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28,938,485 | 28,936,972 | 1 | 2 | 28,933,663 | train | <story><title>Apple M1 Max Geekbench Score</title><url>https://browser.geekbench.com/v5/cpu/10496766</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>hajile</author><text>M1 uses TSMC high-density rather than high-performance. They get 40-60% better transistor density and less leakage (power consumption) at the expense of lower clockspeeds.<p>Also, a core is not necessarily just limited by power. There are often other considerations like pipeline length that affect final target clocks.<p>The fact is that at 3.2GHz, the M1 is very close to a 5800X in single-core performance. When that 5800X cranks up 8 cores, it dramatically slows down the clocks. Meanwhile the M1 should keep its max clockspeeds without any issue.<p>We know this because you can keep the 8 core M1 at max clocks for TEN MINUTES on passive cooling in the Macbook air (you can keep max clocks indefinitely if you apply a little thermal pad on the inside of the case).</text></item><item><author>klelatti</author><text>Maybe a little surprised - presumably the thermal limitations on a 16 inch laptop are potentially less limiting than on a 13 inch one so that single core could be pushed to a higher frequency?</text></item><item><author>bichiliad</author><text>I think this kinda makes sense to me — the M1 Max has the same cores as the M1, just more of them and more of the performant ones, if I understand it right. The fastest work on the fastest core, when only working on a single core, is probably very similar.</text></item><item><author>icosahedron</author><text>I&#x27;m not exactly proficient with GeekBenchery, but what I see here is that the M1 Max per core barely outperforms the M1?<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;browser.geekbench.com&#x2F;v5&#x2F;cpu&#x2F;compare&#x2F;10496766?baseline=10508059" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;browser.geekbench.com&#x2F;v5&#x2F;cpu&#x2F;compare&#x2F;10496766?baseli...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kllrnohj</author><text>&gt; When that 5800X cranks up 8 cores, it dramatically slows down the clocks<p>Not that dramatic, it drops from ~4.8ghz to ~4.4ghz: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.anandtech.com&#x2F;show&#x2F;16214&#x2F;amd-zen-3-ryzen-deep-dive-review-5950x-5900x-5800x-and-5700x-tested&#x2F;8" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.anandtech.com&#x2F;show&#x2F;16214&#x2F;amd-zen-3-ryzen-deep-di...</a><p>Actual drop varying depending on actual power consumption &amp; temperature as Ryzen is more or less an entirely reactive system.</text></comment> | <story><title>Apple M1 Max Geekbench Score</title><url>https://browser.geekbench.com/v5/cpu/10496766</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>hajile</author><text>M1 uses TSMC high-density rather than high-performance. They get 40-60% better transistor density and less leakage (power consumption) at the expense of lower clockspeeds.<p>Also, a core is not necessarily just limited by power. There are often other considerations like pipeline length that affect final target clocks.<p>The fact is that at 3.2GHz, the M1 is very close to a 5800X in single-core performance. When that 5800X cranks up 8 cores, it dramatically slows down the clocks. Meanwhile the M1 should keep its max clockspeeds without any issue.<p>We know this because you can keep the 8 core M1 at max clocks for TEN MINUTES on passive cooling in the Macbook air (you can keep max clocks indefinitely if you apply a little thermal pad on the inside of the case).</text></item><item><author>klelatti</author><text>Maybe a little surprised - presumably the thermal limitations on a 16 inch laptop are potentially less limiting than on a 13 inch one so that single core could be pushed to a higher frequency?</text></item><item><author>bichiliad</author><text>I think this kinda makes sense to me — the M1 Max has the same cores as the M1, just more of them and more of the performant ones, if I understand it right. The fastest work on the fastest core, when only working on a single core, is probably very similar.</text></item><item><author>icosahedron</author><text>I&#x27;m not exactly proficient with GeekBenchery, but what I see here is that the M1 Max per core barely outperforms the M1?<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;browser.geekbench.com&#x2F;v5&#x2F;cpu&#x2F;compare&#x2F;10496766?baseline=10508059" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;browser.geekbench.com&#x2F;v5&#x2F;cpu&#x2F;compare&#x2F;10496766?baseli...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>klelatti</author><text>Thanks - some very good points. Presumably this opens the possibility of higher single core performance on a future desktop design unless limited by pipeline length etc?</text></comment> |
32,611,030 | 32,611,151 | 1 | 3 | 32,610,292 | train | <story><title>Finnish as a world language?</title><url>https://www.hagen-schmidt.de/suomi/worldlanguage.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>retrac</author><text>It should be Japanese, of course!<p>Japanese can be written using either the Latin alphabet, or Chinese characters. The two most common writing systems in the world. It can also be written with its own elegant and purely phonetic writing system. There&#x27;s even Braille, Morse code, and sign language encodings. It is truly media agnostic.<p>Japanese has a regular grammar. From a linguist&#x27;s perspective, aside from the politeness system, it&#x27;s really quite <i>normal</i> for a language. Very little in it to surprise a Finnish, Turkish or Korean speaker. (Unlike English, which if first discovered today spoken by a people in the interior of New Guinea, would lead to accusations of a linguistic hoax.)<p>Finally, some 40% of Japanese vocabulary is based on Chinese, and Chinese and Japanese technical terms flow freely between the languages to this day. Another ~20% of Japanese vocabulary is borrowed from European languages like English or Portuguese. The majority of the world already speaks a significant amount of Japanese and they don&#x27;t even know it! For this reason, Chinese, European, and American, alike, usually find it quite easy to learn.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>United857</author><text>&gt; speaks a significant amount of Japanese and they don&#x27;t even know it<p>Only for a very loose definition of &quot;speaking&quot;<p>A Chinese without knowledge of Japanese reading it or vice versa would be like a English speaker reading French or vice versa. You&#x27;d recognize some vocabulary, but the grammar and pronounciation is significantly different and most of the overall sentence is still foreign.<p>Even English loanwords are significantly altered by shortening and mapping to Japanese tones. Most English speakers wouldn&#x27;t recognize &quot;terebi&quot; (television) or &quot;konbini&quot; (convenience store) for example.</text></comment> | <story><title>Finnish as a world language?</title><url>https://www.hagen-schmidt.de/suomi/worldlanguage.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>retrac</author><text>It should be Japanese, of course!<p>Japanese can be written using either the Latin alphabet, or Chinese characters. The two most common writing systems in the world. It can also be written with its own elegant and purely phonetic writing system. There&#x27;s even Braille, Morse code, and sign language encodings. It is truly media agnostic.<p>Japanese has a regular grammar. From a linguist&#x27;s perspective, aside from the politeness system, it&#x27;s really quite <i>normal</i> for a language. Very little in it to surprise a Finnish, Turkish or Korean speaker. (Unlike English, which if first discovered today spoken by a people in the interior of New Guinea, would lead to accusations of a linguistic hoax.)<p>Finally, some 40% of Japanese vocabulary is based on Chinese, and Chinese and Japanese technical terms flow freely between the languages to this day. Another ~20% of Japanese vocabulary is borrowed from European languages like English or Portuguese. The majority of the world already speaks a significant amount of Japanese and they don&#x27;t even know it! For this reason, Chinese, European, and American, alike, usually find it quite easy to learn.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kriro</author><text>I think Koran is quite interesting. The symbols were designed from scratch iirc. and they are extremly logical. I&#x27;d argue that most people will be able to read and correctly pronounce Korean in a couple of days (even if they don&#x27;t understand a single word the are saying) which is quite astonishing. I was pleasently surprised at the logical structure. When I first saw the symbols my western brain said &quot;oh my, this is complex and hard&quot;. I was shocked how wrong I was.</text></comment> |
37,868,062 | 37,867,111 | 1 | 2 | 37,864,883 | train | <story><title>Framework 13 AMD 7040 Series: A Developer's First Impressions</title><url>https://zach.codes/p/a-developers-review-framework-13</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bubblethink</author><text>I have the 845 g9, and I&#x27;m lukewarm about it. It&#x27;s more to do with AMD than HP, but HP also has a few annoyances.<p>- No insert key<p>- No external display before OS. Can&#x27;t do luks password over external monitor.<p>- Miscellaneous AMD bugs: vp9 hw decoding broken, s2idle sleep fails occasionally, gets stuck in lowest frequency sometimes, several others that have slowly been fixed on mainline<p>- Battery life is pretty mediocre. 5-6 hours of browsing, 2-3 hours of video.</text></item><item><author>sva_</author><text>I wonder what kind of battery-life Framework users get?<p>I&#x27;ve recently gotten an Elitebook 845 G10 which runs on a Ryzen 7 Pro 7840HS, and battery life was at first shit. The issue was with the BIOS being bugged and not allowing ASPM. After manually activating, I now get around 12-15 hours on a 50Wh battery, depending on use of course. Results still preliminary though, more testing needs to be done.<p>Btw, I chose the Elitebook because it actually features great repairability. Pretty much everything can be swapped out, including memory. I was reluctant to buy HP, mostly due to the reputation they earned with their printer business shenanigans, but so far don&#x27;t regret the purchase at all. In fact I like this device more and more.<p>Pretty much everything worked out of the box with ArchLinux, except for ASPM, which I was able to fix within a couple hours.<p>edit: Oh and the main motivation behind preferring the Elitebook over the Framework was the price. I mean really? Upgrade to 7840 almost 400 Euro? Lenovo charges like 80 Euro for that. For 1200 Euro I got the aforementioned CPU with a beautiful 120hz, 500nits, 2560x1600 screen, 2x16GB 5600 DDR5 SO-DIMM, 1TB NVME, etc. But it was a student offer.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>eqvinox</author><text>I have the same laptop, and while the BIOS&#x2F;UEFI indeed doesn&#x27;t activate any external monitors, Linux does it during boot before LUKS password prompt for me… not sure what the difference is? I&#x27;m on kernel 6.4.<p>There&#x27;s also a firmware upgrade (the kind in &#x2F;lib&#x2F;firmware, not the kind in flash memory on the card) for the QCNFA765 wifi card that you have to install, which fixes both a lot (probably not all) of the s2idle issues, and gives a little bit of battery life. I found this out with some s0ix test tool that I now can&#x27;t find… anyway, it should say in dmesg:<p><pre><code> ath11k_pci 0000:01:00.0: fw_version 0x110b196e fw_build_timestamp 2022-12-22 12:54 fw_build_id WLAN.HSP.1.1-03125-QCAHSPSWPL_V1_V2_SILICONZ_LITE-3.6510.23
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Also, as some siblings already posted, Insert is on Fn+F10, which does indeed suck… but funnily enough it is also (undocumented?) on Fn+E, where it was on previous HP Elitebooks. I find that slightly more useful due to being reachable one-handed…</text></comment> | <story><title>Framework 13 AMD 7040 Series: A Developer's First Impressions</title><url>https://zach.codes/p/a-developers-review-framework-13</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bubblethink</author><text>I have the 845 g9, and I&#x27;m lukewarm about it. It&#x27;s more to do with AMD than HP, but HP also has a few annoyances.<p>- No insert key<p>- No external display before OS. Can&#x27;t do luks password over external monitor.<p>- Miscellaneous AMD bugs: vp9 hw decoding broken, s2idle sleep fails occasionally, gets stuck in lowest frequency sometimes, several others that have slowly been fixed on mainline<p>- Battery life is pretty mediocre. 5-6 hours of browsing, 2-3 hours of video.</text></item><item><author>sva_</author><text>I wonder what kind of battery-life Framework users get?<p>I&#x27;ve recently gotten an Elitebook 845 G10 which runs on a Ryzen 7 Pro 7840HS, and battery life was at first shit. The issue was with the BIOS being bugged and not allowing ASPM. After manually activating, I now get around 12-15 hours on a 50Wh battery, depending on use of course. Results still preliminary though, more testing needs to be done.<p>Btw, I chose the Elitebook because it actually features great repairability. Pretty much everything can be swapped out, including memory. I was reluctant to buy HP, mostly due to the reputation they earned with their printer business shenanigans, but so far don&#x27;t regret the purchase at all. In fact I like this device more and more.<p>Pretty much everything worked out of the box with ArchLinux, except for ASPM, which I was able to fix within a couple hours.<p>edit: Oh and the main motivation behind preferring the Elitebook over the Framework was the price. I mean really? Upgrade to 7840 almost 400 Euro? Lenovo charges like 80 Euro for that. For 1200 Euro I got the aforementioned CPU with a beautiful 120hz, 500nits, 2560x1600 screen, 2x16GB 5600 DDR5 SO-DIMM, 1TB NVME, etc. But it was a student offer.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>sofixa</author><text>&gt; No external display before OS. Can&#x27;t do luks password over external monitor.<p>Just a guess, but is the monitor over HDMI or USB C &#x2F; Thunderbolt? If the later, there may be BIOS settings to enable it before boot is completed (IIRC on Dells it&#x27;s disabled).</text></comment> |
37,069,731 | 37,069,816 | 1 | 2 | 37,068,464 | train | <story><title>CNET is deleting old articles to try to improve its Google Search ranking</title><url>https://www.theverge.com/2023/8/9/23826342/cnet-content-pruning-deleting-articles-google-seo</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>slater</author><text>Or mayhap Google et al could realize and understand that having old articles in archive shouldn&#x27;t penalize your ranking.</text></item><item><author>kenjackson</author><text>In fairness to them. If one of their top ways of getting traffic is being marked as less relevant because of older articles, what do you want them to do? Just continue to lose money because Google can&#x27;t rank them appropriately?</text></item><item><author>jzb</author><text>This is some bullshit. It’s bad enough that a lot of sites with content going back 10-20 years have linkrot or have simply gone offline. But I am at a loss for words that they’re disappearing content on purpose just for SEO rankings.<p>If this is what online publishing has come to we have seriously screwed up.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>modeless</author><text>Who says this is actually improving their ranking? SEO is smoke and mirrors. I wouldn&#x27;t be surprised if this whole exercise was actually counterproductive for them, and they just don&#x27;t realize it.</text></comment> | <story><title>CNET is deleting old articles to try to improve its Google Search ranking</title><url>https://www.theverge.com/2023/8/9/23826342/cnet-content-pruning-deleting-articles-google-seo</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>slater</author><text>Or mayhap Google et al could realize and understand that having old articles in archive shouldn&#x27;t penalize your ranking.</text></item><item><author>kenjackson</author><text>In fairness to them. If one of their top ways of getting traffic is being marked as less relevant because of older articles, what do you want them to do? Just continue to lose money because Google can&#x27;t rank them appropriately?</text></item><item><author>jzb</author><text>This is some bullshit. It’s bad enough that a lot of sites with content going back 10-20 years have linkrot or have simply gone offline. But I am at a loss for words that they’re disappearing content on purpose just for SEO rankings.<p>If this is what online publishing has come to we have seriously screwed up.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jpk</author><text>Yep. Also, the days of the &quot;Advanced Search&quot; page have passed, but Google still has time range options under the &quot;Tools&quot; button near the top of the results page. If they&#x27;re giving the user the option to filter results by time, then it&#x27;s pretty goofy for the algorithm to de-rank a site in results where the the default of &quot;Any time&quot; was selected in the query just because the site has old articles in the index.</text></comment> |
11,159,493 | 11,159,020 | 1 | 3 | 11,158,715 | train | <story><title>Communicating with people on psychedelics</title><url>http://qualiacomputing.com/2015/05/22/how-to-secretly-communicate-with-people-on-lsd/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>leemoore</author><text>I believe the main factor at play in the first pair of images, is that on LSD and other hallucinogens as well as intensive meditation is that there are little mind programs that run on our perception that smooth out reality for us.<p>If you notice, even just sitting still we are constantly moving our head just a little, constantly moving our eyes. Without these programs, our visual field would seem far more jumpy and unstable. In certain states of consciousness, these smoothing programs can become intermittent, less effective or even completely disabled.<p>Also, when mind rambling, chatter and perpetual loops stop, a greater amount detail can be seen and perceived through all senses. At higher and higher levels of perceptual resolution with our filters disabled and the smoothing programs down, you begin to notice that we don&#x27;t perceive reality smoothly. We perceive it in tiny little frames. If you just watch the first picture, your mind isn&#x27;t drawn to he frames. After looking for a bit at the second picture of the pair, suddenly you can start to see the frames of perception more clearly. It&#x27;s simply a matter of learning to (or being tricked to) get past our habitual programs and filters to tune into a more fine grained perceptual reality happening.<p>These observations come from my own experience with psychedelics in my 20&#x27;s and extensive meditation practice including a number of longer meditation retreats.</text></comment> | <story><title>Communicating with people on psychedelics</title><url>http://qualiacomputing.com/2015/05/22/how-to-secretly-communicate-with-people-on-lsd/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>sqlftw</author><text>Many years ago I tried LSD, and for whatever reason, I never seemed to experience visual hallucinations.
However, in recent years, cars have started having LED tail lights, which really bother my eyes.
Several times I have asked my friends, &quot;Aren&#x27;t those terrible!?&quot; to which they might reply, &quot;They are pretty bright.&quot;
Bright! They aren&#x27;t just too bright, they are intensely STROBING! Can normal people not see that? Is this the flashback I was promised?</text></comment> |
41,573,397 | 41,568,518 | 1 | 2 | 41,566,446 | train | <story><title>The centrality of stupidity in mathematics</title><url>https://mathforlove.com/2024/09/the-centrality-of-stupidity-in-mathematics/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>gwd</author><text>&gt; Science makes me feel stupid too. It&#x27;s just that I&#x27;ve gotten used to it.<p>When I started my PhD program, a group of us were given a little talk by the department secretary.<p>She told the story of how she went to audition for Jeopardy!, a trivia game show. She saw a whole bunch of other people at the audition get really nervous and choke up; her take on it was that they were used to being the most knowledgable in the room -- they were used to sitting in front of the TV screen with their friends or family and knowing every fact, and when they were suddenly confronted with a situation where <i>everyone</i> was as knowledgable as they were, they were suddenly very intimidated.<p>She, on the other hand, was completely relaxed -- she spent her days working with Nobel prize winners and loads of other people for whom she had no doubt were smarter than her. Being confronted with loads of people smarter than her was a daily experience.<p>She told this story to us to say, a lot of you will experience the same thing: You were used to being the smartest person in your High School, you were even used to being the smartest person in your classes at the prestigious university you attended. Now you&#x27;ll encounter a situation where <i>everyone</i> is like you: the best and most driven people in your classes.<p>You&#x27;ll feel stupid and inferior for a bit, and that&#x27;s normal. Don&#x27;t let it bother you. Eventually you&#x27;ll notice while that most of these other people have areas where they&#x27;re better than you, they have areas where you&#x27;re better. And there will still be the occasional person who seems better than you at everything: that&#x27;s OK too. You&#x27;re not the best at everything, and you don&#x27;t have to be.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tombert</author><text>For every job I&#x27;ve ever had, I&#x27;ve been the &quot;math and functional programming nerd&quot;, where I know lots of tricks in Haskell and F# and even concurrency theory within Java. I felt very smart.<p>I went to ICFP in 2019, and I can say with a high degree of confidence that I was the dumbest person there [1]. Everyone was speaking on four-syllable mathematical notation that I had never heard of, and talking about intricacies in GHC that I wasn&#x27;t really familiar with, and different aspects of type theory that were completely foreign to me.<p>It was very humbling; it didn&#x27;t depress me or anything, but made me realize that there&#x27;s a lot to learn and improve on, and the people there were actually extremely nice and gave me some pointers so I can get incrementally closer to being as smart as they are.<p>I think 2024 Tom would be the second dumbest guy in the room if I went again.<p>[1] Knowledge-wise, I have no idea about IQ or anything.</text></comment> | <story><title>The centrality of stupidity in mathematics</title><url>https://mathforlove.com/2024/09/the-centrality-of-stupidity-in-mathematics/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>gwd</author><text>&gt; Science makes me feel stupid too. It&#x27;s just that I&#x27;ve gotten used to it.<p>When I started my PhD program, a group of us were given a little talk by the department secretary.<p>She told the story of how she went to audition for Jeopardy!, a trivia game show. She saw a whole bunch of other people at the audition get really nervous and choke up; her take on it was that they were used to being the most knowledgable in the room -- they were used to sitting in front of the TV screen with their friends or family and knowing every fact, and when they were suddenly confronted with a situation where <i>everyone</i> was as knowledgable as they were, they were suddenly very intimidated.<p>She, on the other hand, was completely relaxed -- she spent her days working with Nobel prize winners and loads of other people for whom she had no doubt were smarter than her. Being confronted with loads of people smarter than her was a daily experience.<p>She told this story to us to say, a lot of you will experience the same thing: You were used to being the smartest person in your High School, you were even used to being the smartest person in your classes at the prestigious university you attended. Now you&#x27;ll encounter a situation where <i>everyone</i> is like you: the best and most driven people in your classes.<p>You&#x27;ll feel stupid and inferior for a bit, and that&#x27;s normal. Don&#x27;t let it bother you. Eventually you&#x27;ll notice while that most of these other people have areas where they&#x27;re better than you, they have areas where you&#x27;re better. And there will still be the occasional person who seems better than you at everything: that&#x27;s OK too. You&#x27;re not the best at everything, and you don&#x27;t have to be.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>andai</author><text>My first day at computer science I saw a guy with a huge beard playing Dwarf Fortress, and I was like &quot;oh crap, he&#x27;s like ten times smarter than me.&quot;</text></comment> |
15,948,081 | 15,946,721 | 1 | 3 | 15,946,239 | train | <story><title>Modes, Medians and Means: A Unifying Perspective</title><url>http://www.johnmyleswhite.com/notebook/2013/03/22/modes-medians-and-means-an-unifying-perspective/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>bowaggoner</author><text>There is a much wider generalization here which is studied under the name of &quot;property elicitation&quot; in computer science, machine learning, and statistics.<p>The generic question is: Given a loss function, what &quot;property&quot; of the distribution minimizes average loss; and given a &quot;property&quot;, characterize all such loss functions. For example, Bregman divergences are (essentially) all losses that &quot;elicit&quot; the mean of a distribution. If you have any monotone continuous function g(), then |g(x) - g(s)| actually also elicits the median, and these are essentially all that do.<p>Apologies for self-promotion, but you can read more at references on this page (disclaimer: I&#x27;m one of the researchers who posted it): <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;sites.google.com&#x2F;site&#x2F;informationelicitation&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;sites.google.com&#x2F;site&#x2F;informationelicitation&#x2F;</a><p>or tutorials on this subject at my blog: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;bowaggoner.com&#x2F;blog&#x2F;series.html#convexity-elicitation" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;bowaggoner.com&#x2F;blog&#x2F;series.html#convexity-elicitation</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Modes, Medians and Means: A Unifying Perspective</title><url>http://www.johnmyleswhite.com/notebook/2013/03/22/modes-medians-and-means-an-unifying-perspective/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Scene_Cast2</author><text>I should note that square-error loss is not the only one that gives the average. Log-loss is another one, for example (you can prove it by taking the derivative of your minimization, setting it to zero and solving)</text></comment> |
11,439,518 | 11,439,684 | 1 | 2 | 11,438,733 | train | <story><title>The Illegal Map of Swedish Art</title><url>http://googlemapsmania.blogspot.com/2016/04/the-illegal-map-of-swedish-art.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>hjnilsson</author><text>This court decision is a result of the change of law that in part was motivated to happened to get piracy back in 2005. When it was amended there were many, many more restrictions placed on digital distribution than before. The law in question explicitly say &quot;Artwork can be depicted if contained in a collection or catalogue, but not in digital form&quot;. So a book detailing famous art is allowed, but a website doing the same is not.<p>This also means it is not illegal to post Facebook photos with a statue. Since clearly that is not a database, just a random photo.<p>The paragraph in question: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;lagen.nu&#x2F;1960:729#P24S1" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;lagen.nu&#x2F;1960:729#P24S1</a>]<p>And the full law: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;rinfo.stage.lagrummet.se&#x2F;&#x2F;publ&#x2F;sfs&#x2F;2005:359&#x2F;pdf,sv" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;rinfo.stage.lagrummet.se&#x2F;&#x2F;publ&#x2F;sfs&#x2F;2005:359&#x2F;pdf,sv</a><p>(This law - 2005:359 - is also the law that added the &quot;data tax&quot; in Sweden of 0,4 kronor per MB.)</text></item><item><author>belorn</author><text>Reading the article from the Swedish national radio, the court decision found that wikimedia database of photo has a &quot;commercial value&quot; that can compete with commercial enterprises of the copyright authors who created the public statues or paintings on buildings.<p>The journalist asked a lawyer if this mean that its illegal now to take a photo of public statues, and the lawyer said that it legal since the law explicitly says so, but it might not be legal to publish it&quot; on the Internet&quot; as that action might be considered to have a commercial value.<p>In my view, its a bit weird.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>phkn1</author><text>Under this interpretation, wouldn&#x27;t (say) a collection of Facebook photos with statues, in aggregate, constitute a database and therefore become illegal? At what point does the size and structure of a collection become sufficient to cross the legal line? Would an individual Facebook user therefore be liable? Would Facebook as whole? etc.<p>It seems that the law has created the unintended consequence that the organization of the depictions in question matter more than the actual depictions themselves. Or in other words, of imputing commercial intent to <i>any</i> such collection of copyrighted works, whether intentional or otherwise.</text></comment> | <story><title>The Illegal Map of Swedish Art</title><url>http://googlemapsmania.blogspot.com/2016/04/the-illegal-map-of-swedish-art.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>hjnilsson</author><text>This court decision is a result of the change of law that in part was motivated to happened to get piracy back in 2005. When it was amended there were many, many more restrictions placed on digital distribution than before. The law in question explicitly say &quot;Artwork can be depicted if contained in a collection or catalogue, but not in digital form&quot;. So a book detailing famous art is allowed, but a website doing the same is not.<p>This also means it is not illegal to post Facebook photos with a statue. Since clearly that is not a database, just a random photo.<p>The paragraph in question: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;lagen.nu&#x2F;1960:729#P24S1" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;lagen.nu&#x2F;1960:729#P24S1</a>]<p>And the full law: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;rinfo.stage.lagrummet.se&#x2F;&#x2F;publ&#x2F;sfs&#x2F;2005:359&#x2F;pdf,sv" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;rinfo.stage.lagrummet.se&#x2F;&#x2F;publ&#x2F;sfs&#x2F;2005:359&#x2F;pdf,sv</a><p>(This law - 2005:359 - is also the law that added the &quot;data tax&quot; in Sweden of 0,4 kronor per MB.)</text></item><item><author>belorn</author><text>Reading the article from the Swedish national radio, the court decision found that wikimedia database of photo has a &quot;commercial value&quot; that can compete with commercial enterprises of the copyright authors who created the public statues or paintings on buildings.<p>The journalist asked a lawyer if this mean that its illegal now to take a photo of public statues, and the lawyer said that it legal since the law explicitly says so, but it might not be legal to publish it&quot; on the Internet&quot; as that action might be considered to have a commercial value.<p>In my view, its a bit weird.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>vilhelm_s</author><text>The decision from the supreme court is available online: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.hogstadomstolen.se&#x2F;Domstolar&#x2F;hogstadomstolen&#x2F;Avgoranden&#x2F;2016&#x2F;2016-04-04%20%C3%96%20849-15%20Beslut.pdf" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.hogstadomstolen.se&#x2F;Domstolar&#x2F;hogstadomstolen&#x2F;Avgo...</a><p>As I understand it, actually the sentence that you quote, §24(3), is not relevant in this case. §24 provides three exceptions to the general system of copyright, and this case turns on §24(1), which says &quot;artwork can be depicted if they are permanently placed in a public place outdoors&quot;.<p>So, it would naively seem that photos of public art are not copyright protected. However, the court reasoned that the word &quot;depict&quot; does not cover the act of publicizing the pictures in an open database. They reason based on what kind of use they think the legislators had in mind when passing the law: they think it is intended to allow taking photos of streets, and selling postcards of sculptures, but that a database has more commercial value than a postcard, and therefore the legislators did not intend that to be included in the term...</text></comment> |
37,988,465 | 37,987,287 | 1 | 2 | 37,985,777 | train | <story><title>MSW 2.0 – Mock Service Worker</title><url>https://mswjs.io/blog/introducing-msw-2.0/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>dcre</author><text>At my job we&#x27;ve found working with MSW + OpenAPI to be near miraculous. I work on a web frontend and do most of my development against a mock API powered by MSW. This live preview runs against the mock API running fully in-browser.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;oxide-console-preview.vercel.app" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;oxide-console-preview.vercel.app</a><p>More details:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;oxidecomputer&#x2F;oxide.ts">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;oxidecomputer&#x2F;oxide.ts</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;oxidecomputer&#x2F;console">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;oxidecomputer&#x2F;console</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;oxide.computer&#x2F;podcasts&#x2F;oxide-and-friends&#x2F;1426644" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;oxide.computer&#x2F;podcasts&#x2F;oxide-and-friends&#x2F;1426644</a><p>Really excited about this next step for MSW — we&#x27;ll be upgrading soon. Building on web standards buys you so much.<p>(Reposted at top level because the parent got flagged.)</text></comment> | <story><title>MSW 2.0 – Mock Service Worker</title><url>https://mswjs.io/blog/introducing-msw-2.0/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>candylifter</author><text>Nice to see more and more tools adopting standard Fetch API Request&#x2F;Response interfaces.</text></comment> |
10,678,127 | 10,677,053 | 1 | 2 | 10,673,615 | train | <story><title>Debugging Node.js in Production</title><url>http://techblog.netflix.com/2015/12/debugging-nodejs-in-production.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>z3t4</author><text>&quot;Name your functions&quot;: Easier to know what the code does, flattens the &quot;Christmas tree from hell&quot;, no need for ugly closures, + Makes it&#x27;s easier to debug.
Anonymous functions is probably the most abused syntax in JavaScript.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nawitus</author><text>The argument that stack traces are easier to debug when functions are named is always brought up when talking about the issue of naming functions. However, I don&#x27;t quite understand why it&#x27;s such a big issue. Whenever I get a stack trace the issue is almost always easy to debug. That has been my experience working with JavaScript full time for two and a half years.<p>And every difficult to debug bug hasn&#x27;t been related to knowing which functions are in the stack, but are instead related to figuring out why frameworks do something or race conditions and so on.<p>I just find it surprising that people are having problems with anonymous functions in stack traces, when I&#x27;ve never seen that.</text></comment> | <story><title>Debugging Node.js in Production</title><url>http://techblog.netflix.com/2015/12/debugging-nodejs-in-production.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>z3t4</author><text>&quot;Name your functions&quot;: Easier to know what the code does, flattens the &quot;Christmas tree from hell&quot;, no need for ugly closures, + Makes it&#x27;s easier to debug.
Anonymous functions is probably the most abused syntax in JavaScript.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ameen</author><text>I&#x27;ve never understood JScripters&#x27; insistence on anonymous functions instead of named ones.<p>As someone just delving into Node from another platform what&#x27;re &quot;proper best practices&quot;-based JS patterns?</text></comment> |
24,233,645 | 24,233,259 | 1 | 2 | 24,229,269 | train | <story><title>New academic journal only publishes 'unsurprising' research rejected by others</title><url>https://www.cbc.ca/radio/asithappens/as-it-happens-thursday-edition-1.5146761/new-academic-journal-only-publishes-unsurprising-research-rejected-by-others-1.5146765</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mikk14</author><text>I disagree. <i>Negative</i> results are important. <i>Null</i> results are of very limited interest. The two are worlds apart.<p>A null result simply means you tried something and it didn&#x27;t work. But you don&#x27;t know why. You haven&#x27;t proven it didn&#x27;t work. There are literally millions of reasons why something might not work. For instance, you could try to use compound X to cure disease Y, observe no effect, and conclude that X doesn&#x27;t cure Y. But what if somewhere in the process of making X you made an uncaught mistake and you instead used X&#x27;?<p>A negative result means that you tried something and you came to the proven conclusion it doesn&#x27;t work. This is, crucially, as hard to obtain as a positive result. In my example, it would imply a much longer process than simply &quot;apply X, see no effect in Y, make a few robustness checks, done&quot;.<p>You could say &quot;Well, publish the null anyway, somebody will catch the mistake&quot;. Unlikely. There are already so many papers out there that keeping up is impossible. If we were publishing also null results this number will grow tenfold at the very least. Nobody could possibly check everything. They will see a paper &quot;X doesn&#x27;t cure Y&quot; and call it knowledge, stifling a possible cure virtually forever.<p>Am I splitting hairs? Perhaps. But I think HN prizes itself to be a scientifically minded community, and thus it has a mandate to use terms correctly. Confusing &quot;null&quot; with &quot;negative&quot; is a sin.<p>I hope one day I&#x27;ll find a way to strongly and passionately argue against the &quot;null results are as important as positive results&quot; position. It is a bad meme. Charitably, I consider it most of the times a honest mistake. But sometimes it gives me the impression it is a cheap trick used by people to erode the reputation of academia.</text></item><item><author>owenshen24</author><text>That sucks to hear. Null results are important, as you say, if only to dissuade others from doing the same.<p>See also the &quot;file-drawer problem&quot; (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Publication_bias" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Publication_bias</a>). Also, with regards to the incentives in the field and the lack of null results, there&#x27;s always Ioannidis&#x27;s classic work (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;journals.plos.org&#x2F;plosmedicine&#x2F;article?id=10.1371&#x2F;journal.pmed.0020124" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;journals.plos.org&#x2F;plosmedicine&#x2F;article?id=10.1371&#x2F;jo...</a>).</text></item><item><author>kraetzin</author><text>Half of my PhD thesis is considered &quot;unpublishable&quot; because, after doing the work, my supervisors felt it&#x27;s actually &quot;unsurprising&quot; that it didn&#x27;t work out. We took methods that had been exploited to improve on previous results for over a decade to their logical extreme, and found that this method no longer leads to improvements. After doing the work it seems obvious. A paper on the subject would almost be considered uninteresting, and a high ranking journal would ignore it (which is why it&#x27;s considered &quot;unpublishable&quot;). However, nobody has published this information, and it would help others to not make the same mistake.<p>I wonder how many times similar &quot;mistakes&quot; have been made by PhD students across disciplines.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>learnstats2</author><text>I understand that people generally mean &#x27;null results&#x27; here, by your definition, when they say &#x27;null results&#x27;. That&#x27;s the intent.<p>Null results are <i>also important</i>.<p>Suppression of null results allows for p-hacking and confirmation biases to creep into research, and greatly reduces the power of literature reviews.</text></comment> | <story><title>New academic journal only publishes 'unsurprising' research rejected by others</title><url>https://www.cbc.ca/radio/asithappens/as-it-happens-thursday-edition-1.5146761/new-academic-journal-only-publishes-unsurprising-research-rejected-by-others-1.5146765</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mikk14</author><text>I disagree. <i>Negative</i> results are important. <i>Null</i> results are of very limited interest. The two are worlds apart.<p>A null result simply means you tried something and it didn&#x27;t work. But you don&#x27;t know why. You haven&#x27;t proven it didn&#x27;t work. There are literally millions of reasons why something might not work. For instance, you could try to use compound X to cure disease Y, observe no effect, and conclude that X doesn&#x27;t cure Y. But what if somewhere in the process of making X you made an uncaught mistake and you instead used X&#x27;?<p>A negative result means that you tried something and you came to the proven conclusion it doesn&#x27;t work. This is, crucially, as hard to obtain as a positive result. In my example, it would imply a much longer process than simply &quot;apply X, see no effect in Y, make a few robustness checks, done&quot;.<p>You could say &quot;Well, publish the null anyway, somebody will catch the mistake&quot;. Unlikely. There are already so many papers out there that keeping up is impossible. If we were publishing also null results this number will grow tenfold at the very least. Nobody could possibly check everything. They will see a paper &quot;X doesn&#x27;t cure Y&quot; and call it knowledge, stifling a possible cure virtually forever.<p>Am I splitting hairs? Perhaps. But I think HN prizes itself to be a scientifically minded community, and thus it has a mandate to use terms correctly. Confusing &quot;null&quot; with &quot;negative&quot; is a sin.<p>I hope one day I&#x27;ll find a way to strongly and passionately argue against the &quot;null results are as important as positive results&quot; position. It is a bad meme. Charitably, I consider it most of the times a honest mistake. But sometimes it gives me the impression it is a cheap trick used by people to erode the reputation of academia.</text></item><item><author>owenshen24</author><text>That sucks to hear. Null results are important, as you say, if only to dissuade others from doing the same.<p>See also the &quot;file-drawer problem&quot; (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Publication_bias" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Publication_bias</a>). Also, with regards to the incentives in the field and the lack of null results, there&#x27;s always Ioannidis&#x27;s classic work (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;journals.plos.org&#x2F;plosmedicine&#x2F;article?id=10.1371&#x2F;journal.pmed.0020124" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;journals.plos.org&#x2F;plosmedicine&#x2F;article?id=10.1371&#x2F;jo...</a>).</text></item><item><author>kraetzin</author><text>Half of my PhD thesis is considered &quot;unpublishable&quot; because, after doing the work, my supervisors felt it&#x27;s actually &quot;unsurprising&quot; that it didn&#x27;t work out. We took methods that had been exploited to improve on previous results for over a decade to their logical extreme, and found that this method no longer leads to improvements. After doing the work it seems obvious. A paper on the subject would almost be considered uninteresting, and a high ranking journal would ignore it (which is why it&#x27;s considered &quot;unpublishable&quot;). However, nobody has published this information, and it would help others to not make the same mistake.<p>I wonder how many times similar &quot;mistakes&quot; have been made by PhD students across disciplines.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tralarpa</author><text>&gt; Negative results are important. Null results are of very limited interest.<p>Correct. There is a highly cited paper in CS where the author showed that a mathematical model that was widely used in research didn&#x27;t actually work (anymore) in reality. That paper was the starting point of a lot of new research in that field.</text></comment> |
40,453,010 | 40,453,131 | 1 | 2 | 40,452,260 | train | <story><title>It looks a lot like VMware just lost a 24,000-VM customer</title><url>https://www.theregister.com/2024/05/22/computershare_vm_migration_project/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>pmx</author><text>This massively increases risk too, right? Pinning all your revenue on a much smaller customer base means losing one or two of them has a huge impact!</text></item><item><author>helsinkiandrew</author><text>&gt; Steve McDowell, chief analyst at NAND research, told The Register that VMware by Broadcom is “laser focused on high-revenue, high-margin business” and has priced its wares “just below the pain threshold for customers they care about.”<p>If you hike your prices by 10-15x, you only need 6-10% of customers to stay to maintain your revenue, reduce costs and massively increase profit margins!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dbspin</author><text>Also pretty much guarantees flight of your former customer base to close compliments - who then have improved revenue to bring their products closer in alignment to yours. You&#x27;d better have a hell of a moat to follow this strategy.</text></comment> | <story><title>It looks a lot like VMware just lost a 24,000-VM customer</title><url>https://www.theregister.com/2024/05/22/computershare_vm_migration_project/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>pmx</author><text>This massively increases risk too, right? Pinning all your revenue on a much smaller customer base means losing one or two of them has a huge impact!</text></item><item><author>helsinkiandrew</author><text>&gt; Steve McDowell, chief analyst at NAND research, told The Register that VMware by Broadcom is “laser focused on high-revenue, high-margin business” and has priced its wares “just below the pain threshold for customers they care about.”<p>If you hike your prices by 10-15x, you only need 6-10% of customers to stay to maintain your revenue, reduce costs and massively increase profit margins!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>alephnerd</author><text>Broadcom makes $35B a year in revenue.<p>VMWare made at most $13.4B.<p>Even with severe churn, VMWare would make around $12.8-13B.<p>VMWare is just a BU now, not a company, and the economics of managing &quot;just another product line&quot; is different from a company with a flagship product<p>As I&#x27;ve mentioned before on HN, the math is different and it makes sense to up prices and only concentrate on F1000s at that size.<p>&gt; Pinning all your revenue on a much smaller customer base means losing one or two of them has a huge impact<p>Large customers are sticky. You can&#x27;t migrate your hypervisor or cloud provider overnight. These are multi-year projects.<p>Also, it&#x27;s better to target a smaller base of high paying customers instead of a large base of low paying customers because every sales motion and support ticket is an opportunity cost and a financial cost.</text></comment> |
9,925,748 | 9,924,241 | 1 | 3 | 9,923,709 | train | <story><title>A Guide to PR for Startups</title><url>http://www.craigkerstiens.com/2015/07/21/An-intro-PR-guide-for-startups/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jkincaid</author><text>This post is a good primer on PR basics. If you&#x27;d like to read more on the subject, I (also) wrote a book about startup PR with plenty of examples (and a few jokes).<p><i>The Burned-Out Blogger&#x27;s Guide to PR</i>: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.amazon.com&#x2F;The-Burned-Out-Bloggers-Guide-PR-ebook&#x2F;dp&#x2F;B00NFAT238" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.amazon.com&#x2F;The-Burned-Out-Bloggers-Guide-PR-ebook...</a><p>(I used to write for TechCrunch and have subsequently done PR consulting for startups. Feedback on the book has been quite positive; if you read it and wish it covered something, let me know!)</text></comment> | <story><title>A Guide to PR for Startups</title><url>http://www.craigkerstiens.com/2015/07/21/An-intro-PR-guide-for-startups/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>vonnik</author><text>This is a good introduction to PR. I&#x27;ve worked as both a reporter and PR person, and I would add that PR faces a relational bottleneck. Most startups opt for PR agencies because those agencies, if they are effective, have established relationships with journalists. Tech reporters, as you can imagine, are overwhelmed with pitches, with tons of startups fighting for the same oxygen. Startup CEOs need to think good and hard about how interesting their company&#x27;s story is for strangers. Creating a good story is like creating a good product -- it appeals to people on some fundamental level. A really good story solves both the reader&#x27;s problem of looking for valuable information, and a reporter&#x27;s problem of justifying her existence to her editor and fulfilling her quota for the day. I wrote an ebook about this for anyone interested, hosted at Celery: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.trycelery.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.trycelery.com&#x2F;</a></text></comment> |
17,018,349 | 17,018,058 | 1 | 3 | 17,015,644 | train | <story><title>Who controls glibc?</title><url>https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/753646/a6ebb50040c5862c/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>roenxi</author><text>Technical documentation isn&#x27;t the place for a joke full stop. Documentation is for people who are typically busy, uncertain and potentially dealing with something that is going wrong.<p>They want clear, concise and accessible help. They don&#x27;t want or need tasteless jokes. It is disrespectful to their time to include random garbage.<p>This is supposed to be read by people who need it, not people who know what is going on and want to enjoy a good laugh.</text></item><item><author>geofft</author><text>Nobody who removed the joke said they were offended by it, they just said that they didn&#x27;t believe it was the sort of thing that belonged in technical documentation. If anyone is offended, it is RMS, in the sense that he seems personally affronted that he doesn&#x27;t carry the line-item veto power he thinks he had over all of GNU and people did not ask him before removing something he added 25 years ago.<p>Not everyone who disagrees with something is offended by the thing they disagree with. Shall I say that someone who prefers writing documentation in man pages instead of Markdown is offended by Markdown? Is Project Zero offended by buffer overflows?</text></item><item><author>bhhaskin</author><text>I agree with RMS on this. People need to grow up. It&#x27;s ok to be offended, but not ok to try and correct everyone just because you are offended. A line needs to be drawn somewhere and this is harmless.</text></item><item><author>matthewbauer</author><text>So what annoys me about this discussion is that both sides are not being very honest. Calling it an &quot;abortion joke&quot; is to me highly misleading. It&#x27;s an &quot;abortion law joke&quot; &amp; has nothing to do with the procedure of abortion! The people arguing against it seem to be implying its much more inappropriate than it is.<p>Anyway, no where in the article is the actual &quot;joke&quot; mentioned. So I&#x27;d like to include it here just so people can judge for themselves.<p>&quot;Proposed Federal censorship regulations may prohibit us from giving you information about the possibility of calling this function. We would be required to say that this is not an
acceptable way of terminating a program.&quot;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jonhendry18</author><text>&quot;Technical documentation isn&#x27;t the place for a joke full stop&quot;<p>This is a bad take. When wading through dry technical documentation a little humor can make it much less laborious.<p>As long as the humor doesn&#x27;t result in ambiguity, there&#x27;s no problem.<p>Something like &quot;You can tune a filesystem, but you can&#x27;t tune a fish.&quot; at the end of a manpage may elicit a chuckle but doesn&#x27;t reduce understanding.</text></comment> | <story><title>Who controls glibc?</title><url>https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/753646/a6ebb50040c5862c/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>roenxi</author><text>Technical documentation isn&#x27;t the place for a joke full stop. Documentation is for people who are typically busy, uncertain and potentially dealing with something that is going wrong.<p>They want clear, concise and accessible help. They don&#x27;t want or need tasteless jokes. It is disrespectful to their time to include random garbage.<p>This is supposed to be read by people who need it, not people who know what is going on and want to enjoy a good laugh.</text></item><item><author>geofft</author><text>Nobody who removed the joke said they were offended by it, they just said that they didn&#x27;t believe it was the sort of thing that belonged in technical documentation. If anyone is offended, it is RMS, in the sense that he seems personally affronted that he doesn&#x27;t carry the line-item veto power he thinks he had over all of GNU and people did not ask him before removing something he added 25 years ago.<p>Not everyone who disagrees with something is offended by the thing they disagree with. Shall I say that someone who prefers writing documentation in man pages instead of Markdown is offended by Markdown? Is Project Zero offended by buffer overflows?</text></item><item><author>bhhaskin</author><text>I agree with RMS on this. People need to grow up. It&#x27;s ok to be offended, but not ok to try and correct everyone just because you are offended. A line needs to be drawn somewhere and this is harmless.</text></item><item><author>matthewbauer</author><text>So what annoys me about this discussion is that both sides are not being very honest. Calling it an &quot;abortion joke&quot; is to me highly misleading. It&#x27;s an &quot;abortion law joke&quot; &amp; has nothing to do with the procedure of abortion! The people arguing against it seem to be implying its much more inappropriate than it is.<p>Anyway, no where in the article is the actual &quot;joke&quot; mentioned. So I&#x27;d like to include it here just so people can judge for themselves.<p>&quot;Proposed Federal censorship regulations may prohibit us from giving you information about the possibility of calling this function. We would be required to say that this is not an
acceptable way of terminating a program.&quot;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>djsumdog</author><text>I&#x27;m not that hardcore about it, but I still agree this really shouldn&#x27;t be in the official docs. Maybe in a tutorial or a set of slides.<p>I do agree with some professionalism in things that want to be taken seriously. I don&#x27;t even really like the &quot;Apt with super cow powers.&quot;<p>I do agree this isn&#x27;t about political correctness. At one time GNU tools were just a bunch of devs trying to write open source tooling for fun or to learn. But with it being such a huge part of our industry now, it does need to grow up.<p>If you&#x27;re working on your own small open source projects, have fun with the docs and comments. But don&#x27;t be like Stallman. Realize if your tools are really successful, those quips might get cut out one day. c&#x27;est la vie</text></comment> |
41,163,597 | 41,163,153 | 1 | 2 | 41,162,311 | train | <story><title>Andy Warhol's lost Amiga art found</title><url>https://dfarq.homeip.net/andy-warhols-lost-amiga-art-found/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>cellularmitosis</author><text>&gt; and a signed floppy disk containing eight images that Andy Warhol created that day. He said he’s had them on display in his home for about 39 years.<p>Shout out to the longevity of floppy disks as a storage medium. I was quite disappointed when I discovered many of my writable CD&#x27;s started failing at the 15 to 20 year mark.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>TacticalCoder</author><text>&gt; Shout out to the longevity of floppy disks as a storage medium.<p>Last I checked (Covid) about 2&#x2F;3rd of my 5&quot;1&#x2F;4 Commodore 64 floppy disks were still working (they had to be about 35 y&#x2F;o when I tried in 2020). But the ones working won&#x27;t last much longer.</text></comment> | <story><title>Andy Warhol's lost Amiga art found</title><url>https://dfarq.homeip.net/andy-warhols-lost-amiga-art-found/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>cellularmitosis</author><text>&gt; and a signed floppy disk containing eight images that Andy Warhol created that day. He said he’s had them on display in his home for about 39 years.<p>Shout out to the longevity of floppy disks as a storage medium. I was quite disappointed when I discovered many of my writable CD&#x27;s started failing at the 15 to 20 year mark.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jandrese</author><text>I stumbled across a DVD-RW last weekend and popped it in a drive to see if the files were still readable. I had read that for a -RW drive you shouldn&#x27;t expect more than a few years, maybe a decade before it decays so I was not hopeful. However, the disc was fully readable and the checksums all came back clean even though it was burned in 2003.</text></comment> |
17,813,320 | 17,813,098 | 1 | 2 | 17,812,292 | train | <story><title>National prison strike launches over underpaid labor and prison conditions</title><url>https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2018/08/national-prison-strike-launches-over-underpaid-labor-and-prison-conditions.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>TaylorAlexander</author><text>A relevant snippet:<p>“California inmates were sent off to fight what has become the largest wildfire in the state’s history for just $1 an hour. These firefighters, who volunteered for a vocational training program offered by the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, are often disqualified from the work after release because a required credential is denied to anyone with a criminal record.<p>Hundreds of thousands of prisoners are also employed in jobs outside and inside the prisons, most commonly doing work to maintain the prisons. According to the Prison Policy Initiative, the average prison worker makes around 85 cents an hour. In 2017, inmates in Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, and Texas were not paid for most of their work. Proponents of these low-paying jobs have argued that inmates benefit from the work experience and that prisons, which are already often cash-strapped, cannot afford to pay more; opponents have argued that prisoners do need real wages to be able to buy basic necessities other than food in the prisons.”<p>Arguing that it’s good for them is paternalistic bullshit. The same argument could justify slavery. If prisons are cash strapped, whose responsibility is that? I believe society put these people away and we should pay for it. Either it’s worth it to us or it’s not.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>AndyMcConachie</author><text>s&#x2F;employed&#x2F;enslaved&#x2F;g<p>One thing we can do right now is start to use the correct language. Involuntary labor is not employment and we shouldn&#x27;t call it such. There is even a market where you can buy their products.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;unicor.gov&#x2F;index.aspx" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;unicor.gov&#x2F;index.aspx</a><p>You can even outsource work to prison slaves.
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;vimeo.com&#x2F;125010485" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;vimeo.com&#x2F;125010485</a><p>There are even private companies that have prison slaves work for them and keep the profits.
<a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;vltp.net&#x2F;casinos-prison-labor-strange-bedfellows&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;vltp.net&#x2F;casinos-prison-labor-strange-bedfellows&#x2F;</a><p>Just like slavery did in the American south pre-1865, prison slave labor depresses wages in any industry it operates in.</text></comment> | <story><title>National prison strike launches over underpaid labor and prison conditions</title><url>https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2018/08/national-prison-strike-launches-over-underpaid-labor-and-prison-conditions.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>TaylorAlexander</author><text>A relevant snippet:<p>“California inmates were sent off to fight what has become the largest wildfire in the state’s history for just $1 an hour. These firefighters, who volunteered for a vocational training program offered by the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, are often disqualified from the work after release because a required credential is denied to anyone with a criminal record.<p>Hundreds of thousands of prisoners are also employed in jobs outside and inside the prisons, most commonly doing work to maintain the prisons. According to the Prison Policy Initiative, the average prison worker makes around 85 cents an hour. In 2017, inmates in Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, and Texas were not paid for most of their work. Proponents of these low-paying jobs have argued that inmates benefit from the work experience and that prisons, which are already often cash-strapped, cannot afford to pay more; opponents have argued that prisoners do need real wages to be able to buy basic necessities other than food in the prisons.”<p>Arguing that it’s good for them is paternalistic bullshit. The same argument could justify slavery. If prisons are cash strapped, whose responsibility is that? I believe society put these people away and we should pay for it. Either it’s worth it to us or it’s not.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nosseo</author><text>&gt; &quot;opponents have argued that prisoners do need real wages to be able to buy basic necessities other than food in the prisons&quot;<p>This seems like a problem even if prisoner wages are raised. If we incarcerate people, we should provide them with toothbrushes even if they can&#x27;t&#x2F;won&#x27;t risk their lives fighting fires for a pittance.</text></comment> |
25,254,210 | 25,253,533 | 1 | 3 | 25,252,598 | train | <story><title>A free-as-in-freedom re-implementation of Google’s Android user space</title><url>https://microg.org/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>FlyingSnake</author><text>For those are curious about usability:<p>I use LineageOS+MicroG¹ as the daily driver of one of my spare test devices (Oneplus One bacon) and it is the best ROM for that phone IMO. I use FDroid, AdAway, NewPipe, Youtube Vanced and Aurora app store. The performance is really good and together with UnifiedNLP backends it&#x27;s a perfect Android phone.<p>[^1]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;lineage.microg.org&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;lineage.microg.org&#x2F;</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>solarkraft</author><text>I used Lineage OS for MicroG and it&#x27;s by far the best experience I&#x27;ve had so far. Now I&#x27;m using a custom ROM supporting signature spoofing (because my new phone doesn&#x27;t get official Lineage builds) and there are some issues and it was a lot more work (especially learning about signature spoofing itself is just too hard).<p>Lineage OS for MicroG: Absolutely recommended.<p>MicroG even supports the bluetooth contact tracing protocol used by the Corona-Warn-App, by the way.</text></comment> | <story><title>A free-as-in-freedom re-implementation of Google’s Android user space</title><url>https://microg.org/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>FlyingSnake</author><text>For those are curious about usability:<p>I use LineageOS+MicroG¹ as the daily driver of one of my spare test devices (Oneplus One bacon) and it is the best ROM for that phone IMO. I use FDroid, AdAway, NewPipe, Youtube Vanced and Aurora app store. The performance is really good and together with UnifiedNLP backends it&#x27;s a perfect Android phone.<p>[^1]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;lineage.microg.org&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;lineage.microg.org&#x2F;</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>scns</author><text>If you need Telegram or Signal, it may work now. WhatsApp works but push is iffy.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=25253507" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=25253507</a></text></comment> |
2,221,806 | 2,221,735 | 1 | 2 | 2,221,579 | train | <story><title>Show HN: Our new $149 hackable Bluetooth wristwatch </title><url>http://www.getinPulse.com</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>erohead</author><text>Yup, but we've got Bluetooth, a fantastic OLED screen, and example Python, Android, Blackberry code!<p>Also, we're right here on HN to answer your questions!</text></item><item><author>JonnieCache</author><text>For comparison: Texas Instruments sell something called the EZ430 Chronos watch, which has a much lower-res display, a proprietary RF protocol with a USB transceiver, and a bunch more sensors including 3-axis accelerometers, pressure and temperature.<p>It is based on the MSP430 microprocessor which is much less powerful than this thing, its capped at 16mhz or something IIRC and only has around 8K of program space. It is however about a third of the price.<p><a href="http://processors.wiki.ti.com/index.php/EZ430-Chronos" rel="nofollow">http://processors.wiki.ti.com/index.php/EZ430-Chronos</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>JonnieCache</author><text><i>&#62;Yup, but we've got...</i><p>Indeed. They are very different propositions. Hence I said "for comparison" :)</text></comment> | <story><title>Show HN: Our new $149 hackable Bluetooth wristwatch </title><url>http://www.getinPulse.com</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>erohead</author><text>Yup, but we've got Bluetooth, a fantastic OLED screen, and example Python, Android, Blackberry code!<p>Also, we're right here on HN to answer your questions!</text></item><item><author>JonnieCache</author><text>For comparison: Texas Instruments sell something called the EZ430 Chronos watch, which has a much lower-res display, a proprietary RF protocol with a USB transceiver, and a bunch more sensors including 3-axis accelerometers, pressure and temperature.<p>It is based on the MSP430 microprocessor which is much less powerful than this thing, its capped at 16mhz or something IIRC and only has around 8K of program space. It is however about a third of the price.<p><a href="http://processors.wiki.ti.com/index.php/EZ430-Chronos" rel="nofollow">http://processors.wiki.ti.com/index.php/EZ430-Chronos</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>growt</author><text>Ok first question:<p>Why only one button?<p>Two would have been really nice for most things (like back and forward in powerpoint/itunes).<p>Edit: Another one:<p>Why don't you ship outside the US/Canada? I considered buying one, but I'm in Germany :(</text></comment> |
26,795,616 | 26,794,502 | 1 | 2 | 26,792,876 | train | <story><title>My startup failed, then I found out I was unemployable</title><url>https://davesullivan.is/my_startup_failed_then_i_found_out_i_was_unemployable.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>iandanforth</author><text>Let&#x27;s say a company would pay you $250k base with an additional $100k in stock and bonuses. This comp puts you in the top 5% of earners in the world. The catch is that you need to learn to do a stupid dance where you wear huge feathers and do this dance in front of a panel of reviewers. Not only that they will insist the dance correlates with productivity and you have to nod and agree with them. The question is, do you spend the time to learn the dance?<p>That&#x27;s pretty much it, it&#x27;s just a stupid dance. You can get angry and say &quot;No no no, this dance is stupid!&quot; Or you can learn the dance, do the dance, then be richer than 95% of people in the world.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Kranar</author><text>This is an excellent way of putting it.<p>Also please understand that as employers we make people do this silly dance because it&#x27;s the best way we, and frankly anyone, knows to reduce the risk of hiring high quality candidates.<p>I can understand the frustration of doing the silly dance for companies that don&#x27;t pay competitively and think they are at the same level as Google minus the pay... but for companies paying among the top 5%, we get flooded and flooded with resumes and while you may be a good person, present yourself nicely (and those are all good things to do), and even impress with a resume, it&#x27;s simply too risky to hire you on that basis without seeing a demonstration of your technical abilities.<p>When I started out I really was dead-set against hiring people based on the silly dance... after making a lot of bad hires and seeing people who looked impressive on paper but couldn&#x27;t apply some basic algorithmic knowledge to solve some problems I succumbed to using the silly dance and honestly the quality of candidates I hired improved substantially.</text></comment> | <story><title>My startup failed, then I found out I was unemployable</title><url>https://davesullivan.is/my_startup_failed_then_i_found_out_i_was_unemployable.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>iandanforth</author><text>Let&#x27;s say a company would pay you $250k base with an additional $100k in stock and bonuses. This comp puts you in the top 5% of earners in the world. The catch is that you need to learn to do a stupid dance where you wear huge feathers and do this dance in front of a panel of reviewers. Not only that they will insist the dance correlates with productivity and you have to nod and agree with them. The question is, do you spend the time to learn the dance?<p>That&#x27;s pretty much it, it&#x27;s just a stupid dance. You can get angry and say &quot;No no no, this dance is stupid!&quot; Or you can learn the dance, do the dance, then be richer than 95% of people in the world.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>that_guy_iain</author><text>I think this hits the nail on the head. For some people the safety and income that these companies provide make it worth doing the dance. For many others, we just think &quot;Meh, there is more to life than money, I am not doing that dance I am going to do this other dance that I think is more fun.&quot; Like honestly, what I am going to do with that extra money? For me just now, the answer is waste it. 100% even if I invest it and make more money with it. Eventually I have to spend it and buy pointless stuff. An super duper exercise bike that has a built in screen and looks cool. A cool car. A big house that is too big for my needs. All while being annoyed about a stupid dance. While I can get by working on other things and be less annoyed. And get to do more of what I actually want to do.</text></comment> |
35,704,705 | 35,704,866 | 1 | 2 | 35,703,906 | train | <story><title>Could we stop Yellowstone from erupting with a giant geothermal power plant?</title><url>https://constructionphysics.substack.com/p/could-we-stop-yellowstone-from-erupting</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>its_ethan</author><text>&quot;If heat could be bled off of the magma chambers, cooling and solidifying them, not only would that stop the volcano from erupting...&quot;<p>Where does the confidence to make this claim come from?<p>I can imagine that the consequence of this might actually just be strengthening the &quot;barrier&quot; the magma has to erupt through, and when it finally builds up enough energy to do that, it&#x27;ll be stronger in proportion to how strong the newly cooled down barrier had become? Unless the suggestion is that we could effectively bleed out ALL the heat from that system? Seems a bit unlikely imo lol<p>Still, geothermal sounds really cool and we should do more of it.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>elil17</author><text>I have a lot of skepticism about anything I read from constructionphysics.substack.com. I&#x27;m a mechanical engineer, not a civil engineer, so take my opinion with a grain of salt, but it reads like it&#x27;s written by someone who does not have a solid understanding of engineering fundamentals. For example, they suggested in their &quot;How to design a house to last for 1,000 years&quot; series that you&#x27;d want to build such a house out of stainless steel because it &quot;has extremely high corrosion resistance.&quot; Even my introductory courses in materials science it is very clear that stainless steel <i>might</i> last for 1,000 years, but it would depend entirely on the environmental conditions and the type of stainless used.</text></comment> | <story><title>Could we stop Yellowstone from erupting with a giant geothermal power plant?</title><url>https://constructionphysics.substack.com/p/could-we-stop-yellowstone-from-erupting</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>its_ethan</author><text>&quot;If heat could be bled off of the magma chambers, cooling and solidifying them, not only would that stop the volcano from erupting...&quot;<p>Where does the confidence to make this claim come from?<p>I can imagine that the consequence of this might actually just be strengthening the &quot;barrier&quot; the magma has to erupt through, and when it finally builds up enough energy to do that, it&#x27;ll be stronger in proportion to how strong the newly cooled down barrier had become? Unless the suggestion is that we could effectively bleed out ALL the heat from that system? Seems a bit unlikely imo lol<p>Still, geothermal sounds really cool and we should do more of it.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>sp332</author><text>The linked JPL proposal is exploratory and, while it has a more serious engineering perspective, it does not have &quot;confidence&quot;. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;scienceandtechnology.jpl.nasa.gov&#x2F;sites&#x2F;default&#x2F;files&#x2F;documents&#x2F;DefendingCivilizationFromSupervolcanos20151015.pdf" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;scienceandtechnology.jpl.nasa.gov&#x2F;sites&#x2F;default&#x2F;file...</a><p>The USGS is very unconvinced. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.usgs.gov&#x2F;faqs&#x2F;can-we-drill-yellowstone-stop-it-erupting" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.usgs.gov&#x2F;faqs&#x2F;can-we-drill-yellowstone-stop-it-e...</a></text></comment> |
38,997,151 | 38,997,041 | 1 | 2 | 38,965,636 | train | <story><title>Penrose – Create diagrams by typing notation in plain text</title><url>https://penrose.cs.cmu.edu/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>sstanfie</author><text>Penrose looks great. Beautiful diagrams and readable code. What are some other text-driven diagramming languages &#x2F; tools? I know of:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;mermaid.js.org&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;mermaid.js.org&#x2F;</a>
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;graphviz.org&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;graphviz.org&#x2F;</a>
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;flowchart.fun&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;flowchart.fun&#x2F;</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>thusjustin</author><text>D2 is my current favorite: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;terrastruct&#x2F;d2">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;terrastruct&#x2F;d2</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Penrose – Create diagrams by typing notation in plain text</title><url>https://penrose.cs.cmu.edu/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>sstanfie</author><text>Penrose looks great. Beautiful diagrams and readable code. What are some other text-driven diagramming languages &#x2F; tools? I know of:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;mermaid.js.org&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;mermaid.js.org&#x2F;</a>
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;graphviz.org&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;graphviz.org&#x2F;</a>
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;flowchart.fun&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;flowchart.fun&#x2F;</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>adaszko</author><text><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;pikchr.org&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;pikchr.org&#x2F;</a> is great</text></comment> |
40,450,125 | 40,448,471 | 1 | 2 | 40,447,626 | train | <story><title>US Justice Department to seek breakup of Live Nation-Ticketmaster</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-05-22/justice-department-to-seek-breakup-of-live-nation-ticketmaster</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>EasyMark</author><text>The FTC and DoJ have been hitting it out of the park recently, unfortunately, there are a lot of judges out there that think corps should be able to do anything they want.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>g8oz</author><text>Corporate America is certainly not a fan of FTC chair Lina Khan.
She&#x27;s been subjected to a barrage of attacks from places like the Wall Street journal so she must be doing something right.
Jon Stewart revealed when interviewing her, that Apple executives had asked him not to have her on his podcast.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;CnC9JV5YtBY?feature=shared" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;CnC9JV5YtBY?feature=shared</a></text></comment> | <story><title>US Justice Department to seek breakup of Live Nation-Ticketmaster</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-05-22/justice-department-to-seek-breakup-of-live-nation-ticketmaster</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>EasyMark</author><text>The FTC and DoJ have been hitting it out of the park recently, unfortunately, there are a lot of judges out there that think corps should be able to do anything they want.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>thfuran</author><text>Or at any rate starting to catch up on the backlog from the past forty years.</text></comment> |
29,387,162 | 29,387,160 | 1 | 3 | 29,386,239 | train | <story><title>Ex-Google workers sue company, saying it betrayed 'Don't Be Evil' motto</title><url>https://www.npr.org/2021/11/29/1059821677/google-dont-be-evil-lawsuit</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>asdfasgasdgasdg</author><text>&gt; The problem here is &quot;Don&#x27;t Be Evil&quot; is so vague.<p>They&#x27;re going to have an extremely uphill battle to fight if this is the basis of their legal argument. No reasonable person could understand the phrase, &quot;Don&#x27;t Be Evil,&quot; to mean, &quot;Don&#x27;t do things that I personally consider evil.&quot; For example, I very much doubt that a court is going to find that Customs and Border Protection is &quot;evil,&quot; and thus any actions the plaintiffs took against Google&#x27;s dealings with CBP were contractually mandated by the employment agreement.<p>To the extent that this is a headache for Google at all, it will serve as a great example as to why legalese and corporate-speak is so common in the U.S. Google tried to have a motto that, while legally ambiguous, expressed a sentiment about how they wanted to treat their users and act in the marketplace. There will be different opinions about how well Google lives up to the motto, but certainly at the time it was coined, that was the idea behind it. And now they&#x27;re getting sued, essentially frivolously, over the language. If it causes them a problem, it&#x27;s a lesson to other companies: avoid mottos that are subject to creative and motivated interpretation during litigation. Or to put it another way, don&#x27;t have mottos.</text></item><item><author>Laremere</author><text>It seems the title is implying that the people suing think Google had an obligation to not be evil because that was its motto.<p>Reading the article, the lawsuit is about something more reasonable: They signed an employee code of conduct which included &quot;Don&#x27;t Be Evil&quot;. They organized a movement within Google in pursuit of contractually obligated motto, and believe they were fired for doing this organizing.<p>Say you were hired as security. You signed a contract stating you wouldn&#x27;t let anyone enter the building who doesn&#x27;t have a valid employee id. One day a VP forgets his ID at home, and puts you in a tough spot. Fearing you&#x27;d be fired because you violated your contract, you deny the VP access to the building. The VP is mad, and gets revenge on you by getting you fired. In this case, suing the company for following the rules it made you follow seems reasonable.<p>The problem here is &quot;Don&#x27;t Be Evil&quot; is so vague. I&#x27;m unsure it will have enough standing to succeed, but it&#x27;s not entirely unreasonable.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>chickenpotpie</author><text><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Contra_proferentem" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Contra_proferentem</a><p>Ambiguity in a contract benefits the party that did not draft it</text></comment> | <story><title>Ex-Google workers sue company, saying it betrayed 'Don't Be Evil' motto</title><url>https://www.npr.org/2021/11/29/1059821677/google-dont-be-evil-lawsuit</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>asdfasgasdgasdg</author><text>&gt; The problem here is &quot;Don&#x27;t Be Evil&quot; is so vague.<p>They&#x27;re going to have an extremely uphill battle to fight if this is the basis of their legal argument. No reasonable person could understand the phrase, &quot;Don&#x27;t Be Evil,&quot; to mean, &quot;Don&#x27;t do things that I personally consider evil.&quot; For example, I very much doubt that a court is going to find that Customs and Border Protection is &quot;evil,&quot; and thus any actions the plaintiffs took against Google&#x27;s dealings with CBP were contractually mandated by the employment agreement.<p>To the extent that this is a headache for Google at all, it will serve as a great example as to why legalese and corporate-speak is so common in the U.S. Google tried to have a motto that, while legally ambiguous, expressed a sentiment about how they wanted to treat their users and act in the marketplace. There will be different opinions about how well Google lives up to the motto, but certainly at the time it was coined, that was the idea behind it. And now they&#x27;re getting sued, essentially frivolously, over the language. If it causes them a problem, it&#x27;s a lesson to other companies: avoid mottos that are subject to creative and motivated interpretation during litigation. Or to put it another way, don&#x27;t have mottos.</text></item><item><author>Laremere</author><text>It seems the title is implying that the people suing think Google had an obligation to not be evil because that was its motto.<p>Reading the article, the lawsuit is about something more reasonable: They signed an employee code of conduct which included &quot;Don&#x27;t Be Evil&quot;. They organized a movement within Google in pursuit of contractually obligated motto, and believe they were fired for doing this organizing.<p>Say you were hired as security. You signed a contract stating you wouldn&#x27;t let anyone enter the building who doesn&#x27;t have a valid employee id. One day a VP forgets his ID at home, and puts you in a tough spot. Fearing you&#x27;d be fired because you violated your contract, you deny the VP access to the building. The VP is mad, and gets revenge on you by getting you fired. In this case, suing the company for following the rules it made you follow seems reasonable.<p>The problem here is &quot;Don&#x27;t Be Evil&quot; is so vague. I&#x27;m unsure it will have enough standing to succeed, but it&#x27;s not entirely unreasonable.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mpd</author><text>&gt; No reasonable person could understand the phrase, &quot;Don&#x27;t Be Evil,&quot; to mean, &quot;Don&#x27;t do things that I personally consider evil.&quot;<p>TBH, I think almost everyone treats the former statement, as meaning the latter.
Did you mistype here?<p>Maybe there&#x27;s even something different about using &quot;evil&quot; here, specifically. Would another word have a different outcome?</text></comment> |
15,135,501 | 15,134,701 | 1 | 2 | 15,134,328 | train | <story><title>Introducing .NET IL Linker</title><url>https://github.com/dotnet/announcements/issues/30</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jbevain</author><text>Fun fact, the Mono Linker project started 10 years ago during the second edition of the Google Summer of Code!<p>It was originally used to reshape the entire Mono class library into a subset to expose the Silverlight class library API surface for Moonlight.<p>It was then used to link iOS and Android applications in MonoTouch and Mono for Android, and Xamarin continued to use and improve it.<p>The Mono Linker has an open architecture making it reasonably easy to customize how it processes code , and detect patterns specific to each platform to link them away. Xamarin added linker steps to do more than tree-shaking, and remove dead code inside methods. For instance:<p><pre><code> if (TargetPlatform.Architecture == Architecture.X64) {
&#x2F;&#x2F; ..
}
</code></pre>
The entire if body can be removed if the linker knows that TargetPlatform.Architecture will not be X64.<p>And now, it&#x27;s the base for the .NET Core linker. Quite a journey!</text></comment> | <story><title>Introducing .NET IL Linker</title><url>https://github.com/dotnet/announcements/issues/30</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>christophilus</author><text>It&#x27;s been a few years since I used .NET, but the self-contained deployment story sounds like a big win that I used to really want:<p>&quot;Self-contained deployment. Unlike FDD, a self-contained deployment (SCD) doesn&#x27;t rely on the presence of shared components on the target system. All components, including both the .NET Core libraries and the .NET Core runtime, are included with the application and are isolated from other .NET Core applications. SCDs include an executable (such as app.exe on Windows platforms for an application named app), which is a renamed version of the platform-specific .NET Core host, and a .dll file (such as app.dll), which is the actual application.&quot;<p>So, this IL Linker is in support of that story, and aims to reduce the over all size of self-contained applications... Maybe it&#x27;s time to start tinkering w&#x2F; .NET again.</text></comment> |
36,083,146 | 36,080,020 | 1 | 3 | 36,079,317 | train | <story><title>Tesla Model Y overtakes Corolla to be world’s best-selling car in 2023</title><url>https://thedriven.io/2023/05/26/tesla-model-y-overtakes-corolla-to-be-worlds-best-selling-car-in-2023/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jancsika</author><text>Translation: luxury vehicles are the future of car sales.<p>Model Y is 2 times as expensive as a Corolla.<p>Plus you can go and find an older Corolla with 100k+ miles on it and pay perhaps $5k cash for it, then drive it for another 50-100k.<p>I don&#x27;t see people in the service industry picking up a used Tesla, now or in the foreseeable future.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>prmoustache</author><text>I think one of the reason is most non uber wealthy people are putting a hold on car purchases right now until EV prices go down.<p>We are in a huge transition phase, with lots of inflation everywhere. For most people EV are still too expensive or inconvenient [1] and they don&#x27;t want to buy a new ICE car or start a 5y leasing on a car they may soon not be allowed to use wherever they want.[2] Also they fear they won&#x27;t be able to resell it. It makes more sense to keep that old, already well depreciated old car or buy a fairly recent second hand ICE, hybrid or EV that has already depreciated a lot.<p>My only non muscular vehicle right now is an ICE motorbike. There is no way I can afford an EV car and I don&#x27;t want to deal with an ICE car I won&#x27;t be able to sell for more than scrap value when EV prices will go down.<p>[1] if don&#x27;t have parking space at home.<p>[2] many big cities have started banning diesel cars in center, will probably do the same for gasoline soon. ICE cars will soon become unsellable.</text></comment> | <story><title>Tesla Model Y overtakes Corolla to be world’s best-selling car in 2023</title><url>https://thedriven.io/2023/05/26/tesla-model-y-overtakes-corolla-to-be-worlds-best-selling-car-in-2023/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jancsika</author><text>Translation: luxury vehicles are the future of car sales.<p>Model Y is 2 times as expensive as a Corolla.<p>Plus you can go and find an older Corolla with 100k+ miles on it and pay perhaps $5k cash for it, then drive it for another 50-100k.<p>I don&#x27;t see people in the service industry picking up a used Tesla, now or in the foreseeable future.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Sohcahtoa82</author><text>&gt; I don&#x27;t see people in the service industry picking up a used Tesla, now or in the foreseeable future.<p>Purchase price, you&#x27;ve already touched on. You can&#x27;t even get a USED Tesla for under $20K.<p>The second problem is charging. Apartments generally have a lack of EV chargers.</text></comment> |
26,261,856 | 26,261,441 | 1 | 2 | 26,260,710 | train | <story><title>The Evolution of Developer Salaries: Looking Back 20 Years</title><url>https://codesubmit.io/blog/the-evolution-of-developer-salaries/#tracing-developer-salaries-in-america-from-2001-to-2019</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ben_w</author><text>This inflation calculator says the USA has had cumulative inflation of only 20%, not 100%, in the last 11 years; of 42% in the last 18 years; and of 48% in the last 20 years: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.usinflationcalculator.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.usinflationcalculator.com&#x2F;</a><p>I suspect your restaurant and café receipts are not representative of general price changes.</text></item><item><author>ArtTimeInvestor</author><text>So from $62890 to $92610 in 18 years.<p>That is only a 4% increase per year.<p>I am surprised it is so little. I recently looked up some old receipts I paid in restaurants and cafes from 11 years ago. And then looked up the same items in the same cafes and restaurants now. The prices roughly doubled. So these increased by about 6% per year.<p>If developer salaries increased slower than inflation, why is it still so hard to find good freelance developers? Could the explanation be that the market has been flooded with people who call themselfes developers but hardly grasp what is going on under the hood? And just glue external code together until it kinda works?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>frankfrankfrank</author><text>This is unfortunately another one of those cases where the “government” + sycophantic institutions are essentially and deliberately fudging the numbers to make people believe something other than what is really happening, in essence, essentially also committing fraud. In the case of inflation, one way the trick works is that the basket of goods and services that are used to calculate the inflation are not at all reflective of the lived experience of regular people, let alone of most people.<p>It’s not really all that different than the fraudulent way in which the intentionally deceptive unemployment rate is calculated that is pushed by all the governments’ sycophants. In the USA that process drops people from the calculation by simply assuming disinterest in employment if one has been unemployed for a certain time (yes, it’s intentionally deceptive and manipulative, largely to defraud and cheat the markets and countries that are honest about their unemployment rates).<p>ShadowStats has been tracking the real inflation rate for a few decades now since a major change was made to fudge the number. It should be pretty eye opening for some people.<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.shadowstats.com&#x2F;alternate_data&#x2F;inflation-charts" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.shadowstats.com&#x2F;alternate_data&#x2F;inflation-charts</a><p>On a side note; it strikes me as a rather perplexing challenge that people seem to have a hard time adjusting their thinking to control for deceptive and manipulative practices, e.g., everyone who pays attention knows very well that the U.S. governments inflation numbers are literal fraud, yet they are the very number that drives so many aspects of everything. It’s like that meme scene in Idiocracy … “but fraudulent inflation rates are what the market craves” … “yes, but they’re causing illusion and deception to spread throughout the system that will cause collapse and ruin“ … * blank stare * “but fraudulent inflation rates is what the market craves”</text></comment> | <story><title>The Evolution of Developer Salaries: Looking Back 20 Years</title><url>https://codesubmit.io/blog/the-evolution-of-developer-salaries/#tracing-developer-salaries-in-america-from-2001-to-2019</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ben_w</author><text>This inflation calculator says the USA has had cumulative inflation of only 20%, not 100%, in the last 11 years; of 42% in the last 18 years; and of 48% in the last 20 years: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.usinflationcalculator.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.usinflationcalculator.com&#x2F;</a><p>I suspect your restaurant and café receipts are not representative of general price changes.</text></item><item><author>ArtTimeInvestor</author><text>So from $62890 to $92610 in 18 years.<p>That is only a 4% increase per year.<p>I am surprised it is so little. I recently looked up some old receipts I paid in restaurants and cafes from 11 years ago. And then looked up the same items in the same cafes and restaurants now. The prices roughly doubled. So these increased by about 6% per year.<p>If developer salaries increased slower than inflation, why is it still so hard to find good freelance developers? Could the explanation be that the market has been flooded with people who call themselfes developers but hardly grasp what is going on under the hood? And just glue external code together until it kinda works?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ArtTimeInvestor</author><text>I suspect that website is not representative of general price changes. Maybe it looks at things that got easier to produce so they got cheaper via efficiency. They just don&#x27;t sell cheaper because of inflation.</text></comment> |
39,965,626 | 39,965,721 | 1 | 3 | 39,965,446 | train | <story><title>Infant microbes and metabolites point to childhood neurodevelopmental disorders</title><url>https://medicalxpress.com/news/2024-04-autism-adhd-linked-disturbed-gut.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>xanderlewis</author><text>The more I come across articles like this (yes: I know it’s talking about early life) the more I start to wonder if the problems I’ve struggled with in the past and to a somewhat lesser extent now (anxiety, with quite severe physical symptoms) are caused by&#x2F;can at least be alleviated by a change in gut flora. I have this weird feeling (based on some recurring experience) that anxiety and digestion are somehow deeply connected.<p>Has anyone here tried making a change to their ‘microbiome’ and noticed it had any obvious effect?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>halestock</author><text>The gut-brain connection[1] is very real! I think we&#x27;re only really starting to understand how much they are related.<p>[1]<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.hopkinsmedicine.org&#x2F;health&#x2F;wellness-and-prevention&#x2F;the-brain-gut-connection" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.hopkinsmedicine.org&#x2F;health&#x2F;wellness-and-preventi...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Infant microbes and metabolites point to childhood neurodevelopmental disorders</title><url>https://medicalxpress.com/news/2024-04-autism-adhd-linked-disturbed-gut.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>xanderlewis</author><text>The more I come across articles like this (yes: I know it’s talking about early life) the more I start to wonder if the problems I’ve struggled with in the past and to a somewhat lesser extent now (anxiety, with quite severe physical symptoms) are caused by&#x2F;can at least be alleviated by a change in gut flora. I have this weird feeling (based on some recurring experience) that anxiety and digestion are somehow deeply connected.<p>Has anyone here tried making a change to their ‘microbiome’ and noticed it had any obvious effect?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>CitizenKane</author><text>Yes, I&#x27;m autistic and I regularly take lactobacillus reuteri which has helped my gut quite a bit. I wouldn&#x27;t say it was a massive shift, but it certainly has been really nice. There&#x27;s at least some evidence that this bacteria is deficient in autistic individuals and supplementation can help with that.[1]<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;scholarship.claremont.edu&#x2F;scripps_theses&#x2F;1343&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;scholarship.claremont.edu&#x2F;scripps_theses&#x2F;1343&#x2F;</a></text></comment> |
34,341,518 | 34,341,219 | 1 | 2 | 34,339,752 | train | <story><title>RISC-V SBC VisionFive 2 Officially Shipped</title><url>https://www.starfivetech.com/en/site/new_details/976</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>davidlt</author><text>Upstreasming status: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;rvspace.org&#x2F;en&#x2F;new-page&#x2F;JH7110_Upstream_Plan" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;rvspace.org&#x2F;en&#x2F;new-page&#x2F;JH7110_Upstream_Plan</a><p>StarFive Tech. have been upstreaming on kernel, OpenSBI and U-Boot from several weeks now. Of course this is still weeks&#x2F;months away (if not more, for all the features) from landing in stable releases. Even more for distributions to pick those up.</text></comment> | <story><title>RISC-V SBC VisionFive 2 Officially Shipped</title><url>https://www.starfivetech.com/en/site/new_details/976</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>psychphysic</author><text>I received mine weeks ago.<p>There are several desktop images but various issues reported from no display output, to only 1080p supported. To this image or that one working.<p>Important note, the later images require an updated to uboot and SPL, either with the bootrom or a serial connection.<p>It&#x27;s a mess at the moment!</text></comment> |
31,906,479 | 31,906,468 | 1 | 3 | 31,883,137 | train | <story><title>Specialist makers working hard to keep unique skills alive</title><url>https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2022/jun/26/tricks-of-their-trade-meet-the-uks-most-unusual-master-crafters</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>JoeAltmaier</author><text>My cousin makes prosthetic eyes! They&#x27;ve moved on from glass to special materials, but still hand-paint each eye bespoke.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;artificialeyes.net&#x2F;ocularists&#x2F;iowa&#x2F;coralville-vbulgarelli&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;artificialeyes.net&#x2F;ocularists&#x2F;iowa&#x2F;coralville-vbulga...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Specialist makers working hard to keep unique skills alive</title><url>https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2022/jun/26/tricks-of-their-trade-meet-the-uks-most-unusual-master-crafters</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>dzink</author><text>This exists in many fields, including software engineering (programming in Ada or Cobol, for example). In healthcare and surgery it is particularly relevant as some surgeons get a very rare and specialized types of cases that then allow them to develop new techniques and nobody but maybe at times 1-2 residents or fellows get to watch to even get a chance to learn. A combination of small&#x2F;rare demand and limited distribution of the craft due to the apprenticeship nature of it.</text></comment> |
6,294,458 | 6,294,334 | 1 | 2 | 6,293,463 | train | <story><title>Why Wal-Mart Will Never Pay Like Costco</title><url>http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-08-27/why-walmart-will-never-pay-like-costco.html?utm_source=buffer&utm_campaign=Buffer&utm_content=buffer8003f&utm_medium=twitter</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>markost</author><text>Did you notice the data point in the article that Costco makes $2 billion in membership revenue and yet makes $1.7 billion in profit, which means they effectively lose money on their sales?<p>In fact, a little known feature of Costco&#x27;s business model is their ability to sell all their stock well before their suppliers require payment for goods (Net 30)? This means they have an effectively _negative_ cash conversion cycle, or in other words, their suppliers are paying to stock their products.<p>Everything about Costco&#x27;s business model is backwards.</text></item><item><author>jusben1369</author><text>I don&#x27;t think I missed it but I am confused why the author steered clear of some really interesting data. Based on the table Walmart has 2X the profit margin of Costco. Walmart&#x27;s doing around 4.5x topline revenue but over 9x the total profit amount.<p>For the author&#x27;s central point to hold true those numbers need to be more closely aligned. That is, they need to be roughly the same in % terms. They aren&#x27;t, which means one or both of the players are doing something substantially different in their approach. Given that labor costs are the single largest expense for these types of business it&#x27;s not unreasonable to reach the conclusion of those she&#x27;s rebutting with this article. Namely that Walmart is overly maximizing profits based on the back of paying extremely low wages. To put it another way, if for some reason Walmart was told to bring it&#x27;s margins in line with Costco the easiest way to do that would be to bring your wages up and keep your prices the same.<p>Let&#x27;s do back of the envelope math based on the chart in the article. If Walmart had the margins of Costco rather than the current ones that would see it&#x27;s profit dip from $15.6 billion to $7.53 billon. That in turn would &quot;free up&quot; $8 billion in what is now pure profit. With 2 million global employees you could pay them all $4K more. That&#x27;s a 20% salary increase for the basic salary they highlighted of $20K per year.<p>I&#x27;m not bashing Walmart. I&#x27;m just pointing out that Costco seems to have made the decision to have meaningfully smaller margins than Walmart. Given where the bulk of their costs lie they must have had the conversation more than once about paying folks less to move those margins up to please Wall Street more. Yet they have decided not to do that. Perhaps it&#x27;s simply because they believe the business benefit around being easier for them to be accepted in new communities (and thus grow) based on the real and perceived perception that they treat their workers well.<p>PS: Anecdotally Walmart opened near us two months ago. I have now been there 4 or 5 times. I am struck by just how many people there are working there on the floor. There seem to be too many whenever I&#x27;m there. They look bored and so congregate in groups and shoot the breeze. I couldn&#x27;t get that out of my mind as the author kept stressing they really need a lot more employees.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tanzam75</author><text>&gt; <i>Did you notice the data point in the article that Costco makes $2 billion in membership revenue and yet makes $1.7 billion in profit, which means they effectively lose money on their sales?</i><p>That $1.7 billion is net income, which is after subtracting out the income tax. You have to compare to pre-tax income, which in the case of Costco is essentially just operating income.<p>75% of Costco&#x27;s income came from membership fees in the last fiscal year, and similar or higher percentages in other recent years.<p>From Costco&#x27;s FY 2012 annual report, page 25 (in millions of dollars):<p><pre><code> Membership Operating income
2008 1,506 1,969
2009 1,533 1,777
2010 1,691 2,077
2011 1,867 2,439
2012 2,075 2,759
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PDF file: <a href="http://phx.corporate-ir.net/External.File?item=UGFyZW50SUQ9MTY1MTY0fENoaWxkSUQ9LTF8VHlwZT0z&amp;t=1" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;phx.corporate-ir.net&#x2F;External.File?item=UGFyZW50SUQ9M...</a><p>The membership fee, of course, serves another purpose. It reduces patronage by lower-income shoppers, and therefore helps to reduce shoplifting. The receipt-check is another deterrent. Since Costco has such a tight margin on its merchandise, it cannot tolerate industrywide shrinkage rates.</text></comment> | <story><title>Why Wal-Mart Will Never Pay Like Costco</title><url>http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-08-27/why-walmart-will-never-pay-like-costco.html?utm_source=buffer&utm_campaign=Buffer&utm_content=buffer8003f&utm_medium=twitter</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>markost</author><text>Did you notice the data point in the article that Costco makes $2 billion in membership revenue and yet makes $1.7 billion in profit, which means they effectively lose money on their sales?<p>In fact, a little known feature of Costco&#x27;s business model is their ability to sell all their stock well before their suppliers require payment for goods (Net 30)? This means they have an effectively _negative_ cash conversion cycle, or in other words, their suppliers are paying to stock their products.<p>Everything about Costco&#x27;s business model is backwards.</text></item><item><author>jusben1369</author><text>I don&#x27;t think I missed it but I am confused why the author steered clear of some really interesting data. Based on the table Walmart has 2X the profit margin of Costco. Walmart&#x27;s doing around 4.5x topline revenue but over 9x the total profit amount.<p>For the author&#x27;s central point to hold true those numbers need to be more closely aligned. That is, they need to be roughly the same in % terms. They aren&#x27;t, which means one or both of the players are doing something substantially different in their approach. Given that labor costs are the single largest expense for these types of business it&#x27;s not unreasonable to reach the conclusion of those she&#x27;s rebutting with this article. Namely that Walmart is overly maximizing profits based on the back of paying extremely low wages. To put it another way, if for some reason Walmart was told to bring it&#x27;s margins in line with Costco the easiest way to do that would be to bring your wages up and keep your prices the same.<p>Let&#x27;s do back of the envelope math based on the chart in the article. If Walmart had the margins of Costco rather than the current ones that would see it&#x27;s profit dip from $15.6 billion to $7.53 billon. That in turn would &quot;free up&quot; $8 billion in what is now pure profit. With 2 million global employees you could pay them all $4K more. That&#x27;s a 20% salary increase for the basic salary they highlighted of $20K per year.<p>I&#x27;m not bashing Walmart. I&#x27;m just pointing out that Costco seems to have made the decision to have meaningfully smaller margins than Walmart. Given where the bulk of their costs lie they must have had the conversation more than once about paying folks less to move those margins up to please Wall Street more. Yet they have decided not to do that. Perhaps it&#x27;s simply because they believe the business benefit around being easier for them to be accepted in new communities (and thus grow) based on the real and perceived perception that they treat their workers well.<p>PS: Anecdotally Walmart opened near us two months ago. I have now been there 4 or 5 times. I am struck by just how many people there are working there on the floor. There seem to be too many whenever I&#x27;m there. They look bored and so congregate in groups and shoot the breeze. I couldn&#x27;t get that out of my mind as the author kept stressing they really need a lot more employees.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>cpleppert</author><text>&gt;&gt;Did you notice the data point in the article that Costco makes $2 billion in membership revenue and yet makes $1.7 billion in profit, which means they effectively lose money on their sales?<p>I&#x27;m pretty sure the revenue isn&#x27;t net. It would mean they have absurd retail margins on their members and negative ones on every other product sold; which doesn&#x27;t make a lot of sense.<p>&gt;&gt;In fact, a little known feature of Costco&#x27;s business model is their ability to sell all their stock well before their suppliers require payment for goods (Net 30)? This means they have an effectively _negative_ cash conversion cycle, or in other words, their suppliers are paying to stock their products.<p>That could just be their way of handling stocking fees. They handle a lot of merchandise they can&#x27;t afford to stick into inventory.</text></comment> |
9,682,757 | 9,682,592 | 1 | 2 | 9,682,324 | train | <story><title>New Generation of Intel Graphics for Linux Requires Proprietary Firmware</title><url>https://01.org/zh/linuxgraphics/intel-linux-graphics-firmwares</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jakobdabo</author><text>Recently there was a discussion [1] in OpenBSD&#x27;s mailing list and you can also see [2] Theo de Raadt&#x27;s point of view.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;marc.info&#x2F;?l=openbsd-misc&amp;m=143354954711286&amp;w=2" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;marc.info&#x2F;?l=openbsd-misc&amp;m=143354954711286&amp;w=2</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;marc.info&#x2F;?l=openbsd-misc&amp;m=143355112811564&amp;w=2" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;marc.info&#x2F;?l=openbsd-misc&amp;m=143355112811564&amp;w=2</a></text></comment> | <story><title>New Generation of Intel Graphics for Linux Requires Proprietary Firmware</title><url>https://01.org/zh/linuxgraphics/intel-linux-graphics-firmwares</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>vbezhenar</author><text>Recently there was a good discussion about difference between firmware and software&#x2F;drivers: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=9671025" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=9671025</a><p>Proprietary firmware is not a good thing, but it&#x27;s not a very bad thing until we have open hardware, in my opinion.</text></comment> |
32,701,033 | 32,700,139 | 1 | 2 | 32,676,303 | train | <story><title>Q (Number Format)</title><url>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Q_(number_format)</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>vlovich123</author><text>Granted I haven’t played in space. Maybe text rendering is more complicated than indoor positioning. But there we simply made sure results were numerically deterministic on a given machine given a known seed. However, we would always run with a random seed to make sure we didn’t over tune to random initial parameters. And we did manage to make the system numerically stable (ie random perturbations still resulted in the expected value +&#x2F;- some error). And yes, the system was highly non linear (lognormal probability calculations, Kalman filters, etc).<p>Do you have specific knowledge that it is actually difficult due to some nuance specific to layout because you’ve spent time on the problem or is that an institution you have from first principles?</text></item><item><author>creato</author><text>TeX rendering (example from the parent of this thread) is highly non-linear though. Even a negligible difference in some computation can result in changes that cause an entire document to render completely differently. TeX layout is a global optimization problem, with a lot of big step functions in cost. If you want reproducible rendering in something like TeX, you need to use fixed point arithmetic.</text></item><item><author>vlovich123</author><text>The question though is whether you actually need bit identical or if you can just build a numerical model of your accuracy such that the result is +&#x2F;- some bounded error.<p>Or you can just use infinite precision libraries at the cost of CPU.</text></item><item><author>kragen</author><text>Significant differences in FP calculations <i>still</i> occur between different architectures, and sometimes even when code is compiled with different optimizations <i>on the same platform</i>. In particular, Intel Gen doesn&#x27;t support denormalized floats and gradual underflow (and I think other GPUs are similar here); FMA (fused multiply-add) changes the results of most algorithms, though usually only in the least significant bit; and the IEEE standard doesn&#x27;t require that operations beyond the basic ones (+, -, *, &#x2F;, and square root) produce correctly-rounded results because that is deemed to be too difficult.<p>The FMA thing is the thing that made me realize that expecting identical output from FP algorithms is a lost cause. Knuth&#x27;s choice was the only reasonable choice if you&#x27;re trying to define a deterministic platform that makes your results reproducible on future hardware. We can expect with great confidence that 50 or 100 years from now, much less 1000 or 5000 years from now, there will be other optimizations like FMA that change the results of our programs, rendering their executions irreproducible. But TeX will still produce the same page layout when run on the same input files.</text></item><item><author>dhosek</author><text>Last year I wrote some code in Rust to read GF files (the output from Metafont). Knuth was fond of these sorts of fixed-point representations of non-integers in his file formats and all of the binary formats he created around TeX and MF employ Q15.16 fixed-point numbers where integer values are not acceptable. Likewise, internally to TeX and MF, all non-integer calculations are done with Q15,16 fixed-point numbers since at the time that DEK was writing his programs, there was no standardized FP implementation and significant differences in FP calculations could occur between different architectures and he wanted to be able to guarantee identical output on all platforms.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>svat</author><text>It may be illustrative to discuss a concrete example from text layout: consider deciding whether to break before or after a certain word on a line.<p>• Suppose the width of each line is L, and the inter-word space is &quot;S plus P minus M&quot; in TeX notation (i.e. default S with stretchability of P and shrinkability of M), and that after N words with total width C, we encounter the next word of width W, which would have to either go on the next line, or be squeezed onto that line.<p><pre><code> .....................|
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• If we break the line <i>before</i> that word, we&#x27;d have to stretch the default space of (C + (N-1)S) to L, so a stretch factor of (L - C - (N-1)S)&#x2F;P.<p>• If we break the line <i>after</i> that word, we&#x27;d have to shrink the default space of (C + W + NS) to L, so a shrink factor of (C + W + NS - L)&#x2F;M.<p>So we&#x27;d pick one choice or the other depending on which of these two fractions is smaller.<p>(This is not exactly TeX&#x27;s algorithm — the above is a greedy&#x2F;local &quot;best-fit&quot; rather than TeX&#x27;s &quot;optimum fit&quot; that considers the paragraph as a whole; see the paper at <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.eprg.org&#x2F;G53DOC&#x2F;pdfs&#x2F;knuth-plass-breaking.pdf" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.eprg.org&#x2F;G53DOC&#x2F;pdfs&#x2F;knuth-plass-breaking.pdf</a> — but it&#x27;s hopefully illustrative.)<p>Even in this simple case that just needs to compare two ratios (in practice we have to at least compare two sums of such fractions), if you compute these two fractions as real numbers, and you don&#x27;t have any consistent floating-point arithmetic available across different machines and compilers (or across time), how would you ensure that the system would be deterministic &#x2F; numerically stable as you said? (Would always make the same decision between the two choices?)<p>(And would that method have worked in 1980? The initial version of TeX, now called TeX78, was written in 1977–1978 in the SAIL language and only had to run on one computer&#x2F;compiler (the ones at SAIL in Stanford), and it did use the &quot;real&quot; type. By 1980, already (programs based on) TeX had proliferated to various places—people were porting&#x2F;rewriting TeX into their own OS&#x2F;languages—and Knuth started the rewrite of TeX into the current TeX82 in WEB (based on Pascal), and that time both hardware and Pascal compilers varied widely in their support for and implementation of floating-point arithmetic, so Knuth pretty much <i>had</i> to use fixed-point (i.e. only integer arithmetic staying within 2^31) to ensure that the same output would be produced everywhere. But I&#x27;m curious how we could get numerical stability in the sense you mentioned even today, as the problem seems to inherently have the property that small perturbations can lead to different output.)</text></comment> | <story><title>Q (Number Format)</title><url>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Q_(number_format)</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>vlovich123</author><text>Granted I haven’t played in space. Maybe text rendering is more complicated than indoor positioning. But there we simply made sure results were numerically deterministic on a given machine given a known seed. However, we would always run with a random seed to make sure we didn’t over tune to random initial parameters. And we did manage to make the system numerically stable (ie random perturbations still resulted in the expected value +&#x2F;- some error). And yes, the system was highly non linear (lognormal probability calculations, Kalman filters, etc).<p>Do you have specific knowledge that it is actually difficult due to some nuance specific to layout because you’ve spent time on the problem or is that an institution you have from first principles?</text></item><item><author>creato</author><text>TeX rendering (example from the parent of this thread) is highly non-linear though. Even a negligible difference in some computation can result in changes that cause an entire document to render completely differently. TeX layout is a global optimization problem, with a lot of big step functions in cost. If you want reproducible rendering in something like TeX, you need to use fixed point arithmetic.</text></item><item><author>vlovich123</author><text>The question though is whether you actually need bit identical or if you can just build a numerical model of your accuracy such that the result is +&#x2F;- some bounded error.<p>Or you can just use infinite precision libraries at the cost of CPU.</text></item><item><author>kragen</author><text>Significant differences in FP calculations <i>still</i> occur between different architectures, and sometimes even when code is compiled with different optimizations <i>on the same platform</i>. In particular, Intel Gen doesn&#x27;t support denormalized floats and gradual underflow (and I think other GPUs are similar here); FMA (fused multiply-add) changes the results of most algorithms, though usually only in the least significant bit; and the IEEE standard doesn&#x27;t require that operations beyond the basic ones (+, -, *, &#x2F;, and square root) produce correctly-rounded results because that is deemed to be too difficult.<p>The FMA thing is the thing that made me realize that expecting identical output from FP algorithms is a lost cause. Knuth&#x27;s choice was the only reasonable choice if you&#x27;re trying to define a deterministic platform that makes your results reproducible on future hardware. We can expect with great confidence that 50 or 100 years from now, much less 1000 or 5000 years from now, there will be other optimizations like FMA that change the results of our programs, rendering their executions irreproducible. But TeX will still produce the same page layout when run on the same input files.</text></item><item><author>dhosek</author><text>Last year I wrote some code in Rust to read GF files (the output from Metafont). Knuth was fond of these sorts of fixed-point representations of non-integers in his file formats and all of the binary formats he created around TeX and MF employ Q15.16 fixed-point numbers where integer values are not acceptable. Likewise, internally to TeX and MF, all non-integer calculations are done with Q15,16 fixed-point numbers since at the time that DEK was writing his programs, there was no standardized FP implementation and significant differences in FP calculations could occur between different architectures and he wanted to be able to guarantee identical output on all platforms.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mkbosmans</author><text>Reasoning from first principles:<p>When a problem is linear, a small pertubation in your input will result in a similarly small difference in the results, bounded by some constant factor. When a problem is non-linear, there is no such constant upper bound to the output error.<p>There are differences in the amount of nonlinearity however. It seems that your algorithm was nonlinear, e.g. using log and exp functions, but otherwise pretty well behaved. So while the factor between input and output error might not be constant, but rather dependent on input values, it is still the case that in the limit of the input error to zero, the output error will also vanish. (obviously in the real domain, not considering floating point).<p>Contrast this with a problem that has discontinuities in it. In that case it might happen that however small you make your input error, any nonzero pertubation will cause a significant change in the solution. The TeX layout problem is an example of this, but also happens often enough in physical simulations.</text></comment> |
8,629,402 | 8,629,392 | 1 | 3 | 8,628,605 | train | <story><title>A Pragmatic Guide to Getting Things Done</title><url>http://hamberg.no/gtd/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tempestn</author><text>GTD is a great system; once you follow it (in some form), it quickly becomes difficult to imagine how anyone lives their life without it.<p>I have found Evernote to be a great tool to implement a GTD system. Evernote&#x27;s greatest strength is its flexibility. It works on basically every platform and integrates with most other tools you use. It doesn&#x27;t really tell you <i>how</i> to use it though, which is where GTD fits in perfectly. (And it turns out to be really helpful to integrate as much of your system as possible into one tool.)<p>I found this site to be a great resource getting started with GTD and Evernote: <a href="http://www.thesecretweapon.org/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.thesecretweapon.org&#x2F;</a><p>My current system is very similar to what they describe, although I added a &#x27;Waiting&#x27; status, which includes both things that need to be done at or after a given time, and things where I want to remember that I&#x27;m waiting on something outside my control (a reply to an email, for instance). I set reminders on everything in there.<p>The one other significant tweak I made is to use notebooks instead of tags for the &#x27;when&#x27; portion. Since every task needs to have a &#x27;when&#x27;, and since every note has one and only one notebook, this seemed like a logical fit. So instead of the &#x27;Current&#x27; notebook they recommend, I simply use a Current stack containing a notebook for each priority level.<p>I also use Powerbot to improve clipping emails from gmail.<p>Anyway, the details don&#x27;t matter and are easy to change. The main point is, give GTD on Evernote a try, and you&#x27;ll be glad you did.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>solistice</author><text>If you like the challenge of a steep learning curve, might I suggest org-mode for emacs? It&#x27;s got tasks, todos, built in agenda calculation, and so on. Also it&#x27;s shipped as default with emacs. For something like a &quot;waiting&quot; status, you can easily reconfigure the default to-do states on a global or per file basis, and even have several different sets of states for tasks.<p>Here&#x27;s a pretty handy guide showing what you can do with it, and then there&#x27;s allways the org-mode documentation which outlines all features.
<a href="http://doc.norang.ca/org-mode.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;doc.norang.ca&#x2F;org-mode.html</a><p>I&#x27;ve got a friend of mine who uses it for literally everything from notetaking to planning projects and billing project time, and I&#x27;m slowly getting into it as well. If Evernote&#x27;s greatest strenght is flexibility, this will certainly give it a run for its money.</text></comment> | <story><title>A Pragmatic Guide to Getting Things Done</title><url>http://hamberg.no/gtd/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tempestn</author><text>GTD is a great system; once you follow it (in some form), it quickly becomes difficult to imagine how anyone lives their life without it.<p>I have found Evernote to be a great tool to implement a GTD system. Evernote&#x27;s greatest strength is its flexibility. It works on basically every platform and integrates with most other tools you use. It doesn&#x27;t really tell you <i>how</i> to use it though, which is where GTD fits in perfectly. (And it turns out to be really helpful to integrate as much of your system as possible into one tool.)<p>I found this site to be a great resource getting started with GTD and Evernote: <a href="http://www.thesecretweapon.org/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.thesecretweapon.org&#x2F;</a><p>My current system is very similar to what they describe, although I added a &#x27;Waiting&#x27; status, which includes both things that need to be done at or after a given time, and things where I want to remember that I&#x27;m waiting on something outside my control (a reply to an email, for instance). I set reminders on everything in there.<p>The one other significant tweak I made is to use notebooks instead of tags for the &#x27;when&#x27; portion. Since every task needs to have a &#x27;when&#x27;, and since every note has one and only one notebook, this seemed like a logical fit. So instead of the &#x27;Current&#x27; notebook they recommend, I simply use a Current stack containing a notebook for each priority level.<p>I also use Powerbot to improve clipping emails from gmail.<p>Anyway, the details don&#x27;t matter and are easy to change. The main point is, give GTD on Evernote a try, and you&#x27;ll be glad you did.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>hobo_mark</author><text>&gt; It works on basically every platform<p>Except, you know, Linux :)<p>It&#x27;s also quite slow and I&#x27;d rather spend as little time as possible managing my time than waiting for the UI to load and having to mouse around for everything.<p>(Not to mention all those times where some of my notes were synchronized into oblivion, never to be found again)<p>I am much more effective using a hierarchy of text files and some simple macros to navigate it, works offline and it&#x27;s incredibly easy to sync between machines.</text></comment> |
2,051,328 | 2,051,160 | 1 | 2 | 2,051,040 | train | <story><title>Me, but you, but me</title><url>http://diveintomark.org/archives/2010/05/28/of-course#</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Timothee</author><text>Very nicely written.<p>But I realize that my reading comprehension once again fails me. I really didn't get the clue of his loss from these last lines:<p>"I would have said “only one,” but it turns out what I meant was “one who will outlive me.”<p>So, two."</text></comment> | <story><title>Me, but you, but me</title><url>http://diveintomark.org/archives/2010/05/28/of-course#</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>catshirt</author><text>There was one comment in particular that struck a chord with me. I felt it was necessary to quote; it's a hard feeling to articulate.<p>"<i>We are here to live, we are here to die. Time is short, time is long. One has many friends, one has few friends. When we find a paradox, rejoice. It means that we have found a normal and real aspect life. We humans think we can plan and have answers. We can. And we can’t.</i>"</text></comment> |
11,725,664 | 11,724,040 | 1 | 2 | 11,722,329 | train | <story><title>Announcing Heroku Free SSL Beta and Flexible Dyno Hours</title><url>https://blog.heroku.com/archives/2016/5/18/announcing_heroku_free_ssl_beta_and_flexible_dyno_hours</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>josegonzalez</author><text>Dokku maintainer here.<p>I think this is a great idea. Companies have to sell a product in order to survive. At work, we pay a small amount of money for the 20 or so applications we deploy to heroku (nothing critical, just your run-of-the-mill chatbot&#x2F;static landing page) and I&#x27;m impressed with the product they sell for such a small amount of money.<p>Here is some of what Heroku handles for you:<p><pre><code> - cluster scaling (docker swarm?)
- resource scaling (docker-options?)
- centralized logging (docker&#x2F;rsyslog + papertrail?)
- metrics support (diamond&#x2F;collectd&#x2F;dd-agent + external graphite cluster?)
- web ui and external api (lol)
- easy integration with tons of services (plugins&#x2F;manual work?)
- not having to maintain your own servers (hire an ops person?)
- backups (cron + s3&#x2F;dropbox&#x2F;idk?)
- security!!! (cron apt-get?)
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Definitely worth taking a critical look at whether or not the applications you are running on Heroku aren&#x27;t providing at least $7 a month in value to you, as the above doesn&#x27;t necessarily come cheap when you roll your own.</text></comment> | <story><title>Announcing Heroku Free SSL Beta and Flexible Dyno Hours</title><url>https://blog.heroku.com/archives/2016/5/18/announcing_heroku_free_ssl_beta_and_flexible_dyno_hours</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>tlrobinson</author><text>&quot;Flexible dyno hours&quot; is some nice marketing spin. 550 hours a month works out to one application running 18 hours a day, whereas previously you could have an unlimited number of apps running up to 18 hours per day.</text></comment> |
27,447,594 | 27,447,799 | 1 | 3 | 27,446,574 | train | <story><title>One Fastly customer triggered internet meltdown</title><url>https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-57413224</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>oneeyedpigeon</author><text>&gt; Early June 8, a customer pushed a valid configuration change that included the specific circumstances that triggered the bug, which caused 85% of our network to return errors.<p>Is it necessary to refer to &quot;a customer&quot; at all in this statement? What would be problematic if the above were rewritten as something like:<p>&gt; Early June 8, a configuration change triggered a bug in our software, which caused 85% of our network to return errors.<p>The advantage is that you wouldn&#x27;t get ignorant reporting that &quot;one customer took down the internet&quot;. I&#x27;m not sure there are disadvantages that net outweigh that.</text></item><item><author>Jenk</author><text>How on earth do you figure that is anyone&#x27;s fault but the BBC?<p>Read Fastly&#x27;s statement. There is nothing about it blaming the customer(s) at all. There is nothing trying to save face.<p>What is your point here?</text></item><item><author>oneeyedpigeon</author><text>I know — as I&#x27;ve said, the main blame lies with the bbc. However, as it&#x27;s reported, it comes across very much as Fastly trying to save face. Maybe the blame is entirely on the bbc, maybe Fastly were naive in thinking that giving them this information wouldn&#x27;t result in irresponsible headlines.</text></item><item><author>mytailorisrich</author><text>&quot;<i>But a customer quite legitimately changing their settings had exposed a bug in a software update issued to customers in mid-May, causing &quot;85% of our network to return errors</i>&quot;<p>They are careful to make clear that the customer did nothing wrong and that the problem was a bug in their software.</text></item><item><author>oneeyedpigeon</author><text>I&#x27;m sorry, but I disagree. They gave the BBC enough detail that a very misleading headline was produced as a result. True, the main blame lies with the BBC, but it also comes across — to me, anyway, maybe I&#x27;m being too cynical — as a bit of an excuse from Fastly.</text></item><item><author>iainmerrick</author><text>Throwing in my positive hot take among all the negative ones here: the immediate response and blog post from Fastly here is really good.<p>A quick fix, a clear apology, enough detail to give an idea of what happened, but not so much detail that there might be a mistake they’ll have to clarify or retract. What more are you looking for?<p>Apart from “not have the bug in the first place” -- and I hope and expect they’ll go into more detail later when they’ve had time for a proper post mortem -- I’d be interested to hear what anyone thinks they could have done better in terms of their immediate firefighting.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Jenk</author><text>Yes, because it is explaining that it was a valid *customer* configuration, which is a separate set of concerns from, say, infrastructure config.<p>The important adjective &quot;valid&quot; means it was completely normal&#x2F;expected input and thus not the fault of the customer.<p>It&#x27;s perfectly clear you&#x27;ve come at this with a pre-determined agenda of &quot;I bet fastly, like most other public statements after corporate booboos I&#x27;ve seen, will try to shrug this one off as someone else&#x27;s fault&quot; after reading the BBCs title and haven&#x27;t bothered to read it at all until now.</text></comment> | <story><title>One Fastly customer triggered internet meltdown</title><url>https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-57413224</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>oneeyedpigeon</author><text>&gt; Early June 8, a customer pushed a valid configuration change that included the specific circumstances that triggered the bug, which caused 85% of our network to return errors.<p>Is it necessary to refer to &quot;a customer&quot; at all in this statement? What would be problematic if the above were rewritten as something like:<p>&gt; Early June 8, a configuration change triggered a bug in our software, which caused 85% of our network to return errors.<p>The advantage is that you wouldn&#x27;t get ignorant reporting that &quot;one customer took down the internet&quot;. I&#x27;m not sure there are disadvantages that net outweigh that.</text></item><item><author>Jenk</author><text>How on earth do you figure that is anyone&#x27;s fault but the BBC?<p>Read Fastly&#x27;s statement. There is nothing about it blaming the customer(s) at all. There is nothing trying to save face.<p>What is your point here?</text></item><item><author>oneeyedpigeon</author><text>I know — as I&#x27;ve said, the main blame lies with the bbc. However, as it&#x27;s reported, it comes across very much as Fastly trying to save face. Maybe the blame is entirely on the bbc, maybe Fastly were naive in thinking that giving them this information wouldn&#x27;t result in irresponsible headlines.</text></item><item><author>mytailorisrich</author><text>&quot;<i>But a customer quite legitimately changing their settings had exposed a bug in a software update issued to customers in mid-May, causing &quot;85% of our network to return errors</i>&quot;<p>They are careful to make clear that the customer did nothing wrong and that the problem was a bug in their software.</text></item><item><author>oneeyedpigeon</author><text>I&#x27;m sorry, but I disagree. They gave the BBC enough detail that a very misleading headline was produced as a result. True, the main blame lies with the BBC, but it also comes across — to me, anyway, maybe I&#x27;m being too cynical — as a bit of an excuse from Fastly.</text></item><item><author>iainmerrick</author><text>Throwing in my positive hot take among all the negative ones here: the immediate response and blog post from Fastly here is really good.<p>A quick fix, a clear apology, enough detail to give an idea of what happened, but not so much detail that there might be a mistake they’ll have to clarify or retract. What more are you looking for?<p>Apart from “not have the bug in the first place” -- and I hope and expect they’ll go into more detail later when they’ve had time for a proper post mortem -- I’d be interested to hear what anyone thinks they could have done better in terms of their immediate firefighting.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>davisoneee</author><text>In what way is the BBC at fault for this? Their title is objectively true. A _valid_ configuration setting that was used by a customer _did_ cause fastly to have an outage.<p>It&#x27;s not limited to one specific customer (i.e this customer isn&#x27;t the only customer who could have caused the issue, presumably), but it _was_ something the customer (legitimately) did. It wasn&#x27;t a server outage. It wasn&#x27;t a fire. It wasn&#x27;t a cut cable.<p>&quot;a customer quite legitimately changing their settings (BBC: one fastly customer) had exposed a bug (BBC: triggered internet meltdown) in a software update issued to customers (fastly admitting, when combined with &#x27;legitimately&#x27;, that fastly are at fault) in mid-May&quot;.</text></comment> |
28,171,651 | 28,171,686 | 1 | 2 | 28,167,690 | train | <story><title>How Google bought Android</title><url>https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2021/08/excerpt-the-history-of-android-as-written-by-a-longtime-android-developer/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>AshamedCaptain</author><text>Which is a ridiculous assertion, since I clearly remember running gdb targetting a Handspring&#x2F;Palm way before the ARM transition, late 90s or the like. In fact m68k gdb was the only option available if you couldn&#x27;t pay the big compilers. Damn gdbpanel.<p>Not to mention that in 2005 Nokia already had the 770, which was basically a mobile desktop GNU&#x2F;Linux device, with Gtk+, Gnome and everything. You could run gdb on the device itself.</text></item><item><author>jcun4128</author><text>Somewhat related, I heard an interesting podcast recently by Corecursive about Sqlite and they mentioned how Android was so far ahead... excerpt:<p>&gt; This was back in 2005 or so, and we were in meetings with Android, and this was before Android was a thing... they had a prototype of their Android phone, and this was before iPhone... but we were debugging something with SQLite and we were plugging into the phone and we were running the debugger on a workstation which was pretty amazing. Nobody else could do that... here we were, we were debugging an application in GDB on a phone that was on the public network, and this was utterly mind blowing. Nobody at Motorola, nobody at Symbian, nobody at Nokia had anything close to that, and in that one moment, I knew that Android was going to be huge.</text></item><item><author>kyaghmour</author><text>Yet another example of how what looks later as a slam dunk &#x2F; sure winner acquisition is anything but for those involved during the process.<p>Also, not sure if it&#x27;s covered elsewhere in the book, but it would&#x27;ve been interesting to get to understand Google&#x27;s motivation for doing this deal. My understanding is that Google understood mobile was important and given that, at the time, network operators had a lot of control over mobile software, the fear was that they could control access to the search engine and, hence, exclude or take control over Google.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jsjohnst</author><text>&gt; Which is a ridiculous assertion<p>To the person who made the claim, it was the first, because of their limited view of the world. I always take claims of being first with a grain of salt for this reason.<p>That said, I completely agree. I definitely used remote debuggers and on-device debuggers on mobile before Android&#x2F;iOS existed.</text></comment> | <story><title>How Google bought Android</title><url>https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2021/08/excerpt-the-history-of-android-as-written-by-a-longtime-android-developer/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>AshamedCaptain</author><text>Which is a ridiculous assertion, since I clearly remember running gdb targetting a Handspring&#x2F;Palm way before the ARM transition, late 90s or the like. In fact m68k gdb was the only option available if you couldn&#x27;t pay the big compilers. Damn gdbpanel.<p>Not to mention that in 2005 Nokia already had the 770, which was basically a mobile desktop GNU&#x2F;Linux device, with Gtk+, Gnome and everything. You could run gdb on the device itself.</text></item><item><author>jcun4128</author><text>Somewhat related, I heard an interesting podcast recently by Corecursive about Sqlite and they mentioned how Android was so far ahead... excerpt:<p>&gt; This was back in 2005 or so, and we were in meetings with Android, and this was before Android was a thing... they had a prototype of their Android phone, and this was before iPhone... but we were debugging something with SQLite and we were plugging into the phone and we were running the debugger on a workstation which was pretty amazing. Nobody else could do that... here we were, we were debugging an application in GDB on a phone that was on the public network, and this was utterly mind blowing. Nobody at Motorola, nobody at Symbian, nobody at Nokia had anything close to that, and in that one moment, I knew that Android was going to be huge.</text></item><item><author>kyaghmour</author><text>Yet another example of how what looks later as a slam dunk &#x2F; sure winner acquisition is anything but for those involved during the process.<p>Also, not sure if it&#x27;s covered elsewhere in the book, but it would&#x27;ve been interesting to get to understand Google&#x27;s motivation for doing this deal. My understanding is that Google understood mobile was important and given that, at the time, network operators had a lot of control over mobile software, the fear was that they could control access to the search engine and, hence, exclude or take control over Google.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jeffbee</author><text>Yeah that&#x27;s completely ridiculous. BlackBerry in the x86&#x2F;C and ARM&#x2F;Java eras could be attached to a workstation and debugged with Visual C or the later RIM JDK, setting breakpoints and single-stepping on real hardware live and on the air. Was debugging on the BlackBerry 857 over serial port attached to PC in 1999.</text></comment> |
26,146,752 | 26,146,677 | 1 | 3 | 26,144,465 | train | <story><title>Parler is back online after a month of downtime</title><url>https://www.theverge.com/2021/2/15/22284036/parler-social-network-relaunch-new-hosting</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>devwastaken</author><text>Most users of parlor are not technical people and don&#x27;t understand anything about it. The reason why parlor got popular is because it was easy for disinformation to be spread and people want to believe in it.<p>For example when that at&amp;t network center was bombed there was a fake image going around that it &quot;wasn&#x27;t the van that exploded&quot;. I had someone try to &quot;prove to me&quot; it was true by linking me to parlor and it&#x27;s users creating conspiracies on top of conspiracies. The users there will accept disinformation and made up conspiracies if it benefits their team.<p>That&#x27;s sadly the reality of it. People that don&#x27;t understand tech should not be on the internet. They don&#x27;t understand the concept of <i>people can and will lie freeley behind a camera or keyboard</i>.<p>A classical example of &quot;my ignorance is just as good as your education because I don&#x27;t know any better.&quot;</text></item><item><author>thepangolino</author><text>I personally never understood the the appeal of Parler, be it on a technical standpoint or privacy and freedom of speech. Especially compared to Gab.</text></item><item><author>35fbe7d3d5b9</author><text>Parler now looks to be hosted through a company called SkySilk:<p><pre><code> parler.com. IN A 216.246.208.249
</code></pre>
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;rdap.arin.net&#x2F;registry&#x2F;ip&#x2F;216.246.208.0" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;rdap.arin.net&#x2F;registry&#x2F;ip&#x2F;216.246.208.0</a><p>SkySilk appears to specialize in VPCs and cloud hosting, not colocation. Their AUP doesn&#x27;t appear to give Parler much relief either[1]:<p>&gt; We specifically reserve the right to refuse to provide the Service to customers or End Users engaged in the dissemination of material that may cause us to be subject to attacks on our network, or that while technically legal, run counter to our corporate principles.<p>I can&#x27;t imagine this arrangement lasts too long.<p>[1]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.skysilk.com&#x2F;aup&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.skysilk.com&#x2F;aup&#x2F;</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>caseysoftware</author><text>&gt; <i>People that don&#x27;t understand tech should not be on the internet.</i><p>Your elitist, anti-inclusive rhetoric is unnecessary.<p>&gt; <i>They don&#x27;t understand the concept of people can and will lie freeley behind a camera or keyboard.</i><p>If one of the main claims is &quot;the media lies&quot; then obviously they understand that.<p>There are valid criticisms but these are not them.</text></comment> | <story><title>Parler is back online after a month of downtime</title><url>https://www.theverge.com/2021/2/15/22284036/parler-social-network-relaunch-new-hosting</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>devwastaken</author><text>Most users of parlor are not technical people and don&#x27;t understand anything about it. The reason why parlor got popular is because it was easy for disinformation to be spread and people want to believe in it.<p>For example when that at&amp;t network center was bombed there was a fake image going around that it &quot;wasn&#x27;t the van that exploded&quot;. I had someone try to &quot;prove to me&quot; it was true by linking me to parlor and it&#x27;s users creating conspiracies on top of conspiracies. The users there will accept disinformation and made up conspiracies if it benefits their team.<p>That&#x27;s sadly the reality of it. People that don&#x27;t understand tech should not be on the internet. They don&#x27;t understand the concept of <i>people can and will lie freeley behind a camera or keyboard</i>.<p>A classical example of &quot;my ignorance is just as good as your education because I don&#x27;t know any better.&quot;</text></item><item><author>thepangolino</author><text>I personally never understood the the appeal of Parler, be it on a technical standpoint or privacy and freedom of speech. Especially compared to Gab.</text></item><item><author>35fbe7d3d5b9</author><text>Parler now looks to be hosted through a company called SkySilk:<p><pre><code> parler.com. IN A 216.246.208.249
</code></pre>
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;rdap.arin.net&#x2F;registry&#x2F;ip&#x2F;216.246.208.0" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;rdap.arin.net&#x2F;registry&#x2F;ip&#x2F;216.246.208.0</a><p>SkySilk appears to specialize in VPCs and cloud hosting, not colocation. Their AUP doesn&#x27;t appear to give Parler much relief either[1]:<p>&gt; We specifically reserve the right to refuse to provide the Service to customers or End Users engaged in the dissemination of material that may cause us to be subject to attacks on our network, or that while technically legal, run counter to our corporate principles.<p>I can&#x27;t imagine this arrangement lasts too long.<p>[1]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.skysilk.com&#x2F;aup&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.skysilk.com&#x2F;aup&#x2F;</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>fooker</author><text>&gt; People that don&#x27;t understand tech should not be on the internet.<p>Do you understand the physics and engineering of all the tech you use?</text></comment> |
41,043,505 | 41,042,991 | 1 | 3 | 41,042,294 | train | <story><title>Button Stealer</title><url>https://anatolyzenkov.com/stolen-buttons/button-stealer</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>purple-leafy</author><text>Issue with this “benign” extension is that it will be using<p>“host_permissions”: “&lt;all_urls&gt;”<p>In its manifest means it can basically do anything on any webpage you visit, scrape data etc.<p>As an extension developer, no thanks. “Fun” pointless extensions like this that have no real utility, but funnily enough require broad permissions, are dangerous</text></comment> | <story><title>Button Stealer</title><url>https://anatolyzenkov.com/stolen-buttons/button-stealer</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Hamuko</author><text>I&#x27;d be worried about installing these sorts of extensions in case someone decides to offer the developer a lucrative amount of money to buy it and then uses it for less-than-fun purposes. Not sure if they&#x27;d need additional permissions for it, but at least the current content script is ran against &quot;<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;*&#x2F;\" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;*&#x2F;\</a>*&quot; already.</text></comment> |
7,643,450 | 7,641,279 | 1 | 2 | 7,639,653 | train | <story><title>“Artery chokes after 70 copies of Visual Studio”</title><url>https://connect.microsoft.com/VisualStudio/feedback/details/812643/artery-chokes-after-70-copies-of-visual-studio</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>droopybuns</author><text>Repectfully, you are incorrect that bounties exist to make it more profitable to disclose than to sell.<p>Corporate bug bounties will never be able to compete with the budgets of nation states.<p>They are basically a way of paying respect for a moral approach to a discovery that takes great skill.</text></item><item><author>evan_</author><text>Bounties exist for security bugs to make it more profitable to report the bug than it is to exploit it, or to sell knowledge of it to those who would. A buy about opening 70 copies of Visual Studio is unlikely to be very profitable to exploit.</text></item><item><author>kohanz</author><text>Not that this is a major bug, but it makes me wonder why a bug report of this detailed nature (basically doing the debugging for Microsoft engineers) shouldn&#x27;t be eligible for a bounty, just as exposed security flaws are.<p>For this bug, it would be a very small or non-existent bounty since this use case affects almost no one, but what if someone found a major bug that was not a security issue, and worked out the cause and fix, as was done in this case? Is that so much less valuable than a security issue?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>MichaelGG</author><text>Please tell me, what do I need to do to sell to nation states? I&#x27;ve found lots of remotely-exploitable (as in root or direct financial gain) in open source and commercial software. Vendors have poor responses[1] so I&#x27;ve stopped disclosing but if I could legally convert them into cash I&#x27;d be very interested in knowing how. For now I&#x27;m just keeping them because I might decide to open an auditing company some day and they&#x27;d be good marketing.<p>1: Once a company got angry and blamed me for delaying their shipping cycle. Another time they laughed when I suggested their memory corruption might be leveraged for escalation. And another vendor told me &quot;buffer overflows would only happen maybe if you had a very fast network IO&quot;.</text></comment> | <story><title>“Artery chokes after 70 copies of Visual Studio”</title><url>https://connect.microsoft.com/VisualStudio/feedback/details/812643/artery-chokes-after-70-copies-of-visual-studio</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>droopybuns</author><text>Repectfully, you are incorrect that bounties exist to make it more profitable to disclose than to sell.<p>Corporate bug bounties will never be able to compete with the budgets of nation states.<p>They are basically a way of paying respect for a moral approach to a discovery that takes great skill.</text></item><item><author>evan_</author><text>Bounties exist for security bugs to make it more profitable to report the bug than it is to exploit it, or to sell knowledge of it to those who would. A buy about opening 70 copies of Visual Studio is unlikely to be very profitable to exploit.</text></item><item><author>kohanz</author><text>Not that this is a major bug, but it makes me wonder why a bug report of this detailed nature (basically doing the debugging for Microsoft engineers) shouldn&#x27;t be eligible for a bounty, just as exposed security flaws are.<p>For this bug, it would be a very small or non-existent bounty since this use case affects almost no one, but what if someone found a major bug that was not a security issue, and worked out the cause and fix, as was done in this case? Is that so much less valuable than a security issue?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>sliverstorm</author><text>Of course they cannot compete on a dollars-for-dollars basis, but people will often accept less return (or pay more) to stay on the up-and-up.<p>If a criminal would pay you $10 for your exploit, and I would pay you $9 to disclose it- many people would opt to disclose.</text></comment> |
13,323,993 | 13,323,453 | 1 | 3 | 13,323,154 | train | <story><title>Elixir v1.4.0 released</title><url>https://github.com/elixir-lang/elixir/releases/tag/v1.4.0</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>sotojuan</author><text>My favorite part about Elixir is that it doesn&#x27;t try to reinvent the wheel. It&#x27;s not an untested, trendy new paradigm or tool. It&#x27;s based on decades of Erlang&#x2F;BEAM&#x2F;OTP experience and Ruby&#x2F;Rails&#x2F;last 10~ years of programming ergonomics. The only things that are added are those that actually add to the experience.<p>An example: A large part of the Erlang standard library is not translated in Elixir. Instead, you call Erlang methods with a seamless interop. José &amp; co. understand that there&#x27;s no need to reinvent the wheel and no benefit in another abstraction. I like that.<p>My least favorite part about Elixir is that it has become a &quot;trendy&quot; language among the web crowd. While the community is overall great, there&#x27;s always a loud minority of &quot;beginner experts&quot; both claiming it&#x27;s the best thing ever and deriding those for using other tools. I&#x27;ve seen a lot of random, unwarranted Rails bashing and Elixir shilling (never from a team member or community leader though!).</text></comment> | <story><title>Elixir v1.4.0 released</title><url>https://github.com/elixir-lang/elixir/releases/tag/v1.4.0</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>themgt</author><text>Coming from Ruby, Elixir feels like a powerful, beautiful language with a surprisingly radical but ultimately simple approach to concurrency thanks to Erlang&#x2F;BEAM, and Phoenix is like Rails 2006, as far as the framework to sell Elixir&#x27;s advantages to the masses. It&#x27;s very powerful and scaling &quot;just works&quot;. All Elixir needs now is a viable ElixirScript that can compile down to JS&#x2F;WASM, and along with Nerves it&#x27;s ready for world domination. ;)</text></comment> |
37,529,941 | 37,529,932 | 1 | 2 | 37,527,259 | train | <story><title>Ex-Finance developers mock McKinsey's monitoring metrics</title><url>https://www.efinancialcareers.com/news/2023/09/mckinsey-how-to-measure-software-developer-productivity</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ryandrake</author><text>&gt; It&#x27;s a sort of clueless MBA thinking that believes software engineers should be furiously typing all the time<p>(Your point is good, but the dig against MBAs is unnecessary and I wish it was less acceptable here on HN. It wouldn&#x27;t be ok to make fun of people with Sociology degrees or History degrees here, but jokes about MBAs get a pass. We really should be better than that, but I realize I&#x27;m swimming against the current on this one.)<p>That aside, I <i>have</i> found a lot of clueless folks in tech leadership have that &quot;furiously typing&quot; misconception, as if developers are only productive when their fingertips are pounding keys. I once worked with a CEO who refused to set aside time in the schedule for things like setting up source control and a bug tracker, because he believed that developers should be furiously typing code in at all times.</text></item><item><author>q7xvh97o2pDhNrh</author><text>I clicked through to the linked McKinsey article [1] to see what all the hubbub was about, and I found this gem:<p>&gt; For example, one company found that its most talented developers were spending excessive time on noncoding activities such as design sessions or managing interdependencies across teams. In response, the company changed its operating model and clarified roles and responsibilities to enable those highest-value developers to do what they do best: code.<p>The rest of the article is equally hare-brained. It&#x27;s a sort of clueless management-consultant thinking that believes software engineers should be furiously typing all the time, and it entirely fails to understand that actual software engineering is about solving business problems.<p>Stuff like this really makes me wish I&#x27;d optimized for $$$ earlier in my career, and I only hope I can retire before this kind of absurd thinking spreads into real technology companies.<p>[1]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.mckinsey.com&#x2F;industries&#x2F;technology-media-and-telecommunications&#x2F;our-insights&#x2F;yes-you-can-measure-software-developer-productivity" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.mckinsey.com&#x2F;industries&#x2F;technology-media-and-tel...</a><p>EDIT: Changed &quot;MBA thinking&quot; to &quot;management-consultant thinking,&quot; in response to fair feedback below.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>version_five</author><text>What is the problem with criticism &quot;mba thinking&quot;? It&#x27;s a legit complaint against the kind of naive &quot;efficiency&quot; analyses and measures that happen, and is completely justified. I have an MBA, I certainly don&#x27;t find it offensive, I think the criticism is apt.<p>The usual art student tropes are more offensive because they are about people in a chosen degree being dumb (incidentally, when I did engineering all the hardcore &quot;haha artsies are so dumb&quot; engineers failed out after first year). That&#x27;s not the same as criticizing a specific flaw in their education. If there&#x27;s some big blind spot the average sociology degree leaves, that should be fair game.</text></comment> | <story><title>Ex-Finance developers mock McKinsey's monitoring metrics</title><url>https://www.efinancialcareers.com/news/2023/09/mckinsey-how-to-measure-software-developer-productivity</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ryandrake</author><text>&gt; It&#x27;s a sort of clueless MBA thinking that believes software engineers should be furiously typing all the time<p>(Your point is good, but the dig against MBAs is unnecessary and I wish it was less acceptable here on HN. It wouldn&#x27;t be ok to make fun of people with Sociology degrees or History degrees here, but jokes about MBAs get a pass. We really should be better than that, but I realize I&#x27;m swimming against the current on this one.)<p>That aside, I <i>have</i> found a lot of clueless folks in tech leadership have that &quot;furiously typing&quot; misconception, as if developers are only productive when their fingertips are pounding keys. I once worked with a CEO who refused to set aside time in the schedule for things like setting up source control and a bug tracker, because he believed that developers should be furiously typing code in at all times.</text></item><item><author>q7xvh97o2pDhNrh</author><text>I clicked through to the linked McKinsey article [1] to see what all the hubbub was about, and I found this gem:<p>&gt; For example, one company found that its most talented developers were spending excessive time on noncoding activities such as design sessions or managing interdependencies across teams. In response, the company changed its operating model and clarified roles and responsibilities to enable those highest-value developers to do what they do best: code.<p>The rest of the article is equally hare-brained. It&#x27;s a sort of clueless management-consultant thinking that believes software engineers should be furiously typing all the time, and it entirely fails to understand that actual software engineering is about solving business problems.<p>Stuff like this really makes me wish I&#x27;d optimized for $$$ earlier in my career, and I only hope I can retire before this kind of absurd thinking spreads into real technology companies.<p>[1]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.mckinsey.com&#x2F;industries&#x2F;technology-media-and-telecommunications&#x2F;our-insights&#x2F;yes-you-can-measure-software-developer-productivity" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.mckinsey.com&#x2F;industries&#x2F;technology-media-and-tel...</a><p>EDIT: Changed &quot;MBA thinking&quot; to &quot;management-consultant thinking,&quot; in response to fair feedback below.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>turndown</author><text>If sociology or history degrees doled out management positions the way MBAs somehow do I guarantee you they would be met with derision. It’s like making fun of politicians, it happens because they are often inappropriately given power.</text></comment> |
38,436,868 | 38,436,211 | 1 | 3 | 38,409,871 | train | <story><title>Honeybee clustering when it's cold is a distress behavior: study</title><url>https://theconversation.com/honeybees-cluster-together-when-its-cold-but-weve-been-completely-wrong-about-why-218066</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ChumpGPT</author><text>We would use thick Styrofoam insulation (2-3) inches thick and would insulate the entire hive with it. In the winter we would feed them occasionally with warm honey&#x2F;sugar. The Hives were also protected by a row of thick Evergreens as a wind break. Maybe lost one or two hives over a decade. If your not wrapping them and preparing them for winter than you shouldn&#x27;t have bees.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>steve_adams_86</author><text>There seem to be a lot of hobbies or activities like beekeeping where people seriously neglect the animals&#x27; needs yet seem quite oblivious to it. I&#x27;ve noticed in aquaria that people often seem to think fish or shrimp will be fine in absolutely dire conditions such as low oxygen, chemically unstable, cold, hot, or otherwise hostile environments. They&#x27;re genuinely confused when the system collapses. Certainly some species are very resilient, but it&#x27;s no surprise that people lose entire hives or aquariums like this. Caring for nature requires real care, attention, and diligence.<p>As in aquaria, if you want something you can &quot;set and forget&quot;, you need to let nature take over and provide a) a biome resembling a natural habitat and b) place the appropriate species and scape inside it. Then you can get away with no mechanical filtration, no heater, no air, etc. You can safely go on vacation because the system will clean itself, generate food, and so on. But that requires considerable knowledge and care at the outset and the willingness to let things be. In the case of beekeeping, this almost seems like you&#x27;d need to allow a hive to be inside of a log or stump or something where the bees are properly protected and secure. Barring that, you need to be cognizant of their needs and actually take care of them.<p>I&#x27;m not sure why people get the idea that animals should survive in conditions so wildly different from their natural conditions, and why they continue to try to make it work.</text></comment> | <story><title>Honeybee clustering when it's cold is a distress behavior: study</title><url>https://theconversation.com/honeybees-cluster-together-when-its-cold-but-weve-been-completely-wrong-about-why-218066</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ChumpGPT</author><text>We would use thick Styrofoam insulation (2-3) inches thick and would insulate the entire hive with it. In the winter we would feed them occasionally with warm honey&#x2F;sugar. The Hives were also protected by a row of thick Evergreens as a wind break. Maybe lost one or two hives over a decade. If your not wrapping them and preparing them for winter than you shouldn&#x27;t have bees.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mrweasel</author><text>Modern Scandinavian beehives are normally made from Styropor, and about 30 - 40mm thick. The bees will still cluster. I do think you&#x27;re on to something though, because losing only two hives over a decade is pretty impressive, regardless of your number of hives. A common issue is that the bee will cluster and move &quot;the wrong way&quot; in the hive, away from available food, and the get stuck in a corner and starve. It seems like the level of isolation you provide might be enough that the bees are more free to move around.</text></comment> |
12,527,741 | 12,526,726 | 1 | 2 | 12,525,616 | train | <story><title>Washington Post Is First Paper to Call for Prosecution of Its Own Source</title><url>https://theintercept.com/2016/09/18/washpost-makes-history-first-paper-to-call-for-prosecution-of-its-own-source-after-accepting-pulitzer/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>20yrs_no_equity</author><text>I worked at Amazon, I interacted with Jeff Bezos, the Washington Post doing this does not surprise me. It is effectively his political blog, where he gets to push his agenda while being abstracted away from responsibility. (EG: Amazon PR can continue its campaign of BS propaganda without WashPo articles hurting them or Bezos.)</text></item><item><author>lisper</author><text>Indeed, it must be emphasized that Snowden deliberately did <i>not</i> disclose <i>any</i> of the information he had collected publicly. He specifically wanted <i>someone else</i> to make the decision about what (if anything) should be disclosed, and he specifically wanted <i>journalists</i> to make that decision.<p>For the Post to stab Snowden in the back this way is the worst treachery, cowardice, and hypocrisy that I have ever witnessed.</text></item><item><author>eadz</author><text>This is an important article and adds some real context to Washington Post&#x27;s editorial. This quote sums it up.<p><pre><code> But still, if the Post editorial page editors now want to
denounce these revelations, and even call for the
imprisonment of their paper’s own source on this ground,
then they should at least have the courage to acknowledge
that it was The Washington Post — not Edward Snowden — who
made the editorial and institutional choice to expose those
programs to the public.
</code></pre>
The Washington Post&#x27;s editors decided these stories were in the public interest and should be published, not Snowden.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>benregenspan</author><text>Fred Hiatt has run the Washington Post editorial page since 2000 and this editorial is entirely consistent with his past work. He&#x27;s always pushed neoconservative positions and taken the word of sources like the House intelligence committee at face value. Amazon might well have financial interests in US intelligence, but it&#x27;s very easy to imagine this same editorial being written with or without Bezos as the owner of the paper.</text></comment> | <story><title>Washington Post Is First Paper to Call for Prosecution of Its Own Source</title><url>https://theintercept.com/2016/09/18/washpost-makes-history-first-paper-to-call-for-prosecution-of-its-own-source-after-accepting-pulitzer/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>20yrs_no_equity</author><text>I worked at Amazon, I interacted with Jeff Bezos, the Washington Post doing this does not surprise me. It is effectively his political blog, where he gets to push his agenda while being abstracted away from responsibility. (EG: Amazon PR can continue its campaign of BS propaganda without WashPo articles hurting them or Bezos.)</text></item><item><author>lisper</author><text>Indeed, it must be emphasized that Snowden deliberately did <i>not</i> disclose <i>any</i> of the information he had collected publicly. He specifically wanted <i>someone else</i> to make the decision about what (if anything) should be disclosed, and he specifically wanted <i>journalists</i> to make that decision.<p>For the Post to stab Snowden in the back this way is the worst treachery, cowardice, and hypocrisy that I have ever witnessed.</text></item><item><author>eadz</author><text>This is an important article and adds some real context to Washington Post&#x27;s editorial. This quote sums it up.<p><pre><code> But still, if the Post editorial page editors now want to
denounce these revelations, and even call for the
imprisonment of their paper’s own source on this ground,
then they should at least have the courage to acknowledge
that it was The Washington Post — not Edward Snowden — who
made the editorial and institutional choice to expose those
programs to the public.
</code></pre>
The Washington Post&#x27;s editors decided these stories were in the public interest and should be published, not Snowden.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ReadingInBed</author><text>This is a good point. As far as I remember Amazon had&#x2F;has a contract with the CIA for 100s of millions. When the rich own the media there is always a risk that they will hire those that push their agenda. Amazon could greatly profit from government contracts. I wouldn&#x27;t argue one article proves a conspiracy, but it&#x27;s so incredibly hypocritical that you have to wonder why WaPo would publish it. Especially when it means future leakers might not want to go to them for fear they will work with the govt to imprison them.</text></comment> |
19,137,740 | 19,137,135 | 1 | 2 | 19,135,523 | train | <story><title>The Mathematics of the Rubik’s Cube (2009) [pdf]</title><url>https://web.mit.edu/sp.268/www/rubik.pdf</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>perfect_wave</author><text>I&#x27;ve been fascinated by the Rubik&#x27;s cube for years after learning to solve one in 7th grade. I started to get back into it high school and dropped my solve times down below a minute. Then I continued in college and got down to 25 seconds average with a personal best of 15.15.<p>I created a 2x2 Rubik&#x27;s cube in Java as my freshman final project for my second computer science class, but it was quite ugly.<p>Recently, I decided to take another look at implementing the cube - this time using Python. I also wanted a way to generate cubes and check if they were valid. The main representation of the cube is as a permutation group - a 48-tuple where each element in the tuple is unique. The solved cube is represented as (0, 1, ... , 46, 47).<p>Turns of the cube simply permute this tuple. To figure these all out I spent a lot of time with a cube covered in post it notes.<p>All of the stuff I implemented in the checking for valid cube comes from this stackoverflow post: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;math.stackexchange.com&#x2F;questions&#x2F;127577&#x2F;how-to-tell-if-a-rubiks-cube-is-solvable&#x2F;127627" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;math.stackexchange.com&#x2F;questions&#x2F;127577&#x2F;how-to-tell-...</a><p>I&#x27;ve had a lot of fun working with this cube as my personal project. I recently created a Django website and a RESTful API to display randomly generated cubes. Soon I&#x27;ll be working on a data pipeline to process these random cubes and display them nicely.<p>I&#x27;ve looked into working on a solution algorithm to implement Thistlethwaite&#x27;s algorithm - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.jaapsch.net&#x2F;puzzles&#x2F;thistle.htm" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.jaapsch.net&#x2F;puzzles&#x2F;thistle.htm</a>. I think this will take me a while, but it should be doable. I haven&#x27;t really though too much about implementing it, but I think the way to do it is to define what it is for each step to be completed and then BFS a graph of moves to end up in that state. If anyone has looked into this I&#x27;d love some advice!<p>You can find the code I&#x27;ve written on Github: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;elliotmartin&#x2F;RubikLite&#x2F;blob&#x2F;master&#x2F;Rubik.py" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;elliotmartin&#x2F;RubikLite&#x2F;blob&#x2F;master&#x2F;Rubik....</a></text></comment> | <story><title>The Mathematics of the Rubik’s Cube (2009) [pdf]</title><url>https://web.mit.edu/sp.268/www/rubik.pdf</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>tuckermi</author><text>Is there a properly colorized version of this PDF floating around somewhere? In particular, I&#x27;m wondering about this line that lies above a grayscale image:<p><pre><code> For example, in the picture below, the red square is at FUR, yellow at RUF, blue at URF, and green at ULB</code></pre></text></comment> |
28,079,570 | 28,079,636 | 1 | 3 | 28,073,920 | train | <story><title>Officials put the wrong man in a mental facility for two years</title><url>https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2021/08/05/hawaii-mistaken-identity-arrest/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>oblio</author><text>I don&#x27;t think it&#x27;s a shame. It&#x27;s intentional.<p>Considering the fact that the US prison population is heavily skewed in one direction, that the US has the highest per capita prison population, that prison populations are used as forced labor, I&#x27;m quite convinced it&#x27;s intentional. The small number of people that are accidentally targeted unintentionally are just collateral damage nobody really cares about.</text></item><item><author>javiramos</author><text>Heartbreaking. The US criminal justice system is a shame.</text></item><item><author>cududa</author><text>Wait to have your mind blown further. In Missouri if you’re exonerated for a crime via someone else pleading guilty, DNA, etc and have used up all your appeals you still have to serve out your sentence, even if it’s life in prison <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cbsnews.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;why-are-wrongly-convicted-people-still-imprisoned-in-missouri&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cbsnews.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;why-are-wrongly-convicted-peopl...</a></text></item><item><author>opdahl</author><text>The last line in this article is the most insane one of them all.<p>&gt; ... Bento, who did not respond to a request for comment, said officials in that office had instructed him not to hand over any documents related to Castleberry’s 2006 drug case, including all records filed after May 2017 that actually pertained to Spriestersbach.<p>&gt; Spriestersbach was not entitled to the documents, officials said.<p>&gt; <i>The reason: He was not the defendant in that case. He was not Thomas Castleberry.</i><p>They are saying he is not allowed to get the documents for the case <i>which he was the main suspect and subsequently hospitalized for</i> since the documents for the case is for the other person. Even though it happened to him and not the other person. I&#x27;m dumbfounded.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>philwelch</author><text>This conspiracy theory doesn&#x27;t really check out. Private prisons exist, but only account for 8% of the US prison population. There&#x27;s probably a larger vested interest from corrections officer unions than from private prison contractors.<p>Regardless, there isn&#x27;t even a need to find some shadowy special interest to explain the high incarceration rates in the US, when the laws that led to those high incarceration rates were passed very publicly for very straightforward reasons: to curb the late-20th-century crime wave of the 1970&#x27;s-1990&#x27;s. This was a major, high-profile political issue, and the majority of voters at the time favored &quot;tough-on-crime&quot; measures that led to mandatory sentences, longer sentences, three-strikes laws, and fewer judicial prerogatives. That&#x27;s why they elected the people who promised to pass those laws before getting elected and kept those promises after being elected. And just like every other well-intended law that&#x27;s ever been passed, there were unintended consequences that we can and should fix.</text></comment> | <story><title>Officials put the wrong man in a mental facility for two years</title><url>https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2021/08/05/hawaii-mistaken-identity-arrest/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>oblio</author><text>I don&#x27;t think it&#x27;s a shame. It&#x27;s intentional.<p>Considering the fact that the US prison population is heavily skewed in one direction, that the US has the highest per capita prison population, that prison populations are used as forced labor, I&#x27;m quite convinced it&#x27;s intentional. The small number of people that are accidentally targeted unintentionally are just collateral damage nobody really cares about.</text></item><item><author>javiramos</author><text>Heartbreaking. The US criminal justice system is a shame.</text></item><item><author>cududa</author><text>Wait to have your mind blown further. In Missouri if you’re exonerated for a crime via someone else pleading guilty, DNA, etc and have used up all your appeals you still have to serve out your sentence, even if it’s life in prison <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cbsnews.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;why-are-wrongly-convicted-people-still-imprisoned-in-missouri&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cbsnews.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;why-are-wrongly-convicted-peopl...</a></text></item><item><author>opdahl</author><text>The last line in this article is the most insane one of them all.<p>&gt; ... Bento, who did not respond to a request for comment, said officials in that office had instructed him not to hand over any documents related to Castleberry’s 2006 drug case, including all records filed after May 2017 that actually pertained to Spriestersbach.<p>&gt; Spriestersbach was not entitled to the documents, officials said.<p>&gt; <i>The reason: He was not the defendant in that case. He was not Thomas Castleberry.</i><p>They are saying he is not allowed to get the documents for the case <i>which he was the main suspect and subsequently hospitalized for</i> since the documents for the case is for the other person. Even though it happened to him and not the other person. I&#x27;m dumbfounded.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>cronix</author><text>&gt; that prison populations are used as forced labor<p>I was recently reminded of this due to a strange story having to do with covid and a shortage of license plates in Washington state, due to &quot;social distancing&quot; in the DOC. So that state contracted with another state whose prisoners were still incarcerated and still hard at work making license plates.<p>&gt; The DOC has experienced issues since last summer, when compliance with social-distancing requirements slowed production, according to spokesperson Rachel Ericson. To address the issue, the agency has increased staffing and started outsourcing some production on July 31.<p>&gt; License plates first began to be manufactured by individuals incarcerated at the Washington State Penitentiary in Walla Walla in 1923. It’s now one of 43 prison factories around the country that produce plates for 40 states and the federal government.<p>Original: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.seattletimes.com&#x2F;seattle-news&#x2F;washington-state-grappling-with-license-plate-shortage-as-pandemic-slows-production&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.seattletimes.com&#x2F;seattle-news&#x2F;washington-state-g...</a><p>Outline (no paywall): <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;outline.com&#x2F;YnDVG6" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;outline.com&#x2F;YnDVG6</a></text></comment> |
13,836,759 | 13,836,845 | 1 | 2 | 13,836,167 | train | <story><title>Deep Learning enables hearing aid wearers to pick out a voice in a crowded room</title><url>http://spectrum.ieee.org/consumer-electronics/audiovideo/deep-learning-reinvents-the-hearing-aid</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>tobtoh</author><text>&gt; The greatest frustration among potential users is that a hearing aid cannot distinguish between, for example, a voice and the sound of a passing car if those sounds occur at the same time. The device cranks up the volume on both, creating an incoherent din.<p>It may be a simplification of the article that I&#x27;m misinterpreting, but as someone who got a hearing aid in early 2016, that&#x27;s not how (modern) hearing aids work.<p>I got my hearing tested which enabled a frequency response of my hearing loss to be plotted (my hearing at low frequencies is fine, at higher freq I have moderate loss). My hearing aid is then tuned to match the inverse of that freq plot (ie boost volume of high frequencies, leave low freq alone).<p>You don&#x27;t actually want a HA that arbitrarily boosts &#x27;speech&#x27; since that won&#x27;t be matched to your needs and has unintended side effects (like music can sound overly harsh&#x2F;bright) because un-needed frequencies are being boosted or supressed).<p>--
On a tangent, after I got my new HAs, I complained to the audiologist that they didn&#x27;t sound very good. Everything sounded far too crisp. She pointed out that having lived with hearing loss for 5-6 years, I actually had almost no idea what something should sound like since my brain had got used to a world with muted high frequency sounds.<p>That blows my mind ... a bit like how do you know the color green is green. Maybe it&#x27;s purple, but you have been told by someone else that it&#x27;s green.<p>After a few weeks, my brain re-learnt what sound should sound like and now it sounds &#x27;normal&#x27; with HA in. Without HA, everything is a little more muffled (as you would expect) and I really notice how much I used to struggle understanding people (I believe my untreated hearing loss contributed to me losing my job a couple of years ago).<p>Hearing aids have changed my quality of life (at age 40).</text></comment> | <story><title>Deep Learning enables hearing aid wearers to pick out a voice in a crowded room</title><url>http://spectrum.ieee.org/consumer-electronics/audiovideo/deep-learning-reinvents-the-hearing-aid</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>chas</author><text>This approach surprised me. Why are they doing feature extraction and then feeding that into a DNN? It seems much more straightforward to have the input of the network be noisy samples and the output be clean samples a la super resolution[0] in images. They probably wouldn&#x27;t want to use fully-connected layers in that instance, but I don&#x27;t see any fundamental barriers if they have enough computational power to run a neural network already. Am I missing something?<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;arxiv.org&#x2F;pdf&#x2F;1603.08155.pdf" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;arxiv.org&#x2F;pdf&#x2F;1603.08155.pdf</a></text></comment> |
24,419,053 | 24,414,884 | 1 | 2 | 24,412,810 | train | <story><title>Apple countersues Epic, seeks punitive damages</title><url>https://www.wsj.com/articles/apple-countersues-fortnite-maker-epic-games-seeking-to-halt-in-app-payments-11599592017</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bww</author><text>This is a very bad look on Apple. Regardless of the enforceability of their agreements, the sense of entitlement that underlies Apple’s position is shocking.<p>The claim that Epic has “lined [its] pockets at Apple’s expense” implies that Apple deserves to sit in the middle of every transaction that happens on their devices and take a margin. This is the world’s most valuable company we’re talking about here; assertions like this demonstrate an unbelievable lack of self-awareness.<p>Let’s also not forget that Apple already extracts huge amounts of money from developers even if they don’t make a cent on transaction margins.<p>It’s not possible to develop for iOS without a Mac, and therefore even the smallest developer making free apps has paid Apple for at least: one computer, one of each device class they develop for, and the cost of their developer account subscription. Large companies like Epic buy thousands of computers and test devices from Apple. The idea that anything is happening “at Apple’s expense” is preposterous.<p>Maybe next Toyota will decide that they deserve a percentage of Uber’s revenue because Toyota&#x27;s cars help facilitate Uber’s business?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>heisenbit</author><text>Yes, and they should be more careful for their IPR stance not to become a mess. They demand a cut of the final price of the app product while they were fighting Qualcomm which also wanted a cut of the final value of the phone product. The demands for a percentage can be stretched only so far until they become totally disconnected from the reality and run the danger to be reigned in by a judge.</text></comment> | <story><title>Apple countersues Epic, seeks punitive damages</title><url>https://www.wsj.com/articles/apple-countersues-fortnite-maker-epic-games-seeking-to-halt-in-app-payments-11599592017</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bww</author><text>This is a very bad look on Apple. Regardless of the enforceability of their agreements, the sense of entitlement that underlies Apple’s position is shocking.<p>The claim that Epic has “lined [its] pockets at Apple’s expense” implies that Apple deserves to sit in the middle of every transaction that happens on their devices and take a margin. This is the world’s most valuable company we’re talking about here; assertions like this demonstrate an unbelievable lack of self-awareness.<p>Let’s also not forget that Apple already extracts huge amounts of money from developers even if they don’t make a cent on transaction margins.<p>It’s not possible to develop for iOS without a Mac, and therefore even the smallest developer making free apps has paid Apple for at least: one computer, one of each device class they develop for, and the cost of their developer account subscription. Large companies like Epic buy thousands of computers and test devices from Apple. The idea that anything is happening “at Apple’s expense” is preposterous.<p>Maybe next Toyota will decide that they deserve a percentage of Uber’s revenue because Toyota&#x27;s cars help facilitate Uber’s business?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ecf</author><text>&gt; Maybe next Toyota will decide that they deserve a percentage of Uber’s revenue because Toyota&#x27;s cars help facilitate Uber’s business?<p>There are many car manufacturers that Uber could choose from in just the same way that there are many platforms that developers can develop for.<p>Stop trying to spread the idea that the ability to make apps for the iPhone is an inalienable right.</text></comment> |
31,389,486 | 31,389,587 | 1 | 2 | 31,388,223 | train | <story><title>See's Candies is Warren Buffett’s ‘dream’ investment</title><url>https://thehustle.co/how-a-small-candy-company-became-warren-buffetts-dream-investment/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Animats</author><text><i>Competition generally eliminates these kinds of margins.</i><p>That&#x27;s last-century thinking, from when manufacturing cost dominated. Today, it&#x27;s all about building a monopoly and crushing any new entrants. Comcast. Apple. Google. Facebook. CVS. The US is down to four big banks.</text></item><item><author>Barrin92</author><text>is there branding to this? Because if Vitamin C is 10 bucks in bulk and 100 bucks in drug stores I&#x27;m about to open a 50 bucks vitamin C store in the US. Competition generally eliminates these kinds of margins. Quick check here on the German Amazon you can get Vitamin C ranging from 13€&#x2F;kilogram to 117€&#x2F;kilogram, they show that ratio explicitly.<p>If people want to pay 10x for the fancy bottle and name they can but I don&#x27;t think they lack the alternatives.</text></item><item><author>Animats</author><text>It&#x27;s the slow and steady increase in prices that made it so profitable. About 5x over inflation during Buffett ownership.<p>This has happened to far too many items over the last few decades. Most of the things drugstores sell are cheap to make, but have steadily increased in price in the US over the last few decades. Vitamins used to be priced according to manufacturing cost. Slowly, the low-cost vitamins have been up-priced to match the expensive ones. Vitamin C is about $10&#x2F;Kg in bulk, but about $100&#x2F;Kg at a US drugstore.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Barrin92</author><text>That&#x27;s not last century thinking. You can&#x27;t create any monopoly for generic drugs, by definition. You&#x27;re not even forced to buy an an expensive Apple or Google phone. You can buy a 200-300 dollar phone with more than decent specs. They reason why people are running around with 1k phones is because it&#x27;s a status symbol.<p>It&#x27;s exactly this century where you can buy anything at manufacturing cost from India or China if you want to, there&#x27;s an entire political class upset about it.<p>I mean I&#x27;ll give you Comcast, ISPs in the US in particular seem bad, but otherwise? Digital and electronic goods in particular have been driven down to the marginal cost of production, that&#x27;s why 90% of the former are free.</text></comment> | <story><title>See's Candies is Warren Buffett’s ‘dream’ investment</title><url>https://thehustle.co/how-a-small-candy-company-became-warren-buffetts-dream-investment/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Animats</author><text><i>Competition generally eliminates these kinds of margins.</i><p>That&#x27;s last-century thinking, from when manufacturing cost dominated. Today, it&#x27;s all about building a monopoly and crushing any new entrants. Comcast. Apple. Google. Facebook. CVS. The US is down to four big banks.</text></item><item><author>Barrin92</author><text>is there branding to this? Because if Vitamin C is 10 bucks in bulk and 100 bucks in drug stores I&#x27;m about to open a 50 bucks vitamin C store in the US. Competition generally eliminates these kinds of margins. Quick check here on the German Amazon you can get Vitamin C ranging from 13€&#x2F;kilogram to 117€&#x2F;kilogram, they show that ratio explicitly.<p>If people want to pay 10x for the fancy bottle and name they can but I don&#x27;t think they lack the alternatives.</text></item><item><author>Animats</author><text>It&#x27;s the slow and steady increase in prices that made it so profitable. About 5x over inflation during Buffett ownership.<p>This has happened to far too many items over the last few decades. Most of the things drugstores sell are cheap to make, but have steadily increased in price in the US over the last few decades. Vitamins used to be priced according to manufacturing cost. Slowly, the low-cost vitamins have been up-priced to match the expensive ones. Vitamin C is about $10&#x2F;Kg in bulk, but about $100&#x2F;Kg at a US drugstore.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>daniel-cussen</author><text>Yeah I just mentioned Comcast and a hospital, along with Wells Fargo.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=31384732" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=31384732</a><p>&quot;Don&#x27;t say the money is like magnetically charged. It&#x27;s not the money is attracted to the north. It&#x27;s the people, an asshole whose idea of invention is coming up with excuses, couldn&#x27;t come up with shit if he cleaned up after his dog for once. Wants what is rightfully for innovators (creation of wealth that can scale, through thought that can be imprinted many times) and tries to corner a market. It always has a name, it&#x27;s not an organic thing, there is always a guilty party. Not ISP&#x27;s, Comcast. Not local banking, Wells Fargo. Not healthcare, Christus.
Say it, corner the market. They&#x27;re trying to corner the market. The markets have been cornered.&quot;</text></comment> |
27,050,542 | 27,047,754 | 1 | 3 | 27,047,148 | train | <story><title>Doctors investigate mystery brain disease in Canada</title><url>https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-56910393</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>admash</author><text>Compounding USDA&#x27;s lax practices has been its refusal to allow beef processors to independently test cattle for mad cow disease. In 2004, Creekstone Farms, a Kansas processor of black Angus beef with a large Japanese clientele, asked for permission to test its 300,000 cattle for BSE using a $500,000 testing site it had built to USDA specifications.<p>But the agency ruled that the BSE test was licensed only for &quot;surveillance&quot; of animal health, and rejected Creekstone&#x27;s request because it implied &quot;a consumer safety aspect&quot; that was &quot;not scientifically warranted.&quot;<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.eurekalert.org&#x2F;pub_releases&#x2F;2006-05&#x2F;uoia-ftf051506.php" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.eurekalert.org&#x2F;pub_releases&#x2F;2006-05&#x2F;uoia-ftf0515...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Doctors investigate mystery brain disease in Canada</title><url>https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-56910393</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>sirsinsalot</author><text>Prion diseases terrify me. Especially having been in the UK eating beef at the time of the BSE outbreaks in the 1990s.<p>I wonder if there have been studies on the scale of potential latent vCJD&#x2F;Prion disease in the population?</text></comment> |
5,093,311 | 5,093,210 | 1 | 2 | 5,092,589 | train | <story><title>Programmer Interrupted</title><url>http://blog.ninlabs.com/2013/01/programmer-interrupted/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>DrJokepu</author><text>Curiously enough, in my experience, the vast majority of interruption I receive is not from "external sources" but rather from other developers, typically junior members of the team seeking advice or guidance. I wonder how you would address that?</text></item><item><author>hkmurakami</author><text>I'm a PM, and I consider it my most important responsibility to prevent interruptions from reaching developers. By redirecting inwards-bound interruptions to myself, I've probably reduced developer interruptions by 80% since I started.<p>What I've found is that the typical developer/engineer is really bad at saying "no" or "not now" to others. The solution then is to work the other side (sales, marketing, etc) to interrupt someone else (me) instead. Even if it's a relatively simple technical question from sales, I can convert the in-person active interruption to a passive email notice (at the very least).<p>The typical office environment (and system) is not productive, so at this point it's up to the individuals to reduce the impact of the system on the team's productivity. (which is a sad reality...)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>gpcz</author><text>Part of that depends on the type of advice or guidance. Some of it might be a symptom of the project's bus factor being too low (inadequate documentation, ambiguities or holes in processes, etc), which your organization can fix by paying down some of that technical/process debt. Other forms of advice (career-related, higher-level tech stuff, etc) would seem more like a mentor role. For that stuff, you may want to schedule "mentor time" in a slot advantageous for yourself, such as the last hour of the day.</text></comment> | <story><title>Programmer Interrupted</title><url>http://blog.ninlabs.com/2013/01/programmer-interrupted/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>DrJokepu</author><text>Curiously enough, in my experience, the vast majority of interruption I receive is not from "external sources" but rather from other developers, typically junior members of the team seeking advice or guidance. I wonder how you would address that?</text></item><item><author>hkmurakami</author><text>I'm a PM, and I consider it my most important responsibility to prevent interruptions from reaching developers. By redirecting inwards-bound interruptions to myself, I've probably reduced developer interruptions by 80% since I started.<p>What I've found is that the typical developer/engineer is really bad at saying "no" or "not now" to others. The solution then is to work the other side (sales, marketing, etc) to interrupt someone else (me) instead. Even if it's a relatively simple technical question from sales, I can convert the in-person active interruption to a passive email notice (at the very least).<p>The typical office environment (and system) is not productive, so at this point it's up to the individuals to reduce the impact of the system on the team's productivity. (which is a sad reality...)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>epochwolf</author><text>I sit right next to a tester and he is a constant source of distraction.</text></comment> |
14,859,302 | 14,859,369 | 1 | 2 | 14,858,644 | train | <story><title>Google and a nuclear fusion company have developed a new algorithm</title><url>https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/jul/25/google-enters-race-for-nuclear-fusion-technology</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>abefetterman</author><text>This is actually a really exciting development to me. (Note, what is exciting is the &quot;optometrist algorithm&quot; from the paper [1] not necessarily googles involvement as pitched in the guardian). Typically a day of shots would need to be programmed out in advance, typically scanning over one dimension (out of hundreds) at a time. It would then take at least a week to analyze the results and create an updated research plan. The result is poor utilization of each experiment in optimizing performance. The 50% reduction in losses is a big deal for Tri Alpha.<p>I can see this being coupled with simulations as well to understand sources of systematic errors, create better simulations which can then be used as a stronger source of truth for &quot;offline&quot; (computation-only) experiments.<p>The biggest challenge of course becomes interpreting the results. So you got better performance, what parameters really made a difference and why? But that is at least a more tractable problem than &quot;how do we make this better in the first place?&quot;<p>[1] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nature.com&#x2F;articles&#x2F;s41598-017-06645-7" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nature.com&#x2F;articles&#x2F;s41598-017-06645-7</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Google and a nuclear fusion company have developed a new algorithm</title><url>https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/jul/25/google-enters-race-for-nuclear-fusion-technology</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>briankelly</author><text>From the actual journal article:<p>&gt; Two additional complications arise because plasma fusion apparatuses are experimental and one-of-a-kind. First, the goodness metric for plasma is not fully established and objective: some amount of human judgement is required to assess an experiment. Second, the boundaries of safe operation are not fully understood: it would be easy for a fully-automated optimisation algorithm to propose settings that would damage the apparatus and set back progress by weeks or months.<p>&gt; To increase the speed of learning and optimisation of plasma, we developed the Optometrist Algorithm. Just as in a visit to an optometrist, the algorithm offers a pair of choices to a human, and asks which one is preferable. Given the choice, the algorithm proceeds to offer another choice. While an optometrist asks a patient to choose between lens prescriptions based on clarity, our algorithm asks a human expert to choose between plasma settings based on experimental outcomes. The Optometrist Algorithm attempts to optimise a hidden utility model that the human experts may not be able to express explicitly.<p>I haven&#x27;t read the full article nor do I understand the problem space, but the novelty seems overstated based on this. Maybe they can eventually collect metadata to automate the human intuition.<p>Edit: here&#x27;s their formal description of it: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nature.com&#x2F;articles&#x2F;s41598-017-06645-7&#x2F;figures&#x2F;2" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nature.com&#x2F;articles&#x2F;s41598-017-06645-7&#x2F;figures&#x2F;2</a></text></comment> |
13,695,767 | 13,695,706 | 1 | 2 | 13,694,724 | train | <story><title>Lead Bullets (2011)</title><url>http://a16z.com/2011/11/13/lead-bullets/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>FeatureRush</author><text>The other time this story was discussed here (probably in 2011, linked to techcrunch) someone pointed out very insightful comment from person claiming to be employed at a time at the Netscape in Marketing (or Sales?). According to this employee the real reason why the web server was selling was not the regained technical supremacy, but mere fact that it was boundled with mail and directory servers that customers were actually interested in. I have no way of checking whether it&#x27;s true, and there are no comments on this story today on both a16z site and techcrunch, but the idea that even someone who made the company succeed and have learned valuable lessons from it may have not seen the whole picture left a deep impression on me.</text></comment> | <story><title>Lead Bullets (2011)</title><url>http://a16z.com/2011/11/13/lead-bullets/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>philippz</author><text>Nice excerpt from his book &quot;Hard things about hard things&quot; - can absolutely recommend it.</text></comment> |
14,832,505 | 14,832,533 | 1 | 2 | 14,831,224 | train | <story><title>Sugar-sweetened drinks with protein rich meal affect metabolism</title><url>https://blogs.biomedcentral.com/bmcseriesblog/2017/07/21/sugar-sweetened-drinks-and-your-metabolism/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>meesterdude</author><text>i feel like a train isn&#x27;t going to get anywhere on a tablespoon. That&#x27;s enough for a few engine strokes perhaps, but that&#x27;s hardly 30 times better than a mile by a human, no?</text></item><item><author>cma</author><text>Trains do about 30 times better on a tablespoon of diesel, and that&#x27;s only including the weight of the freight and not the train itself.</text></item><item><author>rebuilder</author><text>Moving the mass of a human body over a mile on one tablespoon of fuel is highly efficient!<p>Edit: tablespoon, not tea-</text></item><item><author>bitexploder</author><text>Assuming you meant inefficient. It is exceedingly difficult for people to make lifestyle change. Some shockingly small percentage of people lose 40 lbs and keep it off.<p>I have an anecdotal idea that, basically, folks who are fit enough to exercise off 1000-1500 calories every week and do so are the ones that never have to lose the weight in many cases. Finally, although inefficient in the thermodynamic sense, I think part of why this is true is because most people gain weight over a course of years. That extra soda or beer every day. When you have a simple balancing lever like an extra mile or two of vigorous walking or something else it can all balance. When you are sedentary in the same situation, you slowly get diabetes.<p>Also peanut butter is dense, but a good way to illustrate the problem to someone a good way is to also ask someone if they are willing to walk for 30 minutes for one soda.</text></item><item><author>astrange</author><text>Exercise is a bad way to increase calories out, because it&#x27;s just too efficient. The conversion is something like 1 mile run = 1 tbsp peanut butter.</text></item><item><author>beagle3</author><text>Note that (at least the summary indicates) this experiment refutes &quot;calories in calories out&quot; theory - food composition affects thermogenesis. (I am not talking about the tautological and useless thermodynamic sense in which it definitely is true; I am talking about the &quot;measure your intake and exercise&quot; crowd)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>awodol</author><text>I&#x27;m not sure on the numbers but I know a human couldn&#x27;t get freight moving even with a whole jar of peanut butter.</text></comment> | <story><title>Sugar-sweetened drinks with protein rich meal affect metabolism</title><url>https://blogs.biomedcentral.com/bmcseriesblog/2017/07/21/sugar-sweetened-drinks-and-your-metabolism/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>meesterdude</author><text>i feel like a train isn&#x27;t going to get anywhere on a tablespoon. That&#x27;s enough for a few engine strokes perhaps, but that&#x27;s hardly 30 times better than a mile by a human, no?</text></item><item><author>cma</author><text>Trains do about 30 times better on a tablespoon of diesel, and that&#x27;s only including the weight of the freight and not the train itself.</text></item><item><author>rebuilder</author><text>Moving the mass of a human body over a mile on one tablespoon of fuel is highly efficient!<p>Edit: tablespoon, not tea-</text></item><item><author>bitexploder</author><text>Assuming you meant inefficient. It is exceedingly difficult for people to make lifestyle change. Some shockingly small percentage of people lose 40 lbs and keep it off.<p>I have an anecdotal idea that, basically, folks who are fit enough to exercise off 1000-1500 calories every week and do so are the ones that never have to lose the weight in many cases. Finally, although inefficient in the thermodynamic sense, I think part of why this is true is because most people gain weight over a course of years. That extra soda or beer every day. When you have a simple balancing lever like an extra mile or two of vigorous walking or something else it can all balance. When you are sedentary in the same situation, you slowly get diabetes.<p>Also peanut butter is dense, but a good way to illustrate the problem to someone a good way is to also ask someone if they are willing to walk for 30 minutes for one soda.</text></item><item><author>astrange</author><text>Exercise is a bad way to increase calories out, because it&#x27;s just too efficient. The conversion is something like 1 mile run = 1 tbsp peanut butter.</text></item><item><author>beagle3</author><text>Note that (at least the summary indicates) this experiment refutes &quot;calories in calories out&quot; theory - food composition affects thermogenesis. (I am not talking about the tautological and useless thermodynamic sense in which it definitely is true; I am talking about the &quot;measure your intake and exercise&quot; crowd)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>to3m</author><text>My car will probably go (at its best) about 300m on a tablespoon of fuel. About a fifth of a mile. But it weighs about 20 times as much as I do, so I think that&#x27;s pretty good going.<p>With a rolling start and flat ground it will pass this test at 30mph, and probably higher too. That&#x27;s quite a lot faster than I can run, too...</text></comment> |
19,519,932 | 19,519,798 | 1 | 3 | 19,519,165 | train | <story><title>ROSshow: ASCII art visualizations for robot sensor data</title><url>https://www.github.com/dheera/rosshow</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>droelf</author><text>Awesome! For the images you can go one step further with this fun Unicode hack to make the terminal characters almost square: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.uninformativ.de&#x2F;blog&#x2F;postings&#x2F;2016-12-17&#x2F;0&#x2F;POSTING-en.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.uninformativ.de&#x2F;blog&#x2F;postings&#x2F;2016-12-17&#x2F;0&#x2F;POSTI...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>ROSshow: ASCII art visualizations for robot sensor data</title><url>https://www.github.com/dheera/rosshow</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>pancho111203</author><text>This is great!! I would really like to see this implemented as a generic library for visualizing data, not limited to ROS. Something like matplotlib on python but with all the output in ASCII.</text></comment> |
33,164,077 | 33,164,106 | 1 | 2 | 33,162,235 | train | <story><title>Joe Rogan Interviews Steve Jobs</title><url>https://podcast.ai/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>eruleman</author><text>&quot;My hope is someday, when the next Aristotle is alive, we can capture the underlying worldview of that Aristotle - in a computer. And someday, some student will be able not only to read the words Aristotle wrote, but ask Aristotle a question - and get an answer!&quot;- Steve Jobs, 1985</text></item><item><author>mduggles</author><text>This sounds like if you spliced together tape of Rogan and Jobs with scotch tape. An interesting concept but I never felt like I was listening to a conversation between two people. Jobs sounds weirdly far away, he also was never a &quot;fast talker&quot;. Listen to his interview at MIT where he takes questions. He always stopped for long pauses, stares off into space for a minute. He didn&#x27;t rush into responses and tended to nail timing really well.<p>Rogan sounds more believable but I suspect you&#x27;d get the same results sitting down at Audacity and cutting together an MP3. You just have better quality samples of him talking to people in a podcast setting.<p>It&#x27;s an interesting demo but I&#x27;m not sure why I would want this to exist. It seems like technology which you could only abuse, either through the generation of podcast spam or through the production of fake audio. Podcasts are legion and are already cheap to make and based on open standards.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>wwweston</author><text>&quot;What bothers me is, nothing does.&quot; - Dixie Flatline in William Gibson&#x27;s _Neuromancer_, 1984<p>Wonder if Jobs had read that by 1985.</text></comment> | <story><title>Joe Rogan Interviews Steve Jobs</title><url>https://podcast.ai/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>eruleman</author><text>&quot;My hope is someday, when the next Aristotle is alive, we can capture the underlying worldview of that Aristotle - in a computer. And someday, some student will be able not only to read the words Aristotle wrote, but ask Aristotle a question - and get an answer!&quot;- Steve Jobs, 1985</text></item><item><author>mduggles</author><text>This sounds like if you spliced together tape of Rogan and Jobs with scotch tape. An interesting concept but I never felt like I was listening to a conversation between two people. Jobs sounds weirdly far away, he also was never a &quot;fast talker&quot;. Listen to his interview at MIT where he takes questions. He always stopped for long pauses, stares off into space for a minute. He didn&#x27;t rush into responses and tended to nail timing really well.<p>Rogan sounds more believable but I suspect you&#x27;d get the same results sitting down at Audacity and cutting together an MP3. You just have better quality samples of him talking to people in a podcast setting.<p>It&#x27;s an interesting demo but I&#x27;m not sure why I would want this to exist. It seems like technology which you could only abuse, either through the generation of podcast spam or through the production of fake audio. Podcasts are legion and are already cheap to make and based on open standards.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dr_dshiv</author><text>Really? We just made a version of GPT3 finetuned on the complete works of Plato. It produced some solid new dialogues. About, for instance, the relationship between beauty and the good.</text></comment> |
24,906,053 | 24,906,168 | 1 | 2 | 24,905,920 | train | <story><title>Twitter preconnects to the wrong domains</title><url>https://www.ctrl.blog/entry/twitter-preconnects.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>megous</author><text>So to reveal someone&#x27;s IP address do I just send a DM with URL to my server and log connections? Is it that easy? No clicking needed?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>AstralStorm</author><text>It also bypasses browser preloading settings and messes with people who have limited bandwidth or transfer quota. It should be optional.</text></comment> | <story><title>Twitter preconnects to the wrong domains</title><url>https://www.ctrl.blog/entry/twitter-preconnects.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>megous</author><text>So to reveal someone&#x27;s IP address do I just send a DM with URL to my server and log connections? Is it that easy? No clicking needed?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dtech</author><text>You&#x27;d need to use a unique domain for it though.<p>That might be why they don&#x27;t add the subdomain, because adding a unique subdomain to track a user. is free and a domain isn&#x27;t.</text></comment> |
25,867,163 | 25,867,075 | 1 | 2 | 25,865,094 | train | <story><title>AWS announces forks of Elasticsearch and Kibana</title><url>https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/opensource/stepping-up-for-a-truly-open-source-elasticsearch</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>cwyers</author><text>&gt; they could have chosen AGPL if they wanted someone hosting a service to publish their changes, for example.<p>So... you admit that the people who created the GPL decided their license wasn&#x27;t sufficient to cover a certain usecase and revised it to cover it. But you think it&#x27;s unfair to call this a &quot;gap&quot; that ES is now trying to close?<p>EDIT: I do think it&#x27;s fair to point out ways in which the new license for ES is worse than the AGPL, but I do think it&#x27;s important to point out that it&#x27;s possible to believe in open source licenses and to think that the way AWS uses software violates the spirit of open source. The people who work on GNU seem to think that!</text></item><item><author>ryukafalz</author><text>&gt;What AWS and others basically did is create identical services, keep all the profits, and exploit gaps in Open Source licensing to this end.<p>Gaps in open source licensing? The license Elastic chose explicitly allows anyone to take the code, run it as they wish, and not contribute anything back. There are other FOSS licenses that are slightly more strict about this; they could have chosen AGPL if they wanted someone hosting a service to publish their changes, for example. And then they could have used a proprietary license from the start if they didn&#x27;t want others competing with them at all using their code.<p>Launching a competing offering using FOSS that someone else wrote is nothing new at all though. Red Hat built their business around subscriptions for and support of free software, much of which they wrote, but they hardly had exclusivity over the distribution (see CentOS and all the providers offering it) or the software they wrote. (It&#x27;s all free software after all!)</text></item><item><author>kodah</author><text>I don&#x27;t really get how people get this twisted.<p>ES and other companies have a business that sells a managed version of their product. This is how they sustain developers to continue working on Elastic Search. This model has worked for companies long before cloud providers were a thing. What AWS and others basically did is create identical services, keep all the profits, and exploit gaps in Open Source licensing to this end. From the ES perspective, their FOSS contributions were done in good faith which basically boil down to, &quot;If you can run our product on your own, you get it for free&quot;.<p>AWS knows that if they take too much of ES&#x27; market that they won&#x27;t survive. If they don&#x27;t survive it will just be a matter of time before ES is dropped by Amazon and totally unsupported.<p>You can frame this question in terms of ethics, you can frame it in terms of licensing naivety, you can frame it in whatever way you want but Amazon is doing what it always has done: exploiting smaller businesses in its goal to become a conglomerate.<p>Edit: a lot of people talking about the license forget that there&#x27;s an entire spirit to open source. The permissiveness of open source was one thought to be &quot;we can all succeed together&quot; and what people get upset about is the fact that this obviously violates that spirit. The businesses set up to back companies like Elastic Search were setup to sustain the project while continuing to empower it&#x27;s creators to take their vision further. If Amazon takes the pie, that doesn&#x27;t happen. At best, the creators are now Amazon employees and have to follow <i>their</i> desires. Just because you can exploit a license, doesn&#x27;t mean you should.</text></item><item><author>markphip</author><text>I do not get why people are coming down on AWS here. Elastic made the software available under the Apache License. That gives AWS the right to offer this service. Maybe they did not have right to trademarks, there are courts to settle that.<p>AWS contributes improvements to the project. This is just about Elastic and their business model. They could have not made it open source and it probably just would not have been widely used and successful. It is up to Elastic to come up with a business model that works, not blame others if it is not.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ryukafalz</author><text>&gt;So... you admit that the people who created the GPL decided their license wasn&#x27;t sufficient to cover a certain usecase and revised it to cover it. But you think it&#x27;s unfair to call this a &quot;gap&quot; that ES is now trying to close?<p>The gap in that case was that the GPL was not sufficient to ensure that software remain free software when companies started using SaaS for software that previously would have been run locally. SaaS was in effect a workaround for the GPL&#x27;s distribution requirement (enabling companies to avoid giving the software&#x27;s users the freedoms associated with free software), so the AGPL was created for software that was meant to run on a server.<p>This is different: the point of contention here is not that Elastic&#x27;s software was being made proprietary (they could have easily used the AGPL if that was their concern, the AGPLv3 predates the first Elasticsearch release by three years) but that Amazon is using their software to compete with them. That&#x27;s something that&#x27;s pretty fundamental to both free software:<p>&gt;The freedom to run the program as you wish, for any purpose (freedom 0).<p>...and open source:<p>&gt;The license must not restrict anyone from making use of the program in a specific field of endeavor. For example, it may not restrict the program from being used in a business, or from being used for genetic research.<p>Freedom 0 is a feature, not a bug! It may be a &quot;gap&quot; in Elastic&#x27;s business model, but it&#x27;s certainly not a gap in FOSS licenses - the freedom to use the software as you wish is a pretty core value of free software.<p>Now that said, I do think that taking FOSS and making it proprietary certainly does violate the spirit of free software. Amazon doesn&#x27;t seem to have done that here, though - their fork is under the Apache 2 license.</text></comment> | <story><title>AWS announces forks of Elasticsearch and Kibana</title><url>https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/opensource/stepping-up-for-a-truly-open-source-elasticsearch</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>cwyers</author><text>&gt; they could have chosen AGPL if they wanted someone hosting a service to publish their changes, for example.<p>So... you admit that the people who created the GPL decided their license wasn&#x27;t sufficient to cover a certain usecase and revised it to cover it. But you think it&#x27;s unfair to call this a &quot;gap&quot; that ES is now trying to close?<p>EDIT: I do think it&#x27;s fair to point out ways in which the new license for ES is worse than the AGPL, but I do think it&#x27;s important to point out that it&#x27;s possible to believe in open source licenses and to think that the way AWS uses software violates the spirit of open source. The people who work on GNU seem to think that!</text></item><item><author>ryukafalz</author><text>&gt;What AWS and others basically did is create identical services, keep all the profits, and exploit gaps in Open Source licensing to this end.<p>Gaps in open source licensing? The license Elastic chose explicitly allows anyone to take the code, run it as they wish, and not contribute anything back. There are other FOSS licenses that are slightly more strict about this; they could have chosen AGPL if they wanted someone hosting a service to publish their changes, for example. And then they could have used a proprietary license from the start if they didn&#x27;t want others competing with them at all using their code.<p>Launching a competing offering using FOSS that someone else wrote is nothing new at all though. Red Hat built their business around subscriptions for and support of free software, much of which they wrote, but they hardly had exclusivity over the distribution (see CentOS and all the providers offering it) or the software they wrote. (It&#x27;s all free software after all!)</text></item><item><author>kodah</author><text>I don&#x27;t really get how people get this twisted.<p>ES and other companies have a business that sells a managed version of their product. This is how they sustain developers to continue working on Elastic Search. This model has worked for companies long before cloud providers were a thing. What AWS and others basically did is create identical services, keep all the profits, and exploit gaps in Open Source licensing to this end. From the ES perspective, their FOSS contributions were done in good faith which basically boil down to, &quot;If you can run our product on your own, you get it for free&quot;.<p>AWS knows that if they take too much of ES&#x27; market that they won&#x27;t survive. If they don&#x27;t survive it will just be a matter of time before ES is dropped by Amazon and totally unsupported.<p>You can frame this question in terms of ethics, you can frame it in terms of licensing naivety, you can frame it in whatever way you want but Amazon is doing what it always has done: exploiting smaller businesses in its goal to become a conglomerate.<p>Edit: a lot of people talking about the license forget that there&#x27;s an entire spirit to open source. The permissiveness of open source was one thought to be &quot;we can all succeed together&quot; and what people get upset about is the fact that this obviously violates that spirit. The businesses set up to back companies like Elastic Search were setup to sustain the project while continuing to empower it&#x27;s creators to take their vision further. If Amazon takes the pie, that doesn&#x27;t happen. At best, the creators are now Amazon employees and have to follow <i>their</i> desires. Just because you can exploit a license, doesn&#x27;t mean you should.</text></item><item><author>markphip</author><text>I do not get why people are coming down on AWS here. Elastic made the software available under the Apache License. That gives AWS the right to offer this service. Maybe they did not have right to trademarks, there are courts to settle that.<p>AWS contributes improvements to the project. This is just about Elastic and their business model. They could have not made it open source and it probably just would not have been widely used and successful. It is up to Elastic to come up with a business model that works, not blame others if it is not.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>sokoloff</author><text>I see it as “there are a variety of licenses from which to choose, depending on your goals”. BSD, Apache, and MIT all represent different points in space, as do GPL and AGPL.<p>When I choose Apache or MIT, I do so for a reason and if you or Amazon use code in compliance with that license, I’m happy and you’re not “exploiting a gap” but rather “complying with the terms I offered”.</text></comment> |
33,482,887 | 33,481,598 | 1 | 3 | 33,479,397 | train | <story><title>Multiple assertions are fine in a unit test</title><url>https://stackoverflow.blog/2022/11/03/multiple-assertions-per-test-are-fine/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>torginus</author><text>I remember writing a small .NET test library for that exact problem - You could pass in a lambda with a complex condition, and it evaluated every piece of the expression separately and pretty printed what part of the condition failed.<p>So essentially you could write<p><pre><code> Assert(()=&gt;width&gt;0 &amp;&amp; x + width &lt; screenWidth)
</code></pre>
And you would get:<p><pre><code> Assertion failed:
x is 1500
width is 600
screenWidth is 1920
</code></pre>
It used <i>Expression&lt;T&gt;</i> to do the magic. Amazing debug messages. No moralizing required.<p>This was a huge boon for us as it was a legacy codebase and we ran tens of thousands of automated tests and it was really difficult to figure out why they failed.</text></item><item><author>TeMPOraL</author><text>&gt; <i>The excellent book xUnit Test Patterns describes a test smell named Assertion Roulette. It describes situations where it may be difficult to determine exactly which assertion caused a test failure.</i><p>How is that even possible in the first place?<p>The entire job of an assertion is to wave a flag saying &quot;here! condition failed!&quot;. In programming languages and test frameworks I worked with, this typically includes providing <i>at minimum</i> the expression put in the assertion, <i>verbatim</i>, and precise coordinates of the assertion - i.e. name of the source file + line number.<p>I&#x27;ve never seen a case where it would be hard to tell <i>which assertion failed</i>. On the contrary, the most common problem I see is knowing which assertion failed, but not how the code got there, because someone helpfully stuffed it into a helper function that gets called by other helper functions in the test suite, and the testing framework doesn&#x27;t report the call stack. But it&#x27;s not that big of a deal anyway; the main problem I have with it is that I can&#x27;t gleam the exact source of failure from CI logs, and have to run the thing myself.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>paphillips</author><text>Related to this, for anyone not fully up to date on recent C# features there is also the <i>CallerArgumentExpression</i> [1], [2] feature introduced in C# 10. While it is not a pretty printer for an expression, it does allow the full expression passed from the call site as an argument value to be captured and used within the method. This can be useful for custom assert extensions.<p>For example:<p><pre><code> public void CheckIsTrue(bool value, [CallerArgumentExpression(&quot;value&quot;)] string? expression = null)
{
if (!value)
{
Debug.WriteLine($&quot;Failed: &#x27;{expression}&#x27;&quot;);
}
}
</code></pre>
So if you call like this: <i>CheckIsTrue(foo != bar &amp;&amp; baz == true)</i>, when the value is false it prints &quot;Failed: &#x27;foo != bar &amp;&amp; baz == true&#x27;&quot;.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;learn.microsoft.com&#x2F;en-us&#x2F;dotnet&#x2F;csharp&#x2F;language-reference&#x2F;proposals&#x2F;csharp-10.0&#x2F;caller-argument-expression" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;learn.microsoft.com&#x2F;en-us&#x2F;dotnet&#x2F;csharp&#x2F;language-ref...</a>
[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;learn.microsoft.com&#x2F;en-us&#x2F;dotnet&#x2F;csharp&#x2F;language-reference&#x2F;attributes&#x2F;caller-information" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;learn.microsoft.com&#x2F;en-us&#x2F;dotnet&#x2F;csharp&#x2F;language-ref...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Multiple assertions are fine in a unit test</title><url>https://stackoverflow.blog/2022/11/03/multiple-assertions-per-test-are-fine/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>torginus</author><text>I remember writing a small .NET test library for that exact problem - You could pass in a lambda with a complex condition, and it evaluated every piece of the expression separately and pretty printed what part of the condition failed.<p>So essentially you could write<p><pre><code> Assert(()=&gt;width&gt;0 &amp;&amp; x + width &lt; screenWidth)
</code></pre>
And you would get:<p><pre><code> Assertion failed:
x is 1500
width is 600
screenWidth is 1920
</code></pre>
It used <i>Expression&lt;T&gt;</i> to do the magic. Amazing debug messages. No moralizing required.<p>This was a huge boon for us as it was a legacy codebase and we ran tens of thousands of automated tests and it was really difficult to figure out why they failed.</text></item><item><author>TeMPOraL</author><text>&gt; <i>The excellent book xUnit Test Patterns describes a test smell named Assertion Roulette. It describes situations where it may be difficult to determine exactly which assertion caused a test failure.</i><p>How is that even possible in the first place?<p>The entire job of an assertion is to wave a flag saying &quot;here! condition failed!&quot;. In programming languages and test frameworks I worked with, this typically includes providing <i>at minimum</i> the expression put in the assertion, <i>verbatim</i>, and precise coordinates of the assertion - i.e. name of the source file + line number.<p>I&#x27;ve never seen a case where it would be hard to tell <i>which assertion failed</i>. On the contrary, the most common problem I see is knowing which assertion failed, but not how the code got there, because someone helpfully stuffed it into a helper function that gets called by other helper functions in the test suite, and the testing framework doesn&#x27;t report the call stack. But it&#x27;s not that big of a deal anyway; the main problem I have with it is that I can&#x27;t gleam the exact source of failure from CI logs, and have to run the thing myself.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nerdponx</author><text>This is what the Python test framework Pytest does, among many other similar useful and magical things. I believe that the Python developer ecosystem as a whole would be substantially less productive without it.</text></comment> |
25,767,038 | 25,765,635 | 1 | 3 | 25,749,015 | train | <story><title>Why lasers are so brilliantly useful</title><url>https://www.economist.com/technology-quarterly/2021/01/07/why-lasers-are-so-brilliantly-useful</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>nearbuy</author><text>On the topic of how wondrous technologies become mundane, I find it amazing how we surpassed some of the magic from Harry Potter, and no one is impressed.<p>The first book was published in 1997. The characters have very handy magic wands, which among other things can be used as flashlights. They can send magical letters (howlers) that can yell at someone in the sender&#x27;s voice.<p>Fast forward to 2021, and suddenly everyone is walking around with a fancy tool in their pocket that can be a flashlight, instantly video chat with people, and answer questions on nearly any topic.<p>Even the offensive spells seem inferior to modern weapons. The wizards have to recite an incantation for every shot, while assault rifles can spray 900 rounds per minute.</text></item><item><author>wincy</author><text>A lifetime ago I worked a retail job. I’d often say to coworkers “isn’t it amazing we get to work in the future, we get to use laser beams all the time!” They’d stare at me blankly, and I’d squeeze the “laser gun” I was holding in my hands to scan a UPC. The most I’d ever get was a groan like I’d told a dad joke. No one was ever impressed.<p>To me it’s amazing how such wondrous technological advances become mundane so quickly, the future is here and nobody is astonished.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>cogman10</author><text>I graduated high school in 2004. It constantly amazes me how far we&#x27;ve come.<p>Back in the 90s, CDs were the height of getting music. 1 disk would carry around 24 songs. That&#x27;s it. The internet was accessible, but limited to around 56kbps on a desktop. Mobile data wasn&#x27;t a thing. Texting wasn&#x27;t a thing. Cell phones were barely a thing, but coverage was practically non-existent.<p>Most people got their media only from broadcast stations. You had radio, television, and the newspaper and that was pretty much it.<p>The fact that data is available pretty much everywhere is incredible. Even in the last 10 years, we&#x27;ve went from data being only available in the cities to being able to stream video in all but the most remote parts of the US.<p>On top of that, something not really appreciated by the general public is just how good codecs have gotten. It is INCREDIBLE what can be done with the same amount of bandwidth we had in the 90s. AV1 + Opus can very nearly stream SD content at 56kbps! 1Mbps wasn&#x27;t enough for SD content with MPEG2 and MP3 audio. Now, 1Mbps is enough for 1080p HD content.</text></comment> | <story><title>Why lasers are so brilliantly useful</title><url>https://www.economist.com/technology-quarterly/2021/01/07/why-lasers-are-so-brilliantly-useful</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>nearbuy</author><text>On the topic of how wondrous technologies become mundane, I find it amazing how we surpassed some of the magic from Harry Potter, and no one is impressed.<p>The first book was published in 1997. The characters have very handy magic wands, which among other things can be used as flashlights. They can send magical letters (howlers) that can yell at someone in the sender&#x27;s voice.<p>Fast forward to 2021, and suddenly everyone is walking around with a fancy tool in their pocket that can be a flashlight, instantly video chat with people, and answer questions on nearly any topic.<p>Even the offensive spells seem inferior to modern weapons. The wizards have to recite an incantation for every shot, while assault rifles can spray 900 rounds per minute.</text></item><item><author>wincy</author><text>A lifetime ago I worked a retail job. I’d often say to coworkers “isn’t it amazing we get to work in the future, we get to use laser beams all the time!” They’d stare at me blankly, and I’d squeeze the “laser gun” I was holding in my hands to scan a UPC. The most I’d ever get was a groan like I’d told a dad joke. No one was ever impressed.<p>To me it’s amazing how such wondrous technological advances become mundane so quickly, the future is here and nobody is astonished.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ampdepolymerase</author><text>The fidelius charm violates every known law of information theory and machine learning heuristics, not to mention the philosophical implications.</text></comment> |
9,607,695 | 9,607,492 | 1 | 2 | 9,606,572 | train | <story><title>Why investors don’t fund dating</title><url>http://andrewchen.co/why-investors-dont-fund-dating/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rcarrigan87</author><text>Despite the echo-chamber of SV and tech media, most successful founders are older, with real world industry experience.[0]<p>This data probably doesn&#x27;t reflect the insane number of 20 somethings chasing ideas in markets like the dating space right now. Most of them fail.<p>I work in the senior care market and I&#x27;m shocked there aren&#x27;t more businesses being started around that market. It&#x27;s absolutely huge with endless opportunity. But I guess that kind of proves your point...<p>[0]<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;hbr.org&#x2F;2014&#x2F;04&#x2F;how-old-are-silicon-valleys-top-founders-heres-the-data&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;hbr.org&#x2F;2014&#x2F;04&#x2F;how-old-are-silicon-valleys-top-foun...</a></text></item><item><author>beat</author><text>The problem is, founders tend to try to solve problems they&#x27;ve experienced and understand. For the twenty-somethings that are the public face of &quot;startup founders&quot;, they may not understand international trade or enterprise health care or other big problems, but they understand dating. So they write dating apps.<p>And then, by the time they&#x27;ve acquired enough real-world professional experience to actually understand some interesting and high-value problems, they have a mortgage and kids and don&#x27;t want to eat ramen like they did when they were 22.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>exelius</author><text>Yeah, you&#x27;re right. But if you look at the <i>really big</i> companies, nearly all were started by young founders (Facebook, Google, etc.) And that&#x27;s what kids (and the media) focus in on.<p>IMO experienced founders are great for building a cash cow business worth $1 billion or so. That takes hard work and a billion dollars is a fucking lot of money, so it&#x27;s nothing to scoff at. But it&#x27;s not primarily what VCs are interested in: the VC model is built off of small equity stakes in $10 billion+ IPOs.<p>To have a $10 billion+ IPO, you need to invent a market, and young kids are great at that because they don&#x27;t see the limitations the market has placed on us. Most don&#x27;t have the fucking slightest about finance or money, which can be an impediment if you&#x27;re trying to create a product in an existing market, but if you&#x27;re building a new market or category, short-term viability matters less.<p>That said, there are a lot more ideas that can turn into successful $1 billion companies than ideas that can become $100 billion companies. So your odds are a lot better at starting a successful business if you learn how first.<p>And to your point about senior care... most VCs who don&#x27;t focus on health care avoid it entirely for similar reasons they avoid dating apps. You can either go the medical device&#x2F;biotech route and spend hundreds of millions on lawyers and regulatory approvals, or you can go after the provider side of things. The healthcare IT space is pretty saturated and very fragmented, so it ends up scaling like a consulting business (which VCs are also not fond of).</text></comment> | <story><title>Why investors don’t fund dating</title><url>http://andrewchen.co/why-investors-dont-fund-dating/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rcarrigan87</author><text>Despite the echo-chamber of SV and tech media, most successful founders are older, with real world industry experience.[0]<p>This data probably doesn&#x27;t reflect the insane number of 20 somethings chasing ideas in markets like the dating space right now. Most of them fail.<p>I work in the senior care market and I&#x27;m shocked there aren&#x27;t more businesses being started around that market. It&#x27;s absolutely huge with endless opportunity. But I guess that kind of proves your point...<p>[0]<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;hbr.org&#x2F;2014&#x2F;04&#x2F;how-old-are-silicon-valleys-top-founders-heres-the-data&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;hbr.org&#x2F;2014&#x2F;04&#x2F;how-old-are-silicon-valleys-top-foun...</a></text></item><item><author>beat</author><text>The problem is, founders tend to try to solve problems they&#x27;ve experienced and understand. For the twenty-somethings that are the public face of &quot;startup founders&quot;, they may not understand international trade or enterprise health care or other big problems, but they understand dating. So they write dating apps.<p>And then, by the time they&#x27;ve acquired enough real-world professional experience to actually understand some interesting and high-value problems, they have a mortgage and kids and don&#x27;t want to eat ramen like they did when they were 22.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>billyhoffman</author><text>This.<p>My startup is part of the ATDC Select program&#x2F;incubator in Atlanta. There are roughly 30 companies around various verticals. I&#x27;m in my early 30&#x27;s and I&#x27;m among the youngest of the founders. Many of these people are in their late 30&#x27;s&#x2F;40&#x27;s&#x2F;or more and been through multiple startups.<p>(funny enough maybe 20% of the companies are healthcare related, so maybe there are doing what they know)<p>Maybe in other places startups are a only-kids game, but not here.</text></comment> |
24,326,534 | 24,325,818 | 1 | 3 | 24,324,974 | train | <story><title>After 48 years, Democrats endorse nuclear energy in platform</title><url>https://www.forbes.com/sites/robertbryce/2020/08/23/after-48-years-democrats-endorse-nuclear-energy-in-platform/#3c7687df5829</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tbenst</author><text>I’m continuously baffled by those that claim that nuclear power is safe. Look at Fukushima for example. It seems hard to imagine a nuclear power plant design, even Gen III or IV that would be immune to <i>any</i> possible natural disaster.<p>Analysis of nuclear power should take into account Black Swan events: no matter how well designed, some fraction of plants will cause INES Level 7 disasters. If the resulting cost (ie $100s of billions for cleanup), environmental damage, and health impacts are still less than wind or solar, I’m all for it, but pro-nuclear arguments continuously give the tired argument that with new designs “this time is different.”</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Lazare</author><text>&gt; I’m continuously baffled by those that claim that nuclear power is safe.<p>Nuclear power is <i>relatively</i> safe. Nothing is 100% safe. Rooftop solar actually has a surprisingly high fatality rate from <i>installers falling off of roofs</i>! Fossil fuels release horrible byproducts into the atmosphere, hydro sometimes causes floods...everything has drawbacks.<p>&gt; Analysis of nuclear power should take into account Black Swan events<p>Quite right. Analysis of <i>all</i> power options should take into account black swan events (eg, a hydro dam failure taking out a city), but they should also do the reverse, and take into account the normal risks of operations. A coal power plant is subject to any particularly terrible catastrophic failure modes, but every day it operates it spews out a <i>lot</i> of carcinogens.<p>Imagine a system that kills 5k people once every 20 years, versus a system that kills 1 person a day. You end up with scary headlines about the first one, but the second one kills significantly more people over time.<p>&gt; pro-nuclear arguments continuously give the tired argument that with new designs “this time is different.”<p>The pro-nuclear arguments I have seen are much more conservative than that. They point out, correctly, that <i>even counting Three Mile Island, Chernobyl, and Fukushima</i>, nuclear energy is relatively safe. If the future ends up safer than the past that would be a bonus, but the past has been shockingly safe.<p>Coal kills around 13k people every single year in the US alone. How many people have died due to nuclear power in the US in the entire history of nuclear energy?</text></comment> | <story><title>After 48 years, Democrats endorse nuclear energy in platform</title><url>https://www.forbes.com/sites/robertbryce/2020/08/23/after-48-years-democrats-endorse-nuclear-energy-in-platform/#3c7687df5829</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tbenst</author><text>I’m continuously baffled by those that claim that nuclear power is safe. Look at Fukushima for example. It seems hard to imagine a nuclear power plant design, even Gen III or IV that would be immune to <i>any</i> possible natural disaster.<p>Analysis of nuclear power should take into account Black Swan events: no matter how well designed, some fraction of plants will cause INES Level 7 disasters. If the resulting cost (ie $100s of billions for cleanup), environmental damage, and health impacts are still less than wind or solar, I’m all for it, but pro-nuclear arguments continuously give the tired argument that with new designs “this time is different.”</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>etrautmann</author><text>Yes, and even when you consider those costs, it pales in comparison to the lives lost and negative externalities of coal, oil, and gas usage. These include climate change, particulate pollution, environmental release of mercury, devastation of vast swaths of the environment worldwide, and other factors that may be hard to quantify but negatively impactful.</text></comment> |
41,672,625 | 41,671,185 | 1 | 3 | 41,670,210 | train | <story><title>CNN and USA Today have fake websites, I believe Forbes Marketplace runs them</title><url>https://larslofgren.com/cnn-usa-today-forbes-marketplace/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>shipscode</author><text>Let me break down how the media industry works nowadays since there’s a lot of confusion in these comments.<p>Most media organizations have a small number of in-house journalists on verticals that make sense.<p>The rest of the content is curated and brought in from content partners and written outside of the news organization.<p>In practice they function more like a social media feed than traditional newspapers. I’m no fan of CNN, but this isn’t exactly a scandal, media had to adapt to keep up with so much being on social media these days, they all do this.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>beejiu</author><text>The context is that Google has a new &quot;Site reputation abuse&quot; policy that some argue isn&#x27;t applied fairly between small sites and massive media sites. The policy states:<p>&quot;Site reputation abuse is when third-party pages are published with little or no first-party oversight or involvement, where the purpose is to manipulate search rankings by taking advantage of the first-party site&#x27;s ranking signals. Such third-party pages include sponsored, advertising, partner, or other third-party pages that are typically independent of a host site&#x27;s main purpose or produced without close oversight or involvement of the host site.&quot;<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;developers.google.com&#x2F;search&#x2F;docs&#x2F;essentials&#x2F;spam-policies#site-reputation" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;developers.google.com&#x2F;search&#x2F;docs&#x2F;essentials&#x2F;spam-po...</a><p>That&#x27;s why it&#x27;s all hush-hush within the industry.</text></comment> | <story><title>CNN and USA Today have fake websites, I believe Forbes Marketplace runs them</title><url>https://larslofgren.com/cnn-usa-today-forbes-marketplace/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>shipscode</author><text>Let me break down how the media industry works nowadays since there’s a lot of confusion in these comments.<p>Most media organizations have a small number of in-house journalists on verticals that make sense.<p>The rest of the content is curated and brought in from content partners and written outside of the news organization.<p>In practice they function more like a social media feed than traditional newspapers. I’m no fan of CNN, but this isn’t exactly a scandal, media had to adapt to keep up with so much being on social media these days, they all do this.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>hedora</author><text>There are still counterexamples:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.propublica.org&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.propublica.org&#x2F;</a><p>Traditional newspapers would get stories from things like AP, and then the editors would decide what to run. They’d also have reporters that wrote local stories, etc.<p>I’d argue that any news site that has eliminated all those roles is already out of business and is simply burning down their brand at this point.</text></comment> |
39,694,860 | 39,695,044 | 1 | 3 | 39,694,366 | train | <story><title>Tell Congress: Stop the TikTok Ban. Instead, Protect Our Data No Matter Who</title><url>https://act.eff.org/action/tell-congress-stop-the-tiktok-ban</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>readams</author><text>Spying and data collection isn&#x27;t remotely the main concern. The main concern is control over how Americans consume information.<p>See e.g. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;networkcontagion.us&#x2F;wp-content&#x2F;uploads&#x2F;A-Tik-Tok-ing-Timebomb_12.21.23.pdf" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;networkcontagion.us&#x2F;wp-content&#x2F;uploads&#x2F;A-Tik-Tok-ing...</a><p>&quot;The conclusions of our research are clear: Whether content is promoted or muted onTikTok
appears to depend on whether it is aligned or opposed to the interests of the Chinese
Government. As the summary data graph below illustrates, the percentages of TikTok posts out
of Instagram posts are consistently range-bound for general political and pop-culture topics, but
completely out-of-bounds for topics sensitive to the Chinese Government.&quot;<p>It&#x27;s not even theoretical. This is happening now.</text></comment> | <story><title>Tell Congress: Stop the TikTok Ban. Instead, Protect Our Data No Matter Who</title><url>https://act.eff.org/action/tell-congress-stop-the-tiktok-ban</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>vundercind</author><text>DO ban TikTok (and by “ban” we evidently mean “force a change in ownership of”). China imposes ownership restrictions when our companies do business there. We should do the same.<p>ALSO please do outlaw private dragnet spying no matter which company is doing it, yes.</text></comment> |
12,418,293 | 12,418,312 | 1 | 2 | 12,417,400 | train | <story><title>Paris climate deal: US and China announce ratification</title><url>http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-37265541</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>chillacy</author><text>We&#x27;ll see how this turns out, since it seems this agreement<p>1. allows each country to set its own reduction goals<p>2. has no consequences if a country fails to meet its goals<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Paris_Agreement#Nationally_determined_contributions_and_their_limits" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Paris_Agreement#Nationally_det...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Paris climate deal: US and China announce ratification</title><url>http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-37265541</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>robryan</author><text>It is interesting how everyone can pass the blame for emissions. In Australia there is an argument from some that even though we are the highest polluter by capita our net emissions are low enough that it doesn&#x27;t really matter what we do.<p>A country like India or China could then turn that around a say if other countries that have a very high standard of life won&#x27;t do anything then why should we.</text></comment> |
7,074,217 | 7,073,974 | 1 | 3 | 7,073,388 | train | <story><title>Obama and the N.S.A.: Why He Can't Be Trusted</title><url>http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/johncassidy/2014/01/obama-and-the-nsa-why-he-cant-be-trusted.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ctdonath</author><text>The Founding Fathers of the USA were concerned about writing a Bill Of Rights because any natural right not enumerated therein might be construed as not being a right at all. This is where we are with pervasive surveillance: being incapable of imagining&#x2F;comprehending a surveillance system of this scale, it never dawned in them to protect anything more than &quot;persons, papers and effects&quot;. At a time when just overhearing a conversation was hard enough to require concerted effort, they could not dream of a day when a significant percentage of every conversation among 300,000,000 people could be monitored and catalogued automatically at a not-prohibitive cost. Methinks: had they known, they would have not hesitated to prohibit it as explicitly as they did infringement of arms possession. Alas, the courts adhere only to the letter of the Constitution, not its spirit.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pstack</author><text>Unfortunately, our education system does not teach us that the Constitution is a framework setting form constraints upon the government, but as a framework establishing and itemizing a list of freedoms citizens are allowed.<p>So, we have an entire population that assumes if it is not enumerated in the Constitution, you do not have that right. For example &quot;hey, the Constitution doesn&#x27;t say privacy is a right&quot;. Well, no. It doesn&#x27;t need to. You already have that right, without a piece of paper declaring it.<p>Unfortunately, I&#x27;m afraid that this understanding of the Constitution has become so pervasive that it can not be changed, thereby completely reversing the entire intention of the founding fathers in constructing it. Thereby giving the government <i>all the rights</i> and citizens <i>only</i> the rights specifically declared in it (and, these days, not even that).<p>It&#x27;s kind of stomach-turning to see that reversal.</text></comment> | <story><title>Obama and the N.S.A.: Why He Can't Be Trusted</title><url>http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/johncassidy/2014/01/obama-and-the-nsa-why-he-cant-be-trusted.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ctdonath</author><text>The Founding Fathers of the USA were concerned about writing a Bill Of Rights because any natural right not enumerated therein might be construed as not being a right at all. This is where we are with pervasive surveillance: being incapable of imagining&#x2F;comprehending a surveillance system of this scale, it never dawned in them to protect anything more than &quot;persons, papers and effects&quot;. At a time when just overhearing a conversation was hard enough to require concerted effort, they could not dream of a day when a significant percentage of every conversation among 300,000,000 people could be monitored and catalogued automatically at a not-prohibitive cost. Methinks: had they known, they would have not hesitated to prohibit it as explicitly as they did infringement of arms possession. Alas, the courts adhere only to the letter of the Constitution, not its spirit.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>alexeisadeski3</author><text>How do originalists regard digital privacy and speech protections?<p>I&#x27;m pretty sure that they <i>do</i> afford all rights and protections to digital messages as to written letters, is that correct?</text></comment> |
41,302,680 | 41,302,390 | 1 | 2 | 41,300,111 | train | <story><title>The waiting time paradox: why is my bus always late? (2018)</title><url>https://jakevdp.github.io/blog/2018/09/13/waiting-time-paradox/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rjmunro</author><text>There&#x27;s another thing that happens with busses that makes it worse.<p>The further behind the previous bus a bus is, the more people will arrive at the bus stop. The more people there are at the stop, the longer the bus has to spend picking them all up and selling them tickets etc. Therefore the delayed bus will tend to experience more delay. The bus behind them will have less people to pick up, so it will spend a shorter time at stops and tend to catch up with the first bus, so the two busses are dragged towards each other.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bhuber</author><text>This phenomenon consistently happened to my college bus system, but on an even worse scale. The main bus line did a loop around campus, which took ~20 min to complete and buses scheduled every 5 minutes. In reality, you got a caravan of 4 busses arriving every 20 minutes, with the first one totally full and the last practically empty.</text></comment> | <story><title>The waiting time paradox: why is my bus always late? (2018)</title><url>https://jakevdp.github.io/blog/2018/09/13/waiting-time-paradox/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rjmunro</author><text>There&#x27;s another thing that happens with busses that makes it worse.<p>The further behind the previous bus a bus is, the more people will arrive at the bus stop. The more people there are at the stop, the longer the bus has to spend picking them all up and selling them tickets etc. Therefore the delayed bus will tend to experience more delay. The bus behind them will have less people to pick up, so it will spend a shorter time at stops and tend to catch up with the first bus, so the two busses are dragged towards each other.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mitthrowaway2</author><text>That bus with more riders on board also has a higher probability of needing to stop to let people off at each location as well, slowing it down even further!</text></comment> |
15,789,236 | 15,789,261 | 1 | 3 | 15,788,678 | train | <story><title>When somebody loses weight, where does the fat go?</title><url>http://www.bmj.com/content/349/bmj.g7257</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>StevePerkins</author><text>I can&#x27;t help but groan at some of the &quot;obvious&quot; health and weight loss platitudes that get smugly thrown around.<p>&quot;<i>Calories in, calories out!</i>&quot;<p>&quot;<i>You can&#x27;t outrun a bad diet!</i>&quot;<p>&quot;<i>Weight is lost in the kitchen!</i>&quot;<p>Sure, things ultimately boil down to intake-vs-expenditure. However, it IS more complicated than that <i>in practice</i>. As software developers, we complain when management makes decisions based on inadequate or poor metrics. But likewise there so many more benefits to physical exercise that aren&#x27;t captured by a diet and exercise tracking app.<p>During times when I&#x27;ve been 100% sedentary for long periods, I experience <i>overwhelming</i> cravings for sugar and crappy foods. When I force myself to take up any consistent exercise, even just a 30 min walk in the morning or lunchtime... then the cravings subside and regular meals are sufficient. This is fairly common.<p>Exercise has so many physical and mental health benefits. But even just looking at weight management alone, exercise tends to ramp up your metabolism for hours after each exercise session. Something that doesn&#x27;t get captured by your tracker app or wearable gadget.<p>So often, when I hear somebody smugly minimizing the importance of exercise to health and weight management, it&#x27;s a person who is too-clever-by-half. They&#x27;re constantly dabbling with soylent shakes or paleo&#x2F;keto fad diets... because the truth is they&#x27;re just lazy and don&#x27;t want to get off their ass, and look to rationalize that.<p>EDIT: At least half of these replies are completely missing my point altogether. I&#x27;m not saying that there is a binary choice to be made between &quot;good diet&quot; OR &quot;exercise&quot;, and that you should make the latter choice rather than the former. I&#x27;m saying that <i>treating this as a binary choice in the first place</i> is ridiculous.<p>Exercise <i>correlates</i> with proper eating, it&#x27;s not incidental or ancillary. It&#x27;s ineffective to tell someone to &quot;go the gym&quot; without changing their eating habits? Well sure, but telling them to &quot;go keto&quot; without worrying about physical activity will be no more successful a year out. It&#x27;s the pretense that most people can consistently stick with one of these things, and not both together, that is absurd.</text></item><item><author>Zanta</author><text>From the paper &quot;Replacing one hour of rest with exercise that raises the metabolic rate to seven times that of resting by, for example, jogging, removes an additional 39 g of carbon from the body, raising the total by about 20% to 240 g. For comparison, a single 100 g muffin represents about 20% of an average person’s total daily energy requirement. Physical activity as a weight loss strategy is, therefore, easily foiled by relatively small quantities of excess food.&quot;</text></item><item><author>JoeAltmaier</author><text>Exercise makes more sense! Breathing hard == losing weight!</text></item><item><author>mikeash</author><text>For anyone coming straight to the comments looking for an answer to the question: it turns into CO2 (and a bit of water) and you breathe it out.<p>When you realize that you have to breathe out all the weight you lose, I think it gives you a bigger appreciation for how difficult weight loss can be.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jedrek</author><text>I think you&#x27;re misreading the function of those slogans. First off, they&#x27;re hardly &quot;obvious&quot; when you account for the overwhelming FUD around nutrition anybody who&#x27;s tried to lose weight. And you get it from everybody: your Mom, magazines, movies, the news, pop sci articles, the government, etc.<p>But more importantly, those things are TRUE. Anybody with significant weight to lose will not be able to out-exercise a bad diet. What fat people hear a lot more often is, &quot;oh, you gotta hit the gym&quot;. Hitting the gym is great if you&#x27;re 15 lb overweight, but at 50 or 100 it&#x27;s all but useless.<p>&gt; exercise tends to ramp up your metabolism for hours after each exercise session.<p>Yep. If you spin hard for 45 minutes you get an extra 170kcal through the rest of the day. That is... 2 fun sized Snicker bars, 19 grams of butter, or 17 Pringles chips.<p>Caloric intake is the absolute key to weight loss. Everything else is complementary. Telling people who are more than a few pounds overweight to hit the gym as the base of their weight loss strategy is complete un-based in science and almost always self defeating.</text></comment> | <story><title>When somebody loses weight, where does the fat go?</title><url>http://www.bmj.com/content/349/bmj.g7257</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>StevePerkins</author><text>I can&#x27;t help but groan at some of the &quot;obvious&quot; health and weight loss platitudes that get smugly thrown around.<p>&quot;<i>Calories in, calories out!</i>&quot;<p>&quot;<i>You can&#x27;t outrun a bad diet!</i>&quot;<p>&quot;<i>Weight is lost in the kitchen!</i>&quot;<p>Sure, things ultimately boil down to intake-vs-expenditure. However, it IS more complicated than that <i>in practice</i>. As software developers, we complain when management makes decisions based on inadequate or poor metrics. But likewise there so many more benefits to physical exercise that aren&#x27;t captured by a diet and exercise tracking app.<p>During times when I&#x27;ve been 100% sedentary for long periods, I experience <i>overwhelming</i> cravings for sugar and crappy foods. When I force myself to take up any consistent exercise, even just a 30 min walk in the morning or lunchtime... then the cravings subside and regular meals are sufficient. This is fairly common.<p>Exercise has so many physical and mental health benefits. But even just looking at weight management alone, exercise tends to ramp up your metabolism for hours after each exercise session. Something that doesn&#x27;t get captured by your tracker app or wearable gadget.<p>So often, when I hear somebody smugly minimizing the importance of exercise to health and weight management, it&#x27;s a person who is too-clever-by-half. They&#x27;re constantly dabbling with soylent shakes or paleo&#x2F;keto fad diets... because the truth is they&#x27;re just lazy and don&#x27;t want to get off their ass, and look to rationalize that.<p>EDIT: At least half of these replies are completely missing my point altogether. I&#x27;m not saying that there is a binary choice to be made between &quot;good diet&quot; OR &quot;exercise&quot;, and that you should make the latter choice rather than the former. I&#x27;m saying that <i>treating this as a binary choice in the first place</i> is ridiculous.<p>Exercise <i>correlates</i> with proper eating, it&#x27;s not incidental or ancillary. It&#x27;s ineffective to tell someone to &quot;go the gym&quot; without changing their eating habits? Well sure, but telling them to &quot;go keto&quot; without worrying about physical activity will be no more successful a year out. It&#x27;s the pretense that most people can consistently stick with one of these things, and not both together, that is absurd.</text></item><item><author>Zanta</author><text>From the paper &quot;Replacing one hour of rest with exercise that raises the metabolic rate to seven times that of resting by, for example, jogging, removes an additional 39 g of carbon from the body, raising the total by about 20% to 240 g. For comparison, a single 100 g muffin represents about 20% of an average person’s total daily energy requirement. Physical activity as a weight loss strategy is, therefore, easily foiled by relatively small quantities of excess food.&quot;</text></item><item><author>JoeAltmaier</author><text>Exercise makes more sense! Breathing hard == losing weight!</text></item><item><author>mikeash</author><text>For anyone coming straight to the comments looking for an answer to the question: it turns into CO2 (and a bit of water) and you breathe it out.<p>When you realize that you have to breathe out all the weight you lose, I think it gives you a bigger appreciation for how difficult weight loss can be.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>deadmetheny</author><text>For someone who is very badly overweight, cutting calories is still a very good step. My first 100 lbs lost were from doing exactly that. After you get down to merely overweight from terribly obese is when you really need to start caring more about being active and attempting to work exercise into the routine as well. At least from my experience, cutting calories is something that beginners can fairly easily wrap their heads around that actually shows results (provided they are actually counting properly).<p>A couple years after deciding that it&#x27;s time to get serious about taking care of my body and I&#x27;m very close to reaching a healthy weight, and additionally have become reasonably strong due to a weight training regimen. But I wouldn&#x27;t be here if I hadn&#x27;t seen the results of calorie counting and taken the next step after the benefits of that started slowing down.</text></comment> |
39,884,917 | 39,884,780 | 1 | 3 | 39,884,009 | train | <story><title>Giphy is sharing your IP address and private data to 816 partners</title><url>https://twitter.com/illyism/status/1774425117117788223</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>crtasm</author><text>Though not if you use it in Signal: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;signal.org&#x2F;blog&#x2F;giphy-experiment&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;signal.org&#x2F;blog&#x2F;giphy-experiment&#x2F;</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Giphy is sharing your IP address and private data to 816 partners</title><url>https://twitter.com/illyism/status/1774425117117788223</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>blantonl</author><text>Data brokerage is big business, and the revenue share is significant enough for many businesses to hold their nose, turn their head, and sign on.</text></comment> |
32,581,920 | 32,581,827 | 1 | 2 | 32,549,316 | train | <story><title>Are we going back to the cable days?</title><url>https://thehustle.co/08222022-streaming-vs-cable/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>guenthert</author><text>Well, there are plenty of benefits for all kinds of criminal activity, they just share one common drawback.</text></item><item><author>grishka</author><text>Best thing about piracy is that not only is there no ads, it&#x27;s that you don&#x27;t have to even think which streaming service has the particular show&#x2F;movie you want. You also get to watch it on any device of your choice, in any player of your choice, completely offline. And you get to take screenshots. And it&#x27;s free. I simply see no reason to ever pay for movies and tv shows — you pay money AND get a worse experience.</text></item><item><author>scrivna</author><text>Best thing about streaming subscriptions vs cable IMHO is NO ADS - I find it baffling people spend a hundred bucks a month on cable and still accept like 30% of the airtime is ads…. just no</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kjkjadksj</author><text>In this case the drawback is the off chance you get a strongly worded letter from your isp you can throw away</text></comment> | <story><title>Are we going back to the cable days?</title><url>https://thehustle.co/08222022-streaming-vs-cable/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>guenthert</author><text>Well, there are plenty of benefits for all kinds of criminal activity, they just share one common drawback.</text></item><item><author>grishka</author><text>Best thing about piracy is that not only is there no ads, it&#x27;s that you don&#x27;t have to even think which streaming service has the particular show&#x2F;movie you want. You also get to watch it on any device of your choice, in any player of your choice, completely offline. And you get to take screenshots. And it&#x27;s free. I simply see no reason to ever pay for movies and tv shows — you pay money AND get a worse experience.</text></item><item><author>scrivna</author><text>Best thing about streaming subscriptions vs cable IMHO is NO ADS - I find it baffling people spend a hundred bucks a month on cable and still accept like 30% of the airtime is ads…. just no</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Teever</author><text>Pirating is not a criminal activity in my country.<p>It likely isn&#x27;t a criminal activity in your country either.</text></comment> |
24,307,630 | 24,307,520 | 1 | 3 | 24,306,934 | train | <story><title>U.S. tech stocks are now worth more than the entire European stock market</title><url>https://www.cnbc.com/2020/08/28/us-tech-stocks-are-now-worth-more-than-the-entire-european-stock-market.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Guzba</author><text>The growth in tech stocks has been pretty insane imo. It&#x27;s so easy to be afraid though and call this another 2000, but we really don&#x27;t know what the future holds.<p>I wish Europe had it&#x27;s own set of exciting tech companies. That would be amazing. As a human living on this planet, the more things available to me, the better. Unfortunately, Europe doesn&#x27;t seem to do much anymore. Google &quot;European growth stocks&quot;. I want them back in the game.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>libertine</author><text>The problem is not the lack of exciting tech companies, but the ability - and interest - to retain them in Europe.<p>Money is cheap in the US, and most of EU countries are quite pleasant to live without obscene amounts of money in the bank (basically thanks to public services), so any good offer it&#x27;s quite convincing.<p>Not to mention that EU governments don&#x27;t see tech companies as strategic assets, unlike the US&#x2F;China.<p>So I guess it&#x27;s a mix of culture&#x2F;policies.</text></comment> | <story><title>U.S. tech stocks are now worth more than the entire European stock market</title><url>https://www.cnbc.com/2020/08/28/us-tech-stocks-are-now-worth-more-than-the-entire-european-stock-market.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Guzba</author><text>The growth in tech stocks has been pretty insane imo. It&#x27;s so easy to be afraid though and call this another 2000, but we really don&#x27;t know what the future holds.<p>I wish Europe had it&#x27;s own set of exciting tech companies. That would be amazing. As a human living on this planet, the more things available to me, the better. Unfortunately, Europe doesn&#x27;t seem to do much anymore. Google &quot;European growth stocks&quot;. I want them back in the game.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>drwoland</author><text>The sad thing is, at least in the UK start ups are often headquartered in the US to make it easy to chase valley VCs.</text></comment> |
28,650,898 | 28,649,369 | 1 | 2 | 28,648,384 | train | <story><title>Ten Commandments of Salary Negotiation</title><url>https://www.lennysnewsletter.com/p/negotiating-comp</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>PragmaticPulp</author><text>The real problem with these guides is that they always assume the hiring manager is 100% adversarial and will be using everything in their power to minimize your salary.<p>Some companies definitely operate that way, but as a hiring manager I have a lot of incentives to hire and retain good employees. If I&#x27;m constantly low-balling every candidate and squeezing the lowest possible salary out of them, I&#x27;m also going to be constantly losing my best people when they realize they&#x27;re underpaid in 6 months. Then I have to go out and recruit, hire, and re-train someone else.<p>It depends on the company, of course, but many hiring managers are more than happy to carve out as much compensation as they can get away with for new hires. It improves team morale, decreases team turnover, and gives the hiring manager additional leverage over highly paid employees who know they can&#x27;t just walk out the door into a higher salary somewhere else.<p>Unfortunately, most candidates these days have been taught (by guides like this and other internet wisdom) that salary negotiation must be played like an ultra-competitive game where the first move is to always force the company to name their price first. Hiring managers aren&#x27;t dumb and we do this all the time, so whenever a candidate starts reciting hardball negotiation playbooks I just start with an offer that&#x27;s 5-10% lower than what I think we&#x27;ll end up with. The candidate then comes back and demands something 5-10% higher and we settle back at the number I had in mind anyway.<p>In the odd event that the candidate <i>doesn&#x27;t</i> negotiate back up after forcing me to go first, I just throw the extra money into the offer anyway. Employees are even happier to see that I&#x27;ve come up on my initial offer, which is a great way to start the relationship.<p>On the other hand, when some candidates come in demanding multiple months of delays while they collect competing offers and want to go through endless rounds of re-negotiation even after we&#x27;ve agreed on a number, I just cut them loose and wish them luck on their career search. Unless you&#x27;re a FAANG hiring many people at once, it doesn&#x27;t make sense to play endless games with candidates who are going to end up at a FAANG anyway.</text></item><item><author>WalterBright</author><text>&gt; Why can’t you just tell me how much it’ll be, and then we can move on?<p>On the other hand, why don&#x27;t you just tell them the lowest number you&#x27;ll accept?<p>&gt; Well, the reason we have to play this game is because, like it or not, everyone else is playing it.<p>The real reason is it is completely unworkable to require a best offer from one side and not the other side.<p>Negotiation is central and inevitable to life with more than one person. Negotiating also means giving up things you don&#x27;t value for things that you do value - making for much better allocation of resources.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>vaporary</author><text>&gt; Unfortunately, most candidates these days have been taught (by guides like this and other internet wisdom) that salary negotiation must be played like an ultra-competitive game where the first move is to always force the company to name their price first<p>I have to say, it hardly seems to me like an applicant asking a potential employer to name a figure first is an ultra-competitive hard-core tactic.<p>May I ask if you&#x27;re located in California? If so, how do you deal with AB 168, which requires companies to disclose salary ranges upon request?</text></comment> | <story><title>Ten Commandments of Salary Negotiation</title><url>https://www.lennysnewsletter.com/p/negotiating-comp</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>PragmaticPulp</author><text>The real problem with these guides is that they always assume the hiring manager is 100% adversarial and will be using everything in their power to minimize your salary.<p>Some companies definitely operate that way, but as a hiring manager I have a lot of incentives to hire and retain good employees. If I&#x27;m constantly low-balling every candidate and squeezing the lowest possible salary out of them, I&#x27;m also going to be constantly losing my best people when they realize they&#x27;re underpaid in 6 months. Then I have to go out and recruit, hire, and re-train someone else.<p>It depends on the company, of course, but many hiring managers are more than happy to carve out as much compensation as they can get away with for new hires. It improves team morale, decreases team turnover, and gives the hiring manager additional leverage over highly paid employees who know they can&#x27;t just walk out the door into a higher salary somewhere else.<p>Unfortunately, most candidates these days have been taught (by guides like this and other internet wisdom) that salary negotiation must be played like an ultra-competitive game where the first move is to always force the company to name their price first. Hiring managers aren&#x27;t dumb and we do this all the time, so whenever a candidate starts reciting hardball negotiation playbooks I just start with an offer that&#x27;s 5-10% lower than what I think we&#x27;ll end up with. The candidate then comes back and demands something 5-10% higher and we settle back at the number I had in mind anyway.<p>In the odd event that the candidate <i>doesn&#x27;t</i> negotiate back up after forcing me to go first, I just throw the extra money into the offer anyway. Employees are even happier to see that I&#x27;ve come up on my initial offer, which is a great way to start the relationship.<p>On the other hand, when some candidates come in demanding multiple months of delays while they collect competing offers and want to go through endless rounds of re-negotiation even after we&#x27;ve agreed on a number, I just cut them loose and wish them luck on their career search. Unless you&#x27;re a FAANG hiring many people at once, it doesn&#x27;t make sense to play endless games with candidates who are going to end up at a FAANG anyway.</text></item><item><author>WalterBright</author><text>&gt; Why can’t you just tell me how much it’ll be, and then we can move on?<p>On the other hand, why don&#x27;t you just tell them the lowest number you&#x27;ll accept?<p>&gt; Well, the reason we have to play this game is because, like it or not, everyone else is playing it.<p>The real reason is it is completely unworkable to require a best offer from one side and not the other side.<p>Negotiation is central and inevitable to life with more than one person. Negotiating also means giving up things you don&#x27;t value for things that you do value - making for much better allocation of resources.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tyingq</author><text>True, though there&#x27;s lots of different experiences. Some companies don&#x27;t even allow the hiring manager to see&#x2F;know the offer until after it&#x27;s accepted. All delegated to some HR &quot;compensation&quot; group that is definitely adversarial.<p>Candidates can&#x27;t really reliably know who&#x27;s pulling the strings.</text></comment> |
34,922,736 | 34,922,130 | 1 | 3 | 34,918,782 | train | <story><title>Burgr – Books in Your Terminal</title><url>https://blubsblog.bearblog.dev/burgr-books-in-your-terminal/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>imiric</author><text>This is neat, but why would you want to read books in a monospaced font? Proportional and serif fonts exist for a reason: they make long paragraphs of text more pleasant to read. Words can be better identified by their shape, which makes them easier to distinguish at a glance.<p>I suppose you could have a separate terminal configuration with a different font for this app, but standalone reader apps or, better yet, e-ink devices, do a much better job of making text easier to read for long periods of time.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>sw104</author><text>Wholly agree, but to each their own.<p>I, and many people, just don&#x27;t want to read a book in monospaced font, sat at a desk with a desktop PC&#x2F;laptop.<p>I&#x27;d take a Kindle&#x2F;e-reader over that setup any day. I can read in bed, on a bench outside, in 10&#x2F;15 minute gaps throughout the day, can make a 2 hour train&#x2F;bus ride fly past. The most pleasant of all is sitting under a tree on a spring&#x2F;summer day.<p>Neat project nonetheless. Any reading is better than no reading.</text></comment> | <story><title>Burgr – Books in Your Terminal</title><url>https://blubsblog.bearblog.dev/burgr-books-in-your-terminal/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>imiric</author><text>This is neat, but why would you want to read books in a monospaced font? Proportional and serif fonts exist for a reason: they make long paragraphs of text more pleasant to read. Words can be better identified by their shape, which makes them easier to distinguish at a glance.<p>I suppose you could have a separate terminal configuration with a different font for this app, but standalone reader apps or, better yet, e-ink devices, do a much better job of making text easier to read for long periods of time.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>zozbot234</author><text>We are still quite far from having truly &quot;pleasant to read&quot; long-form text in our computers or browsers. Real typesetting programs use optimized line setting and micro-adjustments in typography to make long stretches of text a bit easier on the eyes, but there&#x27;s no support for this either in browsers or in most word processors intended for basic office use.</text></comment> |
39,108,911 | 39,103,304 | 1 | 3 | 39,102,069 | train | <story><title>Another Roman dodecahedron has been unearthed in England</title><url>https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/another-of-ancient-romes-mysterious-12-sided-objects-has-been-found-in-england-180983632/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mildchalupa</author><text>I thought it was determined to be a glove finger knitting apparatus.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mkehrt</author><text>Roman dodecahedra predate knitting by almost a thousand years. The earliest known knitting was from the 11th century (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Knitting#History_and_culture" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Knitting#History_and_culture</a>), while the earliest dodecahedra are from the 2nd century (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Roman_dodecahedron#History" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Roman_dodecahedron#History</a>)</text></comment> | <story><title>Another Roman dodecahedron has been unearthed in England</title><url>https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/another-of-ancient-romes-mysterious-12-sided-objects-has-been-found-in-england-180983632/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mildchalupa</author><text>I thought it was determined to be a glove finger knitting apparatus.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>thih9</author><text>Related, video showing its use in knitting: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=76AvV601yJ0" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=76AvV601yJ0</a></text></comment> |
12,048,531 | 12,048,319 | 1 | 3 | 12,047,553 | train | <story><title>Professional C# and F# IDE for the iPad</title><url>http://praeclarum.org/post/147003028753/continuous-c-and-f-ide-for-the-ipad</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>moonshinefe</author><text>Do many people use tablets for development? If someone uses them for development I&#x27;d be interested in hearing how well that&#x27;s worked out.<p>I think I might just be getting old, but it sounds like a terrible experience trying to code something on a touch screen (and non-desktop OS). But I&#x27;d imagine younger folks are very fast at typing on said touch screens these days, so maybe that mitigates some of it?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Nullabillity</author><text>As a reasonably &quot;younger folk&quot;, on-screen keyboards are still dreadful. You could attach a bluetooth keyboard or use an OTG cable (or use a USB-C keyboard if you can manage to find any :P), but at that point you&#x27;re just back to having a really awful laptop.<p>The Transformers were an interesting concept that could have made it viable, it&#x27;s too bad that they switched to Windows...</text></comment> | <story><title>Professional C# and F# IDE for the iPad</title><url>http://praeclarum.org/post/147003028753/continuous-c-and-f-ide-for-the-ipad</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>moonshinefe</author><text>Do many people use tablets for development? If someone uses them for development I&#x27;d be interested in hearing how well that&#x27;s worked out.<p>I think I might just be getting old, but it sounds like a terrible experience trying to code something on a touch screen (and non-desktop OS). But I&#x27;d imagine younger folks are very fast at typing on said touch screens these days, so maybe that mitigates some of it?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>hacker_9</author><text>You&#x27;re right the experience isn&#x27;t great, that doesn&#x27;t stop people trying though. There are many mobile IDEs too that try all sorts of different layouts, but they are all an exercise in frustration at the end of the day. I think really it can never work, but it&#x27;s interesting to see things like this, if only to verify the problem.</text></comment> |
34,233,818 | 34,233,475 | 1 | 2 | 34,231,634 | train | <story><title>Please write a breaking news article about a leaf falling from a tree</title><url>https://www.learngpt.com/prompts/please-write-a-breaking-news-article-about-a-leaf</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>matt1</author><text>Nice surprise seeing LearnGPT (my tool) on the HackerNews again today :)<p>Here&#x27;s the LearnGPT launch post from a few weeks ago: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=33923907" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=33923907</a><p>Shortly we&#x27;re going to expand the site to include other GPT related content like news articles, popular tweets, and other resources to help folks interested in leveling up their GPT skills or just following along with the latest developments.<p>Feedback&#x2F;suggestions welcome!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>samschooler</author><text>This site is great. I&#x27;d love to contribute but could there be an option to sign up other then Google?</text></comment> | <story><title>Please write a breaking news article about a leaf falling from a tree</title><url>https://www.learngpt.com/prompts/please-write-a-breaking-news-article-about-a-leaf</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>matt1</author><text>Nice surprise seeing LearnGPT (my tool) on the HackerNews again today :)<p>Here&#x27;s the LearnGPT launch post from a few weeks ago: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=33923907" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=33923907</a><p>Shortly we&#x27;re going to expand the site to include other GPT related content like news articles, popular tweets, and other resources to help folks interested in leveling up their GPT skills or just following along with the latest developments.<p>Feedback&#x2F;suggestions welcome!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>johnsillings</author><text>It&#x27;d be cool to get an occasional email digest with the best ones from the week&#x2F;month.</text></comment> |
16,270,749 | 16,269,456 | 1 | 3 | 16,255,680 | train | <story><title>Audio Adversarial Examples</title><url>https://nicholas.carlini.com/code/audio_adversarial_examples/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jchw</author><text>I wonder if it&#x27;s possible for an attack like this to work against the human brain.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>grondilu</author><text>That&#x27;s the purpose of magic[1], isn&#x27;t it? Maybe one day magic tricks will be designed by AI. It&#x27;d be funny, since that would gave Arthur C. Clark famous quote (&quot;any sufficiently advanced technology...&quot;) a whole new meaning.<p>1. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Magic_(illusion)" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Magic_(illusion)</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Audio Adversarial Examples</title><url>https://nicholas.carlini.com/code/audio_adversarial_examples/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jchw</author><text>I wonder if it&#x27;s possible for an attack like this to work against the human brain.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>colechristensen</author><text>Flashy cartoons give some people seizures.<p>I&#x27;d bet they could be engineered to affect a higher proportion of the population.</text></comment> |
30,536,789 | 30,536,902 | 1 | 2 | 30,533,540 | train | <story><title>Google mandates workers back to Silicon Valley, other offices from April 4</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/technology/google-mandates-workers-back-silicon-valley-other-offices-april-4-2022-03-02/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>carom</author><text>Lonely is an incredibly accurate way to describe working at Google. Everyone says the office perks are there to trick you to stay, but our work area was quieter than a library and no one hung around. If people were talking they&#x27;d legit catch themselves and be like, we should grab a conference room. Incredibly polite but also an uncomfortably quiet environment.<p>I think a lot of people just wanted to put in their hours and get home to their families. I love pool but never played with anyone on the table one floor down because it just wasn&#x27;t a make-friends environment. I think I shot the shit with someone when I got into work a handful of times in the more-than-a-year that I worked there. Huge reason I left.<p>This isn&#x27;t even coming from a social person. I prefer WFH. I don&#x27;t particularly like going out. However, if I&#x27;m gonna be forced to be around people I&#x27;d at least like it to be pleasant.</text></item><item><author>skybrian</author><text>I&#x27;ve worked at a startup where everyone being there was essential in how we worked. (We were all pair programming.) It was great. It beats code reviews any day. I learned a lot.<p>But when I was at Google, we would schedule VC meetings with people in a different part of campus just to avoid the walk. Also, I worked on teams that had people worked out in many offices, mostly not Mountain View. I was surrounded by Googlers in an open-plan office, but it was often lonely. I ate alone sometimes. It was often not worth the commute.<p>I think Google having a company-wide policy on this is nuts. Teams vary a lot. They should probably be left to make their own decisions.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>closeparen</author><text>That sounds amazing, I dearly wish for &quot;library rules&quot; on the floor. The office has plenty of social and collaborative spaces that aren&#x27;t where my keyboard&#x2F;monitor&#x2F;charger are, and switching to one of those spaces when you&#x27;re going to have a conversation is a good norm.</text></comment> | <story><title>Google mandates workers back to Silicon Valley, other offices from April 4</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/technology/google-mandates-workers-back-silicon-valley-other-offices-april-4-2022-03-02/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>carom</author><text>Lonely is an incredibly accurate way to describe working at Google. Everyone says the office perks are there to trick you to stay, but our work area was quieter than a library and no one hung around. If people were talking they&#x27;d legit catch themselves and be like, we should grab a conference room. Incredibly polite but also an uncomfortably quiet environment.<p>I think a lot of people just wanted to put in their hours and get home to their families. I love pool but never played with anyone on the table one floor down because it just wasn&#x27;t a make-friends environment. I think I shot the shit with someone when I got into work a handful of times in the more-than-a-year that I worked there. Huge reason I left.<p>This isn&#x27;t even coming from a social person. I prefer WFH. I don&#x27;t particularly like going out. However, if I&#x27;m gonna be forced to be around people I&#x27;d at least like it to be pleasant.</text></item><item><author>skybrian</author><text>I&#x27;ve worked at a startup where everyone being there was essential in how we worked. (We were all pair programming.) It was great. It beats code reviews any day. I learned a lot.<p>But when I was at Google, we would schedule VC meetings with people in a different part of campus just to avoid the walk. Also, I worked on teams that had people worked out in many offices, mostly not Mountain View. I was surrounded by Googlers in an open-plan office, but it was often lonely. I ate alone sometimes. It was often not worth the commute.<p>I think Google having a company-wide policy on this is nuts. Teams vary a lot. They should probably be left to make their own decisions.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mrosett</author><text>100% agree on this.<p>I&#x27;ve attended the weddings of multiple friends from my first job. I&#x27;m still in touch with 4-5 people from my second job. I haven&#x27;t spoken to anyone from my team at Google since the day I left. I had good, cordial relationships with all of them, but it was also incredibly impersonal. I don&#x27;t even recall learning anything about anyone&#x27;s spouse, for instance.</text></comment> |
3,982,838 | 3,982,247 | 1 | 2 | 3,982,041 | train | <story><title>The 10k Bootstrap Challenge</title><url>http://bootstrapchallenge.com/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>clarky07</author><text>I did this about a year ago. It took me about 2 months to get self sustaining and 6 months to reach my previous salary. Been thinking about writing it up, maybe I should go ahead and do it.<p>Good luck, living off income from things you make is a great thing.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>clarky07</author><text>Since so many asked for it I decided to knock it out. Here's my story - <a href="http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3982830" rel="nofollow">http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3982830</a></text></comment> | <story><title>The 10k Bootstrap Challenge</title><url>http://bootstrapchallenge.com/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>clarky07</author><text>I did this about a year ago. It took me about 2 months to get self sustaining and 6 months to reach my previous salary. Been thinking about writing it up, maybe I should go ahead and do it.<p>Good luck, living off income from things you make is a great thing.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>alinajaf</author><text>Yes please! I've been trying to crack this particular nut for nigh on half a decade and still haven't made much headway, so it would be great to read about how you managed it.</text></comment> |
17,584,104 | 17,581,976 | 1 | 2 | 17,581,536 | train | <story><title>Autopsy of a deep learning paper</title><url>https://blog.piekniewski.info/2018/07/14/autopsy-dl-paper/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>chillee</author><text>Cmon, wtf? Some of the criticisms here just aren&#x27;t even close to valid. He spends a half of the blog post criticizing them spending 100 GPUs on the Imagenet classification experiment,<p>&gt; So they trained it using 100 GPUs (100 GPUs dear lord!), and got no difference until fourth decimal digit! 100 GPU&#x27;s to get a difference on fourth decimal digit! I think somebody at Google of Facebook should reproduce this result using 10000 GPU&#x27;s, perhaps they will get a difference at a third decimal digit. Or maybe not, but whatever, those GPU&#x27;s need to do something right?<p>Wow. This is just a blatant mischaracterization of what&#x27;s going on. First of all, this result is in the appendix. It&#x27;s not meant to be an important result of the paper. In the appendix, they explicitly write:<p>&gt;Of all vision tasks, we might expect image classification to show the least performance change when
using CoordConv instead of convolution, as classification is more about what is in the image than
where it is. This tiny amount of improvement validates that.<p>In contrast, they compare against object detection (in which the spatial location matters), and get substantially better results.<p>This is just a standard &quot;negative&quot; result, to validate the fact that what they think is happening is actually happening empirically.<p>The fact that this blog post mocks them for that, and much of HN is laughing along with the blog is seriously disappointing.</text></comment> | <story><title>Autopsy of a deep learning paper</title><url>https://blog.piekniewski.info/2018/07/14/autopsy-dl-paper/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>cs702</author><text>The OP seemingly forgot to mention the fact that using CoordConv with GANs results in more realistic generation of images, with smooth geometric transformations (including translation and deformations) of objects. Examples:<p>* <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;eng.uber.com&#x2F;wp-content&#x2F;uploads&#x2F;2018&#x2F;07&#x2F;image5.gif" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;eng.uber.com&#x2F;wp-content&#x2F;uploads&#x2F;2018&#x2F;07&#x2F;image5.gif</a><p>* <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;eng.uber.com&#x2F;wp-content&#x2F;uploads&#x2F;2018&#x2F;07&#x2F;image11.gif" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;eng.uber.com&#x2F;wp-content&#x2F;uploads&#x2F;2018&#x2F;07&#x2F;image11.gif</a><p>* <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;eng.uber.com&#x2F;wp-content&#x2F;uploads&#x2F;2018&#x2F;07&#x2F;image12.gif" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;eng.uber.com&#x2F;wp-content&#x2F;uploads&#x2F;2018&#x2F;07&#x2F;image12.gif</a><p>These and other examples suggest CoordConv can <i>significantly improve the quality of the representations</i> learned by existing architectures.<p>That doesn&#x27;t seem so &quot;trivial.&quot;</text></comment> |
37,870,105 | 37,870,132 | 1 | 2 | 37,869,760 | train | <story><title>Why you shouldn't join Y Combinator</title><url>https://newsletter.smallbets.co/p/why-you-shouldnt-join-y-combinator</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>greatpostman</author><text>If you build a business that makes 500k a year, which can be done with 30-50 customers for saas selling for 10-15k, you can sell the business and retire. Even at 250k a year, you have an asset that could change your financial life for good.<p>If you raise VC money, the above scenarios are considered a failure. You will have to shutdown&#x2F;get acquired for nothing. You have to shoot for the moon to get massive ARR, that very very few companies ever hit.<p>It’s really about the level of success needed to have a financial windfall, and bootstrapping is way lower for that.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>gavinhoward</author><text>I&#x27;m a business owner currently doing what the parent says to do, and the parent is <i>exactly</i> correct.<p>I want a business that can support my wife and me; 500k is my target, and it would be a great situation for us because I would have a great work&#x2F;life balance (based on how much time I spend right now).<p>But if I took money, the investors would clamor for <i>more</i>, and the stress would probably kill me.</text></comment> | <story><title>Why you shouldn't join Y Combinator</title><url>https://newsletter.smallbets.co/p/why-you-shouldnt-join-y-combinator</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>greatpostman</author><text>If you build a business that makes 500k a year, which can be done with 30-50 customers for saas selling for 10-15k, you can sell the business and retire. Even at 250k a year, you have an asset that could change your financial life for good.<p>If you raise VC money, the above scenarios are considered a failure. You will have to shutdown&#x2F;get acquired for nothing. You have to shoot for the moon to get massive ARR, that very very few companies ever hit.<p>It’s really about the level of success needed to have a financial windfall, and bootstrapping is way lower for that.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Waterluvian</author><text>This general concept is what I wish I’d see more of: it’s okay not to grow.<p>When you’re a public or funded company you have no choice. You must grow until you pop. But if you’re some small private org, you can carve out a very comfortable niche.</text></comment> |
7,610,431 | 7,610,282 | 1 | 2 | 7,610,221 | train | <story><title>Airbnb closes $500M round of funding at a $10B valuation, led By TPG</title><url>http://techcrunch.com/2014/04/18/airbnb-has-closed-its-500m-round-of-funding-at-a-10b-valuation-led-by-tpg/?ncid=rss</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>tptacek</author><text>Parroting Andreesen from Twitter last night:<p>The valuation number is misleading. You&#x27;re looking at the snapshot price of a relative small fraction of Airbnb&#x27;s equity at a particular moment in time; just as 1,000,000 shares of XYZ will likely trade at a lower price than 1 share, so too might the valuation be lower for the whole company.<p>More importantly, these aren&#x27;t common shares; they&#x27;re shares with privileges attached to them, and thus command a higher value.<p>Finally, VC&#x27;s perspective towards share valuation is different than that of a &quot;value investor&quot;; a VC looks at the shares as if they were options, with a limited (1x investment) downside but an uncapped upside.<p>These aren&#x27;t my insights; they&#x27;re taken from a bulleted list Andreesen twerped last night. They sound convincing to me.</text></comment> | <story><title>Airbnb closes $500M round of funding at a $10B valuation, led By TPG</title><url>http://techcrunch.com/2014/04/18/airbnb-has-closed-its-500m-round-of-funding-at-a-10b-valuation-led-by-tpg/?ncid=rss</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>dylandrop</author><text>Just out of curiosity, what could this possibly be spent on? Assuming it is going to be used to build out in foreign markets, is this mostly advertising&#x2F;marketing costs? It already seems like they have a pretty good foothold in foreign markets. I can&#x27;t imagine with $250M&#x2F;yr in revenue they really need that $500M for hiring people. Also - how much does this leave the founders with in terms of %?<p>One speculation I have that might answer my first question is that they&#x27;re going to spend this on lobbying and legal battles.</text></comment> |
11,434,069 | 11,431,586 | 1 | 2 | 11,430,945 | train | <story><title>WhatsApp Just Switched on Encryption for a Billion People</title><url>http://www.wired.com/2016/04/forget-apple-vs-fbi-whatsapp-just-switched-encryption-billion-people/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>dang</author><text><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=11431108" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=11431108</a></text></comment> | <story><title>WhatsApp Just Switched on Encryption for a Billion People</title><url>http://www.wired.com/2016/04/forget-apple-vs-fbi-whatsapp-just-switched-encryption-billion-people/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>visarga</author><text>&gt; The encryption genie is out of the bottle<p>&gt; There was a middle period where the government had a broad ability to surveil, but if you look at human history in total, people evolved and civilizations evolved with private conversations and private speech. If anything, we’re bringing that back to individuals.<p>I think on the contrary, the surveillance demon is out of the bottle. It&#x27;s too hard to hide metadata such as ip addresses in communications; in many places Tor is blocked, browsers can be fingerprinted, typing style and writing style can be identified by statistical methods; we depend on auto-updated operating systems that might be backdoored in the future or are already backdoored and even if we have an &quot;untraceable&quot; system, we can&#x27;t possibly use our old accounts were we logged in with our real name, or using our real IP address in the past. So, anonymous web use is not as social as plain web use. Besides, we already leak too much data through our GSM phones, at least to the carrier and the state agencies that log the user data.</text></comment> |
19,942,798 | 19,942,774 | 1 | 2 | 19,942,142 | train | <story><title>Homeless Population Jumps by Thousands Across the San Francisco Bay Area</title><url>https://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-northern-california-homeless-count-20190517-story.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>shawndrost</author><text>The phenomenon you&#x27;re talking about wouldn&#x27;t explain much of the problem, given that most homeless people lived here before they were homeless. In the 2017 census, 69% of SF homeless were from SF, and 21% were from elsewhere in CA. 10% out of state.</text></item><item><author>the_economist</author><text>San Francisco gives homeless people $520&#x2F;month in cash. Unclear whether other Bay Area cities do the same. This is quite the incentive for homeless from around the state to move here, though. Whether or not it causes people to move here, it certainly funds much of the drug-fueled insanity we see on the streets.<p>This program gives out around $25 mil&#x2F;year: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.sfhsa.org&#x2F;services&#x2F;jobs-money&#x2F;county-adult-assistance-programs-caap" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.sfhsa.org&#x2F;services&#x2F;jobs-money&#x2F;county-adult-assis...</a><p>Most of the money is given out in the Tenderloin: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.sfhsa.org&#x2F;file&#x2F;7161&#x2F;download?token=ywGXXXRl" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.sfhsa.org&#x2F;file&#x2F;7161&#x2F;download?token=ywGXXXRl</a><p>More info: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.sfhsa.org&#x2F;about&#x2F;reports-publications&#x2F;human-services-reports" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.sfhsa.org&#x2F;about&#x2F;reports-publications&#x2F;human-servi...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rb808</author><text>This surprised me so I checked, the detail is: &quot;Sixty-nine percent (69%) of respondents reported they were living in San Francisco at the time they
most recently became homeless. Of those, over half (55%) had lived in San Francisco for 10 or more
years. Eight percent (8%) had lived in San Francisco for less than one year. &quot;<p>So comes to 38% of homeless had previously been living in SF for 10 years.<p>Is Page 22 here: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;hsh.sfgov.org&#x2F;wp-content&#x2F;uploads&#x2F;2017&#x2F;06&#x2F;2017-SF-Point-in-Time-Count-General-FINAL-6.21.17.pdf" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;hsh.sfgov.org&#x2F;wp-content&#x2F;uploads&#x2F;2017&#x2F;06&#x2F;2017-SF-Poin...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Homeless Population Jumps by Thousands Across the San Francisco Bay Area</title><url>https://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-northern-california-homeless-count-20190517-story.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>shawndrost</author><text>The phenomenon you&#x27;re talking about wouldn&#x27;t explain much of the problem, given that most homeless people lived here before they were homeless. In the 2017 census, 69% of SF homeless were from SF, and 21% were from elsewhere in CA. 10% out of state.</text></item><item><author>the_economist</author><text>San Francisco gives homeless people $520&#x2F;month in cash. Unclear whether other Bay Area cities do the same. This is quite the incentive for homeless from around the state to move here, though. Whether or not it causes people to move here, it certainly funds much of the drug-fueled insanity we see on the streets.<p>This program gives out around $25 mil&#x2F;year: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.sfhsa.org&#x2F;services&#x2F;jobs-money&#x2F;county-adult-assistance-programs-caap" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.sfhsa.org&#x2F;services&#x2F;jobs-money&#x2F;county-adult-assis...</a><p>Most of the money is given out in the Tenderloin: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.sfhsa.org&#x2F;file&#x2F;7161&#x2F;download?token=ywGXXXRl" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.sfhsa.org&#x2F;file&#x2F;7161&#x2F;download?token=ywGXXXRl</a><p>More info: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.sfhsa.org&#x2F;about&#x2F;reports-publications&#x2F;human-services-reports" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.sfhsa.org&#x2F;about&#x2F;reports-publications&#x2F;human-servi...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>floren</author><text>By your own numbers, 31% of homeless in SF, nearly a third, came from either elsewhere in the state (as OP posits) or another state entirely. That&#x27;s a pretty big chunk of the problem.</text></comment> |
29,837,340 | 29,836,937 | 1 | 2 | 29,835,756 | train | <story><title>Kagi: A Premium Search Engine</title><url>https://kagi.com/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>amatecha</author><text>Whoa... this was really confusing to me for a moment. Kagi.com used to be one of the premier digital commerce platforms for software and shareware, especially Mac games, serving customers from 1994 until 2016. [0][1][2] Anyone who registered one of Ambrosia&#x27;s awesome shareware games used Kagi&#x27;s services, for example. It&#x27;s really weird to see the company name and domain return again in this way! Best of luck to the team to live up to this legendary name :)<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;web.archive.org&#x2F;web&#x2F;19961216050944&#x2F;http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.kagi.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;web.archive.org&#x2F;web&#x2F;19961216050944&#x2F;http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.kagi.c...</a><p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;web.archive.org&#x2F;web&#x2F;20160413151203&#x2F;https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.kagi.com&#x2F;company&#x2F;about-kagi" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;web.archive.org&#x2F;web&#x2F;20160413151203&#x2F;https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.kagi....</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;tidbits.com&#x2F;2016&#x2F;08&#x2F;04&#x2F;kagi-shuts-down-after-falling-prey-to-fraud&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;tidbits.com&#x2F;2016&#x2F;08&#x2F;04&#x2F;kagi-shuts-down-after-falling...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>zmb_</author><text>This brought back memories. The first money I ever made from software as a teenager was through Kagi. It was some Mac utility shareware apps written in REALbasic around the year 2000.</text></comment> | <story><title>Kagi: A Premium Search Engine</title><url>https://kagi.com/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>amatecha</author><text>Whoa... this was really confusing to me for a moment. Kagi.com used to be one of the premier digital commerce platforms for software and shareware, especially Mac games, serving customers from 1994 until 2016. [0][1][2] Anyone who registered one of Ambrosia&#x27;s awesome shareware games used Kagi&#x27;s services, for example. It&#x27;s really weird to see the company name and domain return again in this way! Best of luck to the team to live up to this legendary name :)<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;web.archive.org&#x2F;web&#x2F;19961216050944&#x2F;http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.kagi.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;web.archive.org&#x2F;web&#x2F;19961216050944&#x2F;http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.kagi.c...</a><p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;web.archive.org&#x2F;web&#x2F;20160413151203&#x2F;https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.kagi.com&#x2F;company&#x2F;about-kagi" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;web.archive.org&#x2F;web&#x2F;20160413151203&#x2F;https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.kagi....</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;tidbits.com&#x2F;2016&#x2F;08&#x2F;04&#x2F;kagi-shuts-down-after-falling-prey-to-fraud&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;tidbits.com&#x2F;2016&#x2F;08&#x2F;04&#x2F;kagi-shuts-down-after-falling...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>freediver</author><text>#nopressure</text></comment> |
14,355,785 | 14,355,784 | 1 | 2 | 14,355,051 | train | <story><title>The Boring Company FAQ</title><url>https://www.boringcompany.com/faq</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>nihonde</author><text>Tokyo is a much bigger city. They solved the problem by building elevated toll highways. Much simpler solution than digging new holes everywhere and keeping those silly carts running.</text></item><item><author>zild3d</author><text>If NYC didn&#x27;t have a third dimension for transportation (subway and trains), no amount of busses and bikes would fix the soul-destroying traffic. The listed alternatives are all nice, but none of them allow you to move at 125+ mph. We should be able to get to our destination faster, not just with a bit less soul-destruction. Remote work is of course not for every or even most professions, and I don&#x27;t see why it would reduce the density of cities. Cities are still highly desired to live in outside of work</text></item><item><author>discodave</author><text>The old strategy of hiding your outlandish claim in an assertion in the first sentence!<p>&quot;To solve the problem of soul-destroying traffic, roads must go 3D&quot;<p>The word &quot;must&quot; is a very strong one here, there are other options:<p>* Reduce the amount of travel that people need to do (remote work, online shopping).<p>* Reduce the density of cities (enabled by remote work or longer commutes with better internet access).<p>* Increase public transport options (higher passenger density).<p>* Encourage cycling.<p>I feel like only somebody who lives in LA would make the &quot;must&quot; assertion and not think about all the other options... oh wait:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bloomberg.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;videos&#x2F;b&#x2F;6e27fcba-309d-494e-b87d-c73fb8bb1750" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bloomberg.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;videos&#x2F;b&#x2F;6e27fcba-309d-494e-b...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>sien</author><text>Also by going underground. Tokyo&#x27;s metro is fantastic and one of the few globally that has more than 100% farebox recover ratio.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Farebox_recovery_ratio#Farebox_ratios_around_the_world" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Farebox_recovery_ratio#Farebox...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>The Boring Company FAQ</title><url>https://www.boringcompany.com/faq</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>nihonde</author><text>Tokyo is a much bigger city. They solved the problem by building elevated toll highways. Much simpler solution than digging new holes everywhere and keeping those silly carts running.</text></item><item><author>zild3d</author><text>If NYC didn&#x27;t have a third dimension for transportation (subway and trains), no amount of busses and bikes would fix the soul-destroying traffic. The listed alternatives are all nice, but none of them allow you to move at 125+ mph. We should be able to get to our destination faster, not just with a bit less soul-destruction. Remote work is of course not for every or even most professions, and I don&#x27;t see why it would reduce the density of cities. Cities are still highly desired to live in outside of work</text></item><item><author>discodave</author><text>The old strategy of hiding your outlandish claim in an assertion in the first sentence!<p>&quot;To solve the problem of soul-destroying traffic, roads must go 3D&quot;<p>The word &quot;must&quot; is a very strong one here, there are other options:<p>* Reduce the amount of travel that people need to do (remote work, online shopping).<p>* Reduce the density of cities (enabled by remote work or longer commutes with better internet access).<p>* Increase public transport options (higher passenger density).<p>* Encourage cycling.<p>I feel like only somebody who lives in LA would make the &quot;must&quot; assertion and not think about all the other options... oh wait:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bloomberg.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;videos&#x2F;b&#x2F;6e27fcba-309d-494e-b87d-c73fb8bb1750" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bloomberg.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;videos&#x2F;b&#x2F;6e27fcba-309d-494e-b...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>benliong78</author><text>Living in another crowded city, Hong Kong, perhaps I can offer some perspective: We have tons of elevated tools highways and bypasses aimed at reducing traffic, the problem is all these elevated roads needs to go around a lot of tall buildings. Going underground with subway already provides us with better solution to a lot more of our traffic problem. What the boring company&#x27;s proposing isn&#x27;t all that different from the subway solution (we already have subway going three or four level deep), it simply allows cars to transported via subway.</text></comment> |
38,333,750 | 38,333,802 | 1 | 3 | 38,333,271 | train | <story><title>I cancelled my Replit subscription</title><url>https://journal.paoloamoroso.com/why-i-cancelled-my-replit-subscription</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>_sword</author><text>In an open market with alternatives I can’t really sympathize with points of view such as “I don’t like that pricing went up so my vendor can be profitable.” If you like a product and want it to be available long term, you would want it to be a self sustaining business, not a cash bonfire.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Etheryte</author><text>This argument doesn&#x27;t really make any sense. Why would anyone be loyal to one specific vendor when, as you say, there&#x27;s many comparable alternatives available? You don&#x27;t intentionally buy food at the most expensive store just to make the store more sustainable&#x2F;profitable, do you?</text></comment> | <story><title>I cancelled my Replit subscription</title><url>https://journal.paoloamoroso.com/why-i-cancelled-my-replit-subscription</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>_sword</author><text>In an open market with alternatives I can’t really sympathize with points of view such as “I don’t like that pricing went up so my vendor can be profitable.” If you like a product and want it to be available long term, you would want it to be a self sustaining business, not a cash bonfire.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>avg_dev</author><text>A couple of thoughts:<p>1. Since you say it is an open market with alternatives, I don’t see why you seem to take issue with the blog post author taking one of the alternatives.<p>2. I thought the author did have some issues with the product. Like lack of persistence of uploaded files, price going up, and the support for the author’s current main language, Lisp, being not as good as for Python.</text></comment> |
26,818,534 | 26,818,452 | 1 | 2 | 26,817,301 | train | <story><title>France cuts two nuclear-powered submarines in half to make one new one</title><url>https://abc17news.com/news/national-world/2021/04/14/france-cuts-two-nuclear-powered-submarines-in-half-to-make-one-new-one/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bloak</author><text>That sounds like the notorious &quot;cut and shut&quot; thing where criminals create a dangerous vehicle for the second-hand market, except that it&#x27;s from a different era. Seeing as a 1965 Mercedes is built rather differently from a typical modern car, and safety standards have changed since then, too ... any comments on how hard it is to this without compromising safety?</text></item><item><author>danboarder</author><text>This story reminded me of a project my father did with two 1965 Mercedes sedans; one was hit in the front, the other in the back. He cut them both in half where the roof meets the rear window, and welded and reassembled the two good halves into a perfectly functional car that we drove for years. Not the scale of the French submarine project, but the same kind of ingenuity -- it was still a big project to get everything rewired and all put back together, including bodywork and paint!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>throwaway0a5e</author><text>Combining vehicles like this is one of those things that isn&#x27;t bad but gets the Reddit experts screeching because their only experience is that their mom&#x27;s sister&#x27;s boyfriend&#x27;s uncle&#x27;s roommate got swindled by someone doing a crap job on a Civic that they thought they were getting a good deal on.<p>Vehicles build on frames are cut and extended&#x2F;shortened all the time as a part of routine modifications for commercial use and it&#x27;s far less labor intensive to &quot;do right&quot; than a unibody vehicle. Putting two good halfs together is no big deal and is a relatively standard operation, all the known techniques and whatnot transfers right over. (I assume a 60s Mercedes falls into this category.) Unibody vehicles are also routinely repaired in this manner in eastern Europe where it&#x27;s cheaper to buy wrecked stuff from the west and fix than to buy new. In the west the limo and mobility van industry does very similar things (only they&#x27;re inserting stuff in the middle rather than repairing the car)<p>People do cut and weld jobs all the time for their own personal vehicles and classic cars. When you&#x27;re doing it for your own car or a car you don&#x27;t intend to flip you can afford to spend the time to do it right.<p>Quick hackjobs are the issue, not the technique.</text></comment> | <story><title>France cuts two nuclear-powered submarines in half to make one new one</title><url>https://abc17news.com/news/national-world/2021/04/14/france-cuts-two-nuclear-powered-submarines-in-half-to-make-one-new-one/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bloak</author><text>That sounds like the notorious &quot;cut and shut&quot; thing where criminals create a dangerous vehicle for the second-hand market, except that it&#x27;s from a different era. Seeing as a 1965 Mercedes is built rather differently from a typical modern car, and safety standards have changed since then, too ... any comments on how hard it is to this without compromising safety?</text></item><item><author>danboarder</author><text>This story reminded me of a project my father did with two 1965 Mercedes sedans; one was hit in the front, the other in the back. He cut them both in half where the roof meets the rear window, and welded and reassembled the two good halves into a perfectly functional car that we drove for years. Not the scale of the French submarine project, but the same kind of ingenuity -- it was still a big project to get everything rewired and all put back together, including bodywork and paint!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Tade0</author><text>My friend is a car mechanic and his weekend car is a 1985 Nissan Z31, which he welded from two halves - front and back.<p>It&#x27;s physically <i>possible</i> to do it and maintain reasonable safety but you need proper equipment, skills and time.<p>The frame is generally not designed to be welded like that, so without reinforcement it will be significantly weaker.<p>He did is as a hobby project but generally done properly such operations are not cost-effective.<p>Nevertheless it&#x27;s still a service some shops provide at the cost of safety.<p>My aunt used to have such a car - she only noticed because she was blowing through sets of tires - the halves were misaligned(rotated) by less than one degree in each axis, but it was enough to make proper tire alignment impossible.</text></comment> |
2,527,475 | 2,527,192 | 1 | 2 | 2,526,864 | train | <story><title>How To: Spend your investors’ money</title><url>http://stu.mp/2011/05/howto-spend-your-investors-money.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>softw2</author><text>My question is, how do you get $500,000 for a feature you can get by clicking "Show Search Options" in Gmail? I do get the bigger picture but I don't see how to monetize it or prevent Google from mimicking it a 1000% better if it gets popular.</text></comment> | <story><title>How To: Spend your investors’ money</title><url>http://stu.mp/2011/05/howto-spend-your-investors-money.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>frederickcook</author><text>What is the investor expectation on runway for a seed round like attachments.me did? 12-18 months?</text></comment> |
10,374,631 | 10,374,163 | 1 | 2 | 10,373,051 | train | <story><title>How I Teach Gerrymandering</title><url>http://mitesp.tumblr.com/post/130793404248/how-i-teach-gerrymandering</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>emehrkay</author><text>I haven&#x27;t read the article yet, but I was halfway expecting to see this picture:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;upload.wikimedia.org&#x2F;wikipedia&#x2F;commons&#x2F;thumb&#x2F;5&#x2F;55&#x2F;How_to_Steal_an_Election_-_Gerrymandering.svg&#x2F;2000px-How_to_Steal_an_Election_-_Gerrymandering.svg.png" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;upload.wikimedia.org&#x2F;wikipedia&#x2F;commons&#x2F;thumb&#x2F;5&#x2F;55&#x2F;Ho...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>How I Teach Gerrymandering</title><url>http://mitesp.tumblr.com/post/130793404248/how-i-teach-gerrymandering</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>gortok</author><text>This is a great way to teach gerrymandering. It also illustrates the problem with &#x27;Party X is evil, Party Y is not.&#x27;<p>Political parties (stripping away all else) are groups of people who identify with one another. Take that one step further, and they&#x27;re groups of people that identify with one another <i>and believe their group is the best one to represent the whole</i>.<p>Or, if you are less idealistic, they want to win (I subscribe to the idea that they want to win because they think their way is the best way and they like the power).<p>Once you believe those few things, it&#x27;s easy to understand why politicians aren&#x27;t evil, they&#x27;re just vested in their group; in the same way you&#x27;d be vested in your group of friends vs. some random sampling of people you met on the street.<p>Does this make our current set of political problems insurmountable? No; we just have to mold the system so that no one party can have absolute control even if they control the central government. Maybe by delegating a small set of powers to the central government and keeping most governing done at the local level. Maybe we could call it a constitutional republic?</text></comment> |
2,439,965 | 2,438,949 | 1 | 2 | 2,438,181 | train | <story><title>How Dropbox sacrifices user privacy for cost savings </title><url>http://paranoia.dubfire.net/2011/04/how-dropbox-sacrifices-user-privacy-for.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>arashf</author><text>Hi all, Arash from Dropbox here. We understand the concern that the government could try to guess whether a particular file has been uploaded to Dropbox based on processing times and then request that Dropbox identify a user who has access to that file. However, to seek user content information, the government needs to comply with the provisions of the Electronic Communications Privacy Act by obtaining a warrant supported by probable cause (or in some cases a court order from a judge). Those safeguards protect user privacy. De-duplication does not make users any more vulnerable to intrusive government actions. Today, a government agency could ask any online service to provide the names of all users who have a particular file, whether or not the service employs de-duplication. And in that case, the government would also need to support its request with a warrant or court order. The rules that provide a check against unwarranted government snooping apply to online services equally, regardless of their back-end architecture.</text></comment> | <story><title>How Dropbox sacrifices user privacy for cost savings </title><url>http://paranoia.dubfire.net/2011/04/how-dropbox-sacrifices-user-privacy-for.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>pacemkr</author><text>I think most of us, if we were developing Dropbox, would have made the same decisions. De-duping at the cost of complete privacy, even in the face of law, is a sound technical and business decision for a service such as Dropbox.<p>When I think Dropbox, I think sharing, I think convenience, I don't think backup and security. For backup I need more space, for security I need to use my own private key (not a password that one can change/recover). Neither of these things is offered by Dropbox. And this is the reason why I never confused Dropbox with, say, CrashPlan. One is a way to share and collaborate, the other is a place to send my private key encrypted bits to.<p>My individual privacy is not compromised by somebody being able to say if a certain file is stored by the entirety of Dropbox user base. The other claim, that, given a court order, Dropbox can be forced to turn over your files or tell the court if you store a certain file _may_ be true, but I don't think Dropbox, the company, has ever promised that level of security.</text></comment> |
1,300,949 | 1,300,946 | 1 | 3 | 1,300,882 | train | <story><title>93% of 2006 AAA-rated subprime mortgage-backed securities now rated junk</title><url>http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/26/opinion/26krugman.html</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>btilly</author><text>When people say they will act one way and have financial incentives to act another, expect them to follow the financial incentives.<p>Appropriate regulation can help for a bit. But unfortunately the regulated party has incentives to provide incentives (such as contributions to political campaigns) to gain control of the regulations. This leads to regulatory capture that then renders the regulations ineffective.<p>In a perfect world we'd be forcing the banks right now to write down securities that took a hit, forcing them to declare losses, which would mean that they wouldn't be paying out absurd bonuses. This would absorb the money we gave them from the bailout. In a slightly less perfect world we'd be enacting useful regulations that would avoid this problem returning for a few decades (such as happened during the Great Depression).<p>In the real world we gave the banks a big bailout, have let them mark securities to models of their choice, and they paid themselves big bonuses on their "profits". Of course they are still sitting on lots of toxic securities (like bad CMBS and the junk bonds issued by private equity) that they have not marked down yet. When that blows up we have good odds that they'll ask for another bailout. And the behavior of both parties says that the leadership will try to get it for them. They nearly didn't manage to deliver it last time, and given the public outrage since, they may not be able to deliver it next time.<p>This could lead to interesting times. Interesting times.</text></comment> | <story><title>93% of 2006 AAA-rated subprime mortgage-backed securities now rated junk</title><url>http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/26/opinion/26krugman.html</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>matasar</author><text>It seems to me that rating agencies should be paid by the institutional investors that buy the bonds, not the banks trying to sell them. That might help the incentives line up better.<p>Am I crazy? Nobody suggests this, and I think I'm missing something crucial here.</text></comment> |
39,837,536 | 39,836,174 | 1 | 3 | 39,800,416 | train | <story><title>Butterflies Full of Wasps Full of Microwasps Are a Science Nightmare (2021)</title><url>https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/butterflies-parasitic-wasps-finland</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>wolverine876</author><text>That we are part of some circle of whatever does not make the consequences of our actions, and therefore our actions, any better. The cyanobacteria were bad; we have more of a choice.<p>Also, if we release gasses that kill and impoverish large portions of us, it won&#x27;t help that it&#x27;s &#x27;natural&#x27;; it will make no difference at all.</text></item><item><author>hn_throwaway_99</author><text>We don&#x27;t, and I don&#x27;t bring up the following to excuse humanity for our destruction of other species, but it&#x27;s still just an interesting philosophical point to consider. We&#x27;re as much a part of the circle of life and evolution as all the organisms that came before us. I mean, you think <i>we&#x27;re</i> bad for other species, just think about cyanobacteria, which in their thirst for energy polluted the atmosphere with an extremely toxic gas that caused one of Earth&#x27;s major extinction events.<p>Of course, that gas was molecular oxygen, and eventually other organisms evolved aerobic respiration, and that toxic gas is now required by many of Earth&#x27;s organisms to survive. Now, that change took a billion years or so, as opposed to humans doubling CO2 concentrations in a couple hundred years, but it&#x27;s still interesting to think about the crazy history of life on Earth.</text></item><item><author>keepamovin</author><text>A reminder to humans who want to undertake ecosystem engineering projects: we don&#x27;t know what we&#x27;re doing.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>HPsquared</author><text>GP&#x27;s point was that cyanobacteria were NOT &quot;bad&quot;. They&#x27;re a part of nature, how can that be bad? Good and bad are strictly human constructs, relating to human (primarily social) behaviour.</text></comment> | <story><title>Butterflies Full of Wasps Full of Microwasps Are a Science Nightmare (2021)</title><url>https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/butterflies-parasitic-wasps-finland</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>wolverine876</author><text>That we are part of some circle of whatever does not make the consequences of our actions, and therefore our actions, any better. The cyanobacteria were bad; we have more of a choice.<p>Also, if we release gasses that kill and impoverish large portions of us, it won&#x27;t help that it&#x27;s &#x27;natural&#x27;; it will make no difference at all.</text></item><item><author>hn_throwaway_99</author><text>We don&#x27;t, and I don&#x27;t bring up the following to excuse humanity for our destruction of other species, but it&#x27;s still just an interesting philosophical point to consider. We&#x27;re as much a part of the circle of life and evolution as all the organisms that came before us. I mean, you think <i>we&#x27;re</i> bad for other species, just think about cyanobacteria, which in their thirst for energy polluted the atmosphere with an extremely toxic gas that caused one of Earth&#x27;s major extinction events.<p>Of course, that gas was molecular oxygen, and eventually other organisms evolved aerobic respiration, and that toxic gas is now required by many of Earth&#x27;s organisms to survive. Now, that change took a billion years or so, as opposed to humans doubling CO2 concentrations in a couple hundred years, but it&#x27;s still interesting to think about the crazy history of life on Earth.</text></item><item><author>keepamovin</author><text>A reminder to humans who want to undertake ecosystem engineering projects: we don&#x27;t know what we&#x27;re doing.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>frutiger</author><text>&gt; The cyanobacteria were bad<p>By which scales of justice?</text></comment> |
29,084,090 | 29,084,363 | 1 | 2 | 29,083,633 | train | <story><title>Apple Silicon Macs can't boot from external drive if internal drive failed</title><url>https://bombich.com/blog/2021/05/19/beyond-bootable-backups-adapting-recovery-strategies-evolving-platform</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>gameswithgo</author><text>Consider options like Framework laptops that let you actually own your hardware, and repair it.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>GhettoComputers</author><text>Silly idea in tech, the hardware will be long outdated before someone look for parts which are going to be overpriced, and the company might be gone forever. You can buy common business laptops such as thinkpad and swap the parts easily and cheaply. People aren’t swapping their 2011 i3 for a 2011 i7 if they care about performance; they’re getting an i5 from 2018.<p>None of these swappable parts are unique aside from the processor (mine is soldered), I can replace all my parts and my laptop cost under $200.</text></comment> | <story><title>Apple Silicon Macs can't boot from external drive if internal drive failed</title><url>https://bombich.com/blog/2021/05/19/beyond-bootable-backups-adapting-recovery-strategies-evolving-platform</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>gameswithgo</author><text>Consider options like Framework laptops that let you actually own your hardware, and repair it.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bastardoperator</author><text>Assuming you want to do repair, I have no interest in repairing anything. In fact I&#x27;ll happily part with my money to not have to deal with repairing stuff. Same applies to my car.</text></comment> |
19,220,354 | 19,220,077 | 1 | 3 | 19,219,457 | train | <story><title>American Airlines Has Cameras in Their Screens Too</title><url>https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/nicolenguyen/american-airlines-planes-entertainment-system-cameras</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>cbhl</author><text>Most of these are just COTS Android tablets. When they reboot the IFE, you sometimes see the Android soft home&#x2F;menu button on the bottom.<p>It&#x27;s easy enough to repair, too -- just apply some opaque tape to the camera.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>objclxt</author><text>&gt; Most of these are just COTS Android tablets<p>This isn&#x27;t quite true. They&#x27;re not off-the-shelf (COTS) Android tablets - the hardware is custom, especially in terms of industrial design (although the chipset is pretty standard). IFE manufacturers aren&#x27;t going to OEMs and re-purposing commercial tablet designs.<p>You couldn&#x27;t use off-the-shelf tablets anyway, because they have lithium batteries in them - and whilst the form factors might work for economy seating, in business and first class you often see very large units, larger than any tablet available today. IFE systems also need a much wider variety of I&#x2F;O than &quot;consumer&quot; Android tablets provide.<p>There are also requirements vis a vis safety and impact that make commercial tablets unsuitable. For example, the display is usually made of plastic rather than glass, since these units have to survive a lot of abuse.<p>Some example components from one of the two big manufacturers: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.panasonic.aero&#x2F;inflight-systems&#x2F;x-series&#x2F;key-components-2&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.panasonic.aero&#x2F;inflight-systems&#x2F;x-series&#x2F;key-com...</a><p>Source: I worked in the IFE industry when they were transitioning from Linux based systems over to Android. One of the primary drivers for doing so was software, rather than hardware.</text></comment> | <story><title>American Airlines Has Cameras in Their Screens Too</title><url>https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/nicolenguyen/american-airlines-planes-entertainment-system-cameras</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>cbhl</author><text>Most of these are just COTS Android tablets. When they reboot the IFE, you sometimes see the Android soft home&#x2F;menu button on the bottom.<p>It&#x27;s easy enough to repair, too -- just apply some opaque tape to the camera.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>52-6F-62</author><text>I appreciate your use of the word &quot;repair&quot; in this instance.</text></comment> |
35,653,263 | 35,652,745 | 1 | 2 | 35,652,452 | train | <story><title>SafeGPT: New tool to detect LLMs' hallucinations, biases and privacy issues</title><url>https://www.giskard.ai/safegpt</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>fatso784</author><text>Looks a bit like snakeoil to me. A lot of companies now spinning up simple demos with opaque backends, making huge claims they’ve solved X hard problem for&#x2F;with AI, then saying “trust us” and “join our waitlist” without hard details or facts to show for it. If you could detect hallucinations&#x2F;biases etc that easily, don’t you think OpenAI would’ve worked on something like this?</text></comment> | <story><title>SafeGPT: New tool to detect LLMs' hallucinations, biases and privacy issues</title><url>https://www.giskard.ai/safegpt</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>anonzzzies</author><text>How does this work? Does anyone know?<p>And for a large swats of things, how <i>can</i> it possibly work? It’s not possible to say if or if not it is hallucinating code for almost all code and apis, for instance. And I see similar issues with many fields outside pure facts. With privacy issues as well.</text></comment> |
19,055,134 | 19,055,022 | 1 | 3 | 19,054,558 | train | <story><title>Finding Kafka’s throughput limit in Dropbox infrastructure</title><url>https://blogs.dropbox.com/tech/2019/01/finding-kafkas-throughput-limit-in-dropbox-infrastructure/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>anotherhue</author><text>50MB&#x2F;s is tiny, you can push 500 on commodity disks.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.slideshare.net&#x2F;ConfluentInc&#x2F;kafka-on-zfs-better-living-through-filesystems?ref=https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.confluent.io&#x2F;kafka-summit-sf18&#x2F;kafka-on-zfs" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.slideshare.net&#x2F;ConfluentInc&#x2F;kafka-on-zfs-better-...</a><p>Full talk: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.confluent.io&#x2F;kafka-summit-sf18&#x2F;kafka-on-zfs" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.confluent.io&#x2F;kafka-summit-sf18&#x2F;kafka-on-zfs</a> (shameless plug)</text></comment> | <story><title>Finding Kafka’s throughput limit in Dropbox infrastructure</title><url>https://blogs.dropbox.com/tech/2019/01/finding-kafkas-throughput-limit-in-dropbox-infrastructure/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>pandemic_region</author><text>Line is doing 150 billion msgs&#x2F;day on their Kafka infra, about 3million per second.
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.slideshare.net&#x2F;linecorp&#x2F;building-a-companywide-data-pipeline-on-apache-kafka-engineering-for-150-billion-messages-per-day" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.slideshare.net&#x2F;linecorp&#x2F;building-a-companywide-d...</a></text></comment> |
19,539,979 | 19,540,080 | 1 | 2 | 19,539,006 | train | <story><title>Productivity Is About Attention Management</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/28/smarter-living/productivity-isnt-about-time-management-its-about-attention-management.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>netwanderer3</author><text>There&#x27;s a general misconception between being productive and being effective.<p>One can fill their days by completing many mindless tasks and consider themselves as productive, but in the end hardly any of those tasks really matters.<p>On the other hand, another person may only complete one or two tasks in a very short time during their day but these were critical tasks that could generate much higher values. This subsequently makes the person more effective than their peers.<p>The output values must be weight in determining if one is really productive. Effectiveness triumphs mindless productivity.<p>This is quite similar to the cognitive and decision fatigue principle which indicates that each of us only has a limited pool of cognitive resources and so we must be very selective in choosing what activities we engage in.<p>To remain highly effective, not just being productive, particularly for a project manager, it&#x27;s imperative to spend time only on tasks that require critical decisions to be made, and to delegate the rest. When you take on more tasks than you can handle, like some are misunderstanding this may help them appear as productive, it will undoubtedly affect the quality of each of your decisions and the project will suffer.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tylerhou</author><text>&gt; This is quite similar to the cognitive and decision fatigue principle which indicates that each of us only has a limited pool of cognitive resources and so we must be very selective in choosing what activities we engage in.<p>Watch out — many of the studies which displayed “cognitive fatigue” (I assume you actually mean ego depletion) have not been replicated successfully.<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.slate.com&#x2F;articles&#x2F;health_and_science&#x2F;cover_story&#x2F;2016&#x2F;03&#x2F;ego_depletion_an_influential_theory_in_psychology_may_have_just_been_debunked.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.slate.com&#x2F;articles&#x2F;health_and_science&#x2F;cover_story...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Productivity Is About Attention Management</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/28/smarter-living/productivity-isnt-about-time-management-its-about-attention-management.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>netwanderer3</author><text>There&#x27;s a general misconception between being productive and being effective.<p>One can fill their days by completing many mindless tasks and consider themselves as productive, but in the end hardly any of those tasks really matters.<p>On the other hand, another person may only complete one or two tasks in a very short time during their day but these were critical tasks that could generate much higher values. This subsequently makes the person more effective than their peers.<p>The output values must be weight in determining if one is really productive. Effectiveness triumphs mindless productivity.<p>This is quite similar to the cognitive and decision fatigue principle which indicates that each of us only has a limited pool of cognitive resources and so we must be very selective in choosing what activities we engage in.<p>To remain highly effective, not just being productive, particularly for a project manager, it&#x27;s imperative to spend time only on tasks that require critical decisions to be made, and to delegate the rest. When you take on more tasks than you can handle, like some are misunderstanding this may help them appear as productive, it will undoubtedly affect the quality of each of your decisions and the project will suffer.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>war1025</author><text>Reminds me of when I was a kid and raced the same track over and over something like 1000 times on a game to get enough money to buy the fanciest car in the game rather than building my skills enough to do races where I would actually make decent money on each race and only have to do 5 or ten to buy said car.</text></comment> |
39,625,763 | 39,624,654 | 1 | 3 | 39,618,822 | train | <story><title>FDA clears first over-the-counter continuous glucose monitor</title><url>https://www.fda.gov/news-events/press-announcements/fda-clears-first-over-counter-continuous-glucose-monitor</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mangoman</author><text>I recently had an unusual health event that resulted in me passing out. My wife, who is a physician, thought it might be hypoglycemia, since i&#x27;m at high risk for diabetes. She found a super friendly endocrinologist who put me on a CGM for two weeks. I never hit the hypoglycemia range during those two weeks, so it didn&#x27;t really explain what my issue... but honestly the data was SUPER interesting. Just observing the various spikes made me make healthier choices, or noticing when I was feeling extra tired and seeing if that correlated to not having eaten for little while, or eating something sugary before.<p>It&#x27;s sort of like tracking your steps when you first get a smart watch. It may not have been the reason you got the device, but seeing the data, people are encouraged to act on it, even if you don&#x27;t have an acute issue. since I didn&#x27;t have a prescription, I couldn&#x27;t get one here (didn&#x27;t want to go through some sketch online site). I tried to get one from my family in India, but the prices were really high and they couldn&#x27;t get the fancier one that tracks straight to your phone, so I didn&#x27;t get one.<p>I think this could be a god send for preventing pre-diabetic people who would take preventative steps if it weren&#x27;t such a pain in the ass to measure consistently.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>aledalgrande</author><text>I actually just got one of these CGMs after listening to Peter Attia&#x27;s (audio)book Outlive and started monitoring my glucose and experimenting with meals and exercise to see what effects they have. Apart from the weirdness of having something attached to your skin, it&#x27;s like having another watch and you won&#x27;t notice after a while. It&#x27;s pretty cool and a lot more people than just diabetics would benefit from this knowledge.<p>Like I just learned for example about resistant starches, of which one is cooled potatoes: I ate the exact same dish but the first time, right after cooking, my levels shot up (not abnormally but you should ideally never have spikes, so your body doesn&#x27;t have to keep pumping insulin), and then the second time, reheated, it was like I didn&#x27;t eat anything. I was surprised so I researched and found <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.webmd.com&#x2F;diet&#x2F;what-to-know-resistant-starches" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.webmd.com&#x2F;diet&#x2F;what-to-know-resistant-starches</a><p>Everyone is different so I definitely suggest to try them out for a month and see what gives you spikes in your diet. Then try to get rid of those spikes.</text></comment> | <story><title>FDA clears first over-the-counter continuous glucose monitor</title><url>https://www.fda.gov/news-events/press-announcements/fda-clears-first-over-counter-continuous-glucose-monitor</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mangoman</author><text>I recently had an unusual health event that resulted in me passing out. My wife, who is a physician, thought it might be hypoglycemia, since i&#x27;m at high risk for diabetes. She found a super friendly endocrinologist who put me on a CGM for two weeks. I never hit the hypoglycemia range during those two weeks, so it didn&#x27;t really explain what my issue... but honestly the data was SUPER interesting. Just observing the various spikes made me make healthier choices, or noticing when I was feeling extra tired and seeing if that correlated to not having eaten for little while, or eating something sugary before.<p>It&#x27;s sort of like tracking your steps when you first get a smart watch. It may not have been the reason you got the device, but seeing the data, people are encouraged to act on it, even if you don&#x27;t have an acute issue. since I didn&#x27;t have a prescription, I couldn&#x27;t get one here (didn&#x27;t want to go through some sketch online site). I tried to get one from my family in India, but the prices were really high and they couldn&#x27;t get the fancier one that tracks straight to your phone, so I didn&#x27;t get one.<p>I think this could be a god send for preventing pre-diabetic people who would take preventative steps if it weren&#x27;t such a pain in the ass to measure consistently.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bakedoatmeal</author><text>What is the connection between being at risk of diabetes and hypoglycemia? Wouldn’t a pre-diabetic be very protected from hypoglycemia?</text></comment> |
36,374,472 | 36,374,125 | 1 | 2 | 36,373,364 | train | <story><title>Open source Diablo 1 engine – DevilutionX 1.5.0 released</title><url>https://github.com/diasurgical/devilutionX/releases/tag/1.5.0</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>r3trohack3r</author><text>There is also a web port of it you can play in the browser, works surprisingly well on mobile: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;d07riv.github.io&#x2F;diabloweb&#x2F;" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;d07riv.github.io&#x2F;diabloweb&#x2F;</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Open source Diablo 1 engine – DevilutionX 1.5.0 released</title><url>https://github.com/diasurgical/devilutionX/releases/tag/1.5.0</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>AaronM</author><text>There is also an open source Diablo 2 engine, however the project hasn&#x27;t had any updates in 7 months<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;AbyssEngine&#x2F;OpenDiablo2">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;AbyssEngine&#x2F;OpenDiablo2</a></text></comment> |
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