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17,060,668 | 17,060,780 | 1 | 2 | 17,060,303 | train | <story><title>Make front end shit again</title><url>https://makefrontendshitagain.party/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>citricsquid</author><text>A few months ago I created a project called Hypertext Town, a simple project where anybody can create &quot;camps&quot; (a collection of HTML, images etc.) and connect them together through &quot;towns&quot;. A town lives at a subdomain (e.g: town.hypertext.town) and a camp lives at &#x2F;~camp (e.g: town.hypertext.town&#x2F;~camp). I never &quot;launched&quot; it so it&#x27;s just been languishing in obscurity on the www but if anybody wants to make cute little creative HTML websites without the need for hosting, it&#x27;s live to use at: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.hypertext.town" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.hypertext.town</a><p>1. click &quot;Set up camp in www&quot; 2. make an account 3. choose your camp name 3. add your html &#x2F; images etc.<p>edit: visit <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;hackernews.hypertext.town" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;hackernews.hypertext.town</a> (by TeMPOraL)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>TeMPOraL</author><text>Cool! I like the simplicity.<p>If anyone wants to play, I&#x27;ve made a town for us.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;residents.hypertext.town&#x2F;join&#x2F;hackernews" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;residents.hypertext.town&#x2F;join&#x2F;hackernews</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Make front end shit again</title><url>https://makefrontendshitagain.party/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>citricsquid</author><text>A few months ago I created a project called Hypertext Town, a simple project where anybody can create &quot;camps&quot; (a collection of HTML, images etc.) and connect them together through &quot;towns&quot;. A town lives at a subdomain (e.g: town.hypertext.town) and a camp lives at &#x2F;~camp (e.g: town.hypertext.town&#x2F;~camp). I never &quot;launched&quot; it so it&#x27;s just been languishing in obscurity on the www but if anybody wants to make cute little creative HTML websites without the need for hosting, it&#x27;s live to use at: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.hypertext.town" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.hypertext.town</a><p>1. click &quot;Set up camp in www&quot; 2. make an account 3. choose your camp name 3. add your html &#x2F; images etc.<p>edit: visit <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;hackernews.hypertext.town" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;hackernews.hypertext.town</a> (by TeMPOraL)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>terramex</author><text>This is great! I love it! I&#x27;ve been looking for an &#x27;uncool&#x27; space to create little, text based personal website and it seems to be perfect.</text></comment> |
14,759,267 | 14,759,221 | 1 | 2 | 14,758,587 | train | <story><title>Bitcoin – Potential Network Disruption on July 31st</title><url>https://bitcoin.org/en/alert/2017-07-12-potential-split</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>zby</author><text>It is probably not possible to solve the scaling problems on-chain - a secure decentralized consensus on a global scale cannot be fast. Currently the bitcoin protocol processes about 7 transactions per second. Doubling the speed by doubling blocks will not make it much closer to the 50K transactions per second of a system like VISA. But it is probably possible to scale the transaction system off-chain - with <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;lightning.network&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;lightning.network&#x2F;</a> - which works like a protocol for writing and accepting checks. As far as I know Lightning is impossible or very hard without SegWit.
But with Lightning off-loading the bulk of transactions miners will lose a bit of their power - so maybe this is what makes them against it.<p>Another aspect of the riddle is that SegWit will eliminate ASICBoost - which is an optimization developed by one of the biggest ASIC miners producer - so he is probably also against it. There is also the thing that ASICBoost is probably patented - so it has a lot of opposition in the community.</text></item><item><author>jpatokal</author><text>Well, that&#x27;s a remarkably uninformative announcement. Here&#x27;s an attempt at a neutral tl;dr from a Bitcoin amateur.<p>Bitcoin is currently suffering from significant scaling problems, which lead to high transaction fees. Numerous proposals to fix the scaling issue have been proposed, the two main camps being &quot;increase the block size&quot; and &quot;muddle through by discarding less useful data&quot; (aka Segregated Witness&#x2F;SegWit). However, any changes require consensus from the miners who create Bitcoins and process transactions, and because it&#x27;s not in their best incentive to do anything to reduce those transaction fees, no change has received majority consensus.<p>In an attempt to break this deadlock, there is a &quot;Bitcoin Improvement Proposal #148&quot; (BIP148) that proposes a User-Activated Soft Fork (UASF) taking effect on August 1, 2017. Basically, everybody who agrees to this proposal wants SegWit to happen and (here&#x27;s the key part) commits to discarding all confirmations that do not flag support for SegWit from this date onward. If successful, this will fork Bitcoin, because whether a transaction succeeded or not is going to depend on which side of the network you believe.<p>However, BIP148&#x27;s odds of success look low, as many of the largest miners out there led by Bitmain have stated that they will trigger a User-Activated Hard Fork (UAHF) if needed to stop it. Specifically, if UASF appears successful, instead of complying with SegWit, they&#x27;ll start mining BTC with large blocks instead: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.bitmain.com&#x2F;en&#x2F;uahf-contingency-plan-uasf-bip148&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.bitmain.com&#x2F;en&#x2F;uahf-contingency-plan-uasf-bip14...</a><p>Anyway, it all boils down to significant uncertainty, and unless you&#x27;ve got a dog in the race you&#x27;ll probably want to refraining from making BTC transactions around the deadline or purchasing new BTC until the dust settles down.<p>And an important disclaimer: this is an <i>extremely</i> contentious issue in the Bitcoin community and it&#x27;s really difficult to find info that&#x27;s not polarized one way or the other. Most notably, Reddit&#x27;s &#x2F;r&#x2F;bitcoin is rabidly pro-
BIP148 and &#x2F;r&#x2F;btc is equally rabidly against it. Here&#x27;s one reasonably neutral primer:
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;bitcoinmagazine.com&#x2F;articles&#x2F;bitcoin-beginners-guide-surviving-bip-148-uasf&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;bitcoinmagazine.com&#x2F;articles&#x2F;bitcoin-beginners-guide...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>julian_1</author><text>A counter-argument is that the Lightening work is a proprietary development outside of bitcoin core (lead by Blockstream) and the work is even patent-encumbered.<p>They state the ip is for defensive purposes only - however that is questionable given that anything they implement, automatically becomes prior-art. It is also contrary to the spirit and practice of the majority of crypto&#x2F;alt projects.<p>It is unreasonable to attack miners for having interests, without disclosing that other interests may benefit from the current levels of network congestion that a skeptic would say are caused by having artificially small blocks.</text></comment> | <story><title>Bitcoin – Potential Network Disruption on July 31st</title><url>https://bitcoin.org/en/alert/2017-07-12-potential-split</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>zby</author><text>It is probably not possible to solve the scaling problems on-chain - a secure decentralized consensus on a global scale cannot be fast. Currently the bitcoin protocol processes about 7 transactions per second. Doubling the speed by doubling blocks will not make it much closer to the 50K transactions per second of a system like VISA. But it is probably possible to scale the transaction system off-chain - with <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;lightning.network&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;lightning.network&#x2F;</a> - which works like a protocol for writing and accepting checks. As far as I know Lightning is impossible or very hard without SegWit.
But with Lightning off-loading the bulk of transactions miners will lose a bit of their power - so maybe this is what makes them against it.<p>Another aspect of the riddle is that SegWit will eliminate ASICBoost - which is an optimization developed by one of the biggest ASIC miners producer - so he is probably also against it. There is also the thing that ASICBoost is probably patented - so it has a lot of opposition in the community.</text></item><item><author>jpatokal</author><text>Well, that&#x27;s a remarkably uninformative announcement. Here&#x27;s an attempt at a neutral tl;dr from a Bitcoin amateur.<p>Bitcoin is currently suffering from significant scaling problems, which lead to high transaction fees. Numerous proposals to fix the scaling issue have been proposed, the two main camps being &quot;increase the block size&quot; and &quot;muddle through by discarding less useful data&quot; (aka Segregated Witness&#x2F;SegWit). However, any changes require consensus from the miners who create Bitcoins and process transactions, and because it&#x27;s not in their best incentive to do anything to reduce those transaction fees, no change has received majority consensus.<p>In an attempt to break this deadlock, there is a &quot;Bitcoin Improvement Proposal #148&quot; (BIP148) that proposes a User-Activated Soft Fork (UASF) taking effect on August 1, 2017. Basically, everybody who agrees to this proposal wants SegWit to happen and (here&#x27;s the key part) commits to discarding all confirmations that do not flag support for SegWit from this date onward. If successful, this will fork Bitcoin, because whether a transaction succeeded or not is going to depend on which side of the network you believe.<p>However, BIP148&#x27;s odds of success look low, as many of the largest miners out there led by Bitmain have stated that they will trigger a User-Activated Hard Fork (UAHF) if needed to stop it. Specifically, if UASF appears successful, instead of complying with SegWit, they&#x27;ll start mining BTC with large blocks instead: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.bitmain.com&#x2F;en&#x2F;uahf-contingency-plan-uasf-bip148&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.bitmain.com&#x2F;en&#x2F;uahf-contingency-plan-uasf-bip14...</a><p>Anyway, it all boils down to significant uncertainty, and unless you&#x27;ve got a dog in the race you&#x27;ll probably want to refraining from making BTC transactions around the deadline or purchasing new BTC until the dust settles down.<p>And an important disclaimer: this is an <i>extremely</i> contentious issue in the Bitcoin community and it&#x27;s really difficult to find info that&#x27;s not polarized one way or the other. Most notably, Reddit&#x27;s &#x2F;r&#x2F;bitcoin is rabidly pro-
BIP148 and &#x2F;r&#x2F;btc is equally rabidly against it. Here&#x27;s one reasonably neutral primer:
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;bitcoinmagazine.com&#x2F;articles&#x2F;bitcoin-beginners-guide-surviving-bip-148-uasf&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;bitcoinmagazine.com&#x2F;articles&#x2F;bitcoin-beginners-guide...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Hermel</author><text>I&#x27;m really tired of hearing the &quot;increasing the block size won&#x27;t suffice&quot;-argument. Yes, increasing blocks to 10 MB won&#x27;t give us VISA-scale, but it will allow Bitcoin to serve TEN TIMES AS MANY USERS! I can&#x27;t believe how many otherwise intelligent people fail to see that this is desirable. It&#x27;s like driving your car at 10 km&#x2F;h per hour on the high-way and refusing to increase your speed because that would still not make you as fast as a rocket.</text></comment> |
21,161,735 | 21,161,758 | 1 | 3 | 21,159,872 | train | <story><title>Apple approves previously rejected HKMap.live app</title><url>https://twitter.com/hkmaplive/status/1180137132842610688</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>threeseed</author><text>It is trivial to add a website to the home screen.<p>Just two clicks. One for share button. One to add to home screen.</text></item><item><author>cglong</author><text>Even proper support on iOS for Progressive Web Apps would help bridge this gap. On Android, you can go to a URL and receive a prompt to &quot;install&quot; it on your home screen. iOS keeps burying their equivalent more with each release and imposes way too many restrictions to web apps make it an alternative to the iOS App Store.</text></item><item><author>burtonator</author><text>The fact that we can&#x27;t side-load apps is a tragedy. Any anti-trust investigation into Apple + Google should discuss this it&#x27;s highly anti-competitive.<p>I get that they want a sanitary app store but if I go to myapp.com I should be able to side load.<p>It would also be nice to side-load from phone to phone in situations like this so that apps can&#x27;t be blocked by governments like China.<p>If the apps just verified keys that would be enough so that you know you&#x27;re installing the app from the right developer.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>coder543</author><text>Unfortunately, iOS does not support web push notifications like Android (and practically every desktop browser including Safari on macOS), which is a huge limitation.<p>Not supporting notifications at all is a dealbreaker for most apps that could just be PWAs.<p>Furthermore, last I checked, iOS doesn’t allow PWAs added to the home screen to access the camera or certain other valuable things that they should be able to access, but maybe that has finally been fixed.<p>Apple has intentionally made PWAs a bad experience to push people to the App Store, which is really unfortunate since they basically invented the concept of adding a website to your home screen that would then open in a chromeless experience that felt like an app.</text></comment> | <story><title>Apple approves previously rejected HKMap.live app</title><url>https://twitter.com/hkmaplive/status/1180137132842610688</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>threeseed</author><text>It is trivial to add a website to the home screen.<p>Just two clicks. One for share button. One to add to home screen.</text></item><item><author>cglong</author><text>Even proper support on iOS for Progressive Web Apps would help bridge this gap. On Android, you can go to a URL and receive a prompt to &quot;install&quot; it on your home screen. iOS keeps burying their equivalent more with each release and imposes way too many restrictions to web apps make it an alternative to the iOS App Store.</text></item><item><author>burtonator</author><text>The fact that we can&#x27;t side-load apps is a tragedy. Any anti-trust investigation into Apple + Google should discuss this it&#x27;s highly anti-competitive.<p>I get that they want a sanitary app store but if I go to myapp.com I should be able to side load.<p>It would also be nice to side-load from phone to phone in situations like this so that apps can&#x27;t be blocked by governments like China.<p>If the apps just verified keys that would be enough so that you know you&#x27;re installing the app from the right developer.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Nullabillity</author><text>Yes. Because that&#x27;s exactly the place where users would look for the install option. Apple&#x27;s finest UX people at work, here.</text></comment> |
19,674,838 | 19,674,296 | 1 | 3 | 19,673,686 | train | <story><title>Sony reveals PlayStation 5 details</title><url>https://www.theverge.com/2019/4/16/18401209/sony-playstation-5-details-8k-graphics-ray-tracing-ssds-ps4-backward-compatibility</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>cjf4</author><text>Interesting that while Microsoft and now Google are building platforms that are de-emphasizing local hardware, Sony recognizes this as an opportunity to differentiate by focusing on how great their box is. Their was a passing reference to a &quot;cloud strategy&quot;, but there hasn&#x27;t been as much evidence as their competitors.<p>This will wind up making for the most interesting console generation since the 32&#x2F;64 bit era, since the platform differences go beyond hardware specs and release date. M&#x2F;G&#x27;s platform&#x2F;subscription approach seems to be more in line with where the world is going, but remains to be seen if the timing&#x27;s right.</text></comment> | <story><title>Sony reveals PlayStation 5 details</title><url>https://www.theverge.com/2019/4/16/18401209/sony-playstation-5-details-8k-graphics-ray-tracing-ssds-ps4-backward-compatibility</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Tokiin</author><text>Great to see we&#x27;re finally getting an SSD by default in consoles. The only thing I&#x27;m worried about with this is the fact that high capacity SSDs are more expensive and with a push towards more digital storefronts, I&#x27;m wondering how this will work for the users. Then again, it&#x27;s also a wonderful chance to push streaming, so there is that too.</text></comment> |
10,490,124 | 10,490,145 | 1 | 3 | 10,489,212 | train | <story><title>Fuzzing FFmpeg for fun and profit</title><url>http://obe.tv/about-us/obe-blog/item/26-fuzzing-ffmpeg-for-fun-and-profit</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jamesrom</author><text>Can someone explain why you would want to fuzz ffmpeg?<p>What&#x27;s wrong with ffmpeg crashing when you feed it invalid input? What&#x27;s the alternative to it not crashing? Should it continue transcoding or should it exit quietly?<p>What&#x27;s the problem here trying to be solved?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>001spartan</author><text>Fuzzing is useful for finding bugs that may or may not be serious security issues. If a program crashes when you feed it invalid input, it could potentially crash in a way that allows code execution.<p>After finding a crash, a researcher will generally explore this to see if it allows for arbitrary code execution. If it does, it is possible for someone to create a weaponized exploit.<p>For a utility as widely-used as ffmpeg, any bugs pose a threat to many systems. Fuzzing it makes the Linux ecosystem safer for all of us (hopefully).</text></comment> | <story><title>Fuzzing FFmpeg for fun and profit</title><url>http://obe.tv/about-us/obe-blog/item/26-fuzzing-ffmpeg-for-fun-and-profit</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jamesrom</author><text>Can someone explain why you would want to fuzz ffmpeg?<p>What&#x27;s wrong with ffmpeg crashing when you feed it invalid input? What&#x27;s the alternative to it not crashing? Should it continue transcoding or should it exit quietly?<p>What&#x27;s the problem here trying to be solved?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>baz_</author><text>There is nothing wrong with crashing if you can do it in a &quot;safe&quot; manner. If an invalid input allows an attacker to take over your computer, then that is a problem :). Especially for something as wide-spread as ffmpeg.</text></comment> |
24,719,444 | 24,719,428 | 1 | 2 | 24,718,972 | train | <story><title>Rust 1.47</title><url>https://blog.rust-lang.org/2020/10/08/Rust-1.47.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>oconnor663</author><text>The &quot;you can&#x27;t print arrays larger than 32&quot; thing was a common papercut for beginners. You could usually work around it with slices, but until now that&#x27;s been yet another thing to memorize on day 1 or week 1. It only takes a couple of papercuts to go from &quot;this is challenging but fun&quot; to &quot;this is pointlessly frustrating&quot;, so I&#x27;m always very happy when one of the big ones gets fixed.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>brundolf</author><text>Fortunately under normal circumstances it&#x27;s almost always better to use a Vec anyway, and this is encouraged by the Book. Having done projects in Rust for the past ~2 years I didn&#x27;t even know this limitation existed, because I hardly ever use plain arrays.</text></comment> | <story><title>Rust 1.47</title><url>https://blog.rust-lang.org/2020/10/08/Rust-1.47.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>oconnor663</author><text>The &quot;you can&#x27;t print arrays larger than 32&quot; thing was a common papercut for beginners. You could usually work around it with slices, but until now that&#x27;s been yet another thing to memorize on day 1 or week 1. It only takes a couple of papercuts to go from &quot;this is challenging but fun&quot; to &quot;this is pointlessly frustrating&quot;, so I&#x27;m always very happy when one of the big ones gets fixed.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>vvanders</author><text>It gets <i>really</i> annoying on no_std, which makes me happy to see this making progress in the language.</text></comment> |
34,217,221 | 34,213,974 | 1 | 3 | 34,213,049 | train | <story><title>Automatic snow tires throw chains at your wheels [video]</title><url>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x2IQNsLuikw</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>analog31</author><text>Granted a passenger car is not a heavy truck or bus, but living in the upper Midwest, I&#x27;ve learned that snow tires make a huge difference for winter driving. I&#x27;d heard the folklore that snow tires are more important than all wheel drive for handling on both snow and ice, and having used them for a few years now, I&#x27;m a believer. So called &quot;all season&quot; tires are not snow tires.<p>You can get a complete set of snow tires, mounted and balanced on rims, delivered to your door by Tire Rack (no relationship, just a happy customer). If you don&#x27;t want to change the tires yourself, there are shops that will change them out and store them for you.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>sandworm101</author><text>It is not folklore. Take it from someone who lives in the actual north. My car doesnt see bare pavement for months. A two wheel drive car, with snow tires, will run rings around a 4x4 with summer tires. Chains are great, but have speed and distance limitations. We drive at 50mph&#x2F;80kph on snow, on highways even faster. (Drive on snow every day and you get used to it.) No chain set will last long at such speeds. They are tools for short term issues like getting through a mountain pass.<p>A less understood aspect of snow tires is their flexibility in cold. A summer tire will stiffen up below -30. Park it overnight and it will have a flat spot the next morning. It will bounce the car until enough heat builds up in the tire for it to soften. The higher silicon content of proper winter tires prevents this.<p>This type of driving, except whitehorse is much warmer than where i am (our rivers&#x2F;lakes remain frozen): <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;a_hmPxBUZvc" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;a_hmPxBUZvc</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Automatic snow tires throw chains at your wheels [video]</title><url>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x2IQNsLuikw</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>analog31</author><text>Granted a passenger car is not a heavy truck or bus, but living in the upper Midwest, I&#x27;ve learned that snow tires make a huge difference for winter driving. I&#x27;d heard the folklore that snow tires are more important than all wheel drive for handling on both snow and ice, and having used them for a few years now, I&#x27;m a believer. So called &quot;all season&quot; tires are not snow tires.<p>You can get a complete set of snow tires, mounted and balanced on rims, delivered to your door by Tire Rack (no relationship, just a happy customer). If you don&#x27;t want to change the tires yourself, there are shops that will change them out and store them for you.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>throwaway892238</author><text>FYI there is a new category of tire called &quot;all weather&quot;, which have the little mountain-snowflake symbol used for snow tires. They&#x27;re basically all-seasons rated for snow. I haven&#x27;t seen a comparison against pure snow tires, but they do perform much better than all-seasons in snow.</text></comment> |
23,310,543 | 23,310,723 | 1 | 3 | 23,310,430 | train | <story><title>I won’t buy ebooks anymore</title><url>https://dustri.org/b/i-wont-buy-ebooks-anymore.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>kayodelycaon</author><text>Let me get this straight, the author has a bad experience with one website selling ebooks, so they decide they’ll never buy ebooks ever again?<p>In real life, this would be the equivalent of getting one bad meal at a restaurant chain in a city you’ve never been to before, so you stop eating at that chain anywhere else, despite positive experiences in the past.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>leephillips</author><text>I think it would be more like deciding never to eat in any restaurant anywhere.<p>The headline says that he won’t ever buy ebooks, then lists good places to buy ebooks. I guess he is exaggerating for effect?<p>But it’s true, nobody should accept DRM. Here is the statement of the publisher who sells my gnuplot book:<p>“We believe that when you buy a book, it belongs to you. That’s why we use no ‘digital rights management’ or anything else that interferes with your rights. You can make as many personal backups as you want, and use the book on any number of your own devices. If you lose your files, you can just download them again, forever.”</text></comment> | <story><title>I won’t buy ebooks anymore</title><url>https://dustri.org/b/i-wont-buy-ebooks-anymore.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>kayodelycaon</author><text>Let me get this straight, the author has a bad experience with one website selling ebooks, so they decide they’ll never buy ebooks ever again?<p>In real life, this would be the equivalent of getting one bad meal at a restaurant chain in a city you’ve never been to before, so you stop eating at that chain anywhere else, despite positive experiences in the past.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>black_puppydog</author><text>Seems to me that all (major) ebook retailers try to lock down the files in one way or another. So yeah, if the chances of having a bad experience buying ebooks are high, I can see why &quot;just download it and be done with it&quot; is a compelling offer.<p>I&#x27;m all for finding ways of letting authors survive, or better yet thrive. But the current market seems to cater to the publishers, not the authors (cf: movie industry, music industry) so I don&#x27;t even feel all that bad about that.<p>To stay in the allegory: if it was common practice and somehow widely acceptable for restaurants to use boatloads of laxatives during food preparation, but they only told you so after you asked to see the manager, would you judge the people who just outright refused to eat out any longer? The stress of finding a laxative free restaurant would simply outweigh the benefit from eating out.</text></comment> |
38,802,920 | 38,801,787 | 1 | 2 | 38,791,575 | train | <story><title>You've just been fucked by psyops [video]</title><url>https://media.ccc.de/v/37c3-12326-you_ve_just_been_fucked_by_psyops</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>matrix87</author><text>If there&#x27;s one thing I&#x27;ve learned from technology, it&#x27;s that people put way too much faith in technology<p>People want to believe that the tech is good enough to build this advertising simulacrum the guy in the video refers to. It&#x27;s all a fantasy<p>People want to believe that govt and big tech are this omniscient, monolithic entity. If that was actually the case then how do they not catch whistleblowers who leave trails of evidence months before leaking?<p>Anyone who talks about tech like it&#x27;s some kind of deity clearly shouldn&#x27;t be talking about it, or at least only for the sake of marketing</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>johnnyworker</author><text>&gt; People want to believe that govt and big tech are this omniscient, monolithic entity. If that was actually the case then how do they not catch whistleblowers who leave trails of evidence months before leaking?<p>Power. Cowardice. People saying &quot;it&#x27;s all fine&quot; because they don&#x27;t want to live in a world where the only reason they&#x27;re not in fear or pain is because they kissed the ring. It would not reflect well on them, so they choose to view it differently.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.scientificamerican.com&#x2F;article&#x2F;exxon-knew-about-climate-change-almost-40-years-ago&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.scientificamerican.com&#x2F;article&#x2F;exxon-knew-about-...</a><p>If the above is possible, why wouldn&#x27;t it be possible where the stakes and capabilities are orders of magnitude higher?<p>Plus, the problem isn&#x27;t to so much to keep anything &quot;secret&quot;. Usually it&#x27;s enough to offer another view point aligned with power, that people can flock to out of cowardice and&#x2F;or as a token of allegiance.<p>We all know who Assange is, we know that he was hounded and tortured for calling attention to war crimes. So? Nothing happened to anyone responsible, and at <i>best</i> Assange might be free, one day. Similar for Snowden. So yeah, why <i>wouldn&#x27;t</i> people just blow whistles all the time, right?<p>And come to think of it nobody -- that is, none of the power centers, all sorts of &quot;sides&quot; in all sorts of conflicts -- can stand honesty. They may disagree on the lies they want to push instead, but they all agree that the truth is not an option, knowingly or not. No need to plan anything, they can just go by smell and instinct and they&#x27;ll work together to persecute people with integrity without even realizing they&#x27;re doing it. &quot;Omniscience&quot; in this context certainly doesn&#x27;t include being aware of oneself, it&#x27;s more like a stalker who knows every little detail about the life of their victim, but has no clue that they themselves have a massive problem.<p>&quot;It is not the story of men and women who have a better and deeper understanding of the world than we do. In fact in many cases it is the story of weirdos who have created a completely mad version of the world that they then impose on the rest of us.&quot;<p>-- Adam Curtis</text></comment> | <story><title>You've just been fucked by psyops [video]</title><url>https://media.ccc.de/v/37c3-12326-you_ve_just_been_fucked_by_psyops</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>matrix87</author><text>If there&#x27;s one thing I&#x27;ve learned from technology, it&#x27;s that people put way too much faith in technology<p>People want to believe that the tech is good enough to build this advertising simulacrum the guy in the video refers to. It&#x27;s all a fantasy<p>People want to believe that govt and big tech are this omniscient, monolithic entity. If that was actually the case then how do they not catch whistleblowers who leave trails of evidence months before leaking?<p>Anyone who talks about tech like it&#x27;s some kind of deity clearly shouldn&#x27;t be talking about it, or at least only for the sake of marketing</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>javajosh</author><text>Technology gives people more plausible excuses to believe what they want to believe. It only has to stand up to the barest scrutiny. &quot;Everything my tribe does is great; everything yours does is horrible. Therefore any evidence against my tribe is fabricated, any evidence against yours is accurate.&quot; And so on. This is already happening at scale.</text></comment> |
10,669,140 | 10,669,023 | 1 | 2 | 10,668,546 | train | <story><title>Trojan found in Filezilla downloaded from SourceForge</title><url>https://forum.filezilla-project.org/viewtopic.php?t=36762</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>agildehaus</author><text>SourceForge and Filezilla are both on their way out, hence their owners desire to monetize their remaining users while they still can.<p>WinSCP is a decent alternative. As is Swish:<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.swish-sftp.org&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.swish-sftp.org&#x2F;</a>
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;alamaison&#x2F;swish" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;alamaison&#x2F;swish</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bigbugbag</author><text>A decent alternative to filezilla would have to be cross-platform, neither swish nor winscp are (they&#x27;re win only).<p>An alternative to sourceforge implies not using sourceforge but swish does.</text></comment> | <story><title>Trojan found in Filezilla downloaded from SourceForge</title><url>https://forum.filezilla-project.org/viewtopic.php?t=36762</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>agildehaus</author><text>SourceForge and Filezilla are both on their way out, hence their owners desire to monetize their remaining users while they still can.<p>WinSCP is a decent alternative. As is Swish:<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.swish-sftp.org&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.swish-sftp.org&#x2F;</a>
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;alamaison&#x2F;swish" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;alamaison&#x2F;swish</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dagw</author><text>I&#x27;ve found WinSCP&#x27;s performance lagging quite a bit behind FileZilla, especially when it comes to up&#x2F;downloading 1000s of files at a time.</text></comment> |
1,174,906 | 1,174,935 | 1 | 2 | 1,174,714 | train | <story><title>Edward Tufte appointed by Obama to help track, and explain stimulus funds</title><url>http://www.edwardtufte.com/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg?msg_id=0003e0&topic_id=1#</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>CoreDumpling</author><text>I sincerely hope Tufte can successfully counteract the Washington tradition of applying the methods from <i>How to Lie with Statistics</i>. A good visualization can just as well expose the fraud from a contrived one.</text></comment> | <story><title>Edward Tufte appointed by Obama to help track, and explain stimulus funds</title><url>http://www.edwardtufte.com/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg?msg_id=0003e0&topic_id=1#</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>InclinedPlane</author><text>This should be an easy job. Just photoshop an image of a black hole with a giant pile of nearly a trillion dollars falling into it.</text></comment> |
39,969,319 | 39,968,934 | 1 | 3 | 39,967,707 | train | <story><title>TSMC Gets $11.6B in US Grants, Loans for Three Chip Fabs</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-04-08/tsmc-gets-11-6-billion-in-us-grants-loans-for-three-chip-fabs</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>xyzzy4747</author><text>The people in government aren&#x27;t incentivized to be effective largely because they have no personal financial reason to be. There&#x27;s no stock options or things like that, no good bonus programs, etc.</text></item><item><author>afavour</author><text>Feels like a self fulfilling prophecy. There’s no reason government can’t be effective at decision making if things are set up the right way (their involvement could be distant). There’s also no reason to assume a giant company (like, say, Intel) is going to be particularly fast at it.</text></item><item><author>xyzzy4747</author><text>I disagree. You don&#x27;t want the government to own things because they would be slow and ineffective at corporate governance. It&#x27;s better to simply subsidize and let the business owners make the important decisions.</text></item><item><author>poidos</author><text>I wish it could be an investment instead of just grants and loans. Could be a way to jumpstart a national sovereign wealth fund.</text></item><item><author>joshuacc</author><text>How else do you propose to get a company to build a factory at your preferred location rather than theirs? Paying companies is the usual way to get them to do things.<p>The economic effects are important but secondary to the national security effects of having TSMC chip manufacturing on US soil.</text></item><item><author>crispyambulance</author><text>It&#x27;s nice to build chip fabs in the USA, but is it _really_ necessary to &quot;gift&quot; some of the most capable and productive companies on the planet billions of dollars (not even counting the tax freebies)?<p>The whole CHIPS act thing seems backwards and short-sighted.<p>As the US education system is backsliding into literally worse-than-third-world outcomes, can we expect that companies like TSMC will even be able to find enough US workers to staff these facilities at a scale which will be large enough to move the economic needle?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>magicalhippo</author><text>Here in Norway the government fully owns several &quot;private&quot; companies[1], like Statkraft[2]. They can have bonus programs and similar. Some are too good[3][4], others[5] not quite as wild.<p>[1]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.regjeringen.no&#x2F;en&#x2F;topics&#x2F;business-and-industry&#x2F;state-ownership&#x2F;id1336&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.regjeringen.no&#x2F;en&#x2F;topics&#x2F;business-and-industry&#x2F;s...</a><p>[2]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Statkraft" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Statkraft</a><p>[3]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nrk.no&#x2F;norge&#x2F;statkraft-oker-inntekter-og-bonuser_-men-gar-i-minus-1.16044452" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nrk.no&#x2F;norge&#x2F;statkraft-oker-inntekter-og-bonuser...</a><p>[4]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.dn.no&#x2F;energi&#x2F;narings-og-fiskeridepartementet&#x2F;lo-topp-krever-apenhet-om-milliardbonuser-i-statkraft-det-fremstar-absurd-for-meg&#x2F;2-1-1415755" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.dn.no&#x2F;energi&#x2F;narings-og-fiskeridepartementet&#x2F;lo-...</a><p>[5]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.mesta.no&#x2F;wp-content&#x2F;uploads&#x2F;2023&#x2F;03&#x2F;Mesta_Vedlegg-D-Retningslinjer-om-lederloenn_2022.pdf" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.mesta.no&#x2F;wp-content&#x2F;uploads&#x2F;2023&#x2F;03&#x2F;Mesta_Vedleg...</a> (page 2)</text></comment> | <story><title>TSMC Gets $11.6B in US Grants, Loans for Three Chip Fabs</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-04-08/tsmc-gets-11-6-billion-in-us-grants-loans-for-three-chip-fabs</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>xyzzy4747</author><text>The people in government aren&#x27;t incentivized to be effective largely because they have no personal financial reason to be. There&#x27;s no stock options or things like that, no good bonus programs, etc.</text></item><item><author>afavour</author><text>Feels like a self fulfilling prophecy. There’s no reason government can’t be effective at decision making if things are set up the right way (their involvement could be distant). There’s also no reason to assume a giant company (like, say, Intel) is going to be particularly fast at it.</text></item><item><author>xyzzy4747</author><text>I disagree. You don&#x27;t want the government to own things because they would be slow and ineffective at corporate governance. It&#x27;s better to simply subsidize and let the business owners make the important decisions.</text></item><item><author>poidos</author><text>I wish it could be an investment instead of just grants and loans. Could be a way to jumpstart a national sovereign wealth fund.</text></item><item><author>joshuacc</author><text>How else do you propose to get a company to build a factory at your preferred location rather than theirs? Paying companies is the usual way to get them to do things.<p>The economic effects are important but secondary to the national security effects of having TSMC chip manufacturing on US soil.</text></item><item><author>crispyambulance</author><text>It&#x27;s nice to build chip fabs in the USA, but is it _really_ necessary to &quot;gift&quot; some of the most capable and productive companies on the planet billions of dollars (not even counting the tax freebies)?<p>The whole CHIPS act thing seems backwards and short-sighted.<p>As the US education system is backsliding into literally worse-than-third-world outcomes, can we expect that companies like TSMC will even be able to find enough US workers to staff these facilities at a scale which will be large enough to move the economic needle?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>hiddencost</author><text>Turns out that what happens in practice is corporations get chopped up for parts, and government usually does better.<p>Medicare for example is much more efficient than private health insurance.<p>The motivation for government employees is &quot;because they care about doing the right thing&quot;. You should try it some time.</text></comment> |
12,939,136 | 12,938,588 | 1 | 2 | 12,938,016 | train | <story><title>Nvidia on new self-driving system: “basically 5 years ahead and coming in 2017”</title><url>https://electrek.co/2016/11/11/tesla-autopilot-chip-supplier-self-driving-hardware-its-five-years-ahead/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Animats</author><text>I&#x27;m still not happy with self-driving on vision alone, or vision augmented with radar. There are too many hard cases for vision. Everybody who has good self-driving right now - Google, Otto, Volvo, GM - uses LIDAR.<p>Self-driving is coming to the first end users in 2017, in Volvo&#x27;s test of 100 vehicles. Volvo has multiple LIDARs, multiple radars, multiple cameras, redundant computers, and redundant actuators. They&#x27;re being cautious. Yet they&#x27;re getting there first.<p>With the new hardware, Tesla ought to be able to field smart cruse control that doesn&#x27;t ram into stopped vehicles partially blocking a lane. They&#x27;ve rammed stopped vehicles at speed three times now. At least with the new hardware things should get better. Do they still have the radar blind spot at windshield height?</text></comment> | <story><title>Nvidia on new self-driving system: “basically 5 years ahead and coming in 2017”</title><url>https://electrek.co/2016/11/11/tesla-autopilot-chip-supplier-self-driving-hardware-its-five-years-ahead/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>randomdrake</author><text>Super cool to see NVIDIA releasing hardware specifically meant to be a platform for building self-driving systems[1]:<p><i>&quot;NVIDIA DRIVE™ PX 2 is the open AI car computing platform that enables automakers and their tier 1 suppliers to accelerate production of automated and autonomous vehicles. It scales from a palm-sized, energy efficient module for AutoCruise capabilities, to a powerful AI supercomputer capable of autonomous driving.&quot;</i><p>I hadn&#x27;t heard of this before and with their purported pivot to an AI company, I can&#x27;t wait to see what other platforms they develop in a similar capacity.<p>[1] - <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nvidia.com&#x2F;object&#x2F;drive-px.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nvidia.com&#x2F;object&#x2F;drive-px.html</a></text></comment> |
8,972,727 | 8,972,054 | 1 | 2 | 8,970,929 | train | <story><title>Korg and Noritake Introduce Futuristic Nutube Vacuum Tubes</title><url>http://www.synthtopia.com/content/2015/01/29/korg-noritake-introduce-futuristic-nutube-vacuum-tubes/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>hamiltonkibbe</author><text>Cool concept, but I doubt the operating range of these tubes is large enough to get any sort of usable gain out. Unless there&#x27;s a datasheet that says otherwise I&#x27;d imagine these are going to end up early in the gain chain as a &quot;coloring&quot; component.<p>With the low operating range and low bias point you don&#x27;t get the same effect as you do with a tube biased to it&#x27;s sweet spot. It seems like a marketing gimmick like the starved-plate 12ax7 stage they put in everything nowadays (with ~12V B+ as opposed to the 250-400V B+ you find in nearly all classic amp designs), along with a few LEDs and a window in front so you can see where your extra $100 is going.<p>If you plot (really any) load line on the plate curves for a 12AX7 with a &lt; 50V B+ you&#x27;re in a really poor, highly non-linear region. Looking at plate curves for some old VFD tubes the operating range for those is way down in the same region in the lower left corner if you plot them over the 12AX7 plate curves.<p>Given the size and the fact that it uses 2% of the power of conventional tubes, I doubt that these tubes could be used as an output stage. I would have to guess that they&#x27;re running them cold as well. Preamp tube power draw is often dominated by the heaters<p>Of course this is all speculation until they publish a datasheet...</text></comment> | <story><title>Korg and Noritake Introduce Futuristic Nutube Vacuum Tubes</title><url>http://www.synthtopia.com/content/2015/01/29/korg-noritake-introduce-futuristic-nutube-vacuum-tubes/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>pjc50</author><text>That&#x27;s a two-segment vacuum fluorescent display! If you want to do your own &quot;tube&quot; experiments, you can find these in salvaged electrical gear, especially VCRs.</text></comment> |
37,176,286 | 37,175,911 | 1 | 3 | 37,144,707 | train | <story><title>A new instrument found unusual success</title><url>https://www.theguardian.com/music/2023/aug/16/if-stevie-wonder-wants-to-play-it-pay-attention-how-a-bizarre-new-instrument-found-unusual-success</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Jeff_Brown</author><text>This needs to be multiscale. The treble sounds strained and whiny, because it&#x27;s at too much tension, because it&#x27;s too long. The bass sounds farty and unfocused, because it&#x27;s at too little tension, because it&#x27;s too short. There&#x27;s a good reason bass guitars are bigger than guitars.<p>Multi-scale guitars have been out of patent for years now. And if the harpejji was invented in 2007, then I believe it should go out of patents next year? I hope the resulting competition makes them up their game.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rollcat</author><text>+1 for multi-scale. While on the topic: I have thrown some hard-earned cash at a multi-scale guitar a couple years ago (a Strandberg), and it both sounds great (well also thanks to craftsmanship), and is much more comfortable to play in the higher positions: the way the frets are fanned, the left hand&#x27;s wrist remains in a more natural position. It&#x27;d be difficult to switch back.<p>I&#x27;ve worked on my own instruments many many years ago (with a little help from a professional luthier). I&#x27;d say if you&#x27;re designing a new instrument, multi-scale should be a consideration; even if it&#x27;s just a plain old boring guitar, your biggest constraint is the choice of a bridge.</text></comment> | <story><title>A new instrument found unusual success</title><url>https://www.theguardian.com/music/2023/aug/16/if-stevie-wonder-wants-to-play-it-pay-attention-how-a-bizarre-new-instrument-found-unusual-success</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Jeff_Brown</author><text>This needs to be multiscale. The treble sounds strained and whiny, because it&#x27;s at too much tension, because it&#x27;s too long. The bass sounds farty and unfocused, because it&#x27;s at too little tension, because it&#x27;s too short. There&#x27;s a good reason bass guitars are bigger than guitars.<p>Multi-scale guitars have been out of patent for years now. And if the harpejji was invented in 2007, then I believe it should go out of patents next year? I hope the resulting competition makes them up their game.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pgeorgi</author><text>&gt; And if the harpejji was invented in 2007, then I believe it should go out of patents next year?<p>Patent lifetimes are at least 20 years after the filing date as per TRIPS treaty. There&#x27;s the priority mechanism for international filing, providing up to another year, and there are usually various means for additional protection time if regulations delayed the process. Those are mostly relevant for medical patents to compensate for trial-based delays, but &quot;the PTO was too slow&quot; seems to be reasonable ground for an extension, too.<p>As such, we&#x27;re looking at 2028.<p>I was wondering what you could mean: in the US, before ~1997 patents used to be valid 17 years from the date of patent grant, which would fit the timeframe you mention. Grant date was usually a few years down the road and with submarine patents (keeping them in limbo by continually sending minor changes to the USPTO until it&#x27;s worth having them active), that span could be extended practically infinitely. That time is, thankfully, over.</text></comment> |
16,604,674 | 16,604,604 | 1 | 2 | 16,600,486 | train | <story><title>What can we learn from how compilers are designed?</title><url>http://www.tedinski.com/2018/03/13/how-compilers-are-designed.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>justinpombrio</author><text>&gt; One of the interesting insights I got while building my own compiler was that despite what every compiler book says, there are languages that can be compiled on the fly without building an AST.<p>PL (but not compiler) researcher here. What you&#x27;re saying sounds to me like &quot;One of the interesting insights I got while programming my own game was that despite what every game programming book says, there are games that can be programmed without defining any functions.&quot; I mean, yes, you <i>can</i> do that, and it may in fact be more efficient, but it&#x27;s going to cause trouble down the line if you ever want to do something more complex.</text></item><item><author>mojuba</author><text>&gt; My view is that learning and writing a simple compiler will make most of developers on notch better.<p>Agreed. One of the interesting insights I got while building my own compiler was that despite what every compiler book says, there are languages that can be compiled on the fly without building an AST. I&#x27;d say for most languages it&#x27;s an unnecessary step that makes compilation slower and more resource hungry. However, compiling without AST is a next-level skill, another notch I think.</text></item><item><author>vicpara</author><text>It&#x27;s a good article. Indeed, compiling a programming language is such a complex job that is frankly quickly dismissed and taken for granted. My view is that learning and writing a simple compiler will make most of developers on notch better. The very least you&#x27;ll understand why parsing HTML or XML with regex is such a bad idea :)<p>Another golden resource is the Dragon book: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Compilers:_Principles,_Techniques,_and_Tools" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Compilers:_Principles,_Techniq...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>munificent</author><text><i>&gt; What you&#x27;re saying sounds to me like &quot;One of the interesting insights I got while programming my own game was that despite what every game programming book says, there are games that can be programmed without defining any functions.&quot;</i><p>Ex-game programmer and current PL programmer here. I think a better analogy is that you can make a game without having a scene graph. And, indeed, you can. And it works fine for many simple games, though as some scales it starts to be a hindrance.</text></comment> | <story><title>What can we learn from how compilers are designed?</title><url>http://www.tedinski.com/2018/03/13/how-compilers-are-designed.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>justinpombrio</author><text>&gt; One of the interesting insights I got while building my own compiler was that despite what every compiler book says, there are languages that can be compiled on the fly without building an AST.<p>PL (but not compiler) researcher here. What you&#x27;re saying sounds to me like &quot;One of the interesting insights I got while programming my own game was that despite what every game programming book says, there are games that can be programmed without defining any functions.&quot; I mean, yes, you <i>can</i> do that, and it may in fact be more efficient, but it&#x27;s going to cause trouble down the line if you ever want to do something more complex.</text></item><item><author>mojuba</author><text>&gt; My view is that learning and writing a simple compiler will make most of developers on notch better.<p>Agreed. One of the interesting insights I got while building my own compiler was that despite what every compiler book says, there are languages that can be compiled on the fly without building an AST. I&#x27;d say for most languages it&#x27;s an unnecessary step that makes compilation slower and more resource hungry. However, compiling without AST is a next-level skill, another notch I think.</text></item><item><author>vicpara</author><text>It&#x27;s a good article. Indeed, compiling a programming language is such a complex job that is frankly quickly dismissed and taken for granted. My view is that learning and writing a simple compiler will make most of developers on notch better. The very least you&#x27;ll understand why parsing HTML or XML with regex is such a bad idea :)<p>Another golden resource is the Dragon book: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Compilers:_Principles,_Techniques,_and_Tools" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Compilers:_Principles,_Techniq...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>compiler-guy</author><text>Yeah, the grandparent is only true if you don&#x27;t want to do interesting things with the language, like nearly any but the most basic peephole optimization.<p>But a fun fact, if you know about single-pass compiling, you can figure out a lot of why the original C syntax is what it is. A declaration is a &quot;reserve some memory&quot; statement. Local variables had to be declared at the beginning of scope so that the compiler could deallocate them at scope close. Without an AST, the compiler had to produce instructions immediately.<p>With a true AST, you don&#x27;t need such a restrictive syntax.<p>There are many other possible examples.</text></comment> |
41,240,418 | 41,239,382 | 1 | 3 | 41,238,632 | train | <story><title>Pixel Watch 3</title><url>https://blog.google/products/pixel/google-pixel-watch-3/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>vially</author><text>For anyone considering buying the Pixel Watch 3, please keep in mind that Pixel Watch 2 has some long-standing issues where the GPS completely cuts out during runs or walks.<p>Some users believe it to be a hardware issue but it&#x27;s still unacknowledged by Google and the forum thread where people have been discussing it has just been locked recently. Just mentioning it for awareness and visibility.<p>- <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;community.fitbit.com&#x2F;t5&#x2F;Android-App&#x2F;Google-Pixel-Watch-2-GPS-data-missing&#x2F;td-p&#x2F;5476172" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;community.fitbit.com&#x2F;t5&#x2F;Android-App&#x2F;Google-Pixel-Wat...</a><p>- <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;support.google.com&#x2F;googlepixelwatch&#x2F;thread&#x2F;242833127?hl=en" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;support.google.com&#x2F;googlepixelwatch&#x2F;thread&#x2F;242833127...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Pixel Watch 3</title><url>https://blog.google/products/pixel/google-pixel-watch-3/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>losvedir</author><text>Huh, just yesterday I started setting up and getting used to my new (to me) Apple Watch Series 6, after having used a Pixel Watch 2 for several months.<p>I&#x27;m surprised to find myself somewhat disappointed, and preferring my Pixel Watch, though I&#x27;m still giving myself some time in case it&#x27;s just familiarity. But a few things:<p>* The available watch faces are pretty underwhelming, particularly digital ones. There&#x27;s only a single one that actually includes the seconds, as far as I can tell. And the only one with lots of complications is Modular, which sticks the time in the corner, and has a big unwieldy complication in the center. My kingdom for Pixel Watch&#x27;s Utility.<p>* No watch face store!?<p>* I can&#x27;t seem to set up a minimal all-red face for night time, like I had on the Pixel Watch.<p>* The heart rate complication is just a picture of a heart that I click and it takes me to a widget that measures my heart rate. I had a real time glance on Pixel Watch, right in the complication, always up to date.<p>* The sleep tracking is weird and confusing. I need to set up schedules and such? On the Pixel Watch, it just tracks my sleep automatically.<p>* Subjective, but I still like the size and shape (round) of the Pixel Watch more than this Apple Watch, for now.</text></comment> |
16,728,557 | 16,726,801 | 1 | 2 | 16,724,962 | train | <story><title>Facebook Secretly Saved Videos Users Deleted</title><url>https://nymag.com/selectall/2018/03/facebook-secretly-saved-videos-users-deleted.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ori_b</author><text>You mean they follow what many people consider best practices?<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;softwareengineering.stackexchange.com&#x2F;questions&#x2F;159232&#x2F;should-we-ever-delete-data-in-a-database" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;softwareengineering.stackexchange.com&#x2F;questions&#x2F;1592...</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;stackoverflow.com&#x2F;questions&#x2F;820466&#x2F;never-delete-entries-good-idea-usual" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;stackoverflow.com&#x2F;questions&#x2F;820466&#x2F;never-delete-entr...</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;serverfault.com&#x2F;questions&#x2F;31455&#x2F;should-i-ever-delete-sql-and-db-anything" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;serverfault.com&#x2F;questions&#x2F;31455&#x2F;should-i-ever-delete...</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.infoq.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;2009&#x2F;09&#x2F;Do-Not-Delete-Data" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.infoq.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;2009&#x2F;09&#x2F;Do-Not-Delete-Data</a><p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;udidahan.com&#x2F;2009&#x2F;09&#x2F;01&#x2F;dont-delete-just-dont&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;udidahan.com&#x2F;2009&#x2F;09&#x2F;01&#x2F;dont-delete-just-dont&#x2F;</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;stackoverflow.com&#x2F;questions&#x2F;2549839&#x2F;are-soft-deletes-a-good-idea" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;stackoverflow.com&#x2F;questions&#x2F;2549839&#x2F;are-soft-deletes...</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;azure.microsoft.com&#x2F;en-us&#x2F;blog&#x2F;soft-delete-for-azure-storage-blobs-now-in-public-preview&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;azure.microsoft.com&#x2F;en-us&#x2F;blog&#x2F;soft-delete-for-azure...</a><p>I find it fascinating how much shock there is that Facebook is doing what nearly everyone else is doing, and what many people here have likely implemented.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>darzu</author><text>The accepted answer to the first link you posted explicitly calls out:<p>&gt; There is one class of data that you have to delete - and that&#x27;s personal data that the user doesn&#x27;t want you to hold any more. There may be local laws (e.g. in the EU) that makes this a mandatory requirement (thanks Gavin)<p>This is exactly the type of data we&#x27;re discussing here. So no, contradicting the user&#x27;s expectation when handling personal data is not a &quot;best practice&quot;.</text></comment> | <story><title>Facebook Secretly Saved Videos Users Deleted</title><url>https://nymag.com/selectall/2018/03/facebook-secretly-saved-videos-users-deleted.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ori_b</author><text>You mean they follow what many people consider best practices?<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;softwareengineering.stackexchange.com&#x2F;questions&#x2F;159232&#x2F;should-we-ever-delete-data-in-a-database" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;softwareengineering.stackexchange.com&#x2F;questions&#x2F;1592...</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;stackoverflow.com&#x2F;questions&#x2F;820466&#x2F;never-delete-entries-good-idea-usual" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;stackoverflow.com&#x2F;questions&#x2F;820466&#x2F;never-delete-entr...</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;serverfault.com&#x2F;questions&#x2F;31455&#x2F;should-i-ever-delete-sql-and-db-anything" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;serverfault.com&#x2F;questions&#x2F;31455&#x2F;should-i-ever-delete...</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.infoq.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;2009&#x2F;09&#x2F;Do-Not-Delete-Data" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.infoq.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;2009&#x2F;09&#x2F;Do-Not-Delete-Data</a><p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;udidahan.com&#x2F;2009&#x2F;09&#x2F;01&#x2F;dont-delete-just-dont&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;udidahan.com&#x2F;2009&#x2F;09&#x2F;01&#x2F;dont-delete-just-dont&#x2F;</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;stackoverflow.com&#x2F;questions&#x2F;2549839&#x2F;are-soft-deletes-a-good-idea" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;stackoverflow.com&#x2F;questions&#x2F;2549839&#x2F;are-soft-deletes...</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;azure.microsoft.com&#x2F;en-us&#x2F;blog&#x2F;soft-delete-for-azure-storage-blobs-now-in-public-preview&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;azure.microsoft.com&#x2F;en-us&#x2F;blog&#x2F;soft-delete-for-azure...</a><p>I find it fascinating how much shock there is that Facebook is doing what nearly everyone else is doing, and what many people here have likely implemented.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bitexploder</author><text>Disclaimer: I deleted my Facebook account a couple years ago and never looked back.<p>That said, Facebook is who is just getting collectively stabbed with the pitchfork right now. Engineering best practices are one thing. My right to privacy is another. As an engineer I care about efficiency. As a human I care about privacy. My rights win over any technocratic babble. Sorry if I am being harsh. I am, of course not surprised. Engineers are lazy at best and at worst, something truly sinister is brewing.</text></comment> |
15,724,912 | 15,724,389 | 1 | 3 | 15,723,661 | train | <story><title>Simple blood tests may soon be able to deliver news about your cognitive health</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/11/17/opinion/sunday/What-if-You-Knew-Alzheimers-Was-Coming-for-You.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>otakucode</author><text>Does &#x27;simple&#x27; mean &#x27;you can buy it in Amazon and perform it in the privacy of your own home&#x27;? Because needing to book an office visit with someone who has had about a decade of medical training just to get the test done is not exactly &#x27;simple&#x27; in my book. And sharing those results with the increasingly invasive systems of insurance and government and otherwise doesn&#x27;t fill me with anticipation.<p>Overall I definitely do want to know, though. If I know that I am highly likely to contract dementia I can start doing things to attempt to combat it, or at least plan 5 or so years before that point to begin using hard drugs. You don&#x27;t get any money back if you leave your body in good shape. I&#x27;d prefer to slide it smoking and smouldering across the finish line, missing both bumpers and with only one headlight hanging out. Then explode.</text></comment> | <story><title>Simple blood tests may soon be able to deliver news about your cognitive health</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/11/17/opinion/sunday/What-if-You-Knew-Alzheimers-Was-Coming-for-You.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>llamataboot</author><text>I have this variant. AMA<p>(It hasn&#x27;t been traumatic knowledge for me -- anyone with severe dementia in their biological family knows that there is some heredity there, whether or not they know they have this particular gene variant)</text></comment> |
24,753,638 | 24,753,668 | 1 | 2 | 24,753,290 | train | <story><title>MIVD boss: Meet without a smartphone, risk of espionage too great</title><url>https://www.nu.nl/tech/6083317/mivd-baas-vergader-zonder-smartphone-risico-op-spionage-te-groot.html</url><text>Jan Swillens, the head of the Dutch Military and Information Service (MIVD) advises large organizations not to meet with a smartphone or tablet on the table, because the risk of espionage is too great.<p>(original link, in dutch: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nu.nl&#x2F;tech&#x2F;6083317&#x2F;mivd-baas-vergader-zonder-smartphone-risico-op-spionage-te-groot.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nu.nl&#x2F;tech&#x2F;6083317&#x2F;mivd-baas-vergader-zonder-sma...</a>)</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>tsimionescu</author><text>How are smartphones and tablets different from laptops and regular phones in this regard? Shouldn&#x27;t the advise be to meet without microphones of any kind, if you&#x27;re really that paranoid? And of course, I would expect that online conferences are right out - especially useful advice in the times of Covid19.<p>Unless this is advice for state-level institutions discussing state secrets, this seems like completely useless advice, the kind that gives security people a bad name. It is both too paranoid for regular businesses, and provides too little protection if you truly are being targeted for espionage. Especially in a time where most meetings are happening online.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Pick-A-Hill2019</author><text>The difference is that a smartphone or tablet is an always on device and are also usually personal devices. In addition they are carried round in pockets or bags.<p>Taking over a mobile device remotely and activating the camera and microphone is a real thing (citations available but <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.wired.com&#x2F;story&#x2F;whatsapp-hack-phone-call-voip-buffer-overflow&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.wired.com&#x2F;story&#x2F;whatsapp-hack-phone-call-voip-bu...</a> from 2019 provides a solid &#x27;is possible to do&#x27; example).<p>I have worked in more than a few sites where all cell-phones needed to be placed in to faraday cage lockers located outside the highly secure areas prior to entering but laptops were ok to take in and use (subject to high contrast stickers over cameras, dummy jacks placed in mic sockets and wi-fi switched off).<p>Given that these were a mixture of national infrastructure, military and embassy type sites and was a thing ten+ years ago I think the various governments are well aware of their own abilities and assume that the opposition have equal capabilities.<p>I take your point regarding “Unless this is advice for state-level institutions discussing state secrets” but knowledge leaks and filters down in to the corporate world. Those same C-Suits that have to attend meetings discussing restricted information projects go away thinking – Huh, I wonder if it could be done to us by a competitor.<p>When you consider the difficulties of verifying the supply chain of a random mobile device (from the chipset through to all installed apps) it leaves so many security holes that it is best to assume that anything a nation state can do so can a well skilled hacker (or group).</text></comment> | <story><title>MIVD boss: Meet without a smartphone, risk of espionage too great</title><url>https://www.nu.nl/tech/6083317/mivd-baas-vergader-zonder-smartphone-risico-op-spionage-te-groot.html</url><text>Jan Swillens, the head of the Dutch Military and Information Service (MIVD) advises large organizations not to meet with a smartphone or tablet on the table, because the risk of espionage is too great.<p>(original link, in dutch: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nu.nl&#x2F;tech&#x2F;6083317&#x2F;mivd-baas-vergader-zonder-smartphone-risico-op-spionage-te-groot.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nu.nl&#x2F;tech&#x2F;6083317&#x2F;mivd-baas-vergader-zonder-sma...</a>)</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>tsimionescu</author><text>How are smartphones and tablets different from laptops and regular phones in this regard? Shouldn&#x27;t the advise be to meet without microphones of any kind, if you&#x27;re really that paranoid? And of course, I would expect that online conferences are right out - especially useful advice in the times of Covid19.<p>Unless this is advice for state-level institutions discussing state secrets, this seems like completely useless advice, the kind that gives security people a bad name. It is both too paranoid for regular businesses, and provides too little protection if you truly are being targeted for espionage. Especially in a time where most meetings are happening online.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pulse7</author><text>&quot;...if you&#x27;re really that paranoid?&quot;<p>No, you can not call me a paranoid anymore. Before Snowden you could call me like that. But today, it is not secret anymore...</text></comment> |
41,355,749 | 41,354,935 | 1 | 2 | 41,347,697 | train | <story><title>Why Does Elisp Suck</title><url>https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/WhyDoesElispSuck</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dokyun</author><text>I am going to go out on a limb here and defend Elisp. I think that for what it was designed to be (a complete scripting language for a text editor) it does everything that it needs to do very well, and much more. Much of these arguments do basically boil down to &quot;Emacs Lisp basically isn&#x27;t [some other language]&quot;, or misconceptions about the philosophy of how the system is designed.<p>I have hacked a considerable amount in both Elisp and CL and I can state that I actually prefer the way Elisp does some things over the way Common Lisp does--this is not to say that CL does things the wrong way--the matter is that they have different purposes. Emacs combined with Elisp in itself constitutes a complete programming system; all of its components are designed around it.<p>The language being integrated into Emacs makes writing Elisp programs a very fluid and intuitive experience: things like the fact that the documentation and the place where a function was defined is available at any time makes &#x2F;understanding&#x2F; the system easy, and the actual documentation itself is often quite well written, and the Info manuals will most often explain everything you need to know about a package. Common Lisp+SLIME shares some of this convenience, but not to the extent that Elisp truly does.<p>Certain points like the fact that Emacs isn&#x27;t multithreaded are thrown around by people who don&#x27;t have the intuition that multithreading isn&#x27;t the right thing for a lot of applications. The added complexity that multithreading would add to Emacs would seriously outweigh the usefulness it would provide. Emacs already has a decent process model, and having to deal with only a single shared state makes programs much cleaner.<p>At the very least if it all comes down to a dick measuring contest, the base GNU Emacs provides 100000000x more utility in its packages in a fraction of the memory space than VS code or Vim ever will. Emacs has its fair share of killer apps like Magit that provide such a clean interface to something that it makes using it worth it for that alone.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>zelphirkalt</author><text>&gt; Certain points like the fact that Emacs isn&#x27;t multithreaded are thrown around by people who don&#x27;t have the intuition that multithreading isn&#x27;t the right thing for a lot of applications. The added complexity that multithreading would add to Emacs would seriously outweigh the usefulness it would provide. Emacs already has a decent process model, and having to deal with only a single shared state makes programs much cleaner.<p>I disagree with this point. Emacs does not have a useful process model, or at least it cannot be used to the full extend, because of shared global mutable state. This is exactly the issue, not a practical thing. If it were not for all the usage of mutable (and mutated) global state, Emacs could actually benefit from running many things concurrently, without annoying users with blocking behavior.<p>This is of course a huge task to refactor Emacs like that. I can only hope, that some day we will get there, because I see it as one fatal flaw, that could over time kill Emacs. Yes, Emacs as it is is super useful, but more and more things come up, that will be better off running concurrently and in parallel. Just to name a few: Package compilation, waiting for LSP stuff, anything that waits for network, like tramp, running source blocks in org-mode (org-babel), syntax highlighting of big files, magit stuff like rendering huge diffs in a magit status buffer ...<p>All of those things could benefit from being able to use multiple cores and improve Emacs&#x27; snappiness and speed. All of these come before even changing anything about elisp the language.</text></comment> | <story><title>Why Does Elisp Suck</title><url>https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/WhyDoesElispSuck</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dokyun</author><text>I am going to go out on a limb here and defend Elisp. I think that for what it was designed to be (a complete scripting language for a text editor) it does everything that it needs to do very well, and much more. Much of these arguments do basically boil down to &quot;Emacs Lisp basically isn&#x27;t [some other language]&quot;, or misconceptions about the philosophy of how the system is designed.<p>I have hacked a considerable amount in both Elisp and CL and I can state that I actually prefer the way Elisp does some things over the way Common Lisp does--this is not to say that CL does things the wrong way--the matter is that they have different purposes. Emacs combined with Elisp in itself constitutes a complete programming system; all of its components are designed around it.<p>The language being integrated into Emacs makes writing Elisp programs a very fluid and intuitive experience: things like the fact that the documentation and the place where a function was defined is available at any time makes &#x2F;understanding&#x2F; the system easy, and the actual documentation itself is often quite well written, and the Info manuals will most often explain everything you need to know about a package. Common Lisp+SLIME shares some of this convenience, but not to the extent that Elisp truly does.<p>Certain points like the fact that Emacs isn&#x27;t multithreaded are thrown around by people who don&#x27;t have the intuition that multithreading isn&#x27;t the right thing for a lot of applications. The added complexity that multithreading would add to Emacs would seriously outweigh the usefulness it would provide. Emacs already has a decent process model, and having to deal with only a single shared state makes programs much cleaner.<p>At the very least if it all comes down to a dick measuring contest, the base GNU Emacs provides 100000000x more utility in its packages in a fraction of the memory space than VS code or Vim ever will. Emacs has its fair share of killer apps like Magit that provide such a clean interface to something that it makes using it worth it for that alone.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>lispm</author><text>&gt; Certain points like the fact that Emacs isn&#x27;t multithreaded are thrown around by people who don&#x27;t have the intuition that multithreading isn&#x27;t the right thing for a lot of applications.<p>GNU Emacs has a lot of applications where it is the right thing. It&#x27;s no longer the simple editor. It comes with more than a million lines of Lisp code implementing all kinds of complex features: like various network client applications, IDEs, ...<p>&gt; Common Lisp+SLIME shares some of this convenience, but not to the extent that Elisp truly does<p>SLIME is mostly implemented in Emacs Lisp. A lot of other Lisp systems can locate all source code and all documentation. It&#x27;s not so much a special feature of Emacs Lisp, but its development environment. It&#x27;s also not necessary that the IDE and Lisp runs in the same process &#x2F; same machine to be able to look up documentation and code. It may be convenient in GNU Emacs, but any such editor can provide such features for programming language implementations.</text></comment> |
25,676,923 | 25,672,362 | 1 | 2 | 25,671,258 | train | <story><title>UUCP must stay; Fetchmail sucks (2001)</title><url>https://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=585008+0+archive/2001/freebsd-arch/20010218.freebsd-arch</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>KirinDave</author><text>Well, part of this is on us. Let&#x27;s think on the reasons Gmail is so popular:<p>1. It&#x27;s very easy to get to.<p>2. It has incredibly fast search that has 0 setup.<p>We have never really even tried to address problem 1 as an open source community. Networks, name lookup, and VPNs remain incredibly complex topics that beginners cannot hope to wrestle with. The best we have is .mdns which either works magically or perversely refuses to work.<p>Similarly for free text search, the software world simply hasn&#x27;t delivered a lego-like solution for email search. You CAN rig up any number of open source projects but it is neither easy nor instant. And even other professional products like Apple Mail struggle with a mere gigabyte of email.<p>Despite the fact that it&#x27;s 2021 and every successful email provider aggressively solves these problems, the open source world still debates about the utility of ubiquitous search or pretends that local networking isn&#x27;t a pressing problem.</text></item><item><author>rasengan</author><text>I used to use UUCP to get my email when I was on a dialup, non permanent connection. I was able to host my own mail server. There were a lot of technologies back then helping the internet stay somewhat decentralized. Now I, like most, just use Gmail.<p>What has become of our beloved free(digital)land?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jerf</author><text>&quot;We have never really even tried to address problem 1 as an open source community. Networks, name lookup, and VPNs remain incredibly complex topics that beginners cannot hope to wrestle with.&quot;<p>I kinda disagree. It&#x27;s probably easier than ever to set up your own mail server, in some abstract sense. You can get a virtual machine, use docker, heck, someone can hand you a complete image that you just have to bring up and set up with some config.<p>The problem is, it literally doesn&#x27;t matter how much the &#x27;open source&#x27; community comes together, it simply <i>can not</i> provide a turn key solution as good as<p><pre><code> Desired email account: [________]@gmail.com
Password: [________]
Verify Password: [________]
[X] I agree to have all my data used in arbitrary ways
</code></pre>
It&#x27;s not possible. There is no way to set up a server that easily, even in principle.<p>Or at least, not in a sane way. I can set up a site where you feed me your credit card number and pick a domain name, and I set up your AWS account for you, register your DNS name for you, configure DNS, and stand up everything you need and set it all up... but then we&#x27;ve got a split ownership interest. I can hand it all back to you, but you don&#x27;t understand the setup. I can give you root on the system, but when you change anything, my automation stops working.</text></comment> | <story><title>UUCP must stay; Fetchmail sucks (2001)</title><url>https://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=585008+0+archive/2001/freebsd-arch/20010218.freebsd-arch</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>KirinDave</author><text>Well, part of this is on us. Let&#x27;s think on the reasons Gmail is so popular:<p>1. It&#x27;s very easy to get to.<p>2. It has incredibly fast search that has 0 setup.<p>We have never really even tried to address problem 1 as an open source community. Networks, name lookup, and VPNs remain incredibly complex topics that beginners cannot hope to wrestle with. The best we have is .mdns which either works magically or perversely refuses to work.<p>Similarly for free text search, the software world simply hasn&#x27;t delivered a lego-like solution for email search. You CAN rig up any number of open source projects but it is neither easy nor instant. And even other professional products like Apple Mail struggle with a mere gigabyte of email.<p>Despite the fact that it&#x27;s 2021 and every successful email provider aggressively solves these problems, the open source world still debates about the utility of ubiquitous search or pretends that local networking isn&#x27;t a pressing problem.</text></item><item><author>rasengan</author><text>I used to use UUCP to get my email when I was on a dialup, non permanent connection. I was able to host my own mail server. There were a lot of technologies back then helping the internet stay somewhat decentralized. Now I, like most, just use Gmail.<p>What has become of our beloved free(digital)land?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>sumtechguy</author><text>Another issue that needs to be solved is &#x27;bad actor&#x27;. Basically someone gaming the system and overloading it with spam. There is no real nice neat way to fix that. Instead it is a mishmash of blacklists&#x2F;whitelists&#x2F;blocklists and sorta intelligent alg filtering. Getting that all filled and working is not trivial either. Oh its &#x27;doable&#x27; but kind of a pain for even someone with decent experience at it.</text></comment> |
28,851,974 | 28,851,702 | 1 | 3 | 28,851,510 | train | <story><title>Windows 11’s first update makes AMD CPU performance even worse</title><url>https://www.theverge.com/2021/10/13/22723998/windows-11-update-amd-ryzen-cpu-performance-worse</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>_l4jh</author><text>I honestly don&#x27;t understand Microsoft&#x27;s plan with Windows 11.<p>6 years ago, with the release of Windows 10, it was all about &quot;this is the last version of Windows!&quot; and they went with the rolling release model. A little strange but they stuck with it for <i>6 years</i> until suddenly this summer they announce Windows 11 and they went <i>hard</i> talking up how it was a huge change to Windows but in reality it isn&#x27;t. At all.<p>It has a new visual layer sure but the applications are still the old Windows 10 (and so really the old Windows XP?) ones with that new look. They introduced a new store and support for additional stores such as the Amazon Android app store.<p>I guess what I am saying is I don&#x27;t get <i>why now</i> they are calling it Windows 11? They could have just carried on calling it Windows 10. They have introduced big UI and feature changes in previous Windows 10 updates (perhaps not quite as big as the new taskbar and Explorer changes).<p>It is a free upgrade for Windows 10 license holders (consumer anyway, not sure how it works for Enterprise?).<p>It just all feels so rushed and messy and the end product is just not very good as we can clearly see here.<p>I don&#x27;t want to hate on Windows, after all they have introduced some really interesting new things since Windows 10 initial release such as WSL. It is just there didn&#x27;t appear to be a want or need for a Windows 11 and this rushed mess makes it look like Microsoft didn&#x27;t (doesn&#x27;t?) know what it is doing with Windows either. Shrug.</text></comment> | <story><title>Windows 11’s first update makes AMD CPU performance even worse</title><url>https://www.theverge.com/2021/10/13/22723998/windows-11-update-amd-ryzen-cpu-performance-worse</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jerf</author><text>How is this possible? Is it that Windows 11 is constantly running code and&#x2F;or using data so that it consumes more of the L3 cache all the time? But only on AMD? Is this really a linear slowdown of cache speed as the article&#x27;s wording implies, or is it some more complicated slowdown that they&#x27;ve benchmarked with something that intrinsically measures it linearly?<p>Problems with the thread migration to certain classes of CPUs I can kind of understand, that&#x27;s still fairly new code for windows, but how it can slow down the L3 cache in the described way is a bit of a mystery to me.</text></comment> |
11,526,880 | 11,526,907 | 1 | 2 | 11,526,666 | train | <story><title>MacBook gets a Skylake speed boost, 8GB of memory, longer battery life</title><url>http://techcrunch.com/2016/04/19/skylake-when-it-crumbles-we-will-stand-tall-face-it-all-together-at-skylake/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>cmiller1</author><text>I found this statement interesting.<p>&gt;The new guts are getting you better performance but also better battery life with what Apple says is 10 hours of web browsing or 11 hours of iTunes movie playback.<p>Movie playback used to be considered the de facto test of the most rigorous power use a computer would go through. Spinning DVDs and hard drives have been replaced with SSD, hardware accelerated decoding of video has replaced maxing out your CPU.<p>On the other hand, web browsing used to be considered a light use of power. Pull some network content into memory, parse some basic html, etc. Now with javascript EVERYWHERE and the rising complexity of web pages, web browsing has become one of the most taxing things you can do as far as power use is concerned. In fact, on my MacBook Pro now that OS X tells you which processes are using the most power, web browsers like Safari and Chrome are the only thing I ever see show up in &quot;Apps using significant energy&quot;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>massysett</author><text>Indeed, I use Safari because it seems neither Firefox nor Chrome are optimized at all for battery usage. Chrome is a huge power hog.<p>I wonder if it&#x27;s the same on the Windows side; has Microsoft optimized IE (or the new browser, whatever it&#x27;s called) for power usage?</text></comment> | <story><title>MacBook gets a Skylake speed boost, 8GB of memory, longer battery life</title><url>http://techcrunch.com/2016/04/19/skylake-when-it-crumbles-we-will-stand-tall-face-it-all-together-at-skylake/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>cmiller1</author><text>I found this statement interesting.<p>&gt;The new guts are getting you better performance but also better battery life with what Apple says is 10 hours of web browsing or 11 hours of iTunes movie playback.<p>Movie playback used to be considered the de facto test of the most rigorous power use a computer would go through. Spinning DVDs and hard drives have been replaced with SSD, hardware accelerated decoding of video has replaced maxing out your CPU.<p>On the other hand, web browsing used to be considered a light use of power. Pull some network content into memory, parse some basic html, etc. Now with javascript EVERYWHERE and the rising complexity of web pages, web browsing has become one of the most taxing things you can do as far as power use is concerned. In fact, on my MacBook Pro now that OS X tells you which processes are using the most power, web browsers like Safari and Chrome are the only thing I ever see show up in &quot;Apps using significant energy&quot;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>compactmani</author><text>You&#x27;ve highlighted one of the many advantages to browsing with javascript off by default. I think at this point it should really only be used for must-have cases.</text></comment> |
16,076,575 | 16,076,510 | 1 | 2 | 16,076,047 | train | <story><title>Update on Meltdown and Spectre</title><url>https://engineering.coinbase.com/update-on-meltdown-and-spectre-45d344c47b5</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>thisisit</author><text>This announcement makes me wonder - Are there any banking laws to protect someone who loses money due to a hack?<p>The JS thing is a huge deal so someone might get their online banking credentials stolen and then account emptied. In which case, how helpful are the banks in helping to recover the money?<p>On the cryptocurrency side people need to secure their own money and ensure they don&#x27;t open some shady ICO site. So stolen credentials means the money is gone forever.<p>Edit: FDIC insurance is applicable for the banks ie if the banks get hacked. The question here is on individuals getting hacked. I am not able to find if FDIC covers that.</text></comment> | <story><title>Update on Meltdown and Spectre</title><url>https://engineering.coinbase.com/update-on-meltdown-and-spectre-45d344c47b5</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>liamzebedee</author><text>[related] Has anyone considered the possibility of a Spectre-style attack in Ethereum&#x27;s Turing-complete EVM? Not that the state would be unique for all contracts, but there&#x27;s a possibility of communicating to an external contract with the output.</text></comment> |
37,516,051 | 37,516,136 | 1 | 3 | 37,509,507 | train | <story><title>The Tyranny of the Marginal User</title><url>https://nothinghuman.substack.com/p/the-tyranny-of-the-marginal-user</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>lr4444lr</author><text>I met my wife on OkCupid.<p>The original format attracted a much smarter and more worldly crowd of women, to put it bluntly, than the other services. I exited the dating game before Tinder, but if OkCupid lost that quirky, artsy, college educated crowd in the chase to compete, that&#x27;s a real shame.</text></item><item><author>wbobeirne</author><text>I worked at OkCupid from 2013-2017 and totally resonate with the author that mid-2010s OkCupid was a really special product, and that it took a steep decline as the decade went on. It&#x27;s not entirely fair to say that the Match acquisition immediately caused that decline; I started a couple years after Match got the company in its hands, and only two of the original founders were still focused on OkCupid full time. But the product continued to improve and grow for years after that. There was very little top-down directives about how to develop the product during that time.<p>OkCupid had excellent growth in the first half of the 2010s, but as that growth started to plateau, it was pretty clear that the focus moved to following Tinder&#x27;s trends in an effort to match their level of growth. But OkCupid was a really healthy company with great profits and low burn, being only a team of 30-40 people. It could have stayed the way it was and continued to turn a profit. But Tinder had shown that the market size for mobile was way bigger than the desktop-focused product that OkCupid used to be. The focus towards acquiring more mobile users meant stripping down and simplifying a product that previously demanded hundreds of words of essay writing, and answering hundreds of questions. The essay prompts became simpler, multiple choice asymmetric questions got deprioritized over reciprocal yes &#x2F; no questions. And as a user, I felt the quality of conversations I had went down as most messages were sent on the go from people just trying to line up their weekend plans, instead of a deeply invested audience trying to form meaningful connections first.<p>I really miss working on the product OkCupid was when I started, and often day-dream about starting another dating app closer to its original long-form vision. But the worst part of trying to do that is bootstrapping users, and seems like the only ways to do that are either have a lot of capital, or shadier methods like fake profiles or scraping data off of other sites. Not really interested in raising or setting my morals aside to do it.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>sneak</author><text>A big thing to consider is the fact that everyone got online all the time during the enshittification phase of OKC - it wasn&#x27;t just OKC&#x27;s userbase, but it was the median of the whole internet that got dumber and less sophisticated&#x2F;more basic.<p>When OKC was great, the random median many-hours-on-the-internet-every-day user was a lot better than it is today. Now that&#x27;s just a median member of the general public, thanks to the ubiquity of social media.</text></comment> | <story><title>The Tyranny of the Marginal User</title><url>https://nothinghuman.substack.com/p/the-tyranny-of-the-marginal-user</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>lr4444lr</author><text>I met my wife on OkCupid.<p>The original format attracted a much smarter and more worldly crowd of women, to put it bluntly, than the other services. I exited the dating game before Tinder, but if OkCupid lost that quirky, artsy, college educated crowd in the chase to compete, that&#x27;s a real shame.</text></item><item><author>wbobeirne</author><text>I worked at OkCupid from 2013-2017 and totally resonate with the author that mid-2010s OkCupid was a really special product, and that it took a steep decline as the decade went on. It&#x27;s not entirely fair to say that the Match acquisition immediately caused that decline; I started a couple years after Match got the company in its hands, and only two of the original founders were still focused on OkCupid full time. But the product continued to improve and grow for years after that. There was very little top-down directives about how to develop the product during that time.<p>OkCupid had excellent growth in the first half of the 2010s, but as that growth started to plateau, it was pretty clear that the focus moved to following Tinder&#x27;s trends in an effort to match their level of growth. But OkCupid was a really healthy company with great profits and low burn, being only a team of 30-40 people. It could have stayed the way it was and continued to turn a profit. But Tinder had shown that the market size for mobile was way bigger than the desktop-focused product that OkCupid used to be. The focus towards acquiring more mobile users meant stripping down and simplifying a product that previously demanded hundreds of words of essay writing, and answering hundreds of questions. The essay prompts became simpler, multiple choice asymmetric questions got deprioritized over reciprocal yes &#x2F; no questions. And as a user, I felt the quality of conversations I had went down as most messages were sent on the go from people just trying to line up their weekend plans, instead of a deeply invested audience trying to form meaningful connections first.<p>I really miss working on the product OkCupid was when I started, and often day-dream about starting another dating app closer to its original long-form vision. But the worst part of trying to do that is bootstrapping users, and seems like the only ways to do that are either have a lot of capital, or shadier methods like fake profiles or scraping data off of other sites. Not really interested in raising or setting my morals aside to do it.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>crazygringo</author><text>Yup. It basically started as a dating site by Brooklyn grad students, for Brooklyn grad students.<p>Grad students love writing essays. But if you want to expand, you have to face the fact that most people aren&#x27;t grad students and don&#x27;t love writing (or reading) essays.<p>The trajectory to &quot;just another dating app&quot; was inevitable.</text></comment> |
9,656,206 | 9,656,201 | 1 | 3 | 9,655,693 | train | <story><title>Let Snowden Come Home</title><url>http://www.newyorker.com/news/john-cassidy/its-time-to-let-edward-snowden-come-home</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>hueving</author><text>&gt;I would join the hopefully overwhelming protests in favor of his release.<p>All 12 of us would be fired up! More seriously, did you see the bit on John Oliver about Snowden? The majority of the US population have no idea who Snowden is. Be careful not to get caught up in our tech news bubble.</text></item><item><author>austinhutch</author><text>If he were to come back to the USA and then subsequently be detained, I would join the hopefully overwhelming protests in favor of his release. I am hoping if such a time comes, that there will be a historic level of demonstration advocating for his freedom.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mortehu</author><text>I think the being known to a majority of the US population is a way too high bar. In a 2010 poll[1], only 59% knew the name of the vice president, as mentioned in a Greenwald article[2] about this issue.<p>1. <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.pewforum.org&#x2F;2010&#x2F;09&#x2F;28&#x2F;u-s-religious-knowledge-survey-who-knows-what-about-religion&#x2F;#Nonreligious" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.pewforum.org&#x2F;2010&#x2F;09&#x2F;28&#x2F;u-s-religious-knowledge-s...</a><p>2. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;firstlook.org&#x2F;theintercept&#x2F;2015&#x2F;04&#x2F;06&#x2F;john-oliver-interview-political-disengagement-american-public&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;firstlook.org&#x2F;theintercept&#x2F;2015&#x2F;04&#x2F;06&#x2F;john-oliver-in...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Let Snowden Come Home</title><url>http://www.newyorker.com/news/john-cassidy/its-time-to-let-edward-snowden-come-home</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>hueving</author><text>&gt;I would join the hopefully overwhelming protests in favor of his release.<p>All 12 of us would be fired up! More seriously, did you see the bit on John Oliver about Snowden? The majority of the US population have no idea who Snowden is. Be careful not to get caught up in our tech news bubble.</text></item><item><author>austinhutch</author><text>If he were to come back to the USA and then subsequently be detained, I would join the hopefully overwhelming protests in favor of his release. I am hoping if such a time comes, that there will be a historic level of demonstration advocating for his freedom.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>electic</author><text>It is easy to also forget, however sad, that the people that do know of Snowden, and are familiar with what he did, think he is a traitor and should stand trial for his &quot;crimes&quot;.<p>[1] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cbsnews.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;poll-most-think-edward-snowden-should-stand-trial-in-us&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cbsnews.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;poll-most-think-edward-snowden-s...</a></text></comment> |
16,979,618 | 16,979,652 | 1 | 3 | 16,979,090 | train | <story><title>XKCD on Docker</title><url>https://xkcd.com/1988/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>cs702</author><text>Ouch. The punchline is funny because in many cases it&#x27;s painfully true... especially in &quot;enterprise&quot; land.<p>Don&#x27;t forget to hover over the comic.</text></comment> | <story><title>XKCD on Docker</title><url>https://xkcd.com/1988/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>noxToken</author><text>A mod may want to update the URL from the homepage to a permalink[0]. The next comic update will ruin this post.<p>[0]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;xkcd.com&#x2F;1988&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;xkcd.com&#x2F;1988&#x2F;</a></text></comment> |
26,955,894 | 26,955,984 | 1 | 3 | 26,955,344 | train | <story><title>Print Debugging Should Go Away</title><url>https://robert.ocallahan.org/2021/04/print-debugging-should-go-away.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>db48x</author><text>&gt; it works for every language<p>This is really the problem. Nobody has spent time and money to make debugging _good_ in the languages you use. Few people pay for good tools any more, and only a tiny fraction of users ever contribute improvements to the open–source tools they use (paid or otherwise). So the average debugger hasn’t gotten better since the 90s.<p>I do programming in multiple languages too. In those where I can use RR and Pernosco, I use them every time. In those where I can’t, I miss RR and Pernosco every single time.</text></item><item><author>falsaberN1</author><text>You can pry my debug prints from my cold, dead hands.<p>I get the point this person is making, but at times (and depending on language) it&#x27;s the fastest and most efficient option. &quot;Oh, the value is not what I expected&quot; -&gt; fix -&gt; &quot;value is good after testing, can remove the debug print&quot;.
It&#x27;s not elegant, yes, but it does the job with zero preparation and <i>works for every language</i>.
Now if things are so hopeless the debug print doesn&#x27;t even work, then yes, get a proper debugger.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jjoonathan</author><text>Yep. The other day I was:<p>* Debugging an 8 bit microcontroller in-circuit with an IDE, conditional breakpoints, step in&#x2F;out&#x2F;over, full stack visibility, and the ability to manually poke at values&#x2F;memory&#x2F;io<p>* Debugging an AWS lambda function with printf and high latency logs<p>It doesn&#x27;t matter how hip, how modern, how fast, or how big the environment is. What matters is whether or not the ecosystem cares enough to make debugging nice.</text></comment> | <story><title>Print Debugging Should Go Away</title><url>https://robert.ocallahan.org/2021/04/print-debugging-should-go-away.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>db48x</author><text>&gt; it works for every language<p>This is really the problem. Nobody has spent time and money to make debugging _good_ in the languages you use. Few people pay for good tools any more, and only a tiny fraction of users ever contribute improvements to the open–source tools they use (paid or otherwise). So the average debugger hasn’t gotten better since the 90s.<p>I do programming in multiple languages too. In those where I can use RR and Pernosco, I use them every time. In those where I can’t, I miss RR and Pernosco every single time.</text></item><item><author>falsaberN1</author><text>You can pry my debug prints from my cold, dead hands.<p>I get the point this person is making, but at times (and depending on language) it&#x27;s the fastest and most efficient option. &quot;Oh, the value is not what I expected&quot; -&gt; fix -&gt; &quot;value is good after testing, can remove the debug print&quot;.
It&#x27;s not elegant, yes, but it does the job with zero preparation and <i>works for every language</i>.
Now if things are so hopeless the debug print doesn&#x27;t even work, then yes, get a proper debugger.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>sillysaurusx</author><text>Why isn&#x27;t print debugging good? Seems good to me.<p>As pg said, it&#x27;s like scrubbing dishes with your fingertips: rarely discussed, highly effective.</text></comment> |
34,986,802 | 34,985,941 | 1 | 2 | 34,984,686 | train | <story><title>Less than half of California students read or do math at grade level</title><url>https://caaspp-elpac.ets.org/caaspp/DashViewReportSB?ps=true&lstTestYear=2022&lstTestType=B&lstGroup=1&lstSubGroup=1&lstSchoolType=A&lstGrade=13&lstCounty=00&lstDistrict=00000&lstSchool=0000000</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jmathai</author><text>As a California resident, I&#x27;m surprised there&#x27;s no mention of % of ESL (english as a second language) students. There&#x27;s a very large population of ESL students in California that drag down these statistics as the students catch up.<p>If english isn&#x27;t your primary language, learning math that is taught in english will also be more difficult.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jimt1234</author><text>This is BS. My good friend moved to California from Taiwan during high school. She struggled in all her classes (because she barely spoke english (&quot;struggle&quot; means she actually had to put in effort to get an &quot;A&quot;)), but she excelled in math. She told me that she was an average student in Taiwan, but when she moved to the US, she suddenly became a math genius. She was in the highest level math class the school offered, and it was a breeze for her. So, nope, she didn&#x27;t &quot;drag down&quot; the statistics - in fact, just the opposite.</text></comment> | <story><title>Less than half of California students read or do math at grade level</title><url>https://caaspp-elpac.ets.org/caaspp/DashViewReportSB?ps=true&lstTestYear=2022&lstTestType=B&lstGroup=1&lstSubGroup=1&lstSchoolType=A&lstGrade=13&lstCounty=00&lstDistrict=00000&lstSchool=0000000</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jmathai</author><text>As a California resident, I&#x27;m surprised there&#x27;s no mention of % of ESL (english as a second language) students. There&#x27;s a very large population of ESL students in California that drag down these statistics as the students catch up.<p>If english isn&#x27;t your primary language, learning math that is taught in english will also be more difficult.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>WalterBright</author><text>&gt; If english isn&#x27;t your primary language, learning math that is taught in english will also be more difficult.<p>Having been in a German school for several months where I did not know German, the only subject I did well in was math. I&#x27;m not so sure your assertion is correct.</text></comment> |
28,142,781 | 28,142,769 | 1 | 2 | 28,141,203 | train | <story><title>An old hacker's tips on staying employed</title><url>https://madned.substack.com/p/an-old-hackers-tips-on-staying-employed</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tharne</author><text>In addition to ageism, I think the proliferation of the MBA&#x2F;McKinsey school of thought really works against older programmers. You have an increasing number of managers who have little to no domain knowledge around 1) Programming, and 2) whatever industry they happen to be working in. What&#x27;s worse, is that they see no problem with this because they think they &quot;understand business&quot;.<p>What this leads to is a lot of dumb decisions. One example in this case is that, to someone who&#x27;s never written a line of code, a 25 year-old developer is the same as a 50 year-old developer, but at half the cost and without the hassles of things like kids to take care of. You need to have a decent understanding of the work developers do, in order to understand the value the 50 year-old developer brings and why paying him or her 2 or 3x the 25 year-old is actually a bargain.</text></item><item><author>jes</author><text>I’m 61 and have been working in high tech since 1983 or so, writing embedded software, doing system administration, and managing people.<p>The article strikes me as good advice. I didn’t find anything to disagree with in it.<p>Ageism is a thing. People have all kinds of biases of which they may or may not be aware. You have them too, and so do I.<p>A line from another source that I keep in mind is this: “If you’re always getting angry, you’ll turn your nature against the Way.” [1] It doesn’t pay to be the angry, unapproachable person in life.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.dailyzen.com&#x2F;journal&#x2F;bloodstream-sermon" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.dailyzen.com&#x2F;journal&#x2F;bloodstream-sermon</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>wmeredith</author><text>&gt; You have an increasing number of managers who have little to no domain knowledge<p>After seeing this time and time again, and because I was getting older, I made a conscious decision to move into management. Be the change you want to see in the world, right? Now my output is mostly spreadsheets and powerpoint, but I enable my team to do good work as I insulate them from the bullshit. I can always get down into the trenches or work on a side project if I need to scratch that creative itch.</text></comment> | <story><title>An old hacker's tips on staying employed</title><url>https://madned.substack.com/p/an-old-hackers-tips-on-staying-employed</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tharne</author><text>In addition to ageism, I think the proliferation of the MBA&#x2F;McKinsey school of thought really works against older programmers. You have an increasing number of managers who have little to no domain knowledge around 1) Programming, and 2) whatever industry they happen to be working in. What&#x27;s worse, is that they see no problem with this because they think they &quot;understand business&quot;.<p>What this leads to is a lot of dumb decisions. One example in this case is that, to someone who&#x27;s never written a line of code, a 25 year-old developer is the same as a 50 year-old developer, but at half the cost and without the hassles of things like kids to take care of. You need to have a decent understanding of the work developers do, in order to understand the value the 50 year-old developer brings and why paying him or her 2 or 3x the 25 year-old is actually a bargain.</text></item><item><author>jes</author><text>I’m 61 and have been working in high tech since 1983 or so, writing embedded software, doing system administration, and managing people.<p>The article strikes me as good advice. I didn’t find anything to disagree with in it.<p>Ageism is a thing. People have all kinds of biases of which they may or may not be aware. You have them too, and so do I.<p>A line from another source that I keep in mind is this: “If you’re always getting angry, you’ll turn your nature against the Way.” [1] It doesn’t pay to be the angry, unapproachable person in life.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.dailyzen.com&#x2F;journal&#x2F;bloodstream-sermon" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.dailyzen.com&#x2F;journal&#x2F;bloodstream-sermon</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>joelbluminator</author><text>&gt; without the hassles of things like kids to take care of<p>That&#x27;s not accurate. At 35 there are young kids, maybe even 45. At 50 they&#x27;re pretty much independent, at least aged 10-12.
So actually, if you hire a 32 year old dev you should be more concerned about kids than if you hire a 50 year old.
So if that&#x27;s the concern, only hire 18 year olds I guess, or maybe even 15.</text></comment> |
32,785,002 | 32,784,919 | 1 | 2 | 32,784,491 | train | <story><title>Parallel Curves of Cubic Béziers</title><url>https://raphlinus.github.io/curves/2022/09/09/parallel-beziers.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>version_five</author><text>If you&#x27;re like me and first got hung up on the difference between a parallel curve and a translation of the curve, the wikipedia article (literally the first link) explains it.<p>My understanding is that a parallel curve is what you get if you dilate the curve with a circle, ie the curve along the furthest extent of the dilation (see the picture in the wikipedia article) which evidently is not the same as just translating the curve down.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Parallel_curve" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Parallel_curve</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>upwardbound</author><text>Yep. A way that helps me visualize it is that a parallel curve is what you need to make a set of railroad tracks. The tracks have to always be a constant distance apart <i>when measured along the direction locally perpendicular to the tracks - i.e. the direction of the train&#x27;s axle</i>.</text></comment> | <story><title>Parallel Curves of Cubic Béziers</title><url>https://raphlinus.github.io/curves/2022/09/09/parallel-beziers.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>version_five</author><text>If you&#x27;re like me and first got hung up on the difference between a parallel curve and a translation of the curve, the wikipedia article (literally the first link) explains it.<p>My understanding is that a parallel curve is what you get if you dilate the curve with a circle, ie the curve along the furthest extent of the dilation (see the picture in the wikipedia article) which evidently is not the same as just translating the curve down.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Parallel_curve" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Parallel_curve</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Jasper_</author><text>A simple counterexample to imagine is a curve that represents a circle (or a circular arc). The parallel curve to this is a scaling of the circle, with a bigger&#x2F;smaller radii, not a translation.</text></comment> |
15,320,554 | 15,319,745 | 1 | 3 | 15,319,476 | train | <story><title>EU suppressed results of a study that found piracy doesn’t harm sales</title><url>https://gizmodo.com/the-eu-suppressed-a-300-page-study-that-found-piracy-do-1818629537</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Toboe</author><text>Quality headline...<p>European Comission tries to hide study that piracy doesn&#x27;t harm sales, is foiled by member of European Parliament.<p>*
And technically it seems the study found it harms for Blockbuster movies, helps for games, does negligible harm for books and has no effect on music.<p>(Going by a German report on it[1])<p>[1]
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.heise.de&#x2F;newsticker&#x2F;meldung&#x2F;Auswirkungen-von-Raubkopien-EU-Kommission-unterdrueckt-Piraterie-Studie-3837330.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.heise.de&#x2F;newsticker&#x2F;meldung&#x2F;Auswirkungen-von-Rau...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>EU suppressed results of a study that found piracy doesn’t harm sales</title><url>https://gizmodo.com/the-eu-suppressed-a-300-page-study-that-found-piracy-do-1818629537</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>supernumerary</author><text>EU had to suppress the report. Because from their absolute point of view piracy harms sales. While the report argues that in fact it is now incorporated with a vanilla sales funnel - people who &#x27;don&#x27;t pirate&#x27; talk to people who &#x27;pirate&#x27;, and this &#x27;boosts sales&#x27; ...<p>Ultimately, it seems pirated materials are &#x27;free as in beer&#x27; ... and as the report concludes - in many cases, pirated films boost sales. To say nothing of the various personalities and corporate interests behind films for example that prosper from bare exposure, product placement, propaganda etc...<p>Incidentally, the same applies to software. I imagine by this time Adobe has a shadowy but no-less locked down funnel that teens enter when they first torrent and crack Photoshop...<p>Furthermore, it seems that the concept of piracy is fraught with mixed metaphors and improper comparisons, epitomized by the &#x27;You wouldn&#x27;t download a bear.&#x27; meme. These seem to be spawned by authority trying to leverage some moral sentiment without understanding the inter-relatedness of the cultural scene and the internet generally. Nevertheless this has created a general class of &#x27;law-abiders&#x27; or &#x27;normies&#x27; who might account for the people who ultimately purchase a product after being referred to it by a pirate.</text></comment> |
2,420,696 | 2,420,673 | 1 | 2 | 2,420,201 | train | <story><title>Life beyond HTTP 1.1: Google’s SPDY</title><url>http://www.igvita.com/2011/04/07/life-beyond-http-11-googles-spdy/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>drdaeman</author><text>Nice, but a bit worrysome. Is such binary protocol a Good Thing?<p>Ancient people — even though they hadn't much CPU, memory and network resources — in all their wisdom made high-level protocols text-oriented. Sure, they didn't consider everything (so we're still haunted with evil spirits of, for example, UTF-7 and quoted-printable), but overall design was simple yet perfectly functional. And anyone could use just a telnet client to talk to HTTP (FTP, SMTP, etc) server. With SPDY you can't do such thing anymore, you need specialized software.<p>I'm all for something like "Upgrade: SPDY"/"HTTP/1.1 101 Switching Protocols" (then binary framed message-oriented protocol goes into effect), but I somehow worried with binary-from-the-beginnig "HTTP 2.0". Maybe I'm just too conservative?<p>(Side question: If we want multiplexing streams so badly, why noone cares about SCTP? Is it flawed or inappropriate?)</text></comment> | <story><title>Life beyond HTTP 1.1: Google’s SPDY</title><url>http://www.igvita.com/2011/04/07/life-beyond-http-11-googles-spdy/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>henryprecheur</author><text>I don't like SPDY. It's trying to solve a transport problem at the application level. Plus it seems to be quite complex.<p>I'd love to see Google promote a transport protocol like SCTP[1], and do HTTP over SCTP instead. If Google pushed SCTP a little bit, we might see it pop on Linux and Windows within a few years.<p>[1]:<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stream_Control_Transmission_Protocol" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stream_Control_Transmission_Pro...</a></text></comment> |
39,475,605 | 39,475,113 | 1 | 2 | 39,473,592 | train | <story><title>Google Pay app will no longer be available</title><url>https://support.google.com/googlepay/answer/14555219?hl=en</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Macha</author><text>So in the beginning there was Android Pay, which later became Google Pay in the US and Europe.<p>For India, Google launched an app called Tez (and later renamed Google Pay) there which was more adapted for the India market, doing things like phone number identities and UPI integration.<p>This worked so well in India, that they promoted the head of the India app to be in charge of payments everywhere, and so his plan was to replace the global Google Pay with Indian Google Pay. They started with this in the US, and it flopped hard, both in terms of uptake and reviews. It turns out in many non-India markets (including the US) people don&#x27;t really want to accept the tradeoffs of phone number identities for anything that doesn&#x27;t directly compete with their SMS app.<p>So the leader responsible resigned, and the new leadership instead updated the old global Google Pay as Google Wallet. India stuck with Google Pay (formerly known as Tez) since that worked there, and the rest of the world never moved from Google Pay (fka Android Pay) to Google Pay (fka Tez), so only had a single Google Pay at one time. However, Google had now split their userbase across two apps so was scared to shut either there, so the US stayed in limbo for two years.<p>This is now resolving the US based limbo by shutting down Google Pay (fka Tez) in the US, so that the US joins Europe in only using Google Wallet (fka Google Pay fka Android Pay).<p>In short:<p>Before:<p>- India: Google Pay (fka Tez)<p>- Europe: Google Pay (fka Android Pay)<p>- US: Google Pay (fka Android Pay) and GPay (fka Tez)<p>After:<p>India: Google Pay (fka Tez)<p>US &amp; Europe: Google Wallet (fka Google Pay fka Android Pay)</text></item><item><author>mhitza</author><text>&gt; Common questions about these changes<p>Does not include a reason for this change or why is it a US only change.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>eitally</author><text>This should be the canonical answer pasted to the top. You forget to mention the head of Tez was actually based in Singapore, though, and Singapore was the one other country that was eligible for the &quot;new&quot; gPay.<p>What&#x27;s unclear to me, now as an outside, is whether or not Google is planning to migrate the actually useful features of gPay (p2p payments, payment&#x2F;expense tracking, loyalty&#x2F;discounts) to Wallet, or if Wallet is going to <i>only</i> host cards &amp; handle tap-to-pay. I certainly hope for the former, and if they weren&#x27;t going to that they&#x27;d have said so in the email.</text></comment> | <story><title>Google Pay app will no longer be available</title><url>https://support.google.com/googlepay/answer/14555219?hl=en</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Macha</author><text>So in the beginning there was Android Pay, which later became Google Pay in the US and Europe.<p>For India, Google launched an app called Tez (and later renamed Google Pay) there which was more adapted for the India market, doing things like phone number identities and UPI integration.<p>This worked so well in India, that they promoted the head of the India app to be in charge of payments everywhere, and so his plan was to replace the global Google Pay with Indian Google Pay. They started with this in the US, and it flopped hard, both in terms of uptake and reviews. It turns out in many non-India markets (including the US) people don&#x27;t really want to accept the tradeoffs of phone number identities for anything that doesn&#x27;t directly compete with their SMS app.<p>So the leader responsible resigned, and the new leadership instead updated the old global Google Pay as Google Wallet. India stuck with Google Pay (formerly known as Tez) since that worked there, and the rest of the world never moved from Google Pay (fka Android Pay) to Google Pay (fka Tez), so only had a single Google Pay at one time. However, Google had now split their userbase across two apps so was scared to shut either there, so the US stayed in limbo for two years.<p>This is now resolving the US based limbo by shutting down Google Pay (fka Tez) in the US, so that the US joins Europe in only using Google Wallet (fka Google Pay fka Android Pay).<p>In short:<p>Before:<p>- India: Google Pay (fka Tez)<p>- Europe: Google Pay (fka Android Pay)<p>- US: Google Pay (fka Android Pay) and GPay (fka Tez)<p>After:<p>India: Google Pay (fka Tez)<p>US &amp; Europe: Google Wallet (fka Google Pay fka Android Pay)</text></item><item><author>mhitza</author><text>&gt; Common questions about these changes<p>Does not include a reason for this change or why is it a US only change.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Shank</author><text>&gt; US &amp; Europe: Google Wallet (fka Google Pay fka Android Pay)<p>I think you’re missing an fka Google Wallet in that chain. Wikipedia has a family tree under the “History” section for <i>that</i> service (later renamed): <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Google_Pay_Send" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Google_Pay_Send</a></text></comment> |
20,028,679 | 20,027,261 | 1 | 2 | 20,018,756 | train | <story><title>There Is Too Much Stuff</title><url>https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2019/05/too-many-options/590185/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jen729w</author><text>I don’t want to come off as all holier-than-thou, and probably will, but here goes.<p>My girlfriend moved in with me about a year ago and, in the process, we cleaned out a lot of ‘stuff’. Personal stuff, kitchen stuff, knick-knack stuff, furniture stuff, memento stuff, clothes stuff ... just all the stuff that you accumulate as you move through life. (We’re both ~40.)<p>Since then, we’ve been very careful not to accumulate more stuff. I’m not exaggerating when I say that we deliberate over a new kitchen utensil. We don’t buy <i>anything</i> unnecessary.<p>It’s amazing. Our home is amazing. We live in a mid-sized apartment but it feels spacious because it’s not full of stuff. Life is simpler. There’s less to clean. What there is to clean is easier because—you guessed it—it’s not covered in stuff.<p>Buy less stuff. Throw most of your stuff away. You almost certainly don’t need it.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>coldtea</author><text>You might be interested in this 10 year old (well, ancient, but rebranded for millennials) trend called &quot;minimalism&quot;:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.becomingminimalist.com&#x2F;what-is-minimalism&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.becomingminimalist.com&#x2F;what-is-minimalism&#x2F;</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theminimalists.com&#x2F;archives&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theminimalists.com&#x2F;archives&#x2F;</a><p>And relevant vloggers:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=jrf_dMnatW0" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=jrf_dMnatW0</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=zVcwvCL2C2c" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=zVcwvCL2C2c</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;channel&#x2F;UCCZ40QwZtFs_7h5MZ0ZTTwg" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;channel&#x2F;UCCZ40QwZtFs_7h5MZ0ZTTwg</a><p>and so on...</text></comment> | <story><title>There Is Too Much Stuff</title><url>https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2019/05/too-many-options/590185/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jen729w</author><text>I don’t want to come off as all holier-than-thou, and probably will, but here goes.<p>My girlfriend moved in with me about a year ago and, in the process, we cleaned out a lot of ‘stuff’. Personal stuff, kitchen stuff, knick-knack stuff, furniture stuff, memento stuff, clothes stuff ... just all the stuff that you accumulate as you move through life. (We’re both ~40.)<p>Since then, we’ve been very careful not to accumulate more stuff. I’m not exaggerating when I say that we deliberate over a new kitchen utensil. We don’t buy <i>anything</i> unnecessary.<p>It’s amazing. Our home is amazing. We live in a mid-sized apartment but it feels spacious because it’s not full of stuff. Life is simpler. There’s less to clean. What there is to clean is easier because—you guessed it—it’s not covered in stuff.<p>Buy less stuff. Throw most of your stuff away. You almost certainly don’t need it.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tty2300</author><text>Sell or give away before throwing away. I have listed a bunch of stuff I don&#x27;t particularly want on eBay it costs me nothing and often someone near by eventually finds it and wants it. I recently sold something I listed in 2017.</text></comment> |
17,150,535 | 17,149,117 | 1 | 3 | 17,148,965 | train | <story><title>Apple Wins $539M from Samsung in Damages Retrial</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-05-24/apple-wins-539-million-from-samsung-in-damages-retrial</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>tooltalk</author><text>There is one important aspect of this re-trial many of you are missing. The case was already decided years ago against Samsung -- there is nothing more to debate on that end, however absurd the decision.<p>Now the new jury decided that those frivolous infringements amount to most of Samsung&#x27;s entire profit. In another word, Apple&#x27;s hometown jury decided that Apple&#x27;s patents rounded corners drove market demand for Samsung&#x27;s infringed device almost single-handedly - not their brilliants displays, battery, or even wireless radio functionality.<p>Needlessly to say, not only is it ridiculous to say that those frivolous few design components amounts to almost all of Samsung&#x27;s profit, this also sets extremely dangerous legal precedence. I could only imagine what future patent trolls with absurd design patents are going to look like now -- and, of course, Apple won&#x27;t be immune to this either. I can&#x27;t imagine any sane mind wanting this outcome (and yes that includes Apple&#x27;s own counsel).</text></comment> | <story><title>Apple Wins $539M from Samsung in Damages Retrial</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-05-24/apple-wins-539-million-from-samsung-in-damages-retrial</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>zik</author><text>They patented &quot;a grid of icons&quot; when it&#x27;s literally the first way you&#x27;d think of doing the UI - basically the definition of an &quot;obvious patent&quot;. Not to mention that it&#x27;d already been done that way many times before and was the standard thing on smartphones by that point. So both obvious and massive prior art.<p>For instance here&#x27;s a Nokia phone from 2005:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;phys.org&#x2F;news&#x2F;2005-03-nokia-3g-imaging-smartphone-shipping.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;phys.org&#x2F;news&#x2F;2005-03-nokia-3g-imaging-smartphone-sh...</a><p>And a Cingular branded HTC Windows phone from 2006:<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.flobee.net&#x2F;wp-content&#x2F;uploads&#x2F;cingular2125.jpg" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.flobee.net&#x2F;wp-content&#x2F;uploads&#x2F;cingular2125.jpg</a></text></comment> |
3,140,137 | 3,138,034 | 1 | 2 | 3,137,847 | train | <story><title>The Greatest Hacks of My Life</title><url>http://wesleytansey.com/the-10-greatest-hacks-of-my-life/</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>winsbe01</author><text>vending machine hacks, although both illegal and immoral, provide an immense source of joy in knowing that you _beat the system_, regardless of what treat may come out.<p>here's my biggest vending machine hack: freshman year in college, there was a vending machine in our dorm building. it wasn't cheap (obviously), but it got lots of use because it had something extra: a card reader for our IDs. if we pre-loaded our card with money, we could use it to buy sodas, snacks, and washer/dryer cycles. very convenient.<p>but the vending machine had a quirk: occasionally, for reasons unknown, it would just start spitting out coins. it was a pretty rare occurance (and a very exciting one) that it became known colloquially as "hitting the jackpot". every time we went to the machine, we would cross our fingers, hoping to "win".<p>while it seemed like a random occurance at first, i knew it couldn't be completely random, and i wanted to figure out _why_ it was happening. so i began investigating. whenever i went to the machine, i would try different combinations of buttons, choosing different rows/columns, but i couldn't recreate the behavior. accompanying my friends to the machine, i paid attention to how they were inputting their order (and if they subsequently "won") to try and figure it out.<p>after lots of observation, i found a pattern: everyone who ever won used their card to buy something. focusing on the card reader, i also found that these people had accidentally put their card in _incorrectly _ before righting it. with a theory loosely in place, i put some money on my card and gave it a whirl.<p>and it worked! here's the behavior: if you put your card in incorrectly, the machine couldn't read it because the stripe was on the wrong side, so it spit the card back out and flashed an error on the screen which would clear after a few seconds. while the error was showing, the machine would not accept your card. however, if you put your card in _immediately_ after the error cleared, here's what happened:<p>1. screen displays the amount of money on your card<p>2. choose your drink<p>3. drink is vended while the same amount of money is displayed (i.e. not subtracting the price of the drink.<p>4. the machine begins spitting out coins in the amount of your card value minus the price of the drink<p>5. the card is returned with the _original balance_ still intact<p>so, if i had $20 on my card, and i bought a powerade that costs $1.50, i would walk away from the machine with a powerade, $20 still on my card, and $18.50 in change.<p>horribly immoral and illegal? absolutely. however, i still feel immensely proud that i not only figured out what was happening, but how to reproduce it.</text></comment> | <story><title>The Greatest Hacks of My Life</title><url>http://wesleytansey.com/the-10-greatest-hacks-of-my-life/</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>markmccraw</author><text>Disclaimer: I'm a poker player and small time affiliate.<p>The poker related ones seem to venture well into the unethical or illegal category. That doesn't take away from the difficulty or cleverness of the hacks, but unlike the candy theft story, there is no acknowledgment that some of those things might have been unethical or illegal.<p>Edit: I now see the conclusion that notes the potential for illegality, but I feel like the body comes off as way too proud about aiding a scam of a business (the affiliate "arbitrage")</text></comment> |
3,091,095 | 3,090,859 | 1 | 2 | 3,090,695 | train | <story><title>Businessweek Magazine's Classy Tribute to Steve Jobs</title><url>http://www.socialcustomer.com/2011/10/steve-jobs-and-bloomberg-businessweek-magazine.html</url><text></text></story><parent_chain><item><author>woodgears</author><text>More likely, they had this issue prepared ahead of time. They, like most observers, knew it was coming. No ads simplifies the logistics of swapping out the issue.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ams1</author><text>Actually they didn't: <a href="https://twitter.com/bizweekdesign/status/121871973688160256" rel="nofollow">https://twitter.com/bizweekdesign/status/121871973688160256</a> and <a href="https://twitter.com/bizweekdesign/status/121918276459696129" rel="nofollow">https://twitter.com/bizweekdesign/status/121918276459696129</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Businessweek Magazine's Classy Tribute to Steve Jobs</title><url>http://www.socialcustomer.com/2011/10/steve-jobs-and-bloomberg-businessweek-magazine.html</url><text></text></story><parent_chain><item><author>woodgears</author><text>More likely, they had this issue prepared ahead of time. They, like most observers, knew it was coming. No ads simplifies the logistics of swapping out the issue.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>JonnieCache</author><text>All news organisations prepare obituaries and related content for famous figures in advance.<p>There's a classic piece of BBC lore about this, the story goes that the reason BBC staff are now no longer allowed to browse the library of preprepared obituary pieces is because Margaret Thatcher's tape was getting worn out from being watched and re-watched too many times.</text></comment> |
40,600,266 | 40,599,026 | 1 | 2 | 40,595,920 | train | <story><title>Don Estridge: A misfit who built the IBM PC</title><url>https://every.to/the-crazy-ones/the-misfit-who-built-the-ibm-pc</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>phkahler</author><text>&gt;&gt; His divisional heads always had the same answer. Microcomputers—home computing—were a fad. They were low-cost and low-profit. Let others scrabble around in the metaphorical dirt of home computing. The real money was in the markets that IBM’s divisions already dominated—selling vast mainframes and minicomputer systems to large businesses. Cary was even told to buy Atari, which by then had established itself as America’s home video game system of choice. That’s all home computers were good for: gaming.<p>This attitude was so short sighted. A friend of mines dad was using their Apple II for work-related spreadsheets and thought it was the greatest this ever. Not sure how IBM folks could not see this opportunity just because it was smaller scale than &quot;what they did&quot;. 20 years later Intel seemed to have missed the mobile market due to a similar attitude.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dkarl</author><text>None of those division heads were trying to honestly assess the microcomputer market. They were trying to stay in harmony with opinion at their level and higher in IBM.<p>That&#x27;s what you get at that level in a company that big. Anyone who is two or more levels from the top of the org chart and also two or more levels from the bottom lives in a reality that consists entirely of the attitudes and opinions of other people, weighted by each person&#x27;s ability to impact their career. If they saw that the building they were in was on fire, their thought process would go something like: &quot;Bob isn&#x27;t here today because he&#x27;s at that sales meeting. When he hears about the fire he&#x27;ll downplay it as something minor, so I shouldn&#x27;t evacuate or he&#x27;ll think less of me. But Bob&#x27;s boss Don is here. If Don evacuates and I don&#x27;t, that might Don feel embarrassed and emasculated, and he&#x27;ll take it out on Bob. So I need to evacuate if and only if Don evacuates. Bob won&#x27;t mind me evacuating if Don does it. But Don&#x27;s office is on the other side of that wall of approaching flames. Shit. My only chance is if he&#x27;s in a meeting on this side of the building, so I can track him down and see what he&#x27;s doing. Let me check his calendar real quick....&quot;</text></comment> | <story><title>Don Estridge: A misfit who built the IBM PC</title><url>https://every.to/the-crazy-ones/the-misfit-who-built-the-ibm-pc</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>phkahler</author><text>&gt;&gt; His divisional heads always had the same answer. Microcomputers—home computing—were a fad. They were low-cost and low-profit. Let others scrabble around in the metaphorical dirt of home computing. The real money was in the markets that IBM’s divisions already dominated—selling vast mainframes and minicomputer systems to large businesses. Cary was even told to buy Atari, which by then had established itself as America’s home video game system of choice. That’s all home computers were good for: gaming.<p>This attitude was so short sighted. A friend of mines dad was using their Apple II for work-related spreadsheets and thought it was the greatest this ever. Not sure how IBM folks could not see this opportunity just because it was smaller scale than &quot;what they did&quot;. 20 years later Intel seemed to have missed the mobile market due to a similar attitude.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>LaundroMat</author><text>It&#x27;s close to what Clayton Christensen describes as disruptive innovation (his examples were the steel industry and radio&#x27;s): incumbents are forced higher up the chain by low quality competitors (&quot;home computers are only good for gaming&quot;) that answer an unanswered need well enough.
Once these competitors gain a foothold, quality improves and incumbents have less and less of a market.</text></comment> |
12,502,233 | 12,502,148 | 1 | 2 | 12,501,776 | train | <story><title>Arch Linux adapted for Windows Subsystem for Linux</title><url>https://github.com/turbo/alwsl/tree/dev</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Longhanks</author><text>If your hardware supports it, you may be able to pull a 180 and run a Windows VM on the bare metal using hardware passthrough. There&#x27;s a great community here: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;vfio" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;vfio</a></text></item><item><author>kozikow</author><text>I am currently dual booting between Arch Linux and Windows 10.<p>Moving to something like this one day makes me conflicted. On one hand I feel like I would betray open source, on the other hand I wouldn&#x27;t have to restart my machine to play games...</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>virtuallynathan</author><text>I do this, works great. Get &gt;95% of native perf out of my GTX1070.</text></comment> | <story><title>Arch Linux adapted for Windows Subsystem for Linux</title><url>https://github.com/turbo/alwsl/tree/dev</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Longhanks</author><text>If your hardware supports it, you may be able to pull a 180 and run a Windows VM on the bare metal using hardware passthrough. There&#x27;s a great community here: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;vfio" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;vfio</a></text></item><item><author>kozikow</author><text>I am currently dual booting between Arch Linux and Windows 10.<p>Moving to something like this one day makes me conflicted. On one hand I feel like I would betray open source, on the other hand I wouldn&#x27;t have to restart my machine to play games...</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Kenji</author><text>Wow, that works? Video games are pretty much the last thing that holds me on Windows. Everything else is solved on Linux. I am very interested in any solution for this problem.</text></comment> |
24,462,036 | 24,461,983 | 1 | 2 | 24,461,157 | train | <story><title>All Python versions less than 3.6 are now EOL</title><url>https://devguide.python.org/#status-of-python-branches</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>epistasis</author><text>About every other month I have to help a biologist who has pulled down an older program from Github debug why it broke in their data only to find that they were trying to run in Python 3 instead of Python 2. These are people that can write shell scripts, but don&#x27;t program. It makes me aware of all the old code out there that is not used super frequently, but still solves people&#x27;s problems, and would continue to if there hadn&#x27;t been breaking changes.<p>As I write Python 3 now, I am less than impressed with the reasons for breaking compatibility. I&#x27;m told that it was necessary for proper bug-free Unicode code, but there&#x27;s enough difficulty when using, say, gzip, and little enough documentation about the &quot;proper&quot; way to handle Unicode that I doubt that it will actually reduce Unicode-related bugs.<p>Python is still a great tool, but Python 3 really took the shine off for me.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jghn</author><text>I struggle with this whenever I think about it. On one hand I agree with all of the points you make. But on the other hand, it didn&#x27;t have to be this way. Python 3 has been out for 12 years now. If people hadn&#x27;t dragged their feet on converting the mess wouldn&#x27;t be nearly as large as it wound up being.</text></comment> | <story><title>All Python versions less than 3.6 are now EOL</title><url>https://devguide.python.org/#status-of-python-branches</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>epistasis</author><text>About every other month I have to help a biologist who has pulled down an older program from Github debug why it broke in their data only to find that they were trying to run in Python 3 instead of Python 2. These are people that can write shell scripts, but don&#x27;t program. It makes me aware of all the old code out there that is not used super frequently, but still solves people&#x27;s problems, and would continue to if there hadn&#x27;t been breaking changes.<p>As I write Python 3 now, I am less than impressed with the reasons for breaking compatibility. I&#x27;m told that it was necessary for proper bug-free Unicode code, but there&#x27;s enough difficulty when using, say, gzip, and little enough documentation about the &quot;proper&quot; way to handle Unicode that I doubt that it will actually reduce Unicode-related bugs.<p>Python is still a great tool, but Python 3 really took the shine off for me.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jbay808</author><text>When I was first starting, I almost gave up on Python because the print &quot;Hello world&quot; script that I copy-pasted from an online tutorial failed to run.<p>The hardest part (for me) of getting started with a new language is setting up the environment to run properly... Installing libraries, configuring environment variables, pointing the IDE to the interpreter, etc. So of course that&#x27;s where I assumed my mistake was.<p>It was only much later that I realized that I was running Python 3 (newer is better right?) and the tutorial was written when Python 2 was the latest version. So the print statements changed.<p>And of course, &quot;print&quot; is in everyone&#x27;s first program. So it broke the experience for all first time users.</text></comment> |
11,973,320 | 11,972,187 | 1 | 2 | 11,971,346 | train | <story><title>The FBI Is Classifying Its Tor Browser Exploit</title><url>https://motherboard.vice.com/read/the-fbi-is-classifying-its-tor-browser-exploit</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>f00_</author><text>Why is Tor Browser still using FF instead of Chrome or something?<p>A sandbox is necessary, and I&#x27;m 100% sure there are a ton of 0-days in all browsers.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ikeboy</author><text><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.torproject.org&#x2F;docs&#x2F;faq#TBBOtherBrowser" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.torproject.org&#x2F;docs&#x2F;faq#TBBOtherBrowser</a><p>&gt;Our efforts to work with the Chrome team to add missing APIs were unsuccessful, unfortunately. Currently, it is impossible to use other browsers and get the same level of protections as when using the Tor Browser.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.torproject.org&#x2F;blog&#x2F;google-chrome-incognito-mode-tor-and-fingerprinting" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.torproject.org&#x2F;blog&#x2F;google-chrome-incognito-mod...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>The FBI Is Classifying Its Tor Browser Exploit</title><url>https://motherboard.vice.com/read/the-fbi-is-classifying-its-tor-browser-exploit</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>f00_</author><text>Why is Tor Browser still using FF instead of Chrome or something?<p>A sandbox is necessary, and I&#x27;m 100% sure there are a ton of 0-days in all browsers.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kolme</author><text>Chrome is not even open source. They can&#x27;t use it.<p>If you&#x27;re referring to Chromium, well, what makes you think it&#x27;s more secure than Firefox?<p>Also, don&#x27;t you think that the developers of the Tor browser are pretty security-aware? That they might make very well informed decisions?</text></comment> |
27,374,958 | 27,375,164 | 1 | 3 | 27,372,930 | train | <story><title>Super Mario Bros: The Human Limit</title><url>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7rIJNT7dCmE</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>oceliker</author><text>It wouldn&#x27;t be a SMB speedrun video if it didn&#x27;t have the bus analogy.<p>Jokes aside, Summoning Salt is a great Youtube channel, and it makes me feel emotionally invested in speedruns of games I&#x27;ve never heard of before. Great storytelling. Not to mention that speedruns (and the glitches people find to get world record times) are pretty interesting from a computer science standpoint.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bcrescimanno</author><text>Came here to add comments about Summoning Salt as well. I don&#x27;t follow speedruns at all; but, I really love his work and I absolutely echo the sentiment that he will get you emotionally invested in his content.<p>As an interesting aside, not only does he make great documentary style videos about Speed running, he also happens to be the current (as of June 2021) world record holder for Mike Tyson&#x27;s Punch-Out!<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.speedrun.com&#x2F;user&#x2F;Summoningsalt" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.speedrun.com&#x2F;user&#x2F;Summoningsalt</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Super Mario Bros: The Human Limit</title><url>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7rIJNT7dCmE</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>oceliker</author><text>It wouldn&#x27;t be a SMB speedrun video if it didn&#x27;t have the bus analogy.<p>Jokes aside, Summoning Salt is a great Youtube channel, and it makes me feel emotionally invested in speedruns of games I&#x27;ve never heard of before. Great storytelling. Not to mention that speedruns (and the glitches people find to get world record times) are pretty interesting from a computer science standpoint.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>seventytwo</author><text>I found it to be very similar to science at large - the idea that there’s a community nibbling away at the edges of the unoknown, working in collaboration (and some competition) to maximize something.</text></comment> |
38,846,825 | 38,846,453 | 1 | 2 | 38,845,461 | train | <story><title>First do it, then do it right, then do it better</title><url>https://twitter.com/addyosmani/status/1739052802314539371</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>j1elo</author><text>On the other hand, in software-related matters, I have the increasing feeling that kludges and temporary decisions made in the &quot;First do it&quot; stage, tend to get carried on to infinity through the other phases.<p>Thus, lots of stuff that falls in the &quot;Important, but Not Urgent&quot; category of the Eisenhower Matrix end up never getting its proper development time. One could argue &quot;well, then maybe they weren&#x27;t actually that important, were they?&quot; but I&#x27;d reply that usually the criteria to define something as important is measured with growth potential, and that&#x27;s the wrong bar to use.<p>That&#x27;s how we end up with &quot;we&#x27;ll build it in Electron for the time being and later will rebuild in proper native apps if the idea works&quot; ends up being still Electron 10 years later. Or how &quot;we&#x27;ll make our own controls and later worry about accessibility&quot; turns out never worrying about it.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>uuddlrlrbaba</author><text>Because more often than not good enough <i>is</i> good enough. Electron is a great example. Look at the market share of slack, discord, spotify, etc.<p>Optimizing as step one is a very good way to not ship on time and miss opportunities to competition.</text></comment> | <story><title>First do it, then do it right, then do it better</title><url>https://twitter.com/addyosmani/status/1739052802314539371</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>j1elo</author><text>On the other hand, in software-related matters, I have the increasing feeling that kludges and temporary decisions made in the &quot;First do it&quot; stage, tend to get carried on to infinity through the other phases.<p>Thus, lots of stuff that falls in the &quot;Important, but Not Urgent&quot; category of the Eisenhower Matrix end up never getting its proper development time. One could argue &quot;well, then maybe they weren&#x27;t actually that important, were they?&quot; but I&#x27;d reply that usually the criteria to define something as important is measured with growth potential, and that&#x27;s the wrong bar to use.<p>That&#x27;s how we end up with &quot;we&#x27;ll build it in Electron for the time being and later will rebuild in proper native apps if the idea works&quot; ends up being still Electron 10 years later. Or how &quot;we&#x27;ll make our own controls and later worry about accessibility&quot; turns out never worrying about it.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jamiek88</author><text>I don’t think that’s specific to software.<p>After all the phrase ‘there’s nothing so permanent as a temporary repair’ comes from construction.<p>I think the difference is rules and licensing were created around physical repairs and construction because of the human tendency to ‘good enough’ it.<p>And to be fair software that has the same safety importance as bridge sturcutural calculations does have a level of scrutiny around it commensurate with its importance, see NASA and their caution and flight &#x2F; avionics software for aircraft etc.</text></comment> |
29,243,202 | 29,241,418 | 1 | 3 | 29,240,952 | train | <story><title>I will pay you cash to delete your NPM module</title><url>https://drewdevault.com/2021/11/16/Cash-for-leftpad.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>nyx_land</author><text>This is such an important topic that feels like it&#x27;s hardly ever talked about. In the common lisp world, it&#x27;s pretty much a cultural norm to use as few dependencies as possible and stick close to the spec, because part of the strength of CL lies in it having an extremely stable spec with a lot of high quality implementations. Adding dependencies reduces the stability of your project and potentially its portability, which are both serious downsides to consider that are worthy of auditing. Also, in my personal opinion, another strength of CL is that you can get a lot done with far less, which usually makes relying on third party dependencies less necessary, and you can consequently usually fit other people&#x27;s code in your head pretty easily.<p>In the nightmare hellscape of mainstream languages like JS and Python on the other hand, it&#x27;s common practice for projects to have dozens, hundreds, even thousands of dependencies -- and that&#x27;s without even taking into consideration the dependencies of those dependencies, and then furthermore whether those dependencies are pinned. But since this is JS or Python, the dependencies are almost certainly pinned, which causes even more headaches that makes packaging software in a reproducible and auditable way practically impossible for certain languages. And since there&#x27;s no stable spec and usually only one implementation, no one thinks about portability at all either; you get what you get and if you&#x27;re lucky it&#x27;s not impossible to port to an OS other than Linux. This problem of portability is only compounded on by the potentially massive amount of dependencies some of these projects will have. I don&#x27;t understand how anyone lives like this but people really need to start being more responsible with the code they put out into the world.<p>Or one could just take up Drew&#x27;s satirical software eco-terrorism as the only possible viable praxis for abolishing the present state of software development...</text></comment> | <story><title>I will pay you cash to delete your NPM module</title><url>https://drewdevault.com/2021/11/16/Cash-for-leftpad.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>stu2010</author><text>You cannot actually do this at npmjs.org, regularly used packages can only be marked &quot;deprecated&quot; now: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;docs.npmjs.com&#x2F;policies&#x2F;unpublish" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;docs.npmjs.com&#x2F;policies&#x2F;unpublish</a></text></comment> |
6,831,107 | 6,831,078 | 1 | 3 | 6,830,566 | train | <story><title>Amazon Prime Air</title><url>http://www.amazon.com/b?ref_=tsm_1_tw_s_amzn_mx3eqp&node=8037720011</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>kyro</author><text>This concept and forward thinking is of the type I make a conscious effort to protect from skepticism and naysayers. Aside from any obvious or glaring safety issues, ideas like this one, that teeter on the reality-joke line, are the exact ones that bring about true disruption. And that&#x27;s why I encourage everyone around me to keep an open and forgiving mind, like you would with a child.<p>Will Amazon Prime Air work? I don&#x27;t know, but I hope so.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ruswick</author><text>Agreed. So far, I&#x27;ve seen nothing but specious fear-mongering and nonsensical &quot;what-if&quot; arguments against this thing.<p>I can understand why people doubt the feasibility of drone delivery, especially given the legal impediments to adoption. Frankly, I doubt that this type of service will be practical within four years. What I can&#x27;t understand is why people openly reject the <i>idea</i> of drones.<p>I don&#x27;t see how Prime Air is any less safe or efficient than sending thousands of five-ton metal boxes barreling down residential streets. I don&#x27;t see why a five-pound piece of plastic falling from the sky poses an appreciably greater risk than a branch falling on you. I don&#x27;t see how people can draw parallels between small, low-altitude consumer drones and military UAVs. The level of fear surrounding this announcement makes no sense.<p>The response to Prime Air goes far beyond skepticism. It&#x27;s incoherent, fanatical pessimism, and it&#x27;s really dissapointing.</text></comment> | <story><title>Amazon Prime Air</title><url>http://www.amazon.com/b?ref_=tsm_1_tw_s_amzn_mx3eqp&node=8037720011</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>kyro</author><text>This concept and forward thinking is of the type I make a conscious effort to protect from skepticism and naysayers. Aside from any obvious or glaring safety issues, ideas like this one, that teeter on the reality-joke line, are the exact ones that bring about true disruption. And that&#x27;s why I encourage everyone around me to keep an open and forgiving mind, like you would with a child.<p>Will Amazon Prime Air work? I don&#x27;t know, but I hope so.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dakrisht</author><text>Well said. It&#x27;s original thinking like this that moves us forward as a human race. And in order to move forward, you have to take huge risks, face uncertainty and do whatever you can to prove everyone wrong.</text></comment> |
22,432,197 | 22,431,903 | 1 | 3 | 22,429,809 | train | <story><title>Show HN: Base24 binary-to-text encoding for humans</title><url>https://www.kuon.ch/post/2020-02-27-base24/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>wp381640</author><text>Microsoft product keys were base-24 with the following alphabet:<p>&gt; B C D F G H J K M P Q R T V W X Y 2 3 4 6 7 8 9<p>they were 115 bits encoded in 24 characters<p>see also human-oriented base32 encoding:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;philzimmermann.com&#x2F;docs&#x2F;human-oriented-base-32-encoding.txt" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;philzimmermann.com&#x2F;docs&#x2F;human-oriented-base-32-encod...</a><p>which includes this nice trick:<p>&gt; We have permuted the alphabet to make the more commonly occuring characters also be those that we think are easier to read, write, speak, and remember.<p>edit: to add, an interesting human-readable and memorable base52 alphabet that I&#x27;ve never found a use for is to use playing cards</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>VMG</author><text>See also Bech32 which includes error correction and detection:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;bitcoin&#x2F;bips&#x2F;blob&#x2F;master&#x2F;bip-0173.mediawiki#bech32" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;bitcoin&#x2F;bips&#x2F;blob&#x2F;master&#x2F;bip-0173.mediawi...</a><p>&gt; Why not use an existing character set like RFC3548 or z-base-32? The character set is chosen to minimize ambiguity according to this visual similarity data, and the ordering is chosen to minimize the number of pairs of similar characters (according to the same data) that differ in more than 1 bit. As the checksum is chosen to maximize detection capabilities for low numbers of bit errors, this choice improves its performance under some error models.</text></comment> | <story><title>Show HN: Base24 binary-to-text encoding for humans</title><url>https://www.kuon.ch/post/2020-02-27-base24/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>wp381640</author><text>Microsoft product keys were base-24 with the following alphabet:<p>&gt; B C D F G H J K M P Q R T V W X Y 2 3 4 6 7 8 9<p>they were 115 bits encoded in 24 characters<p>see also human-oriented base32 encoding:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;philzimmermann.com&#x2F;docs&#x2F;human-oriented-base-32-encoding.txt" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;philzimmermann.com&#x2F;docs&#x2F;human-oriented-base-32-encod...</a><p>which includes this nice trick:<p>&gt; We have permuted the alphabet to make the more commonly occuring characters also be those that we think are easier to read, write, speak, and remember.<p>edit: to add, an interesting human-readable and memorable base52 alphabet that I&#x27;ve never found a use for is to use playing cards</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Fnoord</author><text>&gt; We have permuted the alphabet to make the more commonly occuring characters also be those that we think are easier to read, write, speak, and remember.<p>Basically they removed vowels (except for y, if it counts as one) as non-vowels often include a vowel in their sound. A fact reinforced while teaching my toddler daughter letters, words, and numbers. On top of that, they removed l&#x2F;1(&#x2F;i, and also o&#x2F;0), m&#x2F;n, s&#x2F;5, z. Not sure why they removed z. Perhaps because of 2?<p>I&#x27;m not sure this is universal either, sound-wise. I suppose it does count for English. Because 7 (&quot;zeven&quot;) and 9 (&quot;negen&quot;) in Dutch get confused when spoken, some people say &quot;zeuven&quot; instead of &quot;zeven&quot;.</text></comment> |
4,071,276 | 4,071,285 | 1 | 3 | 4,070,798 | train | <story><title>Loading half a billion rows into MySQL</title><url>http://derwiki.tumblr.com/post/24490758395/loading-half-a-billion-rows-into-mysql</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>alexatkeplar</author><text>Assuming your event data is immutable (i.e. no UPDATEs, just INSERTs), you'd probably have fewer headaches long-term if you just dumped the database to flatfiles, stored in HDFS and queried using Hive (which has MySQLish query syntax anyway). This architecture will take you to billions of rows quite happily.<p>This is the architecture we use for eventstream analysis at SnowPlow (<a href="https://github.com/snowplow/snowplow" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/snowplow/snowplow</a>).</text></comment> | <story><title>Loading half a billion rows into MySQL</title><url>http://derwiki.tumblr.com/post/24490758395/loading-half-a-billion-rows-into-mysql</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>spudlyo</author><text><i>I saw chunk load time increase from 1m40s to around an hour per million inserts.</i><p>Your insert performance falls off a cliff when a majority of the index pages for the table no longer fit into the innodb buffer pool. After that happens, there is gonna be a bunch of random i/o. You can solve this problem by using partitioning, that way only a single partition's worth of index pages need to fit into the buffer pool to keep inserts into that partition fast. Of course you have to size your partitions accordingly.<p>A few other tips. Disable fsync() at commit entirely. Set innodb_flush_log_at_trx_commit=0. If you crash curing the data load, start over. Set your transaction logs to be as large as possible, which is usually 4G.</text></comment> |
11,408,889 | 11,408,043 | 1 | 2 | 11,407,289 | train | <story><title>Squash your commits</title><url>https://github.com/blog/2141-squash-your-commits</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>phasmantistes</author><text>I actually disagree. Large teams that still have linear commit histories doesn&#x27;t mean it is a lie. It means that the <i>code review</i> process is more important that the <i>code writing</i> process.<p>For example: I check out a repository, and create a local feature branch. I create a commit containing the tests for the new feature, then one for the first draft of the new feature, then two or three for bugfixes. Each commit is small, and self-contained, but importantly <i>isn&#x27;t standalone</i>. If someone checked out the repository in the middle of my chain of commits, they wouldn&#x27;t have a working product. Then I upload my change for code review. There&#x27;s no point in reviewing each of my ~5 commits individually: they only make sense to the reviewer as a combined unit. And there&#x27;s no point in landing them individually: they only make sense for the overall project history as a combined unit.<p>In a project with many developers (e.g. 1,000 like the Chromium project), every developer has different local practices. Some keep their work based on HEAD of master via rebase, others via merges. Some do test-driven development, some don&#x27;t. Making the code review the atomic unit of work, rather than the messy string of local commits, helps the project enforce common etiquette, commit formatting, and readable history.</text></item><item><author>WorldMaker</author><text>Sometimes I feel like it&#x27;s a minority position, but I think it strange all the efforts people go to in order to essentially make the git DAG look like a (lie of a) straight-line CVS or SVN commit list. Seeing how the sausage was actually made (no rebases, no squashes, sometimes not even fast-forwards) isn&#x27;t pretty, but it is <i>meaningful</i> and will tell you a great deal about a project and its developers... I trust that. It&#x27;s real and visceral and how software is actually made and you can learn from that or find things to explore in that jungle. Projects with multiple developers that yet have straight line commit histories and super tidy commits are aberrations and full of little lies...<p>Kudos to GitHub for providing this feature that a lot of people have asked for. I obviously don&#x27;t plan to use it, but I appreciate that it&#x27;s an option for those people that like their small, harmless lies. ;)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>sulam</author><text>caveat: I was responsible for code review for 2000+ developers.<p>We only allowed squash commits on master because of what you&#x27;re describing. That is the level where history &quot;made sense&quot;. However, for code review, we wanted to support both styles, because there is an advantage sometimes to seeing the sausage being made. For instance someone will refactor something -- maybe change a method name. Then they apply that refactoring at all the call sites. Very conscientious developers would break this into two commits. We didn&#x27;t want the first commit on master, but it made sense to <i>review</i> this way, because it was easier on the reviewers: change, effect of change on everything else.<p>I call this &quot;telling a story&quot; with your commits. There&#x27;s a lot of value in that style if you have the time to do it.<p>The other style of commit-by-commit reviewing, where I see all of the work in progress commits, I don&#x27;t find valuable at all and I _definitely_ don&#x27;t want to see on master.</text></comment> | <story><title>Squash your commits</title><url>https://github.com/blog/2141-squash-your-commits</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>phasmantistes</author><text>I actually disagree. Large teams that still have linear commit histories doesn&#x27;t mean it is a lie. It means that the <i>code review</i> process is more important that the <i>code writing</i> process.<p>For example: I check out a repository, and create a local feature branch. I create a commit containing the tests for the new feature, then one for the first draft of the new feature, then two or three for bugfixes. Each commit is small, and self-contained, but importantly <i>isn&#x27;t standalone</i>. If someone checked out the repository in the middle of my chain of commits, they wouldn&#x27;t have a working product. Then I upload my change for code review. There&#x27;s no point in reviewing each of my ~5 commits individually: they only make sense to the reviewer as a combined unit. And there&#x27;s no point in landing them individually: they only make sense for the overall project history as a combined unit.<p>In a project with many developers (e.g. 1,000 like the Chromium project), every developer has different local practices. Some keep their work based on HEAD of master via rebase, others via merges. Some do test-driven development, some don&#x27;t. Making the code review the atomic unit of work, rather than the messy string of local commits, helps the project enforce common etiquette, commit formatting, and readable history.</text></item><item><author>WorldMaker</author><text>Sometimes I feel like it&#x27;s a minority position, but I think it strange all the efforts people go to in order to essentially make the git DAG look like a (lie of a) straight-line CVS or SVN commit list. Seeing how the sausage was actually made (no rebases, no squashes, sometimes not even fast-forwards) isn&#x27;t pretty, but it is <i>meaningful</i> and will tell you a great deal about a project and its developers... I trust that. It&#x27;s real and visceral and how software is actually made and you can learn from that or find things to explore in that jungle. Projects with multiple developers that yet have straight line commit histories and super tidy commits are aberrations and full of little lies...<p>Kudos to GitHub for providing this feature that a lot of people have asked for. I obviously don&#x27;t plan to use it, but I appreciate that it&#x27;s an option for those people that like their small, harmless lies. ;)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jldugger</author><text>&gt; It means that the code review process is more important that the code writing process.<p>If that were true, the optimal solution is PRs with individual commits that all pass testing. I find it much easier to review a series of small changes for logical correctness than mashing them together into a single PR. Github recently added this as a feature, so I&#x27;m not in a completely invisible minority there.<p>And then, when the review is over, having discreet commits makes git bisecting down to the commit that broke the system more granular.</text></comment> |
12,217,622 | 12,216,030 | 1 | 2 | 12,215,490 | train | <story><title>The Canadian Housing Boom Fueled by China’s Billionaires</title><url>http://www.bloomberg.com/features/2016-vancouver-real-estate-market/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>lpaone</author><text>What isn&#x27;t talked about in this article is the effect this is having on the other industries in the city aside from real estate.<p>I believe that Vancouver has potential to be THE tech hub in Canada. Unfortunately, wages are very low compared to the cost of housing, and so the cost of living is super high. Combine that with extremely low vacancy rates, and it is very hard to attract talent from out of town. In fact, many young, smart and talented people just head south to Seattle or the valley because the wages are so much higher, and the economics of staying in Vancouver just don&#x27;t make sense.<p>The other industries that could be thriving and building up a real economy in city are some of the biggest casualties in this whole mess. Unfortunately, all of the politicians from municipal to provincial are in bed with the real estate industry, so nothing truly effective and meaningful will be done.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jlos</author><text>&gt;&gt; In fact, many young, smart and talented people just head south to Seattle or the valley because the wages are so much higher, and the economics of staying in Vancouver just don&#x27;t make sense.<p>Your claim is especially true if those people have families. 60% of Families said they planned on leaving the city in the next year due to the problems surrounding housing. Rental rates are also a problem with only a 0.6% vacancy rates and of those available only 16% are 2 bedroom and less than 1% are three bedroom.(1)<p>(1) <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theglobeandmail.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;british-columbia&#x2F;families-particularly-vulnerable-to-vancouvers-tight-rentalmarket&#x2F;article31222332&#x2F;?service=mobile" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theglobeandmail.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;british-columbia&#x2F;familie...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>The Canadian Housing Boom Fueled by China’s Billionaires</title><url>http://www.bloomberg.com/features/2016-vancouver-real-estate-market/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>lpaone</author><text>What isn&#x27;t talked about in this article is the effect this is having on the other industries in the city aside from real estate.<p>I believe that Vancouver has potential to be THE tech hub in Canada. Unfortunately, wages are very low compared to the cost of housing, and so the cost of living is super high. Combine that with extremely low vacancy rates, and it is very hard to attract talent from out of town. In fact, many young, smart and talented people just head south to Seattle or the valley because the wages are so much higher, and the economics of staying in Vancouver just don&#x27;t make sense.<p>The other industries that could be thriving and building up a real economy in city are some of the biggest casualties in this whole mess. Unfortunately, all of the politicians from municipal to provincial are in bed with the real estate industry, so nothing truly effective and meaningful will be done.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Mikeb85</author><text>Unfortunately in Canada we&#x27;ve gone for easy money (real estate in Vancouver, oil in Alberta) before trying to establish actual industries. We&#x27;d rather just grab US and Chinese cash then vacation in Mexico than actually work.</text></comment> |
8,582,898 | 8,581,886 | 1 | 2 | 8,581,546 | train | <story><title>Someone Is Crawling TorHS Directories: Honeypot</title><url>https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-talk/2014-September/034751.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>danbruc</author><text>Here [1] is some research on enumerating hidden services. It would be shocking to me if no one would regularly enumerate hidden services given how cheap it may be.<p><i>We have demonstrated that collecting the descriptors of all Tor hidden services is
possible in approximately 2 days by spending less than USD 100 in Amazon EC2 resources.</i><p>As far as I know this will no longer work because Tor implemented appropriate changes but there are probably other ways to do it.<p>[1] <a href="http://www.ieee-security.org/TC/SP2013/papers/4977a080.pdf" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ieee-security.org&#x2F;TC&#x2F;SP2013&#x2F;papers&#x2F;4977a080.pdf</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Someone Is Crawling TorHS Directories: Honeypot</title><url>https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-talk/2014-September/034751.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>MichaelGG</author><text>Why <i>must</i> this be malicious? It could be a researcher, or someone interested in building a hidden service index, etc.</text></comment> |
5,418,522 | 5,418,360 | 1 | 2 | 5,417,736 | train | <story><title>SendGrid Fires Company Evangelist After Twitter Fracas</title><url>http://mashable.com/2013/03/21/sendgrid-fires-adria-richards/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>nilkn</author><text>I'm honestly curious what this even has to do with women. That's what puzzles me most about this whole incident.<p>Maybe I'm insensitive or ignorant. I'll admit it if that's the case and learn. Right now, though, I just don't get it. I just don't see how a dongle joke is sexist. It's <i>anatomical</i>. It might have some mild sexual undertone, but there's a huge difference between sexism and a sexual undertone--they aren't the same thing at all.<p>Maybe if I heard the exact joke it would help. But I've heard just as many penis jokes from women as I have men.</text></item><item><author>salman89</author><text>"I would feel really uncomfortable if I was in the same room as this person. What if I accidentally say something that she finds offensive? Am I next?"<p>I'm not agreeing with anything Adria did, but the issue of being labeled as the "tattletale" probably plays a big part in most women's reluctance to report real harassment.</text></item><item><author>blhack</author><text>I really wish that this whole thing could have ended amicably (perhaps with Adria apologizing to the devs [by the way, the guy who was fired <i>has</i> already publicly apologized]).<p>It's too bad that sendgrid had to fire her, I would never wish that somebody had their livlihood taken from them like that, but her job was to be a developer evangelist, which is a job she isn't realistically capable of performing anymore.<p>I would feel <i>really uncomfortable</i> if I was in the same room as this person. What if I accidentally say something that she finds offensive? Am I next?<p>And honestly, she can't even function as a sort of "women's tech evangelist" anymore. Most [all, actually] of the women I've talked to about this are <i>furious</i> with her over how badly this portrays women.<p>It sucks...but this is on par with firing a dev who can't program.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dfxm12</author><text>You're correct. This isn't about women, just one woman in particular.<p>If there's one thing women don't like, it's being lumped together and generalised... :P</text></comment> | <story><title>SendGrid Fires Company Evangelist After Twitter Fracas</title><url>http://mashable.com/2013/03/21/sendgrid-fires-adria-richards/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>nilkn</author><text>I'm honestly curious what this even has to do with women. That's what puzzles me most about this whole incident.<p>Maybe I'm insensitive or ignorant. I'll admit it if that's the case and learn. Right now, though, I just don't get it. I just don't see how a dongle joke is sexist. It's <i>anatomical</i>. It might have some mild sexual undertone, but there's a huge difference between sexism and a sexual undertone--they aren't the same thing at all.<p>Maybe if I heard the exact joke it would help. But I've heard just as many penis jokes from women as I have men.</text></item><item><author>salman89</author><text>"I would feel really uncomfortable if I was in the same room as this person. What if I accidentally say something that she finds offensive? Am I next?"<p>I'm not agreeing with anything Adria did, but the issue of being labeled as the "tattletale" probably plays a big part in most women's reluctance to report real harassment.</text></item><item><author>blhack</author><text>I really wish that this whole thing could have ended amicably (perhaps with Adria apologizing to the devs [by the way, the guy who was fired <i>has</i> already publicly apologized]).<p>It's too bad that sendgrid had to fire her, I would never wish that somebody had their livlihood taken from them like that, but her job was to be a developer evangelist, which is a job she isn't realistically capable of performing anymore.<p>I would feel <i>really uncomfortable</i> if I was in the same room as this person. What if I accidentally say something that she finds offensive? Am I next?<p>And honestly, she can't even function as a sort of "women's tech evangelist" anymore. Most [all, actually] of the women I've talked to about this are <i>furious</i> with her over how badly this portrays women.<p>It sucks...but this is on par with firing a dev who can't program.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>devilshaircut</author><text>I agree with you that it is at worst an anatomical joke that is not funny and hasn't the slightest sexual undertone to it.</text></comment> |
7,002,385 | 7,002,075 | 1 | 2 | 7,000,425 | train | <story><title>Improve Your Python: Metaclasses and Dynamic Classes With Type</title><url>http://www.jeffknupp.com/blog/2013/12/28/improve-your-python-metaclasses-and-dynamic-classes-with-type/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>JulianWasTaken</author><text>As he says himself at the end, these aren&#x27;t used very often because they aren&#x27;t very useful.<p>The example at the end is perfectly well written using the class statement and using register as a class decorator, while being more familiar and readable.<p>It gets tiring to hear people say &quot;oh advanced Python? Like metaclasses, I&#x27;ll learn that&quot;.<p>Learn useful things instead, like writing readable, testable code.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>reuven</author><text>Whenever I teach a course in advanced Python, the people asking for the training specifically request&#x2F;demand that I talk about metaclasses. This is almost certainly because they (1) want an advanced class, and (2) metaclasses are advanced. So yeah, I cover them to some degree in my courses, but I give plenty of advance warning that we&#x27;re looking at this because it&#x27;s fascinating to see how some of the deeper recesses of Python classes work, not because this will truly be useful.<p>Sure enough, when I&#x27;m done with my explanation, the participants agree that metaclasses are really something that they&#x27;re not planning to touch or use. And then I repeat my claim (which isn&#x27;t original with me at all) that decorators are easier to understand and maintain, and should be used instead.<p>I totally agree that learning to write readable, testable code is a far better use of time. (I include that in my classes, too... but people rarely request that, I&#x27;m afraid...)</text></comment> | <story><title>Improve Your Python: Metaclasses and Dynamic Classes With Type</title><url>http://www.jeffknupp.com/blog/2013/12/28/improve-your-python-metaclasses-and-dynamic-classes-with-type/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>JulianWasTaken</author><text>As he says himself at the end, these aren&#x27;t used very often because they aren&#x27;t very useful.<p>The example at the end is perfectly well written using the class statement and using register as a class decorator, while being more familiar and readable.<p>It gets tiring to hear people say &quot;oh advanced Python? Like metaclasses, I&#x27;ll learn that&quot;.<p>Learn useful things instead, like writing readable, testable code.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pdonis</author><text><i>The example at the end is perfectly well written using the class statement</i><p>No, it can&#x27;t, because the name of the class is dynamically determined at run time. The class statement can&#x27;t take a variable for the name of the class. That&#x27;s the point.</text></comment> |
7,511,229 | 7,509,960 | 1 | 2 | 7,509,139 | train | <story><title>Android for iOS Developers</title><url>http://www.objc.io/issue-11/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>fieldforceapp</author><text>A good lunchtime read, thanks. A couple of misleading topics and word of advice from our own experience [0] of starting Android development after years of iOS development:<p>- Google seems to moving away from Activities in favor of Fragments (can someone confirm this?) so we&#x27;d recommend a Fragment based design pattern;<p>- App navigation paradigms seem to be evolving quickly, with Google recently introducing Navigation Drawer as a standard [1], among others;<p>- Choosing the navigation paradigm first seems to important as these seem to be Fragment based, using Bundle objects to share data between Fragments;<p>- Use Android Studio [2] because it seems a) Google is going to standardize on this, and b) the navigation paradigms are offered as app template options and can be a good starting point presumably with &#x27;blessed&#x27; Fragment design patterns.<p>Good luck!<p>[0] <a href="http://blog.fieldforceapp.com" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.fieldforceapp.com</a>
[1] <a href="http://developer.android.com/design/patterns/navigation-drawer.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;developer.android.com&#x2F;design&#x2F;patterns&#x2F;navigation-draw...</a>
[2] <a href="http://android-developers.blogspot.com/2013/05/android-studio-ide-built-for-android.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;android-developers.blogspot.com&#x2F;2013&#x2F;05&#x2F;android-studi...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Android for iOS Developers</title><url>http://www.objc.io/issue-11/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>snihalani</author><text>If anyone has iOS 101 for android developers, please comment. I haven&#x27;t been successful in finding a good one. Google doesn&#x27;t help. Hell, even bing doesn&#x27;t help.</text></comment> |
19,332,930 | 19,332,785 | 1 | 2 | 19,332,156 | train | <story><title>Stop Wasting Connections, Use HTTP Keep-Alive</title><url>https://lob.com/blog/use-http-keep-alive</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>hkolk</author><text>Better yet.. switch to http2 (where keep-alive is deprecated):
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;developer.mozilla.org&#x2F;en-US&#x2F;docs&#x2F;Web&#x2F;HTTP&#x2F;Headers&#x2F;Keep-Alive" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;developer.mozilla.org&#x2F;en-US&#x2F;docs&#x2F;Web&#x2F;HTTP&#x2F;Headers&#x2F;Ke...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Stop Wasting Connections, Use HTTP Keep-Alive</title><url>https://lob.com/blog/use-http-keep-alive</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>toast0</author><text>The hidden danger, mentioned in the article, is if the client sends a second request while the server closes an idle connection. Until http&#x2F;2, the client can&#x27;t tell if the server closed the connection before or after it received the request. Many servers send a hint about the idle time out, but few client libraries process it (that I&#x27;ve seen). The larger the latency between server and client, the bigger deal this is.</text></comment> |
27,464,191 | 27,464,274 | 1 | 2 | 27,463,732 | train | <story><title>Heart inflammation cases in young men higher than expected after mRNA vaccines</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/world/us/cdc-heart-inflammation-cases-ages-16-24-higher-than-expected-after-mrna-covid-19-2021-06-10/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>delecti</author><text>Crude rate seems to be observed cases per million doses administered.<p>So a lot more incidents than expected, but still extremely rare (0.002% of doses).<p>Edit: missed an extra &quot;0&quot; in that percent, thanks for the the catch everyone who did</text></item><item><author>_Microft</author><text>The interesting table with absolute numbers is on page 18 of [0]. Expected and observed cases are cases of myocarditis &#x2F; pericarditis here. Crude rate is the number of cases per 1 million administered doses. Use landscape mode if you are reading this from a mobile device, the table is narrow enough for that.<p><pre><code> Age group Doses Crude Expected Observed
administ. rate cases cases
12–15 yrs 134,041 22.4 0–1 2
16–17 yrs 2,258,932 35.0 2–19 79
18–24 yrs 9,776,719 20.6 8–83 196
</code></pre>
[0] (PDF) <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.fda.gov&#x2F;media&#x2F;150054&#x2F;download" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.fda.gov&#x2F;media&#x2F;150054&#x2F;download</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>thebean11</author><text>But it&#x27;s only been a few months since administration, will the gap between expected and actual keep growing, or will they eventually level out?</text></comment> | <story><title>Heart inflammation cases in young men higher than expected after mRNA vaccines</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/world/us/cdc-heart-inflammation-cases-ages-16-24-higher-than-expected-after-mrna-covid-19-2021-06-10/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>delecti</author><text>Crude rate seems to be observed cases per million doses administered.<p>So a lot more incidents than expected, but still extremely rare (0.002% of doses).<p>Edit: missed an extra &quot;0&quot; in that percent, thanks for the the catch everyone who did</text></item><item><author>_Microft</author><text>The interesting table with absolute numbers is on page 18 of [0]. Expected and observed cases are cases of myocarditis &#x2F; pericarditis here. Crude rate is the number of cases per 1 million administered doses. Use landscape mode if you are reading this from a mobile device, the table is narrow enough for that.<p><pre><code> Age group Doses Crude Expected Observed
administ. rate cases cases
12–15 yrs 134,041 22.4 0–1 2
16–17 yrs 2,258,932 35.0 2–19 79
18–24 yrs 9,776,719 20.6 8–83 196
</code></pre>
[0] (PDF) <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.fda.gov&#x2F;media&#x2F;150054&#x2F;download" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.fda.gov&#x2F;media&#x2F;150054&#x2F;download</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Swenrekcah</author><text>For those getting worried like I was, it’s 0.002% or one in 50,000, not 0.02% or one in 5,000.</text></comment> |
16,444,501 | 16,441,864 | 1 | 3 | 16,441,347 | train | <story><title>China's Xinjiang surveillance is the dystopian future nobody wants</title><url>https://www.engadget.com/2018/02/22/china-xinjiang-surveillance-tech-spread/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>otoburb</author><text>&gt;&gt;<i>For the next 10 months, web access would be almost nonexistent in Xinjiang, a vast region larger than Texas with a population of more than 20 million. It was one of the most widespread, longest internet shutdowns ever.</i><p>SpaceX&#x27;s plans to launch their first set of satellites for their Starlink broadband constellation[1]. Uighers may be the first population to sign up for satellite subscriptions, although the Chinese government is probably looking for ways to extend Great Firewall[2] capabilities to satellites too. Hopefully users can afford the tentative pricing model of $750&#x2F;year for a Starlink subscription.<p>[1] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.dw.com&#x2F;en&#x2F;spacexs-starlink-satellite-internet-its-time-for-tough-talk-on-cyber-security-in-space&#x2F;a-42678704" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.dw.com&#x2F;en&#x2F;spacexs-starlink-satellite-internet-its...</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Great_Firewall" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Great_Firewall</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>walrus01</author><text>Former satellite telecom engineer here, have built high capacity two way C, Ku, X and Ka band earth stations. Two big problems with China:<p>1. Smuggle rooftop CPE into country? Manufacture domestically in grey market factories?<p>2. Very low cost for Chinese law enforcement, in Xinjiang, to buy and use portable spectrum analyzers to locate the Tx frequencies coming from a 30cm-50cm sized rooftop phase array antenna, aimed at the sky. To be a viable satellite broadband product it has to have a fairly strong Tx (in EIRP). No matter what band it is in from 10.5 up to 70GHz.</text></comment> | <story><title>China's Xinjiang surveillance is the dystopian future nobody wants</title><url>https://www.engadget.com/2018/02/22/china-xinjiang-surveillance-tech-spread/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>otoburb</author><text>&gt;&gt;<i>For the next 10 months, web access would be almost nonexistent in Xinjiang, a vast region larger than Texas with a population of more than 20 million. It was one of the most widespread, longest internet shutdowns ever.</i><p>SpaceX&#x27;s plans to launch their first set of satellites for their Starlink broadband constellation[1]. Uighers may be the first population to sign up for satellite subscriptions, although the Chinese government is probably looking for ways to extend Great Firewall[2] capabilities to satellites too. Hopefully users can afford the tentative pricing model of $750&#x2F;year for a Starlink subscription.<p>[1] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.dw.com&#x2F;en&#x2F;spacexs-starlink-satellite-internet-its-time-for-tough-talk-on-cyber-security-in-space&#x2F;a-42678704" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.dw.com&#x2F;en&#x2F;spacexs-starlink-satellite-internet-its...</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Great_Firewall" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Great_Firewall</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>elefanten</author><text>Enter the international politics of geosovereignty over the EM spectrum...</text></comment> |
30,858,589 | 30,857,564 | 1 | 2 | 30,851,976 | train | <story><title>“World’s best” Guitar Hero player was a cheat</title><url>https://kotaku.com/guitar-hero-clone-schmooey-cheating-esports-speedrun-ac-1848470920</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>kmeisthax</author><text>&gt;What’s wild here is that Schmooey was a really good Guitar Hero player! This wasn’t a case of some kid sitting alone in his room faking his way to the top through video alone. Schmooey had been an active member of the community, and had even attended live events and played alongside fellow players like CarneyJared (whose exploits we featured last year).<p>In many competitive sports, the top players will all plateau at nearly the same level of performance. Distinguishing competitors any further becomes impossible, with what is effectively random chance deciding (honest) winners. The search for an &quot;edge&quot; - some split-second advantage to go from being effectively tied at #2 with 30 other competitors to being consistently #1 - leads competitors to do one of two things:<p>- Embrace superstition<p>- Cheat<p>Schmooey&#x27;s actions are explainable purely as a way for an otherwise amazing competitor to get their &quot;edge&quot; by cheating &quot;just a little&quot;. The same mechanics are why many sports not only have problems with doping[0], but organized doping rings that expend lots of time and energy on figuring out how to beat anti-doping tests. The face of sport is great athletes either making themselves very slightly superhuman with damaging drug abuse, or, if they can, lying about their performance to make it look like they did the former.<p>[0] For the record, doping is not purely a physical athletics problem; e-sports have already been roiled by allegations of Adderall abuse.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jancsika</author><text>&gt; Schmooey&#x27;s actions are explainable purely as a way for an otherwise amazing competitor to get their &quot;edge&quot; by cheating &quot;just a little&quot;.<p>Playing slower and then playing a sped-up video to pretend it is live is the epitome of cheating, not &quot;just a little&quot; cheating to get an &quot;edge.&quot;<p>What&#x27;s refreshing here is the fact that he seems not at all interested in attempting to rationalize his own behavior. The article says he refunded the bounties he collected. Someone who admits to this kind of public mistake like this has a good opportunity to come out the other side a better person.</text></comment> | <story><title>“World’s best” Guitar Hero player was a cheat</title><url>https://kotaku.com/guitar-hero-clone-schmooey-cheating-esports-speedrun-ac-1848470920</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>kmeisthax</author><text>&gt;What’s wild here is that Schmooey was a really good Guitar Hero player! This wasn’t a case of some kid sitting alone in his room faking his way to the top through video alone. Schmooey had been an active member of the community, and had even attended live events and played alongside fellow players like CarneyJared (whose exploits we featured last year).<p>In many competitive sports, the top players will all plateau at nearly the same level of performance. Distinguishing competitors any further becomes impossible, with what is effectively random chance deciding (honest) winners. The search for an &quot;edge&quot; - some split-second advantage to go from being effectively tied at #2 with 30 other competitors to being consistently #1 - leads competitors to do one of two things:<p>- Embrace superstition<p>- Cheat<p>Schmooey&#x27;s actions are explainable purely as a way for an otherwise amazing competitor to get their &quot;edge&quot; by cheating &quot;just a little&quot;. The same mechanics are why many sports not only have problems with doping[0], but organized doping rings that expend lots of time and energy on figuring out how to beat anti-doping tests. The face of sport is great athletes either making themselves very slightly superhuman with damaging drug abuse, or, if they can, lying about their performance to make it look like they did the former.<p>[0] For the record, doping is not purely a physical athletics problem; e-sports have already been roiled by allegations of Adderall abuse.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>xurukefi</author><text>That is also why cheating done by actually skilled people is really dificult to detect. Schmooey is a skilled guitar hero player and therefore he very well knows the limitations in terms of the results the competitive gh community will believe him. A random kid with no skill would have no idea of what he is actually doing and would just perform some absolutely unreal run that nobody would buy into. It&#x27;s a bit like cheating in chess where a grandmaster using an engine would not blindly play the best moves but rather the ones that seem barely within human capabilities. Or like a professional runner on EPO who breaks the world record in the 10000m just by a few seconds although he would have had much more left in the tank.</text></comment> |
40,485,539 | 40,485,519 | 1 | 2 | 40,485,053 | train | <story><title>macOS Sonoma silently enabled iCloud Keychain despite my precautions</title><url>https://lapcatsoftware.com/articles/2024/5/4.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>can16358p</author><text>While not directly related to OP&#x27;s issue, after using Apple Watch Ultra and seeing how buggy and crappy everything about it is for a several months with literally zero fixes (not just me, but several friends who has Ultra too), I&#x27;m convinced that QA at Apple is run by primate apes.<p>There is no sensible explanation that a flagship device can be full of bugs and inferior quality to its 3-year older non-flagship counterparts.</text></comment> | <story><title>macOS Sonoma silently enabled iCloud Keychain despite my precautions</title><url>https://lapcatsoftware.com/articles/2024/5/4.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>II2II</author><text>&gt; why don&#x27;t I just &quot;go with the flow&quot;, adopt iCloud Keychain and passkeys?<p>I don&#x27;t like the &quot;on principle&quot; response since a lot of people will end up thinking, &quot;oh, so it doesn&#x27;t <i>really</i> matter.&quot; Even the author&#x27;s elaboration could lead to responses like: &quot;they are control freaks,&quot; or &quot;they are paranoid.&quot;<p>In my case, the answer is simple: I have access to systems that contain confidential information about other people. Protecting their data is my <i>responsibility</i>. While I have little doubt that Apple (and other vendors that provide similar services) do their best to guarantee the security of these products, their centralized nature and potential value of the data it leads to make them very juicy targets.</text></comment> |
30,826,321 | 30,826,426 | 1 | 2 | 30,825,442 | train | <story><title>Lumber rally cools with transport snarls easing, buyers balking</title><url>https://www.bnnbloomberg.ca/lumber-rally-cools-with-transport-snarls-easing-buyers-balking-1.1743093</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>lost_soul</author><text>Just anecdotally, we went out to eat at a place we hadn&#x27;t been to since before the pandemic. Their prices have doubled. We spent $50 on lunch.</text></item><item><author>gitfan86</author><text>I expect this to be the beginning of a recession. A lot of consumers spending is based on the thought that their home is going up in value.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nerdponx</author><text>Is there such a thing in economics as &quot;pent-up inflation&quot;?<p>As in, the economy keeps rolling along with &quot;shrinkflation&quot;-like phenomena absorbing as much of the increase in inputs as possible, until it passes a tipping point (in this case propelled by Covid-related adjustments) and all of a sudden prices shoot up.<p>It would be interesting to see if there&#x27;s any literature on this phenomenon.</text></comment> | <story><title>Lumber rally cools with transport snarls easing, buyers balking</title><url>https://www.bnnbloomberg.ca/lumber-rally-cools-with-transport-snarls-easing-buyers-balking-1.1743093</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>lost_soul</author><text>Just anecdotally, we went out to eat at a place we hadn&#x27;t been to since before the pandemic. Their prices have doubled. We spent $50 on lunch.</text></item><item><author>gitfan86</author><text>I expect this to be the beginning of a recession. A lot of consumers spending is based on the thought that their home is going up in value.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rsanheim</author><text>That was probably closer to the real price if your lunch.<p>We’ve had a glut of restaurants all up and down the “star level” here in Madison, WI. I think that is true in many cities.<p>When you account for real wages and costs, many of those places shouldn’t and wont survive over the next few years. We don’t need 6 dollar burritos delivered for 15, and we don’t need five places found farm to table for 30 bucks a plate. If that means service and cooks and dishwashers have to work three jobs in that world, to hell with it.</text></comment> |
37,809,705 | 37,809,778 | 1 | 3 | 37,807,779 | train | <story><title>Does Market Timing Work?</title><url>https://www.schwab.com/learn/story/does-market-timing-work</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>zer0tonin</author><text>The dogma that it&#x27;s impossible to beat the market is frankly weird at this point.<p>If the markets were truly efficient, randomly picking stocks would beat SPX ~50% of the time. Since markets are not super efficient, basic exposure to performance factors (small cap, value, momentum...) puts you at a fairly high likelyhood of beating SPX.</text></item><item><author>lend000</author><text>The fact that you&#x27;re being downvoted for factual contributions kind of explains why it&#x27;s possible to beat the markets. Most people refuse to believe it.<p>No public strategies are going to beat the market by a huge amount, and having the discipline to execute them manually isn&#x27;t easy, but it has been clearly shown to be possible.</text></item><item><author>veqq</author><text>To go into further detail about systemic investing:<p>There have been experiments like the turtle traders ^ 1 who applied &quot;trend following&quot;, used today by many CTAs on exotic markets. For this, an investor taught some people his strategy&#x2F;rules, gave them his money and they&#x27;ve shined for 40 years. The fundamental strategy still works today (updated). Fundamentally, it&#x27;s a method to ride momentum in different ways (e.g. crossectional.) Hedge fund managers like Rzepczynski, Cem Karsan, Alan Beer... Richard Brennan is the most insightful of them who shares his methods freely. N.b. trend following doesn&#x27;t work well in stock markets, but flourishes in Mexican rate swaps, orange juice futures, London sugar... combined in ensembles.<p>Traditional value investors, building on the Intelligent Investor, have always done well over samples above a few years. (N.b. Warren Buffet hasn&#x27;t been a value investor for a long time, because he has too much to manage. He was strongly inspired by Fisher&#x27;s Common Stocks and Uncommon Profits, which gave us the concept of &quot;growth stocks&quot;.) (N.b. 2, value investing ETFs are mostly terrible, fundamentally not investing in value stocks due to their structures.)<p>Carisle&#x27;s Acquierer&#x27;s Multiple is the most recent development in systemic value investing (he also runs an ETF or two along these lines). &quot;Magic formula investing&quot; even holds up too!<p>In the mining space, you also get discretionary (not purely systematic) investors like Rick Rule openly discussing their methodologies, successful for decades and decades.<p>Here’s an interesting paper ^ 2 (exec summary pages 5-6). Note that 70% of underperformance is due to investors withdrawing funds during times of market crisis. Fund fees also drive the majority of underperformance. N.b. most wealth managers can&#x27;t legally follow such strategies because of the prudent person rule. They are legally forced to underperform typical indices - and the majority of research has focused on them, distorting the data pool.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.investopedia.com&#x2F;articles&#x2F;trading&#x2F;08&#x2F;turtle-trading.asp" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.investopedia.com&#x2F;articles&#x2F;trading&#x2F;08&#x2F;turtle-trad...</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;wealthwatchadvisors.com&#x2F;wp-content&#x2F;uploads&#x2F;2020&#x2F;03&#x2F;QAIB_PremiumEdition2020_WWA.pdf" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;wealthwatchadvisors.com&#x2F;wp-content&#x2F;uploads&#x2F;2020&#x2F;03&#x2F;Q...</a></text></item><item><author>Centigonal</author><text>IMO, this is a much more comprehensive article on the same topic: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.aqr.com&#x2F;-&#x2F;media&#x2F;AQR&#x2F;Documents&#x2F;Insights&#x2F;White-Papers&#x2F;Market-Timing-Sin-a-Little.pdf" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.aqr.com&#x2F;-&#x2F;media&#x2F;AQR&#x2F;Documents&#x2F;Insights&#x2F;White-Pap...</a><p>For unsophisticated investors, timing the market tends to keep money on the sidelines during growth periods, eroding long-term returns. This is part of why it&#x27;s considered an investing sin - &quot;time in the market beats timing the market.&quot; Sophisticated systematic investors can probably get good results with certain momentum-based market timing strategies, but most of us aren&#x27;t sophisticated systematic investors.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>auxym</author><text>&gt; If the markets were truly efficient, randomly picking stocks would beat SPX ~50% of the time. Since markets are not super efficient, basic exposure to performance factors (small cap, value, momentum...) puts you at a fairly high likelyhood of beating SPX.<p>This assumes that the expected return of a single, randomly-picked stock is symmetrically-distributed. It is not, single stock returns are highly skewed and &quot;lottery like&quot;. Index returns come from the fact that a small number of stocks do exceptionally well, while most of them do poorly.<p>This becomes even worse if we talk about timing: stock returns come from relatively short periods of doing really well, if you miss that because you are out of the market for some reason, you lose out on the vast majority of the index return.<p>Sorry, I don&#x27;t have specific sources to cite. This comes from stuff I&#x27;ve picked up listening to the Rational Reminder podcast (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;rationalreminder.ca&#x2F;podcast-directory" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;rationalreminder.ca&#x2F;podcast-directory</a>), which have very well researched episodes as well as guest interviews with leading academic finance researchers. I&#x27;ll try to dig up the relevant episodes, which do cite sources.<p>Edit: here is some sources:<p>1. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.dimensional.com&#x2F;us-en&#x2F;insights&#x2F;singled-out-historical-performance-of-individual-stocks" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.dimensional.com&#x2F;us-en&#x2F;insights&#x2F;singled-out-histo...</a><p>2. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;assets.jpmprivatebank.com&#x2F;content&#x2F;dam&#x2F;jpm-wm-aem&#x2F;global&#x2F;pb&#x2F;en&#x2F;insights&#x2F;eye-on-the-market&#x2F;agony-ecstasy-2021.pdf" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;assets.jpmprivatebank.com&#x2F;content&#x2F;dam&#x2F;jpm-wm-aem&#x2F;glo...</a><p>Quote from this last one: &quot;[...] around 40% of
the time a concentrated position in a single stock experienced negative absolute returns, in which case it would have underperformed a simple position in cash. And around 2&#x2F;3 of the time, a concentrated position in a single
stock would have underperformed a diversified position in the Russell 3000 Index. While the most successful
companies generated massive wealth over the long run, only around 10% of all stocks since 1980 met the
definition of “megawinners”.&quot;</text></comment> | <story><title>Does Market Timing Work?</title><url>https://www.schwab.com/learn/story/does-market-timing-work</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>zer0tonin</author><text>The dogma that it&#x27;s impossible to beat the market is frankly weird at this point.<p>If the markets were truly efficient, randomly picking stocks would beat SPX ~50% of the time. Since markets are not super efficient, basic exposure to performance factors (small cap, value, momentum...) puts you at a fairly high likelyhood of beating SPX.</text></item><item><author>lend000</author><text>The fact that you&#x27;re being downvoted for factual contributions kind of explains why it&#x27;s possible to beat the markets. Most people refuse to believe it.<p>No public strategies are going to beat the market by a huge amount, and having the discipline to execute them manually isn&#x27;t easy, but it has been clearly shown to be possible.</text></item><item><author>veqq</author><text>To go into further detail about systemic investing:<p>There have been experiments like the turtle traders ^ 1 who applied &quot;trend following&quot;, used today by many CTAs on exotic markets. For this, an investor taught some people his strategy&#x2F;rules, gave them his money and they&#x27;ve shined for 40 years. The fundamental strategy still works today (updated). Fundamentally, it&#x27;s a method to ride momentum in different ways (e.g. crossectional.) Hedge fund managers like Rzepczynski, Cem Karsan, Alan Beer... Richard Brennan is the most insightful of them who shares his methods freely. N.b. trend following doesn&#x27;t work well in stock markets, but flourishes in Mexican rate swaps, orange juice futures, London sugar... combined in ensembles.<p>Traditional value investors, building on the Intelligent Investor, have always done well over samples above a few years. (N.b. Warren Buffet hasn&#x27;t been a value investor for a long time, because he has too much to manage. He was strongly inspired by Fisher&#x27;s Common Stocks and Uncommon Profits, which gave us the concept of &quot;growth stocks&quot;.) (N.b. 2, value investing ETFs are mostly terrible, fundamentally not investing in value stocks due to their structures.)<p>Carisle&#x27;s Acquierer&#x27;s Multiple is the most recent development in systemic value investing (he also runs an ETF or two along these lines). &quot;Magic formula investing&quot; even holds up too!<p>In the mining space, you also get discretionary (not purely systematic) investors like Rick Rule openly discussing their methodologies, successful for decades and decades.<p>Here’s an interesting paper ^ 2 (exec summary pages 5-6). Note that 70% of underperformance is due to investors withdrawing funds during times of market crisis. Fund fees also drive the majority of underperformance. N.b. most wealth managers can&#x27;t legally follow such strategies because of the prudent person rule. They are legally forced to underperform typical indices - and the majority of research has focused on them, distorting the data pool.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.investopedia.com&#x2F;articles&#x2F;trading&#x2F;08&#x2F;turtle-trading.asp" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.investopedia.com&#x2F;articles&#x2F;trading&#x2F;08&#x2F;turtle-trad...</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;wealthwatchadvisors.com&#x2F;wp-content&#x2F;uploads&#x2F;2020&#x2F;03&#x2F;QAIB_PremiumEdition2020_WWA.pdf" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;wealthwatchadvisors.com&#x2F;wp-content&#x2F;uploads&#x2F;2020&#x2F;03&#x2F;Q...</a></text></item><item><author>Centigonal</author><text>IMO, this is a much more comprehensive article on the same topic: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.aqr.com&#x2F;-&#x2F;media&#x2F;AQR&#x2F;Documents&#x2F;Insights&#x2F;White-Papers&#x2F;Market-Timing-Sin-a-Little.pdf" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.aqr.com&#x2F;-&#x2F;media&#x2F;AQR&#x2F;Documents&#x2F;Insights&#x2F;White-Pap...</a><p>For unsophisticated investors, timing the market tends to keep money on the sidelines during growth periods, eroding long-term returns. This is part of why it&#x27;s considered an investing sin - &quot;time in the market beats timing the market.&quot; Sophisticated systematic investors can probably get good results with certain momentum-based market timing strategies, but most of us aren&#x27;t sophisticated systematic investors.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>TacticalCoder</author><text>&gt; The dogma that it&#x27;s impossible to beat the market is frankly weird at this point.<p>I agree.<p>Meta was literally priced below $90 not even a year ago (I entered at about $100 FWIW, which was my nice and round number). Now at $315. Anybody who believes the market is efficient is on some serious drugs.<p>The market correctly valued Meta a $380 or so before the crash (because &quot;TINA&quot; I&#x27;m supposed to believe), then correctly valued it a few months later at $100, then now is again correctly valuing it at $315?<p>Please. Just please.<p>I&#x27;ll go much further: <i>none</i> of these valuation are correct. The market is highly inefficient.</text></comment> |
13,580,518 | 13,579,777 | 1 | 3 | 13,576,990 | train | <story><title>Amicus brief on behalf of 97 tech companies</title><url>https://cloud.app.box.com/s/mx6vhp0m8c1jyc8fh5yvned3nlu6ihec</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>hajile</author><text>The entire &quot;unreasonableness&quot; is based on the idea that this was Trump randomly banning countries.<p>Obama&#x27;s administration (not Trump&#x27;s) compiled the list of countries. It wasn&#x27;t racial or &quot;because they&#x27;re Muslim&quot; (most Muslims aren&#x27;t banned).<p>What was the common thread between the countries? 6 out of the 7 countries have been on and off the US &quot;State Sponsors of Terror&quot; list for the past 40 years. Somalia (the one that hasn&#x27;t been on the list) has spent most of the last 25 years in anarchy.<p>The law also <i></i>explicitly<i></i> gives the president the right to make the decision (see section f <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.law.cornell.edu&#x2F;uscode&#x2F;text&#x2F;8&#x2F;1182" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.law.cornell.edu&#x2F;uscode&#x2F;text&#x2F;8&#x2F;1182</a>).<p>In 1993, SCOTUS ruled that a much longer ban against the poor, non-terrorist, mostly black Haitian immigrants by Bush Sr. and Clinton was legal in an 8-1 ruling (<a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nytimes.com&#x2F;1993&#x2F;06&#x2F;22&#x2F;us&#x2F;the-supreme-court-high-court-backs-policy-of-halting-haitian-refugees.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nytimes.com&#x2F;1993&#x2F;06&#x2F;22&#x2F;us&#x2F;the-supreme-court-high-...</a>).<p>The constitutional claim doesn&#x27;t hold water (foreign nationals have no right to travel in the US and the countries were selected for terrorist connections). That leaves only interpretation of the law, but the law clearly states POTUS has the authority. A 3 month break to find out what policies to put in place against 7 problematic and terrorist sponsoring countries is hardly something SCOTUS will find unreasonable.<p>EDIT: for the record, I think the bans are ineffective at stopping terrorists and are just Trump following through on his populist promises. That&#x27;s different from the legality of the decision. This isn&#x27;t the only thing Trump is doing While everyone has eyeballs here, they miss everything else that&#x27;s happening in DC, and he still gets to look good when SCOTUS agrees with him.</text></item><item><author>chx</author><text>&gt; If this approach were upheld, future orders might apply to any nation, and suddenly and unexpectedly bar its nationals from entering or returning to the United States.<p>Aye, this is the crux of the matter, isn&#x27;t it? I have a plane ticket from Canada to Europe in August, transiting in the USA and I have already contemplated changing my routing because who knows whether I will be admitted? Yes, the chances are heavily slanted towards yes in my specific case but... What I am trying to say: it makes absolutely impossible to plan travel, business into the USA if this order stands for everyone because who knows whether you will be targeted next.<p>I am slightly surprised to not see Boeing here, they are set to lose an enormous amount of money in Iran.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rayiner</author><text>&gt; The constitutional claim doesn&#x27;t hold water (foreign nationals have no right to travel in the US and the countries were selected for terrorist connections).<p>The Constitutional claims are very strong, at least as applied to certain groups of people affected by the EO: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=13531117" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=13531117</a>.<p>You are conflating the right to enter the U.S. with due process rights relating to denial of U.S. entry. Only citizens have a right to enter the U.S. (<i>i.e.</i> they cannot be denied entry, period). But the Supreme Court has squarely held that permanent residents, at least, have a right to due process before being denied re-entry. That doesn&#x27;t mean the government can&#x27;t deny them re-entry, but it does mean that the government cannot do what it did here: deny them re-entry without individualized process (usually, a hearing).<p>The EO is going down. The only question is what parts of it will survive.</text></comment> | <story><title>Amicus brief on behalf of 97 tech companies</title><url>https://cloud.app.box.com/s/mx6vhp0m8c1jyc8fh5yvned3nlu6ihec</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>hajile</author><text>The entire &quot;unreasonableness&quot; is based on the idea that this was Trump randomly banning countries.<p>Obama&#x27;s administration (not Trump&#x27;s) compiled the list of countries. It wasn&#x27;t racial or &quot;because they&#x27;re Muslim&quot; (most Muslims aren&#x27;t banned).<p>What was the common thread between the countries? 6 out of the 7 countries have been on and off the US &quot;State Sponsors of Terror&quot; list for the past 40 years. Somalia (the one that hasn&#x27;t been on the list) has spent most of the last 25 years in anarchy.<p>The law also <i></i>explicitly<i></i> gives the president the right to make the decision (see section f <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.law.cornell.edu&#x2F;uscode&#x2F;text&#x2F;8&#x2F;1182" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.law.cornell.edu&#x2F;uscode&#x2F;text&#x2F;8&#x2F;1182</a>).<p>In 1993, SCOTUS ruled that a much longer ban against the poor, non-terrorist, mostly black Haitian immigrants by Bush Sr. and Clinton was legal in an 8-1 ruling (<a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nytimes.com&#x2F;1993&#x2F;06&#x2F;22&#x2F;us&#x2F;the-supreme-court-high-court-backs-policy-of-halting-haitian-refugees.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nytimes.com&#x2F;1993&#x2F;06&#x2F;22&#x2F;us&#x2F;the-supreme-court-high-...</a>).<p>The constitutional claim doesn&#x27;t hold water (foreign nationals have no right to travel in the US and the countries were selected for terrorist connections). That leaves only interpretation of the law, but the law clearly states POTUS has the authority. A 3 month break to find out what policies to put in place against 7 problematic and terrorist sponsoring countries is hardly something SCOTUS will find unreasonable.<p>EDIT: for the record, I think the bans are ineffective at stopping terrorists and are just Trump following through on his populist promises. That&#x27;s different from the legality of the decision. This isn&#x27;t the only thing Trump is doing While everyone has eyeballs here, they miss everything else that&#x27;s happening in DC, and he still gets to look good when SCOTUS agrees with him.</text></item><item><author>chx</author><text>&gt; If this approach were upheld, future orders might apply to any nation, and suddenly and unexpectedly bar its nationals from entering or returning to the United States.<p>Aye, this is the crux of the matter, isn&#x27;t it? I have a plane ticket from Canada to Europe in August, transiting in the USA and I have already contemplated changing my routing because who knows whether I will be admitted? Yes, the chances are heavily slanted towards yes in my specific case but... What I am trying to say: it makes absolutely impossible to plan travel, business into the USA if this order stands for everyone because who knows whether you will be targeted next.<p>I am slightly surprised to not see Boeing here, they are set to lose an enormous amount of money in Iran.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kevinmchugh</author><text>This doesn&#x27;t appear to be at all responsive to the concern expressed in the comment you&#x27;re responding to.</text></comment> |
14,415,023 | 14,413,368 | 1 | 2 | 14,410,661 | train | <story><title>I wrote the SQL query in 5 mins. Why does my engineer say it will take a month?</title><url>https://wtfismyengineertalkingabout.com/2017/03/11/i-wrote-the-sql-query-in-5-mins-why-does-my-engineer-say-it-will-take-a-month/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>unethical_ban</author><text>On the flip side, when something DOESN&#x27;T need HA, sub-millisecond query response time, or lynx and IE Edge compatability, people need to know when &quot;good enough&quot; is good enough.<p>On my ops team, we&#x27;ve gotten some flak for not building robust enough of a request queue for some tasks. But it&#x27;s been down several hours in the past year. The server almost never needs maintenance. None of the workload is real-time. App restarts are acceptable if memory leaks occur.<p>If we did everything by the enterprise book, we&#x27;d still be 70% of the way to a deployed product, instead of 15 months into its completion.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mancerayder</author><text><i>On my ops team, we&#x27;ve gotten some flak for not building robust enough of a request queue for some tasks. But it&#x27;s been down several hours in the past year. The server almost never needs maintenance. None of the workload is real-time. App restarts are acceptable if memory leaks occur.<p>If we did everything by the enterprise book, we&#x27;d still be 70% of the way to a deployed product, instead of 15 months into its completion.</i><p>Sure. Except if this Ops team is like most Ops teams, they&#x27;d prefer to do it the (cue dark, brooding orchestral dum-dum-dum musical interlude) &#x27;enterprise&#x27; way rather than be woken up by PagerDuty in the middle of the night because a new release push lead to the CPU spiking.<p>Sorry, but I&#x27;ve almost never seen situations where people have skimped on HA and someone else didn&#x27;t get excoriated during an outage.<p>Maybe other people&#x27;s experiences are different, but as a DevOps guy, even in a relatively new environment, my priority is stability. Not faith-based-computing based on someone&#x27;s positive seat-of-their-pants past experience.</text></comment> | <story><title>I wrote the SQL query in 5 mins. Why does my engineer say it will take a month?</title><url>https://wtfismyengineertalkingabout.com/2017/03/11/i-wrote-the-sql-query-in-5-mins-why-does-my-engineer-say-it-will-take-a-month/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>unethical_ban</author><text>On the flip side, when something DOESN&#x27;T need HA, sub-millisecond query response time, or lynx and IE Edge compatability, people need to know when &quot;good enough&quot; is good enough.<p>On my ops team, we&#x27;ve gotten some flak for not building robust enough of a request queue for some tasks. But it&#x27;s been down several hours in the past year. The server almost never needs maintenance. None of the workload is real-time. App restarts are acceptable if memory leaks occur.<p>If we did everything by the enterprise book, we&#x27;d still be 70% of the way to a deployed product, instead of 15 months into its completion.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>arethuza</author><text>I once had an infrastructure guy who worked in the same company quote me £70K for new hardware to host a single static HTML web page.<p>£70K of new hardware!<p>I stuck it on an existing server and nobody noticed though I might have got into trouble with the Change Prevention Board for not using the right form or something...<p>Edit: He did have a carefully worked out explanation of where the money had to be spent.... which I ignored after hearing &quot;£70K&quot;.</text></comment> |
27,616,293 | 27,616,224 | 1 | 3 | 27,615,700 | train | <story><title>Hospitals are selling troves of medical data</title><url>https://www.theverge.com/2021/6/23/22547397/medical-records-health-data-hospitals-research</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>prepend</author><text>I’m glad to see this getting more attention as it seems scary to me as a private citizen who wants my medical data to stay private.<p>I’m not sure how to defend against this as it seems based on HIPAA and what it allows. Since de-identified data can be legally sold, I think it will.<p>The theoretical defense I’ve thought up is a class action lawsuit for synthetic breaches. Since these data are deemed de-identified by expert determination [0] and that’s hazy, if I could reidentify myself after de-id, and I didn’t authorize it, then I could be eligible for breach damages for HIPAA violations up to $50k per person [1].<p>Since these sets have millions of people, likely everyone in the country. And since expert determination can possibly classify an acceptable re-id risk as less than 1%, this could be a million or two people. So a big enough pool to attract big legal investments.<p>That would increase the cost and risk of doing this to outweigh the benefits. But currently it’s “free money” for any healthcare system that’s kind of impossible for me as a patient to opt out.<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.hhs.gov&#x2F;hipaa&#x2F;for-professionals&#x2F;privacy&#x2F;special-topics&#x2F;de-identification&#x2F;index.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.hhs.gov&#x2F;hipaa&#x2F;for-professionals&#x2F;privacy&#x2F;special-...</a>
[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.injuryclaimcoach.com&#x2F;hipaa-violations.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.injuryclaimcoach.com&#x2F;hipaa-violations.html</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Hospitals are selling troves of medical data</title><url>https://www.theverge.com/2021/6/23/22547397/medical-records-health-data-hospitals-research</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Frost1x</author><text>Information is information and the more you have, the easier it is to figure out where it came from. Some data makes it easier than others.<p>I worked with a hospital awhile back with patient radiological data (for free and for science). Patients had to explicly sign-off that they were sharing their data with us and what we planned to use it for. A lot of the metadata from DICOM wasn&#x27;t even wiped, I had their names, street addresses, all sorts of stuff which was supposed to be wiped (de-identified).<p>Even then, I worked with data from a patient with a brain tumor and their neurosurgeon looking to remove it. That data was correctly anonymoized but it was their head, so I could basically reconstruct their face--so is a coarse geomerric sampling of a face de-identified? I guess it depends on how coarse it was.<p>Just look at what&#x27;s done with social media, advertising, and browser data to get an idea of where things can go.</text></comment> |
4,781,103 | 4,780,782 | 1 | 3 | 4,779,399 | train | <story><title>Bring Back the 40-hour work week (March 2012)</title><url>http://www.salon.com/2012/03/14/bring_back_the_40_hour_work_week/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bokonist</author><text>Software is generally a winner-take-all market. Software has zero marginal cost, so the company with the most revenue can invest the most upfront into making a better product, giving it even more revenue. Furthermore, in most cases there is little incentive for customers to ever use the second best product in a segment. So when building software, you not only have to meet the customers needs, you have to meet the customer needs better than any competitor. If you produce a product that is half as good or improve the product half as quickly, you do not lose just half your revenue, you could lose all of it.<p>The second aspect of software development is that a developer working 40 hours a week is more productive than two developers working 20 hours a week. With the sole developer, there less communication overhead, less management overhead, and the ratio of productive time to time learning the system and understanding the interlocking parts is higher. This is the classic mythical man month problem.<p>The third aspect of software development is that directly measuring output and effort of an engineer is very difficult. So as a proxy, managers look for signs of passion and engagement. If you are passionate and smart, but are slow to implement some feature, management will believe the feature was simply more difficult than anticipated. If you generally are not passionate about your work, and are slow to implement some feature, management will think you are slacking and fire you. Creating an effective company requires creating a culture of passion and hardwork, and having one person only work part-time can decrease the morale of those putting in 40+ hours. Asking to only work half-time betrays a lack of passion, and could be a bad career move.<p>So the net result of these factors is that a company must work at maximum efficiency, and maximum efficiency comes when all developers are working 40+ hours a week. It is not in the company's interest to let you work only 20 hours a week, and it could indeed be risky if you bring the idea up with management.<p>I should also note that the above dynamic is not just the case in software, but in virtually all high paying jobs, from professional athlete to corporate lawyer to corporate executive. Virtually all high paying jobs have some sort of competitive, winner take all dynamic in the market at large (the winners being the ones who get paid well), and within the company, the high paid people are the ones with specialized, hard to replace skills, that have a large ramp up time to learn effectively (learning a large code base, learning a set of legal traditions, learning how to hit a curveball, etc, etc). Thus in order to earn the high pay you must work long hours, and you must work many productive hours on top of a base of ramping-up hours.</text></item><item><author>drewblaisdell</author><text>Perhaps this is a good thread to pose this question.<p>I am a front-end engineer in my early twenties. Right now, 40+ hours a week is doable and I am paid well, but I don't need all of the money I'm earning. I would <i>gladly</i> take a 50% salary cut and work ~20 hours a week.<p>The only problem with this is that I feel like this is a risky thing to bring up with an employer. Has anyone ever had any success getting a good part-time job or downsizing your position at a company? Every listing for part-time I see seems to be for someone with a lesser skillset.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>adrianhoward</author><text><i>The second aspect of software development is that a developer working 40 hours a week is more productive than two developers working 20 hours a week.</i><p>I am unsure that this is true in all circumstances.<p><i>So the net result of these factors is that a company must work at maximum efficiency, and maximum efficiency comes when all developers are working 40+ hours a week.</i><p>I know for a fact that this isn't always true - since I've repeatedly seen teams of developers doing 45+ hour weeks become <i>more</i> productive by every metric we had to hand by dropping their working week to 40 hours (with only about 6 hours a day of that being coding).<p>I talk about this in a little bit more over here before (<a href="http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3883362" rel="nofollow">http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3883362</a>)... copy/paste below.<p>-----<p>There is something deeply broken about equating hours to productivity.<p>It's been my experience that folk are very good at deceiving themselves about their productivity (myself included :-)<p>One team I worked with had a serious problem with overtime. They were putting in stupid hours and it was showing in the quality of work going out. So I ran an experiment where we all agreed to work "normal" hours for six weeks.<p>I was "only" working about 45 hours a week at this point, when other people on the team were regularly working 50-60. I was relatively young, didn't have any family pressure, enjoyed my work and felt very productive doing those hours. I wasn't one of the people with a "problem" as I saw it. We were running the experiment for the other folk on the team.<p>In the experiment we dropped to a 40 hours week (6 hours coding per day, 2 hours for breaks, meetings &#38; lunch). After a couple of weeks adjustment my productivity went way up. I also felt a lot better in myself - generally sharper and more on the ball.<p>People seem to have quite a wide bad of "this feels okay" that subsumes the much narrower "I'm performing at my best".<p>Also people don't jump from a 35 hour week to 60 hours a week. It creeps up a few minutes at a time as pressure increases on the team. People have enough time to adjust to it being "normal" and don't notice the drop in productivity that goes with it.<p>Currently I work roughly 25-30 hours a week and am just as productive by all metrics that I have available to me as when I worked 40-50.<p>I would strongly urge people to experiment. Pick some metrics, try working shorter hours for a month, see what happens.<p>(The only caveat I would add is that with folks doing silly hours - anything over 50 I would say - there is often a couple of weeks where things go to hell as the body adjusts. On the team from the story practically everybody caught a bug and felt crap for the first week or so before productivity rose again).</text></comment> | <story><title>Bring Back the 40-hour work week (March 2012)</title><url>http://www.salon.com/2012/03/14/bring_back_the_40_hour_work_week/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bokonist</author><text>Software is generally a winner-take-all market. Software has zero marginal cost, so the company with the most revenue can invest the most upfront into making a better product, giving it even more revenue. Furthermore, in most cases there is little incentive for customers to ever use the second best product in a segment. So when building software, you not only have to meet the customers needs, you have to meet the customer needs better than any competitor. If you produce a product that is half as good or improve the product half as quickly, you do not lose just half your revenue, you could lose all of it.<p>The second aspect of software development is that a developer working 40 hours a week is more productive than two developers working 20 hours a week. With the sole developer, there less communication overhead, less management overhead, and the ratio of productive time to time learning the system and understanding the interlocking parts is higher. This is the classic mythical man month problem.<p>The third aspect of software development is that directly measuring output and effort of an engineer is very difficult. So as a proxy, managers look for signs of passion and engagement. If you are passionate and smart, but are slow to implement some feature, management will believe the feature was simply more difficult than anticipated. If you generally are not passionate about your work, and are slow to implement some feature, management will think you are slacking and fire you. Creating an effective company requires creating a culture of passion and hardwork, and having one person only work part-time can decrease the morale of those putting in 40+ hours. Asking to only work half-time betrays a lack of passion, and could be a bad career move.<p>So the net result of these factors is that a company must work at maximum efficiency, and maximum efficiency comes when all developers are working 40+ hours a week. It is not in the company's interest to let you work only 20 hours a week, and it could indeed be risky if you bring the idea up with management.<p>I should also note that the above dynamic is not just the case in software, but in virtually all high paying jobs, from professional athlete to corporate lawyer to corporate executive. Virtually all high paying jobs have some sort of competitive, winner take all dynamic in the market at large (the winners being the ones who get paid well), and within the company, the high paid people are the ones with specialized, hard to replace skills, that have a large ramp up time to learn effectively (learning a large code base, learning a set of legal traditions, learning how to hit a curveball, etc, etc). Thus in order to earn the high pay you must work long hours, and you must work many productive hours on top of a base of ramping-up hours.</text></item><item><author>drewblaisdell</author><text>Perhaps this is a good thread to pose this question.<p>I am a front-end engineer in my early twenties. Right now, 40+ hours a week is doable and I am paid well, but I don't need all of the money I'm earning. I would <i>gladly</i> take a 50% salary cut and work ~20 hours a week.<p>The only problem with this is that I feel like this is a risky thing to bring up with an employer. Has anyone ever had any success getting a good part-time job or downsizing your position at a company? Every listing for part-time I see seems to be for someone with a lesser skillset.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>lostnet</author><text>This is exactly what a lot of companies and managers will try to tell you.. But it is a bunch of nonsense.<p>An actual 40 hour a week programmer is an awful asset, if we do more than ~20 hours of work a week the rest is bad code and the shit we are to tired of thinking about to fix/automate. The ones who work 50+ hours have forgotten that things can be automated or even pondered before diving in, or that are powerless to fix the accumulating breakage of their group/project/company.<p>That being said, a 20 hour a week engineer who is partying the remainder probably isn't great either.<p>I currently work 3 days a week, but I spend about half of the remainder studying things that interest me, mostly in CS or physical sciences. A few years back, I worked 2.5 days in tech support, while finishing up my BS.<p>I would say live and breathe it while you are there, you should be senior/mature enough that you don't require mentoring/sponsoring to do your job, be a bit humble about your immediate "importance" and handle those longer term pains, and have a nice (but unapologetic) explanation for how you spend your other time.<p>If overall I spend less than 25-30 hours a week thinking about the field then expect to gradually feel rusty. But then CS is not a good field to mentally slow down in.</text></comment> |
20,741,151 | 20,741,035 | 1 | 2 | 20,740,711 | train | <story><title>Pico-8 Virtual Fantasy Console is an idealized constrained modern day game maker</title><url>https://www.hanselman.com/blog/ThePICO8VirtualFantasyConsoleIsAnIdealizedConstrainedModernDayGameMaker.aspx</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>derefr</author><text>I&#x27;d love a PICO-16: a fantasy console almost-but-not-quite like a GBA, extended in some ways (e.g. resolution, sound channels) and reduced in others (e.g. palette, maximum ROM size.)<p>There are tons of these little &quot;retro console&quot; devices lately—the Bittboy, LDK-game, etc.—that people just treat as emulation devices, when they actually have hidden potential for running <i>native</i> game software as well, with more power than you can get out of them through an emulator. (They&#x27;re actually usually as powerful as the original PSP, but only have the GPU capabilities of the GBA, making these consoles into a sort of unique alternate-history blend of 2001-2004 era gaming.)<p>But no games are being written <i>directly</i> for these devices, because they&#x27;re all slightly-differently specced: different screen-sizes; different amounts of RAM; etc.<p>A hypothetical PICO-16 &quot;platform&quot;, in my mind, would basically be an abstraction over the cross-section of native capabilities of these devices (with maybe some additional tasteful constraints on top), while still allowing to take advantage of the full hardware in a way you can&#x27;t by just e.g. writing SNES or GBA homebrew.<p>Maybe the &quot;platform&quot; could even come in a few separate &quot;profiles&quot;, where games could be either targeted to a specific minimum profile, or could respec themselves to the highest profile supported (sort of like how Z-Machine games work in detecting the VM&#x27;s multimedia capabilities.) Take it far enough and PICO-8 could just be the base PICO-16 profile!</text></comment> | <story><title>Pico-8 Virtual Fantasy Console is an idealized constrained modern day game maker</title><url>https://www.hanselman.com/blog/ThePICO8VirtualFantasyConsoleIsAnIdealizedConstrainedModernDayGameMaker.aspx</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>otachack</author><text>This is one of my most favorite inventions within the past 5 years that still sticks out. I think it&#x27;s ingenious and a great gateway to game development for anyone, be it a hobbyist or professional.<p>I&#x27;ve spent a ton of time trying to get into game development only to get stuck in researching the many frameworks, programs, and even the idea of making my own engine. Pico-8 just packs everything you need in it including code editor, mapper, pixel editor, sound editor, etc. so you can focus on making the game instead of figuring out your tech stack. Highly recommend it and well worth the money ($15)</text></comment> |
18,074,928 | 18,074,305 | 1 | 2 | 18,069,677 | train | <story><title>'Super Mario Bros.' speedrunner hits nearly inhuman 4:55 world record</title><url>https://mashable.com/article/super-mario-bros-world-record/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>pattle</author><text>If anyone is interested in speed runs I really recommend this YouTube channel<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;channel&#x2F;UCtUbO6rBht0daVIOGML3c8w" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;channel&#x2F;UCtUbO6rBht0daVIOGML3c8w</a><p>Thy&#x27;re a series of videos on how world records have been lowered over time on various games. It&#x27;s fascinating watching particularity the one on Super Mario 64<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=l7ePi38LnrA&amp;t=16s" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=l7ePi38LnrA&amp;t=16s</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kchoudhu</author><text>Did you ever see this one?<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=kpk2tdsPh0A" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=kpk2tdsPh0A</a><p>This guy literally has a PhD in SM64. It&#x27;s insanely complicated, and surprisingly lucid.</text></comment> | <story><title>'Super Mario Bros.' speedrunner hits nearly inhuman 4:55 world record</title><url>https://mashable.com/article/super-mario-bros-world-record/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>pattle</author><text>If anyone is interested in speed runs I really recommend this YouTube channel<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;channel&#x2F;UCtUbO6rBht0daVIOGML3c8w" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;channel&#x2F;UCtUbO6rBht0daVIOGML3c8w</a><p>Thy&#x27;re a series of videos on how world records have been lowered over time on various games. It&#x27;s fascinating watching particularity the one on Super Mario 64<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=l7ePi38LnrA&amp;t=16s" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=l7ePi38LnrA&amp;t=16s</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>TheAceOfHearts</author><text>I just wanna second this and say that I too love the Summoning Salt speedrun videos. They&#x27;re like mini-documentaries.<p>If you actually play through any of these games you really start to appreciate just how insane some of these times are.</text></comment> |
14,543,136 | 14,540,915 | 1 | 3 | 14,540,408 | train | <story><title>Dismantling a Million Tons of North Sea Oil Rigs</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/08/business/energy-environment/oil-north-sea-shell.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>dboreham</author><text>Interesting to read this because as a kid I watched these rigs rise into the sky as they were built then floated out. They&#x27;re building wind turbines in that shipyard now.</text></comment> | <story><title>Dismantling a Million Tons of North Sea Oil Rigs</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/08/business/energy-environment/oil-north-sea-shell.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>pjc50</author><text>See also (long) <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=14244227" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=14244227</a></text></comment> |
14,951,258 | 14,950,242 | 1 | 2 | 14,949,392 | train | <story><title>Dijkstra was right – recursion should not be difficult</title><url>https://blog.angularindepth.com/learn-recursion-in-10-minutes-e3262ac08a1</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jerf</author><text>&quot;This task can also be solved using iterative solution, but it’s way more complicated because we would have to nest for loops but don’t know how deep they are nested. The unknown number of nested loops is a common characteristic of all problems that are recursive in their nature and should give you a hint that recursive solution is required.&quot;<p>Would suggest instead something like<p>&quot;We could solve this directly by managing our own stack of work done and keeping track of where we are in the problems as we divide them up, but it&#x27;s easier to take advantage of the fact that the programming language is already providing us a call stack that can do this work for us.&quot;<p>Then, later, you can point out that this also helps with the backtracking solution as the programming language is maintaining the old environments; if you were iteratively managing your own stack you&#x27;d also have to backtrack manually.<p>Because that&#x27;s how you transform a recursive call into an iterative one, not nested for loops. The general points made in the article still hold up, of course.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>edmccard</author><text>&gt;Because that&#x27;s how you transform a recursive call into an iterative one, not nested for loops.<p>I came to understand recursion through nested for-loops, though, but that might just be a historical accident. In the summer of 1988 I had written a Mastermind solver in Microsoft Quickbasic[1] for the specific case of 4 &quot;pegs&quot;. At each guess, I used for-loops nested 4 deep to build a structure representing the possible remaining solutions (for all possibilities of the first peg, check all for the second peg, etc.) Then I wanted to extend it to work with variable numbers of pegs; after spending most of that summer trying to figure out a loop-based solution, I discovered that subroutines could call themselves and it hit me that I could have a function that took the possibilities already computed for a peg, and then called itself with those applied to the next peg.<p>So I&#x27;ve always thought of recursion as a way to have arbitrarily deeply nested loops.<p>[1] Believe it or not, it did support recursive functions!</text></comment> | <story><title>Dijkstra was right – recursion should not be difficult</title><url>https://blog.angularindepth.com/learn-recursion-in-10-minutes-e3262ac08a1</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jerf</author><text>&quot;This task can also be solved using iterative solution, but it’s way more complicated because we would have to nest for loops but don’t know how deep they are nested. The unknown number of nested loops is a common characteristic of all problems that are recursive in their nature and should give you a hint that recursive solution is required.&quot;<p>Would suggest instead something like<p>&quot;We could solve this directly by managing our own stack of work done and keeping track of where we are in the problems as we divide them up, but it&#x27;s easier to take advantage of the fact that the programming language is already providing us a call stack that can do this work for us.&quot;<p>Then, later, you can point out that this also helps with the backtracking solution as the programming language is maintaining the old environments; if you were iteratively managing your own stack you&#x27;d also have to backtrack manually.<p>Because that&#x27;s how you transform a recursive call into an iterative one, not nested for loops. The general points made in the article still hold up, of course.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>unclebucknasty</author><text>&gt;<i>Would suggest instead something like</i><p>Honestly, I think your version is <i>less</i> clear on its own in that it obscures the main point of that particular statement: when it&#x27;s best to consider recursion instead of nested loops.<p>In other words, the original is a statement about <i>why</i> or <i>when</i> to use recursion, while yours is a statement about <i>how</i> recursion helps.<p>It&#x27;s great complementary background though.</text></comment> |
11,356,102 | 11,356,294 | 1 | 2 | 11,355,673 | train | <story><title>Justin Time</title><url>https://blog.ycombinator.com/justin-time</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>paul</author><text>Justin doesn&#x27;t just work with the media. Justin IS the media.<p>I think it&#x27;s worth pointing out that Justin.tv led to the two largest YC exits to date, Twitch (Justin.tv pivot), and Cruise (founded by Justin.tv cofounder Kyle Vogt and Justin&#x27;s brother Dan).<p>In 2008, Justin.tv co-founder Michael Seibel found Brian Chesky crashed on the floor of a hotel in Austin, offered him space in his room, began coaching him on how to build a startup, introduced him to the rest of the Justin.tv team, and ultimately brought them into YC! (and look where he is now: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=hP6TH3pBPi8" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=hP6TH3pBPi8</a>)<p>I look forward to more of the same :)</text></comment> | <story><title>Justin Time</title><url>https://blog.ycombinator.com/justin-time</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>sahara</author><text>Congratulations to Justin, and to Sam&#x2F;YC for making a great choice.<p>On a tangential but related note, does anyone recommend any good follows on Snapchat, particularly anyone discussing tech&#x2F;entrepreneurship? (There are obviously tons of entertaining celebrities, athletes, musicians, etc, but that&#x27;s not really relevant here.)<p>Mark Suster (msuster on snap) of Upfront Ventures&#x2F;bothsidesofthetable is good for at least a few &#x27;snapstorms&#x27; a week covering a wide variety of VC topics. I&#x27;ve also really been enjoying the stories from Bobby Kim (bobbyhundreds), co-founder of seminal LA streetwear label The Hundreds, which tend to be a mix of standard day-in-the-life Snapchat fare as well as more introspective reflections on life and business. Bobby&#x27;s a smart guy with diverse interests, even if you don&#x27;t care about skateboarding or which overpriced, limited-edition collaboration is responsible for today&#x27;s line out the door somewhere on Fairfax, it&#x27;s still worth checking out Bobby&#x27;s snaps.</text></comment> |
38,859,715 | 38,859,806 | 1 | 2 | 38,859,147 | train | <story><title>Most states start school too early in the morning</title><url>https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/usa-school-start-times</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>karaterobot</author><text>&gt; This map shows which parts of the U.S. ignore the science.<p>I&#x27;m starting to dislike the phrase &quot;the science&quot;, since I usually hear it used as a conversational bludgeon. The American Academy of Pediatrics recommended 8:30 AM as a minimum start time, that&#x27;s not the same as &quot;the science&quot; definitely saying one thing or another. I don&#x27;t have kids, and don&#x27;t really care when schools start, so this is less a comment about that as it is about how annoying &quot;the science&quot; is as a phrase, how it&#x27;s not a good description of how science works, and how it&#x27;s usually misapplied to end conversations in favor of your prior opinion.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>legitster</author><text>&gt; I&#x27;m starting to dislike the phrase &quot;the science&quot;, since I usually hear it used as a conversational bludgeon<p>This also goes up there with the &quot;in this house we believe SCIENCE IS REAL&quot; signs.<p>We&#x27;re currently living through the replication crisis and are awash in fraudulent academic journals. I don&#x27;t think people who say this stuff would actually engage with you in a conversation about proper p-values for given sample sizes. So it&#x27;s really just shorthand for trying to associate yourself to a certain intellectual class.</text></comment> | <story><title>Most states start school too early in the morning</title><url>https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/usa-school-start-times</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>karaterobot</author><text>&gt; This map shows which parts of the U.S. ignore the science.<p>I&#x27;m starting to dislike the phrase &quot;the science&quot;, since I usually hear it used as a conversational bludgeon. The American Academy of Pediatrics recommended 8:30 AM as a minimum start time, that&#x27;s not the same as &quot;the science&quot; definitely saying one thing or another. I don&#x27;t have kids, and don&#x27;t really care when schools start, so this is less a comment about that as it is about how annoying &quot;the science&quot; is as a phrase, how it&#x27;s not a good description of how science works, and how it&#x27;s usually misapplied to end conversations in favor of your prior opinion.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>LaffertyDev</author><text>I agree with you about having annoyance with the phrase especially in the use of divisive topics.<p>I disagree in that, I don&#x27;t think this is a divisive topic. I have not heard of a valid critique for school start times should be later aside from schools being a daycare supplement for working parents. But that&#x27;s not science, its politics&#x2F;economics. &quot;The science&quot; is, in my experience, very clear that young people should be allowed to wake-up later in the day to better conform with their natural sleep cycles.</text></comment> |
13,263,830 | 13,263,311 | 1 | 2 | 13,261,656 | train | <story><title>No tipping means better business</title><url>http://tastefulventures.com/death-to-tipping</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>vkjv</author><text>Just an FYI, but if a tipped employee does not meet the minimum wage, the employer must make up the difference.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;webapps.dol.gov&#x2F;elaws&#x2F;faq&#x2F;esa&#x2F;flsa&#x2F;002.htm" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;webapps.dol.gov&#x2F;elaws&#x2F;faq&#x2F;esa&#x2F;flsa&#x2F;002.htm</a></text></item><item><author>radmuzom</author><text>I find it very funny when people argue that increasing the minimum wage would increase costs for consumers (I don&#x27;t necessarily disagree; in some cases it would, whether that is a bad thing is a different matter). I personally would pay a higher price, no tips and ensure that the workers serving can meet their basic needs via wages alone.</text></item><item><author>srinathrajaram</author><text>&gt;The worker&#x27;s salary is a employer&#x27;s responsibility. If the the worker become underpaid without the tipping, then the worker is underpaid by the employer.<p>This! Tipping is nothing but the employer passing the buck and guilting the customer.</text></item><item><author>ezoe</author><text>As a person who was born and living in a country which has no tipping culture.
The tipping sucks.<p>I should have been fully informed how much should I have to pay before I purchase something or some service.
Any extra demand from agreed amount should be illegal.<p>I also don&#x27;t want to waste my precious time on paying the tip for calculating tax.<p>The worker&#x27;s salary is a employer&#x27;s responsibility.
If the the worker become underpaid without the tipping, then the worker is underpaid by the employer.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>lostphilosopher</author><text>This idea of &quot;making up the difference&quot; comes up in every convo on tipping. The counter point is usually that it doesn&#x27;t happen. (Debate ensues...)<p>But even if it happened FOR SURE EVERY TIME. What an inefficient system! Rather than just paying the minimum wage up front, with predictable, projectable costs, businesses spend person hours on calculating tips, hours worked, per employee, etc. And then have to pay (potentially) widely varying amounts at the end of the cycle.<p>I get that some customers and some servers like the practice of tipping. But why not require employers to pay (at least) the minimum wage, period. You could still tip if you want to, and an you can still try to earn a tip if you want to. But now it&#x27;s more like a bonus, gravy, than the difference between rent and no-rent.</text></comment> | <story><title>No tipping means better business</title><url>http://tastefulventures.com/death-to-tipping</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>vkjv</author><text>Just an FYI, but if a tipped employee does not meet the minimum wage, the employer must make up the difference.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;webapps.dol.gov&#x2F;elaws&#x2F;faq&#x2F;esa&#x2F;flsa&#x2F;002.htm" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;webapps.dol.gov&#x2F;elaws&#x2F;faq&#x2F;esa&#x2F;flsa&#x2F;002.htm</a></text></item><item><author>radmuzom</author><text>I find it very funny when people argue that increasing the minimum wage would increase costs for consumers (I don&#x27;t necessarily disagree; in some cases it would, whether that is a bad thing is a different matter). I personally would pay a higher price, no tips and ensure that the workers serving can meet their basic needs via wages alone.</text></item><item><author>srinathrajaram</author><text>&gt;The worker&#x27;s salary is a employer&#x27;s responsibility. If the the worker become underpaid without the tipping, then the worker is underpaid by the employer.<p>This! Tipping is nothing but the employer passing the buck and guilting the customer.</text></item><item><author>ezoe</author><text>As a person who was born and living in a country which has no tipping culture.
The tipping sucks.<p>I should have been fully informed how much should I have to pay before I purchase something or some service.
Any extra demand from agreed amount should be illegal.<p>I also don&#x27;t want to waste my precious time on paying the tip for calculating tax.<p>The worker&#x27;s salary is a employer&#x27;s responsibility.
If the the worker become underpaid without the tipping, then the worker is underpaid by the employer.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>thoughtsimple</author><text>This is almost certainly going to rarely happen. Almost no server feels empowered enough to insist on this. And restaurant owners will start insisting on collecting and counting cash tips so they can fully account for the wages. No server wants their boss counting their cash tips. At least in Massachusetts, declared tips is self reported.</text></comment> |
26,638,791 | 26,638,788 | 1 | 2 | 26,637,774 | train | <story><title>Social media addiction linked to cyberbullying</title><url>https://news.uga.edu/social-media-addiction-linked-to-cyberbullying/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>DoreenMichele</author><text>What I&#x27;m not seeing is what is going on in the lives of these people that fosters such negative behavior. These studies almost never ask questions like &quot;Are you being abused by your parents?&quot; or &quot;Have you been molested?&quot;<p>There is this presumption that they engage in malicious behavior simply because they think they can get away with it, basically. It&#x27;s an &quot;idle hands are the devil&#x27;s workshop&quot; theory and generally lacks substance.<p>Sure, people do all kinds of stupid stuff when bored and when they have time on their hands, but why are these young adolescents online all the time? Does this mean they have a terrible home life and no one is paying attention to them?<p>I don&#x27;t really like proxies like &quot;Spends a lot of time online.&quot; I spend a lot of time online. I don&#x27;t bully people.<p>For me, the internet is a means to have a life when that wouldn&#x27;t otherwise be possible. I earn income online. I have hobbies online. Etc.<p>I really dislike the subtext that &quot;spending time online is bad and more time spent online is worse.&quot; I would guess it is something more like &quot;Spending time online to try to escape your shitty life in an abusive household means you take your baggage out on internet strangers because that seems safer and more do-able than resolving your thorny problems.&quot;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>colloq</author><text>I don&#x27;t think it&#x27;s only adolescents. You can see rich Google employees bullying poorer developers on Twitter in the name of social justice. Some of the bullies must be at least 50 years old.<p>Social media and Twitter are bad because you can form virtual tribes and yield to age-old instincts.<p>The more individualistic people are, the less they join those tribes. Individualists tend to be grumpy though, for which they are bullied by the perfect Twitter moralists.</text></comment> | <story><title>Social media addiction linked to cyberbullying</title><url>https://news.uga.edu/social-media-addiction-linked-to-cyberbullying/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>DoreenMichele</author><text>What I&#x27;m not seeing is what is going on in the lives of these people that fosters such negative behavior. These studies almost never ask questions like &quot;Are you being abused by your parents?&quot; or &quot;Have you been molested?&quot;<p>There is this presumption that they engage in malicious behavior simply because they think they can get away with it, basically. It&#x27;s an &quot;idle hands are the devil&#x27;s workshop&quot; theory and generally lacks substance.<p>Sure, people do all kinds of stupid stuff when bored and when they have time on their hands, but why are these young adolescents online all the time? Does this mean they have a terrible home life and no one is paying attention to them?<p>I don&#x27;t really like proxies like &quot;Spends a lot of time online.&quot; I spend a lot of time online. I don&#x27;t bully people.<p>For me, the internet is a means to have a life when that wouldn&#x27;t otherwise be possible. I earn income online. I have hobbies online. Etc.<p>I really dislike the subtext that &quot;spending time online is bad and more time spent online is worse.&quot; I would guess it is something more like &quot;Spending time online to try to escape your shitty life in an abusive household means you take your baggage out on internet strangers because that seems safer and more do-able than resolving your thorny problems.&quot;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Wohlf</author><text>I would bet on a large scale it&#x27;s not people who are being abused, just people who are miserable and unhappy with their lives for whatever reason.</text></comment> |
4,088,558 | 4,088,545 | 1 | 2 | 4,088,214 | train | <story><title>Work on unimportant problems</title><url>http://www.yosefk.com/blog/work-on-unimportant-problems.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>feral</author><text>The work we now consider 'important' is the work that has, according to our best guess, the highest likelihood of solving important problems in future.<p>Our best guess may be wrong, as the future is hard to predict. But the future is not so unpredictable that we should stop thinking about where best to direct our efforts.<p>Maybe someone working on Farmville will cause an important advance, as an unpredictable side effect. We can't rule that out. Even a job that seems 'unimportant' can have beneficial and unpredictable windfalls, and that's wonderful.<p>But we should still try and direct our efforts as best we can, and work on problems that we think are important.<p>That seemingly trivial pursuits sometimes bear fruit, doesn't mean that all pursuits are equally worthwhile.</text></comment> | <story><title>Work on unimportant problems</title><url>http://www.yosefk.com/blog/work-on-unimportant-problems.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>niels_olson</author><text>I'm a doc, teaching myself python specifically because it's painfully obvious that we (docs) need more and more programming skill to do real medical research. My current project is shaping up to be a multi-year effort to hunt cancer (tissue micro-arrays to assess novel antigens). So this article threw me for a loop in the first sentence.<p>The article is still relevant though, in my mind. There's no external motivation to write a parser. But how else could one reasonably build a research database? I suppose someone could manually go through the clinical database and transfer info into a research database for 500 patients. But what about the next 10 studies of 500 patients? It seems unimportant in the near term, but in the long-term having someone on the project who can talk to the computer is going to make or break it.</text></comment> |
18,140,418 | 18,140,056 | 1 | 3 | 18,135,771 | train | <story><title>Study: Artificial sweeteners toxic to digestive gut bacteria</title><url>https://www.cnbc.com/2018/10/03/artificial-sweeteners-are-toxic-to-digestive-gut-bacteria-study.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>biomcgary</author><text>The underlying research article (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.mdpi.com&#x2F;1420-3049&#x2F;23&#x2F;10&#x2F;2454" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.mdpi.com&#x2F;1420-3049&#x2F;23&#x2F;10&#x2F;2454</a>) is set up as a &quot;no-fail&quot; experiment since it infers toxicity with the slightest change (inhibition or induction) in a very sensitive reporter (luciferase). They are NOT measuring change in growth rate of the bacterial cells, the traditional measure of toxicity (aka IC, or inhibitory concentration). The study has positive and negative controls, but this assay is poorly controlled relative to how it is being interpreted (impact of artificial sweeteners on human gut microbiome).<p>The only way to accurately calibrate this novel assay for relevance to human health is to expose the bacteria to a wide range of natural foods (e.g., avocado, spinach, berries, honey, etc) and show that it does not return a positive result. If nearly everything is toxic, the assay is not useful. However, if most natural foods have no toxicity signal, then the assay has genuine value.</text></comment> | <story><title>Study: Artificial sweeteners toxic to digestive gut bacteria</title><url>https://www.cnbc.com/2018/10/03/artificial-sweeteners-are-toxic-to-digestive-gut-bacteria-study.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>qwerty456127</author><text>The article doesn&#x27;t say which sweeteners did they study and this is a very bad style. Fortunately it links to an article on EurekAlert which in its turn links to the actual scientific paper (doi.org&#x2F;10.3390&#x2F;molecules23102454). It says aspartame, sucralose, saccharine, neotame, advantame and acesulfame potassium-k (ace-k) (BTW at least saccharine and ace-k are already known to be carcinogenic AFAIK) were tested against Escherichia Coli (I would rather be interested in testing them against Lactobacillaceae).<p>Lactulose is a great prebiotic (not widely known infortunately) very good for gut bacteria (AFAIK), has geroprotective properties, is a mild osmotic laxative, has zero calories, doesn&#x27;t affect blood sugar&#x2F;insulin and tastes great. I use it instead of maple syrup. As far as I also know erythritol (looks, feels and cooks almost exactly like sugar) and palatinose (same, but has calories yet doesn&#x27;t kick insulin and doesn&#x27;t feed mouth bacteria so is safe for teeth) are good for gut bacteria too. We could also mention inulin (which is a well-known prebiotic very beneficial for gut microbiome) but it&#x27;s sweetness is weaker.</text></comment> |
33,067,675 | 33,066,061 | 1 | 2 | 33,043,489 | train | <story><title>Cloning a Rare ISA Card to Use a Rare CD Drive [video]</title><url>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0W1t2_EJG9w</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>a2tech</author><text>The ISA bus was really a very approachable way to add hardware to a system. I worked at a place where a couple of electrical engineers wanted to build a bridge from a PC to a specialized industrial control network. So, with very little knowledge of computer programming (they were low level guys) or bus technologies they banged out an ISA card and an application to throw bytes out onto the network. Since ISA cards basically just showed up in memory space you just told the application they wrote which chunk of memory it was using and the application wrote to a specific offset to write data to the network and read from another offset to see what came back in.<p>They had a pretty successful little business from that idea. And those cards were STILL selling pretty well into the early 00&#x27;s--I think they sold them until 2008. Of course the application was never updated and you couldn&#x27;t just write to random memory locations post Windows 95...so thats the only OS (and DOS) that I ever saw that card run on.</text></comment> | <story><title>Cloning a Rare ISA Card to Use a Rare CD Drive [video]</title><url>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0W1t2_EJG9w</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>RALaBarge</author><text>I saw this video yesterday -- cool to see it pop up here today.<p>I also watched this Defcon breakdown on hardware hacking where the presenter goes over the specialized tools to both mount the chips as well as the software to pull firmware at rest to reverse engineer it. Video: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=Kxvpbu9STU4" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=Kxvpbu9STU4</a><p>YouTube channels like My Mate Vince, Northridge Fix, Necroware, and others show folks without any electronics degrees troubleshooting and fixing hardware and I just can&#x27;t help but want to watch them and think about how fun it would be to get involved...unfortunately I already am at a limit to my hobbies.<p>The older I get, the more I enjoy thinking about EE topics and wondering where I would be today if I would have found out more about this discipline vs going a more traditional administration&#x2F;IT route.</text></comment> |
10,275,384 | 10,275,462 | 1 | 2 | 10,274,842 | train | <story><title>Goodbye, Native Mobile Apps</title><url>http://atavistinsider.atavist.com/goodbye-native-mobile-apps/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>idibidiart</author><text>The web is a great publishing medium for magazines and news outlets. Apps are for doing stuff beyond passive browsing.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>iLoch</author><text>This is the biggest takeaway for me. &quot;Wow guys who would have thought the web was good enough for us to post our text content to.&quot; This article isn&#x27;t about why <i>you</i> should drop mobile app development. News + magazines? Sure. Just look at Flipboard.</text></comment> | <story><title>Goodbye, Native Mobile Apps</title><url>http://atavistinsider.atavist.com/goodbye-native-mobile-apps/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>idibidiart</author><text>The web is a great publishing medium for magazines and news outlets. Apps are for doing stuff beyond passive browsing.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>stephengillie</author><text>Choosing the mobile website over the app is one way of keeping the relationship from going any further. A website can&#x27;t ask you for your contact list like an app can.</text></comment> |
27,892,369 | 27,892,044 | 1 | 2 | 27,890,735 | train | <story><title>Hungarian journalists and critics of Orbán were targeted with Pegasus</title><url>https://telex.hu/direkt36/2021/07/19/pegasus-nso-hungary-viktor-orban-cyberweapon</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>roenxi</author><text>&gt; If there is a part of the population that is radicalized and hate rhetoric is used that will destabilize any society.<p>I&#x27;m going to point at this as an example of a very traditional, very political example unproductive thinking. One of the lessons people refuse to see in politics is that the people who vote for things they don&#x27;t like might, potentially, be upset about something. There is a lack of reflection on how rational people might have ended up here.<p>I know nothing about Hungary. But I am quite confident that a happy, well organised society labouring under the grip of sound economic policies tends not to radicalise very easily. People get radicalised when it becomes obvious that politics as usual is not going to work out well for them. There are cases where the cause is lost and there is an intransigent radical group. Usually there is a long lead up to that of a group who is systemically not having their needs met.<p>It is totally correct that hate leads to win-lose deals. That seems like a very reasonable option to people if the alternative loving approach is a win-lose deal but with the winners and losers reversed.</text></item><item><author>Hokusai</author><text>&gt; EU is completely helpless against rouge states<p>There is a point where politics depend on good intent. It does not matter if it is the EU, USA or China. If there is a part of the population that is radicalized and hate rhetoric is used that will destabilize any society.<p>The main defense against this situation is that it does not work to improve citizens lives. It only benefits a small part of society and it will make the rest suffer. Hate calls for win-lose deals and an unproductive zero sum mentality. Hungarian business will suffer, and Hungarian workers will suffer. That is not sustainable long term.<p>EU can be improved, but if millions of citizens support a far-right government there is little to be done. Orbán is a problem, but that people follows him is another one. It will only make Hungary poorer and the EU poorer and more dangerous.</text></item><item><author>poisonborz</author><text>If there is one single lasting international effect of Orbán and his party, it&#x27;s how he demonstrated how EU is completely helpless against rouge states (as well). The delicate political balance of its parliamental politics make it impossible to react to any complex, even if lethal threats. The EU funds and fuels a Belorussian-style regime in its own heartland for a decade now, and all they can do are angry notices and legal disputes that take years without a noteworthy resolution. Due to how alliances within the union work - Hungary has the full support of Poland and the V4 - any major blowback would result in shattering itself.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>lloydjones</author><text>I&#x27;m not sure I agree. In the UK, the lower middle class are (to generalise) materially well-off; they own their own homes, they have a couple of cars, they have large televisions, one partner does not have to work, etc.<p>And through pure boredom&#x2F;decadence, they were radicalised through years of negative messaging from the populist press into &#x27;caring&#x27; about things like Brexit, immigration, welfare claimants, etc.<p>These are people that have most of their needs met and are comfortable, yet their emotional buttons were pushed over the course of years into making them foam at the mouth about things they largely don&#x27;t fully grasp and that definitely don&#x27;t have an impact on their lives.</text></comment> | <story><title>Hungarian journalists and critics of Orbán were targeted with Pegasus</title><url>https://telex.hu/direkt36/2021/07/19/pegasus-nso-hungary-viktor-orban-cyberweapon</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>roenxi</author><text>&gt; If there is a part of the population that is radicalized and hate rhetoric is used that will destabilize any society.<p>I&#x27;m going to point at this as an example of a very traditional, very political example unproductive thinking. One of the lessons people refuse to see in politics is that the people who vote for things they don&#x27;t like might, potentially, be upset about something. There is a lack of reflection on how rational people might have ended up here.<p>I know nothing about Hungary. But I am quite confident that a happy, well organised society labouring under the grip of sound economic policies tends not to radicalise very easily. People get radicalised when it becomes obvious that politics as usual is not going to work out well for them. There are cases where the cause is lost and there is an intransigent radical group. Usually there is a long lead up to that of a group who is systemically not having their needs met.<p>It is totally correct that hate leads to win-lose deals. That seems like a very reasonable option to people if the alternative loving approach is a win-lose deal but with the winners and losers reversed.</text></item><item><author>Hokusai</author><text>&gt; EU is completely helpless against rouge states<p>There is a point where politics depend on good intent. It does not matter if it is the EU, USA or China. If there is a part of the population that is radicalized and hate rhetoric is used that will destabilize any society.<p>The main defense against this situation is that it does not work to improve citizens lives. It only benefits a small part of society and it will make the rest suffer. Hate calls for win-lose deals and an unproductive zero sum mentality. Hungarian business will suffer, and Hungarian workers will suffer. That is not sustainable long term.<p>EU can be improved, but if millions of citizens support a far-right government there is little to be done. Orbán is a problem, but that people follows him is another one. It will only make Hungary poorer and the EU poorer and more dangerous.</text></item><item><author>poisonborz</author><text>If there is one single lasting international effect of Orbán and his party, it&#x27;s how he demonstrated how EU is completely helpless against rouge states (as well). The delicate political balance of its parliamental politics make it impossible to react to any complex, even if lethal threats. The EU funds and fuels a Belorussian-style regime in its own heartland for a decade now, and all they can do are angry notices and legal disputes that take years without a noteworthy resolution. Due to how alliances within the union work - Hungary has the full support of Poland and the V4 - any major blowback would result in shattering itself.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pjc50</author><text>&gt; the people who vote for things they don&#x27;t like might, potentially, be upset about something<p>Yes, but is the thing they&#x27;re upset about and the thing they&#x27;re directing their anger towards actually linked?<p>It&#x27;s often hugely successful in politics to say &quot;all your problems are the fault of this external bad actor&quot; rather than &quot;<i>we</i> have a problem and it&#x27;s going to take a lot of hard work to fix it&quot;. It&#x27;s very easy to blame external Jewish financiers (George Soros always gets a namecheck) and gay people for all your problems. The last time people did that en masse in Eastern Europe it ended up with extermination camps and millions dead.<p>Arguably Hungary&#x27;s problems <i>are</i> due to the international finance industry, but there&#x27;s nothing especially Jewish about it, just good old mis-selling. See e.g. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ft.com&#x2F;content&#x2F;6c27cfbc-f50b-11e2-94e9-00144feabdc0" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ft.com&#x2F;content&#x2F;6c27cfbc-f50b-11e2-94e9-00144feab...</a> - Orban took on the banks, which has to have been a big help to his popularity.<p>The EU is not blameless in this: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.escp.eu&#x2F;news&#x2F;eu-convergence-narrative-played-key-role-eastern-european-mortgage-crisis" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.escp.eu&#x2F;news&#x2F;eu-convergence-narrative-played-key...</a></text></comment> |
14,592,072 | 14,592,124 | 1 | 2 | 14,591,751 | train | <story><title>Close-Up View of DNA Replication</title><url>https://www.ucdavis.edu/news/close-view-dna-replication-yields-surprises</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>ekianjo</author><text>For anyone interested in the molecular process of DNA replication, here&#x27;s a pretty cool video that explains what happens at the protein level. It&#x27;s always amazing to watch what is in practice a molecular-sized machine:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=OjPcT1uUZiE" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=OjPcT1uUZiE</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Close-Up View of DNA Replication</title><url>https://www.ucdavis.edu/news/close-view-dna-replication-yields-surprises</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>ValleyOfTheMtns</author><text>Something I&#x27;ve never understood is how the nucleotides arrive to be included in the DNA strand. These animations always just show them appearing in perfect sequential order when they&#x27;re needed, which is of course not what happens.<p>How are they delivered to the polymerase in the first place? How do they &quot;know&quot; where to be?<p>Are there just so many of them in the cytosol that through sheer numbers, there&#x27;s enough random chance they&#x27;ll just shuttle into place when the polymerase needs them?</text></comment> |
14,090,044 | 14,090,070 | 1 | 3 | 14,089,416 | train | <story><title>How Google Book Search Got Lost</title><url>https://backchannel.com/how-google-book-search-got-lost-c2d2cf77121d</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>dzdt</author><text>This is the value-destruction side of copyright protection. With more reasonable length and more easily determinable copyright status, efforts like google books would be able to do so many more things. But without a permissive legal framework that innovation is shut down.</text></comment> | <story><title>How Google Book Search Got Lost</title><url>https://backchannel.com/how-google-book-search-got-lost-c2d2cf77121d</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>WalterBright</author><text>&gt; &quot;They should have just licensed the books instead.”<p>The problem with orphaned works is that can&#x27;t be done, as nobody knows who owns them.</text></comment> |
1,082,017 | 1,081,855 | 1 | 2 | 1,081,519 | train | <story><title>How A Great Product Can Be Bad News: Apple, iPad, and the Closed Mac</title><url>http://createdigitalmusic.com/2010/01/27/how-a-great-product-can-be-bad-news-apple-ipad-and-the-closed-mac/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>coffeemug</author><text>My dad, mom, grandma, and grandpa can watch videos, look at photos of their kids/grandkids, send e-mails to their relatives oversees, and read their favorite books on it, all without the need for a "computer-savvy guy" who has to teach them how it works, and fix it when it's broken. In other words, it's a logical conclusion of the personal computer revolution. I understand you need to run your Ruby scripts, but this product was designed for the 99% of the people in this country instead. You're not the target audience.</text></item><item><author>zacharypinter</author><text>This post adequately sums up my concerns.<p>Here we have a device that doesn't support USB thumbdrives, doesn't support dropbox (at least system-wide, I assume the dropbox iphone app would work), is unable to run ruby or any of my other dev scripts/tools, cannot install firefox or firefox plugins, etc.<p>I do not want to see computing head this direction.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>lambda</author><text>The thing is, without an open platform, the new, innovative ways of working with this machine will never be invented.<p>This is about far more than running your own Ruby scripts. It's about the fact that true innovation cannot exist in such an environment. And the problem is, you will not see what you're missing; people won't bother developing new technologies that have no platform they can legally run on.<p>Would the Web exist if Microsoft had been able to ban Netscape from running on Windows? What new, groundbreaking technologies are we missing out on because it's not worth the time and effort to create something new if the platform vendor can simply forbid you from publishing it?</text></comment> | <story><title>How A Great Product Can Be Bad News: Apple, iPad, and the Closed Mac</title><url>http://createdigitalmusic.com/2010/01/27/how-a-great-product-can-be-bad-news-apple-ipad-and-the-closed-mac/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>coffeemug</author><text>My dad, mom, grandma, and grandpa can watch videos, look at photos of their kids/grandkids, send e-mails to their relatives oversees, and read their favorite books on it, all without the need for a "computer-savvy guy" who has to teach them how it works, and fix it when it's broken. In other words, it's a logical conclusion of the personal computer revolution. I understand you need to run your Ruby scripts, but this product was designed for the 99% of the people in this country instead. You're not the target audience.</text></item><item><author>zacharypinter</author><text>This post adequately sums up my concerns.<p>Here we have a device that doesn't support USB thumbdrives, doesn't support dropbox (at least system-wide, I assume the dropbox iphone app would work), is unable to run ruby or any of my other dev scripts/tools, cannot install firefox or firefox plugins, etc.<p>I do not want to see computing head this direction.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jwhitlark</author><text>The logical conclusion of the personal computer revolution is the person doesn't control their device?! That's not revolutionary; that's a return to the bad old days...</text></comment> |
18,753,444 | 18,751,695 | 1 | 2 | 18,751,639 | train | <story><title>Canada Battery Maker Says Flow Storage Costs to Tumble by Half</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-12-24/canada-battery-maker-says-flow-storage-costs-to-tumble-by-half</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Animats</author><text>They are mostly a vanadium mining company.[1] The price of vanadium just crashed in the last half of 2018. Maybe that&#x27;s why the company is promoting this right now.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cellcubeenergystorage.com&#x2F;resource-1&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cellcubeenergystorage.com&#x2F;resource-1&#x2F;</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Canada Battery Maker Says Flow Storage Costs to Tumble by Half</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-12-24/canada-battery-maker-says-flow-storage-costs-to-tumble-by-half</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>mtgx</author><text>&gt; said the cost of its technology may halve within four years, potentially boosting its uptake over lithium-ion units.<p>Chances are that Li-Ion prices will be reduced by at least as much, if not much more within 4 years, as the whole carmaking industry starts mass-producing EVs, and other huge Tesla, European, and Asian battery factories go online to serve that market of millions of EVs a year.<p>I think some Chinese battery maker recently said that they expect Li-Ion battery cell prices to fall to $50&#x2F;kWh by 2025 (I think they are around $130-$150 now). It may actually happen a year or two earlier, at least for the industry leaders, with everyone else following soon after.<p>Personally, with the rise of all-electric vehicles and solar roofs&#x2F;home battery systems (for which Li-Ion is much more convenient), I&#x27;m quite skeptical that other technologies will be able to beat Li-Ion in being used by power companies. The ecosystem and economies of scale will greatly favor Li-Ion, for now, and whatever new tech the battery makers decide to adopt later on (like solid state batteries).</text></comment> |
5,555,758 | 5,554,561 | 1 | 3 | 5,552,756 | train | <story><title>Linode hacked, CCs and passwords leaked</title><url>http://slashdot.org/firehose.pl?op=view&type=submission&id=2603667</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>robomartin</author><text>How about you guys cool it and stop organizing a lynching mob devoid of any real data? It's embarrassing. HN is supposed to be populated with lots of very smart, data-driven analytical folks. Yet, every time something like this happens out of the woodwork come people who would ran you and your children down in the event of an emergency rather than turn around, carefully evaluate the situation, and help you. Don't be a moron. Stop it. For all you know there's a serious law enforcement effort under way that prevents Linode from talking.<p>For the record, I am a Linode customer and just got a new server to migrate a couple of sites into. My plans have not been altered at all by this. I have no data to suggest I should.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Legion</author><text>I am a customer too, and I wield no torch or pitchfork, but I grow increasingly frustrated at the lack of response from Linode.<p>I understand your point about the idea that they may be unable to speak to the issue due to law enforcement efforts, but for the moment, acknowledgement would be satisfactory. I would be happy with, "We're aware of the rumors regarding the intrusion at Linode this past week. We are working with law enforcement and cannot comment on details at this time. However, we will provide a full postmortem once we are able to do so."<p>The problem is when the explanation <i>never</i> comes. It's OK if it's not this second, but tell us it's coming, and then follow through. Complete silence is frustrating.</text></comment> | <story><title>Linode hacked, CCs and passwords leaked</title><url>http://slashdot.org/firehose.pl?op=view&type=submission&id=2603667</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>robomartin</author><text>How about you guys cool it and stop organizing a lynching mob devoid of any real data? It's embarrassing. HN is supposed to be populated with lots of very smart, data-driven analytical folks. Yet, every time something like this happens out of the woodwork come people who would ran you and your children down in the event of an emergency rather than turn around, carefully evaluate the situation, and help you. Don't be a moron. Stop it. For all you know there's a serious law enforcement effort under way that prevents Linode from talking.<p>For the record, I am a Linode customer and just got a new server to migrate a couple of sites into. My plans have not been altered at all by this. I have no data to suggest I should.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>anon808</author><text>Mob-mentality. Unfortunately naturally occurs whenever a group gets to be about the size of a mob.</text></comment> |
30,054,500 | 30,054,568 | 1 | 2 | 30,054,172 | train | <story><title>Winamp Skin Museum (Interactive)</title><url>https://skins.webamp.org</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>NKosmatos</author><text>A nice trip down memory lane. Older HN readers (like myself) will surely recognize and remember many of these skins, and we all know what comes after skins… MilkDrop :-) <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;MilkDrop" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;MilkDrop</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Winamp Skin Museum (Interactive)</title><url>https://skins.webamp.org</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>dang</author><text>Past related threads:<p><i>Winamp Skin Museum</i> - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=24373699" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=24373699</a> - Sept 2020 (264 comments)<p><i>Winamp Skin Museum</i> - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=24371210" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=24371210</a> - Sept 2020 (3 comments)<p><i>Winamp Skin Museum</i> - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=24366172" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=24366172</a> - Sept 2020 (4 comments)</text></comment> |
7,642,962 | 7,642,811 | 1 | 3 | 7,642,682 | train | <story><title>African Ebola outbreak shows no sign of slowing</title><url>http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2014/04/23/the-african-ebola-outbreak-that-shows-no-sign-of-slowing/?tid=hpModule_04941f10-8a79-11e2-98d9-3012c1cd8d1e</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ChuckMcM</author><text>So what killed (or squelched) previous outbreaks?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>edj</author><text>Here&#x27;s a Medicines Sans Frontieres Ebola expert answering that very question[1]:<p><i>In recent years, MSF has been involved in battling every Ebola epidemic. Once the first case is confirmed by a blood test, every person who cares for an infected patient must wear a hazmat suit, gloves, a mask and protective goggles and exercise extreme caution when administering treatment. Decontamination chambers are generally installed between the isolated patients and the external environment. To confine the epidemic, it is critical to trace the entire transmission chain. All individuals who have had contact with patients who may be contaminated are monitored and isolated at the first sign of infection. The affected communities must also be informed about the illness and the precautions to be taken to limit risks of contamination. Basic hygiene – such as washing one’s hands – can significantly reduce the risk of transmission.</i><p>1: <a href="http://www.msf.org/article/guinea-%E2%80%9Cthere-no-treatment-and-no-vaccine-ebola-priority-isolate-suspected-cases%E2%80%9D" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.msf.org&#x2F;article&#x2F;guinea-%E2%80%9Cthere-no-treatmen...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>African Ebola outbreak shows no sign of slowing</title><url>http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2014/04/23/the-african-ebola-outbreak-that-shows-no-sign-of-slowing/?tid=hpModule_04941f10-8a79-11e2-98d9-3012c1cd8d1e</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ChuckMcM</author><text>So what killed (or squelched) previous outbreaks?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mayneack</author><text>They were rural and burned themselves out once people stopped visiting the hospitals where they were transmitted through shared needles.<p>This is a great book that covers many early outbreaks: <a href="http://www.amazon.com/The-Coming-Plague-Emerging-Diseases/dp/0140250913/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.amazon.com&#x2F;The-Coming-Plague-Emerging-Diseases&#x2F;dp...</a></text></comment> |
29,311,484 | 29,311,345 | 1 | 2 | 29,309,758 | train | <story><title>Books I loved reading this year</title><url>https://www.gatesnotes.com/About-Bill-Gates/Holiday-Books-2021</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>adamgordonbell</author><text>Project Hail Mary was so good. I loved The Martian but Artemis not as much. By that measure Project Hail Mary was a return to form.<p>It was just a fun, breezy read that hit the problem solving part of my brain in just the right way, but with a different angle on things than &quot;The Martian&quot;.</text></item><item><author>rememberlenny</author><text><i>- List for the lazy -</i><p>A Thousand Brains: A New Theory of Intelligence, by Jeff Hawkins.<p>The Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race, by Walter Isaacson.<p>Klara and the Sun, by Kazuo Ishiguro.<p>Hamnet, by Maggie O’Farrell.<p>Project Hail Mary, by Andy Weir.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>reggieband</author><text>I was going through goodreads yesterday and came across my review of The Martian there. I gave it 5 stars because I use what I understand is the Roger Ebert style of rating. The Martian is imperfect, pulpy and at times a bit over sentimental. But it succeeds at exactly what it sets out to achieve. It isn&#x27;t Dostoevsky or Proust but it isn&#x27;t trying to be. It made me laugh, kept me engaged and turning pages. It made me think, this situation is impossible but if it was possible then this is about as realistic as I could expect a novel to portray. In exchange for suspending my disbelief it gave me an enjoyable diversion.<p>All that to say, if Project Hail Mary is equivalent to that, it is going on my to read list.</text></comment> | <story><title>Books I loved reading this year</title><url>https://www.gatesnotes.com/About-Bill-Gates/Holiday-Books-2021</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>adamgordonbell</author><text>Project Hail Mary was so good. I loved The Martian but Artemis not as much. By that measure Project Hail Mary was a return to form.<p>It was just a fun, breezy read that hit the problem solving part of my brain in just the right way, but with a different angle on things than &quot;The Martian&quot;.</text></item><item><author>rememberlenny</author><text><i>- List for the lazy -</i><p>A Thousand Brains: A New Theory of Intelligence, by Jeff Hawkins.<p>The Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race, by Walter Isaacson.<p>Klara and the Sun, by Kazuo Ishiguro.<p>Hamnet, by Maggie O’Farrell.<p>Project Hail Mary, by Andy Weir.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>fernandotakai</author><text>project hail mary&#x27;s audiobook is the best audiobook i&#x27;ve ever listened to. it&#x27;s.... incredible. they adapted parts of the book that were kind of hard to &quot;get&quot; perfectly (and for people that read it, i think you know what i mean).<p>i totally recommend it.</text></comment> |
1,602,193 | 1,602,241 | 1 | 2 | 1,601,951 | train | <story><title>Google, Just Cut The BS And Give The Gordon Gekko Speech Already</title><url>http://techcrunch.com/2010/08/13/google-net-neutrality/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>moultano</author><text>Can someone explain to me how they think less than full net-neutrality benefits Google? I didn't understand that argument in this article, or any of the previous ones.</text></comment> | <story><title>Google, Just Cut The BS And Give The Gordon Gekko Speech Already</title><url>http://techcrunch.com/2010/08/13/google-net-neutrality/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>bryanh</author><text>It was about time someone said something to this effect. Net neutrality aside, Google is a public company. They have shareholders. From what it sounds like, Larry and Sergey are more or less full blown academics and therefore idealistic. Problem is, they aren't the parents of a Stanford project anymore but instead a multi-billion, multi-national corporation with thousands of shareholders, employees and customers.<p>Could they have approached net-neutrality with a "cut off your nose to spite your face" approach? Absolutely. Could they have won out in the face of adversity? Maybe. Would it have been good business? Most assuredly not.<p>Google in acting in self-preservation; nothing more, nothing less. They aren't martyrs. I can understand if you are upset about them not admitting this fact, but anything else is naive.</text></comment> |
36,357,889 | 36,357,639 | 1 | 3 | 36,356,957 | train | <story><title>Reddit CEO Says Mods Too Powerful, Plans to Weaken After Blackout</title><url>https://www.businessinsider.com/reddit-ceo-will-change-rules-to-make-mods-less-powerful-2023-6</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>lazystar</author><text>There&#x27;s a silent majority - &quot;lurkers&quot; - that the mods have completely ignored over the course of their tantrum. I&#x27;ve commented more in the past few days than i have in the past few months, because it&#x27;s obvious the mods have completely lost perspective of the average user experience.</text></item><item><author>AnotherGoodName</author><text>Ha. There were some weird posts from new users in subreddits I frequent.<p>&#x27;we need to rise up against the mods the blackout is an outrage!&#x27;<p>It was met with unanimous wtf is wrong with you, go outside. I get the feeling spez is creating new accounts and posting as them again.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>chongli</author><text>Lurkers are pure consumers, free-riders. They produce nothing. They are valuable only to Reddit for their potential to be monetized.<p>People like to say that users who post content care about lurkers because they want to be seen&#x2F;heard. No. People who post content care about commenters (and up&#x2F;downvoters at the bare minimum) who interact with them in meaningful ways, not lurkers. Lurkers are the cosmic neutrinos of social media: they pass through without leaving a trace.<p>Reddit wants to have their cake and eat it too. They want millions of hours of unpaid labour from mods, posters, and commenters. And they want to control these people as if they were employees (by dictating what tools they&#x27;re allowed&#x2F;not allowed to use). This will not turn out well!</text></comment> | <story><title>Reddit CEO Says Mods Too Powerful, Plans to Weaken After Blackout</title><url>https://www.businessinsider.com/reddit-ceo-will-change-rules-to-make-mods-less-powerful-2023-6</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>lazystar</author><text>There&#x27;s a silent majority - &quot;lurkers&quot; - that the mods have completely ignored over the course of their tantrum. I&#x27;ve commented more in the past few days than i have in the past few months, because it&#x27;s obvious the mods have completely lost perspective of the average user experience.</text></item><item><author>AnotherGoodName</author><text>Ha. There were some weird posts from new users in subreddits I frequent.<p>&#x27;we need to rise up against the mods the blackout is an outrage!&#x27;<p>It was met with unanimous wtf is wrong with you, go outside. I get the feeling spez is creating new accounts and posting as them again.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mrpopo</author><text>Lurkers should also realize that their experience is shaped by mods decisions. For the better or for the worst, that&#x27;s a good question, I guess we will soon find out. But given what FB groups look like, I have my own opinion.</text></comment> |
9,767,881 | 9,765,382 | 1 | 2 | 9,764,564 | train | <story><title>I spent the last 15 years trying to become an American and failed</title><url>http://www.vox.com/2015/6/23/8823349/immigration-system-broken</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>murbard2</author><text>I personally consider that opening borders is a moral imperative, but I understand why it is controversial. I understand that the arguments against &quot;letting everyone in&quot; have some merit, though I ultimately disagree with them.<p>What is a real head scratcher to me is the US policy on highly-skilled immigrants. There are certainly some political constituencies in favor of those, but I can&#x27;t think of anyone against, at least not one with a modicum of political pull.<p>One could imagine a regulatory capture scenario where large companies benefit from the regime, because they have an easier time obtaining visas than their smaller competitors, but in practice even those lobby for more, not less immigration.<p>So who&#x27;s lobbying against this exactly?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>winter_blue</author><text>&gt; So who&#x27;s lobbying against this exactly?<p>If you&#x27;ve ever come across any posts on HN regarding immigrant workers in technology (who are on the same visa, the H1B†, that the author of the Vox article was on), you will see a shockingly offensive amount <i>contempt and hatred for highly-skilled immigrants</i>.<p>To answer your question more directly, despite high support for skilled immigration reform, there are currently 2 senators who are hell-bent on making life hard for highly-skilled immigrants. One of them is Chuck Grassley, chair of the United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary, and the other is Jeff Sessions, chair of the Subcommittee on Immigration. Both senators (esp. Sessions) thoroughly hate immigrants of all kinds, and have avowed to do everything in their power to block immigration reform from passing, and the committee and subcommittee they chair are key to immigration reform passing in the Senate.<p>Jeff Sessions has even go so far as to write a document full of half-truths and lies, with the goal of convincing other Republicans that even the tiny trickle of high-skilled immigration now permitted is detestable, and must be put to an end. The Cato Institute has an excellent fact-based rebuttal of it: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cato.org&#x2F;blog&#x2F;rebuttal-sen-sessions-anti-legal-immigration-oped" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cato.org&#x2F;blog&#x2F;rebuttal-sen-sessions-anti-legal-im...</a><p>Opposition to immigration itself is pretty hard to believe in country like the U.S., but the opposition to economically beneficial high-skilled worker immigration, is even more shocking.<p>† Note: there are really no other alternatives than getting a work visa, if someone wants to immigrate as high-skilled worker. I&#x27;ve read ill-informed people on HN say ridiculous things like, they do not have a problem with people &quot;coming to the US normally&quot;, but they hate to their guts anyone on a work visa. Ridiculous.</text></comment> | <story><title>I spent the last 15 years trying to become an American and failed</title><url>http://www.vox.com/2015/6/23/8823349/immigration-system-broken</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>murbard2</author><text>I personally consider that opening borders is a moral imperative, but I understand why it is controversial. I understand that the arguments against &quot;letting everyone in&quot; have some merit, though I ultimately disagree with them.<p>What is a real head scratcher to me is the US policy on highly-skilled immigrants. There are certainly some political constituencies in favor of those, but I can&#x27;t think of anyone against, at least not one with a modicum of political pull.<p>One could imagine a regulatory capture scenario where large companies benefit from the regime, because they have an easier time obtaining visas than their smaller competitors, but in practice even those lobby for more, not less immigration.<p>So who&#x27;s lobbying against this exactly?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tlb</author><text>There&#x27;s no strong lobby against more high-skilled immigration. But as sometimes happens in US politics, the uncontroversial reform is held hostage to the controversial one.<p>In particular, lobbying groups for and against having an official status for the millions of currently undocumented Mexicans in the US have opposed any immigration bill that doesn&#x27;t include what they want.<p>Lawmaking does not allow cherry-picking bugfixes.</text></comment> |
27,078,602 | 27,076,188 | 1 | 2 | 27,074,318 | train | <story><title>Illumos to drop SPARC Support</title><url>https://github.com/illumos/ipd/blob/master/ipd/0019/README.md</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>ahl</author><text>I have a uniquely soft spot for SPARC, having written and disassembled a bunch of SPARC early in my career. If this is its swan song, I&#x27;ll take the moment to share some code the takes advantage of the odd (today) delay slot architecture to implement instruction picking:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;illumos&#x2F;illumos-gate&#x2F;blob&#x2F;master&#x2F;usr&#x2F;src&#x2F;uts&#x2F;sparc&#x2F;dtrace&#x2F;dtrace_asm.s#L430" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;illumos&#x2F;illumos-gate&#x2F;blob&#x2F;master&#x2F;usr&#x2F;src&#x2F;...</a><p>The trick uses a branch in the delay slot of a jmp--a decidedly unusual construction. At the time I found this to be extremely clever and elegant... but apparently not so clever as to warrant a comment.</text></comment> | <story><title>Illumos to drop SPARC Support</title><url>https://github.com/illumos/ipd/blob/master/ipd/0019/README.md</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>wicket</author><text>With Linux having caught up with key Solaris features in recent years (DTrace -&gt; eBPF, Zones -&gt; Namespaces, ZFS -&gt; ZFS on Linux), I always thought that the main reason to use Illumos would be first-class SPARC support. With that now dropped, I&#x27;m concerned that Illumos soon become irrelevant. Are there any compelling reasons left to use Illumos, other than being something for those who just want a free Solaris alternative?</text></comment> |
40,315,797 | 40,314,733 | 1 | 2 | 40,313,193 | train | <story><title>Cubic millimetre of brain mapped at nanoscale resolution</title><url>https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-01387-9</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>throw310822</author><text>Or you can subscribe to Geoffrey Hinton&#x27;s view that artificial neural networks are actually much more efficient than real ones- more or less the opposite of what we&#x27;ve believed for decades- that is that artificial neurons were just a poor model of the real thing.<p>Quote:<p>&quot;Large language models are made from massive neural networks with vast numbers of connections. But they are tiny compared with the brain. “Our brains have 100 trillion connections,” says Hinton. “Large language models have up to half a trillion, a trillion at most. Yet GPT-4 knows hundreds of times more than any one person does. So maybe it’s actually got a much better learning algorithm than us.”<p>GPT-4&#x27;s connections at the density of this brain sample would occupy a volume of 5 cubic centimeters; that is, 1% of a human cortex. And yet GPT-4 is able to speak more or less fluently about 80 languages, translate, write code, imitate the writing styles of hundreds, maybe thousands of authors, converse about stuff ranging from philosophy to cooking, to science, to the law.</text></item><item><author>throwup238</author><text><i>&gt; The 3D map covers a volume of about one cubic millimetre, one-millionth of a whole brain, and contains roughly 57,000 cells and 150 million synapses — the connections between neurons.</i><p>This is great and provides a hard data point for some napkin math on how big a neural network model would have to be to emulate the human brain. 150 million synapses &#x2F; 57,000 neurons is an average of 2,632 synapses per neuron. The adult human brain has 100 (+- 20) billion or 1e11 neurons so assuming the average rate of synapse&#x2F;neuron holds, that&#x27;s 2.6e14 total synapses.<p>Assuming 1 parameter per synapse, that&#x27;d make the minimum viable model several hundred times larger than state of the art GPT4 (according to the rumored 1.8e12 parameters). I don&#x27;t think that&#x27;s granular enough and we&#x27;d need to assume 10-100 ion channels per synapse and I think at least 10 parameters per ion channel, putting the number closer to 2.6e16+ parameters, or 4+ orders of magnitude bigger than GPT4.<p>There are other problems of course like implementing neuroplasticity, but it&#x27;s a fun ball park calculation. Computing power should get there around 2048: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=38919548">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=38919548</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dsalfdslfdsa</author><text>&quot;Efficient&quot; and &quot;better&quot; are very different descriptors of a learning algorithm.<p>The human brain does what it does using about 20W. LLM power usage is somewhat unfavourable compared to that.</text></comment> | <story><title>Cubic millimetre of brain mapped at nanoscale resolution</title><url>https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-01387-9</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>throw310822</author><text>Or you can subscribe to Geoffrey Hinton&#x27;s view that artificial neural networks are actually much more efficient than real ones- more or less the opposite of what we&#x27;ve believed for decades- that is that artificial neurons were just a poor model of the real thing.<p>Quote:<p>&quot;Large language models are made from massive neural networks with vast numbers of connections. But they are tiny compared with the brain. “Our brains have 100 trillion connections,” says Hinton. “Large language models have up to half a trillion, a trillion at most. Yet GPT-4 knows hundreds of times more than any one person does. So maybe it’s actually got a much better learning algorithm than us.”<p>GPT-4&#x27;s connections at the density of this brain sample would occupy a volume of 5 cubic centimeters; that is, 1% of a human cortex. And yet GPT-4 is able to speak more or less fluently about 80 languages, translate, write code, imitate the writing styles of hundreds, maybe thousands of authors, converse about stuff ranging from philosophy to cooking, to science, to the law.</text></item><item><author>throwup238</author><text><i>&gt; The 3D map covers a volume of about one cubic millimetre, one-millionth of a whole brain, and contains roughly 57,000 cells and 150 million synapses — the connections between neurons.</i><p>This is great and provides a hard data point for some napkin math on how big a neural network model would have to be to emulate the human brain. 150 million synapses &#x2F; 57,000 neurons is an average of 2,632 synapses per neuron. The adult human brain has 100 (+- 20) billion or 1e11 neurons so assuming the average rate of synapse&#x2F;neuron holds, that&#x27;s 2.6e14 total synapses.<p>Assuming 1 parameter per synapse, that&#x27;d make the minimum viable model several hundred times larger than state of the art GPT4 (according to the rumored 1.8e12 parameters). I don&#x27;t think that&#x27;s granular enough and we&#x27;d need to assume 10-100 ion channels per synapse and I think at least 10 parameters per ion channel, putting the number closer to 2.6e16+ parameters, or 4+ orders of magnitude bigger than GPT4.<p>There are other problems of course like implementing neuroplasticity, but it&#x27;s a fun ball park calculation. Computing power should get there around 2048: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=38919548">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=38919548</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dragonwriter</author><text>I mean, Hinton’s premises are, if not quite clearly wrong, entirely speculative (which doesn&#x27;t invalidate the conclusions about efficienct that they are offered to support, but does leave them without support) GPT-4 can produce convincing written text about a wider array of topics than any one person can, because it&#x27;s a model optimized for taking in and producing convincing written text, trained extensively on written text.<p>Humans know a lot of things that are not revealed by inputs and outputs of written text (or imagery), and GPT-4 doesn&#x27;t have any indication of this physical, performance-revealed knowledge, so even if we view what GPT-4 talks convincingly about as “knowledge”, trying to compare its knowledge in the domains it operates in with any human’s knowledge which is far more multimodal is... well, there&#x27;s no good metric for it.</text></comment> |
21,386,792 | 21,384,708 | 1 | 2 | 21,384,266 | train | <story><title>Driverless cars are stuck in a jam</title><url>https://www.economist.com/leaders/2019/10/10/driverless-cars-are-stuck-in-a-jam</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>theieindjri</author><text>I don&#x27;t understand why so many otherwise smart people fell for FSD hype. I&#x27;m not talking about the many con artists - I&#x27;m talking about the tech-savvy people who genuinely bought into FSD hype.<p>How is it not obvious that FSD most likely requires artificial general intelligence and is, thus, probably somewhere between &quot;many decades away&quot; and &quot;humans will never achieve it&quot;?</text></item><item><author>crocal</author><text>The article misses an important point. It’s not only a problem of technology, it’s also a problem of risk acceptance. While we accept to be killed by our own mistakes at the wheel, society (we) will not accept that a machine makes the same, even if the failure rate is on average &#x2F;better&#x2F;. This is the fundamental issue Elon Musk has. The driverless bar for safety is way higher than very clever driver assistance or even rocket science.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>moduspol</author><text>It&#x27;s a matter of defining &quot;full self-driving.&quot;<p>If you&#x27;re accustomed to horses and see someone selling cars, it&#x27;d be reasonable to say, &quot;Those are ridiculous. There are numerous places only my horses can reach. There will virtually never be a time cars fully replace horses.&quot; And you&#x27;d be right. It&#x27;s still true--there are places horses can reach that cars cannot. But because of the value of cars, society has reoriented itself such that reaching those places doesn&#x27;t matter to the vest majority of us.<p>I think self-driving cars will be the same. We don&#x27;t need them to operate in every single road &#x2F; circumstance ever. There may always be roads that self-driving cars can&#x27;t drive on. But it&#x27;ll become irrelevant because the vast majority of places people want to go will become navigable by self-driving cars, whether through the cars getting better or the roads becoming more easily navigable.</text></comment> | <story><title>Driverless cars are stuck in a jam</title><url>https://www.economist.com/leaders/2019/10/10/driverless-cars-are-stuck-in-a-jam</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>theieindjri</author><text>I don&#x27;t understand why so many otherwise smart people fell for FSD hype. I&#x27;m not talking about the many con artists - I&#x27;m talking about the tech-savvy people who genuinely bought into FSD hype.<p>How is it not obvious that FSD most likely requires artificial general intelligence and is, thus, probably somewhere between &quot;many decades away&quot; and &quot;humans will never achieve it&quot;?</text></item><item><author>crocal</author><text>The article misses an important point. It’s not only a problem of technology, it’s also a problem of risk acceptance. While we accept to be killed by our own mistakes at the wheel, society (we) will not accept that a machine makes the same, even if the failure rate is on average &#x2F;better&#x2F;. This is the fundamental issue Elon Musk has. The driverless bar for safety is way higher than very clever driver assistance or even rocket science.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>listenallyall</author><text>I agree and think a lot of smart people still don&#x27;t really comprehend how non-linear the task is. In other words, they believe if a self-driving car handles itself properly in 95% of situations, the final 5% is right around the corner, when in fact the final 5% (often the difference between life and death) may, in all likelihood, take longer to get right than the previous 95%. It&#x27;s just that much harder to be perfect than to be pretty good.</text></comment> |
22,147,721 | 22,147,699 | 1 | 3 | 22,146,629 | train | <story><title>The Era of the Trident Engine</title><url>https://schepp.dev/posts/today-the-trident-era-ends/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>MR4D</author><text>Why does nobody say “the TCP&#x2F;IP monoculture is maddening,” or “the HTML monoculture is maddening” ?<p>Seriously, I need somebody to explain it to me because I don’t get it.<p>Having one core base of code is not a bad thing to me.<p>What am I missing here?</text></item><item><author>leeoniya</author><text>the webkit monoculture is saddening.<p>just yesterday i ran into chrome&#x27;s 2016 img&#x2F;flex-basis bug which works properly in firefox but requires an extra wrapping div as a work-around in chrome.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;bugs.chromium.org&#x2F;p&#x2F;chromium&#x2F;issues&#x2F;detail?id=625560" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;bugs.chromium.org&#x2F;p&#x2F;chromium&#x2F;issues&#x2F;detail?id=625560</a><p>what possible motivation is there to fix it when you&#x27;re not competing with anyone?<p>hopefully microsoft can help fix it now?<p>also yesterday, i was writing some ui tests that use getBoundingClientRect() at different media query breakpoints. not only does chrome intermittently fail to deliver consistent results between runs (even with judicious timeouts), at different screen pixel densities its rounding errors are <i>several</i> pixels off and accumulate to bork all tests in a major way. on the other hand, firefox behaves deterministically across test runs and there&#x27;s a <i>single</i> pixel (non-accumulating) error in one of several hundred tests.<p>somehow, i made it through the dark ages of IE6 without permanent hair loss, but i dont have fond memories of those years in my career.<p>now manifest v3 is starting to roll out in Chrome 80. once uBlock Origin stops working, i will use chrome even less (i try only to use it for its devtools currently)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rst</author><text>There is no single TCP monoculture codebase -- even among Unix-alikes, the Linux networking stack is a reimplementation, with no common ancestry with the BSD stack. (To say nothing of routers with their own implementations, often including hardware assist at the high end.)</text></comment> | <story><title>The Era of the Trident Engine</title><url>https://schepp.dev/posts/today-the-trident-era-ends/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>MR4D</author><text>Why does nobody say “the TCP&#x2F;IP monoculture is maddening,” or “the HTML monoculture is maddening” ?<p>Seriously, I need somebody to explain it to me because I don’t get it.<p>Having one core base of code is not a bad thing to me.<p>What am I missing here?</text></item><item><author>leeoniya</author><text>the webkit monoculture is saddening.<p>just yesterday i ran into chrome&#x27;s 2016 img&#x2F;flex-basis bug which works properly in firefox but requires an extra wrapping div as a work-around in chrome.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;bugs.chromium.org&#x2F;p&#x2F;chromium&#x2F;issues&#x2F;detail?id=625560" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;bugs.chromium.org&#x2F;p&#x2F;chromium&#x2F;issues&#x2F;detail?id=625560</a><p>what possible motivation is there to fix it when you&#x27;re not competing with anyone?<p>hopefully microsoft can help fix it now?<p>also yesterday, i was writing some ui tests that use getBoundingClientRect() at different media query breakpoints. not only does chrome intermittently fail to deliver consistent results between runs (even with judicious timeouts), at different screen pixel densities its rounding errors are <i>several</i> pixels off and accumulate to bork all tests in a major way. on the other hand, firefox behaves deterministically across test runs and there&#x27;s a <i>single</i> pixel (non-accumulating) error in one of several hundred tests.<p>somehow, i made it through the dark ages of IE6 without permanent hair loss, but i dont have fond memories of those years in my career.<p>now manifest v3 is starting to roll out in Chrome 80. once uBlock Origin stops working, i will use chrome even less (i try only to use it for its devtools currently)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Uehreka</author><text>TCP&#x2F;IP is a protocol and HTML is a format. The reason that’s OK is that lots of people have built different TCP&#x2F;IP stacks and HTML renderers, and so no one person&#x2F;organization can control them. They aren’t “one codebase”.</text></comment> |
1,743,092 | 1,743,074 | 1 | 2 | 1,742,916 | train | <story><title>Wiretapping the Internet</title><url>http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2010/09/wiretapping_the.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>ErrantX</author><text>This is the sort of thing that we get told will make my job easier.<p>Take from the horse mouth; complete crap.<p>Which is why you probably won't find anyone in the security or forensics business that thinks this is a good solution.<p>One of my trainers told me something to me when I first started working on LE cases. He pointed out that catching criminals can only be made so easy before it becomes detrimental. And that point is either when the tools can be used by anyone (i.e. not specialist investigators) or when the tools begin to facilitate crime.</text></comment> | <story><title>Wiretapping the Internet</title><url>http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2010/09/wiretapping_the.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>scrrr</author><text>If product x has a backdoor, this backdoor will also be used by bad people. It can also be cracked and there will always be product y without a backdoor. Don't the legislators see this? Or are criminals statistically really that lazy that they will still use mobile phones even though they are compromised.<p>According to "The Wire" they often even put extra layers of encryption security, anyway. Such behavior would make that legislation even more useless, as it would indeed only target the innocent that don't take extra precautions.</text></comment> |
36,119,790 | 36,119,932 | 1 | 3 | 36,118,913 | train | <story><title>Sigils are underappreciated (2022)</title><url>https://raku-advent.blog/2022/12/20/sigils/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jerf</author><text>I like to rate programming language&#x27;s features not by how much I use them when I&#x27;m in the given language, or how good they make me feel, but by how much I miss them when I&#x27;m in a different language, once I&#x27;m fluent in that language and writing in the native idiom. (This is important. If you&#x27;re still trying to write X in Y, yes, you&#x27;ll miss the features from X, but that&#x27;s not a useful data point.)<p>By this metric, rather a lot of features turn out to be less important than they may seem at first. Many things are a zero on this scale that I think might surprise people still on their second or third language. From this perspective you start judging not whether a language has this or that exact feature that is a solution to a problem that you are used to, but whether it has a solution at all, and how good it is on its own terms.<p>So while sigils have a lot of company in this, they are also a flat zero for me on this scale. Never ever missed them. I did a decade+ of Perl as my main language, so it&#x27;s not for lack of exposure.<p>(As an example of something that does pass this test: Closures. Hard to use anything lacking them, though as this seems to be a popular opinion nowadays, almost everything has them. But I&#x27;m old enough to remember them being a controversial feature. Also, at this point, static types. Despite my decades of dynamic typed languages, I hate going back to dynamic languages anymore. YMMV.)</text></comment> | <story><title>Sigils are underappreciated (2022)</title><url>https://raku-advent.blog/2022/12/20/sigils/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>karmakaze</author><text>Perl5 got sigils wrong, where more complex usages hinted at incorrect human parsing of expressions. That was designed borrowing from natural language, so wd should probably throw out the early part of the post. Now the post says in Raku<p><pre><code> @ says “Use me with an array-like interface”
% says “Use me with a hash-like interface”
&amp; says “Use me with a function-like interface”
$ says “I won’t tell you what interface you can use, but treat me as a single item”
</code></pre>
I don&#x27;t use Raku nor used much of Perl5 (only enough to learn it&#x27;s good for writing, not for reading). Sigils in Raku may be fine and better than not using them. I&#x27;ll accept that.<p>However, I much prefer inferred static typing and referential transparency where everything produces a value and it&#x27;s not material whether it&#x27;s a precomputed value or something that will produce the value when &#x27;pulled on&#x27;. The last part works well with pure functions and lazy evaluation. Until someone claiming benefits of sigils has used this alternative for large, long-lived code written and maintained by many, I&#x27;ll leave sigils to Raku alone.</text></comment> |
4,091,560 | 4,091,467 | 1 | 2 | 4,091,133 | train | <story><title>Lessons learned from cracking 2 million LinkedIn passwords</title><url>https://community.qualys.com/blogs/securitylabs/2012/06/08/lessons-learned-from-cracking-2-million-linkedin-passwords</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>runeks</author><text>Here's a useful one-liner to create a strong password in Linux:<p><pre><code> cat /usr/share/dict/words|egrep -v "é|'s$|[Åå]|[Øø]"|shuf --random-source=/dev/random -n4
</code></pre>
This uses the dictionary <i>/usr/share/dict/words</i> and skips all the words containing characters like é, å, ø and all those ending in <i>'s</i>. The resulting word list has 72,940 words in it. Then it chooses 4 random words from this dictionary and prints them to the screen. This gives a password with about 65 bits of entropy.<p>By adding another word, thus creating a 5-word passphrase, a botnet capable of checking 1,000 trillion passwords per second would spend, on average, 1600 years cracking away before it would find the correct passphrase.<p>Here are some example 4-word passphrases produced using this method:<p><pre><code> poetically archaisms accept constrictors
leukemia shuttlecocked checkout benevolently
climactic gyrate dynamical predominates
massage beef Concords recliners
</code></pre>
These are surprisingly easy to remember. I use a 7-word passphrase for the most important things and it didn't take me more than a day or two to learn it.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Periodic</author><text>The unix utility apg has some nice functions for generating passwords. Particularly I like it's "pronounceable" algorithm which tries to generate passwords that are slightly pronounceable. It's a good way to get those 6-14 character passwords with numbers, upper case, and punctuation that are easier to remember but still random.<p><pre><code> WeampE6quaph (Weamp-E-SIX-quaph)
2hoov2Klypfo (TWO-hoov-TWO-Klyp-fo)
GicutOj8 (Gic-ut-Oj-EIGHT)
HegEmWydwev5 (Heg-Em-Wyd-wev-FIVE)
Tegdijetyik4 (Teg-dij-et-yik-FOUR)
Fon7ochry (Fon-SEVEN-och-ry)
</code></pre>
I usually take the password and type it about 100 times to see how it feels, subtly changing any characters that feel awkward to type. This gives me a password that is very fast and natural to type (less likely to have errors), but still has a lot of randomness and obeys all the stupid password rules.</text></comment> | <story><title>Lessons learned from cracking 2 million LinkedIn passwords</title><url>https://community.qualys.com/blogs/securitylabs/2012/06/08/lessons-learned-from-cracking-2-million-linkedin-passwords</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>runeks</author><text>Here's a useful one-liner to create a strong password in Linux:<p><pre><code> cat /usr/share/dict/words|egrep -v "é|'s$|[Åå]|[Øø]"|shuf --random-source=/dev/random -n4
</code></pre>
This uses the dictionary <i>/usr/share/dict/words</i> and skips all the words containing characters like é, å, ø and all those ending in <i>'s</i>. The resulting word list has 72,940 words in it. Then it chooses 4 random words from this dictionary and prints them to the screen. This gives a password with about 65 bits of entropy.<p>By adding another word, thus creating a 5-word passphrase, a botnet capable of checking 1,000 trillion passwords per second would spend, on average, 1600 years cracking away before it would find the correct passphrase.<p>Here are some example 4-word passphrases produced using this method:<p><pre><code> poetically archaisms accept constrictors
leukemia shuttlecocked checkout benevolently
climactic gyrate dynamical predominates
massage beef Concords recliners
</code></pre>
These are surprisingly easy to remember. I use a 7-word passphrase for the most important things and it didn't take me more than a day or two to learn it.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jackalope</author><text>That's only 4 tokens and you should assume at least some of the combinations are already in rainbow tables. I don't know how long it would take to create a rainbow table for the whole space, which is this big:<p><pre><code> 72940^4 = 2.8304992 × 10^19
</code></pre>
To put it in perspective, a 14-character password using <i>only</i> lower case English alphabet letters as individual tokens already beats this:<p><pre><code> 26^14 = 6.45099747 × 10^19</code></pre></text></comment> |
41,332,316 | 41,331,759 | 1 | 2 | 41,328,784 | train | <story><title>17-year-old student exposes Germany's 'secret' pirate site blocklist</title><url>https://torrentfreak.com/17-year-old-student-exposes-germanys-secret-pirate-site-blocklist-240822/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>codedokode</author><text>Both openvpn and wireguard protocols are trivially blocked by DPI. Why do people make custom protocols today? Everybody should use something standard and indistinguishable, like QUIC, DTLS or TLS1.3, for their transport layer.</text></item><item><author>mrinfinitiesx</author><text>Openvpn &#x2F; Wireguard service is preferable, but for free: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;DNSCrypt&#x2F;dnscrypt-proxy">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;DNSCrypt&#x2F;dnscrypt-proxy</a><p>sudo apt install dnscrypt-proxy<p>sudo systemctl enable dnscrypt-proxy (or system service dnscrypt-proxy start|enable)<p>sudo mv &#x2F;etc&#x2F;resolv.conf ~&#x2F;resolv.conf.bak<p>sudo rm &#x2F;etc&#x2F;resolv.conf<p>sudo nano &#x2F;etc&#x2F;resolv.conf<p>nameserver 127.0.0.1<p>#back up to dns over plaintext not recomennded if your dnscrypt-proxy service stops for whatever reason (enable in systemd, too lazy to write here)<p>#nameserver 1.1.1.1<p>sudo chattr +i &#x2F;etc&#x2F;resolv.conf<p>Always use DoH &#x2F; DoT (DNS over HTTPS &#x2F; TLS)<p>in firefox, settings -&gt; DNS in search select Max protection choose NexDNS, make a NexDNS account for further privacy&#x2F;setting up your local DNS restrictions like ad&#x2F;tracker blocks<p>or use cloudflare.<p>Cheap VPS proxy:<p>on a VPS, do said dnscrypt-proxy<p>ssh -D 8080 -i ~&#x2F;.ssh&#x2F;sshkey [email protected] (always use SSH key auth, no passwords)<p>in firefox, set up proxy 127.0.0.1 8080 select &#x27;Use DNS through proxy&#x27; - can set proxy settings at OS level to use DNS.<p>There&#x27;s some options for you. Tailscale works, haven&#x27;t tried it though.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ignoramous</author><text>&gt; <i>wireguard protocols are trivially blocked by DPI</i><p>There&#x27;s at least 2 or more different efforts to make WireGuard DPI resistant. Ex: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;database64128&#x2F;swgp-go">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;database64128&#x2F;swgp-go</a><p>Interestingly, Cloudflare (and Apple?) have begun switching to MASQUE: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.cloudflare.com&#x2F;zero-trust-warp-with-a-masque" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.cloudflare.com&#x2F;zero-trust-warp-with-a-masque</a><p>&gt; <i>Everybody should use something standard ... like QUIC, DTLS or TLS1.3, for their transport layer.</i><p>Very common for anti-censorship tools (V2Ray, XRay, Clash, Hysteria, Trojan, uTLS, Snowflake, SingBox, Outline etc) to use these.</text></comment> | <story><title>17-year-old student exposes Germany's 'secret' pirate site blocklist</title><url>https://torrentfreak.com/17-year-old-student-exposes-germanys-secret-pirate-site-blocklist-240822/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>codedokode</author><text>Both openvpn and wireguard protocols are trivially blocked by DPI. Why do people make custom protocols today? Everybody should use something standard and indistinguishable, like QUIC, DTLS or TLS1.3, for their transport layer.</text></item><item><author>mrinfinitiesx</author><text>Openvpn &#x2F; Wireguard service is preferable, but for free: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;DNSCrypt&#x2F;dnscrypt-proxy">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;DNSCrypt&#x2F;dnscrypt-proxy</a><p>sudo apt install dnscrypt-proxy<p>sudo systemctl enable dnscrypt-proxy (or system service dnscrypt-proxy start|enable)<p>sudo mv &#x2F;etc&#x2F;resolv.conf ~&#x2F;resolv.conf.bak<p>sudo rm &#x2F;etc&#x2F;resolv.conf<p>sudo nano &#x2F;etc&#x2F;resolv.conf<p>nameserver 127.0.0.1<p>#back up to dns over plaintext not recomennded if your dnscrypt-proxy service stops for whatever reason (enable in systemd, too lazy to write here)<p>#nameserver 1.1.1.1<p>sudo chattr +i &#x2F;etc&#x2F;resolv.conf<p>Always use DoH &#x2F; DoT (DNS over HTTPS &#x2F; TLS)<p>in firefox, settings -&gt; DNS in search select Max protection choose NexDNS, make a NexDNS account for further privacy&#x2F;setting up your local DNS restrictions like ad&#x2F;tracker blocks<p>or use cloudflare.<p>Cheap VPS proxy:<p>on a VPS, do said dnscrypt-proxy<p>ssh -D 8080 -i ~&#x2F;.ssh&#x2F;sshkey [email protected] (always use SSH key auth, no passwords)<p>in firefox, set up proxy 127.0.0.1 8080 select &#x27;Use DNS through proxy&#x27; - can set proxy settings at OS level to use DNS.<p>There&#x27;s some options for you. Tailscale works, haven&#x27;t tried it though.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>red-iron-pine</author><text>makes me think of the Harvard kid that called in a bomb threat via Tor -- and was the only one on campus using Tor.<p>so even though that stream was itself encrypted, it was trivially easy to track down that one guy and tie it to him.</text></comment> |
8,534,364 | 8,534,537 | 1 | 3 | 8,533,238 | train | <story><title>How My Employer Put the “FML” in FMLA</title><url>http://the-toast.net/2014/10/27/employer-put-fml-fmla/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>sbarre</author><text>&gt; &quot;Punishing them for hiring women who want a family&quot; is a curious way to put it.<p>The reason that private companies should be expected to perhaps shoulder SOME of this &quot;burden&quot; (I disagree with your choice of wording there) is that we all live together in a goddamn society and there should be a part of everyone&#x27;s effort (private individuals, businesses and the government) that goes towards the overall betterment of that society as a whole, and that includes supporting those that choose to procreate and keep our society going.</text></item><item><author>Pxtl</author><text>Important to note that these are <i>government</i> leave programs. A big problem in the USA is that it is expected that your employer handle this stuff.<p>Here in Canada, the employment insurance system - a payroll-tax-funded program that handles short-term unemployment benefits - also handles parental leave. They offer 4 months for birth mothers and a an additional 8 months for any parent. The money is tiny - something like half your salary capped to a poverty-level wage, but it&#x27;s better than nothing and good employers will subsidize it somewhat.<p>My wife and I split the leave with our 3rd kid. 5 months for her, 7 for me. It&#x27;s easily some of the happiest days of my life.<p>There is no reason that private companies should be expected to shoulder this burden. It&#x27;s practically punishing them for hiring women who want a family. This is the exact kind of case that government <i>exists</i> for.</text></item><item><author>ceejayoz</author><text>Yup.<p><a href="http://pbs.twimg.com/media/BnDi8KlIIAA750F.png" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;pbs.twimg.com&#x2F;media&#x2F;BnDi8KlIIAA750F.png</a><p>US provides zero weeks paid maternity leave. Pakistan provides 12. Venezuela manages 18. Canada does 50.<p>Per Wikipedia, the US joins Papua New Guinea, Suriname, and Liberia as the only countries to not provide paid parental leave of any kind.</text></item><item><author>PeterisP</author><text>Pretty much every country in the world, both &#x27;first-world&#x27; and poor countries, has it better than USA in this regard.<p>Let this serve as a warning for young (age-with-a-potential-to-have-a-family) people who might be tempted to relocate to California - you have to ask for a significant premium in salary, since even in good companies (the OP lists multiple items where her job is considered &#x27;above average&#x27;) you&#x27;re simply not getting as good conditions as the absolute minimum mandated elsewhere even for the cheapest entry level jobs.<p>Locally, a shelf-stacker in the most cost-cutting-oriented local supermarket gets far better maternity leave conditions than those described here.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>patmcc</author><text>Right, but if private companies had to pay for parental leave directly rather than through taxes, they would have a <i>huge</i> incentive to avoid hiring people who wanted to start families.<p>Taxes are the right way to pay for this, just like most things that are for the overall betterment of society.</text></comment> | <story><title>How My Employer Put the “FML” in FMLA</title><url>http://the-toast.net/2014/10/27/employer-put-fml-fmla/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>sbarre</author><text>&gt; &quot;Punishing them for hiring women who want a family&quot; is a curious way to put it.<p>The reason that private companies should be expected to perhaps shoulder SOME of this &quot;burden&quot; (I disagree with your choice of wording there) is that we all live together in a goddamn society and there should be a part of everyone&#x27;s effort (private individuals, businesses and the government) that goes towards the overall betterment of that society as a whole, and that includes supporting those that choose to procreate and keep our society going.</text></item><item><author>Pxtl</author><text>Important to note that these are <i>government</i> leave programs. A big problem in the USA is that it is expected that your employer handle this stuff.<p>Here in Canada, the employment insurance system - a payroll-tax-funded program that handles short-term unemployment benefits - also handles parental leave. They offer 4 months for birth mothers and a an additional 8 months for any parent. The money is tiny - something like half your salary capped to a poverty-level wage, but it&#x27;s better than nothing and good employers will subsidize it somewhat.<p>My wife and I split the leave with our 3rd kid. 5 months for her, 7 for me. It&#x27;s easily some of the happiest days of my life.<p>There is no reason that private companies should be expected to shoulder this burden. It&#x27;s practically punishing them for hiring women who want a family. This is the exact kind of case that government <i>exists</i> for.</text></item><item><author>ceejayoz</author><text>Yup.<p><a href="http://pbs.twimg.com/media/BnDi8KlIIAA750F.png" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;pbs.twimg.com&#x2F;media&#x2F;BnDi8KlIIAA750F.png</a><p>US provides zero weeks paid maternity leave. Pakistan provides 12. Venezuela manages 18. Canada does 50.<p>Per Wikipedia, the US joins Papua New Guinea, Suriname, and Liberia as the only countries to not provide paid parental leave of any kind.</text></item><item><author>PeterisP</author><text>Pretty much every country in the world, both &#x27;first-world&#x27; and poor countries, has it better than USA in this regard.<p>Let this serve as a warning for young (age-with-a-potential-to-have-a-family) people who might be tempted to relocate to California - you have to ask for a significant premium in salary, since even in good companies (the OP lists multiple items where her job is considered &#x27;above average&#x27;) you&#x27;re simply not getting as good conditions as the absolute minimum mandated elsewhere even for the cheapest entry level jobs.<p>Locally, a shelf-stacker in the most cost-cutting-oriented local supermarket gets far better maternity leave conditions than those described here.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Drakim</author><text>In my opinion that&#x27;s what taxes are supposed to be, not just for carrying the &quot;burden&quot; of children but ALL the &quot;burdens&quot; and &quot;advantages&quot; of being together in a society.</text></comment> |
35,522,353 | 35,522,475 | 1 | 2 | 35,521,704 | train | <story><title>We're building a browser when it's supposed to be impossible</title><url>https://awesomekling.substack.com/p/how-were-building-a-browser-when</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>pavlov</author><text>This approach works better for Wine where the Windows binaries are a fixed target.<p>On the web, you may get Twitter&#x27;s feed rendering acceptably, and then two days later they ship an insignificant redesign that happens to use sixteen CSS features you don&#x27;t have and everything is totally broken again.</text></item><item><author>yellowapple</author><text>&gt; So instead of [building the browser one feature&#x2F;spec at a time], we tend to focus on building “vertical slices” of functionality. This means setting practical, cross-cutting goals, such as “let’s get twitter.com&#x2F;awesomekling to load”, “let’s get login working on discord.com”, and other similar objectives.<p>Seems similar to how Wine is developed: instead of just going down the list of API functions to implement, the emphasis seems more on &quot;let&#x27;s get SomeProgram.exe to run&quot; or &quot;let&#x27;s fix the graphics glitch in SomeGame.exe&quot;. Console emulators (especially of the HLE variety) seem to have a similar flow.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pdpi</author><text>The point isn’t that “getting X to work” is a one-and-done job. Rather, you’re using major websites as indicators for what features to target next, because <i>those</i> are largely one-and-done.</text></comment> | <story><title>We're building a browser when it's supposed to be impossible</title><url>https://awesomekling.substack.com/p/how-were-building-a-browser-when</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>pavlov</author><text>This approach works better for Wine where the Windows binaries are a fixed target.<p>On the web, you may get Twitter&#x27;s feed rendering acceptably, and then two days later they ship an insignificant redesign that happens to use sixteen CSS features you don&#x27;t have and everything is totally broken again.</text></item><item><author>yellowapple</author><text>&gt; So instead of [building the browser one feature&#x2F;spec at a time], we tend to focus on building “vertical slices” of functionality. This means setting practical, cross-cutting goals, such as “let’s get twitter.com&#x2F;awesomekling to load”, “let’s get login working on discord.com”, and other similar objectives.<p>Seems similar to how Wine is developed: instead of just going down the list of API functions to implement, the emphasis seems more on &quot;let&#x27;s get SomeProgram.exe to run&quot; or &quot;let&#x27;s fix the graphics glitch in SomeGame.exe&quot;. Console emulators (especially of the HLE variety) seem to have a similar flow.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jonhermansen</author><text>Of course you are correct that supporting Twitter or any service is a moving target, so long as it changes. But that doesn&#x27;t mean specific bugs can&#x27;t be captured in a test case.<p>Watch this video of Andreas doing exactly this, albeit for a simpler web app <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=W4SxKWwFhA0">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=W4SxKWwFhA0</a><p>At one point, he deletes half the HTML file to isolate <i>where</i> in the site the problematic code is. In a way doing a kind of binary search. After a few iterations of this, he comes up with a very small case that exhibits the problem he&#x27;s trying to solve.<p>It&#x27;s clear he knows his way around the codebase and where to make changes, but isolating these test cases is probably as important. And presumably if you fixed enough of these issues (while following the specs), 99% of the modern web should work just fine.</text></comment> |
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