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34,135,416 | 34,134,117 | 1 | 2 | 34,131,337 | train | <story><title>General guidance when working as a cloud engineer</title><url>https://www.lockedinspace.com/posts/001.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>nielsole</author><text>Another random selection:<p>* When choosing internal names and identifiers (e.g. DNS) do not include org hierarchy of the team. Chances are the next reorg is coming faster than the lifetime of the identifier and renaming is often hard.<p>* The industry leading tools will contain bugs. From Linux kernel to deploy tooling, there are bugs everywhere. Part of your job is to identify and work around them until upstream patches make it to you if ever.<p>* Maintaining a patched fork is usually more expensive than setting up a workaround<p>* Your hyperscaler cloud provider has plenty of scalability limitations. Some of which are not documented. If you want to do something out of the ordinary make sure to check with your account rep before wasting engineering time.<p>* Bought SaaS will break production in the middle of the night. Your own team will have the best context and motivation to fix&#x2F;workaround them. When choosing a vendor, include the visibility into their internal monitoring as a factor for disaster recovery (exported metrics and logs of their control plane for example)</text></comment> | <story><title>General guidance when working as a cloud engineer</title><url>https://www.lockedinspace.com/posts/001.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>throwawaaarrgh</author><text>Truth is an interesting concept. It&#x27;s often subjective and has many forms. Within the context of the cloud, almost all cloud services are only mutable, so &quot;truth&quot; is whatever the current state of the cloud actually is. Whatever is in Git is merely <i>idealism</i>.<p>Whatever you are maintaining, read the docs completely first. And I mean cover to cover. Not just the one chapter you need to get a PoC up and running. You will wish you had later, and it will come in handy many times over your career. Consider it an investment in your future.<p>Read books on microservices before you implement them. Whatever two-line quip you read on a blog will not be as good as reading several whole books from experts.<p>Docker multi-stage builds won&#x27;t work in some circumstances. Build optimization eventually gets complex, the more you rely on builds to be &quot;advanced&quot;.</text></comment> |
26,827,152 | 26,826,846 | 1 | 2 | 26,821,356 | train | <story><title>Time flies in Google Earth’s biggest update in years</title><url>https://blog.google/products/earth/timelapse-in-google-earth/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>gbrown</author><text>&gt; I&#x27;d be more interested in what you think it &quot;should&quot; look like for an &quot;advanced&quot; species besides optimal?<p>In a word, sustainable. An advanced civilization should be able to develop in a coordinated and self sustaining way, rather than as a grand experiment in tragedy of the commons. Microbes don’t coordinate their growth, and therefore fall into boom-bust cycles that dominate and exhaust their local environment. Humans can reason about these issues, but we see insufficient ability to collectively coordinate in response to them.</text></item><item><author>Grimm1</author><text>You can say the same thing about ant colonies. I think it&#x27;s probably just what anything that groups and branches around resource deposits looks like. If I recall slime molds are optimal planners regarding surrounding resources so it just sounds like a natural optimality to me.<p>I&#x27;d be more interested in what you think it &quot;should&quot; look like for an &quot;advanced&quot; species besides optimal?<p>Looking at it is disparagingly is weird to me, when the conclusion is maybe humans in aggregate are optimal with regards to finding and using resources to grow.<p>Not that we&#x27;re growing unbounded either because that would be bad, we&#x27;re in population decline across many major nations right now and are working towards a greener future in multiple industries to avoid resource collapse.<p>The level of doom and gloom and misanthropy is generally unwarranted if you look around at the steps we&#x27;re taking to better ourselves as a species and every time I read things like this I can&#x27;t help but think people revel in the supposed helplessness of our potential destruction and inability as some perverted pleasure.</text></item><item><author>keithwhor</author><text>What&#x27;s really striking to me about timelapse videos of the Earth is how, at a grand enough scale, the growth of human settlements on Earth really looks no different than the growth of bacterial and fungal colonies on Petri dishes.<p>We think of ourself as special, as having conquered environments, technology and more - and when zoomed out you could explain everything we&#x27;ve built and accomplished as the achievements of a sufficiently robust slime mold simply using available resources to continue growing.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Grimm1</author><text>But we&#x27;re moving towards sustainability. Whether it&#x27;s fast enough is up to interpretation but the push for green tech, sustainable farming etc etc it&#x27;s not like this is an unknown, it&#x27;s just always been the case that it must be sufficiently cheap and easy for the average person to latch onto it. Unfortunately in a lot of areas we&#x27;re getting there but not there yet.</text></comment> | <story><title>Time flies in Google Earth’s biggest update in years</title><url>https://blog.google/products/earth/timelapse-in-google-earth/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>gbrown</author><text>&gt; I&#x27;d be more interested in what you think it &quot;should&quot; look like for an &quot;advanced&quot; species besides optimal?<p>In a word, sustainable. An advanced civilization should be able to develop in a coordinated and self sustaining way, rather than as a grand experiment in tragedy of the commons. Microbes don’t coordinate their growth, and therefore fall into boom-bust cycles that dominate and exhaust their local environment. Humans can reason about these issues, but we see insufficient ability to collectively coordinate in response to them.</text></item><item><author>Grimm1</author><text>You can say the same thing about ant colonies. I think it&#x27;s probably just what anything that groups and branches around resource deposits looks like. If I recall slime molds are optimal planners regarding surrounding resources so it just sounds like a natural optimality to me.<p>I&#x27;d be more interested in what you think it &quot;should&quot; look like for an &quot;advanced&quot; species besides optimal?<p>Looking at it is disparagingly is weird to me, when the conclusion is maybe humans in aggregate are optimal with regards to finding and using resources to grow.<p>Not that we&#x27;re growing unbounded either because that would be bad, we&#x27;re in population decline across many major nations right now and are working towards a greener future in multiple industries to avoid resource collapse.<p>The level of doom and gloom and misanthropy is generally unwarranted if you look around at the steps we&#x27;re taking to better ourselves as a species and every time I read things like this I can&#x27;t help but think people revel in the supposed helplessness of our potential destruction and inability as some perverted pleasure.</text></item><item><author>keithwhor</author><text>What&#x27;s really striking to me about timelapse videos of the Earth is how, at a grand enough scale, the growth of human settlements on Earth really looks no different than the growth of bacterial and fungal colonies on Petri dishes.<p>We think of ourself as special, as having conquered environments, technology and more - and when zoomed out you could explain everything we&#x27;ve built and accomplished as the achievements of a sufficiently robust slime mold simply using available resources to continue growing.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>drivebycomment</author><text>I think humanity is, and has been going through a collective learning experience over thousands of years, and any &quot;advanced&quot; civilization will necessarily have to go through a similar phase to get to that &quot;advanced&quot; stage. So while it&#x27;s true humanity can do better, I think this - the global coordination challenge - is fundamental and irremovable in any collection of self-interested individuals.</text></comment> |
21,263,430 | 21,263,120 | 1 | 2 | 21,258,127 | train | <story><title>Amazon’s Consumer Business Turned Off Final Oracle Database</title><url>https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/migration-complete-amazons-consumer-business-just-turned-off-its-final-oracle-database/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>gopalv</author><text>&gt; Amazon is a slightly annoying company that I rarely root for, but Oracle is a predatory company<p>Amazon and Oracle couldn&#x27;t be more different in this point of view.<p>Amazon&#x27;s predatory instincts are pointed inwards and downwards, towards employees and vendors, while being mostly great towards the customer.<p>Everything from their warehouse workers with timers, the crying software engineers and all other things I hear about them are about running an internally facing extraction economy.<p>The squeeze is being put on those who draw a paycheck (or at least, a profit) from Amazon, while the consumers see instant access servers on EC2, Amazon Go for lunch breaks in a city or One hour shipping of diapers.<p>In comparison, Oracle seems to be going after those who pay them already.</text></item><item><author>AtlasBarfed</author><text>Amazon is a slightly annoying company that I rarely root for, but Oracle is a predatory company whose customer relations strategy seems to actively involve litigating them as a default assumption.<p>Amazon is considered a paragon of IT, so their expulsion of Oracle is a useful tool at the CIO&#x2F;CTO level of &quot;nobody ever got fired for IBM&quot; level of reasoning.<p>Unfortunately, AWS is becoming the new IBM in that reasoning. Great that it took ten years to reach that level of agreement, now hybrid cloud needs to take over the grey haired CIO &#x2F; CTO level.<p>Long live Postgresql!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>throwaway981211</author><text>I’m an engineer now at Amazon. I’ve been here 7 years. 5 years ago, our culture was far more toxic. More recently, some orgs are horrible places to work and others are much better. I don’t think we’re much worse than other companies. Our pay for engineers is less than Google and Facebook, as far as I know, but we beat other companies such as MSFT.<p>Amazon naturally attracts people who want to accomplish big things. It just happens that many of these folks are assholes.<p>Is Amazon predatory to its employees? Some organizations are - yeah absolutely. Are we worse than other companies I worked prior to Amazon? No. Does that mean it’s okay? No. I’m just saying there’s a public perception of Amazon being at the deepest level of hell and it’s not true.<p>We absolutely burn people out. We overwork employees. We don’t promote them when we should. We try to find the tiniest bit pick reasons not to promote. We practice stupidity and call it frugality? You’re an engineer making $200K total comp a year? Your computer doesn’t work and is crashing? Oh too bad - we won’t replace it for you. Yeah I mean that kind of fucking stupidity.<p>We encourage everyone to automate their role so we can replace those folks with college hires.<p>Amazon is not a place you can have a long career at. You’ll have to jump teams or orgs every couple years and eventually you’ll get tired enough that you learn to manage upwards yourself and stick with a manager that you can manage.</text></comment> | <story><title>Amazon’s Consumer Business Turned Off Final Oracle Database</title><url>https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/migration-complete-amazons-consumer-business-just-turned-off-its-final-oracle-database/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>gopalv</author><text>&gt; Amazon is a slightly annoying company that I rarely root for, but Oracle is a predatory company<p>Amazon and Oracle couldn&#x27;t be more different in this point of view.<p>Amazon&#x27;s predatory instincts are pointed inwards and downwards, towards employees and vendors, while being mostly great towards the customer.<p>Everything from their warehouse workers with timers, the crying software engineers and all other things I hear about them are about running an internally facing extraction economy.<p>The squeeze is being put on those who draw a paycheck (or at least, a profit) from Amazon, while the consumers see instant access servers on EC2, Amazon Go for lunch breaks in a city or One hour shipping of diapers.<p>In comparison, Oracle seems to be going after those who pay them already.</text></item><item><author>AtlasBarfed</author><text>Amazon is a slightly annoying company that I rarely root for, but Oracle is a predatory company whose customer relations strategy seems to actively involve litigating them as a default assumption.<p>Amazon is considered a paragon of IT, so their expulsion of Oracle is a useful tool at the CIO&#x2F;CTO level of &quot;nobody ever got fired for IBM&quot; level of reasoning.<p>Unfortunately, AWS is becoming the new IBM in that reasoning. Great that it took ten years to reach that level of agreement, now hybrid cloud needs to take over the grey haired CIO &#x2F; CTO level.<p>Long live Postgresql!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>whack</author><text>&gt; <i>Amazon&#x27;s predatory instincts are pointed inwards and downwards, towards employees and vendors... the crying software engineers and all other things I hear about them are about running an internally facing extraction economy... The squeeze is being put on those who draw a paycheck (or at least, a profit) from Amazon</i><p>I know 10+ software engineers at Amazon, including people in their early 30s making close to half-a-million in yearly income, and people working 10-6 M-F. Most of them are very happy with their careers, and I don&#x27;t know a single person who describes their work-life the way you just did.<p>I&#x27;m not disputing that horror stories exist and that some people are being given bad reviews and are being managed out. However, there is a severe disconnect between the median Amazon employee&#x27;s experience, and public perception.</text></comment> |
19,827,794 | 19,826,833 | 1 | 2 | 19,826,169 | train | <story><title>JupyterHub 1.0</title><url>https://blog.jupyter.org/announcing-jupyterhub-1-0-8fff78acad7f</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>coleifer</author><text>When would someone use jupyterhub? I&#x27;ve been running my own notebook server for years, but it&#x27;s single-user, single machine. Is hub for like providing separate jupyterlab instances for a bunch of different users&#x2F;different machines?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jabl</author><text>We have it setup at work, as an alternative way to use our HPC resource compared to the traditional Linux shell + slurm usage.<p>User goes with the web browser to our jupyterhub URL, logs in with our usual credentials, selects a job type (amount of memory and max duration), and jupyterhub takes care of launching a jupyter kernel as a slurm batch job on a compute node in the cluster, and proxies http I&#x2F;O via the jupyterhub node to the user web browser. In the jupyter notebook, users have access to the same cluster filesystems as if she would login traditionally via ssh.</text></comment> | <story><title>JupyterHub 1.0</title><url>https://blog.jupyter.org/announcing-jupyterhub-1-0-8fff78acad7f</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>coleifer</author><text>When would someone use jupyterhub? I&#x27;ve been running my own notebook server for years, but it&#x27;s single-user, single machine. Is hub for like providing separate jupyterlab instances for a bunch of different users&#x2F;different machines?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rhizome31</author><text>Yes exactly. At my work when a new scientist joins us we just create an account and she can get started on her research within minutes. Each user gets a contained environment in which we mount a disk of shared data.</text></comment> |
30,701,444 | 30,701,087 | 1 | 3 | 30,699,766 | train | <story><title>The Beautiful Mind-Bending of Stanislaw Lem (2019)</title><url>https://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/the-beautiful-mind-bending-of-stanislaw-lem</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Metacelsus</author><text>In Polish, it&#x27;s a mathematical tragic love poem. I&#x27;ve been studying Polish for 2 years, and I still don&#x27;t fully understand all the wordplay here; it&#x27;s pretty complicated.<p>Nieśmiały cybernetyk potężne ekstrema<p>Poznawał, kiedy grupy unimodularne<p>Cyberiady całkował w popołudnie parne,<p>Nie wiedząc, czy jest miłość, czy jeszcze jej nie ma.<p>Precz mi, precz, Laplasjany z wieczora do ranka,<p>I wersory wektorów z ranka do wieczora!<p>Bliżej, przeciwobrazy! Bliżej, bo już pora<p>Zredukować kochankę do objęć kochanka!<p>On drżenia wpółmetryczne, które jęk jednoczy,<p>Zmieni w grupy obrotów i sprzężenia zwrotne,<p>A takie kaskadowe, a takie zawrotne,<p>Że zwarciem zagrażają, idąc z oczu w oczy!<p>Ty, klaso transfinalna! Ty, silna wielkości!<p>Nieprzywiedlne continuum! Praukładzie biały!<p>Christoffela ze Stoksem oddam na wiek cały<p>Za pierwszą i ostatnią pochodną miłości.<p>Twych skalarnych przestrzeni wielolistne głębie<p>Ukaż uwikłanemu w Teoremat Ciała,<p>Cyberiado cyprysów, bimodalnie cała<p>W gradientach, rozmnożonych na loty gołębie!<p>O, nie dożył rozkoszy, kto tak bez siwizny<p>Ani w przestrzeni Weyla, ani Brouwera<p>Studium topologiczne uściskiem otwiera,<p>Badając Moebiusowi nie znane krzywizny!<p>O, wielopowłokowa uczuć komitanto,<p>Wiele trzeba cię cenić, ten się dowie tylko,<p>Kto takich parametrów przeczuwając fantom,<p>Ginie w nanosekundach, płonąc każdą chwilką!<p>Jak punkt, wchodzący w układ holonomiczności,<p>Pozbawiany współrzędnych zera asymptotą,<p>Tak w ostatniej projekcji, ostatnią pieszczotą<p>Żegnany - cybernetyk umiera z miłości.</text></item><item><author>GatorD42</author><text>I’m really curious how close this translation is to the original. I’ve read Lem in multiple languages (not Polish) and found huge differences seemingly based on making his wordplay “work” in the translated language.</text></item><item><author>pmoriarty</author><text>From Lem&#x27;s <i>Cyberiad</i>:<p><i>&quot;I didn&#x27;t build a machine to solve ridiculous crossword puzzles! That&#x27;s hack work, not Great Art! Just give it a topic, any topic, as difficult as you like...&quot;</i><p><i>Klapaucius thought, and thought some more. Finally he nodded and said:</i><p><i>&quot;Very well. Let&#x27;s have a love poem, lyrical, pastoral, and expressed in the language of pure mathematics. Tensor algebra mainly, with a little topology and higher calculus, if need be. But with feeling, you understand, and in the cybernetic spirit.&quot;</i><p><i>&quot;&#x27;Love and tensor algebra?&#x27; Have you taken leave of your senses?&quot;</i><p><i>Trurl began, but stopped, for his electronic bard was already declaiming:</i><p><pre><code> Come, let us hasten to a higher plane,
Where dyads tread the fairy fields of Venn,
Their indices bedecked from one to n,
Commingled in an endless Markov chain!
Come, every frustum longs to be a cone,
And ever vector dreams of matrices.
Hark to the gentle gradient of the breeze:
It whispers of a more ergodic zone.
In Riemann, Hilbert or in Banach space
Let superscripts and subscripts go their ways.
Our asymptotes no longer out of phase,
We shall encounter, counting, face to face.
I&#x27;ll grant thee random access to my heart,
Thou&#x27;lt tell me all the constants of thy love:
And so we two shall all love&#x27;s lemmas prove,
And in our bound partition never part.
For what did Cauchy know, or Christoffel,
Or Fourier, or any Boole or Euler,
Wielding their compasses, their pens and rulers,
Of thy supernal sinusoidal spell?
Cancel me not - for what then shall remain?
Abscissas, some mantissas, modules, modes,
A root or two, a torus and a node:
The inverse of my verse, a null domain.
Ellipse of bliss, converge, O lips divine!
The producs of our scalars is defined!
Cyberiad draws nigh, and the skew mind
Cuts capers like a happy haversine.
I see the eigenvalue in thine eye,
I hear the tender tensor in thy sigh.
Bernoulli would have been content to die,
Had he but known such a^2 cos 2 phi!</code></pre></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>karol</author><text>Native Polish speaker.<p>To get out the max of this poem you need to be versed in Polish lang of course, but also mathematics and basic history of Polish literature.<p>The poem is a mock-erotyk (quasi &quot;poem about lovemaking&quot;) where the mechanics of love are replaced with mechanics of mathematics. It works very well with całka (integral) which creates a fantastic replacement całkować (determine integral) instead of całować (kiss).<p>The other place that speaks volumes about this being satirical is an almost word for word quote from Polish national epos called &quot;Pan Tadeusz&quot;: Wiele trzeba cię cenić, ten się dowie tylko&quot; (Much you must be valued, he will only know), which for a Pole is an instantly recognisable stylistic device.<p>It also mentions a lot of math which is either made up or way above my head so I won&#x27;t comment about that.</text></comment> | <story><title>The Beautiful Mind-Bending of Stanislaw Lem (2019)</title><url>https://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/the-beautiful-mind-bending-of-stanislaw-lem</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Metacelsus</author><text>In Polish, it&#x27;s a mathematical tragic love poem. I&#x27;ve been studying Polish for 2 years, and I still don&#x27;t fully understand all the wordplay here; it&#x27;s pretty complicated.<p>Nieśmiały cybernetyk potężne ekstrema<p>Poznawał, kiedy grupy unimodularne<p>Cyberiady całkował w popołudnie parne,<p>Nie wiedząc, czy jest miłość, czy jeszcze jej nie ma.<p>Precz mi, precz, Laplasjany z wieczora do ranka,<p>I wersory wektorów z ranka do wieczora!<p>Bliżej, przeciwobrazy! Bliżej, bo już pora<p>Zredukować kochankę do objęć kochanka!<p>On drżenia wpółmetryczne, które jęk jednoczy,<p>Zmieni w grupy obrotów i sprzężenia zwrotne,<p>A takie kaskadowe, a takie zawrotne,<p>Że zwarciem zagrażają, idąc z oczu w oczy!<p>Ty, klaso transfinalna! Ty, silna wielkości!<p>Nieprzywiedlne continuum! Praukładzie biały!<p>Christoffela ze Stoksem oddam na wiek cały<p>Za pierwszą i ostatnią pochodną miłości.<p>Twych skalarnych przestrzeni wielolistne głębie<p>Ukaż uwikłanemu w Teoremat Ciała,<p>Cyberiado cyprysów, bimodalnie cała<p>W gradientach, rozmnożonych na loty gołębie!<p>O, nie dożył rozkoszy, kto tak bez siwizny<p>Ani w przestrzeni Weyla, ani Brouwera<p>Studium topologiczne uściskiem otwiera,<p>Badając Moebiusowi nie znane krzywizny!<p>O, wielopowłokowa uczuć komitanto,<p>Wiele trzeba cię cenić, ten się dowie tylko,<p>Kto takich parametrów przeczuwając fantom,<p>Ginie w nanosekundach, płonąc każdą chwilką!<p>Jak punkt, wchodzący w układ holonomiczności,<p>Pozbawiany współrzędnych zera asymptotą,<p>Tak w ostatniej projekcji, ostatnią pieszczotą<p>Żegnany - cybernetyk umiera z miłości.</text></item><item><author>GatorD42</author><text>I’m really curious how close this translation is to the original. I’ve read Lem in multiple languages (not Polish) and found huge differences seemingly based on making his wordplay “work” in the translated language.</text></item><item><author>pmoriarty</author><text>From Lem&#x27;s <i>Cyberiad</i>:<p><i>&quot;I didn&#x27;t build a machine to solve ridiculous crossword puzzles! That&#x27;s hack work, not Great Art! Just give it a topic, any topic, as difficult as you like...&quot;</i><p><i>Klapaucius thought, and thought some more. Finally he nodded and said:</i><p><i>&quot;Very well. Let&#x27;s have a love poem, lyrical, pastoral, and expressed in the language of pure mathematics. Tensor algebra mainly, with a little topology and higher calculus, if need be. But with feeling, you understand, and in the cybernetic spirit.&quot;</i><p><i>&quot;&#x27;Love and tensor algebra?&#x27; Have you taken leave of your senses?&quot;</i><p><i>Trurl began, but stopped, for his electronic bard was already declaiming:</i><p><pre><code> Come, let us hasten to a higher plane,
Where dyads tread the fairy fields of Venn,
Their indices bedecked from one to n,
Commingled in an endless Markov chain!
Come, every frustum longs to be a cone,
And ever vector dreams of matrices.
Hark to the gentle gradient of the breeze:
It whispers of a more ergodic zone.
In Riemann, Hilbert or in Banach space
Let superscripts and subscripts go their ways.
Our asymptotes no longer out of phase,
We shall encounter, counting, face to face.
I&#x27;ll grant thee random access to my heart,
Thou&#x27;lt tell me all the constants of thy love:
And so we two shall all love&#x27;s lemmas prove,
And in our bound partition never part.
For what did Cauchy know, or Christoffel,
Or Fourier, or any Boole or Euler,
Wielding their compasses, their pens and rulers,
Of thy supernal sinusoidal spell?
Cancel me not - for what then shall remain?
Abscissas, some mantissas, modules, modes,
A root or two, a torus and a node:
The inverse of my verse, a null domain.
Ellipse of bliss, converge, O lips divine!
The producs of our scalars is defined!
Cyberiad draws nigh, and the skew mind
Cuts capers like a happy haversine.
I see the eigenvalue in thine eye,
I hear the tender tensor in thy sigh.
Bernoulli would have been content to die,
Had he but known such a^2 cos 2 phi!</code></pre></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>arcticbull</author><text>Curious what made you want to learn Polish. It&#x27;s not exactly a broadly spoken language. There isn&#x27;t really much of a diaspora. It was my first language, but I don&#x27;t really get much practice these days - outside trips to the Polish Store to pick up some suche kabanosy.</text></comment> |
9,645,255 | 9,645,175 | 1 | 3 | 9,644,053 | train | <story><title>Arguments for TPP don’t make sense</title><url>https://www.bostonglobe.com/opinion/2015/05/30/arguments-for-tpp-don-make-sense/W8WNu5IR9xkhzsqYV0pBWK/story.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>themartorana</author><text>Not to hijack the better points of the article, because it&#x27;s a good one, but this line is telling:<p><i>&quot;The White House’s efforts to portray the treaty as critical to national security simply underscores its inability to make a case for the agreement on the basis of economic benefits.&quot;</i><p>If you can&#x27;t make a cogent argument, just flail your hands about and yell &quot;National Security!&quot; You wouldn&#x27;t dare try to impede national security!<p>Those two words are what remain of Bush&#x27;s &quot;you&#x27;re either with us, or against us&quot; brand of patriotism, but it has a choke hold on the U.S. I cannot understand why otherwise smart people continue to let &quot;national security&quot; dissuade all common sense in everything.<p>Edit: &quot;Investor-State Dispute Settlements&quot; make me want to throw up my hands and move to Mars. I can&#x27;t fathom how anyone can accept calling ISDS &quot;national security&quot; as anything but pure, black-tar hogwash.</text></comment> | <story><title>Arguments for TPP don’t make sense</title><url>https://www.bostonglobe.com/opinion/2015/05/30/arguments-for-tpp-don-make-sense/W8WNu5IR9xkhzsqYV0pBWK/story.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>JabavuAdams</author><text>I&#x27;m surprised that the article doesn&#x27;t spend more time pointing out the sheer arrogance of this, to non-US eyes.<p>Even the countries who would possibly be signing on to this must be insulted by it. That&#x27;s not a good place to start.<p>Nobody else in the world cares about US interests, except insofar as it enriches them and&#x2F;or prevents them from getting beat up and&#x2F;or cornholed by friendly, drunk, sometimes generous, often abusive Uncle Sam.</text></comment> |
3,502,830 | 3,502,523 | 1 | 3 | 3,501,388 | train | <story><title>Let's make TCP faster</title><url>http://googlecode.blogspot.com/2012/01/lets-make-tcp-faster.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Karellen</author><text>Hmmmm....the article prelude, and points 1 and 3, and the rationale document linked for point 2, all seem to be about optimising TCP for HTTP/the Web.<p>The thing is, a heck of a lot more runs over the Internet/TCP than just HTTP/the web. Also, it can very well be argued that a lot of the "end-user" perceived problems they are trying to fix (e.g. HTTP total request-response round trip latency) are acutally problems with HTTP, rather than TCP - notably the fact that for "small" web requests all HTTP effectively does is re-implement a datagram protocol (albeit with larger packets than UDP) on top of TCP, with all the consequent overhead of setting up and tearing down a TCP connection.<p>It's an interesting set of fixes. But are they the right fixes, at the right level? Would moving to SPDY instead of HTTP fix the problems better, at a more appropriate level? With less chance of impacting all the other protocols that run (and are yet to run) over TCP?</text></comment> | <story><title>Let's make TCP faster</title><url>http://googlecode.blogspot.com/2012/01/lets-make-tcp-faster.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>ajross</author><text>OK, dumb question which I'm too lazy to look up for myself: what is TCP Fast Open, and how is it different from T/TCP? My vague memory is that the latter was dropped because allocating port numbers without requiring an explicit round trip simply could not be made robust vs. DDOS attacks. What tricks is TFO using that T/TCP didn't?<p>(<i>edit: Not so lazy after all I guess. The draft RFC here: <a href="http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-cheng-tcpm-fastopen-00" rel="nofollow">http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-cheng-tcpm-fastopen-00</a> and after a very quick perusal I don't see an attempt to solve the DOS problem either. It seems like it just requires apps to handle the transactions really fast and then close the connection?</i>)</text></comment> |
29,677,023 | 29,676,381 | 1 | 2 | 29,670,624 | train | <story><title>Apple to Apple Comparison: M1 Max vs. Intel</title><url>https://unum.cloud/post/2021-12-21-macbook/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>phyalow</author><text>I have a 16&quot; M1 Max, fully loaded. The thermal profile on this thing is insane, here is a screenshot of the internals after being on for a couple of hours with a bunch of chrome tabs open <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;imgur.com&#x2F;a&#x2F;yjXxdvJ" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;imgur.com&#x2F;a&#x2F;yjXxdvJ</a> its barely warmer than body temperature.</text></item><item><author>Daniel_sk</author><text>I &quot;downgraded&quot; from a top spec Macbook Pro 2019 16&quot; i9 9980HK with 64GB RAM to the new 14&quot; M1 Pro with 32GB. Fans are at 0 RPM all the time, I haven&#x27;t heard them yet. It compiles the same Android project without a sweat and with 0 RPM fan speed. The i9 was hitting 100C and maximum RPM in the same use case and took maybe three times longer. And the new macbook was about 25% cheaper than the 16&quot; I bought in 2020. It&#x27;s a completely different league - worth all the money I spent.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>vmception</author><text>Also note for anyone on the fence about being 1-inch larger,<p>the 16 inch model is the same physical size as the 15-inch models and they removed a lot of bezel. the screen has the same camera&#x2F;sensor notch as an iphone does, which allows them to extend the screen farther.<p>full screen videos are letterboxed 99% of the time so the notch blends into. I don&#x27;t play full screen games so can&#x27;t tell if thats an issue. and it is in the OS top bar the other rest of the time.</text></comment> | <story><title>Apple to Apple Comparison: M1 Max vs. Intel</title><url>https://unum.cloud/post/2021-12-21-macbook/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>phyalow</author><text>I have a 16&quot; M1 Max, fully loaded. The thermal profile on this thing is insane, here is a screenshot of the internals after being on for a couple of hours with a bunch of chrome tabs open <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;imgur.com&#x2F;a&#x2F;yjXxdvJ" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;imgur.com&#x2F;a&#x2F;yjXxdvJ</a> its barely warmer than body temperature.</text></item><item><author>Daniel_sk</author><text>I &quot;downgraded&quot; from a top spec Macbook Pro 2019 16&quot; i9 9980HK with 64GB RAM to the new 14&quot; M1 Pro with 32GB. Fans are at 0 RPM all the time, I haven&#x27;t heard them yet. It compiles the same Android project without a sweat and with 0 RPM fan speed. The i9 was hitting 100C and maximum RPM in the same use case and took maybe three times longer. And the new macbook was about 25% cheaper than the 16&quot; I bought in 2020. It&#x27;s a completely different league - worth all the money I spent.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>FpUser</author><text>Bunch of tabs idling should consume no CPU. Why would you expect it to be warm?</text></comment> |
3,462,059 | 3,461,945 | 1 | 2 | 3,461,582 | train | <story><title>My Call to Senator Schumer’s Office on PIPA: It’s So Much Worse Than I Thought</title><url>http://amandapeyton.com/blog/2012/01/my-call-to-senator-schumers-office-on-pipa-its-so-much-worse-than-i-thought/</url><text></text></story><parent_chain><item><author>rgarcia</author><text>Startup idea: a weekly email newsletter containing a list of bills your representatives in congress voted on (or introduced/co-sponsored), along with some "like" and "dislike" buttons. Home page maintains a prominent list of representatives most "disliked" by their constituents.<p>This whole SOPA debacle has convinced me more than ever that the feedback loop between constituents and representatives is absolutely <i>terrible</i>. This would be an attempt to solve the problem (via public humiliation).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>yummyfajitas</author><text>Like/Dislike:<p>H.R.3997 - Heroes Earnings Assistance and Relief Tax Act of 2007<p>To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide earnings assistance and tax relief to members of the uniformed services, volunteer firefighters, and Peace Corps volunteers, and for other purposes.<p><a href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/110-h3997/show" rel="nofollow">http://www.opencongress.org/bill/110-h3997/show</a><p>How many people getting the newsletter would actually realize that "other purposes" refers to a $700 billion bank bailout? (This is the bill the Republicans killed, shortly before caving in and passing another bill a week later.)</text></comment> | <story><title>My Call to Senator Schumer’s Office on PIPA: It’s So Much Worse Than I Thought</title><url>http://amandapeyton.com/blog/2012/01/my-call-to-senator-schumers-office-on-pipa-its-so-much-worse-than-i-thought/</url><text></text></story><parent_chain><item><author>rgarcia</author><text>Startup idea: a weekly email newsletter containing a list of bills your representatives in congress voted on (or introduced/co-sponsored), along with some "like" and "dislike" buttons. Home page maintains a prominent list of representatives most "disliked" by their constituents.<p>This whole SOPA debacle has convinced me more than ever that the feedback loop between constituents and representatives is absolutely <i>terrible</i>. This would be an attempt to solve the problem (via public humiliation).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>cheald</author><text>Having started someone along these lines, you would need a human element in between the raw data and the emails, translating each bill's name and purpose into human-speak. They are so shrouded in legalese that it's extraordinarily difficult to parse out the intent of many of them, and "bad" parts seem to be very difficult to locate at a casual glance. Even reading over the text of SOPA, it isn't immediately obvious to the layperson why it's a bad bill. The way it reads obscures the truly odious parts of the bill. Were it not for analysis and coverage done by third parties, you and I would probably read SOPA and say "Yup, that's a good idea, upvote".<p>You'd need a full-time staff of lawyers translating this stuff for the rest of us to make something like that worthwhile/</text></comment> |
21,931,898 | 21,931,790 | 1 | 3 | 21,929,297 | train | <story><title>Reiser5</title><url>https://marc.info/?l=reiserfs-devel&m=157780043509663&w=2</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>vkaku</author><text>If you guys called it something else (even ShishkinFS) you may get more takers.<p>It&#x27;s thorny that they decided to keep the name, and not everyone is comfortable visualizing the various things that happened with Hans Reiser.<p>Just rename it already, please!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kragen</author><text>I usually call it murdererfs, for example in Dercuano. I&#x27;ve had comments on here downvoted for it.</text></comment> | <story><title>Reiser5</title><url>https://marc.info/?l=reiserfs-devel&m=157780043509663&w=2</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>vkaku</author><text>If you guys called it something else (even ShishkinFS) you may get more takers.<p>It&#x27;s thorny that they decided to keep the name, and not everyone is comfortable visualizing the various things that happened with Hans Reiser.<p>Just rename it already, please!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>gnarbarian</author><text>I&#x27;m partial to killerFS.</text></comment> |
23,846,225 | 23,846,682 | 1 | 2 | 23,843,296 | train | <story><title>Pavel Durov wants a law to make Apple allow iPhone users install other app store</title><url>https://androidrookies.com/telegram-developer-wants-a-law-to-make-apple-allow-iphone-users-to-install-apps-from-other-app-stores/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>alexslobodnik</author><text>1. Secure<p>2. Open<p>3. Customer friendly<p>Pick two.</text></item><item><author>skrowl</author><text>They have anti-trust lawsuits pending in multiple countries that will also force this once they resolve. It&#x27;s obviously monopoly bundling. Literally every other modern OS allows you to install apps from multiple sources, including Android.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>MattGaiser</author><text>At least for me as a consumer, Apple’s behaviour is a feature I pay extra for, not a bug.</text></comment> | <story><title>Pavel Durov wants a law to make Apple allow iPhone users install other app store</title><url>https://androidrookies.com/telegram-developer-wants-a-law-to-make-apple-allow-iphone-users-to-install-apps-from-other-app-stores/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>alexslobodnik</author><text>1. Secure<p>2. Open<p>3. Customer friendly<p>Pick two.</text></item><item><author>skrowl</author><text>They have anti-trust lawsuits pending in multiple countries that will also force this once they resolve. It&#x27;s obviously monopoly bundling. Literally every other modern OS allows you to install apps from multiple sources, including Android.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>JTbane</author><text>There have been numerous examples of apps in the App Store that have malicious behavior.<p>So, with Apple, pick none I guess?</text></comment> |
25,155,226 | 25,155,393 | 1 | 3 | 25,135,470 | train | <story><title>Apple Silicon and losing our legacy</title><url>https://tacit.livejournal.com/635381.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>reikonomusha</author><text>One of the reasons I’m very for open-source (including all my code) is for the reason that porting is easier. It seems like the gripe should not be with Apple changing processors (or OS’s or hardware features or ...), but rather that (especially commercial) software is so fragile to medium-term environmental change. Binaries are just not very resilient artifacts, especially when they so closely depend on their surroundings. High-level programming language code, on the other hand, is much more resilient.<p>It’s also a reason I use Lisp: the spec doesn’t change and won’t change. Stuff runs forever.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ssivark</author><text>Bingo! It’s boil-the-ocean level crazy to attempt to recreate the environment for a particular file, when the sensible approach would be to just have the file format and it’s reader&#x2F;viewer software be open so it can be recompiled or ported to any new platform. The blame&#x2F;responsibility lies not with those innovating on hardware, but those who have created brittle software systems which have no ability to adapt to the changing environment.<p>Yet another example of how holding binary artifacts is not functional equivalent to “owning” software.</text></comment> | <story><title>Apple Silicon and losing our legacy</title><url>https://tacit.livejournal.com/635381.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>reikonomusha</author><text>One of the reasons I’m very for open-source (including all my code) is for the reason that porting is easier. It seems like the gripe should not be with Apple changing processors (or OS’s or hardware features or ...), but rather that (especially commercial) software is so fragile to medium-term environmental change. Binaries are just not very resilient artifacts, especially when they so closely depend on their surroundings. High-level programming language code, on the other hand, is much more resilient.<p>It’s also a reason I use Lisp: the spec doesn’t change and won’t change. Stuff runs forever.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>heavyset_go</author><text>&gt; <i>Binaries are just not very resilient artifacts, especially when they so closely depend on their surroundings.</i><p>Depends on the platform. I can run statically compiled Linux binaries that were released 20 years ago just fine. Similarly, I&#x27;m able play Windows games that were released over 20 years ago.</text></comment> |
12,668,815 | 12,668,859 | 1 | 2 | 12,668,605 | train | <story><title>The Problem with Modern Romance Is Too Much Choice</title><url>http://nautil.us/issue/41/selection/the-problem-with-modern-romance-is-too-much-choice</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>colmvp</author><text>I&#x27;m just going to preface this by saying I&#x27;m a fairly physically unattractive man (short, Asian, assymetrical face with no strong jawline).<p>The quality of the women (based on intellect, personality, accomplishments, and appearance) who I&#x27;ve met in real life first before dating have been vastly superior to the women who I managed to find a date with through online dating.<p>Besides the restrictiveness of the online dating medium, specifically its inability to capture personality or warmth, I think another reason is because the women I meet in real life are able to evaluate me individually for who I am whereas in online dating you&#x27;re practically always being compared to dozens of people.<p>I also think that people are overly picky in online dating and treat their specifications as sacrosanct instead of something to constantly self evaluate. For example, it&#x27;s fairly common for people to specify a preference for a single race, usually their own. When I used to go on match.com I saw plenty of white women who explicitly noted they only wanted to date white men. Fair enough. And you know, a lot of white women I know in real life might have the same preference given the nature of growing up in small towns dominated by a single ethnicity and having consumed culture that largely glamorizes white men. But they also ended up marry Asian men, not through online dating but perhaps because they got to know them in college or at work or through friends. Likewise I&#x27;m certain that some of the women I dated in real life wouldn&#x27;t have given me a chance in online dating. Perhaps it&#x27;s because we could share laughter and gain trust in one another before even considering the concept of love. I&#x27;m sure there&#x27;s also studies that show repeated exposure of a person has a positive effect on their perception.<p>And if you read the story in Aziz Ansari&#x27;s Modern Romance, he mentions a similar anecdote where he met two Indian dudes, one who was struggling to meet anyone through online dating, and the other who exclusively just met women in real life and had no problems in that realm.<p>I guess my unscientific observation is that while online dating is certainly gaining in popularity and can be successful for some people, that it can sort of be misrepresentative of reality.</text></comment> | <story><title>The Problem with Modern Romance Is Too Much Choice</title><url>http://nautil.us/issue/41/selection/the-problem-with-modern-romance-is-too-much-choice</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>curiousdater</author><text>So my experience and how it feels for an average to less then average guy in looks(I&#x27;m causcasin ..5&#x27;10..170.. fit)to be on all these damn apps.<p>Basically we all want something hot and or attractive to us. I feel for women who are less to average in looks have it better then guys. Probably sign into these apps and get bombarded by guys.<p>I definitely date using match and plenty of fish(15 different dates a year) Tinder to me is crickets. I&#x27;m well aware of why and oh well that&#x27;s how it goes but it does suck.<p>Though I&#x27;ve then tried Grindr and other bi apps. I&#x27;ve found both attractive yet if I had found some chick who I liked in my 20s(in my 30s I was in a long term relationship with a chick) and settled down I would most likely have never explored my interest in guys. Would have just kept it to the normal curious fun a lot of us guys have with each other in our teens.<p>Well using Grindr and others I now know what it feels like to be a chick... sign on and get tons of messages and choose which one catches your eye. This happens each time you open the app. Hey if your into both it&#x27;s a great way to beat loniless, meet new friends and have fun here&#x2F;there.<p>Overall I just wanted to point out one mans use of these dating apps. I&#x27;m sure I&#x27;m not alone in my struggle with finding the women I want and they want me too. If Tinder keeps you busy your one lucky dude! Probably alone in using those other apps or maybe not and that could be another thing these apps are changing how&#x2F;who we date and meet?</text></comment> |
25,194,995 | 25,190,632 | 1 | 3 | 25,189,287 | train | <story><title>Misfit Tractors a Money Saver for Arkansas Farmer</title><url>https://www.agweb.com/article/misfit-tractors-money-saver-arkansas-farmer</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>JamisonM</author><text>&quot;The Steigers will be repainted over the winter...&quot;<p>What&#x27;s up with American farmers and repainting things? Drives me nuts.. I can not understand it. I would love to know.</text></item><item><author>JamisonM</author><text>&quot;I still believe you need some newer machinery in the mix, and my harvest equipment is where you’ll find it.&quot;<p>I find this very interesting because on our farm the main source of savings has been running 7 (3-4 in the field at a time) 1480 and 1680 combines valued at $5-8,000 each. (and about 15 headers to match, equally worthless). We keep them well maintained but if we do have a failure that is not an instant fix we literally just pull another one out of the shed and carry on.<p>Where we farm late-90&#x27;s and early 2000&#x27;s seeding equipment is now cheap as dirt too, we run two air seeders worth a combined $50,000, maybe?<p>I have a Steiger, branded as a Case 9170, they have weak spots (wiring, rear diffs &amp; planetaries) but they are cheap horsepower. Around my parts the &quot;Rome&quot; tractors would be older Versatile 4WDs that are easy to repower and have nice big cabs.<p>All that said, I find the large savings claims here to be a bit suspect. Dropping new electronic engines in these frames, even if you do a lot of the work yourself, costs real money. Once you are 80-90k into a 1980 tractor.. they made a lot of good equipment in the 90&#x27;s that you can walk up and buy for those kinds of dollars. And he isn&#x27;t doing the work all himself, those hours cost real cash out of pocket (a small farmer like myself that fixes himself.. well you can just keep whittling down your personal hourly rate by putting in more hours).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>eitland</author><text>Downthread there&#x27;s a lot of talk about rust.<p>I grew up on an extremely small scale farm on the west coast of Norway, lots of rain and 100m from the sea, 12 or so km from the open ocean (you see the Atlantic if you drive a boat 500m out to the middle of the fjord.)<p>Rust didn&#x27;t stop any of our tractors, not a single stroke of paint even for the 40-50 years old machines.<p>But here&#x27;s another thing, picked up from a friend of me after I asked him why he bought a brand new Valtra at some point instead of buying a slightly used one that was available on the market.<p>His answer has stuck with me since: if you enjoy getting up and going to work in the morning that count for something too.<p>I still happily use old equipment - if it works - but I factor in the value of not wasting my (or my customers, when I work as sysadmin) patience on slow computers.<p>Edits: spelling, redundancies</text></comment> | <story><title>Misfit Tractors a Money Saver for Arkansas Farmer</title><url>https://www.agweb.com/article/misfit-tractors-money-saver-arkansas-farmer</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>JamisonM</author><text>&quot;The Steigers will be repainted over the winter...&quot;<p>What&#x27;s up with American farmers and repainting things? Drives me nuts.. I can not understand it. I would love to know.</text></item><item><author>JamisonM</author><text>&quot;I still believe you need some newer machinery in the mix, and my harvest equipment is where you’ll find it.&quot;<p>I find this very interesting because on our farm the main source of savings has been running 7 (3-4 in the field at a time) 1480 and 1680 combines valued at $5-8,000 each. (and about 15 headers to match, equally worthless). We keep them well maintained but if we do have a failure that is not an instant fix we literally just pull another one out of the shed and carry on.<p>Where we farm late-90&#x27;s and early 2000&#x27;s seeding equipment is now cheap as dirt too, we run two air seeders worth a combined $50,000, maybe?<p>I have a Steiger, branded as a Case 9170, they have weak spots (wiring, rear diffs &amp; planetaries) but they are cheap horsepower. Around my parts the &quot;Rome&quot; tractors would be older Versatile 4WDs that are easy to repower and have nice big cabs.<p>All that said, I find the large savings claims here to be a bit suspect. Dropping new electronic engines in these frames, even if you do a lot of the work yourself, costs real money. Once you are 80-90k into a 1980 tractor.. they made a lot of good equipment in the 90&#x27;s that you can walk up and buy for those kinds of dollars. And he isn&#x27;t doing the work all himself, those hours cost real cash out of pocket (a small farmer like myself that fixes himself.. well you can just keep whittling down your personal hourly rate by putting in more hours).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>colechristensen</author><text>Nothing wrong with finding something to do over the winter even if there isn’t a whole lot of practical value. Some people are happier when things are neat and tidy.</text></comment> |
18,366,810 | 18,366,911 | 1 | 2 | 18,366,321 | train | <story><title>Despite concerns, FDA approves new opioid 10x more powerful than Fentanyl</title><url>https://www.statnews.com/pharmalot/2018/11/02/fda-dsuvia-fentanyl-approval/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>sweetcherrypie</author><text>Naloxone is the drug used to block the effects of opioids. LE carry them, but at the cost of $4500 for two injectors. The Narcan spray is slightly lest costly iirc. I&#x27;m a uni student working on designing an auto-injector that could be used instead (the medicine itself is very cheap) and potentially to administer epinepherine too (also a case of cheap medicine - expensive administration device).<p>I&#x27;ve made some progress but have no mechanical design experience. I&#x27;m not optimistic about the time period needed for FDA approval so I&#x27;m really doing it for the learning experience. I&#x27;d love some help!</text></comment> | <story><title>Despite concerns, FDA approves new opioid 10x more powerful than Fentanyl</title><url>https://www.statnews.com/pharmalot/2018/11/02/fda-dsuvia-fentanyl-approval/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>etrevino</author><text>It&#x27;s worth noting here that not every opioid is metabolized the same. I can&#x27;t speak for this medicine, but different metabolic pathways are used to process opioids.[1] Having more tools in your toolkit means that you are more likely to be able to treat a patient&#x27;s pain.<p>That being said, I think that one of the major uses for this drug will be to treat acute pain in chronic pain patients. Those patients aren&#x27;t opioid naive and may need something that will &quot;override&quot; the tolerance these patients have developed. I&#x27;m guessing that they&#x27;d also work for patients on the opioid agonist&#x2F;antagonist Buprenorphine, which is used for chronic pain, but tends to block other opiates.<p>Lastly, while potent, this drug appears to wear off very quickly. That&#x27;s going to be key here, because it&#x27;s simply not useful unless you&#x27;re able to administer a high quantity of the medicine.<p><i></i> To boot, I believe that the manufacturer claims that this drug has less cognitive side effects than other opioids. [2]<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov&#x2F;pmc&#x2F;articles&#x2F;PMC2704133&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov&#x2F;pmc&#x2F;articles&#x2F;PMC2704133&#x2F;</a>
[2] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.acelrx.com&#x2F;technology&#x2F;publications&#x2F;arx-04&#x2F;MHSRS%20ProjTeamPresentation%202016%20FINAL%2008_10_16%20MRC-0076.pdf" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.acelrx.com&#x2F;technology&#x2F;publications&#x2F;arx-04&#x2F;MHSRS%2...</a></text></comment> |
29,375,646 | 29,375,714 | 1 | 3 | 29,371,530 | train | <story><title>The slowest SR-71 Blackbird fly-by</title><url>https://theaviationgeekclub.com/story-behind-famed-sr-71-blackbird-super-low-knife-edge-pass/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>FearlessNebula</author><text>Wouldn’t a well trained pilot (like somebody learning on the SR71) be very familiar with what a slow airplane feels like? I’m shocked that a skilled pilot would have allowed that plane to get so dangerously slow.</text></item><item><author>mmaunder</author><text>Stick and Rudder is the best read out there if you want an intuitive pilots understanding of what happened here. It unpacks angle of attack from a pilots perspective rather than using engineer speak. At that speed the control surfaces of the Blackbird would have had very little effect which is incredibly scary as you’re approaching a stall low and slow. They’d need big deflections to keep her straight and it would have felt very mushy.<p>It’s also worth noting that airflow from the engines don’t flow over control surfaces like some light aircraft which means they’d actually have had to gain airspeed before they’d stop mushing around, further delaying recovery. Although I’m guessing that happened pretty damn fast.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Diesel555</author><text>Some aircraft don&#x27;t buffet much when they get slow, while other aircraft may buffet a lot (slow as a simple term for high angle of attack (AOA), but high AOA can occur from G-forces - back stick pressure - as well).<p>Those aircraft also use a digital flight control system that commands G instead of direct deflection of the surfaces. Therefore the aircraft feels the same at the speeds in which it is capable of delivering the G it is asked to deliver. The same back stick pressure delivers the same G. This is much different than a mechanical system in which you get more G if you are faster.<p>The F-16 is one such aircraft. It feels very similar at 250 knots and 650 knots.<p>Of course an experienced pilot immediately recognizes when the aircraft hits the G-limit due to speed. For example, at 200 knots it can&#x27;t pull 5 Gs. But that only occurs when you are pulling on the stick and not in straight and level flight.<p>The angle of attack of being slow (just being more leaned back in the jet) is more subtle and and doesn&#x27;t usually present itself until you are already really slow. The automatic flaperons and leading edge flaps, which give the wing more camber automatically, are partially a reason for this.<p>Point is, the slowness maybe not be as obvious as you think.</text></comment> | <story><title>The slowest SR-71 Blackbird fly-by</title><url>https://theaviationgeekclub.com/story-behind-famed-sr-71-blackbird-super-low-knife-edge-pass/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>FearlessNebula</author><text>Wouldn’t a well trained pilot (like somebody learning on the SR71) be very familiar with what a slow airplane feels like? I’m shocked that a skilled pilot would have allowed that plane to get so dangerously slow.</text></item><item><author>mmaunder</author><text>Stick and Rudder is the best read out there if you want an intuitive pilots understanding of what happened here. It unpacks angle of attack from a pilots perspective rather than using engineer speak. At that speed the control surfaces of the Blackbird would have had very little effect which is incredibly scary as you’re approaching a stall low and slow. They’d need big deflections to keep her straight and it would have felt very mushy.<p>It’s also worth noting that airflow from the engines don’t flow over control surfaces like some light aircraft which means they’d actually have had to gain airspeed before they’d stop mushing around, further delaying recovery. Although I’m guessing that happened pretty damn fast.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>throwaway0a5e</author><text>You don&#x27;t get a lot of practice at the limit of the flight envelope in an SR71 for the same reasons crane operators don&#x27;t do a ton of heavy picks in high winds. It&#x27;s not worth the risk to the equipment.</text></comment> |
39,736,644 | 39,736,379 | 1 | 3 | 39,733,661 | train | <story><title>Super Micro Computer has gone from an obscure server maker to $60B market cap</title><url>https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/super-micro-computer-company-profile-d93a41da</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>pavlov</author><text>Super Micro stock was clearly undervalued even on traditional P&#x2F;E metrics as recently as 2022. And I believe the reason for the depressed stock price was Bloomberg’s allegations that China was using Super Micro’s motherboards as Trojan horses for spy chips:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.datacenterdynamics.com&#x2F;en&#x2F;news&#x2F;years-later-bloomberg-doubles-down-disputed-supermicro-supply-chain-hack-story&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.datacenterdynamics.com&#x2F;en&#x2F;news&#x2F;years-later-bloom...</a><p>Bloomberg originally broke this story in 2018, then repeated the allegations in 2021. But AFAIK it was never proven.<p>The Nvidia + Meta connection finally broke the spell and allowed investors to look at SMCI with fresh eyes.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>darth_avocado</author><text>The low valuation had less to do with the spying allegations and more to do with a history of accounting frauds. Obviously if you have a proven history of fudging up revenue numbers, investors are less likely to invest in you.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.sec.gov&#x2F;news&#x2F;press-release&#x2F;2020-190" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.sec.gov&#x2F;news&#x2F;press-release&#x2F;2020-190</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Super Micro Computer has gone from an obscure server maker to $60B market cap</title><url>https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/super-micro-computer-company-profile-d93a41da</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>pavlov</author><text>Super Micro stock was clearly undervalued even on traditional P&#x2F;E metrics as recently as 2022. And I believe the reason for the depressed stock price was Bloomberg’s allegations that China was using Super Micro’s motherboards as Trojan horses for spy chips:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.datacenterdynamics.com&#x2F;en&#x2F;news&#x2F;years-later-bloomberg-doubles-down-disputed-supermicro-supply-chain-hack-story&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.datacenterdynamics.com&#x2F;en&#x2F;news&#x2F;years-later-bloom...</a><p>Bloomberg originally broke this story in 2018, then repeated the allegations in 2021. But AFAIK it was never proven.<p>The Nvidia + Meta connection finally broke the spell and allowed investors to look at SMCI with fresh eyes.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>hello_computer</author><text>I think most consumer market &quot;reporting&quot; is poorly-disguised market-manipulation. Best advice for your portfolio is to tune all of those assholes completely out.</text></comment> |
32,070,308 | 32,069,328 | 1 | 2 | 32,068,647 | train | <story><title>A/B testing gets misused to juice metrics in the short term</title><url>https://www.zumsteg.net/2022/07/05/unchecked-ab-testing-destroys-everything-it-touches/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>causi</author><text>The problem with AB testing is that it&#x27;s a short-term strategy. For example, if a news site runs AB testing with headlines, they&#x27;ll find that bullshit clickbait headlines get more pageviews than concise, accurate headlines, but the constant use of clickbait headlines will over time destroy overall traffic to your site. More frustratingly, sites run by smart people tend to fall into a balance where the worst articles get the most alluring headlines.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tomrod</author><text>This highlights the major downside to &quot;data-driven&quot; policy and decisions.<p>Data can &quot;lie&quot;. What is observed is not always reality, simply what we can see of it.<p>Consider auctions. You never actually &quot;see&quot; the bidder&#x27;s demand or utility. Yes, there are some ways to structure auctions that in theory show willingness to pay and such (ignoring confounding factors and irrationality), but you don&#x27;t actually observe anything beyond the bid.<p>Similarly, on websites, you don&#x27;t always know the causal reasons people click here or there. You know perhaps enough to predict a step-wise behavior, but don&#x27;t (usually) understand the full behavioral lifecycle -- especially if a metric improves but at the hidden cost of decrements to conversion and similar.</text></comment> | <story><title>A/B testing gets misused to juice metrics in the short term</title><url>https://www.zumsteg.net/2022/07/05/unchecked-ab-testing-destroys-everything-it-touches/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>causi</author><text>The problem with AB testing is that it&#x27;s a short-term strategy. For example, if a news site runs AB testing with headlines, they&#x27;ll find that bullshit clickbait headlines get more pageviews than concise, accurate headlines, but the constant use of clickbait headlines will over time destroy overall traffic to your site. More frustratingly, sites run by smart people tend to fall into a balance where the worst articles get the most alluring headlines.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>goodside</author><text>There’s nothing about AB testing that requires you to use short-term metrics. I used to manage AB tests for online dating sites (OkCupid, Grindr) where subscription revenue is what matters, and the gains of any strategy will take months to materialize. We were well aware that, say, raising prices would yield more short-term revenue at the expense of long-term revenue. That didn’t stop us from testing, it just made the statistics more complicated.</text></comment> |
5,534,114 | 5,534,216 | 1 | 3 | 5,533,662 | train | <story><title>Amazon Coins Launching</title><url>https://developer.amazon.com/sdk/coins/landing.html?ref_=pe_132830_29076940</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>shmerl</author><text>I.e. it's a lock in trick? One should avoid such things.</text></item><item><author>jonnathanson</author><text>Think back to trips to Disneyland or Disneyworld as a kid. Remember Disney Dollars? Not only were they fun and kid-friendly, creating a distance between real currency and purchases within the park...but they were also <i>redeemable only at Disney parks</i>.<p>This is the concept behind all loyalty programs, in a nutshell. It's about giving ostensible rewards to loyal customers in an attempt to create what economists call "switching costs," i.e., the degree of hassle involved in moving from one service provider/vendor/business to another. If you've got enough points built up with one provider (e.g., American Airlines), you'll be reluctant to spend money on other providers (Delta, for instance).<p>Side benefits include increasing customer basket size, increasing purchase frequency, converting customers across categories, and increasing share of wallet per customer.<p>As loyalty programs go, Amazon Prime has been stellar. It's very costly for the company, and it had Wall Street in a frenzy when it first launched. But it works (and it's also very beneficial to consumers who use it).<p>I can't say I see the value in this program as much as I do with Amazon Prime, but the logic makes sense.</text></item><item><author>buro9</author><text>So I'm trying to work out why?<p>And off the top of my head it's probably combination of:<p>1) Helps with micropayments for low value in-app purchases<p>2) Creates a disconnect between the real cost and perceived cost<p>The latter helps Amazon create an artificial incentive that they can use to build their store. For example: Buy something physical off amazon.com and earn 100 free Amazon coins to spend on something digital (implicit: with Amazon).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jonnathanson</author><text>It depends on how you define "trick." If you're going into it with eyes wide open, you're using it to derive the benefits, and you've got good self-control, then a loyalty program can be very valuable to you as a consumer.<p>If you're going into it expecting benefits, and you find yourself getting carried away and overspending, then it's less valuable to you.<p>I wouldn't call it a trick, so much as I'd call it a loyalty program -- with all the potential risks and rewards that such a term entails. There's nothing necessarily shady or evil about a loyalty program. Indeed, if it makes Amazon a much better consumer experience for you, it can be a win-win.</text></comment> | <story><title>Amazon Coins Launching</title><url>https://developer.amazon.com/sdk/coins/landing.html?ref_=pe_132830_29076940</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>shmerl</author><text>I.e. it's a lock in trick? One should avoid such things.</text></item><item><author>jonnathanson</author><text>Think back to trips to Disneyland or Disneyworld as a kid. Remember Disney Dollars? Not only were they fun and kid-friendly, creating a distance between real currency and purchases within the park...but they were also <i>redeemable only at Disney parks</i>.<p>This is the concept behind all loyalty programs, in a nutshell. It's about giving ostensible rewards to loyal customers in an attempt to create what economists call "switching costs," i.e., the degree of hassle involved in moving from one service provider/vendor/business to another. If you've got enough points built up with one provider (e.g., American Airlines), you'll be reluctant to spend money on other providers (Delta, for instance).<p>Side benefits include increasing customer basket size, increasing purchase frequency, converting customers across categories, and increasing share of wallet per customer.<p>As loyalty programs go, Amazon Prime has been stellar. It's very costly for the company, and it had Wall Street in a frenzy when it first launched. But it works (and it's also very beneficial to consumers who use it).<p>I can't say I see the value in this program as much as I do with Amazon Prime, but the logic makes sense.</text></item><item><author>buro9</author><text>So I'm trying to work out why?<p>And off the top of my head it's probably combination of:<p>1) Helps with micropayments for low value in-app purchases<p>2) Creates a disconnect between the real cost and perceived cost<p>The latter helps Amazon create an artificial incentive that they can use to build their store. For example: Buy something physical off amazon.com and earn 100 free Amazon coins to spend on something digital (implicit: with Amazon).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>codex</author><text>Amazon can't really avoid doing stuff like this, because their business model (retail) sucks, and makes very little money due to razor thin margins. So they trot out every trick in the book.</text></comment> |
8,439,779 | 8,438,882 | 1 | 3 | 8,438,728 | train | <story><title>Our Journey to and Through YC</title><url>https://medium.com/@UseShout/our-journey-to-and-through-yc-a1d118e47f5</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>staunch</author><text>The difficulty is in not thinking you&#x27;re a loser just because the smartest people in Silicon Valley (some of your heros to be honest) have repeatedly looked you in the eye and thought to themselves &quot;Nah.&quot;<p>Or in my case having one of the YC partners say &quot;Oh, you guys are back? You&#x27;re a shoo-in this time.&quot; only to be rejected again that day :-)<p>Here&#x27;s a tip most people won&#x27;t need: do not reply to the rejection email 30 seconds later with a petulant rant. It&#x27;s not fair, it marks as an untouchable crazy person, and you&#x27;ll regret it.<p>My company likely would have failed even with YC&#x27;s help. I learned a lot in the two years working on that startup. I&#x27;m the kind of person that tends to learn things the hard way and I probably had to in this case.<p>Sorry, there&#x27;s no triumphal story of my own yet. I&#x27;m still working on it! :-)</text></comment> | <story><title>Our Journey to and Through YC</title><url>https://medium.com/@UseShout/our-journey-to-and-through-yc-a1d118e47f5</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>larrys</author><text>The put in a tremendous amount of effort and it paid off in the end.<p>However reading this I was thinking &quot;what if they put the same dedication and effort into doing a more traditional business endeavor. Kind of in the same way when you see a &quot;successful&quot; criminal you might think &quot;wow they are smart, crafty and energetic they could make a good legitimate living&quot;.</text></comment> |
5,793,874 | 5,793,284 | 1 | 3 | 5,791,768 | train | <story><title>Let's build an entire programming environment around Brainfuck</title><url>http://malone.cc/posts/lhbs_1.html</url><text></text></story><parent_chain><item><author>spacemanaki</author><text>Your comment really hit a nerve with me, probably because I'm the same age as the OP and playing around with programming language implementations is a bit of a hobby for me, so I'll apologize for my reaction ahead of time, I tried to tone down what follows from the screed I initially wrote.<p>Your comment comes off as a little bit condescending and presumptuous. There's this underlying judgement about the relative worth of writing a Brainfuck interpreter and environment versus drinking in some bar in Guatemala or starting a company, like the latter is obviously a better use of time and energy. Aside from the fact that doing the things you mention aren't mutually exclusive with this little project, it's really tiring to hear (older) people constantly beat the drum of "you're young! go travel! drink!" on top of the "start your own company!" startup mantra. Maybe you wish you did more of those things when you were younger, or maybe you wish you were doing more of them now, and maybe I will wish the same thing when I'm older...<p>But they are absolutely not for everyone. I think it's disingenuous to just throw out "take that energy and try to build a company" as an alternative. Not everyone has it in them to do all the schlep work required to succeed at their own startup, so why assume this person hasn't considered it and chosen not to follow that path? Furthermore, I would personally prefer to tinker with a Brainfuck implementation than spend any amount of time in any bar, even it's in Guatemala or Colombia. I usually find them noisy and unpleasant, and I would find "partying the night away" to be a boring waste of time. But I would never suggest someone <i>else</i> shouldn't spend their time that way because that would be assuming a great deal about what's important to them.<p>Maybe this was just a little flip remark on your behalf, not meant to be taken seriously. I'm probably projecting a little bit, and reacting to something you may not have intended to imply. For that, I apologize again.</text></item><item><author>melling</author><text>He's 27... As someone who's 47, I'd like to say: take that energy and try to build a company, join a few start-ups, try to change the world, travel a lot, drink in some far away land, etc. This place is a lot of fun :-): <a href="http://www.cafenose.com/" rel="nofollow">http://www.cafenose.com/</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ghshephard</author><text>On the flip side - I would say, 20+ years into a reasonably successful career in IT/Network Engineering, that one of the best uses of my time in the last couple decades was spending hundreds of hours grokking awk. I've had my share of travelling, socializing, and startups - but I certainly don't, for a second, regret my days and late weekend nights staring into the face of awk.<p>I don't know if this is a "when you have a hammer, everything appears to be a nail" - but I continually am shocked at how few of my six-figure salary colleagues in the IT industry (networking, unix, systems integration) are incapable of slicing and dicing a large text file and reporting on it. Activities that take them the better part of day in Excel, can sometimes be done in a few minutes with a fast awk script.<p>Knowing awk (and all the regex associated joy) has brought me (personally) great pleasure, and I'll die a happy man knowing the time I put into it was well spent.<p>We each have to find joy in life where we can.</text></comment> | <story><title>Let's build an entire programming environment around Brainfuck</title><url>http://malone.cc/posts/lhbs_1.html</url><text></text></story><parent_chain><item><author>spacemanaki</author><text>Your comment really hit a nerve with me, probably because I'm the same age as the OP and playing around with programming language implementations is a bit of a hobby for me, so I'll apologize for my reaction ahead of time, I tried to tone down what follows from the screed I initially wrote.<p>Your comment comes off as a little bit condescending and presumptuous. There's this underlying judgement about the relative worth of writing a Brainfuck interpreter and environment versus drinking in some bar in Guatemala or starting a company, like the latter is obviously a better use of time and energy. Aside from the fact that doing the things you mention aren't mutually exclusive with this little project, it's really tiring to hear (older) people constantly beat the drum of "you're young! go travel! drink!" on top of the "start your own company!" startup mantra. Maybe you wish you did more of those things when you were younger, or maybe you wish you were doing more of them now, and maybe I will wish the same thing when I'm older...<p>But they are absolutely not for everyone. I think it's disingenuous to just throw out "take that energy and try to build a company" as an alternative. Not everyone has it in them to do all the schlep work required to succeed at their own startup, so why assume this person hasn't considered it and chosen not to follow that path? Furthermore, I would personally prefer to tinker with a Brainfuck implementation than spend any amount of time in any bar, even it's in Guatemala or Colombia. I usually find them noisy and unpleasant, and I would find "partying the night away" to be a boring waste of time. But I would never suggest someone <i>else</i> shouldn't spend their time that way because that would be assuming a great deal about what's important to them.<p>Maybe this was just a little flip remark on your behalf, not meant to be taken seriously. I'm probably projecting a little bit, and reacting to something you may not have intended to imply. For that, I apologize again.</text></item><item><author>melling</author><text>He's 27... As someone who's 47, I'd like to say: take that energy and try to build a company, join a few start-ups, try to change the world, travel a lot, drink in some far away land, etc. This place is a lot of fun :-): <a href="http://www.cafenose.com/" rel="nofollow">http://www.cafenose.com/</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Apocryphon</author><text>After all, this site is called Hacker News, not Startup Lifestyles.</text></comment> |
19,821,200 | 19,820,259 | 1 | 2 | 19,818,899 | train | <story><title>I/O Is Faster Than CPU – Let’s Partition Resources and Eliminate OS Abstractions [pdf]</title><url>https://penberg.org/parakernel-hotos19.pdf</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>thaumaturgy</author><text>The paper reads like it&#x27;s suggesting moving the burden of complexity in dealing with varying hardware interfaces from the kernel to userland so that userland can take direct advantage of higher performance hardware when it&#x27;s available.<p>I could see that for some very small niches, but in general I think it would be a terrible development for the industry.<p>Hardware vendors don&#x27;t like to share. They don&#x27;t share code, they don&#x27;t share common interfaces, they don&#x27;t even share documentation. As it is now, these are all problems which most userland developers don&#x27;t have to care about -- those problems get dealt with in the kernel, by developers who specialize in building support for uncooperative hardware.<p>The average application developer doesn&#x27;t want to have to figure out how many queues are supported by a NIC just to open a connection on the network. Further: the average application developer isn&#x27;t experienced enough to do this correctly.<p>Given the niche where these tradeoffs make sense, I&#x27;m not sure why the paper bothers to emphasize security at all.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>saltcured</author><text>There is a constant dance at the fringe of high performance systems. It leads to a recurring pattern of &quot;revolutionizing&quot; with some kind of bypass or coprocessor architecture, then eventually reverting to traditional structures as the new performance realities reach commodity levels.<p>Part of it is the economics at the fringe can pursue speed at any cost. And part is the heady appeal of doing things differently for researchers and advanced practitioners. But, in the long view, I think you are right that it is a bad idea. If you care about maintenance and sustainability, you usually find that these bypass solutions get abandoned as soon as the more conventional approaches can approximate their speed on newer commodity hardware. So there is huge churn in these specialist devices with specialist APIs and tooling.<p>There is a recurring theme in high performance networking where crazy things are tried and all sorts of fancy protocol offloading written, then eventually deprecated because it is seen as a support burden and a source of bugs. Because each of these specialized stacks has a smaller user base, they are have less economy of scale to invest in maintenance and stabilization.</text></comment> | <story><title>I/O Is Faster Than CPU – Let’s Partition Resources and Eliminate OS Abstractions [pdf]</title><url>https://penberg.org/parakernel-hotos19.pdf</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>thaumaturgy</author><text>The paper reads like it&#x27;s suggesting moving the burden of complexity in dealing with varying hardware interfaces from the kernel to userland so that userland can take direct advantage of higher performance hardware when it&#x27;s available.<p>I could see that for some very small niches, but in general I think it would be a terrible development for the industry.<p>Hardware vendors don&#x27;t like to share. They don&#x27;t share code, they don&#x27;t share common interfaces, they don&#x27;t even share documentation. As it is now, these are all problems which most userland developers don&#x27;t have to care about -- those problems get dealt with in the kernel, by developers who specialize in building support for uncooperative hardware.<p>The average application developer doesn&#x27;t want to have to figure out how many queues are supported by a NIC just to open a connection on the network. Further: the average application developer isn&#x27;t experienced enough to do this correctly.<p>Given the niche where these tradeoffs make sense, I&#x27;m not sure why the paper bothers to emphasize security at all.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>josephg</author><text>I don’t think anyone is suggesting that every application explicitly code for each network device. All of that tricky logic could be put into a userland library instead of the kernel. If we wanted, we could even replicate a kernel device driver style API in userland that network device drivers program against, done as a set of userland library files loaded dynamically based on detected hardware.<p>The tricky part wouldn’t be sharing code between applications. We know how to do that. The hard part would be figuring out a clean way to share the hardware between all running applications, given that any app could be terminated at any time, apps might be mutually untrustworthy and apps would have to play nice to share resources. I can imagine a hybrid approach where the kernel allocates network queues to applications and suggests userland device drivers. While running, the apps would have direct access to the hardware. And when the app is terminated the kernel would reclaim the assigned hardware for reuse by other applications.</text></comment> |
18,478,928 | 18,478,820 | 1 | 2 | 18,478,270 | train | <story><title>What Car Thieves Think of the Club (2010)</title><url>http://freakonomics.com/2010/06/08/what-car-thieves-think-of-the-club/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>mrob</author><text>If improving your own security produces a negative externality then education also produces a negative externality. You&#x27;re &quot;harming&quot; other people by becoming more employable than them. Personal hygiene produces a negative externality because you might become more attractive than somebody. Physical fitness produces a negative externality because you might get chased by a bear and not be the slowest. Doing anything that improves your chances in competition counts, and there are very few areas of life with no competition.<p>IMO such a loose definition is meaningless, and the word should be reserved for cases where you are actually doing harm. In the case of improved car security it&#x27;s the car thieves who are doing harm.</text></comment> | <story><title>What Car Thieves Think of the Club (2010)</title><url>http://freakonomics.com/2010/06/08/what-car-thieves-think-of-the-club/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>austincheney</author><text>I have the world&#x27;s most effective anti-theft device, there is research on this, in my car and this device saved me thousands on the retail price of the vehicle.<p>The mystery device is a manual transmission.</text></comment> |
8,934,855 | 8,934,802 | 1 | 2 | 8,934,582 | train | <story><title>What makes Nim practical?</title><url>http://hookrace.net/blog/what-makes-nim-practical/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>BoppreH</author><text>I read the Nim manual a while ago (<a href="http://nim-lang.org/manual.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;nim-lang.org&#x2F;manual.html</a>), back when it was Nimrod.<p>As a Python user, I loved it. Every single problem I had with Python, Nim seemed to have solved elegantly. Performance, distribution, typing... Everything looked perfect, and none of the Python expressiveness seemed to have been sacrificed.<p>But it was transpiled to C, and the abstraction was leaky. Every once in a while the manual would mention that certain structures were not supported, and it was clear C was the culprit. I think the most glaring example were nested functions, or something similar.<p>I thought to myself &quot;this will bite me in the ass sooner or later&quot; and gave up. Maybe it&#x27;s time to try again. If they plugged the abstraction holes, this will be a killer language, with applications everywhere.</text></comment> | <story><title>What makes Nim practical?</title><url>http://hookrace.net/blog/what-makes-nim-practical/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>JimmyM</author><text>Great post. I thought I&#x27;d comment just to say about the relative URL ..&#x2F;what-is-special-about-nim not working as intended from the homepage and the link to <a href="http://nim-lang/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;nim-lang&#x2F;</a> which should presumably be <a href="http://nim-lang.org" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;nim-lang.org</a><p>Seems a shame to make such a pedantic and insubstantial comment on such an interesting article about a language I&#x27;d not come across, but thought the author might like to know.</text></comment> |
11,798,935 | 11,798,925 | 1 | 2 | 11,798,646 | train | <story><title>The real responsive design challenge is RSS</title><url>https://begriffs.com/posts/2016-05-28-rss-responsive-design.html?hn=1</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>usaphp</author><text>&gt; &quot;web-hipster bullshit&quot;<p>Why so much negativity lately regarding new trends in the web?</text></item><item><author>toyg</author><text>Hey, a post about RSS content quirks! It makes me feel young again!<p>On a more serious note - RSS is the Great Web Leveller. It spites your fancy CSS hacks, it&#x27;s disgusted by your insane javascript, and it will piss all over your &quot;mobile-optimized&quot; crap. No semantic markup == no party; because markup is for robots, and RSS parsers are very stubborn robots that can see through web-hipster bullshit like Superman through walls.<p>The only real sin of RSS (beyond the holy wars and format bikeshedding and committee madness and and and...) is that it&#x27;s too honest a format. It&#x27;s a format for stuff that matters, for content that deserves to be read; it&#x27;s too pure to survive in a world of content silos, stalking analytics and inaccessible material-designs. Its innocence doomed it in a very poetic way.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>toyg</author><text>One reason might be that, for anyone with historical perspective, a situation where our pipes can download hundreds of MB per second and <i>still</i> our browsers crawl like turtles is just shocking. Modern browsers are the most compatible ever and come with all sorts of bells and whistles baked in, and <i>still</i> people are using JS frameworks over JS frameworks over JS frameworks.<p>Another reason might be that most of this website-fat is actively anti-users. It breaks the back button. It breaks bookmarks. It spies on you. It makes it impossible to interoperate&#x2F;mash stuff, and it makes it incredibly hard to automate things (do you know that in the &#x27;90s you used to be able to download entire websites, so you could comfortably read them offline?).<p>Another reason is probably that a lot of &quot;mainstream web plumbers&quot; (like yours truly) are now hitting late middle-age and feeling it hard. We used to be able to view-source and copypaste our way to image-rollover glory; we were breathing markup and feeds... now it&#x27;s all tooling and frameworks and stacks, even http is going binary, and it feels like the loss of this innocence is not actually gaining anything for anyone except marketing people.<p>Now get off my lawn.</text></comment> | <story><title>The real responsive design challenge is RSS</title><url>https://begriffs.com/posts/2016-05-28-rss-responsive-design.html?hn=1</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>usaphp</author><text>&gt; &quot;web-hipster bullshit&quot;<p>Why so much negativity lately regarding new trends in the web?</text></item><item><author>toyg</author><text>Hey, a post about RSS content quirks! It makes me feel young again!<p>On a more serious note - RSS is the Great Web Leveller. It spites your fancy CSS hacks, it&#x27;s disgusted by your insane javascript, and it will piss all over your &quot;mobile-optimized&quot; crap. No semantic markup == no party; because markup is for robots, and RSS parsers are very stubborn robots that can see through web-hipster bullshit like Superman through walls.<p>The only real sin of RSS (beyond the holy wars and format bikeshedding and committee madness and and and...) is that it&#x27;s too honest a format. It&#x27;s a format for stuff that matters, for content that deserves to be read; it&#x27;s too pure to survive in a world of content silos, stalking analytics and inaccessible material-designs. Its innocence doomed it in a very poetic way.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>gue5t</author><text>Because continued development of the Web is an obvious, user-hostile money-grab. If you only care about getting your software to users, you have a million choices for your application runtime. If you want to <i>monetize</i> every user by selling their privacy or headspace, you have only one: i.e., &quot;pirating&quot; Facebook is a logical impossibility. Communicative efficacy on the Web has not improved since the early 1990s--Javascript and its ilk have virtually no positive effect on the usefulness of Wikipedia, for example. We&#x27;re converting what was intended to be a transport for communication into a framework for writing portable software.<p>The thesis here is that there should be a digital way to share hypertext articles and other statically-described communication without pay the costs (privacy, rendering efficiency, security bugs, transport performance and uncacheability, accessibility) associated with a cross-platform sandboxed multimedia software runtime.</text></comment> |
15,345,144 | 15,341,938 | 1 | 2 | 15,340,729 | train | <story><title>Technology preview: Private contact discovery for Signal</title><url>https://signal.org/blog/private-contact-discovery/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mintplant</author><text>In case someone from Open WhisperSystems is reading: please add stickers. Seriously, I know <i>so many</i> people who are on Telegram just because of its sticker system and won&#x27;t consider anything without that feature. This comes up again and again in online discussions where Signal is mentioned, and it hurts to see all the care and effort the OWS team has put into providing real security rejected out of hand because of it.<p>For the uninitiated, stickers are essentially a UI layer on top of image sending. Each user has a collection of stickers which they can add images to. This collection can be scrolled through quickly and any sticker can be sent to a chat with a tap, like a sort of custom emoji. Other users who see a sticker can add it to their own local collection by tapping on the sticker message. I see no technical reason why this couldn&#x27;t be built on top of the Signal Protocol.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pokemongoaway</author><text>Signal needs a desktop app that doesn&#x27;t suck too... Wire, WhatsApp, and Telegram all have very decent desktop apps. And WhatsApp is default end-to-end now - and I think Wire is even for groups... Had some call quality issues with Signal and started using WhatsApp again - and will test Wire for calls soon.</text></comment> | <story><title>Technology preview: Private contact discovery for Signal</title><url>https://signal.org/blog/private-contact-discovery/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mintplant</author><text>In case someone from Open WhisperSystems is reading: please add stickers. Seriously, I know <i>so many</i> people who are on Telegram just because of its sticker system and won&#x27;t consider anything without that feature. This comes up again and again in online discussions where Signal is mentioned, and it hurts to see all the care and effort the OWS team has put into providing real security rejected out of hand because of it.<p>For the uninitiated, stickers are essentially a UI layer on top of image sending. Each user has a collection of stickers which they can add images to. This collection can be scrolled through quickly and any sticker can be sent to a chat with a tap, like a sort of custom emoji. Other users who see a sticker can add it to their own local collection by tapping on the sticker message. I see no technical reason why this couldn&#x27;t be built on top of the Signal Protocol.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>schoen</author><text>I find it really unfortunate that this is stopping people from adopting Signal.<p>However, I believe that this feature was added last year:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;signal.org&#x2F;blog&#x2F;doodles-stickers-censorship&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;signal.org&#x2F;blog&#x2F;doodles-stickers-censorship&#x2F;</a></text></comment> |
19,219,344 | 19,219,413 | 1 | 3 | 19,219,089 | train | <story><title>Facebook Decided Which Users Are Interested in Nazis – and Let Ads Target Them</title><url>https://www.latimes.com/business/technology/la-fi-tn-facebook-nazi-metal-ads-20190221-story.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>RickS</author><text>What&#x27;s the expected fix here?<p>I was unfamiliar with the bands and most of the people in those targeting lists.<p>The way I see it, these are the ways you can handle this:<p>1) Facebook builds this data the hard way. They staff a team of experts on &quot;undesirables&quot;, who research and implement custom blocklists at facebook&#x27;s scale. Insanely cash and time intensive, to say nothing of the &quot;who decides what&#x27;s undesirable&quot; problem.<p>2) Spread cost and effort by amassing a central repository of known baddies, and all the orgs contribute and share access. The government does something like this with hashes of sex trafficking imagery, so that eng teams can filter against a blacklist. I think this topic FAR more nuanced and less binary than &quot;does this picture contain illegal pornography or nah&quot;. Who maintains this list of undesirables? You&#x27;re at &quot;social credit score&quot; in a hurry.<p>3) Algos. You let software extrapolate commonalities from known-bad actors – school shooters, confirmed russian propaganda branches, etc. And let the machine learn their language and flag accordingly. This is going to be coarse and stupid in the way ML always is, and local business owners with names like Heinrich are gonna get their livelihoods smashed accidentally here and there. Not great.<p>4) What Simulacra said – you just turn the whole targeting infra off. Facebook stops making money. This is great, I&#x27;d love to see it as regulation, but it&#x27;s a big stretch, and very lofty when phrased like this.<p>5) Some kind of adtech equivalent of finance&#x27;s KYC (Know Your Customer) regulation. Tie ad buys to confirmable, prosecutable identities, and rather than filtering before launch, aggressively follow up after launch. You run an ad campaign for nazis? Cool, your LLC and its primary stakeholders are permabanned. Facebook has already tried light versions of this, but it was lip service.<p>IMO 4 and 5 are the places to spend effort. I think we nee to start having conversations that do away with the idea that humans are autonomous and impervious to influence, and start having the discussion in a new context: When and how are you allowed to manipulate the minds of citizens at scale, and what kind of paper trail does it leave?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pbreit</author><text>I don&#x27;t understand why we don&#x27;t let such platforms adopt a more laissez faire approach to such situations. There&#x27;s an inordinate amount of pressure to curb free speech these days which seems very un-American.</text></comment> | <story><title>Facebook Decided Which Users Are Interested in Nazis – and Let Ads Target Them</title><url>https://www.latimes.com/business/technology/la-fi-tn-facebook-nazi-metal-ads-20190221-story.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>RickS</author><text>What&#x27;s the expected fix here?<p>I was unfamiliar with the bands and most of the people in those targeting lists.<p>The way I see it, these are the ways you can handle this:<p>1) Facebook builds this data the hard way. They staff a team of experts on &quot;undesirables&quot;, who research and implement custom blocklists at facebook&#x27;s scale. Insanely cash and time intensive, to say nothing of the &quot;who decides what&#x27;s undesirable&quot; problem.<p>2) Spread cost and effort by amassing a central repository of known baddies, and all the orgs contribute and share access. The government does something like this with hashes of sex trafficking imagery, so that eng teams can filter against a blacklist. I think this topic FAR more nuanced and less binary than &quot;does this picture contain illegal pornography or nah&quot;. Who maintains this list of undesirables? You&#x27;re at &quot;social credit score&quot; in a hurry.<p>3) Algos. You let software extrapolate commonalities from known-bad actors – school shooters, confirmed russian propaganda branches, etc. And let the machine learn their language and flag accordingly. This is going to be coarse and stupid in the way ML always is, and local business owners with names like Heinrich are gonna get their livelihoods smashed accidentally here and there. Not great.<p>4) What Simulacra said – you just turn the whole targeting infra off. Facebook stops making money. This is great, I&#x27;d love to see it as regulation, but it&#x27;s a big stretch, and very lofty when phrased like this.<p>5) Some kind of adtech equivalent of finance&#x27;s KYC (Know Your Customer) regulation. Tie ad buys to confirmable, prosecutable identities, and rather than filtering before launch, aggressively follow up after launch. You run an ad campaign for nazis? Cool, your LLC and its primary stakeholders are permabanned. Facebook has already tried light versions of this, but it was lip service.<p>IMO 4 and 5 are the places to spend effort. I think we nee to start having conversations that do away with the idea that humans are autonomous and impervious to influence, and start having the discussion in a new context: When and how are you allowed to manipulate the minds of citizens at scale, and what kind of paper trail does it leave?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pdpi</author><text>I&#x27;d argue the rule should simply be that, the moment money changes hands, you can either tell me who paid you for a service, or you&#x27;re legally liable for performing that service yourself. KYC for ads would then just be a natural consequence of this.</text></comment> |
16,787,932 | 16,787,272 | 1 | 3 | 16,785,632 | train | <story><title>The enemy within: Gut bacteria drive autoimmune disease</title><url>https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/03/180308143102.htm</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>cyrusshepard</author><text>If anyone is interested in a way to treat E. gallinarum—and other potentially pathogens—without antibiotics, you should look into phage therapy. Phages are viruses that attack specific bacteria, have been used for decades, are commercially available (even on Amazon) and are generally considered safe for human consumption.<p>Granted, phage therapy typically targets gut pathogens, and in this study the E. gallinarum had traveled to other parts of the body. But many people I have talked to who use phage therapy have reported improved symptoms and in some cases even reversal of autoimmune disease.<p>And yes, phages that you can buy today without a prescription target
Enterococcus bacteria, which includes E. gallinarum.<p>The gut is a wonderful, mysterious place that most of us neglect.</text></comment> | <story><title>The enemy within: Gut bacteria drive autoimmune disease</title><url>https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/03/180308143102.htm</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>eloff</author><text>My mom has Hashimoto’s which she&#x27;s managed successfully for years using a low daily dosage of doxycycline. This suggests a mechanism for why that seems to work for her.</text></comment> |
23,917,709 | 23,917,387 | 1 | 2 | 23,914,486 | train | <story><title>Write code that is easy to delete, not easy to extend (2016)</title><url>https://programmingisterrible.com/post/139222674273/write-code-that-is-easy-to-delete-not-easy-to</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>flohofwoe</author><text>The unfortunate side effect of this (very good) advice is that all code that&#x27;s easy to delete will eventually be replaced with code that&#x27;s hard to delete (and thus will eventually be impossible to delete in order to be replaced with something better).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>hedora</author><text>Many people argue systemd is an example of code that’s easy to delete being replaced with code that’s hard to delete.<p>They’ve deleted init, the dns client, dhcpd, the whole xdm family, various small open desktop protocols, kernel-level file permissions enforcement on certain device files, rsyslog, countless shell scripts for running background tasks via ssh, and I’m sure hundreds, if not thousands, of other well-modularized programs. None of the collateral damage is in subsystems related to init. Instead, it is subsystems that worked well, but that were easy to delete.<p>One the other side of the coin, look at all the effort people are spending to rip systemd out. Multiple Linux distributions exist solely to contain the damage it’s doing.<p>It’s unclear if gnome will even survive the war if systemd loses.<p>It’s also wasting the time of end users, so the damage can greatly exceed the total resources put into building Linux distributions.<p>A few days ago, I ran an “apt-get fullupgade” on my headless Raspberry Pi, and some systemd subsystem wedged during the upgrade. Now networking is broken. I want to use this raspberry pi in an embedded I2C application that run for last decades. So, I need to find an operating system that:<p>(a) doesn’t use systemd - fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice, well this is well past the second time.<p>(b) runs on raspberry pi<p>(c) has userspace tools to work with the i2c bus on the pi<p>(d) has a working upgrade path.<p>This is a huge pain, and it’s all to delete one software package that I don’t even care about, and that is irrelevant to the use case for this machine.<p>&#x2F;rant</text></comment> | <story><title>Write code that is easy to delete, not easy to extend (2016)</title><url>https://programmingisterrible.com/post/139222674273/write-code-that-is-easy-to-delete-not-easy-to</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>flohofwoe</author><text>The unfortunate side effect of this (very good) advice is that all code that&#x27;s easy to delete will eventually be replaced with code that&#x27;s hard to delete (and thus will eventually be impossible to delete in order to be replaced with something better).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>snarf21</author><text>I think the one thing we do wrong with code is when we document it, we write <i>what</i> the function does. Code is largely self-documenting and this because stale quickly anyway.<p>IMO, the thing we should be doing is documenting <i>WHY</i> this function needs to exist. That is the question that is hard to answer three years later.</text></comment> |
24,216,109 | 24,215,411 | 1 | 2 | 24,212,576 | train | <story><title>'Coup 53' tells the story of 1953 campaign by MI6 and CIA to oust Iran's leader</title><url>https://www.npr.org/2020/08/18/903505983/coup-53-tells-the-true-story-of-the-cia-s-campaign-to-oust-iran-s-leader</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>haltingproblem</author><text>The CIA&#x2F;MI5 coup is fascinating not only because it overthrow a democratically elected government of a Middle Eastern country in 1953 (!) but also because of its consequences. There is not a single democratic government in the ME sans Israel. No, tiny Tunisia does not count, it is in the Maghreb (N. Africa).<p>What would the middle east look like if the Mosaddegh government had continued? No revolution, No Ayatollah, no Iran-Iraq war, no Hezbollah? Instead we got the Shah who forced his people to modernize, secret police pulling veils off women was common and generally unleashed a reign that was anathema to most of the conservative population outside Tehran. Most of the anger you see is towards the US is from that reign rather than the coup.<p>The Iranians who are Persians, and not Arabs, have a civilizational history going back 1000s of years. Expat Persians have achieved great success in the US and UK. Going further back, the Zoroastrians, who fled the Islamic conquest and arrived in India more than a millennia ago are the richest, most educated and economically successful minority group by an order of magnitude, or two.<p>The Shah&#x27;s reign lasted 25 years. A generation that grew up under the Shah&#x27;s tyranny led the revolution in 1979. The Islamic revolution is now 40 years old. There have been almost two generations
that grew up under the Islamic govt&#x27;s misrule and grandiose projects of power projection. Hopefully they can take charge and lead Iran back to civilizational greatness. Iran, the middle east and the world needs it.<p>And I would really like to visit the gardens of Shiraz or the markets of Isfahan which have been around for 1000s of years ;)<p>Edit: As pointed out in the comments, instead of Arab world, I should have used Arab speaking. There are Arab speakers who are Arab and there are Arab speakers who are not Arab.</text></comment> | <story><title>'Coup 53' tells the story of 1953 campaign by MI6 and CIA to oust Iran's leader</title><url>https://www.npr.org/2020/08/18/903505983/coup-53-tells-the-true-story-of-the-cia-s-campaign-to-oust-iran-s-leader</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>DonaldFisk</author><text>There was a documentary about the coup shown on Channel 4 in the UK in 1985: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=xhCgJElpQEQ" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=xhCgJElpQEQ</a><p>Just before it was shown, the role of Norman Darbyshire, the MI6 officer involved in the coup, was leaked to the Observer: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theguardian.com&#x2F;world&#x2F;2020&#x2F;aug&#x2F;02&#x2F;mi6-the-coup-in-iran-that-changed-the-middle-east-and-the-cover-up" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theguardian.com&#x2F;world&#x2F;2020&#x2F;aug&#x2F;02&#x2F;mi6-the-coup-i...</a><p>The Observer received a D-notice which prevented its publication.<p>The makers of Coup 53 made use of the unpublished Observer material.<p>Briefly, the UK Government wanted Mosaddegh overthrown because he wanted to nationalize a British oil company (Anglo-Iranian). It tried to get the CIA involved but Truman opposed American involvement. This changed when Eisenhower was elected president.</text></comment> |
41,216,829 | 41,216,069 | 1 | 2 | 41,215,489 | train | <story><title>Samsung to Mass-Produce Solid-State Batteries for 'Super Premium' EVs</title><url>https://www.pcmag.com/news/samsung-to-mass-produce-solid-state-batteries-for-super-premium-evs-by</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>torginus</author><text>I just don&#x27;t get why don&#x27;t they put it in consumer electronics first. You need big volume for supplying EVs, and having a $1000&#x2F;kWh pricetag would be prohibitive for even premium EVs as it would cost $100k for a 100kWh battery alone, but would be totally OK for an $1000 laptop, as it would cost $100 for a 100Wh battery.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>vhcr</author><text>Batteries don&#x27;t have bigger capacities because people want to carry them inside of planes, which have a limit of 100Wh, the MacBook Pro has a 99.6Wh battery.</text></comment> | <story><title>Samsung to Mass-Produce Solid-State Batteries for 'Super Premium' EVs</title><url>https://www.pcmag.com/news/samsung-to-mass-produce-solid-state-batteries-for-super-premium-evs-by</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>torginus</author><text>I just don&#x27;t get why don&#x27;t they put it in consumer electronics first. You need big volume for supplying EVs, and having a $1000&#x2F;kWh pricetag would be prohibitive for even premium EVs as it would cost $100k for a 100kWh battery alone, but would be totally OK for an $1000 laptop, as it would cost $100 for a 100Wh battery.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>maximus-decimus</author><text>Since they care more about reducing laptop thickness by 1mm that adding battery, I just don&#x27;t see laptop manufacturers be interested in this. Even if they did, they would just make the laptops even thinner instead of increasing capacity. Apple just won&#x27;t be satisfied until you can use your ipad as a kitchen knife.</text></comment> |
32,802,289 | 32,799,563 | 1 | 3 | 32,767,242 | train | <story><title>Old school Linux administration – my next homelab generation</title><url>https://scholz.ruhr/blog/old-school-unix-administration/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bayindirh</author><text>As a person who manages a big fleet of servers containing both pets and cattle, the upkeep of the pets is nowhere near the cloud-lovers drum-up.<p>A server installed with half-decent care can run uninterrupted for a long long time, given minimal maintenance and usual care (update, and reboot if you change the kernel).<p>Also, not installing a n+3 Kubernetes cluster with an external storage backend reduces overheads and number of running cogs drastically.<p>VMs, containers, K8S and other things are nice, but pulling the trigger so blindly assuming every new technology is a silver bullet to all problems is just not right on many levels.<p>As for home hardware, I&#x27;m running a single OrangePi Zero with DNS and SyncThing. That fits the bill, for now. Fitting into smallest hardware possible is also pretty fun.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>GordonS</author><text>&gt; A server installed with half-decent care can run uninterrupted for a long long time, given minimal maintenance and usual care (update, and reboot if you change the kernel).<p>For my earlier home setups, this was actually part of the problem! My servers and apps were so zero-touch, that by the time I needed to do anything, I&#x27;d forgotten everything about them!<p>Now, I could have meticulously documented everything, but... I find that pretty boring. The thing with Docker is that, to some extent, Dockerfiles <i>are</i> a kind of documentation. They also mean I can run my workloads on any server - I don&#x27;t need a special snowflake server that I&#x27;m scared to touch.</text></comment> | <story><title>Old school Linux administration – my next homelab generation</title><url>https://scholz.ruhr/blog/old-school-unix-administration/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bayindirh</author><text>As a person who manages a big fleet of servers containing both pets and cattle, the upkeep of the pets is nowhere near the cloud-lovers drum-up.<p>A server installed with half-decent care can run uninterrupted for a long long time, given minimal maintenance and usual care (update, and reboot if you change the kernel).<p>Also, not installing a n+3 Kubernetes cluster with an external storage backend reduces overheads and number of running cogs drastically.<p>VMs, containers, K8S and other things are nice, but pulling the trigger so blindly assuming every new technology is a silver bullet to all problems is just not right on many levels.<p>As for home hardware, I&#x27;m running a single OrangePi Zero with DNS and SyncThing. That fits the bill, for now. Fitting into smallest hardware possible is also pretty fun.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>yjftsjthsd-h</author><text>The thing that helped me was realizing that for a homelab set up, running without the extra redundancy is fine. Now for <i>me</i> that meant running k8s on a single box because I was specifically trying to get experience with it, and putting the control plane and actual workloads on a single machine simplified the whole thing to the point that it was easy to get up and running; I had gotten bogged down in setting up a full production grade cluster, but that wasn&#x27;t even remotely needed for what I was doing.</text></comment> |
25,239,843 | 25,239,791 | 1 | 3 | 25,238,453 | train | <story><title>Please – A cross-language build system</title><url>https://please.build/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tatskaari</author><text>Hey, I maintain please and will be the first one to admit we’re not the best at marketing it. We’ve mostly been focused on getting it up to scratch and only recently have we been trying to publicise it.<p>With that being said I have put a good amount of work into the QuickStart.<p>The code labs are designed to get you up and started in an inviting way. If you have any specific feedback about your QuickStart experience I’d love to hear it.</text></item><item><author>mdoms</author><text>It&#x27;s hard to tell what the value proposition is here, apart from vague hand-waving about parallelization. The quick start is not enough to get started actually building something.<p>Changing build systems is hard, and getting buy-in from the team even harder - so you need to demonstrate value up front.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rhencke</author><text>As someone who has had to run and maintain build systems for several (sadly far too) large projects (5MLoc+), I want a product that sells me on how easy it is to create _correct_ builds, and how impossible it is to create incorrect ones.<p>So much wasted time goes into diagnosis of incorrect results from incremental builds that most people who implement CI systems never use incremental builds, and always build from scratch. Developers are far too used to having to do things like &#x27;make clean&#x27; because their build didn&#x27;t work quite right. Efficiencies are then gained by doing things like ccache&#x2F;Gradle build cache, which trace their dependencies better than most naively written build systems do.<p>Edit: zig is a beautiful exception (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;ziglang.org&#x2F;download&#x2F;0.3.0&#x2F;release-notes.html#caching" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;ziglang.org&#x2F;download&#x2F;0.3.0&#x2F;release-notes.html#cachin...</a>)</text></comment> | <story><title>Please – A cross-language build system</title><url>https://please.build/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tatskaari</author><text>Hey, I maintain please and will be the first one to admit we’re not the best at marketing it. We’ve mostly been focused on getting it up to scratch and only recently have we been trying to publicise it.<p>With that being said I have put a good amount of work into the QuickStart.<p>The code labs are designed to get you up and started in an inviting way. If you have any specific feedback about your QuickStart experience I’d love to hear it.</text></item><item><author>mdoms</author><text>It&#x27;s hard to tell what the value proposition is here, apart from vague hand-waving about parallelization. The quick start is not enough to get started actually building something.<p>Changing build systems is hard, and getting buy-in from the team even harder - so you need to demonstrate value up front.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>RangerScience</author><text>Thank you for making this!<p>My rubric for documentation is &quot;how many clicks to code&quot;. I found the installation instructions, and started to look for usage, but didn&#x27;t find it. Too many clicks. That&#x27;s where I&#x27;d start.<p>PS - IMO the gold standard for this evaluation method is Sinatra.rb, which is zero clicks to code.</text></comment> |
38,906,439 | 38,906,577 | 1 | 3 | 38,899,987 | train | <story><title>Card Game Rules</title><url>https://www.pagat.com/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>grimgrin</author><text>Some great indexes here. I often link <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.pagat.com&#x2F;class&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.pagat.com&#x2F;class&#x2F;</a><p>My favorite card came discovery in adult life was the climbing genre. Haggis, Tichu, Dou Dizhu<p>My second was learning about Cuttle and the timing of it&#x2F;Magic the Gathering</text></comment> | <story><title>Card Game Rules</title><url>https://www.pagat.com/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>lcall</author><text>I enjoy some games played with rook cards (or numbered cards: 4 colored suites of 14 cards each):<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.pagat.com&#x2F;kt5&#x2F;rook.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.pagat.com&#x2F;kt5&#x2F;rook.html</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;archive.org&#x2F;details&#x2F;rook-instruction-manual-1924-images" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;archive.org&#x2F;details&#x2F;rook-instruction-manual-1924-ima...</a> (This actually has rules for more games than are found in its own table of contents.)<p>There are many, for different ages and effort levels. (And with minimal adaptation, the same cards can be used for games normally associated with standard playing card decks, or &quot;go fish&quot; for children, or whatever.)</text></comment> |
4,477,312 | 4,477,289 | 1 | 2 | 4,476,397 | train | <story><title>What's a $4000 Suit Worth?</title><url>http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/09/magazine/whats-a-4000-suit-worth.html?pagewanted=all</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>patio11</author><text><i>Frew, who apprenticed with a Savile Row tailor, can — all by himself, and almost all by hand — create a pattern, cut fabric and expertly construct a suit that, for about $4,000, perfectly molds to its owner’s body. In a city filled with very rich people, he quickly had all the orders he could handle.</i><p>You don't have to be Wall Street to figure out the bleedingly obvious solution to being a starving artist who has so much work they have to turn work away. Raise the prices. Then raise the prices. Then when you're done with that, raise the prices.<p>At some point you'll be too expensive for the typical businessman, which will make you absolutely crack for a certain type of person common in New York, thus defeating all efforts at being less busy. So it goes. I guess you will have to raise prices.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>asr</author><text>No offense, but this could be really bad advice. Maybe the customers who'd pay 10k for a suit won't go to some guy's living room for fittings. Or maybe the price of top bespoke tailors in town is comparable, because they make better use of lower-paid assistants. Or maybe, to convince a bank to make the loan he needs to move into a nicer place, he needs to show the bank he has a large backlog of orders. Or maybe he's in the middle of following your advice, just raised his price, and will shortly raise it again because he's still getting enough orders.<p>I'm not saying you're wrong. I'm just saying we don't get nearly enough information to decide! And that's ok, because that's not the point of the article.</text></comment> | <story><title>What's a $4000 Suit Worth?</title><url>http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/09/magazine/whats-a-4000-suit-worth.html?pagewanted=all</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>patio11</author><text><i>Frew, who apprenticed with a Savile Row tailor, can — all by himself, and almost all by hand — create a pattern, cut fabric and expertly construct a suit that, for about $4,000, perfectly molds to its owner’s body. In a city filled with very rich people, he quickly had all the orders he could handle.</i><p>You don't have to be Wall Street to figure out the bleedingly obvious solution to being a starving artist who has so much work they have to turn work away. Raise the prices. Then raise the prices. Then when you're done with that, raise the prices.<p>At some point you'll be too expensive for the typical businessman, which will make you absolutely crack for a certain type of person common in New York, thus defeating all efforts at being less busy. So it goes. I guess you will have to raise prices.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>harryh</author><text>The real question is why hasn't he done this already? It's a fairly obvious solution. I suspect that there is some other force at work here, though I'm at a loss to guess what it might be.<p>It's too bad that the NYTimes didn't raise this question.</text></comment> |
16,238,212 | 16,237,711 | 1 | 3 | 16,234,060 | train | <story><title>How a fix in Go 1.9 sped up our Gitaly service by 30x</title><url>https://about.gitlab.com/2018/01/23/how-a-fix-in-go-19-sped-up-our-gitaly-service-by-30x/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>CapacitorSet</author><text>I wonder how much it would speed up if they were using libgit2 directly.</text></item><item><author>Animats</author><text><i>Each Gitaly server instance was fork&#x2F;exec&#x27;ing Git processes about 20 times per second so we seemed to finally have a very promising lead.</i><p>What&#x27;s really wrong here is that they&#x27;re apparently spawning processes like crazy. Do they spawn a new process for each API call? That&#x27;s like running CGI programs under Apache, like it&#x27;s 1995.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jacobvosmaer</author><text>I&#x27;m on the Gitaly team.<p>As zegerjan wrote, Gitaly is a Go&#x2F;Ruby hybrid.<p>The main Go process doesn&#x27;t use libgit2 (for now) because we didn&#x27;t want to have to deal with cgo. We already know how to deal with C extensions in Ruby, and we have a lot of existing Ruby application code that uses libgit2, so we still use it there. And that code works fine so I don&#x27;t see us removing it.<p>In practice, sometimes spawning a Git process is faster than using libgit2, so why then not do that. Also for parts of our workload (handling Git push&#x2F;pull operations), spawning a one-off process (git-upload-pack) is the most boring &#x2F; tried-and-true approach.</text></comment> | <story><title>How a fix in Go 1.9 sped up our Gitaly service by 30x</title><url>https://about.gitlab.com/2018/01/23/how-a-fix-in-go-19-sped-up-our-gitaly-service-by-30x/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>CapacitorSet</author><text>I wonder how much it would speed up if they were using libgit2 directly.</text></item><item><author>Animats</author><text><i>Each Gitaly server instance was fork&#x2F;exec&#x27;ing Git processes about 20 times per second so we seemed to finally have a very promising lead.</i><p>What&#x27;s really wrong here is that they&#x27;re apparently spawning processes like crazy. Do they spawn a new process for each API call? That&#x27;s like running CGI programs under Apache, like it&#x27;s 1995.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>zegerjan</author><text>The Gitaly server has a Ruby component, but also a Go component. The Ruby server uses Rugged[1] and Gollum-lib[2] which both use libgit2.<p>The Go component doesn&#x27;t have libgit2 binding yet, although we&#x27;re looking into adding that later. That or maybe go-git[3]. But for now Gitaly is mainly focussed at migrating all git calls from the Rails monolith. Not introducing a new component now reduces the risks this project has.<p>[1]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;libgit2&#x2F;rugged&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;libgit2&#x2F;rugged&#x2F;</a>
[2]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gitlab.slack.com&#x2F;archives&#x2F;C027N716H&#x2F;p1516954304000263" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gitlab.slack.com&#x2F;archives&#x2F;C027N716H&#x2F;p151695430400026...</a>
[3]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;src-d&#x2F;go-git&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;src-d&#x2F;go-git&#x2F;</a></text></comment> |
4,858,904 | 4,859,010 | 1 | 2 | 4,858,715 | train | <story><title>Editorial: "How piracy changed my life"</title><url>http://www.neowin.net/news/editorial-how-piracy-changed-my-life</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>lumberjack</author><text>Same with Windows and Office. It's better to have them pirate your program than run somebody's else.</text></item><item><author>meritt</author><text>It's always been rumored that Adobe software, especially Photoshop, has been easy to pirate to encourage adoption with a user base that might otherwise seek alternatives. As those people hone their skills and eventually find jobs, Photoshop is the norm and what their employers purchase licensing for.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>wting</author><text>"Although about 3 million computers get sold every year in China, people don't pay for the software. Someday they will, though. And as long as they're going to steal it, we want them to steal ours. They'll get sort of addicted, and then we'll somehow figure out how to collect sometime in the next decade."<p>-- Bill Gates during speech at University of Washington<p><a href="http://articles.latimes.com/2006/apr/09/business/fi-micropiracy9" rel="nofollow">http://articles.latimes.com/2006/apr/09/business/fi-micropir...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Editorial: "How piracy changed my life"</title><url>http://www.neowin.net/news/editorial-how-piracy-changed-my-life</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>lumberjack</author><text>Same with Windows and Office. It's better to have them pirate your program than run somebody's else.</text></item><item><author>meritt</author><text>It's always been rumored that Adobe software, especially Photoshop, has been easy to pirate to encourage adoption with a user base that might otherwise seek alternatives. As those people hone their skills and eventually find jobs, Photoshop is the norm and what their employers purchase licensing for.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>reidrac</author><text>Definitely, but I think is just Microsoft investing in their ecosystem.<p>In schools students learn "Word" and not "a word processor". I've seen high schools getting software licences with special deals (way cheaper), and thanks to that other solutions are discouraged (ie. "Word" is the standard and it will be required by any future job offer)<p>Can all students afford a Word licence? (ie. practice at home) It really doesn't matter, piracy it's OK because it is an investment. Companies are the final target (won't run pirated software and all candidates are trained to use that software).<p>You can find that kind of strategy also in open source (ie. Red Hat benefits from CentOS).</text></comment> |
13,195,632 | 13,193,860 | 1 | 3 | 13,192,597 | train | <story><title>The second operating system hiding in every mobile phone (2013)</title><url>http://www.osnews.com/story/27416/The_second_operating_system_hiding_in_every_mobile_phone</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Matt3o12_</author><text>Is there any working being done to modernize those protocols? I&#x27;m sure Apple can demand that by a given timeframe, a new standard has to be supported or else new iphone won&#x27;t work on the carrier&#x27;s network (and which carrier would not want iphones to work on their network?). It&#x27;s not like Apple is afraid of such things. I&#x27;m sure if apple implemented them, google&#x2F;samsung would follow within 1 or 2 years.<p>In the meantime, is there a refactor&#x2F;rewrite of that &#x27;90 code bash that is full of bugs and unused functions? And if so, do any phone manufactures use that improve &quot;firmware&quot;?</text></comment> | <story><title>The second operating system hiding in every mobile phone (2013)</title><url>http://www.osnews.com/story/27416/The_second_operating_system_hiding_in_every_mobile_phone</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>tptacek</author><text>It&#x27;s very important to understand this risk, but also to keep it in perspective.<p>Both the two major phone vendors --- Google and Apple --- have teams of people who are acutely aware of the baseband thread, many of whom are equally as talented as RPW.<p>Further, though the article seems carefully written enough to avoid the misconception, the basebands on modern phones don&#x27;t get direct access to AP memory, but are instead connected over a high-speed serial connection with a limited command set.</text></comment> |
14,072,449 | 14,072,207 | 1 | 2 | 14,071,316 | train | <story><title>Forget coding, we need to teach our kids how to dream</title><url>https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2017/04/forget-coding-we-need-to-teach-our-kids-how-to-dream</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jdietrich</author><text>When all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail. If you want to expand someone&#x27;s sense of what is possible, teach them a practical skill.<p>I have no idea how to teach someone to dream. I can teach someone to look at a piece of lumber and see a jewellery box or a bird table or a guitar. I can teach someone to look at a pile of scrap electronics and see a headphone amplifier or an egg timer or a robot. I can teach someone to look at a group of bored people and see a theatre company or a choir or an expedition.<p>IMO, we&#x27;re seeing a generation of young people who want to change the world, but only know how to write essays and recite facts. There&#x27;s a desperate lack of <i>doing</i> in the lives of our children - they have been taught by thousands of hours of schooling and after-schooling to be obedient followers. They&#x27;re very good at being squeaky wheels, but they don&#x27;t know how to make things happen. Their lives are bereft of making and doing, of unstructured and unsupervised play.</text></comment> | <story><title>Forget coding, we need to teach our kids how to dream</title><url>https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2017/04/forget-coding-we-need-to-teach-our-kids-how-to-dream</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>knappa</author><text>&gt; I don’t need to know how to code or shoot in 360 degrees or big rights to music, but I do need to know the very best people who can.<p>We can&#x27;t all be managers.<p>&gt; We can’t begin to imagine a career in 2020, let alone 2030.<p>Come on. Those are 3 and 13 years away.</text></comment> |
20,840,997 | 20,839,995 | 1 | 2 | 20,838,078 | train | <story><title>NPM Bans Terminal Ads</title><url>https://www.zdnet.com/article/npm-bans-terminal-ads/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>zelon88</author><text>I release a ton of my work with open source licensing and I&#x27;ve never thought of it as a revenue stream.<p>If people are financially burdened by making their project open-source; then don&#x27;t make it open source. Donating something to the community and then getting offended when nobody reciprocates is disingenuous. It&#x27;s part of the problem with &quot;freemium&quot; software these days where developers think I should be indebted to them for eternity because they did something with no ROI in sight. That&#x27;s not my problem! There were 100,000,000 developers before you who had to write the ISA, the compiler&#x2F;interpreter, the OS, the firmware in every device... If I gave each one a nickle I&#x27;d be in worse shape than you are.<p>Sure, it&#x27;s possible to turn a profit making open-source software. If that&#x27;s a goal you have then buckle up because it&#x27;s not a smooth ride. I liken it to being a starving artist. It&#x27;s not for everyone, so if you already bitch about being hungry all the time maybe you should just look into a day job instead.</text></item><item><author>cj</author><text>While I don&#x27;t particularly like the idea of stuffing ads into npm logs, I don&#x27;t have the same visceral negative reaction that many people have in these HN threads on this topic.<p>The overwhelming majority of the people complaining about this are well-paid tech workers writing code for well-funded companies that profit off of open source code without providing any reciprocal value to the open source projects in return. (Of course, that statement isn&#x27;t true for 100% of companies, but I&#x27;d guess that less than 10% of companies using open source code donate back to the open source projects they use)<p>Something about this whole debate makes me a bit uneasy.<p>You have people working mostly for free, developing open-source, FREE code that provides incredible value to the for-profit companies that use the open source code to generate (sometimes) massive amounts of revenue.<p>Given the amount of value open source provides to for-profit companies (with the open source maintainers rarely getting any reciprocal value from the companies that profit off them), why is it so alarming to think that these maintainers might think of a clever idea like this to make a couple thousand bucks?<p>I&#x27;m not arguing that npm install logs should be packed full of ads (it shouldn&#x27;t).<p>But instead of attacking the guy for trying, I really wish the discussion were focussed on how the community of open-source consumers can contribute back to the open source ecosystem in a way that promotes the sustainability of the projects and community.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kyledrake</author><text>&gt; I release a ton of my work with open source licensing and I&#x27;ve never thought of it as a revenue stream.<p>That&#x27;s the problem - nobody treats being an independent OSS dev as a possible career, so we either get 1) extremely privileged people that have the significant amount of time and resources required to contribute substantially for no payment, 2) open source that serves to promote a corporate goal, and 3) less and lower quality hobby contributions because the rational people realize they&#x27;re doing free work to get treated by garbage by people that feel entitled to free-as-in-beer software and choose not to do that.<p>Imagine how much worse any industry would be if nobody got paid for doing it. Now imagine how much better the OSS ecosystem would be if more people could make a living doing nothing but OSS on their terms. That&#x27;s the goal here. We want to transform OSS from a starving artists realm for privileged people to a place where people can make careers. I&#x27;d be totally cool to see some dev-focused ads to make that happen.</text></comment> | <story><title>NPM Bans Terminal Ads</title><url>https://www.zdnet.com/article/npm-bans-terminal-ads/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>zelon88</author><text>I release a ton of my work with open source licensing and I&#x27;ve never thought of it as a revenue stream.<p>If people are financially burdened by making their project open-source; then don&#x27;t make it open source. Donating something to the community and then getting offended when nobody reciprocates is disingenuous. It&#x27;s part of the problem with &quot;freemium&quot; software these days where developers think I should be indebted to them for eternity because they did something with no ROI in sight. That&#x27;s not my problem! There were 100,000,000 developers before you who had to write the ISA, the compiler&#x2F;interpreter, the OS, the firmware in every device... If I gave each one a nickle I&#x27;d be in worse shape than you are.<p>Sure, it&#x27;s possible to turn a profit making open-source software. If that&#x27;s a goal you have then buckle up because it&#x27;s not a smooth ride. I liken it to being a starving artist. It&#x27;s not for everyone, so if you already bitch about being hungry all the time maybe you should just look into a day job instead.</text></item><item><author>cj</author><text>While I don&#x27;t particularly like the idea of stuffing ads into npm logs, I don&#x27;t have the same visceral negative reaction that many people have in these HN threads on this topic.<p>The overwhelming majority of the people complaining about this are well-paid tech workers writing code for well-funded companies that profit off of open source code without providing any reciprocal value to the open source projects in return. (Of course, that statement isn&#x27;t true for 100% of companies, but I&#x27;d guess that less than 10% of companies using open source code donate back to the open source projects they use)<p>Something about this whole debate makes me a bit uneasy.<p>You have people working mostly for free, developing open-source, FREE code that provides incredible value to the for-profit companies that use the open source code to generate (sometimes) massive amounts of revenue.<p>Given the amount of value open source provides to for-profit companies (with the open source maintainers rarely getting any reciprocal value from the companies that profit off them), why is it so alarming to think that these maintainers might think of a clever idea like this to make a couple thousand bucks?<p>I&#x27;m not arguing that npm install logs should be packed full of ads (it shouldn&#x27;t).<p>But instead of attacking the guy for trying, I really wish the discussion were focussed on how the community of open-source consumers can contribute back to the open source ecosystem in a way that promotes the sustainability of the projects and community.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pixelbath</author><text>&gt;If people are financially burdened by making their project open-source; then don&#x27;t make it open source.<p>This is largely my position. I view contributing code to open source projects almost as altruism. I don&#x27;t expect compensation or reward, and I do it out of a general feeling of wanting to contribute something unselfish to the world. The fact that some open source projects <i>are</i> important is a secondary concern; I know I don&#x27;t consider any of my FOSS code to be important to many people other than myself.<p>That said, my primary income comes from working on proprietary closed-source software. I don&#x27;t think I&#x27;ve ever interviewed for a position with a company that contributes most of its code to FOSS, so I&#x27;ve really never seen that model work in-person.</text></comment> |
13,759,796 | 13,759,806 | 1 | 2 | 13,759,520 | train | <story><title>Problems with RESTful APIs (2015)</title><url>https://mmikowski.github.io/the_lie/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>codr4life</author><text>I&#x27;m going to have to call bullshit on that one. REST is one of the more successful strategies we&#x27;ve come up with for connecting systems, this is just another case of letting perfect stand in the way of good enough. Using GET for non-destructive operations and POST for updates and deletes is a nice, portable compromise. I&#x27;ve been trying hard for years to find a reason to bother with PUT, but so far I&#x27;ve found it not worth the effort.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rantanplan</author><text>&gt; I&#x27;ve been trying hard for years to find a reason to bother with PUT, but so far I&#x27;ve found it not worth the effort.<p>And right there, at your final sentence, you basically described why REST has more or less failed.<p>GET and POST are useless for implementing a complete application protocol. You&#x27;d basically overload these http verbs to the point where you would implement your own protocol. And that&#x27;s what most people do anyway. You choose to not use PUT, some other person chooses to not use PATCH or HEAD and I choose to curse vehemently every time I have to use someone&#x27;s service.<p>REST is nothing but loosely connected guidelines that nobody uses in the same manner.</text></comment> | <story><title>Problems with RESTful APIs (2015)</title><url>https://mmikowski.github.io/the_lie/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>codr4life</author><text>I&#x27;m going to have to call bullshit on that one. REST is one of the more successful strategies we&#x27;ve come up with for connecting systems, this is just another case of letting perfect stand in the way of good enough. Using GET for non-destructive operations and POST for updates and deletes is a nice, portable compromise. I&#x27;ve been trying hard for years to find a reason to bother with PUT, but so far I&#x27;ve found it not worth the effort.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>alganet</author><text>You don&#x27;t need PUT nor DELETE. It is OK to use POST[1].<p>Most people don&#x27;t understand REST. It is not a standard, it is not a set of practices. It is an architectural style and the web is built on it.<p>You can choose to follow the style (which is so much more than naming methods and URIs) or fight it. The dissertation is pretty clear about it[2], but most people ignore it because there are no code samples.<p>[1]: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;roy.gbiv.com&#x2F;untangled&#x2F;2009&#x2F;it-is-okay-to-use-post" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;roy.gbiv.com&#x2F;untangled&#x2F;2009&#x2F;it-is-okay-to-use-post</a> (REST creator talking about the PUT misconception)<p>[2]: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ics.uci.edu&#x2F;~fielding&#x2F;pubs&#x2F;dissertation&#x2F;top.htm" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ics.uci.edu&#x2F;~fielding&#x2F;pubs&#x2F;dissertation&#x2F;top.htm</a> (Full REST dissertation)</text></comment> |
33,087,186 | 33,086,943 | 1 | 3 | 33,085,532 | train | <story><title>“When are we going to use this in our everyday life?” (2017)</title><url>https://flavoracle.tumblr.com/post/167150535757/its-sad-how-much-of-what-is-taught-in-school-is</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>munificent</author><text>I have had to answer this question to my kids (one of whom abhors math). The explanation I gave is this:<p>For many subjects, most kids will end up never using them. But, we have no way to <i>predict</i> which subjects will be useful for which kids. Without the ability to do that, our priority is maximize each child&#x27;s opportunity. We never want a kid to be in the situation where they <i>would</i> have been interested in a subject and a career path but never ended up discovering that and using it because we didn&#x27;t expose it to them.<p>So we teach some of every subject to every kid. That way no matter which path they end up following, they are as prepared for it as we can make them.<p>(Also, yes, I agree that math is good general training for cognitive rigor. Also, numeric literacy is vital for all adults since we live in an ecomonic world and participate in a democracy where statistics are necessary to understand policies.)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>striking</author><text>I think a lot of the time it is just too abstract to grasp. I think the first time in my life where I was really happy to have learned calculus for my own intrinsic benefit was a few weeks ago, when I set up Home Assistant in an effort to automatically minimize heat in my apartment. It wasn&#x27;t enough to tell the shade to come down at a certain temperature, because the apartment would already be too hot. So instead I could take the <i>derivative</i> of the temperature of my apartment, allowing me to get out ahead of the worst part of the blast of sun. After all, if the temperature is increasing very quickly, we should act to stop it.<p>I&#x27;ve used a decent amount of calculus in my life, but that was the first time I had been actually happy to have learned it.</text></comment> | <story><title>“When are we going to use this in our everyday life?” (2017)</title><url>https://flavoracle.tumblr.com/post/167150535757/its-sad-how-much-of-what-is-taught-in-school-is</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>munificent</author><text>I have had to answer this question to my kids (one of whom abhors math). The explanation I gave is this:<p>For many subjects, most kids will end up never using them. But, we have no way to <i>predict</i> which subjects will be useful for which kids. Without the ability to do that, our priority is maximize each child&#x27;s opportunity. We never want a kid to be in the situation where they <i>would</i> have been interested in a subject and a career path but never ended up discovering that and using it because we didn&#x27;t expose it to them.<p>So we teach some of every subject to every kid. That way no matter which path they end up following, they are as prepared for it as we can make them.<p>(Also, yes, I agree that math is good general training for cognitive rigor. Also, numeric literacy is vital for all adults since we live in an ecomonic world and participate in a democracy where statistics are necessary to understand policies.)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nickff</author><text>&gt;<i>&quot;So we teach some of every subject to every kid. That way no matter which path they end up following, they are as prepared for it as we can make them.&quot;</i><p>We tend to waste a lot of time teaching subjects which they&#x27;re unlikely to use, and fail to teach them about the ones that they would really benefit from. A basic understanding of criminal and civil law, along with accounting and statistics would be extremely useful to almost everyone as individuals and as citizens. Music, history, and calculus are useful to some people, but not nearly as many.</text></comment> |
10,375,058 | 10,375,016 | 1 | 2 | 10,374,347 | train | <story><title>Police stop guarding embassy refuge of Julian Assange</title><url>http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-34508500</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>polack</author><text>So whats the limit on how much society should spend to seek justice if someone raped you?</text></item><item><author>yc1010</author><text>&quot;The estimated cost of the police presence is more than £12m.&quot;<p>So who should get fired for such a waste of police resources?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rwmj</author><text>There wasn&#x27;t any need to guard the Ecuadorian embassy, now or then. He couldn&#x27;t have travelled out of the country without being arrested at the port or airport, and could have been picked up easily if he&#x27;d stayed at a house or hotel anywhere inside the UK.<p>People who are far less well known are routinely arrested by the police for failure to turn up in court. There was no need for this expensive 24 hour guard.</text></comment> | <story><title>Police stop guarding embassy refuge of Julian Assange</title><url>http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-34508500</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>polack</author><text>So whats the limit on how much society should spend to seek justice if someone raped you?</text></item><item><author>yc1010</author><text>&quot;The estimated cost of the police presence is more than £12m.&quot;<p>So who should get fired for such a waste of police resources?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>gsnedders</author><text>From the point-of-view of the Metropolitan Police, he&#x27;s wanted for two things: extradition for a criminal prosecution under a EAW (to Sweden), and for arrest under Section 7 of the Bail Act (for failing to surrender himself to the police as required by the conditions of bail).</text></comment> |
12,150,222 | 12,149,370 | 1 | 2 | 12,148,896 | train | <story><title>Notepad++ 6.9.2 released (tail -f)</title><url>https://notepad-plus-plus.org/news/notepad-6.9.2-released.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>badocr</author><text>TailBlazer[0] I guess is the most interesting of the &quot;tail -f&quot; apps for Windows that I&#x27;ve tried. My usage is pretty mundane though, so YMMV.<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;RolandPheasant&#x2F;TailBlazer" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;RolandPheasant&#x2F;TailBlazer</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Roritharr</author><text>This Project is really nicely managed, this closed PR left me with a big smile on my face. He seems to be really a nice guy:
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;RolandPheasant&#x2F;TailBlazer&#x2F;pull&#x2F;105" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;RolandPheasant&#x2F;TailBlazer&#x2F;pull&#x2F;105</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Notepad++ 6.9.2 released (tail -f)</title><url>https://notepad-plus-plus.org/news/notepad-6.9.2-released.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>badocr</author><text>TailBlazer[0] I guess is the most interesting of the &quot;tail -f&quot; apps for Windows that I&#x27;ve tried. My usage is pretty mundane though, so YMMV.<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;RolandPheasant&#x2F;TailBlazer" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;RolandPheasant&#x2F;TailBlazer</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>vocatus_gate</author><text>Wow. How did I not know about this.<p>Thank-you for making my day.</text></comment> |
28,502,580 | 28,502,462 | 1 | 2 | 28,501,505 | train | <story><title>Beam/Erlang/Elixir Concept Explanations</title><url>http://beam-wisdoms.clau.se/en/latest/index.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>colesantiago</author><text>Very curious about the recent surge of Elixir &#x2F; Erlang posts on HN, is there a reason for this?<p>How is the the job market surrounding this as well for Elixir &#x2F; Erlang devs?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>brightball</author><text>Elixir shops are learning quickly that the best bet is probably to hire a senior dev that wants to learn and just give them a couple of weeks to learn.<p>As for the surge in interest, I can’t speak for everybody but when I dove into the language I realized it addressed virtually every short term and long term problem that I’ve experienced in my programming career. The rules it sets out force things to be done in such a way that many issues are avoided as a by product.<p>I find it balances all of my concerns better than anything else (productivity, performance, maintainability, scalability, learning curve, concurrency, stack simplification, capability, refactorability).</text></comment> | <story><title>Beam/Erlang/Elixir Concept Explanations</title><url>http://beam-wisdoms.clau.se/en/latest/index.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>colesantiago</author><text>Very curious about the recent surge of Elixir &#x2F; Erlang posts on HN, is there a reason for this?<p>How is the the job market surrounding this as well for Elixir &#x2F; Erlang devs?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ralmidani</author><text>I am starting my first Elixir role tomorrow. I come in with no real-world experience (edit: no real-world experience with Elixir specifically - I have a mid-senior level of experience using other languages), just some tutorials (Elixir Koans and Pragmatic Studio) which helped me submit a decent code sample. There aren’t a ton of Elixir roles, but hiring managers also recognize the shortage of devs so for a junior or mid-senior role they might overlook a lack of formal experience with the language. Elixir roles also seem to have pay scales as well as work arrangement flexibility that are higher-than-average.<p>Geography-wise, I’ve noticed growing, “hipster” cities like Columbus (where I live), Denver, and Austin have a pretty decent share of the Elixir job postings (although, again, if you want to live elsewhere there are lots of fully-remote Elixir roles out there).</text></comment> |
15,422,684 | 15,422,272 | 1 | 2 | 15,421,080 | train | <story><title>The Bitcoin Apocalypse Is Coming in Mid-November</title><url>http://blog.rongarret.info/2017/09/the-bitcoin-apocalypse-is-coming.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>justboxing</author><text>&gt; I am fully cognizant of the perils of making bearish predictions about new technology.<p>&gt; But, to quote another well-worn and wholly unreliable aphorism, this time it&#x27;s different. It really is.<p>and<p>&gt;... because the only other alternative is chaos, and probably the end of the whole Bitcoin experiment.<p>I&#x27;m very much a Bitcoin skeptic, but, I&#x27;m not sure this time is different, or that Bitcoin will die.<p>For the last 8 years, various sources have been predicting a Bitcoin collapse over and over again. It&#x27;s still here, alive and well and quite high.<p>3 years ago: Business Week - Bitcoin Is Collapsing =&gt; <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=8893616" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=8893616</a><p>4 years ago: latimes.com - Bitcoin virtual currency is on verge of collapse =&gt; <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=7306035" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=7306035</a><p>6 years ago: theatlantic.com - The Bitcoin Economy Is Collapsing with No Sign of Recovery (2011) =&gt; <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=8431092" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=8431092</a><p>6 years ago: Bitcoin &amp; Gresham&#x27;s Law - the economic inevitability of Collapse =&gt; <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=3623549" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=3623549</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>wpietri</author><text>In one sense, it&#x27;s already dead.<p>In theory, Bitcoin is supposed to be a payment system, digital cash. But that seems to be pretty much dead. Consider the opinion of Fred Wilson, a big Bitcoin booster, who has stopped using it for payments: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;avc.com&#x2F;2017&#x2F;08&#x2F;store-of-value-vs-payment-system&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;avc.com&#x2F;2017&#x2F;08&#x2F;store-of-value-vs-payment-system&#x2F;</a><p>Merchant acceptance is actually in retreat: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.businessinsider.com&#x2F;merchants-arent-accepting-bitcoin-2017-7" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.businessinsider.com&#x2F;merchants-arent-accepting-bit...</a><p>It is still being used for speculation, of course. And for some crime. But the 2010 vision of a digital cash that replaces Western Union, Visa, etc? It certainly hasn&#x27;t arrived, and it seems farther off than ever.</text></comment> | <story><title>The Bitcoin Apocalypse Is Coming in Mid-November</title><url>http://blog.rongarret.info/2017/09/the-bitcoin-apocalypse-is-coming.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>justboxing</author><text>&gt; I am fully cognizant of the perils of making bearish predictions about new technology.<p>&gt; But, to quote another well-worn and wholly unreliable aphorism, this time it&#x27;s different. It really is.<p>and<p>&gt;... because the only other alternative is chaos, and probably the end of the whole Bitcoin experiment.<p>I&#x27;m very much a Bitcoin skeptic, but, I&#x27;m not sure this time is different, or that Bitcoin will die.<p>For the last 8 years, various sources have been predicting a Bitcoin collapse over and over again. It&#x27;s still here, alive and well and quite high.<p>3 years ago: Business Week - Bitcoin Is Collapsing =&gt; <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=8893616" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=8893616</a><p>4 years ago: latimes.com - Bitcoin virtual currency is on verge of collapse =&gt; <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=7306035" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=7306035</a><p>6 years ago: theatlantic.com - The Bitcoin Economy Is Collapsing with No Sign of Recovery (2011) =&gt; <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=8431092" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=8431092</a><p>6 years ago: Bitcoin &amp; Gresham&#x27;s Law - the economic inevitability of Collapse =&gt; <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=3623549" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=3623549</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mrb</author><text>Ah yes. Bitcoin died 172 times: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;99bitcoins.com&#x2F;obituary-stats&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;99bitcoins.com&#x2F;obituary-stats&#x2F;</a></text></comment> |
21,244,518 | 21,243,390 | 1 | 3 | 21,242,857 | train | <story><title>Flash Is Responsible for the Internet's Most Creative Era</title><url>https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/d3awk7/flash-is-responsible-for-the-internets-most-creative-era</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>l_t</author><text>I had a formative experience with Flash as a middle schooler. I loved Albino Blacksheep, Newgrounds, etc. I thought the videos were hilarious and the stick-figure-style animation was approachable. So I acquired Flash, and I was blown away by how easy it was to create these silly animations. Automatic tweening was a miracle to me.<p>Since then I&#x27;ve done a lot of video editing with different tools, but I still think back to Macromedia Flash and how I, a child with no ability to code and no knowledge of HTML or Web tech, was able to make my imagination come to life on the screen.<p>I believe it&#x27;s that powerful experience <i>for novices</i> that we&#x27;re missing. I&#x27;m not sure how we should get it back.<p>(edit: phrasing)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mntmoss</author><text>I think the essential thing about this era is a gradual cultural rediscovery of ownership. We&#x27;ve just been through a very lengthy race to the bottom for all sorts of information - pretty much anything ephemeral and disposable is free or extremely cheap, and then heavily locked down to protect property rights. And it&#x27;s built a kind of event horizon to culture where all the things pressed up closest to the digital universe just <i>disappear</i> into a little footnote on a wiki page saying &quot;yes, this happened&quot;. Memes, blog posts, videos, games, etc.<p>There is a game product called &quot;Fortnite&quot;, and it&#x27;s just had a huge in-game event, so it&#x27;s clearly here, alive and well, but you&#x27;ll never again be able to experience Fortnite as it was 24 hours ago - ever.<p>And yet future culture is, as Alan Kay puts it, &quot;the past and the present&quot;. It&#x27;s our reaction to that hole, where nothing really builds on anything else, that, in turn, is motivating interest in products with longer time horizons, longer stories and histories to them.<p>An obvious metaphor for this is video games vs pinball:<p>* Fundamentally digital vs fundamentally analog<p>* Mostly design &amp; marketing vs mostly manufacturing<p>* Trivially cloned vs scarce, unique<p>* Black-box artifact vs maintainable assembly<p>* Perpetually caught in the breathless hype cycle of tech, vs increasingly existing outside of that cycle<p>Pinball&#x27;s days as part of the traditional amusement business ended with the 1990&#x27;s, but it&#x27;s found a resurgence of interest in the home market as a kind of collectable furniture - something to put in a rec room or a basement arcade, that retains decent trade value if maintained. A whole array of small manufacturers have appeared this decade to serve that market. It&#x27;s much easier to understand a collector&#x27;s market for it being sustained 30 years out, versus video game collecting, in which any product with a modicum of popularity will have had its primary content either already preserved through piracy(if emulated), or else impossible to reproduce(if a service). It&#x27;s a much stronger version of interest in vinyl records or dead-tree books taking precedent over streaming music and e-books.<p>Because digital media has so little physical value, it is beholden to be entirely marketing driven, front-to-back, and to treat you as either a product marketer or as the product, and sometimes both. The true form of the medium remains always hidden behind the UI. Even your personal work, done on systems you wholly control, just disappears into a collection of files, where it is easily forgotten.<p>And in that sense I think we are not really asking, &quot;Where is Flash? Where is Hypercard? Where is BASIC?&quot; - because in different eras each of those tools did the kinds of things we wanted and expected from a beginner&#x27;s tool - so much as we are asking, &quot;Where is the actual medium? Where can I do work and preserve the original source material? Where can I send a kid to learn to play with software and not have it all break six months later, rendering the learning useless? How can I curate software when nobody can make any promises?&quot; Tech continues its warfare for a platform monopoly, and so on this front we keep starting from zero, over and over. It&#x27;s not hugely different from the space we&#x27;ve arrived at in professional software development, where dependency hell and code rot is an ever-increasing concern for all codebases.</text></comment> | <story><title>Flash Is Responsible for the Internet's Most Creative Era</title><url>https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/d3awk7/flash-is-responsible-for-the-internets-most-creative-era</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>l_t</author><text>I had a formative experience with Flash as a middle schooler. I loved Albino Blacksheep, Newgrounds, etc. I thought the videos were hilarious and the stick-figure-style animation was approachable. So I acquired Flash, and I was blown away by how easy it was to create these silly animations. Automatic tweening was a miracle to me.<p>Since then I&#x27;ve done a lot of video editing with different tools, but I still think back to Macromedia Flash and how I, a child with no ability to code and no knowledge of HTML or Web tech, was able to make my imagination come to life on the screen.<p>I believe it&#x27;s that powerful experience <i>for novices</i> that we&#x27;re missing. I&#x27;m not sure how we should get it back.<p>(edit: phrasing)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>CryoLogic</author><text><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.anim8.io" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.anim8.io</a> might spark your imagination again.<p>Lots of animators are still making indy animation, it&#x27;s
just been drowned out on the major platforms due to how time consuming it is to create and it&#x27;s basically not possible to monetize well outside of Anim8 now (YouTube algorithm favors frequent uploads and high video duration - not compatible with animation).</text></comment> |
22,616,257 | 22,615,476 | 1 | 2 | 22,613,061 | train | <story><title>Why N95 masks are hard to make</title><url>https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2020/03/16/814929294/covid-19-has-caused-a-shortage-of-face-masks-but-theyre-surprisingly-hard-to-mak</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>creddit</author><text>I do believe these masks are also made in the US, but this situation highlights exactly why a country having its own major manufacturing base is not just an economic need but rather also a national security need. The US needs to invest in itself immediately to rebuild its lost manufacturing base.<p>In economic terms, under certain definitions and assumptions that are typical under modern economics, a trade war such as the current US-China trade war result in welfare losses. I believe, however, that when national security is taken into account (ie having the ability for the country to rapidly respond to productive capacity needs in a time of crisis), the trade war along with serious investment in expanding industrial capacity is likely net good.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ardy42</author><text>&gt; I do believe these masks are also made in the US, but this situation highlights exactly why a country having its own major manufacturing base is not just an economic need but rather also a national security need. The US needs to invest in itself immediately to rebuild its lost manufacturing base.<p>3M and Prestige Ameritech are the <i>only</i> companies with the ability to manufacturing N95 masks in the US from <i>US sourced</i> materials.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.washingtonpost.com&#x2F;health&#x2F;shortages-confusion-and-poor-communication-complicate-coronavirus-preparations&#x2F;2020&#x2F;02&#x2F;25&#x2F;d9e56396-575d-11ea-9b35-def5a027d470_story.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.washingtonpost.com&#x2F;health&#x2F;shortages-confusion-an...</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.washingtonpost.com&#x2F;business&#x2F;2020&#x2F;02&#x2F;15&#x2F;coronavirus-mask-shortage-texas-manufacturing&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.washingtonpost.com&#x2F;business&#x2F;2020&#x2F;02&#x2F;15&#x2F;coronavir...</a><p>Totally agree with you on manufacturing. It&#x27;s super important to have this kind of domestic manufacturing capability, because trade links break down in a crisis like this. The US is short on supply and can&#x27;t <i>import</i> more (other countries are banning exports to conserve supply for domestic needs). If all the manufacturing capability had been outsourced, US healthcare workers would be in even worse shape.</text></comment> | <story><title>Why N95 masks are hard to make</title><url>https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2020/03/16/814929294/covid-19-has-caused-a-shortage-of-face-masks-but-theyre-surprisingly-hard-to-mak</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>creddit</author><text>I do believe these masks are also made in the US, but this situation highlights exactly why a country having its own major manufacturing base is not just an economic need but rather also a national security need. The US needs to invest in itself immediately to rebuild its lost manufacturing base.<p>In economic terms, under certain definitions and assumptions that are typical under modern economics, a trade war such as the current US-China trade war result in welfare losses. I believe, however, that when national security is taken into account (ie having the ability for the country to rapidly respond to productive capacity needs in a time of crisis), the trade war along with serious investment in expanding industrial capacity is likely net good.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>JumpCrisscross</author><text>&gt; <i>a country having its own major manufacturing base</i><p>American manufacturing output has grown since 1990 [1]. What it’s been losing is manufacturing <i>employment</i>.<p>Having more people making a similar number of things does nothing for national security.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;fred.stlouisfed.org&#x2F;series&#x2F;OUTMS" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;fred.stlouisfed.org&#x2F;series&#x2F;OUTMS</a></text></comment> |
19,858,367 | 19,857,866 | 1 | 2 | 19,856,907 | train | <story><title>A little discussed effect of therapy: it changes personality (2017)</title><url>https://digest.bps.org.uk/2017/01/19/a-little-discussed-effect-of-therapy-it-changes-your-personality/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>yomly</author><text>What even is &quot;personality&quot; - leaving aside technical and dictionary definitions, if you --the person-- are the sum of your life experiences, can you ever truly not be you?<p>I pose this because I encounter resistance from people to the notion that they can change themselves, lest they lose some notion of their &quot;self&quot;, and personality is often equated with &quot;self&quot; from my experience.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>gnode</author><text>&gt; can you ever truly not be you?<p>You can stop being the you that you were, and people often do so.<p>Personality can change slowly over time as we develop through experience and reflection, or it can change rapidly due to post-traumatic stress, drugs, electroconvulsive therapy, or traumatic brain injuries.<p>I think the conceptualization of self as immutable is tautological, as we tend to thus discount aspects of personality which we find to be mutable from being considered part of the self.</text></comment> | <story><title>A little discussed effect of therapy: it changes personality (2017)</title><url>https://digest.bps.org.uk/2017/01/19/a-little-discussed-effect-of-therapy-it-changes-your-personality/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>yomly</author><text>What even is &quot;personality&quot; - leaving aside technical and dictionary definitions, if you --the person-- are the sum of your life experiences, can you ever truly not be you?<p>I pose this because I encounter resistance from people to the notion that they can change themselves, lest they lose some notion of their &quot;self&quot;, and personality is often equated with &quot;self&quot; from my experience.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>AndrewDucker</author><text>&quot;can you ever truly not be you&quot;<p>It&#x27;s a question of degree. There&#x27;s a clear line from me yesterday to me today, with a massive amount of similarity. I&#x27;m comfortable about my wants and needs and how my life is set up, because the &quot;me&quot;s of the past set things up, and I&#x27;m similar enough to them to fit into the niche they worked on.<p>That personality can change over time - I&#x27;m not who I was when I was 20, and I&#x27;ll be different again when I&#x27;m 60. But with a slow set of changes that&#x27;s easy enough to cope with - and indeed, people generally don&#x27;t even notice the changes.<p>But if I woke up tomorrow with a vastly different personality, the change having happened all at once, it would affect all of my relationships, my working situation, my home life, etc. It&#x27;s wouldn&#x27;t be a slow transformation from one person to another, it would be the instant death of one personality and their replacement by a different one. And that feels very uncomfortable to people.</text></comment> |
13,942,559 | 13,941,648 | 1 | 2 | 13,941,195 | train | <story><title>Howard University opens a new campus at the Googleplex</title><url>https://blog.google/topics/diversity/howard-university-opens-new-campus-googleplex/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>misterbowfinger</author><text>I want to comment on the anti Affirmative Action arguments here.<p>I went to a really prestigious high school in New York City. For the summer of my junior year, our AP Computer Science teacher hooked up a few of us with internships at the finance firms, specifically in tech (Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, etc.). Now, sure, I did really well and studied really hard to get into my high school. However, I did practically nothing to earn that internship besides taking AP Computer Science. My Computer Science &quot;expertise&quot; was hardly valuable. I knew just about as much as any other AP CS kid in the country.<p>In the end, that internship did wonders for me getting into college and getting future jobs. And plus, I made 3k that summer. And yes, I finished a useful project at the firm. But the reason I had that opportunity was totally orthogonal to <i>earning</i> the opportunity. I know we like to boast about being a meritocracy and all that, but this is one of those cases where it was correlation, not causation.</text></comment> | <story><title>Howard University opens a new campus at the Googleplex</title><url>https://blog.google/topics/diversity/howard-university-opens-new-campus-googleplex/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>throwa34567</author><text>I&#x27;m very happy to see this. I grew up in a town that, before I was born, decided to actively integrate (from being an historically all white, wealthy suburb) and I&#x27;m certain I&#x27;m better off for growing up in a diverse community. I&#x27;m in mountain view now and it&#x27;s all &quot;silicon valley white&quot;, and something actively needs to be done. I worry when I realize my kid can go a week or more without seeing a black person, and I&#x27;m disappointed in myself when I realize I have no black friends (when as a kid they were my neighbors).</text></comment> |
18,421,983 | 18,421,931 | 1 | 3 | 18,419,772 | train | <story><title>NH judge orders Amazon to give Echo recordings in murder case</title><url>https://www.wmur.com/article/nh-judge-orders-amazon-to-give-echo-recordings-in-double-homicide-case/24893714</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>danso</author><text>I know that this article itself doesn’t have much content but I’m interested in what the police are actually requesting, and what they end up getting. Do they assume&#x2F;suspect that Echo&#x2F;Amazon continuously records and logs audio, akin to a security camera? Or do they have evidence that Echo was actually activated around the time of the murders, or afterwards by the suspect himself?<p>I was also interested in this quote:<p>&gt; <i>&quot;I think most people probably don&#x27;t even realize that Alexa is taking account of what&#x27;s going on in your house, in addition to responding to your demands and commands,&quot; said Albert Scherr, a professor at the University of New Hampshire School of Law.</i><p>What is it that users don’t realize? Anecdotally, just about everyone I know who has refused to have an Echo do so because they believe Echo is doing far more surreptitious surveillance and analysis, i.e. not just listening for the trigger word. Though I’m sure most users don’t realize that when Alexa does trigger, she sends the audio to the Amazon mothership, which are then stored&#x2F;analyzed for an indefinite time. Though most people don’t realize the most basic things about data, like how when you friend someone on FB, FB actually stores a log of your friends, and any other kind of stated interaction, such as the users you’ve blocked</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>danso</author><text>To answer my own question, other outlets have some extra bits of info:<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.unionleader.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;crime&#x2F;judge-orders-amazon-to-produce-recordings-from-echo-device-seized&#x2F;article_8927285e-b8ac-5997-a283-6c18d7ada0ab.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.unionleader.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;crime&#x2F;judge-orders-amazon-to...</a><p>The Union-Leader quotes the district attorney&#x27;s request, which seems to have cognizance of how Echo works:<p>&gt; <i>On Oct. 30, Senior Assistant Attorney General Geoffrey Ward asked Houran to direct Amazon.com to produce any recordings made between Jan. 27 and Jan. 29, 2017, suggesting evidence of the crime of murder and&#x2F;or hindering apprehension of prosecution could be found on the device.</i><p>&gt; <i>“As part of the normal functioning of an Echo electronic device activated either intentionally or accidentally by ‘wake up words,’ audio recordings are made of the moment when the device is activated,” Ward wrote.</i><p>&gt; <i>“Specifically, when the Echo detects a ‘wake up word(s),’ the device begins audio recording through its integrated microphones, including recording the fraction of a second of audio before the ‘wake up word(s),’” Ward continued.</i><p>&gt; <i>The motion, which was made in lieu of an application for a search warrant, also asks for information identifying cellular devices that were paired to that smart speaker in that time period.</i><p>If there&#x27;s one thing these kinds of stories have effected in me, it&#x27;s the knowledge that I should scream &quot;Alexa!&quot; (or maybe Siri&#x2F;OK Google depending on which room) right before I get murdered in my own home.</text></comment> | <story><title>NH judge orders Amazon to give Echo recordings in murder case</title><url>https://www.wmur.com/article/nh-judge-orders-amazon-to-give-echo-recordings-in-double-homicide-case/24893714</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>danso</author><text>I know that this article itself doesn’t have much content but I’m interested in what the police are actually requesting, and what they end up getting. Do they assume&#x2F;suspect that Echo&#x2F;Amazon continuously records and logs audio, akin to a security camera? Or do they have evidence that Echo was actually activated around the time of the murders, or afterwards by the suspect himself?<p>I was also interested in this quote:<p>&gt; <i>&quot;I think most people probably don&#x27;t even realize that Alexa is taking account of what&#x27;s going on in your house, in addition to responding to your demands and commands,&quot; said Albert Scherr, a professor at the University of New Hampshire School of Law.</i><p>What is it that users don’t realize? Anecdotally, just about everyone I know who has refused to have an Echo do so because they believe Echo is doing far more surreptitious surveillance and analysis, i.e. not just listening for the trigger word. Though I’m sure most users don’t realize that when Alexa does trigger, she sends the audio to the Amazon mothership, which are then stored&#x2F;analyzed for an indefinite time. Though most people don’t realize the most basic things about data, like how when you friend someone on FB, FB actually stores a log of your friends, and any other kind of stated interaction, such as the users you’ve blocked</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>thsowers</author><text>&gt; Though I’m sure most users don’t realize that when Alexa does trigger, she sends the audio to the Amazon mothership, which are then stored&#x2F;analyzed for an indefinite time.<p>Additionally, Amazon receives several seconds of audio _before_ the trigger word was used<p>Edit: I can&#x27;t find a source for this, but IIRC this was part of the initial Echo roll out, and one of the reasons I decided not to purchase. Perhaps Amazon has changed this so now it only listens and sends data after the wakeword.<p>It does appear to have been updated: &quot;When you use the wake word, the audio stream includes a fraction of a second of audio before the wake word, and closes once your request has been processed.&quot;[0]<p>[0]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.amazon.com&#x2F;gp&#x2F;help&#x2F;customer&#x2F;display.html?nodeId=201602230" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.amazon.com&#x2F;gp&#x2F;help&#x2F;customer&#x2F;display.html?nodeId=...</a></text></comment> |
41,721,639 | 41,721,765 | 1 | 3 | 41,721,368 | train | <story><title>VC Fund gives money back, says the market for mature startups is too weak</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/02/technology/crv-vc-fund-returning-money.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>rmbyrro</author><text><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;archive.is&#x2F;Eku28" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;archive.is&#x2F;Eku28</a></text></comment> | <story><title>VC Fund gives money back, says the market for mature startups is too weak</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/02/technology/crv-vc-fund-returning-money.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>paxys</author><text>The current batch of tech &quot;decacorns&quot; (Stripe, Databricks, Canva, Chime, Miro, Discord, Ripple, Brex, Airtable etc) all raised money at unrealistic valuations in 2020-2021, and with the subsequent tech cool off the market today can simply not sustain the same numbers. With no IPOs or acquisitions on the horizon, and no appetitive for down rounds, there&#x27;s essentially a funding stalemate for companies at that stage (unless you have &quot;AI&quot; in your name of course).</text></comment> |
38,914,432 | 38,914,404 | 1 | 2 | 38,912,497 | train | <story><title>Jeff Lawson steps down as CEO of Twilio</title><url>https://www.cnbc.com/2024/01/08/twilio-ceo-lawson-steps-down-after-bruising-activist-battles.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>throwaway_108</author><text>It&#x27;s also why George Hu left Twilio.<p>Because Jeff wanted to be a celebrity CEO, and it was to the detriment of the company.<p>All of Twilio&#x27;s growth (as a public company) happened on George&#x27;s watch.<p>I don&#x27;t think it&#x27;s a coincidence that well after George left, on Jeff&#x27;s watch - they had to do 3 different layoff for a total of ~24% of their entire public company being let go.<p>Note: former senior level Twilio employee, posted anonymous for obvious reasons.</text></item><item><author>shakes</author><text>I worked at Twilio for nearly 10 years and it&#x27;s hard to overstate what a gift it was to work there and see Jeff operate as CEO up-close.<p>He created an environment where (at our best) we could have fun doing work that had a real impact, and we could it with people we enjoyed doing the work with. He pushed us to be creative to authentically empower and inspire developers. Wanna build a video game that teaches developers how to code and use Twilio? Let&#x27;s try it! Wanna build an AI application with Tony Hawk and have Tony Hawk debug the code live on stage? Sure!<p>And Jeff would always be spending time with developer tools and Twilio&#x27;s products himself, to the point that he could live code at the drop of a hat to show off what we&#x27;d been working on. This meant his own understanding of developers and their problems never ceased to amaze me.<p>But more than all of that, he was a rare CEO that led with empathy, humility and care.<p>Thank you, jeffiel. We can&#x27;t wait to see what you build next.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>gkoberger</author><text>This is a genuine question... isn&#x27;t that his job?<p>For a public company, the CEO has to be a public CEO. Everyone takes on a different persona (some sell themselves as business geniuses, others as creative geniuses, and others as someone you wanna grab a beer with). Some really like it, and some do it begrudgingly. But at the end of the day, you can&#x27;t be the same CEO of a public company as you were when you were private.<p>I&#x27;ve never known Jeff to hobnob with celebrities, travel in luxury or abandon his company. I&#x27;m not sure he&#x27;s a &quot;celebrity CEO&quot; as much as he just became a public one, although I don&#x27;t know him personally.<p>(FWIW, this is the reason I&#x27;d never want to go public. I personally don&#x27;t like the system, but that doesn&#x27;t mean it&#x27;s not how the system works.)</text></comment> | <story><title>Jeff Lawson steps down as CEO of Twilio</title><url>https://www.cnbc.com/2024/01/08/twilio-ceo-lawson-steps-down-after-bruising-activist-battles.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>throwaway_108</author><text>It&#x27;s also why George Hu left Twilio.<p>Because Jeff wanted to be a celebrity CEO, and it was to the detriment of the company.<p>All of Twilio&#x27;s growth (as a public company) happened on George&#x27;s watch.<p>I don&#x27;t think it&#x27;s a coincidence that well after George left, on Jeff&#x27;s watch - they had to do 3 different layoff for a total of ~24% of their entire public company being let go.<p>Note: former senior level Twilio employee, posted anonymous for obvious reasons.</text></item><item><author>shakes</author><text>I worked at Twilio for nearly 10 years and it&#x27;s hard to overstate what a gift it was to work there and see Jeff operate as CEO up-close.<p>He created an environment where (at our best) we could have fun doing work that had a real impact, and we could it with people we enjoyed doing the work with. He pushed us to be creative to authentically empower and inspire developers. Wanna build a video game that teaches developers how to code and use Twilio? Let&#x27;s try it! Wanna build an AI application with Tony Hawk and have Tony Hawk debug the code live on stage? Sure!<p>And Jeff would always be spending time with developer tools and Twilio&#x27;s products himself, to the point that he could live code at the drop of a hat to show off what we&#x27;d been working on. This meant his own understanding of developers and their problems never ceased to amaze me.<p>But more than all of that, he was a rare CEO that led with empathy, humility and care.<p>Thank you, jeffiel. We can&#x27;t wait to see what you build next.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jmacd</author><text>George Hu cut his teeth under Benioff during the most meteoric rise of both Salesforce and Benioff&#x27;s celebrity. I would be very surprised if Jeff&#x27;s desire to be a public facing CEO would even cause George to notice, let alone bristle at.<p>It&#x27;s more likely that someone as smart as George might have just looked at the fundamentals of the business and decided it could not keep this up over the long term.<p>or... it might have just been epic timing too. Probably.</text></comment> |
8,859,069 | 8,858,496 | 1 | 2 | 8,858,338 | train | <story><title>Google Is Donating €250k to Charlie Hebdo</title><url>http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jan/08/charlie-hebdo-staff-publish-next-week-1m-print-run</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>NotGoogle</author><text>Google is <i>not</i> donating to Charlie Hebdo. A fund not managed by Google that Google has to pay into as a result of being fined by the French government is giving the money to help ensure the continuation of its publication.<p>From article: &quot;The press innovation fund was set up in February 2013 to settle the dispute between Google and the French government over whether the internet group should pay to display news content in its search results. Financed but not managed by Google, that money will go to support the survival of the weekly.&quot;</text></comment> | <story><title>Google Is Donating €250k to Charlie Hebdo</title><url>http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jan/08/charlie-hebdo-staff-publish-next-week-1m-print-run</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>themartorana</author><text>Bravo. In the face of continued pressure to make free speech a little less free here in the U.S. and around the world, it&#x27;s on the U.S. and its citizens to protect free speech and&#x2F;or show their support for those who have been silenced around the world.<p>If Google does that by donating some money, the message is still very clear and, at least from me, quite appreciated.<p>Freedom is never free, and human life, sadly, seems like the ongoing and unending price.</text></comment> |
26,126,021 | 26,125,977 | 1 | 3 | 26,124,273 | train | <story><title>A fake company to play around with spammers and you can use it too</title><url>https://twitter.com/Boris/status/1360208504544444417</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>leesalminen</author><text>Years ago I got into a deep conversation with a gift card scammer over the phone. We talked for almost 30 minutes about the inner workings of the scam and the exchange rate of gift cards to local currency. Eventually I asked him why he doesn’t leave his country for more opportunity as he was clearly intelligent with strong English skills. He explained that a passport in his country cost thousands of US dollars. I told him that in the US a passport costs $100 every 10 years and he was shocked! It clearly upset him. At that point he said he had to go as his manager was coming. I don’t think I’ll ever forget that call.</text></comment> | <story><title>A fake company to play around with spammers and you can use it too</title><url>https://twitter.com/Boris/status/1360208504544444417</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>princevegeta89</author><text>Reminds me of instances where I played with Craigslist scammers who sent fake PayPal emails and asked to ship to countries like Nigeria, Sudan, etc. I used to create a new usps label (and request refund later) and give it. When there&#x27;s no activity i asked them to call the post office and speak to them. Used to be fun</text></comment> |
21,470,251 | 21,468,218 | 1 | 2 | 21,465,446 | train | <story><title>Is Inequality Inevitable?</title><url>https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/is-inequality-inevitable/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>SiVal</author><text>There is a popular political perspective that rules on campus these days that treats wealth as something that just magically exists and is simply &quot;redistributed&quot; by one means or another like, say, a phase change in physics where no magnetism&#x2F;charge&#x2F;energy&#x2F;etc. is ever created or consumed. I waited for a point in their model where people actually produced wealth and consumed it, made something or ate it, in addition to redistributing it. Not part of the model.<p>And the idea that things have a &quot;true&quot; value, the one put on them by enlightened campus philosophers, so a transaction not controlled by the wise and just will have a winner and a loser. I waited for the idea that I, shoeless but with ten loaves of bread, and you, hungry but with ten pairs of shoes, might reasonably value bread and shoes differently and BOTH win from the &quot;redistribution&quot; of bread and shoes, but it was not part of the model.<p>But their model (which they claim &quot;reproduces inequality with unprecedented accuracy&quot;) could also (they claim) be fitted to a variety of different observed power law distributions when its parameters were adjusted, and the more parameters, the better the fit became. Yes, and they could probably get their model to describe the frequency distribution of English vocabulary (also a power law), with remarkable accuracy which probably does say something about economics but maybe not as much as they seem to think.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>vannevar</author><text>It&#x27;s not part of the model because, if you&#x27;re studying how wealth gets distributed rather than how it is produced, it doesn&#x27;t matter.<p>I&#x27;m guessing that your disquiet at this notion comes from the possibility that everyone is creating their own wealth, and to some extent that is no doubt true. But if you start with the simplifying assumption that everyone&#x27;s wealth creation ability is equal, and you just look at distribution, and you find that your model pretty accurately reproduces the real-world distribution of wealth, it&#x27;s at least some evidence that wealth-creation ability is not that different from person to person, and what&#x27;s driving inequality is the distribution mechanism.<p>Since virtually all human traits follow a Gaussian distribution, it seems like whatever the wealth-building factor is, it would also follow a Gaussian distribution. But wealth follows more of a power law distribution. You never encounter anyone 1000 times taller than average, but there are many people 1000 times wealthier than average. This casts some doubt that wealth accumulation is down to individual human ability.<p>Couple that with the micro-economic observation that someone with 1 million dollars is astronomically more likely to make another million dollars than someone with 100 dollars, even if the two people are otherwise identical, and it seems pretty unlikely that wealth creation has much to do with the distribution we see.</text></comment> | <story><title>Is Inequality Inevitable?</title><url>https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/is-inequality-inevitable/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>SiVal</author><text>There is a popular political perspective that rules on campus these days that treats wealth as something that just magically exists and is simply &quot;redistributed&quot; by one means or another like, say, a phase change in physics where no magnetism&#x2F;charge&#x2F;energy&#x2F;etc. is ever created or consumed. I waited for a point in their model where people actually produced wealth and consumed it, made something or ate it, in addition to redistributing it. Not part of the model.<p>And the idea that things have a &quot;true&quot; value, the one put on them by enlightened campus philosophers, so a transaction not controlled by the wise and just will have a winner and a loser. I waited for the idea that I, shoeless but with ten loaves of bread, and you, hungry but with ten pairs of shoes, might reasonably value bread and shoes differently and BOTH win from the &quot;redistribution&quot; of bread and shoes, but it was not part of the model.<p>But their model (which they claim &quot;reproduces inequality with unprecedented accuracy&quot;) could also (they claim) be fitted to a variety of different observed power law distributions when its parameters were adjusted, and the more parameters, the better the fit became. Yes, and they could probably get their model to describe the frequency distribution of English vocabulary (also a power law), with remarkable accuracy which probably does say something about economics but maybe not as much as they seem to think.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>wuliwong</author><text>I received a Ph.D. in physics in 2010, throughout my training, my anecdotal experience was that of an echo chamber. I didn&#x27;t fully realize it until I left academia. Although, it was slowly becoming apparent as the years passed. My experience was of a relatively small and closed group of physicists who reaffirmed each other&#x27;s assumption that they were at the absolute peak of intellectual thought. Most of the professors imparted this mindset onto their graduate students and post docs. It fits pretty well with my experience that physicists would ignore the history of economic thought and believe that they could create a simple model that would accomplish what economists and philosophers have been hitherto unable to in the prior thousand years. But economics (or praxeology to be more general) is not physics. And a simple model of coin flips with random pairings and one risk limiting function isn&#x27;t economics. When you have such hubris and make such simple mistakes as to assume that value is objective, it should be embarrassing.<p>-------<p>I will add that I still am a physicist who likes to think about things like this. One addition I would make to the model is that the poorer a person is the larger a percentage they are willing to risk. It still doesn&#x27;t get around the fact that this whole model is based around the fallacy of object value but I like playing with models.</text></comment> |
10,813,619 | 10,812,769 | 1 | 2 | 10,811,958 | train | <story><title>Resolutions for programmers (2012)</title><url>http://matt.might.net/articles/programmers-resolutions/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>pavel_lishin</author><text>For me it&#x27;s a combination of things.<p>1. Convenience. If I have a gym in the building I live in, I&#x27;m about 10x more likely to use it. If it&#x27;s a block down the street, I might go once a week. If it&#x27;s two blocks down the street, it might as well be in Algiers.<p>2. Knowledge. I don&#x27;t know how to lift weights, and I&#x27;m afraid I&#x27;ll do it wrong and end up injuring myself. Apparently even running isn&#x27;t trivial to do without potentially hurting yourself. If you don&#x27;t have a friend who can show you how to do things right, it&#x27;s not as easy to get started with confidence. (And let&#x27;s face it, most of us here are probably not super likely to ask a stranger at the gym for help.)<p>3. Laziness. I&#x27;ve got work to do and video games to play, man! Working out isn&#x27;t fun. I like riding my bike, but I&#x27;m not doing it in 30 degree weather, or in the rain, or in the snow.</text></item><item><author>cabinpark</author><text>I was very lucky, growing up, to be the son of a sports medicine doctor because, from birth, healthy eating and exercise and their benefits were grilled into my brain.<p>Unfortunately I see too many people in my job (academia) who don&#x27;t exercise despite the huge potential benefits to their productivity and life. So this makes me wonder: what is it about exercise that turns people off? Is it a communication issue? Is it the lack of confidence? Lack of knowledge? It seems that there are constant pushes in the media to be more healthy and exercise but it never seems to stick.</text></item><item><author>richmt</author><text>On the health note, the single most beneficial thing I did for myself this year was to start lifting.<p>6 months ago I started committing 3 days a week to a strength training program which I&#x27;ve strictly followed since. Making gains in the gym has motivated me to sleep better and eat better which both have had huge effects on every aspect of my life.<p>Not only that, but the exercise has helped a ton with anxiety I&#x27;ve had throughout life and even the few gains I&#x27;ve made have been a huge boost in confidence.<p>I urge everyone here to take up lifting as a hobby and stick with it.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>JauntTrooper</author><text>&gt; 2. Knowledge. I don&#x27;t know how to lift weights, and I&#x27;m afraid I&#x27;ll do it wrong and end up injuring myself.<p>This kept me from lifting for a long time. This year, though, I hired a personal trainer for 5 classes to specifically teach me proper form of a few lifts I wanted to learn well (squat, bench press, deadlift, strict press). We spent most of the classes reviewing the nuances of where to place hands, wrists, legs, knees etc. He would then watch me try, and correct my posture on the spot. It really helped me develop the muscle memory I needed to do it correctly.</text></comment> | <story><title>Resolutions for programmers (2012)</title><url>http://matt.might.net/articles/programmers-resolutions/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>pavel_lishin</author><text>For me it&#x27;s a combination of things.<p>1. Convenience. If I have a gym in the building I live in, I&#x27;m about 10x more likely to use it. If it&#x27;s a block down the street, I might go once a week. If it&#x27;s two blocks down the street, it might as well be in Algiers.<p>2. Knowledge. I don&#x27;t know how to lift weights, and I&#x27;m afraid I&#x27;ll do it wrong and end up injuring myself. Apparently even running isn&#x27;t trivial to do without potentially hurting yourself. If you don&#x27;t have a friend who can show you how to do things right, it&#x27;s not as easy to get started with confidence. (And let&#x27;s face it, most of us here are probably not super likely to ask a stranger at the gym for help.)<p>3. Laziness. I&#x27;ve got work to do and video games to play, man! Working out isn&#x27;t fun. I like riding my bike, but I&#x27;m not doing it in 30 degree weather, or in the rain, or in the snow.</text></item><item><author>cabinpark</author><text>I was very lucky, growing up, to be the son of a sports medicine doctor because, from birth, healthy eating and exercise and their benefits were grilled into my brain.<p>Unfortunately I see too many people in my job (academia) who don&#x27;t exercise despite the huge potential benefits to their productivity and life. So this makes me wonder: what is it about exercise that turns people off? Is it a communication issue? Is it the lack of confidence? Lack of knowledge? It seems that there are constant pushes in the media to be more healthy and exercise but it never seems to stick.</text></item><item><author>richmt</author><text>On the health note, the single most beneficial thing I did for myself this year was to start lifting.<p>6 months ago I started committing 3 days a week to a strength training program which I&#x27;ve strictly followed since. Making gains in the gym has motivated me to sleep better and eat better which both have had huge effects on every aspect of my life.<p>Not only that, but the exercise has helped a ton with anxiety I&#x27;ve had throughout life and even the few gains I&#x27;ve made have been a huge boost in confidence.<p>I urge everyone here to take up lifting as a hobby and stick with it.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>xirdstl</author><text>You&#x27;ve pretty much nailed it, especially the last part about the cold. I will run sometimes, but the motivation required to go run when it&#x27;s freezing outside is frequently beyond my grasp.</text></comment> |
29,915,261 | 29,915,289 | 1 | 3 | 29,914,514 | train | <story><title>High degree of overlap between r/poor and crypto subreddits</title><url>https://subredditstats.com/subreddit-user-overlaps/poor</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>nostrademons</author><text>Note that if you reverse the direction, r&#x2F;cryptocurrency has a much higher correlation to r&#x2F;stockmarket, r&#x2F;investing, r&#x2F;fatfire, r&#x2F;realestateinvesting, and r&#x2F;collapse than to r&#x2F;poor. Same goes for r&#x2F;bitcoin. r&#x2F;poor does not even make the list when viewed from the crypto subreddits.<p>I think this is simply that crypto subreddits are big, and so if you try to find the overlap between r&#x2F;poor and anything else, a big subreddit will be high on the list. Same reason that r&#x2F;bayarea is high up on the overlap list for r&#x2F;poor - at first glance, the assumption is that poor people live in the Bay Area, but then when you reverse that causality and look at what Bay Area people are interested in, r&#x2F;fatfire, r&#x2F;costco, r&#x2F;realestate, and r&#x2F;cscareerquestions are way higher than r&#x2F;poor, which again doesn&#x27;t make the list.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>cwkoss</author><text>There are only 7,157 subscribers to &#x2F;r&#x2F;poor<p>There are 194,177 subs in &#x2F;r&#x2F;coinbase and 3,780,323 in &#x2F;r&#x2F;bitcoin.<p>Given the low numbers and selection bias of subreddit membership, it seems hard to draw any meaningful conclusions.<p>If you assume everyone who subscribes to &#x2F;r&#x2F;poor is poor<p>AND everyone in &#x2F;r&#x2F;poor is also on crypto subreddits<p>AND crypto subreddit users are representative of broader populations (very tenuous assumptions), that means our lower bounds are:<p>- &#x2F;r&#x2F;coinbase is 3.7% poor<p>- &#x2F;r&#x2F;bitcoin is 0.2% poor<p>Both of those are well below the general poverty rate so... who cares?<p>&#x2F;r&#x2F;poor subscribers probably are not a representative sample of poverty anyways, so these are pretty meaningless statistics.</text></comment> | <story><title>High degree of overlap between r/poor and crypto subreddits</title><url>https://subredditstats.com/subreddit-user-overlaps/poor</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>nostrademons</author><text>Note that if you reverse the direction, r&#x2F;cryptocurrency has a much higher correlation to r&#x2F;stockmarket, r&#x2F;investing, r&#x2F;fatfire, r&#x2F;realestateinvesting, and r&#x2F;collapse than to r&#x2F;poor. Same goes for r&#x2F;bitcoin. r&#x2F;poor does not even make the list when viewed from the crypto subreddits.<p>I think this is simply that crypto subreddits are big, and so if you try to find the overlap between r&#x2F;poor and anything else, a big subreddit will be high on the list. Same reason that r&#x2F;bayarea is high up on the overlap list for r&#x2F;poor - at first glance, the assumption is that poor people live in the Bay Area, but then when you reverse that causality and look at what Bay Area people are interested in, r&#x2F;fatfire, r&#x2F;costco, r&#x2F;realestate, and r&#x2F;cscareerquestions are way higher than r&#x2F;poor, which again doesn&#x27;t make the list.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>cheriot</author><text>&gt; I think this is simply that crypto subreddits are big, and so if you try to find the overlap between r&#x2F;poor and anything else, a big subreddit will be high on the list.<p>These are the largest subreddits <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;frontpagemetrics.com&#x2F;top" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;frontpagemetrics.com&#x2F;top</a>. There&#x27;s not a lot of overlap.<p>For whatever demo visits r&#x2F;poor, they have a significant interest in crypto.</text></comment> |
7,324,257 | 7,324,310 | 1 | 2 | 7,323,986 | train | <story><title>The rise of OpenStreetMap: A quest to conquer Google’s mapping empire</title><url>http://thenextweb.com/insider/2014/02/28/openstreetmap/1/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>nolok</author><text>FYI on android&#x27;s Google Maps I&#x27;ve been able to do that for at least a year and a half, and it works great for me (I used it extensively in SEA too, coincidentally). Not sure if it&#x27;s available on iOS&#x27;s version.</text></item><item><author>huskyr</author><text>One thing where OSM really shines is the ability to downloaded maps for offline use. When i was travelling in South East Asia for two months i had an iPhone with an app that allowed me to download a part of any OSM map. Because every hotel had Wi-Fi access i just downloaded the parts where i was travelling and used that instead of finding a local SIM card. Even in pretty remote parts the maps were usually good, and in some cases they were even better than the Google Maps equivalent (e.g. Laos).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>4ad</author><text>It&#x27;s incomparable. Google Maps only caches around 10km x 10km, and in offline mode search and routing doesn&#x27;t work. Also, in Google Maps it&#x27;s impossible to tell if&#x2F;what is cached and what not.<p>OSM maps can be for any area, and applications do provide search, including POI search and routing.</text></comment> | <story><title>The rise of OpenStreetMap: A quest to conquer Google’s mapping empire</title><url>http://thenextweb.com/insider/2014/02/28/openstreetmap/1/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>nolok</author><text>FYI on android&#x27;s Google Maps I&#x27;ve been able to do that for at least a year and a half, and it works great for me (I used it extensively in SEA too, coincidentally). Not sure if it&#x27;s available on iOS&#x27;s version.</text></item><item><author>huskyr</author><text>One thing where OSM really shines is the ability to downloaded maps for offline use. When i was travelling in South East Asia for two months i had an iPhone with an app that allowed me to download a part of any OSM map. Because every hotel had Wi-Fi access i just downloaded the parts where i was travelling and used that instead of finding a local SIM card. Even in pretty remote parts the maps were usually good, and in some cases they were even better than the Google Maps equivalent (e.g. Laos).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kalleboo</author><text>Whenever I&#x27;ve tried that feature in the past year or so, it says that &quot;this area can&#x27;t be cached&quot; (presumably due to licensing restrictions).</text></comment> |
29,606,711 | 29,605,949 | 1 | 2 | 29,602,064 | train | <story><title>YouTube TV loses ESPN, ABC and other Disney channels in fee dispute</title><url>https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/business/story/2021-12-17/youtube-tv-loses-espn-abc-and-other-disney-channels-in-fee-dispute</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dreyfan</author><text>Hulu + LiveTV is $65 and Sling is about $50 and Youtube TV $65.<p>These aren’t really comparable to standard Hulu or Netflix or Amazon Prime etc. It’s for people that want to pretend they’re cord-cutting while buying the exact same thing from a streaming company.</text></item><item><author>PragmaticPulp</author><text>YouTube TV is a separate $65&#x2F;month subscription. Seems like an absurdly high price relative to Hulu or Netflix, but it’s meant to compete more with local cable packages.<p>Without the premium content, it’s hard to do that. I think the content providers know this and are trying to squeeze YouTube into giving more of their profits to the content providers. Either that, or to raise prices to be similar to cable.<p>YouTube TV is claiming Disney content added $15&#x2F;month to the bill, so they’re dropping the price by $15&#x2F;month as long as Disney is out:<p>&gt; “We will be decreasing our monthly price by $15, from $64.99 to $49.99 while this content remains off of our platform,” YouTube TV said in its Friday night statement.</text></item><item><author>heartbreak</author><text>I’m really surprised by the number of top level comments that are confusing two different products: YouTube and YouTube TV.<p>YouTube TV is basically cable TV delivered via the internet with some on-demand content and an “unlimited” DVR system. There are multiple tiers via add-on packages (just like cable), and there is no ad-free offering.<p>YouTube is the video sharing website everyone uses. The ad-free version of which is called YouTube Premium.<p>These two services have very little in common besides the obvious branding and parent company. The contract&#x2F;fee dispute is between Disney and YouTube TV, and the result is that YouTube TV is currently not broadcasting Disney-owned television channels. Disney content is still all over YouTube itself via their YouTube “Channels.”</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>saltminer</author><text>&gt; It’s for people that want to pretend they’re cord-cutting while buying the exact same thing from a streaming company.<p>It legitimately is way better than cable, though. Ignoring the disputes over fees, I once tried Spectrum&#x27;s TV Android app (probably 3-4 years ago, I gave up on getting it to work), and this is what I experienced:<p>* Refuses to work if a VPN is on<p>* Must disable developer tools (doesn&#x27;t matter if you changed any settings in there or not)<p>* Root check<p>* Must be from a Spectrum home IP (and remember, you can&#x27;t VPN to your home network to use this app)<p>* Must allow access to all contacts, all texts, etc or the app would close itself (there is no legitimate justification for this, unlike potential contract stipulations requiring no root, etc - it&#x27;s purely for selling all your data)<p>* Didn&#x27;t even work after I installed it on a totally stock Android device on my home network<p>* No web interface; if you can&#x27;t run the app, too bad<p>Compared to that, YT TV&#x27;s app is a breath of fresh air. But ignoring the streaming convenience, you also have:<p>* No ads in the TV guide (which is also more responsive than any DVR I&#x27;ve ever experienced)<p>* Unlimited DVR is nice (and it&#x27;s not utter dogshit hardware that would&#x27;ve been considered unimpressive in the 90s)<p>* You don&#x27;t need a cable box - just a Chromecast (which is absolute tiny by comparison) or a TV with Chromecast built-in<p>* The pricing is much easier to understand<p>Of course, I don&#x27;t actually pay for it. My mother does, and she put my Google account as an allowed user. I just use it to watch hockey.<p>It&#x27;s true that you&#x27;re paying for the same product, but it&#x27;s delivered in a package that doesn&#x27;t scream &quot;fuck you, pay me.&quot;</text></comment> | <story><title>YouTube TV loses ESPN, ABC and other Disney channels in fee dispute</title><url>https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/business/story/2021-12-17/youtube-tv-loses-espn-abc-and-other-disney-channels-in-fee-dispute</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dreyfan</author><text>Hulu + LiveTV is $65 and Sling is about $50 and Youtube TV $65.<p>These aren’t really comparable to standard Hulu or Netflix or Amazon Prime etc. It’s for people that want to pretend they’re cord-cutting while buying the exact same thing from a streaming company.</text></item><item><author>PragmaticPulp</author><text>YouTube TV is a separate $65&#x2F;month subscription. Seems like an absurdly high price relative to Hulu or Netflix, but it’s meant to compete more with local cable packages.<p>Without the premium content, it’s hard to do that. I think the content providers know this and are trying to squeeze YouTube into giving more of their profits to the content providers. Either that, or to raise prices to be similar to cable.<p>YouTube TV is claiming Disney content added $15&#x2F;month to the bill, so they’re dropping the price by $15&#x2F;month as long as Disney is out:<p>&gt; “We will be decreasing our monthly price by $15, from $64.99 to $49.99 while this content remains off of our platform,” YouTube TV said in its Friday night statement.</text></item><item><author>heartbreak</author><text>I’m really surprised by the number of top level comments that are confusing two different products: YouTube and YouTube TV.<p>YouTube TV is basically cable TV delivered via the internet with some on-demand content and an “unlimited” DVR system. There are multiple tiers via add-on packages (just like cable), and there is no ad-free offering.<p>YouTube is the video sharing website everyone uses. The ad-free version of which is called YouTube Premium.<p>These two services have very little in common besides the obvious branding and parent company. The contract&#x2F;fee dispute is between Disney and YouTube TV, and the result is that YouTube TV is currently not broadcasting Disney-owned television channels. Disney content is still all over YouTube itself via their YouTube “Channels.”</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ghaff</author><text>And because you&#x27;re buying essentially the same content package, there&#x27;s no reason one would expect it to be significantly cheaper just because it&#x27;s streamed.<p>As a content package, it&#x27;s evolved to be something largely different from what you get from the streaming services like Netflix. It&#x27;s largely sports, news&#x2F;talk shows, and reality TV and other relatively low-cost lightly scripted&#x2F;unscripted content, some documentaries... You still have some traditional network content but it&#x27;s been a while since I&#x27;ve even heard of a network drama or comedy of note.</text></comment> |
10,996,259 | 10,996,024 | 1 | 3 | 10,993,847 | train | <story><title>Windows Phone is dead</title><url>http://www.theverge.com/2016/1/28/10864034/windows-phone-is-dead</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>WorldMaker</author><text>This clickbait title had me briefly concerned, but the only message here is that sales are low, which isn&#x27;t entirely unexpected or surprising.<p>Insider previews seem to indicate that Microsoft is still investing in making Windows 10 a strong platform on every device including mobile, and I&#x27;m very interested to see what this year&#x27;s development starts to bring...<p>(Happy Lumia 950 user.)</text></comment> | <story><title>Windows Phone is dead</title><url>http://www.theverge.com/2016/1/28/10864034/windows-phone-is-dead</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>BinaryIdiot</author><text>This makes me sad. I&#x27;ve played with Windows Phone a few times and it felt buttery smooth (even my Nexus 6P it still pauses occasionally; granted the pausing on Android gets less and less with each version but I&#x27;m still a tiny bit disappointed it still pauses unlike my past iPhones and Windows phone). Their idea for a unified OS across devices is an awesome goal as well. It&#x27;s really cool to see the latest Windows Phones and watch them plug into a keyboard, mouse and monitor and bam you have the FULL version of Microsoft Office apps and a Windows 10 like desktop.<p>But in today&#x27;s market you have to have the apps to succeed. They never really got the apps. It&#x27;s really disappointing in my opinion.</text></comment> |
31,737,016 | 31,735,571 | 1 | 2 | 31,734,660 | train | <story><title>Celsius Appears insolvent, and it's taking the whole crypto market with it</title><url>https://twitter.com/jonwu_/status/1536476104986267648</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>janmo</author><text>I had been warning about Celsius for months, in fact I even published this blog post last year: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;rorodi.substack.com&#x2F;p&#x2F;the-biggest-crypto-lending-company" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;rorodi.substack.com&#x2F;p&#x2F;the-biggest-crypto-lending-com...</a><p>Also posted it here on HN but it did not get much traction.
What really baffles me is that major VCs have put hundreds of millions into what pretty much every one who has watched one or two episodes of &quot;American Greed&quot;, would immediately recognise as being a ponzi scheme.<p>I e-mailed the regulators, the VCs etc... They did nothing, and now it is too late.</text></comment> | <story><title>Celsius Appears insolvent, and it's taking the whole crypto market with it</title><url>https://twitter.com/jonwu_/status/1536476104986267648</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>rplnt</author><text>Reddit thread warning about this 2 weeks ago. Not everyone agreed.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;old.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;CryptoCurrency&#x2F;comments&#x2F;v29t59&#x2F;celsius_is_insolvent_please_get_your_funds_out_now&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;old.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;CryptoCurrency&#x2F;comments&#x2F;v29t59&#x2F;cels...</a></text></comment> |
30,819,130 | 30,818,344 | 1 | 3 | 30,810,085 | train | <story><title>The Shaming-Industrial Complex</title><url>https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2022/03/28/the-shaming-industrial-complex-cathy-oneil-the-shame-machine-owen-flanagan-how-to-do-things-with-emotions</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>hunglee2</author><text>Shame is a powerful moderator of behaviour considered marginal or taboo in society, likely it forms an essential role in group cohesion.<p>However, it may well be maladaptive at the scale of global society, where the mechanisms of shame - the &#x27;calling out&#x27; of transgressors, the dogpiling that ensues following a successful call out - are chaotic, following no process or moderation itself.<p>The inevitable result is self censorship, in order to mitigate risk, leading to the decline of the health of public discourse, and emergence of a &#x27;self-police state&#x27; by stealth</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dalbasal</author><text>A lot of shame relates to things outside of one&#x27;s immediate control.<p>&quot;<i>Son of a whore</i>&quot; is a old shame accusation. Shame by familial association is a very &quot;traditional&quot; part of shame. People who have suffered attack, especially rape, often feel ashamed. Failure is shameful. STDs are shameful. Being illiterate or inumerate. Etc.<p>Shame in these cases isn&#x27;t about altering behaviours directly. It is about creating social hierarchies, structures and such. It results more in hiding.<p>So sure, shame has always been a part of culture and has good, along with bad effects. I don&#x27;t agree that the internet &quot;broke shame.&quot; Shame was always pretty broken. The internet just delivered it to new places.</text></comment> | <story><title>The Shaming-Industrial Complex</title><url>https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2022/03/28/the-shaming-industrial-complex-cathy-oneil-the-shame-machine-owen-flanagan-how-to-do-things-with-emotions</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>hunglee2</author><text>Shame is a powerful moderator of behaviour considered marginal or taboo in society, likely it forms an essential role in group cohesion.<p>However, it may well be maladaptive at the scale of global society, where the mechanisms of shame - the &#x27;calling out&#x27; of transgressors, the dogpiling that ensues following a successful call out - are chaotic, following no process or moderation itself.<p>The inevitable result is self censorship, in order to mitigate risk, leading to the decline of the health of public discourse, and emergence of a &#x27;self-police state&#x27; by stealth</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jsnk</author><text>It&#x27;s maladaptive for some, but also effective for some others. It can be wielded as a weapon to destroy one&#x27;s competition and enemies. It works especially well against whichever group of population that has more tendency to self-reflect and have capacity to feel shame. Whereas if a population doesn&#x27;t feel shame or less shame or construct the standard so that the shaming only applies to one group but not the other, it can thrive in this kind of environment.</text></comment> |
18,521,193 | 18,521,168 | 1 | 2 | 18,520,403 | train | <story><title>How to Talk to People, According to Terry Gross</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/17/style/self-care/terry-gross-conversation-advice.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>travisjungroth</author><text>Almost every single comment in here is critical of Terry Gross’s advice. I have to wonder, does anyone here have a 40 year career as an interviewer and millions of people tuning in to listen to them every week? In the face of uncomfortable advice it’s so easy to dig your heels in to your experience instead of thinking “maybe there’s something to learn here”.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jdboyd</author><text>Terry Gross is an excellent interview and I enjoy her work very much. However, the advice claims to be how to have better conversations. I&#x27;m not convinced that interviewing and having better conversations are the same thing. Further, I think some of the advice here is really more advice about interviews, and thus it is fair to be critical of the advice in a different context. Most of the criticism is really only on using &quot;Tell me about yourself&quot; as an ice-breaker. If I don&#x27;t like being asked that question, than it is entirely reasonable for me to wonder if it is the best opener to use in general social circumstances.</text></comment> | <story><title>How to Talk to People, According to Terry Gross</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/17/style/self-care/terry-gross-conversation-advice.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>travisjungroth</author><text>Almost every single comment in here is critical of Terry Gross’s advice. I have to wonder, does anyone here have a 40 year career as an interviewer and millions of people tuning in to listen to them every week? In the face of uncomfortable advice it’s so easy to dig your heels in to your experience instead of thinking “maybe there’s something to learn here”.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>icebraining</author><text>But that&#x27;s the thing: &quot;talking to people&quot; and &quot;interviewing them&quot; are not the same thing. It&#x27;s not even clear whether Gross is actually talking about party conversations and such, despite what the article says.<p>Also, results are not all that matters; you can be a critic of the methods even if they bring the desired outcome.</text></comment> |
37,087,864 | 37,087,084 | 1 | 2 | 37,084,262 | train | <story><title>I fixed a bug the other day</title><url>https://www.javiergonzalez.io/blog/i-fixed-a-bug/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>samhuk</author><text>&gt; Deny that there is a problem.
&gt; Deny that it is your problem.
&gt; Ask for more information.
&gt; Complain.<p>Oh my does this ever bring traumatic memories!<p>This entire article reminds me of a previous company I used to work for. There was a sufficiently large number of engineers that had a similar, if not more elaborate, deliberate, and sinister way of responding to bugs:<p>* Deny {bug} is a problem - &quot;I don&#x27;t see how this affects you&#x2F;anyone?&quot;<p>* Deny {bug} can even be fixed - &quot;Ok, fair, but I don&#x27;t see how this can be fixed?&quot;<p>* Deny {bug} is their problem - &quot;Ok, fair, but have you tried asking {other employee?}, they are responsible for this.&quot; (they are obviously not)<p>* Be rude - &quot;If you think this is a problem, then go fix it&quot;<p>All this was just obvious defensive walls of lies to protect their reputation and hide their lack of skill and their laziness.<p>Around 5% of the engineers were like this and I&#x27;ve always analogized it to the proportion of U238 in a sample of Uranium - just enough enriched dogshit to cause a critical mass of misery.<p>I left (for greener pastures) shortly after I had a couple of tasks requiring interaction with these &quot;engineers&quot;, which made working around them impossible, and then realizing that leadership had totally lost control of the zoo and didn&#x27;t care one iota.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tjbiddle</author><text>Unfortunately this same attitude bleeds into consumer-facing customer support so often.<p>I&#x27;ll find a bug, and message support about it.<p>Yes - I&#x27;ve cleared cookies, Yes - I&#x27;ve tried incognito, Yes - I&#x27;ve rebooted, Yes - I&#x27;ve tried a separate browser, Yes - I&#x27;ve tried a VPN, Yes - I&#x27;ve tried different DNT, Yes - I&#x27;ve tried incognito, Yes - I&#x27;ve tried rebooting, Yes - I&#x27;ve tried an entirely separate device.<p>Infuriating. I&#x27;m sure it catches plenty of tech illiterate people&#x27;s garbage bug reports that are just their issue - but so often I&#x27;m left banging my head on a desk when I know it&#x27;s an actual problem.</text></comment> | <story><title>I fixed a bug the other day</title><url>https://www.javiergonzalez.io/blog/i-fixed-a-bug/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>samhuk</author><text>&gt; Deny that there is a problem.
&gt; Deny that it is your problem.
&gt; Ask for more information.
&gt; Complain.<p>Oh my does this ever bring traumatic memories!<p>This entire article reminds me of a previous company I used to work for. There was a sufficiently large number of engineers that had a similar, if not more elaborate, deliberate, and sinister way of responding to bugs:<p>* Deny {bug} is a problem - &quot;I don&#x27;t see how this affects you&#x2F;anyone?&quot;<p>* Deny {bug} can even be fixed - &quot;Ok, fair, but I don&#x27;t see how this can be fixed?&quot;<p>* Deny {bug} is their problem - &quot;Ok, fair, but have you tried asking {other employee?}, they are responsible for this.&quot; (they are obviously not)<p>* Be rude - &quot;If you think this is a problem, then go fix it&quot;<p>All this was just obvious defensive walls of lies to protect their reputation and hide their lack of skill and their laziness.<p>Around 5% of the engineers were like this and I&#x27;ve always analogized it to the proportion of U238 in a sample of Uranium - just enough enriched dogshit to cause a critical mass of misery.<p>I left (for greener pastures) shortly after I had a couple of tasks requiring interaction with these &quot;engineers&quot;, which made working around them impossible, and then realizing that leadership had totally lost control of the zoo and didn&#x27;t care one iota.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>theideaofcoffee</author><text>My goodness, are you me? This mirrors my experience to a T, almost exactly when I’ve tried to change process for the better. By far the one that hits the most is be rude: “well, just start fixing things then.” It was a daily struggle to have to work around the nay-say and lazy and equivocation and it was so demoralizing knowing that there was a simple fix but people didn’t want to do it because it would out their incompetence and start to reveal the tremendous pile of tech debt they’ve built everything else on.<p>The most funny thing was that this was not a huge organization at all, it was small for the scale they were working at but certain individuals have ossified the culture to a point where you would have thought it was hundreds of others. So frustrating, day in and day out.<p>&gt; leadership had totally lost control of the zoo<p>This kills me<p>So glad to see I’m not alone!</text></comment> |
17,037,276 | 17,036,923 | 1 | 3 | 17,028,878 | train | <story><title>The Logical Disaster of Null</title><url>https://rob.conery.io/2018/05/01/the-logical-disaster-of-null/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>paulhodge</author><text>I have a pet peeve whenever people bring up the old &quot;Billion dollar mistake&quot; quote. Calling it a mistake means that it could have been avoided. But we couldn&#x27;t have avoided null pointer errors (or some other name for the same thing) any more than humans could have avoided the bronze age. In the 60s and 70s we didn&#x27;t have the &quot;technology&quot; to avoid null errors. By technology I mean production-ready languages with a static typing layer sophisticated enough to implement a Maybe&#x2F;Optional type. Those languages weren&#x27;t production ready until maybe around the 80s. And most of those compilers were themselves implemented in unsafe-null languages like C.<p>But anyway, that&#x27;s history, now we have nice languages that have safe nulls, so the interesting questions moving forward are: why are people still creating new languages that have unsafe nulls (looking at you Go), and why are people still choosing to use languages with unsafe nulls?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>alkonaut</author><text>There were better languages but Unix won, and with that - C. A mistake we (whoever “we” are) repeated with JavaScript - we let the language win that was “there”, not the one we really needed.<p>Worse is better. Ease of deployment over ease of development.<p>As for the Q: why design languages with null (that is - incomplete or flawed type systems) <i>now</i>? I have o idea. I think the reasoning is that “worse is better” succeeded for JS, php, C, so it’s a viable path.<p>“Maybe an X” and “Definitely an X” are more different than string and number. If a language pretends string and number are distinct but at the same time has no distiction for “maybe X” - then it doesn’t have a very good type system.<p>Note that it doesn’t necessarily need to avoid null values for this. Non-nullables is mostly equivalent although less elegant. That is, “String s” means a string or null, while “String! s” means a non-null string (example from a C# vNext syntax).</text></comment> | <story><title>The Logical Disaster of Null</title><url>https://rob.conery.io/2018/05/01/the-logical-disaster-of-null/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>paulhodge</author><text>I have a pet peeve whenever people bring up the old &quot;Billion dollar mistake&quot; quote. Calling it a mistake means that it could have been avoided. But we couldn&#x27;t have avoided null pointer errors (or some other name for the same thing) any more than humans could have avoided the bronze age. In the 60s and 70s we didn&#x27;t have the &quot;technology&quot; to avoid null errors. By technology I mean production-ready languages with a static typing layer sophisticated enough to implement a Maybe&#x2F;Optional type. Those languages weren&#x27;t production ready until maybe around the 80s. And most of those compilers were themselves implemented in unsafe-null languages like C.<p>But anyway, that&#x27;s history, now we have nice languages that have safe nulls, so the interesting questions moving forward are: why are people still creating new languages that have unsafe nulls (looking at you Go), and why are people still choosing to use languages with unsafe nulls?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tpush</author><text>There really isn&#x27;t anything sophisticated about having sum types, ALGOL 68 had them in some form for crying out loud.</text></comment> |
26,782,810 | 26,783,161 | 1 | 2 | 26,782,346 | train | <story><title>Why you should NOT use NativeScript</title><url>https://csimpi.medium.com/why-you-should-not-use-nativescript-76e1348a7cb4</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>stewx</author><text>Having spent a few months at work attempting to build an application in NativeScript, my advice to others is don&#x27;t touch it with a ten-foot pole.<p>It is marketed as a holy grail for mobile development, but it is very, very immature. It should be considered an experimental technology.<p>Why do I say that? It has a severe lack of features and a high bug count.<p>It claims to support CSS but in fact it only supports about 10% of what CSS can do in the browser.<p>It also has an insanely huge backlog of bugs, which you can see for yourself on GitHub. I filed a bug report for what is a fatal flaw IMO: you can&#x27;t write unit tests against async code. The dev team acknowledged it is a problem and yet it has collected dust for a year. No serious business should use a tool that doesn&#x27;t allow you to write unit tests. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;NativeScript&#x2F;nativescript-angular&#x2F;issues&#x2F;2122" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;NativeScript&#x2F;nativescript-angular&#x2F;issues&#x2F;...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Why you should NOT use NativeScript</title><url>https://csimpi.medium.com/why-you-should-not-use-nativescript-76e1348a7cb4</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>natenthe</author><text>This post is on point. I spent a good amount of time working on multiple NativeScript apps (NS with Angular and NS with Vue) and can attest that the documentation is not good enough and that there are serious bugs that are pointed out and never fixed or addressed.<p>I will say that open-source is a good thing to do and that they are not solving an easy problem - developing native mobile apps with multiple JS frameworks like Angular and Vue. Good on them for the effort. On top of that, there is definitely a market need for an Angular &#x2F; Vue &#x2F; JS to native app library for people that don&#x27;t want to use React-Native for whatever reason.<p>However, with that said...marketing their software as production ready, easy-to-use, and <i>working</i> out of the box while it being the exact opposite is harmful to the companies and developers that sink serious time and effort into building with NS. There needs to be more awareness like this blog post about how people should stay away from NS because of the issues mentioned. That is not being negative - it is being ethical and doing the right thing for the companies and developers that would end up having broken apps and serious sunken costs into platform that doesn&#x27;t live up to what it says it does.<p>I have many Github issues that were acknowledged as bugs but never addressed or fixed. I even offered a workaround that people are probably still using to this day because they never fixed certain bugs and docs. I haven&#x27;t really interacted with the NS people too much besides on a few issues that weren&#x27;t answered, so I can&#x27;t comment on their attitude, but I can attest that everything else the OP is saying is true about NS not being a good solution.<p>NS isn&#x27;t <i>soo</i> terrible where nothing ever works. I believe the apps I worked on are still running in production. But, I&#x27;ll put it this way - everyone learned from the experience that using NS is definitely not a good idea to use for developing mobile apps.</text></comment> |
18,475,456 | 18,474,389 | 1 | 2 | 18,466,501 | train | <story><title>A chemical so hot it destroys nerve endings – in a good way</title><url>https://www.wired.com/story/resiniferatoxin/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>mabbo</author><text>Naturally I wanted to know if anyone had tried cooking with or eating this super spicy compound. I found this [0]:<p>&gt; “With a friend, we put one drop of a very dilute solution”—he pointed to the tip of his tongue—“and then immediately rinsed it off. At the point where we put it, I couldn’t feel anything for a week.”<p>To anyone with the same bad idea as me, the answer is no, we don&#x27;t want to eat these.<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cooksillustrated.com&#x2F;science&#x2F;783-articles&#x2F;feature&#x2F;hurts-so-good" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cooksillustrated.com&#x2F;science&#x2F;783-articles&#x2F;featur...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>A chemical so hot it destroys nerve endings – in a good way</title><url>https://www.wired.com/story/resiniferatoxin/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>mirimir</author><text>This sounds wonderful for chronic pain. Reportedly, only pain neurons are affected. And for joints and other relatively isolated sites, effects can be targeted. So yes, your knee doesn&#x27;t hurt, and you could injure it worse without the pain feedback. But you&#x27;d have ~normal pain sensation elsewhere.<p>We already use capsaicin patches. So hey.</text></comment> |
10,713,945 | 10,713,709 | 1 | 2 | 10,713,290 | train | <story><title>Report: Microsoft the top-selling tablet maker based on online sales in October</title><url>http://www.techtimes.com/articles/114316/20151209/microsoft-surface-overtakes-apple-s-ipad-as-top-selling-tablet-online.htm</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dangoor</author><text>I&#x27;ve seen others knock down this report already, but I&#x27;m having trouble finding a link. What those other articles noted is that this is US-only, online-only sales (and I believe from people who opted in to provide this data). Apple sells a lot of iPads at their own stores, and certainly outside of the US.<p>Ahh, here&#x27;s one of the sites that did a take down of this report:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.thurrott.com&#x2F;mobile&#x2F;ios&#x2F;62854&#x2F;so-did-surface-really-outsell-ipad-in-october" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.thurrott.com&#x2F;mobile&#x2F;ios&#x2F;62854&#x2F;so-did-surface-rea...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>KirinDave</author><text>The knock against this this is that it&#x27;s a very clickbaity title. If it&#x27;s true, it&#x27;s a big deal, but the title made it to be a BIGGER deal by implying it&#x27;s all sales. Which would be huge, but also absurd.<p>The idea that Surface is selling well should be taken away even if the article is clickbaity. By all accounts, MS is hitting supply walls with Skylake before they meet demand or cross some sort of arbitrary sales goal they want to maintain [0]. They&#x27;re sold out everywhere and backordered on the SP4 and SB. I&#x27;m glad I pre-ordered!<p>And the MS devkit? It&#x27;s.. um.. I mean I know that people will be shocked to hear it but it&#x27;s not only really damn good these days, but it&#x27;s open source. Look at how you do Async programming on Windows Phone with C# or JavaScript, and what kinda performance gains you get. Check out the MS GitHub and see how much of themselves they&#x27;ve put out there and opened to the community.<p>It&#x27;s a big deal. I&#x27;m actually enthusiastic to join their dev community.<p>[0]: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;wccftech.com&#x2F;intel-skylake-core-i5-i7-processors-global-shortage&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;wccftech.com&#x2F;intel-skylake-core-i5-i7-processors-glob...</a> <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.pcr-online.biz&#x2F;news&#x2F;read&#x2F;there-will-be-a-major-shortage-of-skylake-cpus-until-end-of-november&#x2F;036847" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.pcr-online.biz&#x2F;news&#x2F;read&#x2F;there-will-be-a-major-sh...</a> <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.winbeta.org&#x2F;news&#x2F;rumor-surface-book-surface-pro-4-shipments-delayed-due-intel-skylake-shortages" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.winbeta.org&#x2F;news&#x2F;rumor-surface-book-surface-pro-4...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Report: Microsoft the top-selling tablet maker based on online sales in October</title><url>http://www.techtimes.com/articles/114316/20151209/microsoft-surface-overtakes-apple-s-ipad-as-top-selling-tablet-online.htm</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dangoor</author><text>I&#x27;ve seen others knock down this report already, but I&#x27;m having trouble finding a link. What those other articles noted is that this is US-only, online-only sales (and I believe from people who opted in to provide this data). Apple sells a lot of iPads at their own stores, and certainly outside of the US.<p>Ahh, here&#x27;s one of the sites that did a take down of this report:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.thurrott.com&#x2F;mobile&#x2F;ios&#x2F;62854&#x2F;so-did-surface-really-outsell-ipad-in-october" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.thurrott.com&#x2F;mobile&#x2F;ios&#x2F;62854&#x2F;so-did-surface-rea...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>sergers</author><text>i wouldnt really call that a take down&#x2F;knock down in your terms.<p>-noone else claims to have seen this early release of this report to be able to refute the data.+<p>-yes this is US online shopping only data anyalysis, this outlined in the original article giving background on 1010data that this article references[0]<p>[0] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.winbeta.org&#x2F;news&#x2F;microsoft-beats-apple-online-tablet-sales" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.winbeta.org&#x2F;news&#x2F;microsoft-beats-apple-online-tab...</a><p>it is based on data provided to 1010data from consumers as well as data analysis from the &quot;top 100&quot; online sellers.<p>the biggest online seller for ipads i assume is the Apple store, which probably isnt aggregating data to 3rd parties.<p>i wouldnt be suprised though if Surface+Windows 10 tablets (xiaomi mi pad 2) start to dominate the market.<p>most people i know who own a ipad, nearly everyone owns one, isnt looking to replace their ipads with the newer versions.
if its working, no major features&#x2F;changes requiring an upgrade to a newer ipad.<p>everyone looking to get a new device is looking at the surface&#x2F;windows 10 as a new tablet and even a laptop replacement.</text></comment> |
28,686,164 | 28,685,799 | 1 | 2 | 28,682,011 | train | <story><title>Masked email from Fastmail and 1Password</title><url>https://www.fastmail.com/1password/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tangoalpha</author><text>This would be a large personal disaster and a full time personal project if the service provider decides to shut down the service. One would have to crawl through all services they have signed up for to update the email addresses.<p>Instead get a domain. Configure email as well as a catch all address. Example [email protected] would reach [email protected] which you use as your primary email address.<p>And say, if I am signing up for Netflix, I would give the email as [email protected]. The email automatically reaches my single primary inbox with the catch-all behavior. And if I find a lot of spam to [email protected], I know which service is leaking my email address and I can quickly block all emails sent to [email protected]</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>LinuxBender</author><text>One mild word of caution on this method. I too have done this forever but recently I have been running into a few businesses that get really upset if their name is in your email address and they will flag it as fraud despite there being no logical reason to do so. It isn&#x27;t like I am using a domain name matching their name. The most staunch and stubborn of these I ran into recently was The Tractor Supply Company. I&#x27;ve been trying for a month to get a gift card reimbursed that they cancelled the order on because I had their name in the email address. There are a couple gaming companies that do this as well. Just pick a name that is unique and put it in your password database.</text></comment> | <story><title>Masked email from Fastmail and 1Password</title><url>https://www.fastmail.com/1password/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tangoalpha</author><text>This would be a large personal disaster and a full time personal project if the service provider decides to shut down the service. One would have to crawl through all services they have signed up for to update the email addresses.<p>Instead get a domain. Configure email as well as a catch all address. Example [email protected] would reach [email protected] which you use as your primary email address.<p>And say, if I am signing up for Netflix, I would give the email as [email protected]. The email automatically reaches my single primary inbox with the catch-all behavior. And if I find a lot of spam to [email protected], I know which service is leaking my email address and I can quickly block all emails sent to [email protected]</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>satysin</author><text>A custom domain with wildcard for catch all is how I have been creating logins for the past 17 years. It is fascinating to see which addresses suddenly start getting spam down the road.<p>It is also very easy to nuke an address this way once it is a spam trap.</text></comment> |
39,847,769 | 39,847,421 | 1 | 2 | 39,846,295 | train | <story><title>The Lord of the Rings Family Tree</title><url>http://lotrproject.com/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>kelnos</author><text>This is fantastic! I read the Silmarillion when I was in high school, and while it was a bit difficult to get through at times, I was in complete awe of the world Tolkien had built. Seeing it all laid out like this is amazing.<p>(OT, but it looks like the page&#x27;s character encoding is broken. And of course Firefox decided to ditch the ability to set the correct charset manually. The &quot;Repair Text Encoding&quot; button isn&#x27;t working for me.)</text></comment> | <story><title>The Lord of the Rings Family Tree</title><url>http://lotrproject.com/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>geokon</author><text>Did Tolkein somehow keep track of all this in his head, or did he draw family trees himself?<p>And are there any examples of mistakes in LOTR where he messes up the chronology or anything like that?</text></comment> |
39,518,953 | 39,518,747 | 1 | 2 | 39,514,778 | train | <story><title>Ryzen Z1's Tiny iGPU</title><url>https://chipsandcheese.com/2024/02/25/ryzen-z1s-tiny-igpu/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dannyw</author><text>My pet gripe with AMD and Intel is that their APUs &#x2F; gaming chips always over-index on CPU performance, and under-index on GPU performance.<p>I get it, it’s a CPU&#x2F;SoC. But the end users care about FPS. Dedicate more of your die area to GPUs, and you’d crown the competition.<p>Steam Deck, and the PS5&#x2F;Xbox chips are the sole exceptions; I wish those chips were available to consumers to buy.<p>Give me a quad core, or hexa core at most, with top of the line integrated graphics. The extra 4 cores are wasted die space for gamers.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Tuna-Fish</author><text>The lead APU of each generation usually wouldn&#x27;t get meaningfully faster if you just spent more silicon on the GPU instead of the CPU.<p>The fundamental problem here is that GPUs require more memory bandwidth than CPUs, the platforms are created for CPUs, resulting in a pretty hard cap on APU GPU performance using the same platform. Generational GPU performance gains on APUs happen when the platforms update to faster memory.<p>The big break in this will be Strix Halo, coming from AMD either next year or late this year, as it will support 256-bit LPDDR5. Even using the fastest LPDDR5 available on the market, this will still just barely match the memory performance of Radeon 7600, the weakest current-gen discrete GPU AMD has on the market.</text></comment> | <story><title>Ryzen Z1's Tiny iGPU</title><url>https://chipsandcheese.com/2024/02/25/ryzen-z1s-tiny-igpu/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dannyw</author><text>My pet gripe with AMD and Intel is that their APUs &#x2F; gaming chips always over-index on CPU performance, and under-index on GPU performance.<p>I get it, it’s a CPU&#x2F;SoC. But the end users care about FPS. Dedicate more of your die area to GPUs, and you’d crown the competition.<p>Steam Deck, and the PS5&#x2F;Xbox chips are the sole exceptions; I wish those chips were available to consumers to buy.<p>Give me a quad core, or hexa core at most, with top of the line integrated graphics. The extra 4 cores are wasted die space for gamers.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>blackoil</author><text>How big is the market? Anyone even little serious about gaming will get a dedicated GPU and they can&#x27;t beat it no matter how much space they use. It will have weaker cpu that will hurt in many tasks. x86 isn&#x27;t big in mobile form factor.</text></comment> |
28,552,767 | 28,549,240 | 1 | 3 | 28,536,516 | train | <story><title>Infinity Category Theory Offers a Bird’s-Eye View of Mathematics</title><url>https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/infinity-category-theory-offers-a-birds-eye-view-of-mathematics/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>OscarCunningham</author><text>&#x27;The category of algebras of a monad on Set is complete and cocomplete, and the forgetful functor preserves limits.&#x27; gets you pretty far in a lot of subjects.</text></item><item><author>red_trumpet</author><text>&gt; We&#x27;d spend most of the semester proving some trivial facts about morphisms and functors, just specialized to an unfamiliar category<p>Even if you know category theory, you still need to prove facts about the different categories you are dealing with. Just phrasing it in the language of category theory seldom suffices to prove something.</text></item><item><author>benrbray</author><text>I&#x27;ve recently been studying category theory, mostly from Riehl&#x27;s book, a few years after finishing my undergraduate math degree at a well-regarded school. I can&#x27;t help but feel a little cheated that not one of my professors thought it was important to show us a little category theory.<p>Learning category theory has brought clarity that I never felt as a student. I always had this strange feeling that many of my courses wasted time proving &quot;the same&quot; facts over and over again. From group theory, to linear algebra, to topology, to measure theory. We&#x27;d spend most of the semester proving some trivial facts about morphisms and functors, just specialized to an unfamiliar category, and by the time we were done, we only had time to prove one or two interesting theorems before the semester ended.<p>Back then, I had stumbled upon some Wikipedia pages about category theory, but all the jargon seemed impenetrable at the time. Now, I really wish it had part of the curriculum from the very beginning. Simply giving students in an abstract algebra class the simple definitions for category, functor, and natural transformation would go a long way. Math programs should probably also start teaching Haskell or Coq in the first or second year.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ogogmad</author><text>Doesn&#x27;t the preservation of limits follow from the fact that the forgetful functor is right adjoint to the free functor? A left adjoint functor is always cocontinuous and a right adjoint functor is always continuous.<p>Looking at examples of &quot;algebras of a monad on set&quot;, I see groups and monoids. Does this explain why:<p>- The trivial group corresponds to a singleton set?<p>- The direct product of two groups G and H corresponds to their Cartesian products as sets? And so on to direct products of infinitely many groups?<p>- An equaliser of G under homs f and g has as its underlying set {x \in G : f(x) = g(x)}?<p>And so on, I see that the same must be true for any other algebraic structure which is a &quot;category of algebras of a monad on Set&quot;. Or have I misunderstood?<p>[edit]<p>I also see that because the free functor is cocontinuous (because it&#x27;s left adjoint to the forgetful functor), the free group generated by the union of some sets is the same as the free product (<i>not</i> direct sum) of their individual free groups (because the free product is a coproduct but the direct sum is not). If we want a correspondence with direct sum instead, we need to generate free abelian groups instead of free groups.</text></comment> | <story><title>Infinity Category Theory Offers a Bird’s-Eye View of Mathematics</title><url>https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/infinity-category-theory-offers-a-birds-eye-view-of-mathematics/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>OscarCunningham</author><text>&#x27;The category of algebras of a monad on Set is complete and cocomplete, and the forgetful functor preserves limits.&#x27; gets you pretty far in a lot of subjects.</text></item><item><author>red_trumpet</author><text>&gt; We&#x27;d spend most of the semester proving some trivial facts about morphisms and functors, just specialized to an unfamiliar category<p>Even if you know category theory, you still need to prove facts about the different categories you are dealing with. Just phrasing it in the language of category theory seldom suffices to prove something.</text></item><item><author>benrbray</author><text>I&#x27;ve recently been studying category theory, mostly from Riehl&#x27;s book, a few years after finishing my undergraduate math degree at a well-regarded school. I can&#x27;t help but feel a little cheated that not one of my professors thought it was important to show us a little category theory.<p>Learning category theory has brought clarity that I never felt as a student. I always had this strange feeling that many of my courses wasted time proving &quot;the same&quot; facts over and over again. From group theory, to linear algebra, to topology, to measure theory. We&#x27;d spend most of the semester proving some trivial facts about morphisms and functors, just specialized to an unfamiliar category, and by the time we were done, we only had time to prove one or two interesting theorems before the semester ended.<p>Back then, I had stumbled upon some Wikipedia pages about category theory, but all the jargon seemed impenetrable at the time. Now, I really wish it had part of the curriculum from the very beginning. Simply giving students in an abstract algebra class the simple definitions for category, functor, and natural transformation would go a long way. Math programs should probably also start teaching Haskell or Coq in the first or second year.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>orbifold</author><text>Yeah no. There are whole fields completely untouched by such reasoning, like analysis.</text></comment> |
35,082,028 | 35,081,430 | 1 | 3 | 35,079,340 | train | <story><title>GarlicGPT – we hallucinate so you don't have to</title><url>https://www.garlicgpt.com/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>mdp2021</author><text>Interesting post this of today, of the «treadmill that runs away from you»:<p>when somebody claims that we have with &quot;LLMs&quot; a potential quasi-sentience we sometimes reply &quot;but we have already invented the cat&quot;, and the idea of an AI based treadmill which you have to chase around to exercise makes us note - &quot;that would be a dog&quot;.</text></comment> | <story><title>GarlicGPT – we hallucinate so you don't have to</title><url>https://www.garlicgpt.com/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>userbinator</author><text>Of all the all the applications of LLMs I&#x27;ve seen so far, I think generating endless amounts of humour is still the best thing they can do.</text></comment> |
33,199,390 | 33,199,096 | 1 | 2 | 33,198,708 | train | <story><title>Equifax used records it collects from companies to fire employees with 2nd jobs</title><url>https://www.businessinsider.com/equifax-fires-employees-for-working-two-jobs-2022-10</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>raydiatian</author><text>&gt; Executives, especially in the tech industry, have said they&#x27;re worried that some remote employees are distracted.<p>“Distracted” like the time that Equifax leaked hundreds of millions of pieces of personal data. Maybe instead of blaming the workforce they should worry about making the company a place that people want to work exclusively. Equifax does not matter at all as an organization.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>teawrecks</author><text>Yeah I don&#x27;t buy the complaints about remote workers being distracted. Isn&#x27;t this the sole purpose of performance reviews? If the employee isn&#x27;t doing their job, just fire them.<p>Sounds to me like the execs just have control issues. &quot;WE get to fly around in the private jets and strike business deals on the golf course, not you!&quot;</text></comment> | <story><title>Equifax used records it collects from companies to fire employees with 2nd jobs</title><url>https://www.businessinsider.com/equifax-fires-employees-for-working-two-jobs-2022-10</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>raydiatian</author><text>&gt; Executives, especially in the tech industry, have said they&#x27;re worried that some remote employees are distracted.<p>“Distracted” like the time that Equifax leaked hundreds of millions of pieces of personal data. Maybe instead of blaming the workforce they should worry about making the company a place that people want to work exclusively. Equifax does not matter at all as an organization.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>djbusby</author><text>Sadly, they do matter. Lots of power, low accountability. Equifax and the other two have a very large impact on USA citizens day-to-day. I hate it but, we can&#x27;t pretend they don&#x27;t matter.</text></comment> |
14,882,893 | 14,882,754 | 1 | 3 | 14,882,209 | train | <story><title>The case against Kotlin</title><url>https://medium.com/@Pinterest_Engineering/the-case-against-kotlin-2c574cb87953</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>buremba</author><text>You know, there is a joke that 90% of the developers think that they&#x27;re better than average. :)</text></item><item><author>eropple</author><text>This article misses something I feel is really very important: <i>Kotlin is just Java</i>! Like, granted, I&#x27;m probably a better-than-average developer, but I was turning out well-factored, clean, readable, 100% Java-interoperable code in Kotlin in about a day. Over time I&#x27;ve added more Kotlin-specific stuff (like their way nicer-feeling collections APIs) but for real, it&#x27;s just...Java.<p>But it&#x27;s smarter Java. It gets out of your way. If you understand Java, the 1:1 mapping between Kotlin and Java is trivial. I can tell you what the auto-generated Kotlin code from the IntelliJ helpers is gonna look like when you convert Java to Kotlin and it&#x27;s just...obvious? The only thing I have ever had even the slightest trouble with was how to take a var (which I understood immediately to be a backing field with getter&#x2F;setter methods under the hood, both because the doc says so and because IDEA says &quot;from getFoo&#x2F;setFoo&quot; when importing Java so it&#x27;s an obvious intuitive leap) and apply a Hibernate Validator attribute only to the getter. It was a hole in the docs at the time, but I figured it out: `@get:Something()`. If that&#x27;s the only thing that gets an experienced but largely out-of-the-game Java developer a little head-scratchy, this should be a slam-dunk type of thing for somebody who writes Java every day.<p>Maybe it&#x27;s harder for Android. (I think you should write React Native for Android for basically anything you can--and I have, I released a Google Play app a couple weeks ago that I really should get around to marketing--because while I am down with Kotlin,I also like being able to actually share code everywhere.) But Java-to-Kotlin is a no-brainer, in my book, at literally any Java shop not targeting, like, Java one-dot-ancient.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>szemet</author><text>&quot;90% of the developers think that they&#x27;re better than average&quot;<p>Median. It can happen that 90% of programmers literally better than the average.</text></comment> | <story><title>The case against Kotlin</title><url>https://medium.com/@Pinterest_Engineering/the-case-against-kotlin-2c574cb87953</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>buremba</author><text>You know, there is a joke that 90% of the developers think that they&#x27;re better than average. :)</text></item><item><author>eropple</author><text>This article misses something I feel is really very important: <i>Kotlin is just Java</i>! Like, granted, I&#x27;m probably a better-than-average developer, but I was turning out well-factored, clean, readable, 100% Java-interoperable code in Kotlin in about a day. Over time I&#x27;ve added more Kotlin-specific stuff (like their way nicer-feeling collections APIs) but for real, it&#x27;s just...Java.<p>But it&#x27;s smarter Java. It gets out of your way. If you understand Java, the 1:1 mapping between Kotlin and Java is trivial. I can tell you what the auto-generated Kotlin code from the IntelliJ helpers is gonna look like when you convert Java to Kotlin and it&#x27;s just...obvious? The only thing I have ever had even the slightest trouble with was how to take a var (which I understood immediately to be a backing field with getter&#x2F;setter methods under the hood, both because the doc says so and because IDEA says &quot;from getFoo&#x2F;setFoo&quot; when importing Java so it&#x27;s an obvious intuitive leap) and apply a Hibernate Validator attribute only to the getter. It was a hole in the docs at the time, but I figured it out: `@get:Something()`. If that&#x27;s the only thing that gets an experienced but largely out-of-the-game Java developer a little head-scratchy, this should be a slam-dunk type of thing for somebody who writes Java every day.<p>Maybe it&#x27;s harder for Android. (I think you should write React Native for Android for basically anything you can--and I have, I released a Google Play app a couple weeks ago that I really should get around to marketing--because while I am down with Kotlin,I also like being able to actually share code everywhere.) But Java-to-Kotlin is a no-brainer, in my book, at literally any Java shop not targeting, like, Java one-dot-ancient.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>zem</author><text>you can thank that one guy who wrote a 10000 line php function to validate email addresses.</text></comment> |
31,677,293 | 31,677,397 | 1 | 2 | 31,676,445 | train | <story><title>50th Anniversary of the Mother of All Demos (2018)</title><url>https://amasad.me/moad</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>gumby</author><text>What do you mean? He was funded by SRI for a long time, and spent time visiting other people and spreading the word. I first met him when he visited PARC, probably for the upteent time but I’d just joined.<p>He was full of interesting ideas, not someone who just had one big insight long ago, and was great to talk to about your own work.<p>His memorial service was full of amazing people whom he’d met and worked with in the Valley over the decades. Mind boggling how that works — quite different from a fully remote world. We talk about WFH vs office, but less about the value of running into Doug engelbart or don knuth while walking down the street.</text></item><item><author>rmason</author><text>I had the change to meet him in SF. He was an inspirational guy, the only other person I heard speak who made you want to leave the room and start building something, anything was Woz.<p>But I am left wondering what could have been, what might have been. Nobody would fund him. Apple probably should have just given him a lab with a couple of employees and a modest budget. Who knows what he might have invented? He had that rare ability to see into the future. The world lost a good thirty years of his genius and not being a Valley insider I am left wondering why?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Hermitian909</author><text>&gt; His memorial service was full of amazing people whom he’d met and worked with in the Valley over the decades<p>I was at that service and several people spoke about how his ideas did not really get the backing they deserved, Ted Nelson not the least of them.<p>This makes more sense when you realize that what Doug really wanted was to transform the way people worked far more than he wanted to invent cool new tech, but while people were happy to have him as a member of staff he needed to be given freedom to play with organizations and no one was ready to try anything as radical as he had in mind.<p>I remember there was a period where Google was trying to make him a permanent fixture and he said in a private conversation something to the effect of it feeling like being surrounded by a bunch of young people who just wanted to admire him like a statue, not engage with his ideas.</text></comment> | <story><title>50th Anniversary of the Mother of All Demos (2018)</title><url>https://amasad.me/moad</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>gumby</author><text>What do you mean? He was funded by SRI for a long time, and spent time visiting other people and spreading the word. I first met him when he visited PARC, probably for the upteent time but I’d just joined.<p>He was full of interesting ideas, not someone who just had one big insight long ago, and was great to talk to about your own work.<p>His memorial service was full of amazing people whom he’d met and worked with in the Valley over the decades. Mind boggling how that works — quite different from a fully remote world. We talk about WFH vs office, but less about the value of running into Doug engelbart or don knuth while walking down the street.</text></item><item><author>rmason</author><text>I had the change to meet him in SF. He was an inspirational guy, the only other person I heard speak who made you want to leave the room and start building something, anything was Woz.<p>But I am left wondering what could have been, what might have been. Nobody would fund him. Apple probably should have just given him a lab with a couple of employees and a modest budget. Who knows what he might have invented? He had that rare ability to see into the future. The world lost a good thirty years of his genius and not being a Valley insider I am left wondering why?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rektide</author><text>This 3-day old comment, quoting a description of his time at Tymnet, fits all too much what I&#x27;d expect of a starlings middle&#x2F;late career, of talent being unsupported.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=31633395" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=31633395</a></text></comment> |
24,265,672 | 24,265,232 | 1 | 3 | 24,261,826 | train | <story><title>Being OK with not being extraordinary</title><url>https://www.tiffanymatthe.com/not-extraordinary</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>thelean12</author><text>There are lots of people reacting to the extraordinary with &quot;inspiration&quot;, &quot;disappointment&quot;, and &quot;jealousy&quot;.<p>I&#x27;d say none of these are as useful as reacting with <i>curiosity</i>. There&#x27;s an endless amount to learn from the extraordinary in any field or sport or hobby. It&#x27;s easy to write off the extraordinary as naturally talented or lucky or something else surface level. Most of the time it&#x27;s anything but.<p>I play golf. It&#x27;s a game that can be extraordinarily frustrating to beginners. It often takes years of hard work to just be moderately adequate at the game. Going into it with disappointment or jealousy of extraordinary golfers will quickly lead them to quit as they&#x27;ll be way too stressed out to enjoy the game. Those who go into it with inspiration or admiration of those who are better won&#x27;t be able to sustain it when the inspiration burns out.<p><i>Curiosity</i> is the only emotion I&#x27;ve found that is sustainable. Endless curiosity as you try to figure out and piece together what makes someone good at what they do. It&#x27;s an emotion that sustains because it&#x27;s the only emotion that is useful both when you hit a bad shot and when you hit a good shot. It&#x27;s useful both when you watch someone who is worse than you, and when you watch someone who is better than you.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>munificent</author><text><i>&gt; Curiosity is the only emotion I&#x27;ve found that is sustainable.</i><p>The other one I know is gratitude.<p>When I&#x27;m in the right headspace, instead of being intimidated or jealous of the accomplishments of others, I&#x27;m grateful that they shared those accomplishments with us all, and that I&#x27;m able to learn from them.<p>Half the time when I watch Jacques Pepin, I think that I&#x27;ll never make an omelet that good. But the other half the time, I&#x27;m so thankful that he&#x27;s shown me how to make mine better than they ever were before.</text></comment> | <story><title>Being OK with not being extraordinary</title><url>https://www.tiffanymatthe.com/not-extraordinary</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>thelean12</author><text>There are lots of people reacting to the extraordinary with &quot;inspiration&quot;, &quot;disappointment&quot;, and &quot;jealousy&quot;.<p>I&#x27;d say none of these are as useful as reacting with <i>curiosity</i>. There&#x27;s an endless amount to learn from the extraordinary in any field or sport or hobby. It&#x27;s easy to write off the extraordinary as naturally talented or lucky or something else surface level. Most of the time it&#x27;s anything but.<p>I play golf. It&#x27;s a game that can be extraordinarily frustrating to beginners. It often takes years of hard work to just be moderately adequate at the game. Going into it with disappointment or jealousy of extraordinary golfers will quickly lead them to quit as they&#x27;ll be way too stressed out to enjoy the game. Those who go into it with inspiration or admiration of those who are better won&#x27;t be able to sustain it when the inspiration burns out.<p><i>Curiosity</i> is the only emotion I&#x27;ve found that is sustainable. Endless curiosity as you try to figure out and piece together what makes someone good at what they do. It&#x27;s an emotion that sustains because it&#x27;s the only emotion that is useful both when you hit a bad shot and when you hit a good shot. It&#x27;s useful both when you watch someone who is worse than you, and when you watch someone who is better than you.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>PaulStatezny</author><text>Disclaimer: I ask this to explore the truth in your comment, not to be pedantic about your choice of terms.<p>&gt; Curiosity is the only emotion I&#x27;ve found that&#x27;s sustainable.<p>It jumped out at me that curiosity technically isn&#x27;t an emotion, but might be better labeled a state of mind. So the natural follow-up question for me is: What are some ways to help oneself get in that state of mind?<p>The professor that taught my &quot;logic&quot; class in college would say that feelings and actions come about as a result of _beliefs_. So what kinds of beliefs lead to feeling inspired&#x2F;disappointed&#x2F;jealous? And in contrast, what kinds of beliefs tend to lead one to curiosity?</text></comment> |
28,990,703 | 28,989,093 | 1 | 2 | 28,988,350 | train | <story><title>An ultra-precise clock shows how to link the quantum world with gravity</title><url>https://www.quantamagazine.org/an-atomic-clock-promises-link-between-quantum-world-and-gravity-20211025/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>lisper</author><text>Note that they are not actually measuring the gravitational influence of the atoms themselves. They are measuring the difference in <i>earth&#x27;s</i> gravitational field at two locations separated by a millimeter. That is a stupendous technological achievement, but it is not in and of itself progress towards a theory of quantum gravity.</text></comment> | <story><title>An ultra-precise clock shows how to link the quantum world with gravity</title><url>https://www.quantamagazine.org/an-atomic-clock-promises-link-between-quantum-world-and-gravity-20211025/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>ck2</author><text>I thought they already measured this via satellites and time dilation, GPS in particular has to know exactly how much time is lost<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Frame-dragging" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Frame-dragging</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Time_dilation" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Time_dilation</a></text></comment> |
24,408,082 | 24,408,095 | 1 | 2 | 24,407,432 | train | <story><title>Ad Fraud on LinkedIn</title><url>https://www.samueljscott.com/2020/09/08/linkedin-ad-fraud/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>marcinzm</author><text>Hard to know how much is ad fraud and how much is people just not being interested in what is being advertised. Don&#x27;t see why I should care about yet another webinar especially if I&#x27;m already a successful CEO and get five thousand webinar requests a day. Might click for more info but then after 10 seconds on the page (and seeing it&#x27;s more BS) I&#x27;ll probably bail.<p>Same as this quote:<p>&gt;“You’ll see the call to action is ‘Request Demo,&#x27;” Gellis said. “So, arguably, a user who sees this ad and clicks legitimately on it will be looking to get a demo of the analytics tool we were marketing.<p>No, if the only option you give me is &quot;Request Demo&quot; but all I want is more info then I&#x27;ll click &quot;Request Demo.&quot; Then when I don&#x27;t get more info or info that I like I&#x27;ll bail.<p>edit: Also at only 11 clicks, the metrics are pure noise. Sure they each cost $45 but it&#x27;s still only 11 clicks. Can&#x27;t even blame the CPC estimation for being off at such a low number.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mumblemumble</author><text>&gt; No, if the only option you give me is &quot;Request Demo&quot; but all I want is more info then I&#x27;ll click &quot;Request Demo.&quot; Then when I don&#x27;t get more info or info that I like I&#x27;ll bail.<p>Exactly. Even if I was thinking about requesting a demo when I clicked the ad, I then want to see a <i>lot</i> of information on the target site before proceeding. I&#x27;m not going to sign up for a demo unless I think there&#x27;s a pretty good chance I&#x27;ll want to buy.<p>Most vendor websites don&#x27;t provide nearly enough information for me to make that judgment. As someone who doesn&#x27;t consider talking to sales people to be a recreational activity, that leaves me with little choice but to bail.</text></comment> | <story><title>Ad Fraud on LinkedIn</title><url>https://www.samueljscott.com/2020/09/08/linkedin-ad-fraud/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>marcinzm</author><text>Hard to know how much is ad fraud and how much is people just not being interested in what is being advertised. Don&#x27;t see why I should care about yet another webinar especially if I&#x27;m already a successful CEO and get five thousand webinar requests a day. Might click for more info but then after 10 seconds on the page (and seeing it&#x27;s more BS) I&#x27;ll probably bail.<p>Same as this quote:<p>&gt;“You’ll see the call to action is ‘Request Demo,&#x27;” Gellis said. “So, arguably, a user who sees this ad and clicks legitimately on it will be looking to get a demo of the analytics tool we were marketing.<p>No, if the only option you give me is &quot;Request Demo&quot; but all I want is more info then I&#x27;ll click &quot;Request Demo.&quot; Then when I don&#x27;t get more info or info that I like I&#x27;ll bail.<p>edit: Also at only 11 clicks, the metrics are pure noise. Sure they each cost $45 but it&#x27;s still only 11 clicks. Can&#x27;t even blame the CPC estimation for being off at such a low number.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>3np</author><text>&quot;LinkedIn says 11, our server logs show 10, our actual reporting software&#x27;s only showing 8 people. The <i>only</i> reason that we would not see them pop up in this logging tool is that they were on the site and bounced so quickly that the logging tool was unable to load and capture anything of their session [We&#x27;ve went back and forth will the session recording company multiple times to confirm that]&quot;<p>Seems awareness of ad&#x2F;trackblocking and disabling JavaScript is low in this space.<p>Still, he could absolutely be right some portion of them are misclicks.</text></comment> |
16,669,083 | 16,669,039 | 1 | 3 | 16,667,814 | train | <story><title>Appeals Court Says It's Okay to Copyright an Entire Style of Music</title><url>https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20180321/11202439470/appeals-court-says-okay-to-copyright-entire-style-music.shtml</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tmuir</author><text>I don&#x27;t think its controversial in the slightest to say that they are highly similar songs.<p>They have a similar beat.<p>They both have a similar style of walking bass line.<p>They both feature a male falsetto singer as the main melodic instrument.<p>The both feature a decent amount of random banter in the background.<p>The both feature the use of the chorus effect. This means that it is very fluidly changing back and forth between sounding like a single voice singing a single note, and multiple recordings of the same voice singing the same note, but with some minute and random time shifting, which is what actually gives the effect.<p>I don&#x27;t know much of either of the two artists catalogs to any comprehensive degree. But if a single artist had two songs with all of the same qualities listed above, there would be no disagreement at all that those qualities defined that particular artist&#x27;s style.<p>Thus, if we can argue that &quot;style&quot; is a consistent accumulation of specific musical qualities, at the expense of incorporating others, these two songs are by definition of a similar style.</text></item><item><author>lisper</author><text>Wow. Those two songs are not even remotely similar.<p>If this ruling stands no one will ever be able write another reggae song, nor even a new piece of classical music, without running afoul of someone&#x27;s copyright.</text></item><item><author>jobigoud</author><text>For those not familiar with the case, the two songs referred to are the following:<p>Marvin Gaye - Got to give it up: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=fp7Q1OAzITM" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=fp7Q1OAzITM</a><p>Robin Thicke - Blurred Lines ft. T.I., Pharrell: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=yyDUC1LUXSU" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=yyDUC1LUXSU</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>TheOtherHobbes</author><text>None of those are copyrightable elements.<p>Nor is the concept of &quot;style&quot;, because it has no recognisable legal or musical definition.<p>Musical copyright exists primarily in lyrics and melody for the writing (&quot;publishing&quot;) component, and in a specific reproducible recording for the mechanical distribution component (which can include the entire song, or a small sample).<p>Elements that cannot usually be copyrighted include: vocal stylings, bass lines, production and engineering tricks, chord sequences, rhythms, arrangement structures.<p>Sometimes, very rarely, any of these can be considered distinctive enough to be the primary element that defines a song. But that&#x27;s a very tough case to argue, and most suits that try it fail spectacularly.<p>In fact a lot of pop is made by <i>knowingly and deliberately copying elements from various source songs and mixing them up to create a new song.</i><p>So there is absolutely no practical way this ruling can stand. If it did, it would open the industry to a wave of law suits that would reduce it to chaos.</text></comment> | <story><title>Appeals Court Says It's Okay to Copyright an Entire Style of Music</title><url>https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20180321/11202439470/appeals-court-says-okay-to-copyright-entire-style-music.shtml</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tmuir</author><text>I don&#x27;t think its controversial in the slightest to say that they are highly similar songs.<p>They have a similar beat.<p>They both have a similar style of walking bass line.<p>They both feature a male falsetto singer as the main melodic instrument.<p>The both feature a decent amount of random banter in the background.<p>The both feature the use of the chorus effect. This means that it is very fluidly changing back and forth between sounding like a single voice singing a single note, and multiple recordings of the same voice singing the same note, but with some minute and random time shifting, which is what actually gives the effect.<p>I don&#x27;t know much of either of the two artists catalogs to any comprehensive degree. But if a single artist had two songs with all of the same qualities listed above, there would be no disagreement at all that those qualities defined that particular artist&#x27;s style.<p>Thus, if we can argue that &quot;style&quot; is a consistent accumulation of specific musical qualities, at the expense of incorporating others, these two songs are by definition of a similar style.</text></item><item><author>lisper</author><text>Wow. Those two songs are not even remotely similar.<p>If this ruling stands no one will ever be able write another reggae song, nor even a new piece of classical music, without running afoul of someone&#x27;s copyright.</text></item><item><author>jobigoud</author><text>For those not familiar with the case, the two songs referred to are the following:<p>Marvin Gaye - Got to give it up: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=fp7Q1OAzITM" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=fp7Q1OAzITM</a><p>Robin Thicke - Blurred Lines ft. T.I., Pharrell: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=yyDUC1LUXSU" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=yyDUC1LUXSU</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Mithaldu</author><text>Copyright limits the right to copy a <i>specific</i> expression. Not a <i>similar</i> one, it has to be a <i>specific</i> one.<p>The very fact that the lyrics are completely different should absolutely disqualify this from even remotely touching copyright:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;genius.com&#x2F;Marvin-gaye-got-to-give-it-up-lyrics" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;genius.com&#x2F;Marvin-gaye-got-to-give-it-up-lyrics</a>
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;genius.com&#x2F;Robin-thicke-blurred-lines-lyrics" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;genius.com&#x2F;Robin-thicke-blurred-lines-lyrics</a></text></comment> |
28,617,529 | 28,616,990 | 1 | 2 | 28,616,683 | train | <story><title>Lithuania says throw away Chinese phones due to censorship concerns</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/lithuania-says-throw-away-chinese-phones-due-censorship-concerns-2021-09-21/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>amiga-workbench</author><text>I think you would have to be mad to leave the stock ROM running on a Xiaomi phone, IIRC they were caught logging peoples browser history a few years ago.
Several models have mainline LineageOS support, I&#x27;m running Lineage on my Mix 2S and hope to have years worth of updates going forward.
The hardware is really good value as long as you install an non-tainted OS.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>gpderetta</author><text>I was stupid enough to buy a Xiaomi phone without enough due diligence. Aside from all spying that is going on, the software is abysmal.<p>The problem with replacing the OS is that I believe most banking apps I use will stop working. Might just need to write this phone off.</text></comment> | <story><title>Lithuania says throw away Chinese phones due to censorship concerns</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/lithuania-says-throw-away-chinese-phones-due-censorship-concerns-2021-09-21/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>amiga-workbench</author><text>I think you would have to be mad to leave the stock ROM running on a Xiaomi phone, IIRC they were caught logging peoples browser history a few years ago.
Several models have mainline LineageOS support, I&#x27;m running Lineage on my Mix 2S and hope to have years worth of updates going forward.
The hardware is really good value as long as you install an non-tainted OS.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>EveYoung</author><text>Not to sound paranoid, but won&#x27;t even LinageOS phones have to run closed-sourced firmware and drivers?</text></comment> |
34,582,530 | 34,578,284 | 1 | 3 | 34,575,637 | train | <story><title>Foundations of Data Science (2018) [pdf]</title><url>https://www.cs.cornell.edu/jeh/book.pdf?file=book.pdf</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>sfpotter</author><text>None of the comments here discuss anything <i>about</i> the book. They&#x27;re just knee jerk responses, either saying the book is too mathematical, or that other books are better. I wish the quality of comments on HN was higher.<p>Here are some actual thoughts about the book:<p>- Having actually read a few chapters of this book, I find it to be poorly written on the whole. The chapters are extremely verbose and written in a bit of a circuitous and winding style. I find the explanations to be strained and not very pedagogical. They might be insightful if you already understand the material well, but since this aims at being a &quot;foundations&quot; book, the style of writing seems to miss the mark. I think these guys might have been the wrong people to write this book.<p>- I don&#x27;t think the selection of topics makes any sense. It&#x27;s a bit of a weird mish mash of topics which are arguably more or less fundamental, and have been popular at different times in recent years in the applied math, statistics, computational science, machine learning, and electrical engineering communities. If you are a student, it seems unlikely that you will benefit from taking a course taught out of this book, since you would be better served by taking more focused courses on the individual topics from this book that happen to be relevant to your research. If you are a researcher and need to learn one of the topics in this book, it&#x27;s unlikely that this book is a better reference than any of the many existing books on these topics (or review papers). If you are self-studying, I think you are bound to fail with this book. You will benefit from something which is more thought through pedagogically.<p>Ultimately, I don&#x27;t really see the point of this book.</text></comment> | <story><title>Foundations of Data Science (2018) [pdf]</title><url>https://www.cs.cornell.edu/jeh/book.pdf?file=book.pdf</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>usgroup</author><text>As a practitioner with a research background I wouldn&#x27;t recommend this based on the contents over something like Elements of Statistical learning. Generally speaking I feel that data science is missing an authoritative methodology book, well separated from books on algorithms or maths&#x2F;CS foundations.</text></comment> |
10,311,299 | 10,311,074 | 1 | 3 | 10,310,594 | train | <story><title>Do not let your CDN betray you: Use Subresource Integrity</title><url>https://hacks.mozilla.org/2015/09/subresource-integrity-in-firefox-43/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dspillett</author><text>This could also be used to remove the need for a CDN for common libraries like jquery and similar resources. If the browser knows it has a file in its cache with the same properties (has, size, name) even if it come from a different site it can be pretty sure that the content is the same so no new request is needed.<p>So your site could use the cached copy of jquery (for instance) that was originally brought down to serve my site, or vice versa.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bugmen0t</author><text>We&#x27;ve been toying with this idea in earlier revisions of the spec, basically using the hash as a cache key and not loading the same file from websiteB if it has already been loaded form websiteA.<p>Unfortunately, this could be used as a cache poisoning attack to bypass Content Security Policy.<p>See the section about &quot;Content addressable storage&quot; at &lt;<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;frederik-braun.com&#x2F;subresource-integrity.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;frederik-braun.com&#x2F;subresource-integrity.html</a>&gt;.<p>(If you can come up with a magical solution to this problem, join the W3C web application security group mailing list and send us an email.)</text></comment> | <story><title>Do not let your CDN betray you: Use Subresource Integrity</title><url>https://hacks.mozilla.org/2015/09/subresource-integrity-in-firefox-43/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dspillett</author><text>This could also be used to remove the need for a CDN for common libraries like jquery and similar resources. If the browser knows it has a file in its cache with the same properties (has, size, name) even if it come from a different site it can be pretty sure that the content is the same so no new request is needed.<p>So your site could use the cached copy of jquery (for instance) that was originally brought down to serve my site, or vice versa.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>sidarape</author><text>&gt; size, name<p>I don&#x27;t see why it would be necessary to provide a name and a size. If the hash is the same, we can be pretty sure that&#x27;s the same file.</text></comment> |
37,606,182 | 37,597,462 | 1 | 2 | 37,596,497 | train | <story><title>Cisco Acquires Splunk</title><url>https://www.splunk.com/en_us/blog/leadership/splunk-and-cisco-unite-to-accelerate-digital-resilience-as-one-of-the-leading-global-software-companies.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bugsense</author><text>Splunk is a dead player too. It&#x27;s a great match.</text></item><item><author>tw04</author><text>Wow - I guess I&#x27;m both surprised and completely unsurprised. Surprised because Splunk is a pretty big pill to swallow. Unsurprised because they&#x27;ve obviously been interested in the space for a long time (they attempted to acquire Datadog and got shot down).<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;realmoney.thestreet.com&#x2F;investing&#x2F;technology&#x2F;cisco-reported-offer-for-datadog-software-ambitions-15096681" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;realmoney.thestreet.com&#x2F;investing&#x2F;technology&#x2F;cisco-r...</a><p>Good luck Splunk folks - Cisco isn&#x27;t exactly known for their software innovation in the upper stacks (they still do pretty incredible things at the network OS layer).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>sethammons</author><text>Splunk is hands down the best log analysis tooling I&#x27;ve used. If not for the hefty price tag, I&#x27;d use it for my personal stuff and every workplace I&#x27;ve been. Structured logs and Splunk are the stuff dreams are made of if you care about monitoring the quality of software.<p>The logs into metrics abilities along with the ability to unlock finding relationships in data is amazing. Mouse over the fields found in logs matching your search and see the top N values for other these keys.<p>Imagine getting an alert and being able to search your logs for that error message and immediately being able to see it affects these N users disproportionally, that it is split 50&#x2F;50 in two of your seven regions, only affects version X of your service. A couple more searches to dig in and you can see it is only feature Y with setting Z that is the problem. You switch to a timechart view and can see the moment the error started and the affected user counts. A few more minutes and your support team has a list of known affected users. You decide to monitor this new feature so you quickly create a new dashboard (or panel on an existing dashboard) and a new alert. At no time did you have to declare a field of your structured logs as an index or as searchable or aggregatable.</text></comment> | <story><title>Cisco Acquires Splunk</title><url>https://www.splunk.com/en_us/blog/leadership/splunk-and-cisco-unite-to-accelerate-digital-resilience-as-one-of-the-leading-global-software-companies.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bugsense</author><text>Splunk is a dead player too. It&#x27;s a great match.</text></item><item><author>tw04</author><text>Wow - I guess I&#x27;m both surprised and completely unsurprised. Surprised because Splunk is a pretty big pill to swallow. Unsurprised because they&#x27;ve obviously been interested in the space for a long time (they attempted to acquire Datadog and got shot down).<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;realmoney.thestreet.com&#x2F;investing&#x2F;technology&#x2F;cisco-reported-offer-for-datadog-software-ambitions-15096681" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;realmoney.thestreet.com&#x2F;investing&#x2F;technology&#x2F;cisco-r...</a><p>Good luck Splunk folks - Cisco isn&#x27;t exactly known for their software innovation in the upper stacks (they still do pretty incredible things at the network OS layer).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Covzire</author><text>This might be why Cisco bought them:<p>OMB Memorandum M-21-31[0], “Improving the Federal Government&#x27;s Investigative and Remediation Capabilities Related to Cybersecurity Incidents” which includes directives to ensure event logging goes well beyond the current norms.<p>By all accounts I&#x27;ve heard it&#x27;s going to enrich the fortunes of every single SIEM&#x2F;Log aggregation company out there, pretty much every govt contractor is going to need larger licenses in the next few years as contracts get rewritten with this EO in mind.<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.fedramp.gov&#x2F;2023-07-14-fedramp-guidance-for-m-21-31-and-m-22-09&#x2F;" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.fedramp.gov&#x2F;2023-07-14-fedramp-guidance-for-m-21...</a></text></comment> |
3,173,781 | 3,173,662 | 1 | 2 | 3,173,560 | train | <story><title>Giving the F.B.I. What It Wants</title><url>http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/30/opinion/sunday/giving-the-fbi-what-it-wants.html?src=twr&pagewanted=all</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>lisper</author><text>&#62; if 300 million people started sending private information to federal agents, the government would need to hire as many as another 300 million people, possibly more, to keep up with the information and we’d have to redesign our entire intelligence system<p>This man is hopelessly naive about modern computer technology. Keeping track of 300 million people is not quite trivial (yet) but well within the means of the FBI at its current staffing and funding levels. Worse -- much worse -- is that data mining is <i>virtually certain</i> to result in very convincing looking false positives.<p>This is why it is unwise to take legal advice from performance artists.</text></comment> | <story><title>Giving the F.B.I. What It Wants</title><url>http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/30/opinion/sunday/giving-the-fbi-what-it-wants.html?src=twr&pagewanted=all</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>ck2</author><text>This is going to backfire, bigtime.<p>The way it works is you will never be cleared, the security-theater machine has "eaten" you.<p>You can only give them more reasons to collect evidence on petty crimes, their original motivation for stalking you, even if your file was flagged accidentally, is long lost.<p>With half a million names on the "Terrorist Watch List", once they have ways to automate this (ala nationwide facial recognition and domestic drones) you will be stalked for the rest of your life by the government. You'll be 80 years old and they will have terabytes on you for absolutely no reason. But if you even accidentally commit a petty crime, they will happily share the info with local cops to hassle you more.</text></comment> |
16,540,289 | 16,540,390 | 1 | 2 | 16,539,857 | train | <story><title>Tell HN: Slack decides to close down IRC and XMPP gateways</title><text>11:14 -!- Message of the day<p>Hello! We have news to share — we&#x27;ve decided it&#x27;s
time to close down the IRC and XMPP gateways to Slack.<p>After years of evolving, Slack is at the point where
the gateways can no longer handle all of our features
or security needs.<p>If you&#x27;ve been using the gateways for accessibility
reasons, we&#x27;re glad to let you know that it&#x27;s now
possible to navigate Slack by keyboard and with a
screen reader — and we&#x27;re making more improvements
on a continual basis.<p>Still, we know this is a disruptive change, and we
want to help with this transition in any way we can.
Please follow this link to learn more about the
upcoming changes:<p>slack.com&#x2F;account&#x2F;gateways<p>11:14 -!- End of MOTD command</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>saagarjha</author><text>I&#x27;m very disappointed to see that Slack has decided to go the way of every other messaging service and move away from decentralized and standardized protocols towards those that are walled and proprietary.<p>&gt; We are focused on making Slack accessible to all people. Over the past year, we&#x27;ve made great progress in improving both the keyboard and screen reading experiences in Slack. We know many users have been relying on IRC and XMPP clients for a more accessible experience — but our goal is to build all of the accessibility features you need directly into Slack.<p>Here&#x27;s a thought: how about you write a native app for each platform? I can guarantee that the hundreds, if not thousands, of engineers working on AppKit and Windows APIs are a lot better at getting this to work than your team.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bramd</author><text>&gt; Here&#x27;s a thought: how about you write a native app for each platform? I can guarantee that the hundreds, if not thousands, of engineers working on AppKit and Windows APIs are a lot better at getting this to work than your team.<p>Not just that, but it took them months to implement some (mind you, still not all) features that are useful for blind users that someone already did in a userscript in a few days. So yeah, I take this promise with some skepticism.<p>So either this is a lack of priority and disrespect to a part of their users or some level of incompetence.<p>I might sound harsh about this, but imagine being a blind software dev that&#x27;s supposed to work with Slack to participate in teams. Every day you sign on to your team it&#x27;s possible that the Slack devs break something and you can&#x27;t function. And now they closed the escape hatch.</text></comment> | <story><title>Tell HN: Slack decides to close down IRC and XMPP gateways</title><text>11:14 -!- Message of the day<p>Hello! We have news to share — we&#x27;ve decided it&#x27;s
time to close down the IRC and XMPP gateways to Slack.<p>After years of evolving, Slack is at the point where
the gateways can no longer handle all of our features
or security needs.<p>If you&#x27;ve been using the gateways for accessibility
reasons, we&#x27;re glad to let you know that it&#x27;s now
possible to navigate Slack by keyboard and with a
screen reader — and we&#x27;re making more improvements
on a continual basis.<p>Still, we know this is a disruptive change, and we
want to help with this transition in any way we can.
Please follow this link to learn more about the
upcoming changes:<p>slack.com&#x2F;account&#x2F;gateways<p>11:14 -!- End of MOTD command</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>saagarjha</author><text>I&#x27;m very disappointed to see that Slack has decided to go the way of every other messaging service and move away from decentralized and standardized protocols towards those that are walled and proprietary.<p>&gt; We are focused on making Slack accessible to all people. Over the past year, we&#x27;ve made great progress in improving both the keyboard and screen reading experiences in Slack. We know many users have been relying on IRC and XMPP clients for a more accessible experience — but our goal is to build all of the accessibility features you need directly into Slack.<p>Here&#x27;s a thought: how about you write a native app for each platform? I can guarantee that the hundreds, if not thousands, of engineers working on AppKit and Windows APIs are a lot better at getting this to work than your team.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>oconnor663</author><text>Moxie Marlinspike has a blog post about why protocols like XMPP aren&#x27;t good enough to support modern messaging apps. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;signal.org&#x2F;blog&#x2F;the-ecosystem-is-moving&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;signal.org&#x2F;blog&#x2F;the-ecosystem-is-moving&#x2F;</a><p><i>XMPP is an example of a federated protocol that advertises itself as a “living standard.” Despite its capacity for protocol “extensions,” however, it’s undeniable that XMPP still largely resembles a synchronous protocol with limited support for rich media, which can’t realistically be deployed on mobile devices. If XMPP is so extensible, why haven’t those extensions quickly brought it up to speed with the modern world?</i><p><i>Like any federated protocol, extensions don’t mean much unless everyone applies them, and that’s an almost impossible task in a truly federated landscape. What we have instead is a complicated morass of XEPs that aren’t consistently applied anywhere. The implications of that are severe, because someone’s choice to use an XMPP client or server that doesn’t support video or some other arbitrary feature doesn’t only affect them, it affects everyone who tries to communicate with them. It creates a climate of uncertainty, never knowing whether things will work or not. In the consumer space, fractured client support is often worse than no client support at all, because consistency is incredibly important for creating a compelling user experience.</i></text></comment> |
15,646,101 | 15,644,523 | 1 | 2 | 15,642,276 | train | <story><title>NBA GO – Watch NBA in Your Terminal</title><url>https://github.com/xxhomey19/nba-go</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jpeeler</author><text>First of all, cool project. Looks very nice. And kudos to nba.com for making their data so easily accessible via JSON (and perhaps other methods, didn&#x27;t look too closely).<p>Personally, I have little interest in sports in general. And I find that the interest ratio is much lower with those interested in technical fields than others. However, obviously proven by this project and life experience, there are definitely those who are very interested in both sports and STEM-like disciplines. So I wonder: what makes one become attracted to sports or conversely what has caused certain groups of people to be apathetic? Why is most of the geek population uninterested? And lastly, what causes certain people to seemingly be an exception with equally strong interest in both areas?<p>I assume my life experience is congruent with the hacker news community, but I&#x27;m also keen to know if my observations don&#x27;t mirror others!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jerf</author><text>I found my interest in sports went up when I understood the rules a bit more deeply, and some of the reason why. For instance, basketball for a long time looked really silly to me, and I <i>thought</i> I knew the rules because &quot;we had played some in gym class&quot;, but it turns out that I knew almost nothing about it. There&#x27;s a lot more to the rules about who can be where, and a lot of rules around what your feet are doing and what it means for them to be set or not, that makes the game much more interesting. Still not my favorite sport, but I can watch a game now without being bored, because my boredom was really being lost without realizing it. And what previously struck me as random gyrations where everybody is still, then suddenly everyone on both teams are in motion make much more sense to me. (Basketball has a lot of phase changes between the teams being solid and liquid, to stretch a metaphor.)<p>Similarly, while I understand why (American) football can look like 11 armored clowns randomly bashing into each other, it is arguably the most interesting and strategic game on offer by the time you understand the rules, the <i>why</i> of those rules, and the resulting strategies, metastrategies, statictics, etc. Baseball is also more interesting when you understand more of the whys of what is going on than just &quot;Man hit ball with stick and run fast&quot;.<p>Of course there&#x27;s no great virtue per se in loving to watch sports, so I&#x27;m not advocating that anybody seek this out, but if you are interested in what all the fuss is about, I recommend learning more about the sports and the rules and the second-order effects of the rules and such before writing them off. Unfortunately, I do not have any references; I did it the long, slow, hard way.<p>(Contrariwise, while soccer is fun to play, learning more about it has still left me pretty cold to the sport.)</text></comment> | <story><title>NBA GO – Watch NBA in Your Terminal</title><url>https://github.com/xxhomey19/nba-go</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jpeeler</author><text>First of all, cool project. Looks very nice. And kudos to nba.com for making their data so easily accessible via JSON (and perhaps other methods, didn&#x27;t look too closely).<p>Personally, I have little interest in sports in general. And I find that the interest ratio is much lower with those interested in technical fields than others. However, obviously proven by this project and life experience, there are definitely those who are very interested in both sports and STEM-like disciplines. So I wonder: what makes one become attracted to sports or conversely what has caused certain groups of people to be apathetic? Why is most of the geek population uninterested? And lastly, what causes certain people to seemingly be an exception with equally strong interest in both areas?<p>I assume my life experience is congruent with the hacker news community, but I&#x27;m also keen to know if my observations don&#x27;t mirror others!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jawilson2</author><text>Personally, I love sports and exercise. I grew up playing basketball, football, baseball, soccer, etc. If I don&#x27;t exercise (and maintain a good diet), it dramatically negatively affects my work. My mind is clearer, I&#x27;m able to focus longer, etc. Plus, a mid-day trip to the gym makes my afternoons much more productive.<p>In terms of sports, I like the competition, I like the strategy, overcoming the odds, and the idea of dedicating your life to mastering a skill. Though, I have strayed from football recently due to brain trauma concerns, and my kids aren&#x27;t allowed to play it.<p>I also coach my kids basketball teams, which is a ton of fun, and has helped me with leadership and planning, plus is some extra exercise for me!<p>&gt; Why is most of the geek population uninterested<p>This isn&#x27;t my experience at all. I have worked in academia, and there is a nearly universal interest in sports, particularly the &quot;local&quot; college teams (Ohio State and Wisconsin, in my case). My PhD department could have fielded a competitive track and field team. At my current job as a software engineer at a prop trading firm, EVERYONE is interested in and plays sports. We have many corporate teams, our TVs often have sports on, and the devs behind me have an encyclopedic knowledge of baseball. Like literally, it is faster to ask one guy about baseball going back to the 50&#x27;s than it is to google the question. The other guys on my team are very active, work out regularly, and play sports in their free time. The stereotypical &quot;geek&quot; in a Doritos-stained hoody and an extra 200 lbs ALMOST doesn&#x27;t exist here.<p>For me, it is having a physical yin to the mental yang of problem solving all day. I meditate as well, but just DOING something physical is very cathartic, and meditative in its own way.<p>In terms of why some people get interested, it is probably environment. I like and play sports, so my kids do too. I don&#x27;t push them to, but if Daddy is watching and excited about basketball, they will be too probably. One of mine isn&#x27;t AS excited about sports, but is loving martial arts now, which I have never done.</text></comment> |
14,293,235 | 14,293,296 | 1 | 3 | 14,290,518 | train | <story><title>Ask HN: What's your working day like?</title><text>I&#x27;m curious about the details of the usual working day for different professions&#x2F;positions (not necessary technical).<p>Examples of professions&#x2F;positions: UI Designer, CEO, Sales, CTO, Welder, Trader (online&#x2F;offline), Recruiter, System developer&#x2F;administrator, Web developer, Civil Engineer, Quality Assurance Engineer, Teacher, Professor, Astronaut... Anything.<p>I&#x27;ll start:<p>Profession&#x2F;position: Web developer - full time, remote - &lt;50 employees organization.<p>Workday:<p><pre><code> - Wake up &amp; prepare myself.
- Join a 10~15min call with my team (3 Developers, 1 Manager, 1 Designer).
- Start working on assigned issues, usually for 1~4hours.
- Catching up with emails&#x2F;team conversations.
- Reviewing other developers patches.
- Repeat until calling it a day, usually 7~8 hours with 1 hour break.</code></pre></text></story><parent_chain><item><author>erikb</author><text>Many people complain about the usual work chaos. I&#x27;m also an engineer and I don&#x27;t get it. For me, having other people come and ask questions is not distraction but an opportunity to help, learn to know their point of view, learn new things. Meetings are a way to influence the direction of the company however small my influence may be. Other people talking can really distract if it&#x27;s heavily on topic, but usually also enables a little smalltalk 2-3 times each hour, which provides a lot of the otherwise missing social life between Monday Morning and Friday Afternoon. Even the actual development can happen together with one or two other guys, which increases the speed (since what&#x27;s hard for me is usually easy for one of the colleagues and vice versa) and makes the solutions smarter (you can&#x27;t just think off something, you need to be able to argue it as well).<p>In my eyes it&#x27;s really addicting, and I usually get this after-disco&#x2F;cinema low when the amount of people in office starts to slow down.<p>What&#x27;s the actual &quot;engineering work&quot; you are trying to do without interacting with people all the time?<p>Edit: I think most answers can be summarized as &quot;When I&#x27;m left alone I get into the flow mode, and that&#x27;s enjoyable&quot;. The same way I mostly get it when working together with a colleague on a problem. Both ways may not always be the most productive, but due to producing a good feeling we prefer these. I see, thanks for showing your points of view.</text></item><item><author>treehau5</author><text>Profession: Software &quot;Engineer&quot;<p>[06:15] First alarm goes off;<p>[06:45] Finally wake up, get out of bed, shower, shave, make espresso for me and the wife<p>[07:15] out the door, 30 minute commute to office<p>[07:45] breakfast bagel at my work cafe<p>[08:00] arrive at desk, begin contemplating work -- work on something I procrastinated on the previous day so that I can have a good standup report<p>[9:00] everyone arrives at office, noise increases 10x, I am physically unable to concentrate anymore. Earplugs and noise-deadening headphones help some, but then having those on distracts me<p>[10:00 til 05:45 or 6:30 pm] Constant battling distractions, meetings, interruptions, and general work-related chaos, trying to somehow manage to squeeze in any actual developer work. Work proclaims how &#x27;fun it is to work here! awesome! totes cool! We have so much cool stuff! Our culture is the best culture!&#x27;<p>Help me.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nyrulez</author><text>Hmm. How about actually building stuff? For most software engineers, thats a very important part of their job&#x2F;life&#x2F;happiness. That requires long focus and flow. And in my personal opinion has a great sense of fulfillment attached to it compared to lot of scattered micro impacts. Ultimately you need to learn to balance both otherwise it gets very frustrating.</text></comment> | <story><title>Ask HN: What's your working day like?</title><text>I&#x27;m curious about the details of the usual working day for different professions&#x2F;positions (not necessary technical).<p>Examples of professions&#x2F;positions: UI Designer, CEO, Sales, CTO, Welder, Trader (online&#x2F;offline), Recruiter, System developer&#x2F;administrator, Web developer, Civil Engineer, Quality Assurance Engineer, Teacher, Professor, Astronaut... Anything.<p>I&#x27;ll start:<p>Profession&#x2F;position: Web developer - full time, remote - &lt;50 employees organization.<p>Workday:<p><pre><code> - Wake up &amp; prepare myself.
- Join a 10~15min call with my team (3 Developers, 1 Manager, 1 Designer).
- Start working on assigned issues, usually for 1~4hours.
- Catching up with emails&#x2F;team conversations.
- Reviewing other developers patches.
- Repeat until calling it a day, usually 7~8 hours with 1 hour break.</code></pre></text></story><parent_chain><item><author>erikb</author><text>Many people complain about the usual work chaos. I&#x27;m also an engineer and I don&#x27;t get it. For me, having other people come and ask questions is not distraction but an opportunity to help, learn to know their point of view, learn new things. Meetings are a way to influence the direction of the company however small my influence may be. Other people talking can really distract if it&#x27;s heavily on topic, but usually also enables a little smalltalk 2-3 times each hour, which provides a lot of the otherwise missing social life between Monday Morning and Friday Afternoon. Even the actual development can happen together with one or two other guys, which increases the speed (since what&#x27;s hard for me is usually easy for one of the colleagues and vice versa) and makes the solutions smarter (you can&#x27;t just think off something, you need to be able to argue it as well).<p>In my eyes it&#x27;s really addicting, and I usually get this after-disco&#x2F;cinema low when the amount of people in office starts to slow down.<p>What&#x27;s the actual &quot;engineering work&quot; you are trying to do without interacting with people all the time?<p>Edit: I think most answers can be summarized as &quot;When I&#x27;m left alone I get into the flow mode, and that&#x27;s enjoyable&quot;. The same way I mostly get it when working together with a colleague on a problem. Both ways may not always be the most productive, but due to producing a good feeling we prefer these. I see, thanks for showing your points of view.</text></item><item><author>treehau5</author><text>Profession: Software &quot;Engineer&quot;<p>[06:15] First alarm goes off;<p>[06:45] Finally wake up, get out of bed, shower, shave, make espresso for me and the wife<p>[07:15] out the door, 30 minute commute to office<p>[07:45] breakfast bagel at my work cafe<p>[08:00] arrive at desk, begin contemplating work -- work on something I procrastinated on the previous day so that I can have a good standup report<p>[9:00] everyone arrives at office, noise increases 10x, I am physically unable to concentrate anymore. Earplugs and noise-deadening headphones help some, but then having those on distracts me<p>[10:00 til 05:45 or 6:30 pm] Constant battling distractions, meetings, interruptions, and general work-related chaos, trying to somehow manage to squeeze in any actual developer work. Work proclaims how &#x27;fun it is to work here! awesome! totes cool! We have so much cool stuff! Our culture is the best culture!&#x27;<p>Help me.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>squeaky-clean</author><text>I enjoy helping when people come up to me with legitimate questions, for all the reasons you mention. It feels like half the time, I&#x27;m being bugged not for any real reason, but because the person couldn&#x27;t bother to put some effort in first.<p>For example, I&#x27;ve become known as &quot;the regex guy&quot; at the office. I know regex really well as well as the ins and outs of the regex engines of languages we use. I don&#x27;t mind when I get called over to help with a tough regex, or optimizing something. But way too often whatever I get interrupted and cross the building just to replace &quot;.*&quot; with &quot;.+&quot; or something equally simple.<p>I usually just type the solution and tell them my copy of Mastering Regular Expressions is on the office bookshelf if they&#x27;d like to borrow it, the first chapter should cover all the basics. I&#x27;m also very happy to explain the basics of regex to someone in my down time, but very few people have taken me up on that offer.</text></comment> |
39,160,909 | 39,160,560 | 1 | 2 | 39,160,291 | train | <story><title>The 100MHz 6502 (2022)</title><url>https://www.e-basteln.de/computing/65f02/65f02/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Dwedit</author><text>Throwing a cache into a system that never had a cache before can be quite tricky.<p>You could have these kinds of memory pages:<p>* Fixed ROM bank<p>* Bankswitchable ROM bank<p>* Fixed RAM bank<p>* Bankswtichable RAM bank<p>* IO memory<p>* RAM that&#x27;s read by external devices<p>* RAM that&#x27;s written to by external devices (basically just IO)<p>Caching is <i>trivially easy</i> for fixed a ROM or RAM bank which are not used by other devices. Caching a bankswitchable bank requires either invalidating on bankswitch, or knowing the bank switching well enough to just cache everything. Pure IO memory is simple, no caching for that at all. For RAM that&#x27;s read by other devices, Write-Through caching would work.</text></comment> | <story><title>The 100MHz 6502 (2022)</title><url>https://www.e-basteln.de/computing/65f02/65f02/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>pvg</author><text>Big previous thread in from 2021:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=28852857">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=28852857</a></text></comment> |
10,236,022 | 10,235,749 | 1 | 2 | 10,235,382 | train | <story><title>D-Link publishes code-signing private keys by mistake</title><url>https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=nl&tl=en&js=y&prev=_t&hl=nl&ie=UTF-8&u=http%3A%2F%2Ftweakers.net%2Fnieuws%2F105137%2Fd-link-blundert-met-vrijgeven-privesleutels-van-certificaten.html&edit-text=&act=url</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mindslight</author><text>&gt; <i>The whole point of requiring the firmware to be signed with a specific private key is to prevent third parties from installing their own custom firmware</i><p>Yes, which is blatantly anti-GPL2. I really wish any Linux copyright holder would step up to the plate and force the argument that since code+signature is the functional unit, adding the signature makes a derivative work and its source must be released in the preferred form for modification. The entire point of the GPL2 is that a developer who creates code and receives a modified version back should be able to modify that instance of code - tivoization is entering into the license in bad faith.<p>Of course going GPL3 would make for a more solid foundation for doing so, but clarifying this subject directly conflicts with the desires of the proprietary sponsors - Google etc.</text></item><item><author>eridius</author><text>This is absolutely a mistake. The whole point of requiring the firmware to be signed with a specific private key is to prevent third parties from installing their own custom firmware (e.g. to prevent malicious actors from installing malware onto the device). If you want to let everyone install their own build, then just don&#x27;t require the code signature (or, alternatively, create a program where third parties can request a certificate signed with your master, so they can then sign their own binaries, similar to how iOS development works).<p>&gt; <i>For every device requiring images to be signed with a specific key, this is exactly what the manufacturer should be forced to release!</i><p>What do you mean by &quot;should&quot; here? If the source is covered by GPLv3, then yeah, if they use code-signing they need to have some way to let you get around it. That&#x27;s the point of the anti-tivoization clause. But if the software is distributed under GPLv2, or any other license, then there&#x27;s no anti-tivoization restriction, and therefore no &quot;should&quot; about it.</text></item><item><author>mindslight</author><text>&gt; <i>&quot;It turned out what to look through the files that were in private keys to sign with code&quot;, reports bartvbl, &quot;In fact, in some batch files were the commands and pass phrases that were needed.&quot;</i><p>A company <i>finally</i> holds up their end of the GPL by including all source needed to create a working build, and it&#x27;s called a mistake!?<p>For every device requiring images to be signed with a specific key, this is exactly what the manufacturer should be forced to release!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>DannyBee</author><text>The GPL is rarely litigated.
What you are talking about is not blatantly anti-gplv2<p>IAAL (and an open source licensing lawyer at that, for many years). I&#x27;m also a contributor to FSF projects :)<p>Even I would tell you the GPLv2 almost certainly does not cover code signing.<p>It&#x27;s actually very epxlicit about what needs to be there:
That&#x27;s the whole problem with gplv2:
&quot; For an executable work, complete source code means all the source code for all modules it contains, plus any associated interface definition files, plus the scripts used to control compilation and installation of the executable.&quot;<p>That&#x27;s it.
It very clearly and explicitly says what you must include, and installation keys in not there.<p>It even says &#x27;scripts used <i>to control</i> installation&quot;, not &quot;scripts involved in installation&quot; or anything like that.</text></comment> | <story><title>D-Link publishes code-signing private keys by mistake</title><url>https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=nl&tl=en&js=y&prev=_t&hl=nl&ie=UTF-8&u=http%3A%2F%2Ftweakers.net%2Fnieuws%2F105137%2Fd-link-blundert-met-vrijgeven-privesleutels-van-certificaten.html&edit-text=&act=url</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mindslight</author><text>&gt; <i>The whole point of requiring the firmware to be signed with a specific private key is to prevent third parties from installing their own custom firmware</i><p>Yes, which is blatantly anti-GPL2. I really wish any Linux copyright holder would step up to the plate and force the argument that since code+signature is the functional unit, adding the signature makes a derivative work and its source must be released in the preferred form for modification. The entire point of the GPL2 is that a developer who creates code and receives a modified version back should be able to modify that instance of code - tivoization is entering into the license in bad faith.<p>Of course going GPL3 would make for a more solid foundation for doing so, but clarifying this subject directly conflicts with the desires of the proprietary sponsors - Google etc.</text></item><item><author>eridius</author><text>This is absolutely a mistake. The whole point of requiring the firmware to be signed with a specific private key is to prevent third parties from installing their own custom firmware (e.g. to prevent malicious actors from installing malware onto the device). If you want to let everyone install their own build, then just don&#x27;t require the code signature (or, alternatively, create a program where third parties can request a certificate signed with your master, so they can then sign their own binaries, similar to how iOS development works).<p>&gt; <i>For every device requiring images to be signed with a specific key, this is exactly what the manufacturer should be forced to release!</i><p>What do you mean by &quot;should&quot; here? If the source is covered by GPLv3, then yeah, if they use code-signing they need to have some way to let you get around it. That&#x27;s the point of the anti-tivoization clause. But if the software is distributed under GPLv2, or any other license, then there&#x27;s no anti-tivoization restriction, and therefore no &quot;should&quot; about it.</text></item><item><author>mindslight</author><text>&gt; <i>&quot;It turned out what to look through the files that were in private keys to sign with code&quot;, reports bartvbl, &quot;In fact, in some batch files were the commands and pass phrases that were needed.&quot;</i><p>A company <i>finally</i> holds up their end of the GPL by including all source needed to create a working build, and it&#x27;s called a mistake!?<p>For every device requiring images to be signed with a specific key, this is exactly what the manufacturer should be forced to release!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>eridius</author><text>&gt; <i>Yes, which is blatantly anti-GPL2.</i><p>No it&#x27;s not. It&#x27;s anti-GPLv3. GPLv2 absolutely allows tivoization. Stallman thinks this is bad, but not everybody else agrees (I know Linus Torvalds thinks tivoization is fine in the context of GPLv2, and I believe the FSF agrees).<p>&gt; <i>I really wish any Linux copyright holder […]</i><p>Your argument here is not a legal one. Any Linux copyright holder that did this would lose horribly. And in particular, Linus Torvalds explicitly stated that he does not support relicensing the Linux kernel under GPLv3 because of this (even if it were possible, which it isn&#x27;t because of the very large number of copyright holders). Source: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Tivoization#GPLv3" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Tivoization#GPLv3</a><p>&gt; <i>The entire point of the GPL2 is that a developer who creates code and receives a modified version back should be able to modify that instance of code</i><p>And they can! But the GPLv2 does not require that the modified code must be able to be installed back on the original hardware by the person doing the modification.<p>&gt; <i>tivoization is entering into the license in bad faith</i><p>Not by any legal definition of &quot;bad faith&quot;, and even with the informal definition, a lot of people would disagree with you.</text></comment> |
31,649,855 | 31,646,434 | 1 | 2 | 31,641,128 | train | <story><title>Walking the World: Seoul</title><url>https://walkingtheworld.substack.com/p/walking-the-world-seoul-part-1</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>lawrenceyan</author><text>&gt; The younger generation seems to be dealing with the rampant consumption and materialism, and the emptiness that results, by embracing the cute.<p>This resonates. Didn&#x27;t realize it until now though.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dereg</author><text>It&#x27;s a shallow analysis, and I say this as a fan of Arnade&#x27;s prior work. Cartoons and &quot;cuteness&quot; are symbols expanding one&#x27;s palate of expression.<p>LINE was the first messenger app to roll out stickers. Those stickers, mostly cartoons, do a vastly better job of encapsulating expression, especially online, than GIFs, Emojis, and Emoticons do.<p>Stickers are commonplace messages in Korea. Stickers in America, on the other hand, have not caught on. If I had to speculate, it is because the art is shallow, soulless, and an commercial grab.<p>From Arnade&#x27;s piece:<p>&gt; <i>If you make anything and everything a lovable character, that dampens the edges. Makes a life of buying and selling stuff a little less dreary. A little less pointless.</i><p>You could say the same for every culture. If you talk to Koreans, they cannot fathom America&#x27;s addiction to hyperbole, whether it be in everyday conversation or in advertising.<p>Examples:<p><i>&quot;That was an amazing meal.&quot;</i><p><i>&quot;It was to die for.&quot;</i><p><i>&quot;Absolutely.&quot;</i><p><i>&quot;You are the best!&quot;</i><p><i>&quot;What a killer deal!&quot;</i><p>Now let&#x27;s transform Arnade&#x27;s original observation:<p>&gt; <i>If you make anything and everything a hyperbole – &quot;perfect&quot; or &quot;the best&quot; – that dampens the edges. Makes a life of buying and selling stuff a little less dreary. A little less pointless.</i><p>It fits, no? Would I describe American hyperbole as cope? No, it&#x27;s merely how we encode emotions into language. Cartoons are the same for Koreans.<p>Edit: I&#x27;d like to proffer a different reason for their prevalence: many cartoons are government-sponsored and are ways for the government to signal that they are welcoming to children as a response to the declining birth rate. You could interpret this dystopically – I just see it as cute.</text></comment> | <story><title>Walking the World: Seoul</title><url>https://walkingtheworld.substack.com/p/walking-the-world-seoul-part-1</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>lawrenceyan</author><text>&gt; The younger generation seems to be dealing with the rampant consumption and materialism, and the emptiness that results, by embracing the cute.<p>This resonates. Didn&#x27;t realize it until now though.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>foobarian</author><text>I feel uneasy dismissing this new way of things and harkening back to the more meaningful old days, because the crispy clear meaning back then often stemmed from war. When you had adversaries threatening to destroy your country of course it felt so much more fulfilling to train to be any number of supporting or active roles. Without that pressure, things seem to lose that sharp drive but perhaps we are better off. It is also probably true that we have not evolved to live in a state of peace, and have a long way to go as a race to become accustomed to it.</text></comment> |
40,730,722 | 40,726,381 | 1 | 3 | 40,722,317 | train | <story><title>Show HN: I made an open source and local translation app</title><url>https://github.com/niedev/RTranslator</url><text>A few years ago, right after high school, I decided to try to make a simultaneous translation app for Android as a side project, it took longer than expected (about 2 years) and I had to make a lot of compromises (I had to use Google&#x27;s API and therefore make users use a developer key because at the time there were no free solutions for speech recognition and translation that had good quality). At the end of university, I decided to pick it up again and finally, using OpenAi&#x27;s Whisper for speech recognition and Meta&#x27;s NLLB for translation (with both running locally on the phone), I managed to make it free and totally open-source (as it was meant to be from the beginning).
The app is still in beta, so I would love your feedback.</text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>gslepak</author><text>If you are doing translation locally on the device, why does your Privacy Policy say you are sending voice and transcriptions as well as personal location data to Google?<p><i>&gt; RTranslator in any case collects and processes data that will then be sent to Google, such as: audio, the transcription of which is transmitted at a later time via bluetooth to the phone with which you are communicating, and the transcription of the audio received by the other user, to carry out the translation.</i><p>— <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;niedev&#x2F;RTranslator&#x2F;blob&#x2F;v2.00&#x2F;privacy&#x2F;Privacy_Policy_en.md">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;niedev&#x2F;RTranslator&#x2F;blob&#x2F;v2.00&#x2F;privacy&#x2F;Pri...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Show HN: I made an open source and local translation app</title><url>https://github.com/niedev/RTranslator</url><text>A few years ago, right after high school, I decided to try to make a simultaneous translation app for Android as a side project, it took longer than expected (about 2 years) and I had to make a lot of compromises (I had to use Google&#x27;s API and therefore make users use a developer key because at the time there were no free solutions for speech recognition and translation that had good quality). At the end of university, I decided to pick it up again and finally, using OpenAi&#x27;s Whisper for speech recognition and Meta&#x27;s NLLB for translation (with both running locally on the phone), I managed to make it free and totally open-source (as it was meant to be from the beginning).
The app is still in beta, so I would love your feedback.</text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>NKosmatos</author><text>Nice one! Thanks for sharing this.<p>If possible, it would be good to include a list of devices that you know performance is good. We can all understand that most flagship mobiles will run it smoothly, but what about the average user?<p>&quot;...to be able to use the app without the risk of crashing you need a phone with at least 6GB of RAM, and to have a good enough execution time you need a phone with a fast enough CPU.&quot;</text></comment> |
12,088,304 | 12,087,935 | 1 | 2 | 12,087,336 | train | <story><title>Unity raises $181M round at a reported $1.5B valuation</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2016/07/13/unity-announces-181-million-monster-round-led-by-dfj-growth/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>gourneau</author><text>Just wanted to chime in and say Pokemon Go is another Unity game. Unity games seem to be doing extremely well on mobile.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jim-greer</author><text>Unfortunately for Unity, they don&#x27;t make any more money on a hit game than on a big-budget failure. All that matters is how many seat licenses they sell. Selling developer tools is not a great business.</text></comment> | <story><title>Unity raises $181M round at a reported $1.5B valuation</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2016/07/13/unity-announces-181-million-monster-round-led-by-dfj-growth/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>gourneau</author><text>Just wanted to chime in and say Pokemon Go is another Unity game. Unity games seem to be doing extremely well on mobile.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>thearn4</author><text>I&#x27;ve been playing with it a bit in the last few days, that&#x27;s pretty interesting. I&#x27;ve got an older android phone, and it runs really smoothly for me. I&#x27;ll have to give Unity another look I think.</text></comment> |
21,930,937 | 21,928,243 | 1 | 2 | 21,926,656 | train | <story><title>The Economics of Building Knowledge Bases</title><url>http://blog.diffbot.com/the-economics-of-building-knowledge-bases/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mjpuser</author><text>This is a compelling article, but then when you try to see what the product is, you have to submit your email &#x2F; request a demo. In my experience, hiding your product behind a demo is a bad sign that the product has flaws. It also puts you in contact with a salesman or account manager which is typically geared towards a high pressure sale event of the product. I&#x27;d be interested to hear other people&#x27;s experiences with this model, though.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>sansnomme</author><text>Also for certain products it&#x27;s almost impossible to sell at scale without an enterprise sales team. Developers won&#x27;t be &quot;willing&quot; to pay or admit the need for what&#x27;s basically a glorified web scraper concept that has existed for as long as the web itself. For this sort of product to be successful you need enterprise sales, tons of funding and marketing, among other stuff. Even if your actual product is terrible you will still have a larger segment of market compared to a competitor product that may be more advanced functionality-wise. This is not something that&#x27;s popular on HN because of the constant myth that &quot;if you build a well-engineered product, customers would magically show up&quot;.</text></comment> | <story><title>The Economics of Building Knowledge Bases</title><url>http://blog.diffbot.com/the-economics-of-building-knowledge-bases/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mjpuser</author><text>This is a compelling article, but then when you try to see what the product is, you have to submit your email &#x2F; request a demo. In my experience, hiding your product behind a demo is a bad sign that the product has flaws. It also puts you in contact with a salesman or account manager which is typically geared towards a high pressure sale event of the product. I&#x27;d be interested to hear other people&#x27;s experiences with this model, though.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>m_ke</author><text>Sometimes with products like this one the value that it provides to the customer varies significantly depending on a use case and it&#x27;s hard to put up pricing without either cutting out a long tail of smaller users or losing money on the big deals.<p>I have an API that market research and medical customers are willing to pay 100x more for than consumer social, at the same time the consumer companies have 100x the volume.</text></comment> |
26,010,856 | 26,009,133 | 1 | 3 | 26,006,940 | train | <story><title>2020 Q4 Alphabet Earnings Release [pdf]</title><url>https://abc.xyz/investor/static/pdf/2020Q4_alphabet_earnings_release.pdf</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bko</author><text>Serious question, do you think threatening to remove google as the default search engine is a serious threat? I use ddg and tried Bing when they were paying people to use it, but I have no illusions that google is by far the most superior search engine. It would be weird if they switched the default.<p>But then again... apple maps.</text></item><item><author>ksec</author><text>Google <i>still</i> growing revenue at 23% YoY?<p>Facebook, Apple, Amazon, Microsoft and Google. All of them beat even the most optimistic estimates.<p>Will have to dig into whether the cost of being Apple&#x27;s default search engine has risen. Generally speaking it should $10 &#x2F; user &#x2F; year. Apple just reported another 200M increase in Active Devices. There <i>should</i> be some hint, or may be it will have to wait until next contract negotiation.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ksec</author><text>&gt; do you think threatening to remove google as the default search engine is a serious threat?<p>It would be if Apple made a search engine. Media will spin this as a Search Engine that values your privacy from Apple. It is the best thing ever etc. Given Apple&#x27;s consumer branding, as long as it isn&#x27;t so bad people will use it.<p>The problem is I dont see that happening. $10B of pure profits is a large amount of money doesn&#x27;t matter how you slice and dice it.<p>Making a half decent search engine is still very hard. They are happy to squeeze Google, making less information available to Google in the name of privacy, all while eating away all the profitable Smartphone market shares.<p>That is one reason I dont quite like current Apple. It reeks of hypocrisy. Stop attacking Google as evil, painting themselves as Saint, all while happily receiving Billions of dollars. But current media seems to like this idea, and it fit well with the current US political spectrum.</text></comment> | <story><title>2020 Q4 Alphabet Earnings Release [pdf]</title><url>https://abc.xyz/investor/static/pdf/2020Q4_alphabet_earnings_release.pdf</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bko</author><text>Serious question, do you think threatening to remove google as the default search engine is a serious threat? I use ddg and tried Bing when they were paying people to use it, but I have no illusions that google is by far the most superior search engine. It would be weird if they switched the default.<p>But then again... apple maps.</text></item><item><author>ksec</author><text>Google <i>still</i> growing revenue at 23% YoY?<p>Facebook, Apple, Amazon, Microsoft and Google. All of them beat even the most optimistic estimates.<p>Will have to dig into whether the cost of being Apple&#x27;s default search engine has risen. Generally speaking it should $10 &#x2F; user &#x2F; year. Apple just reported another 200M increase in Active Devices. There <i>should</i> be some hint, or may be it will have to wait until next contract negotiation.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>frenchy</author><text>I think Google&#x27;s brand power is by far the most important thing here. When people don&#x27;t find what they&#x27;re looking for on Google, the figure it&#x27;s hard to find, or they need to learn how to query better. When people don&#x27;t find what they&#x27;re looking for on Bing, they think it&#x27;s Bing&#x27;s fault.<p>Edit: as for your actual question: possibly. In my opinion the quality difference between Google &amp; Apple Maps is greater than Google vs Bing search.</text></comment> |
33,308,109 | 33,306,471 | 1 | 2 | 33,305,234 | train | <story><title>A chill driving game with procedurally generate scenic landscapes</title><url>https://slowroads.io/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jstanley</author><text>Really neat! My only complaint is that the handling is very sluggish. Also it might be nice to have a first-person vew, maybe the camera view contributes to the sluggish feeling.<p>I <i>love</i> the procedurally-generated landscapes. It really captures the feeling of driving on unfamiliar roads.<p>I&#x27;m curious how the physics works. Is this using raycast wheels? A couple of years ago I made a racing game for Oculus Quest using Godot[0], based on Godot&#x27;s &quot;VehicleBody&quot;, and getting the physics to work satisfactorily was a major headache. But a procedural world would have made it <i>so</i> much cooler.<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;sidequestvr.com&#x2F;app&#x2F;1403&#x2F;ghost-racing-vr-wip" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;sidequestvr.com&#x2F;app&#x2F;1403&#x2F;ghost-racing-vr-wip</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dahart</author><text>&gt; maybe the camera view contributes to the sluggish feeling.<p>Can confirm. I was physics lead on a console driving game, and we discovered to our surprise that the camera is a critical piece of making sure the physics actually feels like physics, and that it’s quite difficult to get the camera right. The camera can make real physics feel sluggish, cartoony, or just wrong, and a great camera can make fake physics feel real. We humans are pretty sensitive to subtle motions.<p>Making physics feel right is also about lots of other cues too though (cues which aren’t here in this game). Sound and effects and even sometimes tactile feedback are also needed to complete the illusion. Sometimes real physics is surprisingly sluggish, and we don’t notice how slowly momentum changes until we take away the sounds and bumps and dust and skid marks.</text></comment> | <story><title>A chill driving game with procedurally generate scenic landscapes</title><url>https://slowroads.io/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jstanley</author><text>Really neat! My only complaint is that the handling is very sluggish. Also it might be nice to have a first-person vew, maybe the camera view contributes to the sluggish feeling.<p>I <i>love</i> the procedurally-generated landscapes. It really captures the feeling of driving on unfamiliar roads.<p>I&#x27;m curious how the physics works. Is this using raycast wheels? A couple of years ago I made a racing game for Oculus Quest using Godot[0], based on Godot&#x27;s &quot;VehicleBody&quot;, and getting the physics to work satisfactorily was a major headache. But a procedural world would have made it <i>so</i> much cooler.<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;sidequestvr.com&#x2F;app&#x2F;1403&#x2F;ghost-racing-vr-wip" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;sidequestvr.com&#x2F;app&#x2F;1403&#x2F;ghost-racing-vr-wip</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>anslo</author><text>Physics are always a major headache - mine are pretty hacky and cut a lot of corners, such as ignoring trees or preventing the car from flipping. I only height-test the wheels, progress them independently, and then resolve the chassis position from that. It&#x27;s not terribly physically accurate but it gets the job done, and is pretty cheap!</text></comment> |
17,159,928 | 17,159,937 | 1 | 3 | 17,154,971 | train | <story><title>GDPR for lazy people: Block all European users with Cloudflare Workers</title><url>https://apility.io/2018/05/25/gdpr-lazy-block-eu-users-cloudflare-workers/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>strken</author><text><i>If you don&#x27;t store PII, you don&#x27;t have to do any work. Done. If you need to have PII for your webapp to function, you barely have to do any work besides giving the that care people their rights</i><p>The problem is not the work that the GDPR requires, the problem is the work I&#x27;ll have to put into understanding the GDPR.<p><i>I think it&#x27;s mainly a difference in viewpoint: this is my data for me. Not yours.</i><p>This is the part that I don&#x27;t understand. If I own a shop, and you come in and buy something, you have absolutely no right to demand that I forget your face and your purchase. In the real world, it&#x27;s not <i>your</i> data, it&#x27;s <i>my</i> memory. If I go home and write in my diary that today hekfu bought lots of broccoli, you don&#x27;t have the right to come to me in five years and demand that I remove all mention of you from my diary at my own cost.<p>I don&#x27;t understand the concept of data ownership, because it does not align with how I understand the real world to work.</text></item><item><author>hekfu</author><text>&gt; This may be an edgy and rebellious sentiment that makes me a radical anti-privacy activist, but unless you&#x27;re storing levels of information on me that are similar to facebook&#x2F;google&#x2F;etc., I do not give a damn whether you&#x27;re soft-deleting or hard-deleting my IP address and my user account. If your web app is just a web app, and not one component of a vast surveillance octopus which puts tentacles on almost every website using social media buttons and GA.js, I don&#x27;t think it matters in the slightest.<p>&gt; It feels like all these tiny companies, one-man shops, and early-stage startups are going to be collateral damage to a regulation designed to stop facebook and google from knowing a horrific amount about everyone. In fact, it feels like a regulatory moat that will do very little to impede any big tech company while forcing me to do twice as much work for any side project I try to develop.<p>If you don&#x27;t store PII, you don&#x27;t have to do any work. Done. If you need to have PII for your webapp to function, you barely have to do any work besides giving the that care people their rights<p>&gt; There&#x27;s so much smugness about the GDPR being a &quot;good reflecting moment&quot;, etc. which makes me think that people who support the GDPR believe that there&#x27;s no way detractors could disagree with it in good faith or for good reasons.<p>I think it&#x27;s mainly a difference in viewpoint: this is <i>my</i> data for me. Not yours. GDPR makes it easier for me to enforce that. From my perspective I don&#x27;t care about you violating my rights &quot;in good faith&quot;, just like most people don&#x27;t cares if you trespass on my property and steal something &quot;in good faith&quot;.</text></item><item><author>strken</author><text>This may be an edgy and rebellious sentiment that makes me a radical anti-privacy activist, but unless you&#x27;re storing levels of information on me that are similar to facebook&#x2F;google&#x2F;etc., I do not give a damn whether you&#x27;re soft-deleting or hard-deleting my IP address and my user account. If your web app is just a web app, and not one component of a vast surveillance octopus which puts tentacles on almost every website using social media buttons and GA.js, I don&#x27;t think it matters in the slightest.<p>It feels like all these tiny companies, one-man shops, and early-stage startups are going to be collateral damage to a regulation designed to stop facebook and google from knowing a horrific amount about everyone. In fact, it feels like a regulatory moat that will do very little to impede any big tech company while forcing me to do twice as much work for any side project I try to develop.<p>There&#x27;s so much smugness about the GDPR being a &quot;good reflecting moment&quot;, etc. which makes me think that people who support the GDPR believe that there&#x27;s no way detractors could disagree with it in good faith or for good reasons.</text></item><item><author>yzmtf2008</author><text>The problem isn’t so much as there’s a cost to implementing GDPR, but that the tech community has been “move fast and break things” and refused to handle things properly before.<p>If all you do about my PII is “set delete = 1” (which one could argue isn’t even the best practice in every scenario), then I probably don’t want you to handle my PII at all.<p>To your example, you could easily not switch to a CASCADE, but instead set delete=1 and rewrite every sensitive field with a special value. Doesn’t even require a DB migration.<p>If your attitude to properly handling sensitive information is “it’s too complicated and costly, so we’ll just not handle it and YOLO”, perhaps GDPR is a good reflecting moment for you.<p>[edit:typo, edit:clarification]</text></item><item><author>jeremyt</author><text> I’ve been reading hacker news for about a decade, and it’s getting to the point where I don’t think there are many entrepreneurs and&#x2F;or technical people on here anymore.<p>The number of people who are saying it’s no big deal to comply with this huge law, especially for very small startups, is mind boggling.<p>Let’s just take one feature: the requirement that you can permanently delete all of your information. Most early-stage startups use the (in 2008, when I did mine) best practice of “delete=1”. Changing your whole database over to permanent cascade delete is only easy if you’re a very experienced programmer or who knows what he’s doing. And that sets aside the fact that even if you know what you’re doing technically, there are lots of business logic problems with just deleting things out of the database and anonymizing users is very tricky.<p>I was not a great programmer when I started my first startup. I was learning as I went along.<p>We couldn’t afford a lawyer, and the amount of time for me (the only programmer) to go through and read all the regulations and make all the requisite changes in the product I would estimate might take on the order of a month or two, which if timed poorly would’ve killed our company. I say again: at an early stage startup with one programmer, you cannot have that one programmer spending two months on compliance.<p>It’s just gotten to the point that there’s one comment after another responding to this regulation or that regulation or this situation or whatever with “well, just call HR“, or “I can’t believe you don’t have a company policy for that!”<p>Or “well just ask your lawyers“. It ain’t that easy. Do you have any idea how much it would cost to have “your lawyers” go through the GDPR, tell you what you need to do, and deal with all of the edge cases and gray areas? $20k or $30k doesn’t seem too high.<p>My biggest fear is that all of these complex bureaucratic laws are just raising the bar for doing a startup. Maybe the days of two people doing a startup in someone’s garage should be in the past? If so, that makes me kind of sad.<p>Regardless it’s not obvious that GDPR is the right policy or that it’s well designed or clear.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ikt</author><text>&gt; In the real world, it&#x27;s not your data, it&#x27;s my memory.<p>This is where there&#x27;s been a divergence on thought. In the real world you have limited capabilities to collect and store the data that is currently being collected. You&#x27;re physically limited in how much you can retain and retrieve. In your old timey example I assume the diary to be sitting there in the back of the shop just being a record of my name and what I bought, but that&#x27;s not how a lot of data is being used or being collected online.<p>The equivalent would be you making the diary automatically write down a potential unlimited amount of data on me and then using it to sell advertising the moment I enter the shop.<p>If I went past your store and it automatically retrieved physical details about myself, what I&#x27;m wearing, my interests, hobbies, location and you then built a profile and then sold this information to advertisers there absolutely would be regulations regarding this in the real world.<p>A better example:<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bbc.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;technology-23425297" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bbc.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;technology-23425297</a><p>Privacy limits
As retailers trial such tech they are well aware there is a risk of a privacy backlash.<p>Clothes store Nordstrom recently cancelled a scheme which tracked customers&#x27; movements through its stores using their phones&#x27; wi-fi signals after complaints.<p>&quot;Are we willing to accept our everyday movements being monitored and analysed, not to keep us safe but purely to allow advertisers to target us? I think people will start to say no, our privacy is worth more than a few advertising dollars.&quot;<p>--<p>You say shop with a diary to present the most innocent of examples but for every shop with a diary there&#x27;s billions of stalkers following people everywhere they go to learn as much about them as possible in order to sell them products and influence how they think which they never agreed to.</text></comment> | <story><title>GDPR for lazy people: Block all European users with Cloudflare Workers</title><url>https://apility.io/2018/05/25/gdpr-lazy-block-eu-users-cloudflare-workers/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>strken</author><text><i>If you don&#x27;t store PII, you don&#x27;t have to do any work. Done. If you need to have PII for your webapp to function, you barely have to do any work besides giving the that care people their rights</i><p>The problem is not the work that the GDPR requires, the problem is the work I&#x27;ll have to put into understanding the GDPR.<p><i>I think it&#x27;s mainly a difference in viewpoint: this is my data for me. Not yours.</i><p>This is the part that I don&#x27;t understand. If I own a shop, and you come in and buy something, you have absolutely no right to demand that I forget your face and your purchase. In the real world, it&#x27;s not <i>your</i> data, it&#x27;s <i>my</i> memory. If I go home and write in my diary that today hekfu bought lots of broccoli, you don&#x27;t have the right to come to me in five years and demand that I remove all mention of you from my diary at my own cost.<p>I don&#x27;t understand the concept of data ownership, because it does not align with how I understand the real world to work.</text></item><item><author>hekfu</author><text>&gt; This may be an edgy and rebellious sentiment that makes me a radical anti-privacy activist, but unless you&#x27;re storing levels of information on me that are similar to facebook&#x2F;google&#x2F;etc., I do not give a damn whether you&#x27;re soft-deleting or hard-deleting my IP address and my user account. If your web app is just a web app, and not one component of a vast surveillance octopus which puts tentacles on almost every website using social media buttons and GA.js, I don&#x27;t think it matters in the slightest.<p>&gt; It feels like all these tiny companies, one-man shops, and early-stage startups are going to be collateral damage to a regulation designed to stop facebook and google from knowing a horrific amount about everyone. In fact, it feels like a regulatory moat that will do very little to impede any big tech company while forcing me to do twice as much work for any side project I try to develop.<p>If you don&#x27;t store PII, you don&#x27;t have to do any work. Done. If you need to have PII for your webapp to function, you barely have to do any work besides giving the that care people their rights<p>&gt; There&#x27;s so much smugness about the GDPR being a &quot;good reflecting moment&quot;, etc. which makes me think that people who support the GDPR believe that there&#x27;s no way detractors could disagree with it in good faith or for good reasons.<p>I think it&#x27;s mainly a difference in viewpoint: this is <i>my</i> data for me. Not yours. GDPR makes it easier for me to enforce that. From my perspective I don&#x27;t care about you violating my rights &quot;in good faith&quot;, just like most people don&#x27;t cares if you trespass on my property and steal something &quot;in good faith&quot;.</text></item><item><author>strken</author><text>This may be an edgy and rebellious sentiment that makes me a radical anti-privacy activist, but unless you&#x27;re storing levels of information on me that are similar to facebook&#x2F;google&#x2F;etc., I do not give a damn whether you&#x27;re soft-deleting or hard-deleting my IP address and my user account. If your web app is just a web app, and not one component of a vast surveillance octopus which puts tentacles on almost every website using social media buttons and GA.js, I don&#x27;t think it matters in the slightest.<p>It feels like all these tiny companies, one-man shops, and early-stage startups are going to be collateral damage to a regulation designed to stop facebook and google from knowing a horrific amount about everyone. In fact, it feels like a regulatory moat that will do very little to impede any big tech company while forcing me to do twice as much work for any side project I try to develop.<p>There&#x27;s so much smugness about the GDPR being a &quot;good reflecting moment&quot;, etc. which makes me think that people who support the GDPR believe that there&#x27;s no way detractors could disagree with it in good faith or for good reasons.</text></item><item><author>yzmtf2008</author><text>The problem isn’t so much as there’s a cost to implementing GDPR, but that the tech community has been “move fast and break things” and refused to handle things properly before.<p>If all you do about my PII is “set delete = 1” (which one could argue isn’t even the best practice in every scenario), then I probably don’t want you to handle my PII at all.<p>To your example, you could easily not switch to a CASCADE, but instead set delete=1 and rewrite every sensitive field with a special value. Doesn’t even require a DB migration.<p>If your attitude to properly handling sensitive information is “it’s too complicated and costly, so we’ll just not handle it and YOLO”, perhaps GDPR is a good reflecting moment for you.<p>[edit:typo, edit:clarification]</text></item><item><author>jeremyt</author><text> I’ve been reading hacker news for about a decade, and it’s getting to the point where I don’t think there are many entrepreneurs and&#x2F;or technical people on here anymore.<p>The number of people who are saying it’s no big deal to comply with this huge law, especially for very small startups, is mind boggling.<p>Let’s just take one feature: the requirement that you can permanently delete all of your information. Most early-stage startups use the (in 2008, when I did mine) best practice of “delete=1”. Changing your whole database over to permanent cascade delete is only easy if you’re a very experienced programmer or who knows what he’s doing. And that sets aside the fact that even if you know what you’re doing technically, there are lots of business logic problems with just deleting things out of the database and anonymizing users is very tricky.<p>I was not a great programmer when I started my first startup. I was learning as I went along.<p>We couldn’t afford a lawyer, and the amount of time for me (the only programmer) to go through and read all the regulations and make all the requisite changes in the product I would estimate might take on the order of a month or two, which if timed poorly would’ve killed our company. I say again: at an early stage startup with one programmer, you cannot have that one programmer spending two months on compliance.<p>It’s just gotten to the point that there’s one comment after another responding to this regulation or that regulation or this situation or whatever with “well, just call HR“, or “I can’t believe you don’t have a company policy for that!”<p>Or “well just ask your lawyers“. It ain’t that easy. Do you have any idea how much it would cost to have “your lawyers” go through the GDPR, tell you what you need to do, and deal with all of the edge cases and gray areas? $20k or $30k doesn’t seem too high.<p>My biggest fear is that all of these complex bureaucratic laws are just raising the bar for doing a startup. Maybe the days of two people doing a startup in someone’s garage should be in the past? If so, that makes me kind of sad.<p>Regardless it’s not obvious that GDPR is the right policy or that it’s well designed or clear.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>lovich</author><text>If you&#x27;re using the data to make money, and the user is generating that data, why do you just get to keep and sell it? How is that any different than you owning some forest land and I just come in and take some animals from the land to sell for meat?<p>You might call it poaching, but that only became a crime when society made it one, and that&#x27;s what the GPDR is doing now with personal data</text></comment> |
19,777,611 | 19,777,703 | 1 | 2 | 19,773,796 | train | <story><title>So You Want to Be a Penetration Tester?</title><url>https://jhalon.github.io/becoming-a-pentester/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>bjornedstrom</author><text>I think the article overlooks the value of strong fundamentals. If you deeply understand a specific technology it&#x27;s so much easier than if you have scraped the surface by learning the most common exploits. I find that books, courses and resources about security _specifically_ are often superficial and foregoes deep understanding and instead focus on shallow techniques, tips and tricks. Sure, the tricks are useful, but so much more if they rest on strong foundations.<p>For someone that just want to get a foot in the industry and be useful in some real world scenarios (where knowledge of the most common problems will probably be enough to find real problems) I think this article is a useful resource. But in the long term you will be better and more valuable to skip security resources most of the time and instead go deep in a wide set of areas.</text></comment> | <story><title>So You Want to Be a Penetration Tester?</title><url>https://jhalon.github.io/becoming-a-pentester/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>basetop</author><text>Rather than working as a pen tester, I&#x27;d rather work on developing pen testing, auditing, intrusion detection software. A lot of security has been and is going to be automated.<p>And pen testing isn&#x27;t a &quot;sexy&quot; job. Not amongst security and software developers anyway. I see on the same level as QA.</text></comment> |
11,720,591 | 11,719,655 | 1 | 3 | 11,719,070 | train | <story><title>Apple Sent Two Men to My House</title><url>https://blog.vellumatlanta.com/2016/05/17/apple-sent-two-men-to-my-house-no-they-werent-assassins/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>fenomas</author><text>&quot;Reaching out via social&quot; seems to be the new &quot;can I speak to a supervisor&quot;.<p>True story - a month ago my credit card bill showed a mysterious $100 charge from Amazon. Phone support found the charge but couldn&#x27;t figure out why it had been made, and eventually asked me to call my bank and dispute it(!!). That sounded like crazy talk, but rather than arguing I just said thanks and tweeted @amazon. Their social people referred me to someone who wound up figuring out how to cancel the charge.</text></item><item><author>JarvisSong</author><text>It&#x27;s great that this happened. It&#x27;s annoying that it indicates the best way to get support from Apple is to make a prominent blog post.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rahoulb</author><text>My bank (NatWest) kept sending me my bank statements in Braille, even though I had opted out of paper statements completely. Six months of calling them up on the phone or going into branch; each time I was told it was sorted, only for the next month another braille statement to arrive. Complained about it on twitter and within four hours it was fixed.<p>They don&#x27;t seem to care unless there&#x27;s a chance of other people noticing.</text></comment> | <story><title>Apple Sent Two Men to My House</title><url>https://blog.vellumatlanta.com/2016/05/17/apple-sent-two-men-to-my-house-no-they-werent-assassins/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>fenomas</author><text>&quot;Reaching out via social&quot; seems to be the new &quot;can I speak to a supervisor&quot;.<p>True story - a month ago my credit card bill showed a mysterious $100 charge from Amazon. Phone support found the charge but couldn&#x27;t figure out why it had been made, and eventually asked me to call my bank and dispute it(!!). That sounded like crazy talk, but rather than arguing I just said thanks and tweeted @amazon. Their social people referred me to someone who wound up figuring out how to cancel the charge.</text></item><item><author>JarvisSong</author><text>It&#x27;s great that this happened. It&#x27;s annoying that it indicates the best way to get support from Apple is to make a prominent blog post.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>zaroth</author><text>Disputing the charge is the right thing to do in any case. Your CC company should make it very easy to login and mark the charge as problematic. They want to know if bad charges are coming in from the vendor, and this is the best way to track it.<p>I personally don&#x27;t think twice about disputing fraudulent or even mistaken charges. I can see how you might want to reserve this tool as an all-else-fails, but really CC companies should be appreciative of people using the tool because it gives them useful signals. Much better than the many many others who are missing the charge and paying for it by mistake.</text></comment> |
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