle. Damien Katz, the original CouchDB author was working on Lotus Notes as some point in his life. After many years, his &quot;creation&quot; comes back to IBM. There is some irony in there I think.<p>I remember him disavowing CouchDB and urging everyone to &quot;ride with him&quot; towards Couchbase. There were promises about how CouchDB will get contributions from Couchbase, and how it will get RPM and packaging scripts, docs and continued help. But not much of that happened. The community split. Most CouchDB developers who ended up on the other side of the fense at Couchbase didn&#x27;t end up committing or helping that much over the years. So I can&#x27;t see, looking back, anything good at all about that split.<p>But Cloudant sort of took over helping and watching over CouchDB. Quite a few of the contributors work for CouchDB, and they are very smart and helpful individuals. I hope this means good news for CouchDB as a project. I would want to see it grow.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jchrisa</author><text>At Couchbase we created two open source mobile embedded databases (iOS and Android) that can sync with Apache CouchDB &#x2F; Cloudant &#x2F; PouchDB. Which is no small contribution. Even Cloudant bases thier mobile stuff on that code.<p>More info: <a href="http://mobile.couchbase.com" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;mobile.couchbase.com</a><p>Mailing list: <a href="https://groups.google.com/forum/m/#!forum/mobile-couchbase" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;groups.google.com&#x2F;forum&#x2F;m&#x2F;#!forum&#x2F;mobile-couchbase</a></text></comment> |
8,661,691 | 8,660,753 | 1 | 2 | 8,660,336 | train | <story><title>Permissions asked for by Uber Android app</title><url>http://www.gironsec.com/blog/2014/11/what-the-hell-uber-uncool-bro/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>andymcsherry</author><text>There&#x27;s perfectly reasonable explanation for almost all of these permissions, and there&#x27;s nothing in this analysis that suggests they&#x27;re doing otherwise. The only one that I couldn&#x27;t think of was WRITE_SETTINGS<p>Permissions<p>ACCESS_COARSE_LOCATION &amp; ACCESS_FINE_LOCATION: Fairly obvious, they need to figure out where to pick you up<p>ACCESS_NETWORK_STATE, ACCESS_WIFI_STATE , INTERNET: They need to figure out if you have internet and use it<p>WAKE_LOCK: Keep the network running so you can get real-time updates about your driver<p>GET_ACCOUNTS, USE_CREDENTIALS, MANAGE_ACCOUNTS: For logging in with Google<p>CAMERA: You can take a picture of your credit card for easier entry<p>CALL_PHONE: So you can call your driver<p>MANAGE_ACCOUNTS: So they can add your uber account to your phone<p>READ_CONTACTS: Probably for inviting friends or splitting ride costs<p>READ_PHONE_STATE: Legacy analytics reasons<p>WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE: Probably unnecessary, but they are probably just storing data<p>VIBRATE: For notifications<p>The rest are for push notifications<p>As far as the roottools, I know Crashlytics checks for root so they can provide that data in their console for crashes. It&#x27;s a pretty useful thing to be able to weed crashes from rooted devices out. They usually make very little sense and violate the advertised behavior of the SDK.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Aissen</author><text>So, let me disagree with a few of those:<p>- CAMERA: there&#x27;s an intent for that, you don&#x27;t need the permission, although it will require tapping the &quot;take a photo&quot; and &quot;ok&quot; buttons<p>- CALL_PHONE: ditto, although it will require tapping the dial button.<p>- READ_CONTACTS: again, there&#x27;s an intent for that, allowing you to select only the contacts you want to share with the app.<p>- READ_PHONE_STATE: either they want to be compatible with a very old version of Android, or they want to uniquely identify your phone, permanently. They might also want to know who you&#x27;re calling or who&#x27;s calling you in real time<p>Regarding MANAGE_ACCOUNTS, etc: some apps do that, and it seems to be all the rage. Unless you have multiple apps sharing a common account, I don&#x27;t see the point. It&#x27;s just leaks all your configured accounts on the device.</text></comment> | <story><title>Permissions asked for by Uber Android app</title><url>http://www.gironsec.com/blog/2014/11/what-the-hell-uber-uncool-bro/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>andymcsherry</author><text>There&#x27;s perfectly reasonable explanation for almost all of these permissions, and there&#x27;s nothing in this analysis that suggests they&#x27;re doing otherwise. The only one that I couldn&#x27;t think of was WRITE_SETTINGS<p>Permissions<p>ACCESS_COARSE_LOCATION &amp; ACCESS_FINE_LOCATION: Fairly obvious, they need to figure out where to pick you up<p>ACCESS_NETWORK_STATE, ACCESS_WIFI_STATE , INTERNET: They need to figure out if you have internet and use it<p>WAKE_LOCK: Keep the network running so you can get real-time updates about your driver<p>GET_ACCOUNTS, USE_CREDENTIALS, MANAGE_ACCOUNTS: For logging in with Google<p>CAMERA: You can take a picture of your credit card for easier entry<p>CALL_PHONE: So you can call your driver<p>MANAGE_ACCOUNTS: So they can add your uber account to your phone<p>READ_CONTACTS: Probably for inviting friends or splitting ride costs<p>READ_PHONE_STATE: Legacy analytics reasons<p>WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE: Probably unnecessary, but they are probably just storing data<p>VIBRATE: For notifications<p>The rest are for push notifications<p>As far as the roottools, I know Crashlytics checks for root so they can provide that data in their console for crashes. It&#x27;s a pretty useful thing to be able to weed crashes from rooted devices out. They usually make very little sense and violate the advertised behavior of the SDK.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>MarkMc</author><text>Side note: Wouldn&#x27;t it be good if Google required all apps to explain why each permission is necessary, similar to this?</text></comment> |
11,973,320 | 11,972,383 | 1 | 3 | 11,971,346 | train | <story><title>The FBI Is Classifying Its Tor Browser Exploit</title><url>https://motherboard.vice.com/read/the-fbi-is-classifying-its-tor-browser-exploit</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>f00_</author><text>Why is Tor Browser still using FF instead of Chrome or something?<p>A sandbox is necessary, and I&#x27;m 100% sure there are a ton of 0-days in all browsers.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ikeboy</author><text><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.torproject.org&#x2F;docs&#x2F;faq#TBBOtherBrowser" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.torproject.org&#x2F;docs&#x2F;faq#TBBOtherBrowser</a><p>&gt;Our efforts to work with the Chrome team to add missing APIs were unsuccessful, unfortunately. Currently, it is impossible to use other browsers and get the same level of protections as when using the Tor Browser.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.torproject.org&#x2F;blog&#x2F;google-chrome-incognito-mode-tor-and-fingerprinting" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.torproject.org&#x2F;blog&#x2F;google-chrome-incognito-mod...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>The FBI Is Classifying Its Tor Browser Exploit</title><url>https://motherboard.vice.com/read/the-fbi-is-classifying-its-tor-browser-exploit</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>f00_</author><text>Why is Tor Browser still using FF instead of Chrome or something?<p>A sandbox is necessary, and I&#x27;m 100% sure there are a ton of 0-days in all browsers.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>retox</author><text>I for one would never trust a Google tor client.</text></comment> |
29,882,991 | 29,883,124 | 1 | 2 | 29,880,073 | train | <story><title>T-Mobile begins blocking iPhone users from enabling iCloud Private Relay in US</title><url>https://9to5mac.com/2022/01/10/t-mobile-block-icloud-private-relay/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>finite_jest</author><text>I think you should avoid T-Mobile if you can. Not just as a matter of principle, but also pragmatism. They have an extremely crude SMS censorship&#x2F;anti-spam system [1] which even blocks links to lichess.org, the popular online chess website.<p>They have poor security practices like storing passwords in plaintext [2], and they had a large data breach (probably about 100M customers affected) last year. [3]<p>A̶n̶d̶ ̶n̶o̶w̶,̶ ̶i̶t̶ ̶s̶e̶e̶m̶s̶ ̶t̶h̶e̶y̶ ̶a̶r̶e̶ ̶t̶h̶r̶o̶w̶i̶n̶g̶ ̶i̶n̶ ̶s̶o̶m̶e̶ ̶p̶r̶o̶t̶o̶c̶o̶l̶ ̶b̶l̶o̶c̶k̶i̶n̶g̶ ̶t̶o̶o̶.̶<p>PS: This isn&#x27;t protocol blocking at the packet&#x2F;port level, so I may have used &quot;protocol blocking&quot; a bit inappropriately. Apparently Apple allows the carriers to prevent people from enabling iCloud Private Relay, and T-Mobile is doing that. Apple is probably doing so due to the pressure by the carriers. In August, four carriers (Vodafone, Telefonica, Orange and T-Mobile ) signed a letter urging the European Commission to stop Apple from providing Private Relay. (According to a report by The Telegraph: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;archive.fo&#x2F;BRUS4#selection-915.74-925.194" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;archive.fo&#x2F;BRUS4#selection-915.74-925.194</a>) This, of course, still quite preposterous.<p>[1]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=29744347" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=29744347</a><p>[2]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=16776347" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=16776347</a><p>[3]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=28192423" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=28192423</a> (The first comment by @jonathanmayer has a list of other recent T-Mobile security incidents)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jc_811</author><text>I would love to leave T-Mobile, but they are the only carrier in the US who offers such a core piece of functionality for me: International service included out-of-the-box.<p>I love to travel, and nothing beats being able to land in (pretty much) any country in the world, turn on your phone and have working service just like that. No SIM cards, no different numbers, no local pre-paid cards, and no crazy international fees.<p>As someone who enjoys work&#x2F;travel for weeks to months at a time, every other major carrier is not feasible for this (think 10$&#x2F;day, which becomes unreasonable when you&#x27;re out of the country for 3+ weeks).<p>Unless somebody else could recommend another option it seems I&#x27;m stuck with T-Mobile for now.</text></comment> | <story><title>T-Mobile begins blocking iPhone users from enabling iCloud Private Relay in US</title><url>https://9to5mac.com/2022/01/10/t-mobile-block-icloud-private-relay/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>finite_jest</author><text>I think you should avoid T-Mobile if you can. Not just as a matter of principle, but also pragmatism. They have an extremely crude SMS censorship&#x2F;anti-spam system [1] which even blocks links to lichess.org, the popular online chess website.<p>They have poor security practices like storing passwords in plaintext [2], and they had a large data breach (probably about 100M customers affected) last year. [3]<p>A̶n̶d̶ ̶n̶o̶w̶,̶ ̶i̶t̶ ̶s̶e̶e̶m̶s̶ ̶t̶h̶e̶y̶ ̶a̶r̶e̶ ̶t̶h̶r̶o̶w̶i̶n̶g̶ ̶i̶n̶ ̶s̶o̶m̶e̶ ̶p̶r̶o̶t̶o̶c̶o̶l̶ ̶b̶l̶o̶c̶k̶i̶n̶g̶ ̶t̶o̶o̶.̶<p>PS: This isn&#x27;t protocol blocking at the packet&#x2F;port level, so I may have used &quot;protocol blocking&quot; a bit inappropriately. Apparently Apple allows the carriers to prevent people from enabling iCloud Private Relay, and T-Mobile is doing that. Apple is probably doing so due to the pressure by the carriers. In August, four carriers (Vodafone, Telefonica, Orange and T-Mobile ) signed a letter urging the European Commission to stop Apple from providing Private Relay. (According to a report by The Telegraph: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;archive.fo&#x2F;BRUS4#selection-915.74-925.194" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;archive.fo&#x2F;BRUS4#selection-915.74-925.194</a>) This, of course, still quite preposterous.<p>[1]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=29744347" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=29744347</a><p>[2]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=16776347" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=16776347</a><p>[3]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=28192423" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=28192423</a> (The first comment by @jonathanmayer has a list of other recent T-Mobile security incidents)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>k4ch0w</author><text>And go where? I&#x27;ve had bad experiences with service with AT&amp;T and Verizon in my area, Washington State. It&#x27;s shockingly spotty.</text></comment> |
27,214,190 | 27,214,420 | 1 | 2 | 27,212,239 | train | <story><title>Hetzner has banned crypto mining and Chia farming</title><url>https://twitter.com/Hetzner_Online/status/1394957824749457409</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>phonebanshee</author><text>Want to drive your car? The car vendor is well within their rights to eliminate your ability to drive in certain areas. That&#x27;s just market segmentation.</text></item><item><author>tw04</author><text>As far as I know they aren’t retroactively crippling GPUs. A vendor is well within their rights to artificially limit hardware to create market segmentation. That’s just a fact of doing business. I don’t see anything wrong with it. Want to mine? Buy a mining card or a piece of hardware from some other vendor.</text></item><item><author>gruez</author><text>&gt;No, when you BUY a server you should be able to do what you want with it, including burning up the CPU in a week.<p>Meanwhile in a top voted comment from yesterday&#x27;s thread: &quot;I&#x27;m thrilled by [Nvidia cripples cryptocurrency mining]&quot;: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=27200700" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=27200700</a></text></item><item><author>tw04</author><text>&gt; I understand that. But when I rent a server, I want to be able to use the hardware. That is, if I want to roast the CPU or write to the disks 24&#x2F;7, I should be able to do that, because I rented the full server.<p>No, when you BUY a server you should be able to do what you want with it, including burning up the CPU in a week. When you RENT a server, you get to do exactly what the owner says you can do.</text></item><item><author>MauranKilom</author><text>Not sure if this is of use (since submissions should link to english content in the first place), but here is a rough translation:<p>Joshua:<p>&gt; @Hetzner_online has silently changed their T&amp;C and banned entire IP ranges this morning around 9:20 am. [I] cancelled and moved 50 AX41 in the past 36h. Deeply disappointed, even though the change does not affect me.<p>Hetzner Online GmbH:<p>&gt; Yes it&#x27;s true, we have amended the T&amp;C and forbidden crypto mining. We received many orders for servers with large hard drives. But increasingly large storage boxes are also being rented for this. For storage boxes this leads to problems with the bandwidth of the host systems. For Chia mining, the disks are additionally extremely taxed due to the amount of read and write operations, causing them to break quickly.<p>Joshua:<p>&gt; I understand that. But when I rent a server, I want to be able to use the hardware. That is, if I want to roast the CPU or write to the disks 24&#x2F;7, I should be able to do that, because I rented the full server.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>fuzzylightbulb</author><text>You might be shocked to find out that speed limiters in cars are a thing: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Speed_limiter" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Speed_limiter</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Hetzner has banned crypto mining and Chia farming</title><url>https://twitter.com/Hetzner_Online/status/1394957824749457409</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>phonebanshee</author><text>Want to drive your car? The car vendor is well within their rights to eliminate your ability to drive in certain areas. That&#x27;s just market segmentation.</text></item><item><author>tw04</author><text>As far as I know they aren’t retroactively crippling GPUs. A vendor is well within their rights to artificially limit hardware to create market segmentation. That’s just a fact of doing business. I don’t see anything wrong with it. Want to mine? Buy a mining card or a piece of hardware from some other vendor.</text></item><item><author>gruez</author><text>&gt;No, when you BUY a server you should be able to do what you want with it, including burning up the CPU in a week.<p>Meanwhile in a top voted comment from yesterday&#x27;s thread: &quot;I&#x27;m thrilled by [Nvidia cripples cryptocurrency mining]&quot;: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=27200700" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=27200700</a></text></item><item><author>tw04</author><text>&gt; I understand that. But when I rent a server, I want to be able to use the hardware. That is, if I want to roast the CPU or write to the disks 24&#x2F;7, I should be able to do that, because I rented the full server.<p>No, when you BUY a server you should be able to do what you want with it, including burning up the CPU in a week. When you RENT a server, you get to do exactly what the owner says you can do.</text></item><item><author>MauranKilom</author><text>Not sure if this is of use (since submissions should link to english content in the first place), but here is a rough translation:<p>Joshua:<p>&gt; @Hetzner_online has silently changed their T&amp;C and banned entire IP ranges this morning around 9:20 am. [I] cancelled and moved 50 AX41 in the past 36h. Deeply disappointed, even though the change does not affect me.<p>Hetzner Online GmbH:<p>&gt; Yes it&#x27;s true, we have amended the T&amp;C and forbidden crypto mining. We received many orders for servers with large hard drives. But increasingly large storage boxes are also being rented for this. For storage boxes this leads to problems with the bandwidth of the host systems. For Chia mining, the disks are additionally extremely taxed due to the amount of read and write operations, causing them to break quickly.<p>Joshua:<p>&gt; I understand that. But when I rent a server, I want to be able to use the hardware. That is, if I want to roast the CPU or write to the disks 24&#x2F;7, I should be able to do that, because I rented the full server.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>gamblor956</author><text>Many <i>rental</i> car companies actually do restrict where you can drive your car, for example, by forbidding off-roading, or from taking the car over state or country borders. Most restrict rental cars from being used for commercial purposes (meaning in this context, food deliveries or rideshare services).<p>If you want to treat your car however you like, you can buy a car and abuse it to your heart&#x27;s content.</text></comment> |
11,848,113 | 11,847,288 | 1 | 3 | 11,846,556 | train | <story><title>The tyranny of the Hollerith punched card</title><url>http://pub.gajendra.net/2012/09/hollerith_tyranny</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>lisper</author><text>The article has the causality backwards. We don&#x27;t use 80 characters because that&#x27;s what the Hollerith card used, the Hollerith card used 80 characters because that&#x27;s a good ergonomic width. (Or, if you prefer, the Hollerith card <i>succeeded</i> because it was a good ergonomic width.)<p>Coincidentally (or perhaps ironically) the article itself is formatted for ~80 characters per line, not because it&#x27;s bound by the Hollerith card, but because 80 characters is a good ergonomic width.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kens</author><text>I researched Hollerith cards and 80-character lines in excessive detail while studying card sorters [1]. The Hollerith card is the root cause of 80-character lines, of course. Prior to 1928, Hollerith cards used round holes and 45 characters per card. IBM wanted to fit more data on a card and investigated two alternatives: binary coding so 90 characters could fit into 45 columns of holes, or rectangular holes which allowed narrower holes so 80 columns would fit. They chose the latter because it was more compatible with existing card sorting equipment, and the rest is history. Competitors used 90 column cards, but didn&#x27;t achieve the same success as IBM. IBM later introduced 96-column cards, but they weren&#x27;t as popular. Thus, it&#x27;s just a historical accident that everyone uses 80 columns rather than 90 or 96. And 80 columns is used because that&#x27;s how many could fit on a punched card the size of obsolete US currency. Note that ergonomics has nothing to do with the success of 80 columns: for the most part these cards held accounting data, not program code or text. (I wrote an article covering this in great detail but haven&#x27;t posted it to my blog yet; hopefully I&#x27;ll get it out soon.)<p>[1] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.righto.com&#x2F;2016&#x2F;05&#x2F;inside-card-sorters-1920s-data.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.righto.com&#x2F;2016&#x2F;05&#x2F;inside-card-sorters-1920s-data...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>The tyranny of the Hollerith punched card</title><url>http://pub.gajendra.net/2012/09/hollerith_tyranny</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>lisper</author><text>The article has the causality backwards. We don&#x27;t use 80 characters because that&#x27;s what the Hollerith card used, the Hollerith card used 80 characters because that&#x27;s a good ergonomic width. (Or, if you prefer, the Hollerith card <i>succeeded</i> because it was a good ergonomic width.)<p>Coincidentally (or perhaps ironically) the article itself is formatted for ~80 characters per line, not because it&#x27;s bound by the Hollerith card, but because 80 characters is a good ergonomic width.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>sevensor</author><text>I agree, and I was thinking the same thing as I read the article. Even so, I&#x27;m glad we&#x27;re talking about history. 79 or 81 characters would be pretty much the same. You have to know the history to understand why 80 is a magic number.<p>And why <i>does</i> my terminal window have a baud rate? Why is it so slow?</text></comment> |
35,161,138 | 35,160,502 | 1 | 2 | 35,159,378 | train | <story><title>Reddit is currently down</title><url>https://mashable.com/article/reddit-is-down-major-outage</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>CoolGuySteve</author><text>I always like when people say Twitter&#x27;s lower reliability will drive people off the site.<p>Reddit&#x27;s been awful for more than a decade and people still use it.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bnralt</author><text>It&#x27;s interesting comparing the relatively calm discussion here to Reddit being down for hours (and still down as I type this) to the hyperbolic comments people were making about the death of Twitter when Twitter briefly had some issues the other day[1] (the site wasn&#x27;t down but had some issues, and they were resolved in less than an hour).<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=35043433" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=35043433</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Reddit is currently down</title><url>https://mashable.com/article/reddit-is-down-major-outage</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>CoolGuySteve</author><text>I always like when people say Twitter&#x27;s lower reliability will drive people off the site.<p>Reddit&#x27;s been awful for more than a decade and people still use it.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>myspy</author><text>Canceling third party clients and the antics, as well as the bad management of Musk is what people drives away from Twitter not the reliability.</text></comment> |
20,517,518 | 20,515,855 | 1 | 3 | 20,515,806 | train | <story><title>Attorney General William P. Barr Delivers Address Conference on Cyber Security</title><url>https://www.justice.gov/opa/speech/attorney-general-william-p-barr-delivers-keynote-address-international-conference-cyber</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>daveslash</author><text>Modern encryption is really just math. Cryptography in consumer and off-the-shelf products (which Barr is targeting with his discussion) theoretically _could_ be modified in such a way that the government could decrypt it. The two ways of which I can think are (1) Encryption &quot;backdoors&quot; -- fancy math known only to the government; this would require new encryption ciphers or (b) key escrow. Both approaches have their shortcomings and I&#x27;m against both, but it&#x27;s plausible that the government might try it anyway. All that said, because encryption is just math, any individual or group could employ their own encryption by implementing one of any known existing ciphers -- one without a known &quot;fancy math back door&quot; and refuse to follow the &quot;key escrow&quot; guidelines. In these discussions about the government being able to decrypt stuff, are we, in effect, suggesting that certain math be made illegal? If that&#x27;s really what&#x27;s being proposed, I&#x27;d urge people to consider &quot;Illegal Numbers&quot; and how effective that&#x27;s been. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Illegal_number" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Illegal_number</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Attorney General William P. Barr Delivers Address Conference on Cyber Security</title><url>https://www.justice.gov/opa/speech/attorney-general-william-p-barr-delivers-keynote-address-international-conference-cyber</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>rplst8</author><text>Did he basically just announce a false flag?<p>&quot;Obviously, the Department would like to engage with the private sector in exploring solutions that will provide lawful access. While we remain open to a cooperative approach, the time to achieve that may be limited. Key countries, including important allies, have been moving toward legislative and regulatory solutions. <i>I think it is prudent to anticipate that a major incident may well occur at any time that will galvanize public opinion on these issues.</i> Whether we end up with legislation or not, the best course for everyone involved is to work soberly and in good faith together to craft appropriate solutions, <i>rather than have outcomes dictated during a crisis.</i> &quot;</text></comment> |
3,486,213 | 3,486,292 | 1 | 3 | 3,484,164 | train | <story><title>Piracy - You can't have your cake and eat it</title><url>http://broadmuse.com/piracy</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>VMG</author><text>What happens if everybody eats mince pie on Christmas? Life goes on as usual.<p>What happens if nobody pays for a copy of Windows 8? There won't be a Windows 9.<p><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_rider_problem" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_rider_problem</a></text></item><item><author>alextingle</author><text>The author has a fundamental misunderstanding of what laws mean, and how they change.<p>In England, it is illegal to eat mince pies on Christmas day? Why? Because centuries ago England was governed by a despotic, fundamentalist Christian regime that did not approve of Christmas celebrations.<p>Should I then refrain from eating the mince pie? No. I and millions of my fellow countrymen eat mince pies, and most are completely unaware of the existence of Cromwell's mean spirited law.<p>Why is this crime tolerated by the authorities? Because they do not go about like Robocop, enforcing laws as though they are some kind of computer program. Instead they understand that laws are a crude human attempt to model <i>current</i> social norms. Those social norms change over time and often the written laws don't keep up with the pace of that change.<p>The Internet has made copyright law outdated. Social norms are in the process of adjusting to the new situation. It's perfectly rational and <i>normal</i> for activists to hasten that process by defying the law, and encouraging others to do likewise. Obviously, the copyright lobby will react by trying to strengthen the laws, and step up enforcement. That's fair enough too.<p>Which side will win? Well opinions vary, but to suggest that breaking the law is in itself an immoral and irredeemable act, is naive.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>comicjk</author><text>Since it seems to be impossible, from a technical standpoint, to prevent piracy, then maybe we have to accept the free rider problem and produce intellectual property on a public basis. One option would be a grant system, as is used in scientific research (solving the free rider "problem" that anyone can read your paper and use your research).</text></comment> | <story><title>Piracy - You can't have your cake and eat it</title><url>http://broadmuse.com/piracy</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>VMG</author><text>What happens if everybody eats mince pie on Christmas? Life goes on as usual.<p>What happens if nobody pays for a copy of Windows 8? There won't be a Windows 9.<p><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_rider_problem" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_rider_problem</a></text></item><item><author>alextingle</author><text>The author has a fundamental misunderstanding of what laws mean, and how they change.<p>In England, it is illegal to eat mince pies on Christmas day? Why? Because centuries ago England was governed by a despotic, fundamentalist Christian regime that did not approve of Christmas celebrations.<p>Should I then refrain from eating the mince pie? No. I and millions of my fellow countrymen eat mince pies, and most are completely unaware of the existence of Cromwell's mean spirited law.<p>Why is this crime tolerated by the authorities? Because they do not go about like Robocop, enforcing laws as though they are some kind of computer program. Instead they understand that laws are a crude human attempt to model <i>current</i> social norms. Those social norms change over time and often the written laws don't keep up with the pace of that change.<p>The Internet has made copyright law outdated. Social norms are in the process of adjusting to the new situation. It's perfectly rational and <i>normal</i> for activists to hasten that process by defying the law, and encouraging others to do likewise. Obviously, the copyright lobby will react by trying to strengthen the laws, and step up enforcement. That's fair enough too.<p>Which side will win? Well opinions vary, but to suggest that breaking the law is in itself an immoral and irredeemable act, is naive.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>marknutter</author><text>&#62; What happens if nobody pays for a copy of Windows 8? There won't be a Windows 9.<p>LOL. Is that a threat?</text></comment> |
22,167,996 | 22,166,483 | 1 | 3 | 22,162,562 | train | <story><title>The Shapes of Code</title><url>https://www.fluentcpp.com/2020/01/14/the-shapes-of-code/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>classified</author><text>&gt; ... not so good code: if it was, we wouldn’t need a comment...<p>How much longer will this rumor persist that &quot;good code&quot; doesn&#x27;t need commenting? Good comments explain things that aren&#x27;t immediately obvious from the code.</text></comment> | <story><title>The Shapes of Code</title><url>https://www.fluentcpp.com/2020/01/14/the-shapes-of-code/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>saltyfamiliar</author><text>I&#x27;m glad I&#x27;m not the only one who pays attention to this. This is completely unsubstantiated and coming from a relatively inexperienced programmer, but it&#x27;s been my experience that better code tends to produce nicer shapes. An obvious example not mentioned in the article arises when code is nested too deeply and too thinly, creating jarring and disproportionate peaks.</text></comment> |
16,639,767 | 16,639,793 | 1 | 3 | 16,638,570 | train | <story><title>Guide to Slack import and export tools</title><url>https://get.slack.help/hc/en-us/articles/204897248-guide-to-slack-data-exports</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tedivm</author><text>I hate to tell you this but if you would quit a job for this reason you probably can&#x27;t work in the US. The US has laws about corporate compliance, and it has requirements for things like dealing with sexual harassment. There is no such thing as a &quot;private conversation&quot; that takes place over a corporate network.<p>For example, in the US sexual harassment is taken seriously. If a company gets a complaint of sexual harassment on Slack they are legally obligated to look into it, and if they refuse to the individual managers could personally be held liable for it. This includes situations where the person being harassed isn&#x27;t directly in the conversation- the above example of harassment over slack could have evidence of coordination in a different private channel than the ones the harassment target is in.</text></item><item><author>peterkelly</author><text>If two people want to have a private conversation, they&#x27;ll just find another means by which to do it. In the long run, abusing your privileged access to conversations intended to be private (however justified you may consider it to be) will just breed mistrust among employees. I would quit a job that treated me as a child which must be supervised in such a manner.</text></item><item><author>tvanantwerp</author><text>As head of IT for a company using Slack: FINALLY.<p>Don&#x27;t get me wrong--it&#x27;s not like I <i>want</i> to read your messages and very likely won&#x27;t. But there are times when I have no choice. A few years back, a group of interns started privately harassing other interns via Slack. Only way to see it was to boot an offending intern from his work station and go into his Slack to see what was happening. We had to make all intern accounts into multi-channel guests after that. Compare that to our email, where I can go into anyone&#x27;s messages immediately if need-be. This is all very standard corporate IT stuff that you need for HR and legal reasons.<p>Edit: I&#x27;ll say this is still not an ideal solution. I don&#x27;t go into private communications unless I have to, and I&#x27;d rather have the option to review specific DMs &#x2F; private channels than dump everything. I really don&#x27;t want <i>everything</i>; that&#x27;s more than I care to see. Also, to clarify, I&#x27;m in the US and our employees are well aware that communications on company-operated platforms should not be considered private. I <i>want</i> them to be careful how they communicate in writing, not because they should be worried about me, but because they should be worried about Slack getting hacked&#x2F;leaked. With the recent Facebook news, I should have thought that sort of concern was obvious.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>humanrebar</author><text>&gt; There is no such thing as a &quot;private conversation&quot; that takes place over a corporate network.<p>It&#x27;s a tech issue, cultural issue, and a legal issue, but it&#x27;s harmful that we seem to be forgetting the wisdom of discretion as life become more digitized. If the law or culture says &quot;no expectation of discretion&quot;, they&#x27;re just wrong and likely hypocritical.<p>It&#x27;s healthy, normal, and appropriate to tell specific things to specific people. If we&#x27;re worried about abuse, there are other solutions to those problems, like letting the harassed share the conversation later, which they can already do, with screenshots if nothing else.</text></comment> | <story><title>Guide to Slack import and export tools</title><url>https://get.slack.help/hc/en-us/articles/204897248-guide-to-slack-data-exports</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tedivm</author><text>I hate to tell you this but if you would quit a job for this reason you probably can&#x27;t work in the US. The US has laws about corporate compliance, and it has requirements for things like dealing with sexual harassment. There is no such thing as a &quot;private conversation&quot; that takes place over a corporate network.<p>For example, in the US sexual harassment is taken seriously. If a company gets a complaint of sexual harassment on Slack they are legally obligated to look into it, and if they refuse to the individual managers could personally be held liable for it. This includes situations where the person being harassed isn&#x27;t directly in the conversation- the above example of harassment over slack could have evidence of coordination in a different private channel than the ones the harassment target is in.</text></item><item><author>peterkelly</author><text>If two people want to have a private conversation, they&#x27;ll just find another means by which to do it. In the long run, abusing your privileged access to conversations intended to be private (however justified you may consider it to be) will just breed mistrust among employees. I would quit a job that treated me as a child which must be supervised in such a manner.</text></item><item><author>tvanantwerp</author><text>As head of IT for a company using Slack: FINALLY.<p>Don&#x27;t get me wrong--it&#x27;s not like I <i>want</i> to read your messages and very likely won&#x27;t. But there are times when I have no choice. A few years back, a group of interns started privately harassing other interns via Slack. Only way to see it was to boot an offending intern from his work station and go into his Slack to see what was happening. We had to make all intern accounts into multi-channel guests after that. Compare that to our email, where I can go into anyone&#x27;s messages immediately if need-be. This is all very standard corporate IT stuff that you need for HR and legal reasons.<p>Edit: I&#x27;ll say this is still not an ideal solution. I don&#x27;t go into private communications unless I have to, and I&#x27;d rather have the option to review specific DMs &#x2F; private channels than dump everything. I really don&#x27;t want <i>everything</i>; that&#x27;s more than I care to see. Also, to clarify, I&#x27;m in the US and our employees are well aware that communications on company-operated platforms should not be considered private. I <i>want</i> them to be careful how they communicate in writing, not because they should be worried about me, but because they should be worried about Slack getting hacked&#x2F;leaked. With the recent Facebook news, I should have thought that sort of concern was obvious.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>soziawa</author><text>&gt; For example, in the US sexual harassment is taken seriously.<p>Yeah, we&#x27;ve seen that over the past couple months.</text></comment> |
27,562,731 | 27,561,059 | 1 | 3 | 27,559,832 | train | <story><title>Safari 15 on Mac OS, a user interface mess</title><url>https://morrick.me/archives/9368</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rubyist5eva</author><text>I vehemently disagree that vertical space used is negligible. Due to standard aspect ratios, the vertical space of the display is at a premium. 1920*1080 means you have 840 less vertical pixels than horizontal - it makes a lot of sense to me to try to reclaim some of that space for actual content instead of widgets.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Bud</author><text>Things like the tab bar and the reload button are not mere &quot;widgets&quot;; they are the core UI elements. They are the single most important part of the app. This is simply a bad call.<p>I&#x27;m all for saving vertical space whenever possible. But this is a bad call.</text></comment> | <story><title>Safari 15 on Mac OS, a user interface mess</title><url>https://morrick.me/archives/9368</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rubyist5eva</author><text>I vehemently disagree that vertical space used is negligible. Due to standard aspect ratios, the vertical space of the display is at a premium. 1920*1080 means you have 840 less vertical pixels than horizontal - it makes a lot of sense to me to try to reclaim some of that space for actual content instead of widgets.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>yxhuvud</author><text>Which is why it makes it so strange that no browser designers seem to get that the way to go is to stack tabs in a vertical list instead of horizontally. It would use more space but the space is in less demand so it wouldn&#x27;t matter anyhow.<p>So until the browser designers get a clue I will be stuck with Firefox and the Treestyle tabs plugin which is the least horrible solution for people that use a lot of tabs.</text></comment> |
14,255,578 | 14,255,300 | 1 | 3 | 14,255,031 | train | <story><title>Review of “Adults in the Room” by Yanis Varoufakis</title><url>https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/may/03/yanis-varoufakis-greece-greatest-political-memoir</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Scea91</author><text>Didn&#x27;t Greece falsify data for years? That would explain the AAA ratings.</text></item><item><author>osullivj</author><text>&quot;The first revelation is that not only was Greece bankrupt in 2010 when the EU bailed it out, and that the bailout was designed to save the French and German banks, but that Angela Merkel and Nicolas Sarkozy knew this; and they knew it would be a disaster.&quot;<p>The treasury departments of the French and German banks had loaded up on GGBs - Greek Govt Bonds because they yielded more basis points than eg German Govt bonds, but also had AAA rating. The AAA was culpable negligence by Moodys, S&amp;P, Fitch rating agencies. Ignoring the credit quality implication of the discount built into the market price of the GGBs was culpable negligence on the part of the treasurers at the French and German banks. Yes, the Greek Govt was culpable too. But the Greek people are bearing years of economic pain while the French and German banks and the ratings agencies have got off scot free because Merkel &amp; Schauble put the fix in and parked the dodgy GGBs in the ECB.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ravingraven</author><text>It borders on the impossible to fake data on this scale and in such amounts. The deficit forecast for 2009 (the year the crisis started) was 3.7 which got revised to 12.5 percent at the end of that year. Any sufficiently large institution or cooperation that wanted to have access to the real data, could have done so with minimal effort, you can&#x27;t hide a 10% budget gap.<p>The false data Greece reported to get into the Eurozone was an open secret, I vividly remember it being talked about extensively in Greek cafes after 2001.</text></comment> | <story><title>Review of “Adults in the Room” by Yanis Varoufakis</title><url>https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/may/03/yanis-varoufakis-greece-greatest-political-memoir</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Scea91</author><text>Didn&#x27;t Greece falsify data for years? That would explain the AAA ratings.</text></item><item><author>osullivj</author><text>&quot;The first revelation is that not only was Greece bankrupt in 2010 when the EU bailed it out, and that the bailout was designed to save the French and German banks, but that Angela Merkel and Nicolas Sarkozy knew this; and they knew it would be a disaster.&quot;<p>The treasury departments of the French and German banks had loaded up on GGBs - Greek Govt Bonds because they yielded more basis points than eg German Govt bonds, but also had AAA rating. The AAA was culpable negligence by Moodys, S&amp;P, Fitch rating agencies. Ignoring the credit quality implication of the discount built into the market price of the GGBs was culpable negligence on the part of the treasurers at the French and German banks. Yes, the Greek Govt was culpable too. But the Greek people are bearing years of economic pain while the French and German banks and the ratings agencies have got off scot free because Merkel &amp; Schauble put the fix in and parked the dodgy GGBs in the ECB.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>cafard</author><text>Were the banks truly deceived, or just hoping that they could cash in and be bailed out?</text></comment> |
25,571,722 | 25,571,507 | 1 | 3 | 25,567,659 | train | <story><title>CIA vs. Wikileaks [video]</title><url>https://media.ccc.de/v/rc3-11512-cia_vs_wikileaks</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>for_i_in_range</author><text>He makes an important point early on in outlining the mission of Wikileaks centering on making Data and Information freely accessible to all (the concept of Dataism, for those who have read Yuval Harrari’s <i>HOMO DEUS</i>).<p>However, the <i>processing</i> of Information into <i>Intelligence</i> that can be acted upon is what characterizes Intelligence agencies. Wikileaks does not concern itself with this phase. Yet, the CIA’s Pompeo is trying to paint a narrative that Wikileaks <i>is</i> doing this by labeling them a “non-state intelligence agency”, thereby justifying the CIA’s actions to attack Wikileaks.<p>In brief:<p>Narrative #1 - the CIA attacking an “Idealistic Free Information Publisher”.<p>Narrative #2 - the CIA attacking a “Non-state Dark Intelligence Agency”<p>The CIA is actively trying to create Narrative #2, which is a bit concerning.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>woodruffw</author><text>I&#x27;m normally loathe to defend any aspect of the US MIC, but I <i>think</i> Pompeo&#x27;s point is that Wikileaks <i>knowingly</i> publicizes information that has already been processed into <i>Intelligence</i>, and <i>willfully</i> turns a blind eye to its role as a laundromat for hostile powers under the guise of an ideology of totally free data.<p>I, for one, think that all information should be free. I think Pompeo&#x27;s motivations are suspect and geopolitical and I don&#x27;t trust <i>him</i> personally. However, I <i>also</i> think that Wikileaks has a myopic view of information freedom that chiefly benefits powers whose <i>long term</i> vision is the decline of liberal democracy.</text></comment> | <story><title>CIA vs. Wikileaks [video]</title><url>https://media.ccc.de/v/rc3-11512-cia_vs_wikileaks</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>for_i_in_range</author><text>He makes an important point early on in outlining the mission of Wikileaks centering on making Data and Information freely accessible to all (the concept of Dataism, for those who have read Yuval Harrari’s <i>HOMO DEUS</i>).<p>However, the <i>processing</i> of Information into <i>Intelligence</i> that can be acted upon is what characterizes Intelligence agencies. Wikileaks does not concern itself with this phase. Yet, the CIA’s Pompeo is trying to paint a narrative that Wikileaks <i>is</i> doing this by labeling them a “non-state intelligence agency”, thereby justifying the CIA’s actions to attack Wikileaks.<p>In brief:<p>Narrative #1 - the CIA attacking an “Idealistic Free Information Publisher”.<p>Narrative #2 - the CIA attacking a “Non-state Dark Intelligence Agency”<p>The CIA is actively trying to create Narrative #2, which is a bit concerning.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>cochne</author><text>I think the true narrative is probably somewhere in the middle of those. Did WikiLeaks not strategically publish information for their desired political outcome?</text></comment> |
8,644,222 | 8,644,185 | 1 | 3 | 8,644,080 | train | <story><title>Rides of Glory – Uber Blog (2012)</title><url>https://web.archive.org/web/20140827195715/http://blog.uber.com/ridesofglory</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>mmcclure</author><text>I gotta say, I&#x27;m not really seeing the creepy &#x2F; cringey &#x2F; evil &#x2F; whatever-else here...<p>Anyone (especially the HN crowd) should know they have the data, and if you think they&#x27;re not carefully analyzing it behind the scenes (like every other tech company who has your data), I&#x27;ve got things to sell you. I personally think a tiny peek like this into the data, much like the usage posts that OKCupid, YouPorn, and others give, is neat.</text></comment> | <story><title>Rides of Glory – Uber Blog (2012)</title><url>https://web.archive.org/web/20140827195715/http://blog.uber.com/ridesofglory</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>dil8</author><text>Stuff like this is one of the many reasons I love archive.org. I think i&#x27;s really important to capture historical artifacts for future analysis.<p>The service they provide doesn&#x27;t allow the &quot;Ministry of Truth&quot;[1] to doctor historical documents to meet their present day narrative.<p>[1] <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ministry_of_Truth" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Ministry_of_Truth</a></text></comment> |
15,603,446 | 15,603,701 | 1 | 3 | 15,602,538 | train | <story><title>Ask HN: Where can I find high-end stock images for a website?</title></story><parent_chain><item><author>whitingx</author><text><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;pixabay.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;pixabay.com&#x2F;</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;stocksnap.io&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;stocksnap.io&#x2F;</a><p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.free-images.cc&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.free-images.cc&#x2F;</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;unsplash.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;unsplash.com&#x2F;</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.pexels.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.pexels.com&#x2F;</a><p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;librestock.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;librestock.com&#x2F;</a><p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;skuawk.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;skuawk.com&#x2F;</a><p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.sitebuilderreport.com&#x2F;stock-up" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.sitebuilderreport.com&#x2F;stock-up</a><p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;finda.photo&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;finda.photo&#x2F;</a><p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;foodshot.co&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;foodshot.co&#x2F;</a><p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;growthtext.com&#x2F;free-stock-photos&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;growthtext.com&#x2F;free-stock-photos&#x2F;</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.stockified.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.stockified.com&#x2F;</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.negativespace.co&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.negativespace.co&#x2F;</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;everypixel.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;everypixel.com&#x2F;</a><p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;startupstockphotos.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;startupstockphotos.com&#x2F;</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;foodiesfeed.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;foodiesfeed.com&#x2F;</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;picjumbo.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;picjumbo.com&#x2F;</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.stockio.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.stockio.com&#x2F;</a><p>hope this helps ツ</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>_Codemonkeyism</author><text>In the past not all images on pexels.com had the correct license or did check the license. We stopped using pexels some time ago.</text></comment> | <story><title>Ask HN: Where can I find high-end stock images for a website?</title></story><parent_chain><item><author>whitingx</author><text><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;pixabay.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;pixabay.com&#x2F;</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;stocksnap.io&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;stocksnap.io&#x2F;</a><p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.free-images.cc&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.free-images.cc&#x2F;</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;unsplash.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;unsplash.com&#x2F;</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.pexels.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.pexels.com&#x2F;</a><p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;librestock.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;librestock.com&#x2F;</a><p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;skuawk.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;skuawk.com&#x2F;</a><p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.sitebuilderreport.com&#x2F;stock-up" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.sitebuilderreport.com&#x2F;stock-up</a><p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;finda.photo&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;finda.photo&#x2F;</a><p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;foodshot.co&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;foodshot.co&#x2F;</a><p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;growthtext.com&#x2F;free-stock-photos&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;growthtext.com&#x2F;free-stock-photos&#x2F;</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.stockified.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.stockified.com&#x2F;</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.negativespace.co&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.negativespace.co&#x2F;</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;everypixel.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;everypixel.com&#x2F;</a><p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;startupstockphotos.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;startupstockphotos.com&#x2F;</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;foodiesfeed.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;foodiesfeed.com&#x2F;</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;picjumbo.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;picjumbo.com&#x2F;</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.stockio.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.stockio.com&#x2F;</a><p>hope this helps ツ</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tixocloud</author><text>WHOLLY! Thank you very much. I&#x27;ll be going through and every one of those. Though judging from the popularity of this thread, probably likely other startups will have the same images as me :)</text></comment> |
19,794,105 | 19,793,123 | 1 | 2 | 19,792,412 | train | <story><title>A Quest to Make Gasoline Out of Thin Air: Prometheus (YC W19)</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-04-30/in-silicon-valley-the-quest-to-make-gasoline-out-of-thin-air?</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Hasz</author><text>Soooooo many questions.<p>Gasoline is a distillate made up of several hydrocarbons -- is he synthesizing all of them, or just octane? What about additives, like anti-knock agents? Plans for diesel?<p>No amount of fancy CNTs gets around thermodynamics. CO2 and H20 are far more stable, thermodynamically, than octane, it&#x27;s partially why octane is a good fuel. Where does the extra energy come from? What is the efficiency of the conversion? What kind of thoroughput are we talking about?<p>How scalable - is the CNT manufacturing mature enough to support large scale rollout?<p>Who is on his team? Research chemists, or experienced chem Es, both hopefully?<p>I&#x27;m sure he knows these answers (man has a PhD is chem), would have loved to sit through that pitch.<p>The Bloomberg piece is very light on details; the secrecy is frustrating but understandable.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rmcginnis</author><text>Hi, this is Rob, founder of Prometheus. The conversion of CO2 and water to gasoline is not a super efficient process, likely 50-60% at best in the near term, but that&#x27;s ok, if the electricity is from a zero carbon source like solar or wind, and the cost of the electricity is low (which these days it is).<p>The CNT membranes are being made at full commercial scale now by my previous startup, Mattershift. Ready to go!<p>We&#x27;ve got scientists and engineers from national labs and previous efforts like Project Foghorn at Google. Hope to share some new hires soon.<p>There was a podcast that was associated with the article, that runs 21 minutes and goes into more details: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;megaphone.link&#x2F;BLM3585271197" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;megaphone.link&#x2F;BLM3585271197</a></text></comment> | <story><title>A Quest to Make Gasoline Out of Thin Air: Prometheus (YC W19)</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-04-30/in-silicon-valley-the-quest-to-make-gasoline-out-of-thin-air?</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Hasz</author><text>Soooooo many questions.<p>Gasoline is a distillate made up of several hydrocarbons -- is he synthesizing all of them, or just octane? What about additives, like anti-knock agents? Plans for diesel?<p>No amount of fancy CNTs gets around thermodynamics. CO2 and H20 are far more stable, thermodynamically, than octane, it&#x27;s partially why octane is a good fuel. Where does the extra energy come from? What is the efficiency of the conversion? What kind of thoroughput are we talking about?<p>How scalable - is the CNT manufacturing mature enough to support large scale rollout?<p>Who is on his team? Research chemists, or experienced chem Es, both hopefully?<p>I&#x27;m sure he knows these answers (man has a PhD is chem), would have loved to sit through that pitch.<p>The Bloomberg piece is very light on details; the secrecy is frustrating but understandable.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ThrustVectoring</author><text>&gt;Where does the extra energy come from?<p>It doesn&#x27;t particularly matter. Centralized clean energy production is often significantly easier to solve than figuring out clean alternatives to gasoline use. Especially when the problem with clean alternatives to gasoline is political - it&#x27;s hard for the US to ban ICE engines in China, but it&#x27;s significantly easier to sell them carbon-neutral gasoline.<p>&gt;What is the efficiency of the conversion?<p>Generally speaking it&#x27;s pretty atrocious. I don&#x27;t remember exact numbers the last time I looked into things, but the sense I got is that it&#x27;s roughly an order of magnitude away from economic viability at current prices.<p>Also, a significant switch to carbon-neutral fuel would be a significant bump up in electricity and energy consumption. So it&#x27;s not a cure-all, we&#x27;d still need a massive investment in low-carbon energy production.</text></comment> |
19,948,090 | 19,947,852 | 1 | 2 | 19,947,129 | train | <story><title>Let's start using DuckDuckGo more often</title><text>I&#x27;d made a similarly titled post[1] a couple years back and I seriously don&#x27;t know what kind of usage DuckDuckGo has right now. But I&#x27;d like to think that it is extensively used, at least in the developer community. And I strongly believe that people should start degoogling their lives at least slowly and gradually if its not possible to do it at once. If more people start using DDG, the search engine will improve and that least that one aspect of degoogling could be achieved to a certain extent.<p>[1] https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=13284917</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>jplayer01</author><text>DDG&#x27;s search results seem consistently terrible whenever I try to use it for an extended period of time. It&#x27;s fine for really basic searches, but anything more specialized or niche is terrible (considering my interests, that&#x27;s all of my searches). I mostly use Startpage nowadays instead, which seems to give me good enough results most of the time.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>FabHK</author><text>These sorts of posts make me feel a bit stupid - I use search engines other than DDG less than once a week. Are my searches so banal and obvious? Do I not encounter tricky technical problems?<p>However, in the rare cases that I do switch to Startpage (!s), I get &quot;better&quot; results only sometimes. Conversely, on Google I miss the bangs, the capability to scroll through the results using up&#x2F;down cursor key (and enter to go to a result), the simple way to specify country specific results (I don&#x27;t care about Moscow, Idaho and its 23000 inhabitants very much, sorry).</text></comment> | <story><title>Let's start using DuckDuckGo more often</title><text>I&#x27;d made a similarly titled post[1] a couple years back and I seriously don&#x27;t know what kind of usage DuckDuckGo has right now. But I&#x27;d like to think that it is extensively used, at least in the developer community. And I strongly believe that people should start degoogling their lives at least slowly and gradually if its not possible to do it at once. If more people start using DDG, the search engine will improve and that least that one aspect of degoogling could be achieved to a certain extent.<p>[1] https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=13284917</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>jplayer01</author><text>DDG&#x27;s search results seem consistently terrible whenever I try to use it for an extended period of time. It&#x27;s fine for really basic searches, but anything more specialized or niche is terrible (considering my interests, that&#x27;s all of my searches). I mostly use Startpage nowadays instead, which seems to give me good enough results most of the time.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>everdev</author><text>DDG uses a combination of Bing, Yahoo and Yandex results. From what I can tell they don&#x27;t index SPA sites very well:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;duckduckgo&#x2F;comments&#x2F;90ypqz&#x2F;ddg_crawler_and_single_page_applications_spa&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;duckduckgo&#x2F;comments&#x2F;90ypqz&#x2F;ddg_craw...</a><p>A comment from July 2018:<p>&gt; We get our results from various sources, mostly Bing, Yahoo and Yandex (more info: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;duck.co&#x2F;help&#x2F;results&#x2F;sources" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;duck.co&#x2F;help&#x2F;results&#x2F;sources</a> ) so if&#x2F;when they introduce support for SPAs, we should get that too. I don&#x27;t know what their plans are for this, however.</text></comment> |
20,161,153 | 20,156,821 | 1 | 3 | 20,156,285 | train | <story><title>Decision Disagreement Framework</title><url>https://matterapp.com/blog/decision-disagreement-framework-how-we-encourage-disagreements-at-matter/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>deathanatos</author><text>I honestly can&#x27;t figure out how to apply this to the real-life disagreement I had today.<p>&gt; <i>Will the decision slow down, harm, or break the business?</i><p>That depends on who&#x27;s view you go with? In <i>my</i> opinion, my choice will not &quot;slow down, hard, or break the business&quot;. But the person I was arguing with felt that my choice <i>did</i>, and had an alternative choice he wanted to make. And of course, he felt that his choice did not &quot;slow down, hard, or break the business&quot; and that mine did. We can&#x27;t even agree on whether to use the framework!<p>Perhaps one defaults to &quot;just do it&quot;. Further, what do you do when you coworker refuses to put forward a rationale for their choice? In my example from today, he had an opinion&#x2F;action he wanted us as a company to take, but could not provide a decent rationale to it. To paraphrase, it was &quot;we should change X to better support my workflow&quot;; my counter argument was that changing X was counterproductive to and basically eliminated goal Y, which we had just received a (reasonable) mandate from on high to accomplish. Further, his own workflow would be hampered by X, and a simple change to his own workflow would better accomplish his own goals while allowing us to maintain goal Y. He literally refused to respond to that position, but still wants us to do X.<p>Assuming your coworkers are rational is a terrible idea in my experience. Unfortunately, IDK what else one can do, and IME rational arguments are ignored and bad decisions are made and people start looking for escape hatches.<p>Perhaps we have bigger problems.</text></comment> | <story><title>Decision Disagreement Framework</title><url>https://matterapp.com/blog/decision-disagreement-framework-how-we-encourage-disagreements-at-matter/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>whiddershins</author><text>“First, acknowledge the disagreement and paraphrase the opinion of the person disagreeing to make sure ...”<p>YOU understand their position.<p>This is a fundamental mistake in this process that happens at the beginning and everything that follows is made worse because of it.<p>You don’t rephrase a person’s position to make them “feel heard.” What’s important is to get to the meat of why they hold that position, in case you are disagreeing with a misapprehension of their position, or you are disagreeing with a solution because you didn’t really understand the underlying problem a person is trying to address.<p>Often the real disagreement is a layer or more below the area where conflict is manifesting. It more often is a result of information asymmetry or a difference in priorities or perception of reality by the stakeholders.<p>This is the single most important part of engaging in productive disagreement, and without it much time is wasted, resentments are formed, non optimal solutions are generated, and disagreements resurface repeatedly but transformed such that they appear as new disagreements.</text></comment> |
15,726,857 | 15,726,741 | 1 | 2 | 15,724,797 | train | <story><title>Myths of the 1 Percent: What’s Putting People at the Top</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/17/upshot/income-inequality-united-states.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>balance_factor</author><text>It&#x27;s interesting what words are not in the article. Words like heir, inheritance, profit, interest, rentier. The word rent is there, but assumed as a tenant, not landlord.<p>I assume the Forbes 400 richest are in the 1%. How did the Koch brothers get their $100 billion? Where did the Waltons get their $140 billion? Where did the Mars family get their $75 billion? The article makes it sound like these people became rich when they decided whether or not to go to law school.<p>It&#x27;s important to note how in the US how FIRE (Finance, Insurance, Real Estate) and health care affect the economy. But a lot of what puts people at the top is at which hospital they took their first breath.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>blunte</author><text>The 1% is still a large number of people, and the people you refer to are the .1% or fewer. That&#x27;s not to say that their methods of wealth accumulation aren&#x27;t worth discussing, but apparently that wasn&#x27;t the group that this article was focused on.</text></comment> | <story><title>Myths of the 1 Percent: What’s Putting People at the Top</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/17/upshot/income-inequality-united-states.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>balance_factor</author><text>It&#x27;s interesting what words are not in the article. Words like heir, inheritance, profit, interest, rentier. The word rent is there, but assumed as a tenant, not landlord.<p>I assume the Forbes 400 richest are in the 1%. How did the Koch brothers get their $100 billion? Where did the Waltons get their $140 billion? Where did the Mars family get their $75 billion? The article makes it sound like these people became rich when they decided whether or not to go to law school.<p>It&#x27;s important to note how in the US how FIRE (Finance, Insurance, Real Estate) and health care affect the economy. But a lot of what puts people at the top is at which hospital they took their first breath.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ameister14</author><text>There are millions of people in the 1%. The 400 people at the very top aren&#x27;t going to come into it much.</text></comment> |
23,905,593 | 23,904,692 | 1 | 2 | 23,903,789 | train | <story><title>Building a Developer Cult</title><url>https://subvert.substack.com/p/stripe-building-a-developer-cult</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>gregdoesit</author><text>If we are taking about Stripe, we should mention the silent competitor barely anyone talks or knows about outside the payments industry: Adyen.<p>Stripe’s current, (private) valuation is $36B. Developers love them. Adyen’s current, public valuation is $43B (they IPO’d amongst little press coverage). Most developers don’t know about them.<p>So what is the difference? Market strategy. Adyen only goes after large businesses and has something many others, including Stripe cannot compete with efficiently: (far) lower pricing, higher market coverage.<p>The developer experience for Adyen is decent - no complaints, perhaps a bit less “magical”. They will definitely have a fraction of the customers, but those customers are huge. They get and seek little to no publicity compared to Stripe, yet have built a similarly sized business from the Amsterdam, the Netherlands, which is remarkable.<p>It’s a completely different market strategy, and company strategy. Read the Adyen values to see how different the two companies are[1] - Adyen putting “merchants” first, with a mention of support, while Stripe prioritizing developers and small businesses. And company culture could not be more different either - saying this as someone who knows both Adyen and Stripe employees. Both are companies to admire, and show that there is no “one” good way to build immense value.<p>It will be fascinating to see what happens as these two companies expand to compete with each other (meaning Adyen starting to go after small businesses, and Stripe after the largest merchants, with a differentiated pricing model).<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.adyen.com&#x2F;about" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.adyen.com&#x2F;about</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dmitriid</author><text>&gt; Adyen only goes after large businesses and has something many others, including Stripe cannot compete with efficiently: (far) lower pricing, higher market coverage.<p>The reason is: larger businesses will require more payment options than Stripe offers.<p>India? Adyen got you covered: [1] Philippines? Yup, everything [2], including offline payments in stores [3]. Mobile payments in Africa? No worries [4] And so on and so forth. On their payment site they don&#x27;t even list all payment methods, there are so many. You search for a country or a payment method, and they show what&#x27;s available.<p>Stripe has a very long way to go to realistically compete with Adyen.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.adyen.com&#x2F;payment-methods#pmx=india" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.adyen.com&#x2F;payment-methods#pmx=india</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.adyen.com&#x2F;payment-methods#pmx=the-philippines" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.adyen.com&#x2F;payment-methods#pmx=the-philippines</a><p>[3] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.adyen.com&#x2F;payment-methods#pmx=convenience-stores-Philippines" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.adyen.com&#x2F;payment-methods#pmx=convenience-stores...</a><p>[4] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.adyen.com&#x2F;payment-methods#pmx=mobile-network-operator" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.adyen.com&#x2F;payment-methods#pmx=mobile-network-ope...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Building a Developer Cult</title><url>https://subvert.substack.com/p/stripe-building-a-developer-cult</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>gregdoesit</author><text>If we are taking about Stripe, we should mention the silent competitor barely anyone talks or knows about outside the payments industry: Adyen.<p>Stripe’s current, (private) valuation is $36B. Developers love them. Adyen’s current, public valuation is $43B (they IPO’d amongst little press coverage). Most developers don’t know about them.<p>So what is the difference? Market strategy. Adyen only goes after large businesses and has something many others, including Stripe cannot compete with efficiently: (far) lower pricing, higher market coverage.<p>The developer experience for Adyen is decent - no complaints, perhaps a bit less “magical”. They will definitely have a fraction of the customers, but those customers are huge. They get and seek little to no publicity compared to Stripe, yet have built a similarly sized business from the Amsterdam, the Netherlands, which is remarkable.<p>It’s a completely different market strategy, and company strategy. Read the Adyen values to see how different the two companies are[1] - Adyen putting “merchants” first, with a mention of support, while Stripe prioritizing developers and small businesses. And company culture could not be more different either - saying this as someone who knows both Adyen and Stripe employees. Both are companies to admire, and show that there is no “one” good way to build immense value.<p>It will be fascinating to see what happens as these two companies expand to compete with each other (meaning Adyen starting to go after small businesses, and Stripe after the largest merchants, with a differentiated pricing model).<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.adyen.com&#x2F;about" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.adyen.com&#x2F;about</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ckdarby</author><text>I can&#x27;t say much but I&#x27;ll say that Adyen is light years ahead of their competition much more than they let on.<p>Source: Worked in software for payments processing a couple billions a year.</text></comment> |
27,967,817 | 27,967,635 | 1 | 2 | 27,966,782 | train | <story><title>Mammals dream about the world they are about to experience before they are born</title><url>https://news.yale.edu/2021/07/22/eyes-wide-shut-how-newborn-mammals-dream-world-theyre-entering</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>chrisseaton</author><text>&gt; Most human babies take 9-18 months to walk, and this is commonly attributed to the fact that human babies have immature brains<p>Have you ever seen a new-born baby&#x27;s legs?<p>They aren&#x27;t even remotely strong enough to walk, no matter what the brain tells them. It takes those months to develop leg muscles. New-borns don&#x27;t have them.<p>It&#x27;s absolutely not restricted by the brain size.</text></item><item><author>teruakohatu</author><text>&gt; Are these innate patterns of activity priming mammalian brains in a similar way?<p>A newborn foal can stand within 55 minutes of being born and can walk or run within 90 minutes. That is crazy fast training speed. Is it training initialization or is it a form of transfer learning?<p>Most human babies take 9-18 months to walk, and this is commonly attributed to the fact that human babies have immature brains that cannot mature due to birth canal constraints, which is constrained by pelvis size which is constrained by the need to walk upright.<p>I have wondered about how true this is. Maybe our brains are just so much more powerful, or capable of much deeper understanding, that we require a much lower initial learning rate.<p>The lottery ticket could explain why some children learn to walk at 6 months, while others are closer to 24 months, with no different in intelligence or motor skills in later life.<p>Edit: As some people below have correctly pointed out, human babies could not walk within an hour for physiological reasons, but nor do they exhibit the basic motor skills, spatial reasoning or image processing required for walking. Many human babies even struggle to feed for the first 24-48 hours or longer.<p>Meanwhile baboon babies can hold onto their mother from birth while the mother climbs trees.</text></item><item><author>gojomo</author><text>Something about this reminds me of the &#x27;Winning Ticket Hypothesis&#x27; in artifical neural networks: that some &#x27;random&#x27; initializations prime a network far better for later faster learning. From <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;arxiv.org&#x2F;abs&#x2F;1803.03635" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;arxiv.org&#x2F;abs&#x2F;1803.03635</a> - the abstract:<p><i>Neural network pruning techniques can reduce the parameter counts of trained networks by over 90%, decreasing storage requirements and improving computational performance of inference without compromising accuracy. However, contemporary experience is that the sparse architectures produced by pruning are difficult to train from the start, which would similarly improve training performance.</i><p><i>We find that a standard pruning technique naturally uncovers subnetworks whose initializations made them capable of training effectively. Based on these results, we articulate the &quot;lottery ticket hypothesis:&quot; dense, randomly-initialized, feed-forward networks contain subnetworks (&quot;winning tickets&quot;) that - when trained in isolation - reach test accuracy comparable to the original network in a similar number of iterations. The winning tickets we find have won the initialization lottery: their connections have initial weights that make training particularly effective.</i><p><i>We present an algorithm to identify winning tickets and a series of experiments that support the lottery ticket hypothesis and the importance of these fortuitous initializations. We consistently find winning tickets that are less than 10-20% of the size of several fully-connected and convolutional feed-forward architectures for MNIST and CIFAR10. Above this size, the winning tickets that we find learn faster than the original network and reach higher test accuracy.</i><p>Are these innate patterns of activity priming mammalian brains in a similar way?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>narag</author><text><i>It&#x27;s absolutely not restricted by the brain size.</i><p>The brain size needs a huge head, so in a sense it is.<p>All the factors are interwined. The growth of the brain seems to have been a very fast evolution, The pelvis had no time to adapt, so giving birth early was the final solution.<p>With that in mind, I don&#x27;t find <i>fair</i> to shame the pelvis, or the brain. The weakest link is the legs, but it&#x27;s not their <i>fault</i> either since they had no time to mature.<p>Give one of those cocky foals a head of proportional weight and allow them to use only two limbs and see who&#x27;s stumbling now!<p>Edit: newborns can&#x27;t even balance their heads on their necks, they&#x27;re extremely fragile.</text></comment> | <story><title>Mammals dream about the world they are about to experience before they are born</title><url>https://news.yale.edu/2021/07/22/eyes-wide-shut-how-newborn-mammals-dream-world-theyre-entering</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>chrisseaton</author><text>&gt; Most human babies take 9-18 months to walk, and this is commonly attributed to the fact that human babies have immature brains<p>Have you ever seen a new-born baby&#x27;s legs?<p>They aren&#x27;t even remotely strong enough to walk, no matter what the brain tells them. It takes those months to develop leg muscles. New-borns don&#x27;t have them.<p>It&#x27;s absolutely not restricted by the brain size.</text></item><item><author>teruakohatu</author><text>&gt; Are these innate patterns of activity priming mammalian brains in a similar way?<p>A newborn foal can stand within 55 minutes of being born and can walk or run within 90 minutes. That is crazy fast training speed. Is it training initialization or is it a form of transfer learning?<p>Most human babies take 9-18 months to walk, and this is commonly attributed to the fact that human babies have immature brains that cannot mature due to birth canal constraints, which is constrained by pelvis size which is constrained by the need to walk upright.<p>I have wondered about how true this is. Maybe our brains are just so much more powerful, or capable of much deeper understanding, that we require a much lower initial learning rate.<p>The lottery ticket could explain why some children learn to walk at 6 months, while others are closer to 24 months, with no different in intelligence or motor skills in later life.<p>Edit: As some people below have correctly pointed out, human babies could not walk within an hour for physiological reasons, but nor do they exhibit the basic motor skills, spatial reasoning or image processing required for walking. Many human babies even struggle to feed for the first 24-48 hours or longer.<p>Meanwhile baboon babies can hold onto their mother from birth while the mother climbs trees.</text></item><item><author>gojomo</author><text>Something about this reminds me of the &#x27;Winning Ticket Hypothesis&#x27; in artifical neural networks: that some &#x27;random&#x27; initializations prime a network far better for later faster learning. From <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;arxiv.org&#x2F;abs&#x2F;1803.03635" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;arxiv.org&#x2F;abs&#x2F;1803.03635</a> - the abstract:<p><i>Neural network pruning techniques can reduce the parameter counts of trained networks by over 90%, decreasing storage requirements and improving computational performance of inference without compromising accuracy. However, contemporary experience is that the sparse architectures produced by pruning are difficult to train from the start, which would similarly improve training performance.</i><p><i>We find that a standard pruning technique naturally uncovers subnetworks whose initializations made them capable of training effectively. Based on these results, we articulate the &quot;lottery ticket hypothesis:&quot; dense, randomly-initialized, feed-forward networks contain subnetworks (&quot;winning tickets&quot;) that - when trained in isolation - reach test accuracy comparable to the original network in a similar number of iterations. The winning tickets we find have won the initialization lottery: their connections have initial weights that make training particularly effective.</i><p><i>We present an algorithm to identify winning tickets and a series of experiments that support the lottery ticket hypothesis and the importance of these fortuitous initializations. We consistently find winning tickets that are less than 10-20% of the size of several fully-connected and convolutional feed-forward architectures for MNIST and CIFAR10. Above this size, the winning tickets that we find learn faster than the original network and reach higher test accuracy.</i><p>Are these innate patterns of activity priming mammalian brains in a similar way?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>outworlder</author><text>True. But the movements on all limbs are quite uncoordinated at first. It&#x27;s also not restricted to muscle strength.</text></comment> |
17,055,669 | 17,055,717 | 1 | 2 | 17,053,343 | train | <story><title>Is K8s Too Complicated? </title><url>http://jmoiron.net/blog/is-k8s-too-complicated/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>majewsky</author><text>&gt; Kubernetes isn&#x27;t giving you anything you couldn&#x27;t have already built with configuration management.<p>Configuration management does not give you loadbalancing. Configuration management does not give you rolling upgrades.<p>I mean, sure, you can do this stuff with CM as well, but with k8s, there&#x27;s nothing to build. It&#x27;s already there</text></item><item><author>ownagefool</author><text>I&#x27;d say it&#x27;s actually just a convention vs configuration argument.<p>Kubernetes isn&#x27;t giving you anything you couldn&#x27;t have already built with configuration management. It just happens to a standard written by a bunch of people with a background in the problem domain.<p>Personally, I think the abstractions are thoughtful and the system isn&#x27;t really inherently more complicated than what you&#x27;ll eventually build anyways, but as the article said, we all have a bias towards that crap we ourselves invented, because we already know how that works, and we find learning something like kubernetes a chore.<p>That said, I wouldn&#x27;t say it&#x27;s about how many servers you manage. If you have a single monolith, written and ran by a single team, it doesn&#x27;t neccessairly get more complex as you throw more servers at it. But when you have several teams, writing and hosting several systems, it&#x27;s nicer to have a convention framework instead of an undocumented snowflake platform.<p>I have to agre on your final point though. If you find running kubernetes complicated, go to GKE and treat it like you do your IaaS provider, which is more complicated but isn&#x27;t something you typically deal with.</text></item><item><author>hacknat</author><text>Right tool for the right job. Is K8s too complicated? For some use cases it is.<p>They probably should do a better job of discouraging certain use cases, but calling their elevator pitch “bullshit” is hyperbolic.<p>There are exceptions to every rule, but a good rule of thumb is cluster size. If you’re managing less than 25 servers than K8s is <i>probably</i> over kill. As you start to creep north of 40 servers K8s really starts to shine. The other place K8s really shines is dynamic load. I manage anywhere from 600-1000 16Gb VMs, I can’t imagine doing it without K8s.<p>If cluster size isn’t a good rule of thumb then application architectur probably is. If no one person in you company has a complete mental model of the application architecture or it is impossible because it is so complex, again container orchestration might be a good way to go.<p>Final point:
If you’re struggling with K8s swallow your pride and buy a managed solution, then learn as you go.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>devonkim</author><text>And there’s two sides to the equation - even if you have a world class orchestration platform if your application architecture is extremely stateful and can’t tolerate certain services being down the platform can not help. Most places I’ve observed (large and small) simply do not write software in a manner that can be containerized effectively. The abstractions and patterns developers have as a default in most languages tends toward system designs (emergent) where people as a rule write and cache files locally, datastores are expected to stay up forever and never change hostnames, and that service discovery is “too complicated” to ever use.</text></comment> | <story><title>Is K8s Too Complicated? </title><url>http://jmoiron.net/blog/is-k8s-too-complicated/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>majewsky</author><text>&gt; Kubernetes isn&#x27;t giving you anything you couldn&#x27;t have already built with configuration management.<p>Configuration management does not give you loadbalancing. Configuration management does not give you rolling upgrades.<p>I mean, sure, you can do this stuff with CM as well, but with k8s, there&#x27;s nothing to build. It&#x27;s already there</text></item><item><author>ownagefool</author><text>I&#x27;d say it&#x27;s actually just a convention vs configuration argument.<p>Kubernetes isn&#x27;t giving you anything you couldn&#x27;t have already built with configuration management. It just happens to a standard written by a bunch of people with a background in the problem domain.<p>Personally, I think the abstractions are thoughtful and the system isn&#x27;t really inherently more complicated than what you&#x27;ll eventually build anyways, but as the article said, we all have a bias towards that crap we ourselves invented, because we already know how that works, and we find learning something like kubernetes a chore.<p>That said, I wouldn&#x27;t say it&#x27;s about how many servers you manage. If you have a single monolith, written and ran by a single team, it doesn&#x27;t neccessairly get more complex as you throw more servers at it. But when you have several teams, writing and hosting several systems, it&#x27;s nicer to have a convention framework instead of an undocumented snowflake platform.<p>I have to agre on your final point though. If you find running kubernetes complicated, go to GKE and treat it like you do your IaaS provider, which is more complicated but isn&#x27;t something you typically deal with.</text></item><item><author>hacknat</author><text>Right tool for the right job. Is K8s too complicated? For some use cases it is.<p>They probably should do a better job of discouraging certain use cases, but calling their elevator pitch “bullshit” is hyperbolic.<p>There are exceptions to every rule, but a good rule of thumb is cluster size. If you’re managing less than 25 servers than K8s is <i>probably</i> over kill. As you start to creep north of 40 servers K8s really starts to shine. The other place K8s really shines is dynamic load. I manage anywhere from 600-1000 16Gb VMs, I can’t imagine doing it without K8s.<p>If cluster size isn’t a good rule of thumb then application architectur probably is. If no one person in you company has a complete mental model of the application architecture or it is impossible because it is so complex, again container orchestration might be a good way to go.<p>Final point:
If you’re struggling with K8s swallow your pride and buy a managed solution, then learn as you go.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>SEJeff</author><text>Configuration management absolutely can do this. Note that I&#x27;m a builder of kubernetes clusters (on-premise) but also have contributed 400+ patches to the salt configuration management tool.<p>Salt has an &quot;orchestrate layer&quot;[1] which allows running states on sets of minions. One of those layers can be to configure a service, and another can be to update the load balancers when said service is healthchecking green. Saying these things simply can&#x27;t be done with configuration management is utterly false. Kubernetes just makes it easier and more approachable for those less skilled in under the covers systems and infrastructure stuff. Kubernetes is a tool that allows you to build things quickly, but it isn&#x27;t for everyone.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;docs.saltstack.com&#x2F;en&#x2F;2017.7&#x2F;topics&#x2F;orchestrate&#x2F;orchestrate_runner.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;docs.saltstack.com&#x2F;en&#x2F;2017.7&#x2F;topics&#x2F;orchestrate&#x2F;orch...</a></text></comment> |
20,387,302 | 20,386,585 | 1 | 2 | 20,382,164 | train | <story><title>It’s Never Going to Be Perfect, So Just Get It Done</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/07/smarter-living/its-never-going-to-be-perfect-so-just-get-it-done.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>paddlepop</author><text>This doesn&#x27;t work so well for video games. Reviews come out saying its thin on content with a score to match and can kill a game before its had a chance to expand.
Developers have started trying to do this more often lately with mixed results, DICE and Blizzard are high profile examples of this.
Blizzards latest World of Warcraft expansion was heavily criticized for the lack of content on release day and has yet to shake the bad blood even after two big content patches.
DICE tried this with Star Wars Battlefront but couldn&#x27;t keep fans long enough with the limited maps it released with.</text></item><item><author>bluGill</author><text>For software you should make something - any part - work and release it. Then do regular feature releases after that.<p>If you are not working alone you can ask your marketing people for help, sometimes it is worth waiting for a big bang release, sometimes not (For some things if you miss Christmas you should delay until next Christmas). I recommend you err on the side of release too soon - customers are the ultimate answer, if their feedback on what is important is useful to have (but their feedback is not always correct!)</text></item><item><author>CM30</author><text>Well, they&#x27;ve got a point. There are definitely quite a few projects whose creators needed to step back, stop spending years focusing on the wrong things and actually get something done. I mean, look at Duke Nukem Forever. Might have done pretty well had they not spent 14 years on it. Same with many other games and pieces of art that spent decades in development, and sometimes bankrupted&#x2F;broke their creators in the process.<p>Does that mean you should rush? Obviously not. Does that mean having an eye for detail is bad? No, not at all.<p>But it does mean you should try to finish your projects at some point. Something that never gets released at all is pretty much useless, and it&#x27;s probably better to get your products while you&#x27;re alive rather than have them released posthumously by your estate.<p>It&#x27;s also probably worth pointing out that a creator will likely never be as happy with their work as a customer will. After all, you created it, you&#x27;ve got nothing to be surprised by. So right off the bat, some of the &#x27;magic&#x27; found in experiencing a piece of fiction&#x2F;work of art for the first time is immediately gone.<p>You&#x27;re also quite likely to see all the flaws, all the things you could have done better, all the possibilities that didn&#x27;t pan out yet, etc and feel disappointed compared to some ideal you had in your mind.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nostrademons</author><text>It doesn&#x27;t work for AAA games, but it can work really well for indie games. Think of something like Factorio, where version 0.1 looked like this:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.factorio.com&#x2F;blog&#x2F;post&#x2F;fff-184" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.factorio.com&#x2F;blog&#x2F;post&#x2F;fff-184</a><p>Then they just kept releasing every week for 7 years, and now you have people building CPUs and explaining Apache Kafka with it.<p>Ostriv is another recent game that comes to mind as having a similar development cycle. Also many F2P MMOs - most of the non-Blizzard online games I know do regular releases that frequently change the game mechanics (often, to a big player uproar) but still keep their userbase. Fortnight and Pokemon Go are two big ones here.</text></comment> | <story><title>It’s Never Going to Be Perfect, So Just Get It Done</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/07/smarter-living/its-never-going-to-be-perfect-so-just-get-it-done.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>paddlepop</author><text>This doesn&#x27;t work so well for video games. Reviews come out saying its thin on content with a score to match and can kill a game before its had a chance to expand.
Developers have started trying to do this more often lately with mixed results, DICE and Blizzard are high profile examples of this.
Blizzards latest World of Warcraft expansion was heavily criticized for the lack of content on release day and has yet to shake the bad blood even after two big content patches.
DICE tried this with Star Wars Battlefront but couldn&#x27;t keep fans long enough with the limited maps it released with.</text></item><item><author>bluGill</author><text>For software you should make something - any part - work and release it. Then do regular feature releases after that.<p>If you are not working alone you can ask your marketing people for help, sometimes it is worth waiting for a big bang release, sometimes not (For some things if you miss Christmas you should delay until next Christmas). I recommend you err on the side of release too soon - customers are the ultimate answer, if their feedback on what is important is useful to have (but their feedback is not always correct!)</text></item><item><author>CM30</author><text>Well, they&#x27;ve got a point. There are definitely quite a few projects whose creators needed to step back, stop spending years focusing on the wrong things and actually get something done. I mean, look at Duke Nukem Forever. Might have done pretty well had they not spent 14 years on it. Same with many other games and pieces of art that spent decades in development, and sometimes bankrupted&#x2F;broke their creators in the process.<p>Does that mean you should rush? Obviously not. Does that mean having an eye for detail is bad? No, not at all.<p>But it does mean you should try to finish your projects at some point. Something that never gets released at all is pretty much useless, and it&#x27;s probably better to get your products while you&#x27;re alive rather than have them released posthumously by your estate.<p>It&#x27;s also probably worth pointing out that a creator will likely never be as happy with their work as a customer will. After all, you created it, you&#x27;ve got nothing to be surprised by. So right off the bat, some of the &#x27;magic&#x27; found in experiencing a piece of fiction&#x2F;work of art for the first time is immediately gone.<p>You&#x27;re also quite likely to see all the flaws, all the things you could have done better, all the possibilities that didn&#x27;t pan out yet, etc and feel disappointed compared to some ideal you had in your mind.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tomatotomato37</author><text>Not just videogames, it&#x27;s also a terrible strategy for something like self-driving cars or medicine, where &quot;Move fast &amp; break things&quot; ends up breaking people.</text></comment> |
16,159,445 | 16,159,586 | 1 | 3 | 16,158,918 | train | <story><title>How Automakers Invented the Crime of “Jaywalking”</title><url>https://www.vox.com/2015/1/15/7551873/jaywalking-history</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mlinksva</author><text>Now is an opportunity, perhaps first in ~100 years, perhaps last, to recover the streets for unaugmented humans: slow down cars in urban areas, increase qualifications for humans to drive, eventually ban human drivers entirely, leaving only automated vehicles with enough sensors and going slowly enough to reduce auto-related deaths for pedestrians and passengers alike to zero.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jdhopeunique</author><text>If automated vehicles become popular, I predict new crimes will be added in addition to jaywalking. Cyclists may be restricted and anything else that confuses AI drivers. If certain intersections or sections of road consistently confuse AI drivers, automakers will lobby for ways to change these roadways. I suspect calls for AI regulation by people like Elon Musk are really attempts at regulatory capture to make automated vehicles possible and dominated by the first market entrants.</text></comment> | <story><title>How Automakers Invented the Crime of “Jaywalking”</title><url>https://www.vox.com/2015/1/15/7551873/jaywalking-history</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mlinksva</author><text>Now is an opportunity, perhaps first in ~100 years, perhaps last, to recover the streets for unaugmented humans: slow down cars in urban areas, increase qualifications for humans to drive, eventually ban human drivers entirely, leaving only automated vehicles with enough sensors and going slowly enough to reduce auto-related deaths for pedestrians and passengers alike to zero.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>randomdrake</author><text>&gt; slow down cars in urban areas<p>This is actually happening. Portland has recently fallen in line with other cities, like Seattle, and lowered thousands of miles of streets from 25 MPH to 20 MPH.<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.oregonlive.com&#x2F;commuting&#x2F;index.ssf&#x2F;2018&#x2F;01&#x2F;portland_poised_to_drop_speed.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.oregonlive.com&#x2F;commuting&#x2F;index.ssf&#x2F;2018&#x2F;01&#x2F;portla...</a></text></comment> |
14,592,954 | 14,592,620 | 1 | 2 | 14,592,457 | train | <story><title>Inside D's GC</title><url>http://olshansky.me/gc/runtime/dlang/2017/06/14/inside-d-gc.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>dawg</author><text>The D language is currently heading towards deterministic and safe memory management, making it possible to avoid the GC overall, hence further work on GC improvements was deprioritized.
<a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;dlang.org&#x2F;blog&#x2F;2017&#x2F;06&#x2F;16&#x2F;life-in-the-fast-lane&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;dlang.org&#x2F;blog&#x2F;2017&#x2F;06&#x2F;16&#x2F;life-in-the-fast-lane&#x2F;</a><p>The problems are known and indeed a full rewrite on this ancient GC would be in order. Since D 2.072.0 it&#x27;s possible to link and use different GCs, so a faster one could be written as an external library which would be a very welcome effort.
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;dlang.org&#x2F;changelog&#x2F;2.072.0.html#gc-runtimeswitch-added" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;dlang.org&#x2F;changelog&#x2F;2.072.0.html#gc-runtimeswitch-ad...</a><p>I&#x27;d be interested in experimenting with a Connectivity-Based GC (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cs.purdue.edu&#x2F;homes&#x2F;hosking&#x2F;690M&#x2F;cbgc.pdf" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cs.purdue.edu&#x2F;homes&#x2F;hosking&#x2F;690M&#x2F;cbgc.pdf</a>), leveraging type information to do partial collections.
Write barriers come with a performance penalty (~3-5%) that we don&#x27;t want to impose on people using deterministic memory management, but most GCs capable of performing partial collections, e.g. generational GCs, do require write barriers, Connectivity-Based GCs do not.<p>For the time being the pragmatic advise is to replace major sources of GC allocations with deterministic memory management when the GC heap grows too big (~1GB) and performance becomes a problem.<p>So far this hasn&#x27;t prevented various people from writing extremely fast D programs.</text></comment> | <story><title>Inside D's GC</title><url>http://olshansky.me/gc/runtime/dlang/2017/06/14/inside-d-gc.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Dzugaru</author><text>D is the most promising &quot;one to rule them all&quot; languages for me, given it&#x27;s expressive power, speed, compilation speed and support for multiple paradigms. That said, D severely lacks manpower in its development.<p>I&#x27;d like to port author&#x27;s effort to Windows, but I don&#x27;t have OS-level programming experience, so I don&#x27;t even know what are the differences and how they affect GC algorithms described.</text></comment> |
28,401,852 | 28,398,177 | 1 | 2 | 28,389,945 | train | <story><title>How did the plain green lawn become the central landscaping feature in America?</title><url>https://longreads.com/2019/07/18/american-green/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mountainb</author><text>I own a fair amount of land, mostly forest, but I grew up in a city and have lived in suburbs as well, so I understand why lawns confuse people.<p>The answer is that it&#x27;s really low maintenance and it prevents erosion while also lowering the complexity of putting in adequate drainage. It&#x27;s also very efficient to maintain large swaths of grass with uniform equipment, whether it&#x27;s with push mowers, riding mowers, or tractors.<p>Maintaining forest is challenging, dangerous, and more labor intensive than you might think. It&#x27;s real easy to die doing forest work: trees really wanna kill you. Trees are always getting sick and grody. It&#x27;s easy to accidentally kill healthy trees when you are culling dying&#x2F;dead trees and, at least for me, making mistakes makes me feel sad and guilty about it. Chainsaws are easy to use and you really have to be not paying attention or not using protective equipment to hurt yourself with them -- it&#x27;s the trees that are dangerous. This is one of the reasons why suburban developers don&#x27;t go out of their way to plant forests even if it would make the area look nicer. There&#x27;s also the question of who would maintain the forest in an area where everything is subdivided into small private plots, but any living forest requires a lot of space to grow.<p>It is also more intellectually challenging to maintain forest. This is reflected by the difference in wage rates between forestry workers and normal landscapers. Stump removal when you have to do it is also its own set of challenges.<p>The other reason why uniform lawns are easier to work with is something that only dawned on me after years of letting the weeds grow amidst the normal grass. Weeds grow at different rates and have different impacts on the soil. It&#x27;s a lot easier to maintain a uniform lawn. A weedy lawn can look cool at some parts of the year with lots of wildflowers and then look crappy at other times when the flowers all die and it&#x27;s just some weird scratchy bunch of weeds that creates a weird erosion pattern, which is a problem that is more expensive&#x2F;difficult to fix than just never having it happen in the first place.<p>I understand the intellectual perspective in this article but the explanation is very silly in light of the practical considerations that become apparent when you are responsible for land yourself. The labor-hour estimate in this article is also totally delusional, or based on some absurd standard that no one actually keeps their tiny lawn to.<p>I mean, how would you even spent 150 hours a year maintaining a tiny suburban lawn? Are you cutting it with a toenail clipper? Huh? That&#x27;s almost 3 hours a week, dude.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>stinos</author><text><i>It&#x27;s really low maintenance</i><p>I think that depends on your frame of reference. Sure in comparison with maintaining a forest the way you describe it&#x27;s low (though note that there&#x27;s always the option of not maintaining a forest at all, except for paths through it). But compared to maintaining a meadow (even mown piecewise to strive for max biodiversity) where you&#x27;d mow max 2 times a year, it&#x27;s rather high.<p><i>It&#x27;s a lot easier to maintain a uniform lawn</i><p>Depends. I don&#x27;t consider mowing a piece of grass 2 times a year a lot harder than doing all of it every 2 weeks, on the contrary. You need the correct tool for the job though.<p><i>when the flowers all die</i><p>That doesn&#x27;t have to be like that, e.g. in my Western-European climate that is only so in the middle of winter; for the rest my grassland has flowering species about 9 months a year. Does require some insight into ecology of grasslands to get such situation though. What you talk about is typically what one gets when not mowing &#x27;correctly&#x27;. I.e. wrong time of year, or too much or too little, or not removing the vegetation after mowing it, etc.<p><i>that creates a weird erosion pattern</i><p>Can you explain that? I&#x27;m pretty sure I&#x27;ve seen studies where old grasslands are better for erosion than short lawns.</text></comment> | <story><title>How did the plain green lawn become the central landscaping feature in America?</title><url>https://longreads.com/2019/07/18/american-green/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mountainb</author><text>I own a fair amount of land, mostly forest, but I grew up in a city and have lived in suburbs as well, so I understand why lawns confuse people.<p>The answer is that it&#x27;s really low maintenance and it prevents erosion while also lowering the complexity of putting in adequate drainage. It&#x27;s also very efficient to maintain large swaths of grass with uniform equipment, whether it&#x27;s with push mowers, riding mowers, or tractors.<p>Maintaining forest is challenging, dangerous, and more labor intensive than you might think. It&#x27;s real easy to die doing forest work: trees really wanna kill you. Trees are always getting sick and grody. It&#x27;s easy to accidentally kill healthy trees when you are culling dying&#x2F;dead trees and, at least for me, making mistakes makes me feel sad and guilty about it. Chainsaws are easy to use and you really have to be not paying attention or not using protective equipment to hurt yourself with them -- it&#x27;s the trees that are dangerous. This is one of the reasons why suburban developers don&#x27;t go out of their way to plant forests even if it would make the area look nicer. There&#x27;s also the question of who would maintain the forest in an area where everything is subdivided into small private plots, but any living forest requires a lot of space to grow.<p>It is also more intellectually challenging to maintain forest. This is reflected by the difference in wage rates between forestry workers and normal landscapers. Stump removal when you have to do it is also its own set of challenges.<p>The other reason why uniform lawns are easier to work with is something that only dawned on me after years of letting the weeds grow amidst the normal grass. Weeds grow at different rates and have different impacts on the soil. It&#x27;s a lot easier to maintain a uniform lawn. A weedy lawn can look cool at some parts of the year with lots of wildflowers and then look crappy at other times when the flowers all die and it&#x27;s just some weird scratchy bunch of weeds that creates a weird erosion pattern, which is a problem that is more expensive&#x2F;difficult to fix than just never having it happen in the first place.<p>I understand the intellectual perspective in this article but the explanation is very silly in light of the practical considerations that become apparent when you are responsible for land yourself. The labor-hour estimate in this article is also totally delusional, or based on some absurd standard that no one actually keeps their tiny lawn to.<p>I mean, how would you even spent 150 hours a year maintaining a tiny suburban lawn? Are you cutting it with a toenail clipper? Huh? That&#x27;s almost 3 hours a week, dude.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>cptskippy</author><text>&gt; I mean, how would you even spent 150 hours a year maintaining a tiny suburban lawn? Are you cutting it with a toenail clipper? Huh? That&#x27;s almost 3 hours a week, dude.<p>A quarter acre of St Augustine grass in Georgia produces about 5-10 of those 30 gallon yard waste bags full of grass clippings each week at the height of the growing season. The clippings cannot remain on the grass or they will kill it. It takes approximately 5 hours a week to maintain such a yard.<p>Similarly in the fall, the trees will produce similar amounts of leaves each week that also cannot remain on the grass or they will kill it.</text></comment> |
27,324,992 | 27,324,934 | 1 | 2 | 27,324,406 | train | <story><title>Ghost Stations of the Paris Metro</title><url>https://www.urbextour.com/en/urbex-travel/7-ghost-stations-of-the-paris-metro-and-how-to-get-into-the-illegally-unusual-tunnels-rer/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>johncoltrane</author><text>Retired Parisian graffiti writer, here.<p>The parent article does a good job at explaining the whys and hows.<p>For the stations that where actually open at some point, it was mainly a matter of optimization: new hubs being built, profitability, etc. The end of WWII has been the turning point for most them.<p>Porte des Lilas was a prototype station repurposed for shooting movies in a controlled environment.<p>Haxo was part of a failed project to connect two lines. It was never officially opened so we, locals, don&#x27;t really consider it as a station.<p>The buff between Place d&#x27;Italie and Corvisart has never been a station. It&#x27;s more of a curiosity than anything.<p>Not mentioned in the article are the former end-station of line 5 at Gare du Nord, now a training ground for metro drivers, Arsenal on line 5, Porte Maillot on line 1, and Molitor, which was never even connected to the surface.<p>I am not sure how popular the ghost stations of the métro, the prohibited sections of the catacombs, and the &quot;petite ceinture&quot; are with today&#x27;s teens but they made Paris a gigantic interconnected playground back in the 80s&#x2F;90s.</text></item><item><author>Zenst</author><text>I find it facinating that in a growing population that large places like Paris have stations that became disused. But that seems to be the case upon many large underground networks that have been around long enough and in London the list is not short: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;tfl.gov.uk&#x2F;corporate&#x2F;about-tfl&#x2F;culture-and-heritage&#x2F;londons-transport-a-history&#x2F;london-underground&#x2F;disused-underground-stations" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;tfl.gov.uk&#x2F;corporate&#x2F;about-tfl&#x2F;culture-and-heritage&#x2F;...</a><p>Though that does not include stations part built and then never completed of which there are a fair few for London, unsure about Paris but I would imagine be some instances of part built or intended stations that never got finished.
Indeed I had a look at seems at least two got built and never saw use - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.renfe-sncf.com&#x2F;rw-en&#x2F;blog&#x2F;destinations&#x2F;paris&#x2F;visit-underground-stations" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.renfe-sncf.com&#x2F;rw-en&#x2F;blog&#x2F;destinations&#x2F;paris&#x2F;vis...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kweks</author><text>I was always curious: the Sprague&#x2F;s were left virgin for so many years. Was it because they hadn&#x27;t been discovered by writers, or because they were considered untouchable for reasons of historical importance. Obviously the scene has all types, and both scenarios seem as unlikely as each other.. can you elaborate ?<p>Edit: &quot;Sprague&quot; or Sprague Thompson is rolling stock dating back to 1908. There are one or two hidden very well in the system, with one still in mint, serviceable condition.</text></comment> | <story><title>Ghost Stations of the Paris Metro</title><url>https://www.urbextour.com/en/urbex-travel/7-ghost-stations-of-the-paris-metro-and-how-to-get-into-the-illegally-unusual-tunnels-rer/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>johncoltrane</author><text>Retired Parisian graffiti writer, here.<p>The parent article does a good job at explaining the whys and hows.<p>For the stations that where actually open at some point, it was mainly a matter of optimization: new hubs being built, profitability, etc. The end of WWII has been the turning point for most them.<p>Porte des Lilas was a prototype station repurposed for shooting movies in a controlled environment.<p>Haxo was part of a failed project to connect two lines. It was never officially opened so we, locals, don&#x27;t really consider it as a station.<p>The buff between Place d&#x27;Italie and Corvisart has never been a station. It&#x27;s more of a curiosity than anything.<p>Not mentioned in the article are the former end-station of line 5 at Gare du Nord, now a training ground for metro drivers, Arsenal on line 5, Porte Maillot on line 1, and Molitor, which was never even connected to the surface.<p>I am not sure how popular the ghost stations of the métro, the prohibited sections of the catacombs, and the &quot;petite ceinture&quot; are with today&#x27;s teens but they made Paris a gigantic interconnected playground back in the 80s&#x2F;90s.</text></item><item><author>Zenst</author><text>I find it facinating that in a growing population that large places like Paris have stations that became disused. But that seems to be the case upon many large underground networks that have been around long enough and in London the list is not short: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;tfl.gov.uk&#x2F;corporate&#x2F;about-tfl&#x2F;culture-and-heritage&#x2F;londons-transport-a-history&#x2F;london-underground&#x2F;disused-underground-stations" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;tfl.gov.uk&#x2F;corporate&#x2F;about-tfl&#x2F;culture-and-heritage&#x2F;...</a><p>Though that does not include stations part built and then never completed of which there are a fair few for London, unsure about Paris but I would imagine be some instances of part built or intended stations that never got finished.
Indeed I had a look at seems at least two got built and never saw use - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.renfe-sncf.com&#x2F;rw-en&#x2F;blog&#x2F;destinations&#x2F;paris&#x2F;visit-underground-stations" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.renfe-sncf.com&#x2F;rw-en&#x2F;blog&#x2F;destinations&#x2F;paris&#x2F;vis...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Zenst</author><text>Yes for London the WW2 period sure did change the landscape in many ways and I recall being supprised that it wasn&#x27;t until 2015 that London&#x27;s population had finally caught up with level it had in 1939. That alone really did highlight how some things can be impacting far wider than we appreciate.</text></comment> |
40,193,025 | 40,192,571 | 1 | 3 | 40,189,682 | train | <story><title>Did we lose our way in making efficient software?</title><url>https://rufatmammadli.medium.com/did-we-lose-our-way-in-making-efficient-software-30-mb-doc-file-vs-browser-fed12dd866a4</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>alerighi</author><text>The thing that makes me crazy is that the thing that we do on computers are basically the same each year, yet software are more and more heavy. For example just in 2010 a Linux distribution with a DE just started did consume 100Mb of RAM, an optimized version 60Mb of RAM. I remember it perfectly. I had 2Gb of RAM and did not have even a swap partition.<p>Now just a decade later, a computer with less than 8Gb of RAM is unusable. A computer with 8Gb of RAM is barely usable. Each new software uses Electron and consumes roughly 1Gb of RAM minimum! Browsers consume a ton of RAM, basically everything consumes an absurd amount of memory.<p>Not talking about Windows, I don&#x27;t even know how people can use it. Every time I help my mother with the computer is so slow, and we talk about a recent PC with an i5 and 8Gb of RAM. It takes ages to startup, software takes ages to launch, it takes 1 hour if you need to do updates. How can people use these system and not complain? I would throw my computer out of the window if it takes more than a minute to boot up, even Windows 98 was faster!</text></item><item><author>stephc_int13</author><text>My opinion about this is that yes, we lost our way, and the reason is very simple, it is because we could. It was the path of least resistance, so we took it.<p>Software has been freeriding on hardware improvements for a few decades, especially on web and desktop apps.<p>Moore&#x27;s law has been a blessing and a curse.<p>The software you use today was written by people who learned their craft while this free-ride was still fully ongoing.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>flenserboy</author><text>Think also about all the finished stand-alone applications which have been discarded because of replacement APIs, or because they were written in assembly. We had near-perfect (limited feature-wise from a 3-decade view, of course) word processors, spreadsheets, and single-user databases in the late 80s&#x2F;early 90s which were, except for many specific use-case additions, complete &amp; only in need of regular maintenance &amp; quality-of-life updates were there a way to keep them current. They were in many cases far better quality &amp; documented than almost any similar applications you can get your hands on today; so many work-years done in parallel, repeated, &amp; lost. If there wouldn&#x27;t be software sourcing &amp; document interchange issues, it would be tempting to do all my actual office-style work on a virtual mid-90s system &amp; move things over to the host system when printing or sending data.<p>Addition: consider also how few resources these applications used, &amp; how they, if they were able to run natively on contemporary systems, would have minuscule system demands compared to their present equivalents with only somewhat less capability.</text></comment> | <story><title>Did we lose our way in making efficient software?</title><url>https://rufatmammadli.medium.com/did-we-lose-our-way-in-making-efficient-software-30-mb-doc-file-vs-browser-fed12dd866a4</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>alerighi</author><text>The thing that makes me crazy is that the thing that we do on computers are basically the same each year, yet software are more and more heavy. For example just in 2010 a Linux distribution with a DE just started did consume 100Mb of RAM, an optimized version 60Mb of RAM. I remember it perfectly. I had 2Gb of RAM and did not have even a swap partition.<p>Now just a decade later, a computer with less than 8Gb of RAM is unusable. A computer with 8Gb of RAM is barely usable. Each new software uses Electron and consumes roughly 1Gb of RAM minimum! Browsers consume a ton of RAM, basically everything consumes an absurd amount of memory.<p>Not talking about Windows, I don&#x27;t even know how people can use it. Every time I help my mother with the computer is so slow, and we talk about a recent PC with an i5 and 8Gb of RAM. It takes ages to startup, software takes ages to launch, it takes 1 hour if you need to do updates. How can people use these system and not complain? I would throw my computer out of the window if it takes more than a minute to boot up, even Windows 98 was faster!</text></item><item><author>stephc_int13</author><text>My opinion about this is that yes, we lost our way, and the reason is very simple, it is because we could. It was the path of least resistance, so we took it.<p>Software has been freeriding on hardware improvements for a few decades, especially on web and desktop apps.<p>Moore&#x27;s law has been a blessing and a curse.<p>The software you use today was written by people who learned their craft while this free-ride was still fully ongoing.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>wvenable</author><text>&gt; The thing that makes me crazy is that the thing that we do on computers are basically the same each year<p>I think that is some kind of fallacy. We are doing the same things but the quality of those things is vastly different. I collect vintage computers and I think you&#x27;d be surprised how limited we were while doing the same things. I wouldn&#x27;t want to go back.<p>Although I will say your experience with Windows is different than mine. On all my machines, regardless of specs, start up is fast so the point where I don&#x27;t even think about it.</text></comment> |
39,230,809 | 39,230,910 | 1 | 3 | 39,229,070 | train | <story><title>Japan to introduce six-month residency visa for 'digital nomads'</title><url>https://asia.nikkei.com/Spotlight/Japan-immigration/Japan-to-introduce-six-month-residency-visa-for-digital-nomads</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>FirmwareBurner</author><text>So they only want high earning workers from developed countries, basically the kind of immigrants every other country wants but doesn&#x27;t dare say it out loud. What&#x27;s wrong with that? Their country, their rules.</text></item><item><author>fxtentacle</author><text>Yeah I also find it weird because<p>&quot;To be eligible for the new status, applicants must have an annual income equivalent to 10 million yen ($68,000) or more&quot;<p>which means the newly created Digital Nomad class needs to have 2x the average GDP&#x2F;capita in income?</text></item><item><author>somenameforme</author><text>Most aren&#x27;t aware of the situation Japan is in today because of the world we all grew up in, where Japan was at one point nearly the largest economy in the world. Japan has been in between a recession and stagnation for 30 years. Their GDP was higher 31 years ago than it is today. [1] Their GDP&#x2F;capita is $33,950 with most wages well below that. They hit a record high for average wages in 2022 of ¥311,800 - about $2,100. [2]<p>Next - they&#x27;re dying off. They hit their inflection point in 2009 and they&#x27;ve been shrinking since [3]. They&#x27;ve lost more than 5million people since 2009. And the &quot;fun&quot; thing about fertility collapse is that the decline will never stop. Their population will keep shrinking down at the &#x27;equilibrium rate&#x27; (decided by fertility rate) until they start having babies, or go extinct. The exact same will happen to every other country with sub-replacement fertility rates.<p>This, IMO, is an effort to try to attract a certain type of immigrant largely for the purposes of revenue generation.<p>---<p>[1] - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;data.worldbank.org&#x2F;indicator&#x2F;NY.GDP.MKTP.CD?locations=JP" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;data.worldbank.org&#x2F;indicator&#x2F;NY.GDP.MKTP.CD?location...</a><p>[2] - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nippon.com&#x2F;en&#x2F;japan-data&#x2F;h01631&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nippon.com&#x2F;en&#x2F;japan-data&#x2F;h01631&#x2F;</a><p>[2] - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.worldometers.info&#x2F;world-population&#x2F;japan-population&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.worldometers.info&#x2F;world-population&#x2F;japan-populat...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>standardUser</author><text>&gt; basically the kind of immigrants every other country wants but doesn&#x27;t dare say it out loud<p>Many nations have high standards for immigration relating to income, wealth and professional qualifications. There is absolutely nothing hush hush about it, not even remotely.</text></comment> | <story><title>Japan to introduce six-month residency visa for 'digital nomads'</title><url>https://asia.nikkei.com/Spotlight/Japan-immigration/Japan-to-introduce-six-month-residency-visa-for-digital-nomads</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>FirmwareBurner</author><text>So they only want high earning workers from developed countries, basically the kind of immigrants every other country wants but doesn&#x27;t dare say it out loud. What&#x27;s wrong with that? Their country, their rules.</text></item><item><author>fxtentacle</author><text>Yeah I also find it weird because<p>&quot;To be eligible for the new status, applicants must have an annual income equivalent to 10 million yen ($68,000) or more&quot;<p>which means the newly created Digital Nomad class needs to have 2x the average GDP&#x2F;capita in income?</text></item><item><author>somenameforme</author><text>Most aren&#x27;t aware of the situation Japan is in today because of the world we all grew up in, where Japan was at one point nearly the largest economy in the world. Japan has been in between a recession and stagnation for 30 years. Their GDP was higher 31 years ago than it is today. [1] Their GDP&#x2F;capita is $33,950 with most wages well below that. They hit a record high for average wages in 2022 of ¥311,800 - about $2,100. [2]<p>Next - they&#x27;re dying off. They hit their inflection point in 2009 and they&#x27;ve been shrinking since [3]. They&#x27;ve lost more than 5million people since 2009. And the &quot;fun&quot; thing about fertility collapse is that the decline will never stop. Their population will keep shrinking down at the &#x27;equilibrium rate&#x27; (decided by fertility rate) until they start having babies, or go extinct. The exact same will happen to every other country with sub-replacement fertility rates.<p>This, IMO, is an effort to try to attract a certain type of immigrant largely for the purposes of revenue generation.<p>---<p>[1] - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;data.worldbank.org&#x2F;indicator&#x2F;NY.GDP.MKTP.CD?locations=JP" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;data.worldbank.org&#x2F;indicator&#x2F;NY.GDP.MKTP.CD?location...</a><p>[2] - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nippon.com&#x2F;en&#x2F;japan-data&#x2F;h01631&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nippon.com&#x2F;en&#x2F;japan-data&#x2F;h01631&#x2F;</a><p>[2] - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.worldometers.info&#x2F;world-population&#x2F;japan-population&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.worldometers.info&#x2F;world-population&#x2F;japan-populat...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>fxtentacle</author><text>The article says &quot;Japan hopes its new visa status will attract [..] YouTubers earning advertising fees from overseas companies.&quot; and this is about digital nomads. To me, that seems weird because most digital nomads (and most YouTube personalities) aren&#x27;t going to make that $68k limit.</text></comment> |
11,511,849 | 11,509,854 | 1 | 2 | 11,507,737 | train | <story><title>House Passes Bill to Sabotage Net Neutrality</title><url>https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2016/04/house-passes-bill-sabotage-net-neutrality</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jauco</author><text>We tried that in the netherlands. Our approach did not work out that well. In all cases there&#x27;s the maintainer of the hardware (cable) and a lot of &quot;providers&quot; on that hardware.<p>I&#x27;m not well informed enough to know why, but in all cases (cable, railroad, powerlines, ether frequencies) the system devolved into a state where the &quot;provider&quot; linked to the hardware maintainer is the dominant player still.<p>I&#x27;m not syaing it can&#x27;t work, just that over here it didn&#x27;t really work.</text></item><item><author>AnkhMorporkian</author><text>The solution, in my humble opinion, is having the government open up that cable. Figure out a way to share it, not keep it a monopoly.</text></item><item><author>equalarrow</author><text>Sure, but the reality is that none of the ISPs are going to lay any new cable. Don&#x27;t forget, all of the original copper laid was financed by the govt back in the 50&#x27;s&#x2F;60&#x27;s. For fiber, unless there&#x27;s a real need for an ISP to add more, they&#x27;re just not going to do it. There is absolutely no incentive.<p>I am not a believer in big or overbearing govt per se, but I feel like, just like power or water, Internet is a utility and it needs to be regulated - hard. The future depends on it. Imagine you&#x27;re a startup and between 2p-6p you don&#x27;t have any or super stoddy internet access. Kinda like Comcast from 5p-11p actually..<p>Anyway, It&#x27;s pathetic really; we invented the f-ing internet and other countries completely surpass our speeds and ability to access. My brother teases me all the time because he has gigabit in Japan (in the early 00&#x27;s, he had 100 Mb).<p>Step outside the US and you realize our options are a total joke.<p>(Edits: spelling)</text></item><item><author>chongli</author><text>Consumer ISPs are not a free market, they&#x27;re a collection of regional monopolies. The solution is not regulation, it&#x27;s increasing competition. If every consumer had a choice of 5 or more competitive ISPs, then the market would sort this out. ISPs could literally advertise &quot;We won&#x27;t slow down your favourite websites! All websites equally fast!&quot;</text></item><item><author>jimrandomh</author><text>Some clarity is badly needed here. If you don&#x27;t know some fairly arcane details of what&#x27;s going on in Internet regulation, this looks as though it just prevents the FCC from setting price floors and price ceilings, which would be fine.<p>What&#x27;s actually going on is fairly complicated, because there are five different parties involved: the consumer, a consumer ISP such as Verizon or Comcast, a backbone provider such as Cogent or Level 3, a business ISP such as Linode or AWS, and a business with a web site. The wires look like this:<p><pre><code> Consumer --- Consumer-ISP --- Backbone-provider --- Business-ISP --- Website
</code></pre>
And the flow of money looks like this:<p><pre><code> Consumer --&gt; Consumer-ISP --&gt; Backbone-provider &lt;-- Business-ISP &lt;-- Website
</code></pre>
For each connection, there is someone paying money who can take their money elsewhere if that connection is too slow. What&#x27;s happening is that some consumer ISPs aren&#x27;t happy with only being paid by consumers, and want websites to also pay them. That would make the flow of money look like this:<p><pre><code> Consumer --&gt; Consumer-ISP --&gt; Backbone-provider &lt;-- Business-ISP &lt;-- Website
^_____________________________________________________|
</code></pre>
The problem is that this arrangement would have businesses paying money to ISPs that they didn&#x27;t choose, and can&#x27;t walk away from. From a consumer&#x27;s perspective, if a web site is slow, it looks like the website&#x27;s fault rather than their ISP&#x27;s fault, which distorts the incentives. This sort of arrangement isn&#x27;t really compatible with free-market incentives, since the flow of money doesn&#x27;t match who&#x27;s providing services to who; it&#x27;s less like normal business, and more like extortion.<p>Unfortunately, I don&#x27;t expect Congress to have access to clear explanations of all of this. But if you happen to have a congressperson&#x27;s ear: rather than convince them of a position, please make sure they understand the full shape of what&#x27;s happening. They&#x27;re smart enough to draw the correct conclusion, but are constantly bombarded by misinformation.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>greggman</author><text>It worked amazingly in Japan<p>Practically overnight (metaphorically) it went from only metered dial up or expensive isdn to ultra fast dsl. There was huge competition mostly lead by SoftBank Japan. The actually handed out routers at subway station exits. Every time their competitors including the old monopoly matched their speed they&#x27;d double it. It was awesome to watch</text></comment> | <story><title>House Passes Bill to Sabotage Net Neutrality</title><url>https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2016/04/house-passes-bill-sabotage-net-neutrality</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jauco</author><text>We tried that in the netherlands. Our approach did not work out that well. In all cases there&#x27;s the maintainer of the hardware (cable) and a lot of &quot;providers&quot; on that hardware.<p>I&#x27;m not well informed enough to know why, but in all cases (cable, railroad, powerlines, ether frequencies) the system devolved into a state where the &quot;provider&quot; linked to the hardware maintainer is the dominant player still.<p>I&#x27;m not syaing it can&#x27;t work, just that over here it didn&#x27;t really work.</text></item><item><author>AnkhMorporkian</author><text>The solution, in my humble opinion, is having the government open up that cable. Figure out a way to share it, not keep it a monopoly.</text></item><item><author>equalarrow</author><text>Sure, but the reality is that none of the ISPs are going to lay any new cable. Don&#x27;t forget, all of the original copper laid was financed by the govt back in the 50&#x27;s&#x2F;60&#x27;s. For fiber, unless there&#x27;s a real need for an ISP to add more, they&#x27;re just not going to do it. There is absolutely no incentive.<p>I am not a believer in big or overbearing govt per se, but I feel like, just like power or water, Internet is a utility and it needs to be regulated - hard. The future depends on it. Imagine you&#x27;re a startup and between 2p-6p you don&#x27;t have any or super stoddy internet access. Kinda like Comcast from 5p-11p actually..<p>Anyway, It&#x27;s pathetic really; we invented the f-ing internet and other countries completely surpass our speeds and ability to access. My brother teases me all the time because he has gigabit in Japan (in the early 00&#x27;s, he had 100 Mb).<p>Step outside the US and you realize our options are a total joke.<p>(Edits: spelling)</text></item><item><author>chongli</author><text>Consumer ISPs are not a free market, they&#x27;re a collection of regional monopolies. The solution is not regulation, it&#x27;s increasing competition. If every consumer had a choice of 5 or more competitive ISPs, then the market would sort this out. ISPs could literally advertise &quot;We won&#x27;t slow down your favourite websites! All websites equally fast!&quot;</text></item><item><author>jimrandomh</author><text>Some clarity is badly needed here. If you don&#x27;t know some fairly arcane details of what&#x27;s going on in Internet regulation, this looks as though it just prevents the FCC from setting price floors and price ceilings, which would be fine.<p>What&#x27;s actually going on is fairly complicated, because there are five different parties involved: the consumer, a consumer ISP such as Verizon or Comcast, a backbone provider such as Cogent or Level 3, a business ISP such as Linode or AWS, and a business with a web site. The wires look like this:<p><pre><code> Consumer --- Consumer-ISP --- Backbone-provider --- Business-ISP --- Website
</code></pre>
And the flow of money looks like this:<p><pre><code> Consumer --&gt; Consumer-ISP --&gt; Backbone-provider &lt;-- Business-ISP &lt;-- Website
</code></pre>
For each connection, there is someone paying money who can take their money elsewhere if that connection is too slow. What&#x27;s happening is that some consumer ISPs aren&#x27;t happy with only being paid by consumers, and want websites to also pay them. That would make the flow of money look like this:<p><pre><code> Consumer --&gt; Consumer-ISP --&gt; Backbone-provider &lt;-- Business-ISP &lt;-- Website
^_____________________________________________________|
</code></pre>
The problem is that this arrangement would have businesses paying money to ISPs that they didn&#x27;t choose, and can&#x27;t walk away from. From a consumer&#x27;s perspective, if a web site is slow, it looks like the website&#x27;s fault rather than their ISP&#x27;s fault, which distorts the incentives. This sort of arrangement isn&#x27;t really compatible with free-market incentives, since the flow of money doesn&#x27;t match who&#x27;s providing services to who; it&#x27;s less like normal business, and more like extortion.<p>Unfortunately, I don&#x27;t expect Congress to have access to clear explanations of all of this. But if you happen to have a congressperson&#x27;s ear: rather than convince them of a position, please make sure they understand the full shape of what&#x27;s happening. They&#x27;re smart enough to draw the correct conclusion, but are constantly bombarded by misinformation.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pavedwalden</author><text>Why does one provider get a privileged relationship with the maintainer? I&#x27;m surprised that in all those industries there was never a complete division of control.</text></comment> |
33,292,186 | 33,291,622 | 1 | 3 | 33,288,277 | train | <story><title>A global house-price slump is coming?</title><url>https://www.economist.com/leaders/2022/10/20/a-global-house-price-slump-is-coming</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>kodah</author><text>&gt; The bad news is that we decided that owning a house is a retirement plan instead of giving people proper retirement plans.<p>I&#x27;ve pondered on this a lot. Houses have been treated as &quot;nest-eggs&quot;, which is really a fancy term for a fallback plan, for quite some time. The housing market really only got out of control after the 80&#x27;s which coincides with when mortgage packages started getting sold on the stock market. To me, that, city zoning, corporate SFH buying, and state governments that have economic policies that embrace&#x2F;grow inflation seem to be the <i>actual</i> problem.<p>I still think it&#x27;s worth while to have house equity as a way to securely store money, but the government has to protect the housing market conservatively to make that work. Just like anything else the market is a system of incentives.</text></item><item><author>pessimizer</author><text>It&#x27;s sickening that this is always marketed as bad news, even though we&#x27;ve been in a bubble for the past 20 years. The bad news is that we decided that owning a house is a retirement plan instead of giving people proper retirement plans. Somehow every non-homeowner has to be a policy slave to the passive income of some wealthy person. And we defend it by claiming that old people who are worth enough money not to work are not wealthy, as if we care about old people. We only care about old people as model &quot;savers&quot; who can be used to morally justify policies that directly and overwhelmingly benefit the very wealthy to the obscenely wealthy.<p>And also, there&#x27;s a problem with revolving credit (i.e. a 2-year mortgage), such as Australia or Britain, or anything that is floating along with some interest rate. But these are a) intentional problems that the people making the loans hope will make them rich, and b) problems with pricing, because people are expected to take decades longer to pay off a house than it would take for them to build it alone with their own hands in their spare time.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Tiktaalik</author><text>A big problem is that homeowners understand that for the value of their &quot;nest-egg&quot; to appreciate, this implicitly relies on housing scarcity, and this influences the outcome of elections, which influences the outcome of government housing policy.<p>As home valuations become more important and critical to the wellbeing of the &quot;middle class&quot;, any policy that would even indirectly hinder valuations comes under great criticism.<p>There were a number of issues in my recent municipal council election, but I cannot help but notice that the candidates suggesting to build rental housing everywhere, which would have empowered renters and hurt homeowning minor landlords that benefit from high rents, lost, and those that won suggested the status quo that would protect detached home areas, with their main housing policy suggestion being around faster renovation permitting, useful of course for those minor home owning landlords wanting to create a secondary suite to get a renter to pay off their massive mortgages.</text></comment> | <story><title>A global house-price slump is coming?</title><url>https://www.economist.com/leaders/2022/10/20/a-global-house-price-slump-is-coming</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>kodah</author><text>&gt; The bad news is that we decided that owning a house is a retirement plan instead of giving people proper retirement plans.<p>I&#x27;ve pondered on this a lot. Houses have been treated as &quot;nest-eggs&quot;, which is really a fancy term for a fallback plan, for quite some time. The housing market really only got out of control after the 80&#x27;s which coincides with when mortgage packages started getting sold on the stock market. To me, that, city zoning, corporate SFH buying, and state governments that have economic policies that embrace&#x2F;grow inflation seem to be the <i>actual</i> problem.<p>I still think it&#x27;s worth while to have house equity as a way to securely store money, but the government has to protect the housing market conservatively to make that work. Just like anything else the market is a system of incentives.</text></item><item><author>pessimizer</author><text>It&#x27;s sickening that this is always marketed as bad news, even though we&#x27;ve been in a bubble for the past 20 years. The bad news is that we decided that owning a house is a retirement plan instead of giving people proper retirement plans. Somehow every non-homeowner has to be a policy slave to the passive income of some wealthy person. And we defend it by claiming that old people who are worth enough money not to work are not wealthy, as if we care about old people. We only care about old people as model &quot;savers&quot; who can be used to morally justify policies that directly and overwhelmingly benefit the very wealthy to the obscenely wealthy.<p>And also, there&#x27;s a problem with revolving credit (i.e. a 2-year mortgage), such as Australia or Britain, or anything that is floating along with some interest rate. But these are a) intentional problems that the people making the loans hope will make them rich, and b) problems with pricing, because people are expected to take decades longer to pay off a house than it would take for them to build it alone with their own hands in their spare time.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>NegativeLatency</author><text>Perhaps also single family zoning started to make its effects clear in the 80&#x27;s.<p>Personally I&#x27;d prefer to live in a nice townhouse in a dense neighborhood but that&#x27;s hard to pull off (location wise not many options, and price wise there&#x27;s just not enough available to make the nice ones comparable to a single family house)</text></comment> |
20,591,949 | 20,591,184 | 1 | 2 | 20,589,087 | train | <story><title>Goldman Sachs is spending $100M to shave milliseconds off stock trades</title><url>https://www.cnbc.com/2019/08/01/goldman-spending-100-million-to-shave-milliseconds-off-stock-trades.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>eecc</author><text>What’s the minimum lag for a packet to reach around the world?<p>Multiply x2 and add an extra 10%.<p>Make that the minimum order placement tick duration.<p>There would be 1 single global price and no arbitrage between markets possible.</text></item><item><author>nickles</author><text>Adding to this, HFT is a product of rule 612 of Reg NMS (the sub-penny rule). Markets are not allowed to show quotes in increments of less than $0.01 for most names. Since traders cannot compete on price, they have been forced to compete exclusively on speed.<p>The impact of such regulation was tested by the SEC recently with the &#x27;tick size&#x27; program. Instead of reducing the minimum increment, some names saw it increased to $0.05. The hope was to increase liquidity while decreasing volatility in these names. In fact, those names experienced decreased liquidity with no decrease in volatility.<p>HFT is a result of regulation.<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.sec.gov&#x2F;divisions&#x2F;marketreg&#x2F;subpenny612faq.htm" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.sec.gov&#x2F;divisions&#x2F;marketreg&#x2F;subpenny612faq.htm</a><p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.benzinga.com&#x2F;general&#x2F;education&#x2F;18&#x2F;04&#x2F;11517027&#x2F;the-secs-tick-size-program-likely-to-end-heres-why-thats-a-good-thi" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.benzinga.com&#x2F;general&#x2F;education&#x2F;18&#x2F;04&#x2F;11517027&#x2F;th...</a></text></item><item><author>codingslave</author><text>People love to rail on HFT, but at this point, its really not that profitable. It&#x27;s just a reality of trading in the markets. There was a blip of time between 2008 and 2014 when HFT was extremely profitable. Those inefficiencies have been gone from the market for years. People were whooped into anger about how much money was being made, at this point its a complete non issue and needs to be removed from the highlight reels aimed at generating anger in the public. Lets move on from discussing the boogey man that is HFT, its really nothing.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>H8crilA</author><text>Orders are filled in the order that they arrive to the exchange (if there&#x27;s more than one order at the same price). A global mis-pricing would still be subject to a race to exploit it - whoever submits first gets the fill, even if it happens in the future (in the next tick).<p>What you&#x27;re proposing is turning continuous trading into a fast series of auctions, like what happens for every ticker on every exchange at the opening. This would have the disadvantage of no clear bid&#x2F;ask - how can you be sure that the parties do not withdraw their offers before the next tick? And surely you must allow for offer withdrawals.</text></comment> | <story><title>Goldman Sachs is spending $100M to shave milliseconds off stock trades</title><url>https://www.cnbc.com/2019/08/01/goldman-spending-100-million-to-shave-milliseconds-off-stock-trades.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>eecc</author><text>What’s the minimum lag for a packet to reach around the world?<p>Multiply x2 and add an extra 10%.<p>Make that the minimum order placement tick duration.<p>There would be 1 single global price and no arbitrage between markets possible.</text></item><item><author>nickles</author><text>Adding to this, HFT is a product of rule 612 of Reg NMS (the sub-penny rule). Markets are not allowed to show quotes in increments of less than $0.01 for most names. Since traders cannot compete on price, they have been forced to compete exclusively on speed.<p>The impact of such regulation was tested by the SEC recently with the &#x27;tick size&#x27; program. Instead of reducing the minimum increment, some names saw it increased to $0.05. The hope was to increase liquidity while decreasing volatility in these names. In fact, those names experienced decreased liquidity with no decrease in volatility.<p>HFT is a result of regulation.<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.sec.gov&#x2F;divisions&#x2F;marketreg&#x2F;subpenny612faq.htm" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.sec.gov&#x2F;divisions&#x2F;marketreg&#x2F;subpenny612faq.htm</a><p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.benzinga.com&#x2F;general&#x2F;education&#x2F;18&#x2F;04&#x2F;11517027&#x2F;the-secs-tick-size-program-likely-to-end-heres-why-thats-a-good-thi" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.benzinga.com&#x2F;general&#x2F;education&#x2F;18&#x2F;04&#x2F;11517027&#x2F;th...</a></text></item><item><author>codingslave</author><text>People love to rail on HFT, but at this point, its really not that profitable. It&#x27;s just a reality of trading in the markets. There was a blip of time between 2008 and 2014 when HFT was extremely profitable. Those inefficiencies have been gone from the market for years. People were whooped into anger about how much money was being made, at this point its a complete non issue and needs to be removed from the highlight reels aimed at generating anger in the public. Lets move on from discussing the boogey man that is HFT, its really nothing.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>hoseja</author><text>How is the packet traveling? Through undersea fiber? Through Starlink? Through the Earth by neutrinos?</text></comment> |
6,767,882 | 6,767,904 | 1 | 2 | 6,767,641 | train | <story><title>DNA genius and double Nobel Prize winner Fred Sanger dies aged 95</title><url>http://www.cambridge-news.co.uk/News/DNA-genius-and-double-Nobel-Prize-winner-Fred-Sanger-of-Cambridge-dies-aged-95-20131120113300.htm</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>arethuza</author><text>Some great stuff on his Wikipedia page:<p>- &quot;struggled with physics and mathematics&quot; :-)<p>- &quot;He agreed to having the Centre named after him when asked by John Sulston, the founding director, but warned, &#x27;It had better be good.&#x27;&quot;<p>- &quot;My father was a committed Quaker and I was brought up as a Quaker, and for them truth is very important. I drifted away from those beliefs - one is obviously looking for truth but one needs some evidence for it. Even if I wanted to believe in God I would find it very difficult. I would need to see proof.&quot;<p>- &#x27;He declined the offer of a knighthood as he did not wish to be addressed as &quot;Sir&quot;&#x27;<p>- &quot;the most self-effacing person you could hope to meet&quot;<p>I hope someone writes a good biography of him - I wonder if Andrew Hodges (who wrote &#x27;Alan Turing: The Enigma&#x27;) could be persuaded....<p><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick_Sanger" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Frederick_Sanger</a></text></comment> | <story><title>DNA genius and double Nobel Prize winner Fred Sanger dies aged 95</title><url>http://www.cambridge-news.co.uk/News/DNA-genius-and-double-Nobel-Prize-winner-Fred-Sanger-of-Cambridge-dies-aged-95-20131120113300.htm</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jballanc</author><text>The early pioneers in genetics were all consummate hackers in the truest sense. For much of the work they were doing, the had very little information about the underlying processes to go on. The were, in effect, reverse engineering life.<p>It&#x27;s also worth noting that Sanger&#x27;s sequencing method, or variations on it, were still used decades later to produce the bulk of the human genome sequence. Only very recently have newer, faster, alternative methods been developed. Even so, Sanger sequencing is still used for smaller scale studies, and is simple enough that almost any modern biology lab can do it on their own (all you need is a thermocycler, some eppindorfs, a sequencing gel apparatus, some photographic film, and all the raw chemicals).</text></comment> |
10,395,876 | 10,395,311 | 1 | 2 | 10,395,046 | train | <story><title>Ask HN: How to Be a Good Technical Lead?</title><text>Dear HN,<p>You&#x27;ve been a source of great information before, and I&#x27;m sure I won&#x27;t be disappointed by your advice.<p>I worked as a Software Developer all my career (more than 15 years now), but now I&#x27;m interviewing for a Technical Lead position. I have almost two weeks before the interview.<p>I&#x27;m interested in resources and advice on how to be a good Tech Lead, regarding both technology and people skills. Of course I&#x27;ve seen and taken note on how other leads work, but still feels like a big step for me.<p>The development environment is Microsoft.NET. The main product is a complex software. The main goal would be to develop it so that it is &quot;loosely&quot; built, split into separate modules so that each one can be modified without touching the others.</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>dorfsmay</author><text>- you&#x27;re going to be part of a lot of meetings, email list etc... Make sure you flow information down to your team, every day.<p>- your main job will be to:<p><pre><code> - unblock your tam members
- bring them back on track
</code></pre>
- consensus is great, but sometimes it doesn&#x27;t work. Know when you need to make a decision even if not popular.<p>- praise publicly, criticize in private<p>- give people a chance (give warnings)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>curun1r</author><text>Also:<p><pre><code> - Be explicit about your expectations for each of the team members. This is a
discussion, not a declaration.
- Give feedback early and often, both constructive and kudos.
- Your first priority is the productivity of your team, not your individual
productivity. This means taking the time to help team members that are
struggling, even at the expense of closing out your own stories on time.
- Don&#x27;t be afraid to be vulnerable, admit your own failings or tell your team
that you don&#x27;t know. Allowing your team to see the decision making process
when you go through it can be very valuable and is much better than just being
the guy who has an answer to everything. As a plus, showing your own
vulnerability will lead to your team showing their vulnerability more readily.
- Even if you&#x27;ve got the answer, sometimes it makes sense to let your team make
the decision. There are often many right answers. Remember, your job isn&#x27;t to
choose a right answer, it&#x27;s to ensure that the team doesn&#x27;t choose a wrong
answer.</code></pre></text></comment> | <story><title>Ask HN: How to Be a Good Technical Lead?</title><text>Dear HN,<p>You&#x27;ve been a source of great information before, and I&#x27;m sure I won&#x27;t be disappointed by your advice.<p>I worked as a Software Developer all my career (more than 15 years now), but now I&#x27;m interviewing for a Technical Lead position. I have almost two weeks before the interview.<p>I&#x27;m interested in resources and advice on how to be a good Tech Lead, regarding both technology and people skills. Of course I&#x27;ve seen and taken note on how other leads work, but still feels like a big step for me.<p>The development environment is Microsoft.NET. The main product is a complex software. The main goal would be to develop it so that it is &quot;loosely&quot; built, split into separate modules so that each one can be modified without touching the others.</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>dorfsmay</author><text>- you&#x27;re going to be part of a lot of meetings, email list etc... Make sure you flow information down to your team, every day.<p>- your main job will be to:<p><pre><code> - unblock your tam members
- bring them back on track
</code></pre>
- consensus is great, but sometimes it doesn&#x27;t work. Know when you need to make a decision even if not popular.<p>- praise publicly, criticize in private<p>- give people a chance (give warnings)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>chetanahuja</author><text><i>your main job will be to:</i><p><i>- unblock your tam members</i><p><i>- bring them back on track</i><p>Ditto. Note that the unblocking&#x2F;course-correcting role is the real job. Depending on the size of the team, you may or may not want to be involved in architecture&#x2F;design of minor projects that crop up all the time (things that might take a week or two to develop). Your team should trust and rely on your advise&#x2F;insight around technical issues. Writing code yourself would be a secondary role though if it&#x27;s a smaller team (2-3) people, you&#x27;d be advised to pull your weight there as well.<p>And yes, that set of responsibilities means that this would be more than a full-time job. You should know that going in. If you&#x27;re more inclined to a strict 40 hour week, you&#x27;d probably better off declining this offer.</text></comment> |
5,396,913 | 5,396,652 | 1 | 3 | 5,395,609 | train | <story><title>Linode NextGen: The Hardware</title><url>http://blog.linode.com/2013/03/18/linode-nextgen-the-hardware/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>grey-area</author><text>According to the linode FAQ [1], current linode servers have roughly 20GB of RAM shared out. Does anyone know the spec of the new servers and what the max memory would be? The max for the CPU seems to be 750GB [2]. Presumably servers would be far less than the theoretical max, but fingers crossed they'll be able to bump the memory at some point soon so that they're a bit more competitive with others.<p>I was really hoping that was going to be this announcement, however the fact they've titled it 'The Hardware' hints that there might be nothing new on RAM in the next announcement, which would be a shame. Upgrades to CPU are nice, but it'd be nicer to see a RAM upgrade, as almost everyone is constrained on RAM rather than CPU or disk, particularly on newer hardware and with their new bandwidth limits.<p>I feel rather ungrateful now having said all that. Thanks anyway Linode!<p>[1] <a href="http://www.linode.com/faq.cfm#how-many-linodes-share-a-host" rel="nofollow">http://www.linode.com/faq.cfm#how-many-linodes-share-a-host</a>
[2] <a href="http://ark.intel.com/products/64595/Intel-Xeon-Processor-E5-2670-20M-Cache-2_60-GHz-8_00-GTs-Intel-QPI" rel="nofollow">http://ark.intel.com/products/64595/Intel-Xeon-Processor-E5-...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Linode NextGen: The Hardware</title><url>http://blog.linode.com/2013/03/18/linode-nextgen-the-hardware/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>trotsky</author><text>I'm not super up on os level virtualization providers, but I'm curious why exposing 8 cores is an advantage. Based on the ram sizing it seems like they expect to run 100+ containers per processor - so surely they're restricting cpu time per process (instance) somehow. If you use a bunch of cpu time won't you just get starved out when you hit an invisible cpu wall? If you're only getting 1/10th or less of a cpu core wouldn't it make more sense to pin each instance to just a couple of cores minimizing context switches?</text></comment> |
14,306,635 | 14,304,532 | 1 | 3 | 14,304,088 | train | <story><title>President Trump Dismisses FBI Director Comey</title><url>https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/comey-misstated-key-clinton-email-evidence-at-hearing-say-people-close-to-investigation/2017/05/09/074c1c7e-34bd-11e7-b373-418f6849a004_story.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>fooey</author><text>Seemed to be confirmed as real, so here are letters being floated as from Trump, Sessions and Rosenstein firing Comey and blaming the Clinton investigation<p>Trump:
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;pbs.twimg.com&#x2F;media&#x2F;C_apTsDXoAAVKYn.jpg" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;pbs.twimg.com&#x2F;media&#x2F;C_apTsDXoAAVKYn.jpg</a><p>AG Sessions:
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;pbs.twimg.com&#x2F;media&#x2F;C_apUYrXgAAihp2.jpg" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;pbs.twimg.com&#x2F;media&#x2F;C_apUYrXgAAihp2.jpg</a><p>Deputy AG Rosenstein:
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;pbs.twimg.com&#x2F;media&#x2F;C_apVImXcAIKhfm.jpg" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;pbs.twimg.com&#x2F;media&#x2F;C_apVImXcAIKhfm.jpg</a><p><pre><code> Dear Director Comey:
I have received the attached letters from the Attorney General and Deputy Attorney General of the United States recommending your dismissal as the Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. I have accepted their recommendation and you are hereby terminated and removed from office, effective immediately.
While I greatly appreciate you informing me, on three separate occasions, that I am not under investigation, I nevertheless concur with the judgment of the Department of Justice that you are not able to effectively lead the Bureau.
It it essential that we find new leadership for the FBI that restores public trust and confidence in its vital law enforcement mission.
I wish you the best of luck in your future endeavors.</code></pre></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>frankzinger</author><text>Sorry, but the horizontal scrolling kills me.<p><pre><code> Dear Director Comey:
I have received the attached letters from
the Attorney General and Deputy Attorney General
of the United States recommending your dismissal
as the Director of the Federal Bureau of
Investigation. I have accepted their
recommendation and you are hereby terminated and
removed from office, effective immediately.
While I greatly appreciate you informing me, on
three separate occasions, that I am not under
investigation, I nevertheless concur with the
judgment of the Department of Justice that you
are not able to effectively lead the Bureau.
It it essential that we find new leadership for
the FBI that restores public trust and confidence
in its vital law enforcement mission.
I wish you the best of luck in your future
endeavors.</code></pre></text></comment> | <story><title>President Trump Dismisses FBI Director Comey</title><url>https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/comey-misstated-key-clinton-email-evidence-at-hearing-say-people-close-to-investigation/2017/05/09/074c1c7e-34bd-11e7-b373-418f6849a004_story.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>fooey</author><text>Seemed to be confirmed as real, so here are letters being floated as from Trump, Sessions and Rosenstein firing Comey and blaming the Clinton investigation<p>Trump:
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;pbs.twimg.com&#x2F;media&#x2F;C_apTsDXoAAVKYn.jpg" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;pbs.twimg.com&#x2F;media&#x2F;C_apTsDXoAAVKYn.jpg</a><p>AG Sessions:
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;pbs.twimg.com&#x2F;media&#x2F;C_apUYrXgAAihp2.jpg" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;pbs.twimg.com&#x2F;media&#x2F;C_apUYrXgAAihp2.jpg</a><p>Deputy AG Rosenstein:
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;pbs.twimg.com&#x2F;media&#x2F;C_apVImXcAIKhfm.jpg" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;pbs.twimg.com&#x2F;media&#x2F;C_apVImXcAIKhfm.jpg</a><p><pre><code> Dear Director Comey:
I have received the attached letters from the Attorney General and Deputy Attorney General of the United States recommending your dismissal as the Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. I have accepted their recommendation and you are hereby terminated and removed from office, effective immediately.
While I greatly appreciate you informing me, on three separate occasions, that I am not under investigation, I nevertheless concur with the judgment of the Department of Justice that you are not able to effectively lead the Bureau.
It it essential that we find new leadership for the FBI that restores public trust and confidence in its vital law enforcement mission.
I wish you the best of luck in your future endeavors.</code></pre></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>wonderwonder</author><text>This man cannot help making everything about him. If it was anyone else it would elicit a rueful shake of my head and a comment about a gross display of childishness and saying Na Na Na Na to the bullied kid. But as it comes from the president of the United States, it&#x27;s terrifying.</text></comment> |
8,105,835 | 8,103,293 | 1 | 2 | 8,102,308 | train | <story><title>Indian E-Commerce Firm Flipkart Raises Eye-Popping $1B</title><url>http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2014/07/29/indian-e-commerce-firm-flipkart-raises-eye-popping-1-billion/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>tn13</author><text>I find Flipkart&#x27;s valuation very puzzling clearly the investors have seen what I haven&#x27;t. Flipkart&#x27;s revenue is extremely less for a population of the size of India. They makes ~$200M in revenues per year with an operational loss which I am told is significant.<p>Flipkart has managed to scale its revenue but without making a profit. Even this would have appeared as a good opportunity if Flipkart was kind of de-facto e-commerce business in India. Turns out that it is not. Snapdeal, Junglee (Amazon India) are pretty close. Myntra was the leader in apparel and fashion products sale online which was then acquired by Flipkart. (Myntra was not profitable either).<p>I find it hard to understand why anyone believes that Flipkart would ever make profit in next 5 years or so. I find it hard to believe.<p>Unlike USA, India has not yet figured out how to build proper usable roads, the cities are not planned and India does not have a proper addressing system. Government regulations have further made life difficult for courier companies. All this has resulted into cities and towns where traveling over few kms is very expensive and time consuming as a result small shops catering to need of local communities have sprung up like mushrooms. Current India is probably resembles more to the A&amp;P days of USA.<p>My assertion is validated by the fact that Travel Booking and Movie ticket booking websites in India are growing fast and also very profitable.</text></comment> | <story><title>Indian E-Commerce Firm Flipkart Raises Eye-Popping $1B</title><url>http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2014/07/29/indian-e-commerce-firm-flipkart-raises-eye-popping-1-billion/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>piyushpr134</author><text>For the uninitiated: Flipkart is AMZN of India. They are doing tonnes of sales here. FK is getting so much valuation as India does not have a big enough organised retail (roughly 5%). This means there is a generation which would move on from unorganized retail to online. And hence the astronomical valuations. FK also has some unique ideas. For instance, they launched Moto e, g and x in India as exclusive sellers. They managed to sell 1 million of those phones in last 6 months. This alone would have easily resulted in a $20-25 million rev.</text></comment> |
29,278,911 | 29,278,580 | 1 | 2 | 29,277,661 | train | <story><title>Tech journalism is less diverse than tech (2020)</title><url>https://oonwoye.com/2020/07/31/tech-journalism-is-less-diverse-than-tech/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>quadrifoliate</author><text>Compared to programming and tech, success in a lot of fields in the humanities, including journalism is <i>far</i> more connected to who you know, what family you were born into, what college you went to, and your overall personal network. In such an environment, it is unsurprising that there is a severe lack of diversity.<p>I have never received a satisfactory answer for why a lot of people from these fields are all about &quot;Everyone should learn to code&quot; initiatives, but not, say &quot;Everyone should learn to be a citizen journalist&quot;, or &quot;Everyone should learn to be a copy editor&quot;. Indeed, in many aspects, the latter would seem to share many aspects with learning to code (attention to detail, focus on syntax, etc.), and be more accessible.<p>My conclusion is that there is no desire to increase participation in or accessibility to the field of journalism, because of a rejection of the Jevons paradox. And consequently, the shrinking field seems to rely heavily on credentialism and connections to choose who becomes a journalist.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rayiner</author><text>&gt; Compared to programming and tech, success in a lot of fields in the humanities, including journalism is far more connected to who you know, what family you were born into, what college you went to, and your overall personal network. In such an environment, it is unsurprising that there is a severe lack of diversity.<p>This is one of my concerns about the recent antipathy toward standardized testing. My family came over from Bangladesh, at a time when there were less than 10,000 Bangladeshis in the U.S. Didn&#x27;t have much cultural knowledge, didn&#x27;t know anybody important, and it didn&#x27;t matter. Did well on the SATs, did well on the LSATs--in either engineering or law, being a foreigner didn&#x27;t hold me back. Not sure what would&#x27;ve happened if those objective measures hadn&#x27;t existed. (I mean I guess I do know what happened--family connections mattered a lot more in e.g. the legal field back in the day.)</text></comment> | <story><title>Tech journalism is less diverse than tech (2020)</title><url>https://oonwoye.com/2020/07/31/tech-journalism-is-less-diverse-than-tech/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>quadrifoliate</author><text>Compared to programming and tech, success in a lot of fields in the humanities, including journalism is <i>far</i> more connected to who you know, what family you were born into, what college you went to, and your overall personal network. In such an environment, it is unsurprising that there is a severe lack of diversity.<p>I have never received a satisfactory answer for why a lot of people from these fields are all about &quot;Everyone should learn to code&quot; initiatives, but not, say &quot;Everyone should learn to be a citizen journalist&quot;, or &quot;Everyone should learn to be a copy editor&quot;. Indeed, in many aspects, the latter would seem to share many aspects with learning to code (attention to detail, focus on syntax, etc.), and be more accessible.<p>My conclusion is that there is no desire to increase participation in or accessibility to the field of journalism, because of a rejection of the Jevons paradox. And consequently, the shrinking field seems to rely heavily on credentialism and connections to choose who becomes a journalist.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dayvid</author><text>People hate on tech interviews, but it&#x27;s honestly a lot more fair than traditional interviewing if done properly. You only gauge the candidate on their ability to solve and think through a problem. I also follow a trainer&#x27;s pattern who doesn&#x27;t read the candidate&#x27;s resume before a technical screen to further reduce bias.</text></comment> |
2,973,175 | 2,973,029 | 1 | 2 | 2,972,958 | train | <story><title>Kernel module for advanced rickrolling replaces open() call</title><url>https://github.com/fpletz/kernelroll</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>exDM69</author><text>SECURITY WARNING: do not use this module! Scroll down for more information in the discussion. This module disables a major part of kernel memory protection and trusts user provided file names to be valid. This makes it possible for an UNPRIVILEGED USER to do bad things.<p>These problems are, of course, fixable someone may fix it.<p>Bonus points for whoever fixes the problems and submits a pull request. All the info you need is in this discussion thread.<p>(edit: I can already see some pull requests on this)</text></comment> | <story><title>Kernel module for advanced rickrolling replaces open() call</title><url>https://github.com/fpletz/kernelroll</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>p4bl0</author><text>This is great, for the fun of course, but also and mainly because it is a simple example of a working kernel module, which is not something one can see very often.</text></comment> |
20,137,389 | 20,137,210 | 1 | 2 | 20,135,984 | train | <story><title>The RadioInstigator: A $150 Signals Intelligence Platform</title><url>https://www.rtl-sdr.com/the-radioinstigator-a-150-signals-intelligence-platform-consisting-of-a-raspberry-pi-rpitx-2-4-ghz-crazyradio-and-an-rtl-sdr/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>amingilani</author><text>Wait, an antenna connected to the GPIO pin on a RaspberryPi for transmissions? Correct me if I&#x27;m wrong, but doesn&#x27;t the Pi output square waves, that would cause harmonics if transmitted?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>SuperNinjaCat</author><text>There was an old RPi project released a while ago (PiRadio I think?) which simply involved attaching a jump lead to GPIO pin 4 which allowed the transmission of FM radio signals.<p>It worked on the principal that the Pi had a stupidly powerful clock and thus could be used as a transmitter.<p>I did a little experiment where I hooked it up to a yagi antenna and asked my dad to set his cars radio to the frequency I set the software to transmit on and drive around the block to test the distance.<p>Not only did it work well but I think I heard someone listening to the radio in their home near mine open their front door and yell out &quot;who ever is doing that could you please stop it!&quot; as it was interfering&#x2F;jamming what they were listening to.<p>I&#x27;m definitely checking this project out though, thanks for posting.</text></comment> | <story><title>The RadioInstigator: A $150 Signals Intelligence Platform</title><url>https://www.rtl-sdr.com/the-radioinstigator-a-150-signals-intelligence-platform-consisting-of-a-raspberry-pi-rpitx-2-4-ghz-crazyradio-and-an-rtl-sdr/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>amingilani</author><text>Wait, an antenna connected to the GPIO pin on a RaspberryPi for transmissions? Correct me if I&#x27;m wrong, but doesn&#x27;t the Pi output square waves, that would cause harmonics if transmitted?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>drmpeg</author><text>With low cost transmit capable SDR&#x27;s now available, nobody should be transmitting trash from a GPIO pin.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.digikey.com&#x2F;product-detail&#x2F;en&#x2F;analog-devices-inc&#x2F;ADALM-PLUTO&#x2F;ADALM-PLUTO-ND&#x2F;6624230" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.digikey.com&#x2F;product-detail&#x2F;en&#x2F;analog-devices-inc...</a></text></comment> |
37,529,717 | 37,526,279 | 1 | 3 | 37,519,418 | train | <story><title>Willingham sends Fables into the public domain</title><url>https://billwillingham.substack.com/p/willingham-sends-fables-into-the</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jzb</author><text>10 years is nothing. I&#x27;m against copyright maximalism and would love to see copyright terms whittled down, but 10 years is a non-starter.<p>For every Stephen King that has a massive following and would easily earn enough in those 10 years, there&#x27;s 100 mid-tier and lower-tier creators that need any income they can get from works still earning in some fashion.<p>Also, think about how a 10 year limit would be used against creators by the Disneys of the world. &quot;Well, damn, we don&#x27;t need to arrange a movie deal with King... we&#x27;ll just wait 10 years and a day and then make a movie on this book.&quot;<p>Hey, indie band that still scrapes by on royalties and touring? The minute your best-selling album is 10 years old, it&#x27;s going to be repackaged and sold without you seeing a dime.<p>Yes, it&#x27;s more complicated than that, but... an arbitrary 10 year limit wouldn&#x27;t fix things or make the world substantially better and might make things worse.<p>Now - I&#x27;d be willing to talk about things like drastically shorting terms for works for hire&#x2F;copyright owned by corporations and not individuals.<p>We might also need to think about not having one term for all things. There&#x27;s no reason the copyright term for software should be the same as that for a song or a movie or a book. Books, songs, paintings, basically <i>art</i> should probably have a copyright term in the 25-50 year range. Certainly no longer than 50 years.</text></item><item><author>bmacho</author><text>I don&#x27;t know Fables, but I&#x27;d love to see more things going to public domain. All fictional characters and stories, after 10 years. All software stuff, API&#x2F;ABI, formats, UI and leaked source code, you should be able to use it, modify it, or even sell it. Everyday products like a washing machine, or a microwave, someone created a reliable and easy to produce microwave, now anyone should be able to mass produce it, and sell it cheaper. Produce and sell an iphone, a compatible, a partially compatible, an improved version, or whatever you want. And so on.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Anarch157a</author><text>Copyrights should be more like trademarks. Use it or lose it.<p>Put a limit of 10 years if the work is not available for purchase by the general public, so any work that goes out of print becomes public domain 10 years after the last copy was sold.<p>But... Only for works owned by _corporations_. For works still owned by the original artists, works would enter public domain on the artists death or if the artist had under-age children at the moment of their passing, when the youngest completes 18.<p>I think this is the best way to ensure that corpos can&#x27;t sit on works for eternity while allowing artists to have an income for life, with some protection for their children in case of untimely death.<p>In any case, any law that implements such limitations should mandate a complete removal of any DRM involved, or at least publication of the private keys needed to decrypt any work, once they become public.</text></comment> | <story><title>Willingham sends Fables into the public domain</title><url>https://billwillingham.substack.com/p/willingham-sends-fables-into-the</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jzb</author><text>10 years is nothing. I&#x27;m against copyright maximalism and would love to see copyright terms whittled down, but 10 years is a non-starter.<p>For every Stephen King that has a massive following and would easily earn enough in those 10 years, there&#x27;s 100 mid-tier and lower-tier creators that need any income they can get from works still earning in some fashion.<p>Also, think about how a 10 year limit would be used against creators by the Disneys of the world. &quot;Well, damn, we don&#x27;t need to arrange a movie deal with King... we&#x27;ll just wait 10 years and a day and then make a movie on this book.&quot;<p>Hey, indie band that still scrapes by on royalties and touring? The minute your best-selling album is 10 years old, it&#x27;s going to be repackaged and sold without you seeing a dime.<p>Yes, it&#x27;s more complicated than that, but... an arbitrary 10 year limit wouldn&#x27;t fix things or make the world substantially better and might make things worse.<p>Now - I&#x27;d be willing to talk about things like drastically shorting terms for works for hire&#x2F;copyright owned by corporations and not individuals.<p>We might also need to think about not having one term for all things. There&#x27;s no reason the copyright term for software should be the same as that for a song or a movie or a book. Books, songs, paintings, basically <i>art</i> should probably have a copyright term in the 25-50 year range. Certainly no longer than 50 years.</text></item><item><author>bmacho</author><text>I don&#x27;t know Fables, but I&#x27;d love to see more things going to public domain. All fictional characters and stories, after 10 years. All software stuff, API&#x2F;ABI, formats, UI and leaked source code, you should be able to use it, modify it, or even sell it. Everyday products like a washing machine, or a microwave, someone created a reliable and easy to produce microwave, now anyone should be able to mass produce it, and sell it cheaper. Produce and sell an iphone, a compatible, a partially compatible, an improved version, or whatever you want. And so on.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>OkayPhysicist</author><text>I&#x27;ve thought about this quite a bit. I think one fair approach would be to have a 2 tiered copyright release, where there&#x27;s still a pretty long time before a work lapses into the public domain, but before that, a relatively short amount of time after the release of the work (say, 10-15 years) the original owner loses the power to dictate who uses their work. Basically, between that point and the public domain lapse, anyone would have the option to accept a default contract of paying the creator some standardized % royalties. The creator would still have the option to accept explicit contracts with weaker terms, for example waiving the royalties for projects they want to give away.</text></comment> |
24,567,465 | 24,567,293 | 1 | 2 | 24,565,823 | train | <story><title>The N95 mask shortage America can't seem to fix</title><url>https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2020/local/news/n-95-shortage-covid/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>CydeWeys</author><text>This kind of widespread attitude is a stunning reversal from the American exceptionalism of decades past. What do we call it, American fatalism? American incompetence?<p>In World War II, we retooled our entire economy to embark on years-long total war against fascism. Yet somehow now we can&#x27;t re-tool less than 0.1% of our total industrial capacity to make PPE? That&#x27;s beyond us now? Really?<p>&gt; The machinery to make this is extremely complicated and takes 6 months or more to build, by which time there may be no demand. No amount of invoking the defense production act would change this reality.<p>We&#x27;re more than 6 months into the pandemic at this point and no sign of reaching the end. Under a different administration, the Defense Production Act would have been invoked immediately at the outset, onshore manufacturing capability of PPE would have been dramatically ramped up, and it would now already be paying dividends (more than 6 months later!) in the form of significantly increased onshore production of N95 masks and other PPE.<p>So yes, invoking the DPA absolutely would have changed the reality. The problem is that we didn&#x27;t do it, not that doing it wouldn&#x27;t have worked (it would have).</text></item><item><author>Consultant32452</author><text>This is a complexity issue. You can fashion a ventilator out of basically old vacuum cleaner parts. N95 masks are spun with what amounts to an extremely fancy cotton candy machine that spins the fibers together. The machinery to make this is extremely complicated and takes 6 months or more to build, by which time there may be no demand. No amount of invoking the defense production act would change this reality.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.npr.org&#x2F;sections&#x2F;goatsandsoda&#x2F;2020&#x2F;03&#x2F;16&#x2F;814929294&#x2F;covid-19-has-caused-a-shortage-of-face-masks-but-theyre-surprisingly-hard-to-mak" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.npr.org&#x2F;sections&#x2F;goatsandsoda&#x2F;2020&#x2F;03&#x2F;16&#x2F;8149292...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pjc50</author><text>&gt; In World War II, we retooled our entire economy to embark on years-long total war against fascism. Yet somehow now we can&#x27;t re-tool less than 0.1% of our total industrial capacity to make PPE? That&#x27;s beyond us now? Really?<p>Yes, because of a set of beliefs about market fundamentalism. The masks aren&#x27;t as important as maintaining the existing product structure of society and proving that government intervention in healthcare can&#x27;t work; if it shows signs of working, those paid to sabotage it will make sure it doesn&#x27;t.<p>Besides, denialism is widespread. There were all sorts of conflicting pieces of information about the effectiveness of masks and various other quick-fix cures. The <i>informational</i> infrastructure is broken in fatal ways.<p>It became impossible for the US to ignore Japan once the ships started sinking at Pearl Harbor. The striking thing about today is that the huge casualties <i>haven&#x27;t</i> turned into a Pearl Harbor or 9&#x2F;11 event, despite outnumbering both of those put together by orders of magnitude.</text></comment> | <story><title>The N95 mask shortage America can't seem to fix</title><url>https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2020/local/news/n-95-shortage-covid/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>CydeWeys</author><text>This kind of widespread attitude is a stunning reversal from the American exceptionalism of decades past. What do we call it, American fatalism? American incompetence?<p>In World War II, we retooled our entire economy to embark on years-long total war against fascism. Yet somehow now we can&#x27;t re-tool less than 0.1% of our total industrial capacity to make PPE? That&#x27;s beyond us now? Really?<p>&gt; The machinery to make this is extremely complicated and takes 6 months or more to build, by which time there may be no demand. No amount of invoking the defense production act would change this reality.<p>We&#x27;re more than 6 months into the pandemic at this point and no sign of reaching the end. Under a different administration, the Defense Production Act would have been invoked immediately at the outset, onshore manufacturing capability of PPE would have been dramatically ramped up, and it would now already be paying dividends (more than 6 months later!) in the form of significantly increased onshore production of N95 masks and other PPE.<p>So yes, invoking the DPA absolutely would have changed the reality. The problem is that we didn&#x27;t do it, not that doing it wouldn&#x27;t have worked (it would have).</text></item><item><author>Consultant32452</author><text>This is a complexity issue. You can fashion a ventilator out of basically old vacuum cleaner parts. N95 masks are spun with what amounts to an extremely fancy cotton candy machine that spins the fibers together. The machinery to make this is extremely complicated and takes 6 months or more to build, by which time there may be no demand. No amount of invoking the defense production act would change this reality.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.npr.org&#x2F;sections&#x2F;goatsandsoda&#x2F;2020&#x2F;03&#x2F;16&#x2F;814929294&#x2F;covid-19-has-caused-a-shortage-of-face-masks-but-theyre-surprisingly-hard-to-mak" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.npr.org&#x2F;sections&#x2F;goatsandsoda&#x2F;2020&#x2F;03&#x2F;16&#x2F;8149292...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rootusrootus</author><text>This is what happens when the free market becomes the accepted cultural answer to all problems. We forget that the defining quality of good government is not efficiency, but effectiveness.</text></comment> |
17,135,197 | 17,135,387 | 1 | 2 | 17,134,738 | train | <story><title>The History of the Philips CD-I, Failed PlayStation Ancestor</title><url>https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/the-history-of-the-philips-cdi-failed-playstation-ancestor</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bsenftner</author><text>I was one of the lead developers at Philips Interactive Media. To be fair, where the article focuses on video games, the CD-I player was never intended to be a game machine. At the time, Philips was betting that encyclopedias, educational and subscription publications would be on discs. They were betting that the network speed and general public adoption of the Internet was going to be slower, with a disc based interactive media period. They underestimated the advance of network speeds as well as the public&#x27;s willingness to wait for the network. A lot of the CD-I development was centered around the consumer &#x2F; end-user never having to wait, which was accomplished through a special real time media file format that effectively turned the disc into a single 740 MB file.<p>It was not until the reality of CD-I players being sold that the necessity for games and the zero interest in educational media became clear. At the time, digital media itself was new, and the idea of a dedicated digital disc based encyclopedia &#x2F; magazine made sense.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rconti</author><text>This takes me back, and points out something people today probably don&#x27;t fully appreciate.<p>In 1993, Edutainment <i>was</i> the promise of computers. We had an old XT that my sister took to college that fall, and we were shopping for a 486. Encarta and National Geographic CD-ROM based titles were everywhere. Every demo in every computer store let you play with these seemingly-limitless repositories of information. It was mind-blowing -- complete with short postage stamp videos for select subjects!<p>It would be fascinating to look back at all of the titles available, but rich multimedia was finally here, and it died as quickly as it had arrived, as people moved to AOL, CompuServe, and the Internet instead.</text></comment> | <story><title>The History of the Philips CD-I, Failed PlayStation Ancestor</title><url>https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/the-history-of-the-philips-cdi-failed-playstation-ancestor</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bsenftner</author><text>I was one of the lead developers at Philips Interactive Media. To be fair, where the article focuses on video games, the CD-I player was never intended to be a game machine. At the time, Philips was betting that encyclopedias, educational and subscription publications would be on discs. They were betting that the network speed and general public adoption of the Internet was going to be slower, with a disc based interactive media period. They underestimated the advance of network speeds as well as the public&#x27;s willingness to wait for the network. A lot of the CD-I development was centered around the consumer &#x2F; end-user never having to wait, which was accomplished through a special real time media file format that effectively turned the disc into a single 740 MB file.<p>It was not until the reality of CD-I players being sold that the necessity for games and the zero interest in educational media became clear. At the time, digital media itself was new, and the idea of a dedicated digital disc based encyclopedia &#x2F; magazine made sense.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>BonesJustice</author><text>My dad was a marketing exec at Philips back in the ‘90s, so I had a couple of CD-I units at home, and a ton of games. I even had an infrared gun controller and a really, really low-quality VR headset driven by dark little CRTs (I think?). Most of my discs had simple white labels, and I’m pretty sure many of them were never actually released. I wish I still had them.<p>At the time, my dad had told me the CD-I’s primary market was commercial, e.g., interactive training, demo kiosks, media stations in libraries, etc. I don’t know whether that was the original vision or a pivot based on lousy sales. It was probably a smart move, though, considering the only other person I knew with a CD-I at home was the daughter of the VP overseeing that division.<p>I used to have a CD-I infomercial on VHS featuring a giant, talking screen called “The Wall”. I wonder if I can track that down on the interwebs.<p>Fun aside: a CD-I video disc of <i>Star Trek: The Wrath of Khan</i> was my first exposure to Trek. Other fond memories include <i>The Wacky World of Miniature Golf</i> (sooo much fun), <i>Escape from Cyber City</i>, <i>Mad Dog McCree</i>, and <i>Laser Lords</i> (never did make much progress in that game).</text></comment> |
23,296,103 | 23,296,085 | 1 | 3 | 23,295,989 | train | <story><title>Show HN: A Firefox add-on to strip Google search results of 'blacklisted' URLs</title><url>https://github.com/davidahmed/wiper</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>davehcker</author><text>I wrote this because I was so annoyed by irrelevant low-quality search results for my queries on Google. For instance if I&#x27;m looking up for Python xyz topic, 99% of the times I am not interested in some &#x27;low-quality&#x27; content (based on my personal preferences) from website example.com.<p>The plugin maintains a persistent and customizable list of URLs (keywords) that are used as a &#x27;blacklist&#x27; for stripping results.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>saagarjha</author><text>Name and shame: my personal ones are cplusplus.com and w3schools.com.</text></comment> | <story><title>Show HN: A Firefox add-on to strip Google search results of 'blacklisted' URLs</title><url>https://github.com/davidahmed/wiper</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>davehcker</author><text>I wrote this because I was so annoyed by irrelevant low-quality search results for my queries on Google. For instance if I&#x27;m looking up for Python xyz topic, 99% of the times I am not interested in some &#x27;low-quality&#x27; content (based on my personal preferences) from website example.com.<p>The plugin maintains a persistent and customizable list of URLs (keywords) that are used as a &#x27;blacklist&#x27; for stripping results.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>zaat</author><text>Thank you so much for this. Was looking for something similar, found only solutions that were dependent on extensions I didn&#x27;t want to install due to privacy&#x2F;security reasons.</text></comment> |
7,617,479 | 7,615,628 | 1 | 3 | 7,615,365 | train | <story><title>Postman: a powerful HTTP client (for Chrome) to test web services</title><url>http://www.getpostman.com/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>te_chris</author><text>I use Rested, it&#x27;s a simple, cheap, mac app and works great. <a href="http://www.helloresolven.com/portfolio/rested/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.helloresolven.com&#x2F;portfolio&#x2F;rested&#x2F;</a><p>EDIT: Why the hell was I downvoted for suggesting a good app? goddammit...</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>konstruktor</author><text><a href="http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;ycombinator.com&#x2F;newsguidelines.html</a>
Resist complaining about being downmodded. It never does any good, and it makes boring reading.</text></comment> | <story><title>Postman: a powerful HTTP client (for Chrome) to test web services</title><url>http://www.getpostman.com/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>te_chris</author><text>I use Rested, it&#x27;s a simple, cheap, mac app and works great. <a href="http://www.helloresolven.com/portfolio/rested/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.helloresolven.com&#x2F;portfolio&#x2F;rested&#x2F;</a><p>EDIT: Why the hell was I downvoted for suggesting a good app? goddammit...</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jonahx</author><text>probably because your suggesting a paid app to solve a problem that is well solved by free ones</text></comment> |
24,987,491 | 24,987,612 | 1 | 3 | 24,986,132 | train | <story><title>Three Months of Go from a Haskeller’s perspective (2016)</title><url>https://memo.barrucadu.co.uk/three-months-of-go.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Philip-J-Fry</author><text>Go is incredibly readable I find. Yes, you tend to find yourself writing a lot of code because of the lack of generics, but that is being fixed as we speak. Generics has a draft and it looks nice from a Go developers perspective.<p>And Go let&#x27;s you communicate by copying. That&#x27;s what a Channel is. Pass a struct and that is copied. Pass a pointer and the pointer is copied. The thing it points to isn&#x27;t copied for glaringly obvious reasons.<p>And what would you suggest is a good alternative for returning multiple parameters. Currently this basically forces you to handle any possible errors and results in software you can very easily reason about.<p>Not sure what you mean about human reviewers needing to check errors.</text></item><item><author>eru</author><text>Go impedes its own readability by encourage or even requiring such huge volumes of code.<p>(And Go ain&#x27;t very good at concurrency. At least they should have let you mark values as immutable, or communicated entirely via copying like Erlang.)<p>Yes, tuples are a really weird thing with Go. If they had completely left them, that would be bad but sort of defendable. But instead they give you a half-baked implementation of some of what tuples do with their &#x27;multiple return types&#x27;.<p>(And multiple return types aren&#x27;t even a good fit for signaling errors. For error-handling you want to return _either_ the result _or_ the error, in a way that the compiler can check that you handled the error.<p>Instead as far as the types are concerned they are always returning both the result and an error, and human reviewers have to make sure that they are checked properly.)</text></item><item><author>TeeWEE</author><text>Go is a programming language for teams, not primarily designed to impress individual programmers...<p>I agree with all points with the author. But working in teams, or even mutiple teams on the same software, then go solves a lot of problems for you..<p>Yeah its a dumb language, missing a lot of features. But there is only 1 way to program, dependency management is sane (no circular dependencies), and the language is build for readability, not for writing code fast and elegantly...<p>Often short dense code with complex types is just really hard to read for your overage joe programmer.<p>We&#x27;re not all computer scientists here.<p>Go is designed to write maintainable server side programs that can utilize concurrency in computer these days. Therefore they left out generics... I hope its coming.
I do wish error handling and generics where part of the language... And a tuple type indeed.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>np_tedious</author><text>Every isolated Go piece is pretty readable. The problem is that getting most things done requires enough code that it&#x27;s a lot of work to take it all in. Run all the for loops in your head. Etc. Higher level (and esp FP) languages like Haskell or Scala will be the opposite. That bunch of function compositions may take a little bit of work to digest, but once you understand it you understand a lot.<p>When people disagree on readability its often bc they mean two different things. We would benefit from different terms for readable-in-the-small and readable-in-the-large.</text></comment> | <story><title>Three Months of Go from a Haskeller’s perspective (2016)</title><url>https://memo.barrucadu.co.uk/three-months-of-go.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Philip-J-Fry</author><text>Go is incredibly readable I find. Yes, you tend to find yourself writing a lot of code because of the lack of generics, but that is being fixed as we speak. Generics has a draft and it looks nice from a Go developers perspective.<p>And Go let&#x27;s you communicate by copying. That&#x27;s what a Channel is. Pass a struct and that is copied. Pass a pointer and the pointer is copied. The thing it points to isn&#x27;t copied for glaringly obvious reasons.<p>And what would you suggest is a good alternative for returning multiple parameters. Currently this basically forces you to handle any possible errors and results in software you can very easily reason about.<p>Not sure what you mean about human reviewers needing to check errors.</text></item><item><author>eru</author><text>Go impedes its own readability by encourage or even requiring such huge volumes of code.<p>(And Go ain&#x27;t very good at concurrency. At least they should have let you mark values as immutable, or communicated entirely via copying like Erlang.)<p>Yes, tuples are a really weird thing with Go. If they had completely left them, that would be bad but sort of defendable. But instead they give you a half-baked implementation of some of what tuples do with their &#x27;multiple return types&#x27;.<p>(And multiple return types aren&#x27;t even a good fit for signaling errors. For error-handling you want to return _either_ the result _or_ the error, in a way that the compiler can check that you handled the error.<p>Instead as far as the types are concerned they are always returning both the result and an error, and human reviewers have to make sure that they are checked properly.)</text></item><item><author>TeeWEE</author><text>Go is a programming language for teams, not primarily designed to impress individual programmers...<p>I agree with all points with the author. But working in teams, or even mutiple teams on the same software, then go solves a lot of problems for you..<p>Yeah its a dumb language, missing a lot of features. But there is only 1 way to program, dependency management is sane (no circular dependencies), and the language is build for readability, not for writing code fast and elegantly...<p>Often short dense code with complex types is just really hard to read for your overage joe programmer.<p>We&#x27;re not all computer scientists here.<p>Go is designed to write maintainable server side programs that can utilize concurrency in computer these days. Therefore they left out generics... I hope its coming.
I do wish error handling and generics where part of the language... And a tuple type indeed.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>eru</author><text>&gt; And Go let&#x27;s you communicate by copying. That&#x27;s what a Channel is. Pass a struct and that is copied. Pass a pointer and the pointer is copied. The thing it points to isn&#x27;t copied for glaringly obvious reasons.<p>I&#x27;m not sure what those glaringly obvious reasons are. In Erlang, you just send a copy of the whole struct. Not some kind of references or pointers.<p>See eg <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;play.golang.org&#x2F;p&#x2F;P3qUtFenp2q" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;play.golang.org&#x2F;p&#x2F;P3qUtFenp2q</a><p>But as I am saying, if you want to send pointers (or references) over a channel, they should support marking things as immutable.<p>&gt; And what would you suggest is a good alternative for returning multiple parameters. Currently this basically forces you to handle any possible errors and results in software you can very easily reason about.<p>Go doesn&#x27;t force you to handle errors at all. The compiler will happily mix up the branches of your `if` that checks for errors, or let you get away without checking anything at all.<p>My suggestion would be eg algebraic data types. Especially sum-types. Or in more C inspired terms: tagged unions plus pattern matching. Or &#x27;an enum with parameters&#x27;.<p>&gt; Not sure what you mean about human reviewers needing to check errors.<p>In a language without any checking at all like JavaScript, human authors and reviewers have to make sure that you don&#x27;t accidentally eg add a string to an int. Or otherwise, have to make sure that at least you have enough test coverage.<p>In Go, the compiler can yell at you when you are trying to add an int to a string.<p>In OCaml or Haskel or Rust (or any language with algebraic data types), the compiler can make sure that you check your errors. So in eg Haskell syntax that looks like this:<p><pre><code> case someFunctionThatMightGoWrong(someParameter) of
Error errorDetails -&gt; handleErrors(errorDetails)
Success someValue -&gt; doSomethingSensible(someValue)
</code></pre>
Crucially, `someValue` is only in scope in the branch where we match the right pattern. So you can&#x27;t accidentally go on computing with that variable in the wrong branch.<p>Does this make sense? If not, I can try to explain in some other way.</text></comment> |
25,222,052 | 25,220,539 | 1 | 3 | 25,216,442 | train | <story><title>Writing well</title><url>https://www.julian.com/guide/write/intro</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>nobody9999</author><text>William Safire&#x27;s Rules for Writers:<p>Remember to never split an infinitive.<p>The passive voice should never be used.<p>Do not put statements in the negative form.<p>Verbs have to agree with their subjects.<p>Proofread carefully to see if you words out.<p>If you reread your work, you can find on rereading a great deal of repetition can be by rereading and editing.<p>=========<p>The above, plus Strunk &amp; White[0], should be enough for most folks IMNSHO.<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.gutenberg.org&#x2F;ebooks&#x2F;37134" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.gutenberg.org&#x2F;ebooks&#x2F;37134</a></text></item><item><author>jgrahamc</author><text>I found this very hard to read. There are so many short sentences and bullet points that it looks like a PowerPoint presentation masquerading as prose.<p>What he seems to have lost with this approach is a rhythm. It&#x27;s a staccato battering with ideas. I&#x27;d much rather be seduced and cradled by writing that made me feel I&#x27;m learning by osmosis and not trepanning.<p>EDIT:<p>The author illustrates how his writing goes wrong by saying that the following paragraph:<p><i>To be brief on the sentence-level, remove words that don’t add necessary context. Extra words cause readers to slow down and do extra work. That makes it harder for them to recognize the sentence’s point. And when you bore readers, they quit reading.</i><p>is better rewritten as:<p><i>Your sentence is brief when no additional words can be removed. Being succinct is important because filler buries your talking points and bores readers into quitting.</i><p>It&#x27;s not. The two sentence rewrite is ugly. The first sentence is weird because it uses &quot;additional&quot; (which sounds like adding something) for things that will be removed. The second sentence uses &quot;talking points&quot; which makes it appear the writer is aiming for sound bites and not to educate the reader.<p>I much prefer the first paragraph above. Partly because it makes me empathize with the trouble readers might have and makes me want to work for them. When I read the first paragraph I imagine myself, the reader; when I read the second I&#x27;m being instructed by a voice that sounds like it comes from a cold machine.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>fanf2</author><text>On the wrong-headed advice of Strunk &amp; White
<a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.languagesoftheworld.info&#x2F;bad-linguistics&#x2F;on-passive-aggressive-and-other-wrong-headed-advice-of-strunk-whites-style-manual.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.languagesoftheworld.info&#x2F;bad-linguistics&#x2F;on-passi...</a><p>Strunk and White: fifty years of stupid grammar advice
<a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;chronicle.com&#x2F;article&#x2F;50-Years-of-Stupid-Grammar&#x2F;25497" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;chronicle.com&#x2F;article&#x2F;50-Years-of-Stupid-Grammar&#x2F;2549...</a><p>The Land of the Free and the Elements of Style: everything in strunk and White is wrong
<a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;ling.ed.ac.uk&#x2F;~gpullum&#x2F;LandOfTheFree.pdf" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;ling.ed.ac.uk&#x2F;~gpullum&#x2F;LandOfTheFree.pdf</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Writing well</title><url>https://www.julian.com/guide/write/intro</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>nobody9999</author><text>William Safire&#x27;s Rules for Writers:<p>Remember to never split an infinitive.<p>The passive voice should never be used.<p>Do not put statements in the negative form.<p>Verbs have to agree with their subjects.<p>Proofread carefully to see if you words out.<p>If you reread your work, you can find on rereading a great deal of repetition can be by rereading and editing.<p>=========<p>The above, plus Strunk &amp; White[0], should be enough for most folks IMNSHO.<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.gutenberg.org&#x2F;ebooks&#x2F;37134" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.gutenberg.org&#x2F;ebooks&#x2F;37134</a></text></item><item><author>jgrahamc</author><text>I found this very hard to read. There are so many short sentences and bullet points that it looks like a PowerPoint presentation masquerading as prose.<p>What he seems to have lost with this approach is a rhythm. It&#x27;s a staccato battering with ideas. I&#x27;d much rather be seduced and cradled by writing that made me feel I&#x27;m learning by osmosis and not trepanning.<p>EDIT:<p>The author illustrates how his writing goes wrong by saying that the following paragraph:<p><i>To be brief on the sentence-level, remove words that don’t add necessary context. Extra words cause readers to slow down and do extra work. That makes it harder for them to recognize the sentence’s point. And when you bore readers, they quit reading.</i><p>is better rewritten as:<p><i>Your sentence is brief when no additional words can be removed. Being succinct is important because filler buries your talking points and bores readers into quitting.</i><p>It&#x27;s not. The two sentence rewrite is ugly. The first sentence is weird because it uses &quot;additional&quot; (which sounds like adding something) for things that will be removed. The second sentence uses &quot;talking points&quot; which makes it appear the writer is aiming for sound bites and not to educate the reader.<p>I much prefer the first paragraph above. Partly because it makes me empathize with the trouble readers might have and makes me want to work for them. When I read the first paragraph I imagine myself, the reader; when I read the second I&#x27;m being instructed by a voice that sounds like it comes from a cold machine.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>goto11</author><text>I disagree with two of Safires points:<p>There is nothing wrong with splitting an infinitive. Shakespeare does it and Star Trek does it.<p>Passive voice is fine. Sure it can be used to make the text impersonal and hide responsibility. But is can also be used to make the text clearer and to emphasize what is important. Use it as appropriate.</text></comment> |
24,938,609 | 24,938,200 | 1 | 3 | 24,933,054 | train | <story><title>My Resignation from the Intercept</title><url>https://greenwald.substack.com/p/my-resignation-from-the-intercept</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ggggtez</author><text>It&#x27;s also the kind of story that can <i>break</i> someone&#x27;s journalistic career.<p>Even Fox News wouldn&#x27;t run the story because it wasn&#x27;t supported by facts.<p>And last I heard, there <i>still</i> has been no concrete evidence of wrongdoing. Tucker Carlson claims that his evidence &quot;got lost in the mail&quot;. In the age of the internet, they didn&#x27;t snap any photos of this so-called proof?<p>There is no &quot;there&quot; there. Just a bunch of internet sleuths with MS paint red circles and theories about deep states. And your comment falls into this category.</text></item><item><author>blhack</author><text>Glenn had a 3 hour long conversation on a podcast a few days ago where he laid out the problem really well:<p>Journalists have essentially become socialites. They don&#x27;t want to publish articles that will rock the boat, because the people they are friends with are the ones that own that boat, invite them to parties, and are a part of their friend groups.<p>The reporting around this story has been absolutely <i>unbelievable</i> to me. This story seems like the type of thing that would normally make peoples&#x27; entire journalistic career, and yet the journalists, the people who are supposed to be a part of our protection and sense-making system are actively trying to suppress it.<p>It&#x27;s actually surreal to see this happening.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>prawn</author><text>Further, the NY Post struggled to find in-house writers that would put their name to the story because they weren&#x27;t confident about the story&#x27;s credibility. Of the two bylines, one found out after the fact.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nytimes.com&#x2F;2020&#x2F;10&#x2F;18&#x2F;business&#x2F;media&#x2F;new-york-post-hunter-biden.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nytimes.com&#x2F;2020&#x2F;10&#x2F;18&#x2F;business&#x2F;media&#x2F;new-york-p...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>My Resignation from the Intercept</title><url>https://greenwald.substack.com/p/my-resignation-from-the-intercept</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ggggtez</author><text>It&#x27;s also the kind of story that can <i>break</i> someone&#x27;s journalistic career.<p>Even Fox News wouldn&#x27;t run the story because it wasn&#x27;t supported by facts.<p>And last I heard, there <i>still</i> has been no concrete evidence of wrongdoing. Tucker Carlson claims that his evidence &quot;got lost in the mail&quot;. In the age of the internet, they didn&#x27;t snap any photos of this so-called proof?<p>There is no &quot;there&quot; there. Just a bunch of internet sleuths with MS paint red circles and theories about deep states. And your comment falls into this category.</text></item><item><author>blhack</author><text>Glenn had a 3 hour long conversation on a podcast a few days ago where he laid out the problem really well:<p>Journalists have essentially become socialites. They don&#x27;t want to publish articles that will rock the boat, because the people they are friends with are the ones that own that boat, invite them to parties, and are a part of their friend groups.<p>The reporting around this story has been absolutely <i>unbelievable</i> to me. This story seems like the type of thing that would normally make peoples&#x27; entire journalistic career, and yet the journalists, the people who are supposed to be a part of our protection and sense-making system are actively trying to suppress it.<p>It&#x27;s actually surreal to see this happening.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>fredguth</author><text>If you read Greenwald’s piece, you will understand why he disagrees with you. I, personally, credit his ethics more than I credit TheIntercept’s editor and this is why I immediately subscribed his substack.</text></comment> |
11,797,414 | 11,797,120 | 1 | 2 | 11,796,416 | train | <story><title>Startup Reading List</title><url>http://www.nicolabortignon.com/startup-reading-list/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>n72</author><text>The great majority of people shouldn&#x27;t read these — not because they&#x27;re not good books or don&#x27;t increase one&#x27;s chances of startup success (they may or may not — I have no clue), but because the great majority of people will think they&#x27;re doing startup stuff by reading them. It&#x27;s confusing activity for accomplishment. If you do read these, keep in mind the entire time you&#x27;re reading these you&#x27;re not working on your startup. In other words, be very cognizant of the fact that you may very well be procrastinating.</text></comment> | <story><title>Startup Reading List</title><url>http://www.nicolabortignon.com/startup-reading-list/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>projectramo</author><text>Startup books are like books about screenwriting: the common wisdom is you learn the most by actually doing it. Reading about it without doing it is like reading about the piano or programming without actually doing it.<p>Now, once you&#x27;ve started the most useful book or resource has to do with the problem you face. If you have customers but need to raise money, its one kind of advice. If you have a customers but the product isn&#x27;t working, its another sort of advice.<p>If you don&#x27;t have customers, well, that&#x27;s the hard part.</text></comment> |
29,817,626 | 29,815,663 | 1 | 3 | 29,813,261 | train | <story><title>I took a job at Amazon, only to leave after 10 months</title><url>https://benadam.me/thoughts/my-experience-at-amazon/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>autokad</author><text>&gt; &quot;My biggest gripe is that Leetcode is systematically favoring candidates who have months of free time to memorize arbitrary logic puzzles. It makes me sad for the less privileged candidates who might be working a job while also trying to break into the IT field.&quot;<p>I told google that this style of interviewing is discriminatory, especially towards people with families, or other commitments. Never got another call for an interview since ^_^</text></item><item><author>robby_w_g</author><text>&gt; I bag on Amazon a lot on here (which if I were to review with my therapist is likely because I had an absolutely HORRENDOUS experience in an interview loop with them my first step out of college that still makes me nervous in interviews, even 15 years later).<p>Hey, I had a similar experience with Google! It was my first technical interview for my first job out of college. The interviewer laughed at my code, and then after going through the logic said &quot;Wow I can&#x27;t believe this actually works.&quot;<p>Personal grievances aside, I&#x27;ve come to think that the Leetcode interview style has morphed from a &quot;let&#x27;s see how you handle problems at scale&quot; test into an ego-driven hazing ritual. My biggest gripe is that Leetcode is systematically favoring candidates who have months of free time to memorize arbitrary logic puzzles. It makes me sad for the less privileged candidates who might be working a job while also trying to break into the IT field.</text></item><item><author>sharkweek</author><text>Hey congrats on making it 10 months!<p><i>&quot;Urgent to not block progress, but also ironic that they are asking a person who has no clue what they are doing to deliver critical work&quot;</i><p>Friend of mine started a role there (this was 4-5 years ago) and was fired (sorry... more or less asked to leave, being told he could keep his signing bonus if he just left) within about six weeks because he wasn&#x27;t immediately delivering on some insane amounts of work. Truly, he recapped it for me, the expectations were absolutely incredible and I&#x27;d consider him a hard worker who has found a ton of success in his current role.<p>I bag on Amazon a lot on here (which if I were to review with my therapist is likely because I had an absolutely HORRENDOUS experience in an interview loop with them my first step out of college that still makes me nervous in interviews, even 15 years later). But living in Seattle, a notable chunk of my social circle works there. I&#x27;d say a few enjoy the scale of things they get to work on or perhaps the brand name, but overall none of them ever talk about liking the work environment&#x2F;balance&#x2F;culture.<p>One friend, at a director level, just quit on a whim because he came back from parental leave and his direct reports had all been put on a PIP while he was out. He told his VP to fuck off, left, and is now on sabbatical. I&#x27;ve never seen him so happy.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>coliveira</author><text>&gt; I told google that this style of interviewing is discriminatory, especially towards people with families<p>But this is exactly the point, to be discriminatory while using a valid excuse for doing so.</text></comment> | <story><title>I took a job at Amazon, only to leave after 10 months</title><url>https://benadam.me/thoughts/my-experience-at-amazon/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>autokad</author><text>&gt; &quot;My biggest gripe is that Leetcode is systematically favoring candidates who have months of free time to memorize arbitrary logic puzzles. It makes me sad for the less privileged candidates who might be working a job while also trying to break into the IT field.&quot;<p>I told google that this style of interviewing is discriminatory, especially towards people with families, or other commitments. Never got another call for an interview since ^_^</text></item><item><author>robby_w_g</author><text>&gt; I bag on Amazon a lot on here (which if I were to review with my therapist is likely because I had an absolutely HORRENDOUS experience in an interview loop with them my first step out of college that still makes me nervous in interviews, even 15 years later).<p>Hey, I had a similar experience with Google! It was my first technical interview for my first job out of college. The interviewer laughed at my code, and then after going through the logic said &quot;Wow I can&#x27;t believe this actually works.&quot;<p>Personal grievances aside, I&#x27;ve come to think that the Leetcode interview style has morphed from a &quot;let&#x27;s see how you handle problems at scale&quot; test into an ego-driven hazing ritual. My biggest gripe is that Leetcode is systematically favoring candidates who have months of free time to memorize arbitrary logic puzzles. It makes me sad for the less privileged candidates who might be working a job while also trying to break into the IT field.</text></item><item><author>sharkweek</author><text>Hey congrats on making it 10 months!<p><i>&quot;Urgent to not block progress, but also ironic that they are asking a person who has no clue what they are doing to deliver critical work&quot;</i><p>Friend of mine started a role there (this was 4-5 years ago) and was fired (sorry... more or less asked to leave, being told he could keep his signing bonus if he just left) within about six weeks because he wasn&#x27;t immediately delivering on some insane amounts of work. Truly, he recapped it for me, the expectations were absolutely incredible and I&#x27;d consider him a hard worker who has found a ton of success in his current role.<p>I bag on Amazon a lot on here (which if I were to review with my therapist is likely because I had an absolutely HORRENDOUS experience in an interview loop with them my first step out of college that still makes me nervous in interviews, even 15 years later). But living in Seattle, a notable chunk of my social circle works there. I&#x27;d say a few enjoy the scale of things they get to work on or perhaps the brand name, but overall none of them ever talk about liking the work environment&#x2F;balance&#x2F;culture.<p>One friend, at a director level, just quit on a whim because he came back from parental leave and his direct reports had all been put on a PIP while he was out. He told his VP to fuck off, left, and is now on sabbatical. I&#x27;ve never seen him so happy.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>sorry_outta_gas</author><text>the best part is that when you&#x27;re done with the on-site you get a survey with a question like &quot;do you think google&#x27;s making the world a better place?&quot; hah<p>personally I think they do make some pretty cool things here and there but they do have very pretentious vibe all throughout<p>the phase of technology that they own&#x2F;owned is nearing end soon anyway</text></comment> |
10,182,611 | 10,181,836 | 1 | 3 | 10,181,556 | train | <story><title>The Internet of Way Too Many Things</title><url>http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/06/opinion/sunday/allison-arieff-the-internet-of-way-too-many-things.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>antr</author><text>I just bought a home, and just started a considerable renovation. I&#x27;m putting in new water pipes, new electrical wiring, etc. I thought of putting &quot;smart&quot; devices (i.e. switches, alarms, thermostats, etc.) given the &quot;advantages&quot; these promise.<p>After considerable research, it&#x27;s not worth the hussle or money. Let&#x27;s put aside the fact that these are considerable more expensive, and won&#x27;t breakeven in years (some devices smart devices simply don&#x27;t breakeven).<p>The main reason I decided not to have any of these installed was due to how cumbersome they are to operate. Each appliance&#x2F;brand has their own app&#x2F;portal, which does not connect to other brands, making it impossible to have an overview of your &quot;smart home&quot;. Even more scary, some of these devices are operated by startups, god knows, if they will be alive next year. Good luck getting that app to work with iOS 10! It&#x27;s a true headache, it&#x27;s even a headache for contractors, who have no clue how these work. It&#x27;s going to take some time (and education) to have an OS that makes a smart home smart...<p>and don&#x27;t get me started on the smart baby monitors, etc... if my siblings an I were brought up just fine in the 80&#x27;s without being in a &quot;smart onesie&quot;, I&#x27;m sure we can do just as fine today.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>joshstrange</author><text>I agree with nearly everything you have said except for:<p>&gt; and don&#x27;t get me started on the smart baby monitors, etc... if my siblings an I were brought up just fine in the 80&#x27;s without being in a &quot;smart onesie&quot;, I&#x27;m sure we can do just as fine today.<p>I even agree that the baby monitor mentioned is a little over the top (I don&#x27;t care for the lights&#x2F;music&#x2F;coffee aspect) but it&#x27;s important not to write things off just because &quot;I was raised just fine without X&quot;. That logic doesn&#x27;t hold for most things. And for high-risk babies that onesie is probably multitudes of times cheaper than expensive medical equipment to do the same level of monitoring.<p>(Sad Personal Anecdote Below)<p>My youngest sister died when she was very young (&lt;2 mo old) due to a medical condition (birth defect). Now this isn&#x27;t to say that this product would have saved her life. In fact I&#x27;m nearly 100% positive it wouldn&#x27;t have. My parents were already awake due to me waking up from a bad dream and so my mom caught her stopping breathing probably almost immediately and we lived next door to a doctor who was over within minutes before she was rushed off to the hospital. She still died but I can&#x27;t help but think that while she couldn&#x27;t be saved there are other babies and young children out there that could be saved from such a device. Also there is nothing to say that constant monitoring wouldn&#x27;t have caught signs of this a little earlier allowing my parents enough time to get her to professionals. All I&#x27;m saying is don&#x27;t write off this just because you &quot;got by fine without it&quot;.</text></comment> | <story><title>The Internet of Way Too Many Things</title><url>http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/06/opinion/sunday/allison-arieff-the-internet-of-way-too-many-things.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>antr</author><text>I just bought a home, and just started a considerable renovation. I&#x27;m putting in new water pipes, new electrical wiring, etc. I thought of putting &quot;smart&quot; devices (i.e. switches, alarms, thermostats, etc.) given the &quot;advantages&quot; these promise.<p>After considerable research, it&#x27;s not worth the hussle or money. Let&#x27;s put aside the fact that these are considerable more expensive, and won&#x27;t breakeven in years (some devices smart devices simply don&#x27;t breakeven).<p>The main reason I decided not to have any of these installed was due to how cumbersome they are to operate. Each appliance&#x2F;brand has their own app&#x2F;portal, which does not connect to other brands, making it impossible to have an overview of your &quot;smart home&quot;. Even more scary, some of these devices are operated by startups, god knows, if they will be alive next year. Good luck getting that app to work with iOS 10! It&#x27;s a true headache, it&#x27;s even a headache for contractors, who have no clue how these work. It&#x27;s going to take some time (and education) to have an OS that makes a smart home smart...<p>and don&#x27;t get me started on the smart baby monitors, etc... if my siblings an I were brought up just fine in the 80&#x27;s without being in a &quot;smart onesie&quot;, I&#x27;m sure we can do just as fine today.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>hessenwolf</author><text><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.childtrends.org&#x2F;?indicators=infant-child-and-teen-mortality" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.childtrends.org&#x2F;?indicators=infant-child-and-teen...</a><p>Looks to me like infant mortality (under age one) has halved between 1977 and 2013. I understand the argument of &quot;it worked fine for me&quot;, but, well, on a portfolio basis, you and I were dying a bit faster back then.<p>Outpatient care is a big field these days. Something that, with extremely little effort, can reduce the odds of death or disability, is quite tempting. A smart nappy&#x2F;diaper with a disposable nutrition-analysing smart-chip is not that far off.</text></comment> |
28,140,499 | 28,140,468 | 1 | 3 | 28,139,889 | train | <story><title>New EU Law Removes Digital Privacy</title><url>https://www.patrick-breyer.de/en/posts/message-screening/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>randomchars</author><text>&gt; What if a 15 year old Dane sends a dick pick to a 17 year old girl in France? Is she a child pornographer?<p>In some countries, you can have sex at 14, but only do sexting at 18. Total mindfuck.</text></item><item><author>noduerme</author><text>This assault on privacy is premised on a very flimsy concern over CP, which is a problem but is absolutely no reason (just as terrorism isn&#x27;t) to deprive citizens of their rights. I&#x27;m just curious - first of all, what happened to the large amount of child pornography and the industry around it that existed in Denmark throughout the 1970s? The pendulum certainly swings both ways, but it&#x27;s strange and interesting that the fact that it was legal to <i>produce</i> CP in swathes of Europe has simply been swept under the rug. I&#x27;d assume those images and films are now hashed and searched for, but I&#x27;d also assume there are hard copies of them laying around in a plurality of Danish households. How do you prosecute possession of something that was legal at the time?
Secondly, just to keep using liberal ol&#x27; Denmark as an example, since the legal age of consent there is <i>still</i> 15 years old, how do you &quot;harmonize&quot; spying on adults there with spying on minors in the rest of Europe? It&#x27;s okay to read every 15 year old&#x27;s text messages and look at their photos because it might be illegal in some other country? What if a 15 year old Dane sends a dick pick to a 17 year old girl in France? Is she a child pornographer?<p>Sexual assault is one thing, but it&#x27;s worth taking a minute to realize how arbitrary and ridiculous some of these laws are before you start throwing children into jail for texting... let alone stripping away basic civil liberties on the basis of &quot;some people are bad so we can&#x27;t have nice things.&quot;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>WhyNotHugo</author><text>In some US states you can&#x27;t buy porn until you&#x27;re 21 years old, but you can ACT in porn as of 18.<p>Laws are far from being logical or always making sense.</text></comment> | <story><title>New EU Law Removes Digital Privacy</title><url>https://www.patrick-breyer.de/en/posts/message-screening/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>randomchars</author><text>&gt; What if a 15 year old Dane sends a dick pick to a 17 year old girl in France? Is she a child pornographer?<p>In some countries, you can have sex at 14, but only do sexting at 18. Total mindfuck.</text></item><item><author>noduerme</author><text>This assault on privacy is premised on a very flimsy concern over CP, which is a problem but is absolutely no reason (just as terrorism isn&#x27;t) to deprive citizens of their rights. I&#x27;m just curious - first of all, what happened to the large amount of child pornography and the industry around it that existed in Denmark throughout the 1970s? The pendulum certainly swings both ways, but it&#x27;s strange and interesting that the fact that it was legal to <i>produce</i> CP in swathes of Europe has simply been swept under the rug. I&#x27;d assume those images and films are now hashed and searched for, but I&#x27;d also assume there are hard copies of them laying around in a plurality of Danish households. How do you prosecute possession of something that was legal at the time?
Secondly, just to keep using liberal ol&#x27; Denmark as an example, since the legal age of consent there is <i>still</i> 15 years old, how do you &quot;harmonize&quot; spying on adults there with spying on minors in the rest of Europe? It&#x27;s okay to read every 15 year old&#x27;s text messages and look at their photos because it might be illegal in some other country? What if a 15 year old Dane sends a dick pick to a 17 year old girl in France? Is she a child pornographer?<p>Sexual assault is one thing, but it&#x27;s worth taking a minute to realize how arbitrary and ridiculous some of these laws are before you start throwing children into jail for texting... let alone stripping away basic civil liberties on the basis of &quot;some people are bad so we can&#x27;t have nice things.&quot;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>secondaryacct</author><text>Now can they have sex in public ? Cause I guess that s the rationale: an image on a phone, or a discussion is more shareable than two teens fondling under a quilt. Also, the abuse potential.<p>Find enough innocent to change the jurisprudence, but I d bet that you can find so many more quilty parties that the law had to go one way.<p>Now I have a daughter and I was 16 before mobile phone existed. I m thinking what I would do if I see her sexting: probably nothing after 16 and a soft warning between 14 and 16 and a very strict one before, just because consent can only exist with maturity. Now if the guy is 30 and she s 16, I d tell her she s being an idiot sending him anything: it&#x27;s not like he cares about her as a person, most likely and she s going to suffer under my responsibility or at best put him in danger. But, 16, starts to be her choice to listen or not and difficult for me to enforce anything.<p>Glad she s still 3 :D</text></comment> |
16,525,261 | 16,524,957 | 1 | 3 | 16,524,316 | train | <story><title>The Investor Class Hates Pensions</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/05/opinion/investor-class-pensions.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>whack</author><text>I feel like the author is mixing together some important differences between 401ks and pensions.<p>------ Pensions:<p>- &quot;Your&quot; money and everyone else&#x27;s money is lumped into a single pool. If previous retirees were given too much money because of poor planning, &quot;your&quot; money will evaporate<p>- Your future benefits are fixed, regardless of market conditions. Unless the pension can&#x27;t afford to do so because of a market crash, and declares bankruptcy. In which case, anyone left holding the bag will be screwed<p>- Zero financial literacy&#x2F;discipline required. Your contributions are pre-determined, and the pension managers will take care of all investment decisions<p>------ 401ks:<p>- Your 401k is 100% yours. There is no risk of your 401k account &quot;going bankrupt&quot; because too much of it was given to others.<p>- Your future benefits are dependent on market conditions - unless you choose to buy an annuity.<p>- Financial literacy and discipline is required. If you don&#x27;t contribute enough, or make bad investment choices, you&#x27;re screwed<p>-----------------<p>The article completely ignores the 1st and 2nd differences, which is why many people like myself are uneasy with pensions. The 3rd point is what the article mostly focuses on, and that&#x27;s a valid point. I&#x27;d love to see &quot;full-service&quot; 401k plans, where employees are forced to contribute at least X% of their income, and all of it is managed by the equivalent of a pension-fund-manager (ideally, invested into low-cost diversified index funds)<p>Too many people lack the financial discipline to make sufficient contributions, and the financial literacy to make good investment decisions. So full-service 401ks as described above, could be a net positive for society, without all the baggage that come with pension funds.</text></comment> | <story><title>The Investor Class Hates Pensions</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/05/opinion/investor-class-pensions.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>ng12</author><text>&gt; We let ourselves be charged high fees that we do not understand, we accept poor returns quarter after quarter, we never sue to enforce our rights, we never vote as shareholders and we never tell our investment managers how we think they ought to vote.<p>Is this satire? How is a pension better than a 401k in any of these dimensions? If my retirement is invested in overpriced, underperforming funds it&#x27;s 100% my own fault. If my pension is chronically mismanaged (as they tend to be) there is literally nothing I can do about it.</text></comment> |
29,624,903 | 29,625,069 | 1 | 2 | 29,623,254 | train | <story><title>Ask HN: How can a non-techie mom regain access to her FB account?</title><text>I’m a mom of two young daughters and I have used my Facebook account mostly for work, and to communicate with my family, some of whom are now deceased. I have never pushed or broken Facebook’s rules or uploaded obscene images.<p>On Monday my account was suspended because someone broke into my account and uploaded prohibited images and then also used my associated bank card to make a fraudulent purchase of £200.<p>I had 2FA enabled so I have no idea how someone managed to access my account. I am not a techie.<p>My bank has refunded the £200.<p>Facebook won’t even tell me what I am supposed to have done nor will they unsuspend my account.<p>The most I have got is that 27 of my posts go against the community standards on nudity or sexual activity - which is nonsense because I am just a mom using FB to connect with family and friends. I am not a porn star and I don’t upload such images.<p>I am so upset because I have so many memories on the account with my Grandma and Grandad (both deceased), photos and videos of my two young daughters growing up, as well as many others.<p>I sent my ID to FB and have not heard anything more. I feel scared that I have sent my ID to someone that has somehow hacked my account, used my bank card, and now knows more about me than before.<p>I feel violated because of this and now Facebook won’t even listen to me.<p>I am sure that a human at Facebook would be able to look and see that I didn’t do this. If they checked the IP addresses used if they just used common sense to see what has happened.<p>Please, I am desperate, does anyone have any advice on what I can do next?</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>RegBarclay</author><text>This happened to my daughter. I got a notification that she&#x27;d changed her profile picture and it was changed to text that looked Arabic to me. Between the time I said something to my wife about it and my wife pulling up Facebook on her phone, the account was locked and disappeared.<p>HERE&#x27;S THE SOLUTION:<p>Purchase an Oculus device. Do not open it. It&#x27;s a Facebook product and requires a Facebook account to use it. Oculus tech support has humans and inside channels to resurrect Facebook accounts that have been left in limbo by the dumb Facebook automated support.<p>Once you get your account back, return the Oculus device for a refund.<p>You have to act fairly quickly because the suspended Facebook accounts are permanently deleted and become completely unrecoverable after around 30 days.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>edoceo</author><text>This is most concrete example of &quot;if it&#x27;s stupid but works, it&#x27;s not stupid&quot;</text></comment> | <story><title>Ask HN: How can a non-techie mom regain access to her FB account?</title><text>I’m a mom of two young daughters and I have used my Facebook account mostly for work, and to communicate with my family, some of whom are now deceased. I have never pushed or broken Facebook’s rules or uploaded obscene images.<p>On Monday my account was suspended because someone broke into my account and uploaded prohibited images and then also used my associated bank card to make a fraudulent purchase of £200.<p>I had 2FA enabled so I have no idea how someone managed to access my account. I am not a techie.<p>My bank has refunded the £200.<p>Facebook won’t even tell me what I am supposed to have done nor will they unsuspend my account.<p>The most I have got is that 27 of my posts go against the community standards on nudity or sexual activity - which is nonsense because I am just a mom using FB to connect with family and friends. I am not a porn star and I don’t upload such images.<p>I am so upset because I have so many memories on the account with my Grandma and Grandad (both deceased), photos and videos of my two young daughters growing up, as well as many others.<p>I sent my ID to FB and have not heard anything more. I feel scared that I have sent my ID to someone that has somehow hacked my account, used my bank card, and now knows more about me than before.<p>I feel violated because of this and now Facebook won’t even listen to me.<p>I am sure that a human at Facebook would be able to look and see that I didn’t do this. If they checked the IP addresses used if they just used common sense to see what has happened.<p>Please, I am desperate, does anyone have any advice on what I can do next?</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>RegBarclay</author><text>This happened to my daughter. I got a notification that she&#x27;d changed her profile picture and it was changed to text that looked Arabic to me. Between the time I said something to my wife about it and my wife pulling up Facebook on her phone, the account was locked and disappeared.<p>HERE&#x27;S THE SOLUTION:<p>Purchase an Oculus device. Do not open it. It&#x27;s a Facebook product and requires a Facebook account to use it. Oculus tech support has humans and inside channels to resurrect Facebook accounts that have been left in limbo by the dumb Facebook automated support.<p>Once you get your account back, return the Oculus device for a refund.<p>You have to act fairly quickly because the suspended Facebook accounts are permanently deleted and become completely unrecoverable after around 30 days.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Nextgrid</author><text>As an extra layer of safety, buy the device on a credit card - in the UK you get Section 75 protection which is by law entitles you to a refund for defective&#x2F;faulty&#x2F;not as described products - similar to card networks&#x27; protections except it&#x27;s the law and will succeed even in cases where a typical card dispute would fail.</text></comment> |
3,603,642 | 3,603,266 | 1 | 3 | 3,603,095 | train | <story><title>Canadian Digs Out Basement Using Only Radio Controlled Scale Tractors and Trucks</title><url>http://carscoop.blogspot.com/2012/02/canadian-digs-out-basement-using-only.html</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>evlapix</author><text>Sometimes I come across grand hobbies/challenges like this that inspire me to challenge myself in similar ways..<p>1/4 scale grave digger:
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/rcWizzard/videos?sort=da&#38;view=u" rel="nofollow">http://www.youtube.com/user/rcWizzard/videos?sort=da&#38;vie...</a><p>Matthias Wandel's various projects:
<a href="http://woodgears.ca" rel="nofollow">http://woodgears.ca</a><p>Giant robot project:
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL13A11662BDE6EB83" rel="nofollow">http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL13A11662BDE6EB83</a><p>But at some point, I end up convincing myself that it's a bad investment of my time. Some examples:<p>- The above referenced 1/4 grave digger project would be an awesome test of my fabrication skills. But when it's done, I won't enjoy playing with it. 1000's of hours for "push stick forward, vehicle goes foreword". Kind of like lego's, the fun's all in the build.<p>- I'd love to get into woodworking, but I already have all the furniture I need. Why would I invest in a 1k wood shop (that's CL prices)? What would I create with all the tools and experience? I'm not going to quit my job as a programmer to become an entry-level woodworker.<p>- I'd love to build my own sawmill (kind of like Jaimie), and build from nature in general. But where would I get wood? Can I make it cheaper than store bought? Do I have the time to invest so that I don't wind up having to go to the store anyway?<p>- I'm really fascinated by CNC, 3d printers, and metal casting. I want to be able to make my own stuff, and excuse myself from a consumer culture. But those things all involve pretty significant money/time investments. And who are we kidding? After that huge investment, what am I going to print/cast/machine.. that would be worth that investment?<p>And that's the motivation for my side project.</text></comment> | <story><title>Canadian Digs Out Basement Using Only Radio Controlled Scale Tractors and Trucks</title><url>http://carscoop.blogspot.com/2012/02/canadian-digs-out-basement-using-only.html</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>singular</author><text>I'd have preferred it if the trucks/tractors were fully autonomous, now that would have been awesome :)</text></comment> |
34,353,485 | 34,353,455 | 1 | 2 | 34,351,078 | train | <story><title>Roomba testers feel misled after intimate images ended up on Facebook</title><url>https://www.technologyreview.com/2023/01/10/1066500/roomba-irobot-robot-vacuum-beta-product-testers-consent-agreement-misled/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>themitigating</author><text>[flagged]</text></item><item><author>orra</author><text>Can&#x27;t believe you&#x27;ve been downvoted. HN isn&#x27;t homogonous, but too often has apologists for immoral and illegal behaviour, provided it&#x27;s done by a technology company.</text></item><item><author>WantonQuantum</author><text>I doubt they got consent from everybody in the house - so that&#x27;s not actually consent.<p>This whole thing is disgusting.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>yjftsjthsd-h</author><text>&gt; 2. There&#x27;s too much technology in modern products (cars, tv, etc)<p><i>Bad</i> technology. Nobody would object to smarter cars with usable controls that didn&#x27;t spy on you and have security holes. People, even here, would <i>love</i> smart TVs if they started as fast as the dumb ones, didn&#x27;t have ads, didn&#x27;t spy on you, and were generally actually in the user&#x27;s control. People aren&#x27;t against tech, they&#x27;re against awful tech that&#x27;s a straight downgrade from what came before.<p>Actually, this goes for the rest of your points, not just 2.</text></comment> | <story><title>Roomba testers feel misled after intimate images ended up on Facebook</title><url>https://www.technologyreview.com/2023/01/10/1066500/roomba-irobot-robot-vacuum-beta-product-testers-consent-agreement-misled/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>themitigating</author><text>[flagged]</text></item><item><author>orra</author><text>Can&#x27;t believe you&#x27;ve been downvoted. HN isn&#x27;t homogonous, but too often has apologists for immoral and illegal behaviour, provided it&#x27;s done by a technology company.</text></item><item><author>WantonQuantum</author><text>I doubt they got consent from everybody in the house - so that&#x27;s not actually consent.<p>This whole thing is disgusting.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ballenf</author><text>How are 3-5 &#x27;anti-tech&#x27;?<p>3. Tech shouldn&#x27;t imply or require privacy compromises.<p>4. Piracy tools often drive innovation and technological progress. (Not to mention would we have subscription music services or even Netflix&#x27;s non-DVD-by-mail business without the market pressure from piracy? Would they cost more?)<p>5. How does a position or preference on a business model imply pro- or anti-tech?<p>And even #2 doesn&#x27;t necessarily imply an anti-tech stance. I don&#x27;t think it&#x27;s anti-tech to resist putting computers in toasters, for example. The overuse of tech can be a step backwards and hurt overall technological progress, imho.<p>Not sure what #1 means.</text></comment> |
37,904,984 | 37,900,978 | 1 | 2 | 37,900,131 | train | <story><title>Dig near Paris unearths beginnings of urbanization dating back to 4,200 BC</title><url>https://www.lemonde.fr/en/science/article/2023/10/16/an-archaeological-dig-near-paris-unearthed-beginnings-of-urbanization-dating-back-to-4-200-b-c_6177642_10.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ta8645</author><text>It always amazes me how far we&#x27;ve come in that time. That&#x27;s only 250 generations of people, or so. Not a lot, when you think of it in those terms.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>claytongulick</author><text>I knew my great grandmother well, played games with her into my teens, she was a little over 100 when she died.<p>She grew up on a plantation, had sharecroppers and knew many civil war veterans.<p>A lot of people think of that era as ancient history.<p>It really hasn&#x27;t been that long.</text></comment> | <story><title>Dig near Paris unearths beginnings of urbanization dating back to 4,200 BC</title><url>https://www.lemonde.fr/en/science/article/2023/10/16/an-archaeological-dig-near-paris-unearthed-beginnings-of-urbanization-dating-back-to-4-200-b-c_6177642_10.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ta8645</author><text>It always amazes me how far we&#x27;ve come in that time. That&#x27;s only 250 generations of people, or so. Not a lot, when you think of it in those terms.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>canoebuilder</author><text>I too think it is interesting to look back in time using the generation metric.
Also interesting to think about a generation still alive, those born in the 1920s and 30s and the huge changes in the state of the world seen in those lifetimes alone, and what that may portend for younger generations.</text></comment> |
35,542,376 | 35,542,246 | 1 | 2 | 35,541,772 | train | <story><title>Yes, it's OK to be mad about crime in San Francisco</title><url>https://noahpinion.substack.com/p/yes-its-ok-to-be-mad-about-crime</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>0xB31B1B</author><text>So much of the problem in SF comes down to the progressive politician types who only want to things that &quot;impact the root causes of crime&quot; and its extremely frustrating and frequently just plain wrong. Yes, you do not solve the &quot;root problem of why people choose to commit crime&quot; by putting repeat offenders in jail, but you do make the world way better for everyone else who is not a criminal. Poor people, immigrants, the downtrodden all disproportionately benefit from tough on crime policies because they are the people for whom have the least resources to isolate themselves from the chaos and antisocial behaviors of the worst among us. Its not a white kids in the marina that need to walk past piles of shit and needles to get to school, its the poor immigrant kids in the tenderloin who need to deal with this.</text></comment> | <story><title>Yes, it's OK to be mad about crime in San Francisco</title><url>https://noahpinion.substack.com/p/yes-its-ok-to-be-mad-about-crime</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jacooper</author><text>&gt; Tragic video shows dying Cash App founder Bob Lee was ignored by bystanders as he begged for help after being stabbed in San Francisco early Tuesday…Footage showed Lee lifted his shirt to show [a] driver his two stab wounds — but collapsed to the ground as the car drove off…Lee raised one arm in an attempt to flag down [another] car and jumped back onto his feet, but the driver sped away…<p>This is sickening, the fuck is wrong with these people?</text></comment> |
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