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10,311,264 | 10,309,169 | 1 | 3 | 10,309,166 | train | <story><title>Gear Generator</title><url>http://geargenerator.com/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jonjenk</author><text>I&#x27;ve created a lot of 3D printed gears over the last few years and one of the best tools I&#x27;ve found is from Rainer Hessmer.<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;hessmer.org&#x2F;gears&#x2F;InvoluteSpurGearBuilder.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;hessmer.org&#x2F;gears&#x2F;InvoluteSpurGearBuilder.html</a><p>It allows you to specify additional parameters like backlash, clearance, and profile shift. It also allows you to output in DXF which tends to be more of a standard in the engineering world.</text></comment> | <story><title>Gear Generator</title><url>http://geargenerator.com/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>danshapiro</author><text>The best part of this is that you can output the gears as SVGs. For example, gear + Glowforge =
<a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;community.glowforge.com&#x2F;t&#x2F;gears&#x2F;143&#x2F;4" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;community.glowforge.com&#x2F;t&#x2F;gears&#x2F;143&#x2F;4</a></text></comment> |
17,400,799 | 17,400,714 | 1 | 3 | 17,397,852 | train | <story><title>Mumbai bans plastic bags, bottles, and single-use plastic containers</title><url>https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/jun/25/mumbai-india-bans-plastic-bags-and-bottles</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jdietrich</author><text><i>&gt;Instead, government could&#x27;ve imposed ban on the consumer products which are wrapped using plastic material. Almost 50% plastic come directly from such consumer products sold by all FMCG companies. Such plastic material which is used as a wrapper (e.g. mineral bottles, wrappers of chocolates, biscuits, wafers, tobacco, etc.) is often useless and people tend to throw it right away.</i><p>Broadly speaking, that would be a terrible backwards step for the environment. Plastic packaging often reduces waste by protecting the product from spoilage and damage.<p>A lot of people bemoan the plastic wrapping on cucumbers, but that wrapping doubles the shelf life of the product. It&#x27;s a net win, because the environmental impact of wasted cucumbers is far greater than the environmental impact of a gram or two of polyethylene wrapping.<p>Many people argue that milk should be sold in re-usable glass containers rather than disposable bottles or cartons, but the environmental case is really marginal. The glass bottle is considerably more energy-intensive to produce and transport, with more energy used to collect and wash it for re-use. Returnable glass bottles are often worse than disposable plastic if the transport distance is too great and&#x2F;or the breakage rate is too high. In many cases, the best option is reusable plastic bottles, which are less energy-intensive to manufacture, lighter to transport and more durable than glass.<p>Plastic is a wonderful material that has an important role to play in a sustainable economy. There has been a huge increase in the quality and availability of bio-based and biodegradable plastics in the packaging industry. We have irrationally demonised a very useful material, creating a huge distraction from much more serious environmental problems.<p>If you buy a beef steak wrapped in plastic, the problem is the steak, not the wrapper. The plastic wrapper produced ~10g of CO2 and required ~100ml of water to produce; the steak produced ~7kg of CO2 and required ~4,000 litres of water to produce. As long as it is disposed of responsibly, a whole trash bag full of plastic packaging has a negligible environmental impact compared to a single portion of beef.</text></item><item><author>vishaltelangre</author><text>Instead, government could&#x27;ve imposed ban on the consumer products which are wrapped using plastic material. Almost 50% plastic come directly from such consumer products sold by all FMCG companies. Such plastic material which is used as a wrapper (e.g. mineral bottles, wrappers of chocolates, biscuits, wafers, tobacco, etc.) is often useless and people tend to throw it right away.<p>I agree that &quot;we&quot;, the people need to take a pledge to stop using plastic as much as we can. But if there&#x27;s no restriction put on giant FMCG companies such as Hindustan Unilever, ITC, Patanjali, Netsle, Procter and Gamble, etc. from supplying their products wrapped in plastic, I consider all of these government initiatives merely as a gimmick.<p>EDIT 1:
Another comment I left on this thread - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=17400028" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=17400028</a>.<p>EDIT 2:
In India, plastic is a major contributor of blocking sewers and rivers, especially in rainy seasons. Another important problem plastic waste produces is that since government bodies (such as, municipal corporations, gram panchayats, etc.) are unable to dump and&#x2F;or recycle plastic waste properly, it is accidentally consumed by animals and is the major reason for their deaths. Another issue is that, often &quot;dumping waste&quot; is considered as &quot;burning&quot; it. Burning plastic waste disturbs healthy air and is a major factor among others responsible for the increased air pollution in Indian cities recently.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>athenot</author><text>While CO₂ emission is important, this is not primary reason for banning plastic bags. It&#x27;s plastic in various states of (un)decomposition all over the ecosystem.<p>A cucumber is 100% biodegradable with no solid residue. The plastic that wraps it will take a long time to decompose and is likely to be found clogging up some piece of nature—whether in the soil, affecting plants or obstructing some body function of an animal.</text></comment> | <story><title>Mumbai bans plastic bags, bottles, and single-use plastic containers</title><url>https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/jun/25/mumbai-india-bans-plastic-bags-and-bottles</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jdietrich</author><text><i>&gt;Instead, government could&#x27;ve imposed ban on the consumer products which are wrapped using plastic material. Almost 50% plastic come directly from such consumer products sold by all FMCG companies. Such plastic material which is used as a wrapper (e.g. mineral bottles, wrappers of chocolates, biscuits, wafers, tobacco, etc.) is often useless and people tend to throw it right away.</i><p>Broadly speaking, that would be a terrible backwards step for the environment. Plastic packaging often reduces waste by protecting the product from spoilage and damage.<p>A lot of people bemoan the plastic wrapping on cucumbers, but that wrapping doubles the shelf life of the product. It&#x27;s a net win, because the environmental impact of wasted cucumbers is far greater than the environmental impact of a gram or two of polyethylene wrapping.<p>Many people argue that milk should be sold in re-usable glass containers rather than disposable bottles or cartons, but the environmental case is really marginal. The glass bottle is considerably more energy-intensive to produce and transport, with more energy used to collect and wash it for re-use. Returnable glass bottles are often worse than disposable plastic if the transport distance is too great and&#x2F;or the breakage rate is too high. In many cases, the best option is reusable plastic bottles, which are less energy-intensive to manufacture, lighter to transport and more durable than glass.<p>Plastic is a wonderful material that has an important role to play in a sustainable economy. There has been a huge increase in the quality and availability of bio-based and biodegradable plastics in the packaging industry. We have irrationally demonised a very useful material, creating a huge distraction from much more serious environmental problems.<p>If you buy a beef steak wrapped in plastic, the problem is the steak, not the wrapper. The plastic wrapper produced ~10g of CO2 and required ~100ml of water to produce; the steak produced ~7kg of CO2 and required ~4,000 litres of water to produce. As long as it is disposed of responsibly, a whole trash bag full of plastic packaging has a negligible environmental impact compared to a single portion of beef.</text></item><item><author>vishaltelangre</author><text>Instead, government could&#x27;ve imposed ban on the consumer products which are wrapped using plastic material. Almost 50% plastic come directly from such consumer products sold by all FMCG companies. Such plastic material which is used as a wrapper (e.g. mineral bottles, wrappers of chocolates, biscuits, wafers, tobacco, etc.) is often useless and people tend to throw it right away.<p>I agree that &quot;we&quot;, the people need to take a pledge to stop using plastic as much as we can. But if there&#x27;s no restriction put on giant FMCG companies such as Hindustan Unilever, ITC, Patanjali, Netsle, Procter and Gamble, etc. from supplying their products wrapped in plastic, I consider all of these government initiatives merely as a gimmick.<p>EDIT 1:
Another comment I left on this thread - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=17400028" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=17400028</a>.<p>EDIT 2:
In India, plastic is a major contributor of blocking sewers and rivers, especially in rainy seasons. Another important problem plastic waste produces is that since government bodies (such as, municipal corporations, gram panchayats, etc.) are unable to dump and&#x2F;or recycle plastic waste properly, it is accidentally consumed by animals and is the major reason for their deaths. Another issue is that, often &quot;dumping waste&quot; is considered as &quot;burning&quot; it. Burning plastic waste disturbs healthy air and is a major factor among others responsible for the increased air pollution in Indian cities recently.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>codeisawesome</author><text>Energy appears to be obtainable sustainably (so a feeling manifests that it’s okay to waste it right now as long as we keep pedalling hard toward a clean solution ASAP). Plastic degradation appears to be a much harder problem. Also of course, helps that plastic garbage is “visible and ugly”, whereas climate change is abstract.</text></comment> |
17,531,041 | 17,531,157 | 1 | 3 | 17,530,813 | train | <story><title>American Cities Are Drowning in Car Storage</title><url>https://usa.streetsblog.org/2018/07/12/american-cities-are-drowning-in-car-storage/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>angarg12</author><text>I visited the US (particularly the bay area) for the first time recently, and I was baffled by the sparsity of buildings. Suburbs and shopping areas are so far away that you need a car to go anywhere, and in turn you need massive expanses to held all those vehicles, which means that stores are even more spread apart, which essentially becomes a snowball.<p>Being used to high density housing and underground parking spaces all those open parking lots seem nonsensical to me, even more considering the alleged housing shortage over there.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>erikpukinskis</author><text>This is how we have had such economic growth. We use our own population as a testbed where we disintermediate all of our own cultural support systems so that everything must be hired out. Food, transport, entertainment, self concept, family, all of it has been reformed in the U.S. over the last 100 years to replace community labor with commercial relations.<p>This means we get first dibs on these new industries (Software As A Service, Family Mental Health As A Service, Guiltlessness As A Service, etc) as they catch on globally. Sometimes naturally because we discover some actual value. More often just by finding a practice which is addicting and then just dumping product until a population is addicted.<p>Great recipe for success, much wealth has been stockpiled.<p>It’s possible we sold out some cultural knowledge in the process, but the U.S. is a young country so most of our culture was pretty raw in the 19th century.<p>The bulk of our old growth culture we just slaughtered on arrival.</text></comment> | <story><title>American Cities Are Drowning in Car Storage</title><url>https://usa.streetsblog.org/2018/07/12/american-cities-are-drowning-in-car-storage/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>angarg12</author><text>I visited the US (particularly the bay area) for the first time recently, and I was baffled by the sparsity of buildings. Suburbs and shopping areas are so far away that you need a car to go anywhere, and in turn you need massive expanses to held all those vehicles, which means that stores are even more spread apart, which essentially becomes a snowball.<p>Being used to high density housing and underground parking spaces all those open parking lots seem nonsensical to me, even more considering the alleged housing shortage over there.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kartan</author><text>Yes. I had the same experience. Visiting Mountain View, I was surprised at how walk hostile is. It took me 10 minutes to just pass one of the buildings surrounded by a huge parking lot and move to the next. To go from Intel offices to the Computer History Museum takes a really long walk cross kilometres of parking space.<p>The Computer History Museum is situated in the middle of &quot;no-where&quot;. But it has a highway 2 minutes away. To go from the close houses walking you need to walk close to the highway, with no trees or shadows. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;goo.gl&#x2F;maps&#x2F;P6d977i44SA2" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;goo.gl&#x2F;maps&#x2F;P6d977i44SA2</a><p>Some friends had a story about this. They were in LA and asked directions to a comic shop. &quot;It is 10 minutes from here in that direction&quot;. After 20 minutes walking they asked again. It was &quot;10 minutes&quot; by car, the guy that give them directions did not think that they will go walking.<p>I always have lived in places where is better to take public transportation or to walk than to use your private car. And one of the reasons is that the parking space is expensive. Buildings with parking space, that is also mandatory for new buildings, will place the space underground. This keeps residential buildings, shopping centres and offices close together.</text></comment> |
21,152,310 | 21,152,089 | 1 | 2 | 21,146,745 | train | <story><title>China laying tracks for 1,000km/h maglev trains</title><url>https://www.asiatimes.com/2019/10/article/china-laying-tracks-for-1000km-h-maglev-trains/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>usaar333</author><text>The alternative to being stuck in traffic for hours is flying.<p>A major problem with train systems in the United States (and this is both short and long haul) is that almost the entire country is sprawl - built around the automobile.<p>In dense environments (China and the north-east coast of the US (which has Acela), it&#x27;s great to take a train into the core -- you beat traffic and are near your destination.<p>In sprawling environments (like most of CA), the benefit of ending up in the core is so much less (possibly even negative). Lower probability you are near your destination. And if you need to drive, now you are in a much worse situation (higher car rental prices due to high land values, you are stuck in traffic trying to leave the urban core, etc.).<p>In other words, even if you had a train, most individuals still will prefer driving (you have a car with you) or flying (faster than trains) -- killing the ROI on building the train in the first place.</text></item><item><author>saberience</author><text>So, as someone that lived in New York for 6 years and California for 6 years, stories like this are incredibly depressing.<p>The US is the world&#x27;s largest economy and should be the shining example of amazing infrastructure, high-tech, green cities, and forward thinking policies. California is an especially egregious example in terms of infrastructure investment:<p>If California was a country it would be the world&#x27;s fifth largest economy. It has a number of large and successful cities and areas connected along the coastline. San Diego, Orange County, LA, San Francisco. Why on earth isn&#x27;t there a high speed rail between these cities? Can you imagine the impact of being able to train from San Diego to LA in 30mins? LA to San Fran in an hour and a half?<p>I took the train once from Irvine to Los Angeles and felt I had gone back in time to 1980. This in one of the richest counties in the world (OC). It&#x27;s unthinkable in the year 2019, that we are all stuck on roads like I5 and 405, stuck in traffic for hours trying to make it to LA and the alternative is an ancient train trundling along at 50mph.<p>I hate the fact that an autocratic and repulsive Government is showing up the US in terms of green tech investment and high tech public transport systems, while the US govt is dropping taxes for the biggest companies and lowering spending on infrastructure and public works. This is guaranteed to have a terrible knock on effect over the next 20 years while the US is stuck with an old fashioned and clogged up transit system, polluted cities, and a dependence on fossil fuels.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nikofeyn</author><text>&gt; A major problem with train systems in the United States (and this is both short and long haul) is that almost the entire country is sprawl - built around the automobile.<p>this is an excuse i have repeated myself, but it is just that, an excuse. have you actually been to china? i have never seen such sprawl. shanghai is massive and sprawling. but yet, they (china) have extremely efficient and unbelievably cheap trains and subways. also, i have never seen a cleaner subway than what i saw in shanghai.<p>and this excuse doesn&#x27;t even account for regions like the northeast. the amtrak from boston to new york takes four hours at its absolute fastest and costs couple hundred dollars. this is unbelievably sad. in china, the same ride would take about 1.5 hours and cost around $20 for business class (in u.s. terms, as in china, it&#x27;s called first class).</text></comment> | <story><title>China laying tracks for 1,000km/h maglev trains</title><url>https://www.asiatimes.com/2019/10/article/china-laying-tracks-for-1000km-h-maglev-trains/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>usaar333</author><text>The alternative to being stuck in traffic for hours is flying.<p>A major problem with train systems in the United States (and this is both short and long haul) is that almost the entire country is sprawl - built around the automobile.<p>In dense environments (China and the north-east coast of the US (which has Acela), it&#x27;s great to take a train into the core -- you beat traffic and are near your destination.<p>In sprawling environments (like most of CA), the benefit of ending up in the core is so much less (possibly even negative). Lower probability you are near your destination. And if you need to drive, now you are in a much worse situation (higher car rental prices due to high land values, you are stuck in traffic trying to leave the urban core, etc.).<p>In other words, even if you had a train, most individuals still will prefer driving (you have a car with you) or flying (faster than trains) -- killing the ROI on building the train in the first place.</text></item><item><author>saberience</author><text>So, as someone that lived in New York for 6 years and California for 6 years, stories like this are incredibly depressing.<p>The US is the world&#x27;s largest economy and should be the shining example of amazing infrastructure, high-tech, green cities, and forward thinking policies. California is an especially egregious example in terms of infrastructure investment:<p>If California was a country it would be the world&#x27;s fifth largest economy. It has a number of large and successful cities and areas connected along the coastline. San Diego, Orange County, LA, San Francisco. Why on earth isn&#x27;t there a high speed rail between these cities? Can you imagine the impact of being able to train from San Diego to LA in 30mins? LA to San Fran in an hour and a half?<p>I took the train once from Irvine to Los Angeles and felt I had gone back in time to 1980. This in one of the richest counties in the world (OC). It&#x27;s unthinkable in the year 2019, that we are all stuck on roads like I5 and 405, stuck in traffic for hours trying to make it to LA and the alternative is an ancient train trundling along at 50mph.<p>I hate the fact that an autocratic and repulsive Government is showing up the US in terms of green tech investment and high tech public transport systems, while the US govt is dropping taxes for the biggest companies and lowering spending on infrastructure and public works. This is guaranteed to have a terrible knock on effect over the next 20 years while the US is stuck with an old fashioned and clogged up transit system, polluted cities, and a dependence on fossil fuels.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tyfon</author><text>Flying easily adds 1-3 hours to the trip just for bullshit and boarding and stuff so there is a certain distance where the high speed trains are faster.<p>It&#x27;s also way more comfortable and relaxed. I prefer train over driving when I&#x27;m going somewhere too.. well until I discovered lane assist functions in modern cars that is :)<p>But I can&#x27;t yet work while driving so I guess the train wins in overall productivity.<p>Flying is also a massive hit to the environment so I try to minimise it. So far I&#x27;ve avoided three roundtrips with planes and driven my car instead, but I&#x27;ve had to fly twice when going Oslo-&gt;Helsinki-&gt;Oslo.. I should probably have driven there too but for this instance time was of the essence.</text></comment> |
14,401,219 | 14,401,096 | 1 | 2 | 14,400,311 | train | <story><title>Arq 5.8.5 for Mac Fixes a Bad Bug</title><url>https://www.arqbackup.com/blog/arq-5-8-5-for-mac-fixes-a-bad-bug/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>k1t</author><text>While I agree with others that honesty is best, even if it hurts in the short term - there was a corresponding (perhaps even far worse) bug in the Windows version recently with no corresponding blog post or announcement.<p>I think it was the 5.7.8 (Windows) release that introduced a bug that caused Arq to believe a budget of 0 should be enforced. This meant if you backed up to AWS (probably others too) it would delete ALL backup records except the most recent one (and then immediately cleanup the now unreferenced objects, so even the reflog feature can&#x27;t help you)<p>I had only been using Arq for a few months so I didn&#x27;t lose anything major, but if I had been keeping years of historical records, I would be furious.<p>This was fixed in the next release 5.7.13 (&quot;Fixed an issue that could cause Arq to enforce a budget when no budget was configured.&quot;) but still - I thought a bigger deal should have been made of this.</text></comment> | <story><title>Arq 5.8.5 for Mac Fixes a Bad Bug</title><url>https://www.arqbackup.com/blog/arq-5-8-5-for-mac-fixes-a-bad-bug/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>heavymark</author><text>Adding to the sentiment of others, I&#x27;ve been a long time Arq user and grateful for Stefan&#x27;s openness and honesty.<p>I imagine most or all of us with that sentiment did not suffer any data loss or rather did not need to do a retrieval and discovered data loss during that time. So much easier for us to write it off as a non issue. Where is if it affected us I imagine we&#x27;d all be quite a bit more upset.<p>Though most people use common alternatives such as Time Machine which every few months runs into data issues and far less transparency. Stefan could have quietly updated with a fix, and waited to see if anyone discovered the issue and then only announced the issue if that occurred. But instead he proactive announced it. So bravo. And I&#x27;m sure he will instill new procedures to hopefully avoid that in the future, but of course with any software there is always room for error no matter how much testing you do.</text></comment> |
3,227,186 | 3,226,135 | 1 | 3 | 3,225,917 | train | <story><title>Google Engineer: What I learned in the war </title><url>http://postcards.blogs.fortune.cnn.com/2011/11/11/google-engineer-war/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>plinkplonk</author><text>(I hope I get the tone right on this. I don't mean to insult any person or institution)<p>The interesting thing here is how military service is respected to such a high degree, bordering on worship, in the United States.<p>Other countries have voluntary armies too,and yes soldiers get <i>some</i> respect as people who do a necessary and dangerous job, but you don't see the "start your conversation with "Thank You for your service" " style everyday deference outside the United States. This is a little baffling to a non American,especially since America's wars post WW2 are mostly invasions of random third world countries against underequipped,and mostly untrained enemies, and even then the victory/defeat ratio is very mixed.<p>Genuine question, why does a soldier deserve so much more respect than a doctor or teacher or fireman or policeman or engineer?<p>Specifically wrt the article under discussion,(to a non American) this article is a generic feel good article which doesn't say very much at all. (I am sure Dan is a great person. Just saying there wasn't (imo) much meat to the article).</text></comment> | <story><title>Google Engineer: What I learned in the war </title><url>http://postcards.blogs.fortune.cnn.com/2011/11/11/google-engineer-war/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>rdl</author><text>From what I've heard, Google does a particularly good job of taking care of reservists (there are federal laws about not firing, but good companies go beyond this). Outside of government contracting (where it makes a lot of business sense to hire reservists or former military), there don't seem to be a large number of reservists/national guard in the tech community; almost more foreign-country-compulsory-service veterans (from Israel, etc.) than US veterans.<p>Kind of a loss for the military, because tech startups are a great preparation for actual deployed military operations (which are basically the opposite of the peacetime bureaucracy). As well, the military is a more diverse organization in the US than almost any tech company -- it's a great way to get underrepresented minorities involved.</text></comment> |
30,221,922 | 30,222,131 | 1 | 2 | 30,220,801 | train | <story><title>Burgeoning bike cities emerge across America</title><url>https://www.axios.com/burgeoning-biking-cities-america-298240b8-913e-4c59-8da3-8ea0167bbf54.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>CalRobert</author><text>A very important topic, but this article is almost nothing!<p>Regardless, this is hugely important. My wife and I have two little kids (under 5) and we really, really want them to be independent young people when they&#x27;re a little older. I want them to be able to hop on their bikes and ride to the shop, school, the train&#x2F;metro&#x2F;bus, etc. and most of all, I want them to survive. Drivers are the leading cause of dead kids, and deaths among vulnerable road users (pedestrians, cyclists, etc.) have risen dramatically in the US in the last couple years.<p>There are approximately 0 places in the US meeting this bar. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;culdesac.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;culdesac.com&#x2F;</a> near Phoenix is interesting but 1) very small and 2) in Phoenix, which will struggle with summer survivability by the time my kids are middle ages.<p>American Fietser - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;AmericanFietser" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;AmericanFietser</a> - has been beating the drum for Carmel, Indiana, which apparently has made great strides in their downtown - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=94-kxjgOtdU&amp;feature=youtu.be" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=94-kxjgOtdU&amp;feature=youtu.be</a><p>I grew up in suburban Sacramento and it was basically a prison. I _did_ ride my bike when I was 14 and older, dozens of miles in some cases, but in retrospect it&#x27;s shocking I lived. I was nearly killed in multiple instances.<p>I chatted briefly with Jason Slaughter of NotJustBikes fame (maybe the best urbanist channel on youtube) and he was very reassuring about moving to Amsterdam with kids older than my own. I just got naturalised as an EU citizen and Utrecht in particular is on the short list. But I hope US cities can improve.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>addy13</author><text>As someone that moved to Utrecht five years ago (and also from California)....you could not have picked a better place. Infrastructure is amazing and quality of life is superb. Of course not everything is perfect and cost of living has sky rocketed but I assume you work in tech and everything will be fine. There&#x27;s quite a lot of high quality cities but Utrecht is really nice (although the Netherlands is a bit boring but that&#x27;s subjective of course).</text></comment> | <story><title>Burgeoning bike cities emerge across America</title><url>https://www.axios.com/burgeoning-biking-cities-america-298240b8-913e-4c59-8da3-8ea0167bbf54.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>CalRobert</author><text>A very important topic, but this article is almost nothing!<p>Regardless, this is hugely important. My wife and I have two little kids (under 5) and we really, really want them to be independent young people when they&#x27;re a little older. I want them to be able to hop on their bikes and ride to the shop, school, the train&#x2F;metro&#x2F;bus, etc. and most of all, I want them to survive. Drivers are the leading cause of dead kids, and deaths among vulnerable road users (pedestrians, cyclists, etc.) have risen dramatically in the US in the last couple years.<p>There are approximately 0 places in the US meeting this bar. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;culdesac.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;culdesac.com&#x2F;</a> near Phoenix is interesting but 1) very small and 2) in Phoenix, which will struggle with summer survivability by the time my kids are middle ages.<p>American Fietser - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;AmericanFietser" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;AmericanFietser</a> - has been beating the drum for Carmel, Indiana, which apparently has made great strides in their downtown - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=94-kxjgOtdU&amp;feature=youtu.be" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=94-kxjgOtdU&amp;feature=youtu.be</a><p>I grew up in suburban Sacramento and it was basically a prison. I _did_ ride my bike when I was 14 and older, dozens of miles in some cases, but in retrospect it&#x27;s shocking I lived. I was nearly killed in multiple instances.<p>I chatted briefly with Jason Slaughter of NotJustBikes fame (maybe the best urbanist channel on youtube) and he was very reassuring about moving to Amsterdam with kids older than my own. I just got naturalised as an EU citizen and Utrecht in particular is on the short list. But I hope US cities can improve.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>NicoJuicy</author><text>Belgium also has excellent biking infrastructure!<p>If you look at Bruges, there&#x27;s literally a cycling junction underneath a busy turnaround or cycling bridges going over busy highway roads ( those are there when your enter&#x2F;exit the city)<p>Throughout the city, most roads are one-way, while bycicles can go two-ways. So bicycling is literally the most efficient way to cross the city.<p>Eg. To my work, it&#x27;s a 5 minute trip with the bicycle because there is a bicycle route to it. With the car, the road takes 10 minutes ( normally 20 because of traffic). So it&#x27;s x 4 as efficient for me<p>Reproducible: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.google.be&#x2F;maps&#x2F;dir&#x2F;Marie+Popelinplantsoen,+8000+Brugge&#x2F;Vaartdijkstraat,+8200+Brugge" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.google.be&#x2F;maps&#x2F;dir&#x2F;Marie+Popelinplantsoen,+8000+...</a></text></comment> |
30,667,900 | 30,667,850 | 1 | 2 | 30,667,022 | train | <story><title>Veloren is a multiplayer voxel RPG written in Rust</title><url>https://www.veloren.net/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>NikolaNovak</author><text>Gliding - like tribes?<p>I miss that mechanic so much I&#x27;ll try any game to get my kick</text></item><item><author>AlanSE</author><text>I played a bit into this game (maybe about 20 hours), and it&#x27;s good. The size of the map dominates the game-play as you aim to explore all the types of destinations. It&#x27;s a procedurally generated world, and some hilly towns will get a little weird. The glider is really a killer features, because the mountains are really really steep, you climb up to the top and the glide to cover a fairly large distance on the map.<p>It was still hard to get into the social element of the game, because of so few players and such a large map. I think other players tended to be concentrated at the main spawn point, so a lot of the rest of the world was a backwater essentially.<p>They also have a giant tree. It will cost you some hours, but it&#x27;s quite different than anything else you&#x27;ll find.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rco8786</author><text>Guessing more like Breath of the Wild. Jump off something really tall and open something akin to a canopy that lets you fly unpowered over long distances.</text></comment> | <story><title>Veloren is a multiplayer voxel RPG written in Rust</title><url>https://www.veloren.net/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>NikolaNovak</author><text>Gliding - like tribes?<p>I miss that mechanic so much I&#x27;ll try any game to get my kick</text></item><item><author>AlanSE</author><text>I played a bit into this game (maybe about 20 hours), and it&#x27;s good. The size of the map dominates the game-play as you aim to explore all the types of destinations. It&#x27;s a procedurally generated world, and some hilly towns will get a little weird. The glider is really a killer features, because the mountains are really really steep, you climb up to the top and the glide to cover a fairly large distance on the map.<p>It was still hard to get into the social element of the game, because of so few players and such a large map. I think other players tended to be concentrated at the main spawn point, so a lot of the rest of the world was a backwater essentially.<p>They also have a giant tree. It will cost you some hours, but it&#x27;s quite different than anything else you&#x27;ll find.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>thegeekpirate</author><text>No, that&#x27;s skiing ;)<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;tribes.fandom.com&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Skiing" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;tribes.fandom.com&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Skiing</a></text></comment> |
36,548,898 | 36,548,504 | 1 | 2 | 36,548,052 | train | <story><title>Over 900 Rarbg Magnet Link Repos Anonymously Nuked from GitHub</title><url>https://torrentfreak.com/over-900-rarbg-magnet-link-repos-anonymously-nuked-from-github-230701/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>sacnoradhq</author><text>I can&#x27;t understand why anyone would use GitHub for anything DMCA-able when there&#x27;s archive.org, mega, ipfs, i2p, and the new z-lib home. Perhaps some people believe it&#x27;s equivalent to Gitee when it&#x27;s not or are too lazy to put it somewhere that won&#x27;t immediately dmcarot or linkrot.</text></comment> | <story><title>Over 900 Rarbg Magnet Link Repos Anonymously Nuked from GitHub</title><url>https://torrentfreak.com/over-900-rarbg-magnet-link-repos-anonymously-nuked-from-github-230701/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>botanical</author><text>Why is this legally allowed? Do they not have to prove that a hash belongs to copyrighted material? Also how is a hash of something equal to being the thing? Do copyrighted laws have specific sub-laws when it comes to digital media?</text></comment> |
26,143,211 | 26,142,798 | 1 | 2 | 26,139,348 | train | <story><title>I Really Blew It (2020)</title><url>http://www.erasmatazz.com/personal/self/i-really-blew-it.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>yoz-y</author><text>Problem is that the author starts with a false premise. There are as many games having complex geopolitical models underneath as the market can support. Turns out the author either does not know them, or they don&#x27;t explicitly mention his prior work. Games aren&#x27;t scientific papers though, so they don&#x27;t need citations.<p>But maybe some of the developers of complex strategy games mentioned him during GDC or other conferences?<p>Maybe one of the calculations that should be added to the model is that owners of computers in the 80&#x27;s were a very different bunch from the people having computers today.</text></item><item><author>mathgladiator</author><text>I read this and the comments, and I can&#x27;t help but feel... a loss for everyone.<p>I was a graduate student, and I met some fairly miserable professors toiling away. It&#x27;s hard having ideas and then lacking the social skills to bring them forth. The social skills help with relevance, but also relating the internal ideas with external ideas and building real momentum.<p>There is a lesson here for anyone young.<p>The mistake here is to assume genius internally. Rather, it is better almost categorically to assume you are an idiot and then talk with others without the ego. &quot;Hey, here is an idea&quot; and many times others will not get it, and that&#x27;s ok because communication is exceptionally hard.<p>However, if you want people to call you genius, then all you have to do is be around people and then help them with their ideas. &quot;Have you tried X?&quot; in an applicable way, and people will respond because you bridged the gap between their problems and your deep understanding.<p>As an example, I have a lot of dumb projects that excite me. One of them, which I refer to a large number of times, is my dumb programming language for board games ( <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.adama-lang.org&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.adama-lang.org&#x2F;</a> ). When people don&#x27;t get it, is it their failing or mine? The truth is that it is a mix of both, but it is mostly mine because I have the burden to communicate effectively.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Enginerrrd</author><text>Yeah that&#x27;s my take. He gives examples of his &quot;genius&quot; preceded by a cringey analogy to Neo seeing the matrix as code and then gives an example formula that&#x27;s very trivial and the exposition is extremely shallow which suggests frankly that the author&#x27;s thinking is also rather shallow. There&#x27;s no hint of analysis, understanding, or useful insights to the real complexities that arise when trying to glue a bunch of disparate models together into a complex interacting system. Instead he gives us just a trivial application of very basic mathematics to design of a game. Guess what, I&#x27;d have done the exact same thing if I had been assigned to design a game and I&#x27;d venture to guess that half the people on this site would take a similar approach.<p>The idea itself is hardly as exceptional as the author wants it to be.<p>This whole thing to me sounds a bit like a textbook case of the author having spent his life as the smartest person in the room, but only because he&#x27;s been in the wrong room his whole life. To use an analogy: I suspect he&#x27;s not Mozart... He&#x27;s a very decent musician or composer that&#x27;s spent his life in a community college orchestra and never ventured out into the world to interact with people that can eat him for lunch.</text></comment> | <story><title>I Really Blew It (2020)</title><url>http://www.erasmatazz.com/personal/self/i-really-blew-it.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>yoz-y</author><text>Problem is that the author starts with a false premise. There are as many games having complex geopolitical models underneath as the market can support. Turns out the author either does not know them, or they don&#x27;t explicitly mention his prior work. Games aren&#x27;t scientific papers though, so they don&#x27;t need citations.<p>But maybe some of the developers of complex strategy games mentioned him during GDC or other conferences?<p>Maybe one of the calculations that should be added to the model is that owners of computers in the 80&#x27;s were a very different bunch from the people having computers today.</text></item><item><author>mathgladiator</author><text>I read this and the comments, and I can&#x27;t help but feel... a loss for everyone.<p>I was a graduate student, and I met some fairly miserable professors toiling away. It&#x27;s hard having ideas and then lacking the social skills to bring them forth. The social skills help with relevance, but also relating the internal ideas with external ideas and building real momentum.<p>There is a lesson here for anyone young.<p>The mistake here is to assume genius internally. Rather, it is better almost categorically to assume you are an idiot and then talk with others without the ego. &quot;Hey, here is an idea&quot; and many times others will not get it, and that&#x27;s ok because communication is exceptionally hard.<p>However, if you want people to call you genius, then all you have to do is be around people and then help them with their ideas. &quot;Have you tried X?&quot; in an applicable way, and people will respond because you bridged the gap between their problems and your deep understanding.<p>As an example, I have a lot of dumb projects that excite me. One of them, which I refer to a large number of times, is my dumb programming language for board games ( <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.adama-lang.org&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.adama-lang.org&#x2F;</a> ). When people don&#x27;t get it, is it their failing or mine? The truth is that it is a mix of both, but it is mostly mine because I have the burden to communicate effectively.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Spooky23</author><text>&gt; Maybe one of the calculations that should be added to the model is that owners of computers in the 80&#x27;s were a very different bunch from the people having computers today.<p>This is probably the answer! I was a little kid then, but my uncle played them and I remember that game and some others like it... they were all offshoots of war game board games.<p>People have moved on since, or maybe better put the market has grown and the number of people interested in nerdy strategy games has not.</text></comment> |
19,631,444 | 19,630,407 | 1 | 3 | 19,627,885 | train | <story><title>EU Agencies Falsely Report More Than 550 Archive.org URLs as Terrorist Content</title><url>https://blog.archive.org/2019/04/10/official-eu-agencies-falsely-report-more-than-550-archive-org-urls-as-terrorist-content/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>w1nst0nsm1th</author><text>I think we’re still a long way before we reach the excess of Russia regarding free speech et subordination of democratic values.</text></item><item><author>smsm42</author><text>Funny how exactly EU follows the path Russia has recently taken. After Russia passed the law that banned online material promoting terrorist content, suicide, drug information and harm to children, and so on, there was an avalanche of false takedown requests and misidentifications, including attempting to block Wikipedia, ban Bhagavad Gita commentary (yes, really) and many more anecdotes that sound funny unless you live there. Now Russia has progressed to banning &quot;insulting&quot; the government publicly, i.e. direct ban on political dissent. I wonder how long it would be until EU does the same.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>oarsinsync</author><text>Spain banned speech critical of the government several years ago, and several people have been jailed already. At least one person has been jailed over a tweet.<p>Europe isn’t one big whole, parts of it are already obviously worse than others.</text></comment> | <story><title>EU Agencies Falsely Report More Than 550 Archive.org URLs as Terrorist Content</title><url>https://blog.archive.org/2019/04/10/official-eu-agencies-falsely-report-more-than-550-archive-org-urls-as-terrorist-content/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>w1nst0nsm1th</author><text>I think we’re still a long way before we reach the excess of Russia regarding free speech et subordination of democratic values.</text></item><item><author>smsm42</author><text>Funny how exactly EU follows the path Russia has recently taken. After Russia passed the law that banned online material promoting terrorist content, suicide, drug information and harm to children, and so on, there was an avalanche of false takedown requests and misidentifications, including attempting to block Wikipedia, ban Bhagavad Gita commentary (yes, really) and many more anecdotes that sound funny unless you live there. Now Russia has progressed to banning &quot;insulting&quot; the government publicly, i.e. direct ban on political dissent. I wonder how long it would be until EU does the same.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>manigandham</author><text>How long? It&#x27;s always quicker than you think once you&#x27;re sliding down the slope.</text></comment> |
5,849,966 | 5,849,849 | 1 | 2 | 5,848,076 | train | <story><title>People with nothing to hide</title><url>http://twitter.com/_nothingtohide</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>capnrefsmmat</author><text>Responses like these just legitimize the idea that privacy is about hiding things. It isn&#x27;t. Privacy is a way of restricting the government&#x27;s power over you.<p>Giving the government the power to read your email, tap your phone, and record your porn usage isn&#x27;t bad simply because it&#x27;s embarrassing. After all, the data will likely only be seen by a computer. But it gives the government enormous power to make decisions about you -- decisions about whether you may take a commercial airline flight, get a security clearance, get a job, or even be indefinitely detained -- without your knowledge or consent, and without you knowing how they make the decisions.<p>Recall the stories of people getting on the no-fly list with no appeals process and no way to find out what information had been used to put them there.<p>In short, a lack of privacy gives the government the power to be even less transparent in its decision-making, and gives it yet more power over its citizens. It&#x27;s not a question of discovering your fetishes or being embarrassed, and we shouldn&#x27;t act as though having nothing to hide really is an excuse.<p>There&#x27;s a rather good paper I can recommend on the subject:<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;papers.ssrn.com&#x2F;sol3&#x2F;papers.cfm?abstract_id=998565" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;papers.ssrn.com&#x2F;sol3&#x2F;papers.cfm?abstract_id=998565</a><p>(I&#x27;ve posted this several times over the past few months, so this is half self-plagiarism)</text></item><item><author>john_flintstone</author><text>Questions for people with nothing to hide:<p>1. Have you ever had an abortion?<p>2. Have you ever cheated on your husband &#x2F; wife?<p>3. Are you currently looking for a new job?<p>4. Have you ever being diagnosed with a mental illness?<p>5. Are you currently on anti-depressants?<p>6. Were you ever sexually abused as a child?<p>7. Have you ever fancied someone of the same sex?<p>8. Have you ever had sex with someone of the same sex?<p>9. Have you ever criticised your current employer or boss to anyone else?<p>10. Do you love all of your children equally?<p>11. Have you ever fantasized about...<p>12. Are you planning to get pregnant in the next two years?<p>13. Have you ever lied on a cv&#x2F;resume?<p>14. Are you mean to your wife &#x2F; husband on a regular or semi-regular basis?<p>15. Do you have trouble acquiring or maintaining an erection?<p>16. Are you one of those women who’ve never had an orgasm?<p>17. What prescription drugs are you currently taking?<p>18. Have you ever cut yourself?<p>19. Have you ever attempted suicide?<p>20. Have you contemplated suicide in the past 2 weeks?<p>21. Would you be happy with your answers to these questions being made public? Or being read by your employer, local 23 year old policeman, or nosey neighbour?<p>I could go on and on. None of the actions mentioned in these questions are illegal, but for many&#x2F;most people, the answers would be intensely private.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>diminoten</author><text>For someone like me, someone who has explored this area philosophically (and if you think that sounded pompous, just wait), I find arguments like, &quot;YES YOU DO HAVE SOMETHING TO HIDE&quot; to be a) presumptive and b) not compelling. It just smacks of a lack of understanding about personal responsibility and honesty.<p>What I&#x27;d want, if I didn&#x27;t yet think privacy was necessary, would be an argument not that privacy is itself an inherent right, but that privacy is a reaction to the flawed nature of humanity. I&#x27;d look for why privacy is <i>necessary</i> and not <i>innate</i>, because that makes more sense to me than this abstract idea of a &quot;right to privacy&quot;.<p>Even your argument takes about a dozen leaps to arrive at the conclusion that without privacy, governments can be more private. What you <i>should</i> be talking about is not the government&#x27;s ability to hide things, but the idea that any government is a flawed entity which are governed by an imperfect set of laws built to represent a cultural morality. Without privacy, you should be saying, the inherent greed and cruelty that exists within every collection of people would run rampant over minorities.<p>If man were capable of not harassing minorities, then privacy wouldn&#x27;t be such a big deal. So no, I don&#x27;t think someone like me would want to hear that privacy is a human right. Someone like me would want to hear that privacy is absolutely necessary to combat the inherent evil that comes with collecting groups of people together. It&#x27;s not about hiding what <i>you</i> have, it&#x27;s about protecting minorities from the majority. That&#x27;s all.</text></comment> | <story><title>People with nothing to hide</title><url>http://twitter.com/_nothingtohide</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>capnrefsmmat</author><text>Responses like these just legitimize the idea that privacy is about hiding things. It isn&#x27;t. Privacy is a way of restricting the government&#x27;s power over you.<p>Giving the government the power to read your email, tap your phone, and record your porn usage isn&#x27;t bad simply because it&#x27;s embarrassing. After all, the data will likely only be seen by a computer. But it gives the government enormous power to make decisions about you -- decisions about whether you may take a commercial airline flight, get a security clearance, get a job, or even be indefinitely detained -- without your knowledge or consent, and without you knowing how they make the decisions.<p>Recall the stories of people getting on the no-fly list with no appeals process and no way to find out what information had been used to put them there.<p>In short, a lack of privacy gives the government the power to be even less transparent in its decision-making, and gives it yet more power over its citizens. It&#x27;s not a question of discovering your fetishes or being embarrassed, and we shouldn&#x27;t act as though having nothing to hide really is an excuse.<p>There&#x27;s a rather good paper I can recommend on the subject:<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;papers.ssrn.com&#x2F;sol3&#x2F;papers.cfm?abstract_id=998565" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;papers.ssrn.com&#x2F;sol3&#x2F;papers.cfm?abstract_id=998565</a><p>(I&#x27;ve posted this several times over the past few months, so this is half self-plagiarism)</text></item><item><author>john_flintstone</author><text>Questions for people with nothing to hide:<p>1. Have you ever had an abortion?<p>2. Have you ever cheated on your husband &#x2F; wife?<p>3. Are you currently looking for a new job?<p>4. Have you ever being diagnosed with a mental illness?<p>5. Are you currently on anti-depressants?<p>6. Were you ever sexually abused as a child?<p>7. Have you ever fancied someone of the same sex?<p>8. Have you ever had sex with someone of the same sex?<p>9. Have you ever criticised your current employer or boss to anyone else?<p>10. Do you love all of your children equally?<p>11. Have you ever fantasized about...<p>12. Are you planning to get pregnant in the next two years?<p>13. Have you ever lied on a cv&#x2F;resume?<p>14. Are you mean to your wife &#x2F; husband on a regular or semi-regular basis?<p>15. Do you have trouble acquiring or maintaining an erection?<p>16. Are you one of those women who’ve never had an orgasm?<p>17. What prescription drugs are you currently taking?<p>18. Have you ever cut yourself?<p>19. Have you ever attempted suicide?<p>20. Have you contemplated suicide in the past 2 weeks?<p>21. Would you be happy with your answers to these questions being made public? Or being read by your employer, local 23 year old policeman, or nosey neighbour?<p>I could go on and on. None of the actions mentioned in these questions are illegal, but for many&#x2F;most people, the answers would be intensely private.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Silhouette</author><text><i>Responses like these just legitimize the idea that privacy is about hiding things. It isn&#x27;t.</i><p>Of course it is. Absolutely nothing about the principle of privacy and why it matters is specific to keeping secrets <i>from governments</i>.<p>The examples you gave are just a few things that can happen when someone finds out things about you that you consider private. Many of the same consequences, and plenty of other serious&#x2F;life-changing ones, could also come about because an employer or union or family member or neighbour or insurance company or lawyer knew something they shouldn&#x27;t.</text></comment> |
21,309,808 | 21,307,203 | 1 | 3 | 21,306,609 | train | <story><title>Planetary 'autopsies' indicate worlds like Earth common in the cosmos</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/article/us-space-planets/planetary-autopsies-indicate-worlds-like-earth-common-in-the-cosmos-idUSKBN1WW2M7</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>vfc1</author><text>A possible explanation of why we haven&#x27;t found anything is because intelligent live once developed will quickly overload the ecosystem and start causing things like climate change and quickly make the planet inhabitable, this could all happen in less than 2 million years which is nothing on the cosmological scale.<p>There was running water on Mars and it&#x27;s within the goldilocks zone. Probably Venus too, both those planets had stable conditions for the emergence of life for billions of years.<p>Once a species like humans starts spreading like a virus and taking over the ecosystem, it can easily go downhill very fast (cosmologically speaking).</text></comment> | <story><title>Planetary 'autopsies' indicate worlds like Earth common in the cosmos</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/article/us-space-planets/planetary-autopsies-indicate-worlds-like-earth-common-in-the-cosmos-idUSKBN1WW2M7</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>surfsvammel</author><text>Even if there are Earth like planets everywhere, we don’t know the probability that life appears spontaneously. Right?<p>How does this change our outlook if one assumes The Great Filter hypothesis? Does this lower or increase that such a filter would be behind us or before us?</text></comment> |
30,900,843 | 30,900,487 | 1 | 3 | 30,895,331 | train | <story><title>CDC warns of a steep decline in teen mental health</title><url>https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2022/03/31/student-mental-health-decline-cdc/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>sva_</author><text>There was a discussion on here, about how the Covid pandemic may have been one of the, or even <i>the</i> biggest transfers of wealth from &quot;the poor&quot; to &quot;the rich&quot; in the history of our civilization. Somebody remarked, that it has also been the biggest transfer of lifetime from the young to the old, as the lockdowns were mostly to protect the old. The measures taken against the pandemic undoubtedly had a huge impact on young people&#x27;s mental health, but the effects of it will only really unfold in the coming years, and are probably not measurable. People who deny this must be willfully ignorant.</text></item><item><author>lumb63</author><text>It astonishes me to see people defending the idea that the pandemic is not a notable component of this. I agree that social media, internet porn, competitive school environment, economic conditions, etc., are all negative influences on teenage mental health. However, to propose that forcing (or, at the least, very strongly encouraging) an entire populace into self-isolation would not have negative impacts for a group in one of the most social and formative times of life, is absurd.<p>Imagine you spent half the time you were in high school, alone. I cannot imagine any rational person is capable of believing this to not be a major factor to their mental health.<p>Anecdotally, I am a reasonably strong introvert, and I switched teams at my job during the pandemic after nine months of work from home because it did not feel healthy to my mental state to not have interacted with anyone in so long. I felt that my social abilities had atrophied, and that I had lost sight of a lot of the important things in life that derive from social interaction. I can only imagine that the impact is far greater to someone who can&#x27;t choose to change their life to obtain the social interaction they are missing, and who (I am generalizing a bit here) probably requires mental&#x2F;emotional guidance and support from their peers, elders, etc.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>lumb63</author><text>It&#x27;s certainly a difficult cost&#x2F;benefit analysis, preserving the lives of the elderly, at the expense of quality of life for a younger generation, versus the opposite. The effects are, as you said, probably not measurable, and so the calculus is near-impossible. However, the answer has seemingly been to not even try, and to &quot;stop covid&quot; at all costs, laying waste to any holistic arguments that perhaps prioritizing societal wellbeing was a better route than declaring war against a virus.<p>In my opinion, the vast majority of the world lost its cool in the pandemic, and in our panic, we may have made mistakes. Or maybe not. The long term results remain to be seen. Certainly, however, we as a society did not act with a level head and think things through rationally before acting.</text></comment> | <story><title>CDC warns of a steep decline in teen mental health</title><url>https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2022/03/31/student-mental-health-decline-cdc/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>sva_</author><text>There was a discussion on here, about how the Covid pandemic may have been one of the, or even <i>the</i> biggest transfers of wealth from &quot;the poor&quot; to &quot;the rich&quot; in the history of our civilization. Somebody remarked, that it has also been the biggest transfer of lifetime from the young to the old, as the lockdowns were mostly to protect the old. The measures taken against the pandemic undoubtedly had a huge impact on young people&#x27;s mental health, but the effects of it will only really unfold in the coming years, and are probably not measurable. People who deny this must be willfully ignorant.</text></item><item><author>lumb63</author><text>It astonishes me to see people defending the idea that the pandemic is not a notable component of this. I agree that social media, internet porn, competitive school environment, economic conditions, etc., are all negative influences on teenage mental health. However, to propose that forcing (or, at the least, very strongly encouraging) an entire populace into self-isolation would not have negative impacts for a group in one of the most social and formative times of life, is absurd.<p>Imagine you spent half the time you were in high school, alone. I cannot imagine any rational person is capable of believing this to not be a major factor to their mental health.<p>Anecdotally, I am a reasonably strong introvert, and I switched teams at my job during the pandemic after nine months of work from home because it did not feel healthy to my mental state to not have interacted with anyone in so long. I felt that my social abilities had atrophied, and that I had lost sight of a lot of the important things in life that derive from social interaction. I can only imagine that the impact is far greater to someone who can&#x27;t choose to change their life to obtain the social interaction they are missing, and who (I am generalizing a bit here) probably requires mental&#x2F;emotional guidance and support from their peers, elders, etc.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>radicalbyte</author><text>If we didn&#x27;t do the lockdowns then we would have seen a huge increase in mortality over all age groups as hospitals where overwhelmed.<p>Also, Long Covid is very much a thing.<p>I get it though: teenagers are growing up during a once in a century pandemic in the middle of an existential climate crisis which the old leaders (all 70+ in the US!) are not addressing.</text></comment> |
14,872,433 | 14,872,324 | 1 | 2 | 14,871,006 | train | <story><title>Higher-paid, faster-growing tech jobs are concentrating in 8 US hubs</title><url>http://www.hiringlab.org/2017/07/25/next-silicon-valley/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>zw123456</author><text>Reasons for Seattle:
1) take a long shower
2) wash your car
3) water your lawn
4) cheap electrical rates
5) enjoy the outdoors
6) awesome IPA&#x27;s
7) pot is legal
8) great culture
9) moderate weather as global warming progresses<p>downside - traffic is horrible.<p>That is my take as a long time Seattlite.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>icelancer</author><text>Been here 12 years and while I agree with those things (not that I care for IPA or weed), there are HUGE major cons:<p>-Traffic is quickly becoming worse than all cities in the US and the tunnel nightmare will not solve that (many projections say it will make it worse)<p>-Local and regional bureaucracy is far worse here than comparable west coast cities<p>-Massively regressive taxes due to no state income tax (consumption taxes disproportionately levy the burden on poor people, and regional small business taxes&#x2F;fees&#x2F;etc are incredibly bureaucratic here in comparison to other areas, though the state laws are favorable)<p>-NIMBYism is just as bad here as it is in SF, and worse in some areas<p>-As a result of the above, property values are skyrocketing at rates faster than some areas of SF. My $230k townhome in the middle of a &quot;bad area&quot; bought 4 years ago is worth $500k+. This is ridiculous. There is no reason I should have experienced a 100% ROI windfall for simply accidentally timing the market for housing.<p>Heroin epidemic is especially bad here, Seattle City Police have been investigated and busted by the US DOJ in the past, high school education has serious redlining going on which encourages private schooling (which is insanely expensive here), and so forth.<p>I love it in Seattle but it&#x27;s very much moving the same way SF is, and in many ways, trending much worse.</text></comment> | <story><title>Higher-paid, faster-growing tech jobs are concentrating in 8 US hubs</title><url>http://www.hiringlab.org/2017/07/25/next-silicon-valley/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>zw123456</author><text>Reasons for Seattle:
1) take a long shower
2) wash your car
3) water your lawn
4) cheap electrical rates
5) enjoy the outdoors
6) awesome IPA&#x27;s
7) pot is legal
8) great culture
9) moderate weather as global warming progresses<p>downside - traffic is horrible.<p>That is my take as a long time Seattlite.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>zippergz</author><text>There are a lot of nice things about Seattle, but I moved away after over a decade because I found that almost never seeing the sun was making me incredibly depressed. Moving to a place that&#x27;s sunny has improved my quality of life even more than I could have imagined. YMMV.</text></comment> |
6,850,303 | 6,850,354 | 1 | 2 | 6,850,036 | train | <story><title>NSA tracking cellphone locations worldwide, Snowden documents show</title><url>http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/nsa-tracking-cellphone-locations-worldwide-snowden-documents-show/2013/12/04/5492873a-5cf2-11e3-bc56-c6ca94801fac_print.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>lukev</author><text>Sure you can! Join the 60% of the world&#x27;s population that _don&#x27;t use the internet at all_.<p>Or the 20% of the population of the _US_ that don&#x27;t use the internet.<p>You can even still use a cell phone, if you want - just buy a prepaid mobile with cash.<p>And aside from awkwardness with your friends, you might even find such a life quite livable. You&#x27;ll experience no material hardship.</text></item><item><author>DanielBMarkham</author><text>So the deal modern man was presented with was this: we&#x27;ll give you instant global communication for pennies, but in return governments and corporations will closely monitor everyone on the planet: where they are, who they call, how long the call is, their texts, messages, and other communications -- basically their thoughts. We&#x27;ll record this forever to use as we choose. Trust us.<p>As a global population, we seem to have made this deal, but I&#x27;m not aware of ever being consciously offered the choice. Can I change my mind now?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tomschlick</author><text> &gt; You can even still use a cell phone, if you want - just buy a prepaid mobile with cash.<p>Actually this is exactly the kind of thing this data would sniff out. It would capture whichever cell towers you interact with (home, work, etc) and paired with data from your friends &amp; their call logs could easily pinpoint who you are. Kind of amazing from an analytical standpoint but pretty scary for privacy.</text></comment> | <story><title>NSA tracking cellphone locations worldwide, Snowden documents show</title><url>http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/nsa-tracking-cellphone-locations-worldwide-snowden-documents-show/2013/12/04/5492873a-5cf2-11e3-bc56-c6ca94801fac_print.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>lukev</author><text>Sure you can! Join the 60% of the world&#x27;s population that _don&#x27;t use the internet at all_.<p>Or the 20% of the population of the _US_ that don&#x27;t use the internet.<p>You can even still use a cell phone, if you want - just buy a prepaid mobile with cash.<p>And aside from awkwardness with your friends, you might even find such a life quite livable. You&#x27;ll experience no material hardship.</text></item><item><author>DanielBMarkham</author><text>So the deal modern man was presented with was this: we&#x27;ll give you instant global communication for pennies, but in return governments and corporations will closely monitor everyone on the planet: where they are, who they call, how long the call is, their texts, messages, and other communications -- basically their thoughts. We&#x27;ll record this forever to use as we choose. Trust us.<p>As a global population, we seem to have made this deal, but I&#x27;m not aware of ever being consciously offered the choice. Can I change my mind now?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>TrainedMonkey</author><text>Also do not use any kind of phone.<p>Do not appear on any camera&#x2F;picture.<p>Do not purchase anything with any kind of card.<p>Do not drive a car (License plate recognition systems are getting scary.)<p>Etc...</text></comment> |
32,715,921 | 32,716,001 | 1 | 2 | 32,714,527 | train | <story><title>Almost half of cancer deaths are caused by smoking, alcohol, or obesity</title><url>https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-02355-x</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>picture</author><text>Routinely scanning people without symptom or otherwise cause for concern is not a good idea. The human body is very messy and variable, and it&#x27;s hard for anyone or anything to reliably spot thing that are actually worth acting on. If the doctor spots a vague blob - how can they know what it is without any symptoms? The course of action is then &quot;come back in three months for another scan.&quot;<p>Subjecting a population to unnecessary routine full body scans, especially with radiation, will cause harm statistically. There are also countless examples of people undergoing unnecessary operation and suffering complications, like losing a perfectly fine healthy heart and requiring transplant.</text></item><item><author>beefman</author><text>Virtually all deaths from solid cancers are preventable with routine scans to find tumors before they metastasize. Doctors have for decades refused to learn to use this technology.[1-4][5-9] *<p>Meanwhile, population studies like the one this article is based on[10] are horseshit because they are subject to unknown degrees of sampling bias, rely on enormous assumptions (such as linear relationships which may not hold at all being applied over many orders of magnitude), and cannot in any case establish causality.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.pocus.org&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.pocus.org&#x2F;</a> [2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.butterflynetwork.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.butterflynetwork.com&#x2F;</a> [3] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.exo.inc&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.exo.inc&#x2F;</a> [4] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;vavehealth.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;vavehealth.com&#x2F;</a><p>[5] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;ezra.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;ezra.com&#x2F;</a> [6] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.halodx.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.halodx.com&#x2F;</a> [7] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.prenuvo.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.prenuvo.com&#x2F;</a> [8] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.simonone.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.simonone.com&#x2F;</a> [9] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.lifeimagingfla.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.lifeimagingfla.com&#x2F;</a><p>* Compare the experience of getting an x-ray from a dentist to getting one from a doctor. Or getting an ultrasound from an OB to getting one from any other doctor.<p>[10] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov&#x2F;35988567&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov&#x2F;35988567&#x2F;</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>valenterry</author><text>We need yearly scans or even monthly scans (MRI) for everyone. Privacy concerns aside, I think we would learn an awesome lot. We could then monitor changes over time and machine-learning could probably get really good at recognizing what changes are harmless and which are harmful and need a doctor to look into.<p>It&#x27;s a dream scenario, but maybe some day it will be like that. Or it will be like that and be dystopia. :)</text></comment> | <story><title>Almost half of cancer deaths are caused by smoking, alcohol, or obesity</title><url>https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-02355-x</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>picture</author><text>Routinely scanning people without symptom or otherwise cause for concern is not a good idea. The human body is very messy and variable, and it&#x27;s hard for anyone or anything to reliably spot thing that are actually worth acting on. If the doctor spots a vague blob - how can they know what it is without any symptoms? The course of action is then &quot;come back in three months for another scan.&quot;<p>Subjecting a population to unnecessary routine full body scans, especially with radiation, will cause harm statistically. There are also countless examples of people undergoing unnecessary operation and suffering complications, like losing a perfectly fine healthy heart and requiring transplant.</text></item><item><author>beefman</author><text>Virtually all deaths from solid cancers are preventable with routine scans to find tumors before they metastasize. Doctors have for decades refused to learn to use this technology.[1-4][5-9] *<p>Meanwhile, population studies like the one this article is based on[10] are horseshit because they are subject to unknown degrees of sampling bias, rely on enormous assumptions (such as linear relationships which may not hold at all being applied over many orders of magnitude), and cannot in any case establish causality.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.pocus.org&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.pocus.org&#x2F;</a> [2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.butterflynetwork.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.butterflynetwork.com&#x2F;</a> [3] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.exo.inc&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.exo.inc&#x2F;</a> [4] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;vavehealth.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;vavehealth.com&#x2F;</a><p>[5] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;ezra.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;ezra.com&#x2F;</a> [6] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.halodx.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.halodx.com&#x2F;</a> [7] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.prenuvo.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.prenuvo.com&#x2F;</a> [8] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.simonone.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.simonone.com&#x2F;</a> [9] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.lifeimagingfla.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.lifeimagingfla.com&#x2F;</a><p>* Compare the experience of getting an x-ray from a dentist to getting one from a doctor. Or getting an ultrasound from an OB to getting one from any other doctor.<p>[10] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov&#x2F;35988567&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov&#x2F;35988567&#x2F;</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ssivark</author><text>&gt; especially with radiation, will cause harm statistically.<p>Ultrasound is not radiation (as in photons). To the best of our understanding (from a physics&#x2F;engg perspective) ultrasound imaging capped by appropriate energy&#x2F;etc limits is expected to be perfectly safe. Likewise with MRI. If we want more pointed study to be sure of this, that&#x27;s fair, but let&#x27;s be clear &amp; specific about it and commit to figuring it out one way or another so we don&#x27;t repeat the same discussion a couple of decades down the line. (We have to think of moving the state of the art forward, instead of festering in unresolved disagreements)<p>Further, if you&#x27;re concerned about under-studied possible side-effects of radiation from occasional diagnostic testing, what do you plan to do about being blanketed by mm waves once 5G gets deployed more ubiquitously?<p>&gt; There are also countless examples of people undergoing unnecessary operation and suffering complications<p>This sounds far more serious (and fixable) compared to the physics&#x2F;biology interaction of diagnostic testing. Why do we continue to bury our heads in the sand collectively, instead of trying to fix this with better decision-making tools?</text></comment> |
9,189,391 | 9,188,876 | 1 | 2 | 9,185,091 | train | <story><title>A Word Is Worth a Thousand Vectors</title><url>http://technology.stitchfix.com/blog/2015/03/11/word-is-worth-a-thousand-vectors/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>est</author><text>As a native Chinese speaker, this comes so natural.<p>pork = pig + meat<p>So the year of 2015 is the year of ram&#x2F;sheep&#x2F;goat, in Chinese they literally means<p>Ram = male ∪ caprinae<p>sheep = wool ∪ caprinae<p>goat = mountain ∪ caprinae<p>basically, word composition is pretty common in analytic language like Chinese, but kinda new idea in fusional languages like English.</text></comment> | <story><title>A Word Is Worth a Thousand Vectors</title><url>http://technology.stitchfix.com/blog/2015/03/11/word-is-worth-a-thousand-vectors/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>imh</author><text>I&#x27;ve always wondered about doing this in non-flat spaces. Like if I add the &quot;7100 miles west&quot; vector to the &quot;California&quot; point, I get Turkmenistan. If I add &quot;7100 miles west&quot; again, I get back near &quot;California.&quot; Similarly, adding the &quot;not&quot; vector twice might get you back where you started in a word embedding. Anyone know if anyone is working on this? It could be tricky because &quot;7100 miles west&quot; lives in the tangent space to the space &quot;California&quot; lives in, but that in itself could be an interesting thing to study in the context of words.</text></comment> |
24,270,854 | 24,270,535 | 1 | 2 | 24,268,382 | train | <story><title>How to Write in Plain English</title><url>http://www.plainenglish.co.uk/how-to-write-in-plain-english.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dgellow</author><text>&gt; Don&#x27;t make your readers hold parts of the sentence in their head.<p>Funny to read this as I&#x27;m learning German! In German the main verb of a sentence has to be at the end depending on the context (e.g: if it is a question, or following some prepositions such as &quot;dass&quot;).<p>Let&#x27;s say we want to build a question, it will be constructed this way:<p>1. question marker (such as &quot;Was&quot;, &quot;Wo&quot;, &quot;Warum&quot;, etc)<p>2. subject<p>3. other details regarding the subject (adjectives and others)<p>4. the verb, with correct grammatical form depending on the subject<p>Something I find quite frustrating is that I have to keep in mind everything about the subject during the entire duration of the sentence just to be able to use the verb correctly. So because of this I always try to keep the distance between a subject and the verb as short as possible when trying to speak German, which results in very terse sentences that looks similar to what you described.<p>My life partner speaks native German and doesn&#x27;t even realize that she does this buffering.</text></item><item><author>nicbou</author><text>Don&#x27;t make your readers hold parts of the sentence in their head. Reorder or split sentences until it can be avoided. In other words, use a <i>really</i> small buffer.<p>&quot;You must fill form 331 unless you are over 60 years old, in which case you must fill form 445.&quot;<p>&quot;You must fill form 331. If you are over 60 years old, you must fill 445 instead.&quot;<p>&quot;If you are over 60 years old, you must fill form 445. Otherwise, you must fill form 331.&quot;<p>You might have noticed that the last version is an if-else statement.</text></item><item><author>gorgoiler</author><text>Writing clearly is like playing Tetris. Sentences should be presented with clauses that drop down and slot together efficiently. At the earliest available opportunity you drop in a block that completes the line and points are won&#x2F;made.<p>This can also make for rather dull writing and I appreciate the irony in this paragraph:<p><i>&gt; However, at first you may still find yourself writing the odd long sentence, especially when trying to explain a complicated point. But most long sentences can be broken up in some way.</i><p>Here we see the Tetris player drop a sequence of blocks leaving a 3x1 gap down the left edge. Where are they going with this? More blocks stack up on the middle and right, there are “bubbles” in the pile that are covered by squares and there’s still that annoying gap on the left holding them back from clearing. Time passes. The screen is now getting dangerously full.<p>Then they drop in a pair of 4x1 blocks that completes rows 1, 2, 3, 5 and 6. The bubbles on rows 4 and 7 become exposed making a T shaped hole. The next block to fall is a T shape. The screen clears, the sentence’s cognitive buffer is flushed, and we move on to the next point.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>notahacker</author><text>A famously playful version of this is the first sentence of Kafka&#x27;s Metamophorphosis. The reader has the concept of Gregor Samsa waking in his bed from uneasy dreams and then a monstrous vermin in their heads, and the verb they&#x27;re definitely not expecting to link this subject and object is &#x27;transformed into&#x27;...<p>It&#x27;s a pain for the translator to pull off the same effect in most other languages.</text></comment> | <story><title>How to Write in Plain English</title><url>http://www.plainenglish.co.uk/how-to-write-in-plain-english.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dgellow</author><text>&gt; Don&#x27;t make your readers hold parts of the sentence in their head.<p>Funny to read this as I&#x27;m learning German! In German the main verb of a sentence has to be at the end depending on the context (e.g: if it is a question, or following some prepositions such as &quot;dass&quot;).<p>Let&#x27;s say we want to build a question, it will be constructed this way:<p>1. question marker (such as &quot;Was&quot;, &quot;Wo&quot;, &quot;Warum&quot;, etc)<p>2. subject<p>3. other details regarding the subject (adjectives and others)<p>4. the verb, with correct grammatical form depending on the subject<p>Something I find quite frustrating is that I have to keep in mind everything about the subject during the entire duration of the sentence just to be able to use the verb correctly. So because of this I always try to keep the distance between a subject and the verb as short as possible when trying to speak German, which results in very terse sentences that looks similar to what you described.<p>My life partner speaks native German and doesn&#x27;t even realize that she does this buffering.</text></item><item><author>nicbou</author><text>Don&#x27;t make your readers hold parts of the sentence in their head. Reorder or split sentences until it can be avoided. In other words, use a <i>really</i> small buffer.<p>&quot;You must fill form 331 unless you are over 60 years old, in which case you must fill form 445.&quot;<p>&quot;You must fill form 331. If you are over 60 years old, you must fill 445 instead.&quot;<p>&quot;If you are over 60 years old, you must fill form 445. Otherwise, you must fill form 331.&quot;<p>You might have noticed that the last version is an if-else statement.</text></item><item><author>gorgoiler</author><text>Writing clearly is like playing Tetris. Sentences should be presented with clauses that drop down and slot together efficiently. At the earliest available opportunity you drop in a block that completes the line and points are won&#x2F;made.<p>This can also make for rather dull writing and I appreciate the irony in this paragraph:<p><i>&gt; However, at first you may still find yourself writing the odd long sentence, especially when trying to explain a complicated point. But most long sentences can be broken up in some way.</i><p>Here we see the Tetris player drop a sequence of blocks leaving a 3x1 gap down the left edge. Where are they going with this? More blocks stack up on the middle and right, there are “bubbles” in the pile that are covered by squares and there’s still that annoying gap on the left holding them back from clearing. Time passes. The screen is now getting dangerously full.<p>Then they drop in a pair of 4x1 blocks that completes rows 1, 2, 3, 5 and 6. The bubbles on rows 4 and 7 become exposed making a T shaped hole. The next block to fall is a T shape. The screen clears, the sentence’s cognitive buffer is flushed, and we move on to the next point.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ThePadawan</author><text>I had a Brazilian roommate who could second this. He (jokingly) complained this was the absolute worst when dealing with split-proposition-verbs:<p>E. g. &quot;aufgeben&quot; translated part-by-part is &quot;upgive&quot;, so &quot;to surrender&quot; or &quot;to give up&quot; in English.<p>However, in sth. like 3rd position singular, the form would be &quot;er gibt auf&quot; (&quot;he gives up&quot;). But in German, the object goes <i>between</i> &quot;gives&quot; and &quot;up&quot;.<p>Thus, my roommate mentioned a sentence like &quot;Der Präsident <i>gibt</i> sein Versprechen zur Verbesserung der Arbeitslosigkeitsquote <i>auf</i>&quot; (The President <i>gives up</i> his promise about improving unemploymemt rates).<p>So yeah, parsing German sometimes results a pause while everyone unwinds their stack.</text></comment> |
27,267,930 | 27,267,227 | 1 | 2 | 27,266,485 | train | <story><title>Complexity is a source of income in open source ecosystems (2019)</title><url>https://www.r-bloggers.com/2019/07/complexity-is-a-source-of-income-in-open-source-ecosystems/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>throwawayboise</author><text>The popularity of R amazes me. I took a one-week class in R and left with a vow to avoid it at all costs. I have never seen a more confusing, hard to understand, inconsistent software product in my 30 years as an IT professional. It&#x27;s apparently targeted at scientists and sociologists who are non-programmers. I have no idea how they manage to use it.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>colechristensen</author><text>Scientific programming is just different. Much of the culture of scientific programming is different and with good reasons not easy to understand.<p>Its something like how baking cookies at home and running a cookie factory are very different. To a person doing each, the behaviors and priorities of the other seem strange and it’s easy to for one to think “we are both just making cookies, why don’t they do what i do which is obviously superior “<p>Scientific programmers are solving problems first, not writing programs. They are solving problems in a way that is useful only to them or peers who know a whole lot about the problem being solved. The problem-first tools look strange because they deemphasize the programming niceness in favor of problem niceness.<p>You find the same sort of confusion when programmers are facing business types and excel usage.<p>There are certainly times when a piece of code starts needing the programming touch, but the right tool for the job depends on the job.</text></comment> | <story><title>Complexity is a source of income in open source ecosystems (2019)</title><url>https://www.r-bloggers.com/2019/07/complexity-is-a-source-of-income-in-open-source-ecosystems/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>throwawayboise</author><text>The popularity of R amazes me. I took a one-week class in R and left with a vow to avoid it at all costs. I have never seen a more confusing, hard to understand, inconsistent software product in my 30 years as an IT professional. It&#x27;s apparently targeted at scientists and sociologists who are non-programmers. I have no idea how they manage to use it.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>blacktriangle</author><text>My description of R: It makes hard things easy and easy things hard. Ergonomically it is the absolute worst &quot;programming language&quot; I&#x27;ve touched in my life. However somehow it managed to become the official language of statistics research and has packages to do any type of analysis you can dream of.<p>I think the reason you and I dislike R is because we just work differently than non-programmers. Non programmers think in purely imperative, straight-forward semantics. They write one-off unmaintainable code tying together libraries that solves their immediate problem. Programmers try and write R code as if it was a proper programming language and immediately run into walls. Non-programmers never see the walls because they don&#x27;t even know there&#x27;s another way.</text></comment> |
31,120,929 | 31,120,684 | 1 | 2 | 31,120,094 | train | <story><title>The bottom is dropping out of Netflix</title><url>https://www.pajiba.com/tv_reviews/the-bottom-is-dropping-out-of-netflix.php</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>sudden_dystopia</author><text>Interesting analysis.<p>I find it interesting that so many people spend so much time watching tv in the first place. Growing up, I was one of those people but about a decade ago I lost interest in pretty much anything on television. There are certain shows that I will watch on occasion that get me hooked, but I usually struggle to find anything that is actually worth my time and end up just turning the tv off after surfing the streaming options for 10 minutes. It boggles my mind when I hear things like “golden age” of content. Sure there is a ton of content, but it’s all so vapid.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>TheOtherHobbes</author><text>I only use Netflix and Prime, and both feel really stale to me. It&#x27;s all &quot;content&quot; - good to very good production values designed to fill a gap and appeal to a demographic. But very repetitive and production line, with no passion projects, nothing too arty or quirky, nothing outside of the box, no <i>surprises.</i><p>Some of it is quite watchable, but none of it is exciting or fresh. It&#x27;s all some combination of stock soapy characters and themes in stock genre settings, usually with some comedy&#x2F;sex&#x2F;violence&#x2F;horror added for stickiness.<p>Netflix could easily throw some money at graduate film makers and say &#x27;Make something no one has seen before.&#x27; That might or might not help retention, but it&#x27;s hard to shake the feeling Netflix are deliberately aiming for the middle of the bell curve as creative policy, and missing opportunities to lead instead of trying to play it safe.</text></comment> | <story><title>The bottom is dropping out of Netflix</title><url>https://www.pajiba.com/tv_reviews/the-bottom-is-dropping-out-of-netflix.php</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>sudden_dystopia</author><text>Interesting analysis.<p>I find it interesting that so many people spend so much time watching tv in the first place. Growing up, I was one of those people but about a decade ago I lost interest in pretty much anything on television. There are certain shows that I will watch on occasion that get me hooked, but I usually struggle to find anything that is actually worth my time and end up just turning the tv off after surfing the streaming options for 10 minutes. It boggles my mind when I hear things like “golden age” of content. Sure there is a ton of content, but it’s all so vapid.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ethanbond</author><text>I think there&#x27;s so <i>much</i> content that even with a very low hit rate, there&#x27;s more than enough to entertain yourself to death. For example, the 18 hour Vietnam War documentary by Ken Burns is itself enough to burn a month or so of TV time.</text></comment> |
34,618,088 | 34,618,413 | 1 | 3 | 34,617,844 | train | <story><title>Meta Reports Fourth Quarter and Full Year 2022 Results</title><url>https://investor.fb.com/investor-news/press-release-details/2023/Meta-Reports-Fourth-Quarter-and-Full-Year-2022-Results/default.aspx</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>michaericalribo</author><text>Seems like anti-tracking by Apple had a tangible impact on their business -- revenue down from last year.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mensetmanusman</author><text>Yeah it’s huge. Lots of small niche businesses in our area lost their route for finding new customers (General advertising too expensive for their market demo.).</text></comment> | <story><title>Meta Reports Fourth Quarter and Full Year 2022 Results</title><url>https://investor.fb.com/investor-news/press-release-details/2023/Meta-Reports-Fourth-Quarter-and-Full-Year-2022-Results/default.aspx</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>michaericalribo</author><text>Seems like anti-tracking by Apple had a tangible impact on their business -- revenue down from last year.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>blsapologist42</author><text>Revenue increased (very slightly) on a constant currency basis</text></comment> |
29,712,491 | 29,709,036 | 1 | 3 | 29,706,073 | train | <story><title>Takeaways from looking for a new senior role in tech</title><url>https://philcalcado.com/2021/12/20/job_hunt.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>nicholasjarnold</author><text>I have a feeling it&#x27;s a sales tactic which seeks to purposely use up a candidate&#x27;s time with the hope that the candidate falls victim to the sunk cost fallacy.<p>Desired inner monologue I think they hope to generate in us: &quot;I&#x27;ve already spent 3 calls and a couple of hours talking to &lt;recruiter&gt;, so I might as well continue on with the process lest I end up wasting all that time.&quot;<p>disclosure: I&#x27;m a dev and not a recruiter, so take this with a grain of salt.</text></item><item><author>qrohlf</author><text>&gt; Recruiters love phone calls and don’t like doing things over email or text. This means that it is very easy to get overwhelmed by the number of recruiters trying to call you, and we will explore time management a little further down the text.<p>This has been my experience as well, and while I understand the desire for introductory &quot;sales mode&quot; type calls, I think it&#x27;s progressed past that point to something nearly pathological.<p>As an example, I recently had a recruiter that I was previously in contact with over email cold-call me while I was skiing, trying to schedule a meeting with a hiring manager (I picked up the call because I thought it might be one of the people in my group that I didn&#x27;t have in my contacts). When I requested she please send me an email to schedule the meeting, as I was out of the office, I got an email where she <i>sent an email to schedule the phone call, to then schedule the meeting over the phone</i>. It was 100% the least efficient way to do this, and only happened because of this illogically strong preference for phone calls that recruiters seem to have...</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>fenomas</author><text>It&#x27;s weird to imagine devious hidden motives like this, when recruiters already have obvious natural reasons to want to do a phone call.<p>Example 1: they need to get a rough idea of whether you&#x27;re a jerk, whether you can communicate in the required language, whether your resume is BS, etc. Remember, nobody&#x27;s paying the recruiter to find you a job - somebody&#x27;s paying them to find high-quality candidates. Their job is to sell you, so naturally they want to know what they&#x27;re selling.<p>Example 2: simple context switching. If your job required you to be involved in dozens or hundreds of simultaneous ongoing negotiations, wouldn&#x27;t you find it more efficient to block out 30-minute calls with each stakeholder, rather than jumping around between a hundred different email threads full of single-question emails?<p>One could probably come up with more straightforward reasons. As a general rule though, nobody is ever consciously <i>trying</i> to waste your time. They&#x27;re trying not to waste their <i>own</i>.</text></comment> | <story><title>Takeaways from looking for a new senior role in tech</title><url>https://philcalcado.com/2021/12/20/job_hunt.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>nicholasjarnold</author><text>I have a feeling it&#x27;s a sales tactic which seeks to purposely use up a candidate&#x27;s time with the hope that the candidate falls victim to the sunk cost fallacy.<p>Desired inner monologue I think they hope to generate in us: &quot;I&#x27;ve already spent 3 calls and a couple of hours talking to &lt;recruiter&gt;, so I might as well continue on with the process lest I end up wasting all that time.&quot;<p>disclosure: I&#x27;m a dev and not a recruiter, so take this with a grain of salt.</text></item><item><author>qrohlf</author><text>&gt; Recruiters love phone calls and don’t like doing things over email or text. This means that it is very easy to get overwhelmed by the number of recruiters trying to call you, and we will explore time management a little further down the text.<p>This has been my experience as well, and while I understand the desire for introductory &quot;sales mode&quot; type calls, I think it&#x27;s progressed past that point to something nearly pathological.<p>As an example, I recently had a recruiter that I was previously in contact with over email cold-call me while I was skiing, trying to schedule a meeting with a hiring manager (I picked up the call because I thought it might be one of the people in my group that I didn&#x27;t have in my contacts). When I requested she please send me an email to schedule the meeting, as I was out of the office, I got an email where she <i>sent an email to schedule the phone call, to then schedule the meeting over the phone</i>. It was 100% the least efficient way to do this, and only happened because of this illogically strong preference for phone calls that recruiters seem to have...</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>felipellrocha</author><text>I think this is an unnecessarily cynical view. A phone call is just warmer, and recruiters probably close more often by going to a phone call.</text></comment> |
11,090,412 | 11,090,462 | 1 | 2 | 11,089,834 | train | <story><title>Google Bets on Health</title><url>http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-02-12/google-ventures-seeks-to-make-name-as-farsighted-health-investor</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>matt_wulfeck</author><text>I can&#x27;t help but feel the motivating factor here is not helping people live longer (invest in food storage, transportation, and production and help millions of people survive). Instead this seems to me more like wealthy folks beginning to fear the realization that someday they will grow old and die like the rest of us.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>haberman</author><text>Imagine being in a situation where doing anything that benefits both yourself and others is used as evidence of your selfishness because it will benefit you.<p>When did win&#x2F;win become a bad thing? Would you rather these rich people were building bigger mansions instead?</text></comment> | <story><title>Google Bets on Health</title><url>http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-02-12/google-ventures-seeks-to-make-name-as-farsighted-health-investor</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>matt_wulfeck</author><text>I can&#x27;t help but feel the motivating factor here is not helping people live longer (invest in food storage, transportation, and production and help millions of people survive). Instead this seems to me more like wealthy folks beginning to fear the realization that someday they will grow old and die like the rest of us.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>reasonattlm</author><text>Speaking as an advocate for the cause, I can assure you that isn&#x27;t it. Wealth doesn&#x27;t grant vision. Most wealthy people have exactly the same biases and preconceptions about aging as everyone else.<p>If it was otherwise, it wouldn&#x27;t be at all hard to raise funds for initiatives like the SENS Research Foundation&#x27;s program aimed at medical control of aging. As it is, the number of the ultra-wealthy who have supported this cause is well below 1%, and those have been fairly cautious investments in the grand scheme of things, e.g. those by Peter Thiel.<p>What is happening at the moment is an initial tipping point of sorts across the entire population in the realization that, hey, treating aging as a medical condition is plausible. Researchers have been saying this for a decade, with increasing volume following the pro-longevity faction winning the cultural battles within the scientific community, but it takes time to bootstrap a movement and get to the point at which Prudential puts up posters suggesting that people should think about living to 150. We may not even be at the main 10% support tipping point yet in the broader population.<p>A recent Pew study suggests that the majority of people continue to believe that the current state of things is the best state of things, and they don&#x27;t want live longer because people don&#x27;t live longer. People want to be slightly better than their peers. Live to 90, because that&#x27;s a little more than what other people have on average. Be more healthy as you decay into death, because that&#x27;s a little more than other people have. Stasis is the default opinion, which has always struck me as crazed given the tangible, obvious pace of progress in technology that we are living through.<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.pewforum.org&#x2F;2013&#x2F;08&#x2F;06&#x2F;living-to-120-and-beyond-americans-views-on-aging-medical-advances-and-radical-life-extension&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.pewforum.org&#x2F;2013&#x2F;08&#x2F;06&#x2F;living-to-120-and-beyond-...</a><p>In the end this is no different than any other field of human endeavor. It takes unreasonable visionaries to force beneficial progress down everyone else&#x27;s throats, and once done everyone else agrees that it was self-evident and obvious.</text></comment> |
27,934,381 | 27,933,560 | 1 | 3 | 27,931,566 | train | <story><title>If Richard Feynman applied for a job at Microsoft (2002)</title><url>https://sellsbrothers.com/12395</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>okareaman</author><text>How many ping pong balls would it take to fill a 747?<p>Why do you ask? What problem are you trying to solve?<p>We want to understand your thought process<p>I&#x27;d think it was stupid to fill a 747 with ping pong balls and think about something else</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>conjecTech</author><text>I don&#x27;t get the derision for these kinds of problems. And I think it&#x27;s unlikely Feynman would have found this unhelpful. These are commonly referred to as Fermi problems. Fermi was a physicist of Feynman&#x27;s generation - they were probably standing together at Trinity when Fermi did the famous yield approximation. The other physicists held this ability in such esteem they gave it a name and remembered him for it.<p>The question is meant to gauge whether you can create a simple model of a system that is completely foreign to you, but for which you are familiar with the fundamental rules governing it. The absurdity of it serves to remove bias. You don&#x27;t have to worry about whether or not the candidate happens to have experience filling airplanes with ping pong balls. So much of effective programming is creating a model for the processes we are trying to automate. Coming up with effective abstractions uses many of the same skills.</text></comment> | <story><title>If Richard Feynman applied for a job at Microsoft (2002)</title><url>https://sellsbrothers.com/12395</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>okareaman</author><text>How many ping pong balls would it take to fill a 747?<p>Why do you ask? What problem are you trying to solve?<p>We want to understand your thought process<p>I&#x27;d think it was stupid to fill a 747 with ping pong balls and think about something else</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tharkun__</author><text>In an interview, stopping at this might just make you not get the job. If you&#x27;re lucky the interviewer will laugh and ask the appropriate followup question. It goes something like this:<p><pre><code> Haha, awesome answer. I agree with you from a business perspective it seems stupid at first. Now I can&#x27;t come up with a good reason to do this, but let&#x27;s say I as your Product person have convinced you with enough good reasons that it is indeed a valuable task to fill this 747 with as many ping pong balls as you can. What would you do?
</code></pre>
If you keep it at &quot;I refuse to answer this question&quot;, you&#x27;re out. If you laugh and maybe talk about your experience with Product people asking for stupid stuff all the time and then you ask some&#x2F;all&#x2F;other questions like these back:<p>Is this a 747 in it&#x27;s &quot;raw&quot; state, i.e. no seats, no overhead compartments etc, basically empty fuselage? Am I supposed to fill the wings as well (i.e. the kerosine storage areas? Is the aircraft supposed to be able to fly after this? Do I have to care about the flammability of ping pong balls? Btw. how much do ping pong balls weigh and how big are they again, just to be sure we&#x27;re talking about the same thing I&#x27;m thinking of here?<p>And the list goes on. This is just the stuff I could come up with in a minute without being in a high pressure interview situation :) One of my bosses once told me why he likes me working for him: You don&#x27;t say &quot;can&#x27;t be done&quot; you just ask back &quot;How much can this cost?&quot;</text></comment> |
41,024,626 | 41,018,731 | 1 | 2 | 41,016,441 | train | <story><title>10% of Cubans left Cuba between 2022 and 2023</title><url>https://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-world/world/americas/cuba/article290249799.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>giancarlostoro</author><text>I wonder what a sensible way forward for Cubans is, and their government. What would it take for the US to lift sanctions (I assume a radical shift within Cuba&#x27;s government), and for Cuba itself (as a whole) to restructure their government in a way that would benefit them and everyone.<p>Cuba would be a great travel destination.<p>Their cigars aren&#x27;t as on par anymore as far as I know, but there&#x27;s potential there, Nicaragua and Dominican Republic basically make the best ones last I checked.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>aconsult1</author><text>I&#x27;ve been smoking cigars for the past 15 years. I was lucky enough to have smoked only cuban cigars (which are legal where I&#x27;m from), so I know them very well.<p>Nicaragua and Dominican Republic are garbage compared to Cubans, still to this day. Several times while in the US (where I&#x27;ve lived in the past few years) I tried to smoke non-cuban cigars. Not once I found something that was remotely close to the worse cuban I&#x27;ve had.<p>My basic understanding is because of two factors:
1. The tobacco doesn&#x27;t grow anywhere else like it does in Cuba. It&#x27;s an island with very specific combination of soil and weather that can&#x27;t be replicated. The tobacco leafs are huge in Cuba and that makes a big difference when making a cigar which ideally should use as few leafs as possible.
2. The best workers that know how to select, blend and roll a cigar are still all in Cuba. Other countries tried to replicate but they don&#x27;t come close in terms of skills and knowledge.<p>I don&#x27;t have sources for the two factors above but my experience tells me it adds up.<p>I only heard people complimenting non-cuban cigars here in the US. Nowhere else. Which sounds fair or else the entire cigar industry would have gone bankrupt without access to the best stuff. Overtime you won&#x27;t find people in the US who understands what a cuban cigar is like because they have no exposure to it.</text></comment> | <story><title>10% of Cubans left Cuba between 2022 and 2023</title><url>https://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-world/world/americas/cuba/article290249799.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>giancarlostoro</author><text>I wonder what a sensible way forward for Cubans is, and their government. What would it take for the US to lift sanctions (I assume a radical shift within Cuba&#x27;s government), and for Cuba itself (as a whole) to restructure their government in a way that would benefit them and everyone.<p>Cuba would be a great travel destination.<p>Their cigars aren&#x27;t as on par anymore as far as I know, but there&#x27;s potential there, Nicaragua and Dominican Republic basically make the best ones last I checked.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>toast0</author><text>&gt; Cuba would be a great travel destination.<p>It&#x27;s been a while since I visited places outside the US, but one of the shocking things was travel ads for Cuba everywhere.<p>From what I can tell, US-Cuban relations seem to be at the whim of the US President. Most of the US population doesn&#x27;t care; most of the rest of the world has fine relations with Cuba, but isn&#x27;t going to pressure the US. Nobody is sending missiles to Cuba anymore.</text></comment> |
23,347,482 | 23,343,538 | 1 | 3 | 23,335,368 | train | <story><title>Why we have so many problems with our teeth</title><url>https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/why-we-have-so-many-problems-with-our-teeth/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ip26</author><text>This has been popping up in the news periodically for a few years now. However, as a parent of young children, I&#x27;m still trying to figure out the next step. That is, what to feed them that is nutritious, tasty, and also works the jaw. Raw carrots and overcooked meat are not tolerated for long.<p>Even if I don&#x27;t serve them mush, al dente pasta and tender-cooked meats are quite soft. Home-made jerky and artisan-style bread (with a really tough crust) are the best I&#x27;ve come up with so far.<p>I did have an insatiable desire to chew on gum for a year or so while a teenager. In retrospect I wonder if it was innate. Didn&#x27;t save my wisdom teeth though.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>abdullahkhalids</author><text>I don&#x27;t know about cultural constraints, but as a kid, one my favorite parts of food was goat bone marrow. In South Asian goat curries, you add sliced-in-half bone. Getting the marrow out is a combination of sucking and biting and chewing, which helps a lot with Jaw strength.</text></comment> | <story><title>Why we have so many problems with our teeth</title><url>https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/why-we-have-so-many-problems-with-our-teeth/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ip26</author><text>This has been popping up in the news periodically for a few years now. However, as a parent of young children, I&#x27;m still trying to figure out the next step. That is, what to feed them that is nutritious, tasty, and also works the jaw. Raw carrots and overcooked meat are not tolerated for long.<p>Even if I don&#x27;t serve them mush, al dente pasta and tender-cooked meats are quite soft. Home-made jerky and artisan-style bread (with a really tough crust) are the best I&#x27;ve come up with so far.<p>I did have an insatiable desire to chew on gum for a year or so while a teenager. In retrospect I wonder if it was innate. Didn&#x27;t save my wisdom teeth though.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>smithza</author><text>A parent of a youngin&#x27; also, I am realizing there is balance needed. Technological prowess is part of the balance... we have orthodontic abilities to correct our teeth when tough food is lacking... and rub teeth with fluoride twice a day to help offset enamel breakdown.</text></comment> |
9,646,377 | 9,645,912 | 1 | 2 | 9,645,369 | train | <story><title>The Agency: An army of well-paid “trolls” in St. Petersburg</title><url>http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/07/magazine/the-agency.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>meesterdude</author><text>&gt; Volodin installed in his office a custom-designed computer terminal loaded with a system called Prism, which monitored public sentiment online using 60 million sources<p>Oh look, they&#x27;ve got prism too!<p>&gt; According to the website of its manufacturer, Prism “actively tracks the social media activities that result in increased social tension, disorderly conduct, protest sentiments and extremism.”<p>Well that&#x27;s comforting.<p>This is obviously still in it&#x27;s infancy, but they&#x27;re only going to get better at this. Obvious leads and dead giveaways will be replaced with more subtly and variance, and detecting whats bullshit and whats real will become even more difficult, if not impossible.<p>This is russia&#x27;s answer to people rioting over corruption in the government. Not transparency, not change; social manipulation of information and spreading lies.<p>And they aren&#x27;t the only ones doing this. They&#x27;re just the only ones we know about. No doubt other countries, companies and criminal organizations are operating similar tactics already.<p>Certainly puts a new spin on the term &quot;don&#x27;t talk to strangers&quot;</text></comment> | <story><title>The Agency: An army of well-paid “trolls” in St. Petersburg</title><url>http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/07/magazine/the-agency.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>gyardley</author><text>Poorly titled and therefore hard to share on Hacker News, but lengthy and worth reading investigative reporting into a bizarre &#x27;Internet Research Agency&#x27; that mainly produces pro-Putin propaganda, in both English and Russian.<p>I&#x27;m surprised, frankly, that they don&#x27;t have better English-language proficiency.</text></comment> |
32,062,601 | 32,061,750 | 1 | 2 | 32,059,566 | train | <story><title>Postgres full-text search: A search engine in a database (2021)</title><url>https://www.crunchydata.com/blog/postgres-full-text-search-a-search-engine-in-a-database</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>simonw</author><text>The hardest part of building any search engine is keeping the index up-to-date with changes made to the underlying data store.<p>It&#x27;s a solvable problem, but it&#x27;s always a lot of work to build and to keep working as the database schema changes in the future.<p>This is why I really like PostgreSQL FTS: it&#x27;s good enough that for many projects I don&#x27;t need to use an external search engine any more - and it&#x27;s way easier to keep the search index up-to-date than if the index lives in a separate system.<p>I wrote this tutorial on implementing faceted search with PostgreSQL and Django a while ago: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;simonwillison.net&#x2F;2017&#x2F;Oct&#x2F;5&#x2F;django-postgresql-faceted-search&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;simonwillison.net&#x2F;2017&#x2F;Oct&#x2F;5&#x2F;django-postgresql-facet...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Postgres full-text search: A search engine in a database (2021)</title><url>https://www.crunchydata.com/blog/postgres-full-text-search-a-search-engine-in-a-database</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>crtxcr</author><text>I was a bit disappointed by some limitations back then when I tried it for a project of mine. When searching phrases where ordering matters, phraseto_tsquery() does not quite work for larger documents, as the tsvector position values are quite limited: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.postgresql.org&#x2F;docs&#x2F;14&#x2F;textsearch-limitations.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.postgresql.org&#x2F;docs&#x2F;14&#x2F;textsearch-limitations.ht...</a> Here I had much better success with sqlite&#x27;s FTS implemention.</text></comment> |
34,917,943 | 34,917,708 | 1 | 2 | 34,916,815 | train | <story><title>Tell HN: DuckDuckGo's privacy extension is adding an inline popup to web forms</title><text>I didn&#x27;t really believe my eyes when I saw it the first time, I thought it had to be some ad specific to the website.<p>But it appears every form accepting an email on any website I visit now gets a small duck icon next to it that pops up a big bold-print message box to &quot;Protect your inbox &quot; complete with a cheeky prompt to either &quot;get email protection&quot; or &quot;maybe later.&quot; Refusal is not even an option. This is definitely new for me as of today.[0]<p>I found DuckDuckGo via Hackernews and have generally been a happy user of both the search engine and the privacy extension. Why could they possibly be doing this? It seems like a self-destructive act from a branding standpoint, I can&#x27;t imagine their target customer demographic is amicable to this kind of thing.<p>[0]<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;i.redd.it&#x2F;p1tcoikka0ka1.png" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;i.redd.it&#x2F;p1tcoikka0ka1.png</a><p>Edit: It&#x27;s even on Hackernews! I genuinely can&#x27;t recall a browser extension acting like this since the mid-00s adware toolbar days. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;i.imgur.com&#x2F;vYjZAUK.png" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;i.imgur.com&#x2F;vYjZAUK.png</a><p>Edit again: This post originally just said &quot;injecting ads into web forms,&quot; I edited the title to clarify - apologies if that was misleading.</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>yegg</author><text>Founder&#x2F;CEO of DuckDuckGo here. This title implies we are injecting third-party advertising into web forms, which is not the case. (Edit: that last sentence is now moot since the title has been updated. Thank you.)<p>This is part of the onboarding for our optional DuckDuckGo Email Protection feature that comes with the extension. (Note if you just use our private search engine, you do not need our extension at all.) The feature generates email aliases for you on sign up forms (so you don&#x27;t give out your real email address), which then forwards to your regular inbox with email trackers removed in the process: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;spreadprivacy.com&#x2F;protect-your-inbox-with-duckduckgo-email-protection&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;spreadprivacy.com&#x2F;protect-your-inbox-with-duckduckgo...</a>. It is mentioned in the add-on description as one of the extension&#x27;s primary features, e.g., at <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;addons.mozilla.org&#x2F;en-US&#x2F;firefox&#x2F;addon&#x2F;duckduckgo-for-firefox&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;addons.mozilla.org&#x2F;en-US&#x2F;firefox&#x2F;addon&#x2F;duckduckgo-fo...</a>.<p>(x-posting part of another comment here for context on this feature: Popping up a level, the goal of our product is to be the &quot;easy button&quot; for privacy, and email protection is a big part of it, since as we (and others) have gotten much better at web tracking protection (e.g., see <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;help.duckduckgo.com&#x2F;duckduckgo-help-pages&#x2F;privacy&#x2F;web-tracking-protections&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;help.duckduckgo.com&#x2F;duckduckgo-help-pages&#x2F;privacy&#x2F;we...</a>), unscrupulous actors have done more and more email tracking, using your email address as a unique identifier to track you across sites and putting email trackers within emails to do similar.)<p>Update: I am listening to the feedback presented here, though please know there is a whole team of people working on this feature, trying to bring needed email protection to our mainstream user base. Email protection as a concept is hard for people to understand and the team felt that this in-context onboarding was the best way to explain it. However, we will now revisit this given the feedback.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>toxic</author><text>So, it&#x27;s an ad for a service where email goes through your servers before reaching mine, for the purpose of removing tracking and hiding my address. This isn&#x27;t onboarding, this is cross-promotion of another service and it&#x27;s really F&#x27;ing gross.<p>Messing with the integrity of a web page&#x27;s content without your users&#x27; consent is a gross violation of trust. Doing it inside of a browser extension is adware. Doing it as a privacy-focused company is... a fast way to destroy your image as a privacy-focused company.<p>If you&#x27;re manipulating the display of a page that I&#x27;m visiting, without an opt-in, and you&#x27;re being shady about calling it advertising, why should I expect that you&#x27;re going to treat email with the level of integrity required&#x2F;expected?<p>This is a hard red line that you&#x27;ve crossed, especially as a privacy-focused company, and instead of backing down, you&#x27;re blaming your UI design? Stop. There is no amount of UI work that makes it OK to silently insert your ad into someone else&#x27;s content.<p>If you want to cross-promote (please don&#x27;t, but if you must), you need to do it in a way that makes it clear it&#x27;s coming from the extension, and not manipulating third-party content without user consent. The second you start inserting your message into a page that I&#x27;m reading, is the second that I uninstall your extension and never use it again.<p>Which is a shame. I like your search product, and I thought that I liked your company&#x27;s philosophy and goals. Oh well.</text></comment> | <story><title>Tell HN: DuckDuckGo's privacy extension is adding an inline popup to web forms</title><text>I didn&#x27;t really believe my eyes when I saw it the first time, I thought it had to be some ad specific to the website.<p>But it appears every form accepting an email on any website I visit now gets a small duck icon next to it that pops up a big bold-print message box to &quot;Protect your inbox &quot; complete with a cheeky prompt to either &quot;get email protection&quot; or &quot;maybe later.&quot; Refusal is not even an option. This is definitely new for me as of today.[0]<p>I found DuckDuckGo via Hackernews and have generally been a happy user of both the search engine and the privacy extension. Why could they possibly be doing this? It seems like a self-destructive act from a branding standpoint, I can&#x27;t imagine their target customer demographic is amicable to this kind of thing.<p>[0]<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;i.redd.it&#x2F;p1tcoikka0ka1.png" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;i.redd.it&#x2F;p1tcoikka0ka1.png</a><p>Edit: It&#x27;s even on Hackernews! I genuinely can&#x27;t recall a browser extension acting like this since the mid-00s adware toolbar days. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;i.imgur.com&#x2F;vYjZAUK.png" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;i.imgur.com&#x2F;vYjZAUK.png</a><p>Edit again: This post originally just said &quot;injecting ads into web forms,&quot; I edited the title to clarify - apologies if that was misleading.</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>yegg</author><text>Founder&#x2F;CEO of DuckDuckGo here. This title implies we are injecting third-party advertising into web forms, which is not the case. (Edit: that last sentence is now moot since the title has been updated. Thank you.)<p>This is part of the onboarding for our optional DuckDuckGo Email Protection feature that comes with the extension. (Note if you just use our private search engine, you do not need our extension at all.) The feature generates email aliases for you on sign up forms (so you don&#x27;t give out your real email address), which then forwards to your regular inbox with email trackers removed in the process: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;spreadprivacy.com&#x2F;protect-your-inbox-with-duckduckgo-email-protection&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;spreadprivacy.com&#x2F;protect-your-inbox-with-duckduckgo...</a>. It is mentioned in the add-on description as one of the extension&#x27;s primary features, e.g., at <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;addons.mozilla.org&#x2F;en-US&#x2F;firefox&#x2F;addon&#x2F;duckduckgo-for-firefox&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;addons.mozilla.org&#x2F;en-US&#x2F;firefox&#x2F;addon&#x2F;duckduckgo-fo...</a>.<p>(x-posting part of another comment here for context on this feature: Popping up a level, the goal of our product is to be the &quot;easy button&quot; for privacy, and email protection is a big part of it, since as we (and others) have gotten much better at web tracking protection (e.g., see <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;help.duckduckgo.com&#x2F;duckduckgo-help-pages&#x2F;privacy&#x2F;web-tracking-protections&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;help.duckduckgo.com&#x2F;duckduckgo-help-pages&#x2F;privacy&#x2F;we...</a>), unscrupulous actors have done more and more email tracking, using your email address as a unique identifier to track you across sites and putting email trackers within emails to do similar.)<p>Update: I am listening to the feedback presented here, though please know there is a whole team of people working on this feature, trying to bring needed email protection to our mainstream user base. Email protection as a concept is hard for people to understand and the team felt that this in-context onboarding was the best way to explain it. However, we will now revisit this given the feedback.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Slighted</author><text>&gt;This title implies we are injecting third-party advertising into web forms, which is not the case.<p>Its okay everybody, the CEO came out and said its *not* actually advertising but just simply an unsolicited, intrusive pop-up that tries to get users to use more of their services so its all good!</text></comment> |
15,965,038 | 15,964,742 | 1 | 3 | 15,964,011 | train | <story><title>How the Winklevoss Twins Found Vindication in a Bitcoin Fortune</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/19/technology/bitcoin-winklevoss-twins.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=second-column-region&region=top-news&WT.nav=top-news&_r=0</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>TheBiv</author><text>&gt;&gt; They said they might look at selling when the value of all the Bitcoin in circulation approaches the value of all gold in the world — some $7 trillion or $8 trillion compared with the $310 billion value of all Bitcoin on Tuesday — given that they think Bitcoin is set to replace gold as a rare commodity. But then Tyler Winklevoss questioned even that, pointing out the ways that he believes Bitcoin is better than gold.<p>I found this to be the most fascinating part of the article.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>sytelus</author><text>That&#x27;s quite a balony.<p>- Both are in fixed quantity so none is more rare than other.<p>- Gold has practical use in industry which puts lower bound on its value. BTC has no lower bound.<p>- Gold is exchangeable virtually in any country and any culture regardless of how technologically advanced that society is.<p>- Thousands of years of history has proven that humans have almost natural lust for this shiny metal and it gets displayed as jewelry uses. This again further sets the lower bound for gold prices.<p>- Gold is not only rare but is virtually rust proof and can be stowed away without any advanced tech for 100s of years. BTC will be pointless if there was a natural or human made disaster and few people had electricity.<p>- Gold is far more unlikely to be made illegal by governments.<p>- There are no new rare metals popping up every day like whole slew of new cryptocurrencies which might fragment and trump each other. No one knows which cryptocurrency will end up dominating 10 years down the line.<p>- BTC has huge risk of getting stolen and hacked because someone exploiting zero day vulnerabilities in your system even if you did everything you possibly could to keep your system safe.<p>- Governments can start their secret operations to control the crypto market behind the scene, hack in to exchanges, find vulnerabilities or do dirty trades.<p>- Crypto exchanges are wild west without regulations which means clever deep pocketed traders would be exploiting them by techniques like frontrunning, wash trades, willybot, spoofing etc. This enables big investors to profit at the expense of small investors.<p>Above arguments should make it clear that btc has very real upper bound that it can rationally reach and its most definitely less than gold market cap. Of course, big investors can juice up things in the short term but it would be impossible to sustain irrational highs on long term.</text></comment> | <story><title>How the Winklevoss Twins Found Vindication in a Bitcoin Fortune</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/19/technology/bitcoin-winklevoss-twins.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=second-column-region&region=top-news&WT.nav=top-news&_r=0</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>TheBiv</author><text>&gt;&gt; They said they might look at selling when the value of all the Bitcoin in circulation approaches the value of all gold in the world — some $7 trillion or $8 trillion compared with the $310 billion value of all Bitcoin on Tuesday — given that they think Bitcoin is set to replace gold as a rare commodity. But then Tyler Winklevoss questioned even that, pointing out the ways that he believes Bitcoin is better than gold.<p>I found this to be the most fascinating part of the article.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>epx</author><text>Good luck trying to make a fountain pen nib with a cryptocoin :)</text></comment> |
13,124,310 | 13,123,995 | 1 | 2 | 13,123,478 | train | <story><title>Tracking Down a Python Memory Leak</title><url>https://benbernardblog.com/tracking-down-a-freaky-python-memory-leak/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>guyzero</author><text>&quot;What&#x27;s possible, though, is accumulating Python objects in memory and keeping strong references to them12. For instance, this happens when we build a cache (for example, a dict) that we never clear. The cache will hold references to every single item and the GC will never be able to destroy them, that is, unless the cache goes out of scope.&quot;<p>Back when I worked with a Java memory profiling tool (JProbe!) we called these &quot;lingerers&quot;. Not leaks, but the behaviour was similar.</text></comment> | <story><title>Tracking Down a Python Memory Leak</title><url>https://benbernardblog.com/tracking-down-a-freaky-python-memory-leak/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>tantalor</author><text>Spoiler alert, the leak is in libxml2, not Python code.</text></comment> |
41,368,334 | 41,366,777 | 1 | 2 | 41,366,064 | train | <story><title>The possibilities for dark matter have shrunk</title><url>https://www.sciencenews.org/article/dark-matter-wimps-lz</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mppm</author><text>By the way, apart from the fact that dark matter predictions have been contradicted by increasingly sensitive experiments over and over and over, there is another inconvenient piece of observational evidence: An analysis of stellar velocities at the edge of the Milky Way, published last year [1] shows that they are &quot;Keplerian&quot;, i.e. following classical behavior without the influence of any purported dark matter. So either the Milky Way is anomalously dark matter deficient (how very convenient :), or maybe the discrepancy that dark matter was invented to explain will simply disappear when more accurate astronomical data including the fainter stars becomes available.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.scientificamerican.com&#x2F;article&#x2F;the-milky-way-may-be-missing-a-trillion-suns-worth-of-mass&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.scientificamerican.com&#x2F;article&#x2F;the-milky-way-may...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>SideQuark</author><text>That link also claims that the results you&#x27;re listing are not likely to hold up, including comments from an author of the paper used for the article. So if one of the paper;s own authors expects these claims to disappear once more data is gathered, then maybe it&#x27;s too early to claim the end of dark matter.<p>After all, DM has been measured in many different ways. One surprising finding doesn&#x27;t negate hundreds of surprising findings without significantly more evidence.<p>&gt; shows that they are &quot;Keplerian&quot;, i.e. following classical behavior without the influence of any purported dark matter.<p>That is NOT at all what the paper says [1]. if you actually read the paper, and don&#x27;t interject your beliefs and reword it, in every instance they use the phrase &quot;Keplerian decline,&quot; which does not AT ALL mean classical, which would break relativity and be a massive surprise. The phrase &quot;Keplerian decline&quot; means the measured items are less than expected for the previous model. The movement, even with this decline, are far beyond what Kepler&#x27;s laws would imply (and even Kepler&#x27;s laws are demonstrably wrong in our solar system - see the precession of Mercury for example).<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.aanda.org&#x2F;component&#x2F;article?access=doi&amp;doi=10.1051&#x2F;0004-6361&#x2F;202347513" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.aanda.org&#x2F;component&#x2F;article?access=doi&amp;doi=10.10...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>The possibilities for dark matter have shrunk</title><url>https://www.sciencenews.org/article/dark-matter-wimps-lz</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mppm</author><text>By the way, apart from the fact that dark matter predictions have been contradicted by increasingly sensitive experiments over and over and over, there is another inconvenient piece of observational evidence: An analysis of stellar velocities at the edge of the Milky Way, published last year [1] shows that they are &quot;Keplerian&quot;, i.e. following classical behavior without the influence of any purported dark matter. So either the Milky Way is anomalously dark matter deficient (how very convenient :), or maybe the discrepancy that dark matter was invented to explain will simply disappear when more accurate astronomical data including the fainter stars becomes available.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.scientificamerican.com&#x2F;article&#x2F;the-milky-way-may-be-missing-a-trillion-suns-worth-of-mass&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.scientificamerican.com&#x2F;article&#x2F;the-milky-way-may...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>FactolSarin</author><text>We&#x27;ve also seen instances where visible &quot;clumping&quot; in a galactic disc correspond to differences in the rotation curves, which dark matter can&#x27;t really explain. But this is still a topic of much debate.<p>However, there&#x27;s lots of good evidence for dark matter besides rotation curves of galaxies. For instance, models of galactic formation work a lot better with it than without it (without dark matter, as galaxies coalesce, they get hot and the pressure keeps the gas apart and makes star formation really hard).<p>We also see the Bullet Cluster, where two galaxies collided&#x2F;passed through each other. The gas and dust has been slowed down from collisions, but the dark matter has passed right through. We know this from the gravitational lensing. The lensing happens around the mass of the galaxy, but with the bullet cluster, the lens is off to the side where there is no normal matter, because the dark matter kept going when the regular matter slowed down.<p>In other words, we have some really good evidence for dark matter, but there&#x27;s a few things going on here and there we can&#x27;t explain.</text></comment> |
4,269,480 | 4,269,348 | 1 | 2 | 4,269,153 | train | <story><title>17 Year Old Builds a Better Search Engine</title><url>http://live.wsj.com/video/young-scientist-builds-a-better-search-engine/6F3049AB-61FE-4CEA-8972-45EFA94FFF27.html?mod=wsj_article_tboright#!6F3049AB-61FE-4CEA-8972-45EFA94FFF27</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>tlrobinson</author><text>The biggest reason I immediately switched to Google when I first tried it was Google only matched documents containing exactly the words I searched for, nothing more.<p>It's fine (and good) if search engines add more intelligence like this, but I'll always need a way to search for exact phrases. The default behavior of Google is much "fuzzier" than it was 5 years ago, so I'm surprised they don't already do something like this (or do they?)</text></comment> | <story><title>17 Year Old Builds a Better Search Engine</title><url>http://live.wsj.com/video/young-scientist-builds-a-better-search-engine/6F3049AB-61FE-4CEA-8972-45EFA94FFF27.html?mod=wsj_article_tboright#!6F3049AB-61FE-4CEA-8972-45EFA94FFF27</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>tg3</author><text>That interviewer was terrible:<p>&#62; How long have you been interested in computer coding, and searching, and things like that?<p>If you're going to have someone do an interview about computer science, at least let the interviewer be someone with a cursory knowledge of the field.</text></comment> |
15,032,208 | 15,032,177 | 1 | 2 | 15,031,922 | train | <story><title>Why We Terminated Daily Stormer</title><url>https://blog.cloudflare.com/why-we-terminated-daily-stormer/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>colejohnson66</author><text>I get the whole &quot;companies can choose not to host whatever they want&quot; argument, but in order to do <i>anything</i> on the internet, you <i>have</i> to interact with companies.<p>If I want to run my own website, I need an IP address at the minimum, and ISPs are free to cut off my internet service if they don&#x27;t like what I&#x27;m hosting. In a public setting, if people don&#x27;t like what I&#x27;m saying, they can&#x27;t force me to be quiet (generally). But when hosting a website, there is the ability for companies to silence you.<p>For example, if Google doesn&#x27;t like a website, it can derank it. People who agree with the site might cry censorship, while the others just say that a company can block what it wants. Replace Google with an ISP, and all of a sudden, it seems everyone says the ISP shouldn&#x27;t be able to do that.<p>If the web is supposed to be the future of communication, but can prevent you from voicing your opinions just because they&#x27;re a &quot;deplorable&quot; or you don&#x27;t agree with them, how is that argument valid? Can someone explain that to me?<p>Tangent(?): Also, by not hosting Daily Stormer, you simply push them further down. One of the big reasons Trump won was <i>because</i> people felt like they weren&#x27;t allowed to voice their opinions easily. There were people, basically closeted Trump supporters, who said they didn&#x27;t like Trump, but secretly did. Pushing people down because they&#x27;re &quot;deplorables&quot; simply reinforces their opinions.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tedivm</author><text>There will always be companies that care more about making a buck than anything else. For years spammers and malware authors have been able to find hosting without issue, and taking them down has been a serious pain in the ass. All these nazis need to do is rent a server in russia (where they&#x27;ve moved their name server) and they will be fine.<p>The idea that companies like Cloudflare should help support sites like this is nonsensical. The slippery slope argument is an awful fallacy and ignores the fact that we can&#x27;t even get content most of the world agrees is bad (child porn, active malware exploits, spammers) offline.</text></comment> | <story><title>Why We Terminated Daily Stormer</title><url>https://blog.cloudflare.com/why-we-terminated-daily-stormer/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>colejohnson66</author><text>I get the whole &quot;companies can choose not to host whatever they want&quot; argument, but in order to do <i>anything</i> on the internet, you <i>have</i> to interact with companies.<p>If I want to run my own website, I need an IP address at the minimum, and ISPs are free to cut off my internet service if they don&#x27;t like what I&#x27;m hosting. In a public setting, if people don&#x27;t like what I&#x27;m saying, they can&#x27;t force me to be quiet (generally). But when hosting a website, there is the ability for companies to silence you.<p>For example, if Google doesn&#x27;t like a website, it can derank it. People who agree with the site might cry censorship, while the others just say that a company can block what it wants. Replace Google with an ISP, and all of a sudden, it seems everyone says the ISP shouldn&#x27;t be able to do that.<p>If the web is supposed to be the future of communication, but can prevent you from voicing your opinions just because they&#x27;re a &quot;deplorable&quot; or you don&#x27;t agree with them, how is that argument valid? Can someone explain that to me?<p>Tangent(?): Also, by not hosting Daily Stormer, you simply push them further down. One of the big reasons Trump won was <i>because</i> people felt like they weren&#x27;t allowed to voice their opinions easily. There were people, basically closeted Trump supporters, who said they didn&#x27;t like Trump, but secretly did. Pushing people down because they&#x27;re &quot;deplorables&quot; simply reinforces their opinions.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>notyourwork</author><text>Reading this it sounds like you missed the intent of the post. Cloudflare would have not done this had there not been circumstances in which it was indicated that cloudflare supports the organization.<p>It isn&#x27;t clear to me where&#x2F;how they determined this organization was &quot;secretly&quot; claiming cloudflare supported them.</text></comment> |
20,420,723 | 20,420,655 | 1 | 3 | 20,420,320 | train | <story><title>Ford and VW Agree to Share Costs of Self-Driving and Electric Cars</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/12/business/ford-vw-self-driving-electric-cars.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>distant_hat</author><text>Car sales are rapidly declining across the world and we may have hit peak car. Consolidation will likely arise in a market like this by itself. Combine this with the threat from companies like Tesla and you can see the old behemoths wanting to combine forces.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bryanlarsen</author><text>I doubt it. Contrary to the rose-colored projections of analysts, self driving cars are going to massively increase car usage. Self-driving significantly reduces many of the &quot;costs&quot; of driving: time (because you can do other things while driving), frustration, attention, danger, need for a license, et cetera. When costs go down, usage inevitably goes up. Not to mention the spectre of unattended cars circling for parking spaces or rehoming. And since the human driver is by far the biggest cost of deliveries, that is going to spike massively.<p>Now it&#x27;s certainly possibly that sharing will reduce the number of cars sold, and electric cars may increase their lifespan. But with massive increases in usage, I don&#x27;t think it&#x27;ll make much of a dent.</text></comment> | <story><title>Ford and VW Agree to Share Costs of Self-Driving and Electric Cars</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/12/business/ford-vw-self-driving-electric-cars.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>distant_hat</author><text>Car sales are rapidly declining across the world and we may have hit peak car. Consolidation will likely arise in a market like this by itself. Combine this with the threat from companies like Tesla and you can see the old behemoths wanting to combine forces.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>sputknick</author><text>I agree with this, plus another factor that I rarely hear discussed is the lifecycle of electric cars. If Elon is to be believed, electric cars should have a useable lifespan about 5 times longer than ICE. Are the traditional automakers prepared for Americans to come in for new cars once every few decades instead of once every few years?</text></comment> |
26,794,365 | 26,794,465 | 1 | 2 | 26,793,471 | train | <story><title>Rust is for Professionals</title><url>https://gregoryszorc.com/blog/2021/04/13/rust-is-for-professionals/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ahelwer</author><text>Here I am on day three of an attempt to modify a rust program with logic that would have taken about twenty minutes to implement in C# or Java. It has to do with operations on strings (use a regex to find a string in some text, escape all the regex-reserved characters in that string, then use the string as a regex to find other occurrences of itself in the text) so I get that I&#x27;m really thrown into the borrow-checker deep-end, but man writing rust feels like working on one of those puzzles where you try to fit a set of tiles inside a rectangle. You&#x27;ll almost get it but then some edge is sticking out. So you move the tiles around but this leads to two edges sticking out now! So you do a whole bunch of additional exploring before ending up right back where you started with the one edge sticking out.<p>I even abandoned the learn-by-stackoverflow-search approach to rust and read the first seven or so chapters of the rust book. But even that hasn&#x27;t helped very much. I know I am just currently in the painful, frustrating stage of learning where nothing really makes sense, and at some future point it will all click, but it really can&#x27;t be overstated just what a wicked learning curve this language has.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>hardwaregeek</author><text>I don&#x27;t know if this helpful, but from your description of your problem, here&#x27;s how I&#x27;d do that in Rust:<p>- Use a regex to find a string in some text: use regexes, get a &amp;str<p>- Escape all the regex reserved characters in that string: Okay this requires mutation but we can&#x27;t mutate a &amp;str, let&#x27;s loop over the &amp;str&#x27;s characters (using the Chars iterator) and push them into a new String with the proper escapes<p>- The new String we own, so we can easily turn it into a regex and use it to search the original string.</text></comment> | <story><title>Rust is for Professionals</title><url>https://gregoryszorc.com/blog/2021/04/13/rust-is-for-professionals/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ahelwer</author><text>Here I am on day three of an attempt to modify a rust program with logic that would have taken about twenty minutes to implement in C# or Java. It has to do with operations on strings (use a regex to find a string in some text, escape all the regex-reserved characters in that string, then use the string as a regex to find other occurrences of itself in the text) so I get that I&#x27;m really thrown into the borrow-checker deep-end, but man writing rust feels like working on one of those puzzles where you try to fit a set of tiles inside a rectangle. You&#x27;ll almost get it but then some edge is sticking out. So you move the tiles around but this leads to two edges sticking out now! So you do a whole bunch of additional exploring before ending up right back where you started with the one edge sticking out.<p>I even abandoned the learn-by-stackoverflow-search approach to rust and read the first seven or so chapters of the rust book. But even that hasn&#x27;t helped very much. I know I am just currently in the painful, frustrating stage of learning where nothing really makes sense, and at some future point it will all click, but it really can&#x27;t be overstated just what a wicked learning curve this language has.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ajross</author><text>That&#x27;s where I always end up when I start playing with Rust too. At this point I genuinely think I&#x27;ve given up on belief that the &quot;borrow checker&quot; paradigm is ever really going to be broadly successful (vs. &quot;screw it, just do it in &lt;other managed language&gt;&quot;).<p>Problems with well-constrained allocation paradigms do really well in rust. Problems with reading&#x2F;parsing&#x2F;storing messy data structures from external data just <i>really, really hurt</i>.<p>I think a big part of the problem is that the ownership analysis layer has the dual crises of being (1) really complicated and too hard to keep in your head as a single model and (2) specified in an ad-hoc way that resists formal rules. So eventually you end up in of those puzzles like you mention where... there&#x27;s just no answer! No one&#x27;s been where you have, and the lack of rigor means you end up trying to reverse engineer the compiler front end trying to find the trick that works. And then you give up and write it in Go or Python or whatever.</text></comment> |
8,761,973 | 8,761,679 | 1 | 2 | 8,760,732 | train | <story><title>NASA Study Proposes Airships, Cloud Cities for Venus Exploration</title><url>http://spectrum.ieee.org/aerospace/space-flight/nasa-study-proposes-airships-cloud-cities-for-venus-exploration</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>philwelch</author><text>As far as I can tell, you don&#x27;t even disagree with the simulation argument. The simulation argument is that one of three propositions is true:<p>1. It is impossible to create a simulated world that people can live in.<p>2. People consistently do not choose to create such simulations.<p>3. We are almost certainly living in such a simulation right now.<p>You haven&#x27;t said anything to undermine the basic logic of the argument at all; instead, you&#x27;re arguing that statement 1 is true. But the simulation argument is that one out of statements 1-3 is true. Hence you agree with the simulation argument. You just don&#x27;t think you do because you identify the whole argument with statement 3.</text></item><item><author>nitrogen</author><text>There is a limit to the amount of computation that can be done by a given amount of matter that only new physics could change. Given that limit, at best you would need every particle in our universe just to simulate an identical one. It&#x27;s more likely that the best possible simulation would have significantly reduced fidelity and&#x2F;or size with respect to its host universe, thus the inevitability component of the simulation argument falls apart.<p>What would convince me we are a simulation is evidence (e.g. proof that quantum randomness is caused by floating point rounding errors, or that entanglement is caused by lazy expression evaluation), hard empirical measurements. Not arguments from pure logic and extrapolation.<p>That said, I agree that we have done some amazing things with computers; I just doubt (in the extreme) the simulation argument is valid.</text></item><item><author>kamaal</author><text>The rate at which computers have gotten powerful is simply mind boggling. Even as early as 20 years ago, something like an iPhone would sound like wishful thinking to someone who would think rationally. Heck WWW, internet, mobile phones and this whole thing looks right out of a science fiction book for some one in early part of 1900&#x27;s<p>Its hard to imagine how much more computers can go. But I believe people in the future will look at our way of thinking about computing limits(Moore&#x27;s law) in the same we look at vaccum tubes. Or the way we look at people who thought heavier than air flying objects are impossible by laws of physics.<p>We just don&#x27;t know how many &#x27;transistor events&#x27; or &#x27;wright brother&#x27; events there are going to be in the future which will work around the laws of science orthogonally.</text></item><item><author>nitrogen</author><text>It&#x27;s a fallacious extrapolation of Moore&#x27;s law into the idea that our universe must be a computer simulation (of course there&#x27;s more to it than my flippant summary suggests, but I still find the arguments unconvincing even if the idea itself is interesting).</text></item><item><author>javert</author><text>What is the &quot;simulation argument&quot;? I read the article but don&#x27;t remember that.</text></item><item><author>3pt14159</author><text>I&#x27;ve been advocating a Venus over Mars strategy for quite some time now. It is weird seeing your opinions hit the mainstream. On the one hand you are happy that other people have finally come around to your line of thinking, but on the other hand you worry that others will repeat the conclusion with little idea of the reasoning that went behind it.<p>I was also ahead of the curve on the simulation argument. When Elon Musk started talking about it I realized it was finally becoming mainstream. I&#x27;m hoping he gets on board with a Venus first space exploration too!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>xioxox</author><text>What if the simulation of the fidelity required surpasses the energy and time available in any sensible host universe? If the slowdown in a simulation universe is say 10, then it doesn&#x27;t need many nested universes before life would never get the time to form in the client universe before the host dies (though of course you could set up the universe from 10 seconds ago, which seems like a cheat).</text></comment> | <story><title>NASA Study Proposes Airships, Cloud Cities for Venus Exploration</title><url>http://spectrum.ieee.org/aerospace/space-flight/nasa-study-proposes-airships-cloud-cities-for-venus-exploration</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>philwelch</author><text>As far as I can tell, you don&#x27;t even disagree with the simulation argument. The simulation argument is that one of three propositions is true:<p>1. It is impossible to create a simulated world that people can live in.<p>2. People consistently do not choose to create such simulations.<p>3. We are almost certainly living in such a simulation right now.<p>You haven&#x27;t said anything to undermine the basic logic of the argument at all; instead, you&#x27;re arguing that statement 1 is true. But the simulation argument is that one out of statements 1-3 is true. Hence you agree with the simulation argument. You just don&#x27;t think you do because you identify the whole argument with statement 3.</text></item><item><author>nitrogen</author><text>There is a limit to the amount of computation that can be done by a given amount of matter that only new physics could change. Given that limit, at best you would need every particle in our universe just to simulate an identical one. It&#x27;s more likely that the best possible simulation would have significantly reduced fidelity and&#x2F;or size with respect to its host universe, thus the inevitability component of the simulation argument falls apart.<p>What would convince me we are a simulation is evidence (e.g. proof that quantum randomness is caused by floating point rounding errors, or that entanglement is caused by lazy expression evaluation), hard empirical measurements. Not arguments from pure logic and extrapolation.<p>That said, I agree that we have done some amazing things with computers; I just doubt (in the extreme) the simulation argument is valid.</text></item><item><author>kamaal</author><text>The rate at which computers have gotten powerful is simply mind boggling. Even as early as 20 years ago, something like an iPhone would sound like wishful thinking to someone who would think rationally. Heck WWW, internet, mobile phones and this whole thing looks right out of a science fiction book for some one in early part of 1900&#x27;s<p>Its hard to imagine how much more computers can go. But I believe people in the future will look at our way of thinking about computing limits(Moore&#x27;s law) in the same we look at vaccum tubes. Or the way we look at people who thought heavier than air flying objects are impossible by laws of physics.<p>We just don&#x27;t know how many &#x27;transistor events&#x27; or &#x27;wright brother&#x27; events there are going to be in the future which will work around the laws of science orthogonally.</text></item><item><author>nitrogen</author><text>It&#x27;s a fallacious extrapolation of Moore&#x27;s law into the idea that our universe must be a computer simulation (of course there&#x27;s more to it than my flippant summary suggests, but I still find the arguments unconvincing even if the idea itself is interesting).</text></item><item><author>javert</author><text>What is the &quot;simulation argument&quot;? I read the article but don&#x27;t remember that.</text></item><item><author>3pt14159</author><text>I&#x27;ve been advocating a Venus over Mars strategy for quite some time now. It is weird seeing your opinions hit the mainstream. On the one hand you are happy that other people have finally come around to your line of thinking, but on the other hand you worry that others will repeat the conclusion with little idea of the reasoning that went behind it.<p>I was also ahead of the curve on the simulation argument. When Elon Musk started talking about it I realized it was finally becoming mainstream. I&#x27;m hoping he gets on board with a Venus first space exploration too!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mc808</author><text>The argument seems to be missing a proposition:<p>4. It is possible to create and live in a simulated world, but not with the level of fidelity&#x2F;flexibility necessary for the infinite regress that would make #3 convincing.</text></comment> |
16,422,409 | 16,422,285 | 1 | 2 | 16,418,316 | train | <story><title>Technological Unemployment: Much More Than You Wanted to Know</title><url>https://slatestarcodex.com/2018/02/19/technological-unemployment-much-more-than-you-wanted-to-know/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Chris_Jay</author><text>Funnily enough, my own (long term) project is aimed at addressing the problem you&#x27;re pointing out. Given the possibility of remote work, there&#x27;s no insurmountable reason why the only land worth living in should be concentrated in a few urban centers.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;sites.google.com&#x2F;s&#x2F;0BzzRwqIB2K0dSWhkTXBSTTltTDg&#x2F;p&#x2F;0B9EHSqWgFV7LNUxEVXk0S0ZiMlk&#x2F;preview" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;sites.google.com&#x2F;s&#x2F;0BzzRwqIB2K0dSWhkTXBSTTltTDg&#x2F;p&#x2F;0B...</a></text></item><item><author>nwah1</author><text>Production just requires land and labor. Capital is output from previous production used as input again, and it is nice to have but not strictly necessary for employment of labor.<p>Labor can be applied whenever labor has access to land. So the question is why can&#x27;t people just go to work? Grow their own food to feed themselves, if need be?<p>The Industrial Revolution put farmers out of work, but not because farming became illegal, and not because they all forgot how to farm. It is simply that farm labor couldn&#x27;t pay the rent of land anymore.<p>The mechanisms by which the unimproved value of land rises and falls is the key mechanism that we must understand in order to understand wages and the rate of unemployment. Real wages are not a number. They are the lifestyle you can obtain. They are what is left over after you&#x27;ve paid your taxes and your right to exist in a particular location. (Increasingly, healthcare and education are prerequisites to getting by in the same way.)<p>Simply giving people money, irrespective of the financing method, as most advocates of the &quot;technological unemployment&quot; thesis argue for, ignores the nature of rent. When there&#x27;s no rent-free land, rents rise and fall based on the ability to pay. People getting free money have more ability to pay, and landlords will definitely notice.<p>Thing about land is they aren&#x27;t making it anymore. Higher demand doesn&#x27;t just stimulate supply. The supply curve is vertical.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mncharity</author><text>&gt; Given the possibility of remote work, [...] urban centers.<p>Even HN doesn&#x27;t yet seem to be discussing the impact of coming VR&#x2F;AR on people&#x27;s geographic distribution.<p>Perhaps it&#x27;s still too low profile? Eye tracking; facial expression tracking (researchy); foveated rendering reducing GPU requirements; inexpensive laptops with discrete GPUs; HMDs with monitor-like angular resolution; inexpensive finger tracking (hopefully)... perhaps it&#x27;s easy to not notice these if you&#x27;re not tracking the tech? Easy to think &quot;remote work, so video conferencing, so limited impact - far better to do open plan offices&quot;? Instead of &quot;the practice and spatial constraints of software development will change dramatically over the next half decade&quot;.</text></comment> | <story><title>Technological Unemployment: Much More Than You Wanted to Know</title><url>https://slatestarcodex.com/2018/02/19/technological-unemployment-much-more-than-you-wanted-to-know/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Chris_Jay</author><text>Funnily enough, my own (long term) project is aimed at addressing the problem you&#x27;re pointing out. Given the possibility of remote work, there&#x27;s no insurmountable reason why the only land worth living in should be concentrated in a few urban centers.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;sites.google.com&#x2F;s&#x2F;0BzzRwqIB2K0dSWhkTXBSTTltTDg&#x2F;p&#x2F;0B9EHSqWgFV7LNUxEVXk0S0ZiMlk&#x2F;preview" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;sites.google.com&#x2F;s&#x2F;0BzzRwqIB2K0dSWhkTXBSTTltTDg&#x2F;p&#x2F;0B...</a></text></item><item><author>nwah1</author><text>Production just requires land and labor. Capital is output from previous production used as input again, and it is nice to have but not strictly necessary for employment of labor.<p>Labor can be applied whenever labor has access to land. So the question is why can&#x27;t people just go to work? Grow their own food to feed themselves, if need be?<p>The Industrial Revolution put farmers out of work, but not because farming became illegal, and not because they all forgot how to farm. It is simply that farm labor couldn&#x27;t pay the rent of land anymore.<p>The mechanisms by which the unimproved value of land rises and falls is the key mechanism that we must understand in order to understand wages and the rate of unemployment. Real wages are not a number. They are the lifestyle you can obtain. They are what is left over after you&#x27;ve paid your taxes and your right to exist in a particular location. (Increasingly, healthcare and education are prerequisites to getting by in the same way.)<p>Simply giving people money, irrespective of the financing method, as most advocates of the &quot;technological unemployment&quot; thesis argue for, ignores the nature of rent. When there&#x27;s no rent-free land, rents rise and fall based on the ability to pay. People getting free money have more ability to pay, and landlords will definitely notice.<p>Thing about land is they aren&#x27;t making it anymore. Higher demand doesn&#x27;t just stimulate supply. The supply curve is vertical.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dragonwriter</author><text>&gt; there&#x27;s no insurmountable reason why the only land worth living in should be concentrated in a few urban centers.<p>There&#x27;s actually a very fundamental reason why land perceived as being worth living in <i>becomes</i> an urban center, and remote work doesn&#x27;t change most of the climate, water, resource distribution, etc., reasons why particular sites are much more attractive for human habitation.</text></comment> |
39,544,673 | 39,544,683 | 1 | 3 | 39,543,034 | train | <story><title>EU countries already hitting some of their sustainable energy targets for 2030</title><url>https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0297856</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>temp9864</author><text>If you put enough solar into an electricity grid you will eventually have coal generators shutting down because the variable pricing will drive them out of business. Watch the wholesale price dashboard for Australia for a while and compare it to local weather if you don&#x27;t believe me [1]. The other effect will be that 24 hour power becomes prodigiously expensive or not available, which is why the Australian government is funding coal generators to the tune of 1.1 billion this year [2]. Even they are not stupid enough to think an industrialised society can manage without it.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;aemo.com.au&#x2F;Energy-systems&#x2F;Electricity&#x2F;National-Electricity-Market-NEM&#x2F;Data-NEM&#x2F;Data-Dashboard-NEM" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;aemo.com.au&#x2F;Energy-systems&#x2F;Electricity&#x2F;National-Elec...</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;australiainstitute.org.au&#x2F;report&#x2F;fossil-fuel-subsidies-in-australia-2023&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;australiainstitute.org.au&#x2F;report&#x2F;fossil-fuel-subsidi...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>toomuchtodo</author><text>As the cost of renewables get close to zero (but never reaching that), the predominant cost will be batteries and transmission. How quickly this occurs is a function of battery cost decline curve and manufacturing capacity ramp.<p>Coal is already dead based on current trajectories, the body just hasn’t hit the floor yet.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.pv-magazine.com&#x2F;2023&#x2F;11&#x2F;22&#x2F;former-coal-plant-big-batteries-win-australian-storage-tender&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.pv-magazine.com&#x2F;2023&#x2F;11&#x2F;22&#x2F;former-coal-plant-big...</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bloomberg.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;articles&#x2F;2023-03-07&#x2F;end-of-coal-power-in-australia-means-a-boom-for-battery-makers-like-tesla" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bloomberg.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;articles&#x2F;2023-03-07&#x2F;end-of-co...</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bloomberg.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;articles&#x2F;2022-05-26&#x2F;how-australia-can-transform-grids-away-from-coal-power" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bloomberg.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;articles&#x2F;2022-05-26&#x2F;how-austr...</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theguardian.com&#x2F;australia-news&#x2F;2023&#x2F;dec&#x2F;20&#x2F;agl-building-battery-grid-liddell-coal-plant" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theguardian.com&#x2F;australia-news&#x2F;2023&#x2F;dec&#x2F;20&#x2F;agl-b...</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.energy-storage.news&#x2F;australias-national-cefc-invests-au100-million-in-coal-replacement-nsw-super-battery&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.energy-storage.news&#x2F;australias-national-cefc-inv...</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.forbes.com&#x2F;sites&#x2F;ianpalmer&#x2F;2023&#x2F;07&#x2F;18&#x2F;the-us-is-watching-battery-deployment-and-success-down-under&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.forbes.com&#x2F;sites&#x2F;ianpalmer&#x2F;2023&#x2F;07&#x2F;18&#x2F;the-us-is-...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>EU countries already hitting some of their sustainable energy targets for 2030</title><url>https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0297856</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>temp9864</author><text>If you put enough solar into an electricity grid you will eventually have coal generators shutting down because the variable pricing will drive them out of business. Watch the wholesale price dashboard for Australia for a while and compare it to local weather if you don&#x27;t believe me [1]. The other effect will be that 24 hour power becomes prodigiously expensive or not available, which is why the Australian government is funding coal generators to the tune of 1.1 billion this year [2]. Even they are not stupid enough to think an industrialised society can manage without it.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;aemo.com.au&#x2F;Energy-systems&#x2F;Electricity&#x2F;National-Electricity-Market-NEM&#x2F;Data-NEM&#x2F;Data-Dashboard-NEM" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;aemo.com.au&#x2F;Energy-systems&#x2F;Electricity&#x2F;National-Elec...</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;australiainstitute.org.au&#x2F;report&#x2F;fossil-fuel-subsidies-in-australia-2023&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;australiainstitute.org.au&#x2F;report&#x2F;fossil-fuel-subsidi...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>input_sh</author><text>Or... hear me out... nuclear.<p>Like France, often cited as the the world leader, with around 70% of its generated electricity coming from nuclear. Or Belgium, with around 50%, or Bulgaria around 30%, or Czechia around 40%, Finland around 35%, Hungary around 50%, Slovakia around 60%, Slovenia around 40%, Sweden around 30%, Switzerland around 35%...<p>Compared to Australia&#x27;s one nuclear power, which isn&#x27;t even being used to generate power, or the US&#x27; 18%, or UK&#x27;s 14%, or Canada&#x27;s 13%.</text></comment> |
32,690,836 | 32,690,815 | 1 | 2 | 32,690,454 | train | <story><title>Nuclear-Powered Cardiac Pacemakers</title><url>https://osrp.lanl.gov/pacemakers.shtml</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>drraj32</author><text>Just got me thinking:
What would it take for us to get to a point where there are small, safe nuclear powered &quot;batteries&quot;, that can supply enough electricity for a building.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>qbasic_forever</author><text>RTGs have been around since the 50&#x27;s and 60&#x27;s: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Radioisotope_thermoelectric_generator" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Radioisotope_thermoelectric_ge...</a> For example Russia used them to power lighthouses in super remote parts of their coast. Space probes, mars rovers, etc. use them too.</text></comment> | <story><title>Nuclear-Powered Cardiac Pacemakers</title><url>https://osrp.lanl.gov/pacemakers.shtml</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>drraj32</author><text>Just got me thinking:
What would it take for us to get to a point where there are small, safe nuclear powered &quot;batteries&quot;, that can supply enough electricity for a building.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>klodolph</author><text>It would take some kind of complete revolution. It’s not happening.<p>These batteries have very poor power density and are very inefficient. The advantages of nuclear-powered batteries are:<p>- They generate power over a long time, decades,<p>- They generate some heat.<p>They don’t generate much power. If you have a building, you would definitely think of a nuclear RTG as a “very shitty battery”, and that’s even if you don’t care at all about radioactivity.<p>Thinking of these as a “battery” is also a bit misleading, IMO. These are really just small power plants, which generate heat and turn the heat into electricity. The heat is powered by radioactive decay of Pu-238, and then turned into electricity with the extremely inefficient Seebeck effect. If you had a source of heat you wanted to turn into electricity, it’s much more efficient to use that heat to turn a turbine which is connected to a generator. And if you want an efficient, cost-effictive turbine, you make it big. At that point, you have a power plant.</text></comment> |
20,525,243 | 20,525,165 | 1 | 3 | 20,524,616 | train | <story><title>Mental models</title><url>https://nesslabs.com/mental-models</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>apo</author><text>Using <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;web.archive.org&#x2F;web&#x2F;20190725120100&#x2F;https:&#x2F;&#x2F;nesslabs.com&#x2F;mental-models" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;web.archive.org&#x2F;web&#x2F;20190725120100&#x2F;https:&#x2F;&#x2F;nesslabs....</a>:<p>The article is a list of 30 items in the category &quot;mental model&quot; bracketed by some high-level opinions. Included on the list are:<p>- areas of research (&quot;game theory&quot;)<p>- broad motivational factors (&quot;incentive&quot;<p>- basic business terms (&quot;margin of safety&quot;)<p>In other words, I wouldn&#x27;t consider many of these things to be mental models.<p>Furthermore, the article offers no examples of the &quot;great power&quot; of mental models.<p>Unfortunately, this article isn&#x27;t unique in mental model discussions. Most of them follow the same pattern.<p>To future authors: the world doesn&#x27;t need yet another recapitulation of a list from Wikipedia on mental models.<p>Instead, try taking an item on the list and doing something surprising or unique with it.<p>If it seems like an anti-pattern (&quot;tribalism&quot;), show how useful it can be to the reader. If it&#x27;s vague (&quot;signaling theory&quot;), give down-to-earth examples illustrating how to use its principles in daily life. If it seems like something that &quot;mental gymnasts&quot; would do all the time (&quot;backward chaining&quot;), expose its pitfalls.<p>Or, try to develop a good definition of the term &quot;mental model.&quot; I see it used far too frequently with a citation to some other source. The author does this, but the quote doesn&#x27;t clear up much. The definition on Wikipedia is just plain vague and may explain why these lists tend to include things that don&#x27;t seem to be actual mental models but rather fields of study.</text></comment> | <story><title>Mental models</title><url>https://nesslabs.com/mental-models</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>febin</author><text>I have been working on this for a long time now. It helped me achieve small success in writing(My articles gained some attention and ended up publishing a book with packt). I am still a beginner, long way to become a good model thinker.<p>Here are a few books, I recommend.<p>1.The Great Mental Models : General Thinking Concepts (Beginner Level)<p>2.Super Thinking (Intermediate)<p>3.The Model Thinker (Intermediate-Advanced, you can also take the coursera MOOC &quot;Model Thinking&quot; by the same author)<p>I am also working on a tool to assit people in thinking with models. If anyone is interested to try out the beta, you can signup here. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;forms.gle&#x2F;xn9mESKZwUMD2y6RA" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;forms.gle&#x2F;xn9mESKZwUMD2y6RA</a> I am hoping to release it next week.<p>Here are a few screenshots of the tool I am building. (Note: It&#x27;s in MVP stage, not a finished product)<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;imgur.com&#x2F;Jzxw4uz" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;imgur.com&#x2F;Jzxw4uz</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;imgur.com&#x2F;XhiVJQM" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;imgur.com&#x2F;XhiVJQM</a></text></comment> |
39,932,526 | 39,932,645 | 1 | 2 | 39,928,913 | train | <story><title>How Hertz’s bet on Teslas went sideways</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2024-04-03/hertz-htz-selling-electric-cars-ends-its-failed-tesla-bet</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jjulius</author><text>&gt;PR more than anything.<p>Tesla doesn&#x27;t believe in PR[1].<p>[1]<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;electrek.co&#x2F;2021&#x2F;04&#x2F;28&#x2F;elon-musk-no-new-tesla-pr-department-manipulating-public-opinion&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;electrek.co&#x2F;2021&#x2F;04&#x2F;28&#x2F;elon-musk-no-new-tesla-pr-dep...</a></text></item><item><author>ado__dev</author><text>PR more than anything. Tesla growth story is pretty much over, many people turned off the brand for a multitude of reasons (Musk, terrible service, price, lack of innovation, more EV competition). So if anything a good opportunity for Tesla to win some PR, potentially expand partnership, sell more cars.<p>Now they get more bad news &quot;rental company dumps Tesla because of XYZ&quot;, the used market took a big hit as well pissing off existing owners, and I feel like this pushes newer buyers even more away.</text></item><item><author>LeafItAlone</author><text>In what way would that have benefited Tesla more than the current situation?</text></item><item><author>JumpCrisscross</author><text>&gt; <i>Tesla lowered prices forcing them to recognize the depreciation</i><p>I&#x27;m surprised Tesla and Hertz couldn&#x27;t work out a deal, <i>e.g.</i> reimbursement or a large discount on additional purchases that would wipe out the accounting charge. Rental vehicles are a sales channel for new vehicles. And every Hertz Tesla being dumped on the secondary market is new-vehicle profit Tesla could have booked.</text></item><item><author>xenadu02</author><text>The article posits charging as the problem but that&#x27;s not actually true.<p>The issue was twofold:
1. Repair cost and parts availability. Fleet damage was more expensive to repair and took longer. That means more of the fleet is offline at any given time and cost to operate is a bit higher.
2. Tesla lowered prices forcing them to recognize the depreciation. The cars resale value dropped faster than they anticipated.<p>Car and RV rental companies have this problem. People don&#x27;t want to rent ragged out vehicles. In the case of RVs units for rental are built extra cheap so they don&#x27;t last anyway. The model is get more in rent then you lose in depreciation then dump the vehicle. In the case of RVs they often turnover the entire fleet yearly.<p>The real killer was no doubt depreciation. That breaks the whole rental car model.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Spooky23</author><text>They didn’t believe in advertising either, but I’m getting alot of it.</text></comment> | <story><title>How Hertz’s bet on Teslas went sideways</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2024-04-03/hertz-htz-selling-electric-cars-ends-its-failed-tesla-bet</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jjulius</author><text>&gt;PR more than anything.<p>Tesla doesn&#x27;t believe in PR[1].<p>[1]<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;electrek.co&#x2F;2021&#x2F;04&#x2F;28&#x2F;elon-musk-no-new-tesla-pr-department-manipulating-public-opinion&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;electrek.co&#x2F;2021&#x2F;04&#x2F;28&#x2F;elon-musk-no-new-tesla-pr-dep...</a></text></item><item><author>ado__dev</author><text>PR more than anything. Tesla growth story is pretty much over, many people turned off the brand for a multitude of reasons (Musk, terrible service, price, lack of innovation, more EV competition). So if anything a good opportunity for Tesla to win some PR, potentially expand partnership, sell more cars.<p>Now they get more bad news &quot;rental company dumps Tesla because of XYZ&quot;, the used market took a big hit as well pissing off existing owners, and I feel like this pushes newer buyers even more away.</text></item><item><author>LeafItAlone</author><text>In what way would that have benefited Tesla more than the current situation?</text></item><item><author>JumpCrisscross</author><text>&gt; <i>Tesla lowered prices forcing them to recognize the depreciation</i><p>I&#x27;m surprised Tesla and Hertz couldn&#x27;t work out a deal, <i>e.g.</i> reimbursement or a large discount on additional purchases that would wipe out the accounting charge. Rental vehicles are a sales channel for new vehicles. And every Hertz Tesla being dumped on the secondary market is new-vehicle profit Tesla could have booked.</text></item><item><author>xenadu02</author><text>The article posits charging as the problem but that&#x27;s not actually true.<p>The issue was twofold:
1. Repair cost and parts availability. Fleet damage was more expensive to repair and took longer. That means more of the fleet is offline at any given time and cost to operate is a bit higher.
2. Tesla lowered prices forcing them to recognize the depreciation. The cars resale value dropped faster than they anticipated.<p>Car and RV rental companies have this problem. People don&#x27;t want to rent ragged out vehicles. In the case of RVs units for rental are built extra cheap so they don&#x27;t last anyway. The model is get more in rent then you lose in depreciation then dump the vehicle. In the case of RVs they often turnover the entire fleet yearly.<p>The real killer was no doubt depreciation. That breaks the whole rental car model.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Draiken</author><text>Which is in itself, a PR stunt.</text></comment> |
35,189,746 | 35,188,778 | 1 | 2 | 35,187,250 | train | <story><title>We apologize. We did a terrible job announcing the end of Docker Free Teams</title><url>https://www.docker.com/blog/we-apologize-we-did-a-terrible-job-announcing-the-end-of-docker-free-teams/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mikesir87</author><text>(from Docker DevRel team)<p>&gt; Given these statements directly contradict each other<p>Actually... they aren&#x27;t contradictory. The organization data will be retained for 30 days and is subject to deletion. That data includes the teams, memberships, etc. But, it wasn&#x27;t clear what we were going to do about the images. Keeping the public images is important as many other images build on top of them.<p>&gt; It feels like they changed the actual strategy<p>We recognize it might feel that way, so apologies. But, that&#x27;s part of where we are recognize it wasn&#x27;t clear the technical details... we didn&#x27;t talk at all about the images. After the feedback, we recognized this, so wanted to make that clear.</text></item><item><author>nielsole</author><text>Previous communication:<p>&gt; If you don&#x27;t upgrade to a paid subscription, Docker will retain your organization data for 30 days, after which it will be subject to deletion. During that period you will maintain access to any of your public images.<p>New communication:<p>&gt; We’d also like to clarify that public images will only be removed from Docker Hub if their maintainer decides to delete them. We’re sorry that our initial communications failed to make this clear.<p>Given these statements directly contradict each other I am a bit surprised this is called clarification. It feels like they changed the actual strategy, not just the communication around it.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>terom</author><text>If you are deleting the organizational data and effectively archiving [1] all the images, keeping only the option for public images to be pulled but not updated... then how will affected maintainers be able to delete their now out of date public images after the 30 day cut-off? You will have to retain enough of the organization data to allow that to happen.<p>Keeping the public images available in an archived state is okay for specific image references, but questionable for specific image tags and somewhat irresponsible for the `latest` tag. A `latest` tag that cannot be updated is ... worse than no `latest` tag.<p>Responsible maintainers that are unable to apply for open-source status or otherwise sponsor their usage of organization public repos should be advised to delete their public repos.<p>Responsible users of public images on Docker Hub need to have a way to determine which images will be affected, and which will continue to be maintained. Archiving the public repos gives an extended grace period, but users will still need to be prepared to notice if they end up using a now unmaintained, archived repo and migrate to alternative image sources.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=35188691" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=35188691</a></text></comment> | <story><title>We apologize. We did a terrible job announcing the end of Docker Free Teams</title><url>https://www.docker.com/blog/we-apologize-we-did-a-terrible-job-announcing-the-end-of-docker-free-teams/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mikesir87</author><text>(from Docker DevRel team)<p>&gt; Given these statements directly contradict each other<p>Actually... they aren&#x27;t contradictory. The organization data will be retained for 30 days and is subject to deletion. That data includes the teams, memberships, etc. But, it wasn&#x27;t clear what we were going to do about the images. Keeping the public images is important as many other images build on top of them.<p>&gt; It feels like they changed the actual strategy<p>We recognize it might feel that way, so apologies. But, that&#x27;s part of where we are recognize it wasn&#x27;t clear the technical details... we didn&#x27;t talk at all about the images. After the feedback, we recognized this, so wanted to make that clear.</text></item><item><author>nielsole</author><text>Previous communication:<p>&gt; If you don&#x27;t upgrade to a paid subscription, Docker will retain your organization data for 30 days, after which it will be subject to deletion. During that period you will maintain access to any of your public images.<p>New communication:<p>&gt; We’d also like to clarify that public images will only be removed from Docker Hub if their maintainer decides to delete them. We’re sorry that our initial communications failed to make this clear.<p>Given these statements directly contradict each other I am a bit surprised this is called clarification. It feels like they changed the actual strategy, not just the communication around it.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>vertis</author><text>Deleting &#x27;organization data&#x27; absolutely read that they would delete everything. Changing direction and back pedaling with a non-apology is borderline insulting.<p>I understand the need to make money as a company, but it really is biting the hand that fed messing with open source maintainers</text></comment> |
27,068,458 | 27,067,448 | 1 | 3 | 27,065,738 | train | <story><title>Opposition to net neutrality was faked, New York says</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/06/technology/internet-providers-fake-comments-net-neutrality-new-york.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rectang</author><text>It was obvious at the time. I recall many people reporting that fake comments antithetical to their own beliefs had been submitted using their identities.<p>Why was FCC head Ajit Pai able to get away with citing fraudulent evidence? How can we stop such blatant corruption of the FCC&#x27;s policy-making process in the future?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>betterunix2</author><text>To be fair, the FCC ignored the automatically generated comments and focused on comments that were unique, detailed, and relevant. The actual scandal should be what they did with those comments: those that supported rolling back the NN rules were accepted as fact, those opposed (i.e. those in favor of NN regulation) were dismissed as &quot;not compelling.&quot; I know this because my comment was among those dismissed as &quot;not compelling,&quot; including specific sections that dealt strictly with the factual errors in Ajit Pai&#x27;s proposal. The only reason they bothered citing my comment (and numerous others by actual technical experts who took the time to comment) was to avoid being sued for ignoring the public comments (they are legally required to consider public comments when making a decision).<p>It is also worth mentioning that Ajit Pai differed from his predecessor Tom Wheeler. Wheeler had intended to introduce rules that allowed various NN violations but changed course in response to public comments and went with the stronger regulations. Pai never cared what the public had to say and made that very clear in his public statements, where he basically said that the only thing that would change his mind would be comments concerning the FCC&#x27;s legal authority (not that there was any serious dispute about that legal authority).</text></comment> | <story><title>Opposition to net neutrality was faked, New York says</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/06/technology/internet-providers-fake-comments-net-neutrality-new-york.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rectang</author><text>It was obvious at the time. I recall many people reporting that fake comments antithetical to their own beliefs had been submitted using their identities.<p>Why was FCC head Ajit Pai able to get away with citing fraudulent evidence? How can we stop such blatant corruption of the FCC&#x27;s policy-making process in the future?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jliptzin</author><text>We can stop this blatant corruption by handing a very long federal prison sentence to Mr. Pai. It’s not really that complicated.</text></comment> |
14,191,455 | 14,190,495 | 1 | 2 | 14,188,342 | train | <story><title>Why Juicero’s Press Is So Expensive</title><url>https://blog.bolt.io/heres-why-juicero-s-press-is-so-expensive-6add74594e50</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jessaustin</author><text><i>...the worst coffee this world has to offer.</i><p>Having heard this from a number of coffee fans, I suspect you&#x27;re not the market Keurig really targets. Rather I suspect we non-coffee-drinkers might be the primary buyers. We want something that will sit innocuously in the kitchen, looking good and doing nothing, on the off chance that we&#x27;ll be expected to provide coffee for someone. We don&#x27;t know how to buy coffee, we don&#x27;t know how to prepare it, and we don&#x27;t know how to clean up after preparing it. Also, we don&#x27;t care to know any of those things. So, here&#x27;s a something we made for you that came out of a fancy package. Now we&#x27;re going to throw away this little plastic cup.</text></item><item><author>IAmGraydon</author><text>Keurig is great at one thing: making the worst coffee this world has to offer. That aside, I though they went to DRM enabled cups in the last few years in an attempt to block the aftermarket cup makers.</text></item><item><author>PaulHoule</author><text>Keurig is not that bad. The system is out of patent so you can get off-brand brewers and cartridges that aren&#x27;t quite as good in quality but are unlikely to cause a terrible mess in a hotel room.</text></item><item><author>awalton</author><text>&gt; but it seems like a roller would be able to provide a more efficient and focused method of squeezing than a press they&#x27;re using now.<p>Or maybe, just maybe, a screw-driven piston, like many actual juicers have...<p>But let&#x27;s be completely honest - the machine was always meant to be an expensive countertop device. It looks expensive, it weighs a lot, people will think you spent a lot of money on it even if they don&#x27;t know how much it&#x27;ll cost... This is exactly why the engineering staff was told &quot;go nuts&quot; on the hardware design - the more expensive and custom, the better. It does the job of looking like a high-end appliance exactly and precisely, and really nothing more.<p>This company always intended to make its money back selling overpriced juice packs like Keurig, banking on people with more money than common sense buying and using the hell out of these devices for the $14 juice packs. Selling the machines near cost or even as a loss leader was perfectly acceptable, as long as customers had to come back to them for more juice month over month. It just turns out consumers were smart enough to see through the not-so-clever ruse of buying a $400 counterweight to squeeze a package of pre-squeezed juice out of a bag and into a cup...</text></item><item><author>freehunter</author><text>I&#x27;m not a mechanical engineer, but it seems like a roller would be able to provide a more efficient and focused method of squeezing than a press they&#x27;re using now.<p>What we see in most products is a result of the accountants saying &quot;no&quot; to too much. Cheap parts, assembled cheaply, pennies saved per part. What we see here is the exact opposite: the accountants didn&#x27;t say &quot;no&quot; nearly often enough. Apple manufactures custom everything because they can, and because they sell at massive scales. Juicero wanted to be Apple quality without selling at Apple quantity.<p>I fully believe you get a better cup of juice squeezing with their massive press rather than by hand because it can press over a bigger surface. I also believe it doesn&#x27;t matter a bit, because this is a worthless piece of equipment. Beautiful engineering, though.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mathw</author><text>Seems like an expensive investment on the off-chance that you might have guests who really can&#x27;t handle not having any coffee when they&#x27;re visiting a non-coffee-drinking household. My solution is the small jar of instant coffee I periodically have to throw out because it&#x27;s gone mouldy.</text></comment> | <story><title>Why Juicero’s Press Is So Expensive</title><url>https://blog.bolt.io/heres-why-juicero-s-press-is-so-expensive-6add74594e50</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jessaustin</author><text><i>...the worst coffee this world has to offer.</i><p>Having heard this from a number of coffee fans, I suspect you&#x27;re not the market Keurig really targets. Rather I suspect we non-coffee-drinkers might be the primary buyers. We want something that will sit innocuously in the kitchen, looking good and doing nothing, on the off chance that we&#x27;ll be expected to provide coffee for someone. We don&#x27;t know how to buy coffee, we don&#x27;t know how to prepare it, and we don&#x27;t know how to clean up after preparing it. Also, we don&#x27;t care to know any of those things. So, here&#x27;s a something we made for you that came out of a fancy package. Now we&#x27;re going to throw away this little plastic cup.</text></item><item><author>IAmGraydon</author><text>Keurig is great at one thing: making the worst coffee this world has to offer. That aside, I though they went to DRM enabled cups in the last few years in an attempt to block the aftermarket cup makers.</text></item><item><author>PaulHoule</author><text>Keurig is not that bad. The system is out of patent so you can get off-brand brewers and cartridges that aren&#x27;t quite as good in quality but are unlikely to cause a terrible mess in a hotel room.</text></item><item><author>awalton</author><text>&gt; but it seems like a roller would be able to provide a more efficient and focused method of squeezing than a press they&#x27;re using now.<p>Or maybe, just maybe, a screw-driven piston, like many actual juicers have...<p>But let&#x27;s be completely honest - the machine was always meant to be an expensive countertop device. It looks expensive, it weighs a lot, people will think you spent a lot of money on it even if they don&#x27;t know how much it&#x27;ll cost... This is exactly why the engineering staff was told &quot;go nuts&quot; on the hardware design - the more expensive and custom, the better. It does the job of looking like a high-end appliance exactly and precisely, and really nothing more.<p>This company always intended to make its money back selling overpriced juice packs like Keurig, banking on people with more money than common sense buying and using the hell out of these devices for the $14 juice packs. Selling the machines near cost or even as a loss leader was perfectly acceptable, as long as customers had to come back to them for more juice month over month. It just turns out consumers were smart enough to see through the not-so-clever ruse of buying a $400 counterweight to squeeze a package of pre-squeezed juice out of a bag and into a cup...</text></item><item><author>freehunter</author><text>I&#x27;m not a mechanical engineer, but it seems like a roller would be able to provide a more efficient and focused method of squeezing than a press they&#x27;re using now.<p>What we see in most products is a result of the accountants saying &quot;no&quot; to too much. Cheap parts, assembled cheaply, pennies saved per part. What we see here is the exact opposite: the accountants didn&#x27;t say &quot;no&quot; nearly often enough. Apple manufactures custom everything because they can, and because they sell at massive scales. Juicero wanted to be Apple quality without selling at Apple quantity.<p>I fully believe you get a better cup of juice squeezing with their massive press rather than by hand because it can press over a bigger surface. I also believe it doesn&#x27;t matter a bit, because this is a worthless piece of equipment. Beautiful engineering, though.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>myrandomcomment</author><text>So my wife and I use a French Press for coffee in the morning. I love a good cup of coffee and it really does not take that much time to make. Heck, I enjoy the process.<p>Now for espresso or the like, well that is a different story. We used to have an espresso machine but it was quite a pain (and took up space). For that the machines are great. We have the Nespresso machine with the milk attachment. Makes a pretty good cup. They provide mailing bags for you to send back the used cups? carts? (hum) for recycling.</text></comment> |
17,484,724 | 17,484,498 | 1 | 2 | 17,483,640 | train | <story><title>The Bulk of Software Engineering in 2018 Is Just Plumbing</title><url>https://www.karllhughes.com/posts/plumbing</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>c22</author><text>So is plumbing.</text></item><item><author>RobertDeNiro</author><text>Keep in mind that it&#x27;s easy to you because you&#x27;re from that particular field. For a lot of people software development is still basically witchcraft.</text></item><item><author>ken</author><text>&gt; I believe that many in the field are overpaid relative to the difficulty of the work they do.<p>I believe that <i>every</i> programmer is overpaid relative to the difficulty of the work they do -- or, more accurately, that The Market doesn&#x27;t pay based on <i>difficulty</i> of work. Software pays so well because the product scales so well.<p>Successful pop musicians don&#x27;t do work that&#x27;s 100 times more &#x27;difficult&#x27; than software engineering. They do work that scales even better (copying digital music; playing to arenas; branding on merch).<p>Having worked outside the software world, I absolutely do not believe that software people are any smarter, on average, than anyone else. Ever see a plumbing or electrical or structural system fail spectacularly? Other types of workers absolutely need to understand interactions between multiple complex systems, deal with obsolete and incompatible systems, and deal with changing and conflicting requirements and regulations.<p>If software is any more complex to deal with than physical systems, it&#x27;s only because the architects and implementors let it get that way.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>minor3rd</author><text>I had a plumber over for some fixes about a month ago, and he saw me doing some coding on my laptop. He made a comment like &quot;I have absolutely no clue how any of that works... it is wizardry to me&quot;. I said &quot;I&#x27;m watching you fix plumbing issues around my house, and that is wizardry to me&quot;. I think we could probably learn each others&#x27; jobs if we really tried, but the point is that all things can seem like magic until you learn them.</text></comment> | <story><title>The Bulk of Software Engineering in 2018 Is Just Plumbing</title><url>https://www.karllhughes.com/posts/plumbing</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>c22</author><text>So is plumbing.</text></item><item><author>RobertDeNiro</author><text>Keep in mind that it&#x27;s easy to you because you&#x27;re from that particular field. For a lot of people software development is still basically witchcraft.</text></item><item><author>ken</author><text>&gt; I believe that many in the field are overpaid relative to the difficulty of the work they do.<p>I believe that <i>every</i> programmer is overpaid relative to the difficulty of the work they do -- or, more accurately, that The Market doesn&#x27;t pay based on <i>difficulty</i> of work. Software pays so well because the product scales so well.<p>Successful pop musicians don&#x27;t do work that&#x27;s 100 times more &#x27;difficult&#x27; than software engineering. They do work that scales even better (copying digital music; playing to arenas; branding on merch).<p>Having worked outside the software world, I absolutely do not believe that software people are any smarter, on average, than anyone else. Ever see a plumbing or electrical or structural system fail spectacularly? Other types of workers absolutely need to understand interactions between multiple complex systems, deal with obsolete and incompatible systems, and deal with changing and conflicting requirements and regulations.<p>If software is any more complex to deal with than physical systems, it&#x27;s only because the architects and implementors let it get that way.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>21</author><text>A random person from the street would be able to fix a small plumbing problem. Water and pipes are well into the normal day to day experience.<p>A random person from the street would not be able to fix a trivial problem&#x2F;bug in some software - let&#x27;s say a missing runtime package on linux.</text></comment> |
10,582,519 | 10,582,454 | 1 | 2 | 10,581,761 | train | <story><title>Patronizing Passwords</title><url>http://joelcalifa.com/blog/patronizing-passwords/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>astazangasta</author><text>I have the perfect solution to this, but software systems aren&#x27;t with me yet. The answer is: a keychain. Not a digital keychain, an actual one. On this I put my &quot;infinity key&quot; - it&#x27;s a little USB flash drive with a LUKS-encrypted file system on it that holds a private key. Lots of tech people have something like this. It&#x27;s great for SSH - I can add my infinity key to any host and be assured that I will always be able to login securely from any machine I want. We&#x27;re all used to the physical metaphor of keys as security, and needing a physical key to get into things. This is not a huge change for us.<p>This could easily become the norm, and should. It requires only one key for all of us, it is perfectly secure, doesn&#x27;t require storing secrets on the remote end, never needs to be changed, can&#x27;t be forgotten because it doesn&#x27;t need to be memorized (there is one password for the LUKS encryption). There is no penalty for using the same key in thousands of places.<p>The problem is, no website or browser supports this kind of authentication, and most people are not savvy enough to build this sort of thing for themselves. These are both problems that should be solved; we desperately need to move the Internet away from passwords, password resets, and so on.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>munin</author><text>&gt; This could easily become the norm, and should.<p>a stronger version of this IS the norm in many countries in Europe and large security conscious enterprises in the united states: an ID card issued that is also a high security module. it&#x27;s better than your scheme because the ID card is also a computer that can respond to signing requests by a host computer and the private key doesn&#x27;t leave the ID card, ever. governments issue and service tens to hundreds of millions of these cards a year.</text></comment> | <story><title>Patronizing Passwords</title><url>http://joelcalifa.com/blog/patronizing-passwords/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>astazangasta</author><text>I have the perfect solution to this, but software systems aren&#x27;t with me yet. The answer is: a keychain. Not a digital keychain, an actual one. On this I put my &quot;infinity key&quot; - it&#x27;s a little USB flash drive with a LUKS-encrypted file system on it that holds a private key. Lots of tech people have something like this. It&#x27;s great for SSH - I can add my infinity key to any host and be assured that I will always be able to login securely from any machine I want. We&#x27;re all used to the physical metaphor of keys as security, and needing a physical key to get into things. This is not a huge change for us.<p>This could easily become the norm, and should. It requires only one key for all of us, it is perfectly secure, doesn&#x27;t require storing secrets on the remote end, never needs to be changed, can&#x27;t be forgotten because it doesn&#x27;t need to be memorized (there is one password for the LUKS encryption). There is no penalty for using the same key in thousands of places.<p>The problem is, no website or browser supports this kind of authentication, and most people are not savvy enough to build this sort of thing for themselves. These are both problems that should be solved; we desperately need to move the Internet away from passwords, password resets, and so on.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jclulow</author><text>You can&#x27;t really &quot;add&quot; your key to a computer you don&#x27;t trust, though. At best, it could destroy your USB device; at worst it could copy the contents out once you decrypt them.<p>This may be better than using one password for everything, but it&#x27;s certainly not a panacea.</text></comment> |
27,446,186 | 27,440,965 | 1 | 2 | 27,440,553 | train | <story><title>Astro: Ship Less JavaScript</title><url>https://astro.build/blog/introducing-astro</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>fks</author><text>:wave: Hey everyone, one of the Astro creators here! Happy to talk Astro or answer any questions you have about what we&#x27;re building.<p>Our README has a bunch more info that we couldn&#x27;t fit into the release post: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;snowpackjs&#x2F;astro" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;snowpackjs&#x2F;astro</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>akie</author><text>Hello,<p>I get that you&#x27;re trying to make websites faster, and it seems like you have some amazing technology, but I have to tell you in all honesty that you have a 1.5 Mb PNG on the linked page. If you want to optimize a website, then (as I&#x27;m sure you know) optimizing the images is about the first thing you need to do.<p>With minimum effort and without apparent loss of quality I could reduce that image to a 0.4 Mb PNG (by uploading to <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;imagecompressor.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;imagecompressor.com&#x2F;</a>), if I&#x27;d be willing to change to JPG you can even get it down to 0.2 Mb (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;photoshop.adobe.com&#x2F;compress" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;photoshop.adobe.com&#x2F;compress</a>).<p>That&#x27;s a significant improvement that will really reduce page load times. For me, personally, I would really want to address this if you are positioning yourselves in the website optimization space. Cheers!</text></comment> | <story><title>Astro: Ship Less JavaScript</title><url>https://astro.build/blog/introducing-astro</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>fks</author><text>:wave: Hey everyone, one of the Astro creators here! Happy to talk Astro or answer any questions you have about what we&#x27;re building.<p>Our README has a bunch more info that we couldn&#x27;t fit into the release post: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;snowpackjs&#x2F;astro" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;snowpackjs&#x2F;astro</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>whelming_wave</author><text>How does this compare to Elder.js[1] which released a little while ago? You seem to have similar goals - mostly static site with small amounts of interactivity, minimum JS to achieve that - but Astro supports multiple frameworks, while Elder.js is restricted to Svelte. Are there any other big differences?<p>[1]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;elderguide.com&#x2F;tech&#x2F;elderjs&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;elderguide.com&#x2F;tech&#x2F;elderjs&#x2F;</a></text></comment> |
6,171,689 | 6,168,737 | 1 | 3 | 6,168,144 | train | <story><title>IBM opens up Power chips, ARM-style, to take on Chipzilla</title><url>http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/08/06/ibm_opens_up_power_chips_armstyle_to_take_on_chipzilla/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tommi</author><text>&quot;With its embedded Power chip business under assault from makers of ARM and x86 processors&quot;<p>I didn&#x27;t know Power chip business still existed.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>vidarh</author><text>Last I heard (it&#x27;s been about a year since I looked into numbers), Power&#x2F;PPC chips appeared to be outselling x86 chips by a substantial margin with the caveat that it&#x27;s hard to come by numbers from the &quot;smaller&quot; x86 vendors (like Via) that might very well be selling larger numbers than expected of the low end alternatives but at much lower prices and margins and so fly under the radar.<p>x86 is likely something like the 4th or 5th largest chip architecture by volume shipped today. Last estimate I&#x27;ve seen was in the 360 million range per year, maybe as high as 400 million.<p>That&#x27;s after ARM, likely to ship 3 billion this year, MIPS and PPC probably in the 500+ million range each unless there&#x27;s been massive unexpected changes over the last year.<p>X86 gets all the attention because it&#x27;s on desktops and in laptops and because Intel is disproportionally important because their <i>revenue</i> is several times that of any other CPU manufacturer because nobody else ships nearly as many high end chips (e.g this puts Intel at 7 times Qualcomm, at second place, in revenue from CPU&#x2F;MPU&#x27;s last year: <a href="http://www.xbitlabs.com/news/cpu/display/20130521205843_Intel_Dominates_Microprocessor_Sales_as_AMD_s_Shipments_Drop_Below_Qualcomm_and_Samsung.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.xbitlabs.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;cpu&#x2F;display&#x2F;20130521205843_Inte...</a> )<p>And for the surprise contender, it is unclear where the 6502 architecture falls: It ships in &quot;hundreds of millions&quot; a year according to Western Design Centre). Note that this might very well largely be in the form of licenses for embedding the cores in custom ASICs or in FPGAs, so whether you&#x27;d want to count that is another matter (as an example, some Amiga&#x27;s had keyboards with an embedded 6502 core + PROM and a tiny amount of RAM). It&#x27;s possible that some of the other extremely low end 8-bit CPU cores that are still being used as micro-controllers might also ship volumes like that.<p>I&#x27;ve seen no indication that Sparc is anywhere in the running</text></comment> | <story><title>IBM opens up Power chips, ARM-style, to take on Chipzilla</title><url>http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/08/06/ibm_opens_up_power_chips_armstyle_to_take_on_chipzilla/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tommi</author><text>&quot;With its embedded Power chip business under assault from makers of ARM and x86 processors&quot;<p>I didn&#x27;t know Power chip business still existed.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Millennium</author><text>All three of the PS3&#x2F;XBox360&#x2F;Wii generation consoles used POWER-derived chips: very different chips, of course, but POWER all the same. The Wii U uses a POWER chip too.<p>POWER stalled in the performance&#x2F;watt category around the time of the Power Mac G5: unfortunate, since this was around the time that performance&#x2F;watt was starting to be considered a real thing. That hurt the architecture&#x27;s standing terribly. But it&#x27;s still around.</text></comment> |
14,675,960 | 14,675,925 | 1 | 3 | 14,673,777 | train | <story><title>Silicon Valley Women, in Cultural Shift, Frankly Describe Sexual Harassment</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/30/technology/women-entrepreneurs-speak-out-sexual-harassment.html?_r=0</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>xenadu02</author><text>&gt; I expect less VCs to take meetings with women, sadly.<p>Why? There&#x27;s a really simple procedure that can solve these problems:<p><i>Don&#x27;t hit on, feel-up, or try to have sex with people you&#x27;re in a professional business relationship with</i>. That goes double for people you hold power over (managers to employees, VCs to Founders, etc).<p>If you&#x27;re really truly worried about false accusations then here&#x27;s another fix you can have for free: <i>record your meetings, texts, emails, and calls with founders</i> and&#x2F;or don&#x27;t meet alone.<p>I expect smart VCs that are interested in making money (as opposed to lording it over others or using their position to get sex) will continue to take lots of meetings with women.</text></item><item><author>5thaccount</author><text>I expect less VCs to take meetings with women, sadly. Not because they are likely to be problems, quite the opposite I&#x27;d wager.<p>That&#x27;s going to be the rather depressing and sad reality of the shakeout of this.</text></item><item><author>CydeWeys</author><text>This is a watershed moment in the VC industry. The dam has finally burst, and we&#x27;re now seeing the establishment of a new norm in which women who are being harassed go public rather than feeling compelled to hide it. Expect to see many men who were operating under the old norms getting ousted.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>TeMPOraL</author><text>&gt; <i>If you&#x27;re really truly worried about false accusations then here&#x27;s another fix you can have for free: record your meetings, texts, emails, and calls with founders and&#x2F;or don&#x27;t meet alone.</i><p>It&#x27;s not so easy. Bullshit accusations leaking on Twitter will be halfway to destroying your career before you even dig up the original recordings, and I doubt anyone will want to listen to your case anyway (if anything, they&#x27;ll comb over your recordings with a tootbrush to prove you were guilty of this, and a bunch of other things). I too expect VCs to be less willing to expose themselves to such danger.</text></comment> | <story><title>Silicon Valley Women, in Cultural Shift, Frankly Describe Sexual Harassment</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/30/technology/women-entrepreneurs-speak-out-sexual-harassment.html?_r=0</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>xenadu02</author><text>&gt; I expect less VCs to take meetings with women, sadly.<p>Why? There&#x27;s a really simple procedure that can solve these problems:<p><i>Don&#x27;t hit on, feel-up, or try to have sex with people you&#x27;re in a professional business relationship with</i>. That goes double for people you hold power over (managers to employees, VCs to Founders, etc).<p>If you&#x27;re really truly worried about false accusations then here&#x27;s another fix you can have for free: <i>record your meetings, texts, emails, and calls with founders</i> and&#x2F;or don&#x27;t meet alone.<p>I expect smart VCs that are interested in making money (as opposed to lording it over others or using their position to get sex) will continue to take lots of meetings with women.</text></item><item><author>5thaccount</author><text>I expect less VCs to take meetings with women, sadly. Not because they are likely to be problems, quite the opposite I&#x27;d wager.<p>That&#x27;s going to be the rather depressing and sad reality of the shakeout of this.</text></item><item><author>CydeWeys</author><text>This is a watershed moment in the VC industry. The dam has finally burst, and we&#x27;re now seeing the establishment of a new norm in which women who are being harassed go public rather than feeling compelled to hide it. Expect to see many men who were operating under the old norms getting ousted.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>5thaccount</author><text>Do you know what amazes me about comments like yours? You don&#x27;t have to agree with a course of action to accept the reality that certain things will happen.<p>&gt; I expect smart VCs that are interested in making money ... will continue to take lots of meetings with women.<p>OK, so ON NET what do you expect to happen? Lets say I agree and the smart ones take the meetings, what about the dumb ones? Or the average ones? What is the net result of all those different levels of VCs? Less or more meetings for women?<p>Again, &quot;You don&#x27;t have to agree with a course of action to accept the reality that certain things will happen&quot;.</text></comment> |
9,708,795 | 9,708,877 | 1 | 3 | 9,708,211 | train | <story><title>California Announces Restrictions on Water Use by Farmers</title><url>http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/13/us/california-announces-restrictions-on-water-use-by-farmers.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>wskinner</author><text>Scarce resources need to be exposed to market forces. The purpose of markets is to allocate scarce resources and price them appropriately.</text></item><item><author>hauget</author><text>Water is a scarce resource in this case. You don&#x27;t exactly let the &quot;wealthy&quot; buy off everything they can just because. Scarce resources need to be regulated my friend.</text></item><item><author>monochromatic</author><text>Why is that a comparison that makes sense? If we doubled the water available to tech companies, that wouldn&#x27;t make them any more productive.</text></item><item><author>jkyle</author><text>About time.<p>Agriculture is using 80% of the water, but accounts for a mere 2% of the GDP (4% of employment)[1].<p>There&#x27;s no reason we should be squeezing our rural and suburban centers that fuel the overwhelming majority of our economy while giving farmer&#x27;s a free pass to suck the state dry of usable water which is mainly used for exported profits and not sustaining local industries.<p>[1] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.washingtonpost.com&#x2F;blogs&#x2F;govbeat&#x2F;wp&#x2F;2015&#x2F;04&#x2F;03&#x2F;agriculture-is-80-percent-of-water-use-in-california-why-arent-farmers-being-forced-to-cut-back&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.washingtonpost.com&#x2F;blogs&#x2F;govbeat&#x2F;wp&#x2F;2015&#x2F;04&#x2F;03&#x2F;ag...</a><p><i>edit</i><p>For clarification, mentioning the GDP is meant to show that cutting back on agricultural usage will not affect our economy catastrophically even if the industry sinks a bit. Will food prices go up? Perhaps.<p>Further, if the point is food <i>production</i> and not food <i>profit</i> for the nation then the focus should be on producing the most water efficient foods (per calorie) not the most profitable foods produced under an assumption of free or near free water. So yeah, that might mean less prime rib and more black eyed peas for Americans (figuratively speaking).<p>The cost of the product should reflect the cost of the resources required to produce. This is not the current case.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>hauget</author><text>Even when those resources could be bought by someone who will waste them? We&#x27;re not talking about something like gold here, we&#x27;re talking about a resource that is essential for human life. Would you really want someone who&#x27;s wealthier than you to buy all the water around you just because they can?</text></comment> | <story><title>California Announces Restrictions on Water Use by Farmers</title><url>http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/13/us/california-announces-restrictions-on-water-use-by-farmers.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>wskinner</author><text>Scarce resources need to be exposed to market forces. The purpose of markets is to allocate scarce resources and price them appropriately.</text></item><item><author>hauget</author><text>Water is a scarce resource in this case. You don&#x27;t exactly let the &quot;wealthy&quot; buy off everything they can just because. Scarce resources need to be regulated my friend.</text></item><item><author>monochromatic</author><text>Why is that a comparison that makes sense? If we doubled the water available to tech companies, that wouldn&#x27;t make them any more productive.</text></item><item><author>jkyle</author><text>About time.<p>Agriculture is using 80% of the water, but accounts for a mere 2% of the GDP (4% of employment)[1].<p>There&#x27;s no reason we should be squeezing our rural and suburban centers that fuel the overwhelming majority of our economy while giving farmer&#x27;s a free pass to suck the state dry of usable water which is mainly used for exported profits and not sustaining local industries.<p>[1] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.washingtonpost.com&#x2F;blogs&#x2F;govbeat&#x2F;wp&#x2F;2015&#x2F;04&#x2F;03&#x2F;agriculture-is-80-percent-of-water-use-in-california-why-arent-farmers-being-forced-to-cut-back&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.washingtonpost.com&#x2F;blogs&#x2F;govbeat&#x2F;wp&#x2F;2015&#x2F;04&#x2F;03&#x2F;ag...</a><p><i>edit</i><p>For clarification, mentioning the GDP is meant to show that cutting back on agricultural usage will not affect our economy catastrophically even if the industry sinks a bit. Will food prices go up? Perhaps.<p>Further, if the point is food <i>production</i> and not food <i>profit</i> for the nation then the focus should be on producing the most water efficient foods (per calorie) not the most profitable foods produced under an assumption of free or near free water. So yeah, that might mean less prime rib and more black eyed peas for Americans (figuratively speaking).<p>The cost of the product should reflect the cost of the resources required to produce. This is not the current case.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>task_queue</author><text>That&#x27;s great for pricing most commodities, but for necessities it is disastrous.</text></comment> |
35,281,858 | 35,279,279 | 1 | 3 | 35,277,677 | train | <story><title>ChatGPT Plugins</title><url>https://openai.com/blog/chatgpt-plugins</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>johnfn</author><text>A couple (wow, only 5!) months ago, I wrote up this long screed[1] about how OpenAI had completely missed the generative AI art wave because they hadn&#x27;t iterated on DALL-E 2 after launch. It also got a lot of upvotes which I was pretty happy about at the time :)<p>Never have I been more wrong. It&#x27;s clear to me now that they simply didn&#x27;t even care about the astounding leap forward that was generative AI art and were instead focused on even <i>more</i> high-impact products. (Can you imagine going back 6 months and telling your past self &quot;Yeah, generative AI is alright, but it&#x27;s roughly the 4th most impressive project that OpenAI will put out this year&quot;?!) ChatGPT, GPT4, and now this: the mind boggles.<p>Watching some of the gifs of GPT using the internet, summarizing web pages, comparing them, etc is truly mind-blowing. I mean yeah I always thought this was the end goal but I would have put it a couple years out, not now. Holy moly.<p>[1]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=33010982" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=33010982</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>throwaway675309</author><text>No that wasn&#x27;t what they had in mind at all, it was pretty clear from the start that they intended to monetize DALL-E. It&#x27;s just that it turned out that you require far smaller models to be able to do generative art, so competitors like stability AI were able to release viable alternatives before OpenAI could establish a monopoly.<p>Why do you think that Sam Altman keeps calling for government intervention with regards to AI? He doesn&#x27;t want to see a repeat of what happened with generative art, and there&#x27;s nothing like a few bureaucratic road blocks to slow down your competitors.</text></comment> | <story><title>ChatGPT Plugins</title><url>https://openai.com/blog/chatgpt-plugins</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>johnfn</author><text>A couple (wow, only 5!) months ago, I wrote up this long screed[1] about how OpenAI had completely missed the generative AI art wave because they hadn&#x27;t iterated on DALL-E 2 after launch. It also got a lot of upvotes which I was pretty happy about at the time :)<p>Never have I been more wrong. It&#x27;s clear to me now that they simply didn&#x27;t even care about the astounding leap forward that was generative AI art and were instead focused on even <i>more</i> high-impact products. (Can you imagine going back 6 months and telling your past self &quot;Yeah, generative AI is alright, but it&#x27;s roughly the 4th most impressive project that OpenAI will put out this year&quot;?!) ChatGPT, GPT4, and now this: the mind boggles.<p>Watching some of the gifs of GPT using the internet, summarizing web pages, comparing them, etc is truly mind-blowing. I mean yeah I always thought this was the end goal but I would have put it a couple years out, not now. Holy moly.<p>[1]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=33010982" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=33010982</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>cwkoss</author><text>Stable Diffusion A1111 and other webUIs are moving so fast with a bunch of OSS contributions, seems pretty rational for OpenAI to decide to not compete and just copy the interfaces of the popular tools once the users validate their usefulness rather than trying to design them a priori.</text></comment> |
6,672,257 | 6,672,050 | 1 | 2 | 6,671,454 | train | <story><title>Avoiding Heart Disease</title><url>http://blog.harjtaggar.com/my-heart</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tansey</author><text>I tend to think of doctors as mechanics. Often when something breaks on my car, the explanation is &quot;it&#x27;s an old car, that happens eventually.&quot; And when they talk about it after fixing it, it&#x27;s usually &quot;Toyota&#x27;s a good brand. Take care of it and you&#x27;ll get another 100k miles from that engine.&quot; If I took my car to my mechanic with nothing wrong and asked what I should be doing to make sure the transmission lasts as long as possible, they will give me some generic intuitive advice, but they have no real insight because they are not in the business of maximizing the lifetime of healthy cars.<p>Doctors are kind of the same way. They see patients who have problems and need them fixed. If you walk into a doctor&#x27;s office and say your family has a history of heart disease and you&#x27;re concerned, they&#x27;ll run a standard diagnostic to see if there is a problem. If there isn&#x27;t, they&#x27;ll give you generic advice. Outside of that, they are not really likely to have much insight into how to prevent heart disease in your specific case. Maybe you&#x27;ll get lucky and the doctor will have recently read a relevant paper.<p>This seems to me like a problem that you&#x27;re better off having answered by a medical researcher rather than a physician in the trenches. Researchers are the ones who are taking the long view on outcomes in patients. Keeping with the same analogy, you&#x27;re probably better off talking to a mechanical engineer at a car company about maximizing the life of your currently healthy transmission.<p>Also, I generally see this as a problem that will be best addressed by machine learning researchers collaborating with medical researchers. Then again, I&#x27;m an ML PhD student working on health applications, so I&#x27;m biased. :)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>crusso</author><text>Even the front side of your analogy is broken. Mechanics are great sources of information on how to drive so you can maximize the life of your engine. It&#x27;s like you haven&#x27;t had a conversation with a mechanic before.<p>Likewise with doctors. I have had 4 doctors in my family (3 still alive), and I&#x27;ve spent many the family meal talking with them about health, longevity, and the mechanical&#x2F;biology&#x2F;chemistry behind how your body works and when it works best.</text></comment> | <story><title>Avoiding Heart Disease</title><url>http://blog.harjtaggar.com/my-heart</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tansey</author><text>I tend to think of doctors as mechanics. Often when something breaks on my car, the explanation is &quot;it&#x27;s an old car, that happens eventually.&quot; And when they talk about it after fixing it, it&#x27;s usually &quot;Toyota&#x27;s a good brand. Take care of it and you&#x27;ll get another 100k miles from that engine.&quot; If I took my car to my mechanic with nothing wrong and asked what I should be doing to make sure the transmission lasts as long as possible, they will give me some generic intuitive advice, but they have no real insight because they are not in the business of maximizing the lifetime of healthy cars.<p>Doctors are kind of the same way. They see patients who have problems and need them fixed. If you walk into a doctor&#x27;s office and say your family has a history of heart disease and you&#x27;re concerned, they&#x27;ll run a standard diagnostic to see if there is a problem. If there isn&#x27;t, they&#x27;ll give you generic advice. Outside of that, they are not really likely to have much insight into how to prevent heart disease in your specific case. Maybe you&#x27;ll get lucky and the doctor will have recently read a relevant paper.<p>This seems to me like a problem that you&#x27;re better off having answered by a medical researcher rather than a physician in the trenches. Researchers are the ones who are taking the long view on outcomes in patients. Keeping with the same analogy, you&#x27;re probably better off talking to a mechanical engineer at a car company about maximizing the life of your currently healthy transmission.<p>Also, I generally see this as a problem that will be best addressed by machine learning researchers collaborating with medical researchers. Then again, I&#x27;m an ML PhD student working on health applications, so I&#x27;m biased. :)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>danpat</author><text>Small backstory and a question for you.<p>My fiancée is a psychiatric nurse practitioner. Recently, we were having dinner with a few of her colleagues, and they were complaining about the overwhelming number of new medications coming to market, and how they could never remember all the interactions, what to use for what, which ones were new, which had been retired, etc, etc.<p>As a CS person, I piped up and suggested, tongue in cheek, that the computers were going to take their jobs. This led to a healthy discussion about the human practitioners role in a time when the amount of information they&#x27;re expected to know is rapidly expanding.<p>What&#x27;s your take in the future role of the human in diagnosing and prescribing in a situation like this?</text></comment> |
36,204,507 | 36,199,771 | 1 | 3 | 36,197,280 | train | <story><title>An Excel error led Austria's SPÖ to announce the wrong candidate as the winner</title><url>https://twitter.com/joncstone/status/1665728784366960641</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>irthomasthomas</author><text>A series of excel errors, including failure to copy down a formula to the whole column, led many governments to adopt a policy of economic austerity. The spreadsheet had demonstrated that, historically, countries that adopted austerity came out of recession faster. Once the errors in the spread where fixed, it actually proved the opposite. But by then the damage was done.<p>Edit: It was UMASS grad students that spotted the spreadsheet errors by these Harvard&#x2F;IMF heavy weights:)<p><pre><code> Reinhart and Rogoff kindly provided us with the working spreadsheet from the RR analysis. With the working spreadsheet, we were able to approximate closely the published RR results. While using RR’s working spreadsheet, we identified coding errors, selective exclusion of available data, and unconventional weighting of summary statistics.
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<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;peri.umass.edu&#x2F;fileadmin&#x2F;pdf&#x2F;working_papers&#x2F;working_papers_301-350&#x2F;WP322.pdf" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;peri.umass.edu&#x2F;fileadmin&#x2F;pdf&#x2F;working_papers&#x2F;working_...</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Growth_in_a_Time_of_Debt" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Growth_in_a_Time_of_Debt</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>timy2shoes</author><text>In addition to their excel errors, their analysis required excluding the Australia, Canada, and New Zealand. Once these countries were included in their analysis, their argument falls apart. To me, it&#x27;s clear that this was a case of very selective researcher degrees of freedom to support austerity. Why anyone would take Reinhart or Rogoff seriously after this farce is beyond my comprehension.</text></comment> | <story><title>An Excel error led Austria's SPÖ to announce the wrong candidate as the winner</title><url>https://twitter.com/joncstone/status/1665728784366960641</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>irthomasthomas</author><text>A series of excel errors, including failure to copy down a formula to the whole column, led many governments to adopt a policy of economic austerity. The spreadsheet had demonstrated that, historically, countries that adopted austerity came out of recession faster. Once the errors in the spread where fixed, it actually proved the opposite. But by then the damage was done.<p>Edit: It was UMASS grad students that spotted the spreadsheet errors by these Harvard&#x2F;IMF heavy weights:)<p><pre><code> Reinhart and Rogoff kindly provided us with the working spreadsheet from the RR analysis. With the working spreadsheet, we were able to approximate closely the published RR results. While using RR’s working spreadsheet, we identified coding errors, selective exclusion of available data, and unconventional weighting of summary statistics.
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<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;peri.umass.edu&#x2F;fileadmin&#x2F;pdf&#x2F;working_papers&#x2F;working_papers_301-350&#x2F;WP322.pdf" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;peri.umass.edu&#x2F;fileadmin&#x2F;pdf&#x2F;working_papers&#x2F;working_...</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Growth_in_a_Time_of_Debt" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Growth_in_a_Time_of_Debt</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>listenallyall</author><text>Two of those 3 sound intentional: selective exclusion of data and unconventional weighting. The &quot;coding errors&quot; may also have been intentional. I would suggest more scrutiny of the authors and their motives before dismissing as &quot;Excel errors, whoops&quot;</text></comment> |
12,375,462 | 12,375,117 | 1 | 2 | 12,374,668 | train | <story><title>A Surveillance Master Dissects a Murder from the Sky [video]</title><url>http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-08-23/watch-this-surveillance-master-dissect-a-murder-from-the-sky?utm_content=business&utm_campaign=socialflow-organic&utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&cmpid%3D=socialflow-twitter-business</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>themenace</author><text>Today we can confidently guess that THIS is the secret groundbreaking military technology that &quot;60 Minutes&quot; was alluding to in 2008.<p>Reporter Bob Woodward (known for breaking much of the Watergate story that led to President Richard Nixon&#x27;s resignation) claims that the US military has a new secret technique that&#x27;s revolutionary. The following is what he said in his interview[1] with Scott Pelley on 60 Minutes in September 2008:<p>Woodward: <i>This is very sensitive and very top secret, but there are secret operational capabilities that have been developed by the military to locate, target, and kill leaders [in Iraq].</i><p>Pelley: <i>What is this? Some kind of surveillance, some kind of targeted way of taking out just the ... leadership?</i><p>Woodward: <i>It is the stuff of which military novels are written.</i><p>Pelley: <i>Do you mean to say that this special capability is such an advance in military technique and technology that it reminds you of the advent of the tank and the airplane?</i><p>Woodward: <i>Yeah.</i><p>The bits of info from Woodward, the timeline of the development of military aerial camera systems (such as Angel Fire), the claimed capability to locate people -- it all fits. This is the revolutionary advance in military capability they are talking about.<p>[1] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cbsnews.com&#x2F;stories&#x2F;2008&#x2F;09&#x2F;04&#x2F;60minutes&#x2F;main4415771.shtml" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cbsnews.com&#x2F;stories&#x2F;2008&#x2F;09&#x2F;04&#x2F;60minutes&#x2F;main4415...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>A Surveillance Master Dissects a Murder from the Sky [video]</title><url>http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-08-23/watch-this-surveillance-master-dissect-a-murder-from-the-sky?utm_content=business&utm_campaign=socialflow-organic&utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&cmpid%3D=socialflow-twitter-business</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Mendenhall</author><text>You could do serious damage with this. You could follow CEO&#x27;s,government officials etc and detail everything they do and who they meet with. Nothing stopping that company from using the images they have stored to compile information on whoever they want in the area. Great technology thats super easy to abuse to devastating effect in a myriad of ways. No one really cares about that though .</text></comment> |
11,757,016 | 11,757,023 | 1 | 3 | 11,755,755 | train | <story><title>Show HN: I built a bot to automatically apply to jobs</title><url>https://github.com/jmopr/job-hunter</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>robgibbons</author><text>For every recruiter complaining that this is a spammy spray-and-pray approach, there are a dozen engineers spammed daily on LinkedIn with irrelevant blanket offers. If anything, this little bot is a delightful and humorous response to both recruiter spam and automated resume filters.</text></comment> | <story><title>Show HN: I built a bot to automatically apply to jobs</title><url>https://github.com/jmopr/job-hunter</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jmopr</author><text>So I built this because I&#x27;m a recent bootcamp grad &amp; I&#x27;ve found that it&#x27;s really hard to get my foot in the door. I&#x27;d really love feedback on how I can improve this.<p>Here is an example of a page that gets link in my automated cover letter to an employer: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;job-diana.herokuapp.com&#x2F;users&#x2F;jobs&#x2F;07c5807d0d927dcd0980f86024e5208b" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;job-diana.herokuapp.com&#x2F;users&#x2F;jobs&#x2F;07c5807d0d927dcd09...</a></text></comment> |
13,296,769 | 13,294,496 | 1 | 3 | 13,294,090 | train | <story><title>How to Become a ‘Superager’</title><url>http://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/31/opinion/sunday/how-to-become-a-superager.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>apsec112</author><text>&quot;Many labs have observed that these critical brain regions increase in activity when people perform difficult tasks, whether the effort is physical or mental. You can therefore help keep these regions thick and healthy through vigorous exercise and bouts of strenuous mental effort.&quot;<p>Woah woah woah there. That doesn&#x27;t follow at all. Even if you buy the &quot;exercise model&quot; - which can&#x27;t possibly be tested by observing brain activity over minutes, since improvement would happen over weeks to months - that doesn&#x27;t imply an ability to ward off old age over decades. In the case of literal muscle exercise, for example, playing pro sports will certainly strengthen your muscles now but likely cause long-term injuries. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;journalistsresource.org&#x2F;studies&#x2F;society&#x2F;public-health&#x2F;sports-related-concussions-head-injuries-what-does-research-say" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;journalistsresource.org&#x2F;studies&#x2F;society&#x2F;public-healt...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>a3n</author><text>&gt; Woah woah woah there. That doesn&#x27;t follow at all.<p>And the article acknowledges that it might not, while discussing as yet understudied observations.<p>In the sentence right before your quote: &quot;We’re still studying this question, but our best answer at the moment is: work hard at something.&quot;<p>While your comment is true (no established causation yet), this reminds me of the climate change debate. For the sake of argument, human carbon production may or may not contribute to global warming. For the sake of argument, global warming may or may not be happening, and may or may not be bad.<p>But the solution proposed to reduce global warming, &quot;reduce pollution,&quot; is good in and of itself. We&#x27;re pretty sure pollution increases disease and death. It also looks bad and smells bad. How much is too much is debatable, but minimizing it as well as we practically can is a good thing. There are no mainstream proposals, as far as I know, to entirely eliminate pollution (as close as I can come to your equating exercise with professional sports), but dodging climate change has become a way to dodge responsibility for pollution.<p>Thinking is good. Thinking moderately harder is probably better. Getting up and going to the bathroom is good. Walking to the store is probably better.<p>If I happen to retain cognitive ability in later years, from exercise and thinking, great. But regardless, I&#x27;ll do it because it&#x27;s already good for me in other ways.</text></comment> | <story><title>How to Become a ‘Superager’</title><url>http://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/31/opinion/sunday/how-to-become-a-superager.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>apsec112</author><text>&quot;Many labs have observed that these critical brain regions increase in activity when people perform difficult tasks, whether the effort is physical or mental. You can therefore help keep these regions thick and healthy through vigorous exercise and bouts of strenuous mental effort.&quot;<p>Woah woah woah there. That doesn&#x27;t follow at all. Even if you buy the &quot;exercise model&quot; - which can&#x27;t possibly be tested by observing brain activity over minutes, since improvement would happen over weeks to months - that doesn&#x27;t imply an ability to ward off old age over decades. In the case of literal muscle exercise, for example, playing pro sports will certainly strengthen your muscles now but likely cause long-term injuries. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;journalistsresource.org&#x2F;studies&#x2F;society&#x2F;public-health&#x2F;sports-related-concussions-head-injuries-what-does-research-say" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;journalistsresource.org&#x2F;studies&#x2F;society&#x2F;public-healt...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>smhost</author><text>I&#x27;m sorry, can you clarify your point? What is the problem with the idea that difficult tasks (both mental and physical) help to prevent atrophy in a certain part of the brain?</text></comment> |
24,506,001 | 24,506,131 | 1 | 2 | 24,505,074 | train | <story><title>UK government’s plans to regulate the internet are a threat to free speech</title><url>https://freespeechunion.org/why-the-governments-plans-to-regulate-the-internet-are-a-threat-to-free-speech/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>umvi</author><text>&quot;The problem with freedom is that people abuse it and cause harm to others.&quot;<p>Edit: (to be clear, I do not personally believe this, just offering a little insight as to how the &quot;not insignificant majority&quot; think)</text></item><item><author>commandlinefan</author><text>What I’m becoming more painfully aware of with each passing year is that “free speech” is actually (sadly) a very unpopular ideal. We haven’t really had it in a long time, and we have less of it with each passing year - cheered on by a not insignificant majority.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>john_moscow</author><text>I think, being offended at words is mostly a sign of one&#x27;s own personal insecurity. Can you imagine a successful doctor or a business owner being seriously offended because someone on the Internet called them a bad word? I bet they would respond same way I do when my son calls me a &quot;bad papa&quot; for insisting he finishes lunch before getting a desert.<p>The bigger, <i></i>much bigger<i></i> problem is the growing amount of people that feel financially insecure about their lives, have no marketable skills, and plenty of free time. And the media is currently doing its best to direct their rage to unresolvable tribal infighting, rather than self-improvement, and possibly concluding that their misery might have something to do with the rise of monopolies, poorly chosen loan-funded degrees, and a few other very specific things rather than abstract inequality and injustice.<p>I don&#x27;t like where this is headed. Tribal society structure, with elites living in fenced mansions, and hungry plebs literally killing each other over petty tribal disputes is very real. Half of Africa lives like this, Mexican drug cartels do, most Europe did before Enlightenment. And it is mind-boggling to see that this type of society might be coming to the former First World in fewer than a single generation.</text></comment> | <story><title>UK government’s plans to regulate the internet are a threat to free speech</title><url>https://freespeechunion.org/why-the-governments-plans-to-regulate-the-internet-are-a-threat-to-free-speech/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>umvi</author><text>&quot;The problem with freedom is that people abuse it and cause harm to others.&quot;<p>Edit: (to be clear, I do not personally believe this, just offering a little insight as to how the &quot;not insignificant majority&quot; think)</text></item><item><author>commandlinefan</author><text>What I’m becoming more painfully aware of with each passing year is that “free speech” is actually (sadly) a very unpopular ideal. We haven’t really had it in a long time, and we have less of it with each passing year - cheered on by a not insignificant majority.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>monkeynotes</author><text>The way I see it is it&#x27;s not free speech that is the problem, as such, it&#x27;s that people who used to gossip to a small audience down the pub now have equal platforms to newspapers.<p>The internet has levelled the playing field and now everyone is a politician with an agenda to push. The &#x27;truth&#x27; has been revealed to mean whatever the audience is persuaded and agrees to believe.<p>We are all subject to various cargo cults. What was once limited to political think tanks to guide a nation (propaganda and lies in all) is now in the hands of everyone who can build a significant social following.<p>Free speech needs to be defended to avoid thought police mentality, but it comes with the understanding that we all determine our own realities and without critical thinking one is subject to subversive influence.<p>The internet as a platform is a good candidate for the undoing of our civilization. Popular individualism that is enabled by echo chambers drives polarization and therefore a govt. that is increasingly under threat of irrelevance. As such they must identify and nullify an enemy that has no head to cut off. And so legislation is proposed to cut the means to communicate which drives the dialog underground and toward violence.<p>Humans are starting to lose definition, falling into chaos and struggles for control where there really can be none. Two extremes I can see this going in the direction of are urban guerrilla wars or 1984 Orwellian dystopia. Maybe both, one following the other.</text></comment> |
35,443,088 | 35,443,093 | 1 | 2 | 35,442,001 | train | <story><title>Levels of banned CFCs rising</title><url>https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-00940-2</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>hammock</author><text>&gt;The collective annual warming effect of these five chemicals on the planet is equivalent to the emissions produced by a small country like Switzerland.<p>Why is warming effect what matters here? During the original CFC crisis, it was the hole in the ozone layer we were more worried about.</text></item><item><author>ryanblakeley</author><text>&gt; The collective annual warming effect of these five chemicals on the planet is equivalent to the emissions produced by a small country like Switzerland.<p>&gt; When CFCs were phased out, hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs) were brought in as substitutes. But CFCs can crop up as unintended by-products during HFC manufacture.<p>&gt; The appearance of CFC-13 is much more baffling. “We really have no clue” where the emissions are coming from, Vollmer says. “We don’t know of any chemical process where this will show up as a by-product.”</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dashundchen</author><text>Because it&#x27;s non-negligible source of warming greenhouse gases that is completely avoidable - we have plenty of substitutes available to us with lower global warming potential. Releasing 1 kg of CFC-13 will trap the same amount of heat as 14,000 kg of CO2.<p>Project Drawdown lists managing refrigerants as one of the top 10 solutions to limit warming in both 1.5 and 2C scenarios.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.drawdown.org&#x2F;solutions&#x2F;table-of-solutions" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.drawdown.org&#x2F;solutions&#x2F;table-of-solutions</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.drawdown.org&#x2F;solutions&#x2F;refrigerant-management" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.drawdown.org&#x2F;solutions&#x2F;refrigerant-management</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Levels of banned CFCs rising</title><url>https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-00940-2</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>hammock</author><text>&gt;The collective annual warming effect of these five chemicals on the planet is equivalent to the emissions produced by a small country like Switzerland.<p>Why is warming effect what matters here? During the original CFC crisis, it was the hole in the ozone layer we were more worried about.</text></item><item><author>ryanblakeley</author><text>&gt; The collective annual warming effect of these five chemicals on the planet is equivalent to the emissions produced by a small country like Switzerland.<p>&gt; When CFCs were phased out, hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs) were brought in as substitutes. But CFCs can crop up as unintended by-products during HFC manufacture.<p>&gt; The appearance of CFC-13 is much more baffling. “We really have no clue” where the emissions are coming from, Vollmer says. “We don’t know of any chemical process where this will show up as a by-product.”</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bluGill</author><text>Both matter, though warming wasn&#x27;t considered a big deal, the media was still coming away from warning about a coming ice age (i&#x27;ve never figured out what was going on there, as a kid I heard it more than once, but now few admit the scare existed). The ozone hole was a big deal.<p>Now that CFCs are banned the ozone layer is recovering. I&#x27;m guessing these emissions are not really enough to harm the ozone layer much (so long as they don&#x27;t get worse!), but they add to greenhouse gases that are not in control.</text></comment> |
17,684,538 | 17,684,388 | 1 | 3 | 17,683,184 | train | <story><title>BYTE Magazine</title><url>https://archive.org/details/byte-magazine</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>diego_moita</author><text>My favourite number, that I kept for years later, was from September&#x2F;1990.<p>It had interviews with everyone that was &quot;important&quot; back then (Gates &amp; Allen (MS), Mitch Kapor (Lotus), Doug Engelbart (mouse &amp; GUIs), Tony Hoare (quicksort), Brian Kernigham, Donald Knuth, Bob Metcalfe (Ethernet), Philipe Kahn (Borland), Bob Noyce, Dennis Ritchie (C), Bjarne Stroustroup (C++), Wolfram) predicting the future.<p>None of them predicted the Internet.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;archive.org&#x2F;details&#x2F;byte-magazine-1990-09" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;archive.org&#x2F;details&#x2F;byte-magazine-1990-09</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dmazin</author><text>Gordon Bell and Engelbart were surprisingly spot-on regarding connectivity. It seems that for the people who are canonically regarded as visionaries, massive connectivity through tiny devices was obvious. For Bill Gates, not so much.<p>BYTE: Let&#x27;s discuss the subject of portability. Do you think we&#x27;ll have notebook computers or pocket computers? How do you think the size will evolve?<p>Gordon Bell: The computer will disappear by another 10 years in [its present form]. There will be zero-cost notebook-size computers with one chip in them that will have about 32 megabytes. So people will be carrying around these sort of minicellular, really connected, computers that go into their own databases somewhere.<p>Doug Engelbart: Everyone’s going to have a computer-carried around, or surgically implanted, or sitting on your hat or your spectacles or what-and they’re all going to be connected into networks just totally, [and] those networks will be wireless.<p>BYTE: This sounds more like a portable office than a portable computer. Do you really think cellular phones and faxes will enter the notebook arena?<p>Bill Gates: That&#x27;s a little radical. I don&#x27;t think it&#x27;s necessary. If you can connect up every few hours, that&#x27;s good enough. The machine in the office will just have this optic fiber that will go off to the world net work out there. It will directly connect to some kind of server and will have a lot of storage.</text></comment> | <story><title>BYTE Magazine</title><url>https://archive.org/details/byte-magazine</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>diego_moita</author><text>My favourite number, that I kept for years later, was from September&#x2F;1990.<p>It had interviews with everyone that was &quot;important&quot; back then (Gates &amp; Allen (MS), Mitch Kapor (Lotus), Doug Engelbart (mouse &amp; GUIs), Tony Hoare (quicksort), Brian Kernigham, Donald Knuth, Bob Metcalfe (Ethernet), Philipe Kahn (Borland), Bob Noyce, Dennis Ritchie (C), Bjarne Stroustroup (C++), Wolfram) predicting the future.<p>None of them predicted the Internet.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;archive.org&#x2F;details&#x2F;byte-magazine-1990-09" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;archive.org&#x2F;details&#x2F;byte-magazine-1990-09</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>peapicker</author><text>Do you mean none of them predicted the web?<p>We were already calling it the internet when I started college in 88 and after all, it ran on TCP&#x2F;IP(the latter stands for Internet Protocol) which ARPANET adopted in 1983.</text></comment> |
41,123,025 | 41,122,737 | 1 | 2 | 41,120,201 | train | <story><title>Jeff Bezos' management rules are slowly unraveling inside Amazon</title><url>https://fortune.com/2024/07/31/amazon-leadership-principles-questions-future-jeff-bezos-departure-andy-jassy/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>pc86</author><text>Software engineers having &quot;on call&quot; schedules <i>at all</i> is crazy to me. You shouldn&#x27;t be writing code at 3am to fix a bug after working all day just to turn around and work the next day as well.</text></item><item><author>ecshafer</author><text>&gt; The software engineering paradigms used within the company create brittle rube goldberg machines of events flowing everywhere in the company. Almost all of them are on maintenance mode, where the oncall burns out the engineers and prevents them from creating new products. There is no knowledge sharing between team members. Legacy team members guard their technical platform knowledge to solidify their place on the team.<p>I have never worked at Amazon. But I did work at a company that decided to implement microservices a la Amazon, even going so far as sharing Bezos&#x27; famous 2 pizza team memo. This effect essentially happened over night. As people spun up more and more microservices, things got more and more siloed, cross team collaboration was significantly more difficult, and things became an increasingly more complicated rube goldberg machine that just destroyed people with on call schedules.</text></item><item><author>codingwagie</author><text>I&#x27;m a long time Amazonian. The big problem is legacy employees run every part of the company. Almost any manager of managers has been at Amazon a long time, in that same job for a long time. There is no upward mobility at the company, unless you have been in some org 5+ years. In Alexa, the people running the core ML teams have been in Alexa since it started. Most people in decision making positions just got there first (10-15 years ago)<p>The software engineering paradigms used within the company create brittle rube goldberg machines of events flowing everywhere in the company. Almost all of them are on maintenance mode, where the oncall burns out the engineers and prevents them from creating new products. There is no knowledge sharing between team members. Legacy team members guard their technical platform knowledge to solidify their place on the team.<p>The engineers themselves are not students of computer science, but just crunch out tickets.<p>If Amazon wants to change they need to remove a significant amount of tenured employees, and actually promote young engineers into decision making positions.<p>AWS hasnt released an innovative product in a really long time</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>devbent</author><text>It works well of the company empowers engineers to write software that doesn&#x27;t break all the time.<p>At HBO Max every incident had a full writeup and then <i>real</i> solutions were put in place to make the service more stable.<p>My team had around 3 incidents in 2 years.<p>If the cultural expectation is that the on call buzzer will never go off, and that it going off is a Bad Thing, then on call itself isn&#x27;t a problem.<p>Or as I was fond of saying &quot;my number one design criteria (for software) is that everyone gets to sleep through the night.&quot;<p>The customers win (stable service) and the engineers win (sleep).</text></comment> | <story><title>Jeff Bezos' management rules are slowly unraveling inside Amazon</title><url>https://fortune.com/2024/07/31/amazon-leadership-principles-questions-future-jeff-bezos-departure-andy-jassy/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>pc86</author><text>Software engineers having &quot;on call&quot; schedules <i>at all</i> is crazy to me. You shouldn&#x27;t be writing code at 3am to fix a bug after working all day just to turn around and work the next day as well.</text></item><item><author>ecshafer</author><text>&gt; The software engineering paradigms used within the company create brittle rube goldberg machines of events flowing everywhere in the company. Almost all of them are on maintenance mode, where the oncall burns out the engineers and prevents them from creating new products. There is no knowledge sharing between team members. Legacy team members guard their technical platform knowledge to solidify their place on the team.<p>I have never worked at Amazon. But I did work at a company that decided to implement microservices a la Amazon, even going so far as sharing Bezos&#x27; famous 2 pizza team memo. This effect essentially happened over night. As people spun up more and more microservices, things got more and more siloed, cross team collaboration was significantly more difficult, and things became an increasingly more complicated rube goldberg machine that just destroyed people with on call schedules.</text></item><item><author>codingwagie</author><text>I&#x27;m a long time Amazonian. The big problem is legacy employees run every part of the company. Almost any manager of managers has been at Amazon a long time, in that same job for a long time. There is no upward mobility at the company, unless you have been in some org 5+ years. In Alexa, the people running the core ML teams have been in Alexa since it started. Most people in decision making positions just got there first (10-15 years ago)<p>The software engineering paradigms used within the company create brittle rube goldberg machines of events flowing everywhere in the company. Almost all of them are on maintenance mode, where the oncall burns out the engineers and prevents them from creating new products. There is no knowledge sharing between team members. Legacy team members guard their technical platform knowledge to solidify their place on the team.<p>The engineers themselves are not students of computer science, but just crunch out tickets.<p>If Amazon wants to change they need to remove a significant amount of tenured employees, and actually promote young engineers into decision making positions.<p>AWS hasnt released an innovative product in a really long time</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>vizzier</author><text>My experience being &quot;on call&quot; as an engineer has mostly not been that you need to write code at 3am. It usually comes down to restarting a machine, deploying a new machine or copy, or informing the rest of the company that some 3rd party API that you rely on is currently down.</text></comment> |
40,792,580 | 40,792,421 | 1 | 3 | 40,791,829 | train | <story><title>Polyfill supply chain attack hits 100K+ sites</title><url>https://sansec.io/research/polyfill-supply-chain-attack</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>program_whiz</author><text>Game theory at work? Someone needs to maintain legacy code for free that hosts thousands of sites and gets nothing but trouble (pride?) in return. Meanwhile the forces of the world present riches and power in return to turn to the dark side (or maybe just letting your domain lapse and doing something else).<p>If security means every maintainer of every OSS package you use has to be scrupulous, tireless, and not screw up for life, not sure what to say when this kind of thing happens other than &quot;isn&#x27;t that the only possible outcome given the system and incentives on a long enough timeline?&quot;<p>Kind of like the &quot;why is my favorite company monetizing now and using dark patterns?&quot; Well, on an infinite timeline did you think service would remain high quality, free, well supported, and run by tireless, unselfish, unambitious benevolent dictators for the rest of your life? Or was it a foregone question that was only a matter of &quot;when&quot; not &quot;if&quot;?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>causal</author><text>It seems when proprietary resources get infected it&#x27;s because hackers are the problem, but when open source resources get infected its a problem with open source.<p>But there isn&#x27;t any particular reason why a paid&#x2F;proprietary host couldn&#x27;t just as easily end up being taken over &#x2F; sold to a party intending to inject malware. It happens all the time really.</text></comment> | <story><title>Polyfill supply chain attack hits 100K+ sites</title><url>https://sansec.io/research/polyfill-supply-chain-attack</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>program_whiz</author><text>Game theory at work? Someone needs to maintain legacy code for free that hosts thousands of sites and gets nothing but trouble (pride?) in return. Meanwhile the forces of the world present riches and power in return to turn to the dark side (or maybe just letting your domain lapse and doing something else).<p>If security means every maintainer of every OSS package you use has to be scrupulous, tireless, and not screw up for life, not sure what to say when this kind of thing happens other than &quot;isn&#x27;t that the only possible outcome given the system and incentives on a long enough timeline?&quot;<p>Kind of like the &quot;why is my favorite company monetizing now and using dark patterns?&quot; Well, on an infinite timeline did you think service would remain high quality, free, well supported, and run by tireless, unselfish, unambitious benevolent dictators for the rest of your life? Or was it a foregone question that was only a matter of &quot;when&quot; not &quot;if&quot;?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>program_whiz</author><text>in a strange way, this almost makes the behavior of hopping onto every new framework rational. The older and less relevant the framework, the more the owner&#x27;s starry-eyed enthusiasm wears off. The hope that bigcorp will pay $X million for the work starts to fade. The tedium of bug fixes and maintenance wears on, the game theory takes it&#x27;s toll. The only rational choice for library users is to jump ship once the number of commits and hype starts to fall -- that&#x27;s when the owner is most vulnerable to the vicissitudes of Moloch.</text></comment> |
8,295,148 | 8,294,422 | 1 | 2 | 8,294,266 | train | <story><title>Falling in Love with the Dark</title><url>http://nautil.us/issue/11/light/falling-in-love-with-the-dark?utm_source=tss&utm_medium=desktop&utm_campaign=linkfrom</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>chrissnell</author><text>Once a year, some buddies from all over the country and I get together to spend a week in the deserts of Southern Utah and the Colorado Plateau. It&#x27;s a driving adventure (we all drive old Land Rovers) but nights are spent in improvised campsites, as far as we can get from paved roads and civilizations. The rocks and the trees are beautiful but the night sky...the night sky is indescribable. We sit on our chairs around the campfire and watch the satellites and cross-country flights pass overhead. The Milky Way so bright that it almost lights the land like a moon. Some evenings, I set up my camera and tripod and do my best attempt at night photography. Here are few of my favorites:<p>Cedar Mesa, Utah:
<a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/defender90/5551249303/in/set-72157626204989387/lightbox/" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.flickr.com&#x2F;photos&#x2F;defender90&#x2F;5551249303&#x2F;in&#x2F;set-7...</a><p>La Sal Mountains, Utah:
<a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/defender90/5114443927/in/set-72157625240335210" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.flickr.com&#x2F;photos&#x2F;defender90&#x2F;5114443927&#x2F;in&#x2F;set-7...</a><p>Comb Ridge, Utah:
<a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/defender90/6305032340/in/set-72157627908526209/lightbox/" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.flickr.com&#x2F;photos&#x2F;defender90&#x2F;6305032340&#x2F;in&#x2F;set-7...</a><p>Moonrise over Canyonlands National Park:
<a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/defender90/6940180396/in/set-72157629835662677/lightbox/" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.flickr.com&#x2F;photos&#x2F;defender90&#x2F;6940180396&#x2F;in&#x2F;set-7...</a><p>Elk Ridge campsite, Abajo Mountains, Utah:
<a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/defender90/8762668240/in/set-72157633554934498/lightbox/" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.flickr.com&#x2F;photos&#x2F;defender90&#x2F;8762668240&#x2F;in&#x2F;set-7...</a><p>La Sal Mountains, Utah:
<a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/defender90/5114444819/in/set-72157625240335210/lightbox/" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.flickr.com&#x2F;photos&#x2F;defender90&#x2F;5114444819&#x2F;in&#x2F;set-7...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Falling in Love with the Dark</title><url>http://nautil.us/issue/11/light/falling-in-love-with-the-dark?utm_source=tss&utm_medium=desktop&utm_campaign=linkfrom</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>georgemcbay</author><text>Living in San Diego, I love having the option of driving out to Anza Borrego to see the stars.<p>If you haven&#x27;t seen them in a true &quot;dark sky&quot; setting, I highly recommend it. You&#x27;ll be shocked how many of them you see and how there are just layers and layers of them everywhere and being able to see the milky way with the naked eye is incredible. I doubt it comes close the so-called &quot;Overview effect&quot; Astronauts talk about when they see the Earth from... not the Earth, but it is still quite powerful and humbling when you&#x27;re used to looking up and seeing half a dozen stars on a good night.</text></comment> |
26,187,843 | 26,185,630 | 1 | 2 | 26,184,355 | train | <story><title>Vertical farming does not save space</title><url>https://www.lowtechmagazine.com/2021/02/vertical-farming-ecosystem-services.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>airza</author><text>It&#x27;s such an important point that&#x27;s the core value proposition of vertical farming. Arable.land is unlikely to keep up with the combination of population growth and climate change. That&#x27;s the whole point of the exercise! Solving that problem!</text></item><item><author>tux1968</author><text>The other thing to remember is that there is a lot of land that isn&#x27;t suitable for farming for one reason or another that can be used for solar.</text></item><item><author>maxharris</author><text><i>Artificial lighting saves land because plants can be grown above each other, but if the electricity for the lighting comes from solar panels, then the savings are canceled out by the land required to install the solar panels. The vertical farm is a paradox unless fossil fuels provide the energy. In that case, there’s not much sustainable about it.</i><p>This entire piece is based on the assumption that the only sources of energy are solar panels and fossil fuels. This is false. According to the US Department of Energy, 19.6% of the energy produced in 2019 is nuclear. In that same year, 7.1% was from wind, 7.0% was hydroelectric, 1.4% from biomass, 0.4% geothermal. Only 1.7% was photovoltaics! <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.eia.gov&#x2F;tools&#x2F;faqs&#x2F;faq.php?id=427" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.eia.gov&#x2F;tools&#x2F;faqs&#x2F;faq.php?id=427</a><p>If we look into the relatively near future, fusion energy is going to account for a rapidly increasing share of energy production by the end of this decade. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=KkpqA8yG9T4" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=KkpqA8yG9T4</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>wongarsu</author><text>World popolation is around 7.8 billion, and is projected to peak around 11 billion. Given that of all agricultural land only 23% is used for non-feed crops (producing 82% of global calorie supply) that doesn&#x27;t sound like an existential problem, even if you assume that climate change makes much more land unarable than it makes arable.</text></comment> | <story><title>Vertical farming does not save space</title><url>https://www.lowtechmagazine.com/2021/02/vertical-farming-ecosystem-services.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>airza</author><text>It&#x27;s such an important point that&#x27;s the core value proposition of vertical farming. Arable.land is unlikely to keep up with the combination of population growth and climate change. That&#x27;s the whole point of the exercise! Solving that problem!</text></item><item><author>tux1968</author><text>The other thing to remember is that there is a lot of land that isn&#x27;t suitable for farming for one reason or another that can be used for solar.</text></item><item><author>maxharris</author><text><i>Artificial lighting saves land because plants can be grown above each other, but if the electricity for the lighting comes from solar panels, then the savings are canceled out by the land required to install the solar panels. The vertical farm is a paradox unless fossil fuels provide the energy. In that case, there’s not much sustainable about it.</i><p>This entire piece is based on the assumption that the only sources of energy are solar panels and fossil fuels. This is false. According to the US Department of Energy, 19.6% of the energy produced in 2019 is nuclear. In that same year, 7.1% was from wind, 7.0% was hydroelectric, 1.4% from biomass, 0.4% geothermal. Only 1.7% was photovoltaics! <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.eia.gov&#x2F;tools&#x2F;faqs&#x2F;faq.php?id=427" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.eia.gov&#x2F;tools&#x2F;faqs&#x2F;faq.php?id=427</a><p>If we look into the relatively near future, fusion energy is going to account for a rapidly increasing share of energy production by the end of this decade. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=KkpqA8yG9T4" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=KkpqA8yG9T4</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>xchaotic</author><text>Not solving it unless you solve the other problems such as where the energy comes from how do you deal with waste where do you get the water from.</text></comment> |
6,621,599 | 6,620,467 | 1 | 2 | 6,619,141 | train | <story><title>On the Typography of Flight-Deck Documentation (1992) [pdf]</title><url>http://ti.arc.nasa.gov/m/profile/adegani/Flight-Deck_Documentation.pdf</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Chris_Newton</author><text>As a cautionary note, a few of the claims in this document don’t stand up well in light of more recent research. If you’re interested in the technical aspects of typography and how humans really read text, you might like to try these more up-to-date starting points:<p>Alex Poole’s “Which Are More Legible: Serif or Sans Serif Typefaces?”:<p><a href="http://alexpoole.info/blog/which-are-more-legible-serif-or-sans-serif-typefaces/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;alexpoole.info&#x2F;blog&#x2F;which-are-more-legible-serif-or-s...</a><p>Kevin Larson’s “The Science of Word Recognition”:<p><a href="http://www.microsoft.com/typography/ctfonts/wordrecognition.aspx" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.microsoft.com&#x2F;typography&#x2F;ctfonts&#x2F;wordrecognition....</a><p>In particular, if you’re about to comment on how serifs or sans-serifs are better for X, or to explain how we read by following the serifs along a line or by recognising word shapes, I strongly encourage you to study the above first.<p>There are unfortunately a lot of urban legends in typography that simply aren’t supported by the evidence. Some of them came about because of studies that have since been shown to be flawed in methodology or even based on outright falsified data. We help no-one by perpetuating the myths.</text></comment> | <story><title>On the Typography of Flight-Deck Documentation (1992) [pdf]</title><url>http://ti.arc.nasa.gov/m/profile/adegani/Flight-Deck_Documentation.pdf</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>pranjalv123</author><text>I really dislike how sans-serif fonts conflate the lowercase &quot;L&quot; and the uppercase &quot;i&quot;. This is a big problem in mail clients where someone can create email addresses that look identical to established addresses (e.g. [email protected]).</text></comment> |
2,721,978 | 2,721,965 | 1 | 2 | 2,721,868 | train | <story><title>Pure CSS GUI icons (experimental)</title><url>http://nicolasgallagher.com/pure-css-gui-icons/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>drdaeman</author><text>I don't get why this is "awesome".<p>CSS for icons is like HTML tables for markup. You have a path, split it to pieces you can represent with CSS using the methods you consider acceptable and draw a shape using ::before and ::after pseudo-elements.<p>Sure, those icons were carefully hand-crafted. This requires a lot of patient work, and this is admirable.<p>Yet, we have SVG for vector graphics. Embed it with data: URIs (I believe browsers who support CSS3 transforms can display SVG backgrounds) and that's it.</text></comment> | <story><title>Pure CSS GUI icons (experimental)</title><url>http://nicolasgallagher.com/pure-css-gui-icons/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>dualogy</author><text>Loving this. Unicode has some awesome symbol dingbats (not just arrows, even weather symbols, coffee cups and the likes) for UI icons too but this goes a step further and is more stylish (plus Android fonts don't have most dingbats, not even the arrows -- not sure about iOS).</text></comment> |
37,238,252 | 37,237,692 | 1 | 3 | 37,237,246 | train | <story><title>A group of Motherboard folks just spun up their own new independent outlet</title><url>https://www.404media.co/welcome-to-404-media/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jkoebler</author><text>Hey there, Jason from 404 Media here. We&#x27;re humbled that someone posted this and just wanted to say I&#x27;ll stick around for an hour or so before I have a few interviews for articles scheduled, if anyone has any questions&#x2F;thoughts&#x2F;feedback. We&#x27;re very grateful for the support and thrilled to be here</text></comment> | <story><title>A group of Motherboard folks just spun up their own new independent outlet</title><url>https://www.404media.co/welcome-to-404-media/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>askura</author><text>All the best to them. I was involved with a few Vice projects in 2011-2014 and it was honestly leadership that let them down. They have great talent but it&#x27;s not easy in this day and age to run any kind of content site.<p>Hope they pull it off.</text></comment> |
7,771,222 | 7,771,180 | 1 | 2 | 7,771,019 | train | <story><title>Ken Thompson flies a MiG-29 (1999)</title><url>http://cm.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/who/ken/mig.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>throwaway_yy2Di</author><text>Interesting figures about L-39 jet trainers. The US currently has 242 in private ownership (&quot;N&quot; tail number), involved in 14 fatal accidents since 1998. So a private L-39 would have had a &gt;5% risk of killing its pilot to date, or about 0.4%&#x2F;year.<p><a href="http://www.l39.com/content/incidents" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.l39.com&#x2F;content&#x2F;incidents</a><p>For comparison, the motorcycle fatality rate is about 0.1% per registered motorcycle per year,<p><a href="http://www.rita.dot.gov/bts/sites/rita.dot.gov.bts/files/publications/special_reports_and_issue_briefs/special_report/2009_05_14/html/entire.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.rita.dot.gov&#x2F;bts&#x2F;sites&#x2F;rita.dot.gov.bts&#x2F;files&#x2F;pub...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Ken Thompson flies a MiG-29 (1999)</title><url>http://cm.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/who/ken/mig.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>srean</author><text><p><pre><code> At 8000 meters, Vladimir took over and performed a cobra
maneuver. He flew level and pulled up so fast that the
plane stalled. The plane continued to move horizontally
in a flat stall while pointing up. At some point Vladimir
performed some magic and the plane leaned over horizontal
and flew normally. The result was a loss of 300 kmph in
seconds. This was described to me as a courtesy maneuver
to allow tailgating traffic to pass.
</code></pre>
Which year was this? I thought &#x27;cobra&#x27; was a post Sukhoi-27 thing. I didnt even know a MiG-29 could do that. Can all of them do it, or some later versions ?<p>@quickpost Thanks you answered my question.</text></comment> |
33,519,199 | 33,518,942 | 1 | 3 | 33,518,359 | train | <story><title>A Sun-like star orbiting a black hole</title><url>https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/mnras/stac3140/6794289</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>maaaaattttt</author><text>If the star is close enough I have a hard time imagining what is happening to its orbiting planets.<p>Did they &quot;de-orbit&quot; during the creation of the black hole? Or do the planets orbit the black hole as they were already orbiting the original star before that?<p>Does that mean you can have a mix of stars and planets orbiting another star?
Could it even be possible that a star has planets and a star orbiting it AND the star orbiting it also has it&#x27;s set of planets orbiting as well?<p>And what happens to the time on the planets once they orbit closer to the black hole?<p>So many (and apologies in advance if stupid) questions!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ilyt</author><text>&gt; Did they &quot;de-orbit&quot; during the creation of the black hole? Or do the planets orbit the black hole as they were already orbiting the original star before that?<p>If the mass wouldn&#x27;t change the orbit wouldn&#x27;t chance much, they&#x27;re still orbiting &quot;same&quot; mass.<p>But in most cases (AFAIK) creation of black hole involves supernova so, well, that ain&#x27;t gonna be very healthy for the planet itself (lmao) and part of the mass would get ejected and orbits would get more elliptical</text></comment> | <story><title>A Sun-like star orbiting a black hole</title><url>https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/mnras/stac3140/6794289</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>maaaaattttt</author><text>If the star is close enough I have a hard time imagining what is happening to its orbiting planets.<p>Did they &quot;de-orbit&quot; during the creation of the black hole? Or do the planets orbit the black hole as they were already orbiting the original star before that?<p>Does that mean you can have a mix of stars and planets orbiting another star?
Could it even be possible that a star has planets and a star orbiting it AND the star orbiting it also has it&#x27;s set of planets orbiting as well?<p>And what happens to the time on the planets once they orbit closer to the black hole?<p>So many (and apologies in advance if stupid) questions!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>devoutsalsa</author><text>Let&#x27;s assume the Star A and the Black Hole B hole orbited each other when the black hole was Star B. If Star B collapsed into a black hole of roughly the same mass, I don&#x27;t think Star A &amp; its planets would be affected much at all in terms or orbits. Maybe the Star A system would have been fried when Star B went supernova, but the orbits I don&#x27;t think would change all that much. It&#x27;s like how people say Earth would continue orbiting the center of our solar system if our sun turned into a black hole, as the center of gravity would be the same.<p>Someone try this w&#x2F; Universe Sandbox &amp; report back please :) =&gt; <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;universesandbox.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;universesandbox.com&#x2F;</a></text></comment> |
40,066,229 | 40,064,201 | 1 | 3 | 40,062,552 | train | <story><title>Humane AI – Pico Laser Projection – AI Twist on an Old Scam (2023)</title><url>https://kguttag.com/2023/12/06/humane-ai-pico-laser-projection-230m-ai-twist-on-an-old-scam/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>gizmo</author><text>Every once in a while a highly funded startup launches a hilariously bad product. Five or so years ago everybody (rightfully) made fun of the juicero. Before that we had Google Glass (glasshole). Today the Humane Pin has to suffer slings and arrows.<p>Humane AI would never have been able to raise 230+ million had they been truthful about what could be built with the current state of technology. Did the investors understand that you have to recharge the Humane Pin every 2 hours? Did the investors know their laser projection press photos are photoshopped? Did the investors know the laser projector doesn&#x27;t meet the advertised resolution? The Humane Pin is science fiction.<p>In many ways the Humane Pin is like Theranos. Holmes probably didn&#x27;t mean to defraud people. She just raised money for a product that couldn&#x27;t be built with the current state of technology.</text></item><item><author>Havoc</author><text>Seems a bit much calling it a scam. That to me implies malicious intent which I don’t think is in place here. Bad&#x2F;imperfect products happen even to well meaning companies.<p>Must admit I’m surprised by the aggressiveness of it all. It’s almost like an echo chamber where people have decided it’s ok to pile on</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>hbn</author><text>I don&#x27;t know if Google Glass really fits in with the rest of that list. That wasn&#x27;t some overfunded VC startup that ended up releasing a bad, overhyped product. It was essentially a side-project from Google. I don&#x27;t think was ever publicly available - it was only sold to a small number of select applicants, and as far as I remember it did what they claimed (which wasn&#x27;t much).</text></comment> | <story><title>Humane AI – Pico Laser Projection – AI Twist on an Old Scam (2023)</title><url>https://kguttag.com/2023/12/06/humane-ai-pico-laser-projection-230m-ai-twist-on-an-old-scam/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>gizmo</author><text>Every once in a while a highly funded startup launches a hilariously bad product. Five or so years ago everybody (rightfully) made fun of the juicero. Before that we had Google Glass (glasshole). Today the Humane Pin has to suffer slings and arrows.<p>Humane AI would never have been able to raise 230+ million had they been truthful about what could be built with the current state of technology. Did the investors understand that you have to recharge the Humane Pin every 2 hours? Did the investors know their laser projection press photos are photoshopped? Did the investors know the laser projector doesn&#x27;t meet the advertised resolution? The Humane Pin is science fiction.<p>In many ways the Humane Pin is like Theranos. Holmes probably didn&#x27;t mean to defraud people. She just raised money for a product that couldn&#x27;t be built with the current state of technology.</text></item><item><author>Havoc</author><text>Seems a bit much calling it a scam. That to me implies malicious intent which I don’t think is in place here. Bad&#x2F;imperfect products happen even to well meaning companies.<p>Must admit I’m surprised by the aggressiveness of it all. It’s almost like an echo chamber where people have decided it’s ok to pile on</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>edent</author><text>I think if I were investing a few million into something, I might ask &quot;what&#x27;s the battery life?&quot; or &quot;Can I try it on my hand?&quot; before coughing up the cash.<p>But then, I&#x27;m not a VC. I guess they go off vibes?</text></comment> |
32,484,650 | 32,483,842 | 1 | 3 | 32,481,931 | train | <story><title>Philippines orders fraud probe after paying MacBook prices for Celeron laptops</title><url>https://www.theregister.com/2022/08/16/philippines_laptop_procurement_fraud_probe/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>londons_explore</author><text>I never quite understood how competitive bidding processes usually end up with similar outcomes.<p>If you personally need a Dell server, you go to dell.com and buy it.<p>If the government needs a Dell server, they start a tendering and bidding process and will end up paying double for the same server through some middleman who buys the server from Dell and resells to the government for double the price because they&#x27;re good at writing bids for government projects.<p>Quite why there isn&#x27;t competition I don&#x27;t know. Maybe writing bids really is that expensive? Or maybe there is just collusion?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>sillystuff</author><text>I&#x27;ve worked in government (California), in the past, and this was not my experience.<p>Most large vendors had contracts with the state which we would use to buy equipment which avoided having to go out for bid. And, competitive bid only came into effect if a purchase price exceeded $50K (and no existing state contract). For equipment purchases, I never saw the bid process used-- the preferred vendor always had a pre-existing contract.<p>We got very good prices from Dell, much less than their retail pricing (I don&#x27;t recall the exact percentage off list, but Dell orders were a fraction of the retail pricing the Dell website &quot;build your server&quot; page stated). Cisco would not discount hardware more than 30% for us (software and contracts 40%), but Alcatel Lucent gave us 73% off list. Nobody but giant telecoms buying massive volumes could get an equivalent discount from Alcatel Lucent.<p>We did however favor local contractors for services (somewhat rural area), and often times, those contractors were less competent &#x2F; did poorer work than out of area alternatives at similar cost. The last contractors that expanded the fiber plant were complete clowns, and took 30 times longer to do the equivalent amount of work (they had to redo a lot of their work that failed testing, and they were just plain slow) compared to a great contractor, from LA, that we used previously (before the &#x27;use local companies&#x27; mandate was handed down).</text></comment> | <story><title>Philippines orders fraud probe after paying MacBook prices for Celeron laptops</title><url>https://www.theregister.com/2022/08/16/philippines_laptop_procurement_fraud_probe/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>londons_explore</author><text>I never quite understood how competitive bidding processes usually end up with similar outcomes.<p>If you personally need a Dell server, you go to dell.com and buy it.<p>If the government needs a Dell server, they start a tendering and bidding process and will end up paying double for the same server through some middleman who buys the server from Dell and resells to the government for double the price because they&#x27;re good at writing bids for government projects.<p>Quite why there isn&#x27;t competition I don&#x27;t know. Maybe writing bids really is that expensive? Or maybe there is just collusion?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>zubiaur</author><text>Usually the bid process is circumvented (say, multiple smaller purchase orders) or the bids are directed.<p>A directed bid is one that makes very specif requests or weights them in such a way that only a &quot;preferred&quot; supplier&#x2F;contractor can meet.<p>Of course, the preferred contractor is provided with the info through different channels. There may even be some back and forth to &quot;tune&quot; the bid before it officially makes its way into the formal bidding process.</text></comment> |
26,661,633 | 26,658,597 | 1 | 3 | 26,653,867 | train | <story><title>Google is accelerating reopening of offices and putting limits on remote work</title><url>https://www.cnbc.com/2021/03/31/google-speeds-partial-office-reopening-and-puts-limits-on-remote-work.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>austinjp</author><text>What about those who _do_ want a friendly workplace with some element of social interaction?</text></item><item><author>wg0</author><text>Absolutely - in knowledge economy, insisting on physical presence is darn damn stupid.<p>And I don&#x27;t want to hang &quot;with friends at work&quot; I go to &quot;work&quot; that has to be specified clearly and that I expect to deliver with purely professional merit driven collaboration and not friendships and gangs.<p>I have friends or would love to have friends out of the place where I work. I want strict compartmentalisation between work and personal life. As the company would not want my personal friends to be hanging around the workplace for confidentiality and what not - by the same token, I don&#x27;t workplace &quot;friends&quot; hanging out with me after office hours.</text></item><item><author>ohthehugemanate</author><text>Just in case you were operating under the illusion that tech giants are run by forward thinking executives who are immune to the usual politics and problems of corporate life. Nope, most of their exec layer is a bunch of people who cut their teeth the industry in the 90&#x27;s, and are operating within a thick fog of local workplace politics. I guarantee that behind this move is an executive who believes that developers need to be physically colocated to be productive, because that&#x27;s how it worked when he was coming up at WordPerfect or whatever. Backing it is also a group of people who have a lot to gain from it politically.<p>At my employer we have some pockets of embarrassing leadership like this, but thankfully I haven&#x27;t seen it in anyone senior enough to make global policy like this. My department is letting go of remote teams and only hiring in a handful of cities around the world, while ramping up office space spending. It&#x27;s more expensive, less flexible, and less productive... and everyone knows it. But I guess it makes some people feel important, and it&#x27;s how some others remember developing when they last did it 20 years ago. So it&#x27;s happening anyway, and many of their best engineers are now on the market.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>swat535</author><text>There is a difference between being friendly and becoming friends. The latter is dangerous and you will be fooled in thinking your coworkers actually care about you and you need to drink the corporate kool-aid, work overtime and be a true best friend to everyone.<p>If you are going out binge drinking with your co-workers, you&#x27;re doing it wrong because it blurries the lines between professional and personal life in my humble opinion.<p>Very few deep friendships develop at work, at best they will be acquaintances you see once in a while.<p>So by all means, be nice and cooperative but keep your distance.</text></comment> | <story><title>Google is accelerating reopening of offices and putting limits on remote work</title><url>https://www.cnbc.com/2021/03/31/google-speeds-partial-office-reopening-and-puts-limits-on-remote-work.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>austinjp</author><text>What about those who _do_ want a friendly workplace with some element of social interaction?</text></item><item><author>wg0</author><text>Absolutely - in knowledge economy, insisting on physical presence is darn damn stupid.<p>And I don&#x27;t want to hang &quot;with friends at work&quot; I go to &quot;work&quot; that has to be specified clearly and that I expect to deliver with purely professional merit driven collaboration and not friendships and gangs.<p>I have friends or would love to have friends out of the place where I work. I want strict compartmentalisation between work and personal life. As the company would not want my personal friends to be hanging around the workplace for confidentiality and what not - by the same token, I don&#x27;t workplace &quot;friends&quot; hanging out with me after office hours.</text></item><item><author>ohthehugemanate</author><text>Just in case you were operating under the illusion that tech giants are run by forward thinking executives who are immune to the usual politics and problems of corporate life. Nope, most of their exec layer is a bunch of people who cut their teeth the industry in the 90&#x27;s, and are operating within a thick fog of local workplace politics. I guarantee that behind this move is an executive who believes that developers need to be physically colocated to be productive, because that&#x27;s how it worked when he was coming up at WordPerfect or whatever. Backing it is also a group of people who have a lot to gain from it politically.<p>At my employer we have some pockets of embarrassing leadership like this, but thankfully I haven&#x27;t seen it in anyone senior enough to make global policy like this. My department is letting go of remote teams and only hiring in a handful of cities around the world, while ramping up office space spending. It&#x27;s more expensive, less flexible, and less productive... and everyone knows it. But I guess it makes some people feel important, and it&#x27;s how some others remember developing when they last did it 20 years ago. So it&#x27;s happening anyway, and many of their best engineers are now on the market.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>varispeed</author><text>You can be friendly without having to socialise. Not sure why those things would have to go together?
Doing socials after work is such a waste of time - sure it may be fun, but this way you are using up time that otherwise you could use to maintain friendships outside of work.
Socialising at work is when you develop unconscious and conscious biases and it is a breeding ground for a toxic atmosphere and disruption of team dynamics.</text></comment> |
36,449,162 | 36,449,332 | 1 | 2 | 36,448,689 | train | <story><title>Removing official support for Red Hat enterprise Linux</title><url>https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2023/removing-official-support-red-hat-enterprise-linux</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jitl</author><text>I’ve never heard of the author before so I poked around their GitHub to understand if this is significant. Their account has many repos of Ansible roles, some with hundreds of stars like <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;geerlingguy&#x2F;ansible-role-mysql">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;geerlingguy&#x2F;ansible-role-mysql</a><p>I’ve never used Ansible, can someone familiar with it tell us if this person is a cornerstone of the ecosystem or something?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>qmarchi</author><text>Jeff is both an open-source contributor, as well as a fairly popular YouTuber[1]. His more popular repositories are more beginner friendly and not supporting RHEL means that it&#x27;s unlikely that new users may end up choosing it as their Distro-of-choice.<p>[1]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;c&#x2F;jeffgeerling">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;c&#x2F;jeffgeerling</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Removing official support for Red Hat enterprise Linux</title><url>https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2023/removing-official-support-red-hat-enterprise-linux</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jitl</author><text>I’ve never heard of the author before so I poked around their GitHub to understand if this is significant. Their account has many repos of Ansible roles, some with hundreds of stars like <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;geerlingguy&#x2F;ansible-role-mysql">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;geerlingguy&#x2F;ansible-role-mysql</a><p>I’ve never used Ansible, can someone familiar with it tell us if this person is a cornerstone of the ecosystem or something?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>theandrewbailey</author><text>To me, Jeff Geerling is the Raspberry Pi guy, since he pushes them in all kinds of crazy ways, like trying to get a high-end GPU working on a Pi.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.jeffgeerling.com&#x2F;blog&#x2F;2022&#x2F;external-graphics-cards-work-on-raspberry-pi" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.jeffgeerling.com&#x2F;blog&#x2F;2022&#x2F;external-graphics-car...</a></text></comment> |
37,564,202 | 37,561,435 | 1 | 2 | 37,559,005 | train | <story><title>The joys of maintenance programming (2011)</title><url>https://typicalprogrammer.com/the-joys-of-maintenance-programming</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jckahn</author><text>Agreed. Imagine you’re a CEO: Why on earth would you want your expensive engineers reworking something that already makes money? It seems much more sensible to leave the working code alone and focus on new revenue-generating opportunities.</text></item><item><author>JohnBooty</author><text>Maintenance programming for pay can be rewarding <i>iffffffffffffffff</i> management has a deep understanding of and appreciation for the task. There can be a lot of joy and satisfaction in adding tests, fixing edge cases, fulfilling user needs, &quot;quality of life&quot; improvements, optimizing. <i>Honing.</i><p>My experience is that this is almost never the case.<p>Generally, management does not understand or appreciate why it&#x27;s a slog, why you might want to refactor this or that, etc.<p>Obviously a lot of this falls upon the engineer. It&#x27;s your job to communicate and demonstrate. Helps if you have other engineers backing you up and presenting a unified message. Also helps if management is technical enough to understand what you&#x27;re saying instead of simply believing -- or <i>not</i> believing -- you.<p>But maaaan. Uphill battle! I&#x27;m burnt out on it. I&#x27;ve decided I need to seek greenfield stuff. Maybe forever. But definitely for now.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>fsckboy</author><text>&gt; <i>focus on new revenue-generating opportunities</i><p>in mature industries, there aren&#x27;t new revenue generating opportunities, there is only getting better at what you ordinarily do; all marketshare growth comes at the expense of competitors.</text></comment> | <story><title>The joys of maintenance programming (2011)</title><url>https://typicalprogrammer.com/the-joys-of-maintenance-programming</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jckahn</author><text>Agreed. Imagine you’re a CEO: Why on earth would you want your expensive engineers reworking something that already makes money? It seems much more sensible to leave the working code alone and focus on new revenue-generating opportunities.</text></item><item><author>JohnBooty</author><text>Maintenance programming for pay can be rewarding <i>iffffffffffffffff</i> management has a deep understanding of and appreciation for the task. There can be a lot of joy and satisfaction in adding tests, fixing edge cases, fulfilling user needs, &quot;quality of life&quot; improvements, optimizing. <i>Honing.</i><p>My experience is that this is almost never the case.<p>Generally, management does not understand or appreciate why it&#x27;s a slog, why you might want to refactor this or that, etc.<p>Obviously a lot of this falls upon the engineer. It&#x27;s your job to communicate and demonstrate. Helps if you have other engineers backing you up and presenting a unified message. Also helps if management is technical enough to understand what you&#x27;re saying instead of simply believing -- or <i>not</i> believing -- you.<p>But maaaan. Uphill battle! I&#x27;m burnt out on it. I&#x27;ve decided I need to seek greenfield stuff. Maybe forever. But definitely for now.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bbbobbb</author><text>That&#x27;s not what the post is about. They describe the process as mostly fixing issues with existing software, so the motivation is that something is broken or not working as required anymore.<p>Refactoring it is just one of possible parts of the process, much opposed to &#x27;yeah this legacy code is broken dogshit and needs to be rewritten even though the current software is already written, proven and works for 99% of the stuff we need&#x27; approach.</text></comment> |
5,580,852 | 5,580,780 | 1 | 2 | 5,579,988 | train | <story><title>Why Should I Care That No One’s Reading Dzhokhar Tsarnaev His Miranda Rights?</title><url>http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/jurisprudence/2013/04/dzhokhar_tsarnaev_and_miranda_rights_the_public_safety_exception_and_terrorism.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>pyre</author><text>They are also getting away with it because the torture isn't of the "strap electrodes to his genitals" variety, which most people would immediately reject. Stuff like "loud music," "putting a holy book in a toilet," or "make him think he's drowning," don't evoke the same sort of immediate reaction. If the administration were openly performing at "Inquisition" levels of torture, there would be massive public outcry.</text></item><item><author>mtgx</author><text>That's some really twisted mental gymnastics there. Torture is bad, because it's torture. It doesn't matter if you're a criminal or a human-monkey. How can they get away with it for so long? At least they didn't say torture is legal "because he's not a white guy", but their logic here is not that far off from that.</text></item><item><author>lbarrow</author><text>Being read your Miranda rights also serves as an explicit acknowledgement by the state that you have those rights. Most of the time, this isn't really important, but in this case it would have served a very important purpose.<p>The Bush administration systematically created a legal netherworld for people they captured on suspicion of terrorism -- people usually referred to as "enemy combatants". They weren't arrested per se, so they weren't entitled to a trial, lawyers, or even the basic rights we associate with a criminal trial such as protection against self-incrimination (i.e. the right to remain silent). On the other hand, the administration argued they weren't prisoners of war either, so the Geneva Convention didn't apply to them.<p>By defining enemy combatants in this negative way -- in terms of what they are <i>not</i> -- the Bush administration pushed enemy combatant status into a grey area where no pre-existing legal rules seemed to apply. That's how they argued that torture was legal: they said that laws prohibiting torture only applied to prisoners of war or people charged with crimes, and that because enemy combatants weren't either of those things, they could legally be tortured.<p>If they had read this guy his Miranda rights, the Obama administration would have made it clear that they would treat his future as a police matter and that they were rejecting the enemy combatant framework in this case. They failed to do that, and I think it's a wasted opportunity.<p>(By the way, when justifying drone strikes and the courtroom procedures at Guantanamo Bay, the Obama administration has continued the enemy combatant framework that Bush's lawyers established.)</text></item><item><author>hncommenter13</author><text>You shouldn't care. Because not reading someone under arrest the Miranda warning is constitutionally irrelevant in and of itself. It only acquires relevance if the government seeks to have the statements admitted at trial.<p>Discussing the similar case of Faisal Shahzad, who attempted to bomb Times Square, Orin Kerr, a law professor who is an expert on the 4th Amendment wrote:<p>"Importantly, though, it would not have violated Shahzad’s constitutional rights to not read him his Miranda rights. A lot of people assume that the police are required to read a suspect his rights when he is arrested. That is, they assume that one of a person’s rights is the right to be read their rights. It often happens that way on Law &#38; Order, but that’s not what the law actually requires. Under Chavez v. Martinez, 538 U.S. 760 (2003), it is lawful for the police to not read a suspect his Miranda rights, interrogate him, and then obtain a statement that would be inadmissible in court. Chavez holds that a person’s constitutional rights are violated only if the prosecution tries to have the statement admitted in court. See id. at 772-73. Indeed, the prosecution is even allowed to admit any physical evidence discovered as a fruit of the statement obtained in violation of Miranda — only the actual statement is excluded. See United States v. Patane, 542 U.S. 630 (2004). So while it may sound weird, it turns out that obtaining a statement outside Miranda but not admitting it in court is lawful."<p>Oops, link: <a href="http://www.volokh.com/2010/05/05/shahzad-and-miranda-rights/" rel="nofollow">http://www.volokh.com/2010/05/05/shahzad-and-miranda-rights/</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>thomasz</author><text>I fail to see the difference between "waterboarding" and "strap electrodes to his genitals" torture.</text></comment> | <story><title>Why Should I Care That No One’s Reading Dzhokhar Tsarnaev His Miranda Rights?</title><url>http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/jurisprudence/2013/04/dzhokhar_tsarnaev_and_miranda_rights_the_public_safety_exception_and_terrorism.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>pyre</author><text>They are also getting away with it because the torture isn't of the "strap electrodes to his genitals" variety, which most people would immediately reject. Stuff like "loud music," "putting a holy book in a toilet," or "make him think he's drowning," don't evoke the same sort of immediate reaction. If the administration were openly performing at "Inquisition" levels of torture, there would be massive public outcry.</text></item><item><author>mtgx</author><text>That's some really twisted mental gymnastics there. Torture is bad, because it's torture. It doesn't matter if you're a criminal or a human-monkey. How can they get away with it for so long? At least they didn't say torture is legal "because he's not a white guy", but their logic here is not that far off from that.</text></item><item><author>lbarrow</author><text>Being read your Miranda rights also serves as an explicit acknowledgement by the state that you have those rights. Most of the time, this isn't really important, but in this case it would have served a very important purpose.<p>The Bush administration systematically created a legal netherworld for people they captured on suspicion of terrorism -- people usually referred to as "enemy combatants". They weren't arrested per se, so they weren't entitled to a trial, lawyers, or even the basic rights we associate with a criminal trial such as protection against self-incrimination (i.e. the right to remain silent). On the other hand, the administration argued they weren't prisoners of war either, so the Geneva Convention didn't apply to them.<p>By defining enemy combatants in this negative way -- in terms of what they are <i>not</i> -- the Bush administration pushed enemy combatant status into a grey area where no pre-existing legal rules seemed to apply. That's how they argued that torture was legal: they said that laws prohibiting torture only applied to prisoners of war or people charged with crimes, and that because enemy combatants weren't either of those things, they could legally be tortured.<p>If they had read this guy his Miranda rights, the Obama administration would have made it clear that they would treat his future as a police matter and that they were rejecting the enemy combatant framework in this case. They failed to do that, and I think it's a wasted opportunity.<p>(By the way, when justifying drone strikes and the courtroom procedures at Guantanamo Bay, the Obama administration has continued the enemy combatant framework that Bush's lawyers established.)</text></item><item><author>hncommenter13</author><text>You shouldn't care. Because not reading someone under arrest the Miranda warning is constitutionally irrelevant in and of itself. It only acquires relevance if the government seeks to have the statements admitted at trial.<p>Discussing the similar case of Faisal Shahzad, who attempted to bomb Times Square, Orin Kerr, a law professor who is an expert on the 4th Amendment wrote:<p>"Importantly, though, it would not have violated Shahzad’s constitutional rights to not read him his Miranda rights. A lot of people assume that the police are required to read a suspect his rights when he is arrested. That is, they assume that one of a person’s rights is the right to be read their rights. It often happens that way on Law &#38; Order, but that’s not what the law actually requires. Under Chavez v. Martinez, 538 U.S. 760 (2003), it is lawful for the police to not read a suspect his Miranda rights, interrogate him, and then obtain a statement that would be inadmissible in court. Chavez holds that a person’s constitutional rights are violated only if the prosecution tries to have the statement admitted in court. See id. at 772-73. Indeed, the prosecution is even allowed to admit any physical evidence discovered as a fruit of the statement obtained in violation of Miranda — only the actual statement is excluded. See United States v. Patane, 542 U.S. 630 (2004). So while it may sound weird, it turns out that obtaining a statement outside Miranda but not admitting it in court is lawful."<p>Oops, link: <a href="http://www.volokh.com/2010/05/05/shahzad-and-miranda-rights/" rel="nofollow">http://www.volokh.com/2010/05/05/shahzad-and-miranda-rights/</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>lbarrow</author><text>On the other hand they openly talked about extreme sleep deprivation (a few hours a week for months on end) and "walling", which is where you throw someone into a wall over and over.</text></comment> |
13,918,958 | 13,918,879 | 1 | 2 | 13,918,648 | train | <story><title>Leslie Lamport: Video course on TLA+</title><url>http://lamport.azurewebsites.net/video/intro.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>ahelwer</author><text>Great to see this here! I act as a TA for Dr. Lamport&#x27;s TLA+ courses at Microsoft, and can answer any questions y&#x27;all have.<p>TLA+ in one sentence: it is a language used to write specifications, same as you might write a spec in English&#x2F;your chosen informal language, except here you write your spec in basic mathematics; benefits of a formal specification language include freedom from ambiguity, model-checking, and even machine-checked proofs of correctness.<p>This language is a joy to use and I&#x27;ve found it really affects the way I think about system design.</text></comment> | <story><title>Leslie Lamport: Video course on TLA+</title><url>http://lamport.azurewebsites.net/video/intro.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>algorithmsRcool</author><text>Introduction @2:49<p>&quot;What kind of clown am I claiming that I know what can make you think better? ... This is not the time to be modest. I have done seminal research in the theory of distributed and concurrent systems for which i won the turning award. You can stop the video now and look me up on the web. &lt;long pause&gt;...&quot;</text></comment> |
16,052,443 | 16,051,259 | 1 | 3 | 16,050,047 | train | <story><title>SQL Keys in Depth</title><url>https://begriffs.com/posts/2018-01-01-sql-keys-in-depth.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>foreigner</author><text>At what scale does all this stuff start to actually matter? I have an database with ~100 tables and ~500M rows driving a medium-traffic web app and various back-end systems. We use auto-incrementing integers as primary keys and try not to expose them externally. Indexes are added as necessary to enable specific queries. We don&#x27;t enforce any other constraints (e.g. not-null or foreign keys) at the database level.<p>... and it all works and performs just fine? The considerations the author mentions all make some sense to me in theory, but when do they actually matter in practice in a modern system?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mannykannot</author><text>You might not have any observable effects until the day you do, at which point you may be faced with an arbitrarily large problem.<p>What you are doing is passing up on the opportunity of catching various errors (you are also passing up the opportunity for some optimizations, but that is probably a secondary issue.) In particular, you are passing up on some opportunities to catch inconsistencies in how different applications (or different parts of the same application) create and use data.<p>One argument made against putting these sort of rules in effect is that they constrain what application developers can do, but that is the wrong way to look at it: any such conflict is an indication of a misunderstanding (not necessarily on the part of the application developers) that has been caught before it can lead to bigger problems, such as a database full of irretrievably inconsistent or incomplete data.<p>When the problems finally do arise, it is often the case that some sort of workaround is the only practical solution. This, in my experience, is one of the common ways by which systems accrue gratuitous complexity, which in turn has at least two real-world consequences: an increased time to make changes, upgrades and extensions, and an increased frequency of errors, especially WTF-type errors (and probably also efficiency&#x2F;performance hits.)</text></comment> | <story><title>SQL Keys in Depth</title><url>https://begriffs.com/posts/2018-01-01-sql-keys-in-depth.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>foreigner</author><text>At what scale does all this stuff start to actually matter? I have an database with ~100 tables and ~500M rows driving a medium-traffic web app and various back-end systems. We use auto-incrementing integers as primary keys and try not to expose them externally. Indexes are added as necessary to enable specific queries. We don&#x27;t enforce any other constraints (e.g. not-null or foreign keys) at the database level.<p>... and it all works and performs just fine? The considerations the author mentions all make some sense to me in theory, but when do they actually matter in practice in a modern system?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>amarkov</author><text>As you can see leaking through in a few of the examples, the scenarios where it matters are the ones where non-experts are reading to and writing from the database. If a data entry clerk is just typing values into a form thinly wrapping an INSERT, you&#x27;d better make sure any input that would break implicit assumptions is rejected. If you have a legion of Bobs from marketing who &quot;know some SQL&quot;, you can&#x27;t hand-optimize every single query they try to run.<p>When the database is just serving a webapp you control end to end, the only part that&#x27;ll really have a huge impact is making sure you can partition by the primary key effectively. Which is good, because complex indexing schemes and foreign key constraints actually scale very badly.</text></comment> |
5,431,933 | 5,431,462 | 1 | 3 | 5,431,392 | train | <story><title>Truly elastic clouds with Zerg: OS-less Erlang on Xen</title><url>http://zerg.erlangonxen.org/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>smoyer</author><text>Isn't this simply an acknowledgement that having an entire OS (at least in a traditional sense) is overkill? I remember a couple of attempts to make the JVM run on bare metal (JavaOS was one if I recall correctly) and I think that, to a lesser extent, ChromeOS, FirefoxOS and company are trying to eliminate some of the bloat that's occurred.<p>The other day I spun up a CentOS6 server on a VM and it required a minimum of 512MB of RAM. I remember building RedHat5 system (not RHEL5) with 32MB or 64MB. What is the new server doing differently? Functionally I have the exact same machines (yes, the newer machine is more secure, but should that really require 8x the memory?).<p>So these micro-systems allow the user to go "back to DOS" if they think Windows is too overblown. And if you don't need a windowing system, and you have the language tools you need, why not treat the VMs (or hardware devices) as embedded systems.</text></comment> | <story><title>Truly elastic clouds with Zerg: OS-less Erlang on Xen</title><url>http://zerg.erlangonxen.org/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>akent</author><text>"Over capacity"<p>"The demo is limited to 16 concurrent instances and 2 libvirt connections. Due to these limitations we were unable to spawn a new instance to service your request. Please try again later."<p>Um.</text></comment> |
13,058,182 | 13,058,329 | 1 | 2 | 13,057,797 | train | <story><title>SeaHash: A fast, portable hash function in Rust</title><url>https://docs.rs/seahash/2.0.0/seahash/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>aleyan</author><text>This is is not a knock against SeaHash, but I was looking at buffer.rs [0] and noticed pretty much all the code is wrapped in unsafe {} blocks. How much advantage is there to rust implementation vs c++ if unsafe is used so liberally? I ask this in ernest.<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;docs.rs&#x2F;crate&#x2F;seahash&#x2F;2.0.0&#x2F;source&#x2F;src&#x2F;buffer.rs" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;docs.rs&#x2F;crate&#x2F;seahash&#x2F;2.0.0&#x2F;source&#x2F;src&#x2F;buffer.rs</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pcwalton</author><text>Because the unsafe code is isolated into an easily-auditable portion that basically just exists to perform word-aligned reads of a byte buffer.<p>It might be nice to factor this out into a separate library, but it&#x27;s fairly harmless.</text></comment> | <story><title>SeaHash: A fast, portable hash function in Rust</title><url>https://docs.rs/seahash/2.0.0/seahash/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>aleyan</author><text>This is is not a knock against SeaHash, but I was looking at buffer.rs [0] and noticed pretty much all the code is wrapped in unsafe {} blocks. How much advantage is there to rust implementation vs c++ if unsafe is used so liberally? I ask this in ernest.<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;docs.rs&#x2F;crate&#x2F;seahash&#x2F;2.0.0&#x2F;source&#x2F;src&#x2F;buffer.rs" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;docs.rs&#x2F;crate&#x2F;seahash&#x2F;2.0.0&#x2F;source&#x2F;src&#x2F;buffer.rs</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>wyldfire</author><text>&gt; How much advantage is there to rust implementation vs c++ if unsafe is used so liberally?<p>I think this code could potentially be refactored with smaller unsafe blocks, if that were a goal.<p>The benefit in general is present for many reasons, among which is that you still have to opt-in to unsafe{} and SeaHash consumers wouldn&#x27;t need to in order to leverage these features.<p>The benefit for SeaHash specifically is that Rust isn&#x27;t merely a safer language, it&#x27;s also one with arguably newer&#x2F;better language features than C++. And it&#x27;s one that has support for several targets today.</text></comment> |
30,361,152 | 30,361,040 | 1 | 3 | 30,360,532 | train | <story><title>Ask HN: Why is there so little debate about the attack on Vodafone Portugal?</title><text>Last week Vodafone Portugal saw a cyberattack bringing down its mobile network. It seems it took quite some effort to bring the network up again. There was next to no debate here on HN which is frankly quite surprising. Does anyone have more information what exactly happened? (https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.vodafone.pt&#x2F;press-releases&#x2F;2022&#x2F;2&#x2F;vodafone-portugal-alvo-de-ciberataque.html)</text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>willidiots</author><text>Sounds like their EPC&#x2F;packet core was compromised pretty seriously.<p>Ars article: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;arstechnica.com&#x2F;information-technology&#x2F;2022&#x2F;02&#x2F;vodafone-portugal-struggles-to-restore-service-following-cyberattack&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;arstechnica.com&#x2F;information-technology&#x2F;2022&#x2F;02&#x2F;vodaf...</a><p>&quot;Vaz said the company hadn&#x27;t received any ransom demand that would indicate it was hit by a ransomware attack. The CEO also said he had no indications the attackers had accessed subscriber information or other sensitive data.&quot;<p>Yet at the same time - &quot;The attack comes a month after the websites of two of Portugal&#x27;s biggest news outlets—Impresa and later COFINA—were hacked by a ransomware group calling itself Lapsus$.&quot;<p>As to why there&#x27;s been no discussion, it seems like there just isn&#x27;t much information to discuss at the moment. Vodafone Portugal&#x27;s in damage-control mode, they don&#x27;t want to say more than they have to, and what&#x27;s been said is in Portuguese.<p>OP - are you in Portugal? Desculpe if so! I imagine this is a big deal in-country.</text></comment> | <story><title>Ask HN: Why is there so little debate about the attack on Vodafone Portugal?</title><text>Last week Vodafone Portugal saw a cyberattack bringing down its mobile network. It seems it took quite some effort to bring the network up again. There was next to no debate here on HN which is frankly quite surprising. Does anyone have more information what exactly happened? (https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.vodafone.pt&#x2F;press-releases&#x2F;2022&#x2F;2&#x2F;vodafone-portugal-alvo-de-ciberataque.html)</text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>bombcar</author><text>Content translated to English by a robot:<p>Vodafone Portugal target of cyberattack<p>Vodafone was the target of a disruption in its network, which began on the night of February 7, 2022 due to a deliberate and malicious cyberattack in order to cause damage and disturbance. As soon as the first signal of a problem on the network was detected, Vodafone acted immediately to identify and contain the effects and restore the services.<p>This situation is affecting the provision of services based on data networks, namely 4G&#x2F;5G network, fixed voice services, television, SMS and voice&#x2F;digital service. We have already recovered mobile voice services and mobile data services are available exclusively on the 3G network almost throughout the country but, unfortunately, the size and severity of the criminal act to which we have been subjected implies for all other services a careful and prolonged recovery work involving multiple national, international teams and external partners. This recovery will happen progressively throughout Tuesday.<p>Although the in-depth investigation of the criminal act to which we have been subjected will last indefinitely and with the involvement of the competent authorities, we have no evidence to date that Customer data has been accessed and&#x2F;or compromised. Vodafone remains absolutely determined to restore the normality of services in the shortest possible time and deeply regrets the inconvenience caused to our Customers.<p>We have at Vodafone Portugal and the Group an experienced team of cybersecurity professionals who, together with the competent authorities, are conducting an in-depth investigation to understand and overcome the situation. We will update information about the status of service as the situation progresses.</text></comment> |
21,304,025 | 21,302,937 | 1 | 3 | 21,301,467 | train | <story><title>Weaponizing and Gamifying AI for WiFi Hacking: Presenting Pwnagotchi 1.0.0</title><url>https://www.evilsocket.net/2019/10/19/Weaponizing-and-Gamifying-AI-for-WiFi-Hacking-Presenting-Pwnagotchi-1-0-0/#.Xas1JEBAewV.reddit</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>88840-8855</author><text>My approach to get into wifi networks is not as sexy or cute, but it works:<p>1) You need a device that can connect to wifi<p>2) Approach your neighbor&#x2F;shop owner&#x2F;coffee owner<p>3) Ask: &quot;Can I connect to your wifi, please?&quot;<p>4) It takes about 4-5 seconds to get the password to the ssid<p>5) Works on WPA2, WPA &#x2F; TKIP&#x2F;AES and WEP<p>6) Success rate: 70-80%<p>Cheers</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tomcooks</author><text>At least in Europe, success rate is 10-20%.
If you spend money, and we&#x27;re talking 1-3€&#x2F;hour, it reaches 80%-100%.<p>Public, municipality-sponsored Wi-Fi is usually a joke (slow, non functioning, requiring you to like a certain facebook page or follow a twitter account, etc.)<p>In Greece I suggest trying the business&#x27; phone number, you can find it on discarded receipts on the ground or on tables.<p>It&#x27;s always worth it to try and snoop the password hanging by the counter.<p>Other good combos are companynamewifi, wirelesscompanyname, wireless, internet, internet123.<p>t. scrooge that never wastes money on mobile internet subscription and survives on leeched public Wi-Fi</text></comment> | <story><title>Weaponizing and Gamifying AI for WiFi Hacking: Presenting Pwnagotchi 1.0.0</title><url>https://www.evilsocket.net/2019/10/19/Weaponizing-and-Gamifying-AI-for-WiFi-Hacking-Presenting-Pwnagotchi-1-0-0/#.Xas1JEBAewV.reddit</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>88840-8855</author><text>My approach to get into wifi networks is not as sexy or cute, but it works:<p>1) You need a device that can connect to wifi<p>2) Approach your neighbor&#x2F;shop owner&#x2F;coffee owner<p>3) Ask: &quot;Can I connect to your wifi, please?&quot;<p>4) It takes about 4-5 seconds to get the password to the ssid<p>5) Works on WPA2, WPA &#x2F; TKIP&#x2F;AES and WEP<p>6) Success rate: 70-80%<p>Cheers</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bluegreyred</author><text>your sophisticated technique assumes social skills!</text></comment> |
12,851,144 | 12,848,785 | 1 | 3 | 12,848,400 | train | <story><title>Last minute tips for YC Interviewees</title><url>http://initialized.com/last-minute-tips-for-yc-interviewees</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>dilemma</author><text>Goodhart&#x27;s Law: &quot;When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure.&quot;<p>YC is the new college degree. This attitude of &quot;figuring our how to past the next test on the path to guaranteed success&quot; is the opposite of entrepreneurial.</text></comment> | <story><title>Last minute tips for YC Interviewees</title><url>http://initialized.com/last-minute-tips-for-yc-interviewees</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>garry</author><text>Just jotted my quick notes on what kept coming up with the half dozen or so early interviewees I met in advance of their interviews the past few days. It was surprising how the same things kept coming up over and over again, so that&#x27;s what spurred this post.</text></comment> |
17,894,483 | 17,894,486 | 1 | 2 | 17,894,025 | train | <story><title>How to Retire in Your 30s with $1M in the Bank</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/01/style/fire-financial-independence-retire-early.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>vilmosi</author><text>&gt; The secret to having more money is not to earn more, it&#x27;s to spend less.<p>I honestly thought it was the complete opposite? The whole &quot;being poor is expensive&quot; thing? That buying expensive shoes is economically better longer term vs buying cheap shoes?</text></item><item><author>grecy</author><text>In first world countries it&#x27;s not difficult at all given two conditions.<p>1. You have a good job (probably - but not necessarily - a professional job)<p>2. You are willing to spend less money than other people.<p>And in fact, point 2 is way more important than point 1.<p>The secret to having more money is not to earn more, it&#x27;s to spend less.<p>I&#x27;m 36 and I have quit and done what I wanted twice in my life now - once for 2 years I drove AK-Argentina, now I&#x27;m well over 2 years driving around Africa. Before both jaunts I earned a mere fraction of what Bay area salaries appear to be. Before Argentina my salary was $48k CAD.<p>The trick is simply to spend less. Don&#x27;t upgrade your phone (or don&#x27;t even have one), don&#x27;t eat out. Walk or ride to work, no TV, no Netflix, etc. etc. Pretty soon you&#x27;ll find you have way more money than you actually need, and you can choose to work either part time, or not work at all for a while.<p>If you were willing to put in 10-15 years of this frugal life, you&#x27;d have enough money to never work again, easily.<p>EDIT: Because everyone always asks how I do it, I wrote a book about how I do this with my life: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;theroadchoseme.com&#x2F;work-less-to-live-your-dreams" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;theroadchoseme.com&#x2F;work-less-to-live-your-dreams</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>shoo</author><text>You&#x27;re both right, but you&#x27;re both speaking casually so it&#x27;s hard to understand precisely what you&#x27;re saying. Here&#x27;s my take on it:<p>At least from a perspective of early retirement, if you can change your lifestyle so you can <i>sustainably</i> spend less, then (i) while you are working, you can save more money, due to lower expenses, and (ii) provided you are willing to continue living frugally after retirement, you don&#x27;t need to build up as much capital to fund retirements from investment returns, as your post-retirement expenses are also lower. I think the second factor makes a bigger impact than the former one.<p>The point you make is also a good one: people with more wealth and resources are in a better position to make longer-term investments, which can help them save or make even more money in the long run.<p>The two heuristics &quot;spend less&quot; and &quot;earn more&quot; aren&#x27;t always in conflict, you can often find opportunities that strictly improve one without damaging the other one.</text></comment> | <story><title>How to Retire in Your 30s with $1M in the Bank</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/01/style/fire-financial-independence-retire-early.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>vilmosi</author><text>&gt; The secret to having more money is not to earn more, it&#x27;s to spend less.<p>I honestly thought it was the complete opposite? The whole &quot;being poor is expensive&quot; thing? That buying expensive shoes is economically better longer term vs buying cheap shoes?</text></item><item><author>grecy</author><text>In first world countries it&#x27;s not difficult at all given two conditions.<p>1. You have a good job (probably - but not necessarily - a professional job)<p>2. You are willing to spend less money than other people.<p>And in fact, point 2 is way more important than point 1.<p>The secret to having more money is not to earn more, it&#x27;s to spend less.<p>I&#x27;m 36 and I have quit and done what I wanted twice in my life now - once for 2 years I drove AK-Argentina, now I&#x27;m well over 2 years driving around Africa. Before both jaunts I earned a mere fraction of what Bay area salaries appear to be. Before Argentina my salary was $48k CAD.<p>The trick is simply to spend less. Don&#x27;t upgrade your phone (or don&#x27;t even have one), don&#x27;t eat out. Walk or ride to work, no TV, no Netflix, etc. etc. Pretty soon you&#x27;ll find you have way more money than you actually need, and you can choose to work either part time, or not work at all for a while.<p>If you were willing to put in 10-15 years of this frugal life, you&#x27;d have enough money to never work again, easily.<p>EDIT: Because everyone always asks how I do it, I wrote a book about how I do this with my life: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;theroadchoseme.com&#x2F;work-less-to-live-your-dreams" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;theroadchoseme.com&#x2F;work-less-to-live-your-dreams</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>muzz</author><text>I&#x27;m not the GP, but spending less is not the same as being poor. The former is about having options, the latter is lack of options. Poor people have to buy the cheaper shoes because that&#x27;s all they have enough money for (compared to a wealthier person who made the decision based on average cost over time, even if the initial outlay was more).</text></comment> |
9,753,016 | 9,752,775 | 1 | 3 | 9,751,989 | train | <story><title>Why is it taking longer and longer to fill open jobs?</title><url>http://www.vox.com/2015/6/20/8815561/job-vacancy-duration</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>GreenPlastic</author><text>Fair enough, but the information is publicly available on glassdoor.<p>A couple reasons why I didn&#x27;t list comp:<p>1. I didn&#x27;t want to get candidates purely motivated by the high cash comp in the area.
2. Cash comp isn&#x27;t core to how the company markets itself to employees and its culture. The company prefers to sell itself on being an employee friendly place to work.<p>Like the article hypothesizes, I thought we&#x27;d get 50-100 resumes because it&#x27;s so easy to apply for jobs on the internet and was surprised at how few we actually got.</text></item><item><author>smil</author><text>So compensation is not relevant to your point at all since you didn&#x27;t list it. Or were you looking for mind readers? The low response rate makes sense in that case.</text></item><item><author>GreenPlastic</author><text>Posted a senior iOS dev position to Indeed, LinkedIn, Glassdoor where the company is paying 25%(maybe 40% if you include RSUs) above market here (although we don&#x27;t put comp in the job listing) and only got 3 applicants in a month.</text></item><item><author>alister</author><text>&gt; What&#x27;s changed over the past fifteen years is that the internet has dramatically decreased the cost of identify in an open job listing and sending in an application. The stack of resumes you need to read through in order to start scheduling interviews has just gotten longer. The easier you make it to apply for jobs, the slower the hiring process becomes.<p>The above explanation of why it now takes employers
longer to fill open jobs isn&#x27;t convincing. Perhaps it
would make sense if you received:<p>(a) 10,000 resumes for a single opening (but that
doesn&#x27;t happen)<p>(b) 50 resumes from 50 different Nobel laureates and
you were torn trying to decide which one is best
(but that doesn&#x27;t happen either)<p>My experience is that if you got 5 resumes pre-Internet,
you&#x27;d get 50 post-Internet. But the additional screening
is negligible. I found that I can immediately reject 45
of the 50 resumes after looking at them for a minute
each because so many of the resumes are unqualified.<p>You might say that that is 45 minutes lost, but
even a single interview will take longer than that.
It&#x27;s insignificant to the overall hiring process.<p>Maybe what really happens is that in large HR-driven
companies, the HR department forces the hiring manager
to interview many more incompetent or unqualified people
because they got so many resumes to choose from.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>eropple</author><text><i>&gt; I didn&#x27;t want to get candidates purely motivated by the high cash comp in the area.</i><p>This is an extreme red flag for me. While your motives may be better, as I don&#x27;t know you and won&#x27;t assume, I&#x27;ve never met a potential employer who said that who wasn&#x27;t trying to run a cult. I contend that there is no &quot;employee friendly&quot; company (outside of cooperatives, which don&#x27;t really exist in tech) and that company culture is generally used to exert pressure to make people overwork themselves for somebody else&#x27;s gain.<p>The best people, as well as best developers, I&#x27;ve ever worked with are nearly fully coin-operated (with obvious carve-outs for &quot;not working for terrible people,&quot; etc.). They do excellent work, expect to be paid well for it, and <i>go home</i>.<p>If they &quot;play hard,&quot; it&#x27;s not with their co-workers.</text></comment> | <story><title>Why is it taking longer and longer to fill open jobs?</title><url>http://www.vox.com/2015/6/20/8815561/job-vacancy-duration</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>GreenPlastic</author><text>Fair enough, but the information is publicly available on glassdoor.<p>A couple reasons why I didn&#x27;t list comp:<p>1. I didn&#x27;t want to get candidates purely motivated by the high cash comp in the area.
2. Cash comp isn&#x27;t core to how the company markets itself to employees and its culture. The company prefers to sell itself on being an employee friendly place to work.<p>Like the article hypothesizes, I thought we&#x27;d get 50-100 resumes because it&#x27;s so easy to apply for jobs on the internet and was surprised at how few we actually got.</text></item><item><author>smil</author><text>So compensation is not relevant to your point at all since you didn&#x27;t list it. Or were you looking for mind readers? The low response rate makes sense in that case.</text></item><item><author>GreenPlastic</author><text>Posted a senior iOS dev position to Indeed, LinkedIn, Glassdoor where the company is paying 25%(maybe 40% if you include RSUs) above market here (although we don&#x27;t put comp in the job listing) and only got 3 applicants in a month.</text></item><item><author>alister</author><text>&gt; What&#x27;s changed over the past fifteen years is that the internet has dramatically decreased the cost of identify in an open job listing and sending in an application. The stack of resumes you need to read through in order to start scheduling interviews has just gotten longer. The easier you make it to apply for jobs, the slower the hiring process becomes.<p>The above explanation of why it now takes employers
longer to fill open jobs isn&#x27;t convincing. Perhaps it
would make sense if you received:<p>(a) 10,000 resumes for a single opening (but that
doesn&#x27;t happen)<p>(b) 50 resumes from 50 different Nobel laureates and
you were torn trying to decide which one is best
(but that doesn&#x27;t happen either)<p>My experience is that if you got 5 resumes pre-Internet,
you&#x27;d get 50 post-Internet. But the additional screening
is negligible. I found that I can immediately reject 45
of the 50 resumes after looking at them for a minute
each because so many of the resumes are unqualified.<p>You might say that that is 45 minutes lost, but
even a single interview will take longer than that.
It&#x27;s insignificant to the overall hiring process.<p>Maybe what really happens is that in large HR-driven
companies, the HR department forces the hiring manager
to interview many more incompetent or unqualified people
because they got so many resumes to choose from.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Sir_Substance</author><text>&gt;The company prefers to sell itself on being an employee friendly place to work.<p>You can sell your company however you like, but at the end of the day, you&#x27;re offering to pay me money for my time. It&#x27;s an important part of my assessment of your job offer that I know how much. Sending out CV&#x27;s is stressful, and I have to prep for interviews on a per-job basis.<p>If you won&#x27;t tell me how much you pay until after the interview, your job offer gets put on the &quot;too coy to be worth dealing with&quot; pile, along with all the people who only let you contact them via webform.</text></comment> |
12,493,141 | 12,492,202 | 1 | 3 | 12,491,621 | train | <story><title>Tonic is now RunKit, a part of Stripe</title><url>http://blog.runkit.com/2016/09/13/tonic-is-now-runkit-a-part-of-stripe.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tolmasky</author><text>Hi everyone, I&#x27;m a part of the Ton-err RunKit team and would be more than happy to answer any questions!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dahdum</author><text>This is a great product and Stripe seems to be a good actor...but to me this looks like an acquihire with an eventual &quot;our incredible journey&quot; post in the future. Or frozen development while the team moves on to other Stripe projects.<p>What makes this the exception?</text></comment> | <story><title>Tonic is now RunKit, a part of Stripe</title><url>http://blog.runkit.com/2016/09/13/tonic-is-now-runkit-a-part-of-stripe.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tolmasky</author><text>Hi everyone, I&#x27;m a part of the Ton-err RunKit team and would be more than happy to answer any questions!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>diggan</author><text>Ah, first I thought this was about TonicDev, didn&#x27;t recognize Tonic and part of Stripe didn&#x27;t make sense. Then it turned out to be what I thought anyways. Good to hear news from you, I think the idea is amazing and it&#x27;s easy to write explanations with RunKit.<p>I have two questions for you.<p>1) Offline mode, please! I&#x27;ve opened the feedback on uservoice at October 27, 2015 (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;tonicdev.uservoice.com&#x2F;forums&#x2F;273722-general&#x2F;suggestions&#x2F;10407894-running-tonicdev-locally" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;tonicdev.uservoice.com&#x2F;forums&#x2F;273722-general&#x2F;suggest...</a>), there should be some self-hosted version for us to use. Which kind of leads me to what I think is blocking the offline mode<p>2) module-fs &lt; is this planned to open source at one point? Sounds like a interesting solution, what I&#x27;ve done before is to hook up require to be async and then download the packages when they are being used, but not very friendly</text></comment> |
26,053,643 | 26,053,442 | 1 | 3 | 26,049,111 | train | <story><title>How to lower the price of plant-based meat</title><url>https://us14.campaign-archive.com/?u=66df320da8400b581cbc1b539&id=cea38367f1</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bushbaba</author><text>You could also just have large import tariffs on food.<p>I’m honestly suprised the us doesn’t just have a 25%+ import tariff. Would quickly cause more domestic manufacturing.<p>Like why do we even import garlic from China. We have plenty of domestic ability to produce.</text></item><item><author>ascar</author><text>It&#x27;s a reasonable argument that government subsidies for farmers reduce prices for the consumer, but I don&#x27;t think it&#x27;s necessarily a correct assumption.<p>Subsidies help the local farmers to compete with farmers in low cost countries. Transportation costs are usually insignificant.
So without subsidies the consumer might pay the same price, but the store just ends up sourcing the product from a different country. However, having a significant amount of food production locally has obvious strategic benefits (and I don&#x27;t mean just war, even a draught could create sufficient shortages)</text></item><item><author>danShumway</author><text>Even if we ignore externalities and pollution costs, just stop outright subsidizing animal meat production so much. The reason meat is so cheap is because our government puts a lot of effort and money into making it cheap.<p>I don&#x27;t know why more people aren&#x27;t trying to sell this to the &quot;free market&quot; crowd as government overreach. The reality right now is that plant-based protein is gaining popularity despite the market being artificially biased against it in terms of price. Animal meat <i>should</i> cost more than it does, not just in the sense of &quot;you&#x27;re not paying for the true environmental cost&quot;, but also in the sense of, &quot;you&#x27;re not paying the actual monetary cost it takes to produce this product.&quot;<p>The US government throws billions of dollars into subsidizing meat and dairy production every year. Plant-based protein&#x27;s growth is restricted in part because our food prices and production aren&#x27;t determined just by the free market. That&#x27;s not necessarily <i>bad</i>, but if we&#x27;re going to be messing with the market anyway we could choose to subsidize other things.<p>And we could obviously do more than just lowering subsidies, I&#x27;m not saying we should ignore externalities or that we should just completely abandon all subsidies entirely. But I am saying we shouldn&#x27;t pretend that meat actually costs what we see in the store. Meat is cheap because (for various reasons) as a society we&#x27;ve all collectively decided to spend tax money so that we can pretend that it costs very little to produce.</text></item><item><author>hannob</author><text>Interestingly it doesn&#x27;t even discuss the obvious solution: Let people who buy real meat pay for the externalities. (Interestingly even in places where there&#x27;s some form of carbon pricing - like the EU - this often doesn&#x27;t cover a large share of emissions from meat production, as methane emissions are very relevant here - I&#x27;m not aware of any methane pricing scheme anywhere.)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>VBprogrammer</author><text>While you guys throw tariffs on food here and cut subsidies are any of you aware that for some 10% of American&#x27;s having food on the table is not a given?<p>Now I&#x27;m not saying that subsidising farmers to produce huge crops of the same 3 crops is the best way of continuing to ensure no one goes hungry, it self evidently doesn&#x27;t work given the current status quo.<p>However, to talk about making huge changes to these systems without stopping to consider what impact it will have on that part of society is an incredibly rose tinted view of the world.</text></comment> | <story><title>How to lower the price of plant-based meat</title><url>https://us14.campaign-archive.com/?u=66df320da8400b581cbc1b539&id=cea38367f1</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bushbaba</author><text>You could also just have large import tariffs on food.<p>I’m honestly suprised the us doesn’t just have a 25%+ import tariff. Would quickly cause more domestic manufacturing.<p>Like why do we even import garlic from China. We have plenty of domestic ability to produce.</text></item><item><author>ascar</author><text>It&#x27;s a reasonable argument that government subsidies for farmers reduce prices for the consumer, but I don&#x27;t think it&#x27;s necessarily a correct assumption.<p>Subsidies help the local farmers to compete with farmers in low cost countries. Transportation costs are usually insignificant.
So without subsidies the consumer might pay the same price, but the store just ends up sourcing the product from a different country. However, having a significant amount of food production locally has obvious strategic benefits (and I don&#x27;t mean just war, even a draught could create sufficient shortages)</text></item><item><author>danShumway</author><text>Even if we ignore externalities and pollution costs, just stop outright subsidizing animal meat production so much. The reason meat is so cheap is because our government puts a lot of effort and money into making it cheap.<p>I don&#x27;t know why more people aren&#x27;t trying to sell this to the &quot;free market&quot; crowd as government overreach. The reality right now is that plant-based protein is gaining popularity despite the market being artificially biased against it in terms of price. Animal meat <i>should</i> cost more than it does, not just in the sense of &quot;you&#x27;re not paying for the true environmental cost&quot;, but also in the sense of, &quot;you&#x27;re not paying the actual monetary cost it takes to produce this product.&quot;<p>The US government throws billions of dollars into subsidizing meat and dairy production every year. Plant-based protein&#x27;s growth is restricted in part because our food prices and production aren&#x27;t determined just by the free market. That&#x27;s not necessarily <i>bad</i>, but if we&#x27;re going to be messing with the market anyway we could choose to subsidize other things.<p>And we could obviously do more than just lowering subsidies, I&#x27;m not saying we should ignore externalities or that we should just completely abandon all subsidies entirely. But I am saying we shouldn&#x27;t pretend that meat actually costs what we see in the store. Meat is cheap because (for various reasons) as a society we&#x27;ve all collectively decided to spend tax money so that we can pretend that it costs very little to produce.</text></item><item><author>hannob</author><text>Interestingly it doesn&#x27;t even discuss the obvious solution: Let people who buy real meat pay for the externalities. (Interestingly even in places where there&#x27;s some form of carbon pricing - like the EU - this often doesn&#x27;t cover a large share of emissions from meat production, as methane emissions are very relevant here - I&#x27;m not aware of any methane pricing scheme anywhere.)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Wolfenstein98k</author><text>Same reason everything else that is imported is imported - comparative advantage.<p>Take the logic of &quot;grow all your food at home&quot; too seriously and you end up like this guy:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.smithsonianmag.com&#x2F;smart-news&#x2F;making-sandwich-scratch-took-man-six-months-180956674&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.smithsonianmag.com&#x2F;smart-news&#x2F;making-sandwich-sc...</a></text></comment> |
2,937,531 | 2,937,096 | 1 | 3 | 2,936,432 | train | <story><title>On Minimalism</title><url>http://chriseidhof.tumblr.com/post/9539831015/on-minimalism</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Udo</author><text>Anecdotal (read: personal) experience suggests that rich people are more likely to be minimalists. Case in point, my brother is extremely wealthy and even though he likes nice things, his houses are always very sparsely outfitted, his cars never have any personal stuff in them, everything is extremely clean and besides his laptop, he doesn't carry around any personal possessions.<p>Compared to that, I hardly scrape by in an absurdly small apartment, and until recently it was stuffed to the brim. My car is full of things. I'm a slob. And all the poor people I know are too. Recently, I have started to throw away or auction off a huge part of my stuff and it feels really liberating (how many computers does a person need, anyway).<p>I wonder if being poor triggers people to hoard and/or to prefer complicated items. For example, I observed that rich people tend to have really simple furniture that is reduced to its core function, whereas poor people tend to have complicated-looking things and a lot of them. Poor households are absolutely cluttered.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>techdmn</author><text>My thoughts are that when you have plenty of money, you don't worry about getting rid of things. If I find later that I really did need that thing, I can easily get another one. On the other hand, if money is tight, it's hard to get rid of anything that has any value at all. I might need it later, and not be able to purchase a replacement.</text></comment> | <story><title>On Minimalism</title><url>http://chriseidhof.tumblr.com/post/9539831015/on-minimalism</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Udo</author><text>Anecdotal (read: personal) experience suggests that rich people are more likely to be minimalists. Case in point, my brother is extremely wealthy and even though he likes nice things, his houses are always very sparsely outfitted, his cars never have any personal stuff in them, everything is extremely clean and besides his laptop, he doesn't carry around any personal possessions.<p>Compared to that, I hardly scrape by in an absurdly small apartment, and until recently it was stuffed to the brim. My car is full of things. I'm a slob. And all the poor people I know are too. Recently, I have started to throw away or auction off a huge part of my stuff and it feels really liberating (how many computers does a person need, anyway).<p>I wonder if being poor triggers people to hoard and/or to prefer complicated items. For example, I observed that rich people tend to have really simple furniture that is reduced to its core function, whereas poor people tend to have complicated-looking things and a lot of them. Poor households are absolutely cluttered.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>vacri</author><text>To some degree, to get ahead in business you must personally present as clean. This would carry over somewhat into your personal life - it's hard to be wearing thousand dollar suits to work while living in a rat's nest, I guess.<p>Personally, I like clutter. Random toys people give you, buildup of projects and jobs and whatnot. It personalises a place. I understand the appeal of not caring about items - I don't particularly care about most of my clutter - but minimalism is so... sterile. Walk into a minimalist's house and there's nothing really there of their personality, nothing particularly different from any other minimalist's house. I don't have a problem with other people living that way, but for me, it's just so sterile and sometimes even feels unwelcoming.<p>EDIT: I wonder if part of your rich/poor thing is that the rich have the opportunity to move around a lot for both business and pleasure and so can get a variety of memories and backdrops, whereas the poor see the same thing day in day out, and so personalisation of spaces (or making them more varied) is more important to them?</text></comment> |
22,094,529 | 22,094,364 | 1 | 2 | 22,093,815 | train | <story><title>It costs $10k to ‘own’ a Chick-fil-A franchise</title><url>https://thehustle.co/why-it-only-costs-10k-to-own-a-chick-fil-a-franchise/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>oflannabhra</author><text>I know several CFA owner-operators, and this article is mostly on point.<p>Some of the comments I’ve seen are a bit off. 2 of the 3 owner-operators I know have multiple locations, although this is rare. Income estimates are a bit low for typical stores I’d be surprised if any owner operator of a freestanding unit is below $250k. Also, the estimates of worked hours are a bit high. All the owner operators I know have great work-life balance, this is a function of how well they hire and train their general managers.<p>There are also some significant advantages to non-ownership that are win-win for both the company and operators. CFA provides significant support beyond what other franchisers do: IT, capex for renovation, and training. CFA is incredibly focused on efficiency in their stores. If you’ve seen a freestanding store recently, you’ve probably seen it be renovated to allow for double drive through lanes and a walkthrough parlor for pickup. That’s not the type of thing many franchisees at other companies have the cash (or willingness) to do.</text></comment> | <story><title>It costs $10k to ‘own’ a Chick-fil-A franchise</title><url>https://thehustle.co/why-it-only-costs-10k-to-own-a-chick-fil-a-franchise/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>goldcd</author><text>I have myriad issues with the personal ethics of the owners of Chick-fil-A - but their model does make sense to me.<p>They&#x27;re clearly not just wanting to sell their brand - they&#x27;re wanting to own their brand.<p>The 10k is just a token - It&#x27;s maybe more than you have in your clearing account, but a figure that most people could likely produce and is just an indicator that &quot;you&#x27;re serious&quot;<p>Important part is that they put you through the grinder to make sure you&#x27;re the person they want to run their store. To be honest just looks like a regular job interview - with the exception that they charge you to join the company, but you get a cut of the profits.<p>Not even sure if they&#x27;re in the UK yet, but you can see the converse with Subway that keeps appearing all over the place, despite not having any customers.</text></comment> |
31,416,592 | 31,414,181 | 1 | 3 | 31,409,664 | train | <story><title>Tell HN: I probably spend more on piracy than if I just paid for content</title><text>I have a confession, I pirate a lot of content. Mostly TV&#x2F;Movies. That being said, piracy is pretty expensive.<p>I built a computer with ~30TB of hard drive space. That, conservatively, cost me $1200. It&#x27;s an older computer, with a lot of hard drives and it&#x27;s probably costing me around $45 per month in power. I&#x27;m going to want to add more storage space soon, and have about $500 slated for that. I pay a usenet subscription, and subscription to indexers, for let&#x27;s say $10 per month...<p>So if I stopped pirating I&#x27;d have saved $1200 and still have a budget of $55 per month for streaming services.<p>So why do I still pirate? Well one thing is show availability. There are some must-have shows that simply aren&#x27;t available in my region (not the US), so I already have to have the piracy infrastructure in place if I want to watch them.<p>I also very much appreciate having a local copy. It&#x27;s not like steam where I can just download whatever I want and play it offline (I do mostly buy steam content, if it&#x27;s on steam I probably don&#x27;t bother to pirate).<p>Streaming services still have significant service problems that need to be addressed.</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>nunez</author><text>I am 100% against hoarding, but data hoarding makes a lot more sense to me.<p>I was looking for an album by a small punk band called Straighten Things Out called &quot;Dawn Of A New Hope&quot;. Loved this album; listened to it all of the time on Apple Music (where I discovered it). Went on a walk one day and tried to load it...and it was gone.<p>I can&#x27;t even find this album on eBay, and you can find everything there!<p>&quot;Milo Goes To College&quot; by The Descendants, a more well-known pop punk band, was removed as well. Randomly, without warning. The Descendants are often credited as the &quot;fathers&quot; of Pop Punk; basically any mainstream pop punk band you&#x27;ve heard of cites them as an influence. This album basically started this genre...and it&#x27;s gone.<p>Fortunately there are enough vinyls of this record that make it easy to find when I one day build my epic vinyl collection.<p>Had I saved these to my iTunes Library or ripped them to a NAS of some kind, I&#x27;d still have it. (Fun fact: Milo Goes To College _was_ in my Google Play Music Locker, which Google sunsetted when they launched YouTube Music, so I lost that &quot;copy&quot;. I&#x27;m also going to guess that it was in my iTunes Music Library as well, which still exists as cloud storage, but albums that you add to your iCloud Music Library from Apple Music are pointers to tracks in the streaming service which can go away at any time.)</text></item><item><author>philistine</author><text>What you’re describing is data hoarding. I pirate a ton too, but you know what I do with a movie or TV show after I’ve watched it?<p>I delete it. Poof, gone. But it’s still in the most important dataset I have. My memory. To help with the metadata of my own memory, I write down a list of the films I’ve seen. I only keep the movies I really love and want to rewatch (Robocop). That TV show I just finished that was great but I won’t rewatch. Boom, gonzo.<p>Your piracy is an excuse for data hoarding, which is a problem.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>vintermann</author><text>That small punk bands are a sensible target for data hoarding isn&#x27;t surprising, but you know one I found out that&#x27;s surprising?<p>Riverdance. Yeah, the Eurovision pause show from 1994 which became a huge hit and started a decade-long fad of various rhytmic dance ensembles touring the world and actually doing really well. Fantastic commercial success, of course. They did many CD releases, and there are a lot of differences between the recordings: the cast of performers, whether they have stepping noises mixed in, even the track listing. But you can only get the last of them on streaming services.</text></comment> | <story><title>Tell HN: I probably spend more on piracy than if I just paid for content</title><text>I have a confession, I pirate a lot of content. Mostly TV&#x2F;Movies. That being said, piracy is pretty expensive.<p>I built a computer with ~30TB of hard drive space. That, conservatively, cost me $1200. It&#x27;s an older computer, with a lot of hard drives and it&#x27;s probably costing me around $45 per month in power. I&#x27;m going to want to add more storage space soon, and have about $500 slated for that. I pay a usenet subscription, and subscription to indexers, for let&#x27;s say $10 per month...<p>So if I stopped pirating I&#x27;d have saved $1200 and still have a budget of $55 per month for streaming services.<p>So why do I still pirate? Well one thing is show availability. There are some must-have shows that simply aren&#x27;t available in my region (not the US), so I already have to have the piracy infrastructure in place if I want to watch them.<p>I also very much appreciate having a local copy. It&#x27;s not like steam where I can just download whatever I want and play it offline (I do mostly buy steam content, if it&#x27;s on steam I probably don&#x27;t bother to pirate).<p>Streaming services still have significant service problems that need to be addressed.</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>nunez</author><text>I am 100% against hoarding, but data hoarding makes a lot more sense to me.<p>I was looking for an album by a small punk band called Straighten Things Out called &quot;Dawn Of A New Hope&quot;. Loved this album; listened to it all of the time on Apple Music (where I discovered it). Went on a walk one day and tried to load it...and it was gone.<p>I can&#x27;t even find this album on eBay, and you can find everything there!<p>&quot;Milo Goes To College&quot; by The Descendants, a more well-known pop punk band, was removed as well. Randomly, without warning. The Descendants are often credited as the &quot;fathers&quot; of Pop Punk; basically any mainstream pop punk band you&#x27;ve heard of cites them as an influence. This album basically started this genre...and it&#x27;s gone.<p>Fortunately there are enough vinyls of this record that make it easy to find when I one day build my epic vinyl collection.<p>Had I saved these to my iTunes Library or ripped them to a NAS of some kind, I&#x27;d still have it. (Fun fact: Milo Goes To College _was_ in my Google Play Music Locker, which Google sunsetted when they launched YouTube Music, so I lost that &quot;copy&quot;. I&#x27;m also going to guess that it was in my iTunes Music Library as well, which still exists as cloud storage, but albums that you add to your iCloud Music Library from Apple Music are pointers to tracks in the streaming service which can go away at any time.)</text></item><item><author>philistine</author><text>What you’re describing is data hoarding. I pirate a ton too, but you know what I do with a movie or TV show after I’ve watched it?<p>I delete it. Poof, gone. But it’s still in the most important dataset I have. My memory. To help with the metadata of my own memory, I write down a list of the films I’ve seen. I only keep the movies I really love and want to rewatch (Robocop). That TV show I just finished that was great but I won’t rewatch. Boom, gonzo.<p>Your piracy is an excuse for data hoarding, which is a problem.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>exikyut</author><text>*<i>Yells at Google for a good 15 minutes</i>*<p>...I&#x27;m a tad surprised that worked as well as it did:<p>1. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;vk.com&#x2F;wall-112927118?w=wall-112927118_185" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;vk.com&#x2F;wall-112927118?w=wall-112927118_185</a> (&quot;Download&quot;)<p>2. <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;metalbootlegs08.blogspot.com&#x2F;2016&#x2F;10&#x2F;descendents-milo-goes-to-college-1982.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;metalbootlegs08.blogspot.com&#x2F;2016&#x2F;10&#x2F;descendents-milo...</a> (&quot;Official Website&quot;)<p>Oh, also - *<i>hands you a vacuum cleaner that tends to eat things in case they disappear later</i>* - maybe go wandering&#x2F;exploring? These types of sites are incredibly fun yet even more transient.</text></comment> |
39,875,141 | 39,875,207 | 1 | 2 | 39,875,053 | train | <story><title>US appeals court kills ban on plastic containers contaminated with PFAS</title><url>https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/mar/30/pfas-ban-plastic-containers-court</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>unglaublich</author><text>&quot;The fifth circuit judges wrote that the EPA would have to regulate the containers under Section 6 of the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA), which the judges and Inhance claim would require the EPA to take into account the economic impact on Inhance. The company has said a ban on its fluorination process would put it out of business.&quot;<p>With that mindset we would still have Asbestos factories around. The economic situation of polluters should be completely outweighed by the health and environmental concerns of the population.</text></comment> | <story><title>US appeals court kills ban on plastic containers contaminated with PFAS</title><url>https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/mar/30/pfas-ban-plastic-containers-court</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>pakyr</author><text>&gt; The rule requires companies to alert the EPA if a new industrial process creates hazardous chemicals. Inhance has produced the containers for decades and argued that its process is not new, so it is not subject to the regulations. The EPA argued that it only became aware that Inhance’s process created PFOA in 2020, so it could be regulated as a new use, but the court disagreed.<p>So basically, any company that begins using a process that produces large quantities of hazardous chemicals is now incentivized to hide it until that process is no longer &#x27;new&#x27; so that substantial new use rules won&#x27;t apply to them? I&#x27;m sure there&#x27;s no way this could go wrong.</text></comment> |
7,177,799 | 7,177,869 | 1 | 2 | 7,176,845 | train | <story><title>Sheriff Fires Cop Who Threatened to Arrest Me for Taking Photos of Cops</title><url>http://slog.thestranger.com/slog/archives/2014/02/03/sheriff-fires-cop-who-threatened-to-arrest-me-for-taking-photos-of-cops</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>gizmo</author><text>Heartening? I wish:<p>&gt; Saulet has long history of misconduct, with approximately 120 allegations against him and 21 cases of sustained misconduct (more than any other officer in the department).<p>It isn&#x27;t exactly progress if the worst officer in de the department is fired after sustained abusive behavior. And the union immediately attempted to overturn the dismissal as well. This is pretty much as bad as it gets.<p>So I see no reason for optimism, given the circumstances. There are no signs of structural improvement. Not so heartening.</text></item><item><author>netcan</author><text><i>&quot;Your ill-advised actions also play to some of the most basic fears among some citizens, which is that a police officer may indiscriminately exercise his or her power in violation of their rights,&quot; Urquharts discipline letter continues. He explains people fear that &quot;in the event of a complaint, the officer will just deny the allegations and &#x27;circle the wagons&#x27; with his or her fellow officers with the expectation they will take care of their own. In a matter of minutes, your actions violated the trust that we, as a department, spend years trying to build and maintain.&quot;</i><p>Heartening.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ChrisBland</author><text>I am not a fan of public unions either, but this is a cheap shot at them and it hurts the ability to have a discussion about unions. Unions have what is called &#x27;duty of fair representation&#x27; - which requires them to defend their members. If the union failed to defend him here he could sue the union claiming it has failed to fulfill its statutory duty to represent the employee in that dispute. If they got to pick which cases to defend, the whole point of having union reps&#x2F;arbitration&#x2F;mediation would go out the window.<p>More reading: <a href="http://www.flra.gov/Guidance_duty%20of%20fair%20representation" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.flra.gov&#x2F;Guidance_duty%20of%20fair%20representati...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Sheriff Fires Cop Who Threatened to Arrest Me for Taking Photos of Cops</title><url>http://slog.thestranger.com/slog/archives/2014/02/03/sheriff-fires-cop-who-threatened-to-arrest-me-for-taking-photos-of-cops</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>gizmo</author><text>Heartening? I wish:<p>&gt; Saulet has long history of misconduct, with approximately 120 allegations against him and 21 cases of sustained misconduct (more than any other officer in the department).<p>It isn&#x27;t exactly progress if the worst officer in de the department is fired after sustained abusive behavior. And the union immediately attempted to overturn the dismissal as well. This is pretty much as bad as it gets.<p>So I see no reason for optimism, given the circumstances. There are no signs of structural improvement. Not so heartening.</text></item><item><author>netcan</author><text><i>&quot;Your ill-advised actions also play to some of the most basic fears among some citizens, which is that a police officer may indiscriminately exercise his or her power in violation of their rights,&quot; Urquharts discipline letter continues. He explains people fear that &quot;in the event of a complaint, the officer will just deny the allegations and &#x27;circle the wagons&#x27; with his or her fellow officers with the expectation they will take care of their own. In a matter of minutes, your actions violated the trust that we, as a department, spend years trying to build and maintain.&quot;</i><p>Heartening.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>baldfat</author><text>I am pro-Union BUT this is the type of things that get them in trouble all the time. People who perform poorly at work should be held accountable and not defended by the Union. It really is in the Union&#x27;s benefit to weed out bad apples themselves and not protect them.</text></comment> |
9,430,600 | 9,430,579 | 1 | 2 | 9,426,510 | train | <story><title>The Slow Death of the University</title><url>https://chronicle.com/article/The-Slow-Death-of-the/228991/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ForHackernews</author><text>At the risk of being overly confrontational, the things that make humanities people believe that they are capable of critical thinking (in contrast to STEM types) are comments like yours.<p>&gt; Just at the beginning of the article he states that humanities are only good for rich students to pass their time<p>Where in the article does the author state or imply this? The section beginning &quot;When I first came to Oxford 30 years earlier...&quot; is obviously written to be tongue-in-cheek.<p>A close reading (humanities skill!) of this article might highlight the following passage as the central thesis:<p><i>Universities, which in Britain have an 800-year history, have traditionally been derided as ivory towers, and there was always some truth in the accusation. Yet the distance they established between themselves and society at large could prove enabling as well as disabling, allowing them to reflect on the values, goals, and interests of a social order too frenetically bound up in its own short-term practical pursuits to be capable of much self-criticism. Across the globe, that critical distance is now being diminished almost to nothing, as the institutions that produced Erasmus and John Milton, Einstein and Monty Python, capitulate to the hard-faced priorities of global capitalism.</i><p>&gt; Locking themselves in a room, nostalgically talking with like-minded people without ever doing anything leads nowhere.<p>Again, where in the article does the author suggest this course of action? If anything, he seems to be suggesting the opposite, that the humanities should be returned to their traditional place in the public square, questioning and criticizing the prevailing ideologies of the day:<p><i>It would also seek to restore the honorable lineage of the university as one of the few arenas in modern society (another is the arts) in which prevailing ideologies can be submitted to some rigorous scrutiny. What if the value of the humanities lies not in the way they conform to such dominant notions, but in the fact that they don&#x27;t?</i></text></item><item><author>marcosdumay</author><text>What&#x27;s it with humanities people that make them believe that only them, of all people, are able to do critical thinking?<p>Anyway, the author is part of the problem. Just at the beginning of the article he states that humanities are only good for rich students to pass their time. Until the professors themselves stop thinking this way, no government will prioritize them.<p>(And no, I don&#x27;t agree that humanities are useless. They have a huge potential. But for them to be of any use, professors will need to seek those applications, and study them. Locking themselves in a room, nostalgically talking with like-minded people without ever doing anything leads nowhere.)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>paganel</author><text>&gt; Universities, which in Britain have an 800-year history, have traditionally been derided as ivory towers, and there was always some truth in the accusation. (...) Across the globe, that critical distance is now being diminished almost to nothing, as the institutions that produced Erasmus and John Milton, Einstein and Monty Python, capitulate to the hard-faced priorities of global capitalism.<p>I never looked at Oxford people with the same eyes again after reading Giordano Bruno&#x27;s works and about how the professors in there treated him. From his wiki page (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Giordano_Bruno#England.2C_1583.E2.80.931585" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Giordano_Bruno#England.2C_1583...</a>):<p>&gt; His views were controversial, notably with John Underhill, Rector of Lincoln College and subsequently bishop of Oxford, and George Abbot, who later became Archbishop of Canterbury. Abbot mocked Bruno for supporting &quot;the opinion of Copernicus that the earth did go round, and the heavens did stand still; whereas in truth it was his own head which rather did run round, and his brains did not stand still&quot;,[23] and reports accusations that Bruno plagiarized Ficino&#x27;s work.<p>I&#x27;ve recently read a book by French historian Jacques Le Goff who was saying something along the lines of: &quot;the University as we know it was born around year 1,000 and flourished for the next couple of centuries, only to become more segregated and focused on itself starting with the 14th century, so much so that the Renaissance happened outside of its sphere of influence&quot;.<p>So I will keep my hopes up. This downfall of the University as an institution has happened before but we still managed to create and produce great things outside of it.</text></comment> | <story><title>The Slow Death of the University</title><url>https://chronicle.com/article/The-Slow-Death-of-the/228991/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ForHackernews</author><text>At the risk of being overly confrontational, the things that make humanities people believe that they are capable of critical thinking (in contrast to STEM types) are comments like yours.<p>&gt; Just at the beginning of the article he states that humanities are only good for rich students to pass their time<p>Where in the article does the author state or imply this? The section beginning &quot;When I first came to Oxford 30 years earlier...&quot; is obviously written to be tongue-in-cheek.<p>A close reading (humanities skill!) of this article might highlight the following passage as the central thesis:<p><i>Universities, which in Britain have an 800-year history, have traditionally been derided as ivory towers, and there was always some truth in the accusation. Yet the distance they established between themselves and society at large could prove enabling as well as disabling, allowing them to reflect on the values, goals, and interests of a social order too frenetically bound up in its own short-term practical pursuits to be capable of much self-criticism. Across the globe, that critical distance is now being diminished almost to nothing, as the institutions that produced Erasmus and John Milton, Einstein and Monty Python, capitulate to the hard-faced priorities of global capitalism.</i><p>&gt; Locking themselves in a room, nostalgically talking with like-minded people without ever doing anything leads nowhere.<p>Again, where in the article does the author suggest this course of action? If anything, he seems to be suggesting the opposite, that the humanities should be returned to their traditional place in the public square, questioning and criticizing the prevailing ideologies of the day:<p><i>It would also seek to restore the honorable lineage of the university as one of the few arenas in modern society (another is the arts) in which prevailing ideologies can be submitted to some rigorous scrutiny. What if the value of the humanities lies not in the way they conform to such dominant notions, but in the fact that they don&#x27;t?</i></text></item><item><author>marcosdumay</author><text>What&#x27;s it with humanities people that make them believe that only them, of all people, are able to do critical thinking?<p>Anyway, the author is part of the problem. Just at the beginning of the article he states that humanities are only good for rich students to pass their time. Until the professors themselves stop thinking this way, no government will prioritize them.<p>(And no, I don&#x27;t agree that humanities are useless. They have a huge potential. But for them to be of any use, professors will need to seek those applications, and study them. Locking themselves in a room, nostalgically talking with like-minded people without ever doing anything leads nowhere.)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>arcosdev</author><text>Thank you for this comment...I thought I was going insane for a minute reading the others.</text></comment> |
13,734,009 | 13,734,014 | 1 | 2 | 13,731,741 | train | <story><title>Id Software Programming Principles</title><url>http://blog.felipe.rs/2017/02/25/id-software-programming-principles/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>a3n</author><text>&gt; Write your code for this game only - not for a future game. You’re going to be writing new code later because you’ll be smarter.<p>This really stood out for me. I&#x27;m always tempted, while writing something specific, to generalize it. I try to resist that, when I recognize it. Writing a ThingThatImWritingFramework risks ThingThatImWriting never seeing the light of day, or never being used.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>alkonaut</author><text>It completely removes the fun though, if you only enjoy generalizing, optimizing, refactoring, designing, and take <i>zero</i> pleasure in delivering an actual usable product. If the product is Doom this shouldn&#x27;t be a problem - but for most of us the product is form validation or calculations involving plywood. Making frameworks and generalization is the only reason I manage to keep doing what I do. (I&#x27;m exaggerating somewhat, but I think this is a clear distinction between two kinds of programmers those who love the code; and the craft, and those who like making products. Have too many of one kind and you&#x27;ll ship a mess. Too many of the other and you&#x27;ll never ship)</text></comment> | <story><title>Id Software Programming Principles</title><url>http://blog.felipe.rs/2017/02/25/id-software-programming-principles/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>a3n</author><text>&gt; Write your code for this game only - not for a future game. You’re going to be writing new code later because you’ll be smarter.<p>This really stood out for me. I&#x27;m always tempted, while writing something specific, to generalize it. I try to resist that, when I recognize it. Writing a ThingThatImWritingFramework risks ThingThatImWriting never seeing the light of day, or never being used.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>hermitdev</author><text>This is basically the Mythical Man Month in a few lines.<p>You once wrote something specific, and it was great. Then you had to write a second thing, and you remember things from the first, so why not make it more general for the inevitable 3rd, 4th, 5th to come? And, then, you fail to deliver the 2nd.</text></comment> |
8,973,465 | 8,973,114 | 1 | 2 | 8,972,766 | train | <story><title>Open letter to German readers: What you were never told about Greece</title><url>http://syriza.net.gr/index.php/en/pressroom/253-open-letter-to-the-german-readers-that-which-you-were-never-told-about-greece</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>vijayboyapati</author><text>This one sentence sums up what I think is the fundamental problem: &quot;An insolvency problem was thus dealt with as if it were a case of illiquidity.&quot; That is, the problem isn&#x27;t some ephemeral panic where people are temporarily unwilling to lend. The problem is there are massive capital losses that have yet to be acknowledged. The problem is that Euro politicians believe that by continuing to bankroll Greece they will stem a wider panic. But as John Mills observed in a speech given to the Manchester Statistical Society in 1867, “panics do not destroy capital; they merely reveal the extent to which it has been previously destroyed by its
betrayal into hopelessly unproductive works”<p>The losses must be acknowledged. The only question is by whom? By the people who made the loans? Or will the taxpayers of Europe be called upon, as the taxpayers of America were, to eat the losses?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>panarky</author><text>Why do news reports keep saying that Greece got bailed out?<p>Let&#x27;s say you lend $100,000 to my startup. I have to pay you $10,000 a year until the loan is paid off. I hire a thief as a CEO who gives the $100,000 to his friends and family, and my startup has nothing to show for it.<p>Now my startup is bankrupt. I&#x27;m working as a waiter in a restaurant to pay the rent. I can&#x27;t make my annual payments to you, much less pay back the principal. You&#x27;ve just suffered a $100,000 loss. That&#x27;s the risk you take as a lender.<p>Surprise! Now the government steps in and gives you $50,000 to buy this bad loan from you. What a great deal! It would have been a total loss!<p>Then the government garnishes my wages from my waiter job for the next 50 years to reimburse the government.<p>Who exactly got bailed out here? Me (the Greek people), or you (foreign banks and bondholders)?<p>And what happened to the thieving CEO who stole the money in the first place?</text></comment> | <story><title>Open letter to German readers: What you were never told about Greece</title><url>http://syriza.net.gr/index.php/en/pressroom/253-open-letter-to-the-german-readers-that-which-you-were-never-told-about-greece</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>vijayboyapati</author><text>This one sentence sums up what I think is the fundamental problem: &quot;An insolvency problem was thus dealt with as if it were a case of illiquidity.&quot; That is, the problem isn&#x27;t some ephemeral panic where people are temporarily unwilling to lend. The problem is there are massive capital losses that have yet to be acknowledged. The problem is that Euro politicians believe that by continuing to bankroll Greece they will stem a wider panic. But as John Mills observed in a speech given to the Manchester Statistical Society in 1867, “panics do not destroy capital; they merely reveal the extent to which it has been previously destroyed by its
betrayal into hopelessly unproductive works”<p>The losses must be acknowledged. The only question is by whom? By the people who made the loans? Or will the taxpayers of Europe be called upon, as the taxpayers of America were, to eat the losses?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mathattack</author><text>I agree with everything you say up to “panics do not destroy capital; they merely reveal the extent to which it has been previously destroyed by its betrayal into hopelessly unproductive works”<p>In todays fractional banking system where banks only hold a fraction of liquid assets to cover their liabilities, a run on a good bank could still put it under. (Lehman, Bear and others were both illiquid and insolvent, but runs can kill good banks too) This is why the FDIC was put up to guarantee commercial banks. Nothing similar existed to protect investment banks.</text></comment> |
8,295,804 | 8,293,303 | 1 | 2 | 8,291,920 | train | <story><title>Lost Franklin expedition ship found in the Arctic</title><url>http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/lost-franklin-expedition-ship-found-in-the-arctic-1.2760311</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>seren</author><text>Read <i>The Terror</i> by Dan Simmons. This is a great mix of horror and history novel, using the expedition as its background.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mironathetin</author><text>Sorry, this is already a book thread. So I post my recommendation here too:<p>It is a brilliant novel about Franklin and his expedition: The Discovery of Slowness (Sten Nadolny) It has originally been written in german (Die Entdeckung der Langsamkeit). Very well investigated. Especially John Franklin seemed to have been a very interesting character.<p>Read the amazon reviews: people start to get philosophical, when they write about this book.<p>A great weekend read, well worth the time. Maybe I should grab it again, too...<p>(deleted my post in the main thread)</text></comment> | <story><title>Lost Franklin expedition ship found in the Arctic</title><url>http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/lost-franklin-expedition-ship-found-in-the-arctic-1.2760311</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>seren</author><text>Read <i>The Terror</i> by Dan Simmons. This is a great mix of horror and history novel, using the expedition as its background.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>randomacct001</author><text>I came in here to recommend this too. Great book. It&#x27;s a fictional story that kind is accurate in that it keeps with the known time line of events and fills in all the blanks with a supernatural twist to the whole thing. Quite a scary book, too, as I remember.</text></comment> |
10,822,433 | 10,822,284 | 1 | 2 | 10,822,140 | train | <story><title>Re: Ian Murdock</title><url>http://codefriar.com/2016/01/01/to-ian/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>shawnee_</author><text><i>I’m reminded that all too often our culture judges people by their actions in the worst moments of their life ... We don’t seem to have a cultural construct for good people who made mistakes.</i><p>As the author stated, we don&#x27;t know what happened. But it does seem that people, like Ian (and Aaron Swartz), who dedicated their lives to improving systems for the greater good tend to have a defiant sensitivity to abuses of power.<p>The world needs people like that alive and kicking for as long as possible. Sometimes it takes an unfathomable amount of persistence to get things moving in the right direction, but it can and does happen if you don&#x27;t give up.</text></comment> | <story><title>Re: Ian Murdock</title><url>http://codefriar.com/2016/01/01/to-ian/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>dorfsmay</author><text>Cannot Read on mobile, the text is wider than the screen an I cannot scroll horizontally nor zoom. I tried both Chrome and Firefox.</text></comment> |
30,458,000 | 30,457,838 | 1 | 2 | 30,457,490 | train | <story><title>Ukraine is a major producer of neon gas, critical for lasers used in chipmaking</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/breakingviews/ukraine-war-flashes-neon-warning-lights-chips-2022-02-24/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>perihelions</author><text>How is neon extracted and why does one country have a 90% monopoly (in this specific grade)?<p>edit: Found this C&amp;EN story from 2016 that adds context:<p>- <i>&quot;Chip makers, which account for more than 90% of global neon consumption, are already experiencing high prices and some shortages stemming from the Russian conflict with Ukraine, Shon-Roy says. The war, which started in 2014, interrupted global supplies of the gas, about 70% of which comes from Iceblick, a firm based in the Ukrainian city of Odessa.&quot;</i><p>- <i>&quot;Iceblick gathers and purifies neon from large cryogenic air separation units that supply oxygen and nitrogen to steelmakers. Most of the air separation units equipped to capture neon, which makes up only 18.2 ppm of the atmosphere by volume, are in Eastern Europe.&quot;</i><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;pubs.acs.org&#x2F;doi&#x2F;10.1021&#x2F;cen-09410-notw7" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;pubs.acs.org&#x2F;doi&#x2F;10.1021&#x2F;cen-09410-notw7</a><p>This is puzzling to me, because I don&#x27;t get why <i>air separation</i> should naturally concentrate in exactly one place. It&#x27;s not tied to a rare and localized geologic formation, like helium sort-of is.<p>Also there&#x27;s cryogenic air separation plants all over the planet, why don&#x27;t they do neon too? (Asking in the spirit of curiosity)<p>edit #2: I&#x27;ve just found something that offers a possible explanation and it&#x27;s <i>far</i> more interesting than I expected:<p>- <i>&quot;Neon was regarded as a strategic resource in the former Soviet Union, because it was believed to be required for the intended production of laser weapons for missile and satellite defence purposes in the 1980s. Accordingly, all major air separation units in the Soviet Union were equipped with neon, but also krypton and xenon, enrichment facilities or, in some cases, purification plants (cf. Sections 5.4 and 5.5). The domestic Soviet supply of neon was extremely large but demand low.&quot;</i><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.deutsche-rohstoffagentur.de&#x2F;DE&#x2F;Gemeinsames&#x2F;Produkte&#x2F;Downloads&#x2F;DERA_Rohstoffinformationen&#x2F;rohstoffinformationen-39_en.pdf" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.deutsche-rohstoffagentur.de&#x2F;DE&#x2F;Gemeinsames&#x2F;Produ...</a> (chapter 5.2)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>roughly</author><text>Scale and geographic concentration tend to push prices lower, even if just fractionally, and relatively low costs of transport for basically anything in the world mean there&#x27;s no penalty for buying from far away, so there aren&#x27;t many factors pushing back from geographic concentration. Add to that concentration in other industries - a market with fewer larger buyers means larger average individual demand than otherwise, which pushes towards larger or more concentrated suppliers.<p>Loosely, there&#x27;s a lot of economic push towards concentration, and not a lot pushing against it. Geopolitics usually operates on a slower scale than market pressures, which means we get weird things like a vested interest in Ukrainian national security due to it being the only country bothering to manufacture neon in the world.</text></comment> | <story><title>Ukraine is a major producer of neon gas, critical for lasers used in chipmaking</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/breakingviews/ukraine-war-flashes-neon-warning-lights-chips-2022-02-24/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>perihelions</author><text>How is neon extracted and why does one country have a 90% monopoly (in this specific grade)?<p>edit: Found this C&amp;EN story from 2016 that adds context:<p>- <i>&quot;Chip makers, which account for more than 90% of global neon consumption, are already experiencing high prices and some shortages stemming from the Russian conflict with Ukraine, Shon-Roy says. The war, which started in 2014, interrupted global supplies of the gas, about 70% of which comes from Iceblick, a firm based in the Ukrainian city of Odessa.&quot;</i><p>- <i>&quot;Iceblick gathers and purifies neon from large cryogenic air separation units that supply oxygen and nitrogen to steelmakers. Most of the air separation units equipped to capture neon, which makes up only 18.2 ppm of the atmosphere by volume, are in Eastern Europe.&quot;</i><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;pubs.acs.org&#x2F;doi&#x2F;10.1021&#x2F;cen-09410-notw7" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;pubs.acs.org&#x2F;doi&#x2F;10.1021&#x2F;cen-09410-notw7</a><p>This is puzzling to me, because I don&#x27;t get why <i>air separation</i> should naturally concentrate in exactly one place. It&#x27;s not tied to a rare and localized geologic formation, like helium sort-of is.<p>Also there&#x27;s cryogenic air separation plants all over the planet, why don&#x27;t they do neon too? (Asking in the spirit of curiosity)<p>edit #2: I&#x27;ve just found something that offers a possible explanation and it&#x27;s <i>far</i> more interesting than I expected:<p>- <i>&quot;Neon was regarded as a strategic resource in the former Soviet Union, because it was believed to be required for the intended production of laser weapons for missile and satellite defence purposes in the 1980s. Accordingly, all major air separation units in the Soviet Union were equipped with neon, but also krypton and xenon, enrichment facilities or, in some cases, purification plants (cf. Sections 5.4 and 5.5). The domestic Soviet supply of neon was extremely large but demand low.&quot;</i><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.deutsche-rohstoffagentur.de&#x2F;DE&#x2F;Gemeinsames&#x2F;Produkte&#x2F;Downloads&#x2F;DERA_Rohstoffinformationen&#x2F;rohstoffinformationen-39_en.pdf" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.deutsche-rohstoffagentur.de&#x2F;DE&#x2F;Gemeinsames&#x2F;Produ...</a> (chapter 5.2)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tempnow987</author><text>I think it might be tied to steelmaking? Ie, if you are already doing work to generate oxy and nitrogen, getting a byproduct like neon is easier?<p>So CAN the USA separate air? For sure. Maybe it&#x27;s just cheaper. A lot of these stories about disruptions are disruptions of the CHEAP option.</text></comment> |
39,998,495 | 39,995,527 | 1 | 2 | 39,970,136 | train | <story><title>How does the classic Win32 ListView handle incremental searching?</title><url>https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20240408-00/?p=109627</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>_zamorano_</author><text>These are the little things you don&#x27;t notice but make a difference.<p>It&#x27;s a pity this kind of attention to detail is becoming obsolete in favor of flashy but unconvenient UI<p>I expect this behaviour on any list I find in a Windows app. I also expect keystroke consistency, like press F2 to edit... but all this UI things seems old fashioned.<p>I assume I don&#x27;t get that on web apps, but &quot;modern&quot; Windows Apps are also deprecating these conveniences<p>I wonder if in the apple sphere they&#x27;re suffering this kind of degradation.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tsimionescu</author><text>The best example of this decline comes from Microsoft itself.<p>Here is how Microsoft recommends you do find-and-replace in their simple user-friendly ~20 year old note-taking app, OneNote [0]:<p>1. On a blank page, type the replacement text to use, or find it on a page.<p>2. Select the replacement text, and press Ctrl+C (⌘+C on Mac) to copy it to the clipboard.<p>3. Press Ctrl+F (⌘+F on Mac) to find on page, or Ctrl+E (⌘ + Option + F on Mac) search all open notebooks.<p>4. In the search box on the top left for Windows, top right for Mac, type the text to find.<p>5. In Windows, you can select Pin Search Results at the bottom of the results list, or press Alt+O to pin the list. Mac is already pinned.<p>6. In the Search Results pane on the side of your window, select a search result (a text link next to a page icon) to jump to the page where OneNote has highlighted the text it has found.<p>7. On the page, double-click or select each highlighted occurrence of the text, and press Ctrl+V (⌘ + V on Mac) to paste your replacement text over it.<p>Note: When you replace a word or phrase in a sentence, you might need to type a space after the new text is pasted.<p>8. Repeat steps 6-7 for each additional page in the search results list.<p>Tip: If you&#x27;ve got a lot of replacements on a single page, copy your text to Word, find and replace the text, and then paste back into OneNote.<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;support.microsoft.com&#x2F;en-us&#x2F;office&#x2F;find-and-replace-text-in-notes-34b1f7f8-d327-40c5-8b0c-8419425ed68b" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;support.microsoft.com&#x2F;en-us&#x2F;office&#x2F;find-and-replace-...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>How does the classic Win32 ListView handle incremental searching?</title><url>https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20240408-00/?p=109627</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>_zamorano_</author><text>These are the little things you don&#x27;t notice but make a difference.<p>It&#x27;s a pity this kind of attention to detail is becoming obsolete in favor of flashy but unconvenient UI<p>I expect this behaviour on any list I find in a Windows app. I also expect keystroke consistency, like press F2 to edit... but all this UI things seems old fashioned.<p>I assume I don&#x27;t get that on web apps, but &quot;modern&quot; Windows Apps are also deprecating these conveniences<p>I wonder if in the apple sphere they&#x27;re suffering this kind of degradation.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mixmastamyk</author><text>&gt; degradation<p>Definitely, it’s an industry-wide ailment caused by a focus on the web and neophyte users.<p>The irony is that this power user functionality didn’t impede new users, it’s just been gradually forgotten by folks only raised on the web, where almost everything had to be reimplemented from scratch.<p>We gained a lot but lost a lot as well.</text></comment> |
4,686,679 | 4,686,546 | 1 | 3 | 4,686,166 | train | <story><title>Redis 2.6.0 Released</title><url>http://redis.io/download#2.6.0</url><text></text></story><parent_chain><item><author>pjscott</author><text>Joy to all! This means that the Lua scripting is now available in a stable release!<p>Want to use Redis as a very fast bloom filter server? A couple of short Lua scripts can make it happen. Want to do some operation which would require a lot of round-trips to Redis? Turn it into a Lua script and get rid of those network round-trips. Once you get used to having this capability, it starts to feel indespensible, an essential feature that Redis would be incomplete without.<p>Oh, and I guess there are a bunch of other improvements in 2.6 -- reduced memory usage, more convenient command-line options for redis-server, some handy new commands, and a lot more -- but really, the Lua scripting is so good that it outshines everything else.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>burke</author><text>That sounded like fun, so:<p>Bloom filters in redis: <a href="https://gist.github.com/3936629" rel="nofollow">https://gist.github.com/3936629</a><p>Turns out it's kinda hard to get a decent hashing algorithm working in redis-lua-land, but I'm sure an implementation of murmurhash wouldn't be so hard if one had a few hours.<p>EDIT: It's worth mentioning, too, that we've been using a collection of lua scripts to manage inventory reservations at Shopify since March, and the tech has worked very well for us.</text></comment> | <story><title>Redis 2.6.0 Released</title><url>http://redis.io/download#2.6.0</url><text></text></story><parent_chain><item><author>pjscott</author><text>Joy to all! This means that the Lua scripting is now available in a stable release!<p>Want to use Redis as a very fast bloom filter server? A couple of short Lua scripts can make it happen. Want to do some operation which would require a lot of round-trips to Redis? Turn it into a Lua script and get rid of those network round-trips. Once you get used to having this capability, it starts to feel indespensible, an essential feature that Redis would be incomplete without.<p>Oh, and I guess there are a bunch of other improvements in 2.6 -- reduced memory usage, more convenient command-line options for redis-server, some handy new commands, and a lot more -- but really, the Lua scripting is so good that it outshines everything else.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pjungwir</author><text>The Lua scripting is also great if you need two commands to run atomically. I wrote a blog post about this just the other day:<p><a href="http://illuminatedcomputing.com/posts/2012/10/redis-eval/" rel="nofollow">http://illuminatedcomputing.com/posts/2012/10/redis-eval/</a></text></comment> |
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