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18,613,646 | 18,613,485 | 1 | 3 | 18,612,590 | train | <story><title>Pipenv: promises a lot, delivers very little</title><url>https://chriswarrick.com/blog/2018/07/17/pipenv-promises-a-lot-delivers-very-little/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>greysteil</author><text>Sometimes, improvements don&#x27;t happen in a straight line.<p>There&#x27;s been a lot of work on Pipenv over the the last 6 months, predominantly by Dan Ryan and Tzu-Ping Chung, and it&#x27;s getting stronger and stronger with each release.<p>If you&#x27;ve gone back to using pip I&#x27;d encourage you to give Pipenv another try. Introducing a lockfile is a big step forward for Python dependency management, and the team working on Pipenv are committed and doing a great job.</text></item><item><author>legostormtroopr</author><text>Pipenv is a really interesting development for Python, and I&#x27;m glad that someone was working to improve dependency locking for Python.<p>However, Kenneth abused his position with PyPA (and quickly bumped a what is a beta product to version 18) to imply Pipenv was more stable, more supported and more official than it really was.<p>And worse still, for anyone saying &quot;but ts open source, you get what you pay for&quot;, Kenneth as former Python Overlord at Heroku, encouraged Heroku to place Pipenv above Pip as the default Python package manager in the Python buildpack. This decision impacted paying customers and the Python buildpack used a broken version of Pipenv for a long time. So long, most people I know just went back to Pip.<p>Then, lastly, when people complained he had a tizzy at reddit and twitter and got PyPA to help backtrack and say &quot;no we didn&#x27;t support it, nope, its just a thing that happened&quot;, all while the main Pipenv Github repository was held under the PyPA GitHub Org.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>legostormtroopr</author><text>&gt; Sometimes, improvements don&#x27;t happen in a straight line.<p>I don&#x27;t deny that, what I am (and the article is) saying is that we were sold on Pipenv being &quot;the officially recommended Python packaging tool from Python.org&quot;.<p>And PyPA didn&#x27;t refute it, and Heroku didn&#x27;t refute it, so the community bought it.<p>Yes, introducing a Lockfile is huge, and it was massively needed, and thats why when we were told &quot;heres the official way to do it&quot;, we got excited. Then we got daily breaking updates, rude issue close messages, and a giant backtrack of &quot;its free and still under development, why do you expect so much from us?&quot;</text></comment> | <story><title>Pipenv: promises a lot, delivers very little</title><url>https://chriswarrick.com/blog/2018/07/17/pipenv-promises-a-lot-delivers-very-little/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>greysteil</author><text>Sometimes, improvements don&#x27;t happen in a straight line.<p>There&#x27;s been a lot of work on Pipenv over the the last 6 months, predominantly by Dan Ryan and Tzu-Ping Chung, and it&#x27;s getting stronger and stronger with each release.<p>If you&#x27;ve gone back to using pip I&#x27;d encourage you to give Pipenv another try. Introducing a lockfile is a big step forward for Python dependency management, and the team working on Pipenv are committed and doing a great job.</text></item><item><author>legostormtroopr</author><text>Pipenv is a really interesting development for Python, and I&#x27;m glad that someone was working to improve dependency locking for Python.<p>However, Kenneth abused his position with PyPA (and quickly bumped a what is a beta product to version 18) to imply Pipenv was more stable, more supported and more official than it really was.<p>And worse still, for anyone saying &quot;but ts open source, you get what you pay for&quot;, Kenneth as former Python Overlord at Heroku, encouraged Heroku to place Pipenv above Pip as the default Python package manager in the Python buildpack. This decision impacted paying customers and the Python buildpack used a broken version of Pipenv for a long time. So long, most people I know just went back to Pip.<p>Then, lastly, when people complained he had a tizzy at reddit and twitter and got PyPA to help backtrack and say &quot;no we didn&#x27;t support it, nope, its just a thing that happened&quot;, all while the main Pipenv Github repository was held under the PyPA GitHub Org.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>devnonymous</author><text>&gt; Sometimes, improvements don&#x27;t happen in a straight line.<p>I don&#x27;t think that the parent disagreed with that. The point, as I understood it, was that this beta stage improvement was marketed as being ready. IOW, if pipenv was not Kenneth&#x27;s project, it likely would have evolved in, to use your phrase, a straighter line.</text></comment> |
26,057,735 | 26,057,876 | 1 | 2 | 26,057,472 | train | <story><title>Faux86: A portable, open-source 8086 emulator for bare metal Raspberry Pi (2019)</title><url>https://github.com/jhhoward/Faux86</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>tpmx</author><text>Judging from the Github issues it seems like it&#x27;s very slow, doesn&#x27;t run on RPi 4 and hasn&#x27;t really gotten any attention for 16 months.<p>It&#x27;s an interesting idea though; running a bare metal x86 emulator on e.g. a Raspberry Pi 400.</text></comment> | <story><title>Faux86: A portable, open-source 8086 emulator for bare metal Raspberry Pi (2019)</title><url>https://github.com/jhhoward/Faux86</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Gys</author><text>I came across box86 yesterday during FOSDEM. It have not yet tried it, but is similar and actively maintained: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;ptitSeb&#x2F;box86" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;ptitSeb&#x2F;box86</a></text></comment> |
18,015,579 | 18,013,934 | 1 | 3 | 18,011,381 | train | <story><title>How to fail as a new engineering manager</title><url>https://blog.usejournal.com/how-to-fail-as-a-new-engineering-manager-30b5fb617a</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>sytelus</author><text>I as a manager “kept coding” and it made me a better manager 100% of the time. It allowed me to understand low level issues team had been facing that I couldn’t have from 35,000ft. Team members didn’t felt need to dumb down complex concepts so I “get it”. People didn’t had to prep PowerPoints all the time because I could only grasp pretty pictures. I much better understood the complexity of workitems, costs, collaboration opportunities, scheduling and skills required which allowed me to do much better estimates and task assignments. I didn’t had to find “deputy” who I delegate everything while I am just busy in meetings and emails. Ancient Greeks like called this type of management as “leading from the front”. Chinese called it working shoulder to shoulder with your team mates instead of trying not to get your hands dirty because, you know, you are too “busy” and a level up high. Being able code (not in just imagination, but <i>really</i> code) puts “Engineering” in the “Engineering Manager”.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>lmm</author><text>I&#x27;d be interested to see whether your subordinates agree with that assessment. One of the better programmers I&#x27;ve worked with was promoted to our manager and tried to &quot;keep coding&quot; and it made her one of the worse managers I&#x27;ve had: the team was constantly blocked because her tasks got delayed when she (as is the nature of management) was pulled away for meetings with higher-ups or other unexpected work. In turn that meant there was pressure not to interrupt her when she was at her desk so it was hard to bring problems to her, even though that&#x27;s a manager&#x27;s primary responsibility.</text></comment> | <story><title>How to fail as a new engineering manager</title><url>https://blog.usejournal.com/how-to-fail-as-a-new-engineering-manager-30b5fb617a</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>sytelus</author><text>I as a manager “kept coding” and it made me a better manager 100% of the time. It allowed me to understand low level issues team had been facing that I couldn’t have from 35,000ft. Team members didn’t felt need to dumb down complex concepts so I “get it”. People didn’t had to prep PowerPoints all the time because I could only grasp pretty pictures. I much better understood the complexity of workitems, costs, collaboration opportunities, scheduling and skills required which allowed me to do much better estimates and task assignments. I didn’t had to find “deputy” who I delegate everything while I am just busy in meetings and emails. Ancient Greeks like called this type of management as “leading from the front”. Chinese called it working shoulder to shoulder with your team mates instead of trying not to get your hands dirty because, you know, you are too “busy” and a level up high. Being able code (not in just imagination, but <i>really</i> code) puts “Engineering” in the “Engineering Manager”.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jon-wood</author><text>My experience of moving into engineering management has very much been that I need to keep writing code to truly understand what people are facing, and ensure I&#x27;m not coming up with crazy ideas that will be a pain to implement.<p>The only caveat I&#x27;d add to that is that I can&#x27;t keep on working on things in the critical path, at least as the sole developer picking up those tasks, because I&#x27;m hugely more likely to have things come up that prevent me from doing those things in a timely manner. That then leads to other people being blocked on my work.<p>The best balance I&#x27;ve found is for me to either pair with a developer who&#x27;s able to remain focused on a task when I&#x27;m inevitably dragged away to do something else, or for me to pick up non-urgent tasks like refactoring, or developer tooling. The latter is probably my favourite as it means I&#x27;m applying my experience to tools and libraries that can then be used in widely applicable circumstances to make the rest of the team more productive.</text></comment> |
20,527,000 | 20,526,939 | 1 | 2 | 20,526,652 | train | <story><title>Paris breaks all-time high temperature as deadly heat wave grips Europe</title><url>https://www.accuweather.com/en/weather-news/scorching-heat-produces-all-time-record-highs-in-belgium-netherlands-as-western-europe-swelters-under-heat-wave/70008886</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>kareeeem</author><text>Climate change isn’t disputed by logic. It’s being disputed by the commercial entities that are protecting their $billion&#x2F;$trillion industries who, otherwise, would have to face big losses. We all know the industries that are negatively impacting the environment. Their selfish stakeholders have managed to successfully create a reality distortion field of denial. This article, with lack of mentioning global warming, is proof.</text></comment> | <story><title>Paris breaks all-time high temperature as deadly heat wave grips Europe</title><url>https://www.accuweather.com/en/weather-news/scorching-heat-produces-all-time-record-highs-in-belgium-netherlands-as-western-europe-swelters-under-heat-wave/70008886</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>gilbetron</author><text>Not only broke it, destroyed it: +2.2C (+4.0F). That&#x27;s incredible, in a terrifying, &quot;well, I guess this is going to happen&quot; kind of way.</text></comment> |
37,262,930 | 37,262,652 | 1 | 2 | 37,252,821 | train | <story><title>Winner’s Curse: Negotiation Mistakes to Avoid</title><url>https://www.pon.harvard.edu/daily/business-negotiations/how-to-avoid-the-winners-curse/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>chias</author><text>Doing my best to summarize what I got from this article:<p>1. In an auction, is possible to over-bid on a thing<p>2. If you over-bid on a thing and you win, that&#x27;s not good<p>3. It&#x27;s better to not win the auction than it is to win it by bidding higher than you value winning the auction<p>4. The Big Insight: before you bid, stop to think about whether you&#x27;re about to bid higher than you value what you&#x27;re bidding on.<p>...what am I missing? Why is this interesting? What does this have to do with negotiation? What are the negotiation mistakes to avoid?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>yccs27</author><text>Intuitively, you might think &quot;I&#x27;ll just bid a few cents less than what the thing is worth to me, then I&#x27;ll get a fair deal&quot;. However:<p>1. You likely don&#x27;t know the value exactly, so you might overbid (or underbid)<p>2. If you overbid, you will probably get the thing and lose money<p>3. If you underbid, you are less likely to be awarded the thing, so on average the gains (from getting it below value) are lower than the losses (from overpaying).<p>4. The Big Insight: To still get a good deal on your average auction <i>win</i>, you need to adjust your bid downwards to account for your imperfect knowledge.</text></comment> | <story><title>Winner’s Curse: Negotiation Mistakes to Avoid</title><url>https://www.pon.harvard.edu/daily/business-negotiations/how-to-avoid-the-winners-curse/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>chias</author><text>Doing my best to summarize what I got from this article:<p>1. In an auction, is possible to over-bid on a thing<p>2. If you over-bid on a thing and you win, that&#x27;s not good<p>3. It&#x27;s better to not win the auction than it is to win it by bidding higher than you value winning the auction<p>4. The Big Insight: before you bid, stop to think about whether you&#x27;re about to bid higher than you value what you&#x27;re bidding on.<p>...what am I missing? Why is this interesting? What does this have to do with negotiation? What are the negotiation mistakes to avoid?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rocqua</author><text>A core point is the line &quot;Analyze whether the asset has a common value element. A common value asset, like a jar of coins, has equal value to all bidders. If so, bid with caution.&quot;<p>In auctions where the asset does not have equal value to all bidders, the winners curse is less likely to apply. Because if you guess the value of the object higher than all others, that can happen because it is fundamentally worth more to you, rather than because you had the most over-estimation.</text></comment> |
4,940,365 | 4,940,373 | 1 | 2 | 4,939,324 | train | <story><title>Mozilla Game On</title><url>https://gameon.mozilla.org/en-US/</url><text></text></story><parent_chain><item><author>oulipian</author><text>Fair warning: participate for the fun, not for the prizes. Mozilla ran a competition like this in 2010. My game "Favimon" won the "Most Original" category. I never did receive most of the prizes they claimed all winners received, including a copy of Adobe Dreamweaver Creative Suite 5, a guest post on the Yahoo! Games blog, a Think Vitamin sponsorship, and John Resig's "Secrets of the JavaScript Ninja" book. This was despite many polite inquiries to the competition organizer. Overall I thought the competition was excellent, but Mozilla's lacklustre follow-up afterwards was disappointing.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pmoz</author><text>Hey there,<p>I was responsible for the 2010 version of Game On. We screwed up your price (long story) and will make good on it now. I know. It's late. Like in: Too late. I am sorry. Trust me - it was not done on purpose or out of neglect (well, I guess you can argue about that).<p>Anyway: Short of it is - I am sorry. And we will make good on it. Expect an email today (if you haven't already received it).</text></comment> | <story><title>Mozilla Game On</title><url>https://gameon.mozilla.org/en-US/</url><text></text></story><parent_chain><item><author>oulipian</author><text>Fair warning: participate for the fun, not for the prizes. Mozilla ran a competition like this in 2010. My game "Favimon" won the "Most Original" category. I never did receive most of the prizes they claimed all winners received, including a copy of Adobe Dreamweaver Creative Suite 5, a guest post on the Yahoo! Games blog, a Think Vitamin sponsorship, and John Resig's "Secrets of the JavaScript Ninja" book. This was despite many polite inquiries to the competition organizer. Overall I thought the competition was excellent, but Mozilla's lacklustre follow-up afterwards was disappointing.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>callahad</author><text>Woah! That's not cool. I work for Mozilla in a completely unrelated capacity, but I'll try to follow up with folks and see if we can fix that.<p>Edit: Aaaand beaten to the punch by pmoz. Like always ;)</text></comment> |
19,097,471 | 19,097,372 | 1 | 3 | 19,096,233 | train | <story><title>Netflix Posted Biggest-Ever Profit in 2018 and Paid $0 in Income Taxes</title><url>https://itep.org/netflix-posted-biggest-ever-profit-in-2018-and-paid-0-in-income-taxes/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>AlexB138</author><text>&gt; The answer is to outlaw lobbyists, it would fix a lot of problems. That, and enact term limits for Congress. That will fix even more.<p>When you think there are simple answers to big problems it&#x27;s generally because you don&#x27;t actually understand the problem.<p>How would you outlaw lobbyists? Setting aside the fact that it would be unconstitutional, do you think it should be illegal for you to air your grievances to elected officials? That seems to fly directly in the face of democracy. Or should it only be that businesses aren&#x27;t allowed to lobby? What about a small business that is being unfairly impacted by regulations, or being run out of business by a large company abusing a loophole in the law? Seems like them not having a voice in government would be a path to oligopoly or monopoly. If that&#x27;s ok, where&#x27;s the line in which business is allowed to lobby, and how do you keep a large business from simply hiring a small business to lobby on their behalf?</text></item><item><author>chanandler_bong</author><text>The answer is to outlaw lobbyists, it would fix a lot of problems. That, and enact term limits for Congress. <i>That</i> will fix even more.</text></item><item><author>otachack</author><text>It&#x27;s not that simple. Companies lobby to keep, even coerce, laws that benefit them and allow these sorts of things to happen. What is the common person, or collection of persons, supposed to do when they are against that kind of force? I believe one way is to actually be involved in politics and get into the seats that govern and make the laws. But it&#x27;s easier said than done.</text></item><item><author>driverdan</author><text>Rather than being outraged at the headline, what are the actual details? Why were they able to pay no taxes? Was it due to carried losses or something like that?<p>Anyone mad at a company for not pay taxes is misdirecting their anger. Companies follow the law. If you don&#x27;t like the law elect different politicians. Don&#x27;t get mad at companies that follow the law.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>undecisive</author><text>Aside from the fact that many countries have ways of limiting lobbyist influence through law, a simple but dramatic way would be to say:<p>0. Lobbying is a right, but one that can only be exercised by individual citizens, not corporations.<p>1. Anyone who wishes to &quot;lobby&quot; congressional candidates or congresspersons must register their financial interests<p>2. Make it illegal to directly accept money for lobbying services (akin to prostitution)<p>Sure, it wouldn&#x27;t make lobbying impossible - but it would make it much harder.</text></comment> | <story><title>Netflix Posted Biggest-Ever Profit in 2018 and Paid $0 in Income Taxes</title><url>https://itep.org/netflix-posted-biggest-ever-profit-in-2018-and-paid-0-in-income-taxes/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>AlexB138</author><text>&gt; The answer is to outlaw lobbyists, it would fix a lot of problems. That, and enact term limits for Congress. That will fix even more.<p>When you think there are simple answers to big problems it&#x27;s generally because you don&#x27;t actually understand the problem.<p>How would you outlaw lobbyists? Setting aside the fact that it would be unconstitutional, do you think it should be illegal for you to air your grievances to elected officials? That seems to fly directly in the face of democracy. Or should it only be that businesses aren&#x27;t allowed to lobby? What about a small business that is being unfairly impacted by regulations, or being run out of business by a large company abusing a loophole in the law? Seems like them not having a voice in government would be a path to oligopoly or monopoly. If that&#x27;s ok, where&#x27;s the line in which business is allowed to lobby, and how do you keep a large business from simply hiring a small business to lobby on their behalf?</text></item><item><author>chanandler_bong</author><text>The answer is to outlaw lobbyists, it would fix a lot of problems. That, and enact term limits for Congress. <i>That</i> will fix even more.</text></item><item><author>otachack</author><text>It&#x27;s not that simple. Companies lobby to keep, even coerce, laws that benefit them and allow these sorts of things to happen. What is the common person, or collection of persons, supposed to do when they are against that kind of force? I believe one way is to actually be involved in politics and get into the seats that govern and make the laws. But it&#x27;s easier said than done.</text></item><item><author>driverdan</author><text>Rather than being outraged at the headline, what are the actual details? Why were they able to pay no taxes? Was it due to carried losses or something like that?<p>Anyone mad at a company for not pay taxes is misdirecting their anger. Companies follow the law. If you don&#x27;t like the law elect different politicians. Don&#x27;t get mad at companies that follow the law.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>norswap</author><text>Would it really be unconstitutional? The right of petition cannot abrogated, but surely one can outlaw the exchange of political favors for money or other forms of compensations.<p>Yes, actually showing that political favors were exchanged for money is tricky, but still, it&#x27;s better than nothing and it changes the whole discussion from &quot;it&#x27;s the system&quot; to &quot;who&#x27;s doing something bad and hiding it?&quot;.</text></comment> |
24,123,665 | 24,123,222 | 1 | 3 | 24,122,265 | train | <story><title>Developer won’t get hit by a bus, they’ll get hired by Netflix</title><url>https://www.neomindlabs.com/post/your-developer-wont-get-hit-by-a-bus-theyll-get-hired-by-netflix</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>game_the0ry</author><text>I agree with the author&#x27;s point about using popular tech stacks to alleviate the ramp-up time for new hire productivity, but that is not the optimal solution. The optimal solution is for management to not let high-productivity talent from leaving - increase their comp to whatever offers they might get in the open market. That&#x27;s how labor economic works - it&#x27;s a market.<p>Investment bank and management consulting figured this out a long time ago. Example - when you new grad starts in i-banking, they&#x27;re in training for 4-6 weeks. Not doing anything productive, just training to do the job. Not the case in engineering, you are assigned user stories day one and your training is doing the work. So new i-banks are highly paid (so they don&#x27;t leave because talent is perceived to be scarce and valuable) and they&#x27;re companies invest in them (through training early on).<p>Right now, corporate managers are vomiting in their mouth when the have to look at how much they need to pay to keep their engineers from leaving. It&#x27;s because of the perception of engineers - they&#x27;re seen as semi-skilled labor (cost center, not strategic to the business) and are easily replaceable (no, they&#x27;re not). Culturally, they have been conditioned to think this way, so no wonder turn over is so high every where.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mumblemumble</author><text>Somewhat related to this point: A large conglomerate I worked for managed to kill one of their major products by making the mistake of assuming that programmers are easy to replace with any other skilled programmer. So they moved a product team to a new office, knowing that the highest-paid people on the team would not choose to relocate, and assuming it would be easy to backfill them with inexpensive new hires at the new location.<p>Except, in this case, the programmers in question had decades&#x27; worth of hard-won domain expertise that was absolutely critical to their job function. And, this product targeting a niche industry, it was relatively uncommon domain expertise. So much so that the only people on the job market who had it were these folks whom they were ousting. All of whom had found positions at competitors within a day or two.<p>So then the company lost their ability to maintain the product in any meaningful way, and, within a year or two, customers started moving on as well.</text></comment> | <story><title>Developer won’t get hit by a bus, they’ll get hired by Netflix</title><url>https://www.neomindlabs.com/post/your-developer-wont-get-hit-by-a-bus-theyll-get-hired-by-netflix</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>game_the0ry</author><text>I agree with the author&#x27;s point about using popular tech stacks to alleviate the ramp-up time for new hire productivity, but that is not the optimal solution. The optimal solution is for management to not let high-productivity talent from leaving - increase their comp to whatever offers they might get in the open market. That&#x27;s how labor economic works - it&#x27;s a market.<p>Investment bank and management consulting figured this out a long time ago. Example - when you new grad starts in i-banking, they&#x27;re in training for 4-6 weeks. Not doing anything productive, just training to do the job. Not the case in engineering, you are assigned user stories day one and your training is doing the work. So new i-banks are highly paid (so they don&#x27;t leave because talent is perceived to be scarce and valuable) and they&#x27;re companies invest in them (through training early on).<p>Right now, corporate managers are vomiting in their mouth when the have to look at how much they need to pay to keep their engineers from leaving. It&#x27;s because of the perception of engineers - they&#x27;re seen as semi-skilled labor (cost center, not strategic to the business) and are easily replaceable (no, they&#x27;re not). Culturally, they have been conditioned to think this way, so no wonder turn over is so high every where.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tschwimmer</author><text>Investment Banks are a terrible example of low attrition workplaces, as attrition is quite high. It used to be the case (not sure if it still is) that expected attrition was ~100% after the first 2 years as an analyst as you were expected to go to B-school, the buyside or somewhere else.</text></comment> |
12,485,999 | 12,482,827 | 1 | 2 | 12,482,017 | train | <story><title>Golang concepts from an OOP point of view</title><url>https://github.com/luciotato/golang-notes/blob/master/OOP.md</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>gabesullice</author><text>While I appreciate that this is a work in progress and meant for learning, i just want to caution readers and those new to Go that this is a somewhat dangerous way to approach Go.<p>Simply mapping familiar vocabulary from an traditional OO language into Go implies that the differences are superficial and the underlying concepts are largely the same. The truth is that a lot of the traditional vocabulary was very intentionally left out of Go.<p>For example, mapping embedded stucts to &quot;multiple inheritance&quot; masks the fact that Go is trying to guide you into understanding the power of composition over inheritance. It&#x27;s not that it&#x27;s impossible to understand that, but by carrying over the terminology, you burden yourself with some preconceptions.<p>Like I said, I know this is a work in progress, but I encourage you to perhaps map the terms but then write a paragraph or two about how they&#x27;re _different_, not the same.<p>This was a really nice resource for me when I first came to Go: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;spf13.com&#x2F;post&#x2F;is-go-object-oriented&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;spf13.com&#x2F;post&#x2F;is-go-object-oriented&#x2F;</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Golang concepts from an OOP point of view</title><url>https://github.com/luciotato/golang-notes/blob/master/OOP.md</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>chimeracoder</author><text>&gt; This is a discovery process, I&#x27;m writing this document to help myself understanding golang and maybe help others.<p>First: I took a brief look through this, and I didn&#x27;t see anything that jumped out as wrong. It&#x27;s a pretty comprehensive document, especially for someone who says they&#x27;re just starting out, so kudos to James for writing it!<p>That said, from my experience in teaching Go classes and workshops for beginners, comparing embedding to inheritance is usually a bad idea. It&#x27;s not that there aren&#x27;t similarities, but in my experience it prompts new Go programmers to write unidiomatic Go code when they think of embedding in that way. They end up embedded structs the way they&#x27;d use inheritance in object-oriented languages, and since Go isn&#x27;t really intended as an object-oriented language, it makes for unidiomatic code.<p>The main use cases of inheritance in OOP are accomplished by interfaces in Go, not struct embedding. But at the same time, the main benefits of embedding come from embedding <i>interfaces</i> - embedding structs is almost an afterthought in the language. In fact, I tend to advise people against embedding structs altogether. There are a few cases where it&#x27;s worthwhile to embed structs, but the use case for embedding interfaces is much more powerful.<p>My advice for Go beginners: use interfaces more than you think you need to, and forget that struct embedding is even possible. This rule of thumb helps to write more idiomatic Go code when you&#x27;re just getting started, before you have a feel for what that really means.</text></comment> |
14,371,835 | 14,371,665 | 1 | 2 | 14,371,133 | train | <story><title>Boost – Your personal advisor and career coach</title><url>https://www.getboost.io/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rezashirazian</author><text><i>Roll eyes</i>. I&#x27;m sorry but this is a ridiculous idea. I can see potential use for this once or twice a year, and even at that I wouldn&#x27;t reach out to anyone unless I know them personally.<p>How insecure and in need of validation someone needs to be to seek career advice from a chatbot four times a month?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ztratar</author><text>Hey! Founder &amp; CEO here.<p>Love the emotional response. Hey -- some people have to think it&#x27;s incredibly stupid for it to be a good idea, right? #vclogic ;)<p>Anyways, we don&#x27;t see this as just an advisor&#x2F;coach that you use once or twice a year. That&#x27;s thinking by the old school rules of how career coaches work.<p>But Boost is very, very different.<p>The vast majority of our users use Boost to analyze internal workplace situations, such as those dealing with politics or trying to climb the ladder. Many users do this weekly, when they get new communications that confuse them and they want to ensure they put their best foot forward.<p>We started the company as an advice-giving system for those during job hunts, but found nearly everyone should have been talking to us 3-6 months before they were switching. Most people don&#x27;t have online brands that exude quality, they don&#x27;t land speaking engagements, they don&#x27;t push themselves to hit goals, and much more.<p>The people who push, have constant feedback, and have social accountability end up achieving much more. They gain an edge over the people who only &quot;need advice once or twice a year.&quot;<p>Tighter feedback loops = faster learning, which equates to faster career growth.<p>----<p>Oh, and it&#x27;s not a chatbot. Think of it more like Facebook M -- we have a full-time staff of career coaches who ensure every conversation is of the absolute quality. As of right now our chatbot tech is exceedingly limited and we&#x27;re prioritizing quality over scale.</text></comment> | <story><title>Boost – Your personal advisor and career coach</title><url>https://www.getboost.io/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rezashirazian</author><text><i>Roll eyes</i>. I&#x27;m sorry but this is a ridiculous idea. I can see potential use for this once or twice a year, and even at that I wouldn&#x27;t reach out to anyone unless I know them personally.<p>How insecure and in need of validation someone needs to be to seek career advice from a chatbot four times a month?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>skylark</author><text>My gut reaction was the same as yours because I would personally never use a service like this.<p>That said, the existence of career consultants proves that there are people who do enjoy this sort of advice and direction. I don&#x27;t see this becoming a unicorn startup, but I could see it becoming a niche service that some people really enjoy.</text></comment> |
16,028,777 | 16,028,572 | 1 | 2 | 16,026,112 | train | <story><title>Concussion doctor says he found CTE in living NFL player</title><url>http://www.mercurynews.com/2017/11/16/renowned-concussion-doctor-says-he-found-cte-in-living-nfl-player/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>outsideoflife</author><text>For my American cousins I thought I would mention a little more about Rugby Union. Concussion is less of a problem in Rugby than in American football, and this is not an accident. Rugby is addressing this in several ways.<p>1) Years of rule changes, and stricter enforcement. Now a top level player who tackles someone above the shoulder, or tackles without attempting to hold on (so no clothes-linse or body checks) will be sent off (which in Rugby is catastrophic to your teams chances). If you lift a player off the ground you are responsible for putting them down again. Drop them on their head and expect a lengthy ban. This hasn&#x27;t changed the spectacle of Rugby much, if anything the skill levels have improved.<p>2) Protection. Around your head Rugby only allows you to wear a small soft &#x27;scrum cap&#x27; which protects from bruising and wounds from head clashes, like the things boxers suffer with around their eyes. Their is a light collar bone protector which seems to be about 1&#x2F;5th of the thickness of the equivalent Gridiron gear. That is all. The impacts are still impressive to see, indeed are perhaps more impressive on an un-armoured body, but with lower G-force to the head<p>3) The size of the people. In both sports their has been an increase in the mass of the players. However US football players seems disproportionately massive. In Rugby their are not rolling substitutions, so you have to carry that mass around for 80 minutes, and therefore a compromise is necessary, perhaps gridiron could restrict the number of subs, or the squad size so the bruisers actually had to run. The <i>miracle of sports nutrition</i>, with the characteristic protruding jaw bones, seem to be producing bigger players than they may if they had effective controls against doping. Yes I said it, from across the pond, it looks like steroid abuse is rife in several US sports.<p>4) The concussion protocol. Any player that appears to have been knocked out in Rugby gets sent from the pitch to be examined by a doctor for a minimum of 10 minutes. If concussion is detected there is a mandatory period off playing. If concussion recurs this can be months! Welsh International George North suffered repeated concussions and missed most of the following year.<p>During this same period Rugby has become a tougher sport than ever, but without killing the brains of our young men</text></comment> | <story><title>Concussion doctor says he found CTE in living NFL player</title><url>http://www.mercurynews.com/2017/11/16/renowned-concussion-doctor-says-he-found-cte-in-living-nfl-player/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>mobilefriendly</author><text>There&#x27;s a lot of hate towards the NFL but the NCAA is an even worse actor on CTE. 70,000 college players every year, and they aren&#x27;t paid professionals like the NFL. But NCAA programs make billions of dollars off of the players (and their coaches millions). Destroying brains for profit, in the context of the education system, is truly evil.</text></comment> |
12,421,152 | 12,420,799 | 1 | 3 | 12,418,472 | train | <story><title>Amazon and Starbucks pay less tax than sausage stall, says Austria</title><url>http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-37259278</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>readittwice</author><text>Hi, I am Austrian and I read the original interview in an austrian newspaper. It was very unspectacular and I am quite amused that it got international attention.<p>Our prime minister is wrong or at least slightly populist here. Yeah, Facebook&#x2F;Google are not paying advertising duty. But no one does, at least in the internet. You only have to pay this duty if you advertise in TV, Radio, newspaper, etc. but it does NOT apply for the internet! See for yourself on the homepage of the austrian finance ministry (unfortunately in german): <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bmf.gv.at&#x2F;steuern&#x2F;a-z&#x2F;Werbeabgabe.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bmf.gv.at&#x2F;steuern&#x2F;a-z&#x2F;Werbeabgabe.html</a>. The law is from 2000, so probably before advertising in the internet became big.<p>Even if they change this law to include the internet, the Austrian companies that want to advertise would have to pay this tax (5% btw) since Google&#x2F;Facebook do not have any offices in Austria (see chapter &quot;Abgabenschuldner&quot; in the link above). Google&#x2F;Facebook don&#x27;t even need to care about this law! (apart from that extending the law could make advertising in the internet more unattractive).<p>Why should they even pay corporate taxes in Austria? As already said they don&#x27;t have any offices here.</text></comment> | <story><title>Amazon and Starbucks pay less tax than sausage stall, says Austria</title><url>http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-37259278</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>davidf18</author><text>Amazon and Starbucks spend a lot of money to hire highly competent tax attorneys and other staff to minimize their payment of taxes. Instead of complaining, countries need to pay more money to hire even brighter people to write better tax laws. Citizens of these countries need to elect officials who will do the hiring and not have obstructive laws that prohibits the payment of the large salaries and fees necessary to hire these competent people.</text></comment> |
28,984,675 | 28,981,462 | 1 | 2 | 28,977,870 | train | <story><title>Signal for Help</title><url>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Signal_for_Help</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>riffic</author><text>do people still order pizzas over the phone in first-world countries?</text></item><item><author>zorked</author><text>Vaguely related: in Brazil if you call the police and say you want to &quot;order a pizza&quot; they will play along, request your address, and send a police patrol to check on you.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>na85</author><text>You know what&#x27;s a shit experience? Ordering food on a fucking app.<p>Every restaurant thinks they&#x27;re special and they all want their own app. So if you have a regular group of restaurants that you order from you&#x27;re installing potentially a dozen apps, all of which are probably riddled with spyware and security holes.</text></comment> | <story><title>Signal for Help</title><url>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Signal_for_Help</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>riffic</author><text>do people still order pizzas over the phone in first-world countries?</text></item><item><author>zorked</author><text>Vaguely related: in Brazil if you call the police and say you want to &quot;order a pizza&quot; they will play along, request your address, and send a police patrol to check on you.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>reaperducer</author><text>I hate to break it to you, but A LOT of the best restaurants aren&#x27;t available on apps, or even online.<p>I recently moved to a new (large) city, and have found that nearly half of the restaurants in my neighborhood aren&#x27;t even in either Google Maps or Apple Maps.</text></comment> |
31,353,760 | 31,353,604 | 1 | 3 | 31,350,746 | train | <story><title>Please don’t let anyone Americanise it (1992)</title><url>https://news.lettersofnote.com/p/please-dont-let-anyone-americanise</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jawns</author><text>His argument about digital watches did not age well.<p>My kids have known how to understand a digital clock since they were toddlers, but even now, in elementary school, they require entire lesson units in school on telling time from a clock face.<p>Beyond that, he argues that pie charts tell us more about the relationship between things than tables of numbers, and a clock face is &quot;the world&#x27;s most perfect pie chart.&quot; But a clock face is not really a pie chart. It does not indicate distribution among categories, as a pie chart does. The arms are not delimiters; they merely indicate position.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>eadmund</author><text>&gt; His argument about digital watches did not age well.<p>Didn&#x27;t it? I think it remains true. Time is a continuum, not discrete; analogue watches demonstrate that, while digital ones do not.<p>And yes, schools have to teach one how to use a clock, but at the end of the process one actually has enhanced one&#x27;s understanding of time. Much like using a slide rule teaches one far more about numbers and maths than using a calculator.</text></comment> | <story><title>Please don’t let anyone Americanise it (1992)</title><url>https://news.lettersofnote.com/p/please-dont-let-anyone-americanise</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jawns</author><text>His argument about digital watches did not age well.<p>My kids have known how to understand a digital clock since they were toddlers, but even now, in elementary school, they require entire lesson units in school on telling time from a clock face.<p>Beyond that, he argues that pie charts tell us more about the relationship between things than tables of numbers, and a clock face is &quot;the world&#x27;s most perfect pie chart.&quot; But a clock face is not really a pie chart. It does not indicate distribution among categories, as a pie chart does. The arms are not delimiters; they merely indicate position.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>boesboes</author><text>I&#x27;m 37 and have a hard time parsing clock faces, I remember having a hard time with it in kindergarten and they basicaly wrote it of as me being a little prick and refusing to do it right</text></comment> |
19,431,063 | 19,431,234 | 1 | 2 | 19,430,684 | train | <story><title>Firefox 66.0 Aims to Reduce Online Annoyances</title><url>https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2019/03/19/todays-firefox-aims-to-reduce-your-online-annoyances/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Vinnl</author><text>&gt; Scroll anchoring keeps content from jumping as images and ads load at the top of the page<p>That&#x27;s a nice little quality-of-life improvement. It&#x27;s a little annoyance that you don&#x27;t really consciously notice because you&#x27;re so used to it, but I recall reading about Chrome adding a similar feature and suddenly realising how annoying it is when you&#x27;re reading something, and then suddenly it jumps out of your view due to a large image above the viewport loading.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>freehunter</author><text>Wouldn&#x27;t it be nice if browsers or servers could reserve that space even if it&#x27;s not loaded? Like &quot;this is going to be a 500x200 image so let&#x27;s load 500x200 pixels worth of empty space until it&#x27;s fully loaded&quot; and avoid jumping.</text></comment> | <story><title>Firefox 66.0 Aims to Reduce Online Annoyances</title><url>https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2019/03/19/todays-firefox-aims-to-reduce-your-online-annoyances/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Vinnl</author><text>&gt; Scroll anchoring keeps content from jumping as images and ads load at the top of the page<p>That&#x27;s a nice little quality-of-life improvement. It&#x27;s a little annoyance that you don&#x27;t really consciously notice because you&#x27;re so used to it, but I recall reading about Chrome adding a similar feature and suddenly realising how annoying it is when you&#x27;re reading something, and then suddenly it jumps out of your view due to a large image above the viewport loading.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mancerayder</author><text>It&#x27;s even worse on mobile, with variable load times. It&#x27;s in fact maddening that it has to jolt you while reading an article - because ads and images are very very important (more important than the content). I love reader mode on FF mobile, I click it as soon as the icon appears next to the URL.</text></comment> |
39,548,169 | 39,546,447 | 1 | 2 | 39,534,574 | train | <story><title>How video games use lookup tables</title><url>https://blog.frost.kiwi/WebGL-LUTS-made-simple/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>zeta0134</author><text>Lookup tables are the only reason I was able to get this effect working at all:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;zeta0134&#x2F;status&#x2F;1756988843851383181" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;zeta0134&#x2F;status&#x2F;1756988843851383181</a><p>The clever bit is that it&#x27;s two lookup tables here: the big one stores the lighting details for a circle with a configurable radius around the player (that&#x27;s one full lookup table per radius), but the second one is a pseudo-random ordering for the background rows. I only have time to actually update 1&#x2F;20th of the screen each time the torchlight routine is called, but by randomizing the order a little bit, I can give it a sortof &quot;soft edge&quot; and hide the raster scan that you&#x27;d otherwise see. I use a table because the random order is a grab bag (to ensure rows aren&#x27;t starved of updates) and that bit is too slow to calculate in realtime.</text></comment> | <story><title>How video games use lookup tables</title><url>https://blog.frost.kiwi/WebGL-LUTS-made-simple/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>bemmu</author><text>The first look-up table effect that really impressed me was to use them for making a textured tunnel.<p>You have a look-up table such that for each pixel on the screen, you know its angle and distance from the center of the screen. With this you can pick which texel to put at each pixel location.<p>It looks as if you are moving in a tunnel with 3D geometry, but it&#x27;s so cheap you can even do it on pico: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.lexaloffle.com&#x2F;bbs&#x2F;?pid=63818" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.lexaloffle.com&#x2F;bbs&#x2F;?pid=63818</a><p>At first I thought the game Stardust must have used this effect, but reading up on it just now they actually just play a repeating 6 frame animation for the background! <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;codetapper.com&#x2F;amiga&#x2F;sprite-tricks&#x2F;stardust&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;codetapper.com&#x2F;amiga&#x2F;sprite-tricks&#x2F;stardust&#x2F;</a></text></comment> |
33,021,145 | 33,020,944 | 1 | 3 | 33,017,727 | train | <story><title>Caffeine and Exercise Performance</title><url>https://grapplinglane.substack.com/p/gl-9-caffeine-and-exercise-performance</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>gumby</author><text>I have long been fascinated by the degree to which WWII was fought on caffeine and nicotine (on all sides and all theatres). Other drugs (e.g. amphetamine and Benzedrine) get some press but we’re minor factors. I did a few experiments decades ago with nicotine, enough to notice its nice resonant behavior with coffee, but not enough I guess to notice any real benefit myself. I did relish the social habits associated with cigarette usage (the excuse for a brief pause in conversation to collect your thoughts, the social aspect of one person lighting up and others unthinkingly joining in, offering&#x2F;receiving a light, cadging or offering a cigarette, sharing a single one, etc)<p>Tea and coffee have long been my companions. During Covid I cut down from two pots of brewed coffee a day to one. In June of this year I unexpectedly had to stop drinking coffee for almost a week and since then have had only one cup, which I accidentally drank out of habit (someone put a fresh one next to me while I was sitting and reading). After 46 years of daily high consumption I just…stopped. And I don’t miss it. I walk past the pot full of coffee in the kitchen and don’t notice it.<p>It makes me wonder how much is simply habit.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nonameiguess</author><text>It&#x27;s amusing to see &quot;WWII&quot; as if the military today doesn&#x27;t still run on these things. It&#x27;s more Monster energy drink and vaping these days (I guess still dip for dudes who grew up south of the Mason-Dixon line), but at least in the US Army, the Soldiers are still being fueled by caffeine and nicotine. All the other advice about vitamins and turning off screens and what not kind of goes out the window when you&#x27;re getting 2 hours of sleep a night for over a year.</text></comment> | <story><title>Caffeine and Exercise Performance</title><url>https://grapplinglane.substack.com/p/gl-9-caffeine-and-exercise-performance</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>gumby</author><text>I have long been fascinated by the degree to which WWII was fought on caffeine and nicotine (on all sides and all theatres). Other drugs (e.g. amphetamine and Benzedrine) get some press but we’re minor factors. I did a few experiments decades ago with nicotine, enough to notice its nice resonant behavior with coffee, but not enough I guess to notice any real benefit myself. I did relish the social habits associated with cigarette usage (the excuse for a brief pause in conversation to collect your thoughts, the social aspect of one person lighting up and others unthinkingly joining in, offering&#x2F;receiving a light, cadging or offering a cigarette, sharing a single one, etc)<p>Tea and coffee have long been my companions. During Covid I cut down from two pots of brewed coffee a day to one. In June of this year I unexpectedly had to stop drinking coffee for almost a week and since then have had only one cup, which I accidentally drank out of habit (someone put a fresh one next to me while I was sitting and reading). After 46 years of daily high consumption I just…stopped. And I don’t miss it. I walk past the pot full of coffee in the kitchen and don’t notice it.<p>It makes me wonder how much is simply habit.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>droobles</author><text>I feel you on the social elements. I find keeping a tin of breath mints and sharing them creates a similar social atmosphere with friends and colleagues, that shared time to mull over thoughts or chat, similar to a smoke break. Morning walks&#x2F;runs also create this I find.</text></comment> |
12,972,501 | 12,971,978 | 1 | 2 | 12,969,014 | train | <story><title>Rust and the Future of Systems Programming [video]</title><url>https://hacks.mozilla.org/2016/11/rust-and-the-future-of-systems-programming/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Animats</author><text>Not sure what to think of that. Does everything have to be async I&#x2F;O now? How often do you need massive numbers of client connections?</text></item><item><author>kibwen</author><text>Speaking of HTTP clients, just yesterday the person behind Hyper announced their new high-level HTTP client crate: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;seanmonstar.com&#x2F;post&#x2F;153221119046&#x2F;introducing-reqwest" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;seanmonstar.com&#x2F;post&#x2F;153221119046&#x2F;introducing-reqwest</a></text></item><item><author>pimeys</author><text>Now I have four services running on production, all written with Rust. If it compiles, it usually works. Of course you have these late night sessions where you write that one unwrap() because, hey, this will never return an error, right? And bam...<p>I&#x27;m seriously waiting that tokio train to be stable and a unified way of writing async services without needing to use some tricks with the channels or writing lots of ugly callback code. Also the native tls support is coming and the dependency hell with openssl would be gone forever.<p>If you need http server&#x2F;client, I&#x27;d wait for a moment for Hyper to get their tokio branch stable and maybe having support for http2 by migrating the Solicit library.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jcrites</author><text>Asynchronous nonblocking interfaces are more general-purpose than synchronous blocking interfaces. I can&#x27;t speak for this library or Rust specifically, but in my experience well-designed asynchronous libraries allow you to interact with them in a synchronous style as well, if you wish.<p>Netty is an asynchronous, event-driven network framework for Java, and it&#x27;s perfectly possible to expose synchronous blocking abstractions on top of it. The mechanism is pretty simple: the asynchronous framework exposes a future representing the result of an operation, and to provide a synchronous interface you simply block on the completion of that future before returning. Client libraries can handle this for you, providing the interface of e.g. a regular blocking HTTP client on top of Netty async IO.<p>This approach can be convenient, since it&#x27;s possible for both synchronous and asynchronous style code to coexist easily in the same application. The application designer can incrementally change parts of the application into asynchronous style as performance needs dictate. For example, you might choose to serve typical small RPC requests using blocking workers in a thread pool, but when you need to stream the content of a large file across the network you could use a separate nonblocking worker pool that interacts with both the file system and network asynchronously.<p>The ability to interact in a blocking way via futures means that asynchronous facilities can serve both synchronous and asynchronous needs, making them the better choice for most frameworks today. While it used to be the case that async IO frameworks took a performance penalty compared to well-implemented sync IO ones, from what I understand that gap has been closed, and the highest performance frameworks are now all async IO. For example, check out the TechEmpower Web Framework Benchmarks. Most or all of the top performers use asynchronous approaches: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.techempower.com&#x2F;benchmarks&#x2F;#section=data-r13&amp;hw=ph&amp;test=plaintext" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.techempower.com&#x2F;benchmarks&#x2F;#section=data-r13&amp;hw=...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Rust and the Future of Systems Programming [video]</title><url>https://hacks.mozilla.org/2016/11/rust-and-the-future-of-systems-programming/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Animats</author><text>Not sure what to think of that. Does everything have to be async I&#x2F;O now? How often do you need massive numbers of client connections?</text></item><item><author>kibwen</author><text>Speaking of HTTP clients, just yesterday the person behind Hyper announced their new high-level HTTP client crate: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;seanmonstar.com&#x2F;post&#x2F;153221119046&#x2F;introducing-reqwest" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;seanmonstar.com&#x2F;post&#x2F;153221119046&#x2F;introducing-reqwest</a></text></item><item><author>pimeys</author><text>Now I have four services running on production, all written with Rust. If it compiles, it usually works. Of course you have these late night sessions where you write that one unwrap() because, hey, this will never return an error, right? And bam...<p>I&#x27;m seriously waiting that tokio train to be stable and a unified way of writing async services without needing to use some tricks with the channels or writing lots of ugly callback code. Also the native tls support is coming and the dependency hell with openssl would be gone forever.<p>If you need http server&#x2F;client, I&#x27;d wait for a moment for Hyper to get their tokio branch stable and maybe having support for http2 by migrating the Solicit library.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>steveklabnik</author><text>1. This introduces a primarily synchronous API for now. Async will come later. All those code samples are synchronous.<p>2. Async I&#x2F;O is an extremely hot topic in Rust right now, so it&#x27;s likely that Rust people do care about it.</text></comment> |
20,267,090 | 20,266,598 | 1 | 3 | 20,265,282 | train | <story><title>German regulator says it discovered new illegal software on Daimler diesels</title><url>https://www.wsj.com/articles/daimler-slashes-outlook-on-fresh-diesel-allegations-11561367960?mod=rsswn</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>londons_explore</author><text>Yes, but that won&#x27;t solve the issue.<p>The issue is regulators write regulations for one thing, but want a subtly different thing.<p>If you and I start a game of poker, but rather than winning through skill, I call the FBI and get them to search all your cards, have I broken the rules of poker? It wasn&#x27;t a written rule not to call the FBI...<p>Regulators across the world have similar gaps in the rules, and both humans and automated design tools will start to exploit them, possibly unknowingly. Instead they need to make far more watertight rules. They should simply require all cars to measure their own emissions, and bill the companies for any cars which either mis-measure emissions, or measure more emissions in their lifetime than an allowed limit. Then manufacturers will have an incentive to upgrade cars in the field.</text></item><item><author>deogeo</author><text>Isn&#x27;t it about time all software&#x2F;hardware in cars should be required to be open-source? There should be no room for secret functionality on something as pervasive and dangerous as cars and trucks. Especially if it&#x27;s also kept secret from their supposed owners.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mikeash</author><text>“It wasn&#x27;t a written rule not to call the FBI...”<p>But it <i>was</i> a written rule not to use a defeat device.<p>This isn’t a case where manufacturers found a loophole and regulators got upset because they wanted manufacturers to obey the spirit of the rules rather than just the letter. This is a case of manufacturers blatantly breaking the explicit written rules.</text></comment> | <story><title>German regulator says it discovered new illegal software on Daimler diesels</title><url>https://www.wsj.com/articles/daimler-slashes-outlook-on-fresh-diesel-allegations-11561367960?mod=rsswn</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>londons_explore</author><text>Yes, but that won&#x27;t solve the issue.<p>The issue is regulators write regulations for one thing, but want a subtly different thing.<p>If you and I start a game of poker, but rather than winning through skill, I call the FBI and get them to search all your cards, have I broken the rules of poker? It wasn&#x27;t a written rule not to call the FBI...<p>Regulators across the world have similar gaps in the rules, and both humans and automated design tools will start to exploit them, possibly unknowingly. Instead they need to make far more watertight rules. They should simply require all cars to measure their own emissions, and bill the companies for any cars which either mis-measure emissions, or measure more emissions in their lifetime than an allowed limit. Then manufacturers will have an incentive to upgrade cars in the field.</text></item><item><author>deogeo</author><text>Isn&#x27;t it about time all software&#x2F;hardware in cars should be required to be open-source? There should be no room for secret functionality on something as pervasive and dangerous as cars and trucks. Especially if it&#x27;s also kept secret from their supposed owners.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>thefounder</author><text>Well we know how self regulation worked for Boeing. Now I could see software that registers less emissions than they actually produce and we are back to square one.</text></comment> |
6,400,714 | 6,400,608 | 1 | 3 | 6,399,494 | train | <story><title>If It's Important, Don't Hack It</title><url>http://insideintercom.io/if-its-important-dont-hack-it/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jtbigwoo</author><text>This is why the the Silicon Valley high-growth game is so strange.<p>In a normal company, the metrics would center around, &quot;Are we making money?&quot; &quot;What sort of things point to us making more money?&quot;<p>In the SV game, it&#x27;s &quot;Are we attracting attention?&quot; &quot;What sort of things will cause us to get more attention?&quot;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mbesto</author><text>&gt; <i>In the SV game, it&#x27;s &quot;Are we attracting attention?&quot; &quot;What sort of things will cause us to get more attention?&quot;</i><p>It&#x27;s not particularly strange if you break down the business models that dominate the SV ecosystem. These companies you speak of are merely procurement channels. Think of them as oil drills that suck up as many attention spans as physically possible. And largely they are all competing with each other to strike the next big oil well. Not unlike the oil industry they put massive amounts of capital into the discovery and refinement of such oil wells. The likes of Facebook, Google, etc are simply refineries who sell this attention (refined by analytics and insight) off to the Fords, Coca-Colas, etc of the world.</text></comment> | <story><title>If It's Important, Don't Hack It</title><url>http://insideintercom.io/if-its-important-dont-hack-it/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jtbigwoo</author><text>This is why the the Silicon Valley high-growth game is so strange.<p>In a normal company, the metrics would center around, &quot;Are we making money?&quot; &quot;What sort of things point to us making more money?&quot;<p>In the SV game, it&#x27;s &quot;Are we attracting attention?&quot; &quot;What sort of things will cause us to get more attention?&quot;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>sbierwagen</author><text>It works well when we&#x27;re in a bubble, as we are now. Instagram and tumblr sold for billions, neither company was even remotely profitable.</text></comment> |
21,103,420 | 21,103,507 | 1 | 2 | 21,103,133 | train | <story><title>Richard Stallman steps down as as head of the GNU Project, effective immediately</title><url>https://stallman.org/archives/2019-jul-oct.html#28_September_2019_(GNU_Project)</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dependenttypes</author><text>There is a non-zero possibility that a rogue employee did this. He does not sign his web stuff with his GPG key after all.<p>Also, it is there twice <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;stallman.org&#x2F;archives&#x2F;2019-jul-oct.html#27_September_2019_(GNU_Project)" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;stallman.org&#x2F;archives&#x2F;2019-jul-oct.html#27_September...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mrob</author><text>There seems to be something weird going on. Check archive.org&#x27;s recent version on the site:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;web.archive.org&#x2F;web&#x2F;20190928070003&#x2F;https:&#x2F;&#x2F;stallman.org&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;web.archive.org&#x2F;web&#x2F;20190928070003&#x2F;https:&#x2F;&#x2F;stallman....</a><p>&quot;What&#x27;s bad about&quot; section has a &quot;Richard Stallman&quot; link to the Medium post, and the &quot;donate to the Free Software Foundation&quot; link goes to the &quot;Richard Stallman Eats Something From His Foot&quot; Youtube video. The Youtube link is especially suspicious because Youtube uses proprietary Javascript, which RMS has never supported.</text></comment> | <story><title>Richard Stallman steps down as as head of the GNU Project, effective immediately</title><url>https://stallman.org/archives/2019-jul-oct.html#28_September_2019_(GNU_Project)</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dependenttypes</author><text>There is a non-zero possibility that a rogue employee did this. He does not sign his web stuff with his GPG key after all.<p>Also, it is there twice <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;stallman.org&#x2F;archives&#x2F;2019-jul-oct.html#27_September_2019_(GNU_Project)" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;stallman.org&#x2F;archives&#x2F;2019-jul-oct.html#27_September...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tjr</author><text>I agree. Would like to hear more confirmation before believing this.</text></comment> |
18,312,589 | 18,311,802 | 1 | 2 | 18,300,270 | train | <story><title>Raising of Chicago</title><url>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raising_of_Chicago</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jasode</author><text>On a related note for anyone who has walked around both Manhattan and downtown Chicago...<p>Ever notice how downtown Chicago has much less noise of honking cars than downtown New York City? A friend pointed out it&#x27;s because of Chicago&#x27;s lower-level streets[0] that a lot of service vehicles use for loading&#x2F;unloading. That&#x27;s in contrast to Manhattan where everybody has to share the same street level. E.g. a brown UPS truck that stops for a mere 20 seconds is enough for the yellow cab driver that&#x27;s stuck behind him to smash on the horn with impatience.<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Multilevel_streets_in_Chicago" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Multilevel_streets_in_Chicago</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>marzell</author><text>I just returned from my first trip to Chicago, and noticed some related things when comparing to other large cities I&#x27;m familiar with.<p>Related to honking and street noise, another factor I noticed is a high number of curbs where parking is simply not allowed. This streamlines traffic in some ways, as people aren&#x27;t fighting over spaces or waiting for someone to back in slowly. Although, there was a lot of &quot;hazard parking&quot; where people just stopped where they weren&#x27;t supposed to. A lot of the honking I witnessed was due to freight&#x2F;waste vehicles blocking an entire street (2-4 lanes) so they could back into a dock or service area in the middle of a block.<p>Downtown at night seemed eerily quiet, although there were a good number of people. I think several factors applied here, when compared with SF... Chicago has been built to handle the vast crowds from events and conventions that swarm the city. When that isn&#x27;t happening, there is comparatively more room for people, so it&#x27;s wide sidewalks aren&#x27;t as crowded. Also, being built to withstand harsh winters, I imagine there is better thermal insulation that also acts as decent audio insulation (plus a lot is happening under the street level!). I was right outside blues and jazz clubs where you couldn&#x27;t actually hear that anything was going on inside (this makes me laugh when compared to visiting Nashville for the first time earlier in the year).<p>It also seemed that the contention between drivers, cyclists, and pedestrians is more severe even than SF, where I saw several interactions that seemed more like a macho game of &quot;chicken&quot;.</text></comment> | <story><title>Raising of Chicago</title><url>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raising_of_Chicago</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jasode</author><text>On a related note for anyone who has walked around both Manhattan and downtown Chicago...<p>Ever notice how downtown Chicago has much less noise of honking cars than downtown New York City? A friend pointed out it&#x27;s because of Chicago&#x27;s lower-level streets[0] that a lot of service vehicles use for loading&#x2F;unloading. That&#x27;s in contrast to Manhattan where everybody has to share the same street level. E.g. a brown UPS truck that stops for a mere 20 seconds is enough for the yellow cab driver that&#x27;s stuck behind him to smash on the horn with impatience.<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Multilevel_streets_in_Chicago" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Multilevel_streets_in_Chicago</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>gecko</author><text>This was supposed to be a key aspect of the original idea for EPCOT, too: streets would be tri-level, cars on the lowest level, delivery trucks on the next level, and above-ground restricted to pedestrians. You can see <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;EPCOT_(concept)" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;EPCOT_(concept)</a> for more information.</text></comment> |
8,442,909 | 8,442,834 | 1 | 3 | 8,442,650 | train | <story><title>End the U.S. Embargo on Cuba</title><url>http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/12/opinion/sunday/end-the-us-embargo-on-cuba.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>penprog</author><text>2nd generation Cuban American here. My family has a massive anti-Cuban government sentiment and pretty much all the older Cuban people in Miami feel the same. I don&#x27;t blame them considering most had their homes and belongings taken from them by the current Cuban government.<p>As someone who is a little more removed from the actual suffering Castro caused I believe that if the embargo ended and the US and Cuba began trading again that the regime would lose a lot of strength just from the exchange of culture. Especially since the US and Cuba are such close neighbors.<p>What could possibly happen though is that the regime clamps down completely on trade and all the money being made goes straight to the higher ups in the government. Which is why most Cubans that moved away don&#x27;t want the embargo to end.</text></comment> | <story><title>End the U.S. Embargo on Cuba</title><url>http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/12/opinion/sunday/end-the-us-embargo-on-cuba.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>atmosx</author><text>One of my best friends went to Cuba this summer. He told me that if you wanna see the <i>real thing</i> you must go there pretty fast, things are changing, Castro is losing grip and <i>Capitalism</i> is growing slowly but steadily. Prices have grown and people are ready to embrace foreign investment.<p>I think it&#x27;s a good time to end the embargo, given the fact that even in foreign policy Obama failed to deliver what was expected (in retrospect that nobel prize seems utterly ridiculous), I&#x27;d say that it would add some points to the US president a bold move like that.</text></comment> |
21,549,416 | 21,549,396 | 1 | 3 | 21,546,682 | train | <story><title> Jimmy Wales has quietly launched a Facebook rival</title><url>https://www.zdnet.com/article/wikipedias-jimmy-wales-has-quietly-launched-a-facebook-rival-social-network/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>AndrewStephens</author><text>There already is a decentralized Reddit where subreddits are called websites and anyone can start one and run it as they please.<p>What Reddit and similar sites bring to the table is a single pool of authenticated users. Once a user is logged into Reddit, posting on different subreddits is frictionless. Even with oauth and the like, it is hard to replicate that with a distributed set of sites.</text></item><item><author>ratfaced-guy</author><text>What I want is a decentralized Reddit not under the control of advertising needs. Reddit redesign has been bad for quality content. I actually find Reddit to be a better source of information and knowledge than Google at this point, mostly because Google has been inundated with paid blog-spam. It&#x27;s a bit harder to get away with that in Reddit (for the time being, and for whatever reason).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ZainRiz</author><text>I disagree. What Reddit brings to the table is:<p>1. Easy sharing: Subreddits, which are an <i>easy</i> location to share interesting information about a common topic. Creating your own website is an order of magnitude harder, especially if you want to allow anyone on the internet to post to it<p>2. Discoverability: You can easily discover subreddits information related to your interests. Reddit&#x27;s ability to aggregate the various information sources and present options that users find interesting is the biggest reason lurkers&amp;voters (90% of it&#x27;s users) keep returning.</text></comment> | <story><title> Jimmy Wales has quietly launched a Facebook rival</title><url>https://www.zdnet.com/article/wikipedias-jimmy-wales-has-quietly-launched-a-facebook-rival-social-network/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>AndrewStephens</author><text>There already is a decentralized Reddit where subreddits are called websites and anyone can start one and run it as they please.<p>What Reddit and similar sites bring to the table is a single pool of authenticated users. Once a user is logged into Reddit, posting on different subreddits is frictionless. Even with oauth and the like, it is hard to replicate that with a distributed set of sites.</text></item><item><author>ratfaced-guy</author><text>What I want is a decentralized Reddit not under the control of advertising needs. Reddit redesign has been bad for quality content. I actually find Reddit to be a better source of information and knowledge than Google at this point, mostly because Google has been inundated with paid blog-spam. It&#x27;s a bit harder to get away with that in Reddit (for the time being, and for whatever reason).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>signal11</author><text>It’s a little more than just auth. Websites have different codes of conduct, different attitudes to humour&#x2F;off topic content, and crucially different moderation and user safety policies. Remember on most random web forums you have no idea who can see your IP address (if anonymity is important).<p>Much of this is true on Reddit too, except mods seeing your IP address, but most of the important info is consistently in the subreddit sidebar.</text></comment> |
8,583,372 | 8,583,014 | 1 | 2 | 8,582,439 | train | <story><title>Material UI</title><url>http://material-ui.com/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tomelders</author><text>I had a talk with myself at the weekend about making a concerted effort to cut out the snark when I comment on the web.... And I&#x27;m about to fall at the first hurdle.<p>Being &quot;on trend&quot; isn&#x27;t good UI design. But I can see how we got here. Through OS X and iOS, Apple&#x27;s UI ethos became the gold standard in UI design. It was so well designed that it was easy to imitate and by simply adopting the core elements of Apples UI language, stuff became intuitive and usable without the designer needing to understand &quot;why&quot; something looked the way it looked.<p>And then came a new trend, the current trend, that appears to me to be rooted in nothing more substantial than a desire to replace the old with something new at all costs. And when the likes of Apple and Google fall for the same trap, it&#x27;s nigh on impossible for fundamental UI design knowledge to make itself heard above the noise of a million designers advocating the new and pointing to Apple for credibility.<p>You can see that I don&#x27;t like Material. I also don&#x27;t like iOs&#x27;s new UI language. It doesn&#x27;t work. Ive seen no evidence that it&#x27;s any more useable and I struggle everyday to make sense of software and tools that have adopted these new trends so anecdotally, I have to say to myself that we&#x27;re going the wrong way.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>orbifold</author><text>The current trend is rooted in the fact that computer displays approach the visual fidelity of paper prints by now (&gt; 300dpi). Consequently a more print like design language is adopted, which often features a small selection of colours and simple geometric shapes.<p>The large variety in print design demonstrates that this is not an unreasonable restriction. In my eyes the translucency of windows in Yosemite is a much nicer choice than &quot;brushed aluminium&quot; or &quot;black with fake highlights&quot;, it does not pretend to be something it is not. Eventually I would prefer if the &quot;Desktop&quot; metaphor, including &quot;Folders&quot;, was given up and replaced with something different. The faster the design language becomes more abstract to facilitate that change, the better. We are stuck with an overall UI design initially conceived in the 70s, alternative versions of personal computing like the Lisp Machine died unfortunately.</text></comment> | <story><title>Material UI</title><url>http://material-ui.com/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tomelders</author><text>I had a talk with myself at the weekend about making a concerted effort to cut out the snark when I comment on the web.... And I&#x27;m about to fall at the first hurdle.<p>Being &quot;on trend&quot; isn&#x27;t good UI design. But I can see how we got here. Through OS X and iOS, Apple&#x27;s UI ethos became the gold standard in UI design. It was so well designed that it was easy to imitate and by simply adopting the core elements of Apples UI language, stuff became intuitive and usable without the designer needing to understand &quot;why&quot; something looked the way it looked.<p>And then came a new trend, the current trend, that appears to me to be rooted in nothing more substantial than a desire to replace the old with something new at all costs. And when the likes of Apple and Google fall for the same trap, it&#x27;s nigh on impossible for fundamental UI design knowledge to make itself heard above the noise of a million designers advocating the new and pointing to Apple for credibility.<p>You can see that I don&#x27;t like Material. I also don&#x27;t like iOs&#x27;s new UI language. It doesn&#x27;t work. Ive seen no evidence that it&#x27;s any more useable and I struggle everyday to make sense of software and tools that have adopted these new trends so anecdotally, I have to say to myself that we&#x27;re going the wrong way.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>igravious</author><text>I see no snark on display. I also see no arguments or reasons on display to support your position.<p>That is to say:<p>1) I can see that you don&#x27;t like Material but _why_ do you not like it? Because it&#x27;s new is not a reason because it can be both new _and_ adhere to tried and tested design principles, put forward new ideas for consideration, and be aesthetically pleasing<p>2) Why don&#x27;t you like iOS&#x27;s new UI language?</text></comment> |
22,931,809 | 22,931,518 | 1 | 2 | 22,930,965 | train | <story><title>A theory of Zoom fatigue</title><url>https://theconvivialsociety.substack.com/p/a-theory-of-zoom-fatigue</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>djsumdog</author><text>I don&#x27;t know about those theories. I suspect something else. Do you remember landlines, and how responsive they were? You would say things back and fourth and the conversation just worked, even on three-way and conference calls? There was very little noticeable lag!<p>Even in the early cellphone days, I&#x27;d often prefer using my landline. There was less lag. Cellphones felt like speakerphones where it tries to do that cancellation stuff and you feel like the conversation is split into pieces .. like a walkie-talkie where you don&#x27;t control the &quot;over&quot; &#x2F; button press.<p>Cellphones have gotten better, but they&#x27;ve never really hit the latency of landlines (or maybe they have and I didn&#x27;t notice. I never actually talk to people on my phone any more). Video conferencing like that that but worse. It&#x27;s really apparent if you&#x27;re on a remote team and you&#x27;re next to someone on the same call. You can hear that delay.<p>I like a lot of the fatigue comes from that delay. We can connect more people now, with video, over great distances, but it does come at a cost at moving from virtual dedicated circuits to package switches networks and transcoding on some central server.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>saurik</author><text>Landlines were so fast and so &quot;direct&quot; in their latency (where distance correlates very directly with time, due to a lack of &quot;hops&quot;) that local phone calls were faster than the speed of sound across a table, and for a bit after they came out--before people generally got used to seemingly random latency--local calls felt &quot;intimate&quot;, like as if you were talking to someone in bed with their head right next to you; I also have heard stories of negotiators who had gotten really tuned to analyzing people&#x27;s wait times while thinking that long distance calls were confusing and threw them off their game. But no: cell phones haven&#x27;t become as fast as landlines and likely never can due to fundamental contrast of compressed packetized routed audio vs. the speed of an analog signal propagating over a circuit-switched wired connection.</text></comment> | <story><title>A theory of Zoom fatigue</title><url>https://theconvivialsociety.substack.com/p/a-theory-of-zoom-fatigue</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>djsumdog</author><text>I don&#x27;t know about those theories. I suspect something else. Do you remember landlines, and how responsive they were? You would say things back and fourth and the conversation just worked, even on three-way and conference calls? There was very little noticeable lag!<p>Even in the early cellphone days, I&#x27;d often prefer using my landline. There was less lag. Cellphones felt like speakerphones where it tries to do that cancellation stuff and you feel like the conversation is split into pieces .. like a walkie-talkie where you don&#x27;t control the &quot;over&quot; &#x2F; button press.<p>Cellphones have gotten better, but they&#x27;ve never really hit the latency of landlines (or maybe they have and I didn&#x27;t notice. I never actually talk to people on my phone any more). Video conferencing like that that but worse. It&#x27;s really apparent if you&#x27;re on a remote team and you&#x27;re next to someone on the same call. You can hear that delay.<p>I like a lot of the fatigue comes from that delay. We can connect more people now, with video, over great distances, but it does come at a cost at moving from virtual dedicated circuits to package switches networks and transcoding on some central server.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>StefanKarpinski</author><text>That and you’re constantly struggling to decipher audio and make yourself understood. Much like talking in a bar that’s too loud is exhausting. A lot of the exhaustion seems like it’s the difficulty of compensating for a high latency, low-bandwidth, low quality experience. We’re just not evolved for it—reality is the opposite of all of those things.</text></comment> |
23,590,899 | 23,589,366 | 1 | 3 | 23,581,841 | train | <story><title>Ghoti</title><url>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghoti</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>petercooper</author><text>I worked in California for a while and something that kept throwing people off was that I pronounce my &quot;t&quot;s in the English way rather than drop them to &quot;d&quot;s. So it&#x27;s buTTer and not &#x27;budder&#x27;, thirTy not &#x27;thirdy&#x27;, etc. Once I started dropping them to &quot;d&quot;s too, things improved significantly, and I can see why a lot of British YouTubers and geeks develop this &#x27;trans-Atlantic&#x27; affectation.<p>Another funny one I ran into a few times was how for a time like 8:30, we&#x27;d say &quot;half eight&quot; in the UK, but when I would casually say this in the US people would be like &quot;half eight? you mean four?&quot; It had never occurred to me this common British parlance would be unintelligible elsewhere. Of course, there are just as many things the other way around, although watching a lot of US TV will take care of that.</text></item><item><author>egypturnash</author><text>American English speakers can have trouble understanding British English speakers too, fwiw. Mostly due to some dramatically different slang and pronunciation rather than use of more obscure words though.</text></item><item><author>dakiol</author><text>As a non-English speaker, I find the English spoken by non-native speakers far easier to understand and deal with than the English spoken by Americans&#x2F;British.<p>I work with Germans, Italians, Spaniards, French, Dutch and I understand them 99% of the time. We use &quot;normal&quot; words (we are not fancy regarding vocabulary) and pronounce them in a non-native way (the way all Europeans that speak English understand)... But the moment our British colleagues join the conversation, then our understanding decreases to around 70%: either because of the usage of &quot;fancy&quot; words or because of pronunciation.<p>Besides, since we all make the same mistakes when speaking English, we understand each other without asking &quot;sorry, what do you mean?&quot;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Kim_Bruning</author><text>Oh wow, it actually <i>is</i> 8:30 in English. How interesting!<p>In dutch, half eight is 7:30 too.<p>7:40 is weird: &quot;ten over half eight&quot;</text></comment> | <story><title>Ghoti</title><url>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghoti</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>petercooper</author><text>I worked in California for a while and something that kept throwing people off was that I pronounce my &quot;t&quot;s in the English way rather than drop them to &quot;d&quot;s. So it&#x27;s buTTer and not &#x27;budder&#x27;, thirTy not &#x27;thirdy&#x27;, etc. Once I started dropping them to &quot;d&quot;s too, things improved significantly, and I can see why a lot of British YouTubers and geeks develop this &#x27;trans-Atlantic&#x27; affectation.<p>Another funny one I ran into a few times was how for a time like 8:30, we&#x27;d say &quot;half eight&quot; in the UK, but when I would casually say this in the US people would be like &quot;half eight? you mean four?&quot; It had never occurred to me this common British parlance would be unintelligible elsewhere. Of course, there are just as many things the other way around, although watching a lot of US TV will take care of that.</text></item><item><author>egypturnash</author><text>American English speakers can have trouble understanding British English speakers too, fwiw. Mostly due to some dramatically different slang and pronunciation rather than use of more obscure words though.</text></item><item><author>dakiol</author><text>As a non-English speaker, I find the English spoken by non-native speakers far easier to understand and deal with than the English spoken by Americans&#x2F;British.<p>I work with Germans, Italians, Spaniards, French, Dutch and I understand them 99% of the time. We use &quot;normal&quot; words (we are not fancy regarding vocabulary) and pronounce them in a non-native way (the way all Europeans that speak English understand)... But the moment our British colleagues join the conversation, then our understanding decreases to around 70%: either because of the usage of &quot;fancy&quot; words or because of pronunciation.<p>Besides, since we all make the same mistakes when speaking English, we understand each other without asking &quot;sorry, what do you mean?&quot;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>biztos</author><text>I’m from California and I had an Irish colleague there who, despite otherwise being amazingly well integrated, stuck to a hard “t” for certain cases of “th.”<p>So for instance if I might say “These three things,” he would say “these tree things.”<p>He was clearly able to make the sounds but in some cases he couldn’t. I never felt comfortable asking about it because I thought it might be a class thing.</text></comment> |
9,984,463 | 9,984,474 | 1 | 2 | 9,983,862 | train | <story><title>Windows 10 is unfinished</title><url>http://gbl08ma.com/windows-10-is-unfinished/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bryanlarsen</author><text>Warning: VirtualBox doesn&#x27;t work in Windows 10. We&#x27;re a very Vagrant-dependent shop here, so one of my coworkers was forced to spend his entire day in meetings rather than doing real work.</text></item><item><author>ladzoppelin</author><text>Whatever. 7 people in my office just upgraded from 7&#x2F;8.1 in under a hour with all their documents, programs and settings unchanged and then continued working like normal. That&#x27;s unreal considering how many different hardware combinations exist. People seem to like it and its only going to get better.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Zikes</author><text>That must be hardware dependent, I was able to fire up VirtualBox and resume working in a Linux VM immediately after upgrading.</text></comment> | <story><title>Windows 10 is unfinished</title><url>http://gbl08ma.com/windows-10-is-unfinished/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bryanlarsen</author><text>Warning: VirtualBox doesn&#x27;t work in Windows 10. We&#x27;re a very Vagrant-dependent shop here, so one of my coworkers was forced to spend his entire day in meetings rather than doing real work.</text></item><item><author>ladzoppelin</author><text>Whatever. 7 people in my office just upgraded from 7&#x2F;8.1 in under a hour with all their documents, programs and settings unchanged and then continued working like normal. That&#x27;s unreal considering how many different hardware combinations exist. People seem to like it and its only going to get better.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bargl</author><text>Thanks for the heads up that&#x27;s going to be a big deal for developers. I&#x27;m sure it&#x27;ll get fixed. This is probably why our IT folks don&#x27;t want us jumping on the newest OS right after deployment, even though I did it for my personal machine.</text></comment> |
841,574 | 841,633 | 1 | 3 | 841,461 | train | <story><title>Internet Explorer 8 runs ten times faster with Google Chrome plug-in</title><url>http://news.techworld.com/networking/3202572/internet-explorer-8-runs-ten-times-faster-with-google-chrome-plug-in/</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>tjic</author><text>If I had to rank-order the various humiliations I've seen, this comes near the top.<p>Microsoft: "here's our best stab at what a great browser looks like - and it took us 14 years to get here".<p>Google: "we've been working on a codebase for 2 years. We decided to release it as a <i>patch</i> to your browser. Our brief foray into this area has improved your best effort by 10x".<p>Ouch!</text></comment> | <story><title>Internet Explorer 8 runs ten times faster with Google Chrome plug-in</title><url>http://news.techworld.com/networking/3202572/internet-explorer-8-runs-ten-times-faster-with-google-chrome-plug-in/</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>josefresco</author><text>Anyone have real-life applications of this benchmark? Similar to 3D-gaming and CPU/GPU benchmarking in general the results (and winners) depend highly on the parameters of the test. Although at the end of the day nothing matters except real world performance.<p>Can someone point to an application where this performance improvement can be demonstrated?</text></comment> |
24,386,582 | 24,386,345 | 1 | 2 | 24,384,348 | train | <story><title>Have we just stumbled on the biggest productivity increase of the century?</title><url>https://theconversation.com/have-we-just-stumbled-on-the-biggest-productivity-increase-of-the-century-145104</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>aphextron</author><text>I&#x27;m definitely more productive working from home. But I&#x27;m not as happy. Yes commuting sucks. Yes waking up early sucks. But my coworkers were also my friends. I looked forward to having lunch with my team every day. I miss happy hours and book club meetings. I miss having a back and forth casual discussion on some open ended problem we&#x27;re dealing with. I miss feeling like a part of something larger than myself, rather than just being some guy who wakes up, types code into a laptop, eats dinner, and goes to bed. Maybe this is different for people with families. But I, for one, am dreaming of the day life can go back to normal.</text></comment> | <story><title>Have we just stumbled on the biggest productivity increase of the century?</title><url>https://theconversation.com/have-we-just-stumbled-on-the-biggest-productivity-increase-of-the-century-145104</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>endymi0n</author><text>I don&#x27;t doubt the main conclusion of the article for certain tasks at least — what I do think is questionable though is using productivity as the only valid metric without controlling for others, including happiness, loneliness, effectiveness and sustainability.<p>For makers of any kind, I think remote work has mainly been a net benefit. There&#x27;s a lot of developers in our teams who say they&#x27;re more productive than ever.<p>For me as a technology manager, I&#x27;m more exhausted than ever. Video meetings are a pain. Because of this, people switch to asynchronous communication methods, which is definively more effective, but lacks even more personality. Text has many more layers of ambiguity. People get more aggressive and lonely. Misunderstandings rise.<p>My job is to be aware of the emotional undercurrents of arguments and technology and physical distance just seems to get in the way of that. Any forms of creativity that happens in a group, like whiteboarding together, just isn&#x27;t the same.<p>So yes, I think I&#x27;m more productive, at least in some ways. There are some bright sides, also in my private life from being able to work from home that I&#x27;m sure to do more of once I&#x27;m able to go back to the office. But I haven&#x27;t ever been as exhausted, lonely or miserable as right now and I simply can&#x27;t wait to actually have the choice of seeing people in person again.</text></comment> |
10,757,702 | 10,755,380 | 1 | 3 | 10,754,487 | train | <story><title>Should AI Be Open?</title><url>http://slatestarcodex.com/2015/12/17/should-ai-be-open/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>poppingtonic</author><text>&#x27;If you were to come up with a sort of objective zoological IQ based on amount of evolutionary work required to reach a certain level, complexity of brain structures, etc, you might put nematodes at 1, cows at 90, chimps at 99, homo erectus at 99.9, and modern humans at 100. The difference between 99.9 and 100 is the difference between “frequently eaten by lions” and “has to pass anti-poaching laws to prevent all lions from being wiped out”.&#x27;<p>[EDITED: the intended quote is below. the quote above is the next paragraph of OP, which is only slightly less relevant than the intended one]<p>&#x27;Why should we expect this to happen? Multiple reasons. The first is that it happened before. It took evolution twenty million years to go from cows with sharp horns to hominids with sharp spears; it took only a few tens of thousands of years to go from hominids with sharp spears to moderns with nuclear weapons. Almost all of the practically interesting differences in intelligence occur within a tiny window that you could blink and miss.&#x27;<p>Yudkowsky&#x27;s position paper on this idea explains this in more detail: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;intelligence.org&#x2F;files&#x2F;IEM.pdf" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;intelligence.org&#x2F;files&#x2F;IEM.pdf</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Should AI Be Open?</title><url>http://slatestarcodex.com/2015/12/17/should-ai-be-open/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>pfisch</author><text>It is probably going to be the worst decision of humanity to allow AI research to continue past its current point.<p>I&#x27;m not even sure how we could stop it, but we should really be passing laws right now about algorithms that operate like a black box where a training algorithm is used to generate the output. For some reason everyone just thinks we should rush forward into this not concerned about an AI that is super human.<p>Whether it is a good or bad actor doesn&#x27;t even matter. Giving up control to a non-human entity is the worst idea humanity has ever had. We will end up in a zoo either way.</text></comment> |
32,827,147 | 32,826,703 | 1 | 3 | 32,824,872 | train | <story><title>Senior engineers are living in the future</title><url>https://www.zerobanana.com/essays/living-in-the-future/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>triyambakam</author><text>Where I am often hung up in comparison is due to age. I dropped out of college and spent my early 20s learning agriculture and construction. Now I work in software engineering and my current manager is younger than me. Not only is he younger than me, but he&#x27;s been able to climb up to an engineering manager in a shorter amount of time than I&#x27;ve been working as a SWE. So I feel really lame - wasted so much time early in my life and still seem to be wasting time.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Ironlikebike</author><text>&gt; he&#x27;s been able to climb up to a engineering manager in a shorter amount of time than I&#x27;ve been working as a SWE<p>If you want to be an IC, don&#x27;t short change your accomplishments. Eng Mgr is not a promotion from IC, it&#x27;s a career change.<p>The SWE career progression is much more established, and is often much more formal and understood than an Eng Mgmt track.<p>Your younger manager has recently gone through a significant career change that requires a significant amount of self-education to advance further. It&#x27;s possible he&#x27;ll advance opportunistically (if there&#x27;s a vacancy) or by being clever or political, but his competency will not necessarily advance with him without him putting a significant amount of effort into learning this new career.<p>It&#x27;s not uncommon for established SWEs to make more than engineering managers until the engineering manager has progressed to a level where they are dealing with levels of stress (business &amp; social) that would make most people&#x27;s hair fall out.<p>Even then many companies have career tracks that pay as well in the upper echelons for individual technical contributors as for high level eng mgrs. The one thing they have in common is that there are very few positions at the top of any career ladder. It gets competitive. Hopefully your aspirations match your talents so that you can compete for those fewer positions.</text></comment> | <story><title>Senior engineers are living in the future</title><url>https://www.zerobanana.com/essays/living-in-the-future/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>triyambakam</author><text>Where I am often hung up in comparison is due to age. I dropped out of college and spent my early 20s learning agriculture and construction. Now I work in software engineering and my current manager is younger than me. Not only is he younger than me, but he&#x27;s been able to climb up to an engineering manager in a shorter amount of time than I&#x27;ve been working as a SWE. So I feel really lame - wasted so much time early in my life and still seem to be wasting time.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nonethewiser</author><text>I&#x27;ve kinda had the opposite experience. I started my SWE career in my early 30&#x27;s. I feel like I&#x27;ve been treated as if I have more experience because of my age. And to some extent, rightly so. We have substantial work experience compared to a 21 year old. I did not start in a junior role.<p>Point being, don&#x27;t blame your age. And don&#x27;t underestimate yourself. And definitely don&#x27;t compare yourself to others. If you are growing, then good fucking job. Keep doing that and maybe switch positions to somewhere more conducive to your growth if you feel like that&#x27;s necessary.</text></comment> |
20,597,719 | 20,597,806 | 1 | 3 | 20,595,972 | train | <story><title>Medieval people bathed regularly</title><url>https://going-medieval.com/2019/08/02/i-assure-you-medieval-people-bathed/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>voldacar</author><text>The myths we tell about history always tend to be so self-serving and belittling of the people who came before us. I&#x27;m not sure I want to know what people will think about us 500 years from now</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>JohnJamesRambo</author><text>I’m reminded of a quote I can’t find again and I’m paraphrasing and butchering- every generation sees the previous one as primitive troglodytes and the future one as effete dandies.</text></comment> | <story><title>Medieval people bathed regularly</title><url>https://going-medieval.com/2019/08/02/i-assure-you-medieval-people-bathed/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>voldacar</author><text>The myths we tell about history always tend to be so self-serving and belittling of the people who came before us. I&#x27;m not sure I want to know what people will think about us 500 years from now</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tetraca</author><text>&quot;How could they have 7 billion people? Did they all live in the desert?&quot;<p>&quot;Yes, there was food growing there in the desert, too. Right out of the ground, as far as your eye could see.&quot;<p>&quot;And they just threw it all away?!&quot;</text></comment> |
7,708,907 | 7,708,517 | 1 | 3 | 7,708,295 | train | <story><title>MyHDL – Design hardware with Python – Examples</title><url>http://www.myhdl.org/examples/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>DanWaterworth</author><text>I&#x27;ve recently started writing my own HDL as an embedded language within Idris. The idea behind it is that you can take advantage of the rich type system and you have the option to prove theorems about your circuits to gain confidence in them. There are also bindings to picosat, so that you can automatically prove some properties. Here&#x27;s a snippet of how it looks so far (though things are changing rapidly):<p><pre><code> lt : BoolOperation op =&gt; Vect n v -&gt; Vect n v -&gt; SSA op v v
lt [] [] = constOp False
lt (x :: xs) (y :: ys) = do
nX &lt;- notOp x
t1 &lt;- andOp [nX, y]
t2 &lt;- xnorOp x y
t3 &lt;- lt xs ys
t4 &lt;- andOp [t2, t3]
orOp [t1, t4]</code></pre></text></comment> | <story><title>MyHDL – Design hardware with Python – Examples</title><url>http://www.myhdl.org/examples/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>ioseph</author><text>Always great to see new developments in HDLs.<p>It seems there is no synthesis (which is to be expected without vendor support).
With &#x27;limited&#x27; conversion to VHDL&#x2F;Verilog, I wonder how useful this is for actual implementation.<p>Also from the site I couldn&#x27;t find any mention of higher level functionality such as generics, etc.</text></comment> |
30,638,312 | 30,637,275 | 1 | 2 | 30,634,245 | train | <story><title>Just Say No to Central Bank Digital Currencies</title><url>https://theupheaval.substack.com/p/just-say-no-to-cbdcs</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>csense</author><text>Some predictions:<p>- The government&#x27;s not going to have an official true cryptocurrency where anyone with a computer and an Internet connection can just generate a private key and anonymously send &#x2F; receive coins.<p>- The system won&#x27;t allow an address to send &#x2F; receive coins without approval from a government key, and that approval will only be given if the government&#x27;s gotten a name &#x2F; SSN &#x2F; real-life identity to associate with that address.<p>- The system will provide a function where a government-controlled key can freeze any address&#x27;s ability to send or receive funds.<p>- The government&#x27;s going to say &quot;But we need to take a stand against terrorists &#x2F; Russian oligarchs &#x2F; drug kingpins&quot; and then it ends up being used against successively lower and lower degrees of criminals, such as money launderers &#x2F; tax dodgers &#x2F; deadbeat dads &#x2F; unpaid parking tickets, and eventually ends up targeting ordinary citizens.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>skocznymroczny</author><text>&gt; such as money launderers &#x2F; tax dodgers &#x2F; deadbeat dads &#x2F; unpaid parking tickets, and eventually ends up targeting ordinary citizens.<p>we already got a tease in Canada of what is to come.</text></comment> | <story><title>Just Say No to Central Bank Digital Currencies</title><url>https://theupheaval.substack.com/p/just-say-no-to-cbdcs</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>csense</author><text>Some predictions:<p>- The government&#x27;s not going to have an official true cryptocurrency where anyone with a computer and an Internet connection can just generate a private key and anonymously send &#x2F; receive coins.<p>- The system won&#x27;t allow an address to send &#x2F; receive coins without approval from a government key, and that approval will only be given if the government&#x27;s gotten a name &#x2F; SSN &#x2F; real-life identity to associate with that address.<p>- The system will provide a function where a government-controlled key can freeze any address&#x27;s ability to send or receive funds.<p>- The government&#x27;s going to say &quot;But we need to take a stand against terrorists &#x2F; Russian oligarchs &#x2F; drug kingpins&quot; and then it ends up being used against successively lower and lower degrees of criminals, such as money launderers &#x2F; tax dodgers &#x2F; deadbeat dads &#x2F; unpaid parking tickets, and eventually ends up targeting ordinary citizens.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>anm89</author><text>CBDCs have zero intrinsic link to crypto. They are digital in the same way your credit card is digital which is to say they use servers that run on a computer which access a database.<p>You could implement a block chain somewhere in there but it&#x27;s not really clear what a central bank would gain from that. They have central in the name. They aren&#x27;t interested in decentralizing</text></comment> |
22,588,762 | 22,588,909 | 1 | 2 | 22,588,584 | train | <story><title>United hides cheapest flights from passengers affected by Coronavirus</title><url>https://bookwithcarry.com/blog/united-cheap-flights-coronavirus</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>benmarks</author><text>I’m not going to divorce my wife so I can run away with United, but I hope this crew has a lot more than the single example to level these charges I hope they are taking care buckets into consideration (right or wrong, changing this at the IT level can’t be quick or easy). It will be curious to see others replicate this and if so, United’s response, because that would be egregious and certainly something for them to resolve.</text></comment> | <story><title>United hides cheapest flights from passengers affected by Coronavirus</title><url>https://bookwithcarry.com/blog/united-cheap-flights-coronavirus</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>nostromo</author><text>Put another way: if you bought a flight from X to Y before covid-19, and then you canceled that flight and received a voucher -- that voucher will still only buy you a flight from X to Y, even though prices have dropped.<p>That seems... totally fair? Why should you be able to buy two flights from X to Y when you canceled only one? I get that prices are now lower, but your price is the same as when you originally bought the flight.</text></comment> |
20,429,858 | 20,429,304 | 1 | 2 | 20,428,727 | train | <story><title>Clojure’s Approach to Identity and State (2008)</title><url>https://clojure.org/about/state</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>stuhood</author><text>Immutability is very helpful, and the connection between values and identity is illuminating.<p>But there have been very important developments in programming languages since this post&#x2F;page was written: notably, the introduction of &quot;borrow checking&quot; (exemplified by Rust&#x27;s implementation). Borrow checking has a very significant positive effect on the sustainability of imperative code, which makes the claim that &quot;imperative programming is founded on an unsustainable premise&quot; feel dated.<p>It is worth taking the time to understand what borrow checking enables. For example: borrow checking allows even mutable datastructures to be treated as values with structural equality. It does this by guaranteeing that unless you have exclusive access to something, it may not be mutated.<p>A good explanation of the benefits of ownership and borrow checking: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;squidarth.com&#x2F;rc&#x2F;rust&#x2F;2018&#x2F;05&#x2F;31&#x2F;rust-borrowing-and-ownership.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;squidarth.com&#x2F;rc&#x2F;rust&#x2F;2018&#x2F;05&#x2F;31&#x2F;rust-borrowing-and-o...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Clojure’s Approach to Identity and State (2008)</title><url>https://clojure.org/about/state</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>etbebl</author><text>This is interesting. I&#x27;ve tried Clojure, and heard about the idea of avoiding mutable data and using pure functions plenty of times, but imperative&#x2F;OOP have still always made the most sense to me. When reading this though, something clicked because I&#x27;ve encountered the problem of getting a stable state to read&#x2F;write without blocking other operations, and dealt with it in C++ in a similar way to Clojure without realizing it at the time.<p>I have this little lightly-tested library: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;tne-lab&#x2F;rw-synchronizer" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;tne-lab&#x2F;rw-synchronizer</a>. I&#x27;m not using it much currently but have played with it a lot while building extensions to Open Ephys. The idea being that as a reader, you get a &quot;snapshot&quot; of the last thing that was written, but it&#x27;s really just one of several copies, and subsequent writes can happen on the other copies. So you never really modify the current data, just push newer versions of it. The cool thing is, if you know how many simultaneous readers you&#x27;ll need ahead of time, all the allocation can be done upfront, so then if you have a real-time loop or something, all it needs to do is exchange pointers.<p>If I ever get around to it, the next thing I would do is allow any writer to also read the latest value, so it can use a transformation to create a new one. Maybe even do it automatically with copy-on-write semantics? On the other hand, I&#x27;m probably reinventing the wheel here...</text></comment> |
22,283,577 | 22,283,100 | 1 | 2 | 22,282,049 | train | <story><title>How much better was DEC Alpha than contemporary x86?</title><url>https://retrocomputing.stackexchange.com/questions/13611/how-much-better-was-dec-alpha-than-contemporary-x86</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>indymike</author><text>At the time that Alpha came out, the x86 was struggling to get more clock speed, and the groupthink was that RISC was the way forward. RISC chips would run at 4-8x the clock speed of an x86 and even when you adjusted for needing 2-3x more instructions, RISC was 50-200% faster.<p>DEC had a winner with Alpha. It had speed, and most importantly, you could run Windows NT on it. NT mattered because most Unix vendors at the time wanted $1,000&#x2F;CPU for their licenses, and NT was $cheap (the OEM version was around $300 if I recall correctly).<p>As other posters have said, DEC just could not get out of their own way and let Alpha succeed. Wierd sales policies, hostile partnerships, and intense competition all really stymied DEC. A lot of the weirdness came from trying to protect their legacy base of VAX and PDP midrange systems and a general hatred of IBM (who was pushing OS&#x2F;2).<p>BTW as I recall, Windows NT supported x86, Alpha and MIPS (another RISC vendor) with the first commercially available version of NT. MS added a few other RISC architectures in the following years (ARM most notably). x86 closed the speed gap a few years later with the Pentium II (the Pentium Pro was largely used in servers) and the rest is history.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Fnoord</author><text>Windows NT also ran on PowerPC and Itanium [1].<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Windows_NT" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Windows_NT</a></text></comment> | <story><title>How much better was DEC Alpha than contemporary x86?</title><url>https://retrocomputing.stackexchange.com/questions/13611/how-much-better-was-dec-alpha-than-contemporary-x86</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>indymike</author><text>At the time that Alpha came out, the x86 was struggling to get more clock speed, and the groupthink was that RISC was the way forward. RISC chips would run at 4-8x the clock speed of an x86 and even when you adjusted for needing 2-3x more instructions, RISC was 50-200% faster.<p>DEC had a winner with Alpha. It had speed, and most importantly, you could run Windows NT on it. NT mattered because most Unix vendors at the time wanted $1,000&#x2F;CPU for their licenses, and NT was $cheap (the OEM version was around $300 if I recall correctly).<p>As other posters have said, DEC just could not get out of their own way and let Alpha succeed. Wierd sales policies, hostile partnerships, and intense competition all really stymied DEC. A lot of the weirdness came from trying to protect their legacy base of VAX and PDP midrange systems and a general hatred of IBM (who was pushing OS&#x2F;2).<p>BTW as I recall, Windows NT supported x86, Alpha and MIPS (another RISC vendor) with the first commercially available version of NT. MS added a few other RISC architectures in the following years (ARM most notably). x86 closed the speed gap a few years later with the Pentium II (the Pentium Pro was largely used in servers) and the rest is history.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>maxerickson</author><text>In ~2000 I knew someone using NT on an Alpha. It wasn&#x27;t a better experience than my 2 year old P2, and they had paid more for it.</text></comment> |
35,273,827 | 35,273,900 | 1 | 2 | 35,272,215 | train | <story><title>GNOME 44</title><url>https://foundation.gnome.org/2023/03/22/introducing-gnome-44/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>prohobo</author><text>In a sense, yes. HTML and CSS (with JS?) are the best UI creation combo anyone could ever design, because so much effort has gone into making websites look nice over the decades. Millions of people and thousands of companies trying to create websites has pushed the standards really far ahead of any other UI kit.<p>I think eventually they&#x27;ll become integrated with operating systems natively, rather than requiring webview. But that means desktop managers will become much more integrated with the web as well.<p>Basically I see a future where your OS is your internet browser as well as window manager, process manager, etc.</text></item><item><author>criddell</author><text>&gt; it is based on Web stack instead of Gtk<p>Why would they do that? Is that implying web technologies are superior to the tools they are making?</text></item><item><author>pjmlp</author><text>Except for devs, that need to enjoy doing XML by hand for GUI layouts, as the wannabe replacement for Glade is yet to deliver, and even then it is based on Web stack instead of Gtk.<p>Ah those JavaScript extensions all over the place.</text></item><item><author>rbanffy</author><text>To me, GNOME is what makes Linux a desktop OS as pleasing to use, if not more, than macOS. The apps are neat and focused, do one thing and do it well, and everything “just works”.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>LorenDB</author><text>No. No! NO!<p>HTML and CSS are <i>not</i> the answer. If anything, you should be scared off by the fact that webpages require at least three languages to implement anything useful (HTML, CSS, and JS), and that doesn&#x27;t count whatever you could use for a backend (PHP? I&#x27;m not a web developer, so I don&#x27;t know what the cool kids use, other than maybe Node.js.)<p>In my book, the fewer langauges you use, the better: I will even extend this to Qt and QML (and it should be pointed out that I am passionate about using Qt and QML!). Multiple languages necessitate (often fragile) bridges to work together; plus, they take much more time and effort to learn. If you could learn one language and use it to make an app, wouldn&#x27;t you jump at that instead of learning 3 or 4 languages before you could make an app?<p>Others have already added some great comments about the wisdom (or rather the lack thereof) of integrating a web browser into the OS. Myself? I don&#x27;t wish anybody a future of bloated webapps for everything.</text></comment> | <story><title>GNOME 44</title><url>https://foundation.gnome.org/2023/03/22/introducing-gnome-44/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>prohobo</author><text>In a sense, yes. HTML and CSS (with JS?) are the best UI creation combo anyone could ever design, because so much effort has gone into making websites look nice over the decades. Millions of people and thousands of companies trying to create websites has pushed the standards really far ahead of any other UI kit.<p>I think eventually they&#x27;ll become integrated with operating systems natively, rather than requiring webview. But that means desktop managers will become much more integrated with the web as well.<p>Basically I see a future where your OS is your internet browser as well as window manager, process manager, etc.</text></item><item><author>criddell</author><text>&gt; it is based on Web stack instead of Gtk<p>Why would they do that? Is that implying web technologies are superior to the tools they are making?</text></item><item><author>pjmlp</author><text>Except for devs, that need to enjoy doing XML by hand for GUI layouts, as the wannabe replacement for Glade is yet to deliver, and even then it is based on Web stack instead of Gtk.<p>Ah those JavaScript extensions all over the place.</text></item><item><author>rbanffy</author><text>To me, GNOME is what makes Linux a desktop OS as pleasing to use, if not more, than macOS. The apps are neat and focused, do one thing and do it well, and everything “just works”.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>fdeee</author><text>HTML and CSS are maybe the best UI creation combo if you only ever care about visual aesthetic design.<p>Any other aspects of what UI design is supposed to be about, ergonomics, usability, consistency, accessibility, internationalization is total crap in HTML&#x2F;CSS. What is the taborder of your custom HTML&#x2F;CSS datepicker? What will happen when I press &lt;Esc&gt; on your custom css popup? What is the keyboard shortcut to highlight that form field or to open that hamburger menu? How will my screenreader pronounce that hamburger symbol? Will it be the same for the next great HTML&#x2F;CSS creation? Will the date format follow my locale?<p>HTML&#x2F;CSS is great only if you are the strictly visual aesthetics kind of &quot;designer&quot; who only care about reproducing their napkin drawings and photoshop mockups. For all the other things one would ask of a proper UI, HTML&#x2F;CSS is either useless or actively detrimental.</text></comment> |
3,212,114 | 3,211,615 | 1 | 2 | 3,210,671 | train | <story><title>The Knife Maker</title><url>http://thisismadebyhand.com/film/the_knife_maker</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mapleoin</author><text>So you're saying that fair trade coffee benefits "the white man" rather than the producers in the third-world country? That's exactly the opposite of what fair trade means.<p>Also, hand-made isn't fighting against capitalism, it's fighting against mass-production, sweat-shops and machine-people jobs like the ones portrayed on Chaplin's <i>City Lights</i> or even Discovery Channel's <i>How It's Made</i>.</text></item><item><author>patio11</author><text>I'm torn between "This guy clearly enjoys his work, bully for him." and "The handmade movement is an extravagantly wasteful alternative to a factory in China to give rich white people an opportunity to demonstrate their social superiority over people who use functionally equivalent objects produced in an efficient fashion." (c.f. organic food, fair trade coffee, etc etc. This topic makes me positively Marxist. There was a time when only wealthy folks could afford goods. Capitalism happened and now everyone can afford goods. This <i>really discomfits some people</i>, so they get very creative at inventing reasons why the goods they are using today are the right goods and the goods they were using ten years ago are now the wrong goods since poor people now have access to them.)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dangrover</author><text>No, but the price difference between buying normal and fair trade (as a consumer) is much larger than the price difference between the underlying coffee crop used in each.<p>Tim Harford wrote about this: <a href="http://timharford.com/2008/04/business-life-fair-trade-or-foul/" rel="nofollow">http://timharford.com/2008/04/business-life-fair-trade-or-fo...</a><p>In some cases, he says, fair trade is 10X the margin!<p>Fair trade exists to segment the market and collect more consumer surplus (more than it exists to improve conditions).</text></comment> | <story><title>The Knife Maker</title><url>http://thisismadebyhand.com/film/the_knife_maker</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mapleoin</author><text>So you're saying that fair trade coffee benefits "the white man" rather than the producers in the third-world country? That's exactly the opposite of what fair trade means.<p>Also, hand-made isn't fighting against capitalism, it's fighting against mass-production, sweat-shops and machine-people jobs like the ones portrayed on Chaplin's <i>City Lights</i> or even Discovery Channel's <i>How It's Made</i>.</text></item><item><author>patio11</author><text>I'm torn between "This guy clearly enjoys his work, bully for him." and "The handmade movement is an extravagantly wasteful alternative to a factory in China to give rich white people an opportunity to demonstrate their social superiority over people who use functionally equivalent objects produced in an efficient fashion." (c.f. organic food, fair trade coffee, etc etc. This topic makes me positively Marxist. There was a time when only wealthy folks could afford goods. Capitalism happened and now everyone can afford goods. This <i>really discomfits some people</i>, so they get very creative at inventing reasons why the goods they are using today are the right goods and the goods they were using ten years ago are now the wrong goods since poor people now have access to them.)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>cschmidt</author><text>He's saying that the main benefit of fair trade <i>to the consumer</i> is a sense of superiority or reduced guilt over those who drink "regular" coffee. That sort of benefit always strikes me as a bit of a "luxury good" as well, in the sense that the benefit isn't about the functionality or quality of the coffee itself.<p>There is of course a benefit to <i>the producer</i> as well, in the form of a fair price.<p>I imagine most of the factory workers on "How It's Made" rather like their jobs. They all seem to take pride in what they produce.</text></comment> |
40,287,064 | 40,286,595 | 1 | 2 | 40,286,029 | train | <story><title>Apple introduces M4 chip</title><url>https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2024/05/apple-introduces-m4-chip/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>izacus</author><text>Apple usually massively exaggerates their tech spec comparison - is it REALLY half the power use of all times (so we&#x27;ll get double the battery life) or is it half the power use in some scenarios (so we&#x27;ll get like... 15% more battery life total) ?</text></item><item><author>praseodym</author><text>&quot;With these improvements to the CPU and GPU, M4 maintains Apple silicon’s industry-leading performance per watt. M4 can deliver the same performance as M2 using just half the power. And compared with the latest PC chip in a thin and light laptop, M4 can deliver the same performance using just a fourth of the power.&quot;<p>That&#x27;s an incredible improvement in just a few years. I wonder how much of that is Apple engineering and how much is TSMC improving their 3nm process.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>cletus</author><text>IME Apple has always been the most honest when it makes performance claims. LIke when they said an Macbook Air would last 10+ hours and third-party reviewers would get 8-9+ hours. All the while, Dell or HP would claim 19 hours and you&#x27;d be lucky to get 2 eg [1].<p>As for CPU power use, of course that doesn&#x27;t translate into doubling battery life because there are other components. And yes, it seems the OLED display uses more power so, all in all, battery life seems to be about the same.<p>I&#x27;m interested to see an M3 vs M4 performance comparison in the real world. IIRC the M3 was a questionable upgrade. Some things were better but some weren&#x27;t.<p>Overall the M-series SoCs have been an excellent product however.<p>[1]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.laptopmag.com&#x2F;features&#x2F;laptop-battery-life-claims-debunked" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.laptopmag.com&#x2F;features&#x2F;laptop-battery-life-claim...</a><p>EDIT: added link</text></comment> | <story><title>Apple introduces M4 chip</title><url>https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2024/05/apple-introduces-m4-chip/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>izacus</author><text>Apple usually massively exaggerates their tech spec comparison - is it REALLY half the power use of all times (so we&#x27;ll get double the battery life) or is it half the power use in some scenarios (so we&#x27;ll get like... 15% more battery life total) ?</text></item><item><author>praseodym</author><text>&quot;With these improvements to the CPU and GPU, M4 maintains Apple silicon’s industry-leading performance per watt. M4 can deliver the same performance as M2 using just half the power. And compared with the latest PC chip in a thin and light laptop, M4 can deliver the same performance using just a fourth of the power.&quot;<p>That&#x27;s an incredible improvement in just a few years. I wonder how much of that is Apple engineering and how much is TSMC improving their 3nm process.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>philistine</author><text>Quickly looking at the press release, it seems to have the same comparisons as in the video. None of Apple&#x27;s comparisons today are between the M3 and M4. They are ALL comparing the M2 and M4. Why? It&#x27;s frustrating, but today Apple replaced a product with an M2 with a product with an M4. Apple always compares product to product, never component to component when it comes to processors. So those specs are far more impressive than if we could have numbers between the M3 and M4.</text></comment> |
41,409,893 | 41,410,029 | 1 | 2 | 41,409,475 | train | <story><title>Rust solves the problem of incomplete Kernel Linux API docs</title><url>https://vt.social/@lina/113056457969145576</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>dagmx</author><text>This is one of the biggest advantages of the newer wave of more expressively typed languages like Rust and Swift.<p>They remove a lot of ambiguity in how something should be held.<p>Is this data type or method thread safe? Well I don’t need to go look up the docs only to find it’s not mentioned anywhere but in some community discussion. The compiler tells me.<p>Reviewing code? I don’t need to verify every use of a pointer is safe because the code tells me itself at that exact local point.<p>This isn’t unique to the Linux kernel. This is every codebase that doesn’t use a memory safe language.<p>With memory safe languages you can focus so much more on the implementation of your business logic than making sure all your codebases invariants are in your head at a given time.</text></comment> | <story><title>Rust solves the problem of incomplete Kernel Linux API docs</title><url>https://vt.social/@lina/113056457969145576</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>devnull3</author><text>In the beginning, I was trying to use Rust like C (which I think lot of people do) and was struggling with the borrow checker. I had a light bulb in my head one day to read the function signature and see if its &#x27;&amp;self&#x27; or &#x27;&amp;mut self&#x27;.<p>If any one API of a struct&#x2F;enum has &#x27;&amp;mut self&#x27; then its instance cannot be shared across threads without using a mutex (which brings its own friend along i.e Arc). This led me to structure the code in my mind much in advance to prevent borrow checker issues.<p>Another use of this is while embedding an object in a struct. When I realized that &#x27;&amp;mut self&#x27; infects everything up the call chain it was a big learning moment. That is the embedding struct also needs a mutable borrow as well.</text></comment> |
5,105,889 | 5,103,767 | 1 | 2 | 5,103,031 | train | <story><title>Turning the Raspberry Pi Into an FM Transmitter</title><url>http://www.icrobotics.co.uk/wiki/index.php/Turning_the_Raspberry_Pi_Into_an_FM_Transmitter</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jdietrich</author><text><i>Emissions must be kept within the 88.0 to 108.0 MHz band</i><p>Without a spectrum analyser, you have absolutely no idea how much energy is being emitted on other frequencies. A crude unfiltered transmitter of this sort is probably emitting more spurious energy than on the intended frequency. Ignorance is no defence and it is the obligation of the operator to ensure that their transmission is compliant.<p>Lots of serious, life-or-death stuff depends on radio. The FM broadcast frequencies are directly adjacent to the VHF Airband, either side of 108MHz. The lowest part of the Airband is allocated to VOR and ILS navigation aids. Transmit a couple of watts on 107MHz and you're just going to interfere with broadcast radio; A couple of watts on 109MHz could take down a light aircraft. If you're going to experiment, you have a moral duty to get yourself an amateur license and ensure you have the skills and equipment to be a good neighbour.</text></item><item><author>bhousel</author><text><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Part_15_%28FCC_rules%29" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Part_15_%28FCC_rules%29</a><p><i>Unlicensed broadcasts on the FM broadcast band (88 to 108 MHz) are limited to a field strength of 250 µV/m at a distance of 3 meters from the antenna. This is equivalent to 0.01 microwatts.[2] Emissions must be kept within the 88.0 to 108.0 MHz band under Part 15 rules.</i></text></item><item><author>meaty</author><text>I bet the FCC (or RCA in the UK) will love that :)<p>The amount of noise and harmonics that come off that sort of transmitter will be horrible. At least chuck a bandpass on the end of it.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bigiain</author><text>While I agree with everything you say, this:<p>"A couple of watts on 109MHz could take down a light aircraft."<p>is without doubt the sort of unnecessary hyperbolic statement that leads directly to the modern security-theatre over reaction. Sure, it might lead to navigation problems which combined with enough other co-incidental bad luck might lead to a crash, but the reductio ad absurdum statement "$30 worth of widely available electronics could crash a Cessna" would surely lead to an entirely justified call from Cessna's legal department if published prominently enough.<p>Yeah, fucking around with poorly controlled transmitters in the FM broadcast band isn't a great idea. but telling people "you'll crash planes!" is a sure-fire way to have the rest of your message's reliability questioned.<p>(And, for the record, I'm going to try this out with my RaspberryPi and see if I can get some sort of handle on unexpected emissions using my FunCube software radio to listen above and below the tx frequency...)</text></comment> | <story><title>Turning the Raspberry Pi Into an FM Transmitter</title><url>http://www.icrobotics.co.uk/wiki/index.php/Turning_the_Raspberry_Pi_Into_an_FM_Transmitter</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jdietrich</author><text><i>Emissions must be kept within the 88.0 to 108.0 MHz band</i><p>Without a spectrum analyser, you have absolutely no idea how much energy is being emitted on other frequencies. A crude unfiltered transmitter of this sort is probably emitting more spurious energy than on the intended frequency. Ignorance is no defence and it is the obligation of the operator to ensure that their transmission is compliant.<p>Lots of serious, life-or-death stuff depends on radio. The FM broadcast frequencies are directly adjacent to the VHF Airband, either side of 108MHz. The lowest part of the Airband is allocated to VOR and ILS navigation aids. Transmit a couple of watts on 107MHz and you're just going to interfere with broadcast radio; A couple of watts on 109MHz could take down a light aircraft. If you're going to experiment, you have a moral duty to get yourself an amateur license and ensure you have the skills and equipment to be a good neighbour.</text></item><item><author>bhousel</author><text><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Part_15_%28FCC_rules%29" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Part_15_%28FCC_rules%29</a><p><i>Unlicensed broadcasts on the FM broadcast band (88 to 108 MHz) are limited to a field strength of 250 µV/m at a distance of 3 meters from the antenna. This is equivalent to 0.01 microwatts.[2] Emissions must be kept within the 88.0 to 108.0 MHz band under Part 15 rules.</i></text></item><item><author>meaty</author><text>I bet the FCC (or RCA in the UK) will love that :)<p>The amount of noise and harmonics that come off that sort of transmitter will be horrible. At least chuck a bandpass on the end of it.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Nrsolis</author><text>Agree.<p>Amateur radio operators have dummy loads and SWR meters to make sure that the signal they are putting out isn't stomping on some other critical portion of the RF band. Experimentation is a good thing, but this is the equivalent of someone being disturbingly careless experimenting with chemicals in their home "lab." The chance you could cause a serious problem with contamination for your neighbors is small but definitely non-zero.</text></comment> |
19,533,658 | 19,533,621 | 1 | 2 | 19,528,326 | train | <story><title>Laptops to Stay in Bags as TSA Brings New Technology to Airports</title><url>https://about.bgov.com/news/laptops-to-stay-in-bags-as-tsa-brings-new-technology-to-airports/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>seandougall</author><text>Yeah, it&#x27;s always up to the whims of the underpaid TSA agent who happens to be there that day. Back when iPads were new, I got scolded for taking it out of my bag, and scolded for leaving it in my bag, by agents at the same airport on two trips a few weeks apart.</text></item><item><author>simonsarris</author><text>About a year ago I was at an airport (Boston? New Jersey?) outbound that had a sign or TV monitor saying &quot;Great news, you no longer need to take your laptop out of your bag!&quot;<p>I read this sign as a TSA worker shouted every 30 seconds to the shuffling line about how everyone needed to take out all laptops, &quot;ipads&quot;, cameras, etc.<p>I wonder if it was a pilot program. Or more likely, just part of the constantly shifting fabric of pointless theater. I fully expect these new machines are primarily to sell machines, and not to fulfill any other purpose.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>chipx86</author><text>I actually got in trouble more for leaving a Kindle and a game system in a bag on my last trip than on the previous trip when I accidentally had a utility knife in my bag&#x27;s pocket.<p>I was sure I was about to be detained for the knife, but they simply told me I could leave it there or exit the security line and mail it back to my house for a $15 fee. I took that mailer option, walked out of the line unescorted with a knife, filled out a mailing form, put the knife in the bag, and went through security again.<p>This most recent trip, I checked carefully for knives before heading to SFO. When I entered the line, they were low on bins. I started taking things out and asked if I needed to remove the Kindle and game system. The TSA agent said I could leave them in, so I did. By the time I got to the other end, I was pulled aside and questioned, as they checked for any suspicious residue on the devices. They eventually handed me the devices back and escorted me to the beginning of the line, where I had to go through all over again, this time with the Kindle and game system in a bin.</text></comment> | <story><title>Laptops to Stay in Bags as TSA Brings New Technology to Airports</title><url>https://about.bgov.com/news/laptops-to-stay-in-bags-as-tsa-brings-new-technology-to-airports/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>seandougall</author><text>Yeah, it&#x27;s always up to the whims of the underpaid TSA agent who happens to be there that day. Back when iPads were new, I got scolded for taking it out of my bag, and scolded for leaving it in my bag, by agents at the same airport on two trips a few weeks apart.</text></item><item><author>simonsarris</author><text>About a year ago I was at an airport (Boston? New Jersey?) outbound that had a sign or TV monitor saying &quot;Great news, you no longer need to take your laptop out of your bag!&quot;<p>I read this sign as a TSA worker shouted every 30 seconds to the shuffling line about how everyone needed to take out all laptops, &quot;ipads&quot;, cameras, etc.<p>I wonder if it was a pilot program. Or more likely, just part of the constantly shifting fabric of pointless theater. I fully expect these new machines are primarily to sell machines, and not to fulfill any other purpose.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>warent</author><text>It&#x27;s always so strange to me that people seem to consistently have bad experiences with TSA. I&#x27;ve travelled more than the average person and have never had a bad experience with TSA. Maybe because I&#x27;m a young white male?<p>Once I even accidentally packed a small toolkit in my carry-on rather than my checked luggage and they let me keep it!</text></comment> |
30,912,358 | 30,911,474 | 1 | 3 | 30,907,119 | train | <story><title>RedwoodJS 1.0</title><url>https://v1launchweek.redwoodjs.com/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Exuma</author><text>I have a simple question -- I&#x27;ve looked at GraphQL in the past and it seems extremely limited when you start wanting to do more complicated types of joins for performance, etc. This is such a fundamental thing to any webapp in my mind, and yet when I ask this previously people are often like &quot;uhhh yeah...... use joinMonster I GUESS?&quot;<p>Has GraphQL improved? I literally can&#x27;t fathom using some kind of external plugin just to load data using more complex queries for performance reasons.</text></item><item><author>thedavidprice</author><text>Co-founder of RedwoodJS here. We are so excited and proud of what Redwood has become, both as a project and as a community! Whether you are setting off to start your side project or looking to become an open-source contributor, I&#x27;d like to personally invite you to join us.<p>With Redwood, no one has to go it alone.<p>If you have any questions along the way, don&#x27;t hesitate to reach out to me. I&#x27;ll be watching comments here. And my DMs are open everywhere.<p>Join the Redwood Community: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;redwoodjs.com&#x2F;community" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;redwoodjs.com&#x2F;community</a><p>So very excited to see what people with Redwood</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>manquer</author><text>It really depends on how the resolvers are written, GraqhQL is just a interchange mechanism like RESTful APIs . You can do same things good or bad on both.<p>Depending on the framework that use for your DB-to-GraphQL layer (like Hasura &#x2F; join monster&#x2F; PostGraphile &#x2F; subZero etc) there can be some there can be some limitations on what it can and cannot do, but that is not really a GraphQL problem.<p>The GraphQL specific gotchas for me where<p>- For most part component level queries works well, occasionally batching in higher component is important for performance, for example instead of executing a secondary query on each row of the table ( say fetching photos of user profiles from a different store) doing it one level up can speed things up.<p>- Caching has to be solved very differently than RESTful APIs, GraphQL has everything in one endpoint as POST and you cannot leverage CDN&#x27;s to cache the canonical resource URLs<p>- Less verbosity or nested request-responses could be important for UX performance, using HATEOS style discoverability usually results in many APIs calls 2-3 levels or more deep, in RESTful systems that is not a major problem as you are caching API responses in nodes in dozen locations&#x2F;CDN PoPs near the user but that is not possible in GraphQL, so you have to keep mind of verbosity, that can also impact how you store and index your database and how you configure and run replicas etc at scale.<p>---<p>Anecdotally I have used Hasura as GraphQL frontend for an existing mature PostgreSQL db and APIs, (1 tb+, 1000&#x27;s of concurrent users), and it scales fairly well even with 4-5 level nested joins or fetch ten of thousands of nested records. Hasura also does subscriptions reasonably well and they don&#x27;t use triggers for implementing it.<p>Some areas that needed a bit work around for me - recursive CTEs, cross-db joins, performance of very large counts ( postgres problem - using HLL or tuples from the planner if approximate values are fine.</text></comment> | <story><title>RedwoodJS 1.0</title><url>https://v1launchweek.redwoodjs.com/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Exuma</author><text>I have a simple question -- I&#x27;ve looked at GraphQL in the past and it seems extremely limited when you start wanting to do more complicated types of joins for performance, etc. This is such a fundamental thing to any webapp in my mind, and yet when I ask this previously people are often like &quot;uhhh yeah...... use joinMonster I GUESS?&quot;<p>Has GraphQL improved? I literally can&#x27;t fathom using some kind of external plugin just to load data using more complex queries for performance reasons.</text></item><item><author>thedavidprice</author><text>Co-founder of RedwoodJS here. We are so excited and proud of what Redwood has become, both as a project and as a community! Whether you are setting off to start your side project or looking to become an open-source contributor, I&#x27;d like to personally invite you to join us.<p>With Redwood, no one has to go it alone.<p>If you have any questions along the way, don&#x27;t hesitate to reach out to me. I&#x27;ll be watching comments here. And my DMs are open everywhere.<p>Join the Redwood Community: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;redwoodjs.com&#x2F;community" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;redwoodjs.com&#x2F;community</a><p>So very excited to see what people with Redwood</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ncrmro</author><text>Postgraphile turns postgres schema into GraphQL schema, can do, filtering, aggregates, computed columns, filtering on computer columns etc</text></comment> |
24,771,650 | 24,771,620 | 1 | 3 | 24,765,398 | train | <story><title>San Francisco Apartment Rents Crater Up to 31%, Most in U.S.</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-10-13/san-francisco-studio-apartment-rents-plunge-31-most-in-u-s</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mercutio2</author><text>I keep reading people make this claim.<p>I haven&#x27;t found it to be even remotely true for the food my family is inclined to eat. Every time I&#x27;ve gone to visit hip small college towns for the last 5 years, I&#x27;ve eagerly sought out the talked-about eateries, and they were all... distinctly mediocre compared to NYC or Bay Area or LA food.<p>You still can&#x27;t find anything but Americanized Asian food, even the California-cuisine upscale places are decidedly mediocre, and the food trucks are... fine.<p>Certainly, it&#x27;s better than it was at the margin, but it really depends on what your baseline is.</text></item><item><author>tarsinge</author><text>&gt; food or retail scene<p>In my experience this is becoming less and less true, smaller cities are really catching up, it&#x27;s not 2010 anymore. My pet theory is that social networks like Instagram have done a good job spreading fashion and food experiences&#x2F;expectations that were previously exclusives to big city centers.</text></item><item><author>zdragnar</author><text>As a counter anecdote, I know three people from the bay area who moved out during covidtide, but had already planned the move beforehand. (This is a very high percentage of people I know from the bay area, hence the anecdote).<p>All had the same rationale: taxes and housing were simply far too high when they could work remotely and live anywhere else. Sure, you don&#x27;t get the same outdoors, food or retail scene, but plenty of places have those things too.<p>I imagine the move to working remotely has made that move possible for more people than before, but those I know aren&#x27;t making temporary moves, they are buying houses.</text></item><item><author>burlesona</author><text>I would say the city being “closed” is the major driver. Among my group of ~40 coworkers, about 30 (including me) have left the city. As far as I know all but one were renting.<p>Everyone who left gave the following rationale:<p>- we can work remotely so move wherever or nomad now<p>- SF is not very fun during the pandemic<p>- WFH in my tiny apartment is much less enjoyable than when I was working in the office and didn’t spend much time in the apartment<p>- therefore I’m moving for a year or so until things fully reopen<p>Now I think the question is what does the eventual full reopening look like and how long does it take?<p>Many people will move back, because many office jobs will return, and many people love city life and the office work environment (including me).<p>But the longer things take, the more people get established elsewhere, and the more companies decide to make remote permanent and don’t reopen an office, the more I think this market reset in SF will be long-lasting.<p>As other posters have said it’s a welcome relief though. Prices are <i>still</i> very high, and new construction remains far from sufficient to keep up with demand.<p>(edit: typo)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>opportune</author><text>I’m honestly surprised so many people put Bay Area&#x2F;SF food on the same scale as NYC and LA. It only makes sense when you consider top-tier fine dining (like, Michelin star(s)) IMO. For middle-tier dining I think SF and the Bay Area don’t even come close to either of those cities. In fact I think those hip young college towns are much better, in my experience. It’s just that it’s going to be a different set of foods: more barbecue, Mexican, Central European, soul food, and less asian&#x2F;what I would call “California health” foods.</text></comment> | <story><title>San Francisco Apartment Rents Crater Up to 31%, Most in U.S.</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-10-13/san-francisco-studio-apartment-rents-plunge-31-most-in-u-s</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mercutio2</author><text>I keep reading people make this claim.<p>I haven&#x27;t found it to be even remotely true for the food my family is inclined to eat. Every time I&#x27;ve gone to visit hip small college towns for the last 5 years, I&#x27;ve eagerly sought out the talked-about eateries, and they were all... distinctly mediocre compared to NYC or Bay Area or LA food.<p>You still can&#x27;t find anything but Americanized Asian food, even the California-cuisine upscale places are decidedly mediocre, and the food trucks are... fine.<p>Certainly, it&#x27;s better than it was at the margin, but it really depends on what your baseline is.</text></item><item><author>tarsinge</author><text>&gt; food or retail scene<p>In my experience this is becoming less and less true, smaller cities are really catching up, it&#x27;s not 2010 anymore. My pet theory is that social networks like Instagram have done a good job spreading fashion and food experiences&#x2F;expectations that were previously exclusives to big city centers.</text></item><item><author>zdragnar</author><text>As a counter anecdote, I know three people from the bay area who moved out during covidtide, but had already planned the move beforehand. (This is a very high percentage of people I know from the bay area, hence the anecdote).<p>All had the same rationale: taxes and housing were simply far too high when they could work remotely and live anywhere else. Sure, you don&#x27;t get the same outdoors, food or retail scene, but plenty of places have those things too.<p>I imagine the move to working remotely has made that move possible for more people than before, but those I know aren&#x27;t making temporary moves, they are buying houses.</text></item><item><author>burlesona</author><text>I would say the city being “closed” is the major driver. Among my group of ~40 coworkers, about 30 (including me) have left the city. As far as I know all but one were renting.<p>Everyone who left gave the following rationale:<p>- we can work remotely so move wherever or nomad now<p>- SF is not very fun during the pandemic<p>- WFH in my tiny apartment is much less enjoyable than when I was working in the office and didn’t spend much time in the apartment<p>- therefore I’m moving for a year or so until things fully reopen<p>Now I think the question is what does the eventual full reopening look like and how long does it take?<p>Many people will move back, because many office jobs will return, and many people love city life and the office work environment (including me).<p>But the longer things take, the more people get established elsewhere, and the more companies decide to make remote permanent and don’t reopen an office, the more I think this market reset in SF will be long-lasting.<p>As other posters have said it’s a welcome relief though. Prices are <i>still</i> very high, and new construction remains far from sufficient to keep up with demand.<p>(edit: typo)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>irrational</author><text>My baseline is grilled cheddar cheese on plain white bread with Campbell&#x27;s Tomato Soup is the greatest food ever invented. I once went to a work lunch at one of the city&#x27;s most raved about restaurants. I ordered the grilled cheese and tomato soup. That was when I realized that I really am not a food connoisseur. How can something so simple as grilled cheese and tomato soup be so thoroughly ruined, just in an effort to make it fancy?</text></comment> |
36,973,544 | 36,968,557 | 1 | 3 | 36,967,579 | train | <story><title>Encyclopedia of Life</title><url>https://eol.org/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>xipho</author><text>See also <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;opentreeoflife.github.io&#x2F;" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;opentreeoflife.github.io&#x2F;</a>, <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;opentreeoflife.org" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;opentreeoflife.org</a>.<p>And some shameless plugs-<p>One of the EOL lead devs is now a member of our group <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;speciesfilegroup.org&#x2F;" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;speciesfilegroup.org&#x2F;</a>. We have two open-source projects that seek to contribute in this field, TaxonWorks, <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;taxonworks.org" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;taxonworks.org</a>, a web-workbench that lets you gather the data behind these types of pages and TaxonPages, an effort to make it possible, ultimately, for anyone to produce Species&#x2F;Taxon pages - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;SpeciesFileGroup&#x2F;taxonpages&#x2F;">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;SpeciesFileGroup&#x2F;taxonpages&#x2F;</a>. We expect to have 50k+ TaxonPages (akin to species pages) available this year as we transition some legacy data forward.</text></comment> | <story><title>Encyclopedia of Life</title><url>https://eol.org/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>oever</author><text>With Subtree of Life you can find relationships between species:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;sol.vandenoever.info&#x2F;" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;sol.vandenoever.info&#x2F;</a></text></comment> |
40,538,960 | 40,538,675 | 1 | 3 | 40,536,400 | train | <story><title>IRS Direct File to open to all 50 states and D.C. for 2025 tax season</title><url>https://www.axios.com/2024/05/30/irs-taxes-direct-file-free-program</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dheera</author><text>I meat this is Y Combinator Hacker News, so I would expect &quot;software engineers in California&quot; to be a significant fraction of the user base here.</text></item><item><author>dmd</author><text>94% of Americans make less than $200k a year. Not everything is meant for &quot;software engineers in California&quot;.</text></item><item><author>dheera</author><text>sigh this is a baby step but<p>- Many if not most software engineers in California earn more than the $200K household limitation for using Direct File<p>- From my understanding there is no way auto-generate my state tax return from Direct File so I would have to do all the work twice even if I can use it<p>- Complicating my tax situation (legally) allows me to save more money, I would save far more than the price of TurboTax by using TurboTax instead of Direct File, as much as I hate it</text></item><item><author>macrael</author><text>It&#x27;s SUCH a win that they managed to roll this out to a small set of tax situations and states to start. Every government project I&#x27;ve been on has required creativity in defining an MVP that doesn&#x27;t include shipping to everyone. This was cited consistently as one of the great successes of this project, they were able to ship something that successfully filed 150k taxes b&#x2F;c they were able to scope things down to something doable in 9 months.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>cududa</author><text>The problem is you&#x27;re exposing yourself as someone extremely self-centered, and someone that assumes their lived experience is equivalent of everyone else&#x27;s, and adjudicating the utility of this particular thing as if you are reflective of the larger population.<p>Saying the majority of engineers in California make at least $200k makes you even more out of touch. According to Glassdoor, over $200k for a SE in CA is 90th percentile. The average SE in CA makes $132,000<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ziprecruiter.com&#x2F;Salaries&#x2F;Software-Engineer-Salary--in-California" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ziprecruiter.com&#x2F;Salaries&#x2F;Software-Engineer-Sala...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>IRS Direct File to open to all 50 states and D.C. for 2025 tax season</title><url>https://www.axios.com/2024/05/30/irs-taxes-direct-file-free-program</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dheera</author><text>I meat this is Y Combinator Hacker News, so I would expect &quot;software engineers in California&quot; to be a significant fraction of the user base here.</text></item><item><author>dmd</author><text>94% of Americans make less than $200k a year. Not everything is meant for &quot;software engineers in California&quot;.</text></item><item><author>dheera</author><text>sigh this is a baby step but<p>- Many if not most software engineers in California earn more than the $200K household limitation for using Direct File<p>- From my understanding there is no way auto-generate my state tax return from Direct File so I would have to do all the work twice even if I can use it<p>- Complicating my tax situation (legally) allows me to save more money, I would save far more than the price of TurboTax by using TurboTax instead of Direct File, as much as I hate it</text></item><item><author>macrael</author><text>It&#x27;s SUCH a win that they managed to roll this out to a small set of tax situations and states to start. Every government project I&#x27;ve been on has required creativity in defining an MVP that doesn&#x27;t include shipping to everyone. This was cited consistently as one of the great successes of this project, they were able to ship something that successfully filed 150k taxes b&#x2F;c they were able to scope things down to something doable in 9 months.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ohashi</author><text>Some people have a broader view of the world and care about things which might not directly impact them</text></comment> |
13,775,705 | 13,774,925 | 1 | 3 | 13,762,094 | train | <story><title>The myth of using Scala as a better Java</title><url>http://appliedscala.com/blog/2017/myth-of-scala-as-better-java/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>agentgt</author><text>Please give better examples:<p>&gt; Anyway, after trying to configure stuff like Kafka, Zookeeper and Maven and setting up a SOAP API, I saw that the problem with Java isn&#x27;t the language<p>* Kafka: is written in Scala. It doesn&#x27;t use XML.<p>* Zookeeper: it was the first of its kind. It doesn&#x27;t use XML.<p>* Maven: same complexity as SBT, Gradle, etc... but it is declarative and again pretty much first of its kind (dependency management + build).<p>* SOAP: this is not Java&#x27;s fault (if anything Microsoft was the big pusher)<p>* XML: jesus will people stop the XML is complex and hard thing. YAML is so much more complicated and harder to parse. I know it is easy to read on the eyes but its harder to parse and has more edge cases. XML is still one of the few languages you can parse and manipulate and preserve comments and whitespace.<p>The XML thing is the dumbest thing. Developers write hundreds of lines of XML all the time... its called HTML (pedantically HTML5 is even more complicated since it allows SGML and XML style). But for some reason when people have to write a build or config file that they are rarely going to have to edit their fingers, eyes, and brains revolt at the <i>complexity</i>.<p>Scala also has some massively complicated libraries like Akka.
Ruby has Rails. When languages&#x2F;libraries get mature they get complicated and the languages warts show more and more.<p>I expect we will see the same thing even with modern languages like Go and Rust.</text></item><item><author>k__</author><text>2009 I sucked it up too.<p>&quot;Hey Java is pretty much shit and here is this new better language called Scala, which you can use with your Java ecosystem!&quot;<p>And I was hyped!<p>But, well then I saw the actual Java ecosystem...<p>Java itself is a pretty clunky language, especially for people like me, who did scripting language programming all the time and are probably not considered Real-Developers-TM to the Java folk. So the ideas of Scala resonated with me pretty much.<p>Anyway, after trying to configure stuff like Kafka, Zookeeper and Maven and setting up a SOAP API, I saw that the problem with Java isn&#x27;t the language. Yes it&#x27;s ugly, but JavaScript is ugly too, well even Python has its ugly parts. The problem also isn&#x27;t performance, like so many C devs cry about daily. The problem seems to be that Java devs like to create things more complex than they need to be. Conglomerates of XML files, layers on layers on layers... I just don&#x27;t know anymore.<p>I didn&#x27;t use Scala for long and it wasn&#x27;t because it failed me, it did, it brought its own complexity with implicit conversions and overloaded operators etc. but that wasn&#x27;t the reason, it was the ecosystem which usage Scala enabled, the ecosystem that felt like it was still stuck in pre 2000. :\</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>cle</author><text>The problem with Java+XML isn&#x27;t XML itself, it&#x27;s that the Java community for a long time was pushing more and more critical code into XML, because doing non-trivial dynamic things in Java itself can be a huge pain. And so over time, enterprise Java apps became giant balls of XML+Java that would break at runtime if you missed an XML parameter or had a stray character somewhere. At that point, what benefit are you getting from Java&#x27;s static typing? You lose much of the benefits of Java, and suffer twice as much from its drawbacks.<p>This is slightly better with the push away from XML and toward annotations, but it&#x27;s not much better. Your program&#x27;s behavior still depends on tagging the right language constructs with the right magic tags, which is a horrible way to program IMO.</text></comment> | <story><title>The myth of using Scala as a better Java</title><url>http://appliedscala.com/blog/2017/myth-of-scala-as-better-java/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>agentgt</author><text>Please give better examples:<p>&gt; Anyway, after trying to configure stuff like Kafka, Zookeeper and Maven and setting up a SOAP API, I saw that the problem with Java isn&#x27;t the language<p>* Kafka: is written in Scala. It doesn&#x27;t use XML.<p>* Zookeeper: it was the first of its kind. It doesn&#x27;t use XML.<p>* Maven: same complexity as SBT, Gradle, etc... but it is declarative and again pretty much first of its kind (dependency management + build).<p>* SOAP: this is not Java&#x27;s fault (if anything Microsoft was the big pusher)<p>* XML: jesus will people stop the XML is complex and hard thing. YAML is so much more complicated and harder to parse. I know it is easy to read on the eyes but its harder to parse and has more edge cases. XML is still one of the few languages you can parse and manipulate and preserve comments and whitespace.<p>The XML thing is the dumbest thing. Developers write hundreds of lines of XML all the time... its called HTML (pedantically HTML5 is even more complicated since it allows SGML and XML style). But for some reason when people have to write a build or config file that they are rarely going to have to edit their fingers, eyes, and brains revolt at the <i>complexity</i>.<p>Scala also has some massively complicated libraries like Akka.
Ruby has Rails. When languages&#x2F;libraries get mature they get complicated and the languages warts show more and more.<p>I expect we will see the same thing even with modern languages like Go and Rust.</text></item><item><author>k__</author><text>2009 I sucked it up too.<p>&quot;Hey Java is pretty much shit and here is this new better language called Scala, which you can use with your Java ecosystem!&quot;<p>And I was hyped!<p>But, well then I saw the actual Java ecosystem...<p>Java itself is a pretty clunky language, especially for people like me, who did scripting language programming all the time and are probably not considered Real-Developers-TM to the Java folk. So the ideas of Scala resonated with me pretty much.<p>Anyway, after trying to configure stuff like Kafka, Zookeeper and Maven and setting up a SOAP API, I saw that the problem with Java isn&#x27;t the language. Yes it&#x27;s ugly, but JavaScript is ugly too, well even Python has its ugly parts. The problem also isn&#x27;t performance, like so many C devs cry about daily. The problem seems to be that Java devs like to create things more complex than they need to be. Conglomerates of XML files, layers on layers on layers... I just don&#x27;t know anymore.<p>I didn&#x27;t use Scala for long and it wasn&#x27;t because it failed me, it did, it brought its own complexity with implicit conversions and overloaded operators etc. but that wasn&#x27;t the reason, it was the ecosystem which usage Scala enabled, the ecosystem that felt like it was still stuck in pre 2000. :\</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rco8786</author><text>Agreed up until the XML bit. It&#x27;s not &quot;XML vs YAML&quot;, it&#x27;s &quot;Why do you need all this static markup at all?&quot;.</text></comment> |
10,912,147 | 10,909,780 | 1 | 3 | 10,904,501 | train | <story><title>Mental fatigue impairs physical performance in humans (2009)</title><url>http://jap.physiology.org/content/106/3/857</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>paulojreis</author><text>This shouldn&#x27;t come as a surprise; &quot;mental&quot; and &quot;physical&quot; aren&#x27;t distinct entities, our bodies function as a whole. Having to state this is, I think, a reflex of an ever-present dualist view of the body (in the Cartesian sense, i.e., mind vs. matter).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>legohead</author><text>As a rock climber, I can tell you that mental and physical fatigue are very distinct, very real things. But I&#x27;d have to say that before I got into climbing, I wouldn&#x27;t have realized this.<p>There are times when you are physically capable of completing a climb, but your mental tiredness prohibits you from doing so. The very nature of climbing is scary, and your brain knows this. It&#x27;s not just fear of heights, but fear of falling, and even failing. Every move you make is a little fatigue on your mind. You have to calculate it out, make the move, and beat all your fears at the same time.<p>Over the course of a climbing session, your mind wears down. You may be physically able to complete a climb, but your mind is just giving up. The stress overwhelms you. You give up.<p>There is another non-rock-climbing example. In Arnold&#x27;s bodybuilding book, he talks about the mental aspect of bodybuilding. Not just in competition, but also in training. He gave an example of some famous bodybuilder who was having a bad day. He couldn&#x27;t do some deadlifts (I think) that he was totally capable of doing, even with Arnie cheering him on. The guy was about to give up. Then a bunch of his fans showed up, and he wasn&#x27;t about to disappoint them. He completed his set with ease.</text></comment> | <story><title>Mental fatigue impairs physical performance in humans (2009)</title><url>http://jap.physiology.org/content/106/3/857</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>paulojreis</author><text>This shouldn&#x27;t come as a surprise; &quot;mental&quot; and &quot;physical&quot; aren&#x27;t distinct entities, our bodies function as a whole. Having to state this is, I think, a reflex of an ever-present dualist view of the body (in the Cartesian sense, i.e., mind vs. matter).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>magicmu</author><text>Cartesian dualism has been a plague on philosophy and psychology IMO. My favorite refutations of that logos come from J.L. Austin and Wittgenstein.</text></comment> |
40,367,066 | 40,363,529 | 1 | 2 | 40,361,128 | train | <story><title>Ilya Sutskever to leave OpenAI</title><url>https://twitter.com/ilyasut/status/1790517455628198322</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>izend</author><text>And none of them build AI companies in Toronto.<p>I’m Canadian and disappointed at how ineffective we are at building successful companies.</text></item><item><author>snowbyte</author><text>When walking around the U of Toronto, I often think that ~10 years ago Ilya was in a lab next to Alex trying to figure things out. I can&#x27;t believe this new AI wave started there. Ilya, Karpathy, Jimmy Ba, and many more were at the right time when Hinton was there too.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>boringg</author><text>I&#x27;ve thought about this one for a long time having lived in both SV and Canada. It is a complicated one but there are a handful of critical road blocks in Canada that make it more challenging.<p>(1) Access to size of market even if online being US vs &#x27;foreign&#x27; has advantages in political arena&#x2F;regulatory benefits<p>(2) Significant tax advantages for US investors vs limited tax advantages for Canada (Angel+VC)<p>(3) Risk Appetite (impacted by size of market) - compounded by tax disadvantages (why would you take risk if your lining the pockets of the government?)<p>(4) Bench depth on talent once you really start to scale your company<p>(5) CAD strength (double edged sword) - talent goes South for better salaries (+ you need to compete), if the company revenue is in USD and employees are paid in CAD<p>(6) Start-ups paying in equity, early employees taking on that risk actually will get taxed heavily under new cap gains so the incentive to work hard for money is lower.<p>(7) Network effects of being in the valley - idea percolation, new playbooks, talent, competitiveness, company fitness<p>I will add that in this very specific AI case there is limited way you are going to find the depth of talent and capital in the country to make that company fly at the scale it needs to be.</text></comment> | <story><title>Ilya Sutskever to leave OpenAI</title><url>https://twitter.com/ilyasut/status/1790517455628198322</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>izend</author><text>And none of them build AI companies in Toronto.<p>I’m Canadian and disappointed at how ineffective we are at building successful companies.</text></item><item><author>snowbyte</author><text>When walking around the U of Toronto, I often think that ~10 years ago Ilya was in a lab next to Alex trying to figure things out. I can&#x27;t believe this new AI wave started there. Ilya, Karpathy, Jimmy Ba, and many more were at the right time when Hinton was there too.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>langsoul-com</author><text>Why would anyone start the game on hard mode when easy mode is a border drive away?<p>Us is so outrageously better than the rest that people fly across oceans to start businesses there. Canada, being next door, doesn&#x27;t have the distance moat to at least slow down the brain drain</text></comment> |
22,299,410 | 22,299,238 | 1 | 3 | 22,298,724 | train | <story><title>Turtleocracy</title><url>https://www.notion.so/Turtleocracy-47a6df7692bf4e95a39504a73a50a295</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>keiferski</author><text>This seems like an overly-complex derivation of Isaiah Berlin&#x27;s concept of <i>The Hedgehog and the Fox</i>:<p><i>Berlin...divides writers and thinkers into two categories: hedgehogs, who view the world through the lens of a single defining idea (examples given include Plato, Lucretius, Dante Alighieri, Blaise Pascal, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Friedrich Nietzsche, Henrik Ibsen, Marcel Proust and Fernand Braudel), and foxes, who draw on a wide variety of experiences and for whom the world cannot be boiled down to a single idea (examples given include Herodotus, Aristotle, Desiderius Erasmus, William Shakespeare, Michel de Montaigne, Molière, Johann Wolfgang Goethe, Aleksandr Pushkin, Honoré de Balzac, James Joyce and Philip Warren Anderson).</i><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;The_Hedgehog_and_the_Fox" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;The_Hedgehog_and_the_Fox</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Turtleocracy</title><url>https://www.notion.so/Turtleocracy-47a6df7692bf4e95a39504a73a50a295</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>seemslegit</author><text>Ah yes another shot at the kind of people vulnerable to the &quot;organizations aligning themselves around a detached yet critically objective outsider while enabling them with their expertise and ideas and crediting them with the outcome, no hard skills required, just your own innate passion and curiosity !&quot; fantasy.</text></comment> |
38,385,811 | 38,379,761 | 1 | 2 | 38,378,992 | train | <story><title>What has changed in CPU cores in M3 chips?</title><url>https://eclecticlight.co/2023/11/22/what-has-changed-in-cpu-cores-in-m3-chips/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>dd_xplore</author><text>It&#x27;s absolutely mind boggling that such a powerful processor can run at a power envelope less than 10 watts!</text></comment> | <story><title>What has changed in CPU cores in M3 chips?</title><url>https://eclecticlight.co/2023/11/22/what-has-changed-in-cpu-cores-in-m3-chips/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>AlexandrB</author><text>I&#x27;m totally flummoxed by the graphs in the &quot;P v E&quot; section. Shouldn&#x27;t &quot;Total Time&quot; remain constant-ish until the number of threads exceed the number of cores? Why does time increase linearly with the number of threads on a multi-core system? Or is &quot;Total Time&quot; here &quot;CPU Time&quot; and not wall clock time?</text></comment> |
8,492,168 | 8,491,994 | 1 | 2 | 8,491,882 | train | <story><title>Hungary plans new tax on Internet traffic</title><url>http://uk.reuters.com/article/2014/10/22/uk-hungary-internet-tax-idUKKCN0IB0RI20141022</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>sz4kerto</author><text>Some background.<p>- the proposed rate is 150 HUF&#x2F;GB, that&#x27;s around 0.5 EUR&#x2F;GB or 60 cents&#x2F;GB.<p>- the internet speeds in Hungary are relatively high, it&#x27;s quite common to get 100 Mbps for $20&#x2F;mo<p>- the minimum wage is around 250 USD&#x2F;mo, the average net wage is $650&#x2F;mo<p>- the levy should be paid by the providers, but probably they&#x27;re going to be able to deduct it from their other taxes, that means profitable companies won&#x27;t pay, currently non-profitable companies will<p>- the tax will be capped per subscription, the cap is rumored to be around $4 for individuals and around $25 for companies -- but most households have 2-3-4 phones, cable internet, etc.<p>- it&#x27;s very likely that this is going to wipe out the currently loss-making telcos that can then be bought by the state (nationalized) and their assets funneled to cronies (even there was a public bid for the assets nobody would start a new company as it&#x27;d be making losses in the beginning therefore they could not deduct this tax from their taxes -- so it&#x27;d result in even more losses)<p>Also, it&#x27;s very much likely that this is a deliberate distraction from the political conflict between the USA and Hungary that has emerged last week. (Edit: it&#x27;s still bad though, as a journalist put it, it&#x27;s like spraying pepper in the eyes of a pitbull: it&#x27;s distracting, but you might end up in a really big trouble.)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>netcan</author><text>The problem is not necessarily directly the tax, but the barriers and bureaucracy around it making the whole industry less dynamic. $4 per household is not in itself terrible. The cronyism is also a concern.<p>The reason policies like this are viable politically is because public policy economists are far more comfortable estimating the direct effects of a tax than they are estimating some of the murkier, but nonetheless inevitable implications. 1st year microeconomics students learn to draw the supply and demand curves, draw in the price after tax and calculate lost consumer surplus and profits. It&#x27;s core economics material.</text></comment> | <story><title>Hungary plans new tax on Internet traffic</title><url>http://uk.reuters.com/article/2014/10/22/uk-hungary-internet-tax-idUKKCN0IB0RI20141022</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>sz4kerto</author><text>Some background.<p>- the proposed rate is 150 HUF&#x2F;GB, that&#x27;s around 0.5 EUR&#x2F;GB or 60 cents&#x2F;GB.<p>- the internet speeds in Hungary are relatively high, it&#x27;s quite common to get 100 Mbps for $20&#x2F;mo<p>- the minimum wage is around 250 USD&#x2F;mo, the average net wage is $650&#x2F;mo<p>- the levy should be paid by the providers, but probably they&#x27;re going to be able to deduct it from their other taxes, that means profitable companies won&#x27;t pay, currently non-profitable companies will<p>- the tax will be capped per subscription, the cap is rumored to be around $4 for individuals and around $25 for companies -- but most households have 2-3-4 phones, cable internet, etc.<p>- it&#x27;s very likely that this is going to wipe out the currently loss-making telcos that can then be bought by the state (nationalized) and their assets funneled to cronies (even there was a public bid for the assets nobody would start a new company as it&#x27;d be making losses in the beginning therefore they could not deduct this tax from their taxes -- so it&#x27;d result in even more losses)<p>Also, it&#x27;s very much likely that this is a deliberate distraction from the political conflict between the USA and Hungary that has emerged last week. (Edit: it&#x27;s still bad though, as a journalist put it, it&#x27;s like spraying pepper in the eyes of a pitbull: it&#x27;s distracting, but you might end up in a really big trouble.)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pentium10</author><text>internet speeds in Hungary are not so high. Look at east Romania what offers, you get 1GBps for 7 euro&#x2F;mo.</text></comment> |
25,383,418 | 25,383,170 | 1 | 2 | 25,382,497 | train | <story><title>Some doctors, therapists get Health Canada permission to use magic mushrooms</title><url>https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/london/some-doctors-therapists-get-health-canada-permission-to-use-magic-mushrooms-1.5834485</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Merman_Mike</author><text>Are there accounts of what it&#x27;s like to use psilocybin in a clinical setting?<p>I&#x27;m imagining tripping in a therapist&#x27;s office. Doesn&#x27;t sound very pleasant.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>idclip</author><text>Not clinical, but meditative:<p>I use mushrooms sometimes (rarely, very carefully) while meditating.<p>They tend to stimulate the area around the vagus nerve - and since meditation is partly frustration, that in turn triggers “uncomfortable” memories.<p>Also, they seem to smoothen nervous activity? Meditating with closed eyes, often the “black net if colored dots” i see when im sober gets a new more fluid attribute, less choppy.<p>More often than not, intense crying ensues, and quite a bit of unconscious material surfaces and get confronted.<p>One drawback to “scoring mushrooms” for emotional healing is quality is inconsistent -<p>I imagine consistent quality and able hands could greatly help traumatized individuals .. its not a trip in the hedonistic sense, its quite frankly aching to a religious experience</text></comment> | <story><title>Some doctors, therapists get Health Canada permission to use magic mushrooms</title><url>https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/london/some-doctors-therapists-get-health-canada-permission-to-use-magic-mushrooms-1.5834485</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Merman_Mike</author><text>Are there accounts of what it&#x27;s like to use psilocybin in a clinical setting?<p>I&#x27;m imagining tripping in a therapist&#x27;s office. Doesn&#x27;t sound very pleasant.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mbesto</author><text>Check out <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;maps.org&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;maps.org&#x2F;</a><p>Therapy while &quot;tripping&quot; is very different then the &quot;recreational way&quot;. Remember, set and setting are important.</text></comment> |
2,763,747 | 2,763,692 | 1 | 3 | 2,763,502 | train | <story><title>The Problem with the iPhone's Home Button</title><url>http://ignorethecode.net/blog/2011/07/14/the_iphones_home_button/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>parfe</author><text>I have a similar problem on my Droid X. Sometimes the back button goes back a page (such as in a web browser) or while reading a message back will go to my contacts list (in google talk or google voice).<p>But sometimes, in the same apps, the back button might take me back to the home screen (If i answered a message from the notification bar), or a previous app if something launched a browser.<p>It's incredibly aggravating that the behavior changes, and especially so as Android devices have a home button! Back should be constrained to a specific application. Otherwise in google talk I have no reliable way to get back to my contacts and usually have to make a trip back to the home screen to directly launch the talk app.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dolinsky</author><text>I think the presence of a hard back button in Android is something that iOS is sorely missing. Whenever I switch from using my Droid X to my iPad I am constantly looking for the 'back' button, especially when installing an app from inside the Apple App Store (I find it very annoying that iOS kicks you out of the App Store and brings you to a seemingly random home screen just to show that it's now installing an app).<p>The back button in Android does have the fault of not always being consistent, but that is due to it being usable by the developer of individual apps. I find it extremely useful that I can be doing something in Tweetdeck, click a link which opens up my browser (Dolphin HD), view the full article, and then just press the back button to go right back into Tweetdeck. That's just not possible on iOS.<p>Also, long-pressing the back button in certain apps (like Dolphin HD) provide a nice shortcut to quitting the app (instead of keeping it running in the background), which helps on battery life.</text></comment> | <story><title>The Problem with the iPhone's Home Button</title><url>http://ignorethecode.net/blog/2011/07/14/the_iphones_home_button/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>parfe</author><text>I have a similar problem on my Droid X. Sometimes the back button goes back a page (such as in a web browser) or while reading a message back will go to my contacts list (in google talk or google voice).<p>But sometimes, in the same apps, the back button might take me back to the home screen (If i answered a message from the notification bar), or a previous app if something launched a browser.<p>It's incredibly aggravating that the behavior changes, and especially so as Android devices have a home button! Back should be constrained to a specific application. Otherwise in google talk I have no reliable way to get back to my contacts and usually have to make a trip back to the home screen to directly launch the talk app.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ConstantineXVI</author><text>The back button in Android is supposed to mean "take me to the last screen I was on"; it's not supposed to be tied to the specific app you're in. I have the reverse issue on iOS, if Twitter launches a browser there's no obvious way to get back to the screen I was on in Twitter beyond calling up the app switcher[1] Honeycomb introduces an "up" button[2], and it can be presumed the concept will make it's way to ICS.<p>[1] PSA: you call up the Android switcher by holding Home<p>[2] This isn't a hard button like home/back, instead the app logo gets painted with an "up" arrow when this is available.</text></comment> |
15,154,730 | 15,154,578 | 1 | 2 | 15,152,957 | train | <story><title>Ask HN: How did you get started in Network Security/Penetration Testing?</title></story><parent_chain><item><author>Txmm</author><text>&quot;It’s also a huge field. Try checking out security in your current discipline.&quot;<p>I&#x27;m actually 15 at the moment with basically no experience besides messing around with kali tools like a script kiddie.<p>Got any tips for programming languages to learn&#x2F;where to learn?<p>I appreciate the post!</text></item><item><author>igolden</author><text>I’ve been a professional software developer for the last 4-5 years, but never took security serious until iot took off. Get some raspberry pis, install kali Linux on a VM or spare computer, and go to work! It’s just so easy and cheap to setup a pen test lab. I’d recommend every dev have a few attack machines for fun. That’s how I got <i>started</i>.<p>It’s also a huge field. Try checking out security in your current discipline. I was a web developer in 2013, so it was natural that I was inclined to look at SQL injections, XSS, packet sniffing, Etc. I already understood the domain. That is easier than jumping into reverse engineering firm ware if you have no xp.<p>Now after a couple years of practice, I’m recommitted to security. Huge issue in our current tech ecosystem. I was just approved to take CEH and will be taking it next month. To make it official. If you need some structure to your learning and want to make a career move, check out getting an industry base cert like the CEH or offensive arc cert. most security jobs prefer candidates to have at least one, and they’re not incredibly difficult.<p>Happy pwning!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>raesene9</author><text>In terms of languages I&#x27;d echo the sibling comment, Ruby or python are likely to be good choices.<p>If you&#x27;re looking for things to start getting into security type learning, you could do a lot worse than start with CTFs (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;ctftime.org&#x2F;ctf-wtf&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;ctftime.org&#x2F;ctf-wtf&#x2F;</a>) Whilst they&#x27;re not identical to what you&#x27;ll face as a security tester, they cover a lot of similar skills. Also you&#x27;ll likely meet people in the industry by doing them.<p>There&#x27;s also sites like <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;pentesterlab.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;pentesterlab.com&#x2F;</a> which have free examples of pentesting challenges.</text></comment> | <story><title>Ask HN: How did you get started in Network Security/Penetration Testing?</title></story><parent_chain><item><author>Txmm</author><text>&quot;It’s also a huge field. Try checking out security in your current discipline.&quot;<p>I&#x27;m actually 15 at the moment with basically no experience besides messing around with kali tools like a script kiddie.<p>Got any tips for programming languages to learn&#x2F;where to learn?<p>I appreciate the post!</text></item><item><author>igolden</author><text>I’ve been a professional software developer for the last 4-5 years, but never took security serious until iot took off. Get some raspberry pis, install kali Linux on a VM or spare computer, and go to work! It’s just so easy and cheap to setup a pen test lab. I’d recommend every dev have a few attack machines for fun. That’s how I got <i>started</i>.<p>It’s also a huge field. Try checking out security in your current discipline. I was a web developer in 2013, so it was natural that I was inclined to look at SQL injections, XSS, packet sniffing, Etc. I already understood the domain. That is easier than jumping into reverse engineering firm ware if you have no xp.<p>Now after a couple years of practice, I’m recommitted to security. Huge issue in our current tech ecosystem. I was just approved to take CEH and will be taking it next month. To make it official. If you need some structure to your learning and want to make a career move, check out getting an industry base cert like the CEH or offensive arc cert. most security jobs prefer candidates to have at least one, and they’re not incredibly difficult.<p>Happy pwning!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>graystevens</author><text>Take a look at either Ruby or Python - both have huge userbases in general, but are also used regularly within the business.<p>A lot of quick scripts are written in Python - you may have noticed this in Kali.<p>Ruby is what metaspoilt in built upon, meaning a lot of the modules are also ruby.<p>Both are great languages. In regards to where to start with learning them, take a look at <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.codecademy.com" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.codecademy.com</a>, both are featured there and give you a nice gentle introduction to their syntax and ways of workings.<p>Also for Python there&#x27;s <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;learnpythonthehardway.org" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;learnpythonthehardway.org</a> which is awesome, and <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;automatetheboringstuff.com" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;automatetheboringstuff.com</a> which is a little more practical to begin with.<p>Once you feel comfortable with the language(s), go read the source code for those scripts or modules in Kali and see what else you can pick up.</text></comment> |
12,035,863 | 12,035,219 | 1 | 2 | 12,035,058 | train | <story><title>Show HN: I Design with Code</title><url>http://codepen.io/chrisgannon/pen/VjWWZO</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>wrigby</author><text>I was curious as to how this was done, so I took a look at the external JS that CodePen was configured to load. He&#x27;s using GreenSock[1], which looks like a really cool tool for building rich interactions and animations with SVG+JS in the browser.<p>1: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;greensock.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;greensock.com&#x2F;</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Show HN: I Design with Code</title><url>http://codepen.io/chrisgannon/pen/VjWWZO</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>wingerlang</author><text>Neat, but a bit ironic since the visualisation is &quot;using a GUI&quot; to design stuff.</text></comment> |
3,909,812 | 3,909,581 | 1 | 3 | 3,909,326 | train | <story><title>High Court: The Pirate Bay must be blocked by UK ISPs</title><url>http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-17894176</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>citricsquid</author><text>Child pornography: illegal
Copyright infringement: illegal<p>censoring child porn websites: right, censoring copyright infringement website: wrong.<p>Not sure I understand the difference? Either you're for censorship of websites, or you're against it, you can't pick and choose.</text></item><item><author>corin_</author><text>The issue is not with censorship, it's with what they are censoring. Very few people here would take issue with this court order if it was about a site that exclusively hosted child porn. Therefore yes, the context of "is what TBP does illegal?"<p>To extend your (frankly poor) metaphor, he wouldn't be a drug dealer if all he did was hold up a sign pointing you towards your nearest drug dealers and he never actually gave you any drugs.</text></item><item><author>citricsquid</author><text>&#62; No, it doesn't. TPB doesn't provide any content at all. Not only that, but it also provides links to non-copyright infringing material. Eg: Some of Nine Inch Nails recent releases have been legally made available over bittorrent in 24/96 high quality.<p>And my drug dealer gave $50 to a pregnant woman so that she could get a taxi to the hospital.<p>If you want to argue why this ruling is wrong you should address the issues of censorship, arguing that The Pirate Bay <i>isn't</i> a site built around copyright infringement (which it is and the founders openly admit this) just does a dis-service to the real problem here (censorship). TPB is a for-profit copyright infringement enabling enterprise, that's why it exists, arguing otherwise is not worth your energy (because ultimately, what does it matter if it enables copyright infringement or not? So do most websites that <i>don't</i> intend on doing that) instead argue that any government should not be disabling access to a website.</text></item><item><author>MattBearman</author><text>The ruling is mostly full of shit:<p><pre><code> Sites like The Pirate Bay destroy jobs in the UK and undermine investment in new British artists
</code></pre>
I'd like to see evidence to back this up, innocent until proven guilty and all.<p><pre><code> The Pirate Bay infringes copyright on a massive scale
</code></pre>
No, it doesn't. TPB doesn't provide any content at all. Not only that, but it also provides links to non-copyright infringing material. Eg: Some of Nine Inch Nails recent releases have been legally made available over bittorrent in 24/96 high quality.<p><pre><code> Its operators line their pockets by commercially exploiting music and other creative works
</code></pre>
According to wikipedia, TPB earnings in 2006 were $102,035.05 US, and expenses in 2009 were $112,590.40 US (couldn't find data for the same year) but they can't be making a huge amount of profit on those margins.<p>But the thing that really gets me is our government giving itself power to censor the internet.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>corin_</author><text>First off, I'd argue that creating an open space for people to share downloads (that aren't hosted on this open space) is not illegal.<p>Second, even if by law it is, legality isn't binary. Both murder and stealing a bottle of milk from a shop are illegal, you wouldn't say "either you're for life inprisonment or you're against it, you can't pick and choose" would you? Not only can we pick and chose, our legal systems <i>do</i> pick and chose, and they always have done.</text></comment> | <story><title>High Court: The Pirate Bay must be blocked by UK ISPs</title><url>http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-17894176</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>citricsquid</author><text>Child pornography: illegal
Copyright infringement: illegal<p>censoring child porn websites: right, censoring copyright infringement website: wrong.<p>Not sure I understand the difference? Either you're for censorship of websites, or you're against it, you can't pick and choose.</text></item><item><author>corin_</author><text>The issue is not with censorship, it's with what they are censoring. Very few people here would take issue with this court order if it was about a site that exclusively hosted child porn. Therefore yes, the context of "is what TBP does illegal?"<p>To extend your (frankly poor) metaphor, he wouldn't be a drug dealer if all he did was hold up a sign pointing you towards your nearest drug dealers and he never actually gave you any drugs.</text></item><item><author>citricsquid</author><text>&#62; No, it doesn't. TPB doesn't provide any content at all. Not only that, but it also provides links to non-copyright infringing material. Eg: Some of Nine Inch Nails recent releases have been legally made available over bittorrent in 24/96 high quality.<p>And my drug dealer gave $50 to a pregnant woman so that she could get a taxi to the hospital.<p>If you want to argue why this ruling is wrong you should address the issues of censorship, arguing that The Pirate Bay <i>isn't</i> a site built around copyright infringement (which it is and the founders openly admit this) just does a dis-service to the real problem here (censorship). TPB is a for-profit copyright infringement enabling enterprise, that's why it exists, arguing otherwise is not worth your energy (because ultimately, what does it matter if it enables copyright infringement or not? So do most websites that <i>don't</i> intend on doing that) instead argue that any government should not be disabling access to a website.</text></item><item><author>MattBearman</author><text>The ruling is mostly full of shit:<p><pre><code> Sites like The Pirate Bay destroy jobs in the UK and undermine investment in new British artists
</code></pre>
I'd like to see evidence to back this up, innocent until proven guilty and all.<p><pre><code> The Pirate Bay infringes copyright on a massive scale
</code></pre>
No, it doesn't. TPB doesn't provide any content at all. Not only that, but it also provides links to non-copyright infringing material. Eg: Some of Nine Inch Nails recent releases have been legally made available over bittorrent in 24/96 high quality.<p><pre><code> Its operators line their pockets by commercially exploiting music and other creative works
</code></pre>
According to wikipedia, TPB earnings in 2006 were $102,035.05 US, and expenses in 2009 were $112,590.40 US (couldn't find data for the same year) but they can't be making a huge amount of profit on those margins.<p>But the thing that really gets me is our government giving itself power to censor the internet.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Dylan16807</author><text>Hosting illegal things: bad<p>Saying where to get illegal things: under dispute</text></comment> |
36,236,853 | 36,236,274 | 1 | 2 | 36,234,790 | train | <story><title>Air quality monitors: paying more does not get you more accuracy</title><url>https://www.airgradient.com/open-airgradient/blog/expensive-air-quality-monitors-not-more-accurate/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ahaucnx</author><text>Author here.<p>I wrote this article a few weeks ago after discovering that a well known air quality monitor in the market that retails for more than USD 1000 actually uses a PM module that costs less than USD 20.<p>Often people assume that the more expensive, the better but as you can see in the article this is often not the case -especially when it comes to the accuracy of the monitor.<p>If you are looking for an open source &#x2F; open hardware air quality monitor kit that uses high quality sensor modules and is very easy to assemble, have a look at the project we maintain. Instructions to built an indoor monitor [1], instructions to built an outdoor monitor [2] and overview of the kits [3]. All is open source (firmware, schematics, 3d files for enclosure, etc).<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.airgradient.com&#x2F;open-airgradient&#x2F;instructions&#x2F;diy-pro-v42&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.airgradient.com&#x2F;open-airgradient&#x2F;instructions&#x2F;di...</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.airgradient.com&#x2F;open-airgradient&#x2F;instructions&#x2F;diy-open-air-presoldered-v11&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.airgradient.com&#x2F;open-airgradient&#x2F;instructions&#x2F;di...</a><p>[3] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.airgradient.com&#x2F;open-airgradient&#x2F;kits&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.airgradient.com&#x2F;open-airgradient&#x2F;kits&#x2F;</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>hammock</author><text>The same is true of digital bathroom scales. In fact almost all consumer grade digital scales have “fake accuracy” built into the firmware that ensures the same exact weight shows up when you step on the scale twice in a row, even if you pick up e.g a quarter-pound weight in your hand the second time</text></comment> | <story><title>Air quality monitors: paying more does not get you more accuracy</title><url>https://www.airgradient.com/open-airgradient/blog/expensive-air-quality-monitors-not-more-accurate/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ahaucnx</author><text>Author here.<p>I wrote this article a few weeks ago after discovering that a well known air quality monitor in the market that retails for more than USD 1000 actually uses a PM module that costs less than USD 20.<p>Often people assume that the more expensive, the better but as you can see in the article this is often not the case -especially when it comes to the accuracy of the monitor.<p>If you are looking for an open source &#x2F; open hardware air quality monitor kit that uses high quality sensor modules and is very easy to assemble, have a look at the project we maintain. Instructions to built an indoor monitor [1], instructions to built an outdoor monitor [2] and overview of the kits [3]. All is open source (firmware, schematics, 3d files for enclosure, etc).<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.airgradient.com&#x2F;open-airgradient&#x2F;instructions&#x2F;diy-pro-v42&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.airgradient.com&#x2F;open-airgradient&#x2F;instructions&#x2F;di...</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.airgradient.com&#x2F;open-airgradient&#x2F;instructions&#x2F;diy-open-air-presoldered-v11&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.airgradient.com&#x2F;open-airgradient&#x2F;instructions&#x2F;di...</a><p>[3] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.airgradient.com&#x2F;open-airgradient&#x2F;kits&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.airgradient.com&#x2F;open-airgradient&#x2F;kits&#x2F;</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dognotdog</author><text>While I admire the efforts of the SC-AQMD, and generally agree with the article, using R2 from a higher-end, but not quite perfect instrument, can be quite misleading, and is not a great indicator of actual sensor performance. Also, there are a lot of potential improvements in sensor tech, but instead almost everyone is relying on the same cheap sensor modules instead of innovating, which have have pretty bad deficiencies, especially in detecting particulates in the ultra-fine range, and don’t age very well. But, they are the cheapest.</text></comment> |
26,721,777 | 26,721,325 | 1 | 3 | 26,696,423 | train | <story><title>How Going Back to Coding After 10 Years Almost Crushed Me</title><url>https://betterprogramming.pub/how-going-back-to-coding-after-10-years-almost-crushed-me-88c85ceb5376</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>void_mint</author><text>&gt; yet no one seems to agree with me that devs should not write their own tests.<p>I&#x27;ll die on this hill. The developer that wrote the code by definition cannot write an appropriate test suite for it. It is entirely possible&#x2F;probable that details missed in implementation will be missed entirely in test, as the developer missed them.<p>&lt; controversial take&gt; Manual QA promotes bad habits and is not a great thing to introduce to an org. SDETs&#x2F;QA Engineers&#x2F;Developers whose role is explicitly to create tests for an org are worth their salary 10x. &lt;&#x2F; controversial take &gt;</text></item><item><author>01100011</author><text>I&#x27;m at a FANG with some of the smartest people I have ever encountered in my life, yet no one seems to agree with me that devs should not write their own tests.<p>There is an unwavering belief that knowing the corner cases and weak points of your own code makes you somehow better at writing the tests. We also seem to be obsessed with testing that is half-way between unit level testing and system level testing. We test APIs and features more or less in isolation.<p>Tests should be written by antagonistic developers who are not at all familiar with the code. They should stress the capabilities promised in the interface documentation. Hiring more people who are dedicated to testing costs a lot of money though. I don&#x27;t see things changing anytime soon.</text></item><item><author>diydsp</author><text>&gt;developers now own the test writing and CI infrastructure runs and reports the tests. It has really made software more reliable<p>I switched from medical, with fierce QA, to more general SW dev over the last 3 years. Developers waste time writing braindead unit tests and don&#x27;t stress their software like QA teams. Major bugs run undetected for weeks and cause chaos. Managers grin believing they&#x27;re net-ahead.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>marcus_holmes</author><text>There should be both.<p>Unit tests written by devs are not testing that the system does what it is supposed to do. They&#x27;re testing that the code does what the programmer intended it to do. They have to be written by the programmer because they&#x27;re coupled with the code.<p>There&#x27;s a separate testing process needed (as you say) that tests if the system does the thing it&#x27;s supposed to do. The programmer cannot do this, precisely because it&#x27;s basically testing their understanding of the requirements.<p>I have my co-founders Q&amp;A everything before rolling out to production. It&#x27;s a pain, but it&#x27;s saved us a few headaches where I was just following the golden path and missed some obvious problems.</text></comment> | <story><title>How Going Back to Coding After 10 Years Almost Crushed Me</title><url>https://betterprogramming.pub/how-going-back-to-coding-after-10-years-almost-crushed-me-88c85ceb5376</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>void_mint</author><text>&gt; yet no one seems to agree with me that devs should not write their own tests.<p>I&#x27;ll die on this hill. The developer that wrote the code by definition cannot write an appropriate test suite for it. It is entirely possible&#x2F;probable that details missed in implementation will be missed entirely in test, as the developer missed them.<p>&lt; controversial take&gt; Manual QA promotes bad habits and is not a great thing to introduce to an org. SDETs&#x2F;QA Engineers&#x2F;Developers whose role is explicitly to create tests for an org are worth their salary 10x. &lt;&#x2F; controversial take &gt;</text></item><item><author>01100011</author><text>I&#x27;m at a FANG with some of the smartest people I have ever encountered in my life, yet no one seems to agree with me that devs should not write their own tests.<p>There is an unwavering belief that knowing the corner cases and weak points of your own code makes you somehow better at writing the tests. We also seem to be obsessed with testing that is half-way between unit level testing and system level testing. We test APIs and features more or less in isolation.<p>Tests should be written by antagonistic developers who are not at all familiar with the code. They should stress the capabilities promised in the interface documentation. Hiring more people who are dedicated to testing costs a lot of money though. I don&#x27;t see things changing anytime soon.</text></item><item><author>diydsp</author><text>&gt;developers now own the test writing and CI infrastructure runs and reports the tests. It has really made software more reliable<p>I switched from medical, with fierce QA, to more general SW dev over the last 3 years. Developers waste time writing braindead unit tests and don&#x27;t stress their software like QA teams. Major bugs run undetected for weeks and cause chaos. Managers grin believing they&#x27;re net-ahead.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>EdwardDiego</author><text>I&#x27;m with you on that hill. Good QA have a vastly different mindset to devs - and they&#x27;re not prone to the unconscious tunnel vision you develop when writing code that assumes a particular approach.<p>However, I have to say, depending on your product, some of the best damn QA I&#x27;ve worked with aren&#x27;t writing integration tests, at most they&#x27;re using SQL to get the DB into an appropriate state, and then they&#x27;re doing the rest manually, but it&#x27;s really about their mindset, manual is just the easiest approach for them. Manual encompassing &quot;click on the thing&quot; as well as &quot;hit the endpoint with Postman&quot;.<p>It&#x27;s their mindset I value most. And some of the best pairing I&#x27;ve ever done is with a QA to write integration tests.</text></comment> |
37,830,740 | 37,826,921 | 1 | 2 | 37,826,082 | train | <story><title>The Future of CSS: Easy Light-Dark Mode Color Switching with Light-Dark()</title><url>https://www.bram.us/2023/10/09/the-future-of-css-easy-light-dark-mode-color-switching-with-light-dark/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jjcm</author><text>I&#x27;ve done a LOT of dark mode work, to the point where I&#x27;d consider myself an expert here[1].<p>I&#x27;m not a fan of this. This solves one tiny aspect of the larger problem in a non-scalable way that will inevitably lead to bloat and inflexibility. It&#x27;s a really a naive approach that hasn&#x27;t taken into account design at scale, nor the future of where design is heading.<p>Typically when doing theming, you have two axes - a visual mode axis (i.e. light&#x2F;dark&#x2F;high contrast&#x2F;colorblind modes&#x2F;etc) and a theme axis (i.e. docs&#x2F;sheets&#x2F;slides, each with a different brand color). While this does solve an aspect of the visual mode axis, as soon as you add either a new theme or a visual accessibility mode, you&#x27;ll be forced to refactor. I see that as codesmell.<p>I also don&#x27;t think this helps drive a better future of theming support. If we think about the future of theming, what we see today is a convergence of design patterns. Nearly everyone is doing theming at scale in at least roughly the same way (a semantic token layer that points to different primitive colors depending on the theme), and the differences between implementations continues to diminish over time. The convergence of patterns is a good thing - it means more code can be shared.<p>If you wanted to actually solve theming, what you should work for is not a constrained helper function like light-dark(), but instead a shared token schema. Today nearly every company has their own token schema and different ways of naming things in the semantic token layer. If we had a shard language here, not only would it be trivial to add light&#x2F;dark theming (just redefine a few variables that are already provided for you), code could be shared between sites and inherit the theming&#x2F;branding.<p>[1] Most recently leading Figma&#x27;s dark mode stream, and currently leading their variables feature work to enable others to easily do light&#x2F;dark&#x2F;etc. I&#x27;ve consulted with 50+ enterprise tier companies on their theming. Also contributed to the W3C design token proposal for theme&#x2F;mode support: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;design-tokens&#x2F;community-group&#x2F;issues&#x2F;210">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;design-tokens&#x2F;community-group&#x2F;issues&#x2F;210</a>. Previously worked on Jira&#x27;s dark mode + a few other projects.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bramus</author><text>(Hi, author of the post&#x2F;article here)<p>&gt; This solves one tiny aspect of the larger problem in a non-scalable way that will inevitably lead to bloat and inflexibility. It&#x27;s a really a naive approach that hasn&#x27;t taken into account design at scale, nor the future of where design is heading.<p>Note that `light-dark()` isn’t the end goal here. As discussed within the CSS WG, the end goal is to have a generic function `schemed-value()` to give you what you want.<p>I realize this wasn’t included in the post, so I’ve added a new section to the post with this information: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bram.us&#x2F;2023&#x2F;10&#x2F;09&#x2F;the-future-of-css-easy-light-dark-mode-color-switching-with-light-dark&#x2F;#schemed-value" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bram.us&#x2F;2023&#x2F;10&#x2F;09&#x2F;the-future-of-css-easy-light-...</a><p>I hope this addresses your concern. If not, feel free to let me (or the CSS WG for that matter) know.</text></comment> | <story><title>The Future of CSS: Easy Light-Dark Mode Color Switching with Light-Dark()</title><url>https://www.bram.us/2023/10/09/the-future-of-css-easy-light-dark-mode-color-switching-with-light-dark/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jjcm</author><text>I&#x27;ve done a LOT of dark mode work, to the point where I&#x27;d consider myself an expert here[1].<p>I&#x27;m not a fan of this. This solves one tiny aspect of the larger problem in a non-scalable way that will inevitably lead to bloat and inflexibility. It&#x27;s a really a naive approach that hasn&#x27;t taken into account design at scale, nor the future of where design is heading.<p>Typically when doing theming, you have two axes - a visual mode axis (i.e. light&#x2F;dark&#x2F;high contrast&#x2F;colorblind modes&#x2F;etc) and a theme axis (i.e. docs&#x2F;sheets&#x2F;slides, each with a different brand color). While this does solve an aspect of the visual mode axis, as soon as you add either a new theme or a visual accessibility mode, you&#x27;ll be forced to refactor. I see that as codesmell.<p>I also don&#x27;t think this helps drive a better future of theming support. If we think about the future of theming, what we see today is a convergence of design patterns. Nearly everyone is doing theming at scale in at least roughly the same way (a semantic token layer that points to different primitive colors depending on the theme), and the differences between implementations continues to diminish over time. The convergence of patterns is a good thing - it means more code can be shared.<p>If you wanted to actually solve theming, what you should work for is not a constrained helper function like light-dark(), but instead a shared token schema. Today nearly every company has their own token schema and different ways of naming things in the semantic token layer. If we had a shard language here, not only would it be trivial to add light&#x2F;dark theming (just redefine a few variables that are already provided for you), code could be shared between sites and inherit the theming&#x2F;branding.<p>[1] Most recently leading Figma&#x27;s dark mode stream, and currently leading their variables feature work to enable others to easily do light&#x2F;dark&#x2F;etc. I&#x27;ve consulted with 50+ enterprise tier companies on their theming. Also contributed to the W3C design token proposal for theme&#x2F;mode support: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;design-tokens&#x2F;community-group&#x2F;issues&#x2F;210">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;design-tokens&#x2F;community-group&#x2F;issues&#x2F;210</a>. Previously worked on Jira&#x27;s dark mode + a few other projects.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jjcm</author><text>FWIW, I added a comment here around a simple but more flexible proposal, that allows for easy light&#x2F;dark theming via this approach, but would at least scale (and would allow for color-scheme&#x27;s custom identifier support to be useful): <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;w3c&#x2F;csswg-drafts&#x2F;issues&#x2F;7561#issuecomment-1754069460">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;w3c&#x2F;csswg-drafts&#x2F;issues&#x2F;7561#issuecomment...</a></text></comment> |
6,380,629 | 6,380,641 | 1 | 2 | 6,379,439 | train | <story><title>Google knows nearly every Wi-Fi password in the world</title><url>http://blogs.computerworld.com/android/22806/google-knows-nearly-every-wi-fi-password-world</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tytso</author><text>The author is worried about WiFi passwords? If you trust that your WiFi is secure in general, you&#x27;re in trouble. WPS is horribly insecure, for example, and that&#x27;s what most home users use. Most user-chosen passwords are incredibly easy to guess for another. The better thing to do is to assume that your network traffic is always under surveillance (since the NSA is tapping Tier1 network providers), and to encrypt everything, or use network protocols which encrypt everything.<p>The only thing WiFi passwords are good for is to prevent your neighbors from using your network and using up all of your bandwidth (which would slow down your network access) and preventing drive-by spammers&#x2F;hackers from doing things which you might then get blamed for.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ebbv</author><text>Yeah and those locks on your doors are a joke! Why are you pretending your home has an expectation of privacy? So dumb! Of COURSE anybody can just come into your house any time they want.</text></comment> | <story><title>Google knows nearly every Wi-Fi password in the world</title><url>http://blogs.computerworld.com/android/22806/google-knows-nearly-every-wi-fi-password-world</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tytso</author><text>The author is worried about WiFi passwords? If you trust that your WiFi is secure in general, you&#x27;re in trouble. WPS is horribly insecure, for example, and that&#x27;s what most home users use. Most user-chosen passwords are incredibly easy to guess for another. The better thing to do is to assume that your network traffic is always under surveillance (since the NSA is tapping Tier1 network providers), and to encrypt everything, or use network protocols which encrypt everything.<p>The only thing WiFi passwords are good for is to prevent your neighbors from using your network and using up all of your bandwidth (which would slow down your network access) and preventing drive-by spammers&#x2F;hackers from doing things which you might then get blamed for.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>srollyson</author><text>Honestly, I use WEP encryption because I know that WiFi security is a house of cards in general. As you&#x27;ve said, it&#x27;s enough to prevent the typical user from leeching bandwidth.<p>The nice thing about using WEP is that if someone <i>does</i> end up using my network for something nefarious and I end up holding the bag for it, I (or an expert witness) can point out that WEP is known to be vulnerable in court giving me an out.</text></comment> |
26,757,435 | 26,756,574 | 1 | 2 | 26,755,839 | train | <story><title>A Guide to Color from 1692</title><url>https://www.openculture.com/2021/04/a-900-page-pre-pantone-guide-to-color-from-1692-a-complete-high-resolution-digital-scan.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>tdeck</author><text>In case anyone wonders what Aristotle&#x27;s color system was, I found this great page that explores historical ways of modeling and thinking about color:<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.huevaluechroma.com&#x2F;071.php" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.huevaluechroma.com&#x2F;071.php</a></text></comment> | <story><title>A Guide to Color from 1692</title><url>https://www.openculture.com/2021/04/a-900-page-pre-pantone-guide-to-color-from-1692-a-complete-high-resolution-digital-scan.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>leoc</author><text>It seems this book&#x27;s colours were hand-painted, but I might as well mention two famous mid-C19 examples of colour printing, when (IIRC; I am not an expert) high-quality colour printing was still very expensive and rare:<p>* the &quot;Sobieski Stewarts&#x27;&quot; dodgy <i>Vestiarium Scoticum</i>: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Vestiarium_Scoticum" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Vestiarium_Scoticum</a><p>&gt; It was from Eilean Aigas, in 1842, that the brothers at last published their famous manuscript, <i>Vestiarium Scoticum</i> . It appeared in a sumptuous edition limited to fifty copies. The series of coloured illustrations of tartans was the first ever to be published and was a triumph over technical difficulties. These illustrations were executed by a new process of ‘machine printing’ and, in the words of a scholar writing fifty years later, ‘for beauty of execution and exactness of detail have not been excelled by any method of colour-printing subsequently invented’.<p>&gt; Hugh Trevor-Roper, &quot;The Invention of Tradition: The Highland Tradition of Scotland&quot;<p>* Oliver Byrne&#x27;s colour edition of the first six books of Euclid <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Oliver_Byrne_(mathematician)#Byrne&#x27;s_Euclid" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Oliver_Byrne_(mathematician)#B...</a><p>And why not throw in <i>Shadows From the Walls of Death</i> <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Shadows_from_the_Walls_of_Death" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Shadows_from_the_Walls_of_Deat...</a> with its samples of intensely green arsenical wallpaper?</text></comment> |
27,809,141 | 27,808,237 | 1 | 2 | 27,803,994 | train | <story><title>Resident Evil Village crack completely fixes its stuttering issues</title><url>https://www.dsogaming.com/news/resident-evil-village-crack-completely-fixes-its-stuttering-issues/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>seer</author><text>Used to pirate a lot as a poor kid in eastern europe, as there was no way I could either afford it, find a legal copy or both. Now as a paid developer I always buy the software &#x2F; games I use, as its much less of a hustle, and I’d like to support the people whose work I’m using.<p>But I still have some friends that never buy anything digital, after being brought up on pirated software they would describe buying it as “nauseous”. They might own multiple cars and expensive real estate, but still pirate their windows as a matter of principle.<p>I have a feeling a lot of kids brought up in eastern europe have similar sensibilities.</text></item><item><author>tw04</author><text>I know I might be in the minority, but I just wish we could stop at semi-difficult license keys.<p>When I was poor in college, either I would pirate a game or just not play it because there was just no way I could ever afford it.<p>Now as a grown up I&#x27;d much rather pay for the game both to support the creator as well as not roll the dice on a backdoored keygen.<p>I HAVE to believe that the number of folks that can both afford to buy the game and would buy the game, but would try to pirate first, is a fraction of a percent of the market.<p>Please stop punishing your fans :&#x2F;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>fogihujy</author><text>In Finland (and probably elsewhere as well), people have the right to make physical copies of copyrighted works, for private use, and private use extends as far as giving copies to family and close friends. That means we copied a _lot_ of tapes in the 80&#x27;s. Legally.<p>That mentality simply carried over when the IT boom hit and back then it didn&#x27;t occur to anyone that copying was a bad thing.</text></comment> | <story><title>Resident Evil Village crack completely fixes its stuttering issues</title><url>https://www.dsogaming.com/news/resident-evil-village-crack-completely-fixes-its-stuttering-issues/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>seer</author><text>Used to pirate a lot as a poor kid in eastern europe, as there was no way I could either afford it, find a legal copy or both. Now as a paid developer I always buy the software &#x2F; games I use, as its much less of a hustle, and I’d like to support the people whose work I’m using.<p>But I still have some friends that never buy anything digital, after being brought up on pirated software they would describe buying it as “nauseous”. They might own multiple cars and expensive real estate, but still pirate their windows as a matter of principle.<p>I have a feeling a lot of kids brought up in eastern europe have similar sensibilities.</text></item><item><author>tw04</author><text>I know I might be in the minority, but I just wish we could stop at semi-difficult license keys.<p>When I was poor in college, either I would pirate a game or just not play it because there was just no way I could ever afford it.<p>Now as a grown up I&#x27;d much rather pay for the game both to support the creator as well as not roll the dice on a backdoored keygen.<p>I HAVE to believe that the number of folks that can both afford to buy the game and would buy the game, but would try to pirate first, is a fraction of a percent of the market.<p>Please stop punishing your fans :&#x2F;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dijit</author><text>My ex-girlfriend (Estonian) will not buy software because to her it&#x27;s not &quot;worth money&quot;.<p>So, similar mentality. I ended up buying all her software (Office, photoshop etc;) but she said it was a waste of money.</text></comment> |
22,754,703 | 22,754,828 | 1 | 2 | 22,754,380 | train | <story><title>ACM Prize in Computing Awarded to AlphaGo Developer</title><url>https://www.acm.org/media-center/2020/april/acm-prize-2019</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>eyerow</author><text>As a long-time Go player and ML guy who even built his own (albeit shitty) Go AI in college, I&#x27;m a bit biased, but watching the AlphaGo-Lee Sedol match really felt like watching our generation&#x27;s moon landing.<p>If y&#x27;all haven&#x27;t already, there&#x27;s a new AlphaGo documentary made by DeepMind on YT: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=WXuK6gekU1Y" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=WXuK6gekU1Y</a>. Brought tears to my eyes. Both a triumph for humanity in building an unbelievable machine like this, and a loss for humanity in that the infinite mystery of Go will be diminished, and again a triumph for humanity in Lee Sedol&#x27;s brilliant win in Game 4...</text></comment> | <story><title>ACM Prize in Computing Awarded to AlphaGo Developer</title><url>https://www.acm.org/media-center/2020/april/acm-prize-2019</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>asdfasgasdgasdg</author><text>Surely a great achievement. Although I feel a little bad for the team. I assume Silver didn&#x27;t write all the code or design the entire algorithm single-handedly. But the recognition and the reward accrues to him alone. Ah, unjust hierarchical society.<p>I guess the other members of the team are being compensated well enough at DeepMind that $250k would be more icing than cake, but it still feels weird to see that Silver is the only person named in the article when a number of other world class researchers worked with him on this problem.</text></comment> |
9,106,084 | 9,106,108 | 1 | 2 | 9,105,902 | train | <story><title>Gemalto's findings of its investigations into the alleged hacking of SIM cards</title><url>http://www.gemalto.com/press/Pages/Gemalto-presents-the-findings-of-its-investigations-into-the-alleged-hacking-of-SIM-card-encryption-keys.aspx</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>scintill76</author><text>Can anyone elaborate on why it&#x27;s supposedly only a problem for 2G? &quot;If someone intercepted the encryption keys used in 3G or 4G SIMs they would not be able to connect to the networks and consequently would be unable to spy on communications.&quot; Why not? I feel like there is a &quot;merely&quot; missing from this sentence -- if so, what more than keys do they need to spy?<p>Are they basing this on the specific type of key discussed in the documents? I don&#x27;t know a lot about it, but I&#x27;m inclined to believe there are valuable keys burned-in to 3G+ cards too.<p>I also wonder if there is a downgrade attack to force 2G, so that those keys are not completely worthless.</text></comment> | <story><title>Gemalto's findings of its investigations into the alleged hacking of SIM cards</title><url>http://www.gemalto.com/press/Pages/Gemalto-presents-the-findings-of-its-investigations-into-the-alleged-hacking-of-SIM-card-encryption-keys.aspx</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>r0h1n</author><text>Firstly, I&#x27;m amazed that a large global corporation has put out a press release saying it has &quot;reasonable grounds to believe that an operation by NSA and GCHQ probably happened.&quot; Wow.<p>That said, I wonder if Gemalto really had any other option than to say its keys weren&#x27;t stolen. What might be the cost of replacing all affected SIM cards?</text></comment> |
25,863,365 | 25,863,523 | 1 | 2 | 25,856,633 | train | <story><title>Toolz: A functional standard library for Python</title><url>https://github.com/pytoolz/toolz</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>vorticalbox</author><text>I&#x27;ve been writing functional code for a year or so now at work with the help of ramda in nodejs, there is also a port for python.<p>My colleagues don&#x27;t like becuase it&#x27;s so different to what they are used to but I am putting out code faster and with less bugs so I&#x27;m not going to stop.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>zelphirkalt</author><text>Why use a library for it? Can it not be done with just Python? And if using the library is much different from normal Python, does it mitigate Python&#x27;s problems with functional programming? (For example one expression only lambdas and no TCO.)<p>I also do use some functional concepts in my Python work, but do not use a library for it. Only procedures or functions. No additional dependencies.</text></comment> | <story><title>Toolz: A functional standard library for Python</title><url>https://github.com/pytoolz/toolz</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>vorticalbox</author><text>I&#x27;ve been writing functional code for a year or so now at work with the help of ramda in nodejs, there is also a port for python.<p>My colleagues don&#x27;t like becuase it&#x27;s so different to what they are used to but I am putting out code faster and with less bugs so I&#x27;m not going to stop.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>archarios</author><text>Hell yeah me too! Some of my coworkers like it, but there are a few out there who basically don&#x27;t want to learn something new.. I have been using Ramda professionally for about two years now and I love the heck out of it. My org is using more and more TypeScript which makes using Ramda a little harder but it still works pretty well in this context too. I have been working on a test data inventory project with Ramda recently and it has made the implementation so much nicer than it would have been otherwise. I started using pipeP (by defining it with pipeWith) and omg it&#x27;s so great for dealing with a mix of async and non async calls.</text></comment> |
13,393,233 | 13,392,704 | 1 | 2 | 13,391,871 | train | <story><title>Microsoft acquires deep learning startup Maluuba</title><url>https://blogs.microsoft.com/blog/2017/01/13/microsoft-acquires-deep-learning-startup-maluuba-ai-pioneer-yoshua-bengio-advisory-role/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>roymurdock</author><text>More interesting info on Maluuba&#x27;s 2 actual, recently-released datasets: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;datasets.maluuba.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;datasets.maluuba.com&#x2F;</a><p>Their &quot;News QA dataset&quot; contains 120k Q&amp;As collected from CNN articles:<p><i>Documents are CNN news articles. Questions are written by human users in natural language. Answers may be multiword passages of the source text. Questions may be unanswerable.<p>NewsQA is collected using a 3-stage, siloed process. Questioners see only an article&#x27;s headline and highlights. Answerers see the question and the full article, then select an answer passage. Validators see the article, the question, and a set of answers that they rank. NewsQA is more natural and more challenging than previous datasets.</i><p>Their &quot;Frames&quot; dataset contains 1369 dialogues for vacation scheduling:<p><i>With this dataset, we also present a new task: frame tracking. Our main observation is that decision-making is tightly linked to memory. In effect, to choose a trip, users and wizards talked about different possibilities, compared them and went back-and-forth between cities, dates, or vacation packages.<p>Current systems are memory-less. They implement slot-filling for search as a sequential process where the user is asked for constraints one after the other until a database query can be formulated. Only one set of constraints is kept in memory. For instance, in the illustration below, on the left, when the user mentions Montreal, it overwrites Toronto as destination city. However, behaviours observed in Frames imply that slot values should not be overwritten. One use-case is comparisons: it is common that users ask to compare different items and in this case, different sets of constraints are involved (for instance, different destinations). Frame tracking consists of keeping in memory all the different sets of constraints mentioned by the user. It is a generalization of the state tracking task to a setting where not only the current frame is memorized.<p>Adding this kind of conversational memory is key to building agents which do not simply serve as a natural language interface for searching a database but instead accompany users in their exploration and help them find the best item.</i><p>---<p>Can anyone with experience in ML&#x2F;AI comment on how novel&#x2F;complex these projects are, and how expensive it would be to build out these datasets? Would be interesting to see what it takes to publish a few datasets trained on 20 day conversations between real people, and get acquired by Microsoft&#x2F;Apple&#x2F;Google.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>webmaven</author><text><i>&gt; how expensive it would be to build out these datasets?</i><p>Assuming you have the expertise necessary to design and run the process in-house, the major expense is going to be compensating the humans in the loop, which can add up quickly.<p>This is why organizations that already have access to large datasets have such a huge advantage.<p>I think that one of the reasons we&#x27;re seeing such a rush to deploy chatbots is that even a minimally-useful bot will quickly start accumulating <i>extremely</i> useful (and very clean) training data.<p>There is a lot of noise being made about &quot;democratizing AI&quot;, but as long as the best results require a lot of training and huge amounts of training data it will remain the bottleneck.<p>Look for progress on 1-shot and 0-shot learning to get a better feel for how much progress is made on real democratization.</text></comment> | <story><title>Microsoft acquires deep learning startup Maluuba</title><url>https://blogs.microsoft.com/blog/2017/01/13/microsoft-acquires-deep-learning-startup-maluuba-ai-pioneer-yoshua-bengio-advisory-role/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>roymurdock</author><text>More interesting info on Maluuba&#x27;s 2 actual, recently-released datasets: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;datasets.maluuba.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;datasets.maluuba.com&#x2F;</a><p>Their &quot;News QA dataset&quot; contains 120k Q&amp;As collected from CNN articles:<p><i>Documents are CNN news articles. Questions are written by human users in natural language. Answers may be multiword passages of the source text. Questions may be unanswerable.<p>NewsQA is collected using a 3-stage, siloed process. Questioners see only an article&#x27;s headline and highlights. Answerers see the question and the full article, then select an answer passage. Validators see the article, the question, and a set of answers that they rank. NewsQA is more natural and more challenging than previous datasets.</i><p>Their &quot;Frames&quot; dataset contains 1369 dialogues for vacation scheduling:<p><i>With this dataset, we also present a new task: frame tracking. Our main observation is that decision-making is tightly linked to memory. In effect, to choose a trip, users and wizards talked about different possibilities, compared them and went back-and-forth between cities, dates, or vacation packages.<p>Current systems are memory-less. They implement slot-filling for search as a sequential process where the user is asked for constraints one after the other until a database query can be formulated. Only one set of constraints is kept in memory. For instance, in the illustration below, on the left, when the user mentions Montreal, it overwrites Toronto as destination city. However, behaviours observed in Frames imply that slot values should not be overwritten. One use-case is comparisons: it is common that users ask to compare different items and in this case, different sets of constraints are involved (for instance, different destinations). Frame tracking consists of keeping in memory all the different sets of constraints mentioned by the user. It is a generalization of the state tracking task to a setting where not only the current frame is memorized.<p>Adding this kind of conversational memory is key to building agents which do not simply serve as a natural language interface for searching a database but instead accompany users in their exploration and help them find the best item.</i><p>---<p>Can anyone with experience in ML&#x2F;AI comment on how novel&#x2F;complex these projects are, and how expensive it would be to build out these datasets? Would be interesting to see what it takes to publish a few datasets trained on 20 day conversations between real people, and get acquired by Microsoft&#x2F;Apple&#x2F;Google.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>deepnotderp</author><text>Maluuba has real researchers from MILA and university of Toronto. It was an acquihire.</text></comment> |
26,095,079 | 26,093,102 | 1 | 2 | 26,088,455 | train | <story><title>Cambridge Bitcoin Electricity Consumption Index</title><url>https://cbeci.org/cbeci/comparisons</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Aunche</author><text>The first paragraph is a fair consideration. The second is a complete stretch. It&#x27;s not as if America would suddenly stop providing military support to Saudi Arabia if we suddenly switched to bitcoin. An America that historically used Bitcoin would be even more incentivized to &quot;secure&quot; fossil fuel nations.</text></item><item><author>janoside</author><text>Nic Carter&#x27;s rebuttal to a Bloomberg comparison between Bitcoin&#x2F;Visa, including assessments of total and per&#x2F;transaction energy usage:<p>&quot;First of all, Bitcoin and Visa are fundamentally different systems. Bitcoin is a complete, self-contained monetary settlement system; Visa transactions are non-final credit transactions that rely on external underlying settlement rails. Visa relies on ACH, Fedwire, SWIFT, the global correspondent banking system, the Federal Reserve and, of course, the military and diplomatic strength of the U.S. government to ensure all of the above are working smoothly.<p>Any energy comparison must take the above into account – including the externalities from the extraction of oil, which implicitly backs the dollar. As those who make this comparison inevitably fail to mention, the dollar’s ubiquity is partly due to a covert arrangement whereby the U.S. provides military support to countries like Saudi Arabia that agree to sell oil exclusively for dollars. It’s worth noting that the grossly oversized U.S. military, whose presence worldwide is necessary to backstop the international dollar system, is the largest single consumer of oil worldwide.&quot;<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.coindesk.com&#x2F;what-bloomberg-gets-wrong-about-bitcoins-climate-footprint" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.coindesk.com&#x2F;what-bloomberg-gets-wrong-about-bit...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>roenxi</author><text>If the Saudis started selling oil in bitcoin they&#x27;d probably lose their military support and&#x2F;or be overthrown.<p>It is difficult to justify why the US is providing militarily support to the Saudis without invoking oil and dollars. They are a pretty shady regime and not the sort of people the US wants to be supporting. And the Saudis don&#x27;t seem to be trading with America as much as China [0, 1].<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;tradingeconomics.com&#x2F;saudi-arabia&#x2F;exports-by-country" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;tradingeconomics.com&#x2F;saudi-arabia&#x2F;exports-by-country</a><p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;tradingeconomics.com&#x2F;saudi-arabia&#x2F;imports-by-country" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;tradingeconomics.com&#x2F;saudi-arabia&#x2F;imports-by-country</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Cambridge Bitcoin Electricity Consumption Index</title><url>https://cbeci.org/cbeci/comparisons</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Aunche</author><text>The first paragraph is a fair consideration. The second is a complete stretch. It&#x27;s not as if America would suddenly stop providing military support to Saudi Arabia if we suddenly switched to bitcoin. An America that historically used Bitcoin would be even more incentivized to &quot;secure&quot; fossil fuel nations.</text></item><item><author>janoside</author><text>Nic Carter&#x27;s rebuttal to a Bloomberg comparison between Bitcoin&#x2F;Visa, including assessments of total and per&#x2F;transaction energy usage:<p>&quot;First of all, Bitcoin and Visa are fundamentally different systems. Bitcoin is a complete, self-contained monetary settlement system; Visa transactions are non-final credit transactions that rely on external underlying settlement rails. Visa relies on ACH, Fedwire, SWIFT, the global correspondent banking system, the Federal Reserve and, of course, the military and diplomatic strength of the U.S. government to ensure all of the above are working smoothly.<p>Any energy comparison must take the above into account – including the externalities from the extraction of oil, which implicitly backs the dollar. As those who make this comparison inevitably fail to mention, the dollar’s ubiquity is partly due to a covert arrangement whereby the U.S. provides military support to countries like Saudi Arabia that agree to sell oil exclusively for dollars. It’s worth noting that the grossly oversized U.S. military, whose presence worldwide is necessary to backstop the international dollar system, is the largest single consumer of oil worldwide.&quot;<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.coindesk.com&#x2F;what-bloomberg-gets-wrong-about-bitcoins-climate-footprint" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.coindesk.com&#x2F;what-bloomberg-gets-wrong-about-bit...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nostrademons</author><text>Take a look at OPEC companies that have priced oil in other currencies:<p>Iraq started pricing oil in euros in 1999:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theglobalist.com&#x2F;iraq-the-dollar-and-the-euro-5&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theglobalist.com&#x2F;iraq-the-dollar-and-the-euro-5&#x2F;</a><p>Iran started pricing oil in yuan in 2012:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bbc.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;business-17988142" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bbc.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;business-17988142</a><p>What&#x27;s our geopolitical relationship with Iraq and Iran now?</text></comment> |
2,965,960 | 2,965,767 | 1 | 3 | 2,965,497 | train | <story><title>Writing Vim Plugins</title><url>http://stevelosh.com/blog/2011/09/writing-vim-plugins/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>telemachos</author><text>Damian Conway wrote a five-part series on Vimscript for IBM's developerWorks. I found it a good way to start doing more with Vimscript:<p><a href="http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-vim-script-1/index.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-vim-script...</a><p><a href="http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-vim-script-2/index.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-vim-script...</a><p><a href="http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-vim-script-3/index.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-vim-script...</a><p><a href="http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-vim-script-4/index.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-vim-script...</a><p><a href="http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-vim-script-5/index.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-vim-script...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Writing Vim Plugins</title><url>http://stevelosh.com/blog/2011/09/writing-vim-plugins/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>codito</author><text>Nice tips. I disagree on the unit test one though. I've been hacking on a vim+python based plugin (and learning python on the way) for past few days. When I started, I would fire vim up, test something and hit a non-actionable error (since I won't have the entire stack trace, nor could I use pdb.set_trace/attach debugger :().<p>Now I isolate vim as much as possible from core piece of code, and use a mock vim[1][2]. For every entrypoint into my python code from vim, I write a small unittest; run/debug it w/ nose and then just hook it to a vim key mapping. It reduced trial/error cycles significantly.
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[1] <a href="http://tadhg.com/wp/2010/02/16/some-vim-script-implementation-testing-and-hackery/" rel="nofollow">http://tadhg.com/wp/2010/02/16/some-vim-script-implementatio...</a>
[2] <a href="http://symlink.me/repositories/entry/blogit/testing/mock_vim.py" rel="nofollow">http://symlink.me/repositories/entry/blogit/testing/mock_vim...</a></text></comment> |
21,636,630 | 21,636,439 | 1 | 2 | 21,632,338 | train | <story><title>The Birth of Legacy Software – How Change Aversion Feeds on Itself</title><url>https://software.rajivprab.com/2019/11/25/the-birth-of-legacy-software-how-change-aversion-feeds-on-itself/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>vearwhershuh</author><text>I&#x27;ve seen plenty of projects blown up with massive, fearless refactors to do thing &quot;the right way&quot;.<p>Careful with that axe, Eugene.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>seren</author><text>In my open office next door, people have been refactoring a cpp98 monolith into more interdependent components to be able to have a better test suite, better CI integration, better deployment story. That sounds about right.<p>Well, the issue is that they have done it a bit sneakily, they removed all the legacy code they haven&#x27;t understood. So the code is much more elegant, it has been moved to cpp11 or 14, it ticks every good practice. There is only one slight issue : it does not work. It somewhat work, but is not reliable and fails regularly in unexpected ways. And they&#x27;ve started 5 years ago, and haven&#x27;t been delivering any business value since then.<p>At the beginning, it was okay because they had some leeway but now they are blocking the release of new products, and our market share is in free fall.<p>Heads have started to roll.<p>To be fair, a few years down the line, their team will likely be more productive and efficient, but I am still not sure that the cost of the rewrite was justified. Still the article is very on point on the risk of not paying your technical debt.</text></comment> | <story><title>The Birth of Legacy Software – How Change Aversion Feeds on Itself</title><url>https://software.rajivprab.com/2019/11/25/the-birth-of-legacy-software-how-change-aversion-feeds-on-itself/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>vearwhershuh</author><text>I&#x27;ve seen plenty of projects blown up with massive, fearless refactors to do thing &quot;the right way&quot;.<p>Careful with that axe, Eugene.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>cjfd</author><text>One thing to watch out for, I think, is people who want to do this massive refactor (an oxymoron as another comment notes) and also have a work history consisting entirely of short employments. These people never get to experience the actual result of their refactoring.</text></comment> |
40,835,102 | 40,834,387 | 1 | 3 | 40,832,930 | train | <story><title>Overleaf: An open-source online real-time collaborative LaTeX editor</title><url>https://github.com/overleaf/overleaf</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tombert</author><text>I mean, by &quot;not that hard&quot;, I guess I meant &quot;not that hard for me&quot;; `nix-shell -p texliveFull` or whatever your preferred distro&#x27;s install command.<p>While that requires a certain level of geekiness, I am pretty sure I could still walk my parents through installing it on Windows and get them using TeXStudio or something, so it&#x27;s not insurmountable. LaTeX itself sort of inherently requires a willingness to do thing in the initially-less-easy way.<p>That said, yeah a web service is of course much more approachable. If my parents wanted to use LaTeX I would probably just point them to Overleaf.</text></item><item><author>Levitating</author><text>&gt; it&#x27;s not like LaTeX is hard to install or anything<p>that&#x27;s debatable<p>&gt; I find Markdown considerably more pleasant<p>You could try <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;typst.app&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;typst.app&#x2F;</a></text></item><item><author>tombert</author><text>I&#x27;ve known about Overleaf for almost as long as I&#x27;ve used LaTeX and until about two years ago, I didn&#x27;t really understand the point of it; it&#x27;s not like LaTeX is hard to install or anything, what&#x27;s the advantage of a web service?<p>It wasn&#x27;t until I started doing my PhD work where I realized the Overleaf is useful, because the collaborative tools are extremely handy. LaTeX is very popular in the academic world, and Overleaf allows me to easily work on papers with my advisors (who live in a different continent). It&#x27;s been great.<p>I do wish they&#x27;d add Pandoc support; LaTeX is cool but I find Markdown considerably more pleasant about 95% of the time, so it&#x27;d be great if they could let us use that, though I realize this is probably easier said than done.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jcparkyn</author><text>Installing it is easy, what&#x27;s harder is making sure all your collaborators have the same packages and versions of everything.</text></comment> | <story><title>Overleaf: An open-source online real-time collaborative LaTeX editor</title><url>https://github.com/overleaf/overleaf</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tombert</author><text>I mean, by &quot;not that hard&quot;, I guess I meant &quot;not that hard for me&quot;; `nix-shell -p texliveFull` or whatever your preferred distro&#x27;s install command.<p>While that requires a certain level of geekiness, I am pretty sure I could still walk my parents through installing it on Windows and get them using TeXStudio or something, so it&#x27;s not insurmountable. LaTeX itself sort of inherently requires a willingness to do thing in the initially-less-easy way.<p>That said, yeah a web service is of course much more approachable. If my parents wanted to use LaTeX I would probably just point them to Overleaf.</text></item><item><author>Levitating</author><text>&gt; it&#x27;s not like LaTeX is hard to install or anything<p>that&#x27;s debatable<p>&gt; I find Markdown considerably more pleasant<p>You could try <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;typst.app&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;typst.app&#x2F;</a></text></item><item><author>tombert</author><text>I&#x27;ve known about Overleaf for almost as long as I&#x27;ve used LaTeX and until about two years ago, I didn&#x27;t really understand the point of it; it&#x27;s not like LaTeX is hard to install or anything, what&#x27;s the advantage of a web service?<p>It wasn&#x27;t until I started doing my PhD work where I realized the Overleaf is useful, because the collaborative tools are extremely handy. LaTeX is very popular in the academic world, and Overleaf allows me to easily work on papers with my advisors (who live in a different continent). It&#x27;s been great.<p>I do wish they&#x27;d add Pandoc support; LaTeX is cool but I find Markdown considerably more pleasant about 95% of the time, so it&#x27;d be great if they could let us use that, though I realize this is probably easier said than done.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>MatthiasPortzel</author><text>I tried to &quot;install LaTeX&quot; on Mac. I installed latex2html with Brew, and passed it an example .tex. I got `Fatal (syswait): exec &quot; .&#x2F;images.tex&quot; failed: Permission denied`<p>I tried to install `texlive` (at your recommendation) also through brew, and got the error `Could not symlink bin&#x2F;afm2tfm.Target &#x2F;usr&#x2F;local&#x2F;bin&#x2F;afm2tfm already exists.`<p>Overleaf just works.</text></comment> |
10,793,228 | 10,793,022 | 1 | 2 | 10,791,192 | train | <story><title>How I found one of the earliest browsers on a NeXTcube</title><url>http://pupeno.com/2015/12/21/how-i-found-one-of-the-earliest-browsers-in-history/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>stickfigure</author><text>NeXTSTEP only became &quot;cross platform&quot; (meaning: ran on x86 hardware) as a desperate alternative to their failing proprietary hardware business. Seeng as how at that point the OS itself was NeXT&#x27;s business, it&#x27;s hard to imagine Jobs supporting software that ran on competing OSes.<p>Even today the only real cross-platform product Apple makes is iTunes, and that only exists so they can sell iPods (and now iPhones) to windows users. Facetime, ApplePay, iBooks... all would be better as cross platform apps, but Apple isn&#x27;t interested because it doesn&#x27;t help them sell more macs&#x2F;iphones.</text></item><item><author>ams6110</author><text>NEXTSTEP was cross platform, so not really such a far fetched idea.</text></item><item><author>twoodfin</author><text>I can imagine an alternate universe where Jobs has a &quot;Xerox&quot; moment and immediately pivots NeXT&#x27;s software efforts to developing a cross-platform graphical browser.<p>The &quot;cross-platform&quot; part is the most optimistic, to be sure. But if Jobs believed that NeXT&#x27;s real value was the software (as OS X, and especially iOS, bear out), then you can imagine a strategy that used a web browser as a Trojan Horse for a platform that could overthrow the currently dominant Windows monopoly. That was basically Netscape&#x27;s strategy a few years later, after all.</text></item><item><author>wpietri</author><text>Could you say more about how you think that would have happened? I was a NeXT developer at the time, and I&#x27;m having trouble imagining it.<p>At the time, NextStep was a struggling niche OS. Jobs didn&#x27;t get any real power until he returned to the helm of Apple in &#x27;97, and NextStep technology didn&#x27;t hit the mainstream until 2001 with the release of the consumer version of OS X.<p>In contrast, Netscape&#x27;s first product was released in late &#x27;94, and it was popular enough that they IPO&#x27;d in 1995.</text></item><item><author>tbrock</author><text>Apparently Steve Jobs narrowly missed Berners Lee demonstrating his browser for inclusion with an upcoming version of next step to catch a plane.<p>I constantly think about how them meeting that day may have moved the mainstream adoption of the web up by 5 years.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>joezydeco</author><text>And that decision almost never happened:<p><i>While it seems a given that the iPod was to be made compatible with Windows, Jobs was very resistant to the idea. At one point he said that Windows users would get to use the iPod &quot;over my dead body&quot;. After continued convincing, Jobs gave up:</i><p><i>&quot;Screw it,&quot; he said at one meeting where they showed him the analysis. &quot;I&#x27;m sick of listening to you assholes. Go do whatever the hell you want.&quot;</i><p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.macrumors.com&#x2F;2011&#x2F;10&#x2F;25&#x2F;steve-jobs-biography-what-might-have-been&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.macrumors.com&#x2F;2011&#x2F;10&#x2F;25&#x2F;steve-jobs-biography-wha...</a><p>Think about what iPod sales would have been if iTunes never made it to the PC platform. Would there have been enough profit to fund the development of the iPhone? Would we be where we are today?</text></comment> | <story><title>How I found one of the earliest browsers on a NeXTcube</title><url>http://pupeno.com/2015/12/21/how-i-found-one-of-the-earliest-browsers-in-history/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>stickfigure</author><text>NeXTSTEP only became &quot;cross platform&quot; (meaning: ran on x86 hardware) as a desperate alternative to their failing proprietary hardware business. Seeng as how at that point the OS itself was NeXT&#x27;s business, it&#x27;s hard to imagine Jobs supporting software that ran on competing OSes.<p>Even today the only real cross-platform product Apple makes is iTunes, and that only exists so they can sell iPods (and now iPhones) to windows users. Facetime, ApplePay, iBooks... all would be better as cross platform apps, but Apple isn&#x27;t interested because it doesn&#x27;t help them sell more macs&#x2F;iphones.</text></item><item><author>ams6110</author><text>NEXTSTEP was cross platform, so not really such a far fetched idea.</text></item><item><author>twoodfin</author><text>I can imagine an alternate universe where Jobs has a &quot;Xerox&quot; moment and immediately pivots NeXT&#x27;s software efforts to developing a cross-platform graphical browser.<p>The &quot;cross-platform&quot; part is the most optimistic, to be sure. But if Jobs believed that NeXT&#x27;s real value was the software (as OS X, and especially iOS, bear out), then you can imagine a strategy that used a web browser as a Trojan Horse for a platform that could overthrow the currently dominant Windows monopoly. That was basically Netscape&#x27;s strategy a few years later, after all.</text></item><item><author>wpietri</author><text>Could you say more about how you think that would have happened? I was a NeXT developer at the time, and I&#x27;m having trouble imagining it.<p>At the time, NextStep was a struggling niche OS. Jobs didn&#x27;t get any real power until he returned to the helm of Apple in &#x27;97, and NextStep technology didn&#x27;t hit the mainstream until 2001 with the release of the consumer version of OS X.<p>In contrast, Netscape&#x27;s first product was released in late &#x27;94, and it was popular enough that they IPO&#x27;d in 1995.</text></item><item><author>tbrock</author><text>Apparently Steve Jobs narrowly missed Berners Lee demonstrating his browser for inclusion with an upcoming version of next step to catch a plane.<p>I constantly think about how them meeting that day may have moved the mainstream adoption of the web up by 5 years.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>wpietri</author><text>&gt; it&#x27;s hard to imagine Jobs supporting software that ran on competing OSes.<p>Perhaps hard to imagine, but they actually did it. OPENSTEP Enterprise allowed you to use the NeXT development tools to build apps for 32-bit Windows platforms. That came toward the end of the NeXT saga, so you could argue it was a move of last resort. But it clearly wasn&#x27;t out of the question.</text></comment> |
3,139,569 | 3,138,062 | 1 | 2 | 3,137,770 | train | <story><title>Anyone with a smart cover can break into your iPad2</title><url>http://9to5mac.com/2011/10/20/anyone-with-a-smart-cover-can-break-into-your-ipad-2/</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>scott_s</author><text>This is getting silly. Lock screens are the security equivalent of having a screen door. They exist to keep the mildly annoying things out, but they're not designed to prevent the <i>real</i> baddies.<p>Breaking with metaphor, I don't consider it much of a security flaw if step one is the other person has to have physical access to the device.</text></comment> | <story><title>Anyone with a smart cover can break into your iPad2</title><url>http://9to5mac.com/2011/10/20/anyone-with-a-smart-cover-can-break-into-your-ipad-2/</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>antimora</author><text>I just tried on my iPad2 and the hack works.</text></comment> |
33,156,603 | 33,156,646 | 1 | 2 | 33,123,895 | train | <story><title>Expectations of professional software engineers</title><url>https://adamj.eu/tech/2022/06/17/mike-actons-expectations-of-professional-software-engineers/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ctroein89</author><text>&gt; 1. I can articulate precisely what problem I am trying to solve.<p>&gt; 6. I have a Plan B in case my solution to my current problem doesn’t work.<p>&gt; 9. I can clearly articulate unknowns and risks associated with my current problem.<p>These rules imply one of 3 things about the author:<p>* That author only encounters problems that have been fully solved before<p>* The manager gives zero weight or value to discovery<p>* The manager expects the whole project to have been fully specified before starting<p>Yikes, that&#x27;s toxic! I think it&#x27;s important that engineers have the mindset of understanding the problem, but that means that figuring out the problem is part of the work! Which then means that engineers should definitely have periods where they don&#x27;t understand the problem, where they don&#x27;t have a Plan B yet, and don&#x27;t know what the unknowns are, because they can&#x27;t know what the solution will be until they&#x27;ve started the work.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>MajimasEyepatch</author><text>This is a strange interpretation. It does not matter whether you are working on the simplest web page or a brand new problem that no one has solved before: it is absolutely necessary that you clearly articulate the problem you are trying to solve. Even if you’re a scientist working in a purely exploratory, theoretical setting, you still have to be able to articulate your problem. You may refine that as you go, but if you sit down to work on something and realize you can’t articulate the problem, the first step is to stop and focus on defining the problem better.<p>Point 1 is a prerequisite to points 6 and 9. But once you’re ready to start actually building a solution, you should absolutely have an understanding of the risks and a Plan B in case your solution fails.<p>Nowhere in the article does it imply that you can fully understand a problem without putting in the work. The difference between juniors and seniors that the article is highlighting is that juniors will jump into implementation without knowing these things, while seniors will take time to do some research and figure these things out first. Usually, if you’re senior, you should also have the experience to do so quickly, but that’s not always possible.</text></comment> | <story><title>Expectations of professional software engineers</title><url>https://adamj.eu/tech/2022/06/17/mike-actons-expectations-of-professional-software-engineers/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ctroein89</author><text>&gt; 1. I can articulate precisely what problem I am trying to solve.<p>&gt; 6. I have a Plan B in case my solution to my current problem doesn’t work.<p>&gt; 9. I can clearly articulate unknowns and risks associated with my current problem.<p>These rules imply one of 3 things about the author:<p>* That author only encounters problems that have been fully solved before<p>* The manager gives zero weight or value to discovery<p>* The manager expects the whole project to have been fully specified before starting<p>Yikes, that&#x27;s toxic! I think it&#x27;s important that engineers have the mindset of understanding the problem, but that means that figuring out the problem is part of the work! Which then means that engineers should definitely have periods where they don&#x27;t understand the problem, where they don&#x27;t have a Plan B yet, and don&#x27;t know what the unknowns are, because they can&#x27;t know what the solution will be until they&#x27;ve started the work.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nooorofe</author><text>Term &quot;toxic&quot; is toxic by itself.<p>Periods when engineer don&#x27;t understand the problem should be spent on analysis of the problem domain. &quot;Now I am working on defining the problem domain&quot; - is an activity to work &quot;I don&#x27;t understand the problem&quot; task. During that period probably zero code will be written.<p>&gt; That author only encounters problems that have been fully solved before<p>He doesn&#x27;t, otherwise there would be no talk about &quot;plan B&quot; and risks. When you actively write a project code, you should know that solution is possible. Having plan doesn&#x27;t mean &quot;problems have been fully solved before&quot;.
You may have POC which doesn&#x27;t end in resolution, but it should be clear what is POC for and a failure is possible outcome.</text></comment> |
9,405,894 | 9,405,841 | 1 | 2 | 9,405,618 | train | <story><title>The Two Day Manifesto</title><url>http://twodaymanifesto.com/?atm=email</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>TheDong</author><text>If you&#x27;re using the technology a lot, the developers should already be diving into the codebase and improving it.<p>No software is perfect and sometimes the best way to fix your code is to actually fix whatever dependency is causing the problem and push it upstream.<p>I find it disingenuous to imply that developers should not be venturing outside the little garden of code they or their company has written except on certain days and that the developer will even have a choice in the matter.</text></comment> | <story><title>The Two Day Manifesto</title><url>http://twodaymanifesto.com/?atm=email</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>sergiotapia</author><text>I own a little agency here in Bolivia, and we will start doing this this month. It&#x27;s a fantastic idea and one I hope catches on. Imagine the contributions if everybody did even a little slice of work.<p>Documentation, refactoring, updating the readme, whatever!</text></comment> |
30,540,063 | 30,539,869 | 1 | 2 | 30,539,445 | train | <story><title>City Does Not Exist</title><url>http://thiscitydoesnotexist.com/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>omnicognate</author><text>Thought maybe I should do thispipedoesnotexist, but of course it&#x27;s been done: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;thispipedoesnotexist.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;thispipedoesnotexist.com&#x2F;</a></text></comment> | <story><title>City Does Not Exist</title><url>http://thiscitydoesnotexist.com/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>rob74</author><text>As with all these &quot;this X doesn&#x27;t exist&quot; sites, the images look ok at first sight, but when you start to look closer you notice that some things aren&#x27;t quite right. In this case, it&#x27;s mostly roads that don&#x27;t seem to connect to anything...</text></comment> |
19,686,708 | 19,686,523 | 1 | 3 | 19,685,008 | train | <story><title>How Not to Acknowledge a Data Breach</title><url>https://krebsonsecurity.com/2019/04/how-not-to-acknowledge-a-data-breach/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>lainga</author><text>Who uses outsourcing firms like Wipro (government agencies)? What do they <i>do</i>? It seems to me, living in the bubble of <i>haute tech</i>, that the only things you ever hear about these firms are (a.) they exist and (b.) they are very large.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>korethr</author><text>One of the things they do is man the call centers in which the call agents are only allowed to: a) open tickets b) follow a script intended for people who didn&#x27;t do basic troubleshooting before calling tech support c) be very sorry that your business is losing money due to the service interruption d) give you vague non-answers as to when the team with the authority to actually fix things but which is not allowed to interact directly with customers will actually get around to working on your issue, and e) ask you to kindly rate them highly on the customer satisfaction survey that you will be automatically connected to after this call.<p>Another thing they do is supply you with an endless cascade of developers who rotate in and out of your dev team on a 3-month basis. In those three months they will a) tell your IT team that they need a newer laptop because their current one gets slow when trying to run 3 instances of Visual Studio concurrently b) wonder why hard drive failures are correlated with rough handling of the laptop c) ask IT to troubleshoot their compilation errors d) only save their code locally instead of to a shared repo e) get upset when 3 months of said locally saved code, which IT was never told about, gets lost when the laptop, previously issued to the dev they replaced, is re-imaged before redeployment as per company policy&#x2F;standard-procedure f) thereafter dodge turning in laptops to IT after their rotation ends, instead giving it directly to their replacement, causing IT&#x27;s stores of deployable laptops to get depleted, and thus causing IT to come hunting after the never-turned-in laptops, because the next wave of 3-month devs is coming and hardware to issue them is needed, and finally g) treat company-issued laptops so roughly that when IT eventually does them back, what was brand shiny and new 3 months prior is now chipped, cracked, scratched and covered in grease and crumbs, and has a full kitten&#x27;s worth of fluff accumulation in the cooling fan.<p>Okay, that last one was a bit hyperbolic, but every single point there did happen, and more than once.<p>Yes, I have been embittered by contractors from these large Indian IT firms, both as an end user &#x27;supported&#x27; by them and as a co-worker supporting them. My experience with them has not been a positive one.</text></comment> | <story><title>How Not to Acknowledge a Data Breach</title><url>https://krebsonsecurity.com/2019/04/how-not-to-acknowledge-a-data-breach/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>lainga</author><text>Who uses outsourcing firms like Wipro (government agencies)? What do they <i>do</i>? It seems to me, living in the bubble of <i>haute tech</i>, that the only things you ever hear about these firms are (a.) they exist and (b.) they are very large.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>__david__</author><text>A company I worked at bought Firewire driver code from them (this was 15-20 years ago). The code was really, really terrible and we eventually had to replace it with our own code (which was 20x shorter, faster, and more spec compliant).<p>In retrospect, and as much as we in engineering hated their code, it was probably worth what they paid for it just because it got us 75% there and took pressure off the team while we created the replacement code.</text></comment> |
41,650,928 | 41,650,871 | 1 | 3 | 41,649,983 | train | <story><title>Meta Quest 3S</title><url>https://www.meta.com/tw/en/quest/quest-3s/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>xnx</author><text>The most important spec of any VR device is its display. Since the Quest 3S has the same display as a Quest 2, this is more of a Quest 2+ than a Quest 3 Lite.<p>The current best deal seems to be a used or refurb Quest 3 for $450.</text></comment> | <story><title>Meta Quest 3S</title><url>https://www.meta.com/tw/en/quest/quest-3s/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>layer8</author><text>Spec comparison page: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.meta.com&#x2F;quest&#x2F;compare&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.meta.com&#x2F;quest&#x2F;compare&#x2F;</a></text></comment> |
1,479,198 | 1,479,161 | 1 | 3 | 1,479,107 | train | <story><title>Google agrees to buy ITA Software for $700 million</title><url>http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/07/taking-off-with-ita.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Alex3917</author><text>Hopefully Google will make flight search suck less. Currently even the most basic searches like "What's the cheapest I can fly from any airport within 50 miles of my house to any airport within 50 miles of NYC at any point during August" are impossible. I understand it's a computationally expensive question, but why the hell can't I just buy $5 bucks worth of computing time for an answer if I potentially stand to save a couple hundred bucks.</text></comment> | <story><title>Google agrees to buy ITA Software for $700 million</title><url>http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/07/taking-off-with-ita.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>pinko</author><text>ITA Software is one of the few remaining "sleeper" sites I use constantly but few people have heard of.<p>Its routing language and "graphical" view of flight times (which have each been there for what, 7 or 8 years?) are still light years ahead of anything else on the web in terms of travel search.<p>Let's just hope Google doesn't mess it up somehow.</text></comment> |
4,023,319 | 4,022,199 | 1 | 2 | 4,022,145 | train | <story><title>Diablo 3 bug report: "Passwords not case-sensitive."</title><url>http://us.battle.net/d3/en/forum/topic/5152409863</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>loup-vaillant</author><text><p><pre><code> Entropy of [a-z0-9] per character : 5,1 bits
Entropy of [A-Za-z0-9] per character : 5,95 bits
Entropy lost by case insensitivity
(per character): 0,85 bits (15%)
</code></pre>
Bottom line: add 2 characters, and your password stays strong. Still, it would cool to warn users, or at least explicitly advise them to use longer passwords.</text></comment> | <story><title>Diablo 3 bug report: "Passwords not case-sensitive."</title><url>http://us.battle.net/d3/en/forum/topic/5152409863</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>karlshea</author><text>Facebook does sort of the same thing:<p><a href="http://www.zdnet.com/blog/facebook/facebook-passwords-are-not-case-sensitive-update/3612" rel="nofollow">http://www.zdnet.com/blog/facebook/facebook-passwords-are-no...</a><p>Yes, it's possibly less secure. But for both Facebook and all of the Blizzard games there are other options if you are concerned.</text></comment> |
17,408,110 | 17,408,328 | 1 | 2 | 17,403,458 | train | <story><title>Another 10 years of Internet evolution</title><url>http://www.potaroo.net/ispcol/2018-06/10years.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>codethief</author><text>&gt; It may be slightly more disconcerting to realise that your electronic wallet is on a device that is using a massive compilation of open source software of largely unknown origin, with a security model that is not completely understood, but appears to be susceptible to be coerced into being a “yes, take all you want”.<p>If only the entire stack was open-source. I have to say, I distrust the closed-source part of my phone&#x27;s stack far more (both the hardware and the software).</text></comment> | <story><title>Another 10 years of Internet evolution</title><url>http://www.potaroo.net/ispcol/2018-06/10years.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>thanatropism</author><text>I&#x27;ve always been fascinated by the idea of text-mode browsers, but for most of it the experience was more and more aggravating, and never practical. To the point where console-based browsers like w3m started to strive to work more like graphical browsers...<p>But I opened that page in eww (the browser mode in Emacs) and it just ran perfectly.<p>Up until just the other day, modern web pages were serving a decent text-mode fallout, but they were placing sidebar content <i>before</i> the main content, so it came up <i>on top</i>. This in spite of the fact that they could very easily have put it afterwards -- CSS is handling everything, no?<p>For an &quot;evolution of the internet&quot;, it&#x27;s great how gracefully this page degrades.</text></comment> |
5,448,012 | 5,447,587 | 1 | 3 | 5,447,287 | train | <story><title>21 Nested Callbacks</title><url>http://blog.michellebu.com/2013/03/21-nested-callbacks/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>lelandbatey</author><text>I love this. The code may not have been beautiful, but it worked, and the author figured it out themselves!<p>I'm simultaneously reminded of two different quotes:<p><i>Let's argue about whether Haskell or Clojure is better while somebody else ships products using PHP and duct tape.</i>
--@agentdero [0]<p>And the other:<p><i>&#60;dm&#62; I discovered that you'd never get an answer to a problem from Linux Gurus by asking. You have to troll in order for someone to help you with a Linux problem.</i><p>-- Bash.org [1]<p>You should always try to do SOMETHING over being frozen in indecision. Additionally, we really should do a better job of explaining things to people, so they don't have to stoop to trolling for answers :)<p>[0] <a href="https://twitter.com/agentdero/status/174965036928868352" rel="nofollow">https://twitter.com/agentdero/status/174965036928868352</a><p>[1] <a href="http://bash.org/?152037" rel="nofollow">http://bash.org/?152037</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>reeses</author><text>"I discovered that you'd never get an answer to a problem from Linux Gurus by asking. You have to troll in order for someone to help you with a Linux problem."<p><i>This</i> is one of my Jedi-level secrets of technical management.<p>I am quick to say I have a huge ego, because anyone who knew me would fight to say it first. The fact that I know what I know and have a good feel for where I'm weak lends me confidence in those situations where I'm mostly out of my depth.<p>I've managed ultra-introverted developers for about makesmesoundold years. Numerous are the times I've asked a question and gotten no answer. "How would we go about accomplishing x?" "How long would it take us to do y?" "What letter comes after z?"<p><i>Crickets</i><p>Throw a proposal just plausible enough that people think you're serious, but so "insane" that it almost defies logic ("what if we put, say, hmm...log base two of 2097152 is 21...jQuery callbacks in an HTML file full of id'd divs..."), then it's as if a tiny rock starts rolling down a hill. First one person offers a criticism, and then we get more people engaged, throwing out the alternatives that they would have suggested in the first place.<p>Eventually, they recognize the game, and then it's a fun brainstorming activity. Or you fire three as a message to the others.</text></comment> | <story><title>21 Nested Callbacks</title><url>http://blog.michellebu.com/2013/03/21-nested-callbacks/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>lelandbatey</author><text>I love this. The code may not have been beautiful, but it worked, and the author figured it out themselves!<p>I'm simultaneously reminded of two different quotes:<p><i>Let's argue about whether Haskell or Clojure is better while somebody else ships products using PHP and duct tape.</i>
--@agentdero [0]<p>And the other:<p><i>&#60;dm&#62; I discovered that you'd never get an answer to a problem from Linux Gurus by asking. You have to troll in order for someone to help you with a Linux problem.</i><p>-- Bash.org [1]<p>You should always try to do SOMETHING over being frozen in indecision. Additionally, we really should do a better job of explaining things to people, so they don't have to stoop to trolling for answers :)<p>[0] <a href="https://twitter.com/agentdero/status/174965036928868352" rel="nofollow">https://twitter.com/agentdero/status/174965036928868352</a><p>[1] <a href="http://bash.org/?152037" rel="nofollow">http://bash.org/?152037</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>prawn</author><text>The Linux Guru line reminds me of a technique I used to get quick Mac OS help many, many years ago. Emailing a friend for that sort of help often left me with a long wait, so I'd email two rabid Mac people in the same email, let them see that both had been included, and then watch as they fought over themselves to quickly show how the Mac solution was so fast and easy.</text></comment> |
7,525,250 | 7,524,796 | 1 | 2 | 7,524,712 | train | <story><title>Announcing Pyston: an upcoming, JIT-based Python implementation</title><url>https://tech.dropbox.com/2014/04/introducing-pyston-an-upcoming-jit-based-python-implementation/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>haberman</author><text>&gt; For instance, the JavaScript world has switched from tracing JITs to method-at-a-time JITs, due to the compelling performance benefits.<p>This is a weird way of putting it. Method-at-a-time JITs have been around much longer and represent a more traditional approach to JIT compilers. Tracing JITs have only become popular in the last 5-10 years. And during that time they&#x27;ve been seen as the sort of hot new thing, so much that there is a classic LtU thread from 2010 titled &quot;Have tracing JIT compilers won?&quot; (<a href="http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node/3851" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;lambda-the-ultimate.org&#x2F;node&#x2F;3851</a>)<p>While it&#x27;s true that V8 has always been method-at-a-time and Mozilla has abandoned their tracing JIT TraceMonkey, LuaJIT is one of the fastest dynamic language implementations out there and is a tracing JIT. Unfortunately the benchmark game dropped LuaJIT so it&#x27;s not easy to find benchmarks, but last I saw LuaJIT was pretty dominant speed-wise among dynamic language JIT implementations.<p>Mike Pall (LuaJIT author) argues that TraceMonkey&#x27;s lack of compelling performance was more a result of trying to bolt tracing onto an existing VM as opposed to any shortcoming of tracing as an approach (<a href="http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node/3851#comment-57643" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;lambda-the-ultimate.org&#x2F;node&#x2F;3851#comment-57643</a>).</text></comment> | <story><title>Announcing Pyston: an upcoming, JIT-based Python implementation</title><url>https://tech.dropbox.com/2014/04/introducing-pyston-an-upcoming-jit-based-python-implementation/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>_halgari</author><text>I&#x27;d love to hear more about their issues with PyPy, it sounds like they wrote of PyPy simply because they don&#x27;t understand why it works so well. Not to mention that this is mostly a re-hash of stuff found in unladen-swallow.<p>I mean, if your end goal is to write another Python, sure go for it. But it really sounds like these people haven&#x27;t done their research. I see nothing to write home about.<p>--- EDIT ---<p>Not to mention that JS is a completely different language form Python. Everytime you add two objects in Python you have the possibility of hitting a system defined add, or __add__ or __getattr__ or __getattribute__, or __radd__, or __getattr__ (looking for __radd__), etc. That&#x27;ll be fun....</text></comment> |
31,927,856 | 31,926,644 | 1 | 3 | 31,919,804 | train | <story><title>BMW F Series Gear Selector, Part Two: Breakthrough</title><url>https://www.projectgus.com/2022/06/bmw-f-series-gear-selector-part-two-breakthrough/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rconti</author><text>Yup. Bad Things can happen:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;money.cnn.com&#x2F;2016&#x2F;06&#x2F;20&#x2F;autos&#x2F;jeep-recall-anton-yelchin&#x2F;index.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;money.cnn.com&#x2F;2016&#x2F;06&#x2F;20&#x2F;autos&#x2F;jeep-recall-anton-yel...</a><p>I absolutely hate stateless switches on automotive stuff. Why can&#x27;t I tell that my turn signal is on by &#x27;feel&#x27;? Why do I have to rely on a (too quiet) clicking, or a (too hidden) indicator light?<p>I have an E70 X5 with the &quot;new style&quot; transmission selector, as well as a Tesla 3 that replicates it on the right side of the column. Thankfully most cars seem to have stuck with the &quot;forward = reverse&quot;, &quot;Back=drive&quot; convention; confusing as it sounds, at least it replicates a move from neutral on an automatic with a traditional PRNDL lever.<p>Both cars also have stateless signals. The E90 and newer BMWs seem to have indicator clicks that are almost inaudible, and in almost every car I drive, the indicator lights are hidden behind the steering wheel, so you never know if the indicator has cancelled or not. On my &quot;bad old world&quot; BMW, at least you can feel the lever click down when it cancels.<p>The Tesla also has a stateless signal switch, but it doesn&#x27;t give me the same issues. I think the audible &quot;click&quot; is a lot more distinctive or something. Alas, the green flashy light is way over in the middle of the car instead of conveniently hidden behind the rim of the steering wheel.</text></item><item><author>phkahler</author><text>A lot of the complexity here is because the gear selector is considered a safety-critical part. They may also consider LED indicators on it as safety-critical information to the driver. Those two things - is the transmission receiving the real intent of the driver, and is the driver being told the actual state of the system - are just the top level. Security is also starting to be a concern, though I think there is room for debate about how far they need to go with that. It&#x27;s common to have all drivetrain components on a dedicated CAN bus with a gateway between it and other stuff. Your infotainment system is not going to put the car in Park regardless of what you run on it.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dicknuckle</author><text>As an aside, I was able to change the audible level of the turn signals on my 2020 Toyota with their Techstream software (from the usual shady sources) and a Tactrix cable I originally bought for flashing my Subaru ECU. Maybe you can do the same for your vehicles with their dedicated software.</text></comment> | <story><title>BMW F Series Gear Selector, Part Two: Breakthrough</title><url>https://www.projectgus.com/2022/06/bmw-f-series-gear-selector-part-two-breakthrough/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rconti</author><text>Yup. Bad Things can happen:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;money.cnn.com&#x2F;2016&#x2F;06&#x2F;20&#x2F;autos&#x2F;jeep-recall-anton-yelchin&#x2F;index.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;money.cnn.com&#x2F;2016&#x2F;06&#x2F;20&#x2F;autos&#x2F;jeep-recall-anton-yel...</a><p>I absolutely hate stateless switches on automotive stuff. Why can&#x27;t I tell that my turn signal is on by &#x27;feel&#x27;? Why do I have to rely on a (too quiet) clicking, or a (too hidden) indicator light?<p>I have an E70 X5 with the &quot;new style&quot; transmission selector, as well as a Tesla 3 that replicates it on the right side of the column. Thankfully most cars seem to have stuck with the &quot;forward = reverse&quot;, &quot;Back=drive&quot; convention; confusing as it sounds, at least it replicates a move from neutral on an automatic with a traditional PRNDL lever.<p>Both cars also have stateless signals. The E90 and newer BMWs seem to have indicator clicks that are almost inaudible, and in almost every car I drive, the indicator lights are hidden behind the steering wheel, so you never know if the indicator has cancelled or not. On my &quot;bad old world&quot; BMW, at least you can feel the lever click down when it cancels.<p>The Tesla also has a stateless signal switch, but it doesn&#x27;t give me the same issues. I think the audible &quot;click&quot; is a lot more distinctive or something. Alas, the green flashy light is way over in the middle of the car instead of conveniently hidden behind the rim of the steering wheel.</text></item><item><author>phkahler</author><text>A lot of the complexity here is because the gear selector is considered a safety-critical part. They may also consider LED indicators on it as safety-critical information to the driver. Those two things - is the transmission receiving the real intent of the driver, and is the driver being told the actual state of the system - are just the top level. Security is also starting to be a concern, though I think there is room for debate about how far they need to go with that. It&#x27;s common to have all drivetrain components on a dedicated CAN bus with a gateway between it and other stuff. Your infotainment system is not going to put the car in Park regardless of what you run on it.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>smilekzs</author><text>Fortunately, G20 onwards have returned to a mechanically latching turning signal stalk design.<p>Unfortunately, ZN8&#x2F;ZD8 Toyota GR86 &#x2F; Subaru BRZ (the new ones!) have regressed to the dreaded mechanically momentary (non-latching) turning signal stalk design.</text></comment> |
17,154,688 | 17,154,500 | 1 | 2 | 17,151,466 | train | <story><title>GDPR: US news sites unavailable to EU users over data protection rules</title><url>http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-44248448</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>sireat</author><text>That looks fantastic, I would actually read USA Today if this lean site sticks around.<p>If they want to monetize, publishers should control their own generic ad inventory (like they used to in old pre internet days) and ask for opt-in if you want customization.<p>Easy on paper but hard in reality.</text></item><item><author>flohofwoe</author><text>Alternatively there&#x27;s this: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;eu.usatoday.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;eu.usatoday.com&#x2F;</a><p>No ads, no tracking, no cookies, not even Javascript. Just plain HTML+CSS and JPEG images. The whole front page is around 650 KByte, and by far most of this is in the image files. As a result the page looks very clean and loads very fast.<p>This is what all news web sites should look like, not just for EU readers (although I fear that this is just a temporary solution until they&#x27;ve figured out that whole GDPR thing...</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>oldcynic</author><text><i>&quot;This site does not collect personally identifiable information or persistent identifiers from, deliver a personalized experience to, or otherwise track or monitor persons reasonably identified as visiting our Site from the European Union. We do identify EU internet protocol (IP) addresses for the purpose of determining whether to direct you to USA TODAY NETWORK’s EU Experience.<p>This site provides news and information of USA TODAY NETWORK. We hope you enjoy the site.&quot;</i><p>Colour me impressed. I sincerely hope it catches on.</text></comment> | <story><title>GDPR: US news sites unavailable to EU users over data protection rules</title><url>http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-44248448</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>sireat</author><text>That looks fantastic, I would actually read USA Today if this lean site sticks around.<p>If they want to monetize, publishers should control their own generic ad inventory (like they used to in old pre internet days) and ask for opt-in if you want customization.<p>Easy on paper but hard in reality.</text></item><item><author>flohofwoe</author><text>Alternatively there&#x27;s this: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;eu.usatoday.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;eu.usatoday.com&#x2F;</a><p>No ads, no tracking, no cookies, not even Javascript. Just plain HTML+CSS and JPEG images. The whole front page is around 650 KByte, and by far most of this is in the image files. As a result the page looks very clean and loads very fast.<p>This is what all news web sites should look like, not just for EU readers (although I fear that this is just a temporary solution until they&#x27;ve figured out that whole GDPR thing...</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rdlecler1</author><text>I call BS on this. You’re going to read a publication because of the relevance and quality of the content. USA Today Europe will no longer have metrics to sell advertising which may then force them to dial back on their writers salaries.</text></comment> |
2,740,451 | 2,739,527 | 1 | 2 | 2,738,677 | train | <story><title>A Walk in the Woods with Mark Zuckerberg</title><url>http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/07/07/a-walk-in-the-woods-with-mark-zuckerberg/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>thwarted</author><text><i>"He pointed out Apple’s headquarters, then Hewlett-Packard and a number of other big tech companies, the individual explained. Then he pointed to Facebook and said that it would eventually be bigger than all of the companies he had just mentioned, and that if I joined the company, I could be a part of it all."</i><p>This sounds vaguely familiar.<p><i>Again, the devil taketh him up into an exceeding high mountain, and sheweth him all the kingdoms of the world, and the glory of them; And saith unto him, All these things will I give thee, if thou wilt fall down and worship me.</i> -- Matthew 4:8-9<p>(edit: it's a common theme, one of the oldest is in the Bible, and most are most likely appropriated from there)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pkaler</author><text>It's a design pattern for stories called monomyth or The Hero's Journey. It's the same pattern found in the Bible, Star Wars, and many other epics.<p><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monomyth" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monomyth</a><p>Stories are important to humans because that is how we understand the world around us.</text></comment> | <story><title>A Walk in the Woods with Mark Zuckerberg</title><url>http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/07/07/a-walk-in-the-woods-with-mark-zuckerberg/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>thwarted</author><text><i>"He pointed out Apple’s headquarters, then Hewlett-Packard and a number of other big tech companies, the individual explained. Then he pointed to Facebook and said that it would eventually be bigger than all of the companies he had just mentioned, and that if I joined the company, I could be a part of it all."</i><p>This sounds vaguely familiar.<p><i>Again, the devil taketh him up into an exceeding high mountain, and sheweth him all the kingdoms of the world, and the glory of them; And saith unto him, All these things will I give thee, if thou wilt fall down and worship me.</i> -- Matthew 4:8-9<p>(edit: it's a common theme, one of the oldest is in the Bible, and most are most likely appropriated from there)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>gwern</author><text>I was actually thinking of _Star Wars_:<p>"Join me, and together we will rule the Valley as CEO and employee!"</text></comment> |
25,636,494 | 25,636,390 | 1 | 2 | 25,632,566 | train | <story><title>Moderna raises 2021 vaccine output forecast to at least 600M doses</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/article/health-coronavirus-vaccines-moderna/update-1-moderna-raises-2021-vaccine-output-forecast-to-at-least-600-mln-doses-idUSL4N2JF30F</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jhowell</author><text>&gt; In fact, it&#x27;s far from clear<p>Seems clear from my perspective. Two doses are recommend by manufacturers. Anything more or less is pure speculation at best. Why speculate in absence of a way to test your hypothesis?</text></item><item><author>lisper</author><text>&gt; each person needs 2 doses<p>That&#x27;s not quite true. You need 2 for full effectiveness, but it&#x27;s not like missing the second dose leaves you with no benefit at all. In fact, it&#x27;s far from clear, from a global perspective, that having twice as many people with less-than-full-effectiveness would not better than half as many people with full effectiveness.</text></item><item><author>nend</author><text>&gt;600M sounds like very very few doses given worldwide population and even western world population.<p>Which is why people are so keen on getting more vaccines approved (in the US and abroad). Pfizer is targeting 1.3B doses manufactured in 2021, 600M from Moderna, which still leaves the world plenty short (remember each person needs 2 doses). It&#x27;s a group effort, and there are additional vaccines under development&#x2F;review that will hopefully contribute to the effort.<p>There&#x27;s also discussion around whether Moderna&#x27;s vaccine can be reduced from 100ml to 50ml while retaining the same efficacy, which would obviously double the amount of doses provided by Moderna.</text></item><item><author>rcardo11</author><text>Are these US only numbers? 600M sounds like very very few doses given worldwide population and even western world population.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>cltby</author><text>&gt; Anything more or less is pure speculation at best<p>There are two lines of evidence. The first is empirical. It It appears that one dose of Moderna _is_ highly effective, perhaps 85% or more. Note the treatment-control divergence after about fourteen days [1]. The second is theoretical. From our ample medical experience with other vaccines, there is strong prior reason to think that one dose is likely to work well, and that a second shot in the distant future would be even better than a second shot after three or four weeks. Booster shots are given a.) as backup for people who don&#x27;t seroconvert after one dose b.) to trigger a secondary immune response. In light of a.), we shouldn&#x27;t be surprised by the 85% number (most people seroconvert; there&#x27;s no partial immunity, you either seroconvert or you don&#x27;t). In light of b.), we should be very skeptical of the four week interval, especially since the secondary response takes about two weeks to develop. It&#x27;s shorter than the interval for every other vaccine.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;arstechnica.com&#x2F;science&#x2F;2020&#x2F;12&#x2F;fda-releases-data-on-modernas-covid-vaccine-it-looks-good&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;arstechnica.com&#x2F;science&#x2F;2020&#x2F;12&#x2F;fda-releases-data-on...</a>
[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cdc.gov&#x2F;vaccines&#x2F;schedules&#x2F;hcp&#x2F;imz&#x2F;child-adolescent.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cdc.gov&#x2F;vaccines&#x2F;schedules&#x2F;hcp&#x2F;imz&#x2F;child-adolesc...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Moderna raises 2021 vaccine output forecast to at least 600M doses</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/article/health-coronavirus-vaccines-moderna/update-1-moderna-raises-2021-vaccine-output-forecast-to-at-least-600-mln-doses-idUSL4N2JF30F</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jhowell</author><text>&gt; In fact, it&#x27;s far from clear<p>Seems clear from my perspective. Two doses are recommend by manufacturers. Anything more or less is pure speculation at best. Why speculate in absence of a way to test your hypothesis?</text></item><item><author>lisper</author><text>&gt; each person needs 2 doses<p>That&#x27;s not quite true. You need 2 for full effectiveness, but it&#x27;s not like missing the second dose leaves you with no benefit at all. In fact, it&#x27;s far from clear, from a global perspective, that having twice as many people with less-than-full-effectiveness would not better than half as many people with full effectiveness.</text></item><item><author>nend</author><text>&gt;600M sounds like very very few doses given worldwide population and even western world population.<p>Which is why people are so keen on getting more vaccines approved (in the US and abroad). Pfizer is targeting 1.3B doses manufactured in 2021, 600M from Moderna, which still leaves the world plenty short (remember each person needs 2 doses). It&#x27;s a group effort, and there are additional vaccines under development&#x2F;review that will hopefully contribute to the effort.<p>There&#x27;s also discussion around whether Moderna&#x27;s vaccine can be reduced from 100ml to 50ml while retaining the same efficacy, which would obviously double the amount of doses provided by Moderna.</text></item><item><author>rcardo11</author><text>Are these US only numbers? 600M sounds like very very few doses given worldwide population and even western world population.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>BurningFrog</author><text>The manufacturer doesn&#x27;t know anything about this that isn&#x27;t public information.<p>Yes, two doses are almost certainly better than one. But those are not the choices.<p>When there are far fewer doses than the number of people to vaccinate, the question is if it&#x27;s better to give N people 2 shots, or 2N people 1 shot.<p>The test data looks like 1 dose gives ~80% protection vs ~95% for 2 doses. The 2x80% scenario is clearly better than 1x95%.<p>And, of course, everyone would get the second dose as soon as production catches up.</text></comment> |
3,280,930 | 3,280,583 | 1 | 2 | 3,280,451 | train | <story><title>GitHub forking has one big flaw</title><url>http://zbowling.github.com/blog/2011/11/25/github/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>damncabbage</author><text><p><pre><code> Forks are almost to easy to create. Forks get created
constantly and go no where.
...
I would love if GitHub supported a model where if I
forked a repo at a version and made no changes, it
treated it like a private repo. It shouldn’t be visible
to anyone except me (unless someone hits the url
directly) until I push my first commit that is different
than the upstream. At that point it should flip to
public. This would clean up some of the fork soup we see
on pages.
</code></pre>
My misgivings with the "root repo" aspect of this post aside, this suggestion is great; I'd really love to see this picked up by the GitHub guys.<p>(As mentioned in one of the post's comments, some popular projects have a <i>lot</i> of empty forks, which makes viewing one of their Network screens an absolute nightmare to browse when looking for active forks.)</text></comment> | <story><title>GitHub forking has one big flaw</title><url>http://zbowling.github.com/blog/2011/11/25/github/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>k33n</author><text>What's with people declaring things they don't like, or could be improved as "broken"? GitHub's forking is not "horribly broken". I like the ideas in this article, but they are just that: ideas.</text></comment> |
37,732,354 | 37,731,888 | 1 | 3 | 37,728,642 | train | <story><title>Fine, I'll run a regression analysis but it won't make you happy</title><url>https://www.natesilver.net/p/fine-ill-run-a-regression-analysis</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Waterluvian</author><text>It was a hard thing to broach at the time without people frothing at the mouth about how I must be anti vaccine or something:<p>Has there been any attempt to calculate the cost-benefit of all the various measures and how extreme we should go with them?<p>I’m guessing it’s hard to quantify and compare. A lot of things like general depression, isolation, kids missing half a year of school, etc. can’t really be evaluated against people dying. And on its surface it seems obvious: uh, people dying is much worse than any of those things.<p>But if I said that everything we did was to save one life, people probably would generally agree it wasn’t worth it (obviously so: people don’t seem too interested in preventing all kinds of deaths at all costs). What about ten lives? One thousand? Ten thousand? There’s some subjective level where it starts to feel obvious to more and more of us, until a majority of us agree.<p>But do we have any general sense what that number is? How do we decide how much to care? It might seem ghoulish to decide how many dollars is worth a life, but we do it every day.<p>With the data we have now, I imagine we can somewhat quantify this given enough sample jurisdictions with different rules? “Masking saves x lives per 1000.” “Closing schools saves y lives per 1000” etc. And perhaps then we’re able to decide “is x lives worth the qualitative harm done?” Probably. “What about y?” Maybe not.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>slv77</author><text>The cost-benefit calculations in terms of excess deaths are irrelevant. It was clear even during the initial outbreak that policymakers primary constraints were the due to uncertainty about the virus and limits on availability of protective gear and ICU beds. Without protective gear there was no way to reduce transmission without isolation and once ICU beds are at capacity mortality rates double and people are dying in the streets and the medical system collapses.<p>There is no scenarios where the collapse of the medical system is a viable outcome for policymakers that is also compatible with a functioning economy. A collapse of the medical system means non-covid fatalities also increase. Heart attacks, car accidents and childbirth all become mortality contributors. The most likely outcome of a medical system collapse would be martial law, mass graves, economic collapse and potential collapse of essential systems like food distribution.<p>The idea that policymakers were primarily constrained by the thought of grandpa dying a few years early and weighing it against the grandkids social isolation needs to die.</text></comment> | <story><title>Fine, I'll run a regression analysis but it won't make you happy</title><url>https://www.natesilver.net/p/fine-ill-run-a-regression-analysis</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Waterluvian</author><text>It was a hard thing to broach at the time without people frothing at the mouth about how I must be anti vaccine or something:<p>Has there been any attempt to calculate the cost-benefit of all the various measures and how extreme we should go with them?<p>I’m guessing it’s hard to quantify and compare. A lot of things like general depression, isolation, kids missing half a year of school, etc. can’t really be evaluated against people dying. And on its surface it seems obvious: uh, people dying is much worse than any of those things.<p>But if I said that everything we did was to save one life, people probably would generally agree it wasn’t worth it (obviously so: people don’t seem too interested in preventing all kinds of deaths at all costs). What about ten lives? One thousand? Ten thousand? There’s some subjective level where it starts to feel obvious to more and more of us, until a majority of us agree.<p>But do we have any general sense what that number is? How do we decide how much to care? It might seem ghoulish to decide how many dollars is worth a life, but we do it every day.<p>With the data we have now, I imagine we can somewhat quantify this given enough sample jurisdictions with different rules? “Masking saves x lives per 1000.” “Closing schools saves y lives per 1000” etc. And perhaps then we’re able to decide “is x lives worth the qualitative harm done?” Probably. “What about y?” Maybe not.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>brody_hamer</author><text>In Canada (and likely elsewhere), there were a number of restrictions which were tied to hospital capacity. As the number of available ICU beds dropped: more restrictions were put in place, and vice versa.<p>A lot of emphasis was placed on <i>preventable</i> deaths. That is; situations where we’re turning away a patient <i>that we could’ve saved</i>, because we don’t have a bed available for them.<p>I thought this was a solid, intuitive approach. Preventable deaths are really, really unfortunate.</text></comment> |
26,337,776 | 26,337,322 | 1 | 2 | 26,336,076 | train | <story><title>Godot maintainer removes controversial satirical piece from documentation</title><url>https://github.com/godotengine/godot-docs/commit/b872229427dddb9b749f46af597e85e25cf2955a</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>gotostatement</author><text>What I believe has happened here is that the well-pointed satire actually offended some people who have made their career doing what the satire criticizes. Thus they have mobilized all sorts of specious attacks to take it down - arguing that it is somehow contributing to sexism or elitism [0], and arguing it makes the documentation more confusing (&quot;oh won&#x27;t someone please think of the new developers!&quot;).<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;LiaSae&#x2F;status&#x2F;1367074344313237507?s=20" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;LiaSae&#x2F;status&#x2F;1367074344313237507?s=20</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>SilverRed</author><text>I think at this point we can conclude that humor of any form no matter how tame it is, is not accepted on the internet. At least not under your real name.<p>It just takes one person to write a rant and then its all over. Thousands of examples but a similar one was VSCode having to remove the santa hat from an icon on Christmas because someone claimed it was extremely offensive. I know I&#x27;m starting to sound like an American conspiracy theorist about the war on christmas, but the reality is that you just can&#x27;t show any kind of personality, humor, or fun on the internet without putting yourself at risk.</text></comment> | <story><title>Godot maintainer removes controversial satirical piece from documentation</title><url>https://github.com/godotengine/godot-docs/commit/b872229427dddb9b749f46af597e85e25cf2955a</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>gotostatement</author><text>What I believe has happened here is that the well-pointed satire actually offended some people who have made their career doing what the satire criticizes. Thus they have mobilized all sorts of specious attacks to take it down - arguing that it is somehow contributing to sexism or elitism [0], and arguing it makes the documentation more confusing (&quot;oh won&#x27;t someone please think of the new developers!&quot;).<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;LiaSae&#x2F;status&#x2F;1367074344313237507?s=20" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;LiaSae&#x2F;status&#x2F;1367074344313237507?s=20</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>brailsafe</author><text>Ugh. I wonder if Twitter was started from scratch today, they&#x27;d be thinking &quot;We need a platform for all the scolds and sanctimonious people out there who have nothing better to do but correct people&#x27;s thoughts.&quot;. Probably, because there&#x27;s a lot of them out there.</text></comment> |
19,482,273 | 19,480,596 | 1 | 2 | 19,479,626 | train | <story><title>M-16: A Bureaucratic Horror Story (1981)</title><url>https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1981/06/m-16-a-bureaucratic-horror-story/545153/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>azernik</author><text>A factor that the article doesn&#x27;t emphasize enough is the extent to which schedule pressure contributed to the bugginess of the released rifle.<p>The Kalashnikov had been designed in 1947, (hence, AK-47), but it took more than a decade before a bug-free version (the AKM) was considered reliable enough to make standard-issue. (When this article refers to &quot;AK-47s&quot;, most of the actual weapons involved were actually AKMs.)<p>The US, by contrast, had spent the decades since WWII resisting the assault rifle concept, so that when Vietnam rolled around their fantastically rich and well-funded military found its infantry outgunned by peasant militias wielding second-hand Soviet rifles. So the rifle went from initial acceptance, including these kinds of stupid last-minute design changes that are common in any project, to large-scale combat deployment within a year; normally, there would have been years of incremental usage to catch these bugs, but the rifle was so desperately needed that it was rushed to the front.<p>A book I&#x27;ve recommended in another thread, which gives a great introduction to the history and impact of the Kalashnikov in particular and assault rifles in general, is C.J. Chivers&#x27;s &quot;The Gun&quot; (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.amazon.com&#x2F;Gun-C-J-Chivers&#x2F;dp&#x2F;0743271734" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.amazon.com&#x2F;Gun-C-J-Chivers&#x2F;dp&#x2F;0743271734</a>), or this shorter-form article he wrote in response to recent msas shootings (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nytimes.com&#x2F;interactive&#x2F;2016&#x2F;world&#x2F;ak-47-mass-shootings.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nytimes.com&#x2F;interactive&#x2F;2016&#x2F;world&#x2F;ak-47-mass-sh...</a>)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mannykannot</author><text>If the article is correct, the schedule pressure was entirely manufactured: In the AR-15, the US had a reliable, production-ready assault rifle, that those in the infantry who had tested it were enthusiastic about, but the ordnance board delayed and eventually stopped its adoption with dogma-driven design changes that led to the M-16 also being unreliable as well as late.</text></comment> | <story><title>M-16: A Bureaucratic Horror Story (1981)</title><url>https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1981/06/m-16-a-bureaucratic-horror-story/545153/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>azernik</author><text>A factor that the article doesn&#x27;t emphasize enough is the extent to which schedule pressure contributed to the bugginess of the released rifle.<p>The Kalashnikov had been designed in 1947, (hence, AK-47), but it took more than a decade before a bug-free version (the AKM) was considered reliable enough to make standard-issue. (When this article refers to &quot;AK-47s&quot;, most of the actual weapons involved were actually AKMs.)<p>The US, by contrast, had spent the decades since WWII resisting the assault rifle concept, so that when Vietnam rolled around their fantastically rich and well-funded military found its infantry outgunned by peasant militias wielding second-hand Soviet rifles. So the rifle went from initial acceptance, including these kinds of stupid last-minute design changes that are common in any project, to large-scale combat deployment within a year; normally, there would have been years of incremental usage to catch these bugs, but the rifle was so desperately needed that it was rushed to the front.<p>A book I&#x27;ve recommended in another thread, which gives a great introduction to the history and impact of the Kalashnikov in particular and assault rifles in general, is C.J. Chivers&#x27;s &quot;The Gun&quot; (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.amazon.com&#x2F;Gun-C-J-Chivers&#x2F;dp&#x2F;0743271734" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.amazon.com&#x2F;Gun-C-J-Chivers&#x2F;dp&#x2F;0743271734</a>), or this shorter-form article he wrote in response to recent msas shootings (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nytimes.com&#x2F;interactive&#x2F;2016&#x2F;world&#x2F;ak-47-mass-shootings.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nytimes.com&#x2F;interactive&#x2F;2016&#x2F;world&#x2F;ak-47-mass-sh...</a>)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dingaling</author><text>&gt; The Kalashnikov had been designed in 1947<p>1944 actually, there were examples in trials by 1946. 1947 was the year of adoption of a developed version but it was only ever called AK in Soviet documents.<p>Something else the article gets wrong is use of a hyphen in M14, M16 etc. A minor point but immediately shows a lack of familiarity or research with the subject. It&#x27;s like reading a 2019 article that talks about the i-Phone.</text></comment> |
28,368,419 | 28,368,479 | 1 | 2 | 28,367,553 | train | <story><title>Windows 11 available on October 5</title><url>https://blogs.windows.com/windowsexperience/2021/08/31/windows-11-available-on-october-5/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rkangel</author><text>I was really hoping that we were past having to think about different versions of Windows. Microsoft hyped Windows 10 as the &#x27;last version of Windows&#x27; and that&#x27;s how it should be. But now we have to go through this stupid cycle again, wasting user and IT department time doing upgrades, as well as developer time worrying about version support.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>neogodless</author><text>Within Windows 10, the updates really were versions in several significant ways.<p>- They have support end dates!<p>- Hardware support can vary between version (updates). I could not even get Windows 10 Build 1903 to boot with a newer GPU. I had to boot using the iGPU and update to 21H1, and then I could boot. Trying to install the driver on 1903, the installer said this version of Windows was not supported (!)<p>- The UI can be changed. Just one small example, early versions of Windows Hello did not support using a PIN to login. Later versions started to roll back all the pushes to use Cortana.</text></comment> | <story><title>Windows 11 available on October 5</title><url>https://blogs.windows.com/windowsexperience/2021/08/31/windows-11-available-on-october-5/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rkangel</author><text>I was really hoping that we were past having to think about different versions of Windows. Microsoft hyped Windows 10 as the &#x27;last version of Windows&#x27; and that&#x27;s how it should be. But now we have to go through this stupid cycle again, wasting user and IT department time doing upgrades, as well as developer time worrying about version support.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>BitwiseFool</author><text>I was hoping Windows 11 would be substantially different under-the-hood and not just rounded corners. I know backwards compatibility is Windows&#x27; under-acknowledged killer feature, but there is a on of cruft and inefficiency that is included as a result. The <i>typical</i> Windows user is not going to need to run programs from the 90&#x27;s and 2000&#x27;s. Why not make Windows 10 the compatibility focused platform and make 11 the slimmed down version? I suppose a <i>rough</i> parallel would be how Apple transitioned to OS X.</text></comment> |
8,363,153 | 8,363,180 | 1 | 2 | 8,362,723 | train | <story><title>Mobile Web App Checklist</title><url>http://www.luster.io/blog/9-29-14-mobile-web-checklist.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>linkeex</author><text>Great list!<p>I love the development we&#x27;re seeing in modern mobile web apps.
The web is definitely ready but still everybody around me seems to think that when you&#x27;re the owner of a business then you should also provide your users with a special app on Android and iOS and a web site.<p>For example: A nightclub in a nearby provincial town as an iOS App for announcing new parties.<p>I think that you only should consider creating an app as a business if you&#x27;re doing more than providing your customers with information.<p>A great modern mobile web app I&#x27;m using a lot is: <a href="http://cheeaun.github.io/hackerweb/#/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;cheeaun.github.io&#x2F;hackerweb&#x2F;#&#x2F;</a><p>If you save it to your homescreen on Android(Chrome), you will quickly forget that it&#x27;s a web app.<p>Trust me and try it!</text></comment> | <story><title>Mobile Web App Checklist</title><url>http://www.luster.io/blog/9-29-14-mobile-web-checklist.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>taylorfausak</author><text>This is a great list! I have to nit pick the touch icon and splash screen sections, though. It&#x27;s a lot more complicated than that. You need at least 8 &lt;link&gt; tags for touch icons and 7 for splash screens, just to support iOS &lt;= 7. <a href="http://taylor.fausak.me/2013/11/01/ios-7-web-apps/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;taylor.fausak.me&#x2F;2013&#x2F;11&#x2F;01&#x2F;ios-7-web-apps&#x2F;</a></text></comment> |
17,721,158 | 17,721,236 | 1 | 3 | 17,714,764 | train | <story><title>A $250 Biohack That’s Revolutionizing Life with Diabetes</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2018-08-08/the-250-biohack-that-s-revolutionizing-life-with-diabetes</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ThJ</author><text>Why don&#x27;t doctors recommend them for type 2 diabetes? Well, my general impression is that doctors live under this illusion that patients will somehow succeed in making lifestyle changes that will cause the disease to go into regression or disappear altogether. Also, they prefer to try medications like glucophage before they resort to insulin. There just seems to be less eagerness to finely manage type 2 diabetics, maybe because it is felt that the patient is partly to blame for the disease, whereas type 1 diabetics are innocent victims of their own immune systems. I honestly don&#x27;t know what they&#x27;re thinking. An artifical pancreas would vastly improve the situation for type 2 diabetics too.</text></item><item><author>ThJ</author><text>I have type 2 diabetes and I&#x27;ve always been a bit envious of insulin pumps, not because I love having a machine plugged into my body (I don&#x27;t), but because they offer better control of blood glucose peaks, since they use fast-acting insulin exclusively. The pancreas secretes insulin in pulses and pumps can mimic that. What has turned me off from pumps (apart from doctors generally not recommending them for type 2 diabetes) is the lack of a sensing mechanism. This DIY system sounds absolutely perfect. It could keep my blood glucose perfect at all times. At the moment, I&#x27;m injecting in the mornings and the evenings and have little control over my peaks apart from adhering to a strict diet (and we all know how hard that can be), and every peak does a little bit of damage to my eyes, nerves, etc. I&#x27;ve always wanted to have a more sophisticated treatment option, and this may be it.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>gumby</author><text>&gt; my general impression is that doctors live under this illusion that patients will somehow succeed in making lifestyle changes<p>&gt; Also, they prefer to try medications like glucophage before they resort to insulin.<p>A couple of points: 1- the targets set by associations like the ADA actually assume the patients <i>won&#x27;t</i> be able to make significant lifestyle changes; for example the ADA A1C targets are higher than for healthy patients. The diet changes they preach are not that radical, e.g. cake is bad for you but you can have a really tiny slice and offset it by not eating bread. This belief isn&#x27;t that unreasonable; FDA requires that medical labeling be targeted at a 5th grade reading level.<p>2 - And glucophage is <i>much</i> easier for patients to manage than insulin both in dosing regime and simply caring for the drug.<p>3 - Finally the insurance companies&#x27; actuaries have figured out that maintenance therapy of this nature has the best cost&#x2F;outcome ratio.<p>To that last point: I had &quot;adult onset type 1&quot; due to an autoimmune condition. The endocrinologist I was sent to was only interested in maintenance therapy and not at all in looking for root cause, even though I presented with a body fat of about 14%. She finally admitted that even if she did look into it the insurance companies would hassle her for going off the reservation without a good excuse.<p>But my no-insurance primary doctor and I and a rheumatologist were able to dig into root cause and now I am &quot;cured&quot; (of diabetes at least) thanks to treating the underlying condition (note: this is glossing over a lengthy period of unpleasant work). Which is actually cheaper for the insurance companies, but honestly how many patients have the training to be able to be involved in their care to this degree?</text></comment> | <story><title>A $250 Biohack That’s Revolutionizing Life with Diabetes</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2018-08-08/the-250-biohack-that-s-revolutionizing-life-with-diabetes</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ThJ</author><text>Why don&#x27;t doctors recommend them for type 2 diabetes? Well, my general impression is that doctors live under this illusion that patients will somehow succeed in making lifestyle changes that will cause the disease to go into regression or disappear altogether. Also, they prefer to try medications like glucophage before they resort to insulin. There just seems to be less eagerness to finely manage type 2 diabetics, maybe because it is felt that the patient is partly to blame for the disease, whereas type 1 diabetics are innocent victims of their own immune systems. I honestly don&#x27;t know what they&#x27;re thinking. An artifical pancreas would vastly improve the situation for type 2 diabetics too.</text></item><item><author>ThJ</author><text>I have type 2 diabetes and I&#x27;ve always been a bit envious of insulin pumps, not because I love having a machine plugged into my body (I don&#x27;t), but because they offer better control of blood glucose peaks, since they use fast-acting insulin exclusively. The pancreas secretes insulin in pulses and pumps can mimic that. What has turned me off from pumps (apart from doctors generally not recommending them for type 2 diabetes) is the lack of a sensing mechanism. This DIY system sounds absolutely perfect. It could keep my blood glucose perfect at all times. At the moment, I&#x27;m injecting in the mornings and the evenings and have little control over my peaks apart from adhering to a strict diet (and we all know how hard that can be), and every peak does a little bit of damage to my eyes, nerves, etc. I&#x27;ve always wanted to have a more sophisticated treatment option, and this may be it.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>morganherlocker</author><text>Along with what others have noted, there is also risk associated with insulin therapy from hypoglycemia (low blood sugars). Low blood sugars can be deadly for type I diabetics, killing as many as 1 in 10[1]. This is at least one of the factors leading to insulin being a tool of last resort, and in fact, insulin <i>is</i> prescribed to type II diabetics with especially strong insulin resistance.<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;care.diabetesjournals.org&#x2F;content&#x2F;35&#x2F;9&#x2F;1814" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;care.diabetesjournals.org&#x2F;content&#x2F;35&#x2F;9&#x2F;1814</a></text></comment> |
13,741,111 | 13,741,147 | 1 | 2 | 13,738,837 | train | <story><title>How Forensic Architecture Revealed Details of a Secret Military Prison in Syria</title><url>https://www.fastcodesign.com/3068329/infographic-of-the-day/how-forensic-architecture-revealed-details-of-a-secret-military-priso</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>philipkglass</author><text>I&#x27;ve been following the Syrian Civil War for the last 5 years. The null hypothesis: every faction has done horrible things. That&#x27;s what happens in war. It would be an exceptional civil war indeed if the central government (or any other faction of significance) <i>did not</i> commit atrocities. I understand not wanting one&#x27;s country to be involved in the war. I don&#x27;t want my country to intervene in the SCW either. I don&#x27;t understand the resistance to recognizing the horrible things done in Syria (by the central government or otherwise).<p>Is the idea that <i>if</i> the Syrian government commits atrocities <i>then</i> Western powers have to intervene in the war? So to prevent a probably-disastrous intervention people need to deny that the Syrian government commits atrocities? I don&#x27;t think that is a logical chain of reasoning, if that is indeed what is going on. There are all sorts of horrors in the world where additional intervention by outside powers is likely to be worse than inaction. It doesn&#x27;t mean that we should pretend that the horrors don&#x27;t exist.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>astrodust</author><text>There&#x27;s a false equivalency here: Only one side is barrel bombing people indiscriminately, torturing people by the tens of thousands, and systematically exterminating an entire group of people.<p>You&#x27;re right, no war is without war crimes, but the Assad regime has given up on appearances and is simply playing for keeps. They&#x27;re beyond the point of no return, they&#x27;re going to end up like North Korea in terms of diplomatic ties, if they survive this rebellion.</text></comment> | <story><title>How Forensic Architecture Revealed Details of a Secret Military Prison in Syria</title><url>https://www.fastcodesign.com/3068329/infographic-of-the-day/how-forensic-architecture-revealed-details-of-a-secret-military-priso</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>philipkglass</author><text>I&#x27;ve been following the Syrian Civil War for the last 5 years. The null hypothesis: every faction has done horrible things. That&#x27;s what happens in war. It would be an exceptional civil war indeed if the central government (or any other faction of significance) <i>did not</i> commit atrocities. I understand not wanting one&#x27;s country to be involved in the war. I don&#x27;t want my country to intervene in the SCW either. I don&#x27;t understand the resistance to recognizing the horrible things done in Syria (by the central government or otherwise).<p>Is the idea that <i>if</i> the Syrian government commits atrocities <i>then</i> Western powers have to intervene in the war? So to prevent a probably-disastrous intervention people need to deny that the Syrian government commits atrocities? I don&#x27;t think that is a logical chain of reasoning, if that is indeed what is going on. There are all sorts of horrors in the world where additional intervention by outside powers is likely to be worse than inaction. It doesn&#x27;t mean that we should pretend that the horrors don&#x27;t exist.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>vacri</author><text>The Allies, Axis, and Comintern all committed atrocities in WWII... but atrocities are not a binary state. The firebombing of Dresden doesn&#x27;t match up to the Final Solution, for example, and not just in scale - the latter was a formal ongoing policy by the government in charge, not &#x27;soldiers run amok against their training&#x27;.<p>It is good, however, to remind any hawk that atrocities are committed by all sides. If you&#x27;re advocating for war at any time, you must also accept that your own side is going to engage in atrocities to some degree.</text></comment> |
30,538,289 | 30,538,254 | 1 | 2 | 30,537,681 | train | <story><title>A Look at the Slow, Silent Death of America’s Middle Class</title><url>https://themakingofamillionaire.com/a-look-at-the-slow-silent-death-of-americas-middle-class-ea760fbec8b1?gi=769366209cec</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>unglaublich</author><text>Hold up, the costs of all these services you mention does NOT come from labor cost. It comes from a pursuit of profit of investors and owners.
While on the other hand your income as a person ONLY depends on the competition you have from other qualified persons.<p>What does it help if you flood the labor market more than it already is?
Prices may go down 20%, but if your salary goes down 50%, does it really help?<p>The oversupply of labor is the root cause of the problems you mention, not the solution!</text></item><item><author>baron816</author><text>Had medical care, education, child care, and housing followed a cost curve similar to food over the last 40 years [1], no one would be complaining. A big reason why those things have become so expensive is because the country chose to make them expensive. Housing had to be a “good investment”. Elite schools were priced for the elite. Health care became a rent seeking operation in far too many ways to count.<p>It absolutely kills me that the Democrats haven’t brought up immigration as a way to tackle inflation. The left made immigration all about race, but there’s a huge supply side benefit to having more people who are able to produce more goods and services in the country. Immigrants are often the ones who build houses, and look after our sick, children, and elderly. The country would be a better, more affordable place with more people to help out.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;images.app.goo.gl&#x2F;N7rBSDDseMyiBTQb8" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;images.app.goo.gl&#x2F;N7rBSDDseMyiBTQb8</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>roenxi</author><text>&gt; Hold up, the costs of all these services you mention does NOT come from labor cost.<p>I don&#x27;t know if that is actually true, but if it is there&#x27;d have to be a pretty strong &quot;and who&#x27;s fault is that?&quot; to ask. Housing is capital intensive, but medical care, education &amp; child care can all be provided with basically nothing but labour and a dash of equipment.<p>Assuming a fairly free market where people are allowed to compete, anyway. If competition is illegal then whoever has the licenses will charge wages + a lot.</text></comment> | <story><title>A Look at the Slow, Silent Death of America’s Middle Class</title><url>https://themakingofamillionaire.com/a-look-at-the-slow-silent-death-of-americas-middle-class-ea760fbec8b1?gi=769366209cec</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>unglaublich</author><text>Hold up, the costs of all these services you mention does NOT come from labor cost. It comes from a pursuit of profit of investors and owners.
While on the other hand your income as a person ONLY depends on the competition you have from other qualified persons.<p>What does it help if you flood the labor market more than it already is?
Prices may go down 20%, but if your salary goes down 50%, does it really help?<p>The oversupply of labor is the root cause of the problems you mention, not the solution!</text></item><item><author>baron816</author><text>Had medical care, education, child care, and housing followed a cost curve similar to food over the last 40 years [1], no one would be complaining. A big reason why those things have become so expensive is because the country chose to make them expensive. Housing had to be a “good investment”. Elite schools were priced for the elite. Health care became a rent seeking operation in far too many ways to count.<p>It absolutely kills me that the Democrats haven’t brought up immigration as a way to tackle inflation. The left made immigration all about race, but there’s a huge supply side benefit to having more people who are able to produce more goods and services in the country. Immigrants are often the ones who build houses, and look after our sick, children, and elderly. The country would be a better, more affordable place with more people to help out.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;images.app.goo.gl&#x2F;N7rBSDDseMyiBTQb8" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;images.app.goo.gl&#x2F;N7rBSDDseMyiBTQb8</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>seanmcdirmid</author><text>Have you tried to get any renovation or building done lately? These industries are completely labor constrained, even if the material is affordable, they won’t get to your job until a year and a half from now.</text></comment> |
26,949,044 | 26,947,860 | 1 | 3 | 26,943,140 | train | <story><title>A practical guide to reducing loneliness</title><url>https://burgesspowell.medium.com/a-practical-guide-for-reducing-loneliness-right-now-f02f8c3035bd</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>hardwaregeek</author><text>This is a little left-field, but have you considered therapy? One underrated benefit of therapy is that it can help you analyze social situations and build the necessary skills to be more social. Therapists are professionals at talking to people and building a rapport after all.</text></item><item><author>spaetzleesser</author><text>This is the typical advice by extroverts: “just go out and have fun . If I can do it why can’t you do it?”. Most lonely people know already what to do in theory but for whatever reason they can’t pull it off. That’s certainly the story of my life. I know what I should do but I can’t execute it correctly. I mess up small talk all the time and for some reason never get better. It seems some of my social circuits haven’t been wired correctly and are introducing errors.<p>Advice giving is a dangerous thing if you haven’t experienced the problem. I don’t have eating problems so for me it’s really easy not to eat that donut or the bucket of ice cream but I have learned and accepted that for some overweight people it’s an almost insurmountable problem. I can’t really relate but I have learned enough over the years to stay away from giving ignorant or condescending advice.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>anand-bala</author><text>I suffer from severe depression in general and social anxiety around more than a handful of people, and have talked to therapists regarding this. One huge benefit of therapy is that I was quite quickly able to answer the question of __why__ I feel the way I do, especially around new people I meet. But it is a whole another thing to actually being able to &quot;fix&quot; it. The way I think about it is that I know what the problem is _in theory_, but have no idea how to come up with a _practical_ fix for it.<p>When I was less depressed, I was able to join a local D&amp;D group, go for bar trivia nights, etc. but as I became more depressed&#x2F;anxious&#x2F;stressed (coz of personal and professional situations), it became harder to push myself to become sociable and not get anxious around crowds.<p>So I think the main point that the parent comment is trying to say is that people need to recognize that problems that may seem to have simple and straightforward &quot;solutions&quot; (like &quot;have you considered therapy&quot;) are significantly harder for some individuals purely due to other mental health issues.<p>I am not trying to fault you, but it is a thing I see in a lot of my friends&#x2F;peers&#x2F;relatives is that it gets harder to understand how different mental health issues affect different people in incredibly different ways.</text></comment> | <story><title>A practical guide to reducing loneliness</title><url>https://burgesspowell.medium.com/a-practical-guide-for-reducing-loneliness-right-now-f02f8c3035bd</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>hardwaregeek</author><text>This is a little left-field, but have you considered therapy? One underrated benefit of therapy is that it can help you analyze social situations and build the necessary skills to be more social. Therapists are professionals at talking to people and building a rapport after all.</text></item><item><author>spaetzleesser</author><text>This is the typical advice by extroverts: “just go out and have fun . If I can do it why can’t you do it?”. Most lonely people know already what to do in theory but for whatever reason they can’t pull it off. That’s certainly the story of my life. I know what I should do but I can’t execute it correctly. I mess up small talk all the time and for some reason never get better. It seems some of my social circuits haven’t been wired correctly and are introducing errors.<p>Advice giving is a dangerous thing if you haven’t experienced the problem. I don’t have eating problems so for me it’s really easy not to eat that donut or the bucket of ice cream but I have learned and accepted that for some overweight people it’s an almost insurmountable problem. I can’t really relate but I have learned enough over the years to stay away from giving ignorant or condescending advice.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nonbirithm</author><text>Therapists are in extremely short supply right now. I recently got a wait-list for four months where I live.<p>The intervening period of time reminds me that I&#x27;m supposed to be in therapy, that I might <i>need</i> therapy, but am instead unable to see anyone. That makes my day-to-day life feel wrong, moreso than if I had never considered it as an option.</text></comment> |
9,445,447 | 9,444,788 | 1 | 2 | 9,444,149 | train | <story><title>Avoid the “Apply to Present” and “Angel Pitch Contest” Event Scams</title><url>http://calacanis.com/2015/04/24/warning-avoid-the-apply-to-present-angel-pitch-contest-event-scams/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>nakedrobot2</author><text>Web Summit and Paddy Cosgrave, I&#x27;m looking at you here. This is their mode of operation exactly. They fooled me out of 1000 euro and packed me in like sardines with a bunch of other poor fools. It&#x27;s a bad memory of a huge, overcrowded, scammy event where the only winner was the organizers. And their formula seems to be working which is the most depressing part.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>onion2k</author><text>It works because too many startup entrepreneurs don&#x27;t understand what &quot;getting feedback&quot; actually means.<p>A stand at an event designed for startup entrepreneurs should only be a valid incentive if your market is startups. If you&#x27;re doing <i>anything else</i> then you&#x27;re marketing to the wrong audience, which is a huge waste of time. Feedback only counts if it&#x27;s from potential customers, or better yet, actual customers. Having 1000 people file past your stand saying &quot;That&#x27;s really clever and innovative&quot; is a great ego boost - but that&#x27;s all it is if they&#x27;re not people who will buy what you&#x27;re selling.<p>When you&#x27;re building a startup you should <i>only</i> spend money getting to events where your customers are going to be. Go to those (often quite boring) events and <i>sell</i> to people. Being in the same room as a startup celebrity is <i>far</i> less valuable to your business than a even one single paying customer.<p>If you do that then you&#x27;ll have no problem meeting investors. In fact, they&#x27;ll come to you.</text></comment> | <story><title>Avoid the “Apply to Present” and “Angel Pitch Contest” Event Scams</title><url>http://calacanis.com/2015/04/24/warning-avoid-the-apply-to-present-angel-pitch-contest-event-scams/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>nakedrobot2</author><text>Web Summit and Paddy Cosgrave, I&#x27;m looking at you here. This is their mode of operation exactly. They fooled me out of 1000 euro and packed me in like sardines with a bunch of other poor fools. It&#x27;s a bad memory of a huge, overcrowded, scammy event where the only winner was the organizers. And their formula seems to be working which is the most depressing part.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>wavesum</author><text>Same experience here. The first they scout you through your website, and act as if they had done some research, and drop the bait of free booth, then they &quot;vet&quot; you over Skype and later let you know you&#x27;re a winner.<p>&quot;By charging big companies big money we can offer promising startups like you this opportunity for free&quot;<p>All you need to do is buy couple of tickets for 1500+ euros and the free booth is yours.<p>Ouch. But we&#x27;ve come this far, maybe it&#x27;s worth a shot...<p>When you get to the place you realize it&#x27;s 500 startups like you, crammed shoulder to shoulder. Very few investors around...</text></comment> |
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