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228,548 | 228,453 | 1 | 2 | 228,298 | train | <story><title>How Hard Could it Be? Joel Spolsky recalls what it was like to work for Bill Gates</title><url>http://www.inc.com/magazine/20080701/how-hard-could-it-be-glory-days_Printer_Friendly.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>wallflower</author><text>My favorite billg story:<p>I actually heard this originally from my ex-boss when he was telling stories during a lull at his startup. A friend of his worked for MSFT in the 1980s; I was just thrilled that it was googleable as I had the gist of the story but not the detail in my memory.<p>"What are the greatest business lessons Bill has taught you over the years?<p>Very early in my career at Microsoft, around February 1984, we found a data-crashing bug. I wondered if I would get fired over it. I went to Bill with the head of development. I was then the product manager.<p>It was a classic meeting. Bill was on the couch looking down. I explained that we found this bug and that we thought we were going to have to recall the product. He nodded, did his rocking thing and kept looked down. We were both wondering if we would get fired. Bill wasn't saying anything so my anxiety was growing.<p>I explained that we're going to have to recall the product, and that it's going to cost several hundred thousand dollars and be a hit to our reputation. Bill rocks and looks down. We didn't have anything else to say. I thought: Is this when the ax comes?<p>Then Bill looks up and says: "You came in today and lost a few hundred thousand dollars. You come in tomorrow and hope you do better."<p>His expectation wasn't that we weren't going to make mistakes. He wanted to know that we took it seriously and learned from our mistakes. That's very motivating."<p><a href="http://www.forbes.com/technology/2008/06/25/raikes-bill-gates-tech-cz_vb_0625techraikes.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.forbes.com/technology/2008/06/25/raikes-bill-gate...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>How Hard Could it Be? Joel Spolsky recalls what it was like to work for Bill Gates</title><url>http://www.inc.com/magazine/20080701/how-hard-could-it-be-glory-days_Printer_Friendly.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jgrahamc</author><text>Actually this isn't about what it's like to work for Bill Gates, it's about Joel Spolsky and reflected glory.</text></comment> |
12,780,762 | 12,779,579 | 1 | 3 | 12,777,896 | train | <story><title>Is Your Site Leaking Password Reset Links?</title><url>https://robots.thoughtbot.com/is-your-site-leaking-password-reset-links</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>grimmdude</author><text>Can I ask your reasoning in doing this?</text></item><item><author>dmm</author><text>&gt;everyone has JS enabled.<p>Using an addon like NoScript it&#x27;s possible to selectively enable javascript per domain. When a website doesn&#x27;t work without js I am forced to decide whether it&#x27;s worth enabling js for this site. Very often I decide it&#x27;s not worth it and I never use that site again.</text></item><item><author>VertexRed</author><text>It&#x27;s 2016, everyone has JS enabled.<p>The ones that don&#x27;t are most likely bots (now even that&#x27;s changing thanks to projects like phantomjs).</text></item><item><author>oneeyedpigeon</author><text>Obviously, the drawback is that you&#x27;ve introduced a javascript dependency to a core function which definitely doesn&#x27;t require it. Having said that, I notice that paperhive.org renders an entirely blank page if javascript is unavailable, so I guess the password reset is the least of your concerns in that scenario.</text></item><item><author>andrenarchy</author><text>If you use javascript to extract the token from the URL then you can simply pass it via the hash (&quot;fragment&quot;) part of the URL. The hash portion is only interpreted by the user agent and never sent to a server (see <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;tools.ietf.org&#x2F;html&#x2F;rfc3986#section-3.5" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;tools.ietf.org&#x2F;html&#x2F;rfc3986#section-3.5</a>). This is how we solved it at paperhive.org.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mikegerwitz</author><text>When your browser runs JavaScript, it downloading and automatically executing untrusted, unsigned, ephemeral code. Even if the site is over SSL, only the _party_ is validated---the resources themselves are not signed.<p>If your browser instead presented the JavaScript as a program itself, and listed the programs it executed, and from what sources, users would have a wholly different perspective. JavaScript has the illusion of remote execution; most users don&#x27;t think of it as executing programs on their computer.<p>Addons like NoScript are essential security precautions that mitigate a host of attacks. Unfortunately, even security-essential software like the Tor Browser Bundle leaves JS enabled by default because it&#x27;d &quot;break&quot; the web.<p>There&#x27;s other reasons---as a free software user and activist, I won&#x27;t run non-free JavaScript programs.<p>I gave a talk earlier this year about these problems and some ideas to solve them: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;media.libreplanet.org&#x2F;u&#x2F;libreplanet&#x2F;collection&#x2F;restore-online-freedom&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;media.libreplanet.org&#x2F;u&#x2F;libreplanet&#x2F;collection&#x2F;resto...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Is Your Site Leaking Password Reset Links?</title><url>https://robots.thoughtbot.com/is-your-site-leaking-password-reset-links</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>grimmdude</author><text>Can I ask your reasoning in doing this?</text></item><item><author>dmm</author><text>&gt;everyone has JS enabled.<p>Using an addon like NoScript it&#x27;s possible to selectively enable javascript per domain. When a website doesn&#x27;t work without js I am forced to decide whether it&#x27;s worth enabling js for this site. Very often I decide it&#x27;s not worth it and I never use that site again.</text></item><item><author>VertexRed</author><text>It&#x27;s 2016, everyone has JS enabled.<p>The ones that don&#x27;t are most likely bots (now even that&#x27;s changing thanks to projects like phantomjs).</text></item><item><author>oneeyedpigeon</author><text>Obviously, the drawback is that you&#x27;ve introduced a javascript dependency to a core function which definitely doesn&#x27;t require it. Having said that, I notice that paperhive.org renders an entirely blank page if javascript is unavailable, so I guess the password reset is the least of your concerns in that scenario.</text></item><item><author>andrenarchy</author><text>If you use javascript to extract the token from the URL then you can simply pass it via the hash (&quot;fragment&quot;) part of the URL. The hash portion is only interpreted by the user agent and never sent to a server (see <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;tools.ietf.org&#x2F;html&#x2F;rfc3986#section-3.5" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;tools.ietf.org&#x2F;html&#x2F;rfc3986#section-3.5</a>). This is how we solved it at paperhive.org.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>theandrewbailey</author><text>I come to a website to read it, not for it (and who knows what else) to execute code on my machine, no matter how deep into the sandbox it is. If I want to watch the video and allow it to use my data, I will explicitly allow it.</text></comment> |
22,504,474 | 22,503,527 | 1 | 3 | 22,500,649 | train | <story><title>FreeNAS and TrueNAS Are Unifying</title><url>https://www.ixsystems.com/blog/freenas-truenas-unification/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jacquesm</author><text>Excellent news. This is something far more open source projects should do. All this fragmentation is good for nothing, it is <i>far</i> better to have one really good piece of software than 20 half baked ones all doing roughly 80% of the whole.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>coherentpony</author><text>&gt; it is far better to have one really good piece of software than 20 half baked ones all doing roughly 80% of the whole.<p>Except it wasn&#x27;t 20. I was 2. One for free and one for the enterprise.</text></comment> | <story><title>FreeNAS and TrueNAS Are Unifying</title><url>https://www.ixsystems.com/blog/freenas-truenas-unification/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jacquesm</author><text>Excellent news. This is something far more open source projects should do. All this fragmentation is good for nothing, it is <i>far</i> better to have one really good piece of software than 20 half baked ones all doing roughly 80% of the whole.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Deeplybrassic</author><text>&gt;it is far better to have one really good piece of software than 20 half baked ones all doing roughly 80% of the whole.<p>I have to disagree on this one. Multiple diverging projects create _Stability_, whereas a single project creates _fragility_. One bad step on the only project, and it will be all who suffer</text></comment> |
2,846,355 | 2,846,322 | 1 | 3 | 2,845,368 | train | <story><title>Chats are not dead yet</title><url>http://amiadogroup.github.com/candy/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>click170</author><text>Does Pidgin do IRC? I didn't think it did.<p>I wanted to switch to Pidgin a while back because it had support for the kind of encryption I wanted (public key) and Adium didn't, but I ended up not doing it and I thought the reason was because Pidgin doesn't do IRC.<p>Am I misinformed?</text></item><item><author>ciupicri</author><text>Pidgin is another multi-protocol popular option.</text></item><item><author>kaylarose</author><text>I can't tell the difference between IM and IRC in Adium. It's the best non-IRC, IRC client.</text></item><item><author>slowpoke</author><text>Er, no. That's like saying Linux is only CLI. It's outdated misinformation. There are loads of web clients, and you wouldn't believe what kinds of tech illiterate people I've seen on some networks.</text></item><item><author>erikpukinskis</author><text>Except that only techies are able to use IRC. You can throw this on a web server and anyone will be able to use it. You could use it for your church chat room or something.</text></item><item><author>slowpoke</author><text><p><pre><code> Awesome Features!
Beautiful default theme
Join multiple rooms and start private conversations
Get notified when new messages arrive
Ignore spammers and people you don't like
Moderation: Kick and ban users, change the subject of the room
</code></pre>
Um. So basically, they just reinvented IRC, based it on an XMPP backend and spiced it up with a load of funky buzzwords?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Terretta</author><text>Both Pidgin and Adium are based on libpurple[1], which does support IRC.<p>1. <a href="http://developer.pidgin.im/wiki/WhatIsLibpurple" rel="nofollow">http://developer.pidgin.im/wiki/WhatIsLibpurple</a><p>"Pidgin is compatible with the following chat networks out of the box: AIM, ICQ, Google Talk, Jabber/XMPP, MSN Messenger, Yahoo!, Bonjour, Gadu-Gadu, IRC, Novell GroupWise Messenger, QQ, Lotus Sametime, SILC, SIMPLE, MySpaceIM, and Zephyr."[2]<p>2. <a href="http://socghop.appspot.com/org/home/google/gsoc2009/pidgin" rel="nofollow">http://socghop.appspot.com/org/home/google/gsoc2009/pidgin</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Chats are not dead yet</title><url>http://amiadogroup.github.com/candy/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>click170</author><text>Does Pidgin do IRC? I didn't think it did.<p>I wanted to switch to Pidgin a while back because it had support for the kind of encryption I wanted (public key) and Adium didn't, but I ended up not doing it and I thought the reason was because Pidgin doesn't do IRC.<p>Am I misinformed?</text></item><item><author>ciupicri</author><text>Pidgin is another multi-protocol popular option.</text></item><item><author>kaylarose</author><text>I can't tell the difference between IM and IRC in Adium. It's the best non-IRC, IRC client.</text></item><item><author>slowpoke</author><text>Er, no. That's like saying Linux is only CLI. It's outdated misinformation. There are loads of web clients, and you wouldn't believe what kinds of tech illiterate people I've seen on some networks.</text></item><item><author>erikpukinskis</author><text>Except that only techies are able to use IRC. You can throw this on a web server and anyone will be able to use it. You could use it for your church chat room or something.</text></item><item><author>slowpoke</author><text><p><pre><code> Awesome Features!
Beautiful default theme
Join multiple rooms and start private conversations
Get notified when new messages arrive
Ignore spammers and people you don't like
Moderation: Kick and ban users, change the subject of the room
</code></pre>
Um. So basically, they just reinvented IRC, based it on an XMPP backend and spiced it up with a load of funky buzzwords?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>krakensden</author><text>The Pidgin developers are also the libpurple developers- if Adium supports it, so does Pidgin.</text></comment> |
25,139,403 | 25,139,239 | 1 | 3 | 25,136,258 | train | <story><title>Ask HN: What is the best money you have spent on professional development?</title><text>I&#x27;m a software engineer with a budget for professional development, I&#x27;m looking for a good way to spend it.
I&#x27;m curious what other people have found valuable, it could be a book, MOOC, conference etc</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>esond</author><text>Never Split the Difference by Chris Voss. This relatively short book has made more of a difference to my personal livelihood than maybe any other pice of literature or advice.<p>You really don’t realize how much negotiating you do in day to day life. Its good to be comfortable with it.</text></item><item><author>ThePhysicist</author><text>I once did a two-day workshop on negotiation techniques, which covered not only methods but also helped me to become more comfortable dealing with the psychological stress that&#x27;s induced in many negotiation situations. So far I&#x27;d say the course (which was free as I won it as a prize in a business plan competition) is directly responsible for at least 50-100.000 € of additional revenue that I made in the last years, simply because I negotiated more effectively.<p>I&#x27;d highly recommend honing this skill as it will also help you as an employee, as even small gains in salary can add up to quite a lot of money over the years. For freelancers and entrepreneurs negotiation is also important of course and will greatly help you.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ethbr0</author><text>+1<p>One key component that Voss spends a lot of time on -- if your counterparty comes out a negotiation <i>feeling</i> like they lost, everyone loses.<p>The outcome of a successful negotiation is that a fair deal is struck, and everyone feels good (or at least not bad) about it.<p>There are very few situations in the real world that are true one-offs, where you&#x27;ll never have to interact with that counterparty again. Consequently, scorched-Earth is a poor long-term approach.</text></comment> | <story><title>Ask HN: What is the best money you have spent on professional development?</title><text>I&#x27;m a software engineer with a budget for professional development, I&#x27;m looking for a good way to spend it.
I&#x27;m curious what other people have found valuable, it could be a book, MOOC, conference etc</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>esond</author><text>Never Split the Difference by Chris Voss. This relatively short book has made more of a difference to my personal livelihood than maybe any other pice of literature or advice.<p>You really don’t realize how much negotiating you do in day to day life. Its good to be comfortable with it.</text></item><item><author>ThePhysicist</author><text>I once did a two-day workshop on negotiation techniques, which covered not only methods but also helped me to become more comfortable dealing with the psychological stress that&#x27;s induced in many negotiation situations. So far I&#x27;d say the course (which was free as I won it as a prize in a business plan competition) is directly responsible for at least 50-100.000 € of additional revenue that I made in the last years, simply because I negotiated more effectively.<p>I&#x27;d highly recommend honing this skill as it will also help you as an employee, as even small gains in salary can add up to quite a lot of money over the years. For freelancers and entrepreneurs negotiation is also important of course and will greatly help you.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>5555624</author><text>There&#x27;s also a TEDx talk: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ted.com&#x2F;talks&#x2F;chris_voss_never_split_the_difference" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ted.com&#x2F;talks&#x2F;chris_voss_never_split_the_differe...</a></text></comment> |
36,829,798 | 36,829,344 | 1 | 3 | 36,828,409 | train | <story><title>Shopify employee breaks NDA to reveal firm replacing laid off workers with AI</title><url>https://thedeepdive.ca/shopify-employee-breaks-nda-to-reveal-firm-quietly-replacing-laid-off-workers-with-ai/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ghaff</author><text>There&#x27;s been a pretty steady trend towards automation, chatbots, self-service, etc. replacing getting an empowered human on the line. Given labor costs and labor shortages, expect even more.<p>Had an airline thing that the website (and app) wouldn&#x27;t let me complete online. Spent ages on hold but then was able to get hold of their premium account number and was fixed right away. (Of course, would actually have preferred if I could have just completed the change online.)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>hn_throwaway_99</author><text>&gt; Of course, would actually have preferred if I could have just completed the change online.<p>It&#x27;s so interesting to me how generational this is, and how it changed so quickly.<p>I used to work in something tangentially related to real estate. The sellers&#x2F;landlords tended to all be older (50+, this was about 10 years ago), while the renters&#x2F;some buyers tended to be millennials and younger. The older folks went apoplectic when we tried to move more communication onto our online platform: &quot;I always talk to every potential renter on the phone. I feel I can discern a lot about someone from a phone call.&quot; Meanwhile, younger folks generally <i>despised</i> having to talk to someone on the phone - if they couldn&#x27;t complete the whole transaction online they were much more likely to bail.<p>Not making a judgment about either approach, really just thought it was interesting how stark the divide was and how it changed so quickly.</text></comment> | <story><title>Shopify employee breaks NDA to reveal firm replacing laid off workers with AI</title><url>https://thedeepdive.ca/shopify-employee-breaks-nda-to-reveal-firm-quietly-replacing-laid-off-workers-with-ai/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ghaff</author><text>There&#x27;s been a pretty steady trend towards automation, chatbots, self-service, etc. replacing getting an empowered human on the line. Given labor costs and labor shortages, expect even more.<p>Had an airline thing that the website (and app) wouldn&#x27;t let me complete online. Spent ages on hold but then was able to get hold of their premium account number and was fixed right away. (Of course, would actually have preferred if I could have just completed the change online.)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>toomuchtodo</author><text>There is a billboard on the 101 southbound from SF I drove past last night that said “An AI bot trained on the entirety of human knowledge wants a job on your support team.”<p>Amusingly, this is the sort of filter you want to push management through to determine levels of both competency and empathy (“what is the true practicality of this?” and “should we do this?”).<p>Edit: found someone’s photo of it: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;old.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;ChatGPT&#x2F;comments&#x2F;150vold&#x2F;does_anyone_know_about_this_sign_in_san_francisco&#x2F;" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;old.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;ChatGPT&#x2F;comments&#x2F;150vold&#x2F;does_anyon...</a> | <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;i.redd.it&#x2F;kgu48tgk09cb1.jpg" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;i.redd.it&#x2F;kgu48tgk09cb1.jpg</a></text></comment> |
4,600,996 | 4,601,045 | 1 | 2 | 4,600,897 | train | <story><title>You are getting sleeeeeeepy ...</title><url>http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/cosmicvariance/2012/10/01/you-are-getting-sleeeeeeepy/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>lutusp</author><text>I have a story seemingly remotely associated with this, but actually very much the same.<p>Years ago, at highway construction sites, sawhorses would be erected that were equipped with flashing lights for safety after dark. In those days the flashing lights were gas-discharge lamps connected to a simple charging circuit consisting of a capacitor connected across the lamp and charged by way of a resistor -- a very simple arrangement, but one that would reliably flash the light all night long.<p>It turns out that the specific moment the lamp broke down and flashed could be affected by nearby lights of the same kind. As a result, if a large number of sawhorses were erected in a dark location, eventually all the lights would get into synchronization. I can remember on a number of occasions on long trips through dark countrysides, cresting a hill and seeing a construction site in the distance, with all the lights flashing as one.<p>As I would approach closer, as my headlights shone more brightly on the construction lights, they would go out of sync.<p>This is a purely historical note, because modern construction sawhorses use LEDs instead of high-voltage gas-discharge lamps -- cheaper and more reliable. The LED's never become synchronized, of course.</text></comment> | <story><title>You are getting sleeeeeeepy ...</title><url>http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/cosmicvariance/2012/10/01/you-are-getting-sleeeeeeepy/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>alan_cx</author><text>There is a place in the UK where this happens with spooky regularity with people walking. There is a covered walk way between Waterloo and Waterloo East railway stations. The mob of people enter it unsynchronised and by the time they leave, they are usually all synchronised. I assume this happens in many other places too, I just haven't been every where else to see!!!!<p>I always assumed this was because people can hear each other and subliminally fall in to syc, whether this is the same or not, Im already internally debating!!!</text></comment> |
12,856,487 | 12,856,468 | 1 | 3 | 12,854,785 | train | <story><title>How Lyft screwed me out of a $350 referral bonus</title><url>http://imgur.com/gallery/QZbvw</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bosdev</author><text>Not just that, but RideAustin is a non-profit and mimics virtually every feature of Uber. I seriously wonder if non-profit versions of the business will expand into other cities and challenge Uber and Lyfts margins.</text></item><item><author>ajford</author><text>So Lyft and Uber recently threw a tantrum and fled Austin TX when a vote on legislature regarding TNCs didn&#x27;t go their way.<p>A few new local companies have popped up to fill the hole in the market, and many have attracted drivers who were formerly with Lyft and Uber.<p>I&#x27;ve talked to a few of them about the new companies versus Lyft&#x2F;Uber, and every single one of them has voiced the same thing; Lyft and Uber treat their drivers like shit, pull questionable stunts like this (one even mentioned something similar, except his app kept crashing or signing him out for 48 hours before the deadline for his 100 ride bonus, preventing him from getting the last few rides), and generally being dicks towards their &quot;independent drivers&quot;.<p>Every single driver I asked said they wouldn&#x27;t go back to Uber&#x2F;Lyft. Most even indicated they wouldn&#x27;t go back even if Uber&#x2F;Lyft returned and drove the new companies out of business.<p>I&#x27;ve had great experiences with many drivers, and I hate think that they&#x27;ve been getting such a rotten deal from these companies.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>chimeracoder</author><text>&gt; I seriously wonder if non-profit versions of the business will expand into other cities and challenge Uber and Lyfts margins.<p>Why would non-profits inherently be able to beat Lyft or Uber&#x27;s margins?<p>Non-profits, despite the name, are not prohibited from making a profit. Conversely, the &quot;profit&quot; referred to in &quot;for-profit companies&quot; doesn&#x27;t come out of their margins.<p>And even if you&#x27;re talking about their bottom line rather than their margins, it&#x27;s not like venture-backed companies are required to run at an operating profit anyway. To my knowledge, Uber has never actually issued GAAP accounting demonstrating that they&#x27;re turning a profit[0]. Which makes sense - the whole point of raising outside capital is to spend money faster than you&#x27;d otherwise have access to it. <i>Both</i> non-profits and for-profit companies do this.<p>Non-profits are functionally equivalent to for-profit companies. The only distinction in this case is that a non-profit would have a harder time raising money, because they <i>can&#x27;t</i> provide equity in exchange for the outside funding they obtain, whereas a for-profit company can.<p>[0] They&#x27;ve made plenty of <i>non</i>-GAAP claims, but that doesn&#x27;t mean anything.</text></comment> | <story><title>How Lyft screwed me out of a $350 referral bonus</title><url>http://imgur.com/gallery/QZbvw</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bosdev</author><text>Not just that, but RideAustin is a non-profit and mimics virtually every feature of Uber. I seriously wonder if non-profit versions of the business will expand into other cities and challenge Uber and Lyfts margins.</text></item><item><author>ajford</author><text>So Lyft and Uber recently threw a tantrum and fled Austin TX when a vote on legislature regarding TNCs didn&#x27;t go their way.<p>A few new local companies have popped up to fill the hole in the market, and many have attracted drivers who were formerly with Lyft and Uber.<p>I&#x27;ve talked to a few of them about the new companies versus Lyft&#x2F;Uber, and every single one of them has voiced the same thing; Lyft and Uber treat their drivers like shit, pull questionable stunts like this (one even mentioned something similar, except his app kept crashing or signing him out for 48 hours before the deadline for his 100 ride bonus, preventing him from getting the last few rides), and generally being dicks towards their &quot;independent drivers&quot;.<p>Every single driver I asked said they wouldn&#x27;t go back to Uber&#x2F;Lyft. Most even indicated they wouldn&#x27;t go back even if Uber&#x2F;Lyft returned and drove the new companies out of business.<p>I&#x27;ve had great experiences with many drivers, and I hate think that they&#x27;ve been getting such a rotten deal from these companies.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mikefivedeuce</author><text>I was in Austin two weeks ago and was worried about the lack of Uber&#x2F;Lyft. I had great experiences using RideAustin. A driver even mentioned that they pay him 2x fares to drive out to areas like the F1 track because it&#x27;s outside of the city.</text></comment> |
24,979,667 | 24,978,503 | 1 | 3 | 24,974,759 | train | <story><title>The public has a right to know how companies that pay no taxes pull it off</title><url>http://larrysummers.com/2020/11/02/many-companies-pay-nothing-in-taxes-the-public-has-a-right-to-know-how-they-pull-it-off/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>harry8</author><text>&gt;this is why it makes sense that companies can walk a fine line on taxes, save tons of money, and you and I cannot.<p>Nope, these are the reasons that cause the situation. This outcome does &#x2F;not&#x2F; make sense nobody sane without a huge vested interest would design a system to achieve less tax paid when you earn more. It&#x27;s entirely contrary to the intent and spirit of the tax code. This is not sensible. How to fix it? That&#x27;s harder. Start with its a problem and morally and ethically wrong. It&#x27;s really the only place to start from. I would say keep in mind two wrongs is not an improvement and unchecked government power is far worse than tax cheats but that does not change where this discussion should start.</text></item><item><author>gnicholas</author><text>This is a case of economies of scale. A fairly wealthy person could save maybe $50,000 per year with the advice of the smartest tax lawyers and accountants in the world. But it would cost them $500,000 per year to pay for the structure to be created&#x2F;updated.<p>When I worked as a tax lawyer, we created structures and defended cases that saved our clients hundreds of millions of dollars. At this scale, paying for our services was a no-brainer.<p>On top of that, big companies lobby lawmakers to make the tax system favorable to them. This makes sense for the same reason: paying a couple million dollars to create&#x2F;maintain a provision that saves $100M&#x2F;yr is a no-brainer.<p>I&#x27;m not saying any of this is right or good (and I am no longer a tax lawyer; I now build tools that help people with disabilities). I&#x27;m just saying this is why it makes sense that companies can walk a fine line on taxes, save tons of money, and you and I cannot.</text></item><item><author>ALittleLight</author><text>I read about tax avoidance schemes like corporate inversions or sending all your patents to a company in some tax free haven and licensing your patents from your company for all your profits, and so on, and it makes me really mad. Companies making many billions of dollars paying no taxes.<p>My intuition is that if I personally came up with a cute &quot;gotcha&quot; like this where I wound up paying zero in taxes because of some loophole, I would go to prison. Why isn&#x27;t the same standard applied to rich companies?<p>&quot;You&#x27;re technically owned by an Irish company you invented to avoid taxes? Cool. The c-suite plus your accountants are going to prison for the next five years and we&#x27;re seizing the X billion you actually owe plus a punitive fine.&quot;<p>These tax shenanigans would stop if laws were enforced.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jimmydddd</author><text>It seems like the comment (from a former tax advisor) you are responding to is explaining that the high cost of gaming the system is cost effective for large companies, but not for individuals. In that respect, it &quot;makes sense&quot; that individuals cannot take advantage of these loopholes that companies use.<p>In contrast, you seem to be arguing a different point--that, to you, it &quot;doesn&#x27;t make sense&quot; that the system is designed poorly.</text></comment> | <story><title>The public has a right to know how companies that pay no taxes pull it off</title><url>http://larrysummers.com/2020/11/02/many-companies-pay-nothing-in-taxes-the-public-has-a-right-to-know-how-they-pull-it-off/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>harry8</author><text>&gt;this is why it makes sense that companies can walk a fine line on taxes, save tons of money, and you and I cannot.<p>Nope, these are the reasons that cause the situation. This outcome does &#x2F;not&#x2F; make sense nobody sane without a huge vested interest would design a system to achieve less tax paid when you earn more. It&#x27;s entirely contrary to the intent and spirit of the tax code. This is not sensible. How to fix it? That&#x27;s harder. Start with its a problem and morally and ethically wrong. It&#x27;s really the only place to start from. I would say keep in mind two wrongs is not an improvement and unchecked government power is far worse than tax cheats but that does not change where this discussion should start.</text></item><item><author>gnicholas</author><text>This is a case of economies of scale. A fairly wealthy person could save maybe $50,000 per year with the advice of the smartest tax lawyers and accountants in the world. But it would cost them $500,000 per year to pay for the structure to be created&#x2F;updated.<p>When I worked as a tax lawyer, we created structures and defended cases that saved our clients hundreds of millions of dollars. At this scale, paying for our services was a no-brainer.<p>On top of that, big companies lobby lawmakers to make the tax system favorable to them. This makes sense for the same reason: paying a couple million dollars to create&#x2F;maintain a provision that saves $100M&#x2F;yr is a no-brainer.<p>I&#x27;m not saying any of this is right or good (and I am no longer a tax lawyer; I now build tools that help people with disabilities). I&#x27;m just saying this is why it makes sense that companies can walk a fine line on taxes, save tons of money, and you and I cannot.</text></item><item><author>ALittleLight</author><text>I read about tax avoidance schemes like corporate inversions or sending all your patents to a company in some tax free haven and licensing your patents from your company for all your profits, and so on, and it makes me really mad. Companies making many billions of dollars paying no taxes.<p>My intuition is that if I personally came up with a cute &quot;gotcha&quot; like this where I wound up paying zero in taxes because of some loophole, I would go to prison. Why isn&#x27;t the same standard applied to rich companies?<p>&quot;You&#x27;re technically owned by an Irish company you invented to avoid taxes? Cool. The c-suite plus your accountants are going to prison for the next five years and we&#x27;re seizing the X billion you actually owe plus a punitive fine.&quot;<p>These tax shenanigans would stop if laws were enforced.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>willyt</author><text>If only there was a website where people who automate things congregate. They could automate creating this legal structure so we could all do it, then governments would be forced to do something about it.</text></comment> |
18,128,604 | 18,128,537 | 1 | 2 | 18,127,811 | train | <story><title>Academic Grievance Studies and the Corruption of Scholarship</title><url>https://areomagazine.com/2018/10/02/academic-grievance-studies-and-the-corruption-of-scholarship/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Yoric</author><text>While this article is interesting, it does start from a pretty strong assumption: that the problem is specific to one branch (or family of branches) of Academia.<p>I remember at least two similar scandals in very much non-social-justice-related branches of Academia. One was in postmodern studies, if I recall correctly, the other one I think in epistemology. In one case, the paper had been written to deliberately mean nothing, in the other one, I seem to remember that the papers had been generated with Markov chains.<p>So, based on the same data, my personal conclusion is that some fields of Academia are vulnerable to bullshit, whether it&#x27;s sophistry or simply using the right lingo. It is a pretty bad sign, and I suspect that it is correlated with fields in which results are hard to check&#x2F;reproduce.<p>It may also be correlated with ideology (I remember that this was the accusation towards postmodern studies), which doesn&#x27;t mean that it is correlated with <i>any specific ideology</i>.<p>In other words: promising research, but the starting hypothesis and its possible limitations need to be expressed more clearly, and much more data needed.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>spaniard89277</author><text>I studied Sociology in Spain. I&#x27;d say that this problems are correlated with almost anything related with the school of Frankfurt &#x2F; critical theorists. Not only do they have this problems, but professors affiliated with this school of thought were incredibly pervasive, manipulative and conspirative against other professors and students that didn&#x27;t agree with them or had other worldviews.<p>I had feminist theory as subject. I remember one day we were talking about power dynamics in sex and all that Jazz. The professor said something along the lines that the state should teach people which sex positions were misogynist. She asked the students for opinions and I said that I wasn&#x27;t cool with the state watching what people does in their bedroom. Exposed my arguments, and she was out of her mind, calling me a &quot;neoliberal&quot; in front of my peers, and even talking about me with other classes (other students told me).<p>That was the first time that I was aware of this behavior. Later I found that this group of people maneuvered to make life difficult to other professors, sabotaging their research etc etc.<p>Thankfully there was the other bunch of people that made it tolerable. Statistics I, II, III, Research Methodology I &amp; II, Macroeconomics I &amp; II, Anthropology (he was clearly a conservative) and some others I forgot.<p>Maybe all this transfers to publishing. Speaking with students from other faculties in Spain and other countries, I&#x27;ve heard similar stories.<p>To this day I think studying sociology was a waste of my time. It was interesting, and having statistics and research background made me employable, but to be honest the atmosphere was barely tolerable.</text></comment> | <story><title>Academic Grievance Studies and the Corruption of Scholarship</title><url>https://areomagazine.com/2018/10/02/academic-grievance-studies-and-the-corruption-of-scholarship/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Yoric</author><text>While this article is interesting, it does start from a pretty strong assumption: that the problem is specific to one branch (or family of branches) of Academia.<p>I remember at least two similar scandals in very much non-social-justice-related branches of Academia. One was in postmodern studies, if I recall correctly, the other one I think in epistemology. In one case, the paper had been written to deliberately mean nothing, in the other one, I seem to remember that the papers had been generated with Markov chains.<p>So, based on the same data, my personal conclusion is that some fields of Academia are vulnerable to bullshit, whether it&#x27;s sophistry or simply using the right lingo. It is a pretty bad sign, and I suspect that it is correlated with fields in which results are hard to check&#x2F;reproduce.<p>It may also be correlated with ideology (I remember that this was the accusation towards postmodern studies), which doesn&#x27;t mean that it is correlated with <i>any specific ideology</i>.<p>In other words: promising research, but the starting hypothesis and its possible limitations need to be expressed more clearly, and much more data needed.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Sniffnoy</author><text>I think you&#x27;re mistaken, largely in that you&#x27;re construing the ideology being targeted too narrowly. Note the bit at the beginning about &quot;critical constructivism&quot; -- this is certainly not only about Social Justice; that&#x27;s just where it&#x27;s the most obvious.<p>In short, this isn&#x27;t just about certain fields being vulnerable to sophistry and bullshit. This is about a number of fields or subfields which are dominated by (not merely vulnerable to) bullshit and sophistry <i>for a common reason</i>, namely, that they have, for what could be called ideological reasons, abandoned the preconditions that make actual truth-seeking possible. Social Justice and the postmodern studies are both part of this; they are related, contrary to what you claim.</text></comment> |
37,501,467 | 37,501,626 | 1 | 2 | 37,500,752 | train | <story><title>Earth beyond six of nine planetary boundaries</title><url>https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adh2458</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Liquix</author><text>&gt; Clearly, it is in humanity&#x27;s best interest to...<p>Herein lies the problem. What happens to the environment is not governed by &quot;humanity&#x27;s best interest&quot;, it&#x27;s governed by whomever has the most power and the biggest stick. These entities act in their own best interest.<p>To the Chinese government, more factories = more money = more power = good. To the US government, more military equipment = more power = good. At the executive level of either organization one would be laughed out of the room for suggesting environmental issues should take priority over national security.<p>But it&#x27;s not just two countries, it&#x27;s every single country making these types of decisions for 100+ years... And if $country doesn&#x27;t build that weapons facility or export that labor, $otherCountry will, therefore $country will be at a disadvantage. Repeat ad infitium.<p>Those in power are far more concerned with maintaining and leveraging that power than they are with &quot;humanity&#x27;s best interest&quot;.</text></comment> | <story><title>Earth beyond six of nine planetary boundaries</title><url>https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adh2458</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>toss1</author><text>Note that the areas of the three largest deviations are, in order: Biosphere Integrity, Novel Entities (synthetic chemical &amp; processes), and Biogeochemical Flows.<p>The entire ecosystem on which we depend for sustenance is an extremely complex web of interlocking dependencies, from plankton to pollinators, to soil microbiota, to temperature &amp; hydration, and so on, endlessly.<p>This is the food web. If it collapses, we as a species are beyond fooked. Because it is so complex (and even something relatively simple such as CO2-driven greenhouse effect climate change is too complex for the lower half of the population to understand), it is barely even discussed.<p>But make no mistake, the food web is under massive assault from all kinds of human activities (and even the artificial agriculture web is coming up against the hard limit of a phosphorus crisis). This is likely to be a sooner and more catastrophic failure than the climate crisis. The Fine Article nicely clarifies some of the threat.</text></comment> |
39,409,591 | 39,405,156 | 1 | 2 | 39,402,876 | train | <story><title>The majority of traffic from X may have been fake during the Super Bowl</title><url>https://mashable.com/article/x-twitter-elon-musk-bots-fake-traffic</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>candiddevmike</author><text>&gt; someone chimes in about how much better the conversations&#x2F;etc are on Twitter since Musk took over<p>I always assume these types of comments are some kind of dog whistle</text></item><item><author>unshavedyak</author><text>It&#x27;s interesting to me how hot and cold descriptions are of Twitter. You get posts like these, but then someone chimes in about how much better the conversations&#x2F;etc are on Twitter since Musk took over.<p>I&#x27;m not on Twitter so i can&#x27;t really make sense of it. I feel like i see more negative than positive.. but still.. it&#x27;s bizarre to me that there&#x27;s people in both camps. More than likely some of them are biased.. but still, i find it &quot;interesting&quot;.</text></item><item><author>lucidone</author><text>Every day I get new followers on twitter that are sex bots and onlyfans catfishes. Nothing else. Seems like the platform is a wasteland.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Zigurd</author><text>The &quot;It&#x27;s better now&quot; comments are always of the same form, and never any examples of some great discussion. That&#x27;s lazy, even for a bot.</text></comment> | <story><title>The majority of traffic from X may have been fake during the Super Bowl</title><url>https://mashable.com/article/x-twitter-elon-musk-bots-fake-traffic</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>candiddevmike</author><text>&gt; someone chimes in about how much better the conversations&#x2F;etc are on Twitter since Musk took over<p>I always assume these types of comments are some kind of dog whistle</text></item><item><author>unshavedyak</author><text>It&#x27;s interesting to me how hot and cold descriptions are of Twitter. You get posts like these, but then someone chimes in about how much better the conversations&#x2F;etc are on Twitter since Musk took over.<p>I&#x27;m not on Twitter so i can&#x27;t really make sense of it. I feel like i see more negative than positive.. but still.. it&#x27;s bizarre to me that there&#x27;s people in both camps. More than likely some of them are biased.. but still, i find it &quot;interesting&quot;.</text></item><item><author>lucidone</author><text>Every day I get new followers on twitter that are sex bots and onlyfans catfishes. Nothing else. Seems like the platform is a wasteland.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>asadotzler</author><text>&gt; to whom and why<p>To the Nazis that were kicked off or fled when Twitter had decent moderation to let them know Nazi conversations are flowing like wine and they&#x27;re welcome back.</text></comment> |
27,005,865 | 27,005,871 | 1 | 3 | 27,003,445 | train | <story><title>John Tiller has died</title><url>https://johntillersoftware.com/index.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jbgreer</author><text>As I said on the condolences page, John Tiller had a profound impact on my life. As a high school student I participated in a summer study program at a local college where John was an instructor. He provided a whirlwind review of programming languages and gave us assignments in each. I can only say that the lightbulb came on - the notion that there could be so many languages, with so many different affordances,so many ways of expressing problems, fascinated me then and continues to this day. I spent years afterwards trying to track down John until a chance posting on HN led me to John Tiller Software, and an opportunity to thank him. My wife asked me this morning how was it that he had such an impact in so short a time, and I can only say that he taught me what It was that I wanted to learn and set me on a path of discovery.</text></comment> | <story><title>John Tiller has died</title><url>https://johntillersoftware.com/index.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>steamboiler</author><text>I had a lot of fun playing John Tiller&#x27;s Campaign Series by myself and with my buddies. We&#x27;d play the turn based, company&#x2F;battalion level tactical game on a single computer using its unique single-machine play feature. I can still remember the hex tiles, and the catchy background music.<p>Thanks for all the memories. RIP John.</text></comment> |
2,383,256 | 2,381,104 | 1 | 3 | 2,380,441 | train | <story><title>Goal Hacks: How to Achieve Anything</title><url>http://www.spring.org.uk/2011/03/11-goal-hacks-how-to-achieve-anything.php</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>InfinityX0</author><text>The great paradox of this article is that the ultimate way to achieve things is to evolve to a point where you stop reading these kinds of posts. When your media diet is greatly composed of easily digestible lists that instead of instructing effectively end up only distracting you from achieving, you begin a reductive process towards not actually achieving at all.<p>I'd go as far as to say this article will not help a single person as far as it comes to "achieving" anything. Will it create a momentary dopamine pulse for those that read it? That enjoy clicking? That enjoy distraction? Yes.<p>But thats not how doing anything worth a shit gets done - other than temporary brain relaxation - and that could have been spent more effectively driveling around I Can Has Cheezburger instead of this article.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>datasink</author><text>I think that's a bit extreme. If you have some fundamental issue with getting things done, articles like these are clearly not going to help you. If you're already productive, and looking for tips to optimize your execution, it makes for interesting reading. There were several ideas I hadn't seen mentioned on other lists, and some cited journal publications. Not too shabby.<p>I had a problem with procrastination when I was younger. I wasted a significant amount of time reading a bunch of very poor-quality linkbait blog articles, trying to find something that helped. When I finally bought The Now Habit (print edition and audiobook for my car), I was able to apply a coherent system rather than piecemeal techniques, and this helped to correct what was a fairly big problem for me. Now that I have a system that works for me, small tips are useful. Prior, not so much.</text></comment> | <story><title>Goal Hacks: How to Achieve Anything</title><url>http://www.spring.org.uk/2011/03/11-goal-hacks-how-to-achieve-anything.php</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>InfinityX0</author><text>The great paradox of this article is that the ultimate way to achieve things is to evolve to a point where you stop reading these kinds of posts. When your media diet is greatly composed of easily digestible lists that instead of instructing effectively end up only distracting you from achieving, you begin a reductive process towards not actually achieving at all.<p>I'd go as far as to say this article will not help a single person as far as it comes to "achieving" anything. Will it create a momentary dopamine pulse for those that read it? That enjoy clicking? That enjoy distraction? Yes.<p>But thats not how doing anything worth a shit gets done - other than temporary brain relaxation - and that could have been spent more effectively driveling around I Can Has Cheezburger instead of this article.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>sebkomianos</author><text>You can't actually "evolve to a point where you stop reading these kinds of posts". This is just the result of evolving to a point where you start doing things.<p>I think the paradox is elsewhere: These articles defeat their purpose. "Start starting" can be paraphrased as "You shouldn't be reading this right now".<p>I was reading a product review last night and the author started with something like this: "Stop reading. Go buy "ProductX". Use it. Come back and read the rest if you want". And that should be the point every positive review should be making.</text></comment> |
32,973,445 | 32,973,476 | 1 | 2 | 32,971,956 | train | <story><title>Citing new evidence, families sue feds, Raytheon, Lockheed over 1996 TWA crash</title><url>https://lawstreetmedia.com/news/citing-new-evidence-surviving-family-members-sue-feds-raytheon-and-lockheed-martin-over-1996-twa-crash/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ruddct</author><text>The lawsuit[0] is worth a read and goes into quite a bit of detail about the claimed timeline. Roughly:<p>* Upgraded missile defense systems were deemed a national security priority around this time<p>* Navy ships compatible with these systems were 5 years out, so…<p>* Live missile testing happens at a compatible land base in New Jersey, under congested airspace<p>* Multiple civilians report seeing missile tests in &amp; around the date of the TWA crash<p>* Missile test hits TWA jet. Instead of the NTSB running the investigation (like normal), the CIA and FBI are immediately put in charge<p>* CIA&#x2F;FBI confiscate records, run PR campaign claiming the crash was “NOT A MISSILE”, mislead the families and general public about the incident<p>* Missile tests continue post-crash<p>Damning if true, to say the least.<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.docketalarm.com&#x2F;cases&#x2F;Massachusetts_District_Court&#x2F;1--22-cv-11032&#x2F;Krick_et_al_v._Raytheon_Company_et_al&#x2F;docs&#x2F;6.pdf" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.docketalarm.com&#x2F;cases&#x2F;Massachusetts_District_Cou...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>woodruffw</author><text>I feel terribly for these families, but the evidence presented in this filing is circumstantial at best: it adds nothing to contradict the <i>overwhelming</i> evidence (including the recovered fuselage) that nothing collided with the aircraft.<p>It’s easy to see ghosts everywhere, and sometimes they really are there. But TWA 800 probably isn’t one of those cases.</text></comment> | <story><title>Citing new evidence, families sue feds, Raytheon, Lockheed over 1996 TWA crash</title><url>https://lawstreetmedia.com/news/citing-new-evidence-surviving-family-members-sue-feds-raytheon-and-lockheed-martin-over-1996-twa-crash/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ruddct</author><text>The lawsuit[0] is worth a read and goes into quite a bit of detail about the claimed timeline. Roughly:<p>* Upgraded missile defense systems were deemed a national security priority around this time<p>* Navy ships compatible with these systems were 5 years out, so…<p>* Live missile testing happens at a compatible land base in New Jersey, under congested airspace<p>* Multiple civilians report seeing missile tests in &amp; around the date of the TWA crash<p>* Missile test hits TWA jet. Instead of the NTSB running the investigation (like normal), the CIA and FBI are immediately put in charge<p>* CIA&#x2F;FBI confiscate records, run PR campaign claiming the crash was “NOT A MISSILE”, mislead the families and general public about the incident<p>* Missile tests continue post-crash<p>Damning if true, to say the least.<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.docketalarm.com&#x2F;cases&#x2F;Massachusetts_District_Court&#x2F;1--22-cv-11032&#x2F;Krick_et_al_v._Raytheon_Company_et_al&#x2F;docs&#x2F;6.pdf" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.docketalarm.com&#x2F;cases&#x2F;Massachusetts_District_Cou...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>some_random</author><text>I&#x27;m really not convinced, the linchpin of the missile argument is that the CIA and FBI were put in charge to cover up a missile shootdown, but it&#x27;s pretty well documented that they were put in charge because it was a suspected terrorist attack. Everything else is circumstantial evidence at best. I&#x27;m certainly interested in what shakes out of this court case, but as of right now it just seems like a typical conspiracy theory to me.</text></comment> |
18,692,653 | 18,691,089 | 1 | 2 | 18,690,906 | train | <story><title>Apple Computers Used to Be Built in the U.S. It Was a Mess</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/15/business/apple-california-manufacturing-history.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>inieves</author><text>This was a disappointing article on a few levels.<p>1) it doesn’t make a clear logical case for why manufacturing isn’t done by Apple (or many other companies) in the US, right now<p>2) it doesn’t give reasoning about why sotuation is unlikely to change, or if it does change, how it will not look anything like industrial-era factory labor manufacturing<p>3) it doesn’t explain that these realities have nothing to do with Apple, except that Apple finds these economic realities faster than other companies<p>4) it ends completey abruptly without drawing any real conclusion or thesis or adding any insight (based on solid reasoning)<p>===<p>The fact that Jean Louis Gassed can’t use a screwdriver has nothing to do with anything...
Manufacturing of complex computer systems is complex, therefore requires many different competencies, said competencies must communicate to resolve challenges, and that in and of itself is hard. This hardness requires (literally) an ecosystem of skilled workers to address. Could Apple (or any other company) build such an ecosystem? Yes, if they did it from scratch early on, when the cost to build it was low because the ecosystem was relatively simple. But now, its not a simple ecosystem, and it would be painfully expensive to replicate.<p>It should be noted that there is probably a strong difference in the complexity (therefore difficulty) of manufacturing high tech products versus other consumer products like cars&#x2F;trucks, general electronics. That difference is the velocity&#x2F;pace of new features going to market, required to drive sales. Tech products literally compete on feature sets. Sales of cars and toasters and espresso makers can depend on many factors and so they are not constantly racing to update the product every 6-12 months. I could be wrong here, but I believe the conclusion that tech manufacturing is like all other kinds of manufacturing is baseless. And in fact, the fact that so much has moved to China is the strongest evidence that it can’t simply exist anywhere.</text></comment> | <story><title>Apple Computers Used to Be Built in the U.S. It Was a Mess</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/15/business/apple-california-manufacturing-history.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>pinewurst</author><text>This is a very stupid article. It describes* the lack of economic success of two somewhat automated factories built to produce large numbers of computers during an interval when neither&#x27;s products were popular enough to justify their scale. It&#x27;s like judging the economics of the Edsel factory in 1959 and generalizing that large scale US auto production was a stupid idea.<p>*Fixed - bad wording choice</text></comment> |
35,528,910 | 35,528,960 | 1 | 3 | 35,528,281 | train | <story><title>Elizabeth Holmes loses bid to stay out of prison</title><url>https://www.cnbc.com/2023/04/11/theranos-elizabeth-holmes-loses-bid-to-stay-out-of-prison.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>KindAndFriendly</author><text>Reading this entire story, it baffles me that as of today I can still add a &quot;Full Self-Driving Capability&quot; option when ordering a Tesla.</text></comment> | <story><title>Elizabeth Holmes loses bid to stay out of prison</title><url>https://www.cnbc.com/2023/04/11/theranos-elizabeth-holmes-loses-bid-to-stay-out-of-prison.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>AndrewKemendo</author><text>Holmes, Madoff etc... are all the proof that you need that the only people who go to Jail for fraud are the ones whose fraud hurts specifically investors.</text></comment> |
14,137,935 | 14,137,813 | 1 | 2 | 14,137,537 | train | <story><title>Google Earth Redesigned</title><url>https://www.google.com/earth/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>therealmarv</author><text>It seems this is the Google way. They kill one product (especially a desktop product) and it takes years till the new one is on every feature on the same level as the old one... look at Picasa vs. Google Photos. Even today Picasa can do many more things that Google Photos cannot do today. I&#x27;m sure the native&#x2F;old Google Earth has a ton of stuff which is not ported to the web version.<p>Good they cannot convert Chrome itself as a web app :D</text></item><item><author>watbe</author><text>Looks like the Google Earth Flight Simulator[0] didn&#x27;t make the cut. Many features are missing from the original desktop app and it&#x27;s not immediately clear what this offers over using &quot;Earth&quot; within Google Maps. The &quot;auto-rotate around the landmark&quot; feature is also a pain for people who are used to maps being north-facing by default.<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;googlesystem.blogspot.co.uk&#x2F;2007&#x2F;08&#x2F;google-earth-easter-egg-flight.html#gsc.tab=0" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;googlesystem.blogspot.co.uk&#x2F;2007&#x2F;08&#x2F;google-earth-eas...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ClassyJacket</author><text>I find it interesting that they recently introduced location sharing to Google Maps as a new feature... which it had back in 2009, until they got rid of it.</text></comment> | <story><title>Google Earth Redesigned</title><url>https://www.google.com/earth/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>therealmarv</author><text>It seems this is the Google way. They kill one product (especially a desktop product) and it takes years till the new one is on every feature on the same level as the old one... look at Picasa vs. Google Photos. Even today Picasa can do many more things that Google Photos cannot do today. I&#x27;m sure the native&#x2F;old Google Earth has a ton of stuff which is not ported to the web version.<p>Good they cannot convert Chrome itself as a web app :D</text></item><item><author>watbe</author><text>Looks like the Google Earth Flight Simulator[0] didn&#x27;t make the cut. Many features are missing from the original desktop app and it&#x27;s not immediately clear what this offers over using &quot;Earth&quot; within Google Maps. The &quot;auto-rotate around the landmark&quot; feature is also a pain for people who are used to maps being north-facing by default.<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;googlesystem.blogspot.co.uk&#x2F;2007&#x2F;08&#x2F;google-earth-easter-egg-flight.html#gsc.tab=0" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;googlesystem.blogspot.co.uk&#x2F;2007&#x2F;08&#x2F;google-earth-eas...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>psiclops</author><text>Last part of your comment reminds me of the birth &amp; death of javascript [0]<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.destroyallsoftware.com&#x2F;talks&#x2F;the-birth-and-death-of-javascript" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.destroyallsoftware.com&#x2F;talks&#x2F;the-birth-and-death...</a></text></comment> |
29,696,083 | 29,693,194 | 1 | 2 | 29,691,271 | train | <story><title>You block ads in your browser, why not in your city?</title><url>https://bearbin.net/blog/2021/adblock-your-city</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>blackhaz</author><text>But they do. You have to mentally process the incoming data first, then discard it. It&#x27;s a waste of attention, especially with mind-catching ads you can&#x27;t figure out immediately. Sometimes they are as blocking as browser pop-ups, e.g.: logotypes (or even full ads) displayed before a responsive UI is shown to you, duty-free zones in the airports, and so on. I am pretty sure we will soon have real-life targeted billboards. Even with the current tech, what prevents a webcam with NN to recognize if you&#x27;re wearing sneakers and tell the display along your way to show some beanie ads, especially if it&#x27;s cold outside? If you walk into a grocery store you are bombarded with displays outright, and before checking out you are tasked with cross-sale suggestions. All this crap blocks your mind and steals your attention.</text></item><item><author>smarx007</author><text>But ads in real life do not prevent me from going on about my day. There is no analogy to interstitial pages with ads like in Forbes some time ago with the button Continue to your article: it would be infuriating if you had to view an ad before being able to use the subway ticketing system. You also don’t have ads on at the airport timetable screen. You don’t have pinkertons following you to learn your habits and show you “relevant” ads. If you walk into a grocery store wearing sunglasses, the clerk will not stand in front of you and say “I am sorry, please remove your shades before continuing because ads support our store and you need to see them.”<p>But yes, unhealthy amount of advertising IRL should be limited as well.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Seirdy</author><text>&gt; People are taking the piss out of you everyday. They butt into your life, take a cheap shot at you and then disappear. They leer at you from tall buildings and make you feel small. They make flippant comments from buses that imply you’re not sexy enough and that all the fun is happening somewhere else. They are on TV making your girlfriend feel inadequate. … Fuck that. Any advert in a public space that gives you no choice whether you see it or not is yours. It’s yours to take, re-arrange and re-use. You can do whatever you like with it. Asking for permission is like asking to keep a rock someone just threw at your head.<p>-- Adaptation from a Banksy essay in defense of remixing (&quot;vandalising&quot;) public advertisements.<p>Fundamentally, all these ads share the quality of showing people content they didn&#x27;t ask for to lure consumers into spending money they otherwise wouldn&#x27;t have. Why the wouldn&#x27;t I block them everywhere? It&#x27;s disgusting.<p>I know many people like to argue that they&#x27;re a &quot;necessary evil&quot; to pay for content, but I have little patience for this argument because it assumes that vendors are entitled to the success of their flawed business models, and people should give up freedoms to support the industry.<p>My consciousness is not for sale, sorry.</text></comment> | <story><title>You block ads in your browser, why not in your city?</title><url>https://bearbin.net/blog/2021/adblock-your-city</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>blackhaz</author><text>But they do. You have to mentally process the incoming data first, then discard it. It&#x27;s a waste of attention, especially with mind-catching ads you can&#x27;t figure out immediately. Sometimes they are as blocking as browser pop-ups, e.g.: logotypes (or even full ads) displayed before a responsive UI is shown to you, duty-free zones in the airports, and so on. I am pretty sure we will soon have real-life targeted billboards. Even with the current tech, what prevents a webcam with NN to recognize if you&#x27;re wearing sneakers and tell the display along your way to show some beanie ads, especially if it&#x27;s cold outside? If you walk into a grocery store you are bombarded with displays outright, and before checking out you are tasked with cross-sale suggestions. All this crap blocks your mind and steals your attention.</text></item><item><author>smarx007</author><text>But ads in real life do not prevent me from going on about my day. There is no analogy to interstitial pages with ads like in Forbes some time ago with the button Continue to your article: it would be infuriating if you had to view an ad before being able to use the subway ticketing system. You also don’t have ads on at the airport timetable screen. You don’t have pinkertons following you to learn your habits and show you “relevant” ads. If you walk into a grocery store wearing sunglasses, the clerk will not stand in front of you and say “I am sorry, please remove your shades before continuing because ads support our store and you need to see them.”<p>But yes, unhealthy amount of advertising IRL should be limited as well.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>sacado2</author><text>If browser ads had a real-life equivalent, they would be more like that creep who suddenly pops in front of attractive women in the street trying to grab their phone numbers, and no matter what you do you&#x27;ll never get rid of him and he&#x27;ll be following you on your way back home (probably to provide you with a &quot;better user experience&quot;).<p>If all web ads were limited to a static gif here or there in the corner of a web page, I don&#x27;t think adblock plus would be a thing at all.</text></comment> |
23,264,635 | 23,264,709 | 1 | 3 | 23,263,808 | train | <story><title>The Atlantic lays off almost 20% of staff</title><url>https://www.axios.com/the-atlantic-layoffs-coronavirus-49cc6ad2-6579-45cd-b816-e20865f7351e.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>burkaman</author><text>&gt; Between the lines: The Atlantic&#x27;s new majority ownership stake from Emerson Collective, the impact investment vehicle owned by Laurene Powell Jobs, has allowed the company to accelerate its growth in recent years, including a major staff increase and expansion that began in 2018.<p>&quot;Emerson Collective is a social change organization that uses a broad range of tools including philanthropy, impact investing, and policy solutions to create the greatest good for the greatest number of people. Established and led by Laurene Powell Jobs, Emerson Collective is working to renew some of society’s most calcified systems, creating new possibilities for individuals, families, and communities.&quot;<p>- <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.emersoncollective.com&#x2F;about-us&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.emersoncollective.com&#x2F;about-us&#x2F;</a><p>Laurene Powell Jobs has ~$22 billion. She could pay the salaries of these 68 employees for the next 10 years if she felt like it without noticing a change in her bank account.<p>Obviously she is not obligated to do anything, but if employees of my &quot;social change organization&quot; that were hired under my watch, with my encouragement, were impacted by a possibly temporary economic downturn in the middle of a global pandemic and I could help them without sacrificing anything, I hope I would.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ABeeSea</author><text>She does not have $22B in cash. You pay employees in cash. Impact investing is just as brutal as any other investment fund. Dollars can be deployed more impactfully elsewhere. The goal is investments that create long term structural change and subsidizing employees of a declining business doesn’t move them towards that goal.</text></comment> | <story><title>The Atlantic lays off almost 20% of staff</title><url>https://www.axios.com/the-atlantic-layoffs-coronavirus-49cc6ad2-6579-45cd-b816-e20865f7351e.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>burkaman</author><text>&gt; Between the lines: The Atlantic&#x27;s new majority ownership stake from Emerson Collective, the impact investment vehicle owned by Laurene Powell Jobs, has allowed the company to accelerate its growth in recent years, including a major staff increase and expansion that began in 2018.<p>&quot;Emerson Collective is a social change organization that uses a broad range of tools including philanthropy, impact investing, and policy solutions to create the greatest good for the greatest number of people. Established and led by Laurene Powell Jobs, Emerson Collective is working to renew some of society’s most calcified systems, creating new possibilities for individuals, families, and communities.&quot;<p>- <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.emersoncollective.com&#x2F;about-us&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.emersoncollective.com&#x2F;about-us&#x2F;</a><p>Laurene Powell Jobs has ~$22 billion. She could pay the salaries of these 68 employees for the next 10 years if she felt like it without noticing a change in her bank account.<p>Obviously she is not obligated to do anything, but if employees of my &quot;social change organization&quot; that were hired under my watch, with my encouragement, were impacted by a possibly temporary economic downturn in the middle of a global pandemic and I could help them without sacrificing anything, I hope I would.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>TechBro8615</author><text>Why does an “impact investor” own a newspaper anyway? Does this affect story selection and editorial behavior?<p>What “impact” could one expect to have by investing in a media organization, other than pushing an agenda?</text></comment> |
14,148,045 | 14,148,000 | 1 | 3 | 14,147,344 | train | <story><title>Working from home may hurt your career</title><url>http://www.bbc.com/capital/story/20170418-how-working-from-home-ruins-everything</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dasmoth</author><text>I found the first part, about the difficulties of attaining flow at home, pretty interesting.<p>I have much the same problems while at the office (and while avoiding open-plan areas helps, all offices seem to be distraction factories to some extent).<p>Different environments for different people, I guess. Although that doesn&#x27;t fit well with a culture that says management is about fitting people into standardised processes.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jaymzcampbell</author><text>&gt;Different environments for different people, I guess<p>Absolutely! I seem to get the most work done and the best &quot;flow&quot; when I&#x27;m sat on a train (the Metropolitan underground line in particular). I believe this is partly down to the complete lack of distractions and inability to do much else but sit and work.<p>Alan Shreve summed it up perfectly for me: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;inconshreveable.com&#x2F;10-17-2013&#x2F;code-at-30000-feet&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;inconshreveable.com&#x2F;10-17-2013&#x2F;code-at-30000-feet&#x2F;</a><p>If it was feasible I would spend the entire working day going back and forward along the length of the line.</text></comment> | <story><title>Working from home may hurt your career</title><url>http://www.bbc.com/capital/story/20170418-how-working-from-home-ruins-everything</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dasmoth</author><text>I found the first part, about the difficulties of attaining flow at home, pretty interesting.<p>I have much the same problems while at the office (and while avoiding open-plan areas helps, all offices seem to be distraction factories to some extent).<p>Different environments for different people, I guess. Although that doesn&#x27;t fit well with a culture that says management is about fitting people into standardised processes.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>spraak</author><text>This is a perfectly succinct rebuttal to the article. Especially this part:<p>&gt; I have much the same problems while at the office (and while avoiding open-plan areas helps, all offices seem to be distraction factories to some extent).<p>&gt; Different environments for different people, I guess.</text></comment> |
11,637,863 | 11,637,254 | 1 | 3 | 11,635,647 | train | <story><title>Elsevier Complaint Shuts Down Sci-Hub Domain Name</title><url>https://torrentfreak.com/elsevier-complaint-shuts-down-sci-hub-domain-name-160504/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>chias</author><text>I feel a little tingle of excitement seeing my own papers on Sci-Hub. I mean I get that they&#x27;re trying to index <i>all</i> publications so it&#x27;s not a &quot;stamp or approval&quot; or anything... but it does mean that people can actually access the knowledge I tried to throw into the world, which was kind of the whole point in doing it.<p>I&#x27;d update my academic website to link my papers to their sci-hub URLs if I didn&#x27;t think I&#x27;d catch a world of flak for it.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>finfet1</author><text>IEEE and IEEE Explore have been actively going after professors and forcing them to take down links to their own papers. In the past, many professors hosted pdf&#x27;s on their websites for their papers -- this has only stopped because IEEE has been forcing them off. Just wanted to add this for those who think professors have &#x27;suddenly become stingy&#x27; -- no, they aren&#x27;t - they were forced to.</text></comment> | <story><title>Elsevier Complaint Shuts Down Sci-Hub Domain Name</title><url>https://torrentfreak.com/elsevier-complaint-shuts-down-sci-hub-domain-name-160504/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>chias</author><text>I feel a little tingle of excitement seeing my own papers on Sci-Hub. I mean I get that they&#x27;re trying to index <i>all</i> publications so it&#x27;s not a &quot;stamp or approval&quot; or anything... but it does mean that people can actually access the knowledge I tried to throw into the world, which was kind of the whole point in doing it.<p>I&#x27;d update my academic website to link my papers to their sci-hub URLs if I didn&#x27;t think I&#x27;d catch a world of flak for it.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dougmccune</author><text>I&#x27;m genuinely curious who you think would give you flak. Publishers? Your department faculty? The librarian at your university? Your peers?<p>(reason I&#x27;m interested: I&#x27;m on the board of Sage and have a board meeting tomorrow where I hope we&#x27;ll be discussing sci-hub)</text></comment> |
29,987,791 | 29,986,304 | 1 | 3 | 29,978,723 | train | <story><title>Microsoft to Acquire Activision Blizzard</title><url>https://news.microsoft.com/2022/01/18/microsoft-to-acquire-activision-blizzard-to-bring-the-joy-and-community-of-gaming-to-everyone-across-every-device/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>cletus</author><text>This is an overly rosy view of Microsoft&#x27;s moat (and acumen) IMHO.<p>For one, Microsoft completely missed out on the mobile revolution.<p>For another, look at Mixer. This was there attempt to clone Twitch. They threw a bunch of money at it and quickly gave up. To me this was insane. Streaming has shown to be great marketing for games and I never thought they&#x27;d give up so quickly and right before the new Xbox launch.<p>Imagine if Mixer streamers had early access to the new console and titles? And drops? Viewers absolutely love drops.<p>What if the Xbox Game Pass included a Mixer sub like Amazon Prime does with Twitch Prime?<p>To me this just showed they have absolutely no idea what they&#x27;re doing.<p>I mean, look at how much money they&#x27;ve thrown at Bing.</text></item><item><author>curiousllama</author><text>It&#x27;s wild how Microsoft has been able to vertically integrate gaming.<p>They now own the distribution (Xbox Cloud Gaming, Xbox Game Pass), the games (Call of Duty, WoW, Starcraft + what they owned before), the OS (Windows, Xbox), the hardware (Xbox, many PCs), and the back end compute (Azure). The only thing they&#x27;re missing, the network bandwidth, is mostly a commodity anyway.<p>That&#x27;s a heck of a moat.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>cwkoss</author><text>I think &quot;the mobile revolution&quot; is a joke and never materialized. 95+% of mobile games are unoriginal clones with layers of mechanisms to reduce fun unless the user pays. People who enjoy games have largely abandoned mobile, save a handful of decent titles that were ported from other platforms.<p>Mobile-first gamers are: people (mostly kids) who are so naive about games they will accept garbage (or cant afford a better gaming system) and whales who enjoy spending large amounts of money to move up the leaderboards.<p>Mobile gaming C-level&#x27;s loved talking about the mobile revolution for a decade, but I really think it was all optimistic nonsense in service of their fundraising.</text></comment> | <story><title>Microsoft to Acquire Activision Blizzard</title><url>https://news.microsoft.com/2022/01/18/microsoft-to-acquire-activision-blizzard-to-bring-the-joy-and-community-of-gaming-to-everyone-across-every-device/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>cletus</author><text>This is an overly rosy view of Microsoft&#x27;s moat (and acumen) IMHO.<p>For one, Microsoft completely missed out on the mobile revolution.<p>For another, look at Mixer. This was there attempt to clone Twitch. They threw a bunch of money at it and quickly gave up. To me this was insane. Streaming has shown to be great marketing for games and I never thought they&#x27;d give up so quickly and right before the new Xbox launch.<p>Imagine if Mixer streamers had early access to the new console and titles? And drops? Viewers absolutely love drops.<p>What if the Xbox Game Pass included a Mixer sub like Amazon Prime does with Twitch Prime?<p>To me this just showed they have absolutely no idea what they&#x27;re doing.<p>I mean, look at how much money they&#x27;ve thrown at Bing.</text></item><item><author>curiousllama</author><text>It&#x27;s wild how Microsoft has been able to vertically integrate gaming.<p>They now own the distribution (Xbox Cloud Gaming, Xbox Game Pass), the games (Call of Duty, WoW, Starcraft + what they owned before), the OS (Windows, Xbox), the hardware (Xbox, many PCs), and the back end compute (Azure). The only thing they&#x27;re missing, the network bandwidth, is mostly a commodity anyway.<p>That&#x27;s a heck of a moat.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>redisman</author><text>They tried with the failed Windows phone. I think after that they wanted to stay out and focus on their strengths. Besides this purchase gives them King - of Candy Crush fame. So now they own one of the biggest mobile game devs.</text></comment> |
3,122,084 | 3,121,937 | 1 | 3 | 3,121,482 | train | <story><title>Vim Text Objects : The Definitive Guide</title><url>http://blog.carbonfive.com/2011/10/17/vim-text-objects-the-definitive-guide/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>stevelosh</author><text>Vim's text objects are one of the fundamental things that make using it so awesome.<p>I've had a bit of code in my vimrc that creates "next/previous" text objects for a while. Someone came along and helped me make it more compact a while ago, but I can't remember who.<p>It lets you use "din(" for "delete in next parens (on the current line)", which saves a bit of typing.<p><a href="https://bitbucket.org/sjl/dotfiles/src/1b6ffba66e9f/vim/.vimrc#cl-1023" rel="nofollow">https://bitbucket.org/sjl/dotfiles/src/1b6ffba66e9f/vim/.vim...</a><p>Maybe I should turn it into a pathogen-installable plugin one of these days.</text></comment> | <story><title>Vim Text Objects : The Definitive Guide</title><url>http://blog.carbonfive.com/2011/10/17/vim-text-objects-the-definitive-guide/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>beaumartinez</author><text>Don't forget Vim's built-in help and user manual:<p><pre><code> :h text-objects
:h usr_04</code></pre></text></comment> |
24,771,333 | 24,770,856 | 1 | 2 | 24,753,589 | train | <story><title>Silicon Valley pay cuts ignite tech-industry Covid-19 tensions</title><url>https://www.wsj.com/articles/silicon-valley-pay-cuts-ignite-tech-industry-covid-19-tensions-11602435601</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mabbo</author><text>This is the fun reality that most FAANG Canadian offices have faced for years. Cross the border from Seattle to Vancouver, suddenly you&#x27;re being paid much less for the same value provided.<p>And basically, it&#x27;s market economics. The wage is determined by supply and demand in the labor market, not on the value provided to the company.<p>This is why it&#x27;s important to have many competing employers rather than just 1 or 2 big ones. Competition for labor increases wages. Hopefully, as more companies accept full remote employees, we&#x27;ll see that- a single huge market not defined by regions.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Izikiel43</author><text>You are correct.
Moving to Seattle would grant me a 50k usd raise vs what I currently make.
The other issue besides getting paid less for the same value, is that the money doesn&#x27;t get you as far as in the US, as the cost of living in Vancouver is high (more or less the same as in Seattle but in cad) and you have more taxes, so your 100k cad in Canada is much less than 100k usd in Seattle.<p>If you mention health insurance for the taxes, that&#x27;s actually taxed to employers in BC, not employees, so it&#x27;s not part of the taxes I pay.</text></comment> | <story><title>Silicon Valley pay cuts ignite tech-industry Covid-19 tensions</title><url>https://www.wsj.com/articles/silicon-valley-pay-cuts-ignite-tech-industry-covid-19-tensions-11602435601</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mabbo</author><text>This is the fun reality that most FAANG Canadian offices have faced for years. Cross the border from Seattle to Vancouver, suddenly you&#x27;re being paid much less for the same value provided.<p>And basically, it&#x27;s market economics. The wage is determined by supply and demand in the labor market, not on the value provided to the company.<p>This is why it&#x27;s important to have many competing employers rather than just 1 or 2 big ones. Competition for labor increases wages. Hopefully, as more companies accept full remote employees, we&#x27;ll see that- a single huge market not defined by regions.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>joelbluminator</author><text>Only now you&#x27;re competing against everyone in the world, not just everyone in your region. I can&#x27;t see how this is good for the developed world.</text></comment> |
41,192,179 | 41,190,195 | 1 | 3 | 41,184,359 | train | <story><title>NASA says Boeing Starliner astronauts may fly home on SpaceX in 2025</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/07/science/boeing-starliner-nasa-spacex.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>WalterBright</author><text>Being unable to deal with risk means the end of the space program.</text></item><item><author>mannykannot</author><text>Everyone closely involved with making the decision will be well aware that the subsequent inquiry, and quite a bit of the public&#x27;s reaction, will be personally brutal if they opt for Starliner and it fails catastrophically, no matter how small the odds seemed at the time.</text></item><item><author>HarHarVeryFunny</author><text>It seems it&#x27;d be a massive reputational risk to NASA to bring them back on Starliner, just in case anything does go wrong. Given all the deliberations, NASA is going to be seen as at least 50% to blame if they make the wrong decision.</text></item><item><author>trebligdivad</author><text>Listen to the actual conference:
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;live&#x2F;DYPL6bx87yM?si=W5UzfyiYzPX3KgGr" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;live&#x2F;DYPL6bx87yM?si=W5UzfyiYzPX3KgGr</a><p>IMHO summarising it like the title is a little unfair; yes they&#x27;re making provision for use of Dragon; but they haven&#x27;t made any decision yet.
The thing that seems to have confused them is that all the Starliner thrusters are working in their tests - given their idea of some teflon deformation somewhere, I think they thought they&#x27;d still be problematic, which is making them wonder if the teflon thing is the full story?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>HarHarVeryFunny</author><text>Sure, it&#x27;s inherently risky, so managing that risk becomes key to success.<p>The thing here is that NASA has a choice.<p>1) Use Starliner with it&#x27;s dodgy development history, no track record of reliability, and with the problems experienced with this specific unit.<p>2) Use Dragon, tried and tested, with an excellent history of reliability<p>This should be a no-brainer.<p>If Starliner can&#x27;t safely autonomously undock at the moment (and anyways needs a month for software reload&#x2F;verification apparently - not sure why verification takes so long), then leave it there until there&#x27;s a solution to do it safely. In the meantime the ISS has 6 docking ports, currently all in use with 3 supply vessels and 3 crew (Starliner+Dragon+Soyuz), so presumably there is some flexibility there.</text></comment> | <story><title>NASA says Boeing Starliner astronauts may fly home on SpaceX in 2025</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/07/science/boeing-starliner-nasa-spacex.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>WalterBright</author><text>Being unable to deal with risk means the end of the space program.</text></item><item><author>mannykannot</author><text>Everyone closely involved with making the decision will be well aware that the subsequent inquiry, and quite a bit of the public&#x27;s reaction, will be personally brutal if they opt for Starliner and it fails catastrophically, no matter how small the odds seemed at the time.</text></item><item><author>HarHarVeryFunny</author><text>It seems it&#x27;d be a massive reputational risk to NASA to bring them back on Starliner, just in case anything does go wrong. Given all the deliberations, NASA is going to be seen as at least 50% to blame if they make the wrong decision.</text></item><item><author>trebligdivad</author><text>Listen to the actual conference:
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;live&#x2F;DYPL6bx87yM?si=W5UzfyiYzPX3KgGr" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;live&#x2F;DYPL6bx87yM?si=W5UzfyiYzPX3KgGr</a><p>IMHO summarising it like the title is a little unfair; yes they&#x27;re making provision for use of Dragon; but they haven&#x27;t made any decision yet.
The thing that seems to have confused them is that all the Starliner thrusters are working in their tests - given their idea of some teflon deformation somewhere, I think they thought they&#x27;d still be problematic, which is making them wonder if the teflon thing is the full story?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pfdietz</author><text>If the space program is not willing to kill some astronauts, there shouldn&#x27;t be a space program.<p>From a purely economic point of view, the cost of killing an astronaut is small compared to the cost of these missions. The statistical value of a human life is around $12 M. Astronauts may be a bit more expensive, due to cost of training, but not enormously so.<p>Making space flight much cheaper will shift the economics, making safety relatively more important. It will also enable that safety by enabling many more launches to reduce risks.<p>People anguish over the 14 astronauts killed in the Shuttle, but the economic value destroyed by that program was in the end a much greater loss.</text></comment> |
4,950,284 | 4,950,393 | 1 | 3 | 4,949,981 | train | <story><title>Adobe acquires Behance</title><url>http://www.engadget.com/2012/12/20/adobe-acquires-behance/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jonathanmoore</author><text>As one of the first 100 on the Behance platform, I think this is a fantastic acquisition for both sides. When a large corporation acquires a company you love there is often concern, but seeing how the Adobe + Typekit relationship played out I'm expecting great things.</text></comment> | <story><title>Adobe acquires Behance</title><url>http://www.engadget.com/2012/12/20/adobe-acquires-behance/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jongold</author><text>Haven't used Behance for quite a while, but it would be awesome if it got integrated into Creative Suite (think Kuler). Great news &#38; congratulations all involved.</text></comment> |
20,799,113 | 20,798,312 | 1 | 3 | 20,797,343 | train | <story><title>How do black holes destroy information and why is that a problem?</title><url>https://backreaction.blogspot.com/2019/08/how-do-black-holes-destroy-information.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>chasd00</author><text>man, watch the PBS YouTube channel SpaceTime. They&#x27;re short, informative, and very well done. they dedicate a handful of episodes to getting you ready for Hawking radiation.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;qPKj0YnKANw" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;qPKj0YnKANw</a></text></comment> | <story><title>How do black holes destroy information and why is that a problem?</title><url>https://backreaction.blogspot.com/2019/08/how-do-black-holes-destroy-information.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>ailideex</author><text>Do they destroy information? Last I checked they don&#x27;t: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;physics.stackexchange.com&#x2F;questions&#x2F;29175&#x2F;why-is-information-indestructible" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;physics.stackexchange.com&#x2F;questions&#x2F;29175&#x2F;why-is-inf...</a><p>Maybe there is some recent development I am not aware of an Susskind is wrong though.<p>More:<p>- <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;physics.stackexchange.com&#x2F;questions&#x2F;450326&#x2F;why-is-the-information-paradox-restricted-to-black-holes" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;physics.stackexchange.com&#x2F;questions&#x2F;450326&#x2F;why-is-th...</a></text></comment> |
39,303,748 | 39,303,719 | 1 | 3 | 39,286,609 | train | <story><title>My experiment in phonelessness was a failure, and it also changed my life</title><url>https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2024/feb/05/phone-screentime-detox-reflection</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>thfuran</author><text>&gt;I&#x27;m a little worried that not having a social media presence &#x2F;at all&#x2F; is going to turn or has turned from mildly admirable (such restraint!) to...weird.<p>Well, I have some good news: here you are, on social media, having a presence. Admittedly, it&#x27;s a bit more niche than Instagram.</text></item><item><author>captainclam</author><text>I&#x27;ve never used social media or had a &quot;problem&quot; with my phone. So I used to read articles like this a little smugly, but I&#x27;m growing increasingly discomfited by the notion that I&#x27;m...out of touch..?<p>Yeah, it&#x27;s probably overall a positive thing that I&#x27;ve never been hooked on instagram, but it&#x27;s also a language&#x2F;shared experience with which I have no point of contact. I&#x27;m a little worried that not having a social media presence &#x2F;at all&#x2F; is going to turn or has turned from mildly admirable (such restraint!) to...weird.<p>And it&#x27;s great to be weird! I just hope that it doesn&#x27;t impact potential connections in the future.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dgfitz</author><text>Before the abused and tired notion of &quot;social media&quot; was coined, this was called... a forum. Nothing &quot;media&quot; about it.</text></comment> | <story><title>My experiment in phonelessness was a failure, and it also changed my life</title><url>https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2024/feb/05/phone-screentime-detox-reflection</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>thfuran</author><text>&gt;I&#x27;m a little worried that not having a social media presence &#x2F;at all&#x2F; is going to turn or has turned from mildly admirable (such restraint!) to...weird.<p>Well, I have some good news: here you are, on social media, having a presence. Admittedly, it&#x27;s a bit more niche than Instagram.</text></item><item><author>captainclam</author><text>I&#x27;ve never used social media or had a &quot;problem&quot; with my phone. So I used to read articles like this a little smugly, but I&#x27;m growing increasingly discomfited by the notion that I&#x27;m...out of touch..?<p>Yeah, it&#x27;s probably overall a positive thing that I&#x27;ve never been hooked on instagram, but it&#x27;s also a language&#x2F;shared experience with which I have no point of contact. I&#x27;m a little worried that not having a social media presence &#x2F;at all&#x2F; is going to turn or has turned from mildly admirable (such restraint!) to...weird.<p>And it&#x27;s great to be weird! I just hope that it doesn&#x27;t impact potential connections in the future.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>browningstreet</author><text>National borders and most romantic dates won’t ask for your HN profile but they will ask for all the other major social networks. Not everything with an account and a comment system is a Social Network to lay-people and first encounter authorities.</text></comment> |
26,019,572 | 26,019,371 | 1 | 2 | 26,014,344 | train | <story><title>I Still Use RSS</title><url>https://atthis.link/blog/2021/rss.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>prepend</author><text>I’ve never had as peaceful a work life as back when I used yahoo pipes to organize all the RSS feeds from GitHub and Jira and others into a unified view of what’s happening in all my projects.<p>It broke due to a fluke because a network engineer decided to try to implement a software based firewall that blocked rss files. This was such a weird error but the engineer didn’t know what rss or curl was if that tells you something. I changed jobs before fixing it and by the time I cared about such things again pipes was gone.</text></item><item><author>jamesponddotco</author><text>I think my digital life would be a mess without an RSS feed reader. Because of its existence I do not need to touch Twitter, Reddit, YouTube[1], or any Mastodon instance, for example, as I can just have the updates that interest me from these networks in the comfort of my Feedbin[2] feed.<p>While Hacker News does not provide an interface that notifies you when someone replies to you, hnrss.org provides an RSS feed for that[3], so I know when I get a reply. I also have a separate feed for Ask HN[4] and Show HN[5], so I never miss anything that may interest me, even if other people do not care about it. Heck, I found this post because it showed up on my feed reader!<p>As a system administrator, I can use RSS to keep up to date with security issues in Ubuntu Server[6], WordPress[7], and CVEs in general, but also to follow commits in SourceHut repositories[8] and releases for pieces of software I use daily, but do not have repositories for my Linux distribution.<p>I sure as heck hope it never go away.<p>[1] In the YouTube case, with RSS, mpv, and youtube-dl, I never even have to see their web interface.<p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;feedbin.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;feedbin.com&#x2F;</a><p>[3] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;hnrss.org&#x2F;replies?id=${YOURUSERNAME}" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;hnrss.org&#x2F;replies?id=${YOURUSERNAME}</a><p>[4] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;hnrss.org&#x2F;ask" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;hnrss.org&#x2F;ask</a><p>[5] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;hnrss.org&#x2F;show" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;hnrss.org&#x2F;show</a><p>[6] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;usn.ubuntu.com&#x2F;usn&#x2F;rss.xml" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;usn.ubuntu.com&#x2F;usn&#x2F;rss.xml</a><p>[7] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.exploit-db.com&#x2F;rss.xml" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.exploit-db.com&#x2F;rss.xml</a><p>[8] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;git.sr.ht&#x2F;~${USERNAME}&#x2F;${REPO}&#x2F;log&#x2F;rss.xml" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;git.sr.ht&#x2F;~${USERNAME}&#x2F;${REPO}&#x2F;log&#x2F;rss.xml</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>onli</author><text>I don&#x27;t want to spam the project, but since you mention Pipes like that: I tried to bring it back with <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.pipes.digital&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.pipes.digital&#x2F;</a>. Can&#x27;t do everything the original could and some things it just does differently, but merging RSS feeds and filtering them is exactly the main thing I use it for myself.</text></comment> | <story><title>I Still Use RSS</title><url>https://atthis.link/blog/2021/rss.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>prepend</author><text>I’ve never had as peaceful a work life as back when I used yahoo pipes to organize all the RSS feeds from GitHub and Jira and others into a unified view of what’s happening in all my projects.<p>It broke due to a fluke because a network engineer decided to try to implement a software based firewall that blocked rss files. This was such a weird error but the engineer didn’t know what rss or curl was if that tells you something. I changed jobs before fixing it and by the time I cared about such things again pipes was gone.</text></item><item><author>jamesponddotco</author><text>I think my digital life would be a mess without an RSS feed reader. Because of its existence I do not need to touch Twitter, Reddit, YouTube[1], or any Mastodon instance, for example, as I can just have the updates that interest me from these networks in the comfort of my Feedbin[2] feed.<p>While Hacker News does not provide an interface that notifies you when someone replies to you, hnrss.org provides an RSS feed for that[3], so I know when I get a reply. I also have a separate feed for Ask HN[4] and Show HN[5], so I never miss anything that may interest me, even if other people do not care about it. Heck, I found this post because it showed up on my feed reader!<p>As a system administrator, I can use RSS to keep up to date with security issues in Ubuntu Server[6], WordPress[7], and CVEs in general, but also to follow commits in SourceHut repositories[8] and releases for pieces of software I use daily, but do not have repositories for my Linux distribution.<p>I sure as heck hope it never go away.<p>[1] In the YouTube case, with RSS, mpv, and youtube-dl, I never even have to see their web interface.<p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;feedbin.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;feedbin.com&#x2F;</a><p>[3] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;hnrss.org&#x2F;replies?id=${YOURUSERNAME}" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;hnrss.org&#x2F;replies?id=${YOURUSERNAME}</a><p>[4] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;hnrss.org&#x2F;ask" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;hnrss.org&#x2F;ask</a><p>[5] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;hnrss.org&#x2F;show" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;hnrss.org&#x2F;show</a><p>[6] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;usn.ubuntu.com&#x2F;usn&#x2F;rss.xml" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;usn.ubuntu.com&#x2F;usn&#x2F;rss.xml</a><p>[7] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.exploit-db.com&#x2F;rss.xml" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.exploit-db.com&#x2F;rss.xml</a><p>[8] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;git.sr.ht&#x2F;~${USERNAME}&#x2F;${REPO}&#x2F;log&#x2F;rss.xml" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;git.sr.ht&#x2F;~${USERNAME}&#x2F;${REPO}&#x2F;log&#x2F;rss.xml</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>cecida</author><text>God, Yahoo Pipes is a blast from the past. Yahoo did so many things that were new and interesting, but never seemed to be able to bring them altogether into a cohesive product.</text></comment> |
24,103,237 | 24,101,538 | 1 | 2 | 24,099,859 | train | <story><title>People work longer and different hours under lockdown</title><url>https://workplaceinsight.net/people-work-longer-and-different-hours-under-lockdown/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>brightball</author><text>There’s a big difference between car culture and commuting though.<p>Having a car comes with a great deal of utility and freedom.<p>Commuting is almost entirely driven by city centers and population density that inflates real estate&#x2F;rent costs so high that living out farther and driving in seems to not only make sense, but be the rational choice.<p>Aside from having a sales office in a densely populated area, there’s almost no real value to other functions of a business being located in the middle of a huge city.</text></item><item><author>bredren</author><text>I’m hopeful many people will wake up to the misery that cars and commuting inflicts on themselves.<p>The United States has been consumed with car culture which has bled time and resources from individuals like yourself. But it also is responsible for endless tragedy in the form of accidents and financial overextension.<p>Car culture, partly driven by commuting, has inflated the need for some systems and created entire rent-seeking businesses that could be any number of more useful and interesting investments of human time and capital.<p>I believe a silver lining of the Coronavirus and the actions of political representatives and appointees that have allowed covid to foster will ultimately result in progression in many outdated norms we experienced up through 2020.</text></item><item><author>alyandon</author><text>I&#x27;m technically working longer because I&#x27;m not spending 70-120 additional minutes of each day commuting 14 miles to&#x2F;from the office. Despite working longer, I still end up having more free time.<p>It is amazing how I manage to rationalize sitting in traffic for that amount of time every day to myself.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>LordFast</author><text>Yeah, not a fan of sitting in traffic (commuting is actually entirely fine if not for the traffic), but I LOVE my car- it allows me to go anywhere I want whenever I want, and it allows me to make forward progress by leaving the past behind and going somewhere else (physically and metaphorically true).<p>I see all the talk of higher density living without car ownership as primarily driven by corporate interests to keep labor more concentrated and more easily controlled (secondarily driven by cohorts of people who haven&#x27;t experienced anything better than that and therefore wanting to keep status quo), at the expense of quality of life for the average person. The monied interests wouldn&#x27;t care one way or another in lowering this standard of living, but I&#x27;m surprised to see how many ordinary citizens get swept up by the rhetoric.</text></comment> | <story><title>People work longer and different hours under lockdown</title><url>https://workplaceinsight.net/people-work-longer-and-different-hours-under-lockdown/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>brightball</author><text>There’s a big difference between car culture and commuting though.<p>Having a car comes with a great deal of utility and freedom.<p>Commuting is almost entirely driven by city centers and population density that inflates real estate&#x2F;rent costs so high that living out farther and driving in seems to not only make sense, but be the rational choice.<p>Aside from having a sales office in a densely populated area, there’s almost no real value to other functions of a business being located in the middle of a huge city.</text></item><item><author>bredren</author><text>I’m hopeful many people will wake up to the misery that cars and commuting inflicts on themselves.<p>The United States has been consumed with car culture which has bled time and resources from individuals like yourself. But it also is responsible for endless tragedy in the form of accidents and financial overextension.<p>Car culture, partly driven by commuting, has inflated the need for some systems and created entire rent-seeking businesses that could be any number of more useful and interesting investments of human time and capital.<p>I believe a silver lining of the Coronavirus and the actions of political representatives and appointees that have allowed covid to foster will ultimately result in progression in many outdated norms we experienced up through 2020.</text></item><item><author>alyandon</author><text>I&#x27;m technically working longer because I&#x27;m not spending 70-120 additional minutes of each day commuting 14 miles to&#x2F;from the office. Despite working longer, I still end up having more free time.<p>It is amazing how I manage to rationalize sitting in traffic for that amount of time every day to myself.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>barcadad</author><text>There is a great deal of research (eg., see Enrico Moretti and Ed Glaeser) that documents that you’re statement isn’t accurate. There are very strong network effects of educated cities, and unless you believe all future post-COVID network will be over Zoom or Slack (which feels rather dystopian), then post-COVID cities will do just fine.<p>In fact, you could argue that what will suffer is living close to suburban office nodes in order to save commute times. Even more young people may choose to live in cities if they can avoid the schlep out to their suburban office (think Google bused from SF to Mountain View, but where you only need to take them for big meetings in the office rather than every day).</text></comment> |
28,379,488 | 28,379,723 | 1 | 2 | 28,379,178 | train | <story><title>Inequality, Interest Rates, Aging, and the Role of Central Banks</title><url>https://theovershoot.co/p/inequality-interest-rates-aging-and</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>bedhead</author><text>I&#x27;ve argued this for years. Interest rates peaked at about the same time that wealth inequality began to diverge around 1980 or so. I don&#x27;t think any of this is terribly complicated. Money is a commodity, and like all commodities, the price is set at the margin. Money also has diminishing marginal utility, so as you accumulate more of it, at some point it has less use.<p>Think about two people, one extremely wealthy, one middle class. The middle class guy making $75k probably has to spend all his money for consumption: food, rent, car, etc. There&#x27;s little left over for saving or investing. In order for that guy to justify forgoing consumption and instead saving it, he requires a high interest rate, otherwise it&#x27;s not worth it. But what about the guy worth $100 million? He can&#x27;t spend it all on consumption, so he has to save a lot of it. Ah, but what&#x27;s his opportunity cost? Zero. He has no choice, and the money he&#x27;ll earn from interest won&#x27;t even get spent anyway. So, two people, two <i>very</i> different marginal costs.<p>The world is just one giant pool of capital. Over the last four decades, as capital has shifted from being more evenly spread out amongst people with high marginal costs to a smaller group of people with marginal costs of zero, interest rates keep falling...the majority of capital now resides amongst people who can&#x27;t spend it all and are happy to earn any real rate of return.</text></comment> | <story><title>Inequality, Interest Rates, Aging, and the Role of Central Banks</title><url>https://theovershoot.co/p/inequality-interest-rates-aging-and</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>notanzaiiswear</author><text>I am not convinced the theories in that article are correct.<p>One example: &quot;The ultra-rich need no encouragement to refrain from buying goods and services, so any increase in income concentration should put downward pressure on interest rates. Another way to look at it is that an increase in income concentration boosts the demand for financial assets, which should push up prices and push down yields.&quot;<p>Why should income inequality do that? What matters would be people&#x27;s spending power, which is not necessarily correlated with income inequality - everybody could get richer, only some people could get a lot more richer, and it would still be income inequality.<p>Also not sure how he calculates growth and demand. He argues there is less need to invest into the future because there are fewer young people. But don&#x27;t older people have even more needs than younger people (their maintenance is more expensive, they need accessible housing, cars to drive them around and so on)?<p>In my country (Germany) apparently they expect the demand for housing to rise, even though they expect fewer people, because they think people will live in increasingly smaller households (so more households with fewer people per household).<p>Just some random examples.</text></comment> |
23,279,070 | 23,278,625 | 1 | 3 | 23,276,456 | train | <story><title>Ask HN: What startup/technology is on your 'to watch' list?</title><text>For me a couple of interesting technology products that help me in my day-to-day job<p>1. Hasura
2. Strapi
3. Forest Admin (super interesting although I cannot ever get it to connect to a hasura backend on Heroku ¯\_(ツ)_&#x2F;¯
4. Integromat
5. Appgyver<p>There are many others that I have my eye on such as NodeRed[6], but have yet to use. I do realise that these are all low-code related, however, I would be super interested in being made aware of cool other cool &amp; upcoming tech that is making waves.<p>What&#x27;s on your &#x27;to watch&#x27; list?<p>[1]<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;hasura.io&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;hasura.io&#x2F;</a><p>[2]<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;strapi.io&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;strapi.io&#x2F;</a><p>[3]<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.forestadmin.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.forestadmin.com&#x2F;</a><p>[4]<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.appgyver.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.appgyver.com&#x2F;</a><p>[5]<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.integromat.com&#x2F;en" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.integromat.com&#x2F;en</a><p>[6]<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;nodered.org&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;nodered.org&#x2F;</a></text></story><parent_chain><item><author>gpm</author><text>Web Assembly<p>It&#x27;s interesting in a bunch of ways, and I think it might end up having a wider impact than anyone has really realized yet.<p>It&#x27;s an ISA that looks set to be adopted in a pretty wide range of applications, web browsers, sandboxed and cross platform applications, embedded (into other programs) scripting, cryptocurrencies, and so on.<p>It looks like it&#x27;s going to enable a wider variety of languages on the web, many more performant than the current ones. That&#x27;s interesting on it&#x27;s own, but not the main reason why I think the technology is interesting.<p>Both mobile devices, and crypto currencies, are places where hardware acceleration is a thing. If this is going to be a popular ISA in both of those, might we get chips whose native ISA is web assembly? Once we have hardware acceleration, do we see wasm chips running as CPUs someday in the not too distant future (CPU with an emphasis on Central)?<p>A lot of people seem excited about the potential for risc-v, and arm is gaining momentum against x86 to some extent, but to me wasm actually seems best placed to takeover as the dominant ISA.<p>Anyways, I doubt that thinking about this is going to have much direct impact on my life... this isn&#x27;t something I feel any need to help along (or a change I feel the need to try and resist). It&#x27;s just a technology that I think will be interesting to watch as the future unfolds.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>duckfruit</author><text>I want to believe...
I always thought WebAssembly had a lot of potential, however, in practice it doesn&#x27;t seem to have turned out that way.<p>I remember the first Unity demos appearing on these orange pages at least 4 or 5 years ago, and promptly blowing me away. But, after an eternity in JavaScript years, I still dont know what the killer app is, technically or business wise. (Side note - I encourage people to prove me wrong, in fact I&#x27;d love to be! Thats whats so engaging about discussions here. I&#x27;d love to see examples of what WebAssembly makes possible that wouldn&#x27;t exist without it.)</text></comment> | <story><title>Ask HN: What startup/technology is on your 'to watch' list?</title><text>For me a couple of interesting technology products that help me in my day-to-day job<p>1. Hasura
2. Strapi
3. Forest Admin (super interesting although I cannot ever get it to connect to a hasura backend on Heroku ¯\_(ツ)_&#x2F;¯
4. Integromat
5. Appgyver<p>There are many others that I have my eye on such as NodeRed[6], but have yet to use. I do realise that these are all low-code related, however, I would be super interested in being made aware of cool other cool &amp; upcoming tech that is making waves.<p>What&#x27;s on your &#x27;to watch&#x27; list?<p>[1]<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;hasura.io&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;hasura.io&#x2F;</a><p>[2]<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;strapi.io&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;strapi.io&#x2F;</a><p>[3]<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.forestadmin.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.forestadmin.com&#x2F;</a><p>[4]<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.appgyver.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.appgyver.com&#x2F;</a><p>[5]<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.integromat.com&#x2F;en" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.integromat.com&#x2F;en</a><p>[6]<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;nodered.org&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;nodered.org&#x2F;</a></text></story><parent_chain><item><author>gpm</author><text>Web Assembly<p>It&#x27;s interesting in a bunch of ways, and I think it might end up having a wider impact than anyone has really realized yet.<p>It&#x27;s an ISA that looks set to be adopted in a pretty wide range of applications, web browsers, sandboxed and cross platform applications, embedded (into other programs) scripting, cryptocurrencies, and so on.<p>It looks like it&#x27;s going to enable a wider variety of languages on the web, many more performant than the current ones. That&#x27;s interesting on it&#x27;s own, but not the main reason why I think the technology is interesting.<p>Both mobile devices, and crypto currencies, are places where hardware acceleration is a thing. If this is going to be a popular ISA in both of those, might we get chips whose native ISA is web assembly? Once we have hardware acceleration, do we see wasm chips running as CPUs someday in the not too distant future (CPU with an emphasis on Central)?<p>A lot of people seem excited about the potential for risc-v, and arm is gaining momentum against x86 to some extent, but to me wasm actually seems best placed to takeover as the dominant ISA.<p>Anyways, I doubt that thinking about this is going to have much direct impact on my life... this isn&#x27;t something I feel any need to help along (or a change I feel the need to try and resist). It&#x27;s just a technology that I think will be interesting to watch as the future unfolds.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>als0</author><text>Cautionary tale: we’ve been here before with JVM CPUs like Jazelle. They didn’t take over the world.</text></comment> |
6,169,240 | 6,169,180 | 1 | 3 | 6,168,925 | train | <story><title>PuTTY 0.63 released, fixing four security holes</title><url>http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jontro</author><text>The security holes are not critical but of course you should upgrade anyways.<p>3 of the holes have the following notice:
We are currently unaware of any way in which this can lead to remote code execution.<p>4th hole is that putty does not cleanup sensitive memory when it could.</text></comment> | <story><title>PuTTY 0.63 released, fixing four security holes</title><url>http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>bwblabs</author><text>Some other projects who depend on PuTTY like FileZilla have new builds too: <a href="https://filezilla-project.org/" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;filezilla-project.org&#x2F;</a></text></comment> |
7,725,592 | 7,725,474 | 1 | 2 | 7,725,129 | train | <story><title>Amazon granted patent for taking photos against a white background</title><url>http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-adv.htm&r=1&f=G&l=50&d=PALL&S1=08676045&OS=PN/08676045&RS=PN/08676045</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>afternooner</author><text>I like how all the comments so far are defending the fact that the patent isn&#x27;t quite as broad as the title suggests. Sure, they are patenting taking a picture against a white background when perpendicular against a... Who gives a fuck. This is a patent to take a picture against a whit background. There is no invention here. The only thing novel or unique is the fact is that some genius realized that with enough legal terms, you could patent a photo shoot. Shit America, get it together.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>higherpurpose</author><text>Apparently, approving such patents makes the USPTO &quot;efficient&quot;, by getting rid of the backlog (as if that should be the main goal of the Patent Office?!):<p><a href="http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20140505/11310627129/yes-president-obamas-patent-office-started-approving-basically-all-patent-applications-again.shtml" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.techdirt.com&#x2F;articles&#x2F;20140505&#x2F;11310627129&#x2F;yes-pr...</a><p>You know what would make USPTO even <i>more efficient</i> than approving almost everything? <i>Rejecting</i> almost everything.</text></comment> | <story><title>Amazon granted patent for taking photos against a white background</title><url>http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-adv.htm&r=1&f=G&l=50&d=PALL&S1=08676045&OS=PN/08676045&RS=PN/08676045</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>afternooner</author><text>I like how all the comments so far are defending the fact that the patent isn&#x27;t quite as broad as the title suggests. Sure, they are patenting taking a picture against a white background when perpendicular against a... Who gives a fuck. This is a patent to take a picture against a whit background. There is no invention here. The only thing novel or unique is the fact is that some genius realized that with enough legal terms, you could patent a photo shoot. Shit America, get it together.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>lotsofmangos</author><text>They do have this clause to try and expand the breadth of the claims:<p><i>It should be emphasized that the above-described embodiments of the present disclosure are merely possible examples of implementations set forth for a clear understanding of the principles of the disclosure. Many variations and modifications may be made to the above-described embodiment(s) without departing substantially from the spirit and principles of the disclosure. All such modifications and variations are intended to be included herein within the scope of this disclosure and protected by the following claims.</i><p>I am not a lawyer so do not know how much weight such clauses have, but it would seem to be trying for a lot more than just the specifically described arrangement.</text></comment> |
5,263,840 | 5,263,663 | 1 | 3 | 5,261,536 | train | <story><title>Why Should Taxpayers Give Big Banks $83 Billion a Year?</title><url>http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-02-20/why-should-taxpayers-give-big-banks-83-billion-a-year-.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>calhoun137</author><text>I love that we get these political discussions on hacker news, but I sometimes wish we as a community would spend as much time thinking about politics as we do thinking about programming and science.<p>Big banks function very much as part of the government, in many ways the big banks determine government policy, certainly to a much greater extent than popular opinion does. There are many forms of this public-private merging of government. To take just one aspect, consider the revolving door whereby bank executives go between their banks and government jobs and back again: to just pick one example virtually at random, obamas chief of staff is a "former" citi group executive. I wonder, if a bank executive goes to washington for a little while, do they even notice that they changed jobs?<p>This article explains that the big banks wouldn't even be profitable without massive tax payer support, here is a choice quote from the article which really drives home how intense the stranglehold banks have over government policy:<p>"Neither bank executives nor shareholders have much incentive to change the situation. On the contrary, the financial industry spends hundreds of millions of dollars every election cycle on campaign donations and lobbying, much of which is aimed at maintaining the subsidy. The result is a bloated financial sector and recurring credit gluts."<p>Some people wonder what could be done about such a situation. The sad truth is that there are already an overwhelming number of ideas that are floating around that have already been demonstrated to work (see iceland). The problem is not coming up with a good idea, the problem is how to implement one of the many good ideas which have already been proven to work.<p>The crux of the matter is that only the power of a strong federal government can take on the even more powerful too big too fail banks. The only way political change happens is when people get organized, and the american political system gives us a lot of freedoms. If you live and a free country and abstain from participating in politics, then in my opinion you have abdicated your responsibility as a citizen.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>davidw</author><text>&#62; I love that we get these political discussions on hacker news, but I sometimes wish we as a community would spend as much time thinking about politics as we do thinking about programming and science.<p>I don't love it, because they retread the same arguments over and over, generate flame wars, and attract people who are more interested in politics than the niche arguments that are the bread and butter of this site.<p>Also, many of us <i>do</i> spend a lot of time thinking about politics, it's just that we don't feel the need to pollute HN with it.</text></comment> | <story><title>Why Should Taxpayers Give Big Banks $83 Billion a Year?</title><url>http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-02-20/why-should-taxpayers-give-big-banks-83-billion-a-year-.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>calhoun137</author><text>I love that we get these political discussions on hacker news, but I sometimes wish we as a community would spend as much time thinking about politics as we do thinking about programming and science.<p>Big banks function very much as part of the government, in many ways the big banks determine government policy, certainly to a much greater extent than popular opinion does. There are many forms of this public-private merging of government. To take just one aspect, consider the revolving door whereby bank executives go between their banks and government jobs and back again: to just pick one example virtually at random, obamas chief of staff is a "former" citi group executive. I wonder, if a bank executive goes to washington for a little while, do they even notice that they changed jobs?<p>This article explains that the big banks wouldn't even be profitable without massive tax payer support, here is a choice quote from the article which really drives home how intense the stranglehold banks have over government policy:<p>"Neither bank executives nor shareholders have much incentive to change the situation. On the contrary, the financial industry spends hundreds of millions of dollars every election cycle on campaign donations and lobbying, much of which is aimed at maintaining the subsidy. The result is a bloated financial sector and recurring credit gluts."<p>Some people wonder what could be done about such a situation. The sad truth is that there are already an overwhelming number of ideas that are floating around that have already been demonstrated to work (see iceland). The problem is not coming up with a good idea, the problem is how to implement one of the many good ideas which have already been proven to work.<p>The crux of the matter is that only the power of a strong federal government can take on the even more powerful too big too fail banks. The only way political change happens is when people get organized, and the american political system gives us a lot of freedoms. If you live and a free country and abstain from participating in politics, then in my opinion you have abdicated your responsibility as a citizen.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>gadders</author><text>So Banks lobby the government to get special favours and subsidies, and your response to this is to have more government?<p>How about have less government, no corporate lobbying and no corporatism?</text></comment> |
2,710,070 | 2,709,997 | 1 | 3 | 2,709,811 | train | <story><title>Moving to New York: a Guide for Software Engineers</title><url>http://code.dblock.org/ShowPost.aspx?id=225</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>msluyter</author><text><i>The idea that New York cost of living is much higher is just false. You can sacrifice a bit of space and maybe the location and pay the same amount as you’re paying now.</i><p>This seems objectively false. By definition, if it costs more to buy the same size apartment, then the cost of living (vis a vis housing) is higher. Yes, you can downsize and accept having to live with roommates to get by, but that doesn't mean the cost of living isn't higher.<p>According to a cost of living comparison between Austin, TX (where I live) and NYC, you would need to make 140k in NYC to match 90k in Austin:<p><a href="http://www.bestplaces.net/col/?salary=90000&#38;city1=54805000&#38;city2=53651000" rel="nofollow">http://www.bestplaces.net/col/?salary=90000&#38;city1=548050...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Moving to New York: a Guide for Software Engineers</title><url>http://code.dblock.org/ShowPost.aspx?id=225</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>wccrawford</author><text>"The idea that New York cost of living is much higher is just false. You can sacrifice a bit of space and maybe the location and pay the same amount as you’re paying now."<p>Or I could do that HERE and pay less, too. So it's -true-.</text></comment> |
20,975,958 | 20,975,886 | 1 | 2 | 20,948,274 | train | <story><title>DeepPrivacy: A Generative Adversarial Network for Face Anonymization</title><url>https://github.com/hukkelas/DeepPrivacy/blob/master/README.md</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jsilence</author><text>Wow, that is really close to the animation of the anonymizer hood in &#x27;a scanner darkly&#x27; (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.imdb.com&#x2F;title&#x2F;tt0405296&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.imdb.com&#x2F;title&#x2F;tt0405296&#x2F;</a>).</text></comment> | <story><title>DeepPrivacy: A Generative Adversarial Network for Face Anonymization</title><url>https://github.com/hukkelas/DeepPrivacy/blob/master/README.md</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>coolspot</author><text>Would be useful for amateur adult video sharing. Where face privacy is important, but blur kills the joy.</text></comment> |
1,419,690 | 1,419,694 | 1 | 3 | 1,419,605 | train | <story><title>Engadget deleted the "EVO 4G vs iPhone 4" poll as soon as EVO started winning</title><url>http://androidforums.com/htc-evo-4g/97335-engadgets-iphone-4-vs-evo-poll.html</url><text></text></story><parent_chain><item><author>rumpelstiltskin</author><text>Engadget's editor's response - <a href="http://androidforums.com/htc-evo-4g/97335-engadgets-iphone-4-vs-evo-poll-2.html#post908708" rel="nofollow">http://androidforums.com/htc-evo-4g/97335-engadgets-iphone-4...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rbanffy</author><text>So, you write and publish an article comparing two phones under non-ideal circumstances, let it air a couple hours, attract attention and then pull it - along with comments and a poll - because it was a comparison done under non-ideal circumstances that should be redone later?<p>Write a second article apologizing for the first one. Don't make the first article disappear.<p>This is seriously bad journalism.</text></comment> | <story><title>Engadget deleted the "EVO 4G vs iPhone 4" poll as soon as EVO started winning</title><url>http://androidforums.com/htc-evo-4g/97335-engadgets-iphone-4-vs-evo-poll.html</url><text></text></story><parent_chain><item><author>rumpelstiltskin</author><text>Engadget's editor's response - <a href="http://androidforums.com/htc-evo-4g/97335-engadgets-iphone-4-vs-evo-poll-2.html#post908708" rel="nofollow">http://androidforums.com/htc-evo-4g/97335-engadgets-iphone-4...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ZeroGravitas</author><text>The article that got pulled, retrieved by a forum poster in two parts:<p><a href="http://www.sprintusers.com/forum/showpost.php?p=2355928" rel="nofollow">http://www.sprintusers.com/forum/showpost.php?p=2355928</a><p><a href="http://www.sprintusers.com/forum/showpost.php?p=2355929" rel="nofollow">http://www.sprintusers.com/forum/showpost.php?p=2355929</a><p>Seems like one of the better reviews I've read, mostly pointing out that which is best depends on several factors such as where you live, what kind of apps you use etc.</text></comment> |
15,886,754 | 15,885,954 | 1 | 2 | 15,885,595 | train | <story><title>Intel Management Engine Critical Firmware Update</title><url>https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/support/articles/000025619/software.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>AdmiralAsshat</author><text>So is this actually a critical vulnerability, or is this just Intel plugging one of the recently-found exploits that lets us disable the IME?</text></comment> | <story><title>Intel Management Engine Critical Firmware Update</title><url>https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/support/articles/000025619/software.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>ajdlinux</author><text>What&#x27;s changed in this advisory since it was first issued November 20? Just more vendor links?</text></comment> |
36,726,717 | 36,725,841 | 1 | 3 | 36,721,055 | train | <story><title>Effect of perceptual load on performance within IDE in people with ADHD symptoms</title><url>https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-031-35017-7_9</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dkh</author><text>As an engineer for 10+ years with pretty severe ADHD (unmedicated, I cannot usually even read more than a few pages of a book before either losing focus or feeling drained) I have always been aware of how much my performance fluctuates based on the cognitive load of dealing with the code I am currently working with, and how it is displayed. I half-jokingly tend to describe it to people as having a &quot;small brain buffer&quot; where while I can understand (and design and implement) very complex things, it is easy for me to flounder when debugging if I feel unable to visually see or mentally hold the entire problem in my head at once. This is especially true if the code isn&#x27;t mine.<p>It is for this reason that I try to write what I feel is very obvious or self-explanatory code, why I try to keep functions&#x2F;modules as simple as possible and ideally not longer in length than I can see on my screen at once (when possible), and why I almost exclusively join small&#x2F;new teams who don&#x27;t yet have an enormous codebase that I&#x27;ll have to wrap my head around. I am never done tweaking the UIs of the editors I use to maximize my ability to work around these things.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>sodapopcan</author><text>&gt; why I try to keep functions&#x2F;modules as simple as possible and ideally not longer in length than I can see on my screen at once (when possible)<p>This is the paradox of &quot;readable&quot; code. Each person has a different definition of it. I also prefer to write as dumb code as possible (well, these days I do, I of course tried to be extra clever in my earlier days). But for me it&#x27;s the jumping around that makes me lose focus. My limit is about 3-4 jumps. This is not to say I write long meandering functions, but I personally couldn&#x27;t imagine a codebase I&#x27;d be happy working in that is made up of modules that fit on a screen. Maybe it&#x27;s possible! But the projects I&#x27;ve worked on that have a linter rule of &quot;100 lines per file&quot; or whatever end up being these rabbit holes. It&#x27;s so hard to come up with code design guidelines everyone can agree on.<p>As a side note, I despise things like imports and aliases. I&#x27;d prefer that when I do jump to a function, I can read it without having to check if anything is imported or not. I always opt for fully qualified function calls, regardless of how many characters it is.</text></comment> | <story><title>Effect of perceptual load on performance within IDE in people with ADHD symptoms</title><url>https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-031-35017-7_9</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dkh</author><text>As an engineer for 10+ years with pretty severe ADHD (unmedicated, I cannot usually even read more than a few pages of a book before either losing focus or feeling drained) I have always been aware of how much my performance fluctuates based on the cognitive load of dealing with the code I am currently working with, and how it is displayed. I half-jokingly tend to describe it to people as having a &quot;small brain buffer&quot; where while I can understand (and design and implement) very complex things, it is easy for me to flounder when debugging if I feel unable to visually see or mentally hold the entire problem in my head at once. This is especially true if the code isn&#x27;t mine.<p>It is for this reason that I try to write what I feel is very obvious or self-explanatory code, why I try to keep functions&#x2F;modules as simple as possible and ideally not longer in length than I can see on my screen at once (when possible), and why I almost exclusively join small&#x2F;new teams who don&#x27;t yet have an enormous codebase that I&#x27;ll have to wrap my head around. I am never done tweaking the UIs of the editors I use to maximize my ability to work around these things.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>devjab</author><text>Interestingly I do the same as you, partly because the single responsibility part of SOLID, but also because it just appeals to me to write clean easily understandable code. It’s for different reasons than you, however, my ADHD brain can “buffer” massive amounts of code… for a while. So I mainly write things simply because it’s much easier for me to “get back to” after 6 months, well, and because it’s clean code. I think it’s interesting that we end up with the same sort of code architecture though, despite not being affected by our ADHD the same.<p>For me the real struggle isn’t focus or “buffer”, it’s when things are boring. For almost all code work, even debugging, my hyperfocus grinds into gear, and if I’m left undisturbed I can quite literally work for 10 hours straight without eating. I don’t, because there is a bill to pay after doing so and I’ve worked on myself for decades to the point where I know to take breaks, eat and go home, but the hyperfocus is there.<p>Until things get boring. Luckily this is rare with code. Not so with everything related to the process of being allowed to write code. I try to work in places where the process people bother you as little as possible, and if I can avoid it, I’ll happily go through the rest of my career without ever pretending to listen in another standup meeting ever again.</text></comment> |
3,348,706 | 3,348,161 | 1 | 3 | 3,348,011 | train | <story><title>TextMate 2 (Public) Alpha</title><url>http://blog.macromates.com/2011/textmate-2-0-alpha/</url><text></text></story><parent_chain><item><author>peregrine</author><text>In the mean time Sublime Text 2 has all of the Alpha features as well as cross platform support and support for TextMate bundles. You should really give it a shot if you haven't.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pilif</author><text>There is one feature in TextMate that's not in Sublime which I really love to the point, where it's an absolute requirement for me: when I edit a file in TextMate and my account lacks permission for saving the file, TM would allow me to sudo right from the GUI in order to still save.<p>This is much better than seeing that I can't save, copy the whole file to the clipboard, reopen it with 'sudo vim' and then pasting it (no. Not even 'sudo subl' works)<p>One of the main reasons I use an editor like TM or S2 for is system administration which often requires root. For development I'm usually using the JetBrains IDE with the respective plugins.</text></comment> | <story><title>TextMate 2 (Public) Alpha</title><url>http://blog.macromates.com/2011/textmate-2-0-alpha/</url><text></text></story><parent_chain><item><author>peregrine</author><text>In the mean time Sublime Text 2 has all of the Alpha features as well as cross platform support and support for TextMate bundles. You should really give it a shot if you haven't.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>superchink</author><text>The vintage (vim-like) mode is what pulled me into sublime text as my go-to editor. It's just so much faster. I opened the textmate alpha and immediately had a bunch of j characters appear before I realized i don't think I can go back. It's either ST or vim for now…</text></comment> |
1,916,264 | 1,916,014 | 1 | 3 | 1,915,750 | train | <story><title>Buddhism and Happiness: Sitting Quietly, Doing Something</title><url>http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/07/16/sitting-quietly-doing-something/#more-7137</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>blizkreeg</author><text>Some of you here must meditate.<p>What is the form of meditation you practice? Can you elaborate a little so the novice could benefit?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>wallfly</author><text>My beliefs and meditation-prayer practices are according to the Christian Faith, but "sitting quietly, doing something" is an apt description whether it's Buddhist meditation or Christian mental prayer (a Western form of meditation).<p>I am happy to share with readers here the most excellent compendium of the Ignatian method of Christian mental prayer that I have ever encountered:<p>- Fifth Treatise: On the Excellency of Prayer<p><a href="http://www.holynamesoftware.org/OnPrayer.pdf" rel="nofollow">http://www.holynamesoftware.org/OnPrayer.pdf</a><p>The following essay is a real treasure too:<p>- The Practice of Lectio Divina<p><a href="https://docs.google.com/Doc?docid=0AdgpYJu8XEUoZGRxc2Z6cWtfMmNyMmt3M2Yy&#38;hl=en" rel="nofollow">https://docs.google.com/Doc?docid=0AdgpYJu8XEUoZGRxc2Z6cWtfM...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Buddhism and Happiness: Sitting Quietly, Doing Something</title><url>http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/07/16/sitting-quietly-doing-something/#more-7137</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>blizkreeg</author><text>Some of you here must meditate.<p>What is the form of meditation you practice? Can you elaborate a little so the novice could benefit?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>crux</author><text>I actually just happened to be watching a really good talk by Jon Kabat-Zinn at Google: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3nwwKbM_vJc" rel="nofollow">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3nwwKbM_vJc</a> where he leads a meditation session, and provides some basic concepts to refer to as well. Relatable, articulate.</text></comment> |
25,968,113 | 25,967,890 | 1 | 3 | 25,967,382 | train | <story><title>University of Leicester firing all pure math faculty</title><url>https://twitter.com/wtgowers/status/1355184163020804099</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>kleiba</author><text>I recently read Dijkstra&#x27;s &quot;On the fact that the Atlantic Ocean has two sides&quot;. [1] In vast parts, it&#x27;s not much more than mildly disguised US-bashing (Dijkstra was always a grumpy old man) but that&#x27;s not what caught my eye. What did was the fact that he describes the US research landscape as a system that orients itself around short-term projects and industry desires. Dijkstra clearly expresses his contempt for this approach over what he claims to be the European way: long-term thinking and research done for research&#x27;s sake.<p>That paper was written in 1982<p>Fast forward ~40 years, and the presumed US model <i>is exactly</i> the way research funding works all across Europe today. Jumping from one project to the next, always hoping that one of your next proposals will receive funding, or you&#x27;re out of a job. Your project proposal has a weak &quot;exploitation&quot; section? Well, goodbye proposal then! Universities are thought of as nothing more than R&amp;D departments and providers of new young hires for the economic sector.<p>It&#x27;s only consequential then to axe such &quot;useless&quot; disciplines as pure mathematics.<p>This is a scandal.<p>--<p>Edit: these news from last September fit perfectly into the picture [2]:<p><i>The European Union’s next research programme is likely to have a greater emphasis on funding for applied research, experts have warned, as universities were told to put pressure on politicians to increase the budget. [...]</i><p><i>In July, EU leaders agreed to spend €80.9 billion (£72.9 billion) on Horizon Europe, €13.5 billion less than was hoped for in May.</i><p>However, regarding the budget cut, keep in mind the costs incurred by the COVID19 pandemic.<p>--<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cs.utexas.edu&#x2F;users&#x2F;EWD&#x2F;transcriptions&#x2F;EWD06xx&#x2F;EWD611.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cs.utexas.edu&#x2F;users&#x2F;EWD&#x2F;transcriptions&#x2F;EWD06xx&#x2F;E...</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.timeshighereducation.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;horizon-europe-will-further-weaken-basic-research-funding" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.timeshighereducation.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;horizon-europe-wil...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>anticristi</author><text>I agree with you analysis, but is this necessarily bad (or rather, is all of this bad)?<p>As a young researcher, my peers and I already noticed the &quot;customer-ification&quot; of academia. Taxpayers are investigating in academia, either via tuition fees or research grants, and expect to see returns: Either more jobs, more competitive national economy or a better life.<p>So far so good. Unfortunately, too much &quot;customer-ification&quot; leads to job insecurity for more junior academic members and kills &quot;moonshots&quot;. However, without &quot;customer-ification&quot; the system ends up with dinasors that do research &quot;for fun&quot; on taxpayer&#x27;s money, with no real return.<p>Now, I&#x27;m unsure how much &quot;customer-ification&quot; is healthy. I would argue that both too little and too much hurt. I was fortunate enough to see some of my more junior peers striving with &quot;just the right&quot; amount: They managed to get themselves on R&amp;D boards of companies, yet do research on fundamental theories. Think &quot;to truly make airbags reliable, we need a theory on controlling non-linear systems of type X&quot;.<p>I&#x27;m not sure what happened in the case debated here, but I genuinely hope that the departments that are under thread have some evidence for their usefulness (e.g. public outreach for medieval literature, joint-articles for pure math).</text></comment> | <story><title>University of Leicester firing all pure math faculty</title><url>https://twitter.com/wtgowers/status/1355184163020804099</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>kleiba</author><text>I recently read Dijkstra&#x27;s &quot;On the fact that the Atlantic Ocean has two sides&quot;. [1] In vast parts, it&#x27;s not much more than mildly disguised US-bashing (Dijkstra was always a grumpy old man) but that&#x27;s not what caught my eye. What did was the fact that he describes the US research landscape as a system that orients itself around short-term projects and industry desires. Dijkstra clearly expresses his contempt for this approach over what he claims to be the European way: long-term thinking and research done for research&#x27;s sake.<p>That paper was written in 1982<p>Fast forward ~40 years, and the presumed US model <i>is exactly</i> the way research funding works all across Europe today. Jumping from one project to the next, always hoping that one of your next proposals will receive funding, or you&#x27;re out of a job. Your project proposal has a weak &quot;exploitation&quot; section? Well, goodbye proposal then! Universities are thought of as nothing more than R&amp;D departments and providers of new young hires for the economic sector.<p>It&#x27;s only consequential then to axe such &quot;useless&quot; disciplines as pure mathematics.<p>This is a scandal.<p>--<p>Edit: these news from last September fit perfectly into the picture [2]:<p><i>The European Union’s next research programme is likely to have a greater emphasis on funding for applied research, experts have warned, as universities were told to put pressure on politicians to increase the budget. [...]</i><p><i>In July, EU leaders agreed to spend €80.9 billion (£72.9 billion) on Horizon Europe, €13.5 billion less than was hoped for in May.</i><p>However, regarding the budget cut, keep in mind the costs incurred by the COVID19 pandemic.<p>--<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cs.utexas.edu&#x2F;users&#x2F;EWD&#x2F;transcriptions&#x2F;EWD06xx&#x2F;EWD611.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cs.utexas.edu&#x2F;users&#x2F;EWD&#x2F;transcriptions&#x2F;EWD06xx&#x2F;E...</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.timeshighereducation.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;horizon-europe-will-further-weaken-basic-research-funding" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.timeshighereducation.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;horizon-europe-wil...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dandanua</author><text>It looks like our civilization has passed its peak and now bouncing back to medieval ages.</text></comment> |
1,295,075 | 1,295,047 | 1 | 2 | 1,294,899 | train | <story><title>That Lost 4G Phone</title><url>http://www.dilbert.com/blog/entry/thatlost4gphone/</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>RyanMcGreal</author><text>More interesting than the comics (which came off a bit forced to me) is the following:<p>&#62;I worried that the story would become stale before my comics would work through the pipeline. I think the soonest I can get something published is in about a month, perhaps a bit sooner, but I've never tested it.<p>A month to go from the final draft of a black-and-white, three-panel, line-drawn comic to publication in a daily newspaper. A <i>month</i>!<p>And people wonder why newspapers are gradually becoming irrelevant.</text></comment> | <story><title>That Lost 4G Phone</title><url>http://www.dilbert.com/blog/entry/thatlost4gphone/</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>danieldon</author><text>"That's a coincidence because <i>I sell other people's belongings</i>"<p>Well put.</text></comment> |
19,604,250 | 19,600,928 | 1 | 2 | 19,595,991 | train | <story><title>IBM Watson Overpromised and Underdelivered on AI Health Care</title><url>https://spectrum.ieee.org/biomedical/diagnostics/how-ibm-watson-overpromised-and-underdelivered-on-ai-health-care</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>1e-9</author><text>To me, the main mistake was the series of commercials giving the strong impression that IBM already had this incredible Artificial General Intelligence that was indistinguishable from a highly intelligent human and was solving a myriad of difficult practical problems better than any expert. I suspect that most who were well-versed in AI felt the ads were disingenuous from the start. I know I did. I think the marketing campaign would have better served IBM had it laid out their commitment to achieve these things without sounding like they were already there.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>DebtDeflation</author><text>&gt;To me, the main mistake was the series of commercials giving the strong impression that IBM already had this incredible Artificial General Intelligence<p>100% correct. Had IBM marketed Watson for what it actually is - an enterprise version of Amazon Alexa or Google Assistant (which admittedly didn&#x27;t even exist at the time) - they&#x27;d be in a completely different spot. Instead we got the Bob Dylan commercials (which under the covers was just speech to text, a hardcoded dialog tree, and text to speech) and all the &quot;Watson is curing cancer&quot; nonsense (which under the covers was just a rules engine sitting on top of a search engine intended to provide customized treatment plans). The actual technology works, but it&#x27;s an NLP platform for building chatbots and search engines (think intent classifier, relevancy ranker, named entity&#x2F;semantic relationship&#x2F;sentiment annotators) not the AGI that it was marketed as.</text></comment> | <story><title>IBM Watson Overpromised and Underdelivered on AI Health Care</title><url>https://spectrum.ieee.org/biomedical/diagnostics/how-ibm-watson-overpromised-and-underdelivered-on-ai-health-care</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>1e-9</author><text>To me, the main mistake was the series of commercials giving the strong impression that IBM already had this incredible Artificial General Intelligence that was indistinguishable from a highly intelligent human and was solving a myriad of difficult practical problems better than any expert. I suspect that most who were well-versed in AI felt the ads were disingenuous from the start. I know I did. I think the marketing campaign would have better served IBM had it laid out their commitment to achieve these things without sounding like they were already there.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>evrydayhustling</author><text>The commercials are the public-facing tip of a much larger iceburg of enterprise-scale sales and marketing. Big institutions gave Watson a shot because they created a machine that maximized FOMO with intriguing demos, reduced risk with the &quot;nobody gets fired for buying IBM effect&quot;, and perhaps most importantly pitches projects that were large enough to move the needle and make the career of a high level administrator.<p>When you realize how much positioning is required for large scale sales, you can start to understand why the same company might not have the feedback loops in place to build a product.</text></comment> |
14,559,615 | 14,559,269 | 1 | 2 | 14,559,054 | train | <story><title>Combating Money Laundering, Terrorist Financing, and Counterfeiting Act</title><url>https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/6hbis7/us_congress_going_full_1984_on_bitcoin_and_assets/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>mabbo</author><text>It sounds as though governments are simply trying to amend existing law around money laundering and terrorist financing to try to deal with the invention of digital currencies. This sort of thing has happened before.<p>Back in &#x27;06 I was an intern in the tech department of FINTRAC, Canada&#x27;s agency for stopping money laundering and terrorist financing, so my knowledge is outdated and only specific to one country- but everyone has roughly the same rules and goals with these laws- track large money movements to find money laundering operations and stop money from finding it&#x27;s way to terror groups. They use the $10,000 rule- banks report your info if you move more than that in or out of your account and border security reports it if you move that much in cash across a border.<p>Over time though, new tricks are always figured out, and laws updated. In &#x27;06, it was casinos (&quot;yeah I won big last night, that&#x27;s where the money came from&quot;), currency exchanges (&quot;oh yeah, we do a huge amount of business and over charge everyone&quot;), and jewelry stores (buy diamonds in cash, carry them over borders instead of money). So reporting laws were updated.<p>Now the trick is &quot;I bought a lot of bitcoins in 2009 and finally sold them today, that&#x27;s where the money came from&quot;. If the laws aren&#x27;t updated, money laundering becomes easy again.<p>What else do we expect governments to do? Now, are these laws well written and not overreaching? I&#x27;m not sure, and that&#x27;s worth debating.</text></comment> | <story><title>Combating Money Laundering, Terrorist Financing, and Counterfeiting Act</title><url>https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/6hbis7/us_congress_going_full_1984_on_bitcoin_and_assets/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>throwanem</author><text>Is there an analysis somewhere that isn&#x27;t so, uh, &#x2F;r&#x2F;bitcoin? There&#x27;s a kind of occasional Chicken Little style there that seems to add more heat than light.</text></comment> |
21,888,976 | 21,888,663 | 1 | 2 | 21,884,981 | train | <story><title>Alcohol and social bonding in humans (2018)</title><url>https://www.ft.com/content/c5ce0834-9a64-11e8-9702-5946bae86e6d</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jdkee</author><text>&quot;Loneliness is a health threat in the western world, and the UK even has a dedicated minister to address the problem. How to solve it, of course, is a huge challenge, but encouraging people to get out and socialise over a few beers or a bottle of wine at the village pub may be a good place to start.&quot;<p>Proximity, unplanned encounters and the privacy to confide with someone have been identified as key factors in making friends as an adult.[cite] I find it unfortunate to read about the closing of so many neighborhood pubs in England over the past decade or so.</text></comment> | <story><title>Alcohol and social bonding in humans (2018)</title><url>https://www.ft.com/content/c5ce0834-9a64-11e8-9702-5946bae86e6d</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>dang</author><text>The author is Robin Dunbar, of Dunbar&#x27;s number. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Robin_Dunbar" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Robin_Dunbar</a><p>Past threads have shown this to be a bit of a triggering topic, but this is an interesting and substantial article. We changed the title to make it less baity, in accordance with the HN guidelines. If anyone suggests a better title (i.e. more accurate and neutral), we can change it again.</text></comment> |
4,302,114 | 4,301,746 | 1 | 3 | 4,300,472 | train | <story><title>Gnome: Staring into the abyss</title><url>http://blogs.gnome.org/otte/2012/07/27/staring-into-the-abyss/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>kijin</author><text>1. As the author says toward the end of the article, I think the biggest problem with Gnome nowadays is that only a small number of people actually use it on a day-to-day basis. Popular distros like Ubuntu and Mint have shifted away from it. No matter what merits Gnome 3 might have, it was such a flop in its first few releases that it has the Windows Vista stigma attached to it. Of course, there's GTK and several Gnome apps that people do use on a daily basis. But for many people, Gnome itself is decidedly uncool. No wonder they don't want to contribute to it.<p>2. If Gnome really wants to win back the hearts of potential contributors (i.e. power users), they'd better make programs that appeal to that demographic. People who have the skill and motivation to make significant contributions to a free software project often want a lot of room for configuration, including the option to use the desktop in a traditional manner. Taking away those little checkboxes and toolbar buttons is like slamming the door on power users. You might win a billion non-technical users, but none of them will ever submit a single patch.<p>3. Gnome is too big for its own good. Why does a desktop environment project need to maintain a complete stack of apps and libraries, from GTK to Gnome Shell to a text editor to a bundle of games to a web browser to an email client to a media player to a full-blown spreadsheet app? Why can't they just tell people to get a third-party browser? They should spin off the rest and focus on GTK, the Shell, and a small number of essential utilities. If Epiphany or Gnumeric died a slow and lonely death, how many people would really care? Heck, if you don't have the manpower to maintain anything else, just give me GTK so I can install xfce or lxde on top of it. It's really just Firefox and LibreOffice and VLC that I want, and I don't need Gnome to run them.<p>Edit: some rephrasing.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>JoshTriplett</author><text>I find it wryly amusing to see the entire GNOME 1 -&#62; GNOME 2 debacle repeated so accurately. GNOME 2 eliminated a huge pile of configuration and tweakability that had accreted over the years, and produced an environment designed for user-friendliness even at the expense of some power-user configurations. It took a few releases to sort out (2.0 proved quite painful), but by GNOME 2.4 or so the environment had become far more pleasant than GNOME 1.<p>If the GNOME 2 -&#62; GNOME 3 debate has produced more vitriol by volume, I'd say that just reflects GNOME 2 having a much larger user community than GNOME 1 ever did.</text></comment> | <story><title>Gnome: Staring into the abyss</title><url>http://blogs.gnome.org/otte/2012/07/27/staring-into-the-abyss/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>kijin</author><text>1. As the author says toward the end of the article, I think the biggest problem with Gnome nowadays is that only a small number of people actually use it on a day-to-day basis. Popular distros like Ubuntu and Mint have shifted away from it. No matter what merits Gnome 3 might have, it was such a flop in its first few releases that it has the Windows Vista stigma attached to it. Of course, there's GTK and several Gnome apps that people do use on a daily basis. But for many people, Gnome itself is decidedly uncool. No wonder they don't want to contribute to it.<p>2. If Gnome really wants to win back the hearts of potential contributors (i.e. power users), they'd better make programs that appeal to that demographic. People who have the skill and motivation to make significant contributions to a free software project often want a lot of room for configuration, including the option to use the desktop in a traditional manner. Taking away those little checkboxes and toolbar buttons is like slamming the door on power users. You might win a billion non-technical users, but none of them will ever submit a single patch.<p>3. Gnome is too big for its own good. Why does a desktop environment project need to maintain a complete stack of apps and libraries, from GTK to Gnome Shell to a text editor to a bundle of games to a web browser to an email client to a media player to a full-blown spreadsheet app? Why can't they just tell people to get a third-party browser? They should spin off the rest and focus on GTK, the Shell, and a small number of essential utilities. If Epiphany or Gnumeric died a slow and lonely death, how many people would really care? Heck, if you don't have the manpower to maintain anything else, just give me GTK so I can install xfce or lxde on top of it. It's really just Firefox and LibreOffice and VLC that I want, and I don't need Gnome to run them.<p>Edit: some rephrasing.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ChuckMcM</author><text>"Gnome itself is decidedly uncool. No wonder they don't want to contribute to it."<p>This is the biggest weakness of FOSS in general. It is true that some people work on the stuff that has to get done or isn't "cool" but contrasted to "cool" parts where folks are available in abundance and it means people burn out and there is no one there so replace them. If there isn't someone out there paying someone else to be in that uncool part of the code, chances are bit rot sets in.</text></comment> |
4,658,565 | 4,655,652 | 1 | 2 | 4,654,944 | train | <story><title>A science committee that doesn’t get science </title><url>http://arstechnica.com/staff/2012/10/editorial-meet-a-science-committee-that-doesnt-get-science/</url><text></text></story><parent_chain><item><author>prawks</author><text>Articles like this always renew my distaste for discussing politics. There are <i>clear</i> problems with the US's legislative process and elected officials, but there seems to be no way to effectively induce change in them, especially as an individual. Not just riding the science bandwagon here either; partisanship in general, etc. are all incredibly frustrating to discuss, and I'll almost always just stay out of discussions on politics as a result.<p>I'd love to help change these kinds of things, but I don't feel I could give up my job to start some sort of organization against it, nor do I feel such an organization would gain much traction anyhow. Maybe I'm just an a-typical slacktivist.<p>Any suggestions on stifling my feelings of futility? It seems the only way to affect change in this country is to get enough upvotes on reddit (see: SOPA). So I'm upvoting this.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rayiner</author><text>I think the best thing is to cultivate some perspective, and not hold the political system to unrealistically high standards.<p>We live in a 236 year old democracy of 310 million people. Let that sink in. We have more people than there are lines of code in an entire Linux distribution. Think of the complexity of a human being, over a human being's lifetime, versus a line of code. We're an incredibly heterogeneous, diverse country that has never agreed on anything, not even on our founding documents.* We are, by virtue of our post-WWII status, the de-facto political and military leader of the world. We're the world's largest economy. We're the world's reserve currency. We have all of the responsibility that comes with that status.<p>We do not blink twice when we hear of a company like Yahoo (14,000 employees) or Nortel (86,000 employees at peak) becoming unmanageable basket cases. Yet we rail on the President for not getting more done than he does! We forgive Windows for being layers upon tangled layers of bug-for-bug compatible code, but complain endlessly about the complexity of a tax code designed to regulate 300m people acting together in a $15 trillion economy.<p>I am of the opinion that too many people, especially engineers who maybe have a particular love of simplicity, simply expect too much of the country they live in, and as a result become disillusioned with the whole system.<p>It is my opinion that these expectations are unreasonable and counter productive. The fact of the matter is that the US government is a paragon of virtue and efficiency compared to most others. Some of the western European countries may have better governments, but they also have far simpler and more homogenous societies to govern. We certainly have a better government than most any country in Asia. China, which has no particular love of anything American, has spent the last couple of decades trying to model their legal system after America's. Think about that: something that most Americans consider to be a broken part of our society, is a model for a country looking to cement it's place among the world's great societies.<p>So if you're frustrated by the system, take a step back and appreciate the fact that it probably doesn't get any better than it is now. As I've gotten older and this realization has sunk in, I have found politics far more enjoyable.<p>*) The more you learn about the Constitution, the more you realize it's ridiculous to ask "what does the Constitution mean?" The 40 signatories to the Constitution had 40 different opinions about the meaning of the document they were signing!</text></comment> | <story><title>A science committee that doesn’t get science </title><url>http://arstechnica.com/staff/2012/10/editorial-meet-a-science-committee-that-doesnt-get-science/</url><text></text></story><parent_chain><item><author>prawks</author><text>Articles like this always renew my distaste for discussing politics. There are <i>clear</i> problems with the US's legislative process and elected officials, but there seems to be no way to effectively induce change in them, especially as an individual. Not just riding the science bandwagon here either; partisanship in general, etc. are all incredibly frustrating to discuss, and I'll almost always just stay out of discussions on politics as a result.<p>I'd love to help change these kinds of things, but I don't feel I could give up my job to start some sort of organization against it, nor do I feel such an organization would gain much traction anyhow. Maybe I'm just an a-typical slacktivist.<p>Any suggestions on stifling my feelings of futility? It seems the only way to affect change in this country is to get enough upvotes on reddit (see: SOPA). So I'm upvoting this.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>goostavos</author><text>I'm right with you on your slactivism. I like the <i>idea</i> of being very involved in politics, but I just cannot stand (a) listening to politicians, or (b) talking about politics.<p>I just don't have the heart for the current discourse in the country. Every once in awhile, I'll try to go the good citizen route, look into the current issues, and then draw my own conclusion.. but what was all that effort for? I've tried my best to present logical rebuttals to people's points. I try to source only relevant, publicly available government data when possible, but it means nothing. The response I usually get? "Yeah, but.. still.." and then they go back to making their talking point.<p>"But still.." is not a rebuttal, people.<p>I spent several hours investigating the energy policy of the candidates. I pulled a bunch of charts from the EPA, compiled them all into an email, and then gave my armchair analysis of the policy given the available data. I was told that "I'm missing the important issue."<p>So... fuck it. I'll just go back to studying.</text></comment> |
21,511,802 | 21,507,646 | 1 | 2 | 21,505,986 | train | <story><title>Show HN: Avoid editing while writing your first draft</title><url>https://rolandasb.github.io/firstdraft/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tyre</author><text>This. Technical writing is a different species entirely. You know beforehand all of the pieces, or at least reason about them.<p>Creativity doesn&#x27;t work that way. You&#x27;ll literally inventing new things. It would be like saying, &quot;let me plan out how I will innovate.&quot; Makes no sense.</text></item><item><author>john-radio</author><text>The &quot;never edit while drafting&quot; advice comes from the creative writing community. It might be of limited use in cases like technical writing, where you already might have a solid idea what the final product should look like before you start. Most people find that trying to write a novel and edit it at the same time is like baking cookies one by one.</text></item><item><author>nickjj</author><text>This might be an unpopular opinion but I always edit while writing my first draft. This is how I&#x27;ve written 250+ technical blog posts and over a million words worth of course notes.<p>I basically write a couple of sentences or paragraphs, stop, review, reword things if needed, change things around and move on. Then at the very end I&#x27;ll give it all a final reordering &#x2F; fixing until I&#x27;m happy with it.<p>I feel like I can&#x27;t progress to the next chunk of an article until the prior section is 95% edited because what I write next depends on what was previously written.<p>Does anyone else work like that?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rhino369</author><text>&gt;This. Technical writing is a different species entirely. You know beforehand all of the pieces, or at least reason about them.<p>The advice to &quot;don&#x27;t edit while you write&quot; usually comes after the advice to &quot;make an outline&quot; before you write. You are supposed to figure out how the pieces fit. Then quickly write it all out. Then edit edit edit.<p>The general idea is that is easier to edit afterwards than to edit on the fly. Its true for me.</text></comment> | <story><title>Show HN: Avoid editing while writing your first draft</title><url>https://rolandasb.github.io/firstdraft/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tyre</author><text>This. Technical writing is a different species entirely. You know beforehand all of the pieces, or at least reason about them.<p>Creativity doesn&#x27;t work that way. You&#x27;ll literally inventing new things. It would be like saying, &quot;let me plan out how I will innovate.&quot; Makes no sense.</text></item><item><author>john-radio</author><text>The &quot;never edit while drafting&quot; advice comes from the creative writing community. It might be of limited use in cases like technical writing, where you already might have a solid idea what the final product should look like before you start. Most people find that trying to write a novel and edit it at the same time is like baking cookies one by one.</text></item><item><author>nickjj</author><text>This might be an unpopular opinion but I always edit while writing my first draft. This is how I&#x27;ve written 250+ technical blog posts and over a million words worth of course notes.<p>I basically write a couple of sentences or paragraphs, stop, review, reword things if needed, change things around and move on. Then at the very end I&#x27;ll give it all a final reordering &#x2F; fixing until I&#x27;m happy with it.<p>I feel like I can&#x27;t progress to the next chunk of an article until the prior section is 95% edited because what I write next depends on what was previously written.<p>Does anyone else work like that?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nickjj</author><text>My blog posts and course scripts aren&#x27;t just documenting code.<p>I very rarely know what I&#x27;m going to write until I start writing. I don&#x27;t even outline anything. I just start writing and relentlessly edit as I go.<p>I do the same thing for 1,000 word blog posts as I do with 400,000+ word course scripts.<p>If anything editing is more important for the larger pieces of work because in order to cleanly flow to the next lesson or section of a course the prior stuff has to be pretty much in its final form.</text></comment> |
22,725,032 | 22,724,970 | 1 | 2 | 22,724,268 | train | <story><title>Some Churches Are Still Packing in Crowds</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-03-29/some-megachurches-pack-in-crowds-amid-covid-19-warning-flares</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>abnry</author><text>It&#x27;s definitely a problem from a public health perspective, and that&#x27;s why there should be legal measures to stop such large gatherings.<p>However, these types of articles are often used to cast aspersions on <i>all</i> Christians. That was essential the point of the parent comment. Why single out megachurches? You could find plenty of similar examples in the business, social and government realm of large groups continuing to meet.</text></item><item><author>teapourer</author><text>Unfortunately, &quot;most&quot; is not sufficient here. In South Korea the majority of cases were spread through a small handful of church gatherings. Consequently I have come to think that media coverage such as this post is a net benefit to society, although it is undisputable that they cast many innocent people in a bad light.</text></item><item><author>Brendinooo</author><text>I&#x27;ve been seeing this plotline for awhile, and the notion that this is normal is pure fiction. They are outliers; feel free to call them out for their irresponsibility, but absolutely do not use them to make any kind of generalization.<p>&gt;Some megachurches have opted out of in-person services and turned to live streaming entirely.<p>Correction: Just about every church that I&#x27;ve heard about has gone online. Certainly possible that less-affected states are a week or two behind the curve, but most understand the weight of this and are acting accordingly.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>magduf</author><text>&gt;Why single out megachurches?<p>Why not? From my observations, megachurches tend to be very different from many other Christian churches, including in theology. Christians aren&#x27;t all the same, but there are some definite things that many, if not most, megachurches have in common, that they don&#x27;t share with other denominations. (Starting with &quot;denominations&quot;, in fact: megachurches usually don&#x27;t belong to one.)</text></comment> | <story><title>Some Churches Are Still Packing in Crowds</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-03-29/some-megachurches-pack-in-crowds-amid-covid-19-warning-flares</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>abnry</author><text>It&#x27;s definitely a problem from a public health perspective, and that&#x27;s why there should be legal measures to stop such large gatherings.<p>However, these types of articles are often used to cast aspersions on <i>all</i> Christians. That was essential the point of the parent comment. Why single out megachurches? You could find plenty of similar examples in the business, social and government realm of large groups continuing to meet.</text></item><item><author>teapourer</author><text>Unfortunately, &quot;most&quot; is not sufficient here. In South Korea the majority of cases were spread through a small handful of church gatherings. Consequently I have come to think that media coverage such as this post is a net benefit to society, although it is undisputable that they cast many innocent people in a bad light.</text></item><item><author>Brendinooo</author><text>I&#x27;ve been seeing this plotline for awhile, and the notion that this is normal is pure fiction. They are outliers; feel free to call them out for their irresponsibility, but absolutely do not use them to make any kind of generalization.<p>&gt;Some megachurches have opted out of in-person services and turned to live streaming entirely.<p>Correction: Just about every church that I&#x27;ve heard about has gone online. Certainly possible that less-affected states are a week or two behind the curve, but most understand the weight of this and are acting accordingly.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>wolco</author><text>For me the word mega in front of churches made me more concerned. Just because the crowds are so large.<p>The media&#x27;s dislike for anything Christian makes this a two quadrant story.. possible three if the mega churches are in a red state.</text></comment> |
18,556,340 | 18,555,370 | 1 | 2 | 18,555,276 | train | <story><title>How Postgres is more than a relational database: Extensions</title><url>https://www.citusdata.com/blog/2018/11/27/postgres-more-than-a-relational-database/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>rleigh</author><text>I did this for the debversion datatype (on pgxn). It&#x27;s surprisingly easy to create custom types, along with all the necessary operators and hash functions for them to be efficiently indexed and compared. And the speed is excellent, so long as you&#x27;re using a natively compiled library with the C bindings.<p>JSONB is clearly a lot more complex and demanding, but if you&#x27;re ever using PostgreSQL and hitting performance limitations with interpreted languages or PL&#x2F;pgSQL, it&#x27;s an option which is not as scary and inaccessible as you might imagine.<p>CREATE EXTENSION is what really made this stuff usable. Before this, you had to get the user to run a bunch of raw SQL to set all the types and functions, but now it&#x27;s all wrapped in a single handy SQL statement which can even handle upgrades and uninstallation.<p>Part of me wants the installation and upgrade mechanism to be reusable for my own application database schemas, it&#x27;s so convenient and well done.</text></comment> | <story><title>How Postgres is more than a relational database: Extensions</title><url>https://www.citusdata.com/blog/2018/11/27/postgres-more-than-a-relational-database/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>just_myles</author><text>My first real foray into the new postgres that this article states is with JSONB. I needed to create a specific output for a client in JSON format. The formatting options available were pretty good and allowed me to create something quick and dirty without having to write custom code to support the output that I needed.</text></comment> |
9,767,232 | 9,767,090 | 1 | 3 | 9,766,816 | train | <story><title>Three hundred programming interviews in thirty days</title><url>http://blog.triplebyte.com/three-hundred-programming-interviews-in-thirty-days</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>protonfish</author><text>It&#x27;s great to see some objective research being done on this, and I am very interested in following the results.<p>They mention evaluating the effectiveness of giving a candidate a project to do &quot;in their own time.&quot; I recently had a interview that included this and I can share the result: I accepted an offer from a different company that didn&#x27;t require it. I doubt my life is that different than anyone else&#x27;s, with a full-time job and a full-time life outside of work. Spending that much time to qualify for a single job is too much to ask of anyone. If it were to pass a generic proficiency certification applicable to many positions, I would consider it, but this does not scale if a candidate is applying for multiple positions.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>geebee</author><text>I did this once. After a take home quiz that took about an hour, I had a 6-7 hour &quot;homework&quot; problem. I did it, and sent it in. It took the company a month to get back to me, though I did stay in contact with the recruiter. The final answer, delivered by the recruiter, was &quot;we&#x27;ve decided not to more forward at this time.&quot; No other feedback. I have no idea if anyone even looked at it - I never did speak to a dev at the company.<p>This experience left me embarrassed, honestly. I don&#x27;t think it reflects well on me that I put up with it even once.<p>At this point, I will participate in tech interviews, but I won&#x27;t do any more take-home assignments. I suppose this could change under different circumstances.<p>Gayle Laakmann McDowell, who wrote &quot;Cracking the Coding Interview&quot;, wrote an insightful post her blog about this. It&#x27;s titled &quot;Companies who give candidates homework assignments: knock it off!&quot;<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.gayle.com&#x2F;blog&#x2F;2013&#x2F;09&#x2F;18&#x2F;companies-who-give-candidates-homework-assignments-knock-it-off" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.gayle.com&#x2F;blog&#x2F;2013&#x2F;09&#x2F;18&#x2F;companies-who-give-cand...</a><p>She mentions something I see as a problem as well - these tests allow the company to burn a lot of a candidate&#x27;s time, but not the other way around. I may have burned 6+ hours interviewing unsuccessfully at google, but they parted with 6+ hours of developer time as well (though I did spend a lot of additional hours reviewing algorithms and doing sample problems). This creates a natural set of checks and balances that don&#x27;t exist with homework assignments.<p>She does have some good suggestions about how to use a take home if a company is determined to do it. To me, a particularly insightful one was to have a high (she says 90%+) passage rate.<p>I agree. If you&#x27;re going to ask a candidate to spend a day on a homework assignment, you should be very close to an offer. If you&#x27;re using it as an early filter, you are wasting a tremendous amount of developer time.</text></comment> | <story><title>Three hundred programming interviews in thirty days</title><url>http://blog.triplebyte.com/three-hundred-programming-interviews-in-thirty-days</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>protonfish</author><text>It&#x27;s great to see some objective research being done on this, and I am very interested in following the results.<p>They mention evaluating the effectiveness of giving a candidate a project to do &quot;in their own time.&quot; I recently had a interview that included this and I can share the result: I accepted an offer from a different company that didn&#x27;t require it. I doubt my life is that different than anyone else&#x27;s, with a full-time job and a full-time life outside of work. Spending that much time to qualify for a single job is too much to ask of anyone. If it were to pass a generic proficiency certification applicable to many positions, I would consider it, but this does not scale if a candidate is applying for multiple positions.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>eitally</author><text>My wife is in this position now, and it&#x27;s not for a programming job. She works in pharmaceuticals, in pharmacovigilance &amp; risk management. She does a lot of data analysis &amp; writing (the latest report she wrote for Health Canada &amp; the FDA was 461 pages).<p>A company she&#x27;s interviewing with asked her to do a sample writing task as part of her application&#x2F;interview. She hasn&#x27;t decided whether it&#x27;s worth it or not. For someone who has 15 years experience in the field, excellent recommendations and credentials, spending (her estimate) 12-15 hours doing pro bono work just to apply somewhere is ridiculous.</text></comment> |
34,243,770 | 34,243,761 | 1 | 2 | 34,242,820 | train | <story><title>Ruby 3.2.0 is from another dimension</title><url>https://tomaszs2.medium.com/ruby-3-2-0-is-from-another-dimension-5249e3186ec9</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>michaelteter</author><text>Ruby is my favorite language, and often it is a joy to use because of its combined attributes of brevity, expressive power, and feature consistency.<p>It&#x27;s disappointing that there are so many more jobs for another popular language - one that lacks the elegance and consistency but which has a larger ecosystem.<p>As far as I know, the only well known reason for a company to choose Ruby is if they want Rails (and obviously if the founding team already knows&#x2F;likes Ruby). But that other language also has a popular (and comparatively clumsy) web framework plus well known modules for all the fantasy capabilities that startups dream of... you know, the AI&#x2F;ML &quot;not sure how we will use it but we know it will be great, and it&#x27;s good for marketing&quot;.<p>Sadly, I don&#x27;t expect this situation to reverse in the future. Maybe like blockchain, once the AI&#x2F;ML fantasy hype dies down the other comparatively-unpleasant language will lose general appeal and Ruby will gain more attention.<p>Edit - also, the domain squatters &quot;rubylang.org&quot; should lose their domain. There is no legitimate excuse for having this domain which redirects to a general garbage site.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>samwillis</author><text>You are obviously referring to Python and so I would like to note a few things. (I have nothing against Ruby)<p>&gt; Ruby ... its combined attributes of brevity, expressive power, and feature consistency.<p>&gt; [Python] lacks the elegance and consistency<p>First I would argue Python is very consistent in its design, it aims to only have one obvious way to do things and so it&#x27;s easy to guess how apis will work. It also aims for explicitness, which makes code very easy to follow and reason about.<p>Secondly on &quot;brevity&quot; and &quot;expressiveness&quot;, I don&#x27;t really see them as an attribute that make a language &quot;better&quot;. Sure for experienced developers who like a personal game of code golf (don&#x27;t we all at times!) those are attributes can can make coding more &quot;fun&quot;. But that doesn&#x27;t necessarily translate to code that is ideal when working as part of a team, or code that is easy to follow when a new developer starts on an existing codebase.<p>Ultimately I think that&#x27;s why Python has gained more traction than Ruby, it&#x27;s an &quot;easer&quot; language to follow and start with. Ruby is probably a more fun and intellectually stimulating language to work with though.</text></comment> | <story><title>Ruby 3.2.0 is from another dimension</title><url>https://tomaszs2.medium.com/ruby-3-2-0-is-from-another-dimension-5249e3186ec9</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>michaelteter</author><text>Ruby is my favorite language, and often it is a joy to use because of its combined attributes of brevity, expressive power, and feature consistency.<p>It&#x27;s disappointing that there are so many more jobs for another popular language - one that lacks the elegance and consistency but which has a larger ecosystem.<p>As far as I know, the only well known reason for a company to choose Ruby is if they want Rails (and obviously if the founding team already knows&#x2F;likes Ruby). But that other language also has a popular (and comparatively clumsy) web framework plus well known modules for all the fantasy capabilities that startups dream of... you know, the AI&#x2F;ML &quot;not sure how we will use it but we know it will be great, and it&#x27;s good for marketing&quot;.<p>Sadly, I don&#x27;t expect this situation to reverse in the future. Maybe like blockchain, once the AI&#x2F;ML fantasy hype dies down the other comparatively-unpleasant language will lose general appeal and Ruby will gain more attention.<p>Edit - also, the domain squatters &quot;rubylang.org&quot; should lose their domain. There is no legitimate excuse for having this domain which redirects to a general garbage site.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dragonwriter</author><text>&gt; one that lacks the elegance and consistency but which has a larger ecosystem.<p>... and decent first party docs, actual code modules rather than “execute every source file in the global namespace”, a first party Windows build, etc., etc., etc.<p>If the Ruby community can&#x27;t acknowledge the real things holding it back compared to other available options, well, that makes it that much harder to catch up.</text></comment> |
9,432,291 | 9,432,181 | 1 | 3 | 9,431,944 | train | <story><title>Becoming Productive in Haskell</title><url>http://mechanical-elephant.com/thoughts/2015-04-20-becoming-productive-in-haskell/index.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>QuantumRoar</author><text>Scripting languages try to seduce you to just fiddle around until the output looks like something you want. While that quickly gives you some results, I think it&#x27;s a huge roadblock in the mid- to longterm. Especially when programmers are only familiar with &quot;easy&quot; scripting languages, there are rarely insights about the general approach to the problem until the project already grew to become an abomination.<p>While fiddling around is still somewhat possible in Haskell, the language itself makes it quite difficult. Haskell kind of forces you right at the beginning to pause and think &quot;Well, what is it that I&#x27;m actually trying to do here?&quot; It let&#x27;s you recognize and apply common patterns and implement them in abstract ways without having to think about what kind of values you actually have at runtime. In that way Haskell is the most powerful language I know.<p>Have a tree&#x2F;list&#x2F;whatever? Need to apply a function to each of the elements? Make your tree&#x2F;list&#x2F;whatever an instance of the Functor type class and you&#x27;re done. Need to accumulate a result from all the elements? Make it foldable.<p>Something depends on some state? Make it a Monad.<p>You either get a result or you don&#x27;t (in which case any further computations shouldn&#x27;t apply)? Use the Maybe Monad.<p>You need to compute different possible results? Use the List Monad.<p>Need to distinguish three different possible values that are different compositions of elementary types? Make yourself your own type and pattern match the behavior of applying functions.<p>Need to output in a certain way? Make it an instance of the Show class.<p>Most concepts that are used every day have some kind of idea behind them that is abstract and implementation independent. Haskell kind of forces you to reference those ideas directly. The downside is that you actually have to know about those concepts. However, knowing about the such concepts makes you also a better programmer in other languages, so it&#x27;s not like it&#x27;s a bad thing.</text></comment> | <story><title>Becoming Productive in Haskell</title><url>http://mechanical-elephant.com/thoughts/2015-04-20-becoming-productive-in-haskell/index.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>cies</author><text>Great article. I do think a better &quot;Getting started with Haskell&quot; guide is Chris Allen&#x27;s:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;bitemyapp&#x2F;learnhaskell" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;bitemyapp&#x2F;learnhaskell</a><p>OP&#x27;s article is still a great way of wetting appetite, and sharing insights; but moving on from there is better facilitated by Chris Allen&#x27;s recommendations.<p>There is also the IDE issue; FPComplete has a web-based IDE that is good for beginners, and it is possible to setup Emacs to be a very helpful IDE (though this is by no means simple). With Haskell an IDE is really helpful: see the errors as you type, and resolving them before running into a wall of compile errors.<p>Anyway: go Haskell. I&#x27;m looking forward to a less buggy future :)</text></comment> |
12,035,430 | 12,034,248 | 1 | 2 | 12,031,676 | train | <story><title>Amazon Is Quietly Eliminating List Prices</title><url>http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/04/business/amazon-is-quietly-eliminating-list-prices.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tuna-piano</author><text>It&#x27;s really an awful process buying a lot of items nowadays. It seems like the exact same item will be sold under 30 different brands with different star levels, with many reviews full of the &quot;free product&quot; in for honest (usually 5 star) reviews.<p>I wish Jeff Bezos would try buying a travel adapter (among many other items I&#x27;ve tried to buy recently) and tell me that it&#x27;s a customer friendly process: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.amazon.com&#x2F;s&#x2F;ref=sr_pg_1?rh=i%3Aaps%2Ck%3Atravel+adapter&amp;keywords=travel+adapter" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.amazon.com&#x2F;s&#x2F;ref=sr_pg_1?rh=i%3Aaps%2Ck%3Atravel...</a><p>There are approximately 5 actually different adapters sold under maybe 50+ brands, and all the reviews are so padded with 5* free reviews, it&#x27;s tough to know which ones are crap and which are good.<p>Reviews aren&#x27;t as important for retailers like Wal-Mart that curate their products. But for a marketplace like Amazon, reviews are absolutely critical to prevent scams. I hope Amazon realizes the enormity of this issue and is working on it.<p>I believe Amazon should:<p>1. Fix the reviews. Disallow giving items for free or reduced prices in exchange for reviews. This may have worked originally for books, but any benefit received now is far out shadowed by the negatives. Alternatively, just limit it to 5 total free &#x2F; reduced reviews per product to limit the negative effect. Police this policy heavily.<p>2. For the duplicate products (where one identical product is sold under 10 different brands, like in the travel adapter example above): Group the products together, and choose the brand like you might choose the color or size on a t-shirt. I recognize that there isn&#x27;t a UPC numbering system that makes this easy - but there are probably only a few thousand items required to group together to make the buying process a lot easier for a large percentage of purchases.</text></item><item><author>uptown</author><text>The thing I don&#x27;t get about Amazon is they&#x27;ve allowed entire categories of products to become unbuyable from their site. Batteries? Every review seems to indicate what&#x27;s sold is some substandard knock-off. Medical products like thermometers? They&#x27;re all reviews from people who got the product for free in exchange for writing a review. Their brand is rapidly being tarnished in my view.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>deanCommie</author><text>Sorry I don&#x27;t understand your point about travel adapters.<p>1. I go to your link<p>2. &quot;Oh cool, there&#x27;s a lot of travel adapters&quot;<p>3. Filter by free shipping<p>4 (optional). See the top 2 are Sponsored, which makes me less likely to trust them, so ignore them. [NOTE: This is similar behaviour to using ANY search engine]<p>5. Open the top 3 links (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.amazon.com&#x2F;MX-UC1-Protector-Universal-Charger-Adapter&#x2F;dp&#x2F;B00E0FZSQC&#x2F;ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1467713126&amp;sr=8-4&amp;keywords=travel+adapter" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.amazon.com&#x2F;MX-UC1-Protector-Universal-Charger-Ad...</a>, <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.amazon.com&#x2F;Adapter-Worldwide-Universal-Converters-Charging&#x2F;dp&#x2F;B01DJ140LQ&#x2F;ref=sr_1_5?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1467713126&amp;sr=8-5&amp;keywords=travel+adapter" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.amazon.com&#x2F;Adapter-Worldwide-Universal-Converter...</a>, <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.amazon.com&#x2F;Grounded-Universal-Schuko-Adapter-Germany&#x2F;dp&#x2F;B004SY5O5K&#x2F;ref=sr_1_6?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1467713126&amp;sr=8-6&amp;keywords=travel+adapter" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.amazon.com&#x2F;Grounded-Universal-Schuko-Adapter-Ger...</a>)<p>6. Dismiss #2 because it&#x27;s twice the cost of the other ones and has lower reviews<p>7A. Pick #3 because it&#x27;s a &quot;best seller&quot; - which means it has been vetted by other customers<p>7B. Pick #1 because it looks the nicest<p>Both have mostly good reviews with some bad ones, but hey it&#x27;s a 7 dollar piece of plastic that tries to work in 150 different countries, it&#x27;s not going to be perfect.<p>What is so customer unfriendly about this process?<p>Oh and by the way, this is a POWER user process who really wants to get the best one. A layperson could have just as easily just went straight for the &quot;Best seller&quot; and been satisfied.</text></comment> | <story><title>Amazon Is Quietly Eliminating List Prices</title><url>http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/04/business/amazon-is-quietly-eliminating-list-prices.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tuna-piano</author><text>It&#x27;s really an awful process buying a lot of items nowadays. It seems like the exact same item will be sold under 30 different brands with different star levels, with many reviews full of the &quot;free product&quot; in for honest (usually 5 star) reviews.<p>I wish Jeff Bezos would try buying a travel adapter (among many other items I&#x27;ve tried to buy recently) and tell me that it&#x27;s a customer friendly process: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.amazon.com&#x2F;s&#x2F;ref=sr_pg_1?rh=i%3Aaps%2Ck%3Atravel+adapter&amp;keywords=travel+adapter" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.amazon.com&#x2F;s&#x2F;ref=sr_pg_1?rh=i%3Aaps%2Ck%3Atravel...</a><p>There are approximately 5 actually different adapters sold under maybe 50+ brands, and all the reviews are so padded with 5* free reviews, it&#x27;s tough to know which ones are crap and which are good.<p>Reviews aren&#x27;t as important for retailers like Wal-Mart that curate their products. But for a marketplace like Amazon, reviews are absolutely critical to prevent scams. I hope Amazon realizes the enormity of this issue and is working on it.<p>I believe Amazon should:<p>1. Fix the reviews. Disallow giving items for free or reduced prices in exchange for reviews. This may have worked originally for books, but any benefit received now is far out shadowed by the negatives. Alternatively, just limit it to 5 total free &#x2F; reduced reviews per product to limit the negative effect. Police this policy heavily.<p>2. For the duplicate products (where one identical product is sold under 10 different brands, like in the travel adapter example above): Group the products together, and choose the brand like you might choose the color or size on a t-shirt. I recognize that there isn&#x27;t a UPC numbering system that makes this easy - but there are probably only a few thousand items required to group together to make the buying process a lot easier for a large percentage of purchases.</text></item><item><author>uptown</author><text>The thing I don&#x27;t get about Amazon is they&#x27;ve allowed entire categories of products to become unbuyable from their site. Batteries? Every review seems to indicate what&#x27;s sold is some substandard knock-off. Medical products like thermometers? They&#x27;re all reviews from people who got the product for free in exchange for writing a review. Their brand is rapidly being tarnished in my view.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kordless</author><text>I work at Data Alchemy. We&#x27;re an Amazon Merchant who runs our system on a search engine, built by search engineers who used to be at Looksmart and Loggly. Amazon does merge ASINs occasionally to help improve quality of listings (and merging comments), but we&#x27;ve found focusing the algos on the listings that both sell well and get a lot of good comments and support work really well. Our store on Amazon is the result of this search algorithm running on about 1.7 million listings: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.amazon.com&#x2F;s?me=AZHZ102UTKBMA" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.amazon.com&#x2F;s?me=AZHZ102UTKBMA</a></text></comment> |
22,510,723 | 22,510,374 | 1 | 2 | 22,508,921 | train | <story><title>eBay bans sales of face masks and hand sanitizers to combat price gouging</title><url>https://www.cnbc.com/2020/03/06/ebay-bans-sales-of-all-face-masks-and-hand-sanitizers.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>nitwit005</author><text>There&#x27;s a shortage of masks because the production facilities for masks cannot be built and staffed instantly. If you tried to start one up now, the price will likely have collapsed by the time you have it running, leaving you with an unprofitable facility.</text></item><item><author>lend000</author><text>eBay is a somewhat unique case, because the goods are often resale items. However, the reaction of many social-economics-warrior types suggests they have failed to realize that this kind of behavior is exactly why there is such a shortage of masks in the first place, despite somewhat recent scares with SARS and Ebola.<p>Letting prices rise is one way to increase production in a hurry. If the mask producers only get to make the same profit margin regardless of demand, why bother fronting the money to increase stock or investing in extra storage space, if there is no guarantee they will be able to recoup those costs during black swans?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>londons_explore</author><text>I own equipment, have stock, and have staff that could start making masks this afternoon (I normally make decorative covers for custom car interiors).<p>It probably isn&#x27;t as fast as other production lines, but I could probably make 2 masks per second, and if I brought in night workers, that works out to a million masks a week. Not much, but profitable if I could sell them at inflated prices, but not at regular prices.<p>I don&#x27;t though, because I don&#x27;t have the contacts to be able to sell them. And anyway, I&#x27;m scared of liability if my masks don&#x27;t work as expected.<p>That equipment will sit idle if coronavirus spreads to my bit of the world.</text></comment> | <story><title>eBay bans sales of face masks and hand sanitizers to combat price gouging</title><url>https://www.cnbc.com/2020/03/06/ebay-bans-sales-of-all-face-masks-and-hand-sanitizers.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>nitwit005</author><text>There&#x27;s a shortage of masks because the production facilities for masks cannot be built and staffed instantly. If you tried to start one up now, the price will likely have collapsed by the time you have it running, leaving you with an unprofitable facility.</text></item><item><author>lend000</author><text>eBay is a somewhat unique case, because the goods are often resale items. However, the reaction of many social-economics-warrior types suggests they have failed to realize that this kind of behavior is exactly why there is such a shortage of masks in the first place, despite somewhat recent scares with SARS and Ebola.<p>Letting prices rise is one way to increase production in a hurry. If the mask producers only get to make the same profit margin regardless of demand, why bother fronting the money to increase stock or investing in extra storage space, if there is no guarantee they will be able to recoup those costs during black swans?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nullc</author><text>If it were possible to sell supplies like this at inflated prices during times of need there would be more incentive for parties to maintain stocks during low demand times.</text></comment> |
40,297,147 | 40,295,914 | 1 | 2 | 40,285,211 | train | <story><title>Can turning office towers into apartments save downtowns?</title><url>https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2024/05/06/can-turning-office-towers-into-apartments-save-downtowns</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ido</author><text>This is off-topic, but I just wanted to say as a European how crazy it is to keep finding out the US is so large that even some third-tier city I ± never heard of is big enough to have a downtown full of outright skyscrapers[0]! It reminds me of reading about some minor Indian city and then looking it up in Wikipedia and seeing it has a population in the millions.<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;upload.wikimedia.org&#x2F;wikipedia&#x2F;commons&#x2F;thumb&#x2F;7&#x2F;79&#x2F;Kansas_City_-_Downtown_-_panoramio_%2815%29.jpg&#x2F;1280px-Kansas_City_-_Downtown_-_panoramio_%2815%29.jpg" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;upload.wikimedia.org&#x2F;wikipedia&#x2F;commons&#x2F;thumb&#x2F;7&#x2F;79&#x2F;Ka...</a></text></item><item><author>tylerFowler</author><text>It&#x27;s kind of odd to me (as someone who used to live there at its latest boom time) that nobody talks about Kansas City when it comes to this topic.<p>From the ~70&#x27;s until the early 2010&#x27;s Kansas City&#x27;s downtown was in a similar &quot;doom loop&quot; of crime, undevelopment, decaying historic buildings, etc... In that city 75% of the metro lives in suburbs, drives in to downtown for work and promptly leaves. Until about 2012 or so. Urban redevelopment kicked in, adding (free!) transit, boosting retail, arts district events, a new stadium, and crucially - *massive office to housing conversion projects*.<p>There are tons of success stories like the historic Fidelity Tower at 909 Walnut (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;909_Walnut" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;909_Walnut</a>), a huge 35-story tower that sat vacant (creepy) for the better part of a decade and is now home to 159 units. Ditto with the Power &amp; Light Building (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Kansas_City_Power_and_Light_Building" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Kansas_City_Power_and_Light_Bu...</a>) (36 stories) - largely vacant for the better part of 20 years and now home to nearly 300 units. I could go on, every block has similar projects of 100+ year old buildings of nontrivial sizes that are now super unique apartments. I myself lived in the 30-story Commerce Tower (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Commerce_Tower" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Commerce_Tower</a>) for a while and it was incredibly cheap to do so (~$1100&#x2F;month for 750sqft 1 bed on the 14th floor), I had a 10 minute commute by foot to my office, it was awesome. Even the more squat, broad midsize banking buildings have had major success with residential conversions.<p>These kinds of conversions have been proven out when there is willpower to do so at the city level - people will move in and prices typically get competitive fast if done at scale. I&#x27;ve lived in SF for 4 years now and I&#x27;m convinced its a policy problem not an economic problem.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>gizmo</author><text>A city doesn&#x27;t need to be big to have skyscrapers. It&#x27;s just a policy choice, like how wide roads are or public transportation. Many Americans are surprised that small European towns are big enough to justify a train station.</text></comment> | <story><title>Can turning office towers into apartments save downtowns?</title><url>https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2024/05/06/can-turning-office-towers-into-apartments-save-downtowns</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ido</author><text>This is off-topic, but I just wanted to say as a European how crazy it is to keep finding out the US is so large that even some third-tier city I ± never heard of is big enough to have a downtown full of outright skyscrapers[0]! It reminds me of reading about some minor Indian city and then looking it up in Wikipedia and seeing it has a population in the millions.<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;upload.wikimedia.org&#x2F;wikipedia&#x2F;commons&#x2F;thumb&#x2F;7&#x2F;79&#x2F;Kansas_City_-_Downtown_-_panoramio_%2815%29.jpg&#x2F;1280px-Kansas_City_-_Downtown_-_panoramio_%2815%29.jpg" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;upload.wikimedia.org&#x2F;wikipedia&#x2F;commons&#x2F;thumb&#x2F;7&#x2F;79&#x2F;Ka...</a></text></item><item><author>tylerFowler</author><text>It&#x27;s kind of odd to me (as someone who used to live there at its latest boom time) that nobody talks about Kansas City when it comes to this topic.<p>From the ~70&#x27;s until the early 2010&#x27;s Kansas City&#x27;s downtown was in a similar &quot;doom loop&quot; of crime, undevelopment, decaying historic buildings, etc... In that city 75% of the metro lives in suburbs, drives in to downtown for work and promptly leaves. Until about 2012 or so. Urban redevelopment kicked in, adding (free!) transit, boosting retail, arts district events, a new stadium, and crucially - *massive office to housing conversion projects*.<p>There are tons of success stories like the historic Fidelity Tower at 909 Walnut (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;909_Walnut" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;909_Walnut</a>), a huge 35-story tower that sat vacant (creepy) for the better part of a decade and is now home to 159 units. Ditto with the Power &amp; Light Building (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Kansas_City_Power_and_Light_Building" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Kansas_City_Power_and_Light_Bu...</a>) (36 stories) - largely vacant for the better part of 20 years and now home to nearly 300 units. I could go on, every block has similar projects of 100+ year old buildings of nontrivial sizes that are now super unique apartments. I myself lived in the 30-story Commerce Tower (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Commerce_Tower" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Commerce_Tower</a>) for a while and it was incredibly cheap to do so (~$1100&#x2F;month for 750sqft 1 bed on the 14th floor), I had a 10 minute commute by foot to my office, it was awesome. Even the more squat, broad midsize banking buildings have had major success with residential conversions.<p>These kinds of conversions have been proven out when there is willpower to do so at the city level - people will move in and prices typically get competitive fast if done at scale. I&#x27;ve lived in SF for 4 years now and I&#x27;m convinced its a policy problem not an economic problem.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>arethuza</author><text>Well Europe and the EU both have larger populations than the US and quite a bit higher population densities (even though the continent of Europe is slightly larger) so wouldn&#x27;t you expect Europe to have <i>more</i> skyscrapers than the US?</text></comment> |
25,770,059 | 25,767,874 | 1 | 3 | 25,763,863 | train | <story><title>Workaholism leads to health problems, work addiction risk depends on occupation</title><url>https://www.hse.ru/en/news/research/433782660.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>laurent92</author><text>Now that you are not at the top, I can say it:<p>I have the theory that boys get into programming as a form of escapism – because the external world is frustrating to them. It is certainly my case, external world has all sorts of illogic demands, things that exist but should not be explicited, social rules, or various insults and condescension, some of them because we’re boys (my sister used to tell me boys have 13% fewer neurons, that’s why we’re stupid). So we talk to computers, although they can be extremely frustrating (I have spent hours at 7 years old finding the missing brackets — all of this in 1990 when I didn’t even speak English), but at least computers are logic. And they answer to us. They don’t make snarky comments. At least, when it fails, _it’s our fault_ . And we can fix it.<p>That would easily explain the gender gap in programming. It’s an escapism from the real world, while girls don’t need it as much because a lot of people are mindful of girls’ problems (notably teachers), or accept to listen to them.<p>I’d like to see an experiment: Give children 90% male teachers (the opposite of today’s ratio) and see whether programming then becomes more popular among girls than boys.</text></item><item><author>markus_zhang</author><text>I believe workaholists do not neccesarily love their job, but hate something else so much that they would rather find some place to take a bit of rest.<p>I think I&#x27;m developing into one...</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>fraudsyndrome</author><text>I&#x27;d add that there is some kind of toxic behaviour from men in my CS class. Think the typical 4channer type people. Obviously not all but when I had a chat with a couple of women from my class, they mentioned it was common to get hit on all the time during group projects when they were there to study and get talked down on as if they don&#x27;t know what&#x27;s going on.<p>I see similar behaviours to how men sometimes &quot;gatekeep&quot; games or even anything computer related. It&#x27;s quite common to hear of stories women face on online games when they open their mic.<p>Is there a chance they&#x27;d avoid it based on the type of people they might face? Maybe.</text></comment> | <story><title>Workaholism leads to health problems, work addiction risk depends on occupation</title><url>https://www.hse.ru/en/news/research/433782660.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>laurent92</author><text>Now that you are not at the top, I can say it:<p>I have the theory that boys get into programming as a form of escapism – because the external world is frustrating to them. It is certainly my case, external world has all sorts of illogic demands, things that exist but should not be explicited, social rules, or various insults and condescension, some of them because we’re boys (my sister used to tell me boys have 13% fewer neurons, that’s why we’re stupid). So we talk to computers, although they can be extremely frustrating (I have spent hours at 7 years old finding the missing brackets — all of this in 1990 when I didn’t even speak English), but at least computers are logic. And they answer to us. They don’t make snarky comments. At least, when it fails, _it’s our fault_ . And we can fix it.<p>That would easily explain the gender gap in programming. It’s an escapism from the real world, while girls don’t need it as much because a lot of people are mindful of girls’ problems (notably teachers), or accept to listen to them.<p>I’d like to see an experiment: Give children 90% male teachers (the opposite of today’s ratio) and see whether programming then becomes more popular among girls than boys.</text></item><item><author>markus_zhang</author><text>I believe workaholists do not neccesarily love their job, but hate something else so much that they would rather find some place to take a bit of rest.<p>I think I&#x27;m developing into one...</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Izkata</author><text>&gt; They don’t make snarky comments. At least, when it fails, _it’s our fault_ . And we can fix it.<p>Certainly not alone here, this is almost the same as part of the Hacker&#x27;s Manifesto:<p>&gt; I made a discovery today. I found a computer. Wait a second, this is<p>&gt; cool. It does what I want it to. If it makes a mistake, it&#x27;s because I<p>&gt; screwed it up. Not because it doesn&#x27;t like me...<p>&gt; Or feels threatened by me...<p>&gt; Or thinks I&#x27;m a smart ass...<p>&gt; Or doesn&#x27;t like teaching and shouldn&#x27;t be here...<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;phrack.org&#x2F;issues&#x2F;7&#x2F;3.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;phrack.org&#x2F;issues&#x2F;7&#x2F;3.html</a><p>...this part of which also rang true to me throughout school.</text></comment> |
3,462,180 | 3,462,189 | 1 | 2 | 3,461,728 | train | <story><title>Coding Skill and the Decline of Stagnation</title><url>http://notch.tumblr.com/post/15782716917/coding-skill-and-the-decline-of-stagnation</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jarrett</author><text>Controversial might be too strong a word, but there is a counterargument to be made.<p>Suppose you have a member named "x." Someday, you might want to stop storing x, and instead make it a calculated value. At which point you'll need a method. Or, when setting x, you may someday want to increment a counter, or transform the input data, or take some other action. Again, you'll need a method.<p>Yes, it's very easy to add an accessor later. But then you'll most likely have to edit every line of code that accessed the now-defunct member variable. Your IDE may make this easy, but I'd still prefer not to have to do it.<p>That's not to say writing accessors is <i>always</i> the best choice. I'm just saying there <i>can</i> be good reasons to do it. Like all things in software engineering, there's no one-size-fits-all rule about this. Notch is right about the bloat accessors create, so you have to weight the advantages and disadvantages yourself in each case.</text></item><item><author>pigs</author><text>"I still stubbornly believe the whole “private members accessed via accessors” thing in java is bullcrap for internal projects. It adds piles of useless boilerplate code for absolutely no gain when you can just right click a field and chose “add setter/getter” if you NEED an accessor in the future."<p>Is this a controversial stance? It seems like common sense, unless I'm misunderstanding something.<p>EDIT: To clarify: I assume he's saying "don't add accessors by default for all private members unless you need to, because you can always go back and add it if you really need it", which is common sense for any project, external or internal. I'm pretty sure he's not saying "don't add accessors, just use public members", which is controversial, IMO, even for internal projects.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jiggy2011</author><text>I think this idea is that you can use "properties" rather than public class variables.<p>Then you can convert your public vars into properties at a later date.<p>This means that you will not have to (necessarily) rewrite your code as the language knows that<p>a = myobj.myvar<p>now should call getmyvar() in the containing class and:<p>myob.myvar = a<p>should call setmyvar(a) , I know that C# certainly allows this.</text></comment> | <story><title>Coding Skill and the Decline of Stagnation</title><url>http://notch.tumblr.com/post/15782716917/coding-skill-and-the-decline-of-stagnation</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jarrett</author><text>Controversial might be too strong a word, but there is a counterargument to be made.<p>Suppose you have a member named "x." Someday, you might want to stop storing x, and instead make it a calculated value. At which point you'll need a method. Or, when setting x, you may someday want to increment a counter, or transform the input data, or take some other action. Again, you'll need a method.<p>Yes, it's very easy to add an accessor later. But then you'll most likely have to edit every line of code that accessed the now-defunct member variable. Your IDE may make this easy, but I'd still prefer not to have to do it.<p>That's not to say writing accessors is <i>always</i> the best choice. I'm just saying there <i>can</i> be good reasons to do it. Like all things in software engineering, there's no one-size-fits-all rule about this. Notch is right about the bloat accessors create, so you have to weight the advantages and disadvantages yourself in each case.</text></item><item><author>pigs</author><text>"I still stubbornly believe the whole “private members accessed via accessors” thing in java is bullcrap for internal projects. It adds piles of useless boilerplate code for absolutely no gain when you can just right click a field and chose “add setter/getter” if you NEED an accessor in the future."<p>Is this a controversial stance? It seems like common sense, unless I'm misunderstanding something.<p>EDIT: To clarify: I assume he's saying "don't add accessors by default for all private members unless you need to, because you can always go back and add it if you really need it", which is common sense for any project, external or internal. I'm pretty sure he's not saying "don't add accessors, just use public members", which is controversial, IMO, even for internal projects.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>cstuder</author><text>No.<p>C# and Objective-C (And I assume similar languages too) can have public accessors which are not used like function. No need to add ()'s everywhere.</text></comment> |
14,945,301 | 14,945,362 | 1 | 2 | 14,945,008 | train | <story><title>Beyond the boring blockchain bubble</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2017/08/06/beyond-the-boring-blockchain-bubble/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>sillysaurus3</author><text>One interesting aspect of ICO&#x27;s is that the owners don&#x27;t necessarily need to build a business. It&#x27;s far less work to skim the money and say the business failed. And until anyone goes to jail for doing that, it remains a lucrative opportunity.<p>Raising $120M in an ICO isn&#x27;t the same as raising $120M from a VC. In the latter case, you get nothing if the business fails.<p>The big question is, why are people dumping so much more money into ICOs than into Kickstarter projects? Why does an ICO seem so much more legit? It&#x27;s mostly the same thing. Yet ICOs are somehow raising 10x more than the most-funded Kickstarters without breaking a sweat.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>anovikov</author><text>That is a gross understatement. Vast majority of ICOs are deliberate scams, not just they aren&#x27;t building a business, they have no idea how to do it, have no relevant skills, and whole &#x27;idea&#x27; is lunatic and would be laughed off by even a beginner angel investor if pitched to him. In many cases, an idea is also technically unworkable due to scaling limits of blockchains used. It is just that: a scam. Not a bubble as in: 1990s tech bubble, or subprime mortgage bubble. There, you got something which didn&#x27;t follow the profit curve you predicted. Here, you get nothing for your money.</text></comment> | <story><title>Beyond the boring blockchain bubble</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2017/08/06/beyond-the-boring-blockchain-bubble/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>sillysaurus3</author><text>One interesting aspect of ICO&#x27;s is that the owners don&#x27;t necessarily need to build a business. It&#x27;s far less work to skim the money and say the business failed. And until anyone goes to jail for doing that, it remains a lucrative opportunity.<p>Raising $120M in an ICO isn&#x27;t the same as raising $120M from a VC. In the latter case, you get nothing if the business fails.<p>The big question is, why are people dumping so much more money into ICOs than into Kickstarter projects? Why does an ICO seem so much more legit? It&#x27;s mostly the same thing. Yet ICOs are somehow raising 10x more than the most-funded Kickstarters without breaking a sweat.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>vit05</author><text>I do not understand your comparison with Kickstarter. You never invest in a company or project using Kickstarter, you will not earn anything in the future if the project succeeds. If you buy a shirt, you will only get that shirt, even if the company sells millions. You can not pass your position on to someone else. The comparison could be with stock exchanges. So the answer is simple. The barriers to starting an investment in ICO are minimal when compared to any IPO. And it is a global negotiation.</text></comment> |
35,428,042 | 35,428,242 | 1 | 3 | 35,427,769 | train | <story><title>Tesla removes parking sensors, the results are predictably terrible</title><url>https://www.carexpert.com.au/car-news/tesla-removes-parking-sensors-to-save-money-the-results-are-predictably-terrible</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Eji1700</author><text>Seeing this as &quot;pushing technology forward&quot; is a pretty generous interpretation. It reeks of cost cutting.</text></item><item><author>joenathanone</author><text>I appreciate Telsa&#x27;s ambition to push technology forward but they shouldn&#x27;t experiment with customers in real time like this. You want to replace parking sensors with vision, go right ahead, prove it in the lab first, don&#x27;t remove the parking sensors and just assume that the engineers will figure it out.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>MPSimmons</author><text>Agreed. I suspect there were parts shortages, and Elon was like, &quot;The best part is no part, take it out of the design and do it with cameras&quot;. Same story with radar.<p>Now both radar and sonar are coming back because it&#x27;s far better to have the sensor data, even if you have to wade through it, than to not have it, particularly in adverse conditions.</text></comment> | <story><title>Tesla removes parking sensors, the results are predictably terrible</title><url>https://www.carexpert.com.au/car-news/tesla-removes-parking-sensors-to-save-money-the-results-are-predictably-terrible</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Eji1700</author><text>Seeing this as &quot;pushing technology forward&quot; is a pretty generous interpretation. It reeks of cost cutting.</text></item><item><author>joenathanone</author><text>I appreciate Telsa&#x27;s ambition to push technology forward but they shouldn&#x27;t experiment with customers in real time like this. You want to replace parking sensors with vision, go right ahead, prove it in the lab first, don&#x27;t remove the parking sensors and just assume that the engineers will figure it out.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>moogly</author><text>I don&#x27;t really see how putting a bunch of Californian developers on the task to write software to solve a problem that $114&#x2F;car (according to an estimate) already solved could be considered cutting costs.<p>They&#x27;ve already spent 6 months on 1 out of 5 features they lost by getting rid of their sensors.</text></comment> |
33,775,511 | 33,775,647 | 1 | 2 | 33,775,334 | train | <story><title>AVX 512 will be the future</title><url>https://www.realworldtech.com/forum/?threadid=209249&curpostid=209596</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>PaulHoule</author><text>AVX 512 has a number of instructions that make it useful for UTF-8 parsing, floating point parsing, XML parsing, JSON parsing, things like that. It is tricky coding<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;lemire.me&#x2F;blog&#x2F;2022&#x2F;05&#x2F;25&#x2F;parsing-json-faster-with-intel-avx-512&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;lemire.me&#x2F;blog&#x2F;2022&#x2F;05&#x2F;25&#x2F;parsing-json-faster-with-i...</a><p>All things that are good for HFT but also good for speeding up your web browser and maybe even saving power because you can dial down the clock rate. It&#x27;s a tragedy that Intel is fusing off AVX 512 in consumer parts so they can stuff the chips with thoroughly pizzled phonish low-performance cores.</text></comment> | <story><title>AVX 512 will be the future</title><url>https://www.realworldtech.com/forum/?threadid=209249&curpostid=209596</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>superkuh</author><text>UH... didn&#x27;t <i>Intel</i> actually stop including AVX 512 in their newest (alder lake) processors? This seems unlikely. ie, <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.tomshardware.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;intel-nukes-alder-lake-avx-512-now-fuses-it-off-in-silicon" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.tomshardware.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;intel-nukes-alder-lake-avx...</a><p>&gt;&quot;Although AVX-512 was not fuse-disabled on certain early Alder Lake desktop products, Intel plans to fuse off AVX-512 on Alder Lake products going forward.&quot; -Intel Spokesperson to Tom&#x27;s Hardware.</text></comment> |
15,492,148 | 15,490,717 | 1 | 3 | 15,489,465 | train | <story><title>Planets in Google Maps</title><url>https://www.blog.google/products/maps/space-out-planets-google-maps/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>callumprentice</author><text>My 6 year old daughter loves this so much - maybe one day she&#x27;ll get to visit one of them. I recently made a simple app to compare the sizes of planets, suns etc. when she asked how big the moon was compared to the sun. Might be interesting to folk here: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;callumprentice.github.io&#x2F;apps&#x2F;celestial_bodies&#x2F;index.html?v=2&amp;1=moon&amp;2=earth#" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;callumprentice.github.io&#x2F;apps&#x2F;celestial_bodies&#x2F;index....</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Planets in Google Maps</title><url>https://www.blog.google/products/maps/space-out-planets-google-maps/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>JepZ</author><text>Super cool.<p>Actually, I would have expected some higher resolution for the earth facing side of the moon.<p>But did you notice? 3D works too :D</text></comment> |
23,707,832 | 23,705,347 | 1 | 2 | 23,704,270 | train | <story><title>The Whimsical Website Club</title><url>https://whimsical.club/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>simonsarris</author><text>LOL at the button after the submission form. I submitted <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;simonsarris.com" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;simonsarris.com</a> because of my ridiculous background (a town that builds with CSS animations, and birds that appear to have no set path done with pure CSS).<p>The logic behind the little birds: they are DIVs with CSS animated on a cubic path up-and-down, while their ::after is getting animated on a different cubic path left-to-right. The result of 2 separate axis animations: They do a loose figure-8 path that&#x27;s different each pass.<p>That CSS code is here: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;simonsarris&#x2F;site-simonsarris&#x2F;blob&#x2F;master&#x2F;src&#x2F;components&#x2F;layout.css#L159" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;simonsarris&#x2F;site-simonsarris&#x2F;blob&#x2F;master&#x2F;...</a><p>I am currently trying to make my site background considerably more ridiculous by re-implementing in canvas, with lots of interaction and a night&#x2F;day sequence, and custom buildings. The rebuild so far is open source here: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;simonsarris.github.io&#x2F;simeville&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;simonsarris.github.io&#x2F;simeville&#x2F;</a><p>Click the button to build a town. Drag the sun down to see night time (and the constellations). I need to spend a lot of time working on the art, but I&#x27;m not a very good artist yet.</text></comment> | <story><title>The Whimsical Website Club</title><url>https://whimsical.club/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>athenot</author><text>This feels like I got off a well-travelled freeway and got on the beautiful and quirky back-roads, seeing a whole different side of the web.<p>It&#x27;s also making me realize how dependent† I&#x27;ve become on search engines. Don&#x27;t get me wrong, they are great at what they do, but seeing these curated list of sites definitely reminds me of the late 90&#x27;s where directories were still a thing.<p>†: ie. lazy.</text></comment> |
588,870 | 588,855 | 1 | 2 | 588,752 | train | <story><title>Hacker News Disease</title><url>http://mattmaroon.com/2009/05/01/hacker-news-disease/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mattmaroon</author><text>Why ask a legal question to a bunch of non-lawyers? What good could come of that? There are only two possible responses:<p>1. You mistakenly come out thinking you were more informed than you were before you asked (dangerous).<p>2. You ignore it, in which case it's a bunch of wasted time.</text></item><item><author>icey</author><text>I think it's safe to say that people posting here have the assumption that they're talking to a bunch hackers giving their opinion, and not getting legal council.<p>The enforcement of pseudo political correctness by having to post IANAL at the front of every opinion that may have even remotely looked like legal advice is part of what degraded the quality of Slashdot's comments way back when, if you ask me. Of course you're not a lawyer, this is not a legal community.</text></item><item><author>mattmaroon</author><text>Well, I didn't mean it was literally a mental disease, that part was more tongue in cheek. But that's pretty funny. I am, at best, a very amateur psychologist.<p>You're right about credentials though for sure, but how do you judge an intricate argument on its merits when you just don't know much about the topic? For instance, read some of the articles for and against anthropogenic global warming written by scientists. I can find very convincing arguments on either side, full of lots of facts I probably can't easily verify and lots of conclusions drawn from them that I can't easily validate are sound logic, because I know so little about climate science.<p>Without me spending years rapidly converting my intelligence into domain specific knowledge, as the people making those arguments have done, how do I know which side to believe when I step into the voting booth? It's an epistemology problem, and a tough one.</text></item><item><author>pg</author><text>The curious thing is, this post is an instance of what it complains about. Matt is not so far as I know a formally trained psychologist. So to the extent he's right, he disproves his own argument.<p>The truth is, while intelligence isn't knowledge, it can be rapidly converted into it. In fact that would do fairly well as a definition of intelligence.<p>And in any case, credentials aren't knowledge either. Ultimately you have to judge any argument by what it says, not who said it.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>iamelgringo</author><text><i>Why ask a legal question to a bunch of non-lawyers? What good could come of that? There are only two possible responses</i><p>Because chances are, some people here might have actually paid $200 an hour and talked to a lawyer about this subject. I can't afford that on a regular basis for one off questions.<p>I've read a number of posts asking for legal advice here, and a number of those posts contain the answer, "Here's my opinion, but you _really_ need a lawyer, dude."<p>Case in point, I actually really enjoyed your legalesque advice on sweepstakes vs gambling in different states a while back. <a href="http://searchyc.com/sweepstakes+gambling+mattmaroon" rel="nofollow">http://searchyc.com/sweepstakes+gambling+mattmaroon</a><p>I'm sure with your background in the gambling world, you've had some exposure to those laws. I took what you said at face value and with a big pinch of salt. Should my site ever create a sweepstakes, I'll certainly be more cautious as a result of what you said, and I probably will pony up the Benjamins and talk to a lawyer about it.<p>You also have a good point in that anyone who makes legal decisions about things pertaining to their business because of what they read in an online forum has problems.</text></comment> | <story><title>Hacker News Disease</title><url>http://mattmaroon.com/2009/05/01/hacker-news-disease/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mattmaroon</author><text>Why ask a legal question to a bunch of non-lawyers? What good could come of that? There are only two possible responses:<p>1. You mistakenly come out thinking you were more informed than you were before you asked (dangerous).<p>2. You ignore it, in which case it's a bunch of wasted time.</text></item><item><author>icey</author><text>I think it's safe to say that people posting here have the assumption that they're talking to a bunch hackers giving their opinion, and not getting legal council.<p>The enforcement of pseudo political correctness by having to post IANAL at the front of every opinion that may have even remotely looked like legal advice is part of what degraded the quality of Slashdot's comments way back when, if you ask me. Of course you're not a lawyer, this is not a legal community.</text></item><item><author>mattmaroon</author><text>Well, I didn't mean it was literally a mental disease, that part was more tongue in cheek. But that's pretty funny. I am, at best, a very amateur psychologist.<p>You're right about credentials though for sure, but how do you judge an intricate argument on its merits when you just don't know much about the topic? For instance, read some of the articles for and against anthropogenic global warming written by scientists. I can find very convincing arguments on either side, full of lots of facts I probably can't easily verify and lots of conclusions drawn from them that I can't easily validate are sound logic, because I know so little about climate science.<p>Without me spending years rapidly converting my intelligence into domain specific knowledge, as the people making those arguments have done, how do I know which side to believe when I step into the voting booth? It's an epistemology problem, and a tough one.</text></item><item><author>pg</author><text>The curious thing is, this post is an instance of what it complains about. Matt is not so far as I know a formally trained psychologist. So to the extent he's right, he disproves his own argument.<p>The truth is, while intelligence isn't knowledge, it can be rapidly converted into it. In fact that would do fairly well as a definition of intelligence.<p>And in any case, credentials aren't knowledge either. Ultimately you have to judge any argument by what it says, not who said it.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pchristensen</author><text>3. You have an idea of the ballpark you're playing in instead of being entirely clueless. You have somewhat of a clue to talk about the next time you see your lawyer.</text></comment> |
5,076,320 | 5,076,278 | 1 | 2 | 5,073,439 | train | <story><title>What I wish I knew before moving to San Francisco</title><url>http://jasonevanish.com/2013/01/17/25-things-i-wish-i-knew-before-moving-to-san-francisco/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>starpilot</author><text>Everyone forgets Chicago. In the US, it's the most important financial center outside of Manhattan and is the third place city in number of Michelin starred restaurants (fewer than SF; Seattle has none). Boeing moved their corporate HQ there from Seattle because of its financial prominence. It has a world class university in U. Chicago and excellent bus/rail transit across the metro area. But the Chicago area is seriously undervalued as "flyover country" for most people from the coasts.</text></item><item><author>jseliger</author><text>Agreed. I just moved here from Tucson, and there's virtually no way I'd be here if not for the fact that I'm living with a medical resident in an apartment subsidized by her hospital.<p>Given a choice among SF, NYC, and Seattle, and I'd choose Seattle: It has much of what makes the first two desirable, but at 60% of the cost.<p>BTW, to the extent that you want to make cities like SF and NYC more affordable, favor the removal of building height limitations and setbacks. The real problem in such cities is with supply, as Matt Yglesias writes in <i>The Rent is Too Damn High</i> and Ryan Avent writes in <i>The Gated City</i>. SF and NYC aren't expensive because of some natural law; they're expensive because of man-made laws, which can be changed. Don't yield to torpor!</text></item><item><author>bluekite2000</author><text>The same goes w/ NYC. I have been here for a while now and have met so many young girls following Sex in the City dream, which invariably turned out badly.</text></item><item><author>sakopov</author><text>In my opinion the high cost of living kills everything else on that list. I'd much rather have a comfortable living, travel the world and be optimistic that i will have no problems buying a nice house for me and my spouse/family if i need to/should i want to. I don't really see this possible based on what i hear from a couple of friends living and working there. Both consumed by their tech jobs, some cool things to do every once in a while when they're not slaving away for a startup. I guess people have different priorities. All this stuff is great until you're in mid 50s and you realize your less-than-comfortable living is leaving you with a less-than-comfortable retirement.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nostromo</author><text>Michelin only provides "red guides" for 3 US cities: New York, San Francisco, and Chicago. (<a href="http://www.michelintravel.com/guides-cat/north-america-red-guides/" rel="nofollow">http://www.michelintravel.com/guides-cat/north-america-red-g...</a>)<p>It's not possible for any other city in the US to get a starred restaurant, no matter the quality of the food.</text></comment> | <story><title>What I wish I knew before moving to San Francisco</title><url>http://jasonevanish.com/2013/01/17/25-things-i-wish-i-knew-before-moving-to-san-francisco/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>starpilot</author><text>Everyone forgets Chicago. In the US, it's the most important financial center outside of Manhattan and is the third place city in number of Michelin starred restaurants (fewer than SF; Seattle has none). Boeing moved their corporate HQ there from Seattle because of its financial prominence. It has a world class university in U. Chicago and excellent bus/rail transit across the metro area. But the Chicago area is seriously undervalued as "flyover country" for most people from the coasts.</text></item><item><author>jseliger</author><text>Agreed. I just moved here from Tucson, and there's virtually no way I'd be here if not for the fact that I'm living with a medical resident in an apartment subsidized by her hospital.<p>Given a choice among SF, NYC, and Seattle, and I'd choose Seattle: It has much of what makes the first two desirable, but at 60% of the cost.<p>BTW, to the extent that you want to make cities like SF and NYC more affordable, favor the removal of building height limitations and setbacks. The real problem in such cities is with supply, as Matt Yglesias writes in <i>The Rent is Too Damn High</i> and Ryan Avent writes in <i>The Gated City</i>. SF and NYC aren't expensive because of some natural law; they're expensive because of man-made laws, which can be changed. Don't yield to torpor!</text></item><item><author>bluekite2000</author><text>The same goes w/ NYC. I have been here for a while now and have met so many young girls following Sex in the City dream, which invariably turned out badly.</text></item><item><author>sakopov</author><text>In my opinion the high cost of living kills everything else on that list. I'd much rather have a comfortable living, travel the world and be optimistic that i will have no problems buying a nice house for me and my spouse/family if i need to/should i want to. I don't really see this possible based on what i hear from a couple of friends living and working there. Both consumed by their tech jobs, some cool things to do every once in a while when they're not slaving away for a startup. I guess people have different priorities. All this stuff is great until you're in mid 50s and you realize your less-than-comfortable living is leaving you with a less-than-comfortable retirement.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jseliger</author><text>What's Chicago known for these days? When I think of Seattle, I think of music (grunge was big, and today there's still a lot of it), Amazon, Microsoft, tech stuff, and arts. When I think of SF I think of free-spirits, the 60s, and startups. When I think of New York I think of movies, finance, artists (especially writers), publishing, and fashion.<p>When I think of Chicago, I think of. . . corruption? Commodities markets?<p>I'm not saying this to be snarky or a coastal asshole or whatever. I'm saying it because I genuinely don't have much of an impression of Chicago from the popular culture, or from books, or from sites like HN.</text></comment> |
34,115,764 | 34,115,817 | 1 | 2 | 34,115,098 | train | <story><title>AWS releases Finch: An open source client for container development</title><url>https://github.com/runfinch/finch</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>spa3thyb</author><text>From a month ago, with twenty-three comments:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=33745815" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=33745815</a></text></comment> | <story><title>AWS releases Finch: An open source client for container development</title><url>https://github.com/runfinch/finch</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>0xedd</author><text>Firstly, why? Secondly, released without Linux support; who is this aimed for, artists?</text></comment> |
41,244,367 | 41,244,209 | 1 | 3 | 41,222,577 | train | <story><title>SponsorBlock – skip sponsor segments on YouTube</title><url>https://sponsor.ajay.app/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>voidUpdate</author><text>The thing about nordVPN (and VPN services in general) is they always talk about how funneling all your traffic through them makes it more secure and it means that governments cant spy on you and whatever. But sending all your traffic through a single point of failure seems like a bad idea from a government protection view, and how is it any more secure than https? The only thing that I&#x27;ve seen it be good for is making it look like you&#x27;re from somewhere else to watch different stuff on streaming services. I think Tom Scott put it well here <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;WVDQEoe6ZWY" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;WVDQEoe6ZWY</a></text></item><item><author>bugtodiffer</author><text>&gt; I understand how this feeling is unjustified<p>Every company you listed is bad.<p>NordVPN wasn&#x27;t caught yet, but it&#x27;s to good to be true and ALWAYS having 73% off is illegal marketing.<p>Betterhelp sold data to facebook to retarget you with ads.<p>SquareSpace had a security issue were entering the email of an old, not yet migrated account, was instant account takeover... how does this slip through security reviews?<p>Everything that needs my favorite minecraft youtuber to advertise it, is scam. It wouldn&#x27;t sell without influencer marketing.</text></item><item><author>freetonik</author><text>I feel the same. The more I hear about a brand in youtube ads (or any ads, for that matter), the more &quot;scammy&quot; feeling I get about it. At this point I feel I won&#x27;t even consider looking into NordVPN, Betterhelp, or SquareSpace, even though I understand how this feeling is unjustified.</text></item><item><author>voidUpdate</author><text>I still don&#x27;t understand a lot of youtube advertising. Like for me, if I&#x27;m being advertised something, I instinctively don&#x27;t trust it, because they&#x27;re having to pay people to say good things about it rather than people who have used it telling me it&#x27;s a good thing. And there are still so many sponsorships from places like BetterHelp, which has been known to be a scam for a while now, and Raid Shadow Legends, which is just a crappy mobile game that is about as &quot;mobile game&quot; as you can get. The only reason I use onshape is because a friend recommended it to me, and I was very skeptical about it initially</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Majestic121</author><text>My take on NordVPN is that it&#x27;s surely some kind of honeypot, to catch extremely illegal uses (pedos, drugs), or high value targets (journalists, politics ?). Not sure who&#x27;s running it.<p>But if you&#x27;re using it for mildly illegal things like having the Netflix catalogue from another place it&#x27;s probably good enough.<p>Just don&#x27;t install their app, configure it yourself, don&#x27;t use it full time, and don&#x27;t expect protection from anything other than low level law enforcement from your country. Expect your connection to be monitored when you&#x27;re using it, as much as can be (so not breaking encryption, but all the rest for sure).<p>I have absolutely no evidence whatsoever other than the fact that it&#x27;s been a high visibility service for very long, which makes me think it would have already been taken down a while ago if it was actually effective at protecting high value targets</text></comment> | <story><title>SponsorBlock – skip sponsor segments on YouTube</title><url>https://sponsor.ajay.app/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>voidUpdate</author><text>The thing about nordVPN (and VPN services in general) is they always talk about how funneling all your traffic through them makes it more secure and it means that governments cant spy on you and whatever. But sending all your traffic through a single point of failure seems like a bad idea from a government protection view, and how is it any more secure than https? The only thing that I&#x27;ve seen it be good for is making it look like you&#x27;re from somewhere else to watch different stuff on streaming services. I think Tom Scott put it well here <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;WVDQEoe6ZWY" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;WVDQEoe6ZWY</a></text></item><item><author>bugtodiffer</author><text>&gt; I understand how this feeling is unjustified<p>Every company you listed is bad.<p>NordVPN wasn&#x27;t caught yet, but it&#x27;s to good to be true and ALWAYS having 73% off is illegal marketing.<p>Betterhelp sold data to facebook to retarget you with ads.<p>SquareSpace had a security issue were entering the email of an old, not yet migrated account, was instant account takeover... how does this slip through security reviews?<p>Everything that needs my favorite minecraft youtuber to advertise it, is scam. It wouldn&#x27;t sell without influencer marketing.</text></item><item><author>freetonik</author><text>I feel the same. The more I hear about a brand in youtube ads (or any ads, for that matter), the more &quot;scammy&quot; feeling I get about it. At this point I feel I won&#x27;t even consider looking into NordVPN, Betterhelp, or SquareSpace, even though I understand how this feeling is unjustified.</text></item><item><author>voidUpdate</author><text>I still don&#x27;t understand a lot of youtube advertising. Like for me, if I&#x27;m being advertised something, I instinctively don&#x27;t trust it, because they&#x27;re having to pay people to say good things about it rather than people who have used it telling me it&#x27;s a good thing. And there are still so many sponsorships from places like BetterHelp, which has been known to be a scam for a while now, and Raid Shadow Legends, which is just a crappy mobile game that is about as &quot;mobile game&quot; as you can get. The only reason I use onshape is because a friend recommended it to me, and I was very skeptical about it initially</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>GuB-42</author><text>Most of what people use personal VPNs for is to break some rules, sometimes the law. Circumventing geofencing or content blocking is most likely against some terms of service. VPN services can&#x27;t really advertise for this, so they talk about evil hackers.</text></comment> |
18,163,749 | 18,163,614 | 1 | 3 | 18,163,433 | train | <story><title>Why iPhone Xs performance on JavaScript is so good</title><url>https://twitter.com/codinghorror/status/1049082262854094848?s=21</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>faitswulff</author><text>@steipete puts it pretty well: JavaScript really made it. We now tweak CPUs to make it faster.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;steipete&#x2F;status&#x2F;1047415826083729408" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;steipete&#x2F;status&#x2F;1047415826083729408</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tzs</author><text>That was a trick Dave Fotland used in the &#x27;80s to make his Go program, &quot;Many Faces of Go&quot;, faster. He donated some key code from his evaluation function to SPEC and they used it as one of the parts in the SPEC integer CPU benchmarks. CPU makers tweaked CPUs to do well on those benchmarks, and hence on his code.</text></comment> | <story><title>Why iPhone Xs performance on JavaScript is so good</title><url>https://twitter.com/codinghorror/status/1049082262854094848?s=21</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>faitswulff</author><text>@steipete puts it pretty well: JavaScript really made it. We now tweak CPUs to make it faster.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;steipete&#x2F;status&#x2F;1047415826083729408" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;steipete&#x2F;status&#x2F;1047415826083729408</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>userbinator</author><text>ARM did something similar with Java before:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Jazelle" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Jazelle</a><p>I would not be surprised if they come up with a way of directly executing WASM or such. (And then the possibilities for security exploits become a lot more interesting...)</text></comment> |
35,205,482 | 35,205,507 | 1 | 2 | 35,204,604 | train | <story><title>The U.S. military is missing six nuclear weapons (2021)</title><url>https://nationalinterest.org/blog/reboot/us-military-missing-six-nuclear-weapons-180032</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>coolspot</author><text>&gt; two hydrogen bombs dropped over North Carolina, one comes close to detonation<p>I think this part is BS. Nuclear weapons don’t detonate on accident, it requires delicate synchronized process, guarded by authorization codes which aren’t normally present on the launch platform itself.
Without authorization codes a nuclear weapon is just a big slightly radioactive pile of metal.</text></item><item><author>lelandfe</author><text>Looking up broken arrow incidents is pretty horrifying. Wikipedia&#x27;s &quot;military nuclear accidents&quot; list isn&#x27;t even a full list - just notable ones - and it&#x27;s still absurdly long: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;List_of_military_nuclear_accidents" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;List_of_military_nuclear_accid...</a><p>July 28, 1957, two nukes jettisoned from airplane into the Atlantic, never recovered. February 5, 1958, bomber collides mid-air, jettisons nuke off coast of Georgia, never recovered. July 6, 1959, cargo plane crashes on takeoff, explosives do not go off in the fire. January 24, 1961, bomber catches fire while in air, two hydrogen bombs dropped over North Carolina, one comes close to detonation.<p>And on, and on, and on. America in the Cold War kept nuclear weapons continuously aloft along the Soviet border, but the program experienced so many crashes that it had to be scuttled. In the final one, the nuclear payload ruptured: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;1968_Thule_Air_Base_B-52_crash" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;1968_Thule_Air_Base_B-52_crash</a></text></item><item><author>tikhonj</author><text>I rather enjoyed reading <i>Command and Control: Nuclear Weapons, the Damascus Accident, and the Illusion of Safety</i> which covers a few of these events in more detail, as well as the 1980 Damascus Titan missile explosion[1] and some broader history about the security and management of US nuclear weapons.<p>[1]: The missile itself exploded, not its nuclear payload. See Wikipedia for an overview: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;1980_Damascus_Titan_missile_explosion" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;1980_Damascus_Titan_missile_ex...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>lelandfe</author><text>&gt; <i>One simple, dynamo-technology low voltage switch stood between the United States and a major catastrophe!</i><p>&gt; <i>[the] bomb did not possess adequate safety... The unalterable conflusion is that the only effective safing device during airborne alert was the ready-safe switch</i><p>&gt; <i>If a short to an &quot;arm&quot; line occurred in a mid-air breakup, a postulate that seems credible, the Mk 39 Mod 2 bomb could have given a nuclear burst.</i><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.documentcloud.org&#x2F;documents&#x2F;796426-goldsboro-revisited-pp-1-2-copy.html#document&#x2F;p2" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.documentcloud.org&#x2F;documents&#x2F;796426-goldsboro-rev...</a><p>Parker Jones, nuclear weapons safety specialist at Sandia National Laboratories in a formerly-classified 1969 document obtained by FOIA in 2013. Request was actually made by Eric Schlosser during his writing of <i>Command and Control</i>, the book GP mentions: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theguardian.com&#x2F;world&#x2F;interactive&#x2F;2013&#x2F;sep&#x2F;20&#x2F;goldsboro-revisited-declassified-document" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theguardian.com&#x2F;world&#x2F;interactive&#x2F;2013&#x2F;sep&#x2F;20&#x2F;go...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>The U.S. military is missing six nuclear weapons (2021)</title><url>https://nationalinterest.org/blog/reboot/us-military-missing-six-nuclear-weapons-180032</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>coolspot</author><text>&gt; two hydrogen bombs dropped over North Carolina, one comes close to detonation<p>I think this part is BS. Nuclear weapons don’t detonate on accident, it requires delicate synchronized process, guarded by authorization codes which aren’t normally present on the launch platform itself.
Without authorization codes a nuclear weapon is just a big slightly radioactive pile of metal.</text></item><item><author>lelandfe</author><text>Looking up broken arrow incidents is pretty horrifying. Wikipedia&#x27;s &quot;military nuclear accidents&quot; list isn&#x27;t even a full list - just notable ones - and it&#x27;s still absurdly long: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;List_of_military_nuclear_accidents" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;List_of_military_nuclear_accid...</a><p>July 28, 1957, two nukes jettisoned from airplane into the Atlantic, never recovered. February 5, 1958, bomber collides mid-air, jettisons nuke off coast of Georgia, never recovered. July 6, 1959, cargo plane crashes on takeoff, explosives do not go off in the fire. January 24, 1961, bomber catches fire while in air, two hydrogen bombs dropped over North Carolina, one comes close to detonation.<p>And on, and on, and on. America in the Cold War kept nuclear weapons continuously aloft along the Soviet border, but the program experienced so many crashes that it had to be scuttled. In the final one, the nuclear payload ruptured: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;1968_Thule_Air_Base_B-52_crash" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;1968_Thule_Air_Base_B-52_crash</a></text></item><item><author>tikhonj</author><text>I rather enjoyed reading <i>Command and Control: Nuclear Weapons, the Damascus Accident, and the Illusion of Safety</i> which covers a few of these events in more detail, as well as the 1980 Damascus Titan missile explosion[1] and some broader history about the security and management of US nuclear weapons.<p>[1]: The missile itself exploded, not its nuclear payload. See Wikipedia for an overview: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;1980_Damascus_Titan_missile_explosion" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;1980_Damascus_Titan_missile_ex...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ms512</author><text>The book referenced in the original comment (Command and Control: Nuclear Weapons, the Damascus Accident, and the Illusion of Safety) specifically digs in to the limitations behind the safety mechanisms.<p>Specific to the incident here, only 1 of 4 safety mechanisms prevented an catastrophic incident. The details in the wikipedia page [1] about this incident is well worth a read.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;1961_Goldsboro_B-52_crash" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;1961_Goldsboro_B-52_crash</a></text></comment> |
25,985,841 | 25,985,834 | 1 | 3 | 25,985,311 | train | <story><title>It Feels Like the Game Is Rigged</title><url>https://theirrelevantinvestor.com/2021/02/01/it-feels-like-the-game-is-rigged/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>kenneth</author><text>Institutional traders (hedge fund, i-banks, prop traders, hft) have the advantage of deep pockets and the financial literacy to be able to execute strategies which create easy returns. Many of these strategies are easily scalable to turn a small edge into a big one, using leverage. Oftentimes these strategies have an asymmetric risk profile, with low probability of losing a lot of money (sometimes with unlimited downside potential), for example:<p>- writing out of the money options for the premiums<p>- shorting stocks with leverage<p>- &#x27;08s frenzy of selling credit default swaps<p>- forex trading with spreads so low that they take 100x+ leverage<p>Usually, when these strategies work, it&#x27;s easy money and they get addicted to the easy returns. They scale the strategies up to a level of risk they can&#x27;t handle. Like having 140% short interest relative to GME&#x27;s float. When these strategies blow up in their faces, it wipes them out completely, to the level of requiring bailouts.<p>Main street (retail investors, taxpayers) have had enough of this, and a lot of anger is directed at institutional investors for always getting the easy money and the bailouts at their expense. They want to see the game applied fairly, such that when the bets go sour, they go bankrupt and don&#x27;t get bailed out like in 2008. In the 2015 CHF forex crisis, many brokers went bankrupt overnight. That&#x27;s what should happen to Melvin, and to anyone who takes the stupid risky bets that don&#x27;t work out.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>smabie</author><text>I get what you&#x27;re saying but I don&#x27;t think I&#x27;ve ever heard professional investors describe generating returns as &quot;easy.&quot;<p>Making money at a trading or investment firm is <i>serious</i> work, and no one takes it lightly. Using your example of writing options, market makers who do this are <i>very</i> cognizant and paranoid about the risks involved.<p>However, excess kurtosis and skew (left side tail risk) has definitely wiped out a number of firms, so your point is somewhat valid. I just wanted to point out that when every trader at a firm has their life savings in the company fund, they don&#x27;t go around slinging YOLO trades. This is serious business, and the vast majority of participants act accordingly (I have met some idiots tho, but most of them went or are going out of business).<p>But it doesn&#x27;t take that many idiots to cause a lot of mess, so that&#x27;s another factor to consider.</text></comment> | <story><title>It Feels Like the Game Is Rigged</title><url>https://theirrelevantinvestor.com/2021/02/01/it-feels-like-the-game-is-rigged/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>kenneth</author><text>Institutional traders (hedge fund, i-banks, prop traders, hft) have the advantage of deep pockets and the financial literacy to be able to execute strategies which create easy returns. Many of these strategies are easily scalable to turn a small edge into a big one, using leverage. Oftentimes these strategies have an asymmetric risk profile, with low probability of losing a lot of money (sometimes with unlimited downside potential), for example:<p>- writing out of the money options for the premiums<p>- shorting stocks with leverage<p>- &#x27;08s frenzy of selling credit default swaps<p>- forex trading with spreads so low that they take 100x+ leverage<p>Usually, when these strategies work, it&#x27;s easy money and they get addicted to the easy returns. They scale the strategies up to a level of risk they can&#x27;t handle. Like having 140% short interest relative to GME&#x27;s float. When these strategies blow up in their faces, it wipes them out completely, to the level of requiring bailouts.<p>Main street (retail investors, taxpayers) have had enough of this, and a lot of anger is directed at institutional investors for always getting the easy money and the bailouts at their expense. They want to see the game applied fairly, such that when the bets go sour, they go bankrupt and don&#x27;t get bailed out like in 2008. In the 2015 CHF forex crisis, many brokers went bankrupt overnight. That&#x27;s what should happen to Melvin, and to anyone who takes the stupid risky bets that don&#x27;t work out.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>throwaway2007b</author><text>&gt; institutional investors for always getting the easy money and the bailouts at their expense<p>When was a hedge fund last bailed out with public funds? They typically don&#x27;t. Like them or not, they have historically been left to fail, or be bought out by their competition.</text></comment> |
22,409,764 | 22,408,968 | 1 | 3 | 22,406,277 | train | <story><title>Cloudflare silently deleted my DNS records</title><url>https://txti.es/cloudflare-deleted-my-dns</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>wu_187</author><text>what if their email address is @ the domain</text></item><item><author>nodesocket</author><text>I do wonder; when a domain is suspended, why don&#x27;t you send out a courtesy notification e-mail?</text></item><item><author>jgrahamc</author><text>Thanks. Appreciate it. I’ll let the team look into it and communicate with you first.</text></item><item><author>iudqnolq</author><text>OP here.<p>You can post updates with any relevant information. Probably goes without saying, but if the issue has to do with my billing or address please don&#x27;t post specific details without asking me first.<p>I will link to this comment from TFA for verification. (Edit: added to the bottom. If you need more verification you have my email.)<p>Edit2: I see that the domain is back in my account and listed as &quot;Pending Nameserver Update&quot;. I don&#x27;t think that&#x27;s because of something I did.</text></item><item><author>jgrahamc</author><text>This is being looked into internally and I am involved. Likely won’t post an update here as it pertains to a customer account (unless customer agrees).<p>BTW If you, dear reader, ever find yourself so frustrated with Cloudflare that you feel like your only recourse is a blog post... my email is [email protected] and I’m happy to hear from people.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>thefifthsetpin</author><text>Even if cloudflare stopped publishing the correct MX records for a domain, wouldn&#x27;t Cloudflare still be able to send email to the MX server that had been specified? Seems like email should at worst be down for everyone but Cloudflare.</text></comment> | <story><title>Cloudflare silently deleted my DNS records</title><url>https://txti.es/cloudflare-deleted-my-dns</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>wu_187</author><text>what if their email address is @ the domain</text></item><item><author>nodesocket</author><text>I do wonder; when a domain is suspended, why don&#x27;t you send out a courtesy notification e-mail?</text></item><item><author>jgrahamc</author><text>Thanks. Appreciate it. I’ll let the team look into it and communicate with you first.</text></item><item><author>iudqnolq</author><text>OP here.<p>You can post updates with any relevant information. Probably goes without saying, but if the issue has to do with my billing or address please don&#x27;t post specific details without asking me first.<p>I will link to this comment from TFA for verification. (Edit: added to the bottom. If you need more verification you have my email.)<p>Edit2: I see that the domain is back in my account and listed as &quot;Pending Nameserver Update&quot;. I don&#x27;t think that&#x27;s because of something I did.</text></item><item><author>jgrahamc</author><text>This is being looked into internally and I am involved. Likely won’t post an update here as it pertains to a customer account (unless customer agrees).<p>BTW If you, dear reader, ever find yourself so frustrated with Cloudflare that you feel like your only recourse is a blog post... my email is [email protected] and I’m happy to hear from people.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>belorn</author><text>If the only contact information the registrar has is the @ of the domain then that likely mean that the registrar is failing the contractual obligations that exist between the registry and registrar. While I have not read the exact contract that exist for .com registrars, I am confident enough to say that you can not do that.</text></comment> |
8,631,702 | 8,631,835 | 1 | 2 | 8,631,004 | train | <story><title>PHP Cross-Platform Desktop GUI Framework</title><url>https://github.com/naetech/nightrain</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>antihero</author><text>The problem with whimsical projects is that eventually people make things in them thinking they are serious, and then other people have to maintain said things.</text></item><item><author>TamDenholm</author><text>Can i just say that clearly everyone knows its not the best tool for an actual serious project, but theres nothing wrong with whimsy. Its fun to do things because you can, that doesnt mean its going to become a serious tool. We just had a story about &quot;Stupid Projects From The Stupid Hackathon&quot;[1], just because its not a serious tool doesnt mean we should be throwing the hate, lets just take it for what it is, a bit of fun and a project you do because you can.<p>[1] <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8621886" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=8621886</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mox1</author><text>kind of like javascript (originally created in 10 days)...[1]<p>Eventually if people like the core idea, these things enter a positive feedback loop and the quality goes up. If nobody likes it or uses it...no harm.<p>[1] <a href="https://www.w3.org/community/webed/wiki/A_Short_History_of_JavaScript" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.w3.org&#x2F;community&#x2F;webed&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;A_Short_History_of_J...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>PHP Cross-Platform Desktop GUI Framework</title><url>https://github.com/naetech/nightrain</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>antihero</author><text>The problem with whimsical projects is that eventually people make things in them thinking they are serious, and then other people have to maintain said things.</text></item><item><author>TamDenholm</author><text>Can i just say that clearly everyone knows its not the best tool for an actual serious project, but theres nothing wrong with whimsy. Its fun to do things because you can, that doesnt mean its going to become a serious tool. We just had a story about &quot;Stupid Projects From The Stupid Hackathon&quot;[1], just because its not a serious tool doesnt mean we should be throwing the hate, lets just take it for what it is, a bit of fun and a project you do because you can.<p>[1] <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8621886" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=8621886</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kelvin0</author><text>Isn&#x27;t that how PHP was created in the first place? And it just caught liek wildfire ... the rest is history as they say</text></comment> |
15,192,125 | 15,192,335 | 1 | 2 | 15,191,434 | train | <story><title>Atlassian launches Stride, its Slack competitor</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2017/09/07/atlassian-launches-stride-its-slack-competitor/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>erikb</author><text>A common discussion I have with other developers.<p>For a developer I&#x27;d say I&#x27;m a little more people minded than average, and a lot more big picture success oriented. And in both regards your personal productivity doesn&#x27;t really matter.<p>The biggest problem in software development is actually not per-coder-performance but that the right things get solved, and that the solution are actually good and quickly finished. Think about how much time you wasted using a colleagues API that simply wasn&#x27;t designed well, at least for your usecase.<p>So, if more information means you are working on the right things, and that you understand your users better, and therefore make your tools more intiutive and usable, a hit to your performance, even 50%, is not a problem.<p>The funny thing is from a big picture perspective sometimes it would be good if some developers would just reduce their code output, without providing anything else, because it would help keep all other developers in the loop.</text></item><item><author>morinted</author><text>Now we have Slack, Discord, Gitter, Microsoft Teams, and Atlassian Stride.<p>I&#x27;m not sure when chat rooms became a business tool. Personally, I find myself distracted more than anything from all the notifications these apps cause, I get less done.<p>I have to be sure to quit every chat app and put my phone in &quot;do not disturb&quot; to disconnect and focus, and then I get coworkers mad that I&#x27;m not online.<p>At least with email I could take a while to reply without anyone blinking an eye.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>shadowmint</author><text>This is well said... although I think its unlikely to be a popular opinion with people at a personal level, but I hope the people who find themselves disagreeing take a moment to reflect on it.<p>While I think it&#x27;s fair to say these sorts of applications <i>do</i> disrupt people and reduce their productivity, I&#x27;m <i>certain</i> that they help focus team efforts in a way that meetings just don&#x27;t.<p>You can&#x27;t split off 3 members of the team and have an important technical discussion during a meeting (or if you can, your project manager &#x2F; meeting organizer isn&#x27;t doing their job). You can&#x27;t come back later and see <i>exactly</i> what it is you said that you&#x27;d do after a meeting. You can&#x27;t tell a bot to create a bunch of tickets or what the current status of a system is.<p>If you find that your chat apps are not providing you with any value, maybe you&#x27;re using them for stupid purposes like sharing funny pictures &amp; this mornings cool tech blog post, or you&#x27;re subscribed to the support channel, or your team is treating them like a social hang out space.<p>It&#x27;s not that its a bad tool; its that you&#x27;re using it wrong.</text></comment> | <story><title>Atlassian launches Stride, its Slack competitor</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2017/09/07/atlassian-launches-stride-its-slack-competitor/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>erikb</author><text>A common discussion I have with other developers.<p>For a developer I&#x27;d say I&#x27;m a little more people minded than average, and a lot more big picture success oriented. And in both regards your personal productivity doesn&#x27;t really matter.<p>The biggest problem in software development is actually not per-coder-performance but that the right things get solved, and that the solution are actually good and quickly finished. Think about how much time you wasted using a colleagues API that simply wasn&#x27;t designed well, at least for your usecase.<p>So, if more information means you are working on the right things, and that you understand your users better, and therefore make your tools more intiutive and usable, a hit to your performance, even 50%, is not a problem.<p>The funny thing is from a big picture perspective sometimes it would be good if some developers would just reduce their code output, without providing anything else, because it would help keep all other developers in the loop.</text></item><item><author>morinted</author><text>Now we have Slack, Discord, Gitter, Microsoft Teams, and Atlassian Stride.<p>I&#x27;m not sure when chat rooms became a business tool. Personally, I find myself distracted more than anything from all the notifications these apps cause, I get less done.<p>I have to be sure to quit every chat app and put my phone in &quot;do not disturb&quot; to disconnect and focus, and then I get coworkers mad that I&#x27;m not online.<p>At least with email I could take a while to reply without anyone blinking an eye.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Retric</author><text>That&#x27;s still small picture thinking. Dropping efficiency by 50% is the equivalent of spending 4+ hours in a meeting every day.<p>If your team needs that kind of overhead then something massive is broken and a chat room is not going to fix it.<p>As a general rule, on large teams informal communication is vastly less efficient than formal communication. A major goal should be avoiding having the same conversation repeatedly.</text></comment> |
33,933,434 | 33,930,705 | 1 | 3 | 33,925,342 | train | <story><title>Pulsar: A Community Effort to Revive the Atom Text Editor</title><url>https://pulsar-edit.dev/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>_hao</author><text>How about we actually create more performant native tools? I&#x27;m sick of the trend where we have this beastly hardware and things are actually getting slower and slower with each generation.</text></comment> | <story><title>Pulsar: A Community Effort to Revive the Atom Text Editor</title><url>https://pulsar-edit.dev/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>r24y</author><text>It’s ironic that VS Code has become the premier Electron-based IDE, since Electron (originally called Atom Shell) came from the original Atom project.<p>I loved using Atom, and I like that there’s a community trying to keep it going. However, I think there’s value in trying to push the platform forward, too; maybe rethinking the extension model to maximize stability&#x2F;performance would allow Pulsar to start stealing market share back from VS Code.</text></comment> |
33,568,358 | 33,567,822 | 1 | 3 | 33,566,329 | train | <story><title>Size is the best predictor of code quality (2011)</title><url>https://blog.vivekhaldar.com/post/10669678292/size-is-the-best-predictor-of-code-quality</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>hcarvalhoalves</author><text>It&#x27;s the Swiss cheese paradox: &quot;cheese has holes; bigger cheese have more holes; therefore, the more cheese, less cheese&quot;.<p>&gt; However, I still haven’t found any studies which show what this relationship is like. Does the number of bugs grow linearly with code size? Sub-linearly? Super-linearly? My gut feeling still says “sub-linear”.<p>We know from observing reality that even buggy software is better than no software – a software so buggy it adds negative value is a rare exception. So I guess it has to be &quot;sub-linear&quot;, otherwise software wouldn&#x27;t have economies of scale.<p>The contradiction though is: how do we explain the apparent stability of large but <i>mature</i> codebases? Thinking something like Emacs for example here, where some commits date back to 197X. I guess at some point it becomes an inverted U shape even if codebase grows, if it grows at a <i>conservative</i> pace.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>munificent</author><text><i>&gt; a software so buggy it adds negative value is a rare exception.</i><p>Survivorship bias will explain all of that. You&#x27;ll rarely encounter negative software because it gets discarded. It doesn&#x27;t mean it&#x27;s never created, it just dies before getting wide visibility.<p><i>&gt; otherwise software wouldn&#x27;t have economies of scale.</i><p>The fact that software can be developed once and sold indefinitely means the marginal cost is near zero. That is an unbelievably huge economy of scale that would dwarf many other superlinear problems.<p><i>&gt; how do we explain the apparent stability of large but mature codebases?</i><p>Not all software changes are additions. If assume that codebase size is positively correlated with number of bugs (i.e. more code = more bugs) and that most changes that do not grow the codebase are likely to fix at least one bug, then mature codebases should be expected to improve in quality to the degree that number of changes outpaces total codebase size.</text></comment> | <story><title>Size is the best predictor of code quality (2011)</title><url>https://blog.vivekhaldar.com/post/10669678292/size-is-the-best-predictor-of-code-quality</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>hcarvalhoalves</author><text>It&#x27;s the Swiss cheese paradox: &quot;cheese has holes; bigger cheese have more holes; therefore, the more cheese, less cheese&quot;.<p>&gt; However, I still haven’t found any studies which show what this relationship is like. Does the number of bugs grow linearly with code size? Sub-linearly? Super-linearly? My gut feeling still says “sub-linear”.<p>We know from observing reality that even buggy software is better than no software – a software so buggy it adds negative value is a rare exception. So I guess it has to be &quot;sub-linear&quot;, otherwise software wouldn&#x27;t have economies of scale.<p>The contradiction though is: how do we explain the apparent stability of large but <i>mature</i> codebases? Thinking something like Emacs for example here, where some commits date back to 197X. I guess at some point it becomes an inverted U shape even if codebase grows, if it grows at a <i>conservative</i> pace.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rmbyrro</author><text>Maybe another variable at play here is:<p>Evolution: modifications_size &#x2F; time &#x2F; codebase_size<p>Mature systems tend to have lower Evolution. Thus, there are more bugs being fixed than created. Over time, this leads to stability.<p>On the other hand, one bug fix creates three more bugs, on average. So, I don&#x27;t know why on Earth stable systems are even possible...</text></comment> |
36,819,173 | 36,819,275 | 1 | 3 | 36,818,501 | train | <story><title>Don’t Make Fun of Renowned Dan Brown (2013)</title><url>https://onehundredpages.wordpress.com/2013/06/12/dont-make-fun-of-renowned-dan-brown/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>NiagaraThistle</author><text>I love Dan Brown&#x27;s books. Maybe critics don&#x27;t like him for his formulaic writing - copying the plot over and over after Angels &amp; Demons. But IT WORKS. And it is HIGHLY engaging and moves the reader through the book at breakneck speed just like the action in the books. Plus Even when you know the formula of his books, the twists and turns and gotchas turn out to be great. Plus the stories have amazing real world location and art references and descriptions and for anyone that has been or plans to go to the places in Brown&#x27;s books, he makes these places really come alive and you actually appreciate more of the acrchitecture and art of the setting if you do visit if you knew little about either previously.<p>And he adds just enough real history intertwined with his pseudo-history to make the books super interesting, and even give the curious reader a springboard to dive deeper into the questions his books raise for Mr. Langdon.<p>Oh and then there&#x27;s the worldwide sales and financial success he has achieved from his books...</text></comment> | <story><title>Don’t Make Fun of Renowned Dan Brown (2013)</title><url>https://onehundredpages.wordpress.com/2013/06/12/dont-make-fun-of-renowned-dan-brown/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>dgreensp</author><text>Related: Slender Yellow Fruit Syndrome (when a writer doesn’t want to repeat a word like “banana” and so writes something like, “He peeled the slender yellow fruit.”)<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.teflspin.com&#x2F;2009&#x2F;10&#x2F;technical-writing-and-slender-yellow.html" rel="nofollow noreferrer">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.teflspin.com&#x2F;2009&#x2F;10&#x2F;technical-writing-and-slende...</a><p>I think send-ups like this are great. Love it.</text></comment> |
35,515,504 | 35,514,631 | 1 | 3 | 35,513,636 | train | <story><title>I fixed a parasitic drain on my car in 408 days</title><url>https://davidmuller.github.io/posts/2023/04/10/how-i-fixed-a-parasitic-drain-in-408-days.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>kccqzy</author><text>&gt; it&#x27;s normal for the battery to die if you don&#x27;t drive it for 3 days<p>I&#x27;ve heard this nonsense a couple times now. I was incredulous at first but everyone seems to say this. What are anyone&#x27;s suggestions for a weekend-only car? (I bike to work so I don&#x27;t need a car on weekdays.) Trickle charge the car battery on weekdays?</text></item><item><author>overthrow</author><text>Well this is timely. I have a parasitic draw on my NC Miata. The first mechanic just replaced the battery. The second told me it&#x27;s normal for the battery to die if you don&#x27;t drive it for 3 days (because &quot;cars have computers now&quot;). It seems like mechanics really don&#x27;t like digging into the electrical part of the car... but these days that encompasses more and more of what can go wrong.<p>Without time to dig into it myself I&#x27;ve just been parking it with a battery tender every time I come home.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>heleninboodler</author><text>Yeah, if a mechanic told me having the battery die in 3 days was normal, I&#x27;d stop going to that mechanic.</text></comment> | <story><title>I fixed a parasitic drain on my car in 408 days</title><url>https://davidmuller.github.io/posts/2023/04/10/how-i-fixed-a-parasitic-drain-in-408-days.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>kccqzy</author><text>&gt; it&#x27;s normal for the battery to die if you don&#x27;t drive it for 3 days<p>I&#x27;ve heard this nonsense a couple times now. I was incredulous at first but everyone seems to say this. What are anyone&#x27;s suggestions for a weekend-only car? (I bike to work so I don&#x27;t need a car on weekdays.) Trickle charge the car battery on weekdays?</text></item><item><author>overthrow</author><text>Well this is timely. I have a parasitic draw on my NC Miata. The first mechanic just replaced the battery. The second told me it&#x27;s normal for the battery to die if you don&#x27;t drive it for 3 days (because &quot;cars have computers now&quot;). It seems like mechanics really don&#x27;t like digging into the electrical part of the car... but these days that encompasses more and more of what can go wrong.<p>Without time to dig into it myself I&#x27;ve just been parking it with a battery tender every time I come home.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kybernetyk</author><text>There&#x27;s battery kill switches you can install onto the battery pole to effectively disconnect everything from the battery. This should work for older cars. For newer ones you may experience hiccups like reverse camera not working for a few hours until it has re-paired itself with the head unit.</text></comment> |
36,626,616 | 36,626,381 | 1 | 3 | 36,624,622 | train | <story><title>Why Nvidia Keeps Winning</title><url>https://www.chinatalk.media/p/why-nvidia-keeps-winning-the-rise</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>synergy20</author><text>It&#x27;s not that Nvidia &#x27;keeps winning&#x27;, Nvidia failed mobile computing, failed embedded computing, had no market share in the server market or data centers, was left in the niche market of gaming as a companion to PC and was not that impressive all along.<p>then its parallel GPU got &quot;lucky&quot;, first the bitcoin mining, then the AI. it probably did not expect and plan for this, to some extent, it got super lucky.<p>credit must be given to its CUDA ecosystem and the ability to better itself when chances knocked its door, it so far left all competitors in the dust, its showtime arrived, finally.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tverbeure</author><text>Nvidia got lucky because every quarterly all-hands meeting Jensen repeated that he kept on investing in CUDA and adding more silicon to the GPUs than strictly needed because, one day, an application would come along that would make it all worth it.<p>TFA says that Nvidia started aggressively seeding CUDA and GPUs for research in the early 2010s. It was much earlier than that: it started pretty much immediately after CUDA was introduced late 2006. And every new generation there were hardware features added to make GPU programming and porting of applications less painful. The first Nvision conference, precursor of GTC, was in 2008. That’s how you make your own luck.<p>I’ll never forget when, sometime around 2012?, he answered the question: “aren’t you afraid of Intel?”<p>His answer: “Not at all. Intel should be afraid of us. We will be bigger than them.” There was not a trace of doubt.</text></comment> | <story><title>Why Nvidia Keeps Winning</title><url>https://www.chinatalk.media/p/why-nvidia-keeps-winning-the-rise</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>synergy20</author><text>It&#x27;s not that Nvidia &#x27;keeps winning&#x27;, Nvidia failed mobile computing, failed embedded computing, had no market share in the server market or data centers, was left in the niche market of gaming as a companion to PC and was not that impressive all along.<p>then its parallel GPU got &quot;lucky&quot;, first the bitcoin mining, then the AI. it probably did not expect and plan for this, to some extent, it got super lucky.<p>credit must be given to its CUDA ecosystem and the ability to better itself when chances knocked its door, it so far left all competitors in the dust, its showtime arrived, finally.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>brigadier132</author><text>&gt; then its parallel GPU got &quot;lucky&quot;, first the bitcoin mining, then the AI. it probably did not expect and plan for this, to some extent, it got super lucky.<p>I feel like saying they got &quot;lucky&quot; after trying and failing in multiple other endeavors requires a special definition of luck. If someone rolls a 6 sided die six times and they roll a six once did they get lucky?</text></comment> |
23,632,398 | 23,630,941 | 1 | 2 | 23,629,249 | train | <story><title>Republicans Push Bill Requiring Tech Companies Give Encrypted Data</title><url>https://www.cnet.com/news/republicans-push-bill-requiring-tech-companies-to-help-access-encrypted-data/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>hn_throwaway_99</author><text>I think politicians must win prizes or something for showing who is the stupidest:<p>&gt; The bill also allows the attorney general to create a competition with a prize for anyone who can come up with a way to access encrypted data while protecting privacy and security. Security experts have long noted that this is an impossible request.<p>Why they&#x27;re at in, why don&#x27;t they push a bill for permanent rainbows.<p>Also, the article states &quot;The proposed legislation stops short of requiring tech companies to create a backdoor&quot;, so if end-to-end encryption is still available, this legislation does nothing. And if lawmakers try to <i>ban</i> end-to-end encryption, well then &quot;banning math&quot; should be the name of this legislation (yes, I realize politicians have tried to do that before). Sure, large companies may comply and average joes may get less E2E encryption, but anyone who knows anything about tech will be able to get access to E2E encrypted messengers.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>chrismorgan</author><text>On “banning math” and that “politicians have tried to do that before”: I suspect you are referring at least in part to what the Australian Prime Minister said in 2017:<p>&gt; <i>The laws of Australia prevail in Australia, I can assure you of that. The laws of mathematics are very commendable, but the only law that applies in Australia is the law of Australia.</i><p>This particular statement was widely lampooned in tech circles at the time as obvious nonsense. Yet it’s actually perfectly sound: legislation is <i>all about</i> restricting you from doing things that are <i>possible</i>. (Now some of the other stuff Mr. Turnbull said at that time <i>was</i> drivel; he seemed to be under the impression that it was possible to allow law enforcement to access end-to-end encrypted content without it comprising a backdoor, which the industry as a whole considers axiomatically false.)<p>It’s the government’s prerogative to ban mathematics. And indeed they already have in various areas due to copyright and possibly patent laws (<i>c.f.</i> illegal numbers). Now I personally think they would be unwise to ban any form of encryption, but realise that they’re quite at liberty to not just <i>try</i> to ban it.</text></comment> | <story><title>Republicans Push Bill Requiring Tech Companies Give Encrypted Data</title><url>https://www.cnet.com/news/republicans-push-bill-requiring-tech-companies-to-help-access-encrypted-data/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>hn_throwaway_99</author><text>I think politicians must win prizes or something for showing who is the stupidest:<p>&gt; The bill also allows the attorney general to create a competition with a prize for anyone who can come up with a way to access encrypted data while protecting privacy and security. Security experts have long noted that this is an impossible request.<p>Why they&#x27;re at in, why don&#x27;t they push a bill for permanent rainbows.<p>Also, the article states &quot;The proposed legislation stops short of requiring tech companies to create a backdoor&quot;, so if end-to-end encryption is still available, this legislation does nothing. And if lawmakers try to <i>ban</i> end-to-end encryption, well then &quot;banning math&quot; should be the name of this legislation (yes, I realize politicians have tried to do that before). Sure, large companies may comply and average joes may get less E2E encryption, but anyone who knows anything about tech will be able to get access to E2E encrypted messengers.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>srmatto</author><text>&gt;&quot;a prize for anyone who can come up with a way to access encrypted data while protecting privacy and security.&quot;<p>A prize for a cake that can be eaten but will never be consumed.</text></comment> |
31,734,091 | 31,733,023 | 1 | 3 | 31,730,221 | train | <story><title>Making popular Ruby packages more secure</title><url>https://blog.rubygems.org/2022/06/13/making-packages-more-secure.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>ievans</author><text>This is great news! I like how the article cites evidence that MFA is disproportionately effective against account takeover.<p>If the rubygems devs are looking for other highly effective wins against supply chain attacks: I think the next thing is deeper support for lockfiles. Although Ruby has Gemfile.lock, it&#x27;s not a true lockfile in the same way that package managers in the javascript&#x2F;go&#x2F;python ecosystems are. Specifically, locking versions is optional, there&#x27;s no locking by hash (Github issue: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;rubygems&#x2F;rubygems&#x2F;issues&#x2F;3379" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;rubygems&#x2F;rubygems&#x2F;issues&#x2F;3379</a>), and there&#x27;s no capability to lock local or source-only dependencies by hash. By comparison: go modules, pipenv, npm, yarn, nuget, composer, and gradle already support locking by hash.</text></comment> | <story><title>Making popular Ruby packages more secure</title><url>https://blog.rubygems.org/2022/06/13/making-packages-more-secure.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>kyrofa</author><text>I applaud the move in the right direction, but please add support for webauthn. OTPs are really inconvenient in comparison.<p>It looks like maybe it&#x27;s been in flight for a while? <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;rubygems&#x2F;rubygems.org&#x2F;pull&#x2F;2108" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;rubygems&#x2F;rubygems.org&#x2F;pull&#x2F;2108</a></text></comment> |
18,016,767 | 18,016,424 | 1 | 3 | 18,015,929 | train | <story><title>The European Union versus the Internet</title><url>https://stratechery.com/2018/the-european-union-versus-the-internet/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>mrmekon</author><text>In my network of friends, which is within the EU and comprised entirely of EU citizens and spans multiple EU tech companies from dinky startups to Giant Unicorn, GDPR has been almost universally approved. We had to implement it, and generally feel better for having done so. The Giant Unicorn employees were dismayed by how little time they were given for such a giant task, but were in support of the law.<p>Everybody is completely and 100% against the copyright law.<p>There is a huge difference between the two from my point of view:<p>GDPR is not a law about &quot;The Internet&quot;, it is a law about company records. It applies to Google, but it also applies to the Pakistani food stand on the corner. It affects Google a lot more, sure. I support the concept that a company does not have some inherent right to be a steward of my personal data without my explicit consent. GDPR is also easy enough for even tiny startups to comply with, and is significantly easier for small companies than large ones. It does not create a large barrier to entry for new startups or a rift between the existing small and large companies.<p>The copyright law, however, is a law about The Internet. It controls how businesses interact with the internet. It sets _technical_ restrictions on how they can do so. It sets technical restrictions that are probably not even feasible, at that. It absolutely does create a huge barrier to entry for small companies, and could possibly enshrine the existing tech giants into de-facto monopolies (I mean, if they aren&#x27;t already...)<p>The copyright directive is horrible enough on its own. I don&#x27;t see why everyone is in a rush to pull in mentions of GDPR to make it seem &quot;worse&quot;. For a lot of us, it weakens the argument instead of strengthening it. Not everyone likes GDPR, obviously, but we can _all_ agree that the copyright law is garbage.</text></comment> | <story><title>The European Union versus the Internet</title><url>https://stratechery.com/2018/the-european-union-versus-the-internet/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>no1youknowz</author><text>It&#x27;s not just the EU that the Internet is in danger of.<p>A Labour MP in the UK announced a bill that wants to curtail &quot;closed&quot; forums on social media [0].<p>Analysis on the topic [1].<p>[0]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.v3.co.uk&#x2F;v3-uk&#x2F;news&#x2F;3062557&#x2F;mp-plans-laws-to-open-up-closed-internet-groups-claiming-they-fuel-extremism-and-hate" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.v3.co.uk&#x2F;v3-uk&#x2F;news&#x2F;3062557&#x2F;mp-plans-laws-to-ope...</a><p>[1]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=eobVBf5S8uM" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=eobVBf5S8uM</a></text></comment> |
33,930,531 | 33,930,365 | 1 | 2 | 33,902,248 | train | <story><title>I am frustrated with Stable Diffusion</title><url>https://novalis.org/blog/2022-12-05-i-am-frustrated-with-stable-diffusion.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>fy20</author><text>What nobody tells you is that to get the results you see people post online often requires hours of work for a single image.<p>First you need to refine the prompt so it is ultra specific (which OP has not done), then you need to generate a hundred or so images and pick the best ones. From there you can use img2img to refine it more, and once that&#x27;s done you might want to go to Photoshop to add some finishing touches.<p>To get good results it is an art form at the moment, but of course as the tools get better eventually it will just be a click of a button.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>godelski</author><text>As someone researching generative models, this is one of my pet peeves. There&#x27;s been a rat race to show off high quality cherry-picked samples. Very few works actually show random samples. It is rather frustrating because when pointed out it still goes ignored. I&#x27;m not sure why we look the other way, aren&#x27;t these issues we want to solve? But if you tried to publish a paper with random results you won&#x27;t get accepted.<p>I am also not worried about AI taking over art, exactly for the reasons you say. Even if alignment was a whole lot better you&#x27;re never going to be able to perfectly describe an image in your head. Language is too limited. So it will always be a tool. Of course, it can enable fraud. But not many people are putting digital arts on their walls.<p>The other pet peeve is that people think generative models are only image or text. They so so much more.</text></comment> | <story><title>I am frustrated with Stable Diffusion</title><url>https://novalis.org/blog/2022-12-05-i-am-frustrated-with-stable-diffusion.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>fy20</author><text>What nobody tells you is that to get the results you see people post online often requires hours of work for a single image.<p>First you need to refine the prompt so it is ultra specific (which OP has not done), then you need to generate a hundred or so images and pick the best ones. From there you can use img2img to refine it more, and once that&#x27;s done you might want to go to Photoshop to add some finishing touches.<p>To get good results it is an art form at the moment, but of course as the tools get better eventually it will just be a click of a button.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>vhold</author><text>Another trick you can do is when you find a composition you like, but it&#x27;s off in whatever way, is lock down that seed, and then apply variation to that initial noise state, and produce a bunch more images from there.<p>The popular AUTOMATIC1111 webui implements it: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;AUTOMATIC1111&#x2F;stable-diffusion-webui&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Features#variations" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;AUTOMATIC1111&#x2F;stable-diffusion-webui&#x2F;wiki...</a></text></comment> |
19,334,410 | 19,334,350 | 1 | 2 | 19,330,812 | train | <story><title>Airbnb to Acquire HotelTonight</title><url>https://press.airbnb.com/airbnb-signs-agreement-to-acquire-hoteltonight/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>stef25</author><text>What&#x27;s amazing at Airbnb is their ability to make places look so much nicer in the pictures than what they look like in reality.<p>After staying in a crack house in Barcelona, a dirty dark hole in Manhattan, a &quot;private&quot; villa in France where the owner was screwing an endless stream of boyfriends behind the flimsy kitchen door at 10AM, a thermite infested apartment in Sicily with horrid beds, I still feel like a total asshole when leaving a negative review. I&#x27;m not sure why I keep going back to it.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>hombre_fatal</author><text>I can&#x27;t stand the review inflation. You&#x27;re totally disincentivized from leaving an honest review because of the counter review or because you somehow feel like the dick, and I&#x27;m sure AirBnB loves it.<p>A place that turns out to be right on the noisy highway won&#x27;t have a single review that points this out. Only &quot;great for early risers!&quot;</text></comment> | <story><title>Airbnb to Acquire HotelTonight</title><url>https://press.airbnb.com/airbnb-signs-agreement-to-acquire-hoteltonight/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>stef25</author><text>What&#x27;s amazing at Airbnb is their ability to make places look so much nicer in the pictures than what they look like in reality.<p>After staying in a crack house in Barcelona, a dirty dark hole in Manhattan, a &quot;private&quot; villa in France where the owner was screwing an endless stream of boyfriends behind the flimsy kitchen door at 10AM, a thermite infested apartment in Sicily with horrid beds, I still feel like a total asshole when leaving a negative review. I&#x27;m not sure why I keep going back to it.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>shereadsthenews</author><text>It really seems to depend on the city. For about $100&#x2F;night in Zurich I stayed once in a huge top floor flat and once in a bedroom with private bath in a giant palace with plenty of room to entertain dozens, which I did. My company&#x27;s negotiated hotel rate was $425&#x2F;night and I pocketed the balance.<p>In NYC all of the Airbnb inventory is bedbug-ridden hovels. Perhaps this simply reflects the housing stock of the region.</text></comment> |
6,577,802 | 6,577,389 | 1 | 3 | 6,576,144 | train | <story><title>What are the Windows A: and B: drives used for?</title><url>http://superuser.com/questions/231273/what-are-the-windows-a-and-b-drives-used-for/231278</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>acegopher</author><text>I used an Xacto knife to create an extra notch in Commodore 64 5.25&quot; disks back in the day so that I could take the single-sided disks and make them double-sided.<p>I would take one disk flipped over the other, mark the notch with a permanent marker, then cut out the outline. Most disks, like Elephant Memory, would work fine. You just flipped the disk over and inserted back into the 1541 to read the reverse side.</text></item><item><author>danieldk</author><text>Even worse was illegal software. There were 720KB (Double Density) and 1440KB (High Density) 3.5&quot; diskettes (amongst other sizes). The disk drive would detect the difference by an extra hole in the disk.<p>People would buy cheaper double density disks, drill a hole in it, so that the same diskette could be used as a 1440KB disk. Of course, they were of a far lower quality, and &#x27;arj&#x27; (which was popular at the time) would often fail after the n-th disk.<p>Edit: heh, there is even a reference to drilling holes on the Apple website ;): <a href="http://support.apple.com/kb/TA39910" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;support.apple.com&#x2F;kb&#x2F;TA39910</a></text></item><item><author>unistdh</author><text>Wow. What would happen if one of those floppies were damaged or unreadable? Would the whole process be a waste of time?</text></item><item><author>300bps</author><text>Novell Netware 2.15 came on 49 360k floppies. I remember generating individualized network clients based on the chipset of your network interface card with SHGEN-1 and SHGEN-2. To this day I have no idea why the last disk it asked for was SHGEN-2 and then it said, &quot;Your shell is now on SHGEN-1.&quot;</text></item><item><author>rayiner</author><text>It&#x27;s funny to talk about the 20 year old hackers who didn&#x27;t ever have the experience of installing Word Perfect 5.x from 30-40 floppies, but let me tell you that those kids are going to feel just as old pretty soon. My daughter, who is about to turn one, is puzzled by why my Macbook Air doesn&#x27;t do anything when she touches the screen. She doesn&#x27;t recognize my dad&#x27;s old Treo, which he gave her as a toy, as a phone, but will put a thin slab block up to her ear. We don&#x27;t have cable at home, so she watches all her shows on Netflix and iTunes.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nasalgoat</author><text>I had a special square cutter tool specifically designed for this purpose. Just slot the disk in the tool, punch, done.<p>It helped when you were putting out hundreds of disks of pirated games on a regular basis.</text></comment> | <story><title>What are the Windows A: and B: drives used for?</title><url>http://superuser.com/questions/231273/what-are-the-windows-a-and-b-drives-used-for/231278</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>acegopher</author><text>I used an Xacto knife to create an extra notch in Commodore 64 5.25&quot; disks back in the day so that I could take the single-sided disks and make them double-sided.<p>I would take one disk flipped over the other, mark the notch with a permanent marker, then cut out the outline. Most disks, like Elephant Memory, would work fine. You just flipped the disk over and inserted back into the 1541 to read the reverse side.</text></item><item><author>danieldk</author><text>Even worse was illegal software. There were 720KB (Double Density) and 1440KB (High Density) 3.5&quot; diskettes (amongst other sizes). The disk drive would detect the difference by an extra hole in the disk.<p>People would buy cheaper double density disks, drill a hole in it, so that the same diskette could be used as a 1440KB disk. Of course, they were of a far lower quality, and &#x27;arj&#x27; (which was popular at the time) would often fail after the n-th disk.<p>Edit: heh, there is even a reference to drilling holes on the Apple website ;): <a href="http://support.apple.com/kb/TA39910" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;support.apple.com&#x2F;kb&#x2F;TA39910</a></text></item><item><author>unistdh</author><text>Wow. What would happen if one of those floppies were damaged or unreadable? Would the whole process be a waste of time?</text></item><item><author>300bps</author><text>Novell Netware 2.15 came on 49 360k floppies. I remember generating individualized network clients based on the chipset of your network interface card with SHGEN-1 and SHGEN-2. To this day I have no idea why the last disk it asked for was SHGEN-2 and then it said, &quot;Your shell is now on SHGEN-1.&quot;</text></item><item><author>rayiner</author><text>It&#x27;s funny to talk about the 20 year old hackers who didn&#x27;t ever have the experience of installing Word Perfect 5.x from 30-40 floppies, but let me tell you that those kids are going to feel just as old pretty soon. My daughter, who is about to turn one, is puzzled by why my Macbook Air doesn&#x27;t do anything when she touches the screen. She doesn&#x27;t recognize my dad&#x27;s old Treo, which he gave her as a toy, as a phone, but will put a thin slab block up to her ear. We don&#x27;t have cable at home, so she watches all her shows on Netflix and iTunes.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>honestcoyote</author><text>I did the same. And disks were a bit expensive to a kid like me, so I&#x27;d even do the cut on various game disks I had, since many of them were single side only, and it was like getting a free disk.</text></comment> |
24,183,841 | 24,183,935 | 1 | 2 | 24,182,336 | train | <story><title>Art of chording</title><url>https://www.artofchording.com</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tyingq</author><text>Was curious how fast you could be. Apparently there&#x27;s a guy that can hit 360 words&#x2F;minute.<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nyscr.net&#x2F;news&#x2F;2017&#x2F;1&#x2F;13&#x2F;can-you-type-360-words-per-minute-mark-kislingbury-can#:~:text=Mark%20Kislingbury%20can%20hit%20more,minute%2C%20with%2097%20percent%20accuracy" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nyscr.net&#x2F;news&#x2F;2017&#x2F;1&#x2F;13&#x2F;can-you-type-360-words-...</a>.<p>That makes him about as fast as a 300 baud modem. And probably around 1.8x the fastest keyboard typists.<p>Edit: Curious if this as &quot;optimized&quot; as it can be. Is there a theoretically faster way to get words from your hands to something digital?<p>I&#x27;m also curious how this works for court cases where a language other than English comes into play, alongside English. Canada might be a good example, where French and English dialogue might often co-exist.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>apostacy</author><text>Can confirm. My uncle is a stenographer, I learned all about it.<p>If I remember correctly, just to get his license he had to hit 270w&#x2F;m. He said he can get up to about 300w&#x2F;m.<p>The raw transcripts are composed of shorthand codes, and letters that represent syllables and other components of speech. I saw that many words were just represented by one or a few letters. So, by &quot;words&quot;, we are often talking about codes of only a few letters. They are printed on thermal receipt width paper, and floppy disk (this was about 15 years ago).<p>&gt; I&#x27;m also curious how this works for court cases where a language other than English comes into play, alongside English. Canada might be a good example, where French and English dialogue might often co-exist.<p>It shouldn&#x27;t matter what language it is, because the stenographer has their own custom shorthand dictionary. The raw transcript that they generate is for the stenographers internal use. Only after the trail do they transcribe it into human readable form. Lawyers then have to pay the stenographer a fee for their transcripts. My uncle told me that it is common for multiple lawyers to each pay him a fee that he charges by the page.<p>He, like most court reporters, outsources their transcription to other people via Email. It requires human transcription, because the raw transcripts need to be interpreted. It is not a something that you can just run through a filter. His scopists[1] will email him back and fourth for clarification on parts of the transcript they don&#x27;t understand. This is important, because their transcripts are the official legal record of what happened in a trial.<p>[1]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Scopist" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Scopist</a>
[2]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Shorthand" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Shorthand</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Art of chording</title><url>https://www.artofchording.com</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tyingq</author><text>Was curious how fast you could be. Apparently there&#x27;s a guy that can hit 360 words&#x2F;minute.<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nyscr.net&#x2F;news&#x2F;2017&#x2F;1&#x2F;13&#x2F;can-you-type-360-words-per-minute-mark-kislingbury-can#:~:text=Mark%20Kislingbury%20can%20hit%20more,minute%2C%20with%2097%20percent%20accuracy" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nyscr.net&#x2F;news&#x2F;2017&#x2F;1&#x2F;13&#x2F;can-you-type-360-words-...</a>.<p>That makes him about as fast as a 300 baud modem. And probably around 1.8x the fastest keyboard typists.<p>Edit: Curious if this as &quot;optimized&quot; as it can be. Is there a theoretically faster way to get words from your hands to something digital?<p>I&#x27;m also curious how this works for court cases where a language other than English comes into play, alongside English. Canada might be a good example, where French and English dialogue might often co-exist.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kqr</author><text>Re. languages: The issue with the Plover type stenography is that it heavily relies on a dictionary. If a dictionary does not exist for your language, it becomes close to useless.<p>Many European languages use a form of orthographic stenography instead. This is perhaps a tiny bit less efficient, but makes up for it with flexibility in spades.<p>I started working on a computer implementation of that, but sadly life got in the way. If there was any project I could be paid to continue work on, I would want it to be this. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;kqr&#x2F;qweyboard&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;kqr&#x2F;qweyboard&#x2F;</a></text></comment> |
8,070,520 | 8,070,567 | 1 | 3 | 8,069,903 | train | <story><title>Microsoft laid me off after 15 years of service. Life after Microsoft?</title><url>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lRV6PXB6QLk&feature=youtu.be</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>huhtenberg</author><text>Except every interviewer will be wondering why did Microsoft let go someone with so much experience. What did Microsoft know that&#x27;s <i>not</i> on the resume.</text></item><item><author>badmadrad</author><text>Naturally, he is very disappointed but he should keep things in perspective. It&#x27;s not that bad of situation to be in. You have 15 years of software development experience at Microsoft and there are going to be a lot of open doors. This could really be blessing in disguise.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bhrgunatha</author><text>I don&#x27;t know the details of the Microsoft case, but my job was made redundant a number of years ago and I definitely was able to bounce back.<p>There are lots of legal regulations around terminating employment and one of the easier legal ways is to remove a particular job or position. That&#x27;s why generally people are not made redundant, their job, position or title is. It&#x27;s a legal method of cutting costs by pruning the organisation.<p>It&#x27;s nothing to do with whether you are a worthy employee. Redundancies don&#x27;t work that way. They are a practical, legal way of reducing numbers - payroll and staff. In the video, he&#x27;s wondering why they couldn&#x27;t simply find another position for him where he could apply his expertise. It&#x27;s probably because they had to state his job is no longer viable and so the job (and the person occupying those jobs) are let go. If the company were to find other positions for their favorite employees, it opens all kinds of legal problems for HR.</text></comment> | <story><title>Microsoft laid me off after 15 years of service. Life after Microsoft?</title><url>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lRV6PXB6QLk&feature=youtu.be</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>huhtenberg</author><text>Except every interviewer will be wondering why did Microsoft let go someone with so much experience. What did Microsoft know that&#x27;s <i>not</i> on the resume.</text></item><item><author>badmadrad</author><text>Naturally, he is very disappointed but he should keep things in perspective. It&#x27;s not that bad of situation to be in. You have 15 years of software development experience at Microsoft and there are going to be a lot of open doors. This could really be blessing in disguise.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>omnibrain</author><text>I don&#x27;t think that&#x27;s the case if he is one of 17k others.</text></comment> |
5,689,436 | 5,689,428 | 1 | 3 | 5,689,107 | train | <story><title>Appeals court ruling could be 'death' of software patents</title><url>http://www.networkworld.com/news/2013/051013-appeals-court-ruling-could-be-269658.html?hpg1=bn</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>grellas</author><text>As noted in my analysis below (posted when the Federal Court agreed to hear this case <i>en banc</i>, a term explained below), this case is <i>not</i> about killing off software patents or other forms of business methods.<p>That said, it <i>is</i> very significant in that the Federal Circuit has elected not to go wildly back in the direction of upholding loose patents and in mitigating the damage that would have been caused by a potentially pernicious approach to upholding software patents that had been adopted by the panel whose decision it reviewed. The result is basically an uncertain hodge-podge that will not in itself work to kill off software patents.<p>To give some legal context to those who may be interested, my technical analysis from 7 months ago follows:<p>"1. The <i>CLS Bank v. Alice</i> case, though raising an issue of vital importance, is not about 'whether software is patentable.'<p>2. Over the years, the Federal Circuit has notoriously broadened the scope of patent eligibility, most conspicuously in its 1998 <i>State Street</i> decision which essentially opened the floodgates to the modern rush of business method patents by holding that virtually any business method was patentable so long as 'it produces a useful, concrete and tangible result.' In 2010, the U.S. Supreme Court, in the <i>Bilski</i> case, repudiated the <i>State Street</i> test for patent eligibility and, though upholding software and business method patents generally, directed courts to be much more vigilant to ensure that no one gain patent rights to what are mere 'abstract ideas,' however much they may incidentally be tied to some computer mechanism in their implementation. In a follow on decision (<i>Prometheus</i>), the U.S. Supreme Court similarly cut back sharply on the permissible scope of patent eligibility for claimed inventions that constituted nothing more than laws of nature.<p>3. In this <i>CLS Bank</i> case, the claimed patent involves a method for eliminating certain types of risk associated with an escrow closing and used a technological process by which to mimic a phantom version of the closing as a security check before allowing the real transaction to close. In essence, the technological aspect of this 'invention' is routine and so the question is whether anything beyond that is simply another way of trying to patent nothing more than an abstract idea. If so, it should fail under <i>Bilski</i>; if not, it would potentially pass the test for patent eligibility.<p>4. The lower court in <i>CLS Bank</i> held as a matter of law that the 'invention' was nothing more than an abstract idea and held it invalid as being ineligible for patent protection. On appeal, a divided panel of the Federal Circuit reversed and reinstated the patent. It did so, however, by setting out a brand new procedural rule whose effect would be to gut much of <i>Bilski</i> and reopen the floodgates to huge numbers of business method patents under a very loose standard - to wit, by holding, that, if it 'is not manifestly evident [my emphasis] that a claim is directed to a patent ineligible abstract idea,' then the court essentially treat the claim as eligible. What the Federal Circuit panel did, then, was to take the Supreme Court's directive for lower courts to be much stricter in evaluating dubious business method patents for patent eligibility and recast that directive in a form that said, if you as a court see that something is obviously nothing more than an abstract idea, then go ahead and reject it but you are otherwise to treat as being eligible for patent protection. In other words, the new strictness found in <i>Bilski</i> for evaluating such claims was once again to be transformed by the Federal Circuit into a loose standard that would let such claims coast by unimpeded.<p>5. Of course, this has set off alarm bells because, in effect, it represents yet one more revolt by the Federal Circuit against attempts by the Supreme Court to rein it in by bringing patent issues back to some semi-sane state. Following the panel decision (which was rendered over a sharp and stinging dissent), the losing party petitioned for a rehearing en banc (meaning by the full panoply of Federal Circuit judges as opposed to merely a 3-judge panel) and this was granted. Thus, we shall see whether the Federal Circuit is prepared once again to stick its thumb in the eye of the Supreme Court or whether it will temper its extreme pro-patent proclivities and follow the law as it has been directed.<p>So, this is a very important case affecting the trend of patent enforcement in a profound way but does nothing to challenge the idea of software or business methods being patentable in a general sense. For anything to change in that regard, Congress must act."</text></comment> | <story><title>Appeals court ruling could be 'death' of software patents</title><url>http://www.networkworld.com/news/2013/051013-appeals-court-ruling-could-be-269658.html?hpg1=bn</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>DannyBee</author><text>FYI There were <i>7</i> different opinions (out of 10 judges) authored for CLS Bank vs. Alice.
It's a bit of a mess right now to figure out what's up.<p>The method and computer readable media claims were held ineligible by a majority of the court
The systems claims had an equally divided court, and the result there is to affirm the district court judgement.<p>See <a href="http://www.cafc.uscourts.gov/images/stories/opinions-orders/11-1301.Opinion.5-8-2013.1.PDF" rel="nofollow">http://www.cafc.uscourts.gov/images/stories/opinions-orders/...</a><p>This was an en banc (IE whole court) opinion, which to the degree it was a majority, is binding on not just lower courts, but all future 3 judge panels (the normal size) of the appeals court.
To the degree it was an equally divided court, it is not binding precedent.<p>Also, what usually happens in patent cases this is that the future 3 judge panels that disagree with the decision twist the hell out of it to avoid it.</text></comment> |
21,473,880 | 21,474,029 | 1 | 2 | 21,473,259 | train | <story><title>Async-await on stable Rust</title><url>https://blog.rust-lang.org/2019/11/07/Async-await-stable.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ComputerGuru</author><text>I’ve been playing with async await in a polar opposite vertical than its typical use case (high tps web backends) and believe this was the missing piece to further unlock great ergonomic and productivity gains for system development: embedded no_std.<p>Async&#x2F;await lets you write non-blocking, single-threaded but highly interweaved firmware&#x2F;apps in allocation-free, single-threaded environments (bare-metal programming without an OS). The abstractions around stack snapshots allow seamless coroutines and I believe will make rust pretty much the easiest low-level platform to develop for.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>vanderZwan</author><text>Have you ever heard of Esterel or Céu? They follow the <i>synchronous</i> concurrency paradigm, which apparently has specific trade-offs that give it great advantages on embedded (IIRC the memory overhead per Céu &quot;trail&quot; is much lower than for async threads (in the order of <i>bytes</i>), fibers or whatnot, but computationally it scales worse with the nr of trails).<p>Céu is the more recent one of the two and is a research language that was designed with embedded systems in mind, with the PhD theses to show for it [2][3].<p>I wish other languages would adopt ideas from Céu. I have a feeling that if there was a language that supports both kinds of concurrency and allows for the GALS approach (globally asynchronous (meaning threads in this context), locally synchronous) you would have something really powerful on your hands.<p>EDIT: Er... sorry, this may have been a bit of an inappropriate comment, shifting the focus away from the Rust celebration. I&#x27;m really happy for Rust for finally landing this! (but could you pretty please start experimenting with synchronous concurrency too? ;) )<p>[0] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;ceu-lang.org&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;ceu-lang.org&#x2F;</a><p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Esterel" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Esterel</a><p>[2] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;ceu-lang.org&#x2F;chico&#x2F;ceu_phd.pdf" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;ceu-lang.org&#x2F;chico&#x2F;ceu_phd.pdf</a><p>[3] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;sunsite.informatik.rwth-aachen.de&#x2F;Publications&#x2F;AIB&#x2F;2018&#x2F;2018-05.pdf" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;sunsite.informatik.rwth-aachen.de&#x2F;Publications&#x2F;AIB&#x2F;20...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Async-await on stable Rust</title><url>https://blog.rust-lang.org/2019/11/07/Async-await-stable.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ComputerGuru</author><text>I’ve been playing with async await in a polar opposite vertical than its typical use case (high tps web backends) and believe this was the missing piece to further unlock great ergonomic and productivity gains for system development: embedded no_std.<p>Async&#x2F;await lets you write non-blocking, single-threaded but highly interweaved firmware&#x2F;apps in allocation-free, single-threaded environments (bare-metal programming without an OS). The abstractions around stack snapshots allow seamless coroutines and I believe will make rust pretty much the easiest low-level platform to develop for.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>estebank</author><text>Keep in mind that the current release only brings an MVP of the async&#x2F;await feature to the table. The two things I&#x27;ve missed are both no_std support and async trait methods, but there are reasons these haven&#x27;t been completed yet. That doesn&#x27;t mean they won&#x27;t be available in the future, just that the team has prioritized to release a significant part of the feature that many will already find useful.</text></comment> |
40,688,739 | 40,688,647 | 1 | 2 | 40,688,001 | train | <story><title>Tesla's FSD – A Useless Technology Demo</title><url>https://tomverbeure.github.io/2024/05/20/Tesla-FSD-First-and-Last-Impressions.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>drcode</author><text>I have FSD v12 and for my drives, in my part of the country, I have to do a mild safety intervention maybe once a week (like, getting closer to another car than I&#x27;m comfortable with)<p>sorry other people are having different experiences, but FSD is a significant quality of life improvement for me. Nothing is nicer than getting in the car after a long day and letting it chauffeur me home. (yes I still pay attention)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>qsdf38100</author><text>Still paying attention? With a &quot;chauffeur&quot; you don’t have to, that’s the point. Isn’t that a obvious??<p>Also you’re not personally responsible if your chauffeur has an accident.<p>The Elon miracle, he scams you, but you still defend him and pretend like you’re happy with the scam. &quot;In less than a year you’ll be able to get from New York to San Francisco during your sleep&quot;. That was in 2016. 8 years later, he says &quot;robotaxi&quot; and people still believe him.<p>It’s a world scale Stockholm syndrome.</text></comment> | <story><title>Tesla's FSD – A Useless Technology Demo</title><url>https://tomverbeure.github.io/2024/05/20/Tesla-FSD-First-and-Last-Impressions.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>drcode</author><text>I have FSD v12 and for my drives, in my part of the country, I have to do a mild safety intervention maybe once a week (like, getting closer to another car than I&#x27;m comfortable with)<p>sorry other people are having different experiences, but FSD is a significant quality of life improvement for me. Nothing is nicer than getting in the car after a long day and letting it chauffeur me home. (yes I still pay attention)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rjh29</author><text>People who drive often find basic driving &quot;automatic&quot;; if you still need to be vigilant, maybe even hypervigilant because you&#x27;re not personally driving the car, what&#x27;s the advantage?</text></comment> |
7,866,684 | 7,865,684 | 1 | 3 | 7,864,813 | train | <story><title>iOS 8 randomises the MAC address while scanning for WiFi networks</title><url>https://twitter.com/fredericjacobs/status/475601665836744704</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>brunnsbe</author><text>If this becomes the trend (which in my opinon would be nice) it will become a big problem for companies that specialise in customer tracking e.g. for supermarkets and big department stores. Previously it was quite easy to track a customer, how long he or she spends time in the store, which floors he or she visits, etc. by putting up dummy WiFI-networks that the customers phones find by giving out their MAC-addresses.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>userbinator</author><text>It&#x27;s disturbingly creepy to think that stores would even think of doing this, but on the other hand it&#x27;s also an indication of how clueless the general population is about the amount of identifiable data they&#x27;re unconsciously &quot;leaking&quot; through personal, (nearly) always-on devices. My laptop is setup with a random MAC precisely to prevent this sort of tracking.<p>Interestingly, the unbranded Android phones I have (one looks very much like an iPhone, ironically enough) all came with this &quot;feature&quot; of a random MAC every time the WiFi is turned on&#x2F;off, although that was more likely the manufacturer not bothering to give each one a unique MAC.<p>All the more reason to keep the WiFi turned off unless you&#x27;re actually using it, and this might be a bit on the paranoid side, but I do the same for the cell radio (airplane mode) - it&#x27;s on only when I&#x27;m expecting a call or making one.<p>At the other end of the scale, this tracking via MAC almost invites making them think several million customers have suddenly entered the store...</text></comment> | <story><title>iOS 8 randomises the MAC address while scanning for WiFi networks</title><url>https://twitter.com/fredericjacobs/status/475601665836744704</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>brunnsbe</author><text>If this becomes the trend (which in my opinon would be nice) it will become a big problem for companies that specialise in customer tracking e.g. for supermarkets and big department stores. Previously it was quite easy to track a customer, how long he or she spends time in the store, which floors he or she visits, etc. by putting up dummy WiFI-networks that the customers phones find by giving out their MAC-addresses.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>praseodym</author><text>The MAC address is stable once a device is authenticated (connected) to the network. With the trend of providing &#x27;free&#x27; wifi access within stores, making sure that users connect to that network is enough to continue tracking them.</text></comment> |
28,407,750 | 28,405,499 | 1 | 2 | 28,403,727 | train | <story><title>Apple Delays Rollout of Child Safety Features</title><url>https://www.macrumors.com/2021/09/03/apple-delaying-rollout-of-child-safety-features/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>numair</author><text>For everyone who is saying that the technical community “won”... Nobody’s been fired. Rather, Apple’s senior execs <i>publicly doubled down</i> and basically labeled those of us who thought this scheme to be insane, as a bunch of uninformed idiots...<p>You can change a product decision in a day, but it takes a LONG time to change a culture that thinks these sort of insane product decisions make any sense whatsoever. Making a long-term bet on Apple has become precarious at best.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>livueta</author><text>Yeah. I think some celebration is warranted, but the &quot;disaster averted, my iPhone is back to being a trustworthy user agent&quot; take seems to be a bit myopic when the core problem is that Apple possesses enough control over the devices it sells to be able to implement something like this by fiat. Sure, Apple backed down today, but until users are able to exercise the four essential freedoms they&#x27;re living under the sword of Damocles.</text></comment> | <story><title>Apple Delays Rollout of Child Safety Features</title><url>https://www.macrumors.com/2021/09/03/apple-delaying-rollout-of-child-safety-features/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>numair</author><text>For everyone who is saying that the technical community “won”... Nobody’s been fired. Rather, Apple’s senior execs <i>publicly doubled down</i> and basically labeled those of us who thought this scheme to be insane, as a bunch of uninformed idiots...<p>You can change a product decision in a day, but it takes a LONG time to change a culture that thinks these sort of insane product decisions make any sense whatsoever. Making a long-term bet on Apple has become precarious at best.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>zekrioca</author><text>The technical community was labeled the &quot;screeching voices of the minority&quot;.</text></comment> |
2,339,663 | 2,339,639 | 1 | 2 | 2,339,581 | train | <story><title>Liquefaction from the Sendai earthquake – a remarkable video</title><url>http://blogs.agu.org/landslideblog/2011/03/17/liquefaction-from-the-sendai-earthquake/</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>martinkallstrom</author><text>Even more startling is the liquefaction happening in Christchurch:<p><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2WoKu5VxKgs" rel="nofollow">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2WoKu5VxKgs</a><p>Here is an awesome video by a Christchurcher showing how the sediments pouring up through earthquake cracks have the perfect mixture of water and soil to be prone to liquefaction:<p><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1KqlAMWMjOE" rel="nofollow">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1KqlAMWMjOE</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Liquefaction from the Sendai earthquake – a remarkable video</title><url>http://blogs.agu.org/landslideblog/2011/03/17/liquefaction-from-the-sendai-earthquake/</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>wmwong</author><text>For those of us who are not familiar with the term liquefaction. In simple terms, I think it means the soil becomes like quick sand because of the earthquake.<p><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earthquake_liquefaction" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earthquake_liquefaction</a></text></comment> |
25,574,113 | 25,573,471 | 1 | 3 | 25,560,894 | train | <story><title>Ruby 3.0 and the new FiberScheduler interface</title><url>http://www.wjwh.eu/posts/2020-12-28-ruby-fiber-scheduler-c-extension.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>rdw</author><text>&gt; all relevant standard library methods have been patched to yield to the scheduler whenever they encounter a situation where they will block the current fiber<p>This is huge. They solved the function-coloring problem by deciding that all functions are now potentially async. It makes it more likely that the ecosystem as a whole actually becomes async-compatible. I wish Python had taken this approach, though I understand why they didn&#x27;t.</text></comment> | <story><title>Ruby 3.0 and the new FiberScheduler interface</title><url>http://www.wjwh.eu/posts/2020-12-28-ruby-fiber-scheduler-c-extension.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>elcritch</author><text>As an outsider, why doesn&#x27;t&#x2F;can&#x27;t Ruby implement a full actor system like Erlang&#x2F;BEAM? Ruby is already based on message passing so it seems like it should be possible. Granted it&#x27;d likely induce a large performance hit since presumably every object would need to be locked or have a message queue.</text></comment> |
21,675,994 | 21,675,991 | 1 | 2 | 21,675,113 | train | <story><title>Tree-sitter: new incremental parsing system for programming tools (2018) [video]</title><url>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jes3bD6P0To</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>georgewfraser</author><text>The most obvious application of tree-sitter is editors. I wrote a VSCode extension to replace the built-in syntax coloring with tree-sitter-based coloring: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;marketplace.visualstudio.com&#x2F;items?itemName=georgewfraser.vscode-tree-sitter" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;marketplace.visualstudio.com&#x2F;items?itemName=georgewf...</a><p>I actually think it would make more sense for the various VSCode language extensions to just bake in tree-sitter for their language. I have had a PR open to do this with golang for a while: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;microsoft&#x2F;vscode-go&#x2F;pull&#x2F;2555" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;microsoft&#x2F;vscode-go&#x2F;pull&#x2F;2555</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Tree-sitter: new incremental parsing system for programming tools (2018) [video]</title><url>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jes3bD6P0To</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>minxomat</author><text>Important recent development in tree sitter was the new query language. Like TextMate or Sublime Grammars, ts in atom did use CSS selectors, but now it has a much more powerful s-expression query language which is useful for more than just syntax highlighting, e.g. static analysis. An application of that is Github&#x27;s semantic, a haskell tool for code navigation and call graph analysis.<p>Demo and explanation: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;tree-sitter&#x2F;tree-sitter&#x2F;pull&#x2F;444" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;tree-sitter&#x2F;tree-sitter&#x2F;pull&#x2F;444</a></text></comment> |
15,936,101 | 15,935,862 | 1 | 2 | 15,934,888 | train | <story><title>The United States of Toxins</title><url>https://priceonomics.com/the-united-states-of-toxins/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mrob</author><text>Pounds weight is a terrible way to measure toxins. This report is basically meaningless, because it lumps together toxins with vastly different risks. Eg. sodium carbonate is included, which is just common washing soda. I wouldn&#x27;t eat it but the risk is easily manageable. Compare with, eg. dimethylmercury, which is scary even at parts per billion concentration. An actually useful measurement would take into account both potency and persistence of toxins.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mschuster91</author><text>&gt; Pounds weight is a terrible way to measure toxins.<p>But it is one thing: undeniably objective. The alternative would include a &quot;rating&quot; system which the industry can use to say &quot;yeah we emit x hundred tons per year of chemical y but it is next to harmless, better go after company z and their waste&quot;... leading to inevitable chains of lawsuits dragged over years.<p>For what its worth for many industrial processes there exist technical means of greatly reducing emissions (e.g. for smoke stacks: gas washers, desulfurization technologies, fine-dust retainers), but as long as environmental costs don&#x27;t get billed to companies or required by the state, companies have no incentive to reduce emissions, as every dollar spent is a dollar less profit.<p>Maybe it&#x27;s time to introduce legislations that allow the government to hold the <i>shareholders</i> accountable e.g. for Superfund sites, that would at least provide a decent incentive for companies to clean up or to provide enough cash to compensate for environmental damages after closure - right now companies can simply close&#x2F;be liquidated and the taxpayers have to foot the cleanup bill.</text></comment> | <story><title>The United States of Toxins</title><url>https://priceonomics.com/the-united-states-of-toxins/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mrob</author><text>Pounds weight is a terrible way to measure toxins. This report is basically meaningless, because it lumps together toxins with vastly different risks. Eg. sodium carbonate is included, which is just common washing soda. I wouldn&#x27;t eat it but the risk is easily manageable. Compare with, eg. dimethylmercury, which is scary even at parts per billion concentration. An actually useful measurement would take into account both potency and persistence of toxins.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Amezarak</author><text>I didn&#x27;t see sodium carbonate in the list, but you probably do eat it - it&#x27;s a food additive.<p>Copper and manganese are on the list, and are absolutely necessary to live! If you completely cut them out, you would die.</text></comment> |
28,800,012 | 28,799,849 | 1 | 2 | 28,799,633 | train | <story><title>SpaceX hits $100B valuation after secondary share sale</title><url>https://www.cnbc.com/2021/10/08/elon-musks-spacex-valuation-100-billion.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jstsch</author><text>For many years I&#x27;ve really wanted to buy (and hold) SpaceX shares. Such a shame it&#x27;s not on the public market...</text></comment> | <story><title>SpaceX hits $100B valuation after secondary share sale</title><url>https://www.cnbc.com/2021/10/08/elon-musks-spacex-valuation-100-billion.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>huhtenberg</author><text>Does anyone here have SpaceX shares?</text></comment> |
38,687,467 | 38,687,587 | 1 | 2 | 38,686,967 | train | <story><title>VW is putting buttons back in cars</title><url>https://www.thedrive.com/news/vw-is-putting-buttons-back-in-cars-because-people-complained-enough</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>FredPret</author><text>I always buy gadgets with physical buttons when possible.<p>- Microwave ovens should have a knob-button combo that I can work in 0.5 seconds without looking or reading the manual<p>- Ovens and stoves should have knobs I can turn with wet or oven-mitted hands<p>- Cars should have volume buttons I can twist or smack into silence without thinking about it for more than a moment<p>- Same with seat heaters, wipers, and anything I might do while the car is moving</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jpk</author><text>&gt; Ovens and stoves should have knobs I can turn with wet or oven-mitted hands<p>Ooh, yeah this is a big one for me now. A few years ago I got a new range and the controls are all capacitive touch. Mitts are a minor inconvenience, but also sometimes cooking is messy and liquid gets spilled here or there. Now imagine how your phone works when you get some rain on the screen... yeah, it&#x27;s not great. I&#x27;ve learned enough tricks to live with it since it&#x27;s honestly the only thing I don&#x27;t like about that range, but next time I&#x27;ll probably shell out a little more for knobs if I have to.</text></comment> | <story><title>VW is putting buttons back in cars</title><url>https://www.thedrive.com/news/vw-is-putting-buttons-back-in-cars-because-people-complained-enough</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>FredPret</author><text>I always buy gadgets with physical buttons when possible.<p>- Microwave ovens should have a knob-button combo that I can work in 0.5 seconds without looking or reading the manual<p>- Ovens and stoves should have knobs I can turn with wet or oven-mitted hands<p>- Cars should have volume buttons I can twist or smack into silence without thinking about it for more than a moment<p>- Same with seat heaters, wipers, and anything I might do while the car is moving</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>serial_dev</author><text>I bought a Dacia Duster and I love the physical buttons and knobs. It&#x27;s a cheap brand with tech lagging behind the current by about ten years (guesstimate), which is annoying when it comes to safety features, but I love that I don&#x27;t need to read the manual back to back to understand all its features and I can control the AC in curvy mountain roads without hesitation. And, big plus, they didn&#x27;t invent their own silly overly complicated custom OS, you just connect your phone and you are good to go.</text></comment> |
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